NEIGHBOR,
It's oh! for an old-fashioned neighbor,
Like the one I remember of yore,
Who always neat aprons
gowns
Except on the Sabbath day wore,
And who in my eare-laden hours,
With a sunbonnet perched on her
head,
Rap in bringing bowls of nice jelly or
Jam,
Or saves of her freshly-baked bread;
And then without asking me whether
I needed her help, fairiy flew
To do in the Kindest and quickest way,
Whatever she saw was to do.
Nowadays though a friend may assure
me
That over my burdens she grieves
She really can't aid me for fear of mis
hap
To her laces or very big sleeves,
And as for the clubs women govern
Why, they are but schools for the
arts,
Where minds are improved in an cle
gant way
tut no time is devoted to hearts
Or else they are pledged to the seeking
Of those whom most people condemn
As lost beyond }
calico and
hope-—so it's plain to he
seen,
Bhere's no chance of assistance from
them.
And it's oh! for the old-fashioned neigh
bor,
When my sky with dark clouds is o'er
spread,
run in neatly dressed
gown
i
Te in a calico
With a surbonnet perched on her
add.
HOW THEY MET.
By
Pretty Mab Moor: sat at a
ber 5
round and r
Esther Serle Kenneta,
ndow
Ww
home diamond
. ot .
Siegel
blue, It
break her happy
dream of a girl in love }
were far away. And they brigl
and beautiful as the diamoud’s flash.
Mab was engaged. [It was a very
cent matter—her engagement
Mr. rhard of
And the strange part of it
had not seen him for two yes
They had 1}
Larches joined the Walnuts,
Mal's
mother, when she was
to
turned, at the end of
not Lin
Hs
or th
were
Eve Lane,
wen children together,
for
whi ie
the
vid
Wis
het
was
i
home; but at the death
faurteen, si
sent school. and when she re
the year, Evern
at college, and they did
the
me, and be t
arted
Arches and Walnuts join. The
soiree and | Ido yo
hear, Meh
“Yes, fatl
“Yes, sir.’
“We have |
~he for his b
are both old wen
table?”
or.”
Mab started.
“Weep
fol
“Oh, father!”
“Have you
“It is
“Oh! what's
ropose fom
ks, and
not
the reason it ain’
“Everard
“Well, Everard’s writte
Here it Fake it
I guess there won't be ar
concluded the old
1 you a letter
And
tron-
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15.)
sea-capiain,
1
little enough how to under
il dan
it
Was so warm, so manly,
res
ie
#0 gentle!
could hardly
th his lips
gentleman
better
Joung
bove made love Ww
than with his pen
“Dear Little Mab returning
bome this evening, 1 have had an inter
view with my father, and it seems as if
I must see you: but it is too late to-
right—you are probably sweetly sleep-
tng, unconscious of the plans made for
us by our fathers—and I leave at five
o'clock in the morning, so an interview |
is impossible. But I wish | could ses
you. 1 prefer to be the first one to tell
You that they desire our marriage, and
that your consent te the union would
give me the greatest pleasure in the
world, You know me well, with all my
in perfections; but I know you only to
dwell on every memory of you with de-
light and love. Hew proud [ would Is:
to call you my wife—my little jewel!
Our fathers think of land and bonds: | |
think only of you, and hope that you do |
love me a little, and that you will con-
sent to thelr wishes and mine. Writ
me at once, and give me permission
when I reach Paris to send you a ring. |
If I could only hold your little hand a
moment and look into your blue eyes, |
I sbould go away far happier, I think. I |
hope.
“Dear Mab, I inclose my address. |
Write me as soon as you can. !
EVERARD."”
Add to this letter the facts that Ever. |
ard Lane was the handsomest and best |
no tured fellow in the country, and von |
will see why Mab was very happy, and
expected to be more so. i
Since
herself; and by-and-by Everard
It was a beautiful solitaire. Mab had
watching Its
They were
aid was never weary
changing sparks of color,
As goon ns the engagement was set
tled, Everard would gladly have return
ed home at any time; but his father had
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such suggestions,
A year lengthened out, and another
one was nearly completed, before he
How gladly Everard wrote Mab that
they in November, ani
how delightedly she received the news!
And now
than ever.
fhe had no
fide in; all her
would set sail
mother or sister to con
sweet thoughts were
kept to herself, Everard would look
older. manlier, and he would have the
air of foreign travel upon him. What
stories of experience he would have to
Would he be disappointed to
tind her the same quiet little
girl? No; she loved him so, he would
Le sure to love her.
3 '
refute]
country
She pondered next how and where
they should meet. Nhe should go with
Ler father to New York to meet him, as
the latter proposed? She did not favor
the suggestion,
for him
new
at home,
No, she would wait
t have a dress of his
r, and wear the pearland
necklace he had
dinmond eng:
and
ana
always
in the old par
had always declan
would foilow
the man had
reli
geon
1e ole
pi young
ti nys,
would whirl
Wis
oming writ
ing. though been sweet: but
neone il confide every
ne to cher
pever been
'y wi
is nearly worn
not sleep a wink
the stock ™ i
The
to draw sev
of DI 1 '¢ ave
é fi 4
ght pails of water.”
Well, If the
POOT oreatu
And I'll
ade
some faint ob
she soon appeared with a short erim
on petticoat, peeping below the bic
iggy cont, and an old brown felt hat
rowed down over
CR
her sunny curls
her feet, they were hidden in
colossal boots of rubber. which greatly
but
barn after a grog
iz fashion, and rolling aside the rum.
ling door, spoke cheerily to the patient
creatures waiting there for their usual
CHIe,
With praiseworthy perserverance aml
considerable outlay of
she drew all the water required and
pitched down the hay.
embarrassed her movements’
slowly out to the
®%4
ool
pers before them, she drew a long sigh
of satisfaction, and,
indulgent toward the pretty Alderney,
received eagerly.
aisy contrived to let it slip, unmasti
struction to its free passage, and Daisy
gui gle most unpleasantly.
Mal's lovely gray eyes widened with
fright. She watched the creature for a
moment, and then sprang to the door,
erying:
“Father! father!”
wag nearer help-a man, a stranger, it
did not matter whom.
“Oh, won't you please come here?
“My father's best cow is
choking to death, and I don't know
wu hist to do!”
I ae man stopped to stare al her fora
moment, then came quickly across the
road to the barn,
'
it would choke her,” began Mab,
"ulling a fine white silk handkerchief
from his pocket, the stranger wound it
about his right hand, aud, without more
ado, plunged It down the creature's
throat and drew out the turnip.
“Oh! exclaimed Mab with a
breath of relief,
Daisy shook her head and fell to eat
ug hay.
Mab watched her a moment, and then
turned toward the stranger, He way
washing his hands in a pall of water,
long
|
“What a little guy!” he said, with a
Inugh.
That low, pleasant laugh: the hearty,
eves—Mab caught her breath,
“Oh, Everard, that it should be you!"
“Portunately it was, Wasn't 1
brought up a farmer's boy, and knew
what to do fora choking cow ever since
I ean remember? Very fortunate for
me, too, that it wasn't some other fal
low summoned to this scene of distress
to fall In love with in that
tume.”
And langhing uproariously at the sue.
cession of blushes chasing over the deli
face, her
ard Kissed
nnd again,
The old hat fell
fell off, and
the young
Very
you COs
caught in his
the flaming
vate he
cheeks
back, the big
nondescript
ng
happier a
ite of nll
bewildered
night TI
the
man's st Arius
little gir
ro
»
1"
pretty
than words
Mab anther
upon her p that
but not exactly
can te in Nj
nid a r
11s
HOW
ALUMINUM IN FAVOR,
increase in the Number of Articles Made
of
erly
i
f
ining alumi
riveting
all that
has ni
cumbersome, but even
couvk ean easily manage
There has beeni 8
price of sponges «
years, and a good-sized
such as formerly cost
now be purchased from $1.25 to §1
A very fair bathing can
bought for 5 many
sponges come from the Mediterranean
Many of the ordinary sponges in our
market are brought from Florida and
the Bahamas, As every one knows, the
sponge is a low form of animal life
After the sponges are taken by har
hi}
sponge be
great
ents A
posed to the air on the hot dry sand
until the animal matter they contain
is decomposed, and only the skeleton,
which composes the sponge of com.
merce, reninins. The sponges in this
condition are ordinarily floated in iron
until they become thoroughly
clean before they are offered for sale,
Physicians generally warn customers
buying the snowy bleached
sponges sold by peripatetic sidewalk
vendors, because they are often col
lected from the refuse of hospitals and
other places where they have been in
use, and cleaned and bleached again
for sale. A physician usually selects a
rather dark sponge, that shows no sign
of having been bleached. The finest
slik sponges come from Turkey and
the East, and are always costly, A
sponge in use should alwats pe wrung
out and hung in the open ah where it
will dry as quickly as possible after
it has been in use. If a sponge is shut,
up in a tight box while it ix still damp,
it soon becomes foul in odor, and it can-
not be cleaned without the use of chem.
foals that injure the texture
THE JOKER'S BUDGET.
JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN
OF THE PRESS.
A Treasure---Willing to be Assisted...How
the Feud Started.-Which Accounted for |
It~-At Some Disadvantage, Etc, Etc,
A TREASURE.
“I fear my wife does not love me,”
#nid the young man moodily, “l
week, when 1 had such a cold, she |
didn’t offer to do anything for me,”
“Young man,” said the elder one with |
the camphorodorous flannel around his |
neck, “you don't
treasure you
Enquirer,
a1 {
appreciate what a |
have one”
WILLING TO BE ASRISTED.
A charitable old dame shocked at the |
tageed of wayvfarer, kindly
offered to mend his clothes for him
“Thankee, mam,” replied the tramp
got a button here, If you'll kindly
shirt on it.” Household Words,
FEUD BTARTED.
Thot's me wolfe!
aspect i
‘
ive
HOW THE
MetGurk
"Toole Introjuice ie
MeGuark BF mt! Sl
ful
1's in an aw
an’ Ol would’ do
Pach
humor
SOME DISADVANTAGE.
5 nll nnder
likely.
JOTSe,
i ¥
un i
I have been unlockiest
Wilkins, sympafl
wa id i
know
“Unlucky
“Why, 1 don't
f
a wife
Now,
“There's an example, my wife. You
we walked down
town together? You picked up old
Rockleigh's pocketbook. Your ac
qoaintance with him in this way was
vpolly an accident. Now, you are his
partner in a money-coinng business, |
picked up a girl's handkerchief. Now
1 am her husband. 1 tell you, old man, |
"tu: a Jonah.” i
SENSITIVE TO SUCH CRITICISM. |
“What!” exclaimed the testy millon. |
mite as he viewed the portrait he had |
craered painted, “you mean to tell me
1 loow like that?”
Choking with rage, he seized a pot of |
Yandyke brown and dashed it into ths
artist's face,
At this affront the young painter col
vied deeply.
A BENEFACTOR.
“Priges is weak, financially, isn’t
be?
“He hasn't much money, but he gires
cutployment to 8 great many men”
“Who are they?”
“Uther people's bill collectors.”
WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR IT.
“after that” remarked the young
«mn who had been telling an {nane
ghest story, “my mind was a blank”
“That accounts for it,” comment +i »
sharp youug woman, and there was an
remember the day
interregnum of profound silence,
CLEARLY DEFINED,
“Papa, what is a ‘walk in life’?
“i that
which everybody
feft.”
NOTHING TO DISTRACT
This may seem sudden to you
In Procession boy,
nd,
iy
has to run like
Or got
suitor
Mir Kreesus;
nIrs. TL |
son 1 was struck with your unparalled
“he first mone “iw
ed beauty, and every time I have seen
vou sinee you have appeared more aud
Miss Kreesus
I''n
Very
I nm absolutely
complimentars
sure: but coertaln
ing in all your life
Huitor- Possibly you are correct; hat
fact I nm so nearsighted that |
ought I might have seen you before,
it would be
the fact
your
the is,
impolite not to uc
and the
(Meet punitive
paturally made upon one so mpressible
Hut that
you like to have me take
affairs? Yon
burden me; 1
affairs of
startling
which beauty
nx myself will
Hew
Wi waive
would
charge of
id
Veit
A ill
Your monetars
f
fi not fg 10 assure
thi
ny own to bother me
if
it
I have no monetary
The New and the Old.
IFS ag British wi
Fifteen ves 0 1hs
launch
Cnnnda was
if Says
recent ters
cans] the joss of
+ § ¥ i :
Riss oF CHAAR
receptacles and require
Inmps= to be selfextinguishing should
they upset
A National Flower.
The Keystone gives some practical di
Every merchant should keep
a serapbook. This suggestion has been
made before, but it is fully worth em.
phasizing. Every bright advertise.
ment that you notice in your local
paper or those of other towne! every
that you
in your trade paper, and every practical
trade-bringing plan or hint, should be
cut out and pasted in the book, with
rections
advetisement olwerve
vour ideas ran scarce, amd you are too
busy to take time to evolve a good aa
vertisement,
How Fish Breathe,
All fish breathe by taking in water,
the gills,
pose they are intended for that they
extract the oxygen from the water dur
ing its momentary contact with them.
igh that live for some time out of
water have cavities in thelr head which
are filled with that liquid, and which
can Ye utilized for dampening the gill
at any time,
Making Change for Two-Fifty,
only a little two-dollara
gold plece, but it
of ti
FOInetinmes nr
1
Wax nGi-h=
in surpriking the
Jittle th Ald
otible a ing «
1s
dlnount
i it
an had handed to the
The young m
nthe and was wait
behind
two or three other people waiting
thier
ret howd ie
fuhier) restaumunt
or jis
ig i while in
Clune,
* him to got ont of Way
sil,
them
carbilors are and,
havo
thnt
nine-tenths of
of mak
ves dealing in
furthermonrs
one certain was ng change
nye dollars, as a
“Yen
geaeral thing, No matter what the siz
ill tnke
« ont of the
the amount of the
first dollar, if 1 is
Ovi
i
they
+, and then hand
the rest of the money in dollars or Yi lle
of larger denomination,
That w
“Oh! Two
said, while
hat puzzled this cashier.
dollars
ian Ww
and a ha
ton
if! ie
she was trying nke a
mental calculation, according to her us
unl system.
Fhat's what it
1
dollar basis
her usunl 1:
To Bore Class.
bored] through
pulverized «
HOTTY
t fit motion
drill. Weak
hh holes in
Dow
a drill or
Iw
sasier manner
upon t
provided wit
by pressing a disk of
and making
of the width
wet clay he glass
here. Then molten lead is poured into
the hole and lead and glass drop down
This method i= based upon
local beating of the glass,
obtains a circular crack,
Oonoe,
the quick,
whereby it
ontline of the bole made in the clay.
The cutting of glass tubes, cylinders,
ote, in the factories is based upon the
same principle, says a Pittsburg paper
called China, Glass and Lamps,
There were two specially fine whips
made for Queen Victoria during Jubilee
year, though one i« a fourin-hand and
the other a postillion’'s whip. Both
were braided by hand in silvergilt wire
and silk. and were replicas of whips
made on that occasion over half a cen
tury ago. They cost £260 and $50 each,
respectively,
A Dog with Artificial Teeth,
It is suid that a dog in Mnuiliken,
Mich, possesses and uses daily a foll
sot of artificial teeth. The dog is very
old, and is a family pet. When it Jost
its teeth recently its owner, according
to the story, had the local dentist make
the animal a full set of teeth and they
are said to be a perfect working sac-
Coss,