JUNIE,
Violets in shady places, —
Sweetest flowers were ever seen |
Hosts of starry dandelions, —
“Drops of gold among the green I"
Pale arbutus, fairy wind-flowers,
Innocents in smiling flocks;
Coolest farns within the hollows,
Columbines among the rocks;
Dripping streams, delicious mosses,
Tassels on the maple-trees;
Drowsy insects, humming, humming;
Golden butterflies, and bees;
Daffodils in garden borders,
Fiery tulips dashed with dew;
Crocus-flowers; and, through the greenness,
Snow-drops looking out at youl
A en A
A LEAY YEAR EPISODE,
“I wouldn't marry John Marryatt
pot for a thousand pounds!” said Avice
Mere,
And she said it, too, exactly as if she
meant it, with reddened cheek, eyes
full of hazel tire, and two small dimp-
led fists clenched tightly,
“My dear,’ said Penlope Paxton, one
of those jovial old maids who are privi-
leged to say anything, ‘‘you remind me
of a famous historical character.’
“1?” said Avice, momentarily off her
guard,
““Yes,” said Penelope. ‘Miss Beatty
Baxter, who refused Capt. Jones before
he axed her!
“Oh, it isn’t that!” protested Avice,
rosier than ever. **Of course Mr. Mar-
ryatt bas no idea of asking me; why
should he have? And if he did, I
shouldn't accept him.”
“Miss Betty Baxter,” monotonously
chanted Penelope, ‘‘who refused"
“Penny, do be quiet!” said Avice,
stamping her foot in genuine amnoy-
ance. “You know what I mean!”
‘*No, I don’t,” said Penny. ‘And I
don’t believe you know yourself,”
*‘He said it was Leap Year,” pleaded
indignant Avice,
“Ro it is,” said Penny, ‘‘get
almanac, and look for yourself.
00 Bema?
1
sense?’
Paxton.
“And he told Dr. Darien he wasn’t
coming to our parly to-morrow night,
because he duin’t want to be married
against his will.”
that,” said Penelope reflectively. *‘I
never was a man myself; but I can
imagine that, under the circumstances,
a cold shiver would go all through me.”
“Penny,” said Avice solemnly, ‘‘do
us girls ever thought of marrying John
Marrvatt?”
And Avice ran out of the room, and
was surprised to find herself crying
over the clove-scented blossoms of her
favorite carnation in the bath room
window,
“I'm sure 1 don’t know why, ‘sobbed
she, *‘1 hate John Marryatt, and I think
it was horrid of Dr, Darien to go and
repeat what was said to him in
dence! And if John Marryatt
believed that—that—-There, I wo
of it any more!”
“J.eap Year, indeed!
talk such a 8 ring of n
the month of Feln
twenty days in it
ty-e1gl
}
confi
really
think
Why do people
nsen:e because
happens to have
instead of twen-
sill
where Uncle Origen died,”
The old man stared at him with dull,
glassy eyes,
“Eh?” sald he, “Why not? You
don’t b'live in sperritooalism, do you?"
“Nonsense!” cried Marryatt,
“Then why ain't one room as good
as another?’ asked the old man, stohd-
y.
‘*Nevertheles, I would prefer to go
on to the nearest hotel,” impatiently
uttered John,
‘*Ain’t none short o' seven miles,
said the old man, **And that's only a
summer machine. They don't run it
arver the waterfalls friz up. But there's
a freight train, with a passenger caboose
hitched on, that stops at Cutting Cor-
ners at midnight.”
“Where is Cutting Corners?”
“Elght miles away.”
‘*And how the dickens do you suppose
I am to get eight m les from here, when
it is pitch dark already?" cried Marry
att, with not unnatural irritation.
“There's Jerkin's one-hoss wagon,”
mildly suggested the old man,
o’ stove blacking, a paound o' taller
dips and a quarter of a paound o’ green
tea for Isabella. I can tell Jenkins to
come raound and cart ye te the station,
ef ye don’t grudge acrown.”’
hurriedly. *And while you are gone,
Isabella, as you call her, can give me
some supper.’’
He sat down in the old low-ceiled
room, where the rag-carpet seemed
| neither brighter nor dimmer than it had
| done twenty years ago, and warmed his
chilled feet before a blaze of snapping
logs; while old Isabella, who might
have appeared creditably at any tableau
as the **Witch of Endor,” crept around
| an iron pot which swung from a prodi-
gous crane, and got supper, after a
slow and inefficient manner,
“Pretty gay in town this winter?”
said old Isabella, brandishing her spoon
over him, in the manner ol an incanta-
stew, after it was dished.
“I suppose so,”
“I'm a-thinkin’ of goin’ there my-
| self,”” said Isabella, mumbling her
| toothless jaws.
“To take a situation?” asked Marry-
att, inwardly thinking that he could
i not conscientiously give her a recom-
mendation &s8 cook.
“Bless your "art, nol’ sald Isabella,
“I know a sea captain there as ain't
married; and they tell me the gals is all
pickin’ and choosin’ for themselves,
i
i
i
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and said:
“So it isn’t to be a case of ‘Miss Bet-
ty Baxter, after alll”
A Diack Dudeen,
It was a ‘'bloomer” car rattling
along up Washington street, Boston
It was scarcely half filled, with plenty
of room “‘forrard.”” At Franklin equare
a party of half adozen ladies stood upon
the crossing, poking their sun shades at
the driver. The car came to a halt and
the urbane conductor smilingly alighted
and assisted his pasecengers to their
seats, While he was thus employed an-
other lady approached the waiting ear
and, unobserved by him, slipped into
one of the rear seats. The car started
and as the smiling conductor returned
to his place on the rear platform he dis-
cove: ed his new passenger.
“Madam,” sald the conductor, no
longer smiling, ‘‘these rear seats are
You must go
{ Anvhow, I'm tired o' this place, and |
i don’t see why my chance ain't as good
| as another’s.”’
Mr. Maryatt stared at her in mute
| amazement while he secretly deplored
| the sad case of the unsuspecting sea-
| captain.
“P'raps you wouldn't mind keepin’ a
la, “*while I jest go over and look to see
if locked the hen-house.
Simon's dreadful forgetful.”
And she hobbled away.
At the same time
and emphatic knocking at the outer
door, and a stout country girl, with
cheeks of that peculiar red which shines
as if it had been varnished, very black
eyes, and coarse black hair, walked in,
wrapped up in a red and green
awl, an felt hat which
Sim'n has
| well
d a fearful {
like a dumaged helmet,
“I've come for Mr. Marryatt,
he, without any ceremony of introd ac-
pi sid sl
looked
"* said
ok
bi
vely our hero backed against
1 his valise and gone off to visit
was at the
“i Ll
packed
an old uncle w
death.
“It
uo
be a very cheerful visit.”
said he to lnmseif, “*but it will be better
than a state of I have been
told, on good authority, that every one
won't
Sood fryer
siege, 101
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ge
tke leap year party.
““‘1t will be the old story of the Ra.
sed. And when 1 marry —it I marry—
I intend to have al least the privilege
of choice. So I'll just go up to Uncle
Origen’s.”’
top of a bleak hill, where a few dwarfea
wintry blasts and the cows huddled in
being blown away,
“I think we re going to have astorm,”
said Mr. Marryatt. *‘I am quite cer-
tain I smell snow in the air. And there
are more cheerful places during a north.
In fact he was almost disposed to be
sorry tha
there knocking and thumping with the
handle of his umbrella at the shrunken
panels of the front door.
Pretty soon a crooked old man, with
his garments fastened with tow strings,
instead of buttons, came shuffl'ng to the
door ard peeped suspiciously around it,
of his poor old purple ear.
me I heard somebody knocking, didn’t
im
“Yes, it's me,’ said our hero—**John
Marryatt, don’t you know?"
“Married ?"’ squeaked the old man.
“To whom?”
“Johin—Mar—ry—uatt!” distinctly re.
peated the visitor. “How is my Uncle
Origen?"
The crooked
old man sheltered lus
as if he were gradually being transform-
ed into one huge eye.
“Land sakes alive!" said he. “Did
yon not know he was buried yesterday.’
Here was a cheerful welcome for a
city visitor!
with a helpless gaze down the darken
ing hills'de, I came to visit him. 1
had not heard n
“Walk in, walk in,” said the old
man, holding the flaring candles high
above his Lead, and flattening himself
azainst the whitewashed wall, “It's
preity lonesoma here; but there's the
deceased's chamber you can slesp in,
and I trapped a rabbit in the pine-wood
this morning that Isabélla’s just stew-
ing up, and. ”
““lanbella? * repeated John Marryatt.
*‘She’s the oll woman's charge-—my
gister ? explaived the ancient warder of
e castle, “Ain't much w look at,
t a proper cord cook,”
But,” said Mr. Mwryatt, “I don't
“What!” cried he,
“You're Mr. Marryatt, ain't
said she,
“That's my name,” retreating still
further behind the stiff wooden-backed
chair, where Uncle Origen used to sit
and smoke his pipe.
“Well, I'm come for you.
{ deaf. be you? I'm——come—for—you!”
“Yes; but—J—"*
“There ain't no time to lose.” bawled
| this daughter of solitudes, seizing him
{ by the arm. ‘This here's your bag-
| gage?’ grasping the valise in the other
{ hand,
This was Leap Year
eance, thought our perspiring hero,
With one desperate struggle he freed
himself,
“1 won't said he. ‘‘Nothing
can compel me to, against my will.”
“You won't?” said
i damsel],
**No, I won't,
| ryatt,
“Then you will miss the train, as
sure as serpents!”
damsel,
nine,
you?"
or
I 5
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g0
1"
said Mr. John Mar-
“And it won't be no fault of
“For smokers, is {t?”
The bell rang and the car came to a
stop.
“Yes, for smokers, You must go
forward. Come, the car is waiting,”
‘““An’ is it go forward [ must?”
“Yes; that’s the rule. Come,
Six cars row formed a procession in
the rear. Drivers were swearing, con
ductors hurrying forward to see what
was the matter, and passengers were
craning their necks out of the windows
and speculating as to the meaning of
the delay,
**An’ these seats are for smokers?”
“Yes, they are. Come, harry.”
“An’ 1 must move forrard or
smoke?’
**Y es, you must.”
‘*Begorra, then, an’ I'll smoke, Have
ye a match?”
And the lady drew from her pocket
a black dudeen, which she proceeded to
light, and leaning back in her seat
puffed contentedly away. The con-
ductor pulled the bell with energy and
the procs ssion moved on, but it was
fully five minutes before he fully re-
covered his breath
- a
Amend Your Verdiet.
Was
The train just entering
gt
LE
'
tool: {oo of
the whistle, ana
passengers as looked from the windows
saw an aged African with a bundle
over his shoulder straight ahead on th
such
bell rung, but he paid no attention, und
all of
him
ide
wit
ni
up
A gang of men brought the body
to the depot, and among the dozen of
oner's jury was selected,
The man came to
his death by being struck by a locomo-
tive on the L.. & N. Road. Such was
it announced than the
served:
“Gentlemen, return and amend your
verdict. You haven't i
about carelessness,”
We returned to the
amended by adding that
coroner ob-
oom
the engineer
, and the cor-
oner
received us wilh:
goes, but
and it wou
deaf
ver-
was probably
id be well to amend the
ingly."
back and amended to
tim as deal as a hitch
we were nol through yet.
“*You haven't got the name
county in your report, and you
say whether it was a freightor a pas
senger train,’ observed the coroner.
We returned to the rom for another
tussie, and were just congratulating
ourselves on haviug everything ship-
shape, when the coroner put his head
into the doorway and called out:
“Gentlemen, amend your verdict!
The confounded African has come
fe,’
And when we rushed out to the
freight house he was sitting up on end
went
went I
ake
We
ie Vit
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we
of
*
Gon 't
to
inn
Stove On.
There was a streak of shade about
long at
corner of Congress and Griswold streets,
Detroit, reccently, and a great hulk of
a man, coat off, hat in hand, and riva-
ets of perapirarion pouring down
you."
“Oh, the train—I see.” cried Mr.
{| Marryatt. *“Ididn’t quite comprehend
| your meeting at first,
immediately.”
i And the red-cheeked damsel,
| with considerable skill and energy,
freight-train came in sight around a
curve,
So, Mr. Marryatt arrived in town
just in time to see the sunrise glow
{ irradiate the red brick chimney pots be-
| bind the Delavan House.
“Not married yet.’ he said to him.
self; “but [I wll as sHon as possible if
| she will have ame,
i such risks as this?"
That very afternoon he called at Dr,
t
i
|
i
| and Avice accepted him. Yes, she ac-
cepted him!
Avice, feeling it ber duty to admonish
her awain a little—* ‘that—that you did
not want to be warried against your
will?”
“Of course I sald it,” answered Mar.
ryatt, “and I meant it. 1 don't intend
to be married a ainst my willy
to be married with it. And
really say you wouldn't marry John
Marcyatt for a thousand pounds?”
“And 1 wouldn't!" ered Avies, look.
ing up with sparkling eyes, “Not for
twice that money; but-just because |
love him!"
So they both were happy and laughed
heartily over the adventures at Uncle
Origen’'s house,
Aud when Penelope Paxton next suw
“Boy I" he said, as he began to feel a
little better, ‘I'm the biggest fool in
America”
“Yes, sr,”
reply.
“Last winter I raved and took on
about the cold. I swore that this was
no country to live in. I wanted to
was the respectful
and IT whooped around because the
me now,"
“Yes, sir,
away,”
“Correct, It wasn't three weeks
ago that I wanted to knock a man
down for predicting that we'd have
you are melting right
degrees In the shade”
“Regular creek pouring down the
back of your neck, sir.”
“I know it—Ii know it! There are
creeks and rivers running length ways
and crossways of me until 1 want to
swim, and yet in May I went blowing
around here that any man who'd live
in such a cold country ought to be sent
to a fool asylum, Boy I”
“Yes, sir,”
“I crowded youout of your shade,
It was a mean trick, Here's a quarter
to soothe your feelings. 1'm going to
take that car for howe. When 1 get
there I'm golog to have a piece of fro-
zen oil cloth spread over the cellar
fluor, and I'm going to lay down on it
I'm frozen as solid as a bone. Boy |"
“Yes, sir,”
“Let this country alone. She's all
right, Let the weather alone, She
knows her business, Pleass empty the
water out of my coat pockets, mop the
bi. ck of my neck like a good boy, and
I'll move on,
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A xEw hoop saves un old tub, bat new
a ————— A RA
Murem Life in Egypt.
Universally the Moslem
know nothing of life, being simply
pieces of furniture in their homes.
With no education, they are strangers
to the interests and affairs of thelr mas.
ters. Decked out with fine dresses and
jewelry, they are sensuously content,
They amuse themselves In ernnching
melon-seeds, eating candy. smoking
cigarettes, and showing their jewelry,
and fine toilets to their friends. Liv.
fog a life of ease and indolence
are never supposed to soil their
with labor or rack their brains
thought. When they toil their sole oo-
cupation is to beautify themselves,
When young they are well made; their
extremities are fine, and their hands
are soft, white and supple, and they
might be likened to the budding flower
women
hands
with
morning sun.
Their complexions
their cheeks tinged
with rose;
ceptional; they are generally black as
form and full of sensibility and delicate
sweetness, They never conceal
and gallant men often confess that thev
have interfered with their repose of
mind, It is pleasing to speak of these
beauties, for they have few to admire
houses, many of them, are elegant and
| 80 constructed as to conceal the hidden
| eternal isolation when without a wail,
| a8 no woman can be seen lawfully by
| any other man than her husband,
i8 forbidden the homage whizh all
ture demands
ful hand, and bound irrevoeably by
custom, she is compelled not only to
x183 the hand of her tyrant, but to hug
the chain which manacles her,
na-
dinary on the part of the men.
{ much as they pretend to feel delight in
| beautiful objects of nature; they will
watch the play of birds for hours, and
think it a crime to disturb or deprive
them of the free air they breathe, Yet
they incarcerate the loveliest and most
b autiful of all the Creator's works, and
think it a great favo: permit
man's enjoyment of a flowering
in some hidden recess,
50 binding is the law that no
shall see the face of a woman
property, thal in case of
{ Its sanctity it favor
tion of the ishand
| he solace his jealousy with t
the intruder, It
| 10 recognize a wi
to
i
man
net his
a violation
looks with
hi
nt
on
AC injured should
he de
v even
i
iA
permitted
he } ITY
ae Dare,
yout o
i In spite of strenuous
difficulties which environ then
women, eluding the greatest
ness are fond of coquetting,
| western sisters, Though en
rultivated they have delicate and pretty
ways, and show, as if by accident, their
beautiful dresses and jewelry in opening
| the black silk habarah which envelops
street. No women
1
language of the eves,
1. Moslem
watchful
like
{ them when on the
{ excel them in the
{| which, with them, are always large and
| wide open.
sme——————
Fetrintea Logs.
The United States snagboat Toco re-
| turned to the Savannah river iy,
where she is having some her machin.
i overhauled. She was, until a
ple of weeks ago, employed in clear
ut the Altamaha river,
h to the Oconee river. The Tocol
ymparatively light draft, but one
f the mo boats of her clas
in the Gover snl service
furnished with a good
mite cartridges and an elects
which found effi ACIOUS
work she undertook. A large number
of rocks, many projecting piles of
raft timber, besides several trees, were
the channel, so that the
is quite clear for timber rafts and
recent
from its
» . !
st powerfu
ba
sup
1
Were
in
.
removed from
ng the obstacles to navigation
{ which the Tocol encountered were
{ number of petrified trunks. of
|
and then a sociable snake which no
doubt, bored by swimming around in-
definitely in the overflow and craving
even human companionship, would
glide up on the gallery of some of the
houses, There was no means of loco.
motion except the skiff and the humble,
but ever serviceable dug-out—nowhers
otherwise or more eomfortably situated,
|
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New Orleans to St, Louis thau was ever
made before or many years after.
That year, 19 plantations out of 20
flood was over and the
arks, they were, to say the least, mal-
They were not ruined, of
course, but they had lost a whole year’s
gross income,
Moreover, the prestige of {he swamp
ished. The pla sters in the “Hills,” as
the-uplands are denominated began to
The Luxury of Grief.
Sasa sees
In one of the most crowded tenement,
house districts a funeral was in pro-
gress a day or two ago, when a reporter
for uw New Y ork paper passed by, Twen-
ty-four eoaches, a hearse and a florist’s
From the
last-named vehicle men were busy car-
the
house, The thousand windows that
lined the street on either side were full
of heads, and the heads were full of
byes, Thinking some one of local cele
brity at least was about to be carried to
his long home, the reporter approached
the undertaker, who stood in the door.
way. and asked:
“Was the deceased a ward politician,
“Neither. It isa private affair, and
the dead man was only a plumber’s
*“*But these broken columns, these
blage of coaches—surely they
crowded by the extraordinary crops al-
leged to have been heretolore produced
in the swamp.
The swamp planters set to work to
redeem the disaster and to provide, as
far as possible, against its recurrence,
With the purpose of retrieving thelr
There is a tradition that. at
a public meeting held In Greenville
Miss, , in October, 1844, among other
resolutions one
gravely and unanimously adopted to the
effect that a demand of payment within
had been overflowed that year
should be considered distinctly ‘‘perso-
nal'’—a clear case for pistols and coffee,
{ were taken from the bottom
river, About thirty miles up the nver
| from the Savannah, Florida and Wes-
| tern railway bridge, a large gum tree
{ty years ago. This huge trunk has
| broken up some very valuable raft
who are interested in the business
{ the river, There is a bend where
obstruction lies and the Joeality
to be familiarly known among the peo-
ple as the ‘Scooping Gum Beud.'
| Hers the raf'smen were always in
dread expectation of having
the
i tion referred to and carried rapudly
{ out of their control by the current,
{| which flows swiftly at this point,
When the Tocol undertook to lift
{ this sunken tree from the river bed it
was discovered that a monster of no
| nsignificant
{ had to be dealt with,
[engines and tackle of the boat were
tution, but probably this is the only
duty as a stay law,
pnt —————
Pliots and Color Blindness.
“What sort of
a light you call
do
asked the pilot of a Hudson
reporter of tl
steamboat of a
gston F man as a craft was on it
two
river te
Kin
way to
ago
“I would.call that a rel light and
other one green,"
“oirrect.”
the 1
the metropolis, a night or
man at
wheel, ‘vou ain't color blind.’
“You t as
reporier } i
dindn
ess.’
‘ware
alk enlor
much more prevalent than
supposed.’
““That’s just what the matter is,
[ tell you, the color b
at Albany has resu
of one or twe of the
ever steered a boat
[ ever tell you how to examin pit
Well here goes, You see 1 heard
darned much about the examination
befo it that I was not quite sure
mind whether I was all
’
:
generally
and,
d examinatio
ited in the laying off
best pli that
this rive Ind
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4
its
on ar.
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8
”"
I
I had beard that they
in a cellar with all t!
Li
n, and
Who exami
‘vou are q ite sure
‘Dead sure,’ says I, and I was,
‘but do vou know that
many men who come in here are ready
to swear that green bunch 18 made uj
of black threads and black « Then
as he talked he chucked me a bunch of
kind o’ pleasant Jike,
‘Just pick out all the bunches that
match that in that chair,’ The char
was full of all kinds of bunches, and 1
kept a throwing out the diffrent kinds
By and by I struck a mean
kind of a deceitful pink color, and [ put
that in the palm of my left band while
{ sorted the others, And the doctor,
savs he, for he had his eves on me all
the time, he had, though you never
would have thought it, ‘What are yo
doing with that bunch in your hand?’
And I said, ‘It ain't the color I want.’
Then he laughed, and says he, ‘you'll
do, you will. Why I've had men trem-
ble and shake as if they had the ague
when I have asked them just such a
Then he told me how pilots
would beg sometimes to be passed.
‘Often,’ he said, he would send them
home and tell them to come back
morrow or some other day, but
savs the doctor, ‘bu
1
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9
Fadi Y &
tO
they
the obstruction had to be broken up
separately. Theentire trunk had com-
| pietely pe rifled and was as heavy as
iron. One of the pieces was estimated
fragments were exceedingly beautiful,
| being of different colors—some black,
others crimson and violet, and other
contrasting shades,
esa
The Swamp Conntry.
Life in the Mssissippl swamp is
unige, but perharps never so much so
a8 during that memorable Summer.
The shallowest water for indefinit
miles in any direction, was two feet
deep, the nearest land, the “Hills of
the Arkansaw,” 30 miles away, The
mules were quartered on the upper floor
of the gin house; the cattle had been all
drowned long ago; planter, negroes and
overseer were confined in their respec.
tive domioiles, the grist-mill was under
water, and there was no means of pre-
paring corn for enlinary purposes except
a wooden hominy mortar, The hog
and hominy diet (so highly extolled by
sme people who never lived on it) was
adopted of necessity, the former being
represented by mess pork, salter than
tounge can tell,
otder will burst an old barrel,
.
5
There wero no visitors, except now
i
i
they didn't get fo in course of time.
And 1 believe him.
every year?"
“No, once is enough for the Albany
doctor. His certificate that I am all
right ison the back of my license paper;
And then
the wheelman, who had the lives of
many people in his hands, as it were,
poiuted out the various crafts at anchor
and others under way, He could tell
them as well in the inky 7
Hots
of bem have opinions of their own.
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Paper Bottles,
A great trade in pacer bottles is grow.
ing up in Germany and Austria. Ten
per cent, of rags, forty of straw, and
tifty of brown wool pulp are used in
making them, Thin paper is coated
and impregnated with a solution com
posed of sixty per cent, of defibrinated
fresh blood, thirty five of lime, and five
of sulphate of ammonia; dry and coat
again: pat ten or twelve sheats togeih.
er and then dry in heated moulds under
pressure, They are made in two pieces
and joined afterward, and are said to
be perfectly proof agmiust spirits aud
ot her liquids,
Mr. W H Preece, whila pratslog the
hght obtained from elvotricity (no a Jee.
ture delivered in London the other even.
ine, strongly condemued eleotrio light.
ing fnanee,
“The luxuries of grief,” ssid the
“It is the
poor man that has the largest funeral,
It is what he lives for, He goss with
plain clothes, eats coarse food, and lives
in crowded tenements, all that he may
have a large show when he dies, The
importance of a certain class of people
relations In style,
I do not
suppose the dead man ever earned more
than $2 a day, while his funeral will
I do not like to charge so
much, but if I don’t de it some one else
will.”
“Then big funerals, costly ones,
1
por?’
“Very, especially the poor Irish and
talians, They want the best make of
coffins. Only solid silver plates will do
for some of them, while in the matter
roaches they mnst have one for every
ly they have ever known. I have
shed funerals for parties for which
| I have had to charge $250, when I knew
| the people were 80 poor that they never
| had meat more than once a week, They
eclipse their ne in
show, If one person comes to me and
i ri Very
(aesire Ignoors
g
him with vaches, his
il not
n twenty, and so if
aborer and mechanic is
the florist and u has,
ey always want a big show and pay
shi for what get, 1 remember
to the Almshouse on the
over to
} Riva
& inthales
poor
goes,
; cus-
the
tomer dertaker
they
Island one day, and among th
was an old woman who came and spoke
She called me by name and
me very well, so I
new what
hes Was, gine my surprise
when she toid me I had buried her son
less than three months before that time,
it it was true, and for that son’s fu-
ral, she had paid out nearly $500, and
yet, here was a pauper. Priests
have committed their trust immense
irposes, by people so
unot buy coal except
strange and sad, but
+ 0"
rue
ne and
he aug
In
I
B
ne
she
to
sums for burial pi
poor that they «
by the pail. 1
till for all that i
“a
+
L's
18
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te
Cojlor.-Sense of lusects,
Whit proofs can be shown that the
f insects are thus due to sexual
place, we have
bees at least, and
do distinguish
80,
tiont in
ain fact
wrobably other
nd remember
but their tendency to follow c¢
been str mg enough | { i
beautiful blossoms of our fields and gar-
Moreover, have seen that
bees which are flower haunters,
are guided greatly by « WASPS,
which are omnivorous, are guided 10 a
less extent, and ants, which very
miscellaneous feeders, not at all, It
may be ohjected that in®ects do not care
for the color apart from the amount of
honey: but Mr. Anderson noticed that
when the corollas of certain flowers had
been cut away the insects never disocov-
ered or visited the flowers; Mr.
Darwin lopped off the big lower petals
of several lobelia blossoms, and found
that the bees pever noticed them,
though they con-tautly visiged the
neighboring On the other
| hand, many bright colored bells have
honey, but merely make a great
show for nothing. and so deceive insects
into pay ng them a ca'l on the delusive
exp «ctation that they will be asked to
| stay to dinner. Some very unprincipled
flowers, ike the huge Sumatran rafliesia,
thus takes in the carrion flies, by resem-
bling in smell and ap earance a decay-
| ing piece of meat. Mo eover, certain
| insects show a preference for certain
special flowers over others. Une ay
watch for hours the visits paid by a bee
or butterfly to several dozens of one
| flower say a purple lamium, ig success-
eo
se he the first
the cert that
vor has
y produce all the
we
while
lor,
ale
and
flowers.
"
no
| ion, passing by unnoticed the white or
yellow. blossoms which intervene be-
{ tween them. Friiz Muller mentions
| an interesting case of a lantana, which
| 18 yellow on the first day, orange on the
| second, and purple on the third. **This
| plant.” he says, ‘‘is visited by various
| butterflies, As far as [ have seen, the
| purple blossoms are never touched.
| Some species inserted their proboses
| both into yellow and into orange Sow-
| ers; others, as far as | have observed
| exclusively into the yellow Sowers of
| the first day.” Mr. T. D. Lilly, an
American naturalist, observed that the
| colored petunias apd moming glories
| in his garden were torn to pieces by
| bees and butterflies mn gelling «i Lhe
| honey, while the while or pale ones
| were never visited, These are only a
| few sample cases out of hundreds in
| which various ooservors have noted the
| preference shown by insects for blos-
| soms of a special color,
i sna AI
sunshine,
Many a child goes astray, not because
there is a want at home, but simaply be-
cause home lacks sunshine. A child
needssmiles as much ad the owers need
sunbeams. Children look litte beyond
the present moment, If a thing pleases,
they are apt to seek it; | 10 displea es,
they are apt to avoid it. [1 Lome 8 a
place where faces are sour, and words
trsh, and fault Gnding 18 ever in the
ascendant, they will spend »8 many
hours ns possible elsewhere,
MIP I 550s
Do it well, that thou mayest not do
it twice,