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I it leu tM tlesnu iho hirse and have worktnl him for thn yearsaiuce and ha, mt Iwen lame. Youra truly. Wil. A. CDRL. Oi!it5mirj, 3. T., ITor. 2, Da. It. J. Kexdau. Co.. KnoKbunrb FaMa, Vu OentM: In pralMof Kendall'-' Siaviu Cure I will any. thtayfiirai;' I had ;i iiualle t.uuu li.ii eoiiie vvry'lame, liiM-k eiilar-'il mill awt'l.-o. T..f horiemen alMiut berelwe have ni Vclrii,:iry Sur tteon bvrel pnMHMliuid Ilia koueuei. Itlm! spavin r ThoroO(--hpln, thev all told f. tln-n- im fur it. Im iK-eaiiH nU'Ut it. -'if.i. an.t I e.i tlilenit hhn alnnt orfl-Vss. A lr;,-'nl t fi.t nn of the nierita f your KtMlMrH &-;ivhi tin-.-, wi I bouk'ht a botile. unl leu;' I isr-e -rv .!und -n-at Improvements iiiinjJiai v f nmi:-ii-e,ii,i! :.-elri the tioctle waa uanl up I riiRM.ti. !!r I that St w.ul 1lriKbini airreal deal of I ixiii.-iii a seeoml botile and liefntu it wa, iiv-il up my linr m rairefl nd ba eTi In t: ei-;r.- i1.,n-.- heavy v-imIi a'l the season Him e l-it .iriJ, i a r no mora sinsoflt. 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I.oihIm i,'l nry.N.Yvii t.ih f. ... limaar, vu. )n. r .ii .Mfc. mm MiMh.lMil mm ran tm.-h y...iairfkl)r hww fur.ia) IVum t S IV a .lay m th mimtt, and , a. you go tmx. Bita .us all In aa n mt tarrxa. ,ua tan c.iiaim im-. at boa... sl.- all Tour tiui .liar. viumitdI. ouli lo Uia work. AM ia u.. t.mf a; M HI for v.rv wiirkw. W . atari . ... ernidiu.a; mibair. f.ASII.l, ll't: HILT kranMrt. I'Alll l lUk.1 tMI-.K. Adrfrraa at oiira. bii.Mx a te., raaiUMi, ma. 'I'HE FREEMAN Is the lanrest paper In North X Cambria, lion't lorftet it. dood revenue.' ef. v J av SAP0U0: 4 cleajiing nd behapp costa. mi A SONG OF REST. Oh: aing me a mini; tf errnlng, A hod of poa-.-i; u:h! ret. Wln-u, w.-ary xvi h u-k less flying. The Ud birUs s t-U tbe nest; Wli.-n the l imits of Burae arc lighted And tb so we lovt lraw nigh, , Anil overhead the kindly stars Arc sunliutf in the sky. The day has tn-rn dark r.nd dreary. The sh-Jowa f::ll t'.iiclt and fast. And my limbs ;:nd toy hnart are weary From truilm,' with tic bla-t; Anil now t;i 11k- shuiU-s f cveninfr Creep darkly Vr t di laniL I fi-h for a orcnthof m-uci; and rest Aud tho touch of a friendly hand. My thouffh's turn lac-k In the twilight To scenes 1 n, ;:issp:l away, AVhen. 're fro-n tho fir.ill of labor 1 wandered in e'ii'.di.-h play; I iee the vitic-tlu'l dMrway, Where eft try ci t her stood. And the thoniits of home I know no more Come o'er me like a flood. Then sin;;' me a pon of evening, Of pi :n-'ful love :mrt rest; I amwrary of uvlisi striving And I Ion ; f:r the sheltering nest. The rui';red stiiidows of evening Are inline all the land. An 1 I si'U fur a breath of love and rest And the tonrh of a mother's hand. Mortimer C. Uron n, in V'ankee Blade. TO THE CITY. And the Sad Home-Corn tng of k Wayward Boy. 0(xd-by to the oM farm!" "How so, my son?" askoil the grizzlj father, as the yonnfr man hunt' tht st-ytho on the tool-house raclc ' "I say good-by to plow anil furrow, hills, rocks, long hours of hard work and poor pay. I have chopped my last stiek of cord wood, hnsked my hist bushel of com. I ban"; up the scythe now forever. The great city shall give me a living:. 'Iut, my boy, the farm shall bi yours to-inorrow. Only frive mother and tne our bread, and that, too, not for louif." "I don't want it. Sell it, give it away. I'm done," hotly exclaimed the youiifr man. as he wipcl his beady fore head with his tawny hand. "John, listen to reason. It has Wen a scorching summer but we have near ly finisht.il it. You think these people who roll by here in the monntn in stages every day have tilings easier than we. I tut this is their vacation. All these lino gentlemen work like slaves the rest of the year, and the eity giris with gay ilresscs and white hamls " 'I ti ll you, father, I'm done. Don't argue it." "Hut to leave the farm leeause destiny calls, lK-eause one is fitted by ti'Juoiitioa, by nature for other avocations or le cause one sets an opening is well enough. T. go to the city, however, fr fl'e hiitj sake of go':n-r 1' the rity John, yon nr. a fool. Whut will yon d for bread It doesn't grow on street lamps." It was all in vain to add wonts. The haying was over; t!v? limit of endur wivc the young-MMtp had fixed ia mind all mi uiii.t through, as many an evening he had el:mli-..d the stone wall, mu-.in in the du .t of passing coaches whose laughter peeled forth upon him like a song of sirens, or stillenly an swering the frolicsome pedestrians who paused upon their alpen-stocks to ask how much farther to the Tip-top house. It was not far, and of evenings when the air was still, down through the great hemlocks came strains of be witching mnsic startling the sheep In this high pasture, and yearlings from tlieir browsing, and startling the heir of all these herds as well. It was not so last j'car, this strange discontent; it was never so with hi in lc fore; though born tinder yonder red, low-roofed, old dwelling, as were all his fathers; though the window of his birth-chainlxT looked out upon the niouiitain caravansary, whose cool splendors thousands yearly came to see. lut he was eighteen now. It is step ping into a new world to become eighteen years old. lie was c'ghtceu, and the only child alive; generous, willful, pampered, of robnst health, anil by no m.-ans an Ar cadian saint, though living amid the so called innocent country hills. As he reclined upon the roadside wall, there was yet something nlxmt him very en gaging. The open countenance blush ing in the settling sunlieams, the full brow and quick, dark eye. the broad chest nnd stout limhs of a" perfectly formed and handsome animal. Hut the human animal can dream, picture, plan and ponder with power of mind that no other animal possesses. John was the last fellow who should have gone to the great town. Of warm affections, conscience, he had none. hat pleas ures and gratifications did his vivid im agination sketch upon the evening sky, away southward, whitherward lay the vast city, miles aud miles down? Farewell the broad rough upland, with familiar btone heaps dotted over; the upier bam whuro he had "broken" many a wild colt and called it his own; the white gahle of his neighlxr whith er the path across lots ran, trodden by his bare feet almost since then first steps; farewell the school house at fonr corners, the .sweep nnd stretch of fairest landscape under the sky, set in the distance with the spires of vil lage churches far down the valley. The home of many blessings, and a shad owed face at the window leaning on an old hand in the twilight gloaming; for father had been in and told the story, and the two old ones were powerless against tho young, imperious resolu tion. He in reverie, they in pondering deep; not how they shall coax a living from the old farm, for they would rather the time had come to die, and cease the strife of a life rent with gap ing graves into which strong sons had ' sunk one by one and left them only one, and he more cruel than their other sorrows: poudering how to prevent the ills of paosions never yet controlled by tlieir Saviour's strong and gentle hand; foreseeing much and fearing more; for they were ignorant of tlu; city. too. He in reverie, buildinggaudy castles of a 'good time coming, and he free to drink to his fill; in reverie till the stars came out above the mountain pines. They in prayer together for him, in the chamber where be was lv.rn. nnd what more could they do, having given him up to (Jod? After all, it was not a very joyous" departure that Monday morning; in the September glory. The boy could not quite exult as he had anticipated. The mother, with her last few tokens uf love that can never cease to care for its own; tokens wrought with clumsy, eager fingers, and homely with te Tt.vle of thhill CUU..HJ. and the last tremlu.ng em brace. The father silent as they jegged to the village station, as if his great heart halted midway bet ween his love and indignation. For it was a fool's errand, was it not? A headstrong in clination to desert a g-jod home and its duties for a whim- Ifut his boy had not rr.ti a way at least, and he would speed him to short folly and to quick and sure return. Even the dog protest ed: and believe us, it touched the oy's heart most of all, as with frantic skurry be I1a3-1.il the train awar. Well, well, the great town opened its arms and took the young man in, as the myriad lamps of night laujhed and winked at his conceit, twinkled and win kil and joined hands down the long Ixiulevards of darkness, till they seemed to change to fiery serpents with many a. coil hissing. "Here comes an other. What shall we do with him?" And now the dull roar of the streets gave answer: "We know what to do with him." To all of which the boy re plied: "Have I not nx'.d all alout it? I shall know what to do with myself. I come to prey, not to be preyed upon." Hut it must be confessed again that one is not quite so confident, standing in the actual presence of the vast me tropolis, as among the mountain paths, looking thitherward. The city opened its jaws ami tixik him in. It is not for us to tell all that the city did with the aimless and pitiful fool. He was not without a welcome. Many welcomed him. He was strong, and could give much strength away. His veins were full, and it took many moons to suck them dry. lie was mountain fed. and his fat wasted slow ly. 15ut the vampires were many, the fires were kept burning, and God's laws were enforced. We saw the end this summer. It was in this wise. We were riding down from the Tip-top house as the sun went down, and sat beside the loquacious driver. As we stopped to untng the wheels in a farmhouse yard, an old man sat by the wall, his white hair roseate in the day's farewell, and un utterable sadness in bis fine old face. A few neighbors loitered about the tidy gateway, and a cheap crape knot fluttered at the dxr beneath the porch. A death here, driver?" "Just the same as elsewhere, sir." And we were silently attentive at his reply, while he went on to explain. "You see. sir, the city had him about a year. He hail a good time; too good. The doctors wrote from the hospital. His father went after him. They thought the mountain air would revive him. Hut the f-xl hath said in his heart there is no Gixl. and " "Aud driver, the city ground him up anil spit liimo"." "Yes, sir. 1 hey have the tools to grind men with down there. I reckon." We rattled on down the same stony highway traversed by the Xew Eng land loy one little year before; and we bunted to whisper his story, as a warn ing, to a youth whom we know of in a happy country home. Heaven bless him as he reads. Ilarkley Harker, in X. Y. Weekly. CONVIVIAL ANIMALS. A Squirrel That Imbibed Too Much Strong Liquor. "Having read recently a very inter esting article alwrnt 'Four-footed Fun makers.' " said a gentleman. "I won der whether any naturalist has ever made a special study of -tlu nuinlrer of qu:$drupcls and birds that will freely iml.il,. alcoholic liquors. I have fre quently seen it stated that enormous doses of whisky arc administered to elephants ufUicted with I nng troubles, j and I infer that the huge creatures rather like that kind of medicine, j "Crows are said to become grotesque- ly Intoxicated when whisky-soaked ! grain is scattered for their benefit by ' farmers who desire to wring their ; necks. I occasionally read of saloons in which a dog, goat or some other ' animal (besides the human) is exhib ited as a confirmed tippler. Indeed, un less the goat is grossly libelled, he is a depraved and chronic toper. "I want to spin yoa an authentic yarn about a pet squirrel that I owned some years ago, and that acquired a voluntary jag on one occasion, but never again. Kenny had the freedom of the house most of the time, and a big, fat, prankish fellow he grew to lx. A favorite position of his was toacud die in the outer breast pocket of my own or my broth cr's coat, and peer over the edge at a party of us playing whist or cribbage in the dining-rtxjm. his roguish black eyes sparkling as if he understood it all. "One Saturday evening, just as some nice new ale was served. Master Ilenny must have lieeu extremely thirsty, for out he frisktd upon the table and calm- ly proceeded to drink from the nearest glass until he was satisfied. For a youth of his size he drank pretty co piously, too. Shortly afterward he was put into his cage for the night. "Next morning when I approached his cage he did not jump up nimbly as usual to greet me, , but lay lazily in a corner and yawned, yawned, yawned, once and again rubbing his ears with bis paws. It was as plain a case of 'head and remorse as I ever exper I mean, witnessed. About noon time he began to brighten up, and was soon as frisky as ever, but thenceforth until he died the very odor of alcoholic beverage would send him skipping away. One dose cured Benny." X. Y. Telegram. IXcllne of the Banjo. The professional manicure Ls lament ing the decline and fall in Xew York f the banjo, which truly delightful in strument sent many a bright dollar in her direction, llanjo playing is ruin to the finger tips. It makes them sore at first, but after a few weeks of practice they liocomc hardened and equally un lovely. That little airy flip of the fingers across the st ring that'looks so pretty is trying on the nails, and hang nails often Ix'come chronic For the re lief of all these ills girls were wont to appeal to the manicure with gratifying regularity. Now, however, mandolin playing is the proper thing, and the . little steel thimble worn is ample pro tection for the most delicate fingers. There is a certain romance about tlu mandolin that the banjo never had, und fur evening music on a piazza or a yacht Its possibilities are louuiLlciS It ( am In Her treama. l.urglar (flashing his dark lanlcrnl Wake up, here! Don't you make no : noise., nuther! Where's j-er vallybles? Elderly Maiden Lady (moving un- . easily in her slumbers) Why, Airier- liou, this is so sudden, so so uncspect- I ed' Chicdgo Tribune. -. j JOE'S MELON SCHEME. 1 ! now a Very Selfl3h Boy Was Taught an Important Leaf""-1 oe came into the little sitting-rootn where hi two sisters were sewing, and threw himself down on the lounge with a- force that made the springs tr-ak. "O Joc'yiin're on the shirt I've just fini.-.hed," cried Jane. "(let up. there's a good lxry, and let me get it from un der you." "Hot her your old shirt." said .Tie. 'lt won't hurt it to be crushed a little. You're always so fussy, Jane." "Liut " " ' "Oh, don't worry me. I've come in to tell you and Ella about a scheme I have. It's a iirst-cliiss one. Weren't you saying yesterday that we bad more watermelons Ihim we could ever use, and you wi.-hel there was a market near enough to send them to?" "Yes. I did." said Jane. "It seems a pity to let them go to waste." "Well, there's a big excursion com ing up on Saturday from the city, altout six hundred, I believe. and they're going to stop at Ocean Keach. Everybody km ws bow fond eaceursion i ts are of meloius aud so here's our shsince." "I don't see it exactly," said Ella. "Then you nre uncommonly stupid. What 1 propose to do is to ask old Mrs. Sid-.lcll to let us put the melons on sale at her store: it can't injure her trade any, as she never sells fruit, aa 1 she likes to le accommodating. Can't you go over and see her this afternoon. f: e? I'd go myself but I promised Jack Collins to meet him at two o'cUx-k to talk over our next baseball match." "I am so anxious to finish mr dress," said Jane. h. -itatmgly. "Never mind alniut your dress. What docs it matter when you get it done? You're not suffering for it." "It's dreadfully warm .out." said Jane, "but if you'll saddle Prince for me" "I turned Prince out to pasture not half an hour ago," interrupted JiKi. "I didn't think we'd need him again to day." "It wouldn't take very long to catch bim." "Just try it and see," laughed Joe. "1'rlniv isn't as dull as you think! And as for racing him around that big pas ture fr an h r.r or two, why, it's just out of the question. No, you'll have to walk. Jane; I'm awfully .sorry, but there's no help for it. And the Manner you start the Ix-tter. And while she's gone. Ella, you count the mt-lons. I want to know how many we can seniL IM do it myself if I weren't ia such a hurry about going to Jack Collins"." "I'll go in and tell grandma alxut the watermelon scheme," said Jane. "She might not like to have us settling things without asking her consent." Hih, she won't care." said Joe. "We plantetl the melons, and we've got a right to them." "Well, anyhow I better ask her," and Jane went into the adjoining bed room, where old I Irani! mot her II ay ward was knitting. She listened in silence to tne proposition to sell tne melons. "Do as yon like," she said briefly, when Jane had. finished. So Jane put on her big straw hat, and taking an umbrella started for t Ocean Ileach. The sun was very hot. I and she was tired out when she reached ! Mrs. Siddcll's little store. Hut the was j successful in her mission; for Mrs. Sid I dell was quite willing to put the melons : on sale. "They'll go off like hot cakes," she , said. "If the excursion trains get to j coming here real often I'm going to start to selling fruit myself. Hut you ' can have this chance and welcome," J Jane thanked her, and started home again. There was nothing to keep her ' in Ocean Heach It was a small place, : composed of half a dozen houses a dilapidated summer hotel, three stores and a life saving station- People had just begun to find out that there was a fine beach there, and within the past three months a railroad had extended a branch to the place. There was an inland town half a dozen miles away, where Jane and Ella did all their shop ping. "You look worn out," said Ella, when her sister cauie in. "I have a fearful headache," said Jane. "Did you count the melons?" "Yes; and I have a headache, toot The sun was fearful in the melon patch. I think we can send about one hundred." "We'll know better than to plant so many next year." said Jane. "You know it was Joe who made us plant so many," rejoined Ella. "He said he had never bad enough melons in all his life." "Well, if we can dispose of them I shan't care," said Jane. "It'll take two trips to get them all to Ocean Ileach." said Ella. "The wagon won't hold more than fifty or sixty." The next day was Friday. Joe came into dinner fairly beaming with good nature. "We're going to have the biggest baseball match of the season this after noon," he said, as he sat down, and helped himself generously to ham and eggs. "We're going to play the Blue Stockings at Shelby's MilL" "But I thought you were going to pick the melons this afternoon, Joe!" cried Jane. 'Well, so I will if I get back in time." said her brother. "If I don't you girls will have to do it." - The girls looked aghasL "And carry them to the wagon?" gasped Ella "Yes; that won't be anything to do. It'll be good exercise for you. Oirls are always so afraid of a little work." "Hut melons are so heavy, Joe," "Well, what if they are? You needn't try to carry more than one at a time. But very likely I'll be back by half past four or five. I'll do my best, of course." " He finished his dinner, donned his baseball suit, and went off whistling, the picture of youthful vigor and happi ness. i The girls sewed until half-past four. Then Jane folded up her work, and covered the machine. "We'd better go at those melons Ella." he said. "Yes, I suppose we had," and Ella sighed. At seven o'clock Joe came bounding in. "Hurrah! We beat 'eair' he bhout eiL "Won two WIls and a bat. They mirle onlv on? bom' run. They couldn't get on to our pitcher, somehow. We re going to lay them out again next week. They say they want their revenge, llcllo! Isn't supper ready yet?" "We're going to get it now," an swered Ella. "We've just romc in from the melon patch We've Ijecn working ever since half-past four, and stopped only bmgenough to get grandma some thing to eat at six." "Been at the melons ever since half past fo-.tr!" cried .lix. "We I. 1 must say you took your time over il! I guest you talked more than you worked." "We had to cut all the melons, and then carry them one at a time to the wasron and the shed," said Ella. "My back is almost broken I km?w that," said Jane, "And I'm so stiff that I can hardly move around." added Ella. "I'm awfully sorry," said Joe. 0 course I'd have come home and done i all myself if I could have got away But wo had to play nine innings, an then we had a short practice game." "Well, never mind it now," said Jane, "Only get up early in the morn ing, so as to get the melons to Ocean Beach by seven o'clock. The trains get in at nine." "And you'll have to walk Frinee all the waj, and there'll be two IjuiIs," said Ella "All right, I'm willing to get up if you'll wake me, I can't wake myself, you know that." But when at four o'clock the next morning Jane stole softly to the door , of her brother's room and raped, Jim declared he could not get up. "I'm so stiff I can hardly move," he said. "I hadn't played ball for so long that yesterday's game has used me up. I can't go to Ocean Beach. Jenny. It's out of the question. You know 1 would if I could." "Hut, Jos, the melons must go some how." Well, can't you or Ella take them in? You can drive just as well as I can." ''But they have to be unloaded at the store." "Hot a lxy to help you. There are always lxvs hanging a round ready for a job. Oh. dear! how my lames ache! Tell Ella she'll have to milk Clover and Brownie this morning, anil one of yon must feed Prince. Oh, and Jane, tell Ella please to send my breakfast up, and if she'll make me some wattles I'll do as much for her some time. It seems to me that waffles would go to the right spot this morning." Ella harnessed I'rhiee and hitched him to the wagoa, and by live (clock poor Jane was well on the road to Ocean Beach. When Jix was waked at half-past seven bv Ella's coming in with a trav holding his tireaufast, lie Heard with pleasure that Jan had just left with the second-load of melons. "Jenny's a regular brick!" be said, enthusiastically. "And you're an other. EU.i. for making such delicious watlles. Did you milk Clover aud Brov nie'.'" "Yes and put them in the pasture." i "It's a shame you had to do the milk ing; but then, it's just as well. 1 guess, for you to learn bow. I might be laid up this way any time," It was seven o'clock in the evening when Jane reached home in an empty wagon. She looked completely worn out. Joe, who bad been lying in the ham mock cm the porch all day, went to open the gate for her. His stiffness was gone, and he looked in the best of spirits. "Did you sell them all?" he asked. 'Yes. every one." "What did you get for them?" "Sixteen dollars and thirty cents." "H'm- Seems to me you ought to have sold them for more'n that. But I suppose you did the best you could. Hand over. It'll take ten dollars at least for that summer coat I've been wanting so long. And I need a new knife and some handkerchiefs. I'll go to Shelbyville next week n buy out the town." "But aren't you going to give Ella and me some of the money, JoeJ" "How much do you want? It was my scheme, you know." "Well, we both need new hats aw fully; and we would like to get them Ik fore the picnic next week." "Well, hand the money over, and I'll see what I can do, I don't see what j-ou girls want of new hats; the ones you " "Joe," interrupted a cracked voice from a rear window of the house; "don't you that money. You're not to have one cent of it." Joe let the hand he had extended for the roll of bills fall to his side, "Why. it was my scheme, grandma. The girls would never have thought of it at all." he said, grumblinply. "Your scheme or not. the girls did all the work, and you shan't have one cent. It's time you found out that I'm not blind to your selfishness." "But we're willing to give him one half of it, grandma," said Jenny. "Your willingness has nothing to do with the matter. I forbid you to give him even one copper. Divide it with Ella, and spend it as you choose. I'm not afraid of your wasting any of it; you've earned it too hard for that." Jenny got down from the wagon and went into tbe house, and Joe led the horse around to the stable, feeling that fate bad been very unkind to him, and his grandmother very unjust. He had not imagined that she had taken any interest in the melon scheme, "The next time I have a scheme of that sort I'll keep it to myself," he grumbled, as he put corn into the horse box. "I won't be tricked a sec ond time. They can make up their minds to that." Florence B. If alio w ell, in Examiner. Somthili New In Kn eland. One of the recently-deceased mem bers of the Royal academy has defied a long-established precedent and. be queathed a double portion of his estate to his daughters, leaving his sons, even the adored eldest son, with less gen erous provision. The usual pleasant and convenient custom in our mother country is to devote the family income to sending the boys to a tirst-class school, and later to establishing them in life advantageously, and, finally, to leave the poorly -educated girls practi cally destitute at tbe death of the father, that the property may go the sons; in all of which may be detected decided suggestiveuess of the custom prevalent in some barbaric countries of killing nearly all of the babies at birth which are unfortuuate . nongh t i Iv (.'iris. THE OLD COFFEE-MILL. Jut at the hour uht n r :.:m:lcrr Vi'skis liis han-tn uitu luty -rr.r, I turuns my tdllow i.nd st-tn u hear A ut-lcone: s..uad from tho wor.d In-low. II is net the cliirp ol af e. rly lid. Nor the p:i-ini? n.i:i:rian v.!.or -is thrill Vhosi boMi-: , -:;.l in tr.v ' -aM i.enr.t. Hut -.!.e in!i,ie:il rrir. I . 1 I::.- ! mill. M;n:r!';d "ii" w r's st.icru: - i-i- .ir: -Ii's-tiuii- lo-p'-t up now, Whliiiin. dear." It 1'wr.yi f.unj: by the chimney w ide "O 'roiuiil. -.'r umi1. f.-roMTi'l e-'r-o-u-n-d ;" Time :-a.l wear anil rust it il.-lii-.l 1J round. K-'roimd. k- round c 'r-o-u-n-d ;" . It tnns c Kilcnced the crlci's note "O-'roun L p "round, r "r "in '. ? r o u n-d;" Iti friierar.rc tii-Uled each tVir-'y throat -t .-'rourd. s-'routid. u 'ro'irid c r u n d :" The hand that turned it. t urin-l v. i'.U a v. ill. And inceue pround from the o.d coifoc- inill. O. years that ar iorir eomr ai'nin ! And tind in my j.itlov.' a i-os' -i. a lre:im; Talce out of my heart this sn:;:r'i:j;.- jiaiii Make a'l thln-rs rr-n'.'.y, what ., v ts,-y seem: Hri:iB the eye1; that had never learard t.j v -.;. Ilrinj the slumber that 1. Id lae at i ar.y dawn. Awake me. as then, from swo -t br-vili tdcep To Wfi d the c;e or ho- the enrti. To tbe tune of father's "flit up t'.iar. Hdi:"' An the r.iytluu aad rhyme of the i:d coffee mill. Mrs. M. L. K:iyn- ln I -tr .it Fme Press. THE U. S. MINTS. Something About tho Process Coining Honey. of It is quite natural that the United States mint should have many visitors. It amuses one. the manufacture of money, and even the hardened million aire or the passionless cashier of a sav ings bank is lxund to le impressed by the fine saug-froid of the maidens who sit at the coinage machines, their laps heaping fall of the precious plankets, and handle gold and silver as coolly as though they were shelling peas. Yes. it is well worth while to come to Philadelphia just to see them. You lind the mint on I'hestnut street, just liclow Broad, a rather squat, but. striking structure of white marble, with a Orccian facade. The first building erected ir the L'nited States for public use. under the authority of the federal government, was one for the l'nited States mint- It was a plain, brick building, on the east side of Seventh street, near Arch, and the comer-stone was laid by the great David Kittenhcuse, director of the mint, on July 31. 17.i The following OctolxT ojicrnt ions of coining lxgan. On the mh of May. I''!", an act was passed by congress bx-ating the United States mint on its present site.' The first coinage was of silver half-dimes, in OctolxT. 1702. The first metal pur chased for coinag' was six pounds of old copper, at one shilling and three pence per pound, which was coined and delivered to the treasurer in 17'.:;. The first deposit of silver bullion was made on July IS, 17M4. by the Bank of Maryland. It consisted of 'coif's of France." amounting t-sn.-715.7.5,' . The first return of gold coin age was on July :!1. 17!""i. and consisted of seven hundred an.l forty-four half eagles. Over forty thousand persons visit the mint in the course of a yesr. Owing to the immense amount of the precious met als which is always in course of transi tion and tne watchful care necessary to a correct transaction of business, the public is necessarily excluded from some of the departments. The system of surveillance adopted in the mint is so precise and the weighing so accurate, that the attraction of the smallest partieks of metal would lead to almost immediate detection. All the gold and silver received for coining is first weighed. The largest weight used in the deposit-nxim i., live hundred ounces the smallest is the thousandth part of an ounce. The scales are wonderfully delicate, atid are examined and adjusted on s.lternate days. On the right of this room is one of the twelve vaults in the building. Of so'id masonry, several of them are iron-lined, with double doors of the same metal and most complicated and burglar-proof hx-ks. It is estimated that about fifteen hundred million dollars worth of gold has been received and weighed in this room, probably nine-tenths of the amount being from California since its discovery there in the year lMs.. Pre vious to that time the surplus of gold came principally from Virginia. North Carolina and tJeorgia, During the past ten years considerable quantities have been received from Nova Scotia, but most of the gold that reaches the mint at the present time comes from Califor nia, Montana, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Dakota, Virginia, South Carolina and New Mexico. For merly the silver used by the mint came principally from Mexico and South America, but since the discovery of the immense veins of that metal in the ter ritories of the l'nited States, the sup ply is furnished from the great west. The copper used comes principally from the mines of Lake Superior, the finest from Minnesota. The nickel is chiefly from Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. After tbe metal had been carefully weighed in the presence of the depos itor and the proper officials, it is locked in iron boxes and taken to the melting room, where it is opened by two men, each provided with a key to one of the separate locks. There are four fur naoes in this room, and the first process of melting takes place here. The gold and silver, being mixed with borax and other fluxing material, is placed in. pots, melted and put in iron molds, and, when cooled, is again taken to the deposit-room in liars, where it is re weighed and a small piece cut from each lot by the assay er. From .this the fineness of the whole is ascertained, the value calculated, and the depositor paid. The metal in its rough state is then transferred to the refiner. The two essential tilings regarding every piece of metal offered in pay ment of any dues are, first, the weight or quantity: next, the fineness or purity of the same. The process of weighing even the baser metals used in coining must be conducted by the careful use of accurate scales, with precise notes of the results. In precious metals gold, silver and their high grade alloys a very small variation in the fineness makes a great difference from a neigh bor that there was trou ble at the jaiL A mob was clamoring for the prisoner, who had leen tried and convicted by J udge Lynch. George told me to fasten the doors and I would be safe enough, and catching his bat he went off to see if he could help maintain law and order. Left alone, the bouse seemed dull and eerie. I sang all the old hymns over and over and tried to make m-s?lf fe-.l that I u.is not afraid, but as the tuiiight fade. I into the darkness and t!ie:i into- late night, I acknow ledged to myself that I was very much iriraid. 1 t :i'i'i.i't of all the mysterious rob-Ix-re" t iial had happened so recently. Tie y had always been jx-rpetratcd in cvcidng. or th- early hours of the i.i'ht. No gliiupM of the robbers had cvef been obtained. Silent as death, th y had e line and gone. .Vsii'hT noise at my elliow startled me gi-.-atly. I turned an 1 saw Carrie, "How yt-u frightened lae! Why, I was li t -.ziing with all my ears and never beard a sound. How did you co.'H' in?" "j!y the side door," she answered, in her n-.'.iul low voice. I noticed tnut she ha-1 li r i.::t and shawl still on. "Dilyoitg.i over t the town? Are they having any trouble at the jail?" I inquired. 'I don't know. I arn in great troiil 1.'. I I have had a telegram and mu -t go home at once. Will you give me the money that is due me, and let me g. in time to get the eastern train, if 1 can".'" "But, t'arrie, there is no money in the houe. I cannot pay you." "There is. You will lind it in the tin 1mx where Mr. llaymond keeps bis papers, and t'.iere is a grcut deal mora than 1 need." "Oh, then you have seen him?" I said in much surprise. "Of course if the money i.- there 1 will pay you, but this is very sudden;" aud 1 asked her to light one of the lamps in the room. She was trembling with nervous ex citement and breathed rapidly. "It will not be safe to light a lamp, as it might attract attention." The hall lamp was burning faintly and I went upstairs. 1-diowed by Carrie. Sure enough there was a large roll of money in the tin box. It had not liccn banked as was George's custom. - I straeV a match .and Carrie held it as I counted out ti.e amount due her. As she had never drawn her wages, there was quit,- a sum coming to her. 1 won dered in my own mind that George had not written me a note instead of tell ing the girl where the money was. but then we both trusted her, und sIk; was in trouble! Striking a second match. I turned to hxk at her, when she promptly tilevv it out, I caught one glimp-.u of her face under her veil and saw that it was very much flushed. Suddenly she caught my hand, and pressed it to her lips. "GihkI by, iny dear mistress," she said, dramatically, "you have been gixxl to me and some day you w,llkuow that I have not lx-cn ungrateful." She wa gone so instantly that as I stivod there I heard a faint footfall on the walk beneatn and Hurried Uown to lix;k the door after her. I bad all sorts of imaginations and many tremors anil it was a grcut relief when at midnight George came iu quite jovial. "Well. here's a go," he said, "Where's Carrie?" "Carrie? Why didn't she tell you? ;sne s gi :ie li. uue. "Were you a i raid of her?" "Why should 1 he.' Mi alx'tit the telegram and the tol 1 me money. I couldn't have paid her, though, if vou had not informed her when tho money was." "Are you talking in Sanscrit. Myra?" "George! I believe you have been drinking!" "Well. I like, that After working five hours to save a man's life to be outwitted bv a woman and accused of " "No, no. I didn't mean that. Hut Carrie came here at:d said you told her b'Iiito you had put some money, and I paid her, and she is gone." "Did you look at her? Din you au her face?" Ccorg. was greatly excited. "Let me tdl you." he contiau 'd. lw fore I could speak. "W hen 1 went down to the jail there was a mob there, and I tried to talk to them, but it was no Use. They were mas'.-ed and armed and not one of them spoke a loud word. They battered in the doors and found the man they wanted. They dragged him out anil the cap he wore on his head fell off and the long hair of a womau streamed over his shoulders. Myra, it wax the girl Carrie. She saw me and appealed to me. and they let her go. Sin had changed places with the man and saved his life." "Changed places with bim? Our Car rie? What was the man to her?" "He was her husband." "But she was here at ten o'clock, I tell you." "She was not here unlss she came in a man's clothes!" "George!" "Yes?" "It was her husband. Oh. how dread ful. He could havit taken all the money. Why, he might have killed me. But how did he know where the money was?" "She must have told him. You see, they are a bad lot. No doubt she was in league with him in all his wicked schemes. And she saved his life, too." "I'm glad of it," I said fervently, "I don't believe Carrie would have done anything wrong- Why, she could have snatched that money from me " "But that wasn't Carrie! That was the man himself in Carrie's clothes," jx-rsisted George. They both escaped and I hare never beard of either of them since, and the robberies ceased with their going, and I have a dreadful suspicion that I had more than once ignorantly entertained the husband dressed in his wife's clothes. That is why his face had lxen familiar on tbe day 1 saw him arrciteiL He was not at all bad, for he did not rob me when I was ifi his power. Mr. M. L. Baync.dn Detroit Free Pi ess. Fooled the Const able. Two fishermen of St,..n played a neat trick on a loeaJ rci s.t I Js. who de- lecieu incm illegally fishing in the Shenango river on. dm- t-,,- ii... i a . . ..at .11 a.. bany Journal. He was alout to arrest mem, out left them at liberty on promise to appear at the hearing. on their Thii mey nd. but in a manner which tho constable did not extcct. The fisher men repaired to an alderman's otliee, where each swore out a warrant against the other for illegal fishing. They were promptly fined tweuty-fii-e dollars each, and each received the informer's share of the fine, one-half, thus re ducing the penalty fifty per cent. When tne ooiisiaolo reached the ofhee to get hi. warrnTts tlw i1.1..mn,n to I . - ,,ju 1,17 i that the defendants had already ceived their punishment. him L i. f
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