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VOLUME XXVII.
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FEES BRUb.
Shaving pari0r,
Mam Street, Near Post Officii
a.l'he un.l.-rn'KTiea l. f Ire to tnTorio the 1"
In- mat liny iiave .en. ti.ivimc par r
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AUNT JtKriltvtM-2 QUILl.
A mirurlt of t'leiiiinu' Jyos,
llluc. si-arlt-t. Lull anil irrt'n:
t ik.'it 1 1 fori; !v nurtal t-yt-s
Siu li kt,'--iiis tiui-s were 8Lt'n!
So cr:imlly was its ilan ilesurned.
So ctiniii!i.rly 'twiiH huilt.
Tin- w holi- procluimiMl a matster mind
My Aunt Jemima's quill.
K-.ifh fricnilly housi-hota far and wide
t-'i.ntrilniU'U its sluin;;
It rliroiiii-U'il tin- eountry siiie
In colors qvaint ami rare.
From I lies ii:nl briiles tame rich hrocmie
Knw rotilil w ith tliri-ails r -r 1 1 1 ;
K'n buxom willows lent their uid
To Aunt Ji'liilliiu's n I'll t.
No tapestry from ilays of yore.
No wet. Imiu Orient loom,
Itul pale.l In iM-uuieous linist-fore
This strange expanse of bloom.
Here litterins.' t.irs unl comets shone
o'er tlowi rx that m-er wilt:
Here tluttereit linls from wurlUs unknown
On Aunt Jemima's quilt
O. merry was the quilting bee,
hen this jrreat quill was tone;
Tlie rarters ran with maiiten -.'lee,
Ami ttearts were lost unJ won.
Ne'er itiil a throm; of braver men
In war clash lull to hilt.
Than sought the smiles of beauty then
Kouml Aunt Jemima's quill.
Tins work of art my aunt esteemed
The irlory of the a-e:
No jioet's eye have ever beamed
More protiitly o'er his ia'e.
Were other quilts to this ti nipared.
Her nose woiiht upwaril tilt;
Sneh impudence was Nt-Moiu UareJ
O'er Aunt Jemima's quilt.
Her dear olil hantls have pone to tlust.
That once were lithe ami liht:
Her needles kit-n are thick with rust.
That lU.-.h.'.l so nimbly hris?ht.
Anl here it lies by lier behest.
Staitie.l with the tears we spilt.
Safe lohleit in this cellar chest
My Aunt Jemtm t's quilt.
-Samuel Minturn 1 im, in N. E Magazine
A SXAKK IJITE (HIKE.
Tho Old Settler Tolls or Its Won
derful Effocta.
"tlri'Ut spooks!" exelaiminl th siuirt'.
l.Hikino- up from tin- pajx-r he w:is r-a.l-inr
anil kfcpino; his tinovr oit tlu
phu-e. Twenty thousand! W at
j-e think ' that, major? Twenty thoii
san' folks J.yin from snakes iu ne
y.ar:"
"Wat lo I think n if.1' sai.l the Ohl
Settler. "Wull. I think tbem folks must
a' took their applejaek pootylurn new,
IVjfosli, an' a IcetU too often!"
"Al.plojaek!" saiil the fxptirt'. jrlar-ino-at
tlu-oM Settler. "Applejaek hain't
(Tot nutliiu to ilo with it! These folks
was hit."
"l!it. was they?" respomlel the lej
Settler. "Wull, tha hain't nuthin" that
kin Lite wiiss th'n new applejaek.
siiiire. I've know'cl it to In sharM-rn
a sarpunt's t-H.tli. l'nt who were tellin
ye 'Imut all thuiit folksilyin' from snake
bites? That's a pio.1 many folks,
squire. Vi ortwr le a leetle keerful of
Vr fiefjjers w hen yc set out to iniMle
"fa.-ts."
"Why, consarn it!" exelaimel the
squire, "here it is, rio;ht here in the pa
per! The pajer says that last year Ilia
was twenty tln.usan' folks tlieil in Injy
from snake l.ites!"
"In Injy. hay? " sai.l the nhl Settler.
"Why, 1 ili.ln't hev no kiml an idee tnat
the sarpent had tfot ez much of a f.ot
holdon Injy's eoral strand ez all that!
Iliunpb! 1 must tell -M'riar 'bout that,
an' tha'll le a speeial mjetin' of the
C'lothurs o Them that's Naked an' Feed
ers o' Them that Hungers tailed to
l.x.k inter it. This here won't never
do! M'riar must fall a mwetin' of the
Clothiers an' Feeders, and the sistern
must line the nex' ear,' o' red Manuel
fchirts ap'seeon'-han punts with leather.
1 heeii sH-etin' they was a little too
thin to perte. t them heathens on Injy's
eoral strand. An' Wat is the news
from tireenlan's iey mountains, squire?
How many folks is mis-sin". 'lonr '
snakes, up there? An' does Afrie's sun
ny fountains send in any returns?
fosht'liiiio-hty! This'll make tn.ul.le
f.-r my yaller-ler ehiekens a'in. w'en
this news jfjts around, fer the Clot hers
and Feeders alluz stays ti supper.
Wat's the returns from Afrie's sunny
fountains, wpiire?"
The squire f..l.let up his paper, put it
in his poeket and (rave the Old Settler
a wilh.-rino- hwik. out sai.l nothing.
This was plainly disappointing t. the
Old Settler, hut after awhile he resumed
the sul.jeet.
"Twenly thousand, hay?" sai.l he. "I
wisht 1 know'd the lirts-tions o' si.me
h-adin' h. -allien over there an' IM send
him a letter tellin" him '! ut tin- never
failin' Suar Swamp en re f. ir snake
p'ison. an' tha wouldn't le no use o'
snakes bitin' anylxnly in that pleasin'
ken try any more, fer they'd only waste
their p'ison. If anything ever were a
eortiou to snakes that Su'ar Swamp
p'ison eure were! I iosht"lmij.rht'. how
it eotild tlraw! An' that were jist the
trouble with it. It had so mu.li heft
to its draw in' powers that the danger
were that if it tfot its hooks outer a
feller tliat hn.1 snake p'ison iu him it
w. re liable to kill him while it were
eurin' him. lVrvidin'. ' eotirse, that
ve wa'n't keerful in tisin' on it- The in
im jints o that Stiar Swamp snake
p'ison cure is a seeret ez nolxnly kin
ever hev ouLside o our family. The
jx-rseription were thunk up by an an
eistor o mine who kim inter Su.Tar
Swam w'eu things wa-s skeeree.
Kt-'rythin,' but b'ar an shakes. Tha
wa'n't bnV two bar'l ' apjde juiee in
the hull settlement w'en this aneist r
o' mine sot tlown there, an' folks was
eomin' in ev'ry day all bit up by snakes,
and eonsekently havin to Ik? tilled up
with that juice in a way that were
alartnin", that Win' the only snake
fi'isnnriiriM'z were reeo'nizisl 'nii.itgst
the'arly settlers o' Su'ar Swamp. So
this aneist. r o" mine be got all worked
up over it, se-in the way thinfrs was
o-oin' the future were jrirtii to In- very
short, ez fur e.lif U in' pleasant bad
artythinr to do with it,' snakes lein so
plenty, folks Win" so willin' to W bit
an" apple juiee iK'in' so skeeree. So he
tip an' says:
" 'It's a durn shame,' saj-s h-. 'to 1h a
wast in cj.mmI apples, jist eanse folks
won't (fit outen the way o snakes! This
here's tfot to W stoped. A feller fan't
hev no show at a t-N.thful of that apple
no more, 'less he ejoes an' (fits bit iy a
snake. Them two bar'l won't last
more'n a month, an then w'at a we
pointer do? I'll think up a fcnakc
p'ison eure, b'jfosli, and save the ken
try!1 "'An' so my anristor went off an'
thunk up a fnake p'ison cure, an it's
main p'ints was its heft o' tlrawin
power. It wa'n't a eure 3-e tok in'ard
ly, but it was clapped outer the plaeo
where the snake had soeked the p'ison
in, an' that p'ison mowt Wtter hal a
II XI II I
HK 13 A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE AND ALL ABE E LAVES BESIDE."
UBENS13UKG. PA., F1UDAY. AUGUST II, IS93.
millslun 'lmut its iuh-U an" jumped inter
the sea than Wn fool in 'round inside o"
folks w'en that eure jrot arter it.
"From all I kin learn, tha were an
orful hellabaloo in Sujrar Swamp the
fust time that snake p'ison eure were
used. Sim Janniketi kim a teariu' in
one day, and Moppin' down in the tav
ern ez usual, he hollers out:
" 'S-.oks a spintiiu'!' says he. 'I'm
bit atr'in! Fill me up!
"Now, this were the third time hand
runnin' that Sim had In'en bit that
month, an it took a pint ev'ry time to
skeer the p'ison outen him. So w'en he
kim in this time an" Mopped down an'
waited fer I'nele Noar Tidfit to come
a-rushin" out with a lmttle an' a tumbler,
my aneistor were there, all ready w ith
the snake p'ison eure he had thunk up,
an' he run up to Sim an says:
" "Where'd it bite ye?'
" "Calf my ler!' says Sirn.
"My aneistor slides Sim's trousers
up, an' slaps a handful o' his snake
p'ison eure on the ealf o' Sim's lejr.
" 'llol" on!' says Sim. 'Tha hain't no
use of a snake bitin ye if ye can't hev
tin-Simon-pure cure fer the p'ison! If I
can't Ik-cured refr'lar, says he, 'w'at't
the use o' riuinin' the risk o' snakes?'
"ISut my aneistor know'd his busi
ness, and clapjied on tlu cure he'd thunk
up. ISut he didn't know his business as
ffood as he t.rter, fer he kep' the p'ison
cure outer Sim a leetle too lono-, and
when he thort the lime weie tip fer it
to yank all the p'ison out bVosh he
found that Sim wa'n't no Wtter'n a
pitf that'd Wn stuck, fer the cure had
drawed ev'ry durn drop o' blood outen
hint ez well ez the p'ison., an" w'at were
left o" Sim wa'n't wulh nothin' 'eept 'to
the coroner.
" MS.-sht'linitrhty! says my aneistor.
'The heft o this snake p'ison eure is
more amazin' than red eels!" says he.
"ISut he know'd a thin;f or two yit
an lie clapped another hunk o the cure
outer the hack o Sims neck, an in
less'n ten seonds it draw'd the hull o"
that blood back into Sim a'in, an'
pootv S4 kiii Sim jfot up. an' shakiu his
list at Noar Ti.llit. he says:
"1 hain't Wn treat.il repr'lar!' says
he. 'I've Wn sot tlown on in this here
tavern! Noar.' says he. 'if this is to W t'.u
upshot o" things, a feller mowt jist ez
well 'o to Ireland.' says he, 'where tha
hain't no snakes!'
"An" then Sim scufft'd out o' the tav
ern, look in" disap'intcd an tlown in the
mouth. An the consekenees ' that
p'scription my aneister thunk up was.
that ez folks pit to know it thiiiirs
changed. Where they usety come in
more'n a dozen a week to jrit cured iu
theol" fashioned, rejr'lar way for snake
bites, they fell off so that by an' by tha
wii'n'i one a month kim in, an folks
took to killin" off snakes ez useless
na.iers on. an a ciiml.raiice ' the soil.
I wonder if we could tind anyway to
interdn.-e that Su-rar Swamp snake
jt'isoii curt over inter Injy. squire?"
"Dunno. major," sail the squire.
"Seems to me. though, 'Z if s mie o' the
d' fashioned, reff'lar cure in.iwt le in
terduee.l a leetle closer by. Wat do
ye think almut it? Wanter inter.luee
some?"
"Wull. senee ye mention it," sai.l the
Old Settler, smililto;, "I don't keer if I
tlo." N. V. Sun.
AMERICAN COLLEGES.
Why They Have llx.1 an l"iiiiitnll' Severe
Stru;TKle f.r Kxlsletire.
The American college of the middle
of this century, like its I'tijlish original.
existeLf.'r the work of the church.
If
the college dies the church dies, was the
basis of its appeal for money and inllu
ctiee. Its duty was to form a class of
educated men in whose hands should
lie the preservation of the creed. In
the mouths of ignorant men the truths
t.f the church would Im clouded. Kaeh
wise church would see that its wisdom
be not marred by human folly.
The needs of one church indieated the
needs of others. So it came' alout that
each of the many organizations called
churches ia America cstablishi-d i's col
leges here and there almut the country,
all based on the same ejeneral plan.
And as the little towns on the rivers
and prairi-s jrrew with the provrcssof
the country into larjre cities, so it was
thought, by some mysterious virtue of
inward expansion, these little schools
in time would "-row to le p-reat univer
sities. And in this optimistic spirit the
future was forestalled mid the sch.x.ls
were called universities from the W
(.'"miiiriir. As time went on it ap"carcd
that a university eon 1.1 not Im made
without money, nnd the source of
money must Ik" outside the schools. And
so has ensued a lonjf struovle Iwtwt-n
the American college and the wtdf at
the d.M.r a teilious. Wlittllno- coiillict.
whi -h has done much to lower the name
and dignity of hio-her education.
To tliis educational p!:mtin) without
watering, r-iN-atel aefain and ajain.
cast and west, north and south, must
W asvrilcd the unnaturally severe
striijyh for existence through which
our eollep-es have lrn forced to pass,
the p.mr work, low salaries and humili
atiiir economies t.f the Ameri 'an ctd
leift profess.ir. the natural endoi w horn,
a t-ordino; to Ir. Holmes. 'is starva
tion." !avid Starr Jordan, in 1'opular
Se-ience Monthly.
CHURCH NEWS.
Tin: Presbyterian Ward of home
missions has received deeds for four
hundred acres of land near Asheville,
X. C., where the erection and esta!
lishmcnt of an industrial school will
Im commenced immediately.
A New Jkksky Methodist conference
has just rejected a class of applicants
for the ministry with the ren-ark that
it never met a class so defective in ed
ucation and with such lartfe families.
Too many men who can't earn a living
at any thine else think they are able
enough to preach.
Mont scieties in .Japan are for one
sex only, and in many churches there
must Ik two societies- one for the
you ii"; men and one for the young;
women. In other churches, however,
w here it is possible to do so. pa.-.tors
Mud the society an admirable means of
break injf tlown the artilicial dis'.ine
tious Wtwccn the sexes, which often
Mauds iu the way of the Wst church
work.
llv.v. Kiiwarii A. Lai kp-Ntf.. pastor
of the Firt Conp-refrational church of
ISaltimore. one of the most wealthy
and arist.M'ratie churches in the city,
has left his handsome house and made
his abode in the tenement house dis
trict. I le has taken t wn rooms on the
third Moor of a house in which live
four laborintr families. It is his desire
to Weome Wttcr acquainted with the
poor people and help them it he can.
GIVE PRAISE ERE DEATH CO VIES.
Your friena died yestcr.tay 1 Yen one is pone
Whom we shall miss like sunlight In the dawn:
"l'waM joy to meet her wticrcMoc'rr we went
Her speech left iu the heart a sweet conf .-nt;
You coula ti,it tell the very words she said.
Hut somehow you were cheered, sad thoiuhts
were laid
Away, and you went home to duty's sway,
Uucotiscious of the clouds the livelong dcy.
Your friend is dead? did'si ever say to btr
You loved her, that her love and friendship
were
To you most dear, or did you breathe them in
As the air you take from Heaven, and have
been
Just as unmindful and now it Is too late.
Alas, those words "loo late:" it seems our fate
Never to know our bl.-ssiusrs till they're pone;
Waving us-pondcrim.' why we are forlorn.
Why do we wait till death has closed the door
To s.eak the loved one's praises o'er and o'er?
hy not some dower alon the pathway
spread.
To bloom a:ain within the heart, and shed
Sin h sweetness there, it softens all the pain.
And lite is full of !io'm and joy attain?
One word of love is t.il upon tho waves;
Then le no miser, he who gives life saves.
We all are children, whether young or old:
And ne'er outgrow the love of praise ; and gold
'an never touch the best in man like praise;
It is the balm that mortal eru-t allays;
It leads to deeds heroic, and to ways
Oft made immortal by the eis lays.
Yet love and praise we hoard till life is pone.
Then give in vain libations w hile we m u-a.
Sprint-Held (Mass.! Kepuhhcan.
MY NEW NEIGHBOR.
fane Was a. Quiet Little Body for
Ten Years.
I"eole Would iMlp I'ntU the Husband
Itotaranl muiI Cleared Away the Mys
tery That Had Surrounded Ills
Utile Family.
hen Mrs. CroswalJ moved int the
"bio; ho.ise" on 1'ervo.t street oppisite
my own humble dvyelliu? I was es
tieinely anxi ms to know all almut her
affairs. My sister Cora, win was visit
in?; me. sat in the win 1 w half th
forenoon watehinjf the drayman un
load. It wa she win dise vere I the
name "Cr svval.'.' on the piano box.
I'ieee after pie -e of bran l-netv furni
ture disappeared through the wide hall
d.mr. eli itiu r little envi .tii comment 4
from C ra, who ha I l",'un h us':e.p
inr on the s.. :d-hand s -ale a few
weeks U-fore. l'ervost street was so
quiet that if a faiuily m ve l in or out
it was a;i event. There was nothlnr
alsolut'ly nothing w whi -h we could
interest ourselves that would afford so
much variety and pleasure asdtl the
affairs of our neir'ah rs. The bump of
curiosity one of the predominant fea
tures of woman was fully developed
iu my sister and myself, thouirh I
hated to have anytmdy know the lat
ter fact. 1 1 was not n Wf re we t our
mommo; wor'.; done. So far we had sen
no tenants only the drayman and fur
niture. About four o'clo-k Cora eallel me
from the kitchen. I leaned over her
shoulder and saw a laly alight from a
carria-re: two l.y an I a little pirl had
preceded her t the house. Westretched
our necks this way and that t. catch a
eflimpse of a man. but no Mr. Croswal !
did we see. We lo ked just as Ion? as
there was any lijfht; we swept off our
clean porch a dozen times: we Wcame
deeply concerntHl almut the pate, that
had Wen the plaything t.f the winter
wind for many months. Cora took. a
hammer and gave the broken hinge a
couple of infantile taps, then thought
"Tom" could fix it Wtter than she.
Daylight didn't last any longer th in
tlu time prescrilied in the almanac, and.
after one long, lingering l.mk at the
house a -ross the street, we drew our
curtains and sat down to talk about
Mrs. Croswald's nice furniture. We
wondered where sh came from; if she
was a widow or grass widow. We
imagined as much evil as one woman
could imagine almut another.
The next morning .ve had callers who
came to ascertain what we had found
out. Mrs. O'Searly rolled her eyes and
shrugged her shoulders as she came up
the walk. I knew the signal: it meant:
"Open your ears, my friend. I've aeard
something you ought to know." She
t k a chair just inside the d.mr.
"Them's nice children.' she sai.l. as the
three children scampered almut the
lawn in the opjhtsite yard. "I've found
out their names. Mrs. Mitchell. Ilev
you bin over yit? ' Without waiting for
mv reply she went on: "1 hain't seen
notion' of him. yit. hev yew! Tiiem'j
niee things she's got. wat -he 1 out of
my side w'ml.-r an' saw every bit of
the furnittir' that was t k in! They
hain't n man about the h use ez I kill
se. s she must W a widder." and Mrs.
O'Searly st .ppe.l Vt w ipe her heated
f.i.-e with her apron I wouldn't f r the
world let Mrs. O'Searly know that I had
made my neck lame trying to see
through the cobwebby curtains across
the street. I was Wginning to tl .-spise
myself heartily, and mentally declared
that whatever I should find out in fu
ture I should keep V myself. I felt
like a martyr, though, when I made the
resolve, bnt knew it was Wtter late
than never to Wgin to mind one's own
business. Mrs. O'Searly took her leave,
and a few minutes later Mrs. ISroinfield
called t t borrow a basque pattern. She
lived four or live blocks up the street
and was quite out of breath with her
long walk. Her next-d.or nei f htmr
w as a dressmaker. 1 told her my pat
tern was loaned and watched in vaiu
for the look of disappointment to clothe
her features. Well. Mrs. ISroiutield took
her departure after repeare.l injunc
tions t- m almut b.tuiilg tJ inti
mate with st.-ange people. "Our sus
picions miv be all wrong, but tl W
careful; now d . dear," and my friend
w ho ma le me distrust every Uxly for
ten l.lo-ks around left me in no pleas
ant frame of mind.
I wanted to tell Cora what Mrs. Brom
field hal told me, but, after second
thought, concluded to wait develop
ments in the case. Presently our gate
clicked and Mrs. Croswald's younger
sou came to the d.mr. "Mamma would
like to borrow a saw, if you please. he
said, dolling his cap. Cora got the arti
cle and Archer CroswalJ trottetl back to
his mother. He told us his name was
"Archie."
"She knows how to bring up her chil
dren." said Cora, giving me a knowing
l.vik. My four Imys were the plague of
their auntie's life, with their uirschi
otis pranks and uncouth manners.
Time passed on, and Mrs. Croswald
had lived opjmsite us ten years. Yes.
lived in spite of the sidewise glances of
Mrs. ISroiutield and the tipen sn.-rrsnf
M rs. ( I'Searly. She was the lest ncigh-
' bor I ever had, though the worthy Mrs.
lSromhVld couldn't see what I liked
about tier, auJ Airs. O'Searly knew
81. BO and
there was some "skulduggery" going on
that folks knew nothing almut. There
was a reserve almut Mrs. Croswald that
puzzled us not a little.
She seldom visited her neighlmrs (3011
don't blame her, tlo j-ou) and at the end
of the ten years we knew 110 more about
her affairs than we did at the end of
the first. Fen wick, the elder lmy. was
a telegraph operator and was well liked
by the young jH-ople. He was a hand
some youth of twenty-one. Ada and
Archer were still at school. We never
beard the children sieak of their father,
though we asked them several tim.-s
when he was coming home or how long
he'd Wen dead. Our curiosity began to
die nut at the end of the firth year but
still we surmised a great ileal.
We" invited Mrs. Crosw ald to teas and
bees and circles, but she kept t he man
tle of dignity wrapied so tightly around
her that I took very little real pleasure
from her company, the few times she ac
cepted. One day my husband brought
home a paper, and during the evening
startled me by reading the notice of a
new invention. "The patentee. Mrs.
Emily Croswald, has concluded not to
sell the right, as was at first reported.
Mr. Croswald will conduct the sale;.
We join their frieiids-in wishing them
success."
"Mr. Croswald! Mr. Croswald! Why-e-e
, Tom, where he has Wen all these
3-ears?" I exclaimed, taking the pacr
to read the notice for myself. "Fifty
thousand dollars! Why, Tom! How l
wish I could patent something!" Then
I went to the w indow and saw the quiet
woman contentedly swaying to and fro
in a rocker on the opposite porch.
I fell to wondering what Mrs. O'Sear
ly would say when she found out there
was a man in the case. While I stoo.1
at the window Fetiwick came from
sch. .l an.) han.l.tl his mother a letter.
Now comes the story part of this
story. Mr. Croswald had Wen unjustly
accused of forgery, but had no visible
way to prove his innocence. The of
fense had occurred in Pennsylvania
and he hud passed ten years of his life
in the state prison there. The real cul
prit, dying, had confessed his sin.
and the letter which I saw l'enwi. k
hand his mother contained the tidings
of Mr. Croswald's release. A week
later he ap'H-ared. and as the tall, fine
looking man entered the gate I saw his
form tremble with emotion. The chil
dren ran to meet him, but his eyes
looked Wyond them to the figure in the
doorway, "tlod bless her! !d bless
her!" he cried, taking a child by either
hand and leaping up the steps. Mrs.
Croswald told me all almut the trouble,
and my tears mingled with hers as I
listened. Gradually the reserve left
her an.l she Wcame blithe as a bir.L I
have learned a good lesson from know
ing her that I never learned from the
god Imok "Love thy neighlmr as thy
self." Lephia M. ISryaiit, in Chicago
Inter icean.
SHARP JEWISH WIT.
Anecdotes WhleJi Show That the Ilehrew
Cau Appreciate a Joke.
A striking commentary was re
cently made by a Uussian Jew on the
judicial corruption which stains his
country, lie passed the law courts in
one of the cities of the empire and no
ticed a fine statue placed in front of
the building.
'Whom does this statue represent?"
he inquired of a passer-by. "Why, Jus
tice, of course." "How sad." exclaimed
the Jew. heaving a profound sigh, "that
Justice sh.-uld W n legated to the nut-
side of the edifice a:i I W altogether ex
cluded from admission within!"
"Death is the be .t physician," said a
witling to his medical attendant, wh
had lecn somew hat I. hi assiduous in his
professional visits. "Why so?- aske.l
the d.K-tor. "lSeeause he only paysone
visit."
A dialogue overheard at the stock
exchange on a fr.sty winter's day:
"Mr. Moses, what would you a lvise m
to buy to-day?" "Thermometers, of
course; they are very low at present,
and are sure to rise."
A Mr. troldsinith Wcame a convert to
Christianity. He thought it advisable
to adopt a name with a more ilcntile
ring, and duhWd himself Mr. Smith.
"What a f.ml!" exclaimed a memWr of
the congregation on hearing of the
change; "this is the first Jew who has
thrown away his gold."
At a festive banquet representatives
of the Protestant. Catholic and Jewish
clergy had lcen invited, and were en
gaged in pleasant converse. The rabbi,
faithful to the dietary precepts of his
religion, parttmk of only a few of the
dishes. An apjM-tizirig joint of roast
pork was set on the table. The Catho
lic priest turned to his neighlmr and
asked: "When will the time come that
I may have the privilege of serving you
with a slice of this delicious meal?"
"When I have the grati fixation of as
sisting at your reverence's welding,"
the rabbi rejoined with a courteous
lmw. lla bbi Adler, in Fortnightly Ile
view. A Tale of the Orient.
Here is a romantic story in real life
which reads like a novel. The scene
is in Turkey, where service in the
army is compulsory. 1 1 was discovered
a few days ago that a young girl hud
Wen serving for three and one-half
years under her brother's name and had
distinguished herself by especially
g.md conduct. An investigation was
immediately made, and it was found
that the girl had taken this heroic f tcp
which means even more in Turkey
than it would here in order to free
her brother, who was her mother's
only means of suppnrt. The sultan,
when be heard of the sacrifice. W
stowetl the Schesaket order of the third
class and a life pension of five Turkish
pounds a month. The girl was sent
Jiome and her brother remains free
from serving.
SALIENT SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
Ci'ori.s are on the average about five
hundred yards in thickness.
Oxk square foot of glass will lose as
much heat as six square feet of twelve
inch brick wall.
Whkx showing the violet shade the
thickness of the film of a soap bubble
is about l.CtO.iMHith of an inch.
Onk heat unit equals "i foot pounds,
and the heat that must W extracted
from one pound of water to convert it
into iee equals UW.r.i foot pounds.
Thk pure white lustre of the snow is
due to the fact that all the elementary
colors of light are blended together iu
the radiance that is thrown tif from
the surface of the thousand and more
distinct and perfect crystals.
4YV&iVSY
postage per year In advance.
NUMHEK 31.
SHORT AND SWEET.
'Leu-can-lhc-mum Vul-;a-re" oh, you have a
lorn? name, too,
you p. mr. dear Utile daisy; I can sympathize
w iih you.
Poc not jour hend feci heavy with that dread
ful name to hold.
And don't you feel, Lcucanthemum Vulfiare,
very old?
I do. dear, a hen I 'memtx-r. though they think
my nam. is "sw.s-t,"
And love to say it over "Gladys Constance
Marguerite. "
And then, when you've been nauirhty, does your
daisy mamma say:
Iucaitiieiiium Vuli-'are :" in such a stem, sad
way
il'j mamma does oh. daisy dear, how many
times Hlic's said:
"Now Gladys Constance Mariruerite, go rUrht
upstairs lo lK-d:"
And th.-n I know I'm very bad. for that's my
puninlt tianu:
Oh, daisy dear. lo you suppose all mammas do
the same?
But I love iK-st to call you, dear, just "Daisy;"
for you see
Thai's mi' l-t name, the very same that every
one t-iills me:
And we are twins now are we not? for troth
of us have woe.
AlK.utotir loii;, lout? "punish names," that no
one ever knows.
They may tw "crand and "d Quitted" and
"sweet" and all the rest,
nut we Isilh love, dear don't wet our short
Itaiisy names the tt.t,
Al.bie K. Hrown.in St Nicholas.
RATHER REMARKARLE.
A Good Story of Two Very Queer
Proposals.
An orchard separate.! Mr. Fisher's
door-yard from Mr. Dunbar's. The two
families were very good friends, and
used the path which l-d from one gar
den to the other as a means of aquicker
communication than the road.
Itoth families kept summer Warders.
Across the road, and a Wautiful
stretch of meadow, was the sea rolling
in on a w ide sandy Wacli.
Harry Curtis and Will ISlake came
lown fr.m their business in llostoti
every Saturday night and Warded at
the Fishers' over Sunday.
During the summer the same thing
had happened to lmth of them. They
had lmth fallen desperately in love with
Miss t'race llcrry, who Warded, at the
I lunbars.
It was Sunday. Harry had taken a
hammock and Will a reelining chair
out under the apple tree to read.
Over on the Fishers porch they could
hear i trace's voice singing to her own
guitar accompaniment. It was a sweet
voice, and it brought her face vividly
into the minds of Wth young men.
Harry was thinking:
"I will get up presently and stroll
over and ask her to go out for a drive
on the Wach t -night."
Will drew himself slowly out of his
reclining chair and yawned indiffer
ently. "Will. I guess I'll leave yon," he
said, and went tlown the orchard path
and over to the torch w here Orace was
sitting.
"Come, walk down to the Wach with
rae. will you'."' he asked.
"Yes; only wait until I get my hat
and put away my guitar."
Across the road and down through
the mea low they strolled to the Wach.
IS race dropped dow n on the sand look
ing out across the rolling blue-green
waves.
"1 am so happy," she said. "Some
say the sea makes one gloomy, but it
doesn't me. This has lieen the happiest
summer of my life."
"It has Ihi-ii the happiest summer of
my life, so far." he said, "but the sum
mer is not half over. You have it in
your power to make it completely hai
py. I wonder if you will?"
I rati 1 Hiked at him quickly, but did
not speak.
"You know you told me vou liked
rubies Wttcr than any other stone, he
said, after a moment. He put his hand
in his pocket and drew out a little mo
rocco case and laid it in her lap. "See
how yim like those."
I race jeiied the case. There was a
little ring, set Waulifully, with three
small rubies. She gave a gasp of de
light. "Oh, how perfectly lovely!"
TTien she looked at him curiously and
closed the case and held it out to him.
He folded his hantls around his knees
and 1 Hiked across the sea.
'-Could anything indun you to put
that ring tin your third finger?" he
asked.
trace dropped the ease on the sand.
"1 don't know what you mean!" she
said.
He turned and caught Wth her hands
in his.
"It seems that I love you. CSraee. more
than all else in the world. lon"t tell
me you do n .t love me in return!"
She drew her hands away slowly, and
Sto.nl up.
'-Did you get that ring for me?"
"Yes. I got it in the hope it would W
yours some time. Oh. (J rati', don't say
you don't care for me."
"Well, you did have faith in me to go
and get that ring Wfore yon knew. I
never heard of such a thing!" she sai.L
indignantly.
"You can throw the ring into the
ocean if you'll only tell me that you
love inc. 1 thought that was a nice way
of telling you. 1 see I've made a f.ml of
myself."
He caught up the case from the sand
and threw it far out into the w aves.
"Oh, how could you? That Wautiful
ring!"
She turned and walked across the
beach and he followed her.
"I'll dive till I get it if j-ou say s.
You tlo love me. ISrace! say that you do!"
"No," she said. "1 don't, and I think
this is the queerest proposal I ever
heard of the idea of you daring to get
that ring In-fore you'd asked me!"
"I never dreamed you could W so
heartless and cruel." he said, angrily.
Then he turned and walked away in the
other direction up the Wach.
Harry Curtis went through the or
chard after supper and found ( race on
the torch. She got up and went to meet
him.
"I want to sti Mr. ISlake," she sai.L
"Will you go and send him over here?"
"Well, no," Harry answered; T can't,
for the reason that he took the five
o'elotdf train to ISosLon."
"Well, never itiuiti. 1 I don't know,
but I'd rather write it to him. anyway,"
tirace said.
"Oh, you would!" Harry answered.
"Now. jH-rhaps you don't care almut a
moonlight ride with me?"
"Yes. I tlo; but I must write to him
Wfore I can sleep."
This confidence did not make Harry
particularly happy, but be went for the
dog cart.
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Stray and (Imllar Notloe i W
aar-Keolut ion or rocecdlnir ol any on r
tlon or aociety and coniauuni'-atlon delKOd to
call attention to any mailer ol limited or indl
vidnal Inter- l munt le paid lor a advertivmem.
Mook and Jott Printing of all kind neatly and
esedlouaiy executed at toe ioweal prlcca. And
don'tyon lorajet it.
Harry was silent and gloomy on the
ride, but Since was very happy and
talked on ceaselessly.
"Isn't everything Wautiful? I don't
feel as though I ever was unhappy or
ever could W again." she said, l.mking
out across the moonlit water.
"Say, llraee," Harry asked, turning
suddenly toward her. "it's none of my
business, but did W ill propose to you
this morning?" '
5 race l.mkcd at him a moment with
out answering.
"Yes, he did. How dare you ask such
a thing?" she said.
" th. I just thought I'd like to know."
Harry answered, indifferently. They
drove on for some time in silence.
"ISut I refused him," lirace said at
last, with a little laugh. Harry l.mkcd
at her quickly.
"Yon did! Then why must you write
to him Wfore you sleep?"
"I wasn't kind to him. I wanted to
say I was sorry."
"And ask him to come back, I sup
pse?" Harry sai.l.
"No; but he proposed in such a queer
way. and 1 w as so angry, I didn't think
till afterwards that H-rhajis he really
did care very much, and but I won't
tell y.ou any more."
"I wonder if 1 could propose to suit
you." Harry laughed; "I wouldn't care
to have Will's luck."
lie put his hand in his p-K-kct. and
drew out a little morocco case, and
threw it into her lap.
"I'm not going to say anything unless,
3'ou'll put that on."
race oiM-ned the case, laughing.
This was the way Will had Wgun. but
some way il did not seem the same at
all.
A diamond sparkled out from th
blue silk lining. This was not the saiue,
either. She put it oil and held out her
hand to 1 1 i ill.
"Wasn't that a neat wayof doing it?"
he asked, pr.ui.lly. "You see if you had
wanted to refuse rue you could just
have handed back the ring and that
would have ln-en all there was to it
lint now " There was an el.H.ticnt
pause.
"What would yon have done if I had
given back the ring?" ISraee asked,
terf-ftly happy.
"Oh, I should have thrown the un
lucky thing into the n-ean and taken
the next train to ISoston."
"Why. that's exactly what Will did!"
Oracc sai.l, l.mking at him quickly.
"What! You don't mean it!"
He did not tell her that Will had lni-n
reading the same novelette that he had,
iu whi.-h the prop.sal ended as W ill's
had done; and so she always thought the
similarity of her two projHtsals a most
remarkable coincidence. IS. iston t SIoIm.
SHE SAID A HARP.
A .ay Itec-elver nimlM I -eft for Onre
In Ills life.
He had made love to a thousand girls
and he hal told the same story of loy
alty and devotion to each one.
At first it was accepted as true and a
few tender young hearts were strained
almost to the breaking point, but in time
the objects of his adoration caught on
and he was not such a heart smasher
as he thought he was.
Last winter or early this spring a
3-oung Iietroit woman crossed his path.
She was Wautiful. rich and resjmn
sive. and he threw himself at bur feet.
She rather liked the idea of his Wing
there, though si e knew him Wttcr than
he knew himself, and she did lint tii- il
lusionize him.
One day she sat idly listening to his
tale of love and she was getting tired.
"I would." she said. "I had a harp
whose strings I might touch and find
a chord responsive to my own heart's
yearning."
He caught her hands in his fervently.
"IVarone." be niurmurud. "take me."
She drew her hand away icily and
looked at him with a cruel glitter in her
lovely eyes.
'I said a harp." and thu words came
as the blows of a heavy hammer; "1
sai.l a harp, not a lyre."
And then he smote his mouth with a
club and went forth and kicked himself.
letroit Free Press.
St-niHSi to Measure.
Dr. X is an cl.Hjuent preacher,
but he Wlongs to the old-fashioned
s-h ml. and finds it difficult to adapt
himself to the modern fashion of short
discourses. It is a standing joke in Lis
family that after writing a sermon he
has cut it up into a series of discourses.
On one occasion he received a note from
a well-know n clerical brother, asking if
he would deliver a sermon upon
some esjiecial church festival. The
doctor replied that he had just com
pleted a sermon upon the golden calf
which seemed to him appropriate. The
answer of the committee, as sent by
telegram from the brother clergyman,
who knew Dr. X intimately, and
was acquainted at once with liU jhs-uI-iarities
and with his ability to take a
joke, read as follows:
"itolden ealf just what is wanted. A
forcquarter is all that will W needeJ."
Detroit Free Press.
Wanted I-lclit on the Subject.
A native of Troon, on the coast of
Ayrshire.Scotland, when the contract f. r
lighting the first three steamers titled
for electric light at the Trmn shipyard
was completed, formed one of asocial
party gathered to treat the electricians
who had made the installation and oth
erwise celebrate the event. In a burst
of candor and comradeship he was over
heard saying to one of the w ircmeti:
"Man, Peter, efter wnrkin wi' you i.u
they Wats, I Wlieve I could put in the
electric licht inj-sel", but there's only
ane thing that hates me." "Aye, what
is that?" said his interested companion,
willing to help him if it lay in his power.
"It's this, man; I dinnaken hm you get
the ile along the wire!" Electrical
Review.
PEOPLE.
The prince of Wales is always gloved.
WllKN the wife and daughters of the
Chinese minister to Kngland were pre
sented to Queen Victoria, they were
allowed to remain seated after their
presentation, as their small feet unfit
ted them for long standing.
Mits. P.I.AIM; will goto Har HarWr
soon and some time later sail for Eu
rope, with her youngest daughter. She
will probably stay abroad a year,
sH-nding most of the time in England,
w here f.he w ill take a house.
Mr. Ki skIV has often visited Mr.
lSla.lstt.ne at Hawardcii. notw ithstand
ing their difference in jmlitics. Mr.
lluskin used to say that he u:i l Carl le
were the only genuine tori.-, left iu
England. He has always I-111 ut terly
iutuleraiit to the liberals and radicals.