FOR THE CHILDREN,
REFUSED 1dE INVITATION.
Five little fisher vere swimming ales
Singing and chatting (for fisho
chat):
Suddenly there was un end to their
Just up above was a bio tabby end
Puss put in her paw,
wav:
And one
bow,
Rid, ‘Sorry we
gol out Co §
they
little fis}
to (ay Li
uss looked at
*Meaow IV
New York Conenercial Ady
CUTTING ON BEHIND.
George wer ith his fathe:
home The
great } decided to
vehicle home, The littl boy took
sled with him, but was to push and
render all the a ] mild in that
way. Now, the temptation to
rope of his sled throueh tl
the sleigh and so eatel id
Was too gre
times
distane
'
¢
Lae
{ draw
y
i
sistance he «
ip the
father
sighted), finding
little heas
Georgie,
the que
on his feet
his exerti
yeth thir; )
his
ily
Are vou
that
the nos
hanging
or of the
great tu
the fare
ripe grain
¥ all been
4s
no
that
few per
errands
foolishly,
small iron
Ope d iY,
money,
money,
have too
SOT
cost of
interest
five coer
of the
fully
at the
do
of tr
be »
Wid
high £ h sir
forchend
yellow bangs were
limp and
sad even t 1 le Harry,
quite four old, v feeling
greived as his sister. He was gentle
kind to all the dollie, and played *‘litile
papa” by the hour,
Mamma tried to comfort the sorrowing
parents. She told them
RECO
Years
happy without Lucy Katy,
wor
lifted his black. tearful eves and asked,
children was dead? Mamma's
heart was in the reply.
“No, darling! 1 could not be happy
without you and your sister. But the
Po aside. Some children, I know,
wve broken it long ago.
taken
You are very
careful and have much
with the dolls,
hard to be reconciled to the loss of the
ones.”
After a time they grew calmer, Madge
tenderly Lore the broken doll to a distant
chamber and placed her in a large trunk
wet'bhuricd her,” she said as she came
back. But the tender hearted children
could not forget. They held many earn-
est conversations and made frequent
journeys to the trunk that contained the
remains of poor Lucy,
One day mamma overheard them talk-
ing about her. “Maybe,” said Harry,
“she will come alive again, Don’t you
remember mainma told us dear cousin
Jua would come alive again?”
But Madge was not hopeful in regard
to Lucy's return to life. “Mamma did
not mean that dolls would live again,
snd we cannot see Ina till we die,” said
matter-of-fact Madge, which left the
ounger child very much confused in his
cus,
A few days after the above conversa -
tion Madge and Harry had all the dolls
¥
out im their earrinze. They were haviee
a merry times Mamma watched them as
they carefully wended their way through
the hall and dining room and back to
iting room.
“Have vou been to see Lucy Katy {Oe
ov" she asked, :
“No, Mamma,”
bud
no
puain,”
sald Madze:
every time 1 see
I'm not
After some talk Madge
and
she was gone
mamma beg
wi her,
transformed
“It makes
her, and
going
feet
does good, 80
ap there
look at Lucy once
In
anxious and
back hold
doll, with such a
wd wonder in her large eves
Lucy Katy ]
ir was lighter colored.”
rn
Wf d Harry, is he 4 apered i
a long time,
to be
she came
in
isn't Amma;
*i3he has « alive az ' interrup
in noisy
glee.
Jut Madge could not enjoy
until she understood it all, Mamma had
put a new head on the same old
ders, and they had anew live Lu
— {Our Little Ones,
Tame Wild Geese,
her dolly
shoul
N Katy.
reese, under certain conditl
ms
LA} ild
vl mestic,
when caught, become quite de
In Meeker, Col +] re
Meeker Hotel,
i
i
three owned by
which have been there
ord
VO VORTS, Ace
They were eaught when young
o the Denver
while alter being gr
vwn, their
Afterward
akin
t the mor
Grasshoppers as Food,
AeO0T {sovern
experts th ung wasp grubs
agreeal
of these
N eid, Ww hereas
in butter are a mo ie deli
On every fa
iarm the nests
insects are ruthlessly des
welcome dish for his table
Young wasp grubs, fed as they are upon
the sweetest juices drawn from fruits and
flowers, naturally possess a most delicate
flavor. Perhaps the best way to prepare
is to bake them in the comb,
[New York Commercial Advertiser,
A Dainty Silk Relic.
Mrs. E. J. Nicholson of this city, says
the Philadelphia Times, has in her pos
session, among other curious relics, a
worn by Lady Falkland, the
daughter of George IV. The silk,
though faded by years, ix of marvelous
texture and was manufactured by special
wear on grand state ceremonials, It is
of white brocade, with dainty embroidery
of silvery threaded flowers running
As worn by the
statel; Lady Falkland one may imagine
court of George 1V,
Tor figures of last year's census in
Canada are now coming out in very in-
teresting bulletin, From that on manu-
factures it appears that in ten years the
population in towns and cities has in
creased 88 per cent., and those engaged
in manufactures 58 per cent. The es.
tablishments have increased 76.8 per
cent., the capital employed 102 per
cent, the wages 74 per cent, and the
annual product 62.2 per cent, Each
workman in 1881 received $284.26 and
in 1801 8343.26; in the forn.cr year each
Ji duced £1,467 worth and in the latter
1.000 worth,
BOME NEW HATS,
| Althouzh the large pict
{aigh
jr Inany
bo
small wreathed
wed,
no other
eminent! oming
the
Means
Vvooue, I ing
women,
cli
fa £5
more
Piris
jet, through the
twined il
asters of
apotes have hy Ho
{ ind for delicate, piquant
style could {es sibly fi
{ some of the very latest
almost entirely of
Are
nterstices of which are
oral wreaths or cl
i Artistically gros
irs make an eff
of cut jet,
rcinl Advertiser,
thianocy
A WOMAN WHO WORKS
Of
| Minnesota boasts one
successful women farmer
Sarah Pollard and she owns half a se
of land in Polk County, which she works
without any help except in harvest sea
most
M is
+
Lion
{
x %
ROHL. She Is 8 voung woman of nuiny
wcomplishments and |
in the E
tural
eft a comfortable
ist to take up her agri
She does |
home
career, her own
ploughing
wing, and
seeding and harr
i nit
wperates her entire farm with
When
Hive O00 pati
Hssist
& or counsel, she is
her
hn calling er auntie in
pH ri on with this extremely {riv
elderly pe we think of our
grandmother, long
nid to the
ground. sweet
SFRON
own
who Years ago wal
country burying
and aristocratic
were the silvery locks surmounted by the
No French twists and
natural color of her hair for this dear old
upon the world from eves long used to
There was more of dignified
which lead
=O
ape the manners and dress of the young,
and who possess a dignity and loveable-
ness that the pitiful
departed days will never possess,
York Commercial Advertiser,
———oo
A MAIDENS INGENUITY,
For the clever rearrangement of a
hopelessly ugly room the ingenions
daughter of a Methodist clergyman de-
serves an unfading palm of victory, On
the occasion of the latest ministerial
move the young woman found that the
room which fell to her share in the new
putnon was a hopeless combination of
slue kalsomined walls, pink and white
woodwork and a carpet in which bright
blue, green, red, yellow and black were
|
i
nbout evenly represented A bedroom
sot of faded oak, with black stripings,
whole have
flesh
IOTORS
would
to the
of Egypt A shelf
cut-off ruer the chimney
displayed yellow drapery, which,
cred the old-
time stove pipe hole beneath
The Methodist
ch dishe
ked uj
d to revoluti
which
pots board
the
wa
vhere
however, by no means cov
maiden was pretty
irtened: at first, but she
y \
and ideas and
nize things, In
aa dd she would cov
y } i
Oe]
y courage pro
the
2
: HIG
ticking
inn (li ' vroywnl
in disapproval,
ironical
But
with fine 3
s0 that the
than a quarter of an inch in
the cle
eyes
She bongeht blue tic king
i through it,
were nol more
It is
covering you
It does not and it
wers the blue of the walls like a
low er note in a chord of music. In place
} whi iron
and
white,
width
coolest floor
BROW dust
jut
in
f onk bed {
bedstead, not ex
f the
inty
iiMlos
rolsably nes
y great a vari vith so little
origin as this renaissance
Nuthing that only which is
y } is new
o old that we have forg
gave
rotten it
Since straw braids may be purchased
by the yard in inch and half-inch widths
the ingenious and thrifty woman will
select her hat frame and cover it to suit
herself in the matter of color. Asa rule,
she will choose a hue corresponding with
that of the gown with which the hat ix
to be worn, and she may use a little of
the dress material in the construction,
Pretty blouses are made of cream- white
Todia mull with full bishop sleeves and
turn-down collar edged with a slightly
ruffle of the same extending down the
A new blouse, Russian of
bands of wide galloon as a finish to collar,
belt, the edee of the double.
armholes,
models for these garments on the market,
and although all are not new, yet most
of them are desirable,
A wide-brimmed hat with small,
peaked crown has a trimming of rows of
narrow velvet placed flat around the
crown and clusters of small loops and
ends at one side, Upright plumes with
curved ends stand ap and nod over the
top of the hat.
Sheath skirts of crepaline, China silk
and silk grenadine are draped with lace,
caught up with gay ribbon knots, or
trimmed with codon platted ruffles of
the material, Some of the newest bishop
sleeves of diaphanous fabric are accordion.
pleated, and there is a narrow pleating to
match on the corsage in the shape of a
frout, ete.
The Streets of Pekin,
The most animated,
always
of the
town is
tay the girecis
{O01
on 1
of Lo
to interes
Tartar carts and
cording to the
the owner: oron
the owner: groos
livery, ¢
camels
conde
their
gidle
Orin
mounteband
scribes,
clothesmen, furniture brokers, cobblers
ron
$0}
and harne
odists,
pi: Cid
11 {
RELIES LO
ord,
ng ing
fruit and tea merchan evi
vari ty of itinerant dealer
variety of bright ¢
Or fi
hes dow
infinite
wedding
the
nar gireetl, wi
1 ’
BAN
Tim Thumbs Trick.
wks
ewd theatrical
dea of sia
contract was
pean
The General had no
gave him :
and people tarned out
famous little mn Barnum's gen
had made known world over. Then
he began to drink heavily and very often
disappointed neces by being
unable to appear, says the Chicago Mail.
After seeing his money squandered in
this manner until patience
a virtue, the manager decided to adopt
heroic mensures, He set himself to watch
bit the play
to do
mau wh ius
& hae
Inrge au
Of awed
got out of his sight for a moment.
termined not to take any chance, socked
the Geperal in his room,
astonishment,
as drunk as a lord,
No sroner had the manager left than
the General rattled the door until he
attracted the attention of the bell boy.
Slipping a dollar under the door he in-
structed the boy to go to a saloon, buy a
pint of whisky and an ordinary clay
pipe. When the boy returned the General
the keyhole and pour the liquor into the
bowl, He did so, and the dwarf, stand-
ing on tiptoe, placed his lips to the pipe
stem and drank himself ato total un.
consciousness,
Wo oii
Ir fe to be hoped, remarks the Chicago
Il rald, the agitation in favor of good
rouds wll have the effect of stirring up
the donaty supervisors not only in this
state but in every western state until
the country highways are reclaimed {rom
the horrible cond; ion into which they
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS,
Epitome of News Gleaned from Various
Parts of the Btate.
hitect
THE are
HONE ana
the construction «
at Potteville +
charges of dishone
Tur Reads
C1 hand le
UMBER of address
tionists
and ot
it i= thon
Pastor Herbst barred «
choir of Ri
11 thi
Stephen's Reformed Chu
Pottstown
Some excitement wa
but the choir sang the Doxo! wy
persed,
The Schuylkill County Auditors wi’
ent a preliminary report to court
the ¢
i prow
charging
mmissioners
19
with nda priating
funds in the erection of thd sew Court Hog
wa 00
and the architect and contractor w«
spiracy
ili cone
The Graad Jury will be recalled to
act on this report
H. F. Hall, of Shenandoah, was sentenced
at Potteville, to one year and nine months
imprisonment for arson. He had attempted
to destroy the town of Shenandoah and was
convicted on the testimony of an accom-
plice,
A Pole named Stevens was assaulted and
robbed pear Plymouth, He will probably
die. Three of the wen have been arrested,
A passenger train was derailed pear Car-
lisle through an accident to the engine, and
several pascengers were injured
Ed. P. Blakesdes, one of the three tramps
held for the murder of Policeman Merget,
at Tamaqua, entered a plea of guilty of
court at Pottsvill,
Yee Wah, a Chinese laundryman, of Han
tingdon, applied for naturalization papers
and after being examined was granted them.
I ..
——ny
The American Dairyman boasts that'
the dairy industry of the Uaited States,
notwithstanding its low average profit,
is more valuable thao all our gold and
silver mines; and, it adds, if all the
cows were as valuable as the majority of
those which have been tested the yearly