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rotniD VKtira tri rnxow or a sot-nrr. who was ltiko
DEAD IK A HOSPITAL ItCAB FOIIt BOXAU
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With little thought orcare, '
Whether my waking find
Me here or there.
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That only ask to rest,
Unquestioning, upon
A loving breast.
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" now sue won iiiki.
BT L'ECIMA L. WBITELT.
'Yon are tired, Alice, and little things vex
you. Remember, doar, that our best and
ablest men have beguu life as hard-working
printers. Toa know oar editor was once an
office boy, and subsequently a printer on an
obscure little Western weekly. Great names
and great fortunes have been gained through
the friendly influence of the types. Wise
statesmen are not ashamed to acknowledge
the composing room as the starting point in
their career. Show mo a man or woman who
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man of better sense and practical learning
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stated period of their existence at a popular
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ambitious ways of thinking, also possess
these advantages of improving both mind and
heart as we labor; therefore, I pruy yon do
not denounce your occupation, lor it has
proved the highway of fume for many, and
may ultimately prove your way to happi
ness.' '.You are right,' she replied, humbly, care
fully replacing the scnttered types. 'You
are right, Mary, I am a simpleton. Forget
what I said. My case and I are friends
again.'
At this juncture we hastily turned all our
attention on our neglected work, for the
gray, old senior editor abruptly entered the
room, and his presence was the univensal sig
nal for more than ordinary quiet and indus
try. Without stopping, he came straight up
to poor Alice, and from under his shaggy,
gray brows regarded her intently for full live
minutes, - without uttering a word. With
his fixed gaze upon her she grew pale and
frightened so much so that her fingers trem
bled visibly and went anywhere after noth
iug. To hide her painful agitation, I bent
towards her and begged the loan of a few pe
riods. She gave me a grateful glance in re
turn, eagerly handinr over the periods, ns if
it were a matter of life or death that I should
get them in a second. With thoBe terrible
gray eyes Qf the eccentric editor, looking, as
it seemed to her, into her very soul, she
made bad work of it To complete her con
fusion she hopelessly pied a dozen lines, and
the unfortunate paragraph, not content with
crumbling to nothing, must needs rattle
down to the floor in a mortifying littlo show
er of separate types.
'Hum!' ejaculated the senior editor, with
a tantalizing twist of his fine old face, that
wns more expressive than words.
Alice could restrain her tears no longer
after this mishap. Fast and hot the great
drops rolled over her flushed cheeks down
among the types, every one freighted with
the first grief of a young heart 'What's the
mutter?' inquired the editor gruffly, consid
erately squaring bis portly figure in a manner
to shield her from all save my observation:
Are you sick?'
Alice made no answer; only by brushing a
pile of leads to the floor, la trying to get as
faraway from him as possible, nor did she
appear to hear his question at all.
'Yon are awkward,' commented the editor,
provokingly. 'I take it that yon have been
in the office hut a short time.
'Oh, sir, please let me go home!' she
sobbed. Alice was weeping bitterly now,
and shivering all over, cowering before the
father of the man she secretly loved, as if she
had done him an irreparable injury.
'Yes go home, by all meatia,' replied, Mr.
S . A queer smile twinkled in bis eye,
and puckered his old mouth into an odd at
tempt at factitous mirth, altogether a funny
expression that puzzled me not a little. It
was not anger nor irony, neither was it con
tempt nor pity; it was a look peculiar to Mr.
S , for I never saw its like on any other
face save his. 'Yon appear to have quar
relled with yonr work. Miss Armstrong"
tnrning grimly to me 'as you are Miss L?e's
friend, and she is ill, you bad better go home
with her. Take my advice in the future,
Miss Alice, and avoid lonq walks. Believe
me, they are not good for young people.
'Sir;' rejoined Alice proudly, hastily dry
ing her tears, and looking at him in haughty
surprise, I am not ill, nor do I understand
you.'
Gone all timidity now his insinuations
aroused the woman within her; she felt her
dignity insulted by the odd old man whose
words were double pointed. There was a
dangerous light In ber kindling eye, but the
offending editor took no heed, resuming in the
same provoking strain
'Oh no of coarse yod do not understand
me; certainly pot A-hem! You will please
be so good as to call at the office to-morrow
at one. I have a-a-bem some little busi
ness matter which it will be well for yon to
know; that is, I would say, family J matter.
Yon will comet' r .
Certainly,' she replied, 'you ara my em
ployer, and have bat to command f
'Ab, to you do remember that I am your
PA., FRIDAY, JULY 30,
employer, I thought that of late you had for
gotton that fact
Alice lifted her earnest eyes full to his face
and answered firmly
'I do understand yon, I have worked for
you faithfully, and you have paid me honor
ably, and I wonld rather die than deceive
you in any way. If I have faults they are
under my control, and, if I have been weak,
I shall find a way to be strong. I know my
duty, sir, and my proper sphere. I thank
you for honoring me with your gracious no
tice. Trust me that it is not in vain.'
With a sad, humble motion of her beauti
ful head, she turned away so meek, yet so
stately, that the old editor felt strangely
young about the heart, in spite of his frosty
head.
'Yon are a good girl,' he said, giving her
a singularly tendet glance, that seemed to
take jn face, form and manner, at a single
lifting of the shaggy brows. 'You are a
good, truthful girl give me your band.'
Calmly she hid her small hand in his
white palm, saying, simply: 'It is an honest
hand, sir, aud the labor that soils it is no
disgrace.
'Not a bit, not a bit,' he replied kindly,
slightly pressing the dainty fingers: then he
dropped it, and muttering a hulf audible 'she
will do,' abruptly left the room.
As soon as the door closed on his stout
form, 1 said to Alice, 'Let us take him at his
word and go home.'
She assented, and we were soon out in the
pleasant sunshine. Steep, duBty, editorial
stairs, creaking presses, and jarring engines
were left behind, and we were free.
After a long silence, Alice began: 'I am
going to leave the office, Mary. Yon must
know how unhappy I am here. I shall die
if I remain. It is torture to me. Indeed, I
must go away.'
'Do yon love Allen S so much, so
deeply, that he has power, present or absent
to make our life wretched? I thought true,
love was trusting, sanguine, and ennobling.
It has made you restless, dissatisfied and re
bellious,' I said, quietly.
'Mary, we are not equals. Oh, if Allen
was only poor poor as I then life and love
might mean something! You see my folly,
but do not censure me too harshly. I love
him; you know it and I am not ashamed to
confess it but it is hopeless, oh, so utterly
hopeless! Why, he has never breathed a
word of love to me; yet I thiuk that that
he would, u tue gulf were not so wide. Uh,
I am miserable, and can only hide somewhere
until I grow strong again!'
'But, what of him? 1 think he loves you
NOW.
'Do you, indeed?' she cried, smiling radi
antly. 'Oh, do you really think so? But,
what matters it, after all?' she added, the
sudden glow faded from her sweet face.
'Did you not comprehend bis lather s motive
in seeking me to-day? I saw and felt it too
plainly. Heaven help mel Mr. S is
rich and ambitious for his only son. Oh,
well be kfiows that 1 have nothing but my
poor beauty and faithful heart to offer in ex
change for the wealth and honor of his child's
proud name! Perhaps he fancies both dan
gerous means to lure his eon away. Fancy
his son sacrificed for a poor girl s heart!
They soy some men give all for beauty; I
wonder it it is true!
'True! fiddlesticks!' I interrupted, impa
tiently. 'You must have a poor opinion of
men. I have not, thank Heaven! 1 bey are,
eenerally speaking, good, and love and care
for some of us a deal better than we deserve.
It is their place to have.Jhe money, and ours
the beauty and amiability of the matrimoni
al partnership. Some women delight in ex
alting their lovers to tho skies, and depreci
ating themselves to the earth. Now it seems
to me that, if you lore him rightly, you will
drop this question of station at once and for
ever. What matters it on which side the
money is, if you both cot tho benefit of it?
Your birth is as good as hie; to be sure you
cannot drum rheumatic tunes from a tortured
piano, and you have never waltzed about the
room with half a dozen strange men's arms
around your waist in one eveuing; but you
can or at least you did, until lately talk,
think, and oct sensibly; andiiMr. Allen is
a man worth the minister's fee which I am
confident he is he will value you the more
lor what you do not know. If all the fine
ladies of America cud Europe that ho has
met has failed to win him; if he has chosen
you, after seeing the world remember he is
not a boy in years and experience and you
love him, why, in the name of Cupid, take
him.'
'There yon have it There is no romance
about me, I assure you, but I hope there is a
fair share of common sense in my composi
tion; so, I pray you, don't be a goose.'
'Hut bis tatber, Mary? You forget '
'Oh, never mind his father! I read that
grim old parent of his very differently. I
suppose it is because I am not in
love with his wonderful son. Mr. S is
peculiar and abrupt, but I like his face im
mensely. In spite of bis grunness, 1 venture
there is a good, old heart beating under his
ample vest. I have faith in human nature.
It is not half so bad as most people like to
paint it Cruel fathers are seldom fonnd
outside of novels only; there do parents flour
ish in vivid splendor. Why should our edi
tor covet a rich wife for Allen? No doubt
but he posses some curiosity as well as eyes,
and merely wished to take a look at you;
and, on the whole, I fancy that he was very
well pleased with little Alice Lee. So I
urge yon to trust the old man's heart; it has
been young once, and is tender yet'
Alice grvely listened to all this, but still
adhered to her first resolve of going away;
and I mentally decided that she would not
put her resolution into execution.
Promptly at once, on the following day,
Alice presented herself before the senior edi
tor's awful tribunal. She found him secure
ly fortified behind a hnge pile of exchanges,
armed with a large pair of sissors, a eloorav-
looking iukstand, and a formidable array of
l. .... a i: : r i i ,
uoovt icuo, a luruiuuiug jjair ui guiu-nuieQ
spectacles were astride his nose, imparting
altogether a very grave and not-to-be-distnrb-ed
air, that was in perfect keeping with his
editorial duties.
Ah!' he cried, peering at his shrinking
visitor through the shining glasses. 'Well,
Miss?'
'You desired to speak with me. sir: and I
am hpre,' replied Alice to his mystifying
Well, Miss;' and stood calmly awaiting his
pleasure. .
'Ah! hem yes well, what did you mean
by crying over your case yesterday? 1 say,
what the duce did all these tears mean?
That is the question,' growled the old editor,
with vehement emphasis. 'Do you suppose
18G9.
that I want my newspaper baptised in a wo
man's tears, my types .rusted, and my pa
tience tried by such doings on eh?'
'Sir said Alice, regarding him placidly,
notwithstanding the spectacles, an aumor
that formerly caused her to shrink into noth
ingness, 'the fault of which you justly com
plain shall not occur again. It was but a
passing weakness. I beg you to forget it.
I have made np my mind to leave your em
ploy. Although awkward yesterday, I am a
?;ood compositor, and think you will not re
use to vouch for the same. Your well-meant
advice I comprehend in tho sense you would
have me; and so, sir, I trust our little 'family
matter' is at an end.'
She lifted her clear eyes to his face with
out a flush on her cheeks, nor a tremor of the
full lips'. She stood before him a pioudly
beautiful woman, sadly, yet calmly, putting
aside the one joy of her lifo. She had no
right to steal the old man's hopes no right
to seize the happiness almost withiu her
grasp; and so she would do her duty towards
others, though her own heart broke. The
thought gave her sudden strength. Mr.
S had lost all his terrors; Alice could
stand unabashed in his severe presence
with no guilty blush of conscious deceit to
tingle ber white brow. She felt that she
was doing right, and that makes the most
timid brave. ,
'Yon shall have your recommendation at
the end of tho month, but in the meantime
no crying, recollect no crying. That's all.
Good afternoon. '
(CONCLUDED IN OUR NEXT. )
Useful Recipes, Elc.
Curb for Cancer. An exchange states
that a Portland man has cured one of the
most dangerous cases of cancer by drinking
red clover tea and applying a red clover com
press, and thinks it will prove an infallible
remedy in all cases.
To Make Pencil Marks Indelible. A
great many valuable letters nnd other wri
tings are in pencil. The following simple
process will muke lead pencil writing or
drawing as indelible as if done with ink: Lay
the writing in a shallow dish and pour
Bkimmed milk upon it Any spots not wet
at first may have milk placed upon them
lightly with a feather, take it up and let the
milk drain off, wipe off the drops with a fea
ther which collect on the lower edge. Dry
it carefully, and it will be found to be per
fectly indelible. It cannot be removed even
with India rubber. Exchange.
Time to Graft Trees. In reply to a cor
respondent, the editor of the Gardener's
Monthly says: 'For grafting generally, any
time is good when the growth is going on,
and there is not too much sap in the cion;
the amount in the stock makes leBS difference.
If there is much in the cion it ie liable to
rot before the union takes place. If cions
are taken from healthy trees, and kept from
drying, sprouting or other injuries, grafting
may go on from early Spring to midsummer.
Those who praise one week more than anoth
er, are those whose unlucky time has rather
been due to other circumstances.'
Beet Root. Beet root, when pickled,
will keep as long as any other kind of pickle.
Wash it perfectly clean, but do not cut away
any of the fibers; boil in a large quantity of
boiling water, with a little suit, for half an
hour; if the skin will come off easily, it is
done enough. Lay it on a cloth, and with a
coarse one rub off the skin. Cut it into
slices, put it into a jar, and pour over it a
hot pickle of white vinegar, a little ginger,
oud horseradish sliced. Cover close. When
first taken from the ground, beet-root may be
kept for winter use by laying in layers of dry
snml; the mould must not be removed from
about the root.
To Tickle Onions. In the month of Sep
tember choose the small, white onions, take
off tho brown Bkin, have ready a very nice
tin stew pan of boiling water; throw in as
many onions as will cover the top. As soon
as they look clear on the outside, take them
np as quick as possible with a slice, and lay
them on a clean cloth; cover them close with
another, and scald some moro, and so on.
Let them lie to be cold, then put them in a
jar or glass, or wide-mouthed bottles, and
pour over them the best white-wine vinegar,
just hot, not boiling. When cold cover
them. Should the outer skin shrivel, peel
it off, they must look clear-
Fumioatino Out-Door Plants. Some one
having inquired through the Country Gen
tleman, how to do this, a correspondent re
plies: 'Tell 'R,' who writes for information
now to fumigate out-door plants with tobac
co, to invert, over the plants, a suitable
sized, one-beaded cask, tub or keg, and put
a few live coals on a dish under the cask, and
place a little tobacco on the fire, and the fu
migation will soon be completed; or a fun
nel made from paper may be inverted over
the plants, and smoke blown from a fumiga
tor, under it A cheap and available fumi
gator may be made from a tin spice-box, with
a suitable lengthed hollow stem fastened to
each end of the box; the cover may be made
movabla Fill with tobacco, and place live
coals behind, and blow through, directing
the smoke by the stem, where desired. Hoop
skirt springs may be used in making paper
funnels, to better keep the paper in bhape
and for in."
Cure for Snake Bites. About twenty years
ago the Smithsonian Institute embarked in a
series of experiments testing the practicabil
ity of neutralizing the poison of snakes,
founded purely on chemical basis, which de
veloped great results. The fact was illus
trated that the poison of the most venom
ous rattlesnake can be neutralized in an in
credibly short time. After the most extra
ordinary results from all the experiments
witnessed, there was promulgated uom me
Institute, at the time above mentioned, the
following simple but certain cure for snake
... , r. , . -11 I. ; J - p i
bites, ana ior me sung ot un muub ui iu
sects: Thirty Brains of iodine pottassum,
thirtv grains of iodine, one ounce of water:
anDlied externally to the wouud by satura
ting lint or batting the sume to be kept
moist with the antidote until a cure is effect
ed, which will be in one hour, and sometimes
instantly. The limb bitten should be corded
tie-tit to prevent circulation. The liquid
should be kept in a phial with a glass stop
per.
'Here's to internal improvements, " as
Dobbs said when he swallowed a dose of
salts.
A sky lark going np ia a ballon.
NUMBER 37
Suookstionfoh Bathers. The following
suggestions to bathers have recently been is
sued by the Royal Humane Society of Lon
don, and aro worthy of consideration:
Avoid bathing within two hours after a
meal.
Avoid bathing when exhausted from any
can so.
Avoid bathing when tbfl body is cooling
after presperation: but bathe when the body
is warm, provided no time is lost in getting
into the wates.
Avoid remaining Into the water too long;
leave the water immediately if there 1b the
slightest feeling of chilliness.
Avoid bathing altogether in the open air
if, after having been a short time in the wa
ter, there is a sense of chilliness with numb
ness of the hands and feet
The Vigorous and strong may bathe early
in the morning on an empty stomach.
The young and those who are weak had
better bathe three hours after a meal; the
best time for such is two or three hours after
breakfast
Those who are subject to sudden attacks
of giddiness and faintness, and those who suf
fer from diseases of the heart, should not
bathe without firBt consulting their medical
adviser.
Fishes Traveling bt Land. Dr. Han
cock, in the Zoological 'Journal, gives a de
scription of the fish called the flat-bead has
sar, that travels to other pools of water when
that which it has resided in dries up. Dose
also describes another variety which is found
in South Carolina, and, if our memory serves
us well, also in Texas, which, like the flat
bead, leaves the dying pool, in search of
others. These fishes, filled with water, travel
by night, one with a lizzard-like motion, and
the other by leaps. The South Carolina nnd
Texas varieties are furnished with a mem
brane over the mouth, in which tbey are en
abled to carry with them a supply of water
to keep their gills moist during their travel.
These fishes, guided by some peculiar sense,
always travel in a straight line to the near
est water. This they do withont memory,
for it has been found that if a tub filled with
water is sunk in the ground near one of the
pools which they inhabit, tbey will, when the
pool dries up, move directly towards the tub.
Surely this is a wonderful and merciful pro
vision for the preservation of those kinds of
fishes; for, inhabiting, as they do, only stag
nant pools, and that, too, in countries sub
ject to long and periodical droughts, their
races would, but for this provision, become
extinct
During the late war, an Alabama soldier
was Wounded.at Port Hudson in such a man
ner as to completely destroy his eyesight.
He wandered abent after the surrender, and
would have been lost but for a little waiter
boy from Syracuse, named Wheeler Curren,
who kindly guided him to comfortable quar
ters. Some time since, Wheeler's mother re
ceived a deed of two thousand acres of land,
with the bouses, barns, cotton gins, and ma
chinery, "in consideration of one dollar to
me in hand paid," in trust, for the little.
generous boy who took pity on a blind soldier
and "showed him the way to comfortable
quarters." When he is of age instead of hav-
ncr nothing;, as was his prospect six months
ago, he will be at least worth $100,000.
The average wear of the tracks of the rail
roads, of the United States is estimated at
seven per cent, per annum. Taking the
length of the roads at 42,250 miles, the an
nual wear consumes sumcient iron to lay 2,
957 miles of track, or enough to lay a road
from hero to San Francisco. Ninety tons
are required for a single track, so that 266,-
170 tons or iron are used up annually by the
locomotives and the cars. With this great
wearing down of the track, no surprise should
be experienced on reading the Report of the
Railroad Commissioners of New Hampshire
upon the Grand Trunk line from Montreal to
Boston. The cars do not travel as fast as
the stages, and a freight train ran off the
track thirteen times in going over eight miles.
A physician having fiuisbed the amputa
tion of the leg of ode of his patients, a near
relative ofthe latter took him osido, and
said anxiously to him, 'Doctor, do you think
be will recover?' 'Recover! there has never
been the least shadow of hope ior him.'
'Then what was the oro nf making him Buf-
for?'
Why, my dear follow, you astonish
Could you Bay brutally to a sick man,
mel
you are dying! He must be amused a lit
tle.-
A Liltle Nonsense.
The foot guards boots and shoes.
A color difficult blindman'sbuff.
A water-spout a temperance oration.
A stern necessity the ship's rudder.
A thorough washwoman Sal Soda.
Good Summer resort for infants rock-a
way.
The most suitable laborers for warm weath
er Coolies.
An exchange advertises for a live boy to
stay in the office. A dead one would stay
there better.
A bore meetine Donelas j'errold 'aaidt
"Well, what's eoine on to-dav?" "I am."
exclaimed Jerrold, darting past the inquirer.
"See here, mister," said a lad of seven
summers, who was driven up a tree by a fe
rocious dog, "if you don't take that dog away
I'll eat up all your apples."
A Chicagioan, while on an Easters visit.
was asked how he liked the water out West
"Really," said he, after a moment's reflec
tion, "I never thought to try it"
King James was once entreated bv his
old nurse to make her son a gentleman.
"Nae, nae, nurse, was the reply of the Brit
ish Solomon; 'I'll mak' him a lord an' ye wall,
but it is beyond my power to mak' him a
How is it that the trees can get on their
summer dresses without opening their trunks?
Why, because they leatk out their Summer
clothing.
We frequently hear of Generals capturing
pieces of artillery. What's the use of cap
turing 'pieces? says Mrs. Partington. 'Why
not capture whole ones?'
The first day a little boy went ta school
the teacher asked bira if he could spell -"Yes,
sir. "Well, how do you spell boy?"
"O, just as other folks da"