The Csiuse of Liberty.
We love no triumph* sprung of force -
They stain her brightest cause;
k Tis not in blood that liberty
Inscribes bor clvlf law.
Bho writes them on the people's heart,
In Inuguago clear and plain ;
True thoughts have moved the world before
And so thoy shall agaiu.
Wo yield to nono in earnest lovo
Of freedom's cause sublime ;
We join the cry, "Fraternity!"
We keep the march of time.
And yet wo grasp not pike nor spear,
Our victorios to obtain ;
We've won without their aid before.
And so we shall again.
Wo want no aid of bairieadc,
To show a front to wrong ;
We have a citadel in truth,
More durable and strong.
Calm words, great thoughts, unflinching faith,
Have never striven in vain ;
They've won our battles many a time,
And so they shall again.
I'eace, Progress, Knowledge, brotherhood
The ignorant may sneer,
The had deny ; but we roiy
To see their triumph near. ™
No widows' groans shall load our cause,
Nor blood of brethren slain ;
We've won without such aid before,
And so we shall again.
Chai • i M i Any.
Snow-Bound in a Car.
THE DII.EMMA OF A MUDK-EM'BCTANT.
I don't mind telling jon about au ini
cident connec.od with one of those
snow blockades. I didn't think much
of it at the time, but I've since though
it worth remembering. One day I
found myself at Smethport, the county
seat of McKean county, Fa., waiting
for a train to Bradford. The only train
I could get was on tho Bradford, Bor
dell and Kinzna railroad, and as busi
ness was somewhat pressing I had to go.
It had been snowing steadily for some
hours when I went to the station late in
tho afternoon, and I had fears that tho
train might not get through to Bradford
before morning, for the road runs
through u mountain forest all the way
and there are some pretty steep grades
a few miles out. Well, as I couldn't
do any better, I detemined to run the
risk. There wero only a few passen
gers, all of them oil men bat one, and
that oue a young lady. Hhe sat alone
in the ladies' car, for tho men wanted
to smoke and so kept themselves in the
smoker. Theje were only two pas
senger cars, a baggage car and an
engine in the whole tr>in, for you see
a narrow-gang© engine can't drag very
many cars up the side ifa mountain.
Well, down in the valley, where the
read was level, we made good headway,
but as soon as we got into the woods
and struck the first grade wo crept
along like a snail. It began to snow
harder than ever, and such snow I never
saw before. It came down in flakes as
large as au egg and as soft as feathers
—just the kind of snow to stick and
block things. I was beginning to wish
I hadn't started when I felt the train
come to a standstill. The railroad men
began to swear and tho engineer tried
to go ahead. The train jerked and
jostled, and dragged itself a hundred
yarda up the grade and came to a stand
still. The trainmen and the oilmen
held a council and decided to run back
to Smethport, but that was easier tlko 1
alout than accomjdished. Tho rear car
hadn't been backed three hundred feet
before it run ofT the track, and there wo
were. We couldn't telegraph for help,
because we hadn't an instrument, and
even if we bail the wires were already
broken with the weight of snow and
falling limbs of trees.
By the time we came to a standstill
for good it was pitch dark and snowing
as thongh all Greenland had moved
down on us. There was nothing to do
but to ait down and wait tor morning.
We palled up the eeata and made bed*
of them and were about to make our- j
selves comfortable for the night when
"Jndge" Cowan, a driller, jumped up
with a half jell. "Well," said he,
"we're selfish wretches—going to bed
here and never once thinking of the
woman alone in the other car." d ith
that he bolts thorough the door and goes
into the other car. •The young lady
was in there in the dark, the trainmen
even having forgotten to light the lamp*.
The minute the judge came through
the door she calls out, " Qow long bo
fore the train will get to Bradford, con
ductor?" "Madam," says he, "I'm
not the conductor, and 1 came in to
say that we're stack fast in the snow,
and will have tostav here all night and
porhopa lon jor." With that she give*
a little gasp of disappointment, and
probably had a little cry ail to herself
while the jndge was lighting the
lamps. Yon *e, she hsd come all the
way from some Kastcru city —Phila
delphia, I think—to meet her lover,
and by tbe delay of a snow Blockade
ahe might misa her wedding day. When
the trntb was known the boys ware
aorry enough, and would have done
anything in their power to help her
ont of the difficulty, but what coald a
handful of men do against a mountain
of snow ?
After her first disappointment the
young lady waa brave enough and waa
not at all afraid of staying in tbe car all
night, provided there waa a fire, so that
she oould koc-p warm. The judge said
ho guessed ho could tlx thing* up com
fortable, aud went to work making a
bod out of the seat cushions ond three
or four overcoat* borrowed from the
niou. by the time ho got things in
shape he hud learned that her lover
was an old friend of hi*. From that
minute the judge took her under hi*
own speciul protection and relieved the
conductor of the responsibility of her
safe arrival in Bradford, lie tnado the
rest of the men go to bod and sleep,
while ho sat up all night tending the
tire and keeping watch over hi* new
found ehargo. The night wasn't very
cold, but the wuv it did *now was a
wonder, before morning the ear* w< te
half covered under, and by daylight
one half of the train was out of sight.
You see, wo were in a fix, with no hope*
of getting out.
Aloug toward 9 o'clock in the morn
ing the young lady woke up and asked
how soon the train would get through,
and the judge, who had mad' a eurefui
survey of the surroundings every half
hour since the night before, answered
in u good-natured way that the train
might bo delayed a week for all be
could sec at that time. Would you tu
la ve mo? if that woman didn't burst
out crying! but she was as bravo u. a
man the next minute, and she even
smiled when the judge proposed to go
and hunt np something for breakfast.
It wasn't much of a break fust, but it
was the best the the train could afford.
A box of biscuits was found in the
baggage car, along with a barrel of
apples. Every lxx and barrel in the
car was broken open, but not another
eatable thing could be found. We had
an elaborate bill of faro that day—
apples and biscuit for breakfast, biscuit
and apples for dinner, while for supjier
wo had baked apple* and toasted bis
cuit. It snowed all day and nobody
left the ears. At night the *J<idge ap"
pointed |a relay of men to keep the
tires going and to gauge the weather
every half hour, ho himself taking the
first watch. During the nignt it
stopped snowing, and truly it WHS
high time, for it seemed an though the
whole crop of snow had been exhaust
ed In the morning we had a sumptuous
breakfast of apples and biscuit. The
more impatient of the men, seeing that
the snow had ceased falling, made an
endeavor to beat a path up the track,
but they might as well have stayed in
the cars. In the afternoon they tried
again, and the sndw being somewhat
settled they succeeded in getting some
little distance from the train.
Yon,being a city man,would natnrsily
ask why we didn't get out and walk
back to Hmetliport, but when I tell
yon that the nnow w*a neck-high to a
tall man an 1 as soft as bathers you
will not wonder that we were helpless.
We could do nothing but go lack to
our fires and baked apples for the third
night. The men sat up half the night
iu their car discussing away of escape.
Stranger, lam proud to say that not a
single man thought of himself; it was
all for the young lady. Wo could sec
that she took the imprisonment and the
delay very much to heart, although she
never uttered a word of complaint. It
was mighty hard to think of her shut
up in a snow-bank when she should be
attending her cwn wedding, and the
boys felt nearly as bad about it as she
did.
In the morning the judge made the
important discovery that the provisions
hud given out. Being healthy men 1
we had made short work of the apples j
and the biscuits. There was just enough
for breakfast and dinner for the yonDg
lady. The men were terribly hungry ;
when this became known. It is amns- i
ing to think of the melancholy manm r
in which thev wandered around the j
baggage car, prying into every corner,
ransacking the boxes m l overhauling
the barrels. It wasn't at all funny
then, but was a thing of remarkable
seriousness. By dinner-time the men
declared themselves half starved,
but thero was nothing to eat. The day
was spent in looking out at the btank
ness of the snow and in trying to beat
a path away from the train. Night
came, and the men went hungry to bed.
Thero were the most discordant grum
blings among them nntil the judge
came in and said that the young lady
had eaten the last half biscuit for snp
per, and then they forgot their own
hnnger in genuine pity for her. Even
a hungry man will sleep, and the little
party never awoke until tbe cold gray
dawn was creeping in throngh tbe car
window. The jndge was nowhere to be
found. Hearth was ft)ado, but no trace
of hixa conid lie aeen. There were no
tracks leading away from the train, for
the simple resson that the drifting snow
dnring tho night had covered every-!
thing from sight. Bat tbe judge bad
gone—that was certain. One of the
railroad men ventured to say that the
judgo had given the crowd the slip and
had started back •to Bmothport. The
fellow never repeated his little asser
tion, for he was dumped into the know
head first by the oil men so qniok that
he didn't know what had happened.
I don't know how the yonng lady felt
that forenoon, but I know she mast
hive been terribly hungry. Tbe men
wi re beginning to got weak from lack
of food, ami fclniost certain starvation
tared.the purty in tho faoo. lluugor
isn't a pleasant thing. I nover want to
fool it as I felt it thatiitno. The snow
at bright and beautiful as it WUH, be
came hateful to look upon. There wa
no brcakfn.it on that third day and no
dinner, and when the shadows of the
fourth night began to fall there wan no
supper. The coal waH almost gone.
Another day would leave UM without
tire. There had been no sign of the
judge ull day, und although the men
felt thut ho had gone for help, yet they
began to fear t hat ho had never reached
Hmothport. Every ono was down
hearted and ready to rush off into the
anow in the hope of forcing away out
of tho horrible place. Tho y.ting lady
nover once flinched, ami although hor
faco bore pluinly the traces of hunger,
yet she spoke not a word of complaint.
Tho men were in their most despondent
mood, when all at once tho judge turn-
M' d through the door with something
in his hand. It was a rabbit. How he
caught it no one kuew, for he was half
fainting from hunger and benumbed by
the cold. The boys soou had him
warmed, when he told Li-t story. He
had struggled through the snow ull day
ami had by rare good fortune caught
the rabbit. The tneu soon had the ani
mal skinned and nicely routed, and
the judge himself carried it to the young
lady. Hhe would take only her share,
however, and insisted that the meat,
scarce as it was, should be fairly divided
amoug the jsirtv. *
lu the afternoon of the next day a
gang of railroad workmen, armed with
shovels, aud reinforced by four loco
motives, a snow plow and a jawtsonger
car, worked a path down tho grade und
came upon our engine und traiu. There
was no sign of' life about the cars, and
the rescuing party that had started out
from Bradford early in the morning of
the second day of tho storm, working
toward us night and day, thought tt ut
ilic relief had come too late. But the
snowdionnd prisoners were alive, and
the very llrst man to rush into tho rear
ear of our trail; was the young lady's
lover. It would be useless for me to
attempt u description of tho meeting,
for the young lady just threw her arm*
about his neck and cried for very
joy. When ho led her out of her
prison and carried her in his arms to
passenger car f the relief train,
the tneu of both parties set tip such a
cheer that made the mountains echo
and re-echo again, ami the frightful
way in which those four locomotives
joined in tho chorus with their steam
whistles would have awakened the dead.
—ls tier to I'hi IMb Iphin Tim'.'.
Injury to the Kje*.
It in difficult to restore perfectly the !
eyesight wtien it is seriously injured,
becanse of the wonderfully delicate an<l
complicated mechanism of tho eyes;
and because of the difficulty of secur
ing to them the needed reel. A broken
bone may be put in splints or in plaster,
and the tone is soon as strong as it was
before tho injury; but the very light
of heaven frets nnd irritates a weak or
inflamed eye, an l it is hard to refrain
from using it.
Those p< isous, therefore, who have
good eyes cannot be to-> <'refnl in
guarding them from harm. They need
to be on their guard, for the feeling i*
apt to be strong that their eyes can
stand anything.
The eyes may be injured by using
too little (light, whether that of poor
oil or of the twilight; by too much
light, as when shines directly
on tho page which a person is reading, i
They may also be injured by a flicker- i
ing or sny variable light—the eye be
coming exhausted in its incessant at
tempt* at accommodation.
Hudden changes from light to dark,
and vice versa- when one who uses a
shaded lamp looks back and forth
from the blight page into the darkened
room -are also injurious. By holding
the head down near the book when one
is reading, or by reading while in a re
clining postnre, the mi note capillaries
of the eye may become congested and
the sight deadened.
Tho eyes may also ho injured by
naing them too continuously without
roat; by holding the eyes habitually
too uoar their object, than giving rifle
to short-sightedness ; by reading in the
cars or a carriage, the eyes being
weariod, fretted and congested by their
effort to follow the lines; by too much
reading daring tbe weary hours of con
valesconce, when the eyes share in the
weariness of the body ; and by reading
fine print on poor paper.
This lui source of norm needs to be
emphasised, in view of the millions of
cheap publications now pouring from
the press. The thinness of the paper—
allowing the reading to show through
—is even worse than the small siae of
the type. Yottlk'* Companion.
Htatiatics disclose the fact that of
every tea children born in England
and Wales, less than seven ever reach
their twentieth yew. In Franc* only
one half of tbe toys and girls who are
torn attain that age, and Ireland tails
evn below this raiflp-able standard of
Jnvsnile heelthfulncse.
An he! I'ond.
The greatont eel pond in the country
is on the farm of Mr. Wulls, of Hiver
liead, Long Island.
The pond covera Ave acres. Two
years ago Mr. Wells put into ;the pond
two thousand dozen oels, with no in
tention of disturbing them for Ave
years. They have increased wonderfully,
millions being in the pond, and it is
thonght that there will bo quadrillions
before Mr. Wells gets ready to market
them, and that ho has u fortune in
them.
Tho eels are fed regularly every three
days on what is known as "horse feet,' 1
a sou product, with meat inside a shell
which takes the shajieof a horse's hoof,
and it is doubtless from thut that it de
rives the name. The eels seem to know
that they are to be fed, for wben Mr.
Wells beats upon tho side of his
wagon vfith the butt end of bis whip,
they swurm toward him.
Any other person may beat and bang
for hours without causing tho slightest
commotion among them. Hundreds of
people go to sou them fed. Mr. Wells'
to satisfy the visitors' curiosity, will
hold a horse foot in tho water for a
minute or two, and then withdraw jt
with numerous (-els clinging to the eon
tents of tho shell.
The largest eel ever taken from the
l>ond in this way weighed Ave and three
quarter pounds, but there are, it is
thought, still larger ones. They con
sume seven hundred and fifty horse feet
iu three days. It would seem impossi
ble to furnishjso many, but the number
does not Wgin to detail the extent of
the catch. Millions of them are an
nually fed to swine and poultry, and
seise men make a business of catching
them. On June 15, after a storm, Cap
tain Downs, with a trap of his own in
vention, caught ono thousand " feed,"
and between the 15th of July and April
his aggregate catch was nineteen thou
sand.
The llareand the Fisli.
The Ilare and the Fish, having bor
rowed tolmcco of each other for sevetul
months and agreeing perfectly well on
politics, set out to make a journey to
gether and see the sights of the world.
They had not proceeded many miles
wb en a Wolf war discovered in pursuit.
The Hare at once started ofl at the t#p
of his speed, but the Fish called out:
°Do not leave me thna—l cannot
run I"
" A Fish who cannot ruu has no buai
nemuto make a journey," r plied the
ilare, and away he flew to rave his
bacon.
The Fish hurried after as fast as pos
sible, aud loth found themselves on the
bank of a river, while the Wolf was y< t
a furlong away. The Fish at once rolled
into tho water and darted away, but the
Hare shouted after him:
"Do not lewve me—l cannot swim!"
"A Hare who cannot swim has no
business to make a journey," nnd he
sailed away and left the Hare to be
eaten on the half shell.
MORAU
All Owl who had overheard the affair
from hi* perch in a persimmon tree
drew ddhrn his left rye and softly said:
" You don't know a man until yon
have traveled witlr him."— hc'roif Frr*
/'rr**.
The touching I'iant.
This is not a flower that laughs, but
one that creates laughter, if the printed
stories of travelers are to be believed.
A boy friend writes me that lie baa just
been reading abont it. It grows in
Arabia, and is called thelanghing plant,
because its seeds produce effects like
those produced by laughing-gas. The
flowers, he says, are of a bright yellow,
and tho seed-pod* are soft and woolly,
while tbe seeds roomble small black
brans, ftid only two or three grow in a
pod. Tho natives dry and pulverise
them, and the powder, if taken in
small doses, makes the aohorest person
tohavo like a circus clown or a mad
man, for he will dance, sing and laugh
most boisterously, and cut the most
fantastic capers and to in an uproari
ously ridienloua condition for about an
hour. When the exitement ceases the
exhausted exhibitor of these antics falls
asleep, and when he awakes he has not
the slightest remembrance of bis frisky
doings.— St. NicJiolnn.
An Arabian Beauty.
Ameua, the daughter of the chief of
the Algerian revolt, in the great beauty
of the Arati tribes. She appears to to
distinguished above all her rivals, not
only for her loveliness, but for accom
plishments likewise, being a poetess of
no mean order, and for ber courage in
the field, where she takes her place by
her father's side and gallops fiercely on
her Arab courser, as flnot and powerfnl
as his own. The pictnre ia worthy of
Horace Vernet, the Frenchmen say who
have pnraned the flying host under Bon
Amena'a command—the chief with his
white bonrnoe flying behind him and
the red anil purple tassels of his horse
gear dancing in tbe wind, while the
dark bine and white striped veil of the
girl, with its gold border, flashes in the
sun aa it floats ont beyond the long
streaming tail of her fiery steed.
A Faithful Hic|ocr<l Bog.
One herder, whom we met at Cold
Hpring ranch, showed us a very pretty
shepherd dog that ho said ho would
not sell for SSOO. Hhe had at that
time four puppies. The night we ar
rived wo visited his camp and were
greatly interested in the little mother
and her nursing babies. Amid those
wild, vast mountains, this little nest
of motherlv devotion and baby trust
was very beautiful. While we were ex
eluiming, the assistant herder came to
say there were more than twenty slo op
missing. Two male dogs, both larger
than tho little mother, were standing
uhout with their hands in their breeches
pockets, doing nothing. Bat the herder
said neither Tom nor Dick would And
them. Flora must go. It was urged by
the assistants that her foot was sore, she
had been hard at workuil day,was nearly
worn out, und must suckle her puppies.
Tho boss insisted that she mud go.
The snn was setting. There was no
time to 1 <*•-. Flora was called und told
to hunt for lost sheep, while her roaster
pointed to it great forest, through the
edge of which they had passed on their
way up. >he raised her head, but
seemed very loth to leave her babies,
Tiio boss called sharply to her. Hhe
rose, looking tired and low-spirited,
with head and tail down, and trotted off
toward the forest. I said :
" That is too l>ad."
"Oh, she'll be right back. Khe's
lightning on stray sh'-ep."
The next morning 1 went over to
learn whether Flora found the strays.
While we were speaking the sheep were
returning, driven by the little dog, who
did not raise her head or wag her tail
even when spoken to, but crawled to
her puppies and lay down by them,
hhe had been out all night, und while
her hungry i abies were tugging away
fell asleep. I have never seen anything
so touching.— Colorado lst'*r.
I'oKou for I lie I'mi|ili',
It would app> r from the following
extract from Footl and /!• iUf, that food
adulteration is more general than is
usually supposed: Committees of ex
erts tell of adulteration in food that is
simply appalling. W< re the ingredi
ents which are mixed with food innoc
uous it would still be a very great hard
ship; but when it is known that the
most violent poisons are employed it i
a marvel that the whole country does
not r; e up and put a stop to such prac
tins and punish all dealers who sell
poisonous articles of food. If
confirmation of these startling
statements were uceded one has
only to read the faets recently brought
to light in Chicago, where it is impos
sible to find pure sugar and where not
ten per cent, of the milk is good. In
that city the bread, without exception,
is poisonous; the teas were nev.-r im
ported, but are male of leaves "faced"'
with Prussian blue and chromate of
lead. Heventy-fivc per cent, of the
cream of tartar is white earth, and the
coffee is coated with lampblack. But
Chicago is no worse than other cities.
Baking |>owders are largely composed
of alum. Pickling fluid is diluted with
sulphuric acid, alum and verdigris to
give it a peculiar flavor.
The manufacture of a great deal of
our confectionery should be punished
as a crime, for much of the candy sold
to children is simply a lump of white
earth, made attractive to the eye with
arsenical paint, and sweetened with
glucose. Costly spi. e* are counterfeited
in a terribly grotesque manner, the
flavoring !>etng giv.n by the rankest
poisons. In these and other adulura
tions arsenic plays the largest part.
We import annnally two million pounds
of this deadly poison—one cent's worth
of which would kill 2 *OO people—and
the bulk of this import is used in the
preparation of food and clothing.
Hon triNc Teeth lire Made.
A reporter of the Sfar recently visited
a factory in this city where false teeth
are made by the million In the pro
cess of manufacture tho ailox and feld
spar in their erode state arc submitted
to a red heat, and then suddenly thrown
into cold water, the effect toing to ren •
der them more easily pulverized. Hav
ing been ground very fine in water and
tbe water evaporated, the two materials
mentioned are dried and sifted. The
kaoline is washed free from impurities.
These materials, with feldspar, sponge,
platina and flux in proper proportion
for the enamel, are mixed with water
and worked into masses resembling
putty. This done, tho unbaked porce
laine masses are ready for the molding
room. The molds are in two pieces and
are made of braaa, one half the teeth or
sections toing on either aide. The
coloring materials are first placed in
the exact position and quantity required,
and the bod* of the tooth and the gum
is inserted in lumps corresponding to
'he aire of tho tooth. Tbe molds are
then closed, and they are dried by a
slow beat. When perfectly dry they
are taken out and sent to the trimmers'
rooms. The trimmers remove all im.
perfections and send them in trays of
fire clay to the furnace, where having
remained for twenty minutes they are
eomplete.— Wilmington (/V.) Star.
A Valentine.
Ah, dear Uii' fond f<mrrelt tliat now,
Vt hjl<> him r chills delay the blood,
W Idle 'lie if nhcatlie* the next year' bud,
While earth la frozen atiff and dead,
And the liearetu nhow a frowning brow,
The flower of love uplift* ita head,
And blossoms wjth ita white and red;
Isioaar.ma tij'm a damask ibeak,
In warmth and fragrant e spicy aweet,
Whore aotne one *Uy, with lingering feet,
To read the burden of my Una
To read the word* I dart not apeak
Then lift* a dewy lip t/> mine,
And take* me for her Valentino. V
I'I'MIKM I'AIUtIKAI'IfS.
A brilliant idea Selling paste for
diamond*.
A JJoaton man tiara hi* far, trim mad
overcoat in "too utterly otter."
A whaling expedition—Going after a
bad l>oy with a hickory awitch.
liit* lian>la of a clock are genuine
hummer- they an- alwaya going the
rounds.
If the blind people wire to hold a
convention, could a motion be carri-d
by the ayea ?
A mad'd knight mui t have required
u good many postage atumpa to rarry
him through aucceasfnlly.
A baby in Ohio that was fed on ele
phant' milk gained twenty pounds in
one week. It was the baby elepLant.
This is the time when the small boy
puts in eight hours a day flattening his
noae against the confectionery window.
When a man brags that he can tell
a jwraon's character, by the color of his#
hair, it is deuced rough to swindle Lim
by steering him tip against a man who
wears a wig.
A Brooklyn man ha* just found his
sister, from whom he has been scpar
ated fifty yesi>. Khe was the cook in
his Ixiarding house, and be recognized
the style of ber bash. t
" Custer county, M. T., is aiout as
large as the whole of Pennsylvania."
Yes, hut it will never Lave as large a
population. That is, ao long as if re
mains in an M. T. state.
The speak< r bad failed to awaken a
very deep interest in his hearers, but
when the small boy bad stolen •jaietly
out after leaving red j-eyja-r on tLe
stove tie re wasn't a dry eye in the
house. W
Bachelor Jones—"The State would
bo better off if every Chinaman was
kicked out of it to-morrow." His mar
ri-d friend—" Where would you get
your washing done then V" Bachelor
Jones—"Marry seine nice girl and have
it done at home." Chorus by six
clicible young ladies who happened to
hear Jones and bis friend talking—
" The Chinese must go !"
" Memory is a wonderful thing." said
Jack Miller to his friend Pan Watts.
"Just think of what a fellow's hea i can
hold I It's gigantic, sir— gigantic !*
Watts: " I hat c often heard your friends
say you have a very fine memory. Jack,''
Miller (flattered): " Well, that's very
kind. Yes, I have a pretty good
memory." Watts: "I)o you think you
can recall the ten dollars I lent you
three years ago 7"
Quite an outcry is laing made about
the alleged dangers of the electric
light 'Twas always thus. The wise
men of s few yesrs ago were afraid to
use gas, for fear the gasometer might
blow them up as often as a shrewish
wife. Others thonght that applying a
match to a gas jet would be analogous
to firing a train of gunpowder. The
light, it was argued, would run along
the pipe and cause an explosion every
time. Huch, however, was not the case.
The explosions occur only quarterly,
when the bills are brought in.
A s<oo lira.
A young Kan of Provide ce, R. L,
and well known, wear* a handsome
cluster diamond pin, rained somewhere
abont 8700. A few night* since ho ar
rived at hia home late, and hurriedly
andreMing threw hia ahirt carelessly
on the floor, with the valnable pin in
the bosom, and retirtd. The next
i morning when he <-atne to don hia ahirt
.the-pin waa gone, and the#strictest
search for it was unrewarded with *uo
eeea. It happened that there was abont
the home a ben—a sitting hen, kept in
the house oB account of her occupation
—and the thought occurred to the
father that perhaps the pin had
l>eoome detached from the garment
when it waa thrown down, and the Ren.
in her wanderings, might have been at-'
trncted by thia shining valnable. and
gobbled it down. Re had a great
mind to kill the ben then and there to
investigate, hot he didn't want to, as if
he did the eggs wonld be no good ; so
for a couple of dara the hen was kepr
close, not allowed to go ont of the
bonne, and closely watched in the hope
of finding the missing diamonds. Bnt
no pin waa found. Finally, on or about
the third day, if was decided to kill the
ben, when, sure enough, in the gistard
was fonnd the miaaing pin. The gold
setting was teat and scratched and one
ot the smaller diamonds was missing,
bnt font of the diamonds wen all
right.