BETTER LUCK ANOTHER YEAR. Oh! never sink "neath fortune’s frown, But brave her with a shout of cheer, And front her fairly—face her down— She's only stern to those who fear! Here's *better luck another yeaxi" Another year! Aye, better luck another year! We'll have her smile instead of sneer—— A thousand smiles for every tear, With home made glad and goodly cheer, And better luck another year — Another year! The damsel fortune still denles The plea that yet delights her ear; *Tis but our manhood that she tries, She's coy to those who doubt and fear; ghe'll grant the suit another year! Another year! TL ask me, an’ hanged of I you hadn't, Hope you'll sleep well,” I bad him a cordial good night, and with one more glance at the beautiful peared with a lighted candle, conversation of the next morning, I know that I saw a beautiful face, that I sat down when an elfin little hand drew out a chair, that 1 music of a sweet voice and when I left earnestness, the old man good-bye. I don’t know that 1 thanked him for his kindness, even after he refused to accept pay. I Here's “better luck another year! She now denies the golden prize; But spite of frown and scorn and sneer, Be firm, and we will win and wear With home made glad and goodly cheer, don’t know how I mounted my horse, whether I climbed on like all awkward judges do, or whether 1 was lifted into | the air by admiration for the girl, and | In better luck another year! : another year! Another year! IA ERATE TOC THE GIRLS CHOICE, Judge Williams, one of the best known justices occupying the U. 8. circuit bench, after listening to a party of lawyers the other day, lighted his pipe, leaned back in a easy chair and sald: “Gentlemen, your stories of courtship and marriage are quite interesting and romantic, but I believe that it is re- served for me to tell you of a love | affair which. I am inclined to think, | will teach vou that the common-place marriages of every day life are not worthy of a place in our most prosaic novels or even our spirited conversa- Quite a number of years ago, after the war I was appointed judge of a southern circuit. I attended strictly to the discharge of my duty, tions. frst JUsL zh very fond of ladies’ society in my rounds I met very few re- ves of the falr sex who in tl Li and althou ssentatl 1e impressed me. One day, during crossed the river about away from tream was so swollen that by had had spread my regular beat, n I had landed, the su darkness face of the earth, and, 14 ii itself over the scern, the bosom of bt find a road when the hat! as far as I could and made inquiry of n. who, in effect, declared t ad never ‘made geography a study take care of myself. to abide by the after character” I must i intended advice, and extremity of such thanking my ‘‘water-side for information which, to say the was self-apparent, I turned, I pot where, and began a solitary journey through the woods, 1 + » i8ASL, knew I had not gone far when I eame upon a large log house, surrounded by a well-kept fence and almost covered by a thick growth of wild vines. I was assailed at the by an army of Their fury brought out an old man who droye them away and a asked me what I wanted. my misfortunes water; that dogs A083, in voice of t attendant 1 was a Federal § deavoring to reach the appointmer He very cordially invited me into house.” “A jedge ur a constable i welcome at my said, throwing more wood “1've know what it is, “wYeoz ] office under ment.” *“That house at sich a time as this,’ he ou i on the fire, been cotched out myself and I So you are a jedge?’ ing 84) States Govern- a t eet ta nd $ am a judge. hold the United the Lit means you ain't a State t 2 _ it don’t make any difference, wouldn’t help a State jedge no quicker than I woul Myra, see if there is anything to eat in the house.’ 1 looked up and the girl to whom he spoke stood near me. She moved away immediately after being addressed, but not so soon that I failed to note the ex- | treme beauty of her face. 1 saw her wealth of bright, firelight-reflecting hair, her glorious depth of eye, her | ruddy fall-of-the-year cheek and rasp- | berry mouth. She seemed to pay no | attention to me, but obeyed without hesitation. Presently she re-appeared and announced that there was some- 1 you. was spread on the table. “Come.”? he said, and conducted me | to the dining room. Although 1 was petite could have been satisfied by al ful girl who attended the repast. The gpare ribs and back bone and mashed potatoes were excellent, I admit, but that magnificent face which bent above it all, far exceeded any banquet that I had ever seen. “Myra,” said the old man, after we had gone in and taken position before the tire, **hand around the pipes,” with natural leat tobacco, We puffed and puffed and tasked and puffed. I told my experience and the old man told his, Uncle Sam, bim a colonel, The old man had no family except Myra, his daughter. He seemed as devoted to her, and quite as much dependent upon her as Mr, Wick- lift was upon Agnes. I had been so much interested in the conversation, and especially with the vecas onal glance cast at Myra, that I did not think to ask the old man his name until just about the time we were ready to go to bed, “My awe 18 Jassmire,’’ he said; ul was wonderin’ ef you was ever goin’ to The truth is, how long I'll be a divinely drawn plcture which the very sunlight itself framed and hung before me. The routine of court duty was very dull after this, and I longed for the { i { | { old log house, which to me held such enchantment, Previously I had lament- ed the nat I had remained a bachelor, but now 1 was glad, because ideal, Idon’t know how many sentimental decisions 1 made during that court, but I don't think that it would shed the hight of very credit on my judicial career If the condition of the country | should arise and demand a statement, After log h the same, never rapture I noticed that the {act session of much awhile I went back to the old 1 found the old man just He as if 1 geen but house, welcomed of me had me | ore i ‘ : though sh ti was @ had seen me alad that sho This time I leave 80 lingered several river with helped her gt I roamed noontide, rabbit an with Al Ways | Not thera such had yest Hey 1 all escape ou DOTS Was for “iy if I, for myseil, + vO en one compares with beauty, her grace and her voice. When I spoke of my leaving, the gi slight! ‘ t the $ hat bu objected, and even demurred, but I told them of pressing importance was f aiming at- tention from ti North to But autiful girl with a way that s Paul, that 1 leave them ight, had found I made a great effort to the slightest yw, and } ANXWUS S31INe8s the South. Wis $ wa rhat. | Ml KJ seemed sy n, I decided that return within days. i *t care t ] anderstand., Well ant not because 1 really had any l because 1 1 not a few it wit OVEIrao 1s, You did not by time, know. I was dead in love with Myra, I couldn't a sh time. When I returned they were all glad Bee Myra, it me, me, and I would er but I SOR shin % 3 oh es, this you maj remain away but ort to me, aeeined wanted to kissed h chance. ever, and when at night ed out under the stars 1 feit that she loved dreamed of her, Her growing acquaintance with books pleas- ed me, for | knew she studied for my sake. The old man, too, seemed chang- ed toward me. 2 didn’t have a have good She was more lovely than we walk- me, I He spoke when we me how glad he was that I bad come to visit him. I saw that he knew that I was in love with his daughter, and with thankfulness I noted that he en- couraged my suit, One night, after fellow removed his gaze from said: “Myra world.” “Youn needn't tell me that.” said I, “for I know it.”’ “Her husband will be a happy man, ”’ | “A glorious man,’’ 1 assented, | “I hope that you'll not regret the day when you came here,” is the best girl In the Myra and I understand each other.” “You do?” { “Yes, sir.” | “I am glad of it. | speak out and I am glad that you know | 18. Speakin' on the subject might | shock her. Well, good night,” and he | | grasped my hand warmly. That night I could not sleep. I knew that the old man understood my great love for his daughter, and with a thrill I saw that it met with his approval. ext morning I was determined to ask him for her, so, after breakfast, when he invited me to take a walk with him, I thought that he had divined my fritention. Myra, too, seemed to know that something was likely to pass be- tween us, for she shook her fist in a charming way at me when we left the house. I looked back and saw her peering at me, with such deep fixed love in her glances that I thought I turned to the old man and talked to | him about his hogs and sheep. I de- though I knew he would willingly con- cult matter. “When I get to that Just as we came to the tree ask him.” “You've knowed my darter for some “Yes, sir.” “Not such a long time, it’s true, but “I am proud of it.” “Thank you, sir. Well, now I'l tell you. My darter is going to be | married next week, and I want you to be with us.” “To whom? I grasped. “To a ferryman down here. She's been engaged to him a long time.’’ I said nothing as we returned, but | when I found the girl alone I said: “Don’t you know that I devotedly?” love you “Of course I never knew it, Judge.” Jut I do, and want you to be my wife.”’ “Judge, 1 can’t, I Tom t am going to mar- | ferryman. I know you are a ‘good man and I don’t want you to think 1 won't marry you you are judge. Position makes no difference with me, and if 1 a man I would marry him, even was a judge i TJ Patrall, the because a loved if he would a ferryman, will underst ust as sS00n &a& 1 and I hope that and that position for must be Resnerm ta . influenced iis case, even you are a judge, 1 say that) have ever conducted yourself as a fect gentieman.” “Why didn’t you id been a captain the | a +s Water Baths, take a spon every iF butt 4 x tar?! § IL Deller L waler? O use There is no reason to belisave thal silt The we take | N does it have any particamlar effect on healthy ln, ” .. x ff wr Thejuses of water, as ordinary bathing purposes, is any better not absorbed, and it were, more conveniently with our food. appar surface of the body are to circulation: y of to equalize the the susceptibility of the sb : : of ten T vit Mmralure, 1 i § Te hh ramify on tl exposes the nerves whi surface, Good authorities believ in many cases the nervous gystemn Has been ne circulation ing water, In the 1 tially b sored by vapor bath rings Lhe strongly to the surface and to the ex- mities of the r any pressure on the internal organs and soothing the system generally. This plain hot bath may simply fer cleansing purposes, but specially suited to the occastonal needs of the fesble and to the first stage of a After the bath the body should be wiped quickly, and the person should pass at once, without any exposure, to | Half a pint of water, drank as hot as can be easily borne, is | helpful, especially in case of cold, or if | the person has been in any way chilled. The third object—that of lessening tr lieving tre body, thus re be used is i is cold. i i i cold sponge-bath, essential, Here quickness is | The sudden application of the blood from the surface. This is | followed by a reaction which relaxes and dilates the capillaries, bringing The cold bath is not safe for persons | i | i This reac surface of the skin and in a feeling of | warmth. The bath should be followed by a brisk rubbing of the body with a coarse towel, wh————— AS Chess, By his death Paul Morphy left a great treasure in chess in his published games, They are the most beautiful in exist. ence. ‘They are accurate as they are brilliant. The anylists find them mar. velously free from flaws. Though the troubled life of this rare genius has reached the last page, that which gave iim renown is imperishably preserved, and will be a delight as long as chesa retains its fasciaation for men of all climes and races, A Wild Whale Hunt, At Neah Bay, around Cape Flattery and down the coast from Tatoosh to Gray's Harbor, live various tribes of Indians, who, as hunters and fishers, are as hardy and fearless as any race of aboriginal men in the kndéwn world, While the writer was at Quillute, the Indian village forty miles below Cape I'lattery, last fall, a whale was sighted off the beach, and four canoes al once started toward him. Boon we Were upon the monster, who, rolling lazily along, pad no heed to the demonsira- The foremost canoo nearly to the shaft. The canoe stopped and suddenly backed, and none Wis fic smash of his flukes on the water, bare- ed. A number of sealskin fast to the harpoon-line, were thrown and each turn came up, made fast foremost canoe, U bladders, in as it Ath CANON, a line to the p came the monster, OUT CANOES were dragged th water at a fearful OCH, Four rate, hindmost canoe was hauled cautious rough the he rate as started for the five miles were run at this Of when his pace slackened, and the ix iy past the others, and another harpoon was dexterously planted, and this canoe assumed the front place in the proces- , with the others bringing up the rear. Another wild rush, but shorter than the first, and a repetition of the 5.00 performance, until there were half a HO sn harpoons affixed and double as y x lalein } 1 1 » ¥ » 3 1 many sealskin bladders drifting around the exhausted his yeyriatar swravantine monster, preventing ¥ < voy fami se} a prolongs niras {Ha MATES WO TEL no InGaAs 1 and includ perty of him whose $1 $ ‘ 4 # 31] Ve Mis BLTiRe Any days feasts, 8 stlaches celebrate their I~ and the vi finally ass 1 . 4 dis * Mal CORI --—- Caled Cushing. This great lawyer bad an imagination ~ no sympathies, nor he constructive ability. Ase had any He Yes vu $F dot iawvyel creative or was, perhaps. the finest **c of his time. splendidly His splendid mind was led with ‘“‘authorities.’ An exchange of ideas, such a8 occurs his grasp. He could talk for when he had mounted the ped- yond hours when he could get into that didactic strain. He liked to instruct other peo- ple at no matter what expense of time and trouble. He loved his family very His attachment to his nearest relatives was very much closer than is ascal. But he found difficulty in ex- pressing his affection, They had very little in common, and when he was with them, Cushing let them do all the talking. Now and then he would break in with a remark almost incom- prehensible to them. A little conver- sation ata relative’s tea table shows the man’s peculiarities, Cushing had sald nothing for some time, At length, the small boy of the there.” “John,” said Cushingy sol emnly, coming to the surface of con- sciousness again, ‘‘your remark is both vague and ambiguous,” “Well,” said Johnnie, speaking forthe mtire familye “{ didn’t understand you when you were here before, and I don’t under- stand you now." Dr. Stevenson has found that, con: trary to u general belief, considerable quantities of ino may be dissolved by water kept long 10 contact with it, ~The panic of 1857 was followed by a religious revival, The Vivjrapool., The Pinjrapool, or hospital for ani- imals, in Bombay, proved to be a large inclosure or series of inclosures, liber- ally provided with sheds and pens. We eutered at a gate where many natives were entering, without the cus- tomary formality of paying a fee. We were promptly met by a Mahommedan native in charge, who inquired of my companion, “Is your house well?” It is against the rules of Indian etiquette to specify the wife or child in seeking information touching the health. “I heard,” he continued, still in Hindoostanee, which was translated to me afterward, *‘that your eneinles were sick. This, again, is the Mohammedan way of intimating that the speaker has learned of own ill-health. Cir- cumlocutions are always employed in speaking of the health, I have learned a good many things about native cus- toms which facilitate my intercourse with the people. For instance, 1 know better than to offer to buy of a Moham- medan of rank any article belonging 10 him which I may covet, for he is sure to give it to me instead, and then ex- pect something worth twice as much in return. In the present your } t LUSe CASH our was to busy too waste much time in ceremonious babble, and we began our tour of the institution forthwith. First we visited the department of all sorts One $ wh cows, Here were bossies wi of diseases and misfortunes, had hind off above knee, Several had stiff legs that projected in various awkward ways, and seemed to a leg cut ne be quite paraly zed. Others had sores mn their bodies that were pitiable to There few calves look upon. ti had 301 al thal disease, an were inherited » mother’s informed, ye wd The MACK + WE were given Lo pool 4 witnessed ame very aged an floor of their s The cat and do different parts « The The ad Wa were cats were all seeped to be ¢ running sores, “Wouldn't it be for ea these pans irely 5 1aY How mans Oi 1 ch Ol Bom! : 1% & r from 1,200 to 1.5 in ANIMAals. cilities are inadequate to the work that is before us.”’ The same story of disease and told in other departments, those for pigs, sheep, buffaloes, mon- keys. porcupines, jackals and various kinds of birds. Besides those animals thus provided with pens, tibre were calves and goats wandering promis age WAS the cuously over the premises, and thou- sands of pigeons flying about just above our heads, 1 have never heard of any institution elsewhere that was so extensive; and yet it is curious that in these days of humane societies pagan India should furnish this single exam- ple. ———— ARI AAAI AROS Emitting LAght. After a great deal of what to the unscientific mind looks like bootless anxiety and labor it has been proven that a diamond has the quality of emit. ting light. The first trouble was to get a diamond large enough for the test. The crown jewels could not be borrowed for scientific experiments, but finally a private individual was found with a gem of ninety-two carets weight and a value of 300,000 florins which he was wilhng to lend, After the diamond had been exposed for an hour to the direct rays of the noonday sun it was taken foto a dark room and it cave forth a feeble light for a period of twenty minutes, during which it was possible to distinguish a sheet of white paper when held very near the diamond. Thus it will be seen that lighting with diamonds is not likely to become popular at once. A 500,000 florin diamond does not come within the reach of the masses and an hour is more time than many people ean afford to spend in getting it lighted. Nothing but a continuation of the old-fashion- od gas bill would drive people to light- ing {heir houses with diamonds, ¥OOD ¥OR THOUGHT, Pity is the virtue none but tyrants use it cruelly. of the law, and We may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone, Poverty destroys pride. It is difficult for an empty bag to stand upright 4 That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the What we need most is not to realize the ideal as to Iidealize real, The best preparation for Lhe future is the present well seen to, the last duty done, If we cannot liye so as to be let us at least live so as Lo deserve piness, Improvement in the daughters best aid in the reformation of the of this age. Genius follows its reaches its destination, fug a compass, When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved, To all intents and purposes will not open his eyes is, fo blind as he that cannot. Good taste rejects excessive nic it treats little & 8 and is not hurt bs; enti ie], 80 much the He who formalizes on ever) fool, and a grave fool is perhaps ipjurious than a light fool. The pity which 18 not experience is always cold help being so; it does not unde Antithesis may be blossom wit, but it wili never arrive at matur- ity unless sound sense be the uth the root. No 4 the of ty trunk and school is necessary to *hildren than because either will must 1 p&en in childhood he heart in old men had only temptall ns, they would always be go but the dally fght wilh accustoms them to defeat, It is oe adi UUs 34%.) 4 8 Se #88 Ol 5, reasoned $e reasouea vo. in ried ‘ x ana easly » wisest are alw wwledge tha 3 is Lhe : the one ought sat he has given, and ti to forget what he has 1 il be ver) nerall) ore iid rulently Cuiuy { snail pleasures 8 are is noduplicate. all spportunities col waitng to be struck. Lice all Nature's processes, old age is gentle and gradual in its approaches, streved with allusions, and all its little griess soothed by natural sedatives. Butthe iron hand is not less irresistible because it wears the velvet glove. Reason is, $0 to speak, the police of the kingdom of art, seeking only to presrve ordor. In life itself, a cold aritimetician who adds up our follies. Sonptimes,*alas ! only the accountant in ankruptey of a broken heart. That which is won iil will never wear wel, for there is a curse attends 1t whith will waste it; and the same cor- rut dispositions which incline men to thesinful ways of getting, will incline then to like sinful ways of spending. “he perfect marrage, 4s well as the pefect man, is an ideal. It is ahead figure, toward which, through mani- fad struggles, strivings and tears, hu- manity is working its higher and grad- usl approach. The world is filled with a Weary, asxious, heavy-laden hnmanity. It is tirough weakness that we must gain wrength, through ignorance wisdom, tarough experience of the past, the way ws We begin life by demanding vast middle life the reasonable mortal owns that happiness is an elusive essence, rarely found when sought as an end. trifles which for a moment, at least, unlock wide tracks of thought and feeling. Virtue is an angel ; but she isa blind her goal. Mere knowledge on the other red like a mercenary, 1s ready to combat either in ranks of sin or under the baoner of righteousnes,—ready to forge cannon balls or to print New Testaments, to navigate a corsair’s ves-. “el or a missionary ship.
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