A Sad Sea Song.
A sailor man sailed over the sea,
When the billows were soft and low,
And the winds a ballad of ocean glee
Sarg sweetly in gentle flow.
A sailor wife sat out on the shore
And dreamed of a ship on the deep,
But ber sailor man she saw no more,
For Le slept in a sound, sound sleep.
The sailor sailed away and away,
Where the serges were flerce and wild,
And was lost at the break of a stormy day
To his wife and his little child,
The winds were sad and the waves were
wild,
Aud the sea sang a story of life,
A lullaby to the sailor child,
A wail to the sallor wiiel
HRI,
A WIFE'S ECONOMY.
Mr. and Mrs. Blossom were new
stars of a fine brilliancy but of a small
magnitude in the society of Warrens-
burg. Alexander Blossom and Minnie
Blossom had been married for one short
year, which time seemed to them just
one long summer's day. There are sev-
eral unmarried people unlike Alexander
when they were together never
bappy for a moment,
came in from business he always
stituted a search for the
girl who was waiting for mm,
e began to despair she would
in-
when hb
start out of a certain passage way with
a gay Jaugh and ask him where his
eves were, Of course under these cir-
cumstances, it was necessary for her to
take a good, square look at ls eyes to
determine if they were the same as
ever, und then occurred some of those
manifestations which foolish
call foolishness, and which only stopped
'
peopie
nounce that dinner was served.
course, the housemaid did not
verbatim was, **Come, now;
to suy that Minnie was not very tall;
and deliciously plump. Her lips were
a: near bursting with fulness as cher-
and her eyebrows, heavier than the or-
dinary, made her just so much the more
magnetic. There was nothing wonder-
ful about Alexander. You com-
prehend Alexander at once when 1 say
that ho received £100 a month, which
Le did not earn. However, he firmly
believed that in nysterious way
returns
will
some
his labor brought large to his
employers,
to live. Fortunately, they had no rent
to pay; the market books, under Min.
nie’s care, figured up ly, and
the domestic was kind
mand but $15 a month,
One day Alexander came home from
his aulleged looking and
sweet, and for Minnie,
The latter rushed the unex-
pected place in which she always hid,
caught him around the neck, asked him
where his eves were, put a rapture
kiss just below his hair
“Whodo you think?"
husband
reasonat
enough to de-
business nice
looking
out from
1
Aigo
camel's mus-
tache, and cried,
The sagacious
rapturous kiss just below where Minnie
would have had a splendid brown mus.
tache had she been in that line, and re-
plied that hedidn’t know. He also de-
mended advice a+ to what it was appro-
priate to think. Minnie then explained
that a letter had come addressed to
him, that it looked like wedding cards,
that she had--had opened it, and that
it wasn’t wedding cards after all,
Some men, hearing of a mysterious
fetter opened by a loving wife, would
have experienced a feeling of vague un-
rest, Not so Alexander, He silently
letter was,
burg Social elab,” said Minnie, *“*and I
noon,” So she had, in her womanly
ways she had been thinking what dres«
es she could wear,
she cried, “Now, say we can go."
“Of course we can go.’
was essentially masculine, Women, on
the contrary, always begin by refusing,
argued into anything whatever,
“Then you must get a dress suit,”
said Mrs. Blossom,
These were, indeed, strange words.
the fashionable Alexander had nothing
in dress more formal than cutaways or
Prince Alberts, How, then, had he
been married? The explanation throws
light on a very dark passage in Mr,
Blossom’s life--his dressed sait had
been pawned; and worse, the time of
redemption had expired,
“I can’t go,’’ he said, resigning him-
self to Fate with a large F,
“That's it,” cried Minnie, delighted;
“I've been figuring it all up, and you
ean go.” Here she ran into the next
room, and in one second returned with
~ a sheet of legal cap bearing very illegal
Jooking figures, ‘*Now look at this!”
Alexander looked, and I have to re-
cord that he was pot shocked. The
figures and their method were about as
nearly like those of an ordained book-
keeper as Mr, Blossom’s own,
“We've got to be economical for two
months, you see,” said Minnie. “There
it is, ull on paper.”
Tha indisputable document ran thus:
Grocer, 50; Jane, $15; butcher, $15;
$78 878 out of $100 leaves $22--say
$20; two mouths, $40.7
“One of these suits doesn’t cost more
than that, does it?! she asked, confi
dently.
“Costs £75," replied the gloomy Alex-
ander,
“Hump!” cried Minnie,
manage? 1f it were a $0 dress,
would be plenty.”
Alexander shook his head.
“But the club early in the
evening,’ persisted Minnie. ‘‘Couldn’t
you get one that would do-—ready
made, or something?”’
Alexander was pained, He e=aid he
trusted she did not speak in earnest.
“Dear!” cried Minnie, in despair,
“what can we do? We can’t take
boarders, and you can’t be a book
agent, I wish somebody would leave
us some money,”
“So do LI,” murmured
feeling,
“I know what,” cried Minnie,
sudden brightness,
“Don’t you father
money,”’ said Mr, Blossom sternly.
“I don’t intend to.”
Alexander seemed to think she might
willful this
much re-
“Can't you
£40
meets
Alec, with
with
ask your
Ol
have been a little more
point, jut he tried to look
1ssued another
Her
Alex
go debt,
immediate,
that she was not to in
assent to this was
1
The next J: Minne,
by
Ly
of her idea, went
1
clorvhing emporium of Warrensburg ¢
demanded the price of dress suits,
She then ask
h, This was’'a
He
solve an intricate problem,
price of the « lot
surprise to the tailor, affect
and
coming out with a mathematical flour-
‘
ish of his pencil, sad: “Twenty dol
lars.”
“How much for entting
“Well,” said the tailor, “hem! let me
see, You wouldn't want made up
bere, you think? Well, vest
~about $13.50,"
rs
out?
is
iv
coal,
*1 should like to get
the cutting both tor $3
said Minnie, faintly,
“Well, ’? answered the tailor
jzingly, *‘that’s it, we could:
can't get lish goods, yeu Know,
American We have cheap
rices.
I
goods, out
“1 shoulda’
nie,
exertion
credit,
Alexand
tailor
ndle
She of «
to be done by
ready with the
carried her b
dressmaker,
infinite 1 r of women,
“Howels'
J
charge tw
“reasonable”
real modisie,
nme.
1 Re » ¥ ¥ : r
orial usage among Hakers, 1
rtsrvrsime M4 1 of A ¥ $ $id 1
44! CuiaAr jewel ‘ Minnie's di not
set a price, bul said iL was a
“splendid plan’ that
she would tr
that she would
isfactory.
make everyihing
* What can
Minnie
be
hore
departed in great
spirits,
*
Time rattled
night of the clul
The Blossoms’ acceptance
duly sent, and Alexander
on and brou;
had
had
formed that a dress suit
He trusted to his
wife's implicity, believing, not that in
two months she would create a wonder
ful novel, eusily do—in
other novels—but that she would pur.
sue the more useful and perhaps more
womanly plan of calling on her father,
been
complacen
would be provided.
as ladies so
wives other than domestic virtues,
mAascu-
line prejudices swept away. The
portant night having rolied into War.
stairs in *‘something®’ the gifted dress.
maker “had patched up out of noth
went. The bundle was brought out for
him to open. It was a regular tailor’s
vox (such was Minnie’s eraftiness) and
lo! on the collar of the coat was the
glorifying name of a New York tailor,
Minnie, of course, had obtained the
name of her futher and sewed It on
with her own fair hands,
Alec, with a full heart, donned the
suit and stood before the mirror. He
cast two careful glances at the trim re-
flection, clasped Minnie to the new coat
and exclaimed in many raptures, “You
darling! It’s—it's the regular thing!”
“Are you satisfied?” asked the wife,
wishing him to commit himself bayond
retrieve before she divulged the low
origin of the suit,
“Of coursel’’ cried Alec warmly,
wishing he were a woman, so that he
could gush a little, “Satisfied? Why
it's one of Ackerman’s best-that's
what it ia, See the way it fits. I could
tell that was Ackerman's a mile
oft.”
When he had raved for ten minutes,
Minnie confessed the history of the
suit. “So you see, after all,” she said
at last, ‘we women do know some.
thing,”
Mr. Blossom looked at the coat more
critically, trying to detect a blemish,
but he couldn't,
“Are you still satisfied?’’ asked Min-
nie. He had to admit that he was,
“Now, how much do you suppose it
cost?”
Mr. Blossom couldn’t tell
a tatlor,”’ he began.
“Tailor!” eried Minnie. “You mean
robber, I counted on just $40, and out
of that I have this suit, which you say
you like, and this dress of mine. You
would have paid $75 for the suit alone,
To-morrow I shall go up and pay up,
have
spend on
For Min-
of extrava-
“Now,
left out of the $40 1 shall
candy, every single cent.”
nie had the woman's love
gance after all,
So this was Mrs, Blossom's triumph,
Not a gentleman at the club was better
dressed than her husband,
They were both 1n raptures.
ander especially, when he had
vinced himself that his suit did
Alex-
con-
The next evening, when Mr, B'ossom
instituted the search
for Minnie, she did not leap out at him
from he: unthought «f hiding
place. She was in her room and cry-
and
old
Lr
Hg.
TH ' i
der. > reply at but
rat
INL,
still kep t when
‘
i
she bad ught 19 proper
state of sympathy and al
a little more bitterly tl
quite unconsciously rel
on a piece }
ander d
was the
ty
contained atro
it
writing executed in red
picked it ous
ink, and looked
But it
SAAT,
SAR,
hike the work of a dynamiter,
80
Blossom to Mrs,
ita
Suite
was not
1 brief,
It begun:
Darden,
after eighteen
I)ress
nan 's
or Lweuly
*" 3
veil
. aling
'
extra cloth,
“totle $39.” |
i
x f vis 13¢ i or 3 * .
ines of trimmings, | niags, LUllons,
making, ete, calmiunted
totie nder this “‘lotls”’
in
Minnie ba
what she owed the taller >, and t
Rag 0d
had made a “tolls
y i $1 §
dress suit had cost hier
why
“You hate me, she sobbe
‘ve married a
Was
strike
y pr
guarantee
efforts
were
al econ
MOY
———————
A Historic Match Box.
Recently I
gold mateh
Maxi.
more
gentleman here an elegant
box that once belonged to Prince
milian, wh Mexico
than twenty Just before he
o was shot in
yUars ago,
was put to death he gave this box and
two
detailed to carry into execution the sen
tence of death which had been passed
upon him.
them these momentos to show that he
bore no ill will towards them, as they
“Alm at my beart!" he said,
in a moment he
They did
so, and Was & COrpee
appear to have had very little sentiment,
They were bought by an American
they were exposed for sale at Galt's
One of the watches,
bought by the Austrian minister then
hare. The match box was pickea up
by a gentleman who is a connessear in
things with a history. It is of solid
Mexican gold, elaborately chased and
ornamented with exquisite armatory
designs, among which are a Cupid
heart, bow and arrow and altar, It is
presumed to have been a gift to the
prince from some lady admirer, If it
had been a present from his wile, the
unfortunate Princess Carlotta, it is like.
ly her name would have appeared on it,
and he would hardly have given it
away, A large diamond glistens upon
the spring by which it is opened.
It is cowardice to wish to rid of
everything which we do not like, Sick
ness and sorrow only exist to further
man’s education in this world, They
will not be needed in the future,
The golden moments in the stream of
life rush past us, and we see nothing
but sand; the angels come to visit us,
and we only know them when they are
gone,
REMARKABLE
—————
How Some Persons Have Wonder-~
ful Gifts In That Direction.
The varieties of memory are as re-
markable as its vagaries. There is, for
instance, 80 wide a range between
Niebuhr, the great statesman, and a
certain divine that one can scarcely
recognize the same faculty in each, It
is said of Niebulir that he remembered
everything he had read at any period of
his life; and it is said of the reverend
doctor that he forgot he had been mar.
ried within an hour or two of the inter-
esting event. John Wesley had a re-
markable memory, and at eighty-five
even it was still vigorous, Andrew
Fuller could repeat a poem of five
hundred lines after hearing it read once
or twice, could recite verbatim a sermon
MEMORIES.
or speech and enumerate the names of
the shop signs from the Temple to the
end of Cheapside, with a description of
the principal articles displayed in each
Before the davs of short-hand report-
’
ing *Memory Woodall” used to attend
and, after lis.
note,
Wile
without taking a single
The same power was possessed by
the
Nadeliffe, the novelist,
Sir Walter Scott
vel neither
3 of
compare with Beronicius
tadcliffe, husband
and
Gemories,
heart the works of
Homer, Anst
two Ylinvys, this w
oniy,
i
who knew by
y, Juvenal,
As an
“rote?
lebrated
ne of the
Ci
most
Ces On record of what,
tinct
ein.
rod
by Lord By
mas
on, we may call intelligent 1
He was described
iQ i
y
alia #
RUREes
versed in 0fty
death he added twenty
to his list, He used t
Lever got anything
Rewrd or read,
As an example
Robert Pastield,
may be recalled
hin Lime for serm
duer read por w
ce si
ii Nve Arrested.
$ % fom tm 2)
WE writen, 10 Lh
the ples
1 had i
Fre
4}
Co ITs,
Paris filled witd
filled
fall of surging
bat
national holiday Was
Paris was with excl
Pari
wRY
was th
past the door
:
and, ss usnal, several tables
One had a glass «
I heard the glass fall g aft
When i reac:
On
I had passed the place,
waiter fol-
in and requested me to pay
for the glass. 1 said, ‘seursely The
grog proprietor then came and demand-
ed pay for the glass and contents. 1 re-
plied with perfect polish and wonderful
naivete that I would see him doing time
over yonder before I would do so. ‘All
he straightway to me did make reply
I did not think he would do it, but he
did. He then told the policeman his
story, and the officer told me I would
have to accompany him to the commis
gaire. I said I had agreed to go some-
where cles that evening. He did not
understand me. Just as we were start-
ing for the sation house the proprietor
of the Cestiliogne and the young Count
de Passano, both of whom I had met
tree, I think, though it was all in
French, so I am not sure of the exact
words. At last he finally hitched up
his linen trousers, touched his cap and
Italian here going to school, aad hav-
ing also yet a good time already. He
was very polite and wanted to pay for
the glass himself, but I would not per -
mit it, because it was wrong for any-
body to go about paying for the general
breakage of crockery and glassware in
a large place. You cannot keep it up.
I was quite ill at ease for a little while,
I will admit, for itis so rarely that I
am arrested nowadays that 1 hardly
know what to say. Besides, you can-
not argue with a French policeman in
English and make that favorable im-
pression you would like,
The secret of feeaing is to avoid get-
ting your laying hens fed,
HEADACHE AND HAIR.
A Barber Tells How to Cure the
Former and Preserve the Latter.
Yes, it is a mistake to change the way
or style of combing your hair. A man
should decide early in life which way
heis going to arrange his hair or beard,
and keep it that for life. It is
wrong to cultivate a ‘pompadour’ in
summer time and wear the hair plaster-
ed on the head the rest of the
When the comes to
change, the course of the hair has been
way
Year,
time make the
changed at the roots, and the hair will
not lie down, If ept short it will stand
out like porcupine quills; and again,
when the ‘pompadour’ is being ealti-
is liable to tire of it
before it is mastered. You will always
find that the men who plaster their hair
on their heads become bald years be-
vated, the wearer
fore men who wear ‘pompadours’ or
‘half-pompadours’ for the reason that
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Examine into your own shortcomings
rather thin those of others.
“AN the world’s a stage,” and there
are Jots of bad actors on iL
Women like brave men exceedingly,
but audacious men still more.
The ups and downs of life ore betler
than being down all the time,
It is paradoxical and
sickness often lurks inv
vet true
5 OYE
ua mil in
HARARE]
As certainly as your
in you, His work will
be upon you,
After you have learned to thin
fewer books you read the bel
Bociety is like a pie—the
the lower crust and the best part,
faith cure will not
it of faith is the
upper crus
thing for it,
Curses are like processions;
turn to the place from whence
came,
Ww Liat we
they re-
they
bell is right is more of-
the air does not get to the scalp and the
of it.
A scalp plastered with hair never per-
roots of the hair die for the want
spires and headaches follows. Any-one
subject to headaches can overcome them
he
and thoroughly
very easily if will but rub
oe ntly F morning
ati {
niation of
and eve ning.
the blood, creates draws
| perspiration, accompanied
feu
{ air, which ds the ro
— ———— a
Silk Without Worms,
M. de Carbonuet, a
i ho
g. lle
ory
RO,
bas discovered
Wort
begrs il
4
i
Vii
| some Lime with
that the peculiar
1 alt of the 5;
i £3 ¥ v wminnritl
{ After many month
tr
| Successiul trials,
BLK iN
Yaras o
on sociation
Fir Stronger Than Oak.
nerally supposed the
nger than fir,
its made i
e Nort Railroad, in Ta-
a. Washington Territory, shiow that
Ty *
y £1
recently ML A
He Cal
hern Pacific
he reverse is actually lhe case, The
ts were made by acteal breaking
strain. on sticks two by four inches and
four
in the middle <f a span of three feet
The results of five tests
were as follows: First, an old piece of
yellow fir, six years exposed to
weather, brote at 3062 pounds; second,
nine inches,
a new soft piece of fine-grain yellow fir
of yellow fir.
broke short
new piece or fir from the butt of a tree,
coarse grain
of Michigan oak broke nearly short off
at a weight of 242% pounds,
flections before breaking were as fol-
lows: The first and second pieces, half
an inch; third, threeeighths of an
| inch: fourth five-eighths of an inch;
| fifth, the oak piece, one inch and an
| eighth,
New Style of Postal Cards.
The new postal cards soon to be is-
| sued will vary in size. There will be
three sizes when the contracts are final-
ly taken up—cne w fine, delicate card
| for ladies’ use, much smaller than that
| now in circulation and of much finer
substituted for the old bluff blotting-
paper. An intermediate card of the
same size as the one now in use will be
introduced that oan be used for busi-
ness purposes, and will be large enough
to allow a hill-head to be printed there
on, besides the other matter. It is
well known also that Mr. Wanamaker
is in favor of cheap postage. He takes
a practical view of the matter, however,
and proposes that the reduction be
made so that a half-ounce parcel could
be earried for one cent, still retaining
the present rate of two cents for = full
§ ounos,
i ten because it than
otherwise,
Never
came readier to do the same a
BO grinds our ax
11, ’ “w & 531 3: ¢
did any soul do
more enjoyment,
There is nothing
ourselves. as there 1s
without i
exaggeration,
in all your
ve in a Kind
nore
ing; it is
BACY,
YO
The adversaries of a good caus
like men who strike at the coals of a
large fire; they scaller
| propagate the i
the coals and
it.
+ if
Inquisitive people are the funnels of
| conversation; they do not take in any-
| thing for thelr own use, but merely 10
| pass il to anotlher.
he
Character is proof against the fi-
| ings of ridicule, and the consciousness
| of doing right takes the sling
most envenomed jest,
BOO
" £21
out of the
il of (sod. We
through advers;-
TU nhappiness is the ¢
can only become holy
{ty. It was the exaggeration 1
truth which led the old saints to fl
| tortures on themselves
of his
-
t
Wisdom oonsists not in Knowing
many things, noreven in knowing them
thoroughly, but in choosing fol
jowing that which conduces most
surely to our lasting happi
glory.
Let boys be instructed in all the de-
signs of nature and they will be im-
proved in morals, and learn Ww love
animals instead of throwing slopes at
them,
Prejudices, it is well known, are most
difficult to eradicate from the heart
whose soll has never been loosened or
fertilized by education; they grow there
firm as weeds among rocks,
As one man that runneth in haste and
leapeth over a fence may fall into a pit
which he doth not see, 50 is a wan that
plungeth suddenly icto an action before
he hath considered the con-equences
thereof,
ang
the
in
ess and
When we are in the company of sen.
gible men we ought to be doubly cau-
tious of talking too much, lest we lose
two good things, their good opimon and
our own improvement, for what we
have to say we know, but what they
have to say we know not,
The great lack of many excellent peo-
ple is energy, determination, and moral
earnestness, They are quiescent. They
do not act, though sometimes they may
be acted upon. They move only as
some ona moves them. They are not
centres of power and ewergy.