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Time—What Is It, gently stealing,
Gently moving from the main
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Straying never—ever onward,
'Tie the passing of a day.
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Downward rushing to the sea;'
Till the singers trumpet sounding
Tells that time no mote Oen be.
Lost amid the wave of Giese,
Lost scold the deeps below,. '
Yet existing, but to know it,
Is eternity to know.
Time--a fragment, rent and riven,
On the meaning main ;
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To Its continent again.
1511 d the context of th Eternal, •
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'Tian stage, a varied play;
Man the actor, titer changing,
Ne'er continues in one stay.
Time—the dfrst•born of creation
First to live—aud last to die,
'Tiirixt its first and last pulsation;
Time transacts tier mystery.
Time—a treasure rich and costly,
Now entrusted to thy Care ; -
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This provistoh that is made?
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A Mystery of Land and Sea.
tnovli-711
Redwood Morton was, perhaps,
the youngest ship-owner. in Phila
delphia. He had inherited 'his
wealth from his .ft.ther who had pros
pered in business, . and the name of
Morton was worth everything on 'ex:
change. At the date of the opening
of our story, he owned but . one
vessel—and she, even,. was for sale.
He said be intended to leave the
maritime trade, and many people I
believed that he was going to 'marry I,
and retire to quiet life on his wealth. 1
His riches did not make him os
tentatious. His bachelor apart
ments were well, but not luxuriously,
furnished, and his large circle of ac•
quaittances wonder - why be did not
come out more to their liking. But
he had his reasons, his prejudices,
and, as the reader shall see, his hates
and loves.
" So, you aye going down in the
Petrel," one of. acquaintances said
to him one bright afternoon.
" Not down to the bottom of the
sea, but down to the orange groves
of Cuba," smiled . llfortOn. "As the
Petrel will be sold on her return, I
have determined. to take leave 'of her
in her last voyage." •
"Will you take any passengers ?"
.:," None. Do you want to go?"
"No ; but a female acquaintance
of mine would be pleased to sail in
the Petrel."
" A woman, eh ?". ejaculated Mor
ton, with a merry twinkle in his.hard
eyes. "Why,. our - conversation is
getting romantic. Where does the
lady wish to go ??..,
"To Havana." ~ •
, • " We shall touch there."
" Just to her liking; but as you
say you will convey no passengers,
she must content herself a While
longer on tetra Ilium."
• .
" No ; do not consider me positive,
Farland," Morton hastened to say.
" A. lady pasiSenger might add Much
pleasure to the -voyage, and, beside,
an affaire.clu eveur might result from
it. lam a bachelor, you see."
Farland smiled; and the Petrel's
owner produced some wine of Rhen
ish vintage. .
"If your acquaintance would call,"
Morton remarked, as the-conversa
tion had rtarned to the would-be
passenger..
" I will see that she does. You
sail—when ?"
" To-morrow." •
" She will, call this afternoon."
" Good I I will brush up - ,a bit,
dust mi furniture, and prepare for
her reception:7'
,A few minutes later Dott Farland
left Morton's quarters and walked
away. -
"Ha I you'll never see Cuba, if
you take her With you l"I muttered
to himself. " When you see her I
think you will adheie to your deter-',
minatipn .to take no passengers.
Redwood Morton, you think I haVe
overlooked your - Beechwood trick,
and that she has forgotten your,
jilting of her. Time 7heals some'
wounds,
but not such as you make."
Dott Farland was a good-looking
man of limited means.. Though
barred from the best society of the
city, his poems were read and ad
mired there, and he .loved to boast
thit ver,se4; written on the gaming
table, were - quoted in 'the model
family circle of the best avenues. He,
was a fertile, poet, but his associa
tions kept hini down. - -
From Morton's house-- he went
straight to a well-known European
hotel, in the parlor of which he met
a tall woman, with great blue eyes
and fair auburn hair. She sat at the
window, attired in a walking cos
tume, and smiled when he entered.
" Well, what success?" she asked,
anxiously,n and with ', much ira
patience.
" Tolerably fair," he replied: "He
wants to see your ; , • ,
" See me l" exclaimed the woman.
"No, no; at least not now."
" Then . •ou cannot sail, in the
Petrel, w ieb departs to-morrow.
You Can issemble, Bertha; he will
believe that yon have forgotten the
past, and *ill gladly take you out.
with him."
" Once at sea, and he will know
that 1 have not forgotten," cried the
woman, clinching her hinds, while
her eyes flashed. "To sail in the .
Petrel; yott, think I must see him ?"
" I know you must," said Dott
Farland. • . . .
".To-day, - then ?" . •
" Before night." ,
" Then be it so. I will go at once.",
Bertha said, firmly. "I must sail in
the Petrel." - '
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close when Redwood Morton' re
ceived the would-be passenger into
his sitting-room, and, when she
raised her veil, an ejaculation of sur
prise fell from his lips.
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"This is a surprise, Miss Walker,"
he said, recovering: "We have not
met—for five years. Indeed, I did
not know that you were in the city,
and had no idea that Mr.Failand re
ferred to you. in his conversation
several hours since."
"I am the lady referred to," she
replied, with a Saint smile. " 1 desin
to igo to Havana, and must thrust
myielf upon your, kindness. The
Petrel, I believe, sails to=morrow; no
other vessel follows for several
weeks, arid they are very precious to
me. I have interests in Havana that
must be looked after; hence, my.
eagerness to depart."
She finished, and waited for hits to
speak. For a while. Redwood Mor
ton looked his visitor in the eye, and
slowly. rose from his chair.
"Miss- Bertha, Walker," he said,
slowly, "the Petrel will sail without
you."
The next instant the woman was
on her feet, facing him with flashing
eyes. Her face was white, and her
lips quivered with ill smothered
passion.
"I am content," she said, " but
let me tell you that will yet have
my revenge. Redwood Morton, you
do not know me as spme men do. 1
have crushed hopea'before this, as I
would crush an egg-shell , in my
hand. My very fate drives ships
upon rocks, and my hate will drive
you to despair. I know the -
faced girl who believes that you love
er. You love a woman I pshaw I
Redwood Morton, the thought is
absurdity. For a penny I'd throttle
her and hurl her at your feet. I say
this to tell you how. I bate you and
everything on which you smile. The
very grass you tread—the flag that
waves over your ship. I will en
compass your destruction, and boldly
tell you this. I will curse your ship
till heaven, to close my mouth, en
wraps you in a tempest which shall
send yon to the bottom—you and
your accursed bark."
She looked like a queen of tragedy
4s she spoke, and, though the Petrel's
owner was pale, a 'sarcastic smile
lurked beneath the long hair of his
-moustache..
" You'd make a good Margaret,
he said.' "Come,. now, Berths Wal
keg, haven't you studied the charac
ter ?"
- "It takes no study to hate you,"
stie answered. " I wish you were
beneath my feet that. I might grind
you to powder. By all that is. good,
I will be revenged. But why multi
ply words? Perhaps you have done
well in refusing to take me out in the
Petrel. I might prove a fe:mle
Jonah, and the doll-eyed girl of yours
might watch in vain for the man to
whom I one foolishly listened
Good-bye, Redwood . Morton. This
shall be our last parting, for you sail
to-morrow. When the storm is about
you—when the, waves—my curses at
work—dash over the Petrel, think of
a woman's vengeance. Lanluage
cannot tell how 1 hate you. Good
bye."
Her right hand made a parting
gesture as the last words fell from
her lips, and the next moment Red
wood Morton found himself alone,
for she had swept imperiously from
the room.
"-What a passion I" exclaimed the
ship-owner. "But hates and curses
do not sink ships. I believe that
Dott Farland has a hand in this. I
have not forgotten the time I dashed
a goblet of wine into his face at
Beechwood, for the sake of this very
Bertha Walker. Then her beauty
dazzled me, but, whe' I saw the con
quest upon which she was bent, I
turned away and incurred her ever
lasting hate. Lottiep I fear for your
dear self, now," he said, in a low
tone. "She ridicules the love I have
given you; , had she been a man I
should have resented the insult.
Girl, if you will, you shall sail in the
Petrel to-morrow, for now that the
tigress is unchained, the hart must
be protected."
lie ceased, put on his hat, and left
the house. -
The city lamps were lighted when
he entered an unpretentious house.
among the.suburbs.
A fair young girl met him in the
parlor and blushed, when he kissed
her.
This girl was Lottie King, and the
person called " doll•faced " by Aertha
Walker in her anger. She had not
passed her eighteenth year, was
fragile, but very beautiful, and not so
tall as the ship-owner. Her father
was dead ; but she lived with her
widowed mother, whom she helped
to support with her needle. Ido not
know aught of her acquaintance with
the ship-owner, but it was plain that
they had lona been friends and
lovers.
Before the mother Redwood Mor
ton laid his plans.
He was going out in the Petrel on
her last voyage under his ownership,
and be wanted to take Lottie with
him that she might enjoy the tropics.
The scheine delighted the girl, anti
before hi left that night he bad 1.14
promis&thit she would go.
When be reached his quarters he
found the Petrel's captain awaiting
him. The old salt had to report that
,several. of the crew had deserted, and
•received_arders to secure sailors in
their places before sailing.
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That very night 'two men entered
a small office on Arch street. One
was well clad and hand - some, and the
other was a sailor, as his peculiar
walk indicated. After entering the .
room no gas *as turned on, but the
men seated_themselves near the win
dow, and•the light of the moon Tell
upon them.
" I'll give you $l,OOO to do the
job," said the well-dressed man.
The sailor opened his eyes.
" I will take it if you will tell me
why you want the job done."
"That is none of your business to
be plain about it," was the reply.
"If you do not want to take the
• offer, I will hunt another .man,for I
tell you the Petrel must be sunk on
this voyage."
The speaker rose to his feet and
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placed On the table. ,
"We can't bargain, 01mi,, he te•
seined. " Come, let ua go down."'„
"No, I'll sink her- for ' one thon
sand," said the sailor."".l guess I
ought to know why yon want the
work done." '
" Good ! your band on that," said
the employer. , " Now, go down and
enlist to-night; sink the seemed ship
and come here for your money."
The men left the attorney's office
together, and- after an hour bad
passed one returned alone.
The sailor had been accepted by
the Petrel's captain. '.
"Everything works well," the man
in the law office said to himself.
"Redwood Morton, there is' more
than one way to win a woman, and
after a man sends.you to the bottom
of the sea, I will make a bride of
Lottie King."
Ah Ibe did not know that Lottie
King was to sail in the Petrel.
When . the morning came, be
emerged from a fine hotel, and went
down to .the anchorage and looked at
Morton's ship.
"Mine at last, Lottie King," be
murmured, and turned abruptly, for
he heard the echo of the name.
Dott Farland stood near conver.
sing with a man of his own age.
"They will marry on their return,
I suppose," DOW& companion said.
" If they ever' return—yes," was
the, reply. "
.If the Petrel. reaches
Havana, all on board safe; they may
wed there."
The face: of the listener grew
deathly pale, and he glanced from the
men. to the Petrel, whose bright sales
were beginning to fill.
64 There she goes," exclaimed Dott
Farland. "May the wind and the
waves send them to the bottom of
the sea."
" Yes, and the 'girl he is taking
with him. Come, Dott, let us drink
to his destruction."
The men walked away, leaving the
man who had sent the sailor on
board the Petrel standing alone.
Ills eyes seemed ready to start
from their sockets as he gazed at the
vessel slowly moving out. and all at
once these words fell from his lips :
" Heavens 1 what have I donei?
Lottie is on the, ship, and I have
hired a man to send it to the bottom
of the seal"
Ile watched the Petrel till her sails
were no longer visible, then turned
away with an oath on his lips, and
flung himself into a chair in the law
office where he had made the villain
ous compact.
* *
".flow do you like your men 2"
The question addressed to Red
wood Morton, fell from the captain's
lips after the Petrel had got well to
sea.
" Indeed, I have not noticed
them," was the owner's reply. " But
I trusted to your judgment, be
lieving that it is, in such matters, far
superior to mine." .
" I 'took the first men who came,"
said the captain. "One is a thorough
soilor,
who was in the wreck of the
Barbadoes, and the other seems to
be more land-lubber than seaman. I
almost. wished I haden't shipped
him; but he was so sager to go that_
I haden't the heart Ito refuse him.
Perhaps weal teach him some salt
water lessons on the voyage."
Redwood delighted in the -pres
ence Lottie King, and did not look
after the affairs of the ship, but in
trusted such service to his officers',
in whom he had' the utmost confi
dence • and the Petrel sailed south
ward like a swallow.
But the pleasure of the voyage was
doomed to be broken. -
Rough weather set in unexpectedly
and gale after gale struck the
staunch little ship. She rode proud
ly thrOugh the troubled waters, and
Myrton declared that he would never
sell her if she took them safely to
Cuban land.
"We cannot be k far from, the
coast," he said to the l Petrel's second
officer on the third night after the
.storm. "If we can but weather the
gale till day, all .will be well."
" But I fear we cannot, the storm
increases every moment, and to add
to our.peril, the Petrel is aleak."
" Aleak ?"•cried the owner ; " the
bark .Petrel aleak in such a storm as
this ?"
"Aye!"
44 Why did you not tell me be
fore?"
• " I dared not. Your sweetheart
is on board, and-1 could not, Mor
ton:"
" Great fate 1" exclaimed the
owner. "Are we sinking rapidly ?"
"Not very rapidly , but - we are
liable to go down suddenly."
" Methinks I bear the water in the
hold now. Wait for another flash , of
lightning. There, I saw a long
stretch of coast then. "Did you not
see it ?"
"I thought—" •
At that moment the_ captain's
voice was heard.
"We are going down master 1"
he cried. " The coast is not far off:
I will lower the boats."
" Quick, then 1" cried Morton, and
sprang .towards Lottie King's state
room.
"Bertha Walker's curse!" he
ejaculated. " I never thought it
would be heard."
A minute *fterwards he reappeared
on deck with Lottie in his arms.
The lightning, flashing every min
ute, revealed the pale faces of the
crew, and the first boat dropped over
the straining Petrel's side.
"We have been scuttled, master,''
the captain-said, coming up sudden
ly. " One of the new men did it—
the sailor, I think."
"Where are they ?"
"The sailor is missing; there
stands the-other--the landsman."
Redwood Morton looked at -the
person designated by the captain,
and a gleam of astonishment lit up
his eyes.
"Watch him." he said to - his offi
cer. "1- will first gee. Lottie in the
boat." . -
He saw the woman he loved de
posited in the boat that rocked on
the billows at the Petrel's side,
and
was about to reaseend to the deck
when the ship was suddenly torn
away, and the next flash revealeld her
settling.
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BEGAIIDLEBB or nammownor; no ANY Qumran.,
The master saw. the 'hada ialtover
her, and the men loitering themedeca
by the chides Cad ropee.
"I+9okjOtier,l, 144delilY
bewlit, the peraot► who re*
mains on deck I" •
" I see," said the girt.. 46 Why
does he - not try to tWei3` ?"
"Cherished plans mai.:lllt. ~_ . That
person is.'Bertha Walker!" . '
"No, no, ,Redwood I" cried Lottie.
"Surely she . would not lollUlr you in
such attire!"
"For vengesinp3 - what 'NM not a
maddenid woman. dor But, lookl
see how the Patrel> lurches! • - Hark 1
kpiereing Cry came 4rier the sea,
the person on deck ittaggekoid back,
and the ship'fellover on.; be; aide.,
"It -was -Bertha- Walker-I Her
maw scuttled the' vessel," said 'tor.
ton, as his'men began to pull away.
Through the ' storm !arid was
gaiaed, it proved to be the coait of
COS. ' •
The next morning several pieces
of the wreck drifted ashore, and to
one clung the dead body of—Bertha
Walker IP -- .
Lottie dressed her for the grave,
and kissed tbe band that might have
sent her teithe other world.
Redw,ood Morton believed - that the
revengeful woman bad ; planned the
scuttling of the ship, if, indeed, she
was not an actual participant ; but
she knew nothing of ithe dastardly
deed.. She was following
; the owner
for the purpose of wreaking her're•
venge in some other mannet!; but the
. work .of Morton's unknown rival
baffled her. •
- On Cubian soil, with flowers over
her, sleeps the schemer who hated
Redwood Morton, and in a happy
home in the Qua ker'' City; Lottie,
now Mrs. Morton, tells her boys
about the wreck of the Petrel. But
the name of the., - tuan who sunk her
may never be known.
Dott Parland, the poet, fled when
he heard of the escape of the man he
bated, and -a manuscript found on
Bertha Walker's grave told that he
had visited it. ' • _
OBILD-LITE ON THE AMAZONS.
Mr. Herbert U. Smit h , writing in
Scribner of "An Indian Village in
the Amazon," thus describes a very
interesting phase of tropical life :
Child-life here is an -exceedingly
curious study;- the litne quiet crea
tures 'ore. so different from otteromp.
lag American boys and girls. They
get few caresses and give none ;
mother-love is mechanical ; there is
nothing of that overflow of tender
ness, that constant watchful care
that sheds such a halo around our
hoMes. The babies vegetated in
their steady brown fashion, seldom
crying or laughing, but lying all day
in their himmock cradles and watch-
ing everything around them with
keen eyes. As soon as .the little
boys and girls can toddle about"they.
are left pretty much to their own re-
sources, tumbling up the back-stairs
of life on a diet of mandioca meal
and fish. The parents seldom pun
ish their children, for they are very
docile ; when they do, the little ones
pucker up their mouths and look sul
len, but do not cry. Pleasure' is ex
pressed by a smile—among the little
girls very often by a broad grin,
with abundant show of teeth—but an
articulath laugh is a rarity.
. It is interesting to watch how the
mental traits of the race appear even
in the young babies. If a plaything
is given them, they examine it grave
ly, for a little while, and then let, it
drop. Observe how different this is
from a white baby's actions. A
bright little six-months'_•old at home
has four distinct methods of investi-
gation : first, by looking ; second, by
touching; then by putting the object
in its mouth ' • and finally, by banging
it against the floor. The brown
nienino just looks; he does not inves
tigate at all. An In content
to see or hear a thing, without troub
ling himself about the whys or
wherefores; even such incomprehen
sible pursuits as fossil-collecting or
butterfly catching, or sketching, pro
voke hardly any curriosity. The
people look on quietly, sometimes
asking a question or two, but soon
dismissing the subject from their
minds, as something they are inca
pable of understanding. 'With all the
crowding to see the lady of our
party, hardly a person asked why she
came. So, too, the babies are unam
bitious ; they o not cry after pretty
colors, or stretch out their hands to
a candle. And the men have no ap
parent desire to_ better, their lot.
They go on = just as their fathers did ;
submit to the impositions of the
whites, a little sullenly, but without
a thought of rebellion, unless there
is a white or half-breed to lead them.
The children do not care much for
playthings ; we rarely see one with a
rag doll ; the little boys delight in
bows and arrows, but they take thtm
as a part of their training. Some
times the people have dances, in im
itation of the festo sports ; and we
hear them humming the waltzes and
quadrilles which their quick ears
have caujht from the musicians. =As
an Indian will paddle steadily all
day, while his wife at home hardly
ceases her monotonous' ciitton-beat
ing, so the little ones have an-inex
haustible gift of patience. Where a
white child would fret and cry, the
brown one sits all day, perfe'ctly still,
but watching everything around
him. To see a littlelndian boy in a
canoe, you would say that nothing of
him was alive but his eyes. 1.
•
Park Coneipondeat Chicago Times.
Among the first disenclumtiaents
of . a visit , to France is the almost
total absence of that exquisite "po
liteness " which the Anglo-Salon is
apt to associate with the Gallic
character: The lip politeness of the
country is marked, but a Frenchman,
and more especially a . Frenchwoman,
can utter the single word "pardon"
with a subtle mingling of impatience,
weariness, contempt, exasperation
and hatred that incites the most
placid to murder. The biggest oath
that everfilled,a Kansas rough's vo
enbnlary never began to express the
combined chaineteristies of "cussed
ness" so fully as this one prolonged
biting - politeness—p-a-r-don. The
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Trench tongue is 'not' rich In es.
plettVes, and I am convinced 'that
thinisthe reason When "le much
of the, devil can ep* in .one word,
what teed for more . 7 It would be a
mere waste Of breat Nor can tbe
'stringer keep himself aloof from
thiist evidences 'of Gallic ill humor.
In is country
,of atrangers one must
with the strangers. ; ln almost
1113 Y country I know of a . restion in
the streetis Civilly answered ; in the
I majority of clues Oil Frenchmen
:either answer shOrtlY that he
doesn't know, or pinyon by with .a
cool stare: Like the German he will
Stare a weman out of countenance
and block up the narrow sidewalk to
dolt, making the object of his: ad
miration. go in the gutter. The
Ainerican may be thoughtless, but
he is never wanton in his rudeness.
The'Englishman maybe cold, but he
never goes' out of his way to make
fellow-traveler, lodger, or 'neighbor
at table, wretched and. uncomforta
ble. These things, however, from
long eaperience, I am convinced "that
the Frenchman does from what we
should call "pure cussedness."
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Fernegton Hawkey'.
Don't judge a man by his clothes.
Can you tell what the circus is going
to be hke, by looking at , the Italian
sunset pictures on the fence? Do you
value 21 t u rkey for its plumage? And
isn't the skin of a mink the most, and
indeed, the only valuable part of
him ? There be men, fair to look up
on, who wander up • and down this
country, and sit in the coolest places
on the hotel piazzas, who are afray
ed in fine linens and cardinal seeks,
and who have to hold their band over
their scarf pin when they want to see
the moonlight, Who, unassisted and
unprcimpted, do not possess the di's
cretion to come in when it rains, and
don't Snow enough to punch a hole
in the snow with an umbrella. New,
soft snow, at ; hat, without any crust
on it. Now and then, soL, before you
are as old as lilethusaleh, you will
meet man who wears a hat that is
worth twice as much as the bead it
ivers. On the other hand - don't fall
into the error of believing that all
the goodness; and honesty, and in
telligence in the world goes about in
shreds and patches. We have seen
A tramp dressed in more rags than
you could rake out of tie family rag
bag, and more dirt and hair on him
than would suffice to protect a horse,
who would step up to the ' front
door and demand three kinds of cake,
half a . pie, some black • coffee and
vanilla ice cream, and - then. steal
every movable thing the yard, kill
the dog, choke up . . the pump with
sand, tramp on the pansy bed and
girdle the cherry trees because; he
couldn't carry them away. Good
clothes are cr bad, son, they ,dare
never an infallible index to a 'man
that is in them.
SONE LITTLE THINGS 'MARRED BY
EXPERIENCE.
If your coal fire is low, throw on a
tablespoonful of salt, and it will help
it very much. A little ginger put in
to sausage meat improves the flavor.
In icing cakes, dip the knife frequent
ly into cold water. In boiling meat
for soup, use cold water to extract
the juices. If the meat is wanted for
itself alone, plunge in boiling water
at once. You can get' a bottle or
barrel of oil off any carpet or woolen
stuff by applying dry buckwheat flour
plentifully and faithfully. Neverput
water in such a grepse spot, or liquid
of any kind. Broil steak without
salting. Salt , draws the juices in
cooking; it is desirable to keep these
in if possible. Cook over a hot fire,
turning frequently, searing on both,
sides. Place on a platter; salt and
peper to taste. Beef having a tend
ency to be tough can be made very
palatable by .stewing',. gently for two
hours, with pepper and salt, taking
out about a pint of the liquor when
half done, and letting. the rest boil
into the y meat. Brown - the meat in
a pot. After taking 'up, make a
gravy of the pint of liquor saved. A
small piece of charcoal in the pot
with boiling, cabbage removes the
smell. Clean oil cloths with milk and
water; a brush and soap will ruin
them. Tumblers that have had milk
in them should never be put in hot
water. A spoonful of stewed toma
toes in the gravy of either roasted or
fried meats is an improvement. The
akin of a boiled egg is the most effi
cacious remedy that can be applied
WA. boil. Peel it carefully, Wet and
apply it to part affected. It will
draw off the matter and relieve the
soreness in a few hours.
SABSAPABtLLA•"
Detroit Frees.
Yesterday afternoon a- red-faced
young man belonging to an excur
sion party , called into a Woodward
avenue drugstore and softly asked
the soda-fountain boy if he was out
quay particular kind of syrup. The
boy made an investigation and re
plied :
"We are out 4 - ( 4 . Sarsaparilla,
but—"
"That's all, right—all right—you
wait a minute,"-interrupted the young
man, and away he went.
The boy took the empty reservoit%
from the fountain and replacedlt,
and in two minutes the young man
returned with his girl and four 'other
people, evidently all friends. Walk
ing up to the fountain, he said :
"I am going to take sarsaparilla
in mine, because the doctors all re
commended it, and if he hasn't got
any sarsaparilla I won't take noth
ing. What do you say?"
" Oh, we wilt take the same," they
replied. •
The -young man began to smile,
and his left eye began to draw down
butwhat was his horror to see the
boy draw oft six glasses in succession
and push them to the front, where
they were eagerly drained' of their ,
contents! He tried to give the boy a
ok of mingled hate and murderous
bnt the lad was oto busy - to seelt.
Be felt in all his pockets brought up
watch-keys, pennies and ,peanuts, and
finally laid down twenty-seven cents
and whispered to the boy: •
That takes my pile, and if I ever
catch you outside of town I'll lick
yolk to death!"
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LOST LOVE
r 7,4 heart oklhi simplest, miens;
• Is a mystery seeivesk4l.
hod the !eve that seems trs►epers►t
Is meet hopelessly, ocaes,sloxl.
We tare not Carlow, 'while we have It,
. We know not of love till *lfs lost;
We matter Ito lommtues btossl•baudiol,
'Nor met= the ultimo** cost.
am: A hand emu forth from the shadows—
; . ♦ Mock that I know of old—
Thst amid mown the gloonikst (mattes
liirlth In WOW* of sold
♦nd i think torvi est bind oolvving.
That erased but to lie In wise,
"Oft toot noltopotient /*rare.
Or toond no responsive sips. -
And from loader panted mares .
, I otebtbeekr, wistful look,
- Bo Hafdly. mutely jealous '
- Of the 10TO that Iph my book ;
And li 014 tea well remember - , .
How 1 chafed at the dumb reproach,
And swore that ho thought of woman
Should en my 'ladies encroach. i
,!.
Wasi I, blind, or sad, or bat heartless? 4
The face and the band are gone,
The light of my life has vanished,
lam utterly ihme.: - '
The brain that her glances hindled
Is blighted, and dead, and chilled,
And the gorgeous dreams of the future
Can never more be
Ivied ass man sae Is selfish,
Sao loved In amoman's way ;
And man's lave compared with a woman's
Is as duiness unto day.
As a ipendttalft scatters bla birthright,
I wasted the dower she• gave.
And too late I and my ambition
Hay followed her Into the grave.
—gas kl•asefeeo Naos Ldter.
A ram. THAT 18 TO BE . MADE TO
-YIELD A MILLION DOLLARS A
YEAR.
Mateo Times. _ _
This morning I paid a visit to the .
Dalrymple farm, situated eighteen
miles west of Fargo, D. T. The es
tate embraces 100,000 acres, owned '
by Mr. Dalrymple, of St. Paul, Ger.
George W. Cass, of New York, B. P.
Cheney, of Boston, and J.L..Granin,
of Pennsylvania. The Grand Divi
sion, consisting of 40,000 acres, is
situated on Goose river, thiity miles
south of Fargo, and apart from 'the
other divisions. S 0 far operations
on the farm have been confined chief
ly to wheat growing. The farm
is managed with something of the
system that is employed in directing
the operations of an army. It is cut
up into divisions of 2,00, acres each,
and these are managed by experienc
ed superintendents and foremen, the
finances of each division being
brought under a regular and sepa
rate system of book-keeping. ' Mr.
Dalrymple is generally master of the
whole.
The area of ground under crop
this year is 13,000 acres. Next year
the area will be increased to 20,000
acres. The spring wheat was sown
the latter part of March and, the fore
part of April. The first of it was cut
July 25th, and twelve days after that
the work of the reapers had been fin
ished, and miles upon miles of wheat
shocks covered the plains. In bring
ing this crop to perfection, Mr. Dal
rymple has employed nearly 500
head of horses and mules, 80 broad
cast 8i feet seed-sewers, 160.14-inch
plows, 200' steel-pointed harrows, 15
40-inch cylinder threshers and clean
ers, 15 10-horse-power steam engines,
80 self el
-bindinfr reapers, and a force
of about 400 men. These 80 ma
chines, when in motion, cut and
bound with wire, 1,000 large bundles
every minute.
Threshing was begun a few days
ago, and, as I stood in the midst of
this stubble plain today, and watch
ed the smoke curling up from steam
machines miles upon miles ; away,
and fancied that they looked as ves
sels look when steaming far out over
the lake in front of Chicago, I
thought' to myself what a magnificent
" desert, this is ! Near by me was a
sulk rintendent who was talking
through a telephone with another su- ,
perintendent some three miles away.
Near him sat an operator, who was
sending a dispatch to another part
of the farm.
Mr. Dalrymple said that be expect
ed the yield to average twenty-five
bushels per acre, which would give a
total of 325,000 bushels,' worth just
that many thousand clonal* tiro
thirds of which would be net profit.
It is all No. 1 wheat, and Mr. Dal
rymple. said he bad just decliined an
offer by the Millers' Ass'ociatiort of
'Minneapolis of 92 cents. per bushel
' for 80,000 bushels. He is shipping
from his farm to Duluth, and thence
to New York, twenty cars of wheat
every day. •
My astonishment at what I bad
seen was nothing compared with that
which I experienced upon being
told by Mr. Dalrymple . that it
was his purpose to carry for
ward the development of his Arm
until he shall have put 40,000. acres
under - the plow, and brought his
yearly production of wheat up to a
round million bushels. Dalrymple's
is not the only' large farm. herea
bouts. • There are at least a half doz
en others, which number froth 1,000
to 2,000 acres under cultivation.
The number of farms embracing from
100 to 400 acres under cultivation is
very large.
1110:f1,14017PO:ftliimiall
Blaekwood'a Magazine
These towers are structures about
thirty feet high, and the iame in di
ameter. The first ten feet arc of solid
stone structure, the upper hollow, and
capable of holding fifteen or twenty
men, the whole loopheled and roofed
in ; above the roof I a look-out bal
cony. The only entrance is a small
doorway above. the stone substruct--
ure, approached either by a ladder or
a single piece of rope, which, wile
the tower is occupied, is drawn up.
Scattered round the towers are the
huts or cave-dwellings of the people.
The huts, _surrounded generally by
lciw earthen walls, resemble those all
over upper. India—earthen walls and
fiat, toud-covered roofs some twenty
feet long, ten or twelve broad, and
six high. Sometimes they are longer
and divided into apartments, in lone
of which the cows and butl'aloes are
housed, though quite as often they
occupy the same apartment as their
owners. Their portion is - generally
anything but clean ; the portion. oc
cupied 'by the family is swept oat
daily by the womsn„ _who, as:a rule,
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01.00 Deis AnflUln In 411dirannii,
do not: only all the domestic work,
but a good portion of outside duty
also.'; The only farniture consists of
two or three small bedsteads covered
with, string, .on which lie ..:i.iunbled
some dirty quilts or blankets; in one
corner some seed-cases, covered With
a coating of. mud, contained . the
grain for .dally *Use, and for the next
sowing season; a small stool or two,
and some Spinning-wheels, at which
the women sit when at leisure, . which
is seldom; a few ghurras, earthen
vessels, holding water or buttermilk,
and used as cooking-pots. In one
corner, or in the centre of the room,
lies a heap of ashes or a wood lire, on
which the cooking is done,the smoke
of wbich, having no outlets, blackens
walls and.ralters, on which hung the
warlike implements of the lords of
the mansion.
93A-LUTHIG THE BRIDE." .
Detroit free Press.
There was a marriage at the "np•
per end oflhe Detroit, Lansing and .
blorthern road the other day. A
great big chap, almost able to throw
a ear load of lumber off the tract,
fell in love with a widow who was
cooking for the , hands in the saw
mill, and after a week's-acquaintance
they were married. The boys around
the mill 'lent William three calico
shirts, a dress coat and a pair of
white pants, and, chippe•l in a purse
of about $2O, and the couple started
for Detroit on a bridal tour within an
:b
lour after being married. -
" This.'ere lady," explained Will
iam as the conductor came along.for
tickets, "are my bride. Just spliced
ilfty-six minutes ago. Cost $2.00, but
di rn the cost. She's a lily of the
valley, Mary, and I'm the tight bow
er in a new. pack of keerds: Con
dieter, sa-lute the bride!"
The conductor hesitated. The
widow had freckles - and wrinkles
and a turned-up nose, and kissing
the bride was no gratification.
. "Conductor, sa-lute
. the bride or
look out for tornadoes!" continued
William as 'rose he 'up and sheclAts
coat. •
The conductor sa-luted. It was
the best thing he could do just
then.
"I never 'did- try to put on -style
before," muttered William, " but I'm
bound to see this thing through, if I
have to fight all Michigan. These 'ere
passengers have got to come up to
the chalk, they has."
The car was full. William walked
down the aisle, waved his hat to
command attention and said:
.
"I've just Been married ; over
'that' sots the bride. Anybody •who
wants to.sa-lute the bride kin now'
do sp. Anybody who don't want-to,
will hey cause to believe that a tree
fell on him.!"
One by one the men walked up
and kissed the wido until
v
i
one was
left. He was asleep . '' William reach
ed over and I lifted hi into a sitting
positionat-one move ent and com
manded tu and ed : C 1 -
"Ar' ye goin' to . st - over Char'
an' kiss the bride.?"
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"Blast your bridejand you, too!"
ffrowled the passeng,
r. .
William* drew kiin over the bask
of the seat, laid (him down on the
aisle, tied: his legs In a knot and was
making a bundle of him just of a size
to . go through Ihe window, when he
caved and went over to sa-lute.
• "Now, then," said William, as he
put on his cast, "this bridle tower
will be resumed as usual, and if Mary
and me squeeze hands or get
. ti:o lay
ing heads on each other's shoulders,
I shall demand to know who hared
about it, and I'll make him e-magine
that I'm a hull boom full of the big :
gest kind of saw-logs, an' more
comin' down on the rise. Now,
Mary, hitch along 'an let me get. my
arm around ye!"
Detroit rresit
" Genlen," Said Brother Gardner,
as he laid down his stick of licorice
and stood up," I war ober to de Wid
der Smith's,de odder mornin' to see
if she could lend my. ole woinan,her
washboard next day, an' de. widder
she spoke up an' said 3lisser Gard
ner, dis world am all's sham.' I.war
in de co'ner grocery de nex' day, an'
de grocer he hove a sigh as - - big as
my fist as be leaned ober de - counter
and said : Misser Gardner, dis
,world,ani all a sham.' 1 was blackin'
a stove for de doctah down on de
co'ner below, dat same day,
_an'
when I got frees wid de Sub, he drop.
ped a quarter inter my hand, an'
softly whispered : 'Baader Gardner
dis world am all a sham.' Now,
gem'len, all dat talk am, el'ar bosh.
De world am all right. Who says
de hoss am a sham? Who says dat
de cow an' mule an' dog an' cat am
shanis? De man who falls down finds
solid bizness. De man' who buys
codfish doan'
,get mutton-chops.
When I ax for 'tanker, dey doan'
gin me silk. once in .a while we
frow a boot-jack at a cat ari' hit.nuf
fin but
,an ashlbarrel; but de world
in 'gineral am plenty. -- good 'null for
de kin' of peotffe • Who put in dere
time heat . De `. man who scratches
his back agin de - city hall will tell
you dat ,de world am all a
sham.- De chap whose wife supports
him by washin' an' sewin'. feels dat
de world am sham all ober.- De nood
lehead, who sots out captur' de phb
lic wid a little cane an' a good deal
of brass, is no sooner stepped - on dan
he cries out., ' Sham!' tilti ye can't
rest.
_I doan' want to hear dat
'spreshun aroun' heap, kase it won't
go down wid men who work ten
hours a day and pay 'deli honest
debts."
en
Ca - EATIori is the work of God alone. It
Must be so. 'if any doubt it, let us bid
them make the effort to- Create Lthe small
est object: The -potter plami his clay
upon the wheel, and shapes it_ after his
own pleasure; he fashions' the vase, but
he is not the creator of It. The clay was
there brforchand ;he does but change its
shape, Will any man who thinks he can
play the creator produce a single grain of
dust? • Call now,
and *see if -there,he any
that will answer - thee—call into nothing
-nem and bid a grain of duatto appear at
thy bidding. It cannot be. _Now, inas
much as Paul declares the Christian man
to be a new creature, it is proven that the
Christian man is the work or - God, and
the work of - God alone. ‘. 4 Which were
born, not of blood, nor of the will of the
flesh, nor of the will of mitt--but of a°d'"
;.-Spurgeon.)
ME
NUMBER 8
ALL - A-SHAM.
TEE Aron 01 NATURE.
4 , ican Impoke*lorst.-
, +.E•rki*Poiligifts ONVWS4II ISM , *
To one beijoy she ishilsters,
Tonne institutor psis,
Or. - •
groyne drops thee twined In one
Until their chevrons" use ts does.
Where want kaa dieendithe earth to dusk
;"_:- •i Alt beitioche gsicbeek; .
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.• To testlibe lumpy sad - the Tesk t'
Hitt of 001114110dd
. Her sane the thihtglikat pleat, yield&
She walks the Antes that maidens trail ,
Have trodden sines the nights of 014-
"n modes not Omagh tbe ellty
Ilettaet ate eboa es hidden VIC
They wave as o'er the virgin snow's :
Yet to bet itip elf peaks glows.
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BINDOO EIDUROCM
Lazy as we are want, to.
the Orientals, many of the "matches
against time " achieved by them may
bear comparison with the best of
these now pending among ourselves.
An Arab donkey boy will go at a run --
ill the'aray from Carlo to the Pyra
mids and back agaii3, without any
visible signs of fatigue. A Sikab dis
patch bearer will scamper through
miles of jungle in the dark with a.
heavy bag on• his shoulders, shak
ing a bunch of metal rings to scare
away the tiger and the hyena. • Four
meagre Ilindeos,,- who appear barely
able to carry a luind-bag, will take a
heavy palanquin, containing an omeer
and all his belongings, over the
ground at a smart trot for hours to-
gether. Even more. marvelous are
the achivements of the Persian shatirs
(professional couriers), who trained
froin their.very childhood to feats:of
strength and activity, daily, accom
plish distances bordering" ppon the
incredible. .Not many years ago one
-of these men reached Teheran fully r
two hours before his appointed time,
having covered an immenise tract of ,
country la fourteen
hours or almost in ssant running ; '
but his chief, so , Vein praising
him,simply renter , ‘.S . Could you.
not have done it in%welvef" and. on
his feturn journey
,the indomitable
man actuly did o. The occupation
is a dangerous 'one, not only (rod"
the extraordinary exertions which it
- demands, but alto from the fact of
runners being so tightly girded that
a fall or even a stumble would be cer
tain death. Persian chronicles re
late that a certain native Prince once .
promised his daughter to any man
who would keep up with his chariol
all'the way from Teheran to Ispaban.
A celebrated shatir undertook the
task. and held his own: till the gate
of Ispshan was full in view,. when
the Shah, alarmed at the prospect of
having to make good his rash prom
ise; let, fall his whip. The runner,
knowing that, it• would cost him his
life to stoop, contrived to pick it up
with his feet. • The treacherous mon
arch then dropped his ring, when the .
shatir, seeing that' his fate was seal-
ed, exclaimed -reproachfully, " Ohl
King, you have brokeni your faith,
but I am true to mine I" picked-up
the ring and fell deat h on the spot. •
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rum FACT AND FACJETIL.
" WREN is a man a coward,?" asked
teacher.c " When he runs away from a
cow," answered .a pupil.
" ONE of the lost tarts'!" said a scholar,
picking up a cherry pie in the street.--
Steubenville Herald. , =
BY these things examine yourself. By'
whose rule ain' I acting . ; in whose
strength ; iu whose name ; in what spirit ;
to what end ; for whose glory 2 -
No matter bow many of our laden ships
may come safely , into port, that one which
was lost at sea will always seem to us to
have.farried the richest cargo. •
There, cannot be named a single pur
suit or enterprise of human beings, •in
which there is so little possibility offail
ure as in praying for sanctification. i•
WuonfEn would be sustained by the
hand of God, let• him constantly lean
tipon it"; - whoever Would' be defended- by
it let him patiently i ‘ repose himself under
it. -
hour with Oh . ris - t is worth an eter
nity of all the earth's joys, and communi
on with him is the best, the surest, and,
' the most ecitatie fciretaste of the bliss of
heaven. •
"Ann we undeveloped lunatics?" asks
the Albany Times. Good gracious, _sir
cheer up. We have no doubt you are just
as much deyeloped as anybody.--Buffalo
Expres*.
OVERCOME anger . by. love; overcome
greed by liberality ; overcome falSebood
by truth, overcome evil by good. Hatred
never ceases by hatred, bat by love. "This_
is an old rule.
-Tar, divine providence of thee Lord et
tends to the most singular things of the
life of man ; for there is only one fountain
of life, which is the Lord,, from which we
are, live and act.
FAME iS not won on downy plumes nor
under canopies; the man who consumes
his days without obtaining it, leaves such
marks of himself on earth as smoke in air
or foam on water.
REPOSE and cheerfulness are the badge
g ‘
of the gentleman—repose in energy. i o
Greek battle pieces_ are calm ; the heroes,
in whatever violent action engaged, re.
tain a serene aspect. ' 7 1..1...;
"TnEsE sons belono to me and this
wealth belongs to no 1" With 'sueh
thoughts .afool Wtormented. lie himself
does net belong to himself; how much
less sons and wealth !
A 11.4. x went into a restaurant the other
day and asked fora dezen oysters. The
polite waiter asked bun how he would
like to have them dressed. "Dreised !"
exclaimed the fallow, "hang it; I don't
want 'em dressed at all. I want 'em nak
ed, and don't you forget t."
A mal.s out West recently looked down
the muzzld of his rifle, and at once took
his departure for the summer land. In
stead of putting the epitaph on his tomb
stone of "Didn't know," etc., they inscrib
ed it-" Gunned to glory."—Bradford Era.
"WHAT killed Cleopatra?" visited the
professor, "The bite hofhsusp;" said
the boy from Liverpool. "Land t" ex
claimed the boy from Liverpool, "what
if bad sot down on the staple?" Prolong-.
Prolong-.
ed and .vociferous silence.—Burlington
Haerkeye.
"A kiss," said young Charles, "Is a noun, we al
. low;
But tell me, my dear, Is - It proper or common P. ,
Lovely Mary blushed deep and exclaimed, " Why,
j I To*,
I think that a kiss Is both proper and common:.
TN . 4I darkies were vaunting their cour
age. " I isn't feared_enothire, I inn !"
saki one. "Den (reckon you isn't 'teak=
ed to loan me a dollah4" "" No, Julius,
I isn't 'feared to loan yOu a dollah ; but. I
does bate to part wid an ole . fren' foreb
ber 1"--Knoxville Tribune. ' •
" HEBB," said the fanner, as be exhib
ited a broken jar to the manufacturer,
" I packed this jar full of butter , and the
jar split from-top--to r bottom, Perhaps
you can explain the phenomenon?" "Ohl
yes, I can," was the ready_ reply ; " the
butter was, strongerthan the jar."—Syr
acme Times.
A WESTBUS boy thought his -znothe
was praying overlong the othet mornin '
and he said : Oh, mother ! there'sa haw
over the hens." The oil lady brough
her desetious to a iponitry standard of
measurement iii.double-quick time, then
.sprang to her feet with " Arnim ! Out
yees, .Thomas, and save thim him"
Oda namesake of Portland, tells of as
old fanner who, having eaten an oyster
stew for the taut time, said : "I liked the
houp pretty well ; bu t didn't like them
pollywogs." This recalls the story of the
Hoosier who lunched with General Jack
son, and bad, among other things, cham
pagne - and olives. - "General.' he said,
slapping the old hem outhe back, ." I like,
your cider ; but d—h your :pickles." —
Boston Transcript, •
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