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The Tangled Skclu.
Two mon wove talking by the Boa
Of what had been and what might bo,
And m the first his hopos mado known
The tido upon the bar made moan.
' Tho boon i ask ol late is tamo
A world-known and an honorod nnmo,
I as!r not love, hot that paH hy,
II tame be mine, that cannot dio.
Those in tho valley seek ."or love;
My foot must climb the heights above-'
"I ask not lame," the other snul ;
" What matter praise when I am dead t
Be mine tho boon ol love and homo,
From which my leet may never roam ;
The lowliest path will pleasant be,
It love bo there to wulk with me.'
Ah, strange indeod, the ways of fato,
Tho tangled threads will botooine straight!
Love came to hinrwho otked lor fame,
The world has nevsr heard his name,
With wile and children by hi tide,
His neighbor think him satisfied.
But by hi hearth he olten hears
The great world's praises in his ears,
And wondors vaguely whioh wore best,
The hill's wide view or valley's rest?
To him who asked for love and homo,
Came tame, and ever he must roam.
Through all the world his fume is known,
But he goes on unloved alone.
Wen envy him. Tliey cannot know
The human heart that hungers so
For love and home. Below he sees,
With longing eyes, the valley's pence.
But up the hill ho climbs alone;
He akfcd lor bread aud louud a stone.
Oh, sorely tijtlcd skein of late!
Some time, lod grant, the threads come
straight.
Eben B. Rexord.
Up the. River With a Lunatic.
Alf Dixon, Tom Giflard. and I had
gone up the river campingout; we had
done our second day's work. It was
early morning on the third day, glorious
weather. I was in the bout, getting the
steering lines in order; Gilford and
Dixon were on the bank talking to Dr.
Kawle. A 1 understood it, the doctor
wasat the head of a private asylum for
lunatics, lie was Gilford's frief!d, not
mine, lie had been takintr a constitu
tional whi n he happened to fall in with
us just as we were sitting down to our
open-air breakfast; the chance meeting
' led to Giflard inviting him to share our
gypsy meal. He did.
He was a pleasant fellow, not too old
and not too young. I liked him exceed
ingly. We talked of things in general,
and of lunatics in particular. Something
led to his mentioning I think it was
speaking of the cunning of a certain class
of lunat ics, and the difficulty of keeping
them within four walls the fact that
one of his inmates had escaped a day or
two previously, and had not yet been
retaken. This was tho more singular or.
it was tolerably certain he had not gone
far, and search had been made for hiiu in
every direction.
As Giffard and Dixon were 'saying
good-bye, preparatory to getting into
the boat, the doctor laughingly said :
" Should you happen to come across
him, I shall consider you bound to bring
. him hack safe and sound. He's a man
of forty-four or forty-five, tall and bony,
iron-gray hair, and has a curious habit
of showing his teeth and winking his
left eye. Don't look out for a raving
lunatic ; for on most points he's as right
syouandl. He's wrong in two things.
Whatever you do, don't let hira lose his
- temper; for whenever he does, though
ever so slightly, he invariably goes in
for murder he's all but done for two
keepers already. And don't talk to him
of England or Englishmen; for it lie
should get upon his native land, he'll
favor you with some observations which
will make you open your eyes."
We laughed. Alf and Tom shook
hands with him, and got.into the boat.
. We promised, if we should happen to
meet him, we would certainly see him
returned to safe custody. Alf stood up
and shoved us from the shore ; we sang
out a last good-bye, and left the doctor
standing on the bank.
It was a beautiful morning. The
river was delicious, clear as crystal;
wo could see the bottom and every
stone and pebble on it; just a gentle
breeze fanning the surlace of the waters
into a little ripple. We lit our pipes
- . and took it easily. I am a good bit of a
traveler, know many lovely nooks and
crannies In foreign land"; I have lived
abroad as much as at home ; but I will
watch the higher reaches ol Fattier
mimes for beauty and for charm against
any scenery in Europe. And on an e:irly
summer nsorning, a 6pell of glorious
f" weather, it is in all iU prime; the water
.' VVi' 8( fkHr; the banks so green,
TJiii'ining; the stately trees on either
"" si; tne mansions seen over the
niftAdows. or peeping out among the
trees. You may choose your Rhine,
your Gnrda, or your Maggiore, or your
4 golden Bay of Naples, but leave Cook-
Lam and old Father Thames to me.
Presumably we had come for river
beauties and the camping-out presuma
bly ; but as a matter ot fact there was a
young lady lived not so far ahead, a
mutual friend, Lilian Travers. Sepa
rately and jointly we had a high opinion
of Miss Travers. not only of her beauty,
but of other things as Weil; and having
come so fur, we hoped we should not
have to return un il at least we had a
peep at her. Unfortunately, though we
knew Miss Travers, we had no acquaint
ance with Mr. there was no Mis. We
kad met the young lady at several
dances and such like; but on each ocea
sion she was under tho chaperonage of
oia Mrs. iUac-Kenzie. Apparently Mr
Travers was not a nartv man. Hut Lit.
ian had promised to introduce us to him
whenever she got a chance, and we were
not unhopeful she wuuld get that chance
now. So you see that little excursion
riverward had more in it than met tho
eye.
We went lazily on, just dipping ttie
oars in and out; smoking, watching the
smoke circling through the clear air.
All thoughts of the doctor and Ids part-
iifu Ywiun jinn iutj jiuiu our minus.
ing
VVe
talked little, and that little was of
Lilian and tho chances of our mcctinc
We had gone some two or three hundred
yaids ; we were close to the ehoro. Alf
could almost reach it by stretching out
his oar. We were dreaming and lazing,
when suddenly some one stepped out
from among the trees. He was close to
us not a dozen feet away.
Ho was a tall man, rather over than
under six feet. He was dressed in a
dark brown suit of Oxford mixture!
ure; ho
a bllfv-
nan a suck iit ins nana, woro a billy
cock hat, and' his coat was buttoned
right up to his throat. Ho had light
whiskers, a lieivy drooping mustaclie,
tiair unusually long, iron-gray in color.
Ho might bo a soldier retired from his
profession, or an artist out painting; ho
certainly looked a gentleman.
We were passing on, when he raised
his stick and shouted out, "Stop!"
It was a regular shout, as though wo
were half a mile from him. We stopped,
although it was an unusual method of
calling attention.
" Gentlemen," lie said, still at the top
ol his voice, " I should be obliged if you
could give rue a seat. I have a long way
to go, und I am tired."
We looked at him and at eacti other.
It was a free-and-easy style of asking a
favor; but lie seemed a gentleman, and
an elderly one too. Common politeness
dictated civility.
" I am afraid," said Alf, rt we have
hardly rrom; she's only built for three."
"Oh, ttiat doesn't matter," tie said;
" you can put me anywhere, or I'll take
an oar for one of you."
I was on the point ot advising a point
blank refusal, not appreciating his off
hand manner; but Alf thought dif
ferently. " Ali right "sairl he; " we don't mind
if you don't. Steer her in. Jack."
1 steeled her in. No sooner were we
near tho shore than, quite unexpectedly,
lie stepped almost on my toes, rocking
the boat from side to side.
" Hang il !" I said ; " take care, or
you'll have us over."
" What if I do?" tie returned. " It'll
only bo a swim ; and who minds a swim
in weather like this?"
We stared at him ; the coolness, not to
say impertinence, of the remark was
amazing Bogging a seat in our boat,
knowing it was full, and then telling us
lie didn't care if he spilled us into tho
ri ver f He seated himself by mo, setting
t lie boat seesawing again, crushing me
intoacorner; and without asking wit li
your leave 'or by your leave, took tho
steering lines from my hands, and slipped
them over his shoulder.
Excuse me." I said, making a snatch
at them, " but if you will allow me.",
"Not at all," he said; "I always like
something to do. and I expect you've
had enough of it."
His coolness was amusing lie was
impenetrable. I know I for one re-
f;rettedwe wore such mules as to have
md anything to do with him. We
waited in silencea second or two.
"Come," he said, "when are you
going to start ?"
"Perhaps," said Alf. a hit nettled, "as
you're in our boat a self-invited guest,
you'll let us choose our own time.
Tho stranger said nothing; he sat
stolid and silent. Tom and Alf set otf
rowing ; the stranger steered right across
the stream.
" Where are you goingP" said Alf.
"Keep us in."
"lm going into the shade; the sun s
too strong."
He had the lines; we could hardly in
sist on his keeping one side if he pre
ferred the other, lie took us right to
the opposite bank, under the shadow of
the willow trees. For some minutes
neither of us spoke. With him cram
ming me on my seat, and ramming his
elbows into my side, my position was
not pleasant. At last I let him know it.
" I don't know if vou are aware vou
are occupying all my seat."
He turned on me short and sharp. All
at once I noticed his left eye going up
and down'likea blinking owl; his mouth
was wide open, disclosing as ugly a set
of teeth as I &hould care to see. Like a
hash Dr. Kawle's words crossed my
mind; tall, strong, about forty-five,
iron-gray hair, a habit of showing his
teeth, and winking his left eye. Gracious
powers! was it possible we had a lunatic
with us unawares? I know the possi
bility, nay, the probability, of such a
thing mado me feel more than queer.
If there is anything in tho world I in
stinctively fear, it is mad persons. I
know little of them ; have never been in
their company. Possibly my ignorance
explains my dread ; but the idea of sit
ting in the same boat and on the same
scat with a man who
Dr. Kawle's warning, "Don't let him
lose li is temper, or murder will ensue,"
made me hound from my seat like Jack
in-the-hox. The boat tipped right out
of the water, but I didn't care. The
man was glarin at me witli cruel eyes;
my muscles were strung, my lists
clinched ; every moment I expected him
at mv throat.
"What the dickens are you up to?"
said Alf. "What's the matter with
you?"
" Excitable temperament, hot blooded
youth," said the stranger.
1 could have said something had I
chosen, but I preferred discretion;!
didn't like his eves.
" N o nothing." I said. " Think I'll
sit in the bow." I didn't wait to learn
if any one had an objection, but swing
ing round. I scrambled past Alf, and
tripped full length on to Tom's knees.
The boat went up and down like a
swing; it was a miracle he wasn't over.
" Is the fellow mad?" roared Alf.
At the word " mad" the strangei rose
up straight as a post . " Mad !" he said ;
' do you know, sir " He checked him
self and sat down . " Pooh ! he's only a
boy ."
in passing Tom I whispered in his
, ear . " The lunatic," I said .
" Wliatl" said Tom, right out loud .
"Hold your row, you confounded
donkey! It's the man from Dr.
Kawle's."
" The"
He was going to say something
naughty I know he was ; but he stopped
short, and stared at him with all his
eves. Either All overheard me, or elso
the same idea occurred to him at tho
same moment, for he stopped dead in
the middlo of a stroke, and inspected
the man on the steering scat. Tom and
Alf went on staring at him for a minute
or more. I kept my head turned the
other way to avoid his eyes. All at
once I felt tho boat give a great throb.
I turned ; there was the stranger leaning
hall out of his seat.iiooking at Alf in a
way I shouldn't have cared to have had
him look at mo.
" What's the meaning of this inso
lence?" lie said.
Tho question was not unwarranted;
it could not have been pleasant to have
been stared at as Alf and Tom were
staring then.
" I beg youi pardon," said Alf, cool
as a cucumber. " To what insolence do
you refer?"
Tom actually chuckled; I couldn't
have chuckled for a good deal; itseemed
to me not only impudent, but risky; I
couldn't forget Dr. Kawle's words about
his homicidal tendencies. He turned
red as a lobster ; I never saw such an
expression come over a man's face be
fore perfectly demoniacal. To my sur
prise he sat down and spoke as calmly
and deliberately as possible.
"Thank you," ho said; "I shall not
forget this."
There was a sound about his " I shall
not forget this" h did not relish. Alf
said nothing. Tom and he set off row
ing as coolly as though nothing
had happened: I extemporized a seat
in the bow and tried to make things as
comfortable as possible
I noticed, although Alf and Tom were
so cool, they hardly took their eyes off
him for more than a second at a time.
His behavior before their furtive glances
waa peculiar; he saw- ho was being
watched ; he couldn't sit still ; he looked
first at one bank, then at the other; his
eyes traveled everywhere, resting no
where ; his hands fidgeted and trembled ;
lie seemed all of a quiver. I expected
him to break into a paroxysm every sec
ond. If I hadn't called out he would
have runus right into the shore; when
1 called tie clutched the other string violently,-
jerking the boat almost round.
I heartily wished him at Jericho before
he had come near us .
No one spoke. We went slowly along
watching each other. At last he said
something.
"1 I will get out," he said, in an
odd, nervous way.
" With pleasure." said Alf: " in a
minute."
"Why not now? Whv not now.
Hir?" no said, seeinirg to shake from
head to loot.
" Where are you going to get? into
the river?" I admired Alfs coolness;
I envied him. I only hoped he wouldn't
let it carry him too far.
The man glowered at him ; for a mo
ment he looked him full in the face. I
never saw a look in a man's eyes like
that in his. Alf returned him look for
look. Slightly, almost imperceptibly, he
quickened his stroke. A little lower
down was a little hauiletwith a well
known inn and a capital landing-stage.
When we came along side, tho stranger
said, "This will do; I'll get out here.'
lie turned the boat ashore. No sooner
were we near enough than he rose in his
seat and sprang upon the beach. There
were several people about, watermen
and others. Alf was after him in an in
stant; he rose almost simultaneously
and leaped on shore; he touched him
on the shoulder.
"Now come," lie said, "don't be fool
ish; we know all about it."
The other turned on him like a flash
of liehtninsr.
" What do you mean?"
But Tom was too quick for him; he
was on the other side, and took his arm.
"Come, he said, "don't let's have a
row."
The stranger raised himself to his full
height and shook off Tom with ease.
He then hit out right and left in splendid
style. Tom and Alf went down like
ninepins. But my blood waa up. I
scrambled on shore and ran into him,
dodged his blows, and closed. I am
pretty strong. He was old enough to be
my father; but I fou.id I had met my
match and more. I was like a baby in
his arms; he lifted me clean off my feet
and threw mo straight into the river.
It was a splendid exhibition of strength.
Tom and Alf, finding their feet, made
for him together, and, scrambling out as
best I could, I followed suit. You never
saw such a set-out. We clung to him
like leeches. The language lie used was
awful, Ids strength magnificent; though
wo were three to one, he was a match
for all of us. 'Of course the bystanders,
seeing a row, came up; they interfered
and pulled us off.
"Here's a pretty go!" said one.
"What's all this?"
"Stop him! lay hold of him!" said
Alf; " he's a lunatic."
" A what?" said the man.
" He's a lunatic, escaped from Dr.
Kawle's asylum."
Instead of lending a hand, the man
went otf in a roar of laughter, and the
ot tiers joined. The stranger looked lit
erally frantic witli rage. A gentleman
stepped out from the crowd. "There's
some mistake," lie said; "this gcntle
nian'is Mr. Travers, ofTollhurft Hall. '
You could have knocked us all three
down with a fa' her. I do believe.
Could it be possible? Could we have
been such consummate idiots as to have
mistaken a sane man for a lunatic? and
that man Lilian Travers' father! I
could have 6lii-unk into my boots; I
could have run away and hid myself in
bed. To think that we should have
dogged, and watched, and insulted the
man of all others in whoso good books
we wished to stand Lilian Travers'
father! Never did three men look such
fools as we did then! Wo were so con
foundedly in earnest about it; that was
the worst of all. I don't care what you
tay; you may think it a first-rate joke;
but he must have been an eccentric sort
of elderly gentleman. If he had betiaved
sensibly, if he had made one sensible re
mark, he would tiave blown our delu
sions to the winds.
We tendered our apologies as best we
couid to the man we had so intuited,
but he treated us and them with the
loftiest Fcorn; and we got one after
another into the boat amidst the gibes
and jeers of an unsympathetic crowd.
And as we rowed from tho wretched
place as fast as our oars would take us,
we each of us in our secret heart de
clared we should never forget our ad
venture up the river with a lunatic.
And we tiavenTt. From that day to
this I have never seen Lilian Travers,
nor do I wish to.
An Antl'Fal Spring:.
While surveying in the mountains
northeast of Anaheim last year, Major
William P. Reynolds encountered a
man who had worked for hira in former
years. He failed to recognize him, how
ever, until the stranger explained who
he was. He was then a man of about
two hundred pounds weight, whereas he
weighed three hundred and forty pounds
when in the major's employ. The
secret of his reduced sizj was freely
given. A short distance up the moun
tain was a spring, the waters of which
contained some mineral anti-fat proper
ties. Did the major want to lose 'some
of the superfluous flesh which encum
bered lump He did. He drank the
water, and in ten days his weight
had been reduced twenty-fre pourdj.
He continued drinking the water
until Irom two hundred and ten
pounds he was reduced to one hun
dred and seventy pounds, his present
weight. This was accomplished without
any violent action on the part of the
water. Major Reynolds will obtain
water from the spring and forward it to
the Smithsonian Institute at Washing
ton for analysis. The spring is about
sixteen miles from Anaheim, easily ac
cessible, and if analysis establishes the
fact that there is nothing to be appre
hended from using the water, many
obese persons will ayail "themselves ot
the opportunity to try nature's remedy.
Anaheim (Cat.) Gazette.
How Bar-room donors are Made.
There may be seen daily on Chestnut
street, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, a
man dressed in faultless apparel, witli a
great diamond on his breast, vainly en
deavoring to out-glitter the magnificent
solitaire on his fineer. In a German
university he learned chemistry, and not
even Liebig knew it better. His busi
ness is the mixing and adulterating ot
liquors. Give him a dozen casks of
deodorized alcohol and the next day
each of them will represent the name of
a genuine wine or popular spirit. He
enters a wholesale drug store bearing a
large basket upon his arm. Five pounds
of Iceland moss are weighed out to him.
To raw liquors this imparts a smooth
ness and oleaginousness that gives to
imitation brandy the glibeness of that
which is matured. An astringent cate
cliu that would almost close the mouth
of a glass ink-staad, is next in order. A
couple of ounces of strychnine, next
called for, are quickly conveyed to his
vest pocke't, and a pound of white vitroii
is as silently placed in the bottom of the
basket. The oil of cognac, tho sulphuric
acid, and other articles that give fire and
body to liquid poisons are always kept
in store. The mixer buys these from
various quarters. They are staples of
the art.
Gold Fields or California.
For hundreds of miles along the west
ern base of the Sierras are gold-bearing
veins and placers, awaiting development
that will yield a profitable return to the
energy and money of tho capitalists who
will yet seek this field as one of the best
and most reliable to be found on the
globe. Here will be found every facility
of a kindly climate, accessibility, cheap
and available power, and every con
comitant that can make the business
profitable above tho cost of produc
tion. The gold mines of California,
notwithstanding the vast treasures they
have given to the world, are compara
tively unworked fields. The gold-bearing
veins are practically without limit,
and tho dead river channels are emly
beginning to yield their inexhaustible
stores. This is not an over-drawn esti
mate of the gold fieldsof California, and
far-seeing men are begining to realize
the importance of giving more attention
to them a.s a source that will be lasting
and reliable in keeping up an equable
production of the metal that is pre-eminently
the need wherever the wheels of
industry are in motion or commerce
spreads its sails. Grass Valley (Cat.)
Union.
Words of Wisdom.
Proud hearts and lofty mountains are
always barren. """
The trees that are most in thejsun bear
the sweetest fiuit.
Poverty wants some, luxury many,
and avarice all things.
Every person is sure of at least ono
good friend if he will not abuse himself.
As too long retirement weakens the
mind, 60 too much company dissipates
it.
Have the courage to wear your old
clothes until you can afford to pay for
new ones.
It is an uneontroverted truth, that no
man ever made an ill figure who under
stood his own tablets, nor a good one
who mistowk them.
Ifoneisrot born with an apprecia
tion, a love of the beautiful, then go and
learn it as you learn mathematics, lan
guage or philosophy.
It is provided in the essence of things
that from any fruition of success, no
matter what, shall como forth some
thing to make a greater strugglo neces
sary. A "stringy," rattling voice and a constant
ili. ponition to expootoiate, indicates incipient
threat trouble of dangerous teudeuoy. Use
Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup iu food time und he
favn'1 much trouble and aunoyance. i'ot mle
by ull druggists.
Johnny Green's Experiment.
Little Johnny Green of Louisville, Ky.,
was the happy owner of a very strong
flying kite, made by his father, and a
very strong flying he-pigeon, both white
as snow. A short time ago Johnny be
gan to speculate as to which of the two
was the stronger flyer, and being unable
to decide the question in his mind, he
pitted them against each other in a test
of strength. Arriving at the commons
near by with the pigeon in a basket and
a kite in his hand, he soon sailed the
kite before a stiff northeasterly breeze,
to the limit of his two hundred yards of
cord. He then tied the end of the string
to one of the legs ol the bird, and, turn
ing him loose, the contest began.
The pigeon, feeling half free, flew to
ward home, which was directly against
the wind. The resistance of the kite
caused his flight to tend upward, and, in
turn, the efforts of his wings caused the
kite to sail higher in the air. For a
while the bird seemed to have the best
of the struggle, making slow prosrress for
at least a square, but, in spite of all ef
forts to take a direct course, flying
higher and higher.
After the bird had reached an altitude
of perhaps four hundred feet, the kite
being about one hundred feet higher
still, it "was plain hat the latter liad
greatly the advantage. It was flesh,
blood and feathers against the untiring
winds. Unable to continue the strain,
the pigeon changed his course to one
side, thus slacking the string and caus
ing the kite to fall, slanting from side to
side in a helpless sort of a way. But
feeling freengain, the pigeon once more
made a break for home, when the string
being pulled taut, the kite.with a spring,
glancing in the sun a thing of life, rose
rapidly and giacefully to its former level.
These movements were repeated again
and again, the bird and kite in the mean
time drifting before the breeze more and
more rapidly to the southwest. The boy
watched it all with intense eagerness .
When the snowy ccnte.itants were
above the Eclipse park, where the
shooting tournament wa3 in progress, a
gentleman, who looked up after a wild
pigeon who had escaped the gun, espied
the kite, which, as such, was barely dis
cernible. The pigeon had then quite
vanished into the blue. The attention
of several had been drawn to the curi
ous sjectaele, and some doubt was ex
pressed as to whether a kite could be
flown so high. "The other end ol the
string," suggested an observer, "must
be five miles off, way up in the city."
But the wonder grew as the kite gradu
ally rose higher and higher, and sailed
further to the southwest, and it finally
vanished into the sky over the lower
bend of the Ohio, or high above the blue
line of Indiana hills.
In the meantime little Johnny Green
stood gazing after his vanishing prop
erty. He stared at the empty skies long
after botli bird and kite had darkened
into specks and then into nothing. It
was after sundown before he fully real
ized not only that his kite and favorite
pigeon had carried eacti other away for
ever, but that the momentous question
that he put them together to settle
would reach a solution far beyond his
observation. Only half satisfied witli
his experiment he started liome. As he
entered the house he turned his eyes
sadly toward his pigeon boxes, when,
what should lie behold but that same
strong-flying pigeon, quietly resting in
Irontof his hole, with a piece of the string
still hanging to his leg!
Advice to the Whistling Young Man.
Sometimes, my son, you will want to
whiste. Do not entirely repress this
desire to aspirate your feelings in sibi
lant strains of wheezy music; merely
modulate and regulate it. Go off into
the yooda five or six miles from any
habitation, if the desire comes upon you
during business hours, and whistle there
until th e birds laake you ashamed of
your poor accomplishment. Do not
yield to the temptation too readily, lest
you become addicted to the habit and
become a slave to it, and go whistling
around even as a man who lias lost a
dog. There are men, my son, who can
whistle musically; once in a wuilo you
find men whose whistle is pleasant to
the ear and soothing to the soul, but
you only find one of these men every
three or four thousand years, and they
die young, son; they die very young.
You will observe that the best whistler
is he who whist es least, and practices
in solitude. Tho poor whistler, who
flats on the high notes and gasps on the
lowerones, and wheezes in the middle
register, is the man who whistles at
all times and in all places.-Whistle all
you will in solitary places, son, if it
pleases you, whistle in the night as you
go home, if you will, for a cheery whis
tle in the eiark is a pleasant sound unto
the listening soul of the belated passen
ger, but when you come into tho assem
blages and the business iiaunts of men,
unpuvker your musical lips and khut up
your whistle in yot r heart. And if ever
the temptation comes to you to whistle
against the edge of a card, crush it out,
if the effort kills ou. Whistling is not
a lofty nor yet a useful, although it is a
universal accomplishment. Though
yon practice i hundred years, and though
you whistle never so whistley, my son,
yet the commonest switch engine that
everscareeta human being deaf can beat
you at it. The great and good were
never great whistlers, son. George
Washington never sat in a friend's office
with tiis foot on the window sill, whist
ling "Grand lather's Clock" against the
edge of a card. Strive to emulate George
Washington, and, although you may
never he first in war, first in peace and
first in the hearts of your countrymen,
yet fania will not forget you if they can
write upon your tombstone tuat you
never whistled your countrymen into
convulsions of intemperate hut fruitless
profanity. BurlingVm Hawkey e.
The unemployed of Glasgow, Scot
land, to the number of neirly l.(HH),
inarched through the principal street,
led by a master blacksmith mimed God
frey, and carrying a placard em which
were the words: "Wanted,
charity, nor ttne breaking."
work, not
The Turning Lear.
. The elm is turning yellow,
The woodbine rich with stain ;
The frost hath (ringed tho mapla
With crimson fire again.
I hoar the crisp corn rustle that's gathered Into
sheaves,
And my heart stands still a moment to think
oi what it leaves.
I pick the honoyed clover
That blossoms at my leet;
Ah, me! long years are over
Since first I found it sweet.
I hear the crisp corn rustle that's gathered into
sheaves,
And my heart stands still a moment to think
of what it leaves.
The sadness and the sweetness
I ponder o'er and o'er;
Nor sighing nor the gladness
Is as it was belore.
I hoar the crisp corn rnstlo that's gathered into
sheaves,
And my heart stands still a moment to think
ol all it leaves.
Jew York Evening Pout
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Potatoes weighing four and a quarter
pounds are common in Georgia.
P. T. Barnum says that the reason he
is young and hearty in his seventy-first
year is because he uses neither rum nor
tobacco.
The New York elevated railroad com
panies claim that they have added $ 100,
000,000 to the taxable value of the prop
erty of New York city
The Gate City Guards, of Atlanta,
Ga., while at Hartford. Conn., were
presented with six wooden nutmegs
made from the charter oak.
The Louisville Journal claims that
Kentucky has one of the most active and
aggressive temperance organizations in
the Union within her borders.
A Canyon City (Oregon) farmer be
gan without a cent five years ago ; at the
age of fifty he took up a farm, and has
now fields, house, barn, orchard, health
and credit.
Fifteen miles of the Utah and North
ern railway will have to be built
through lava beds, and it wiil be neces
sary to blast the rocks nearly all the
distance.
Solon was one of tho seven wise men
of Greece. He never stopped to argue
when his wife told him to get out of his
warm bed and build a fire in the kitchen
stove. Wheeling Leailer.
A curious accident happened to a
steamer on the Missouri near Bismarck,
Dakota, recently. A avalanche of
about a quarter acre of land fell upon
her as she was going under a bluff.
An archer young woman we never did know
Than the one in a quiver awaiting her beau,
lie has an arrow escape as a general thing,
11 she tries target him once on her Btring.
Toronto Graphic.
The Rev. Mr. Gaul, of Philadelphia,
went to a menagerie and did not find all
the. animals that he had seen pictured
on the street posters. He denounced
the show from hi9 pulpit as a humbug.
A young man in the "Answers to
correspondents'' column in a New York
paper, asks, " How can I gain a e;opious
command of languageP" We would
suggest that he try sitting down on a
tacit. Courier-Journal.
When you pick up a paper anet peruse
a sublimely sentimental or deeply
philosophical essay, the last line of
which reads, "Sold by all Druggists."
you are forcibly struck with the truth
of that conclusive remark. Toronto
Graphic.
The Las Tegas (New Mexico) Gazelle
says that the old-fashioned way of
tramping out grain witli horses or cattle
still prevails there. Goats are pressed
into service also. At this time of the
year may bo seen a line of animals
tramping roundind round a polo like so
many four-legged contestants for the
Astley belt.
Bows are now manufactured of Cali
fornia yew, which is claimed to be equal
to the best English, aud almost equal to
tho famous Spanish yew. A "fair'
Spanish yew bow costs from $10 to $50
and a fine one, though ever s- plain
commands a ready sale at from $(0 to
$80. Archers think the home article
fully equal to English yew, and su
perior to the best lance-wood, snake
wood and beef-wood. Gt ifornia Bee. '
TI1K NKW TKNOH.
He drew in his breath with a gasping sob,
With a quavering voice he sang;
but his voice leaked out, und could not drown
The accompanist's clumorous bun;;;
lie lnt bis pituti on the middle A ;
JIo Inhered on lower I);
Aud he loundored at length liko a battered
wreck
Ail rilt on the wild, hh C.
Burlington Hauktyt.
Miasiiig the "G'aino."
A correspondent describes one r f the
"amusemcnts'iof the Mexicans of New
Mexico, as follows: A number of horse
men assemble, a chicken is procured and
placed on the ground with its feet tied
together. Each cavalier in turn rushes
past the fowl at full speed and strives to
pick it up as he passes, until one, more
skillful than the rest, succeeds, when he
makes off with the prize hotly pursued
by his unsuccessful competitors. His
object now is to keep possession of tho
bird ; to do this he must be well mountetl
and a darir.g and teaih ss rider, as he is
assailed on every hand by merciless con
testants. He uses the poor rooster as a weapon
of defenco, and whenever too closely
pursued strikes right and left without
respect of person and regardless of con
sequences. The unfortunate "gallo's"
feathers tly in every direction ; its ruth
less executioners dismember it without
mercy, and its identity is soon among
the tiling's of the past. When too badly
demoralized to afford farther sport, a
new victim is procure d, and this anae
goei on indefinitely.
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