THE MYSTIC LAND
In that xtranuo and mystic* land,
Whero tho skies art" soft and bland,
And novep blight or sadness comes auoar,
Whore joy ruloth endlessly,
And all things are |{ld and free,
Year by year,
I havo wandered near and far,
Grasped all wonders that thorn are,
Climbed tho pinuacles that touch its friendly
akioa;
Wrapped in ita perfect oaao,
I havo hoard ita melodies,
Rise and rise.
In that land of calm divine,
All UliuMM I ohooeo aro niino;
For ita trenailre-houaoa open wido to 1110
The choiceat of nil time—
Tho *|>oiltt of ovory clime,
Vaat and freo.
• Wt, land of corn and wine !
Oh, land, awoot laud of miuo,
Whoee gilded turrota crowd tho spicy air ;
Isold of unfailing stroama—
Oh, magic land of dreams,
Thou art fair,
Heavenly fair!
—Km in a if. Cam, in llnliiwin'* Monthly.
IN DISGUISE.
"I ,suppose I must give you up
sonic time, my child," said Martin
Van-tone, "and if you can find it in
your heart to choose Fre<l Graham I
should he very much pleased. He is
so genial, and his character is above
reproach."
Daisy's face (lushed slightly as she
replied:
" I will neverchoose a husband, papa,
until I know that the man is worthy."'
" You are right, Daisy, and I trust
you will choose wisely;" and Martin
\ anstone left her alone in the drawing
room.
" I wish I knew my own heart. Fred
seems to be all I desire in a husband,
and yet—"
.She paused us she arose and walked
slowly to a window. She stood within
the folds of the lace curtains, hiking
absently down into the street.
" Harry Clifford is my ideal of a true
man. but— "
Again she paused, and a llush stole
over her face.
Before It faded away a little girl
came slowly in view carrying a basket
on her arm.
She was scantily clothed, and her 1
baretoes protruded from her well-worn
shoes.
Her face wore a pinched, hungry i
look that went straight to Daisy's
heart.
Touching a bell she bade the foot
man take the child into the dining
ro >m and give her a good meal.
He was accustomed to her eccentric
freaks and obeyed.
After the child |lia I finished D.ii-v
entered the room, carrying a 1 rg
bundle.
"Well, little one, 1 have brought
something for you. and if you <an
carry it home you will tind some warm
clothing in it. What is your name?"
" Dot Green, miss."
"Are your father and mother liv
ing?"
"My mother is alive, but my father
is dead."
"I suppose your mother is very
poor?"
" Yes, mi AS. She does laundry
work, but Mr, Graham, he's so mean
lie won't pay, and be made me take
four shirts ba k to have'em done over
an' Jemmy's ill, an' mother's tired
almost to death, and a sigh escaped
the child's lips.
Daisy's face flushed as she caught
the name, and her heart throbbed
wildly.
"Can I look at the shirts. Dot?"
" Yes, nii.ss, I ain't ashamed of 'em.
My mother's a good ironer."
Daisy took them out one by one and
examined them carefully.
" They are beautifully done. I can
see no fault with them."
" Nobody ever finds fault 'cept Mr.
Graham, an* he never pays till he owes
for lots an' lots, an' he's so eross 1
hate to go near him."
Daisy wa'ked to and fro across the
room, plung -d in At, length
she paused It-side Dot, and said:
"Dot, when you return with these
shirts, come here first Itefore you de.
liver them, and say nothing about it
to any one."
" Yes, 'em, I'll do it."
The next .lay Dot returnel with her
basket.
"My mother didn't do the shirts over
again, 'cause she said sheoouldn't make
'em look any better."
"Never mind, Dot. Wait here for
a few moments; there is a lady here
who desires to go with you."
A short time after a young Irish
girl, in a shabby dress and roars-, rod
shawl, entered the room. Her fact
was very red and freckled, an.l she
wore large blue glass-*.
"The topov tin- mornin'to ye, me
gurl," she said to the child. "An*
what is ver name?"
" Dot," said the child, scanning her
lloritl l nee.
"Well, Dot, my name's Biddy, an 1
I'm going will ye to the house, an' i
that gentleman trates ye had I'll givi
him a piece of my moind. Come along
me lass."
Dot followed her reluctantly. I
They reached their destination, ant
were soon admitted into Fred Graham':
room.
"So you have returned, have you'
y
I suppose the shirts are all right tlii
time."
" Look ami see!" said Dot.
The shirts had never been moved
from the basket after Daisy had ar
ranged them the morning previous.
"Two of them are much Improved,
lint the other two look much worse
than they did before. Take them
back, and tell lit-r to iron them better."
" I'lease, sir, and would you be kind
, enough to semi me mother the money
that's comin' to her?"
" Not one farthing until you do mv
work satisfactorily. It's an outrage to
ask money for work like that. Away
with you!"
" I'lease, an' do just pay what yer
owin' the child. It is her just due, an'
would keep the wolf from the dure,"
i said Iliddy, putting her arms akimbo
He looked at her from head to foot
and a sneer overspread his face.
" Never meddle with other people's
business. I w ill not pay one penny."
"Sure, an' it is jokin' ye are ! You,
a gentleman, would niver groind the
face iv the poor, nivt-r! Yer too
honest-hftkin' fur the loikes iv that,
.list pay the child now."
His face became pale with anger,
and pointing to the thior, he said :
"Go !"
They turned without another word
and left the room, Dot's sobs falling on
t he air.
Ay they passed down the street they
met Harry Clifford.
" Hallo, Dot! What's the matter
I child?" he asked in a kind tone.
" I couldn't get the money that's
comin' to mother and I -'spose we
will—have to—leave 'cause the
lan'lord's awful' tieular 'bout the rent.'-
" There, there, don't erv like that,
child. How much is it ?"
"Two dollars just what Mr.J Gra
I ham owes."
"Is it possible he is so tareb-ss in
i these matters? Well, there's the
i money. Your mother ran credit me
i with it. Ilun away home or you'll
j be perished with this cold."
Away they SJMSJ, .MIL after t bey h:td
turned a corner Biddy paused, and
bid Dot g'tod-bve, telling her she
I should hear from her again.
Two week - passed, and one ei-ning
I Fred Graham, the pet of ttoeietv, pro.
posed formally for the hand ami heart
of Daisy Van-tone.
■ "I cannot give yoti my answer now
Wait awhile, an.] when I am ready to
do so I will let you know . t'ntil that
time arrives you must not come hen
again."
" Your will is mv law. Daisy, but
tin- most cruel part of the stipulation
is debarring ine from your presence.
You were always eccentric, and I am
willing to humor you."
tint- week later Daisy received an
offer of marriage from Harry.
"Call to-morrow evening and you
shall have your answer."
His manly face flushed.
"Surely you arc not trilling. Mis*
Daisy ?"
She I-ioked up in his honest eyes,
and in lu-r fair face he read love's lan
guage plainly written there.
"Can yminot trust me. Hurry?"
It was the first time nhehad ever ad
dressed him thus, ami a llush of joy
mounted his brow.
■ " Yes !to the death, my darling !" "
He seized her hand and pressed it to
. his lips.
"Come to-morrow evening at S
o'clock, and you shall have your
answer."
He was punctual tothe moment.
Daisy received him kindly, and after
some commonplace remarks she laid
her hand on his shoulder, and said,
smilingly:
j "I am going to treat yon to a scene
in real life this evening. It is time ftr
the play to commence, and if you will
seat yourself In that aleoveand remain
a hidden spectator, you will oblige me
very much."
He could only lmw and assent, ami
was soon screened from view, in a
few minutes Fred was announced. He
1 came in faultlessly attired, his face
wreathed in smiles.
Daisy received him c .rdiallv, anil
after a few titomen s' conversation, In
said:
i " I received your note, anil am liere
I to receive your answer. Is It life or
■ death, my darling?"
"1 on shall have my answer di
rectly; but there are a lady and child
' who wish to see you first. You can
' surely wait a little longer."
A troubled, anxious look came over
r Ids face.
"A lailv and child* I—l—do not
1 understand!"
if " I will send them in, an<l afterward
•e I will give you my final reply."
\f, * Finding himself idonc lie rose and
begun to pare the lliMir nervously. -*
' 'I ell minutes later the door slowly
<1 opened, and Middy, with Dot, came
s timidly into the room. His face he 4
rame colorless for an instant; but
■ presently th blood rushed in a torrent
ls to his brow.
" I 'lease, sir, an' would you pay what
you owe me piother? Me brother is
ill still, an' inn mother neisls tins
r " money sorely."
She stood before liiin clothed in
'■ rags, her large toes protruding from her
| torn shoes.
The tableau was a striking one, as
the richly-attired pet of society paused
' before the child of poverty and the
• llorid-fared Irish girl who was wrapped
I in a long, shabby cloak.
k ! He drew his purse from his pocket
' and placed it in Dot's outstretched
■ ' hand.
j "There, take that it is more than
r I owe, but it is all right. Jtun along
home now, that's a good girl, as fast as
you can," lie said, in a low tone.
she turned and left tin- room and
• . Middy coolly seated herself.
" \\ ill you oblige me caving the
1 room? I have an engagement with a
: holy."
' " An' aren't I a lady ? Wouldn't I
answer ji.st as well? Sure an' the
' very bi.st bhHid in ould Ireland (lows
• in me veins." |
He scanned her face keenly while he
: grew pale with apprehension.
" In Heaven's name who are you?"
She tHik a handkerchief from her
pocket, and after removing her glasses
' passisl it over her face. Hie then re
moved the hood, the red wig ami the
cloak, and Daisy sto>d before him in
her elegant evening attire.
"Miss Vanstone, this is a cruel
farce ' 1 did not dream you capable
' of it."
" The end justifies the means, Mr
! (iridium. A man who will refuse to
pay his honest dent, and thus cause a
' poor woman and her helpless children
to suffer, can never be my hushand-
You have my answer. <rsxl-even
' ing r
she turned and w alkisl slow ly toward
the al-ove, and the crestfallen Mr.
Hruham beat an inglorious retreat.
' , Harry Clifford stepjesl from his hid*
ing-pl.-i' e, his face radiant, and clasp
-1 ing D.u-v to bis m-inlv heart, lie said ;
I •
" May I not claim yon now, my
darling? Your little play was perfect. '
I pitv Fred, but I trust he will profit
' by his sad experience. You are quite
an a-fress. Milt you must give me
my answer now; what is it? If it is
yes. give me the ki-s my heart has
hungered for so long "
She raisisl her face suffused with
blushes, and their lips met in the lir-t
ri|M- kiss of love.
That w as Daisy's answer.
1 Curlew. Calculations.
This e lain irate calculation la a-une
-1 times found in old family Mibles ;
Bible. Testament. Tutsi,
i 800k5... :v 37 oi
TI J,
Wr-.o . 23,'JM T.'.cn M.173
, Words.... Vr.'.t:* IM.&Vt 77 X't'J
Je-ller- ..3,7g5.100 2..W,tse
• Mcmmii.
I Chapters ... 183
. Ver—-- 6,0*1
Words KB. IV.
The middle chapter and least in the
Milde is l'saltu rxvii.
The middle vers" i< I'-dm ewi i, H
The middle time i 2 • hronicles iv. 1
The word "and" occurs in Hie old
Testament 115,54-'1 times, and in tin
New Testament lfi.tiM times.
The words "Jehovah" occurs •>,*"•s
times.
nini.K.
( The middle b sik is Proverbs.
The middle chapt t Is Job xxix, Iw*-
tween the 17th and l'.th verses.
T P.ST VWKXT.
The middl 'lHik is Thi s-ah>nians.
I The middle chapter is between Ro
mans xiii and xiv.
The middle verse is Arts xvii, 17.
, 1 The last verse of Ezra vll, contains all
r tlie letters of the alplialiet.
I Second Kings, xix. an I Isaiah xxxvi
, are alike.
The alsive took three years casting
"P- _______
1 Th • Elder's Itcproof.
1 An elder of the kirk having found a
little hoy and his sister playing mar
hies on .Sunday, put iiis reproof in this
form, not a judicious one for a child :
' " liny, do you know where children go
to who play marbles on the Sahhath
day ?" " Ay." .-aid the boy, " they
gangdown to the field by the water lie
r low the hrig." "No," roared out the
elder, "they go to hell and are burned."
' The little fellow, really shocked, called
' to his sister: " Come awa, .Teanie.
1 here's a man swearing awfully."—.
Ikau llnmnry.
r |
Dakota has twenty-one national and
t eiglitv-seven private banks, with an
aggregate capital of over $10,OX),000,
[ FIVE HUNDRED AX HOUR.
The VlnrreUn. Olerlly With Which lion.
A rr Killed In I'm kin m lUmrg,
A Chicago letter contains an In
teresting account of the methods of
operation in the big packing houses of
the Western metropolis. Says the
writer ; We began where the hogs
were driven from the stock-yard pens
and followed them until they were cut
into pork, made Into sausage or the
hams put into the smoke-house. The
killing was not a pleasant sight, but it
was a wonderful one. The bogs were
driven into a narrow pen, some fifty
at a time. There half-grown boys
fasten a clamp, resembling a handcuff,
about a bind leg, hooked it to a chain
and a man at the bench above thern
touched a lever. Thus the animal
w;w raisisl bv machinery until the
Bnout was about waist-high, when
another lever threw it upon an incline
mid it slid toward the sticker, who
stood, knife in hand, ready to sever the
jugular vein. As the hog passed him
he, by a quick tarn, applied the knife
and the animal passed on to the scald
ing vat, and the man killed the next
liefore the first had hardly passed
him. Thus a constant string of
| hogs was passing continually.
Five hundred hogs an hour is
the average work for ten h >urs
each day of each of the two men who
officiate as executioners in this house.
It is expert work, and the men receive
|
s.'> a day for tin ir work. From the
moment the hog is hoisted to the slide
it never stops until hung up thor
oughly cleaned. It is dead when it
I reaches the scalding vat. and when
1 the procession begins to move in the
, morning the m;o hine is constantly
throwing hogs in and out with tie
! certainty of clock-work. As they are
thrown out of the vat men scratch
the bristles off and lay thcin rarefuly
by. Machim ry then t.iki-s them up
and scrapes the hair off. At the end
of the cleaning table a man stands
knife in band, who must sever the head
| with the . xoeption of enough fli-sh to I
. hold It. with one blow. He strikes the
I joint every time, and gets $ j 7*. per
' day for Ins work.
A man opposite h-dsts the hog off
the table to another slide and down it
g.HM in the long pr<H-ession tti.it never
halts until the hogs are linally dressed.
' for the heads are fully severed while
moving by men who stand, knife m
, band, to do the work. The ntrails are
t iken mt inii'-h in the same way. It is
, many hundred feet from where the
animals g to the slaughter to the
i o lug nit r mm. but they never stop
from the time they --tart until th-_v
ieach it. No' a word is sjioken by the
hundreds of men who take part in the
'killing ar. 1 dressing. Every man
knows what to do and does it without
orders. It is a feature of the whole
establishment that there is n < talking
In any of the departments. Tin-work
is h i systematic! that orders are not
' and the business i- s i dnv ing
that tin re is no tune for frolic.
The cattle arc kilb-I and dressed in
much the same w ay as the pork, i-u • p;
that they are nr-t shot and then bung
up by machinery ami drcssisl. It takes
] from three to five minutes from the
time an ov is shot until it is bung up.
I cut in half. From I,'idO to I,S'XJ cat
i tie are slaughtere I < very day.
A Feer-l'roof Uostnmr.
There was exhibited at the ri">ms of
the National (Health so ie'.y, London,
a novel dress, intend" I for the prof - -
lon of sanitary visitors, nurv-s and
others who have to enter the rooms of
person:- suffering from infectious dis
i eases. The garment is of mackintosh,
gla/<-d Inside and out, and made com
. pletely to envelop the wearer and with
j a hood to cover the head. Thus only
: the hands and face remain exp"S"d -a
matter considered of comparatively
little ImjMirtance, as these can lie easily
j washed with disinfectants. A not l"-s
' important object prop >seil to lu ef
| fected hy the use of this dress is that
' by its removal wh-n the wearer leaves
the sick-room the rhdhes which have
lieen prot(s:te<l need not 1m- changed,
and the danger of the disease lining
carriel from house to house or com
munioatod to auaceptibla persons in
public vehicles is obviated. At the
end of the day, or as often as may lie
convenient, the dress ran le cleansed
wiUi disinfectants. Further protec
tion ls given by a simpb- form of
respirator. This is made of two folds
of thin washing-net, between which is
placed a layer of medicated cotton- j
wool, through which the wearer can '
breathe though no germs can pass.
The respirator has tape strings which J
tie round the ears. After use the wool
is burmsl and the net washed.
There are 40,000 square miles of al
most unbroken forests in North Caro
lina, which it Is estimated will lie,
worth in ten years' time more than
the present total valuation of all the
property io the State, including land, j
•
Xeal Dow'* Rat Story.
Neal Dow, the temperance leader,
' tells this rat story in a letter to a Mos
j ton paper: My home is supposed to be
I rat-proof, and was so when quite new, j
j but at one time, more than twenty
years ago. we had a large colony of the
,' rodents, greatly to our annoyance, and
|it was with ns a matter of daily
1 wonder where they found a weak spot
in our defenses against them. One
I evening a young lady from a friend's
family, living in a large, fine house
. nmrly a mile away, was with us, and
! the talk turned on rats, as we hftanl
ours galloping in the ceiling and
! scampering up and down the walls- i
The young la-ly said that none bad
ever bis-n in their house, and she did j
not think there was any point at which
they could enter. My eldest daughter,
a great wit, said; " I've heard that, if
1 politely Invited to do so is writing,
rat- w ill leave any house and go to any
! other to which th"j may he directed,
and 1 will tell 'sir- that at {your house
they will lirid spacious quarters and an
excellent commissariat."
At the moment, before us all. sh"
w r tea most [grandiloquent l"tt<-r to
the large family of rats that had so
long favored us with their presence,
pointing out to them that at 'io Pearl
| street was a large, fine house which
I had never Usui favor<sl with the re-i
-deuce of any of their family, where
they could find ample quarters and a
fat larder. When finished, she read
i the missive to the company, and we
had a great laugh our it. As an old
superstition, she then put lard upon it
and carried it into the a'tic, where it
would probably In- found by tlcse to
whom it was ibri- t'-l to. A few days
after the young lady was at our liouv
again, and hurst into a laugh, exclaim
ing: "(Mir house Ls overrun with |
r.itt '' 'I Ins recalled to u that we fi.-i/j
heard none in our walls. My' Laughter .
went to the attic and the letter wa ■
gone. While we were talking and j
laughing over the curious affair a friend
j came In. and hearing the tale, said that
two evenings l<efow, in the bright
moonlight, he saw several rats running
<lown Chestnut street, which was th
straight road to Pearl str'-et. W<
have never been troubled w:tb thern
-iriec. hut I have not heard how it has
b's-n with the house to which our ben
ch' iaries were dir<s-t--d.
A Floral Follower of the Sim.
That the sunflower follows the sun
in t- westward j >ura -y is well known,
but when <l<H-S it turn it- face back
again to the <ast to greet the morning
sun ■ Mr. C. A. White, of Washing
ton, in a letter to .Vafwrr, relate an
incident which throws some light
up- n the subject One evening, he
says, during a short stay at a Tillage
in Colorado, in the summer of lvJl, I
w- V. a walk al->ng the banks of a long
irrigat ng ditch just as the sun was
-' ♦ting. The wild variety of hebanthus
annus grew- abundantly there, and I
ol>served that the br-a! faces of all
the flower- were as usual in the clear
sunset, turned to t!i<- west, lb-turning
by the same path than an hour •
afterward, and immediately after the
daylight was gone, I found to my sur- ,
pri*e that much the greater part <>f
thesc flowers had already t'iori'l their
fa"- full to the east in anticipation,
as it were, of the-un's riing. They
had in that short time retra- 'sl the ,
(rni'ircle, in the traversing of which. 1
with the sun. th'-y had -pent the whole
day Moth the day and night wer
cloudless, and apparent I v no unusua' ;
< -nilitions exi-te I that might have ex
ceptionally affeit'sl the movements of
the flowers.
Moh law Near Istndon.
Mob violence is by no means p>culjar 1
to this country. The village of Houns
-1 -w. near Iondon, was lately Hie scene
of something not unlike an American
lynching. This was an incident of the
Kdwanles-Whitmarsh rase. I>r. F'd
vvardes, a popular young physician
committed suicide, leaving a letter
which stated that a lying charge of
dishonorable conduct had been brought
against him by a woman; that Dr. '
Whit marsh, his partner, had taken
advantage of it to crowd him out of a ,
thriving practice, and concluded with (
the words, "May Hod curse Michael (
Whit marsh." Edwanles had been |
popular, and Whitmarsh was disliked- (
Day after day there was rioting in i
llounslovv, and Whitmarsh was forced
to hide himself and all his family. He i
was burned in effigy, bricks were
j hurled through his windows until not
a pane of glass was left, his brougham
was demolished, and preparations w ore i
1 lining made to burn Ids residence
xvhen the police finally restored order.
The British house of lords consists I
of 516 peers. In pay or pensionsthese
noblemen receive £621,336 per annum.
, This includes the amounts rereivixl bv '
I>eers of the royal family. The peers 1
have lietween them 14,258,527 acrei of |
| land writh a rental of FII.SSO.DOH I
I IItIALS AID BVIA9 IKK9L
fDlellifrut !>*• !
of lb* I viNrr,
The Manchester (Kngland; £u//r
-dlan nay*: A writer lr the Journal
of Nririf deal* with the interesting
subject of the attempt* of certain of
th- lower animals to acquire human
rtjwfh. At the outset the observer is
struck by the curious fart that the
most successful attempt* of thin na
ture have boon made not by the ani
mals that are usually held to rank
nearest to humanity, but by certain
: birds. M. A. Koujon tells of a dog
that ran pronounce the wonh "ma
' maman." Considering the intelligence
| of .logs, it is perhaps a matt-r of sur
prise that sueh stories are not com
moner. It has been sugg.wted that
the cause may be in the difference in
structure of the veal organs. At all
events, the lower mammalia as a role
do not learn human speech. It is the
parrot ami not the monkey that learns
to talk. This has struck tin- observ
ant negro, who is said to have a the
ory that the monkey ran speak hut
i will not do so, lest lie sh mi l be made
| to work. 11 the iu mkev.s had arriv.-d
at this generalization, they would soon
find that even the mutes must d>
something in the complex organiza
tion of civilized life. It j_s rh-ar,
however, that in addition to the
jKiftsession of eertain physiologi
'•al as 1 mental character!*-
| tics an atiiiual must be in
• cl>ce contact with man before he can
lie expected to her mi" familiar with
his sj.o-eh. It is evident that the ani
mals that would appear most prom
ising for su' h .m experimeat are not
J available for the purp >se They do
j not :n<Te,'vse in captivity, and hence
the herMitarv isfluenoe* of s.-lectiv*
! development carried on for generations
is entirely absent. It iu gravely doubt
j ed bv some whether the birds that
imitate the spie it of man have any
jx-rreption whatever of the meaning
of the words they use. Do they em.
plov their phrases with definite pur
pose or intention. .r do they merely
reproduce what they hear, as a bay
may imitate the quark of a duck ot
the grunt of a pig ' The writer of the
article mentioned r.-< it.* the case of a
parrot which always preferred the pe
tit lon, "flive I'oliy a t>it. if you
j please," when she s.iw that f-od was
j being jirej.ar.sl, but did riot offer that
' olrs.-rxation at any other time. ||
• also menti' ii.sl a magpie at Mow
market that knew and tisl with ac
. uracy the names "f several members
of the family. The Able* (>r.u ha<
two parrots that use general phra*.*
with appropriateness. When a sup
ply of sesls is given t > oco she
cries: " Here is something good."
ilf her roui|ianion m reams, he
says : " f'oiiie, Corotte, d >n't scream;
sing." If her r<*qu<**t is complied with
she patronizingly observ.-s ; " Von
sing well—oh. very well." M. lira*
was giving some dir.* tions te his
housekeeper, when Coco interjected:
"How, don't you understand?" In
telligent parrots o > -isionally vary
their phrasm, and like .-hildren who
1 ire learning t > talk, never speak of
themselves in the first person. The
child rails itself - Haby." as the parrot
style* itself "Polly." The bird and
clrild alike puzzle and blunder in com.
ing over a new phrase, and have *-
j pcrial difficulty in mastering the final
part the s<*ntence. Considering
what an individual bird can arrom
i plisb.it would be rash to limit thep.es.
nihilities <f that which might be if
g. Deration after generation of clever
| parrots were matched. " Perhaps."
j s iya the writer, " in these .lays of cram
and of the equal rights of animals, w.*
may in five centuries have magpies in
the fifth and sixth standards, macaws
preparing for tlie examination of the
science and art department, ami cock
atoo*—sweet bini graduates takmg ' *
their degrei-s at the University of
London."
SMf-Xadc.
" I)o you see that old man near the
frog-pond on the common?"
"Thirty-two years ago that old man
came to Itoston with one suspender
and a sore toe. He also had a basket
of npplm which a farmer iu Lexington
had given to him. He peddled the
apples on Washington street and
netted eighteen cents the first day.
How much do you suppose he's worth
n*.w'.'" #
•' Oh, a million and a half," sai.l one.
"Two millions," cried another.
"Six million three hundred thou
sand." was the estimate of a third.
* M I Ri*e it up." remarked Xo. 4.
■ How much is he worth?"
"Not a cent, and he still owes for
the ivasket."— /iosfon Glob*.
Ttie United States spends #600.000.
000 n year for alcoholic drinks. It is
estimated that more than 200.000
people are engage.! in selling that
amount f liquor.