But yesterday, but yesterday,
She swod beside our dusty way,
Outresching for one moment's space
The key to fortunes hiding-place.
With wistinl meanings in her eyes,
Her radiance veiled in dull disguise,
A momant paused, then turned and fled
ner message still ansaid,
And we?! Our eyes were on the dust;
Still faring on as fare ail must
In the hot glare of mid-day sun
Until the weary way be done,
So, fast and far she sped and fled
Into the depths of eth: r blue;
And we, too late, make Litter avy
“« Come back, dear opportunity!”
In vain; the fleet, unpansmg wings
Stay not in their bright journeyings;
And sadly sweet as funeral ball
The answer drops, “ Farewell! Farewall?
we Susan C0oitdge.
Where Is Yesterday !
* Mother, some things I want to know,
Which pussie and confuse me so.
To-day is present, as you say;
But tell me, where is yesterday!
“J did not see it as it went;
1 only know how it
In play and pleasure, though in rain;
Then why won't it come back again ?
Yas spent.
“Today the sun shines bright and clear;
But then to-morrow’s drawing near
Today oh, do not go away!
And vanish like dear yesterday
# "Tis when the sun and all the light
Has gone, and darkness brings the
Tt sees to me you steal away
And change your name
Fh t
KHL,
starday
“And will all time be just the same?
To-day—the oniy name remain?
And shall 1 always have to say,
Tomorrow you'll be yesterday ?
# 1 wonder, when we 20 (0 heaven,
If there a record will be given
Of all our thoughts and all onr ways
Writ on the tace of vestardays?
“Ii 80, I pray God grant 10 me
That mine a noble lite may be;
For then 1'll greet with joyous gare
The dear lost fave of yesterdays.
-— Chambers Journal
THE HARVEST TIME.
Faith Irwin,
eyed, dainty and et 8
and quite as unconscious of
as that sane sweet flower of
stood with flushed cheeks before
aunt and cousins, talking earnestly, and
with a suspicion of in her low,
clear tones,
“ Yes, | understand you sll. Iam in
your way and unloved by you. It was
a pity that when mamma and papa died, |
1, too, could not relieve the earth of my
presence, instead of having to ask the |
protection and affection of my own
uncle's family. Fur his love—what lit-
tle Le gives me—1 am grateful, and
Uncle Dick knows it, 1 think. But from |
you, Aunt Upha
cousins, I have nev
ing word since one yea
—~—the girl's lips qui 2 ole |
'w tremulous—"1 on with my |
eart balt-broken to this house, which |
was the only home I had in all the |
world. Ob! vou needn't interrupt me, |
auntie. haven't spoke: fore, but I
have suffered and Li lonely
theaghts and longings for some one to
love and be kind to me that at times it
has seemed as if I shoul :, And now
here is Miss Mark's le in answer to
one I wrote her aski couid help
me find a posit wher some.
where- any T I need eat
the bread of this bitter dependence no
longer. She offers me the place she now
occupies. because she is going away,
and I will send her word 3
that I will go to
And I need net ask if jou
for too well [ krow how de
all will be.”
Mrs. Upham and her daughters migh
have replied, but Faith went
from the room, and was seen
untii dinner tims
had said was too well fell
ham, whose haughty and
id an atom of love to
: 3
to hte
eights
pt
|Kged
SW
€n, gray
a wildrose—
her beauty |
its own-—
her
PRY]
in
ig
i
: you, my
kind or lov- |
} ¥ 'y "»
me
3 o
Ber
ighted you
0 Dore
The truth of £
: y Mrs. U [be
bec
Faith |
had the s n‘sge of her cousins in |
youth and personal atiractions; and |
w here jealousy reigns love can scarcely |
enter. And that her sunt and cousins
were jealous of the lonely, orpl
beneath their roof was som
counid not deny.
Arter Faith bac
mother and her éavght
each other.
“Whew!
Anna,
*Couid anything have happened bet-
ter #" cried Belle. “Papa has invited |
the son of an old friend of his, who has |
just returred from Europe, rich, hand-
some and splendidly stylish—his father |
leit him sli bis money, you must know, |
when he {the old man) died ~to spend |
a few days with us, and he has prom- |
ised. Now, you see, if Faith were to be |
here she wouid be sure fo manage in
some way to keep him at her sid We
Simply
ABE
ething they
1 ieft the room the!
looked st
e
ve
"n
What a tempe:!™ said
aeT sie
never should stand s chance, being so |
much older and plainer than she.”
Then Mrs. Upham spoke up.
“Yes, it is very fortunate that she is |
going. Really, I knew Frith was quick- |
tempered, but had po idea she could |
show such a temper 1.8 we have seen to- |
day! Whst is the name of the young |
gentleman your father has invited |
ere PV i
‘* Howard Blake, I think.” was the |
reply; “and 1 shall be thankful to see a |
new face amongst our friends.”
- » ® - . =»
“This is the room, miss. It's mighty
little and poor like, and like enough |
yon'll be bumping your head nzin that |
there beam in the corner. But you |
see, dear, Jim would take them city |
folks to board again this summer, be- |
caus: it kinder paid to have "em jsst |
sear, and so I ain't got no room but this |
for ye jest now. Mebbe long inthe fail,
now, 1 kin fix ye more comfortable.like.
Anything I can do fore § godown?’
Faith Irwin lifted her face from its
bowed position over the little trunk
which she was unstrapping, and replied,
gently:
** No 1Ithank you, Mrs. Jones; Ishall
be quite comfortable here and hope to
give as little trouble as possible.”
Mrs. Joness good-natured face
beamed all over with kindly feeling as
she replied:
“Jor! don’t you be a going and wor-
rying yourself about trouble, my dear;
taint likely as you're the kind that'll
do that. It's them city folks I'm dread-
ing, with their airs and greces. Bat]
hope you'll be quite happy with ‘em,
miss, and—biess me! I smell my bread
a-burning!”
And the good woman hurried down
the steep, oid-fashioned staircase, mut~
tering ail the way:
* Poor dear! How lonesome and pale
she does look, to be sure, And so young
to be a taching them rough children to
the sehool, too!”
After Faith had refreshed and cooled
her flushed face in a basin of clear, de-
licious spring water, and arranged as
tidily as possible the little rings of soft
hair which would not lay straight upon
her fore.ead, and after she had fixed
her room to suis herself, and given it a
more home-like appearance by the addi-
tion of a few books upon the table and
she little work-basket which once be-
longed to her mother, she stood beside
the window and looked out upon the
soft green fields stretching on every side
of the old farmhouse, the shady road
which led down toward the village, the
grand old elms and maples clustering
about the yard and lining the road as
far as her eyes could follow it.
The house faced a fork in the road,
and stood between the two branches—
one, the old Albanyroad, famous during
Revolutionary times, and the other lively
with the teams and light wagons going
to snd coming from Lake Oseawana,
some miles above the village of Pew,
where our story is located.
The summer breezes were laden with
wild-flower fragrance and the sweet
breath of the wild herbs and forest pine,
and the snmmer sunshine flickered mer-
rily on the green lawn beveuth the
stately trees, which held their heads as
proudly as though the weight of a hun-
dred years or more were not u
them. And the little red, Eh rio
chattered
VOLUME XIV.
H ALL,
1
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CO., PA.
NUMBER 1.
ing that sage had stolen the sap from
on half of its noble old trunk. That
willow had a history, and it seemed
well aware of its importance
It was the only tree on Farmer
pace that could boast of having been a
riding whip in the hands of ap Ament
can officer during the Revo iut
War
he
sof
Rie.
\
#IUCK
riding-whip
t! so dier
earth when
mounted for refreshment st the tavern
~we hich was this very old farmbous
t forth, strangely enough, tiny shoots
roots, and grew into strength and
v, and saw the war and
hed disappear, and peace al
where all had been trouble and disquiet
But we have left Faith too :
the window, and return to find that
the dinner-bell has rung and she |
gone downsiairs
the
(
yt
traces Of
ast
WORE &
iB
* * . - .
The summer days sped on, and Faith
had grown fond of the little red schools
house on the hill, where she taught her
sunburnt and tow-headed pupiis to low
her even while climbirg the Liresome
hill to knowledge and wisdom
There were now no words of kindness,
hints ‘hrown out her by envious
hearts and tongues, no tears caused by
words and deeds of injastice
And so Faith grew merry and giad
with joyousness of nature ana its
sunshine
With Mrs. Jones’ boarders she had
little to do be yvord the ordinary courte-
sies of social lif And as she was the
only working a
fluttering voung buttertlies, it may
imagined that her path and theirs dif
fered considerably during the days of
such idleness for them and daties for
wv
" nt
fo ne
the
ae [Rong SWarl
But one gri
hat was indeed the only cloud
Ummer sy.
The
had our heroine, and
t } in her
8
r of of one the young ladies
ith Faith had in every
118 preference for the
being rich, young, and with
share of iooks, it i
seemed
Faith couid not welcome
« ang
+ S84
# ir BOK d
hard that
love.
For weeks he had it
ithout ven-
courtesy, and
s devotion nor
Lo
turing beyond respect @
Faith was not blind to h
insensiblie to his kindness
But the thoughts of
her inmost heart
xd. He knew it
*
were not what he
by her averied face, her unwillingness
to allow him a tete a-tete with her, and
i | ways besides he knew
» one sweel woman in the
im had not i the lesson
r unconscious
desi
neat
1 4t
' jearned the
vos gy ¥ {io }
Medoly wWio
the strengt 1
she would learn it for hi
before this it had suddenly
there was yet no finer specimen of
ood tound tl young
Grey.
The deacon's house was oniy
distance from Mr. Jones’, ii
and coming to and from
to pass the fields wh
deacon and his * boys,”
t he Yes 1Y
0 0D 18n
¢ hay.
Bus it was on an aflernoon, soon alter
Faith had commenced teaching, that an
accident happened which introduced the
girl and John in a manner utterly sans
5 1 lef} school
Fen 8 CIOss
in the road,
and with lowered horns and angry eyes
reused to allow bh
Terrified
She had
¥
er Lo pass.
wwond meas
one in the field n
the road to assist her.
ow n
i Be
rted « run, but Al
the young feliow with ber gr
sweet eyes, as well as her lips, and when
iat the foot of the hill they
felt well acquainted, and each was con-
scious of a newly-learned pleasure,
described but simply fel
And ever since, when Faith had
essed hinrabare had been a friend y
a
riesé
nos
watch Towshg daiuty fig-
never failed, rain"oeniiine, to
wi he was at
its way to the building near by
In some way, Faith bad
the deaco
learned i
hour with the kind old lady
after school hours, and frequently she
ys happened
ure which
pass the fence
the young lady home
The degree of respect and affection
bestowed upon that young man was
"ad and after she
grew to know him better, she did not
wonder at it.
Intelligent and gentiemanly in con-
versation and manner, and winning in
ciety was pleasant to her heart, so long
starved and lonely in its longing for
friendship. And that by-and-bye they
became best of friends was pot sur-
prising.
“ Lor!" the deacon’s good wife would
exclaim when she used to see Faith
tripping by the fie.ds, and noticed the
alacrity with which
wouldn't it be the funniest thing it
fancy to each other.
dream, now, does she, of"
Here the deacon
rupted his wife with—'*Not a word
more, Jerushy. The gift of gab'll be
the death of things yet.”
ever forgot it,
Meanwhile, without knowing the
state of her own little warm heart so
far ns John Grey was concerned, Faith
yet knew it well enough to be sure that,
notwithstanding she had sincere liking
only intimate friend she possessed
roof—she could not and never could
love him, and therefore I's attentions
hurt and grieved her beyond measure,
And go it happened that one day—
one sweet day, when all the earth was
stood leaning upon the gate, weary with
her walk from school, and pausing a
few minutes under the shade of the
great old elms growing like sentinels
beside the gate, she had to put her
houghts of the young man into kind
but horest words, and tell him, when he
found her there and whis: ered his love
for her, that, although his friend, he
could never be her lover. And when
he left her she knew she would see him
no more,
As the August days drew near the end
of the month many boarders took flight,
and the old farmhouse was nearly
empty.
“Shall you be home to tea to-nigut,
Miss Faith?” asked Mrs. Jones, ore
morning, as Faith was starting (or
school. “'Cause I'm goin’ to bev that
there shortcake you like so wcll
Thought I'd tell ye, for like as not you'd
stop to veacon Hill's; you've sorter took
a notion to the old lady lately, haven't
er
Faith laughed.
“Why, yes, Mrs. Jones, she's so kind
to me—a/most as kind as you are, and
she geems so lonely, now that the deacon
is away, that 1 promised I'd take tea
with her this afternoon. Bat ean’t 1
have a piece of shor, on my return,
Pp ;
* Bless retty face!” repli
chiowunks frolicked and in
the boughs of 8
A
the good
“It ud
up the road
lens
Faith started
Lit to hersell that
woman thon
he strange of
{
a tnke a hankerin' artery
her takin' ways and sich!
took tea with Mrs. Hill, and
| AWAY pleasantly unti
Nn * i i ¥
CAROON 3 didn
y
that gal, with
So Fai
vi that her early bedtime was
d Mra nes would want to
up.” And presently she and
were wa king down the hil
togeter
ng of the dear old lady
ier to her than
wen, and spoke
#8 she Lad met
ing
in Arey
noon ight
8 talk)
§ Ore
HO own aunt i OD
gfully of the kindne
wi since leaving home.
The sweet voice grew
took a tone of sadness (for Faith's heart
» for some news from her
i no letter had come to her for
, and n saw thal tears were
ike diamonds in her eyes and
e spoke. He felt that
pger coniain himself, or
# words which lately had
upon tongue. That Faith
him in high regard he could not
t. And he could not but hope that
feeling was hiding there in
that dear heart of hers, if only be could
have a chance to search for it through
the brown eves which were dearer than
any eves in the world to hima. And at
inst he hand on her arm and
asked her wait one little moment
while he asked her a question.
‘1 am going away next week, Miss
Faith,” he “and it would be a
comfort to me if I knew I had aright to
earry your friendship with me. Please
tell me if 1 am worthy to offer you
mine."
BE
sweelsr as itl
aslios as 8d
id no
+} $i
fis
Waren
nid bis
0
i
Bal,
aith feit her heart heat quickly. She
poked st the tall, manly young fellow
who stood before her, with his blue,
honest eves looking straight into her
CORSE Straw
«formed, fair haired head,
ot fail also to notice how
suit of clothes he wore, but
eat and clean and whole,
tha
ooked at tid
were
d she knew that despite his poverty,
s hard life of honest toil in sun, wind
and rain, John Grey was every inch a
man, and as such worthy of the friend-
Oh, what a dull
oad
eG ged
ship he asked of her.
feeling her heart already acknow
in the simple anticipation of his going
away!
Fos,
wWaArme
answered I
looked up at 1
‘Apd 1 am
also, John" i,
Jolin drew nearer, and
iis hand
* Faith,
eas, do you
deed! he was welcome to her
trpest friendship, and
question fran
st she
is as shi
she added
Al Ine.
see
look Do you not
at it is more
n giving you?
iRiG
8 g that
me part of my nature,
o think that my love
mnoticed by you, dear,
aps in time you may let
5 lay that dear Lead
your name Das en-
h, don't turn away!
it in trusting and
i atl
right
i
e if 1am rig
red, and ere she had quits
reply a pair strong
tO & strong
ANswWe
» - of
Losey
¢ smothered on
APs,
“Ope thing mere, darling,” said John,
after a moment's silence—a sudden fecr
entering his heart—'* teil » i you love
me just for myself And li
looked at her wondering!
** Why, John, dear, what is there but
yourself to love?"
"Pp dariing, but
i : enuse you had
Wd and iy your mother
you might imagine you me,
n, after all, you are only being very
to a poor cf n
‘Well, de ]
y to ery orl
li; “do you know I
iave | knew 1 loved you
{ me you were going awa :
heart tait suddeniy cold and
ave been joving you a
time with.oat guessing it.’
“Bless tl i
Ohniy |
nee
sn sad
Ove
SICK
long
cow, I say!
langhed Jobin, as with bis arm about
Faith's waist, the two waiked on again,
all the happier for the short rest by the
roadside.
“And you don't care a bit for
being poor, and only a farm hand, li
“gay Eyes !' Jolin asked, when
was aying her at the farmhouse porel
and Swamy good-ni in true lov
ty
“Not a bit I" was the smiling reply.
“And was it true, bh, that a rich
fellow boarding here fell in Jove with
you and offered himselt #"
“Who told you that, sir ?" asked
Faith, trying to look stern.
i, a listie bird in the shape of Mrs.
Jones told Mrs. Hill one day that she
guessed it would be a match, ete. 1
happened accidentally to hear it; but |
heard iater that he had cleared cut.
Why didn't you marry him, Faithie ?”
No matter, sir; don't ask imperti-
nent questions! Ob, Joun, I couldn't
love him!”
Bo John went away satisfied, and
Faith went to bed and dreamed of cows
and John all night.
* * .
old coros
ie.
I
* -
“Lor’, dear child! s'posed you
gaged! Wall, now, I'm beat! To think
you hain't foun’ it out yet. Land alive!
the deacon slius told me I hed the gift
er gab! He'll nigh about kill me, he
an’ John together!
and the doctor ordered him to work on
i And a frien’ of the deacon’s he sent him
| up here, and the boy made us promise
| not to betray his secret, ‘cause he didn't
| keer about being jokedsubout it, srter he
| went back to the city, by a parsel of his
So me and
i the deacon kep still as mice! But Lor"!
i he ain’t no more a farm hand than you
] be.
{ and the deacon’s raie sorry to part with
thie. He'll be back to-night, and
{stylish frien’s, you know.
{ing you.”
»
{ _*Faithie, I've something to tell you,
i Come out under the trees.”
| It was John Grey who spoke, and
| Faith looked up from her desk, where
{she was busily setting copies for the
| morrow’s work, to see Lier lover's head
i poked in through the smali window at
{ the other and of the room.
The scholars were all gone, and Faith
{ gnve the owner of the head permission
| to enter in at the other door.
{ “Tell me here,’ she replted. “But 1
{ knew all the time, sir, what you have
| to tell me. John, I'm ashamed of you!
I didn’t think there was any deceit
aboul your nature, and, alter what I
learned this morning, I'm astonished!”
The gray eyes were scarcely as stern
in expression as the severe words war-
ranted, and Johu stoored for a kiss,
but the girl put him away.
“Excuse me, sir. I engaged myself to
one of Deacon Hill’s farm hands, not to
ou, a gentleman of elegant leisure!
ally, I hardly know you in this grand
suit of broadeloth! I feel quite
ashamed of myself with only this hum-
ble dress on~~the regular ‘schoolmarm’
dress, you see!” .
John lnughed, and, without farther
parley, coolly lifted the dainty figure
from its throne of state, and bore it out
under the elm trees,
There he made ample npology for his
fault, owning to the fact that he had ut
the last restrained from confessing his
true sucial position because he wanted
to discover if there might be anything
about him-—outside of his wealth -
worth the love of a girl like Faith.
* But now I have the proud satisfac.
tion of knowing that my darling does
really love me for myself; and we will
just take things into our own hands,
| dear, and be marvied soon,
inot
* Bat, Jolin——"" began Faith, blush.
i ing st his haste
But John interrupted her,
|
|
|
that vou must forgive me for; you are
mistaken about my name. It isn't
John Grey any longer, bul
Biake, if you please.”
Faith's astonishment was something
but yet it did not equal the amazement
of Uncle Dick and his family when a
joint letter from the lovers reached them
soon siter
“Just ike her!" exciaimed Anna
“It is simply disgusting!"
“Pihaw! Just Faith's luck! If
Howard Blake had kept his promise to
papa and come here this nonsense would
not Lave happened.”
weather. Faith and her husband started
for Europe, the young wife put out of
her heart for ever all the old eares and
sorrows: for, though she had sown in
tears, she had reaped in joy and giad-
ness, and verily her Darvest-lime Was
rich in fruition
A Yery Healistie Artist,
“Do you--ahem!—do you ever print
any art items in your paper?" asked a
rather seedy-looking man with long
hair, a vlouch bat and paint on his @in-
gers, soitly edging into the Post's inner
sanctum the other day.
Tue managing editor glanced savagely
up from his noonday sandwich, and evi
dently repressing a desire to add the
long-haired party to his viands, replied
in the affirmative.
“ Because,” continued the young man,
scowling critically at a cheap chromo on
the wall, “because I thought if you
wred to report the progress of real
esthetic art culture on this coast you
might send vour art critic around to
my studio to ake some notes."
“ Might, eh ?" said the editor between
chews,
“Yes, sir. For instance, there a mam.
moth winter storm landscape I've just
finished for Mr. Mudd, the Bonanza
king. It's called *' A Halistorm in the
Adirondacks,’ and a visitor who
down near it the other day caught a
sore throat in less than fifteen minutes.
JIM WOOD AND “110,
Sketeh of a Famed Hallvroad Engineer,
How lie Han a Train too Fast for Yan
devbile,
In the nomenclature of raliroad men
of reliability and speed. Jim Wood is
thie noted fas! engin erof the New York
and Hudson River
and 110 is his engine. Jim he
scarcely respond to the name of James
8 gentleman as well as an engineer
all & person one
(Of medium height,
but sinewy withal, the cnsua!
would ly mistake him
merchant # business man.
is intelligent and gene
is
us
fang
n of
His face
ia
tal, He siways dressed neatly but
ininly, and away from
would never be expected that his place
wre ab the throttle. He is the embodi
ment of modesty, and is reserved under
fi. circumsiances,
y
i
i
commodore used to like to ride
fuse, but this time he rode too fast,
to Syracuse in eighty-five
This was wonderful time
then, but Jim has often beaten it since.
Jim attained such & rate of speed Lhnl
slow up, On one occasion Superintend.
Rochester. The commodore put out
his hands behind him in his peculiarly
way, and did
much as glance at the gentlemen,
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engineer, the pride of the road,
Mr. Oyrus H. McCormick has given
in all to the Presbyterian theologionl
seminary in Chicago the sum of $300,000
The four Methodist bodies represented
in New Zealand —the We«leyans. Primi.
tive Methodists, United Methodist Free
Churches, and Bible COhristinns——are
proposing to unite, They have together
The American board states that it must
of the past year.
Last ‘year the Presbyterian bosrd of
known Lim nd again 0 request news.
paper reporters not to say anything
abot i. He was forty-eight years
old on the ninth day of October ast, a
though he does not bé ovet
thirty-two or thirty-three. Jim Wood's
history is an interesting story of the in.
domitable will of a poor boy. Ha enjoys
the distinction of having made thie fast.
est run for the distance in this or the
oid world ever recorded
The Syracuse (N. Y.) Courier says:
He was born at Weedsport, Cayuga
county, but spent his cariier days at
Auburn. His motherdied when lie was
00K
Why, I had to put n the finish.
ing touches with my ulster and Arctic
overshoes on,"
* Den't say *
“ Fact, sir ; and then there a litle
animal gem I did for Governor Gerkins
the other day-—portrait of his Scotch
terrier Snap. The morning it was done
a cat got into the studio, and the minute
it saw the picture it went through the
window like a ten.inch shell."
“Did, eh
“Yes: and the oddest thing about it
Jat when I next logked at the ons
ir was standing up all
poroapine. Now
a AL
ths
r LA8L
SLANG.
along his back like a
how do you account fo
“* Duano.”
“It just beats me. When the gover.
nor examined the work he insisted on
my painting on a post with tl
chained i Said didn’t
wha: might happen.”
“ Good scheme,” growled the
GOR
know
Io iL. lie
pre 81
dent maker
“Wasn't it, though
Lowever, is water views,
Geurce Bromiey, and how
he issometimes. Well, George dropped
inone morning and brought up belore
an eight by twelve view of the San Jos
quin river, with a boat in the
ground, | blessed if George
absent-min take off Lis coat and
step clear through the canvas trying to
jump into the bost—thougut he'd go
out rowing, you know,
** Have they carried out that
man with the
{itor, winking
had come in just then
“Smalipox ? Tha!
realistic historical subject I'm engaged
on now, entitled * The Plague in Egypt.’
I had only completea four of the princi.
pal figures when ia Tuesday the jan.
itor, who sleeps In t next room, was
taken out to the hospital with the more
pronounced case of leprosy you ever
saw, and this morning the boy who
mixes the paints began to scale off like
a slate roof, 1don't really know whether
to keep on with the work or not. How
does 1 strike You ld
“ It strikes me that you'd better slide,”
said the unesthetic moider of pubic
opinion, grufly
“ Don't care to send a reporter round,
then
* No, sir.”
“ Wouldn't like to give an order for a
life-sized * Guttenberg Discovering the
Dist hoi
You
abstracled
My
anow
' An?
1 adn
deadly
Llu ¥
aurney-
sald Lh
i who
LO swear or copy
reminds me of &
és
He
‘H
Printing Press,’ eh ¥
“Nary order.”
“Don't want a seven by nine group ol
1 .iaff done in oil or crayon P"
“No,” said the editor, as hq
lowered himaelf into the depths of a
lender on the Romanian imbroglio.
“but if you care to touch up two win-
dow frames, some desk legs and the
fighting editor's black eye for four bits
and a lot of comic exchanges, you can
sail in."
“It's a whack!” promptly ejaculated
the disciple of esthetic culture, and bor-
rowing a cigarette from the dramatic
eritic on account, he drifted off after his
brushes. — San Francisco Post.
A ————
+
tl
again
Eating Twe Dinners,
Every nation has its own table eti-
quette, to violate which is to commit a
blunder: and that, according to some
of the social codes, 1s worse than aerime,
{In Turkey and Arabia, where
his appreciation of his guest in a way
| that disgusts the European visitor. He
{ fow], and with his fingers puts it into
{the guest's mouth. Wiliingly or un-
| though it seems an emetic. To refuse
{ would grossly insult the host who i
{ honoring him.
{ dinner requires that none should begin
{to eat before the honored guest, and
| that all should cease eating when and
ins often as he stops. This custom
{ proved embarrassing to one of the
| American professors in the Japanese
scientific school, to whom, as soon as
he arrived in Tokio, the capital, the
officials gave a grand dinner.
Unfortunately, the professor, not know.
of the American missionaries previous
to going to the banquet. He was placed
at the head of the table, and etiquette
made it necessary that he should begin
eating before anybody else would com-
mence.
He did begin, and then tried to ex-
cuse himeelf in broken Japanese, saying
that he had just risen from dinner
was in vain. His excuse was received as
a polite affectation. His host, thinking he
had a delicate appetite, pressed him to
eat. Besides, whenever he stopped eat.
ing, the whole company stopped, and
they were very hungry.
Course after course of soup, fish,
menis and savory side-dishes came and
went. The professor, out of considera-
tion for his hosts’ appetites, tasted each
course and then stopped. Everybody
else did the same. He could do no less
and no more. When the last dish was
taken from the table, he was surfeited.
but the company still felt hungry.
One of the Japanese dinner customs
wiil be appreciated by the boys and
girls. The guests carry away in their
long flowing sleeves all the cakes and
confectionery that are left. Once the
professor, having given a stereopticon
exhibition at the Nukador's palace, was
invited to partake of refreshments.
Cakes and candies and sweetmeats,
stamped with stars, leaves and flowers,
were piled upon the tab'e, colored with
all the tints of the rainbow. They were
too artistic to eat, the professor thought;
but the lord-chamberiain told him he
might take them home to show his
friends, and he did.
his own resources with the burden of
an infirm: father. July 21, 1851, at the
age of eighteen, he secured a position as
fireman on the Syracuse and Auburn
railroad. That was before the Central
was built, apd when the old wooden
rails were in use, Connecting
roads ran from Utieato Buffalo, and es :h
had a president and superintendent, Une
division was from Utica to Syracuse, an.
other from Syracuse to Auburn, a third
from Auburn to Rochester, and =a
fourth from Rochester to Buffalo,
Two freight trains a week ran be
tween Syracuse and Rochester, Young
Jim did not become a railroad man from
preference but from necessity. He was
sirap
such a man as you."
The old commodore was 80
pleased with ona of his rides that he
Two years ago Jim drew William H.
Vanderbilt and his party of English
friends from Buffalo to Syracuse. Be.
iis titled friends forward to the en ine
and introduced them to Jim with the
remark : “This isthe engic cer that drew
Bennett so fast.”
As long as Jim Wood has been run-
ring no train drawn by him hss experi-
In this respect he
particularly fortuna e. Bul
hind been
who preached to 121,475 sony in 39
Bates and Territories. 5 the result
138 churches were organized, 10 45
There are 639 Baptist churches, whites,
Of the 6390 churches only
Sunday. The
or missions the
The Hungsrian Lutherans number 701
The Slavonic
quire several languages. C mneécted
was good and he needed the money. He
saw at the outset that he should prob.
ably follow the business through life,
ard he determined to improve every
opportunity. His earnest and willing
Ways won Lhe confidence of the officers
of the road, and three years inter ho was
position of engineer
His first engine was the * Robert H.
Ives. ” built at Taunton, Alass. It was
a pri air compared with No.
110 of to-day. The driving-wheels were
five in Ou or, at i
cylinder 16x80
Jim ran betweer
chester nd w a retell
way and a pa nger the other,
Lie pull Rochester one night, not
8 promotion, he wa: told
p steam Up, as he was wanted 10
ther trip. Jim thought it was
t offered no objection.
1iit by this time from
rf. sand one ol @
ran over
Un
ugine of the ex-
, and Jim was
rain through. Jim
e around, and siter ob.
nd tue] hacked down and
or Bulan was
ie, and when Jim
wed, with ill-con-
ted to the
x nrimitive
i Timi ve
ia 1
for
GRE RICE 41
to Ket
HARE BDO
that
tan
Tess “
have a pretty time to.
ht engine, and a boy
n to Syracuse. eighty-one miles,
ired minutes, with
fasiest Lime
was not
Jim Wood'
outh for
8, in i, 8 wonderful
1d Conductor Butman
tened f his wit® at
» rate hi being whir over the
In after years the presidents and
tendents used with keen
the fredeht en
trip was on a dark
early spring, and in the
vy rain Sor
mstracted
and it
8
achievement,
Was noeariy
:
out
Was 43
OF and
unae
Jim's
rith 1ts per-
gave Jim a handsome
A short time afterward Jim
was put on the Central in cliarge of the
engine Join Wilkinson. The Wilkin.
son was built st Schenectady. It was
supplied with a driving wheel five and
h feet cylinders
X
€
engine was so
formance that it
-
present
: bap .
i! in Gismeter, ang
i i
15x94.
drew General Cass
Rochester, It w
Wilkinson, which
up for the ooo:
of Syracuse, looked
heat, Jim's next
Rogers locomotive, No. 108,
was mounted on six wheels
and fitted with oylicders 15x30,
fourth engine was the kdward
Fellows, a Schenectady engine.
from Syracuse
had been trimmed
sion by the Continentals,
and acted
engine was a
foo!
Gi.
The
high, and the cylinders 18x28
Jim's fifth engine wa: a Rogers,
103, with six-foot
No. 110, Jim's sixth and
engine, was but by
Mechanic Henry Watkeys, at the com.
pany's shops in 8S There is
nearly as much interest in 110 as in Jim
himself, on account of the fast
runs it has made, sand because it is
guided by the only engineer who ever
fame at the throttle,
The diameter of its driving wheels is
six feet and two inches, Its steam cyl
inders are 17x24 and its weight isabout
The engine was buiit
ran.
No
WUse
i
under his direction. It has lately been
and the spark arrester. No. 110 has
been running almost steadily since
August, 1874, sand has never given out.
The engine is a handsome one, and
always comes oul of the round-house as
bright and clean as a new dollar. Jim's
run is af. st ona, but he sustains his good
record. He \akes the special Chicago
7:45 o'clock, and returns with the special
New York express in the morning at
Whenever any of the
of the Central go over the
Jim is sure to be called
to draw them. In fact, on
officers
road
upon
for duty. Jin: drew the New York
Ferald fast train from Syracuse to Buf-
falo the nine Bundays that it ran. The
first trip it reached Syracuse twenty-two
minutes late. The train came to a stand-
still in Buffalo nine minutes ahead of
time,
Jim brought the special train contain
ing James Gordon Bennett's party from
Buffalo to Syracuse, March 1, 1876,
The run was the fastest ever made in
the world, considering the distance,
The 157.74 miles were traversed in (wo
hours and forty-five minutes. Jim ran
into Syracuse at the rate of 68.54 mies
an hour. Twice the engine stopped
for water, and five times it slowed up.
The time was taken by two gentlemen
on board, When the train arrived at
Syracuse, Jim was taken back and in-
troduced to the Iadies and gentle-
men He bore himself with becoming
dignity and made a most favorable
impression. Jim once ran from
Joraan to Syracuse, a distance of
seventeen miles in fifteen minutes, in-
cluding the finn] halt Jim took Wm.
H. Vanderbilt from Rochester to Syra-
cuse in the fastest time the distance
was ever covered. Tae run, eigh y-one
miles, was made in the remarkable time
of seventy.five minutes. Vanderbilt
was delighted with his ride. An inci-
dent is related of a trip that Commodore
Vancerbili took behind Jim Wood:
on the track. In
gent.eman the other day, he said that
striking a person on the road was the
terrible sight Le ever saw.
made him sick with horror for the in-
most
¢lse seens to be able
much speed out of
Lie, Other engineers
have tried to run 110, but the en.
gine appeared to know that a strange
hand was at the throttle. Jim takes the
best care of an engine, and he probably
and no
one
na
to get
Al engine ns
Messrs. Moody and Sankey have bean
holding meetings at San Francisco and
Oakland, Cal., with large and interest.
ing congregations. This work was fol.
workers of the Pasific coast, which met
About 160 Sunday services, and an
the road
yardmaster at DeWitt, the great
* make-up" point, refers with pride to
the fact
firing with him. Mr. Glen was then
running the “pony” engine Provi-
on the Auburn road. Jim was
also the last Greman that Mr. Glen had
as the latter was appointed to an im-
portant position on the Central al the
ne the former was promoted
Wood possesses strong manly
trails character. Temperate in Lis
habits, is ns well preserved as the
average man at thirty. Many an erratic
engineer owes his place to him. Some
poor fellow with a taste for drink might
satisfy his appetite, and for this perhaps
would receive Lis bine
de Hee
iy
wii
Jim
of
Lie
he
held each month,
The printed report of the missionary
for South India, heid at
tistical tables, which
1859 have now become 168 4352. and the
32 780 adherents is now 295.928, show
to the Church Missionary society, 51,-
the Society for the
American Baptist Missionary Union,
remaindar, acout 46.000, to various
Jim is a supreme favorite with ail rail-
road men. Because he is daring it does
not follow that he is reckless.
contrary he is one of the most carefu
men on the road, and can always be re-
the world over. london papers have
contained long sceounts of rans made by
America’s fas: engineer. Jim Wood's
areer shows that intelligence has as
much todo with running an engine as
a knowledge of machinery.
two are combined it is at once evident
tliat a master-band is at the throttle.
Habits of Thrift,
Habits of thrift are defined by the
London Globe ns acts of self-denial for
thie sake of some object in the future, and
it is just such acts .s these which people
in all cities find it extremely difficult to
practice. It is a mstier to a very grest
extent depending on natural disposi-
tion, which varies just as much in on¢
as in another, There are some
by nature are endowed with i he
Cinss
who
thie bee, and the ant,
and absorbing pleasure
what they get; not, perhaps, for its own
snke, but as a measure of sucoessiul ao-
and as a kind of reserva power,
which they have at command should
they choose to exert it.
iy
ill
ton,
sve nothing of this in their compo.
sition. The power thal money gives
seems to them dormant and useless un.
ties.
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A Water Telescope,
To anglers and persons who are fond
of subagqueous investigations the water
sed in some parts ol
Europe, is a very useful instrument, It
to obviate the difficulty
which ripples on the surface of the water
48 to the future, rarely forsee trouble,
sive of the coming time, and very apt to
meet his troubles half way.
These two types of chiaracier are as
amenable
any
considered
influences to
be
modifying
SOAYeelV
class. but are found inal. Education
is comiooniy regarded as the proper cure
for thrittless habits, and to a certain
it is. Bat education
cannot
The accumu-
always
Moreover, although
implies self restraint and
it of course Lias a ten
d the view and to create
ant point of time.
dency to expan
simple and inexpensive kind. The habit
is the one point to
which education must tend, if it is to
develop thrift: and looking around on
clas more than another, though the
may vary considerably.
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Cruelty and Clyilization,
The mutilations of prisoners exhib-
ited on Assyrian sculptures are not sur-
passed in cruelty by any we find among
the most bloodthirsty of wild reces:
and Rameses II, who delighted in hav
ing himself sculptured on temple walls
captives by the hair and striking off their
heads at a blow, siaughtered during his
conquesta more human beings than a
thousand chiefs of savage tribes put to
gether. The tortures inflicted on cap-
tured enemies by Red Indians are not
greater than were those inflicted of old
on felons by crucifixion, or on suspected
rebels by sewing them up in the hides
of slaughtered animals, or on heretics
by smearing them over with eombusti-
bles and setting fire to them. The Dam-
aras, described ns so utterly heartless
that they laugh on seeing one of their
number killea by a wild beast, are not
worse than were the Romans, who made
such'elaborate provisions for gratifying
themselves by watching wholesale
slaughters in their arenas.
Is the numbers destroyed by the
hordes of Attila were not equaled by
the numbers which the Roman army
destroyed nt the conquest of Selucia,
and by the numbers of the Jews mas.
sacred under Hadrian, it was simply
because the occasion did not permit.
The cruelties of Nero, Gallienus, and
the rest msy compare with those of
Zingis and Timour; and when wo read
of Caracalla, that after he bad mur
dered 20000 friends of his murdered
brother, his soldiers forced the senate
to place him among the gods, we are
shown that in the Roman people there
was a ferocity not less than that which
deifies the most sanguinary chiefs among
the worst of savages, Nor did Chris-
tianity greatly change matters.
Throughout medismval Europe political
offenses and religious dissent brought
on men carefully devised agonies, equals
ing, if not exceeding, apy inflicted by
the most nrutal of barbarians. — _ erbert
Spencer, tn Fortnigh ly Rev ew.
ee RW
The harder the day's work, the softer
the night's slumber.
glass, namely, an ordinary bucket or
harrel with the bottom knocked out;
about three feet jong and nine inches in
the brosd or bottom end,
and 'arge enough at the top tosccommo
date the ob erver's eyes—into the broad
end should be inserted a plate of strong
some weight, to weigh il
down: thirdly, the simplest way is to
get atinor zine tube like a map case,
his shouid be about three and a haif
and three inches in diameter
The bottom of this also should Lave
glass and be weighed. When the water
12 clear this instrument will enable the
cheserver to see from three to twenty
when the water is thick the glass is
The Norwegian fishermen are
constantly in the habit of using the in-
strument., and often discover by its
aid shosls of fish which would other-
wise escape them. In searching for
wrecks, bodies of drowned persons, of
ost objects of any kind, the water tele.
scope is invaluable. By it naturalists
enabled to observe the habits
fish and the growth of
subaqueons vegetation. To water
parties who picnic on rivers or
inkes it would offer a new enjoyment
in revealing the subagueous scenery.
Every reader used to the water will im-
can be put, and a: they are cheap of con-
general use on rivers and lakes.—Rail
way Jour nal
Burned in Melted Lead,
I'he establishment of the St. Louis
wa: esught in a stream of
inches. The fire was caused by the
ot lead was being smelted for refining.
the engineer, was siand-
ing at the door of the engine room. He
started to get his coat and dinner
bucket. The molten lead, which was
runnin: on the ground in every direc.
tion, had reached this part of the build-
ing, and & narrow stream had made its
way directly across the path betwen
Williams std the place where his
coat was hanging. As he went for
ward he gave a litte leap, expect.
ing to clear the stream, but
tripped over. Falling, he dropped
artly into the hissing pool that
Pad begun to widen and spread out.
Just at this point two men near by
saw the engineer's distress, and
gelf up without giving the metal a
cliance to burn him seriously. He even
went and got his coat, and was return.
ing to cross the leaden flood at =
ruption came along from a different
direction and caught him. This time
it was impossible for him to . The
two men tried to reach him, but the
consuming mass was covering the whole
floor, running small channels in every
direction, so that the men could not get
near the struggling engineer. He was
seen to fall, and, all efforts to rescue
him having failed, the building burned
over and about him, and the ruins fell
upon him.
Words of Wisdom
If you would never have an evil deed
spoken of in connection with you, don't
do one.
It is a great misfortune not to have
enough wit to speak well, or not enough
judgment to keep silent.
It is always better to keep outof a
quarrel than to make it up ever so ami-
cably after you have got intoone.
When yoa do not need help from any
one then any one will help you; and
when you do need help the world is
somchow always looking the other way.
No man ought to complain if the
world measures him as he measures
others. To measure one with his own
ardstick may be hard, but it is also
air.
The wise ones say there is nothing so
hard to bear as prosperity; but most
men would like to engage in some hard
work of that description just to have a
practical illustration of the adage.
The truest help which one can render
to a man, who has any of the insvitable
burdens of life to carry, is not to take
his burden off, but to call out his best
stiength that he may be able to bear it.
Moody and Sankey have promised to
pnd the next Christian convention in
nblin.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST,
The American Indians had no temples
or idols when the white man first came
hither. ch sited
The iar sheep ranch in the Un
States is a es t und Webb cous
Texas. It has 300,000 acres, and pastures
390,000 sheep.
When Adolphus sold his old maid
aunt that she was “fixed just like a
book,” probably he meant that she
looked prioemer than usoal
There are said to be 10,000 buffsioes
between the end of the Northern Pacific
track and Deadwood, D. T,, driven
within the limits of civilisation by the
Indians,
The owner of a large establishment
for the shipping and sue of horses snd
earringes, lately started in Suffalo, N.
Y.. proposes to introduce apparaius
for grooming and clipping horses by
steam.
The girls’ seminary at Northfield
Mass., established by Mr. .
evangelist, is full, containing now about
one hondred pupils, including the In.
dian girls, The istier are mak ye
lent progress in their studies. They are
very fond of music.
The growth of railroad traffic in this
country has been marve In 1857
the gross carpings of all roads were
§30,456355; in 1861 the earnings hind
reschied $139 090,000; in 187], $403,328, -
208: and ast vear the earnings amounted
to $520,012, 999,
Tue present annus! production of
quinine is estimated as follows through.
out the world : Ameriex, 63,000 pounds;
Germany, 56 950 pounds; lialy, 45 006
pounds; France, 40,000 pousnds; Eng-
isnd, 97.000 pounds; India, 13500
| pounds.
*
*
Water Fowls for Farmers,
It is an unsecoountable fact that the
| raising of geese and ducks in quantity
| for the market is so much negiected by
| our American farmers, while Eoglish-
| men possessing only a few mores and
| access to a stream or pond mise such
| large numbers with a good profit. Many
{readers of this paper have ecrecks
{ running through barrea paris of their
| land, near by which could be placed
| chieap houses for geese, as which no
| jand or water fowls can be so easily
rarsed or al so good a profit.
| Having once secured a good breeding
| stock of three or four geese mated to one
i gand(r, all large fine specimens, the
same flock can be retl for breeders
| for six or eight years at jeast, In sum-
| mer they will thrive on pasture alone.
| The geese begin laying in February,
{and lay thirteen to fifteen eggs.
{Either a turkey hen or a
Asiatic hen car be used for incuba
ing, which requires thirty days;
the egge with tepid water for about ten
days before hatching. Feed the young
goslings * little and otten™ with hard
| boiled eggs, bread crumbs and scalded
mesl; they are soon ready to shift for
themselves, and can be marketed with-
out extra fattening as * green o
Even the fa-mer who has no stream
of running water, can raise geese profit~
ably by giving them plenty of iresh
water for drinking and a args tank or
tub for bathing. The principal varie
ties of thoroughbred geese are the Tou-
louse, Bremen or Embden and Hong
Kong or China. Of the e the Toulouse
are tLe largest, having reached the maxi-
mum weight of sixty pounds per pair,
and gosings forty-eight and a hail
pounds per pair, at the Birmingham
show in England. They are of a gray
color, with white on the belly, and are
valped for their feathers, and are as
often as large as the Toulouse—the
greatest weight ever known being
tifty-eight and a half pounds per pair
The meat is very delicate, they are
hardy, and good layers, The Hong
K ong peesenre much smajier than either
of the preceding, bul are the best layers
known: often laying three or four litters
na
merits of ducks.—W. A. Burpee, in
Maryland Farmer.
National Debts,
The following table presents a succine
statement of the national debts of var-
ions Europesn countries in 1865 and
1879 (reduced to gold currency), and
underneath the footings we have pinced
the figures for the United States for
1865 and 1880:
States.
Germany ....
Austria- Jung
France
Grest Boia,
Russia.
$610 470,000
1,473.220 000
2 646 560 000
3,848,460 000
wep
Ses.
$3EE3
28
28
gg
BE wer 55 00 60 30 wr
«
o
hd
*
i
| Deomark ...,
Sweden. .....
NOrway « o.oo
g
&
To
©
vos
3
-
£
£52
3
®
o
Greece . ....
Turkey, Eu..
Farkey. Asia.
Switzerland ..
gis
2
2
5
g
,
6,664 v0
Total...... $12,508 350,000 $20,585,006 000
United States,
1,586.010,504
1865 and 1880. 2.756 431.571
This table shows that England and
the Netherlands are the only Eu
countries that have reduced their debts
since 1865, and that even in these two
instances the reduction has been com-
paratively slight. In fifteen years over
$3,000 000 000 has been added to the ip-
dehtedness of Europe, while over
£870 000,000, or sbou* one-third of the
public debt of cur own country,has been
paid. In 1865 the United States owed
more than any other natin in the world
except Great Britain, In 1830 it owes
less than France, Great Britain, Russia,
Spain, Austria-Hungary and italy.
The Scoundrel He Was After.
A well-dressed Galveston gentleman
found himself in a very em ng
situation the other day. He had left his
money at home, and not a nickel or a
ear ticket could he find anywhere in his
clothing. He was about to leave the car
when a perfect stranger with a sinister
cast of countenance tendered the gentle-
man & nickel, who gladly it
and dropp:d it into the box. The gen-
tieman then shook his unknown benefsc-
tor by the hand, thanking him for the
confidence snd accommodation, and
asking for his address so as to return
the . oney. * Never mind,” responded
the generous man, fiercely, “it's a
counterfeit, anyhow. The street car
gompany will make that driver redeem
it. They will dock his wages [I've
got no spite at you. He is the scoundrel
I am after. He trifled with the affec-
tions of my sister, but this will show
him what sort of a man I am when my
blood is up.”—Galvesi nm News.
Death in a Fog.
London fogs, which are now a'tracting
more than usual attention, are known to
be injurious to health, but are not gen-
erally credited with the power of im-
mediately extinguishing life. It scems,
however, by the evidence given at an
inquest held by Dr. Hardwicke the
othe: day, that their effect is occasion
ally that of deadly poison, Theinquest
was on the body of a woman who, ina
dense fog, attempted to find her Nay
home after paying a visit to a friend.
While feeling her way along a street in
Barnsbury by theside of another woman
for mutual protection, the fog “
down her throat” and she fell to the
ground. A man living 11 the neighbor.
nood, hearing what had occurred, groped
his way to the spot and tried to re-
store her with brandy, but Juiling ia bis
eflorts, with some difficulty g d of
a policeman, and at the p
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cording e m rit .
asphyxiated by the fog. ~~
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