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A Country Sohool, Pretty and pale and tired she sits In her stiff-backed chair, While the blazing summer sun Shines In on her soft brown hair, And the little brook without, That she hears through the open door. Mocks with its mumnrcool Hard bench and dusty floor. It seems an endless round- Grammar and A. B. C; The blackboard and the sums; The stupid geography; When from teacher to Lttlo Jim Not one of them cares a straw. Whether "John" Is any "case," Or Kansas in Omaha. For Jimmy's bare brown feet Are aching to watte in the stream, Where the trout to his luring bait Shall leap with a quick, bright gleam : And his teacher's blue eyes stray- To the flowers on the desk hard by, 'Till her thoughts have followed Iter eyes With a half unconscious sigh— Her heart outruns the clock, As she smells their faint sweet scent; But w hen have time ana heart Their measure in unison blent? For time will haste or lag. I ike your shadow on the grass, That lingers far behind, Or flies when you fain would pass. Have patience, restless Jim, The stream and fish will wait; And patience, tired bine eyes- Down the winding road by the gate. Under the willow shade. Stands someone with fresher flowers; So turn to your books again. And keep love for the after hours. Unmade Hay. We knew by the clouds to the eastward It was going to rain that day. And there was the whole of the meadow lot All spread with the fragrant hay. And the clouds grew darker and larger As the wind the tree-tops tossed, And, hard though I was worying. It seemed that the hay was lost. Mv farn. was a small and poor one. And the hay crop was alt 1 had. And 1 cottld not afford to hire a man, For the times were dull and bad, And matters were looking dreary For me that Summer day, When I heard a sweet voice behind me: "I will help you get iu the hay! 'Twas my neighbor's daughter, Molly, Who lived just across the road. And soft was the light in her down-cast eyes And the blush on Iter cheek that glowed". I gladly accepted the service she offered in friendly way. And there by my side that afternoon - She helped me gather the hay. % She was no fine lady feeble. Though her arms were pitimp and white. And she raked ail day with me, row for row Till the fall of the Summer night. And then, when we ceased our labors, And the hay was stored aws.y. From the depth of my heart I thanked her For her kindness to me that day. And I took her home to her cottage. But I didn't pause to woo, And 1 asked not her hand in marriage, Which I knew she thought I'd do. I left her there at the gate-way, Beneath the branches brown. And from her looks 1 know she was Tiie maddest girl iu town. THE DRY MAN. "Glorious country !" cried Frank Seagrave, as the outward bound steam er for Brazil glided into the smooth es tulay of the Tagus, and on either side of her arose the green, sunny hills and waving woods of beautiful Portugal. "And glorious weather, too," added Harry Fitzgerald. "Englishman though I am, I'm not as patriotic as Marry at's sailor,who getting back to England in the thick of a Channel fog after a twelve months' cruise in the Mediter ranean, growled approvingly, Ah ! this is what I calls weather ! None o' yer lubberly blu6 skies here !" "Yes, I think the poor Bay of Bis cay's been sadly maligned," said his cousin Jack. "We've been right a cross it from side to side, and yet "Not a spray All the day In the Bay of Biscay, O !" "We've been mighty lucky so far, sure enough," put in Cicil Vane, "and the ouly thiug wauting's a few young ladies." "Well, if that's your complaint, Mr. Vane," said the captain's deep voice from behind, "you'll soon be cured, for we're are just going to take aboard as nice a girl as you ever set .eyes OIL She's au old friend of mine, too ; the daughter of an old chum, Fred Forres ter, who's coffee-growing in Brazil now, and she's going to him from Lisbon. There'll be a pretty stir among you young fellows wheu Miss Lucy comes. I shouldu't wonder if she even put Mr. Clitheroe out of his course just a little bit." At this there was a general laugh,for Winthrop Clitheroe,the only American among the jovial party of five address - ed by Captain Barclay, had already, young as he was, seen and done so much that to surprise or startle him ap peared simply impossible. In any real danger be was the boldest of the bold ; but the moment it was ovsr he relapsed into cool, "don't-care-a-cent" compos ure which had already earned him the nickname of "the dry man." Miss Forrester proved quite as charming as the captain had said, and the effect of her presence was soon ap parent. Jack Fitzgerald, hitherto as careless of his dress as any Cossack, suddenly bloomed into an amazing dandy. His cousin Harry, whose first appearance was usually after the second breakfast bell, took to getting up surprisingly early, and pacing the deck like a senti nel till Lucy's pretty face was seen ris ing through the companion way. Frank Seagrave took to getting up appropriate scraps of poetry on the sly and bringing them in on all occasions, sometimes mixing them up in a very striking fashion ; while Cecil Vane who had somehow mistaken himself for MILHEIM, PA. THURSDAY, JULY 17., 1884. an artist, plumed himself upon his cleverness in cutting out; the rest by getting leave to take M\as Forrester's portrait, till, just as he was about to present it to the charming original, 1 e discovered with rage and despair that while his back was turned for a mo ment,wicked Jack had sketched a short pipe between her cherry lips, pouring out a volume of smoke worthy of Vesu vius. But although the captain's prophecy was correct thus far,he seemed quiet ;d fault as to Clitlieroe. The "dry man" went on his own dry way just as usual, seeming to trouble himself very little about Lucy or her admirers. True, lie appeared to le always on baud when a seat was to be placed for her, a shawl arranged, or a book fetched from the saloon ; but be rarely stayed to be thanked, and had seemingly much less taste for her society than for that of the sailois, with whom lie was im mensely popular. So matters stood when one morning Clitlieroe,to escape the "deck washing" which was cleaning ofl! the grime of the coals taken in at the Cape Verd is land, climbed up into the foretop, and, stretching himself at full length began to read, a move not lost upon his four comrades below. "Good chance to make our "dry man" a wet man—eh,boys V" whisper ed Jack Fitzgerald, glancing at the rig ging, and then at the hose-pipe, which the sailors had left laying on the deck. "Bight you are," grunted Seagrave, who was rather cross that morning, having found Lucy and Clitlieroe in such close conversation when he came cn deck, that he passed almost unnotic ed—"there, you hold the pipe, and I'll pump." But this mischievous design, like most other designs of the sort, recoiled upon their own heads. The jet of wa ter, striking against the planking of the foretop, fell back upou them in a perfect deluge, while the few drops that did pa.is between the timbers was ted themselves on the thick plaid upon which Clitlieroe was lying. "I say, this won't do, you know," growled Jack, shaking himself like a water-dog. "Hold hard for half a minute, while I go aloft with the hose. " Up the rope ladder he climbed like a cat, with the nozzle of the pipe over his arm. But the wary American was not to be caught so easily. Just as Fitzgerald came within arm's length of him, and gave the signal to io pump, Clitheroe suddenly stretched his arm over the edge of the "top," and seizing the pipe, turned it back right upon Jack himself, who was in stantly drenched to the skin, and so staggered that he all but tumbled down head foremost, while his discom fiture was greeted with a hearty burst of laughter from the crew, the captain, and, worse still, Miss Forrester her self. But, as if to blot out the memory of his mishap, the four cavaliers became more attentive than ever ; and Luiy, soroly puzzled what to do with them, asked the advice of her friend, the cap tain. "Well, my dear," said the old sailor "if you want to know which of them likes you the best, that's easily settled. We'll anchor off Pernarabuco to-mor row, and it's smooth water inside the reef, and no sharks about; just you manage to fall overboard somehow,and see who'll jump after you." The idea delighted Lucy, who was perfectly fearless,and could swim like a Fijian. Scarcely had they been anchored an hour, when a loud scre.iui startled ev ery one, and Lucy was seen falling from the binnacle into the sea. Her four courtiers instantly plunged after her ; but Clitheioe (who had seen too many real accidents to be deceived by Lucy's acting, clever as it was), guess - ed at once what was intended, and watched the progress of the sceue with quiet amusement. It was lucky for poor Lucy that a boat was so promptly launched to pick her up,for her four champions, in their eagerness to save her, seemed much more likely to drown her instead. But none the less was the experiment a failure, and the puzzle as great as ev er. "Oh, dear 1" whispered she to her counselor, "it's no good attnr all, for they all jumped together ! Which am I to prefer ?" "Which ?" echoed the captain, look ing with a broad grin from the drip ping heroes to the imperturbable Clith eroe—which ? Why the dry one, of course !" And so she did. A Western piper announced a rail road collision recently with tTie head ing, "Boiler Empty and Engineer full.' A Negro 'vigilance committee' of Richmond, Mo., ducked and thrashed a black man who had beaten his wife. A PAPER F()rf*nlE HOME CIRCLE rial sus, First almanac printed in 14G0. Envelopes were first used in 1839. The first steel pen was made in 1830. The first air pump was made in Ifr>4. Whalebone is worth ;$12,2>0 per ton. The first lucifer match was made in 1798. The first horse railroad was built iu 1626.' Gold was discovered in California in 184 S. The first iron steamship was built in 1030. The first balloon ascent was made in 1798.; Coaches were first used m England iu 1559. Minnesota has 7000 lakes within its borders. There are now 155 women students in the Boston University. Fifty-seven American women writ ers were born iu Maine. Switzerland hotel keepers haye a mutual protection society. Mrs. A. T. Stewart is 84 years old. She is the richest widow in the world. In Boston there are 20,000 working women whoso wages average ouly $4 to a week. The United States has become the fourth largest beer drinking nation in the world. A well which throws up a gas ilame four feet high has been struck near Los Angeles, Cal. The North Carolina State Exposition will bo held in ltaleigh from October 1 to October 2S. The catch of Penobscot River salmon has beeu very light this spring, and the tish run small. Decatur County, la., has a girl who captured and sold fifteen wolves during the last season. Some one has iaken the troubla to fi gure out that Americau hens lay 9,040,- 000,000 eggs a year. ft i 3 rumored that for the next few yeais very few expensive houses will be built by ricli men. A monument is proposed at Kings ton, N. Y., to Lieut. Chipp, who lost his life in the Arctic regions. Mr. Corcoran, the Washington bank er, is said to glory in the fact that his father was a cobbler. Four little girls under thirteen years of age turn out about I*ooo paper tor pedoes in a day in Boston. The largest county in the United States is Custer county, Jfontaua, with an area of 30,000 square miles. The erection of a nail factory to con tain one hundred nail mac]lines is con templated near Portland, Oregon. An organization has been formed in North Carolina for a homo for disabled Confederate soldiers of that state. In San Francisco all the day district telegraph work is done by women. Titey are paid from 840 to SGO a month. It is estimated that the money annu ally spent in this country for drink would take care of 5,000,000 orphans. The total number of separate farms in the Uni'ed States is 4,000,000, and their aggregate value is $19,000,000,000 Speaking o! gluttony, a medical writ er quotes the old saying that "Many people dig their graves with their teeth. A big whale captured by a New Lon don vessel brought in the following re turns: From whalebone $12,230, oil $3,490, total $15,720. "Red Leary," the burglar, who is serving a fifteen year's term in State prison, has just had $50,000 left him by an aunt in England. The Republicans of Maine nave num. inated all their present Representatives in.Congress for re-election. Holding the Umbrella. Mrs. Blank—Here is a funny item which says that a married man can be distinguished by the way in which be carries an umbrella over bis wife, care fully shielding himself and leaving hei exposed to the drippings. Mr. Blank—lt is not true, though. Mrs. B—No it is not. You never dc it. You were a great deal more awk ward at carrying an umbrella over me before we were married than you have been since. MY. B-Ali ! Mrs. B—Yes ; I had several bonnets and two dresses ruined by the drippings in those days. But you have become ever so much more careful. Mr. B—Yes, indeed. I liLive to pay for your things myself now. Short Talks With the Boys. A Little Advice about Carelessness in General and Taking Care of Things in Particular. BY M. QUAD. "Where's my hat ?" "Who's seen my knife V' "Who turned mv coat wrong Fide out and slung it under the lounge V There you go, my boy ! When you came into the house last evening you Hung your hat across the room, jump ed out of your shoes and kicked 'em right and left, wriggled out of youi coat and gave it a toss, and now you are annoyed because each article hasn't gathered itself into a eliairto be ready for you when you dress in the morn ing. Who cut those shoestrings ? You did to save one minutes' time in untying them ! Your knife is under the bed,where it rolled when you hop ped, skipped and jumped out of your pants. Your collar is down below the bureau, one of your socks on the foot of the bed, and your vest may bo iu the kitchen wood-box for all I know. Now,then,my way has always been the easiest way. I had rather fling my hat down than to hang it up; I'd rath er kick my boots under the lounge than place 'em in the hall; I'd rather run the risk of spoiling a new coat than to change it. I own right up to being reckless and slovenly, but, ah ! me! haven't I had to pay for it ten times over ! Now,set your foot right down and determine to have order. It is a trait that can be acquired. An orderly man can make two suits of clothes last longer and look better than a slovenly man can do with four. He can save an hour per day over the man who slings things helter skelter. He stands twice the show to get a situation and keep it, and five times the show to conduct a business with profit. An orderly man will be an accurate man. If he is a carpenter every joint will fit. If he is a turner his goods will look neat. If he is a merchant his books will show neither blots nor errors. An orderly man is most al ways an economical man, and always a prudent one. I f you should ask nie how to become rich, I should answer: "Be orderlv—be accurate." Now,about school. Nine boys out of ten look upon school sometimes in the light of a juvenile prison. They arc more than half right. The idea seems to lie to command a boy to-open his mouth and swallow as fast and as much as he can bite off, and many of the rules and regulations arc too cap tious to have come from sensible men. But, hark you, ignorance means vice —crime—degradation. The man with out education must make his muscles earn him a dollar a day, where brains would earn him five. The more igno rant the man the more naturally he becomes a law-breaker. Education will enable you to compete with capital. It will make capital for you. Only,if you were my boy I'd educate you in par ticular and not in general. I mean by that, that you wanted to be a law yer J wouldn't let you fritter two or three years in algebra,astronomy and the dead languages. If you wanted to become a doctor I wouldn't educate you for a lawyer. If you had a fancy to become a civil engineer I'd push you in algebra instead of colonial his tory. As the case stands in our schools to day every boy must study what one does. No two of them will probably follow the same pursuit in life, but all are thrown into the same hopper and the mill set going. Now about recreation. A boy who attends school live days a week shouldn't be set to splitting wood or hoeing corn on the sixth. The labor of going to school is just as hard for a growing boy as shoving a jack-plane is for a man. Saturday ought to be his own day and so acknowledged. Twenty-five years ago the father who could't find other work for his boy would throw down a fence and set him to rebuilding. The idea was to work him. No thought was given to the anatomy of a boy. Nobody seem ed to realize that his bones were soft, his joints easily put out ot order, and his muscles in such a condition that too much work must use him up. Find me a stiff-legged man, a bow backed niau, a lop-shouldered man, a man whose spinal column is out of plumb, and I'll prove to you nine times out of ten that he was overwork ed as a boy. Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance. A VISIT TO DAKOTA. Its Wonderful Rapid Settlement, Chances for Investments, etc. ll uiion, Dakota il/ay 31st, 1884. To the Editor: 1 have just got back to Huron from a tour through Central Dakota, and, with your permission, will giye your readers an idea of this portion of the Territory. Central Dakota comprises that portion of the Territory that lies between north latitude 43° and 46°, and is about 200 miles north and south by possibly 300 east and west. It was first opened to settlement by the building of the Chicago & North-Western Railway into it in 1880, and then coutaiued not one settler. In 1881 a few went in, in 1882 about 10,000, and in 1883 oyer 80,- 000, so that now nearly every quarter section of 'and in all of the organized counties is settled. The immigration of 1884 has been large, but its figures are not yet obtainable. The soil is ev erything that could he desired. It is rich, productive, and is believed to be lasting. In 1883 wheat through this area averaged about 20 bushels to the acre, many acres yielded 40 and even 50 bushels, which sold on the ground for from 93 cents to SI.OO per bushel, most of It being purchased for seeding in 1884 ; oats averaged 06 bushels, rye it bout thirty, barley over 30, flaxseed a bout 16, j>otatoes about 200, corn from 50 to 00 bushels, and every other pro duct in proportion. A ready home market was found for all that was of fered. I have talked with hundreds of the settlers, and all express themselves as being more than pleased. Thy are enthusiastic in their praises of the soil, climate, air etc., and 1 have yet to find one who is dissatisfied, or sorry that he came. Scattered all over the Territory are vigorous cities, towns and villages, all of which have the air of prosperity about them. Of course, there has been considerable speculation in "corner lots," and many of the places have been "boomed" beyond their deserts, but all seem to promise largely for the future. Columbia, Ordvvay, Aberdeen, Blunt, Frankfort, ltedfield, Huron, Pierre, Fairbanks, Mitchell, Plankington, Chamnerlain, Watertown, and many othei places could be mentioned as ex amples of rapid and permanent growth. Part of these are on the North-Western others en the Milwaukee & St. Paul, aud still others are on both roads. Two or three counties yet have to be organized, and when organized will of fer the fields for settlement, specula tion and rapid money making. Yester day, in traveling from Blunt to this place, I saw a new town baing laid out. It is eight miles west of ilighmore and seven miles east ot flarrold, or 732 iniles from Chicago. Ilighmore is in Ilvde county. This county has 22 con gressional townships, each six miles square, and consequently contains 756 sections, or about 509,000 acres, or enougty to make over 3,000 farms of 100 acres each. This county has been unfortunate in having a "county seat" quarrel on its hands, so that to-day it is unorganized and really has no county seat. I could not determine what side was at fault. One side blamed the Governor and the other the Ilighmore people; but it is not worth while discussing the past, and so the people seem to have deter mined, and have also determined to drop both the towns that have been try ing to secure the county seat, and pret ty unamiously have agreed to have the county seat fixed at the town 1 saw be ing laid out . It is to be called llolabird, and will be a station on the railroad, and being the county seat of Hyde county will certainly control the larger portion of the trade of the 3,000 farms that are already settled in the county. I am told that Hyde county has not a quarter section in it. If this is true, and 1 saw nothing to cause me to ques tion it, one can readily see that llola bird must have not only rapid growth, but a prosperous future before it. I mention this place and Hyde county merely to show your readers how these enterprising people get rid of their neighborhood quarrels and start new towns when old ones are illy placed, or are not satisfactory to the majority. I told that llolabird is in almost the geo graphical centre of the county. Ido not know and did not learn who owns the town site, how the lots are to be sold, their prices, or how they are to be purchased,as I hayer.o interest in those questions,for lam neither a land or lot boycr or seller, and am merely an inter ested looker-on. It is clear to me,how ever, that not only llolabird, but every other new county seat must have car penters, plasterers, stone and brick ma sons, blacksmiths, merchants and deal ers in everything the farmers wish to buy, and must offer inducements to the young men of the older States that they can not procure at home. I am too old to "pull up" and come here to settle, but hundreds ot your readers are not', and if they must leave their old homes, I can assure them they can not "go amiss" if they go to Cen tral Dakota. They and all should re member that gold is not picked up in the streets, and that farms are not to be had for the asking ; but they may be certain that they can get gold for their NO. 28. — " ,I N if #"'• NEWSPAPER LAWS. If subscribers order the discontinuation of newspapers, the publishers may contiuw to semi TJvein until all arrearape* are paid. If snbaerlhera refuse ur inflect to take their newspapers from the office to whleh they are sent they are held rospoualble until tky h*vo settled tlie hills and ordered them discontinued. If subscribers move toother places without In I forming the publisher, and the newspapers ar sent to the former place, they are responsible. I .. . . 1 ADVERTISING RATES. 1 wk. 1 mo. | 8 mos. ft mos. 1 year 1 Square * 200 *4 00 MOO *6*o SBOO Va " 700 1000 1500 9000 40 00 1 " 1000 15 001 2500 4ft 00 { 75 00 One inch makes a square. Administrators and Executors' Notices *2.50. Transient adver tisementsand locals 10 cents per line for first insertion and ft cents per line for each addition al Insertion. labor and a farm for one-tenth ,nay,one twentieth, of the labor that .one will cost east of Chicago. The grain crops in Central Dakota look splendidly at this time. Wheat, oats, barley and rye were sown in February and March,and are now from eight to fifteen inches high, stand thick and strong on the ground, and have an excellent and healthy look. Corn is above ground, but is too small yet to warrant one in even guessing what the crop may be. Respectfully yours, JOHN SHERMAN. The Press. How a Congressman Fooled a Literary Society. " Ben Hardin was a brilliant fellow, and he had a strong senso of humor/' says a Washington letter to the Cleve land Leader. When he was elected to Congress in 1815 he had already served several terms in the Kentucky legisla ture and was noted throughout the State as a lawyer. He started, howev er, for Washington, dressed in .the rough clothing of a frontier State, and he wore the slouch hat and long buff coat of the West. As he was passing through Virginia, two young, smart looking fellows overtoos him and fell into conversation with him.' HaMln at their first words saw that they took bim for a greenhorn, and they put ou such manners and ascent as to confirm their illusion. The meeting took place with in a few miles of the town where they were to stop for the night. In the course ot the conversation the young bloods told him there was to be a liter ary society meeting that night,and that it he would attend he might hear some fine speaking, and at this point one of them, slyly winked to the other, said "And perhaps, stranger, you will join in the debate yourself ?" "I don't know,'' replied Hartiiu. "I have spoken some in old Kentucky. What moight your question be The question was not new to bim. It was one of the leading ones of the day —a political issue upon which he was thoroughly posted. As old Ben Hardin heard it,however,he shook his head and said: "Boys, you will hevto excuse me o>; thet. I ain't up ou thet subject. Xow.if it was whether pursuit was bet ter than possession, or some of our old subjects, I allow I'd tackle it. But a bout this yere politics I don't know." After much persuasion, however, he promised the joung men that he would attend aud he "would say suthin' any how." The party separated at the ho tel, and the young fellows went off laughing at the fun they expected to have that night.They told their friends, and in a short time the whole town knew of the green Kentuckian's arrival and when the literary society opened every seat was filled. The exercises went off quietly until the debate com menced, when every one looked at Har din. He sat quietly until the close. The two young fellows made their speeches, and very fair ones, too. As the second one closed and Mr. Hardiu arose, each one in the audience nudged his neigh bor, and every face was ready to smile. Their expressions changed/however, as old Ben took up the subject and treated it most eloquently. lie tore ;to pieces the speeches of the young fellows who had tried to play the tricks on him, aud as lie was finishing the two were so bored that they g o7 up ancl left. H> re ferred to them as they went, and closed after an eloquent peroration by telling the society that he was a Kentucky member of Congress on his way to Wasbington. At this the society gath ered around him and wanted to shake his hand. He chatted with them for a while, and the remainder of his yisit was an ovation. The whole town came out to the hotel the next day to see him off, and the smart young fellows were the laughing stock of all. A few Answers. 'What is a sage V 'A sage, my son, is a man who knows exactly when to buy and sell stocks. We bury about a dozen per month in this country, but the supply still equals the demand.' . 'What is a successful financier V 'Why, a man who scoops $3,000,- 000 out of the bank he runs and drops the sugar in Wall street.' 'What is a philosopher V 'He is a chap who loses his wife's money in buying silver stocfc, but in creases his own by buying a deal in pork. 1 What is a financial prophet V 'He is a gentleman who states to kn interviewer on Wednesday that the times are prosperous and business sol id, and on Thursday fails for seven or eight million dollars' Five of the six murderers hanged on a recent Friday in this country de clared that rum bad led tbem into , crime.
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