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
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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.