MISSING,
Missing—s0 many are missing,
The old as well as the young,
The poor and the rich together,
The weak alike with the strong.
Missing—onr loved ones wander,
Wo never know how nor where,
And pass from our sight as surely
As smoke fades into the air,
Missing—a man; it may be
A ciizen famed and well known,
Who sinks in the human ocean
As sinks in the pool a stone,
Missing—our care and riches
80 vainly are used or spent;
We know thas the loved once left us,
But know not whither they went.
Missing—at day time or night time,
And under the stars or the sun,
They vanish out of our knowledge
As sands from an hour-glass run.
MINS ELTON.
—————
Neither tall nor short, neither dark
nor fair, with hair between blonde and
brown, and eyes that left a doubt as
to whether they were gray or hazel
She was just suck a little bundle of
uncertainties and contradictions as led
the imagination captive at the first
glance, and offered a constant lure to
anticipation. .
Whether she spoke or remained si-
lent, whether she walked or sat, ex-
pectation hung breathless upon her
next word, her next pose, Her eyes,
varying as seemed their hue, shone,
none the less, with a candid ray that
seemed the very light of truth, and her
fresh mooth with its milky teeth show-
ing between the not too-smiling lips,
irresistibly suggested the sweetest uses
to which lips can be put.
The heavily moving steamer had
plowed through half the great Atlantic
rollers, and the few passengers had all
grown heartily tired of each other,
when she suddenly appeared on the deck
for the first time alone, yet calm and
self-centered as the small birds that
sometimes poised themselves upon spar
or bulwark to gather breath for fresh
flight.
it was Julius Hilder who had first
discovered her, leaning against the
companionway railing, with the air of
having just come up or down, he could
hardly determine which, looking ab-
sently at the tumbling waves,
Julius and his friend, Austin Drake,
were seceders from a gay party who
had made the tour of Southern Europe
together. It was Julius who had 1n-
stigated his companion to desert the
others, and take the German steamer
for New Orleans direct, which then
touched at Havre, instead of crossing
by a Cunarder ; and it bad all grown
out of the obstihate determination of
his sister to a‘tach her party to that of
Mrs. Smollett,
Mrs. Smollett was his choicest aver-
sion, a pretentious, intriguing woman,
in wuom the match-making instinct
had been so developed by the elort to
establish her own five daughters, that
it could not rest satisfied with the ac-
complishment of that gigantic task,
She seemed to have an endless supply
of nieces, adopted daughters, or pro-
teges or some sort, whom she dangled
ostentatiously before the eyes of all el-
igible bachelors, She had improved a
chance meeting with Julius to announce
io him a new acquisition,a lovely young
creature, whom she was taking howe
with her from a Swiss Pension.
“Mr, Smollet’s own neice, Mr. Hil
der, and quite like my Fannie at her
age. You remember Fannie? She was
your first love, I believe,” she had said
with her ogling dowager smile, and
Julius had felt himself seized at once
with an insurmountable aversion
the fair voung niece of Mr. Smollett,
In the first heat of his indignation
against his sister, he had conceived this
notable scheme of crossing by
Havre steamer, and though it had not
in its development proved to be emi-
nently amusing, he haa never omitted
to congratulate himself and his com-
panion, night and morning, upon the
gue Seuse they had displayea in adopt-
ing it.
“No chattering girls, or designing
dowagers,’’ he would say, as he yawned
over his bool, or the dull game with
which they strove to believe they were
amusing themselves, ‘‘gives a man time
to pull himself together, and take ac-
count of stock, as It were,” Still,when
onone of those aimless pilgrimages be-
low, which formed the only break in
the monotony of his occupation, he had
nearly run over this pretty young crea-
ture leaning against the railing, a thrill
of undeniable pleasure had coursed
along his merves, and he had felt him-
gelf blushing with pleased surprise.
Fortunately,the sea-tan had rendered
the blush indistinet, but over the light
that shot into his gray eyes the sea-tan
had no power. nor yet over the tongue
that stammered as he tried to convey
his apologies for nearly upsetting her,
and his offers of service in conducting
her to a seat.
“Thank you,”’ she had answered
coolly, **you did not startle me,as I saw
you coming, and I am nct sure that I
want a seat.”
There was no more tc be sald, and
her maid appearing at the moment with
a bundle of parti-colored wraps, Julius
coulo only lift bis hat again, and carry
out his purpose of going below As he
had no reason for going except that he
was tired of staying on deck, and as
the deck had now acquired a paramount
attraction, he was soon back again.
In the meantime the young lady had
made up her mind about the seat, and
had found one for herself close against
the ship's side,on the weather quarter. It
was not a pleasant location, but as she
had chosen, it, and had wrapped a large
shawl about her in an exclusive sort of
way, he saw no plausible ground for in-
terfering.
Nothing could have been more dis-
creet and retiring than Miss Elton’s be-
havior, but the perseverance of a man
who finds himself bored by too much
of his own and his alter ego’s society,
is an incalculable force against which
no woman can successfully entrench
herself, and so it was not lon
before Drake found himself eliminated,
as a superfluous factor, from the sum of
his friend’s enjoyment, whenever Miss
Elton appeared above deck. His suc-
cess, however, was more apparent than
4
0
the
real, for although he knew her name,
and was allowed to carry her book and
her shawl, and arrange her chair in the
most comfortable position with refer-
ence to the wind or the sun, he had
really made no great progress in her
confidence. Who she was, or why she
had chosen to Inake the voyage in this
unconveiftional and eccentric way, re-
mained as great a mystery as it had
been on that memorable fist day. It
was the close of the tenth day, dating
from that of his discovery,and Julius
gat beside her in that 1ntimite fashion
bred of the isolation of the iea,
He had been reading to ler, but the
story was finished, and a dlence haa
ensued, she appearing to be vrapped in
thought and he watching hei face with
half-veiled glances,
“Three more days and we hall be at
home,’? she said, rousing henelf.
“You count the days,” hesaid. Are
you eager to be there ?’°
*‘No ; neither eager nor reluctant.
The voyage has been pleasmt, but 1t
will be nice to be on shore again, 100.”
“What, or rather who, if going to
make it nice ? Anybody in particular?’
She put the question asidewith a lit-
tle wave of her hand.
“You are curious,”’ she said, mis-
chievously.
Julius bit his lip. He ws curious,
and this was not the first tine she had
foiled him.
“You want much to know just who
and what I am,” she went m., ‘You
have made a dozen attemps to find
out. Tell me why. What difference
would it make to you? If 1 were to
tell you that I aw a niece of the Gov-
ernor of Kentucky; mind I
made a gesture of surprise, ‘*Isay if 1
mistress of an independent fortune,
would that enliance my value in your
eyes ?V
Julius drummed upon the am of his
chair and looked at her in silemwe.
‘Suppose, on the contrary,” he went
on, impetuously, and with a certain
from injured pride, *'I were to ell you
that I am an orphan without firtune ;
that I had just money
to carry me through the con-
servatory at Pans, and that I an hop-
ing and expecting to make my living by
teaching music, would me
in your regard ?V
Julius still remained
a little abashed by the
own temerity.
“I see that I have embarrassd you,’
she said, laughing. “I shall jot Insist
upon an answer, I leave you to adopt
whichever hypothesis you,"
She gathered up her shawl md book
as she spoke, and made a motia to rise,
but: Julius laid a detaining had upon
her arm.
“No, Bo, you musn’t
that lave
that lover
results of his
¥
best suis
go yet,’ he ex-
dewiness in her eyesas she turned them
toward him, which touched hin inex-
pressibly. ‘I am embarrassed, not
much by your hypothesis as by some-
thing in myself, Since you lea‘e me to
choose between these hypotheses, I will
take the latter. Youare, then an or-
850
pecting to make your living by teach-
ing music. To prove to you hav little
confess what
from the Governor's niece. Mis Elton,
I adore youl"
“Mr, flilder I" she exclaimed spring-
ing to her feet, with flashing eye.
“Well,” he said quietly, *
lenged me.”
“You are impertine
swept away with diguity,
She remained closely shut in ler own
cabin during the remainder of le after-
noon and until quite late the nex morn-
ing. when Julius, who had mantained
an anxiousand impatient watch mm deck,
found her in the saloon sippinga cup
of tea and nibbling a piece of last, by
way of breakfast, >
+] hope you have forgiven ne,"’
said, taking a seat beside her.
»1ut I have not,” she answerel with
decision.
¢ hal-
Y Ol
he
er 77 he asked, with a saucy smile
“Both. It was a daring imperinence
to the one, and a piece of imolence
toward the other.”
about it.
can éxpect a man to take back.’
“No” she said, looking
into her cup, then suddenly ralizing
confusion of blushes: “That is,
course, you must take it back ; at least
you musn’t say anything mort about
BY
“Never
“Never.”
“But that's impossible, ”’
“Mr. Hilder.”
**Miss Elton.”
*‘I think we've had enough of this,
It was my fault, I am willing © admit
that. It was wretched taste on my
part.and I've suffered all sorts d things
in consequence,’’ She waved ler hand
toward her cabin as she spoke, indicat-
ing that it was thus ber Lous of re-
tirement were spent, ‘‘Let mego back
to the first question,’ she cotinued.
“You asked me whether there was any-
body to make it pleasant foo me on
shore. There was no reasor but my
own perversity why I should sot have
answered at once. No, nobody that I
am at all sure will care tomake it
pleasant for me. I have a lear old
uncle who has always been wiry good
tome ; but when he hears hw very
naughty I have been I don® know
what he will say to me,” and sh» puck-
ered up her white forehead into an ex-
pression of compunctious perpleity.
“Well,” he said, after waiting some
time for her to resume, ‘is that cll
“That answers your question, cos it
not 77’
“My question as originally pui—yes,
I believe it does; but it has beer 80 am-
pliied that you can hardly expeet me to
be satisfied with that meagre aaswer,”
“Amplified ? I don’t understand.”
“Those two ingenious hypotheses, for
instance--were they both pure fiction,
or which was the true statenent ?'’
**Both pure inventions, sh returned,
laughing and blushing again **1 am
not that brilliant creature, & rovernor’s
» ’
niece, nor vet that most useful and re-
spectable one, a teacher of music, The
governor's niece was just a bit of satire.
1 traveled a few weeks once in com-
pany with such a person, and the con-
stant iteration with which she dwelt
upon her title, and the amountof re-
spect it seemed to inspire in the minds
of those who heard it, gave me the 1m-
pression that 14 was the highest rank
an unmarried woman could attain in
America. I think the impression must
be well founded, too, as I noticed it pro-
duced quite an effect upon you.”
“Not the effect you imagine. 1 was
startled for a moment, I confess, but
simply because of a slight coincidence.’’
“A coincidence! Do you know her 7’
and a hot blush and a look of conster-
nation sat together upon the fresh young
face of Miss Elton,
“Never saw her ; but there was a
plot to make me cross the ocean with
such a person and a lot ef other wo-
men, which 1 defeated by running
away."
“Oh! You ran away !” she breathed
the words out in a startled, half whis-
per.
“Yes, they went by a Cunarder, and
my friend Drake and I slipped off and
took the steamer at Havre.”'
She looked at him with widely opened
eves for a moment, during which he de-
cided for the fiftieth time that the eyes
were brown and not deep gray, as he
had decided the other fifty times,
“Why did you run away ?’’ she asked,
after a moment's amused considera.
tion.
“Well, you see, I was with my sister
We had a jolly comfortable time
until we got to Paris on our way home,
there sister took it into her head to
join a woman wh» had been roaming
on an extensive husband hunt—one of
aisle in a white tie
groomsmen
with half a dozen at his
walk up the other
hite satin and meet him de-
the altar. 1 had no fancy
cooped on a steamer with such
an experienced old angler.”
“And the governor's niece
of the girls ?V
“Some governor's niece, so |]
Now; what is the
ow 7
» 5
will
aisle In whit
Was one
oR $
DAUZOLY i 2
1 yy tain *Oot oes
been doin Come, confidence
for cenfidence.”
For sole answer, however, Miss Elton
leaned back in her chair and began to
oderately. Julius looked at
her for some moments,
the infection began to laugh, too, much
of the walters, who
preparations for
then catching
to the edification
were beginning their
dinner,
“I have no doubt it’s awfully funay,”
he said, as she wiped the tears {from her
cheeks, “but I think 1 enjoy it
more if 1 knew just the point of view
from which you see it."
“Perhaps you could.”
Lani 4 1.
checking an impulse to langh
“We seem to be in the way;
we move #7
“Come on deck,’ he exclaimed, ris-
could
she replied de-
Again,
S11 MOOR
he « VR
“Thank you.no. 1 don't {
equal to the deck this m
She made him
sance, and her
behind her befor
was in de
in sight
awoke in
ing moti
they were in
haste to see the low
sissippi, in fact he felt at moment
that he hated them ; yel he sprang up,
dressed with dispateh and mounted to
Everybody was but
He stood near the
companion way, watching furtively and
at every step,
#4 hor
the deck. there
She did not
table,
The hours glided by, the city rose
into view, passengers came on deck
with satchels and umbrellas, prepared
were at the wharf, the staging was run
out, and a dozen or more citizens rushed
inexplicable to the whose
voyager,
rection. Julius, still maintaining his
watch at the companion way, felt him-
self gently put aside by a tall gray-haired,
He heard a little cry, and peering
man, her head pressed against the brown
coat, and her eyes upturned to meet
his spectacled gaze.
“Her uncle I" he muttered peevishly;
tiwwho the devil is he anyhow 7"
He moved disgcontentedly to the side
and looked at the people hurrying
“Hello, Julius! Going to spend the
night aboard ?” cried Drake, coming
up with a duly chalked valise in each
hand.
“Oh, Mr. Hilder," exclaimed another
and more musical voice. **Wait,uncle,
I must introduce you ; Mr, Hilder has
been very kind to me.”
“What, Julius! Why, my dear boy,
how d've ¥ My wife wrote me you were
coming over with her,” His hand was
grasped with a hearty pressure, and he
found himself gazing into the specta-
cled eyes of Mr. Smollett.
“Oh, stupidest of stupids!” he ex.
claimed, as he thrust slippers and
brushes into his valise in the privacy of
his cabin, Bagged by the Smollett
ogress after all, by Jupiter I" he added,
as he gave a last twist fo his fair mus-
tache before the misty mirror,
A ITITR RIn
If you pity rogues, you are no great
friend to honest men.
He hath riches sufficient who hath
enough to be charitable,
Soft words, warm friends; bitter
words, lasting enemies,
Contact with the worlc either breaks
or hardens the heart,
A Queen of the Worldly Caplal
“All the world” was recently startled
with the news from Berlin that the
Countess Guido Henckel von Donnes-
mark had just died in Silesia. She was
a great celebrity in the “*good old days;"
one of the most notorious creatures that
ever existed in wicked Paris, Born in
the back room of a poor shopkeeper’s
house in Moscow. she was in turn the
wife of a Russian tailor, mistress of a
Pansian pianist, and next of an English
earl; then the wife of a Iortuguese
marquis; after this a femme galante of
the Second Empire, and finally the wife
of a German count, who, besides hav-
ing a fortune which he counted by mil-
lions, had the honor of being a near re-
lative of the Iron Chancellor, Such is
the outline of the career of the “Mar-
quise De Paiva.”
Her first steps in this gay capital were
difficult, and she was on more than one
occasion near dying ot hunger, but,
like Bonaparte, she had her star, All
the most brilliant talents of the capital
were to be met with at her suppers.
Theophile Gautler wrote sonnets in ker
honor, and though it was whispered
that she had a husband hving in Russia,
expulsion from court circles. The decree
that closed the doors of the Tuilenes in
her face was the result of her venturing
to show herself thore with her superb
neck and magnificent arms displayed in
all their glory. Fashion had not as yet
decreed that deoollele dresses were comme
il fait. The humiliation of being thus
suddenly put back in her proper place
gave her a temporary disgust for Paris
and a lasting one for her pianist, She
gave them buth the shake and winged
suicide. She was taking a last look at
herself in her glass when the door of the
Shoe was saved,
In a few years she returned to Pans
tailor
of
Russian
revoiution
a widow, for
at last died.
now
had
the
The
Philippe. She was now rich enough to
treat herself to a husband, ana
found a Portuguese nobleman, the Mar-
11
quis Aranjo de Pavia, who was wil
she
ul
in the hope
it of the ex-mi
His love, Ii}
lineage did not save the
the same 1
Ff +3
$ ‘
SL ress
+
matrimonial
had overtaken the I
she was soon at the head of a luxur
mansion
her dinners and receptions again al-
tracted all that was brilliant in the im-
perial capital. Her dining Was
the finest in Paris, the table was served
the viands and rarest
wines, and it was there that an academy
f witty and polished vice helds its ses-
ions under the presidency of a woman
isc hance
4
room
choicest
Making the Garden.
What shall be the fashionable flower
this season? The Princess of
decided the question fi
night a spray «
h makes
v, demands a nos
clover: but spring, whic
th er
thing
i wii
“ho
it
Lord Bacon called f human
pleasures ]
of a gard
winler
healthful
gnd In =
about garden-n
in our Intitude, iastruct
be
8 Nes
}
1
id
8
sider
mig
HOS
ve th
showing us one of the sides an
methods his extraordinary
but the contrast what was
thought mest desirable in his time, and
what is beld so in our own, both in the
flower and vegelable garden, Is striking
and suggestive, On the other hand
there are many valuable trealises of
our own day of a directly practical
sort, although book-learning, here as
elsewhere, has its limits, and neads to
be combined with experience, it may
render good service to the intelligent
amateur who can use it asa staff rather
than as a crutch. t the wost it may
fairly be raid thst in gardening in a
less degree than ‘in any other line of
human exertion, is mistaken or ill
directed labor thrown away; since the
exercise, the free exposure to the open
air, and the wholesome influence of all
direct contact with nature remain to
console us even if the roses do not
thrive or the peas and asparagus fail to
ripen to maturity, For children no
pursuit is more beneficial for body and
mind; and it is pleasant to think that
there is monopoly here, norestriction of
gardening to the little ones of the rich,
since a packet of seeds and the hambilest
plot of earth suffice, so far as amuse-
ment goes, and will even contribute,
with wise tillage, to the edible resources
of the family, It is not needful, as
Bacon puts it, for the “royal ordering
of gardens” to have separate ones “fur
all the months in the year,” and dis-
tinctions of wealth, or class go for
little, in truth, toward supplying or de-
barring the most profitable advantages
that are derivable from the garden.
As
of
between
A Remarkable Artesian Well,
Salmon lives near French
Camp, a small settlement not far from
Stockton, Cal, Others have been bor-
ing artesian wells, and he determined
to try his luck, He sunk a well with a
seven-inch tube to a depth of about 840
feet, and struck a copious stream of ex-
cellent water, Desiring to learn
whether he could increase the flow by
oing deeper, and fearing that, should
go continue the well the same size he
might injure the Suality of the upper
strata of water, Mr. Salmon hit upon
the plan of sinking a four-inch tube in-
side the seven-inch one, and then mak-
ing what might be called the experi-
mental well, four inches in diameter.
This inner one he bored to a depth of
1.250 feet and then came to water again.
This Jower stream came to the surface
and, indeed, ros¢ in a tube twenty-two
feet above the ground. The last water
found was unfit for drinking, and but
for an accidental discovery of its won.
Cutlar
derful properties inight have been con- !
gidered a nuisance, as many things are, |
the uses of which we do not know, 1t|
was found that there was a large
amount of gas in this water from the |
lower depth. This came bubbling to |
the surface, making one think of a gi- |
gantic soda fountain,
Some one suggested the idea of see- |
ing if the gas would burn. A coal-oil |
can was put over the top of the tubing,
and having a few holes punched in it, |
an improvised gas fixture was at hand. |
Only a match was required to complete |
the preparations, The match was |
lighted and applied to a bole in the can, |
and a flame shot up three or four feet |
into the air and burned steadily, The
gas would burn, Mr, Salmon had fire |
and water coming out of the same hol
in the ground, The tube of the outer |
well, that which was only 840 feet deep,
and furnished the good water, was |
tapped, and sufficient water for all do- |
mestic uses and for the stock, ete, |
was led off in pipes to the house and |
other localities, A curbing was bullt |
around the twin wells in sucha way
that it formed a reservoir for the water |
from the 1,250 foot level, and that por- |
tion from above which was not con- |
veyed away in the pipes. All through
bling up the gas, generated somehow,
somewhere down below, When Mr.
Salmon next went to Stockton he had |
a gasometer made with a stop-cock In !
the top, and this he took home and |
his wells, The bottom |
wis beneath the surface of the water in |
the reservoir, and the gas speedily filled |
the vell-shaped receiver. The next |
the house.
He put a pipe perforated with small
holes across his large open fire-place,
alch,
Was i=
ly solved, iat gas-pipe was
tothe fire box of the kitchen st
now the meals are prepared with
16 Dew Mr, Salmon also
this gas for lluminat
sm to entirely fill the
15 4 great
It has sSugge
gus seems to be
ure hydrogen, it might be carburetted
$ $
stant fter ti
PATE
VE,
y
fuel, has
improvement on
al
Se
al lnost
a tallow dip. en
Lis
inating auality improved
HOALINE Quill HNpioyes,
good, Mr.
ky mal he gets lids
lucky man that he gels us
sily. 1 ras throws
ght or
amount
t such a well wo
houses rin
nel Orr st that he
IH and
thinks there is ing from
it to run a twenly-horse-power engine
gas enough issu
> ts
Architectural 1dlosy norasies.
Few men can plan a house
naking a mistake somewhere, T
wlio has but a cabin can-
display of architec-
2 4% ms su}
nea 1 dghbor Wo
man
. OF oT
¢ can put the
Ww
ts’! a mansion;
ows and doors
id a smoky ¥,
generally exercises that liberty,
jouse consists of two rooms, he
the north
rong places
‘and he
If the
Lhe kitchen door on
hat the wind in winter rushes i
i wife’ every
ile she 1
i
“Houde
prepares
The
the west side,
in summer,
Toon
And 1
s . 3
(2001 of tue
Man, whos
ends building a house t, oh, i
Remodel as
Weary nos
1%
EN
§ th Fognert py regu?
Liou Deginness
re-model thy «
WOYIng an unproving
every convenience which w uid
{
bg wn ee
d
auc
When
thee a perfect plan, study it
more carefully, then put it in the fire,
go call thy wife, and, with her assist-
Study and discover this with her, until
ghe has talked thee over to her opinion
regarding every particular, then build,
with care and precision, build,
————— A A —
lain Home-Talk.
We learn from one of our exchanges
that over one thousand book-agents are
wanted to canvass for a work called
“Plain Home-Talk.,”” We don’t see
how a level-headed agent can undertake
to sell such a book as this, becanse
every one is pretty well acquainted with
plain home-talk. Here are a few ex-
¥OOD FOR THOUGHT.
To read without reflecting, is like
eating without digesting.
True love is always firm, and true
Our firesides must be our sanctuaries,
Honor demanded, 1s as worthless as
A thing is never too often repeated
ntly learned,
To count but few things necessary is
The man who has no poetry in his
A good surgeon must have an eagle's
a lion’s heart and a lady’s hand,
Rest satisfied with doing well, and
Though experience keeps an expen-
only master for a
Our happiness and misery are trusted
to our conduct, and made to depend
upon it.
In childhood be modest, in youth
temperate, in manhood just, in old age
prudent.
There is a class of men eve adv 1
i is lass of men ever ready to
you to any extent, if you only
give them a handle.
As no man can expect :
train of prosperity, he ough
+ continual
4
t
prebend a constant adversity.
not to ap-
Where the people are well educated,
the art of piloting a state is best learn-
ed from the writing of Plato.
As a great body is not without a like
neither is any eminent virtue
without eminent tract
True politeness is the
noble character, *‘It
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last touch of a
is the gold on the
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spire, the sunlight on the corn-field.
10 wish to do without yur fell
nd to be under obligation to
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“a no one is
sensibility
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Absence diminishes th dinary pas-
ns and increases ti Ones, as
Truth- i
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Gratitude
renders goodness,
is the external
nage.
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Good manners: Of maxing
those people easy with Ww we cone
whoever makes U
the fewest per-
sons uneasy is the best bred man in
i
Never be cast down by trifles, Ifa
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mend it again.
Make up your mind to do a thing, and
A wealthy doctor who can belp a
and will not without a fee,
who kills a rich man to supply
mer? I want a new silk to match my
Easter bonnet. Been at the lodge, eh?
—ain’t that story rather old?
we've got to get a new carpet for the
parlor!
on three weeks ago. You
beuf a la mode on wash day. The coal
{8 out. Whose hair is that on your
sleeve? Don’t forget to bring home a
pound of French candy. The butcher
won't wait another day,
1 find my money on the street?’ Are
you going to take me to hear Patti? 1
can't have
Smith's wife's, Tommy's shoes are
worn out. Mother has invited us to
spend the summer with her. If we
don’t pay the next instalment on that
furniture, it will be seized on the first
of the month. Theabove is plain home
talk that every man knows; and we
think the agent who tries to sell a copy
of it will have a pretty lively time,
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Swollen Streams.
Some of the passengers of western
stage coaches give strange accounts of
the crossing of swollen streams, Those
who recently traveled on the Santa
Barbara (Cal) line say that there the
bridge consists of a rope stretched
across. The passengers get in a basket
attached to the rope. For those going
to Santa Barbara the rope is greared, as
the bank on this side is the highest,
Then the basket 1s turned loose and the
rs and basket shoot to the other
mde with lightning speed, Going the
other way the passengers draw them
selves up the rope by a pulley.
ATI ASAT AI
Those wo can command themselves
command others,
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Keep your promise to the letter, be
i it will save you
through life,
and trust of
trouble aiid
and win you
your friends.
The certain ambitious
persons becoming great
without making too much noise; il may
be said that they advance in the world
on tiptoe.
While we wrangle here in the dark.
we are dying and passing to the world
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modesty of
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consisls
How insignificant is life, counted by
any of the results that time can meas.
ure! How grandly glorious is this same
fleeting life, measured by the possibility
of eternity!
When a man dies they who SUrv'w
him ask what property he has left be-
hind. The angel who bends over the
dying man asks what good deeds be has
sent before him.
There 1s no passion in the mind of
man so weak but it mates and masters
the fear of death; and therefore death
is no such terrible enemy when a man
hath so many attendants about him
that can win the conflict of him. Re-
venge triumphs over death; love slights
it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to
it.
There are two kinds of genius, The
first and highest may be said to. speak
out of the eternal to the t, and
must compel its age to understand it;
the second understands its and tells
ka what it rishi to be
and inspiration
amusement and instruction in the other,
and be heartily thankful for both.