Love and Time, Two lovers watched the sunset die In happy clouds that floated west ; His lips carvesed her silken hair, Her head Jay nestling on his breast, “ Ah, love,” hesaid, “I see that men Should make no count of hours and days; They live most when their sleepy hearts Do leap like mine in proud amaze.” “Yes, ves,” she whispered, “all in vain, I hear the balls of hollow towers, But your heart swiftly beating here Tells all too well the flying hours.” AAS Evening at the Farm, blowing, Rich with the scent of the resinous pine; ing, entwine, Rlow-footed cows gre all hastivg in line," VOLUME XV, ! $ 4 | Tim offered me double wages. Sir, { him and went to another I ‘ship, I'see that she looke« captain, flastered, “Well, sir, I am ocoming I was onoe defloe, Afar in the west the red sun les a-dying, Gorgeous his conch as Aurora's gay bed ; Homeward in haste the late swallows are fly. ing, Duk float their forms ‘gainst the sky's fading red. Deep in the wood the night birds are crying, Wails for the day that is past and dead ; avxious and pleased at the same time, | asking and answering questions. All | at onoa a strange feeling come over me {I didn't know exactly what was my | duty, for I was as much afrad of Cap: tain Tim's ugly temper as any man could be, but as [ listened and listened i I couldn't bear it any longer, and going ‘up to the people I said a few words in | their own language. Well, 1 only gave friend of mine from the old country. Mr, Spoopendyke's Search, “Oh, dear!’ granted Mrs. Bpoopen dyke, "1'm sure I'm going to die!” and and contemplated her husband debility. “You'll be good to baby, won't you, dear?" “Ob, ho!” returned Mr. Spoopen- head with his big hand. “You're all right. Bear up against it, and you'll be well in an hour or two. 1've often had | | FACTS AND COMMENTS, Edward Barr, of Missouri, was at the | West Poing, with an aversge of 1034.5 { young Barr, who has thas gradoated | with such distinguished honor, said to { his son, some three years since, that if | he would make him a present of $10, { 000, The incentive had its effect, and | young Barr starts out in life with eda. sanity, baing about to write a book in which he wanted to desoribe something of the sort | double cell: * ‘There is tho worst subject in this or any other establishmens. He is an old sea-captain, whose madness is so lying, Cyaliiia glides on her way overhead. THE BELLE OF THE “CHESTER BELL" ‘t Yes, sir, in the old hulk that lies | held my tongue, for they evidently did | not believe me. “Finding I could make no impress. | sion upon them, I went alter the sweet- { heart and let him koow what I sus. | pected. 1never saw a man so fright. | fully angry. avery morning to find him a corpse, We | are obliged to keep him in this closet, i the walls of which are lined that he may { not dash his brains ont. He has been { here nearly a year, and imagines that he is pursued by a girl, aod held under water by her till his breath leaves his year. She used to make splendid runs teiween Bremen and here. A grand clipper sho was, a regular cocan beauty in them days. Her name was the Chester Bell, and she rode the waves just like a nutshell, sir. Her captain's name was Tulliver, Tim Tulliver; likely | ghastly. { the veins stood swelled out on his fore- | head, while bis ‘Mein Gott I" was enough | to curdle one's blood. toward me, and I knew what to expect. “ Well, the door was unlocked, and there, despite the hideously-altered and haggard face, I saw my old captain Tim Tulliver!” “Then,” said I, speaking for the first time, “at last God had smitten him,” me give up like this, Where's the | ginger 7° | “Idon't know," moaned Mrs, S8poop- endypke. “Look on the top shelf of the oloset. may be in the pantry, Ow-w!" and | Mrs. Spoopendyke doubled up and | straightened out with a jerk. : . | “ You can't remember any other Con- | gressional distrie's represented by that | ginger, can you?" growled Mr. Spoop | endyke, prowling around the room in | an aimless but energetio fashion. * Yon | don't call to mind a couple more roost- | ing-places in which that ginger is to be | found, do you? top shelf?" empty pill-boxes. * Look here! 1've | before yesterday!" and utterly forgot the original object of Lis | ——— | James L. Loring, a oivil engineer, | suggests that tornadoes be fought with cannon. He says: “It would be cheaper | to put an iron cannon in every town in | Iowa than it will be to pay the losses of Saturday. If one of these clouds were seen forming near a town the cannon and the concussion of the air from a succession of firing certainly ought to effect the same resalt in Jowa that it does on the equator.” A Senate resolution calling for infor. mation about pensions has brought statistios were made up. sand were those of sailors whose resi. voyages on account of their excellence in preventing sourvy and other diseases incident to life on shipboard. In this country it is remarked that the con- sumption increases yearly, This is due [not only to the enormous increase of | the foreign eclements, who always use vegetables freely, bat also to the en. larged use in populous oities of the coarse parts of meats, in the prepara tion of which the opion figures promi. neatly, General SkobelefMs Career, The late General Michael Skobeleff was probably the most popular man ia Rassias and the most picturesque soldier in Earope. In peace he excelled the swells of the kingdom in his fondness for the laxuries of dress and the dainti ness of his tastes, In war he was the embodiment of bravery and the personi. fieation of reckless fary., Olad in » white uniform that glittered with gold braid, and mounted on a white horse, he led his men to vietories snatehed out of the very gulfs of death, snd it was said of those he commanded that they idolizel him, and seemed to | prefer death at the heels of his vietory under any other He was of soldierly carriage and fine physique, black-eyed, brown-haired and full-bearded. He came diers. His graud-father, generals Gaorge, and valor got each one his title a 4 - » —— SS NUMBER 29. Stuart’s Last Fight, J. Esten Cooke, an ex-Confederate officer, tells how General Stuart met his death from Sheridan's men at the battle of Yellow Tavern. Mr. Cooke says: The battle bad evidently reached the turning point, and Stuart saw the des. perate ohsracter of his situation, It was difficult to use his artillery in such a melee of friend and foe, ard his left wing was soon in utter disorder, The Federal attack bad at last succeeded in breaking it to pieces; the men were soaltering In every direction, and res: ing Musjor Breathed near him, Stnart shouted: ‘“ Breathed | take command of nll the mounted men in the road, and hold it against whatever comes, If this road 1s lost we ure gone!" Bach an order was precisely suited to the tastes of a man like Bresthed. I was intimately scquainted with him, and n ver knew s buman being who took #ne sincere delight in des; erste fighting. At S uart’s order Breathed saluted, and shouting to the men to fol- | 1»w him charged the Federal column, | npparently careless whether he was | followed or not. He was immediate! | surrounded. und a hot sabe: fight ; | place between himsel! and his swarm | of enemies. A saber blow nearly cut | bim out of the saddle, and he received | & pistol shot in his side, but he ent down one Federal officer, killed another with bis revolver. and made his way PATO. S$ Lr SUNDAY READING, The Lord's Praver, We lay buldre our readers the Lord's prayer, Idier in the Twenty-sixth ah Jie soldier in United States infantry, and a prisoner of war in the province of U. June 7, 1812: i Our Lond sud King, who reign’st, enthroned on Father of ight 1 Injuistiots Deity! Who art the great first, an toon holy, A ey the » Hs where Heaven is pod indi, of hy Hallowed Thy name, which doth all names Be ‘Thou adored, our grest Almighty friend, The ory shines diy creation’s Namie d in the book of | pr po Thy kingdom towers adorns love io Lord; It shines hdr Ti in Wy i : Is praised in Hesven—for man the Bavior In songs immortal angels land His name, Heaven shouts for joy, and ssints His love pro- “ Well, I suppose that's not for us to | say,” continued the narrator, *‘ for I | haven't come quite to the end of my | story.” “Somes thres years after the little | German beauty threw herself over in search, | dences were not known, The sotual | Michael was the youngest | “ You'll send baby to a good school, | number paid was 252 851, the amount | eral. and see that she marries happily, dear?” | being $51,224,20i. New York State | tary Academy in St, Petersburg in 1868, groaned Mrs, Spoopendyke, adapting » | beads the list. To her 82 024 pension- woman's style of hinting that the ginger | ers the snnual sam of $3,426,532 was {ussian gen | this moment the artiliery opened, but s He was graduated from the Mili. | determined charge was made on the | guns, and all the pieces were captured | and, without serving in the Guards, be | bat one. The driver of this piece | at once pitched into battlein Turkestan | lashed his horses and rushed the gun would be wmscceptable. ‘*And you'll | given, but arrears brought the amount | at the head of & corps of Cossacks. He | off toward the Chickabominy, followed bury me by mother?" | up to $6,510, 411. Pennsylvania's 28,- | was then twenty-five years old. He re- | by the cannoneers, cursing sad shout. “Cortainly,” replied Mr. Spoopen. | 202 pensioners required 85,746 802, and | mained in Tarkestan until 1871, and in : * For God's sake, boys, let's go dyke, immersed in the contemplation of | Ohio's 24,663 had $4 941.520. More | went thence to the Caucasus on the stafl | back; they've got us far us Breathed I” the court plaster. * Where's the sheet | than two million dollars each went to | of the Grand Dake Michael. Later he | It would have been. better for the gun you've heard of him. I know sailors, | mined that, please God, I wouldn't be and pretty good seamen, too, that afraid of him. change color at the very mention of * No need to repest his language—it that man's pame. He was a tiger, sir, was enongh to ow the nerves of a a human hye: a, a bloodthirsty, bully- manof brass. He used all the oaths I ing wreteh, without having even the ever heard come out of a whole ship's | the way I have told you, I was off saving clause of a bad temper. Why, | crew's lips in ten voyages, and swore | duty in a foreign harbor, and strolling ke could kill a man in cold blood the | he'd have my heart's blood—tbat he'd | into a street I found a little shop pre. same as you'd relish a good breakfast, | send me to the bottom of the ses, and | sided over by a woman who was the liv- sir, { such like threats. I told him respect. | ing image of poor little Gretohen—I lend, | And make us grateful when Thy gifts descend, Forgive our vins, which in destruction place, Us the vile rebels of a rebet of flesh color that was here?’ he de- | “ Many's the crew of fine, honest fel- minute he'd lcok at 'em. He'd a pretty little girl for a wife, strange to say— | them sort gewu’ly gits such—and some- | times she'd go to sea with him. If any- body could keep him in order it was her ; but even she couldn't prevent his | cruelty to the men. With first-rate | seamen he was tyrannical, but, great | Cesar! if a greenhorn shipped, let him | lock alive! He'd as lief take a belay- | ing-pin to him and kvoek him in the head as eat his dinner. 1've seen him do it, too. It was a young fellow that apswered him back, and he just laid his | face open from crown to chin. Oh, but Be was a cruel man, sir! “He often took emigrsnis to the | United Siates—squads of 'em. They | gen'rally got served middling well. Pay | the captain his money and he'd give | you the worth of it—so much for his | due. Ore passage he bad rather an un- | common lot — five bundred, I think, | young and old —a pretty decent set in sll. Fact is, these Geman passengers, | even if they are in the steerage, have their pockets pretty well lined. Com- | mend me to the German emigrant for honesty and thrift. There was families | of two and five, and sometimes t:n and | twelve—s good many handsome young | giris among them, too. * The particular passage of which I'm | going to speak, however, was in the year ‘50 —a great year for clippers that! was. I was busy tarnring some ropes when a family came aboard that made | us all look alive. First, there was the | graudiather, in his old country dress, ! with hair as long sas my srm and as | white as the foam of the sea under the | sun, He and his dame were as sweet- | mannered and fine-looking as you migh: | meet in 8 hundred years. Then came | the sone and daughters and grandchil- | dren. It didn'( seem as if they ought | to go in the steerage along o’ commoner | sengers; bat they did, though they | sore themselves like gentlefolk. “T en foilosed, sir, atween two | young men—her br ther and her lover, wa afterward iound out—a young girl pot more than sixteen or seventeen. Well, that was the bandsomest little ersit I ever laid these two eyes on, and I've seen some fine-looking women in | my day, baviog sailed from every port 1 the world. She was that pretty that we christened her on the spot the ‘Bello of the Chester Bell. “ Behind them came Capiain Tim, behaving his level beat, and there weren't many as could beat him for a fine eye and a gallant bearing. He seemed to be looking out for their com- fort—ah, but the little beauty she was! Queens and noble ladies might well envy the red and white of her face, and even the way she walked avd the tum of her Lead. It was a sight to see. Her brother and ber lover were both right manly, hindsome fellows, too, and dear encugh they loved her, one could see. *“* Well, we set sail, having beautiful weather for the first few days, and the pretty German girl, she would come out sometimes for an airing, generally fol- lowed by one or the other of them two cbaps. I was always looking out o’ the corner of my eye, and I observed that the captain was ailays on hand looking at her in the most admiring manner, I wanted to tell her lover that it wonld be better not to show his little beauty so mach if be wanted to keep her out o harm's way, for girls is mostly that vain if that handsome ! ‘Came the second week ont, and we | had bard weather. I was taking my ob servations right straight along, for I noticed Captain Tim was always mak- ing much of the old gentleman and his wife. The fools! I could a-told 'em why he singled them ont. It wasn’t the captain's place to be in the steerage. 1 longed to tell him so, for I bad a pretty kid of my own ut home; but I might have paid for it with my life, *‘ There were bu: few passengers in the cabin, one of them a consumptive lady who had not brought her servant. How it was done I never knew, but the captain managed to get this handsome gil to wait upon the sick woman ighty fond of money they must a’been to let that girl go out o’ theirsizh t and foto the company of a man like Captain m, : “After a while I took notice that the yoong fellow who appeared to be the girl's sweetheart grew psle and nervous. He was out on deck oftener, and his face seemed to indicate uneasy, jealous feelings. I didn’t blame him, | wanied to warn him—for I could tell how it was with him, poor fellow! If he raw half that I did, I don t wonder not only that he was suspicious of the eaptain, bat I thought if I was in his place I'd make the captaic answer for it. He did get pretty well roused up one time ; but I won't tell that part o the story till I git to it. . “I knew something of languages— at avy rate enough to make out even the lingo of a German. They say it’s the grandest Janguage in the world; it may be, but it's’ jaw breaking all the game. One day being down in the steerage I heard something that made me open my ears. Just then down came the girl. Ob, but she looked prettier than ever. She had on a fine silk apron and a pat of shining rings inher little ears. Her hair was all fluffed up and her face aglow, just like a wild rose on & soft spring morning, The whole family were up, after their spell of sick- fully, as a petty officer shonld always speak to his captain, that I had done by the girl as I would by my own sister. I don’t just remember exactly what I said, but I think words was given, for he looked hard at me, as if he wasn’t certain whether he quite saw through my motives, and with one worse threat than the last, and a mouthful | more of dirt+ oaths he went off, ‘“‘ But I could see a change in the girl | after that for I was always on the watch. She smiled more seldom and her color went and came too easy. Then her step grew slower, and she would go stand at the side of the vessel and take long sad looks at the water, as if she was in a brown study. Pretty soon after that her eyes began to look heavy, and once | or twice I found her in an out-o"the- | way place crying and sobbing like a | baby. Well, I didn't attempt to oom- | fert her —she woanldn't a borne it. for as | soon as ever she saw me she would fly | off like a scared bird. My heart felt | heavy for her, becanse I knew there must be a reason for it, besides the growing weakness of the poor woman, who was dying in the cabin day by day, |! aud praying only io see land before she | did go. “ One night, ah, sir, I shall never | forget that night—the moon was at her full, and sat looking at the reflection in the water like a queen with a silver crown on, and a veil of white light float. ed away off on the sea, so that it looked like a bride waiting for her husband. | For the first time in many days I saw | the pretty German girl ard her sweet- heart on deck together, I could not | keep my eyes from Ler; she looked for | all the world like a sweet angel just | lent cut of heaven for a little, It was | my watch, and my duty to bid them be- | low; but I don't know why it was, I| couldn't do it. They went forward | and sat at the bows. | i i i § There | were barrels there and planks atop, so | no one conld walk back and forth easily. | I conldn’t hear anything they said, of | that they were talking very fast. Some- | times he would go close up to her, and | she would put out her hand and push him away, then cry as if her heart would break. This went on for some time when at the last she seemed to grow calmer. I saw ber throw herself into his arms. 1 saw him kiss her again and again; tren she seemed to wrench herself away, and quicker than I can tell, over she went. “Jdont know how I got there, or how the whole ship seemed to swarm so suddenly with life. I remember catch- ing at a dark body that was going over —her poor distracted brother, and his falling back into my arms dead as a log, after giving a great cry. That scream brought the captain and two mates. The captain asked, angrily, what was the row ? “¢Thst little German gir] is over board I" I said ; and if I had any sort of a weapon that was dead sure I'd have laid him at my feet. He knew how I felt, he knew, the scoundrel! the villain! His face changed, his very voice was different, as he ordered * Bout ship.’ “One of the boats was down, and we supposed, through some mismanage- ment, it swamped, for we saw nothing of boat or lover or girl; and so that was the end of that. It was a changed com- pany afterward, The shock killed the poor sick woman, and she was buried the same day, for sailors can't bide a corpse on board ship ; but I declare to you, sir, that though we put weights in that coffin, it etood up on end and fol- lowed us until midnight. 1 never saw such a sight before; I hope never to again. There it was right after us, and the sailors watched it with pale faces no one daring to say a word to the cap- jais, who swore if any one but looked at im. “We all made as if the girl had fallen overboard for the sake of the poor creatures who were left. They conjee- tured everything, as folks will who go wild with grief. Bunt I think ber brother understood, though he was sick with brain fever all the rest of the voy- age. Her mother, poor creature, came near dying herself, and I am sure her heart mast have been nearly broken. It was bard to see that fine-looking old grandfather tottering round wringing his hands snd shaking his gray old head, while the tears run and run—may I never see the like again! “Next voyage weshipped a green hand. I never suspected till we'd been out three days that it was the German girl's brother. Then I knew he meant mie- chief. I told him I knew him, but he begged so hard [ kept his secret. How often since 1've wished I hadn't, though it might have been no better for him. 1 was sure there was going to be more trouble, and it came soon. He didn't know the ropes and I think the captain suspected who it was aud kept on his guard, for he was mighty careful not to anger him. But one day his tem- per gave way, and if it ‘hadn’t a bin as it was I shouldn't much blamed him neither, for 1 like good seamanship as well as the next man, and the German lad was as contrary as a mule. The first thing we knew the captain struck the wan, and the next they were struggling together on the deck, Well, sir, we saw blood. The captain had got at his knife and run the poor fellow through the heart. He never spoke after that, and none of us could say anything, because the cap- tain killed him in self-defense. I was that horror struck that I vowed I'd believe I haven't spoken her name be- fore. 1 went in, and she stared at me, and I stared at her. I felt myself grow pale, but sha flashed rosy red, which put me mora in mind of Gretohen than ever, So Isaid. to her in German, to make sure, that she reminded me of a lass I had once known. “iOh! she cried. ‘I was sure I couldn't be mistaken— you were so kind to me ono, when I was on board that dreadful Chester Bell.’ “:Then,’ 1 said, completely aston. ished, and catching my breath, ‘it is + Yes, indeed, I am really Gretchen, | and my husband is not yet at home ; he | has gone to look after our bit of land ; but sit down, he will be back in a mo- ment ; no, no, come in here, dinner will be ready before a great while.’ “I followed, like one in a dream, and found myself in a neat, pretty little parlor, locking out on a garden crowded with flowers, and beyond that the shingly beach, and further the deep sea. In a corner at one side of the tiny fireplace stood a wicker-cradle wherein slept a lovely child. **That's my little Gretchen,’ said, with a happy and proud smile, ** ‘I've got three nice children, the eldest quite & lad.’ ® ‘“‘Then, please tell me, for I am nearly dying of curiosity,’ I said, ‘how comes it you are here and not at the bottom of the sea? “4 Oh, that was an awful night!” she said, a shadow crossing her face. * threw myeelf over because Hans, who was cruelly jealous, wouldn't believe my word, for, you see the captain was very wicked and I had found him out, and Hans would not listen, which drove me desperate, and I did care if I diel Bat the poor feliow had suffered; for, though I huted the captain, J was too easy to let him admire me. Bat Hans found me, though I was half dead, and then be kept the boat in the shadow of the | ship till all the rush and fright wis over, for he said he would rather die with me in an open boat on the sea than put me in the power of that bad cap- | tain. And so we should, perhaps, have perished, but a ship came along in the | morning and picked us up; and Hans | would never go to America after that, | He found good friends and settled down here.’ ‘¢ ¢ But your people ¥ “¢ Oh, they all come out here—all but my poor brother—we never knew where he went ; so yon see we were quite as well off as if we had gone to Americas, and I never thought to meet you again sir, never ; are you still on that dread- ful ship?’ “I told her all but]the tragic fate of her brother, which I thought was better suppressed ; but you see, sir, there was no real haunting, but the poor old cap- tain was beset by his own dreadfal imagination and the sting of his con- science, for, no doubt in his heart, he had willed to do murder and worse, And so there you have the story of the Belle of the Chester Bell.” — Mrs. Den- she not | i manded. “1 don't seem to detect the | presence of that particular element of | adhosiveness | Where's the flesh colored | pordon of this curative? and Mr. Spoopendyke ra over th little squares | again in a vain search for the piece he | { missed. “Did you look in the wardrobe, love I" asked Mre. Spoopendyke, faintly. | “It isn't here I” growled Mr. Spoop- | endyke, raking over the con'eunts of the drawer and turning them over with his | feet. “What —~? Upon my word! | you're a pretty woman! I thought you | said that old razor strop of mine was | lost when we moved. Here it is as big as life and twice as dirty. Glad 1! found that strap,” mumbled Mr. Spoop- | endyke, rubbing it tenderly and blow. | ing off the dust. “Goi a piece of cloth # “Oh, do look in the pantry I" plead. | ed Mrs, Bpoopendyke. ‘I'm sure it's | in the pantry!" Mr. Spoopendyke charged pantry like a column of horse and | hustled around and bnmped his head, | but didn't seem to meet with much sue- | cess, . “I don’t see any," he muttered “Don't you know where you keep your cloth? I +'pose I might stand round | here till dcomsday, while moths corrode | and thieves do bresk into this rasgor | strop sand steal the whole business | : on the | i it on. Haven't ye got an old skirt or | Aud Mr. Spoopendyke | drew the strap under his arm two or | three times and regarded it affection. | ately. “Oh, please find the ginger!” | spasm caught ber, * Never mind your | old strap! Find the ginger!” | “Ain't I looking for it ¥" retorted Mr. | bitter end. You ought to save these | corks anyway, when I go fishing. What | kiud of & looking bottle was it?" | “It was long and marrow,” replied “I ought to find it from that descrip- tion,” muttered Mr. Spoopendyke, “Most bottles are perfectly round. Here's the arniea bottle upside down, and [ told you to keep it filled, I might knock my arm into the next Pres- byterian general assembly, and I'd have to wait all day before I could geta drop | of arnica to soothe my anguish | What's this straw hat of mine doing in the bot- tle box, anyhow? What particular mal- ady did this hat have that suggested such a disposition of it ?' and Mr. Spoopendyke smoothed out the crown and squinted with one eye while he straightened the brim. “That's a good himself in the glass. “Yon wanted some ginger, didn’t yon? Whereis it? Where'd you put it ?” Mrs. SBpoopendyke srose from the bed, pale but firm, and stalking across the room seized the bottle and flounced back into the bed with a bump that J fson, WISE WORDS, particular friend is nobody's. If you do what you. shonld not, you must hear what you would not. When the best things are not possi. ble the best may be made of those that are, Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils, the consciousness of performed. What we charitably forgive will be recompensed as well as what we char. itably give. The best way to cover your tracks so that no man will find you out is not to do the deed. Idleness is hard work for those who sre not used to it, und dull work for those who are, Leisure is sweet to those who have earned it, but burdensome to those who get it for nothing. It is always well to accept the inevi. table with equanimity. The old proverb rans: ‘Since my house must be burned I will warm myself at it,” To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, duty faithfully those attainments which command it, Who can deservedly be called a con- passions, and endeavors to turn bis enemy into a friend. Thou shalt not say, “'I will love the wise, but the un- wise 1 wil hate;” but thou shalt love all mankind, Without earnestness no man is ever great or does really great things, He may be the cleverest of men, he may be brillinnt, entertaining, popular; but, if be has not earnestness, he will want weight. No soul moving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow, Ec —————— Little Bobbie, who talks slang for the whole family, said to his father: “There are fized stars, ain't there, apa?’ To which his father replied, rascal asked: ‘‘Are they all well fixed, ness, knitting and jabbering and laugh- never step foot in that ship again ; and i / papa bad showed she was mad. There is nothing | on earth that will so express a woman's | wrath as that one (ive among the | sheets. *‘ Getting better, ain't ye?” snorted { Mr. Spoopendyke. *I told ve the | cholera morbus didn't last long, Where's | that razor strop? What'd ye do with | that strap ?’ | Mrs. Spoopendyke eyed him, but | made no responee. |“ Poins out to me the present address {of that strap I" howled Mr. Spoopen- | dyke. “Take this finger and lay it ten- | derly on the home and country of that { strap I" and Mr. Spoopendyke whirled around like a grindstone and filled the and pills. “‘Oome out of the jungle and face me!” yelled Mr, Bpoopendyke apostrophizing the strap which he re- membered having in his hand but a mo- ment before. ‘Show me to the strap! Take that strap by the ear and lead it before Spoopendyke in proper person |" and the enraged gentleman thrust his foot through the erown of his hat and drew the wreek up to his hip. “ What's that sticking out of your breast pocket?” asked Mrs. Spoopem dyke, scraping off external applications of an assortment of drag. “Umph I" granted Mr. Spoopendyke, drawing ont the strap. * Found it, didn’t ye? Another time you let things alone, will ye? Made me spoil my straw hat with yournonsense! Another time you want anything you just stand ' under. | buck and let me search! | stand ?” { “Yes, dear,” murmured Mrs. Spoop- | endyke, and as her husband left the room she took a consoling swig at the ginger bottle and reflected that he hadn't enjoyed the attack of cholerw morbus much more than she had.— Brooklyn Eagle, E. B, D.,, Kansas: The yellow or orange colored dust on the under side of blackberry leaves is a fungus growth known as rust, It is the same in every respect as the rust on wheat and oats, and some kinds of blackberries, the common wild ones especially, are very subject to it. This rust kills the plants or makes them grow very weak, and Jupidiy spreads from one plant to an- other, until all are infected. The remedy is to cut out and dig up every Indiana, lowa, Maine, Massachusetts | and Michigan; more than one million each to Kansas, Kentooky, Missouri and New Jersey The Third Congress district of Maine surpassed all others in the amount it received. | The importance of agriculture asa factor in our national prosperity oan best be appreciated by visiting New | York city and observing the steamers and ships from all quarters of the globe loading with products of American soi. In a single week, recently, upward ot $6,000,000 worth of agricultural prod- nets were shipped abroad from New York alone. Among the experts of that week were 2,126 barrels apples, 1,647 pounds | béoswax, 84,202 barrels wheat flour, | 1,391 barrels corn meal, 481,252 Lush. | els wheat, 2,052 bushels oats, 46 | bashels barley, 2023 bushels peas, 427 241 bushels corp, 13 537 bales cot- ton, 462 bales hay, 492 bales hops, 10,- i $ ] i i { seed oil, 3 993 barrels pork, S04 barrels | beef, 1060 tierces beef, 5.048201! pounds cut meats, 74414 pounds | butter, 675,151 pounds cheese, 3864680 pounds lard, 88 bar- rels rice, 077,620 pounds tallow, 439 hozsheads tobacco, 1,236 packazes to | bacco and 49 887 pounds manufactured | tobacco. Although the sanguine De Lesseps makes frequent announcements that the Panama canal enterprise is in a most flourishing condition, unprejudiced ob. servers who have bsen over the route take a very different view. Captain Belknap, of the United States navy, who crossed the Isthmus a few weeks for a hotel to serve as offices, and $30,. | 000 more in fitting it up; that another | $200,000 has been expended in buying water - way consisis in the clear ing AWAY of shrubs and trees from the track. Captain Belknap found that iatellig:nt residents of the Isthmus region believed the project feasible, but they agree in the opinion that it would take a great deal more time than the enthusiastic engineer cal. culates upon. The captain's conclu. sion that people familiar with the Isth. mus, and expecting retarns for capital invested, will not be likely to put money in such an enterprise will only strength- en the disinclination of Americans to take stock in the scheme as now con. ducted. Professor Reese, of Philadelphia, has made an important discovery touching the effects of drowning upon the human lungs. In an autopsy of the body of a woman, found drowned, it it is reported that he found no water in the lungs, nor any evidence of water having bean there, nor was a y found in the stomach. It is aleo said that the dead body bore no marks of abuse and violence, and there was nothing found in the meophagus to indicate that water had crossed the woman's lips. Asthebody was taken from the river near the wharf it is presumed that the woman jnmped overboard, which leads Dr Reese to infer that persons plunging into the water, especially from an emi- nence, can come to death from suffooa- tion or shock without taking water in- wardly. Itis well known by bringing together the posterio r arches of the palate and pressing the root of the tongue against the palate both the mouth and the nostrils are completely out off from the air tubes, as is done in holding the breath. It is guite ocon- ceivable that the shock caused by snd- den immersion in water under a tem- rature of sixty-five degrees might induce this movement, and also cause a muscular contraction of lungs and air tubes, precinding the passage of water into the lungs of a person while drown. ing. The ouse investigated by Professor Reese is of great interest to the medico- legal experts, and the correctness of his conclusions will be tested by other ex- amination of the bodies of drowned persons. It is quite generally known that Scot- land - Ireland with their votatoes and Germany and Italy with their beans have been most prolific in their contribntions to this country's drought- shortened supplies since last fall, but it is not so generally known that Egypt, or properly speaking the Levant, has began to furnish us in abundance with that useful garden produnet, the onion. Of this valuable bulb, which is so in- separable from the dressing of a dainty canvas back dock or the ingredients of a popular Irish stew, there have recent- ly been imported into this conntry from Egypt 10,000 barrels. After the do- mestic crop has been consumed by winter use or exported it has long been the custom to import large quanti.ies of onions from the sunny gardens of Bermuda, Lisbon and Oporto, but the Levant was never before called upon. The oultivation of onions on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean extending from the western part of Greece around to ths western border of Egypt is reported as a great fndustry. It has been computed that the last orop there was over 200,000 tons, It is asserted that Levant onions keep better and longer than those grown in any other part of the world. This is an commanded a battalion of the Beventy- | fourth regiment of the line, and | pline hampered him in this campaiga, he deliberately disobeyed orders ana at | ign, in order to finish and deliver | 3 guise to the Turcoman desert he was given the cross of St George of the fighting for the throne of Spain Skobe- war out of Russia, but probably because | As a cavalry commander he fought in men, he dashed into the main camp of army upon them, fled without taking even their turbans. Not one of Skobe- bal revolted. For this, thongh he was but thirty-two years old, he was made a In the second war with Khokland he compelled the khan to sur | render, and when that country was an- neved was made its governor and given | the third class cross of St. George. His next brilliant feat was in the Russo- Turkish war. He bad been on the staff of the Grand Dcke Michael, been trans. ferred to the staff of his father, a Heutenant general, and his father's com- mand being broken up, he found him- nell out of employment where the fighting was heaviest. He remained in the army as a volunteer, and sent his name ri-ging through Russia by cross. ing the Danube on horseback, sword in hand, at the head of a few men, and driviog the Turks from their positions overlooking S.stowa. Again, almost in the next dispatches, he was reported at the riege of Plevna, at the head of a whirlwind of cavalrymen, actually pen- etrating the fortifications. Bat the in- fantry upon whom he relied failed, and Stobelefl had to retire. In the second battle of Plevna he captured two re- doubts, and, after defending them for twenty four hours against the incessant bail of lead from a vastly su- perior force, he was forced back, still fighting like a bulldog. He lost 8,00) out of 12,000 men, had seven horses shot from under him, and when the last bad gone led the way into the redoubt on foot, waving his diamond hilted sword. His greatest military feat was, when, with 20,000 men, he stormed and took Lovtscha in Bulgaria, and won a strate- gical point behind Osman Pasha's army. The war was not half over when he was made lieutenant-general and commander of the Sixteenth division. When Radetzky and Prince Mersky had both been repulsed by Versel Pasha at Shenova, Skobeleff made the Pasha surrender. At the csmar'siorder he en- tered Adrisnople, With his already famous command he was long before Constantinople, and finally had charge of all the Russian forces retiring from Turkey. Since the war the world outside Ras. ain heard but little of him, though two- thirds of his countrymen worshiped him as the foremost champicn of Pan- slavist theories. Love for him was said to be one of the few things in which the country and the esar were w holly in nocord. t February his soldierly bluntness gave him world-wide promi nense, It was at a dinner of Servian students in Paris that he declared a struggle between the Slavs and Teutons inevitable. He ssid it would be long and bloody, but the Slavs would con. quer. He had the world for his hearers, and Enrcpe waited anxiously for an ex- planation, Skobelefl disavowed any desire to make trouble, or any authority to speak as he did, and the czar re- prov .d him with signal mildness, and sent him to Turkestan for a time. He was thirty-nine years old. Explorers Massacred. The fate of the French expedition which was engaged in exploring the basin of the La Plata, South Awmerios, under the leadership of Dr. Orevaux, is one of the most melancholy sacrifices to science. According to the latest news, whieh the council of the Argentine Re: publio in Tappa received from Tavija, the whole company of nineteen men were butobered b Indians of the Tobas tribe. The expedition had not long be- fore left Rio de Janeiro, where they were received with the warmest sym. pathy by the emperor of Brazil. A dis- patch from them stated tbat they had come across the ruins of an old Inca town, a few kilometers from Brazil. Soon after they were arrested by an over-zealous Argentine official in the viliage of Humahuaoa; but after making an inquiry he released them and . mitted them to go forwurd along their intended route. It is possible that the news of their arrest may have reached the native tribe and aroused a suspi cion as to their purposes. Taey had just ascended the Pilcomayo, only a few days later, when the Tobas fell npon them and slaughtered every member of the expedition. A Louisiana man bas established a important feature, for many onions are Pleat that is diseased, and grow non: those which are proof against ib, n in ships’ supplies for long to have heen ecaptared As it was through the cavalry, throwiog them into disorder, and before the line was reformed the enemy struck it and the battle was end:d. Both the Bouthern alloping about, shouting and waving the former as he darted Ly Stuart fired passing through the stomach inflicted a mortal wound. la its passage it just grazed a small Bible which he always carried, the gift of his mother. Ile reeled in the saddle and was caught by Captain Dorsey, of the First Virginia, and 8s be had closed his eyes seemed about to expire on the fleld. His im- mense vitality, however, sustained him, and endeavoring to rise erect again io his saddle he : xelaimed to those aroand him: *‘ Go back and do your duty as I have dcve mine, and our country will be safe!’ Thine tit in to foot Thy mati, | The wi ole Awd be Thy name Tie praise of saints Rev, I. 8. Webb, D. D., of the M. E. charch, died recently in Brooklyn. Bishop Elder, the Catholie 24 Osa M vasa 8 tes in Meroer, counties in that State. appeals for money to be expended in giving poor and sick people horse-car rides into the suburbs, The sixtysecond annual general Something Curious Happened. A boy ten years old pulling a heavy | cart loaded with pieces of boards and | lath taken from some demolished stroo- | ture—an every-day sight in sll our cities. Tired and exhausted he halted | ander a shade tree. His feet were | braised and sore, his clothes in rags, his face pinched and looking years older | than it should. What must be the | thoughts of such a child as he looks | out upon the world—the fine houses, | the rich dresses, the rolling carriages— | the bappy faces of those who have | never known what it was to be poor? | Does it harden the heart and make it | wicked, or does it bring a feeling of | loneliness and wretchedness—a wonder- | ing if the rich man's Reaven is not so | far from the poor man's Heaven that be | will never catch sight of their pinched | 3 { i The boy lay down on the grass, aud in five minutes was sound asleep. His | bare feet just touched the curbstone, | and the old hat fell from his head and | rolled to the walk. In the shadow of | the tree his face told a story that every | passer by could read. It told of scanty food—of nights when the body shivered with cold—of a home without sunshire -of a young life confronted by mock- ing shadows. ‘Then something curious happened — A labouring man—a queer, old man with a wood-saw on his arm—crossed the street to rest for a moment beneath the same shade. He glanced st the boy and turned away, but his look was drawn again, and now he saw the picture and read the story. He, too, was poor. He, too, knew what it was to shiver and hunger. He tip-toed slong until he covld bend over the boy, and then he took from his pocket a piece of bread and meat—the dinner he was to eat if he found work—and laid it down beside the lad. Then he walked carefully away, looking back every moment, but hastening ont of sight as if he wanted to escape thanks. Men, women and children had seen it all, and what a lever it was! The human heart is ever kind and generous, but sometimes there is need of a key to openit. A man walked down from his steps and left a half-dollar beside the poor man's bread. A woman walked down and left a good bat in place of the old one. A child came with a pair of shoes and a boy brought » coat and vest. Pedestrians halted and whispered and droppad dimes and quarters ide the first silver piece. Something ourious had happened. The charity of a poor old man had un- locked the hearts of a score of Boople, Then something strange occurred. The pinched-faced boy suddenly awoke and sprang up as if it were a crime to sleep there, He saw the bread—the clothing —the money—the score of people waiting around to see what he would do. He knew that he had slept, and he realized that all those things had come to him as be dreamed. Then what did he do? Why, he sat down and covered his face with his bards and sobbed like a grieved child. They had read him a sermon greater than all the sermons of the churches, They had set his heart to swelling and jumping until it choked him. Poor, ragged and wretched, snd feeling that he was no more to the world than a stick or a stone, he had awakened to find that the world re- garded him as a human being worthy of aid and entitled to pity.— letrowt Free Press, i i } i | The Trained Ear. The Elmira Advertiser relates this in- cident of a recent examinstion of rail- road employes for deafness: ‘‘ Now, Blank,” said the examiner, * take the cotton out of your ears and listen! Can you hear this watch tick where I now hold it?” Blank * cocked his ear pro- fessional,” and did not hesitate a mo- ment in answering the official that he could hear that watoh tick as easy as the blows of a trip- hammer. * Look here, Blank,” eaid the official, assuming a more serious air; * do = know that you are an awful liar? 1 wasn't examining your capacity to tell the trath, but your hearing; or it might farm to raise alligators for their hides and tallow, convention, of the New Jerusalem church of the United States snd ada met at Chicago recently. . The session continued three days, The several denominations in EdwarQ's Island are repressnted following figures taken from the rec:nt census of the Dominion: Roman Catho- lies, 47,115; Presbyterians, 38.835 Methodists, 14.071; Episcopalians, 7, Baptists, 5,080, The Ongrefutional Union of Scot. land has been holding its Edinburgh, and from the reports of the various gatherings evident that Congregationalism in is vi and azgressive, g Chicago, there was a very extraordinary case of infant ba A gen aud his son walked up to the fous each apa 1 byl each carrving a of t be baotized, Thus one pair of was twin-nacle to the other the senior father was children of the younger gentlea is said that no other instance of family baptism has been even in Chicago. The EE ngs, an 0 twins with a sense of mingled dm tion and wonder. gis E if Hi - . SCIENTIFIC NOTES, The smallest print which a normal eye oan recognize at a distance of one foot is about 1 50 of an inch. A German scientist finds that the true color of perfectly distilled pure water i a fine, deep blue-green. The transpiration from a forest is nearly twice as great as the evaporation from an equal area of free soil. There is reason to believe that ants produce sounds of such high pitch that they are inaudible to the human ear. The avcient Egyptians portray in their pp er LL als the of filtration in connection manufacture of wine. dict Certain physicians say | should not* be repressed in ine as the oonpeequences may be Saint Vitus's dance or epileptio fits. Remains of u remarkable bird of the have been found near The bird —to the duck. Colors fade under the influence of the electric t, as in sunlight, but M. Decaux find that the effect is we: With a are light oL_300 x candle the inflaence upon water ings and colored wool seemed about one-fourth as powerful as light influence. It is reported that a telegram telephonic message from Brussels recently received simultaneously o one wire at Parie, The system is the work of the Belgian meteorological tureav, Herr Van Kisselberghe, and if successful must prove very valuable. Tower City, Dakota, Las a water ap ply from a remarkable artesian , the nature of which seems to deserve close examination by geologists on the spot. When the earth was penetrated 560 feet salt water was obtained. Twenty feet further down a velly stratum was struck, yielding also salt water. After boring down 604 feet fresh water mixed with quicksand came up. Now, from a depth of 675 feet, there is a flow of pure water of steadily increasing quantity. Upon the Bish of the United ingdom : DE En L168 het oy accidents to trains, rolling per: manent , eto, as compared with flity-one 1,028 respectively in 1880. or wee So wh oF he #; an 3 Fp, and of those injured were passengers and 168 servants. § SEZ ois 3 = £ 3 ! hard with youn. This wateh is bre. dy and Boats kod tor tin sensi ; anxious Eg of i i { » E i ! i sh H | his was EE them. tered and banded the On : tone of voice and sssnmed tents of the note, fect it had suddenly mini sites dit gs : : i : It i" ; mn ver, Col worth $50, to retire from business, bat worning until midnight upon the streets erying, © i 3 BEd ais % fe LF EE 15
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