Love and Time,
Two lovers watched the sunset die
In happy clouds that floated west;
Wis lips onreesed her silken hair,
Ber head lay nestling on his breast,
a a
Ah, love,” he said, “I rea 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, yor,” she whispered, “all in vain
1 bear the bells of hollow towers;
- -
But your heart swiftly beating here
VOLUME XV.
Tells all too well the flving hours,”
Editor
CEN
Dg
7, 1882,
A ones
sons misimen AS RH CS ae
NUMBER 36.
| hear Ellen breathing s
sleep, but he was iot
called again and more loudly, ¢
put his fingers In Ms Ww
whistle 1. * Probabh
baby anvhow, and the
her.” he said. But no
down the fine. The baby s
: with 1
soundness: and, ma v,
aker had her deal ear up.
Mr. Whitaker was almost
himself with rage. “A
tf
{
Early Autamn,
Of seasons this the perfect type
The darth, the teeming earth is rips!
From regal hiights of mountain glade
To inmost depth fanny shade,
The pullalating echoes fly
With rapt repeatings of this ery,
"Yea, ripe, in full fruition, stand
The numerons plains, the meadow land;
"This, yellow with its latter grain;
That, shadowed by the russet train
Of fair Pomana’s fragrant robe,
Whose rustling steps full harvests bode, :
Outlined in blue and palest gold, sald, “who would trea
The distant hills soft mists unfold; stich & manner as
A gentle wind just breaks the grass, anything. Ei
To let its whispers reach a mass ng with her deaf ©
Of aurecus and purple blcom separate,” A third
Propendent o'er a lowly tomb, lips to the tin pipe and bawled
Some few cidade try to sing until he was Re thought
Their summer notes ; the crickets ring heard his spouse dking across
Their tiny cymbals far and wide ; floor, but when he «1 again
While gaudy moth-flies flaant in pride, was no response, and he knew that
Where homely spiders weaving glide,
And field mice covertly abide.
The river flows with’ broader swirls ;
A Brooklet glints and blithely purls in sardonic
Amidst its dikes of stones and moss ; rather relishes
And, here and there, leaves crinkled toss— lar here all night ; it is a good joke!
Foreranners of the latter fall But let her take care! She may laugh
Which must proceed gray winter's pall, upon the other side of her mouth be
Yet still the dreary season far { fore we are done with this business”
In future lies, and cannot max { And he laughed a wild and bitter
The peaceful scene of hearty life. laugh,
Whereof all nature seems so rife. Poor Mrs. Whitaker, sleeping sweet
Tt leaps, this life, on maiden cheeks, Iv upstairs in perfect unconsciousness,
(Which deeper blush) and its course leaps | Would have been deeply pained to learn
Through every muscle of the youth, how gravely her husband wronged her.
Whose ready hand sirips from their booth «1 must get out of here somehow or
The juicy clusters of the grape. other,” said Mr. Whitaker, ‘he win-
Which coiling tendrils closely drape. dow is small, but I can erawl through
It beats, it throbs, ah yes, is told, it I reckon, if I try.”
In joyous flow, to staid and old, He unhooked the frame containing
In measures full, yes, bounteously, the wire screen which protected the
In sooth it seemeth good to be! window and pushed it outward. Then
If but to feel the wholesome flood procuring a wash-tub and climbing
Of quickened thought and freshened blood | from it to the window-sill he thrust his
Which issues from the brain and heart, head out and dragged his body through.
And to each wish would zest impart, When he reached the front pavement
Yielding the soul a cheering faith his face was covered with cobwebs
That love and joy are nota wraith? and his clothes with coal dust; but he
- William Struthers, | exulted in the thought that he was a
~ ee free man.
Mrs Whitaker's Deaf Ear.
rs———
y
4
ili
:
i
3
Sith
iseping
into it
he
the
there
hie
Was mistaken,
“he soul of Mr. Whitaker was filled
In his anger he indulged
“1 suppose she
having me down in the
with gloom.
humor,
it
‘
He took his dead-latch
pocket and was about to try to open
door when he remembered
i 3 that he had locked the door and put up
Mrs. Whitaker was deaf in one ear. the hain bolt. Phere Was BD a
I a her right ear, and it was stone | ving to ring the bell. The wir
deaf. us broken. 3 "hitaky
as : : rogen, and Whitaker
Mrs. Whitaker had acquired a habit | a0 Lear wire
of sleeping upon her left side, with her |} 4% heen broken
bas » Alay CL A UATLL
deaf ear up, and this had often been a |... 1ast hope of makin hear. and
source of annoyance to her husband, bv throwing gravel stones
who was nervous and irritable, while rile » fr. Whitaker
she was a woman whose calmness and | 4.3 the experi Che Arst hand-
strenity of disposition were remark- | co) produced no effect. The sleeper did
able. Neither did she hear the
Sleeping y ith her deaf gay up Mrs. | second handful, nor the third, nor ti
Whitaker*at night was rarely disturbed | 4. th which was ddshed against t
by noises which robbed her husband of | ,1.cq with such that Mr
his rest. The hum of the mosquitos ker expected to see it shivered to
which maddened him was not heard by a
her. A passing thunder-storm which
roused him in a summer night and sent
him flying about to close the windows
would leave her in perfect unconscious-
ness of its existence. The in |
the streets and the rattling of the
window-sashes upon windy nights fre- |
quently filled Mr. Whitaker with vex-
ation as they deprived him of sleep ;
but his wife slumbered sweetly on and | Lh for the time. as if sh
heard them not. Indeed, it rarely hap- China. He thought for naest
pened that she heard the crying of the | : to borrew a ladder: but
bady until Mr. Whitaker, indignant at |. sould he wet a ladder in the
its refusal to go to sleep, would rouse lle of the night? No: as hi§ sense
her by shaking her, and would ask her | ¢ 00) niry de pened he
to try to soothe the little one. and more firmly resolved that he would
Mr. Whitaker had often remon-| ...0 Filen somehow or other for her
strated with his wife about this habit |: As he could not obtain
% z . n oy ae 3 : La - ai N ii ‘ ’ a H
of sleeping with her deat ear up, and | admission to his own house, why should
she had often replied good-humoredly |, + avo :
with a promise to try to remember to
break herself of it, but somehow or
other it continued to cling to her. ria all the wrong she had inflicted
One night in winter time Mr, Whit- |, . 0 persisting, against his earnes
aker sat up in hislibrary till alatehour | + 5 Jos. ara im cacy
: 2” . UHL | and repeated remonstrance, in sleeping
reading a book in which he was very | coi) yor deaf ear up
much interested. His wife retired Mr. Whitake SPY od
he x § . Mr. taker turned
early. Mr. Whitaker finally closed-his ' : 2 ip
; : oy away from the house and walked
book, and after locking the front door | 25 a Cio cireet. Ile had no
: s . Gilly Gu iid vi be ! i iit
. N « QOOEY - Bn ¥ . . » -
went down in the celiar, nao rd particular destination in his mind, but
ance with his custom, to see if the fur- | § , 4 aor hm va :
; he hurried along with a vague notion
nace fire had been fixed properly for |. teh he 3 '
: rs : nt hat he might perhaps go to a hotel
the night. While he was poking it a! 0 1c left calmer. In a few
gust of wind came through the screen | 5. Wo Te ie railroad depot
: a ik hi WAY La SaRiii t Lily,
e cellar windqws a enn : \
upon one of th cell ir winda and not far from his dwelling. It was
slammed the door leading into the back | | 1.0 610 lob ted and. as he looked at |
2 miiiant trie, and, 48 ii idl a
hallway above, through which he had | . A Vit 4 bun :
* : . -a it, he rememby rid that a train started
come. For a moment Mr. Whitaker | New York at widnigh
: . : : TH or New ork at midnight. fe
did not think of the matter particu- __ + ; aii ep
: walked into the waiting-room. The
larly, but suddenly he remembered that | . 1.09 00 ; o 3
x : " minute hand on the huge marble clock
he had put a spring lock on.the other |... +oq three or four minutes of
: . satay i } Fen Bad
side of that door, and the thought |, _.. "=" yr. Whitaker rushed up to
3 LE vy ps » ilitan List
struck him that the catch might pos-
be . {the ticket office and bought a ticket
i p i J * ARCH * Bie 8p . v N Ty > :
Sibly 3 SOWE. He ascended the stairs | ¢ xo York, Then he hurried into
and tried the door.
for
down: and he had The a was car nd took 3 segt. He had upon
locked in the cellar, for the key of the that hea ati Hh De
out-cellar door he kmew was in. the mark. Presently the train started,
CT hardly think what Le had | 0d Mr. Whitaker actually felt a kind
better do about the matter, but finally of tah ious af " vs Higught De
he concluded to try to make his wife | co. a1 2%ay irom is
hear him and come to his rescue. He| _ °
seized the long and heavy furnace It slow train, and he had
poker, and inserting the crook of it plenty of time to think,,and as he
above the bell-wire that ran along the | thought his passion began to cool, and
joist of the cellar ceiling he pulled. | the conviction began to press in upon
The bell jangled loudly, but it was in { him that he had been bi having very
the kitchen, and Mrs. Whitaker was in | foolishly. How absurd it was to blame
the front room in the second story. | Pour Ellen because he bad locked him-
Would she hear it? He pulled the on the cellar. He pictured her
wire again, twice, then he sat down on | 8 U0 BEF 4 the HEY. calm In
the steps and waited. There was no re- | the belief that he was still sitting in
sponse. It then flashed upon the mind | iors Fis re called to his mind
of the imprisoned man that Mrs. Whit- her ar and ner londness lor site).
aker was probably sleeping with the | '8 with It up. Phen he had a revul-
deaf ear up. gion of feeling and he began to grow
This increased his growing irritation,.| A0gry aga Lut this Was a mere
and he pulled the bell-wire with the flash. Steadily he advanced toward a
ker fifteen or twenty times. more reasonable view of the situation,
«T could hear that a mile from here | 20d as he did so he concluded that it
if 1 were deaf as a post I” he exclaimed | Would be a great act of folly 30 £0 uv
as he threw the poker on the floor and | t¢ Way to Sew York, He asked the
took his seat again, with the bell still | conductor the name of the nex!
vibrating. | tion, : It was Bristol, He made up
But Mrs. Whitaker did not hear the | his mind to get out there and go home
noise, for no sound of her coming early in the morning. He really felt
reached the ears of her impatient and | badly to think how much alarmed and
indignant husband. | distressed his wife would be when she
He grew angrier every moment. He discovered I ala at
felt a sense of injustice. It seemed un-| When he st pped from the train 2
kind, inhuman for his wife to be slecp- | Bristol rain was falling qui rapidly,
ing away calmly upstairs, while he was and one feeble light in front ofethe
locked up in the dismal rece:scs of the
cellar.
“I'll make her hear me or I'll break |
something,” he exclaimed, seizing the |
poker and hooking it upon the bell |
wire. Then he pulled the wire with |’
such furious energy that he broke it, | ing and fell. ue
and the jangling of the bell diad away | 20d found that he could not rise. |
into silcnee. | called for help, and when the railroad
“It is little short of seandalens,” | man—the only man who was any-
said Mr. Whitaker, in a rage, “1 | Where about—came to him, he discov-
1 :
have spoken so often to Ellen about | ered that further assistance would be
it
1
*
key from his
th f nt
wae Iront
Was
re was but
.
not hear it,
vioience
[ his wife slumbering quietly
" 3
noises
RO1Ses p was in such
»
X But wha
poer lady was
HIOre
mor
5 1:67,
ING ETT
3
Why should he not go off
somewhere and give his wife some-
thing to worry over in repayment for
passionately
mo
the
He was | ,
his his
soon be
was a
. ¥} old
oy ie ide of
y $
Bid~
Mr. Whitaker inquired of the
man upon the platform the way to a
{ ESA,
In descending the wet and slippery
steps of the platform he lost his foot-
He was very much hurt
18,
sleeping with her deal ear up that
looks like malice—deliberate, fiendist
malice—when she persists in doing it.” |
‘What should he do next? Ie could | : ¢
not stay in the cellar all night and he | hoard they carried him to the hotel and
did not like to batter down the door {sent for a doctor.
with the poker. A happy thought! | If Mr. Whitaker, sitting in the car,
‘He went to the furnace, and, with the | had thought himself a very foolish
help of the hatchet from the kindling | man, what did Mr. Whitaker, lying far
wood pile, he cut the tin flue which | away from home in
conveyed the heat up to Mrs. Whit- | |
aker’s room. Certainly he could com- | Mr. Whitaker thought that if there
her to hear him now. He put his | was a colossal idiot on this earth he
mouth to the broken flue and called, | was that personage.
«Ellen, Elen!” Then he stopped | Early in the morning he
and listened. He thought he could gram to his wife, urging her
broken.
sent a tele-
t once, and right speedily came
an her, say ing that she weuld
train which ordinarily reached
tO o'clock
is bedroom
the
a8 he
m the windows of
ation of
in
r hi an exph
luet which would present it
de light
gor is one of the things
i | 8 man's
Wa
an
k¢ makes
il.
nse
LiL
Very s tl
ty |
tr forgiveness almost
deepen
he i CONsCIos of hay ing
her capaci
limitable,
shame when
wronged her,
r. Whitaker resolved,
the matter over, that the best thing
to do would be frankly to
fault and to throw himself
wife's merey,
He heard the which an-
nounced the approach of the
o'clock train. The train came In view
and drew up to the station. Mr, Whit.
akeér looked eagerly at the persons who
got out of the cars, but Ellen was not
among them. She had not come, He
fell back again upon the bed with a
sigh and began again to grow angry
with her.
Rut the poor woman was on that
train. Alarmed by the discovery when
she rose in the morning that Mr.
Whitaker was not in the house, her
alarm was increased when she received
telegram sent by him. What
could be the explanation of the mys
tery of his disappearance? She was
so agitated that she could hardly pre
paré for the journey. But she reached
the depot and got into the car and
began to move towand Bristol,
what weary from too great nervous ex-
citement, she placed her mufl against
the frame of the car window and
rested her head upon it, while her weil
her Unhappily
she had arranged herself with her deaf
ear up, and so did not hear the
conductor when he shouted “Bristol!”
and SO deeply absorbed in
thinking of Mr. Whitaker that
I not notice that the train
only tends to his
A after think-
ing
Lis
his
confess
upot
3 y
wiistie
Some
covered closed eves,
sie
she was
she
had
] had
made up his
hazards, A
the wharf at
to the city; and
litter he had himself
on board. In an hour he was
city wharf, whence 4 wagon
« him to He was
hocked and disappointed to ascertain
from the servant that Mrs, Whitaker
see him the train in
would gO. He could
why had missed
LI: y long he lay in bed
worrying about her and wondering why
she did not come.
Mrs. Whitaker
found that his wife
Vhitaker
J
at all
upon a
his house.
on
}
sie
got back to Bristol
ut noon, and ascertained by inquiry
that her husband had returned, with a
broken leg, to the city, There was no
train that she could take until 4 o'clock,
and she spent the interval in inquiring
about the accident to Mr. Whitaker and
trying vainly to ascertain the reason of
his extraordinary conduct.
About half-past 5 o'elock heard
her voice in the lower entry. He lis
tened eagerly to her quick footsteps
upon the stairs. Then she flung the
door open. Mrs, Whitaker did not
speak as she entered the room. She
uttered a little cry, flew ‘o the bed-
side and put her arms about her hus-
band's neck and kissed him.
Mr, Whitaker felt that if he should
have exact justice dealt to him he
would be sent to the scaffold.
When she had nearly smothered him
with sat down beside him,
and taking hold of his hand said:
“And now, dearest, tell me what
causes all this strange trouble 7”
“Why, you know, Ellen,” said Mr,
Whitaker, “it was your deaf ear!”
“ How do you mean?”
“ You slept with it up.”
And then Mr. Whitaker related the
whole story, and as he did so his wife
began to cry.
“1 am so sorry,” she said. “1 will
promise you never to sleep with my
ear up again; never, never,
never!”
“Ellen,” responded Mr. Whitaker,
“you will do me a favor if you will
always sleep with it up and stuff cot-
ton in your other ear beside! 1 have
behaved like a wretch.”
Then doctor, who had been
vainly pulling at the broken bell-wire,
knocked upon the front door and came
in to examine Mr, Whitaker's frac
tured leg.— Our Continent.
The Pretty Nihilist’s Story.
Sophia Perovski was handsome, “A
little, fair head, with a pair of serious
and searching blue eyes, a broad lofty
forelicad and a rosy mouth, whieh in
14 displayed two rows of most
beautiful teeth "—such is Stepniak’s
description of her, She is a descendant
of that Rasumovsky whose beauty in-
flamed the passion of the Empress Eliz-
: father was governor-gen-
eral of St. Petersburg, Her desire for
so strong that at
ran away from
: in order to * educate her-
he at once joined the revolu-
and became one of its
members, The most impor-
nissions were intrusted to her;
danger was gro. test there was
place. The fair, pretty, smiling
rl that looked like an innocent child,
ind seemed but to dream of afirst love,
thought day and night of assassination
and planned it with the coolness of an
old soldier. It was Sophia who lied
the at Moscow where the
mines were laid, She talked good-na-
he
kisses she
he
heth ; her
“ pmancipation ” was
thie
wii of fifteen she
iri y
ei ’
in house
conspirators dug underneath; she
woked for them, and during the meals
amused them with jest and song. On
the table there stood a flask of nitro-
glycerine, and in her pocket she al-
ways carried a revolver. In case
being surprised by the police she was
empowered to fire into the flask and
thus blow up the house. She lay in
wait when the imperial train
nroached and gave the signal for the
Smiling, she also stood on
the 15th of March, 1881, on the Cath.
erine canal, Sometimes she would
Suddenly she raised
the handkerchief and waved it over
her head; at the same moment Rysa-
would have
assassination, but anxiety for the fate
she was arrested. She died with
ty-second of an inch long,.
TACTS AND COMMENTS,
Well-informed political economists
estimate that the United States lost
upward of 500,000,000 by reason of
the ill-fortune of agriculture last yeu
Even our statesmen will Peon
nize the fact that agriculture fi i
important spoke in the national wheel
progress,
LIRR) 4
Fins il
01
The rate at which railroad building
is progressing throughout the workd is
indicated by the re I ried issues of new
capital in Europe, An excellent
authority states that out of a total
new investment of §317.972,000 during
the first half of 1882, $147,190,500
were for railroads, Of this vast sum
France received $44,115,500, Great
Britain $30,088,000, America, in-
cluding Canada and Mexico, $38,085,
000, Germany $10,701,000, and Hol
land $8,872,400, leaving only $106,000,
000 for all the rest of Europe,
A remarkable sandstorm, accom-
panied by an intensely cold tempera
ture, is mentioned in ur
nals as having raged on that island for
two weeks the past spring
The air was filled with dry, fine sand
to such a degree that it was impossible
to see for more than a short distance,
and the sun was rarely visible, though
the sky was clear of N ohn dy
ventured out of his house except upon
matters of most urgent , and
many who were exposed to the storm
were frozen, The penetrated
into the houses through the minutest
crevices, It was found mixed with ar
ticles of food and drink, and every
breath drew it into the lungs. Thou
sands of sheep an tied,
leelandic jo
during
ele uds
necessity
and
d horses di
On one of ranches of Nevada
the Widow on the
business ing hay and cattle, and
except to
paving a poll tax,
s that he would be
her, but that if
avi
on wearing trousers she
VEeIess Carrs
asks no favors of any man,
be CX OCHS
The ARSON OT
Wwppy Lo accom
she will iy
must pay up like a man. “114
name perfect] ribes the condition
race of a
nd a half
i of her
OWS the
ates
OL
vidow 's
SEY
nd tl
herdsman ol
sweeps past
her sex
wives
denote
hair which
Mr,
Wester:
aver i.
dying « He
multitudinosity of w
carries with it its
citing this instance
jf «M
well-known
thinks
LHITIRS,
me,” Bal wk,” politely,
abundantly woman-equipped Me
“that you are numerous!
replied that he had five wives,
i
soon one of the
finon,
" He
Pretty
1sly sealed.
long and
i on the
f the
if the
iV caine u
joined her quintuple §
street, “1 simply
friend who had introduced
other four were like unto He
Tl said I, nature
punishment for
and Congress ought
husban
inquired o
me
this,
said they were, Then.
furnishes its own
polygamy,
mterfere.”
not to
Y or}
munin
Fish culture in New
would seem, has been
warded. The
that the fishing has been
the restocked streams this spr
ifornia trout were distributed for three
goasons, but not until 1881 were the
fish commissioners able to distribute
them in quantities large enough to
make their presence felt. Twelve years
ago the shad had been so nearly driven
out of the Hudson that the fishermen
abandoned the shad-fisheries of the
river. The present year, owing to the
work of the New York fish commission,
shad were wore plentiful than ever
before. Within a distance of six miles,
according to Seth Green, 30,830 full-
grown shad were taken. Mr. Green
states the work done by the New York
State fish commission under his super-
shad
hatched from 1870 to 1881, 53,608 (00) ;
salmon-trout from 1870 to 188], 10.
G80.000 : whitefish from 1870 to 1881,
2 438.000 : brook-trout from 1876 to
1881, 5.375.000 ; California trout from
1879 to 1881, 1,288,700: California
galimon from 1873 to 187TH, 678,000;
mature bass from 1871 to 1880, 32.848 ;
mature yellow pike from 1871 to 1880,
R82: mature bull-heads from 1871 to
1880, 5,750 ; mature yellow perch from
1871 to 1880, 2,831. There have
been distributed at different times 03,
O00 G00,000 frost-fish,
fresh-water shrimps, 155,000 sturgeons,
610 scarps and 18,000 crawfish.
trout fisher
eels,
Mexico in the middle of July was an
extraordinarily lively one, According
to a correspondent the walls of several
houses fell, a great many edifices were
badly cracked and the churches suffered,
Atleast eighty per cent. of the build-
ings in the city were more or less
injured. The water in the fountains
and the lake overflowed. The pipes
were broken and there was a great
gearcity of water. In the main
square, two very large lamps fell
and were broken to pieces, Two
men were Killed by falling from a
scaffolding. People rushed out of
their houses and kneeling down in the
to Heaven and prayed aloud. Some
sang litanies and others confessed
their sing for the benefit of all who
could hear them. Children ran out of
the schools eryving and wringing their
hands. The balconies of the
ing fervently, Horses and
whether alone or
suddenly stopped, stretehing out their
fore feet and refusing to proceed,
Husbands and wives, mothers and
their children bade each other an eter-
nal farewell. Those who a few
utes before professed a deep hatred
for each other fell weeping into
their greatest enemy's arms, But this
feeling did not last very long, for the
next day eight or ten robbers broke
into a tax-collector’s house, stabbed the
collector, l-treated his wife and ears
ried off $4,000,
HOW
.
There is general admiration the
world over for the patience, cheerful-
ness and independence with which the
people of Ieeland confront the diffienlt
problem of life in their bleak and bar-
ren country, Their existence is at
least a struggle, but they are now
threatened with actual famine, Ina
letter to the London Mr. Wil-
liam Morris calls attention to a report
which the governor has just laid he-
fore the ministry at Copenhagen, The
following aro the main facts of the
situation: The unexamplad cold win-
ter of 1880-'81 was followed hy a cold
Ne 18
ber of sheep and many cows were of
necessity slaughtered in the fall, The
last week was so stormy that sheep and
horses could not safely be turned out
to graze, and many of them died, Ex
cessive jee made the present summer a
late last vear's failure of
hay and stock made the people too
poor to buy imported fodder, and, as a
result, thousands of live have
died: the lambing has failed; the milk
of both ewes and cows 18 ve ry Be Aree:
the usual autumn trade in sheep and
tallow, upon which great dependence
is placed, will fail; a hurricane last
April overwhelmed with sand-drifts
many farms in the neighborhood of
Hecla; and lastly, the measles, whieh
has not visited leeland for thirty-six
vears, and which, when falling on a
people not used to it, is a deadly and
not a trivial disease, is spreading over
the country. If any Americans de-
sire to aid this unfortunate people they
can send subscriptions to Messrs, Mort-
lock & Co, University bankers, Cam-
bridge, England.
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Garibaldi's Character,
battle of the VYolturno, the
flight of the king and the siege of
Capua followed in rapid succession,
During the whole of that stirring time
1 was at Naples, 1 saw the dictator
of the Two Sicilies at the summit of
his power and popularity, and 1 saw
how he used both, It was commonly
said that for a fortnight after he en.
tered Naples no erimes were committed,
I stayed long enough to see the place
become a sink of iniquity once more,
After the battle of the Volturno there
was little to do except to get into mis-
chief, and plenty of mischief there was
duels, assassinations, gambling and
But what a spell seemed to fall
upon the city whenever Garibaldi was
in it! The nights were as a rule noisy
and uproarious, One night he sent
out word that he could not sleep, and
you might have heard a pin drop on
the pavement all through that night.
The women brought him their chil
dren to bless, he stroked their heads—
he rebuked their superstition—but he
could never say an unkind word to
them. His care for the wounded was
unwearied. He went daily through
military hospitals at Caserta.
y doctors sald his visits did more
r the men than all the physic, They
Jared his touch and very look were
full of healing; the dying heads were
pass, and wounded
n leaps «1 from their couches to seize
yvory oe]
stock
The
Worse,
lifted to see him
1s
his hand
he
field
be sure thi
always went over it himsell
EL all the living had been
all the wounded card
ow he won the great and
his soldiers. lis own
res i simple,
wr his life at Naples the
» town. He would live in no
he would not
xeellency, although
be called
supe me
He was lodged
at the top af the
Tyven
ii
11308,
up in a little attic
}
p to breathe the alr, »
/ At Palermo the costliest wines and
were prepared for him — he
on beans, potatoes and the com»
he spent oo
iu
viands
lived
mon wine of *the country;
werage eight francs a day, and
er had anything in his pocket; any
who asked for woney got it,
He had a simple method, He borrowed
whoever happened to be near him,
The people whom
111
aiiil
but he never spent anything upon, or
asked anything for, himself, One week
he was the irresponsible controller of
millions, and the next week he set sail
for Caprera with half a sack of pota-
toes-—his only wealth |— Ree. BR. R.
Haweis, in Good Words.
” Sonn wo—
Why Egyptians Lack Patriotism,
During my visit to Egypt-some
seven or eight years ago-—there was
certainly no national feeling among
the Egyptians, Neither they nor
their ancestors for nearly two thou-
sand vears had known native rulers.
During all these long centuries they
had been the spoil of Roman, Arab,
Tork and Mameluke in turn; from
none, since the Roman time, had they
received protection of life and prop
erty or any national benefits, and it
was impossible that patriotism should
exist among them, for there is no
patriotism save in a country worth
loving. The conduct of the Egyptian
troops in the late Russian war isa
proof of this, The few battalions
I saw in. Egypt * were fine
looking troops
ed and equipped, with
faces and excellent physique; yet they
proved utterly worthless, as it seems to
me, because they were destitute of that
pride which is inspired by patriotism ;
for them their flag had no meaning,
its honor was no concern of theirs,
Their conduct in Abyssinia and the
Soudan was similar, and nodoubt from
the ilow can valor and
patriotism be expected from men whose
only knowledge of their government is
that derived from the tax-gatherer, the
bastinado and forced labor? The
achievements of that great soldier,
Ibrahim Pasha, are not in contradic-
tion with this conclusion, because few
of his troops were Fellaheen, His
conquering armies were mainly com-
posed of Arabs, Syrians, Nubians, Ar-
in fact, of fighting men from
all the neighboring parts of the East,
who were reduced to diseipline by his
stern will and guided to victory by his
great military genius, General George
B. McClellan, in the Century.
=HRRIe cause,
— —— AS ——
The Cravat,
account of the early days of the cra-
vat: In 1656 a foreign regiment ar-
rived in Paris, in the dress of which
one characteristic was much admired
by the people—a neck-wrapper or
gsearf of muslin or silk for the officers,
common stuff for the
used by them, it is said, to support an
amulet worn as a charm
sword ents, Parisians speedily adopted
from the nationality of the regiment,
and afterward cravats,
rich then used embroidered and
richly-laced cravats, such as we find
reign for “a new cravat to be worn on
birthday of his
Toward the end of the
and worn of such extravagant size
whole pieces were sometimes
HUMOR OF THE DAY,
The original land league—Thres
miles, .
If it wasn't for the belles
muny people would miss being
members,
church
A piece of steel is a good deal like a
its temper.
* Life is a riddle,” says a Western
exchange. Yes; lots of people give it
up every day,
“ Misery may like company,” says a
colored philosopher; “but I'd rader
hab de rhiumatiz in one leg den ter hab
it in hoffe,”
It is curious that the pig must be
killed before he can be cured, A yacht
can stand on a tack without saying
naughty words,
“Don't put in no muskecter nettin’
for me,” sald Aunt Hannah, +1 don’t
want to breathe no strained air”
Boston Transoript,
“ Amateur Gardener” wants to know
the easiest way to make a hothouse,
the baby can play with them.
At a recent parade in Cheyenne one
of the papers remarked that the mayor
was in charge of the police. What
misdemeanor was he guilty of ?
Bashful lovers must have a streak of
spiritualism in their composition, as
they always turn down the light when
there are te be any manifestations,
“ Don't you think it is about time
that I exhibited something ¥" asked an
ambitious artist of a critic. “Yes; a
little talent, for instance,” was the
ready retort,
A Philadelphia mule has killed a
mad dog, but it is still a matter of
doubt whether a mule or a mad dog is
the safest thing to have around. —
Lowell Citizen.
You can buy a real Mexican manila
hammock for $1.75. And then you
can fall out of it and drive your back-
bone up clear through your chin for
nothing. New Haven Register,
“1 declare!” exclaimed Mrs. Tidnice,
“1 never saw a gal like our Sary Jane.
I worked eenamost two hull days on
her new bathin' dress, and don't you
think she got it wringin' wet the fust
time she put it on!”
“Does 3 wife take much ex-
ercise ¥" asked Fenderson of Fogg,
whose family is at the seaside, * Ex-
exclaimed Fogg: “1 should
She changes her dress six
Boston Transcript
Yes, I went to church one day
With some money-—by the way,
I'd been saving from my pay
For some socks;
But she sat across the aisle,
And she sunned me with a smile!
80 I placed my little pile
In the box.
your
ercise
say
times every day.”
$0,
— Hawkeye.
We have often read remarkable
stories of motherless squirrels and rats
raised by female cats, but in
Tarrant county, Texas, an eagle
raised a young pig which weighed
forty pounds, The eagle's wings
measured nearly eight feet from tip to
tip.—S{/tings.
“1 want a good match safe,” the
customer said. And the boy promptly
dipped a box of matches into the water
pail and handed them out. * There,”
he said, “You can't buy ’em any
safer'n that in all America. Wouldn't
burn if you stuck ‘em in the stove” —
Hawkeye.
In ng
Ambidextrous Men,
One of the New York papers not
left-handed people, or ambidexters, in
which several remarkable instances of
persons possessing this faculty were
given. Strange to say, however, no
mention was made of Ben Lusby or
George Tiffany, Lusby is famous the
over, aud is known as the
lightning ticket-seller. He traveled
for many vears with the largest cir-
and received almost fabulous
pay, being as great a curiosity as any-
thing to be see in the tents, He used
both hands in selling tickets, taking in
money, handing out tickets and making
change more rapidly with each than an
ordinary ticket seller could with both.
It was no unusual thing to see him se-
lect six or eight full-price and chil-
dren's tickets, receive a £10 or §0 bill
and pick out and return the change
with one hand, while he was selling
one or two tickets at a time and mak-
CURSES,
other hand.
George Tiffany, who had always had
a large acquaintance with theatrical
and show people, and who was a friend
of Lusby, possessed the same faculty
to a considerable extent, and on several
occasions gave exhibitions to his friends
of his ability to imitate Lusby, having
probably practiced under his direction.
He was scarcely a fourth as rapid as
Lushy, but was acknowledged “in the
profession” to be, with the exeeption of
Lushy, the ony twos. anded ticket-seller
in the world.
Instances of people who write and
make figures with both hands are by
no means rare. In the old St. Louis
Democrat office, before the partnership
was dissolved, two accountants were
emploved who, in posting the books,
generally made figures with one hand
and posted the items with the right. A
bookkeeper in one and a cashier in
another large wholesale house in St.
Lonis now work in the same way, and
a reporter on a morning paper writes
with either hand, and it is impossible
to distinguish any difference in the for-
mation of the letters,
A more remarkable instance of dual
faculties than any mentioned is that of
Ar. E. C. Lackland. Mr. Lackland
was for some time treasurer of the
Fair association, and excited no little
attention and remark among those
hand in writing letters or messages,
The on-lookers were, however,
more astonished to see him when in a
work on at the same time were ad-
different in character,
of the chirography is the same, and it
is doubtful
friend that he must have his brains
parted in the middle or be possessed of
two sets. The science of medicine
teaches that unusual mental strain or
activity correspondingly depresses the
system physically, but the rule evi-
dently does not apply te Mr, Lackland.
LADIES’ DEPARTMENT.
What Celery io Wear,
Mast women look well in plain
black, relisved by a dash of color here
and there, To the fair-skinned Euro
pean races, indeed, black and white
dress is naturally becoming, for the
delicate tones of the skin form a middle
tint between the two, On the other
in black, the features and the pupils of
the eyes, which we wish particularly
to see, have vanished; we cannot get
rid of the whites of the eyes, which
are foreed into startling and unpleas-
ant forwardness, and which, under a
normal state of circumstances, are in.
tended only to enhance the dark pupil
A light dress, which brings
out the dark features and tones down
the white of the eye, is the proper
wear for dark races. In fair races the
rule-——with individual exceptions, of
course-—is that the dark eye harmo-
nizes the fair skin with the dark dress,
or is a telling point of color when a
light dress is worn.
people of beautiful coloring look best
some neutral eolor—white is the best
—hetween the face and hands and the
dress. The white may be slightly
toned, like old lace. We want the sug-
actual color of the white, A pale dress
Patch Werk.
Annie Wakeman writes from New
York to the Chicago Morning Journal ;:
into vague.
work mania. One day last week I took
a flying trip to Fort Lee. Seated on
listening to the afternoon concert Ly
them regular boarders at the hotel,
various kinds of fancy work.
the summer.
ence was given to serpentine braid
“rie-rae” work, consequently every
other woman you met had her muslin
showy trimming.
is for the * Oscar crazy quilt,” Ona
piece of cambric half a yard square
there is basted in the center a sunflower
made of either yellow broadeloth, silk
or velvet, or a lily, a daisy, or pansy of
one of the same materials. The square
is then filled in with bits of silk and
skelter, a sort of artistic confusion of
A ASS
Aer ete
!
took an Indiap riding slowly along on
a mustang, I hailed hip. He was a
friendly one. All Indians in the Ter-
ritory are friendly, They are warm
friends if you have a bottle of whisky
and a little money, and will never
leave you till the m and whisky
are gone, I found that he was
to the » Big Spring,” as he called it, or
Baxter Springs, in the southéastern
ast of Kansas, the end of my journey.
{e said the reason I had seen no one
‘was I had traveled between two
ranges of sottlements all the way.
Had I gone ten miles to the north 1
would have struck one of them, But
I was not sorry I had not. My com-
{ panion could English very
plainly, and was very dirty and lazy.
He was a good type of the in-
habitants of the Territory. He was
clad in a gorgeous waistcoat of a Dis.
racli pattern, buttoned with hrass
army buttons, and had a blanket fast-
ened at the hips and w od around
| his legs to the knees, w his feet
were covered with moccasins,
of the springs, and that one
hour before sunset we would strike off
from the trail and seek shelter for the
night among the Indian settlements,
So we traveled along, he being very
shy, IT hardly knowing how to manage
him, till I thought of the whisky bot-
tle. 1 presented it to him. There was
a change as if by magic. His tongue
{was loosened and there was no mors
silence, He told me Indian stories and
I was regaled with Indian folk-dore,
He told me that ninetenths of the
people were against the opening of the
Territory to settlement, but they did
it would end, for the people would
‘surely rise against them, and they
would not rise unarmed or unskilled in
the use of arms. It was now near sun-
set, and according to his promise we
branched off toward the settlement.
In the day's ride there had been a great
change in the country, for it assumed
features more like those of the State of
Missouri, but the climate was the same,
It was the mixture of plain, woodland
and bluff thrown together in wonderful
confusion, Now and then an Indian
cabin would peer out bet ween the trees,
and often there would be quite a well
kept farm, but it was Indian farming
after all. At sunset we reached the
top of a bluff overlooking a pretty lit-
tle stream that rippled along toward
the south, and, winding down the bluff
into the valley below, we reached the
settlement, where we were to stop for
| the night.—Correspondence of Boston
Adcertiser,
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The Vibration of Buildings,
Few persons who have not looked
§
chain stitch of old gold, alternating
with cardinal sewing silk. When the
cambric squares are completely filled
out, and enough of them have been
made for a bedquilt or sofa comforter,
they are joined together with narrow
black velvet ribbon, which is orna-
stitches in shaded silk floss, to suit the
artistic taste of the worker. The
sunflower gives the name of
and hicaven knows
the patches are “crazy” enough
in shape. Such is fame,
unborn as heirlooms of what * grand-
mamma did when she was a girl”
Spirits of former grandmamas, how
you must fume as you haunt the guar-
rets where are ignominiously packed
away your favorite calico quilts, the
much-treasured * spider-web,” “fox
and geese,” and “Jog-cahin ” patterns !
“What is this folly 7" you ask in sepul-
chral tones; “the * Oscar crazy’ young
with your trompery quilts.”
homely industry of quilt-making, and a
prominent society lady tells me that
will be the sociable quilting-bee, in
order to quilt and sil®-line the sum-
mer-work of Dame Fashion's daugh-
Fashion Notes,
surah for evening jackets,
Matted jewelry which has only been
now being used with all styles of dress.
Eeru-colored silks, covered with
White and black satine piping,
braided in floral designs and deep,
pointed edges, is sometimes used for
the heading of fringes.
The “Gros de Londres” is a silk,
ribbed like a “rep,” very rich and
rare; particularly preferred by the
“hon-ton ” {ashion-seekers,
Instead of the combinations of two
or three fabrics, it is announced that a
single fabric for the entire dress will
be the prevalent autumn fashion.
The most expensive of the floral sat-
ines are found in pale-tinted and black
ground, profuse with sprays of fuchsia,
chrvsanthemums, rosbts, lilies of the
valley, ete,
Plain basques are losing favor, for we
now see the rich corsage made with a
plastron of velvet, or, if dighter goods
fancy.
Large single flowers are in favor on
size is so great that only one blossom
for children's frocks. It rivals the
wost every toilet of the season.
Ivory white is in such great vogue
that satin dresses of this shade are no
ments, but are imported for visiting
natural lowers,
Green and cobalt-blue redingotes of
cloth, with velvet collar and cuffs, are
gent over from Paris to ladies at New-
port, where they are worn over dresses
Shoes that are laced in front and
tipped with patent leather are in great
favor. Low shoes are entirely o
woisery. Slippers of kid are cut low
Canvas shoes are worn in the country
for long walks and mountain climbing.
Pointed toes and high heels meet with
the protest of all good shoemakers, as
they are of permanent Mjury to the
fect,
trouble which the managers of large
manufacturing establishments often
on. This is not due to faulty con-
struction; indeed, vibration is found
usually in mills which are admirably
built. In all cases it is what is termed
synchronous, that is to say, it is occa-
sioned and maintained by the vibra-
tion of some other object, which strikes
what may be termed the key or note
piano will respogd to a proper vibra.
tory force, so a bridge or a bui
key-note
| struck with sufficient force by some
| other object. If the human ear
‘had a greater range of power the
sound made by this vibration t
| be detected. It is not now heard sim-
' will vibrate when its
|ings audible sounds. In a recently
published work on mill construction
by Mr. C.J. H. Woodbury, a number
| of interesting instances of this syn.
At one
of the print works at North Adams,
| Mass., a new and unoccupied building
| was found to vibrate in consequencefof
'the puffing of a small steam engine
sixty fect away, At Centredale, R. I,
it has been necessary to change the
| height of the column of water flowing
| over the dam to prevent ' the excessive
| vibration of the adjacent mill. At
| Amesbury, Mass, out of eleven mills
that are near the river two Vibrate
| when water in certain quantities flows
| over the dam, but the tremor can be
| wholly stopped by changing the
(flow of water. The most
| cause of vibration is due to the run-
‘ning of the machinery, and it has. re-
| peatedly happened that a complete ces-
sation has been obtained by increasing
‘or lessening the speed at which the
| machinery is run. This is not always
profitable or possible, and the fact that
this vibration results in a loss of
wower, variously estimated nt from
ten to twenty percent. is a strong
argument in favor of the construction
of onestory mills, which would neces.
sarily vibrate much Jess than factories
having a beight of six or eight stories,
But it is not alone the loss of power
that has to be considered, for in ad-
dition - there is the straining of build.
ing and machinery, and in the mani
facture of textile fabrics this unsteadi-
ness causes a great breakage in the
threads and a consequent damage to
the material,
I
WISE WORDS,
The throne of another is not sta
ble for thee,
The reward of doing one duty is the
power to perform another,
Every one is as God made him, and
sometimes a great deal worse !
The history of the world is nothing
but a procession of clothed ideas,
Every one has his faults, but we do
not see the wallet on our own backs,
In conversation, humer is more than
wit, easiness more than knowledge.
Truth, like the sun, submits to be
obscured, but, like the sun, only for a
time,
What the superior man seeks is in
in others,
Do not speak disrespectfully of per-
may have the same defects,
It is man the conqueror, not Time
who works so much destruction on the
monuments and works of art. :
What wits we should be if we only
uttered the bright things we think of
No one is obliged to think beyond
his lights, and we never leave a good
sense behind till we wish to get be-
yond it,
When you give, take to yourself no
credit for generosity, unless you have
denied yourself something, so that you
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the constructicn of a ditch Which,
when completad, will carry the water
to a high point near Junction City, 8
McKinney and Keno wines.
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Governor Tabor and the Parrot.
AL B. Curtis. and his wife have a
pe parrot: which is their constant
raveling eompianion, and which speaks
the king's English with :
fluency. - The leguacions Dg
quite a panic at the Windsor hotel last
*
peared to be
came from the: transom over
door of the room directly
the hall. The governor was
plussed. * Hello! baby, pretty ba
said the voice again, and the
ernor blushed as he stroked his fi
moustache, and tried to brace up
look dignified. * Won't you come
kiss your. bahy¥' called the
again, in a deliciously sedv clive sat
a war. Now, the governor i
takes a dare of any kind. To do |
justice, he is a brave man, and at
particular moment lie felt big
to tackle an army. He crept sof
over to the -door and asked: “ Are
talking to me?” “Nice ty
the voice; but no sooner had the
spoken than another voice from
the room—a burly man’s voi
called out: “Ge away from that
and let the ] go to slee
was Mr. Curtis who spoke.-
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