IN THE BALLROOAL "Mid rosy banks of rarest bloom, And sweet low sounds of pleasure, Adown the silken, scented room She treads the winsome measure; And perfumed gallants proudly bend To meet her modest glances, And catch the whispered words that lend Allurement to the dances, ees Her liquid rubies lightly tint The laces that enfold her, Half lost within the dreamy glint Of either milk white shoulder; But, ah! the gem of her pure heart, Beneath its dainty covers, Lies hidden from the subtlost art Of all these would-be lovera. And quite in vain their courtly wiles, Their compliments and gracea; For even as, with bows and smiles, The waltzers take their places, Within her happy thoughts she sees Distinct as some old etching A winding lane of laurel troe Thro far off woodland stret » her praises sot, r chorded speech, of one she ams the while me, Upon those vine-clad reaches, For, ah! the swe The most im drown the faintest word toast tributes heard, passioned suing, Can never Of this remen wd wooing. When gol Athwart the ion streams of rythmie revel, hears the cat-bird’s call Far down the grassy level Of distant pa Of star-eyed Wherein, Her simpl th the As 80 her fancies dwell aloof In blithest freedom faring To where In le They to neath some imagined we and labor she shall live for Far from the gAY, want the bl issful momen be I was sitting in a caf low teenth street with my friend Caggs he ought to have been at his country house on Long Island where invited me spend a weeks. He was, however, y &t operator in st Reuben tay ocks, and, as cet was feverish, he th to keep his middle fing of Wall st! spanking team free HALLE milli signifies, I can't e tiplication tal reaches s stood 10 tin never looked at I don’t know worried or to be harried because ons couple of f nes”in the drawing a cent of interest, age tO ble en 1 BALE what throu it has a yank not If I man- 1 i’ HES lakes times of the night, pence to the my morn cousider 1 have so much money that count it in his dreams, pointed at on the sidewalk as Jabez Croesus, Esq., who seventeen horses in his stable, and a box at the opera—well, that's the kind « my friend Caggs led, and, whole, he seemed to enjoy it, He could say to the jeweler, that home to my wile,” and the price of the article. orld; but I noticed that he always did ask the price, and always man aged to get a discount Now, I pay the asking price for evervthing I buy; he never does, But then he's rich, and can afford todo such things. Being poor, I don’t enjoy that rogati The salesraan seems eased to take ten per cent. off for Caggs: but if I should ask the same favor he would probably doom me to one hundred and fifty different kinds of death. Weil, we sat at the table chatting. “My dear boy,” he said, “I'm sorry I can’t go down to Clover Hill as we € n € an to nas yf i i the Ol ve, after me, and unless I have as wide spes. these Jeroen tturae will got their claws on me, and then -'? vou and me, it’s all bosh. The higher you lift the poor up, the greater dis- tance they fall. Poverty is the nor-| mal condition of nine-tenths of the world, always has been, always will | be. It's their forte to be poor; they | have a genius for it. Give em a fiver | to-day and they want another to mor- | row. Give ‘em a second fiver to-mor- | row, and they are on hand promptly | the next day. If you refuse, the two tfivers don’t count and they just curse vou because you won't keep giving. I have a tixed policy, never to give to | any oue, It works best in the long] run.” The difficulty with Cagzs was that he had looked at a dollar so long he | couldn’t see anvthing else, Doctors tell us that a man may think of a dis- | ease and cateh it by thinking. Caggs thought of dollars continuously ; and, as a consequence, all the other and finer qualities, having no exercise, | took revenge for their neglect by be. coming arrested developments, “T like to see money multiply fit- self,” he continued, **' You say, you fellows who haven't any money and don’t know the joys of accumulation you say it's sordid. Bah! There isn't one of you who wouldn't do us 1 do if you had the chance and the " “ Brains,’ I suggested. “ Yes, brains, Look at the farmer; doesn’t he take pleasure in seeing things grow? Is that mean and sor- did ? He plants one kernel of corn, and who can measure his delight when he takes four full ears from the stalk produced by that single kernel ? Well, I plant a dollar, and when the right time comes I scoop in a bushel of dollars. That's my gift; 1 like to do it over and over again, As for be. nevaolence, why, it’s out of my line, I'm not benevolent, and don’t want to be. Hard-heartod? Yes, if she term suits you. Let the poor take care of themselves: it's none of my business to furnish the world with waffles,” Just here a little mut thrust his head in at the door and shouted ** Ex- tree!" He couldn't have been more than eight years old, and bare- foowed and bareheaded. His hair and eves werg coal-black, and there was a curiously earnest expression on his face. I don't take to newsboys much ; they are altogether too pushing aod 1solent, but this one interested me, Perbiaps it was because I had had solid breakfast and felt goo There is nothing like a tom Was Ke oman y the philanthropic stenk a cup Wi ream, iaflin, wrarily religious Mun h % if toasted n i y elht vear old mu iL ny sister night, to pay § iH give me 8 , to bury Sis?" s was simply f, I broke | very rsel t was a meio What a « Foe the word an infant ligy. roiled. He dipped the corner Lis napkin into the finger bowland care fully wiped his lips; but I could that he was becoming very angry. * Bury your sister, you young scoun- drel! I'd like to bury the whole lot you "Then he turned to me, I tell you, Hugh? The poor prey on the rich They won't work. and ’} “* My mother works,” broke in the ¥ Irv this tan spot SARUM TNNRIe Ded Wana Precocious to cover the case. yr Cages wus gett ¥ ¢ i 8) ge f wi “What did his family. “I ain't no liar, neither, A feiler can’t help his sister's dyin’, ean he? 'Tain't my fault cos she 8s dead.” He was pallid with excitement an grief. There was deflance in his aves, | too; and he stood his ground against shrug of the shoulders I ever wit. nessed., 1 interpreted it us meantag two things; tirst, that the bears would find he wasn't within reach when they clawed at him, and second, that if they should happen to scratch Fim he had so much left that he would at lose a wink of sleep. How I envied him. He was pvor twenty years ago, when he and I ware in the freshman class, and so wes 1, He had changed his mind about Mm». maining poor; but I hadn't. I m¥a one hadn't a sou marguee, Caggs on the other hand, wus able to hol*.ob with Bolomon in all his glory, and could buy up all the bric-a-brac wisich the Queen of Sheba brought ns a pins. ent to the King and store it in tho at- tic of his Long Island house, ‘““ Now there's my wife, Julia,” be said rather petulantly, as he pourwl out anotier cup of Mocha my wife, Julia, woman, She runs to philanthropy, goes into eecstacies over beggar, and reels off 1 lot of nonsense about re- forming the world.” A sip of coffee followed this remark, and as he but. tered his toast he added, serenely: “The world don’t need reforming. Heigho! it's all right as it is. It's made up of two classes of people; those who have made money and those who have lost it. [ say with Shakespeare : ‘ If money go before, all ways do lie open.” There you have it just as itis, No, I don't afzree with Julia, She says the poor ought to be bfted up. A pretty big contract that, don’t you think s0? 1 don’t say this at home, you know, because — well, for a good many reasons; but hetweon i Caggs was puzzled. " Who told you that story ?’" he asked, sternly. “* Nobody didn't tell me that story,” answered the boy, * It ain't no story, It's true’s you live. If you don't be- lieve it, come along. Guess when you i * ¥ min’, Caggs actually had an impulse to go. e hesitated, however, “You darsn’t,’”’ eried the youngster, “You're a great big feller, an’ can kick me roun’ de block; but you! larsn’t go home wid me and see me dead sister.” | * Hugh, will you go with me 2 “ Certainly,” I replied. It was al new experience for both of us, a curi- ous chapter in the history of city life; and I was not sorry to read it, “By Jove!" said reached the street, fool. Now, if Julin were here, she'd give that young scoundrel a hot breakfast, and believe every word he | said ; but I'm made of different stuff, | I dou’t like to be played by a boy no| bigger than a loaf of bread. We'll | follow him, and then I'll have him sent | to a reformatory, or somewhere, | Somebody's got to put a stop to this | sort of thing, and we may as well be. gin right now, Come, you young | gamester, go ahead, and we'll Soa | But none of your dodges, mind,” He waa so small that his head hard. ly eamie up to Cagus' knee; but he stretched out his hand, and said : “Say, Mister, if you think I'm goin’ to jump, just take hold of my hand, will you?" It was a queer sight—two big men end one small boy. The boy was so delighted st his triumph that he for. got to cry “ Extree!” und the two Cages, as we | “1 feel like a! men were so embarrassed thot they hardly spoke to each other. at length, in a disgusted tone, He looked **as crestiallen as a dried pear.” “I wouldn't have Julia meet me now for a thousand dollars, would look, you ' back yard ound the street we found our way, two well: " sald Cagpgs; I'd blow my “Good Heavens! “this is no place to live, My horses are better cared for. think we've carried this joke quite fur enough. Julia tells me she comes to such places every week ; but, phew! one visit is enough for me. jeside, “let us get out of this, ie 19 i Then he turned to the fragile, sul- fering woman, ** Molly,” he sald, **1 much about these things, choked a little—** but 1'm sorry you, I shall ask my wife, Julia, to come and see you this afternoon, Sho will attend to the details of the funer. al." His hand went into his pocket, {| Giving her on roll of bills, he added, “Take this for old time's sake, and don’t know ys us When we reached the sidewnlk he turned on me almost fiercely. “* Hugh,” he eaid, “1 can’t talk much to-day. You go up town, I will go down town. I've had a new experi. ence, and I shall have to give up some of my theories about the poor. Pos sibly Julia is right, after all (tood- morning,” George Hepworth iu 1s dependent. stupid oxen into the I've n great mind “ Here we be, Mister.” The slender fingers were withdrawn from the big hand of Caggs, and the boy became almost wild, * Right up here, Mister. Look out for that stair, cos the board's busted.” It was dark and stuffy, with ‘the rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril’; but we stumbled up one flight, then groped our way round the and found anuther flight. “Great Scott! I've a mind a header out of the window, “* I was never in We may have to fight for ugh: but won'tit | in the papers to morrow, ‘Reuben Cages picked up dead’ in this den! What iu thunder did I come here for, anvhow? jut I'll make this scamp pay for it, seo if I don't, I'll have him up in El- mira for a ten year trip, as sure as y« live," We reached the back second story room at last, The mut burst in with a loud vell, It seemed like a signal agreed upon, and I fully expected to see hall a dozen and to lose * watch and 1 My fist go being some teri 1 ¢ veriminea iu lsugnter-pen. corner to take "growled a fix such look queer 1 ) * ¢ i 141 the door tortt r h LOU NnR, The like « day in anv quarte it was new to Cagys The '] the rise and fall Were md We Keen eves sistened e, New Hamp I was b they i at steadily and long “Why! 1s pr not Mollie Flanders?" | “Thut was my name | ried James,”” she answer “And Know queried, She looked azain, and through her tears saw that peaceful New England village, and recalled the bright and careless days ot her girlhood in the long, long ago “I seem to remember, but then hesitated. “You ean’t have forgotten me,’ said Caggs. ** We went to school to- gether at the Cross Roads.” I thought him really handsome at that moment. There was a flush in his cheeks, and a fire in his eves, and it sgible ? You ¢ naked, f I mar. eiOf0 are } ¥ ed don’t ma?" he you " she began, ’ in love with him. “Are you Reuben asked, timidly. “Yes, indeed, I am,” warmly. They talked for half an hour, friend forgot that he was in the sco. ond story back of a tenement house, forgot the stuffy smell of the apart ’ Caggs ?” she life which began in sunshine but was now clouded with gloom and bercave- The husband had taken to Mollie shroud in the other room. Bill insisted that we should look at “8Bis" before we went, The body was on a pine board supported by two rickety chairs. There was a white, artly faded carnation in her hand. Bill had found it in the street, What u strange scene! Cages melt. ed at the sight, and as for me—well, no matter, The woman on the front had brought in a tattered motto and hung it on the wall, The legend was, “Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven. ”’ Qlaggs looked about the room, then at the face of the pale siceper, and 1 saw his lips tremble, Four months before be had buried his only child, beauti- ful Alice, When his eyes fell on that motto, it seemed too much for him, The eyes of the many times a million- aire were filled with tears, “My God, Hugh,” he said, hoarsely ; THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH. Dust 1x Facronies, Dr. Willlam B Canfield read an excellent papsr be. | fore the Clinical Society of Maryland, in which he dwelt particularly on dust as a causative factor in He turned his attention chiefly to the existence of tl affairs in factories, and more states that the treatm take the patient from his dangerous occupation when the improvement Owners of large {ac- tories are adopting st prophy lactic measures in order that may not loose 80 many good workmen, o best mg To prevent pulinon ary disease, begins at once yergeryt Ly wearin iste 1 2&1 uncomfor move them at every « . The remon oduced by This is 1 al o This aspect « ally pertinent to lisorders which are o VITO ¢ the or he pt tervane to therwise fairly v. Wes axp Wiarto Ear eat little, and eat often food, is more thor ug ix the best cure in ch was « Ho fail to (11118 gested, is lated, and for dyspepsia nnd a weak stot Never d n you eat retards digestion, causes yon to swal low your food properly masticated, and is the principal cause of your eating too much, Nevereat too much meat at ing, and makes you a better subject for disease, Eat it sparingly. Never think too much about what you eat—the less the better for your stomact:. Eat a great variety, and waste as little thoughtabout its effects as possible, Never drink strong tea or coffee they both are injurious, coffee being the worst. If you are ailing, the sometimes may act as a medicine Never eat too freely during the mil. dle of the day--make your evening meal the largest one, | Never fail to eat an abundance of | bread, and as about everything else | you eat contains about the same ele. 2 ents as bread made of finely bolted flour, eat what is called brown bread, or bread made of the whole wheat, as | it contains elements not found in oth- er articles of food - elements thut your system must have to thrive, Never mix your food too much be fore eating it it is piggish, Never fill your plate with articles of food and leave half of it—-it is extra- vagant and unenltured, Never eat too faust the evil effects | of fast eating are so numerous thatit would require volumes to record thera the effect upon the nervous system is simply wonderful—insanity not in. { frequently is the result of this habit, {| Never starve yourself—it is a com- | mon practice, and is exceedingly in. | jurious as well as uncomfortable, To { think well, aud be well, you must eat freely—mental exercise is more ex- baustive than phy sical, and demands that the system should be properly supplied with food, Raver became a victim of the “ two- meal .a-day” bugbear. If you are heulthy, three or four meals a day will be better but do not eat too much at a time, “ Little and often '’ is the mot. to. Learn from the beasts of the field, and eat when you feel like it. Never eat by schedule eat when you feel like it, and whatever 3h nppoéite demands, unless you are un then it may be neccessary to diet your- self but too much dieting i» frequent- ly the result in such instances, Never it re. less easily more ughiy Nak much whe it before it is it is he y on INSPECTORS. Detectives of the Plains Whose Work is Yery Dangerous, Column after column hus been written about the daring deeds, miraculous es. by the detectives of Europe and Amerien, in thousands of cuses the praise accorded these officers for their ingenuity und daring has been deserved; but there is a class of detectives in this who must know not only the ways of the highwayman when he is in the city, but niso his haunts and his hiding places and his go between in the tainly settied coun- men are to-d y down in New Mexico looking for a horse thief, who is a murderer as well; next week fur across the Cunadian line on the trail of a gang of cattle thieves who has ing the It is only in the past tenor fifteen years that their worth has been apprec ated or their services valued as they should be. In the early days of cattie raising in d ver the the for miles around wouid orga- run then shoot or try us well, These on the go almost all the time ¢ been despoil- Mon.anag or W Yoming ranges Wyoming aud Colorado, whene thieves became too bold, ranchmen nize, get on the track of the their hang them. After a kind for a time, head of en range thieves, them 10 holes and of this i sale ertheless 1 i s of horses olen wou d he comparatively Nes i and herds tt such vear and shipped to Chicago, for when the righttul not a I he stockmen ol rgan ized a stock growers associa P vinted f ach for « for. | OWHers receiveq cent Wyoming o “ana P- in the Sate no olurado fol sit county t ‘ Owen wed s1OCK ns pe in nn jew vours, 10 be foil inter by Montana, were not to look out for “1 he duties of these inspec diseased but to inspect very carload of shipped out of tl ate, get o list of the cousignoe wi the were, of ¢ who TH bDrundads, wort the fucis to secreiar) Ler i sociation, 1 tukes made at no but ol late ) perfect hus the svsiem become almost for a it of Mon- § yes DILLY eel byw rail o Hin Pe ! ship ead ol out detectio Lrraduaily 1 the faunas w Tae ‘ that if a 4s ocd saat or horses out of their accustomed haunts he can BOArCeLlY ever ite them has to « in an instant and he cnsait the brand Many narrow had when in pursuit ot books issued by the associations told has desperadoes and ot brilliaut captures he after pursuits seve.al glories are in Miles City of escapes he has m a lasting weeks I'he Chevenne Indians, whose reserva. 11%) miles south of Miles When tion about City, fear as well as respect hum Indians have, ai various . limes, commited offenses against the State laws. it has often fallen to Smith's lot to go afior the man or men wanted, and he er vet failed in his mission. — Mon Independent. is these nas ney {He le na The *““Bear-Fighter’® Myth, The gentlemen who figure in fiction as vigeouts ’ and “guides” and what not are reputed to have stood in fringed buck. skin, about the camp-fires and told of ferocions bears. They are supposed to have carried so many scars tuat their bodies looked like road-maps. But the black bear of to-day is not a fighter. a fight for his life,as a gray squirrel will. A she vear will nght to protect young. A wounded bear will turn and beat off the dogs. If exasperated in close quarters, a bear may let drive sav. with great fiercenvss. advisable to retire, if convenient. dentally in the words will show his teeth, fine one, not a fighter by choice. for safety than ‘he does upon his prowess. ~|{New York Tribune. In Surrey County, North Carolina, | there is a remarkable natural ouriosi- ty in the shape of a mountain resem- bling the famous Sphinx of Egypt in all its details, It lays east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, on the Piedmont Plains, and looks forall the world like a gigantic vrouching lion. Its body stands at right angles to the “ Ridge,” | and its head is reared aloft as if in the act of rising. The whole of this won der is of rock, and itis several hun. dred feet high. The shoulders and beast are fine y proportioned, and at the distance of a few miles it looks like a thing of life and intelligence, It is said ftcan be seen for Afty miles in one le Voted ms She Desired, Nirs. Seymour-Howells tells a story 4 woman who had a husband in deadly fear of her, says the Kansas City Times. He was a member of the Legislature, and his wife had in- sisted upon his voting for a woman. suffrage bill. He had promised to do 80, but his better half was afraid to trust him, and so on the day the billl was to come up she hied herself to the gallery in the legislative hall. The roll was being called, and when the husband's name was reached he got and said: “Mr, Speaker, 1 regret to cas" my vole against this bill, but " At this fostant a t woman with a pene- trating voice leaned over the gallery rail and said: “Wilbert!” And then Wilbert's kuees began to shake. He sald in a Speaker, 1 v up ail irembling voice: ote ave.” Lots of SWalnuis, The Englishy wal- nuts in southern California reaches uillion and a half pounds. . sty] “rer ’ annua: Crop ol I —————— To Cleanse the System Effectua’ly yet gen , when costive or Hil. fous, to Or when the DIOS] is impure or sluggish, permanenily ur 2ALitusl constipation, to awaken the kKilneys ani liver toa henithy ithont irritatinr or WeAK ening Leadaches, Cold or levers, use 10 Qinpel i up of Figs B,rup of rigs. The largest piece of » altum ever mined n Californi near Santas Bar. bara, it weighing two snd one-half tons Brown re in B n nd Genera tion, 10 ters of Dyspepsia Mala. Debilint (vives te Lie DErves creaies appetite for Nursing Mothers. weak women and hil ren. fa ihe Dest delicately The leap.year girl might witha l iry him itLin Pe p-torn As a Drowning Man Clutches at a Straw So Mr. Powell Took Hood's Sarsaparilla - ind It Rescued Him From Danger A Year sgo i was in very bad ndition i le was dyg- yi vas 1s ened 3 mapnn ied by pepsia in its worst form, ao Nervous Prostration nd at times # 2055 a I~ Ha get ‘ I should die. 1 at length concluded wo try surely Man xk . ad WRG LAK Whe Like a Drowning AE A Ie. rk again and periain that meds cine | I S10 DOW 80 Dear IB irprise to see such y * Hood's rilla i nae A Ww ! and its justified in my experi. Powgtri., Bigelow, N. ¥Y. Sarsapa claims are fully : B.¢ enoe alter-dinne ire headache. “August Flower” ** For two years I suffered terribly with stomach trouble, and was for all that time under treatment by a phy He finally, after trying everything, id my stomach was worn out, and that I would have to cease eating solid food. On the rec- ommendation of a friend I procured a bottle of August Flower. Itseem- ed to do me good at once. I gained strength and flesh rapidly. I feel now like a mew man, and consider that August Flower has cured me.” Jas. E. Dederick, Saugerties, N.Y. 8 the bent Hood's Pills ar amma » sician ' 00.1 3 nfeEnes and Paints which stain the hands, injure the fron, and burn off. The Rising Sun Stove Polish Is Brilliant, Odor. toss, Durable, and the consumer pays for ho tin of glass package with every purchase, ** MOTHERS® FRIEND”? K BIRTH EASY, Colvin, La, Dec. 2, 1880.-My wife used MOTHER'S FRIEND before her third confinement, and says sho would not be DOCK MILLS. s receipt of price, $150 per bot. on Te Siothers mana fread per BRADFIELD REGULATOR ©O., ATLANTA, GA. 9 Wy Lay RFI ELD" oak NY. te REIELD da BEE VaES an Poke Pook on and :
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