FOOD FOR THOUGHT, Activity is life. Stagnation is death, In Heaven alone is rest, A mean man Is never happy. Don't mistake vivacity for wit, Be liberal if 3 True rest remaineth ever life, The man who hasn’t an enemy is real- ly poor. A timid man Is defeated at the outset, in very than gold. To achieve gseat success, you must Le courageous, A man must feel at home to be easy In conversation, The most exeruciating bore is exces- sive politenes-, become wealthy, Keep yourself actively occupied if you want Lo be Healthy, The man who told you so is in nearly every neighborhood, Charity should frequently begin at otlier people's homes Gravity 1s no more anevidence of wis- dom than it i3 of ill-nature. It is bard to remember the good qual- ities of those who forget us. Statesmen are the only people who are permitted to pass bad bills, These days it succeeds as often as faliure, man she can succeed at anything. reinem ber that truth enn: bles him. tunes : ppear, and the larger his faults, Weariness can snore upon flint, when resty sloth flads the down pillow hard. ing her husband for money before Lreak- fa t. Men no! the malice, but but often judge wh the person, cause, eh 18 not justice, it may against the n this world 5 money to buy e he it i glibly abo good po Take all the interest out of this v and there wouldn’t be friendship enon left for seed, Don’t put too mueh trust in Provi- dence. Iiov deuce has her arms full of fools already, It is worth a thousand pounds a year to bave the ha'it of looking on the bright :ide of things, The most Lumble man in the world knows of suggestions he would like to offer the Lord, There are a good many people who are always away from home when a gL od opportuni’ y Knocks, Some wen are so full of vanity that they cannot endure the sight of a pea- cock with his tail on parade, There is no moment in life in whieh we cannot find comfort in the thought that t+ qd loves us Let insult be added to injury and ail- ficulties will begin to multiply. Nothing is so credulous as vanity, or 80 ignorant of what becomes itself, Youth 18 the season of hope, enter- prise and energy to a nation as well as an individual, It is a good plan to say as little as pos«ibi~ about that of which one Knows abaoiately nothing. What germs to be frows an innocence always ble sed with, You will fiud the fewest nickels the pocket-vook of the woman husband is a public benefactor. Doa’t alwas judg: by external pears: cea, An unpaid wash bill make ones pocket bulge out, iS yiperity who talk bringing out 8 or 4 our ] yorid h gE virtue is derived that ignorance is in whose ape will L.epentance never comes too late, 1f it comes from the heart, There is glory in anything you suuply from a sense of duty, Men need moral courage more than they do liber foreheads. Health may be wealth, but it is pret. by hard to make the doctors believe it, if an alligator could talk, he would probably declare he has a small mouth, How many people there are whose souls lay in them like a pith 1n a goose quil’. Secrets are a burden; and that is one reason why we are anxious to have somebody help us earry them, It is not easy to become good all at once, but we can very easily become a little bett- r than we are. The man who can tell a lie ten times without changing it is the sort of a man the worid needs to teil the truth, The first proof of a man’s incapacity for anything is his endeavoring to fix the stigma of fallure upon others, It isa good plan never to become well sequainted with the people who have been held up to you as shining ex- amples, The tramp Is an easy-going sort; he just takes things as they come, and jf they von’t come be takes them alovg Anyway. Practice saying the right thing at the right time, Say the wrong thing when. ever you will, only try and say it to yourself, The rallsof a rallway alway get along smoothlv together because they know how to keev u proper distance, although united by strong ties. do TRUE ECONOMY, BY MRS. GEORGE ARCHIBALD. A thrifty and most economical dame, Owned a pair of fine fowls whose [alt qualities came, Through a line of fine fowls of an eggsellent fame, i And Madam, the hen, had a musical way, Of duly announcing an egg every day, | ‘While Sir Cockolorum would join in the lay. i And onee on a thine In the cold of the year, they were dear, i Still daily thelr eackle was truthful and clear. ! And ere their commendable labors did cease, A bountiful baske ful showed the Increase, ! All fresh and all fair and worth four cents apiece, i they were nigh, . The thrifty old dame, with a natural sigh, by. | “To the tist of my sins,” with decision sald she, | “1he sin of eggstravagance never shall be, Buch eating 18 quite too eggspensive for me.” It chanced, [i heard { The priee of good eggs, that their spirits were stirred To send in by ear-loads the fruit « f the bird. f when the faraway farmers had { And long ere these efforts for profit did cease, An overstocked market had felt the increase, And eggs, they were sel ing for a hilfpenny | aplece The thrifty old dame with a heart that was RAY. } Brought forth her fu'l basket without a delay, From where she so lately had stowed it away. “The price has come down while the eggs are yet sweet," She said, “which will give me a plenty to eat, Al sixpence a dozen they're cheaper than meat." mms "CLEVER AUNT KATE. BY FRAKCES B. OLAIRE. “It ain’t no use in a-goin’ agin your | pa, Jennie; he's had his own way round here continual for more’n thirty | years, an’ you'll jest hev to give in | no use talkin’ at him. 'P owly makes | him wuss.” Poor little Mya. Olcott hed been so cugiomed during the whole of her married life to *¢jest give in,” and bes only chance of péace was in yibidizg to lier selfishly determined husband, and allowing him to carry his poiu! without oppositi i. Jennie was differantly constituted. She Inherited Ler father’s strong will " 3} and he had, much to his surprise, snd. d uly hi discovered an opposing force in s youngest child. She Lad beey from home years—thig away nearly three nrpity preity, +3 u i deters mined face and graceful carriage, and brown-haired gir), with the father secretly admired and almost feared lier. A wealthy and childless sunt in the city Lad besought Jennie to share her home, and Hiram Olcott's preity daughter, though clinging to the farm, with all its dear memories of childhood and childhood’s joys, chose wisely when she yielded 0 her suut's request. It was bettor~far better for her, for even after her going there were plenty of children to keep the miserable old farmer in a perpetual grumble about money matlgre. It was May, and the country wore one glad smile, and Jennic hailed with delight tho prospect of a visit to her home, assuming very willingly the responsibility of housekeeping while ber two the wedding of a cousin in a distant town. This morning she was cooking, and with her sleeves rolled al bows stead beside unmarried sisters attended wove her el the Kitchen In one hand she held an earthen plate clip, clip of a fork whipped some table. while the clip, ly vi os she oa rou sound errs t te “Yer sisters had to marry to suit him,” wailed the nervous iitile wornen, ¢an’ you'll hev to, too; ef yon don’t there'll be awful fuses, so you'd jeu better give in” That morning tho father} to Jennie of a ho termed a “likely catch 1nd spoken young farmer, whom " She had éxpressed her opinion of him in so de. cided a way as to alarm Mr. Olcott for the safely of thority. He was wont to speak of himself as a mr rvelous example of the patriarch. “Make ‘em mind,” he would say. “Keep yer household beneath yer feot; govern ‘em well, an’ they'll git slong.” i | Jennie’s boldness in opposing his judgment so stupefied hin that his anger had not yet had fime to blaze forth; but Mrs. Olcott knew it would ' some, and so, after her husband had | left the kitchen, she pleaded with the | girl to “give in.” Jounio had teen! very thoughiful doring tbo little. woman's appeal, but now sho was re- | solved, and it was the Olcott in her! “1 wouldn't his much prized an. The egys were iff now, and as sho | tot the plate down oa the table, she turned from her mother and buried heisnif among #he ingredients for , cake-baking which wero before her. | Jonnio was blushing, as she began softly: *“There is sono owe in Poole J eoming out here (6 + Ho neednt mind eomin’,” said Farmor Olcott, grimly, as ho stopped quicily into the Kitchen. His face word a cunning loer, and his wind-roddened checks were distorted by the sneering enrves of his haril-lined mouth. Seating him. self on ohe of tho painted wooden 8 ocodmness and which warned Mis, Olecutt that ho was thoroughly aronsed. The poor, Witle, mervews, broken-spirited doliberns Hiram Oleott sot his cow-hide boots by the stove to dry, kicked tho jack bis. daughter, shonted: “Don’t let we ketch none o’ yer eity fellers comin’ (0 sec you, Ef they do, '}l talk to "em: not a word now,” he growled, shaking Mis long finger me- growled, shaking his long finger me. EPOAK. I'M pastor Iumy own house, done. You've been sway an’ kinder forgot how things is run here, but you might as well get broke in now, fetch door behind him. Tears of mortification and rage stood in her brown eycs, and Lot words leaped to ber lipe, Lut as she glanced down at the agonized face of the little women beside ber, the fierce mood mother dear, I'll bo patient for your sake.” “That's a good girl, Jennie,” replied Mrs. Olcots, with a sigh of relief, ‘try and git along peaceable like, an’ jest give in for tho Yer pa's gettin’ wuss and wuss, sake of quiet. "n Jeunie wrote a account w hint had occurred to Lier Aunt and this was t] partial of Kh ale, ¢ answer of that clever “My dear Ni Your will father needs managing; and 1 woman: undertake to do it. I have written to ad. eo of BUD. him to come down to the city and of a pi property, and you need not be vise me about the sale prised at anything that happens.” in the world, who ever did under. stand her brother Hiram, and she had planned a cliver little ruse, to be played on the ansuspocting farmer. Mr. Bryan, whom, Jennie bad con. fesscd to her mother, she cared a groat deal for, was well suited to her. had not yet declared his love, but it was not unguessed by the shrewd lite tle mulden. To Mrs. Calding, howe bade him wail a little. She knew how prejudiced her brother was against all might put serious diffically in the way of the young people. After satisfying herself that the name of Jenuie’s lover was quile unknown (0 her brother, she resolved to introduce him as a young man who would be a good mwntch for Jennie, i the girl only could be wise enough to think so. Allowing him to believe they had never mel she trusted to his unequalled obstinacy ‘to do tho rest. “I've wanted so mach to talk with sou about Jennie,” said that lady, as she and Hiram sat in her well-appoint- ed drawing room the wuizht of his ar rival. “Yes, and I'm willin’y She ought to be settied,” said the old man decid odly. “It does not do, iiiram,” began Mrs. Calding, watching the hard-lined face Intently, “to depend on a girl's rhoice, and ~=" “Well, | gness it don't,” ho foter rupted with a sneer, “There is a young man in town who, 1 know, admires Jenuie, and if he should meet her I think something would come of it." Very quietly, vet with the utmost eaution, she made this siatement. The old man was interested. “Rich?” ho inquired, robbing his hands gently together, “Yes,” was the answer, and thon she went on, “Of courso i's 80 vory uncertain, Hiram. You see, Jennie might re. fuse to have a word to say te him, and" “Now, Kate, look here,” interrupted the thoroughly excited old man, as Le drew his chair nearer hers and empha wized his words with decisive gest. ares, “of l like that young man I'l) Jeet take him out home with me, an 4d like to wee Jennie tell him to go, if Pin livin." Mrs. Calding was delighted at her sucosss thus tur. The next day Mr. Bryan was Introduced, and became the oid man's ‘deal of a son-in-law, apts On the farines’s return to his home My. Bryan secomnanied hin, having aceepled the honrty invitation of his now friend to “jest yun oul an' take a (rok around our part of the country,” Jennie had been apprised of Mr, Bryun's coming, and of the little part. Sie met him as if he were a stranger, while hor father sooretly re. jolced at the thought of subduing his proud young daughter, Mr, Olgoit took an carly opportnn- iy to enlighten Jonnie as to her duty new friemd, and with a twinkle in her eve she promised to do her Lest to plense him in the A week passed. Jennie and Bryan were very happy. The were delightful ones to them, and the olil farmer rubbed his hamls success of his and toward his matter. Mr. al the scheme; give his content to an carly marriage with no Liesiiation. { He often spenks now of his matel- ’ he «She'd hev picked up with ma “There's Jennie,’ will ing. | say. Soe {| empty-noddied city chap ef 1 hadn'y took her in hand. that IVs —jest make ‘em mind, an’ they'll git I brung Bryan got to be. the only way wo do jest i out an’ told her she'd have to him. along." They would for anything—the happy young couple; not deceive him but when he boasts, they think with loving gratitude of crever Aunt Kate. ~ [Drake's Magazine. AN UNFORTUNATE MOTHER. i i BY SUSIE ¥, KENNEDY, gir she One evening in May my little brought in a large butterfly which | had found lying in the damp grass, | was apparently nearly i placed it npon the kil pecting to m Ing We ail DEES : fon tic TT pTic 53 hau i bE i ordinary ones the except on of i Hs ti reer end Having the to break oie, I observed a bi yi substance which much resembled volk of an egg. Of course, these vestigations were made by the aid of a i lms, ir Bii 0G g ; ny nt {| to go where she chose her and searched a long time in wain, | but what was our surprise to find her | at last in the depths of ! enller's tall hat. Bat the next morn- ! dining room $able. Determined to ! us, we cherished with the care the legacy she had bequeathed 1K devel. weeks it tiny paste-board box, to await | opments. At the end of two { our care was rewarded —if reward ! might be called a struggling mass of hairy { worms, each about one-eighth | inch in length. The crawling heap | was any thing but pleasant to look ap- on, however, interesting from a scien i tific standpoint. i We watched the tiny | they arranged themselves brown creatur as in An | about to make a tour of the world After watching these for a while I went to my lox to see what developments | might await me. There was the same wriggling mass, evidently intent upon ! gotiing ewhere ( course we I were obliced to desir ¥ most « { them | but procuring a glass jar I placed sev- feral init, and congratulated myself ! that I was in a fair way to pursue the | study of my little captives with ease | and pleasure. But sias for my hopes! #1 | wore all dead. Sarely they could not have starved to death, for ' give them a profusion of green leaves? In the following sentence taken from ! an article which contained much valu. | able information, I found the cause of | my failore: “The butterfly lays her ! orgs and glues them to some dry sub- | stance nearest the fatare food of the young.” Our pretty captive searching | in vain for a proper place to lay ber eggs was forced at last to deposit them where her young must die of starva- tios. Bed Franklin's Corn stalk, sn Broom-corn is » oative of India. Mr. R. A. Traver, a broom-corn broker of Mattoon, 11, says that llcn Franklin is the father of the broom corn busivess 1a this country. Ben picked a seed from an imported room ence wpon a time, planted it, and raiscd a stalk, This stalk was the father of all thie broom corn in the county. It was first cultivated in large quaniities in the Connecticut val. fey, and the firxt brooms from pative corn were made at Hadley, Mass. The broom- corn centre traveled west, along with the fight of empire. It came trom Connecti. cut to the Mohawk valley, in Now York thenee to central Ohio; and pow central Illinois produces the finest brush, —-{ Chi. cago News, To judge human character rightly, a mun may sometimes bave very small experience provided he has a very large heart HOW TIME 18 RECKONED. In the present century, when ealen- | dars, clocks and watches form easy and convenient means of saceriaining the year, day nnd hour that 1s now before ug, it would seem strange to be trans- ported to w. region where such things were unknown, Yet sneh was the cou- dition of our ancestors—and by no means our remotest ancestors, either. We can hardly imagine such a condi- tion at the present time, for were blotted from the earth some one would be able to make a calendar or e¢lock from memory alone. Even poor Robinson Crusoe, wland, snd dom enough to make a calendar, wh ch, althongh erude, was far more perfect full of man. Of course, excepting what history tells us, we know nothing abont ancient peoples, but we are certmin | yressos his mind or Wh n Julius Cesar flerce and whose priests were These Druids reckoned months or they recorded nights ago. Al Our own count rexoning time This certainly a more method than Druids, ember. Now, a Or near the inform us, through at some period of their existence, it cer- & though these two ways must have been the first methods of | Years « lapsed before | came somewhat in as.’ the calendar some | With | it origiuated we shall never | know, One authority gives acrumb of | comfort and saye, “‘l1t is very ancient.” Undoubtedly it is: for the Homan cal- ] originated with | «f Rome ‘he ancient EnNera peop e, even many sand ihe 106 BO VER Dy IMOOUS, was convenient the voth were in tone age, which, scientists ALOCERIOrE Passo dt versed in and i the founder Chlenaasr standing. than thelr re gn 8 NOL yet nt How» ever, not withst ndin merited prosperity, both had incouven- fences wer great drawbacks to their util ty and a Lar to complete sno- ‘ n-dial was in | cloudy weather, and the water the | ¢ lower, accord. y of the air, and al- | wavs more freely in the beginning than toward the conclusion. These faults | commanded attention, and not wholly conquered till the presen: cen the sabstitules at possess the well- which Gee leas in Ci he #1 Ing 10 Lhe dens { were of first used did not socuracy | which ensures perfeetion. it 18 supposed that Huggens ustroeted the first pendu- inm clocks, and pul them era. tion abont the vear 1657 or BR, although : that eclock-work older standing. The first } agland was 1662. either into of i 1% of a much time during the year or rather con- clocks; | been a some structed, simultaneously with but portable clocks would have has become an im- and Amerion, though American ducts have made more rapid progress, Such, in brief, is the general outline of the origin of these instruments. It pro- | the various changes they have under. raised them to their present standard, Lime flies, man of day my fancy pictures the image of | an aged Egyptian, sitting by the Nile and busily engaged in the construction | of a clepsydra. Invented during the | of the Ptolemies, the original olepaydra still remains 1n the modified | 1s stall extant in «ome places. The only clocks and watches stand the test of time as long as these instruments?’ Gro. Russe in Good Housekeeping, WANTED TO SEE IT WORK. ‘What's that 1” “That's a kaleidoscope.” “Is it! When does it begin to col. Ude i" Judge. UNSATISFACTORY, He—"Can I sec you home" Bbhe (aa sho another escort) WT guess #0, if you stand at the head the street. We shall turn no corners,” «Burlington Frees Press. AN OBJECT OF BXVYY. Everybody knows the reply of that dyspeptic banker to a beggar who, ao. costing him in the street, muitered in plaintive tones: “I am buaagry.” “Lucky dog "Le Figaro. OPERATIONS OO ON ALL Xromy. Porchesier Pelham -~"'A rominvut scientist says that mosquitos invariably go to sleep at ten o'clock at night" Morrison Basex—*‘Then mosquitocs must be somnambuliets, "Puck, Every day 18 & Jaf in life. When the There 18 1. soribed thereon our thoughts, words HORSE NOTES, — Allerton has at last reached Axtell’s record of 2 12, —Fiis Highness easily outranks all other 2-year-olds, —=L'h profits on the Cleveland meets ing were ab ut 815.00 ~Jockey Taral has been riding in splendid form of late, Jockey George Taylor is experiences ing a run of hard luck, Jockey Britton, who was injured at Chicago, 18 slowly recovering ~ Direct is likely to soon go into free-for-all pacing class, ~The bt, Paul meeting was both a racing and Nnancial success, ~ ~~There have ren more accidents to Jockeys LI'1s year than ever before, — Happy Lady, a 2.-year-old sister to Happy Bee, is said 10 be very fast. —C, J. Hamlin has decided to build a covered half-mile track at Bu Talo. ~~ plan has been driving Budd Do- ble's horses during the latter's illness the ~~ Nineteen heats weretrotted or paced in 2.18 or better at ithe Talo meeting. ~~ Trainer Dolph Wheeler has severed 13 cotinection with W, C, Daly's #'a- | E ir Hon, Scott, of the Al- sria Stud, lies seriously {ll ut his home £4 wi ~-iom more thai staried iv a nowadays, — ft 18 sald that “Kn APRACK Carthy will refurn t is first trotters, this seasor — Yoluey and ( hold the Belmout record-—2. 2. —Johnstou’s mile in 2,714 at ter recently indicates that he is to bs speed, It is horses ragn ug to win ¥ Meo love, the Walker now double-team O01 track i 5 i. Hochete coming said that Manager did the last til 2.144 at Indejen. dence lion 1. OC. Lee, 2.15, e seen in the Western-Sou hern Tha wf 106 PRCilIg | : wil will startin and Dod I pion tart ation 4 ill. Sunol, it he Gar- gr Jor. A quiet i American ling nove President Beaman for | “ ; the Association 0 re § GeCision ISON CA There insta k of a mateh race for from 1086) © (K¥) 5 Q a between Happy Ber, by Happy Russeil, and Little Al- bert by Albert W, & g goe — Walter Herr, by Sir Walter, trot’ ed to a record of 2.184 at Danville, Ky., recently. This is the second of the get beat 2 20, d O ~ft is sald that Tenny as Kingston or Eon will bs sent go to start for the big Ga field stake, Hacine is a sure sturter. either (es g 10 000 ’ —The yearling broth: rs 'o Sallie Mc» Clelland and Longstree!, purchased in Kentucky b Dwyeos last spring, have arrived at New York Jockey Lambely, on whose services Pisrre Lorillard now has a claim, rode two good races recently and wus ww $1100 present. ¥ Li — At Worcester, Mass , recently the che tout gelding King William, owned by W, A. Baeg, died on the track. He was the favorite in the 2.37 class, — Shibbe loth, by Fello x craft, a pret- ty good performer at New Urlearns and bis sewson, died at St Paul recent'y. Iie was valued at £50 0, —= 1 he pacing hovse Leverne, recently sold by Wegner & Myers, 5 Dayton, Ohio, $0 Pittsbur: parties, was kK lied in a .aliroad wreck near Columbus, Ohio. Secre'ary J. H. Steiner, of the American Trotting R gister As ociae tion, says tl at regis raion is booming aud that the stock Is selling freely. ~Fienzi and “ir Matthew are the champion and junior champion re- of their victories in the champion and junior champion sin kes, —Mr, Bonner’s assurance that Sunol is not vroken down Is good pews ty the trotting workl, The last daagiter of Electioneer is a Little lame, but nothing erious is anticipated, —~C, W, Willlams, Independer ce, {a., has sold to W. H. Huegele, Des Moines, the 2-year-old colt I'ritt ©, by Nal- wood, dam Miss R-dmon, by Bour- bon Wilkes, Price, $5500. —~-Nancy Hanks’ mile in 2 12} at able performance, and her subs quent uarier fu 313 shows what a won erful ight of sped 8! e has —Jotkey Garrison has made applica. tion to the Board of Control for rein- s‘atement, There was a weeting o the Board recently but no quorum bing present no action was taken, «In the programme of the autumn meeting of the Cleveland Driving Park Company, the 2.20 trotting class; Las been changed to the 2.19 trotting class; the 2.23 tort ng eines hus been « hanged to the 2.33 class, The team race has been altered so that it will be eligible to Yim, and the purse will be ~The horsemen of Norristown, Cor sholiocken and Manayunk held a mee ingat Ward's Hotel, Conshohocken recently, and organized a trobiing assc- ciation, with Joseph 13. Atkioson, Pre: ident; Ro M. La + Secretary; and Julius Balle Treasurer. A trot and . olions. ting me tlin w Teun a truok