———
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
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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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yrup”
William McKeekan, Druggist at
“1 have had
the Asthma badly ever since I came
out of the army and though I have
been in the drug business for fifteen
years, and have tried nearly every-
thing on the market, nothing has
given me the slightest relief untila
I am now
glad to acknowledge the great good
I am greatly reliev-
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sleep without the least trouble.” @
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Relieved me of a severe Blood trouble.
it has also caused my hair to grow out
again, as it had been falling out by the
handful. After trying many physicians
in vain, I am so happy to ns cure in
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S CURES 2} forcing out germs of dis.
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¥
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