Amen,
It inover. What is over?
Nay, how much is over truly ¥
Harvest days we toiled to sow for,
Now the sheaves are gathered newly,
Now the wheat is garnered duly.
It is finished. What ix finished ?
Much is finished known or unknown;
Lives are finished, time diminished; ,
Was the fallow fleld left unsown ?
Will these buds be always unblown?
It suffices. What suffices ?
All suffices reckoned rightly:
Spring shall bloom whore now the ice is,
Roses make the brambles sightly,
And the quickening sun shine brightly,
And the latter wind blow lightly,
And my garden toem with spices,
~ Christian Roselli,
AA
“ Sower's Nong."
Now hands to seed-sheet, boys,
Wo stop and we cast: old Time's on wing
And would ye partake of harvest joys,
The corn must be sown in spring.
Fall gently and still, good com,
Lic warm in thy earthly bed,
And stand =o yellow some morn,
That beast and man may be fed, *
Old Barth is a pleasure to see
In sunshiny cloak of red and green;
The furrow lies fresh; this year will be
As the yoars that are past have been,
Fall gently and still, ote
Old Mother, receive this com,
The seed of six thousand golden sires;
All these on thy kindly breast were born;
One more thy poor child requires,
Fall gontly and still, ete,
Now steady and sure again,
Thus up aud thus down we cast our grain;
Sow well, and you gladly reap,
Fall gently and still, eto,
we . baal
we JRUIRAS LAMPE
ONE STORMY NIGHT.
A stormy night, indeed—
“High up on the lonely mountains,”
the ran came down in streams, as if the
sky were a great sieve, and not a my of
light found its way throngh the black
clouds. The giant fir trees bent and
swayed in the fierce wind, and sent their
wild, wailing veices down through gulch
and canon to mingle with the roar of
creek and cataract, or fell before the
rocks that ¢rashed down the mountain
sides. The terrified cattle lowed and
eried in their cormls, huddling together
for warmth and sympathy. Indoors
people drew near together, crowding
aronnd the hearth-fires that blazed in
a fitful, almost uncanny way.
In a wayside inn, on the mountain
road, a littie comp.ny sat thus gathered
abott an immense fireplace that glowed
and flamed like a bonfire, and not con-
tent with cheering the great room, sent
its beacon-light ent at the windows to
defy the night and the storm.
There was Mike Malone, the landlord,
and Kitty, his fat, funny wife; little
Maria, the Spanish girl whom Mike and
Kitty had “rared;” Jake, the stable-
man, and last, becanse most important,
“Rat” the French Canadian wood-
cutter. There was nothing in the young
fellow's appearance to suggest the
winged horror whose name he bore, It |
was merely a sobriquet for Baptiste. |
Jake seldom availed himself of the ab-
breviation, but, slowly and emphatically, |
styled him ‘‘ Canuck,” ususlly prefixing
2 descriptive that bad more force than |
elegance. It was ill-natured, to say the |
least, for Bat was one of the kindest
fellows in the world, “and the ways of
him,” as Kitty said, “ was wan sthrame
o' sunshine: but sure,” she added,
+ Jake is that jealous that he can't trate
him dacent, though I'd sooner see Maree
quiet in her grave nor married to likes
av him. Av she's in love wid the
Frinchman? There ye have me now.
She's that guare and shy, Maree is, that
ve niver can tell her mind till she plazes
to let ye know, and on this subject she
hasn't plazed yit."
And that was quite true, for when
Bat’s blue eyes, sparkling with fun and
deep with the light of love, beamed upon
the little dark-eved beauty, her long
lashes swept her cheeks ; sometimes not
until the quick eves of Jake had seen
the outspringing of an answering love,
though not all Bat's gallant wooing
could bring a word of it to her lips—
silent, cautions little Maria, who doubt-
ed the gay manners of this rollicking
knight of the ax.
“ Did ever yees listen to the loike o'
that!” exclaimed Mike, at a sudden
erashing sound.
Kitty and Bat crossed themselves fer-
vently, bat Jake, with unmoved, sullen
face, sat and glowered at the fire. Sud-
denly Maria sprang up, excitedly. “It
is a voice!” she cried.
“‘Indade, thin, it's the voice of manny |
wathers,” laughed Kitty, though rather |
nervously. :
“It's a human voice ; it is calling for
help.”
“By golly, it's Satan, den," said Bat.
“ Dat’s nobody helse'll be on de road a
night like dat. I'll bet he's call for
Jake,” he added, roguishly.
A deeper glower was Jake's only re-
ply, but soon lifting his head, he said :
“ She's right, Meree is; ther is some
one callin’.”
“Out wid yees, men, till the
riscue!” cried Kitty, seizing Mike's
hat and coat and thrusting them upon
him.
** Sure ye're spakin,” said Mike, rme-
fully preparing to leave the cheery
hearth.
Bat, aroused by the light in Maria's
flashing eyes, sprang up with enthusiasm,
for, low be it spoken, his was nota
grand heroie sonl. His brave deeds
were mostly born of impulse and
nourished by the approbation of others. |
Jake sullenly joined them, but before
they reached the door it opened, and
full in the firelight appeared a tall form, |
and handsome, yellow-bearded face—a
striking picture, with the dark night for
a background. :
* By me sowl, it's the docther. What |
brings ye out in the loike o’ this
“T don't go abroad in Satan's name,
Mike,” laughed the doctor, making his
way to the fire, and taking the chair
hat Kitty had bastened to place for
“ No more ye don't, docther; it’s hiv- |
en’s own sarvant ye are,” she said, ear- |
nestly. * Bestir yersilf, Mike, and!’
bring him somethin’ hot to drink, for |
indade, docther, ye're the color of a |
“I've had a pretty tough time of it to |
get here, and a few minutesago I was |
more likely toarrive at the bottom of |
the guleh, where my poor horse is now.” |
VOLUME XIV.
{ Kitty, “I'm thinkin' we're as safe out
side as in afther this. We're in for it,
annyhow; but danged if I'm anxious to
i drag my owld rheumaticky legs over
anny trail to-night.”
The doctor looked at Bat. Maria,
too, had looked at him, and that look
had fired his soul with the courage of
an old warrior, whatever the risk or the
terror,
well, an’ if hanyting is happen 1 got de
doctor, ain't it ¥ said Bat, gayly brush
ing back his brown ourls, and drawing
over them the veritable blue toque that
he had worn in the backwoods of Can.
ada. Then, in his droll way, he took
solemn leave of Kitty and Mike, im
ploring them, if anything should pre
vent his return, to be good to Jake.
Over Maria's little brown hand he lin.
gered long enough to say, unheard by
all but her:
“1 come again to thee—je t'aime.”
And in a language understood by all
the dark eves answered:
“1 love thee.”
And in a language known and taught
by the Father of Evil, sullen Jake re-
plied to his langhing, “ Good-bye, my
Jake—pray for me,” with a look of hatred
and a sullen “Go to the deuce!”
“ Behind you, my dear,” answered
Bat, with a profound bow,
Out into the black and terrible night
went the two men—one obeying the
;
“ Now go home !" she said, sternly
There was no choice but to obey, and,
still under cover of the girl's revolver,
he went before her like a sulky conviet
driven to his dark cell.
“I'll release vou in the morning,"
she said, as she drove him into a snug
out-building, and, fastening the door
securely, left him to his meditations,
The rain had ceased. Up through the
morning Tinged with rosy light, they
sailed away through the bine ether, Up
rose the sun, shining grandly he
mountains, and through those floods of
gold came the doctor, and Bat caroling
his gay song, proud as a trounbadow
home from the war going to kneel at his
lady's feet,
“ By golly, we're save dat baby,” he
eried, springing through the open door,
“And how is Jake? A bet he's ben
most sick of lonesome widout me, Eh,
where he is, dat Ja-k-e ? he shouted.
But Jake did not appear,
“ And thon, Marie, my little one,” he
murmured in his own language that she
had learned in childhood, ** hast thon
no smile for me? Those beautiful oYes,
have they nothing 0 say 10 me this
morning? They were so eloquent last
night, my heart was aching with joy.
Look at me, Maria—but thou art pale
' Wert thou troubled for me, my little
love ”
Swiftly rose the color to clreek and
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mandate of his noble profession, filled | brow, slowly the long lashes were up.
with the sympathy it had tanght him lifted, and from dewy eves and parted
give to sorrow and suffering everywhere; rosy lips smiled the glad welcome |
the other, his heart glowing with chival- | Jake, just then appearing at the door,
ric passion, to prove himself a hero in | saw it all, and with a stifled groan of
the eves of her he loved—followed by jealons passion and defeat, he turne
the voluble blessings of Mike and Kitty, | and fled, half-blinded with
by the half-proud, half-anxious and | knew not where—to get away from that
altogether loving gaze of Maria, and | maddening sight, that was all
also by the malignant glare of Jake's thought —away to the caves of the moun
evil eves, tains where he could crouch hike a
« And Satan came also,” thought the Wounded wolf and howl out his despair.
doctor, observing the look. Crash! down through the treacherous
Maria, too, turned in time to see the bridge of poles and bark! Down, down
expression. It was just as Mike was the shuddering depths he whirled, and
telling them to look out for the bridge the stream, scorning to bear such a bux
over Fraser's creek. Thea the door | den, hurled him aside upon the jagged
closed, and while the wind and the rain | rocks, where the long ferns trailed their
beat furiously against it, and Mike and broken plumes and the ivy wound its
Kitty speculated anxiously upon the | poisonous bands.
chances of their safe arrival at Fraser's, They'll never find me," he thongl
Maria studied Jake's face as he gazed “but it’s right—it's just. It's what 1
intently in the fire, where, from a pine- | Was goin’ to do to him, eurse—no, 1
knot, the luried jets of flame darted ont can’t die cursin’,” and, with bleeding,
and leaped wildly up in the black vault, | Buia ight lips, he tried to pmy. “Oh
as #f eager to join their kindred spirits | Lord—I don't know how,” he whisper-
ithe storm. ed faintly. * Butdidn't he say forgive?
to
108,
rage, fe
his
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it
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* Suddenly Jake arose, and, muttering
something in the way of a good-night,
slouched out of the room. Maria, too,
went softly out, retiring to her own
apartment.
Meanwhile, safely on their way
through wind and rain and thick dark-
ness, over fallen trees and raging waters,
went the two men, Bat’s jubilant heart
overflowing in droll speeches and songs
that he sang at the top of his voice,
to scare away evil spirits, he said—and
the doctor said he should think it would.
Bat it did not, for behind them crept
one whose intent was blacker than the
night, more cruel than the angry streams.
Yet on they went along the narrow path,
with the overhanging rocks on their
right, and on their left the fearful preci.
pice; vet gayly onward, with cautious
steps, until they reached the cottage,
whose light shone out like a star inthe
black night.
+ By golly, we've got here, don’t it?”
said Bat, drawing a long breath, as they
paused at the door.
Is there anything, I wonder, that stirs
a physician's heart more deeply than
that look of mingled thankfulness and
mute appeal that greets him on his first
arrival where life and death are
struggling together ?
“(God bless you!” eried Fraser, who,
alone with his wife, was watching the
little one that lay flushed with fever and
moaning with pain. “God bless you,
doctor—we didn't think you could get
here.”
“There's a special
doctors, you know,”
smiling.
The mere sound of his pleasant voice
seemed to give them courage, and the
mother, with a gleam of hope in her
eves and a deep sigh of relief, laid her
baby in his arms, that clasped and bore
the tiny burden with the tenderness of
a woman. When a man has a gentle
heart, tender not merely toward his
own, but with a sympathy that reaches
to all helpless, suffering creatures, how
great it 1s!
“1 was tinkin'.” said Bat, gravely,
“ 'he't dat Providence you been spikin’
'bo’t it, why it ain't take care of doctor's
horses de same time,”
After the doctor and Bat had crossed
Fraser's creek the stealthy figure that |
had followed them thus far, with some-
thing in his hand, stopped, cowering be-
neath a fir tree, till the gleam of their
lantern was like a firefly in the distance;
then he approached the bridge, and
with eves grown accustomed to the dark. |
ness examined the end that lay upon |
providence for
he angwered,
for his purpose, which was soon appar-
ent, for, taking up his pick, he com-
menced digging into the bank and dis-
placing the rocks, working with a fiend-
ish energy.
“ Curse him,” he said, between his
teeth, “I'll fix him so that no doctor
can't save him.”
And so, with muttered curses, with
the hoarse, bellowing torrent bencath
and the shrieking pines above, the work
was done, and the timber left in such po-
sition that one attempting to cross upon
it would cause its fall. It was horrible |
waters and whirling debris, to be dashed
against the sharp rocks or carried swift.
ly down the dark ravine to a death as |
sureand cruel if not as sudden.® !
“There, vou mfernal Canuck,” said’
the man, ** yon bet you've done
love-makin’. I'll take that little busi- |
ness off yer hands,” he added, with an
ugly laugh.
“ But first you'd better repair that
i
i
What was it mother used to make me
say? “If I should die—my soul
take —Jesus'—sake.'
His heal drooped lower, his lips were
still. The water sw ePlacross his breast,
the long ferns, waving, brushed hi
bleeding hnads, and through the laurel |
branches sunshine fell upon his
ghastly face.
“ Jake, my poor feller, look h
your heyes—yon ain't dead, don’t
Sapre, wake up, mon ga,” cried Bat, in |
an agony of terror and compassion,
with trembling hands, he dashed the
water in his face and rubbel his bands,
and from pocket-flask poured
whisky down his throat. At last Jake
slowly unclosed his eyes an i feebly
moved his lips,
“ Dat's right, by golly, swear if yon
want to, but keep you heyes hopen,
Now, how you tink I'll got you hout of
dis? Here, embrace me, mon cher; put
vou harms ron ma neck, comme ea—ho
done! You are more heavy dan a black
oak log, but keep to me—now, hup we
go. Dere,” laving his burden safely on
the bank, “you better bath yourself in
de stable next time, voung feller.”
But Jake had fainted again, and Dat
ran to the house fer help.
“Yes, I meant to kill yon, Bat, as true
as you live,” said Jake, in his first pen-
itence. “I'm sorry now, for you're a
brick, and you deserve the girl; but 1
couldn't stay round and see her smilin’
like that on no man, not if he'd saved
my life a hundred times; 1 might be
tempted agin; it's in my oatur, Bal.
I'm a mean cuss; that's a fact; but as
soon as I'm on my pins agin, I'll git."
And he did. Aud Maria and Bat were
married. The pines and the water-falls
played the wédding march; and if the
trees conld not quite banish the mourn-
ing from their voices—there is a little
that is sad in everything; but the happy
lovers heard only sounds of joy.
The doctor was there to kiss the
bride, and Baby Fraser, cooing and
crowing and waving her dimpled hands,
and Mike and Kitty, all tearful and
smiling and eloquent with Irish words
of blessing and endearment.
But to this day Bat cannot compre-
hend Jake's malice, and says with
puzzled look:
“1'Il never tought he'll done dat
proppus.” — Californian.
I —————————————— —————
A Dear Chronometer,
Meanuness not infrequently resembles |
the
Vaulting ambition which oe'rleaps itself,
And falls ou the other,
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the
ope i
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as, |
Jake's
leaping” is furnished by a certain trans-
action of Jolin Jacob Astor with one of
his captains. The story is told bya |
writer in the Boston Transeo ipt
The captain had sailed six voyages to
Chira without a chronometer, depend-
ing on * dead reckoning” and “lunars;”
just starting on his seventh voyage, he
suggested to Mr. Astor that it would be
safer to have a chronometer.
“ Well, get one,” said the merchant.
The captain did so, and entered its
cost in his account current. When As-
tor's eyes fell upon the item he drew
bis pencil through it. The eaptain ex-
postulated. Said Astor:
to get one; I didn’t say I'd pay for it.”
The captain severed his connection
ve
©
The World Coming to an End. i
Something like fifty years ago Uncle |
Eli and Aunt Ruth, a good old couple |
jogging on along life's downward way,
retired to rest with no thoughts con- |
cerning the end of the world in mind
to destroy sleep, or even trouble them
during the hours allotted to slumber.
Aunt Ruth was a devout Episcopalian, |
Uncle Eli an equally devout Methodist, |
for some unaccountable reason the fo- |
male head of the house awoke. The
bed stood facing two windows, out npon
the village green, and as her eyes un.
closed she beheld n sight that sent a
thrill of fear quivering through every
fiber of her being. The heavens
were on fire, and the stars were
falling to earth like the waters of an il- |
luminated Niagara.
Aunt Ruth slid from the bed to her
knees, while with one hand she groped
for her praver-book, the other hand |
being occupied with an attempt to
awaken, by a series of vigorous shakes,
her consort, who vot slept and snored
unconscious of the impending calamity,
" Daddy : daddy in she cried; si daddy,
wake up; the day of judgment is
come.” he only response to her appeal
was & necession of snores, for which
Uncle Eli was famous, and an accession
of terror on her part, lest the affair
should happen before the sleeper could
be aroused,
“Oh, Lordy; have mercy. Daddy!
daddy !" she again shrieked, this time
administering a thorough shaking up;
“Paddy, the world is on fire—coming |
to an end pray, daddy, pray, the day
of judgment’s come
“Ugh! eh?’ granted the only gentle. |
man, only half awake. * Ruth, what's
the” —he never finished that sentence,
for just then he caught a sight of the
celestial pyretechnical display, and with
a single bound vaulted over the head of
his alarmed partner, landing in (he
middle of the apartment.
“Ruth! Rath ! where's my breeches?
he eried, as he pranced about in his
thin and by no means voluminous
“where's my breeches, 1 sav?
i Nev or mind 3 our breeches, daddy »
pray, daddy, pray,” sobbed his terrified
colpanion,
“ Torment vou, Ruth,” yelled Unele
Eli, awakening the children wh
on the next floor above; * torment vou,
Ruth, where's my breeches :
“ Never mind your breeches, daddy
moaned Aunt Rath; * never mind your
breeches, but pray, daddy, pray the
611
R/ILING,
£
o slegt
day of judgment’s come.’
But daddy did mind
ard continued galloping about the
room, overturning and tables,
barking his suins and stumbling over
everything within his oirenit, hunting |
for them.
Meantime Aunt Ruta remained upon
her knees, praying, or attempting to |
pray, aud beseeching Uncle Eli to do
likewise.
At length, jnst as he was passing her
for the twentieth time, she eanght him
by his scanty garment and besough
him: “ Pray, daddy, pray; the day of
judgment"
“Torment you, Ruth,” be roared, as
he broke away from her elute. “tor.
vou, Ruth, I don't care if the day
of judgment has come, 1 ain't agoing
without 1 rpechios !”
Nor did | He found them about
the time the fireworks ceased, and the
end of the world hadn't come, after all.
I'he good old souls bave long since
passed away, but the story remains, and
1s told for the benefit of believers in
Mother SBhipton’s prophecy. If it has
a moral they will be sure to find it.
¢ his breeches,
chairs
ment
bL
Washing Away the Earth,
No particle of sand whieh goes down
Yet the
particles leave the surface of the earth
into the sea ever comes back,
in the waters of more than
thousand rivers, out into the
I'liere are more than a hundred streams,
classed on the maps as rivers, in Louis.
mna alone. Each one of. these has
several hundred ereeks, brooks and
spring branches tributary to it. Each
brook or spring branch, with its eount-
twenty
OCeRns,
¥
i
down the surfaces thereof —down into the
brooks--down into the ereeks—down into
the rivers—down into the ocean.
there the atoms rest patiently; each
cousins and its aunts still lingering in
the fields and on the hills, yet creeping
toward the gullies and thence to the
sea. This process has been going on
since the time when *“‘the world was
without form and void;” whereby the
primevil rocks were disintegrated and
spread abroad in fertile fields; whereby
the fertile fields are slowly being washed
back into the oceans; whereby the bot
tom of the oceans is being prepared to be
PENNY SONGS,
Hen,
stantly diminishing, and it is only dur-
ing exciting political campaigns that
they sell well,
of the penny ballads: There are about
11,000 penny songs, and over 50,000
copies are supplied to the trade every
Some of these date back as
far as 1798. Sometimes when a new
song comes ont, 2,000 copies will be
sold every day for about a wgek. Such
has recently been the call with the
“ Bogie Man,” * Mary Kelly's Bean,”
“Wat! Wet! Wat!” and many numbers
of the Harrigan & Hart series.
Kelly's bean describes his lady love as:
Little Mary Kelly,
A darling, all in all,
Makes artificial flowers
On Broadway, elose to Wall.
The continued popularity of the
are mostly Irish rebel songs, and have
tions in Ireland, During the present
troubles in Ireland the demand has
been larger than ever before. Among
these SONS are some of Tom Moore's
best Irish melodies, such as * Aveng-
ing and bright fell the swift sword of
Erin,” and * Forget not the field where
they perished;” songs by Bryan Maguire
7
ROMANCE OF A TOOTH.
How a Cheyenne Young Lady Obtained a
Dental Quilt in Denver,
| The particulars of a remarkable dental
| operation recently performed by a well.
i known and wkillfu] dentist of Denver
w
|
i
er. The operation was so nnnsual,
| the circumstancs so romantic and the
| result so satisfactory to all parties
| concerned that the narration is called
{ for. Bome months since one of the
| loveliest and most accomplished daugh-
{ters of a well-known resident of
{| Cheyenne was thrown from her horse,
{ and sustained among other annoying in-
| juries a fracture of one of her front
tooth, The delicate pearl which flashed
{ through **lips within whose rosy laby-
:
| was hopelessly crushed and marred the
| beanty of the lady considerably, The
{ only remedy for the injury was to have
| the root of the broken tooth extracted
| and a false tooth made to fill the horrid
| breach in her mouth. In her distress
{she went to Denver, where she las
friends, and sought the ad-
| vice of the dentist referred
to. Between her sobs she stated that
she had read somewhere, or been told
dentistiy had ad.
a science that it was
possible to transplant a tooth from the
mouth of another person which would
| many
i
i §
i
| take root and bloom as it had in its
and Maurice ( YConnell, and the famous |
“Wearing of the Green.” There is
also a steady demand for the old Chris. |
tie minstrels’ songs, the most popular |
of which seem to be the plot of “Il
Trovatore,” and the verses “1 eome
from Alabama,” ending with :
1 had a dream the other night,
When evervihing wasstill ;
I dreamt 1 saw Susanna
A comin’ down the hill
The buckwheat cake was in her ave,
The tear was in her month,
Says 1, Basanns, don't ory,
nm from the South,
The most popular modern penny
songs are those written by Tony Pastor,
Harrigan & Hart, Pat Rooney, J. K
Emmet, Sam Devere, Tom Barry and
George 8. Knight, and brotight ont at
heir variety shows. When a song has
been received with more than usual |
favor at these performances it is with. |
held from publication for a short time
until its snecess is widely known. Then
it is published and eagerly bought up
One of the most popular of Pat Hoonex's
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1
songs describes the * Cats in Our Hack
who play * Pinafore” every
night and have walking matches on the |
Ih
Li
ha
y ht to
Oh are worse than Haverly's minsin
Yo ol back vand,
Emmet tells of a man who wants to
seo, aid Tenor;
bie feathered and tarred!
3
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VEIN BIN eb 5
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3 :
t 0 |
ir
6 CRIs i Ol
Strects would be all paved with bretaels,
Nehwelzer kane grow on der treos,
¥ eta diday BIWEVE,
nd peoble should take of dere ease,
CVERY Poor IAN his righis,
ke the rich folks shell out
11 dem fat beohiles thin,
+ all dem thin beebles stout,
the most popular songs was
Adah Richmond. It is en-
i
Une o
roving Littio man,
ated,
n gold or wealth,
niform so grand
ry
y in his un
@ that 1 met
AE i
And 1 was in a fatter,
When
“The Donkey Bh words and music by
ent
Charley played the dram,
The donkey |
Brad- |
ovo
i
fod i
I've got & donkey; he stands six high;
I'll sel} to the man that wishes to bay,
He drinks Relfteer water whenever he's dry;
In a race on the turf be bas never proved shy
k about ahie mite a day;
"HH match him agai
He fought for his «
the warns
| him on herrings, hay-ro
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¥
fi 1 tar,
¥y
¥
ve a Baby in Kalamazoo" has also
sale. Sarah Bermmbardt
al
Ain't sho & teaser 7 |
3
Have you soon Sarah ?
None conld be fairer then Miss Sarah |
And a Jot of Fitedoodles; oh, parly vous gui
Among the sentimental and pathetic
Leaf in our Bible,” *‘ Baby
The last-named sells quite as
known comic ROngs
It was written and composed by Harry
Kennedy, The following is the refrain:
3aby loft her eradle for the golden shore,
O'er the silvery waters she has flown;
Gone to join the angels, peaceful EVOrInon,
Empty is the cradle; baby's gone,
Pearls of Thought.
There is a right and a wrong way of
—or semething or other will grow. This
grind.” He who originated that phmse
spoke more scientifieally than he knew,
Life, animate and inanimate, is simply
a grinding down of the higher parts and
the distribution thereof in the hollows. |
The final otitcome of earth, after millions
of years, must be something in the
nature of a large billiard ball whirling
through the sky, with nothing in the
face,
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The Colors of Flowers and Leaves,
We have generally supposed that the
tinct chemical combination. But Pro- |
fessor Schnetzler, of the Vandois Society |
The law can never make a man honest;
Even the weakest man is strong enough
What reason, like the careful ant,
There's a sort of human paste that
No story is the same to us after the
life.
Angry and choleric men are as un.
Conld he secure for her
a mateh for the broken tooth? Tf
he eould, he might name his price.
Beauty in distress appeals to the gal- |
lant dentist never in vain, so he in:
formed the grief-stricken maiden that
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to be worthy to munch caramels and |
bon-bons in compuay with those which |
now mourned the loss of their crushed |
However, he would see
what he could do. :
A mouth or two passed during which
the doctor was unremitting in his search
for a tooth of the proper dimensions,
complexion and brillianoy. Big teeth,
yellow teeth, snaggled teeth, and teeth
of every description and condition came |
his way, but never tooth that would
answer for the month of pretty Miss
— At last the tooth was found
young Spaniard whose well
brushed and somewhat faded habili-
indicated a struggle with
fate, entered the office to receive some
slight dental attention, His manners
were those of a gentleman and his con.
versation denoted intelligence and re-
finement. When he opened his mouth,
the doctor could hardly conceal his’
There was the tooth he had
looking for flashing in ils
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form and the acme of purity. It was
The subject was ap-
proached eantionsly, but when the young
gentleman spoke of his poverty the doe
tor offered him one hundred dollars for
the tooth. The money tempted the im- |
pecnnious foreigner, who immediately
offered all his stock in trade on the same
basis,
An appointment was made for the
nies
lady igforming her that at-last the tooth
was found. At the given hour the gen.
tleman entered the front oflice, and
the lady, closely veiled, shortly after
entered the rear office, for it was a
part of the bargain that the gentleman |
was not to ses the lady. The tooth
money was paid |
sud the stranger departed. Then the
tooth was carefully cleansed aud sub- |
mitted to a delicate treatmant to pre-
serve its vitality, while the doctor was |
preparing the mouth of the lady for its
reception It was soon inserted and in
the course of three or four hours had
immediately taken root in its new home.
In a few days the operation was pro.
nounced a complete sucoess, and Miss
- became the happiest of girls.
Now for the sequel. With a woman's
curiosity she was continually specala-
ting as to whom the tooth belonged.
and the gentleman in turn was cudgel
ing his brain for some means to asoer- |
had turned the tide of affairs so luckily.
For with the money it had brought him
he made a fortunate purchase of stock,
and step by step he had gone on with
his rapidly accumulating bank account
patronized a tadlor Chance
threw him into a select little party
one ovening where Miss —— happened
to be present, and he commenced re
connting his adventure. When he
smiled and pointed to the vacant place
in his mouth where the tooth had once
had its home, Miss —— gave a little
| shriek and her secret was discovered.
It is rumored that out of this dental
operation a veritable love mateh will
shortly result; and in fashinable Don-
ver and Cheyenne circles this romance
of a tooth will soon be the all-absorbing
topic. ST
REVERE Sun,
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A Remarkable Fact,
One of the most remarkable instances
of phosphorescent light appearing on
living creatures is found among the
Among the keys and the ex.
treme end of Florida these birds are
found in econntless numbers, Mullet
fishermen and sportsmen have often no-
ticed peculiar dim lights standing mo-
tionless over the water among the
ered, however, to de
{ ence of the birds. When they were ap
proached in the dark, the flapping
of wings as a crane flew away
{wonld he the last of the
New York's beautiful bay.
In three days she was ready for sea, |
and set sail.
which flowers present may be obtained.
For instance, a peony flower will with
Men do not often dare to avow, oven
yreast a spot about as large as the open
palm where the feathers are covered
| 1y shaken off and evidently exudes from
owder when exposed to the
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THE FAMILY DOCTOR,
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Accidents in the House,
In the household oceasional accidents
peour, generally of a harmless character,
but as they sometimes are of a certain
gravity, we refer to a clever little book
| ontitled, *“ What to Do First," written
{ by C. W, Dulles, which contains. in a
| small space, & great deal that is useful
‘to know in certain emergencies,
Now, as there are copper boilers attach-
ed to ranges in many kitchens, the
| use of oxalic acid to scour them is quite
| common, Occasionally we hear of acoi-
| dents arising from carelessness when
oxalic acid has been left about. The
| writer of this uses oxalic acid in her
| own kitchen, but with great precaution.
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| to the cook, but only a small portion of
| its contents, and whenever it has been
used the servant is asked * if all of it
has been employed.” If any remains
over it is thrown away. It is the
most stupid of drag clerks that con-
| founds oxalic acid with epsom salts,
[The acid, as Dr. Dulles describes
| it, “comes in small, heavy, bright.
colored crystals, making a clear rattle in
a bottle or jar.” In case by any aceident
oxalic acid has been taken, the antidote
for it is lime. The chemical reason for
using lime is that oxalie acid forms with
it an insoluble compound, and its corro-
sive action on the coating of the stom.
ach is at ounce stopped, “If lime water
is at hand, it may. be given freely, or
whitewash, tooth powder (its base is
from the wall, The latter may be crush-
ed and stirred up in water without re.
gard to grittiness, which will not do any
rm."
For sanitary purposes carbolie acid is
now frequently founl in houses, The
cases of its accidental use must be of
rare occurrence, as its peculiar strong
it recognizable at once.
Still, eases of its having been taken in
the dark are not uncommon. It is a
most dangerous poison, because, as Dr.
Dulles states, it seems after the first
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NUMBER 13.
Italians In New York,
two bundred Ik
landed at this port, one-third of which
number : in the city,
are now over twenty th
scattered among the !
York, The more ly arrived herd
together in colonies, such as those
Baxter and Mott streets, in Eleventh
stroet, in Yorkville, and in Hoboken.
Many of the most important industries
of the city are in the huads of Halidhs
as employers and employed, such
manufsctyre of macarord, of
of art, confectionery, artificial
and Italian ’
Italians
of New
be
with
beads,
flower in her hair, all of which, at home,
were kept for feast days. But here in
America increased wages make e
day a feast day in the matter of food
raiment; and why, indeed, should not
architectural princi
rying ?
sn idle and thriftless people is a
stition which time will remove from |!
American mind, A little kindly
ance and teaching can mold them
almost any form. But eapital is
first necessity of the individual. Isit to
be wondered at, therefore, that the p
untried souls that wander from
vice but that of the paris
Knowles of Se con to
ake going but the vague th
remembrance that ; uncle
or brother once went to Buenos Ayres
and returned with a fortune, no pecn-
niary resource but thet which results
from the sale of their little farms, or
the wife's heritage of gold beads, and
no intellectual capital but the primitive
painful corrosive effects “to benumb |
the stomach.” At once large and re-|
peated doses of oil or milk should be |
given. Certain eases of poisoning with
earbolie aneid have been successfully
treated, after oil had been taken, by
stimulation. Dut it is adangerous acid,
methods of farming handed Sows BY
their ancestors, should drift into list
less and less poverty ? Their emi.
gration is frequently in the hands of
shrewd compatriots, who to land
them on our shores in a
plundered condition.
On the other hand, the thrifty bour-
and care should be taken with the bot-
tle containing it.
Corrosive sublimate is often employed |
often escapes notice. “ If taken vomit- |
ing must be provoked, and some form |
of tannis acid must be given." Tea is |
the strongest thing which is easy at |
band, and a powerful decoction should |
be at once administered. Adults rarely !
meddle with phosphorus, but children |
sometimes suck this very deadly poison |
breath, and its action is not rapid |
“ Five grain doses of sulphate of eop-
geois who brings with him the knowl-
to aid him in getting a
to , and
the eyes of his poor neighbors, demor-
alizing his native town by filling its in-
habitants with vearnings toward the El
Dorado of “Nuova York.” Such aman,
confectioner, hairdresser or grocer,
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greed of
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to all appearance purposes
life in elegant leisure, but
rest.
surges
lessly within him, and be breaks wp his
Fogg—*
“I say, Jones, that
me an awfal
As I was
intervals of ten minutes until vomiting |
shonld be administered, but no oil"
Mistakes as to quantity of opium |
§
mon accidents, Such are to be found,
most unfortunately, in what Dr. Dulles
very properly calls * the many poison-
ous nostrums sold as soothing syrups,
pain destroyers and drops for infants.”
There is no expression harsh enough
which would serve to brand the woman
who administers such poison to her
baby. A mother who gives such sub-
stances to her child without a doctor's
advice takes the chances of life or
death in her own hands. To such,
capable of seeing their children waste
unwholesome den, that he may add a
often his avarice is rewarded by the
contraction of a disease which presently
American dollars
into th
— Harper's A
agarine,
Weather Prophets,
| pot wholly useless if we are
the testizhony of pos J.
who has been engaged for a long time
in s*udying the refations between ike
phasos of the moon snd the minfall at
certain stations. It has Jong hoes
known that when the moon is the
away before their eves, no advice
would be of avail. We address, then,
those who unfortunately may give lauda-
num or black drop for paregorie.
symptoms are deep sleep, with narrow-
ing of the pupil of the eye to a small
circle, which does not enlarge in the
Dr. Dulles advises the immedi-
allow the patient to vomit over and over
| again. Partionlar attention should be
mid to the breathing. “So long as the
| enhing does not fall below ten to the
minute there is no immediate danger ol
| death; but opium is a dangerous poison
{ and requires all the skill that can
be obtained to combat it.” For
merly the custom was to walk a patient
| up and down, and to slap with wet tow.
le “What to Do First” deprecates
| this, for the reason that it exhausts the
atient, who, if very ill, cannot rally.
kt physical stimulant is to be nsed, lay
the patient on a bed or lounge, and slap
with the back of a hair-brash, or with a
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sary, so long as hreathing keeps above
ten to the minute. Should it fall below
this, or if the breathing should cease,
artificial respiration should be employ-
ed.”
It sometimes happens that a child
gots, through accident, an overdose of
wine or brandy, We have known of a
little girl made dangerously ill from
having purloined brandied fruit. It
was a case of stupor. The cure was
of the first in a teacupful of
The use of tainted feod, such
eat or vegetables, some-
The treatment is to ex-
| spoonful
water.”
as of decayed n
Himes 0oenrs,
' Mothers are very careful, bat the most
| prudent of them, in the experience of
| the writer of this,
given their children. One infallible
rule in using any powder or fluid, no
matter what it is, is never to take it up,
much less to administer it, in the dark,
| ¢ poison” pasted on a bottle, if it be in-
| visible in the dark? A bottle of medi-
sky is most likely to be clear. This is
| not only the testimony of sailors and
| farmers, but also of eminent. astrono-
mers and scientific men. It appears
| that the rays of the full moon have the
| power to dispel clouds, and it therefore
| seems not urreasonable to suppose that
| the moon exerts an appreciy ble influ-
ence upon the weather. Professor
| Hyatt's observations have led him to
| divide the lunar month, of about twen-
| ty-nine and a hall days, into eight
| riods, or octants, of three and
days each, and he
lunstion is apt to acquire its character
as regards rainfall within the first co
tant, or within three and two-thirds
days from the time
- weather, as regards temperature, cloudi-
| ness or rain, is apt to occur on or about
| the same day of the week, or more ac-
just after he ranat
x g, Jones!”
| quarters. A number of are
| given, extending over a
period of time, which seems to bear out!
the truth of these conelusions with re-
' markable socuracy, and it would seem
| that if seven-tenths of an inch or more
| of rain falls within three and two-thirds
| days of the new moon, the entire luna-
| tion is very likely to be a wot one; but
if very little rain falls during that time |
the remaining seven-eights :
tion will probably be i
servations verify the =
the first three days rul
tendi E
| of three years, the rule been found
| to hold good in at least eleven cases out
| of twelve, and they would doubtless
| hold good for all places in the hilly
between the Appalachians
tie, not too near either the
sea or the mountains. Such conclu
sions are only reliable for simi-
larly situated, since
| location, elevation, the
the wind, ete., necessarily
affect the result, and these character
Jl
istics must be studied for each
The distribution of rainfall is very
regular throughout the year; two or
three dry or two or three wet lunations
are apt to be grouped together.
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Tew . At the same time Astor's | alcohol give a reddish violet fluid. Add | has made in their minds; but they are | ing into a
ship, under the command of a new cap- | salt of sorrel and it becomes a pure red; | iv. to follow if it is presented to | air The |
| tain, set sail also. They had a race for | and by the addition of soda this red | ready lo ‘0. OW } aD : Mi, LOA :
-g J 3 Pd : ; them in a lively and striking manner, | water, and this spot
Hong Kong, but the captain who, as he | will change into a violet, a blue or a 1 forees them to recognize it }
used to put it, had discharged John | green shade according to the quantity and. foreaes Le a ra §
Jacob Astor, by keeping the men at the | of the alkali used. The green coloring | If the memory is more flexible in
5 | braces, took advantage of every puff of | matter in the leaves of plants is called | childhood it is more tenacious in mature
“1 know what you have been doing | wind and won by three days. . | chlorophyll, and the professor supposes | age; if Shildhogd hus somitines tie c———— :
aod what it 3s for. Now go to work Then there was lively work, The | that this is the only original coloring Memon 5 gw NL OE ee | How a Dog was Rebuked by a Parrol.
and make it safe again.” . ? VOR ship was loaded in the shortest time | matter in plants; but being modified | Rig, > ro 1 Eo ped of the concen. | A gentleman living near this village,
“TH be blamed if I d o” mowied] possible, and before Astor's vessel, | by certain agents_for in wi plants | Som po te thought which we. wish by | says the Port Jervis Union, has a parrot
’ . y a 5 ¢ i APY + i wT : \ ? 1 em 0
Yak. | which had arrived meantime, was hall | there are acid or alkeline matters —or eh | who knows a good deal more than the | The question is often asked in cast
The doctor's voice trembled and his | bridge.”
eyes were wet with not unmanly tears, | It was Maria, with her lantern sud-
for, as the little company well knew, the | denly turned full upon him.
horse was a pet and a beauty. | He uttered one fearful oath, an’
¢ AL, woe's the night,” wailed Kitty. | shrank trembling like the coward tha |
“Ye'll niver find a betther baste nor a | he was before the girl's gleaming eyes |
handsomer wan—and so proud he samed | as she held her light aloft.
to bear ye, the poor faithful erature!” :
“Yes, we've pulled through many a
tough Place. together, and he never
flinched nor failed me. The almost hu-
man cry be gave when he went down
: ainlésadn the] cine may remain in one position for
ird stands motionless In the | 10 yntenched, but an hour before it
ix used somebody or other may have in-
The Sponge Trade.
A correspondent of the Providence
Press, writing from Nassau, Bahamas,
says: A very interesting feature of busi-
Hous life here is he trade J
very day, exce turday, at
; word of final advice to be given: On the | the hig grcep Sati street, which is
| least suspicion of poisening in a house | the recognized mart for this branch of
send at oheoe for the doctor, not neees- | traffic, is thronged with gentleman buy- | card.
| sarily your own, but the very nearest at! ors of this product of the ses. The
{ hand. | dock, which is some 300 feet long by
is undoubtedly | ;
| used for or accomplishes the end of ay advertently snbstituted something else.
| tracting the smaller fishes within reach | pe 0 idonts were always locked up less
of the bird, and if it isa decoy itis a) iqants would occur. There is one
most remarkable provision of nature.
that horrible place will ring in my ears
as long as I live,” said the doctor, shud-
ering. ‘‘ But who's going to show ' me
re’s .a
* Begorry,
with great hesitation, “ but a very deuce
of a ‘Way ye'll foin} it now—the traas do
be crackin’ and fallin’ and the rocks a
rowlin’-down in jest an infarnal manner.
It’s as much as yer loife is worth to ye
to get there.” a
“And who's ailin’ over there, anny-
way?” asked Kitty. ;
“1 think it's the baby. Some one
left word at my office that they feared
one of Fraser's children wasdying.”
* Blamed if I'll risk my neck fur one
of Fraser's kids,” said Jake, emphati-
sally, going back to his seat by the
“ No great risk, thin,” retorted Kitty.
“ Thim as is born to be hanged 'll niver
be dhrowned.”
The only answer was the click of a
revolver that her little firm band held
steadily enough. She knew how to use
it; Jake was well aware of that. More
than once he bad seen her bring down
her game, with a skill that many an old
hunter might envy.
have something else
“If this fails,
at my belt. Do as I tell you, or I will
kill you as I would a wild beast that
threatened me.”
“She'd do it, the little Spanish
fiend.” v
“I'm tempted to do it now"—click.
“Oh, how quickly I could send you
down there where you meant to send
him. I can hardly keep from doing it,
I hate you so; but I'd scorn to have
such dirty blood on my hands. Now go
to work.’ % E .
Stung through and through with her
contempt, ‘cowed and unnerved by the
threats that he knew were not idle ones,
Jake set about the work, and it was
“ An’ sure,” said Mike, glancing at
be
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loaded, our captain weighed anchor,
and with a full cargo of tea set sail for
| Sandy Hook; arrived in good time; got
| his ship alongside the wharf and began
| hoisting out his cargo, which was sold
| by auction on the spot.
| This glutted the market, for the
| consumption was comparatively small
| in those days, and when Astor's ship
| cdme in prices had fallen,
| Two days later, as the captain was
| sauntering down Broadway, he met Lis
| former employer.
| “How much did dat chronometer
st you !” asked the latter.
“ Six hundred dollars.”
| “Vell,” said Astor, “dat vas sheap.
| It cost me sixty tousand dollars!”
| The merchant and the captain have
| long sinee paid the reckoning, but that
| chronometer is still a good timekeeper
| and a treasured relic as avell.
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‘@ast thy money upon ‘the Héwspapers
and after many days it will return to youn
fourfold ;
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by transmitted light, this chlorophyll |
furnishes all tints of flowers and leaves. |
It has been ascertained that tannin with |
| chlorophyll changes the colors of the |
| green Fron in autumn to red. Profes- |
| sor Schneztler himself changed peony |
| sepals from green to red with salt of
| sorrel ; and the green liquid solution of
| soda with the peony blossom and aleo-
| hol became red when he transmitted
| light through it. He theréfore con-
| cludes that chlorophyll is the only
{ source of eolor in plants, the others
| being merely the results of atmospheric
| alkaline action upon that coloring
| matter,
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The Chinese are said to believe that
| the reason why those who read the Bible
{ become Christians is due to the stupefy-
| ing power of the ink, which takes away
| his reason and leaves him ready to be-
| lieve false doctrines. Warnings against
| the purchase of foreign books are fre-
quent in consequence of this supersti-
He that gives good advice builds with
one hand; oN that gives good counsel
and example builds with the other; but
he that gives good admonition and bad
example builds with one hand and pulls
down with the other.
Man being fallen from his natural
estate, there is no object so extravagant
as not to be capable of attracting his
desire. Ever since he lost his real good,
everything cheats him with the appear-
ance of it—even his own destruction,
though contrary at this seems both to
reason and nature.
A Hartford man sent a pair of trousers
to his tailor to be repaired. The tailor
found $300 in a roll in the pocket and
returned it, receiving the thanks of the
owner thereof. When we send a pair of
trousers to our tailor to be reconstruct-
ed and he finds 8300 in the pocket and
returns it, we always tell i
the trousers for his honesty, which is
tion.
the best policy.~Norristown Herald,
| lav allows. Last summer a friend of
| his, whose name we withhold for ob-
| day. A valuable young dog, a pointer,
| was with him. The two ontlemen rat
| on the porch smoking, oy the parrot,
| which is very tame, was seated in an
| interstice in the trellis about the porch.
| The dog was lying on the floor at his
master's feet, and finally his attention
was called to the bird, which was look-
ing steadily at him. The dog sprang
up, drew on the parrot and fastened.
There he stood, still as a statue, for
full three minutes, when the parrot,
with a contemptuous flift of his feath-
ers, screamed at him: “Go home, you
cussed fool!” The dog dropped tail
and ears, wheeled round and struck a
beeline over the fields for home. Since
that time he has refused to point a bird.
——T 0 01.
The traveling expenses of the 100,-
000 drummers employed by the mer-
chants of the United States are $120,
000,000 a year exclusive of salaries.
| of poisoning as to the simplest way to
provoke vomiting, Tukewarm water in
quantity is good, ‘but {t is better to
dd a teaspoonful of ground mustard,
r a teaspoonful’ of ipecae, or a table-
t gpoonful of the syrap of ipecac. Fur-
| ther, let it be remembered that there is
‘no occasion for fastidiousness. Any
| water will do. Water in which hands
| or dishes have been washed, acts more
quickly than anything else, and if soap
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| for that, as soap is an antidote for acid
oisons. The quantity used must be
arge; the sufferer must be urged to
drink a pint at a time, until he can con-
| tain no more, and has been made to
| vomit over and over again.”
The outside fiber of the cocoanut is
much used for making shoe heels. The
disintegrat « fiber is stamped into form
under heavy pressure after being mixed
with a cementing liquid. It makes a
very satisfactory substitute for leather.
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| thirty wide, is covered with sponges, put
| up in strings and in lots, w
‘are numbered and ed. Mr. Higgs,
(the clerk of the market, having seen
! that each fot 18 duly labeled its.
} r ag, es out as ma
ret the whole as ae ers,
and furnishes each with a list. Upon
this the gentleman, after a ca ex-
amination of the lots, makes his bids,
and turns in the paper at the close
the market. The offers are then com-
e sale is absolute, upon five per cent.
commission, and the bk 4
done in this way is :
the entire season.
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roads last , in
lost their ean
as against, 910 ac
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