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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 (