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\h, Fate, cannot a man
ltc wiso without a Leatd?
c rom East to West, from Bccrsheba to Dan,
Say, was it iv ver hoard
that wisdom urg'it in youth be gotte^
Or n it bo ripe belore 'twas rotten?
lie pays tco high a pr'co
For knowledge and for tamo
Who give* his sinews to be n ise,
His teeth and bones to buy a name,
And crnwls through lite a paralytio,
To earn the pr .ise of bard and crili^
Is it not better done,
To dine and s'ecp through forty
Re loved by few, be teared by now
Laugh lite away, have wine for ted
And take the mortal leap undaunted,
Conteut that all wo ask wa9 granted?
Rut Fate trill n >t petmit
The seed of goda to die,
Nor sutler sees to win from wit
Its guerdon i i tho sky;
Nor lit us hide, tvhate'er our pleasure
Tho world's light underneath a measure.
Go then, sad youth, and shine!
Go, s c.rifico to Fame;
Put love, joy, heal 1, upon the shrine.
An 1 hid to tan tho flame!
Thy lmplcs* self for praises barter,
Aud die to Fame an h. noiol martyr.
Ji. IF. Emerton.
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The Doctor's Experience.
"If you please, uncle," said Nanny
Juniper, "1 would like to speak to
you."
Old Doctor Juniper dropped his
newspaper in dismay; the spectacles
fell limply off his nose.
"You don't mean to tell me," said
he, 4 that them cider-bar 'ls sprung a
leak ag'in!"
"No, uncle," said Nannie, nervously,
pleating the frill of her apron, and
changing color as she spoke.
"Then the red cow is got astray,"
groaned the doctor. "It does beat all
how careless the neighbors are about
their bars."
"The red cow is all right, uncle,"
said Nanny. "It's about myself that I
wanted to speak."
Doctor Juniper drew a long breath
of relief.
"Oh!" said he, "about yourself?
Well, if it is a new dress, you've had
two already since Thanksgiving Day;
and if you want to take lessons of the
wax-flower woman, I think it's all
stuff and nonsense. So there! Just
hand me up the paper, Nanny, there's
a good girl, and see what a nice blue
berry dumpling you'll make me for
dinner."
"Uncle," persisted Nanny. "I don't
think you understand. I—l am not
satisfied!"
"Not satisfied?" repeated the doctor,
opening his small, blue eyes to their
utmost capacity.
"I should like you to pay me wages,"
went on Nanny; "because, uncle, —
don't you see?—l'm doing all the work
of the house, and saving you the ex
pense of a hired girl, and I haven't a
penny that I can call my own; and if
it's ever so small an allowance, uncle,
don't you see that it would save me the
mortification of oming to you for ev
ery yard of tape and paper of needles
that I want ?"
"Nonsense!" roared the doctor.
"I shouldn't ask for it, uncle, if I
didn't feel I deserved it," pleaded Nan
ny.
"Rubbish!" said her uncle.
"Six dollars a month isn't such a
great deal of money," urged Nanny.
"And 1 have lived here eight years al
ready for nothing, you know."
"For nothing, eh?" said Doctor Ju
niper, severely. "I s'pose your board
and lodging don't count; nor yet your
clothes. Ah, the parson was right
when he preached, last Sunday week,
about the rank ingratitude of the hu
man race. There never was anything
like it—never!"
"Of course I'm very much obliged
for all that you have done for me, un
cle," said Nanny, "But I'm two-and
twenty now, and I really feel that I
can earn a little money of my own.
And if you think six dollars is too
much, I shall.be very thankful for
five."
"Ah, indeed!" said Doctor Juniper,
satirically. "Quite moderate, I'm sure!
But, you see, our ideas don't ezackly
agree. If you ain't satisfied with
things as they be, you're welcome to
better yourself."
"Uncle!" cried Nanny, hei ... a eyes
brimming over with tears.
"What I say I mean," said Doctor
Juniper, resuming the study of his
newspaper. "And now I'd like the
chance to read a spell afore I go out
into the maple-pasture."
And, surreptitiously eyeing her de
parting figure over the rims of his
glasses, the old man chuckled to him
self:
"I calc'late I've settled that busi
ness. Wages, indeed! Times has come
to a pretty pass, when my own niece
wants wages for doing my house
work."
Ai for Nanny, she went quietly into
the kitchen, where the prepared the
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fowl for roasting, made a little broad
sauce for it, coneocU'd her uncle's favo
rite blueberry-pudding, and then re
treated up stairs, where she packed
the little trunk, which had once be
longed to her mother, and whoso sur
face was decorated with "A. J."—for
Antoinetta Juniper—in brass nails.
"I can't live so!" said Nanny. "My
boots are all patches, and Uncle Juni
per thinks two pairs a year are enough
for anybody. My dresses aren't tit to
be seen, and Uncle Juniper is always
saying that his mother's calico dresses
lasted year after year. I can't even
put a five-cent-piece in the contribu
tion-plate at church, without Uncle
Juniper's accusing me of extravagance.
If he won't pay me the wages which 1
am sure 1 earn, I will go down to the
Lake View House and help Mrs-
Danesbury make pies and puddings
for her boarders. She told me, long
ago, that she would give mo ten dol
lars a month, during tho busy season,
to assist her."
Doctor Juniper relished his roast
chicken and blueberry-pudding as only
an elderly gourmand can relish the ap
petizing edibles of this world.
Xannv sat opposite him. looking
rather distraite and thoughtful. And
when he had sopped up the last of his
pudding-sauce with a piece of bread,
wiped his mouth, and folded up his
naokin, she spoke out:
Dnele, I'm going away to-morrow "
"Be you?" said Doctor Juniper.
"To earn my own living," said Nan
ny.
"Ilumph!" commented Doctor Juni
per. "Well, suit yourself—suit your
self!"
"Mrs. Danesbury is going to pay me
ten dollars a month," explained Nanny.
"But I'd rather stay with you at half
the price, if—"
•Til see you—further!" said Doctor
Juniper. " I won't pay you a red
cent!"
"Very well, uncle," said Nanny.
And so she went away.
"She needn't think she's going to
wind me around her little finger," said
Doctor Juniper. "I can get plenty of
housekeepers for less money that that.
And I won't be imposed upon!"
The doctor got his own breakfast
the next morning. It wasn't so easy
as he had supposed it would be. The
fire smoked and sulked, the coffee-pot
tipped over, the fish was scorched, and
the eggs overboiled.
"Hang it all!" said the doctor.
"Things don't taste right anyhow.
There must be a knack in cooking,
after all."
He left the unwashed dishes on the
table, saddled the roan horse, and set
off immediately after he had swallowed
the last drop of the flavorless coffee,
in search of "help."
The Widow Keene was all smiles
when he stopped at her little red cot
tage.
"So Nanny has gone, has she?" said
the widow. "Wal, there ain't no de
pendence to be put on gals. And you
feel the need of a real helpful com
panion? I did say, when I buried
Keene, that nothin' should induce me
to marry again, but—"
The doctor reined up Old Roan so
suddenly that that meditative steed
jumped off all four legs at once.
"Hold on!" said he. "I wasn't
talkin' of matrimony. I ain't a
marryin' man. All I want is hired
help!"
"Do you mean to. insult me?" said
Widow Keene.
And she slammed the door in his
face, and Doctor Juniper roile on, much
marveling at the narrow escape he had
had.
"IH try Miss Mahala Dickerman,"
he concluded. "She ain't a widow.
Widows are naturally sly and tricky."
Miss Mahala Dickerman was more
reasonable. Yes, she would come.
But she required her Sundays to her-
self, every Wednesday afternoon, the
use of a horse and wagon to take her
to church, and fourteen dollars a
month.
"But what is to become of me on
Sunday?" Doctor Juniper ventured to
inquire.
Miss Mahala didn't know. She had
her soul to look after—that was very
certain. And she couldn't reconcile
his Sunday business to her conscience.
So Doctor Juniper rode away once
more, solemnly shaking his head.
"What's come to all the women ?"
said the doctor.
Betsey Crowe was the next person
on whom he called—a sharp-nosed
gossip, with a high, shrill voice, and
spectacled eyes.
"I think I kin suit ye, doctor," said
Miss'Crowe. "I've lived housekeeper
to several families. My terms is twelve
dollars a month and the privileges of
a home, and a young gal under me.
Her wages will be four dollars extra."
Doctor Juniper grew a tallowy
white,
4< D you s'poae J'm made of money ?"
•aid he,
"Them's my terms," said Mis
Crowe, "and I wouldn't vary from
'oin, not for the president of the
United States!"
"There's an end of tho matter, then,"
said Doctor Juniper.
"Just as you please," said Betsey
Crowe, tartly.
Louisa Henley would not undertake
the place unless her mother and eleven
\ears-old brother could come as com
pany for her. Mrs. Cackle expected
the washing to be put out, and a clean
ing woman engaged for every Satur
day. Maria Michel* hinted at the
privilege of filling tho vacant rooms
of the house with summer boarders.
And the upshot of it all was that Doc
tor Juniper came home in desperation,
without any help whatsoever.
lie telegraphed to his cousin, an
ancient female, somewhere on the edge
of the Adirondacks, to come to tho
rescue. She came. But she was sub
ject to the rheumatism, to epileptic
fits, and to an undue fondness for the
brandy-bottle, and at the end of a
month, Doctor Juniper was glad to
ship her off to a "Home for Aged
Women" in New York. And then,
subdued by much discipline, he walked
down to Mrs. Danesbury's and asked
to see Nanny.
Nanny came in, all smiles and
dimples.
"Really," said the doctor, to himself,
"1 hadn't an idea the girl was so
pretty!"
She welcomed her uncle with tho
most affectionate of kisses.
"Nanny," said he, "you were right,
and I was wrong. I'm sorry I ever let
you go away. If you'll eeiue back to
the old farm, I'll pay you ten dollars a
' month and be thankful to you "
"Oh, uncle, I tan't!" said Nanny,
laughing and blushing. "I'\e proni-
ised to marry Hugh Danesbury."
Doctor Juniper's face fell.
"Hugh Danesbury!" said he. "That's
the young fellow that works at the
mill, ain't it?"
"Yes, uncle," said Nanny.
"Then come, both of you," said Doc
tor Juniper. "Hugh shall run tho
! farm on shares, and I'll pay you ten
dollars, just the same. 1 can't live as
I've been livin'. I'd sooner take laud-
anum!"
So tho young people were married,
and came to Juniper farm to live.
"And uncle's a deal easier to get
along with than ever he was before!"
said Nanny.
, For Doctor Juniper had profited from
his experience.— Helen F>i tsL (Jracts.
PEARLS OF THOUGHT.
Jealousy is a secret avowal of our in
feriority.
The only rose without thorns is
friendship.
We ought not to judge of man's
merits by his qualifications but by the
use he makes of them.
Though we travel the world over to
find the beautiful, we must carry it
with us, or we find it not.
Bashfulness may sometimes exclude
; pleasure, but seldom or ever opens any
avenue for sorrow or remorse.
Attrition is to the stone what good
influence is to the man. Both polish
while thev reveal hidden beauties.
I *
Cares are often more difficult to
throw off than sorrows; the latter die
{ with time, the former grow upon it.
The leader will fail who acts on the
counsel of those whoso intelligence and
means of information is inferior to his
own.
Zealous men are ever displaying to.
you the strength of their belief, while;
: judicious men are showing you the'
grounds of it.
There is a wonderful vigor of con
stitution in a popular fallacy. When
the world has once got hold of a lie, it
is astonishing how hard it is to get it
, out of the world.
If a man be gracious and courteous
to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of)
the world, and that his heart is no
island cut off from other hearts, but a
continent that joins them.
There are few men who, were they,
certain of death on their seventieth,
birthday, would think of preparation.
To-morrow may be the gate of an eter
nity, and they go on in their folly.
I
He Had Confidence In Gypsies.
A band of gypsies camped in Mis
souri. A farmer in the neighborhood
was painfully twisted by rheumatism
and they straightened him out with
mysterious lotions and ceremonies.
This won his confidence. They told
him that a large sum of money was
buried on his farm, but they did not
know exactly where. Their instruc
tions were to bury all the cash he had
i for eight days, and then dig it up,
whereupon the place of the concealed
treasure w T ould be revealed. He
obeyed, and at the end of the pre
scribed time his SSOOO and the gypsies
were gone.
MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, APRILS, 1883.
A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE.
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
About seven centuries before the
christian era Southern Italy was so
thickly set with Grecian cities as to be
known as Magna Griecio.
There is a creek several miles from
Waynesboro, (hi., which is so highly
impregnated with lime that it will
take the hair off a horse's legs in pass
ing through it.
The silver ore of the Nevada mines
is so intimately associated with leal
that nearly one-half of the miners who
handle it become afflicted sooner or
later with wrist drop, palsy, or half
paralysis.
Mr Edward Atkinson says it would
require 16,000,000 persons, using the
spinning wheel and hand loom of loss
than a century ago, to make the cottcn
cloth used by our j>eople, which is now
manufactured by 160,000.
Among tho Chinese no relics aro
more valuable than tho boots that have
been worn by a magistrate. If he re
signs and leaves the city a crowd ac
companies him to the gates, where his
boots are drawn off with great ceremo
ny, to la) preserved in tho hall of
justice.
A Tennessee doctor has a curious
Indian relic. It is a ring, made of
pure silver nicely engraved and weighs
twenty-three pennyweights, and, con
sidering tho primitive tools with
which the Indians must have worked,
tho engraving is said to be remarkably
well done. The general design,
although smaller in circumference,
resembles in a marked degree the
bracelets most in favor with the socie
ty belles of to-day.
Tho slaughter of a plow ox is pro-
hibited by law in China, anil a viola
tion of the law is punished by two
months' imprisonment and 100 blows
of tho heavy bamboo; except in cases
where the offender is the owner of the
animal, when the imprisonment is one
month and the number of blows
eighty. Mandarins who fail to take
notice of such offences are also pun
ished. The ox is thus honored above
other beasts because he is annually
offered to Confucius; and because of
his services to man in plowing and the
entire dependence of the husbandman
on him, man should refrain from
doing him harm.
It is related in 7>r. Font's Health
Monthly that Paul Bert saw at
Geneva a curious specimen of humani-
Tv that would bo worth a fortune to a
Bowery museum or a travelling show.
It was a child live years old, or some
what more than one child, for it had
two heads, two chests and four arms,
but only one abdomen and ono pair of
legs, tho fusion of the two bodies into
one occurring at about the waist.
Each head has control of the leg on its
own side. The two faces are much
alike, and tho two intellects already
understand several languages. The
food which one takes does not satisfy
the hunger of the other, and they eat
and sleep alternately. One has had a
fever without the other being ill.
A New York restaurateur being
asked why it is considered so difficult
to eat two or even one quail a day for
thirty days, replied, "Because the
human stomach is an intelligent and
sensitive member of society. If you
were to feed it every day for thirty
days on a pound or two of sawdust,
you would not wonder if it rebelled,
would you? No. Well, quail and the
white meat of all birds is very much
like sawdust. It's dry; it's indigesti
ble. It lies there on the stomach, and
of course the stomach doesn't like it,
and when you want to add more to it
the stomach is very apt to rebel and
make you sick. You may try to coax
that important functionary with bribes
of pepsin and that sort of thing, but
there is a limit to even that. 80 you
see why quail won't do for a steady
diet."
A Minstrel's Conversion.
"Senator Dob Ilart," tho negro
minstrel, used to be a great favorite
in the West. His stump speeches
and his excruciating Latin were his
chief stock in trade, but they were
enough to give him a better income
than half the professional men get.
Well, a couple of years ago, when he
was almost dead with delirium
tremens, he staggered into a revival
meeting and was converted, and since
theD he has been known sis the Rev.
J. M. Sutherland and a more con
sistent, earnest Christian exhorter
never lived, lie has for nearly two
years been in the employ of the City
Missionary society, which pays him
S2O a week, on which he supports
his wife and daughter. Chicagoans
can remember Avhen Bob Hart got
S3OO a week during an entire season
in that city. He works among the
poor people, i.-id preaches several
times a week and twice on Sundays.
He hasn't touched a drop of liquor
since the night from which he dates
hi# conversion. — Clwtland Sun*
CENSUS YITAL STATIST!! S.
A Tmr'i Deaths In the L'nlted Ntates.-
Th lauiri of Denth, and Other
lutare.tliiK Facia.
An article in the New York Sun
says that according to the last census,
75G.893 persons died in the United
States during 1880. The death rate
for tho whole Union was therefore
15.1 to the thousand. That is a low
rate, and yet it was much higher than
that given in 1870, which was only
12.8 per thousand, while the death
rate according to the census of 1800
was 12.5.
But the apparent increase in 1880
was due entirely to inore complete
returns of deaths, and even the figures
for that year cannot be regarded as
accurate. Except in a comparatively
small number of communities, vital
statistics are not gathered in the
United States after a scientific system.
The actual mortality of the Union is
probably somewhere between eighteen
and nineteen per thousand, instead of
a little over fifteen. But that is a low
rate as compared with European
countries, the death rate for the whole
of England having been 20.5 per
thousand in 1880, and for Scotland,
21.3 in 1878.
Of the 750,893 deaths recorded in
the census returns 040,191 were of
whites, out of a total white popula
tion of 43,402,970, and 116,702 of
negroes, out of a total colored popu
lation of 6,752,813. Tho apparent
death rate, therefore,was 14.74 among
the whites, and 17.28 among the
negroes.
Of the deaths re]>orted 391,960 were
of males and 364,933 of females, the
total living population having been
25,518,820 males and 24,036,903
females. For every thousand deaths of
females there were 1,074 of males.
The proportion of males dying in
infancy was also greater than that of
females. Of the 390,644 males who
died 163,880 were under five years of
age, while of the 303,874 females who
died 138,920 were under five years;
that is, the proportion of deaths under
five years of age to all deaths recorded
was 419.51 per thousand among males,
while among females it was only
381.85. Nearly half tho male mor
tality was among very young children.
The causes of death were reported
in only 733,810 case.*, and the follow
ing table gives the number of deaths
from each of the ten principal causes:
Consnmption .... - 91,551
Diphtheria ------- 38,398
Di&t r* cp il diseases ... - 65,565
DiMiam of nervous system - - BJ. 670
Dis a*os of re-pimtory system - 107,904
fiitmsmofiligeiiiToiT'lom • - 34,094
Enteric (•>phoiil) fever - - - 22.90)
M cades 8.772
Bcnrlet fever - • - - - - 16 416
Whooping cough ... - - 11,202
Consumption was, as always, the
great scourge, and it carried off a con
siderably larger proportion of females
than of males, the deaths from that
cause being 40,619 males to 50,932 fe
males. It is very instructive to ob
serve that the mortality from consump
tion in the North Atlantic and Lake
regions was highest in the small towns
and agricultural districts, while on
the Gulf coast it was greatest in the
city of New Orleans, with its wretched
sewerage and drainage system.
Enteric or typhoid fever is also more
especially a disease of the country
rather than the city. Tho better
drainage which ordinarily prevails in
the largo towns makes them less liable
to that fever than the smaller com
munities and scattered settlements,
where necessary precautions aga'nst
the pollution of the water supply are
not generally taken, and accumulations
of filth in vaults and cesspools are
common. Malarial fevers likewise
were more prevalent and more fat;^
proportionately in the smaller com
munities than in the great cities. Tho
same was tho case with diphtheria.
The report of the number of deaths
due to accidents and injuries is inter"
esting:
Burns and scalds • • • • 4,786
Drowned 4,320
Exposnro and neglect - - - - 1,299
Gunshot wounds 2,289
Homicide -------- 1,336
I'ilitnticide --------
Injuries by machinery - - - - 120
Kiilroud accidents ----- 2 349
Suffocation 2,339
Suicide by shooting ----- 472
S licido by drowning - - - - 155
Suicide by poison ----- 340
Other suicides ------ 1,550
Sunstroke - -- -- -- - 557
Oiber accidents and injuries - - 13,980
Brevity.
Few writers know when to stop
writing; they say too much. Martin
Luther closed his speech before the
diet of Worms with these words: "Here
I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God
help me. Amen." Suppose he had
said: "The position which I at present
occupy I shall continue to maintain.'
The latter is grammatically correct.
You can praise it, but literary art con
demns it as we.ak and unworthy. Go
back to the Old Testament "Let
there be light and there was light."
Beyond the naked grandeur of these
words art cannot go. And, in fact,
brevity is an art— and one worth cultj*
Yftting, too,
Terms, SIOO Per Year in Advance.
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.
The Use and Abase of nothing.
Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, nicdic.il dl
rector of the Boston Union gymnasi
um, gave in one of his talks on physi
cal training, general rules for bathing
as follows: "A warm bath, with libera
use of Castile soap is best for cleanli
ness, and night the best time. Twice
a week is often enough. Too frequent
warm baths debilitate the system. A
cool sponge or wet cloth bath should
be taken daily for its tonic effect and
always in a warm room. If strong
and vigorous, the best time is the
morning; if not strong, the cold bath
had better be omitted and the tepid
substituted. After exercise, if greatly
fatigued, take no bath, but rub down
vigorously with a dry towel If thor
oughly warmed up, but not tired, take
a tepid sponge bath standing. Never
take a tub bath, except when bathing
for cleanliness. A warm shower bath
followed by a cool sprinkling is prefer
able to a cold bath after exercise.
Vigorous exercise renders Turkish and
hot baths unnecessary; those should
be reserved for medical cases. Skin
disorders are frequently caused by ex
cessive bathing and the use of too
much soap. Although general rules
for battling could be given, every man
must be guided by his own physical
condition and his occupation."
Colds HI ore Fatal than PUKQM.
Dr. F. H. Bosworth in a lecture on
"Colds and their Consequences," given
in New York, said:
Neglected colds, if we could trace
them through all their insidious influ
ences to their ultimate result, have
been responsible for a far greater loss
of life than has been caused by any of
the terrible scourges which, in the
form of epidemics, have decimated
continents, carried terror and dismay
throughout whole states and have
called forth the active sympathy and
generous charities of a continent.
This may seem a somewhat startling
statement, that this simple cold should
outweigh in its consequences the
mortality of those terrible visitations
before which the bravest heart uncon
sciously shudders; and yet I believe it
is no overdrawn picture, no exaggera
tion. One neglected cold follows upon
another, each recurring with increased
frequency, the parts involved approach
ing nearer to the vital organs, and
fimilly some latent tendency is devel
oped, some constitutional weakness
makes itself manifest. It does not
strike its victims with the sudden blow
of the scourge, but working its ill
effects through months, and perhaps
years, still strikes with a no less certain
aim in the one case than in the other.
I do not come before you as an alarm
ist, nor do I intend to draw an exag
gerated picture, yet that it is a true
one I think cannot be questioned. That
we survive colds and moreover main
tain our health, is not an extremely
difficult matter. It depends in a large
part on certain common sense in mat
ters of personal hygiene. Perhaps in
these none is so important as the pro
per regulation of the clothing
If we press the abdomenen of the
Dee wasp, so as to cause the sting to
protude, it is but natural to think that
the sharp, dark-colored instrument was
the sting itself. This, however, is not
the case. The real sting is a very
slender instrument, and armed on one
edge with a row of barbs.S:> exactly does
the sting resemble the many-barbed ar.
row of certain savage tribes that, if the
savages had possessed microscopes, we
should certainly liavo conjectured that
they borrowed the idea of the barb from
the insect. What we see with the un
aided eye is simply the sheath of the
sting. Many savages poisol their
arrows and spears, and here also they
have been anticipated by the insect.
But the sting is infinitely superior to
the arrow poison. No poison that has
yet been made, not even the terrible
wourali, or curare, as it is sometimes
called, oan retain its strength after
long exposure to air. The upas poison
of Borneo, for example, loses its poten
cy in two or three hours. But the
venom of the sting is never exposed to
the air at all. It is secreted by two
long, thread-like glands, not nearly so
thick as a human hair, and is then re
ceived into a little bag at the base of
the sting. When the insect uses its
weapon it contracts the abdomen,
thereby forcing the sting out and com
pressing the venom-bag. By the force
of the stroke which drives the sting
into the foe its base is pressed against
the venom-bag and a, small amount of
the poison driven into the wound. As
a rule, if the bee or wasp be allowed to
remain quiet, it will withdraw its sting,
but as the pain generally causes a sud
den jerk, the barbed weapon cannot be
withdrawn, and the whole apparatus
of sting, poison-bag, and glands, is torn
out of the insect, thereby causing .ifa
faatb,— 'Oood Wry&
NO. 14.
The Bee's Sting.
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Alone.
The unn shines ont across the sea,
The old church bell chimes merrily.
But the maiden sighs in misery,
And wanders sad and lone;
For he has gone, her lover true,
Acrots the ocean, wide and blue-
Now fall her tears like evening dew,
And thus she makes her moan:
My love has gone! Ah, well a day!
My heart is steeped in misery!
And must it now be thus tor aye?
Ah, woo! Ah, woe is mol
The breakers on the sounding shore
Are leaping high with ceaseless roar,
And the maiden watches by her door
With sad and anxious eye.
The white foam falls around her there,
And flecks with snow her raven hair,
But still ahe watches in despair
• And murmurs with a sigh:
My love has gone! Ah, well a-day!
My braut is filled villi misery!
And must it now be thus for aye?
Ah, woe! Ah, woe is me!
The dnrk clouds drive across the skies,
She sec. the moon among them rise;
High on the sands her lover lies,
He ne'er will pt-ak again!
She kneels beside him All alone,
Above the wild winds sigh and moan,
But the msiden's heart is turned to stone,
For now all hope is vain.
My love is dead! Ah, well-a-dsy!
My heart is steeped in misery;
And it must now be thus lor aye,
Ah, woe! Ah, woe is me!"
(Jgilvie Mitchell.
FCSGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Trousers cover a multitude of shins!
Cannot law vers be termed fee-males?
A wife may be a blessing, but a
dumb wife is an unspeakable one.
It is a terrible shock to one's feel
ings, after singing "Salvation's Free,"
to hear the announcement that "the
collection will now be taken."
The question is asked us, If there is
anything that will bring youth to wo
men? Yes, indeed. An income of
say $20,000 will bring any number of
them.
A man who has happened to have a
good deal of experience says: "Stand
anywhere but for four feet to the left
of a woman when she hurls a bottle at
a hen."
"Mr. Jones," asked Smith of the par
son, "don't you think the wicked will
have an opportunity given them in the
next world?" "Yes, certainly," re
plied the parson, "an excellent oppor
tunity to get warm. *
An agricultural journal recently
published a long article on "Sheep
Husbandry," but it didn't say anything
about the man who continually com
pliments his wife, although he is most
assuredly a she-praiser.
"If your boarding-house should take
fire at night what would you do to get
the people out ?" asked the fire mar
dial of an experienced matron. "Oh,
there would be no trouble about that,"
was the reply; "I would just ring the
breakfast bell, and all the boarders
would be in the dining-room in three
minutes."
It is said that the Emperor of Rus
sia "chops wood for exercise." This
gives his wife more time to gossip over
the back fence with the next door
neighbors; but one would suppose that
the emperor got exercise enough dodg
ing dynamite bombs and other infernal
devices contrived by the nihilists,
without resorting to wood-chopping.
Common Phrases.
The terra blackguard has a very
common place origin. In all great
houses, particularly in royal residences,
there was a number of mean and dirty
dependents, whose office it was to at
tend to the woodyards, sculleries, etc.
Of these—for in the lowest depths
there are lower still—the most for.orn
wretches seem to have been selected to
carry coal to the kitchen, halls end
other apartments. To the smutty reg
iment, who attended the progresses
and rode in the carts with the pots and
kettles, w T hich, with every other article
of furniture, were then moved from
palace to palace, the people, in derision,
gave the name "blackguards," a term
since become sufficiently familiar.
"To the bitter end" is clearly an old
nautical expression. A dictionary,
published in the first part of the eigh
teenth century, has "bite," a turn or
part of a cable; "bitts," the main pieces'
of timber to which a cable is fastened
when a ship rides at anchor; "bitter," a
turn of the cable about the timber
called "bitts," that it may be, veered
out little by little; and "bitter end" (of
a cable) is that part which is wound
around the bitts when a ship rides at
anchor. The modern cant expression,
"to the bitter end," may have taken its
rise from the old nautical words, as
meaning the last coil of the cable, or
from the last end,. the very "bitter"
dregs. It is a slang expression, anoth
er form of "I will fight you to the
death." In it bitter only means piti
less, severe, like a bitter east wind, or a
bitter foe.