Hnnshlae.
Broad and bright the sanahina
On tho terrace lay,
Touching with an equal ray.
In equal gladness to illume
Violet boil and yew tree's gloom.
Yet, within tho silont room
Dimly rose tho day.
Merrily thn sunshine
Caught the upper pane,
But as yot it strove in vain.
With its glitter to surprise
Tito yearning in tho lady'a eyes,
Who, lonely 'neath tho sweet spring skies,
Fought life's long frot and strain.
Lower crept the sunskino
Down the lattioe tali.
Till it saw its radiance fall
All along the silent floor,
Past tho heavy, close-abut door,
Through the room that knew no mors
Light step or cheery call.
Th> triumphant sunshine,
Flooding all it saw.
Laughed at list her gaze to draw.
From where the phantoms of the past
Au eternal shadow east;
And her chances fell ut last,
As in breathless awe.
Where the glorious sunshine
Danced and shone and glowed.
Whore the treasured picture showed
Tho tall cross that stood above
All her best of lifo and love,
And 'mid hor bitter sorrow strove
To point the higher road.
"And," said tho happy sunshine,
"Oh, heavy eyes that mourn,
Oh, heart from its chief moorings torn,
Look at the joy with which He dowers
Tho wakening earth and budding flowers;
Trust to tho Qod of sunny hours.
Nor daro in griefs keen scorn.
"To turn away from sunshine;|
Nor in the sense of loss.
With reckless hand aside to ton
The comfortiug through Nature given,
Tho trials of our way to leaven.
See how the brightest glom from heaven
Clingi longest round the cross."
—All the Year Hound.
A RECEIPT IN FELL
The tins had keen all scoured nntil
she could see her face, or grotesque
caricatures of her face, in each and
every one of them ; the window panes
polished until they sparkled, or had
sparled—for it was now twilight—in
the bright Jane sunshine ; the silver
burnished until neither spot nor speck
marrod its mild luster; the loaves of
bread baked until each crispy crust
took on the right shade of tempting
brown ; and Molly was scrubbing the
only unscrubbed corner of the kitchen,
when Miss Cameron's deep, harsh,
precise voice came to her from the din
ing-room : " Mary, are you not
through yet?"
"Almost, ma'am," answered Molly.
"I think it is high time you were
quite," declared the voice, " You
must make haste. We are going to the
lecture this evening, Miss Georgette
and I; and as Mr. Malcolm also wishes
to go out, wo will be obliged to lock up
the house. Therefore it is necessary
that you should leave as soon as pos
sible."
"Yes, ma'am," said Molly, meekly,
and finished her scrubbing with her
tears falling fast and thiok. Poor little
girl! she had tried so hard to please
her mistresses, or rathor her mistress
for Miss Georgette was but a reflection
of her elder sister—and her efforts had
been met with a grim silence that be
tokened a begrudged satisfaction, until
the last few weeks; that is, in fact, until
Mr. George Maloolm came there. Mr.
Malcolm was a sort of step-brother to
the Misses Cameron (his father, a wid
ower with two boys, had married their
mother, a widow with two girls), and
they inheriting nothing in the way of
property from their own father, he gen
erously made them an allowanoe from
the moderate fortune left him by his.
Generonsly and forgivingly—for they
had not rendered a tithe of the respect,
to say nothing of affection, which was
his due, to their indulgent and kind
hearted step-father, choosing to look
upon their mother's second marriage
as an insult to the memory of the pa
rent whose not at all amiable character
istics had been his only legacy to them.
The cottage in which they lived, sit
uated in the prettiest part of Meadow
ville (the furniture therein !>eing their
own, the bequest'of a maternal grand
mother), belonged to Mr, George; and
here he had come in search of solitude
and quiet, for the first time in twelve
years or more, to spend a month or two
in thinking of and arranging plans for
starting a large business in a neighbor
ing city. And, as I hsve already inti
mated, things had changed ranch for
the worse with Molly, the servant-maid,
sinoe his arrival. The grim silenoe had
given place to most open fanlt-finding,
when Mr. Maloolm was not within hear
ing. The coffee was too strong, the tea
too weak, the chickens underdone, the
■teaks bnrned, the eggs boiled too hard,
the rooms badly swept, the shirts poorly
ironed; and all these complaints, with
many more, the elder spinster, con
firmed by the younger, gave her to un
derstand originated with the gueet
" What a hard man to pleaso, he
mnst be r Molly said to herself many
times. " And yet he has one of the
handsomest and kindest faces I ever
caw; and he spake right pleasantly to me
the first day he oame, and even offered
me hie hand (how Miss Cameron did
frown I}; but I pretended not to see it.
for I know it was not my place to shake
bands with him. It is strango he should
have become so fractious. Qo was no
good and merry and kind when I was a
little girl. I've heard fathor say ofton
he'd rather shoe a horse for him than
for any ono else in the village." And
then she would fall to thinking how
grand he used to look to her childish
eyes when ho oame riding up on his bay
mare to tho smithy, where she spent
half her time watching her father at
tho forge. And ho always bronght her
a gay piotnre book, or a protty ribbon,
or a box of candies, or a bright now
silver pieoo—one Christmas it was a
gold one—and claimed a kirn (good
gracious! how hor cheeks flu: hod ut tho
remombrnnoe ?) for payment when he
rode away again. How happy, how
very happy, she had been then,
with that dear father and dear
old Aunt Nanny I—so happy that
she had scarcely ever felt tho loss
of the mother who had died in giving
her birth. But when Molly was flftoen,
the blacksmith, so strong and ruddy
that it Boomed impossible pain or siok
ness could ever come near him, fell
sick, and after lingering, sorely crip
pled, for nearly two years, died, leaving
nothing to his darling bat hard work.
Yes, there was one alternative : to be
come Mrs. Jske Willow, and mistress
of the forge again; bnt Jake was a
rongh, vulgar fellow, and Molly, inher
iting the delicate tastes and gentle ways
of her mother (who had been a shy,
pretty young governess before she mar
ried tho handsomo blacksmith), shrank
from the loud voice aLd rude laughter
of her wonld be husband. And so, in
preference to accepting Jake's offer, she
became—and Ilcaven knows this was a
bard enough thing to do—maid-of all
work in the cottage of tho Misses Cam
eron. Poor little Molly! prettier than
many a princess, with lovely, black
fringed gray eyes, and hair of tho very
darkest brown—hair that would curl in
spite of her, to Miss Cameron's great
displeasure. "If I had such untidy
hair," that lady would often dt clare,
glancing approvingly into the mirror at
the flat dyed bands that made a trian
gle of her high narrow forehta , "I'd
shaTe my head and "We'd certainly
shave our heads," would echo Miss
Georgette.
The kitchen floor finished, the ruga
shaken and returned to their places,
the bread put away in the big atone
jar in the cupboard, Molly sought her
own room (which, to tell the truth, was
to room at all, but a corner of the gar
ret rudely partitioned oft, with only a
small skylight to admit light and air
—there were rooms, empty, unused
rooms, in the attic, but "they were
much too good for a servant," Miss
Cameron said ; (and "very much too
good for a servant, '* agreed her sister)
—to make ready for her flitting. Molly
looked around it as she tied her straw
hat over her rebellious tresses, and
again the tears filled her eyea. It had
not been a happy of rest to her,
but it had been a place of rest and a
shelter, and sho had been glad to have
it, fearing to leave it less worse luck
lay beyond.
And she would not have been com
pelled to leave it had it not been for
that unfortunate mirror, and the un
ceasing complaints of the old bachelor.
Oldbasholorl Why, he couldn't be so
very old alter all, for he was only one
and twenty (she was then between Ave
and six) whon he gave her the ribbons
and books and silver pieoes, and she
gave him the kisses.
Bat the sound of closing chatters
broke in on her reverie, and reminded
her that her departure was waited for,
and taking her handle in her band, she
ran quickly and lightly downstairs to
the parlor, where the maiden ladies
sat erect and stern, their bonnets al
ready on in readiness for the lectors.
"I'm going now," said Molly, stand
ing in the doorway, her sweet, pathetio
face, with its pleading gray eyes and
quivering lips, in no way touching what
her mistresses were ploased to call their
hearts. " Good by, ma'am. Good by
Miss Georgette."
But the only reply she got was:
" Beer in mind that you are atill in
debted to us eight and twenty dollar*,
ir, however, yon should prefer to por
chaae a mirror yonraelf in place of the
one broken by yon, we will oonaent to
receive it, provided it ia in every way
ae good aa that left na by onr grand
mother. And in that caae we will agree
to refund the eight doliara, yonr laat
month's wages, which we have retained
as the first installment of yonr debt,
which is really mnoh more than could
have been expected of as,"
" Oh, yea, indeed, very mnoh more
than conld have been expeoted of as,"
murmured Hiss Georgette.
" Por snob grots carelessness Mi**
Cameron went on.
" Indeed, ma'am," interrupted Molly,
her cheeks flaming and her eyes spark
ling, "as I have told yon, I never
touched it; I waan't even near It. I
was sweeping the other side of the
parlor when it fell, and the oord it
hung by was all motb-eaten. and had
parted just in the middle, u I ahowed
yon ot the time."
" —Shonld be punished," continued
Miss Cameron, not paying the slightest
attention to the girl. " And one word
more. Please to remember that we
hare your signature to an acknowledg
ment that you consider yourself re
sponsible for the breakage."
"You frightened me so that I scarce
ly knew what I was signing," said
Molly. " But as I hare promised, I
will pay you, for it shall never be said
that my father's daughter broke her
word. I'd give you the few dollars I
have saved if I had net to keep them
for my own support until I get another
place. Poor Aunt Nanny can only give
mo shelter, for, as yon know, sho has
depended almost entirely on me for
food and clothes ever since my father
died."
" Yes, and a very ridiculous thing for
both of you," snapped Miss Cameron,
with a cold snap. "Bhe might much
better soli the hut she lives in for kind
ling wood, and go to the poorhouse,
and you might much better save your
wages to pay for the things yon break.
For break yon will to tho end of your
days. I never saw a person with snob
fly-away hair as yours that was not
vain, careless and frivolous. You may
go."
"Yen, indeed, yon may go," added
Misa Georgette.
And the poor child went ont into the
road, homeless and almoat friendle
with a ahadow on her fair yonng face
and a pain in her heart. Bnt ahe had
only tnrned into (he long lane that led
to old Nanny'a collage when aome one
came qnickiy to her aide, and aaid in a
kindly voice, "Molly! poor little
Molly!" and there waa Mr. Malcolm.
And Molly, in her grief, thinking only
of him aa the friend of her childhood,
who had known her aa the darling of
the kindeat of fathers, flung her bundle
down, and bnrst into a passionate flood
of tears.
" They were hard on me, yonr aiatera,
Mr. Malcolm," ahe sobbed—"very hard
on me. I did my best for them. I
worked—and I am not very strong,
thongh I am a blacksmith's daughter—
from morning till night, and yet I could
not please them. And it was not my
fault about the mirror. It waa not—it
waa not—it waa not. Thongh Misa
Cameron inaists that I stopped sweep
ing to look at my curly hair—l can't
help its curling; I did everything to
make it straight; 1 tied it back so tight,
over and over again, that my head
ached aw/nl— and knocked it with the
broom. She waa a little better before
you came; bnt after yon came and c >m
plained so much about the tea, and tho
coffee, and your shirts, and—and every
thing— '*
" I complain!" exclaimed her list
ener, breaking in on her rather con
fused narration of her wrongs. " Why,
I never complained of anything; How
could I ?—there waa nothing to be com
plained of."
" She said yon did. But I beg par
don, sir"—suddenly remembering the
difference between the candy-and-kiaaes
time and the present. " Hho is your
sister, and my tronbles are nothing to
to yon."
" She is my sister an extremely long
atep off," ho replied, gravely; •• sad
yonr tronbles are a great deal to me ;
and furthermore, I think I see s way—
a pleasant way—ont of them. Let mo
walk with you to yonr Annt Nanny's,
and there, with her to advise us, we'll
talk matters over."
"Oh, it's such a poor place, Mr. Mal
colm I Miss Osmeron called it a hut,
and said it was only fit for kindling
wood."
"I've been in mnch poorer places,
Molly," said he, and picking up her
bundle he walked by her aide to the
old woman's cottage.
Two weeks passed by. A poor drudge
from the workhonse, whose ehief (in
feet whose sole) recommendation was
" no wages," had taken Holly's piece in
the Misses Cameron's kitchen. Mr.
Malcolm had gone away on bnsiness
directly after coming, and on the even
ing appointed for his retnra the two
sisters, attired in dresses of dnll gray,
unrelieved by a single touch of color,
sat (everything in the honse being in
heart-chilling, dreadful atony order),
one at each parlor window, awaiting his
arrival.
" He most be ooming; I think I hear
wheels," said the elder, in her naoal
precise tones.
" Wheels," repeated her Bister.
And "wheels" they were, bnt not the
wheels of a carriage, bnt those of a
track, and this track, on which lay a
long wooden box, stopped before the
cottage door.
"A mirror for Miss Cameron," the
driver called out as he jumped down.
"A mirror 1" repeated the spinster,
nnsble to restrain a gesture of sorprise.
And "A mirror !' said Miss Georgette,
with another gesture of surprise.
" Yes, ms'am; from New York. Where
is ft to be taken ?"
"First unpack it ont here," com
manded tho lady, recovering her self
possession. " I can't have the honse
littered up with splinters and shavings."
" No, indeed," chimed in Miss Geor
gette, also recovering her self posses
sion. "Bplinters and shavings 1"
Bo tho box was unpacked at the road
aide, and the mirror taken from it
proved to be t>etter and handsomer in
every respect than that it had been sent
to replace.
"I've brought wire to hang it with,"
said the man, as he carried it into the
house; "so there'll be no danger from
moths this time."
"M oths 1" said Miss Cameron, glaring
at him. And " Moths 1" eohoed her
sister, also glaring. And they both
continued to glare, as though called
upon to superintend a piece of work
highly repugnant to their feelings, un
til the mirror was hung and tho driver
again in his place on the track.
"Of course George sent it," said
Miss Cameron, when the man had
driven away. " But Mary Brown must
pay for the other all the same. Our
having this makes no difference in re
gard to the agroement with her."
"No difference in regard to tho
agreement with her," assented Miss
Georgette—when who shonld walk in,
in a gray silk walking dress, a bnnch
of crimson flowers at her throat, and
another in her belt, and the most co
quettish gray hat, adorned with more
crimson flowers, but Molly herself I
"Good-evening," Bhe said, smilingly.
"I have called for a receipt in full."
receipt in full I And for what,
pray? Dive you brought tho money T
asked her whilom mistress. And,
" Have yon brought the money ?"
echoed her other whilom mistress.
"No, I havo not brought the money,"
answered Molly, "but I have sent you
a mirror that more than answers all
your requirements."
"You?" from both sisters at once.
And again, for the second time in one
short hour, they were guilty of being
surprised, and letting their surprise be
seen.
" Yes I. I have the bill with me. A
receipt in full, if you please."
Miss Cameron arose, walked in a
stately manner—Molly following her—
to her desk in the dining-room, seated
herself, took ]>en, ink and paper, and
began; "Received from Mary B—"
when
" Stop a moment," said Molly; "my
name is no longer Mary Brown."
" And what may it be?' inquired Miss
Cameron, regarding her with lofty eon
tempt.
" I'll answer that question," answered
Mr. Malcolm, suddenly appearing, and
passing hia arm round the slender gray
silk waist, thereby crushing tho bunch
of roses in the natty belt-"Mrs. George
Malcolm."
The pen fell from Miss Cameron's
band, and for the flrat time in bcr life
that estimable woman went into hys
terics, whither her equally estimable
sister immedistely followed bor.
And Molly, taking her leave at that
moment, never reooived any receipt, in
full or otherwise, after all.— Harprr'n
Woelly.
Bird* and Elc ctrlr MJitx.
Denver ia largely lighted by elec
tricity. Oat toward the suburbs are
several lotty towera, upon the tope of
which are powerful electric light*.
They are risible twenty or thirty miles
distant, and for a circuit of half a mile
or more in every direction they give a
light almost like day. These towers are
an open framework of squared timbers
and iron rods, built like an oil well
derrick, but rising to a height of two
hundrod feet. About ten days ago
one of the evening papers
staled that a great nntnber of birds
were being killed about one of these
towers, speaking of the destruction as
"hnndreda," and demanding that the
electrio lights be abolished if they had
to be maintained at the expense of
bird lifo. The electrio light com
pany claimed that it was unjustly at
tacked. I bare since investigated the
facts to some extent, and am of the
opinion that the very bright light was
the cause of destruction. The slaugh
ter occurred mainly on one night, to
some eitent the succeeding night,
and none is reported since. It is
stated by persons living in the
vicinity tbst on the night
in qneition the light was excessively
bright Birds were flitting abont,
twittering and singing all night. They
flew against windows that were lighted.
In the morning dead ones were found
in the neighborhood of the tower ti the
estimated number of three hundred.
Others were crippled, with broken
wings or otherwiee disabled. The dead
were braised and lacerated, with many
bones broken. A wild duck was found
to have its breast mashed to a pulp. In
some the breast was lain open as though
splil by a knife.— fetter to Forttl and
Strum.
A Shoemaker's Advice. •
A sensible shoemaker, who made a
large fortune by the sale of an exten
sively advertised shoestring of his own
invention, wrote the folloelog stance as
advioa to those who wish to snooeed in
business:
"It you srs wit© and wish to rlaa,
Then pitch right fan and adrertUa;
If you are not, then ait down aot,
And l*t your Basin era iro to pot,"
CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The horseshoe crab grinds its food
between its thighs.
One-half the bnman family die under
seventeen years of age-
There is now a new wine in France
wkioh is manufactured out of the com
mon beet root.
The moa, or dinorsis, was a huge bird
of New Zealand, the largest specimen!
being throe times the size of an ostrich.
In 1584 "cages and stocks," for the
punishment of offenders, were ordered
to be set up in every ward in the city of
London.
Hippocrates, born at Cos, 400 B. C-,
was the first person to apply himself to
the study of physio as the sole business
of bis life.
The island of Ceylon and the king
doms of Pegu and Burmah contain al
most the only rnbyand sapphire mines
of the world.
James Watt congratulated himself
that one of his steam cylinders only
lacked three eighths of an inch of being
truly cylindrical.
It was the Enporor Charles V. who
invented tho title of Majesty,"
sovereigns bavin* previously been ad
dressed as "your Grace."
Tho Human* held peculiar view#
about ducks; tbey ate only the head and
breast, the remainder being, according
to Martial, the cook's perquisite.
In llussia, where card playing is
carried on to a great extent, the manu
facture of the cards is a government
monopoly, and there is only one factory,
from which 24 000 packs are turned onl
daily or over 7,000,000 a year.
It is suggested that tho derivation of
London is from the Celtic Luan, the
moon, ard dun, a city on a hill. That
it was " the city of the moon'' is all the
more probable from the tradition that
the site of St. Paul's wm formerly that
of a temple of Diana.
The value of all farms in the United
States is estimated at |10,195 800,045;
value of farm implements at $406,516,-
002, live stock, i 1.500,487,187; fertiliz
er# purchased and used in 1879, $27,-
593,850; fences, cost of bu\diog and
repairing in 1870, $77,765,723
A great oomet, believed to be that of
Halley, appos ed in England in 1066,
the year of the Norman Invasion. It
was looked on as the forerunner of the
conquest, and produced universal alarm.
"Tho new stsr means a new king," was
a common expression of the day.
Governments previous to and daring
tho middle ages have been in most cases
hoarders of metallic wealth, a result of
the theory that the masses bad no right
to property. As far down as tho reign
of Frederick, of Prussia, Henry VL, of
England, and Henry IV., of France, ac
cumulation of public wealth marks the
progress of most of the kingdoms of
Ear ope.
Poaching in Enrland.
The penalty for poaching varies with
the natare of the off >ose; the season of
the year, the hours of the day or night,
even religion, ffecting it As for in
stance, taking game on a Hnnday or
Christmas day subjects the taker to a
fine of £5, and for killing game birds
daring the "close" season the fine is £1
per head of those killed. These pen
alties, however, are not special to
poachers, the owners of the game itself
being liable to them. The laws that
more affect the poacher come under
the heading of " Trespass," and
he is termed a " trespasser in pur
sait of game." When caught so tres
passing in the day (whieh is defined as
" from the beginning of the last honr
before snnrise and oonclnding with the
expiration of the first honr after sun
set") the penalty is £5 and costs. If
the trespsas be by night it is punished
not by fine bat imprisonment, and the
term is accumulative; for a first offense,
three months, with sureties required
at its expiration; for a second,
six months, with double the
amount in money securities not to of
fend again; and in case of a third or
farther trespass it ia treated as a " mis
demeanor." And if the trespasser re
fuse giving his name to those who have
the right to demand it of him, off* re
sistance to them or use violence, the
punishment aesnmes a still more seri
ous phase, especially if he be a known
poaober; and above all, where there
are several acting together and armed.
As may be supposed, gamekeepers
and policemen are empowered to make
summary arrest of those they may sus
pect of being poacher#, and were this
power confined to its legitimate pur
pose there would be no greet harm in
it. Unfortunately, however, it ia not
thus restricted, but too often stretched
and abused, especially by the police
man. Exalting in the poeseosion of this
almost irresponsible authority, 1M also
glories in soaking a display of it; the
eonseqnenee bring that many a poor
laborer returning wearied from his day's
work, with no more thought of game
steeling than the man in the moon, is
brought up by hail as of highwayman
to "stand end deliver."-- Oapiain Mayne,
Raid.
SCIENTIFIC HCRAPB.
It ia reported that the potato-bug has
made its appearance in England, bnt
not in a very alarming nnmber,
Colored spots on decaying food are
canned by animal or vegetable growth.
Phosphor bronze ban an electric con
ductivity two and a half time* that of
iron or steel and one-third that of con
per.
Dr. Elliott Cone's new list of the
birds of North America mentions 888
species. Only about 500 were known
in Audubon's time.
The mbr, sapphire and topaz are
simply modifications of one substance,
alumina, which, as clay, forms a great
part of the earth's surface.
Scientist* now conoede that part* of
Kansas and the adjoining States of Mis
souri, lows and Nebraska were once
oovered by a fresh water lake.
The longest span of wire in the world
is used for a telegraph in India, over
the river Kistnan, between Bezorah and
Sectanagrum. It ia more than 6,000
feet long, and is stretched between two
hills, each of which is 1,200 feet high.
Ants have boon known to build mud
stables, where aphides are kept as milch
cows. Being fond of a milky flnid
wLich exudes from two tubes on the
bodies of the aphides, tbey rob the
tubes with their antonnm to produce a
(low of milk.
The gathering in of cloth stretched
in large bleach-fields is a new European
application of the electric railway. 'I he
railway constructed has twenty-one
tranches, each about a third of a mile
in length. The pieces ol cloth are
connected at the ends sows to form long
lengths, and the railway truck l - roll aj
as much in half hour as could U
done by the old method ia an entire
day.
IJTe A men;' the Japanese.
The following extract is from the let
ter of a lieutenant in the United Bute
navy—now on duty in Japanese wsten
—to hi* brother in New York: "The
surrounding country is doited with
places of interest an I lots of email Til
lages. Kioto is notoi for its pretty
women and historical temples. Areas
is noted for its wicker work and Osaka
for its battlegrounds and flowers. la
Kobe and Ilioyo tber is little to sec
with the exception of a bake oven, ot
cremation gronnds. A aort of cement
I asin receives the body of the person
to be cremated, which is placed in i
Bitting poaition and wood piled all
around. The ashes are usually sprinkled
over the rice fl Ids, except in the esse
of th? wealthy, when the ashes are in
t rred in an urn or under a marble slat
of small dimensions, about 2x4 feet:
with a diminutive monument—a little
one for one cent—bnilt over It. Here
incense is bnraed on certain feasts and
anniversaries. The people are very
peaceably inclined and are just like a
big crowd of children. They laugh at
anjtbiDg and acm to have a good time
over nothing. They drink a good deal
of Nippon Hake, their rum, a colorless
Said that makes drank come. .As toon
as they tonch a drop of liquor their
faces show it at once, and their noses ai
well as their faces blossom with the
first drink. Men and women all smoke,
but their pipes hold only a pinch o|
tobacco, and it ia just a ptifT and oat it
goes, and has to be replenished.
"The bills are pretty and green, and
there are lota of tea-bonne* and singing
girls about, so that yon can drop in
when yon get tired and take a drink cd
tee or any other kind of beverage, and
for a few oente each you can have these
Giahi girls as they are called sing and
play on their stringed instrument* liks
guitars or banjos."
A Lady's Toast (o the Mm.
At a literary meeting 51ra Disomy
"toasted" the men as follows:
God bless 'em. We halve tbeir
joys, donble their sorrows, treble their
expenses, quadruple their cares, excite
their affections, control their property
snd ont-maneover them in everything
This would be a dreary world without
men. In fact, I may say, without 'cm
it wonld not be much of a world any
how. We love 'em, snd the precious
fellows don't know it As husbands
they are always convenient, though not
always on hand. As beanx they are by
no means matehlees. They are
agreeable visitors; they are handy *•
state fairs and indispensable at oyat*
saloons. They are splendid eecorta to*
some other fellow's wife or sister, s
as friends they are better than VOBA
As our fathers they art inexpressibly
grand. A man may be a failure ®
business, a wreck in constitution, not
enough to boast of as a beauty,
as a legislator for woman's right#, aw
even not very brilliant as • memb* d
the press, but if he it a father we or*-
look his shortcomings, end cover hie
peccadillos with the divine mantle of
charity. Then, as oar husband#, bet
we long to parade them as paragon*
In the snblime language of tbe.inipira*
poet:
We'll Its for them,
W. ll cry tor ihwu.
And If we ooeld we'd fly
We'd do anything bet Ls •* „