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?____? Wbj, VOLUME IT. Tin' Strike at (torton (!(ir^c. i lly llcloti l-'urrv.-l Arotliusft Allon was only eighteen when she mine to (iorton (Joroe t<> t take ehartre? of the district school a . slioiit, dark-e\ed slip of a thino, with s n low voice, and such a shy, timid way, that the bio jrirls and the re- f lni',:.ons hoys at once jumped to the s < < ledusion that she would he con- c (jarred at once in Iter capacity of 1 "school-ma'am." s They discovered their mistake, s however, in a very hrief period of a time. Miss Allen mioht he uuiet, a hut she had the spirit of a .loan of Are. She reduced her little Hock to 1 order, and she kept them there,;'] too. ! t .Mrs. Minus, who presided over the <_ ( ioroe Mouse, also horc testimony in hehalf of Arotliusa Allen. I 'kl didn't s'poso, when' I lirst see i her, that she would amount to arow e * of |Vins," said Mrs. Minns, who weio-li ed three hundted pounds, and stood live feet ei-dit in her stockings. I . % t c"> "A sjiin, school oirldookin, erecturi like, that! And I hadn't a room to | spare, and I didn't $en how I could i possible accomodate her. Mut she t spoke up so prcttv-like, that she k hadn't no friends and didn't know t whore to iro, to says I: 'If von ( ?. don't mind a room over the laundry. ? 1 can clear out soma of the stores and ' put up a eot hed till the season is a over. It's a noisy place daytimes,' 1 says I, with then. (Miinose caeklino a and screeeiiiit', hut it's still and peaceable of niehts. And if you'll t I.>.ln in., iniil.-e (.lit the I.ills and keen tIks accounts, Miss Allen," says I, c ,l"ll consider it in your hoard, for s I ain't h?> scholar and never was 1 " t .Mrs. Binns was an ungainly ereu- i: tnro to look at, hat she was as heant i- n fnl at heart as the Wnus di Medici's so If, and Aretbusa soon felt herself t " at home in the little room over the laundry, whose windows looked out a at the, throaddike fall of a silver t cast a In and the unfathomable gloom ( of the fir glefis beyond. Kor (iorton i was as lovely a Jijuee as ever leaned t from mountain plateau over the i inistv valley below; and the (iorton ( I louse was full of city hoarders. a Nor was the domestic stair con teinptible. Mrs. Binns had all her I? servants from the city dentin1 the|t summer season and to all appeatanees, everything went on velvet. 1 t I ntil one foggy August morning, | when Mrs. Binns awakened to find :i herself racked in every joint by [ acute rheumatism, and utterly inea- | pubic of moving. \ She sent for Mrs. Mackenzie, the cook, to give the day's orders, but s Mrs. Mackenzie did not wait \o hear > about roasting chickens und-.jfoints of spring lambs, before she beftan on ;i her own account. s "Sorry to inconvooiftnee you, v ma'am,' said Mrs. Mackenzie, with \ her arms akimbo; "but we lad ids* and t gentlemen down stairs ;|iave eonelud( d to ask for an increaso salary. And until you have ctngCcded to s our demands we shall be impelled to << resist from work." Mrs. liinns opened lior eyes wide. s "Ain't I pityin' you good wagesp already?" said^she. And I can't ;af- j j ford to pay n<> more not a cent!" j | Mrs. Mackenzie took a piece of, paper out of her apron-pocket and opened it. "1 have here, ma'am," said she, , pursing up her thin lips, "the signa- j ^ tures of all the ladies and gents at present assistiu' in the mediterranean regisos down stairs, including tho , four waiters of tho colored gender ! s and the two Chinese washer-laun- , dries; aie^wo won't none of us stay | another hour without yoti'll agree in n acumentary writin', ma'am to raise , our salaries." , And Mrs. Mackenzie tossed her head in spiteful satisfaction. | "I can't give no answer," said she I |, "not with this pain in my hones, j Send Miss Arethusa Allen to me, \ please." \ "()h, certainly, ma'am certainly!" {| said the cook, rising. "Sorry you J feel so poorly. Hut you'll bear in mind, ma'am, that we shall expect an } ainswer immediate." i t And MYs. Mackenzie withdrew. |r Presently Aretlmsa Allen come in | for as it chanced the district school had ..i i .. i.. e. _ .i iTHim'u <i wvui\ |?it:v, i?ir \ fir j soiiiiiicr vacation -and found Mrs. | \ Hinns dissolved in tears. ^ "What is it, dear Mrs. Hinns?" | \ said Arethusn. "The help has all struck for higher warres!" cried Mrs. Hinns. "And . I / I'm payin' 'oin more than I can of- ( ford now. And all the prices of i provisiofps have riz, and I may as well close the place at oncc. Oh, " Arethusn, myhead aches so I can't think! What shall I do? Tell me X there a a dear! " "Nothing," said Arethusn, quietly. | "Just lie down again and let me send , for the doctor. I "Hut the hoarders, and the din-Is ner?" i I "I'll sec to that," said Arethusn. "Trust me, and all shall he right, t Thoso peoplo down stairs have hecn * growing idler, and more domit coring j aird ine" cient, everyday; and now they want you to*.pay thorn more l ' \ money for doing less work. There i * w ^ . 44 iiE TIKTCTIE ? I I I I ,,. nust I??* an ciiil to tliis. Vou will unpower inn with full authority!'* Sirs, limns si'iit for the cook. "Mr*. Mackenzie," said she, am on sick to parley with vou, hut Miss Yllen will represent me fully. What he says, I say'" And she lav down and turned her ace to the wall, with shut eyes, as if he washed her hands of the whole oiicin; while Mrs. Mackenzie leaded and turned to thu tdim J ~M..K ehool teacher, who in hor heart she (m Tetly despised "as no bettor than i servant herself, with all them airs n<l rises of hern." "Well, Miss Allen," said she, 'what's your mind on the subject? I'he sooner the (piestion is settled lie better for all parties. We ain't join' to stand her imposition!" Whatever idea Arothusa inioht lave entertaine<l as to a com pro* nise was thoroughly banished bv the on insolence this last remark. u\'on may tp>," said she. "I ley?" said Mrs. Mackenzie,' iristliny up like a so11ino hen. "I deelimS tt^entertain vour pro?osal," said Arothusa, calmly. "I'aek i|> your things, all of yon, ami leave lie house at once. If you tire expolitions, von may succeed in takino he noon-train, that slops at the iofOO.1' And she paid their waoes, out of drs. liintads cherrv-wood secretarv, ml discharged them, as the oood adv afterward remarked, "horse, foot ml dragoons." Then she called a convention of he hoarders,.and told the tale. "If you won't miid a dinner of old lamb ami lettuce to-day," said lie, "with a dessert of snow-pudding I..., i l I r i : 11 inn i vim iii.iui' ni> m;iI) i i? i | 'I* Mil s?' vow something more elaborate toiiorrow.'" And they all cheerfully coiisenod. Jrthn, the stable boy, was the only dlieiont left, and lie harnessed up lie lie si's and drove Miss Allen lowu ilie mountain-side to a farmlouse, where lived Mrs. I'easley, the nothor of tho Ine .any who had been he school-ma urn's worst enemy at irst and her nios1 faithful ally ever ifterward. "Mrs. lieasley," said Arethusa, 1 want to boirow your two daueli ors!\ "Iiloss ino, Miss Arethusa!" said he oood Woman, "what for?'' "Ta help me at thetlor^o I louse!' aid Arethusa told her story. "Jotui* ui and l-'annv are quick. smart eirls. 'II pay them a dollar and a half a veelv to iict as waitresses." "They'd ol)li"-e von. Miss ArethuJ n t v . a, ehcorf illy, without a cent," said drs. I'easley. ' They will oblige me more bv ec,opting a a suitaldo remuneration," aid Arethusa. "At this staoe of the1 vorld everything is worth its money 'alne, you know. What say von. oris! Will you io>?" "And welcome," said Fanny. "If we can learn the business," aid .Innna, who was shyer, and more listrustfull of herself. o I'll i... i . I II 111 ?l K I' II 111 > IMIMIII'^ IU III truet you," said Arethuva, brightly. 1 'ack up your tilings. Ho ready to iwn|* into the wagon when I come mck." "Can't I d?i nothing Miss Alien? aid l>itr Junius, wistfully. "I am going to get Susan Kich to lo tlio washjng," said Aretliusa. "If on would turn tin; handle for her tonietiinos " "Til turn it from now till doomslay, if it'll h.)l|> you, Miss Allen,'' aid Junius. "Susan ain't half a l>ad firl, neither, if sho didn't ehalT ft folow so.' "Thanh you, Junius," said Miss Mien. "Yon will oblige mo very unci), indeed.' Mrs. Kiddloy, who had once been louse-keeper in a grand I'ough-I teepsio fainilv, and now lived on her nlerest money, volunteered as cook vith tin; assistance of Marian Sevier he rector's daughter, who had spent i winter in .Yew York and taken esson of M iss I 'arloa. "It will he such fun," said pretty darium, dancing up and down. 'And Mark is to be Miss Allen's aterer, and send in supplies to icr." "Yes," said Mark Sevier a colege professor who had just come lotno to the parsonage to spend his 'deration- "the (Jorgo House shall >o liberally supplied, even if I have o turn highway robber for Miss Mien's benefit. But I hope, Miss \ I 1 / k 1 I I ll/ini llOO/l I .WW I.... f tin M II' ? ?l mi III! WUII1MJI ??l mr coming to that extremity. I wiiow tiio farmers, who raise laml s ind calves, and tender young lnoil rs.' I can nut iny lingers on brooks vhoro trout do congregate, and boys vho would like nothing hotter than o catch thorn. I know whom the j >errv pickers live, and thuro isn't a uolon-pateh or a plum orchard that, can't press into the service. Von hall livo like epicures at the Oorge | louse!" "Oh, Mr. Sevior, Inw can I ever hank you?" said Arethusn, who had' icarcely known how to manage this jortion of her duties. "l)o not try," said Mark, gai". y. Miss Euphrasia Hoggs, the dress* ' a TO TCXJK "\7s7mOZRID ( < >N\Y A V maker, and Kitty I'lutne, wlio wove ruppearnets, swelled the ranks of waitresses, as soon as they learned that Mi?s Sevier was ooino into the kitehen, ami that Aretluisa herself was to oive out the lien and help with the desserts; old Mrs. J 'nkins eame as dishwasher. ' Anything to earn an honest penny,said she. And the waitresses, when olT 1 i i IIIVIM'Mlll), MV-l*- HI iHl US C I IU I II 1HT* maids, under Arothusa's own direc-> tion, so that l>v nioht-fnll tin* new si a IT of at toiuliuits woro all on servico. "Well," cried A ret Imsa, oai I v, to Mrs. Hinns, what do you think now ?" "I duiiuo what to think," said the j landlady, with a sioh of intense relief. "It does seem as if \ou had witches' blood in your veins, Miss Allen." The little band of industry worked well under its cuthusiastie yoiin<j leader. < >f course there were some "hitches," some awkwardnesses, a few blunders. What housekeeping uiaehiner\ was ever entirely devoid thereof? Hut on the whole it was a ilistiuiruished success, (iorife House r* o had never known a hotter season. | Mrs. Hinns's treasury had never rep resented a more satisfactory balance. And when the boarders, driven by keen October frosts, went awav, many of them had enuaoed rooms for tlie ensuiiur seasi?n. Mrs. Hiniis huj^irod and kis's <! Arethusa, with the heartiest jrood will. "My dear," said she. "if ever a fat ol^l woman a< don't deserve it had a guardian annuel, your're mine. And you'll bo here next season to help j I lie ? I *l'i iiiiki' iwi vv 1 a( Ml, ! couldn't promise.!" faltered Arethusa. am tn?ino to Kuropo! next summer, with with Mr. Se vier." For oiio second, Mrs. liinns was struck dumb. "i tnijrht have known it," said she. rccovoriuir herself at last. " There i wasn't never anything noine- on, but Mark somehow always ot mixed ii(>: with it. lie's the handsomest fellow hereabouts, as \( u are the prettiest oirl. I hale to loose you; but I can't iiud it in my heart to ijrud^o your oood luck; and I must try and tret alone- without you as best I can next summer, but I do hope to oraeious that I shan't have no more strikes. Silhl, </>! 1/ .Vitj/lf. 10. I*. I toe's Idea of A 111 horship. "it appears to me that the true impulse toward authorship does not arise from a desire to please any one. but rather from a stronir conscious- ; ness of something definite to sav, j whether people will listen or not. i can honestly assert that I have never manufactured a novel, and should I am sure it would be so wooden and lifeless that no one would read it. My stories have como with scarcely any vilution on my part, and their characters control mo. If I should move them about like imaecs, they U'riliifl liit l?iit i lit a irnc ! * hook they often acted in a manner I just opposite from what. I had planned. .Moreover, there are unwritten stories in my mind the characters of which are beeomino almost as real as tin; people 1 meet daily. \\ Itilo com pro: si no narrativ es IJfor^et everything and live in an ideal world,, wnich, nevertheless, is real for the time. The fortunes of the characters afTcd one deeply, and I truly believe that only as I feel stronirlv will the J reader be interested. A book, like a bullet, can only oo as far as the projecting force carries it." tl ust Lib? u Woman. A husband was sitting in his store when a letter in a familiar hand* writing was handed to him. It was j from his wife whom he had left at home that morninir with everv assurance of affection and devotion. Hut the very first sentence startled him and as he read on the most horrible J suspicion!) sei/ed liim, "I am forced 1 to tell you something that I know 1 i 1 will trouble you, but it is my duty < to do so. 1 am determined you shall j know it, let the result bo what it ma v. I have known for a week tha this; trial was coming, but have kept it to! myself until to-day, wben it reached! a crisis and I can keep it no longer. Yoif must not eeti urn me too harshly, ; for you must reap the inward as welH as myself. I do hope it won't crush you. The flour is all out. i'!??;?-?? , send me some this afternoon. ! thought 1?v tliiss method vmi wonldj not forget it." She wus right. 11o L didn't. Mrs. John (.'handler, who lives about six miles east or Marietta, (ia., d set a goose in the spring. The goose ' sat On the ejrrrs about a week, ami ?*> r*N ' died on the nest. She was taken off i the nest, and a gander, mato of I ho (< goose, took her place and sat throe weeks, when the eggs hatched, six [< in number. Ho Cftros for the little orphans just like a mother goose, < covers them at night, and during the dAj leads thorn to "where the grass is' the greenest. ** \.A' m? -A-ISTIO WCTXIK. WOK . S. ('.. TIIUKSDA V. .1 What is an American? IVof. II. II. lioveson has an nrticln in tlia .1111 v h'nruiii wliicli oimmis thus: k?What is ati Aiimricah?" an Km?^ lisli ttavclK'r usknd. soiuo voars aau, aiul answi rod in tln? smno drouth?! more or loss succcssfull\ diseuised Hii.** "\'cr\ much I remarkol1' * "I must disagree with yem, said tho Uritoit; "the loss disguised ho is tho nearest ho conies to tIn* Knirr? lislt prototype tho bettor lie is sat istied with himself." 10. A. l-'roomail, tho historian of tho Norman t 'oiuptest, has defined an Aineriean as a transplanted lOn^flishinan, and a very inuoli obscurer writer, as a perverted haiirlislnnaii an unsuccessful attempt at an Kiiolishman. It is only necessary to look at the (Canadian, who is a transplanted and weaker cop\ of the Kuglishiiiau, to detect how wide these definitions are of the mark. The American of to ! day is the composite result of half a do/en transplanted iiutionuliti *s; and individuals in whom the Kurdish of ' tho I )uteh blood is unmixed are surftcientlv rare to be worthv of preservation in an cthuolioieal museum. I lie JOnolish race-typo undoubtedly vet predominates, and lias furnished some of the most valuable characteristics of the new nationality; hut the modifications which this nationality lists undermine and is uiidori/oinm r"> < _n' | not only from the influences of its new environment, but from a steady I sidmixture of alien blood, are so pronoun'''.-.) as to disguise, silmost beyoiid recognition, its original Ibitish physiognomy. 'I here are no statistics extant show- ' ing what were the relativo proportions <?f the Knglish, Dutch, Krcneh, Irish, Scotch. Swedish and t icrman # : . i . . i : 11: ? ?-1i-111? 111 hi ill*" i ill i" i" il 11 I l II ) 11 s t ? I Americans who survived tlie Kevolutioiuirv war and founded ihoTepublie; hut we know tlie men <>f Ku^lish descent not only pro*humnatod, hut several times out numbered tlie descendants of a! I tic oilier nationalities put together. In fact, all other elements, except the I )ut< h, were of comparatively small importance. It was, to all intents and purposes, a new Knplish nation whigJi had made its appearance, emancipated, in part, j from its allegiance to Kn?rlisli history and tradition, and yet preserving the educational results of that long political evolution, in its stubborn self. 1 respect, moderation, e.mrgv and power of organization. W hat the country would have hern to-day if it j had boon dependent foi its growth ! upon the natural increase of these throe millions and their deso< mlanls, it were, perhaps, futile to impure. That i's population, territory, wealth and political power would have boon I far less than they now are is beyond dispute. Hut that it would have | been a pleasanter country to live in. better governed, less corrupt, less harassed by menacing problems in its immediate future, seems equally certain. The fourteen millions of; immigrants who luivo made their; homes in the I nited States since the J founding of the Kepublie, have im-j mensoly complicated (ho problem of self-government. Not only by their numbers, but by their alienism in thought and conduct, have thev sulS , jcoted a constitution, made by an Juiiflish nation for i(s own irovcrn- | nienl, to 11 k) severest strain. They have modified ami arc modifying the race, produoitiLf (in conjunct ion with the changed social conditions) char- i acleristics which seem hardly compatible with our former ideas of Re- j publican < iovcrnment. The changed social conditions arc,! however largely tho effects of the fiercer -.trni/i/le f"r existence which results from immigration. In spite , of-the maj/nilicient dimensions of our it wo are boc^innino to feel crowded, t >ur cities are filling up with a turbulent foreign proletariat, cl.'imorino fi?r ftunrm 7 cfi'rt n,*< tt, as i in ancient Rome, and threatening j the existence of the Rejmhlic ,f their demands remain unheeded. Kvery- | day durinir nine months of the year, ships arrive, from Kuropn, depositing j upon our shores needy aliens, many j of whom, if their extravagant oxpee-j tations are disappointed (as they are hound to lie) become the enemies of the State whose hospitality they have ! soujdit unbiddod. Plieao immioraiits are no longer, as formerly, absorbed into the n itive iionulation. io.il <lk. 1 _ t v - - - - r I I tribuod among manifold industries | a waiting their labor, 'nut a large nor- : lion of tluun become a disturbing element, e.n unexpended surplus on the1 labor market. The writer assumes that stick half measures, as eight hour laws and half holidays are futile to allay the1 symptoms of a vital disorder, and the remedy is a law to cheek the impor tatiou of unskilled labor. So long only as immigrants improved their (rendition by the change did they fed j kindly to the new country, and lie-1 cause corporation greed of html luc made it difficult for settlers to obta^wf cheap homesteads, the imuiigWint with strong arms and emptyjfockets j has, in recent years, bcm^mligcd to! hire out just as . ho in the old I'M' US, ISST. country; and though lie has earned better wages, lie has been required to work nnteli harder, and his expen ditiiros for all necessaries of life have been greatly in excess <>f what he has been accustomed to. The con sequence has been that, instead of feeling under obligation to his adopted country, he has had a sense of bitterness and disappointment. Among the many with whom 1 have talked, of recent years, the sentiment was not uncommon that if a man worked as hard in .Norway or Sweden as ho is obliged to in tin1 1 nited States, ho would ho quite as well off, and have a vorv much nioro ajrrconlilo lift* than 1m over could hojto for hero, whoro ho must always fool himself a stranger. The Inioyant and sanguine spirit which was so noticoaldo autono the sumo class of! people ten or fifteen years a?n> is now rarely to ho met with, and the enthusiasm for \meriean in tituti ns which impressed m?* so deeply in the West during the lirsi years of my so. journ there, 1 have never found a mono imiyiorants of recent years;, A sulhm indifference in regard to all poltical questions which have not a direct relation to their pockets seem rather to characterize them. "America is all Immhtio," I have heard lh:m say. l*The poor man has no better chance hero than in the old country. Tim (JovornniOnt is fori tin* benefit of the rieii man. Kverythinjr is for sale here, \ on can become a (Jovernor, a (. -onoressman, a Senator anything you like if you have enouoh money to buy a nomination. What is the inaul of eallino that sort of thino I >emocrae\\ protondino it is for the poor man? I tell you everything here is a hum IHJLT. ? 'v "A That the unexpended surplus in the labor market, which is beinit con slant Iy increased by immiorntion, is a direct menace to Kepublicau institutions, us they no'A exist, has lieen strikingly demonstrated hv the doinjf.? of tie Kuiirhts of Labor, and hv 'k.?' arming sprcmU of Socialistic doi^ines amoim tho laborers in the \ t n orea! industrial centres. If inv observations arc Co, red 1 should say that lit) or I'd per eci.t. of all the. ( iernian I mechanics and workino-inen in the) I'.'S. belone- to or sympathize with Socialisti organizations; ai d 'honeh tho Ktsi?rhts of Labor have, so far, in theory held aloof from them, they have, in practice, lon?r since adopted their tenets. We are now told that the Anarchistic wine of the party has disbanded, and that the three otlcr wines are about to consolidate their forces into one strong Socialistic labor party, the open purpose of which is to subvert the present social order, and overthrow our present iusti tutions. It will be a novelty, at leas! in Atneriean polities, to ha\e a parts which differs from other parties, not only as to questions of policy, but as to the very rioht of existence of this (iovernment. livery .steamship unloading upon our shores its motoly herd of (iennans, Bohemians, 11unoarians, I'oles and Italians, reinforces the ranks of this party of destruction and prepares the way for a new revolution, or an attempt at revolution. One need impute no diabolical (lesions to these undesirable new-coiners, in prophesying thai they will sooner or later lind their places amono the subverters of social order. The very' fuel that there is no place for the majority of then;; the very fact that they are, for the time L)ein<r, superfluous that disappoint-j nient and suffering are in store for them will determine their future position. Socialism is the political name for discontent; and revolution is discontent reinforced l>y hunircr. All the lower strata of society, and particularly the immioratod portion of it, are, at present, hun^ryviot necessarily for food. I>111 for all the <rond things of life which are. beyond lliciY reach. Tliey no longer accept their poverty and ill-luck as the inscrutal>le decree of a wise Providence; nor do they regard the present social or<ler as unchangeable. A larire proportion of them hate all who are better off than themselves, and are iudofati^ably a tiv<> in spreading tliis hate anion" all those whose lot rer> ^ senililes their own. Xo sooner have they succeeded in demoi stratine that they are a force that has to lie reckoned with, than politicians, anxious to secure their sulTra^cs, will profess to sympathize with their aspirations and promise to have the laws changed in their interest. That, I>y slow or rapid decrees, the point will lie reached when ii will be seriously proposed, by legislation, to despoil the prosperous for the unprosperous, I have not the slightest doubt. lint, in ease we regard a politcal caini>}<i<rii vvitli 'ii^li ii M iinini O... I..I...I 1 "" JTTT7 yv.ltn ?T.??W.l to arouse all 11??; mott brutal passions In tli? contending parties} as undesirable, win not deal with the problem bofnre it has- assumed this acute form, and, bv,#<^'.rielui?r immigration, postpejnj^-tffo day of violent solution? Th/ points of the cultivator with which JiVimU Strait, of Corning, Iowa, 'was ploughing, were melted by .lightning, and Strait was killed. The only linrk on his body was a dark bine sppt on the side of his neck. Ills shoes ^aml Mocking* were torn to ajimls, ' ' ' , V ' ^ fLy yasTTZFrev' Sam.four's Hn> itiu*. Sain J olios proucliod throo sermons in this city latoly. Tlio sermons j were, ns usual, striking, tlu? spoakurj al o 1?ri11i11<_r his ai^utniMit homo l>y i apt illustrations ami ontortainin^ \ | anocilotes. Soiiio of his pitliv savings aro horo jrivon: \ nil <' !l It t III !l L I ? I flPlli 1 ? u I li , ( . mi i until you're sorrv enough of vonr sins to (iuit thorn. If a man repents ho don't lifivo to try to believe; it comes of itself. (iod can't give you faith: you've got to do that yourself. (><>< 1 gives you sight, hut seeing is your joh. (iod gives you taste, hut do vou over ask (iod to taste ham and eggs? \ ou may call this silly talk, hut I,iii talking to a silly crowd. Foolishness is what you rub on foolish people. A man onco said to me, ''.Mr. .lones, when you have converted the hypocrites come and talk religion to I me. These hypocrites are in my way." i said "thev \vouldn,t ho in your way is thev hadn't not ahead of you. * ? * ^ ? I Am t you usliumnd to 11?t hypocrites get ahead of you?" I vo got more confidence in bread pills administf red by a praying doe tor than the linest seienco given b\ an agnostic. I undhrstaml why old lioh 1 nger.soll is an inlidel; it pays him #<*>00 a night to deny (iod, while he would not get *10 a night leetuiillg that there is a (iod. I wouldn't uive 10 cents a do/.en for ( hristiaus who won't pray in pub lie. There are a thousand differences j between us but we are nstonishinif alike. W lieu an entfinecr rfors down from his cab to oil his machinery I notice; that he pours oil out of the same can upon all the parts, great and small j alike. \ndsothe (ireat Kngiueer ot the universe I tours 11 u' <nl ol ^riU'i- j from the 1 >r.tiit Inavenlv storehouse upon the jrreat and small alike, aim makes it as eas\ for una person as > anotlior to do riolu. If thorn is any I on? hero who i> not what (Jod in- | teuded vou to ln> it's hoeauso you 1 won't oive him a ohanoo. I am ovi t iue siok and tired of this: cant: "I t1s so lianl for mo to do ri<rlit." | ^ I You're eoed for nothing, that's what's I t he mat tor with you. I know it's a heap easier to bo a oentleinun than a vagabond. I've I ' . ^ tried hot h. "Von whitened sepulohro,''as used , hy ( 'hrist, means in nineteenth oen | tury parlanco on whitewashed rascals." There is a ditVerance between a man washed white and a .whitewashd man. Christ's hlood washed white, i Mut when a man is whitewashed it i scales olT and leave ; spots, and in damp weather it ip'ts brown. Some people have out three coats of whiteI wash on and yet it keeps sealing otT. There is a difference between rest and restine. A rest in tf is jsi tt i 11 ?_f r> down; a rested man is up and doin^r. The tirst thine ('hrist eives to a man is rest, and then he wants him to be doino\ Mlessed bo they who oive, and blessed be those w ho do not ^ivo, ! for as they are blessed they will ^ivo. The last step, the last thouidit, on | earth means oood-hye to the last opportunity. ( o>d speed the day when the Church will kick out every man within its I borders who deals in futures. The | church and the preacher who depends upon such sort of people belong t > the devil from hat to heels. Mrother, if you are not afraid of (iod you will have ^ood reason to j fear every corner of the fence. (iod does iuH; care for present events; Mo looks out for final results.! I'll make my hones ache dancino i " ?v> the pie-eon wine if it. will help me to heaven. The curse of all the churches in I this country is that they have got thousands of members who have never boon convicted of sins, much less converted to (Jod. W henever anything is wrong quit it, nnb quit it short off. A good i many want to taper off in sin. They taper off general to the big end. The sooner you die, tho sooner ! you'll get to heaven if you've boon a good man. No man is going to j growl on getting into heaven ahead of time. Don't consider yourself safe till you get there. I leaven is just on the other side where a fellow lias done bis level best. The man who thinks lie's safe and lies back on his oars loses heaven right there. If I ever fall I'll got up and run right on; and if I can't run I'll do some tall crawling. You take llaptist water, Methodist| lire and Presbyterian "bold on to what yjm've got," and you've got a sight. - /ian'ititof'i . l/nm'ra/t. Lighting entered the residence i'" <?. S. ; Meaehnin at Fruitiaud i'ark, Fin., t nd ; meandered 'around the premises until, i meeting mi umbrella leaning against the wall, it ripped out the riba and tyude a bonfire of the eover. It then left by the door. % - v MMI'.Ki; I. 1 \V?r?|s of Wisiloiii. Avoiil the company tho-e w|j ? talk unkindly >f ot her |?'M?nU?. 'I'ruo gladness <lntli not alwayn apeak; joy Ureal and horn put in tlio ton^uo is weak. Men are ant tnnl.-tt with their health and their lives as they do with t'leir clothes. I it warm moments form your r< - >lulion, and in cool moments make that resolution jo>od. There is a visible labor, and there is an invisidle labor. To meditate is to labor, to think is to act. The until who jjivrs his children habits of industry provide , for ihcm better than bv^iviitLf them a fortune. Ho that does a base thine" in zeal for his friend burns the Lfold.m thread that ties their hearts together. Admiration is a forced tribute and to extort it from mankind (envioim and ienoranl as they are) tliey uuust be takcn*uuuwnrcs. Words are but the siens end router sicais of kn$w|rdee, and their currency should be strietlv regulated by the capital which tliev represent. I'ride's chickens Itavo bonny feathers, but tliey are an expensive hp >d to rear; they eat up eve,\tl n?'u> 1 are alwavs lean when brought t ? tic market. Lot patience have her perfect york and hrm^ forth her celestial fruit-. Trust to (tod to weave vour thread into the ore at web, thuuedi the put* t ern shows it not yet. tlrit is the j(r:iin of character. It mav oonerallv ho described as heroism mnioriali/.ed s pint anil will thrust into heart, hminund backbone, so as to f<inn part of t ho pliysicul sub stance of the man. Ktorv man takes earc that his neighbor shall not cheat him. Ihit a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his ruunrhbor. Then till ones will. lie lias dimmed Ins market c.irt into a chariot of the sun. The fruits of the earth do not more obviously renuire labor and eultivalion to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to cptulify us to becomd upright and valuable ihcmbers of society,useful to others, or happy in ourselves. A Woman's Soul. '' ' ,l\inv, Miss I'iMihallio-Hn,'' said the Sipiire. "1 am olad I have cornerod you, for I want a word. You tire spoiling Mrs. Laverock. It is very kind of yon to eoine, but don,t eondol e with her it makes lior worse. She wa its stirring up. I know women." "Pardon me." "I I not, know them !" laughed the tild man* "(lolly! I have had sixt.ylive years, experience of them, ami I outrht to understand them." .No, you have spent- sixty-tivo years in their society, and you understand less than you did sixty-five years nii'o. Then you mijdit have . n n I learned now vou :i'v nast, ccuuiri n<r V I I 1 tlio knowledge/' Tlio old man stared at Lovca.iv, amazed at lier ruducitv. "You think,'" pursued tho girl, "that a woman's soul is to bo t'ikorod with a slater's sax. It is of too f i no a nature to bo touched even with the thumb. When a partie'o of (lust | enter's your wa'ch rid stops the hands you hold your breath while you oxaniiuothe works, lesta breath should rust them. A woman's heart is more delicate in its mechurisin than that, and a rough ton h and a red bias will spoil it forever. Vou know our ('ornish proverb, * The earth sto wn wiih potsherds.' It means that ovorvwhere, in every village, almost in every house, are broken lives, liv^broken by rough usage and careless handling. You wouhl have used tho finger-glasses for a jest and a forfeit, and heeded nothing if tlicv fell and were shattered. We poor women are like these same tingor-glasaes, full of fresh and pure water for you men to (lip your soiled lingers into and clean ;e them rot for vou to convert into bumpers t break for wager." Chicago's New Password. Wife ('yrus, this is a pretty time for vou to be coming in. It's half an hour p:i>l midnight. You've been at the club again, drinking. Husband (with impressive gravity and maintaining his equilibrium with inncli effort) M'ria, my dear, you do imf in justice. I was caught on jury. Couldn't get off till a few minutes nrro. ( 'mno strnxrlil liomo r? # r* Wift* \On are deceiving mo t vi rus, say inemomandratisanctificadu| l)andanalij>edonisiMuH ally. Husband (cautiously) C'ortaiiuly . mv dear. Mcmoran inoran banj . v t I dansact ?tootling rookies* and b?t-^ tin?r jjo all holds) (i\mt o1 ?ny waiy, madam! 'f J can't jrt?t into my own