FOR SOMEBODY'S SAKE, As o'er life's mountains and vales Our pilgrimage journey we take, We aad to our trouble and care, And heavier burdens we bear, For somebody's sake, Though deeply we're wounded by grief, Though the heart may continue to ache, Our sorrows we keep out of sight, And our faces are smiling and bright, For somebody's sake. We labor and toil all the day, And many a sacrifice make, And a’ night may be weary and worn With the trials we've cheerfully borne, For somebed y's sake, Though humble our dwelling may be, Though stmple the food we partake, Our happiness may be assured, And poverty's ills be endured, For somebody's sake. What wondrous tasks we achieve ! What wonderful deeds undertake ! And how sweet is the victory won, What all we've accomplished was done For somebody's sake, The struggle that's only for self No joy among acgels may wake, But the brightest of crowns will be given To those who have suffered and striven For somebody's sake. ICHAROD TURNER'S MISSION, “Crooked! Crooked! Crooked?” rang out the sharp, peculiar, dissonant voice, and the tall, thin figure in seedy gar- ments and flapping hat swayed to and fro on the stump that had been selected for a rostrum. *‘*All things have gone crooked in this world, and 1've come to set em straight—to undo the snarls, give the power where it belongs and put men in their places. Oh—h—h my friends! The world is topsy-turvy; the top’s at the bottom and the bottom’s at the top. and I've come to {turn things right end up The six o'clock whistle had sounded the close of another day’s work at the shops, and the men, pouring out from the various smoke-stained archways, paused to listen. The speaker’s excite- ment seemed to deepen as his audience increased. The keen eyes under the old hat darted lightning-like glances here and there; he gesticulated wildly and his voice rose to a still higher pitch, “Oh—h— yes! Look at me! I'm Jehabod Turner; aud the mission I'm «il grookedness and “ sent) on is to menu i tum things right eend up! 4 The men seemed to finda grim }. a8- ure in the harangue. They laughed as they exchanged comments Jim Barclay sauntering down the long walk, stopped beside a bright young girl who had paused for a mo- ment on the outer edge of the crowd. “If that fellow would begin his work by altering the days and nights a littie, or my means of enjoying them, I'd be obliged to him,’’ he laughed. The girl turned with a little start of surprise and pleasure, “Why, Jim!” Then a glance at his lunch-basket brought the swilt ques- tion: “You're not going out to-night? It’s not your run.” “I must make it though, they saw It’s an extra train, and they are short of men, somehow—off or disabled. I feel considerably disabled myself.” “You were out at last night?” ‘And all the night before and nearly all yesterday. I did'nt get in to-day until afternoon, and I was scarcely set- tled into a comfortable sleep before I was called. I'm not fit to go, thai» 4 fact. Don't wiry, Dell.” +» HG proke off Lils sentendd abruptly as he saw the shadow of anxiety on his companion’s fair face. “It doesn’t happen so often. They're short, you a 1 oe “It oughtn’t to happen at all,” jusist- ed Dell, indignantly. *‘I wouldn't go.” “Then my head would come off at short notice,” laughed Jim. “We can’t afford that.” Pretty Dell flushed rosily. She knew so well what that meant. There was a little house talked over and arranged to every detail of its simple furnishing, for which they two were planning when Jim should obtain his hoped-for promo- tion. **No, I won't insure any necks to-night, but I'll take the risk of crush. ing a few other people's heads rather than the certainty of losing my own,” laughed Jim. *“It’sa pity that fellow who is so sure of his mission couldn’t turn my brains right side up; they feel crooked enough. But don’t worry, Dell,” he repeated hurriedly. The crowd began to thin. Hungry men, swinging their empty dinner-pails, presently found the prospect of supper more alluring than the stranner’s prom. ised millennium, Jim looked at his watch, and found he had not even five minutes to spare for a part of the home- ward walk with Dell. He parted from her with a reluctant good-bye, and she walked away alone, She had gone but a few steps, however, when she turned and looked back, “You'll be careful, Jim? Don’t let anything happen.” “Why, Dell!” He touchea, half wondering, to have talked such nonsence. be uneasy.” _ She smiled in answer, and the cloud slowly faded from her face as she walked on. Jim had some need of help as the evening wore on, though he but dimly realized it, Getting everything in readi- ness for starting was harder work than usual, There was a doll pain in his eyes and a throbbing in his teruples, “This trip's rather rough on you, Jim?" remarked a fireman, half ques- tioningly, half commiseratingly. laughed, half “I ought’nt Don’t “Rather!” Jim laughed faintly. “I'm stiff and used up, but I'll get over it when we're fairly off, I expect.” When the station with its dim and dancing lights was left behind, how- ever, and the long lines stretched away straight before him, his occupation be- came but a mere routine so treacher- ously familiar that it fwould scarcely hold his eyes or thoughts. Mechanic- ally he attended to his engine, with hig mind straying far away from it to Dell, and then running oddly into a confused memory of the speaker at the depot, until the swift movement of the polish ed rods before him seemed the motion of gesticulating arms, and the sound in his ears resolved itself into a measured monotonous [repetition of meaningless words—**Crooked and straight! Right side up!” “‘Hello! Caught myself napping, I do believe! Jim Barclay, what are you about? See here, BBill”—to his fireman —“*just keep an eye on me, will you?” The young engineer shook himself, looked about him and stood stiffly erect. He whistled a tune vigorously to assure himself that he was wide awake. What a drowsy rockaby motion the train hadl Even the jar and rattle seemed to lull and stupefy, though he stood erect at his post, He was glad this sort of work was nearly over. At least he hoped it was nearly over, for he did not see how the desired promotion could be much longer delayed, and then such calls as this would be fewer. Ie was looking anxiously forward to the day when he would carry the longed-for tidings to Dell. Dear little girl, how her face would brighten! What a cosy, happy home she could make! and she said the curtains wouldn't cost anything, and the porch to in. Lights? Queer where the lights came from, unless--why, almost to a station, of course. Dell must have put a bright light in the window, Alas! Bill had climbed back over the tender to look at a suspected hot-box on the after truck. Shriek after shriek of warning from a steam whistle aided the flashing of the signal lights and, at last, forced their meaning benumped brain. With a low cry of horror the engine was reversed, but too late to avert the crash on rest yes, upon the that followed as the two freight trains w. re piled upon each other in common wreck. “What possessed you to run on in that fashion, man? 3 Were you drunk or crazy?’ demanded gaege than one rough voice as Jim stood by the track. But he only gazed with blancheq face at the and answered them nothing, Ee 3 - ~UNAceLy seemed—no one almost was seriously inju- red,”” as the morning papers said miraculously, it in chronicling the occurence, ame glaring head-l ed the promptness tye “ $ vy 4 eb ly - # - dismrssing *‘the engineer Under the nes they commend- of the company in whose crimi- nal carelessness caused the disaster, and who, as nearly as could be learned, was comfortably sleeping neglectful of all signals!” These were the tidings that reached Dell instead of the glad word for which she had waited. “What they say is true, jon,” said Jim simply and sadly, ‘I was to blame for it—and yet I wasn't, for I was not fit to make the run,and I told them so." There was no one to chronicle his years of faithful service, or the nal carelessness,” if not cruelty, which had placed him in such a position; but these thiugs were well understood among the many workers in that rail- road town, and they acknowledged to each other, with each other, with ready but helpless sympathy, that it “rough on poor Jim,” Rough it surely grew as the long days came and went, and the hope of rein statement grew dimmer. “All those missing men, who couldn be found when 1 needed a single nights rest, seemed to have turned up once more, and they can spare me indefinitely,” he explained to Dell, with a pretense of jocularity that scarcely covered the bit- terness, The brave little woman tried to comfort and encourage him, though the dancing light had gone out of her brown eyes, and new grave lines were deepening about the young lips. The little house they had planned seemed so like the shadowy ghost of a dead hope that neither cared to talk of it any more, and indeed Dell's ingenuity found full occupation now in combat. ing the various wild schemes which Jim in his desperation was constantly forming. He had been away to look for employment, but business was dull everywhere at this season; and more- over, grown up in that railroad town, where all interest and industry centered in the shops and tracks, he had belonged to the line from boyhood; he could do but the one thing, and there was littie chance for a situation elsewhere while the shadow of the great corporation’s disapproval seemed to follow him in all his efforts like a blighting frost. So the bright autumn leaves dropped from the trees, leaving only brown and barren branches; the soft haze faded from the hiils; and the narrow iron track, stretching away over the frozen earth toward the cold gray sky, looked to Dell’s sorrowful eyes a fitting emblem of the dreary life-road that lay before him, “I'm going away tomorrow,” Jim was saying, as they passed slowly over at his post, and so after a fash- was the bridge and down toward the town. “I've shown idiocy enough in waiting here for any chance of justice, I mean to go as far west as I can make my way, and I'll come back when I've some good word to bring—if that time ever comes.” It was useless to combat his purpose: there was nothing better to offer. The girl’s wistful gaze strayed with a dreary persistency to the track again, What a hard, narrow road it, was, stretching on to its cheerless goal—the far away win- try horizon, Down on the walk by the round- house a knot of loungers liad gathered, Ichabod Turner's wanderings had brought him thither again—the place seemed to hold some peculiar fascina- tion for him-—and he was discoursing on his favorite theme, Suddenly a movement [and murmur of excitement ran through the crowd, and its numbers were speedily augmented from various quarters of the building. Swiftly and unexpectedly the speaker had turned, and with a single bound placed himself in the cab of a locomotive that had for a moment been left untenanted. “It, steamed up!” “Off! off! “Come out of that!” shouted several voices. But Ichabod laughed hoarsely and waved his long arms triumphautly above his head. “I'm the only man on this continent that can run an engine! I'm ordered to take this one and go and turn the world right side up! Harrah!” Two or three persons rushed forward, but he caught uplan iron bar and wield- ed it so vigorously that they were com- pelled to fall back. Then like a flash, his hand seized the throttle-lever, and the dangerous steed he had chosen be- gan to show sigus of life, ““Pull him off!” “Block the wheels!" rang out in conflicting orders, But the madman laughed again, his wild eyes gleaming like fire; and shook his bar in threatening and defiance. “Touch me if you dare! I'm sent to set the crooked straight, Here comes the millenium! Clear the track for the millenium!” And he was off, Swiltly as an arrow some one darted through the crowd, ran along the track vnd leaped on the engine, clinging, no one knew quite how, as it moved away. Dell found herself snddenly deserted, and could only move forward with the others who were following with eyes of mingled admiration horror the athletic young clinging and swinging and as the speed increased, until it (nally forced gs way into cab. “What a terror to be let loose on the road! Who can tell what he will run into before he can by Sopped!” exclaim. and tl fis HEung . the ad ne with white tace, tC JimjBarciay “Jim 11 manage him il be killed!” answered dissent ing voices, the tes “ Hy con- Jim's unexpected appearance in had momentar t $ ’ o 11 1 3 fused its occupant, who, until then, had cab, meanwhile, not been aware of his presence, “Where did you coms from?" be de- manded in surprise, “Flew down,” panted Jup; * But what on mean by trying to start in open daylight?” “Daylight?” r wildered by an e ance as fleece as | “Don’t you know we must wait until the stars fall begin to fall? we must back and telegraph to all the world to clear the track for us.” He was improving his companion’s momentary confusion by gently edging into bis place and crowding him back, while he urged the superior advantages of his own plan of proceeding. *All the details of that brief, horrible ride Jim could never clearly recall, but, with the engine once in his own hands, he held possession, and as soon a8 il Was possi- ble reversed it, endeavoring the while the others attention by a stream of explanations concerning their joint mission. The suggestions of clear- ing the track seemed to suit fchabod's crazed brain, and seizing the cord pear him he clung to it so persistently that the shrieking, deafening, steam-whis. tle drowned out all further efforts at conversation, and never ceased its ter- rific din until they rolled back into the great yard. Officers, police and train dispatchers had been hastily notified, only to find themselves helpless in the matter, aml a line of acxious spectators watched the engine's return. Then, discovering for the first time that his project was foiled, or bent upon some new scheme- ne one could ever tell which—~Ichabod suddenly dropped the cord, and, before his companion could surmise his intention, leaped to the track. A moment later he was drawn from under the cruel wheels and ten- derly lifted. “S80 endeth—the first lesson,’ he mur- mured, and then all earthly tangles for him were over, and life’s rough places grew smooth and plain, Jim was greeted with congratula. tions, praises and questions on evry side. “That was a brave deed of yonrs, sir, —a dangerous undertaking, very skill. tully planned and executed.” declared an officer of the road, with a congratu- latory shake of the hand. ‘‘It far more than cancels that little misfortune of yours last fall, There is no telling where this might have ended but for you. Call around at the office in the morning, will you? We shall have something to say to you,” ‘sent to u tars is " mikenium help you. earth do y¢ the epeated Ichabod, be- arnestness and assur. 18 own. Jesides, to distract “What does that mean?” questioned eager Dell, as Jim made his way to her side. “It means that everything 1s all right again,” answered Jim, with an odd smile about his lips, ‘Queer how soon a bit of success can change a great crime into gmerely ‘a little misfortune. The excitement was over, and the yard settled back to ordinary routine, but the young engineer and pretty Del] lingered for a last pitying, tender glance at the still form reverently covered “For whatever he might have been to the rest of the world, dear Jim, for us he fulfilled his mission,” said the girl softly. prophet, or any other way, the fig tree is the most easily propagated of any other fruit tree, The cultivation of the fig has been greatly neglected in Southern California. The tree grows from the cutting, and bears oftentimes the first season after planting, and gen- erally bears every year, It grows with great rapidity and becomes a large tree in four years, and free from all disease or insects, Thefruit is very healthful as a human food as well as for chickens, It is also very valuable for fattening hogs, which are very fond of this kind of fruit. The fig of commerce, originally call- ed the Swyrna fig, is one of the most delicious fruits of the orchard. Thus is a yellowish fruit, bronzed on the sunny side and very much elongated. It is far sweeter than the common Mission or purple fig, the brown Ischia, or white fig, and should be planted by tens of thousands all over our country. There are but few of this kind in the country but they can be multiplied rapidly by cuttiugs, so that in a few years the country could be supplied with this de- licious fruit. In the absence of the Smyrna fig, the white fig, so called, which is a greenish lemon-colored fruit, can be used with great profit. It can be made inte spiced pickles, which are very fine and command a strong price, even more than cucumbers. It is a good table fruit especially valuable for children, fattens hogs rapidly, or as canned fruit is very excellent. The white fig of Los Ange- been canned in our city and sent to New York, London, Liverpool and Paris, where it has been considered ies has one of the most delicious of all prepared Orders have been received in this city for allthat could be produced, have not been informed of the fact and have not been prepared to raise them. Tom ail the Inform le to gavher, the fruits isput up | icols or pears, delicious and ation we have tf Up, d tr: wilt in white ¢ » i ing. uscinat The oper ation is sifliple and not expen- | sive, and the profits very If our manufacturers of will give more facilities to information | bi satisfactory. canned goods | will about their business it the very much to ir advantage. raised more easily and rapidly than any other fruit, and if there is money in them our farmers want to know it and produce arc needed. Hereto- | fore they did not seem *‘to care a fig’ for the business, now they have all that seria their ard anions O TeVIEe Oeil OpRINoUS, cAI A mn A Blunder in Dinner-Giving. The same generous impulse that creates the dinner-giver often causes him to blunder in the manner of i's dinner-giving. Expense, of course. is something that must be expected and can’t be avoided; yet where this is un- necessanly lavished upon an over-pro- fusion of dishes, the policy is not to be commended: and this is true Whether the party be a large or small one. It is all very proper for the host to have a well-marked sufliciency, for to have broadly insult those whom he has invited to his table, Bat to follow up course after course, each one more attractive than its predeces- sor. and all too tempting to be resisted, is not the plan to be adopted if he de- sires to reach the reputation of a suc- cessful dinner-giver, And the reason is plain. A guest may owe his presen- ce, not to any particular friendship the host may have for him, but to a certain qualification he may possess —wit, per- haps, or general nonversaltional powers, or other attribute fitting him for such an occasion. Now these may be entire- ly upset by over-induigence either in eating or drinking, or, at least, they may be so clogged and smothered un- der the load as to show nothing deserv- ing the inviation they had caused their possessor to obtain, It may be said that diners should know when to stop, uuless they are beasts and not men, There may be force in this proposition, yet one may be lured beyond the bounds of prudence by a multiplicity of dishes so tempting in their excellence as to be irresistible, and yet be a man and not a beast, either. A skillful cook can make a man hungry and keep him so until he has swallowed his last mouthful, and then tantalize him with eagerness and yet have no further capacity to accom- modate, The dinner-giver, if ho be a wise one, will look to this, especially if brillianey in his guests be an object with him. The corking process answers well enough in preserving the life and less would be to Domestic Training for Girls. A young child’s perceptions are clear, active and lasting, and the impressions of childhood and youth often remain till the last moments of life. The three great foundations upon which the superstructure of training should be built are truthfulness, obedience and punctuality; and, strange to say, with- out these even cookery will bea failure, Weights and measures must be true, no weights and measures of “‘guess- work,” and to questions connected with cookery, if the replies be not true, no reliance can be placed on a person’s conduct if unwatched, and there is no honest principle, These three virtues a child should be taught simuitaneously, not in the way of teaching a lesson, but in the love and watchfulness, care and example of the mother. Before the child can Shenk it can intuitively discern truth in the actions of thoseabout it, and later on with a deeper impression, such as if a thing promised is withheld, or an act for- bidden is yet permitted to be done. So lit tle by little here and there,a child’s char- acter is bullt for evil or good. Domes tic training cannot begin too early. The wee things can be taught to play in setting a store cupboard in order, to unpack stores, to take care of twine, of paper and nails, to have a place for everything, and to understand (in play) that if there is not a place just made for everything, things cannot be put away properly, If this instruction grows with their growth—and it is sare to do so by habit—how much comfort in a home there will be when the little one is a woman! The regular routine of a mother’s work in the kitchen after breakfast should be shared by the child, and the instructions given to a young servant will not be for her ears alone, the child will share it, It won't understand much at first, neither will the servant, but by reiteration, repeating this and that over again, knowledge enters the brain, however young and inexperi- enced. It is also good to let a child have ber own brushes and dusters, and be taught (as play) to keep her own bedroom clean, or a certain part of a A mother’s watchful eye will pach her child to have corners clean before the middle of the room is swept, A proper method of dusting should be observed, The room should not be swept with the windows and doors open, but shut, and for reason that the dust in sweeping would, with windows open, fty out of the door to the passage or on to the furniture, which, however, should first have had cotten wrappers put on; but if the door and windows be shut, and after sweeping the rooms the dust be left to settle for ten minutes still with closed doors and windows the dusting process can then be through by first wiping off the or ~~ the dust one rad + user 0 carefully, shaking the d t of the : OVer the process again. The dust will not another, but will have been removed And, last of all, the with the clean surface inside, and put in their place. All this may bedone the way of “helping mother,” 41 Children soon tire of toys; there is no and whatever grown persons think of the wee ones, they are their own conceit little men and women and like to disport them- selves accordingly. They like to and to be thought import may in be of 42 TL MIWA, Monday mornings always bring the laundress, and the clean things need overlooking as to want of buttons, tapes and mending fractures in wash. A child may be brought to find amusement in the work, and in due time to become a real help. The mis- take that mothers make is, they don’t want to be troubled with a child while their work is in progress. Of course ths child's bLelp is none, but offen- tines a hicdrance, yet the proba- ble future should never be forgotten, for only in this way can a child be property taught domestic work, and, indeed, be kept out of mischief, which is merely improperly directed energy. the Rule: for the Journey of Life, Never ridicule sacred things or what others may esteem as such, however absurd they may appear to you. Never show levity when people are engaged in worship. Never resent a supposed Injury till sou know the view and motives of the author of it, and on no occasion relate it, Always take the part of an absent person, who is censured in company, so far as truth and propriety will allow. Never to think worse of another on account of his diffenng from you in political and religious subjects. Not to dispute with a man who is more than seventy years of age, nor with a woman, nor with any sort of an enthusiast, Not to affect to be witty, or to jest so as to hurt the feelings of another. To say as little as possible of your- self and those who are near to you. To aim at cheerfulness without levity. Never to court the favor of the rich by flattering their vanities or their riches, To speak with calmness and delibera- tion on all occasions, especially of cir- cumstances which tend to irritate, Frequently to review your conduct and note your feelings. Baron Mueller asserts that palm trees reach the extreme southern limit in New Zealand, where a noble species extends as far as forty-four south Iatitude, ‘Lhe most son Ame rican members of the same tribe— Kentia in La Platte, in latitude thirty-four degrees, Tun shoots of the season's growth should be cut from the grape goosherry und curssnt butbeany (fe the 1st of November to the middle of December, An anti-Mormon movement has exuberance of wit, been started in YOO YOR THOUGHT. Content is a communicable virtue, If your path is smooth—watch and pray. A foe of God was never friend to man. The fire of vanity is fed by the fuel of flattery. Reason should not regulate, but sup- plement virtue. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so. Real glory springs from conquest of ourselves, Money and contentment do not al- ways go hand in hand, Oh, that we had spent one day in this world thoroughly well, Tet us first search afterwards the world. True love i8 always firm. and true firmness is always love, Patience is the endurance of any evil through the love of God. He hath riches sufficient who hath enough to be charitable, The man who pauses on his honesty, wants little of the villain! How immense appear to us that we have not committed. Envy’s memory is nothing but a row of hooks to hang grudges on. Any person may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it, Deg collars of velvet, and jet are again 1m high Where there is room in the heart, there is always room in the house. He who can his greater than he who can hide his griefs, the silent ourselves, and the sins silver, pearl vogue, conceal JOY8 18 11 Vualeis wr 4 banr & ts lone a * All habits gather Ly unseen degrees; brooks makes rivers, rivers run t SEAS, “us 0 : nade little beams tha bright s Lime, Oh. banish the Continuous rains upon the bl hurtful. How strange it is tha mistaking their small world, It to be under esteem. The sunshine of Ii very it Lilt up oi all ¥ % 1 ’ of children! ¥SSOINS are tears L peopie are ever circle for the is a species of agreeable servitude t aq obligation to those we Superstitions, are cobwebs low brains, They readies than not That woul | +2 Ju x isted only 1 ejudices shal- erm contin F Woven In devil and his imps, Ideas generale ideas; which, cut in pleces, rep in a multiplied form. It is no small fauil seem to; Lis a greater good, and not to be so, § vi Maay men are mere wareh of merchsndise—the heartan are stuffed with goods, An intelligent, sustaining faith can. not be snatched, 1 : Preserver, the moment of d We form our 13080 t judgment people sometimes from what they than what they do. n Te § Of intend, rather Alida laid We 1 ” weiner « meridian, but we are yel only a cock crowing and the morning star. think our « Whoever strikes hard must prepare or the rebounder. If we criticise, we f must not wince when we are criticised. Preiudices are most dificult to eradi- cate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education. A woman requires only to remember this to be always safe, namely, it is the first false step which leads to all future evils, N early always, in cases of needed re- proof, or even counsel, indirect meas- ures are more successful than direct Ones, Style is only the frame to hold our thoughts, It is like the sash of the window—a heavy sash will obscure the light. We should never make enemies, if for no other reason, because it 15 80 hard to behave toward them as We ought. A wise man ought to hope for the best, be prepared for the worst, and bear with equanimity whatever may happen. When one with a strong mind recog- nizes that he is approaching a crisis in life. there is an awe that calms and controls, 1f vou would do good to others, you must be good before others. No one can be a safe guide in a path he has not traveled. When loving hearts are separated, not the one which is exhaled to heaven, but the survivor it is who tastes the sting of death. The essence of every by-gone pain is, indeed, not so much memory as it is the prophecy which it holds within itself of a possible future like it. There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him. The advice of our friends must be attended to with a judicious reserve: we must not give ourselves up to it and blindly follow their determination, right or wrong. Affectation Ran any is 1 up a d Hg never fails to make us taken notice of, either as wanting sense or sincerity. Nature loves truth so well that it hardly ever ts of flourishing. Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but what it would improve, offences ought to be forgiven. It would be well, if persons studied not to give - offence, even unintentionally
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