Edwina's Letter. My dear. doar Mr. Weather man, Oh won't vou please turn off the rain? We've ivi so much, the whole world’s tired Or else 1 shouldn't now complain, 1 can’t wo out from morn "till night, And win so cross (Hin I stay, Sly mamma save, “children and pigs Are dreadful on a rainy day!” I should think your wa'l wou'd be dry, Don't vou think "twould be as much fun, Mo just burn off this rain some d 1y And fi BER stead tire on the sun? And Aunut Janet says, if the sun You turn on, why just keep it it For she s an artist and can’ paint, On these dark days one & bit 1 of We all ike you. but we're | andinaming This cain, still my de I says bo find faults n its fo Seis’ these Lines from Edwina, Marviorie Muchmore. CAN'T AFFORD IT. HY GERTRUDE LENNON. i. Can’t afford it Mary! But you might if you would only think so; pleaded the young wife. Can't do it returned the hus- band emphatically, It would cost at least ten or twelve dollars to put up such a gate; the old bars will do very well. No they won't Walter, the neigh- bor’s children very often leave the bars down, and then stray cattle come into the garden. We may lose more than the price of the gate in one hour, if a cow should get in while 1 am away. 1 should like to know who leaves the bars down said Walter threateningly: Dut we could shut of 1ts own accord with weights, or a spring, suggested his wife. John Niles has got a gate put up in yard, I am not Nil wish you to remember. is us large as yours and his wages are not so high. open, John es my dear, 1 afford it, at rate not at present. Aud with this Walter started off to hls work. Walter Gray was a young about thirty, an industrious mechanic, any and had an interesting family. He meant to provide well for those he did so. comforts of which he felt obliged to de- prive them, comforts which at they really needed and which in the end might prove a saving. nes: had he feltable to grant these lit- thought so with sound judgment the sequel will prove, The gate which his wife had been the entrance of the garden circle of the house where there was only a pair of short bars. The children often through there and sometimes left the way open behind them. In , Were many ways in which wers apt to be left down and Mary Gray had very often to leave her work to drive cut the cows, It was only by the garden was saved from utter ruin. She bad spoken to her husband several times about it, but he always made the same answer “‘he could not afford it,” she must Keep her eyes upon the spo! and see that the Lars were kept in their « place, Only a tew days after this Mr, irray asked hier husband it he would uot take a pew in the church for the following year and he toid her that he did pot think he would, But yon can aflord to take half a one; we can get half of Mr. Niles for three dollars, I can't afford it was Walter's reply ‘and it would do us no good, Dou t say that Walter, Suppose everybody should feel like that you surely wouldn't wish to bring up your children, where there was no religious instructions. And if you reap the LeneBts of good Christian inst tutions you certainly ought to help to support them, So I would be willing too, if I could afford it, but I can’, Mra, Gray looked very serious and seemed to hesitate, as If thers was a subject on lwir mind which she felt delicate avout broaching, but it had occupied her mind too long and she determined to let it out, Waller she said, a litt"> tremalously, but still resolutely, you have $15 a week. Yes. And how much of thas does it take to keep us, 1 don'ts know, Lam sure, I only know it takes it all to feed and clothe us and pay the interest on the house, 1 have put had a new dress since this summer, and I was reckouing vp jes terday how much we had spent for the children and found it was only ten dollars for the last six months, I have worked over some of cousin Charle’s clothes for Johnnie, and Jennie takes Mary's dresses as soon as she outgrows them, That's all very well replies! Walter, a little testily. 1 know my business best and I know what I can afford and what I cannot, while I have the paymen's to make on my house, | must . Ek : And I would have you economize re tured his wife, but do not forget that all is not economy that many cull so, 1 think to rent the half of Mr. Nile’s new would be a great source of comfort and lasting good. It would be a few dol- lars laid out to good advantage, sure to return to ourselves and children at heavy interest. Stop, said Walter, you have said enough, [ know my duty. Let me say one word urgel Mary, There was an earnestness in her tone which caused her husband to stop and listen, If you will give me (ive dollars a week, I will agree to furnsh all pro- visions for the household and clothe myself and the children. 1 will do this for the year. This will leave you ten dollars to clothe yourself and make your payments on the house, You cannot furnish food and clothe yourself and the children for the sum you have named, he said, Maury sat down and made known to him what had been hidden in the mys- teries of her housekeeping, She was not long in proving to him that during the past year the items were within said mits ¢f expenditure. Walter said, pooh, then added nonsense, and then he left the house, There must be some mistake he sald to himself after he had got away from the house and he really believed there was a mistake, Have a glass of something Bill? come Tom have something. Don’t care if I do said Tom and Bill, Ned, and Ned says yes, so the clerk prepared four glasses and Walter paid for them. Let us have a game of poo! for oys- ters says Bill after the day's work was over. The game was played dnd Walter they did not need it, so i more harm than good, Have a cigar Walter? asked | Walter said yes, and in return pald for ia gla s of ale, One evening they met after ! who should pay for the beer, Come John, | UY. | Nol think not sald John. You'd better, it’s only for | five if you come in. I can't, *'it is no use asking him i sald Walter in a rather sarcastic tone.” { He beer for does not spend his money that way. Johr’'s face flushed and his lips trem- | bled, but he restrained the bitter words his tongue, Tom loud hear. Tight that were struggling He is a mean fellow said enongh for him to bark on a tree sald Walter In an equally loud tone. John heard the re marks, but did not come back. on as The four men remaining tossed up | i and the lot fell on Walter and Tom. {| Then they tossed it off and it fell upon | i Walter who paid for the beer, i : Waiter started for home about nine and on his way Was over- | taken by Niles Walter, said the | o'clock he latter, In a kind, but earnest tone, I want to speak to you, you have wronged me this ¢vening and I want you to understand me. For | { the opinion of the others I care little, | i but I do not wish you to misapprehend ime, We live so near together and 1 ion, was sensible of the fact that his com- | panion was one of the bey’ neighbors in the worl i, Yousaid I was mean. No no, it was not I, that sald that, bark on the tree, Walter could not deny that, so Nies proceeded, I refus d to join your little party for hree reasons, either of which should have been suaflicient to deter First, 1 had resolved in any such games, Soacoad, I do not drink beer, ard third I could not afford to pay for your extra supper if the lot had fallen on me, a slight tings of disbelief In his tones, No, returned the other, I could not. I used to be ready for any such game and I thought it would be mean to re- fuse, but I have learned better, Let me tell you how TI first came to see the folly of being afraid to spend my money for nothing. Shall I tell you? Certainly, returned Walter who already began to see something. “Well sald Niles,” one morning as I was going away from home, my wife asked me for a few dollars, She wanted Lo by some clothes with it, I asked if she could not do without It, I had only five dollars with me and I hated to let ong of them go. She sald she needed the eloth but f 1 had not got the money she could walt, 1 knew she was disappointed but I thought she could get along and I went away, Thal evening | went into the saloon and we had a five social time It cost me just three dollars. I paid the mousy wil. lingly withou! even a thought of objec tion, and then I went home, When I entgred the hall I heard my wife trying to pacify our oldest child, The little thing had expected a new dress, which had been promised to her, and she felt bad because she bad not got it, Walt urged my wife, papa has not got the money now, but he will have it by and by and then you shall have a pretly new dress, Poor papa bas to work hard, The words smote me to the heart, | could not afford two dollars to dress | child, but I could afford any amount for thie useless entertainment of others, The money that my ueedy wife could not get when she asked for it 1 had pala away for nothing, Bat 1t taught we a lesson. 1 opened my eyes, and I have kept them open ever since. On the very next morning I gave my wife the money she wanted, but I did not give any for beer that day, I had pot dreamed how I was wasting money when | allowed my funds to proper channel, 1 soon fount afford every comfort that mv wife und children needed, So 1 stick to the princinle whizh has proved so bene- ficial to myself and family, All what's that? There is an animal in your garden Walter! They had reached the garden fence and by the dim starlight Walter could see a cow trumpling among his sweet corn. The bars had been elther let down or left down and a stray cow had got in, They drove her out. The beast had done considerable harm but Walter was not angry for he had something of more Importance to think of. He went asd sat down beneath the apple tree and pondered. Bless me if he has not put the case down abont square, he said to himself, at the ead of a few minutes meditation, Is it possible that I have beea spending over $20) a year for beer and other nonsense | wud yei I cannot afford to get a new | gate nor take a pew in a church where my family could receive religious in- structions. Walter Gray I had better turn over a new And leaf, that astonished two parties. He had a and be refused to toss and thereby | thirsty ones, Course up astonished a crowd this and by the expiretion of | new blessings that were dawning upon him. He discovered | his family demanded and arriving at tiose things he coull not | ford, easily { have been so foollsli: a i he had something left, { first It must be a mistake, bul when { his wife went with him over the hous: - hold expenditures and all that was peeded had ght and { paid for he saw just how It was, that for years he had been wasting his sub. stance showe | that been bou and depriving himself and loved ones of the comforts they needed, not intentionally but through mistake that Fane couse, Nomel mes, even can't afford phatically too, Lut the he did =0 no more, now, Walter Gray leads thousands Lesh »Us in it, and then he says it em- not when his comforts and is for Joy nor when the poor and needy ask for Lielp, for he can well afford all that. It his wild reckless com panions ask him to join them and by 50 doing rob his family of their sub- tance, Then he says, *‘I can't $s Ye t is when --—- A Bower of Flowars. Pots intervals bunches of chrysanthemums fastened with ribbons. of the parlors were arched wity ferns | and white chrysanthemum, garlands of the samo were festooned about the walls, white roses, white geraniums and chry- The door ways canopied the mantels. A gigantic hors | shoe of ferns and white flowers marked ont the floor space where the bride and | groom took their positions, and a floral | bell of the samo | their heads. Louis XIV, period lay on every table, | aad ware presented to his gnests in at- | tendance. The bride earried white | orch.ds and the bride's maids white | FORGS, —————————. ws The Court's Fool. John Heywood was fool to Henry VIII, having been introdaced to the king by Sir Thomas Moore. Mary Tudor had a great regard for Heywood, who indalged in much audacious talk. Bold as were his sayings, few of them appear witty. A landlord asked him: “How do you like my beer? Is it not well hopped?” “So well,” replied Hey- wood, “‘that had it hopped a little fur. ther it would have hopped into water.” Dr. Doran, in his “History of Court fool,” gives several specimen’s of Hey- wood's rymed epigrams. One of them is perhaps worth transcribing. os A AIS A There 18 no reason wliy a good cow should not be kept in as clean condition as a good hore, even Ly the application of the curry comb and brush, The color of milk does not indicate its yuali y any more then ths color of the shell indicates the quality of the egg. So says Professor Alvord, There Is no good reason but lack of knowledge anu skill why every pound of butter made in the country might not be prime, if not fancy. A.~1 sent you a bottle of wine, Did BO, 1 got it. Alt Loy od, B.—Weil, 1 should say it was mow. You sent it by a messenger boy, | LIFE OF SHOOTING STARS. Myriacs of Little Meteors that May Have Wandered for Agas. A small body, perhaps as large as a paving stone or larger, more often per- | haps ot as large as a marble, 1s moving | round the sun, Just asa mighty planet i revolves in an this small object will move round and yound in an eclipse, with the sun in the focus, There are at the present moment, we find in “The Story of the Heavens,” | inconceivable myriads of such mete ry moving mn this manner. They are too small and too distant for our telescopes, and we can never see them except under extraordinary cir cumstances, At the time we see the meteor ic is usually moving with enor- mous velocity, so that it often traverses a distance of more than twenty miles in a second of a time. bduch a velocity is almost Impossible near the earth sur- face; the resistance or the air would prevent it. Aloft, in the emptiness of space, Lthele Is no air to resist the me- teors. It may have been moving round and round the sun for thousand, perhaps for millions of years, without let or hindrance; but the supreme moment eclipse, 80 streak of splendor, In the course of its wanderings the body comes nearer the earth, and within course begins to encounter the | surface of the atmosphere with | the earth Is mclosed, with the appalling velocity of a | meteor, a plunge into the 8 usually Even | upper layers of air {lug fatal, though the are excessively 1dend clieck the y, almost as a rifle bullet i be when fired into the water. tenuated, yet they su t would As th He veloc meteor rushes through the atmospher i the friction of the air warms its sur- | white hot, and is fina'ly driven off int Yichit % Light, or two hund “Oh, lvok! vapor with a brilliant { on the earth, one exclaim: star.” below, suouting -_— Exposition Finances, The mde been the statements which have time to U about of the Pi somewhat masles from me financial success § fier tion are ding are to understand by financial that the outlay was directly relmbursed | with a profit, It evident long review of the exposition and its | results by M. Yriarte in Le Figaro, A summary which was printed in the is The financial to the na- attained or anticipated. benefits direct indirect tion and to the city of Paris are evident but there was turn to the subscribers of contributed, except | Guarantee Association. | fifths of the total funds { uted by the Government the city of Paris without expectation { intention of reimbursement, That fac { will have to be kept mn mind here In and nage w No ee f+] case of ithe Nearly enough, the cap in the { three. y of France and 0 ¥ i 4 » comparison with the Paris | Lion, | Apparently the financial scheme of Paris Exposition has not {clearly apprehended in this country, | and it may be interesting to restate it { briefly. The entire fund for expenses was raised in advance, the estimated requirement being 43 000,003, The | whole affair was under Government { direction, anll the Minister of Com- | merce and Agriculture was the Com- { ms<doner General of the exposition. | Of the fund above named the National | Government contributed 17,000,0007, wd the city of Paris 8.000.000f, The i remaining 18,900,007, raised in | the first instance by the Asfociation da» | Guarantie, which was constituted by the leading railroad companies, bank- | ing houses, credit associations, &-., of Paris, lis subs-riptions were very | prompily made to an amount 4,000, VO, in excess of its contributiongas its agreewnent with the Government gave it a lien on the receip's of the Exp sition for the repayment of its share In the general fund, As related in our summary of the Figrro article, this association was displaced by the Credit Foncier scheme of lottery bonds, in order to enable the Government to issue tickets on its own account, mainly for the purpose providing for free ad. missions, The Crelit Foncier undertook to furnish the Government with 21,500,« U00f, in place of the 18,U00,000f, of the Guarantee Association, in retarn for the privilege of Issuing 1,20),000 lottery bonds of 25f. each. Ot the 8,000,000f, over the Government re. quirement 5,600.00 1. was set apart as a fund for the redemption of the bonds, extending over a period of seventy-five years, and 3,000, 000f, was pocketed by the corporation as its profit, Each twenty-five franc bond hada 25 coupons attached, which were equivalent to ad miss'on tickels to the exposition, These furnished 30,000,000 tickets, which the holders were at Iberty to dispose of as they pleased, and they were sold all over Paris, but how many of them were turned in, how many tickets issued direcily by the the been Was i practically absorbed by the scheine under which 18,000,00 f, of the total working capital of 43,000,000, was rai ed, The Paris Expostion involved no outlay for site, all the expenses of laying out, draining and embellishing the grounts, providing the buildings and of administration and ment from first to lust were defrayed from the fund of 43,000,0001., of which . i tingeucies remaioed end, ODIL., or about $8,000.00), Of for its 8,000,000f, the city of Paris has only the indirect benefits, many times greater than its contribu- FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Trade follows the march of tise drum- mer, Better lose an an hor ian the whole ship, To spoil a wife, sub ber pany. A pet lamb always makes a cross Tam, Pra'se undeserved is salhe in dis gi 86, Adversity truth, He that has no shame has science, Be kind and gentle to the destitute, Value character above aft other pos- in com- is the te first path no con poor and the 3,000,000f, rived from privileges, / whatever ceipts there may have been from tick els, estimated at not more than 3,000,- i sale of material, &e., in the removal of The to estimate, benefits to reckoned in material Paris are in money there will be a deficit of no possibly §£ for prob- the here Lhe financial Equ In considering scheme a irely faced. The site item wii than 1 xed outside of that doubtless be much greater Panis, If a limit were to be the whole fund required, it could not placed much, If any, below The cily cannot contrib ’ but 15,00 0,000 by completing her museurn bulldingsand placing them L the service of the Commission, aud iving other aid throug) permanent pub- t No direct ilnprovements, isd t 10 might possibly uisaing cont ibu- ion Lo the fund can be expected fromthe Slate, and 18 is what par: “4 question aid of lat money to tf hin Li { 0 be the lLinances of the full return be expended can in) The Ui. peraranent 0. ght not to be held APAIT 48 an Insurance against the risks of ihe undertaking -—— The Best Gifts, Carnegie, the milli The result of my own study } best gift unity? rst will Onaire n, h ean x given is that a free library occupies the fi the accept and maintain place, provided community tas n pu slice a part of the eity prop- and, inde d, e. It is, my own px reonal exper- insta. hools, no doubt, 1 i ¢ may have led me to value a free A coward never forgave. tis not ature, He that liveth wickedly eau pot die honestly, Great inlquities hemsel ves, Many an old flame has caused a run- seen to baptize He is the wisest think himself so, The worst resolution one ean take is not to conse to any. man who does not Good words cost nothing, but they Hypocrites are beings of darkness The weakest «pot in man is where he thinks himself the wisest, It is no sin to be tempted, the wicked - ness lies in being overcome. hope, skatlers Rememberance 1s the only paradise out of which we cannot be dr. ven. Dispiir iz the ashes ov the wind ov tribalashun which There is nothing so baad that will not admit of something Ww be said in its de fense, He who puts a bad conStruetion on a good act, reveals his own wickelnpess of heart, keeps persons in faver with who are out of favor with Vanity themselves, ail olhiers, The trouble with a man eovering up his tracks is that he makes new ones in : aang it, Prid + ive on itself. It iz like a rac- its claws, Weshould axl aim at perfeckshun, but no one but a phool will expekt tew reach it. lie §z good for a short race, but it takes truth tew run the heats— “blood will tell,’ Hear both and all shall be clear; bear one and you may still be in the dark. Do not persecute the unfortunate, as it is like throwing stones on ane fallen into a well A man is f mous when he Is listened sides, conse. When I was a boy in Pittsbure, A NAT [ without fechngs OPH nt d his lit- I can never speak © of devotional gratitude ks to boys, “Every was in attend- auce himself at his Louse to exchange books. No one but he who has felt it know longing with the of Saturday awaited, that a new book might be had. My brother and Mr. Phipps, who have business partners with me Colonel can the Intense which arrival WAS through life, shared Anderson's precious generosity, aod it was when reveling in these treasures that I resolved, if ever wealth came to that it should be used to establish that other me, poor bovs we were indebted those for which to A ————s 35 First Issue of “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” The crowning glory «f The National Eva was that most famous novels, “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” by Mra. Harriet Beecher Stowe, which, began in oO 1, 1852. Before it was half finished it had created such a sensation that the Jewells, of Boston, bad it stereotyped, and immediately after it wis completed in the paper it was published in book form. In Its earlier stages of publica- tion in the newspaper, it seemed to fall flat. The circulation of The National Era was 13,000 when ‘Uncle Tom" was begun. On the Ist of August, 1852, shortly after the great romance wus completed, the circulation had gone upto 19/00. On Dec. 30, 1852 it reached 27,000. An A correspondent of The London Globe gawes a wost interesting account of Norodom, king of Cambodia, one of the kingdoms of Indo-China, [is majesty, it seems, has adopted a style of dress in vogue in Europe seveuty years ago, Tie wearsa blue tail coat with gold buttons, satin knee} breeches and pumps, No traveler who has bad an audience of Lis majesty in his paluce of I'uon-Peuh has been able to Suppress o smile at the sight ol the Asiatic poten tate in the evening atiire worn in the reign of George 1V. Pleasures are not of such a solid pnb Bi kg they re. ale those lands over w to Eccentric King. " ed in eilher. All happiness iz like gold quartz thare iz four quarts ov stone to one ounce ov gold, The hatnt of of things thousand a year, looking at the bright is worth mors than a side nit is A big opportunity and a little act are as lll-mated as an elephant yoked up with a toad. If you pass for more than your value sav litte, itis much easier to look wise than to talk wise, Reformers hod first need te practice on their own hearls that which they purpose to try on others, Resignation is an invalualide treasure, which cannot, by the most vielent evils, be taken from us The talent of success is nolhing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you de. He » ho laughs last may langh best, but he is in daoger of bring aecused of being very s.ow to ses the joke, We are so avaricious that even when we trade with ourselves we go for get. tiny the best end of the bargain, Genius scews to be the faculty of i } i i body supposed could be done at all. There Is no man whose kindness we may not sometime want, or by whose walice we may not sometime suffer. Virtue wants more admirers, wisdom more supplicanis, truth more real friends, and honesty more pracfitioners, It isn’t wise to say always all that you think, but it is wise always wo over every thing you Say. There is sometimes a period of wait ing and perplexity before prosperity, like the de.se d.rkness that precedes tue dawn, The sympathies of people are always with the unfortunate, because the people kno v they are so liable to be un- fortunate themselves, There iz lots of folks whe are in sich a great hurry tew git religion that they confess sins they ain’t guilty ov, and overlook those that they are There 1z a huge number of souls per. ambulating around the world who hav bin sttairving for years after a camel. and tinadly had to swallow a nat What a comfort a dull bub kindly person is, to be sure, at Limes! ground-glass shade over a gas lswp does not bring more soiase to our minds, We should manage our fortune like onr const. tution —enjoy it when good, have patience when bad, and never apply violent remedies except iD cases of necessity. Give a smart child
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