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VOL. XII. "NO. 31. TIONESTA, PA., OCTOBER 22, 1870. , $1.50 Per Annum.
Comfort.
If there should come a time, as well there
may,
When sudden tribulation smites thine
heart,
And thou dost como to me lor help, nnd stay,
And comlort how shall I perform my
part ?
How shall I make my heart a resting place,
A shelter sale lor thee when terrors smite?
How Bhall I bring the Bunshine to thy iaco,
' And dry thy tear in bitter woe's dosrtite T
How shall I win tho strength to keep my
voice
Stonily and firm, although 1 hear thy sobs T
How shall 1 bid thy fainting soul rejoico,
Nor mar the counsel oi mine own heart
throbs? Love, my love teaches me a certain way,
Bo, if thy dark honr come, I am thy stay.
I must live higher, nearer to the reach
Ot aDeU in their blessed trustfulness,
Learn their unselflshnoHH, ere I can teach
Content to thee, whom I would greatly
bless.
Ah! whnt woo wore mino if thou shouldst
coino,
Troubled, but trusting, unto me for aid,
And I should meet thee powerless and dumb,
Willing to help thee, but confused, afraid!
It shall not Iinppcn thus, lor I will rise,
God helping mo, to higher life, and gain
Courage and strength to givo thee counsel
wii-e,
And deeper lovo to bless thee in thy paiu.
Fear not, dear lovo, thy trial hour shall bo
The deiifctt bond between my heart and thee.
ill the Ytat Round.
A LITTLE FOOL.
"I am astonished, Eloise! after all
my instructions as to what society and
respectability demand of you. If you
must marry and make a fool of yourself,
why not marry Co lone f Powell?"
"Because 1 do not like Colonel
Powell, nnd because. 1 like some one
else, A 1 nt Ethel."
' 1 never heard of such a thing. Do
you know what you are saying, missr
Such talk. 1 can tell you. in highly im
proper; and as for not liking Colonel
Powell, that is nonsense. Colonel Pow
ell ha everything necessary to win any
woman's approbation very old family,
very line manners, elegant residence,
servants, carriage, money, and a mem
ber of Congress ht sides. Don't you
know that vin would spend the winters
In Washington?"
' I declare it docs not tempt mo n
bit."
"And I don't believe that he is a day
more than fifty."
" He is seventy-five if lie is an hour,
and he hobbles and coughs, and is alto
gether dreadful. I never, never, never
will marry him."
May 1 nk who, then, is to have the
honor of becoming my nephew?" and
. Miss Ethel sat stiflly down, and began
to carefully .re-arrange the pink satin
bows On her white morning dress.
Eloise snt down opposite her, and
fingered nervously the rose-buds and
ivy leaves that trimmed her garden hat.
The two women were st.angely alike,
only one face was forty years old, white,
and proud; and the other was only
twenty, flushing and paling.and answer
ing every feeling oftheheert.
For some moments Eloise did not
speak, and Miss Ethel Bruce did not urge
Iter. She sat patiently looking in her
niece's face, until that young lady, find
ing courage in her desperation, said,
with a bland defiance, "The gentleman
who is to have that honor, dear aunt, is
Mr. Henry Torrens."
" Impossible ! You would not do such
a foolish thingP"
"Oh yes, I would."
" Do you know who he is?"
"lie is Harry."
"Ridiculous! Do you know who his
father is?"
" Nor I don't wan't to know him par
ticularly. Do you know him, Aunt
Ethel?"
"No. I dare say it would be very im
proper for me to know such a person.
When we first met him last summer in
the North, I don't remember that he
ever'named his family."
" Nor I."
"That looks very bad Eloise. If a
man has respectable relations, of course
he talks about them."
" I don't see that it makes any great
differeOe to me. I do not intend to
marry Harry's relations. I do not care
much about them, anyway. Once he
told me that his mother was dead, and I
said mine was too ; and of course we felt
sorry for each other! and all that. But I
aiy. afraid I am a little jealous about
xiarry; 1 would just as net be the only
person in the world who had any right
to love him as not.
" You make me feel hopeless about
, " you. Pray what do you intend to live
' up.n?"
" Harry has two thousand dollars a
year."
"Two thousand dollars a year! What
a magnincent income!"
" Don't make fun of us, aunt. I can
not allow that; indeed I cannot. We
pve each other, and;shall be very
"Doubtless. Mav I ask where Mr
Torrens is employed?"
" In West & Green's law office."
"I thought he lived in New York
What brought him here?"
"How should I know?" said Eloise.
blushing, and involuntarily dropping
ner voice.
Her aunt watched her curiously, and
shook her head for answer. " Where
have you seen him for I hone vou have
not dared to bring him within the pre
cincts 01 xiruce riace."
M Tift h.1S riPVPr tmifVlod a rtulinir ftf it
I met 'him at Aunt Kezla's; and I am
sure she would have let Cousin Lizzie
marry him very willingly. She thinks
a great deal ot Harry."
"Lizzie Bruce is different. She has
five little Bisters, and my brother Jake
always spends twenty out of an income
of nineteen. You have expectations or
at least had. I always intended, if you
remained unmarried, to leave you the
Bruce Place."
"Dear aunt, thank vou for tho inten
tion; but I would rather have Harry.
1 nave a little bit ol money or my own,
have I not?"
" About four thousand dollars : iust
enough to buy your wedding things, and
marry you decently. For though you
are going to make such a fool of your
self, I shall hot show the white feather
about it. I must pretend to be happy
when I am wretched, and receive con
gratulations that will nearly choke me ;
but such trials are part and parcel of a
woman's lot; I dare say I shall get
creditably through them."
Miss xUIicl rose with a proud air, but
a pitifully sad f;ioe, and attempted to
leave tlie room, but bAmse, with gentle
force and many tender kisses, made her
sit down again.
"Auntie," she said, coaxingly, " you
have asked mo a good many questions,
and I have answered them truly; now I
am going to nsk you some, and I know
you will be fair with me about them.
First, were you ever in love?"
Half smiling and half sighing, Miss
Ethel sat thinking over the bold ques
tion. At length she answered, slowly,
"Yes. Eloise; I once loved as I do not
think you havo tho power to love. It
is twenty-two years ago."
" w ill you tell me about itr"
" I cannot. Yes I will try : perhaps
it may show you what a waste of life is.
Wait here a few moments."
She then left the room, but soon re
turned with a little tortoise-shell box in
her hand. It opened with a spring: and
showed a few yellow letters, a bunch of
withered violets and, the half of a plain
gold ring. She lilted tho latter and
said :
"This is part of his dead mother's
wedding ring : wo broke it in two and
swore solemnly over it to he faithful to
the promises we had made to each other.
Then he sailed away from me and I
never heard from him again. For two
years 1 sullered all the agonies of hope
deferred and slighted love, and at length
I had a fever that left me the colorless
little ghost I have been ever since."
" Perhaps he was dead."
"No."
"Then he was a miserable creature.
nnd I should have put him out of my
heart and memory."
Yes, 1 think you would, hloise. 1
think, too, that it is likely you would
havo let some other man make a fool of
you a second time. I have a different
nature. I did not cease to sutler for
James Early lor live years, but having
conquered that weakness I never per
mitted myself to care for any other
man."
"But you were rich and handsome.
Did no one else care for you?"
Miss Ethel smiled queerly, and after a
slight hesitation said " Yes."
" Who was it, Auntie?"
"Colonel Powell."
"Oh, aunt! So you wanted me to do
a thing you would not do yourself."
"ics, dear, lou wanted to marry;
I did not. When I was twenty years
of- age, if I had wanted to marry at all,
I should have married for wealth and
position. Colonel Powell can give his
wile tliese advantages."
" Are you still in love with this Mr.
Early's memory?"
"No. lam not. If I should meet him
to-day, I do not think I should care to
speak to him."
" is ho alive r"
" I suppose so. I heard of his mar
riage ten years ago."
" Poor auntie!"
" Don't pity me, child. I am to be
congratulated. If it had not been for
my dear father's opposition, I should
have married for love, given my fortune
and my life into the keeping of a selfish,
hckle man in lact, made just such a
little fool of myself as you are about to
make."
"Aunt, do you really think that
Harry would forget mo in a few weeks
or months?"
" Of course lie would."
" I will try him."
"You will act very wisely to do so.
Eloise, I am glad I have told you my
sad little story; it may make you at
least ' look before you leap.' Where
does Harry generally leave you?"
"On the little bridge outside the
Place."
" Do not say ' farewell' there. Lovers
who part over running water never meet
again. Give him every lawful chance.
You may bring him into the park to
night."
So a few hours afterward thwe was a
very bitter parting under tho oaks in
Bruce Park. Elose was almost shocked
when it was over. In her heart she had
only intended to frighten Harry, but her
lover had taken the proposal too seri
ously, and things had been said that she
could not unsay. At first, indeed,
Harry had laughed at Miss Ethel's
doubts of him, and his laughter had
provoked jmoisc bne did not like the
thing treated as a joke. " It was a very
serious matter, and she did not see how
Harry could laugh at the idea ol not
seeing her for eleven months."
For eleven months was the time she
had fixed upon as the limit of her lover's
probation. In eleven months she would
be of age, and could claim her small
fortune. If Harry was true to her, she
would then be willing to begin life with
him on four thousand dollars. Besides,
she had a shrewd idea that if she
humored her aunt thus far, Miss Ethel
would not withdraw her favor.
Harry was indignant at all such pru
dential considerations. He spoke very
aisrespecuuuy 01 xsruce X'ark, and de
clared he would not say 'Thank you'
for every acre of it, and the old wooden
mansion thrown in, and that eleven
months was an eternity ; they might just
as well say good-by forever.
Then Eloise argued that " it was very
well for him to talk of living on two
thousand dollars a year and each other's
love. Men could get society, and have
people speak decently to them, even if
they could only afford one new suit in
twelve months; but a woman's friends
depended on the condition of her ward
rol)c, and she wondered if even Harry's
love could stand a shabby old-fashioned
dress and one-button kid gloves."
Harry " was sure she would make any
dress look elegant;" and Eloise saicf,
angrily, " He was very absurd," and
thought so too. So the end of all Harry
bade her " farewell " till the 5th of the
following June, and that with many
tears ana protestations they finally be
gan their self-imposed trial of each
other's fidelity.
The next morning's paper announced
the sudden "departure of Mr. Henry
Torrens for New York on business of
importance likely to detain him some
months." and Eloise was angry enough
at tho information. She had hoped
Harry would try again to convince her
of "the lolly of parting," and she was
determined at this interview to bo con
vinced. For some weeks Miss Ethel did not
have a very happy time. Elois wan
dered in the park, or about the big
silent house, and was not at all cheer
ful company. At first Harry's letters
were so long and frequent that a groat
deal of her time was satisfactorily em.
ployed in answering them. But by de
grees they grew both shorter and less
frequent, and toward the beginning of
winter they stopped altogether.
The two women looked sadly in each
other's face at the empty post-box every
morning, and Miss Ethel had her will
made during these days, and left her
niece all she had, as some compensation.
But yet often when she saw the sad face
that had once been so bright and pretty,
she half reproached herself, anu won
dered whether, where ignorance is bliss,
if it be not folly to be wise.
One day toward ppring a bright,
warm day for the season Elois, who
had now long ceased even hoping for a
letter, was walking slowly up and down
the great hall dividing the large drawing-room
and the late Mr. Bruce's
library from the rest of the house.
These rooms were very seldom opened,
and still more seldom used. Eloise only
remembered two or three grand oc
casions on which they had been used for
great entertainments, the last being that
which introduced her into society two
years previously.
A sudden fancy seized her; she would
throw back the closed blinds, and let the
sprine sunshine into the dark rooms.
Besides, there were alhkinds of curious
ornaments there, and a great many
books; to examine them would pleas
antly pass a few hours. Miss Ethel
readily agreed. She was glad to see her
niece interest herself in anything that
could beguile thought from the one Bad,
mortifying subject of her desertion.
Toward noon she went to seek Eloise.
Her first glance showed her tho girl sit
ting thoughtfully upon the hearth-rug
with her lap full of letters, and queer
tarnished Hindoo jewelry. She sprang
up to meet horaunt,and with a strange
ly solemn excitement, cried out:
"Oh, auntie, they are all yours, all
yours! I was looking at that queer
cabinet, and my dress turned it over,
and a piece fell out of the bottom, and
these things were scattered about."
Then she ran out of the room, shutting
the door carefully behind her.
Poor Miss Ethel needed her privacy.
Here was her lover's vindication; here
were all tlie sweet words for which Bhe
had nearly died. He had suffered all
she had suffered ; he had poured out his
agony and Ins despair in letters which
had never until now reached her. The
poor lady took them to her room, and
never appeared again that day. But Bhe
had no hard words for the Lands that
had wronged her. "Dear father; he
meant it for a kindness," was all that
she said.
Still she grew very restless, and con
tinually declared that she was sure
something was going to happen. But
coming events often cast long shadows
before, nnd it wag lull two months after
ward ere Miss Ethel's presentiment
came true. Then she got a letter one
day which threw her into a wild, fever
ish excitement. "Eloise," she cried,
almost sobbing with joy, " he is come;
he is at the village; ne will be herein
an hour. How am I to bear it?"
Women seek each other's sympathy
in hours like this, and Eloise perhaps
with just a little pang for her own sor
rowgladly gave it. But when she
joined tho long-parted lovers at dusk,
and saw her aunt lingering with tender
cares by the handsome dark stranger at
the fireside, she knew that never again
would Aunt Ethel want sympathy ; it
was easy to see her lover was still her
lover, and that they thoroughly under
stood tlie past.
Perhaps the sight of their happiness
was a little irritating sometimes to
Eloise. She could not help blaming her
aunt in some measure for the loss of
Harry, and she wondered if she ever re
membered now any of her old opinions
about the folly ot marrying for love.
Many women would l ave reminded her
of them, but Eloise was not ill-natured;
and when she saw the old lovers wander
ing about the gardens so happily to
gether, she only hoped that her own
blighted youth might have some such
recompense given it ; for such a joy it
would be almost worth waiting, a little
while, but not twenty-two years ; that
was too strong a test of fidelity.
It was not asked of her. On the morn
ing of the fifth of June, when the dew
was yet on the grass,' there was a mes
senger to see her. He had with him an
exquisite basket of white roses, and in
their midst was a letter which made
Elcise Bruce the happiest girl in Amer
ica. And Aunt Ethel was just as de
lighted. "He must come here at once."
she said ; " they would wait breakfast
for him and he must never go away
again."
Then the ladies discovered that Harry
and James Early were already friends.
They had met at a hotel in New York,
and both having their hearts in the same
little Southern town, they had speedily
become confidential. And liarry was
not long in getting his pardon, though
his excuse might well have been consid
ered by a less loving mistress as an ag
gravation of his offence.
"You see, darling," he explained be
tween his kisses, "you wanted to test
my heart, and so I thought it only fair to
let you test your own also. Do you think
you would remember me, if you never
saw or heard from me for twenty-two
years, as Aunt Ethel did that lover of
hers?"
"Harry! I should remember you for
ever. I never, never would have mar
ried any one else, if you had staid away
altogether. But indeed it was cruel to
try me so bitterly."
"And how about you sending me
away?"
" I won't ever do it again, Harry ; and
I never really wanted you to go. You
ought to have known that."
A few nights afterward," as they all sat
together on the moonlit veranda. Aunt
Ethel said, very tenderly, "Children,
James and I will be married nextThurs
day, and we shall sail for Calcutta imme
diately. Could not the two marriages
be made at once? Then. Harry, Eloise
could live on at the old place, and keep
it from going to destruction. It is
Eloise'snow; I made it over to her to
day, and Mr. Green says you are going
into partnership with their firm, so I
hope you will have enough to keep love
from flying out of your windows."
Little more was said at the time, for
Aunt Ethel persistently turned the sub
ject, but when she camo into Eloise's
room to bid the new bride elect "good
night," the happy girl whispered: "Oh,
aunt, how generous you have been to
us! Surely Mr. Early must be very
rich, to let you give us such a magnifi
cent wedding pres'ent."
" No, dear, he is not. In fact, he is
J ret what he calls a struggling man. He
las great ventures on hand ; he may he
come rich, or he may lose nearly all he
has made. It is something about indigo,
dear, I know not what, andT don't care.
I am going now wherever lie goes, and I
am a very, very happy woman."
Then Eloise whispered, slyly,
"Auntie, do you remember saying a year
ago that a girl was a little fool who mar
ried for loveP"
" I remember, dear. I am wiser now.
and I say if the girl is a little fool who
marries for love, she who marries with
out it is the most foolish and wretched of
women. On the whole, Eloise, I am
rather proud of our good sense eh, my
darling?"
Others, however, seemed to think
differently; for Lizzie Bruce, meeting
her friend Selina James one morning,
said: "Selina, what, do you think?
Hairy Torrens has come back, and
Cousin Eloise has actually lorgiven him
everything and is going to marry him !
I never would have dono it. Would
you?"
"Certainly I would not; but then
Eloise Bruce was always on that sub
jecta, little fool." Harper's Weekly.
The Cabbage.
Just speak to a fine lady about cab
bages and she will think you have men
tioned one of the lowest things on earth.
Madame, you are wrong ; it is one of the
most uselul articles of lood. Those an
cient nations did not know lood science,
but they knew the value of good and
nourishing things and they gave them
the place of honor which they deserved.
Cabbages were thought of highly by
ancient nations, and the Egyptians gave
the cabbage the honor of letting it pre
cede all other dishes; they called it a
divine dish, The Greeks and Romans
had a great affection for cabbage and
conceived the idea, which I have my
self, that the use of cabbage keeps peo
ple from drunkenness. I am persuaded
the constant eating of certain vegetables
kills the desire for alcoholic beverages.
The Greek doctors ascribed all kinds of
virtues to the cabbage. It was thought
to cure even paralysis. The Romans
thought even more of the cabbage than
did the Greeks. They ascribed to it the
fact that they could for 600 years do
without doctors, nnd Cato actually
maintained that cabbage cured all dis
eases. The ancients knew several kinds
of cabbage the long-leafed green cab
bage, the hard white, so much used in
Germany lor " sauer kraut," or ferment
ed cabbage, the curly and the red. This
last seems to have held the place of
honorrand was at first introduced by
the Romans into Gaul or France and
then brought to Great Britain. Later
the green-leafed cabbage was introduced.
TheGreeks were fond of aromatic sea
sonings of oil, raisin wine and almonds.
They boiled or stewed the cabbage and
seasoned it with cummin, coriander
seeds, with oil, wine or gravy, making
rich dishes of a vegetable which we now
boil in water and reckon among the
plainest food. Something like a remem
brance of cooking cabbage among the
old Greeks has come down to the mod
ern Greeks, for they stuff cabbage leaves
witn dainty mince-meats and then stew
them with gravy. Food and Health
Leaves.
Why Some Birds Sever Forage In
Flocks.
Mr. Wilson Flagg explains in the At
lantic Monthly why certain birds, like
chickadees and robins, never forage in
compact flocks, as do tlie sparrows and
other grain-eating birds. Their food
consists of insects, and hence they are
compelled to scatter. Their natural
gregariousness, however, causes them to
sound a note every now and then, in
order to keep within hearing. Wood
peckers do not call to each other while
feeding, because their hammering is
sufficient. Mr. Flagg notices a singular
fact in the association together, yet not
in the same troop, of the downy wood
peckers and the chickadee. There
seems to be a sort of affinity, he says,
between tho small woodpeckers, the
creepeis and the chickadee. They do
not join company, but keep within hear
ing of one hnother from a sociable feel
ing. When birds are grain-eaters, they
go in large, clcse flocks, like the red
winged blackbirds, because theix food is
abundant.
It is estimated that American travel
ers expended last summer, in foreign
travel, 17,000,000.
Hon Mushrooms Grow.
Mr. Julius A. Palmer, Jr., writes to
the Boston Transcript: A few years
ago tho banks of the lot opposite the
Brunswick Hotel, this city, were sodded
and the landl evelcd to its present
grade. As the pick of the work
man broke up the soil, a white
substance ran through every piece.
Starting with large branches, it
divided and subdivided like the veins
on the back of tho hand. The Bmell was
very strong, quickly noticed on the op
posite side of the way. This subter
ranean white vein for it had that ap
pearance was nothing but the hidden
part of the Corprinus comatus, a mush
room freely eaten now, although twenty
years ago thought to be poisonous. The
common name of this substance is
'spawn." Just as a cutting of the grape
vine placed in conditions favorable to
growth will shoot up, put forth branches
and bear fruit, so a part of this Corprinus
vine transplanted will continue to
ramify and in time show the result in
the form of mushrooms. . The whole
earth beneath your feet, on a country
walk, is alive with vegetation to a great
depth. This vegetation is just as real,
and the various vines or, in other
words, the thousand varieties of mush
room spawn are just as distinct as the
hopvine and the woodvine, the ivy and
the virgins' bower that twine 'their
tendrils above your head. Just where
grew this year a peculiar kind of toad
stool, there, next year and so on for suc
cessive Harvests, will you nnd the same
plant. There is no more mystery about
its appearance than in the growth of the
chestnut on the tree that shades it.
Rapidity of growth is not near as general
as it "is thought to be. The common
mushroom and many others form for
days just below the sou. A heavv dew
or an evening shower straightens the
stom of the fungas and expands its top.
It breaks the earth m the night, and the
gatherer is able to find in the morning
the white buttons where he could see
nothing the night before. So, popular
error has made mushroom growth pro
verbial for a superficiality which by the
fungi at least is undeserved. Further,
the various varieties of toadstools suc
ceed each other in rotation just as the
bloodroot and anemones of spring are
followed by the roses of summer and
the cardinal or gentian of fall. These
arc not theories that are hero advanced :
they are the results of several years'
careful watching of the growth of this
order of plants. On the very spot where,
in 1874, I gathered mushrooms, there, in
1879, 1 find the identical variety, so that
the lover ol fungus may have his regular
harvest with all the certainty of the
fanner who looks for the return of his
wheat crop or the results of his cranbeny
culture. With just that degree of cer
tainty, no more and no less, for, as cer
tain years are favorable for the produc
tion of certain fruits, as the potato erop
sometimes fails and the apple orchard is
barren, so the mushroom spawn, usu
ally producing abundantly -its expected
variety, may pass a year, or even under
diflicultics become extinct. The blight
which may visit all life, animal or vege
table, does not fail to fall at times upon
my humble friends.
The Tunnel Under the Hudson.
Work on the proposed tunnel under
the North river between Jersey City
and New York is now in progress.
About forty men are at work building
the perpendicular shaft, which descends
by gravitation as fast as the soil beneath
is removed. When this mass of brick
masonry lias been sunk about sixty
feet, the archway built into one side and
temporily bricked up will be opened, so
that tho horizontal shaft, or tunnel
proper, can be pushed forward beneath
the river's bed. On this latter part ol
the work an " air lock " will be intro
duced, consisting of an iron cylinder
16x6 feet, so arranged by means of a
hinged door that laborers can p:iss
through it into the compressed air
chamber and goon with the excavation.
Tho outward pressure of the air is ex
pected to assist in excluding water and
upholding the roof cf earth. Colonel
llaskin expressed himself to our re
porter with enthusiasm, confident that
in the end he will succeed in ono of the
most remarkable engineering feats of
modern times. The expectation is that
the Erie and Pennsylvania railroads,
the New Jersey Central, Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western, and other
important lines which are now depen
dence on river transportation, will send
their trains through fthe tunnel, which
will have a capacity for 400 trains every
.twenty-four hours.
j. 110 tuiiutrt win uo uijoui uuc mile
under tho river, with approaches
at either end 12,000 feet altogether.
It will be circular in form, 20x21 feet,
liitted with a double track railway.
Total estimated cost, $10,000,000.
American Stip.
An Indian's Fight With Bears.
An Indian known as " Peavine Tom "
has had a hand-to-hand encounter with
some bears on tho mountain above
Buck's ranche which must have been a
terrible battle. He was hunting in the
locality spoken of and found a " bear
wallow" in a little valley and suddenly
came upon live bears, lie says t hat he
shot one, killing it, when another at
tacked him. His only dependence was
in his butcher's knife, and with this he
managed to kill the second one. About
this time another attacked him, and the
conflict must have been fearful. Part
of the Indian's scalp was torn from his
head, his face was badly lacerated and
his arm, side and ono thigh were fairly
"eaten up." No bones were broken,
however, and he managed to stagger and
crawl to the road, where he was found
and taken to Buck's ranche. Mr. Wag
ner dressed his wounds and at last ac
counts ho was improving and in a fair
way to recover, lie says that he would
have been killed but that he kept his
face down most of the time and let tlie
bears bite his back. A party went out
to the scene of the fight and found t he
three hears dead and the Indian's knife
sticking in one of them. He must have
been "game to the backbone," and de
serves the title of the "boss hear
hunter." Pulriias (Val.) National.
The Fall of the Year.
Oh! the elms are yellow,
The apples are mellow,
Tho corn is ripe in the ear;
The birds leave ofT nesting,
The earth begins resting,
Becauso 'tiB tho lull o' the year.
The crickets are calling,
The red leaves are falling,
In the field the stubble is sere;
The day of tho clover
And wild bee if over,
Because 'tis the fall o' the year.
Since summer is flitting,
Dear friend, it is fitting
The heart should make double cheer;
So let ns go smiling
ith love life beguiling,
Because 'tis the tall o' the year.
-Mrs. M. F. Butts, in Boston Transcript.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The board of education The school
master's shingle.
Man is often driven to desperation
with his own hobby horses.
Can an editor's hat be called the news
tile? Syracuse Sunday Times.
Always in " order." Tho five letters
which compose that word. New York
News.
" You don't seem to like me when I
mold," the ink replied to the angry
scribe.
A gauge that no man should measure
his property by is the mortgage. Borne
Sentinel.
" This is a late fall," said Heftelspin,
as he sustained a midnight tumble.
Home Sentinel.
One family of four persons paid a bill
of $280 per week at a Saratoga hotel for
the past season.
When a corner loafer dies in Tennes
see, the newspaper says : " Anether old
land-mark gone."
The St. Petersburg Olobc says that
11,854 persons were incarcerated in the
Central prison at Moscow during the
summer, 10,477 of whom were con
demned to exile in Siberia.
Great Britain's standing army of 133,
000 men costs $65,000,000 per annum;
France lias an army of 470,000 men at an
annual cost of $100,(00,000; Russia,
787,000 men at $144,000,000; Austria,
206,000 men at $51,000,000; Germany,
420,000 at $92,500,000.
An eye to the future: Mother to her
daughter just seven years old " What
makes you look so sad, Carrie?" Car
rie, looking at her baby-brother three
weeks old "I was just thinking, that
in about ten years from now, when I
shall be entering company, and having
beaux, that brother of mine will ba
just old enough to bother the lile out of
me." Puck.
The new liquor law in Michigan is
quite stringent in its provisions, and
imposes severe penalties for its viola
tion. Under this law no intoxicating
drinks are to be sold on Sunday, nor on
week days between the hours of nine
o'clock at night and six in the morning,
excepting in certain cities where the
night hour is extended to ten o'clock.
It also prohibits its sale in any billiard-room
or other place where games
of chance arc played.
Now knock the nuts from off the tree
And store them in the barn,
And shear the chickens and the geese,
And spin your winter's yarn.
Dig up your outside windows soon,
And train thorn to the wall ;
Put on the rubber moldings, too,
And the storm door withal.
Your cellar floor with coal now dress,
And sharpen up your ax;
Your name set on the voting list,
And promptly pay your tux.
And when the winter's storm shall r me,
And snow and hail shall come,
Just upend your evenings with your wile
And tuuiily at home.
Boston Transcript.
Newspaper Borrowers.
An exchange recently published a let
ter from a lady subscriber in which she
complained bitterly of the annoyance
she experienced from the habit her fe
male neighbors had of constantly bor
rowing her paper. The exchange failed
to advise her on the subject, and as tho
matter is a serious one we have ourselves
looked about for some method ol relief,
and now think we can offer tlie suffering
lady and all others similarly situated an
adequate means of succor. Here is our
plan : Iet the lady immediately upon re
ceiving the paper carefully cut from it
some item it makes no particular differ
ence what it is most any item will do,
only let it be neatly and carefully re
moved from tlie paper. Then the fol
lowing proceeding will be sure to ensue :
In a few moments tho neighbor's boy
willcoino after tho paper hejwill take
it home within three minutes he will
emerge from the house ho will scoot
down street and very shortly return with
a folded newspaper of the same date as
the one just borrowed. Py the time the
clipped paper has circled round among
all the female boiTowers, the street will
be lively with hurrying boys, and tho
revenue of the newspaper will bo mater
ially increased. Not ono woman among
them all would bo able to sleep a wink
without knowing just exactly what that
cut out item was. The next day tho
lady will pursue the same course, and
similar results will turely follow. In
an extremely obsticate neighborhood
these proceedings have to be repeated,
three or four days, but not longer. By
that time tho lady will be able to read
her paper in peace, and the newspaper
finances will be the gainer through seveal
new subscribers. The rule is infallible
where tho borrowers are females, but it
can't he vouched lor in the case of men.
There isn't that inherent curiosity to
work upon, you know, and and hut
perhaps we are getting a little too deep.
Boston Courur.