A Song and a Prayer.
A song for the girl we love—
God love her!
A song for the eyes with thelr tender wile,
And the fragrant wouth with its melting
smile,
The rich brown
That clasp her neck with their
tresses uncontrolled,
tenderest
bold,
Aud the blossom lips, and the dainty chin,
And the lily hand that we try to win.
The girl we love—
God love her!
A vrayer for the girl we loved—
God loved her!
for the eyes of faded light,
cheek whose red
A prayer
Aud the
white,
rosa waned to
And the quiet brow with its shadow and
gleam,
lashes drooped in deep
long
hands crossed for
the church
And the flowers dead in her swset dead
breast,
time since
is always saying something
get somebody into trouble, published
le relittive to the engrossing
hich the domestic cat feels
vehement
when circumstances on
18 no control have resu
to unfamiliar loe
f thing,
Qa Y% trsy 1
and turned loose
nd
* necks 1
tion occurred tol
Vhile he was bur
gh's gas an
fenbauzh’s bangs that ever
Miss Dffenbaugh all about it,
1
1: §%
ighast would
carry k
with him t
when ti
pr
ltese home
even
and t
1
12 stars
of
circuit, forbade
+1
ul
ine
ing,
fie ence the
sty
HAE
ed from
premises,
It
int
would bear, bou
ilken cord, a memoran-
hi wdving affection,
thing and another,
Clarence loved the Maltese for it
TOSL Cale
of Clarence,
one i
ike; it
treks ’'s ]
tamed Ukraine breed;
with a tail like
. "'s}
about twenty-t! .
was Cleopatra really ¢
Antony ca ¥ iss Diffe
+ had not been
3 tan
rom him when he ber,
ly d spirit, Mr, Til-
is homeward
iira ocemionally clawing hi
wnner that indicated an early
Often the erratic eccentricities
Cleopatra compelled the young man
to weep aloud, but they reached home
t. Cleopatra curled up on the foot
e bed and purred himself to sleep
with the calm content of a cat that had
made a substantial luneh off the human
ribs, and Mr. Tillinghast sat up the
greater part of the night writing a let-
poetry, and bathing his la-
epressed in
pursued h
I way,
3 ribs
at as
of tl
ter full of
cerated body,
Next evening he made ready to send
his messenger home, In order to in-
crease the cat's ‘vehement yearning®’ to
return home, Mr, Tillinghast had fed it
in the frenzy of hunger, had chased im-
ture to break again.
that wasn’t scratched was the ceiling,
was the hammer,
“If,” said Mr. Tillinghast,
his lacerated hands in a bath of water
and soda, after tying his letter carefully
around Cleopatra's neck with a blue rib-
bon, ‘if your ‘yearning’ t
have you return thither, you will be in
the lap of your angelic mistress before I
can close this door again, Go, messen-
ger of a love that is deep as the sea and
deathless as eternity, go, tell the heart
that holds my own that pens of fire
could not write on the scrolls of infinity
one-half my love,”
And so he opened the door. Cleopat-
ra went out into the gloaming with the
air of a cat who was just going to say
something like that anyhow when he
suggested it, Mr, Tillinghast did not
appear to notice this peculiar ex ion
on Cleopatra’s countenance, was
looking at the sky.
“The stars are shining,” he said, “she
§s looking for my message and she is
Whihking of me,"
And Miss Diffenbaugh?”’
She was sitting in her lonely
king out into the star.lit night, say-
g, ‘His messenger with feet of
Mlence, is even now on its way to tell
bower,
HP
me lie loves me yet, [ feel Lis presence
near me.’
In the meantime Cleopatra was car-
mile, and was making pretty
good time, when, while streaking down
a lonesome alley, he suddenly paused
and said:
‘1 hope to die if I don't smell fish,’
And while he was exploring the ash
ile, he was suddenly accosted by a long
some-looking eat on the woodshed,
“Say, old indigo blue, shinney on your
side!”
“Watchugivinus?'’ gr |
ra, glancing up just long enough from
an old mackerel to take the woodshed-
y Hieasure,
The woodshedder, on his own
premises, made a violent effort to re-
train his wrath, but he came down te
ash-pile and said, in a thar
busines
| trouble vou fou
bein
voice
meant
MIN
x1]
that fish, if
‘I'll
through
“AH right.” sald ( leopatra,
he I'm
1
reached out to take
h and Cleopatra smote him
to
+ 1
takes
ears |
ed in |
Oaken Due
clung the
crumpled,
The Judge received
pair of tongs,
ished to the barn, which the shi
rats deserted forever when they saty him
Order was in
the Jet
and Cleopatrs
ieking
then restored
ter to himself,
He did not divulge the contents,
Terrified guests thought, and still
think, that it was a Nihilist warning.
The Judge did not show the letter 1
his daughter,
He simply told her that if ever that
infinite ass, young what’s-his-name,
came round , that house again he would
pulverize his brainless carcass with the
lawn mower,
Mr. Tillinghast still lives a blighted,
despairing life. He has gone out of the
mail service, and leaves all experiments
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A Substitmte for Coal,
much more extensive than ours, and the
supply more enduring than that derived
oil, at the wells, is worth about 18 cents
per barrel, and yields under ordinary
refining processes only about 30 per
cent, of illuminating oil. But the
heavy, non-explosive, lubricating oil
that remains after the process of distil
lation is perhaps the cheapest and best
fuel in the world. The steam cars and
steamships of southern Russia use it ex-
clusively, and it is finding its way into
use in the steam craft of other countries
going and coming from ports in the
Black sea and the Mediterranian, It is
cheaper than coal, it does not occupy
one-fifth of the room, and will soon
esteemed g necesity for steamers making
long voyages, which are obl to car-
ry 50 much coal they have little room
for freight.
To bring forward the bad actions
others to excuse our own 1s like ‘wash.
ing ourselves in mud.
Sam's Income and What
Does With It,
Uncle
The Treasury Deparment was created
1789, Philadelphia, When the
removed to Washington in
small wooden building was
Treasury, but this was
burned, along with all the other public
dritish in 1814. An-
building soon after erected was
in 1833, whereupon the
structure was undertaken, It
proposed to locate the new
building near where the Interior De-
at
th
ent
I was first
leaving the White House in unobstruct-
ed view from the Capitol, but the story
Jack
1 in selecting
i tient at
{ and,
| ing, planted his cine or spot where
i the northeastern corner of the buidi
aid: “Here, right he
the corner stone laid:”’
laid, breaking the continui
a and sl
Capitol Hill from
: itive Mansion. The
n 1841. 1t wa
rinia freestone, Fours
t was found nec
the £3
d of
nnpleted in 18089,
st of the buildi
7 OK) Gi)
the delay the site,
NOW 18,
out
the
build-
Ssary to
y bres aelelit “
MaKe aad
i WihOlch
1 hone
y matter
aclaim has been
passed Ly a department of the govern-
i ment, the claimant, even were he the
President himself, cannot receive
{ money unless the First Comptroligr is
i first satisfied that the claim is correct,
This official was created in the early
days of the Treasury Department as a
check upon the auditor of claims, and
. a
He decides ever
1
of payment, and even if
time to time by acts of Congress until
| he is practically supreme as a negative
power. Ie can reverse the decision of
| any official, and even refuse his signa-
| ture to a warrant signed by the Presi-
| dent or Secretary of the Treasury. There
the courts,
not
i He eannot order payments
authorized by appropriation and
| drawn through the regular channels,
| but he can stand before the money
{ vaults and allow only what he thinks
{ proper to be paid out of them.
{ therefore be seen that a chuckle-headed
| stickler might make a good deal of trou-
{ ble in this position, and the only re-
{ course would be the President's power
| of removal.
: Ee ————— a
TOILING TOYMAKERS,
———————————————
Thuringian Forest.
A half day’s Journey from Heidelburg
brings the traveler into a region as full
any in Germany, the land of toys, the
Sonneburg district of the Thuringian
forest, This world apart in the universe
of industry is known very well, indeed,
to a certain class of Americans, the toy
importers, better than to the importers
of any other nation,
As long ago as 1870 we Americans
bought in this small forest-nest toys to
the value of nearly $500,000, and in
1880 our purchases had incrased to nears
ly $1,000,000, and yet how few of us,
when we buy a crying doll for a Christe
mas present, a wooly dog, a nodding
dunky,. a ‘“farm-yard,” or an
thousand toys made of wood,
mache, or wax think of the strange
lit-
tle world among the Thuringian hills |
whence our familiar objects come,
The merchants are said to have
for their business whatever,
are conservative
workingmen
which to
industrial museum
the manufacture;
the foundation of one
afraid the appro
models, The solitary manufacture
has patented a toy
SOMe
nique
ploys a private w
HO
the |
beyond
have nol
experiment, |
in the |
appo “fs
love
belief
HONEY
There is
and the
wit hh
10
and
because each is
jate his
'Ww
v or two and Propose
other may
ho
« |
wholesale hmprovements of
pled
tehman for
SO COrdi v hi
lishment and do
at night. Yet withi
of its method of produ tion SOY
has the most marvelous \
toys, Thn
12.000 to 18,000
a Bonneburg
books 3.000 10 4
thin the narrow
OS there are su
ample
drummer
(HH) pieiu
Of the pro tuction
Of two Ss
‘mastes
s WOrKers are
s and the
try of
ip i
Own
with the he
of thelr
(
at night
fumes to
living are inevit
forest air that pours down
heights tl 1 every lane an
these unhappy people are pale and :
they stoop and cough, have flat narrow
chests and are small of stature. Such
is the race of toymakers in the Thur-
{
i
1
i
OU
epbhie :
i .,;,.-.
A New Story of Daniel Webster.
On one occasion some Boston friends
sent him an enormous sized plow to use
on his place. Webster gave out word
that on a certain day it
The day arrived, and the sur-
miles came in
witness the event,
aristocratic occupants came down from
Boston. It was expected by every one
Webster would make a great
to the
the
time
when Cincinnatus abdicated most
den, The plow was brought and ten
He had been
calling spirits from the vasty deep, and
his gait was somewhat uncertain, Seiz-
ing the plow handles and spreading his
feet he yelled out to the driver in his
deep bass voice,
“Are you all ready, Mr, Wright?”
“All ready, My, Webster,” was the
reply, meaning of course for his speech,
Webster straightened himself up by a
mighty effort and shouted:
Ten let her riplV
The whole crowd dropped to the
ground and roared with laughter, while
ebster with his big plow proceeded to
rip up the soil,
. s—E———
The same love that Ie had to thee
when he gave thee to his Son, the same
love he has to thee now--infinite, un.
changeable,
fetore Vera Cruz.
At a reception in Washington, Gener.
“Before
invest.
Vera Cruz, 1 want
§
he
aptire ot
telling vou,’ aid of the
ment and «
presenti
under my observat
On the night bef ore tite firs
battle of Monten req
nent
which came
ali
around om
langhing
Wis
of
hi
EST
eliebore sprinkled on the floo
destroys cockroaches, The
1 are poisoned,
fortar and paint may
from window-glass with hot,
ORT,
Furniture needs cleaning as much as
other woodwork. It may be washed
with warm soapsuds quickly, wiped dry,
then rubbed with an oily cloth,
i
fenoveq
sharp vin-
be
When hard finished walls have been
kalsomined the soiled coats should be
washed or scraped off before a new one
is put on, This is the most disagreeable
part of the process. The furniture
should be covered, as the lime makes
spots that are removed with difficulty,
especially upon black walnut,
Remove flowerpot stains from win-
dow sills by rubbing with fine wood
Cold cream, which
rancid, may be preserved by the addition
A medical journal says that in carry-
ing children in the arms care should be
this tends to
them one-sided,
A good fingernail polish is pure oxide
Apply by rubbing on the
nail either with a finger or a nail polish-
er covered with leather,
Welsh-Americans,
The Welshmen have begun to realise
that they are not getting as much credit
for their patriotic services as they have
deserved. They remind us that of fifty-
five signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence seventeen were Welshmen
either by birth or lineage. Morcover,
fourteén generals, one colonel, six cap-
tains, and one lieutenant in the revolu-
tionary war were Welshmen,
It is common for those who are farth-
est from God to boast themselves most
of living near the church. iy
HE MP LI SOUL TRIN sail
An American
sayi's
{ aptain ft
can bark Su
faction
Beard larg:
in all under:
Bed. To
one, peril
Bees..."
Bells,
tolling,
Birds.
Bulls f dy
reports about cha
cating them
dissensions,
t.— For a maiden t
i Ves
deans, i
ble and
Jonne
new
3 v
ver,
bonnet g promise
————
Friday.
Persons who have a fous
dread of Friday will nol be pleased to
learn that this a thoroughly Friday year,
It came in on Friday, will go ont on
Friday, and will have fifty-three Fri.
days, There are four months in the year
supersiit
and the longest and shortest day of she
year each falls on a Friday,” This
in the year, but it 18 also an unlucky
day because it takes it away; and vice
versa if it is an unlucky year. Bat al’.
this array of Fridays will not frighten
anybody, and Congressmen will still play
poker, if nobody wins but the “kitty, ™
Ac
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