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EVENING IN SEED. TIME,
Peaceful and cool, the twilight gray
Draws a dim curtain o'er the day,
While in my cottage-porch I lurk,
And watch the last lone hour of work.
The fields around are bathed in dew,
And, with emotion filled, I view
An old man, clothed in rags, who throws
The seed amid the channel’d rows,
His shadowy forgn is looming now
High o'er the farrows of the plough;
Each motion of his arm betrays
A boundless faith in future days,
He stalks along the ample plain,
Comes, goes, and flings abroad the grain;
Unnoted, through the dreamy haze
With meditative soul I gaze.
At last, the vapors of the night
Dilate to heav'n the old mah's height,
Till every gesture of his hand
Seems tomy eyes sublimely grand |
CAPTURING A DESPERADO.
In the far West, particularly in the
far Southwest, the newly-arrived settler
often finds that he has strange neigh-
bors—not only Indians, but white des-
peradoes, who are more to be feared
thar even Utes and Apaches,
Two voung friends of mine—good,
steadv, New-England-born voung men
— were so unfortunate as to buy land in
the vicinity of an especially ugly mem-
ber of this outlaw fraternity.
These young men had been brought
up to obey the law, and respect the pro-
perty and rights of their neighbors,
They could be brave enough in the de-
fense of any just cause, yet they dread-
ed and shrank from the use of deadly
weapons against a fellow-being, from a
keen sense of the sacredness of human
life, and the criminality involved in such
acts,
Such were Gilbert and Charles Small
Plain, farm-bred boys, they had, by
steady labor and economy, saved up a
capital of setenteen hundred dollars.
With this they had emigrated to Color-
ado and started a small stock-farm, fif-
teen miles from Alamosa.
By availing themselves of the Home-
stead act and the pre-emption law, they
secured a track of three hundred and
twenty acres of land, lying upon a
creek, with a range extending back over
the hills, which was not likely to be
taken up by other settlers,
. At a point a short distance below,
where a mining trail passed them, and
where they judged there would be in
time a railroad, they, built a farm house,
which they opened as a hotel, and in
which they also kept a stock of groceries,
For. like other enterprising young lm-
migrants, they had an ambition to found
a town and grow up with it.
Some elght or ten miles from them
lived a man named Peter Hergit, who
professedly worked a mine, but whose
place really was a kind of rendezvous
for renegade “cowboys,” and other des-
perate characters of the Jesse James
type. It was intimaten that several
daring train robberies had here been
planned, and also that **Clate Walker”
made it f his stopping-places.
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This Walker was a notorious gambler
and dead-shot. He was supposed to be
the leader of a band of train-robbers,
and was said to have killed not less than
ten men in various affrays. It was said,
too, that occasionally, when times be-
ame too monotonons because of the
lack of excitement, he would killa man
“for fun’ just to keep his hand in. He
bad a habit, also, of riding through
small towns and camps shooting promis-
uously at everybode he saw, to keep up
he terror of his name, a matter he
ears to have been va if,
It will seem well-nigh ineredible
people in the East it such a man
siiould be allowed to escape justice and
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run at large.
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‘ever, Il scores of owing,
bly to the circumstance that
or likes to attempt the arrest of
neradoes who generally carry
netimes three heavy revol-
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do next time, he kicked over the table
and smashed three or four chairs, by
way of leave-taking.
With such a customer on their hands,
it is little wonder that our two young
friends felt very ill at ease. Still, they
were bold men, and were determined
not to be bullied into keeping rum; so
they went about their business as usual,
Nothing further was seen of Walker
for a fortnight, when he again appeared
early one morning when Charles was
getting breakfast. Gilbert having gone
out to look after the cattle. The first
hint that Charles had of his visitor was
another volley of shots into their sign-
board,
This time Clate had shot the second
letter to pieces. It was apparently his
way of knocking. Immediately he kick-
ed the door open as before,
Under the circumstances it is not very
strange that Charles stepped out of a
back door at about this time, and went
behind the corral, from whence he
heard Walker firing repeatedly, and
making a great smashing noise.
When at length the desperado had
taken his departure it was found that
he had made a complete wreck of the
crockery and furniture; and in the
grocery-room he helped himself to to-
bacco, and emptied his revolver at the
kerosene barrel, which, tapped in half a
dozen places, was daluging the floor.
1 shall not undertake to say what the
duty of my young friends was—whether
they should have resisted outrage and
defended their property at the risk of
lives, or moved away from so dangerous
a neighbor, What they did was to get
out of sight whenever they saw Walker
coming, and let him do his worst.
It chanced that after a time a second
cousin of my young friends came West
to see them. His name was Gerald For-
ney, and he was then a student at the
military academy at West Point. I am
not sure, however, but he had just grad-
uated, though that does not matter.
He dropped in upon the Small brothers
quite unexpectedly one afternoon, and
it is needless to say that they were glad
to see him, and that they passed a very
pleasant evening, Nothing was said
about Walker, for Gilbert and Charles,
having an honest pride in their ranch,
were loth to let Lieutenant Forney know
how badly they were off in respect to
neighbors,
The desperado happened to come
along, however, the very next morning.
Charles and Gerald were sitting in the
dining-room, when Gilbert, who had
seen the gambler co up road
suddenly rushed in.
“Oud Clate Walker's
laimed,
‘harles leaped
oung West Pointer rose
“Who the dickens
Walker?" he asked.
*“*A regular border terror! A desperi-
do! A ‘killer! exclaimed Gilbert.
“He's likely to shoot any of us at sight!
Come on after us!”
“What! run out of
said Forney, surprised,
hold has this fellow on You?
““*No hold whatever, but he’s
shot and double-dyved murderer
Charles. ‘You don’t know hi
1 Come along with us and
Ald, HE F4
ming the
coming!" he ex.
“Put out at the back door!"
his feet, our
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his way?
“Not I!” exclaimed Forney—who
felt that his military reputation was at
stake, “Take your shot-gun and stand
ready in the Kitchen. ! !
see Mr, Walker!” an
his revolver from his
then stepped to the wine
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him a chair to sit on however, and there
he sat all day, watching the cadet and
Gilbert, and they him, while Charles
rode post-haste to Alamosa to swear out
a warrant for his arrest, and summon
the Sheriff and his posse to take him,
The officers, hearing that so danger-
ous a ruflian was really waiting their
disposal were not slow in responding to
Charles Small’s summons; and by three
o'clock that afternoon the young lLaeu-
tenant had the satisfaction of seeing the
‘border terror’’ taken into legal custody
and marched off to jail,
But, as is too often the case in the
far West, the prisoner was lynched in-
stead of being fairly tried and convict-
ed of his crimes. He was taken forcibly
from jail by a masked party from one of
the neighboring mining camps the third
mght after being lodged there, and
hanged without any form of trial to the
nearest tree,
PERS RNIN
Completely Sold,
One of the most daring practical jokes
aver played 1n a theatre was carried out
by Brougham at Burton's Theatre (first
the Metropolitan, afterwards Winter
Garden), in Broadway, opposite Broad
Street, New York. The genial John
Brougham announced on the bills a nsw
play by himself—a one-act after-piece
called **This House to be Sold.” All
the critics weie agog about it, The first
piece on the biill—*"*A Pretty Firm," a
three-act drama—they did not like and
had already condemned, but the one by
Brougham drew them,
At the time for the curtain to rise on
the after-plece there was a great com-
motion heard behind the scones—angry
voices and a great uproar, The curtain
was pushed aside, and Brougham,
flushed and excited, came before
1 audience, Said
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lemen, this Is one of
my i
think I may safely say,ap-
peared before you as a brawler or an
apologist, or as a person obliged to dodge
the my
find mysel
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ountrageousiy mai
“ladies and gen
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have never, |
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responsibilities of
and moreover, when |
tre d. abused, the viet
prehension and
sented Ly the management, I ki
will declare my cause is just
the dramatist 1 some rights
AS
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manager is bound 0 respect,
profes
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YW you
and that
that the
There
fore 1 leave my case in your hands, con-
fident that you will do me justice,”
He wasabout tobow out of the sight of |
the bewildered audience when Burton,
apparently a fury, rushed the
stage from theopposite side, B
Burton
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burst “Don’t
When this play was
writlen——it Is now a week or two since,
it was rehearsed, and we agreed-—but
no matter—it is now all prepared and
at last moment—Mr. Brougham
knows what I say is true.”
t is false I ieked Brougham.
“it
said Bur.
paused, out
Te
the
“Didn't 1 say yesterday"
Brougham.
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fishwomen, b
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it at all,
a respectable.
tleman who occupied a
ho had been restrained
Wi
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and wrangled like two
not a word u g
the audience make out
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ioe that
Put man out I»
ed Burton and Brougham to.
Sacred Yleptants,
One would imagine that the elephant
would be one of the animals least likely
to be deified, yet, as is well known, in
the religion of Buddha, this hideous
and unwieldy creature plays an impor-
tant part, India is always represented
as riding upon a three-headed elephant,
and the special veneration paid to white
elephants from an early period is beyond
dispute. When Gaudama entered the
womb of the Queen to be born for the
last time as Buddha the Saviour and
Legislator of mankind, it was in the
form of an elephant that he chose to do
50. In sculptured monuments Maya
(the Queen) is represented as lying
on the couch on the terrace of her
palace, while a white elephant is
brought down from heaven in royal
state, accompanied by music and dan-
cing; a canopy, or at least the royal
umbrella, being borne over him, There
i8 no doubt that, from the Christian era
at least, divine honors have been paid
by Buddhists to the® white elephant,
as the form in which Buddha chose to
become incarnate, and that the Siamese
and Burmese worship them up to the
present day,
The reason why a white elephant is
preferred to all others is that amoung
these people albinism, in whatever
Species of animals it may occur, far
from being considered a defect, is held
10 be a mark of the sovereignty of the
animal thus affected over its kind, and
therefore an elephant of this color is,
ipso facto, king of elephants, True al.
binoes are, however, exceedingly rare
title, being, although far from white,
yet quite an albino, of a pale, reddish
brown with really white hair; the iris
of the eye, which is held to be a good
test of an albino, was of a pale yellow,
A temporary shed had been erected
for the reception of the elephant, just
outside the palace grounds, where he
would be kept for about a couple of
months before being allowed within the
precinets of the palace, in order to be
cleansed of devils; he was fastened by a
rope round his hind leg to a white pole,
while the ‘‘Lord of the Elephants’’ su-
perintended the ~ perations.
Then in the pr sence of the King and
all the nobility, the solemn ceremony
of baptizing and naming the beast took
place, One of the high priests presented
him with a piece of sugar-cane, on
which his name was written in full,
and which he very readily ate, Then
on one of the pillars a red tablet was
hung, bearing the name written in gold
characters; and what a name it was!
**An elephant of beautiful color; hair,
nails and eyesare white. Perfection in
form, with all the signs of regularity of
the high family, The color of the skin
is that of lotus. A descendent of the
angel of the Brahmins, Acquired as
property by the power and glory of the
King for his service. Is equal to a
crystal ot the highest value, 1s one of
the highest family of elephants of all in
existence A source of power of at-
traction of rain. It as rare as the
purest crystal of the highest in
the world.” ;
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Every day the anfical was carefully
among elephants, and hence, perhaps, |
the extreme value set upon them; for |
the most part it 18 only by courtesy and i
in contrast with others of then
they can be called white, being |
lly—-like the one now exhibiting |
London—a reddi bro
olor, with bloteh
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Sin from
ciency of the epidermic
The possession of a
is reputed to bring Invariably good for- |
tune to his owner; and in Burmab it is
believed that, for the sake of
ligion and for the welfare of
a white elephant
n the King's
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washed with tamarind water and
brushed with hair-brushes, in order to
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BAY Agnler COIOT, is WAS
¥OOD YOR THOUGHT.
Envy Is a sickness growing from
other men’s happiness,
I fear God, and next to Him 1
him who fears Him not.
fear
Before condemning,
doning circumstance
gearch for con
Bay as little as
and those near
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the tossing sea of life
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enthusiast
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before it punis ies
Honor mukes a great ou f
ward of all honorable Ons,
Weakness of character the only
defect which cannot be amended,
Beest thou a man diliges
ness; he shall stand Yefore
One lie thatched
another, or it will soon rain throug?
There is more
fences than you |
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profes
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kings,
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in one of God’s sen.
ave d wversd vet,
If thou wouldst bear thy nelglibor's
faults, cast thine eyes upon thine own.
Old age has
own: do not add
of vice,
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and when the propitious day arrives on | hire one.’
which the sacred beast is to make Lis! ‘Well, in that eas ® said the Judge,
triumphal entry into the capital and | I'l 83peint an attorney to defend you.
take up his abode in the royal stables, | Mi. Brown, you may take the pris-
the whole city is in a state of excitement, | vher’s casa, aud do the best you can for
Mr, Carl Brock in his recent work or, | him.’
“Tewmples and Elephants’ gives a Je. The fisoner looked at Brown a mo-
scription of the reception of one of (hese | T0088, then at the Judge, and then at
regal aud sacred beasts. Brown again. Then he said slowly.
On the mwoming of the da~ Abpointed "Judge is this the man you appoint to
he tells us, palace offic Ff * I'defend me?’
: »i8, all excite XY a. wd} .
e were hurrying bo ps, sir; 1 take you
ment, were hurrying I char and thither ¥ ¥, 3) Mr. Brown will take your
on horseback wal on. Gaal ATTRA TG. ,
ments. Crowds of people oamn flocking
to the cergre of attraction, while
' paper. “They said there was a man- be be
¢ of the wondertully . eater, a regular anthropophagus, com-
shooting of some of | ing, and that they were going to hide
these frontiersmen, . ‘De, Writer remem. | soraewheres,”
bers seeing a “cow-bo, ¥, at Raton, New | Walker started.
Mexico, ride his horse a full gallop past ripped out, “If you ain't the freshest
a telegraph pole, to whic * Was pinned | Kid I’ve struck in ten years! Right fresh
the round white cover of a “aper collar. from the East, aren't ye, young fellow?"
box, and lodge four balls fron ™ iis Colt's “Yes,” said Forney, moving the pa~
pistol in this small mark while 'P8&ing. | per, “I'm from the East, ana I'm pretty
Afterwards he entertained us by ‘throw. fresh, I suppose. I'm & young fellow,
ing in the air, one after anot.'er, a but 1'm a pretty nice one.’
handful of pig-nvt and cracking each “Don wa. - of your lip!»
it fell we - 6 me any
as it fell w# : \ v Ju B1VE 4 ;
dia ** wi 8 single bullet. en ge | thundered Walker. *“Do you Know who
sure of aim,
As an examp.
rapid and accurate
There was great excitement in
the The ofiicers on duty went
to the box. While they went in at the
door, the old mah took off his wig and
got on the stage, helping his daughter
after him, The four joined hands and
bowed to the astounded audience, while
gether,
th
and indivi be the o1
criterion w
tinguishes right {
Knowledge gained experi
ence and used under the direction of
prudence, will give access to every cor-
ner of fortune’s warehouse,
Every person is responsible
the good within the scope of his abil
ties. and for no more, and none can tell
whose sphere is the largesi.
Seek not
YOUr own
has a feeling with
the
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the puzzied police looked out of the pri-
vale box,
“Ladies and genflemen,'’ said Broug-
ham, ““this old man I find to be an old
friend of mine—In fact, the old man of
the theatre—and this is our comedienne,
Miss Raymond. The play is ended,
This house has been completely sold,’
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world, but
man who
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to please @
conscience,
‘hen,’ said he slowly, ‘I'll jist plead
guilty and then be done with it.’
ivy
_ we same thing ugain, tossing the
ver round b¥ oof oer after every shot.
Finally throwing the nuts up more
plow’y he replaced: his pistol in its
sheath at his hip after every shot, draw-
ing it for each succeeding nut, and did
miss one out of six.
‘This shows the accuracy and quick-
ness of aim of many of these Jawless
fellows, and such a marksman was Clate
Walker; who added to this reputation,
moreover, the more murderous one of
being a “killer,” which in the phrase of
this section means a desperado who will
soot A man upon the least provocation.
Our two young stockmen had heard
of this border monster, but their first
actual acquaintance with him began the
week after putting out their sign of
small Bros,, Hotel and Grocery.”
Walter chanced to pass one morning,
and, seeing the new sign, reined in his
horse, and by the way of calling the at»
tention of the landlord to his arrival,
drew his revolver and opened fire on the
sign, shooting the first letter S to pieces,
Then dismounting, he kicked the door
open, and, walking in, demanded a
“cock-tail”
(rilhert, who chanced to be inside at
not
a0 bar connected with the house; for
true to their home principles, the young
wen bad determined to keep a **Tem-
perance house’ —a , greater anomaly in
the West than many may at first sup.
“A Temperance house!” shouted
Walker, and he vented his astonishment
and disgust in a burst of oaths and re-
vilings. *No one shall keep a hotel with
nothing to drink in it in these parts!”
he said, “If you don’t have liquor, and
good liquor, too, the next thoe I call, I
won't leave a whole dish or a whole bone
here!”
And. as a foretaste of what he would
am?"
! “How should 17" said Forney. It's
none of my business. 1'm only here on
a visit. I don’t care who you are.’
The bully flushed, stung by the care.
less contompt in Forney’s tone. ‘*Sup-
pose,’ he muttered, taking a step to-
ward the eounter, while a murderous
gleam crept into his eye, “suppose 1
were to tickie your Adam’s apple with
my dirk, what then?” :
‘“Then 1'd shoot you dead for the
scoundrelly hound you are!” exclaimed
the young cadet, suddenly presenting
his cocked revolver full in Walkers face,
“Move—stir a hand, and I'll shoot you
like a dog!”
*“The first man that ever got the ‘drop’
ou mel” gasped Walker; *‘‘and yon a
little whipper-snapper {rom the East!"
“Nomatter what I am,” said Forney,
sternly. “If you move a hand, I'll
shoot ymu! Gilbert! Charlie!”
The two brothers who, from the kit.
chen, had heard the above dialogue, and
were several tisnes on the point of tak-
ing to their heels out at the back door,
now entered, gans in hand,
Cover him, Gilbert,” and Forney,
‘Jf he stirs a hand, put a load of buck-
shot through him! Now, Charles, come
and take his pistol and knife.”’
A ‘deep red flush mounted to Walker's
face, Dut he knew that the slightest
movement on his part would send two
charges of cold lead through his body.
He gritted his teeth, but stood motion.
lous,
They disarmed him, then marched
him out of the door and round the house
imto the cattle corral in the reac of it,
This corral was built of adobe bricks,
the wall being from seven to eight feet
high, and inclosing a space of eight feet
square,
They gave him no chance co get the
start, but kept him covered with both
With that they retired, the audience
Next day they said
in their papers, and
Brougham could not get one of them
to acknowledge that he had been pres-
streams poared down toward tte river
to see the jlustrious pachyderm disem-
bark. T'ae road was lined with infantry
and I anes all dressed moniforms of
Eur Jpean pattern, striking for their
80 dier-like bearing.
ent al the first performance of the new
play, although they had been sold, ever
one of them, as were also the ewplo yes |
of the house and the police on dv xy te
the auditorium, It was a da’ gemmg
trick to play, and it required 4 man of
Brouglam’s wit and talent “0 wetk it.
LMI is ss
The Wrahg Kids,
The great authorilies ao regulate
the Royal Drawin? Roots in London
have been throym imte'y. state of pro-
found gloom over av occurrence the
magnitude and jmpditance of which
can scarcely he oveWstimated, At the
last State Drawing Room a gentiewo-
man had the unptralelled effrontery to
wear brown gloves Instead of the cone
ventional arti®les of white kid. While
it is quite possible that the lady in ques-
tion may have worn the objectionable
color out'sf respect to the memory of
one whitte virtues and delicate atten
tions fre still gratefully rememberad
by the Queen, this breach of etiquette
wis, of course, unpardonable, The
late great English comedian, Mr, Rob-
son, in the character of Norma, was
wont to sing a beautiful recitative, be.
ginning *“Dlest with these two Kids
upon my hands,” but the kids were
white, nol colored, The giant-like
Gulliver could scarcely have created a
greater commotion among the digni-
tavies of Lilliput than did this probably
simple and all-unconscious English
lady among the Dlacksticks, Lord High
Chamberlain and noblemen in waitl
at Queen Victoria's royal and imberiy
v
gun and pistol constanely, They gave
Jus a= Me. Brock and tis companion
feached dhe landing-phace, they met a
rumber ol natives dressed in white,
with tall, sfigardoaf hats, with a broad,
gold bandaround them, These were
Brahmies, terrestial angels, who, hav-
ing satisfied all the4 juirements of the
Buddhist faith, bave attained the high-
est sphere of spicitual life in the flesh;
they were to perform the ceremony of
baptizing and blessing the elephant, At
that moment the brass band began to
play the National Authem, so the for
eign visitors stood by to watch the pro-
cession pass, Following the band came
the Siamese musicians, playing tom-
toms and other discordant instruments;
then ihe state elephants, headed by
three splendid tuskers with trappings
of gold, which shone resplendent in
contrast with their lusterless skins, and
bearing on their backs richly decorated
howdahs, behind these came the
heralds, chamberlains, and other offi
cials, then his Majesty himself, wearing
a gorgeous uniform and carried on a
richly-gilt litter-chair, sheltered beneath
a huge gilt umbrella,
After him followed attendants bear-
ing rich presents to be distributed
amongst the people, and especially the
priesthood, in bonor of the auspicious
event, then, amid a crowd of princes
and high dignitaries, came the hero of
the day, the white elephant, led by his
eurnne, looking peacefal enough, his
quiet bearing contrasting strongly with
the excitement all around, He was ac-
companied by three other so-called
white elephants, in comparison with
And they say Brown turned so red
that his paper collar began to smoke,
ce—— A ———
Od Habits,
The barber was particularly garru-
fous and rattled off story after story as
hie scraped chins, trimmed whiskers and
mustaches, At last he began to speak
of lazy men.
“1 knew a man once,” he sad, “who
was 50 lazy that he was obliged to exert
himself in order to indulge lus lan-
ness,’
“True laziness never exerts itself,”
said a sleepy-looking man who was hav-
ing his hair cut.
“This was a case of true laziness,’
rejoined the barber, *‘It was this way,
yousee: The man had been in the
habit of returning to bed every morn-
ing after breakfast and sleeping until
inner time, His bed room was on the
me floor with his dining room, and it
required very little exertion to get back
to bed after partaking of the morning
meal. But it happened that a change
was made in the arrangement of the
bed rooms of the house. and he was
obliged to take one on the upper floor,
three stories above the dining room.
It became necessary, therefore, for him
to exert himself to climb three flights
of stairs every morning after breakfast,
He might have avoided this exertion
and taken a nap in the dining room for
there was a lounge there, but he was
too lazy for that.”
“Too lazy! Nousense,'
‘Fact, I assure you, You seehe had
beea in the habit of going to bed after
breakfast.”
“Well ¥»
“Well, you see, he was too lazy to
change his old habits)’
A deep hush fell upon the barber's
shop, so deep that you could have
[I every occasion is
he who hangs upon
great the still
the multitude,
done his duty
far happier
the smiles
more fickle favors of
That man hath but an il life or
who feeds himself with the faults an
fruailties of other people, Were |
curiosity. the purvesor, detractl
would soon be into fameness,
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ness of life until he has measured {
full capacity of a day. Disconten
with one’s gifts destroys Lhe power «
those that one has and brings no others,
Blessed is the man who has found
his work; let him ask no Other blessed.
ness. Know your work and do it, and
work at it like Hercules, One monster
there 18 in the world-—the idle man.
Never did any soul do good but it
came readier to «do the same again,
with more enjoyment. Never was
jove or gratitude or bounty practiced
put with increasing joy, which made
the practiser still more in love with the
fair act.
How much of our patience, our hn.
mility, our charity, our faith in God
and His kind, loving providence--in
short, how much of what is best and
sweetest in our characters—blossoms
out of the bitter experience of our own
weakness and short-sightedness!
There is as much difference between
the counsel that a friend giveth and
that which a man giveth himself as
there is between the counsel of
friend and of a fatterer, for there
no such & flatterer as is in a man’s self,
and there is ne such pemily against
the flattery of a man’s as lhe
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grand afternoon crush,
which he certainly deserved the proud
heard the customers’ beards growing.
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Liberty of a friend.