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A Summer Day.
Doop down beside the tangled sedge
The meadow lark sings all the day,
And bursts at times from out the hedge
The mlmio chatter of tho jay;
And here and there a wandering note,
A cricket's chirp, comes sweet and clear
Whore dreamy mists of summor float
At noon upon the grassy more.
Afar away below the hill
I see the noisy mill-wheol go,
Tho smooth broad lake above the mill,
The flash of foam that roars below;
And on the even slopos that rise
8o gently toward the mountain's brow,
The cattle watch with sleepy eyes
The lazy ploughboy at the plough.
lily soul is sleeping, and its dreams
Ah I pad and sweet that dreaming thrills t
For there are other vales and streams,
And othor flocks on other hills
The hills wheroon I climbed to pull
Tho goldon rods and weeds of May,
Whon all tho world was beautiful,
And all my life a summer day.
C. K. Brook in Harper' Magatint.
PENNY WISE AND POUND
FOOLISH.
We will express our trunks, I sup
p se," Raid Amy, rising from her knees
with a 8igb, where she had been strap
p ug said baggage, till her little fingers
wore bruised with the strain "we will
express our trunks," she repoated, and
have nothing upon our minds."
" Eipress our trunks, Amy I what
nonsense 1 I shouldn't think of it for
an iustant I" cried Aunt Hitty. " It
would bo a wicked extravagance, for
which we should deserve a visitation of
Providence. I've traveled miles and
miles in my day, and I've always taken
cure of my own things, and expect to do
it as long as the breath's in my body."
The trunks were sent down to the sta
tion early Dext morning on a wheelbar
row, and as the distance was short. Amy
and her aunt followed on foot, arriving
in season to see the wheelbarrow give
out, like the " one boss shay," and spill
its contents upon the highway. Aunt
Hitty was obliged to pay a quarter on
the spot for a second pair of masculine,
arms to convey the trunks into tha sta
tion, she and Amy being supplied with a
bag, an envelope box containing sand
wiches, a water-proof in a strap, and a
novel each.
" We might as well have taken a car
riage," suggested Amy, "and have
started in some style, if only for the
confusion of the neighbors,' and even
then thero would have been a balance
in our favor." Aunt Hitty did not ap
pear to be affected by this economical
view of the situation, her mind being
engaged at that moment npon the co
nnudrumwhetber she should be obliged
to buy a new wheelbarrow for Neighbor
Cramp, or if the old one could be re
vamped to his satisfaction ; but before
she could arrive at a solution the con
ductor cried, "All aboard," and they
were plunging through the tunnel, fly
ing across the iSridge, hurrying past
everybody's back-door, past the old
bnrying-grqund, out into the clear coun
try, with the distant mountain peaks
outlined against the sky, with fringes of
reddening sumac, and burning bushes
of maple and beech, and the ragged
pennons of creepers and blackberry
vines closing in about them.
"Jerusalem Centre l" shouted the
conductor. "Passengers change cars
for Boghampton."
While Aunt Hitty was manoeuvring
to avoid the smoking-car in her entrance
iuto the Boghampton train, Amy re
checked her trunks, and smashed her
eyeglasses in the attempt. At the next
point of connection Aunt Hitty trans
acted the business with dignity and
composure, but found, after the train
had started, that she had left "The
Last Days of Pompeii " behind her.
" Aud it belonged to your book club,
too," sighed Amv.
At the third station where they were
obliged to change Amy secured the
checks without any mishap, and being
naw fairly launched on the road to Bos
ton, they disposed themselves to dine
from the envelope box, and Aunt Hitty
produced tha silvei oup from which she
had eaten herijread and milk when she
was in pinafiwes, and her grandmothers
before her.
"I'm glad I brought it," she said; "it
doesn't oost any more to drink from sil
ver than from glass, when it's an heir
loom. How any one can use that pro
miscuous tumbler passes me."
"There's Dorset Travis, Aunt nitty,
sure as you live. Oh, I do wish he would
look this way !" whispered Amy.
"I would rather you shouldn't let on
you saw him. People are so apt to get
intimate on a journey," returned her
aunt. "Read your novel, child. A Vane
wasting a thought upon a Travis I Such
a thing was never known in Borrowiale;
it would make all your ancestors groan
in their graves. In your great-grand,
father's day there was the Travis Arms
and the Vane Hall. We were of the
best blood in the county; nobody knows
if they had any anoes'try; their family
tree is an scorn yet, for all I know.
When your forebears were living in
clover and faring sumptuously every
day, old Martin Travis was too poor to
buy himself a second suit."
"And"now the tables are turned. We
have the poverty, and they have the
money."
"But we are Vanes, while thev will
be only Travises to the end of the
chapter."
"As the case stands, aunty, I would
rather be a Travis, thank you.
"Don't let me hear you utter suoh
blasphemy again, Amy Vane I"
"I'm sure the girls in Borrowdale are
always talking about him as if he were
the great Mogul. I'm sure he is very
nice I met him once at Miss Cabot's,
yon know; we spent a fortnight there at
the same time. I may be obliged to
speak to him, you see. If you'd only
turn your head, Annt Hitty, and look at
him, you'd say he was a prince in dis
guise. Did you ever see him ?"
"Never. The idea of old Martin
Travis's grandson aspiring to an equal
ity with the Vanes I Why, he has black
ed your great-grandfather's boots, for
aught I know I"
" I can't help it if he has blacked my
great-grandfather's' eye. I wiBh his
grandson would come and talk to us.
And how he can talk ! I don't believe a
Vane could hold a candle to him l
There he goes into a smoking car I Ho
my prospective pleasure ends in smoke."
" Amy Vane, remember who you are!"
And then they relapsed into silence, and
Annt Hitty took a nap, while Amy
watched the gay autumn world waltz
past her the fields where cattle grazed:
the broken walls festooned with the wild
grape, with gaudy vines; the swollen
streams chatting over their pebbles; the
rich vistas of woodland, like glimpses
into some cathedral crusted with gold
and inlaid with jewels; the saucy little
chipmunks darting among the nut-trees;
the whir of wild wings among the under
brush; the bursting pods of the mild
weed; the drifts of purple asters and
golden-rod. How delightful it might
be to travel in October with somebody
like Dorcas Travis to talk, with, ana
one's baggage in the express !
Have we collided ?" cried Aunt Hit
ty, waking with a Budden jerk, "or what
is it?"
Boston," said Amy.
" Oh, of course. Now you take my
umbrella and my bag and waterproof,
and secure seats in the New Tork train,
while I secure the baggage."
How dark and smoky and crowded the
depot seemed just then I Engines were
puffing and filling, bells were ringing,
hackmen shouting, every one rushing
hither and yon, elbbwing pushing.
Was all creation en route for somewhere ?
was anybody left at home to look after
the silver and the " help ?" Aunt Hitty
wondered as she insinuated herself into
the near neighborhood of the baggage
car and adjusted her glasses. "Mercy,"
said she, "what a bedlam I"
"Isn't it though I" replied a woman
at her elbow. "I can't hear my own
ears can you? Seems as though my
baggage wouldn t ever turn up. It s
dreadful standing here at the mercy of
this crowd, they push you about so.
Pardon ; did I tread on your skirt ?
" Oh, never mind," said Aunt Hitty;
" 'twasn't your fault. Isn't that my
trnnk f No oh dear I"
"It's awfully confusing," she con
fessed, having finally joined Amy in the
New York train. " It s a pity that some
of the people can't stay at home. I
should think it was a Uodouin commu
nity." "Tickets I demanded the conductor,
on his rounds.
Annt Hetty plnnged her hand into her
dress pocket, into the pocket of her
over-skirt, into the pocket of her sacque,
into her bag, and wrestled with all its
contents. "Goodness save us!" she
pasned. my pocket has been pick
ed !" Fortunately Miss Hitty had taken
the precaution of secreting the bulk of
her funds about her person, and the
pocketbook had contained only ten dol
lars in money, a recipe for mock mince
Eies, and a scrap of poetry, the tickets
eing in Amy's charge, as it happened.
" Well, there was such a crowd in the
depot,"tb.at I wonder I came away with
my senses," she explained. "Do get
me a drink of water, Amy. I'm dry as
a fish, from excitement " (though why a
fish, which is always wet, should be call
ed dry, is a paradox Miss Hitty didn't
refleot upon). " The cup is in my bag.
No ? Amy Vane, how helpless you are I
If it was a bear, it would bite you. Qive
me the bag I" But alas I Miss Kitty's
bag was unlike little Benjamin's Isack:
the silver cup was not to be found in it !
Tou don t suppose I left it in the cars
in Boston f " she questioned " that cup,
which has been in the family for gener
ations ?"
"We can telegraph to Boston from
the next station," suggested Amy, who
had a family feeling for the cup, after
all. " and perhaps recover it. Don t y ou
want to speak to the conductor about a
sleeping-car t"
A sleeping-car ! What do you think
I'm made off"
"You will have an attack of your
asthma, Annt Hitty; you aren't used to
sitting np all night."
"I'll make the experiment, anyway;
two dollars aren't to be sneezed at in my
circumstances. A penny saved is a
penny earned."
" You won't get a wink of sleep. For
my part, I would rather pay twenty dol
lars than lose a night's rest."
I dare say you would. You've no
more idea of economy than the babes in
the woods. Any one who's sleepy can
sleep on stilts."
" Very well; pleasant dreams to yon."
It seemed to Amy as if the night were
endless. Not a tree, nor a water-course,
nor a russet hill-side to be discerned
through the darkness; not so much as a
star for company, nothing but the
smoky lamps winking at her. Amy
wished with all her heart that Mr. Trav
is had been at hand to help her kill
time; as for Annt Hitty. she improvised
a piliow of her water-proof, and got a
crick in her neck instead of a nap; and
when everybody had about abandoned the
hope of overtaking the morning, go at
what lightning speed they would, the
lights began to look like sickly ghosts at
cock-crow, the eastern sky blushing like a
rose, unfolding petal after petal of light
and color, birds began to flutter along
the wayside, shaking the dew from wing
and bush m their flight, and presently
the train rolled into the Grand Central
Depot, and stopped panting and wheez
ing. "Give me your purse. Amy," com
manded Miss Hitty, "while yon look up
the baggage; it isn't worth while to risk
anything. I'll go and buy the tickets,
and keep a seat for yon in the Hudson
River train." Miss Kitty's voice was
husky, and her eyes were full of meta
phorical sticks.
Amy had never been in New York be
fore indeed, her traveling had chiefly
been confined to a trip to Boston once a
year and the crowd and the confusion,
the rush and hurry every one seemed to
be in, the shackling and shunting of
cars, added to the stupid half-awake
sensation resulting from a broken night,
gave her a nervous lack of confidence in
herself. It appeared an eternity before
her trunks came to light, and an S3 an or
two before they were finally checked;
then she picked her way through the
throng as speedily as possible, only to
see the Hudson River train moving out
of the depot. She stood like one para
lyzed, and watched it go, letting the
rowd surge around her. Some one out
of the human vortex paused and looked
at her, turned back, and held out a re
assuring hand.
Miss Vane, I believe ?" said Dorset
Travis. "Are you waiting for any one ?
Oan I be of service to you ?"
"Oh, Mr. Travis, I have lost my
train l" cried Amy.
"Ts that all? May I ask which way
you are going ?"
"We were going to Niagara Annt
Hitty and I. She is in the train, with
the tickets and my purse I"
"Well met, then," said he. "I im
going to Niagara myself in the afternoon
train, and shall be happy to be your
escort, it you will allow mo. In the
meantime, here is a coach waiting for
us. We will take breakfast at Delmon
ioo's, and have time to look into a picture-gallery
and drive in the park before
dinner, if you don't object."
" Uh, thank you, Mr. Travis I What
a godsend you are l" cried Amy, effu
sively. " What would have become of
me if you hadn't happened by ?"
' I'm clad my lines have fallen in suoh
pleasant places," he said. " I hope you
naven t forgotten the fortnight we spent
at Miss Cabot's together a year ago 1"
What a breakfast they had at Delmon
ico's, to be sure I how debonair and
companionable Dorset Travis was I old
Martin Travis s grandson, too 1 Before
they had " done up " the picture-gallery
Amy felt as if she had known him from
the beginning easy in confessing her
ignorance, sure of his sympathetic in
dulgence and by the time they had
taken a turn in the park she had decided
it was not such a bad thing to lose one's
train, after all; that this was a much
pleasanter route to Niagara than the
regular one; if there was no royal road
to learning, there was one to Niagara.
"I wonder what Aunt Hitty thinks
has become of me!" said Amy, when
they were already upon their way. "She
must be distracted."
"Oh no; I telegraphed her at the
next station before we left the depot this
morning. '
" Oh, how Bplendid 1 " Martin
Travis's grandson, too 1 " What did you
say, Mr. xravis?
Why, to tell the truth, I committed
a sort of forgery by telegraph. I told
her that an old friend had taken charge
or you, ana you would leave for Niagara
in the 3:20 train, p. m., and signed your
name."
"An old friend !" repeated Amy. re-
floctingly.
" Do you object to the term ?'
" Object 1 I dote on it," laughed
Amy.
" ' You re my friend:
What a thing friendship is, world without
end!'"
he quoted. Was ever a journey down
the Rhine or up the Nile more enchant
ing than this trip along the Hudson ?
Were not the Palisades as grand and
fantastio in their way as Philse and its
temples ? Via not the Highlands wrap
themselves in an atmosphere as ame
thystine as that of the Bernese Ober
land ? Could a night in June upon the
Danube river surpass this afternoon in
a palace-car ?
To Amy's dismay, on arriving at Ni
agara, she found Aunt Hitty at the hotel,
sitting np in bed, bolstered by pillows,
gasping and wheezing with an attack of
asthma.
" A whole ticket as good ns thrown
away," she groaned. " I shall be ruined
if we don't begin to economize some
where." I'm afraid this trip is a bad begin
ning," said Amy.
And who was the friend you met in
New York, eh ? '
"Only Dorset Travis."
Dorset Travis 1 old Martin's grand
son I Who next ? I do hope. Amy,
that you held yourself a little distant
that you didn't condescend too much.''
. "Oh, I had such a splendid time,
aunty I"
"A splendid time, with a Travis for
company ! You are degenerating, Amy.
What would your greit-granlfatherhave
thought of you ?"
I'm sure I don't know; but we dined
at Delmonioo's, we drove in the park,
we looked at pictures."
" With the grandson of Martin Travis
and I lying here trying to catch my
breath !"
"You must have a doctor, Aunt
Hitty."
" Indeed no; doctors cost a fortune in
such a place as this; they're not like Dr.
Grub, at home, with Lis seventy-five
cents a visit. You must remember that
this is an expensive trp, and we must
save where we car." But by the fol
lowing day Aunt Hitty found that her
usual remedies failed of alleviation,
that, in fact, she was only growing
worse. If there were only some
young doctor just settled, glad of a pa
tient at any price," she gasped. " Ring
the bell, Amy."
"Do you know any young doctor,"
she asked of the chamber-maid any
one who is reasonable in his charges,
who hasn't gotten into much practice f"
" That I do," replied the girl; "there's
one in the house this blessed minute.
Shall I be sending him up to you ?"
"You're sure he doesn't charge
high?"
" Charge, is it ? It's himself who car
ried a whole family through with the
measles without charging a cent. Oh,
he's the man for your money, marm."
"Well, you may ask him to step up;
one visit won't kill me, at any rate."
" Not unless he's the kill or cure
kind," said Amy.
He had gone out to a patient, how
ever, when the maid went to seek him;
nd it so happened that Amy was out at
the druggist's when he made his first
visit, and had met Dorset Travis on her
way home.
"The doctor's been here," said Aunt
Hitty; " and such a pleasant - spoken
gentleman as he is I Handsome, too;
he reminds me of some one I can't tell
whom. He says he took np the profes
sion for love, not for money, which
argues well. Shows he didn t spring
from common stock. You can see, in
deed, at a glance, that he's a born aris
tocrat." "Isn't your eyesight improving,
aunty ?" laughed Amy.
"I was never so near-sighted that I
couldn't tell a man of gentle blood and
long descent from a plebeian. He has
only had his degree within the lost six
months, though he has practiced in the
hospitals, you know."
But in spite of her doctor's virtues,
Miss Hitty grew worse rather than bet
ter. Amy might as well have been a
nurse in a hospital ward, only she was
never off duty. All day she was shut in
with the invalid, all night she was up
and down, arranging pillows, measuring
doses; she had forgotten the neighbor
hood of the Falls, so to speak, or the
object of the journey; the doctor came
twice a day, since the attack was stub
born; she herself was growing pale and
hollow-eyed, and one day she dropped
at the bedside in the act of administer
ing a dose.
" This will never do," said the doctor.
' You must have a nurse, Miss Vane."
"A nurse 1" cried Aunt Hitty.
"What next? I never had such an
article in my life. I don't own Goloon
da, and I haven't a claim in El Dorado.
A nurse, indeed I I tell you what,
Amy," she added as soon as they were
alone again, "I must pick up enough
to jog home by the week's end; I've just
money enough left to pay my bills and
buy our tickets."
" And we haven't seen the Falls yet!"
I wish the Falls had been in the
Red sea I It they hadn't existed, it
would have been money in my purse and
health in my bones."
" Miss Amy must see the lions first,"
said the doctor, next day, when Annt
Hitty had announced her intention of
leaving Niagara. "My carriage is at
the door; I shall esteem it a privilege if
I may introduce her to them."
"I'm sure you're as good as gold,
doctor."
But when Amy returned, there was a
rosy glow in her face, and an ecstasy in
her glance.
" I hope," she said, between a smile
and a tear " I hope, Aunt Hitty, that
you won't be displeased, though his
ancestors didn't come over in the May
flower but something happened at
the Falls, Aunt Hitty."
" Goodness 1 you didn't lose any
thing?" "Yes, I did. I lost my heart, Aunt
Hitty. I hope you've grown to like him
well enough not to mind his want of a
family tree, because I've promised to
marry him, Aunt Hitty."
"Whom? the doctor? Well, if. I
ever I If it hadn't been for my asthma,
now .Well, you may thank me for a
good husband. How do you know about
his ancestors, pray ? By-the-way, child,
I don't think I ever asked his name.
I'm sure I don't know it any more than
if he were the pre-Adamite man, if there
ever was such a being. When you're
choking and panting with the asthma, a
rose would smell as sweet with any
other name. I hope it's a pleasant
sounding one, at any rate."
" Yes, it is very pleasant -it is Dorset
Travis. Oh, aunty, I couldn't help it;
but you know you said he was a born
aristocrat I I didn't mean to deceive you
but you never asked, and and it was
so nice to have him coming, if you must
be ill, and you would have sent him
away if you had known, and then per
haps you would have died; and I didn't
know he was a doctor myself till I met
him in the street the day he first came
to you, and he told me he had studied
at first for occupation, never meaning to
practice as he had plenty of money
without, aunty, you know but he had
grown to love it, and meant to devote his
life to it and me."
' Penny wise and pound foolish,"
confessed Aunt nitty, as she looked over
her accounts, in the seclusion of home,
somewhat later, and estimated the cost
of her economies:
Taid man for carrying trunks I 25
Paid Mr. Cramp for wheelbarrow 4 00
Amy's eyeglasses broken 2 00
One no vel lost 100
Pocket-book and contents stolen 12 00
Hilver-cup heir-loom loHt 20 00
Iootor' bill 30 00
An extra week's board at hotel 42 00
Telegram . SO
Ticket from N. Y. to Niagara extra. . 5 00
116 55
One niece loss inestimable.
" Some eoonomies are costly enough,"
said she. "Live and learn. " Harper's
Weekly. .
TIMELY TUPICS.
The cotton crop will net the United
States this year $200,000,000.
It is thought the wheat crop of the
coming year in the United States will
reach the round sum of 400,000,000
bushels.
Mr. Thomas Mort, who spent $500,
000 trying to solve the problem of send
ing frozen meat to England, has died in
Australia.
The perfect imprint of a tree may be
seen upon the breast of Thomas Briggs,
of Wellsburg, W. Va,, who was struck
by lightning on July fourth.
There are over 25,000 flouring mills in
the United States, giving employment
to 60,000 men. These mills turn out
annually 50,000,000 barrels of flour.
Mr. Ross says he spent $90,000 in
looking for the lost Charlie. He recent
ly declined to receive subscriptions for
hts relief that had been sent to a New
York paper.
The country from Canyon City to
Pilot Rock, Oregon, over which the In -dians
recently swept, is a desolate waste.
Not a building is standing; hundreds of
starving colts were whinnying beside their
dead dams; all the cattle were killed for
the sake of their tongues, and the Indians
have chopped off just below the knees
the forelegs of every sheep they could
catch.
A convict at Auburn, N. Y., escaped
hard work during his confinement of
two and a half years by feigning paral
ysis. He was so successful in the fraud
that he was lifted about by attendants,
and on his release had to be carried to
the depot in a chair and placed in the
cars. An hour afterward he visited the
prison officials and astounded them by
his speedy and full recovery.
Lockjaw is one of the most terrible
diseases to which mortals are exposed.
A California exchange asserts that no
one need be in danger of such an attack
from wounds caused by rusty iron. The
worst cases of inflamed wounds may be
cured by smoking the injured part with
bnruing wool or woolen cloth. Any
thing that produces safety from such a
fatal disease is worth recording.
At the Missouri State prison, at Jef
ferson City, during the last six months of
their term, prisoners that have been well
behaved are- allowed to go out and work
in the city as teamsters, laborers, etc.
They are perfectly free, and are not un
der any supervision by guards. Of
course at night they have to return to
the penitentiary. While in the city they
are not allowed to enter any stores or
saloons; if this regulation is infringed,
they are immediately confined to the
prison. Attempts at escape while thus
working from all surveillance have been
very rare, for, should they be recaptured
they have to serve a double term, under
more stringent rules.
Gilmore and' his American band are
having an unquestionable success, ac
cording to a cable dispatch from Paris
to the New York Herald. A long arti
cle appeared in the anti-American
Qauloi criticising Gilmore's first con
cert at the Trocadero, and therein eulo
gizing highly the conscientiousness and
precision of the instrumentalists and the
excellence of the soloists. The band
played in an iutermede at the Theatre
Bouff on the same evening. Figaro
says that the performance was remark
able for entrain and precision, and that
it created great enthusiasm among the
audience. The Pari Journal confirms
this appreciation and says their success
was immense.
But a few years Binoe Isaacs Fried
lander was called the Grain Eing of
California. He controlled a grain fleet
of 300 or 400 sailing vessels, while his
operations involved the use of $40,000,
000 capital, nis name was potent in
the grain districts of the Pacific slope,
in the corn exchange of San Francisco,
while even Mark Lane was anxious to
conciliate so powerful an element in
the price of breadstufl's. Two years
ago he failed in his gigantic undertak
ings, and his name was no longer in
people's mouths. Recently he died, and
a two-line telegram was considered suffi
cient to announce the demise of the
great Grain King, showing the way hard
times boil down obituaries.
American girls will learn with interest
that the value of a French girl's nose
has just been judicially valued at $1,000.
Some time ago a Paris omnibus horse
became frisky, there was a collision, a
window was smashed, and a passenger
a young demoiselle received some of
the broken glass in her face. It was at
first thought the hurts were trifling, and
her parents declined the proffered ser
vice of the omnibus company's doctor.
But the scratches did not heal as they
were expected to, and the girl's father
brought suit against the company, alleg
ing that her nose had been permanently
marred, and that this seriously diminish
ed her prospect of establishment in life
in other words, of getting a husband.
He obtained $200 on the first trial and
$1,000 on the second.
Items of Interest.
Best thing to keep in hot weather
keep shady.
A visible means of support the hang
man's noose.
" I've just dropped in," as the fly said
to the coffee.
The phonograph is an invention that
speaks for itself.
Recipe for whipping Indians: First
catch your Indians.
Misery does not always love company,
if the company happens to be mos
quitoes. In selecting colors for the various
apartments of your house, avoid a brown
study. As for the library, it should al
ways be red.
The boy who goes a-fishing on Sun
day, when he has been sent to Sunday
Bchool, generally goes a-whaJing when
he gets home.
The Bible has been printed in thirty
different languages for the benefit of
the aborigines of thiB country and of
Greenland, British America and Mexico.
When asked what fish is apt to come to yon
As in winter yon send for some fruit of the
sea,
And they hash it np with potato, do you
Always express yourself C. O. D.
The thermometer has been invented,
it is true, but it can hardly claim more
accuracy as a test of the heat of the
weather than that time-tried institution,
a limp collar.
There are many things which discon
cert the average young lady, and one of
them is, while reading an intensely in
teresting novel, to discover that in the
most exciting part there is a chapter
torn out.
According to Dr. Fitch, there are not
less than sixty different insects that
prey upon the apple, twelve upon the
pear, sixteen on the peach, seventeen
on the plum, thirty-five on the cherry
and thirty on the grape.
" And never more you'll sail tho seas
Without your bonnie bride !"
" Aye, never more," made Jack reply
All cozied at her side.
" For without you, across the waves
I could not go at all,
Since you muxt surely know, my love,
That you are now my yawl !"
Both the body and mind are so con
stituted that they require constant but
varied action. Utter idleness, of either
body or mind, unless they be in a more
or less diseased state, is not only un
necessary, but harmful in the extreme.
It is a habit which, once indulged in,
will grow npon the individual. Change
of occupation for the muscles, change of
the current of thought for the brain, is
what will promote the fullest and most,
healthful development of both Iltrker.
A pair of very chubby legs,
Incased in scarlet hose ;
A pair of little stubby boots,
With rather doubtful toes ;
A little kilt, a little coat, .
Cut as a mother can
And Io ! before ns strides in state
The future's " coming man."
A pair of laughing, deep bluo eyes,
A wealth of ringlets brown,
With air coquettish as a queen,
The belle of all the town ;
A dimpled chin and bluahing cheek,
Lips red and tee'h of pearl,
And lo 1 before ns, shy and meek.
We've the future's "comijg girl."
Indian Origin of Mosquitoes.
The Red River Indians have a curious
legend respecting the origin of mosqui
toes. They say that once npon a time
there was a famine, and the Indians
could get no game. Hundreds had died
from hunger, and desolation filled their
country. All kinds of offerings were
made to the Gi eat Spirit without avail,
nntil one day two hunters came upon a
white wolverine, a very rare animal.
Upon shooting the white wolverine, an
old woman sprang out of the skin, and
saying that she was a " Manito," prom -ised
to go and live with the Indians,
promising them plenty of game as long as
they treated her well and gave her the
first choice of all the game that was
brought in. The' two Indians assented
to this, and took the old woman home
with them, which event was immediately
succeeded by an abundance of game.
When the sharpness of the famine had
passed in the prosperity which the old
woman had brought the tribes, the In
dians became dainty in their appetites,
and complained of the manner in which
the old woman took to herself the choice
bits; and this feeling became so intense
that notwithstanding her warning that if
they violated their promise a terrible
calamity would come upon tho Indians,
they one day killed her as she was seiz
ing her shure of a reindeer which the
hunter had brought in.
Great consternation immediately struck
the witnesses of the deed, and the In
dians, to escape the predicted calamity,
bodily struck their tents and moved to a
great distance. Time past on without
any catastrophe occurring, and game
becoming even more plentiful, the In
began to laugh at their being deceived
by the old woman. Finally, a hunting
party on a long chase of a reindeer,
which had led them back to the place
where the old woman had been killed,
came upon her skeleton, and one of them
in derision, kicked the skull with his
foot. In an instant a small, spiral,
vapor-like body arose from the eyes and
ears of the body, which proved to be in
sects, that attacked the hunters with
great fury, and drove them to the river
for protection. The skull continued to
pour out its little stream, and the air
became full of avengers of the old
woman's death. The hunters, on return
ing to camp, found the Indians suffer
ing terribly from the plague, and ever
Binoe that time the Indians have ben
punished by the mosquitoes for tt
wickedness to their preserver, tho I'
ito.
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