TO-MORROW. — If we be glad or sad, or grave or gay. If soba or Inughter fill our throats to-day, What will it matter when light fades to gay To-morrow ? Hf we have now or love or bitter hate, df soorn gr pity on our pleadings Wait, The world will be the same whate'er our fate To-morrow. Prot we to-day with hearts hot to the core With keenest anguish for what comes no more. Idle as dust the trifies we deplore, To-morrow. The daisies nod above our head Insensate sleep we in our churchyard bed, Twill nothing count how we to-day have bled, To-morrow lily The Black Man's Blessing. “Oh dear !"’ exclaimed Nettie Ashley, #8 she put on her bonnet and shawl pre- paratory to going home. “1 wish we were to have some kind of a real good time to-night.” “My sentiments exactly,” returned Bessie Ames, us she tied her hood- strings in a bewitching bow and sur- veyed herself in the mirror. “1 meve that we three, here and now, plan a frolic.” “Second the motion,” chimed in Ger- tie Wood. ‘“What shall it be, a candy daub ?"’ “Ne. no,” laughed Bessie ; traces of our last candy escapade are yet visible in my hair, although comb and bursh have been vigorously applied.” ‘Listen, girls,” cried Nettie, “I have an idea.” “For pity’s sake don’t lose ii, Net,” said Gertie, “‘but quick, let's hear.” “It’s something novel. Let's go beg- ging.”’ “Go what 7 asked Bess. “Go out begging,” explained Lrertie, “We'll disguise, and go from house, asking for food. It will be fun.” “You are a genius, Net,” cried Bessie, “you'll be famous, yet.” “Probably,” said Nettie. the future idol of fame working box-shop for six dollars a week!" house to proposed excursion,” interrupted Gertie, “Shall we go or not?" “(Go by all means,” said Bess, whosd eves were just sparkling with mischief “But let’s be going home ; we can pial it on the way.” The three girls started off in hig glee, and judging by the (requent lang- ter and suggestive nods of their head, everything was perfected ere they sep- rated at the door of Nettie Ashle’s bouse. . “Now, girls, be here al seven shyp, and in costume, mind." called Hut Nettie as she ran toward the door. Had you been on hand at seven shrp, vou would have seen two very foprn- looking damsels ringing the bell 0 the Ashley cottage. Nettie answers the call and the visitors were ushed in with mueh laughter, and a fg mo ments later, you might have seerpmerg- ing from the same house three isera- bly clad girls, each bearing a baset, “Where shall we go first ?" wquired Bessie. “We'll take Evans avenue neither of us is acquainted there,” pponded Nettie. “They are all rich fa's on the avenue. Then we'll go ove to lee street among the poor peopl and see what we can beg for our sickaothers.”’ “1 ean never tell the spy with a grave face,” said Gertie. “But you must. Dee Bessie. as they passed unde the street light. “Look, you must dw your face down 80.” And the rosy ‘tle face as- sumed such a serio-coi expression that her companions bug into laugh ter. “‘Girls,” she exclaio, in a tragic voice, how can you laugfin that man- ner when your poor mther is so ill with consumption, and ou have little brothers and sisters dending on you for support, and are obited to beg from door to door ?—how cg you doit 7?" ‘‘Bess, you are incorxible,’’ returned Nettie. “Such a dojul expression as that would be a fortie to any beggar, You actually looked/orse than Aunt Melissa when she is iving her visitors an extended accounpf her 'neuraligy and rumatiz.” “Here we are 0 Evans avenue,” called Gertie, ‘dw, girls, compese yourselves, Net, y are to go first.” “All right,” regnded Nettie, “I'll stop at this big bn house. Youtwo walk on a few sts, and wait in the shadow of that belm.” They did as (ected, while Nellie made her way tow back door of the mansion. A toevling knock brought Maggie, the sexnt girl. “Please, man,” Nettie faltered, “Pye asick pher, we're very poor, there's no ongut me to depend on and won't yotlease give me a little something tos ?”’ ty ou’re thivinteenth beggar that's after being Be to-day. You all have dyin’ mitheran® dead fathers, and hivin only kws how many childer to \ fo’d be givin’ to all o’yees, the master tbe poorer than a church mouse hiss so he would.” «But ygwouldw't miss a little, tee ere IV" said pleaded Nettie, ‘And I'd be so thank- ful.” ‘will, thin, take these cowld buck- whates and begone ; and she tossed the viands into the basket. With a smoth- ered. “Thank you, ma'am,” Nettie departed. “What success?" cried the girls as Nettie reached them. “Not exactly an enthusiastic recep- tion, but I got some buckwheat cakes. Tave some ?"’ “ Not yet, thanks, see my spoils,” said Gertie, “Judge Jerkins lives in this house, Ile is one of the wealthiest men in the city, so I'll get something handsome there.” And beggar number two started on her dole- ful errand. The judge's back door opened; the “help” contemptuously eved her visitor, then slammed the door in her face with, ** We don’t take stock in beggars.” ‘“Stingy things ?"’ was the angry ex- clamation, as Gertie joined the girls and related her cold treatment, In this way they visited nearly every house on the avenue, sometimes receiv- ing cold bits and often nothing but harsh words, “ I'm disgusted with a beggar's life, said Gertie. ‘Let's go home.” ¢ Just think, if we really were in dis- tress needed the food for which we've with what sorrowful hearts we shonld return. To think that these rich folks should refuse to give the crumbs that fall from their tables to the starving people of our eity !" ‘1 am going down on Lee street and if there more charity ina tenement house than a mansion,’ said Bess, ‘‘I'll only home it shall ba." Wait until you + and begged 00 is any try one house; then They wended their way toward Lee At the able little shanty. street. corner stood a miser- The windows were | filled with rags, and everything indica- | ted the extreme poverty of the inmate “There.” seid Bess, “I'm going in and she walked briskly to the At her timid knock the door pened, and she was confronted by an here; door. old negro, to whom she teld her pitiful story. “Cum right in, honey, cum right in. De ole man aint got much, but Le never done sen’ away de needy. Cum in a minute, chile.” Bess entered the saw its meagre furnishings, her heart smote her, “1 cannot take food from him,’ she said to herself, *‘ vet I dare not tell him the truth.” Placing the candle on the table, the and as she hovel. negro went to a little cupboard in one corner of the room, forth half a toaf of bread. and handed it to Bessie, saying, ** Here, all de bread I hab in de world, but you take drew chile, dis am it to de pore sick mudder wid a brack man’s bressin’,"’ “(y cried Bessie, the tears gir.” streaming down her cheeks, ** I cannot take the last mouthful you have, indeed I cannot- * Nebber min! {O-MOrrow I'l man kin work. but de sick mudder can’t. Take it to her. and tell her it comes wid de bout dat : get some mo’. De ole bressin® ob de ole brack man.” i“ How can I ever thank you!" tear- fully exclaimed Bessie, thousand thanks!" She opened the door and quickly ran to the girls, to whom with many tears she related the touching incident, “1 felt so guilty.” she exclaimed, “but I dared not tell him the truth. If you could have seen the tears roll down his face as I told my story, you would have felt what real charity was, To think of meeting in this lowly hovel one willing to give his last crust, when we have been so rudely repulsed by many who live in luxury !"” “ft is the grandest example of char- ity I ever knew,” responded Nettie, “and, girls, we must reward him.” “1 have it,” cried Gertie. ‘Day after to-morrow is Thanksgiving Day. Now, lets circulate a subscription paper in the shop to-morrow, and get the old man the best dinner he ever had." “ Agreed ! Capital I’ cried Nettie and Bessie in a breath, Grertie's suggestion proved a wise one, The next day they told their story and solicited money for their new friend. By night a cosy sum had been realized, and with many happy hearts they set out to make their purchases; then, each with a heavily laden basket, sought the old shanty. Again Bessie rapped at the door. The old man came, and seeing the three girls, eagerly peer- ed into their faces and asked their er. rand. “ Rir," sald Bess, we are come to confess a wrong," “ Guess you'se got de wrong place den. None o' ye ever sinned ‘gainst me, '’ “Last night,” continued Dess, ‘‘1 came here begging for fun. My mother is not sick, and I had no need of the food for which I asked. Your kindness touched my heart, and - wu? “Now,” interrupted the negro, in surprise, ‘who'd s’posed you could le like dat, wid such a powerful sorry im “ A thousand, “1 am sorry,” returned Bess, ‘and now we have brought you these baskets, which we hope you will accept with the kindest wishes of three giddy girls who will never think of your geuerosity without a tear.” “ And please accept this envelope,’ said Nettie, as she handed it to him. Then they put down their baskets, and with a pleasant *‘ good-night *’ left the old man gazing at his presents in a be- wildered manner, “Don’t go far,” whispered Gertie, as she closed the door, ‘* Let's stand in that shrubbery where we can watch him trough the window.” * him as he opened the baskets and drew forth a fine turkey, vegetables, cakes end many other good things. “Did you ever see such a happy face? asked Bessie, “He is opening the envelope now,” said Gertie; ‘‘I wonder what he will say to that!” As he broke the seal and drew forth the roll of money, the tears found ready vent ;: he looked first at the money, then at the edibles, as if to make sure it was a reality and no dream. Then, clasping both hands, he dropped on his knees, and the girls knew that ‘‘de brack man’s bressin’ 7’ was finding ut- terance and favor before the throne of God. ac ———— ees Ae —————— Both Sides of a Bridge. we on this side of the bridge or the other ?"’ “Say, mister, are asked a placid old lady on a Court street cas “We are on this side,” responded the gentleman gravely, “Taws me! Then we ain't anywhere near Greenwood Cemetery yet ¥°° **Yes, squares of it.” “Suakes a wood swadame. we are within a few massy ! 1 thou (rreen- the ght Wis on other side of the bridge ! “No. madame ; it is on this side I" “Well, that pesky old conducter told me it was on the other side when we started.” “It the other then, but we have crossed the bridge.’’ was, madame, on side “Then we are on the other side.” “No. madame, we are on this side of the bridge. “And gide ¥* she asked We've passed it." on the starting up in is Greenwood other some alarm. “No it'son t “Don’t sense 1° his side, try to fool me with your non- exclaimed the old lady indig- “Don’t try to make me think that Greenwood i8 on this side of the bridge when I know better, and don’t try to make me believe I'm on this side of the bridge when I know I'm on the Don’t ve nantly. other! do it. he How A Little] Child's Life was Saved. Recently a woman, looking from her of Newburg, a little child but kept from falling by a dog who had the Woman back window, in the city saw in the house opposite hanging from a window still, caught The months dress in his teeth had left her baby, the floor of the front room play. is old, on ing with her toys and a little terrier dog that The mother was away minutes, 1s its constant companion. just but when she came back and opened the door her infant's head, shoulders were hanging beyond stone sill of an open window, and near it. with its feet on a chair, the little dog holding on to the child’s dress for dear life. Her child, unconscious of any danger, was crowing at some ob- ject in the yard, while the dog holding on the dress, looked a mute appeal for haste and help. In an instant she was by her baby’s side and the danger was past. When the dog had been relieved of his burden he pranced around the mother and the child with a delight that was almost frantic, Warwick Advertiser. three arms and the stood AN old woman armed with a broom- stick and a flat-iron put to fight two masked burglars the other day. When lovely woman stoops to flat-iron she makes a success of it, A Drop of Oil The sewing-machine went hand. Brother Will came and looked over Amy’s shoulder and knit his brow, as was his custom when in a puzzle. At last, turning back the machine, he glanced over the works, and said, “Do you oil it here, Amy ?"’ “Why, no, I never thought of that,” A drop of oll was supplied, and in another minute the slender needle was flying through the work like a fairy, It was easy now to turn the wheel That drop of oil on a dry spot in the machinery made all right. There are many other places where a drop of oil works just as great wonders. For cold mormings, when tempers are apt to get frosted as well as toes and fingers tips, there is no magic like a few sweet, cheery words, So when one is angry and ready to do or say rash things, just give them a “‘soft answer,’ and you can see how it can cheer and brighten the way for yourself and all bout Mou. : Questions and Answers, SATAN, —The word in Hebrew means enemy. Milton, in “Paradise Lost,” HAYS To whom the Arch enemy, And hence in heaven called Satan WALSTEIN,—Rubezahl is the Fairy Puck of Germany. He aids the poor, guides the benighted, and succors the oppressed, but has no mercy on the proud and wicked, Pronounced Riu-be- zawl, LEARY. Diana of Poicters, Duchess Oy April 22, 1566, Ninon de L’'Encios died Octeber 17, 1706, at the age of ninety years and five months, At Strasburg hundreds of folk began To dance and leap, both maid and man In open market, lane and street, They skipped along, nor cared to eat, Until their plague had ceased to fright us; Twas called the dance of holy Vitus A ‘dancing mania’ once widely pre- vailed in Germany and the low countries, It was called after Saint Vitus, because of the supposed power of that saint over nervous and hysterical affections. Fresn WATER. —Salt junk is a nick- name for beef used on board ship, Junk is the bull-rush of which ropes were formerly made, and salt junk means beef that is hard, ropy and salt. color in such handkerchiefs, ete, color In new goods, as stockings, and to prevent fancy hose from coming on the feet? 1 have tried a number o } ¥ articles that have been re Have never found i pe mesa ie Sian would answer purpose,’ ommended to them for in water, Lo every repare the ox-gall I'o P in a bottle, put in a hand ved, Keep « olored # ful of salt, and keep it closely cord 11 A tea upful of water will goods from fading. M. Will 8 1. you be kind drunkenness 7 Please state the quantity and the time to be taken ?'’ of grains ; Brains | peppermint iron, five magnesia, ten walter, drachms ; spirit of nutmeg, one drachm., Take a tablespoonful in water, drink has sulsided., This preparation and of the accustomed liquor, and prevents that absolutely and a stimulant, thus partially supplies the place acts as a tonic physical and moral prostra- tion which follows a sudden breaking off from the use of intoxicating drinks “Please tell me the ‘He kn which side the bread is battered 7° CURIoUs KATE. ~ origin of the expression, it would be impossi to tell of this proverb, which OCCurs in languages. In oe {TM} Ce} the “Dialogue, Haywood, published in 1546, is this wy {ence i know on which side bread is buttered ;' and Cowly's in “Computations of Myles Hoggard,’ nt side the sentiment occ know buttered.’ urs his shape not on which bread is your been answered in this column. AssAM, “Who ‘Rudra’ mens tioned in a recent account of travels in the Orient ¥' He was father of the tempest gods. The word means “run about erying,’’ and the legend says that the boy ran around weeping be- cause had name ; whereupon Brahama said, “Let thy name be Rud- dra.” was the he no The following, is said, to have been copied literally froman old tombstone in Scotland : Here lies the body of Alexander Macpher- son, Who was a very extraordinary person, Who was two yards high in his stocking feet, And kept his accoutrements clean and neat. He was slow At the battle of Waterloo Plump through The gullet ; it went in at his throat, And came out at the back of his coat ** Nepenthe.' This word, which is so often used by poets, is the name of a plant, which, in torrid regions, supplies the travelers with a refreshing beverage. It has an urn or pitcher at the extremity of its leaves, generality filled with pure and lipid water. This is coverad with a lid when full ; but the water dimin- ishes during the day, and increases in quantity during the night. *‘Nepenthe”’ is also the name of a plant which th ancients put into wine to drive dull care away, when the wine itself could not. - gw The Fair Sex. an A The governor of Wyoming has given more testimony in favor of women suf frage as practiced in that territory. He says that it has had a beneficial ef- fect upon the polities and upon the government of the territory ; that the women take an interest in the election, and that “a smaller percentage of women than of men stay away from the polls ; they are less persistent office sockers than the men, but when elected to office, they have in every case done their duty satisfactorily ; they are ac- corded entire liberty eof action--fre- quently a wife votes in opposition to her husband, and it has even happened that wives have worked and voted for one ticket, when their husbands were candidates on the other.” A very good reason has been assigned for the inferiority of female labor, even in industries where bodily strength is not required, Girls learn 4 trade not as a life's business, but as a means of They are ever hoping that some day they may marry, and, after marriage, they will require to work at their trade no more, This has an evil influence on their suc- cess, A man, on the other hand, hav- ing chosen a trade or profession, knows that his position in life depends on his proficiency, and that he has nothing else to fall back upon. Hence, if he is only spurred on by the ambition which every man ought to possess, he will almost certainly competitor, Poor Girrs.—The poorest girls in the world are those who never been taught to work. There are thou- sands of them. {ich parents have pet- ted them ; they have been taught to despise labor, and depend surpass his female have to upon others for aliving, and are perfectly help- | If their | friends their The | most folorn and on less, misfortune comes upon Case 1s hopeless, miserable women | earth belong to this class, It to parents to protect their daughters They § i from this deplorable condition. do them a great wrong if they neglect t. Every daughter should be taught to # living, The rich All ws the x traming. well § | Th require Lis wheel fortune rolls swiftly | around ; the rich are very likely to TE TT, iil the 1 y 50 il t He poor, ana Lhe poor nici, MRI LO | labor is no disadvantage to the rieh, and is indispensabl . brads wite Tail not OOO PATenLs, Lalli DOR daughters to work more an thi “rath gives an interview wilh New | York, who expressed some pretty strong effect of in large cities onthe health “Speaking to | one of the best known physicians in this i : ; | of the prominent physicians of | opinions regarding the the social usages of women. Gath says of women’s diseases, “The tendency of large cities, and ! city, especially yesterday, he said i education { ticularly | girls for motherhood. in our par- in New York, is to destroy the They very are wndsome to the eve as they are growing | up, have blooming skin, fine eyes and hair, delicate and generally small fea- tures: | wut so little care is taken about | exercise and regular habits with them, | that the moment they marry, they de- { velop functional diseases, which make | them miserable as wives and companions, | their children are scrawny wretched Is this and ited # : ¥ 4 $4 15 » ile things, not Ot 10 uve. not partially due to climatic conditions?’ : * 3 4% ¢ 13 154 t 3 It is due things, cliinaie in- to many tl cluded-—-t0 vicious dressing, to wearing | shoes that do not permit of exercise, 10 I ate hou a general There, 1 represenative rs and parties and if health, a | neglect of t laws « hue | can put my hand on case, I know a citizen here who lives in a good house, makes $7000 or $8000 | per year, and has brought up a pretty | daughter, She was taken into society very young, and by the time she got to be eighteen she fell in with a young bank clerk, and the Was a marriage, He was earning perhaps $2000 or $2500 a year, and could not keep house in New York ; so he went up to Harlem. Con- sequently, he spends a part of every day and evening on these elevated railroads, riding up and down, and has grown haggard and discouraged. His wife, meantime, dissatisfied that she cannot keep house in New York as when she lived at her father’s, is complaining and unhappy. She has been sick ever since the birth of her only child, which is a little sickly, miserable object, not fit to be brought into the world. Large, strong, numerous children such as we used to sce, are no longer raised in the cities, result cs AA ——— An Honest Boy. | were standing to spell. In the lesson there was a very hard word, I put the word to the scholar at the head and he missed it; I passed it to the next and the next, and so on through the whole class, till it came to the last scholar-—the smallest of the class and he spelled it right, ut least 1 under stood him so, and he went to the head, above seventeen boys and girls, all older than himself. I then turned round and wrote the word on the blackboard so that all might see how it was spelled, had I written it than the little boy at the head cried out: “Oh, I didn’t say it so, Miss Wilson; I said ¢ instead of i. : And he went back to the foot of — The Progress of Invention. One hundred years ago when. thread numbered 150 by the standard set up by spinners, which was considered they utmost degree of fineness possible by English . spinners, a pound of cotton spun to such fineness would give & thread seventy-four miles in length sufficient to reach from Boston to Cone cord, N. HH. The machinery of to-day spins for useful purposes thread num- bered 600-—from one pound, a thread one hundred and ninety-five miles in length. And machinery has been con- structed so delicate that a pound of cotton has given a thread reaching 1,061 miles farther than from Boston to The weaver of my boyhood could throw the shuttle perhaps twenty- five times a minute, but not at that rate during the day-—-human muscle would break down under such rapid action. In 1850 Compton’s loom threw the shuttle fifty times a minute, whereas 50 great has been the advance of in- vention that the loom of to-day is con- sidered a slow-moving mechanism if the shuttle does not fly two hundred and forty times a minute! ‘No man can take as a gift to-day a cotton manu- factory equipped with the machinery of 1860. °° Chicago. was remarked by the late super. Amoskeag Mills, “We breaking up the machinery of the intendent of the are of those days for old iron.” In some departments of cotion manu- facture, a man with the present ma- do eight times the amount in 1860, In cloth, an he could do CORI with WAT. d so fruitful the work he could accomplish thirteen machines before the There never was a peri in 30 fertile nvention, as the The Passion for Collecting. When the late Sir Henry Holland was a very old man he regretted that in early life he had not taken to collecting, and he touched off its advantages in a few The interest he sald, “ix one which augments with its gratifi- cation, is never exhausted by completion, and often survives when the more tumultuous business of enjoyvments of life have passed away.’* In short he placed collecting where our fathers used to place whist, The young man who does not collect will be miserable when he is old. The inexhaustibility of the object adds immensely to the advantages of collecting. When Heber had all, or nearly all, the rare books he knew of, he The print sollector, in the same way, begins with He thinks he can a complete set of some mas- pernaps, and succeeds pretty well evil i] say a hour he comes upon a proof: must First states ist be first states. As his eye grows in knowledge he perceives neal sentences, began to gather duplicates, ordinary impressions, get together er, an shall Or we all be are rare, but all m that no alike, for i two are exactly is good this feature, another is good for Against the particular collector : but universal collecting has a serious drawback. It seldom approaches completion in any one branch, The omniverous collector is, as a rule, too easily pleased. It is impossible that he should be an equally good judge of all the things he buys- ivories, bronzes, embroideries, Elzevirs, pictures, scarabs, gems, porcelains coins, etchingsand soon. A grain of special knowledge will be more useful than a catholic appreciation of the beautiful in every form. Impressions and that while one that may be set the universal In pursuance of our purpose to give weeklya short chapter on the pronuncia- Honor rather the mispronunciation— of common English words, we beg to premise that all polysyllibic words have at least one accented syllable. Continu- ing our illustrative examples alphabeti- cally, we give to-day : Al-lip<a-thy, not al-lo-pathy. Al-pik’-a, not al-lapik’-a. il'«ter-kate, not awl -ter-kate, A-mé-na-ble, not a-men’<a-ble. Amour—a-moor, not am'-more not fA-mbor. Ant«iirk tik, not aut-ar ik. An-tespe-nult’, not an-te-pé=uuit. A'-pex, not fip-ex. Ap-pa-rit tus, not ap-pa-rat -us. Amabic<ir-a-bik, not a-sdb’-ik not ar -a-bik. Archangel-irk-in’-gel, not drchin's gel. Archipelago drch-i-pel ago. Archi tect—dir-ki-tect, notiir-chi-tect, Archives--ar-kivez, not @r-chives nor ir'-kiver, : Arctic.dirk «tik, not ar'tik, Arid-—dir-id, not d'-rid, Auction-—awk shun, not 5k’shun. Ay or aye, meaning yes—an affirm. ative vote—are pronounced ii, not i nor & Aye, meaning forever, or always ark-i-pel -a-go, not (chiefly used in poetry), is pronounced i,
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