Wi Our Life is Work, Ah! true it is the time for labor here Is swiftly passing and onr days are few; The joy of love, the happy smile, the tear, All, all the sweets of youth we soon review | The time is short indeed, nor found again The dark or sunny side, past joy or pain, Then let us not retain one gloomy thought, Nor miss the meaning of God's wondrous plan; But make cach day with some good actions fraught, Load noble lives-—-do all the good wo can; Dwell on the constant mercies we receive, And star with hope the pattern that we weave! Gather in grains the manna day by day, Of happiness that none may surely keep ; Sach hour improve; then pass from earth away Like some tired child that softly falls asleep T'o wake in house whose fashion is divine And sea our record on its bright walls shine ! George Banaraft Grifith: — The Farmer's Corn, At early dawn, when o'er the leaves "ho hoar-f) When trees Beneath the Qld Farmer John salu Of ripened corn. loom, h y " = Yeast reeps and steals their b stiff in gloom Bright jewels ‘mong the stubble g And sparkle fron And gossamer, outspread, Enrobx But Farmer Moves ¢ 2 his careless tread, naked thorn; su And down the While erisp IORVES SPY A blood-red rim he # To greet his corn. And fear orecps thn As the rising sun And as & John quakes « May swamp huis i sv ovals G08 STALL, 80, wlustling thanks to sun and skies, He leaves the corn. The Parson's New Coat. The village of Buzzville having gone safely through the canning and pre- serving seascn; baving with praise- worthy zeal carried off the palm as re- garded the “annual county fair,” over and above the surrounding towns ; hav- ing shone conspicuously in an elaborate “harvest festival” for their church—and yet surviving, now cast about for other worlds to conquer before settling down for the winter. “Our minister needs a new coat,” said Miss Mirandy Stebbins, rattling her | knitting-needles in huge delight at first producing an idea; *he does, most dretiul bad, an’ that's a fact. Hain't any of yon noticed how shiny it's got?” She cast a reproachful glance on all of the circle—who, while they waged war on nnbleached cotton and red flannel, also carried on admirably the war with their tongunes—and then proceeded : “An’ I say it’s a eryin’ shame to see him git up in that pulpit another Sunday with that old coat on. Somethin’ must dome. I'm awful glad I thought of it.” “You hain't thought of it any quick- er'n anybody else,” spoke up little Mrs. Bisbee, a stout, buxom matron, with flaming cheeks; and her black eyes flashed volumes. “Taint alwus talkin’ folks gits the first idea. I've ben a-think- in’ of that same thing for some time | now,” she added, with a venomons snap at the placid figure behind the rattling needles. “An’I shall do my best to git the parson one,” she added, the best! rye bread premium, which Miss Mirandy had successfally carried off before her | very eyes at the county fair, u ng her! on. “I shall begin a subscription right straight off, this very minute,” cried | Miss Mirandy, with great determina- tion, and starting from her chair, ignor- ing her rival completely. “How much | will you give, Mrs. Bassett?” she asked, | going into the center of the group to at- | tack the “Sqnare’s wife.” i “An’ I shail start one, with my own | name first, before I ask other folks to | give,” exclaimed little Mrs. Bisbee, tri- | umphantly, with an unpleasant laugh | at Miss Mirandy, who was known to be | “tight as the barkof atree.” “I'll give | five dollars,” she added, in a loud voice, | determined to go without her new win- | ter bonnet sooner th that her rival | should carry the day. | “An’ Ill join yoa with another five,” spoke up the “Square's wife,” looking past Miss Mirandy to the stout little figure with flaming cheeks. “Now, then, Mrs. Bisbee, that's a good start, I'm sure,” | There was no show now for the spin- | ster’s side, since, for various reasons of | her own, the “Square's wife” bad gone | over to her rival. So she stalked back | to her rocking-chair grimly, took np her | knitting work, and watched, as best she might, the subscriptions grow enthusi- astically under other hands than her own. At last, as the laughter and excite- ment progressed on all sides, she wes utterly unable to bear it another mo- ment longer, and jumping up, she mum- bled something about “must be home,” and flounced out of the room. “I'm glad she gone,” said the “ Bquare’s wife,” as the door closed after the retreating form of the spinster; “I am sick to death of havin’ you always come to me for subscriptions ; an’ she never gives the first cent her- self.” “She wouldn't see the need of the parson’s coat, if she had to open that ocketbook of hern,” said a tall, square- uilt matron, who looked as if she had plenty of opinions of her own, and could express them when occasion re- quired. “ Gracious I” ejaculated little Mrs. Bisbee, with a short laugh; “who ever see that pocketbook anyway? I never did, an’ I don’t b'lieve any of you have either.” “A cent’s as big as a cart-wheel to her,” said the big square woman, who didn’t love Miss Mirandy to death. “It all runs in the family. They wouldn't any of em open their mouths to breathe, if they didn’t get somethin’ at the same time they giv it out.” Well, she won’t put anythin’ in her mouth this time,” observed the “Square's wife,” laughing, and settling back comfortably. ¢ It’s the first sewin’ meetin’, I guess, where she’s gone home before tea.” “ An’ it means somethin’ to go home before tea from Mrs. Deacon Higby’s,” i i 1 i { i § VOLUME XIV, ! . : 3 ’ { astically, with an energetic bob of he { black curls over at the hostess. ‘So { she's lost her cake an’ eredit, too.” “1 don't know,” said Mrs. Deacon i Higby, deprecatingly, though she wrig | gled all over with delight at the implied { praise to her suppers. “My doughnuts { ain't so light as usual, an’ the loaf cake ain't riz quite as 1'd like it. The | deacon came home last night in a chill, an’ I run in the midst of everythin’ to | give him a camfire sweat. So I didn't hev as good luck as I set out to hev."” Notwithstanding these lamentable | failures, the round, comfortable visage of Mrs. Deacor Higby presented a series of rippling smiles that threat enad to eclipse every feature of her ex pressive face, while she smoothed her “Oh, well, you can talk,” said little all know, as well as the next one, what your cookin'is. Fifteen, twenty, twenty no, twenty-two—Mrs. Spencer twenty five, twenty-eight, thirty, thirty.one thirty-one and a quarter. Oh, dear! what a pity "twarn't just thirty-two.” “I'll make it up,” said the “Square's wife,” guiekly, enjoying the distinction of being the only woman in the room Now, then, thirty-two i article. (ques. consideration, +) Where'll we buy it? that's the tion.” Hereupon ensued a lively discussion, the deacons wife favoring employing the village tailor, and, as he was second cousin to her husband, family reasons might have something to do with her opinion. Some of the ladies falling in with her, the idea would have been carried, but for the warlike, de- termined attitude of the other party, who decidedly favored the it being made out of town. “Twill be lots more stylish,” said Mrs. Bassett, the * Square's wife,” with an undeniable air that took immensely. approve in the least its being done here. When we give anything, How should we feel to see the parson up in the pulpit with anything but the best on!” The view of the parson from his high perch dispensing spiritual things, with anything less than a town-made coat adorning his person, was a sight that even in imagination so filled the circle with disfavor that the whole roomful in a body went over immediately to the side of the ** Square's wife.” All but Mrs. Deacon Highy. She remained firm, while the round visage lengthened ominously, and the little eyes snapped. “An' if you think "Bish Williams S000 “J must take back my sub-| scription then, for the deacon never'd ! hear to my given' his second cousin on his mother's side sech an insult, ef the parson never saw a coat.” And, all her feathers rufiled, she sat straight up, and glared at them all. Now it never would do to offend Deacon Higby in all the world; every- body saw that at a glance; so, with many sidelong looks at each other, each lady began to cast about how she might side without arousing the wrath of the “Square's wife.” “I s'pose we had orter employ our said little Mrs Bisbee, thoughtfully, seeing no one else was willing to take it up. “An', | besides,” she added, brightly, *“ p'r'aps, seein’ it's for the parson, 'Biah Williams may do it considerable cheaper. So we'll save a good deal.” “1 don't know whether he will or not,” said the deacons wife, sturdily. “1 ain't in "Bial's business, an’ I ain't know nothin’ But Ido say, if the job is taken ) give spell, I can tell you!” “Yes, I do think,” said little Mrs, at the same time that she ad ministered, under the big table where the work was being cut out, an admoni- | tory pinch on that lady's toes, * that much. but probably near know, 80 We don't know, you | ' » he won't. An to hev us go outside, yon know, to git gome one else to do the work. They'd Juzzville' and she fin-| ished up with a laugh, “80 they would, so they would,” cried every lady present, delighted to find that some one else had done them the good service of whirling them over safely. “ We wouldn't go ont of Buzz ville for apythin’; an’ 'Biah William is jest the one to doit,” they added, de termined to do nothing by halves. So oil having been poured upon the troubled waters of Mrs. Deacon Higby's | spirit, she considered Her husband's family honbr to be thoroughly vindi- cated, and resuming her former jolly | expression, she set avout preparing to | pass around; the fragrant tea and the | abundance of good cheer that accom- | panied it ; and a committee of three— | Mrs. Squire Bassett, Mrs. Bisbee, and, in compliment to her relationship to the aforesaid 'Biah Williams, Mrs. Deacon Higby—wus unanimously ap- | pointed to confer with the tailor and! order the coat. Feeling quite sure at this point that duty had been done and full reparation for any fancied insult to the deacon’s | family pride had been made, they one | and all, in a highly exalted frame of | mind, energetically set to work on the | supper. “I never see such eaters,” said a muf- | fled voice. The remark was addressed, | in the depths of a big closet full of all | sorts of family lumber and cast-off arti- | cles, to another person who, like the | owner of the voice, was crammed in a | most uncomfortable position up against | the door that led into the * keepin'- | room” where the sewing society was | convened. ‘ Whackety! if we should | eat so much, I guess ma’'d whip us. | Just look at Miss Bassett stuffi” Thereupon the other figure bounced up with great diffienlty to get a good view from the keyhole. When he had breath. “Whew! don’t she, though! An’ see Miss Henderson! Her nose is a yard long. Look at her bite into that biscuit I’ “ Let me see—let me see,” exclaimed the boy on the floor, crowding up to push the other away from the keyhole. “ That's my place. Get away, Tom, I say. I want to see.” “*Tain’t your place any more'n tis mine,” retorted the other, in an awful whisper that but for the rattle of cups and saucers going on on the other side of the door must needs have been heard. * The closet b'longs to both of us ; 80 of course the key-hole does.” “Well, I want to see once,” said the first boy, waiving the point of exclu- sive rights ; “go git away, or I'll hol- ler ;” and he gave a smart push to the joying a view of the society exclaimed little Mrs. Bisbee, enthusi- Icditor and sented his wrongs. “If you do, yon won't git nothin’ mly a whaokin', an’ I'll out an’ ran,” he declared, savagely, dumping down into the vacated place on the floor, “Bodo look if ter; then you've got to give the place back." “She's beginnin’ on another,” cried the victor, as loudly as he dared. '* Oh! my jum-zie2! [I say, Tom" “Wh said Tom, gloomily, on the floor. “There be a sorap lef if they keep on eatin’ like tha riz cake's agoin' just awful! Le out in the back vard and holler an’ start ‘em home.” “Oh no, we mustn't,” eried alarm ; “that will the whole. “They can't eat much more,” he added, decidedly. “An' then, after we've had our supper, we'll start an' tell all we know, Hain't we heand lots? he aske d, enthusiastically. “Lots I" declared his | we have. Just twice as much as at then "twas all Jinny Ann Rogers; that wasn't no fun at all” “Let's go ta Cousin 'Biah's first,’ Tom, eagerly, “an’ mad him all then we'll cut ‘cross lots to Mirandy's. Let's, Joo." “All right,” said Joa. *'1 which one we go to first, wish they was through.” But before he could plaster his pale blue eve up to the key-hole again, the vou want At at? won't t for us 8. The at's gO 3 ’ ‘ive, # spoil wrother; “I guess wo did about last s'ciety; up: an’ Miss don't CAT Oh, dear! 1 session of that outlook 80 he was fore a to content himself with conjuring up new dark plans on the floor. At last they had the supreme pleasure of seeing and hearing the biscuits, cake and tea passed out into : 1, losing no time, they speedily took mselves out to the charms of a sup per with no one by to restrain. When they had finally eaten another erumls was possible, they each grasped his cap, and flew as fast as was possible on their pleasant errand. 3 1 * the kitchen #3111 : iii Not 'a believed it.” ns brought his hax then stared Mr. d down hard on at his wife. “I would,” sho said, spitefully. “They're a mean, hateful set. It's je what I've alwus told yon, 'Biab, you would have your own way. N¢ guess you'll go over to the Methodists.” ‘I'll go to the Methodists next Sun. h, if yon want ter," said Mr. d “1TH jine a the folks ain't too big for with a bitter stuck-up Miss 3 said his wife, “To think that Bassett, father used to pedd dared turn up her nose at your tailorin' I” “An' that Miss Bisbee, who don't know what a good coat is when she sees one,” eried the tailor, in greatest exasperation, “a-settin’ herself up to tell me how much I was to charge! 1 her how to mind her own business.” And 'Biah got up, and sticking his big hands in his pockets, began to stalk up and down the room in high dudgeon. “'Biah!” Mrs. Williams stopped combin t her scanty locks, and fet. ting them string thin face, she eagerly faced her hus. band. * I'll tell you what to do.” ““« What?" asked her husband, ping in surprise, “ Youn charge "em just twice as much as you would 'a d ' said his wife, peering through the two wisps of light hair that hung dismally on either side of her enraged countenance, *’an git your pay out of all; an’ then von give it back to the parson yourself, when the coat's done.” ‘ Good for yon,” cried her husband. | “ Hain't you got a head, though!" And then he was so delighted enteness that h like pump handles and kissed he mean,” ) laugh. Ww hose jie +} de guess stop i me, Vey iia at her Xr, Meantime, Miss Mirandy Stebbins, feeling herself overreached in her effort to be the prominent originator of the gift to the parson, and defrauded as to the supper she had counted upon, was doing np her corkscrew curls in anything but a sweet frame of mind, preparatory to the sleep that wouldn't come at her bidding. “It's ontrageons !” self, her false teeth being out and care- fully placed on the bureau. *‘‘I never was so insulted in my life. That little fat chunk of a Miss Bisbee, too, to do it! An' Miss Higby to set by an’ see em, aun’ never say a word! I'll be up to ‘em, I will.” The renpon sho blew out the candle, and flonneed her thin frame down into the middle of her feather-bed, trying to so much isfy her thirst for revenge. Suddenly " And clambering out of bed, she groped her candle, some flannel slippers, and herself into pattern. “There, now, what was it? had with great difficulty found, after good as helpin’ give it;" and ugely tickled at the turn of affairs, she composed her mind and fell aslec Pe On the first Sunday in December—a bright, beautiful day—the “First church in Buzaville” wss crowded to its utmost capacity, The presentation had taken place the avening before, and consisted in the coat being sent over at the hands of the tailor's boy, with a note contain- ing the names of the fair donors. All eves and ears were therefore agog parson in his new habili and to hear how returned As Le went up the bread aisle he thanks. of the new coat, and many nudges and l xpross the general tisfaction that was babbling over in & andi neo. Aftor the first praver, with a few pre liminary ‘hems,’ up and began to nnburden his mind of the deep debt of gratitude that weigh him down, “Hem! It gives me great pleasure,” he mumbled; then sought relief in his handkerchief, which be in the depths of his oft han aoket, required u " g pull” to get it ILUOS Were given Lo «¢ tn 3 th the parson stood Whiz went some small white neath the parson’s hand up into the air ; then it settled slowly, and made its way down, down toward the floor, when it fluttered a moment, to land in the second pew from the front, directly in Deacon Higby's lap. The two boys leaned past their mother to seo the sight, and almost langhed aloud They dic langh again form The heard the IVA day ! deacon ¢ meluding that | his hand. : he slowly hand and 3 ment, wiio, now relief, 43 £1 lded ie had was all right ; then the paper in its contents, h done, he turned and took a deliberate look at his two sons, vacidly observis ir the erratic s of a belated fly on the ceil his ing. Miss Mirandy Stebbins letter, tho not in the way she had intended, reached the minister's hand, and she had full of 'Biah Williams fully satisfied. But th revenge ; so also was the soul the iad the jolliest whipping known, and it wasn't safe to say sewing society ” to them for one good Harper's Bazar, A AAA A. PE py 3.3 1.» wo noble lads, ever ““ spell The Coca Plant, sh of i The coca plant of Pern, whi grows wild on the eastern slope « Andes, in Bolivia, and Peru, weight of six or eight feet, les the black thorn in its flowers and thick green leaves. It has cultivated, however, fora great many centuries, and when the Spanish conquerers overcame the Ineas of Cazeo they found extensive plantations of herb, It the sun-dried leaves of this plant which form tho coca of South American COMMerce, and which in Ines times constituted the usual money or medium of ex. change in Pern. The taste of these it is slightly 1 and resem i small white been ’ the is inferior piquant tea of quality. It be. and agreeable ‘hen a sprinkling of quicklime or plant the leaves, It properties, and is prepared for use in various ways, In the short interval of indulgence in this narcotic, which is invariably con. ceded to the Indian laborer three times a day, a few leaves are rolled into a ball or quid, and a little powdered lime ) ! n ashes conveyed fo of a slip or nix the mouth are on the end flask, The coca leaf acts differ ently sccording to the mode of When infused and drank use, by wakefulness, usual breathlessness in It is seldom employed the and over in the mouth, as is done with tobacco. only the tinued influence of the saliva, and of the lime or masticated the same time, extract from the leaf cer. tain constituents which water alone does not dissolve. Like most ashes at to excess. The excessive chewing of pale lips and gums, greenish and stumpy What is known as a coquero, or coca drunkard, may be distinguished at the first glance by his apathy. Used in moderation, however, coca i8 not only harmless, but actually ————— - A Chance for Genius, ing in the United States, railroad ties will soon become a subject of the “Oh, yes, that was it. then.” As it requires about 2,500 ties to the mile, or about the timber from ten acres casion, until these words appeared: Sm.” had, with extreme pains, marked it countenance, and lighted up the dismal bedgown.) “ Reverexo Mister Bropaerr,—There bein’ an efort started afoot to give you a coat, 1 wish to state out of profound an’ bosom, concluded to bestow it liberally, with extra flourishes — bad the honor to propose the cout, an Seth sewin society this evenin at Mis. Dea con Higby's. 8he started all those la dies to talk awful about me, behind my back, when I wasn’t there; but Tom and Joe Higby are noble lads, an thej’ve jest ben an told me all about it. Bo pardon my assumption in writin’, an be- lieve I would a give fer the coat if 1'd ben let to, an present my respecks to Mis. Blodgett and your eldest daughter an Sarah Ann, an all the rest. “Yours to command, “ MIrANDA STEBBINS,” 80 delighted with it. Then she blew out the light, and eclambered into her feathers again. “On pecond thoughts,” she said, as she drew up the thick comfortable igure en that caused it to take its eye quickly the demand will rapidly denude our forests, To build a line of road across the continent, nearly 50,000 acres of timber is nsed in ties alone, and this must be duplicated every eight vears. The amount of timber required to build the estimated number of miles of new road in contemplation, together with the amount wanted to keep up the already built, increases the number of ties wanted annually in a ratio that makes it impossible to calenlate. roads, unbounded wealth awaits him, I O51 Threatening Children, one of them, a boy about six years old, who was particularly unruly and mis- At one net of his rudeness turned to him and threatened to punish The urchin, with the ex- mother often says she'll whip me, but she don’t do it.” The mother smiled, smart thing; but, alas! she was teach- ing him a lesson of insubordination whizh would probably make her heart acho. Mother, never unnecessarily threaten; but when you do threaten, be careful not to falsify your word, A MIGHTY SHEEP RANCH, W., Boeskwalier, Twenty af Okie, Thousand Aceves, John and Hi The ranch is the princely POSKSO/RION of John B. Bookwalter, Democratio candidate for governor of Ohio. It is located Mission Creek, Pawnee county, Nebraska, fifteen "miles from the Kansas border, and embraces 20,000 of the choicest acres of the best part of the great food belt of the continent, which between the fortieth and forty second parallels, Ten miles from its western boundary lies the Otoe res ervation, where still linger a handful of this old branch of Dakotas, and who will in October tumble their te and take the trail for the Indian lerritory. A well-wooded stream called the Arteketa, after the hereditary chief of the Qtoes, flows through the raneh, The mansion house of the ranch is one of those patent structures, built in sections and transported all ready to be ptt up. It an affair of eight not large but comfortable rooms, which by no means limit the hospitality of the master of the house, which is something noteworthy and unparelleled. I'he Bookwalter ranch is devoted to sheep raising, the flocks numbering 13, IHR) sheep, cared for on ranches, located in different parts of the estate, each in charge of a herder. Cat tle and not sheep are indigenous to the far West, and so the have adopted the phraseology of the cattlemen Their flocks are herds, their shepherds are herd rs, and their sheep folds are corrals, At each of the ranches which dot the Artekets ranch is a flock of 1,500 sheep in charge of a herder, Six sheds, each 100 feet long, are erected to shelter the flock from the winter storms, and a corral is provided in sheep at night, en lies next pees is seven minor sheep-ranchers seven Ww hich to shelter the The herder has a pony and saddle and a sheep dog, and a comfortable room house provided with the requisites for his simple bousekeeping. In the porning, always mounted, he takes his fl adeld to the grazing ground, lariats his sturdy little Indian pony, and watches after bis sheep At nightfall the peculiar ery of herder and the sharp bark of the eo float over the prairie as they baneh ™ that is, gather together—the flock for the corral. Here the sheep soon settle into a quiet, unbroken till Occasionally a wolf gets into the fold The first intimation of trouble bleat of the stricken lawb the trampling of 60,000 sharp little ] The sheep dog and herder, whose vigi lance should have kept out the in ane 3 WAS } @ 4 uu ollie morning. is the an quick 2003 in moe into quiet, + herder is a vote whacking type, clad in checke shirt and trousers, big boots an sombrero, He is paid §28 per and finds own food, black bacon and dubious bread forming staple artic les. At Arteketa, as flocks increase the herder intrusted to him on a differe He receives no wages, but hal crease is his, and half the clip o and he is provided with (One of Arteketa is a highbred Seotch dog, Peggy. She takes ont the m sion house flock to the g ground in the morning, and comes in to report at noon. At 6 o'clock “bhanches” the shee » and sees the last one in the corral, She was never trained to these duties, but is a born berder, inheriting from her mother, an imported SBeoteh collie, the accumulated knowledge of a famous race of sheep de £8, Sheep shearing is now a regnlar busi. ness in the Southwest, and there are men who do little else for a living. They stroll in bands from sh to ranch, hunting sheep to shear, They cut a fleece with marvelous rapidity, The sheep 18 first washed in the pool, and his i £ house and sheds, grazin its safely she y wt : Foss oul na 1 AJC shearer has her his knee and her tumbled fleece lies in a woolly heap at his feet. The cost of shearing is from three to « ght cents a The wool is baled the same as cotton is picked, and is then stored in the wool-honse. When the whole clip is in, it is sent to market. Haymaking upon the ranch is another of the midsammer sights. The entire harvest of the hay erop on Bookwalter ranch is in charge of a city-bred young man twenty-three years old, who, two years ago, was a clerk in Ban Francisco. Twenty thousand tons of hay are cat and stored in the season, being stacked in ricks of from twenty to thirty tons, All the work is done by the most im proved machinery, and even then a force of fifty men is required. Even the prise, the BOrORS floss, ee To see the great sweep, like some hungry monster, grasp a hundred pounds of hay in its teeth and then sweep through the air, pack it, and then return for another mouthful of half a ton or so fills the granger with delight. Haying and grain raising for the winter feed is also conducted on shares the same as the herding, a certain pro- portion coming to the ranch by right, and the ranch owner buying at market farms of fifty acres are already broken upon the ranch, and each year adds to The profits are variously estimated after deducting every expense to be from forty to seventy-five per cent, per live out of his money about eight him with saflicient fumds for all his wants until another clip came in. Mean- The delights and romance of Fancy the per cent. miles which form the boundary of Arteketa ranch. The fireguards and wallows strike the stranger's eye especially. Each quarter divided from the other by a under ordinary circum- wide, which prairie fires, These guards in the Jookwalter ranch are six miles long, that plowed them making but two furrows a day, one up and one The sloughs (“‘slews,” the Many of these ponds seem to have grown out of purpose of obtaining a smooth, dusty surface to roll upon. These form chan. nels for the descending rains, and in years the channels are worn down until and fringed by rich grasses, high as the pony’s back, are not uncommon, and are the watering places for the herds, i Mr. Bookwalter has drawn a good | many of the prizes of life, and values his Western POSSESSIONS (he owns, be sides Arteketa, 20,000 acres in the Loup country) above all others, He holds the most enthusiastic he pis for the future of the trans Missouri country, and en tertains magnificent plans for its future development, Mr, C. A, Hibbert, the gentleman in charge of Arteketa ranch, and Mr, Bookwalter's partner in the sheep ranch ing, isa Boston man, who has spent eighteen of his life in South America, ten years of it as a wool mer chant in Duoenos Ayres, and eight years in the interior at the sheep ranches, He naturally knows a few points about | sheep. His wife was Miss Wade, of Minnesota, a lady not yet thirty, who at the ago of twenty-three was at the head of the schools of the Argentine Federa tion, Both brilliant social qualities that, far from being lost in the frontier, make the Mansion house at Arteketa a place of pilgrimage for friend and stranger whom the fame of it has reached, — Cincinnati Years POSSESS (razelie, 55-55 Practical Knowledge, The world little imagines how largely it is indebted to the laborious researches of scientific medical men for many of the important truths relative to human health, happiness and life. As population increases, and the value of food is enhanced, the knowledge which chemistry has elicited is becoming more most and more valuable in 8 practical point of view, Domo xl are more putri- hers, and if it should be found that articles which are cheapest have most nutriment und give the high- ent ability to labor, then knowledge be- ¥ to the poor. Tables vary, but some of the general results are as follows Line pound of rice, prepared for the table, gives eighty-eight per cent. of nutriment, and, consequently, a relatively proportional ability vo labor, CCI Pare d with other articles of food. A pound of beef, costing fifteen cents, ! of nutri. gives only twenty-six px aslimates, kinds of fo it tinns tha IOUS LAN ( COInes mone cent. ment, According to these theref b article of food, is 100 per cent. cheaper, 100 per cent. more mmon laborer than roast beef, yet countless numbers t poo the large cities ) purchase beef pound, when they { und for nt, the rice, too 'é, roe, as an ’ i 1.3 vaiunable to the be gel § i of rice wthird of the } Having threo beef, makin ' § 48 much auiriment onl differ. le from the i 8 Casior 3 rice hour, roast and a half then, in the reputs d hs of the human family ‘se compile, therefore, for preservation, as ly and permanently use aonomist re res is 0 { 1 $000 as the i OH pret t boiled digesticn than being digested in about one juiring three hours There is 1 * 3a rice ai roas bee! re White Elephants, A Bure w ay sin the favor of either the king of Burma or the king of Siam is to present him with a white elephant. Hence, whenever there are reports of such an animal having been discovered anywhere, there are always prospecting parties who set out from both Barma and Siam to determine whether it is really what it is represented to be. It is therefore somewhat surprising to find that the agents of a menagerie have managed to step in before the vigilant Oriental elephant-seckers and carry off what is asserted to be the first white elephant ever landed in Europe. Scien. tific observers will no doubt inspect the pew arrival and determine his right to the description given to him. Pending their verdict, it may be worth while perhaps, to consider the Burmese test points of an albino elephant. White crows, rats, mice and hares, are common and easily distinguished; but it is different with a white elephant, He is not to be considered as snow white; very far from it. All the white elephants now existing in Siam and Burma are of a light mouse-color, some- what of the same tint as the pale freckles to be found on the trunk of ordinary | elephants. This light gray is uniform all over, the spots on the trunk being white. The depth of the color, how- ever, varies greatly, and there are often blemishes in the shape of darker patches which wonld seem to ruin an otherwise eligible eandidate’s claim. It has been, | therefore, found necessary to determine some infallible test points, which will demonstrate the right of the ani- mal to his title. The Burmese skilled men fix upon two of these tests as su- | perior to all others. One is that the | elephant shall have five toes instead of four. This is a good way of making cer- tain; but occasionally there are indubi- | tably black elephants which have the sacred number of toes. These are! ing nnderthe evil Kharma of previous existence, and therefore ineligible for the honors accorded to the real animal, | The other test is considered perfectly ! decisive, no matter what the precise | tint of the skin may be. It is this: If | you pour water upon a *‘ white" elephant he turns red, while a black elephant only becomes blacker than ever. This is the final test always resorted to in | Mandalsy. It may be hoped that the | animal recently landed will pass these two tests trinmphantly, If he does | Theeban will tremble for his throne, | and will take no more pleasure in the | monopolies he has been instituting so St. James' Gazette % I He Took an Interest, A traveling man sends us a joke that we do not remember of seeing in print, Two commercial agents met at the depot with their grips, when ore said: but now had an interest in the business, again, one of the largest houses in Milwaukee, which was making money hand over fist, “No, I am not a partner, but the old man told me if I didn't take more interest in the business he would bounce me, go I have concluded to take an interest in it here- after. Good-day.”—Peck’s Sun, =%2.00 a 1881. FACTS AND COMME NTS The New York estimates that the total loss by fires increasing from $211,849,110 to $417, their surplus has increased Ris to $71,001,670, ——— pon miliation have been appointed Ly Presi. dents since the establishment of the government, Adams ; January 12, 1815, by Madison ; (postponed to June 1) by Johnson; and Beptember 26 by Arthur, Hmt—" to search for the Jeannette in the Arctic regions, has been received. The dis- pateh is, in substance that the whaler R. B. Handy reports the Esquimansx at Point Barrow as saying that they saw four white men going toward Macken. during the winter. They saw dead men in the huts, and also saw tracks of a sledge, with dogs, and footprints of men, supposed to be survivors of the Jeannette, will investigate the to send more authentic news, Professor Thwing has, in an article on colleges in the Juternational Review, given an interesting scconnt of these institutions in the United States. says there are O08 colleges, with grourds and apparatus, valued at thirty-seven millions of dollars, having fully thirly seven millions of produe- tive funds. Columbia college has an income of $315,000, Harvard of $281, O00, Princeton, $75,000, California, $105,000, and three others with over $100,000, Beventeen of the above number are Stale universities, and the others are founded by private or de nominational liberality. The gifts to colleges since 1860 have been larger than during all the previous history of the country. : Dr, J. 8. Jewell, of Chicago, in writ- ing upon the treatment of insane crimi- pals in a journal devoted to the diseus- has the following very sensible words to BAY. or any other flagrant crime society, the plea of insanity is set up and snccessfally maintained, then the penalty should be the incarceration of the criminal for life in a prison asylum. Under no eirenmstances should such a person be turned loose into again after having manifested such dan- tendencies of the out of gerous that results which may grow the event has so shocked the nation may be the passage of simple, stringent, well-considered laws providing for the disposal in this way of all dangerous in- sape criminals. In this way only can society protect itself and justice con- siderately avoid blind and useless se- verity. If such a plan were adopted and rigoronsly carried into effect the rarely than at present, ane Speaking of revaceination the Sawi- tarian says that “‘the report recently ber of 10,604 persons permanently em- ployed in the postal service, all of whom have been required to undergo revacci- nation on admission to the setvice, un- less that operation has been performed within seven years previously. Among these persons during the ten years— 1870-1870 there has not been a single fatal case of smallpox, and in only ten instances have there been non-fatal attacks, all of which were of very slight character. In the (tele department, where the carried ont with the same completeness, twelve cases have occurred in the same period among a staff averaging 1,458 in Eight of these attacks were of persons who had not been revacein- The remain. ing four were of savaccinated persons, who all perfectly recovered without pitting. This experience like that of seems to show that revaccinated persons attacks of smallpox, and that their risk of catching that disease at all, even in its most mal. en —————— A Nervous Ride, He had descended to the bottom of returning to the upper regions. ascent was by means of a bucket, lifted by a common hempen rope, and only miner who had charge of the primitive vehicle. He stood npon one side of the bucket rope. When two-thirds of the way up to be really unsafe. Said he to his com- “Bee, my friend, isn't it about time you had a new rope here?" The miner nodded assent at once, and then volunteered the information the old rope for a new every three months at the furthest; and some. times when the rope bad become un- usually worn, as was the case at present, nade the exchange at an earlier “ Mercy!” cried our friend, casting a horrified glance down into the Stygian darkness of the awful abyss below him, and then looking at a terribly demoral- izad section of the hoisting rope, * and when do you intend to put a new rope on here ?" “Wal,” answered the miner, as coolly as could be, “if we get oop alive, wi'a whole rope, she'll have a new one afore she goes Joon agin!” Fancy the feelings of the visitor during the remainder of the ascent. Why He Mourned, The late George Borrow, of England, was a man of powerful frame aud was six feet two in height without his shoes. Having been born at a peried when pugilism was in vogne—it was one of his father's accomplishments—he was not slow to exereise his physical eapaci- ties if the occasion reqmiréd it. La- menting, when he was verging toward sixty, that he was childless, he said, very mournfully: “1 shall soon not be able to knock a man down, and I shall have no son to do it for me.” & NUMBER 40. TAS AIS SUNDAY READING, Just as WeiMalie 11, We must not hope 10 be mowers, And to gather the ripe, gold cars, Until we Lave first boon sowors, And watered the ground with tears, It is not just as wo take i This mystical world of ours; Life's field returns as we make it, A harvest of thorns or flowers, Gospel Danner, Hetiglons News nnd Notes, Only twenty-eight of the 689 foreign missionaries in Indias are physicians, The revised New Testament is said to be in regular use in at least twenty of the leading New York churches. The English Wesleyan conference has The Bociety of Friends have formed having at times twenty-five members, As an indication of the general atien- tion the Christian religion is attracting in Japan, it is stated that a society has been formed whose members solemnly A Presbyterian journal figures that about one-eighth of the church mem- one-third of the State senators and South Carolina are Presbyterians.” In seventy six years there have been but two pastors over the Congregational church st Barostead, N. H., the first, al twenty years of age, and serving fifty. #ix years ; the second, the Rev. W. d Carr, baving served for the last twenty Fears, The Bwedish Lutherans in the United Btates number 300 congregations, 150 whom are communicants; and they, lished four colleges, five theological seminaries, and numerous academies and schools, : The Rev. James Calvert recently gave an account in a London lecture of his forty-three years of an experience as a nibals, sud now leaves them nearly all Christians, but the king of the Friend- ly Islands was already a preacher, A Methodist lay college has been opened in Boston, to prepare young people for religions work. It is open to both sexes and all ages over ten, on Bible, the church, Christian work, church musie, English literature, eto., A “solid block of Methodism,” a unique appointment, is what Methodists eall Antioch cirenitin Middle Tennessee, which occupies about fifteen miles square. and has nearly seven hundred members. In this whole territory there is no other religious organization, and ars of other churches The Boston Watchman { Baptist) asks: being suggested by the facet that the leading papers of the denomination are 1 think that if 1 came and looked on 1 should forgive; thal something in the Of thy still face wou —— a Of death's sad in and 1 should How pitiful a thing it is to be At feud with sught that's mortal, 8a, to-night, My soul, nufurling her white flag of pea Forestalling that dread hour when we may The dead face and the living —fain would Across the yesre, “Oh, lot oor warfare cons Life is so short, and hatred is pot sweet; Let there be peace between us cre we die.” Caroline A, Mason, in HUMOR OF THE DAY, How to =void home. Ly | would nok sieike you for S107 J., playfully, to his friend BE. *W. Jou would not get itif you did,” repli “Oh, why should the t of mortal be Or take in its & boastful ¢ A single bald hornet ean scatter 8 crowd, And s wasp thet means business can “You want a flogging, that's you want,” said a parent to an son. “I know it, dad, but T'll try to it,” said the indep Lesson for young “How ean you tell a you an old one?’ “By the fowls have no teeth!” *I know they haven't, but I have I” A newly married couple riding in carriage, were V standerby said it was “A shock sight.” “Yes,” said the : see those just wedded out 80 8 A clergyman remarked the other “Alas! how times change! In the Testament days it was considered a mir- sacle foran ass to snd now it seems as though nothing short of a scle would keep one quiet,” The cable has informed us that the czar and the Emperor William kissed each other when met at g but it forgot to add that after the lation the czar gave a fT and remark “aside”: “Great ed in an Csesar, Bill! you've been eating barger!” missed him. In revenge he to publish her letters to him. *V weil,” replied the lady. son to be ashamed any part letters, except the address A new material has lately been ponadnd leather pressed into molds and used for bat. tons, boot-heels, ete. It is also used to make the amalgam ut that you find on the railroad | eounter, Many e sleep with the mouth open, snd thus meke this organ per- form a duty which should be transacted the nose. There are | | the body before it | Thus breathing, no tem | Then, again, in nose | is moistened by the { which cover | condition of health, and | bristly hairs at the openings | trils act us a filter to arrest i | and reduce the likelibood of laryngial, | bronchial or pulmonary disease. In. | fants, athletes, savages and animals breathe through the nose; the ordinary | eivilized man employs the mouth to an | unnecessary, and often to a very injari- | ous, extent, The causes of mouth breathing subject, while English preachers are “on plain, simple Gospel cani———— Deep-Sea Waves, According to a careful investigation the longest sea-waves observed appear to have been a little more than 200 vards in length, with a period of about The highest regular The highest waves are gen- imposed waves, and these may be very dangerous to boats; but they do not oo- Moreover, the vessel's own the ship is always less steep, especially From these facts we see that the well- known waves which ‘run mountain. high" have their existence only in the cm———————— In tha Parthenon. Colonel John M. Francis tells the fol- former was minister to Greece and the latter minister to Berlin. Minerva in ivory and gold once had its now remains, Mr. Bancroft, with un- with spontaneous magnificent The scene was im- repeated mation inspi- a Homer, that snowy-headed pilgrim from our occidental shores, august with official honors, past and present, of a $ re- pubic, but more august as a citizen of igh rank in the imperishable republic of letters. Whole centuries of high achievements and aspiration and pro- gress, the stately march of thought and culture and genius through the ages, and afar over the broad seas seemed epitomized in that one exalted moment.” The Bridegroom®’s ** Best Man,” The custom of a bridegroom's being at'ended on his marriage by a friend or | posterior wall of the pharyax—all these | are sufficient canses of mouth The indieafions ave not so sublle a 20 to ily récogniz { lips, of mouth, receding gums, pro- ren Drie shrunken alae, decreased | ize of the nostrils’ orifices, wrinkles at the eves’ outer angles, and lines ex- ‘tending iad the alae to the mouth angles sre the predominant signs. effects of mouth breathing upon the | pharynx sre often most deplorable. | mucous membrane becomes much irri. tated. A chronic engorgement of ! blood vessels may take pace, | permanent dilitation of the vessels jroduced, and so on until the disease nown as olergyman’s sore throat produced. The writer devotes a * suggests an appropriate remedy. fall | snorers onde Lp it one of the most disagreeable noises of the night would ' be silenced, for people who breathe printed pages of which this m consists appear to exhaust the subject. —Dy. Clinton Wagner, The Fourteen Wonders of the World. The seven wonders of the world, in ancient times, were the pyramids of n the Pharos hs dria, the walls and hanging ‘on, the Temple of Diana, the or aby, Olympian Jupiter, the Mausoleum of | Artemesia and the Colossus at Rhodes. | The seven wonders of the world in modern times are the printing-press, tha steam-engine, the telephone, the pheno- graph, telegraph and elee- | trie lig t "8. The so-called ** seven wonders” of tho compared with those of the present time. The | Brooklyn bridge, for would make hanging gardens of Babylon a mere toy, while the whole seven won- ders put together would sink into in- Ie could their builders have seen a lightning-express train at fall speed. ancients were mere trifles Catching Herring in Winter. In witber diese 14 a different and a povel me ol capturing herring. Like mackerel, they go in schools, and for some reason they will always follow ‘a light. Two or three fishermen pro- vide themselves with torches made of birch bark or cotton batting, saturated with kerosene oii, and on dark ni row along the shores with a torch in the ' bow of the boat. ¢ boat is rowed as ‘swiftly as possible, and when a *‘school” is struck the chase begins. The her- | ring dart after the boat, coming Elose vi | toit in swarms, and while one of the men ‘10ws the other dips up the herring with a dipper. : so practiced at waddings in the present day, is of great antiquity, descending from our Saxon ancestors. In their time marriages were always celebrated day before the wedding, all his friends and relations, having been invited, ar- in feasting and in preparing for the approaching ceremony. Next came the bridegroom's company, mounted on Lorseback, completely armed, who pro- ceeded in great state and order, under the command of one who was called the forewistaman or foremost man, to receive and conduet the bride in safety to the house of her future husband. The by a matron, who was called the bride- woman, and followed by a e>mpany of young maidens, who were called bride- maids. The Saxon forewistaman of the ninth century is the prototype of the English “ best man” of the ninetecnth. ' wife murderer, but could not find the ‘remains of the woman, and the case seemed likely to fall throngh. Knowing that the prisoner would be o ‘discharged unless some proof was forth- coming, the captain entered the cell with a paper in his hand, and said: “Your wife isn't dead, afterall. She was found alive where you let her. She wants to see yon” murderer was completely deceived. On the way to the hospital, as he supposed, he was induced to teil where he had shot his wife, and there the body was found. Plaited collvetes of mull, plaia white, dotted, embroidered, and p Jka dotted in black and eolors, are mich worn, with searf-bows to match. , Paper is now being made fcom sugar canes, after the sugar is extrated.
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