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'' '. !. ' . ." 't 1-'.i 1 . ! tl1 .V . l' '. .r . r: ( " S ( e1 +-h " { l i " . I i 1 . t .. ~ f~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"~~ +t2 "+ rif r . tY'. ' ,if i. " ' a r5i + .,-,jTRFI-WEEKL X EDITION . WINNSI3IRO S. co. 9A' 1L lII;2 1879.'T T AF*i 9 ,9'J A MOTHER'8 REVERY. They tolt me to be happy. With all these things to do With Jimmie's little pants to mend, AndMamie's dresses, too. h edinner waits for serving ; .tll6it darligsoonue, p op all sharpened ao t e.srio at home. inl4li ies to see me c aeil r so grey 'y d me soti morning.twice ,. he went away. Ie eafd the blush had faded Fromn off my cheek so fair, Dut ten yqeAs,iave departed since 'he roseai4gered there. He )wk-'iot of my troubles, ,. At mornig,_ioon, and night He *onders why my eyes so sad ..14v,)oet,t4eir old love light. eAr ., ill; ( is -the abildren, That vex their mother so -. V1.$t until they have grown up, Ththings will ohange you know." c Ten yOr8 have passed--the children, SleeVp the ilnt,togb ;e e ioverytlbing rourid-me seems l rc'i: kmockery "nd'gledm c tODl zult4 ;o ha4 j = hs w14;as mueh; dot What CMl Brought his Mother. What shall I bring you from town to day, mother?" Irs. Bradley looked at the bright, cheery f .of the speaker, a lad not more than en, but unusually tall and well devel o r hb years, *&t don't-know that we need anything, do we, Carl ? That is, anything we can do without, you knoW." -Here Mrs.- Bradley paused, as if uuwil ling to sadden that brave, hopeful spirit by alluffing ,to the burden that weighed so heavily upon her heatt. "Yes, I know, mother. But I know, too, that this.ls your birthday ; and that the best mother and prettiest little woman in the world deserves a present of some kind. So what shall it bo?" Mrs. Bradley blushed and smiled, like a girl In her teens. She had not only been reuiaikabiyietty. hi her youtli, but was so still;' lookin altogether to' young to be the mother of , boy as old as Carl. You wdn't always think so, I'm afraid I Bring yourself safely back to me, together withrall tlfi riney you can get for the fruit and vvgetables, and that will be all the present I shall want. I hope they will sell well, becau . "They ou h-tb dell well," said Carl, fill ing up the wistful pause that followed, and lookidig,.ith.pride and satisfaction upon the Scontents of the neat market wagon, and which were, mainly, the result of his own akiH1-and 4lndustry. The ilisplay was both varied and tempt ing. There were green peas and corn ; fresh, crisp lettuce and celery ; bunche' of radishes, boots and turnips. All of them arranged with so much care and nicety as to greatly enhanbe their attractiveness and vatio. - The fruit consisted of early pears and apples, whose mellow fragrance filled the air, together with the cherries and currants, which gleaned-forth redly and temptingly from out the green leaves that shaded them. "Never feai, mother," laughed Carl as he gathered up the reigns ; "I could dispose of twice the amount If they were all like this." reanifg over the rustic gate, Mrs. Brad ~- . ley gased after the retreating wagon, aglow af nlaternal pride and tenderness upon the a1t sWeet face, which,gave it a new nnd w.g drys bpauty. "Crl a real treaqpre, agreat comfort *f'hen a foolinig of compunction touched her heart, as she thought how little-love she had given to the grave, quiet man of nearly twie~ hergers,.who~ had been to her so kind a friend and protector, mingled with * an em ~thankful;ness, that he had neo h~;tiat 1iq wifely duty, the gratfluiftton, which were all she had to bestow, had been so much to him that he had blest her for thoem. with his dying * breath. a jiut for that fatal quarrel, an'(d still more fatal misunderstanding, how different her life had been I.-.'Tut God -had been vdry * good to her, espe61611y i giving her sogodd -and hopeful a son. . And ff, by their united *efforts, they could -sa,e tlielr little home, she would be conteit. It was always a long arid lonely day to his mother when Carl was away. le was so strong and patient, so merry and cheer ful, that all thqisunnhIne seemed to vanish from the ho~use when lie left. \ Nrez. Bradley..had been more like a child tg hop.imsbande than a wife, b'y whom she had been considered as. sotnething to be carefully; gnardsd fromh toil and hardship ; and (igr1 had fallen into very.muebh the mne * way of treating her. It was amusing to sgne theeptotettng-air -he assumed, by virtue of hid tex aftd sfiperf6r'size an\d strength. Hie Jike.d to hv~his mnother~ I th'e gardeit wftthiId bu d'for the sae of' her so ciet$' than- wails If Me" attempted any thing harder tha - rting, or~ arranging the fruit and vegetabs "h6 would say.: "That's too hard work for you, mother ; S kieo lille his father as soinetimies ~s~4~t.atial lunch put up to 4u~vs return~ed-to use is o -'ahungry as a. bear 1" So th un had hardly touched the western hiill wen Mrs. Bradley coom, enced1 pro yI was laid upon the round i~l4~'ElWknives and forks, and * o1lO4tP$ ~ 4 gestsof distinction, * hf Carls pate gwas a plater of whih'he Idl@W e1i atten nvI said Mrs. Bradley, as she glanced at the shining pail on its wooden peg in the porch. "I don't see what keeps Carl 1" Then the remembrance of Carl's parting Injunction induced her to go down again to the gate, to see if there. were any signs of hhn. As she did so, she caught a glin.pse of the wagon coining slowly up the hill, Carl sitting in front holding, something very carefully on his knees. With an inward wonder as to what this could be, she darted back into the summer kitchen, and had just removed the ashes from a bed of glowing coals, when Carl en tered, coming in through the front way. "Why, Carl, what has kept you so late?" "Qh,- mother !" cried Carl excitedly, ''I've had such a strange adverture I Come into the front, room and see what I've brought you ! n Wondering not a little, Mrs. Bradley fol lowed Carl into the front room. And there, upon a pretty, chintz-covered lounge, lay a beautiful little girl, about four years old, fast asleep. "Goodness me 1" she ejaculated, with uplifted ees and hands, "where did you get that?' "I didn't get her," respIded Carl, ''she came to ime. I believe the Lord sent her !" added the boy, dropping his voice, and a solemn look coming into his eyes, as they rested upon the sweet picture before him. And, certainly, there was never a sweeter picture than that round, dimpled face, with the bright halo of golden curls that encir cled it. As Mrs. Bradley gazed upon the little stranger, its beauty and helplessness appeal ed strongly to the purest and sweetness in stincts pf her nature. "It iS a very a very lovely child, Carl. But I lon'L' understand " "Of course you don't !" laughed Carl, rubbing his-hand with boyish glee, as he took another survey of his new-found treas ure. ''low should you, when I haven't told you ? ''To go back to the beginning, the first time I. saw the little thing ele was sitting on Mrs. Moreland's steps, crying. Mrs. Moreland is the lady who engaged so many of our purpto, pluns. I had sold every thing but them, and when I went up the steps with the basket I tilled the child's chubby hands as full as they could hold. "I was all of fifteen minutes in Mrs. Moreland's. I thought I should never get away ; she had so much to ay, and it took her such a time to get change and'have the plums measured. I didn't see the little girl when I came out, and supposed she belong ed to sAmebody in one of the houses near by, and that she had gone in. I turned Charley's head homeward ; and you know how he pricks up his ears and trots along when I do that. I had got quite a piece out of town when I heard a little cry. At first I thought it was along the roadside, and -stopping the wagon, I looked around. Not seeing anything, I drove on. Pretty soon I heard another cry louder and more impa tient, and which sounded as if it was just back of me. I turned my head, and there the little thing was,' sitting among the emp ty baskets and boxes I "I was astonished enough at first, and then I saw just how it happened. "You see, the wagon was close to the steps, and she had clambered into the back part, after more plums, perhaps, and being tired out wandering around, had gone to sleep." "But, Carl, you ought to have carried her right back." "So I did, mother ; that's what made me so late. I drove straight back to Mrs. Morelanad's, and she didn't know anything about her. I asked the people in some of the other Aouses and they didn't either. One man told me to take her to the station. But I wouldn't d'o that-such a little bit of a baby-so I just ,brought her home to yell." Helre the child awvoke and( began to cry, partly from hiunger anid partly from seeing tihe strange faces that beat over lhen. Those violet eyes, wvith their grieved, ~wondering look, awoke a strange thrill in SIrs. Bradley's heart, [and clasped their 6wner in her arms, she carried her oult to where Carl's su1pper was awvaiting for him. Carl woldi have fed the hulngry child with tihe sub1stantial ' food so grateful and necessary to hhnit, thloughl he yielded readily to h1i mother's sulggestion that warm milk. would be better. While lie was out milking, Mrs. Bradley quiestionedl the child, but couild gain 1no ini formation, save that her 1name1 was Dora and her papa's name "'papa." There was no0 name11 uIpon the clothinig, whose elegance and flueness of texture ind(icated that sho was the child of wealth, carefully and ten derly nurtured. Dora partook eagerly of tile nice bread and milk that were prepared for her, falling asleep immediately after, so that It was with some diflculty that she wvas inducted ihto tihe little night-dress, whlich Carl could hlardly believe that lhe had ever worn, oven wvhen his mother told him so, and how quickly he outgrew it. Ho witched the process with great inter est. "You'll keep her, won't; you, mnothler 9" he said, as he kissed one of tile white, dim 'ed feek' "You've often said1 'that you wished you had a little'glrI." "If fo 0one cilims her. We mnust do all we etdn:to find out to whom slhe belongs. There are hearts that are very sorrowful to night, miourning.the loss of their dlarling." T'flnext da;y Mirs. B3radley wrote out a full1 description of Dora for the daily .1ar ling,er, atfd which she,gave to Carl to take to the Village postoffice. As hp walked along, thinking of the moert gage, ich threatened to deprive them of their littlo homne, and wishing that lhe was a man, that he might got a man's wages, he saw an olegattbaru'6hie approahu'r drawn by a span of coal-black horseo, Ma~ose all ver-mouinted harness glittered in tfio sun lighIt. It contained only two persons: it's colored drive,'and a stately-looking, middle-aged gentlemn, who ordered the carriage to stop, as soon as he saw Carl. "Boy, tell me whore the Widow ,Bradhe l 1f? "Tha isa my mother's name. She lives in the 'third house,' on the right hand, htraight ahead." . 'The mnan smiled. r I 'T i Jtidge '1Jvitend. Yu ,u b pad hAdiey, Who fe.und andtokcl tdu ee di my~ lintl Uan tl i~t~e~ "I used to know her when she was a girl, and a very beautiful girl she was, too. "My mother is very beautiful now." "I don't doubt it," smiled the judge. I "And you are her son ? Dear I dear I how < time does fly, to be sure." Mrs. Bradley was sitting upon the vine covered porch, with Dora in her arms, who had fallen fast asleep, and did not see the two until they were close upon her. Strange and tenderemotions stirred Judge iavland's heart as he saw that fair, sweet woman, the never-forgotten love of his 2 youth, holding his motherless child to her i bosom. "It Is Judge Haviland, mother," said (Jarl, in response to that startled inquiring look. "lIelen--Mrs. Bradley, how shall I thank you for your kindness to my little daugh ter? I hope you have not found her trot- ( blesomiie ?" he added, as the sttddenl$ awakened child sprang eagerly to his arus. "On the contrary, I-that is to say, we, - Carl and I, shall l .sorry to part-with her." "You need not -tlt\l . pol. choose. My lad," turning td,rl, ', ou go down to the road and '1ook ater iy hEses ?" t Carl could see no'necessity for "looking t after" the horses, whose driver appeared to I be a faithful and competent man; but a sort cj of instinct kept him down by the gate until t Judge Ilaviland made has appearance. Carl found his mother in a state of agita tion, whose nature he, could not define ; there were traces of .tears upon her face, and yet lie thought that he had noyok. seen a her eyes so bright, or her cheeks so bloom- s mng.I io his great delight Judge iaviland do-. 1 cided to leavo Dora, for the present, with t her new friends, to use his own words, "for the sake of country air and conntry living.'-' But he caime to see her often-almost every day in fact ; so that Carl was, in a measure, t prepared for the announcemnlt that was t made to hini one evening, as they were all .s out on the porch together, and which the i judge gave in a way peculiar to him. U "I have news for you, my boy, and which I hope will make you as happy as it has mae me. Your mother is going to be my wife, and Dora, your own little sister I" B The hoy was silent, and his face being 11 hidden by the curly head of the child 'J that was clinging to his neck, his mother I could not see how he took this. "Are you sorry, my son ? I - shall love d you just the same." Carl smiled as he met that anxious, ap-1 pealing look. 8 "I am glad, mother ; for your sake and a mine, very glad." A Good Reason. a s lie was a regular dandy in appear- f ance. He wore kid gloves,. plug hat, i gaiters with cloth tippers, a natty cut .o away coat hidden beneath a checkered p ulster, and a pair of nouge-colored d linen pantaloons. ' an Everybody noticed his sutnt t is- a ers as he walked down the 4t o "Hey, inister I" shouted the boy, t "shoot the pants." i Still hie paid no attention. "Theregoesa lesquimaux." shrieked another gamin. Then he sought refuge in a sample- t room, where one man took the liberty u of inquiring ii "Why don't you wear cloth t.ron=ers ; til you'll kill yourself going around that. Y way In this kind of weathier." ''hie man didn't reply, but got near the stove. "Guess he's a poet trying to come fl the eccentric," suggested another. , a After a few moments of. silence ,an- t other man bawle out: ti "If I were you I'd drive my legs Into t the sleeves of my ulster and l.ie the skirts around my neck.'" . At'ter several more had quizzed hlam v on.the absurdity of wearing summer si pantaloons in midwinter, he got up V and( shouted :. "Would you all like to know,why 1 0 wear slimmer trousers ntow ?" "Yes, yes I" they answer'ed, unani mously. -"WVell, its because they're all I've 12 got!" ils reply was satisfactory. n The h TeZnlus as Lton Hunters. Of the skill and courage of the Zulus 12 manay anecdotes aie told, of which the a lollowing is a specimen: Some few years ago a Zulu hunter, hearing a t young British officer speak somewhat $1 lightly of native .prowess, offered to bi give him a specimen of it by killing h single handed a lingo lion which infest ed thme neighborhood. TVhe challenge .~ was accepted. and the brave fellow at i once set out on his, dangorous errandi(, ri thme ofilcer and several of lisa comrades following at a distance. HavIng o dirawn the beast from'his lair, the hun ter Avounde.ld him with a well flung ~ n spear, and instantly fall i1&t o~n the ground beneath his huge shild of ri- r noceros hide, which covered his whole b body lIke tihe lid of a dish. Th'e lion, ti having vaInly expended his fury upon z it, at length drew back a few pacis. ~ Instantly tihe shield :rose again,a see ondl lance struck him, and his furiousr rush encountered only the impem;etra- a ble buckler. Foiled . agtin, the lion c erouched close beside his ambushed en emny, as if meditating a siege, but the t wily saLvage raised the further' end of the shield just eneugh to lot himn preep unoiselessly' away in the darkness, leav Ing his buckler unmoved. Arrived at a safe distance, he levelled his third I spear at tly.broad yellow flrank of' the royal beast with such unelkrring iho -;m :m td lay huim dead 0on the spot, and then ret,urnied composedly to receive the coni' gratulatliof. the wondering eeta~ Vrolit,*1,SOO.( "To sum ,i up,-sid ong-years of bed- 1 Aidd siekm essin .400 pore yo#r~ enw~ ' -Vt Hudson Bay I1og Teais, Profanity'-atd par"iulairly Fi-o.clh >rofanicy, sp81ns a.necpssary atdjunct to eg-dri In . It is t)tkfortutnate that, >) sonq iscruta bl; dis~pensation of roVidenc he only- netlhou of reach ig a dog!stl nsii Albuid be through in-limited i'npr6eat4it But speak! ig rith .the expereloq pf many days of log-travel and an -itiimate acquaint ie'e with a adore thbre of dog trains have never see at toipt nad9 to each It .. <ahy 4lh way. I do not eek-tq,tage a6 ib simply to pre Oit dQdrlvtug a it ally is.--au in 4Imtan thrashing bail varied oursing. l'he oruelty itihAwh 1 dogs are treat 1,nfiott e'eitiiq It is true they dbtfitto aiud ' oking, and re re severeo ea in peolally from a Lew drlvr, till the. m Is brought in o. subjoo.tion. ButkVeni helpless aul rals. u.tIdergoing "sere labor in the ttidns aee -iiot me -beaten' on the 'ody viq$>iavy .sh , but syunetrical yfloge.1. on, the he .l till their ears Irip bipod-beaten w It whip, handles lll'th.lr Jaws.fN., es are out open: rith - dep w,ot1d 'uljelled with lubs, knelt upon fSl stainped upon ntti their hiih'tiit Into low moans f agony-ptitilshA merges into heer brutality. yet such treat (tontis of coumnoti ',oeurronce. As I aid, the .beatings froiglmoitig Intermit ent became lcnacsou* Many of tit ogs had so exitait , thenmselves by tolent dartings hith i tiid thither lii heir endeavors to do a the blows of he deseonding"wlrip, Hit they had no trength left for thau, ftgiaite task of auling the sledge;g ,''lhe heads of thers were reducidyt4t a . $,wollen, pul y mass by tromend us thrashing,, rhile one or two lif :ivoii out alto ether and had been akeii ffoim the arness and abandone oi the plain. 'he operation of "ee liig a dog to toine"' had been perfotthed more than nce-a.brutal operatlwit,, which .tho river sipks below the level of the bel.t.. ending a (log to Rome, Is effected 'b Imply M%ating him ovdr the head with club or heavy whip tandlo ."intil be lls Insensible to the grpund. When e revives, with the ini.nory of the wful blows that deprived him of con 31ousness fresh upon him -he pulls rantioly at his load. A.dog'is se': t. tb tomne for various and iften trivial ir.ici atidhs'-beeause he shirks or ivill.i6t ill, because lie will .not permit- the river to adjust some hJth in his, bar ess. While he is in 8Qnsibe .he. nece try alteration is maddard ulidn re Dvering conscioun! kbe reed yes a irrible lash of tha Whip to set him go lg again. A Morning Onl From A Panther. " I suppose youe' wondering why I keep tat ugly old chbstl" said Mrs. I-, and I must own that it's not very orna entatl ; but it saved my life once, for all lat. I see you think I'n,i making fun-of ou, but I'm not indeed ; and when you ear the story, I think you'll agree with to that I have good reason to value it, ug r as it looks. "This was how it happened. When we rat came out to India, my husband was mnt to iake the survey of the -Nerbudda Valley, one of the wildest bits In all con al India; and we really were just at first 10 only white people, within 40 or 50 iles. And suchl a tIinte as we had of it!i my husband hadn't. been as' strong as lhe , anid a perfect miiracle of patience as elil, I don't know how we could have .ood What .he had to do. It was dreadful crk for him, being up sometimes for a '1101 nighlt togethler, or having to stand, ut~ in the 'burning suni, When the very round itself was almost 'too hot to touch.' nd as for- tile native workini, I never iw such a set,-always doIng evetything rrong, and never likdng anyb'ody to put iem righlt. When tile railway 'Was beIng tade they usedl to carry the eairth on their eads in baskets; and whlen Mr. R--. 3rved out whleel-barrows to them, the ac ally carried themn on thleir hea5ds in the une way I I couldn't help laughing at It, loughl it was terrilje provoking, too. And lat was just the:way tiley all were if tero was a wrong way of using anything icy'd be sure to find it out. Even our utler, or khitmutgar whlo was muchl otter than most of them, cimo one day nd b)egged 'a pair of old decanter-labels at my husband was goIng to thl-ow awvay;E nd when the man came in - the next mnorn ig, he had piositively turned them into eni ugs, anid went about quite -gravely with Port' in one ears and 'Shlerry' in the ther "However, if tile iatiYe men worried io, the native boasts were 50O times worse. hwas no joke, I can assure you, to be waked in 'the middle of the night by the >ar of1- a tiger close under the window or y an elephlant crashIng and; triumpeting lrough the .jungle withl a noIse like a lall-coneh' goIng full gallop into a het oiise.- Well, as soon1 88 thait was ovei-, lie, Jackals would sot up a aq ealngand rhim1pering like so many fightened child sn ; and then'a dreadful nativ birdj whole' anie I've never-.found out (I.suppose~ ee auso nobody.cOould-Invent' one had enough: ar It), would.break out, ini a succesion of: 10e most horrIble ories'-just like soniebody. eing mnrdered,-until. the noise ,nearly rove me wild, "And -then the antsi but. you'vo seen hem for yourself, and I needn't tell you bout them., But . all this while Ihti neg 3dofgg y.story,, '.' i ' 0 : "One y(lSwll be, long enough-liefog forget it) my h\tabanl.was out as usual at Is worl, as.d the ,pgtrsobad gop -bw to )ot ,narJ5Be I1J ver ~r#~ I dioth ~ 4p thing had fallen upon the roof. I didn't think anthing of it at the moment, for one soon gets used to all sorts of strange sounds in the Indian jungle; but presently I thought I could hear a heavy breathing in the next room but one, and I began to feel frightened in earnest. I .rose as softly as I could, and crept to the door-way between the rootns. ''his door-way was only closed by a curtain, and gently pulling aside the folds, I peeped through-and found myself within a few paces of the largest panther I had ever seen In my life I " For one moment it was just as if I had been frozen stiff, and then the thought came to me just as if somebody has spoken it; 'The big chest l' "1 knew that this chest wonld hold me and my child easily, and that I could leave I a chink of the lid open to led us breathe, for the overlapping edge would save my lingers from the panther. In a second I had it all clear before me; but had the brute not stopped short at sight of the cur tain, I should never have had a chance of trying It. Luckily for Jne the Indian panther, savage as he is, is a terrible cow ard, and suspicious as any detective. I've I seen one go round. and round a trap for more than half an lion-, before he made up his inid to sliriing at the bait. So, while f my friend was puzzling huiself over the curtain, and wondering whether it was meant for a trap or not, I took up Minnie, (who, poor little pet seemed to know there was something wrong, and never uttered a sound) and into the chest I crept, making as little noise as I could. "I was hardly settled there when I heard the 'sniff-sniff' of the panther coming right up to where I lay, and through the chink that I had left upon, the hoj, foul breath came stcaming in upon my face, almost making mne sick. It seemed to bring my heart into amy mouth when I heard his great claws scraping the edge of the lid, and,trying to lift it up; but, happily, the chi~nk -was too niarrow for his paw to enter. But if the paw couldn't., the tongue could ; and soon he began to lick my fingers, rasp- f ink them so that I hardly knew how to bear it. Still, the touch of Minnie's little arm around.my neck secem ,to give me courage. " But there was far worse than this to v come; for the panther suddenly leaped right on top of the chest, and his weight r pressed down the heavy lid upon my fing era, until the pain was so terrible that un able to stand it any longer, I screaned with 1 all my might. "'1'lio scream was answered by a shout, a from just outside, in which I recognized .mly lusband's voice. The panther heard it, too, and it seemed to scare him, for ie made a dash for the window, either forget ting or not noticing the iron bars; but just c as lie reached It, there came the crack of a -rifle, and I heard the heavy brute fall upon t the floor, Then all the fright seemed to come back upon me at once, and I fainted outright. "I heard afterward that Mr. R - had r happened to want some instrument which he had left at the house; and, not wishing to trust it in thle hands of any of the na tives, he came,back for It himself-luckily, just in time, for the bullet from his rifle killed the panther. But as you see, my hand it pretty stiff yet. i. NI Chloride of Sodium. Early 0h1e morning a treInendous a commotion was created in a lodging- I house oi B street, Virginia City, 'I by an Inveterate wag, who really ought to be taken care of at once. The man was lodging in the house, and, about eight o'clock came down from his room and told the landlady that her little boy had found a box of chloride of so- t dium on his wash-stand and had taken t eome. "If you can get a stomach- Il pump into him inside of an hour, he'll ~ live. New don't get~excited; keep cool C PIut a mustard plaster on his stomach at once, and send for all the doctors d in reach. You'll be sure to fid one at v home." By this timo the frantic a mother had phe boy stretched out Oil v the bed, and was getting a square yerd r of mustard plaster ready.- At the same C time she dispatched three boys and a 'lttle girl for medical aid. "ilIref.' I. sa;id.the wag, coolly, "I'll leave you tie name of tihtohemi..gal on a piece ofa paper-chloride of sodittng .Mako n,0 I mistake; alny doctor will know what to do t-he mlhinute he sees the nqirne. It's ' all right; now.don't cry. It won't have the slightest effect under an hour. Keep cool. Don't frighten tha child. Il go dowun and send ump some doctors myself, and here the young man start- S ed at a brisk pace down town, and soon had several doctors routed ont of thefI. Qfdecs. Meanwhile the boy, who was nine1 years old, was bawling at the top of Is volde, and some of the ladies a from neIghboring houses came in . to lI help him on thebhed while the mustard k plaster was spread over his :tomnacht I ~EYry woman who came in was snn the name of the $91894 writyfe" on the paper, .and othey p,jaoulated : 'Ieroy on us ?" Gr4gio1sa me I" "Oh any I" and i "Meroitu& i ehvens 1" ini oncert. Pres- a ently thd dootbrse began to arive, Dr. I HIarris-eame teating up the allef tvita g stbmniah-pump, followed by Webber, ALndrson. Udiil rritchard, Grant,. Ueft1N Nerggeiln, and .indeced all the i olne.cases and instrhments and sto- I mach pumps. At the sight of so for'. a midable arfay the patient '(On Wlldii ' the plaster *ls di'aidig Jke a ten-tiIule a W'ab hAs he takAh, Madamn9 si ed Dr. HlarrC hurl'iedly. 2"Her,e's thO$jii'," fi4d! the 1%dth- t eWlibbI,)g " That'~ a1 sttrhe 0o / 4ha do r h~ti,erpt%i,m if$00o th e'inm a ii a lap th, ly Aomi e reamarkd;l 'fSalt by unt I Hub Your Glasses, Are the eyes of any of our 'eaders at ta tage when, from long use, they need assis anmce in their more diflicult work ? N< )laie to the eyes I What other instrumen s there which so well endures the strain o talf a century's continuous work? For I s somewhere near life's fiftieth year tha ,his stage is reached by the eyes. Are you lot a little awkward in the use of the nev natrument ? You hold out a good while Ill it was a question at length of arm, al nost as much as shortness of sight. I lot you feel as if you ought to make a littli xplantatory statement before you produc( t, for the first time, in company ? Yot ave been, just to save your eyes, "usint lasses" in private, your wife perhaps, 01 our husband, resenting it as a piece of af ectation, alnd kindly pooh pooing the idet f age making them necessary to you. But hey are necessary ; and it will be a greal chef to you when you are known to use hem, and their appearance evokes neithe urprise nor comment. But that is netthei ere nor there. We refer to the new ex crience in using the glasses, and its n'osi 'aluable suggestiveness. You find lo nd then that type is indistinct ; the objectt re hinn or blurred ; the eye does not do ne ; and you learn to take off the glasses, nd with the clean pocket-liaudkercidel lear the lenses, and 10 ! tile lines grons harp, and the vision is distinct. It is eatsy or you and me, friend to perform this me" hanical process : but there is its counter. >art in the mind's eye, which is more ln. iortant and inunensely more .dificult. Iti his thing we can see the want in our neigh. or's glasses more readily than In our own; o we shall look to -theirs. All men havc heir weaknesses, all except you and I, deal eader, and a few of our most int.imlatc riends. Let us look for our facts wherc hey can be found. Some men, for example-not of course, it our set-have prejudices, t'hrough which hey look. Somehow they have what they acetiously call judgments on certain mat era, and nothing will shake their judg nents. To be sure, the judgment caine be. ore the argument. They are the very re erse of the lonet and candid criminal dho, when asked, '"Iuilty or not guilty? aively said, "IIow can I tell till I hear the vidence?" They see all that appertain o these mattcrs- through coloring or confus. ig matter. They should rub their glasses. Ve can see that, but they do not ; for, as Omlc one shrewdly says, what is sight or bservation to a good sound prejudice? elf-love dulls the mind's perceptions, es ecially if wounded. The wounded part is iways abnormally sensitive.. Men do not ke their class to be censured. You and I o not like-beg pardon-other men do not ke the connections of anything or anybody hat strikes, or has struck, or might, could, r would, strike at them. The Stalford hire boor--the story is faniliar, but vener ble-killed.the unoffending gosling on the oadside. The farmer's wife resented it, nd demanded, . ''Why ?"--"An' whoi," nms the reply, "did goose-chick's father ibble i1 ?" It is dangerous for any gos ,ng to be connected with an aucestor that as obeyed a native instinct and "nibbjevl" oors on the roadside. Present enjoyment as the same obscuring tendencies. You nd I read "Billiards" on a window, and e have visiolis that are not pleasant of ambling, drinking, hapless homes, "utnl leasantness," wasted lives, and gloomy eaths. But those fine young fellows in ide, with their coats off, under the shided mps, they see nothing of those horrors. 'hey think you and me ''fogies," and only or politeness' sake would call us "ol Passengers. I think the adjuster Is the most observant 1an I ever met on a.trin. He sees every bing, and nlotes tile peculiar'iies of the cople he meets before hIe has seep. themt. Ye sat In a car together up it Wlseonsi ito day and 110 said: "Dont't you always notice, in .eYery cau I which you ride, thte fool that always sita iretly before you, and always opens the rinidow every time tile engine whlistles, antd ticks his head and shloulders out to see rhlat thecy are doin1g at that stat ion, and ever closes tile window till the stationi la lit of sight?" "Yes, I hlad; and ho never saw' anybody e-knew at any station?" "Never," said .the adjuster, "antd he ever. sees anything anybody is doing at the tation, and can't tell thle name of the statiori "And always scrapes tile back Qo(his heat gainst the sharp edge of thto widow 5aal1 rheon lie piils itin" Iaid, "and theondis. ily rubs his head wille ho turns aroua;d ad looks suspiciously at youl, as thobumghel olleves yeou did,it, and did it on purpose?' "And the man who is waiting tit the t4tion to see the train come in?" 'o nietued lie adjuster, "the man with bi~i~t.tover 114 tucked into his,boots; tawny hea'd, arade rammued Into Is pocliets up to the eltbows, touth wide open-yelu never nmiss hinm; thien you go down, lie is standing- thtore at ailsot; when yolt conie back at sunrise, he waiting for you; never sees ainybody lhe ntows'get oft the train, never sees anmybody e knows get on, never expects to; wouild e astonished to death If he should happ,i s see an acquaintance come or go; isln't aid for It, but it'S hlis business. las noth mg else in the world to do. -Is always there. f the train o6mes In fifteen inutes ahead f tinma, lhe haa made allowance for it atnd ase,been there twenty minutes; If the tralti ifour hours late, lie waits for it. You see Ian at nearly every station." ody.speak to him lie .lays 'Dulnb' "II lie baggragetuan i-uns over hin witita trook o says, '11uh1' and shrinks up a little elseu galmist the statioD, but never get# o it dithl 'Ad d6you rememabe' th6 hia e'kl its behindyou and. whiktlasVtk d. "And when hd gets tired of w4atif I our ear, singe bass?" suggest4d tl$at Ife. "Aaid ndterawhistles.o, alligd htlpa Lusthate k *P). . .'"AndApo4zi her? k1oO# bn ethsmt. re badas:h6 W4tdithd tEt ou,all abomit M~ uahof ' hant 'who wa ~~ia eAd libW4 odn'tf at time he.bhdver 0 taken by the people who came In afte li'm "And have you never seen the girl got'on A at some country station," said the adjuster, "fixed up mighty nice for the towo, the belle of the village, dressed in more colors than you can crowd into a chromo, half the town down att the station to see her off; she walks across the- platform feeling just a lit tle too rilh yo look at, conies- into the car with her head up and plumes. flying, -ex pecting to set every woman in that car wild .witAenvy as she walks down the ail8, she opens the door and sees a car full of Chicago girls dressed in the rich, quiet elegance of city girls in thei' traveling costumes, and see how she drops like a shot into tl' first seat, the one nearest the stove,' and lobks straight out of the window and never looks anywhere else, and never shakes her plumes again while she slays in the car." "And the man wvho wvants to talk " i d, "the man who would probably eif tie couldn't talk'11ve minutes to every one 'ho rides with; who glares hungrily aroind he ear until his glance rests on the man whom he thinks too feeble to resis, himn and, is the intellectual feast by asking hin how the weather is down his way; tho:nian Who -is always most determined to talk, when you are the sleepiest, or when you want to;read or to think, or just sit imnd look out .af the car window and enjoy yorfr own idle, plis - ant, vagrant day dreams?" "And the man," said Rogers, "who gete on the train and stares at. ever matiin: the car before he sits down, and stands and holds the door opeai while he stares. Who always carries an old-fashioned oil cloth cartset-bag with him, as'wide and deep as a fire-screen, and before he sits down; ges that carpet-bug by the bottom, rollq; t.up into a close roll, and puts it in thia ok. It is always dead empty. When h6 '14ea home, he never puts a rag or a thread a button In It. When he comes back ;jti%is emptier than it was when lie weit . It never ll'1 anythilig.in it thaat."he inOwa of since it was owned in the fanilly, bit'he will never travel without it." - "And the other man," I said, '*hO r ries nothing in his carpet-bag but -luil9 b, and eats all the way from Chicago to.Cairo ' "And the man who rides on a pasa. and stands on familiar terms with the conpniiy, and calls the brakeman Johnny?" "And the-man," I said, "who is riding ,on a pass for the first, time, and.atanda.,ip and holds his hat ii his hand when heca the conductor approachhig and says r' to him as lie answers the ofieial's quesO is and is generally more respectful to him thkn he is ever going to.be again?" "And the mau," lie said, "who walks through the entire length of an emupty coach lobking for a seat, and then goes back' md sits downi in the first one, near'est the dobi' " "And the mnan," L::said, -"4who always gets left?" "And the man," he said, "who losoes is ticket?" And thus, with pleasant conmend Qn our fellow passengers did- we .beguile - the weary hours. 1lucher FaUod to Appehr." A very thrilling accident happehed to the train in which 1. went to -New Car-liale. We were etossing -a; long bridge at a very high:, aite of speedp the captain's ohmronompter tindeed indi.oat ing argait of 2.173 gqthe firatquarr, when ouddoniy the osigineer staggex,d 1ipto the special drawni e9p Q n Which I always tryel :e in the niddle, t4o cf a e , and long seats at the il . , sQ n lie down and oitnd your ear wl-i u - arne weary-thee'ider'eaQtWt a face of ashy painess;' and 1ad t fe i ond uotor :kP1 "We are lost I" "What has happened ?'"' eerly ask- -. ed tihe conductoi " -'* I leanmed forw~ard amyl caught Shpen1 glieer's agonized lvlip9 "She%' blowed all th.e pknQ out of' the ash pai !" -a~h lew, feweof the otherps alized 'the' imnminei 'perit1iu 'whieh -*e wiere passing, jut~ I d listened to the labored sadihd'o' eti jt the puimps, and silently niayed t'1~ night or Blucher would come. NIH caine aloaig after awhile, and we:*efs saved, but Bilueher did not put intge allpe ndI 'afterwards learnd he was dea .a Asharp lul? ygpepey Pi~ ~j the languagegntof9 $t4 Q8 exact 9 it sh id be ~ itim t#,hie0T t ~ ~ ' she taught by th#ie .fgi t,f di d addilng or st1btathkfttIb*gl be they gould idgok6df dt1~It its. -The Ning~ tydkedtt.o1reflit .thg li ;Me E0adUy ldarn~ sol,ve thi pppMppngpgg tion ad n and n%t1l/(f. ?I~4 bonfiuntlyq#i4d (