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The Skein We Wind.
If yon and I, to-day
Shoo Id stop and lay
Our life work down, and let onr hands fall
where they will—
Fall down to lie quite still—
And if eome other hand should come and
stoop to find
The threads we carried, so that it could wind (
Beginning where we stopped; if it should
come to keep
Our lilework poing, seek
To carry out the good design,
Distinctively made yours or mine,
What would it find?
Some work we must be doing, true or false;
Some threads we wind; some purpose so
exalts
Itself that wo look np to it, or down,
As to a crown
To bow before, and we weave threads
Of d lb rent length and thickness— -some mere
shreds—
And wind them round
Till all the skein of hie is liound,
Sometimes forgetting all the time
To ask
Hie value ot the threads, or ohoo e
Strong stuff to use.
No hand hut winds some thread;
It cannot stand quite still till it is dead
But what it spins and winds a little skein.
God made each hand fur work—not toil-stain
D required, but every hand
Spins, though but ropes of send.
It love should come,
Stooping ahove w hen we are done
To find blight til ends
That we have hel f, that it may spin them
longer—find but shreds
That break when touched —how cold,
Sad, shive ing. portionless, the hand will hold
The bi\ ken shreds, and know
Fresh cause for more.
HIRAM'S VISIT.
"Going to git married, be yon,
Iliram?"
Hiram Iloneydew colored at the ab
rupt question, but he answered, truth,
fully:
"1 don't see what else I kin do,
Aunt Peggy. Sister Susan is bent on
a-marryiu' the school-teacher an'
a-goin' off to the Black Hills or som'eres
away out of all creation. An' here's
all the fall work a-comin' on—that
medder hay to stack, an' corn to cut,
pumkins to gether an' all them wind
falls an' Siberian crabs to make up in
cider fur the apple-butter, an' no help
to be got fur love or money. An' it
stands to reason I can't tend the farm
and cook the vittles, too. So I thought
soon as thrashin' was over—you've
promised to stay till then. Aunt Peggy
—an' then I thought I'd go round
som'eres nigh about Clover Creek
where some of our kinfolks live, an'
stay a week or so, an' git a—a—some
body that can housekeep an' the like—
do the milkin' an' churnin', 'tend to
puttin' up fruit, makin' apple-butter,
take kecr of the chickens an' ducks,
an' do the cookin' an' cleanin'. Sister
Susan was a powerful good housekeep
er, an' she couldn't be beat a-cookin',
either. If I could linda good sort of a
woman that 'ud cook ekal to Susan, I
wouldn't mind a-marryin' her."
"Humph!- So you expect to git a
wife an' a good one, too, in a week or
two, hey? You're a gunip, Ilirarn
Iloneydew, an' nothin' else. Besides,
you'd ought to git aw ife you could
keer fur, as well as a good housekeep.
er. Housekeepin' an' cookin' ain't
everything, I tell you. There's sech a
thing as alfeckshin between man and
wife."
But Hiram scouted at this idea.
"One woman is the same as another
to me," he returned, loftily. "I want
a housekeeper, an' that's why I'm
a-goin' to marry at all."
"Wal then, Iliram, if you're bound
an' determined to go an' hunt up a
wife that a-way,raebbe I kin help you a
little. I know ? ed the folks about
Clover Creek like a book when yer
Uncle Eli was alive, an' we lived on
the old Honeydew farm. An' thar
was Mahala Nutter. She married Job
Perky, an' they bought a farm on
Clover Hill, t'other side the creek-
There wan't nobody could beat Mahala
a housekeepin' them days, an' most
likely her darter, Marthy Jane, hes
tuck after her. They are sort o' kin
folks o' yourn, too. Mahaly was yer
Uncle Eli's own cousin. An' ef you
like, I'll wTite 'em a feAV lines, an' telj
'em you're a-comin, an' sort o' perpare
'em, fur nobody likes to hev comp'ny
unexpected."
And so it was settled, much to
Hiram's relief, and he whetted his
scythe and went out to mow a feed of
green clover for his horses with a
lighter heart than he had had for a
week.
For he had made up his mind that if
Martha Jane Perky was as good a
housekeeper as Aunt Peggy said, he
would bring her home with him as
Mrs. Honeydew in a week's time, if
she was willing.
And no doubt she would be, for
Hiram was quite a good-looking tnan (
with pleasant brown eyes, curly brown
hair, and a thick, brow T n moustache.
Moreover he was "well-to-do," and
almost any of the girls in his own
■neighborhood would have jumped at
the JlUlhciiH Journal
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VOL. LV! !.
the chance of presiding over his broad
acres and picturesque cottage farm"
house, half buried in sugar-maples and
tall Lollard poplar-trees.
But to Hiram, as to most others,
distance lent enchantment to the view,
and he was "bound and determined, as
Aunt Peggy had said, to seek his fate
in some of the wide old farm-houses
dotting the fertile borders of Clover
Creek.
******
"He'll be a mighty good ketch fur
you an' no mistake, Marthy Jane,"
I commented Mrs. Perky, when Aunt
Peggy's letter had been duly received
;unl read. "A mighty good ketch, an*
you must do your best to ketch hiin #
'Tain't oft in a gal has seeh a chance
throwed at her head, an' if you've got
a mite o' pluck about you, you won't
let them stuck-up Briggses git ahead
of you. Delilah Briggs would give
her ears to git ahead of you, I'll bet a
button!"
To which bit of logic Martha Jane
assented, with a toss of her head, and
1 the assurance that Delilah Briggs, nor
no one else, wasn't a-goin' to git ahead
I of her.
Consequently, when farmer Perky
drove his gray team to the gate, with
Iliram Iloneydew on the seat beside
him, the necessary preparations had al
ready been made—floors scoured,
baking done, and a substantial country
dinner, with a dessert of apple-dump,
lings and sweet-cream sam e, ready to
be served.
While Martha Jane, in a pink plaid
frock, with lluted ruffles, stood waiting
to welcome the expected guest.
"She's mortal humlv," thought
Hiram, as he sat smoking, after din
ner. on the porch, and mentally review,
ing Martha Jane's narrow forehead
hard black eyes and high-colored
cheeks. "But, then, I ain't a-!ookin'
out fur beauty, an' if she s . me
other ways, I reekin 'tain't no great
matter how she looks. A girl with
them kind of eyes an' a mahogany
colored skin kin do the chores an
make butter, an' sech, as good as if she
had blue eyes an' goldy-lookin' hair
like that girl they call Ilitty, that
brought In the dumplin's an' passed
round the dip lur "em at dinner to-day.
She's the hired girl, I reekin. 'T any
rate I ain't got time to hunt round
much, an' i reekin Marthy Jane won'
mind changin' her name to Honeydew
O v
afore long, an' I've got to hurry up
I ain't got no time to waste a-'ourtin".
I reekin if nothin' happens we kin be
married in a week, an' git back home.
I don't like to stay here a-settin' round
doin' nothin', with all the fall work
a-gittin' behind at the farm."
******
"Oh, dear!"
Down through the long grass and
crimson clover-bobs, under scrubby
haws and tall persimmon trees, wont
Ilitty Mavis, a dcep-capcd sun bonnet
shading her violet eyes and tangled
yellow curls.
She was after the cows, standing
knee-deep in the tall aftermath, where
they had been turned for pasturage
after the meadow hay was cut.
"Oh, dear!" sighed Ilitty again, "I'm
so tired, and here's the cows to drive
home, milking to do, sponge to set for
the baking to-morrow, and goodness
knows what else, and—Oh!"
She started back, with a little scream
9
for seated on the fence, under the
shadow of a crimson-leafed sassafras
tree, sat Hiram Honeydew, coolly
watching her.
Ilittv's cheeks turned from pink to
scarlet as she met the admiring glances
of his frank, brown eyes, and he r
heart beat fas er than common.
But Ilitty was a sensible girl, so
she said, "Good evening, Mr. Honey,
dew!" quite coolly, and began driving
home the cows.
But Hiram sprang down from his
perch on the rail fence and followed
her.
"Let me help you, Miss Ilitty!" he
begged. "I ain't used to loalin'
around, doin' nothin', like I've been
fur some days now; and it'll be a treat
to drive home the cows, even."
So they walked together through the
velvety aftermath, dotted with scarlet
butterfly-weed, and crimson-petaled
"nigger-heads," the lowing cows filing
slowly home, lazily chewing their cuds,
and switching their tails at the flies. .
Iliram let down the bars, and turn"
ed the cows into the yard, while Ilitty
brought out the milk-pails from under
a bunch of burdock-leaves, where she
had left them.
And somehow, in spite of the milk
ing and setting the sponge, and doing
up the chores, Hitty's heart beat more
lightly than it had for many a day.
And instead of one week Iliram
Iloneydew stayed two, but still Martha
Jane had not been invited to change
her name.
"She's a mighty good housekeeper,"
thought Hiram, meditatively. "If
little Ilitty could only cook an' house-
MILEIIEIM, l'A., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1883.
keep as good as her. I—don't—
know—"
He ended by building a castle In the
air, wherein Hitty Mavis, with her vi<
let cy a*,and"goldy"colored hair, was th
chief flgurA
******
"Ilitty Mavis!"
Martha .lane's hard, black eyes look
ed harder than ever, and her sharp
features seemed sharper still as she
bounced wrathfully into the kitchen
where Hitty sat slicing a b >wl ol
yellow Crawford poaches for supper.
"You kin pack up your dials and
go! You a-settin' up to ketch a beau,
as if Iliram Iloneydew would look at
you."
"I—Martha Jane, what on earth do
you mean?"
Hitty's eyes expanded, and the pink
in her cheeks deepened to a glowing
scarlet.
"You know well enough what 1
mean!" sneered Martha. "You
needn't to look so innerceut, like butter
wouldn't melt in your mouth, an'you
a-strainin' every nerve to ketch Iliram
Iloneydew—a-cajolin' him to help you
milk, an' drive up the cows, an' the
like. It's jest like your owdacious
doin's, an' you kin pack up an' leave
right away, too!"
"But 1 don't know whereto go!"
Hitty's heart beat like a frightened
robin's at the thought of being driven
friendless into the world, but Martha
Jane was implacable.
"It's nothin' to me where you go, so
you leave here," she sniffed, as she
flounced angrily away.
"Go with me, Hitty!*' said a tender
voice; and Hiram Honeydew stepped
suddenly into the little kitchen. "Go
with mo, Hitty, and be my wife."
Hitty's checks grew redder than
before, but she did not draw away
from his offered embrace.
"Not gone yet?" cried a shrill voice,
as tho door was jerked viciously open.
"Didn't I tell you to pack lip - Oh,
Mr. Iloneydew, you here? Come and
have fea— we're a-waitin* fur you."
"Excuse me!" was the cold reply.
"1 shall just have time to take my
wife—that is to be—over to the par.
sonage. AN" i l l you come to the wed.
ding?"
But, with a scornful sniff and toss
of her hea 1, Martha Jane flounced oIT
again.
******
"An' so you didn't marry Mahala's
darter, after all!" cried Aunt Peggy,
who was waiting to receive them.
"N-no!" stammered Hiram. Ilitty
kin learn to keep house, 1 reekin—"
"Learn?" cried Hitty. "Why, 1 did
all the housekeeping at Aunt Mahala's.
She is my aunt, though they wouldn't
let ine call her so. Marthy Jane never
did a lick of work in her life."
And so Hiram Iloneydew got a wife
and a housekeeper all in one, after all.
Harvesting Throughout the World.
That the harvest of the world, or
the reaping of the cereal crops on the
earth, takes place in different periods,
on account of the different latitudes
and consequent different seasons, is a
well known fact; that these periods
embrace altogether more than three
fourths of the year might not be
known. In Australia, New Zealand,
the greater part of Chili, and some dis
tricts of Argentine Republic, the liar
vest takes place in January; in the
month of February it commences in
East India, and progressing toward the
north, terminates in March—Mexico
Egypt, Persia and Syria harvest in
April; the north Asia Minor, China,
Japan, Tunis, Algeria, Morocco, and
Texas in May. The following coun
tries reap their harvests in June: Cali
fornia, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece
and the l uth of France. In the other
parts of France, in Austro-Hunga
rv, the south of Russia, and the great
er part of the United States the crop is
gathered in July. In the month of
August the following countries har
vest: Belgium, Germany, England, the
Netherlands, and Denmark; in Sep
tember, Scotland, Sweden, Norway
Canada, the north of Russia, the latter
continuing until in October.
A Hen Hatches Snakes.
On the farm of George Logan, near
Lebanon, in the county of Warren,
Ohio, a hen has long evinced an ardent
desire to become a mother, by persis
tent efforts to hatch door-knobs and
anything else that bore tho remotest
resemblance to an egg, that her owner
finally had pity on her, and placed in
her favorite barrel fourteen curious
eggs that lie had discovered in turning
a furrow. Then he went off to camp
meeting and thought no more about
the matter until his return, when ho
was amazed to find that the hen had
hatched into this wicked world four
teen little snakes for which she was
caring with the utmost affection and
solicitude and from which she received
constant demonstrations of filial affec.
tion. Next.
A PAPER FOR THE HOME CIRCIF.
THE T A I'll AMONtt MAORIS.
Wffjdng nnd I<nugklnK In (liurrli -Cna
"F NOII> !tliaer*a—OruKa wriui Can
nlbnltam.
The Maoris are a people who not
only weep in church at the pathetic
passages, but laugh uproariously at
anything in lessons or sermon that
tickles their fancy. Mr. Hay has seen
a church full of them waving their
arms, stamping their feet, grinding
their teeth with rage, w hen (he treach
ery of Judas was being related. To
such people Christianity cauie as a new
form of tapu (taboo). They are ready
for any number of Vites and ceremonies,
and it was only w hen they began to
read for themselves, and to contrast the
teachings of the Book with the conduct
of the land-grabbing pakehas round
them; when, moreover, their implicit
faith in the missionary had been weak
ened by the coming in of rival faiths,
each claiming to be the only true way,
that they got to be eclectic, giving up
the New Testament, in its practical
portions, and sticking by the Old.b
-e! cause it allowed polygamy and rovengft
'and strictly forbade the alienation of
I land.
This tapu had many uses. A river
j was tapu at certain seasons, so as to
1 give a dose time for iish; a wood was
tapu when birds were nesting, fruit
ripening, or rats (delicacies in the old
Maori cuisine) multiplying. To tapu
a garden answered -till Captain Cook
brought in pigs -far better than the
strongest fence. A girl, tapued,
would he as safe amid tho wild license
of unmarried Maori life as if she had
been in a nunnery. Tapu was proba
bly never intentionally broken, so weird
\ was tho horror which surrounded it
1 But in this ea e 'sinning in ignorance
was no excuse; and tho most furious
wars were those which arose from
breaking it. The sign of tapu was
easily set up—a bunch of flax or hair,
a bono, a rag on a carved stick, that
was enough. To lift it was much
harder, needing the intervention of the
tohunga (priest), who, by muttering
incarnations, and, above all, by making
the tabooed man eat a sweet potato
(kumora) charmed it away.
Mau\ a massacre of whites was due
to an unwitting infringement of tho
tapu. The historic massacre of Du
Fresno and his crew was brought about
! by a deliberate breach of tapu; and
I such outrages on native feeling were
so dangerous that Governor Ma (plane,
of Sydney, in lSl'l, tried to make every
skipper in the New Zealand trade sign
a bond fur £looonot to ill-treat Maoris,
not to break tapu, not to trespass on
burial grounds, not to kidnap men or
women. His efforts were fruitless.
Maoris were line, sturdy fellows, and
though there was, as yet, no Kanaka
labor market in Queensland, no Queens
land at all in fact, a ship that was
short-handed was very glad to get some
of them on board by any kind of device
The worst thing connected with the
| carrying off of native women was that
the poor creatures weie generally put
I ashore in some other part of the islands
| —i. c., among enemies. There slavery
or worse, was sure to he their fate,
j Another cause for bloody reprisals was
the treatment cf the men who were
taken on board. "I'm a chief," said
one, who was being driven bv a rope's
end, when incapable through seasick
ness, to some menial work. "You
a chief!" scoflinglv replied the master
of the Boyd, for that was the name of
the ill-fated ship. "When you come
to my country you'll find I'm a chief,'
was the reply. The Boyd happened to
sail into the harbor of Whargaron. the
i very place to which the flogged chief
i belonged. He showed his tribesmen
, his scored back, and they vowed ven
geance, for even a blow to a chief is
an insult that can only he wiped out
with blood. The captain and part of
the crew, leaving some fifty souls in
the ship, went ashore to select tim
ber. The Maoris waylaid and mur
dered them, dressing themselves in
their victim's clothes, went at dusk to
the ship, climbed on board, and killed
every one except a woman, her child
ren, and a boy who had been kind to
the chief during his distress. The
vessel was plundered, and the chief's
| father, delighted at securing some fire
arms, snapped a musket over an opsn
barrel of powder and was blown to
pieces with a dozen of his men.
Tapu was successfully broken by
the early missionaries in the Bay of
Islands. One of their settlements was
up the Kerikeri riv.er, tho tapu of
which for lish during the close months
was very vexatious to them, for it
blocked up their only road to Te Puna
the h°ad station. Stores must be had;
and at last, in defiance of tapu, they
manned a boat and rowed down, amid
the rage and terror of the Maoris, who
expected to see them exterminated by
the offended atua (spirits). When
the mission boat came back it was
seized, and the crew bound ready to be
slain and eaten. Happily, to eat the
stores seemed the proper way of begin
ning, and those stores were partly tin
ned-meat, jams, etc., and partly drugs
Having greedily devoured the former,
(he plunderers duly fell upon the latter,
finishing off the jalap, castor-oil,
and so forth, as part of the ceremony.
The result may be guessed. The
"inana" of the missionaries began to
work mightily, and with grovelling
supplicut ons the anguished Maoris re
leasod their prisoners and sought re
lief. The whole tribe was converted.
How could (hoy help it? Had not the
gods of the stranger proved their
superior might by utterly disabling
those who had stood forth as the
avengers of their own insulted deities?
Wonderful Precocity.
Oliver Madox Brown, a son of the
well-known artist, was born in 1855.
He seems to have been a precocious
child, though lils precosity never took
( tiie form of book-learning in any shape,
and it was not till he was six that he
began to read. Hut if backward with
I)is books he was a born artist, with
pencil and paint-brush first, as after,
ward with his pen. When he was
! eight he had completed his first picture
in water-colors, and w hen he was four
teen he exhibited "Chiron deceiving
the Infant Jason from the Slave" at
the Dudley gallery. He painted three
other notable pictures: "Obstinacy,"
*'Prospero and Miranda" and "Silas
: Maimer." Hut Oliver Madox Brown
' was beginning to show himself as an
artist in the world of letters. Before
! he was fourteen he had written some
! sonnets of singular beautv, and at sev
enteen he had written a tide called
"The Black Swan," which was lirst
given to the world as "Gabriel Den
\er." The historv of this book is
*
rather curious. Oliver had shown it
to Mr. Williams, who was connected
with the lirra of Siincn, lUder & Co.,
and Mr. Williams had been much im
pressed with it and was anxious to as
sist in its publication. Nothing could
have been kinder, but nothing less ju
dicious, than .Mr. Williams's conduct'
He lirst insisted on the singularly pic
| turesque name of "The Black Swan"
til ing altered into the very unmeaning
one of "Gabriel Denver." He then in
; sisted on the beginning of the story
being altered; on a deserted wife being
changed, on grounds of propriety, into
a deserted cousin, and on the terrible
tragedy at the end becoming a com
fortable marriage—in short, with the
best intentions, lie did everything pos
sible to spoil the book. He watered it
and toned it down, but the strange,
tierce power of the plot and the vigor
of the writing still remained. It was
greatly injured as a work of art, but
as a work of imagination it was a re
markable production. It was not, how
ever—it could never be—an agreeable
book. It was too crude and violent.
Some of the scenes were simply horri
ble, and some of the incidental re_
marks seemed to show a strange know],
edge which repelled sympathy. But
when it was known that this was the
work of a mere boy the feeling of dis
like passed off into a stronger feeling
of wonder and admiration. What was
painful and repulsive was the fault of
an unfortunate story. The essential
matter was the literary power, which
might prove itself equal to very great
efforts and might produce works of
lasting value.
Stock Speculation in Japan.
The Japanese government forbids
stock speculating, and the authorities
recently determined to arrest at tho
same moment all offenders on the stock
exchanges at Osaka, Yokohama anil
Kobe, as well as on the rice exchanges
at Tokio and some other important
centers. The police received their or.
dors only on the morning of the day
fixed, and in strong force, all wearing
some sort of disguise, proceeded to the
vicinity of the exchanges and mingled
with the crowd so as to escape obser.
vation. At a little after 11 o'clock all
was in readiness, a sign was given, and
before the amazed spectators could
make out what was going on the ex
changes were in possession of the po.
lice, the doors locked and the prisoners
secured. All the books, papers, etc.,
were then taken possession of, and the
police's whole "haul" removed to the
central police station. Over 700 de
linquents were sent to prison, their
offense being "speculating in margins.''
The Strongest Electric Light.
The strongest single light that burns
in the United States is suspended in
front of the Philadelphia Record build
ing, ninety-live feet above the Chest
nut street sidewalk. Its power is
equal to 10,000 candles. At night the
entire bloek between Ninth and Tenth
streets, is made so light that under the
powerful rays of the lamp a person
standing anywhere within these limits
can read editorial print with ease.
Tcrmf, SIOO For Year in Advance.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Mosquitoes are accused by Professo*
A. P. A. King of originating and dis
Beminating malarial disease.
By a comparison of analyses of soils
from different vineyards, the last re
port of the Scottish Horticultural asso
ciation shows that the soils on which
the grape-crops fail are delicient in
Siino and potash.
Professor Dclgudo of Lisbon has
come to the conclusion that the ances
tors of the modern Portuguese were
canihals. He has found the remains
of 140 persons urhosi hoiiAi were
blackened by lire split lengthwise to
secure the marrow and hearing other
indubitable marks of having served as
food for man.
The deepest sounding ev<r made wA 8
in the Pacific ocean in 1b74, near the
entrance to Beb ring's sea. The depth
was 4055 fathoms, and (he cast was
made from the United States ship
Tuscvora. The shallowest water in
the middle of the Atlantic, 731 fath
oms, showed the existence of subma
rine mountains 10,550 feet high.
Ilerr Wieler, experimenting at Tub
ingen, has discovered that the growth
of plants is more rapid under dimin
ished atmospheric pressure—all other
external conditions being the same—
than at normal pressure. On the
other hand, increasing the pressure
lessens the rate of growth, the mini,
mum being reached at two or two and
one-half atmospheres.
Deaf-mutes have been taught to
speak and to understand speech by
noticing the movements of the lips.
It is stated that M. Wancrke has pro
duced photographs showing the form
assumed by the lips for each sound,
and that these pictures have enabled
inexperienced persons to recognize the
different articulations. Such photo
graphs ought to be of great value in
giving instruction to deaf-mutes.
Dr. Bremer in a German journal
advocates exercise in the high, fine air
of the mountains as the best protection
against the diseases contracted in city
life. The characteristics of the moun
tain climate are the low temperature
and air pressure, the low relative hu
midity, the high per cent, of ozone,
the strong light and isolation, the
freedom from dust and bacteria. All
these act well on the bodily health.
The lungs work with greater strength,
the heart beats faster, the blood circu
lates more quickly, appetite is increas
ed. perspiration becomes freer, the
muscles become more energetic, and
the whole body gains in strength and
endurance.
A Fruitless Search.
Dne day there visited Buddha a wo
man who had lost her only child.
Wild with grief she begged the proph
et to give back the little one to life.
He looked at her tenderly for a long
while, and then said, "Go, my daugh
ter, bring me a mustard seed from a
house in which death had never enter
ed, and 1 will grant thy wish." The
woman at once began her search. She
went from house to house, saying.
"Grant me, kind people, a mustarc
seed for the prophet to bring back my
child to me." And when they hac
granted her request she asked, "Arc
you all here around the hearth —father
mother, children none missing?'
But the people shook their heals with
sighs and looks of sadness; and far ant
wide as she wandered then' always
was a vacant chair by the hearth. ThcD
gradually, as she passed on, the waves
of her grief subsided before the sighl
of sorrow everywhere; and her heart,
ceasing to he occupied with its own
selfish grief, (lowed out in strong
yearnings of sympathy with the world
wide suffering. Tears of anguish wen
changed to tears of pity, passion melt
ed into compassion; she forgot her OWE
sorrow in looking upon that of others
and in losing herself for others' good
she really found herself.
The Infiuence of Forests.
The influence of forests upon cli
mate and fertility is as yet but poorlj
understood by even the more profes
sional class of farmers. It is a prob
lem that can be solved only by obser
vations extending over considerable
periods of time. But the influence it
plainly observable and its explanation
simple. Strip the hills of their pro
tecting forests, and the thin covering
of sod which overlays their rocky slopes
will soon be washed down into the
valleys and into the beds of streams
and rivers. Periodical freshets wil'
result which will eventually carry
away she best soil from even the val
leys. One authority declares that il
the destruction of the hill forests bt
continued in Ohio, half the area ot
that state will be sterile in less than
fifty years.
Connecticut devotes 90,000 acres t,o
the cultivation of the oyster.
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NO. 38.
Loveliness.
)nci I kiiesr a little girl,
Very plain;
ro;i might tiy her hair to cnrl,
All in vain;
On hor cheek no tint of rose
Puled and blushed, or sought rcpoee;
She was plain.
Hut the thoughts that through her brain
Catne and went,
As a recompense for pain,
Angels sent;
So full inany a beauteous thing,
In her young soul blossoming,
Gave content.
Every thought was full of grace,
Pure and true;
And in time the homely face
leveller grew
With a heavenly radiance bright,
Prom the soul's reflected light
Shining through.
So I 101 l yon, little child,
Plain or poor,
II your thoughts are undefilod.
You uVe sure
Of the loveliness o! worth;
And this beauty not of earth
Will endure.
HUMOROUS.
Green corn—a young bunion,
i High-toned—The screech of an
eagle.
When does a tree feel contented?
When its sappy.
The only difference between one
yard and two is a fence.
Just so long as woman retains her
maiden name, her maiden aim is to
change it.
"Emile," asked the teacher, "which
animal attaches himself most to man?"
Emile, after some reflection—"The
leech, sir."
The tailor's apprentice, when com
mencing his trade, finds there is truth
in the text that "What a man sews he
shall also rip."
Simpson says that when he asked
the girl who is now his wife to marry
him she said, "I don't mind," and she
| never has minded.
A Lowell man had his head frac
tured by a bath tub falling upon him.
This will teach him hereafter not to
fool around a contrivance that he is
not familiar with.
"Yes," said tiie father, "I like to
have my daughter have a beau on the
6core of economy. If she didn't, some
one of the family would occupy the
parlor and burn the gas."
A young man who went into the
kitchen, where he saw his girl
and inadvertently sat down on a hot
pie just from the oven, now boasts
that he "descended from the upper
crust."
"What are you going to do when
you grow up if you don't know how
to cipher ?" asked a teacher of a slow
boy. "I'm going to be a school teach
er and make the boys do the cipher
ing," was the reply.
The Popular Science Monthly ask:
"What are crowds?" It is not quite
certain how science will handle this
question, but the average common
sense educated man knows that under
some circumstances three is consid
ered a crowd.
Sending Their Dead Back to China.
Wong Foo, the editor of the Chinese
American, published in New ex.
plains why Chinamen wish to be
buried in their own country. He says:
"If any one going back to the old
country has dead friends here he takes
them along. I do not believe that
more than five per cent, of the China,
men who die in the United States are
permanently buried here. Friendless
Celestials are left here, and no one
cares whether they go to heaven or
not." "Cannot one of your race get
into Paradise unless his bones rest in
Chinese soil?" "No, sir; Chinamen
believe that the only road to heaven
lies through their country." "But if a
good, virtuous Chinaman who has
kept his pigtail and his conscience in
tact dies in a strange land, will he be
excluded from heaven because he is
poor and friendless?" "That's the
doctrine," said Mr. Wong. "Accord
ing to Christians, no man can be saved
except through a certain belief, no
matter how good he is; according to
Chinamen, there is no salvation outside
of China. One belief is about as
rational as the other." "When you dig
up the remains of your countrymen do
you have any services at the grave?"
"We burn a little incense-paper, maybe,
and take a drink, just as Americans do
on all occasions." "What does the
drink signify ?" "It's what you would
call a toast. We drink peace to the
soul of the departed, and a prosperous
journey to the body. We use any
liquor that comes handy. Sometimes
tea, or whisky, or in extreme cases,
water." "How are the bodies pre
pared for shipment ?" "They are em
balmed if they are fresh enough. If
not, the meat is scraped off and the
jjones only are carried away."