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