wo Poor Miss Margaret. I know something of her story, but I longed to hear it all—the story of the lovely old face, with its sweet dark eyes and snowy hair, She was laid away for her long rest, with the heavy earth upon her heart. The last sad words had died away over her lowly grave, and we slowly and sadly retraced which should know our dear old friend no more for ever, On the evening following the funeral, a8 we sat together around the glowing winter's fire, 1 asked the dear grand- mother to tell us the story of Miss Margaret's life. She took off her spectacles, and polished them slowly with her handkerchief, looking mean- while thoughtfully and sally into the fire, Then, turning ronnd to us, she said— “You all loved Miss Margaret, but you could not appreciate ber loveliness as one who knew her in her youth, and through all the years of her beautiful, pathetie life, age, she a few weeks younger than ¥. our steps to the places We were nearly thesame From our babyvhood we have been con- stantly together. 1 the time Margaret Our homes stood alwass where cannot remember was not my other self. they do to-day over the way. friends, and the friendship ended to-day mine here, hers just Our mothers were dear in the grave began with our first prattle and tottering footsteps. “When we were six years of age we to- sommenced our childish school life gether. Years till grown up ready for the ladies’ college went on we were in the adjoining town of Aldenbury. How wonderfully pretty Margaret was She was always very slender, You in dark growing ! and how handsome she was even age. She had beantiful, wavy hair; her lovely ; her small, pale face, with its delicate nose, fresh, dewy li little chin, was delizhtful to look upon. Sweet-tempered, modest, know old peculiarly graceful. her brown. grey eves were very ps and firm was Lhe ido! of her parents and admired In our college, by all who knew her, seven. teenth vear we left the garet was to return at the antum as teacher. How i bright summer! All are soon over ; the autumn came with it our first to Aldenbury on M 1 nierm we eniove beautiful and separation. She went nday morning, and Friday evening always saw her return to us again. It was about this time garet. 1 could not define it. In sweet eyes there shone a solemn, light. A of semed to grew more reserve holy tremulous sort beauty and she eacl rest on brow beautiful 1 day. sweet was never broken, even to me. It was a beautiful! day in came to me with a new look hes pure which never wears but ones in life, upon face—a look a when she loves as Margaret did. spate 1} you,’ said she ; with told me the story of her betrothal, have something to tell seated me in my own room, Edmonds was principal of the college at Aldenbury. He had the inst tition when there in the autumn, taken charge of a widow, who was poor, and who lived in a distant town, was a student, Mr. Edmonds was ber sole support. Ilis brother was in lege at his expense, and, with double responsibility, he had hesitated where her col- He finally decide] to tell her of it, and explain to her his situation. He that he had not the presumption, even if she couid return his love, to ask her to wait for him through the years which must necessarily intervene before could have a wife and a home of own, “I told him, said Margaret, that 1 would wait for him for ever—for I love him.’ “The spring came, and with the first song of the bird: and the perfume of the flowers [ was married, his complete my happiness, full of deep, quiet happiness, had written constantly to her since the engagement, She returned to wus in season for reopening of the college, where she was still to remain a teacher, She and Mr. Edmonds taught and stu died together. He was a fine scholar, an she was fast following in his foot- steps, I never saw a man 80 entirely devoted to any woman as Mr, Edmonds was to her. He seemed to look upon her as a treasure too precious and beau- tiful for him. Margaret's years of few weeks she would enter upon her new life. A house was ready for them at Aldenbury, where, after a few weeks trip, they intended to reside, [ow I should miss her! Bat there wus a thought I tried to keep in the back- ground, and enjoy the presen to the wbmost. It was a lovely day in Octo. ber, 8 week before the wedding-dary that Mr. Edmonds eame into Margaret's parlor, looking fearfully ill. He stoutly insisted that it was nothing but a stout cold, and laughingly refused to be doe- tored, as he expressed it. The next morning he was unable to rise, and the doctor pronounced his malady diphthe- ria of the most malignant type. As the long day wore away he continued to grow worse, and at nightfall was deliri ous and suffering terribly, Margaret followed the physicians into the hall, and told them if there was any danger brother, Kind old Doctor Seaton, who had known Margaret from her birth, laid his hand gently upon her shoulder, and only said : ‘Send at once, my child,’ “For two days he suffered terribly, Margaret never left him. Pale, tear- side day and night. was with him on the day, when the end came, The sunset light stole into the and A aslant upon the pillow and lit up the dying fece with angelic beauty. Mar- knelt down and laid her head beside his, and when, a few moments guret, smiled. sunbeam fell guret after, we raised her, he was dead. beautiful young life had ended. garet stood looking down upon the dead face of her love without a tear, without a sound. She knelt down and kissed then turned and waving aside any assistance, and no one When night came issued from the room, and spent the long dark hours This was the end of her dream, my sweet Margaret! The next she to breakfast, looking as if years had passed over her head. ows beneath them, ber lips were drawn But this moming of ber sorrowful {life ever heard him, saw her that day. a pale-faced woman alone with her dead. morning came with suffering. from flat no one a moan over her bereave- ment, To her loving father and mother she was the spirit of devotion. Well as I knew Margaret, 1 did not dream of the strength which lay behind that frail To Mrs. we datiful, loving daughter, exterior, Edmonds that was tl and to- gether they took their dead to his child- i laid him beside lus ull the and never, heard Patient, unselfish, hood’s home father. 1 in years that followed her gay, bright laugh again, sweet, strong of soul, her life henceforth was spent for others, ** And the went, and found her ever at her post of the the sick, A more beutiful life I never And uver, and she Las joined the love of her youth.” thus SEASONS came duty, among sorrowful, i affl cled. Knew, now the long wailing is cp Scraps. A | learn by experience, When luck finds the An evergreen man who does not the inside knocks at door, it often nan too lazy to the latch, n editor advertises for a wife who knows less than be does. Some are mighty hard to suit, “That's him I" cried Mrs. Wheeze- botham at Sandown ; ** that's the Dook, { a driving off in a tandrum IV i “I'l feed my boarders on the fat of | the land,” observed Mrs. Stuffem, as | she paid for a tub of oleomargerine, { A little three-year-old girl rebuked | her mother for alluding to a black cat, | She said it was a colored cat. | When a Boston young lady wishes to { express that she has the ** blues” . | per.’ When a polite man tells you he alone { contradict him, and is disappointed if i you do not, { A debating society will tackle to see a man trying to thread a needle, ie ’ Ah, yes,” soliloguized the toothles * Ah, yes. In our infancy i we cut our teeth, and in%old age our Such is life |” ! old man. | teeth cut us, A contemporary says: “* A woman who does a man’s work ought to receive a man's pay.” A lazy husband says he has no objection if she only pays a man’s bills, If distance lends enchantment to the view and the view refuses to return it, what remedy has distance? The court takes the papers and reserves the deci sion, A bride of this city found seventeen full sets of dishes among her wedding presents, Ier far-seeing friends evi- dently knew she was going to keep a girl, A sleeping-car porter who traveled 050 miles with ten passengers worth over three million dollars each says that his perquisites were only AiSy cents, —————————————————. A Steam Thrashers. The farmer is getting the advantage of the inventive faculty of the present age. Steam thrashing machines are slowly but surely displacing the old method of thrashing ‘by horse power, It tukes more help to keep the machine running up to its full capaeity than it did by horse power, but then a much steadier motion is given, and the much | dreaded “thrashing days’ are shortened { by. one-half, which isa great boon to | the farmer and his wife, There is only | one team needed, and that the thrashing {| men furnish themselves, and use it for | hauling water for the steam engine, | Where the trashed grain has to be taken | any distance, of caurse teams have to { be used for hauling it away, The steam | trashing machines are made extra large, with a big eylinder at which twe men stand to feed it. This necessitates two band cutters and an extra two men to pitch to them, These steum thrashers, combined with the improved machinery for putting the grain into the ground in the spring (we refer to the screw pulver- izer) and the self-binding reaper, make the farmer practically independent of hired help, fora crop of 100 acres of | small grain can be sown, reaped, and thrashed as easy as 20 wores could by the old and slower methods, { This isa very important item in the farmer's economy, for in some sections help rush of harvest at any price, and where cannot be obtained during the it can be got it is generally of an inferior character and has to be paid exorbitant | prices of from £2.00 to £3.00 per day. The steam thrasher is of immense bene- fit to the farmer, and the dav will soon be here that every neighborhood will be supplied with a machine. Farmers can use the steam takes for all power fhat it mac of and eutting run the trashing iT the NECESSAry purpose grinding grain, shelling corn, hav with a chafl-cutter, when the machine is not in nse for thrasl or Suitable arrangements must he, how- for Where possible the engine should pie ever, provided guarding against fire, be placed far enough away from builds & the farm + rs 80 there will not 0 i be the remot - st chance of fire, The best way to enrry this power from the buildings is by engine to a wire rope, as a belt cannot be nsedd to e UTY pOWer as far as a wire the helt, rope: and then, too, when used in wet weather will get wet | and slip, ~— Breeder's Live Stock Journal, American Manners, While" American manners are doult. less susceptible of much arly | frequently painted by improvement, | they are not nes 80 black as they are foreign fools and | native snobs, If by good manners are meant ‘the small sweet courte gies of Sida +4 . 1 life. hen ours will bear comparison with t n article, | An American { may not bow as gracefully as a Freon h- man, but he will sacrifice quile as much personal covenience and comfort for « | stranger as the Frenchman- f more, An elegant at perhaps American may not be as a dinner party as an English- he will not ride half a day in a railway car without speaking to the ¢ man, bat fellow passenger at his elbow, as the ! A whether | young or old, pretty orplain-may travel Englishman will. lady from Boston to San Franeisco without | an escort, and the needed | attentions from men whom she never | saw before and will never see again, { Would the same lady be equally fortun- | ate in a trip from London to Paris, or | Paristo R In our street cars a | laboring man wearied out with the day's toil, will give his seat to any woman who enters, How many European | gentlemen would do as much ? There is more chivalric respect shown to women | in America than anywhere else on earth, | and such respect is inconsistent with | intense ‘vulgarity of manners,” In drawing-room accomplishments and the graces of the dancing master, {and in those indescribable products of high breeding found in the eircles of | hereditary aristocracy, America must now—and always, perhaps—yield the palm to Europe ; but in genuine courtesy, unaffected and unselfish politeness, dis- position to acommodate, readiness to go out of one's way to help others— Europe has much to learn from America. Oar manners are ‘in the rough’ and need polishing ; but the material of which they are made is gold, not pinchbeck. Vulgar manners are bad, but artificial worse, Let us hope and believe that by diligent minding of our own business receive all une ? out servile copying of European models, we shall some day reach a point in edu- cation, manners and morals which will meet the demands of the most fastidious taste, foreign or domestic. AR A WANTED. <A modern young lady's forehead. Not having seen one for several years, we are willing to pay a fair price for a glimpse at the genuine article. No banged or otherwise muti Sanitary. To cure a felon, as the parts begin to swell wrap the part affected with a cloth thoroughly saturated with tine- ture of lobelia, and the felon is dead. INFLUENCE OF ELECTRIC LIGITT ON Hearn, The influence of the electric light on health was lately discussed at a meeting’of the Hygienic Society of Ham- burg. and Dr. Kruss gave his views on the subject at some length, He referred the human eyesight, and expressed his opinion that it produces no evil effects, the light having a violent tinge under most circumstances, Tlie electric light being free from the disadvantages inci- dental to the combustion of the consumption of oxygen and the produc gas, in tion of carbonic acid, he considered its developments as being a hygienic meas- ure of importance, DEATH FROM ALCOnOL.— In an im- portant paper read before the late Ih Medical Association at Worchester, Dr. Norman Kerr presented statistics show- ing all the deaths in his own practice due, either directly or indirectly, to alcoholic fully he applied the result to the causes: and after car sifting the cases, whole pumber of medical practitioners in Great Britain. He thus calcul; persons died anually 1 from personal we, Compared with this sta twenty colleagues intemperan: tement, the ret ¢ngaged principally classes, and no spital or id total of to alcohol of 54.450 for among the workhouse (i aths eluding hos show 8 gra due Beans As Foop, — The Very great bread or meat. i process patented, by whi reduced § JUS Seeds are § #1 , une Dour and rendered capable of used as fowl Wel by the Frictional Electricity. press-room of O14 foreman was the electricity furious and Frictional proprietor sorrowful. in the printed the immediate cause of thoir It is an interesting and not phenomenon, and trolled. It has puzzled Profs. Bell Wadman and the best electricians The packing the press clyinder seems to act as an it not easily con- and we have about here, inductor, and the paper leaves the press thorough y electrified. We a press running off 1700 per hour. Sud denly the printed sheet clung about the cylinder as though pasted upon it, had to be torn off in strips, lifted a few freshly-printed leaves, and they ripped and crackled like the stitches in an old coat. Then we saw a lot of cardboard being printed. The sheets were stuck together as solid as a brick, and could not be separated until the electricity had partly passed off. A piece of printer's bras rule placed in this pile of card-boand, with an end projecting, threw off sparks when ar proached within au inch by another piece of rule. Two sheets sucked to- gether when held fourteen inches apart. Wet rags placed areund the delivery table and led inte a bucket of water charged the water with electricity in forty minutes so that a positive shook was felt upon a hand being immersed in the pail. Electrical currents were felt in the hands and arms upon hansl- ling a pile of paper eight minutes after being printed. The bother to the printer is a consideruble one, It entails inconvenience and a serious loss. Value able work is frequently spoiled by the electricity packing the leaves so closely as to offset the fresh ink. Then the presses have to be slow.speeded, with frequent stoppage. Nothing so de- moralizes the pressroom as the mystery of frictional electricity when under full watched and headway. Monopolies and the People. We do not eed to look to England for lustrations of the evil of land mono- ply. What has been done there to take away the ground from under the feet of the people by grants to court favorites, to wonasteries, and by the stealing of common lands by those who had been given so much that they thought them- selves entitled to take ansthing they wanted, is being repeated among us on a much greater scale by grants to States, railroad and by the to corporations, millions of acres that were not included in their grants, The public Nates domain of the United . Which fooled up a grand total of 1.893 180.387 bi includingg acquisitions beginning with the cessions Heres. all the from the original thirteen ending with the purchase of Alaska, is lates Bellig grants to States and for Indian military reservations, gilt land claims, ete... to about 1.000,000.000 neres, Deducting from this Alaska, the West t $ it iS e8L1~ the mountainous portions of and the swamps ol the South, mated that there remain to-day of the antinent but legacy sed iii 33 125,000,000 ‘ tevisniticl LY ELIT} 0 make good tl Almost rants grants of Con + land res 4 elain % Ciaill i which have lapsed, and { declaratory act by Cong $ 3 fare Yo str d ys § ie CLLICINEnL, his is {rue 3 almost all f Cases of is. i 18 mie! should smile with + (zreat wt is Of OU ReOZTa- and belr 2 wn of the corporations, pliies is disappearing, Dm American 5 i 1 % 3 cy v4 § in its Hack by i ie ACL new ores t pr ph i greater Desert i created lapd department and the The Sayings cf Great People George I11.'s savings like his are, in ssion, but very strongly stamped. It was the same with Madame de Pom- “Apres which lessness : nous, le deluge,” a has become part of his- from its truth, partly from its vivid expression of the selfishness which it his- And it is this quality of per- saving and recklessness made torical. character so stamped is not poor, but has anything magnificent or noble in it, that makes a great saying take rank with a great XIV. declaration on his death-bed to Madame de Maintenon: “‘1 imagined it more difficult to die,” as though his departure at least must have involved a convul- sion of nature ; and Pitt's grand fare- well to power, when he returned, dying, from Bath, “Fold up the map of Europe, ** are excellent specimens of the sort of sayings which, though. eontain- ing no thought at all, nothing but a great consciousness of power, yet im- press us more than the most vivid wisdom or the most poignant wit, This is why dignity tells for so mueh in a gayipg of this kind,—-for so much more, indeed, than even truth. Burke's grand sentence on the hustings, when referring to the death of another candi- date : “What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue I’ makes an even greater impression on the imagina- tion than the other sentence: “Ido not know how to draw up an indict. ment against a whole people,”’ not be- cause it embodies half the political deed, Louis cause it recalls Burke and his soaring imazination more impressively to the | mind, Even Lord Chesterfield, with his thioness and superficiality, makes his mark upon us directly he be- gins to delineate himself. “There is a certain dignity to be kept up in pleasures, as well as in business,” and “Knowledge may give weight, but ae- complishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh,” paint se exactly a man thoughtfully and con- sistently anxious about appearances, as vid self-por- nobler kind, In- deed they impress us not only almost as that they impress us almost as much of Dr. traitures of a much one Johuson’s vi that by imaging the man who lived in strong setion of Ere APPEArances were appearances, they throw wp in on our minds the recol to whom men Sayings, however excellent, which do not convey in them any :2lf-portraiture are seldom vividly associated with their How many of will remember who it was “Nothin taxes "’ readers that death authors, our said, g is certain but and “We must her, else we Lo- Cy or even, “It is better to wear out which last the energy of a certain kind of but it marks rather a class than a Or, all hang shall all hang rust out.” does re. present Energy $0 common i in- denjamin Franklin the irst savings, and Bishop Cumber- nd the last, but we should be surprised find anyore in a company of literary y could have pronounced on the three t to whom any one of the On Was + attributed. he other hand, in a wach leas that 3 taining much less that § only they *K the Greal’s indignant it ihr lows want 118 sSGidiers some disinclination to being hot down, or Gambetta’'s ff faudra ou se . ”3 melire, nee they felt wl was before them, ina words, (msar's st 29 rid Vici, “Al } : ho feared “What dost though fear, 118 question to for the HISSR of when board 7°° or his disdainful & On OEY for an unjust divorce, uoht Ui Caesar's fr to be free even from sus- are likely to be in everyone's And succeeded mouth as long as the world lasts, rhaps is Napoleon's, *‘1 | Aly. Same iis but Charlemagne,” remark, he world,” and, *1 lied at Waterloo.” influential of all great wh great of character ith greal man’s 4 ws 1 » those ich combine ohit % weignt i 8 xpressed or implied. Thus, vour's remarkable prophe years bef ne it myself “In my dreams, 1 see Minister of Lilie NOs of all the Kingdom impressive of pts to have faith in great or, prex £ national Cravings, again, his expressive say- ing, “In politics, nothing is so absurd ancor ;** or, 1 will have no esiate with a will do more to keep As 1 of stale siege. anyone can govem of siege.” Italy united, to keep her governments statesmanlike, and to keep her people free, than reams of argument from men less memorable and less potent. Inspect Your Cellars. “You think your cellar is in good sanitary condition ; do you know that it is? Have you looked over your pota- toes, turnips, squashes and other vege- tables, to ascertain their condition ? “Diphtheria, typhoid and scarlet fever, and many other more serious ill- nesses, have their origin in cellars in city and country ; and we can do our readers no greater service than to see at all times that they are in a dry, whole- some condition. Why should farmers’ famulies living in the country, away from the pestilentiel vapors of cities, be so subjected to attacks of malignant diseases ¥ There is a reason for it. They arise from the indifference mani- fested to observance of hygienic rules and the violation of sanitary laws. “Cleanliness is essential to health, and it is just as necessary in the country as in thecity, A family living over a foul cellar is wore liable to be poisoned and affected with illness than a city family living in its poluted atmosphere but without cellar or basement, filled with fermenting roots and fruits, There is far more sickness in the country among husbandmen than there ought to be. With plenty of pure air, water and ex- ercise, the evil imp, disease, ought to be kept at bay ; and we would be better if an observance of certain hygienic con- ditions were maintained, Bad condi tional cellars, small, close sleeping rooms, stoves——(hese are all agents of evil, and are fast making the homes of farms almost us unhealthy as those of dwellers of the cities." — Boston Jo » -
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