The Farm.
Open wide llie I wok of nature.
Bring the pine-clad mountains near.
Guardians of fruitful valleys.
Numerics of waters clear;
Changeless, save when tcmi>e*t* drape them
With their dark and threatening clouds,
While the lightning rends their summits.
Flashing through their dusky shrouds
In reverberating thunder—
Nature's grandest organ notes;
In triumphant music swelling,
Through the concave vast it floats.
Spring is smiling on the valleys;
See, her footprints dot tho plains 1
llark ! She calls for honest lalior,
Far and wide to sow her grains.
She has come from tropic regions;
Well she loves the vine-clad hills.
Flowering shrill*, and fruitful orchard*
And tho murmur of tho rills
That enrich the laud in llowiug
loves the music of the woods,
When their wind-harps wake, and answoi
llack the shout of distant tlood*.
Hear the minstrels of the forest
Through tho leafy places sing.
While the turf exhales fresh odors.
Quickened by tin: breath of spring.
Ijvclior grown the quiet farmhouse;
Footsteps hasten through the hall;
All things feci a newer impulse
Horses whinny in the stall.
Karlisr the farm-yard wakens
With the notes of chanticleer,
Jubilant above the bleating
Of the lambkin* playing near.
Yonder, then . the paticat oxen
How their strong necks for the yoke.
Pleased if he that binds it on them
Adds a kind word with a stroke.
Frolicsome are Tray and Tiger.
Rushing in and out of door,
Chasing liens, and geese, ami cattle,
Soiling tho good housewife's Mr sir.
Pussy leaves her cozy corner,
Genial spring with all to share
I>ll the lawn the happy voices
Of the children fill the air.
Rosy morning greets the milkmaid
As she lightly trip* along.
Where tho lowing kine await her.
Caroling a merry song.
Now'* the time for active labor
Pile the stones into a wall;
Plow the soil in long, deep furrow
Lot the harrow level all.
Fields are ready now for sowing.
Hillsides for the generous vine;
Autumn crowns the year wi'h plenty
Pour the new oil ami the wire .
City calls upon tin- country
For the grain by which it lives;
Country calls upon the city
For tin- mental life it gives.
Healthful are these flno exchanges,
Food for food thus t> nded back:
None need pine for mental culture;
None neisl starve: there is no lack.
God bless men that seek the farmhouse,
Fai'hful tillers of the soil;
God bl-ws those that own the aero-
Noble men that |>ay for toil!
Hrr.mz. in A'eir Fori //■ os rind H-mw.
"CARLDTS IDIOT."
" Homing again 1" said Clifton Dn
rande. " Well, I might have expected
it this shiny, showery weather."
The woods were all misty with tho
tender, hndding green of tho spring
foliage. Under foot crept tho pink,
perfumed Htars of the trailing arbutus,
while in sheltered nooks, where moss
enameled boulders kept off the keen
west wind, and the sunshine poured its
balmly gold, the violets were covering
the dead leaves with thoir dainty carpet
of bine embroidery.
Down in the ravine a miniature water
fall kept up its musical plaint, and a
brown tront stream wound and twisted
among the roots of the trees, so exquis
itely transparent that one could see the
very stones and pebbles at the bottom.
It was a pictnresqno little glen
enongh, and Dnrande was considerably
annoyed at having to fold np his port
folio before ho had half completed his
sketch.
"I snppos- it is a pood mile and a
half to the village inn," said he to him
self. " I wonder if there is no farm
house nigh at hand where I can find a
sort of temporary shelter?"
Even as he stood hesitating, and
watching the brilliant fall of the spark
ling drops against the background of
pnrple-black clonds, the lrowery screen
of branches was parted, and a light fig
ure came down into the path—a gold
haired, deep-eyed girl of eighteen, with
a brown calico dress, tiny linen frills at
neck and wrist, and carrying in her
hand a gypsy bonnet, half filled with
wild flowers.
Hhe paused and looked gravely at him.
Ho lifted his hat with native courtesy.
" It is raining," said she, gravely.
" Yon will get wet."
"Unfortunately, yes," he responded.
" Perhaps you can tell mo of some place
nearby in which I can take shelter T'
" There is Farmer Dskin's barn," said
the woodland apparition ; " but it is on
the other side of the river, and the
root leaks like an old sieve. And there
is our bouse, just over the edge of tho
hilL I think you had better go to our
house."
" It yon will kindly admit me there,"
said Mr. Dnrande, " I am—"
"Ob, I know who you are I" said the
girl, with a 1 ttle d< prei atory motion of
her hand, " an 1 I'm r--rj sor y lor you,
indeed; ai d pleae," with a lovely flut-
Jer.ug color coming aud going in her
cheeks, "I should liko to be yonr
friend, if yon will allow mo?"
"With tho greatest ploiiNuro in tlio
world !" said Mr. Dnrande, waxing more
and moro bewildered.
"Then conic thin way," said tho
nymph, floating gracefully on before,
tho purple-blaok cloud h forming a hack
ground for licr exquisite face and figure,
and the trecw weaving un arch overhead.
Clifton Dnrande was no contemptible
pedestrian, but he soon found that he
was compelled to use every effort to
keep up with the girl.
"Give me the country !" said he to
himself as he hurried on. "If this
isn't real, genuine hospitality I don't
know what is!"
Across a patch of woodland, through
a pasture field, where young lambs
wore frisking and mihl-eyod cows lifted
their heads to watch thorn as they
passed, and up a box-edged garden
path, whcre'golden jonquils and creamy
clusters of narcissus grew in fragrant
luxuriance, and then they were in tho
great, airy, low-coiled room of the Wil
lett farmhouse.
" I do not know whom I am to thank
for all this kindness," said Dnrande, a
little constrainedly. "It is raining
very hard now, and I should scarcely
havo known where to find a shelter."
"lamMiittie Willett," said tho girl,
with unconscious dignity. "Are you
very tired? l'lease take this cushioned
chair—it is easier than the other. Kit
down, und I will bring you some bread
and milk presently."
Clifton Dnrande looked around him
in a sort of pleasant bewilderment.
Flowers were blossoming in the win
dows—pink primroses, sweet-scented
geraniums and velvet-petaled monthly
roses; engravings, framed in pine cones
and rustic work, hnng 011 the walls; a
bird warldcd in its cage, and a bine
ribboned guitar lay on the chintz-cov
ered lounge, beside a work-basket full
of swe?t feminine belongings.
" Am I in enchanted land?" lie auk oil
himself. "Is tbiH a modem 1 tcpia,
an Arcadia of the nineteenth century,
where wood-nymphs take pity upon be
lated travelers, anil all the world is hos
pitality t How fortnnate it is that I
eamo down to Glitter Falls to sketch,
instead of going to Haydcn Mountain !
She is as bt autiful as a dream; and how
stately and gracious her manner is! No
one could think of addressing such n
young princess as that save in the most
reverent manner. Hho says she knows
who I am. It must bo then," with a
little shrill of natural pride, "that the
famo of my paintings and water-color
sketches has reached even this seques
tered spot."
And Mr. Dnrande, albeit not a eon
ceited |ie.rsonage, began to comprehend
what real fame meant.
He lookisl at pretty M.ittic Willett as
she came into the room, with a l>owl of
milk and some slices of home baked
bread, with evident admiration.
" Yon are an artist ?" said he.
" No," said she.
"At least, you admire tine pictures?"
with a glance at the walls.
" Yes."
" Do you draw or sketch ?" he askisl.
" Oh, no
" Did yon ever try ?"
" No."
" How shy she is!" he thought ; "and
how Is-antifnlly her hair grows on her
forehead—real Scotch gold in its tints'
I wonder how I shall manage to draw
her out?"
Mattie Willett might have been shy
perhaps she was—but she moved ahont
the room with all the qniet aelf-posses
sion of an empress—and ns Dtirande's
eye involuntarily followed her, he !>e
camo more and more impressed with
the odd faney that he was in an en
chanted realm.
"Why don't she talk?" he thought.
" 1 will make her talk !"
At that moment, however, a sudden
thnndorbolt seemed to cleave the air
with its force—the air was all a-quiver
with blno fire, and the rain began to
descend in almost perpendicular sheets;
and Miss Willett, still moving in the
slow, graceful manner which was en
tirely devoid of anything like flurry or
turmoil, passed leisurely into the other
room.
"('liarley!" she cried out, joyfully,
as if welcoming some one who had jnst
entered from the outer door. "lam so
glad yon are safe here at last. I have
lieen so troubled for fear von should
get wet!"
("Who's Charley, confound him ?'•
thought onr artist, a sudden chill com
ing over the sunshine of his self-com
placency. " And why does she welcome
him in that enthusiastic way, as different
from the way she speaks to me as elec
tricity is from snow? Hho has got a
soul and a heart; sue isn't a mere beau
tiful automaton. Who is Charley, any
way?")
" Wet ? I?" echoed a deep, cheery
voice. "No danger in the world of
that, little Mat f But who have you got
in the sitting-room? I saw a man's
head as I passed aronnd the corner of
th house."
("J. alous, ehr thought Clift n
with a grim smile. "I'm glad of it I.
Though, 10 t>e aure, when one comes o
think or it, be hasn't givon him so very
much ground for jealousy.")
"Hush!" Muttio responded, lowering
her voice. " Don't speak no loud. It's
that poor fellow from Carlin's tho
weak-minded young man, you know,
whom hia friends have boarded there. I
never have happened to see him before,
but they tell me ho in quite harmless,
and when I aaw him standing there in
the rain, making no effort to go one way
or the other, 1 felt aorrv for him, and
brought him home."
"What! Carliii's idiot?" shouted
Charley, in vory evident consternation.
" Yes, Carl ill's idiot, if you will cal)
him so—which is very rude and unchris
tian of yon," retorted Mattie. "But tho
trouble is, now, how to get rid of him.
They say ho never will go away unless
you put him out by main force."
('barley, the inconsiderate wretch, in
dulged in a lew, prolonged chuckle.
" Now you have it!" said ho. " We'll
wait a little, until the deluge holds up,
and I'll see how I can get you out of
your dilemma."
But Mr. Clilton Dtirunde waited foi
no such denouement. He, the pink of
Fifth avenue fashion, tho mold of New-
York form, to be taken deliberately,
and in cold blood, for Carlin's idiot! It
was too much for any man's philosophy;
and, eatching up bis sketching port
folio and hat, lie rushed out into the rain.
" Perhaps I needed tho lesson," ho
said, to himself ; "but i! was rather a
sharp one. On rim's idiot, indeed!"
He got home to Cast let on Hall, where
ho was the guest of Mr. Alberique Cas
tle, jnst us a superb rainbow was arch
ing the dripping woods, and tho sun
broke in a bla/.e of glory from tlio west.
It bad been a long, rainy walk ; and
a* ho walked ho had thought of only
two tilings Carlin's idiot and Mattie
\\ illett's fair, serious face.
"How she pitied me!" he -aid, to
himself. "There was a serene, gracious
cornjm.s-ion in every word she spoke,
every glance she bestowed upon roc. 1
might have known it wasn't intended
for my own personality--clumsy, con
ceited blockhead that I was!"
" Lilian," lie said, to Miss Castle, that
evening, " have you invited Mi* Wil
lett to your party next week ?'
"Mattio WillcU?" said Lilian, knit
ting together her pretty brows. "Ob,
ya- ! She is old Farmer illcttV grand
daughter, and she sings exqniaitcly, and
accompanies herself with taste oil the
guitar. She is a very sweet, cultivated
girl. But wlmt do yon know about n<-r,
Clifton ?"
"Oh," said our hero, evasively, "I
have chanced to h<-ar of her in mv pere
grinations. And who is Charley /"
" IIi is her brother," said Lilian
Cuvtle; and then Mr. Dnrande fi-lt bct
ter.
But it wa-i not without a certain mali
cious -atisfaction that h<- howe 1 low to
Mattio Willott (looking l->v< lier than
ever in wliite muslin and pale-blue rib
bon*;, tho night of the Iarty at Castle
ton Hall, when Lilian introduced tliern.
She lookt-d at him with solemn sur
prise, evidently recognizing liiin, in spite
of his diamond shirUtnds, lavender
necktie and elegant evening suit.
"Yon see," he said, with a smile,
"that I am not Carlin's idiot, after all.
Bat I have to thank you for your gra
cious anil gentle hospitality, all the
same."
"I am very sorry I made such an
awkward mistake," : aid Mattie, coloring
a littlo.
" But I am not," said Mr. l)urande;
"for it showed me the spontaneous
charity and kindness of your nature."
And lrefore the evening was over tliov
were the best of friends.
Mr. Clifton Dnran le's picture of "An
April Shower over Glitter Falls" was
hung on the "Sight Line," In tho next
spring's exhibition at the Academy of
Design, and Mnttie Willett took an in
nocent pride in its beauty, a* she stood
in tiie crowd, leaning upon the arm <>f
tho young artist himself.
"And to think that I, n simple little
country girl, should lw engaged to such
a great artist T' f-ho murmured, so low
that the words could reach his ear
alone.
"An artist," lie responded, laughing,
"but ]>erhaps not so famous a one, after
all. I shall never forget, Mattie, dar
ling, what a blow to my self-complacency
it was when I discovered that yon had
mis taken ino, the budding genius, tho
conscious New Yorker, for—Carlin's
idiot I"
" Please—please try and forget that!'*
paid Mattie.
" I wouldn't for all the world !" said
Clifton Dnrande.
The severo weather injured the pea
nut crop to a considerable extent, but
the yield of "hitherto unpublished let
ters of Lord Byron promises to Is- as
Urge as ever this year. Some appre
hension is felt, however, for the erop
of Lafayette's gold watch. Only two of
it have lieen rescued from the clutches
of |>awnbrokers aineo the year opened.
A London Arm have invented a Are
extinguishing preparation which can bo
kept in powder or in solution. They
claim that it U not only moro speedy
and effectual in action than water, hut
that nothing once sprinkled with it will
ignite.
Tit MX ItOltltKltlKN.
*(!• t* nil lit* Kipluilt oi (lie Nniwrimit
llroilicr*.
The railroad robbery at Winston bears
the marks of tho famous Jauics and
Younger "boys'' workmanship, though
it lias been the fashion of late years to
lay all such crimes to their account
when the perpetrators were unknown,
and less distinguished desperadoes have
traded on the terror of their name. The
Jameses and Youngers wore graduated
from guerilla service in Western Mis
souri, und to desperate courage added a
perfect acquaintance with the West
from lowa to the Indian Territory. They
had tho further advantage of a wide
circle of relatives and acquaintances
more or less admiring and sympathetic,
and finally worked up their coups skill
fully under innumerable disguises and
aliases, appearing by turns as wild riders
and as peaceful drovers and cattle
traders. They rarely acted in full force;
one, two or three of them, probably
under assumed names, would recruit a
small hut sufficient band from among
the desperadoes of the frontier; tho
blow would be struck hundreds of miles
from the post at which they had last
appeared, then retreating lapidlv
southward or westward tho plunder
would be divided and the band would
break up, while pursuit would be dis
tracted by the discovery that tho other
three or four "boys," who had been
"positively identified," bad beam at
homo in the vicinitv of Kansas City all
tho time. Their history for the general
public OJHMIS with the descent on Uus
sellvillo, Ky., March 20, IHI'.H, when a
dozen mounted men entered th town,
and galloping up and down with cocked
pistols kept the townsmen withindoors
while two of their ntimber entered the
bank, "covered" the cashier, emptied
the safe and rode away, being chased
across the Mississippi anil well tip into
Northern Missouri, hut finally escaping.
This was a "benefit" excursion to ob
tain funds t ' f i nd a si.-k meinls rof the
band to sea. In December, ISfi'.i, a
'imilar exploit was r> floated at Gal
latin, Mo., with one additional detail
one of the rob!cr- blew out the brains
of ('ashier John YY. Streets. They
were traced to Clay county. Mo., where,
as usual, the trail was lost. The
Jameses, who have a {(enchant for cor
respondence, wrote to the governor of
fering to stand their trial if guaranteed
fair play, proving an alibi, lint be de
clared that such action was needier*.
The next raid was on Colnmbn*. Ky.,
April, 2*, l s 7l, when tho "boys" got
away in safety to Missouri, killing an*
other cashier. Juno •*, ]*72, fix of
them struck Corydon, la., robbed the
hank an! otcapnl, beating off the
pursuing sheriff, wiio came up with
them. 11l October of the name year, at
sunset, there was made a successful raid
on the cnhirr'* office of the Kansas
t'ity exposition while oiue 20,000 people
were on the ground". May 'Jo, IST.'t,
Hte. Genevieve, Mo , attacked and
plundered, ami the inonoy having la-en
divided in the wood* near Bt. I/oni*,
the hand rode away, dnlv 21 they
ditehed a Itoek I-land and I'acilie train
near Council Bluffs, and while two of
them held the terrified passengers in
check the other-, robbed the express ear
Again the freebooters got away, though
chased to the vicinity of Monegaw
Spring*, the home of the Younger*. In
November tiny "flagged" an Iron
Mountain train at < lad'* Hill, sixty miles
from St. Iouis. terrorised the jswsen
ger* and " hands," roblied the express
ear, sent a telegram to the St. Louis
press r porting the oceurrenee and rode
away to the southward. At Mvlvern,
Ark., in Deeemlx-r and at El PMO, Tex.,
in the following April, they overhauled
express safes on the a!ago routes. After
the last exploit the fir*t of the gang
came to grief—"dim" Reed, who was
mortally wounded by a Texas aheriff in
a quarrel, and admitting his
share in the robberies but refusing to
divulge the names of his a**ociate*. At
this time, too, occurred serrral tragical
episodes A poaso under ex-Captain
I/oiii* Lull, of the ( hicago poliee, went
to besiege the Younger* a Monegaw
Springs and met "Jim" and John
Younger on the road. Tlio lat
ter was killed lint Lull was
Bhot. Whieher, another Chicago de
tective, spent a long time in working
np a case against the lames boys, and
jnst as it was completed was made n
prisoner, carried uwav several miles and
shot to death on thohighway. Another
attempt was made by throwing a bomb
or tlrc-lrall into the bandits' house at
night, the oflleers being in wait to shoot
them down as they c*ea|>d, but the
only result was the killing of a child
and the maiming of a woman, while as
soon as the detectives hail retreated the
farmer stispeeted of giving them infor
mation was killed. The next train rob
bery was at Mnneie, Kan., in Decomlier,
1875, when some worth of cur
rency, coin and gold dnst rewarded tho
brigands. Soon afterward a Kansas City
rough, by name Hilly McDaniols. was
arrested for drnnkenneas, ani some of
the property was found on him. He wan
mortally wounded while endeavoring to
escape, but died and made no sign.
8 mulUneonaly another section of the
gang raided Corinth, Miss., and aaoaped
into the guerilla stronghold of West
cm Missouri. In the following spring
j four of thorn rode into Huntington, W.
\a, and robbed the bank, but their
j horses broke down during their pursuit
und Thomson MoDunfels was killed,
while John Koan was sent to the peni-'
tantiary,remaining impervious to threats
| or rewards when approached on the
subject of his companions. At Otter
ville, Mo., soon afterward, they robbed
the Missouri Pacific express, sweeping
some *IH,(HH) into their historic " old
wheat-sack." The man who had held
their horses, Hobbs Kerry, was captured
and convicted, but denied knowing who
they were. In September for the first
time they met courageous folk and
j found themselves in a strange country.
: They attacked tho bank at N"rthfiold,
I Minn., and sliot the cashier, but the
townspeople began skirmishing and in
! three minutes the bandits were in /nil
retreat, leaving "Clcl" Miller and Wil.
[ liam t'hadwell dead. The six survivors
! were hotlv pursued and turned to fight.
Charley Pitts was killed; one of the
Yonngcrswas terribly wounded und the
other brothers refusing to leave him fell
into the hands of the officers, and all
were sent to the Minnesota peniten
tiary, where they now are; v. bile Frank
| ami Ji HSC James, one hit in the leg and
i one shot through the breu-.t, <-scaped
to Nebraska and thence home, finally
) going to New Mexico. But in October,
187'.', another and u successful raid was
'made nti liietnlulc, Mo. Thereafter
there w.i- nothing luard of the J..!r.c<-
till lis'o and two companion", in a
mirthful mood, took po se-sion of a
dining-room carat Ivan a* t'ity, ordered
and ate their dinner with their revol
vers on tin- tabb , ail-1 )<-ft the ear at
Odessa, bidding the w.liter "charge
three dinner* to th<- government." In
April list there was a report that the
Januses had been tracked to Adairs
ville, Kv., and were besieged there, but
nothing more came of it. .Vet/- F-il
If nrht,
\u Oil *|H-culator*s li\|K ridK c.
I came to the oil country from the
Last almost without a dollar. That was
only a few years ago, f<n I am now only
turned thirty. I went to work with the
determination to iaak- a fortune or p<r
idi in the attempt. Iwa a Itookk- eper
at that time, and was able to command
quit/- a decent salary, and by dint of
strict economy 1 managed to get enough
money togcth< r to buy A ICAM and man
aged to get a well put down by a specu
lator. Before I could realize what lcd
liapj* tied I was in posse d"i- <-f a for
tune. Oil commanded a good price,
and I was on th top wave of ancccss.
Do you see that wall- t ? Flat, isn't it ?
Well, tliat sam<- wallet fairly bulged
with money then—money tha' I hardly
knew what to do with. Everything I
touched turned into gold, and I was
counted the lnckicst man in the coun
try. I took thing* coolly and didn't
make a great spread ; but 1 was foolish
enough to think I was fixed for life and
could t*M- things eay. Right on th<
top wave of success I got married, and
we went abroad. No ; I'm not goingto
tell yon a love story or Anything of the
sort, for matters of tLat nature are ls-t
--ter left unsaid. I will say, however,
tltat my wife didn't know a blessed
thing a!>oiit lion*/ keeping, and I do not
believe that alio knew the difference lie*
I tween a frying pan and a pot-lid. I
did though, for I had roughed it in the
West. Well, we went abroad and en
joyed ourselves, my agent in tho oil
country attending to business matters,
and, a* I subsequently learn -d, appro
priating a good share of the proAu for
himself. He let the debts accumulate
at a terrible rate, and managed to get
things mixed up in hopeless confusion.
ith minds free from care we jour
noyed around the world in a leisurely
manner, and in the course of si\ months
we landed in New York and came home.
Mv agent, hearing of our return, ab
soondod with all the money he could
lay hi* hand* on, and when I took the
helm of business I fonnd everything
going the wrong way. The debt* were
enormous, and one <lay all my creditor*
made a swoop on inc, and I let them
have every dollar I had on earth. I
squared up with tliern and came out
penniless. There was nothing left for
me bat to begin life over again and work
and wait patiently and to hope for bet
tor days. I turned by bark on the life
of w.abb And determined to win an
other fortune, and I will, for the wheel
of fortune will some day come around
to me. -Fhthidelp/iui Timm.
Feathered 'Smuggler*.
At a house near Lugano, Southern
Switzerland, several hundred trained
pigeons are kept for the purpose of eon
veying across the Italian frontier small
|>acknge* which are tied to their feet
and contain a miniature ladies' watch
each. These packages arc untied at the
place of destination, whereupon the
birds return to Swiss soil. Each pigeon
goes and comes once a day, and thns far
these little winged smuggler* hare met
no accidents. The Italian enstom offi
cers have hitherto vainly tried to dis
cover the phw-o of destination of tboae
airy dcfrwudar.
A Utile While.
"h. sn.il, a little while
Alrl tiion i likll U: releaeo I,
And Fortune shall hare om i
To frown upon tb'fl or unlit'-.
S little, litth- spac ,
A few brief month* or yi-ar-
I<JO brief, oh, wi'jl, for t-or>
'J ben to thy rusting-plaei
"b, wherefore art tiiou atirrr l
With we.ak ari l I'lle ran-
To (n.t thy ej/.
I. ike to a raptured bird J
lie still, |oor will, be still
If' aeon the sparrow* fall
'l'hv won* Ife knoweth all
'li'li, hnah, and wait llui will.
I'l MiKNT I'AltAUlt.U'ilS.
ihe orow in the bent corn e trtrtoi of
which we know.
"Sib-nee in golden" sometimes, bnt
uhen a follow fail* to respond to a dan
it looks more like tram.
There are over •32,!t0O,0(i0 of na
tional hank not** in circulation, and
tet how often they evade oir grasp.
Then i- alee,, for Ui .y. tl.a: i. t ' I
\ balm for the heart tint i na-|
A ealtn for tie hi art that j f.
And for etery Ur.-r ap ]
" M v Darling's Shoes" is the name of
i n* m bailad, hut the old man * boot is
generally cotn-idered to he more totieh
ing.
"The press is mighty and will pre
tail," raid the Knsceptihle maiden as
she W. s being linggi 1 by hi r stalwart
lover.
Oil' 111 otr young bd;-s who Dtp
an autograph album exclusively for
male signatures, refers toil as her "him
book."
King out wild hells, ! the wild sky,
ting out the old joke, ring in the new
tri. k tnu'e. These are the balmy d ,v.
of the circus.
A father-in-law may have oonsi h-r
--able feeling for von, hut it depend*, on
rour celerity whether he reaches rou
every time lie feels for you.
"Gracious! wife,"sail a lathe.,..* he
looked at his son William's torn t- . t*.
era, " get that little Kill r i-. t' 1."
And she replied, "so I Will."
Notice at the door of a r ady-uU
clothing establishment in •■*.> of the
poorer quarter* of Paris "Do not go
somewhere else to l>r* rohlwv't ; walk in
hole,"
Difference between tweedledum
and twcrdledee. On approaching an
ice cream sal on with hi* girl he turned
and retraced his step*. In.tea 1 of
treating it was r'treating.
" IIoW to Tell Itad Cgga " is the tide
ol an article in an exchange. N\ h* TJ you
have anything te tell a l<ad igg you
must bo careful not to break the shell
while imparting the information.
Brush, the electric light man. pic
dicta that electricity w ill soon 1- stores!
for family use. Think of sending vonr
oldest boy to the grocery store for a
paj*er of sal e rut Us and two pound can
of electricity.
A needle passes through thirty iif
ferent bauds in the course of its manu
facture. Seems so it most hurt
man terribly to bavi a needle pass
through his hands a* many times <
that. —Syr.yft/*r Standard.
The yiWithfUl swell I* mat -i t w. ! T,
Mo ri ry aonl mill sorrow pitfla
lake throat* of kit* wtm hav tl t .
In fact I!k youthful swell is riled
When his hotnarulatn 111) .-ufl*
Slide dwn into his . I. ■ V, >i eon) .
fii'l.
Mt. Desert has a strange woman who
tells fortunes for SI n head. A man
gave her a dollar, end she told him he
was a fool. He became very indignant,
bat for what reason we cannot under
stand. a* we think she was right. She
had his dollar.
A loquacious man suffering from ins* ni
nia waa advised by his physician to get
married. He took the advice, and meet
ing the doctor some time after was
asked: "Are yon troubled with sleep]. s
news any longer*" "Thank hcaven.no,"
he answered, "but my wife is."
"Well, tailor. 1 ifftimi- for my pm-
Kvjw-tOjg they're 11 4 y< I U-gun."
" TonrwrnOg. sir. I've s.ca to yoc.r wants,
Ami thi jot* you will find, sir. is <| ,
I'm clad you harp scon to mv want*.
Tliore. there, put that rash in your tit! 1
' I will; I've nwH-ateil your pants.
And also receipted your bill."
A citizen of Atlanta, (la., IIAS a his
]>otMeesion, according t-o a local paper,
an amethyst recently found in lUbun
eonntv, which contains a drop of water
in the center of the stone. This is said
to bo the only instance on record of any
amethyst so po* iliarly formed. That
makes it an amethyst of the first water.
Rome one asks, " Where arc von go
ing for yonr health?" If the inquiry
is meant for ti we want to say right
here that wo keep our health with us.
We cannot afford to have our health
running around the country, getting in
debt for traveling expenses, and having
ns under the necessity of hunting it up
every few months. We shell endeavor
to make it stay right here and Itehave
itself, and then we'll know w here to find
it when we want it.
Hi-alp grafting is the latest remedy
for baldness. Perlujis it may prove as
efficacious a* the transplanting of teeth,
'HF • is-* .