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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:
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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
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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,”
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VOLUME XIV,
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{ 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 |
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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
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‘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,”
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laugh.
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guess
stop
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Vey
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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
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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
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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.