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_______ ~a 1 n. le t abl l TRI-WEEKLY EDITION.I. AUGUST 26, 1880 WINNSORO, . Co IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. It might have been I When life is young And hopes are bright, and hearts are strong To battle with the heartless throng. When youth and age are far between, Who hears the words so sadly sung ? . It might have been I It might have been I When life is fair, Youth stands beside the boundless sea That ebbs and flows unceasingly, And dreams of name and golden fame; And who shall limit the To Be That's dawning there? It might have been. When life is bright, And love In in its golden prime, Youth rooks not of the coming night, Nor dreams that there may be a time When love will fall, or change, or die Eternally I It might have been I When time grows gray, And spring-tide's hopes have passed away, Old age looks back on by-gone years Their many wanta and doubts and fears; And through the mist a way is seen, , The might-have been I It might have been I When ago so sad, Weary of waiting for the fajne That, after all, is but a name. When life has lost the charm it had, True knowledge makes regret more keen It might have been ! It might have been I When youth is dead, And love that was so false is fled, When all the mookerles of the past Have lost theirtinsel rage at last, The one true love t clearly seon That might have been ! It might have been I Ah me I Ah me ! And who shall tell the misery Of knowing all that life has lost.? By thinking of the countless cost Poor comfort can the sad heart glean I It might have been I it might have been I Nay, rather rest Believing what has been Is best I The life whose sun has not yet set Can find no room for vain regret, And only folly crowns as queen its might-have-been. The Lottery Ticket. Painsted was in a state of excitement. Theie was gossiping by'the -roadside and over early tea-tables. Innumerable voices had uttered the ex clamations, "Do tell" and "I want to know I" but all that had happened was the quitest wedding possible. Two people in their Sunday clothes, ac companied by two friends also arrayed in their best, had walked over to the church, and there the minister had pronounced them ma and wife. Even at PaInsted people sometimes mar ried, and many more importantant person < had been made one than Sally 06rkindahl and Simon Wheeler; but somehow Pain. sted was excited. Sally Corkindahl was a young woman of thirty, without beauty, but wonderfully neat and industrious. Ever since her fifteenth birthday she had gone about from house to house mak ing dresses and children's clothes, known everywhere as a good, pious young woman, out never considered attractive. Her work was good and slow. In the course of these fifteen years she had laid by fifty pounds. She always had a black alpaca, a clean linen collai, and a checked apron; but whether they were the same or were occa slonally renewed, no one could teli. - Simon Wheeler was a very pretty young man of four-and-twenty, with light hair and big blue eyes. Since lie left school be had never been known to do anything but on. lisa Aunt Wheeler's dloor step and look at thie news paper-actually "look" at it-lhe never read it. As soon as it arrived lie would seize upon it, turn to a special corner and look at it. What lie stared at, though this was known only to himself, was a small adver tisement which occuied the same position in that particular paper from one year's end to ihe other, and which was headed: "Great Gumbo Lottery I Capital Prize, Fifty Thousand Pounds. Tickets, one pound each." When the day of the drawing came, and a little list of numbers was to be sceen be low this advertisement Simon looked long or and was often observed to sigh. Not however, because lie had invested his money in tickets and lost, butt because he had none to invest. ~Aunt Wheeler was not too generous. "PIll keep you till you can keep your self," she often said, "but I shan't have my -money wasted on cigars and wino. You're better off without none." Simon neither desired wino or cigars, nor any other luxury of dissipated youth ; but if lie could have had the price of a lot tory ticket without working for it, lie would have rejoiced, In his early boyhood he had dreamed that lhe had drawn a lucky number, Hie beolieved in dreams-that dream in particu lar. - It had the effect upon him that having lis name in a will has upon many a young man. - He saw no needI of learning a tra4e, of going into a shop or setting himself to earn his bread any where or in any manner, With lisa first pound hie would buy a lot. tory ticket, draw the fifty thiousandi prize, -reimburse his aunt for all that she had ex. pended upon him, be very jolly and genar. ens to oibrybody, and "live luxurlously -every, day," like the "town mouse in ti< able. One afternoon as he sauntered in, sleepy. eyed andi dreamy, lie found Sally Corkin danhl at the tea-table. - Bhe had been sowing for his aunt all th< afternoon.' Meanwhile lie also had been very busy, lie had foundl an imiaginary pound, bought a tecket, drawn the prize, and be stowed upon his aunt a little carriage, tw( cream-colored horses and a bh1tck sll dress, 11cr delight over the unexp)ected presen and wonderful news had kept ,huim fron opening the canned fruit as lie had pr.omis ed to do. Mrs. Wheeler, who kneiw nothing o tins fine waking dream, desired to scoh him. However, Sally's presence prevented lie fronl 4omng so. She contentcd herself 'Mtl a talk at hint over the dress-maker's sih der. She praised the girl's Industry, her p dence, her economy. "That's the way to get on," she sak "that's the spirit I like. Independent fr the time you lost your parents, and i lug little savings all the while. Don't a "only fifty pounds." Every little ma a nickel, I've heard my grandmother s Many a one that has earned double y inotey hasn't saved a penny." Simon listened. "Fifty poundst" said he to hims( "Why don't she buy a lottery ticket, dr a prize, and stop.sewing V I would." He looked earnestly at Sally. The cc came Into her thin cheeks. Sihe was not often the object of such tent regard. Could it be that this young man adnu her ? Sally Corkindahl felt sure that this i so when Sunon offered to see Iter home ti evening. That was the beginning of it. The end was that wedding which I awakened such astonishment at Painsto The wonder that industrioqs Sally Cor ludahl had married such an' idle folio who certainly could not take care of her, m only matched by the wonder that hat some Simon Wheeler had married tI plain, utterly unattractive Sally Cork dahl. Mrs. Wheeler resented it highly. "Since you've chosen a coimon sea - tress, and married her without a hint me, you can take care of her," she sal "I won't." to Simon had sauntered over to the o room which Saljy hired, with his portio teau in one hand and an umbrella In t other; and Sally still went out to wor while Simon sat at the window and look at his paper. Ile had told her he expected to' cot into a fortune, and she received his sta nent with the credulity.of love, and w content to pinch and toil in the meantin She had placed her savings book in I hands. All she had was his by the laws of I love, and before their wedding-day w over Simon had bought his first ticket. It was that that m.ade his heart beat wildly, not the touch of her honest ha upon his own as she met him in the gloai ing; but he said to himself. "The shan't be any more' drudgery for Sal when I draw the capital prize." There are twelve months in tho yea each month the great Gumbo Lottery b a drawing-each month Simon Wheel bought a ticket and drew a blank. Sally knew nothing of it. The anniversary of their wedding can On that day Simon bpught two tickets, at in due course of time drew two blanks. He was always kind to his wife, ferev talked of his expectations, and praised h industry: forever looked at the paper, at made little sums in lead pencil on Sally pine table. At the end of two years bally began feel a little anxious, at the end of three little weary, at the end of four alarmed. Forty-eight months had passed by, fort eight drawings had been made by tl Gumbo LQttery, and forty-eight blanks hi been drawn by Simon. . One day he made his purchase withtre dation, and returned home trembling; had spent the last pound of his poor wift hoard I fie had bought his fiftieth ticket in t Gumbo, and for the first time his hen failed him; lie had always expected prize before, now he only looked for blank. He went into his small room. Sally , at her table sewing. She looked up Simon as he entered, and her eyes fill with tears. "Husband," she said, "I've got to a you about the bank book. I hoped leave the money lie and then add to You've got it, safe, I suppose." "Yes, tihe book is safe," said Simc wiha dIreary op)pression. "I'd like to see it, mf you donm't mind 8sak( poor Sally. "It seems as if it wor be a sort of comfort." Simon took the book from his pocd and handed it to her. Bhe openedi It andl glanced at It. Then her face iushecd anid sihe began cry. '"Don't!I" said Simon. "'Don't, Sall -don't cry. I meant it for the best." -"If you needed it, you were welcon It belonged to you as much as to me," sa Sally ; "but you might have mentioned I'd have been prepared." "1 was so- sure," said Simon." sure." "So sure of wvhat ?" asked Sully. ''Of the fifty thiousanid p)ounds(," si Simon ; "I expected it long ago." "You've never told me what you expe edl it fron1," said Sally. "Do you e' think it will be left you? Was it y< father's money ? If you'd tell me I col think it over. What was it? You would deceive me, amid you are not crazy; but can't think what you mean by expectl fifty thousand pounds. Anid, ohi, I am worrIed, Simon I" "Perhaps it may come yet, Sally," si Simon. Hio took' his handkerchief from pocket as he sPoke and wiped his wit eyes with it. As lie did so a bit of yellow paper I Into her lap-thie last Gumbo Lottery tick bought but an hour before. She caught at it and her face fluel again. She looked at her husband w the gleam of anger in her I.ycs, ahd cr out, sharply: *"Is this it? Is this the.secret-the f tune you've talked of? Arm you crazy oughi for tile? Have you been buy tickets in that cheating lottery all th years, and is my last pound, that I see have dirawn from the bank to-day, sp for that thing?" Poor Simon I le stared at his wife a long time without answering; then said, slowly : "Think of it-forty-nine blanks,. every time I expected a prlze-tl.e cap prize. Think of my disappointmeit ' "I can't think of any thing except t I've married a fool," said Sally. "I co kill myself wheI~ think of It. I bell you married me to got that fity poundi gai :ble with." Thten she began to cry. "Yes, I've been a fool," he aid ; " though the money made me think of ask yu to have me, I nicant to make you ri Idid, Sally ; I vow I did. We'to along very well, haven't we? I thin great deal of you. I meant to d6 eyu tina for you; but it's all over now. ul- look at that ticket, and I know it's a blank. I should never buy another-never, never I ru- You see, that dream-I told you once of tmy dream-appeared as if it must come -- true; but my luck is bad, I see th'at )m "Luckl" c'ried Sally, stung by resent ik- ment. "Luck I * Oh, get out of ny sightlI yPick up tlat ticket that you've spent my ces last hard-earned pound on, and go where I I ty. can't see you for a little while, dot" mr "I'm going,-Sally !" said SImon. 3 lie stepped towards her as he spoke. Ie would have kissed her If she had permit- 0 if. ted lihn to (o so. C Aw Then lie picked up the yellow ticket, read the number aloud-9889--cranmed lor it into his pocket, and sauntered away. At six o'clock that evening there was a in- little crowd beside the mill dai. It was fast Increasing, for a body had 'ed been taken out of the water with a pocket q handkerchief full of stones about the neck; t ras Simon Wheeler's body. 1 at He had drowned himself in less than a half an hour after he had ivalked so leis urely away from his injured Sally's pres ad ence. 1. They found in his pocket an empty ' k- purse, a little list of numbers, and a yellow w, ticket soaked through, but still bearing on ,as its surface the figures 9889. id- Sally would have known what.it was but kat she never saw it, or the dead face that t n- looked Into its marble whiteness like some c beautiful statue, for she lay upon her 1)pI- b low. as white as he, with hicr little baby on P . her bosom; and the three were buried to- t to gether in the little churchyard at Pain- 'I d: sted. . r On the day of the funeral there was a t! ne. drawing of the Gumbo Lottery. u.. The manager of the enterprise shouted " he the numbers of the capital lyize; 9889 was c k, not among them. Its holder was not en ed titled to fifty thousand pounds. But it made no difference. Sinon a no Wheeler lay beside his wife unconscious e. of the drawing, and the yellow ticket had t long ago resolved itself into a yellow sop v e. among the sedgy grasses by the mill-pond. I kis -_c t] or ftalsing a WVeaver, 0 as Jojee. wa. a tranip, and hungry. l1ap-9. ' so pening to pass one day in a village where id the women were wailing, lie noticed the u. preparation for a funeral. In hopes of get:. re t1ng something to eat. Jojee said to the . ly relatives: "Would thou have the dead re - k stored to life ?" Then all the relatives sahd r "Yes, that would we." b id "Place me," said Jojee the tramp, "hi s er the room next to the dead man. Bring ine good cheer, so that I may propitiate the reanimating angels. Most especially put C. there a pot of the finest honey, three loaves tr id of the whitest bread and a flask of the pur- cc est oil. - w ir That the relatives did. Joj6e, the Dr tramp, bid them retire. Jojee, the Jramp, id then eat until his appetite was satisfied. c 18 Then he uttered many shrieks and howls. The relatives waited Ion and patieptly.. to Ab lengl JoJee- Cau In thd people. a "Tell me," asked Jojee "what was the exact calling of the deceased ?" "A weaver was he by trade," the rela to tives replied. c Ld "A weaver," cried Jojee, the tramp. c "Why did you not tell me so? There is honey, bread and oil wasted. Had he been M i a tinker, a tailor, or a cobbler I might I h have brought the (lead man to life-but a weaver! I never could do anything with a ti weaver!" tc She did not care to discuss the point s a with the ignorant fellow, so. to conceal her a emotions, she once more let liersdlf out on the piano. The woods were filled with at music. The mocking bird whistled as if IM at his throat would split, the cuckoo filled the 3(1 sylvan bowers with his repeated cry, while V ever anti anon the mournful cooing of sk the dove interrupted-the matin song of the tj to lark. to"There, now, I guess yoti know 'what 'that sounds like," she said, as she paused.d n,- "You mean that tootle, tootle, tootle, t 'chug, chug ?' You just bet I underst and a a, that. Many a time at a picn'c i've heard e it from tihe miouith of .a demijohni or the ~ bunghole of a beer keg." et IIer first imuilse wvas to hurli the p)ianlo tI stool at him, but it p)assedl off, and once more she wvent at, time piano as if it was thei, tyoung man's head and was insured for a double its value. The thunder growledl, n ithe lightinng flashed (fromi hecr eyes), and a the first Leavy drops are heard upon01 the ~ eleaves. She banged and mauled the keys s] iiat a fearful rate; peal after l)eal of decafenl- ~ it ing thunder pecrturbedi tihe atmiosphlere andl i 're-echoed in still louder reverberations until go it woundi up in one applalling clap as "a grand finale. Then, turnIng to the awe- 1 struck youth, she said 'd'I suppose you have heard somehhig g like that before ?" -"Yes, that's what the fellow with lineni rer pants said whemi lie sat, on- the custard i iir The audience found himself alone, but a li e picked upi his hat and sauntered out into d the street, densely unconscious that lie had ~ said anything out of the way. A liole-Stirrinxg Inoida utn. It is a sentimental custom for young men il us to write their names, andl something soft, 12 C's on the soles of t,he girl's slioes. I ou comeo r across couples In the angles of hallways, ini c ell the corners of verandas, and on the beach, ( et, filling out these novel autograph albums. a The girl grasps something--sometimnes the 'y Led y oung man's shoulder-to steadly herself, S ith andl coyly holds her foot bottom upward, g led While he squats and tickles hler sole with tl the point of her pencil. This is not only tJ ar- pleasing, to the pair, but makes great sport y m- for the sp)ectators. ing The writing wears off in an eve.ning's t se (lancing, and the shoe is then ready for the e oul next fellow. - Theli custom is encouragedi a 3nt by girls with little feet. One who was not I: so fortunate stood in a Hlowland House I for corrider, Long Branch, gracefully posed 1 lie against the wall, w'ith the spacious bottom ( of her shoe spread out before an enamored ] mnd swain, who had lisa pencil thoughtfully tal suspended. Her hardened lirothor camo ] along. hat "Put on thue D)eclaration of Independ. I Iul once," he said; "there's room for it, with< ave all the signatures." . i to The girl took her foot away immediate- I ly, because she wanted to stamip with it. but WASU FOl 'rHU [IHANDs.-Four ounces I itig pulverzedi borax, four ounces each of oh. saleratts and murlato of ammonia; put got into a tin pan and pour in four quartsi k a of hot soft water; stir until well mixed, ry- bottle for use; after'washing the hiands j- and( face, wet with the above, That Deceivitu ElaMUMoic. "I've been a-fooll"..growled Harper as ie untled a parcel In his front yard and hook out a new hampock. "Here I've een lopplug around all through this infer. al hot spell when I ight just as well een swinging in a haumock and had my listered buck cooled i by the breezes. Any one.can put up, a hammock. All ou've got to do is to untie about 500 Hots, unravel about 500 snarls, and work yer the thing until yo can tell whether the pen side was meant go up er down. his puzzled liarpefy rull twenty miin tes, but he fln got it right and late ned the endo -A two convenient 'ees. Then he took ofR his1 4t and coat and rolled I with a great sigh dLef. No he didn't ulte roll In. Ile waall 'ready to when lie hamniock walked away from him, and e rolled over on the greg"and came to a '.op with a croquet ball under the small of is back. "Did you mean to 7o thatl'" called a mall boy who was looing over the-fence lowly chewing away 66 green apples, "Did 1? Of course illdI Git down off'n ant fence or I'll call a pollcemani" The boy slid down and iHarper brought p a lawn chair for tht next move. it's lie easiest thilig in thk orld to drop off a hair into a hammock. 15ts of men would D willing to do it on ahidry of ten dollars er week. The troublo with Harper was iat he didn't drop all df his body at once. 'he upper half got into the hammnock all ght, but the lower half kicKed and irashed around on the grass until the nall boy, who didn't mean to leave the eighborhood until the show was out felt tiled upon to exclaim. "You can't turn a handspring with your ead all wound up i that there ere net, ud I'll bet money on ill" Harper suddenly rested from his labors rise up and shake his flat at the young ilain, but that didn't help the case a bit. le carefully looked the case over, and de ded that he had his plans too high. He ierefore lowered the get. within two feet the ground, and lie had it dead sure. e fell into it as plump as a bag of shot >ing down a well. He felt around to see If 3 was all in, and thengavehimsel a swing. o person can be happy in a hammock un es the hammock has a pendulam motion. his hammock of Harper's was just get ng the regular salt-water swing when his nots untied and lie came (lown on the road of his back withsuch a jar that tWe iall boy felt called upon to obseerve: "That ain't no way 'to level a lawn u want to use a regular rollerl" After consciousness he crawled slowly it, gently rubbed his back on an apple ae, and slowly disappeared around the 'ruer of the house in search of some Bapon which would annihilate the ham ock at one swee),and though the boy ,lied upon hin again and again, asking a minstrel performance was to follow e regular show, Mr. Harpor never turned P otection of Woodwori, It is well known that the sap of wood ntains substances like albunien, gelatine, imi, etc., which easily undergo decomposi min, and under certahi circumstances, such favor fermentation, and in warm dump r, are able to destroy very rapidly the ronger woody fibers. The inore sap ore is in the vood, that is say the greener it is, and th e oner t1ii evaporation of this sap is stopped r an airtight cover, the quicker the fer entation will set in, and with it the decay the woody fiber. These circumstances e correctly understood by practical men, ho prescribe that the timber be felled in inter, and try to obtain a free circulation air through the stricture. They think icy avoid the disadvantages above men nod if thiey,'further, demnand '"seasoned ood," because it is clear that, there is less mnger of docomnpositionm tm such wood an in fresh or green stuff. But here we once stumble on this dillculty, namely, dieternininig what degree dryness in the ood to be tested seems puost advantage is for its use, aind tihe time requIred for his is much longer thant is generally sup ised. The appearance of the wood is ~ry seldom a reliable guide, and people ~e accustomed to think that the wood is uch drier tihan it really Is. Theo comnpar ~ively important changes which the wood ndergoes (luring tihe first, year from irinkage enables ius to measure approxi ntely the time necessary to dest'roy the ist evil effects of its interior life. Not, un I it has reached this st age, which requmires mr to six years, unless artifial seasoning resorted to, is time timber benefited by overing it with a p)rotectinlg coat of paInt. .t this time the paint imust have a beneff tal effect in p)rotectinmg time wood, for it revents atmospheric moisture penetrating ig io the wood to serve as a reagent to ecompose the albumen, which is now ried and coagulated as well as less abun ant. Owing to tihe position of the lum er yards and the urgency for materials to mid with it is selom possible to obtain tell seasoned lumber and wood. lBauer rein, therefore, proposes the -following recess: Tme most rational and sensible recess for large, heavy timbers is the irm regnation, as for railroad ties, with chlo ide of zinc under six to eight atmospheres f p)ressure, where this can be clone. P?resh green wood Is best for this.) No rguments are necesary in defense of the alue of this method; it cannot be too tronghy recoimmnded, nor is the expense reat-about $1 per cubic meter. When icre is no opportiunity for impregnation me woodwork should be left two or four ears uinpainted. Ia umy experience, says auerwem, wood tar is better than coal ir, because it penetrates In tIme wood more sally, and, containilng a larger amount of ntlseptic substances, its effect is more per tanent. Although wood tar is coinsidera ly,dearer it is to lbe preferred. Its color icing somewhat similar to weed color, it an be used on small unImportant buildings. ts cost is omily one-fourth that of oil paint ud can be applied by a common workman. ~laned and worked surfaces should be aerely oiled (three times) not painted. Resides having a better appearance, tis >i1 varnish is necessary to prevent crack ng amid drawing of thIn parts like dpors mnd windows. It does not interfefe with he gradual drying out of the wood. Aftem he expiration of three to five years the oil. ng miay be replaced by a protecting coal >f. paint to prevent water from penetrating nto the wood work. it should be adde hat it seems advantageous to mix aboul me part of elutriatd chalk with thre< parts of the white lead which is used with ho special color for all oil paints. Thiu seems to make the paint adhere better te the wood, as shown by experience. With. out going into the subject of oil paints the author cautions the public against the many new fangled and highly extolled paints and substitutes. They are gener ally much dearer, he says, and at best are only equal to ordinary linseed oil paint made with equal care from well .selected pure material. The chief effect of a good oil paint depends on the purity of the ma terials used, especially of the oil and white lead or zinc white, whether it is finely ground and thoroughly mixed, - and the paint carefully applied in good weather. Iniians and Fireworks. The Indian has a hard time of it, alto gether. An Idaho mining camp Intending to celebrate the Glorious Fourth in bang up style, ordered a heap of fireworks to be sent to them. A whole wagon load went on, and while on its way was captured one night by a band of Indians. They didn't exactly know what kind of property they had got, hold of, and proceeded to investi gate. The chief thought the cannon crack. ers were cigars and the little ones cigarettes, which article lie-had seen in use at the var Ious camps he had visited, and he distri buted a lot around, and they all lighted up for a smoke, ano pretty soon aniore surpris-. ed and puzzled set of Indians never' got to gether. The chief had a cannon cracker, and after the explosion It was three inn utes before he could get breath enough to yell, and then the wild shrieks lie gave could be heard five miles away. That ended the smoking. Another buck fell off the top of the wagon with a box of giant torped-es, and the crash that greeted him as he alighted scared him so that he got up and ran-off at breakneck speed. A squaw contrived to get a pin wheel afire, and as she dropped it on the ground the natural tendency of the thing to whirl around made it go kiting along the ground like a wheel of fire, sending out a shower of sparks and ca.using the affrighted lady to scud away from it, with her eyes as big as saucers, with terror. The pin-Aheel got under the wngon and ignited it, and the Indian at first tried to extinguished the flames, and pretty soon a Roman candle went off, and before the man who was lilt by the first ball on the nose could clap his hand on the injured member, another baU caromed there and then a third, and then the rockets began to go off and lilt the bucks it the legs and ribs, and the different col ored fires threw first a red and then a blue light upon the scene, and the "mines" blow up and filled the air with hissing ser pents and other things horrid to behold, and more pin-wheels got loose, and when a buck jumped to avoid a pin-wheel he got in the air just in te to be hit by a rock et, and almost everybody ot more or less burned, and in about five minutes a crowd of the worst scared and most frantic In dians the world ever saw,was scurryling off in the darkness across the prairie bellowing with pain and fear. And the next load of lLOVUm DI", 4A.2vuhal ,U8S. %Pa v.' I be meddled with by those Indians. 807-fethsug out of the Way. A young lady in the most exalted socia circles of Galveston, after much toll and practice at the piano, learned to play with considerable dexterity a p)Icc entitled "Picnic Polka." It is something after the style of the celebrated "Battle of Prague," in which the listener can readily distinguish the roar of the artillery, the rattle of nus ketry,. the shouts of the soldiers, and the groans of the dying. In the "Iiciale Polka" the noise of the wind among the trees and the joyous carols or the birds are repro duced, the final being a thunder shower which disturbs the sylvan revellers. It happened that a country cousin was in town, and the young lady thought she would play the piece to him and hear his comment. Hie was a pl%iI tIIAbh-kleinded youth, and although not very brIght, was very appreciative. Sihe tld what the pie0ce was and tlhn. proceded to give him the "Picnmc Polka" Th'ie first notes are rather slow and hesitating, the Idea sought to be coniveyedl being the solemn solitude of forest through which the gentle zephy (not, heifer) sighs. A fter she got, throtigh with tis preface, she asked him if lhe did not almost imuaginie himself ini a lodge in sonme vast wildernes. lHe rep)lied that lie thought all that slowness meant the delay it getting off. Said lie. "There is al ways seine dlammed ous-i wiho overaleeps huniself and( keeps everbod(y else waitmng." A Western w itness. Conductor Hleatotn is one of the best boys on theu Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Blufls lRoad, an(i is also one.of the sharp est. It is not, very often a mnah gets ahead of hin as Pat Powers, of Hlolt county, has probably fonnd out. Hleatonm was at Oregon a few days since on seome trial coimected with the railroad company. Powers is an attorney, was cross examining.Hecaton and asked him if lie would net naturally testify in faver of theo rauilro)ad conmpany. "No," replied Heaton. "You would testify for the railroad rather tihan Iese your position, wouldIn't you ?" "No," said Haton. "You'd like to be an angel, wouldn't you ?" sneered Powers. "No." . "Why not?9" "Because," was the ready answer. "I'm afraid time Lord would set me up as a guardian anigel over some red headed lawyer from Hlolt county and I couldn't stand that." A Miracle o1 Honesty. At a party one evening several contested tihe honor of having dlone the most extra ordintary thing; a reverend gentleman was appointed judge of their respectivc preten tions. One produced his tailor's bill with a receipt attached to it. A buzz in the room that tis could not, be outdone; when a'second proved that he hmad just arrested his tailor for money lent hin. "Thme palm is his," was a general cry, when a third put in his claim. "Gentlemen," said lie, "I cannot boast of the acts of my predecessors, for I have just, returned to the dwners three lead pen cils and two umbrellas that were left at my house." "I'll hear no more," cried the astgished arbitrator, "This is the very acme of honesty, it is an act of virtue of which I never knew any one capable. The prize-" "Hold," cried another, "I have done still more than that." "I have been taking my paper for twenty years and always p)aki for it in ad vance." He took the prize.' Fear of Lightning. Reason and study of the laws of lighttif have done much to lessen the fear of it., la true we live between two magazines < electricity-one in-the earth and the oth4 in the air-and a cloud charged with alec ricity passing over a point or lody in negative condition will discharge Its sua plus by the very quickest and most cot genial medium,which it finds in the huma body, a tree or house indifferently. But Is also true that, provide the lihrhtning wit a convenient and easy conductor In th shape of a stout Iron rod higher than an point of a house, and reaching well int the ground, where electricty may scatti harmlessly into the damp earth, it will pri fer that conducting rod to anything in 11 vicinity, and people who stay indoors in well-protected house are safer from lighl ning than any bomb proof from burstin shells. Every accident from this cause w ever knew of caie from careless exposur In situations known to be unsafe. The firE I noticed after my own accident was tha of a missionary's daughter who was killei while passing an open window just as i wonfan was on Long Island last sninmer while sitting at her sewing-miachine. J young man In Malden we think, was kille( while sitting on a porch with his chair tip ped back and his head against the knob o a door-uell-wire. Many men have beet struck while riding into a barn oni a load o: hay. Many will remember the frightfu calamity at Scranton, Penn., where a part3 of women, out picking berries on one o: the high hills, crowded into a deserted loj hut in a sudden storm, and seven were kill ed by one.bolt. Steep hills with minera veins croping out are not places for person to live on,wlo wish to escapelightmng,antc unprotected houses there are doubly dan gerous. It is never too soon to go in the hous( when a storm is rising. When the cloudi are fully charged with electricty they ar< most dangerous, and the fluid obeys a sub. tie attraction which acts at great distancei and in all directions. A woman told us ol a bolt which camte down her motlier'v chim. noy from a rising cloud when the sun wai shining overhead. N. P. Willis writes of a young girl who was killed while passing under a telegraph wire, on the brow of v hill, while she was hurrying home before a storm. The sad accldent, at Morrisanla, when two children were killed, shoutd warn every mother that it is not safe to let children stay out of doors till the last min ute before the storm falls. People should not be fool-hardy about sitting on porches or by open windows, whether the storm ie hard or not. Mild showers often carry a single charge, which falls with deadly effect. It may or may not be fatal to stay out; It Is safe to be In the house, with the windows and doors closed. The dry air iu a house is a readier conductor than the damp air outside, and any draught of air Invites It. A hot fire in a chimney attracts it, so to speak, and it is prudient for those who would be sure of safety to use kerosene ? T e i ,p v s b, jV mj *1%r aid a void im ating Romance of a Postal OArd. A postal card, was purchased in New York, on November 29, 1879, decorated with two one cent stamps, suitably luserib ed and addressed to London, E1,ngland. By some mischance it failed to secure accom modations in the mail bags whileh left on the steamer of that date, and its voyage was delayed until the departure or tihe next mall steamer, It arrived at its destination on Dec. 13, just flfteen days from the time it was deposited in the New York Post, 0111ce. From London it journeyed to Mar seillies, France, arriving there on Dec. 17, showing no sighs qf sea sickness or fatigue. On Dec. 25, it was manipulatei by the oflicials of Cairo, Egypt, who wished it a nierry Christmas and a 'Ood speed" on its voyage, to IJ'mbay, Indi, where it landed on Jan. 15, 1880. On Feb,. 2, thme ahnmondc eyedI Celest,iai who rules the dlestiniy of time Post Office at Bingapor~e, China, gave it a ticket of leave in well known laundry hiieroglyphlics, and allowed it to depart, thme empire for Yokohama,Japan, where it wvas received March 9. Becoming homesick at this point, the plucky postal cardi embark ed1 (on an Amierican bound vessel, and1( on March 26, it reached San Francisco. Al though it had traveledh over nearly ais much territory as ex-President Grant,s its arrival was signalized by nio diemionstrationi froni Decnnis Kearney's fellow townsmen. It was met at the wharf by the otlcials of the Mail Department-the divera of thme wag ons-and guietly conveyt'd to time P'ost Office, where it was tendered a reception by thme distributing clerks, atnd quietly es. corted to a train en route for Now York. On April 3, IL, took up permanent quarters with Mr. Rlogers in New York, the cit,y where it first saw the light. It bears its honors meekly and refuses, courteously bill firmly, to be Interviewed. The time con. suimed in this notewort,hy journey was au follows: Starting from Now York thii voyage to3 London congumefld fifteen dlays tt Marseilles, nineteeni days; to Cairo, twenty. seven dlays; to Bombay, forty.eight days;tc 8an Francisco, 110 dlays; to New York, af ter a voyage around( the woerldl, 127 dlays. Wipping Ohiuldren. A pairent who don't know hmot to goverm a child without whipping it, ought to sur. reanher the care of that child to some wisei perison.- Sportsmen once thbought it was necessary to lash their dogs in traininu them for the field. They iiow know that the whip should never be used. IHorscmei once thought It was necessary to whlip colti to teach thomn to start or stop at the word, and to pull steadily. Thiey now know thia an ap)ple isl better than the lash, and thma a caress Is better than a blow. If doeg ami horses can be thus educated without pun ishment, what is there in our childre: .which makes it necessary to) slap and poummi them? Have they less intelligence? Havy they colder hearts? Are they lower in th scale of being ? We have heard many elh people say:. If we were to brinlg up anothe child we would never whip it. They ar wise, but a little too late. Insteadl of God doIng so little for children that they mu be whipped into goodness, lie has cdone a much for them that even whipping can rule thiem-that is, as a rule. limt, alas there are many exceptions to tihe ruic many children are of suich quiality that blow makes them cowardly, or reckless, c permanently ugly. Whipping makes child ren lie, makes themi hiate their parenti makes home distasteful, makes boys ru away, and makes the girls seek happinei anywhere and anyhowL Whipping is baw barona. Don't whip. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. 9 There is an heroic innocence, as well as an heroic courage, r A- soul-6tirring incident--treading on the point of a.tack. Old sledge is still a favorite game with* most blacksmiths. Love is like honesty-much talked about but little understood. In English politics, a man stands for I a seat; here lie runs for one. e The man who grumbles with dice y will learn the folly ere he dice. o It costs us more to be miserable than r would make us perfectly happy. I have seen many women drown, a their honor in ' river of diamonds. a lie who makes an idol of his interest, will make a martyr of his integrity. Power unsubjected to the control of virue Is a poor guardian of civil liberty. The more we help others to beai t their burdens the lighter our own will be. In confessing your faults and pluck ing a goose always make a clean breast of it. The way to gain a good reputation ia to endeavor to be wlhat you desire to appear. The young man who . bets on his watch as a time keeper is staking notes on time. lopel fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be t If you would not have afillotion to I visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. She looks down into the churn and toftly sings, " This Is the whey I long have sought. Jones calls his wife a Nihilist because ishe is always so anxious and willing to blow him up. When young men idolize young la dies they are very apt to tell a great many Idle lies. Shame on those breasts of stone, that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow. It is one of the worst of errors to sup pose there is any other path of safety excopt that of duty. The gout is a break which a wise Providence' puts on a mani's legs when lie is living too fast. Envy is a passion so full of confl' dence and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to owu it. Is a cornet player likely to become Intoxicated with the spirit of music when lie goes off on a ,oot. Tihe wise nian stands firm in all ex tremnities, jnd bears the lot of his hui Inanity with a divine temper. lie who has but little wealth, and at the same time would be satisiled with less, is rich enough to be happy. There is no fish in the world- that, If you let trouble sit upon your soul like a lien upon her nest, you may ex pect tihe hatching of a large brood. " What were the worst resvlts of the civil war? cried an orator. "Widows l" shoutel Jones, who had married one. You may shrink from the far-reach ing solititudes of your heart, but no other foot than yours can tread them. Nature makes us poor when we want necessaries, but custom gives the naie of poverty to the want of supertilties. lie that resolves upion any great and at the same time good end, by that very resolution has scaled the chief barrier to it. We knew weshould discover it. The nuidijiglt cat tries to scale the feice aid " run tihe scale" at the same time. ilenice the dliscordl. Truthi and purity, like ao many gems in the life and example of the good mftn, cannot but shame and condemn error and vice in others. It is easy <(nough to make sacrifices for those we love, but for our enemy we have to struggle and overcome self . Such a victory ia noble. A cheerful tempecr is like a grain of musk ; it Impar ts its fragrance to every thing that comes In contact wiLh It, yet it always remains thle same. Those who, without knowing, us thinuk or speak evil of us, (1o us no harm; it is not us they attack, but the phan tom of their own imaginaLion. Politeness may prevent the want or wit and talents from being observed ; but wit and talent cannot prevent the discovery of the want of politeness. At forty years of age a man looks back over his life, ands wonders what he (lid it for, Mni then turns wIstfully towvardls the future, and keeps on doing the same thing. We talk of acquiring a- habit; we should rather say being acquired by it. Habit is time jani'4ary power in mani: p)assioni and principle the antagonist revolutionary powers, for evil and for food. He who looks on beauty with a pure affectioni forgets tihe loveliness ot' the. body in that of' the soul, and rises by means of that earthly bemuty to the great artist, to the very essence of love Life has many ills, but the mind that views every object in the most cheering aspect and every doubtful d ie penmation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and per petuail antidote. There ms-one phrase without which half the pleaisure of life would be takeni away. It is a phrase of irritamtioni to one p)arty, and extreme satisfaction to the other, whenever anything goes wrong. It is, "I told you so. Loe ielight must always be f,riv. elin. Aman must spend it, giveL e away. lHe may be a miser of hmi wealth, tIe his talent in a napkin, and I hug himself up in his reputation, but r lie is alwhys generous in his love. 3 Those who expect the most are liable I to the greatest disappointments. A Sman of numerous desires Is of' all bp 3) l-gs the most dependent, Hie who con t tracts and simpli1ies his wants will se I cure the greatest amount of happiness. -A vacant mind takes all the meaning Sout of the fairest face.. A sensual dis r position deforms the . hanjdsomest fea - tures. A cold, selfish heart shrivels Sthe best looks. A .fzean, grovelling a spirit takes all the digntyout of the a countenance. A oerEhe hatted - -transfOrms tlie mQ8s beitiftil linSa. monts Into ans imna6 af tg)hVe~