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JB -1. II IS? ? . ? ?. ?? !' ? ' M >? 1T4 ? > 'ASHH "? AA~\ ? ? r?-.? ' ot NO. 7. Patlonoe. Havo patione*, heartl Hint vortyio roro that w wero not flftta closed HoW ooukw tho day? Not with tho noonday sun o'erhead, Hut nlowly stealing up the out, In faintest Hare patience, heart! NY hit so thlno own life's dawning good. Havo i>ationcc. lioartl Beck not at mornto mako tho day as bright M Forco nottho bud, before itg time to be ? rose. How slowly, when wo watoh tho star, the day light grows: ' And yet, for all, indeed, tho sun goee down too *000. Have patleno* hoartl '? ' *For rain will eomo; thlno own self know* bow tcar-dropQ fall. -- . Beok not to stay tho clouds before they've spent tholr rain. Or clap across tho sky tho clouds may oomo ?? vujy?,> Have pntloncp, grlovitig bcnrtl for good mast ootno to ull. llavo patience, heartl Whht though no klaso* fall upon thy tired eyes, i' And love holds not its roso to tboo, nor day U fair? Mourn not: porhnpa tby lovo noeds heaven's purorair. Oh, heart! bo suro 'twill wait for thee in Par ndfre^Mfl fi "S i*? ?Au?y H.'Diniiohnrd, iu 8arpor*s Weekly. DILL'S ClIILP, I No ono ever know* whero tho child c:\tno from, or ovon its name. Ouo day n sloop frolghtod \rltb briok was unloading up town, and a hand on dcok wn? tossing bricks, two by two, I to another man on tlie dook. All of a . suddon a woo little ohap.nof more than S yours old, o.imo toddling along, got right in the wrty, and'tyMlnOckedover by tlio UylngM<^L^p02^ BUI Forstor, who was ha rdline tho load, was a rough mar.. It had not .boon oxaotly his faultJLhat tho ehlld had beon knookod down, stlH ho felt very sorry for it. Tho little fellow'* head wns badly out, and he was stunned. . Ho was oarrlod into tho cabin of the sloop, and there lay quite-; motion loss. Tho Gbptnln of tho sloop sent to tho 5olioo,station, and the surgoon oamo. 'ho ohild was oarofully oxaminod. The surgoou said the oaso migUjL.be a sorious ono and .that tho little boy had bottor be takon to tho hospital. Forstor had a slstor, who worked in a laundry, and at onoo ho sent for her. Molly Forstor hurried down to the wharf, took tho ohild lit her lap, and lis to nod brouthloasly'towbat the surgoon said. The oabin of .the brick sloop was not ? < ??;?! handsome place to look at. It was dirty and siovouly, hot and close, Molly Forstor sot about making it tidy, olio opened tho little windows Of tho oubin, and kept off tho crowd who wore swarming in tho narrow quarters. She fonnod tho ohild,laid it on a ooarse pillow', having iirst spread her clean aprou ovorit,and but bod tho poor baby's head, .trying to stanoh the flow of blood from tho wound. "If," said tho sur geon, "you could koop tho ohild per fectly quiot for u while it would bo all for tho better. 1 am afraid to jolt him in 41)0 ambulanoe. Maybe ho will come to boforo long. It is rather ooolorhere on the rlvor than in the hot wards of a hospital. Can you take charge of him uutil I oomo backP I will soo you this ovenlng." Molly had already torn up hop handkerchief and bandaged tho ohlld> hoad. ^Sfow sho followed the sutgoon'Oidiroctlous. The jdootor was ? 8sws?.-ffc;te and m Condor with tho ohild. About sUnsot tbo surgeon oamo again, and Jus* ttitittfthochild oponftd his oyos. f.'Woll, that's a good sign," said tho dootor. "Ndw hiutu't,ynu bettor ad vortiso hlut.sinoo no ono has oome for himf Somebody will olaim him, I supposo. 1 can arrango for you to koep him Jf you want to." vAUhougli tho accident was reported in two hi tof Hues in all tho nowsnapors, and" notwithstanding tho efforts of the police to find tho parents of tho ohild, no ono ovor cam* tor it. All that night Molly Forstor nursod tho child, Oooa slonally Bill Would push his hard-lined and weaiher-beaton faoo Into tho oabin window and look wistfully at the little ohild. Ho novor wont to sloop thai night, but kopt walking np and down the dook. At daybreak ho said to Molly In a hoarse <,whispers "Molly, take that kl<l to your room.1 It's got tOBbSl%;:r.WhoW?.B,n???,40.i havo said was rough, I do not know how it happens, but handling brloks ieems to mako peoplo ooarse arid rath moh worso than ho was who frequqot not disfigured with a ftlaoklsye or a out lip. Bill earned about a dollar and a quarter a day, and whon tho woolftflW stapM'that morning from toojttuoti liqflofcn'ho day boforo when the little clmp got In the way ho (Bill) would have boon moro oareful how ho threw k%* wook ffcftor Molly had takon ohargi of the ohild Sttl resisted the temptation to go on a spree and gtvo eter saved a cent. The week after /Mat Bill did even hotter. There waa Molly working as hard ae she oould at tho wash board or the ironing board, earning 70 cents a day, and feodlng tho ohild. That shamed BUI, It happen ed'that the little l>oy's short froofc had boon ftafcied with blood. Molly bad oarofully washed It, but still Bill thought ho saw stains on It and that Worr??d him* slok. Next week, whon ho s*w his sister, who was waiting on tho wbrfrf for hint on you, having U> food this little fellow. Bread and milk and potatoes costs nursing him takts away Umot '>nyways, a dress* kid Would bo just mlnation ana puy oslioo or something and make a wook for that ohild, and mind you burn the ono he's got on, vlMjfagt Si vJRy#"" - on account of bis natural swoetness til real good ohildron's that way^-and ??--- Mm, just as If be was my own noxt trip dp tho North Rivet naa nerer {bought coach about any thing boforo, and U was hard work for him to thick at alt Maybe because for more than one-half Of life his brain bod boon unuldlod by liquor he had noTor set it working. A* the' empty sloop floated up the broad river, slow ly moving with the tide. Bill sat In the ?hade of tho flapping jib and argued wiLh hlmsolf, uud the general conclu sions he arrived at wore by no moans fluttering to himpell 5 55 ^ ?fThe beginning and tko ending of this here is rum. l'vo wasted nigh on to 2&jrears of my life. Why husn^t the boom of that mainsail knocked the stupid brains out of me boforo thisP What have 1 got to show for iO.jour of lifef Just these here ragged and brlok* 6oiloil olothos I stauds in. Camo uoar murdoriug a child, did you, you good for-notbing boast P Didn't htwo no bettor souso nor thatP A iiurdiug With drunkon sailors, you big blackguard, and not knowing uplhiug bettor? Just titlon to loss bricks from oh *and off u sloop. Tftut's tho best you kill do. You took, a ?irink tliis moruing, and you fool sharp sot for anothor Just this Llossod minute. You can't got it be oauso you aro on tho rlvor whoro grog shops ain't floating round. Ain't you man enough to go to H&vorstraw and no matter what Happen* say Bill For stor, don't you tako anothor drink no mattor if another fellow does stand troatP Thore's lots of things that kid wants. Thero's arwhip,likewise u pair of shoo< and when Winter comes flan nel pottlcoats and wool socks, likewise Christmas presents. Now, you loafor of a Bill Forster, every tlmo ^ " of a glass ainf otnlng something thai e^'Wafits^ Maybo it?S just ? .. whito-lirered purp; you'll be letting your sistor be a taking of the vlotuals out of her own mouth so as to feed 'em to that child, and it was mo as shoved tho kid on hor. Maybo you'll be hunt ing around for moro babies to knook When Bill had called hlmsolf a Port uguese ho had pourod tho last drop from blaprlvato vial of. wrath on his own boa# BiU holpedltS load the sloop with brloK' afcv JJavorstraw, and although It was a hot, sultry day and the work was hoary, ho nover took a drink. Tho other nands might oomo back, smaoking their Jips ana banter ing htm, but he stood tlrm. "No use, boys," said Bill, "I did tto bfcslnes* fdt that baby?and onoe is enough. I have got to tako koor of him. It stands to reason. None of you Is family meta llko mo. I kin stand as much running as tho' best of you, but don't you try and rub it in too stoept I hain't the reputation of being sweet-tempered, and mobbe I kin toaon Bonio of you manhors." It must be stated that thero really was no necessity for Bill's oxoitod Words, for tho hands on tho sloop seem ed to t*ke in the situation at onoe, and rather respected th' ay BUI Assumed his Mil-imposed c, Down the river Bill was thinking what namo the ohild ought to have. Should it bo Goprge Washington, Ulys ses Grant, or MosesP Ho knew all the names of the steamboats going up to Albany, and to oall tho ohild "Albany" or "Vibbard" was suggested to him. At last he made up histhind that Molly 14 h?vo the naming $ the child. h'll MAA.f vUla. ?? - ? ? loh father and mother coming in a oarriagetodemand thoir lost baby presented Itself to his, imagination. Bill became parsimonious, and that week saved almost every oont of his wagos. He begrudged himself oven tho tobacoo ho onewed. He only kept suillolont monoy for his most meagro wants. He nover took a drink and de clined being tvoatod. To Molly he gave his money. Sure enough, the little boy, whoa Bill next saw him, had on a new frook, and with what pride Molly exhibited him to hor brother! "He just looks like a daisy, Molly. Isn't he pretty! Kind of sleepy, aint he, MollyP" . "He does sleep a good deal, but that's natural, BllL Muoh you know about jMbtesl'f But, Bill* what's this pile off money tort I ain1! spent all you gave me yot I don't want it and the onlld donx His oost (or keep is so little. It's mighty goel of you,BlUl and now and then you oan give him * bit of olothes. As you say, when Win ter oomes tho poor little lamb will want Uhiokfe* things, and they oost more money. H?ro, I ain't going to take this, depriving vou of your hardearnod wages' '?and Molly made a motion as U to return the handful of silver. ??But, Moll, Just hold hard a minute. He mayn't waot tt now. Supposin' work w*s slack and I didn't earn noth lug. You have got to keep the oash for the time tho boy grows. He's got to go to sohool, ana Ha got to IomTm nioti (p.any othor boy.. He's to be hed dloated know something more nor handling biioks. Don't ho do a. lot ot sleeping, Molly Inquired Bill anx iously. ??Oh! don't you keep worrying about him. He's been playing: ever so sweet tell, Is always the smartest In the long run. Faot is, Bill, I have a surprise for you. He never said a word beforo tontorday. X was afraid myself he was lad ofKft*V> Bill averted his faoe and then looked ?? J ?'But?but, to-day, Bill ho said *mud der* so sweety and then he said It over and over Again, and held outhls pretty little mouth to be kissed. Oh, Bill, his senses Isoomlng baok to Mm, slow,but suroi" *nd Molly ouddled the sleeping ohlltl eloser to her breast ~ Bill kept right on in the good way he had pfannod for himself, and never swerved a hair's breadth. Molly was his savings bank. Brother and sister contributed to the child's support In A month Bill was rloher than he had over been In his life, Then he Inslited that Molly should rent a better room. The one slio lived In, he said, looked out on A dingy, dreary baok, yard. "Burnt* to reason," s?ld Bill, "that a baby should soe horses and truoks and things a-movlng about in the streets. It makes 'em llvoly." "i.it tin hiii" ro that called h|m (Molly insisting that ner brother'i name should serve for the ohlld)-^m provnd, but too slowly for The police surgeon #as called In, Bill Forster Insisting on paying him a fee. The opinion the doctor gave was a guarded one. ??There is manifest im provement?not perhaps, as rapid as l should wish. You are neapital nurse, ma'am, And I arti sore your Modno*? and Attention will help the ohild. Ho Will oome round, 1 belief e." The oool weather oame, and with lowering temperatures the doctor honed fesWSfSe.Ai?..WmK #5 cloatrioe on tlx? hMd bad quite healed. Slowly the little boy seemed to acquire new words. Molly Wondered at them at time*, and thought that eh* had taught them to the ohUd; but then again the littlo fellow'* ad op tod mother wn startled by word* *be lolt quite oertaln the obild bad picked up somewhere elle. Tuese new words oame to the ?hUdntfiret vaguely. He would re peat them over and orer again, at first hesitatingly, then giving them a slight emphasis, a* if to fix them on his nund somothing like a little bird that pipes the first faint tiino it has heard. The child- was more awake now. This change delighted Molly. It nevor was fretful. The ohUd would lay quiet, with its blue eyos wide open for hours, without a whimper. 80 it went on for another week or two. Bill, who was always coming and going, when ho left Mew York for a trip up the river, was happy, for the child was botteriag fast, so he bollev* od. It was an Octobor ovoning whon, as the brick sloop was being Drought up to tho wharf, Bill saw Molly leaning against ono of the big woodon posts of the dock. Bill was busy with tho hawser, but at| once he saw that his sistor did not have tho obild in hor arms: more, than that, the was oryinir. Bill choked down his grief?hi seem ed to know at onoo what had happen* od. One last hope thore was. Maybe it was so cool that Molly had been afraid to bring the ohUd with hen "Bill/' said Molly, sobbing, "the poor little fellow has gone to?to heav on. It was last night. He oalled to mo and said: 'Good-night, tnud-der; good-night, far-der?now I. am going walking ih garden?good?good night" Oh, BiU, ho had novor spokou so long a string Of word*, before?thon be play ed for a moment* with a ring on ray fin J;er, and then he added. *God bless ar-dor and mud-duiy and thon ho look od so lovingly at ate, aud tirouud the room as if soarchiug for you?and then he dled-=so quiutl Bilil Bilil don'J you tako on sol* It was an atttident* and God aud his litiio child have no fault to lind with you." " 1 ? ? ?! General Grant's Rotloonoe. He wns never a sccretlvo man until the positions of responsibility in whioh ho was ?laced compelled him to be ohaiy of giving oxprtfssion to his opin ions. - He then learned the foroo of the philosopher's mav.imthat the unspoken word is a sword In tho soabbard, while tho spoken word is a sword in the hands of one's enemy. In tho field thero woro constant vis itors in camp ready to olroulato auy in tlmatlous of the commander's niovo monts, at tho risk of having auoli val uable information roach the unomy; in tho White Houso, overy encouraging expression U> jut'.?ppl loin t V for favors was apt to be torturod into a promise, and tho President. naturally bcoamo guarded in his intoroourso with goner al visitors. Whon questioned beyond the bounds of proprloty, his lipk olosod like a vice, and tho'obtruding party was left to supply all the subsoqnent conversation. Those clroumstanoos pro* olaimed him a man who studied to be. unoommunlcatlvo, and gave him a rep utation for rosorve which could pot fairly be Sdtributed to him. He was ofclled tho "Annmcun Sphynx" and vUtyise* theSilent," and he was pop* ipposofl to move about wiMf . . kuirjs .^"?wir, it bassoon seon that the stories of his retlcenoo had pre* codod him. The trip was tho first of those grand ovations with which ho was always greeted by the peoplo through whoso comtnunitios ho travollod. Tho train stopped for a few minutos at a ?mall town In Maino, and tho poople, as usual, took the opportunity of ox tondlng a grooting and dolivoring their words of welcomo. As tho Gonoral stood in the doorway of tho roar oar, a tall, gauntrlooking woman olbowed her way through the orowd till sho got near the platform. Here she stopped, and f>ut on a pair of spootacles with glassos n them that looked about as big as the lenses In large telesoopos, and taking a good look at the General, said, gasp ing for breath ss sho spoke, ??Well, I've pome down hyere aJrunnln' right on the clean jump, nigh on to tew mile, just to git a look at the man that lets the women do all tho talkln'."?-Qttu Hornet Pdritt, in Harper's Mag a tint for September. .. ?.. ^ , ? TryliiK to Aim the Property. "In oaso of flro oarry me out," is painted in large yellow lettors on m cumbrous, ana valuable-looking ohest In a Chatham street shop. The shop keeper, as if happily oonsolous of a groat aohlevornent on his part, stood buck of the'oenter of Attraotlon smok ing a full-grown Connootlout oigar. A seedy-pleoe of humanity oarne aimless ly along the atreot and stoppod'to gaze at tho ? qneor*lookln^>vletiora on tho ohest. Thon, as if propelled forward by some diabolical motive, he rushed Into the store and began to lift the ohest with all hla might. "Git out therel Vat you wantP" exoitedly exolalmed tho proprietor, rushing forward. '?'Why, air, I'a d^in' Jist as that box said. 1 soed this sign and that Are?" "What tire?" ??Why, that flro thore," and he pointed to where the olgar of the ex oitod man, whioh he had dropped In hla hurry, was burning a hole la the oarpet With one stamp of his shoe it waa extinguished. But the ttarnp still lingered. "Moses," again said the proprlotor, aftor glanolng at the train p and then at his elerk, "give that feller one of them oheap oTgara- the cheap ones, mind?and then put him out" ? Tho tramp took the olgar and walk ed out without any unneoessary help ing, and with a beaming smllo upon his dirt-begrimcd face.-?N, Y. Tribune ii ' ?- ?? i ii How Webiitor l'nld Ills Debt*. Daniel Webster is said (although I don't fully oredlt the story) to have made a bet with Kllxur Wright In ltt44 on tho genuineness of a letter whloh purported to have boen written by llutney, .the liberty party's candidate for the prosldenoy. Hurney bating de? nied that ho evor wrote suoh a letter, Mr. Webster sent Mr. Wright $200. the amount of the wager. Itnappenea ? ?atho story Is told-Mhat Wright waa in debt at that time to ono of The Appletons to the amount of $100, and taking the money paid him by Webster he went to lift bis note. He explained to Appleton how he oamo by the mon ey, and Appleton, breaking Into a laugh, saldi "That Is pretty good, jthu la my money. Somo of us yester day made up a purse for Webster, and X put In this $900. Now halt of the money comes back to me in payment of another man's dobt."~Z/cw Vr.rUy Poort. * Orant'i Lorefbr Horrca, Whon he first entered the White House as President of the United Suit* he ownod oror a hundrod head of horsos. which ho kept at his farm near St Louis. The foreman of the ?table* in Whloh tbo homes were kept w**? Albert Hawkins, who i? now coachman for President Cleveland. Albort says Genoral Grant waa an ox o?lJint judgo of horseflesh. It waa a difllouh. matter to deoeire him in a horse trade, beoause ho waa . familiar with all the points that are considered in examining them. He oould look in* , to a horse'* mouth and tell his exaot age within a tow months. He always insisted that his horsos should nerer Be ill-naed, eithor in or out of the stable. They, were given the best kind of food, furnished with largo comfortable stalls, and regularly exorcised. Any man who was known to ill-treat or wicuso one of his horses was Immediately dis missed. Tbo Genoral took a fancy to Albert beoauso be was alway* kind and gentle in dealing with tho stook undor his charge. After the Goneral bcoamo President he sold many of his horses in St. Louis, and direotod Albert to come on to Washington and assume oontrol of the presidential stables. The General s favorite horsos wore Cincinnati, EgypL and Jeff Davis. The former waa as as a lamb, and be knew and obeyed^tho Genorai at all times and undtt all cirottiustaneo*; Cincinnati was agogd saddle horae* in addition to being a^vBrst-claas horse in harness. The Gtwfttl could ride hini to any point in the city, lump off his baok, and leavo him standing unhltoh ed for any lengttf bi .time. Ifo matter how long tke General remained*away, when ho returuod Cincinnati waa there > waiting for him. Ij* did nob pay any' attention to droit* ?jBarados, and wal not to be frlghteprajty nolso and con-* fusion on the street. When the General al directed him to stand and wait for him, Cincinnati would not budgo till |he 'General had mounted him. Durt, ing the General'* seaond term 'n tho White House arrangomonts were made for an equestrian statuo representing General Grant mounted on nl* favorite.' war horse, Cincinnati. Every .day for nearly a month the Goneral Would go down to the stablo, havo the bridal and' ?addle put on Cincinnati, and off he* would go to meet the soulptor. On several oooasions Albert accompanied him to a beautiful spot' iu the vioinitj of tho Soldiers' homo, where the o*tl waa made, and Goneral Grant frequent* ly visited the presidential stables, went into tbo stalls, and talked to hla horsei iust aa though they woro humaw. beings and wore oapable of understand ing every word hei^d to th*nft The Jeff Davis horso waa a terrible kicker and biter, and tlflf stablo hands were afraid to go nearhi*, stnlL His feed had to be passod in io him through an# adjoining stall. Th*:Geueral,howover, had compluto oontrol. over him,'and he' could entur his stall, haudio him as he desired, and, in faot, do onythiug he wantod with hint, 0' i Jeff knew hjjfv voice, for as soon *? the Goneral enter ed tho atable ho would throw baok hl*i cars and movo around restlessly in hi*; ?tall untl} tho General showed lijn some attention. On loveral ocoasl the stable hands tried to deoeive ? by Imitating tho General's voice, but ?oon a* he discovered the * made hla heel* play * / tho aide of the with drawers aud wardrobes whet* dresses may be hung or laid aw*y from all danger from dust or orowdlng, bags whloh will completoly envelope tiirf dross and protoot dolicato fabrio* aro a necossity. Suoh bag* must be long onough to hold a dress-skirt Without folding, and wido onough to givo room to all kinds of frills and flounces. An kind of matorial will answor, but mu lin or print is most ofton used. C ono siao of tho bag throo in olios long, than tho othorj seam togoth'er, bin*, around tho top, work four button-holes across the longost side, whloh button* down on the othor liko a flap. Tho bottom of tho bag now beoomos the top, soam It aoross again, and in the casing so mado run a flat, narrow stick; at eaoh upper corner sow tape loops by whloh to hang tho bag on two hooks in the oloset. To wide tapes, ?owed noar tho casing, pin the dress-, ?kirt by the band anu also tho; waist,. by whioh evon part of it will least muss the trimming. After the dres* is oare fully pinned in plaoo, pull down thb bag over it and button the flap aoross the bottom. Bags for tho various small artlole* in kitohen and wash-room, whloh need, keeping together, should bo made of* somo dark, strong matorial, and of V plain, squaro shape, and furnished with curtain rings sowed around the top to run the draw string in. Such bags are useful reooptapl^r flfor plothos-plns, small olotbot-liafe*, string's,- and the hundred and ono thiugs which must be kept in somo plaM #bore thoy oan bo found In a hurryT Bags for tho storo-rbom and for hold ing bundles and scraps must be of strong stuff. Tho foriner of firm, close ly-woven linen, sowed In a turnod soam, and provided with tapos for ty ing up, sovoral inohes below tho top. ?o they may be turnod ov*r nod tied closely, effootually preventing the en tranoe of any undesirable object, ani mate or otherwise.?Mrs. b. A. t'ranoe, in Good JJousekteping. Perls A? To Health, In health, Paris la on a lovel with a hundrod other plaoos. It ha# nothing of It* own to offer. Its ollmato pro* sonte a fair averago of tho qualities and faults of central Continental weather; the air la di..?- and more vivifying than that of England; extromos of boat and cold are sometltnos felt, but they are nnfroquont; strong winds are rare) and though fogs have become somewhat ao? olimatisoa of late years, tho air In on the whole fairly bright and pleasant. But tho samo atmosphere may be found almost every whoro along tho samo par* allel of latitude. Tho sanitary condi tion * nrn good; theseworAgo \n exool lent; tho water Is abundant and pure, and the prooantions against infootlon in all its forms are minute and woll ap plled. The material condition* of life are, however, growing so muoh alike in all Urgo towns that we are living everywhere under more and more slm liar Inflnences, and It may bo said with out muoh Inexaotness that, so far as Europe la oonoerned, what used to be called especially a healthy or unhealthy Slaoe Is beoomlng dlfllouftto find. Epf emlos oorae and go In Paris as they do in other oentres of population, but j they are noidoro' traceable to local t oausss, and usually assnme a goneral I charaoter. But all these qualities are | merely negative; they imply the ab* sence of ohieotlons, not the presenoe of recommendations; Paris possesses no positive advantages in ollmate or health, and English people will not be tempted to live in it for reasons of that i aort.?Tht fortnightly favieur. |PPi AN 1> GOLIATH. Riath wm originally tho giant in a jflbow in Oath, at $18 a week, but 'ho war broke out bo enlisted in tSMaav of the Phillatines more for the W*s naturally lafy and trilling X Jpnrse I'm tolline yo\i this in my )WA landyago, but I'm giving it to you tV?en the army fit Israel camped oror n Ae valley o( I'ilab, it looked pretty ftXBljr for'Saul and ho felt like tending q Vds resignationr-r^x^rr.r^*1?' mpery morning after breakfast, Go dressod in nte brass plug hat and {jjM Iron corsot ana copper clothes, ffclbld sail out andpoko fun at 8aul and ^jZbome guards. JGollath whs a largo, husky yahoofrom 1,1} hoailwaters of the Chug and had a uljsd on him like 'a borso "block" Ho muscled* up in good sbapo, too.' lyBOD ho began on a man, it meaut six jjgflnilhs in tue hospital with careful ^nraiog, and if Goliath felt hurt and gXeved about something a man had ijBd'about him and took the man asido tolbavQ a little talk about it, tho man's widow applied tfght off. for the life In jjlranco. In this way 6oUath used to kfltespeeted very muoh around Oath. jjSSo every day ho would como out on hmo mesa and sass tho armies of Israol aJ?d toll Saul that if he had a full jtown man who had any sand,he would RKe to havo him oome over and got bomb-proof clothos on and oordially jXvitn tho Israolltos to eomo ovor one X a timo and let him paralyzo'em. Xnd Saul, on behalf of his people^ do jMned tho invitation with thanks. He Jr>Id Goliath that while he would be flirt to meet him for a lUtlesoXt-glovo Hki^a-teto, ho would havo to deolino Jfcty meeting on a basis of open ho?tlll wf < This caused tho campaign to drag Sod th? dally papers in Israel began to Brltioiso Saul and to ask why he did not K>mo homo and hoo corn instead of ?boling away hi* timo on thg Phili itiues.' ' *>**?. . ??fly.;.'?m ; I Just thon David came down from his lather's shoop ranch on Independence liiountam, over agplnst Bothlene^ Ju^' Bah. on the old California * trail, to *00 ?How tho war was progressing. Ho MUitytd to take a trip to sonio place [whore ihero would bo no danger of [bodily harm, bo his parent* thought it [would bo safer porhaps for him to go [Sown to the front ? "whore war waged Its wild desolation, and threatened our Mad to dostroy." They told him to go footfn whore tho two* armies were en gaged in open hostilities and they would 'feel perfectly easy about him; but they cautioned him not to Winder away from the army into the woods and get lost. ; h So David wont over to hear Goliath sneak hi*-piece* Every morning for olghty days the dime museum giant [ fate worso than death. But the larae- | 4ito# preferred death by general debili-1 . W ana old ago. They had relations j^jJ^me on whom they wore depend Just asDavidgot to the front* Go-. JHo out and spoke with a loud 1 criod out and defied tho ar wy.wtr T 'V'AV T ? J#'WIP -? iiits *M, Sw^dThetoridlift'to'go outand /light the Philistine U some courageous Israollto would oonie along and hold his ooat fo? hku. Every body laughed at David," und his brotnors especially, aa soon m they had stoppod running and got behind a troo and roooveroa tholr broath, bogan to ridloule David. But David inslstod on it and told Saul that one tlmo whon a mountain lion jiud a grizzly bear oame and oarried ofl several of his fathor'a sheep he ran af ter them and overtook thorn, and aftor 'he bad knookod tho lion silly with his fi*V he ran his hand down tho bear's throat and turned him wrong side out. The king said, "Woll, did you roally do IbktP U you did, I've a good notion to glvo yon tho freedom of the Pnlll stlno camp, and if you will bring me Goliath's scalp, stretobod on a shingle, I will give vou all the mopey you want and my only daughter, for I'd Just, as soon tell you in oonfidenco, that this side-show giant is getting to be a per* foot eyesoro to me, and botween you and me, I think he is overdoing this thln^ and making a nutsanco ox him ? Do David said ho would go, and Saul dressed him up in a railroad iron over coat but the boy oouldn'thandle it. He look off the lire and burglar proof ovor epat and tilled his pockets full of rocks JWhon^ollath came out he turned his nose up at David and asked him if hit mother knew he w^ pat. He talked mean to David and dually told him to oome oyer u.?u he would food him to the coyotes Then David in * gentlemanly way. told Goliath that ho didn't olaimto be muoh of a talker in public, but that he tolled on the righteousness of hie cause. He came not with swordsriind banners and torchlight prooelslons, hut h6 be lieved he was right and oafae there to KNiWlt. Ho was BO publio speaker, e said, but he thought this thug had gone about far enough. Hethdn sur prised Golljith with a moss agate be hind the ear. The gentleman from Gath fell to the earth with e "siokenlng thud" and David cnt his head off with the gi ant's own sword. From these Injurtos Goliath never fully recovered,and final If deceased. Then the men of Israel and Judah rose np and whooped with a loud voioe and pursued their enemlos, and they fed t&e fowls of tho air with Philistine on tOMt for forty days, and David be oame solid With the king and made money and wore bis good olothes every day. Wherofor he went ho was re garded as a great success, and all the 'giants were porfeotly friendly toward him.?BiU Aye, in tit. J'attl Herald. A Cabbago which had Arrived At Ro upooiAblo Dimensions botfnn bragging a omit tho sIao of Itp heed, when a Rom Watermelon rAlaod its Voice in Dls {>ute. Tho Hubbard SqoASh chinind In or first place, And a Pumpkin RoArod otR thAt it wouldn't pi ay Second Fiddle ilo no VcgetAblo on eArtb. They were p to doclrio <(Ai to tho Heed," be repllmf, "thAt is a in: tor to be settlod by * Tepo line, of yon meAAure ten tiraoi the slso i? little Onion, but, when youootne down to whet'e undor the CrAnium hitting it hot And he*vv, when Along oirao a Philosopher, And he waa asked to decide whioh bed the largest lie Ad. Any .of y of (hi* 111 Wfa bao by tho B!bo of hi* him All Het aa often Ha JrADtlroit Vrti Pres$. TRAIN TALK, ..-f; ? ??U yon writ# stories lor the paper." ?aid a Book JUlana^ll*wr flight conductor, *>'Jet mo toll vou<* true one that oame under my observation last .winter out near Des Moines when I was running on tho Iowa division. This U no railroad^*?,: but ? frtot.. I saw itwlth my Own eyes. Ono day we were running along and I was in tho engine. A* we oegan to cross a bridge We looked ahead' and theta Was a little girl about six years old clam bering ofer i the timbers. She had some school books la her hand, and was evidently on her way homo from school; Tho epgineor whistled, when she turnod'hbr 1*oe ttttel*# US. -;IHI never forgot that faoo as long as I livo. It was Just as white' aatho aaoWon tho lco in the oreek thirty #* forty feet bo-, low her. But she didn't scream, nor \tty to Jutnp, bor do nothing.- " Shh jilst" looked at us' with a steady glaro as if she'd stop the train with heroyos (hat wo wero unable todo.-with our brako?. At llrst wo wdro all' fo/broko up wo hadn't any idoirwhat to do, and I bo liove wo'cl of stood there liko posts if sho hadn't suddenly stretohod out her little arms toward u* In a mute, appeal for helpj ' Well, sir,.', that "broke tho charm, and wo all started up wildly. I swung way out as far as I - could, holding by one hand,, ami' with the other motioning her to got down? down between tho timbers. Would you believe Itf That little thing fol lowed ray directions as it ?he'd been a man. Add life to it, too, and olimbed down as deliberately as if she'd been at. home. Sho was none too quick, though, for- her littlo brown hood, with' a red' ribbon flutter ing from it, had no soohei^ disappeared between the timbers than we thunder ed over her. ? 41 'Let her out. Bill/ I shouted to the ongineer, 'let her out lively, or that little thipg wW ttover.be able, to stlok down there till we get over tho-bridge. Turn her loosofo/?-> ? ? ?'?:*? "So BUI he let bor out, but she'd no sooner reached tho bank than 1 jump ed off and went heela oyor head in a snow bank. I got baok to the bridge !*as soon as i could, and Waited for our long train to get by; Don't mind toll In' ye that as 1 stood thoro I did some thing I never did afore-?yes,, sir, I stood thoro and prayed that that littlo 'one might be able to stick it out till I could get to her. Bat I guess my prayers are no gopd, for when tho tnoq wait by I ruahod out on tho bridge, over timbors by tho dozed, -ex pecting every minute to soe that little red ribbon. , But it never showod up, Tears began to. All my eyes so that ] cOuld hardly soe tho orosspicoos?I have a little girl of my own, you know ?but qn and on I Woht, and no brown hood or red ribbon oould I tind. Thon I turned and looked to tho lco below, and there she was.? Yos, she had fall en thirty or forty feet through tho ;> ow I got down to? hor I don't know, but! got tblrt..' I lifted hor up In my arms, tier eyes wero closed, but she opened thbm, looked at n\o seuond, and said:1 ?? 'How did you get down hero?' "This quostlon would havo rnado mo laugh if I bod t?lt auro ?Uo wasn't hurt, but as it was i hurried up tho bunk and to th'4 oubooso. Sho said sho " * hurt touch, but 1 know uho lor.tho our bank. : : "I told hor 'yes,' knowin' thai uim uto that wo wero going right by hor house. I wis in buoIi ft hurry to got to a surgeon that 1 thought it right to dooeive ner.-~ProtCV soon sho wont off to sloop, and sho looked so doatbly lying ttaoro that all of us went to wip in' our oyos like woinon. " 'Boys,' says 1, 'if sho never wakos up I'll quit tho roud. I ncvor want to sco tbat briUgo ngin,' " '?And you havo quit tho roudP" ??No, I'm at tho old btulnoss. Sho got well, aud all, tho spring mod to watch for iny train as uho would for hor papa coming homo from work. We never passed hor houso unloss she wm out waving that littlo brown hood at ua aud making that rod ribbon dance, Our opglneo? usod to whistle for her vogularly, and sho got so sho oould toll that whistlo as fur as she oould hoar it, Onoo in a while, whon toot in n hurry, we'd stop our train ajnl havo a talk with hor. Sho said iho loved.ns all, oven the old ongino, but she has ne*er set. her foot oh. tho Iraok sinoe that day sho foil through the bridge. This is a truo story, and the little- girlV nrifcbe" Is Lily, CV|fc oago J for aid, The not wan oir. A few days jtgoi ifter a' couple of esteemed pftlsens, who aro q\oso neigh bors, YtfA, arrangod to pass a fow days with thoir families at a lake in Oak* land county, one of them offerod t/) wagor a box of oigars. that he would ?*tch tho largost fish, The wagor was promptly taken, end next day ono of the gentlemen put in an appoarauoe at a flsh stand on the tnaikot and said to tlio d?nloti<&V?-' **??? *? ?* ? -Have you got a frosh piokerol weighingabout llftoon pounds?" ??Woll, I want you to put him on loo and ship him to me at-?Lako. I pro pose to catch him on n hook out there." <?Very well, sir. I think I'll ship the two togethor." ??Tho twoP1* ??Yes, sta^ M*.? to jjack tig two ^ box!" /Veil. be?'wasti%?S jy? mtlMM w i>air Atfi boy at" Ix)Ulsvllfe promises to bo gray-headed, before he roaches hisAeon*. 5The child lifts at traoted;*nloh attention from thefoeigh bors, wWsay the* novcr saw anything of the? feted* before. Physicians.? say that, eHtr lit families where ttarnthg gray dfttadr Tduth; Js heroditft\r?,'flirty have nftl knowti'df h oaso whore thn f opo so thy and livo-i riarohal oon PH Jfcnoy him in the least, . The moftal remains of the faithful Esther'anil hor kinsman, Mordeoal, rest In* little shrino at llamadan, Per sia. The* are covered Vach by a wood en ark, ortVMoh small pieces of paper Hkalabdls, oovered with Hebrew ebafftetei1*. ftro placed there by the Hehre#'prtgrlfjifc: All are under a ?mall dorqe some fifty feet high. The building la of<'.fed bricks, the walls nauoh patched-bf mnd; ;the blue &fcu is of tiles. These tombs are held sacred by the Hebrew* In Persia, and thousands make pilgrimages annually, Li An l}nKll?h Caricaturist. Odo of the most famous artists of tho.staff of Punch, Mr. Harry Furniss, ^Was askedr- ?'Doyouflud tho promi nent statosmon onsy to carioaturo as a ruleP" "Somo of thorn. For instance, Sir Charlos Diiko, Sir William Harcourt, Sir Drummond Wolff, Lord Salisbury and Lord Randolph Churchill uro easy to oatoh. Mr. Chamberlain's mouth is a difficulty, but this Is componsated by his eyoglassos. Mr. Gladstone's face is good when taken in a levoro aspoct, but when you try to oatoh his smiles tho likeness goi-s. Lord Uoa couslield was tho best subject for cari ..oaturc wo ovor had. Among othor splendid subjoctsof tho past woro Lord Palmers ton, Sir Robert Pool, Lord Brougham, and Lord John KussolL /Members of Parliament should abstain, .liko actors, from growing beards, otherwiso thoy spoif thomselvos for boing 'made up by tho caricaturists, as old womcu, little boys, and other favorite characters. Now, Lord Hart ington is always llartington. It is impossible to transform hiiu into any other character, l'uruoll s appoaranco is constantly changing. Ouo woek he will appoar with shnggy board and un shorn locks, tho next all trim and spruco, so that tho caricaturist must be constantly on tho qui vivo. Tho safer plan is to tuko a man's typo and stick to it. Bradlaugh is a favorito subject of mine, and in consequonco of my caricatures of him, it has rnoro than onco boon hinted to mo that 1 havo been in daugorof a kicking from ouo or othor of his admirers." "Do any of tho members object to boing oaricaturodP" ??No. When Mf. Gladstouo wont to Cannes for his health, tho only pa per ho had sent to him was Punch, und favorito cartoons aro frequently fram ed and-preserved in houorod placos by tho subjects of thorn, Lord Randolph Churchill has ouo of Tenuloi's hang ing in his room, which shows him as a down taking tho gun of leadership from Sir Stafford Northcoto as panta loon, to bring dowu Glndstono repre sented ns a crowing cock. Sir Will iam Harcourt, 1 bellovo, does not like boing mado fun of, and ho was angry about my drawing in l\inch, showing a Houso composed of nono but Har court, to which Lord Salisbury refer red in ono'of his speeches. I invontod Gladstone's collars which havo become provorbial. Through my oontinually caricaturing Asinnoud Bartlott's old trousers, he was obllgod to boy a now pair. Mr. liroadhurst, tho working men's mombor, was onco recognized at a public meeting only by his extra thick boots as cancaturod in Punch. Tho Sorgoant-nt-Arms has paid mo tho complimont of pasting somo of my blaek-beotle sketches of himself ou tho walls of his private room in tho Houso. This room, by tho way, is liko a little club, which oortain mombors havo the right of using. No politics aro allow od to bo disoussod thoro, but good fel lowship provailfj, and good stories and oxcollont whisky inako it a Very ploas ant retiring ground. Tho whisky is kopt in huge ducautors bearing tho namo of tho donor, and often whon tho Irish membors havo boon turned out of tho Houso by tho Sorgoantrat Arms, thoy havo adjourned to this room to talk over mattors couvivially." ?American Register. I Washington Irvine and John Blur/ jLjjL <J| In a nrofuco to tho Skotoh-liookP wrltton long afterward, Irving told its history up to tho deto of its publication by Murray, "and from that hour," ho addod, "Murray bocamo ray publishor, conducting himaolf in all his dealings with that free, open, and liberal spirit which had obtainod for hlra tho woll moritod appellation of the Prinoo of Publishers," Murray was not behind hand in rccogniaing byword as woll as deed tho mistako ho had mado in de clining tho Sketch-book. In ono lotter, after urging Irving to dix>p his psou donym and eivohis nanio to tho world, ho writos, "I ara convinced I did not half know you, and osteoraing you as I did, cortainly ray ostoom is doublod by my bettor knowledge of you." For Dracobridgo Hull, without soeing it in MS., Murrny Bignod a check for 1,000 guineas, and with sifhilar trustfulness gavo 1,600 for tho uninspected Talcs of aTravolor. From first to last Irving was paid by tho houso of Murray for his proso something liko ton thousand po.unds. For tho Lifo of Columbus ho roooivod ?8,160 from Murray, who wus satisfied as a publishor with its snlo, and us a lovor of good lltorature with its contents, saying of it and its author, ''It is boat^tlful, beautiful, tho bost thing he has evor wrltton/' Tho Llfo of Columbus appoarod in 1828, and In tho aatumn of that yoar Murray was ()folooting, for at loast tho third time n nls oaroer, and always without praotloal result, the establishment of a monthly magazine, to bo purely lltor literary ancl solontiflo, and froe from any party or political bias. It was not to an Englishman, but to the Amerioan Washington Irving, that Murray offer ed tho editorship of tho projeetod porl odiosl* with a salary of ?l,0d0 pounds a year (whioh would bo a high ono evon in theso days), boaidos paymont for whatovor he Might contribute of hit j own tb it Irving deolined the ofTor on the patriotic ground that to accept it would entail his pormattent absence from tho Unltod State*, Whioh he did at last, aftor a long abaonoe, revisit, famous and leted man. From the same lovo of country he almost always re fuaed Murray's frequent Invitations to contribute to tho Quarterly Review. Tho liberal offor of a hundred guinoas an artloto eonld not dvorcomo his ro nugnanoo to contribute to a poriodlcat Whioh had systematically rldloulod and rovilod the Unltod Btates and Its oltl kons. Twice only dtiring his long oon neotlon with tho houso of Murray did ho contribute to tho Quarterly.?F. mpinaase, in Harper't Magazine for B&tember. Pooto find tho Imwyflrn. Foote nevor tired of roasting tho law yers with his wit, of whioh a samplo may bo given. A simple country farm er, who had Just burled a rich relation an attorney, was complaining to him that tho expenses of a country funeral, in respoot to carriages, hat-bands aoarfs, etc., wore very great "What do you bury your attornoys bore?' asked Footo. "Yes, to be suro wo do. how olsoP" "Oh, wo never do that in I/ondon." "Not" exclaimed tho as tonished countryman. "IIow do you manago itP" "Why, whon tho pationt happens to dio we lay him out in a roont over night by hlmsolf, throw opon the snsli, lock the door, and in the morning ho is entiroly off." "In deed!" said tho othor, amattod. "What beooQnos of hiniP" "Why that wooan hot tell oxaotly; all wo know is thoro'i. a strong smoll of brimstono in tho room next morning."? Temple MISSING LINKS. In tho oyo of the California law, ?taring at a lady is an offense. Tho houso in which Genoral Grant first saw tho light had only two win dows. A rat out in Utah miatook a little Sirl's mouth for a holo, and jumped own her throat. ^ A prominout criminal lawyer of San Franoisco refuses to longor dofond any of tho criminal class. Tho first Napoloon slept in hollanda for shoots, tho Bourbons in cambric, and Napoleon 111. in ordinary linen. Edward Ball is tho uamo of tho ? young man known as "tho oowboy proachor." Ho adopts somothing of tho Sam Jonos stylo. An ominont pliysiciau on oath tho other day said that ho had known mou who took tholr sixty tumblers of punch Sior day and sooiuod no whit tho worso or tho iudulgouco. At a fecout Socialistic mooting in Burlia tho fact was montioued that two prominout merchant tailors paid girls from 12 to 15 cunts for making a comploto suit of boys' olothlng. Tho largost dock in tho world is at St. John, N. F. It fa 600 foot long at tho top, 668 foot long upon tho lino of kool blocking and 192 feot wide, and tho drift ovor gato still 26 foot at high tido. Throo hundrod and fifty -eight crimi nals who havo escauod from Goorgia in tho oourso of tho last thirtoon years aro '?wnntod" in that Stato. Tho re wards offorod for thom azgrocrato $100,000. It costs $1,000 to raiao a man from infancy to tho age of twonty-ono yoars. At least, that was what it coat to raiso a slavo on cornmoal and bacon, regard loss of such sorvicos as ho could ren der before his majority. This astuto provorb comos from In dia: "It must always bo tho women wlio aro in tho wrong, aud not tho mon, bocauso mon havu ruaorred to themsnlves tho right to decido what is right and what wrong." Oscar Wilde wanted to leave his son and hoir unnamed until the child should bo old onough to ohooao a namo for himsolf,. but learned that in order to have tho babo christonod a namo was imperatively roquirod. Tho production of load in Germany has doubled sinco 1868 in spite of a simultaneous increaso in tho produotion of Spain and in tho growth of the load yiold of North Amorioa from almost nothing to 140,000 tons annually. Tons of arsoulo aro boiug fed to tho grasshoppers ^n California. Ono drug houso at San 1 rauclsco sends a ton a | weok into tho infootod districts, whilo a firm at Fresuo told 700 pounds in fivo days, and had ordors for' 400 pounds I more. , In a rocont roviow of the once de- ) spisod Porsian army 10,000 finely nni formed and oquippod soldiors were in lino. Russian instructors for the cav alry aud-Austrian for tho infantry and artillery havo brought tho troops up to a good standard of ofBcioncy. * Tho amount expondod by tho gov oinmont in removing Holl Gate, Dia mond, aud Goontios, reef, in New York harbor has boon $3,126,049.81. Tho last reef is about to bo blown up, " loaving an unobstruotod chann<J*-?md a , hamignina atag jv? the dispp*^ al of tho onginoors for further Tmprovo monts, as tho amount so far appropri ated is $5,139,120. Professor Douglas, aftor many years of research, says China has no suoh teeming millions us aro. usually oredit od to her. Two hundr and fifty, millions ho thinks about t a right os timato. Many of tho hill pooploa of China at tho prosont day are not Chi neso at all. Tho Chinoso civilization and culturo aro not purely of a nativo growth: thoir olomonts woro brought from Wostorn Asia?perhaps from tho neighborhood of tho Aral?t>y the Chi noso oro thoy sot out for China. Somebody wants to know why all tho goograpbies contain tho statement that "tho oarth is a sphoro slightly fiaitonod al tho polos." Ho says that nobody knows from actual observation what tho condition of tho earth at tho polos roally is. Hooonsiders thontato mont that "tho oarth la asphero slight ly llattoned," oto., a remnant of tho satuo blgotod ignoranoo which boforo tho timo of Columbus had it that tho ontiro earth was fiat. Thoso who havo triod to got to tho polos, ho says (and ho moans thoroby a ploaaantry whioh wo do not think altogothor worthy of ono who hus so Btrong an argumont), havo certainly found tho way some what of an up grade.?Harper'? Weck ly Belgium affords tho worst example in Europo of tho harm from ovor-ln dulgonco in nlooholio stimulants. Tho salo of liquor hus boon moro than tro blod In tho lust fifty yoars. Whilo the population hus advanced only from 8,600,000 to 6,500,000, 'tho consump tion of spirits, wino and boor for 1881 amounted in valuo to 476,000,000f. Although tho oountry is so small It containod in 1880 nofoworthan 125,000 plaoes dovoted to tho salo of lntoxl ontlng liquors. Thoro was a publio houso on iho avorago for ovory twolvo or thirtoon grown-up malos. Tho sul oidps rose from fifty-four per million inhabitants in 1848 to oighty in 1880. The lnnatics advanced from 750 por million Inhabitants in 1810 to 1,470 in 1881. Expblimonts nmdn during tho past two yoars to introduoo i\ fow of tho early varieties of American corn into Rotno of ilio Austrian provinces have S roved vory sticcossfui in Dalmatiiv ot only Is tho yiold twice that of tho homo product, hut tho harvest of the American oorn can ho finlshod early enough to osoapo tho annual inunda tions, while tho Dalmatian oorn ripen* lato nnd in ofton totally dostroyea by wntor boforo tho harvest tlmo. Tho question, howovor, seems to ho, whoth* or tho Amorionn oorn will rotaln all theso pood points rtftor It Iikh boon cul tivated in tho foreign noil and oliraate for a period of year*, or whothor It will become :ic< limutized nnd partake ol tho homo peculiarities, thus noeessl tilting a constant importation of frosb food. Wo hoar of a Ilangor voung man latoly married who wont Wont on hi* marriago tour and by way of Niagara Falls. Tho train stopped at tho fall* and tho newly-married couplo both go! oft tho cars to got a bettor view of tho falls and they both lingered lontror than tho stopping train allowed, 'Iho boll rang ami tho young man, forgot tlng for tho tlmo that ho was imrrTod, mado a rush to got aboard and baroly roaohod tho platform on tho roar oar. Ho did not fully roali/e that ho was married and had loft his wlfo bohlnd, so ho says, until ho had got fifteen mllos away.?Uarigor (Me.) Commer cial. . ?