After All. "This world isOod's world, sftor ll." Hrr. riknrlf nmo'lf!/. Oh , this wesry world, with its rosllctw toiling. And its fltfhl fever of uncessing otre! Oh, this sottish world, our kindest actions soiling, 8o that oar stained souls can scarcely riso in prayer! "Peace!" I hear Iho preacher-poet call, ' This world is (tod's world, after all After all." Oh, this wssping world, full of iiain and sorrow Full of breaking hearts that once wore strong and bravo. Full of dark despair that hopes for no to-morrow. And of love whose memory is but a gravel "Peace!" I hear tho preacher-poet call, "This world is God's world, alter all After all." This is God's world; s tho birds are singing. So the happy lields are glad with golden wheat, go the sun is shining, so tho flowers are springing. Ho the heavy heart again with Joy may boat. Only listen how the strong words fall, "This world is God's world, after all After all." If 'tis God's world, why should we wor weeping ? Why should we go heavily liy night or day "He giveth His beloved while they are sleeping," He loves the cheerful toiler, wliaran say. " 1 fear no grief, no wrong ihat can befall; This world is (toil's world, alter all After all!" j A RAILWAY INCIDENT. ''Little fire grows gnat with little wind." .V/HIJL.SJH ore. j The steam (gurgled and whistled, and arose in great hot, white jots through , the wintry morning air. The bright bras.s bell of the locomotive swayed to and fro, ringing sonorously as the early express jarred and rumbled out of the station. Every seat of the car I bad just en tered was occupied; and feeling most uncomfortably conspicuous, I awkwardly stood beside the door that had just slammed unceremoniously behind me. "Poor thing! Doesn't she look in teresting in that silver gray traveling dress ! How slim anil tall she is ; and how pretty and pale!" remarked souie one half-way down the coach "l think she looks decidedly, ghostly and commonplace," dissented some other. " I never admired that particular tint of blonde hair. It is certainly neither yellow nor golden. Her gray eyes are rather handsome—or wonld be if they were not quite so owlishly big and alert; and her skin is really too fair. Much very fair com- ' plexions do not wear well; they wrinkle quickly and redden too easily. And most blushes aie so affected sr country fled. lint, positively, I believe her headgear is an affectation also. Is not her bonnet quite a caricature?—huge, immensely flaring, silver-gray plush— ; and smoke-gray, most enormous pinnies. Will no one ever give her a seat ? It really makes me nervous to see her posing there in that sj>ectral, iahly, unadorned gray she eternally affects." " I always thought Lulcen Aymes quite ingenuous," observed the other interlocutor; "and I am sure most people think her very graceful and lovely, and elegant and amiable. How ever, yon do not seem to appreciate her excellencies, very much, Cara." " I cannot appreciate what I cannot iiscern," asserted Clara, with a half sneer that did not dignify her small, dark pret'.iness. Her companion smiled a jioliiely leni ent disapproval, ami in more suppressed tones, returned: "Yon have always dis liked Lnleen. And I have often almost believed that some significant s]>cech of yours was tho cause of her sudden oitrangement from latrrv Murray. Is it possible you said anything silly or med dlesome?" "Oh, I dare say there are people sufficiently proper and stupid to con aider me a very silly intcrmeddlcr in deed," Cara lightly responded. " How ever, I only kindly informed the gentle-; man of a few simple truths; anil he was good enough to thank me." " I fancy your way of speaking of a simple truth would not always encour age one to descend to tho liottom of a well to find it," commented the elder lady, still shaking with the look and voice of courteous dixapproliation. " Poor, dear, pretty Luleen 1" she pro ceeded. " Have yon observed how very white she is? liow very disturbed she seems? Hlio must have been s pas senger in that wrecked coach, and was sadly frightened no doubt. lam sure it must le quite dreadful for a lady trav eling unattended to happen in an acci dent, but to be all alone in snrli peril, and deal and dumb too, is really some thing appalling." I knew lwth the speakers who had been discussing my person and my reputation, my faults and my raisfor ttnee. But they little guessed that I tad heard their incautious, and no, mrticnlarly delicate and sympathetic, ommen's an l ajecnlations. They little gU*cculation. And sometimes lie would sjieak vaguely, in a cynical sort of way, as if he doubted the unselfishness of all hu manity, and my own fealty to him most of all. I was proud and I was loyal, and his ambiguous denunciations pained and angered me, and Anally became no longer endurable. And so, one day, when one of his inexplicably churlish moods had lteoome insufferable, I ended our pleasant dream by a Vpiiet little homily of resentment that I tried to make as dignifhsl as |tossiblc. " Larry," I began, with commendable calmness, though my wild tears were rioting nnseen, " latterly I have fancied that you regard our engagement as a misfortune to yourself. I cannot con jecture why. I have fancied, too, that you suspect iiir guilty of some grievous fault or wrong, and that I am not quite worthy of your love, that I am sure despite this melancholy mystery,is mine. You are not brave enough," I went on, hotly, "to tell me what yon suspect. You are not manly enough to explain the strange and cruel hints with which you have outraged my pride and grieved my affection for weeks. And so, Larry, although I love and honor you as I never loved arul honored any other, I believe lam acting rightly in making yon free. 1 shall Is* gratified if yon will consider yourself no longer 1 sit roth od to me." With the concluding sentence I left him alone, conscious that his dark eyes were regarding mo with as much anguish as astonishment. I did not see him again. The next morning he left the place, and then came my terrible illness, when for weeks I lay delirious at the doors of death, to le thrust lwck at last, deaf and dumb, into a life that must lie lonely and loveless evermore. And yet, even on this day of Catastrophe, heaven had Wn kind to me. I was no longer innte. 1 could once more hear the sweet sound of voices and all the noises of the busy, perplexing world, of which in my youth aud health 1 honld not be quite weary. I was still stating—with stupid resig nation it must have seemed to observers, no doubt—through the coach window, when the train stopped, aud after a happy exit of superfluous occupants some one offered me a seat. I was more amused thsn annoyed when I observed that this seat wss directly behind that of my chatty acquaintance", who greeted me a* sur prised ly as if they lnul "UppoKnd rue a permanent inhabitant of the Atiti|>oencil. "I am pleased to seo yon again," lie wrote, thinking me still a deaf mute. " Von are looking remarkably well, and lovely, too, I must odd, Luleen, al though you have always seemed to mo most lovely." I *old ' and ungraceful. "Longago, when I was only a child of fifteen, my dying fatherlietrothed me to a maufwhom he scarcely knew, but j to whom he owed debts of honor. The circumstances were such that J should very likely have lieoorne the wife of that person had lie not in less than a year after tho burial of my jx>or parent Ix-en killed in one of his orgies. Is my ex planation, humiliating ns it is to me. sufficient, Jo ry? If it is not, ask Mis* Cara if anything remains to be explained. Hhe evidently for ot that " ' A lie that is half the truth Is the very worst lie of all.' when she told yon that hit of my his tory. In telling yon this, Larry, here, and at anrh a time, I am not hoping to regain your old regard. Delieve me, I only desire not to lw misunderstood and misjudged." I was sobbing foolishly then, like the ' child I always was and always shall be, I think; and even the smoke-gray plume that swept over my |>e*rl-graj Linnet was all dabbled and discolored by my profnse tears as I lnin. il my head low in my shaking hands. I*resently some one l>ent over me, and with a caressing movement turned my wet face toward him. "Ilmth misunderstood and misjudged yon, Luleen," confessed my lorry; "but I think my darling is wise enough to comprehend how just such sorrowful mistakes are only too often made. I,ong ago I was so sorely ashamed for having doubted yon, that I promised our dear (toil that 1 would trust yon blindly and always if He would but give mc l>ack my love—my wife to l>e— is she not?" My answer was satisfactory, although we were loth rather confusedly con scions that stranger and curious eyes were mirthfully regarding us. Miss Cara and her conqtanion hod diplomatically disappeared, hut neither they nor wo—my husband 1 ,arry and I —will ever forget that little episode of a railway journey. To say that Jones* nose in a ronser would bo stating it mildly. It stands out on his profile like a good deed in a naughty world or a lighthouse on a beach. And Jones is sensitive ahont that nose. Seeing a strange young man gazing at him the other day, Jones liecame uneasy, until be finally broke out with, " Well, what are yon staring at ? Do yon see anything remarkable ahont me 7" " Nose, sir," was the ra ther equivocal reply of the young man as he dodged wound tho corner.—notion | TYnnttcripi. THE FAMILY IMMTOK. For ammonia taken raw by accident, give new milk, olive oil, ice in bits ; bind ice on the throat. Poultices are better for the addition of a little sweet or castor oil and a few drops of laudanum. Bathing tho face in lemon juice mixed with glycerine wili remove tan and freckles in a few days, if the individual he not exposed to the sun. The eyes of a child under a year old should not be allowed to meet the blaze ! of an unshaded light. Water standing for a night in a close or crowded room absorbs the impure air, and becomes very unwholesome and (Misitively injurious to heulth. Bo care . fill not to use water which has stood in a lead pipe. Bagged wounds, in the hand or foot especially, should be freely and fre quently bathed in hot lye, and dressed either with lye poultice or thickened j milk poultice, with a little oil, to keep 1 it from getting hurd, jiotired over it, or i with a mush and fat poultice. A writer in the London Latuet re , marks: At the Middlesex hospital fe -1 male patients who have suffered many years from sick headache, evidently of an hereditary character, have been greatly benefited, if not cured, by the administration of ten minim doses of tincture of Indian hemp three times daily L-twcen the attacks. This is well worthy of trial in those coses of ! ever-living, never-dying martyrdom like suffering. When one f-els the approach of a severe cold, lie may often find relief by using composition tea. The following is the rccijK! for the powder: Take ono-half ounce of red pepjs-r, one-half ounce of cloves, one-half ounce of cin namon, one-half pound of bay-ltcrrv bark, and one-half pound of ginger. The ingredients should all be ground and thoroughly mixed. Put in wide mouthed bottles and cork tight. When needed, put a tcaspoonful of the jmwder in a bowl and fill it with boiling water. Milk and sugar make it very palatable. How many time* 1 have heard this s.iid: " I could get along nicely with mv work if my feet did not feel *o uncom fortable and even painful." Without any doubt tho woman who make* this remark goes about the house in thin, loose slipper*. I used to do it lny-e]f. I thought I Lid to L-cansc others did, but a few experiments convinced me that the only way to do work comfort, ably is to wear thick-soled shoes. One very soon Ixvomcs accustomed to them, and will find great relief. There i* al ways more or less running outdoors to lie done, and there is great danger of taking culd if the fee* are not well pro tasiai*—K. W. 11. , 111 Xr-r 1 ccd, his plucky rider twisting the tail that to him was a sheet-anchor until the liellowings were lost in the wind. For over a mile ami a half the race continued, amid the excited cheers of the vaqtiero's com rades. Occasionally the hull gave a desperate plunge through a heavy clump of sage in the vain attempt to rid himself of his tormentor, hut the long rowels only clung more firmly to his Hanks. Sometimes the animal and rider were hidden by undulations in the ground, and bets were even made that Frick would lie thrown and gored; bnt at last the hull, exhausted from sheer fright, fell, and the plneky vaquero, stepping lightly off, returned to claim his prise, which was unanimously awarded. TOPICS OP THE DAT. I h wheat deficit in Bussin is officially estimated at bO,ooo,(MN) bushels. There is great agricultural distress in the southern provinces in consequence of locusts ami defective planting. In the L T nd Htates fish culture dates back liarcjy n quarter of a century j while in Europe the industry has been . systematic for more than six hundred years, and in Asia for thousands of years ; and yet the United State*, at the international fish exhibition at Berlin, excelled all other countries in their ex hibit of appliances and method* jK-rtain ing to fish culture. The director of the bureau of statis i ties at Vienna has made some interest ; ing researches concerning the compara tive longevity of women and men in KuYojie. He finds that out of 102,H.'H individuals who have passed the age of ninety years, are women, and 42,f2H arc men. In Italy 211 alleged centenarian women are found for ltl men of that ago. It appear* that the emigration from Germany during this vi-ar promise* to exceed any former experience. A cor res|iondent of the London Tim-*, writ ing from Berlin, says that whole village s are to be depopulated by this movement toward America. The American emi gration agents, however, hardly dare set forth the advantages of the vurious Htates which they represent, as thev are warned by the American legation that it would be unable to help them if they should get into trouble with the authorities. The German government is doing all it can to discourage emigra tion. The Kansas temperance executive committee have issued an address con gratulating the jx-oplc of the Htate ujx.n the progress of the temperance cause. They say: " By the votes of her citizen", by the decision of her supreme court, and by the act ion of her legislature, Kansas lias dcclort d herself forever free from all partnership in the traffic of in toxicating liquors, and now leads the world in the effort to suppress by con stitutional Lw the great ourge of the nations. Only by a prompt and vigor ous enforcement of the laws can we have a right to hold the po i of honor in the great warfare with intcni|ierance. The passage of the amendment lias been followed by tlie enactment of a law that i* stringent in it* provisions. It i* noteworthy that this law passi-d the legislature by a large majority. The vote in the senate was thirty-two to seven, and in the house liK> to twenty three, thus giving u majority in both house* of more than four to one.'* In those days of " specialists " a new department is opened up to tho care of the fingers and nails. A New York es tablishment devotes itself to this |ie oialty, and iacrswded by patrons. The entire " course " of care taking and ma nipulation is twelve dollars, rather cx jiensive, but many go three or four times at a dollar and a half a lesson, to get their finger ends in order , so that they ran thenceforth take proper care of them. The acolyte first sits with finger tijis in a bowl of warm water to soften the flesh. They are finally dried and the soft flesh pushed far back, the nails then cut and clipped in a pointed shape. This is rather a paintul opera tion. 'Die fresh edges are filed, and the patient turned over to a polisher, who |owders, polishes, then ruls with a towel, and repeats this process. The object is to show the white half-moon at the root of the nail, where the ldood settles. This can be carried to an execs*, when the flesh lies in little lumps be- j hind the nail. Bnt the nnhjeet is m 1 laudable one, very few people taking j sufficient care of their finger-tips. Tho farmers who suffer from the com petition, and the unsuspecting con sumer who eats oleomargarine and lard Litter, flunking it the genuine article, are not, it appears, the only sufferers from the manufacture of these products. One of tho produce princes of Chicago was suddenly declared a Link nipt the other day, and when inquiry was insti tuted as to the reason of his failure he laid the cause of his disaster at the door of oleomargarine. His trade was in the Liverpool and liondon markets, where he hail acquired a high reputation for pure products of tho dairy, and his brand commanded fancy prices for his good*. Of late, his heavy shipments failed to find buyers; his atoek accumu lated abroad and at home, and an in vestigation revealed the article under the brand of " golden tint butter" to be nothing but oleomorgoriae and a mixtnre of bud, oleo and cream. His reputation was among the things of the past. He is now explaining to hi* un fortunate creditor* that hi* stock was purchased for pure butter,and declaring tho trick was played upon bint hv soma of the dairymen of the Northwest, who are thorn selves extensively engaged in making tliia new process butter. A New Tork paper say* that if Houth era planters and farmer* w.sh to be come more prosperous they should at once abandon the pernicious credit eys tern. In the cotton Htatc*, particu 'arl.r > >t in a weighty drawback. As the iijatcin is practiced, the planter or £ gives the rnerehant a lien on bin crojm to !>e grown, and the merchant, being fully secured, furnishes the nec essary supplies and Axe* bin own price*. The planter or fanner ia thua wholly at the mercy of the merchant, and baa no V redress againat exorbitant ratea. A deciaion baa juat been rendered by the aupreme court of Miasi*ai],pi which will afford the fannera of that Htate 4. aoine relief. A merchant who held a mortgage on the cropa of a fanner'* forecloaed it. The lower court allowal J hia bill againat the farmer, although it wan ah own that the pricea charged were at leant double the cah rate. 'J'he au preme court, on ap|K*al, reversed the I deciaion and affirmed that the pur cliaaer was not in a joaition to decline the purchase on account of the pricea charged, and that he oc>|uieHccd in the pricea from an overruling necessity. Hia extorted aaaent to the pricea llxed waa without conaidi ration, and was , therefore void. An enterprising re porter recently vis ited the only hand organ manufactory in America. He (Uncovered some inter esting facta. The efficacy of each in atrnment OH a means of inflicting torture is ahown by the fact that th'-rr- are only one hundred and fifty in regular ser vice in Sow York alone. Moat of these are ground by Italians, a few by Ger mans, and one itinerant is a crippled soldier who receives a monthly ]May in the Mornjpg" conimanain came whenever he used the galvanic battery, and could not IK* re moved. After giving up the use of tho battery he noticed that the |*ains seem ed to come at regular intervals, and finally ho noticed there would be a storm, but as soon as rain fell or there was an explosion of electricity in the shape of thunder, these pains instantly ceased. In cold weather he loses his faculty of telling when there is going to be a storm, as the mercury in his shinlmnes is in a painful state of activity all tho whilst. It