NILi DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. il VOL. IX. . : f BID G V A Y , ELK , COUNTY, PAMUTHUKSDAT, . DECEMBER 11, V 1879. NO. 42. t I HENRY A. PARSONS, Jiv' Editor and Publisher- '.' T : 4 L. r I Appl i1 '-' :' -ltipo Apples. ' Apples rod nnd applos fair; - y-m. tliem 1 j ing hew, nd there, In the market, on the stand, , Every where through.qut the land. . How the ehildrn lovo to eat Apples ripe and rosy! There thoy come with motry shunt, ""i.'Hssrsj scnooi is oui.- ; j iMlh his penny littlo Nod liny s an npplo round and rod ; ... Itoguish Nelly lores so well e ripo nnd rosy. sir, where. love so well and rosy. 'in, fnilhlnl beast ' - lienrly lores fenst i the nir, pricks up his ears n'hen the rosy iruit appears. wn i... i.'n ..... .!... , y-Tj- v nuno lit, 14 gui, ilia 1.11111 c, Apples ripo and rosy. Ilnrths are glowing j winter's horo .flits and applos and good cheer; . l'ut her, mother, children, all , , Love the wholesome fruit of lull. Heaven bless nnd multiply Apples ripe and rosy! ' k Turn of Fortune's Wheel. Tlio air, wns freighted with the faint scent of magnolias great masses of cream-white bioom shone everywhere. Nora lieonard, le.tning Irom the win- dow, pale nnd weary, hated the heavy fragrance She knew Bhe could never ' nover again natch the faintest hint of that subtle odor withouta sudden vision of all the suspense, the pain, the crushed hopes, the despair, that had wrung her heart since she i-ntered the place. "The "very loveliness gave her a sick pang it scorned such a mo..-ki ry to her desolate heart." " Nora, where nre you? Where Jhe deuce do you keep yourself? I'm choke ing some water anything! Oh! You're rnrtmng i 8liim.il choke, nren t you? lsut, you won't he ti rich widow, vou see: .and a poor widow with a deformed . child won't " "Oh, Philip, hush!" cried Nora, hurrying to the bedside with a llusli Vising on her pale fan-. ' )on't don't t.-ilk of our darling in that way. There U hope, if she can only he put into the ; right hands. And I shall try after " "Oh, after I'm dead and gone. Goon, .'don't have the least consideration for my feelings. I don't mind it, bless you! . I knew I should lay my hones in this confounded hole when they sent me " 7 here not much beside bone, I .should , say." . The invalid was indeed wasted to a 'skeleton. His eyes were wild, gloomj and cavernous, and a luetic spot burned , on each cheek." His long, clawlike hands chit, bed nervously at the bed clothes. His voice was harsh, cold and cruel; aitltiuigli the ileal li damps wen' . already on his brow, be had not growl, mori gentle or more kind. Jealous and tierce in Lis love, lie was full of sullen resentment that he must at last release the woman w ho had been his bond-maid ' so long, leaving her free to listen fc kinder words, to be consoled, perhaps, : by a tenderer love, while he was lying ' Ktiff and stark turning to mold "aslas to ashes, dust to dust." "It's as good a place to din in as any where else, I suppose," he said, moodily. " looking into hi wife's face: " if you can say any place is good to die in. tor a fellow that Wants to live. I could make nnother fortune if I only had tlio time." ' "Oh, never mind. Don't think about that now," exclaimed Nora, bathing his forehead. Oh, yes! You're like the old woman who, when her husband wanted to give Borne parting instructions, said, 'Never . mind about that, you just go on dying.' You're in a confounded hurry, aiu't you?" " You are exciting yourself." " It docs me good. It quickens mv pulses. J believe I am just dying of stagnation, a good game ot poker, now. Confound that quack doctor that Hentmeliero." " Tho clereyman called yesterday " " I won't see him. I don't want any sulphur and brimstone slung nround hero, nnd us for the place where they're . all twanL'in' on golden harps, it must be deuced slow." " Dear l'hilip, you frighten me! Now can you say such reckless, daring things?'' A fit of coughing stopped the sick , man's angry answer, followed by com . plete exhaustion, and Nora sat by the '.. bedside, wearily, sometimes ruovim.' th-' . restless head, stroking the nervous hands, or bathing the hot brow, in a , lifeless sort of manner that showed none of the eagerness of love or the anguish of a fond wife who is. dreading and'fear ' ing the final blow. j. At last, through weariness and watch . ing, Nora dropped into a troubled sleep. .No movement stirred her from her un ' easy dreams.- A dead silence a strange, unearthly hush fell upon the room. No more the busy hands clutched at the " bedclothes, no more the wild, fierce cyfs shot out their baleful titles. The hectic flush burned 'out on the hollow cheeks, and ashen hues settled '. there, but Nora slept on. A fly settled " on the still face and walked over it willi- out molestation. . , " " Boating heart and burning brow, ' i'e are very silent now." , The sound of a striking clock and tht opening door startled Nora from hei ' rest. It was high noon, and Chloe, the ; kind nurse, had brought in her master'o heef-tea. Clinging to her skirts came " the only child, a tiny little creature foue years olW, her fair hair falling about her J'netk and almost concealing the slight, curvature of the spine which" threatened , her with permanent deformity. In tlio dark eyes there was that look of pathetic questioning which we often see in child. ren who have been doomed to suffering. From those shy, startled eyes l'hilip Leonard had nicknamed his baby Bunny, and she had found a secure place in his ' selfish heart " Here's de beef-tea, honey," cried Chloe, cheerily; "strong enough to 'toxicate a pussun." ;, Nora looked at the bed. She had . nl ready felt the sense of stillness there. . Mie eiaspea tier nanus together .11 1- A . i II 13 . . . ' Look at him, Chloe. I think, I am' re, there's a change." gut1 A change, sure nufl." said tho r .rtverv Vfircn woman, setting her bowl down and touching Philip Leonard's brow nnd hands; "de las' change, my iamb, de change dat must come to ebbery soul on dis yer planetary ball, de las' change oath."-. -i . Nora did not faint, nor cry out nor weep. She sat still and shivered, while si 10 clasped her. hands 'with a strange feeling that henceforth she had only her self only those weak hands with which to fieht the battle of life. " Twelve o'clock," said Chloe, looking at the clook, " dey mostly goes 'bout dat noon or midnight. De Lord test his soul,' 'pears like he always wns soon restful here, lie nebber could settle down but do Lord, He knows." Little Bunny was standing at her mother's knee and looking up with her pathetic eyes. Even to the child the mystery and miracle of death was mani fest, and she did attempt to go to her father or to speak to him." "Come, honey; papa's asleep, V cried Chloe. . "You can kiss him eood by, and come wid your auntie. I'll jes settle her for her nap, an' den you'll may be get awink. If ebber a poor soul wanted rest,-you does." Nora shook her head. She felt that her heart was too full, her brain to busy for sleep. Tho past, with all its memories, moved before her a shifting pageant: One short dream of love.pinue, estrange ment; a marriage hurried into madlv that one should know that she was not pining; the few restless, stormy, miser able years; her little child, who had once more wakened her heart to ecstacy, only to thrill it with a deeper pain; and now, death this sudden stop to all. Rut there was little time lor retrospect or meditation. The future lav before her a future of struggle and toil. She knew that when her bills were paid there would be but a few hundred dol lars left; only enougli to go North; to pay, perhaps for medical treatment for liunny, nnd afterward she scarcely dared to face that afterward ! l'hilip Leonard's mortal remains were laid under the magnolias, Rnd the young widow was making her hurried prep arations for departure, when Chloe en tered the room one morning with a letter- Nora took the letter with a throb of curiosity It was largo and business like. It was addressed to " Philip Leon ard, Esq.," nnd Nora felt a little thrill as she opened it. Hew savagely her husband would have resented such an act had ho been living, nnd sho could not help a. timid tremor now, as if she almost expected a ghostly hand to snatch it away. But she opened it. and read as fol lows: ' "NlwYokk May 28. ."Pinup Leonard. Esy. : Upon exam ining the will of our late client, Nicholas ll!cves, Esq., by which he leaves his entire property to next of kin living at the time of his decease, we instituted proper inquiry and find that you nre en titled to said estate. We desire you will at once open correspondence with Inclosed was a slip cut from a city newspaper: "Died on the lfith of May, at midday, half-past twelve o'clock, suddenly, of aneurism of the heart. Nicholas Ueeves, Esq., of tireat Iiussel street, Bedford square." Nora felt a great and sudden relief as she read this letter. A burden was lilted from her life. She know well wiiat money can do. How it smooths the rough places and makes " the wil derness to blossom as arose." She saw her darling in restored health, witli the baby-bloom on her face, with all tho abounding grace and freedom of childhood now back again through some man's wondrous skill'. She saw vistas of happiness for herself for eign travel, cultured society, unlimited books. Oh, (Jod was good to her-rvery good! and she lnd so often murmured; or w rsc, perhaps, forgotten Him en tirely. She read the loiter over again with a quick throbbing heart full of thanks giving. A h ! what was it that suddenly dropped like a cloud before her and tho sunshine of her hopes, as if at high noon a pale eclipse- had fallen over every thing? She had not noticed these par ticulars on the first reading: " To tho next of kin living at the time of his de cease;" then, tho words from thenews pnperitem " at half-past twelve o'clock midday." "The sixteenth?" why, that was the day her husband had died the very day, only he had died before twelve! and this man had died afterward; so they were paupers after all, nnd could not. claim a penny ! Tho revulsion of feeling was horrible. She felt as if she had been suddenly de prived of a rich inheritance. Although she had owned it in imagination only for about filteen minutes, the thought of giving it up sent great pangs of anguish through her soul. An! why had she been dazzled witli such visions only to uinke life seem harder, barer, bleaker than before? Why should (rod lift her up and east her down? Had life been so sweet, so tranquil, so smooth, that she needed this chastisement? She could not bear it she would not. . If she only had to suffer she might en i dure it; but this money meant life and health to her child. She threw down I the letter and paced the room as she 1 thoueht of it. She held the eolden kevs of life as it were in her hand. Should she throw them down for a weak scru ple? How could she live on bereft of all? "God forgive me!" she murmured. " I cannot-cast this fortune aside for a mere qualm of conscience. Who knows that our time was right, or that the dif ference iu time might not Ah, me! where am I drifting? Am I turning swindler thief?" And she paced the floor still, with fast throbbing heart, her head aching with a hundred tumultuous thoughts. No one knows." whisnprsrl th nwi. tempter at her ear, " what time your Husband died. Noone knows but Chloe, and you will leave her behind you. The secret may bo forever shut in your own heart. You veed this money, and it seems as if God had put it into your hand. Tho next of kin knows nothing of it, lias not expected it, does not need it, in all Drobabilitv. At. all i vpnt.fi vnm need is the greatest; yours is a case of me aim aeaiu. ' One more thought of her child, and Nora s strengtli gave way. She sat down and answered the letter. She gavo the time of her husband's death as in the afternoon, stating that she was alone with him at the last. She inclosed documents urtjvine his identity, and then sat down trembling and afraid to await me issue. The answer found her in a Northern city." There was ho troublesome ques tioning, no doubt, apparently, in the minds of the solicitors about her claim. She had grown calmer now. She did not cower and tremble before her own conscience any more. She began at once to consult about the best treatment for her child.;, i The city was ringing with one name just then a name that had thrilled her heart in the old time, that bad. . power to thrill it still, - She held., back for a While for the sake of those Aid. days. She scarcely dated to face the past yet in the person of Dr. Nicl Collamer; but when her child's health is in question a mother forgets everything. - Dr. Collamer, receiving, one by one, the throng of visitors that waited in his anteroom, looked up and saw a lady in deep mourning leading a golden-haired child by the liand. lie drew himself very proudly, and there was only an ad ditional chill in his voice as he said, "Mrs. Leonard." ' Nora grew pale. Perhaps he would not undertake the case. She had for gotten almost that he had cause for re sentment In the memory of her own suf fering. , ' Excuse me!" sho faltered. "I would not have intruded, but for my child . Oh, Niel, she is all I have ; your skill is so lauded I could not go to anyone else with the same confidence! Oh, save her, if you can! I have suffered enough. For the sake of the days when we were to have been all to each other, save my child!" " Madam!" exclaimed Dr. Collamer, quietly; "you agitate yourself unneces sarily. I am a physican. I refuse no one, my best skill is at your service. God forbid that any memory, however painful, should stand in the way of my duty." Nora sank into a chair and burst into tears. The revulsion of feeling was so f;reat, the old love so strong in her leart. To see him take her child on his knee in such a caressing way, to hear mm question ttie little tiling wittr an that tenderness of tone that had so thrilled her in the old days was oh, so bitter-sweet, so full of rapture and of pain! It would be a tedious case, of course, all such diseases were slow to yield even the most hopeful. So Nora settled down to a daily expectation, of those visits which mado the charm of her life. And Dr. Collamer, too, began to feel the icy world of pride in which he had shielded himself melt and break beneath the smiles of the onlv woman he had ever loved. So, " Lore took up the glass ol time, and turned it in his glowing hands," and Nora, in surprise, one morninct. suddenly recollected that her husband had been dead just one year that very day. At the thought came back a memory of her struggle and crime. It had haunted her occasionally, of course; but security and success had hushed her fears, and the unwelcome visitant came seldomex jipw....This morning, -howi teiw3-WH8 m 8ombcr.mood'. because Bunny seemed feverish, perhaps because her own lie art was growing restless and questioning painfully about her own future. She sat down with Bunny in her arms at the open window, nnd somehow the faint, 6ubtle odor of magnolias seemed to steal in with the soft south wind. It was like a breath from a vault to Nora gloomy, funeral. She hastily turned away and laid tho child on the bed. As she looked into the pale, worn little face, her heart misgave her. Had she grown so absorbed in her own self that she bad c'ascd to note the changes in her dar- "Does Bunny asked. feel very sick?" she " No; God is coming to cure Bunny," said the child, confidently. "11c can do more than Dr. Collamer, you know. He made blind people to see, and lame people to walk, and I want Him for my doctor. So I just asked Him, and 1 know He'll come; maybe to-dav, or to morrow. I'm waiting for Him." Nora felt a strange chill at this words. Could it be that the day of revenge wits at hand? Was this the lamb for the sacrifice,' this child for whom she had sinned, whose life she had bought with such, a price? She had dared to believe that she, weak, erring, sinful mortal as she was, held in her hands the keys of life and death; and now, perhaps, God stood ready to show her that only He could fulfill or mar the schemes of men, that the mysteries of life and death are His alone. She looked anxiously into Dr. Collamet's face when he appeared. "The child is worse," she said. "I see it now ; she has not beun gaining at all." "I am glad you see it for yourself!" he said kindly. " I have not been able to tell you. There was no hope from the first, a complication with the brain." Bunny lay in a feverish sleep, and the mother stood by her with a startled, agonized face as if sho would fain snatch her up then and hold her back from the gates of death. "No hope!" she groaned. "Oh, my God. lam punished!" " Punished?" echoed Dr. Collamer, in a questioning tone. "My dear Nora, you are not, 1 hope, one of those who tancy uou is nrgry with you for loving your child?" Nora did not speak. She buried her face in her hands. What was all her wealth to her now? It could buy a few feet, of earth for her child nothing more. God was breaking her idol be fore hei eyes, that she might see where her idolatry had led her. Suddenly an unusual bustle in the hall startled her, and then a low knock at the door. " Bres3 de Lord, honey, l'se foun' you out!" exclaimed a well-known voice, whicli made little Bunny open her eyes and stretch out her arms. . " Yes, l'se come a hard road to trabbel to get to ray pore lamb. My heart's been a break in' bout her, honey, and I was boun' to get to her ef it took my last cent. And how is my pet?" "Chloe!" said the ehild, in a quick, excited voice. " When you came in I was in heaven, and my back was straight, and I had wings like the angelin the picture over there." Chloe knelt down by the bedside and kissed and fondled the little hand. " Ono ob de Lord's lambs," she cried, "I always said so. Does yer mind, honey, dat las' day when de master died. I was bringm' in de beef tea, cos he got so onrestful befo1 twelve o'clock, and dis lamb" "Yes, yes, Chloe, you must notexcito her," cried Mrs. Leonard, in a sudden burst of anguish and terror. Dr. Collamer counseled quiet, and left a soothing potion, Chloe fell into her old place, and the child seemed happy with her, but Nora was still like , a haunted spirit, there Wa no rest for her. Tho avenger was on her track, she felt, and in a few days all would be over the deubt, the fear, and the long- inifi .Her imaeination, fevered and un natural, went out in vague speculations about that other lieir the true one, whom sho had defrauded. - Wlid was she that she had dared to say, "My need is grcnter than thine?" Who knew- what misery . her hand had wrotieht? PerhaDS there 'Was novertv of the direst kind in that i household sickness, privation, death even, that money and care might have averted. How many had she murdered? she wondered, with a sickening pang; how many hearts had she wrung P how many hopes shattered? She seemed to walk among graves all those terrible days till the end came. It came one day at sun set a sunset of rare beauty, when the clouds of pearl opened and a glory glim mered through, ; " As it the golden streets ot hoaren v ere breaking into view." Then the child stretched out her tiny hands and cried i - "He is coming! He is opening tho gate! He will make mo well!" Nora dropped on her knees. She had prayed for life for her child, nnd God had given it to her, even life everlasting! She resolved then and there to give up the wealth that had tempted her. If God would wasli away that stain, hence forth that life should be dedictated to Him. And so when she came back to the desolate house it was with a feeling that God would keep a niche in heaven to hold her idol. The child was not lost, it was still heis. " Still hers, maternal rights serene Xot given to another; The crystal bnrs shine taint between The souls ot child and mother.' She must take up her cross and con fess ner sin, and tuen go out into the world, God helping her, to redeem the past. But Nicl Collamer could not resist the sweet pathos 'of that face. He could not help ofTciiug her the comfort of a love that had survived all shocks. "You do not know me," murmured Nora, in the deepest abasement; " wait till you hear what I have done." And t'.en she told him the whole story, and how she had already begun to make amends. Tho next heir will soon know all." "He knows all now," answered Nicl, with a smile holding her hands ; " and so you remember what we used to read together in those old days: " He laughed a laugh of merry scorn ; He turned and kissed her whore she stood ; ' It you are not the heiress born, And I,' said ho, the next in blood.' ' " Why, I see nothing for it but to carry out the ballad. We two will wed, some pleasant morn, and you shall still have the fortune. And then he suited the action to the word, and ' kissed her where she stood." "Slnt lifled ujj bewHtLejcCd eyes. " Can it hef'she murmured. " Yes, I am next of kin ; but after all, you may have all tho right to the money, as we ennnot at this Kite day compare clocks. So, my darling, v- e shall never know whether the fortune is yours or mine, nnd neither of us enn assume su perior airs on account of it." The Biter Bit. Sometime in 1864 there wore a num ber of army officers stopping ot a hotel in Washington. Among them was Captain Emerson. There was also a Captain Jones, who was a first-rate fel low, a good officer and very pompous. Emerson and Jones used to have a good deal of joking together at the table and elsewhere. One day at the dinner-table, when the dining-hall was well-filled. Captain Jones finished his dinner first, got up and walked almost to the dining-hall door, when Emerson spoke to him in a loud voice, and said: "Halloa, captain, see here, 1 want to speak to you a min ute." The captain turned and walked back to the table and bent over him, when Emcr?on whispered, "I wanted to ask you how far you would have gone if I had not spoken to you?" Tlio captain never changed a muscle, but straightened up and put his finger into his vest pocket and said, in a voice loud enough for all to hear to him, " Captain Emerson, I don't know of a man in the world I would rather lend five dollars to than you, but the fact is I haven't a cent with me to-day," and he turned ou his heel and walked away. Emerson was the color of half a dozen rainbows but he had to stand it. He never heard the last of it. Detroit News. A Cure for Croup. Croup, it is said, can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alumn and sugar. Tho way to accom plish the deed is to take a knife or graterand shave off in small particles about a teaspoouiui ot alumn ; then mix it witli twice its quantity of sugar, to make it palatable, and administer it as quickly as possible. Almost instanta neous relief will foKow. If tho child I very young, the nurse must hold it steadily (especially if it lie in a fit) with both hands, while another person adds the water. A hot cloth -and blanket should be got ready to receive Hie child directly it is taken out of the bath, so as to prevent any sudden chill. Fivo to fifteen minutes, or longer, according to circumstances, is tho time the bath may be used. A proper thermometer for the bath is valuable, for the exact tempera ture of the water can be thereby noted. At the first immersion of the child the water should be about eighty degrees, which can then be bro ight up to ninety S'x degrees or 100 degrees. Hay as Food for Hogs. But few men are aware of the fact that hay is very beneficial to hogs, but it is true nevertheless. Hogs need rough food as well as horses, cattle or the human race. To prepare it you should have a cutting-box (or hay cutter), and the greener the bay the better. Cut the hay as short as oats or shorter, and mix with bran, shorts or middlings, and feed as other food. Hogs soon learn to like it, and if soaked in swill, as other slop food, is highly relished by them. In winter use for the hogs the same hay you feed your horses, and you will find that, while it saves bran, shorts or other food, it puts' on flesh as rapidly as any thing that can be given them. lte organ rolled Us notes from the growling diapason to the gentle flute; and the congre gation accompanied by deep sepulchral oough to coughs soaroely audible, because they 1'iu! not yet beard ol the wonderful efllotcy ot Dr. Ball's CouaU Strru. .... The Child on the Boor-Step. " Did she leave any children?" " Yes. this bit of a child." "And who'll take her?" ' I don't know. We are all very poor around here, sir, but we must find her a place somewhere. God help the little girl, for she's all alone now I" The sexton had called at an old tene ment hou96 on Lafayette street east to take a body to a pauper's fieM tho body of one whose life had been worn out in the tread-mill of hunger nnd des pair. Nobody knew that the mother was dead hardly suspected that she was ill, until one morning this c':ild ap peared at a neighbor's door and quietly said: " Would you bo afraid to come over to my house, for ma is dead and I'm keeping awful still, nnd I'm afraid to talk to her when she won't answer." The mother had been dead four hours. Long enough before day came the flame of life had burned low and died out, and that child, hardly seven years old, hail been with the corpse through the long hours, clasping the cold hand, kiss ing the white face, and calling for life to return. When they asked .if she had anv friends she shook her head. When they told her Bhe was alone in the great world she looked out ot the oia window on the bleak November day and an swered : " I can make three kinds of dresses for doll-babies.. build firea and carry in wood, and I'll work ever so hard if somebody will let mo live with them!" . There was no funeral. There was no need of a sermon there. The lines of sorrow around the dead woman's mouth counted far more in heaven than any eulogy man could deliver. There was no crape. In place of it three or four honest-hearted woman let their tears fall upon the white face and whispered : " Poor mother noor child!" Tho child's big blue eyes were full of tears, but there wns Hardly a tremor m her voice as she nestled her warm cheek ao-ninst the hns stilled forever and said : "Good-bve. ma vou'll come down from heaven every night at dark, won't Jou, and you'll take me up there just ns soon as you can, won i your The landlord locked uo the house, and the child went home with one of the women. When night came she stole out of the house and away from those who sought to comfort her, and going back to the old house she sat down on the door-step, having no company but the darkness. An omc'r passed mat way, nnd leanin" over the gate he peered through the darkness at something on the step and called out; " Is anvbodv there"" " Nobody but a little girl !" came the answer. " Who is it?" " It's a little girl whose ma was buried to-day !" He opened the gate and went closer, and as he made out her bare head and innocent face he said : " Why, child, aren't you afraid ?" j " I was afraid a little while ago," she said. " but iust as soon as I asked ma not to let anvbodv hurt me I got right over it. Would anybody 'dare hurt a little girl who60 ma is dead? They could be looked up. couldn't they?" He offered to go with her to the house where she wns to nave a home lor a tew days, and taking his big hand witli the ulu.ost confidence she walked beside him and said : ' I am t going to cry much till I tct to bed, where folks can t see me!" " I hope every one will be good to you," he remarked as lie put Ins hand over her curly head. " If they don t be, they'll never go to heaven, will they r" she queried. " No." There was a long pause, and then she said : "But I guess they will be. lean make a doll out of a clothes-pin and piece of calico, and I guess somebody will be glad to let me live with 'cm. If you see me over on the step some other night you needn't be a bit afraid, for 1 ain't big enougli to hurt anybody, even it I didn't want to cry all the lime!" Detroit Free Press. Wanted to Sec the Editor. A man cn the cars was offered a news paper. He took it, looked at the head ing. and then threw it aside with dis gust and remarked : " I don't want any news fronv that paper." "1 supposed everybody read it in theso parts," I answered. " Has it been pitching into you?" "Pitching into me? Great Gosar! should think it had. But you just let me meet the editor cf that paper," " You never make anything by strik ing an editor," I said ; "better grin and near it. " Yes, that's all right for you to say but just let mo meet that man! l'l show lura how to run a newspaper." " What did he do?" . "Do? He did a deal. Here's how it is. I often go to Springfield on the evening and come home on the first train in the morning. Well, one night 1 met an old crony, and we went to Music hall and the theater. When we came out we met some friends. Of course I could not get right out, so I treated; in fact, we were having pretty good time, when some fellow came in and began to raise a raw. In less than no time the police were in and had us. The next morning I was hauled before the court and lined 7 40. I did not care much, because I gave a false name, nnd I knew my wife couldn't find it out ; but th a next morning 1 11 be eter nally confused if that very paper didn't have it all in and my name too." . " Did your wife see it?" " 1 should say she did. " Did she make a fuss?" "Fuss! Godfrey Elihu! Are you married?" Springfield (.Mma.) Republic can. The Armies of Europe. No wonder Europe is suffering from hard times. Tho army of each country is a burden that would almost bank rupt a continent. Russia has a mili tary forco of 3,046,800 men, H00.800 be- longing to the reserve and 2,44u,tt00 to the standing army. France has a regu- lar army ot l.btta.ooo men. which, with the territorial army of 1,308.000. makes a total of 3,897,000. In 1892 this will be increased by 300,000 reserve men. The German army consists of 3,004,300 men. In 1692 the total strength of Italy will be 3,034,300 men. Austro-Hun-gary possesses 1,194,318 soldiers. The armies of Europe make a total of over 16,000,000 who are learning tho art of war and who can be called on at any moment by the great powers. With such an " old man ot the sea " as this on its shoulders how can Europe expect prosperity tDttroit Fret Press. TIMELY TOPICS. The number of packages of tomatoes put up in the United States Inst year reached the great total of 19,968,000 Maryland leading on witn e.MO.ooo; New Jersey, 5,593.000; Delaware. 7.884.- 000; New York, 1,680,000; Massachu setts, 900,000; Pennsylvania, 183,000; Pacific coast. l.ano.OOO: Western and other States, 1,320,000. Yet many of the piesent generation can recall the time when the tomato was regarded as a curiosity. Here arc Dr. Thomas Guthrie's excel lent reasons for neinir a total abstainer : I have tried both ways ; I speak from experience. I am in good spirit because 1 take no spirit; I am hale because I use no ale; I take ho antidote in the form of drugs becniiRC I take no poison in the form of drinks. Thus, though in the first instance I sousht only the public good, I have found my own also since I became a total abstainer. 1 have these four reasons for continuing to be one first, my health is stronger; second, my head is clearer; third, my heart is lighter; fourth, my purse is heavier. Scarlet fever is a scourge as much to be dreaded in Northern cities as tho yel low fever is in the South. A leading causeof the disease being Bpread is from ladies visiting houses where there are cases, or attending funerals of those who have died from the malady, thus impregnating their clothing and carry ing the germs to their own and other families. This disease should be treated in a manner similar to small-pox as re gards quarantine regulations. It is not less terrible in its fatality, and not un- frenuently leaves the convalescent with deafness, blindness, or some other serious affection. Official whippings nre continued regu larly at Newcastle, Del., and are re garded as a matter of course by the resi dents. On the last whipping day live convicted thieves were punished. The first was a German, who was not severely lashed, and he walked away smiling. The second was a tramp, who bore the ordeal without flinching. Two negroes, who came next, writhed and muttered under the pain of severe blows. The fifth was a boy of fifteen. He was so frightened that it was necessary to force him to the post, nnd at the first stroke he desperately freed himself by pulling his hands out of tho staples. A handkerchief was used to fasteihim, but he got loose again before the pre scrioed twenty blows were completed, and pathetically begged the sheriff not to strike so hard. The movement in temperance known m home protection, which, in reality, is woman's bailoV on the dram-shops, is gaining in favor in all parts of the coun try. Five of the annual conventions of the women's christian temperance unions, held in the separate New Eng land States, have passed homo protec tion resolutions indorsing that lino of work. At tho late annual meeting of the National Women's Christian Tem perance Union in Indianapolis, a resolu tion was passed to tho effect that "the organizations there represented should in each State be free to choose their own methods of work," thus removing all restfictions of tiiat body from such State women's unions as shall decide to ask for the temperance ballot. Eleven State organizations alicady indorse this move ment; only three really oppose it, and their ranks, it is said, arc by no means solid. Eggs nnd t'nts in Law. There is a famous case on the books of a Norman hotel keeper and the cus tomer who ordered a six-egg omelette prepared but went away in a hurry with out paying for it. and when he returned fifteen years later offered the landlord fifteen francs, being for the orieinal cost of the eggs and the interest thereon com pounded. The landlord claimed a fabu lous sum, alleging .that the six eggs would have produced so many chicks, from which would have issued so many hens; that with the product of these in numerable fowls he would have bought a farm, which in so many years would have yielded so mucli money, which be ing invested, etc. The court, however, non-suited the landlord because the eggs had been broken for the omelette, unci so could not have been hatched. The case has been outdone in an In dian court. A, B, C and D buy cotton in partnership and Btore it iu n ware house which is invested with rats. To discourage these vermin they buy a cat. of which each is to own a leg. Tho cat break that one of her legs which is owned bv A. who binds it up with cot ton soaked in oil. The cotton takes til e, the cat takes refuge in the midst of the cotton bales and tho -whole property is destroyed: whereupon B. C and D sue A. alleging that it was his leg which caused the conflagration. The court promptly decides against them with costs, and orders them to pay A lor his cotton and bear their own losses, on the ground that the cat couldn't walk on the broken leg, so that it was the three sound legs which carried her into the cotton. View Figaro. riew York's Dead Millionaires. The Ne w York correspondent of the Detroit Free Press writes : The death of Peter Goelet closes tho list of big mil lionaires who were among us a few year ago. And they all dropped off be tween three score ten and four score. John Jacob Astor went first, and then in quiek succession Commodore Vander- but, A . 1. Stewart ana w m. u. Khine lander, and now Goelet. Astor's wealth was estimated at 850,(100,000. Vander bilt's at $100,000,000 and Stewart's about the same. Khinelander's property rep resented, it is supposed, $10,000,000, and Goelet's is estimated at $30,000,000. The money of Astor, Bhinelander and Goelet was ali in real estate and mort gages. A good deal of the Astor prop erty has been divided since the old man's death, and some, T believe, has been fold. Astor himself never sold anv. It was tho same case with Goelet. Ho would as soon have thought of selling his right hand as of parting with a house or building lot. lie had the name of a skinflint, though some say he did not do serve it. But whether a skinflint or not ho certainly knew how to take care of his money. ... Whittier and other poets are immor tal icing the virtues of the pumpkin. But they never allude to the siren sweet ness with which it deludes the unso phisticated water-bug and lingering fly to the saccharine depths of its pie form. Hi. Louis Bpirit. ... 1TEXS OF INTEREST. It is the man with the rheumatism who is every inch a' king. The only housework some girls do is when they begin to dust around after a bean. Andrews' Basar. lie said that her hair was dyed, and when she indignantly exclaimed, " 'T is false!" he said he presumed BO.Boslom Post. . Professor Stewart, a mining export, says in tlio most unqualified terms that -Maine is a promising silver-bear; ng region. ; It is estimated that there were 36,000, 000 sheep in 1878 in the United States, which produced a total of 310,000,000 pounds of wool. Indiana claims to be the banner wheat raising State this year. The crop there is placed at 55,000,000 bushels, which is about 20,000,000 more than Minnesota is credited with. " What's fame?" yelled an excited ora tor; " What's fame? that ghost of am bition! What's honor?" And a weak minded man in the crowd said he sup posed sho had clothes on her, as any fool ought to know. Derrick. Under a South Carolina law which provides that money won at gambling shall, upon proof, be restored four-fold, a firm of 'jharlcston has entered suit for $79,000 against the proprietors of two fashionable resorts, the amount al leged as having been lost by young men in whom the firm was interested. A St . Louis boy was delighted when a tine, six-bladed knife dropped down t him apparently from the sky. Wrapped artund it was a paper on which was written, " We are fastened m the dome; for heaven's sake help us out." Two girls had ascended to tho top of the court house and closed a sell-locking door. Farmers Crockett and Nichols quar reled about a hog, at Lindale, Mo., and agreed to settle the difficulty witli knives. One had a dirk, nnd the other a less handy but larger pocket knife. Nichols was killed on the spot, and Crocket lived only two hours after the fight. Twenty-seven cuts were counted on their bodies. Mrs. Jas. A. Skirven exhibited at tho Kent county (Ind.) fair a specimen of California squash. It is from two to three feet iu length and nine to ton inches in diameter, and regularly curved. Its excellence is said to consist, in part at least, in the fact that while growing it 'may be sliced off in any suitable or convenient quantity and cooked, leaving the remainder on "the vine for future use. It is on this account, a curiosity. During the procession on Lord May or's day a large stone was thrown into the carriage of the retiring lord mayor. A smilar attention was once paid to George III. when going to open parlia ment, and he picked up tho stone and presented it to the master cf the horse, seated opposite, as a proof of tho affec tion of his subjects. Tho royai State carriage is provided with bullet-proof shutters, which can be adiusted by a spring; but the king, whose courage was never questioned, would not use them. A man living near Glen Mills, Pa.. was atta?ked by one of his cows the other day, knocked down and gored. He caueh. the benst bv the nose and roared for help, but none came, the cow meantime stamping upon him and man ifesting a determination to kill him. Soon the other cows in the field saw what was going on and rushed to the soot, when, to the surprise of the man, instead of assisting their companion, they violently assailed her, knocking her down and finally driving her away. The cow died on the following day with every symptoms of brain disease. Do It Well. Whatever you do. do it well. A job slighted, because it is apparently unim portant, leads to habitual negligence, that men degenerate insensibly in their workmen " That is a good rough job, said an old man in our hearing, recently, nnd ho meant that it was a piece of work not elegant in itself, but strongly made and well put together. "Trnining tho hand and eye to do work well lends individuals to form correct habits in other respects, nnd a good workman isf in most cases, a good citi zen. For one need hope to rise above his present situation who suffers small things to pass by unimproved, or who neglects, metaphorically speaking, to pick up a cent because it is not a dollar. Some of the wisest law-makers, the best statesmen, the most gifted artists, the most merciful judges.the most ingen ious mechanics, rose from the great mass. r- A rival of a certain lawyer sought to humilatc him publicly by saying: "You blacked my father's boots once. "Yes," replied the lawyer unabashed, "and I did it well." And because of his doing even mean tilings well, he rose to greater. Take heart, all who toil! all youths in humble situations, all in adverse cir cumstance, and those who labor unap preciated. If it be put to drive the plow, strive to do it well; if it be but to wax threads, wax it well; if only to cut bolts, make good ones; or to blow the bellows, keep the iron hot. It is attention to business that lifts the feci higher up on the ladder. hays tho good book ; " Socst thou a man diligent in his business, he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men."-, ; , Save the Hogg. " A penny saved is a penny got," is a maxim as true as it is old. And there is many a neglected opportunity in almost every household bv which pennies that aro otherwise allowed to go to waste might be saved to the family. Take tho one item of rags. How few housewives think of saving the little scraps of calico, of linen, and the old worn- out clothes, and selling them to the paper-manufacturers? Thousands upon thousands of dollars are thus wasted every year that ought to go into the family coffers. If housewives and their children and help mates would carefully save all the rags vuiougu me year, ana fay aside trie re ceipts from the sales, they would be as tonished, when the holidays came around, at the size of the fund accumu lated from this source. The recent rapid advance in the price of rags ren ders it doubly important that the matter should bo attended to. If the'"gude wife " don't feel like bothering her head and hands with the matter, then let her encourage the children in the work. : It will pay to save the rags. Don't neg lect t-
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