——— JOHN G. SAXYE ON WISHING. Of all amusements of the mind, From logic dew to fishing, There isn’t one that you can find So very cheap as “wishing.” A vary choice diversion, too, If we but rightly use it, And not as we are apt to do, Pervert it, and abuse it, I wish--a common wish indeed My purse were somewhat fatter, That I might cheer the child of need, And not my pride to flatter; That I might make opinion real, As only gold can make it, And break the tyrant’s rod of steel, As only gold can break it. Iwish—that sympathy and love And every human passion “That has its origin above, Would come and keep in fashion; That scorn snd jealousy and hate, And every base emotion, Were buoried fifty fathoms deep Beneath the waves of ocean! I wish--that friends were always true, And motives always pure; I wish the good wore not 8 faw, I wish the bad were fewer; I wish that persons ne'er forgot To heed the pious teaching; I wish that pricticing was not So different from preaching! I wish-—that modest worth might be Appraised with truth and candor; I wish that innocence was free From treachery and slander. I wish that men their vows would mind That women ne'cr were woers; I wish that wives were always kind, And husbands always lovers. I wish—in fine——that joy and mirth, And every good ideal To be the glorious real; Till god shall every creature bless With His supremest blessing, And bope be lost in happiness And wisbing bs possessing. MY BURGLARY. The bugle was placed in the holder the horses made a graceful turn and we checked up in front of “The Nugget,” camp at an altitude of some seven thous- snd feet in the heart of the Rockies, and seventy miles by the nearest (rom a railroad. After a supper of mountain trout and game I felt rested. 1 had come to Gold prietor of the general store of the camp He wanted a bookkeeper and I had an swered hisadvertisement. My references pleased him; he said * and 1 did 80. Mr. Furber called the evening of ay arrival, I found him a thorough business man and a gentleman, and this writing, now more than seventeen years later, I have never had occasion to change my impression. He briefly out lined my responsibilities and placed a comfortably-furnished room over the store ot my disposal; thus I was a room ahead, and the store had a night guard The day following my arrival I began active duty. The work was abundant, but the associations were pleasant and the mountain air exhilarating; so on the whole I was contented. first soon came, and increase of salary. Other January: fol lowed with greater cares and liberal re- muneration. [| made friends, was trusted and was saving money. Mr. Furbercon come," with it a handsome and seemed to value my opinions. More than four years of devotion to my employer's interests had Fated, when I was informed that I shouls house, involving the managership. have been on the lookout for some time,” safe and net large returns. can recommend the mine. I was under the ground yester- derful future; they are on a vein now id. will take all that is left want some of it.” I had implicit confidence in the busi- aess sagacity and honor of my employer, and on his recommendation I placed unless vou point.” paid, then the mine ‘‘went blind” the vein was only a pocket of ore that was soon exhausted. - w * » As I was making up the cash one night ~ggveral thousand dollars, mostly io gold dust, but some coin—the wealth fore we called to mind a report I had eead that morning of an express messen- er who took some $30,000 from Wells, Fre & Co. I weighed the gold dust, counted the coin and placed it in the safe, thinking all the while about the express messen- ger, tracing him to remote parts and im- agining him living in luxury. As was Slosing the vauit-door a mine-owner came in. “Wait a mioute,” said he; “here is some gold 1 want to deposit.” I weighed it, “I'll make you a re. ceipt,” I said. “I don't want your receipt, William," and he was away. His manner and tone #0 cxpressive of confidence, made me dislike my thoughts of the moment be- fore, I meditated. ‘Am I too honest to be tempted? Why was I thinking of the express messenger?’ 1 tried not to. I went to my room by the only stairs that ied to the story above, the foot of which not three feet from the vaults. My room was in the rear, and be- low my window flowed a mountain stream, at that season, when the snow was melting off the mountain, swelled to some majruitede, oat skiff, 3 thought, while watchin waters, ‘‘is the only one in camp, Bt is less than forty miles to where the railroad crosses this stream. By horseback the same point cannot be reached under sixty miles,” 1 checked my thoughts in horror; what was I thinking of? I flung myself in a chair and closed my to my invisible SO pARion, express messenger ; but he seemed separable. 1 took a book and fried to rend. My eyes alone traced the words: my thoughts rap on: “Furber ictroduced me into that ‘Turkey-point' mine. 1 lost all I had—his fault. He owes me something.” Then I began to “ount the dust we were storing for mine owners, “The Crystal Rock” has about eight thousand, « ** Yellow Dirt” about five thousand, the ‘Silver Moon" between nine and ten; the house owns over twenty thousand, besides the small Ge- posits.” Was I turning thief? Why I was fight- ing against my thoughts? Do what I would my mind continued to plan. Many saloons, blacksmith's shops and small mines deposited in the Furber vaults; they were tho only secure de- yosits in the camp. The store of R. I. Dar sold everything irom whiskey to mining engines, besides accepting de wosits and doing a kind of banking bus- ness; I found, as several days passed, that was ridiculing the notion of becoming a robber, and at times disgusted with my self for permitting the idea, Then I would think, **Where would have been my destination?” During such specula- tions I found myself figuring on railroad connections and the number of hours’ start I would have, wholly unconscious of the accurate preparations I was complet- ing. When in my mind I was lost to my pursuers in India, I must have experi- enced some of the true sensations of a criminal. 1 had calculated minutely my disguises, alinses and business enterprises when far away. Toward the latter part of July, after business hours one evening, I carefully removed the contents of the grip that had accompanied me to Goldtown and with it in hand crept on tiptoe down- I feit that I was acting like a and stepped more firmly; my touched the broom, it fell wd. The noise of pawing made me and listen, 1 crept back up stairs looked out { my window, The in its pla eo. Five minutes later and the well-hung foot nagse ind skiff was I was nervous. | tried The held No matter, the in successfully, match 1 every hole snd corner in were soon transferied to my satchel. I locked the safe and closed the vauit door, thinking, *‘The fewer signs the more start I'll have.”’ I put the now valuable satchel on the floor and went to my room to take a last I heard a sound below like breaking in a window, I stood frightened. were whispering, [1 staid moti the top of the stairs. I steps ascending the stairs. I went tomy and Two forms were dimly visible passing my window; he light of a dark lantern appeared was commanded to throw up my The gleam of a pistol made me obey. 1 was told to come down stairs and open the door or be shot. | walked in front, each arm firmly grasped and the pistol at my head. The contents gered them; they id 3 11+ 3 sgiol and ually bound me ¥ ICES mless nt could hear foot bed sat on the edge. n the nth and | bnandas anf hreatened foot, by meagre the an. 3 ind hand 3 LoGr, Sworn and office w here leaving me on the painful contortions [ succeeded in ge my Knife from my pocket and releasing myself, My first move alter gaining my feet was to place every grain of gold and coin back in the prope The 1 rit justified in telling to hide my guilt made me a hero. 1 simply related how [ cleaned out two burglars single handed. in hour of silent reflection after awoke to the awful crime I had nearly accomplished. tting fol- the in my room, when Mr. Furber He brought his chair beside me and said: *“William, it was my fault that you lost your money in ‘Turkey point,’ linduced youto gointoit. Now | interest in the store. I will feel then that you have been paid.” @ » ® ® My benefactor has not given much at tention to business for some years, town has grows to a booming city and The general store is a thing of the past. Furber & Company have developed into s banking concern. The president's work consists of driv. she's my wife—and our children. devotes considerable time telling the Rockies, one of which is how thei: papa, all alone, kept two robbers from Field's Washington. A Subterranean River. Rev. Dr. Foster of Boston in his weekly letter to the Chicago Advance, states that there are reasons to suppose that there is an underground river Rt a hundred feet below ground, running through Massachusetts and Providence and emptying into the sea. Itis supposed ‘that this river, whose waters are ice-cold and exceeding pure, starts from the White Mountain region and finds its way through an old ravine dug by a glacier, then filled with gravel and covered over with hard-pan. Water of that ice-cold guaity and of great abundance has been ound at about the same depth in Provi. dence, in Foxboro and two miles west of Lowell. In two of these cases it is cer- tain that there is a cavity nearly a hun- dred feet below ground, through which the water flows, for in each case the drill dropped from ten to twenty feet after reaching water and then struck a ledge. If there is this stream of pure cold water traversing our Commonwealth, it will be hard to over-estimate its value to East- ern Massachusetts in years to come, to whom the problem of a pure water sup- ly is one of great difficulty, but of vital mportance, A Giant Oak Cut in Indiana. An oak tree, six feet in diameter at the butt and fifty-two feet to the first limb, was felled near Castleton, Ind, the other day. Above the first limbs wan made a twelve-foot log. It produced’ 6,000 feet of lumber, and, reckoned its rings, is 500 years old, It is to be the finest specimen of its kind in the country and will likely be taken the World's Fair.-—(8t, Louis Rewullie NOTES AND COMMENTS. Coroxer,. H. W. FriLoes, in the course of an interesting paper on animal life in East Greenland, contributed to the February number of the Zoologist, suggests, as he has done before, that the musk ox might with advantage be in troduced into Great Britain. Ho sees no reason why it should not thrive on the mountains of the Highlands of Scotland, In the winter season the musk ox is covered with a long-stapled fine wool besides its coat of hair. This wool is of a light yellow color, and as fine as silk. Bir John Richardson states that stock. ings made from this wool were more beautiful than silk ones, Young musk oxen are very easily reared and tamed, and Colonel Feilden thinks there could not be any great difficulty in eatching either old or young in Jameson's Land. The government has lately introduced the reindeer from Russia into Alaska. It would not be a bad idea to try an im sortation of the musk ox from Green. Jo Tur great advance that has heen made in the métallurgy of aluminum within the past ten vears is one of the most hopeful signs of the application of scientific principles to commercial problems, When one recalls the status of this mat. ter in 1880, when aluminum was but the present coodition of the industry, he is impressed with two considerations, First, that so much has been cheapen the processes for the extraction done to makes a total of 205 in all, Ox a single day recently the Scilly islands sent to English markets ten and a half tons of flowers. This striking fact shows the amazing progress of av industry which was unknown a dozer years ago in the little archipelago, Tha inhabited islands contain only between three and four thousand acres altogether, THE SCIENCE OF INSURANCE. It Had Its Origin in a Problem Sug- gested by Card Playing, It is a curious fact that the *‘doctrine of probabilities,” or the scientific basis origin in a game of ecards. ‘That is to say, the foundation upon which this great economy depends, and upon which it owes its claims to the confidence and patronage of the community, originated from investigations regarding games of chances. It happened in this way: About the year 1680 the Chevalier de Mere, a Flemish nobleman, who both a respectable mathematician and an ardent gamester, attempted to solve the problem of dividing equitably the stakes when a game of chance was interrupted, The problem was too difficult for him, and he sought the aid of the famous Abbe Blaise Pascal, a‘ Jesuit priest, the most accomplished mathematicians of any age. Pascal solved the problem, great deal of laborious and costly has been the that bought for fifty cents per pound as against $12 in 1886 done, and result is Tue experiment of the eight-hour day, or rather of making forty-eight ho a week's work, f in England, the Salford works at Salford, which i Manchester Ti works been fifty-three per week, ¢ iron works working hours t Lies nour th at 5 1d the reduc tion is made on an unde the men that tl shall not be diminished his shorten ing of the Th are to be punctual and energet ae VOTRS hours tic, apd to save the his shorten ing of hours, by greater industry. There reduction of waves, and if sear is to be no the end of a finds be the permane nt arran Tu sugar p mwaibilitie $0 great and sugar so imports that the Agriculture an experiments “tlie East Lake, opposite to thoroughly 10 our country Department ished il shore of Inve 1 here have been parts of the world and their relative n will thor method of and the Subj { in every be sugrnly cuitivat t most thoroughly and the its handed to in rile : fully « ATTY ou this work a most way the people : spléndid experimental no pains investigalis been built, so that will be spared to make the com plete, Iv the present spirit tinues to manifest itself Territory's vast tracts of Mas il we chief its wealth Within a com of probabilities,” or laws governing so chances. Upon this depend not only the laws governing insurance of all motions of planets in space, and, in fact, all astronomical science, theory Paseal ill When a This doctrine or isely one out of six f 1.4 up an ace is pres ] sides if a large number of made, it will be ce will be turned up an ol berof times, From this Pascal laid « the proposition that «fa es Or IRCes, But throw 8 { 51 is are results which any given number o ilar circumstances, prov jded the numbe ve sufficient for the proper working o { f average % f { Thus the duration of gle rinintios, is one of the fred i vid ! ingivigua but gdurat: s be predicted with great accu. ¥ y 1 ¥" iF 13 F85 ty laroe Fyre resuils among a sulliciently jarge nt of persons of similar ages, occupa and clin atie Infls a climatic infivences The Largest Apple Orchard, { — rgest apple i! orchard in 0 oO He the wilderness of Maui, of the Hawaiian is. The fore is of wild ie trees, which countless in num- d stretch from the sea far up the These vary fr in height, The rid ory i ~ seen In island native et an trees om apd during wavered with For miles and of The crop in these apple or season they are ¢ ite and red colors the Bi ashore HAryYe aud up mountain side are vast groves Lees i his wild and solitary steamers, country int waste, flect of a hundred ri bard stretches over a been ob box t irrigation projects have inaugu rated, having for their the re of districts varying in area a few thousands to hundreds of thousands of acres. The latest yroject for which contracts for the of reservoirs and canals been placed. from have | i miles lo Many of these trees bear at barrels each. The fruit fur 1 traveller ilent repast, ap peasing both thirst and busger. So far is known, no commercial use can be of the fruit, from the that when ripe it can not be kept for mone hes the exer fact “Getting the Mitten.” Boston Transcript hus ex- in the Gila river valley, and will involve an expenditure of more than $2,000,000. Tux Austrian engineer Werner has patented an invention which bids fair to tur the labor of a stoker, or steamboat fireman from the hardest, ugliest and most unhealthy sort of toil into = mere His plan con feeding it to the furnaces by means of a pear-shaped ‘‘distributor,” self-actibg, under ordinary circumstances, but withal amenable to the control of the operator. Experiments have proved that coaldust, poured into a strong almost without a Cer to no smoke, and the apparatus can be worked without approaching the hades Tur number of sheep and lambs in 642,808, against 20,401 750-~five years previously — an increase of 4,241,058 head he average value, however, is computed at only 21 shillings 18 pence in 1802, against 20 shillings 2} pence in 1887, and with this loss of 4 shillings 1 peace per head the sheep of Great Britain show a falling off in value of nearly £3,000,000 notwithstanding their increase in numbers! Tax latest development of steam ship- building is the whaleback, of American lavention. Two steel ships of this type are to be built in Eaogland for the American Steel Barge Company. One is to be a steamship and the other a tow. barge, with a combined earrring capacity of 9,000 tons. They will be used in the iron ore trade between Cuba and Phila- delphia, and are to be ready for their first trip in July next, Tue railroad mileage of Connecticut is greater according to area any country of Europe except Belgium. Delaware, Iilinols, Io usetts, New Jersey, Ohio a Pennsylvania have, each of them, a larger trac! to the square mile than Germany, France or Holland and each of the states except Town and New York, has a larger relative trackage than Great Britain, Tue following list shows the number stablisbmouts in the i { i i { i One hundred years ago gloves were un known in the country towns, Mittens were Knitted and worn in all families. If a young man going home from singing school with the young girl of his choice was holding her mittened band to keep it from getting cold, and took that proved acceptable, the hand would re. main. If taken by surprise, an effort mitten, mitten,’ So the suitor would ‘‘get the but would not get the hand. ¥ easy explapation: a stupid youth was game, he held a woman's hand without squeezing it! The sedate old times were not without their gallantries, A Missing Island. Expedition Island is no more, coast of Australia, about twenty-two miles from the mainland. When it flourished in all its glory, as it has since time of memory, it was a beautiful tract of land, thirteen miles long and one and a half or two miles broad. A vessel was sailing in those parts quite recently when the officers remarked the absence of the islands The captain ordered that soundings be made. All around thousands of feet of water was found. Finally, upon observing that there were no signs of breakers on the former site of the island, he ordered that they sail directly across where the island had formerly been. Scundings were again taken, which resulted in finding that the island had only sunk to a depth of forty- eight feet below the surface. It was one of the largest islands on the Australian coast and its sudden subsidence is a mystery.—[8t. Louls Republican. The Tips of Finger prints have long been the bane of neat housekeepers, but it is only of late that these have become a study for the scientific. In France it is the cus. tom 10 uke all Sriminyia We pr their nger an sur. face, and In this way give to the officials a sure mark for future i . New men are enden the same means i NAM'S HORN BLASTS. the Wicked to lepentanee, ATA 2’ RNAMENTAL Ne characters aro & full of weak ¥ SpULA Tne devil's masterpiece is a drunkard’s home. Unlling Gop is disap pointed when a “7% Christian 18 not happy. A MAX witha bad liver very often has a good heart. THe nearer men get to God, the more they are tempted. Ir the tongue could would live to old age. fleLy is as near to the palace as Heaven is to the death bed. Tne man who picks his own cross never gets the right one. Every man in a brass band thinks fils horn makes the best music. NeanrLy all Christ's preaching was kill not many Tere is no greater misfortune in Tar easlest thing for a loafer to do ir is a dangerous thing to follow Tne diamond has the most sparkle, but window glass does the most good. Wnex people are hired to do good they quit work as soon as pay #1 ps Tae devil than the man spirit. REAL praver for a revi gins until we are ing lor it Tae trouble with talk is that they are much. MAN is presence he is Tie shadow of a generally frighten us disaster itself. the better a fault-find has no with ing ral never be- OO Work people who can apt to say too fron mm God's but what not banished for what he does, misfortuae will more than the no hell and every will throw up his hat Trey know in religion the nich have they treat the poor folks ' Tue world is full of lion but it hard to find won't run from a hornet I¥ you have the wrong ligion in the street cars have the right kind at church. Do 6oop as often 8s you have portunity, and it will not be fault if you are not Kept busy. Tar religion that is noisy in church is sometimes very places where it is more need Ir you want God's fire to burn brightly everywhere, never goes out in your own heart mean man Heaven how by the wa) iil fighters, is kind 1 your quiet in other i i t Taz recording angel never strikes fi balance on his books by what is said of a man on his grave stone EvERY new acquaintance we make has the power to tell us we didn’t know about cur something ther pountry than all other discsses put toge end until the last few yours was supposed be incurable treatment, pronounced it #5. oatarrh to be a cure with hoe curable. Sciences has proven constitutional disease, and therefore (uires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrb Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio, ia the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from the blood and mucous surfeces of the system. © =X for any case it falls to cure, Bend for cirvalars and testimonials. Address 7, 4. Cuzxey & Co., Toledo, O, £2" Bold by Druggista, 76a, The more your enemy hates you the harder love, 1 Vote for Hood's * Having taken Hood's Sarsaparilla five months I am satisfied it is an excellent rem. ody. For years | have bad Rheumatism, afflicting my body, but expecially my right sem trom elbow to shoulder, so severe I feared I Should Lose the Use of It. TAM better soon after I began with Hood's Barsaparills, and when I had taken 4 bottles the rheumatism entirely left me. 1 have been aminister of the M. E. Church #0 years, and Hike many others of sedentary hab ts have suf. i SN A SAG Ladies needing a tonle, or children whe want building up, should take Brown's Irom Ditters. It is pleasant to take, cures Malaria Indigestion, Bllionsness and Liver Conupisinta, takes the Blood rich and pure. # The nation has no better friend than the mother who tenches hier children to pray. THE THRoAT. ~~ Brown's Bronchial Trockes™ act directly on the organs of the voice, They hnve nn extraordinary efot iu all discrders of a throat, There are no undertakers in Japan, Noted Physicians * Recommend and Prescribe SWANP-ROOT. It Cures the Worst Cases. “Dr. Kilmer's Bwamp-Root is a preparstion liscovered by an old and scientific physician, wide experience extending over many has given him exceptional advantages ing diseases successfully. I have pre. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-RBoot in a greet of the worst kidney, liver and siadder complaints, and always with the ost gratifying results: therefore it affords great pleasure to most cordially recom. it tosullering humanity and the medicnl rofession, as | feel sure that 16 will aes complish all that is claimed for it in ever® netance., Et is beyond question the greatest discovery of the day.” oo ‘ 2) 2 ) CT Ure, A242 a — Suspension Bridge, N. Y. 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