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he llLtntingdon ournal.
Miscellaneous.
Ely gins& (*bur.
The Ballad of Constance.
With diamond dew the grass was wet,
'Twas in the spring, and gentlest weather,
And all the birds of morning met.
And caroled in heart together.
The wind blew softly o'er the land,
And softly kissed the joyous ocean;
He walked beside her on the sand,
And gave and won a heart's devotion.
The thistledown was in the breeze,
With birds of passage homeward flying;
His fortune called him o'er the seas,
And on the shore he left her sighing.
She saw his bark glide down the bay—
Through tears and fears she could not banish ;
She saw his white sails melt away ;
She saw them fade, she saw them vanish.
And "Go," she said ; "for winds are fair,
And love and blessing round you hover ;
When you sail backward through the air,
Then I will trust the word of lover."
Still ebbed, still flowed the tide of years,
Now chilled with snows, now bright with
roses,
And many smiles were turned to tears,
And sombre morns to radiant closes.
And many ships came gliding by,
With many a golden promise freighted ;
But nevermore from sea or sky
Came love to bless her heart that waited
Yet on, by tender patience led,
Her sacred footsteps walked unbidden,
Wherever sorrow bows its head,
Or want and care and shame are hidden.
And they who saw her snow-white hair,
And dark, sad eyes, so deep with feeling,
Breathed all at once the chancel air,
And seemed to hear the organ pealing.
Till once, at shut of Autumn day,
In marble chill she paused and hearkened,
With startled gaze where far away
The waste of sky and ocean darkened.
There, for a moment, faint and wan,
High up in air and landward striving,
Stern•fore a spectral bark came on,
Across the purple sunset driving.
Then something out of night she knew,
Some whisper beard from heaven dEscended,
And peacefully as falls the dew
Her long and lonely vigil ended.
The violet and the bramble rose
Make glad the grass that dreams above her;
And freed from time and all its woes,
She trusts again the word of lover.
—Wm. WINTER, in the Galaxy.
*tory for Elmo.
NICK NEVINS' SIN ;
- OR, -
SUSPENDED PAYMENT.
"The last dime is deposited: thank
heaven for that," exclaimed Nick Nevins,
knocking the ashes from his pipe and un•
folding the evening paper.
"Aud the mortgage"—began his wife
Sallie. Nick took up the sentence and
finished it:
c•Will be lifted. Before to- morrow's wan
goes down, the danger that threatened to
make us homeless will be averted. We've
worked hard, Sallie, you and I; we've
scrimped along some way, the goodness
only knows hew, but we've done it. We've
saved the old place; we've made a home
for the children,and now that we are getting
old, it's a comfort to know that we may
live and die here together. The world's
been hard on us. It's shoved us about
pretty roughly, but I think, Saljje, with
all of its unkindness, we've managed to
stow away considerable sunshine."
"Ali, Nick, you always were that gener
ous that you'd have a fair word to say for
the worst. I never was so good. I haven't
forgotten the winter that Ruby died—how
the cold crept in, and froze first his limbs
to numbness, then turned the darling's
heart to stone. 1 haven't forgotten that
there was no bread in our house to eat,
that there was no work to do, and that we
could only stand by and see our darling
die. I have laid this up against the world,
and the bitterness of that hoer is as cruel
now as a memory as it then was as a re
ality. Even now, when I know that the
money is safe in the bank, when I know
that the last day's worry is over, I am ex
pecting that something will occur to turn
aside our fortune."
“Nonscnse,Sallie, what can occur ? Look
'a here ! Do you see this bit 3f paper ?
Receipt of deposit. Five hundred dollirs !
Is it all cloud and no sunshine when we've
been enabled out of our small earnings to
lay aside that amount r Time, too, Sallie,
that the place was ours. There's a dim-
ness iu my eyes, a dancing of letters over
the pages, as though they were running
into one, a kind of unsteadiness creeping
into the world about me, a trembling which
I suspect is mine more'n the world's. I
am growing old, Sallie ; from now to the
end, with you and me, it must be the down
hill side of the road.”
Nick Nevins rubbed his glasses vigo
rously, while his wife Sallie smoothed the
cloth of spotless muslin over the well-cov
ered pine table.
There was a moment's stillness, only the
clock ticked mournfully, with a sound of
ominous sharpness, as though full of pro
phetic fears of the future. Then came a
gust of wind sweeping down the streets,
shrieking spasmodically in broken quavers
through the cracks and crevices of Nick
Nevins' well worn home. The loosened
clapboards flew wildly, bits of shingles ]
fluttered to the ground. Truly this was
not much of a place, but it was a poor
man's home—more to him than was ever
a palace to a king ; for if the palace be
leveled to the ground, well filled coffers re
place it with a grander one ; but if Nick
Nevins' home be shattered, there is noth
ing left with which to build another.
Suddenly the wind died down to ahreath.
Nick Nevins threw up his bands and fell
forward, resting on his face.
"Nick ! Nick what is it, Nick ?" cried
his wife Sallie, lifting the bowed head and
looking down into the care-worn features.
"It is all gone, all gone !" he gasped.
pointing . with trembling finger toward the
evening paper.
"The good luck 'a gettin' the money,"
murmured Sallie, "has been too much for
him. Nick hasn't been over-strong of
late. When the strain that kept him up
was gone, he's just wilted right down. I
knowed all along how it would be. A cup
of tea, Nick, will set you all right."
"It is all cone, Sallie, all gone ! The
bank is broken !"
"No, no, Nick !" cried Sallie, thrusting
back the paper, as though refusing to see
it printed would make it less a fact.
It wasn't much, Sallie, only five hun
dred dollars, yet it was all. To-morrow I
was to have paid over the money, but to
morrow we will be houseless. Out :nto
the streets, the winter coming on, Lhe
world as merciless as the cold, and heaven
more forgetful than either."
"A rich man's panio, a rich man's fail
ure," is what they call it. From one end
aITNTINGDON, PA , FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IG, 1877
of the country to the other the press takes
up the words, and print them, trying to
force the people to believe in the fallacy.
But the people, grown wise from experience,
start back in white-faced horror as they
contemplate the fearful ruin this centrali
zation of wealth is forcing upon them.
There can be no rich man's failure, no
mote than were the sun shattered to atoms
could the planets, indifferent to its ruin,
continue its course. Like the fabled Per
sian bird, Inftak, the male of which had a
hook on one side, the female a ring on the
other, and only when united could they
fly ; so may the capitalist and laborer, if
working together, ascend heavenward,
if not they will be forced to the depths.
Nick Nevins went to the bank on the
morrow in order to satisfy himself that his
ruin was sure. Oh hope ! Oh happiness!
it had not failed, only suspended. But to
his sudden emotion of joy succeeded as
quickly one of despair. If it had not
failed,—what then ? Was it any better
for him ? He must have his money to
day. A week from to-day would be too
late. He met wild, haggard faces hurry
ing hither, saw little earnest groups of
men on the corners, heard the words again
and again ; "If I can't get the money out,
I'm ruined." He noted, too, that these
words were not uttered by the millionaires,
but by the men of small means who had
placed their few hundreds in the bank for
safe keeping.
A carriage came dashine. by. The oc
cupant alighted, entered :famous up town
confectioner's, and ordered cake for a
party. "It must be the grandest affair of
the season," he said carelessly, "so do not
spare expense."
This was the man whose bank had sus
pended payment. This was the man who '
held relentlessly in his well-filled coffers
Nick Nevins' hard earned five hundred
dollars. This was the man who, presented
in himself and his illy-used power, an ex
ample of the terrible effect of the cettra
ligation of wealth, for he, himself, and all
the directors were foreign capitalists, own
ing immense shares in a wonderful linter:-
can railroad, charging immense sums for
freightage over this same road, grinding
down the farmers into dust, under heels
shod with British gold. This was the man
who relentlessly sent. Nick Nevins and
scores beside him to ruin.
"It might as well be broken," said Nick
to his wife Sallie, "for all the good it'll do
us.,,
As he said, so it was.
The mortgage was closed. Nick and
Sallie, and the three little children of their
old acre, went out into the streets. A few
articles left at the pawnbroker's provided
them with a shelter. Then sickness fell
upon them, followed quickly by death.—
The baby's burial exhausted their little
means.
"The rich man's failure," threw the
poor map out of employment ! Nick lost
his place. There was no work to be done
—at last nothing wherewith to pay for the
doing of it. Therefore great railroad com
panies said to their employees at "You may
work or let it alone—we can't . pay you."
It does not seem possible that people can
starve to death when we remember how
generous in golden grain and luscious fruits
is our bounteous, warm hearted mother
earth. We can only reconcile ourselves to
this fact by remembering that the wealth
of the world is divided into a few lion's
shares, and all of the millions of unprovided
human souls are busied in keeping these
rolled up together. To be sure these
shares are not always in the same hands,
but they remain of .the same bulk. In
watching the scramble, the hurry skurry,
the struggle and tussle, of rabble, bulls and
bears, one is reminded of the sand in an
hour glass, each grain wholly unconscious
of the ilimitable eternity toward which it
is tending. So drift on these human grains
of clay or clod.
Nick Nevins and his wife were starving.
Whose fault was it ? Not his own surely,
for Nick had always worked willingly. He
had always been a hewer of stone and a
drawer of water, and he might go on now
in the same old groove, but somehow Nick
had grown desperate and unreasonable.
He was so unhappily constituted that he
must have something to eat. Nick began
to reason with himself. Poverty mikes
philosophers. If it had been intended, says
Nick, that a few were to have the gold,
the grain, in fact, all the bread, that the
millions were to be left destitute, why the
millions would have been created independ
ent of the necessities of the favored few.
But such, Nick saw, was not the case. To
be sure he might dispense with wines,
with Delmonico dinners, would be content
with bread and water, if these last were
permitted him; but with no substitute for
these, it became a question as to how he
was to subsist. To make the situation
more trying, Sallie fell ill. Sallie and
Nick had jogged along together for more
than thirty years. He had seen the bloom
fade from her face, had seen the palor
creeping over it, had seen the warm, brown
tinted hair grow lustreless and gray, and,
poor Nick Nevins held in his heart the
faded, the lustreless, and gray image as
loyally and tenderly as he had the bloom
ing, golden tinted one of years before. He
never dreamed that the world contained a
better woman than the one he had been
walking life's journey with.
Loving Sallie, then, as he did, it was a
terrible thing for Nick to watch the white
face shrinking away day by day, to know
that it was not disease, but destitution,
that was sending her down to death. What
was the world, what was life itself to him,
and Sallie gone ? He had lived for Sallie
and Sallie's children. He could, if need
be, die for them now.
I am sure I can't blame him, poor bar
assed, tortured man. If you do, try it
once. Sit down, even in imagination,—
and God forbid it should ever come to you
in any other way—and fancy the one or
ones you love in all of the world, dying of
absolute want.
Watch the loving eyes sink back into
the cavernous depths dug by famine; see
the lip—you remember it rosy and pouting
—settle away from the white teeth. Note
the white hand, how like a claw it has be
come ; then, when you have witnessed this
terrible fasting, blame Nick Nevins if you
can, for that which follows.
The country was in a terrible strait;
there was no work to be given, because
there was no money to pay for work done.
Nick Nevins went out on the street.
Something must be done. He was des
perate, and a man desperate through hun
ger is as insane and dangerous as the man
intoxicated with liquor.
The banks were closed, but the saloons
were open.
The poor were starving, but the rich
were feasting.
Nick's wife and children were dying, but
the banker's wife and daughters were dan
cing.
It was the night of the party, and as
Nick walked slowly up and down before
the rich man's house, uttering smothered
imprecations, the banker came out under
the gaslight, and ordered Nick away.
Then, says Nick hoarsely, as though try
ing to subdue the devil within him :
"You've five hundred dollars of my mon
ey. Sallie is dying, pay ten or it out, and
I'll go away blessing you,"
"The bank is suspended," says the man
shortly. "Until the proper time comes
you must wait. Such a fuss as you fel
lows make. One would think it a mil
lion."
"Give me then a little, sir, ever so little,
for charity's sake, if not justice."
"Not a dime now, not a dime "
"Then God judge between us," cries
Nick Nevins.
There is a blow, a fall, a stooping over a
prostrate figure, a heavy, staggering form
hurrying unsteadily away.
"I've brought you lire, Sallie ! I've
brought you bread ! Look up, darling,
darling, I'd dig for you, that I would.
Sallie ! Sallie ! Oh God ! she's dead,
dead !"
Over the still prostrate form Nick N:37-
ins bends, but there is no sob in his voice,
no tears in his eyes. Only God knows and
understands the bitterness in his soul. The
two little ohildren left, crawled to his side,
dragging themselves along slowly, and de•
voured the bread which hld fallen in
crumbs at his feet.
Then comes the end.
The government, upon whost: shoulders
rest, as every thinking person knows, the
whole culpability of Nick Nevins' sin, stops
forward to take him in charge.
Man found senseless, robbed ! Nick Nev
ins breaking a fifty dollar bill at a corner
bakery for a loaf of bread
Two mornings after they gave him his
final trial. The State's attorney wade short
work of it.
Guilty ?
Of course he was
Sentenced?
To be sure, as he ought to have been ?
The estimable binker recovered. Nick
went to the penitentiary. His wii was
buried in the Potter's fi.3ld, and the miser.
able little children will remain in the e)un
ty house until the bank resumes payment.
.elett Visalia*
A Bad Temper.
A person always ready to fight is
cur
tain of the greatest consideration amongst
his of her family circle. The lazy grow
tired of contending with him ; the timid
coax and flatter him ; and as almost every
one is timid or lazy, a bad tempered man
is sure to have his own way. It is he who
commands, and all others obey. It' he is
a gourmand, he has what he likes for din
ner; and the tastes of all the rest are sub
servient to him. She, (we playfully trans
fer the gender, as bad temper is of both
sexes) has the place she likes best in the
drawing-room. nor do her parents, nor her
brothers and sisters venture to take her
favorite chair. If she wants to get up a
party, mamma will dress herself in spite
of her headache ; and papa, who hates
those dreadful soirees, will go up stairs
and put on his poor old white neckcloth,
though he has been toiling at ehambers all
day, and must be there early in the morn
ing—he will go out with her, we say, and
stay for the cotillion. If the family are
taking their tour in the summer, it is she
who ordains whither they shall go, and
when they shall stop. If he comes home
late, the dinner is kept fbr him, and no
one dares to say a word, though ever so
hungry. If he is in good humor, every
one frisks about and is happy. How the
servant jumps at his bell, and runs to wait
upon him ! How they pit up patiently,
and bow eagerly they run out to fetch
cabs in the rain ! Whereas fur you and
me, who have the tempers of angels, and
never was known to be angry or complain,
nobody cares whether we are pleased or
not. Our wives go to the milliner's and
send us the bill, and we pay for . it; our
John finishes reading the newspaper be
fore he answers our bell, and brings it to
us ; our sons 101 l in the arm-chair which
we should like—fill the house with their
young men, and smoke in the dining room ;
our tailors fit us badly; our butchers give
us the youngest mutton; our tradesmen
dun us more quickly than other people,
because they know we are good-natured ;
and our servants go out whenever they
like, and openly have their friends to sup
per in the kitchen.
Bad Language.
How perverted, corrupted, debased, de
graded, low and coarse must be the tastes,
sensibilities and moral feelings of men who
allow themselves, without thought, • with
out respect for the sanctities of religion or
the requirements of common decency, to
intermix their commoin conversation with
horrible, revolting and blasphemous oaths
and imprecations.
We write this in the parlor of a hotel
in a city renowned for its intelligence, re
finement and morality, and just under the
window sit a company of men, whose con
versation is marked in almost every sen
tence by coarse vulgar oaths. Perhaps
they are not conscious of being heard by
any other party, and if so, much the worse,
as they are now exhibiting themselves as
they really are. Their trite character is
being made manifest. And how sad to
witness such debasement of our common
nature; such evidence of a total lack of
reverence for all that the better portion of
our race hold sacred, and lack of common
decency as well. Wherever such men
have influence, that influence is bad.
They breed and spread more poison wher
ever they go, and are as destructive to the
true interests of communities as famine
and pestilence combined would be to their
bodies. And yet for the vice there is no
earthly nor unearthly excuse.
In this as well as in other respects there
is great need of reformation in many parts
of our whole country.—Ex.
The Skirt Grab.
There was the land "grab" and the sal
ary "grab," but the most universal "grab"
since the day the Children of Israel "grab
bed" quails in the wilderness, is the one
made nowadays by every man's wife or
sweetheart, as she drops her left shoulder,
gracefully, swings the upper half. of the
body around toward the rear, "grabs" a
handful of skirts, straightens up and moves
off with a face full of holy and calm con
tent, and an aureole of serene satisfaction
illuminating her countenance. The idea
was probably cribbed from the devil, by
observing him pick up his tail, tuck it
over his left arm and saunter off on a
promenade among the hypocrites and
Pharisees, the "lower gude and rigidly
righteous."
A Mammoth Beast,
DISCOVERY OF A MONSTER CONTAINING
THE REMAINS OF A HUMAN BEING—
LARGEST ANIMAL REMAINS EVER RES
URRECTED.
Carthage (Mo.) Patriot.]
Mr. Henry Woodard owns a stock ranch
in the Indian Territory, in the Peoria na
tion, on which is situated the big sulphur
spring. The spring is surrounde I by a
quagmire, which is very deep and
"slushy," and so soft that it will not bear
any considerable weight. Mr. Woodard
lately undertook to curb up the spring in
order to get water more easily, and while
working in the mire came upon what ap
peared to be an enormous bone. He at
once began an examination which disclos
ed the startling fact that it was the head
of some mammoth beast. His curiosity
was aroused, and with the assistance of
three other men he began the work of ex
cavation. For four days they worked, but
did not succeed in bringing the monster
to the surface. They threw off the marl,
but could not lift the head of this golitic
giant. They found the skeleton well pre
served, and the immense teeth still set in
the jaws. The jaws were both in place
and the spinal column attached to the
cranium. The earth was thrown off from
the body to the length of twenty feet, but
still the gigantic skeleton remained be
na.ath. Three of the front ribs were forc
ed out and proved by measurement to be
each eight feet in length. The dirt was re
morel from the iuside of the osseous
structure, and there lay the skeleton of a
human being with 102 flint arrow points
and 15 flint knives. The cranium indi
cated that it was the skeleton of an Indian.
It would have been impossible for the
man to have been inside the animal with
out having bean swallowed by him, and
this theory is substantiated by the fact
that the bones of the right side of the
skeleton were broken and mashed, appa
rently by force. The monster, therefore,
must have been carnivorous, which is also
proven by the teeth, which exhibit the
marked characteristics of a fish eating
beast. A large molar and two incisors,
taken from the upper jaw, were exhibited
to us at our office yesterday, the largest
one weighing eight pounds and measuring
eight by four inches in size. There are
two large molars and two blunt tusks on
each side of each jaw, the teeth between
the molars and the tusks are incisors, hav
ing from two to six points and correspond
ing prongs to each tooth. ha front of the
tusks the teeth are similar to those of
most carnivorous animals in shape. All
the bones indicate that they have been
buried for an incredibly long period, as
they crumble rapidly when brought in
contact with the atmosphere. Every sir
cumstance goes to show that these are the
largest animal remains ever resurrected,
and the teeth, tusks and structure of the
head and jaws prove unmistakably that it
was of the carnivorous class.
Autumns? Tints.
WHY THE LEAVES CHANOE-IT IS NOT
JACK FROST'S WORK.
It is very curious to observe the regu
larity with which we are told in the au
Winn that "the first frost will change the
color of the leaves," whereas the frost has
nothing to do with the change. It has,
indeed, sometimes happened in New Eng
land that the foliage has changed, as if by
magic, in a single night, so that upon look
ing out of the window in the morning, the
eye was surprised with the spectacle of the
world well nigh on fire; and since this
transformation took place in connection
with the mercury at a low point, the whole
affair is referred to the agency or Jack
Frost. But why not refer to this prestid
igitator the glowing tints of the apple, the
rich erimso4 of the velvet peach, and the
purple of the plum ? Many years ago this
error was pointed out by an eminent botan
ist, who showed that the gorgeous color of
the autumn leaf came in the regular pro
cess of ripening ; and though botany is
generally studied in schools, the old notion
comes back with the beavers every year
showing that error, in common with truth,
especially when supported by the vov pop
'di, will "rise again," however deservedly
crushed to earth.
Leaves find their parallel in man, as al
ready observed, and, like the human spe
cies, they may ripen suddenly. If, how
ever, any one chooses to-make a mystery of
the intensity of the autumnal colors, there
should be no great difficulty in explaining
the variety. Indeed, the apparent superi
ority over the strength of color in the foli
age on the Continent of Europe may be
attributed chiefly to this variety. In Great
Britain the climate is evidently unfavora
ble to the production of bright forest-tones,
but in parts of Germany the brilliancy of
certain kinds of leaves is quite equal to
that of the corresponding varieties in North
America. At the same time the greens of
Europe are quite different from those of
our own land, where beginning with a
burnt green in the Sonth7 we pass north
ward along the Atlantic seaboard, reaching
the true green of the greatest of the hay
producing States, the State of Maine.
Every one has noticed the unparalleled
green of the "Emerald Isle," which be
comes a pale sea green in Scotland, a
whitcish-green in the South of England
and in France,—only to ohange to an
ashen green in Germany, and a sombre
olive in the Italian States.'
But we are remarking upon the variety
of the autumnal tints in our own country.
This is explained by the fact that, while
in Europe there are only forty trees that
attain to a height of thirty feet, in North
America there are no less than one hun•
Bred and forty—hence our forests flash
like the plane tree that "the Persian adorn
ed with his mantles and jewels."—Apple
ton's Journal.
What the Microscope Reveals.
Lewenbock tells us of an insect seen
with the microscope, of which twenty seven
millions would only equal a mite.
Insects of various kinds may be seen in
the cavities of a grain of sand.
Mold is a forest of beautiful trees, with
the branches, leaves and fruit.
Butterflies are fully feathered.
Hairs are hollow tubes.
The surface of our bodies is covered
with scales like a fish ; a single grain of
sand would cover one hundred and fifty of
these scales, and yet a scale covers five
hundred pores. Through these narrow
openings the perspiration forces itself like
water through a seive,
Each drop of stagnant water contains a
world of living creatures, swimming with
as much liberty as whales in the sea.
Each leaf has a colony of insects grazing
on it, like cows in a meadow,
OUT in Chicago gas is down to $1.65
per 1000 feet.
Ono of the Causes of Hard Times,
MORAL : LET Rim MEN PAY CABLE TO
TUE POOR MEN WHO DO THEIR WORK
If the time ever comes when an Ameri
can pays cash down for what he gets, there
is a certain Detroit blacksmith, says the
Free Press, who wants to be alive and see
the phenomenon. His business history is,
perhaps, the business history of hundreds
of others. He rents the shop. The land
lord wants his rent the day it is due. He
has to pay cash down for his iron, his °oat,
and whatever else he uses in the shop. Up
to a day or two ago he ran three forges.
His men have families, and must have
their wages every Saturday. The patron•
age of the shop is what is called "first
class." That is, men of wealth send their
horses there to be repaired. Pass the shop
any hour in the day, and you will see from
four to a dozen vehicles there to be over
hauled, and the shoeing shop full of horses.
The income of the shop is over $2OO per
week. Not one patron out. of a dozen has
paid cash down for his, work. They have
sent it there without the least idea of pay
ing anything until the bill was sent in.
Along about Friday the blacksmith gets
into a buggy and drives around to collect.
He has accounts footing up two, three or
fuur thousand dollars, some a year old, all
against. "good men," as the phrase goes,
and the amounts ranging from 75 cents to
$35. He calls on A, and A takes the bill,
looks it over and says: "Come in again ;"
or "I can't pay it to day," or he has some
other excuse. He may have had his hor
ses shod three months before. He knows
that the smith has had to keep up his rent,
pay his man and put down cash for stock.
The smith is poor, while he is rich, yet he
hands the bill back without thought or
care of how the smith is to get along. B
does the same, C is not in, D is off on a
trip, and E, perhaps pays a little on the
bill and says : “Come in the first of the
month."
This particular blacksmith carried around
with him last Friday and S.iturday over
$3,000 worth of accounts, called on forty
seven "good men," yet he did not collect
one shilling! He had to pay out that
week $l2O for rent, stock and labor, and
was thus $l2O worse off than the week be
fore. When asked why he dil not insist
on cash down he answered :
"L..lt me make such a rule and my shop
would be deserted. Men worth $lOO,OOO
would take it as an insult, yet here is a bill
of $4 against a wan worth twice $lOO,OOO
which he has avoided paying for the last
six months."
The other day oae forge was hauled off.
Thirteen vehicles needing repairs stood at
the door, but one of the workmen was al
lowed to go because money to pay him
could not be raised, On the accounts rep
resenting $3,000 the smith has paid out
over $2,000 in cash fnr labor, stock and so
forth. Each debtor is reputed to be worth
at least $5,000, and some arc known to b. 3
worth $300,000, but the accounts can be
bought for fifty cents on the dollar.
There is a general cry that business is
flat, and men are wondering when it will
revive. Perhaps the way to revive bu. -
ness is for men to pay their debts. Perhaps
a still better way would be to pay cash
down. Firma representing from $lO,OOO
to $10(,000 capital can "carry" a few debt
ors, but the .500 -mall concerns who have
to turn their capital over earth week must
have ready pay or go under. People who
can pay, shirk payment. They will carry
full wallets, rush their work in ahead of
all others, demand the• very best, and ye'
"throw" a bill of twelve shillings until the
creditor gets discouraged and cancels the
account.
What You Do, Do Well.
When you undertake to do anything, be
in earnest about it; do it with your might.
Fortune and f'me are often lost by not
being in earnest. This is a real world—a
world f real work, real success, real con
flicts, real failures, real triumphs, real
defeats. And let no one be so over oonfi
dent in his own abilities as to look with
indifference upon the difficulties before
hira—the danger and trials that he must
pass *u order to reach the goal upon which
his eye is fixed. Full and glorious success
never yot did crown the languid and • ia
diffent exercises of the powers of mind and
body. It acquires effort to push one's
craft against the current of rivalry, jeal
ousy and vice ; and if one would 4ia
progress marked by complete triumph, his
efforts must be well-directed, constant, and
unrelaxing. But he who feels that he has
only to lie inactive and wait for the wird
of fortune to drift him into the havc.a of
wealth and fame, has lost every prom - c!
success, and is in far more danger oi ulti
mate disaster than the tempest tossed mar
iner, though his mast be gouc, and his
vessel shattered and torn by the raging sea.
Be in earnest; meet the difficuhies which
daily arise with determination to conquer
and rise above them. Let not your ad
versary find you sleeping or dreaming of
an easy conquest. Too much confidence
in one's power's is fatal to success, and
often brings defeat most disastrous. Be
faithful, be true, be kind, be firm, be earn
est.
American Girls.
Your true American girl is a very
charming being. Like all creatures rear
ed in freedom, she possesses an untaught
grace and vigor of mind as well as of body.
She is no helpless puppet, like her Euro
pean prototype, pulled about by hidden
wires, and kept perpetually in a box.
Bred amid the healthful atmosphere of a
social system of exceptional purity, res
pected, honored, and guarded from baby
hood by chivalrous natures that surround
her, she learns to think and act far her
self, and to think and act aright. It is well
nigh impossible to overestimate her infltx
ence on -our social system. Reared at
her side the American youth grows up
with an instinctive reverence for and de
sire to protect helpless innocence and maid.
enly purity. The salons to which she
lends the charm of her winning graces
and youthful sweetness are more potent
for good than were the salons of Reeamier.
or De Stael. The love that she inspires
is a young man's best shield against tempt*.
tine. She does not herself understand-0
the smiling maiden—what good she has
done and is doing every day. Yet her
white image has waved back many a youth
from the pathway of temptation, her clear
eyes lent light to the comprehension of
better things.
LIGHTNING struck a hive of bees in
Kansas the other day. The painful gory
is soon told. The misguided lightning
came out of that hive quicker than it went
in and shot off into space with its tail be
tween its legs. Moral—Never pick a
quarrel when you aro not acquainted with
the folks.
eke 4ditt of
Miss Mary Von Blum,
Herr Von Mum lives on Hasting's
street. He has i little cottage of Mean,
be rune-entitle cooper shop of his
and up to. a d/4,t# two ago he had
looking eighteen
f iesdold daughter of his
own. Bat be hasn't 'any now. As he
sadly remold* - Lid theTaporter yesterday :
"Det hied'. gs 4 whoositiapputob4s Magi •
Bash broken our heartsiod left us sad,
She ruddt West mit a nit& girdeil4llBll.»
Mine frodigrios o aud lam mad.' . • .
He had a little - Cow of his own in addi
tion tfo ill other things, and is order 'to
have milk for by bake the dowartapt have
grass. To turns cow out to hunt her owe.
grass is to lose her in a_
- City like this, and
so he said to his bine-eyed daughter :
"Go drife dot seer a mile or nine
Until you end soot grass ;
And motel her sharp der whole day long
Dill night shall Opine to pees."
She hied, raj/ to her task, wearing a
new pink Sun bonnet, the whitest. of
aprons and loOlrina as. saucy as she could •
froth heel:l:terry blue eyes. Iloscstry dap
during July, i - sbe - mit a lzve been
alaug - Bambieraia.
TiPrlti 3 e.Frit r , *gel o f
ins a straw fi at in the.sua eas t au li na l
struck a tender bit of herbage,
"And she didn't get bitten by a snake,
did she ?" asked the reporter.
The old man shook his head sadly and
remarked I
"set dat leadlo girl shag ever bit
She didn't speaks to me;
Some 'pekoe, r guess, doant creme aroundt
Yore liseclie Dwelt gals be."
"Well, what ahoub this elopeasent?
How did that come about? Someone saw,
admired, made love and bore her away did
they
"I tell you now Just bow it rhea,
You see dot fellow, Berry,
He liked dat gal like dander, and
Ile Taunted her to many.
He comes around end speaks to me,
Und says: "Old MeeVer Biota,
I likes to be your son-in-law—
Yee sir, I shouk by gum."
Vali, I v b sa mad, for don't you see,
He doesn't own a cent;
And quesk about hie pees-i-ness
Dis loafer be did want."
"And you told Nlary that she mug
smash her love to stnithera, forget him and
writ till you !Ltd time to pick out a model
man, eh
"t took that gal tit the cooper-shop, • •
And told her *host like so :
Eel' you don't let dot man alone.
Into der `cafe you go!
Lind Mary winked her eyes sheet co,
Und said he was a fool—
D •t she rhea only shaking him,
Sheet like ho rhos one mule,
Den I feels better, nod I saidt:
"To-morrow you shall go
Down to some store on Gratiot street
For a dress of *alum"
"And she went, did she IP"
He wiped a tear from hia eye, he lean• -
ad mounilitly. on hio shaving hone ant
replied:
"She took dot eow away nest day.
Sheet like she always did,
Ued she also found der sreret blase
Vhere iny spare cash was hid.
Some forty dollar Lilts site took,
Und while dot cow was feeding,
Dot Harry mac und our bidet% gal,
To so ..te Waco rice were speeding.
Der cow is lost—our Mary's gone,
Pod so's my forty dollar,
Und when I ticks of all doss things,
I clamant help but holier.
Mine frou she weeps der whole day long,
Und in say eooper-shop,
I sit upon din shaving-horse,
Und '
cannot strike -- a
pop.
if she'll come back I shall forgive,
Und take riot Berri in,
Und der cooper peeshass it shall grow
Like dunder-blitzen
A Hornet's Nest for a Bustle:
A correspondenc from Zionsville relates
the following ludicrous incident.:
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A very fu - nay incident happened at one
of the recent /retries near this place. It
appears that a certain young lady had the
misfortune to lose her bustle. While
wandering through the woods the saw an
old hornet's nest and she remarked to her
female companion, "What a beautiful bustle
that would make," and suggested that it
be used fer . tiat purpose. The suggebeiou
was acted upon and the hornet's nest ad
justed iu the place that should have been
ornamented with the bustle. The young
;ddy walked off, highly elated with her
r..w patent, but alas for human hopes, it
seems that the hornets were not all stray
from home end not exlctly understandiug
the state of affairs they began to investi•
sate the -natter.
ouddenl7 a succession of unearthly
screams atte-ted the vigor with which the
hornets conducted the investigation. A.
young man was attracted by the screws
of the young lady, and the rapid maimper
in which that bustle was retnoved'woild
have done credit to a streak of greased
lightning. The young wan says that the
rapidity with which a pair of striped stock
ings flew through the air so blended the
colors that he imagined he saw ail the.
colors of the rainbow. The young : ledy
has come to the conclusion that the olk
kind of bustle is the best, and idle intends
to discard all the new pateuts in that line.
I& sr' at
An Irishman's Will.
In the name of God, amen I Timothy
Doolan, of Barrydownderry, in the Coanty
Clare, farmer, being sick, wake on my legs,
but of sound head and heart, Glory be • to
God !—do make this my first and lays will,
and ould and new testament. First, I give
my sowl to• God, when it plasea him to take
it—shure no thanks to me, for I can't help
it then--and my . iNdito be buried In the
ground at nairydownderry chapel, where
all my kith and kin that have gone before
me, are buried, peace to their ashes, test
may the and rase lightly over theft. knees.
Bury me near grandfather and my father,
who lie actuated all together at the other
end of the chapel yard. I lave the bit of
ground containing eight acres, rare ohf
Irish acres ; to my eldest son Tim, after
the death of-hie mother,-if -act- lives to
survive him. My daughter Mary asi ker
husband, Paddy O'Reagie, are to hap *A
black sow that's going to have tweirchleelt
bolas. Teddy, my second boy, Mit wall
kilted in the wit iu Amenity, ripe. brie
got his pick of the peakay, but sack( gene
I'll lave them4e- hia-wife r whelked a week
before hint.; I becitteetba to ail nel:AA a nd
Me i* sof th 2 see , they can take, an
the birds of the air - they can shoot. vs
th‘in ill the Inn, moon, and Nara. I
live to Peter Rafferty *pint of postmen I
can't finish, and may Q be mereyfial to
him.
Ir emeigiutoktiog NM to the eyes
of a potato ho see a man. on "lodp night,"
brace himself up mainsi the office door and
try to open a card to see what is ha
it and who it's from,
NO. 45.
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