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Opportunity.
Ho who shuts his oyes repining,
When a shadow dims the day;
May not seo the sunlight shining
When the clouds have passed away.
Only when the clouds aro clovon,
By tho tempost passing by?
Is the rain with sunshine woven,
Then tho rainbow s]>ans tho sky.
?Monthly Advance.
NONA'S OBEDIENCE.
A lovely afternoon in the spring, when
the balmy air and the fresh, bright toilets
of the ladies made a gala day even
on Broadway.
Philip Ilays stood at his office door,
thoughtfully pulling on his neatly-fitting
gloves. I say "thoughtfully," because
that word just describes his state of
mind, which was that of halting between
two opinions?whether to go for his
usual uptown stroll, have a comfortable
dinner at the "Westminister, and a little
flirtation with Jessie Mabin afterward,
or to cross the river and take a train for
his brother's lovely place in Jersey. He
told himsolf, as he was carefully buttoning
his right hand glove, that the chcrrie
re ripe, and that he really needed
a little fresh air and country milk.
But he knew of a far better reason
? yet, if he would have acknowledged it;
and what is more, other people knew it too
Brother Will was wise enough to credit
his ]irctty sister-in-law with Philip's remarkable
access of fraternal affection, and
little Nona Zabriska herself had a shrewd
gucSS as to what kind of cherries Mr.
Philip Hays came to the country to
taste.
"Well, on this particular afternoon the
country proved to be liually the more
powerful attraction, and in an hour and
a half after the gloves had been fitted to
a nicety they -were taken off again, that
,the wearer might clasp the hands of the
dearest, sweetest, brightest little country
maiden that any man with the right
kind of heart or eyes could desire to see.
What Philip said to Nona, and what
Nona said to Philip, the cherry?trccs and
the evening-star probably know; but it
was very delightful, and so satisfying
that the young people came back to the
house without any cherries at all, and
'* presently there was a great deal of handshaking
and kissing, which ended in a
bottle of champagne and mutual good
wishes.
Well, after this, for a couple of weeks,
there was no hesitating at the office door.
Philip said * 'strawberries" now when
his friends rallied him about his sudden
passion for the countrv. and the straw
berry excuse did just as well as the cherries.
But as the weather grew hotter, the
subject of summer resorts becamc uppermost.
, Philip's mother and sister were
going to some fashionable Virginian
springs, and he greatly dgsired that his
little Nona should go with them.
To tell the truth, he did wish she was
a little more stylish, and would put up
her curls, abandon aprons, and dress like
Jessie Mabin did. That would perfectly
satisfy him, he thought. Yes, Nona Zabriska
dresssed like Jessie Mabin would
leave him nothing to desire.
, He went about his plans with that
tact which young men who have sisters
easily acquire. A little present from
Tiffany's, and a modest check "just for
spending-money,' made his sister Cecelia
sufficiently interested in his project.
"Nona is a dear little ?*irl, Cecelia,"
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he said. "All she wants is a more stately
manner and stylish dress."
"If that is what you desire, Philip, j
why do you not marry Jessie Mabin? I
thought you liked her well enough."
y "Because, Cecile, I wnnt a heart inside
""""^jthe dress?a pure, fresh, loving heart."
'] "It seems to me?." But hcrj Cecile
stopped. She was wise enough to know 1
she would be "throwing words away."
The next d.fficulty was to make Nona
delicately understand his wis'ies, and induce
her to accept the invitation sent her
by hi Ls mother and sister. lie approach- *
?d tl^e subject under the most favorable \
circumstances; the moonlight did not <
betray his confusion, and his encircling
arm lipid her so close to his heart that lie j
had lio fear of not securing attention -j
if argument or explanation became necesv.
sary. \
"I im so glad, Nona, that you are ^
going Jwitli Cecile. I am sure it will do
you good." And then he stopped and (
kissed her for emphasis.
"I go to please you Philip. I am t
quite well, thank you." t
"Oh I but I don't, moon
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health, Nona. You little witch! who ?
could have such bright eyes and red lips (
and not be quite welll I mean about
dress and deportment, and those kind of g
things." r
There was a little ominous silence, and 1
then a low, grieved voice: "I don't t
think I understand you, Philip." i
V "No, dear; and upon the whole I am ]
glad you have never understood so far. ^
,You see, when we are married we shall 1
live in the city, and we must behave and j
dress as city people do. Cecile will show
you all about it, darling, so don't trouble
your pretty little head." r
"I thought you liked me just as I am, a
'Philip. What is wrong in the city that i
iia proper and pretty in the country, will t
,youtellme?" t
I "Certainly, Nona. Your loose flowing l
ifeair and short dresses, and your frankr I
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familiar ways, all so perfectly charming
just hero, would occasion remarks auc
unpleasant criticisms in the city. I wani
my little girl to be as fashionable and as
stylish as?as?well, as Jessie Mnbiu."
"Ah! sho is your ideal, is she?"
Much more to the same purpose, mingled
with kisses and compliments, was
said, but nothing in it deceived the
wounded woman's heart. For Nona,
though not a fashionable woman, was n
true woman, nevertheless, and understood
not only what had been said, but
also all that had been left to be inferred.
It was not possible for him to leave hi i
business entirely, but it hud been arranged
that once a month lie was to pay
a few day's visit to the springs, and in
the intervals be refreshed and comforted
I by regular and plentiful supplies of let!
ters.
The supply was pretty fair tlio first
week, but fell off gradually afterward,
until several days passed without any
token of Nona's faith and memory. Still
ho did not feel much troubled. He
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muuyui, nu quite understood JNoim's reasons,
and nt any rate he relied with implicit
confidence on the effect which
Philip Hays in his own proper person
could not fail to make.
This confidence did not agreo with
events. lie arrived at the springs and
found Nona out driving with Jack Christie?a
young man whom he particularly
disliked for his pretentious manners. He
was on the piazza when they, returned,
and he was certain Nona saw him, though
she kept her eyes on Jack's facc, and
pretended the greatest interest in his
foolish conversation; for of two things
Philip was certain?first, that her interest
was pretended, and second, that Jack's
conversation was foolish.
Then he felt unaccountably and, as he
very well knew, unreasonably chilled by
the greeting of the splendidly dressed
Nona, who calmly and nonchalantly extended
the tips of her gloved fingers to
him, drawling out the while a pretty little
assurance of being '*30 glad to see
Mr. Hays," with the information that
"Cccilc had been expecting him since
the early morning train."
"Cecile!" he said, reproachfully.
"And you too, Nona?"
"Oh dear no, Mr. Hays. It is quite
too PvlmmtNirf nvnnnf om-tl.U r\.. ~
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at a time is quite sufficient."
Philip was shocked and silenced for
the time. For one distressing half-hour
he tried to assume his rights as her betrothed,
but she kept Jack Christie persistently
between them; and so, angry
and hurt, lie sought his sister Cecile.
4*000110," he said, "what a change
there is in Nona! "What is the cause?"
"A wonderful change I I never saw a
girl improve so rapidly. I suppose you
are the cause. Do you know that she is
really the belled Jack Christie and Ed.
Forsyth and half a dozen others are raving
about her. Positively they are,
Phil."
"Very kind of them, but?"
"Well, so it is, you know. Very
first families, and all that kind of
thing, you know. Upon my
word, brother, I believe Nona will make
a snn ??!?t inn novt ? - -
? ..WAV T* iui.v/1 . ia
ijuite satisfied now."
But Philip was not. No, not at all.
Very far from it. That night at the hop
Nona looked lovely and grand enough
for a queen, her golden hair arranged in
some picturesque style, which Jack
Christie audably declared to be "just
the thing," yards of satin and lace makiag
a track of glory behind her, and
;old ar.d jewels flashing froin her
bead, her throat, and her wrists.
All in vain, however, Philip pleaded
for a dance. Nona had been engaged
tor every set since break fast, and she
reminded him rather maliciously of the
icccssity of conforming to the usages of
society. So he had the satisfaction r?f
watching the social triumph of the fu,ure
Mrs. Ilavs.
Three miserable days of continual
lisappointment and then Philip detcrnincd
to go back to New York, and see
\Tona no more until she returned to her
jonntry home.
lie bade his mother and Cecile good
>y, and gave the regulation kiss to
Sona, who received it with perfect
>lacidity and many kind wishes for his
feasant journey; for, as he was to leave
rery early in the morning, the ladies did
lot expect to sec him again before his
leparturc.
As they passed out of the parlora Nona
urned a momcnf, and a flash of the old
enderness made her face beautiful, her
ips parted, and she hesitated a moment
is if she would speak, but finally passed
>n and away.
Pocr Philip I He took his cigar and
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,av uown on ine dark, silent balcony,
niserable enough; but in about half anlour
a timid little figure stole through
he deserted room, and without warnng
laid her hand upon his shoulder,
lo turned rapidly, all the great passion,
vhich had grown to deeper intensity in
lis suffering, bursting out in one ini)loring
whisper of "Nona!"
"Philip 1"
Well, you know the end. Philip did
lot like the fashionable Nona at all; his
vliolc heart cried out for tho sweet, nat- <
iral girl that ho had never prized enough
ill he believed her gone forover. Tho
angled curls, tho short dresses, even tho .
ittle ruffled aprons, never more looked
vomelv in his eves. I
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r Ever afterward he had tho most wholey
l sou 10 fear of Nona turning fashionable;
t and she to this day, when Philip is in
i tho "opposition," reminds him of his ono
experiment in managing women, and assures
him that in thejlong run he would
not like his own way if he got it, and so ^
i he takes hers, which, after all, I have no
5 doubt, is tho most sensible thing ho can
do.?Harper''a Weekly.
Crow and King Birds.
Crows are loved neither by farmers nor
by other birds. "All a crow is good for,''
said a Norwich (Conn.) farmer, is to hang
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m? uy mo lecc in a cornticlcl and skeer oil
other crows with." It is un unsettled
question whether crows love best to suck
other birds' eggs or pull up young corn.
Spunky little king birds are their most
dreaded foes. They are not 60 big ns a
robin, but they have long sharp bills and
arc full of fight. They are the natural
watchmen of the fields. Even cats and
dogs arc afraid of them, and the mere
sight of one balancing himself on the
top of a bar post or on the cone of a
mullein will make a crow to quake and
lloundcr away to the woods with absurd
manifestation of prodigious terror. King
birds had rather fight for feathered
friends than for their own sake. A few
days ago at East Great Plain, in this
town, a couple of king birds caught a
crow breaking eggs in a robin's nest in
an orchard. It was half a mile to the
woods, and the crow knew as soon as ho
saw his enemies that he was in for the
bitterest experience of his life. He
ilapped heavily into the air, and hia
bitter foes went at him. They slugged
him in the head only, peeking at his eyes
on either side, and in a few moments one
of his eyes was closed or destroyed, and
lift llniltlflorofl ill
? uuuuw ah tuu an ilku u
steamboat without a rudder, lie had
not gone more than thirty rods before he
had to tumble to the ground in a meadow
to gain a breating spell. On the
ground his assailants could not get at his
head so well, but they made the feathers
lly from his back. Again lie arose, and
as he winged across tho vallev, driving
up and down and plunging and half
turning his big body in tlie air, all the
little birds in the neighborhood?robins,
bluebirds, wrens, sparrows and ground
birds?gathered and chaffed and niockcd
him. He was forced to drop to the
ground two or three times before he got
away from his foes. As he passed over
a dusty road at the edge of tho woods,
flying not more than- thirty feet high,
three big splashes of blood fell on the
clear sand. Every feather had been
pecked from his head, and tho expression
in his swollen and bloody visage indicated
repentance and a resolve never to
steal eggs again. The kingbirds kept at
him until he flopped through the thick
branches of a spreading chestnut, and
then they turned back, evidently satisfied
that lie would never be much of a crow
thereafter. Tliev could not not !>; ?
I the foliage of the forest. They alighted
on a fence rail, and as they cleaned their ]
bills of blood and feathers the other lit- 1
tie birds celebrated with song the triumphant
termination of the aerial mill.
?N. Y. Sun.
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Tlio Fish of the Jordan. ,
The most characteristic fishes of the ^
Lake of Galilee belong to the family of j
Cliromidae, three species of which are i ^
figured in Dr. Tristram's work. Chromis i ,
Tiberiadis is peculiar to the Jordan and '
its affluents alone. It is found iu the
most amazing numbers from the Lake
Iluleh to the head of the Dead Sea. 4<It g
is by far the most abundant of all the A
species in the lake.f." "I have seen them," r
continues Dr. Tristram, "in shoals of j
ovea an acre in extent, so closely packed ^
that it seemed impossible for them to j
move, and with their dorsals fins above
the water, giving at a distance the ap- 8
pearance of a tremendous shower patter- c
ing ou one spot of the surface of the t
glassy lake. They are taken both in <]
boats and from the shore by nets run j,
deftly round and enclosing what one may
call a solid mass at one swoop and very ^
often the net breaks. They are also tak- t,
en in large quantities by poisoned crumbs h
thrown from the shore on to the surface q]
of the water. By casting netj hundreds o
arc often taken at once." When they l>
reach the Dead Sea, which they do in fcl
thousands, they do not get further than w
a few yards when they become stupefied gj
and turn over on ther backs, 4'while cor- c(
morants and kingfishers perched on the oi
snags of floating logs gorge themselves i li
without effort, and often heaps of putre- id
fying carcasses washed on the shore poi- bi
son the ntmosphere and afford a plenteous ar
feast to the ravens and vultures."?E<lin~
burg Review. vt
In the Jewelry Trade; j1
Magistrate (to new policeman)?Did ^
youjaotice no suspicious characters about ^
the neighborhood? I
New Policeman?Shurc, yer Honor, I ^
saw but one mon an' I asked him what ^
ho was doin' there at that timo o' night. .
m
Sezhe: "I havo no business here just A
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uun, uui x expect to open a jewelry J ^
Btoro in this vicinity later on." At that i
Isez: "I wish you success, sorr." '
Magistrate (disgusted)?Yes, and he
did open a jewelry store in that vicinity . |
and stole seventeen gold watches.
New Policeman (after a pause)?Be- *n
gorra, yer Honor, the mou may have ^
been a thafo, but ho was no loior. ?Ne\a j*
York Herald,
"the mountain lion.
The Biggest and Most Powerful
of Wildcats.
Able to Whip Grizzlies and to Leap Tremendous
Distances.
j la the course of an article on the
mountain, lion, o -respondent of the
Sun Francisco Cad, writing from Southern
California, says: The power of the
puma is not exaggerated, and ninny instances
are on record where grizzlies have
been found dead, and torn in a way that
showed that the mountain lion must
have done the work. Instances of their
remarkable jumping powers are very
common in the East, and South, and in
this country near the McCloud River,
where the animals are very common, Mr.
Livingston Stone followed their tracks
to the foot of Mount Persephone, where
they converged to the foot of a cliff
twenty feet in height, showing that to
reach their home the lions must have
taken this leap directly up.
The mountain lion is remarkable for
its wide geographical range. "When I
was on the Florida reef some years ago,
the wreckers on the key complained
that a panther, as they called it there,
h:ul swum across from the main land and
carried oil a pig, while another shout had
its ear bitten oil. In die Adriondacks it
is comparatively common, and known as
the painter among the woodsmen. In
fact, it ranges both continents, from the
Straits of Magellan north to Canada.
In South America it is known as the
puma; in California the American lion or
cougar, while the carcajou or quinquajou
and catamount arc other titles given
it in various lauds. The American lion,
however, is its true title, as it is the largest
cat in this country, and takes the
place of the lion there. Long, slender,
and graceful in its motions, lithe arid
powerful, it is the type of agility and
strength; and if it does not possess the
courage of the African cats it has quite
enough when hemmed in, \.f give the
hunter a good tight. I ha... been informed
that a specimen has been killed
in this State six feet in length, including
the tail, and this may be considered the
maximum size. In such an animal the
height at the shoulder would be about
two feet and one or two inches. A puma !
was kept at Woodward's, m San Fran- j
cisco, that was nearly as lame as an !
African lioness, measuring four feet from j
the tip of the snout to the root of the tail, j
In contrasting the puma with others it
will be noticed that its head is smaller in
proportion to the size of the body than
all other cats except, perhaps, the leopard.
The skull is about eight inches
long and live and three-eight inches
wide. The color of all the pumas that it
has'becn my good fortune to see has been
a uniform reddish, becoming lighter below.
There are no markings except in
the young, upon which there arc several
rows of stripes and spots on the back and
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S1UCS.
The panther has been the subjcct of
many thrilling adveutures, in books, but
[ have never been able to find a single in
stance in the East where one of these animals
voluntarily attacked a human being,
though when wounded they make a savige
resistance. So, too, the books con:ain
accounts of the roars of the panther
svhen it was wandering about the camp
it night, and while I have spent consid:rable
time in the most impenetrable
>arts of the, Adirondacks, where these
ounds are supposed to be frequent, it
vas never my good fortune to hear the
oar of the American lion; and, moreover,
found that all old hunter* said that it
vas an extremely quiet animal, following
ts prey silently.
In South America the natives tell many <
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lunca vi na cunning tnat are to be re- ,
eived with some caution. One of these .
ales is that it imitates the bleating of the j
leer so accurately that these animals are
ured within its reach. ]
The greatest pest in Southern Califor- i
ia to the farmer is the wildcat. It at- (
lins quite a large size among the foot- <
ills, and commits great depredations in !
liicken yards. A frjend recently caught i
ne that had a record of forty chickens 1
efore it was finally trapped; and tlu-.t t
le creatures are vicious and will fight s
hen cornered there is little doubt. The c
imc friend heard a noise in his chicken S
>op one night some time ngo, and going i
it, revolver in hand, saw in the dim
ght a large cat. He fired twice in rap- t
I succession, when the animal sprang, ii
at caught the third bullet iu mid air, a
id dropped dead at his feet. c
The coolness of these creatures is pro(rbial.
A few weeks ago I followed a
ic Arroyo ?eco down the mountain on p
jrsebnck with Professor Wheeler of the a
diversity of California, when as we ei
rned up n road lending to Orange ai
enue, not a stone's throw from the
ickley settled portion of Pasadena, the n:
rgest wildcat I ever saw, indeed, I was ai
clined to think it the spotted lynx, ft
jpped out of the bushes in front of our al
rscs, sat down on its haunches and di
zed at us, and finally, after each party H
d satisfied its scrutiny, it leaped into il(
e bush and disappeared down the steep hi
lea of the canon, neither of us
?l
y weapon to stay it. It is, as I have p]
ingested not impossible that it was the iti
Dtted lynx, that ranges south as far as pi
9 City of Mexico, along the Rio a
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Graudo country and into Southern California.
It is, however, quite rare, and I
( have never heard of a specimen having
been caught here. This animal, while it
seems to differ from the common lyux, is
in reality only a variety, the animals varying
in a remarkable way in color and
the arrangements of spots. Wildcat
hunting maybe included in what is called
doubtful sport. Good dogs are needed
to tree the animals, when they can be
picked off like ripe oranges with the rifle.
The difficulty in the way of good,
honest sport in this country lies in the
fact there arc no good hounds, and by
hounds I mean foxhounds. After finding
that it would cost from $30 to $40 to
unug u uog irom tlic Iv.ist by express, I
made an attempt to find a thoroughbred
foxhound, but up to date I have failed to
discover him in Southern California,
though my quest developed some of the
most remarkable dogs called hounds it
was ever my good fortune to see.
C'nlifornlu Salmon.
A scientific work just published under
the auspices of the United States
Government, on the fisheries and fishing
industries of this country, has this
to say about the California salmon, a
fish of whose ocean history little is
known: "We know that salmon leave
the mouths of the rivers at stated times
and return to their rivers at other stated
times, but where tliej' go, or how they
fare, or what motive guides their course
in their mysterious ocean sojourns, 110
one knows. They are found to have
deep-sea fish in their stomachs when
thev first mnVo
ti4v.il ii^[;L'aiiuicu nuar
enough to the mouths of rivers to be
captured, which points to the deep sea
as their ocean feeding-ground. They
are often caught with marks of seals'
and sea lions' tcctlx upon them, which
show that they are preyed upon in the
sea by these enemies, though, perhaps,
it is only in their journey to the rivers'
mouth that they have to run the gaunt'
let of seals and sea-lions, for they probi
ably have a capacity for standing deep'
er water than their just mentioned enei
mies. nut if their ocean history is litI
tie known, their inland career is inter|
esting enough to make up for it. From
J the moment the salmon enters the river,
1 which it is sure to seek once in one or
two years, its progress is one of interest.
It first proceeds at its leisure to the
head of tide-water. Here it stops
awhile and seems to play about between
fresh and salt water. "Whether it shrinks
from encountering the sudden change
from salt water to fresh, which is probably
the cause of dallying, or for other
causes, it usually spends two weeks or
more hovering about the border line
between sea water and river water.
When it has overcome its apparent repugnance
to making the change to fresh
water, it makes a rapid charge up the
river for the clear,gravelly streams. Now,
paradoxical or unreasonable as it mav
seem, it stops eating. Nothing is ever
found inside of a California salmon to '
show that it has eaten a particle of food
in fresh water. As a proof of this state- :
ment, out of a great many thousand
specimens that have been examined, no i
food has been found in the stomachs of ]
any." . (
America's Wealth. 1
The total wealth of our country, now
the richest in the world, is reported at 1
$43, .>00,000,000, in a population of 1
50,000,000, makes a total of 17,- *
500,000 producers, says the ReV. Dr.
Behrcnds. An'enormous sum in the ag- 1
gregatc, representing, however, the ac- 1
cumulations of 250 years, much of it in 8
land, buildings and machinery. c
An equal division would give to each
man, woman and child a capital of only ?
$870, much of it relatively worthless to 0
the individual owner, or of $2,500 to ^
each producer. The latter sum repre- a
jents the limit of average wealth attain- v
iible. There is no more to he had.'
The same results is emphasized by ana- ti
lyzing the annual production. The most
careful estimates place this at $10,000,- tl
)00,000 annually. From this must be li
Icductcd $700,000,000 paid in taxes,'
$1,300.000,000 to make good the annual gi
jvear and tear of the means of production, oi
caving $8,000,000,000 to be divided L
imong 50,000,000 consumers, without
dlowing anything for interest on invest;d
capital or for its increase. Allowing
i per cent, for these, the net production E
s reduced to $5,725,000,000. cl
Throwing capital out of the account, ki
here is only $160 a year for each inhab- al
tant, or of $115 if capital is entitled to di
dividend?an*average of from 81 to 44 tr
cuts a day. fa
Forty cents a day must suffice, on the cli
verage, to feed, clothe and shelter the w:
e il!- ? - - ?
vujnu vi unsfc country, ur, dividing tbe co
ctual production among the actual work- of
rs, the average income will between $327 to
ad $475 a year. of
Three hundred and fifty dollars a year P<
mst buy bread, r.>imcnt, pay house rent, mi
id provide a margin for saving in every of
imily of three persons; $2 a day is far tic
Dove the average income that the pro-. ?e<
uctive energy of the country can pay. pr<
c who secures it belongs to the priv- fie1
sged classes, with many, perhaps, above ?m
im, but with many more below him; Bhi
tid every man belongs to the bloated wil
lutocracy, against whom Socialism urges thi
j crusade, who owns $2500 worth of Wii
opcrty, or who receives more than $400 tcr
year for his work. ' fici
The Outside DopI *
Sou may sing of your dog, your bottom dojj,
Or of any dog that you please,
[ go for tho dog, the nice old dog,
That knowingly takes his ease.
And wagging his tail outside tho ring,
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hiway a ins uoiio 111 sialic,
Cares not a pin in bis sound old head
For either dog in tho fight.
Not his is tho bono thoy are lighting for
And why should my dog sail in
With nothing to gain, but a certain chanco
To loso his own precious skin?
rhero may bo a fow, perhaps, who fail
To seo it quito iu this light;
But when tho fur flies I had rather b?
Tho outsido dog in tho fight.
t know thoro are dogs, injudicious dogs,
That think it is quito the thing
To take the part of one of tho dogs,
And go yelping into tho ring. '
But I car? not a pin what all may <-ay
In regard to tho wrong or tho right,
My monoy goes as well as ray s ng,
For tho dog that keeps out of the fight.
?Philadelphia Call.
HUMOROUS,
ITard luck. A big ice crop.
The greatest satirist is the blacksmith,
for he is so extremely ironical.
"When you offer oats to a horse he may
say neigh, but he don't mean it.
Wives who are always bloving up
their husbands arc domestic magazines.
Our country's best resources are un
Uoubtedly its women; but its resources
should be husbanded.
The proper course to pursue on being
informed that somebody has threatened
to pull your nose is to procure some tallow
and grease it.
A writer says that a woman is a eilent
power in the land. To this a cyniclc old
bachelor editor responds:?"That will
be news to thousands of husbands."
"Papa, if three wheels is a tricycle,
and two wheels is a bicycle what is one
wheel?" "One wheel, my son? Well, let
me see? One wheel must be a unicycle.n
"No, it ain't papa, it's a wheelbarrow l'?
"Pa," inquired a little boy, "if you
can say that 'people run for office,' why
can't you say that people walk for office?"
"Because they are in two big a hurry to
walk," explained the intelligent father.
At a time of great excitement in this
country growing out of our nolit.ipftl
relations with Franco and England,
a man iu Vermont named hia ^
daughter "Embargo." It 'was
suggested that the name might
have beeu given ironically, for when read
backward it expresses more than a
mere willingness to be taken.
He Foand Out.
There was a group of striking painters
at the corner of Michigan avenue and
Griswold street, when a farmer with hie
whip in hand came up and queried:
"Is this a strike?" v
"Yes, sir," replied one of the men.
"What scerifs to be the trouble all
over the country just now?"
"Well, sir," replied an oldish man
with many spots of paint 011 his vest,
"the trouble is there are too many men
in the country."
"All bosh, Jim! exclaimed a young
nan who was cleaning his nails with a
nitty knife, "I tell you the whole thing
omes about from the efforts of a few to
mild up an aristocracy,"
"Well, you must be .green!" sneered ?
hird one. 4'This crisis was precipitated
lpon us as a combined effort of capitalists
to drain us of our life-blood."
"Life-blood be hanged!" exclaimed a
ourth as he came to the front. * 'Any
nan with brains knows that the trouble
tarteu with Jay Gould. He wants to
>wn the United States."
"Did I ever see so many fools toother?"
sarcastically remarked the last s
f the group. "The trouble is all caused
iy politicians who want to wind us
round their fingers. We won't be ?
round; hence this excitement."
"Then that's the trouble, eh?" queried
lie farmer.
"Yes, sir, that's the trouble," answered
le uv? together, each one speaking for
is own theory.
"Glad to know it. Much obleeged,
T I - * ' * - - -
^ ibuicu. x wiew ir. muse oe suuttiln'
* other, and I'm glad I found out."-?
Detroit Free Press.
Friends of tho Farmer,
There are two kinds of weasels in tho
astern States. The smaller kind feeda
liefly on mice and insects and is not
ctown to kill poultry. The larger preys
so mainly on mice and rats, but in edition
sometimes 1:ills rabbits and pouly.
Both species are friends of tho
rmer, for the occasional loss of a few
lickens is a trifling consequence compared
ith the good that these animals aro
nstantly doing in checking the increase
mice. You ask my orinion in regard v,
the beneficial and injurious qualities
the hawks and owls which inhabit ?
jnnsylvania. Our hawks and owls
ust be ranked among the best friends
fftmnrtii Wi.k *
.uouui. TMiu v?iy iow cxcep>ns
their food cousi.'tR of mico and in*ts,
meadow mico and grass'aoppera ,
sdpminating. The exceptions are tho f i
rce goshawk ftom tco North and two ,?
aller resident hawks, Cooper's and . .:4>
u-p-shinned, which really destroy many %
Id birds and some poultry. These
ce hawks have long tails and short f'
ags, which serve, among other ?harac9,
to distinguish'them from the
ai kind.?Forttl and Stream*