A Mother's Story.
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DOWN.
“rhere are things worse than death,” one wrote
to me,
The day my boy, my baby, died, and I,
Out of ny anguish, sald it was a lie;
Worse than that new-dug grave, what could
there be?
That grave which prisoned him and left me
free!
But last night. ah, I dreamed he did not die
{ dreamed he lived to manhood, to deny
All good, dwelling in erime and infamy
0, torture wrought by that dream spirit's hand!
And 1 thanked God with my first waking
breath
That he was safe, dear boy! in that blest land,
Barred from all {ll by pall and funeral wreath ;
At last, after these years, I understand
Those wise -writ words, “There are things worse
than death.”
MISTAKEN FOR A WIDOW.
Come on, dear,” said Amy, putting
ap her parasol.
“Dear!” came, a chubby five-year-
old.
“We'll take a stroll up the road,
Malcolm, ”’ said his young aunt,
+All wight,” sald Malcolm.
They had come, Malcolm and his par-
pass the summer in Gloster.
Gloster was only a hamlet, but it
was cool and green and delightful.
“We'll
dear,” said Amy.
They passed a maple grove, a little,
some farm-houses, and
square,
old church,
then came suddenly upon a
white building, with two doors in front
and yellow-blinded windows!
the doors bare-footed children,
dinner-pails, were coming.
“A district school!” said Amy. ‘And
it looks so much like—But of course
you don’t remember, Malcolm. You
wese only two years old.”
with
way. Amy strolled up to the door.
She would have a congenial
chat with the teacher. Probably it
a spinster with a pointed nose and a
shoulder shawl, but —
She and Malcolm went
teacher rose from the desk,
Iie was hardly a spinster! Ife wasa
tall, bright-eyed, dark-mustached, in-
disputably good-looking young man.
“Onl” Amy faltered,
“Come said the
though they were in,
Awy mustered her courage. It was
embarrassing, but after all it didn’t
alter the case. She would have Ler
copgenial talk just the same.
“We thought we'd come in,’
said, sweetly smiling. “You
taught a term in a district school once
myself, and—"’
“Certainly,” said the master.
am always glad to have visitors,
sorry my school is out.”
fie bhastenel forward to meet her,
and walked back aisle with
her.
“I'd have been glad to see it,’" said
Amy-not very regretfully, however,
“See, rat on the
little
was
in, and
te, 793
ini
schoolmaster,
’
she
“y
I'm
down the
Malcolm that
blackboard.”
“Yes, I illustrate their
my primer children,” said the teacher,
laughing, *‘They like my pictoryal ef-
forts,
What a pleasant laugh he had, and
what a clearness and gailety in his eyes!
Amy's beart beat a little faster.
“It’s such work, isn't It, teaching
babless’’ she said, “I had an infant of
three in my school.”
“Oh, I draw the line there! But I
have them as smnall as this youcg man.”
He pinched Malcolm's fat cheek.
*‘Malcolm is five,” said Amy. “Have
you many pupils? 1 bad only six-
teen.”
“Oh, I can beat that! I bave forty.”
“And you do it all?” sald Amy, her
adwiring eyes raised to his. “I'm
afraid I'm presumptuous to try to have
a congenial talk,” she laughed ambig-
uously. “You see 1 taught only one
term.
Hinton, and the teacher was taken sick
the first of the term, and I taught it for
her. But I’m afraid Idd it for fun.”
dear,
1 pon
lessons for
all the same ’ the young schoolmaster
neclared, gaily.
and the insincerity
doesn’t matter,
can't have a congenial talk ”’
“Perhaps we can,” said Amy,
pretty laughter and a blush,
They had it.
Malcolm, sitting close to his pretty
aunt on the bench, listened round
eyee, interested, if nol comprehending.
Amy wondered afterward how ever
they had dnfted from school methods
and monthly exuminations to the
pettiness of Gloster’s rambles and the
pleasantness of the Clarks’ front porch,
where Amy boarded, and the excel-
lence of their croquet-ground., But
they did; and they were honestly
amazed when the clock on the wall gave
ts *‘tehick” for hall-past five,
They looked at each other in flushed
3
of your
with
r acquaintance was an hour and
‘hindered you!” Amy cried.
i've got lessons to make out, or
9 »”n
vent! retorted the teacher, with
laugh. *‘1 was going home. I
pud the Clarks,’ and I hope
me go with you.”
ne, Malcolm, dear,” said Amy,
hg aside her smiling face,
don’t suppose you will care for
sommencement,” sald the school-
fer, at the Clark’s gate, “It's day
Mer to-morrow evening. 1 call it
seement In some irony--it's the
mere stepping-off of my highest class.
FSO
TH
Only it’s something of a celebration
here, you know, Everybody cones, and
the scho'] board and my graduates and
I ornament the platform put up for the
occasion, ann it's a grand time—for
Gloster. But it wouldn’t pay you.”
“But I shall come’ of course,” said
Amy and then blushed for having said
*‘ot course.”
But the schoolmaster looked happy.
She went up the path in a smiling
daze, Indeed, it had been a congenial
talk —amazingly congeniall”’
“Yes, Gloster’s pretty quiet,” said
Mr. Clark, at the supper table. *'I
spose commencement, now, I'll have to
last us rest o’ the summer. IVI be
worth seein,” though, Welve got as
smart a teacher as you'll find, Born
and brought up in Gloster, too. hil
Oakes was. Ain’t but twenty-two.
He's puttin himself through college
with nis own bands—or his head.
Keeps up with his classes, somehow,
right along with his teachin.’
have
Marsden he's but
when ready,
amount to something, Phil Oakes!
You'll enj'y it.”
**I shall go,”
tering ber roll,
* * * a » .
Commencemgent was
The auditnce, which
had listened and applauded, and tossed
flowers, vigorously fanned itself
for nearly two hours,
and
had read their essays, and the chalr-
their diplomas and made a short ad-
of the
gave
Now 1t was the turn
him a
little round of cheers as he rose to speak
the parting words to the graduates. For
was certain LO say some-
thing work hearing.
So he did. The conventional senti-
ments about the voyage of life and the
port of success were for once neglected,
The young master’s speech was short,
terse, but bright and inter-
esting and amusing,
Amy looked and listened,
She was with her brother and sister
in-law, and she was rather in doubt as
to the thing she intended doing; but
she did not falter,
How nice he I And his bright
eyes were turned toward her more
once, nd she had
it if it were eccentric.
grasped firmly
nose gay of flowers she had carefully
arranged, and white and yellow
roses, with a border of delicate ferns,
Mn yked!
han
determined to do
Hie the
red
r master bowed, amid
sincere applause, she threw with
vigor directly at him.
There laugh
novel , and then a spreading
“ARKI" of consternation,
The had hit the
rickety lamp on the organ and knocked
it to the floor. There was
ted crash of breaking glass; but worse,
there burst of flame. The oil
had caught fire.
Of ¢ Was a panic,
in their first fright,
Women screamed and
was a general
feature
big bunch rather
the expec-
Was a
Even
rushed
yurse there
:
Lo-
men,
ward the door,
certain that the
building would burn, and there was a
general rush and hubbub,
But Amy stood still, Her sister-in-
law had grown slmost hysterical, and
her brother had borne her out and called
to Amy to folk
jut she did not,
less and watched
platform,
Everybody was
YW.
She stood motion
one figure on
£9,
wae
pet from the temporary platform, aod
was valiantly smothering the flames.
Amy waited, She had itl
badly burned —if he
If
was
done
ue
Was
meant
but surely
And how differently she bad
it! She hal been foolish,
should be to his injury.
The time she stood miserably wait.
ing—-waiting till he should see aad
endless,
When he came, white-faced, but
ious eyes,
“I was such a goose!” she
“What made me do it? You
burged—both your hands—and I did
iti”
“No, no! A small burn or two
nothing!” said the schoolmaster, look-
ing handsome as he bent toward her,
“Don’t think of it! 1 have your flow-
ers, and they were worth it! Are you
alone? Let me take you home,”
She took his arm, He was nos much
hhrt, and he held her flowers tightly in
his haud, and they were going out into
the cool night together, und she was
almost glad,
For otherwise she would have been
going home with John and Margaret,
“My sister-in-law was hysterical
with fright,” said Amy, laughing and
balf-crying together, and almost hys.
terical herself. *“*And my brother took
her home, He told me to come but
I=
“y our brother?” said Mr, Oakes,
“Yen?
“And your sister-in-law?’’
“Why, yes!”
“But I haven't seen them!" he ex-
postulated,
“But you haven't called on me,”
Amy retorted, shyly.
“I thought you were here alone,’ he
declared,
“But I'm not,” she replied, wonder-
ing.
The schoolmaster stopped short, and
faced her,
**1s it possible,’”’ he said, solemnly-—
“ig it possible that that child Is your
nephew?’
“Of course! What else could he be?”
Amy cried,
There was a silence of some
utes,
“I thought he was-—your son,” said
Phil Oakes, almost inaudibly. “I
thought you were a widow.”
“A widow!’ she gasped.
She leaned against a
laughed till she was weak.
min-
fence
“You had on a black dress, you
“With yellow bows on itl!” she re-
plied, in a soft scream.
“And the little boy was with you.”
“Oh, yes! Malcolm loves me,
Margaret was away that day.”
** And he looks like you.”
“Yes, everybody says so.”
“And you called him ‘dear.’ And 1
“Aunt Amy,” she corrected, faint
with laughter,
"i see,’
“Do
’
the
know,'” he
her, *‘that it
so much?
said
you
upon
slowly.
gazing down
worried me ever
widow. 1 liked you,” said the school-
master, rather breathlessly, “1 liked
you right away. That was a
nial task, wasn't it? and I—I admired
you. But I was entirely persuaded that
you were a widow with a young hope-
ful, and the idea
in the least, don’t know
why,” said the young man, laughing as
gomshow I didn’t |
On my soul 1
IRE
he looked down upon her,
And he didn't know, though
blushed as he said it, and though she of
the rose-bouquet had pretty
he
her face
But he knew later. The summer
was long, and the Clarks’ front porch
and croquet ground
portunity. When
master went back to college
were rich in op-
the young school-
in the fall
diamond ring behind
him, And when, two years later, the
bright young graduate to fill a
remunerative position
he left a aodest
went
in Marden, he
took h 8 young wife with him.
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Tell a Man's Age
Name.
How to by His
tive me a list of the names of the
men in
try, and
heard of
ages,’
cently.
any city or town in this
even without
having seen
them, 1 will tell you
1
sald a prominent citi
“How can you do that?’ asked an
incredulous bystander,
“Simply by
In the first place you must re-
that about half of
population of this conntry have been
of the United
resident, and
is to know when
the initials of thelr
names, 5
member the male
named after Presidents
States or candidates for
all you to do
these presidential candidates were at
the zenith of their popularity, Of
course, exceptions be
George Washington and Andrew Jack-
gon, for people have not quit naming
have
f
must made of
their boys after these {1iustrious
this day.
“For instance, here
WwW. H. Johnson-—Williamm Henry Har-
rison was elected President in 1536,
consequently Mr. Johnson is about 53
years old, Here is W, Scott Smith —
Winfield scott ran for President in
1852, Smith is therefore about 37 years
old. The next name on the list is A.
North Abraham Lincoln was
elected President in 1860. Mr, North
is the name of
take the next, —M. F. Smathers,
lard Filmore was a
Mil-
candidate for
M. F. Smathers is,
And so on. By studying
the Christian names of men
figure out the ages of many of them
- AIA SR
A Big Resurrection.
he work of exhuming the 300 bod-
an
a“
the past years, is being pushed
abead, The bodies are cremated in a
temporary retort which has been con
strucied on the premises, while the cof-
fing are broken up and burned. The
contract requires that the work of res-
urrec.ng and cremating the 300 bodies
shall be completed within uinety days,
during which time the cemetery will be
closed to all visitors,
A Newfoundland Dog Gives a Fire
Alarm.
A big Newfoundlaud dog recently
saved six hives in Allegheny City.
About one o'clock in the morning the
dog awoke his master, Mr. F, D, King,
by loud barking, Repeated efforts to
quiet the brute failed, and looking out
of the window, King discovered that
the Boyle building was in flames, He
called assistance and succeeded in res
euing from the burning building the
members of threes families,
The bench of a cottage is often sof.
ter than the cushioned chair of a
palace,
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WHEN PATTI WAS A GIRL.
Her Winning Ways and Limited
Wardrobe at Thirteen Years.
A lady who 18 now a resident of
Washington, has given some interesting
reminiscences of Adelina Patti’s youth
in the Washington Herald,
“*1t was a long time ago,”’
“away back in 1856, that I
little girl in New Orleans, She was a
bewitching cluld, small and slight,
with big, dark eyes and black hair.
Her face was not particularly pretty,
its expression was wonderfully
sweet, and her ways were so childish
and simple that one couldn't help feel-
she sald,
He was a rather
he was
in New Orleans,
A friend of ours who
He didn't want
But the child
I can still re-
when
would begin
went to the plano and began
8
my
Lo
play for her.
“id the Pattis seem
money at that time?’
“No; they were very poor, |
to have much
think;
and the little girl had only the common-
est kind of clothing. She had bul one
and she only that
when she appeared In the concerts. It
nice dress, wore
carefully but clumsily her father wou
put it on her, and then fuish by
red
lying
around ber throat a Dig bandana
handkerchief, such as you see the
wear alx
Ital-
fans he streets
The poor chile
look very queer with thls
but her father evidently
height of magnificence.
“Patil at this time,”
|
tinued, “was between 1.
of
usually very handy with
but Adelina's father
mend her own clothes,
fond of 1
are, and having to st
while other
¢
} {ela Pp
age. Girls at this
i 1
thelr needie,
ted
The child was
expe her to
unning about, as most children
ay indoors and
mend her clothes children
were out playing in the streels was a
great hardship to her, One day
with a
littie dress
worn. Hes
came Lo me
was sadly torn and
had set her to mending
went out. but she didn’
wt for work,
In
“ ¥ 1
room and 0
my
she didn’t think
ly
this was so sly and coaxing that of
course | promised to do her job of mend-
and away she went to take her
ing.
walk and
Royal street,
t¥,
ibid
2 % 3 ¥ 1 r 5
pay he children on
on ——-—
A Sagacious
WOR.
Recently Luke Grassiield, of Cole's
{1ge. was hunting for bears around the
Tobyhauna
lunch,
big marsh in
W Li
noon, be heard a hound
township,
shortly after
baying
The voice
be
but pres-
le eating his
on the
opposite side of the marsh,
the hound appeared to
the time,
before
lunch a
the
of in
direction all
it = aad
it stopp A
finished his
sate
ently and
had large black
and tan hound crept through the bushes
near the log on which the hunter sal
and began to whine and wag its tail
At first, Grassfleld said, he thought the
bound was begging for something to
eat, but as it refused to touch some
meat that he offered it, he concluded
that it had smelt him out for some
other purpose. Then the hound whined,
walked off a few steps in the direction
from which it had come, looked back,
Tis it did three times,
Thinking that thé bhound’s master
might have been hurt while hunting,
lunch away and followed the dog. The
hunter shoulder
start,
other side of the marsh and then down
to where a large birch tree had been
torn up by the roots. The snow all
around the upturned roots had been
packed down by the hound’s feet come
time before, and the dog's actions con-
vinced Grassfleld that there was som»
animal under the roots that the hound
wanted him to kill,
On the way over the hound had kept
still, but it began to bay and yelp fu-
riously the moment they reached the
tree, and to run back and forth with its
nose to the snow, There was a deep
hole in the ground at the base of Lhe
roots, in which there wasa mass of
dead leaves. Grassfield poked Into it
until he ascertained that a bear had
holed up there. Then he urged the
hound to go in, but all it would dv was
to go to the rim of the hole and yelp as
hard as it could, keeping at it for sev-
eral minutes at a time.
After a while the bear sprang out and
pitched at the hound, but the old flog
had evidently been used to hunting
bears and it leaped out of the way of
the big paws just as Grassfield blazed
away and sent a bullet into the bear's
bead under the left ear, killing it iop-
stantly, The hunter soon found that
he had slain a bear that had recently
given birth to cubs and he quickly dug
two tiny young bears out of the warm
nest, They were less than a week old
and be bundled them up in his coat and
took tiem home, Ie tried to coax the
in another direction
of sight.
That night Grassfield went over and
skinned the mother bear,
carcass where it lay.
too young to be ralsed by hand and
recently they died.
Grassfield learned that the hound be.
longed to Samuel W, Tipple, who lives
at Trout Brook, thres miles from where
and was soon out
leaving the
a —— -—
To Improve the Finger Nalls,
Many people think that
skin back from th
more, and that by
tally destroyed, and the ends of
have an ugly
cling the na
Fatne ws ors
hering
avoided,
incl
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Experiment Stations.
re are some interesting facts about
Origin an OR Tess O
ustitutions. According
0. Atwater, of the Department
of the first asncultural
experiment station was established in a
German
gil. Fi
Bi Pages 1
{teen by 1
itiie village near
i
1 Ya 1 f a $
i Yé Nore were ¢f
1R
i
mlay. Lhere :
tion established
ry was at Middletown, Com
n 1880 there jwere four
and in 1837 there
the
fiftv-seven, The
Were
rh anpet $0 § chi
fourteen States,
1 % Srey § ¥
day being appropria-
\ . y "
and National, for the sup-
tions, State iy
port of these stations annually amount
to £720,000, and they give employment
“- , sn ¥ ’
to over 270 trained men.
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The Crazy Quilt
Craze.
Paris is afflicted with the crazy quilt
eraze. from which this country suffered
A Paris paper says:
sel
a few years
“All the world has
Having emptied their drawers and cabi-
ago,
itself ‘crazy.’
nets, despotied the linings of thelr old
and their they
have add/essed themselves to the dress-
maker and the modist«: ‘AS little
dresses used up hats,
Aas
more you will send, and the more you
will render me happy,’ and letters being
different furnishers of the
afterward little post packages [filled
with clippings of the latest creations.”
sooner than the fair Americans, and
A —-
To What Base Uses,
A London exchane contains this
paragraph: “There has arrived from
miles from Cairo by an Egpytian fellah,
and found it completely filied with cals,
every one of which had been separately
embalmed and dressed in cloth after
the manner of Egyptian mummies, and
all laid out in rows Specimens of
these have been taken by Mr. Moore,
curator of the Liverpool Museum,
where they can be seen, In ancient
times the Egyptian cat was buried with
all honors, but those consigued to
Messrs, Levington & Co,, of Liverpool,
alter being purchased in Egypt at $18,60
per ton, will be used in this country for
fertilizing purposes,”
a
Good Health of Glassblowers,
(Hassblowers have hard lives, you
think? voubtless you would say they
burn out in a few years, and such cruel
employment ought to be prohibited by
law. The fact is that glassblowers live
as long as the average of mankind and
instead of being burned out, develsp
larger lungs than anybody else. Most
any alassblower can expand his chest
five or six inches, and there is one
man who cen expand twelve.
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FOOD Fux THOUGHT
Always be neighborly.
A respectable minority 1s useful
Censors,
Hope
densed,
Love is the true price at which love
is bought,
The dithes must
an
bes con
extended should never
be washel aller a
God gave the poor their title ded to
He that liveth wickedly can mot die
Speaking silence 18 better han
SE TIG0e
jegin at the bottom and worl
The jewel of a
good wife,
home cask
Kindnesses neglected
ship suspected,
14 Beds
I'he weight of a scale depend
the weigher,
sun sets on brightness ao
nthe same,
name for
il trouble,
11
O Grown your
WO Grown youl
hat ryt
thal sor
Mi
1 wise this
his folly shows,
lus folly knows
lat i ®
els drive
full, and
uk
ust
A kicki
as the pail is
LE COW Never
x
om
a
¢ mark; it is just so wilh
i's blunders,
men
neer at i
no
o veut
d geal
were little
wo
Money w
[DALI WANS «
13 wurst
iG seem greatl by comparison,
Saesranih
Aimoss
tas YEsaats §
CONMENRVINGen.,
mit in td
HOV 10 Li
£ 10
No man
v 4
Be
HE bi
J 1 All Ways ie has
bow himself thr
wh the world
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and receiving offence.
Pashunce is a goo
tew hav, provides
for a mag
have lew
mutch ov it; thare iz a point at which
pashunce be «ins tew be lgnoranna
When aman succeeds in forgetting the
skeleton he placed in his closet last yea
he goes to work to pul another one
and the dream of pleasures
on,
A word is a weapon so terrible in its
action, and so deadly in itseffects,
it will strike with 1}
derbolt, and slay ils victim
flashing rapidity of lightning.
It is the part of prudence
every claimant, and pay every
mand on vour time, your talents or
your heart, Always pay: for; frst or
last, you must pay your entire debt,
thal
oe force of a thun
wit) the
to face
just de.
sorrow belongs &
The eapacitly of hy
loftiost
our grandeur, and the | of ow
race are those who have trad the pro.
foundest sympathic 8, becausethiey Lave
had the profoundest sorrows,
11e who can hereieally endure adver
gity will bear prosperity with equa
caanot be dejected by the former is not
He who despairs wants love, wants
three torches which Dlend their
lights together; nor does the one shipe
without the other.
To amve at
perfection a map
made sensible of his good or ill cone
the one
or the admonitions of the others,
No enjoyment, bowever lnconsider
able, is confined Lo the present moment,
A wan is the happier for lite from
baving made once an agreeable tour, or
lived for any length of time with pleas.
an: people, or enjoyed any considerable
interval of Innocent pleasure,
An act of injustice, suall In itself, it
way be, but performed when the youth
ful mind is most open lo impression,
may exert a lasting mnfuence The
immediate influence of the act may Le
comparatively small, but in its remote
consequences it may give character to
the life,
The mutual tolerance and forbear.
ance of lif + are as greatly the secret of
happiness in marriage as anything else,
We have to tolerate unpleasant thing
tn our companions in any relations of
life, and why try to bund up a law of
warriage in any other way?
Nature never works like a conjurer,
to surprise, rarely by shocks, but by in.
in sounds we do not hear,
sconts we do not smell, speclacies wy
seo not, and by Innumersble lwpres
S008 80 Iald on that, thiugh im-
portant, we do not discover them une
ui our attention is called to them.
Ch AAAS INL.