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Woman's Voice.
Not in the swaying of die summer trees,
When evening breezes sing their vesper
hymn—
Not the minstrel's mighty symphonies,
Nor ripples breaking on tie riven's brim,
Is earth's best music; these nuy have awhile
High thoughts in happy hearts and irking cures
beguile.
But even us the swallow's silken wings,
Skimming the wn'or ol the sweeping lako,
Stir the still silver with a hunil.ed lings—
So doth one sound the sle.-| ing spirit wake
To bravo the danger ami to bear the harm—
A low and gentle voice—dear woman's ehiel
est charm.
An excellont thing it is! and ever lent
To truth and love, and meekuess; they who
own
This gift, by the all „r n ions (liver sent,
Evei by quiot step and smile are known;
By kind eyes that havo wept, hoaits that lmte
Borrow'd.
An excellent thing it is—when first in glad
nes* —
A mother looks into her infant's eyor—
Smiles to its smiles, and saddens to its sad
ness-
Pales at its paleness, sorrows at its cries;
I s food and sleep, and smiles an 1 little joys—
All these come over Llout with one^low, -gentle
voice.
An excellent thing it i* when life is leaving—
Leaving with gloom and sadness, joys and
cares—
The strong heart falling, and the high soul
grieving
With strongest thoughts and wild, unwonted
fears;
Then, then a woman's low, soft sympathy
Coiucs like an ongel's voice to teuch us how to
die.
But n most excellent thing it is in youth,
When the loud lover hears the loved one's
tono
Unit ftnrs, hut longs, to si liable the truth—
How ti.eh- two hearts are one, and sho h'.s
own;
It makes sweet human music—oh! the spells
That h unit the trending tale a bright-eyed
maiden teils. — UJuin Arnold,
"A Desperate Character."
AN ADVENTURE IN LONDON.
I went to Covent Garden theater
one night last season. "We were let
out at 12, and set off to my lodgings.
I knocked; there was no answer. 1
knocked again; a window was thrown
up and my landlady's head appeared.
"Who are you ?" she screamed.
"Let's in, please; it's me!" I an
swered.
"Then, Mr. Me, if you don't come
home before 10 you may still out till
mornin'. I never wait up for my
lodgers—my door is closed at 10!" and
then the window closed with a bang.
"Xo go!" thinks I. "I have no
money, I'll go to a railway-station and
wait in the waiting-room till morning;"
which resolution 1 proceeded to carry
out by walking briskly for the bank.
I turned into Moorgate street, and
WAS just thinking whether I should go
to London, Brighton and South Coast
or the London Bridge station. I
slopped to think. There was a con
fectioner's shop just in front of me.
Oh! that it were open! 1 had three
pence left.
Just at this moment a tall, broad
shouldered man came up to me and
viewed me from top to toe. 1 looked
at him. lie was dressed in dark
clothes; a pea jacket and clap-trap
cloth hat, with a peak lying level on
the forehead, gave me a feeling of
awe. The thought forced itself upon
uie that he was a garotter. lie spoke
first.
• You're Mr. Sam?" and he laid his
3nger on his nose.
"You've guessed it," said I, thinking
It best to agree with him, although my
name was Tom.
"Then come along!" and away we
went.
"Did Butler give ye e'er a pistol?''
he asked.
"No," said 1, beginning to tremble.
"He said he wanted them himself."
"Just like him. He told I'd find
pou standing at Moorgate street, be
tween 12 and 1, opposite the confec
tioner's, with your right hand in your
pocket."
"I'm in for it," thinks 1. "but I must
through with it. I hit whatever
will it come to at all, at all V"
He led me through a labyrinth of
streets, walking rather fast, till we
emerged upon the city road. Then
he made straight for the Angel, and
from thence took a cab for Fleet street.
What object he had in doing this I
cannot say. He did not offer to ex
plain; in fact, not a word passed be
tween us till we got out at the top-of
Ludgate hill.
From thenco we went into a back
Btreet, and out of that into another,
no matter which, and suddenly stop
ping opposite a shop, he ex claimed:
"That's our crib!"
"Is it?" says I.
Whereupon he produced from his
pocket a rule. The shop was evident
ly a tailor's, as it had bars standing
out like the rungs of a Jacob's ladder,
from each side of the door, to exhibit
stock upon. My friend stepped on the
first of these, which was throe feet
from the ground, and speedily measured
Iht falgbt Qt ft Urge gl/m fanlight over
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the door; then, stepping down again,
he measured the breadth of tho door,
and as the fanlight was square he mut
tered to nio byway of giving me its
dimensions:
"Three and a half by two high!" and
chuckled quietly.
Then he crossed the road, and 1 fol
lowed, he explaining that we must
wait till the policeman passed, lie
hove in sight about ten minutes after
wards, while we walked past him.
Then we waited till he returned. This
time we did not pass him, but watched
from a corner at a distance.
"Twenty minutes and a half between
going and coming," exclaimed my com
panion. "And a handy heat; for he
comes up the corner there"- pointing
to one a little beyond the shop - "and
goes down this street next ours."
The impression began to steal over
me that I was committing, or helping
to commit, a felony, and that if caught
I might get into trouble. 1 thought
of running for it; but the remark my
companion made at that moment, to
the effect that it would be a short run
if 1 deserted him (for he seemed to
see I didn't like tho job), dctcrrid me.
I dared not explain that he had ma le
a mistake, for I felt sure tkat he must
have mistaken mo for some allv of
his own. "I must go through with it,"
thinks I. "He'll leave me outside to
watch, and I'll hook it then?" Sol
went on.
lie crossed the street again the mo
ment the policeman was past interfer
ing with us, and producing a piece
of stout black cloth he applied the
rule thereto, I holding it against the
shutters, while he set out "three and a
half by two" thereon. This done, he
cut it within two inches of tho mea
surement all round, and then produc
ing a treacle-pot from his pocket, he
smothered one side of the cloth with
treacle, and, desiring me to hold it, he
mounted tho shop-door, so to speak,
again; and I gave him the cloth, which
he immediately clapped on to the sky
light, the treacle making it adhere
firmly to the glass. Then, looking at
his watch, he cried:
"By j ngo! he'll 1 ehere this minute!' l
and away we walked. A glance be
hind us, as we turned the next corner.
Not yet in sight! "We stopped and
waited, but the policeman came not.
My friend muttered an oath, adding,
"I'll go. Come along; but keep your
weather-eye open!" And off we went.
"Perhaps he is watching us," I sug
gested. But the idea was discarded
as not in the nature of a policeman
"like that one wc saw."
"We arrived at the shop. lie mounted
again, and drove a string through a
hole in the cloth. Then he ran a dia
mond round the edge of the glass. A
gentle pat, and it gave way. Now I
saw the use of the cloth and string.
He could hold the glass by the string;
and he slowly let it down into the shop,
and, producing a long-shaped pad, he
laid it along the bottom of the fanlight
to cover the glass edge, and threw one
leg into the opening and got astride of
it!
"Follow me," ho muttered, and
ducked his head under the door-head.
But before he could draw in the other
leg I mounted the ladder, and, seizing
it, gave him a pull that kept him from
going in, at the same time yelling,
"Police! Thieves! Murder! Police!" at
the top of my voice. And, lo and be
hold! the policeman appeared at the
corner at that moment. A horrible
oath from within, a pistol-bullet
whistling past my head, and I ran for
death and life. I did not stop till 1
found myself in Broad street.
In the next day's papers I saw the
account of the capture of a burglar by
one policeman, who had watched two
burglars from the corner, and saw one
enter the house, and the other leap up
the wall like a cat, grab at a disappear
ing leg, and yell "Police!" and run.
The one that was caught got seven
years' penal servitude, and "the police
are searching vigilantly, though a; yet
unsuccessfully, for the other, who, it
appears, is a desperate character!"
They never caught him.— Cassell.
Bachelor Life in Turkey.
Botli state and church combine to
make the life of a Turkish bachelor
miserable. As long as his parents are
alive, he can live with them without
much trouble. As soon as they die
lie must get a permit from the civil
and religious authorities before he
can be admitted to any household.
Then the proprietor thereof, in the
interest of public morals, must see
to it that other persons than females
wait upon his boarder. If the bach
elor be rich enough to occupy a house
or to rent unfurnished chambers, he
cannot possibly obtain that simple
privilege unless he shows that a
woman of good repute lives with him
therein. A mother or sister or aunt
removes that difficulty." But a man
without kindred may go an indefinite
period without a hmv,
DOME LIFE IN PARIS.
Pconllarltlm of tho I'urlilniii.-llon
IVopic Live in tlio French Capital.
This picture of home life in Paris is
given by a writer in the Decorator and
Finisher: Wherever one sees a yellow
bill upon the door of a Parisian house
he may he tolerably certain of discover
ing within a neat apartment, well
furnished, having at least a bed-room,
a parlor, a dining-room, a kitchen, and
usually an ante-room into which the
entrance door opens. Tho windows,
extending to the Moor, are hung with
lace and stuff curtains; the doors have
portieres upon cither side, rugs, as a
rule, take the place of carpets, the bed
Is under the protection of a canopy,
even if it be no more than muslin, and
a heavy wardrobe, with a full length
mirror in the door, is often the point
de resistance in the room. A showy
silk down quilt is thrown over the bed,
and a bolster of huge proportions rests
at the hea l. The top of the mattress
averages three or four feet from the
Moor, and suggests the advantage of
step ladders and the utter discomfort
of little people. The peculiarity, how
ever, of the French bed is its restful
quality, for it is so whether it be found
iu the l'alace of the Llvsee or a third-
rate apartment house on Montmatre,
in the Hotel de L'Athence, or the most
provincial of pensions.
The elasticity of prices in the rent
ing of apartments is wonderful. -V
Frenchman pays soo a month fer a
nicely furnished llat in the Palais
lioyal, or, we will say, in the neighbor
hood of Trinity church, taking the two
extremes of localities, and an Ameri
can tourist gladly pays SSO for the
same accommodations. If the lessee
is fortunate and rents from a family
that may be going to Vichy for a few
months, he possibly can arrange for
silverware, linen, and crockery, but if
this is denied him, he will linda most
agreeable company organized for the
very purpose of supplying the transient
resident with all the necessary appur
tenances of housekeeping, at a price
that allows one to display a magnifi
cence approaching royalty at the most
economical outlay. A bonne may be
had at $7 per month, one of those
smart French girls that does every
thing from cooking the meals to dress,
ing her mistress, and who insists upon
doing it. Seven dollars, be it under
stood, is nut starvation pay, it is muni
ficence, and one may expect from such
a girl all the esthetic cooking of the
French repertoire—peas, not as we
have them in this country, yellow and
hard, but deliciously sweetened, tender
as cream. The bonne does all the
marketing, wrangles with the trades
people, and hands in her account every
day or week. Of course she has a
percentage from the stor< s, but who
would begrudge that to get rid of the
intolerable nuisance of shopping?
A stroll 011 the boulevards, a visit to
the Jardin d'Acclimation, a ride to the
Bois de Boulogne, by the way of the
Champs Elysee, all these are pleasures,
and combine with the attractive fur
nishings of the house to make one
forget the annoyances he is subjected
to and the crude and primitive domes
tic surroundings he is called upon to
endure. lie is induced to forget that
on his way home he may be run over
by a vicious cab driver and then arrest
ed for being in the way of the horses,
for, of course, in Parisian streets
vehicles have the right of way.
The concierge is an important factor
in French life. If one fails to "come
down" with the proper amount of
subsidy in the shape of "pour boire"
the concierge, whose place is at the en
trance to his building, takes very good
care that his close-fisted tenant doe 3
not receive his mail, certainly until one
day after its delivery at the door, and
his visitors are informed that he is "not
at home," when in truth he is await
ing their coming in his rooms. Should
the tenant protest to the landlord, his
lifo will thereafter be miserable, a suc
cession of ills and terrors that will
finally drive him from the house, to
look for other apartments. But he is
known to every concierge in the city,
and, despite the flaming yellow poster
that announces from the outer wall
there is an apartment to let, lie meets
everywhere the one reply, "There is
nothing here sir," and if, perforce, ho
does get into the building the price is
placed at such a figure as to put it
beyond the reach of the tired and
discouraged searcher. After one ex
perience of this sort the traveler
either succumbs to the inevitable and
pays up like a man, or else, with what
courage he has left, he goes off to
Switzerland and freezes on Mount
Blanc, or to Home and gets the fever.
Of course, where there are few
carpets the floors must be kept in good
condition, so a man comes every week
and waxes the boards, and skates
about on them with stiff brushes tied
to his feet.
A contented spirit is the sweetness
of existence,
MILLUFJM, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 12,1883.
A Foot-Washing Ceremony.
A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCLE.
"You never saw a foot-washing?"
said tho Rev. Joseph Bowen, a Baptist
minister from Tennessee, toaSt. Louis
reporter. "Then you could not have
traveled much in the backwoods sec
turns of the South and Wtst. 1 remem
ber seeing one at Randolph, Tenn., in
June, 1877. Randolph is in Tippon
county on the Mississippi bluffs. 1 had
to stay there over Sunday, and learning
that there was a meeting at Salem
chureh, six miles away, 1 borrowed a
horse and rode to the place. The
chureh, built of logs, with the 'cracks'
daubed, sat back about 100 yards from
the road in the middle of a grove. In
side, the seats were all pretty well Idl
ed, and every head in the chureh turned
as I entered. 1 shrank into a corner
and took a scat as quickly as possible*
In front there were a few benches
ma le of unvarnished poplar, but the
supply falling short the demand had
been met by planks laid on boxes. On
one of these I sat down next to a port
ly lady dressed in a cotton gown with
broad yellow checks. The minister
had well earntd his reputation of
being a 'powerful exliorter,' as I found
when he commenced his sermon. As
he wanned to his work he walked
rapidly from side to side of the pulpit,
stopping occasionally, as in a thunder
ing voice he warned his unconverted
hearers that they were 'hanging over
hell-lire by a single hair,' to deal re
sounding blows to the Bible with his
lists byway of emphasis. "When he
concluded he took a long crash towel
and girded it around his waist. At
the side of the pulpit was a bucket of
water and a 'noggin.* If you don't
happen to know what a noggin is 1
may explain that it is a small tub a
size larger than a piggin. This one
had been constructed by sawing a
whisky keg in half. When tlie preach
er commenced pouring the water into
it an old gentleman in the amen cor
ner commenced pulling off his brogans
and rolling up the bottoms of his
trousers.
"'Will some brother raise a hymn?'
asked the minister, and the brother,
who now had his shoes off and was en
gaged with his home-knit cotton SOCKS.
raised one: "I am a Soldier of the < ross.'"
and as the congregation joined lie put
both feet in the noggin, which had
been set before him. The preacher
squattisl down in front of him, rubbed
his hands around over the feet and up
and down his shins half way to the
knee. "When the brother thought
they were washed enough, he held
tliein up out of the water, and the par
son wiped them on the crash towel.
Then the parson sat down, and, having
pulled off his shoes, had his feet wash,
ed by the brother to whom he had
just ministered. All who wished to
join in the ceremony had taken posses
sion of tlie front seats —the mourners'
benches. Among those who had gone
up had been the portly sister by whom
I snt. The noggin came to her next
and she washed the feet of the sifter
next to her, having her own washed
in turn. When all the feet on the
front seat had been bathed, the water
in the noggin was emptied out the
back door and a fresh supply brought
in from the well near the church.
The noggin passed around from brother
to brother and from sister to sister for
an hour, and in that time 1 saw more
varieties of feet than 1 have ever seen
before or since."
Wonders of the Ocean's Depths.
As to the quantity of light at the
bottom of the sea there has been much
dispute. Animals dredged from below
700 fathoms either have no eyes, or
faint indications of them, or else their
eyes are very large and protruding.
Crabs' eyes are four or five times as
large as those of a crab from surface
water, which shows that that light is
feeble, and that eyes to be of any use
must be very large and sensitive. An
other strange thing is that where the
creatures in those lower depths have
any color it is of orange or red, or red-
dish orange. Sea anemones, corals
shrimp and crabs have this brilliant
color. Sometimes it is pure red or
scarlet, and in many specimens it in
clines toward purple. Not a green or
blue fish is found. The orange red is
the fish's protection, for the bluish
green light in the bottom of the ocean
makes the orange or red fish appear of
a neutral tint and hides it from ene
mies. Many animals are black, others
neutral in color. Some fish are pro
vided with boring tails so that they
can burrow in the mud. Finally, the
surface of the submarine mountain Is
covered with shells, like an ordinary
sea beach, showing that it is the eat
ing-house of vast schools of carnivor.
ous animals. A codfish takes a whole
oyster into its mouth, cracks the shells,
digests the meat and spits out the rest.
Crabs crack the shells and suck out the
meat. In this way come wliole mounds
of Bhells that are dredged up. -Fro
feuor VwrtlU
COAL MINERS.
llow Tliry I'rovlilr for tl Willow* mul
Orphan*.—.Harrying Out of Oeuero.ily.
A correspondent writing from
Wilkcsbarre, l'a., says: Accidents in
the collieries of the middle district of
the anthracite coal fields, of which this
city is the center, made hist year nearly
one hundred widows and over live
hundred orphans. J Jut notwithstand
ing the frequency of fatal accidents
and the ahsenee of any organized chari
ty, the larders of the widowed families
are never empty, none go naked, the
household fires are not extinguished
and the little home is never stripped
hy a landlord's warrant. Kind hands
see that food is provided each day, and
the men returning from their work in
the mines do not forget to carry to the
widow's home a lump of anthracite for
the next day's use. Communism in a
peculiar sense prevails among the coal
miners of Pennsylvania. The lucky
divide with the unlucky as readily and
as cheerfully as if they belonged to one
family. However much all may
quarrel on abstract questions of poh"
tics or religion, all discussions are
dropped at the appeal of charity.
While, as has been said, no organ
ized relief societies exist among the
colliers, there is a general system in
vogue which does its work well and
promptly. Every printing ollice in
this region is visited weekly by persons
wanting ra!lle tickets. These tickets
cost one dollar a hundred, and are
headed "Hafile for a cooking stove," or
clock, bureau, quilt, table, or some
other article of domestic use. It is an
nounced that the raflle is for the bene,
lit of a widow or injured miner, and
on the "night after pay day." The
price of the ticket is generally fifty
cents. The radio is in charge of a
committee whose names appear on the
ticket. Take the ease of a woman
>
for instance, lately made a widow.
She has been left penniless, us miners'
widows usually are. Everybody un
derstands this, and the hundred tickets
are promptly disposed of among the
miners, who pay for them on pay day.
On that night the wido.v gets SSO cash.
The night of the rafile comes, and, pos
sibly, one-fifth of the ticket holders
assemble. A fiddler, a keg of beer,
and a little "hard shtuff" form the ele.
incuts of the entertainment. The
young lads join in a dance with the
lasses, the old men sup and smoke
their pipes, and the old women recount
the virtues of the deceased miner.
About midnight the raille begins.
The names of the ticket purchasers
are put into a hat and well shaken.
Whoever secures the prize at onco
turns it over to the beneficiary. The
company breaks up happy over the
good time they have had, and the kind
deed they have (lone. That SSO goes a
long way in keeping the shadows from
the little house. It will sometimes
pay a whole year's rent, and it only re
quires one or two more rallies to keep
the victor's poor larder stocked, for it
must he understood that potatoes, cab
bages, and meal, form the staple arti
cles of diet in these humble homes.
A year is a long time for a comely
and thrifty woman to remain a widow
at the mines, no matter how many
children she may have. Jim is killed
to-day, and possibly before the summer
ends, Jack, who was Jim's best friend*
insists upon marrying Jim's widow
Jim's babies become his. And if you
go below the surface you will find the
foundation of Jack's action to le pure
charity. It is a matter of record that
when the terrible Avondale disaster
occurred so many widows and helpless
ones were left that the matter of caring
for the former speedily was discussed-
It was quickly settled by propositions
of marriage, and within a very short
time after the calamity the household
of every victim was protected. This
same spirit exists in every mining
community to-day, and is a shield
against much distress.
Efforts have been made from time to
time to induce the miners to abandon
a custom that prevails among them.
Whenever a man is killed in a mine
while at work, every man in the col
liery where the accident occurs stops
work. Frequently 1500 employes turn
out and remain out for two days.
There appears to be a 4eep superstition
that prompts that peculiar exhibition
of respect for the dead.
Still Even.
On Montcalm street recently a boy
was leading a goat around by a rope,
when a pedestrian asked if he wanted
to sell the animal.
"Course not, we just got him," was
the reply.
"What did you want of a goat?"
"Nothing much. We bought him
to get ahead of the Browns, who have
a fox, but they've gone and got even
again."
"How?"
"Why, three of the family have been
mesmerized, and Johnny has had two
teeth filled."—Mrivt Vm Prm
Terms, SIOO Per Year in Advance.
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.
l'nslluK as n Cure fur IChenmatlam.
Dr. Tanner's heresy may yet become
the creeil of regular practice. Tanner
claimed that fasting was a good
hygienic cure for many forms of blood
disease, and now I)r. Wood, of the
medical department of Bishop's college-
Montreal, reports fasting as a cure for
acute rheumatism. Plenty of water 01
lemonade was allowed but no medi
cines were given, and from the goo*
results obtained in fasting from fou
to ten days Dr. Wood is inclined t
believe that rheumatism is only a phase
of indigestion.— Dr. Foote's Health
Monthly.
l(eiit<<ly fur Pryilpclai
At the recent congress of German
surgeons, Dr. Fisher, of Strasburg,
drew attention to the value of naphtha
line as an antiseptic. For some skin
diseases, and especially in the treat
ment of erysipelas, it is almost specific
The application is made in the most
simple manner possible by
rubbing gauze in the powdered mate
rial, or dipping any suitable fabric in
an etheriel solution diluted with alco
hol. Naphthaline being very cheap,
this preparation will be less expensive
than anything of the kind now in the
market. It is extensively used in
Strasburg, where it is regarded as a
perfect preventive of erysipelas; and it
is hoped that if this valuable property
can be substantiated, it will be used
for the same purpose in this country.
Dr. Fisher does not state whether its
use in the manner stated is attended
with any inconvenience or pain to the
patient; but persons employed in gas
works and elsewhere who have suffer
ed from scales of naphthaline entering
the eyes, etc., would be disposed to
regard the remedy with very consider
able suspicion.
Had Tcetli and Disrate.
Had we the means we should endow
a charity the great aim of which should
be to prevent disease bv establishing
an institution for the treatment of
decayed and imperfect teeth. There
are more cases of disease of various
kinds and various degrees of severity
emanating from bad teeth than from
almost any other cause. The trouble
is easily remedied if taken in time;
but those who suffer most are they
who have not the means to employ
competent dentists. It is pitiful to
see the children of the poor as they
grow up, gradually losing their teeth
by decay and neglect and becoming
dyspeptic at twenty and old and
haggard at thirty. If there is a nobler
charity than that which would supply
free dentistry to the poor, and dentist
ry at cost to those who are able to pay
no more, we know not what it is. But
there are persons of ample means who
pay no attention to their own teeth or
those of their children. They should
be taught the importance of attending
to this matter, and, if they then refused,
they should be punished for the neglect
of an important duty toward their
families. There is no excuse for any
person having bad teeth. A child can
be taught the importance of attending
to the teeth, and every child that has
his second front teeth should be pro
vided with a tooth-brush and be re
quired to use it at least once everyday,
using castile soap. Once in six months
at furthest,a dentist should be employ
ed to examine the teeth and properly
fill any that may bo decayed. Were
this plan generally adopted we should
see no more toothless men a.id womea
—llaUs Journal of Health„
Overtaxing the Brain.
In a recent lecture on "Brain
Health," at Edinburgh, Dr. J. Batty
Tuke said that, as a matter of fact, it
was not an easy thing to overtask the
energies of the brain by work. It was
not work, but worry, that killed the
brain. But break down from over
strain did occasionally take place, and
the first really important symptom
was sleeplesness; when that set in
there was cause for alarm. Loss of
sleep was brought about thus: When
the brain was being actively exercised,
there was an increase of blood in its
vessels—this was spoken of as
"functional liyperoenia." If they con
tinued the exercise of the brain power
too long, there was a tendency of the
blood to remain in too great quantity,
from the cells becoming exhausted and
not being able to Gontrol the vessels.
In sleep the amount of blood was
diminished, and sleep could not be
procured if this functional hypercenia
persisted. In the absence of sleep, the
cells could not recover themselves, and
their activity became impaired.
Headache, loss of appetite, and general
listlessness followed. As soon as a
child or young person developes con
tinuous headache, work should be dis
continued at once.
Forty years ago a man worth $60,000
was accounted wealthy; now he must
have bis millions to be sorefw4<&....
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NO. 15.
O! though tny ship is sailing far out on the
wide, wide sen,
Tlio prospect ever dearest still is my owrn
homo to me;
And all the time, by night, by day, before me
fiie es dear
Come smiling, greeting, olieering, as in fkuoy
they appear.
O! though my ship is sailing far in distant wa
ters blue,
I
My heart looks ever homeward to my home
ties, ever true;
I mark each day's departing, for I know it is
one less,
Before I clat-p iny loving ones, or feel their
soft caress.
O! though my ship is sailing far, in storm and
tempest off,
I still can feel the pressure of warm hands and
fiugeis soft;
I am looking, thinking, longing for the time to
come for me,
When I shall meet my children dear and take
them on my knee.
O! though my ship is sailing fur, 'twill soon be
"homeward bound;"
On laud or sea was never heard, by man, a
sweeter sound;
With sad all set uud bounding o'er the rolling,
billowy sea,
K .ch hour is bringing nearer all my dueling
oues to me.
O! then swift winds, frofrt out the skies come
Lowing strong and free;
Blow lor me homo ward breezes, hasten heme
my ship and u>o;
i All my loved oues there are waking, waiting,
looking o er the seu;
And in patience sweet are wutching, O! my
ship for thee und rne.
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rUXBEXT PARAGRAPHS
Medical query—Was the eye-lash
designed for brow-beating?
Flattery is called "taffy" because it
makes a man feel awfully "stuck up."
There is a marked difference between
getting up with the lark and staying
up to have one.
When the lien with chickens at
tacked the small boy in his mother's
yard, the hen informed him she had
been laying for him for some time.
i A note made on Sunday is void;
which may account for men sleeping
all through church service, and mak
ing no note of what the preacher says.
A young child in Oregon died from
the effects of swallowing the leaves of
an almanac. We always held that
| dates should be eaten in small quanti
! ties.
When a certain bachelor was mar
ried in Philadelphia, members of the
Bachelor club broke him up by sending
him as a weduing present a copy of
"Paradise Lost."
It is a glorious thing to have been
bcrn a. man. One doesn't have to
bother himself for a month over the
plans and specifications of a new
j spring bonnet. He simply has to foot
the bill when the thing is bought
A little bright-eyed boy, upon hear
ing his father read the story of Joan
of Are, was greatly moved by lier sad
trials; but when the part was reached
where she was about to be burned to
j death at the stake, the poor little fel
low could not contain himself any
longer, but sobbingly clutched his pa
rent's arm, and, with big tears running
down his plump little cheeks, cried.
"But, —papa, wh—e—re were the po
lice '
Henry Clay Quoting Shakespeare.
Henry Clay, who left a seat in tlu
Senate for one in the House, but afte
many years' service at the other end c
the capital returned to the Senat
chamber, exercised a powerful control
over the politics of the republic. Idol
ized by the Whig party, liis wonderful
powers of personal magnetism, and
his rich, manly voice,would enable him
: to hold an audience for hours. He
made but little preparation, and used
but few notes in speaking; but when
he wrote out his remarks for the press
his manuscript was remarkably neat
without interlineations or blots. ll*
seldom indulged in classical allusions
and his occasional attempts to mak*
quotations of English poetry we:*
generally failures. On one occasion
he used the well-known phrase from
1 Hamlet, "Let the galled jade wince,
our withers are unwrung," but mis
quoted the last syllable, calling it "un
strung." The gentlemen who sat oc
either side of him noticed the error t
and simultaneously whispered "un
wrung." This double prompting con
fused "Young Ilarry of the West."
who straightened himself, and witb
stronger emphasis repeated "unhung.'*
This raised a general laugh, at the
close of which Clay, who had mean-
While ascertained his mistake, shook
his head, and said with one of his in
imitable smiles: "Ah! murder will out!
Uuwrung's the word." The fascina
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tion which he exercised over all wiis
■ whom he had personal intercom ss,
even his political adversaries, was x
markahle; but he was imperious an".
domineering, exacting unconditional
and unqualified support as the price o*
his friendship.— Jlen Ferley Foot* ii
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Iffy Ship.