ON THE FARM. John Ramsey was working on his farm, his careless, loose dress display" ing to advantage his tall, muscular figure. A broad straw hat shaded his handsome face. The hands that guided the plow were strong hands but whiter and more delicite than such persuits usually allow. Daisy Hale sat wa.chiog him. Her dress was pink, but made with floan- ces on the skirt and ruffles on the waist. She wore a jaunty hat covered with puffs of white muslin and bows of blue ribbon to match the spots ap on her dress. The face unde. Daisy's bat was gloomy, not to say cross. A very pretty face, but not pleasant, having a petted, spoiled-child frown and a hrooding discontent io the large blue eyes. : Presently the farmer drew near her, and, taking off his bat, fanned him- self with it, while he stopped his hores and leaned indolently again:t the plow. You look delicivusly cool uncer this great tree, he said. And—bhem ! very much dressed for 9 o'clock in the morning ! In a5-penny colico, be said contemp” tuously, It is to absurd for you to be plowing and hoeing and milking cow® and doing the work of a laboring man! I thought when you came home from college you would do something be, sides work on the farm. And let the farm go to ruin. That would be a poor way to pay my debts. Your debts ! she said, looking as tovished. Do you owe debts? Certainly You aod I are both very heavily 'n debt, Daisy. I thiok when Aunt Mary took us in, poor lit tle orphans, I her pephew, you her third cousin, all the movey she saved in ber life of hard work was spent up- on our education. Do you koow that she has nothing but the Jarm, and that to take her from it would proba- bly shorten her life? But you could send her money, if you were iu the city in some gentle- manly business. Perbaps so in ten or twelve yeary from now. To-day I propose to work this farm and see how many bushels of corn I can raise oo it He took hold of the plow handles as he spoke, started the horses, and left her, ber eves full of angry tears. He might as well have said what | springing | he meant, she thought, down and starting for the house, He thinks I ought 10 cook snd make but- ter and work like a servant girl, when I have stadied so hard *and tried to make mysell a lady, that he might not be ashamed of me. As she drew near the house the sting of John's words penetrated more and more through the crust she had drawn over her heart, untill a fresh stab had met her at the door. Look- ing in at the door, she saw a white head bowed in weeping, a slight fig- ure shaken by sobs. Quickly through all the selfishness nelfereproach struck at the girl's heart, and in a moment she was on Ler knees beside the low chair; her 2;ms around the weeping woman’ Oh, Aunt Mary, what is it? Oh, please don’t cry s0!Oh, what has happened. Why, Daisy, dear—through sobs that would not be checked ata mo- ment’s notice—don’c mind me; | am only tired dearie—only tired. Now, I will. darken the window, Daisy said, and you are at rest! Sleep, if you can, until dinner time. Bat, Daisy, you cannot make the dinner, I will try, was the quick reply ; and Aunt Mary submitted, Washing the potatoes, shelling peas, frying bam, making coffee, all allowed thought to be busy, and Daisy sigh- ingly put away some of her day dreams over her homely tasks. She bud taken off her ounces and bat and put on a plain dress and large check apron before she began to work, and she was rather astonished as her kitchen duties progressed to find herself happier than she had been since she returned home, When John came to dioner he was astonished to fad Aunt Mary “quite dressed up,” as she blushingly said, in a clean print dress and white apron her dear old face showing no sign of The pew girl at your service, she said saucily, as she pulled down sleeves. Dinoer is ready, sir. But her lips quivered us he bent over her and whispered, God bless | you, dear! Forgive me if I wast o busty this morning John said but little as the day wore on and still found Daisy at her post. It was no® in the nature of things for Aunt Mary to sit with folded hands, | but it became Daisy's task to inaugu- rate daily paps, to see that ouly the light work came to the older hands, to make daily work less of a toil and more of a pleasure. And the young girl herself was sur- prised to find how much she enjoyed | the life that had seemed to her a mere drudgery. Ouce more came a June day when Daisy sat in the nelds and Joho stood leaning agaiost the fence beside hr. Four years of earvest, lcving work had left traces upon both young faces, eonobling them, aod yet leaving to them ail the glad content that rewards well-doing. Many hovrs of self-denial both bad met bravely, many deprivations both | had borne well. Daisy wore a black dress and upon the hat in John's hand | was a band of crape, but through al sadness of their voices there yet rang a tone of happiness. You love me, Daisy ? Jobn said | to her. When have I not loved you? she | answered, | And you will be wy wife? Dar, | ling, I have long loved you, but after Aunt Mary was stricken down with | paralysis I would not ask you to take | up new duties. Now she needs you no longer, and you shall leave the | farm whenever you wish. Oh, John, must | I thought it was yours Leave the farm? we leave it? now, | So itis. ’ And you have made it so beautiful ss well es profitable! Oh, John, why must we leave it? Ouoly because I thought it was your wish, It would break my heart to go away. [I love my home. And Joho, taking the little figure | into a close embrace, wondered if any | city could produce a sweeter, daintier little lady thao the one he held in his arms. a — FORTUNE. All I desire, said Seneca, is that my | poverty may not be a burden to oth. ers, or to myself, and that is the bes state of fortune that is neither direct y A mn di- oerity of fortune, with a gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy, which is a desirable condition for no man wants power to do un - chief. We pever consider the blessing of coveting nothing, and the glory of be ing fall in ourselves without depend- ing upon fortune. With parsimony, a little is sufficient, and, without it, nothing ; whereas frugality makes a poor man rich, If we lose an estate, we had better not have had it; he that has least to lose has least to fear, and those are better satisfied whom fortune never favored than whom she has forsaken. The state is most commodions that lies between poverty and plenty. Diogenes understood this very well when he puts himself into an incapa- city of losing soything. That course of life is most commodious which is both safe and wholesome ; the body is to be indulged no further than for bealth, and rather mortified than not kept in subjection to the mind. It is necessary to provide against hunger, thirst and cold, and some: times for a covering to shelter us against other inconveniences, but not a pin does it matter whether it be of logs or of marble. A man may lie as warm aod dry under a shingle roof as a slated ome. Let the mind be great and glorious, and all things are despicable in com- parison. The future is uncertain ; and it were better to beg of one’s self not to desire anything, than of fortune to bestow it. pecessitous nor far from it. «Boox Bixoiwo—We are now pre- Jared to do all kinds of book bindiag all work, Send In your will_guaranien wagezines, a —— A—— «Go to W. R. Camps for furniture of AA W.C.T.U. Q0LUMN. BSAA SS IHEW. OT. U. MEETS EVERY THURSDAY AT 1 O'CLOCK IN THE YY, M.C A HALL. PROHIBITION TESTED. The election st which prohibition was put ou trial io this city is entitled to a place among great eveuts, No election of u local nature was ever be- fore held in a city of 60,000 people in which more was involved. It has now been eighteen months since the election, and twelve months since the law weat into effect. We are prepar- ed thus from observation to nole re- sults: Prohibition in this city does pro- hibit. The law is observed as well #8 the law agaist carrying ccncealed wenpons, gambling, theft sod other off:nses of like character. In consid eration of the small majority with which prohibition was carried, and the large number of people who were opposed to seeing it prohibit the law bas been marvelously well obs rved. Prohibition has not injured the city financially. According to the a:sessors books property in the city has increased over two millions of dellars. Taxes have not been io- creased over two millions of dollars. Two streets in the city, Decatur and Peters, were known as liquor streets, | It was hardly considered proper for a jady to walk these streeis without an escort. Now they are just as orderly as apy in the city. Property on them has advanced from 10 to 25 per cent. The loss of $40,000 revenue, consequent on closing the saloons bas tended in no degree to impede the city's progress in any direction. Large appropriations have been made to the water works, the public schools, the Piedmont fair and other improve ments, The business men have rais- ed $100,000 to build the Atlanta sod Hawkinsville Railroad. The number | of city backs is to be increased to five. The coming of four new railroads has | been settled during the year. Fifteen new stores containing house-furnishing goods have been started since prohi bition went into effect. These are do- ing well. More furniture hss been sold Wo mechanics and laboringmen in the last twelve months than in any twelve months daring the history of the city’ The manufacturing estab- | lishments of the city have received A glass factory has been | new life. | built. A cottonseed oil mill is being built worth $125,000. All improve- ment companies with a basis in real e tate have seen their stock doubled in value since the election on prohi- bition. Stores in which the liquor trade was conducted are not vacant, but are now occupied by other lines of trade. According to the real estate | men more laborers and men of limited m ans are buying lots than ever be- | f+e. Rents are more promptly paid | then fornerly. More houses are | ren d by the same number of fami- lies than heretofore. Before prohihi. | tion, sometimes as many as three families would live in one house. The | heads of those families now not spend- ing their mooey for drink are each able to rent a house, thus using three instead of one. Workiogmen who formerly spent a great parc of their money for liquor now spend it in food and clothes for their families. The retail grocery men sell more goods and collect their bills better than ever before. Thus they are able to settle more promptly with the whole sale men, * A perceptible increase has been noticed in the number of people who ride on the street oars. According to the coal dealers, many people bought coal and stored it away last winter who had never been known to do so before. Others who bad been accustomed to buying two or three tons on time, this last winter bought seven or eight and paid cash for it A leading proprietor of a millinery store said that be had sold more hats and bonnets to laboring men for their wives and daughters than ever before inthe history of his business. Con- tractors say their men do better work, and on Saturday evenings when they receive their week's wages, spend the same for flour, hams, dry goods, or other necessary for their fami- Liss, Thus ¥ney are in better wpirits, have more hope, and are not inclined to strike growl about higher all kinds and prices, A |joioed the various churches of the | weeks were necessary formerly 10 get | Attendance wages. “ upon the public schools has increased. The BSuperintendoet of Public Instruction said in his re- port to the Board of Education made January 1, 1887 ; “During the past year it has become a subject of remark by teachers in the schools and by visitors that the child- ren were more tidy, were better dress. ed, were better shod and presented a neater appearance than ever before Less trouble has been experienced in having parents purchase books re quired by the rules, fewer children have been withdrawn to wid io sup porting the family, the higher clas:es in the grammer schools have been faller and more children have been promoted to the high s:hools, both male and female, than ever before in the history of the schools All these indications point 10 the increased prosperity of the city and to the growiog interest in the cause of edu. cation on the part of the people.” There has been a marked increase io attendance upon the Sunday schools of the city. There noticeable among the suburban churches. Many children started to the Sunday schools who were not able to attend for want of proper clothing. Attendance upon the different churches is far better. From 1500 to 2000 people have is especially have | city during the year. The determination oo the part of the people to prohibit the liquor traffic | bas stimulated a disposition to do away with other evils. The laws | against gambling are rigidly enforced. | A coosiderable stock of gamblers’ | | sold for a penny a pound, and many farmers tools gathered together by the police for several years past WAS Iv cently used for the purpose of makiog a | large bonfire on one of the unoccupied squares of the city. The City Coun- cil has refused longer to grant license to bucket-shops, thus putting the seal of its condemnation upon the trade in future of all kinds. All these reforms have had u decid- | POPULATION AND FOOD, | alarm {| every lund food producers are discouraged | by | because they eculd raise but little REFUTATION OF THE ARGUMENTS OF A MODERN MALTHUS, In Almost Every Country There Is Food to SpareesWhy Maitisas' Doctrine is no Longer FlansiblewThe Earth's Food Produving Capabilities, The current number of The Forum cone tains a sprightly article by Thomas W, Knox, entitled “Standing Hoom Only.” It shows that several countries in the world contain wo many people that they can scarcely walk about without jostling each other, For example, the statement is made that Java has 508 in- habitants to the square mile, Japan 234, Italy 246, Belgium 451, and the Netherlands 312 The author then states that there is hardly o country whose population is diminishing, while that of most countries x Increasing with wonderful if not with alarming rapidly. This increase of population is largely due U the absence of wars and Lotter sanitary cone ditions, Mr. Knox thinks that it is time to stuly the philosophy of Malthus bell that | population, unchecked, inercassl ju geomet | vical ratio, while food can only be mde to | increase in arithmetioal ratio. He also orgnes | that checks on population are absolutely necessary, and clabms advantages pestilence, famine and most of the destructive vices, He states that few of the countries in wich there is “standing room dues food enough for tix shows by official census tal ber of these counties ix Very rapidly, He prodicts that our own will be added to the list of overpo slated in wo very distant future AL present f the original thirteen states produce food enough to supply all the juphabitants, The fine that divides the states that do not pro. duce food enough for the people from those that do is constantly 1woviug farther west NO CAUSE FUR ALARM Malthus bas po cause {or comntry inthe world In nearly win for mar, onl Cal roe nmbaddiant«, Jd s that the nue inereasing CoOunLiries w of This modern In almost every there is food enough and to pare farmers complained Now they overproduction, At one lime found no fault with prioss, but complain of low prices, and find fault because | wo much is produced. English papers state | that there was never a tie in the history of | the country when a day's wages would pur. | chase 80 much food. During last year sugar wr food for cattle and Fresh herrings sold in London markets used it ns a condiment Pre for a halfpenny each, and the poorest labor and bananas Daring several months small fruits wers 0 ors ate white bread, oranges cheap that they commanded only a nominal price, and some farmers and gardeners used them to fertilize their land One brought 0.00 carcasses of frogen mutton from one of the Mkland islands, where it was bought for a penny a pound. Two steam ven] | ship companies paid a penny a bushel for the | privilege of carrying wheat in bags from American to English ports, so that the grain | | of civilization was cheaper in Liverpool than ed tendcney Ww dimioish crime. Two through with the criminal docket.’ During the present year it was closed | out in two days. The chain gang is | almost left with pothiog but chains and the balls. The gang part would not be large enough to work the public roads of the country were it not augmented by fresh supplies from the surrounding counties. The city government is in the bands of our best citizens. The majority in this county in fa~ | the | vor of prohibition was only 235, Sach 8 change has taken place in public | sentiment, however, that now there is | hardly a respectable anti-prohibition- ist in the city who favors a return to | barrooms. There is very little drink ing in the city. There bas been 40 | per cent. falling off in the number of arrests, notwithstandiog there has) been a rigid interpretation of the law | under which arrests are made. Formerly if a wan was sober enough to walk home he was not molested, Now if there is the slightest variation from that state in which the centre of gravity falls in « line inside the base the party is made to snswer for such variation at the station- house, Our experience has demonstrated to us beyond a doubt that a city of 60, 000 inhabitants can get along and ad- vance at a solid and constant rate without the liquor traffic. - ant A Tue sums of virtual Prohibition counti*s ia this State seems to be on the increase. In addition to Forest Indiana, Potter sod Warren, Somers sel county is mow under no-license rule, the Amociste Judges having seen example of those of Huntingdon county, who refused all lic. nse appli. cations in Huntingdon borough, sod gone them one better by refusing to grant avy licenses in the county at all. If the Supreme Court dees not put a stop to this kind of thing it will #00n be only necessary for the Prohi- bitionists to elect Judges, if they can, in order to accomplish their fit ob | #0 low in Great Britain that the | the increased speed of vessels and the low | the accident, he said, seriously be- in Baltimore. The price of farm products is owners of several large estates declare that they can re. | alize more from them as game preserves than as cultivated farms The truth is, the doctrine of Malthus is an exploded bumbug. It was a plausible theory | | at the time he wrote, but the introduction of | machinery on farms, the use of steam in agri culture, the improvement in breeds of ani | mals, the utilization of products formerly | wasted, the new methods of preseryiong fruits, vegetables, meat and fish, and last, but most, rates for carrying all kinds of articles intended for food, have produced a revolution and de stroyed the philosophy of the pessimist of the dinner table. We bear of coal famines and water famines, but there are no food famine: | anywhere, and there is no prospect of any. | YOOD PRODUCING CAPABILITIES We have hardly begun 0 test the food pro- ducing capabilities of the earth. A German traveler declares that Siberia is capable of producing grain enough to supply all western | Europe with bread. An English suthority | states that wheat was worth but ton cents a bushel in the interior of Asiatic Turkey last | year, and that many farmers did not find it | profitable to harvest their fields. The island | of Hayti is capable of producing enough yams | and bananas to feed 30,000,000 people. Hardly | | any portion of Africa except the narrow val i Jey of the Nile has been brought under culti- | vation. But an insignificant part of Aus tralia has been devoted to the production of | food. South America, in the opinion of Humboldt, is the grand division of the earth capable of producing the most food; still a large portion of it remains unexplored, and no good farming is done in the phrts that have been longest settled. It could be made not only the granary but the stock yard for supplying Europe with food Wild cattle are almost as plentiful there as rabbits are in Australia, and thousands of them are killed every your for their hides and tallow, Sheep are raised with scarcely any care, and pigs turned into the forests become fat on nuts and wild fruit. No believer in Malthusian phil osophy ever visited Bouth America By selecting breeds of animals that mature early, and ogwtantly supplying them with suitable food, steers are made to weigh as much when they are thirty months old as they formerly did at twice that age. By the gen: eral introduction of the silo the beef and mution production of this country could be doubled, even if no more land was devoted to | gaurded by the police. A A A NOT M AN AND WIFE. There are some queer couples in this world, remarked a Dearborn street real estate agent, The other day a man sod woman ealled to see about renting a flat on the North Side, The woman did a'l the talking, and turned to the man for confirmation or co-operation He always agreed with ber, and did it very meekly, Well, says the woman finally, I will give you 825 for the flat, won't we, John 7 Ye<'m, replied the man, Aovd I'll pav the rent promptly, too, won't we, Joho ? Yes 1, And I'll take good care of the house, won't we, John? But, 1 inquired, as usual in soch cases, are you mao and wife? Man exclaimed the woman sharply, indeed we are pot - Riv Be J hie 4 Now, aud wife! What? sive I, not man snd wife? Not much. I'll have you huow that io this family we are wife snd man ; ain't we John? Yer'w, - Bax Fraxcisc., August 15, —For a Year or more bad blood has existed between the Anstrians snd Sclavos- inns of this city. Yerterday the Aus trian flag, carried by the Ii'yric society on their way to picnic grounds, was Last evening | Bfty armed Russians, Bulgarians and Poles, under the lesdership of ope Groptevvitbh, a Bulgarian, awsited :.. 2 | the return of the picnic party, when an assault was intended to be made. The police, however, had been warned. and a strong force sent to the scene caused the bloodihirsty Sclavonians to withdraw. The lsuer are more inceused than ever against the Aus- trian colony and trouble is predicted. - — d Bernixues, Ps., August 15.—W. P. Snyder of Middletown, 8 survivor of the Chatsworth disaster, passed through this place today. He was an occupant of the third car of the fatal train, but escaped with a few bruises. He said to an Associated Press re- porter that the stories of robbing passengers were greatly exaggerated , but few attempts at robbery have been made No one at the scene of lieved that the bridge har been set on | fire by incendiaries, railroaders especi ally scouting the ides. Soydar's haod | shows the effect of digging in the earth in working to extioguish the flames, ~Druskexx ues ox rae Ligrox Hanis Posiriviry Cuaen uy Apvisisrerixe Da. Haixe's Goroex Seecinic.—~It can be given in a cup of coffee or tea without the knowledge of the person taking it is absolutely harmless and will effect = permanent and speedy cure, whether the patient is a moderate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands of drunk- ards have been made temperate mer who have taken Golden Specific in their coffee without their knowledge, and to- day believe they quit drinking of their own free will. IT NEVER FAILS, The system once impregnated with the Specific it becomes an utter impossibili- ty for the liquor appetite to ext. For full perticalars, address GOLDEN SPECIFIC OO, 185 Race st, Cincin- nt, UO, - EE ~Book Bixvixe—~We are now pre pared to do all kinds of book binding at reasonable rates and will guarantee all work. Send in your books, magazines, etc., and have them Jigen co When Baby was sick, we gave her Custoria, When she wae 8 Child, she oried for Castoria When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria, When she had Children, she gave them Castoria, Gontral Stats Normal SCHOOL, LOCK EAVEI, Pa. Unwavpassed io ite Loontion hoalthia! and Tostractors experienced bosch ow an! of eolbeges, Ktwte appocgriations this year $000 0, Extensive IMPROVEMENTS, Von and Oomforts tore. JAMES ELDON, A. M , Principal, Lock Haven, Pu. WANTED to canvas Stock | Mendy employ ment a aan? AND EXPENSES PATD. Apply at omen snting SALESMEN hase Bro's.," ee pape AX KCUTURS NOTICE. Letters ter
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