LOVE'S SEASON.
Love doth a tenant of the epring Lecome:
Ofsummer hours when skies of brill ant blue i
Tempt bees and katydids to gardens new: i
When the woodpecker with his distant dram |
Is heard, and when the ericket’s restful throm |
Makes autumn musical; when Winter's fow
Delights of Nature b'ossom into view;
Love makes the vear, complete, its constant
home.
Whate'er the days or months for us unfold
Love bas onesenson in its rounded rhyme, |
Love's sun turus darkest skies to brightest
gold,
And makes of time a period sublime;
From cradle-nymn to bels at Lile's uight
toiled
Where Love dwells it is snmmer all the time
= [Dexter Smith, in Boston Transcript,
A Macasi Amng 1 Hobbys.
women’s nor doctors’,
lonesome widow,
i
long before she began to
wasn't any chance for him to get avay
into the woods, and [ no doubt he saw
fight was in me. But I didn't have one
blessed thing except my hands, and if 1'd
had a stick the question would been
did
wus becoming, -—no more,
Hedolpol to put him away
what
whut was to bo done before she could rot
buck to her native place, As for tho
baby, while he did not—boeause he could
show the pride which his father in-
It was only a few minutes’
and he went there
The devotion shown
ter showed himself to be as well pleased
the baby. To make things worse, he
woke, the baby did, and he began n-
smilin’ at me, and | wore skeered nigh
or throw his hands, the
snake would tarn on him again, Then
I got mad. sure enough, and 1 said to
mysolf, ‘No, sir, not that baby, If its
LESH) BO
Even Jim
BY RICHARD MM. JOINSTON.
I vary well remember Little Joo
Hobby, who, when I was a child, was
one of my father’s near neighbors und
friends. He was not so very, very little.
They called him so in distinction from a
big cousin of the same name. Every.
body liked him. Even Maggy Tiller
over and over again said that she thought
a great doal of Joe. Yet gave her
hand in preference to the big cousin, and
so Little Joo, sorrowful as it all was, had
to bear it as well as he Maggy,
noticing at her very last refusal how
nardly he took it, offered the consolation,
which at such a time, if a girl would
only reflect for a moment, is the very
poorest to be thought of. She told him
to never mind, for that it wouldn't be so
very long before he would find a girl to
suit him to a t, and then he would be just
running over with joy that he hadn't
married Maggy Tiller. Indeed, Maggy
was very sorry for his distress, so sho
aust say something, and didn’t
know of anything better. Then he rose.
and, after shaking good-by, said:
*“No, Maggy, 1 can’t get you; but I'll
aever marry anybody else.”
He went to the wedding, and with the
other guests extended congratulations.
and partook with reasonable zest of the
good things. Afterwards he was as good
a neighbor as before, and a good cousin |
to both My father said, but of course
only in the family, that if he had been
in Maggy Tillers place he would have
Little Joe, and let Big Joo go
she
could.
she
taken
somewhere else: for in his opinion Little
Joe was more of a man; and so. he sus.
pected, thought Maggy 's mother. How-
ever, he added, nobody can ever foresee
what girls will do in such cases
Joe—Little Joe, I mean—tried to go
along about as he had been doing before
bis bad luck, as he called it: for he
never denied a single thing. But he was
as healthy in mind as in body, and he
felt that if Maggy and the other Joe
could do well, far as he was con-
cerned, they ware welcome to do so. In.
deed, he was a better friend to them than
Jim Hobby, Big Joe's older brother.
whom Maggy had cast aside also and
who ina pet went off and married Mandy
Brake, who wasn't as pretty as Maggy
and bad rather poor health besides,
And they did do well.—that is moder.
ately we If Big Joe's industry. man.
agement and vrudence had corre sponded
with his physical proportions, they
would hay splendidly. Ax it was.
out of the good piece ‘ground
they i, tl
live on. g
80
1
of
over, but
continued
to live with his mother. contrived to put
asid yearly for rainy davs.
The
ap Art
up the same as if n #AIng had
In decent time after the
Little Joe went over
handed around his congratulation :
When the buby was named he
had to congratulate agair: and he did so,
like tho man he was. It amy have seemed
to him somewhat monotorous whenever
he was there t the father was ever.
lnsting® saying that in some points, in.
deed in almost e ory single blessed point,
he had not a doubt that that babs was
ahead of anything of its ange that could
be found in the whole State, let alone the
county,
“Why, Joe,” he more tienes than
his hearer could reeall “Magev'll tell
you herself that sometimes | have to
looge my mule from the plough half an
hour before the dinner-horn bows, |
want to see him 80 bad. -—Look’ee here,
Joe,” he said nigh as many times to the
baby, “you know who that is sifting in
that chair? You don't? Why, that's
Your 5 ousin Joe, Ame name as vou Not
named after him exactly, but all the seme,
Ask Cousin Joe if be don't wish he had a
Joe like you.”
At much times Maggy smiled a little
scold ; but it did no good. He would go
on about it, and keep at it, not even
stopping ot the dinner-table. occasionally
getting up and making Little Joe got ap, :
repair to the bed or the eradle whereon
that baby was lying, dnd note how, when |
he was not crowing, he would be trying,
Just for the fun of it, to ram his fists or |
the coverlet into his ever-open mouth, |
And then sumeljmen he would erown all |
by erying to th® Youngster about thus:
“Going to bo a big man some day,
aren t you?—a heap bigger than Cousin |
Joe.”
Such things he did often, not from any
thought of malice towards his cousin, but |
out of mere exuberance of the conscious. |
ness of his superiority to him. Little
Joe endured it all, and did what he could
in gimplo ways to help them along. Onee,
when the baby was thought to be danger.
ously sick, he went there at nights, and,
while the father slept, watched with the
mother during the silent hours. Before |
Big Joo was awake next morning he
would be gone to his work. During that
time Jim Hobby never once came there,
His wife id, and wanted to help; but
Maggy, knowing that she was not strong |
aiough to do any good, thanked her and
ssut her home.
Ons would think that such as that
ought always to come to an end. Some.
times it does, aa in this case it did. Farly
in August, when the baby was only a
fow weoks old, Big Joe got sick himself,
People said it was from having had too
— Fourth of July. Whatever was
wise, ao sort of medicine, old
ty
two families Jivel mile
kept
Only
G
De
and visiting continued to
happened,
birth of their
and
there
said,
During the summer days of the follow-
out of the house she put the baby in his
cradle, which she had removed to a nice
spot in the shade of a large Mogul plum-
Occasionally she went by to seo if any
wood-inseot had invaded his couch, or, if
he was awake, to have a little chat by
way of reassuring him against any sense
of abandonm« nt or too profound solitude.
For he not exnct-
ing babies who erinstinzly
wanting to be i
Os one of those
are ov
waitesl on, und
shakou up, and sung to, claiming all the
attention they can get, and more
sides, not oaly in the day, but in the
very night. What that baby wanted,
after his many meals awed his as many
sleeps, was the consciousness that con-
genial society was in convenient call
His health was as perfeot as the vory
morning. and whenever he eriod you
might feel sure either that a pin was
sticking somewhere, or that something
else was the matter which no grown-up
person could be expected to endure with-
out complaint At such time, when Lit.
tle Joe was there, he hovered aroand that
cradle as if the most precious of his
treasures lay therein.
Such devo!
be.
otion, inall the circumstances,
must have touched any heart, unless it
were of Yet when, towsi)s the
i of the fall, Little Joe be®anto
+ before he had done sa oll
Maggy cried and begged him to
He did as he was bidden, but
inward resolve not to stop fer
Yen thi
long as thin
: 3
Or she showe i
beginning
i i
piead BS on
in vaiu,
ston it.
with an
g youd ns
Wore, i
even to the
oa
as plainly as «
Little Joe, that she
didn’t want him to quit coming to the
articularly now that Mrs. Jim
Hobby bad died, and so another gloom
had been thrown over the family
Little Joe would have been ashamed
to be ealled a hero if he had known what
that meant. Yet in the action which I
am now going to tell, my father used to
say that there was as heroic behavior as
much of that oue reads of in the careers
of those who
stood as they
)
humble
house, 1
subdue
Nations and bring home spoils with i
firite
Manslaughter
n-
Among venomoas reptiles in the South
to the rattle-snake the
one mast dreaded is the Its
bite, exces pt vpon very Young persons, is
id il; but very
ous 1
Same portion
ern States, nex
mocoasin
often i victim
of the limb
has been struck. The most prompt
nt
“4 t=
i$ necessary to prevent much
2. 1
gz and ot}
I shall let Litt
about an
Fin OF SETHOUS CON uUuenees
i
le Joe speak for h
encounter which he had with
one of those reptiles
Une morning, having enme over to ogr
house on some little matter about the
- »
fine. te
ng £
of the
nee, ns he was as ending the ste ps
wrza my father said:
Jew Why, hella!
matter with vour thumb. that
you ve got it wrapped in that cloth?”
“Mornin’, squire. Then you hadn't
heard about my snake-fight
‘No, indeed. I've been away from
home fora o vaple of weeks, getting back
only last night. It seed vou got the
worst of it.” :
“I did for a while: bus I come
with him before it was all ever.”
“My goodness, man! Lut I'm
glad it was no worse.”
am l-—thankful ft, boet. AWhat
timo it lasted. it was a right serious busi.
ness, countin’ in my skeer, and Magev's
fon.” : .
“Ay, was Maggy in 4 also?”
“Not in the hght, ¢he wasn't, but in
the skear she were, gorse off than me:
fact is, she couldn't eelp it, bein’ of hor
own baby.”
“My! my! Tell tae about it.”
Smoothing tenducly the cloth around
his thumb, he begun:
ty
:
“rood-morning,
what's the
up
very
fines
Every timo I made a grab at its neck. he
dodged und struck at me. Well, sir, it's
wonderful how suppic the thing were, |
thought 1 had him once or twice, but he
slipped from my fingers like a piece of
ice, and mighty nigh as bold, and several
times with his strike he were in the width
All of a sud
den 1 thought of my hat, and thinks I
to myself, ‘Blast you, I'll try to hive
you!’ And I doue it, after a few wipes
ho put his tooth in the ball of my left
hand thumb. ut I grabbed him by the
tuil, give him a whirl or two like a w hip-
thong, then, fetchin' a jerk, slung his
You know that's the quickest
way in the world to kill ‘em. ‘Then
Maguey cone up, she did, and she
snatched up her baby, who was kickin’
his level best at the fun: but I told her
to lay him down for a minute, tuke a
twine string oat of my cout pocket, and
tie it tight around my thumb where 1
holdin’ it. For don't you know,
sv it come to mind that very
minute of Jay Roberts | his yale
thumb three year ago that a
bit, and that under the
sir, that it did Mugey screamed, but
dono as | told her hen 1 told her to
and make a pot of red. i
hot, not thinkin’ there
sperits in the kh Noon os she got
away, | hauled out my knif I give it
a wipe or two on the bottom of my shoe,
and then Well,
thinks there's fun in cuttin’ off their own
thumb at the 'int, they're
But 1
job, and by that time Maggy's ma got
back. told Maggy to hint
pepper tea away, and then she got out a
level and
out and made me drin drop of it.
And then, while Mag to tie
up what was left of thumb, she, a-
knowin’ I couldn't carry all that load of
whiskey, she made me go to bed. and tell
you the truth, squ
another thing till next mornin’
were
squir my Y
2 y * 1
i Osin wi
mocoasin
wator? - Yes,
she
£0
nenner tea. boiling’
Pe pper fen, Mi
was a drop of
Hise,
@ a“
squire, whoever
welcome to it
uned and got through with th
ori
3
gn €
She fling
tamblerful of Come
every
in
ry
wns
my
ire, l never remes
r water
* But where was Jimall this time?
“They told me after it was all
that Jim eo back with his forked stick,
a-sayvin it took longer than he tho
to got one to sait. Missis T. Her aa
thasnsed him, and told him that he
put it away keerful, as it might come in
hand» next time.’
“Toat’'s Jim; that's exactly Jim.’
my father. ‘But, Joo Hobby,
me from that house with.
out 3 Maggy'e word, aft
t you the importance 0
brisker in some «f your wavs, « specially
sinee .
“Uh
chan «10
put in fi
said the:, in all
0
er
10
tnt
i sno
3
Better
don t
You Cnme gwnay
wa Lecome a widower
no, sir I thought it were a gor
tallow up vour ads
r her as well as | conld: and
whan f svar hard +
WHSD § Bure Nid
Mats g
** Nonsense!
that, after all 1 for her and
that baby, I any tBat I think it very hand
to be putting it off ss long. and that if
ans ; was fo ann 0 vou in all
that i
herself’
He carried
from n
ncoident
1
ONesome wii
the
davs afterwards rog
compromised on Easter
Earthquakes La Japan.
Earthquakes are of so > wpaent occur
tence in Japan that they ate looked upon
mutter and unless they
accompanied with a tedfoud loss of
and destruction of property, the out-
aide world hears little of then,
the earliest Japanese traditions are of
extremely destructive earthgwakes, and
many fanciful tales are told those
which happened previous to the times of
trustworthy historical records. Put there
many authentic records of earth.
HE na of
are
life
CON TRE,
Some of
of
Oo
The most serious of these disturhancoes
in recent times was that of 1855, when.
fire-proof storehouses were overtutnoed.
I walked over to wlissis Tiller's, I reckon
Muggy were a-aweepin’ the
front yard abot the gate. Her ma were
baby
under the big
squire, there by the dairy.”
“Very wel, Finest Mogul plum-tree
in the neighborhood.”
“Jes su. Well, soon as I got in the
and me are first-rate friends, wo are.”
“80 1 beard. Go ahead.”
“When I got there, lo and behold,
land moceasin quiled up on the baby's
breast, all exception of his head and his
n-viewian' of the child, like he were
studyin’ wheres he'd begin on him. 1
runnin’ ap; but I pushed her back and
told her to stay back and keep silent.
She done it. She put one hand
broast and lifted the other
towards the sky. At that minute Jim
coms in the gate, and he run up to seo
what were the matter. Then ho told me
to stay there and watch the snake till he
could run in the gardon and out a forked
stick and prong him with it. So Jim he
left, and the fight begun. Soon as the
thing saw tae, he whirled his head awa
from the baby for a strike at me. And,
uire, it wero the fioriest, benutifullest
thing you ever lai1 your eyes on. He
wero cortain, woll ns I were, that it were
was a very serious earthquake abaat
(ifn and Nagoya, and there was greet
loss of life and property. There were
slight earthquakes on Sunday, October
25th, and these continued with increas.
During the Inst
recorded.
or unfortunate victim was
caught.
loss of life at several thousands,
more
Wien
and down trains on the Takaido Railway
wera just meeting.
ind bron u collision. On looking out of
the windows, however, they saw the sta.
boring pond dashing violently from side
to side. As the shocks continued, eracks
in the earth were observed two or three
foot wide, opening and closing. The
shipping in the various harbors was very
ooh injured, and one ship which re-
oontly arrived at San Francisco reported
that when seventy miles at soa a violont
shock was folt, the sea was lnshed into a
foam, the waves broke over the decks,
and the maintopmast and cross-trees
were lost. These disturbances at sea
have been very common in previom
rr Ip pr Dries
ships in Ja ve groat
difficulty in weathering suoh unacous.
tomed conditions. —[ Harper's Woekly,
i
THE JOKER'S BUDGET.
OF THE PRESS.
Same Thing
On One
fons And
Etc.
Condition
That's a
Two Opin-
Fact, Ete.,
—
BAME THING,
of a plumber, “that some one hus
“You softly replied the plumber,
“rood thing.”
“Very likely."
“Come into general use?”
“Yes,
“When it does vou plumbers will have
# of wy
“No. Takes two pound Ider just
the same, and in three
extra work.” —{ Detroit Free Press,
we got hovrs'
ns'y
Mr. Suburb-—-Well, 1
surprised in my life.
HE COU AFFORD TO,
wns
I had
never mors
a long and
train, and who ¢o vou think he
Was’ :
Editor Weekly Fun
“He Mr
your chief humorisis,’”
‘What about him?"
“Why he didn’t orn k
time we were together,
“His jokes are
New York Weekly,
wns Button-i
vorth
5 a
arnvard?
lL. uly of the House
You wont crawl
graciot
luder the LI
“y
' :
00K ed around
the §
present, ‘it
Of, 8
MAWET of
ETOWINg worse
lage there's a
nan in it would
nt compe
Well
my beliefs §
th
DiITiess
}
now,
* FEI TNC »
fhe op wit
nthe
Lt +} Rre
in 3 ag
ii
Vind borrows a
Your
tron
TL
ble.
Yes
always
it seems to me,
but he is ans fish
s shares it with me
Mont
RoaoGH
gomery had
with
been spending ti
sweol Lilian Luras
. darling,
i
they ston
{3s
nestling
piace
‘rood. biy
“{ood-by
Hore is
dearsst, t
he whispered, hold.
In evers
image of «
parting
the
ing
“a
leath
z her close and kissing her passionately,
Dad we may nover meet again
“Oh, Georg sdarling,” she said. clinging
to him most fier ely.
“Who knows, my own what may han.
pen between this hour and when we met
again ?
‘Mizpah,” she breathed, and threw her
arms about him convulsiy ely.
“Yes, darling.” he spoke tremulanaly,
“let us keep that word as our shield and
armor.”
“And you will come back to me: to
your own little loving Lilian. George:
the same beautiful and brave reorge you
have always been?” ’
“Trust me, Lilian, darling: trust sour
George.” ’
“Oh, darling.” she said, strong in the
faith of women, “I do trust You. How
could I love you so if I did not? and she
kissed him fondly.
“Then 1 shall come again, Lilian, my
own.
“But when, George? When?” she asked
anxiously,
“At 8 this evening, darling.”
“Uh, George,” she wailed, ““wiil it be
80 long as thst? So long, so long?”
He took her in his strong arms,
tenderly. 3
“Darling,”
7.301"
And it came to pass as he had spoken.
~{ Detroit Free Press.
DESPERADOES EXCHANGE REMINIRCENORS,
“Yes, I was a great desperndo in my
shaking his head sadly and with much
humility. **I once held up a whole train.
load of passengors single-handed and
alone,”
“That was quite a font,” said the re.
tired auctioneer, with n dreamy faraway
look in his eye, “but IL once knocked
down a whole railroad. ”—/Cidcego "I'ri-
bune,
THE SOWER AKD THE REAPER,
Old Moneybags, his whole life through,
Worked —stormy days and sunny;
And now his heir is working, too,
To spend the old man's money,
. BAD MUSIC,
May Now, wouldn't oall Profos-
: y ; you
tanh Porat "ite sevininly quite
i
ABEEXT-MINDED.
“You did not attend DBlozster's fu.
neral?”
“No,” said the sbaent-mindel man. “i
. Bure,
busy or not.” [Indianapolis Journal,
THE VLOWERS OF THE YAMILY,
The youth was most pradent and ca
In mnking a choles
So he married “The
ily"
And she is the thorn of his life,
it
of a wite,
Flower of the
IRISH PUNA
fomo i
fallen
Lamb made
puns, and his mantle seems to hnve
upon his namesake, Charles
Kenney,
The popular journalist was dining af
friend,
Charles
ROMNe
Lamb
chance
Wile,
the house of a and by
his
ughing fit,
“Take care, my friend,” said his nest
neighbor, with a very brilliant atte npt at
witticism, “that’s not the way to Cork.”
“No,” gasped the sufferer. “it's the
way to kill Kenney.— {London Truth.
with
HAD A BETTER JOB
Employer impulsively
Pinkie, Clara, will you marry
Pretty T'y pewritor—\Y hat
up my $20 a week salary?
New York We kly .
Pebbleve i
the
What has he don
A by
ever saw that blind man is
Timber
Pebble ye
¥
wit every dav li }
11 4.1,
Cai im down
I see it in time
the other way, madam
MON
“What?
married moa
Old
Friend
th
Li
raraen £ your?
i 80 ©x1
only the j wasn't half
on |
al, but somehow the Vi
} rest, and 1 gave
New York Wes
remarked the Snake Fd
‘Won't oh? Hadn
plied the Horse E
“No: £1
she will
Pittsburg Chronic
Er eat in deep
I felt extrem:
i had had
I went to he
I'o 31s
Dut I fell
ms
ns
Salesgirl wish to
arried
ibbon counter
My
for stopping
reson
Pm a Ise to Mr
of the 1
Manager
nung to mn
dear child, that
work. Keep
1%
nao
ronson Your
pie
Salesgirl (a
I'm afraic
we observer It won't
I don’t knock off
Good News,
and
do
WARM ExoUOH.
New Boarder (shivering, —The house
soma very cold, madam,
Mrs. Slimdiet—Does it?
hot as firo,
‘Hum! Pardon me, but why does the
end of your nose look so blae?”
“Oh! that comes from my aristocratic
ancestry.” [Good News,
Why, I'mas
A EMART HUSBAND.
Mr. De Fashion—The paper says
sealers aredisappointed at the low prices
obtained for skins in London this sea-
son.
Mrs. De Fashion—-That's splendid!
You know | need a new
Mr. Do Fashion-The paper says the
furs are very cheap, dirt cheap.
Mrs. De Fashion-—I never did care
much for seal-fur. It's too warm.
AFTER THE BALL.
She--Has papa asked you about your
He
She
Yes.
He-Yes.
She--1'm so glad.
He--Well, I'm sorry.
he spot,
He borrowed
The Oldest Medical Work.
A translation into German of the
Egyptian medical manusoript a
about twenty vears ago by George Ebers,
the eminent Egyptologist and novelist,
has just been completed. Dr. Heinrich
Joachim, the translator, believes that
the work was written not later than 1500
er dato. It consists mainly of recipes,
inters here and ‘here with prov.
orbs, but gives some advice the ex.
and states he
i
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS,
PRIDE HAS A VALL.
window,
As proud as proud ean be;
her skirt
everywhere
And
frills could b .,
sho flaunted and fri
giggled
Ata
You'd
DOr ii
£“ 4
3
better
Before somebody iD YOUr nos
; ps
£
Along eame a ln all feathers and fuss
And said, “I'll take one of these,
And the florist n pped off Miss Chrysan.
themum's head
Before she had time to sneeze,
Hunt, in New York Worll,
1.11
ad
THE P AND THE
HEN.
Our next-doo; ighbor owns an ams
ing parrot which is always vetting into
mischiel bul usually gels out again
When
which
1
without much trouble to herself.
anvthing for
to
Is her head to one »
she has done she
knows she
h
our be punished she
de, and, eyeing
tons,
il she sees her
{
HH
"mn BAYS i Bing-sonug
aps her wings
i
18 6 good
Pr,
of irned to
mtempl i 3
:: af tha 6 $a +
T 0 LOR 0 the first Gay
on the nest the cat came
+}
sae
ia turn a vicious
barn, two swallows
ng hie Tr
i ¥ rose in air, swo ped dow nan d
pecked her squarely on the back, one
after the other, though she was running
in all directions,
Twenty-three times 1 watched them
rise in air so high as to be out of sight,
hen come sailing down, one bebind the
other, and each time giving the poor cat
a peck apiece on the back, although she
was speeding hither and thither bewil-
dered, sceking to hide under carts, under
trees, bere and there; thoy never missed
her once, though they never slowed their
swift flight to do it. never paused for the
peck, but swiftly gave it to her as they
skimmed down over her. rising on the
same point of curve, to descend again
presentiy,
For about two weeks they wore seen fo
fly out and repeat this punishment when.
ever the cat appeared on the groen near
the barn. (St, Louis Republic.
wok, they
Tux law is perhaps less friendly to
dogs than to any other species of proper.
ty. The Supreme Court of Mississippi
has just decided that the city authorities
of Jackson are not responsible for the
loss of a dog killed by a police officer on
the street. The dog was usually kept
confined, but escaped, and the wife of
the owner was running after it when it
was shot, The court holds that it was
“running ot large,” and that the officer
had the right to shoot it. The court says
that dogs are more peculiarly the subje
of police regulations than auy other class
of property. It is held, the opinion con-
tinues, with great unanimity by the
courts that regulations of the most strin.
gent character, and the most summary -
proceedings for the destruction of these
animals kept contrary to such la.
tics, mre entirely within legislative
power, and free from constitutional ob.
Jeotion, thongh the property of the owner
is destroyed without notice or ¥
The Miss.
issippi court quotes with approval a
Massachusetts decision that a Jog not
licensed and not provided with a cole
lane might bo shot by the officers oven
within the owver's Tove, and the
opinion of a New Ham