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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1882. $1.50 Per Annum. Midsummer. Life ! a splendid flowor With Its tender loavos uncurled, With its passionate breath of an hour On a thousand broezos hurled I Giving, ay, string to all The throbs of a heart so sweet I What though its potals fall To He 'ne .th the careless foot ? We live tn a world of tloom, We are lost in a sea of cound, We are wrapt in a rare perfume, We are lost in a joy profound I Ah I sweeter for us the note Than fairy bugles wind ; And rich are the sunset dyes, But man is dull and blind I 01, Lifo, with your wondrous song That angola might long to sing, Shall we think of oar sin and wrong, Of our sorrow's pain and sting f Shall we dwell on our discontent, And the sin that gare it birth ? Not while a sky of tend'rest tin Broods o'er a porfoot earth I Life I You are true and sweet, And God is the heart of all in the daisy at my feet In the south wind's sighing call. I am one with the bird and flower ; I am one with the vagrant bee, Till the Joy and light of a happy world Is contcrod and dwells In me. And I revel in my domain Till the world la a plsasant dream, And Care is but the shade Of the cloud upon the stream. Katt L. Brown, in Boston Trantoript. "ARTFUL DODGERS." Clang I swish I ramble I and amid trundling of baggage-barrowa, hustling of offioiala and rushing of outward-bound ticket-holders to seoure Rood Beat, a train rolled into the depot of a large New England town. Two bright-faced girls of, twelve and fourteen, in dark bine flannel suiU, with fluffy golden hair surmounted by bewitohing blue bows, and black felt hats, harried eagerly along the platform, scanning tho faocs of those who alighted. " She hasn't eome I" said the younger, a sudden blankness overspreading the sunny faoe. " How disappointed papa and mamma will be!" said the elder. "Perhaps she has gone into the ladies' waiting room. Let's turn back and see." A quick step beside them, and a dainty little hand on tne shoulder of eaoh, arrested the turning process, and they found themselves faoe to faoe with a third girl, in a brown suit, with similar fluffy hair, blue bow and felt hat. Then followed a scene of kissing and embracing, and a flood of girl chatter, till a crusty old bachelor buying a newspaper soowled, and a motherly fat woman, hurrying along with three children, a bird-cage and two baskets, gave them a benevolent smile, and murmured, "Fretty oreetursl" as an offset "Oh, Nonie, if you hadn't cornel" duetted the two younger girls. " What news ? Has Dit set the house on fire more than three times, and have yon broken any looking-glasses, Metal Papa and mamma are well of oouse ?" ' The others shook their heads. "Papa is down with rheumatism and poor mamma is tired out." "Oh, why didn't yon send a postal? I would have come right home. I had hard work to get away, as it was. Jessie was so determined to have me stay for Thanksgiving." " Oh, we're getting along all right, Joanna's as good as a regiment, you know, and papa only took to his room yesterday. Mamma is around yet, but sho acts as if she would be down with a slow fever before many days." " No news from Elmer, I sup pose?" this with a sigh and all three faces clouded. "No news." This was their one sorrow. Elmer, he gay, handsome, hii'h-spirited broth er, oc year older than Nonie, had left his pleasant home two years before, leaving no clew only a half-defiant, half-regrotful note. Poor Elmer I Poor loving, longing home group, with for giveness ready and yearning in their steadfast hearts! The sisters walked on silently for some moments. " I'm sorry I couldn't ' bring you any presents. Rirls," said Nonie, "but I spent all my money, and didn't like to send to papa for more. Money goes so fast in Boston, you know, even in a two-weeks' visit, and I had to buy another pair of gloves. Somebody spilled ice cream on my best ones at a socia ble." "Never mint? . We don't care. You're present enough yourself, Nonie;" and Xil and Meta gave furtive little hugs nndev the brown dolman. "I'm bo glad I didn't stay a day longer. Poor papal How he must wnrrv about not Retting to the store 1 I've a great mind to ask Mr. Stedman to take me in papa's place till he gets well." "Winona Derrell! A girl like you keen books for that large shore I Have toq lost vour senses ?" exclaimed Dil ishort for "Delia. ," which hhe unrea .intihlv hatedk "W'hv couldn't I do it just as well there us when I help papa at home?" renlied Nonie, quietly. "The salary could Ro lipht on, and we can turprise imn-t with it when he trets well. I shan toll mnmma cither. She'll think I'm at Aunt E -lie's, laving lessons with Grace, " And you'll have to give up your lessons, fust as you are doing tout German so beautifully and it's so kind of Aunt Edie to have you share Grace's advantages I Papa may be sick for two or three months. I wish I were half so good as yon, Nonie," said Meta, with a hopeless little sigh. Nonie pressed the plump arm, and gave her sister a loving smile. " I can catch np evenings. There is Mr. Stedman'a store now. Let's go right in, and have it settled," said Nonio, with a qniet decision. She had shared her parents' burdens since she was ten rears old, and while it had not robbed her of girlish brightness, it had made her constantly thoughtful and helpful. Mr. Stedman was naturally surprised at three such golden-haired lasses in vading his business sanctum, and bent his brows rather gravely at Nonie's proposition. "I can try it, sir, if you will only let me," said Nonie, modestly. "I always help father with the books at home, and he says I can do it as well as he can. It will keep the place for father till he gets well, and, of course, we couldn't ask you to do that unless we supplied a substitute." "You're a good girl a good girl. Come here," said Mr. Stedman, abruptly, and led her to a desk covered with ledg ers and day-bocks, " Give me a speci men of your work, and we'll see." He watched her from shaggy (though not ankind) brows, as she neatly and rapidly executed the little task he assigned, and, woman-like, carefully wiped her pen before replacing it in tho rack. " Bravo I Consider yourself engaged for 8 o'clock to-morrow morning. We'll see you in a mercantile establishment of your own one of these days," and Mr. Stedman bowed the party out with delightful, old-fashioned courtesy, though they were "only his book keeper's daughters." Now, not a word to papa or mamma," said Winona, gayly. "Won't it be delioious to hand him the salary when he gets well I I'll beg Aunt Edie not to tell." " What will you say if they ask you about your lessons?' said Meta, who was a trifle given to seeing " lions in the way." "Dodge it," was the brief reply; " and so must Dil and you." ' " Let's get up all sorts of surprises. We'll be 'artful dodgers' form a club of three, called the 'A D. 0.,' and not a soul but ourselves will know what it means till we choose to tell them," said Dil, in high glee. She loved mysteries innocent, pleasant ones. "So we will! It'll be jolly I" chor nsed the others. By this time they had come to a home-like house on a quiet street, with no style about it, but "heaps of com fort," as the girls said. Nonie rah up the steps and flew into the arms of a pale, but pleasant-faced, dark-eyed lady, who had been watching at the parlor window for the first glimpse of her sunny daughter. "Precious little Noniel Did you have a real rest, and a beautiful time, dearie, as tou expected ?" "Oh, yes, indeed! Splendid! But how pale you are, mamma darling I" etc " Now we will ro np and see poor dear papa," said Nonie, and the suffer ing father almost forgot his pain in the greeting of his bright eldest daughter. Nonie settled down to tell of her visit, while the girls brought her dinner up stairs and hovered lovingly around her, as she satisfied a healthy girl's appe tite. After dinner, Joanna must be visited in the kitchen. Nonie's trunk was brought and unpacked, and the evening slipped away in the dear old shabby house. "Girls," called their mother feebly, as tne little troop mea past ner aoor the next morning. " Mamma s down now I iter voice sounds sick I" said Dil in dismay, and they all went in to pet and pity her and reoeive orders. 4 ' I can't get up, dears. Joanna and you will bavo to manage lor a wnile, and you can take turns waiting on papa. It a too bad, just as Nome nas come home, and I wanted to make such a good Thanksgiving for you all I" She thought of Elmer and sighed, pressed their little hands close to her face and kissed the rosy fingers. She "babied" her girls though they were fast grow ing up. 'Never you worry, mamma dear," said Dil. " We'll get along beautifully and take splendid care of papa and you, too." She smiled at their affectionate eager ness. " lm not eick enough to need much waiting on. llest is all I want, Just bring me a cup of tea, Dil, and be sure to have papa's toast nice and brown. Don't think of staying at home from Aunt Edie's, Nonie child, we shall not need you. Now rnn along, Joanna is ringing the breakfast bell." With a conscious flush at the allusion to Aunt Edie's, Nonie kissed her mother, and the three hurried downstairs. Dil prepared two ravishing little brekkfast trays, which Meta helped to carry up. " How doleful breakfast is by our selves I" sighed Meta, afterward. "Don't croak. It isn't healthy, while you eat," said Dil, who never made a fuss over what couldn't be helped. "It's twenty minutes before eight, Nonie, you'll have to hurry. Don't let any of those clerks make eyes at you; and be sure to buy a little something hot and comforting for your dinner. You'll miss Aunt Edie's nioe lunches as well as the lesioos." " I shaa't starve," replied Nonie, blithely, keeping her own counsel in regard to buying " southing hot and comforting." "Now, good-bye. Be sure .to dodge every time ;" and with a quick, little peck of a kiss on each rosy cheek, brave-hearted Nonie trudged away. "Now we'll get ready for our sur prise," said Dil, as the street door closed. "Nonie needn't be the only saorifloer! What do you think ?" Then followed an absorbing conversation, of whioh more anon. Nonie was abundantly equal to the new situation. At noon she ran around to Aunt Edio's to explain, and was re galed on goodies, while the bright eyes of her father's only sister glistened ith a suggestive moisture, as she promised to keep the secret, and "dodge" most ciroumspeotly, whenever she should call at the Derrell mansion. Pleasant odors greeted Nonie's en trance at G o'clock. The tea was spread with delicacies (inexpensive but appetiz ing), and the girls were in a chronio state of giggle. "Don't ask questions. Eat your supper first, and tell us if it's gbod," said they. "This cream toast is delicious and so are the 'Saratoga' potatoes. Joanna fries them better and better," said hun gryNonio. The girls gave an unequivocal titter. "What is the matter? I shan't eat another mouthful till you tell," said Nonie, holding a particularly tempting, brown, bloated "Saratoga" suspended in mid-air. "Joanna didn't do it! That's the Joke. Dil and I got it up," said Mesa, "Joanna's gone'" "Joanna gone! Oh, slot for good?" oried Nonie, with an apprehensive start. " You haven't gone and had any trouble with Joanna, girls?" and the fort dropped from the unnerved fingers. " We had no end of troublo to make her go, but We're just as good friends as ever," said Dil. Nonie looked completely puzzled. " Yon see," said Dil, bringing some hot dream "dip" for the toast, " Meta and I made np our minds that we would have a surprise, too; so we explained it to Joanna, and, after a great amou coaxing eh consented to go to he ter s lor a lew weeks, but mac promise solemnly that we would for her if we got into any very scrapes. We may just as well do work while mamma can't hear cur les sons, and we shall save $2.50 a we k beside Joanna's board, and that will toe our share toward the Doings of the Dodgers. Nonie gave a tragio groan. " You'll never be able to keep it up, in the world ! It would be hard enough to do if mamma was around, but with both of them siek upstairs you will half kill yourselves 1" 1 " No, we won't It will make more dodging, of course, but it will sharpen our wits and train us in housekeeping. Here's Mrs. Boecher's blue book, 'AH Around the House,' and plenty of good recipes besides, and you acknowledge that the supper iti superb," argued ,Meta, ladling out another generous spejonful of Saratogas for her sister's plate. This is a chronicle of surprises. It will, therefore, be sufficient to state that the domestic machinery creaked omin ously a few times, and onoe or twice came perilously near to a deadlock, but the blue book invariably afforded Lil for the springs and wheels, on consultation. Meta spiced the gingerbread with mus tard, brought boiled beets to table in their dusky overcoats, put too i much Eowder in the washtub, and blAtered er hands, and once actually brbwned the baefsteak in lard I Dil scorched her prettiest rn filed white apron one droning day, and burned her plump wrist be sides (but zealously hid the sua J from the unsuspecting eyes upstairs), Jgrated too much nutmeg into a rice pc jding, and baked beans (the first time) with out putting any water in the bet a pot. Through all culinary " tribbeU. 'ions," however, the invalids were tende I most faithfully and cheerfully. The a nount of dodging required was we t-nigh Machiavellian, but with help froi i Aunt E lie and the family doctor, the happy pilots steered their craft of irfnocent secrecy past all reefs and snags. f Two or three days before hanks giving Nonie acted strangely, gave ir relevant replies, several times seemed on the point of making an important communication, then provokingly oheoked herself. ( "What can be the matter?" said Dil to Meta. I "I just knew those horrid, clerks would flirt with her! I suppose one of them's the matter I" groaned Meta, in disgust. "Nonsense! Nonie don't lose her wits over boys with fancy check-ties and their hair parted in the middle. Nonie has some stamina t" (This was Dil's favorite term of admiration for her elder sister.) " Whatever it is, she 11 tell us before long. She can't keep it to herself," said Meta. Dil likewise became infeoted with secreoy, and went through mysterious performances in her own room the day before Thanksgiving. She dressed herself for going out, made a dive at a certain little drawer in her own special bureau, took out and replaoed a dozen times, with fond looks, a square, whitish-brown envelope containing an important little book, then suddenly braced np with the air of a general Roing into battle: " For shame, Dil Derrell! You're a selfish good-for-nothing! Stand up to your colors, like a man I You started the clubl" She seized the envelope resolutely, snapped the empty drawer and was out dt of n sis- la no send bad Ihe of the house before she had time to change her mind again. She returned in half an hour with suspiciously red eyes, whioh might have come from walking in the wind. The invalids were to come down to dinner, on Thanksgiving day. "Do yon suppose we can manage that turkey, Dil?" said Meta, appre hensively surveying the sprawling specimen which the grinning market boy had just deposited on the kitchen table. " I'd like to see the turkey that I couldn't manage with plenty of stale bread and seasoning," replied Dil, vain gloriously, pinning up her sleeves, and going briskly to wcrk. Meanwhile, Nonio, dusting the par lor, communed with herself. Throwing down the duster, she said, " I will tell Dil ! It's mean not to I" and, opening tie door, she called her Bister. " Is it anything special ? I'm up to my elbowB in crumbs, but I'll be there in three seconds," said Dil. Nonie took from her apron pocket an advertising Blip from the principal daily paper of the town, and passed it to her sister. It ran thus : " Sorry. Very. Will N. please call at 55 State street, if agreeable. " L. Mubdie," " Vhat does it mean ? We don't know any such person," said DiL Nonie made a low-voiced, but ex oiting communioation, at whioh Dil jumped up and down, clapping her hands wildly. "Oh, it's too splendid I Did you go ? But of course you did I" "Certainly. That's what made me late on Monday night.- And this after noon at dinner-time " . Then followed another explanation whioh increased Dil's delight, till a sudden thought struck her : "But, will it be the best way ? Would Dr. Grisooja allow it? It might do harm." "Not a bit of it. I made sure of Dr. Griscom's consent. He said it would make them well sooner than anything else. We won't tell Meta till the last minute. Now we must hurry, or we shan't get down in time," and Nonie gave her duster a fresh whisk. Dil went back to turkey-stuffing with her thoughts in a whirl. "It is a per fectly splendid plot I Nobody would have thought of doing it that Way but Nonie the darling 1" In the midst of a vigorous tussle with the unweildy bird, the girls, weak with laughter and exertion, did not hear the kitchen door open and shut A familiar voice exclaimed : "I was jest bound I'd come and cook the Tuanksgivin' dinner for yon, anyway. Haint them poor sick folks 'most dead, with your tricks and capers ?" They flew to embrace the weloome intruder. "Oh, you blessed old Joanna. How angelio of you to come I It will be a great comfort to have it off pur minds, but we could have done it ourselves." They gymasted joyously around the old kitchen, wnile Joanna, smiling odd ly, took off her shawl and bonnet and went systematically to work. The dinHer-table was spread in the back parlor, that being the warmest room, for father ani mother. Very carefully and lovingly were they pro tected from possible dranghts and led down to the little bower of comfort prepared for them. The "Dodgers" had had a new inspiration since Joanna relieved them of the dinner problem. Buying a few spruce wreaths they erected a dome of greenness "fear fully and wonderfully made" just above the two arm-chairs, trimmed pic tures and festooned windows, as if it were Christmas. One far corner was mysteriously curtained off by Dil's old shawl, from behind whioh came the thrilling sound of tack-hammering and occasionally a stage whisper. A little bell tinkled and the three girls emerged, carrying in their belts official-looking documents sealed with red wax and tied with ostentatious pink tape. Joining hands they danced a most unheard-of jig, and, to a weird, Macbeth-like melody, Bang the follow ing lines: "We're the 'Artful Dodgers' three. Maids of plot and mystery. What we've done you soou shall see, Beware I Oh, tako care 1" It ended with a wild waving of the aforesaid documents. Nonie then laid in her father's hands ber envelope superscribed, " Bookkeper Nonie pre sents an installment of salary, with compliments." He broke the seals, and the crisp bills fell out, with a refreshing rustle. Before he oould ask a sin vie question, in his surprise, Dil and Meta dunoed up with a joint package for their mother. It contained no mosey only a half-sheet of foolscap sorawled all over with the following calculations (Dil hated to make figures they usually resembled giraffes and camels, on a small scale : "Wages saved by doing without Joanna three weeks 82.50 with love from Dil and Meta." Dil now presented her individual packet to her father, saying, with a little choke and tremble in her voioe : " Don't scold, please, I wanted to do something besides helping with the housework." Doctor Griscom's receipted bill I " Why, Dil 1 how did you ever pay it?" oried the girls, thoroughly surprised, while the parents, from love and pride, oould not restrain their tears. " I took my savings bank money," was the brief reply. "The money that you were caving for music lessons I Dil, you're a perfect cherub 1" and the girls crowned her with a chaplet of spruce, which imme diately fell over her nose, Who shall describe the pure joy of ' this unselfish little band, and the pa rents' pride and gratitude, when ex planations were made? Ab, does not the simple gift compassed by true love and self-denial far outweigh jewels, silver and fine g61d? At a signal from Nonie, Dil and Meta took their stations at each side of the curtain, and Nonie, with moist eyes and tremulous accents, delivered the ensu ing speech: "'The Artful Dodgers' have one more trick to exhibit, with whioh the performance will elose. If papa and mamma will be kind enough to wish very hard the 'Dodgers think they are prepared to give them something very much dosired." Her cheeks glowed, her eyes drooped a strange solemn hush fell on the little group, and Dil and Meta drew the curtain. On a dark background, in a walnut frame, on a crimson-covered table, stood a pioture a portrait vivid startling of the lost Elmer ! The handsome features, the bright blue eyes, the sunny hair tossed back from the broad forehead tru9 as life in their motionless, appealing beauty all were there. The parents silently clasped hands and Nonie made another signal, this time to the picture itself. The lips part the eyes flash it moves it thrills ! "Elmer! It is my boy my first baby I ' cries the startled mother, spring ing from her chair, unmindful of her weakness and, in another instant the wanderer's head is pillowed on the one bosom that never grows cold (except in death), the bowed form is clasped by arms that never foli in utter unforgiv ingness ! And then it all came out. Elmer, whom a whaling voyage had thoroughly disenchanted, shrank from ooming direotly home, and advertised in the daily as "L. Murdie," hoping (and rightly) that Nonie's quick wit would fathom it. She planned the pioture rose, with Dr. Grisoom's full sanction, and brought Elmer into the house just at the last, before the parents came downstairs, They were almost too happy to think of dinner, till a ring at the front door announced Aunt Edie and Grace, and at the same moment Joanna bounced in with: " The turkey's gittin' as brown as a but'nnt, and the sauce an' things won't be fit to eat, ef they hain't fetched in sometime 'fore dark !" Springfield Re publican.. WISE WORDS. Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds. Half the ills we hoard in our hearts are ills because we hoard them. Wounds of the heart are the only ones that are healed by opening. Great men and geniuses find their true places in times of great events. Troubles borrowed and stolen out number by far all others in the world. The means to promote any end are as necessary as the end to be promoted. It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty. On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem bo graoious as enter prise, i . The reproaches of enemies should quicken us to duty, and not keep us from it. He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. It is easier to set a man fighting against all the world than to make him fight with himself. In all matters of right and wrong judge for yourself, decide for yourself, stand by yourself. When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. Make no more vows to perform this or that ; it shows no great strength, and maVea thee ride behind thyself. We cannot conquer fate and necessity, but we oan yield to them in suoh a way as to be greater than if we oould. If you have an opportunito to do a generous action, do it. It is a very pleasant reflection to go to sleep with. Man wastes his mornings in antici pating his afternoons, and wastes his afternoons in regretting hi mornings, Mirth should be the embroidery of conversation, not the web ; and wit the ornament of the mind, not the furniture. An Armless Horse Thief, Dallas, Texas, has had a visit from a singular character Jack Hall, alias No Arm Jack en route to Stephensville jail, from which institution the prisoner escaped six montns ago after receiving a sentenoe of ten years in the peniten tiary for horse -stealing. Both his arms are off above the elbow, having been crushed in a sugar mill when he was a child, but the bones grew out several inches fromjbe flesh, and their surfaces are rough like corncobs, and Jack writes a beautiful hand by holding a pen beside his chin and pressing the protruding bone against it. He shoots a pistol or firearms expertly, and man ages a horse as well as the average two handed man. The height of his am bition appears to have been stealirjg horses successfully. He is about thirty years of age. He was arrested in tho Choctaw Ration. The marine fauna of the coral region of South Florida is said to be a West Indian colony, engrafted on the North Amerioan fauna of the east and wee) coasts of the peninsula. A Wedding la Chinese High Life. Among the pure Chinese, and espe cially among the higher olasses, a wed ding is a long and serious affair. From the almost Turkish strictness with whioh females are secluded, it is com paratively rare that a couple see each other previous to betrothal and still more so that there should be any ac quaintance between tnem. This has given rise to the necessary employ ment of a character equivalent to the batvalan or marriage broker of ancient Brittany, to Mr. Foy's Parisian Matrimonial Agency of fice, or the daily marriage advertise ments of our own papers. If your wish is for marriage in the abstract, the broker will find yon a fitting partner first, and negotiate the transfor after. It you are less purely philosophical, and wish to consult your own tastes as well as the interests and increase of the nation, you are only to name the party, and the broker becomes your accredited ambassador. There is, however, one preliminary point to be ascertained. Has your intended the tame sur name as yourself? If so, it is a fa'al difficulty, as the laws of China would not permit the marriage. If, however, she is Chun and yon are Le, or she is Ewan or Yu, and you rejoice in any other pattonymio monosyllable, the next step is for the broker to obtain from each a tablet containing the name, age, date aod hour of birth, etc. These are then taken to a diviner and com- Eared, to see if the union promises appiness; if the answer is favorable (and crossing the palm with silver is found to be as effectual with fortune tellers in China as it is elsewhere), and the gates are equal, that is if the station and wealth of the two families are sim ilar, the propocal is made in due form. The wedding presents are then sent, and if accepted the young couple is. considered as legally betrothed. A lucky day must next be fixed for the wedding, and here our friend the divinr.r is again called upon. Previous to the great day the bridegroom gets a new hat and takes a new name, while the lady, whoso hair has hitherto hung down to her heels in a tingle heavy plait, at the same time beoomes initiated into the style of hair-dressing prevalent among Chinese married ladies, whioh consists in twisting the hair into tne form of an exaggerated teapot and sup porting it in that shape with a narrow plate of gold or jado over the forehead, and a whole system cf bodkins behind i. On the wedding morning presents and congratulations are sent to the bridegroom, and among tho rest a pair of geese; not sent as wo might imagine by some wicked wag cr irreclaimable bachelor, as a personal reflection on the intellectual state of his friend, but as an emblem of domestic unity and affeotion. The ladies, too, in China, as well as elsewhere, indulge in a little fashionable crying on the occasion, and so tho relatives of the bride spend the morning with her, weeping over her impending de parture, or, more probably, their own spinsterhood. Thew do not, how ever, f orgel to bring eome contributions for her trousseau. In the evening oomes the bridegroom with a whole army of his friends, a procession of lanterns, a long red cloth or silk tapestry embroi dored with a figure of the dragon borne on a pole between two men, and a large red sedan covered with carving and gilding, and perfectly close. In this the biide is packed up securely out of sight, "and the whole procession, pre ceded by a band of music and the dragon, and closing with the bride's bandboxes, starts for home- On arrival she is lifted over the threshold, on which a pan of charcoal is burning, probably to prevent her bringing any eril influenoe in with her. She then performs the kotou to her bus band's father and mother, worships the ancestral tablets of her new family, and offers prepared betel nut to the assem bled gueBts. Up to this time she has been veiled, but she now retires to her chamber, where she is unveiled by her husband; the then returns, again performs obeis ance to the assembled guests, and par takes of food in company with her hus band; at this meal two cups of wine, one sweetened, the other with bitter herbs infused in it, are drank together by the newsKmarried pair, to symbolize that hensrth they must chare together 1 f on sweets and bitters. The bride then retires esoorted by the matrons present, some one of whom recites a charm over ber, and arranges the marriage couch. The next morning the gods of Ijhe household and the hearth areworahiped, and the six following days are devoted to .formal receptions at home of different mem bers of the two families or equally formal visits paid to the family of the bride. During the whole of this period she still travels in her red and-gold sedan, and is still escorted by her band of music and dragon. Templt Bar. A Philosopher, Some men never forget their philoso phy. A ConnecticuT lover who had his eye put out by one of his sweetheart's hairpins, received the condolences of a friend over the sad accident. "Oh, I don't mourn about it," he re plied, cheerfully. " What's the use ?" I'm just as good as ever, and, besides, in that sort of business it's a heap nicer when you go it blind." The inteiost on our public debt is now about 81 08 for every inhabitaut. In 1875 it was more than twice this, being $2.20 por capita, and in 1SB5 it was as high as $1.9 per capita, or If 150, P77,0y7 tj be pajj by 35,409,000 peo !
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