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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT 1," 1884.
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, ELM BTKKBr, TI02JESTA, l'A.
A CHILD S FANCIE-
1 MB I,AK! Or rOUHTKUPANB.
i I vvai gick and Inyibed,
! two pillows nt mv head,
i nil my toy Inside mo lay
I - i'p ido tmj'py nil Uio day.
' .- :r!imr5 for nn hour or ao
! lied my leaden soldiers go,
' !i flitToirnt; uniform. on;l drills,
u (ing the bod clothe, through the hills.
il l orri( times sent my ship in fleets
" il up and down among the sheets;
( 'r Ill-ought my trees and houses out,
And planted cities nil about
I wns the giant great and still
That Bits upon the pillow hill,
And boos before him field and plain,
The pKttsant liiud of counterpane.
TUB WIND.
V"'i tons the kit on high
' 'v the birds about the sky;
! n round I hoard you pass
Bklrte across the grass
nil, a-blowing all day tongl . .
, " irid, thnt sings so loud a song I
'w the different things you did,
nft always folt yourself you hid;
I Ml you push, I heard you call,
1 could nil see yourself at all
Oh, wind, a-blowlng all day longl
. Oh, wind, that sings so loud a song!
Oh, you that are so strong and cold,
'h, blower, are you young or oldl
N re you a beast of Held and tree,
j'mt a stronger child than me?
: , wind, a-blowing all day longl .
wind, that sings so loud a songl
the cow. ;
. ii'tidly cow, all rod and white,
v with all my heart;
;;i ves me cream with oil hor might,
i j rut my apple tort
' wnudurs lowing here and there,
A nd yet she cannot stray,
' '1 in the pleasant open air,
The plett8aiit light of daf.
il blown by all the winds that pass,
n l w ot with all the showers,
i'Ics among the meadow grass
1 'His tho meadow flowers.
t It. Stevenson, in Art Journal.
JACK.
. - , i i t
' I don t know about sending such a
itrned little chap its he Is." "
"That is the kind that need to go.rt
' Hut what if nobody'H lake him?'"
"Then I'll bring him back." 1 .
So enid tb.o superintendent of one of
i earliest companies of children sent
t by the fresh-air fund, and so it canio
it Jack joined the eager little crowd
iwn from alley and slum of the great
"ilo is a tough one." said the super
''ndent to himself, watching Jack as
lmlf carelessly, half wilfully tripped
i one or two smaller boys in the rush
hieh cniuo when they were leaving the
ij'Hmbont in order to tako the cars.
v'ile don't look like the right sort,"
s ud one or two farmers.
If they were the right sort they
wouldn't need our help," mid a plcasunt-
i-icod womun who sat in a spring wagon.
"Put him in here, please. Come, my
" cy, will you go home with me?"
Jack 'climbed into tho wagon, . but
: ;ade little answer to the kindly attempts
j draw him into conversation, Mis
yeg were neyjjiai4 toward her as he
mla aliing iu urrjr-A(Jlence, and Mrs.
mu began to coucludu that she- had
ken hold of a very hard case indeed.
Hut it was quickly seen that there
-c some things which Jack loved. Be-
night ho had made friends with
&:, cows, chicKens, ducks, geese and
and lying under .a tree lit rapt ad
ition of a pert jay which chattered
ve him, and almost succeeded in
iing it to light on his finger.
" Come with nie, and Til show you
something more," said Mrs. Lynn, tho
next morning after breakfast. Hho put
a pail of suit into his hand, and they
walked up a liule glen, then up a steep
hill, when she called : .
" Kan, nan, nan, nan, nan, nan come
nan, come, nan; come, my pretties;
como, my pretties."
A quiet little pattering wneard, and
down along the path whic,l rfd higher
tip Jack suw coming a lin A soft look-
inc white thinus.
" What's their nn
he cried, in
" Sheep. There af;rcat many more
tip over the top of the hill, but they
don't know me very well, so they don't
come. V e must go further,
Higher up they went to where a sunny
pasture sloped more gntly down the
other side, and there weje hundreds of
the pretty creatures niminr the short
gntss or lying under the lives. They
looked nt the stiuugerg with shy, gentle
eyes, but gathered ucar" Mrs. Lynn
repeated tier c;all.
Jack laughed and whooped and rolled
on the ground in the excess of his de
light at first frightening them away.
Buthe was soon in among them, winning
them by his coaxing tones to taste the
suit he hel l out to lhem. The boy's face
stfiued tjufWoiined as Mrs. Lynn got her
iirst full glance at his eyes, anil wondered
at them. Tli were lago aud clear and
soft as he laid his hands lovingly on the
heads of some half-grown lambs, und
presently tenderly lifted one which
'emed a little lame.
"You may take that oneto the house, if
u like," said Mrs. Lynn, "and 1 will
id up its poor foot."
ile did so, and when he carried it back
'.he lloi k he remained all day, only
i to the house when called to dinner
! ue sound of the couch-shell. And
ry day afterward the most of hie time
j pat on the breey hill side, per-
hnps taking in the beauties of valley and
stream and woodland which lay below,
but finding his (ill of enjoyment in the
sheep. lie was little seen nt the -house,
secminff not to care for anv human soci
ety, but he took long walks at his will,
from which he once brought home a bird
with a broken' wing, and again a stray
starved kitten, both of which he carefully
tondod.
"Hear html'' said Mrs. Lynn, one day,
when she had gone out into the meadow
where her husband was at work. "I be
lieve he knows every sheep there."
Jack's voice came ringing down the
hill.
"Iliho 1 hiho I hiho ! hiho-o-o-o-o-o!
my baauticst Come, Daisy face, come,
Cloutf-white, como, my Trigsy-tocs and
Hippety-hop and Hobbldehoy. Ililla,
hilla, ho! my llop-and-skip and old
Jttmp-the-fencel Como with ycr patter-
atter and yer wiggle - waggle, my
icautics, ohl Where be you, Flat and
Flinders and Foam? Come here, my
jolly boys, and kick up yer heels on the
grass In the mo-o-o-o-rning."
"He gets off some such rigmarole
whenever he goes near them," she said;
" and I'm sure every sheep knows him."
Jack staid for a month among hi
floecy darlings, and when the time came
for saying good-bye to them, nobody
was near to hear him say it. lie allowed
Mrs. Lynn to shake his hand as he
stepped on board the train which was
to bear him back to his home, or rather
to his homelessness, but with little re
sponse to her kind farewells.
the had tried so faithfully to impress
him with tho idea that there are plenty
in this wide world whoso hearts the dear
Lord has filled with the tendcrest pity
and love toward those whose paths
seemed laid in shadowed places, that
she felt keenly disappointed in fearing
she might have entirely failed. How
ever, she remembered with comfort that
just as the' last car was passing the plat
form, from .which she watched it, she
had indistinctly caught sight of a boy's
face whose softened eyes seemed filled
with tears as ho strained his eyes to gain
a last glance at her, and she believed in
her heart it was Jack's face.
"It is no use trying to get the matter
righted," said farmer Lynn to his wife,
speaking in great veration. "This man
Green's a tricky ,khave.- Ever since the
daytiis sheep Uk-j-ftito my chj-iaud
got mixed up with my flock' the fellow
Has botn claiming some twenty or so of
my best Atwoods and Cotswolds, and
now he's going to law to make me give
them up."
"lVolI, if you're right, won't that be
besf for you?" -,
"Not with such a man as that. He's
ready to swear the sheep are bis, and
there's the trouble. I'm morally sure I
know my sheep, but when it comes to
being pinned right down to swear to
each one among so many, I can't do it."
She shook her head.
"No, you couldn't; sheep are too much
alike, and you would run the risk of
thuking a mistake. When is the trial to
be?"
"Next Thursday week."
For the next few days Mrs. Lynn went
about with a very sober face. She took
two or three rides to the village, actually
had an interview with Mr. Lynn's law
yer, wrote several letters, and one day
the entire neighborhood was alarmed by
a messenger impairing his way with a
telegram for Mrs. Lynn, it being the
first thing of such an exciting nature
that had ever happened in the township.
But after that evening everything went
on very quietly until the morning of the
day 6et for the trial.
"Well," said Mr. Lynn, "I s'pose
Green'll be out here this afternoon to
swear my sheep are his. The lawyers are
coming, too."
The afternoon came, and with it came
Qreen, the lawyers, and half the town
ship beside.
They cam.e, looked over the ground,
saw the two fiocks fcediug in adjoining
fields, and how, the fence breaking, they
had become mingled. Then little re
mained but for Mr. Green to declare
which of his own sheep had remained in
Mr. Lynn's flock.
But Mr. Lynn strongly protested
against the wrong being uono him, as a
number of his choicest animals were
picked out and put over the fence. His
lawyer was restless, and seemed anxious
to delay the proceedings, at length say
fng. 'I am looking for another witness."
"It won't do much good, I fuuey,"
said Green, with a triumphant laugh.
Mrs. Lynn drove rapidly up in her
spring wagon, and her husband looked
1 1 eagerly to see w lio was witn her.
1 "Jack!" he exclaimed. "But what
if "food can ho do, I'd like to know?"
Mr. Green's laugh took on a scornful
tone us he saw the new witness.
Ho! ho! Mr. Bright, is hat your
witness? A heavy weight, I must say,
Whodo you s'posv Is going to take the
testimony of a little scapegrace raga
muffin like that, hey? And agaiust me!"
"I am not going to ask the boy to tes
tify. I am going to let the sheep testify
for themselves. Now, gentlemen, Mrs.
Lynn believes that their sheep know the
voice of this boy, und will come at his
call, and it is my purpose to submit their
testimony to the decision of the court.
Mr. tireen's sheep have only been lately
pastured here. Now, my boy, stand on
this fence, and let's see if the aheep will
claim the, honor of your acquaintance."
Jack leaped upon the fence which di
vided the two fields, und run a little way
along it. For a moment there was a
huskiucss in his throat and a dimness in
his eyes as ho turned to the pasture in
which he had spent the only happy hours
his life had ever known. He gave one
look at his peaceful, white-fleeced pets,
and then turning his face the other way,
his voice rang out clear and distinct on
the crisp air :
"Hiho, hiho, hiho, hiho-o-o o-o-o, mj
beauties! Como, Daisy-face, come,
Clotid-whito, comu, my Tripsy-tons, and
Hobbledehoy; coma, Jack and Jill, and
Clover and Buttercup. Ililla, hilla, hilla,
ho-o-0-o-o-o. my Hop, Skin and Jump,
como with ycr patterin' ana yer wiggle
waggle tail, my woolly backs! 'Where
be you, my jolly boys, kickin' up yer
heels in the wind ? Come, Snip and
Snnp and Snorum and Flax and Flinders
and Foam."
At tho sound of his voice a few white
heads were raised among tho grazing
flock in Mr. Lynn's field; then more, and
then a commotion stirred the quiet crea
tures. Bleating, they ran to the fence
where Jack stood, and crowded about
him, almost clambering oner each other
in their efforts to reach him. But little
heed was paid to them, for all were watch
ing Mr. Green's sheep. There was a stir
among them, too, for nine-tenths of the
flock, alarmed by the unknown voice cut
ting so sharply through tho still air, had
turned and lied, and were huddling in a
white mass in a distant corner, while
about twenty had bleated their recogni
tion of a friend, and hurrying up with a
run and a jump, were also gathering close
about him. And Jack sprang dtwn
among them, and with arms around the
neck, and face buried in the fleecy back
of one of his special favorites, was sob
bing as if his heart were breaking.
Mr. Bright danced about like a school
boy, swung his hat, and pitched it high
in the air.
"Hurrah 1 hurrah! hurrah for boys and
sheep! They are the best witnesses I
ever want. Mr. Lynn's case is the sound
est one I ever carriod before a court."
"Witnesses!" growled Green. "Are
you such idiots as to think this will
amount to anything in law?" .
It did amount to something in law,
however, as Mr. Green found out when
the judge's decision was given.
As soon as the men were gone, Mrs.
Lyon bent over Jack, whose head was
still bowed.
"Jack, my boyj don't cry so. Don't
you know you have friends a,ll around
you ?"
"Yes. Look at 'em." He looked
about with a smile.
"Yes, the sheep, aud plenty more if
you'll have them. Oh, Jack we're all
your friends. The loving Shepherd I
told you of has sent us to try to do vou
good. He? wants you to follow him fust
as. th,t sheep come'at the sound of 'your
voicej because they love you and you
love them., Do you want to stay here and
take care of them ?" . -
"Stay here, with you and the sheep ?"
Jack's eyes, beaming with joy and grati
tude, frankly met here.
"I think we've found tho soft place at
last," said Mrs. Lynn to herself, as she
went home, leaving him on tho sunny
hill-side, Young People.
The Story of Lore Song.
Upon one of the many hills surround
ing this old Ohio city, pays a letter from
Zauesville to the New York Sun, is a
beautiful homestead which overlooks the
sjnoky expanse of tho town and the shin
ing course of the Muskiugum river.
Thirty years ago a young preacher walked
down the hill from this home heavy at
heart and weary of the world. , Two
years before he had come to Zanesville
fresh from the old collegian institution in
Columbus as the Rev. 11. D. L. Webster.
Ho soon fell in love with Ella Bloxom,
tho daughter of Judge Bloxom, who sang
in the choir of his church. Ho was priv
ileged as a pastor to call upon his fair
chorister at the home of her married sis
ter, Mrs. Henry Blandy. The young, pen
niless preacher proposed marriage to her,
and was rejected. The refusal was given
in a kind though firm manner, and the
young man persuaded himself that his
suit was denied because of his poverty
and tho pride of the girl's family. Ho
left Zanesville, for he could rrot be at
peace where the woman he loved was
shining in society.
In 1850 he moved to Racine, and soon
afterward wrote a song and crave it to J.
1'. Web8ter,tho composer. This song was
tho once popular "Lorena." In it Web
ster wrote .he sentiments of his heart to
the memory of the woman he had loved,
l'eople who remember the songs of twenty
years ago will readily recall the opening
lines: ' '
The years creep slowly by, Lorena,
The snow is on the gra-s anin,.
The sun's low down tuo sky, Ixirena,
The frost gleams where the flow'rs have
t been ;
But the heurt throbs on as warmly now
As when the kfimmcr days were nigh. .
Oh, the sun can never dip bo low
Adown alfeetion's cloudless sny.
In the days of the var the song took
a firm hold on the popular fancy. Soldiers
in the camps of both urmies sang the
plaintive verses. It was the "Annie
Laurie" of America. The name "Lor
ena " was given to ull sorts of things,
aud the young ladies of to-day respond
to the same musical name which senti
mental mothers of that time bestowed
upon them.
When it became known that Webster
wrote the song many of his acquaintances
in Zauesville remembered his love aHair
there, ami concluded at once that Klla
liloxoiii was the original of Lui'ena.
Miss Bloxom was married to William W.
Johnston, a young lawyer of lronton,
who hud been educated in Zanesvillo,
and who is now the chief justice of Ohio
and the Wcpuhlicun candidate for select
man. Mr. Webster, who has drifted
about from pastorate to pastorate, was
recently stationed in Oak Grove. . llu
also is married, having now a wile and
several children.
It is stated flint Mr. John Robert", t
British member of parliament, owns
about 'M0 acres of the land 6a which
Liverpool it built, containing at present
7,500 h res with a population of about
40,000.
HUMORISTS OF THE TRESS.
W1G3,
Wo n mrimlrnl I'.nr A narrow r
rnpei A TOtNti-r Itonled The
Ilailrond Iloa; Dna; and Crab.
"My dear, I wish you would tell the
servant to stop moving that furniture
around in the parlor. I'm sure she has
broken some of the vases and Sevres
warn."
"I hear no noise, Christopher."
" There 1 She has dropped the clock 1
I heard the shade smash 1"
" Why, Christopher, how silly you are I
That's not the servant moving the furni
ture; that's Birdie practicing a Wag
nerian sonata. Chicago Newt.
A NarTOiY Escape.
"Sister I" cried a little boy, running
into the room, "your little pug dog has
bit me on the leg."
"What!" exclaimed the frightened
young lady. "Beauty has bitten you on
the leg? Let me see."
She hastily pulled down his stocking,
and sure enough thero was the impres
sion of his teeth.
"You naughty boy," said his s'yrter,
shaking him violently, "don't yojtiow
better than to teaso Beauty? Someday
he will bite a big lump out of your leg,
and it might make him deathly sick."
Philadelphia Call.
A maalier Routed.
A lady, young and handsomely
dressed, entered a Woodward avenue
car and sat down opposite a passenger
who had the appearance of a gentleman,
but soon showed himself to be that con
temptible creature, a masher. He took
no notes on time, but at once proceeded
to mash ; he stared, ogled, srai fed insinu
atingly and made a second-class fool of
himself at sight. The lady was discom
posed. She seized her parasol and every
one present hoped she was about to mash
the masher.
But she simply raised the parasol and
spread it in his face. Under its protect
ing screen, she calmly continued on her
way, but the chagrined masher got out
at the next crossing and made himself
scarce.
When he was gone the lady closed her
parasol and said: "I haye heard of
frightening wild beasts by such a weapon
opened suddenly, in their faces, and I
find it serves as good a purpose with
tamo ones.". .
The passengers a applauded. De
troit Free Press.
The Railroad Hog.
"Is this seat unoccupied?" a lady tim
idly inquired.
Her voice was not very loud. It did
not recall the fat man from his reverie
nor his gaze from something interesting
in the brick wall of the depot. The lady
passed on as though embarrassed at the
sound of her request.
"Is one af these seats disengaged?"
The question was asked in a firm, clear
voice by a young woman, who looked
steadily into the monopolist's eyes as
though she understood him. His head
turned slowly, and he coldly replied:
"All engaged."
Then he resumed his study of the wall,
and the train moved slowly out of the
depot. ,
"Oof!"
The exclamatiorresembIed exactly the
grunt of a pig. It was made by a young
man with a dimple in his cheek and a
twinkle in his eye, on a seat diagonally
across the aisle and behind the bald
headed man. He was absorbed in an in
teresting article in a newspaper. The ex
clamation was not noticed.
"Oof t Oof I Oof!"
A young ladv in the seat behind the
person intended to be described by the
young man with the dimple, tittered
aloud. The fat man with four sittings
stole a wicked glance at the young man
with the newspaper, and then settled
back with a determined gesture of his
head and neck as if he wasn't going to
mind it.
"Oo-bo-oofl kweck! kwe-e-cek! oof!
oof"
The passengers turned their attention
to the passenger with the four seats.
Tho bald spot on his head began to get
red.
"Kwe-e-cek, kwe-e-eek, kwe-e-eek!
Oof, oof, oof, oof!"
A tittering, and giggling broke out
spontaneously up and down fhe car.
The bald spot on the fat man's head
blazed. Then one foot was dragged
slowly off from the front seat, then tho
other. A hand reached out carefully
and set one valise on the floor. Then
the other valise followed.
"Seat here, I guess, ladios," he
growled.
Three women threw grateful glances
at the grunter and took their seats. The
grunter, who had not lifted his eyes from
his newspaper, turned it over to continue
reading, but just at that instant the train
glided into the tunnel. Xea York Hun.
Iog and Crab.
Some years ago my neighbor had a
dog of un inquiring turn of mind, which
he called l'hilosopher when hewas not
iu a hurry. l'hilosopher was in the
habit of coining over upon my premises,
and tryjng in various ways to win my
respect aud esteem; but he never suc
ceeded to any great extent, l'erhaps he
did not go about it in, the right way. Ho
came oft in the stilly night, aud sat under
my window and poured out his soirow
to the moon. Tho moon seemed to stand
it, but 1 couldn't. I went to my neigh
bor with a protest, but he said he could
do nothing; that he didu't like to hear
a dog howl ay better than I did; but,
according I divine law, that was the
only way iu which a dog could give ex
pression to his deeper emotions, and he
thought msn ought to try and put up
with it. Beside, he said, he believed
that the howling of a dog waSjanaomen !
or-rjcatn.
I told him I thonght so, too, especially
when the dog howled under my window,
and then I went and bought a shot-eun.
But after that Philosopher seemed to
reform and lead a more joyous life. He
stayed home of nights, and if he was
ever sad,, he brooded mostly in silence.
One day I came home with a basket
full of crabs, and found Philosopher sit
ting in my yard with a look of mingled
curiosity and pleasure on his open
and expressive countenance. -He seemed
to bo glad to see me, and when I set the
basket upon the ground and turned
aside, ho went up to it in an inquiring
sort of way. As I have said, he was of
a very investigating turn of mind. He
would sit by a hen's nest half an hour,
waiting for the hen to get through lay-,
ing and adjourn, so that ho could form
himself into a committee of one and in
vestigate the proceedings. And his1 in
vestigation of a hen's nest wa9 always
systematic and thorough.,
When he saw something move in my
basket, he appeared to grow more than
usually curious. He seemed to be both
surprised and delighted that I had car
ried home something that was alive. He
smelted cautiously around the basket,
wagged his tail with a graceful easy rao
sion, and then, growing more curious and
bold, he stuck his nose down among the
crabs and picked a largo one up. He did
not intend to pick it up so suddenly ;
it was all the crab's doing. It got one of
its claws tangled somehow with Philos
opher's noso, and then there was a sound
of revelry Jby day. I never before saw
a dog get so excited. Ho lost nil co'n
trol over himself. His one prominent
thought seemed to bo a desire to go
ayvay somewhere and he went. Ho went
with exceeding impetuosity. He went
as nothing had gone before.cxccpt chahi
lightning, perhaps, and ho took my crab
with him.
If any traveler in Europe, Asia or
Africa has seen a yellow dog with a part
of one ear bit off, and an expression de
noting humblo birth, with a healthy
looking crab hanging to his nose, the
traveler will receive alarsre assortment
of thanks by communicating with my
neighbor. But I am rathor indifferent.
I lost a good crab, I know; butthure is
no loss without some slight compensa
tion. Scot Jfav. in Puck.
Early American Coinage.
The earliest coinage that can be called
American, in the seme of Anglo-Amen
can, was ordered by the original Virginia
company, only fiyo years after tho found
ing of Jamestown, the coins were minted
at borne rs islands, now known as the
Bermudas. For a longwhilo tho stand
ard currency of Virginia ' was tobacco, as
in many of the early settlements oflhe
Northwest it was beavarskins. 'Tli Ac
counts of tho fur tradeSiand pioneer in
their dealings with th 'Indians wire
kept in beaver skins 'instead of dollars'
until some years after the opening of this
ce'ntury, and iu some parts of tho Domin
ion of Canada they are still "kept so. In
1045 the assembly of the Virginia col
ony, after a preamble reciting tliat "it
had maturely weighed and considcredhow
advantageous a quoine would bo to this
colony, and the great wants and miseries
which do daily happen unto it bjr'tho
sole dependency upon tobacco," pro
vided for the issue of copper coins of
the denomination s of twopence, three
pence, sixpence and ninepense; but this
law was never carried into effect, so the
first colonial coinage of this country was
that struck off by Massachusetts under
the order of the general fcourt of that
colony, passed May 27, 1805, creating a
"mint howse" at Boston, aud providing
for tho mintage of "12 pence, 6 pence
and 3 pence pieces, which shall be for
foAne fiatt, and stamped on the one side
with N. E., and on tho other side with
XHd., VId., and Hid., according to tho
value of each piece.''' In 1002, from this
same mint, appeared tho famous "pine
tree shillings," which were two-penny
pieces. This mint was maintained' for
thirty-four years. A the reign of Wil
liam and Mary copper coins were struck
in England for New England and Caro
lina. Lord Baltimore had silver shil
lings, sixpences, and fourpences made
in England to supply the demands of
his province of Maryland. .Vermont
and Connecticut established mints in
1785 for the issue of copper coin. New
Jersey followed a year later. But Con
gress had the establishment of a mint
for the confederated States under .ud- !
visement, and in this samo year agreed I
upon a plan submitted by Thomas Jef- I
ferson, and the act went into operation :
on a small scale in 1787. After the
adoption of the Constitution of tho '
United States in 178'.) all the State i
mints were closed, as the constitution
specifically places the sole power of
coining money in the Federal govern
ment. ' '
Mexican Etiquette.
I was given a lesson in etiquette by a
Mexican youug lady I met In the train,
says a correspondent. I chanced to be
the ouly man in the fclecping-car wheu it
drew out from El l'uso, and after an in
troduction by the conductor, to whose
charge the young lady had been com
mitted, she und 1 became quite well ac
quainted. " I saw you eating an orange
on the depot platform," she said. "In
Mexico that would be considered un
umiiuerly. There it is unmannerly to
eat anytmng outsiue oi a uouse, even ,
candy. Aud I noticed when Mr. Ro- i
mero gave you a Mexican match you
threw it away after using but one' end of
it. The other was still serviceable, and j
you should have returned the match with
your thanks. If you hand one a cigar i
or cigarette to light with, you must take
a whiff from it after it has been returned
to you, though it may ba bo short as to
burn your flngors." All this I received
with cood orrace. pr inv younsr ladv wa
but ten years of a;&-
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STRENOTH FOR TO-DAT.
Strength for to-day Is all that we need,
As there never will be a to-morrow
For to-morrow will prove but mtbr
day,
With ite measure of joy and sorrow.
Then why forecast the trials of life
With such grave and sad persistence,
And watch and wait for a crowd of Ills
That as yet has no existence.
Strength for to-day what a precious boo
For the earnest souls who labor,
For the willing hands that minister
To the-needy friend or neighbor.
Strength for to-day that the weary hearts
In the battle for right may quail not;
And the eyes bedimmed with bitter tears, .
In their search for light, may fail not.
Strength for to-dy, on the down-hill track
For the travelers near the valley
That up, far up on the other side,
Ere long they may safely rally.
Strength for to-day that our precious youth
. May happily shun temptation, "
And build om the rise to the set of sun
On a sure, and strong foundation.
Strength for to-day in house and home
To practice forbearance sweetly
To scatter kind words and loving deeds, '
Still trusting In God completely.
Strength for to-day is all that we need,
As there never will be a to-morrow,
For to-morrow will prove but another to
day, With ite measure of joy and sorrow.
Mrs. II. A. Kidder.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Drawing materials mustard and wa
ter. Life.
Never dispute with a woman about her
weight. She's always bound to have her
own weigh.
A wall in the southern part of China is
said to be entirely made of fish. It ought
to be an easy one to scale, Statesman.
A Philadelphia father makes his baby ,
sleep with tho nurse three-quarters of
mile off. It must fce the second one.
Courier -Journal.
"Do cats' reason ?" asks a Correspond
ent.; Cjtainly. There are two in our
neighborhood that are reasoning with
each other all through tho stilly night.,
Baltimore Ijay.
""Why am ilike a Wall street finan
cier ?" asked a young farmer as he re-
turned from the barn.
"I give it up,"
replied bis father,
been watering the
Timet.
''Because I have
stock. " Brooklyn
The old saw, "Never kick a man when
he is down" is a good one, because to
kick a man when he is down is cowardly. .
Now we give another, "Never kick a
man when he is up," because it is reck
less. EvansvilWArqut.
The young mrfh who wrote to his of
fended girl asking her to send him "
line" informing him what she would like
him to do. was surprised to receive by
return mail a clothes-line with a noose at
one end of it. Statesman.
The boy who seeks the river's brim,
Where he intends to take a swim,
But runs away,
Possesses wisdom, strength and vim;
For he wilae.ly- live to swim
Another day. '.
. New York Journal.
The wise men tell us that the. whale
lives about 400 years. Since the days of
the patriarchs, however, no man has ever
taken a whale from the breast and raised
it to old age. A whale would be a good
thing' for a man to buy who hated to part
with a pet' after he became attached to it.
Burlington Uawkeye. '
"It seems to me," said a judge to hie .
daughter, "that your young man calls .
good 1 many times, a week. My court -doesn't
sit anywhere near as often at
yours does." . 'Oh, well, papa," wai
tho blushing reply, "I am engaged to
him, you know, and that entitles us to s
court of special sessions."
Tho seats in a Western church are
set on pivots, like those in a dry goodi
store. This enables the fair "worship
er, who sits pretty well up, in front, to
turn around and count the number o!
new bonnets in the house without screw
ing her head off almost, and going home
with a stiff neck. Norristoxen Herald.
A paragraph in a number of our ax
changes says: "Napoleon was bow-legged,
Alexander Pope was humpbacked,
Hannibal had notoriously big heels and.
was knock-kneed, Cicero was spindle
shanked and Alexander's lofp leg was
badly out of plumb." One might sup-
pose that these old worthies wore alive
and running for a political office. jTor
rUtown Herald.
A -DOWN THE BAT.
8h waa a vision of delight,
When first she beamed Uxm my sight;
I met her in a easuul way
A-dowu the bay.
What sUwner, I refuse to tell,
Kiiough to nay. she pleased mo well ;
You bet it a a txtuuteous day
A down the bay.
She seemed Do modest and discreet,
' I thought I'd atiked hor in torat; .
It only cost me fvo wives' pay
A-dowu Uio buy.
l:oitun Star.
Keutlis from Cholera.
1871 there were 300,000 deathl
cholera in' Russia; in 1873 there
In
from
were 10,000 deaths iu lj.aud; iu 1872
73 there were 140,000 deaths in Hun
gary; 1872-73 there were nearly 27,000
deaths in Prussia; in 1MU5-U7 there, were
143,000 deaths in Italy. In Paris the
mortality from cholera has been as fol
lows: In 18:;2, 1V.S--1 deaths; in 18i,
10,184; in 1853-31, 8,0'JO; in lstl.ytm,
12,0S2; iu 1813, b85. In England iu
1840 tho ueuths from cholera woie 70,-
000. In 1817 the armv of tho Marquis
i of llastlncrs loat in India 0.000 men io
1 . - .
twelve da from Aiatio cholera.
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