The Brooklet.
Whence somest thou, Oh, little brook,
With silvery voice and limpid look?
Reveal to one all worn with strife
The secrst of thy jovous life.
The rock's dark bosom is my hots,
Through field and woody glen 1 core
The kindly hearons, serene and cool,
Are mirrored in my shiniag pool.
HE
KURTZ,
And so my life is full and free,
What matter whore my course shall be *
Since He who brought me to the day
Will surely guide me all the way,
«Mom the German of Gath, .
FRED
Kditor and
MyiRights,
Yes, God has made me a woman,
And I am content to be
Just what He meant, not reaching out
For other things, since He
Whe knows me bost and loves me most has or
dered this for me.
VOLUME XIV.
“I want you to tell me about your ! her and took her hands in mine. “Lola”
people and your home." {TI said, “whatever lies before you,
I felt as if her little, soft, plump hand | whether joy or sorrow, remember that
bad dealt a blow upon my bare heart; | you have me always for your friend. You
but 1 answered, simply : must rely upon me as you would upon
“1 have no home, and my people are | vour”.-1 paused and then said ‘father.’
all dead or gone from me that is, my It was an effort, bat I forced myself to
parents and sisters and brothers, for I | say it. Then, before leaving, 1 stooped
never had a wife or Wn child, which is and Kiss a her sweat lips It was the
what vou meant, perhaps.” first time and wonld probably be the last
“Yes: I meant that It is so sad. | and I valued it as people do value what
thought, perhaps, you might have a | can come to them but once
danghter Like me, and that made you Ri When 1 reac hed the house, the address
kind.” of which Lola had given me, I mquired
“No, 1 have neo daughter,” I said | for her lover—he was gone. The woman
slowly * M though I am, in truth, old | who kept the house conld give no infor
enough to he your father.” mation except that she thought he had
“And yon have never loved any one gone West.
never wanted to be married to some one I was unfeignedly distressed. In that
who was good and beautiful and kind? | moment 1 rose above self and thought
How strange!" only of Lola. How shall I describe the
These questions were scarcely marked | scene that followed my announcement to
by any interrogative accent. She seemed | the little creature? The heart-rending
to be merely stating them as facts, with | grief. the wild denial of her lover's
a gentle reluetance. But, though she | faithlessness! Khe utterly refused to
expected no answer from me, I was irre- | believe it. She would far sooner, she
sistibly prompted to confession, said. think that he was dead. After her
Yes, Lola,” I said, “I knew some | first outburst of passionate grief
one like that once, and I loved her. But | over, she calmed herself and said, stand
it was long ago, and we were parted.” ing up: “1 I must not
“Oh, why did yon part? she said, | stay here.”
passionately. * Why did vou suffer any Ihe sight of her
thing to part you? Was she not willing | me.
to give up all, to leave home and friends ““ Oh, Lola,” I said, “ where ¥
and country and evervthing to follow She flung herself back on the lounge
love, as I have done ¥ i with a motion of utter despair. I went
Urged on hy a deep excitement, she ta her and throw myself on my knees
had revealed her secret, and I half feared | beside her and folded both her tremb
she would repent and trv to retract if, | ling hands in mine
but she did not. She seemed either * Lola, be brave,” Isaid. * Face the
to be unconscious that anything had been | worst. It is a bitter thing to say, but 1
divulged, or unconscious of the fact | believe he is false to vou. 1 believe the
that 1 had not known it all the time. illness was a feint. and I believe he is
“You do well,” I said, fervently. “It | willfully lost to yon. My little darling,
is worth the sacrifice. God grant you | it is hard 1 know, but not so bad asif vou
do not repent it.” had married him and found it out after
“1 have no fear,” she said, confidently. | wand. But do not despair I will not
* Fear could not live in my heart, which | leave you, and you shall tell me just what
holds a perfect love.” vou would have me do. I will take yen
Then, so simply and naturally, she | hack to Spain if you want to go."
; told me her story. She had become en-| “1 cannot! I could not bear it! And
With none to eavil or question, by never a look gaged to a young American sent out to | I have no money.”
«gainsaid, Spain as agent for some New York busi- | © Never mind that " 1 said
ness firm, and he had gone home a few | plenty, more—far more than 1 want.
months ago, expecting to return: but would give my life to comfort von
his superiors had made other arrange- {will £0 DOW, if vou say so. and take pas
ments, and he had written that although | sage on the next returning ship.’
he would be stationary in New York! +] could not bear it. I never will go
thereafter, he was coming back to marry | back,” she said; * no one loves me there
her and bring her to her home in the 1 am only a useless little burden. I never
new world. At the time set for his ar | will go back I”
rival, however, he had sent a letter in- «Then stay,” I said, passionately—
stead, saying an attack of illness pre- | « gov with me. Let me love and com.
vented his coming, but he was now con | fort von, Stay with me always, Leola
valescent, thongh the physicians said he | x, one can ‘ove yoru asl will”
must not take the voyage forsome time. | yt fpst I think she did not understand
“When I got that letter,” said Lols, | \.v meaning, but when she did she
“I could do nothing but ery and fret for wrenched her hands from mine
the first two or three days. I did not eat | 00 to the middle of the room.
or sleep, and my annt, whom 1 lived « How ean you? How can you
with, said I would die, and was very | ....}7 shesaid. ** Do you think I could
hard and cross. I was utterly w retched, | ever love any one else after having given
until one night as I lay thinking it all | vc Jove to him? No: I have loved him
over I resolved that I would go to him. :
He had once, half-hesitatingly, suggested
it, saying it would save so much expense, ‘
and he is not at all well off ; but 1t had |, .<t face the truth. You cannot
existence, and having settled my belong- irightened me 80 that he gave it up, say- | i this strange country all alone. Yon
ings in my stateroom, I turned ont to take 1g he would spend all he had, sooner jy... either friends nor money. You
a survey of my fellow-passengers. It was than give me the anxiety and trouble of cannot work, and if yon could von must
antumn and the last of the sammer tour- such a voyage. But now—now that he | not be alone. 1 cannot help you and
ists were returning, and both saloons was ill and alone—I could think no | maintain you unless you take my name
and decks were crowded with animated longer of my dread ; indeed, it wasgone, | ,,3 occupy the honomble position ol
groups. Every one seemed cheerful anc and all I thought of was to goto him, | pc wife, But I will not force iton you
gay, and already several embryo flirta and comfort and nurse and take care of | For the present | will find some safe place
tions could be detected among the young him. So I got my aunt’s consent, though | — ra J
people, of whom the passengers wer she would not give it at first, and I took |
largely composed. Being an outside: the very next steamer. And see how
myself, traveling alone, and having lef easy and pleasant it has been! He need | 0,4 jove von."
such tender pursuits far back in th, not have been afraid for me; but, then, | «), vou love me?” she said, facing
vagmeness of the past, I slwused myself he could not know, and neither could I, |. 00 4 & waking with eager vehemance
with merely watching and listening, an | that I should find you! “a Oh. 1 do. Fao" Ismid. =
it is perhaps not smirising that 1 soon Her ardent tone and look, as she said “Then find him for me I
found myself wearied. It was for the. these last woxds, thrilled me strangely I could not speak at once. For one
most part snch senseless chatter, such: It was a spontaneous, affectionate out- moment a wild nie had budded in my
armant frivolity that I heard, such con burst that pained while it caressed me. | Lreast, and it would not die without a
scious ping and airy fluttering that i And beside my own personal feching, a struggle. Then 1 looked at her
Saw. f course after a while I found ex | dreadful misgiving about her weighed | said, calmly:
ceptions to this tendency, but the quiet ' on'my heart. She was so confident, so | “I will tv. I will do my utmost. I
and sensible de on board, as usual, full of trust— what if she should be de- | wy] give il my most conscientions ef
occupied the kgronnd. ceived in tifis man? What if the attack | forts. But, Lola, if 1 fail?”
_ Failing to find myself interested ther of illness were a mere subterfuge? Such | “Tf vou fail to find him.” she said,
in these surronndings, I began a leis things had been. Itumed cold and then | « or if ‘yon find him to be false, then 1
urely inspection of the vessel, wandering ' hot at the mere suggestion. Iasked ber | wij) give vou the reward vou wish i
abont its nooks and crannies, and famil lover's name, but it was unknown to me, | will marry you.’ : 4
iarizing myself with my little island though the nine of the house he repre It was not & rapturous consent, but I
home. And so strolling along, I came sented was familiar. But that went for | found a wonderful satisfaction in it
upon a =mall, quiet, gray-clad figure nothing as to the man’s personal charc- | despite my fond sympathy for her I
seated alone and l6oking wistfully over ter, and the fear thst this might be | was not being selfishly happy at hor ox-
the waters. As'shewasquiteunconscions treacherons made me sick with dread. | pense, for, on my own part, 1 entirely
of my proxunity, I stepped a fow paces | What would be the end, if my appre- | believed in her lover's treacherousness
off and examined her closely. Shelooked | hensions proved correct? What would | thongh there was nothing that could 0
almost a child, so small and slight she become of the poor child? A wild | for real proof. It was a foregone cOn1-
was, and yet one would not have dared thought suggested itself. It was a! clusion with me, and it was, therefore
to treat her as a child. There was a self- strange mixture of deep pity for her and | only its issue I rejoiced abt ’
reliance and serenity about her entirely deep joy, tempered with Join and yet | In my present state of feeling it was
unchildlike, but, sll the same, very | sweet with hope, for mysel ensy to fall into hopeful dreams of the
pretty to see. Her complexion wasdark | At last the voyage was over, and the | future : it was impossible not to. And
and very rich, and her cheeks charm- realization of this fact made me unae- | now, as she sat meekly on the sofa after
ingly rounded and curved, and her countably sad. For Lola was dearer to | 4] her passionate struggles were over 1
eyes, turned seaward, were the largest : me every day. In her little attacks of | felt convinced that, if I conld win her
and darkest 1 ever remembered to! illness, which she had not altogether | hand in the way we had agreed upon, I
have seen. . Indeed, #0 uncom- escaped, I had carried her about mn my | oonld also, with time, win her pure
mon was their size that, when some arms, like a child, and she had leaned | heart for my own. It ‘was a glorious
sound aroused her and she turned them | on me and looked up to me with a child- | goa) Something to live for, sng
slowly on me, I was dazzled by them ish confidence and trust that was un- |g, work and struggle for My life and
thay gave her face such a strange aspect, speakably sweet to the lonely old | gtmost energies had found the incentive
and yet it was a peculiarity far from bachelor whose attitnde toward this | they had lacked so long.
being unlovely. She was Spanish—I young girl had seemed to touch his age | We fell now into a composed and
had seen that at a glance—and the and world-weariness with a magic wand | quiet talk, and she listened patiently
* 5 + . » ; $ ‘
mute, uncertain way in which she looked ' that had made them drop from him like | while I unfolded my plans for her. But
at me prompted the conviction that she a garment. | there rested on her lovely face suc
felt herself, even at the outset of thi sto 2 y i . tT ey cl
of this Lola and I stood together on deck, all | ook of unutterable sorrow that 1 had to
voyage, hampered by the fact that she our bags and parcels strapped and ready | turn my eves away. How blessed it
knew no other tongue. After that one for moving. She had not told her lover | would be to smooth away this look—to
long, steady glance, she turned her face she was coming, and ef course he wonld | recall the gay vivacity of my own bright
AWAY again and 1 heard her sigh gently. not meet her. I reproached her for not | Lola! What a happy task! In bata of
After a moment's hesitation I moved just | having telegraphed, feeling a strange re- | 411 1 felt I should succeed.
a step nearer and addressed her in her lnctance to go and hunt him up; but she | A Jong silence had fallen upon nus
lan asking if it was her first answered simply that she conld not af- | th "PE y
urge ford it. All LE money was required for both. Fhe zoom was Sour, aud] had
Bhie tmmed with a swift: impulsive the voy a a Ee oy. | °t oper the doce lehding into the hall,
; A ipuisive the vovage, and, sides, she added, | T was glad of an excuse to Zo so, aus it
smile and looked at me again. The great quickly, blushing like a rose, * I wanted | took away some of the air of privacy
eyes were radiart with pleasure, and, to give him the joy of the surprise.” | which I feared she might find Te)
with an exquisite ntterance that made my “ And ig” T maid, reluctantly, “if he | She did not seem to notice my action,
own Spanish seem a harsh brogme, she ghould not be here, or anything, have | but sat facing the door, with her drooped
“= |eves resting on the little hands clasped
auswered fearlessly and naturally that she von not money to retnm 2”
was going to America for the first time, * « But he is bound to be here; nothing | in her lap. Presently a footstep was
and, indeed, was for the first time at sea. Jike that could happen. And if he were heard coming along the hall, and she
You will be Seasick almost certainly, away I should wait till he returned. 1 t listlessly looked up. As she did so,
hen, | I said. “Are you prepared for | have no nohey to go home 2 I should | the light of a great, ecstatic ioy rushed
: “ want-to, but there's not much danger of | over her face. She sprang to her feet,
“Oh, yes,” she answered. “I have yy wanting.” 8 | with the glad ery: Prag
hoped that perhaps I might not he, but I | “Henvefls| what trust, what exquisite | + Richard !” and flung herself into his
am prepared for anything. ek feeling, what beautiful belief in love! {arms. He clasped her tight to his heart,
There was a patient resolution in her | And if he should prove unworthy ! | and drew her mto the room. Was he
tones that piqued my curiosity, espe- When we stepped ashore, Lola and I | true or false? 1 knew that I need only
cially as she presently informed me she got into a carnage, which 1 ordered to | see his face to tell. In that moment of
was all alone and going simply under the | take us to a hotel. She let me armange | extreme excitement he would forget to
captain's care. She was full of joy at everything just ax 1 chose, and we had | don his mask. He stooped above her
mesting seme one who spoke her lan- | eed to go together to the hotel, and | and covered her neck .and face with
nage, and constantly intermingled with | then I was to find her lover and send | kisses, Theu, after that moment's rap-
her talk little ejaculatory expressions of | him to her. | : ture, he looked at me. It was a noble
thanks, : which _seem to have no. I saw her safely seated in her little | face—honest, manly and kind.
application beside the general one parlor, and then, as it was early morning, I ought to have been glad, but I heard
of my knowing Spanish. a ' 1 ordered a dainty breakfast there and we | myself groan. ?
When the bell sounded for dinner, I| ate it tete-a-tete. 1 don’t think either | I would have left the room, but Lola
took her down. My arm, which was | had much appetite, though I taxed my | detained me, telling her lover in en-
rather timidly offered, being promptly ' wits to the uttermost on the menu and | thusiastic terms how kind I had heen,
and gratefully accepted. After that I had even given a lavish order for flowers. | and begging him to thank me, which he
used to seék her always before meals | J tried to think of everything that | did in snch terms as only a good and
and take ner in with me, and once, when } comid give her pleasure, for, I honorable man could bave used. I ha
something detained meand I was a little felt almost certain of a impending | to listen, too, to his explanation.
late, I found her waiting for me. I think calamity and 1 Jooked again and | had, indeed, gone West, having aecepted
thepeople of the vessel thougt that we in into her sweet face trying to |a promising appointment which would
were companions from the start, and some | fix its look of happiness in my mind. | give him permanent aud remunerative
me alluded to her once as my daughter, | And she was happy! Her voice was joy- | employment. Having settled matters
.nd although :T hastily corrected this, I | ous as a lmk’s and Ler face as fadiant ns | there, he had obtained leave, and was
willingly let it he supposed that she was | jay, 1 would fain have lingered a while | now on his way to Spain and Lola. Tt
traveling under my care. In the 8im- | t; bask in this bright sunshine, but she | was all as clear as day.
plest and most natural fashion she | was feverishly impatient and eager that That very evening they were married,
learned to defer to me and lean on my | I should be gone. I think she grudged | T was the only witness besides the cler-
decisions, and, by-and-hye, to confide in | ye the boon of secing him first, for she | gyman, and 1 never will forget the radi-
me. | made me promise that 1 would not tell { ance of her face as I watched it during
It was one evening that we had been | him of her presence, but bring him back | the service. 1 rather feared her joy
sitting together a long time, idl Jaleige | with me under some pretext if I found | might be dimmed by some remember-
about the weather und the y BI him well, and return and take her tohir [ing thought of me, but it was not so.
wondering how long we should have it if he was ill. In either event, she had | I don’t think she ever comprehended
wo fair, when she turned to me, in | settled it in her mind that they were tu | my feeling for her, and, of course, it
soft Soanish speech, that loses 80 inchl- | he married that very day. leased her to fancy now that it had
When I was ready to go 1 went up to Pe chiefly pity for her loneliness,
A woman, to live wy hie oul
In quiet womanly ways,
Hearing the far-off battle,
Seeing as throagh a haze
The crowding, struggling weld of men fight
through their busy days,
1 am not strong nor valiant,
1 would not Join the fight
Or jostle with crowds in the highways
To sully wy geoments white;
But 1 have rights as & woman, and here [olan
my right,
The right of » rose to Moom
In its own sweet, separs
With none to question the periumed pink
And not to witer » nay
If it reaches a root or points § thom, as even a
rose free HIAY
EARN
The right of the ladv-bireh to grow,
To grow as the Lord shall please,
Ry never x stands oak rebuked,
Deaniecd wor sun bor bree,
For all its pliant slenderness, Kin to the stronge
trees,
was
must go Away,
agony almost killed
The right to a Jife of ay ven
Not merely a casual bit
Of somebody etse's life, flung out
That taking bold of it,
I may stand as a cipher does after a pumers
writ,
The right to gather and glean
What food I need and can
From the garnered store of knowledge
Which man has heapad for man,
Taking with free hands freely and after an
ordered plan.
The right—ah, best and sweetest |
To stand all distnayed
Whenever sorrow of want of sin
Call for s woman's aid, |
“1 have
i
I
1 do not ask for & ballot ;
Though very life wore at stake,
I would beg for the nohler justice
That men for manhood's sake
Should give ungradgingly, nor withold ill 1
mina fight and take
The fleet foot and the feeble foot
ath seek the self-same goal,
The weakest soklier’s name is writ
On the great army-roll,
Auli Gol whe made man’s baldy strong, made
too the woman's soul,
—usan Coolidge.
1 yo I +A »
and
be so
THRE STORY OF AN OCEAN VOYAGR.
1 was homeward-bound from one of
my various excursions across the ocean,
by which I had for many years beguiled
the tedium of my monotonous bachelor
only~1 have given him all my love—and
worthy or unworthy, he has it stall.”
‘Lola, my little child,” 1 said, “yon
ve
put you in, and we will see what
can be done. Atall events, whether yon
can love me or not, I love you and will
and
HALL, CENTR
The service ended, there remained
nothing but to take Lola to a jeweler's
shop near-by and let her choose a pres
ent from me, which she munificently
paid for with a kiss,
It was, indeed, the last!
A ——————————————
Room in Heaven,
FSGUAE, AE i}
roid thie City
i Ana the
it
Wf
i
th sud the hetght of 31 are equal.” Hey
There are some who never think «
In their nund a thought of the
for * very
Others think of it occasion
ally, when the voice of sweet music steals
upon their ear, or the
lifts But
when they do think of it, how poor and
meagre their thoughts; to them it Is a
HAITOW, CIpoums ribed spot in the nm
verse, a sinall place just large enough for
their chureh, nt too small to admit
within its pearly enclosure, even the good
their
not the views en
t
heaven.
better country would starve
loneliness
Providence or
preacher them above eart
Nuch were
tertained by John when,
beyond communion
he lonely isle, he saw, in'grand PANO
ramie view, the heavenly « iy,
John was in the spirit on the mountain
of holy contemplation, and he had a de
lightful conversation with of the
roval surveyors of the heavenly country
He savs, verse 15, “And he that talked
with me had a golden reed to measure
the city, and the gates thereof, and the
walls thereof.” The idea he gives to us
is, that there was solidity, flrmuness, duo
mability and strength all combined with
indescribable beauty, surpassing gran
deur and infinite glory
The city, as he saw it, was in the form
of a magnificent cube, of vast dimen
he surveyor had the golden
measured the city in the
it Was 12. (8x)
and 12,000 fur
furlongs high
Up
breadth, and the
Glo
SIONS,
reed, and he
presence of his visitor
furlongs (stadii} long,
% broad, and 13,1xx)
it lengt 3 and the
he
n this view of the great city we are
quite in harmony with the mbincal book.
need not oeenpy room with quotations
In almost every other theory
violence thie Greek text
In this interpretation the sense 8 natu
ral and uction re
spected
We take the
000 furlongs,”
proposed
great 1s done to
grammatical oconsty
it reads,
when
CHEN, LEER OO) THRO 0K,
DASSRLS 88 “13
reduced to
cubed, 18
O00, 000.000 enbie feet, the half of which
of
feet and
we reserve for the throne
the
glory and
Half of the remain
der 1 reserve for thi angel's thrones, do
Half
estial
heavenly court.
minions, priseipalities and powers
of the remainder I reserve for i
gardens of heavenly frais and |
Half of the remainder for shady
and love iy park Half of
der for the golden st
i
¥1 3
LS RINE WaRtas, BRIG
the remainder, or
the whole, 1 divide into rooms of 20 feet
sanare, and 10 feet M roon
have T.418. 078, 125,000, O00, G00, (00
one thirt v-Seoon
high
we
that this
Then 1 st ppose
populated as st present,
O00, 000 of human beings
wiions passed aw
geri
VOars, tha allowing
vears for ach Renen
close of the ROVE
trumpet of heaven
“time would
earth's population wy
home to the city of God
I also suppose that in the nnivers
our Father there are 800. 000 worlds like
ours existing under the nber
of VOars the
same number of inhabitants as our own,
and each inhabitant obedient to the nm
he
Sane n
a% ours: each one
kL rsanl Heome.
Take all these mul
ereated beings, and In
gol measured for John and
dear reader, wonld afford 49 HL POOINS
88 Are INeastn od ahove for each inhali
tant of all the 800.000 world and leave
more than 4,000 000 enbie feet unsurvey
ad. “And vetthereis room.” Oh, how
true 3t 1s “In my Father's
that
there are many mansions,” — WH. Po
wy
house
IIIA A
The Life of an
Mr. Labouchere recently said in an
article in Trt on the London stage
Actresses live in a world of their own.
They generally exaggerate every senti-
ment. Their real life is tinged with
their theatrical life, and ligh-wronght
melodrama a second nature
to them. Few of them have a perfectly
sane notion of existence ; they exist in
the feeling of the moment. They ere
generally incapable of taking an inter
est in the ordinary occupations of their
sex ; at one moment they are in the
wildest spirits, at another in the depth
of despair, and those with whom they
come in contact are alternately either
melodramatic villains plotting their
destruction, or angelic beings that have
no existence out of plays. If they are
asked why they love or hate, they 1nuist
that they are endowed with a peculiar
instinet, and this instinot they exalt as
something far superior to practical in-
telligence, and glory in being its sub-
missive slaves. There ave certain qual-
ities which go to make an actress, and
most of them go to make a lunatic.
All nctresses are, of course, not neces-
sarily mad, but if I were on a jury im-
paneled to try an actress for murder, I
should approach the inquiry with the
feeling that nature had probably not
been lavish to her in that harmony of
intellectual powers which produce
moral responsibility,
Actress,
becomes
a,
“ Diamond Cut Diamond.”
Crossing the Kocky mountains once,
BAYS A eorrespandent, 1 RAW An amusing
illustration of the hardness of cornndum.
A traveling peddler undertook in the cars
to sell a large “diamond” ring to a
miner who had made his pile. “Humph,"
said the miner, after critically examining
in the diggings where I've been that'll
ent that diamond all to pieces!” “Tf
vou'll find a piece of stone that will ent
that diamond T'll give it to yon,” re-
plied the peddler. “All right,” said the
with a stone I'll buy it of you.” There
upon the miner took the ring in his
hand and pulled from his vest pocket a
small piece of brown-looking stone,
similar to a bit of dark free.stone, oxeept
that the grain was very fine, and with
this he proceeded coolly to ent
sernteh that “diamond” with several
ugly-looking gashes. A group of pas
sengers that had gathered about the
miner were amazed, but while they
snickered the peddler with his “diamond”
withdrew discomfited. “That little
piece of brown stone,” explained the
miner, “is apiece of corundum that I
got in the Rocky mountains, and it's the
best diamond tester in the world, It
won't sear a genuine diamond, hut it
will everlastingly eut up a picoe of glass
or quartz.”
The Subject of Satcide,
Some of the causes of suicide are ab-
sardly trivial, A women in India threw
| did not come to dinner after having been
| repeatedly called; another in Brunn, be-
| ennse the neighbors laughed at her fat-
‘ness. A girl in Marseilles suffocated
| herself and her master's daughter with
charcoal fumes bécause they were re-
| fused permission to go out skating, and
another in Hesse Oassel drowned herself
and infant in the Fulda rather than bring
the child to be vaccinated.
i
|
Ek CO., IPA.
He Wanted Some Collars,
A farmer hitched his team to a hydrant
on Nouth Pearl street, vesterday, and
entered a gonts' furnishing slore, A
palit of blue overalls, with old gold kn
patches, were thrust inte his rubber
boots, and a surcingle surrounded his
at the waist, Inu his hand he
held a hickory whip-stalk, around which
arled a snake-braid lash
“ Hev you got any collars ¥ he asked
* What kind of collars do yon wish
queried the clerk, as he threw back the
overcoat
Win
top of his face like a trunk cover and
losed a smile large enough for a tar
at G00 vards,
das
got
“If IT wanted hoss collars, young man,
shonld go to a harnessshop; I want
collars for my son; I brought a
ad of hay to town, an’ he told me to
"
t him some col
“Oh, we can fit you in collars,” put
in the clerk, and he brought down four
it ** Here, sir,
fine warranted four-ply
wear like sheet-iron; it is called
‘ Khedive of Egypt '—a very fash
not very wide, you see,
but just the thing for a short neck-—sold
soventeen dozen to a clerk in the secre
tary of state's office, ten minutes before
you came in-—"
“1 don't began the granger, but
the clerk had caught his breath and be-
gan to work his jaws again:
“Pont like it? Here's another
very fine shape--quite w ide, you ob
it just the garment for a long
neck: seo how artistically those corners
incline ontward-—we call this the * Kassa
of Abyssinia '—no"
“Bat,” broke in the
“1...”
“Don't exactly strike your fancy, eh ?
Well, here's something that no man has
vot looked at without buying ; this col
lar was designed for us by one of the
artists in France sonar right to
manufacture it is guaranteed by letters
patent issued in North and Sonth Amer-
$08, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the north-
ern dastriet of New Jersey : rival deal
Ors, of the popularity of this
collar, have endeavored to imitate it; by
recourse to law we are punishing in
fringers of our rights, however,
only last week two. of the
were sentenced to State prison for ifs
for connterfeiting, forgery, highway
robbery and burglary ; we have just
been comp ied to put ina new eighty
h to run the knives
t
bone -
thing
will
the
ionable shape
noe in BOG
linen
serve, In
countryman,
greatest
¥
jenions
and
“, irel
seOunaress
sR
engine
}
power
hat ent these collars, and only yester
day we shipped a carload of them to
Kinderhook ; in a week any man found
ots withont one of them will
w those who kee, up with
nn «ad by the ladies, and
! » we have
he * Bey of Tunis © i
* Look a-here, young man,” broke in
the farmer, with a determinad tone of
vi “do I look like the jayhawk of
the high and mighty chopstick
of China, or any of the "
“ Well, vy, Xd
' replied the clerk,
i: BE
hooted at b named
3
this
is collar t
Moe,
Japan £1
1 heathen *
that
was 1
really, you
who hing
w a fresh attack
“1 thought not ; nuther does my son
American eitizens—John
John Smith, junior; we
and are down
Hey vou got any number
collars, lined with sweat
stnband4wist button
we're
Smith
plain
Wi any fringe,
1H
Hjtex n paper
mther and with
1
i
Ie i
holes ¥
“1 am sorry
not,” replied
ih
ii
1
3
that Have
1 a
3 3
ing bean to ire ak oul on as coun
» BAY, sir, we
1 the clerk, fin look of
loa
tenance
BW ell, then,
dicker.” And the farmer went out with.
out jamming his thamb in the door
frye
we can't
YOUung an
Albany,
Traveling on the Bieyele,
Mr. John A. Dean, of Worcester,
Mass, traveling agent for a manufac
turers’ firm, bas adopted a
unigne mode of locomotion birdie
in business tours. Mr. Dean
started from Worcester early in the
summer, visiting most of the manufac
turing villages of Northern Massachu-
sotts, crossing over into New Hamp-
shire, and canvassing the manufactur.
ing districts south of the White moun-
tains. He then went through Western
Maine, back into New Hampshire, north
of the White mountains; through
Northern Vermont down the western
side, crossing over to the Connecticut
river, down the river valley, through
Massachusetts to Hartford, Conn, and
back to Worcester via Springfield.
These journeyings oconpied five months,
out of which about twenty days must
be taken for delays on the road, leaving
about 110 days of actual travel, averaging
at least thirty miles per day, making a
total of 5.300 miles. Even in the
mountainous districts it was seldom
that any number of miles of impassable
roads was found. Perhaps one mile in
fifteen, on an average, had to be walked,
and frequent runs of ten miles were
made withont a dismount. ¥From the
small number of days lost out of the
five months it will be seen that some
traveling must have been done in
stormy weather, and only when the
roads became very muddy from a pro
tracted storm was a halt made necessary.
All necessary samples and baggage were
earried on the machine, the most of the
baggage being sent on ahead by rail,
however. Mr. Dean proposes to start
ont again on similar trips next season.
He regards this means of travel as on-
tirely practical, even in the rough re
gions he passed through. He reached
places that would not have been discov.
ered from a railroad, and actually ac-
complished the distance in less time
than could have been done by rail over
the same sections of country. The ac-
quaintance with the districts visited
obtained by this means of travel is val-
nable also, and not the least of its ad.
vantages is the healthful effect of the
exercite and air. A marked change in
Mr. Dean's appearance resulted from
this trip, and he states that he gained
twenty pounds in weight.
ne 55
supplies
his
The fs of Life,
What a potential word is that little
“if.” without which all things might be
different! If husbands and wives
studied each other more, for example;
if each remembered how dependent wo
all are upon kind words. If they would
only strive to win anew each day the
love in the hearts of their wives, who
have given them all that woman may
| give, hier love, her life, her present and
| eternal future, an absolute surrender of
all but a nominal individuality, if they
were ns loving, and as solicitous for the
welfare of their wives and their happi-
ness as they were for the sweethearts in
their lover days, how many a broken
heart would never have broken, and how
many an untimely grave would now be
empty. And on the other hand, if wives
would remember that their husbands
need a little erumb of new love each day
to strengthen them in their battle for
| those they love, and if they would but
send them forth at morn and welcome
| them at nightfall with a wife's blest
{ words and kiss of cheer, how many thou:
| sane eyes would brighten, and how
| gladly would they welcome toil, whereas
| now their only hope of peace or rest is
{ are only too glad to go.
| China had coin in circulation centuries
i before England bad.
MARCH
TIMELY TOPICS,
The champion bee-keeper lives, very
appropristely, in Beeton, Cal, and
bears the not unfamiliar name of
nies of bees he obtained 75,000 pounds
of henev, and in 1880, from 400 colo
nies he obtained 20,000 pounds, worth
£2,000, and the latter was a bad year
for honey. During the latter year he
obtained 600 new colonies from the 400,
and commences 1881 with 1,000 colonies
of bees, valued at 87,000, independent
of the cost of the hives, Mr, Jones
he will clear at least $10,000 this
BAYS
OoCUurs
It is asserted that within eighteen
months two and a half miles of the pro-
posed channel tunnel between England
and Prance will have been excavated,
and that the work will be completed in
about four vears. Still another grand
scheme, however, for erossing the chan-
nel is contemplated, namely, a line of
steel tubes, sixteen feet in diameter,
ballasted so as to make it weigh one and
a quarter tons to the foot less than the
water displaced, and held at a depth of
thirty-five feet below the surface, so as
not to impede navigation, by chains sat-
tached to caissons sunk to the bottom.
Mardi Gras festivities appear to be a
paving stitution to the people of New
Orleans. The Democrat of that city es.
timates the expenses attendant upon it
to aggregate $150,000 annually, of which
fully one-half is spent among the artists
artisans, sewing-women, oto, of the city,
thus taking nothing from the municipal
wealth, Dut while the remaining $75,
O00 are spent outside the city, there are
received from the 30,000 or 4400, (0x1 PHO
ple who come to witness the brilliant
spectacles prepared for them, and to
participate in the festivities of the car
nival season, from $2,000,000 to §3,000,.
000, leaving a handsome balance in the
pockets of the citizens and {treasury of
the city,
Dr. Basch, who has risen to the high
est rank in the German foreign office,
has no noble birth to recommend him,
He began life a dmgoman to the
Prussian consulate at Constantinople.
and there thoroughly mastered the in.
tricacies of the Eastern imbroglio. He
studied politics with equal success
when attached to the legations at Stan
boul and St. Petersburg; and when the
last Turco-Russian War began Bismarck
summoned him to Berlin, and relied
upon him for information on the chang:
ing phases of the Eastern question. Be.
fore Bismarck's rule only aristocrats
were permitted to enter the Prussian
diplomatic corps. Now there are many
commoners holding the highest offices,
a8
The desirability of having immediate
absolute control of telegraphic fa-
ws in certain emergencies has led to
leasing of telegraph wires by news-
papers, The London Times has some
short ones: the New York Trilaone has a
wire between New York and Washing-
ton; the leading papers of Cincinnati are
similarly connected with Washington;
and recently the Chicago Juter-Qoean
has taken what is probably the longest
wire leased by any newspaper, connect
with its news
burean in Washington. All messages
are sent direct, the paper having excin-
sive nse of the wire and employing its
OWH OPerRtons
Lie
Rome of the
the necessity
larder cities, recognizing
for saving children from
lives of infamy and shame, have organ
jel societies for the * protection of
children,” Wherever men and women
are huddled together in poverty and
misery, as is inevitably the case in cities,
be they large or small, there will little
children be found breathing an atmos.
phere of vice and immomlity. The
Raltimorean thus truthfully speaks
relative to this subject: Apart from the
moral and religions good accomplished
seh associations are the very best and
cheapest police agencies that can be
emploved, and an ounce of their pre-
vention is better than a pound of the
enre provided by the jail and peni-
tontiaries
Prof. Bernbech, writing to the Medi.
cal Press, calls attention to the probable
danger arising from the use of ultrama-
rine wall papers. He states that a room
hung with an ultramarine colored pa-
per gave out a most disagreeable smell
of sulphuretted hydrogen, the source of
which for some time escaped detection.
Eventually, however, a close examina-
tion was made of the paper, which led
to the conclusion that the deep blue
wall paper was slowly undergoing a pro
cess of decomposition under the infin
ence of the alum in the paste used in
hanging. This appeared to be confirm-
od. for on steeping a piece of the paper
in a very dilute solntion of alum it gave
off sufficient sul yhereted hydrogen to
be quite percept] ile to the nose, and to
blacken lead paper,
Highwaymen have so often rifled the
bullion and coin-bearing treasury boxes
of Wells, Fargo & Co., while in course
of convevance through the counties of
Placer and Eldorado, in California, that
the company has determined to discon.
{inne its service in those counties, al-
though it has been maintained nninter-
ruptedly since 1842. The worst infested
routes in the whole State are respec-
tively only sixteen and thirty miles long,
and branch out from the same place, the
small town of Auburn; vet, notwith-
standing every precaution, robberies on
those roads have been of annual occur
rence since 1860, and, it is thought,
must have cost the company fully
£100,000, and perhaps double that
amount. - But the company has never
allowed these losses to interfere with the
prompt payment of every dollar
dune to those for whom it was trans-
acting business,
Pennsylvania avenue, in Washington,
which now runs through the heart of the
city, so forming and connecting the eapi-
tol of the United States with the offieil
home of the nation’s chief magistracy
has in the comparatively fow years of its
existence been the scene of many g ratly
ces. A dozen years after the commence-
ment of the present century, over the
mud which then formed its road for
the British armies moved. Over Penn.
gylvania avenne has passed to his inan-
guration nearly every president of the
United States. Washington, the first,
as it is almost needless to say, was not
inaugurated here. He took the oath of
office on the 80th of April, 1779, in the
New York city hall, then called the Fed-
custorn house now stands,
the winter, may be seen most of the
| gountry.
| ple of Washington to walk on the ave-
| nue during the hours from 4 to 5.80 or
| § o'clock in the evening.
“
Men do not sit down on the ice mere-
lv to warm it nor to attract attention.
| They do it because they want time to
| think. — Buffalo Evpress.
Phrases Used In Wall Street.
Bear market—When the
of the * beam."
Bear
decline,
stocks,
and expecting to profit by a de-
eline
bought it in by the time delivery must
be made, he * borrows”
same price on demand or at a fixed time,
the lender of the stock paying the bor
an agreed premium for the use of the
stock, as the case may be.
Cover, 10 “cover one's shorts” Where
stock has been sold short and the seller
buys if in to realize his profit, or to pro-
tect himself from loss, or to make his
delivery. This is “covering short
sales.”
A call--The privilege obtained for a
consideration of calling for a certain
number of shares of stock, at a given
price, within a time named
Carrving stock—Holding stock by a
broker for his customers on 8 Margin.
Clique—A combination of operators
formed for the purpose of artificially in
fluencing the market by their combined
operations.
Corners— When the market is over
sold the shorts, if compelled to deliver,
sometimes find themselves in a * cor
ner.”
Curbstone brokers—Men who are not
members of any regular organization
and do business on the sidewalk.
Flver—Is a small side operation not
employing one’s whole capital or not in
the line of his ordinary opemtions.
Lamb—A very green * outsider” who
essays stock speculation.
Limited —order-—An order to buy and
sell within & certain fixed price, above or
below which the party giving the order
does not wish to go.
Margins —Where one buyer sells for
speculation, and deposits with his broker
a percentage of value to enable the latter
to “carry” the stock and protect him
against Joss from fluctuations in value.
Milking the street—The act of cliques
or great operators who hold certain
stocks so well in hand thet they cause
any fluctuations they please. By al-
ternately lifting and depressing prices
thty “milk” the small operators and
the outside public.
Put—To buy a ** put” is to obtain the
right for a consideration to deliver &
stock at a certain agreed. price within a
given number of days.
Stop order—An order to sell out a
stock in case it should decline to a cer-
tain price, or to buy in short stock in
case it should advance toa certain price.
A means adopted by a party “long” or
“ ghart ” ‘of a stock to limit his loss to a
certain figure,
Turning stocks consists in buying for
cash or regular Way, selling a like
amount of the same stock at the same
time ‘on option,” thereby making six
per cent. interest and any difference that
may exist at the time between the mar.
ket price of the stock for cash and on
option, or selling for cash and buying on
option, when the stock is hard to carry
and the holder, hoping for a rise, does
pot want to “get out” of it
Twist on the shorts—A clique phrase
used where the shorts have oversold
denly advanced, compelling them to set-
tle at ruinous rates, or when stocks are
withdrawn from the loan market, and
made difficult to borrow except at a large
premium for their nse,
Washing is where one broker arranges
with another to buy a cerfain stock when
he offers it for sale. The bargain is fio.
titious and the effect, when not detected,
ix to keep it quoted and afford a basis
for bona fide sales. It is not counte-
panced by the rules of the exchange.
and if discovered renders members en-
gaged in it liable to the penalty of ex
prdsion.
The Towers of Silence,
These towers, which are built in a
compound on the top of Malabar Hill,
in the Island of Bombay, are six mn
number, and overlook the sea, the oldest
being 300 vears. The internal arrange-
ments of the towers are as follows, —The
bodies ate placed in three separate cir
cles—the outer and larger one for men,
the middle one for women, and the
smallest for children. There is a pit.in
the centre, into which the bones are
thrown after the flesh is stripped off,
and paths to allow the priest to move
about. The flooring gradually sinks to
the centre to let the rain into the pits
from which it filters into the earth,
The towers vary in size from about
thirty to fifty feet in diameter, and eight
to fourteen in height.
This Parsee mode of disposing of the
dead seems to European minds very re-
volting. The body, after the religions
ceremony is performed in the temple
where the friends are assembled, is car-
ried ont and placed in one of the towers,
where it remains exposed to the elements
until the flesh is entirely eaten off, by
the crowds of vultures which frequent
the place, in about one hour. When
the Keleton becomes dry, it is thrown
into the pit in the centre ; thus the rich
and poor meet together on one level of
equality after death.
comes full of bones, they are taken ont
aud thrown into the sea, thus fulfilling
one of the principal tenets of the Zoro-
aster religion, “That the mother earth
shall not be defiled.”
Power of Habit,
It is related of Queen Louise, of Prus-
sia, mother of the present Emperor Wil-
liam, that one of her frequent visitors, a
special. friend of her husl and, was an old
general called Kockeritz. This old sol-
dier. after having dined with his royal
friends, always manifested at a certain
ness, as if wishing to depart, whileat other
hours of the day he was only too glad to
stay and have a friendly chat. But
after dinner he always showed this great
anxiety to go home. Louise was puz-
sled at the old man's strange behavior,
and resolved to find out the cause.
She made inquiry of his steward, who,
aftdr a few questions, explained that the
old general had indulged for so many
long years in the habit of smoking a
long pipe after dinner that he could not
possibly do without it. The next time
the old general came to dine he exhibited
after the repast the same nervous
restlessness, and rose to take leave.
Whereupon Louise rose, too, and
said: * Wait a little, general; I want to
the next room. On her return she held
a long pipe already filled in one hand
and a burning waxlight and a “spill” in
Handing the pipe to the as.
tonished old man and lighting the spill,
she said: “There, my old general, make
yourself comfortable; this time you shall
not desert us.” :
ars Bom
Ladies, save your old autographs—
they may become valuable. At an auto-
| graph sales few days since in Paris a
| letter of Catherine de Medicis bro
| 882, one of the Marquise Maintenon $78
and a letter of Mary Stuart $82,
ans ais.
DN ane ef
NUMBER 11.
a .
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,
About Orchards,
1f you have money to fool sway seed
down your young orchard to clover or
timothy or sow a crop of wheat or oats.
But if you want your trees to thrive eul-
Bon culating In
| salle b he :
gust, woeds or no weeds. To judge
the condition of an apple tree is like |
judging of the condi of sheep in
pasture. Look at the and not
the pasture; if they are plump snd fat
the pasture is all right. — American Cul
: fivaior,
Cream is the Last Milk,
The last milk drawn from the cow, and
the in
rich in cresm. she strippings, 56 eit
the fact that as the milk is secreted in
| the uoder the cream rises, and the last
at dn dls contains the most of if
n & number of experiments to
test this question it was found that the
bailk of various cows differed, as fol-
OWE:
specific Per vent, Per cont,
avity, of Cream. of Fat,
No | First milk, 1082. 7 2.25
"plas milk, 1081.3 10
No. go | First milk, 1084.1 5
TS Last milk, 1029.4 Hy
No 4 | First milk. 1083.6 5
0 Last milk, 1080.5 12
Ko. 4. | First milk. 1083.4 5
0%) Last milk. 1089.0 14
This fact is so well-known that the
patrons 81 creameries or cheese factories |
are specially forbidden, under large HEC
penalties, from milking the strippings | Gen.
separately and withholding them from |
the rest of the milk. it
“Don't you think," mids
mildly rebum his wife, that
possessed
Te Tell the Age of Cuitle.
le Ean ro the Bone sil |
ally own by rings on t tll ove Satan” * Yes
their tenth year; after that time they iad ™
give no indicati n of age further than | periy they are taarried,” was (hag
that the snimal has passed its tenth!
vear, The first ring appears on the horn
after the animal has passed two years
old—soon after, as a general mle, though | with his
sometimes before that age. During i fool.”
third year the ring geadually increases, |
and af three years of age it is completely An
formed. The second ring ars dur. “H
ing the fourth hi Fo at th Ab |. Sra A ee
is complete. After period an addj- | }B.e8 30 BEE AS ; :
tional ring is formed each year. This Which is how oil-cloth is always wm
rule is sufficiently plain, and even a 0 allfired cold? Rome Sentinel.
young farmer needs but little practiceto | * Do you follow &
enable him to read s cow's age on her tion?" asked the ji
horns, A cow with three rings is six vagmnt. “Well, I a
vears old. No new rings are formed after | features!” was the response. i th
the tenth year ; the deeper rings, how- money I have had in ten years 1 g
ever, and the worn appearance of the from sitting on juries.”
horns are pretty sure Tdicati ions of old Gladstone to chureh with a
age. holding his anit cuffs together in
- of a button, but if all waited for but
Treatment of Clay Sells. phere would be no sermons. Hang
Clay soils, says a writer, give stability oiocman who can't makes dn
to the roots of the wheat, preventing o.oo fora button. — Detroit
it from Srecding out; hiv furnish the gr. Prog oni ;
necessary alkalies and absorb gaseous i =
substances which are essential jo that Do realize
crop. Clover may be applied to them
with benefit. But stable manure—any-
thing and everything organic that you
| can get—will benefit them. No matter
how coarse or strawy, all the better if you |
can work it in. They will make the soil
| lighter and establish a freer circulation
| of the air—two important ings is he
gained, two great advantages in the me- Le
: ina] conditions of the soil. stay on the nose. Tis og
the addition of organic matter helps ment, 85 Wearers exe-g
| these soils chemically; it is just what : ;
they need. Clay soils readily absorb ma-
pure and keepit. Like the wise woman,
“they take all they canand keep all they |
get.” Don't be afmid of } your :
| stable manure on clayey ground. “Slapit The
on. Jt will hold it tighter than you ean. |
| Unless the soil is y rich in lime, | In the English magazine
| you can apply nothing better. So with by Mr. Edmund Yates, Mr.
ashes. ese will help it me tells astory of a
chanically and chemically. you have en of
clay soil nnderdrain it ; mix sand with | schoetz” i
(jt if you can ; light composts you must ; | shopman,
sow it to wheat and harvest forty bush- by some
els to the acre. But do not forget to afterward
apply lime if it lacks that. Clay soils in & he
are better suited to timothy than clover, Weber died,
although they grow both. But it will | issocti
not pay to raise clover on them unless
1 soils i
if the
later, revived
the bottom is dry. Clay are also onder to produce g
| good for oats and |
is dry ; in short, clay soils
| good for nothing unless
t
would resort to manunn
‘sandy soils; to light composts, | Afte A
ashes and stable and barnyard manure dissected his
on olay sofls. On shily soils, while “What has
! practicing a rotation crops,
Fine — principally, unless the ground | e's all right,” sid | dh
| was hilly ; on clayey soils, while again * He fills & case in my consulting -n
| practicing rotation, I would reise wheat bung on wires and beautifully
and oats as much as possible, also tim. gether. There's not a bone
othy for hay. Yet green man is even one ©
wofitable on clay soils, if you
Rain. In manuring these soils i
object shotild be to make th i
‘and light. To do this the manure
should be thoroughly incorporated into |
| the soil with the plow. |
Reelpes. send you the skeleton.” 5
Ruiks.— Three tablespoonfals of sugar, In a box, conded and locked, the poor
two eggs, one tablespoonful of butter, | chopman's bones reached the oper
one pint of sweet milk, and two or three | house, ‘
tablespoonfuls of yeast. Set at t, “You see this young
mold in the morning, let it rise, then Berlioz to the
‘ make into tins. 1]
Crean Cooxies.—Two cups 4
two eggs, one cup cream, one cup but
ter, one teaspoonful one teaspoon
ful lemon extract or one-haif a a
grated; flour enough to make a
soft as it can be rolled.
Jeruen Cmicxex.— Boil a fowl until
| the flesh will slip easily from the bones; |
| lot the water be reduced to one pint;
| pick the meat from the bones in good- |
sized pieces, leaving ‘out all the gristle
and fat; place in a wet mold; skim all the
fat from the Ii i and add a half was i
of geletine, a little butter, pepper and | a. :
salt; when the geletine is dissolved pour | 822 all round it, _
‘all over the chicken while hot; season ;
pretty high; serve cold, cut in slices,
. Sovrmmex Bmpr Hasm.—Teke the
| rarest cold roast beef, cut into small
pieces, but not so small as for mince
| meat; pour into a vessel with cold
| water enough to cover it; cut a
| onion; add pepper and salt ta
season it. Cook unti’ the onion is
thoroughly done, adding hot water, if
| necessary, to prevent burning. If
toes are liked with the hash, add
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stiff broth; beat well the white of one
egg. After the gelatine is dissolved
boil it for two or three minutes, then
sweeten and flavor it; when it is about
as warm as new milk add the cream and
egg, and beat the mixture till itis cold.
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