ONE BY ONE, One by one with an eager lip Life's many cups we try, Only of poisoned drops to sip, And athirst, at last to die. One by one we build on sand, Each castle so frail and fair, Only to find they will not stand Bat dissolve at last in air, One by one we chase them far Each illusive phantom bright, Only ts find each guiding star A will 0’ the wisp in flight. One by one, oh! beautiful dreams, We hug them to our heart, Rut, like the song of frozen streams, Their witcheries all depart. One by one each friend we made Chamelions proved, of clay; Sunshine's roses, swift to fade, Their thorns, alas! may not decay. One by one our pleasures pall, And break the reeds we trust; One by one our idols fall, Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. One by one with weary lip Life's failing founts we try; Lees of gall and wormwood sip, Mocked with vinegar, die, ETAT. JESSIE'S HERO, “One, two, three, four,” said Jessie Ashton, as she sat in her tasteful 1ittle I can hardly say, gentlemen, four pieces formed me this morning that they are ine, 1 suppose, that I am dying for the Conceited numbskulls! If they had any brains they might see that 1 don’t care and that it makes me sick whenever they come near me with their airs and graces, Not her tures! 1.2 pretty head, golden curls all over her face. “i ladyl shook sending her think it is very foolish and un- ike in you to talk that way, Jes- wl 1 who had at yn; very annt aunt er it way of exclaimed Jessie, toss k her curls. “If they would o wotld think, adoring me I But only bobbin me an augelic they adore me and t not 1 live five 1 promise to 1 and all that sort of thin fime I am longh Now, that don’t Ik nearest approa« to their dying of love for me, altl I don’t believ art eal wCome or ba i 10 14, Goes ii 1 +} i Li em all, juenca or they reach 1t } TY én OIE. ass i# possible ir Olierss put said not so silly J E8818 am as o I mean Jlow- one who cares « ¥ Y rks that he has a noble nature within hi One would forget self and give hi need be, to save another. That's the man for me! With ] continued, with and two bright tears gliste eyes, ‘‘with such a man I could wil- lingly, gladly trust myself for life with the sweet assurance that I would never be less dear to him than on the day I became his bride.” Wholly carried away by her enthusi. asm, she bust into tears, while Aunt Jarbara watched her In dignified si- lence. After a long pause, she said, sarcastically: “If those are your sentiments, it will | be a long time before you hero. As for me, I shall not trouble | myself any further about getting good match for you. 1 resign all re- | sponsibility about you;”’ and Miss Bar- | bara majestically left the room, Jessie raised her hand and wiged her eyes, .] what Aunt Barbara says,’ I'll die an old maid | sooner than marry one of those fops;' | and she took up some embroidery and worked away energetically upon it. A day or two after this, as Jessie was seated in the parlor reading, her brother entered the room, saying: “Come, Jessie, you are losing all your roses by staying in the house 50; come and take a walk, won't you?” “Willingly.”” said Jessie; and soon, equipped, they started forth, *8o you gave your fond adorers the mitten the other day, did you? inquired her brother, as they walked on, “| guess 1 did,’ replied Jessio; **] put a & pte thelr tactics instanter,” | “Ae wen broken-hearted, 1 | creatures; who bas proved by his wi m., he moment of danger, who, In t 8 life, if such a man,” she her cheeks fowl giowing nin g in her meet your ol don't care she said. i Yr | suppose? ly. “Never fear,” returned Jessie; ‘they have as much heart or gizzard 1ow as they ever had, | guess jut, Walter, 1 wonder what has become of Edgar St, Clair, whom we met last winter? He 1s of those 1 like and highly. He was so different from my late adorers, I—" said her brother, laughing- one that Immense crowd coming. Some- thing unusual must be the matter.” Jessie steps, sight originated in a large dwelling house, The firemen, who had arrived, bad exclaimed Jessie, “Oh, that I could There must be some child in the burning building.” “Come away, Jessie,” said Walter, ’ us stay here.’ “Oh, yes, Walter—stay, stay,"’ Jessie, springing “I am hero, and I must Seal” she con- tinued, turning toward the fire, *‘there is some one going up the 'adder. He the Oh, may he be successful!” As she spoke a young man had forced his way through the crowd, had ascend house, safe reaches window. stretching forth his arm, was soon seen rapidly decending, bearing a child in his arms. As he reached the ground. another he and gain he sprang up crowd at 1 window A t the screamed for help. the ladder, bu ing forward shool T1ITh er Ti ied t yours?" ‘Edgar Nan. Jessie turned hide her emotion. “Tis be, indeed “I knew it. 1 felt it. Ob Father , spare his noble lif “Do little?" she tes HII: ' Hi 3 she 1 . Heavenly atts you feel well enough to talk a Pi “If you do, tell me how you could ; cend that fearful we] said, approaching him again §- ladder so disabled?” returned Edgar, with kindling eyes. “The child was all in my thoughts, I did not pain or see the danger. hut do not know." was feel the first left Jessie which he anxiously movement, himself, At last him to sit down on a shady seat in the garden, saying, laughingly: “Remember, Dr, A- into my charge, and you must obey all my commands,” He looked up archly replied: his room. watched his lie overexert every least should she vrevalled into her face, you will find me missing. that I really enjoy this freedom.’ A few days after this, Jessie came into the room where Edgar was sitting in a large arm-chair, and said, with a “You've been so good, and obeyed my directions so well, that I am going to give you a great treat, Papa has had “The ladder gave way, and came crashing to the ground,” replied Jessie, shuddering; “the child fell from your arms, and was caught by one of the crowd, but yon struck the ground, 1 think. My brother passed forward and lifted you up for dead, and brought you That was three days ago. Oh, how earnestly we watched for the first here, The certain you were dead.” “I have been mercifully preserved,” said Edgar, and the doctor coming in at that moment, prohibited further eon. versation at present, The months wore away, bringing strength and health te the invalid, Jessie was his constant nurse, and when his brow was heated with fever, no hand could soothe like bers, no touch feel so refreshing. Perhaps it was partly this that helped him to recover so soon, for he Joved his sweet littl nurse with all the ardor of his strony nature. For hours she would sit by his side, with her soft, cool hand on his brow, and he would sink into alnmbey for which be swoke strens thened ane afreshed, Bright despairing. doctor was almost und fovone wae the dav oy thinks a ride would do you good; 80 i8 it yea or nay?” is, if you will accompany me."’ Oh, certainly,” replied Jessie; didn’t intend to trust you out alone.” In a few moments all was ready, and they started off, after a strict injunc- tion not to be gone too long. They rode on in silence for some time, and at last Edgar said: ® “Have you not found it very tedious to stay in doors to take care of me?" **Oh, no, indeed,” have been again." replied Jessie; ‘t] repaid by seeing you well “My darling exclaimed Edgar, little Jessie!” suddenly clasping her in his and kissing her you for life, darling? YOu arms sweet mouth, will consent 1 Nay day, All 5 ¥ ch those who it declare to be amazin s wishes to get ground, ants out of ] ah DOUgn, ont a bee-tree, fruit SHOWS 48 Ingenious and skilful any other anlmal that wils, As has to live by its To get, for instance, at the beetle-grubs, it scratches off the upper earth and then sucks them up out a prodigious reserve of air-force could hope to accomplish. When it wishes to empty an ant hive it Knocks the top off with its paws, and then, all the ants and their eges up into the mouth like through pneumatic it " bees tube, When robbing does not get corns it not only balances itself with all the judgment of a rope-walker, but uses its weight bring other boughs within reach of its curved claws. Nor while doing this does it conceal what it is about, On the contrary, when sucking at an ant heap or grub-hole it makes such a noise that on a still evening it can be heard a quarter of a mile off, and when up a ree, and not alarmed, it goes smashing bout among the bough vere not only the rightful lords of the nanor, but as if there were no such hings as enemies in the world, —-— Humanity judges humanity by it olf 1 A Balmon's Whiz. A veteran salinon fisher says: 1'd rath- | er catch one twenty-five pound salmon than a wagon load of any other fish that { swim, What do you think of having | to chase a fish two miles and more after | you've got your hook in it, and afte: { you catch up with it | with having to tussle it lke a Grmco-Roman wrestler for an hour, may- be, before 1t’ll give | up the sponge? Well, I had to do that | last season with a salmon, and he wasn’t an extra large one, either. He only | weighed twenty-three pounds. The salmon rivers are all streams with swift currents, whirling rapids and high falls, You won't find this king of fish in any other kind of water. It don’t make any difference how steep the falls are the salmon goes up stream just as easy a8 he does down. A salmon will go up | an almost perpendicular fall as slick as you could slide down a greased tele. graph pole, “Did you ever see a salmon take the fly? Well, then, when your first salmon appears to you you won't know whether faint ‘Halle The salmon’s when hb in to shout haunt, prey, is or lujah!’ 8 1 wait for in some deep. quiet pool, where the waler eddies and tates, and then passes slowly on. | the bank above this pool, or from y * ’ 1 1 we 2 ’ fw 3 soo fe | canoe, you cast your fly on its surface. Now, the beauty about salmon fishing | AY 4 irl s : 2 18 that your tackie isn’t heavier much than if you were whipping some moun- tain brook for trout. Your rod is elas. tie and strong, and your reel must hold at least Your te 1 surface, and if J00 feet of fine silk line. y drops lightly on the { the salmon i8 in the humor he goes for Now, a trout rises to a fly op and a whirl, and away - on The Herder's Enemy, ‘ wote the Oregor the fact. If the from the camp at apt to find once proceeds to feast upon of the flock. kill one and IR; rates, and lead them for fun. The in frightened squads all over the range, The coyotes will then quit, as though aware that a more vigilant watch be kept, and will turn their to some neighboring herd until the pre. raid shall forgotten, On stantly being killed off, either by being or poisoned. The latter mode effective, but 18 attended with serious danger to the shepherd dogs which in spite of the utmost precaution | often hunt up the poison and eat it. -—— sheep wander away night, the covete is ‘ out before the herder does 3 the and al finest If very hungry he he will devour nearly th ii whole of then summon his confade- to the slaughter sheep soon scatter will atten’ ion night's be { vious n Coyotes are ¢ some measure shot is more in the Woods, In one of the Philippine Islands it is customary when a young fellow asks | the old folks for their daughter to send | her into the woods at sunrise, and if the lover finds her before sunset she is his. If not, he forfeits all claim. The gir] 1s given one hour the start, This gives her a fair chance, and she can use her own judgment about hiding after she gets in the woods, sa itll sass | Truth may be defeated, | conquerad, When the judgment is weak the pre jndice is strong If yon wish to begin at the lowest but never reach the higiest The Gamblers' “square Game.” The claim 18 often made that many gamblers do “a square business; they give every man a fal to win their money, and only expect in return an even chance; but the fact is this is pure fiction. A ‘squarely dealt” (7) game has an immense advantage over the players in three things—the “splits,” the capital it is played on, and last, but not least, an expert to deal the cards, It would be impossible to compute the value of the percentage to be derived from the “splits,” as in a *“‘square game’’ no two deals will run alike, But of every bet affected by a ‘split?’ fifty per cent. goes to the game, An expert dealer can “rip the deck for splits,” and it is the trick most practiced, because It quires least skill in manipulating cards, that chance ts ré-~ the The second advantage is graduated by each player. Say, for example, eight players are in front of jointly show up the table, and (produce) The game's capital being $2,000 is increased Now, $400. to $2,400—by the sale of chips. if one man were to play the whole $400, the game would have the advantage of in the ratio of Then, as the li he game is $100 on six to one in betting him capital, allowed by mit cards and he one double ng age Sian the supposition that { ou single cards or actual cases, 1 advant is twenty four to i} vil bet by e limit 1s ime, which 1s every 1 never done ‘suckers,’ and but The fact | between sionals, ded average capital eign! of $H ate playing against der can figure the I will average dealer $2, , 4nd a WOE WAYS present, and which is { sin milk ree ould count. in fac against There with the able. which be condemned on their ac- not They are avoidable, and do not, t, give much ground for complaint the use of chease, $ things use of cheese equally avoid- are other connected give nse Lo we H-grounded that gre aginst its good name and ing i quently complaints, telling heavily ' Bear- mind the indigestible, and conse- condition of as is called, tat abates gradaally use, I unwholesome, newly-pressed curd, or, it and Oniy green cheese, remembering this condition the cheese ill eff ) i tion as advances in curing, the ects of putting it into consump it yel understood, LOO in Those all familiar with the traflic in cherse know very well that y fe 43 SOON, While is ve ory Bret Who are n state, will x at much ef the cheese of commerce, when into consumption, is wo imperfectly cured to have its food fully available. It isso indidestible as to be unhealthful, and it is used at a loss be- cause much of it is not digested at all. Thus the practice of thrusting green cheese upon the markets gives rise to just grounds for objections to its health fulness and value, and greatly restricts its consumption, all of which would be obviated by retaining the goods in the curing room till they are fit for use, It goes val ue af i mi What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is no! mine Dy ocovmng Hts, bn ment is not a fruit of hum - de, 4 i i «PROT Te ree vyOOUD »OR THOUGHT. (rood virtue, True merit, is, the lens noise IL make A virtuous life B16 11 coin of anners are the iil # § } 5 ¥ IEe a river, the deeper it it nappy con- nee 1s a grand success, Keep your character on your fore. ead ; your life in your heart, He that would not when he m shall not when he would, Vnlgarity, pure and sim tending to be what you a . Theft is no less theft because | countenanced by political usage. He surely is most in want of another's patience who has none of his own, We cannot right every wrong, we can, indeed, wrong every right, atid igi ty pie, ¥ ‘ re To be good and disagreeable 1s high treason against the royalty of virtue, forin the 11 character. Actions, looks and word: steps by which we may sp batire lies about men of letters du ing their life, and serves as a veil their death. A little praise is good for a shy tem- per. It teaches it to rely on the kind- ness of others. There cannot than to of his di be a greater ruden interrupt another in the current COUTSE, Good taste rejects excessive little ittle ig not hurt by them, So long as the 1 Lhe outcast things wings it treats s 48 | ich remals poor the gull will widen and deepen. hem Go Wl councils observed ich, , wh to strange, undutif neglected, at least as poll others | important to you t The firm wit " +3 4 withioul Silid, a8 stinence who have power those boa w {to be sil who hs say, In mankind make vices of the pleasures which thes af infly $08 OF Al AVE sh $ or 10 rt and virt: are subject. Kindly in the morning; it the cares of the day, and makes wusehold and all affairs move along smoothly, Speak Kindly at for it may be that before dawn, some loved one will finish his or her space of life for this world, and it will be too late to ask forgiveness A poor widow, to shelter her boy from the snow which blew through the cracks of her hovel, cover him with boards, said the boy, “*what do poor cold weather who have no cannot en'oy, to whi HL h they ils rh t gui nt Sy Yon s * aod i-1nd not having bed<lothes fy 1 used to “Mother,’ folks do this rds to put upon their chiidren?”’ When we i will be gre et (0 heaven, no doubt for nearly K Liere iL surprises Here we are like chestnuts ith the burrs, : there we will be hie burrs, and many of us will be astonished to find there that we are not thought ourselves on i O61 UK, on i A | ithout 3 half so big as we earth, Wait not for your difficulties to cease; there is no soldier's glory to be won on peaceful fields, no sailor's daring to be shown on sunny seas, no trust or friend ship to be proved when all goes well, Faith, patience, heroic love, devout courage, gentleness, are not to be form- ed when there are no doubts, no irrita- tions, no difficulties, Exquisite fineness of nature is quite compatible with heoric bodily strength and mental frmuess ; in fact, herole strength 13 nol conceivable without such delicacy. Elephantine strength may drive its way through the forest, and feel no touch of the boughs, but the white skin of Hower's Atrides would have felt a bent roseleaf, vet subdue its feeling in glow of battle and bebave hike iron.
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