LIGHT. What does the blind man, blind from in- fancy, Note in the vistas of his sleeping dream? Living in darkness ‘neath light's glowing stream, What can dreams show him that would lovely be? Loud would he sing, joy-brimming, suddenly To know the blessing of day's faintest gleam-— Brighter than bright dream pictuggs then would beam Life's radiant beauties in his vision free, And would not we, reposing in the gloom, Dreaming in shadow, reft by death of sight, In awestruck joy and wonder wake to see, Like the day breaking into sudden bloom, About us burst the rolling sea of light That gilds the white shores of eternity? RR. K. Munkittrick, in the Century. Se ————— MISS DILLOWAY. BY CARRIE A. GRIFFIN. Miss Dilloway locked the back door of her small house, and hung the key in plain sight near the kitchen window. How far the safety of her goods and chattels was ensured by this simple act she never stopped to consider; but noth- ing would have induced her to leave the door unlocked. On her way down the narrow gravel walk she stopped to pull a weed here and there from the flower-bed, and to pick up an obnoxious piece of paper which had somehow found its way into the midst of the flowers. She straight. ened a young Balm of Gilead tree, and tied it more sccurely to the small which served as a prop; carefully behind Lriskly down the vill She had walked rather timidly along the platform of the litt tion, and was about to ¢ stick then, closing the her, street, gate she walked le railroad sta nter the waiting. room when she was accosted by a man standing near, who was checking a soil tary trunk. “Wal, wal, Miss Dillon 8 Jour 3 «*Not much of a one," curtly. “Wal, minut He soon appeared at window, curiosit) un face. Miss Dilloway note “] want a much is iti “+Oh, to Preston! got e. sity writt ticket to she said. Eighty-fiv relation ais 18 Can you change five dollars?” ~—twenty-five, if u Say so! Ezry’s { , or nigh there?” y Clar'mont. Pow Iks move up Pres- No; they moved t il the train got” id Mr. McQuestion leaned and looked out through the window at the clock on the wall. “In "bout fifteen minutes. Setdown; get down over there in the rocking chair, and make yourself comfortable. "Taint every depot that's got a rockin Abem! Goin’ to be gone long!” “No,” answered Miss Dilloway, with a slight rather the situation. “Not But good man's curiosity was not to be gratified that me A from the necessitated his hurrying clock accommodation soo Miss Dilloway out of In g-chair. smile, enjoying H'm—h'n oe 144 the ning baggage-roou and n ght and hours’ time she was standing before a large brick building, massive door of which were “‘Home for the Friendless.’ a little as she ascended the granite steps, and waited a rang the bell. A white-capped servant sh into a small reception-room. as if her nervousness increased with every moment's and when a tall, serious lady came slowly int room, Miss Dilloway wished very much indeed that she were sal ““You came anid the all the stern lines from her face. “ Ye-es ; 1 did come to get sdopt : but I'm here, 1 know that I'd ought to.” ¢ Perhaps you can tell gating.’ the ten o he AWAY, ire iittie hearing itso over the the words She trembied little time before she her i ywed » sons #4 1 It moemed waiting, the 184 e at home to see our litth oneal” lady, with a smile which drove 40 don’t one nowt be siter You ses I mude up my mind rather suddenly. Mr. Thornton, our minister] from Rentham- preached a most power. ful sermon last Sunday from the text, ¢* Whoso shall little child,’ and that sermon kas been haunt ing me ever since. He had just come from a visit to Bosten, where he saw an orphan asylum: and he said it made his heart ache to see so many litt who never knew what it was to have a mother’s kiss on their foreheads.” Miss Dillowsy wiped a tear from her eye, sud went on “And then he said, if the Lord was oing to ask us by and by what use we Bad made of the talents He had given us, be didn't see why He shouln’t ask us what use we'd made of our homes, es. sially those folks who had been given on bigger than they needed. He asked them if the people didn’t thipk it wasn't burying rooms, as the man buried the talent, to keep them shut up; and he urged then to open their hearts and yes, | FUP POSE I can. comme receive one such bomes-—to be mothers and fathers to | some little waif who dida't have any ents, “Then he eapped it nll by saying that be and Mrs. Thornton lind just adopted a five-year-old boy from that very ssy- ham. They've got seven already! But that's like Mr. Thoruton; he always sctises what he preaches, “Well, when 1 sat down that afternoon with my Bible and hymn. book, I couldn't gem mind off that sermon. When | it, it didn't seem as if "twas meant for me, but for married folks; but some. bow the thought of Abby's chamber up. #tairs—Abby's my sister who died last year—kind of worked its way into my tay me, Cyihin Dillawsy. have you say to me, * + have you kept that room of yours bid ina napkint’ call le ehilaren | “Then 1 thought of the cellar full of provisions, and more than enough in the bank to take care of me if I lived to be a hundred: and before I knew it, I'd said aloud, ‘I'll do it! I'll gave one of those poor things a home, and I guess I can be a kind of a mother to it, if I am an old maid!’ “It's surprising how much company just the thought of having a little girl around has been, for I made up my mind, of course, it should be a girl, Since then I've been kind of getting ready— and—well, here I am!" By this time little Miss Dilloway was wiping the perspiration from her face. | She had talked an unusually long time for her. “My friend," said the matron, who had been listening with intercst to her story, ‘I am sure you will be blessed in sharing your home with one of God's un- fortunate ones, Come with me and let me show you my ‘family.’ ” She led the way up a broad flight of stairs. Miss Dilloway soon found herself in a large room, which contained many children that the first sight them almost took her breath away. had expected to sce a dozen or twenty, perhaps, but here were surely a hun- dred. How could among sO many. Over in the corner one She she choose of older Dillo she girls was trotting a baby. Miss way was very fond of and stopped instinctively to speak to this babies, one It lo« fidingly, and then held out She face con- her small ced up into her sweet arm toward her, took and pressed the little form cle +] do love babies sol” she 8, said apologetic ally, to the mu 2 smile, looking on with ks at home that [ d seem to think why old m s a8 well's m lay.” v‘He! screamed, lo forward | | Dilloway's Len suuggic | Miss Dilloway cleared her throat, «Well, I never liked boys very much up, but if [ sho iid take this one, [ guess | should get use before that Do anything about his parents! y “Yes. They The father died onl) and the mother was so affected by his after they're grown LO LIS WAYS time. you Were very nice pe ple ly eight months ago, death that she never rallied after The bi wholly alone in the world Miss Dilloway's mind was up rom that moment, and early in the af won Mr. McQuestion, for the first time { lost $33 Miss ie off the train with a baby in . fail 5 came ttle fellow secs WO made { i in his his voice as Dilloway » oro LO HET Arms Of « the irae | this “*look ahead,” they told me of her death and her hus. band’s, so nigh toget ir. “But I was more taken aback when I | heard she'd left a baby, and that it had been sent to an asylum, Clary Dayton’s baby, my nevvy-or grand-nevvy--in an asylum! oI traveled pretty quick to the place, and I don’t know whether I was glad or sorry when I heard it had been adopted. Anyway, what I came here for's to see the little chap—look round here, sonny-—and to make some arrangement with you about his—board-—or whatever you call it, I don't want Clary's child to be living on charity.” A fev isn't charity, sir, it isn't charity! You see it belongs to me.” Miss Dilloway said this with a half-vin- dicative air. “I had the papers regu. larly made out.” “Well, by and by, when he grows up, he'll have to be educated, and clothes bought for him. I'll start him a bank account. What's his name?” “JI've always called him ‘Baby.’ 1 it so | haven't thought of any name yet,” an- | of | swered Miss Dilloway, not just liking when this bit of hu- manity in her arms would need education | and boy's clothes, from | | out a name! i me “Land o' liberty! Clary’s baby with. Well, well. Ahem! Whee what do you say to calling him after Reuben" “I don't know that there's any objec- tion,” said the little woman, somewhat | meekly | “Well, you think it over I've got a | little business down this way that needs it eageriy, | ton, | 3 { the end ¢ | seen looking after, so I shall probably be | round here for a day or two, and I'll half- | come Mr, in agmin Russell's business have re. y “looking he at wr it detained him in must after” than more than a week. There be an hour or tw in it did not re these yw Clary 's baby was gver, when tention, and were in spent “looking in to see bh friend 1 was gone J “ut i thas afterno tine on nn Dilloway's residence, bol {1 lelt | | them 4 i the Daby De | { nothing more | be a specific people 3 Rentham were | urprised, It seems a very amusing thing i to some of them that shoud adopt a baby, knew her well and loved her, commend ed her worthy act and rejoiced in her new happiness fOr Dappy sae certainly Miss Dillow ay but those who Was. It was certainly a beautiful sight to see Miss Dillowny with the her ar The child crowed, ind f was unmistakably very fond of his { baby in cooed ms pare ut. Donations of sacks for baby's wear came One thoughtful neighbor thildren came in with and wlinost slips, #tox kings in daily. erndle, ys in- numerable Miss Dilloway held council mothers in the neighborhood as to merits anise and the demerits syrup. Advice freely given, but often of such a contra lictory nature that poor Miss Dilloway was puzzied. Ne vertheless, baby grew and prospered, and ma ie sunshine in the lit. the the with ’ os ’ OL soothing " tle old lady's heart, One day, about three months after baby's advent in Rentham, a very un usual sound rang through Miss Dillo- way's dwelling. There were one, two, three clangs of the brass knocker on the seldom used front door. "When, with baby in her arms, she opened the door, she faced a tall, well built man of substantial appearance in more senses than one, with streaks of gray in his hair The man glanced at the baby and | said, without ceremony : “1 guess I've struck the ight place This is Miss Dilloway, mut it?” Tremulously, holding the baby very tight, and with ao awful foreboding at her heart, she answered : **Yees, Will you walk inf" “Well, yes, I reckon I will, seeing I've come all this distance to see the lit. tle fellow, ‘There, now, don't get seared! I've no notion of taking him from you. [shouldn't know what to do with fim if 1 had him." Miss Dilloway's face continued to ex- press astonishment, “Wall, well,” said the man, “I guess 1'd better introduce myself. I'm Reuben Russell, late of Minnesota, at prescat of nowhere in particular. 1 got to Preston threo days ago, and went to work the first thing to hunt up my niece Clary. 1 didn't know she was dead until I reached | colored people of the | ing in Mississippi | for a few hours to determine | some kindnesses, called at the house oster | | a million times, and : sent a | ! cured, | oughly ripe. h handsome | carriage bel He seated y room bel “ vi heen her way, and | foun attached to ~it struck the world, and I'm aloae, baby seems to kind o' belong to us, it wouldn't be a bad ides to made one family. What do you say?” Perhaps what one of the neighbors said a short time after may throw som: on Miss Dilloway’s answer. and he's sixty-five | and it’s too n me bo 1iaoht HPO “She's nixty fl Cu that a day; t together baby! Youth's Companion 4 i A— Pineapple Juice for Diphtheria. “Nature has her own re theria.” Age lean medy for diph “it Is pineapple I declare that 1 have found it to It will cure the worst sfflicted with The did that. Two years ago 1 was engaged in lumber. One of my children was down with diphtheria, and the ques. tion of his death was simply the problem An o d col wed man, to whom my wife had shown says a Chi man nor than juice, i Case that ever mortal flesh was [ did not discover the remedy South and taying be heard of my little one's ill ness, urged me to try pineappie juice, The old fellow declared that in Louisiana, where he came from, he had seen it tried that in each case it had proved effective. So I secured a pineapple and squeezed out the juice, After a while we got some of it down the boy's throat, and 1n a short time he was The pineapple should be thor The juice is of so corrosive out the you will cut tell + nature that it theric mucus. | cure.” diph- it is a sure wi lI. A Curious Blunder. On most of the maps in use in our chools and offices may be found in the northwest part of the State of Colorado a settlement indicated, called Golden City. road leading to it. This, says Gold. thweaite’s Geographical Magazine, is a curious instance of the blunders that get into maps and stick there. As a matter of fact there is no settlement in the whole region for males around, It is in the midst of the Colorado Bed Lands, an uninhabited wilderness. When this region was first explored some ove dubbed this spot Goblin City ou account of the weird and fantastic shapes of the rocks in that remarkable country, Some earcless mapmaker altered the name to Golden oi presuming, bly, that it was a mining camp, Golden City it remains to this day. ctl —s Manhattan Sol” for Accordi Man 825. to popular tradition the Island of hattan was sold in 1624 for tho sum of $25, The ‘lusion one would naturally jump to would be that in the light of subsequent events the sum was a ridiculously small «But let us suppose that had placed out at seven per cont, interest in the year 1624 and had been allowed to Some of the maps even have a | HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, CELERY BALAD WITH MA YONNAISN. Cut away the green leaves and thor oughly clean some celery; cut into shreds crosswise; season with salt, pepper, vin- egar and a little oil; dish up and serve over it a mavonnaise dressing as follows: Rub the inside of an earthenware bowl with a piece of onlon; break in two raw yolks of eggs, a teaspoonful of dry mus- tard, a little salt and white pepper; mix | well and add a few drops of oil from | time to time, stirring meanwhile with a wooden spoon; when a foundation SPAGHETTI. The real Italian spaghetti is the best, although macaroni of This delicious article of food is prepared in muny ways. Spaghetti should always be thrown into boiling water; it is ruined if cooked to long; from ten to minutes is ample time, the water into a hot with go twenty Drained from and butters simplest of the of cooking it, A with grated Italian cheese, may be served as a dressing with spaghetti when boiled plain, The be mato DY & dish well sea- Lhe Wave soned wl is best sauce, and one togethm SAUCE MAY made a simple to either straining them sauce, fewing canned or fresh tomatoes, from the seeds and sea pepper and If garie, celery, curry powaer The with beef .-stock oning with butter, 1 onion nn | the suce can salt desire or may be added. also be made thick rhetti eaters dish plain or , DUl real spa. f $ prefer to eat their favorite with the grated cheese, — Chicago hot pls boi | ) in the pan tw y table i a large cupful bh the mutton was seRsSonIng with ropa ar orecesioer ire sauce economical dinper, as the meat was boiled will soup with tomatoes at 4 0 y 7 : fa "i we JA ET WOANR Agricpll Mra. not SEHOLD HINTS Playing with cats will give children rinygworins. lemove egy stains {rom table silver by rubbing with sait A tesspoon{u & level measurement ’ * i salt pices must bx Apple peelings thrown o will perfume the stove A bag of « tern will arcoal bung up In the « purify the water oth not with the tip Rub sauces sn with the back the spoon, An extensive nut snd fr diet cure children of U4 wit we fidgets To keep brass work bright rab with a rag dipped in salt and vinegar, A fruit diet will clear the complexion and make you more loving and kind A weak solution of oxalic acid will re- move rust and fruit stains from linen. Io frying, burn casily because there is 80 much sugar in om Never drink that standing uncovered over room nIons nm J ice been in has night waler a Mix pepper in with flour used for thickening sauces instead of adding afterwards, To restore strong ham to its freshness, slice and soak over milk, either sweet or sour, Cut a deep paring from turnips to take off the woody fibre, but merely scrape parsnips and carrots, When broiling steak keep the blaze original night in 1s started add a little vinegar; to thin it a | little keep adding oil and vinegar alter. | nately until sufficient dressing is made. | | wlNew York Press. all sorts is good. | Greenland Teo Sziling. Dr. Nansen, the intrepid explorer, in pledges drawn by hand. Each sledge with its load weighed about 200 pounds. On the inland ice, when the wind was favorable, they could, by rigging up | | | transported without labor and sometimes with great swiftness, The explorer speaks with much enthu- he wore on all his snow journeys. feet long, three and three-fourth inches | wide at its broadest part, curving upward | toward the front, The *‘skilober” puts | his toes into s leather receptacle like the | fore part of a boot, and buckles a strap round the back of the heel, allowing the heel to rise freely. With a pair of ‘skis” he can skid over moderately firm snow at the speed of seven, eight or nine miles an hour on level ground, steep hil and fears not to rush down Is with amazing swiftness Pt riorm mmaszing le ips. nad. - — Florida Phesphate Beds ““The phosphate beds sioner R. Turnbu House millions will Hons wii fron close of the good, subst on the mones Hk wor sails for the sledges out of the wall-pieces | and roofs of their tents, get their loads | siasm of the Norwegion ‘‘skis,” which | The *‘ski” is a wooden footgear eight | or to | New York Jour. | WH —r Transactions at the Stamp Exchange. In Paris there is a stamp exchange his nccount of bis adventurous journey | Where transactions are carried on from 2 across Greenland, telle how his party | 10 carried all their stores on two light | day. 7 o'clock of every Thursday and SBun- It is the Champs Elysees, under | the chestnut trees at the corner of the | Avenue Marigny and the Avenue Gabri- ¢l, just behind the Guignole and in front | of an aristocratic mansion inhabited by | one of the Rothschilds. By 3 o'clock the exchange is in full go, and all ages | and all conditions of society are repre | sented. There is very little trading car- | ried on at this petite bourse, most of the transactions being buying snd selling. Men and boys, wearing sachels slung by a strap over their shoulder, and in which | postage stamps are piled like cons in | the scrips of cashiers, shout what they { have to sell, their albums looked through, philatelistic papers read, dis- | cussions held and bartering takes pisce | amid lively vociferations. *‘I have sixty blue Kopecks,” **Who wants any 1873 | Uruguays?” +1 will take 1873 Ceylons at 1862 are thirty centimes “1 will sell Turks $1 larks, paper 1866 Perus at 1549 ree ang forty « presents § Light Hearts and Plenty Money, $4 AalilissrmgiRe + Spring Medicine artant TI that {IE BEST. superior remarkable cures, and the f 3 errant are gion greai ii il il Hood's Sarsaj mer by § 3 +t A Hood’s Sarsaparilla has a larger sale than any o or blood purifier shows the people have in it. sarsaparilla confidence the In fact The Standard Spring Medicine Is now generally admitted to be He y cures ts such strength to the whole system parilla. ly It spee § and impar that, as one lady puts it, “1 seem to anew.” Be sure to get a wl’ Nar tt all blood disea fe be made ood’s Sarsaparilla Said by afl druggists. $1 six for 858. Prepared only gC LHEOOD RC Apothecarion, Lowell Mas 100 Doses One Dollar caused by the dripping fat from rising by sprinkling the coals with salt, Where a wire spoon is used, an ogg | beater of wire loops may be substituted, a #poon. | and lacking that, a silver fork instead of The best covering for a poultice or a | mustard plaster is tissue paper, the layers used determining the strength of the plaster. When wiping up the floor before put. ting the carpet down, sprinkle it all over with salt while damp; this will greatly prevent moths. To drive away ants scrub the places they frequent with a strong suds made of oarbolic soap, after which sprinkle red pepper in every crevice. French cooks powder parsley by chop- ping it and then twisting it in a towel which leaves it dry; it is then used for sprinkling qver dishes as a garnish, To mend cracks in stoves and stove. make a paste of ashes and salt with water and apply. A harder and more durable cement is made of iron filings, sal ammoniac and water, To renovate scratched furniture, dis solve becawax in turpentine, making it of the consistence of molasses; apply with a woolen cloth, then rob briskly with a dry piece of flannel. The im. provement is wonderful. warded off pneumonia and friends? bili BPRCIAL —Seott's islon fs fousion all over the because its manner as to greatly increase their CAUTION, . hy ine. rr Remember last winter's siege. Recall how you give due credit to SC TT'S EMU ure Norwegian Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites ime and Soda? Did you proclaim the victo you recommended this wonderful ally of health to your And what will you do this winter ? Use Scott's Emulsion as a preventive this time. It will fortify the Sydiem against Coughs, Colds, Consumption, Scrofula, eneral , and all Anamic and (specially in Children). Palatable as nr SIL LE Ae Maatacraring Chemists, Hew Yorks Sold by all drugeieta. 8 by LRBOOD &¢ six for 83 Prepaces sally Apothecuries, Lowel Mas 100 Doses One Dollar fi trying” to health were the frequent changes of the weather. What was it that helped you win the fight with discase, ossibly consumption ? Did ION of ? Have Diseases ilk. =. astin XYND-18
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