WOMAN'S WARFARE,
BY MARY W, GLEABON,
Say, do women join the army?
Nav! for women are too frail:
In the midst of battla's terrors
Ter wearts like theirs would fall:
But I say & woman riseth
Day by day within ber homes,
To encounter foes by legions,
Who for deadly combat come,
Say, what are a woman's weapons?
Ni edles, seissors, duster, br Oa
Carving-knife, perchance, or haply
Some long-handied fron spoon;
But to meet thus single handed,
Myriad foes, In stern array,
Needs a courage all undaunted
Not less than the bloody fray.
What hath she to lose if vanquished?
What? compared with realms of earth
Household joy and loved ones’ safety;
Things of rare and princeless worth;
Health and life and oftimes reason
Vietuns fall, before these foes,
Lives are turnis! ed, sou's are saddened,
And there follow countless woes,
oman ! in your daily conflict,
Wleld some mightier weapons thou!
Wield sword of God's great Spirit!
And before it all shall bow;
Seripture texis w i thou with power!
Own and feel that prayers Is might!
Andt tre antom leglous
Shall b
FOOD FO...
the
hat
+ HOUGHT,
Do not worry.
Go slow and go easy,
Keep your digestion good.
necel
Be ¢
Nothin
but hoard not up.
ourteous to your creditors,
ve,
Z can cost so much as sin,
Receive in
Secrecy is the elem
Whatever
sompieting.
nt of all goodness,
is worthtl
A poet is
Wok at th
J he only joys which live and grow
are those which are shared with others
The superior man wishes to be slow
in his words and earnest in his con-
duet.
Love ean’ live on beauty, it must
have some hash or it will fade and
dle,
aer
people
ngs Lhrough his spectacles,
3
|
{
vice lovable to those who degrade vir-
trap
sue,
is the worth of the individual
ing it.
com > oe
futurity.
ball.
Pull off the masks that people wear
neighbor,
The man who continually hopes for
the best stands no show alongside the
man that grabs for it,
There are some people in this world
who wouldn’t be satisfied If they were
perfectly conte nted,
When a man talks about himself, ho
seldom fails to be eloquent, and oiten
reaches the sublime.
When fear takes the place of hope in
a man, he needn't expect to be any
more wiserable in this life,
Lhe first ingredient in conversation is
truth, the next sense, the third good
humor, and the fourth art.
When a man tells you he would like
to have you eriticise Lis faults, you
bave found another hypocrite,
God sets the stars in the windows of
night to cheer the belated world as it
rolls through the darkness,
For every hour of pleasure the average
“intimate friend” gives you he makes
You two houre of trouble,
If a man is very anxious to cultivate
A Zood opinion of human nature, he must
not know too much of it
The person who is too nice an obser-
ver of the | usiness of the crowd, like
one who is too curious In observing the
labor of the Lees, will cften be stung,
for his curiosity.
i
SOUL AND BODY PARTING,
So we must part, my body, vou and 1,
Who've spent so many pleasant
gether ;
"Tis sorry work to lose your company
Who clove to me close, what'er
weather
From winter unto winter, wet or dry;
And you have reached the limit of your
tether
And ] must journey on my way alone
And leave you quietly beneath a stone,
years to
the
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They say that youn are altogether bad,
(Forgive me, "tis not my experience),
And think me very wicked to be sad
At leaving vou, a clot, a prison, whene
To get quite free | should bs very glad,
Perhaps | may be so a fow days hence ;
But now, methinks, ‘twere gimceless not to
spend
A tear or two on my departing friend,
Now our long partnership is near competed,
And I look back upon its history ;
I greatly fear 1 have not always treated
You with the honesty you showed to me,
And 1 must own that you vave oft defeated
Unwoithy schemes by your sincerity.
And by a blush or stan mering tongue,
tried
To make me think again b fore I Hed,
have
'Tis true your not so handsome as you were,
But that's not your fault and i partly mine
You might have lasted lorger with more care,
And stil looked sowethiug like your first de
sign
And even now, w
"Tis pitiiul t
You to the frie
Of all the hungry le
th all your wear and tear,
nk 1 must resign =
diess grave, the patient prey
gious of decay.
tay, dear body, and I go
0 very proud of you
Z fflow
Bet you must
And I was one
You made my mother's ¢
3 i “ RAW You
Yes 10 ove
twere
2. Or a Inend m
LHe W 51 ALOU
Wo
work nat
of interos
this secming
What ai
we sav,
who living by
i with a
steal, who
apparent
wear clothes i
a good roof like
We have
4
dressed an
aro
low habit of u
earning a living.
an office with
or “Commission,” or something
of that kind on the door. To no such
Stupdd vulgarity did Mr. Richard Kerth
descend. Not even a suggestion of
Furk cast a clund upon his title of
~gentieman.
i nua know somsthing of the previ-
ons career of Mr. Kerth, and when ho
look possession of two of the best
rooms in the house I hastened to make
his acquaintance. He treated mo with
sasy condescension, and soon offered to
borrow money of
I did not loan Mr. Kerth any money.
{t was, indeed, for a long time a sourco
of quiet satisfaction to me that while a
number of others, in plain view on
all sides, were being taxed for the
support of this American peer, [ was
xempt. But one day as I was being
SOLO
Thoy
Real
ntain
nsked me what I knew about Mr.
Richard Kerth, and told me that Lc
owed fifty dollars on a suit of clothes.
I answered Shearsby that I thought he
had better chargo it up to profit and
loss. He immediately proceeded to do
80. The overcoat which I ordered was
more expensive by $5 than I had ex-
pected, and possibly about nine other
of Shearsby's customers suffered a
similar amount of indirect taxation.
more of Mr. Kerth's confidence. 1
+] enll it a system of ubsence,
On several occasions le made uso of
{ phraseology similar 10 the above.
| For example, once he valid to me: +}
got a good enough Wving out of not
being in certain places certain
| times." Further, hs would not ex
plain, .
About this time his creditors, o
whom the crop seemed perenniud,
began to press him close, and it was
evident that, unless the ready cash
ehould presently come (0 his rescue, he
was lost—that is, lost in the same way
that he had been lost many times be.
| fore. In the nick of time the money
| came, however, and he proceeded,
with the skill of a practical debtor, te
make a small stream of cash irrigate
{ & vast area of credit. This being ac
| complished, he was at ease again; and
one night, over a bottle of wine and
cigars, he told me how ho had raises
tho money.
“It wasn't much,” he sala
' y-‘five or six hundred. |[
to raise thut sum about four times sg
year.
nt
——_ ———— ———
v
{ Now, I'll tell you.
| a number of relatives-
| and all that. Money comes
them. Easy enough. you
Well, I wonder. I am the black
of the outfit-—scapegrace,
And do vou
cive
‘
fm §
come al
rich,
1
you Know,
would ever
up a
w from his high
fireplaco with an
Then frown his
| letlers and a
priced cigar into the
impressive gesture,
Lionas
his back when
Mr
oy five
prays for
he read that said
He
sig!
hundre
“Here is his reply.
smivation of my
chock for two
the next one
It was addressed {o
City,” and began: «Dear Uncle.”
“Father's brother.” the scapograce
exclaimed, ‘old bachelor—great swell
thing west of the Croton Aqueduct.”
I vend as follows: «Dear Uncle—
Respected brother of my parent, I take
my pén in hand to let you know that
two weeks from date I shall take the
| train for your city and shall visit you
| 8 the Beauchamp House, where you
| &re staying. If you should happen to
| be out of town, I will wait until you
| get back, for I mean to live in your
city hereafter; I hope to get a job
there, I know you will help me, as
| your brother's son, to get a job. Per.
naps Mr. Beauchamp would like a man
| to carry trunks. I know you will be
| glad to seo me. If I could get into the
grocery business here I would stay,
and a man I know of will take me in
for $200. Please look for me af the
depot in the emigrant cars. Bue
nephew, Richard.™
Doosan reading
club, suid the ce;
! “Imagine Uncle Van
that at his
“I wonder, it didn't give him a stroke
of apoplexy. However, it was not the
first of its kind. Me always comes up.
I don't have to whistle. twice to him. *
Tho vext was wddressed to “Mrs.
ness. He was, however, loth ta be-
tray hiv t all at once, but prepared
me bel d by various significant
hints to appreciate better its mysteri-
ous nature.
One evening, when he was smoking
ono of my. cigars before my fire, he
said: +I am getting vory up:
1 un raise some money,”
sald: “How will you do 4»
** I have a method of my own,” he
answered, “which 1 apply whenever J
am in noed of cash.”
smiled with smilool »
as he replied:
“Van Dodsan's sister,” suid the
scapegrace; ‘they have quarrelled and
| won't compare notes. She is a widow,
with a fine fncomo and an olegant
place. Two lovely marriageable
daughters,
[a delicate insinuation that he would
probably. fall in love with one of them
during his visit. There wus also i
casual reference to the sum of §150
‘sho wus short this time,” remurked
the writer of the letter aloud; “only
sent $100. Strike her next
time,"
There were two more letters In the
batch-—both 10 cousins in Chicago.
They were full of mysterious hints
nbout good times 10 be epjoyed when
he should visit that city shortly, Each
demanded a plain loan of $50,
‘J send thém 1o thelr houses,” suid
he, with a villninous grin: their wives
read 'em first, Good for fifty any time.
I noticed that the book was written
nearly full, and that Mr. Kerth's ‘vise
iting list"—if so it might bo called
contained some 10 or 15 names. . Each
letter was dated, and underpenth wus
entered the result achieved, The late
ter wus generally favorable,
goon
Whenever the machinery gets rus.
trip East and lubricate things. After
that," he added with a wink, “it runs
better.”
1 do not know whether 1 have done
wisely in making these factd public,
For there ure many people who might
easily sell their absence at a good fig.
: \ only understood the art —
in The Arsonaute
FELLING BIG TREES.
———
It tnay well be imagined {hat it ts wo
boy's play to cut dawn a tree from five
to ten feet in diameter. The axmen
work ig pairs, and &fter splecting the
place where they desire the tree to fall
they begin operations. Trees generally
have a swell ab the base that is cross.
grained and gnarled, hard 0 cut, and
ot goad timber, and as it I$ not desirg-
0 have this in the log it becomes
ssary to ent the tree above this des
Some especially the fir,
lead of piteh at the base,
re «dors it desirable to be.
some distapee from the
ier 1
round is belog out ofthe
and fallen Umber.
the axman choi
he tree nearly as high as his
Nn belog about six inehes
wt the same in length, dnd
t the emd of a board, knows
ng beard, wpon which he
trees
do this
This bourd is
n four to six fee
: ide, the ir
i be
id his ax.
£e
s often ter
und bef
be Zen
i
3 vy
pelnation Lh
ms of {al
i-dirorted
it in ita 0
Ly
Eh
YUPES
o the gr
ro with it. and the under ones
svllutered into nieces. + Wes
vn thi
being
Shore.
oi ins —
FROM YOUTHFUL MINDS
wMamma~"Younaughty girll You've
eaten every cooky there was on the
me which three. So 1 had to eat w
be sure to get the right ones."~
Transcript
~Full-Grown Gloves. ~Toming Jones
«Saw mister, I want to get 8 pair o'
glovpa” Furnisher—“Kid gloves?’
Tontmy-"Naw! Naw! What a' you
Binghamton Leader.
~ Eddie came walling in one morning
trith a very solemu {ace and a ldrge reat
his mother, he asked: “Mamma, will
oe glue my dress together?”
ouths’ Companion.
— Mamma resting on the lounge ana
readiog a hovel _ Tithe son, =
ars old, ay room,
% ishes ns his mother svould talk to
him. But she does not answer kim. be-
ibg too much intérested in book.
Impatiently the littio fellow ]
mamma, pokes his curly head between
her face na the book, and says:
“Please mamma, why don't you read
me? The T ' x
What Ho Get.=''Now, children,”
said the Snedsyeeliool teacher, “oan
someone tel) me what Joseph's father
gave him? A silence
over the: class. “Perhaps
Bingo,” continued the Seschor,
can toll me whut your father
8 "
BELECYED RECIPES,
BLUEBERRY CAKE,
Here is a rule for blueberry cake
fruit is so abu
of cake use on
this season, when the
dant: For one sheet
generous piat of
milk, one
and
Mix
blueberries
of butter.
i pint of
tablespoonfuls
baking powder,
butter through the
the egg till light and
it. Add this to the
gredients and beat well.
berries, stirring
Spread the mixture in a well-buttered,
work the
Beat
dry in-
Bake in a mod-
CAKE ICING.
Put into a bowl a cupful of powered
BUZAr
add enough more
ring until smooth;
milk, drop by drop, fo bring t
fo about the i» tency of cake batter,
being thick enough not to run and thin
enough to spread add fe
drops of flavoring, rose or 1
may the
If chocolate icing is
an
INAEK
COL
enuslly ;
the case be, and
made,
+
about eighth of a cake of
chocolate, broken
allowed to melt in a tin
the
while war
stove, ay
I'he following items wiil prove of in-
teres fol
The |
t 10 young folks
stest nade ron by fi railroad
train was made in 50: seoonds
I'he fastest mile made
sg ngle boat took 5 minutes and
ond
I'he fastest mile evir made by a ran.
ning horse was run 1 minute 35} rec-
onds,
The fastest mile by a manon a tri.
cycle was made in 2 minutes 49 2-5 sco-
1 sec.
1 he fastest time on snowshoes for a
minutes 39 3-4
foonds,
a bicycle is recorded as 2 minutes 25-
8-5 reconds,
The fastest mile ever made by a man
seconds,
The fastest mile ever accomplished
in 6 min-
In ranning, the fastest mile made by
12§ seconds. — Goiden Days.
A Young Woman Obtains an En-
gineer's License in Chicago.
Uhieago is a great city, enterprising
city on this continent. She gained the
World Fair site over all ber competitors,
nd she now has a woman engineer,
who has successfully passed the ordeal
of a ngid examination, .
A contemporary says she was not let
off easily either because she was a wo-
amination was, if anything, a little
The young woman walked into the
Board of Examiners’ room in the Oity
Hall, presented her application in a
manly way, deposited the official fee
(two dollars), and then made her way
into the line of the applicants to await
her turn.
HORSE NOTES,
~11 i8 proposed to build a kite track
~ Huron’s absence In the Futurity
- Faustino, by 8 duey, took a 3-year
old record of 2.18 at ( hicago.,
— Palo Alto, Electioneer’s fastest son
- Allerton was separately timed in his
2.13%, 2.13,
~It 18 8 most gratifying fact that all
meetings along the
dre so far this year have made money,
~Starter Merrill has relinquished the
drum at Garfield Park, and Jack Chinn,
there.
~It looks as if the licensing system
talent for
— Lady Pulsifer and India Rubber,
weil known performers the
t the
(rloucester track, were winners
saratoga meeting.
at
av
al
Frank Bray has ceased to train for
i ble (the Hough Bros. ),
now in charge of
Sehuylkiil St
and Dave Campbell is
thie stable,
evident.
He
were as
and Los
ibtedly
yeh close
Monmouth
riving park
that a
wo
the
be hoped
r law with regard
i be passed by
ure next winter.
~ Belmont Prince, the 3-year-old son
Bn by Jefferson Prince,
164, balfin 1.08}
in winning the Nelson House stake at
+ fter the race
Hoslngton vowner of Belmont
Prince, was offered £25,000 for his great
colt.
—Direct’s mile in 2.10} at Chicago
recently hardly indicates that the fast
son of Director is in Hal Pointer’s class,
Direct was driven out, and the mile
Direct has a trottiog record of
2.18%.
—The Jewett Stock Farm yearling
pacing colt Rollo, driven by McVey,
was rent to beat his record of 2.50 at
Poughkeepsie recently and he made the
wile in 2.374. This beats the world's
yearling pacing record or 2 33, made by
Daisy, which bas stood for six years,
Rollo is by Jerome Eddy, dam Mame
brino Patchen,
~The English thoroughbred stallion,
Wenlock, that won the St Leger for
Lord Wilton in 1872, ridden by Maid.
ment, died on lis way to this conntry
on board the Tauric recently. This
was the year in which Prince Chailie
ran second. Wenlock has been purchas-
ed by Mr. Joseph D, Lucas, of St
Louis, Mo, Wenlock was by Lond
Clifden, out of Minera’, by Rataplan,
~-At Independence recently Naney
Hanks wiped out Mavd 8. famous
three consecutive heats—2.12, 2.13},
2.124~made al Belmont Course on July
28, 1881, by beating Allerton and Mag
garet 8. in 2,12. 2.12}, 212. Nancy's
over a kite shaped
track, but when it was in a race, while
Maud 8. trotted against the watch
when she put ber three heats together,
Every man feels instinctively that all
the beautiful sentiments in the world
weigh less than a single lovely action,
sven, but the dow Stops In aed. bakes
step
charge when help themselves to
uy ue