: \ An With itx gentlo piink, plank, plink, Squeak a mighty takin’ sound; banjer bangin’ yander, "Pyears to git pluinb at the bottom Of the deepens’ thoughts I think, ‘Does me heaps of good on Sundays . "For the pray'rat church fs said, Jos to stand an’ hyear “Old Hundred” # ! fur up overhead? An'I most kin spy the angels Leanin® "erost the gate up thar, When Old Abrum Blackburn's darter Loads us in “Sweet Your o Pray'r. But ef you sh'u'd want to ses me Wen I hev my broades' smile, You must me in the kitchen, Wen the kittle's on the bile! Fer 1 clair thar ain't no warblin' Ever riz on fed-birds’ wings Thet kin holt a taller candle To the song the kittle sings. Seems ez of my soul gits meller In the kittle's first sweet note, Till I fancy weddin’ music Screakin’ fom the fron thcat. Sech times, ef | squent my eyes up, 1 kin fahly 'pyecar to seo Old man Abrum Blackburn's darter Smilin’ thoo the steam at me! 5 —Eva W, McGlasson, in Century. A it. THE DOCTOR'S NEPHEW. BY EMMA A. OPPER, Tu wished that she had not, doctor's yaphew rose impulsively. Miss nan,” said he: ‘don’t ; kily,. We never were ky. you know. let's have a ramble. an't there an patansible puspose—an ob- ject of interest, or thing 1" She smiled, with an ugrard conflict of gladness and misgiving.\ **There’s the willow arbord down by the mah it's pretty therg?” she fal tered, Hunk Lee had released Plo; he was Jurning this way, with his 1gbse gad his hands In his pockets, “1 love willow arbors,’ doctor's nephew. U1f there I've always adored and yearned 10 a willow arbor. Xou'll go” +] don't know," said (ora, wist i But Mr. Hill knew. Philo Wilsof¥at any rate, stood the next moment y ing after their disappearing figures. It was not quite cieven by My Hill's handsoma time-piece when they started : but it was fully one when theygot back. They had forgotten the pi#ic, almost, wandering among the willows in some- thing more than contentfhent, and it was a dire necessity to have to come back to “But they'll be Yaving dinner, you sax 1" said Mr. Hil" “And they'll eat , all together? you, by hook or crook.” Cora alighted from Philo Wilson's high and narrow and somewhat rattly | buggy, and sat down on a log with a sigh of relief, while Philo hitched his | horse to a tree. It was not an enticing thing at best to | B80 to a picnic with Philo Wilson: but the picnic itself was preferable to the drive thither. There were distractions at least, and, with good luck, a chance for a brief escape. But driving six miles with him, making spasmodic at- tempts at conversation while he sat in his usual open-sodthed but tongue-tied silence, tall and lank, uninspired and uninspiring—driving with Philo had no alleviating points, Fairly at the grounds, then, Cora shook out her white dress and straight- ened her chip bonnet and even smiled a lttle with the buoyancy of youth. The picnic was large, she noted, gaily. There were the older people gathered sedately together among a group of birches. Cora’s father and mother were among them, in black broadclcth and alpaca, and they looked over at “their pretty daughter and Philo with placid smiles. They approved of Philo; he was “steady,” and their practical concern went no further. Cora smiled back at them. And grouped about the long board platform, where there would be k | out dancing later, were all “the girls,” Cora deserted the log. “I'll go over where the rest are,” she | said. And though Philo, who was a bit of a despot under his phlegmatism, did not look pleased, she hurried away. “The girls” were gushingly glad to | see her, after the manner of girls “You look lovely I" said kate Miller, “What did you bring said Margy Fuller. “I've got an angel cake, but it's perfectly horrid! It 1sn’t white a bit, and the frosting." “You know it's splendid, Margy," said | Cora, laughing; ‘‘yours always are. Isn't \ {ly that Dr. Saaborn's nephew I" : “The giris” did not look around —it} wasn't necessary, They had him already | well fixed on their mental retinas, by reason of sundry furtive glances—the handsome young feliow, blue-eyed and black-haired, in a loose jacket and sand.- | shoes and a soft eap, who sat talking to Sadie Sanborn and Sadie’s beau at the other end of the platform. They burst into a subdued inquisitorial chorus, “Oh, do you know him!” We thought, of course, he's a relative, be- cause he’s with Sadie.” “Isn't he lovely, aoyhow “*He is very nice looking,” said Cora, faintly tinted ad to her round checks. “Yes, he's the doctor's nephew. He was here last summer, but only for a week or so; and the doctor was in to see father one evening, acd brought Mr, Hill with him, and we got pretty well acquainted. He'd run over and play croquet real often, and one day we went" But a hittle excited murmer inter. rupted her “He's looking at you!" ing." Cora!" 50 he was, with the eager smile with which young men have greeted pretty ma ds since the world began, and vi a0 impatient, outstretched hand, Cora’s fingers smarted, 1n truth, under the pressure it gave them. “Miss Gilman,” he said, finding a seat beside ber (and ‘the girls” edged away, awed by the nearer presence of the doctor's nephew), ‘I have been looking for you, do you know! 1 came only terda” - or you'd have seen me before. Sow re Jou, iiss Gilman?! You look ell! And the ¢roquet und is | there E04uet growd is ‘| “Yes, it's there,” she said, smiling up at him. (Philo had been buttonholed id lank. { o " safe stance.) “I've ved, Mr, k il you . afro you believe | “You.” he cried, in humorous alarm. | “Why, you used to ‘whitewash’ me every time as it was, We'll play some | thing clse this year, Miss Gilman—tag, | a" Jackstones, or something I'm proficient “He's bow. ‘He's coming straight over here, cea pressed into early ser- platform was filled with { waltzers—fo get up their appetites, they said, while their elders waited hungrily | for that process to be completed. “ARI" said the doctor's nephew, blithely. “Will you give me the first, Miss Gilman, and as many more as your card will permit?” They were laughing at that as they went toward the platform. Jut they did not ascend it. Philo stood on the lower stair, like a spider in wait for a ty. “It's about time, seems to me,” he observed, his dull face lighted by a spark of anger. ‘‘U've b'en looking round for you for two hours. I guess I'll have the first dance, if you just as lief.” There was sharp resentment pale-lashed eyes, Cora bit her red lips, her face aflame. in his | But she spoke quietly, “Mr. Wilson was my Mr. Hill" she said. -*I- 1" She could not finish. She tried to smile, but her lips only trembled. The doctor's nephew looked Mr. Wilson over from head to foot, and bowed silently, a little paler than his wont, and turned away, ©] didn't mean to make you mad,” said Philo, better disposed now that he triumphed. “But | was kind o' put Your folks didn't like it, neither; I told ‘em you was off with him. Wal, let's have a waltz,” he concluded, con- scious of extreme magnanimity. “*I shall not dance,” said Cora Her pretty eyes blazed scornfully upon him. Fie had told “her folka™ She could have laughed if she had not been 80 hotly miserable. What did he think? “You will find me a seat, if you please,” she said. Bat Philo cad not hear hor. His eyes were fixed on a figureat a little distance ~a figure which walked unsteadily with swinging arms, “Jem Murray I" he muttered, amazed. escort, The eyes of the entire picnic were focused on Jem Murray, and with equal bewilderment. Jem alone was uncon- cerned. He was the chief blot on the town's respectability: a brainless fellow, half shoemaker and half vagabond, gen. erally idle and never sober. How Jem Murray had got to the picnic was a startling mystery: but he was there un- questionably, and as unquestionably drunk. His progress was not barred: thero was some hesitation about barring it. He swaggered on, marking his course with amiable comments, ““Nishe day, vishe plashe, nishe lot o’ girls. Keep right "long" for the fiddlers had irresolutely stopped ‘keep right long: goin’ to have a danshe m'self.” He was grinning with the pleasure of this vague notion. It took clearer form in his muddled head. “‘Goin’ to have a danshe,” he repeated. | ““Here—here’sh girl now.” He was standing before Cora, his blinking eyes on her blanched face and his shaking arm extended. She caught at her companion des. peratedly; but Philo backed of, his face as pale as her own, He had never ‘“tackled” Jem Murray, and he did not care to do it now. “See here, now,” he began, weakly, But Jem was oblivious, “Wal, 'm waatin',” he observed, He touched Cora's sleeve; but he did no more, He was laid on his back the next minute by a sharp blow on thy face, and the doctor's nephew stood threateningly above him. There were half 8 dozen others meditating the samo act, but the doctor's nephew had dis | tancad them. Philo stocd open-mouthed. Cora was nervously crying, but Mr, Hill's arm was through her's protectingly. Jem Murray was got on his feet and hurried swf by a score of hards, and the hero of the occasion had an approv. ing group around him, and Cora’s father was of the number. “You did that mighty neat,” was the verdict, “I conld not see a lady insulted,” the ponded, a little stifly, als on Philo, and Phi'o grew under it, Cora's tremulous fingers faintly Jo pressed ratitade he t she knew he | admire Fr," said her {was here last iltily blushing. he's the right kind. ing ee he did—showed ; 1 ne young man! Wonder if ho dking much of a stay to the doctor 8 he speculated, with a show of indiflfience he did not feel. How couldMe? The fine young man had «not feemed indifferent to his daughter, And he bad some wonderinfps, wa, he is,” raid Cora. Shefwiped away the last of her tears and yhniled, for the doctor's nephew was confing toward her through the trees, A¥d her mother was getting out the hinch-basket. Philo Wilson did not appear at the | well-spread dinner; nor was it very | strange that he did not escort Cora to | the next picnic, for before that senual | gathering again took place, she was | generally known as *‘the doctor's niece.” | —Saturflay Night. J WISE WORDS, Cultivate charity. True eyes discover truth, There is nothing as royal as truth. Without hearts there is no home. Well, | The most effective coquetry is inno- , | cence. { Simplicity and luxury are equally en- ' joyable, ! Life is too short to crowd it with re- i sentments. Knowledge is dearly bought, if we sacrifice to its moral qualities, It is easier to vanquish a man in an argument than it is to convince him. We find self-made men very often, but self-unmade ones a good deal oftener, Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy and can make them wretched. No great characters are formed in this world without suffering and self-denial, The existence of life is sometimes measured by the memory of its burdens. He who reforms himself has done some- thing toward the reformation of the crowd, A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly van- quished, If we did but half we are able to do we would be surprised at the sum of our diligence. When a man learns how ignorant he is he is in possession of a valuable piece of knowle ge, You cannot dream yourself into character; you must hammer and forge yourself one Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it. I ———————— Branding “U. 8” On Deserters, Under the old system in the United States Army a man caught and convicted of the crime of desertion was branded by tattooing the letter I) on his left hip. He was at once recognized by that mark on presenting himself! at a recruiting of- fice for examination. The branding sys- tem was abolished by law, and since then it is always ditficult and often impossible for the recruiting officers to tell old de. serters when they turn up afain for en listment at different stations I have heard my men speak of others who had deserted and re-enlisted over ten times, They had told of one man who had been in and out the service eleven times, and of another who had a record of thirteen enlistments, These are no doubt extreme Cases Branding was abolished because it was cons dered degrading. The old system of flogging perished for asimilar reason many years ago. I am in favor of brand. ing, and would make it an honor instead of a stigma by having the letters U, 8, or some distinctive mark tattooed on every sold er, officer, and private. The mark could be placed on the arm as well as the hip for the purpose. 1 think if I appeared before my men with the brand exposed to their view the idea of degra. dation would quickly vanish. Then, if a man deserted and presented himself again for re-enlisument or was captured, his discovery would be a very simple matter. A large proportion of the de- serters get caught sooner or later, but in the meantime they cost the country a large sum of money, My remedy. I think, would not only be an economical measure, but absolutely certain as =» means of detection, — New York Times, — Ls— — A Canning Restauralenr, “Why do you keep it so blazing hot I" inquired a patron of the proprietor as he eatered a restaurant. ‘‘Hecause it is cold sutside,” replied the proprietor. After i the patron had left the premises the restaurant proprietor confidingly made the following confession to a newspaper man: “You see, I've been in the busi. | ness for a quarter of a century, and my | Sxpdrishes bas taught me that under ordinary circumstances men devour | more food at a single meal in piercing | cold weather than when the outside | | temperature is moderate. When I first | lembarked in the eating house business | [1 was green enough to economize in | wood for heating the premises, imagining I was thereby saving money, but 1 soon | | discovered my mistake as the patrons of | my restaurant devoured such inordinate quantitios of food in winter that bank- | faptey stared mo in the face. It was here | learned & lowon from a cock, and through which | have since sequired a snug fortune. My cook ate td ack [] sncugh to sustain life in a canar and 1 inquired the cause of his 8 site: He replied that it ne Gup 10 ng constan emplo a hot roe nr By x if I would keep my restaurant red-hot in winter m rders not constime one. T $ i WINTER QUARTERS. SCENES AT A MENAGERIE DUR ING COLD WEATHER. A Burmese Cow's Affection for a Young Goat—The Lockjawed Camel that Lives on Water, Ete, Ete *“That is the strangest attachment I ever saw formed, and I've been around with circuses, man and boy, for forty- six years,” said Hurry Plerce,the veteran in charge of Grenier's wild beasts, in the winter quarters of the menagerie at the corner of | andolph and Ann streets, He referied to a white Burmese cow and a white kid, which were made fust, close by one another, tos wheel ui the great cage in which was the hippopotamus. ~~ “Why, sir,” said Pierce, approaching close to the ani- mals with the Herald reporter, ‘‘we dare not separate them, even for a few moments, lest the cow go into fits, She will ery, moan and take on hike a human being fit is out of her sight for a mo- ment. , She is evidently under the de- lusion that it is her calf. Fhe will lick it, get close by its side, insist upon its A pl the choice of all food Fn fight for it, if needs be,” CR SE 7 A FA ther, it may be well to Inform the curi- ous that an elephant when on the road requires two bushels of oats and 200 pounds of hay daily, His allowance of water is forty gallons in the same time. In winter, when resting, he eats 250 | pounds of hay and drinks forty to fifty gallons of water, Grain is denied to him until he starts out on Lis spring cam- paign. Elephants are inordinately fond of whisky and beer. Keepers, whether THE SPIRIT MOVES THEM, teetoinlers themselves or not, are of the opinion that whisky is a good medicine for the beasts, and occasionally they give to each as half-gallon in bottles, No old toper ever displayed greater zeal in | emptying a glass than do these monsters | in uncorking a bottle and draining its contents, only to scize another another, as fast as handed to them. “Do they feel it?" said Mr. Pierce, “Of course they do. They are like men folks, too, showing by their actions that in the wine is truth, If a beast is of an ugly disposition when sober, he will be meaner than the meanest when drunk. If of a lively disposition when sober, he ll be frisky as a lamb and gay | as & peacock ins pring time when drunk | 1 3 3 I guess they have headaches afterward, | too, | miserable enough to have THE LOCK-JAWED CAMEL, The reporter, being somewhat skep- tical upon the latter point, drew close to the little goat and began to tease it, Well for him was it that Mr, Pierce was close” at hand, else had the horns of the humped cow tossed him in the air, Accepting the remainder of the statements as facts, the reporter turned about, when his eye fell upon a goldish.- red dog, possessed of intelligent face snd soft, melting eyes. Nature had ungenerously withheld forelegs from the canine, w'dch did not appear, however, Ito lie awake nights worrying over the | niggardiiness manifest in its make up; for a jollier, better-natured, fatter deg could not be come up with in a month's journey Strangest, though, of all the sights in if A gmntcamel, 8 bactrian, which is suffering from lock. jaw. Its mouth has been shut fast since October 10, and inall that time it has not taken any ance whatsoever, except a very small amount of water, say & quart or so, in each twenty-four hours It is somewhat gaunt in appes true: yet at the request of the reporter Mr. Pierce caused it to i and it stepped forward seemingly with- out an effort, stalking up and down the room after the ungainly springlike manner peculiar to its class There was not the slightest appearance of weakness, Its saws are locked as firmly as though a half score of bolts bad been driven through them and rivet od there. A veterinarian of skill attend ed the great beast every morning for a month, exhausting every means known Grenier's collection susier Arance, itis move around, HAULING THE CAGE OUT OF THE MUD, to his art in vain sttempts to open its mouth in order to mve it food. He finally abandoned his task, declaring the animal must surely die. But will it do so! Already it has shamed Tanner, Possessed of inficite powers of endur- ance, having a considerable amount of | flesh to draw upon, is it pot possible for it to hold out until the lock terminates Mr, Grenier hopes so, for the animal is young and of extra value, because it isa superb beast of great stature, trained to draw wagons with the docility of an old dray horse. There is much of interest attaching to acircus and menagerie in winter quar. | tors. Wild beasts on exhibition are seen usually at some little distance from the cage. Here, if one bea friend of keeper or the owner, he can see them as they | are, observe their habits, admire their | beauty, strength or iotelligence, and | finally leave, feeling that he has been brought face to face with the wila | beasts and béSome acquainted with them, i Two great elephants are clo ¢ compan- | jons of the lock. jawed camel, (me of | these, Jennie, is a huge animal, which is | a veritable beast of burden. Her daily task, when the circus is on the road, is to piace all the wagons in position in the tent. Bo, too, when a wagon sticks fast in the mud or a deep rut, it is she who gots behind it, placing ber huge head against it, when presto! up it rises and out it goes, =he has the strength of at least twenty horses PRT KID, : HH T i i g i A like look i ig rest human beings They the sort of big heads; but they don’t com plain of it to me, “We give the about fifteen pounds of meat each per day, feeding them but once in twenty-four hours every day in the week except Sunday. Sundays are fast days for carnivorous animals in all the menageries. They re ceive nothing in the shape of ford from Saturday morning to Monday morning 1 do not perceive that it makes any dif ference with them, You know thatin a wild state they are frequently com pelled to go a long time without food when it is scarce Mr. Pierce, who was one of the earli est of lion tamers, laughed at the idea of going in among them just after they had eaten. “That is a big mistake said he. “It is strange how many sensi- ble people swallow that yarn, All of the cat family are uglier and crosser just af ter eating than at any other time. We feed them in the about ten hons morning INMATES OF TIDY o'clock, and enter their cages say about three o'clock and again at nine o'clock in presence of the audiences. We pet control of them by association with them, and the superiority which man has over wild beasts. There is no clap trap or humbug about it. We teach them we are masters, and they learn to fear and obey, if not to love us, It is a danger. ous business, however, for the cats are all treacherous, and one can avoid attack only by constant vigilance.” Keturning to the animals, in a stall is a horse tweaty-one hands high with a weight of more than a ton and a quarter, whose great solid face is in marked con- trast with the chipper, intelligent coun tenance of the diminutive Shetland Dick, the aguar, beautifully spotted, is tame and likes to be petted. In the cage ad joining him is a brute of a puma, which, ever restless strides up and down its cage. A ferocious, ungrateful wretch, it would murder the man who feeds it, as it killed its beautiful and more docile mate a short time ago. Perhapsthe meanest brute in the aggrega- tion is a big mandril, whose purple blue breast swells with rage at the slightest | provocation, | ntamed and untamable, it springs forward mad to scize and to | tear every one passing the cage. A curiosity is a den of five black wolves which commemorated their fin night with Mr, Grenier by aking a! eir supper off the sixth, the largest of number. I'he house which the wild saimals with the horses sccupy is large and roomy. The premises are never left un. arded for a single moment. When fir. Pierce's duties end for the day he is succeeded by an intelligent keeper who remains unl! his return in the morning. Besides these there is a superintendent, watchman and divers assistants, Insur | tion is | Poence, M.D. Knoxville, Ala. and NR Rs". Eleven hundred and forty-five writers have contiibuted the articles for the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britaciea, the last volume of which has just been issued. 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