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FOR HIE Y01NU FOLKS.
?nh Hwr! How tired she
wa-.! How ilio starch did persist in
sticking to the irons instead of to the
clothes!
2>j many of them, too; there really was
no sense in Will's wearing so many pairs
of en if-, and Nellie four white aprons in
one week, when people had to do their
ow n work: and Katy thumped the iron
oij the unoffending white apron most
vigonusiy. Everything was hard. When
she lilted the iron, she saw, right in the
center of the apron, a great brown
scorch.
It was not any use, the tears would J
iand till her eyes so that she could j
not - . ^he would not cry; she would :
n ) !>e si? weak. l?ut yet, after she |
wijfd'.hem all away, she had to press J
tli- li 1. ! iwn hard to keep some more.
tr .11. .-.:isi:ia. St he was so tired.
i. ii.t in ! been ><> e.'j-y to keep at work ;
ali -ln-.d^li that pleasant October ntorn-1
ii:_: w.tdiiug ami wiping dishes, sweep-1
ing, .iti-ti::ir and ironing. And what I
made it jn*t a little harder was, that'
-i in the next yard, and in full view :
i.o.n ihe dining-room door, was Mainie I
Smith. dreatnitigaway the live-long morn-!
i:i; ia tli.u luxurious hammock, with a
ii.-k 't nt poaches beside her, and a book
in h'-r h ind? a book which she, Katv,
was dying"' to read and hadn't been
able to get.
T-? l?y sure, she couldn't expect to have
tilings come to her just as tiuy did to
At.1 nit" Mnitii. whose lather was u millioiiaiie.
TJiere was nothing very com-1
ior'ititt in that thought, taken hy itself, j
I mi', nieii - and she pressed the tears hack j
bravely. There was her mother; how |
baid it wa> t'??r her! There she was. com-1
ing down stairs, and Katv knew she was I
n ?i able. Oh, dear, those headaches?
liow they were wearing on her!
"Here. Kitty, Kitty, Kitty-cat,here's
~ I.,..,..- f.\i. vau !" Ai'init l?ol. stvirlinrrl
ajvtbvi '?* .* v.?w? "v")
into the room. "What! in the dumps
again, as 1 live; never saw anything like |
it. l>ou't see why von can't l?e like other
girls* and, throwiug it into her lap, he
was gone.
Well that he did not give her time to
anv.ver liitu. forcuttiugwords had sprung f
to Katy's lips. But never mind?they
melted and were gone before she had
bait read her letter. Sueh a bright,
cluvrv letter it was. It seemed as if a
llood of sunshine had burst in upon her,
uuril she came to the last part; then the
clouds gathered?rain-ciouds this time,
and the tears began to come in earnest as
she read:
"And, now, dear Katy, ws want you to
eomo and make us a long, long visit. Wc shall
have lots of fun. You must try and stay over
tLo holidays, if you can. Write and toll ui
when we may look for you. Your loviug
friend, BksSIE."
Such a bright picture, held up. as it
would seem, only to try her. Surely her
lot was very hard. It was no use to say
a word about it. She had heard her
father say. only that morning, that they
must be exceedingly careful of expenses,
and must try, if nossible, to do without
a giri this fall. So she put the letter iu
h?r jweket. set the table, and went into
the garden to pick some of the grapes
lor lunch. How rich and ripe they
were! Such beauties, and she hid the
largest clusters temptingly aund green
leaves for her mother.
" How fine your grapes are, this year!
Mine ain't been doin' well this year; you
see they weren't taken proper care of,
last Jail. Simon he was real bad with
his rhoutnatiz 'bout that time, and says
he, Well, Sarah Ann, 'taint no use in
us wm kin'ourselves so hard any more.
It ain't likely we'll either of us be here
much longer, and if we be, 1 guess we'll
Ik' provided for.' That's his way?'taint
mine, lie always took things kind o'
easy, though:and somehow beseems to
have got on just as well."
' You may have all the grapes you
want from here, Mrs. Blinks."said Katv,
looking up.
" A<?. my dear?thank you; no, there's
plenty on our vines for ourselves; but I |
was just thinkinghow uncommon strange I
the workings of things are. Here we
are, both alive and well as ordinary, and
poor Mis. Wilton lving dead this morn-1
inn. willi her mx little children crying I
Around her. ami her hu>ba:id well-nigh !
distracted with grief. It's a heavy |
chain* for Annie. child. am! she
only just our age. my dear. Let me?ee, !
you? birthday conms in March, and hers i
in .1 iilit?three months younger than I
you, 1 do declare, and not so strong and |
well grown by halt'."
"(Mi 1 am >< sorry." sa'*l JCaty, as I
soon as she had time to speak. " It was I
so sudden and so awful. Mr. Wilton '
always seemed so well." she added j
thoughtfully, as they walked back to the
house.
That's just what I was a-saym'," continued
the old woman. " Says I. now
there's Mrs. Rivers?speakiii' of your j
mother?I shouldn't have been surprised
to bear that she was gone 'mostanv time, j
OI1U UIWftY:* W MUHT a?'i UV.UV-UW- .
look in', and of late she lias been gettiu' j
st? muclt worse that everybody has been j
remarking it Then, as I said, your j
lathes is well ott'beside Mr. Wilton, and ,
it wouldn't have cotne half so hard on ,
you as on poor Annie"'
There was a great lump in Katy's I
throat; she coe'd not speak. But they i
were at the -oor. and as Mrs. Blinks
stepped in to see if they had heard the
news, Katy stole off all by herself for just
. a moment's quiet thought. Had she
been rebellious anil ungrateful? She j
was afraid she had. But she did not 1
rlrr.uni Imw full V'nw fllll nl' li iliru'. j
nos-? whs this every-dav life until she saw ;
how dark it m'njht become. After that
day her heart was lighter. Nothing
seemed so hard or wearisome but what t
there was some gladness hidden underneath.
" 1 say. Kit, here's a letter of yours, I |
found down in the grape row," said Rob, ;
coming in a week afterwards. " I j
thought it was something of mine until I
.rr.f riraiit intniJ-umt sivnnw T inal tv-inf
to ask a question: Why didn't you make
a fuss because you couldn't go?"
" Because, Rob, what's the use as long
as I know I ought not go.1'
" But you wanted to go, I know, or
else you're too good to live."
' I'm not a bit good, and at first I did
waul to go desperately, but " And
then rtic tola hitn what naa ucinea ner,
unci sittiug close beside him, asked hitn
to forgive her for the times she had been
cross and out of patience with him.
There were tears in the big boys eyes, as
lie turned away so quickly that she might
not see.
And there were tears in her eyes, too, !
j when, as she dusted the sitting-room '
I next morning, site canie across a new |
1 - ' l..?l
! book (111 1110 lill'IO ? llll' >CIY UUC OliC 1I.1U
! boon wanting, and, looking on the flyleaf,
read the words:
" To a sister who is not like most girls, because
6he is better tbau most girls.?Rob."
Railroads in France and the United
States.
i Of all the industries and enterprises
| undertaken in the United States, there
1 is no one that so conspicuously shows the
intelligent energy of our people as the
progress that lias been made in the construction
of railroads. These modern
conveniences for the promotion of interior
intercourse have been resorted to by
civilized nations in nrooortion to their I
enlightened appreciation of the benefits
arising from that rapid and cheap intercommunication,
which invites the exchange
of commodities and the extension
of social communion. The Railroad |
Gazette uses an official report just made
in France on the railroad system in that
country, in instituting a comparison of
some of its important points with those
! of the system here. In every view the
superiority seems to he with us. The ;
favorable contrasts in some respects are i
' surprising. XVc quote from the Gazette: [
| The French railroad system, according !
j to the ofiicial report just published, |
| produced the following results in 1378 j
| compared with 1S77:
i 1S73 1ST7 Incr. P.O. I
Miles T.-orkcd Hoe. 31 Irt.TSG 13,352 434 3.3 I
| Av. worked during year... 13,498 13,053 440 3.4 j
ltweipt# ] >er mile 13,013 12,502 450 3.G
Throws receipts were: 1S78. 3175,711,733; 1S77,
$10-1,155,375; increase, SI 1,70S,358; percent. 7.1. !
1 France has an ares of 204,000 square!
miles, and has 30.000,000 inhabitants; !
and the most thickly peopled part of the !
United Slates, that east of Indiana and i
I that north of tbe Ohio and the Potomac j
?New England, the middle States, |
| Maryland and Ohio?have 222,000 square j
miles, and, by the census of 1S70, 15,-1
i 870,000 inhabitants, and now probably j
I 18,500,000; and they now have 25,S0*y j
miles of railroad. i" ranee then has one I
mile of railroad to 14.S square miles of .
territory and 2,620inhabitants; the east- j
em United States one mile of road to i
8.06 square miles of area and to 71S inhabitants.
There is nearly twice as much
land and nearly four times as many
people to support a railroad in France,
as in the most thickly populated portion
of the United States of similar area.
The average contribution per square mile
of area and per inhabitant to the earnings
of the French railroads, was $864
per square mile ($1.85 per acre) and
$4.90 per inhabitant. In the United
States territory referred to, the earn-1
ings of the roads were $9,128 per mile !
(and so much larger in the aggregate, I
from about twice the mileage, than the j
earnings of the French roads, though !
nearly a third less per mile); and the j
average per square mile of area was ]
81.097 ($1.07 per acre), and $13.17 peri
inhabitant?the latter nearly three times!
as much as in France, where there are i
nearly four times as many people per I
mile of road.
In the United States, however, a very j
large portion of the earnings of the roads i
is from traffic coming from beyond this '
district, which is not the case in France. I
About one-half of the total earnings of j
80,000 miles of railroads in the United t
States go to the roads of the statesj
named, having one-third of the total
mileage.
,
The Storms of Life.
Dark, angry clouds overspread the ;
sky, illumined at intervals by vivid i
flashes of lightning; peals of thunder
rent the air like the voices of angry
gods, while the trees and flowers fell oc- j
fore the heavy gusts of wind and rain j
like grain before a sickle.
The awful grandeur of the scene
struck terror to hearts heretofore un-,
known to fear. For more than an hour j
the storm raged on till it had spent its ,
fury, when the wind and rain abated, |
and" here and there tiny rifts appeared j
in tho rlouds. ffrowinsr Iareer ajiil still i
larger, till the sun ljroke in glorious
effulgence, brightening the face of nature
with dazzling brilliancy. Myriads of
diamonds hung in the trees and glistened
on the grass and flowers Never was
sunshine more beautiful.
The terrific storm, so fearful in its
wrath, had purified and washed the
whole earth and decked in the beautiful t
jewels which a shower alone can give, i
and though in the cast a rain was falling, j
it only enhanced the beauty of the ;
scene; for the cloud was spanned by a ;
beautiful bow?beautiful, not only on
account of its lovely combination of I
colors, but as a sign of a glorious promise j
made by him who rulctn the storm by i
his infinite power.
TTiimnn life has its storms. Adversity,
temptation and sorrow sweep over the :
soul, filling it with fear and dread, j
But, after a time, tiny rifts of God's :
mercy pierce the cloud? around us, and
if we in patience wait, the entire sunshine
of his love will break in beauty
over our heads, and spanning the clouds
that are drifting away from us, we shall
see the rainbows of precious promise.
Wonderful Inventions.
There is nothing like inventions in
these days. A man out West has invented
a medicine which enables deaf
people to hear as well as a watch-dog. |
The funniest part of the thing is, however,
that it has no affect at all upon the
aural tube. It so acts that a man hears
with his teeth. This is what makes it i
charming beyond description, as it; will
enable deaf people to go the opera. Of
course it will look a little odd to see the
auditorium crowded with people whose
mouths are wide open, with clothes-pins
inserted to keep them from closing. But
supjKise a man had artiticial teeth, then
how will the audophone work? In that
case it will be necessary to get up a machine
by which a man can hear with his
nails, or with his boot heels. Then again
if a man's teeth happen to fall out, would
it not be a good idea to have an invention
which will enable him to eat with
his eyes, or if he should lose a leg would
it not be a great boon to him to be
enabled to walk on his lungs; or if he
should lose his eyes, how nice it would be
for him to be able to see and wink at
eirlswitli his kidnevs throueh eve-classes.
| There is no use talking, Edison ought to I
be employed by the government to keep I
up a continual How of inventions.
MM?AY KEA 1HXU.
i* ___
It is often said thai it makes m> diligence
what :i 111:111 helieves if he only acts
right. Now, while not admitting the
truth of tliis. T am ready to say that it
makes in> diflerenre what a ntan lie ieves
if he does not act right.?f\S. ?S. Times.
l>r. Thompson relates that on one occasion
he had climbed nearly to the top
of a steep mountain, lifting his feet carefully
over the projecting rock*, when
faintly from below he heard a silvery
voice call out. "Take the safe path,father;
I'm coming after you." His heart stood
still as he realized the danger of his precious
boy. If fathers only remembered
that the Itoys are indeed coming after
them, how differently they would walk!
If they drink, or use profane language,
they must expect it in the boys. It' they
get angry, they will see the same thing
in their children. God gives lives into a
parent's keeping to be fitted for an endless
future. The thought of that fact
ought never tohcahsont from a Christian
parent's mind.?["Christ-inn Herald.
In our Lord Jesus we see the glory of
God in the wondrous blending of the
attributes. 1'ehold His mercy, for He dies
for sinners; but see His justice, for He
sils as judge of quick and dead. Observe
His immutability, for He is the same
yesterday, to-day, and forever; and sec
J-lis power, lor ivus voice sjuikc* uoiouiay
earth, but also heaven. .See how infinite
is his love, for He espouses Ilis chosen ;
hut how terrible His wrath, for He consume*
His adversaries. All the attributes
of Deity are in him ; power that can lull
the tempest, and tenderness that can embrace
little children. The character of
Christ is a wonderful combination ofall
perfections making up one perfection;
and we see the glory ol" God in the face
of Jesus Christ, for this is God's glory,
that in flint nothing is excessive and
nothing is deficient. He is all that is
good and great; in Him is light, and no
darkness at all.?f^purgeoii.
The story is told of a certain nobleman
of Alexandria, who complained bitterly
to the bishop of that city of his
enemies. While in the midst of his
tale the ladl sounded for prayers, an<l
bishop and nobleman dropped to their
knees, the former leading in the Lord's
I>?-oi'A>' oiwl Innvintr fni* tli#?
tiiUQ his story untold. Wherr the bishop
came to the |?etition, ' Forgive us our
trespasses," he stopped suddenly, leaving
the otlier to go on alone. The nobleman
attempted to continue, hut shirtled
by the sound of his own unaccompanied
voice and recalled by his companion's
silence to the significance of the
]?.'titinn. stammered, ceased praying, and
rose from his knees, a hopeless man?until
lie afterwards found hope in a better
disposition towards his neighlxtr. It is
an easy thing to say. ' Forgive us our
trespasses" l?v rote; it is difiieult, sometimes,
to say it understanding! v. If we
stop at this petition until we have taken
in the idea of it, how many of us will
go on??[Christian Herald.
The old style of church will not do
the work. We might as well now try to
take all the passengers from New York to
Buffalo hv stage coach, or all the passengers
from Albany to Buffalo by canal
boat, or do all the battling in the world
with how and arrow, as with theohl.style
of church to meet the exigencies of this
day. Unless the church in our day will
adapt itself to the time it wiU ..become
extinct. The people reading nowspa[H*rs
and hooks all the week, in alert, picturesque
and resounding style, will have
no patience with .Sabbath humdrum. We
have no objections to hands and surplice
and all the paraphanalia of clerical life;
hut these things make no impression?
make 110 more impression on the great
..f ft,,, nnnnln tlislll tlin nrdillfirv
business suit you wear in Wail street. A
tailor cannot make a minister. Sonic of
the poorest preachers! u car the best clothes
and many a backwoodsman has dismount- |
etl from the saddle-bags, and in his linen
duster preached a sermon that shook
earth and heaven with its eloquence. No
new Gospel, only the old Gospel in a way
suited to the time. No new church, but
a church to Ik.' the asylum, the inspiration,
the practical sympathy, and the
eternal help of the people.?[Talniage.
OMERODT'S LOTEB9.
BY PIKKBK CART.
Too meek hr half was he who cams
A wooiiii* imp one morn.
For lie thought so Hole of hitnseU
I learned to share hi* scoru.
At ni;ht I had a puitor, rnin
As the rainest in the laud;
Aliuo-i lie seemed to condescend
lu the utlei of his hand.
In one who pressed his suit I missed
Outrage and manlv tirida;
And how could I think of such a on*
As a lev der and a guide.
And then thrrleamen worshipper
With such undouhtiug trust,
That when he knelt he eeemed not worth
Uprising front the dust.
The nest was never in the wrong,
U as not too smooth nor rough;
So faultless and so g-ssl was he,
That that was fault enough.
But one, tiie last of all tha! came,
1 know not bow to paint;
No angel do I scout to him?
He scarcely calls ui<; saint!
lit* hath such sins and weaknesses
A- iii.u tiil titan lietall;
11? hath a thousand faults, uud yet
I lore him with them all.
He never asktsl me yea or nay,
N'l.r knelt to llle one hour:
Bui tic t.xik my heart and holds my heart
With a lover's tender jxjwer.
And I bow, as needs I must, and say,
In proud humility,
Love's might is right, and I yield ?t last
To manhood's royalty:
An Old Puzzle Rerired.
It is said that a gentleman in Paris has
offered a prize of 2U,UU0 francs to anyone
who will draw the annexed figure with a
pencil or pen without lifting either from
the paper, or interfering with any line,
or portion of a line, previously made.
" The thing can be done," and the doer
lias only to go to to France, prove liia
ability to conquer the puzzle, and take
the reward:
It ia said that nothing succeeds like
T ' A ? 1 ?
8UCCCS3. JUSt put a uvy iu uunjuubuvu
with a watermelon, and if he don't suck
seed more than success we miss our
guess.
L. ^ ?avo^ ?*m*1
A tinker waa traveling in a country
town; and, having traversed many miles
without finding anything to do, he stop- i
ped, weary and hungry, at a tavern.
Here he got into conversation with a i
elazier. to whom he related his troubles. I :
The latter sympathized with him deeply,
and, telling him he should have a job be
fore long, advised hiin to go to his dinner
and eat heartily. The tinker took
his advice, ate his fill, and when he re- !
turned to the tap-room he was overjoyed i
to hear that the landlord required his
services to mend a lot of pans and kettles
which had suddenly sprung a leak. The !
tinker at once set to work, accomjdished
the task, received a liberal sum in payment,
and started on his way rejoicing.
Upon reaching the outside of the house i
he found the glazier, who said:
" Well, you see I told you the truth.
I procured you a job of work, and how
do you think I accomplished it'/"
"I am sure 1 cannot tell," replied the ,
tinker.
" I will tell you," rejoined tlie glazier. ,
" Yo? told me you were weary, hungry,
and dinncrless. I knew the landlord was
well off and doing a good business; and
so I watched the opportunity, and started
a leak in every utensil 1 could get hold
of" . 1
The tinker, with many thanks and a
heart full of gratitude, rcsnmcd his
journey. But he had not proceeded
many yards before he reached the village i
church, when a brilliant idea struck bira
?the glazier had befriended him; he
would befriend the glazier. The church,
he thought, could aflbrd to bear a slight
loss in a good cause; so, taking a position
where he could mt be seen, lie riddled
every window in the edifice with
Btones,and then, highly elated with his
exploit, he retraced his steps to notify
the glazier that he would speedily have
a very important job.
" Sir," said lie, " I am happy to inform
you that fortune has enabled me to
return the kindness I received from you
an hour since."
"How so?" answered the glazier,
pleasantly.
" I have broken everv pane of glass in
the church," answered the tinker; " and
you, of course, will be employed to put
them in again."
The glazier's jaw fell, and his face assumed
a blank expression as he said, in
tremulous tone:
" You don't mean that, do you?"
" Certainly," replied the tinker;
" there's not a whole pane of glass in the
building. ' One good turn deserves
another,' you know."
" Yes," answered the glazier in despair;
"but, you scoundrel, you have ruined
me; for I keep the church windows in
riitvoir nxr tlin vnnr "
"-I"'*' "J ?~ J
Type of Character on Railroad Trains*
There are certain general types of
character which areob.servable on almost
every railroad train, and with which we
are so familiar that we pay them little
attention. There is the man of. many
bundles?a family man of course?who
bears in his countenance the painful
consciousness of having lost something
or forgotten something, and who, in a
desperate endeavor to recover a parcel
which has slipped down from one arm,
scatters upon the car floor an assortment
of parcels which escape from the other,
and are promptly trodden c.pon by some
has^.y wretch behind him. There is the
man wlic is always late, and who, dropping
breathlessly into a seat after a brief
race with the retreating train, wipes his
perspiring brow, and recites his
neighbor the circumstances of his detention
and hurry. There is the nervous
woman, who, after having studied all
the time-tables, scrutinized the placards
on the cars, and harassed the ticket Iia
\fr\frr?k r\P inaanitv
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her fellow-passengers with shrill and
tremulous inquiries as to whether the
train runs through to Albany, and
whether the car she is in is the right
one. Hapless and careworn individual!
Small good does the journey do her, for
the train has hardly started before she
discovers that she has lost her ticket;
and it is not until she is well along toward
her destination, and has goaded
the conductor into a frenzy and herself
into tears, that she finds the bit of pasteboard
in some unexplored recess of her
traveling-bag, where she had placed it
for salV-kreping. There is the woman
who will have the window open, and the
irascible old gentleman immediately behind
her who will have it shut. There
is the market-woman with gigantic
baskets odorous of herring and onions,
and other tielicaeies. There is the man
who sleeps the sleep of intoxication, and
who, yielding only an inarticulate response
to the protests of the conductor,
and disclosing about his person no trace
of a ticket, is presently bundled off by
the brakcmcn. And there is the multitudinous
infant?weary, wide awake,
and vociferous?an object of loathing
and detestation to every bachelor in the
i
Why We Commence Dinner With Soup.
;Sir Henry Thompson. I
The rationale of the initial soup has
often been discussed; some regard it as
calculated to diminish digestive power,
on the theory that so much fluid taken
at first dilutes the gastric juices. But
there appears to be no foundation for
this belief. A clear soup, or the fluid
constituents of a purer, disappear almost
immediately after entering the stomach,
and in no war interfere with the gastric
juice, which is stored in its appropriate I
cells ready fur action. The hnbit of
commencing dinner with soup has, without
doubt, its origin in the fact that aliment
in this fluid form?in fact, ready
digested ? soon enters the blood and
rapidly refreshes the hungry man, who,
after a considerable fast and much
activity, sits down with a sense of exhaustion
to commence his principal
meal. In two or three minutes after he
has taken a plate of good warm consomme,
the feeling of exhaustion disappears,
and irritability gives way to the
gradually rising sense of good fellowship
with the circle, borne persons aavc me
custom of allaying exhaustion with a
glass of sherry before food? a gastronomic
no leas than a physiological blunder, injuring
the stomach and depraving the
palate. The soup introduces at once
into the system a small installment of
of ready-digested food, and saves the
short period of time which must be
spent by the stomach in deriving some
nutriment from solid aliment; as well as
indirectly strengthening the organ of
digestion itself for its forthcoming duties.
UMMWBW? ???
, .SomO'PW }LtiQC$.,-~ **4*
The misers of this city, writes the j
New York correspondent ol' the Ro-1 y
Chester Democ.Kit, have been chiefly ' r
among the lower classes. One of the I J
most conspicuous of this number, when I 0
asked by u frit ml to use his propertv for j ?;
his personal comfort, since his Iieirl (
would only spend it, replied thus: " s f
take more pleasure in saving the monev i
than they will ever have in using it.5' y
Several instances are on record in this c
city of destitution and death, in which fl
large sums were afterwards found. In r
the John Lewis case, the estate is nearly c
Bl,000,000. There is also the instance of a
"old man Wells," whose heirs recently ^
tried to prove him insane. They failed t
in this, and hence the old nn?n is left to J r
still increase those accumulations which j ^
must eventually come into their hands. ?
One of the latest cases to attract alien- "r
tion is that of the rag-picker, Samuel j
Leach, who died in a tenement house in j
great misery. The coroner found the n
corpse the solitary occupant of a miser- j
able attic. It might have been buried c
by public charity, had not the coroner j
began an immediate search. A barrel of t
rlirt-v rncT< wliicli stood in the room nrnved I 1
toliavetieen a place of concealment, for t
it contained a ouantitv of greenbacks f
and specie, and also several greasy bank j
books, which had done good service. On n
further examination it was discovered v
that this chiffonier, who was generally e
suppose to be miserably poor, owned two
houses. He preferred, however, to live
in an attic, as it was a better concealment
of bis wealth, which is now estima-1
ted at lo.OfiO. Since this fact is known t
a larjie number of relatives have put in c
their claims, and when the case was 1
called, five lawyers arose, representing an 1
equal number of contestants. How \
many relatives a dead man has, if he j
only leaves an estate. 1
Robbers All Alike. (
[Bo.nton Cotameici.il Bulletin.] i
It is an indisputable fact that all the ,
malefactors who make a profession of
robbery are absolutely one like the
other, no matter to what category of the <
clotli tliev uciong; uicsame passions, mo
same needs, the same appetites are the
prime causes of their actions. In spite of ,
the assertions of certain philanthropists, :
people very rarely steal in order to eat;
three great motives which impel men to
stray from the path of rectitude and to ,
engage in the most culpable actions are
women, cards and drink. Exceptions to
this rule exist, however, and they have '
been noted. Katinat, who at the time
was implicated in the robbery of the ,
medals of the Koyal Library, a redoubtable
caroubleur (one who steals by the
aid of false keys), sent home to his ;
family the product of what he himself
called his expeditions. For one of this J
kind you will find ten thousand who
have no other end in view than that of
satisfying their bnital passions.
A thief, " working" m a crowd, steals ]
a portemonnaie containing fifty francs; ]
he quickly goes to some dram shop of ill i
repute, drinks, gambles, and picks up 1
some disorderly creature with whom he ]
spends his last centime; a member of <
some elegant club cheats at cards and i
wins ten thousand francs; he takes to (
supper at the Maison d'Or a woman j
tree a la mode, whose father is a coach- i
man and whose brother is a convict. <
What difference is there between these t
two incidents, which occur every day? j
None. What difference between these I
two men? None; the morality is the j
same, the passions are similar; every- i
thing is alike except the surroundings.
And yet, should the second of these men <
nerchance be called upon to form part I t
of the jury, which is to pronounce upon i
the fate of the first, he will answer ' Yes,' <
without hesitation, because, he will say ]
to himself (and in good faith, perhaps;, <
that it is necessary to make an example <
and reassure society. I
In the Matter of Ages. j
Mr. Walt Whitman, who, although he j
is gifted with frosty locks, has not yet j
come to sixty years, has been heard to i
tell this story of himself: ]
I was in a street car in Camden one j
day not long ago, when an Irishman i
came aboard. He was a middle-aged,
respectable looking fellow, but he had
been imbibing pretty liberally. He sat
down beside me and stared hard. Finally
he hitched a little closer and leaned
forward to look in my face. I felt ready
for some fun, but I never noticed him?
just looked as stern and unapproachable
as possible. But he nodded, and grinned
and hitched again, bringing his face
close to my ear, then in a voice husky
but loud, he said:
" An' an' how ould are ve?''
The passengers smiled, but I never j
noticed him?just looked solemnly out
at the opposite window. The Irishman
thought I was deaf, so he raised his voice
and shouted:
"An'?how- ould are ye?"
"Sir-r-r?" I exclaimed, turning on
him fiercely. But he was not to be put
down.
"How ould are yees?" he fairly veiled
right in my ear.
If it had happened in a New York
horse car everybody would have screamed
out laughing; but Philadelphia folks
will be proper if they die; so they only
smiled behind their handkerchiefs. I
turned round to the fellow, and looking
as stern as ever I could, said slowly:
" I am one hundred and thirty-five!"
His under jaw dropped, he sank back
in his seat and never spoke again.
Changes in Fowling Pieces.
(Bnltimora Qiuetu.]
" It is quite remarkable," said Senator
Itoscoe Conkling, sitting on his front j
porch in Utica the other evening cnat- |
ting with one of his neighbors, " to note j
the changes which are constantly being j
made in the construction of fowling !
pieces. When I was a lad I remember j
we used to have shotguns with a bore I
not larger, I should say, than the end of 1
my thumb. Passing through lihode
Island the other day I saw a little rednosed
man, evidently going snipe-hunting,
who had a double-barreled shotgun,
the barrels of which, I should say, from
the passing observation that I ootainea,
had a diameter fully equal to the crown
of my hat."
. "ClemI ia dem punking meller?''
' Wtiv /1pm ain't. nunL-irn- rlom's ni/r? "
"Aigs! go' way Clem, you'm steppin on
/ax; why, aigs don't kum wia yaller
shells." "0 yes, Pompy dem Cfhiney
fellers duz up chores aifferen' from us, ,
an' deir chickens allers draps deir aigi
wid' de yelk turned out."
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-ffrmr Frwlrflf *h *BffUine.
An accident occurred 011 the T. P. &
XT .nilntnw til of w ?\f/\t??Klir u-ltli.lllt o
>arallel in the history of railroading, in
llinois at least?both for its rarity and
.bsencc of serious results. As train No.
!, engine 13, was in the vicinity of
jlasford, 111., going at a speed ot nearly
orty miles an hour, a cow suddenly
wunded in front of the engine. There
ras no warning, whatever the front end
?f the engine passed over the animal,
.nd in doing so was lifted clear ort' the
ails, and evidently at that time was unloupled
from the tender. Going at such
i high rate of speed, it continued some
wenty yards 011 the ground, tearing it
ip and even unrooting a stump in its
nad career, and what is very strange,
roof, on its wheels until it came to a
tandstill, where it stood dear of the
nain track.
The remainder of the enginennd train
:ept the track and ran past the engine
.bout a quarter of a mile, when it was
trough t to a stop with brakes. The jar
if the escaped engine was so slight, that
int few passengers were made aware of
he accident until told. The engineer,
fohn Welch, sat on his seat throughout
he affair, a mere spectator of the queer
reak of hisengine. Superintendent W.
r. Merrill was sitting in the chair car
,nd was greatly surprised when told of
rhat had happened. .No one hurt or
ivcn scared.
Bad for Indianapolis.
A friend who attended services at a
'culled church" in Indianapolis, some
,wo months since, gives a ludicrous account
of the way things are conducted
jy the religiously inclined man and
brother. The preacher was more than
asually eloquent, impressing upon his
tuditors the miraculous power ot Christ
to save sinners.
" Bar's nothing he can't do," ex?
claimed the dusky Wilberforce. "He
kin sabe de berry wust of ye, no matter
svhat ye've done. When he was here
" Here!" interrupted a sable listener;
" dus yer mean He was hcre'n Injenapulus?"
"Tobe course. Wot yer 'sturbin' de
meetin' for, Pete Johnson? To be course
Hf> was hnrn in Tnipnnnnlna "
"I dusn't blebeit."
" Den you lebe de church; we doesn't
want no iniiddles here."
"I isn'tgwine ter lebe de church, an'
I isn't gwine to blebe der blessed Christ
ebber come to Injcnapulus; an' now I
tells ycr dat I nebber heered it afore, an'
witc folks nebber heered it. Witc folks
don t blebe it. Dey ain't no such fools.
An' dey knew dat jes' es. long es dare
wus any odder place to go to, ae blessed
Lord udnebbercome to Injenapulus, not
much." _
A Scotch Story.
A certain minister having become
much addicted to drink, his Presbytery
dad to interfere and get the minister to
sign the pledge. The result was that
tne suuuuu miunuu was w;u juuuii lut
aim, and lie became so ill that the
loctor was sent for. The doctor said he
xiust begin to take his toddy again,
rhis the minister said lie could not do,
is he had taken the pledge. The doctor
replied that he might get a bottle or two
pjietly, and nobody but theii own
selves and the housekeeper would know (
it. " Man," said the minister, " my
aousekceper is worse than all the
Presbytery put together, so that would
not do." ,
However, it was arranged that the
doctor should bring in the whisky and
sugar, and that the minister was 10
make up the toddy in the bed-room
with the hot water he got for shaving
purposes in the morning. The result
was the minister got speedily well; and
jne day on going out, the doctor said to
the minister's housekeeper: "Well,
Margaret, your minister is quite himself
igain." " There's no doubt of that, sir,"
she replied; "he's quite well in the
body, but there's something gane wrong
wi' his upper story." " What's there,
Margaret?" asked the doctor. " Weel,
sir, I dinna ken, but he asks for shavin'
jvatcr six or seven times a day."
Tramps in Nevada.
The Elko (Xcv.) Independent tells how
a gang of tramps attempted to capture
the town of Humboldt Wells. Them
were about thirty in the gang, who
stripped themselves naked and performed
war dances before the private residences,
to the music of obscene songs. They refused
to leave town, and boasted :hat
they never had worked, and swore that
they never would. The citizens, not enjoying
this style of Kentz minstrelsy,
organized and drove the merry loafers
outside the town limits. The tramps
did not go far, and threatened to come
back and burn the village. At this the
citizens organized a second party, of
about twenty-live horsemen, composed
partly of raqueros, and, in the language
of an eye witness, it was " an interesting
sight to see those tramps go tip the hiil
to Cedar Pass, hogging for mercy fit every
jump." At a meeting held after their
return the citizens thoroughly organized
a vigilance committee, and notices have
been posted on the railroad water tanks
and other conspicuous places warning all
tramps to hurry on.
Mr. Fitzxoodle at Newport: At
dinnah?'pon my soul the cook doesn't
turn out things at all badly; aw he's*
Fwenchmnn- I sat next to Miss Marwy
Slocum, the gvurl with the blue eves?
*1 - : - flowao-nrw hlnnfta
me quue jjmcht uu? ?>?->?
She made herself d-d-dMsidly agweeable
in twue American style?although I
don't think I could explain precisely
what style that is. She is said to have a
gweat "deal of landed pwoperty and
money, and to be verwy anxious to 5nd
some Knglish fellaw of good family to
entah into matimonial welations with
her, in the same inannah that young
Paget was captured by an American
?* fnrmop nntwonvmic hg.<
gjruil IIUVUV 1^., W .. - ?
escaped my memory. The numLah of
questions she asked was pwodigious.
Perwhaps something had disagweeil with
her to excite her interwogative qualities.
Was I not tired of Amenvica? How
long had Jack and I been heah? Should
I conclude to make this cuuntwy my
wesidencc? Why didn't I get marwied?
Wasn't English society evah so much
niceah than the deswiption of arwangement
in this countwv'! My weiplies, as
a rule, were simply "Aw."?Puck.
Act well at the moment, and yoa
have performed a good action to all
eternity.