EE —— —————— re — —— WATCH YOUR WORDS. For words are wonderful things : They are sweet like the bee's fresh honey ; Like tho bees they have terrible stings. They can bless, like the warm, glad sun. shine, And brighten a 1 oan cut, in the str open, two.ed 11¢ mnely itfe ol knife them longed, If their errand is true and kind ; If they come to support the weary, To comfort and help the blind; If a'bitter, revengetul spirit ‘rompt the words, let them be unsaid; They may {lash through a brain likes light- ning, Or fall « pass through Lon a heart ke lead Keep them back, if thoy re cold Under bar, and lock, and seal ; The wounds they make, my darlings, Are always siow to heal, May peace guard your lives, and ever, * From the time of your early youth, May the words that you daily utter Be the words of beautiful truth. IIE URS SRL. THE VAQCK OF CARDS. Was many years ago that Journeyed down the valley of the Mis- sissippl. The country was then wild and cruel, I¢ ii man being. It was solitary work, I ASSHTe vou. One evening as I was where 1 should an be mght, I distinguished ground, bank, track of path which I followed and presently found myself among one of those primi- tive habitations called log houses, the door of tl} house d man. Alth about 80, he appeared stroz as a of 50. With } only son, a vigorous man of his son’s wife and a 12, whose face, like bad an Oriental character, asylum for upon the §g elt Laie Leiore is i A } i seated an ol 1 and robust man i 10 years, 11 il 3 : that Lilau I entered the humble dwelling, but I mistress of the house. imple rustic woman x] to see, I found mvself whom 1 face to : a lon, all indicated, as I have said, an Her husband called he: name made me think of Jewish ori- a], and this first that she migh n, but I was mista his Rayner family, so diff any I bad ever met in all my wander- ings, awakened in me a lively interest and gave we the idea that some str event must Ye occurre house, After supper around the tire, 11 a pack ol cards nailed against aichimney. It was eusy to see that before being placed there, they had been well worn by the hands of players. The smoke had blackened them. hut the ace of hearts still bt gl ¥ ey i . F wiich p *You have there,” I sald sud 4 singular chimney ornament.” i smiled as I uttered the words, one responded to the smile. On th contrury, I noticed upon my host's fa a sudden expression of sadness... Mrs, Rayner arose and left the room. When she had gone her husba said m Yes, what you see th expiain it « u filer even Bil lifferent from « 3 sealed we +4 1 wotice as wele shone £ iat Lied ereed It. } il . to 8: ere 18 Singiar., I pr vers ZA If man returned, 1 ns family Bible which she table a tool had stop inh before. He read a offered a fervent When ti ended, Mrs Rayner bade us and withdrew with her child. man also retired, and I remained alone with son, who of Li wih a0 again alluded to the re about the cards, Young man.” that pack of card tory which I believe | to who like yourself, is jus yi méncing life. [It me a grave reminder and a warning, as solemn, I dare to say it, as the Holy Book {ref which my has Ie i “Twel Je £6) venture ha to me, and I were 1. this house, made but littl ey, but still less, 80 we happy. Worry, us Twalve vedrs ago, then one hot day in August, I was seated in the shade of a tree half asleep, awakened by a cry of distress, ” went ufterwen before her hus ilo ihe | y 1 reading few verse wid nl i Dd ese devotion 1 old his ord, irk 1 had made is y 1 8OeIDN fat hor fiat Lalit Us ¢ a } 4 - 1 VOArs a this strange wu Ao fabd My father We We spent I leap. direction whence the cry came, bending over the body of his horse, serpent. but it was too late, the poison had done its werk, and the poor creature soon ceased to live, had watched my operations in silence, careworn face. Age or fatigue had bent his body, but had not extinguished the with an extraordinary lustre. elegantly dressed, waistcoat hung a massive gold chain, tune,’ 1 said to him. “Bahl he replied, tranqguilly, “it is an accident that ean soon be remedied, Yon have a good horse, and I hope you will seil iL to me." 1 had no idea of parting with him, but where is the American who, w en he finds an opportunity, refuses a good bargain, I considered, too, that we had two horses in the stable, and thal a certain sum of money would be very useful to us just at that time, as it would enable us to improve our farm, I sald to the stranger: “*1t 18 a suberb animal, ”’ “1 see it is,” fed, ‘so I am willing to pay well for it.” “There my good fellow*'’ he said, think that “No; never,” “May this sum You Your horse has no concealed defect?” “No. I added: “But 1 not to have asked more than $150 for “And that troubles your eonscience, At these words he took from pocket a pack of cards, the same cards WY as) “We will play, he said, tl hie $20 which disturb you. Mechanically invitation, knowing that resistible fascination. “What will ver play?” he asked, and he named twenty games of which I nev- “You do { Know sald, in surprise. [ named one with which I sometimes innocently amused myself with my fa. ther, “Ah! Why di no game?’ he any d I not think of that be- iL. Cut!" I cut the cards, am not deceiving you." i § paper, upon which he wrote: “Good for a ring and a diamond pin worth $700, I believed as I read these lines that was mad, and 1 was this when he added: “That is not all, my dear Rayner. the same time a wife,” At these words I burst out laughing. fectly serious. I was never more You want a wife, do you not?” 850, 1s *You are a fine fellow. You deserve ‘2 hope so, necessary to inspire love, sensible, intelligent, educated, tachel’s She is gentle, education?” “She is called Rachel?” “Yes”? “*And her family name?” that you do not still us?’’ *I am decided, I must.” **And how are you going to travel? think of leaving Then, after a moment's s.lence, he added: *“There is more than one way getting out of the world, and that is the jour- ney 1 propose to make. Life is an un- thing. Little as it is worth, most men wish to prolong it indefinite- ly. I, on the contrary, have had enough of it, and I renounce it. All my ar- rangements are made, and, as I have told you, you will be my heir.” ‘In the name of Heaven, I cried, “do not speak thus,” “Rayner,” he replied tranquilly, “you are a good fellow, Do not interrupt me. I have but a short time to talk to Presently you can talk all you oH please; 1 shall not interrupt you. diamonds. ”’ The luck me. whieh I had still stuck to I won the diamonds, and with t! *‘Marvelous!” he said, ‘‘I am entire- yours, I ly satisfied with yon; all is +s $ only beg you to lend me your horse that “This horge your service,” 1 and more brilliant, did not dare As the game progressed he asked OECHINe more brilliant that | them, our situation and manner of living. After I had answered him frankly he said to me: “Yon are af you are also lucky at play.” Fortune favored me. I won. t wish to take my winnings, iii Yarn 134 3 OLE i ine fellow; let us see if | a continued, throwing four gold eagles before him; *‘give with an eager- mceal, me 3 Y I obeved vald not e and again he doubled 550. 1 felt the sand, witha ip the cards, Woking at k his purse from his if, witli a smile Keep your mo- me return to my house.’ | uneasy, if { an the price tha thea 1m Lil iil fee HAr more th { § Bumbow WARINDOW, elo } from asked for Then 1 money, and left ** XY ou are my heir,” as my purse what 1 really need.” While he bent over head away. he had mounted the and departed ata gallop. All he had lost lay before me, except OOK the rest is now money, | the Tse, up what he had left, and ina f # Of ¢ 13 te Xe USE, Late ; ur dwelling, I told Rainbow, and gave hit relale FRNA : + % ’ “ A OU DAVE Teall y said to Hes i LN u are enim exiya Wine V sweets 1? Twent v.vn FELAYE, ‘es. But I have sweetheart This country is hardly a0 not Know a girl wuom I should wish ) FY 10 tO In “1 LOO ex pe however it you are not ting. “No, I do not think so. But it seems y preference for the woman he wished to | marry, and I have never felt anythin of the sort.” ‘I see that you are not easy to capti- vate, but I do not blame you. How- ever, there are some women. He stopped suddenly at these words, | **There are some women,’’ he eontin- ued in a moment, This time again he did not finish his | ¥ * “Now, Rayner,” he cried good-hu-| moredly, ‘“‘play your best. Your Rain- bow may still be yours, But 1 warn youmy play is not to be despised. What do you do?” ! “1 play nna! “Very well. Play.” i “1 laid down the ace of hearts, the | same which is there upon the chimney." “Decidedly, '* exclaimed the old man, *you are a lucky man; both the money | and the horse are yours, “Thanks!” said I to him as I arose, “But that is not what I want. I do! not know why I have played so long! with you, except that I did not wish to | be disobliging, Now that we have fine | “You are a fine fellow," replied the | Know that among men a gaming debt is sacred. He who loses must pay, aod he who wins must receive, There is our money, and the horse Is yours, But I am not through with you yet, 1 like you, and the chances are I shall make you my heir. 1 hope you will not refuse to give me my revenge.” “Certainly not,” “My purse Is empty, but I have ari and my od orth more than all 1 have lost. Only, IT must confess to you I have not those objects with me, I give you my word as a gentleman, and whom 1 8 il, and I faces I had ever gazed her ve beheld iG AB TOON Sot : my ward, gh my dear called Rachel Herder.” 3 poor hot Karat: Ait wi if Qf Ohe Of fh ri a iM ie Pid : it 4 SUCH AS IL 18 **1 do not knos wright days give you ten days. oo C4 hees g " y tine aa ry Ul Are You speaking serious tit? How. 3 frp ural, Li n girl % sei f Hifi ise wriously! Do vou doub ever, your question is nol ns LI'his young by a dear friend. id a protector—a brave I can trust. 1 bel man. I judge and ae please me and | x's husband. { my projecis: she iyoua week and I am that time you will be with each other.” was d reason LO me, 4 ten 1 to me 1 desire to evYe iave ig oe hat In ontented At the end of a week | love with Rachel, and 1 had shie reciprocated my love, “Rayner,” said 1 man me, ‘you are an honest fellow. Suppose ron go and felch a priest, What do told me there was me. You can bring and can be married 1 shall have to leave you > } § GER In ' ae oid to 4 this evening. to-morrow,"’ I could not object to sach a proposi- tion. that same evening I became Rachel’s husband. The next morning, a8 s00p a8 his breakfast was over. Eckhardtarose, put “My child 1 must leave you. I do not know when I shall see you again, 1 father, You are the wife of an honest man, and I am sure you will make an Kiss me, “No, nol” she said, ina trembling voiee; ‘do not speak so!’ And, in the excess of her emotion, she fainted. Eckhardt raised her in his arms, and bore her to the bed; then he sald to me: “It is nothing serious; she will soon od. In a few moments I went to join him I expected to find him prepared for a long journey, but to my astonishment there was neither horse nor valise, “Where is your horse?" I asked. “I have none. You know 1 lost Rainbow.” a ding do you Stila I eried, *‘can ou for a moment SUPPOSE g “Silence, Rayner, you area good boy, Rainbow is yours, you are a good boy; whether your luck at or my gene. , it matters not, I not tell you 1 was to make jou my heir?” “But,” I continued, ‘let me hope “I understand that you mean to take your life.” “That is ut you say it I were going to take true, yours,’ “lI am profoundly afflicted by your despair, May I ask the cause?” It would be a long story. to know that Every humiliates possessed tl it I am weary of exist- moment 1t is prolonged and degrades me. 1 have iree princely fortunes but ww I have not a cent, 1 as a brilliant and talented m: had 3 Toree of character nupany. Oh! if I were ctim of my error! But that poor it gentle Hachel, wh y by her dying fathe “iSO, ence, but | 3 Ally + +3 Til ! HOS Ul i 1¢ 4 b the only my own, wife I feel no unea I believe 1 for her i. these cards 1 ney are the Insts Take t IT €Yes $e 4 ‘ 1 husband You. 18 ended gen ; show them Wal J Let om my fate to shun gam- to flee from it as mortal d Now farewell; leave mea.” walked toward wed | as a Adi a Ali~ 2 Spoke iT 1 foll and si renounce his fatal r ail 1 11 §Y srg ¥ im 1pplics es0iuti he t sn we reached the bank me and said, ir 1 8 ¢ commanding “*30 and rejon : } your wife.’ UTI cried, Wing ite four generations of Jiler Catlin, KJ » Catlin, a son, aged 75 nN. Catlin, grandson, aged grand. voled 1 gong fax 9 descendants, who aged i aries Keeler, great ’ $ 11 ¢ I] C1 YEAS All t diaine and Logan and the Republi. ellier I $ant 4 ‘ OUAd LICKEL, After voting i v jacent ro he was conduct wm, and being seated re- nihusiastic greetings of {f all ages, who thronged the eager to take him by the band, or which a photographic artist came i into § £ i years of age, and was one of the escort- of this account for him, having inti- mately known him ever since he came from Connecticut and became a near neighbor of my father’s when I was but 8 years old, He was a cousin of Put. Burros and Canoes, Blifkins has been spending the past | summer 1n the Southwest, but returned to Detroit to vote, On the evening of his arrival an informal reception was | beld in Schneider's little back room, i The guest of the occasion had been di- { lating at considerable length the | sights he had seen on his trip, and the dangers he had encountered and survi. upon | attempt to ride a burro; an attempt that terminated in about thirty seconds { and confined him to the house for a | week, He concluded with the declara- | tion that if be was going to California { he would walk every step of the way in | preference to trying to ride a burro | there **Oh, shucks! | ride any | bucked. It’s 'nough to long-eared that ever Just you till you've mounted a birchbark canoe, Blif, and | you'll walk when you want to go to | Windsor.” The assertion came from Bill Mat. son, who was slowly but his way towards the bottom of a bootleg of beer, “You're that you Bil.” **No, I ain't, Blif, As the married schoolma’am said when she reached down for her slipper to spank her own youngun, I've had ’sperunce, "You don’t mean to tell me that vneast Yan nav birehbark canoe, do vou Bill??? “1 didn’t say if." ! ng abou SL 48 you {¥ Wail talking about don’t know something nothing about, ie any ga kee like vou ever t, then?” tried 11" shouted the eplion committee, and one of them tioned to Schneider that Bills schoon- er should make another vovage to the keg, *“*When I was a boy, in New | York, there wa’nt a chap in our digemn’s i that I couldn’t throw in a wrastle, lick at rough-and-tumble, out-holler, or do i bro at con. Michigan, but it had a A and funeral down vist i} gat ul up in any fashion. salt with me to bad chi died inside a month. curred jest abou quainted w wis i ' K idle, and gave a sweep erzackly as the Injun never ask me how it I don't know, 1 thing turnned over I 1 ¥ thn :} pa jest k Y ou nesdn’ happened, boys, £1} i wit QuITeq when t for the 8s {0 13 wou LO} ANG pUnK, here was { there on « A afore, ————— Draw His Pay, 1 ing GORE DET wR \ Yiu “Of what “Well “For **To inspect vine rare ing Inspec what?” “What does Lie Nobody know ron the en the con WOIrK Lik He Lis head. excavati gins Paving Inspector over the street pod walks up and down and thinks of hi a day. He sits around on the curb tones and shakes his bead in the most solemn manner, “But if he failed to show up?” “Oh, that would make no difference, What jithe contractor doesn’t know the inspector can’t teach him, S imes they are even personally acquain- ward of an in- spectnr giving any orders on the job.» “Doesn't be throw out suggestions?” “Yery rarely, He sometimes sug- or that a glass of beer would just touch the Appears, and i 5 mel 3% LoL might «at iar Lieve from Litchfield county, who was the rsther of the celebrated artist: portesit painter and historian of the Ldiaas of North America, AAI in 3 Russian Stove, The Russeafl stove is made of fire-re. sisting porcelain, is always ornamental, some article of furniture, ually six in number. Some dry fire- wood is lighted in a suitable fireplace, productions of combustion being thus diluted with unnecessary cold air, are very highly heated, and in this state pass up and down through the different compartments. At the end of this lon, journey they have given up most o their heat to the 24 heat-absorbing sur. faces of the fireclay walls, Then all communication with the chimney is cut off, the fire is put out, having done its work, and the interior of the stove has bottled up its caloric ready for emission into the rood, and, Jusing through the non-conducting walls of stove, 18 radiated into the apartments, NAR pes robe sw god wi w! uen the they have Ny, Swing to ing work,’ lusion.”’ “And when the excavating is fin. i 3 “Then the excavator packs up and leaves, but the inspector sticks the closer, drawn in. blue elay, but is not required to, He may know sand from | ing to say to him, When the blocks | i all, When the blocks are ail lad he remains to see the hot tar poured on | and the gravel spread out. He kiows hot tar from mineral paint, and he knows gravel from clover seed, hut his knowledge is thrown away. When the street is opened for trafic he certifies to that effect, amd his tremesdous mental and physical labors are conclu- ded-—except to draw his pap. ~Queen Victoria has an allowance of $1,925,000 for household expanses, ng to Knowledge there is a sulphar deposit at Djomesa, Bue, in a perfectly rainless desert on the African Dungeon Life, 1 | There ls or was | { the Countess of K —y living in { Paris. Bhe wears a very singular brooch, It is encircled by twenty pro. | clous stones, on a ground of dark-blue enamel, covered in the centre by glass, And what does this brooch contain? A portrait or a | of hair? No, only four common pins, bent together in the form of a star! And she wears that in | memory of Ler husband, a Polish nobiles | man, who was put into prison because he was thought to be a secret enemy |to the government. It was a dark, { deep dungeon, far down under the | ground. He bad no one to speak to, for no one was allowed to see him but the | keeper of the prison, and he of course | was not permitted to converse with his | prisoner. Days, weeks, months passed on, and he was still left in his dungeon, { He was most miserable and fearsd that | he should lose his senses, for his reason | seemed to be giving way. Ob, if he had { only some hope—some one thing to re- Heve his misery ! Feeling all over his | coat one day, he found four pins, and { he actually wept for joy, vet what could { four pins be to him? He took them | from his coat and threw them down on | the floor of his dungeon, and then he | went down on his hands and knees and | felt all over the floor till he found them When he had succeeded mn this, { he scattered them again on the floor, and could you have gone into his dun- geon you would have found him ing on his hands and for his four | pins, 1X years’ imprison- ment o, they still found dark for his f Nor taki ately a Polish lady, OCR an again. or he gZTop knees for i 4 something to do | finement, t and his | made into a brooch, | ned more than gol ved her husband’s The following is one of the most af fecting records in existence, It is fro int Gonfalonieri’s account of his im onment in the fortress of Spielber; town of Brunn in Moravia, { if They had preser- i ¥ i, reason. ra flfence in the reign of the nperor Fraucis of Aust T He was an Ita litical o iz Square, mpanion; who eternal “he first year we We 1 vs forever gone, again. The next we to each other our ) s and ideas on all subjects. The third year we had po ideas to commu- we were beginn to lose the if ref cated or i ng lection. the interval of a month yur lips to ask indeed possible On a8 gay and bust- ormed a portion of {th we were silent. as taken away—I never ition, or hiberty— gone; even soli- that dim, vacant alone. Only 16 years? have been companien left was opened ar urth, at * WAS ter than tha nit VWO ATE IY athe dungeon door a voice, from whom s 4% uw a 4 y +} , utiles | hid proceeding I know rds: ‘By order of ¥, 1 intimate to you a year ago.” They Lago me ith it. for six years with i was a Frenchman, pub- life ny os upon {he companion t Gonfal i has since own (“Memoires d u Etat. par he ler Andrvane.) Ia nieri ieath in 1835 States, from ustria. There, ffering, years, and Count incident lonieri was tiers from his wife, dving she wrole seve dating them different periods, that he might, when deliverad, This tender, loving kindness was, however, cruelly frustrated by the sudden information of r death so brutally conveyed by order the emperor. i ——— } iis § Wo ’ + N i Fenton Was he returned to dow wheno: broken n by sorrow and st he wandered about a few died at Urain, Decen Andryane ad the t is the tou unt G ad oi think she was still alive, iL f Parehasing PFower of a Dollar. in 1860 §1 would Facts show that it would buy 20 pounds, In 1860 $1 would buy 33 pounds of rye flour; in 1881 it would buy 23 pounds, In 186G $1 would buy 9 pouadsof roast beef; in 1881 it would buy 6 pounds. In 1860 §1 would buy 14 pounds of mut. ton ; in 1881 it would buy © pounds, In 1860 §1 would buy 9 pounds of salt pork; in 1881 it would buy 8 pounds, In 1860 $1 would buy &§ pounds of good butter; in 1881 it would buy 3 pounds, In 1860 $1 would buy 1} bushels of potatoes ; fu 1881 it would buy less than a bushel. In 1860 $1 it would buy 2325 pounds. In 1860 $1 would buy 6§ days rent for 4 rooms ; in 1881 it wouid buy 24 daysrent. In 1860 $1 would buy 24 days board ; in 1881 it would buy 14 days board In 1860 §1 would buy 12 pounds of i in 1881 it would buy 15 pounds, In 1860 $1 would buy 9 yards of prints; in 1831 it wonid buy 13 yards, LA SS, IF Ir A Rev. William Cowell Brown of Soll d Wito, was the inventor of an in- genious devior for saving life als whioh he called the Nautilus, in 'dond It consisted of a chemical preparation inserted into one’s clothes as a part of the limng without changing of the the fell into the to