Listen. ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Whoever you are as you read this, Whatever your trouble or grief, 1 want you to know and to heed this; The day draweth near with relief, Xo sorrow, no woe iz unending, Though heaven seems voiceless and dumb, So sure as your ery is ascending, So surely an answer will come. Whatever temptation is near you, Whose eyes on this simple verse fall: Remember good angels will hear you, And help you to stand, if you call. Though stunned with despair | beseech you, Whitever your losses, your need, Believe, when these printed words reach you, Believe you were born to succeed. You are stronger, I tell you, this minute, Than any unfortunate fate! And the coveted prize—you can win it; While life lasts "tis never too late! . aman MADCAP MABEL HAND. ‘Mabel Hand again?’ grasped Mrs, Murfree. *What has she been doing?’ Mrs. Murfree was the principal of Murfree Lodge, a fashionable institu- tion for the education of girls and young ladies. Miss Pecue, the prim, white eyelashed little woman in the neutral gray gown and nunlike collar and cuffs who stood beside her chief was the vice-principal of the same, Mable Hand represented the black sheep of the establishment—a pretty girl of seventeen, with velvet-bla k eyes, cheeks like Delaware peaches, and the reddest and ripest of mischief- curved lips. ‘I'm awful sorry, Mrs. Murfree,’ burst in Mabel, clasping her hands in penitential fashion, ‘but—' ‘Silence, if you please, Mabel Hand! interrupted Mrs. Murfree, dashing se- vere lightning from her red-brown eyes, ‘Miss Pecue is still speaking.’ *I think,’ mincingly muttered Pecue, ‘that Miss Hand’s conduct has been a degree worse than usual during your late absence.’ lips compressed. “As now? free, ‘Her first questioned Mrs. Mur- offense was aq peaches and condensed Miss Pecue, ‘in consequence of whicl we had to send for Dr. middle—of--the-—night! doubled up thiree complaining!’ ‘Yes,” dolefully admitted Hand, ‘I spent my quarter's money on & basket of Jersey peaches, I’m afrail they weren't but the little darlings did beg so—' ‘Will you be silent, Mabel?’ sternly spoke the first lady in command, Four ) 1} skenives girs ike Jackuives cus—alone—by herself —and clog dance in her bedroom Lougie Delford and Miss how it was donel 1 myself surprised her in the act, my own eyesl’ ‘Such Tun!’ murmured then catching the vengeful Mabel, and fire of Mrs, lence, ‘May I Murfree, ss] inquire,’ “tf there to is anything more?’ say,’ regret Miss Pecue an mains to be told, Clara sin from New York Unfortunately came I chanced to be at the drug store, and ir absence Mabel Hand took to tity?’ ‘It was only for Mabel, ‘He had you know. And’ it upon her burst out seen Clara, a lark!’ never Pecue, and calling them ‘Jack!’ ‘He said 1 was to call him Jack,’ pleaded Mabel, ‘I didn’t know any other name to call him, And he was 80 handsome and jol'y; and he said he wouldn't have believed he had such a pretty cousin if he hadn't seen her for himself —and of course I wouldn't have let him kiss me if I hadn't been his cousin! Cousins are the same as broth- ers and sisters, as everybody knows, He'll never know what it was,”’ ‘Mabél Hand,” said Mrs, Murfree, severely, ‘this caps the climax! I can consent to keep you no longer under the roof of Murtree Lodge. The ex- ample would be too demoralizing.’ ‘Well, 1 don’t care!’ jubilantly ut. tered Mabel. ‘I've long thought it was time for me to leave school. 1 shall be eighteen in ten months, Some girls are married at eighteen, and’ ‘Pardon me, but bere’s a letter from your uncle.’ as Joe, the boy of all work, appeared with a Japanese tray af let. ters, papers and postal cards, “To me?’ ‘No: to me,’ Mrs, deliberately opened it, taking a sort of malicious delight in the girl's delirium of curiosity, ‘What does he say? Oh please do tell me what be says!’ cried the young girl, wringing her hands in an ecstacy of im- ya’ ience, ‘He says,’ slowly uttered the princi. pal, ‘that he is—married!’ ‘Married?’ repeated the poor girl in a sort of shriek, ‘Uncle Hand mar- ried?’ ‘To a wealthy Cincinnati widow, who objects to making a home for any of her busband’s relations.’ ‘Hateful thing!’ gasped the girl. . 'SBo that he thinks you had better try » to earn your owi living hereafter as he has fitted you for it by an expensive education, He encloses the address of a New York lawyer who isa family friend, and can perhaps help you to a situation, if the Mrs, knows of none,’ Mabel breathed quickly. She turned pink and white, hike a startled daisy, as she looked appealingly and the lady answered ithe unspoken question with cruel promptness, ‘No,’ said she, coldly, ‘I do not know of any situation to which 1 think you eligible,’ Poor girl! The peach-bloom cheeks were pale enough; the eves were fu'l of tears! Up to this time of life has been a mere holiday to her—a season of sun- shine and rejoicing. Now, the sudden shadows had descended and all was sober, stern reality, Her uncle had it was true, given her an expensive education. The question now was what to do with it, She was sorry now that she teased and taunted Miss Pecue and the under-governess, emergency. She had before problem of earning her own living. and she did not know how to solve It, 3 ‘I must go to the family lawyer, books and gowns and inexpensive little trinkets with many ‘He will tell me what to do! suppose he will,’ Everybody at Lodge except cipal herself were sorry to part with the unfortunate girl, Primary Department tears; the elder ones cut worked book rivers of locks of their marks, and shed hair, { the young girl went away amid tations. And her heart within her— poor little girl! was cold and heavy asa ier uncle had cast her off with Both wouen i stone, { polite frigadity. earth ghe to { bread? | on was Her frightened little pulses stood still she the elegant | stalrway in the Astyanax Bullding Wall street, in was located | law i as clinched , On which office of Reginald Carstone, | gentleman who was the family lawyer { of her uncle’s fine new wife. man, I shan’t be afraid of | thought the girl. Dut if he's stern, I know I shall burst out crying!” A dapper clerk answered her timid Mr. Carstone was mn. He cross and 14 iv knock. following her card the girl was ushered Into an elegant private office, and ana ‘Cousin Jack!’ mg very red. ‘Why, it’s Clara!’ sal tleman whom dially at Murfree Lodge. Poor girl—her merry mischiefs had turned into a whip of scorpions to lash her now, With burning blushes | stamu out the aghe y ered explanation * 1 1, 3 » could make: 3 said, ‘I only now bh ‘I'm very sorry,’ she did it for a joke! 1 see foolish and unladylike it w ‘But, Miss Hand,’ glancing at the card held wand, ‘vou upon yourself. It Ww very 38,’ said which are Loo was neither f Carstone, } he still his 1} severs wolish in nor unladylike, I assure you I enjoyed it immensely!’ ‘I'll never i murmered the girl, with downcast eyes 1 ta ‘I never would have come here if I had | known you were here! 1 should have been ashamed,’ ‘Then,’ said Lawyer Carstone, ‘I am glad you didn’t know, Sit down Cousin Clara—I mean Miss Hand-—p. ay tell me in what 1 can be of use?’ ‘I want to earn my own living, ab- { ruptly answered the girle——and then came the history of Lier uncle's second marriage and her own consequent iso. lation, Carstone pondered long upon the vexed question, and finally decided to old lady client up the Hudson, ‘Until we can find something better,’ said be cheerfully -and Mabel’s heart gave an elastic upward bound, It is a part of the blessedneas of yeuth that so small a grain of hope will suf- fice to elate it. and Mabel behaved so prettily that Miss Pecue and Mra. Murfres would barely have recognized the ‘Miss Mad- cap’ of the boarding-school days, She said to herself, ‘I must try to vindicate Mr, Carstone's confidence in mel’ In the early autumu there came a second letter from Uncle Hand, The widow and he bad been afflicted with incompatability of temper, and had agreed in different climates, The widow was going to Lake Como, Uncle Hand, remaining in Cincinnati, wanted Mabel to come hither and preside over his home. What had I better do? She ques tioned the family lawyer that evening when he arrived, ‘Do you want to go? Lawyer Car- stone asked, Nno,’ faltered the girl. *Are you happy there?’ “Yes, she answered. ‘Oh, so hap- pl Lawyer Carstone took her hand ten- derly into his, ‘Mabel,’ said he, ‘would you be any happier with a home of your own? a husband of you own?’ Because, my dearest love, they are all at your feet] Cousin Clara was the bridesmaid, Mrs, Coddington had to advertise for a new companion—and Uncle Hand Is still goashing his teeth over the ‘in- gratitude’ of his young relation, Mrs, Murhiea putting on her eye glasses to read the wedding cards, observed: ‘Wall, I never expected Mabel Hand would turn out 85 well!’ - -—- ABOUT WASTE OF TIME, Conflicting Views Concerning a Decidedly Interesting Question, There are many different and more or less conflicting views as to what const!- tutes a waste of time. Severe people not devoted to productive work or necessary sleep and rest. They would make a man a mere machine, to be fed to maintain bis energles, to be allowed a limited number of hours to prevent wearlnz out, but would have him de- vote all his other hours to work of some kind, Other people, a little broader in veins, recognize the need of intellectual and would permit a certain amount of t But there any of tion and amusement, without waste, is wasted that does not produce 1 kinds of benefit to which he is men so various that thers 18 nin Li.i smployed., lividual whether That must, therefore, be applied to in question is to recreation “Ail dull . i ana A work makes Jack a boy." cheerful in energetic work that to deprive a man { the enjoymenta of life is to curtall If, however, a due between his working power. proportion is not work and play there is direction. a devoted maintained waste T MO distaste Lo much for in the amusement work, The opposiie promotes hours i, when the line of study the welfare cf the ne may be y promote wasted in or individual, but th benefit £3 Lil of no ’ is is that from necessary occupations, which distrac one's oughta Time may of a kind that that 15 less beneficial than work. But greater waste of time « should be degra ies ot 7 1 +4 2 4 a aoie Kinds of by far is constant, hour ‘ie hour, and, like the constant dropph of water on a stone, produces an effect apparently out of all proportion to the cause, Every oue bas noticed that in well-ordered housenold or shop every and One thing work systematically. is no sooner done than another 18 ready at and " ' On the o ready to be taken up. a disorderly household or shop, workind without method, there are fre. quent int considered what to do is being next, or A few minutes out of an may be wasted in such delays, but in the aggregate they amount to a total most com unnoted sources of In large establishments, almost i i waste of time by as many individuals as he employs, and his prosperity or failure may turn upon this simply question of a waste of time, In such a case the loss by the Individual is so greatly mul- tiplied that 1m a single day it may of a close business. This 1s the reason for the attention given in manufactur- ing establishments to methods of doing work and for the strict rules governing the admission and departure of work. ing-mer. To the individual it some. times seems unnecessary to close the doors at seven o’clock and compel a man who is one minute late 10 lose a quarter of a day, but a little calculation shows the necessity for such a rule. It Is not only the individual who would lose time if such rules did mot exist. The whole establishment would be demoralized if they were not established and enforced, thousands of dollars’ worth of machin- ery would lie ile, along with the work- men, «nd it would become impossible to keep the work moving from depart ment to department so as to avoid farther waste of time, Ina workshop employing 5,000 men five minutes’ wasted time by each man in a day would mean the loss of the labor of twenty-five men for & day of ten hours, besides the incidental josses due to Idle machinery and the difficulty of keeping the whole estab’ ishment constantly employed it there should be uncertainty as to the output from any department. The ax- treme case of » large establishment only serves to point out what takes place on a smaller scale in smaller fac- tories and workshops where there I lack of method or disregard of rules as to the hours of labor, The particular ways in which time should be employed (always assuming that they are nol positively harmful) are really of less importance than that there should be method in the use of time and avold- ance of the smaller items of waste that result from carelessness in prepara- tion, thoughtlessness and a neglect of system. Dog ana Sheep: The dog and sheep question is again being discussed by some of our State exchanges, It has been discussed ever since Noah came forth from the ark and the dog is still on top. The dog has more rights than the sheep; he 1s the pet of the household, and when he wants fresh mutton has a right to go out and forage for it, And he Is not compelled by law or by custom to get his mutton from any particular flock. Southdown mutton or Merino, or com- He 18 not easily detected, for the res son that daylight, heavens above him. It's more romantic he fancies, The newspapers will hardly in curtailing his rights, nor They must yield, They can ralse as many dogs as they accommodation ps os women Cannot Be Trusted. “Do women make good detectives? face with was a study said utter contempt, “No,» he, “They can't be trusted.” “oO, A id nev. r good, pure, dream 1} I) vou ich a calling. is oo ag honest woman goin I upon individuals? Never! want and You’ Yo Ki male detective work, that class it Lo take marr ed Woman She will that has been a who lovers, not she knows of the case \ work, impression all which she is nile ¢ 11 OLY Leil ni but, to upon the minds of her admirers of her clever 3 % a t vis GIAaw upon Der magins I'his may seem bard on the $ v WO, women, wiess true! for employ female det have % ne 3 Garnet preserves i Emerald mots rit Fr wt at Ail purified by a Agate the mouth ails Amethyst Irink and promotes chastity. Diamond . produces somnambulism promotes spiritu il ecstasy, fatal to love and i TeCious bath in 3 § i pail iS Moonshine has the virtue of making trees fruitful and of curing epilesy. Sapphi phd produces the romanmbulism wearer 0 all good re and impels works, Topaz imparts strength is favorable to hemorrages, aud promotes diges. Coral is a talisman against enchant- thunder, witchcraft and other perils of flood and Geld, loadstene produces somnambulism, allburgy stands for quick silver, galese as a charm against witcheraft, and to be abode of some genil, — ll inci The Longevity of Bards, ~The swan is the longest Lived bird, aod it is as serted that it has reached the age of three hundred years, Knauer, in his work entitled “*Naturhistoriker,” states that he has seen a falcon that was 162 years old, The following ex- amples are cited as to the longevity of the eagle and vulture: A sea sagle cap- tured in 1715, and already several years of age, died 104 years afterward, in 1819; a white-headed vulture, cap- tured in 15700, died in 1826 in one of the aviaries of Schoenbrunn eastle, near Vienna, where it had passed 118 years in captivity, Parroquets and ravens reach an age of over one hundred years, The life of sea and marsh birds sometimes equals that of several human genera. tions, Like many other birds, mag- ples live to be very old in a state of freedom, but do nol reach over 2) or 25 Jones in captivity, The dowestic cock lives from 15 to 20 years, and the pigeon about 10, The nightingale lives but 10 years in captivity, and the blackbird 15. Canary birds reach an age of from 12 to 15 years in the but those native advanced age, roti Practice and theory must go together Theory without practice (0 t, to verify it, to correct it, is idle ton; but practice without i 3 in i THE GREYHOUND. A Southern California Method of Hunting the Jack~Rabbit of the West. The greyhound is becoming a popu. lar dog in Awerica, and coursing clubs are being formed throughout the coun- try, dogs being imported at great ex- pense. In certain regions of California the hare exists in myriads, and the ranchers keep the greyhounds to run them off, so it is natural that Cali- fornians should believe that they have some of the fastest dogs in the country. How fast can they run? A good grey hound bas been known to rum four miles in twelve minutes. ‘Silk’ has caught a hare within one hundred and fifty feet of the start, and as for “Mouse,” now fat and heavy, I have run the fastest borse I could fine agalust her, and she was always just ahead, looking back as if to say, “Why don’t you The pace of the dogs is {llustrated by the fact that two of them when vineyard come?” running in a neck was as the animals was broken and the other | seriously injured. were, one dog's hound Coursing is by no means a r.ew sport, t only 18 it an the find the greyhound, g ring ancient carvings the hare considered chasing | these dogs was | sport, for the greyhound has tocratic and is the id culture material methods of the hunt describ mien, type of | inamant mt s y i 3e unemens ai AIDong qogs, | True differs the { often coursing degenerates into a sj | on simply for gal fi | ; 1 homas, Kk : | Norfolk, in the time of Elizabeth, and 3 the 1 rules are extent ed as a spo Oi to sONe lowed in England to-day, In these, arious efforts of the dogs ut, and one th turn numbers of Cou Ww another, to a uns as fast # lacks their endurance | Over at } p slopes and displaying gre which I have chased a number of a wide circle, INYAriabiy ran in £3 he dogs among the OE gros before AWAY, little, ight a hare, to a 4 ca darted {ree and began to run around while 1 stopped pid z % ana circle, Mouse cot ickiy, and not make 1 qu apparently dizzy, for, as the hare ran to me very much wr. Another tfme I saw a uddenly, dodge Mouse's nd dart between het SOONH Oi, 8} embarrassed at my Jack at a vil ang snap y legs greyhound, runuing by alone, remarkable following the game, into the air, as we have seen, looking sharply about, and using its intelligence in a marvelous way, When a hare is caught, he is killed instantly into ithe air, the other recognizing | the winner's rights and rarely making an attempt to touch the game aller the death. Besides being shapely and beautiful, kB ght Shows sagacity in eaping and tossed dogs | affection. It will run down a deer or | wolf as quickly as a hare, and is fero- | gious in its anger with a large foe, | dogs are remarkably affectionate and | intelligent, extremely sensitive $o kind- | ness or rebuke. The moment the house | is opened in the morning, Mouse, if | not forbadden, rushes up-stairs, pushes ! open my door, and greets me as if we | had been separated for months, Then {she will dart into my aressing-room | and reappear with a shoe, or a leggin, {if she can find it, and present it to ly, “Come, it's time to be up; a fine day for a rani” The death of the hare is not consid. ered an important feature, the pleasure being derived from walching the move. ments of the dogs, their magnificent bursts of specd, the turns and stops, thelr strategy ip a hundred ways, and especially from the enjoyment of riding over the finest winter country in the world, —C, F. HoLper, IN St. Nwho- las. Survivors of Napoleon's Army, Napoleon's great army has dwindled now only 112 men als of St. Helena, and pear on the pension of Honor for 1800, next year there were 500 less, and In ¥OOD FOR THOUGHT, The more we give to others, the more are we increased, The beart of the giver maketh zift dear and precious, Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest, To tiave what we want is riches, but Lo be able to do without it is power, Well-arranged time is the sure mark of well-arranged mind. Fine mauners are like personal beauty ~—@ leiter of credit everywhere, ““T'is best not to dispute where there 18 no probability of convincing. A brain might as well be stuffed with sawdust as with unused knowledge. Drinking water neither makes a msn sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow, the The wise prophet always dies before it is time for his predictions to come true, We salute more willingly an acqualnt- ance in carriage than a friend os foot, A whim 18 a fly that buzzes in the empty chambers of an exhausted orain, o the middle, cowardice in of True valor lies | tween the extremes | rashness, be- and ‘Busivess before pleasure.” The | pleasure comes from having dome your | business, 1 fies from It is harder to sit still and 174) Eght than it is and escape them, get up There is nothing in life so earnestly i be sought for as character and i probity, There are those who never reason | what they should do, but on what t | have done, {| A house no more home unless | contains food and fire for mind well as for the body. The hai Hi 8 is the ay ness of love " § Pp % 1" what one is willing is 118 test others, it 18 108, ¢ Aeon I nave good for a man to if he can do so without inj his friends. Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the ur burden behind us, shadow of are noth to makes them a blessing to others ing y Hiches without charity worth: they are blessings wWio im onl 3+) t has been called the starligh R is the slarligt * u + 4 4 eligion for to ruined by be despised 4 shension than dent a security. leaches best that The poorest education that self-control is better than the seer Yonge t § neglects jt. nn Lis cure is like money-—the more i the more people get the wiedg ia penelit of it Tiers ti iithe, wilh slowly on to t ment is to A topaz of considerable value was re- tiy found in Popowagie canyon mount county, Wyoming. all its celerity, moves hose whose whole employ- watch its fi forbid ig »n a3 shades wrought in fanciful de- e placed over tinted paper upon n imitation of lamp shades Can man or woma No more than they birthy or the'r choose dulies? choose their or mother, n can fal id Lace, ather Every moment of time may be made toc bear the burden something which is elernal, A good motto for these days is that Cromwell gave his Ironside and keep your powd ¥ ol (od iy Education that don’t teach how to th is like knowing the ning table forward but = Ina mui tiplication not back- Wards, Who wise? He that learns from everyone, Who is powerful? Ie that governs his passions, Who is rich? He that is content. An egotist will always speak of him- self either in praise or in censure; but a mode=t span even shuns making hime self the subject of his conversation. An ant issaid to live only one sum mer. Yerbaps this is the reason that old Sclamon advised the sluggard to interview this interesting insect. To marry for money, beauty, home or selfishness, is debasing. Character is of far more consequence than any of there, The more weakness, the mere false. hood; strength goes straight. Every { cannon ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked. Our guides, we pretend, must be sin- less —as if those were not often the best | teachers who only yesterday gol oor- | rected for their mistakes, | Prof. Herkomer, the English painter, | is composing an opera. If be can get | up one that will draw as well as be | does he will gain new celebrity. Professional traders in Michigan re- port that fur-bearing animals are much more sumerous there now than they have been for many a winter. Our desires always increase with our on, The knowledge that some thing remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us Women never truly command til they give their promise to obey, and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet. Nothing hinders the constant agree ment of people who live toge har but vanity apd selfishness. Let the spirit of humility He that opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought #0 be backed with unutterable truths,
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