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And the raies were iod in June)
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sweet, . V; 1
In the lu a:, of Vhe'AojruKt nooni
When tlis tfinds were blowing tlia ysllow
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And (lie minir (if iho harvest nigh,
Ml ho beautiful world luy calm and sweet,
lie joy of iv'clondlesR sky
M Kr'lllnw vitrA full nf ttlnA pnnfn(
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f ,io hope of their Northern nest;
ijxmo ilmt the laud they were tarrying
.ii ouior innus was tuo best.
' they had heard in those bliuful days
f Voice Ihey must heed say. "Go."
,lmd left their nesta with a keen regret,
.(their fliglit hud been sad andslow.
en summer was gone and flowers
pro dead,
)l;e brown leaves fell with a sigh, '
" jr watched the sun setting every day
r on in the northern sky.
U Voice was sweet when it bid them
Mo,"
pro eaorerfor southward flight,
beat their wings to a new-born
j they went at the morning light.
$Way was long, yet the way waa glad,
f they brighter and brighter grew,
y dipped their wing in the glowing
hent, '
, thoy still to the southward flew;
. t hoy found the land of the summer sun,
if he land hnra tlio nightingale sings,
, joyfully rcHted 'mid roso and song
ieir benutiAl weary wings.
. swallows we wander from home to
-Jf tsVda of passage at best
!Ls spot we have cbVolt awhile
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-But the heart of the Father will touch our
. - - hearts, . '
He will speak to nt soft and' low,
W shall follow the Voice to the better land,
And its bliss and its beauty know.
Mary A. Barr, in Harper's Weekly.
CHRISTINA,
AT Mns. REBECCA HARDINO DAVIS.
Sho was tho result of an experiment
a desperate experiment. How des
perate it was some of the girls who
read the Companion no doubt know
from experience.
Mother and I lived alone In the dear
old homestead, just outside of a drowsy
village in Delaware. Old Sanders
worked the farm and lived in the ten
ant house, as he had done for thirty
years, but he was getting old and
cranky, and threatened every month
to leave us. But our great misery
" the messenger of Satan sent to buffet
us" was the " girl" who was not in
the kitchen.
With all the neighborhood we de
pended for servants on the free negroes,
who invariably decamped in a body to
the fields or the great canning-houses
as soon as the peach crop came in.
Wre tried a wandering woman;' she
drank. A genteel woman who ; had
seen better days; and she disappeared
with my one silk dress.
During the whole spring and sum
mer mother and I worked, cleaned,
canned berries, milked and churned,
and " tried " a succession ofj poor
creatures who left us with our patience
worn to the last thread.
One night mother announced: 14 1
am going to try an experiment., Itshall
be with a foreigner who cannot speak
a word of English, who never )heard of
' privileges,' of canning-houses, of the
fashions or the beer-shop. J will go
to Philadelphia to-morrow, aboard an
emigrant ship and carry off an! untamed
savage a woman Friday."
I laughed at it as a joke,', and was a
good deal startled that night when
mother at prayers aske that she
"might bo successful in her undertak
ing," adding, after a little pause:
" May the woman I 8ha.ll bring be
of help to us in making o ur daily life
more cheerful and peaceable, and may
we help her upward in her way
through life."
" Well, mother," I said, doubtfully,
as we started up to bd, " I never
knew you to ask the Jkrd before to
control the kitchen affairs."
"Some people," sh6 said, gravely,
" think it an insult tci the Almighty to
suppose that He 'concerns himself
about our little worries. Perhaps He
has His messengers for such small
work in the upper world, just as He
has in this. I d.-m't know, liut I do
know that IIe does attend to all the
things that. I ask Him about."
Mother' was as simple and direct as
a childW ven in her religion.
Tl'" Jfxtuay she visited the city,
t joaru a liremen vessel and
,(ri hoini Christina. She was
,utteen;fat and round as achurn;
l,ian skin, blue eyes, a funny lit-
l) or hair atop of her head, a
kitiusiiu waist, sn-ri gray wooi-
lcoat ana lieavy shoes,
cannot speak a word of Entr-
Jaid mother, looking half scared.
s a j orwegian. The agent said
a terrible history. Hut her
ittto icmpieu me. x seemeu to
- 1 . - . .
voice saying: raKo tins one.'"
e Is- an escaped convict, no
V I aid. "That guiding voice
urs, little mother, induced you to
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bring in Blue Teter out of the aim
hmiaeywho set fire to the barn. Well,
I'll show her about the supper."
Christina followed me dumb and
watchfulfrom kitchen to dining
room, while I laid tho table, prepared
tho mutllns, fried chicken and made
coffee.
She did not offer to touch anything
fit to help me. But tho next morning,
when I went down to make ready the
!reakfast, there was the table laid, and
'tie chicken, muflina and coffee pre-
i ely as she had seen them the night
before. .
She was faithful and Imitative as a
hinaman, and she was already a good
;ok and dairy maid. She learned a
! r words of English, and with them
lie showed her arratitude for anv siinnln
'ness shown her. We fancied, too,
t! t, Bhe took pleasure in the beautiful
w.;itry about her.
i f never looked more beautiful than
it did that summer. The great orchards
were red with fruit, constant showers
kept the forests pure in tint, the wild
row and sweet briar covered every field
and roadside.
But the poor Norwegian was
wretchedly unhappy. Her unsmiling
fare and wide sad eyes seemed to carry
misery into the barnyard and dairy,
and leavened the very bread we ate.
When sho was safely in her own room
I heard her stifled sot-a until late in
the night. J,
" One is almost tempted to remem
ber J our convict theory," said mother,
anxiously, one day.
" It doesn't matter. We'll keep her
if show were Lucretia Borgia herself,"
I said,' luxuriously leaning back in the
rocking chair on tho porch. "The
idea of being free from pots, puns and
brooms af. last !"
We tasted our comfort at leisure;
brougK .out some fancy work and
books which we had never hoped to
And time to read.
Then came a letter from Julia Webb.
It was a thunder clap in our clear sky.
Julia w;is a cousin only by the sheerest
courtesy ; a beauty ; a spoiled heiress ;
a belle with a dozen lovers. She was
coming en route to Newport, to spend
a wees wun us.
" Very likely some of these trouble
some men will follow to find how your
hermitage suits poor little butterfly
me," she wrote. " But you will make
them welcome, darling auntie? There
is a Count Pasco. ,.who is my chief
nuisance just now". Such a charming,
ridiculous creaturq! I shall be dtv
lighted to give him a peep into an
American middle-clsiss interior. And
it will be a good opportunity for you
and Cousin Martha to have a glimpse
of a foreign nobleman. Your gloomy
life needs a little cheering."
I tore the letter up, a little vicious
ly, I confess, and mother laughed.
"Never mind, Mattie," she said.
"It is true; wo are middle-class
people. ,
"It isn't that. But you know,
mother, even if potatoes turn out well,
we shall not liave a dollar over when
the year isi out. ' How are we going to
meet this liigh tide of company and
fashion and foreign nobility? Julia is
quite capable of staying a month if the
whim for,'hermitat;(i' life seizes her."
" We c;in do without our winter
dresses," yaid mother, thoughtfully.
" But even with that the table must
be -very plain."
I wondered secretly if the blessed
woman had put this calamity in the
care of the angels. Afterward, I be
lieved that she had.
, Julia came; so did the lowers; so
did Count Pasco.
There was a regiment of them at tho
village inn, but they took our house by
storm all dav.
There were charade-parties, picnics,
excursions. Julia trailed her magnifi
cent silks or gauzy lawns up and
down the wet meadows ; she called
the old homestead "a charming old
rookery;" pointed out the magnificent
sweep of hill an5 valley to the east,
with the great glittering plane of the
bay beyond, as a "nice little effect;"
and told Count Pasco that mother and
I were " queer bits of human bric-a-brac."
But she was so pretty, and brilliant,
and willful that nobody could be angry
with her.
One day I found her in the kitchen
with a blue silk wrapper perched on a
flour barrel, while Christina, standing
before her, poured out a flood of words,
sobbing and wringing her hands.
Tears, too, had wet Julia's rose-leaf
cheeks.
' What is the matter ? Can you
understand her " 1 asked.
"Pretty well. You know I passed
a summer in Norway and picked up a
good deal of the language. Poor
thing 1 She was brought here by
mistake."
"By mistake?"
" Yes. It seems they were fright
fully poor her mother and brother
and herself and bhe went as nurse
with some tradesman's wife to Bremea.
When her time of service was out she
was sent home, but by sorn6 mistake,
at night, was put aboard the steamer
for Philadelphia instead of for Chris
tiana." " Why ! We ought to send her back
ngain 1" I cried, feeling as if 1 had
been conc erned in a ease of kidnap
ping. " No. Better bring her family out
TIOHESJA,'PA., WjDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1882.
f here. She says It Is so beautiful; bo
rjlentv to putt it la t.hn fiarHon
of Eden. If her mother and Jan
couTtl come, she would have nothing
more to ask."
"She might save her money and
send for them.
" It costs a good deal. It would take
her years to earn so much. Besides,
Jan is under bonds to pay a debt of
his father's. I don't know how much.
One or two thousand dollars. No;
she'll have to carry her burden like
the rest of us. Where's the count?"
and she skipped out of the kitchen
humming a song, while Christiana
turned hopelessly to her work.
The few stammered words in her
own tongue, however, had made the
poor girl a slave to Julia. She followed
her around from that day, waited on
her ; told her her Btory a hundred
times.
" I am horribly bored by this unend
ing talk of 'mutter, mutter,' and Jan,
Jan,' said Julia, stretching her tiny
mouth in a yawn.
"It is the only thing she knows,"
said mother, gently.
" I)o keep her away from me to-day,
then," impatiently.
To-day was to be signalized by an
oyster-bake on the shore of the bay.
The count and four other worshipers
were supposed to act as cooks and ser
vitors, but Christina did all the work.
She built the fire of driftwood ; cut
the bread ; made the coffee and baked
the oysters, running incessantly to
J ulia with the biggest, her round face
red as a peonv.
It was a gray, trusty day, too eustv
for us to use the little sailboat which
was drawn up on the beach. This dis
appointment offered Julia a chance for
pe-ty willful pettishness.
"Too provoking! I had set my
heart on a sail !" she cried, pouting.
" I will wager a rase against a pair of
gioves mat I nave it yet, count r her
eyes suddenly sparkling.
The bet was taken. Half an hour
afterward we missed Julia, and the
next moment saw her in the cockle
shell of a boat drifting out of the little
cove, the sail half raised, flapping in
the wind. She stood on the bow, her
red ribbons fluttering, kissing her hand
saucuy.
" I have won t I have won the bet I"
she cried.
"Put about!" shouted the count.
" You are going out to sea !"
We rushed down to the edge of the
water, all shouting orders at once.
Julia, terrified by the sudden conscious
ness of her danger, sprang on the row.
A heavy flaw came just then and the
boat was capsized insyintly.
" Mon Dieu ! I cannot swim," cried
the count. The other men were in
the same case. Two of them, how
ever, threw themselves into the water
manfully, but were washed back. A
solid lody leaned into the surf with a
splash ! It was Christina divested of
shoes, stockings and outer petticoat.
striking out boldly for the place where
the girl went down.
"Hurrah for old Norje!" cried the
count. " She swims like a frog !"
She came back with Julia, a very
wet and drabbled butterfly, in her
arniF.
There was no justice to my mind in
the end of the accident. Julia, when
dry again, was rosy and pert and
charming as ever; but poor Christina
had been thrown against the hull of
the boat. , She was quite badly in
jured, and was laid up in bed for a
month. Motaer and I had her work
to do, while Julia took wing to New
port, "Things are strangely ordered in
this world," I said, as I laid down a
half-read letter from her one day in
October, full of her gayeties and suc
cesses, and glanced at Christina, be
ginning to limp heavily about in the
kitchen,
" They always come out right," said
mother, quietly. " What is that on
the other side 'i" r
y" I turned the letter and mid:
" Oh, by the way, I thought I owed
'Old Norje' some reparation for her
injuries in my behalf. So I wrote to
our consul in Christiana to pny Jan's
debt for me, and to send him and his
mother out by the next steamer. You
told me that old Sanders had finally
grumbled himself into his grave. Why
not take Jan as farm hand and put
him and his mother into the tenant
house? I have ordered from New
York a few oihla and ends to make it
comfortable for them. They will ar
rive in Philadelphia on next Monday."
1 could hardly finish; the tears
choked ine. "I have been very unjust
to Julia," I said.
W e agreed not to tell Christina, but
to surprise her. We had grown very
fond of the patient, affectionate crea
ture with her everlasting chatter of
" mutter and Jan." "
The " odds and ends" proved to be
a very complete, though plain, plenish
ing for a house. Christina helped to
clean the house for "the new farmer,"
and. to arrange the pretty furniture.
On Monday mother went up to Phila
delphia to meet tho steamer. She was
to come down in the morning train
next day. I watched it pass on to the
little station.
A handkerchief waved out of the car
window the signal that all was well.
I saw from the porch three figures
alight on the platform and take their
way across the field.
vf nen tney baa time to reacQ tn
tenant house, I said, carelessly :
" Come, Christina. There is some
thing yet to be done for the new far
mer." " I hope," she said, in her pleasant
broken English, " he will be goot neigh
bor. It is nice house. It is as goot as
our pastor lives in at home. This is
fine country for the poor, Mamzel Mar
tha." I nodded. I was too excited to
speak. When we reached the steps
mother came out, her face all in a
glow.
They are inside. They are all we
could wish," she whispered eagerly.
One minute, Christina," and she ran
to the astonished girl, smoothing her
fair hair, retying the gay handkerchief
about her neck, while I hurried into
the room.
A heavily-built man in the Nor
wegian dress, with honest blue eyes,
stood waiting, and beside him a tall
erect old woman, with a peculiarly
gentle, kindly countenance. They
were both greatly agitated and scarce
ly noticed me, their eyes being on the
door.
It opened. I heard mother say.with
a half sob: "Go in, child. God bless
you," and Christina came in.
She stood one moment dumb and
still, her handsVitrctched out in amaze
ment. Then came the cry: " O, Mut
ter! Mutter! O, Jan!"
It was the pent-up love and longing
of years forcing its way into speech.
AVe came out and left them alone
together.
Mother and I had prepared a little
feast for them ; a good substantial
Bupper as foundation, and frosted
cakes, flowers and grapes as embellish
ments. After awhile we brought them out
to it, but they only ate to please us.
They were too deeply moved for sueh
little pleasures.
After supper we went into the
kitchen and the old mother, looking at
the fire upon the hearth that had been
kindled for them in a strange land,
said a few words in a low voice, and
they all sank "reverently upon their
knees while she prayed.
Mother and I knelt with them. What
did it matter that the words were in a
strange tongue. We understood her,
and the Great Father of us all heard
us as we kneeled side by side.
" I think, dear little mother," I said,
as we went homo that night, "God
heard your prayer when you went out
to find your savage that day."
" He always hears," she said, quietly.
Youth's Companion.
Agricultural Wonders.
Stalks of wheat six feet high, with
heads six inches long, are the pride of
California farmers. .
A beautiful tuberose, with a stalk
six feet high, is the property of Mr. A.
It. Lutz, of Lancaster, Pa.
The longest cucumber ever crown in
the South was on exhibition in North
Carolina. It is forty-seven inches long.
The corn crop of Texas this year is
estimated at 140,000,000 bushels. The
value of the agricultural products of
that State is $94,071,998. .
The largest tobacco leaf reported
this season was grown by John C
Dougherty, of Lancaster county, Pa,
It is forty-six inches long and twenty
seven wide.
William Pfeiffer, of Gunpowder, Md.,
exhibits a stalk of corn measuring six
teen and a half feet from the root tc
the top, and ten feet two inches from
the root to the ear.
Griffin, Ga., has the largest peach
orchard in tho South, containing 50,-
000 trees and covering nearly 600
acres. Four hundred grafted apple
trees and 5,000 pear trees stand on the
same larm.
There are 12,000 head of Jersey cat
tle on the Isle of Jersey and 6,000 on
tho Isle of Guernsey.' The" exportd-
tions from both are nearly 3,000 head
per year. Several hundred come to
the United States.
A rose bush bearing over yM0b buds
is the pride of a garden in sto wn,
Mass. It is thirty-five y pld, and
it covers over 100 sqdan'' feet of
ground. A single r.tem had sixteen
buds, and.stems having twelve, ten or
less were quite numerous.
Smokers of cigars in the cafes in
6ome parts of Germany make it a rule
to cut off carefully the end of the cigar
before proceeding to smoke it, and to
deposit the piece so severed in a metal
box or tray placed to hold it in the cen
ter of the room. The trays are placed
in tho cafes by a benevolent society
which has numerous branches, and the
aim it has in view is to supply a cer
tain number of poor children with a
new Biiit of clothes at Christmas each
year. The statistics furnished bv nine
teen of tho branches in the lthenish
provinces show that in 1881 no less
than 4,500 pounds of tobacco were col
lected in this way. This was sold for
1,200, a sum which sufficed to pro
vide an outfit for over 1,700 poor
chUdren at an expense of about fifteen
shillings each. The branches of the
society are steadily increasing in num
ber, and have doubled within the last
three years.
A little three-year-old, in admiring
her baby brother, ex' latmed: " He's got
a boiled head like papa."
$1.50 PER ANNUM.
TTestern SlDerJam.
TheTurakiand Samoyedea wander
about clad in winter in rpfniWr skins
from head to foot, leaving exposed only
a ouiau portion or tne race. Tney are
excellent archers, and in hunting they
still use the bow, fire arms and powder
being not yet easily within their reach.
The women use a good deal of orna
ment on their dresses, in the shape of
pieces of bright colored cloth, while on
their tresses, thrown behind, dangle a
number of trinkets, as odd sometimes
as the lock of a gun. Their shamans
or priests cover their dresses with
pieces of metal, which make a noise io
their religious dances. They use also
a magician's drum, 'which is found
among the Laplanders. The Yurakl
are among the least Christianized of
the Siberian tribes. In many cases
they transform the trunks of trees
into idols. Among those furthest north,
dogs are used for draught, and occa
sionally are allowed to come within
the owner's habitation, but they are
not affectionate animals, having to be
ruled by fear rather than by love. The
Russian exiles living on the Obi are
not in confinement, but are placed in
the villages to get their own living, or
partly so. This they do by commerce,
fishing and hunting. They go about
in winter on snow-shoes. Occasionally
the better educated among the exiles
find employment in teaching and in
photography. Mr. Lansdell, in his re
cently issued "Through Siberia," says:
"That the commercial value of the
basin of the Obi, and a large part of
Western Siberia, is not yet realized by
European capitalists is the opinion ol
most of those who have been there."
He speaks of the Altai mountains as
rich in silver, copper and iron, and of
a belt of black earth, 600 miles wide,
like a vast tract of garden land, well
suited for the production of wheat,
oats, linseed, barley and other cereals,
and from which the inhabitants can
easily obtain a great deal more corn
than is needed for their consumption1.
London Graphic.
Cheap Living in Saxony.
A correspondent of the Chicago
News writes that while everything was
exceedingly cheap in Saxony, none of
the Americans with whom he had been
talking bad been able to live on less
money per diem than it cost them to
live at home, but they had all lived
more luxuriously.
"lam taking music lessons here."
Baid a young fellow from Cincinnati,
who does not talk much. " I take two
lessons a week. . I pay for the lessons
about twelve and a half cents each, or
$1 per month.- I pay all the teacher
asked."
"I am paying fifty cents per lesson
to a teacher of German," said another.
" I paid 15 for this suit of clothes,"
said another, "and I couldn't buy it in
the United States for $40. They were
made to order for me." f,
''I pay twelve marks, or $3, per
month for my room, with coffee every
morning," said another.
" I rode in a beautiful carriage from
11 o'clock until 6 o'clock yesterday. I
had a splendid driver. I had beer, and
so did he. The day's amusement cost
me $3. It would cost more than that
for the privilege of taking off your hat
to an American hackman."
Other adventures and experiences of
a similar character were gone oyer. I
have just given enough to show why
it is that people of small means in
England flock to Saxony. They can
live well here for what it would cost
them to live poorly at home. Ameri
cans have not taken advantage of the
inducements offered by Dresden or
Leipsic as yet, because Americans do
not life like the English on annuities.
But to persons in America whs have
an income from rents or invested cap
ital of say $1,000 a year, the induce
ments offered by this delightful coun
try are beyond computation.
People Who Live oa a Steep Hillside.
Lieutenant Healy, of the United
States revenue steamer Corwin, visited
the habitations of the natives of king's
Island, in the Arctic ocean, a curiou
people, who live upon a precipitous
hillside as no other people live. He
says :
The house is erected upon poles,
Theentranceto each is affected through
a hole in the front wall, about fourteen
inches in diameter. Having clam
bored through this entrance one finds
himself in a room about eight feet
square, which is the common living
room of each house. From the sides
of this room are found severid apertures
similar to the main one of entrance,
which lead to, as msuiy tdeeping apart
ments. The appearance presented by
these houses is, to Kay the least, unique,
and more strikingly so by reason ol
their great contrast with those of the
usual Indian village, which is idways
built on low Band spits. The principal
means of livelihood of these natives
are fishing and walrus and seal hunt
ing. To these people the walrus is the
more important animal, inasmuch as
from its hide and intestines they ubtal j
the covering for their houses and
boats, and the ivory they sell intruder
is the most valuable article in demand.
The necessities of their position have
stimulated sueh inventions and de
veloped sueh superior workmanship &
to cause their articles of manufacture
to be4.be. most greatly prized of auy
along the co;u.t
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Though the river to the tea
Ii forever flowing
Though the bloeaom greets the be.
All ita eweeti bestowing:
Still the river floweth fleet
Still the rote's heart is sweet.
Tit the grand eternal law,
Giving is bnt gaining;
Nature knows no single flaw
In her wise ordaining:
He who gives 'mid plenty elands
Who withholds hath empty hands.
Carlatla Perry.
1IUM0R OF THE DAT.
It may be set down as an axiom that
when a person grows fat he grows
waistful.
Late in life George Washington rode
in his own carriage, but in his earlier
years he took a hack at the cherry
tree.
We sneer at the Siamese for wor
shiping the elephant; but think of
the money that is paid here annually
just to see it! Saturday Night.
Charming frankness : " You have
lovely teeth, Ethel." "Yes, George,"
she fondly lisped ; " they were a Christ
mas present from Aunt Grace,"
1'uck.
When a man gets into a fit of tem
per, do not allow his example to be
come contagious, for there is a law
against counter fits. Boston Tran
script. It is said that trained dresses for
evening wear are coming back into
favor. It is very evident that if they
were not trained it would be very hard
for the, wearers to manage them.
Lowell Citizen.
First mafher: "Well, did you make
the acquaintance of that strange girl
you were raving over ?" Second ditto:
"Yes, followed her home." First M.:
"How did she strike ycfu?" Second
ditto: "She didn't at all; she got her
big brother to do it." Philadelphia
News.
The difference : A young gilded (or,
as they now say, nickel-platedl youth,
ot New York ordered a pair or panta
loons of his tailor and returned them
as too tight. "You told me to make
them skin-tight," said the man. " Yes,"
jaid the youth, ""but I can sit down in
my skin and I can't in these." Puclc
It was at the house of the bride's
parents after the wedding. On a table
were exposed the costly presents. Two
gentlemen were examining them. Said
one suddenly: "These, you say, are
the bride's presents, but what does the
?room get ?" " Oh," replied the other,
" he gets the woman." First gentle
man: "Is that all? Poor fellowl"
Boston Transcript..
A chicken at Alliance, Ohio, went
to roost upon an axle of a freight car.
During the night the car was attached
to a train, and when the feathered
bird descended from his unsteady
perch he failed to recognize the scenes
of his childhood. He was in Limn,
Indiana, and the man in whose garden
the fowl went to scratching got into ii
fight with tho whole neighborhood by
accusing everybody of owning the
bird. Boston Journal.
This country may not be ready to go
to war with a foreign power on a s
day's notice, but she could soon find a
substitute for cannon balls, provided
there were a shortage in this particu
lar. It is estimated that there are u
million baseballs in this country, and
if they were fired from a cannon at the
enemy the destruction would be terri
ble. The American peace society might
object to such an exhibition of cruelty,
however, and want scrap iron used in
their stead. Norristown Herald.
Sad accident : "A man while shav
ing accidentally cut off his nose. In
his excitement he dropped the razor
and decapitated one of his toes. Has
tily picking up the dismembered por
tions of his anatomy he clapped them
to the bleeding wounds and bound
them on tightly. After the flesh had
grown fast and healed up he removed
the bandages and was filled with hor
ror when "he found a well developed
too in lieu of a nasal organ, atid vice
versa. Now, whenever he gets a cold,
he has to remove his shoe and stocking
In order to blow his nose. Baltimore
A merican.
The Steam Which Keeps Business
Moviuk".
" A reporter dropped into our largest
retail establishment Wednesday.
Vou have a great rush of business,'
remarked the reKrter.
' Yes,' replied tho proprietor, ' partly
because it is holiday season, but mainly
on account of advertising.'
How can you tell whether advertis
ing pays?'
" 1 can tell that advertising pays by
stopping it. I've tried it. Trade
drops; the tide of purchasers flows
some other way.'
Suppose you should give up adver
tising?' I should save a big pile of money,
but should lose a bigger pjle. You
must keep the boilers heated if you
want steam. If you bank your firea
too long, it takes time to start up.
Advertising is the steam which keeps
business moving. I've studied the
matter.' " ltslu Juunml.