4 land that man has newly trod, A land that only God has known, Through all the soundless eycles flown: Yet perfect blossoms bless the sod, And perfect binds illume the trees, And perfect unheard harmonies Pour out eternally to God. A thousand miles of mighty wood, Where thunder-storms stride fire-shod: A thonsand plants at every rod A stately tree at every rood; Ton thousand Jeuves to every tree, And each a miracle tome: Ye there be men who doubt of God ! Joaquin Miller, in the Californian, Never MinddWhat ** They ** Say, Don’t worry and fret, About what people think Of your ways or your means. Of your food or your disk. If you know you are doing Your best every day, With the right on your side, Never mind what ‘they * say. Lay out in the morning Your plans for sach hour, And never forget That old time is a power, This also remember "Mong truths ald and new The world is too busy To think much of vou, Then garver the minutes That make up the hours, And plack in your pilgrimage Honors bright flowers, Should gramblers assure you Your course will not pay, Wih consotence at rest, Never mind what “they ™ say, Too many have loitered, Until the ebb tide, While seeking opinions Prom those at their side, Too many good swimmers Have chosen to sink, Because they are martyrs To “what people think, foarmobiis farget Then let us, 3 The insensate throng, That joistles us daily Whilo marching along, Pressonwand and upwand, And make no delay— And though people talk, Never mind what © they" sar was he It no great pleasure to of the Goldsburys when wrote from her home in a distant State | that she was coming to pay them a brief | visual, any grandpapa, and had never manifested | any interest in or affection for her relatives. Her husband bad made | money, and they had thereupon lived in | a superior style, in their distant home, apparently quite indifferent to their less prosperous relatives. Iadeed, so little communication had existed be- tween them that, as Mrs. Join Golds- bury observed, “they would never have known that Uncle Keeley was still | wing. but for hearing of his death.” | ong, however, before this latter even 11 the Goldsburys had been aware that | fir. Samuel Keeley had made a will, | whereby he left the whole of his | property to his wife, to be bequeathed | oy her, at her death, to his nephew and | namesake, Samuel Keeley, Jr. This had been cause sufficient to | deprive them of all interest in the | Keeleys. Wherefore, it was not strange | that the prospect of a visit from the | widow shortly after her husband s death, | shonld have inspired them with no great degree of pleasure. The two Goldsbury brothers, Mr. ! John and Mr. Henry, left the matter to their wives, and those ladies, after a mutual consultation, agreed that the promised visit would be a bore, and that Aunt Keeley must, by all means, be put off. So Mrs. Jol, who was beginning to aspire to fashionable society, wrote that she was about taking her family to the seashore, and perbaps Aunt Keeley would prefer to come to them in De- cember, well knowing, from the old lady's hint of rheumatism, that she could scarcely venture upon so long a ourney at that season. Henry, on her part, informed nshand's grand-annt that they inking of repairing and adding eir house—they bad a kitchen- ser aud ¢oal-bin in contemplation — and Aunt Keeley would be so dreadfully annoyed by the noise and confusion that no doubt she would prefer to post- pone her visit until she could be made more comfortable. No answer was received from the old lady, and the two sisters in-law con- gratulated themselves on having so easily gotten rid of her. Dut, one day, when Mr. Henry Golds- Lary came home to dinner, he was met by his wife with a startling piece of in- telligence, Mr. Samuel Keeley, Jr., was dead! He had actually died a very short time after the decease of his uncle, and the Goldsburys had never known of it. Mrs. Henry had this information from an acquaintance who had been in Aunt Keeley's neighborhcod at the time of the young man's death. “ Well,” said Mr. Goldsbary, coolly, “1 don’t see why vou should be so ex- cited over it, Emma. We shan't be called upon to go into mourning for him.” : “How stupid of yon, Henry! Don't you see that now he is dead the old lady can leave her money to whom she pleases, no other heir having been men- tioned in her husband's will 2” *“ Ah,” said Mr. Goldsbury, insudden enlightenment, ‘so she can!” ““ And,” pursued Emma, rly, “#] haven't the least doubt but that her pro- posed visit must have been for the pur- pose of choosing an heir from amongst us ; for, though distant, we are yet her nearest relations,” “It may be so!” said her husband, thoughtfully, stroking his whiskers. “I know it must be so! Or, if she has no such intention at present, yon know she may have when she gets among us.” “ Is she coming, then, after all.” “Why, of course, I shall write at once and invite her ; and I think, Harry, that at present we had not better sav anything at present to your brother and Lucy about young Keeley'’s death. They mignt think that we were acting from interested motives ; and, besides, Lucy might be beforehand with me. She is so grasping.” “Grasping? I never before heard that of John’s wife.” ¢ Oh, most people are, you know-— [hen the temptation offers.” Mr. Goldsbury shrugged his shoulders. ““ Well, do as you please; and if the lady chooses to leave us her money, why it won't do her or ourselves any § { i So the letter was written, and in due time Aunt Keeley arrived. She was a tall, stiff, precise old la dy with a stately manner and a hard, pene- trating look. Bhe dressed in old-fash- ioned black silks and velvets, and talked much about her family, with allusions to her style of living before the death of her husband—her carriage and ser- vane fd “ course 0 not k up the same style sincs Samuel's dusth » she said. “When cae gets old and feeble, one cares little for society or show of any kind, though I confess that I still like to have things about me handsome and well appointed.” Mrs. Henry Goldsbury felt a little Buions, Though Bile to live in com- ort and even in some degree of lux her husband's income was barely orl cient to support them thus, and it would cost so much to make Aunt comfortable, according to the FRED KURT: VOLUME XIV. Editor and da “) 3 TERMS: 82.00 1881. in Advance. NUMBER 18. ] i t! i But it would not do to begrudge pense; for Luey, who had discovered i i {ex { the death of Aunt Keeloy's appointed | heir, was already beginning to maneuver to get her to her house, which was | handsomer and more luxuriously fu { nished than Emma's, though the income | of the brother's was about the same, So a new suit of furniture was bought | for Aunt Keeley, the table kept supplied { with unwonted luxuries, and evervthing { done to make her comfortable and con | tented where she was | She was very reserved and retice i nt ir | regard to her own affairs and property. | Indeed, Ww hen ance or twice Ar. Crolds | bury was imprudent enough to approach | the subject Aunt Keeley raised her eyes { from her knitting and fixed them upon { him so sharply and suspiciously that his { wife was on thorns, i Sometimes, however, when left | herself, she would make incidental al- | lasions to *‘ plate,” ** lands” or * bonds,” i which caused Emma to exchange signi | fleant glances with her husband, and { an expression of satisfaction to over i re the latter's placid visage. | There were other things, however, i which were not agreeable to the { Goldsburys. Aunt Keeley had very de jeided opinions of her own, and ex. | | pressed them freely. She was liberal | with advice, and not overpleased when | this was not taken. | She disapproved of a great many { things in the household, and was per | sistent in her efforts at a reform { children should not be all } 5 + tO 80 nl owed tO wear { tight dresses and high-heeled shoes { The windows should be left open at the top, and fires be kept burning dur ! ing the night, for sake of ventilation ! Emme should not drink coffee, which | would make her bilions; and Mr. Golds bury ought to learn’to take his tea without sugar and milk, which ingredi- ents changed the nature of the beverage into tannin. But above all things did in all its shapes; and Me. Goldsbury, who could not give up his cigar, was at length reduced to having a closet fitted use of himself and friends, Goldsbury grew discontented and morose. “1 suppose she will restrict me to a next,” he grumbled. “ And there are the children, forbidden to eat any but rice pudding, and sent out of the parlor in the evenings be. cause she don't like their noise, tell you, Emma, vou and Aunt Keeley are going too far." “It’s for the children's good, Harry, as you must know. We ought to be | willing to submit to a little unpleasant. ness for their sake.” “I don't see the necessity of sacrific- ing their and our present happiness for sake of future benefit. If Aunt Keeley chooses to leave us her money, like a rational being, well and good; but she has no right to expect us to make slaves of ourselves to her caprices.” ‘“‘Now, Henry, I call that foolish and ungrateful. Aunt Keeley doesn't ex pect or wish to make slavesof us. What we do is done of our own choice, to | please and gmtify her. How can we | 14 nt we do nothing to deserve it?” Between the hitherto friendly lies of the Goldsburys there now arose a sharp rivalship for the favor of Aunt Keeley. Their pleasant and familiar intercourse was in a great measure broken off, and each kept au keen watch apon the other, suspicious of being out. witted and oni " Mrs. John Goldsbury had the pl antest chamber in her house fur expressly for An KReeley's comfort | and eonvenience—a first floor cham which would obviate the necessy going up and downstairs. Tl Mrs. Henry, while the old lady her brother-in-law’s, had a room exclusively for her, will . in a hired carriage to bring her ““ hot : This carriage, indeed, was now very often called for to take Aunt Keeley out | for a drive; and nothing could exceed Emma's indignation upon learning that Luey had purchased a pony and a bas- | ket-carriage in order to afford Aunt | Keeley the luxury of a daily airing, And so the rivalry and the jealousy | went on, its effects extending even to | the children of the two families, until, | as Henry Goldsbury observed, his | eas - } 1 nisiied ind Lat ie, home and his relatives scarcely appeared the same to him; and the pleasure of his | life was nearly destroyed. To make it | worse he had been obliged more than | once to draw upon the little capital | which he had succeeded in investing, and bills for Inxuries, hitherto unknown in the family, now began to present a | formidable aspect. f If Aunt Keeley had been grateful and pleasant the matter would not have been so bad. But she took everything as though it were her right; lectured her grown nephews and nieces and | snubbed the children. Her will ruled | both families, as she happened to be an | inmate of either house. 1t was impos- | sible to discover to which she was the | most partial, since she divided Ler time pretty equally between each; when any- | thing displeased her in one family, | straightway going over to the other. “ Emma,” said Mr. Henry Goldsbury, desperately, * I've had enongh of Aunt Keeley. You've kept her now over a! year. Why not let her go home, and | we enjoy some peace and freedom! in?" “Why, Harry, you surprise me! I thought it was a settled thing that this | was to be auntie’s home—uunless Lucy succeeds in inveigling her into her own | family. And if she does that, or if Aunt Keeley leaves us at all, to live | anywhere else, we shall never get a nny of her fortune, trust me for that. ere will be plenty to hang round and wheedle it all ont of her. People are so greedy and mercenary.” “ But the expense—" *“ Now not a word, Harry, upon that subject, What is the paltry expense compared with all that we shall get in return for it? And auntie is old, you know. I am sure I am the very last person on earth to look forward to any one’s death for sake of their money; but you know that in the natural course of things auntie can’t live forever, neither very long, at her present age; and our duty is to make life pleasant for her if we want her to—to enjoy herself,” con- cluded Emma, hastily. “But how do we know that she will leave her fortune, or any of it, indeed, to us ?” “Because I heard her say, only this morning, that she didn’t intend that any of her possessions should go out of the family,” retorted Emma, triumphantly. “I've been all day watching for an op- portunity of telling you of it.” “Well, in that case, I suppose we must try and put up with her a little longer. Bat I should like to know exactly what property she has got.” “We know that Uncle Keeley was a rich man when he died,” his wife re- plied ; “‘and I warn you, Harry, to be- ware how you touch upon that subject a in aunt's presence. She is sus- picious,” About this time Aunt Keeley began to hint that she had been accustomed to spend her summers in the country ; and then to remark that Emma and the poor children were looking very badly. oid lady's own ideas of comfort. ¥ Io gratify the or hasband sho ple RU h nl i Ha i look out fora nie Wwe where they could board for ti but i that HOY he assured her that | HR pOsSsie count StasOn iy fact, i was sorry, but the family wo f > ni Wile Was uusus ION Was Do money STAY al home this summer, heeley Own expense Cli BOM Ix Teed 11 of his wife woul unt Keeley must not | t whatever would hap “Just lil : 3 LiRL of | ar ke a, Ol loss it w as Heanng never knew a man poar, dear Samuel ever willing to let his family go away and enjoy themselves without hum.” An to her talk, Emma began to feel herself an ill-used wife, ly, in consequence of this state 8, Mr, Goldshury wasn't sorry about this time, 1 away {rom home Cision, vel un W ho Wis i Listening MUSINONS { the i OL ‘1 suspected something o sort Aunt Keeley werved, F0CR y. And Emma felt herself more ill-used ever, Ounce away from the now depressing atmosphere own | Mr. enced a sense of relief y of his Wome Goldsbury exper: and exhilaration Meeting with some old friends he was prevailed to accompany them down the country "for duek and the to Fair Oak npon some I $11 Ns We radoes Here, carried away by the excitement the oe offered 0 end’s horse, won, and generously gave his friends an oyster supper The roport ame re he him ; } of casion, he to het on i ¥ i b of these doings reachad self dul. ] as I thought,” remarked Aunt Keeley, calmly. “And if I were you, Emma, I would have more spirit than to submit to it onsequence little had h i t1s { i drew out of her own saving up for the ; and, when Mr. Goldsbury at eturped feeling nd a good deal remorseful, | se shut up, and the Annt Keeley, * Ol i Emma investment 3 1 i n Seo home, a little country Lin “Without a word to me!" | claimed to his brother John in ti J wrath of a slighted and insulted head of the family. * But it is all do ings of that pestiferons old grand-aunt of But for her Emma would never have dared to take such a step.” Mr. John ated these words to wife, and day following they reached Aunt Keeley herself in an affec tionate letter from Lucey. © 3 the Y Qurs. 3 iis “ And now, dear auntie,” Mrs, Je y Call 40 18 10 XK proceeded that you un us at Highland Glen, the sweetest, healthiest country place rt. 3 hn, “the best thing gets into a better humor. With us von shall always be welcome, and never be nisjudged or unappreciated.” t Keeley eoded no further : n Emn had 3 . 3 5 On ner, anda im per indignation pers eve v's tears no ent ¥ miles on a damp 3 “Nephew Jol hat «of 4 v3 a : s ry Goldsbary’ ed home more tl dren's p “ disgraced Keeley away ruined your cl ros. ima said, bitterly; Aunt ii she'll stay away,” he { she left i gloomiiy; mercens x t “i fo : A iN SPEAK t hee Aun “Emma!” said Mrs, holding up his hands—* Emma, be a fortune-hunter—be anything, in Goldsbur ¥, sli wh HOT, “A hypocrite! Oh, Harry, this from And then there was and remorse, aud finally a mutual making- up and reconciliation; and despite the knowledge of Aunt Keeley'a anger, both the husband and wife felt happier than for many a day past. “Only, I do hope,” sobbing Mr. 1 i Goldsbury own with all to tea—*“1 do hope that 0 evil fairy And she never did, poor old lady! The wet ride. and perhaps her own high indignation, had their effect npon her, dead. She had made the doctor, who Lhabitu- According to her request it was opened and read immediately upon her decease. In this remarkable document Aunt to wit: Her silver--consisting of a dozen family spoons, a snuff box, sugar tongs, eandle-snuffer and six thimbles —wus to be melted down into a plate and handles for her coflin, diamond engagement ring, her buried with her. The portrait of her grandfather—a to the Btate historical society. other family portraits—those of her by being dis of any of t Goldshurys. layed on the parlor walls 16 present generation of to be expended in a monument to be erected over her grave. And she constituted Dr. Wall exec. utor of the will. lieve it, absurd paper. in consequence of extensiveand reckless nephew's favor had been made; and Aunt Keeley had thereupon come to live upon her relatives without ever say- ing a word about it, “I suppose she fancied she would be unwelcome if we knew of her poverty,” Mrs. John Goldsbury suggested. “Or, rather, she wanted to live in luxury, so allowed us to believe her still wealthy,” said his wife. Emma, alarmed at this, and anxious “Belfish, deceitful, ungrateful old fino ty iil ¢ Ig iM hed with tl hich they never 3 ia $0353 , Bi hap INess IW ATL ne ( } i. 11 ne of the four but confes 118 and her se t hea g that had been by m by their mercenary ha ut heelev's fancied fortune. ————————— HEALTH HINTS, iy i ¢ served all i silt Au K \ . § LINLESS CURE MW cleanlines minke * keep un” oo i or wWriggie 10 quietude disease oF babies need all If they a y them sleep 3 A Bealer in Bibles, .1 tha 1 if Ou op a 1 he d or A he COrners down as { smphasis to his face. His d that he worked at a livery stable in a subordi capacity, d his hat was as ill- shaped as thongh it had been tramped upon by a cow “Well,” said the Rev. Mr. “ what can I do for yon ¥’ The man drew a sigh from the bottom of his being and replied: “1 want a Bible. A few weeks ago 1 was a prosperous saloon-keeper, but, sir, I prefer pov rty and sobriety to af fluence and whisky, I gave my saloon to the widows and orphans, and, sir, a heavy widow planted herself behind th bar and began to deal ont the scorpion as naturally as I had ever done. I ex- pected her to close up the business and divide the cash, but when I spoke to her about it she caught me by the looseness of my raiment and threw me out, 1 never before understood what was meant by widow's might. Now, sir, 1 want the book of consolation. You needn't mind the revised statutes, but give me old Peter and old Paul. Give me a Bible.” The good minister was much moved by the poor man’s strong appeal, and taking down a Bible he presented it to the pleader. Late in the evening the minister was standing in a second-hand book store, when a man entered and said to the proprietor : “I have a nice lot of Bibles for you this time, Cap'n,” and he emptied a sack full of books on the floor. dollars for the lot ; cost me £4 50.” Op ned and of LE | at ned His mo $ clothes $4 nate an 1 snk obstock, o begged me for a Bible? “Oh! no, sir. “ amily relies, sir.” “ Didu't you get this book from me?” taking up a book. “Oh! no, sir. | teacher.” Just then a policeman, accompanied | “Here he is,” said one, and the police- { men led the book-dealer away. He had { called on every minister in the city, and { from each had secured a Bible, { tain ambiticus artist had painted a string | achievement, A lady and her young own sweet will. Buddenly she eox- { claimed: “Oh, ma, do look { beautiful bunch of bananas!” The | artist looked, too. Alas, it was the | trout picture which had called out the exclamation, a —————— When the young tige® have left their parents they are far more destructive than grown-up tigers, often killing three o' four cows at a time, while the adult rarely kills more than one. tlorida Oranges and Alligators, hundy niles ] I r three south from hn's River, til f t ii New York reporter, “ti d over with om twent abont LO mature } Wars toa i 1011 wos of i eX L WIE Jr Vive acres five vears for an 50 a8 to produce but nevertheless ntly planted, and i ol to bear “ { ni 120 grove? Mr. Gould, “they twenty to twenty from 850,000 teld a handsome Mr. hers ' replied nt In nd ar Butt For JANE é in ox i SOS. A worth HRM, hoy y iThare instance, iar, above me , OWHS 8 { five acres, and he Is him a net in. SOL ON, twenty al it un $15,000 to t& it alx 4 ) t! viel MIE ( 8 ‘is x st growing 7’ “lk cidedly BO, and i think that with he next five Florida ought to to supply the entire demand of the United States for oranges. [I believe that the sweet orange is not a native of Florida, but has to be grafted upon the tree which bears the sour orange, On yon OTAnges, ms and limes growing together, Of several fruits have been 8 aft is interesting and peculiar orner to see these fruits grow. sappy family on one tree, [It ienltural paradise,” wing the chief industry It i Lhe Years : able sometimes see Naot tospeak of cotton itve oak and the like, yon must not ; alligator,” said Mr, Gould, evidently thinking of bis w farm. tor a sufliciently val- ke his enltivation re . his tion of him, and even ths ttle, though it is worth com. Jy little, I believe they wots in England.” lorida enltivate these rep. t into td loes | 101 Necessary The alligator self and produces quickh usly. The whole swampand ntry is filled with them " “And are they dangerons 7 “Well,” said Mr, Gould, “it is as well not to get in the way of their tails, 1 k they strike their victims chiefly : Nevertheless the eleven- f th ul river © le th : LR of sot are not at. ] killed which «1 a whale on four Cur hirty of them. Wheth. not myself is a diffi. me to answer, 1 saw just before I fired, and ead ones just afterward ; but as iflos went off at the same time, assume that it was my gun that But alligator shoot- interested me in the he m 0 ong legs, § ¥ $1 ge i $ hi i warty killed over r 1 killed any or sve} ¥¥ ati . nit question for v ] { Hoe live Ones d Be al I cannot n ver i OF 3 an alligator, was not what south ; the blossoms, our wedding blos of the North, you know, were ees, and vet the ripe, golden fruit too” if on A ————"— Esquiman k-Spearing, x Due following parag nmer, while the sre molting and unable juimaux puts his byood sealsiin canoe Lis 41 mense hat, and repairs r lake, or the where he he helpless birds swimming in the wale: Here | i“ § on SCHR, 0 it eal 3 mplished don! le s 106 0 fli mbt avvea ly 3S ANLOUsIY appros 1 3 Ms HOCK he sometimes gets | r before his presence is obsery i ed; but even then, before he is with striking distance, there is a great splat. tering in the water, as the band scatters in every direction, vainly beating the | water with the eurions-looking stumps hat soon will wear their plumage and | once more do duty as wings. Some dive below the surface and come up a great way off, and always just where yon are not looking for them; but as the flock takes alarm the hunter dashes forward, feeling the necessity for speed rather than for caution. He soon within fifteen or twenty feet of the struggling mass, and seizing a curious-looking spear, with three barbs of unequal length, he poises it for a moment in the air and then hurls it with unerring aim at the devoted bird, impaling it with a sharpened iron or bone spike in the cen- ter of the barbs. The handle of the spear is of wood and floats on the sur. face of the water, so that the hunter can recover his weapon and the game at his leisure. $ 4 | is IIS. Four Years of Industrial Progress, The following interesting statistics are taken from a treasury department statement of the financial and economic transactions of the United States dur- ing the past four years: For vear end. For year end od Mar. 1°78, od Mar, 1°57 Exports of Hive sty Exports of other . ol exp te merchandis a poe oti Tis Mi 3, Total imp'te merchandise ~ 4 on, No, of bales, Corn, No. of bushels, | Pig Tron, No. of tons, Coal, No. of tons 1,042, 558,000 2.000, 504 64, 308, 200 For year end. For year end od Mar. 1,'%0, od Mar. 1,°51 Exports of live stock, $12,065,450 | Exports of other food, Total exp'ts merchandise Hpwcie, ‘otal top’ ts merchandise ects ), 197 1,252 v : | Cotton. No. of bales, { 204.000, (00 48 9, Wool, N { Corn, No. of bushels, i Pig Iron, No, of tons, Coal, number of tons, 60, X00. 054 1 A IOS. Paper and Paper Pulp from Salt Hay, It has probably not been generally | known among paper-makers, remarks the Paper World, that the grass ordi- { narily growing upon the low, marshy | lauds bordering upon salt water, and | frequently overflowed by it, furnishes a | most excellent material for paper. This grass grows in great plenty, and can be had for a comparatively low price, and contains nearly as much useful fiber to a ton as straw. It is very easily digest. | ed and can be reduced in a very short time, two hours being quite suflicient. The brown pulp as discharged from the digester makes a very superior quality { of hardware paper, and a trifling ex- pense only is incurred in bringing the | brown pulp up to a manila color, and | even a fair quality of white paper may | be produced from it. This stock when cle of superior strength and rigidity, and one not liable to fracture in bending. The yield of useful pulp from a ton of hay is about 900 pounds, and the cost for caustic, we learn from the s.me i | made into paper board produces an arti- i authority, is very moderate. THE EVIL BEAST, Extract from a * ermen by Rev, TP. DeWin Talmage, evil boast hath ¢ His CORt; Bn il (HEN, XX fy {4 Vil; 8a { Joseph's brethren dipped their broth er's in goat's blood and then i brought the dabbled garment to their father, cheating him in the idea that | & ferocious animal had slain him, and { thus hiding their infamous behavior, But there is ne d¢ eeplion about that | which we hold up to your observation, A monster such as never ranged African { thicket or Hindoost jungle Latl tracked this land, } strewed this continent with the maneled bodies of whole generations, and there are tens of thousands of fat I's and mothers who could hold the parment of their slain boy, truthfully exclaiming: ** It is evil beast hath de- question is, who cont i i “il up my son's coat; an voured him The will hunt down this evil beast and who shall destroy him? I answer first, by getting our children right on this sub. jeet, Let them grow up with an utter aversion to strong drink. Take care how you administer it as a medicine, | Teach them as faithfully as you do the catechism that rum is a fiend. Take se ¢ the wreck and ruin it works. Walk | with them into homes that have been | scourged by it. As you go by the grog- shop let them know that is the place where men are slain and their wives made paapers and their children slaves, Hold out to your children all warning, all rewards, all counsel, lest in after lays they break your heart and curse your gray hairs. We war upon this evil by organized Phe friends of the trafic have banded together ; they issue ciren- lars, raise fabulous sums of money to advance their interests, and by grips, passwords and signs, at defiance public moms. Let us confront them with organizations, and, if need be, with grips, passwords and maintain ony positions, Again, we will try the power of the pledge. Thousands of men have been saved hy putting their names to such a document. I know it is laughed at, but there are some men who, having once promised a thing, do it. We expeet great things from inebriate They have already done a glorious work. 1 think we are coming at to treat inebriation as an awful disease : self-inflicted, Once fastened upon a man, sermons won't eure him; societies, Ry BIZNs, Ya ch AAANG Again, we will contend against these evils by trying to persuade the respect ment of alcoholic beverages. You who move in elegant and refined associa. tions; you who drink the best of liquors; you who never lose your balance; let You have, under God, iv Empty vour cellars the beverage, and then come out and give us your hand, your vole, your prayers, vour sympa. Do that and I will promise yon First, That vou will find and wineclosets } § tt y Secondly, You will prob. perhaps your own You will not in mr duty, Iv save somebody; ren. Thirdly, ¥i ab hild Cia ihe sacrifice, if sacrifice it be, As long you make drinking respectable drinking customs will prevail, and plow of death, drawn by terrible dis , will go on turning up this whole i to end with the end awful furrow of drunkards’ as Are asters Ly long, deep, ETAves, A Prestidigitatenr’s Joke, Verbeck, the well-known prestidigita- tear, once took it into his head to fre- quent a coiffeur ina rather unfashionable quarter of Paris, The establishment wore a not very prosperous aspect, the stafl seeming far more numerous than At conclusion of his first visit Verbeek, after paving his twenty-five centimes for being shaved, with some ostentation dropped a two to the receptacle for the A loud and general Merci, naturally this wrincely Proce eding, the garcons vying the customers, he pourboires. ur, greeted 1 i Un Verbeck made his t the same was received with marked One assistant got a new cake of soap ready, another a napkin of ivory whiteness, while a third carefully stropped the best razor in the place. The patron himself offered his new customer a paper, and even the lady of the house stepped down from her comptoir to ask whether Monsienr would like a foot-warmer. Verbeck, however, paid the twenty-one centimes and dropped a couple of franes into the | trone as before. On the third day even greater deference on the part of the master, mistress and men. Two pots of flowers had been brought down the succeeding day hour, and VICTUALS AND YALOR, Patrlotisme Not the Ouly Incentive ravery in Bartle, Patriotism is no doubt a powerful lever in urging a soldier to take desper- ate chances, bat the late war proved that there were other levers of equal force, thirty-four men held possession of a block house along the Baltimore Ohio railroad in 1862, One morning a scout came in and reported that a foree of 150 Confederates was advancing to capture the post. The lieutenant or dered the mer them “Soldiers, the fnemy upon us |! hour, We shall be outnumbered four to one, but 1 appeal to your patriotism — to your love of eountry—to your respect for that dear old flag, to defend this post to the last, Will you do it? “Lieutenant,” stepped forward after an ominous si- lence, “we are too few and the Johnnies too many. We shall all be killed or captured, and the men won't stick. They | go for evacuating right away.” “Patriots and heroes,” continued the officer, after drawing a long breath, * we have just received fresh rations of coffee, sugar and bacon. We haven't been to breakfast vet, If we evacuate we have got to march twelve mules on empty stomachs, If we remain and defend to the last, I'll issue double mations as soon as the last reb is driven off. If vou don't want to fight for your country, let's fight for a good, square meal.” Every hat was thrown up and every man cheered, and twenty minutes later, when the enemy appeared, lie was greet- ed with such a hot reception that he soon sounded the retreat. When the Union forces under Nelson made their stand at Franklin, the Con- io several days, and it had been a march of empty haversacks, As the Confederates formed for battle many of the regiments had been without food for twenty hours, Their first attack, after a patriotic ad- dress, was speedily ale, Cleburne | led a part of the force making the sec- | ond advance, As he rode along the lines | Le saw the men chewing leaves from | the cherry and apple trees, and he said : “Brave Confederates, there is the en- emy. Behind those earth-works are cannon and muskets, and men who know how to use them. Behind those is a big wagon-train with heaps of rations. We've got to lick the enemy to get this train, and if we don't get his rations we'll have to fill np on grass, for there isn't a Confederate hard-tack within twenty-five miles of Franklin, Follow me to glory and-—mtions I" They followed him to the earth-works | and over them, but he was killed and the lines driven back. His men, how- ever, were the only ones who mounted the earth-works during that desperate | battle ; and it is an open question whether an appeal to a soldier's hunger won't make him fight as well as an ap- peal to his sentiment.— Free Press, WISE WORDS, Prosperity is a blessing to the good, but a curse to the evil, He who seems not to himself more than he is, is more than he seems. | action, like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way. mind ; whence arises the happiness of the poor, The vanity of human life is like a river constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on. It is possible that a man can be so hanged by love that one could not ree. ognize bim to be the same person. When von talk to women you mus choose between lying and displeasing them. There is no middle course unless you say nothing. To pronounce a man happy merely because he is rich, is just as absurd to call a man healthy merely because he has enough to eat. No man ought to com world measures him others, yard-stick may be hard, but is fair. And when we are in prosperity we are ready to think our mountain will never be brought low, so when we are adversity we are ready to think that our valley will never be filled up. as measures ie spark may sets house on fire. A fit of passion may give you cause to mourn all your life. Never revenge an injury, Happiness is evident to us in this life by deliverance from evil, he who sees the day!” said a blind man; but a man who sees clearly does not say so. “Happy is he who is healthy!" said an invalid. When he is health, TO 05 himself. operation the two francs falling into the trone as usual, on which the tirelire had to be opened, the excitement became excessive. proprietor, in an unguarded moment, decided on closing the shop an hour before the usual time, and all made up silver should forthwith be spent in a neighboring gargote. So far, good. On opening the trone, however, to the disgust of the expectant circle, not a single piece of silver was to be found. As a natural result everybody began to suspect somebody else, the mistrust of the garcons gradually centering on the unfortunate patron. The mistrust deep- ened into hints, and the hints into open charges of malversation of the moneys placed in the supposed eulprit’s keep- ing, and the position of the latter had become far from enviable when, luckily, Verbeck thought it time to reveal his identity. Having explained that he had always substituted a sou for a two franc piece, by sleight of hand, when seeming to drop the silver into the box, and having compensated the garcons by the present of a louis, mutual apologies were exchanged by employer and em- ployed, and the postponed visit was made to the wine shop.— Paris Figaro, The director of the bureau of statis- tics at Vienna has made some interest- ing researches concerning the compara- tive longevity of women and men in Europe. He finds that out of 102,831 individuals who have passed the age o! ninety years 60,303 are women and only 42,628 are men. In Italy 244 al- leged centenarian women are found for 141 men of that age. i ——————————————— On the fourth of July next we may expect to pick up a morning paper and read that “The snow-storm in Wiscon- sin, Iowa and Minnesota yesterday was the heaviest of the season.” The West has had the ‘heaviest snow-storm of the season " every week since the firet of March, Norristown Harald, ODDITIES, Snails have been put in boiling water and have survived the terrible ordeal. Kempler says that he once saw a hyena A hogehead of herrings have been | taken out of the belly of a whale, In Bengal the natives say that the old male tiger kills all the male cubs he can find when they are very young. A tiger in a state of nature has been | known to spring up the precipitous side of a hill from sixteen to twenty feet high, showing marvelous agility. Rabbits have been driven by hunger to ent their ears. They accomplish the feat by bending the ear down with the paw until it reaches the mouth. A gentleman in Walton county, Ga., lately found a two-legged rat in his corncrib. He says the animal seems never to have had more than two legs It has become quite tame. The maharajah of Durbunjsh is a gentleman of India whose superstition has somewhat overpowered his good sense. He has just pulled down the greater part of his palace for no other reason than the fact that a vulture hap. pened to sit on it. A Dime Novel, The wild storm still raged fariously. Ever and anon the vivid lightning, in fantastic shapes, illumined the dark- some and angry heavens. At last our young hero, making a sudden strategic movement, surrounded the band of fif- teen howling red demons, and with no other weapon than a seven-shooter, a cavalry sword, a dime novel, a Reming- ton rifle, a deck of cards, a bowie-knife and a pair of brass knuckles he mowed down his pursuers like grain before the scythe of the reaper; then seizing the fair Ethelinda around the waist with one arm and plunging a bayonet into the breast of a lusty Indian who exhib- ited signs of returning consciousness, he vaulted into the saddle of the swift- est horse in the Territory, and cried ina delirium of triumphant joy—*‘‘To be continued in our next” Nowictorn Herald, ——— RE Chinese Babies, | | that concerning the demoniacal | sion of their babies, i tl | of erying snd is of a very | sition the { ealled, has taken up its ab | dering somewhere ; | thereupon fake dried | 80 as to make a sort of inky compound, the ink and paints & cross on the baby’ Another method blacken the infant's face, Bauaps skin does not necessarily form an ingredient this time; any ink will do. The parents wait until the babe is in a sound slam. its face with their fingers—a brush would not be efficacious. In a short time the demon which has taken pos session of the child returns, preparatory to its awakening —for the soul from the body during sleep, and is free—and seeing the blackened face, exclaims: “* Lawk-a-merey! this can't be L" or words to that effect, and decamps precipitately. The true sonl, which has been waiting for an opportunity, ap- | proaches the dormant body. Now is the time for the parents to wash off the ink Again stood by my husband's side. “1 go on a journey, sweet, to-day; : Good-bye; 1 shall linger long away.” * Ah, be will come back sot, 1 know,” 1 maid, as he stooped for the parting k “He cannot tarry, he told mono; There is never & land so fair as this” Put many & month and many » year sdjourned.— The editor of the Oil Derrick claims to have a country seat. It is a stump, : Miss Anuie L. got married, and now Phegtinisg gL an Annie-mated young lady. Boldiers ave always the most adept lovers, because they learn to present arms snd salute. ; It is r how sound a man sleeps wile erawls over him on her way to the kitchen to make a fire, lo The New York Sun says that latter method, which is called “the face blackening,” but cross on the foreh lower classes of Canton. a Edue ting Horses, of their understanding as well as chil- ruined by bad management. move from the different management of men than from variance of natural dis position in the animals. Horses with | When a Canadian farmer sheathes a p of lard within a half-inch costing galvanized but- ace in And we're howling : that one. Adirondack M those of less or dull spirits, and are more susceptible to ill-training, and consequently may be good or bad, ac- cording to the education they receive. Horses with dull spirits are not by any means proof against management, for in them may be found the most provoking obstinacy, vicious habits of almost entirely worthless. Could the coming generation of horses in this i i $ i i i : i i ! i would be seen a vast difference in the i ® There is 80 FR e ve handle between know that they have great expense, Yous, no attention to the giving out of har 1 will not be injured thereby. agement of this noble animal-less beating and more of education. The Work of Volcanoes, Cotopaxi, in 1738, threw its Sery rockets 3,000 feet above its emater, gling for an outlet, roared so that its more than 600 miles, - Dam 01 Triggs-—\ Helle, r sop png wet, 35 Why don’t you wy * i Births, marnages and deaths are re sorted hy an Illinois paper under the besa of ¢ Matched, Sastched. But it could save type and using the words “Bed, W instead. The New York Graphic has about banished the nnisance of tall hats at the theaters. Jt remarked that women looked best in high hats » © of mud, which dammed up the rivers, opened new lakes, and in wallers deep. The stream from Vesuvius | which in 1773 passed through Terro del Greco, contained 33,000,000 eunbie feet of solid matter; and in 1794, when Terro del Greco was destroyed a second time, the mass of Java amounted to 45,000,000 cubic feet. In 1760 XEtna poured forth a flood which covered eighty-four square miles of surface. On this occasion the sand and scoria formed the Monte Rosini, | near Nicholosa, a cone of two miles in | in motion at the rate of one yard per day for nine months after the eruption, ‘and it is on record that the lava of the | tion, was not thoroughly cool and con- | solidated for ten Years after the event. In the eruption of Vesuvius, A. D. | 70, the scoria and ashes vomited forth, | far exceeded the entire bulk of the { mountain ; while in 1860 Etna dis | gorged more than twenty times its own { mass. Vesuvius has sent its ashes as | far as Constantinople, Syria and 3 | it hurled stones eight pounds in weight [to Pompeii, a distance of six miles, while similar masses were tossed up 2,000 feet above the summit. Cotopaxi has projected a roek of 100 enbie s in volume nine miles; and Sumbawa, in 1845, during the most terrible ernp- tion on record, sent its ashes as far as Java, a distance of 300 miles of surface, and, out of a population of 12,000 souls, only twenty escaped. A Rapid Exit from China, The Chinese, said Professor Draper to a New York reporter, paid great at- tention to astronomy in ante-historical times, snd they have always linked their knowledge of astronomy with astrology. Historical events were noted by their writers as taking place while the stars held certain relations to cach other, Speaking of astrology in China, I am reminded of the uncoremonious way in which the late Jamented Profes- sor Watson, of Ann Arbor university, Michigan, was compelled to quit the Chinese empire about the time of the transit of Venus a few years Pro- fessor Watson, with another well-known astronomer, was at the Chinese capital. The emperor of China was taken sick with the smallpox, and he died after a short illness, The event was looked upon, as all great events are in China, as influenced by the stars, and it be- came noised abroad that the two distin- guished astronomers had so influenced the sters as to cause the emperor's death. The viceroy, who did not share the popular belief, quietly informed the astronomers that they might lose their lives if they did not go away. They de- parted in the night. hc —— The shores of Long Island Sound are wearing away at the rate of an inch every thirteen years. must have room, ever if it crowds the fishermen. ly H “Mr. Gilhooly,” said a diminutive you going to pay this bill for them boots you got on?" *‘ How old are you, sonny?” “Ten years old.” “Go tell your pa you have got too much curiosity for your age.” — Galveston News. Signs of Spring, | The dark shadow of the coming Lhiouse- cleaning broods like a bird of evil omen over your once happy home. The wife of your bosom talks of new carpets and new furniture. As you ride homeward in the cars hear stories of early peas. > The English sparrow has set alarm clock an hour earlier, and now arouses you from your slumbers at four AML . The pussy willow asserts itself, and the willow pollards show forth a jaun- diced tint. ar mud sticketh to your shoes, and the passing vehicle supplies your mu- ment with § same article. _ Anon the dust rises and fills your eves and your mouth. The wind blows where it Listeth. : The lightni man and the * your door. Your liver begins to assert itself. The house-hunter is abroad. Jou i 17 i i 5 E ; E E £ : g E er i z § the fifth, could he be persuaded that he was yet in Portland. — Scribner. suddenly made their appearance and began re descend the ch mop of the residence of police officer Wo y followed in such numbers that the lead- ers were driven to the base of the chim- ney, and the noire they made led Mr. Wolff to remove the fireboards, when the birds quickly filled t'e room seek- ing exit. he doors and windows were opened and they flew out. There were thousands of sn in this some time, when the swallows, findir
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