-)! ty,..y, 7 sc. 1 HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. Nil, ristjEitAkrbfcto.- Two Dollars por Annum. VOL. X. " Perhaps." Ia woodland ways now strangled with the snow The bluo, sweet violets will swnbo spring lag, The goldcn-headod aconites wiU blow, And in the meadows robins will be singing. Then from the streets into the fields I'll go) And my heart answered me, " Perhaps 1" Or, if not then, when strawberries are red, And flag flowers stand among the blowing rushes, When roses bloom, and in the trees o'erhead There is a dreamy melody ol thrushes, My lost again tbe mossy tart shall tread; And my heart answered me, " Perhaps!'' Ur, (tetter still, I'll sail the wiudy sea, Toll of largo musio, billow to billow sing ing. And lie 'mid broken lights, and sea-drift free, Hearing in dieams oi laud the ship bells ringing Yes, oceanward, when summer comes, I'll floej And my heart answered me, "Perhaps!" Oh, lieart, I said, thine is the weaiiest way; Why wilt tliou ever disenchant to-morrow T Time is so niggardly with each to-day, Surely 'tis well from luturo days to borrow. Art thou ati-aid such droits will be to pay T And my heart answered me, " Perhaps!" Then 'mid man's fretful dwellings, dim aud low, I'll dream ol peace, eternal flowers un lading, An! ol that tidcless sea whoso happy flow Keeps not a note ol sorrow or upbraiding. Some day I'll flpj that bappy laud. I know; And my beau answered, " Thou shalt go!" Harper' i Weekly. ADRIENNE'S STORY. I was never happy at Aunt Browne's, but there seemed no prospect that I should ever leave her. I had come out, so to speak, as lar as anyone so repressed could come out, but 1 might as well have staid in. I only sat in coiners, talked with the chaperons, or listened to some garrulous octogenarian Aunt Browne's interest in me, such as it was, died a natural death after my lirst sea sonit had always been weakly and the result was a sad deficiency in my wardrobe. She had married off two daughters without diflicultv, but a iiiice, it seemed, stuck closer than a burr. However, it was not my fault that I remained unmarried. I had done my best to bo fascinating. Though I haled the idea of uwrryiug for home or position, jet I was sure I should not linil it hard to love one who was kind to n,i', if only on account of the novelty. I was thirty now, and not unused to hearing ihu chances rung upon the old maid, and the beggars who shouldn't le choosers, by my younger cousins, Susette and Anne. But I had had one opportunity to change for better or worse ofwhiehtheyhadn ever d reamed . The son of Aunt Browne's second hus band, Cedric Browne, had asked me to marry him, three years before, as we rowed up tiie river in June for the rosy laurel blooms to decorate the house and piazzas for Susette's birthday fete. I sometimes wondered what Aunt Browne would have thought of the proceeding, as she had set her heart upon marrying Susette to Cedric. Perhaps 1 refused him because I was taken unawares, be cause I was not enough interested to care about frustrating Aunt Browne's plans; perhaps I did not expect to be taken at my word, but imagined it the proper way to decline, in "order to be importuned. I believe all my favorite heroines had conducted in this wise. However, we rowed Lome through the sunset, our boat heaped with the pink flowers, in silence. " You look as if you were laden with sunset clouds," said Susette, who was watching for us on the shore; but I am certain that C.dric looked like a thun-der-clotiil. The next day was the fete. Every, body brought presents for Susette. Cednc gave her an antique necklace of turquoises; I was sure h' had meant it lor me. We had supper out of doors, under the treat pine-trees, and dancing by moonlight. That day I began to re gard Cedric Browne attentively. I had known him under the same roof lor weeks at a time; I had laughed and talked with him, believing him fore ordained to minister to Susette's hap- Einess, "as inaccessible as a star in eavtn," so far as I was concerned. He had helped me with Adele's children, who had come to live at Aunt Browne's when their mother died. But that he should reg ,rd me with any tender emo tions I had never even dared to wish. In fact. I had thought little about him till to-day. I had never observed till to-day that his eyes were as tender as stars, that his face was like that radiant countenance of Mozart in the music room, that his smile was simply en chantment. It was rather late to make these discoveries. Ho did not leave us at once; it seemed as if he ttaid just long enough for me to know all 1 had lose. Since then he e n, Wlt,h U8nce again for a whole month ; but little Walter was ill with a spinal affection that kept him on his back, and me by his side; and though Cedrio used to relieve me often by dj and by night, I could see from my win dow, and from occasional gdmpses into the drawing-room, that the balance of his time was spent in Susette's com pany. "Aunt Susette's beau is going to make me a kite," Teddy confided to Walter one day. "Win's he?" asked Walter from his bed. " Why, Cedric. of course Cedrio Browne. Bridget says so herse'f," as if trial put the matter beyond dispute. The next day, when Cedrio came up to amuse Walter with tho affairs down. stairs, that youth demanded : "I say, are j y Aunt ousette'fl beau, Cedric? Auncnne s ever so nicer. When I'm a man marry Adrienne." "Then vmi'll ho 1.., ,l T .. :J cedric, winding up a top. and spinning it on his palm. It WaS a VPiir linnn tl.nn T 1 TwlT' '"My We. AGnt Biowne had abandoned ail hopes of me. 1 was a good nurserymaid, a cheap fTneS8, i,in "Pensive companion. In the family. In the meantime I could have m; rritd any day if I had chosen to accept the Key. Abel Amherst, and Irai sfer my labors to the parsonage. n ue tB,V.' h'a ouldnot have proved the brilliant marriage my aunt had ex pected of me. nor the romnntin nno T had dreamed of myself, and it was not till I camo into possession of a certain family secret that I began to revolve the possibility in my mind. It seems that when my aunt married her second husband, Mr. Browhe-Susette and Anne were both Lowells they had sub sisted upon the patrimony left to Cedric by his mother, and that alter his father's death, Cedric had turned in the same yearly income from tho estate for the family use, and that I, Adrienne Lennox, owed my daily bread to the mn whom I had refused, and who had forgotten me. Earning my own livelihood was out of the question, drudgery was my only vocation, and that was too badly paid to be encouraging. I looked at the Rev. Abel Amherst often at this period, with a view to installing him in Cedric's place, if Cedrio would only vacate. Oddly enough, Mr. Amherst renewed his suit at this time, and pressed it with the eagerness of a lover, and for the first time I began to hesitate. " The woman who hesitates is lost," said Susette. I had been out on the hills one day trying to make up my mind to forget Cedric, and marry Mr. Amherst; but whenever I began to think with some interest of going to parish meetings, be coming the president of Dakotajlcagues and sewing circles, visiting the poor, and drinking tea opposite the Rev. Mr. Amherst all the rest of my days, some how or other Cedric's face would slip into the picture uninvited, and blot out his rivals, as strong sunlight fades a negative photograph. "There is a letter foryou, Adrienne," said Aunt Browne, when I entered the house, " in the music room, on the top of the dado, under Mozart's picture." I went into the music room, but there was no letter to be seen. " Perhaps one of the girls has re moved it," she suggested. But no one had meddled with it. " Grand.na cooked a letter over the tea-kettJe," said little Teddy, reflec tively. ' Yes," said grandma, ' I wrote a letter to your pa, child. I hadn't any blotting paper, but the fiie answers the purpose quite as well." At that time I had never heard of opening letters by steam. Well, we ran sacked the house for that truant letter, but in vain. "Who was it from, aunt?" I asked. " How should I know, child?" " But the handwriting the post mark ?" " The postmark was blurred." "Had it a foreign stamp?" I asked, with sudden eagerness. Cedric had gone abroad some months before, and I bad not heard of his return. "A foreign stamp ! No. Were you expecting a foreign letter?" "XT-St. Kllf if- ia flit J always happens, you know." "It's awfully provoking." said Su sette. " Perhaps it was on! v the reciDes Mrs Clark was going to send you." "Nothing more likely: but what has become of it? It's a prolonged game of hunt the thimble." "And supposing it's a letter notifvino- you of tho existence of a first Mrs. Am herst." put in Anne, " or of a legacy left by your forty-fifth cousin in Austra lia" And then the door-bell rang. Well, after that I suppose I must have accepted Mr. Amherst. Everybody be haved as it 1 liad. I received congratu lations and a ring, and the parish begun repairs upon the parsonage, before I could muster courage to tell Mr. Am herst all about Cedric and mv mistake. and how I wasn't at all sure I couid eyer get over it, and care for anybody else, uui mai i wouiq ao my nest. And he smiled in a sort of nbsent way when I told him, but seemed content to take me as I was, for better or worse; only it did strike me sometimes that he was the most undemonstrative lover in Christendom; but I hadn't much ex perience in lovers, and perhaps they weren't as gushing in real life as novels pictured. He used to kiss my hand when we parted; that was all. lie was very gentle, but a little sad, I lancied, wi.h a look which might mean that he was afraid of to much happiness, or that to marry the weman he loved wasn't all fancy had painted it; and often I thought I had perhaps done wrong to tell him everything about Cedrio so unreserv edly ; yet 1 Had only meant to be honest. But the day was appointed, and sud denly Cedric appeared among us. when I thought he was at the world's end, and he and the girls decorated the little church with white field daisies and grasses for the occasion. You may be lieve that I avoided the sight of Cedrio in the interval before the wedding as much as possible, but somehow I was always stumbling upon him; he seemed to be perpetually at my elbow ; he sur prised me mote than once with traces of tears upon my face; the sound of his voice made my htart turn and quiver within mo. If I had dared to withdraw at this juncture, I'm afraid I should have done so: but it was too late; and though I felt like a hypocrite whenever Mr. Amherst appeared, his looks of sober satisfaction, which reminded me of those lines of Matthew Royden on ftir mi up Sidney, " A lull assurance given by looks, Continual coiulort in a face, The lineamonts oi gospel books," might have taught me that all was well with him. "You are the oddest sweethearts I ever saw," gossiped Susette. "I wouldn't give a straw for such a lover; and as for you, Adrienne, you resemble a ghost more than a bride. In short, a thousand years of purga tory would ill represent my sufferings during those last weeks before my wed ding. Well, to crown the whole, Aunt Browne said Cedric must give me away: he was the only male relative, tbe head oi' the family, so to speak, and he could do it so admirably. We Bhall see,'1 said he. I'm afraid I should make a poor figure at giving Adrienne awayj" and ha stroked his Iriste mustache as he spoke, and looked at me .just as he looked that day when we gathered the laurel for Susette's fete I could have sworn he did. I didn't answer, lor lear my voice would be husky, and the tears would start. The wedding was to be quite private only relatives. Aunt Browne ar ranged everything to suit herself and uie prui neues; u oicn t become a clergyman's bride to make a great paraae. as uie cuurcu, i remember, my veil caught In the carriage door, and an orange blossom tumbled from mv wreath, which Cedrio picked up, and wore in his button-hole. Then he drew my balf-lifeless arm within his, and directly the wedding march pealed forth in great resounding waves of melody. My grandmother India mus jfttDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, APEIL 8, lin blew out in abundant creamy folds behind me, and Cedric and I were stand ing before the altar, and Mr. Amherst was reading the marriage service! I believe that Aunt Browne fainted. or she Would have forbidden the banns. You see. it was impossible for me to give you away, Adrienne," said Ce dric, later, when we were steaming out of town. "Amherst is a trump; and may ne nna a wite as sweet as Mrs. wiownei If it hadn't been for him, I should have been of all men the most miserable to day. What do you think he did? Why. he wrote me all that sad little story you thought right to tell him, and added that he would not deny he was making a sacrifice: that ia renoun cing you he renounced all that made life lovely to him, except his work; yet he felt it was better one should fail of a heaven on earth than two should suffer ; and that if I loved you, as I bad once said, would I take his place at the mar riage, and allow him to solemnize it? It was a whim of his to have it so, ' to avoid explanations,' he said. I couldn't believe in my luck, you Vuow, Adrienne. w e bandied letters to and; fro. canvass ing the subject. I feared he had made a mistake, as I had renewed my offer some little while before, but had re ceived no reply: still a dozen things happen to letters every day." " Yes. and something happened to yours," I said. i ears alter, when Susette and Anne were married, when Adele's husband had taken the children home to a new mamma, and Aunt Browne had gone to " the land of the hereafter," when Cedrio was repairing the old house for a sum mer residence, in ripping awav the an cient dado in the music-room, which had always warped away from the wall in warm weather, leaving a little crack, the carpenters unearthed my lost letter. Had it slipped down there, or had Aunt Browne given it a puBh? We give her the benefit of the doubt. Earner's Bazar. Dirt and Bodily Heat. The part which the skin Dlavs in the regulation of bodily heat is not ade quately estimated. The envelope of complicated structure and vital function which covers the body, and which nature has destined to perform a large share of the labor of health preserving, is m-acucauy turown out oi use oy our habit of loading it with clothes. It is needless to complicate matters by allow ing it to ne choked and encumbered with dirt. If the skin of an animal be coated with an impervious varnish, death must ensue. A covering of dirt is i nly less inimical to life. We are not now speaking of dirt such as offends the sense of decency, but of those ac- cummulations of- excluded matter with which the skin must be come loaded if it is hahituallv covered and not thoroughly cleansed. until is iiub u wicuuaing agent. A man may bathe dailv and use hisbath towel even roughly, but remain as dirty to all practical intents as though he eschewed cleanliness; ind ed the phvsi cal evil of -dirt is more likely to ensue, oecause li wnouy neglected, the skin wou Id cast off its excrementitious matter by periodic perspirations with desquama tirn of the cuticle. Nothing but a fre quent washing in water, of at least equal temperature with the skin, and soap can insure a iree and ueatthy suilace. J lie feet require especial care, and it is too much the practice to neglect them. The omission of daily washings with soap and the wearing of foot coverings so tight as to compress the blood-vessels anil retard the circulation of the blood through the extremities, are the most common causes of cold feet. Tho re medy is obvious; dress loosely and wash frequently. Lancet. Time for Rending. Many busy people declare thev have no lime for reading: but thev are mis taken. They have all the time there is, and some of the world's busiest men have found that enough to make them selves accomplished in one or more de partments of knowledge. The trouble a nu kick oi time, our- wastteiui habits in regard to it. Many persons enter tain the notion that one must have regular and definite hours of the day or week set apart for reading in order to accomplish anything valuable. There ne ver was a greater mistake. The busiest lite lias margins of time which may serve, like the borders of the old missals, to enrich aud exalt the commonplaces written between. Fifteen minutes in the morning, and as many more in the even ing, devoted faithfully to reading, will add appreciably in the course of a few months to one's store of knowledge. Always have a book at hand, and whether the opportunity brings you two hours or ten minutes, use it to the full. An English scientist learned a language in the time his wife kept him waiting for the completion of her evening toilet: and at tbe dinner given to Mr. Froude in Jiew I oi k. some years ceo. Mr. Beecher said that he had read through that author's brilliant but somewhat lengthy history in the intervals of din ner. Every life has pauses between its activities. The time spent in local travel in 6treet cars and ferries is a golden opportunity, if one will only resolutely make the most of it. It is not long spaces of time, but the single purpose, that turns every moment to account, that makes great and fruitful acquisitions possible to men and women who have other work in life. Christian union. Drinking Too Much. Children are not apt to believe thev arms too mucn water, ana yet tney ao When you come in the house, pantini and thirsty Irom play, you will take a tumbler of water, and drink it down as fast as you can, and then rush out to re' suine play, and, perhaps, repeat the drink. Now, the next time you feel thirsty, try this experiment: Take a gob let of water, and slowly sip it. Before it is half gone, your thirst will be fullv quenched, and you will feel better for having drank only that which you need. And again, we are all apt to acquire the habit of drinkin g while eating our meals. Animald don't do it, and it is hurtful to us. Nature gives u all the saliva we need ; and if any one will chew his food slowly and thoroughly, and not take a swauow oi onnK until lurougu eating, the desire to do so will soon leave, and he will requue only a few sips of water, teaorcoflee. after the meal is finished. This practice, too, will do wonders in the way oi keeping on indigestion, ays- pepsia ana netnen. uouten uays. The only time that oleomargarine successfully takes the place of butter is when it catches a fly and holds it. rnuacuipnya nerata. FOB THE FAIR SEX. ... Fashion Notes. Waistcoats are going but of fashion. The day of the white chip bonnet is over. A new lace is painted In reaonrfc feather eyes. Silk muslin bonnet crowns will he much worn. Rubv beads and vellow npnrla ftro fit a latest novelties in beads. Friezes should be from twentv tn twenty-four inches deep. It is impossible to make a nnllarettn too large for the fashion. Blondes wear black lace orfa with. out any white lace or flowers. Yellow sunflowers and crimson nnn- pies are favorite flowers this season. Sleeveless habit corsages of velvet or satin are worn over ball dresses of tulle or gauze. Beaded passementeries are l.wrplv used for trimming silk and satin man tles and dresses. Spring and summer mantles ura weighted with a profusion of lace, rih- bon and jet fringe, network and orna ments. Corduroy underskirts will continue to be worn under draperies of silk foulard, Yeddo crape, and light woolen uress goous. The new woolen mixtures are nn heavier than the French buntings, and are covered with alternating daTshes of two colors. Dresses of India muslin made in Paris are decorated with sultana scarfs of Oriental silk, embroidered with either gold or silver. Scarfs of scarlet tulle, beaded with tiny pearl beads, are worn to advantage by those to whom Bcarlet is becoming, in place of the white illusion neck scarfs of last fall. Sauare handkerchiefs nf VirioVit. ml. ored striped foulard are twisted into pretty dress caps for ladies and fastened on the head with large Spanish pins or bouquets of artificial flowers. The latest novely in dress goods is ecru cotton, thicker than the heaviest unbleached muslins ot last summer, and with bayadere stripes of bright shades of blue, scarlet, yellow and black. uver these Davaaere domestics are sometimes draped the cheese cloths of last summer. A Paris letter savs that the airv lace. satin and ribbin muffs have prov d so pretty an addition to the toilette that they have established a position in the ballroom, where they are carried in the hand or sewn to the dress. Thev look very well made to match the dresses m the plain Oriental silks, printed with designs in gold or silver. liio newest and simplest fichus are very large, and are of Indian muslin embroidered on the edges, so that lace is not needed for trimming them, though tho latter is sometimes added. They are in four different sizes, of which most are graceful additions to house toilettes for the present season, and will be worn out of doors during the summer, when, with the wide- brimmed garden hats, they complete most picturesque costumes. JNovuties in lingerie are constantly appearing. Among the newest are silk petticoats cut out on the border in squares. In each of these open places is a small inserted puffing. Some of theso skirls nre made of blue surah. with inserted puffings of light blue satin. The square pieces which are cut out of the lower part of these skirts are not more than six luetics long and there are a number around the skirt.. In London for dressy occasions hoods and muffs made of brocade, with strands of gold running through, are very fashionable. The hoods are sepa rate from the dresses or jackets and are brushed off in front with long loops and ends of colored (generally red) satin ribbon about three inches wide. The muffs have ribbon and lining to match, and are trimmed with black or coffee colored lace. Sometimes the toque is also ot the same material. An Ancient Iance In Tuscany, A Chicago limes correspondent, writ ing Irom Tuscany in Italy, says : Dur ing this visit I witnessed many inter esting rustic games and ceremonies. notably a marriage, with its escort of maidens with their lamps, and a dance celebrating that charming custom among the ancient Italians, the opening ot summer, which Virgil describes in a famous Dassase of his first eclogue. First came an invitation to the goddess ot corn, two nrettv and graceful girls representing the priestesses of Ceres the one fair and garlanded with white flowers, the other dark, and crowned with Dumle flowers. Thev cause to strike their upliitea tarn bonnes, while behind them their sisters rush breath less but shouting with flowing garments and outspread arms, t wo young men with purple caps ana embroidered vests advance, each with a silver amphora or sacred vase of wine, which is first sipped by the priestesses, followed by the maidens who surround them, and then by the young men who closely fol low up the rear, the whole accompan ied by characteristic songs and recita tions. Then all join handB, a youth and maiden alternately, and form two immense rings, all being crowned with chaplets oi grain and grasses, and the priestesses decsed with additional gar lands of the same nature hanging like a scarf across their shoulders. The leader directs the movements of one ring until tney au sins, down exhausted, when thev are relieved by the other ring al ternately until the old Roman dial on the church tower marks the morning hours ana pate moonlight gives place to the glowing day. Then they are led. smiling and bowing their heads, in review before us, and then before their o der friends who are seated as specta tors, and then again bounding off in i lively circle they twist and turn it into all imaginable shapes, seldom breaking the magic ling, returning again ana again to tbe groups of spectators for in spection and approval, ana again bound ingoff in the mazed of the intricate dance.. The leader will perhaps con duct them to the brow of the hill and then starting back some of them are sent down Vie bank and recovered b the clasped kands in the chain: an then laughing nud shouting she leads them to the bowler of a mass of grain spread out to dry, and drawing back as before, some of itiem are thrown head long into the lng white straw, the H-ader constantly passing through the ring and turning It, as it were, inside out. Along the hfue Mediterranean or on the borders of the inland laVea the shores and waves ,fcave offered means of Di-igm enjoymennto taese dancers lor many happy generations, IN A PANTHER'S CAGE. A Fcriiale Anlmai Trainer Who In Among; a Hair-Dozen FnlUOrtfwn Mexican Panthers which are the ITcr ror of a Whole Menagerie. The value of coolness and presence of mind was strikingly illustrated at Cooper k Bailey's stables, Philadelphia, where the great lxmaon circus was in quarters. In the main building, where most all the animals of the menagerie are kept, was a cage containing five or six full-grown Mexican panthers, whose tierce aspect and savage capers are the terror of all who pass through there. Directly opposite these panthers there is a c age containing lions, and on either side of them are cages containing tigers and leopards. Savage as the tigers and leopards appear, there is not half the terror In them for the keepers that there is in the long, stealthy, cat-like animal. the Mexican panther. In size they are about as large as a full-grown setter dog. though their wkole appearance is of the cat order, having long claws. sharp teeth, and eye-balls which, in their anger, gleam and quiver like livid fire. These animals at Cooper A Baiicy's, on the day in question, seemed worse than usual. They had been fight ing among themselves until their heads and ears were bleeding, and upon the approach of any visitor near their cage they would spring against the iron grat ing, with gleaming eyes and exposed fangs, with a force that would shake the cage from top to bottom, at the same time thrusting their claws through m their efforts to clutch the Intruders and bring them within range of their teeth. To stand off and look at them would provoke them almost to mad ness. They would bound against the grating with a loud and savage scream, and strike and tear at the iron rods with their claws in a way that would make the stoutest-hearted visitor fall back and almost shudder to think of the con sequences should they by any mischance once get at large. Even the keepers themselves, after they had prodded up the tigers and leopards and passed close to their cages in safety, made a detour when they came to the panthers, giving them a wide berth. Presently a young woman, dressed in bloomers and with her hair tightly done up on the top of her head, came along, with a stoutwhip in her hand. " See." said one of the keepers, " she's going into the.cage." "What?" exclaimed three or four different voices, umazed. " She s going in among the panthers ; she's training them,'-' said the keeper. " Surely she won't go in among them as they are now?" said one, while others tell back still lurtncr ana some hastened away. Meantime, the gin naa gone up close to the cage, whip in hand, and, with the assistance ot the keeper who was also her husband the panthers were driven back in one ena ot the cage, tho man using a long stick, with the end of which he gave them some vigor ous raps on the nose. Alter a great deal of snapping and scuffling among each othjr each animal, every time he was hit, seeming to visit his vengeance lor the blow on his nearest fellow they were all gotten back in the end furthest from the cage door, i he man i hen pro ceeded to unfasten it, his work being in terrupted frequently by the nnimals, some of which would now and then bound out of their corner over the backs of those of their fellows who stood in th way and land half-way up the floor of the cage, where they would draw themselves up in a crouching posture, nnd with eyes ot hre and a deep, low whine or growl tuey wouiq remain watching him as though only waiting lor him to get inside to mako the fatal spring. The keeper, without snowing the least discomposure, went on wun Ins work until the door was opened. Tho voung woman, who had been stand ing beside him with her whip in nana and u pleasant smile on her f;.ce. with out a moment's hesitation stepped up and the next moment was inside the cage. The moment she got in there was the most tenitic screaming and fighting of anytime yet. The panthers would jump over each other in their eagerness to spring upon her, ana wouia spring half-way up the cage, but would get no further, being held back by lear. ihey wouiu men spring upon one another ana tear each other's ears and scratch and fight. this being apparently the only means .t i ij . i. ..; c ! . , mat would satisiy men lerucity. mean time the woman stood pertectly still. holding her whip out and speaking to them in a soothing manner, as though she was pacnying a lavorite doe or cat. Graduallv tbe screams and growls he. gan to get lower and lower and the fight ing among one another began to cease. Still they kept growling and looking at ner ana showing tueir teem ana snap ping now and then until she had ad vanced a step. Then they began to growl again, and one of them sprang over the others and got nearest to her, but had no sooner alighted than he was pounced upon by another, and they again began to fight. Then the young woman. with a bold Btep, advanced a pace fur ther and struck one of the animals wiih the but end of her whip, at the same time scolding him. He BDrang bark to the end ot the cage among the others wnue the woman, carelessly letting her whip fall in a harmless position, pro ceeded to soothe and caress the panther nearest her, pattirg him upon the top of tue neaa ana stroking mm on me back until his growls h id almost subsided and he sullenly allowed himself to be petted, winking his eyes and mouthing uge a cat, tue ouier panniers meantime having grouped themselves together in the end of the cage looked on with sul len growls. If any advanced she gave them a sharp rap on the head and or dered them to go back, an J they obeyed While she kept petting the one in aues Hon she never lost sight of the others, keeping her eves on their everv move. ment ana being always prepared to use tue whip on the slightest provocation Sometimes three or four, as though jealous of the other, would spring for ward ana approach sullenly, as though inviting her to caress them, too Then she would take one to each hand and pat and stroke them until they became paci fied and quiet, and she seemed as much at home with them as though they were go many cats. But this pacific state of things would not last long. Thev seemed to be taking their caresses under protest ana to oe ever on the Drink oi a revolt, This would be signalized bv a deen growl from some one of them, which would instantly communicate itself to the others, and the next instant there would be a quick spring and one of the animals would find himself Dounoed upon by another, and they would olaw 1880. and gnash each other until the young woman would raise her whip and give them both some sharp blows, which would send them into tho corner and make them settle down for a little time. " What would be the consequence if she was to show any fear and retreat to ward the door?" asked one of the by standers, who had been almost spell bound by the scene before him and had not found himself able to speak before. The conseauence. " said the keeper. shaking his head, "would be that every animal in that cage would Spring upon hor an A torn tiot in nionoa in n mmiitfl " In the Halter of Advertising. If you have goods to sell, advertise. Hire a man with a lampblack kettle and a brush to paint your name nnd number on all the railroad fences. The cars go whizzing by so fast that no one can read them, to be sure, but perhaps the obliging conductor would stop the train to accommodate an inquisitive passenger. Remember the fences by the roadside as well . Nothing is so attractive to the passer-by as a well-painted sign : " Mill- Milnl. moilinAl m rlnr, fif mnmnB " Have your card in the hotel register by all means." Strangers stopping at hotels for a night generally buy a cigar or two before they leave town, and they need some inspiring literature for food besides. If an advertising agent wants your business advertised In a fancy frame at the depot, pay him about 200 per cent, more than it is worth, and let him put it there. When a man has three-quar ters of a second in which to catch a train, he invariably stops to read depot advertisements, and your card might take his eye. Of course the street thermometer dodge is excellent. When a man's fin gers and ears are freezing, or he is puff ing and " phewing " at the heat is the time above all others when he reaas an advertisement. Print in the blackest ink a great sprawling card on all your wrapping paper. Ladies returning from a shop ping tour like to be walking bulletins, and if the ink rubs off and spoils some of their finery, no matter. They never will stop at your store again. Don't fail to advertise in everycircus programme. It will help tne circus to pay its bills, and visitors can relieve the tedium of tbe clown's jokes by look ing over your interesting remarks about twenty per cent, below cost," etc. A bov with a big placard on a pole is an interesting object on the streets, and lends a dignified air to your establish ment. Hire about two. Advertise on a calender. People never look at a calander to see what day of the month it is. Tho merely glance hurriedly at it so as to be sure that your name is spelled with or without a " p," that s all. When the breezes blow, wafted by a paper fan in the hands of a lovely woman, 'tis well to have the air redolent with the pei fume of the carmine ink in which your business address is printed. This will make the market for decent fans very good. an advertising tablet, card, directory, dictionary or even an advertising Bible, if one is offered at a reasonable price. The man must make a living.' Hut don t think of advertising in a well-established legitimate newspaper. Not for a moment. Your advertisement would be nicely printed nnd would lind its way into all the thrifty householdsof the region, where the farmer, the me chanic, the tradesmen in other lines, and into the families of the wealthy nnd re fined, all who have articles to buy and monev with which to buy them, and after the news of the day has been di- g.;sted, it would bo read and pondered, and next day people would come down ... - . . to your store and patronize you, and keep coming in increasing numbers, nnd you might have to hire an extra clerk or two, move into a larger block ana more favorable, location and do a bigger busi ness, but of course it would be more expensive and bring greater profits A t Haven Register, John Bright It is related that once a party of Americans entered a studio, where a fine portrait, just completed, was stand ing on the artist's easel. "Oh," said one ol the Americans, " that must be John iiull." "No," quietly responded the artist, it's John Bright." The anecdoto forcibly illustrates the truly British physical type of the Qua ker orator and statesman. In personal appearance, certainly, he is an English man oi englishmen, ttobust, though not corpulent, of body; with a round. lull face, and bold, straight nose; his countenance rounded, open, healthfully ruddy, having a remarkable purity ol complexion and fine texture of skin ; the eyes, large, gray, clear, bright, some times stern and dehant, but in repose often gentle and kindly; decision and vigor most plainly expressed in the resolute mouth and firm jaw and chin ; a lace less mobile than calm ana set 1IH.S 11- O 3 U1VU11Q liUHU 1.11 1 1 1 UU IK, . tlm hrnw hrnad nnd white. Mtirl nrrhd high at the top ; tbe whole frame strong, well-proportioned, almost massive, in dicating great powers of endurance, and giving, even at his present age. no hint of that delicacy of health which has in recent yeais impaired his public activ ity. In his company, one has a keen sense of his power, one feels himself in the presence of a born leader of men. He holds his head high, and looks vou. and every one, full in the face; and that with a keen, searching glance that rather robs vou ot your ease. Self-re liance, honesty, pride of intellect, reso lution nay, even intolerance may be read in his expression. John Bright is now in his sixty-ninth year. He is two years younger than Gladstone and six younger than Lord Beanonstield ; and as English statesmen are a peculiarly vigorous race, and often continue their public activities into the eighties, it maybe hoped that he has still some years of labor in the cause of reform before him. His publio life be gan in 1843, when he was thirty-two years of age, in which year be was elected to parliament by theold historio city of Durham. Four years later be took his seat for the first time as the representative of tho great progressive constil uency of Manchester. His career In the house of commons, therefore, has extended over a period of thirty-seven years- uooa vompany. The spread of contagious diseases among horses in London is attributed in a great measure to the publio cattle troughs which have of late years been NO. 7. By-and-Bje. "By-and-bye," the maiden said "by-and-byo He will claim tne for his bride, Hope is strong, and time is fleet; Youth U fair, and love is sweet. Clouds will pass that fleck my sky. He will come back by-and-bye by-and-bye." By-and-bye," the soldier said "by-and-bye Oltcn have I fonght and bled I shall go home from the wars, Crowned with glory, seamed with scars. Joy will flash Irom some one's eye When she greets me by-and-bye by-and-bye." "By-and-bye," the mother cried " by-ana.-bye Strong and sturdy at my side, Like a stall supporting me, Will my bonnie baby be. Break my rest, then wail and cry Thoul't repay me by-and-bye by-and-bye. Fleeting years of time have sped harried byo. Still the maiden is unwed; All unknown the soldier lies, Buried under alien skies ; And the son, with blood-shot eye, Saw his mother starve and die. God in heaven ! dost Thou on high Keep the promised by-and-bye- by-and-bye 7 Ella WhetUr. ITEMS OF INTEREST. There are three men to one woman in Arizona. There is not a single insane asylum in Arkansas. Ice is being shipped from Montreal to the Southern States. Why is the letter D like a sailor? Be cause it follows the C. Three million acres ol fall wheat have been sown in California. Edwin Booth, since his bankruptcy in 1876, has made some $300,000. Tobacco and rhubarb are the pipe plants of the country. Marathon Inde pendent. A compass must be of the feminine gender, else it couldn't handle a needle so well. Modern Aran. The total number of voters in Great Britain and Ireland is 2,666,966, or about ono to every eleven inhabitants. Ac coiding to the last national census there was one voter to every lour nna a halt inhabitants in the United States. "The organs of taste are very sensi tive," a writer tells us in a magazine article this month, but his information comes too late to be of any value to us. We bit into a bad clam two weeks ago and found that out. Fulton Times. Tho notion of nutting a light inside the body, so as to see what is going on there, nndjtotake remedial or preventive measures accordingly, is not entirely new, dui it is very inu ri-buut. j.iiia w the aim Substantially of the "poly scope," an invention which, it is as serted, will tender an examination of every part of the human body feasible. It gives S' m'e idea of the trade be tween Minnesota and Manitoba that the imports intoManitoha nt Pembina amounted last year to $448,314, mostly in fur skins, and tho experts to $750, 941, mostly in lumber, cotton goods, cattle and meats, iron and sfel, plows, carriages, sugars and steam vessels. Wt stern papers are claiming that In diana built the first railroad in this country, and cite a road with wooden rails put down near Shelbyville in 1833. But the railroad irom the granite quar ries in Quiucy, Mass ? to ti lowater, four miles long, was projected in 1825, and was in operation the following year. PEKSV-WISE. Can you tell me," said a punster, Who hud in our sanctum poppod, And upon tho floor was seeking 1' or a capper lie nnd roppeu. ' Cun you tell me why, at present, I am like Noati's weary dove?" And ho glat.ced with inward tremor Toward a gun that hung above. " Wouldst thou know," he queried Mmnliy, As he dodtied tho cudgel stout, Which was shied at him in anger " 'Xis because I'm one cent out." Jioslon Journal of Cemmntti Secretiveness of Children. The secretiveness of childhood Is lit tle understood ; that would probably be pronounced rather a trait ot maturity. yet I ooubt if plotter or confidant ever bad a more religious secrecy than a thoughtful child. We are apt to think of children as fresh from nature's un spoiled inspiration, and frank as the air or light not considering t hat they come of the far-stretching heritage of their kind, and must have derived conceal ment and privacy along with other ten dencies from their parents. No child can have an unprejudiced temper and spirit, and instead o' wondering at the I I ' naughtiness of them, fathers and moth e. knowing themselves, should thank God hourly that their children are bet ter than they. The child has secrets from everybody, certainly from its mutes; it has as much trouble to find a sympathetic fellow as its elders have. It was not every boy that snow-bailea ana slid down hill with you to whom you could tell your speculations about the earth turning around nnd yet our stay ing on when we nre heels up. It is rarely that the girl is discovered who can rral y enter into the other gins feelings about her doll that died because the sawdust blood ran out. Nay. the germs of distrust and with drawal into self may be observed in the very cradlo, wher3 the mewlinRJinVuiJ;. rejects sturdily the food from oue hand that it accepts eagerly from another, and smiles at the impossible lumguage of a woman, when much more impossi ble language from a man's mustache is scornfully and noisily rfjectcjd. Even in tbe elementary goo-goo there is, one sees, room for sympathy to allow. We that have grown up are constantly showing the errors of children petu lent, passionate, sulky,, carejless, de structive, disproportionately! valuing little things end large, hurting most those we love most, paining ourselves more irremediably than all, and going counter to our own desires from mere cantankerousnest. We are a mirror of our past petty t elves, yet how little we realize this as we see thf child grieve, and dhohey and defy. (Whatl do we treat children so and shall we rebel at the thought that we have less than our deserts of kindness? Sprin field t tpuli-ioan. i esi&Diieuea irom motives or humanity, - f
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