WILLING TO WORK, Tho world is so crowded with indolent crea- to Unsteady and ready all labor to shirk, With delicate hands ard with infantile fea- tures, *Ts a pleasure to meet those willing to work. Yes, really a pleasure fo meet man or wo- man Imbued with an earnest desire to take Their place in the ranks with the helpful and human, Who lovingly toil for humanity's sake. There are thos» who are ready for frolle and pleasure, And realy to eat of the fruits of the soll, And ready to dance to each rollicking mea- sure, But gever are ready to labor or toll. them care, seem to imagine that, without them The world would of beauty be wondrous- bare. And somahow All ball to the workers, who dignify labor, With head, heart and hand well equippad for the strife! Xo charity ask they of friend or of neigh bor, Aa bravely and boldly they start out life. again, after she had thanked me for my trouble, I observed that I thought it more than likely, as I seldom saw him stir- ring so early, and went on my way. After that, when I met thus young person we exchanged greetings, and so, in a sort of way, became acquainted. One day we held quite a conversation on the doorstep, and I ventured to satisfy a hittle curiosity I felt on the point, by asking her why her uncle dig- nified himself by the extraordinary title of “Astrologer Roval,” She laughed, aud replied: *Why, you see, sir, he is an astrologer; and he says that his great, great, great—I don’t know many greats—grandfather, was the Astrologer Royal to some King of England. I've heard him tell it so I can’t forget it—or 1 couldn't remember it »’ “Do you mean that he practices as- Oh, yes; he makes his living out of Clearly, then,it is not a very lucra- ’ “Well, no; not the way he does busi- ness,’ “And how may that be?” “Why, he gets acquainted with peo- ple, and then he gets interested In them, and so he tells them all they want to They press in advance of the indolent crea- tu shirk, And stand in their places with resolute fea- work, We welcome them out of the school the college, the shop, And say, ‘Here's success 10 superior know- | wd ge, “There's plenty of room for you all at the tapi” THE ASTROLOGER ROYAL It was a long spell of stress of finan- cial weather that drove me to take lodg- ings in Little Morgan street, Little Morgan is a diminutive thor- oughfare uniting two of the more pre- tentious streets that eross Cherry street, and Cherry is a quite consideralile avenue that runs up on the east side of | New York, two blocks from the river. ! Although considerable, however, it is | but little known except to east side | dwellers, and there are tens of thousands | of New Yorkers who never heard of it, Naturally, Little Morgan street is still | Jess known than its more important neighbor, All these east side streets are a study | to a philosopher. And this chiefly on | account of their teeming population, and their busy industry. Its one of the most mysterios peculiarities of New York life—the steady never-ending i:- | dustry that goes on in little ways and in | unheard of places. Property 18 valuable over there, and | every inch of available house-room is tenanted by busy workers, Little Morgan street follows the rule, and its three story houses present posi- tive bee hives of indefatigable toil. In the one which I occupied there was half-a.dozen families, all engaged in producing and manipulating something | or other to enable them to earn a liveli- | hood, It might be rags or it might be | millinery, or pajer flowers; there was money to be made in everything, and this little house contained a score of people making it. : Not that they turned out muchat the | end of the year—if their years ever had an ending or beginning; but they man- aged to pay their rent and get some- thing to keep them from starvation and freezing to death; and it is quite aston- | ishing how many people there are in a great city who are satisfied with degree of success, took no special, or indeed general interest in the other tenants, having my | owa rather disturbed affairs to consider; and after I had occupied my little hall. room on the second story for several | months, there was but one of them who ever entered my mind as the subject of thought. He wasan cold man with a stubby | gray beard, a bald head with a few gray | hairs in the neighborhood of 118 ears | and who wore, most times, an odd-look- | ing peaked woolen cap and spectacles, i saw him nearly every day, either coming from or going to his room in the garret, A man with rather an amiable expression of couutenance, and also thoughtful looking. The people in the house called him **Old Simon,” One day 1 asked a young man who occupied a room next to mine—a re porter for a cheap daily paper, he was ~what was the old man’s trade or pro- fession? The man in question grinned, and remarked that he looked like an “‘old fence,” meaning thereby, as I con- cluded a receiver of stolen goods, But he observed immediately afier that he was only joking, and, sad be, “the old ‘duffer calls himself “The Astrologer al,” whatever that is.” name stuck in my mind, and I caught myself frequently wondering | what could have indueed the quist-look- | ing, harmless old party to give himseli | such a quaint, sixteenth-century appel- lation. One day the oid feilow had a visitor. She was a decent looking girl, though with rather a wild look in her eyes, and somehow I thought I traced a likeness in her face to the ‘‘Astrologer Royal’ himself, as I casuaily met her on the staid, She disappeared after that day, but a week or 80 later, as I went otit pretty early in the worning, I met her return ing and carrying 8 heavy bag by both hands, trying as well as She might to Tug it up stairs, : had not quite lo during my sojou this | The girl laughed. By the way, it struck me just then she had, And rather admiring gaze or not, I don't must attend to, she left me, I caught myself thinking of this girl a good deal that day; and indeed for many days afterwards. She was not pretty, vet there was something very vinning and attractive in her. And her uncle's from her disturbance a little. *‘He has not been out, and has been fixing up his pers, and writing all the time. Every ittle while he stops and looks at some funny little things he has on the table, like sticks of white wax. He handles these, muttering to himself, and he won’t let me go into the room, though I have looked into the door several times,” Old Simon’s room was directly over mine, While these words were being sa'd Dy Myra we had ascended the stairs, and I had entered my room and lighted my lamp, she was standing by the door. Just as she finished speaking we heard a crash overhead, as if some one had fallen. With one look at each other we hurried up the stairs, and ap- proaching the deor of the old man’s room, I opened it hurriedly. He was standing with his back to the He had on bis long dressing-gown and cap, which he always wore In the house, With one hand he held the candle- | the flame one of Lhe small white “funny little things,” of which Myra had spoken to me. They appeared to me to loek like sticks of lunar eaustic; but there was the old man, standing thus in the dead of night, his position presenting the ap- pearance of one about to do some terri ble thing, that made me make up my mind it was not that he held in his hand, whatever else it might be. The noise we had heard appeared to ba explained by the fact that a heavy chair lay overturned upon the floor. It seemed to me that he must have and have thrown | to call pretty regularly. I found out, too, that some of business men in Astrologer’s advice. At Jast Myra took me fo his room one day, and presented me in due form. He was good enough to remember that he bad seen me frequently, and to enter into conversation with me, Naturally this turned on astrology, andold Simon “For you sse there 13 no humbug “There cannot be. It is all strictly mathematical. We get the place of the planets at the hour of birth from the astronomical ephizmeris in the can there?” I was obliges to admit that the Nau- guide. i the meaning, the nature of the infinence us thousands of years ago by the Chal- dean soothsayers. And it does seem to Hebrew prophets,” And here the old gentleman movement. We stood silent, her band clasped in | mine, gazing horror-stricken—f{or no | reason, and expecting—we knew not what, “Surely,” 1 thought, *‘there can be no harm in burning that httle white | AL that moment it touched | In an instant there wasa | i } the flame, terrific explosion, : I had just time to drag Myra from | the room and slam the heavy door, and then from within there rose the most | appalling screams, confused sounds, as | persons wranging in deep and angry | tones and a succession of fearful explo- sions that speedily waked every one in the house, so that the little hall was crowdel with excited and f “hiened people, mostly in their night a’ I could no longer bear the but opened the door wide, I was thunderstruck, From the terrible noises I expected to find the roof blown off, and the room | less, on fire, There was total darkness, Some one brought a lamp, and taking it in my hand I entered. On the floor lay the body of the old | man, his face blackened beyond recogni- | tion, his right band blown off, and the | wn iron, in its | re, The candle was meited doy socket, and the candlestick itec.. was a | The solid old mahogany table was burned black, the top being actually oscope, I was fortunate to know the date and hourand place of my birt of an old almanac, which he seemed to ses,” as he called it, which he described Figure.” There were the house of “Wealth,” the house of “Friends,” a lot more of them. In these he wrote There was not the slightest sign of | fire, and no other damage done what- | ever, On the table, however, | saw a num- ber of small objects, which shone bril- liantly as the light from the lamp flash. Acting on a sudden impule, as [ pla- end the lamp ou the table, and whil every one else was surrounding prostrate form of the old astrologer, 1 those shining objects inte my coantpockel, without any one observing | me, I'he old man was, of course, stone dead, A doctor was sent for, and that was all the information he could give. A coroner's inquest held the next day we the the planets that were fortunate enough 1aportant moment, died the whole business, fora while; And what a yarn he did spin! I am of things that had actually happened, and laid out the geography of my life, to date, pretty acurately, “And just here,” he observed, pila- cing his finger on the sign of Uranus, in the house of ** Friends.” “just here our lives seem to mingle-—only for a little while, though,” he added, musingly, and then he gave mea searching look, which made me wonder if I was going to come up some nightand kill him with a hammer, on account of supposi- tious money-bags, hidden away in that old cobweb-covered secretary that stood against the wall, I noticed that he looked at Myra, too, who had been sitting near us, patching up some of the old gentleman's well worn garments. “You have had a rough time of it, my son,” said he, presently; “but your troubles are pretly nearly over. You are going to have a great stroke of for. tune alter a little, But I shall not be here to see it.” The last remark struck me as exceed- ingly odd; and I looked at Myra, woh. dering how she would take it. Bhe had dropped her work, and was looking fixedly at the old man; and I the wild look in her eyes, of which I have spoken before, was more than usually evident, A sort of cold chill came over me-—what they eall *‘goose fesh”—and I rose hastily, and made an excuse to go. It was perhaps a week after this that one night when I had been detained late at my work, J found Myra at the door Le ae ha » am 80 you have come, And grasped my hand, The tenants, many of them, moved | horror of that ' ; niga Myra mourned ber uncle, for she real. iy loved the old man; and clung to me | assuring me that 1 was the only friend | ul in the world, now fthat he was | I found a respectable boarding near by: having first, however, made it | pretty certain that we should not long | live separate, For I knew already that Iloved her; it did not take we long to find out that she loved me. And the shining objects I had secured proved to be diamonds, worth about fifty thousand dollars, When I bad sold them for that sum, I told Myra, and gave her the money; informing her that in the absence of a will, and the old man having no other relatives, she was the heir-at-law. A suggestion on my part that, in view of her unexpected accession of fortune, she might decide to make osher disposi- tion of herself than she had previously indicated aslher intention was met after such a fashion that I never ventured to repeat it. : And so Myra and 1 were married, and have lived comfortably and happily ever since on the income of the dia monds the ** Astrologer Royal” gave his life in creating. The secret of their manufacture died with its discoverer, LA i Original ¥ourests, —— 1f the original forests of the States ot Indiana and Ohio were standing to-day, their valuation wéuld be many times greater than are the farms which they were sacrificed to improve. In making their farms the settlers in those States millions and millions of dol- lars’ worth of black walnut, Miles and miles of fence were laid with black wal. nut rails, An old farmer says that on- y thirty years ago be began making his arm, and that be worked eight years | clearin acres ol en An Unowmmon Prgoseding. “How cold it is growing,’’ sald Miss Wait, the teacher of the common school In the the then brisk little man- ufacturing lage of sShattuckvilie, Franklin county, Mass, , as she tied on her soft blu Liood, buttoned her warm flannel cloak. looked at the wir low fas- tenings of t! a not over-commni lous or attractive bu’ snug school-roo. locked her desk and carefully shut the damper of the air-tight wood-steve pre ratory to quitting her domain of labo: or the night. As she had picked up her rubber overshoes and stopped to draw them over the shapely kid boot, si.» tated : sticking so pathetically through those old gaping shoes fairly haunt me, wonder if in this prosperous, busy vil- 1 must think can do poor child degently clad. about Twenty-four hours later the leading man of the village, and the owner of the little factory there, who, years be- fore, when a poor boy, had stranded down from Vermont to this little ham- all that was gomg on in was walking along the street and met a bright eyed and sprightly lad of 10 speeding ahead with that amusing, un- conscious consequential air that a boy carries with his first bran new pair of boots, “Old Bam?’ Whittier as this gentle. son of advanced age by any but because of lus supremacy as ithe mill owper and employer help in the hamiet, took in the situation ! “Hullo, youngster | where d'ye get the lad’'s tattered cap came quickly off, “* Does she buy boots for all the boys in the school?’ was growled out, “ Guess but she boug Joe Briggs a speller and Jaue Cass an arith. # $ nos iv slate-pencils and paper and ink and ra, such things.” “What made her boots for you 7" “She said she wanted to, sir; and when I said I bad no money to pay her for them, she said she'd rather be paid in perfect lessons, and will try my best to pay for them in that way you may be sure, sir.”’ “Pretty good sort of a 13 them nice buy 1 4 b teacher, is I guess she must ir | many Lhings “Oh, yes, indeed! us about so wants us to be good and honest and not tell lies, and she says we will be men and women by-and by, and she wants us boys to know something so we can own factories our own selves some time, | The other teachers we've she's so different” “Well, well, bub, I shall have Now run along, and go to scratchin’® over them ‘perfect lessons,’ I don’t suppose you'll find a person in Bhattuckville a better julge of perfect lessons, or how § 8 ‘Old Sam’ after your than look er and the scholar, Whittier. So, bub, The next morning a little note wnt. ten in a coarse business hand was patched to the teacher by the hand of the children. It ran as lows: A118 dis of fol- ane Warr: 1 bave heard of some 18 to particulars. Will you do me favor to run over to my house dicectly after the close of your school this af. ernoon. SAMUEL WaiTTIER.” “What can the little Leachior, in such a perturbed state of mind that she corrected John ny Snow's mistake in his multiplieation by telling him seven times nine was ff. ty-four, Indeed, she let the mistake goiso long that every little hand belong- ing to the secondary primary class was stretched up in a frenzy of excitement, 4 “Let me see; what 1s it I have done | the past week? I switched Bobbie | Baker preity smartly, to be sure—and I kept Sam Woodruff after school —and I kept Marion Fisk in from recess for whispering ; but 1 must Keep onder. Well, dear me, I have tried to do my duty, and 1 won't worry; and Miss Wait resolutely went back to ‘seven times nine.” and so proceeded in the usual routine, But she ate no dinnes that noon, and had a decided headache as she crossed the big bridge over the hill to the mill. owners residence. “| shall not back down in anything where my clear duty and self-respect are involved,” though she. **I have | set up a certain ideal as to what a teacher of these common schools ought to be, and 1 will, God and my mind, good courage and bealth not forsaking me, bring myself as near to it as poss ble. Moreover I will not consider in the premises whether the scholars are children of the rich and learned or of the poor or ignorant. For the time being God has placed in my care rag- ged, dirty hittle wretches of a factory village, as well as clean, well-dressed, attractive children.” Good SVening, good ma'am,’ said “Old Sam’ Whittier, in his g way, at the door. *“‘Asl in my note to you, I heard to<day of some rather un- common on your part. 1 y Howe in a morning. wholesale in Boston, where I get my supply for my store.”’ “It will not be necessary, sir,” re- plied the teacher, with dignity, “I thank you for your kind offer, how- ever,” “Why did you furnish boots in this particular case, if I may inquire?”’ “The lad 18 very poor. His mother has her hands full with the smaller children. Tommy is learning rapidly; I see marks of rare intelligence in him. It would be a pity to have him taken out of school at this time when he is 80 much engaged. Should he continue | coming clad as he was in such weather | a8 thus he would be ill soon. I could | not take the risk in either case,” "Are you able to let your heart get the better of you in this way?” “1 have my wages only,” replied the | young woman, with dignity. | trench not a little in | penses,*? your own or pride but my own. or an ostrich tip with me. With him the aet may make a difference shall be lasting through time and eter- site 37 nity. *You have been nding that school over at South Hadley, I hear?” “Yen, sir.’” stb “iy uated, as they call it?” terms, But I am fully determined to | complete the course,” “Hum-—all right, seem to be doing some good I am going to think it all look here—if any more of those rascals need boots, let me know, I them. You know I ean obtain { a wholesale—hal hal” greatly relieved teacher's with: the mill owner ended. “If she goes on teaching on and off, and then taking a term on and off at Mount Holyoke, she can’t graduate for years,” ruminated Old Sam Whittier, a8 he watched her tripping on over the hill; **it’s ridiculous. And so it came to Wait was paid her small salary at the end of the term, She found in the en- velope containing the the town treasurer a che with a slip of paper rit sel uy § ninned Lo it, res interview LETS i pass, wi Miss id rder on a g thus: “This may be uncommon proceedings, but I thoaght it over and have conclu- ded that you had better go right along in your studies at South Hadley until you graduate. After U with vour k and principle, you will be able to st in boots or books, orin any way see fit, Very x oS iat, nye you 5 o riiy yours, Wmrrier.” i AMURBL I leave this true |] comment, It carries both strugy hearts and brains, and (0 prosperous men of affair ho may lend a helping nd to deserving its own lesson, Lo i hia Ones, woo —— Slaves of Quinine. “Have you noticed the growing nse of quinine?” a druggist in the vicinity of the Fifth Avenne hotel, New York, asked. At the same moment he bowed and smiled to a tall, red-whiskered man who strolled in, “Just watch this customer,” he said The mon was very thin and cadaver- ous looking, Without saying a word ne walked up to the soda fountain, snd the boy drew out a pill box, poured three pills into the paim of the custom. Crs hand, get a glass of mineral walter in frout of him, and turned to the next customer, The tall man swallowed the pills, drank the water, turned om bis and stalked away with another pleasant nod to the proprietor, That costs him a dollar and forty ents a week,” said the proprietor, *‘aad re long it will ill him, He started y take one five-grain pill every nigh: six mouths ago; he now lakes heel, wer Foy r 3 i f about | home, so that it will brace him up for tis dinner, Within a mouth he will be taking twenty grains a night. Of course no takes it home beside wat be gels bere, I've gone oat of my way three or {sur times to warn him but Dis an- swer is a simple one; he says quinine that it has no ill effects. He tried stop- wants to know why be should stop, You can’t combat such ressouing as that.” “Have you many such regular ecus- tomers?” . “Well, to bo accurate, we have only three men who come in every day and pay at the end of the week, but there are many others who take their quinine as regularly a= most drivking folks take whiskey It is certainly a great temp- tation to weakly organized and frail people. All they have to do Is to swallow a pill or two, and they feel robust, wide awake and cheerful. The practice grows on them continually, and of quinine are constantly growing. A n of the custom comos from women who grow fatigued or weary while shopping, and who, instead of buying nutritious luncheon, resort to the insidious qainine pill.” a ——— ite “Whar's the freight on thet?” in. quired » man with a box, of the clerk at the depot. “I'm » freight to tell you, lest you think it ‘too much,” was the reply HORSE NOTES, ~Ilobert Bonner has been driving Pickard on the road, —Maud B, and her driver, W. W, Bair, have parted company for the sea- som, ~The Suffolk and Point Breeze en- tries close at Droad and Chestnut streets on October 5. ~The fund for the benefit of the mother of Jockey Moran foots up the respectable total of $2464, ~—Whitesocks, the winner of the 2.40 class at Cleveland this week —Dbest heat 2.284 is by Alcantara, | ~The well-known ch. Sir Roger has been purchased by James Potter, of { Providence, R, 1., for $5000, 1. J, Cadugan recently sold a 6 weeks old filly, a full sister to Bayonne | Prince (vecord 2 211), to Mr. Backman for $1000, —1t i5 said that Harry Wilkes, Maxey Cobb and Majolica will trot for a purse at Fleetwood Park at the end of this month, or oe | =—Jack Phillips’ colt by Nutwood, out of Ella Madden, ran against a fence and broke its neck at Suffolk Park re- {eently. Philips valued the at $2000, —dJ. B. Ferguson last week pur- chased from J. 8. Shawhan, at Lexing- | ton, Ky., the 2-year-old filly Blue Hood, { by mop. Blue Mantle, dam Bayadere, for $775. i colt — Fanny Witherspoon’s two miles in 2.45 at St. Paul, Minn,, on September 15, is the best on record, beating Mon- { roe Chief’s 1882 performance by one second. ~Having passed through an arduous campaign the crack 3-year-oid Joe Cot- ton has been let up in his work, and will not appear on the turf again this Year, -— AL Sacramento, on Seple oer | Antevolo, by Electioneer, dam Colur i bine, by A. W. Richmond, trotte 2.104, thus beating the 4.year-old lion record. 3 K I Norman Smit ik as traiper throok Alcock wi + California and tral Santa Anita stable, y Fai wt atila SLANE, : yey § §, ‘ 20 10 i i ry Ma f win itd the Great Eastern handicap at Bay recently, W. L. 2-vear-olds, which | iimber ever started by an owner 1 any one race in this country. . 3 % 4 head SCOLL ive 8 the Paul, SrEpOOn trotted one break, in 4 45, 1 Monroe Chief's - At the Fair Grounds at mn the 4th, Fanny two miles, with beating by one {i record of two years Sot -~ Freeland’s performance at Brighton recently, when he beat Miss Woodford and others, ranks as the best mile and quarter of the year, althou the 4 2.08, is Gelaway's vi fe not eo o { 35 BOG BO KOMI 2.0: al Saratoga. he -— As a result of the raids on pool- sellers at Beacon Park, Boston, the | races of the concluding day of the meet ing were declared off, there being no | money in the affair for the management without the pool-selling. o --Tte New York Driving Club will give $2,000 for a race between Majolica and Phallas, Majolicaand Harry Wilkes r Majolica and Clingstone. The owner of Majolica says his horse will start against any of the others named. - Nettie Lear, the winner of the 2. year-old Breeders’ stakes at Cleveland, is a beautiful filly, 2 years oid, almost red bay in color, und with the action and gait of a great trotter. She is by Nugget, dam Zelinda Wilkes, by George 5, and is owned by C. F. Emery, yarning of Cooper's stables is supposed to have been « by an incendiary, The horses nclude Aberdeen, C., + Years y: Hooker, pacer, and the old bay ing Lew Ives, record 228 by Ba- cous Ethan Alien — Harry Wilkes, like Majolica, both were sires before emascula- The bay gelding 1 Wilkes, a ming performer, Was got by Harry Wilkes when a 2-year-old. Billy is only one of a number of promising young- «ters who owe their paternity to the champion of the France string, Vine - 4 158 ie 11 bh. 3 vif 3. 1 d 34 Fel woldin ngs 204% There are five entries for the | @aouble-team race at the Chicago meet- | ing, which commenced on September | 22, They are: I Cohnfeld’s Maxey Cobb | and Neta Medium, C, Swartz’s Charlie | Hogan and Sam Hill, J. Brennock's | ray Eagle and Black Bird, D. W, Woodmansee’s Prince Arthar and But- terscotch, and Budd Doble’s Editor and Dibk Stauffer. Jimmy Dustin has al- ready gone to Chicago with the Colin- feld team. --At the Doncaster September meet- ing on the 18th, the race for the Den- caster cup was won by W, F, Anson's S.year-old bay colt Hambledon. Mr. J. Lowther’s 38-year-old chestnut colt King Monmouth came in second, and Mr, Craig's (formerly J. R. Keeun's) Syear-old chestnut horse Blue Grass third, There were bul four starters. ~The Dwyer Drothers’ stables con- sists of Miss Woodford, 5 years; Kinnay, 5; 5; Panique, 4; El- mendotf, 8; og ve, 3; Porting Mh 2; Millie, 2; Ferona, 2; Hawley, brother phipaisiaier to Bariiad: out Ia wenty-two p ah aré to be sold, and the will leave the turf. The Dwy- ers started racing in 1876, and won $17 060 the frst season. In 1880, when they first became famous as the owners of a great stable, the amounted to $77,902, and the res since lows: 188], $88. rad $74 240; 1985, $138,000; 1584 $00,000. The winm 000: ae burn brothers as their to the hi
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