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THE d 'L ,*1890. FllESn FROM THE WOO 1)S. a filing 1 about tho liorso ARP A\D THE H'VHlES. i-secptin Hie naked, unwashed truth. I xnu Btscuiii v. In tlio Iln’.ar Thirty Venrn A A rousin big 1 j:. ’iik war. join on :;t n j.ln BtOricc of tho Pcoplo by tho Sago of r.cchy Crook. The Ways r.f (!.;• Str.- Ml r '.re Hard Old Weighed la Arhansas \ "it. <al rnllifient inn they on 11 (irab Ail. down in I hr l int woods, one day last work, and Han dy Siribblin he lit out and wont to see the shftw. A n d tiun when II n n d y re turned buck home to tlie srtih nient that jilght he* was somethin of a show all by his lone fool self. 11 is hi nil was done up in a crush towel, and he van wearin one arm in a sling, whilst the blood nnd scars and general signs of a nasty fight stuck out all over his weary countenance. Even to Handy's wife didn't I now for certain who he was till site saw some large and famil- lous patches on the gable end of his breeches. Hut at any rates, the lie was passed with a lug It, and that brought, on the fight. They oonie out about even in tho mens, nnd i.I; nl ••‘h of ■ eem agreed to spit on the slate ai d spile out. and remember the past no mor fori ver. V “YVolgtii'd tn ihe Wilyiiee.” I couldn't a’ tor eeita'n that old man .Teen: W. f t ' ;ers h: ever keen wi'iglu'il in the bainne.', but lie is a natural-born “politieianer,'’ as my Aunt Xaney so v.out to say, and he can be found wanl’m every tw o years as reglar as the time rolls around, lie is now out as a candidate tax collector, and want in of the job so bad till be can taste it. That. I rim . to mind when To,a billy Travis went oil’ on a prenohiii cam paign w ith old Ikueon lloneyeut. Tom Hilly was rigid fresh in the can si* and young in the harcei s, so to soy, and tin* old parsim. put tin* your.g brother thromrii for all he was worth. Now it would sei in like Tom Hilly he had fixed up a powerful i: *ep and si ii rin rci inunt, and pri aelu d fiom the text: “Thou art vreigiwd in th l ulauec and found wantimr." They lit out and look a circuit way down through tho wire grass country, from sei il; an nt to settlement and from church t<> church, and everywhere they went Tom Killy preached the sum • sermout from )’:<• same text. Ho Talros Delight in Playing with Ilia Grandchildren. ,, Snys That Ahont One-Half the People In tho Civilized World Are En gaged in liulKfnt; the Other Half. TIh * t.*i> rt;itt [; Too FNmrp. By 1 • nd by (UK ‘ <ui V ■ blt.-y got back <0 So (ha: v hat 1 mikes me tell you w here tin *y star tud from. and nothin what 1 do :: out a man that ain’t got v culd do but t! u'y must gave onL au- nc» better ; e than to put his hand i tlu r “ap pintm- * nt ii 1 par,! n.” It was in 10 tho ant 1 ut uncertain rame all right with ’1 I’ul.i Billy, Lut lie told ♦>f Ar.ieri ’ii ’»1 poiitu v, and then try t:> Fa rso n I! oi.syeut 111 at 1.0 would liave Irrowre nroi: nd on both Kid.s of the 1 - i do the In. branch. “Nc ver in ctc.’: broth says the In jioli 1 irs Band; v St-ribhlin is w hat old p: ir- : o; n. “1 am old a ml weary of ron itu 1 ! i!i gone!' ally always draw ( the st : on: :s and tria hi of this w i, ked trhrn \ nu 1 :i y a tie Let in the lottery— 1 world , v. hilst yoi j a ro - \ oun and rt rong >1 hlnnkit «• 1. > * lank. Tha t would he ] , or- mul a pm ver in 1 In* Vat 11 like unto feebly ail right if hi* would hut only ■ Saul : : :’::i: igs: 1 li O i'! lilh Hi ies. ! must hr down li!«; hand and stay out of the rc*r{ ; nd ■ 1 on mi I.'t n aeh gnme. 1 lit in try; n t > stand in with ti ' A,, i J u tpa ison,” - Tom ! '.illy, “1 ain’t V«th f i-i ; of n. lb" !:t. he is move than* got 1 out that one' sei m nit, and 1 proljr.M ■ to l r.ek bin:self up agin a bre- jireaei l.'d it hoi e win ■ii we spirted out. inend in 1 ! mr rnrff v v lien he ain’t lookln How can I prer udi. and \ .lint must 1 for it. And thnt\s how come llandv do?” Ptril'ldin dropped bin jug mid spilt his “Wi *igh him a iV’m, Tom Billy, weigh mol ax - dov vn in t.lic Flat- woods that liim :: gin, says tho parson. day. Am! 1 To m B-i!b y hr lit in ; rail weighed “It wa n one of mv business and him a gai. 1. mHOlHnO 23HHH - i come Irain doca not seem to concern her. “If Carl getn down filek liitMex- iqd l am going to liiri),”6lie says, with niueh iissurartco as if every railroad bcldhgcttytq' her.' “I’ll telegraph Mr. HAbtir/or a paLSS,” she says. “11c j>or- suadCn Carl tA go there and he must take me to him if he gets very sick. >k[r.s. Haoul will mttJtc him do it, Hi now, for sho is a mother ami has,a boy out there. Carl’s lifis is worth more than I was ruminating about the cost railrpads'in the co\mt4-.V.” And raising a child. My wife ami my daugh* she, puts on an autocratic and deter- ter have been busy for a week fixingid?! 1 a^ ^ l ’ an do is to pray tbp,Lovd Uuit Carl may not. get sick. . ) He is the baby boy, you know, and mothers always cling a little closer to the last one. ; Ko did Jacob to benja min, tihd it is according to nature, I reckon. He writes to her eVer’y week and his letters Are Always bright and cheerful r.fid loving. fehe files them away in her stand drawer and ties them up with tape, ivnd every now and'then takes them out. and read* them again and takes comfort. Oh, if the boys would all write such, Ipttcrs to their good old mothers. TVhn-t a world of comfort there is In them. •Carl's last . letter tolls us about his gelling a day off, and he and two Georgia friends went out a hundred miles to shoot ducks and killed in a dny.'ikallards, teal, canvasbacks and spoonbills, and he says: “If yon w ant to get rid of old Grover, p'mkI him out bore to shoot ducks and he will never go back any more, for it takes no boat, and no blinds and no decoys.’*—Bill Arp, In Atlanta Constitution. —They Ar« the Greater Eviirt; tn the liuU. the membership will 1 every Monday.’ meats?” said 1 nothin to me which side win the day,” rftjR liuudy to me in talkin over the bloody pr.' t. “There was plenty of third party people and n wh< le pase.lo cf demoernts on the grounds, you ur.- derptaud, I!ufe, and 1 didn’t give a lid- dirr'.i diirn as to wh : eh was which or who was who. They was all my friends j ffrul fellow citizens, as it were, and the ' wainert thing- w ith me was to keep in <*ir niiiidle of the road and piny for avail all around. I’.ui in the main time tha eampaign v.hisl:y was flowin right | tolerably free and pleiitiful, which ai ' r.Minl 1 was fool enough to take a nib- blf at the bottle every time It was ! handed amend. Cialor: tand me, now, Pufe, I didn’t git dninl;. K.ut off nnd on indurin of theday 1 hadelunmp around > so scamllous much sperit.s till along in the shank, of the c\enin 1 (rot things powerful had muddled and mixed up. ! The i,ext thing I l.no-.vid l had hollered for th'* democratic party, whilst a | V. hat Ttiry Hit was way right recently had wc»i out find a l etter to grow ipwitli thee, uatr; eotuvo, 1 new*!* f uii'd it. \>e liad e.ic. id tin* .'iiisissippi bot toms, and wae. lidin ti'.rougii theeoun- try a r< . the : (,j Arkansan. We laid l id ir. Kab.e.i I:: Arkansafl. laei; t here in t he sixt ies, after the war, and I v i:t to see if I could place than Koeky Creek ,*, which, of t nan a it. n e swim .u mV t rot near- at lay in eys on more arii s. Way along late in the cm nin we come up to a settle- neat, Wil: Ike women third party man was pawin the air t > j j n j t ( ,, r]: . .p. () g .. a third party multitude, and the mul titude run over me like a storm on wheels. And t!. r, like a blasted id iot which I was, 1 showed my hand ns n third party man in a crowd of all- wool, tire catin democrat”, and two or three of cm went through me more quicker (Jinn a done c f salts. Finally «t last, when I come back to my senses I mounted my mule and rid on back home. The polities of this country are plum rotten anyhow,bafe- a great pile cf corruption, as it. were—and blame my eats if it aint the last time you will ever hear toll of Handy ‘itrihblin mes sin up his lily-white hands with any rich.” By' the time you have lived ns long and covered as much ground and trav eled ns many gaits ns I have. Handy, you will find out that tho ways of the ntraddler are hard. The top rail is most too sharp for me. + * —. The Elciv-o Was Thar. The Iftct time Andy Lucas went to tow n he had u hard light with a horse trader from somewhere over In Ken tucky, and both of cm give the cala boose a mighty close shave. The way in which it came to pass was all. on account of a horse nwap be tween Andy nnd the gentleman from Kentucky. The trade war made along In the Christmas, wherein Andv sw face and t hi good young mule. The gentleman from Kentucky wanted to know if the horse would work kind and gentle anywheres, nnd Andy went on to give him themain- ert pints in the ease. “As to saddlin qualities,” rays Andy nil children pocjircd i.u.t of every <!e.>r and window and eraei: and crevice in the cabin, v h.lrt the < Id loan f l tin a rlake-ntid- riioTi d fi -i' eouit in front. 1 .’.* wore one gr. which had pull d his kmches up till l!n\ 1 iked like they w us cut for high water. l!i. face had tla* general a: p< an*. ■ a; < f o;.'.* tlmt naiught out a heap of birt witliout iiuttin any salt. nd !:is oi op of wb.is- heal lam thinned out to soine- *s from I.? to ?) long gray feel- kers w her ('rs on ins f : ;i. "A right jileasant. country you liv; in, mister,’’ rays I, w lien 1 #rst rid uj). “Ijee!:on it is. if a i rn don’t give a dui n what h ku;, ! c come back at me. “Wlinl tili do you raise In thiscoitn try?” * ay ; i i o tl!' > n.rxt round. “Well, - ;. ng< r, 1 buv e 1 con livln here nigh on to th) yau: ," ;■ vs be, with a sad and fur-awny look in his eyes, ''end so fur r. ■ I er.n. see we don’t raise mit'i ri m ; ;,t elar hut ehilien. chills and Iiell." I told him we could brat that at I'bcky ( i. ck end not k::!f try. And tiien we rid on and left him alone in his trmi! Ies. Ii i.t tiO'I’M IIguuo. A J if; lit nin r(/ ! j:i cl(!!r r (‘ouir Iliroiifi'li the seUlement la t week and got rigid in after the good people ovop nt Bark fmg to let him real ilu* new ehiireh winch they put up hist summer. Every body u as \,!11 i i:, and everybody chipped in a little to help raise* necessary funds e\ery bon v i xeejitiu Ivlder Newton. But the cldi r said no, he wouldn’t give a eontii imiial n d cent for any s.ieii fooliskntev;. hinuelf on Ami t lia l v. b.en the elder plants little word “no,” he is somewhat like the 1 lack lion rapped a big black horse, with ft dirdi k"*y read about be is “right t.liar. ee and three white feet, fora whackin " * !< 11 ' 0 I d<*hed in ha.tMummer ;e y ou r to bu hl the new church I went down into my llar.ks and came forth with $1.> for the good work.” says the elder in givin out his side of the ease. “We built for the Lord „i.d com* nt rated it to His service. It is God's house, brethren, “I will quarantine that horse to go all :1 ' 1 * * H,U " {,l! hs to turn in and the gaits and stand hitched. I have b'‘' r it '.own with lightninall the rods never saw him hooked up in single liar- * n ''y 111 !' 011 ‘“m t : top Him, and so fur ness, and couldn’t say for certain what ^ ,:i ooneerned He can blaze away he would do in that case. -But you can hook him to a wagon, at. the wheels or In the lead, and fling on a heavy load, and when you come to a steep hill or a rale Inird pull the liorso. is right tlinr, sir, the horse is right thnr.” Ro the trade was closed and clinched, nnd Andy got on his mule and rid on back home. The next day the gentle man from Kentucky struck up with old' man Lins Stringer, from over in the hill country, and wanted to trade him if He wants to.’ You maybe mought think that the elder is a mighty peeurioius man. But up to the present writ in the Crazy Riloam never has lx*eii threatened with '[ his rugged presence. Kri t s Sanders. Muiuxt* |,i Suffolk. A delicate taste, or refined manners at fho table are not among the charac teristics of the Suffolk peasant. One fo whom some castor oil had been sent the black horse for general farm work, ns a gift w hen he was 111 sent tho next They hooked him in with a mule to it day with a request for “some more of wagon, which was loaded with two Mine. Groome’s nice gravy.” At a tithe boles of cotton, nnd the first hill they dinner an old farmer, having some come to bless grncinur the horse wo,; hrcndsuucn handed to him, took n.s “right thar,” like Andy Lueii'i jakl. much as could he convoyed to his mouth But that wasn't all. By gatlius lie on the tip of a knife blade, nnd having stayed “right thar.” The gentleman tasted it said: “Don’t eh use none.” from Kentucky whipped And slashied Another, by way of expressing aj>- mid eu nl till the air was blue fior provnl of a particular pudding, re- jiillcs around, I ut old Blnokio he wjas marked that he “could rise in the night “right tlinr,” am^ thar to stay till soiiie- time uud eat it,” and a third, supposing thin froze over. 1 he would get hut ono plate, shoveled Andy Lucas mulntaiun till yet Mint j his fishbones under the table.—London he never told the gentleman from Kiln- I News. up short clothes for the little girl, and l w omlered what w ;is the matter. “\Yc arc just making up some spring dresses for Caroline,” they said. “How many will ittake?”said I. “Well,we will have to have If to start on” said my wife, •'one for each day, and seven of them ave to go in the wash j'ou know How many other gar- “Wcll, there are seven w bite skirts and four tiannels and some little shorts, you know, but everything is f :> cheap now that her clothing ib) : n’t cost much. These nice litthj dresses with lace trimmings and all tnly cost CO cents apiece for all the material and we do the work at home.” Caroline is our grandchild and lives In the house with us and gives us lots of comfort. She loves me and I love her dearly and had rather nurse her and frolic with her than go to town and ex- el.an,go wit and wisdom with the litera ti and the loafers. An old man and a little child fit mighiy Well together. It is nature’s compromise. I am old and wrinkled and gray, but this little child will put out her hands to come to me whenever I come in the room. That flatters me, of course, though her grandmother says it is just because 1 walk about with her and that I spoil her and make it harder for anybody else to nurse hi r. She is cutting more teeth now, and is just getting over the w hooping cough and needs more nurs ing, and when she puh out her arms to me I’m going to take her and walk about with her if the world comes to an end. I've got a little soothing song that I’ve been singing to our children for <0 years and I can get them to sleep wlien nobody else can. The measles arc all over town now and she. has got to have them. Her little cousins have been kissing bor, and now they have broken out, but that’s all right. I don’t believe in hiding a child from the measles. It is a right big thing to raise ft iliild, and especially leu of them. It is the biggest thing in this life. Th*ro are things that the newspapers ami society and congress moke more fuss about, but they won’t compare with it in importance nor in purity and lore r.ml sclf-. arriliee. The innocence, help- Ic.-sness and affection of a child, my from one to five years old, is the most blessed ami attractive thing in the w orld. About D.OOO.OOO babies are born every year in the United Stiitcs, *Jid it takes about G,' (.'0,000 people to raise t! i m up to walking and talking time. Then another crop comes on, and an il her and another. The fact is that about h. If the people in the civilized world are engaged in raising the other half. And it is a labor of love. I speak from experience w hen I say that the pleasure I have derived from nurs ing, earing for, maintaining, pleasing and eduinjing our children has exceed ed all t hat. I have realized from all other .sources. A.nd now that'I am old and tiled, I had rather frolic w ith a grand child 1! an do anything else. Of course t hen* are some outsiders whoenre noth ing about t h ue things. There are some ! selfish mothers who are all orbed In | soeietv and its fashions and foljlre; who j turn their children off to be nursed, and there, are some old bachelors who don’t want to be bothered with them, 1 and seme business men who 1h>nk that making money ir, a b'gger thing, and ; •Tnrdly have time to get acquainted ' with their children, and'there an* n. big lot of thieves, burglars, robbers, I drunkards and couvietiS who care noth- j | ing for children, but, nevertheless, the | masses of the people get married and j become engaged in raising children, I and t his is the natural thing to do, nnd brings more happiness thah can* be | found in anv other state or condition. : My wife and my daughter with her | first child are happier right now in i working for that little child than they w ould be in any other occujxition. and so am L I wouldn’t write a line for a newspaper if I wasn’t obliged to. 1 would work in the garden and among j the flowers, for that is the next best ' thing and keeji« me in good health. But it didn’t take n« many garments for our first children ns it did for the last.' They were not changed every day in the old 1 iu.es—every other day wnn enough. Mv wife general 1)’ had ’two on hand and it kept her busy with needle and thread, for wo rover had ft sowing machine until our first child was eight years old. She did it «ri with her fingers- plaits, tucks, trimming*, caps, lionnets, stockings and nil. There never was a mother who did more work or nicer work for her children. It was just wonderful, considering that she wasn’t raised to work and had her waiting maids all around her and was only 1G when I married her. But she had the maternal distinct, and for 45 years has been happy in working for them. Sonin folks call it slaving, but if it brings happiness what if it is slav ery. I don’t see that she has pined away or lost flesh, or become sad and dropsy. There is not a gray hair on her el as ie he:«d and hardly a wrinkle ini her brow and she ban cost me has in doctor’s bills than any child we have got. It is wonderful what a mother can endure and how far she will go to nurse, her children. A few years ago she hurried off to Florida to take care, of a sick toy, and hIu* staid by him for three months in a little room and she saved his life. There, is no doubt about that. And right now she is on the look out for a tel gram from Now/York or Ohio or Mexico or Florida, where tho hoys are si atten d, and if it ciVucm she will want to take tli/first train?* What it will cost or whlre tho mou>y will GAVE HERSELF. • LHDQ3J HI IT WORLDLY CHURCH MEMBERS. which remains silent on these subjects. /;l v/|oMtthnrilirvlli pat*.thu members for thesot ... „, _ . Ltilings he will get the preachers, and 3am Jonoa Spooks His Mmd < f()r 1hHf corning Popular AinUjCiii0Ui,3. want of courage or sense or whatever }ftW J mnY ,f i*.'ttf ■ft’That allowed them to Card IMiijrlng, Dancing, Wine Sapp:\riM1^ permit the member* to/«Jo tjhesc tilings TUrntcr-Gotng Koumlly l>ciiouii«-oii ^ unrebukcd. Tlie preaclierls 1 he wateh- ISgEJHSUtfJ tiliy imvrh.tajul God lias truly as He has warned of the church of their The days are evil. Deviltry mrotdfeM&fWt if.*Vy persist iv. /these things, pant. Crimes and misdemeanors mul- Tkkfve tackled tiply. The good are getting better.ftn<l;odlgIV''fl l ?tV 1 ha,r«r spoken my ‘ 1’ne bad are gett ing w orse. Therr>nevieJ?;tnini»td; ;tg ini-Hions of poog^ on these was so heavy a demand, and the urjyfihJl(I/j^of4i 0 Uf»f; U imvcir; had,;u,jtruly pious was never scarcer in every coimr .nity, man oippv/qmun to di-vigi ^^vitli me in than a pure, genuine Christian,imtubll deuiinyjatipns yf thc?f things that I suppose in this, as in everything el,Auil-t a^^rjji.aud p:u aJy^q^lie ehureh. tho supply and demand regulatepthfiT ^ tliy ptjity* jcrpjj^l to agno* market. There never was a rotten-pp-5;uo,*,, Wjbvu. 1 hp.vej ^undered my 1 tato that did not start to rot in a.liMftl^ jqeeprjlitijg; Word of speck. There is not a Gixlh'ss mg:ii^H‘i*,y;&J>dy^aur-;jt'society and'^s ways as l of the church to-day in the world who see them in club life aud^Uie dancing' • did not start downward epd.tlfe-pipq eup,;an«)So on, I have I some little inconsistencies. Every been ilenpu^iu d by pyetijj, .pulpit and drunkard took his first little' urink",j ;i .pRljl<H'j,^li of. whicli I ^qci^led as ineon Most thieves stole very little the t\yk^!T bkat 1 was ui^flit; and a theft they committed. Little thiuyfa lij'^Meliei/ who lives eg’d >labors and j open the way for big tilings. preaches among a people a year or Worldliness is a Scriptural term, and, two years or live years'and does not i as we understand it, includes those speak out agiuhsT those eviTfl that tend j praet.iees of which many memlxutt.pf ^ItB^uejxuipTy ajni'rtqp^ijath is a pol- j the church are guilty, sucl. a.seariljday-- : -k£i)uiu 1 liDa^itiy belieye,_aa<l I would' ; ing, dancing, wine suppers, attendgype . J 1 ,* 1 ' 1 ' l ’-u illiterate, pious old ! upon theaters, r.nd soon. AgainYil ftn ^ he. Gospel to these things Protestant, as weli ev«tiaf Sumdqy t!a,n;t/ 1 >j , .:ave tlie ri*- j Catholic, Christianity has deliycajeil ,ifIllsO,vn^oi'in^s of a ep^vpjxl.perved out ! self by the authorities of the churqh in., t<> ine l.'I.ii* Ijouqhets of aVtifieial flowers, no unmistakable terms. Fashion and , I WnoVv 1 i hat diskonesty and corriqition fad carry th*: day. Consecrajtfoii afiiV be^ist fcvcr*ywhere. I Icnnvv if hat llicsc jiiety must give the road. Whatever ■ things of w hich I v.j iie ayivyonsideri'd I>o- A fttery of Self-Xftcrtnrln^ Eoto—A fec-ttr* Eflnciitlon. The old doctor, stwtiding r.ith hia guest among tho cixrtvd of Tillagcrn. watched the block pin* cofTm on it was lowered Into the grave. A IftiTTo, portly man, handsomely dremed, was the only mourner. He gave a rold, decent atten tion to the ftimple ocreirionlrr., walking briskly Imck to the hotel for his dinner w hen they tvere over. “There is the «nd »f a story which might, I fear, l?e. duplloatcd in many r village or city,” Mud the doctor, ns he walked back home. “Pnrnh Gibbs, whom we happened to see buried there, was left an orphan nt 15 years of r.go with a brother of three. That big fel low yonder, hurryiiif for something t.) eat, was tlie child. “Sarah had great anhitionr for he- baby, na e.he eallr4 him. 5*he worked as a servant *0 ferd and elotha him and rand him t« school in hia mrlier years. When he w*s older aha wmu Into the mill* la N*w London, did axtiw work, lived rpifti tew and dry kread, would not bny a goovn in rears, to save every cent Hint ehe might help him through ft eollrf/** eonrre in Ilar- vard. “He wan always well-fed and very well clothed. Ba wan a noted athlete, and gave strict attention every nms- < le. IHe. dhree.tlon, hiw hewrt. Ids lungs, every onrnn of hi* Ixsly. wan r.atehed end nonriehrd tinder the eye ef the profcrsional gymtvent of tlv* college. “He wfts a !uqx*rb animal when he quitted college. His bruin hnd been trained, too. She taught him (hath!.* own development was the chict object of life. He raw keen and quick-witted, and went into buaineas and lies, I hear, been very atieeetwfn! in it. “And yet, when l remember that he bns left his old sister here alone in com parative nnd lonely poverty nil of these years, I rn«si>cet that in her education of him his soul wns forgotten. It 1ms starved nnd died in him for went of the culture that hi* mind nnd body have hnd.” The doctor walked on in silence for awhile. “But she,” he raid, rousing himself, “bad a poor, frail body, made week by the. pinehiirgs and deprivn- tionr, she Imd i* her love ro gladly ne cep ted for his rake. Tier brain, too. wns not a Mrimg one. She could bnrely rend and write. But when I think of her long arlf-saorifice, of her affect ion. her patience* of the ravage hurts she bore of disappointment and neglect, B seems to me God hnd her soul in train ing as the. athlete hnd his body. It got ' strength nnd endurijnce through the fasting nnd the hurts.” Glancing upward, the good man coqfinnod, in a low voice: ' , H Is, 1 think, triumphant now.” “Surely,” said his friend, “the educa tion which leaves a mnn a selfish, hcen- wittid animal la a mistake?’’ “It is a mistake which many self-sac rificing mothon? iynd ulsters make,’* said the doctor.—Youth's Companion. A riendi Rom .Mice. At Bonlcnnx recently a hyslorlcal I’roneliRian visited fhc totnh w here his beloved was laid. Carrying n lighted ewndle and kneeling by her cofiin, he exelaimnl, passionately: “Would 1 could die! Would I could die!” Just then the find closed the door and cx- tinguiKhcil tho light. The licreavcil lover, who hnd Just prayed for death, rushed for the door; he could not open it; he tore at It, knocked, kicked, struggled, calling loudly for help. No answer, only t he utter silence and dark ness of tho tomb. Bis wish to die w as forgotten. lie sank down and wept; his tears w ere not for his beloved, but for himself, lie felt the pangs of hun ger; he thought of his candle and cut it into four parts. He ate the first quarter the first day, the racond on tho second day, tho third on the third day, and tho Inst quarter the fourth day. No more nnd he must die of ntnrvat ion. He made ono more desperate effort to bund open the door, when It suddenly opened and the keeper of the cemetery stood before him; the sunlight blinded him, and ho fell from exhaustion. He hod been there just four hours!—Lon don Telegraph. —Tlmt we would do, wo should do when wo would; for as this world changes, nnd hath abatements as many as there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; and then this should is like a spendthrift sigh, that hurts by cas ing.—Shakespeare. Col. and Mrs. So-and-So and M^j. and Mrs. So-anil-rio do can be imitated with impunity so far as the pulpit is cpn- eerned these days. One reason L have FjUIe (pings; butt he njp^aHie smallest cpepphip,. .erawyng in ocis, can ruin a '$1 .(HO sviilskin cloak iii''mW-lison. The •kick of ail old cow Imrimd cult Chicago. heard for denouncing mobs overitbls* i'>^ A1 V .gnntienis ape motkTQtytcn. Tiu* !* country is because a mob is tin; ivo^t (.; V/i’V > v- ! :u h^U^Ht npyMb’qTW 1 it s ff’ddeil Infernally cowardly thingm the vyoi/UL, , ;.:i'tp i .le tendency They never tackle anything but a'de- : or tWfig is ns I’onB.-‘i ’rtz the little ; fenseless negro or some poor white ‘‘nilil 1 hat gat hers t'.'snake up in its devil w ho has not a friend in the world, » ^WfVFl'eiVinse t.ae snakg/fs pretty; or and who will certainly be convicted ;Uid : fool'.yi 10 goes ipto a ra|;^m bcoanse executed if law has a chanc*. They , . il , ‘•s.Lc'niVCfully Jigkicd aril magnifi- never attack a colonel or a major ora ct-nHy v.j'hnb reml. I never’“i-ow sicker judge or anybody else wlio 1ms money ^ Bind nlrtiv na'uscntixl t!i:tn lo'Hiave a-little nnd friends. For tihis reason 1 hnve'rtt-' ■ I'qipaait jjH'mb.'r of ?yuK-**>e»nu'( , !i tell ti'eixl my anathemas against many pul-. | tue., tin ir .church don’t, qj^yy’t to such pits in this land. Most of ourpruaifiievs 'yAi'lilliiKe ;; as. I have written of. If will Jump on the back oilej-s. thugs and , 1 '’elouffiVl to a iHtlb' IliiViJr called a burns of a city, but they never taek'fe'’ ilbhdtffor'.Kd hWdli things I the. colonels and majors ami decifd^s i irl0Uild’'fi}ithttlrv-in tbe dn: j' HtlJe i hanty among the Sanhedrin. They ileRoitnce |i^V'^o t‘ J p;i t my i a;,|l)u{. would sin. but never have anything to say>. '’I'i-b; 0 , 111 .1. :u ' * ,, '*"b:d: and . the little, about sins and sinnei's. A largbprojpoj; J JgffddiiY*;' t.lfft wink'; at rui'Ii .kingsami tion of every churoli is eon.poyed ofp’tilitvcis i-o t'.nl'jiC.rties who members who claim reserve^ fight's ill' ^ dontl? cc Wiiiigvm t .i<t iUn>l s liired boy, Christianity with which God p'ftnMilnnr'j"^" lackey l*< y» ambtl stench in >t.!R‘rt4 finTS. I isaftv 'in 'oi^'Iof our re- p oat must Interfere, claiming thlit, relighm • of I' 1 'n 1- .••rvi never was designed to make ih^ir pleas- : ^' ls Gnie \.e w'C 1'? ' ...Gff v.o ■!. ;.;on,i uix*K less; and certainly it may be said of curtaili are who belong Ui society frequently w in , - not tolerate "ny narrow viewy or hig-' hinmivi •'ufigiearfured .rFOms these oted Ideas such as are found in (lie Teh ! t l>'ii>y.' d u.itji p/unlyzr:i:.nv.vLnreli and (’omnm.ndr:;ents and tin* preiiy[l;s<i>f tIii* , '( , Y :: d'.H;‘ly iiAm/jit* iiiVv,. A i\|f‘ (, thod:st. New Testament. They a.e w ifc-e a! o: e. ; ! y ' - ., 1 ; "’• v • t j‘ten tho tv lint is written and free to (Ip as they- , 111 v '°o.. sing; anil i. they them that their pleasures’afe hot'1 .1 W'iiMiicalsyi*sli!r«a ; ;.*.|iie charge Hailed wherever the world JkhsplieaK- t our B to give, Tki '-e people in ihe ebtirek p ^jej/^ih 8 * nil a lL !r./ , 1 ercg/rinatlona 10 belong to society frenuetitly w ill , ‘ s r :, t L ha: I'.crh *li: .110 to de- plenso. Christianity to tliem is a.iuqre cloak or profession, and thyyki | ar<#i4Ui,Mi.Ukf 111, God nor 'mail need gxyiigtgqiv-vb :fj i.*i:i .. iu* : aiffili r fry in more of experimental religiobixaU:kl• e n:<* 1 iy^niiments. they know about the north piilm They .noF'V' ‘. v - 1 - : *- y't|re worth. are seen at (iliureh on Sunda'v viornin.'/s . . , , o.v:.. I. .Jones, . . * ■ ”i>ro d:;i To ..•ivr: . on dress parade; but in tho social meet ings of the church, among the boor and rick, at the women's 1 n!;;'ioimrVirletftb 1 ^ bigs, nt the Women's(hristiau Temper-' aneo union meetings they ar6 pevyj-qr seldom seen, and the only tlijii'j that, keeps siieh persons in the eh’iireh From being hypocrites is the fact that they make no pretensions to piety. A man must pretend to be good bcfim* he.can lie a hypocrite at all. This worltlliness w hich manjfcrts it self In card-playing, dancing, |tlieiitel--’ going and wine-bihhing. and sd on, has already paralyzed our city ehurcluis. The churches are as powerlecs to i pede the progi-ess of evil or to "oVcr-.'l'^^^^’ f siskcel Dr. Bell d ibit it was, RfpljYiCji QN A iA Gy IS mC AM. iilvvotlpa, for (avrylas Sound 1 , \t lEajout A. .rij-'if 1 \YUeii walking t]iroirp;h Hie labora- Wof’y'irf'tttg ‘‘Volta Bii: 1 ait” \v’ith Dr. A. 'Gmlinaii Bell, tho inventar dU tin* telc- picked up ou 0i:v of Ike ahelvou a piece of jiine hoaul al.pujt half an ipeh thick and eight jack vs square. Hut nr tilt* center of it extended a.speak- •Itlg’ftlLei' 1 which appaiJetiHy rested ‘UffiMIJsb-iW thiil disk of ibright metal •sunk into Uie.opposite;iiUg.. 'Jjhis metal wps like ii,sUver nurror,.av*.d was about ‘' “large arhtind as the. bottom of a iHid I be: told ilioithat it waa r.ip.erf?cteil Lifst ijuipen^wbotieoriginal cm Iruetion come the devil in the world as they aVe destitute of piety. 1 never saXi-1 ad (lancing, eard-playing, thentor-goinga i•' fr ° I: ‘ thechurelithat F ' ‘ 1 “. l “ , i’ j cMliviof u situ beam. It'eilUhlrd him. in wlue-bibbing member of the was worth killing, and 1 have traveled , , , , , over this country enough to know w hrft’ ! u ‘ llWr 10 scud along a 1 am talking about. They may be*'^'*^ v,il»j»>ut ta.v :y.i|,ijf «» eloc- geutleinen and ludics-elcvJr fellows- tnc to , u ! c tlu; i^Himent and but When it comes to an onsln.mht on l ,nt the ' tu ^ i ‘ to “ ?s >'*V6nHY,Holding the* but when it comes to an onslaught on the devil. Hie world and the llesli they liitiTbr so that it caught the sun and are not in it. and il thi y were in it tl.ej'^^ WVHQitJshailbw-iIndt.bT hght on would be traitors to the side with 'WbluT/y brathmg w hch they had lived and to the things I 5,10,1 :use w hich they had loved. I believe these nils which are the beginning of all other evils that hurt society could be bombarded out of the church if the pastors would cooperate with each ether and shell the woods. These are tlie ante-rooms to drunkenness, gam bling, obscenity and lew-dues'*, ami j these pretty much cover the ground. If j wine-bibbing around the fashionable j tables of our country does not tend to ( drunkenness then a pig don’t grow into I a hog. If card-playing don't lean to gambling, then the thing that a Inn hatches out of an egg won’t grow into ^ chicken. If the contact of the sexes in the ballroom where women wear their deeollette dresses does not tend to the loss of virtue somewhere and somehow then 1 am no horse doctor. If the tilings the people look on at the average theater don't tend to obscen ity and vulgarity, then cause has noth ing to do with effect. 1 would not he understood as saying that every man or woman who attends a wine supper will be a drunkard, or every person who donees will lose their character, or every person who plays cards will gamble. I am simply talking of tend encies; and if we had not enough drunkards and gamblers nml lewd character* in this world to make us fear the. tendencies towards these, things then I throw up the sponge ami have not another word to any. Some people say thrust your children out into these tilings and they won’t want to do them w hen they an* grow n. In other words, give the pigs corn and when they get to ho hogs they won’t want any corn nt nil. I havens much respect for the member of the church v ho does things ns 1 have for the pulpit uiii diniingfi, aim ixsipune various * Hrq/'rb’hy The ft'atirm of - hik breath Tgadistrdlie mirror dkiphringtti. nTT)W*it tdmws you,” said be,)* how the ailjoy., <>f. tlm diaphragm is» carried nloii'r Vhe pay. Now, if yog .w ill put a littlwboVt'fe ’with rrtihe zoOt ih it whore that sft.TftloW'isloti the Axill'/dnd speak Into (Aw tnbfiliyvudxviU' that the sonijd will, travel hloiVf ray of light, aipl by having ;i ivVciver eon- iieetoif wMtH Yhe bottle; i ()ne' t woiild be able to heirt 4 xtlui't'toii e.ve'Fft'i ing. Wo have spvkcti If)' this iHovus.'tvrnml from points V{)|)y ( a ( nb' upiirt, ati^^hpre seems in I.h* up reiilpn to (|ouht that Bjicech may hv .1 beatH V>¥ light for great dwtiinoos. In Aur vftfperimtjnt in this wm>-tirnt u$cd seleniimi. a very rare sub:*Jf!^e,y fw;d very ,tv.*jjsitivo to light. We haveHuuid, hpv\;ever, that we can product* wi'V'gkwd t‘('*‘ii'lt.s with common soot, htid (be 'dlsedii4rie« may yet ho mado’whipUitviU, eutkd such an iLvention eo.pjnie^^Hy |pi;«^ticable.” —World-Progress. . t , ,. 1 >■ 1 » j .V sliorJq^et>fc*l .Mflffqn Whilst drinking; my glass.‘of ale at a public Inniif lienr (silitfoii. street, my attention was draw'ir M an bid man— a Scotchman, e\idrutly-^-wbo gruflly asked the bnnnaiil to dnnv.^im a jiint of ale, and put u goinl head pq it. She served him and moved awny. hut wan recalled almost irhmkdititeW by tho sight of him hlowlnp tlu* froth in all directions. She smilingly took the pot from him to till it, at tin* same time iv- marking: ”Xo,i told me Ip put a good head on it, sir.” Peering rttttftjnkiiidly at her from umler hiss'hiigtryiqvchrpwg, he grr.velv *aid: “AwellI didna ken twould hue sic unvu shm i neck!” —London Answers. ’ ’ '