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VOL, XVII. NO. 16.
TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1884.
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1
SUMMER CHANGES.
Bang the Illy, and sang the rose,
Out of the h"rt-of my garden close,
"ObyJBfTt"", iy ot the summer tide I"
Bang the wind, a it moved above them,
"Rotes sent for the sun to love them,
Dear little buds in the leave that hide!"
Bang the trees, a they rustled together,
"Oh, the Joy of the summer wcatherl
Roses and lilios, bow do you fareP
Bang the red rose, and sang the white:
"Qlad we are of the sun's large light,
And the songs of birds that dart through
the air."
LHy and rose, and tall green tree,
Bwaying boughs where the bright birds nestle
Thrilled by music and thrilled by wings.
How glad they were on that summer day I
Little they thought of cold skios and gray,
And the dreary dirge that a storm-wind
sings.
Golden butterflies gleam in the sun,
Laugh at the flowers, and kiss each one,
And great bees coine with their sloopy
tune,
To tip the honey and circle round,
And th flowers are lulled by that drowsy
sound,
And fall asleep in the heart of the noon.
A small white cloud in a sky of blue,
Roses and lilies, wbnt will they do!
For a wind springs up and sings In the
tree I
Down comes the rain the garden's awake,
Roses and lilies begin to quake,
That were rocked to sleep by the gentle
breeze.
Ah, roses and lilies! each delicate petal
The wind and the rain with fear unsettle;
This way and that way the tall tree.
sway,
But the wind goes by, and tho rain stops soon,
And smiles again the f uco of tho noon,
And the fiowors are glad in the sun's
warm ray.
Bing, my lilies, and sing, my roses,
With never a dream that tho summer closes;
But the trees are old, and I fancy they
tell,
Each unto each, how tho summer flies;
They remember the last year's wintry skied,
out that summer returns tho trees
know well.
THE STOLEN RING.
"I've brought homo the young lady's
Donnet, miss, pieaso," said little Rachel.
nil, it sine milliners apprentice, is
It I" said Orcen, tho parlor-uirl. "Just
tep into tho hall, and wait a minute.
Miss Madison's own maid will bo down
directly. We're having quite a state of
wings up stairs," (..rein nilded, bustling
around to fasten up u woolly white poo
dle which had contrived to snap tho
links of his golden chain. Miss Madi
son has had a diamond ring stole. And
they've sent for a detective gentleman.
and Miss Madison's uncle from Wall
street. And missus has had hysterics.
fend the doctor is there giving her drops;
and tho cook says, up and down, she
won't stay in no family where tho help is
suspected r
"Dear, dear!" said little Rachel, open
Ing her blue eyes us round as two mar
bles.
And as Green hurried away, in answer
to a shrill summons from above, she
. .......
.looKea timiaiy urouna her.
Bbo was always pleased to bo sent to
the Madison house. It was her ideal of
Aladdin's palace of tho beautiful man
lions wherein dwelt the heroines of song
and story.
When she described it to tho little ones
it home, after her day's work was over,
they could scarcely credit its splendors.
There was a circular hall, with a railed
gallery, extending around the second
itory, and a dome of white and amber
glass overhead, and a great bronze statue
Of some fabled warrior kept guard on
horseback in the middle of tho marble
Door.
There w as a deep fireplace, lined with
thina tiles, where a tire of scented logs
blazed on tall tiro-dogs of polished brass;
deep, plush easy-chairs were drawn up
beside it, and a pair of monster Japan
rases, which reached up to Rachel's shoul
der, were always full, whether tho Febru
ary snows carpeted the outside world, or
the March winds shook the casements, of
delicious, half-blown roses, with long
stems, and satiny, shiny leaves.
For the life of her she would not have
dared to go up and smell of them, or to
touch their perfumed petals; but she
stood afar off and breathed in their sweet
ness, and looked at their tints of pearl
and pink like a humble worshiper of the
beautiful. '
"Miss Madison has a new paroquet,"
she thought. "I never saw that little
beauty in the gold cago before."
Adrienno, the French maid, came hur
rying down directly a tall, bold-looking
young woman, with a luunty cap perched
In the midst of her black braids, and loops
of cherry ribbon on her white muslin
apron. She had an absent expression on
her face, and looked at little ltachel as if
her mind was preoccupied with some
thing else, and she did not see her.
"It's the reception-bonnet, miss,
please," explained ltachel. with & cour
tesy.
"Oh, tho bonnet!" said Adrienno,
'You work-people are always coming at
tho wrong time. Oh, yes, I dare say it is
all right 1 But," with a sudden, smiling
assumption of interest, "you are wet.
It rains cud you will take cold. Take
off your shawl, and come to the lire and
Qry yourtelf."
t "Oh. no. ma'um thanks!" said little
Rachel, reaching out for the shawl w hich
Adrienne hud officiously removed, uud
resisting her efforts to lead her to the
the. "it don't ruin; it ouly mists
fittkj."
".Hut it does rain," 6hnrply spoke
Adrienne, giving the girl s laded skirt
ehake as she spoke. "Don't you see the
drops? Well," with a shrill laugh, "if
you don't choose to dry yourself, the
fault is your own."
"I was to return as soon as possible,
ma'am," said littlo ltachel, rather em
barrassed by all this extra attention.
"If Miss Madison was suited "
Adrienne caught up the bandbox,
which Rachel had held all the time, and
whirling around on her heel, ran up
stairs into the reception-apartment,
where Miss Madison herself stood, sur
rounded by a group of people.
Miss Madison was a tall, blonde-com-plexionod
young lady, with clear, hazel
eyes, a well-rounded chin, and the air of
one who definitely comprehended her
rights and meant to assert them. Her
mother, an irresolute, elderly lady, looked
feebly from her daughter to the police
man in plain clothes, who stood deferen
tially before them, and then back again.
"Well, if the house is to bo senrched,
it had best be done promptly, I suppose,"
said Miss Madison. Tell your man to pro
ceed at once, Mr. Jones."
"But, my dearCorisande, do consider I"
twittered Mrs. Madison. "Some of our
maids are so very superior I The idea of
ransacking their trunks, ns if they were
common burglars!"
"If they are innocent of stealing my
diamond ring they won't care," said Cori
sande, indifferently, "If they are guilty,
they deserve all the obloquy which can
descend upon them."
"Just here tho French maid glided up
close to her mistress.
"Pardon, mademoiselle 1" she whis
pered, her half -closed gray eyes furtively
observing the detective as she spoke
"but it occurs to me that 1 have a new
cluo to this mystery. Tho little milliner
girl is below stairs; sho has just brought
. V t . J , 1
uome lois uonnct. .remaps maucmoisciie
has forgotten that she waited in made
moiselle's dressing-room half an hour
last Wednesday. Madcmoisello has not
seen her ring since."
Corisando knitted her brows.
To be sure!" said she. "But you
don t suppose that she has taken it?"
Adrienne drooped her eyelashes.
" I would venture to make no accusa.
tion, mademoiselle," said she, " but per
haps, in a moment of temptation "
"The matter is easily settled," said
tho detective. " We can have the young
person up here at once and search her."
.Little ltachel came up, much wonder
ing. She was startled when Adrienne
volubly explained to her the business
upon which she was summoned, but con
sented at once to the search.
" Why shouldn't I?" said she. simply.
' I have nothing to be afraid of."
She turned her dress-pocket inside
out. A little, much-worn leather purse
appeared an elevated railway ticket a
scrap of poetry, cut from some news
paper, fell out and then a diamond
ring, with ono glittering fuscet of fire,
set in its plain circlet of gold, flashed
suddenly upon their eyes!
"Ha!" said Adrienne, pouncing upon
it, as somo raven mi'dit pounce on its
prey. ' Madcmoisello can see for her
self! Ah, wretch! perfidous thief !"
And she shook Rachel by the shoulder
with ono hand, as sho held up the ring
with tho other.
Rachel had turned as pale as ashes.
"I think I must be dreaming!" said
sho. "I never saw the ring before in all
my lifel"
"Come, come," said tho detective,
"that sort of thing won't go down. I'm
afraid you're an old hand at the busi
ness, for all you look to young and inno
cent." Of course Rachel was arraigned be
fore the court, but Corisande Madison
refused to appear for the prosecution.
The matter has gone far enough,"
she sa'd. "The girl is not a hardened
thief. Sho stolo the ring in a moment
of temptation. She has suffered suffi
ciently. I don't believe she will ever of
fend in this way ngain."
So little Rachel was discharged with a
reprimand from the magistrate.
But it was like clipping the wings of a
wild-bird and then bidding it fly away
iuto freedom once more.
The fashionable milliner who had em
ployed tho girl would have nothing more
to say to her. No one wanted her ser
vices. And on the few occasions when
there seemed a prospect of getting re
munerative worK, the horizon was over
clouded at once wheu the question of
references came up.
No one wanted a thief about their
premises 1
One person, however, believed in little
Rachel still her stepmother, a hard
working woman, who let lodgings and
did up line laces and old ladies' caps for
a livelihood.
"There is some jugglery about this
business," said she. "My husband's
daughter never was a thief!"
It was in the bleak winter-time when
Adrienne Moncontour cnLrB;ed the one
attic bedroom that Mrs. llollcy still had
to let.
Adrienne had left Miss Madison's ser
vico some weeks before. She could not
agrco with the new housekeeper, who
loudly declared that the French maid
had on co beeu employed as a waitress iu
a gambling saloon in Paris.
Perhaps there was some truth in this,
for certain it was that Adrienno had an
unconquerublo mania for cards, and at a
genteel gambling place, frequented by
hagirish old women and sage young ones,
she lost ul 1 her little savings, and crept
iuto Mrs. llolley's back uttic bed-room,
us she supposed, to die.
"I'm ufraid she's a bad lot," said Mrs.
llollcy; "but I wouldn't let even a cat
die iu my house, without a little cure.
Kachael, you may make her a littlo beef
tea, and I'll spare her a wing off the fowl
for her diuuer."
And the mother and stepdaughter to
gether uursed Adrienne back to some
thing like strength.
"I don't see why you've done it," said
Adrienne, harshly. "I'm nothing to
you."
"We try to be kind to every one who
needs kindness," said Rachel, gently.
"I can't pay you even the rent of this
wretched hole 1" groaned Adrienne.
"We didn't suppose, me and mother,
that you could," said ltachel, simply.
But that don't signify."
"Seet" cried Adrienne, with feverish
eagerness, "I heard you down stairs
yesterday. Since you cut tho stove-pipe
hole to let the heat come up to warm my
poor bones, the sound comes up also.
Tho ship-carpenter on the second floor
asked you to marry him. You confessed
that you loved him, but you said no I"
Rachel crimsoned.
"Because I did not wish to link his
fortunes with those of one who has been
called a thief," said she, in a low voice.
"You have saved my lifel" said the
Frenchwoman, excitedly. "Do you
think I will let you break your heart?
No! I will set all that right. It was I
that stole Miss Madison's diamond ring.
I knew that a search was impending. I
bad the ring in my possession, and wheu
I saw you standing there so innocent, tho
Evil One entered into me. I slipped the
ring into your pocket; I allowed you to
be arrested as a thief. I have never had
a lucky moment since."
She went to Miss Madison as soon as
she was able to walk, and made a formal
statement to this effect.
"Arrest me, if you please," said she.
But Miss Madison could only pity her
ghastly pallor and skeleton frame.
"No!" sho said. "You have already
suffered more than I can inflict upon you
by any legal justice."
And little Rachel married the ship
carpenter, and was happy. And among
her wedding gifts was a pretty set of
parlor furniture from Miss Madison.
"As a token of respect and esteem,"
said the heiress. Ilclcn Forrest Graves.
Aa Early Lynching Tarty.
Previous to his departure for his pres
ent home in Kentucky, Captain Nicholas
Freeh favored the Post-Journal office
with a friendly visit. He was a citizen
of Memphis before, probably, any other
German now living here, set foot on
these bluffs, and he entertains some very
interesting reminiscences of those days
when the southern boundaries of the city
were at Poplar street and the county site
at Raleigh. One incident especially de
serves to be recalled on account of its in
herent humor a lynching in which
some of our most respected Germans, now ,
gray-headed men, took a prominent part.
At that time about forty years ago I
Memphis did not enjoy a great reputa-1
tion for peace and quietness. Murders j
were frequent; punishments few and far .
between; in one word, tho situation was
such as to hold out every inducement to '
Judge Lynch. I
One day another most brutal murder I
occurcd. A Main street merchant was '
shot and killed in front of his own
door, where he was quietly sitting be- i
side his wife. Tho murderer had been '
caught and lodged in the county jail at
Raleigh. The bloody deed caused uni
versal indignation, especially among the
Germans of that day, who soon reached
the conclusion to take the law in their
own hands. Accordingly they met, pro
cured a rope, and boldly marched to Ra
leigh, where nobody had an inkling of
their coming, lhey completely sur-
prised the jailer and could have forced :
him to surrender the keys, but peaceful .
Germans as they were they first tried
persuasion, following the liue of argu
ment that resistance would be useless.
This argument seemed to have tho de
sired effect, for though reluctantly, the
jailer threw open the doors, saying:
"Well, boys, if you must have 'nn, go
in and get 'im."
They poured in; but no sooner had the
last one crossed the threshold than the
heavy iron door swung back, and dis
playing a sarcastic smile, the jailor
turned and drew the kev. At the same
time the court-house bell sounded the
alarm. The brave avengers were trapped,
and immediately had more important
business on hand than lynching their fel
low prisoner, name!', to beg off. In
this emergency they sent for Captain
Freeh, who hastened to the relief of his
countrymen. He did not think it pru
dent to give bonds for all of them, but
he succeeded in having them tried on the
spot. They were convicted and lined ono
cent each and cost, which the captain
paid for all of them. This was tho first
and last German lynching in Memphis.
Memphis Post-Journal.
Bismarck's Children.
The prince has three children a
daughter, the Countess Mary, who was
born in 1848, and married about four
years ago to Count Rant.au, and two
sons, Counts Herbert and William, both
of whom are younger than their sister,
and unmarried. The former is in tho
diplomatic service, and has in his official
capacity been attached to several embas
sies, and recently to that in Loudon. Tho
latter, who bears a strong personal re
semblance to his father, has devoted him
self to the legal profession, and has been
a member of the German parliament..
Both served at first as privates iu tho
Dragoon Guards, iu the last war, during
which the Prince evinced much auxiety
on their behalf, riding out after them as
often us circumstances permitted. Both
of them work from time to time in the
immediate neighborhood of the prince,
iu whose bureau his son-in-law has also
found employment. I may mention,
too, that the prince is the happy possessor
of grandchildren, line, sturdy little fel-
lows, the eldest of whom occasionally
pays a visit ut his graudfather's pulaee hus been laying around uud got moth
with the cap of the Yellow Cuirassiers on , eaten. The next day after the visiting
his fair young head. MoriU Butch, in ' preacher preached he came to our house
Harper's. I to stay a day or two, at ma's invitu-
" tion. Pa hasu't been feeling very well
"Trust men and they will trust you," j lately, and ma said he wanted some et
said Ralph Waldo Lmerson. "Trust I citement, and I thought of anoldstor
men and they will burst you," says ud 1 read once about some students atk
ordinary every-day business man. j theological seminary making two pioft
WIT FOR WARM WEATHER.
BATCH 07 rTJWlTT STOKIES FROM
EXCHANGES.
Why Ife lTcbrllnA Patience Some
thing; Wrong Momewhere Cnring
It of Smoking: The Bad Boy.
Some years ago a detachment of United
States artillery waa stationed at Hot
Springs, Ark., to protect the public prop
erty, the supremo court having decided
that the springs belonged to tho United
States. One day ono of the detachment
fell ill and was ordered by the surgeon to
"take a hot bath and drink tho water,"
meaning the sulphur spring water. Ho
went to one of the bath houses, where a
bath was prepared for him, and he was
left to enjoy the luxury. After the usual
time had elapsed tho attendant went in
to see how he was getting along. He
found tho soldier sitting on tho edge of
the tub much swollen about the waist and
the water reduced about one-half. Tho
attendant asked him how he was getting
along. The soldier replied: "Pretty
well. I enjoyed tho bath. But," he ad
ded, and a look of despondent determi
nation settled upon his countenance, "I'll
be dogged if 1 drink all that water, not
even if they put me in the guard-house
for it."
Patience
"Don't scold, my dear," said a young
doctor to his wife, who was making home
happv at the rate of forty miles an hour.
" Why shouldn't I scold, I'd like to
know? You don't give me anything I
I want, and I have to skimp along like a
i pauper."
I "I know, my dear, that we are not
rich; but after awhile our luck will
change and we will have everything we
want. You must learn to have pa
tience." "Don't preach what you don't prac
tice. If you'd learn to have patients,
we would soon be out of our trouble,"
and she whisked out of the room, so full
of feeling that she slopped over at the
eyes. Merchant- Traveler.
Something- Wrong Somewhere.
" Do your women customers bother
you much?" asked a citizen who was talk
ing with a Woodward avenue grocer the
Other morning.
" Well, they seldom want to pay the
prices. It seems natural for them
to want to beat down tho figures.
There comes ono now who probably
wants huckleberries. Here are some
fresh ones at. fifteen cents per quart, and
yet if I should ask her only eleven she'd
want 'cm for ten."
"Say, try it on, just for a joke. If
she asks the price put it at eleven."
The grocer agreed, and presently the
woman, came up, counted the sixteen
boxes of berries under her nose, and of
course inquired:
" Have you any huckleberries this
morning?"
" Yes'm."
"Fresh ones ?"
"Yes'm."
" In quart boxes ?"
"Yes'm."
" How much ?"
"Only eleven cents per box, madam."
" 1 11 take the whole lot," she quietly
ooscrvea, as sue iiuuucu out a o om,
ttndtake .ctn B dld- , t L
: and the grocer believes that it was a put-
up job between the two.
Curing: tt of Smoking;.
Jones P. Wilotighrib is a wag, who has
incurred the enmity of a great many
Bloomington people by the perpetration
of his heartless jokes. The other day he
rushed into Doctor Coffin P. Graves'
office, flushed and excited, and asked
him:
'Doc, does smoking ever kill any-
1 body?"
"Often, sir, quite often." Wilough-
rib turned white and bit his lips, and
hastily said:
"Is it possible to cure one, who is very
bad with smoking? Can you save it?"
"Why, yes."
"Well, come down to my house just
as quick as you can pet there. There
is a chronic smoker down there, which
has turned black in the face and looks
as if there was not a bit of life in it.
Make all haste, Doc, for heaven's sake.
It is lying on our kitchen floor with its
pipe, and smoking, as dumb as a log.
It is impossible to rouse it, and the
fumes are almost killing the family. It
don't know a cussed thing. Rush up,
Doctor. Lose no time." Tho doctor
and Wilougluib got into tho doctor's
buggy and were driven rapidly to tho
scene of the disaster. When they ar
rived, Wilotighrib pointed the doctor to
the kitchen stove, which lay overturned
upon the floor, but the joke was turnod.
when the doctor pulled off his coat and
put up the stove, and then presented a
bill for twenty-five dollars for profes
sional services. 1'hrough Mail.
The nad Boy.
" Say, what is this I hear about your
pa and the new minister quarreling?"
said the groceryman to the bud boy, as
he showed up at his usual hour.
"Well, it was partly true, but it was
all a joke," said tho bad boy, as ho
looked out the door to see if his parent
was in the vicinity. " You see, it was
a new minister that came here to ex
change works with our preacher. You
know wheu
they exchange works it is
: as good as a vucation, 'cause both iniu-
isters can preach au old sermon that
son believe that each other was deaf and
how they talked loud to each other, and
1 thought if such a joke was all right in a
college where they turned outyoung
preachers, it would do at our house, so
I told ma she better tell pa to talk loud
enough, or tho preacher couldn't hear
him. You seo I didn't lie, but ma went
and told pa the minister was deaf as a
post and he would have to yell bloody
murder to make him hear. I don't think
it was right for ma to say that, 'cause I
didn't tell her the minister was deaf, but
pa said he hadn't spoken at ward
caucuses for nothing, and he would
make tho preacher hear or talk the top
of his head off. I brought the minister's
satchel over from the house where he
had been stopping, and he came along
with me, and I asked him how his voice
was, and ho said it was all right, and I
told him he would have use for it if he
talked with pa much. He asked me If
pa was deaf, but I wouldn't lie, and all
I said was if the minister would yell aa
loud as he did when he got excited
in preaching, pa would hear the
most of what ho said. Oh, he said
he guessed he wouldn't have any
trouble making pa hear. Well, I
ushered him in the parlor, and they
shook hands and I skipped up stairs, just
as pa swelled out his chest and took a
long breath and shouted 'Glad to see
you P Well, you'd a dide. It seemed aa
though his voice would knock the new
minister's ear off, but the minister braced
himself, inflated his lungs, and shouted,
'The happiness is mutual, I assure you,'
and then they both coughed, 'cause I
guess it strained their lungs some. Ma
was leaning over the banisters, and when
pa would roar at the minister, ma would
laugh, and when the minister would roar
back at pa, I would laugh. Pa seemed
to think the minister talked loud, and
the minister thought the same, and they
was a having it pretty loud, you bet,
They talked about relidjrin, and politics,
and everything, and pa mopped his
bald head with his handkerchief, and
tho minister got red in tho face;
and finally pa told the minister
he need not yell loud enough to
loosen the shingles, as he wasn't deaf,
and the minister said he wasn't deaf, and
pa needn't yell like a maniac, and then
pa, said he was another, and the minis
ter said pa was a worldly minded son of
Belial, and then ma sho see it was time
to stop it, and she went down stairs on a
hop, skip and jump, and told them both
that there was a mistake, and that nobody
was deaf, and then the minister said he
understood from pa's little boy that his
pa was hard of hearing, and pa sent for
me, but I was scarce. Don't you think a
boy shows good sense, sometimes, in not
being very plenty around when they
yearn for him? Sometimes I am nu
merous, and then asrain I am about as
few as any of the boys. Well, there wag
no harm done, but pa and the minister
have their opinion of each other." Feck's
Sun.
Eliynies In the Mails.
Some very curious and funny letters
are received at the dead letter office.
The outside of some is more unique than
the inside. The following are the ad
dresses on the envelopes of several which
have found their way to the dead-letter
office. They show the poetical bent of
the writers:
"Fly little messenger, quick and straight,
To Humboldt county of Iowa State!
Fly, little messenger, and seek with care
For Miss Annie Kahey, you'll find her there."
Unfortunately there was no stamp on
it, and the matter-of-fact P. M. hustled
it off to the dead-letter office.
A trusting parent writes on the envel
ope of his letter:
"Please send this letter to my son,
who drives a team of red oxen, and the
railroad runs through his place."
Another envelope has :
"Bummer's letter, send it ahead,
Dead broke and nary a red :
Postmaster, put this letter through, ,
And when I get paid I'll pay you."
Another envelope has this address:
"James Irwin. Try all over the State."
Still another address is:
"B. A. Kenyon, P. M., 111."
A would-be housekeeper puts on the
envelope :
"P. M. Please forward to the phy
sician who was looking for a housekeeper
in St. Louis last week; is a widower with
two children; don't know his name."
This is no doubt an answer to an ad
vertisement. It is a pity the widower
did not get it.
Another envelope has:
"To General W. Knowles this letter is sent,
To the town of Brighton where the other one
went.
No matter who wrote it a friend or a foe
To the Ktate of New York I hope it will go."
But it went to the dead letter office
instead.
Another envelope has:
"Hello! Uncle Sam ; let mi go in your mail,
As I've taken a notion to ride on a rail
To Illinois State, and there let me stop.
And iu Mel jean county just please let me
drop :
In Lelloy 1 . O. there let me lay,
Until Reason K. Gay taken me away."
But the P. M.'s reply just below says:
"Hayed out, my dear boy,
There is no use in talking,
If you can't pay your way
You'll have to try walking."
One who was careful to pay postage
wrote :
"Now haste with this letter as fast as you
can,
I've just paid your fare to good Uncle Sam ;
The case is quite urgent, so don't stop to
think,
Pon't tarry for lunches or even a drink,
l.vmuu sli-eel you will very soon mm,
Where the people are honest, good-natured
uud kind ;
Frank Taylor, the man to whom you must go,
Is at 4ti Lyiiutu street, Cleveland, Ohio."
Washinyton Capital.
The beautiful fashion of wearirjg
nowers in me uair is revived in 1'uMs.
but this is for evening only, of cour
ILLUSIONS.
When youth's illusions vanish with the pal
We miss our infant measure of the vaK
A single footstep fords the shallow tide
Of yon small brook we thought so deep ana
wide.
The endlent meadow endless rolls no mora,
It sheeted daisies have their bound and ahoa
We seek the hilltop once our highest goal,
And sigh to find it but a common knoll.
How large the berries when ourselves were
small,
How tall the clover when we were not tall.
The very shadows by the roadside flung,
Were broader, cooler than for we war
young.
Tis thus illusions narrow to the gaze,
Diminishing with man's increase of days.
Tis thus that from the daybreak of his youth
Insensibly he finds the paths of truth.
O. H. Coomer, Youth's Companion,
HUMOIt OF THE DAT.
" Kiss Me as I Fall Asleep" is the title
of a new song. It might work all right
with some men, but it would wake ul
right up. Havckeye.
"Mary, be careful, my child, whea
going out. Have a will of your own."
"Oh, I've got a Will of my own, motherj
but he can't be with me all the time."
"I wish," he said,
"I knew a maid,
Whose ma had really taught her
To hate ice-cream, and always deem
As poison, soda-water."
Philadelphia Call.
According1 to a physician, suddea
fright is a cure for sickness. The diffl.
culty is to procure that medicine; for
person who is right down seasick doesn't
care a continental whether the old shif
sinks or not.
There is a new book, "Whirlwinds,
Cyclones and Tornadoes," just issued,
which we have not read, but judging
from its title, it must be the reminis
cence of a man who found his wif
awake when he came home along in the
afternoon of the night. Merchant
Traveler. Diphtheria is a terrible thing to have in
the family, but since it has been dis
covered that it is fatal to cats it is ex
pected that there will be quite a demand
for it. A chunk of diphtheria laid out ia
the back yard at night will kill off mora
cats and make less noise than forty boot-
1 jacks. Peck's Sun.
HER COOL REQUEST.
" My sweet," he murmured soft and low,
As sank the sun in crimson glow;
" Come tell me now thv soul's desire,"
I Deep in her eye he saw the fire
j That sealed his fate.
- Close to his side she nestling pressed;
He felt her heart-throbs 'gainst his breast,
While trustful love shone in his face.
" I want," she said, with blushiug grace,
Another plate."
Indianapolis Times.
"Good morning, John," said a pastoi
to a young friend whom he met on
warm day. "How does your father stand
the heat?" The young man made no re
ply, but went away with a clouded brow.
And when the good pastor learned tha
the young man's father had died only
week before, he understood why his cor
dial greeting was met so coldly.
INTERESTING FACTS IN NATURAL HI8TOBT.
When the overheated small boy takes a swim
He won't go home until his hair has dried
Lest his watchful mother should catch ont4
him ' n
And undertake to tan his youthful hide.
When the small boy wants some fishing worm
to find
He will spade an acre field and not feel
tired,
Though for digging he Is not at all inclined,
Ana to weed a garden never could be hired.
Hatchet
Treatment of Dog-Bites.
T. M. Dolan, the author of a stand-
Mr.
dittd work on hydrophobia, has drawn up
the following simple remedies for the im
mediate treatment of dog-bites: "The
bite of a healthy dog cannot cause hydro
phobia. This is a well established fact.
As it is difficult to determine the state of
health of a dog at the time he bites, the
wound should be treated as if the dog
were rabid. Dog-bites should bo treated
at once by the person bitten or by a by
stander, by sucking the wound if possi
ble ; enlarging tho wound with a penknife
to encourage bleeding; by hot water fo
mentation; by free washing with cold
water; by ligature, a piece of string tied
between wound and heart. After bleed
ing has been encouraged and tho wound
has been well washed apply hot iron as
a heated penknife, small key, etc. caus
tics, pure nitric, sulphuric or hydrochloric
acid, nitrate of silver, acetic acid, carbolio
acid, ammonia, salt, or piece of hot cin
der. If near a chemist's the person bit
ten should run there, keeping his mouth
applied to the wound, if possible, and
spitting out the blood extracted. If noai
a medical man's house, run there at once.
If iu a part where tho person bitten can
not apply his mouth, some bystandei
should suck the wound no harm can fol
low from thus lending assistance. The:
dog inflicting the bite aiiuuld be kept un
der observation for at least fourteen days.
It will soon be seen whether it is healthy
or not. If healthy, there is no fear of fu
ture development of hydrophobia. If
the person bitten experiences shooting
puiu up the arms or other parts of the
body, three or four Turkish baths should
be taken. If the persou hitten is nervous,
he should place himself under the cure of
his medical attendant. I have treated
somo hundreds of cases of dog bites from
all purts of the country, and I am glad to
say thut those bitten have not experienced
any ufter symptoms." Lou Jon Era.
It is not much of a compliment, after
all, to say that a man is sound. Soui
men are nothing but sound.