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.