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