SOT RKOWim
t IfiAfa rf ait eH'I tka'l ana!
biii mint 9 r mr
Ao4 o'er m h !. of D17 onward pt2k
L. mi l rn. to n.
Aud err . He tr. i Hi cou-ti ,
At lff. ami f.aj airpr.f J,
t fi'! a 'pVfira ai
A I trrad tn day. nf tt. yet".
Tit tba r,.t !l 'til! In tint kwptnj
T. ff.r mrcr .hall clear. ,
An 1 wbat link, dirk In tu Uituacf
Mjr brighten I dr nr.
For part ana tb drradad tut-jr
la I. b.uar tiita I think;
Tba I-oH tray iwee'.fn tbt wa'tr
hfor I avm.i t drink:
Cf If Jliaraa rauat bo Marah.
Le iU a.aa.1 boaldc tha brisk.
It may b tbr 1
For Ih.t comtrf of my fe
! oan 1 1 ft of t':cb rare blewlcejs, .'
boiu Jyto ttran.-tly await.
That ray lli 1 aa on'y tr.mb;
With tb thauka t taouot apeak.
Cb. rfol. hllfufal ffno-aoce;
' U b'ed ait to kn.iw:
t beep tn q-net in tnoK iru
W bicb wlh fi'tt let ma eo.
Aid no tirej ao.ii to rt
On tba boaum that leva, ma ao.
fjo I n. Bot knowln;.
I woi!d aot It I night:
would rather walk la tba dark with God
TLan t" a oca In tb iliih:
wouiu rather walk itb 11. 31 by talti
Tbao walk aloua b lht.
Mr kart brink back Inn the tria'.i
WLitu lb fulur ruay tiiacluaa,
Yat 1 Barer had a eorriiir
h'lt what tb rta- Lord rjha;
Cn I end tbe co:uiL taara bw.k.
Wufc tba wblnerd woroa, "Ha kcowa.
TWO DOTS.
TVl.n Ailibrl Dean died and lilt
fartiily uel.ti 11 nd credits wer locktd
into, it wni diacovered that tha credit
page wm ueailr po:Ie m the iheet
tlmt covrd Aihbel i ttiU form, while
moi teases for the full ralue of the farm
were recorded on the other side.
AM'el had bmn coniidered fore
lianded. Hi oeighbors laid he "ipecu
latod Wftt," aod were astouished when
liia death rerealed the fact that he had
sacrificed nil in nu endearor to rare eotne
khix'l of his financial reputation.
None were more urpried than his
own family. TUia included the widow,
and Amnnd.i ucd Iarael, twins, twenty
ytara old. They were quite crushed.
They ahrank from it as from the prod
' -oee of death the ftrt one in the
family. For day they dared not epeak
of it, but it waa al war in their thoughts,
At length the widow rouael her energies
and luuimoueJ her two children.
"We can aare the farm," ahe said.
"Mandy, you can kr-p the district
school; Israel and I will carry on the
farm. We uiuat all stand together,
no."
For twenty years they were possessed
of that one tliouht, ur0-J by that one
motive to par the debt.
They stood together twenty years, and
r.t the end of that time thy owed no
man anything. The mother looked
scarcely a day older. The work of di
recting had kept her faculties fresh and
vigorous. But son and daughter bad
passed from anticipatiae youth into
lulled middle age. The debt, unscrupu
ous and avaricious, had left them no en
oyment. It had roboed tUetu of life's
aost deirablo part.
When Amuuda was twenty she was
railed pretty. Gatherings had been in
coiiiplete "itliout her. After that she
never attended another. The attentions
of young men were refused. Now she
had become thin and sallow. She knew
she could hope for no return of love's
plaasuies. If a thought of marriage
crow ded itself upon her she shook it off
hs unwelcome. She could give up her
school low, and devote her time to her
home to her mother and brother.
And Israel was free. He took a long
braalh and stood up straight, easing his
galled shoulders of the burden they had
just cast off. Life suddenly looked pleas
Htit to hi 3. He would make aoms
needed improvements 011 the place. Tho
house should have a coat of paint. He
stood in the sunshine, and looking up
through the June foliage of the maples,
thought tbe seed pods looked like tho
legs of so many elfiu painters daugling
there painting tha sky. Then he laughed
at himself, and said that he must bt get
timr young and frisky.
When he was twenty he had inteuded
to marry. Now, at forty, he thought of
it again. When he ceaed his visits to
Harriet Downer, she had understood his
reason for doing so. She had had do.
company since then, he told himself, and
his heart gave a great bound at tha
thought Why should he not ?
One day he came to his mother and
Lister, and s.'iid bluntly,
"I am going to marry Harriet Down
er. "
There was silence for a moment, then
Lis mother said coldly,
"We know it."
Ey the tone and attitude Israel under
ttooU that his mother and sister would
jiot welcome the woman he meant to
riarry. He understood that they thought
t:e tie of twenty years to be as binding
us that of wedlock, and did not wish it
broken.
Only once after that Israel spoke of hit
marriage.
"I am to marry Harriet to-morrow,
Chnll you bo there?"
"No," his mother answered.
Kut Inrut! would keep his vow to Har
riot. The twenty years' struggle bad
cultivated in him the dogged resolution
i.e had inherited from his mother.
He mumed Harriet, aod after a week
1rought her home. But no ons appeared
I j welcome tliem.
"Moihtr!" he called, as ha went
ilinKi.'fli tho liuuso,
in two rt-mole rooms he found his
:;:ol.)ii'r and niistKr.
'Harriet : out here," he said.
"And eare hero; we shall stay hare,"
t.-.id his 1s10il.fr.
.jiut-1 i,i)'.:i: J about dazed. He remem
1 : r-l nf:er frd that he saw a stove,
tli pots nu I p itb uud dishes, and in tbe
ituT rjo:.i a bed, a table and chairs.
Vim tvo women had made all prepara
r for livii.ij by themselves.
And fii w.i the bride's home-comicgl
Vi fhi iiimii'id pair lived a happy life
lo.vtiipi'. i t.ml felt keenly the miser
i.LU lifo hid wife must endure, and
strove to alleviate it by every kindly at
tention iu his power, and she understood
his motive and resolutely hid all trace
of pain. Life for each was as tha other
made it.
There waa no communication between
the two parts of the house, and no mes
sac parsed, no visits were exchanged.
Thus for two years; then a baby was
bru. One day Harriet said to Israel :
"Take tho baby and go to your
mother."
He understood, and taking the child in
his arms, went and knocked at the door.
"Who is It?" hie mother's voice asked.
"Your son and grandson," ha replied.
There was a slight pjuse, and then
Amanda said :
" We are too btiay to see you. "
He returned, and laid the baby by hit
wife. She did not need to question him
by word or eye.
Two years more went by. One morn
ing Israel called his wife to come down
into the garden. He had some vegetable
wonder to show her.
"But I can't take the baby cut in tbe
de'." she objected.
"Leave him where he is. He'll do bo
harm for live minutes."
Then toddle, toddle away the little
feet kne the path that " as forbidden
them straight on through the unused
rasagiray to the door at the end. He
pushed aad shuffled against it in a baby
ish way.
"What's that queer noise at the door,
Handy?" asked Mrs. Dean.
"Sounds like a dog," said Amanda.
But when the door opened in tottered
a Lahy. triumphant, happy, eager. Every
line of his baby face, every curl, had
beeu graven on the widow's heart for
forty years, and it suddenly opened to
show her the likeness.
"It's Israel over agaiu!" she cried.
In a moment she was on the floor
carewsing the little one.
Blighted Amanda leaned on her broom,
looking at this strange happening. And
Israel and Harriet, hastening after tha
child, stood in the doorway witnessing
the first step in a reconciliation.
"Come to mamma, Israel, "said Har
riet to the child.
He looked laughingly at her over his
graudmolher's shoulder.
"Turn to mamma," he repeated, tak
ing a step and pulling at the widow's
finger.
The widow hesitated but a moment
between mother's love and hard, selfish
priile.
"I wil.," she said firmly. "And.
Mandy, put down your broom and come,
too."
Then, leJ by the little truant, alio
came toward Israel aud Harriet.
"My children 1" she cried.
Paepla ShaulU Net llatp Tegalhar.
Persons often ask : "Is it healthful for
two persons to sleep in the same bed?"
This same question is varied thus: "Is
it healthful for an aged and very young
person to sleep together? If not, which
suffers most, the aged or the young per
son?" We have often answered these ques
tions by saying no to the first question.
It U always uuhealthy for two persons
to sleep together in the same bed and
under the same covers. The air under
the bed covers immediately surrounding
the body of the sleeper is exceedingly im
pure, becoming more and more impreg
nated with poisonous substances escap
ing through the excretory glands of tha
skin from the momeut the person retires
until he Brines. The odor of the bed
clothlug, after having been occupied for
ft night, is often positively offensive to
the nostril of a person with au unim
paired sens of smell especially on who
hits just come in from outdoors, where
the fresh, pure air has been breathed.
The poisonous character of this under-the-bedclothes
air would be somewhat
more likely to affect the susceptible con
stitution of a child than that of an adult.
In elderly persons the amount of the im
purities in the air surrouuding the
sleeper must be greater than in younger
persons; consequently, while both per
sons would be more or less injured, the
proportion of harm would doubtlesa be
greater to the yotiug person thau to the
person of more advanced years.
Mr. Treves of the London Hospital haa
called attention to the fact that wounds,
especially of the lower limbs, heal much
sooner when exposed to the open air, in
stead of being oovered by bedclothing.
He remarks that the air under tb bed
clothing is foul and almost hot, and hence
likely to be very harmful to wounds
with which it may come in contact
Good Health.
It Breag-ht the Answer.
Among th stories of extraordinary co
incidences, not th least curious ia the
history of a letter. A short tits ago an
English lady wished to write to a friend
in America whose address she did not
know. The only means she had of pro
curing th address was to writ to a mu
tual friend, who also lived in America.
This she accordingly did, and th letter
waa duly dispatched. Th ship which
carried it was wrecked, and th mails
for a time lost. They were eventually
recovered and brought back to England,
th letters, now much damaged by sea
water, being returned through th Dead
Letter Office to the senders. Th letter
in question waa sent back to th lady,
who naturally examined It minutely. To
her surprise she found that another letter
had become stuck to It. Holding up th
two-fold missive to the light, she deci
phered the address on the on which
stuck to her own. It was a letter ad
dressed to th friend to whom ah
wished to write, and to discover whose
whereabouts her own letter bad been dia
patched. Her letter thus literally brought
back its own answer.
' Marriago is the strictest tie of perpetual
frieudHhlp; and there can be no friend
ship without confidence, nnd no confi
dence without integrity. Dr. Johnson.
He who is false to prosont duty breaks
n thread iu the loom and uiil find tbe
flaw when ho may have forgotten its
CUUM),
If our w hole time were spent inamus
Ui;( ourselves, we should find it mors
wearisome than the hardest day's work,
SOt'DASElE ROLDir.Rf.
II Taktt HoM rommandrr la Raatrala
Thatr Iinpatnoaliy.
The Soudanese true; aro vastly inter
eating. Tin jet-Mni-k creatures, reaem
Ming amiable goril'aa in face, of all
heights and only one thickness, narrow
liiprel, thin chested, with no backs to
their hea ls an I no calves to their legs,
are liked and trusted by their officers to
a remarkable extent Tli-re is little of
the Red India 1 in them ; they would not
fire into a sandhill or sUud still to be cu;
down.
The Dervish is their oppressor and
natural enemy, and they only desire the
opportunity to "get at him" at as cIom
quarters as possible. They are children
in their lore of deoor.t,iori and their
w hints and their devotion to their offi
cers. Ther are savage in their dislike of
discipline and their psainte Impa
tience of restraint on the battlefield.
Fcr this reason to keep them back
they have mr English n'.H -ers to a bat
talion than Egyptian troops. They de
test drill and blank cartridge. They are
euthtisius'.ic or,-r every rumor of ap
proaching f'uht.
I was told a delightful story of on re
cent action in which they toik a promi
nent pat. The enemy was uuder cover
not far off: but the firing line of blacks
were blazirg away at hint as fast as they
could o;eu and close up their riflias. In
vain their officers tried to stop them.
Hie watte of unituuuition threatened to
become extremely serious and their com
manding officer, a Scotchman who had
seen many rights with them, losing his
temper, r kIh up and do 11 behind th
line, cursing tbem with every abusivo
epithet in a fairly adwinat) v.Kabulary
of AnU : iuveclive. But eutirely with
out effect.
At l.tst oue of them happened to turn
and discovers I tho below J Bay iu evi
dently a very exitej state of mind. He
fit once rose, ran hack to him, aud, pat
ting him reassuringly 011 the Loot, he
saij, "Don't be frightened, By. It's a. I
ruiiL Were hero well take care of
you!"
The Scotch Bey, however, was equal to
the occaxion. He rode out through the
line, and wnl!cd his horse up nnd down
in front of the rifles. "Now," he said,
"if you mint Er, tire at me." After
this it is not surprising to read in dis
patches th.it this officer has twice re
cently had his horse shot uuder him.
Contemporary ileview.
IllfClbta Ad.lranaa.
When posting a letter it is an excellent
plan to read the address carefully, lest a
mistake has been made in writing it.
If people would cultivate a habit of doing
this, nine-tenths of the present errors
due to deficient or erroneous addresses
would be prevented. At a desk in the
museum rooms of the Dead Letter Office
at Washington ails a clerk whose dntv it
I is to deciphor illegible addresses and to
rectny me mistakes 111 tliem. To judgo
from some of the specimens shown she
must bring her imagination to bear ou
many of these blindly written directions.
If not, how could sha diviue that a letter
addressed "Seuatoriite, Washington,"
was intended for Senator Ryan, Wash
ington, D. C, ir that "Mr. James H.
under Wood no bnton Con Kan" waa
in ton ile J for J mes It. Undt rwood, Oear,
Brton Co., Kansas; "St. Tullia" fcr
Ceutralia, or "Clf Creek" for Buffalo
Creek ? Some writers are decidedly een
timeutal. for there is found "Beauxville"
for Bowlesville. Others are fond of
British rhetoric, aa "Eyewood, Hil
linoie," for Hijiwood, 111. ; and a largo
percentage are illiterure, as exhibited by
"John I. eads, opiaiteou, fonnceco.,"
for John I. Eads, Opposition, Liwrenco
Co.; "Saragordy Post Office" for Cerro
Gordo, "Seneki" for Seneca, and "Pagea
way" for Pndun. A letter recently re
ceived was addressed to "Dakota Terra
torr, Lock Box HQS. " This was mailed
before Diikotu had matured into State
hood. It waa found that Fargo was tho
only postofflc possessing a lock box of
tlmt number in the then territory, and
the letter was duly delivered. Probably
two of the most unique specimens of the
"un-Lost Art" are the followiug: "Mr.
Wilfred , New Haven, Conn. Please
di-lever this to the owner an I obledge, as
1 do not know the last part of his name.
He mails his letters iu the New Haven
Postoffice. This contains a letter that
belongs to this party. " Th other, of
which the person addressed could not
truthfully say after Drydeu, "The wel
come message made was soon received,"
read as follows: "Postmaster, please de
liver this letter to my son, who works on
the railroad. Ho drives a yoke of red
oxen and a railroad passes through his
place. " It would seem from these ex.
tracta that illiteracy is by no means at a
discount iu some parts of this country,
and that painstaking on th part of cor
respondents ia on the wane and far from
becoming a time-occupying pursuit.
Salwtlug With the Net.
Th junction of noses is so general, and
described aa ao forcible in Africa and
Oceanica, aa to have given rise to a fan
ciful theory that it had occasioned the flat
tening of the noses of the people. But in
the accounts of many of th tribes of the
Dark Continent and of the islanders of
New Zealand, Rotouma, Tahiti, Tonga,
Hawaii and other groups, tho essential
action does not seem to be that of either
pressure or rubbing, but of mutual smell
ing. It is true that travellers generally
call it rubbing, but the motion and pres
sure are sometimes no greater than that
of the muzzles of two dogs making or
cementing acquaintance. The pressuro
and rub are secondary and emphatic.
The juncture only means the compli
ment, "You smell very goodl"
It is illustrated in the Navigator group
when tho noses of friends are saluted
with a long and hearty rub and the ex
planatory words, "Good! very good; I
am hnppy nowl" Tho Calmucks also go
through a suggestive pantomime of
greeting, in which they creep on their
knees to each other and then join noses,
aa much as possible like th tw o dogs be
fore mentioned. In the Navigator islands
only equals mutually rub their noses.
The inferior rubs his own nose and
ouiells the superior's hand.
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