A SONG OF LOCUSTS. Ee —— Ho! my lively gossips, Under porches green, What's the news this moPning, Something stirs, I ween, Aught of Mistress Spider, In her silver den? Has the bee deserted Pretty Rose again? Chatter, chatter, chatter, Scandal you are at; The amber sky is husky With your chatter, chatter, chat} Hag gay Robin Redbreast Left his little brood? Say, is love-lorn Phebe In a livelier mood? What about the ericket Or the grasshopper? And the water lly Heerd you aug ‘ht of her? Chatter, chatter chatter, Tell the story pat; There's no doubt you like i, By your chatter, chatter, chat! Oh! my lazy gossips, While you chatter on, Half the royal beauty Of the year is gone. Where will be your stories When the wind blow shrill, And purple, gold, and red leaves Jewel vale and hill? Chatter, chatter, chatter, Tell of this and that: Would all were as harmles With their chatter, chatter, chat} a ———— PAGE THREE. The total depravity of inanimate things has been proved, defined, cata- logued, and accepted. Nobody doubts that a tack on the bedroom carpet always stands on its head; that a chair in the dark always moves fo a position where a bare skin cannot miss it; that a pin in a pretty young lady’s belt always pokes its point away out at the moment she takes the reins to do the driving down a dark street; that, in short, there is a diabolisin conceived and established for the special uses and amusement of things without souls. Things without Horrible thought! Alas, there is no punish- nent in store for them. souls! Our venerable and loveable friend Mr. , we had nearly written his name, which, in his present state of mind, would have been our un- pardonable offence. Let us call him Mr. Goodheart. Mr. Goodheart earns his modest, placid, useful way with his pen. He writes for his bread, and eats that bread in well-earned peace and Why should in- animate things conspire to vex such as he—who loves all things because all things are but attributes of that great whole which the wisest and the best of men have learned to love? Mr. study the other day, an article for one of the public prints—an article covering five pages of manilla paper. When he had reached the end he be- gan to read it over. a noble content, in his had written Goodheart, Page one was all right, page two required a slight inter- lineation, and-—where was page three? Every piece of paper on the desk was scanned and-—where was page three? “Strange,” said Mr. Goodheart, up ruffled, but perplexed. He looked upon the floor, into the wastebasket, under the rug. « “Well, well,” He searched behind the clock, under the chair-cushions, behind the he said. between the cur- tains, paintings on the wall. “] vam,” he remarked, and was » little irritated, just a little. He sat down to think. He tried to think perfectly calmly. Had anybody been in the room? Yes; Mrs. Good- heart had come and softly kissed him gently, stroked his silvery hair as was her wont before house. “Maud,” said Mrs. Goodheart to his daughter, ‘has mother gone out?” “Yes, papa; to market,” answered the young lady from the foot of the stairs. Mr. Goodheart that his wife must have taken page three with her. “Yet,” he thought, like her to take desk.” When Mrs, Goodheart returned she said & taken nothing, and was very, very sorry he had lost any- thing. “It might have become entangled in the fringe of your shawl,” he said. “It might,” she answered, “but 1 do not think it did. I am sure I should have noticed it and" “But, my dear wife”’—when Mr. Goodheart speaks in that tone he ia controlling himself ‘you were the only person who came in here, and page three is gone.” There was a terrible logie behind these two clauses, One wus a major promise, the ¢v.er a minor. A syilo- gism seemed to compete tvself with a conclusion that Mrs. Goodheart was the only person who could have taken . page three, “Have you looked in you: pockets? ”m in going from the 1” concluded “jt is 80 un- anything from my she had she she asked quietly but hopefully. You might have put it in there.” “My darling wife,” he answered— and the move the epithets of affection improved the more penetrating his eye became—+¢My darling wife, that Of course 1 would not put it is absurd. into my pocket.” She began to open his coat. «1 tell you it is ridiculous to suppose 1 would put it into my pocket But she took from his recess all the papers it contained. inner breast «+1 suppose you will not be assured,” wickets 7 which wnn terrible said he, ““amiess I turn all Hii 1 : wrong side out irony, he proceeded to do, making the ctions, toe calf boot most extravagantly minute inspe Then he sat down and placed the of his left boot behind the and pulled at the heel until the came off, right “What are you doing, dear? ” asked Mrs. Goodheart, frig partly saddened. “] want to while his eve gleamed, partly htened, assure you,” said he, “] want to as- sure you, if it is possible to do so, that I did not, in a fit of abstraction, put page three into my sock,” and he began to roll down the top of that gar- ment Mrs. Goodheart suddenly left thie room. Mr. out loud—but we do to window nounced a silent benediction upon Goodheart never swears-—not believe he would have gone the and pro- the It will be conceded by who earns his bread by the his pen that Mr. Goodheart was in no humor to reproduce page three. Re- production of one’s own lost manu- script is, at best, the most difficult, as it is also the most unsatisfying of all literary tasks. It is than drudgery ; it is labor in which all the faculties must take part while none is in the least assisted by that greatest of all interest. But page three had be reproduced. Mr. Gooaheart gnawed his pencil savagely, rumpled his hair, yanked his paper around, smashed an innocent little baby bug with his paper weight, and evervbody sweat of Worse inspirations, to was altogether a most unlovely, unlov- Of eve at his work. The first one, said what it had to better form! he SRY had much had to was slire, in wy But the new one Mrs. into the study. Goodheart Her ey with a When it was done same softly = were red, but she came pleas. ant smile, “Have you found the page?” she smoothing down his hair. “No; I have it—after a fashion. The article is spoilt, though. I might as well throw the rewritten » blamed thing day _ munch, It has ruined for me, and I meant to fire. this do so sles » iy she said soothing best.” that “There, there,” “Humph!” You half- know he something between Mrs, ip the three, four, five. all right now,” Goodheart gathered two, “They are a said she, «] thought you always wrote on only " ghe said. “So Ido.” “Oh?” Then this is nothing useful iis sheet?” Mr. Goodheart looked. It was page The simple, praved sheet of paper itaclf the original page three. was very, very fad turned upside down and Mr. (roond- all, and said with awful deliberation : “Well, “Put, T—will=bo"~— tut, tut,” said Mrs. Goodheart, “You must not not swear.” In the streetcar coming down-town, tice with the original page three and once with the other. “After all,” he said to himself, 1 think perhaps the rewritten page is the better of the two,” and he drew his pencil and obliterated the original page three, while over his mind there hov- ered a vague, shadowy suggestion for he was optomistic now--that pos- sibly there 1s great and good purpose in even the total depravity of insni- mate things.— Washington Post, Venezuela buys nearly all of her flour of the United States, but imports her butter from Rolland, France wd Germany, : THE GRIZZLY BEAR. ! A Most Interesting Oritter With But a | Single Fault. Will Insist on Bealping with His Fore Paw | A Judge of Blooded Btock-—-Some Interest. | ing Anecdotes from California. The teresting animal Califorulin grizzly 1s a most in. | As Bret Harte used ungentiemanly his fore to say, he has but one habit, that of scalping with snd this he caught from the Otherwise Naw, wicked UNIe3s AgIros- red man. Z 7 y assauiled, he { good He the ri give: is the pink of ff the trail tof w AY; he will in the samo the hil sketching or writing not | If it were ot had the temper of the iger— thousands of the ploneers of California would have p ished at his claws, for a full-grown grizzly when aroused a terrible antagonist, There was a family of Ir oneefs % wh lived in the hills of Alameda Cour not far from Valpey's. The elder, Zachariah Cheney, took his son Joo and a ydung man named Allen and wont out to kill a grizzly. They all knew very well where to find him, in a wild and the rocks at its head, They had come times and had grubbing camass roois on the when they they thou Each had a gun volver. Suddenly they met at the head of the wooded gulch, seeing thelr warlike preparations, im- mediately charged them and treed all three in less than a minute. There was so little time for choice of a tree | that the elder Cheney and young | llen got into scrub-oaks hardly larger than respectable quince trees. In less | time than it takes to tell had Cheney on the ground, scalped | him with one blow, crushed his arm and shoulder-blade with another | and left him. The bear instantly turned his attention to young Allen, seized him by the boot-leg and jerked him from the tree so violeatly that the | poor fellow rolled 30 feet down the gulch and under some willows, where be lay in silence The third man was beyond reach, so the grizzly, master | of the circumstanos, rose to his full height, gave a roar of triumph and | walked leisurely home. Not a single | shot was fired by any of the three | men! Yet let no one too hastily shoot | out the contemptuous lip, for 99 men out of 100 might have done as badly. The rush of a large grizzly from his happaral shelter is a terrible thing w I distrust f of stories about behavior. will walk o and give gather patch, or you saimon berries dig roots on iside while you are yards away. her- if the royal many wise grizzly oar. i is broken canyon, about or where oak trees across his tracks many seen him iiside were hunting up cattle. So hit very little of the danger. and a re- the bear who, ig of them face. the current hand-to-hand grizzlies in Shasta county a miner most successful with fuligrown which pon a grizzl who had fired y¥ was killed by one blow And when lled the bear it let had ul his companioz was found that ns had § through the body. If it were not for him in his haun poison placed fof the great master of walk ta, he California forests would still alone as a in almost every wild canyon of Coast Range and Sierra. Men learn to give him the track whencvor they can, and if they go on the war-path, it is with profound respect for their antagonist's etrength and courage. I once met five or six San Luis Obispo farmers who had shot a huge grizzly. They took their guns and weht down into the gulch where the bear lived. They found him where he was bound to cross thoravine to get to them, and so they able to put over 20 bullets into him before he died at their feet. They had just skinned him and spread the great hide on the rocks when I rode up, | asked them how they felt about it, and the leader said: “We none of us want to tackle another. If he had been on our si of the gulch, instead of on his own, 10st of us would have been killed be- fore we could pump enough lead into | him.” And that seemed to be the! general conviction. rhinoceros" were mem li omnis The Slow Brazilians An American gentleman, recently returned from a trip to Brazil, told a | reporter of the Pittsburg Dispatch that the Brazilians use ox-carts in which | the axle is made to revolve with the wheel, which invariably a solid | block of wood cut like a slice of sausage from the trunk of a tree. These wheels, of course, make an unearthly screcchieg as they revolve. The au- thorities of the various towns have enact ed a law that the axles shall be greased when the wagons enter the limits of a municipality, but the honest planters object very much to this regulation, and comply with it only to escape the penalty. As soon as a farm wagon on its homeward trip reaches the eity lim- it, the Dispatch’s authofity says, the driver hastens to put sand on the axle, #0 that its squeak can be restored. This is done not only because the music of the squeak is pleasant to the driver's ear, but also beoause itis firm- ly believed that the oxen will not do thelr work so well if the squeaking of the wheels is nol lisard. The Ameri- can thinks that a Japunie ol this sort of thing are bardly fit for rop\®.ioan form of government. Ho | fifty is He thioks of the people of Brazil are as you aware of the fact that Dom Pedro hus been de posed. ms LEATHER CANNO ON. Ancient English Warfare. “lL.et me give you an bit of history,® leather merchant a student Pe ac 5 11, down-town that The ather flour suid n many : i f overlooked, on.ecis Of for |i ither that we owe Lhe introduction of sather cannon have artillery. 1a been actually tried on the what is turned of the The was a cert and, tide of modern times. more, one greatest inventor of | nin ( £1. the ariiilery Scott, a Scotchman in service o England. “He ted lenther and exper The result construc guns of hardencd i imenta y ir was that they were 10 guns i did not live long to enjoy He sacted to his urchyard and a monument er 1631, memory | have seen in a ch in London, This wonpumens him represents as ano armor-ciad, flerce-looking man, wearing a heavy mustache and pointed beard. “In the death the effe artille memorable very year f ctiveness of his leathers ry was amply proved le where September 7, lave d victory ler Gen. Tilly. of Col tained. carried that a small battery could fly from one part of the field to another, thus artillery when most needed —a thing impossible Certain it is that leathern artillery was used in this great battle by though it is equally certain that the used afterward. The making the metal guns go" " Beanty of Spanish Women. If I were asked to state in one sen. tence wherein lies the chief advantage countries, says a in Scribner's, what they their for beauty, 1 should say that if a Spanish girl has round cheeks, and -sized, delicately-cut nose she lmost certain to be writer chiefly owe mouth is a complete beauty; whereas If as has a good and cheeks, the chanoes mouth are still t ful eon against her having a mplaxios, and fine eyes, which Spanish girls are endowed with as a maller of course. But over and above everything el it is the unique and julsite femininity, unalloyed of grace by assumption any masculine Sp ——— - AR —— Fashion Notes, Long hear that collars on waists and jackets are to be reduced in height. Walking as they were, and can be Bonnets sre small and made of much richer and more cxpensive materials than have heretofore been used. Any kind of white ruching at the neck is now obsolete, on the authgrity of the most fashionable modistes. In many cases the evening bodice for young girls is merely pointed and filled in with lace, while the sleeve is entirely omitted or is an elbow sleeve. Little boys’ costumes are of wvelvel collar and cufls of Irigh crochet or any rich effective lace in Vandyke or tours- Eiffel points. The long low toque is the popular hat with young ladies, and when strings are added at the end of the crown it becomes the favorite bonnet Thee is a decided objection among decolette styles, worn by the older wo- first or second season, ¢ The use of a collar and cuffs, or revers of fine knife pleating in tinted silk, the color of the frock, or of white wool in contrast to it, is a feature of children’s dresses this season. Bonnets are very small and velvet rosettes placed directly in front are a favorite trimming. Fiat Alsatian bows are seen, but oftener a little height is given to the low crown. Toques for morning and plain wear are made of the material of the dress with velvet folds along the edge and some box ivory Bodo Born the front ¥. sn i ISR —— The food a **Zoo" eytimated & be I" weigh, od Sn dai. otha, gram The oF mand abou Fp “Thelion ana obtain nine pounds of meat a day NA Eugene Fisld's Watches 1 went fishing In Wisconsin last August, and fearful that harm might befull my gold watch if I took it with me, I bought a Waterbury watch for 2.00 and wore it. One day I dropped it in the bottom of the boat and it came all apart, with a succession of terrifying reports. | saw so symmetrical never of instanta- The A Case complets dissolution, neous and larger intestine spread all bottom of the boat and curled the starboard tor Dury watch a 1 man bowals, Reo im, and all that sort of ars ago I had wal with a had £211 Ra 4 Liles Bros., ¢ ow a sul spring iuto hol silver watch case, Whe 1 turned low, the slem oud the sj A noise enough at Away. I used thing betwo people wond nd of a watch il was id let tho then I dheatres, and AS10LALY watch ot the non- ume wining It st iw an Eventually 1 gave the device to Henry Just before going to bed at night is watch, and itisa My two never forget or neglect every minutes, thereb pating my watch from balelul My 10-year-old watch, which Very often when I come bt I find a note from him my pillow: “Dear Papa: leas wind my wach for me I am ww tirred." Jewelers’ Weekly. i — Busine is Business insurance agent (out i Mr. Newcomer say? “He wouldn't said he was too has a wears boy he proudly. Life west). Ase talk with me busy to think “Well, I'll and anda insurance.” hang around his shoot holes through his windows, when he comes morning you some vacant lot and put a few through about life house to-night dow n- town be behind the fence i he top of his hat The When he reaches his office I'l snd talk life insurance again. York Weeakiv —— The Way Americans Sit, Kate Field savs, referring to the day Chief Justice Fuller delivered in the House of Representitives his oration on a century of Constitutional Gov- ernment: ““‘In marched the Presi- dent and Mr. Blaine, followed by the other Secretaries, and sat down in the first row of the amphitheatre. Sat? Yes, sitting is what it Vithin five minutes every mother’s son of them, with perhaps one exocep- tion, had slid down so that his body was supported by his shoulder blades and the small of his back. The Jus tics of the Sup eme Court followed, atid down they went in the same way. So did the rest of the dignitaries, as bevy after bevy filed in. In con- trast with them, there sat the fore'gn Ministers and the delegates to the two international Conferences, as upright as ramrods. What made the contrast so disagree- able was the fact that our own great rnuen were by far the best-looking per- sons on the floor, as a rule. It seemed a pity that they should spoil their fine effect by such an attitude. But it is the common fault of Americans in public places. Congress sits on its 400 and odd spines when it ain’t making speeches or writing letters. Our magistrates do it on the Bench. Our State legislators do it. Everybody does it when he hasn't his hands or his brain or both, too busily occupied to admit of such a sang. And why, pray?” L{rop 3 is called. A ————— Is. Trying Ordeal for Edwin Booth. Edwin Booth recently told a party of friends of a trying experience that once befell him while he was having a quiet little stroll all by himgelf in one of the smaller cities where he was aci- ing. Seeing some particularly delight ful-lookinz cream puffs in a conspicu- ous part of a restaurant, he stepped in and purchased one. Without stopping te pounder upon the pecnliarities of cream pufls, Mr. Booth, in the most uncalcnlating and enthusiastic manner, bit exactly into the centre of the spongy delicacy. Of course, a small stream of the cream oozed out at each glide of the bite aud gathered itself to- gether on Mr. Booths cheeks. Just at this juncture some one in the shop recognized the tragedian and cried out: “Why, that's Mr, Booth!” Half a score of people crowded about and eyed the figure with interest. It was a try- ing position for a n rho ‘was conccious of being in anything but a ec role. But he went calm) on with refreshment, eating with as much unconcern and yinent, ap areutly, ae fF he wre crowd. “Bat,” ha) ded, he In bis “1 mever did « better bit of acting in my liga.” The old Grad rock Jock ort East N i ae SUBJECTS FOR THOUGHT, ——— . Fretting cures no evil, it ie true, bu it sometimes relieves the monotony of too much hapy It is whateves Hess advmable to put our hearts into WOrk we may have to per- form. but it is wis hink well bee fore LET $y 1 our mo dozen coaxing taps. est word of high-f juence, mud footstery 8, does a vard of How many slippery how per- avoid- inches Physi- our bodies that our and mi and he much re, chance if we heavy tumbles, might ed, could tread but six shove the crust of the world. this: cannot; but it seems to hearts and minds may keep themselves cally, we cannot do me above moral mud-puddies. is It were “Never a rose without s thorn” an axiom possessing much truth. then, that created for the purpose of protecting the do we often find in human life that beauties of the ed by un- follows, the thorns treasures of the bush. So heart and mind are preserv of bodies, aces or lack of wealth. unshapely ! #4 A lination to nd if MACRO Every man has an ind communicate what he knows: he does not do so, it is simply his enough to reason and judgment are strong this inherent pro- When vou find a friend who power over the \ control pensit , absolute can exercise wear him in no such a fibre : weighs assorted cra. the handsome with that citizen who : Yor out my sugar ina vile i¥ vat and waistooat with al in red scarf and green feathers; more need that my heart should swell trait of gentle goodness in the faulty people the hearth with me, than at the deeds with loving admiration at some who sit at same of heroes 1 shall never know except by he Pi edge ATSAY. but knowl- is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in and in- In the perform. great offices it fears no dane easure is a shadow, in fame, unlimited Epace, finate in duration. ance of its ger, spares no expense, looks into the perfor- ght into the explores sea comtemplates the distant, examines the minute, comprehends the and the sublime; is no place too remote for its sphere exalted for its volcano, dives into the ocean, ates the earth, wings its fii skies, enriches the globe, and land, great, ascends to there grasp, reach. noc too The idea that so long as a thing is good to be done it must be done at all hazards is a demoralizing one. It puts character; whereas conduct is chiefly valuable as natural fruit of character. Not only should we consider the in- trinsic quality of the motive we present, but also the effect of its being strongly and frequently excited. For motive becomes habitual by repetition, as well as action, Every time we rouse cupidity or avarice, envy or rivalry, hope of gublic applause or fear of the public frown, we help to form a corresponding character; and we may well inquire what is the object that when gained will be worth such price. That this should be done thoughtlessly and unconsciously, as it often is, shows a great deficiency in our moral condition. i very conduct above it is the He Was a Born Humorist, Mrs. Caller—“I think it is very kind of your husband to sing at #0 many funerals. He will no doubt be reward. ed for it some day.” a gto no; he doesn’t ait. tialats sng. foe
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