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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6. 1884. $1,50 PER ANNUM. 11 fi Iff fill fltf me AH SUMMER CHANGES, Er.p; tbe Illy, and sang th rose, Out of ti heart of my garden close, "Oh, Joy I Oh, Joy of the rammer tldel" Ctmg the wind, na it moved above them, "Rosa ware sent for tbe sun to lore them, Dear little bud In the leave that older Eix.g the trees, a they rustled together, "Oh, the Joy of the summer weather I Rosea and lillos, how do you fare!" Sang the red rose, and sang the white: "Glad we are of the sun's large light, And the songs of birds that dart through the air." Lily and rose, and tall green trees, Bwaying boughs where the bright birds nestle) Thrilled by musio and thrilled by wings. Ilovr glad they were on that summer day I LltUe they thought of cold sides and gray, And the dreary dirge that a storm-wind slogs. OoMon butterflies gleam In the sun, Laugh at the flowers, and kiss each one, And great bees come with their sloepy tune, To sip the honey and circle round, And the flower are lulled by that drowsy sound, And fall asleep in the heart of the noon. A small white cloud In a sky of blue, Rose and lilies, what will they dot For a wind springs up and sings la the trope 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 1 each delicate petal The wind and the rain with fear unsettle; Thi way and that way the tall tree, sway, But the wind goes by, and tho rain stop soon, And smiles again the face of tbe noon. And the flower are glad in the sun's warm ray. Blng, my lilies, and sing, my roses, With never a dream that the summer closes; But the tree are old, and I fancy they tail, Each unto each, how the summer flies; . They remember the last year's wintry skies, DM that summer return the trees know welL TILE STOLEN RING. "I've brought homo the young lady's bonnet, miss, please," said little Rachel. "Oh, it' the milliner's apprentice, is it t" said Green, the parlor-girl. "Just itep into the hall, and wait a minute. Miss Madison's own maid will bo down directly. We're having quite a stute of things up stairs," Green added, bustling around to fasten up a woolly white poo dle which had contrived to snap tho links of his golden chain. "Miss Madi on 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, and tho doctor is there giving her drops; and the cook says, up aud down, she won't stay in no fumily where the help is suspected 1" "Dear, dearl" said little Rachel, open: Ing her blue eyes as round as two mar bles. And as Green hurried away, in answer to a shrill summons from above, she looked timidly around her. Bbe was always pleased to bo sent to the Madison house. It was her ideal of Aladdin's palace of tho beautiful man lion wherein dwelt the heroines of song and atory. When she described it to the little ones at 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 tne second itory, and a dome of white and amber glass overhead, and a great bronze statue &I sonio tabled warrior kept guard on horseback in tho middle of the marble Boor. There was a deep fireplace, lined with thina tilts, whero a fire of scented logs blazed on tall firo-dogs of polished brass; deep, plush easy-chairs were drawn up beside it. and a pair of monster .latum 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 easements, of delicious, half-blown roses, with long Items, and satiny, shiny leaves. For the life of her she would not have dared to go up aud smoll of them, or to touch their perfumed petals; but she itood afar off and breathed iu 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," the thought. "I never saw that little beauty ia the gold cago before." Adrienne, the French maid, came hur rying down directly a tall, bold-looking wung woman, with a jaunty cap perched n the midst of her black braids, tind loons of cherry ribbon on her white muslin apron, She had au absent expression on her face, and looked ut littlo Rachel as if her mind was preoccupied with some thing else, and she did not see her. It's the reception-bonnet, miss, please," expluined Rachel, with a cour tesy. "Oh, the bonnet!" said Adrienne. "You work-people are always coming at the wrong time. Oh, yes, I dare say it is all right 1 But," with a sudden, smiling assumption of interest, "you ure wet. It ruiua end you will take cold. Take off, your tbawl, and come to the tire and dry yourself." "Oh, no, ma'am thanks!" s:iid little Rachel, reaching out for the shawl which Adri 'ime had officiously removed, aud resisting her efforts to lead her to the tire. ''It don't ruin; it ouly mist a ty.tkj." "Rut it does ruin," sharply spoke Adrienne, giving the girl's laded Bkirt a thuke as she spoke. '-Don't you see the dropst Well," with you don't choose to fault is your own." i shrill laugh, "It dry yourself, the "I was to return as soon as possible, ma am," said little llachel, 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-plexioned 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 be 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 1" twittered Mrs. Madison. "Some of our maids are so very superior I The idea of ransacking their trunks, as if they were common burglars 1" "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 ncr mistress. pered, her nalf-cloBed gray eyes furtively observing the detective as she spoke "but it occurs to me that I have a now clue to this mystery. The little milliner girl is below stairs; she has just brought home this bonnet, remaps mademoiselle has forgotten that she waited in made moiselle's dressing-room half an hour last Wednesday. Mademoiselle has not seen her ring since." Corisande knitted her brows. "To be surer' said she. "But you don t suppose that she has taken it?" Adrienne drooped her eyelashes. " I would venture to make no accu&a tion, mademoiselle," said she, " but per haps, in a moment of temptation "The matter is easily settled," said ed.'J said he aung rch er. " woinier- the detective. " We can have th person up here at once and search .Little Kachel came up, much ing. She was startled when Adrienne volubly explained to her the business upon wmch she was summoned, but con sented at once to the search. " Why shouldn't If" said she. simply. "I have nothiner 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 one glittering fascet of fire, set in its plain circlet of gold, flashed suddenly upon their eyes I "Hal" said Adrienne, pouncing upon it, as some raven might pounce on its prey. "Mademoiselle can see for her self I Ah, wretch I perfldous thief !" And she shook Rachel by the shoulder with one hand, as she held up the ring with the other. Rachel had turned as pale as ashes. "I think I must be dreaming!" said she. "I never saw tho ring before in all my lifer' "Come, come," said tho detective, "that sort ofMhing won't go down. I'm afraid you're i old hand at the busi ness, for all yovlook 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. She stole the ring in a moment of temptation. She has suffered suffi ciently. I don't believe she will ever of fend in this way again." 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 into Ireedom once more, The fashionable milliner who had em ployed the 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 worn, the horizon was over clouded at once when the question of references came up. No one wanted a thief about their premises I 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,", suid she. "My husband's daughter never was a thief!" It was in the bleak winter-time when Adrienne Moncontour engaged the one attic bedroom that Mrs. llollcy still had to let. Adrienne had left Miss Madison's ser vice some weeks before. She could not agree with the new housekeeper, who loudly declared that the French maid had once been employed as a waitress in a gambling suloon in Paris. Perhaps there was some truth in this, for certain it was J hat Adrienno had an unconquerable mania for cards, and at a genteel gambling place, frequented by haggish old women aud sage young ones, she lost ail her little savings, and crept into Mrs. llolley's back attic bed-room, us she supposed, to die. "I'm ufraid she's a bud lot," said Mrs. Holley; "but I wouldn't let even a cat die iu my house, without a little care. Ruclmel, you may make her a little beef tea, uud I'll spare her a wing oif the fowl for her dinner." Aud the mother and stepdaughter to gether nursed Adrienne back to some thing like strength. "I dou'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!" groaned Adrienne. "We didn't suppose, me and mother, that you could," said Rachel, simply. "But that don't signify." "Seel" cried Adnenne, with ievensh eagerness, "I heard you down stairs yesterday. Since you cut tho stove-pipe hole to let tbe heat como up to warm my poor bones, the sound comes up also. The ship-carpenter on the second floor ine snip-carpenter on the second floor ' asked you to marry him. You confessed ' 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. "iou have saved my life I" said the Frenchwoman, excitedly. "Do you think I will let you break your heart! No 1 I will set all that right. It was I that stole Miss Madison's diamond ring, I knew that a search was impending 1 j uau lue nog in my possession, anu wneu 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 !" she 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. Ilelen Forrett Grave. An Early Lynching Tarty. Previons to his departure for his pres-1 t home in Kentucky, Captain Nicholas ! a v ""n... 7-..--7 ffi cnt Freeh favored the rott-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 ihat time about forty years ago Memphis did not enjoy a great reputa tion for peace and quietness. Murders were frequent; punishments few and far between; in one word, the situation was such as to hold out every inducement to Judge Lynch. v One day another most brutal murder occured. A Main street merchant was shot and killed in front of his own door, where he was quietly sitting be 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 ' mm to surrender tne Keys, out peaceiui Germans as they were they first tried! persuasion, following the line of aigu- j ment that resistance would be useless. . This argument seemed to have the de sired effect, for though reluctantly, the jailer threw open the doors, saying: "Well, boys, if you must have 'iui, go in and get 'ira." 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 key. At the same time the court-house bell sounded the alarm. Tho brave avengers were trapped, and immediately had more important business on hand than lynching their fel low prisoner, namely, 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 one cent each and cost, which the captain paid for all of them. This was the first and last German lynching in Memphis. Memphu 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 Rantzau, and two sons, Counts Herbert aud William, both of whom are younger than their sister, and unmarried. The former is in the diplomatic service, and has in his official capacity been attached to several embas sies, and recently to that in London. The 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 lust 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, m wnose bureau bis son-in-law bus also found employment. I may mention, too, that the prince is the happy possessor of grandchildren, line, bturdy little fel lows, the eldest of whom occasionally pays a visit ut his grundfuther's palace with the cup of the Yellow Cuirassiers on his fair young head. MoriU Bunch, in J larger' a. "Trust men and they will trust you," said Ralph Waldo Lmerson. "Trust men and they will buist you," says ud ordinary every-day business man. WIT FOR WARM WEATHER, BATCH Or rUWJTT SJTOBIES FKOK ZXCHAJSTQEBJ. Why He Rebelled Patience Some thing Wrong semewhere-Cnrlnf It of Smoking- The Bavd Boy-. Some years ago a detachment of United States artillery was stationed at Hot Springs, Ark., to protect the public prop erty the supremo court having decided that the springs belonged to the United States. One day one of the detachment fell ill and was ordered by the surgeon to "take a hot bath and drink the water," meaning the sulphur spring water. He 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 the attendant went in to see how he was getting along. He found the soldier sitting on the edge of th6 tub mucn gWOuen about the waist and I me water reaucca about one-nan. j ne attendant asked him how he was getting along. The soldier replied: "Pretty well. I enjoyed the 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 happy 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 want, and I have to skimp along like a pauper." "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." ,. P wba J0" don' Jrac tlC0- " . yu 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 the figures. There comes one now who probably wants huckleberries. Here are some fresh ones ut fifteen cents per quart, and yetf should ask her only eleven she'd 1 u'anr ntn ts run 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." " Ia quart boxes f" "Yes'm." "How much t" "Only eleven cents per box, madam," "1 11 take the whole lot," she quietly observed as she handed out a f 5 bill, " , . " . , . . The citizen disappeared at that moment nd. the grocer believes that it was a put- "j-j"" """ Curing; It of Smoking. Jones P. Wiloughrib is a wag, who has incurred the cumity 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 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 get there. There is a chronic smoker down there, which has turned black in tho 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." The doctor and Wiloughrib got into the doctor's buggy aud were driven rapidly to the scene of the disaster. When they ar rived, Wiloughrib 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 Eut up the stove, and then presented a ill for twenty-five dollars for profes sional services. Through Mail. The Davd Boy. Say, what is this I hear about your j pa and tne new minister quarreling" suid the groceryman to the bad boy, as j he showed up at his usual hour. I "Well, it was partly true, but it was all a joke," said the bad boy, as he looked out the door to see if his parent was in the vicinity. "You see, it was a new minister that came nere to ex change works with our preacher. You know when they exchange works it is as good as a vacation, 'cause both min isters can preach au old sermon that has been laying around and got moth eaten. The next day after the visiting preacher preached he came to our house to stay a day or two, at ma's invitu tion. Pa hasn't been feeling very wll lately, and ma said he wanted some ex citement, and I thought of anoldsto .'r I read once about some students at i theological seminary making two pift ' son believe that each other was deaf and I how they talked loud to each other, and 1 thought if such a joke was all right in a college where they turned out young preachers, it would do at our 'house, so I told ma she better tell pa to talk loud enough, or the preacher couldn't hear him. You see 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 the preacher hear or talk the top of his head off. I brought the minister's satchel over from the house where ha had been stopping, and he came along with me, and I asked him how his voice was, and he 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 as loud as he did when he got excited in preaching, pa would hear the most of what he 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 1' Well, you'd a dide. It seemed as though his voice would knock the new minister's ear off, but the minister braced himself, inflated bis 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 relidgin, and politics, and everything, and pa mopped his bald head with his handkerchief, and tho minister got red in the face; and finally pa told the minister he neod 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 he minis ter said pa was a worldly minofed son of Belial, and then ma she see it wostime to stop it, and she went down stairsofei 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 again I am about as few as any of the boys. Well, there was no harm done, but pa and the minister have their opinion of each other." Peck's Sun. Bhymes 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 Fahey, 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., III." 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- did not get it v.uuu .j 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 BUte of New York I hope it will go." But it went to the dead letter office instead. Another envelope has : "Hello! Uncle Bam ; let me go In your mail, As I've taken a notion to ride on a rail To Illinois ISutto, and there let me atop. And in McLean county just please let me drop ; In Leltoy P. O. there let me lay, Until Keason K. Gay takes me away." But the P. M.'s reply just below says: "Played out, my dear boy, There is no use in talking, 1 f 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 fust can. you I've just paid your fare to good Uncle Sam ; The cast) is quite urgent, so dou't stop to think, Don't tarry for lunches or even a drink, Lviuan street ycu w ill very soon ttitd, Where the people are honest, good-natured Frank Taylor, tks man to whom you must go, Is at 40 Lyman street, Cleveland, Ohio." Watiiiiyton Capital. The beautiful fashion of weariog flowers in the hair is revived in Pai but this is for evening oniy, of cour ILLUSIONS. When youth's Illusion vanish with the ps We mis our Infant measure of the A single footstep fords th shallow tide Of yon small brook we thought wo deep anal wide. The endles meadow endless roll do more, It sheeted daisies have their bound and ahoya We seek the hilltop once our highest goej. And sigh to find it but a common knoll. How large the berries when ourselves wara small, How tall the clover when we were not tall. The very shadows by the roadside flung, Were broader, cooler then for w were young. lis thus illusions narrow to the gaze, Diminishing with man' increase of days. Tis thus that from the daybreak of his youth Insensibly he finds the path of truth. 67. H. Coomer.in Youth Companion. HUMOR 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 ut right up. Haukeye. "Mary, be careful, my child, when going out. Have a will of your own." "Oh, I've got a Will of my own, mofher 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. According; to a physician, suddei fright is a cure for sickness. The diffi culty is to procure that medicine; for a person who is right down seasick doesn't care a continental whether the old shi; 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 wifi 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 mors cats and make less noise than forty boot jacks. Peck' Sun. Bin 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. t Close to his side she nestling pressed ; 1 He felt her heart-throba 'gaiiwt his breast, w mie irustiui love snone in nis race. " I want," she said, with blushiug grace, li Another plate." Indianapolii Time. "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 g week before, he understood why his cor dial greeting was met so coldly. INTERESTING FACTS IN NATURAL HISTORY. When the overheated small boy take a awia He won't go home until his hair has dried Lest his watchful mother should catch out! him ' n And undertake to tan hi youthful hide. When the small boy wants some fishing worm! to find He will spade an acre field and not feeJ tired, Though for digging he is not at all inclined, And to weed a garden never could be hired. Hatchet. . . Treatment of Dog-Bites. Mr. T. M. Dolan, the author of a stand datd work on hydrophobia, has drawn up 1 the following simple remedies lor tbe im I mediate treatment of dog-bites: "The 1 bite of a healthy dog cannot cause hydro phobia. This is a well-established fact. As it is difficult to determine the stato oi ! health of a dog at the time he bites, tha ! wound should be treated as if the dog were rabid. Dog-bites should be treated at once by the person bitten or by a by stander, by sucking the wound if possi- i 1,1 pnlnnrinrrfhn wnnnd VL-it h A ivn If n i f A 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 tho wound, if possible, and spitting out the blood extracted. If neat a medical man's house, run there at once. If in a part where the person bitten can not apply his mouth, some bystandei should suck the wound no harm can fol low from thus lending assistance. Tha dog inflicting the bite ahuuld be kept un der observation for at least fourteen days. It will soon be seen whether it is healthy or not. It healthy, there is no fear of f u- turo development of hydrophobia. If the person bitten experiences shooting i puin up the arms or other parts of the body, three or four Turkish baths should , be taken. If the person bitten is nervous, I he should place, himself under the caru of I his medical attendant. 1 have treated , sonio hundreds of cases of do'' bites from ! a11 l,art8 of ll" ""V")'. a"d 1 " gld to i 8ay that those bitten hve not experienced any after symptoms." JLwJon hra. It is not much of a compliment, after alt, to B!.y that a man is sound, bouia men are nothing but sound. A