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EXPERIMENT.
'V'said Kate, dashing a
!ins upon the table, and
own braid go tumbling
' snid Beth.
l'." said Nannie, who was suf
h a dreadful cold,
c is it, girls?" said I, turning my
e down in my lap.
tho suppers," said Beth,
he everlasting gossip," said Kate,
so differed from hobe," said Nan
whom bourding-house life was a
perienco.
nil three, and much more," was
wanted to say, bu being the
''' four, it seemed my duty to
t of things; so I said, quite
didn't see anything unus
I'per to-night."
i ouble," groaned Beth,
'or too usual. I am so
mid butter and apple
V"8 that I foci like gnash
' t the sight of them. I
"e of toast or a bowl of
i'k. occasionally, without
'eel that I had disarranged
' liik'coijomy of the house."
j are bad enough," said
it re nothing to the gossip,
ing it whispered round
n and his wife had a
"'in last night,' or that
lias worn three new
ah,' or that 'Mr. Jewett
.-' lata the other night, and
'is though he fell upstairs.'
i Kate locked as scornful as a
o with a dimple in it would
'-i hi stad evcrythig else," said
"if it was odly hobe-like. Oh!
;;ld odly Bit dowd in a dead
t, with by feet in the stove oved,
braided mat in frod of the stove
dice cat od it, I should be per
ppy." ! laughed at this idea of bliss,
r the laugh there was a sudden
for each one of us recalled such,
and the presence that had mado
like.
Acre not sisters, or even kin to
Uer, but meeting as etruugers in
Soa,ding-house, a strong friend
i 1 gr6wntip between us, starting,
in the fact that we were each
i( d and hod our living to earn, and
( uened by many congenial tastes,
j o doing our daily duties in rather
t chectil way, usually with few
adits, but to-night wvere under
I. Outside.a November rain was
"g the windows, and inside, the
smoked.
was pay-day at tfie mauulactorv
Kate was book-keeper, auU that
hvays a hard day for her; Beth had
d two of her dullpst pupils through
music lesson; audi ljad had a time
ol thut afternoon with a f retch
boy, and was at my wits' end
to do with ' him on the
'; and Najpiie was .more than
k so we sut there quite still for
. Finally Beth spoke: "I sup-
might make these rooms look a
leasanter. We each have a few
and knicknacks."
you suppose I would han- my
oturcs against this awful paper ?'"
vote. "Besides, what would be the
Just as we got everything nicely
i, some man would want the room
i we should be invited to go up high
l've boarded in this house two
ars and in that time I've advanced
om the first floor back to the third floor
ont, and two moves more will take me
ut on the roof."
"We bight go sub where
-'annio.
else," said
"Oh! you
lughed Beth.
poor little innocent!"
"You'd 'change the
the pain.' They're all
lace and keen th rin
out alike."
At this Nannie lifted such a woe-be-ne
face that I felt something must be
i;e. 3
"Girls!" said I, in my most impressive
ool-room manner.
at hero there was an interruption, for
'lie left the rockinrr-flmi,. ,..j
iird the bed.
, Nannie !"cried Kate, "don't muss the
; it's hard enough anyway." But
spoke too late, for under the corn
ed influence of homesickness and in
na, Nannie had flung herself on the
1 in a forlorn little heap, and was lift
up her voice in a hoarse cry.
i Ids was simply dreadful,
'-th and I purred over and cuddled
, .and Kate slipped downstuirs and
ed the cross kitchen girl into mak
i bowl of sage tea, and by the time
was back with it the invalid was
what comforted.
ien quiet wag restored, I spoke
"Girls! let's go to housekeep
Nannie stopped the bowl naif
) her lips, Beth sit upright on the
and Kate dropped the stick of
n her hand back into the box.
; cre's the furniture coming from?"
'll pay the bills?" said Nannie,
o'll do tbo work?" said Beth.
I who was born south of Mason's and Dix-
"We'll all do it," said I. answering
the last question first; "and as for the
furnishing, that needn't cost so very
much; and about the bills Kate, how
much do we all pay a week?"
"Four times five is twenty, and two
dollars for washing makes twenty-two,"
said Kate, with bookkeeper promptness.
"Why," said Beth, beginning to be
eager, " lots of familios live on less than
that, and pay for everything out of it
clothes and doctor's bills and every
thing." Weil, we talked till midnight, and the
more wo talked, the more feasible the
schemo seemed, and it was decided that
we should commence tenement-hunting
the very next morning; and after Beth
and I had gone to our own room, Kate
came hurrying across to say she had
some spoons and forks which had been
her mother's, and that Nannie said she
knew Cow to make lovely waffles.
We expected a tedious time finding a
rent within our means; but it is aston
ishing how fortune helps those who try
to help themselves. That very week
a nice little scholar of Nannie's stopped
after school to say that her. parents
were going to move out of the city.
Wo knew where she lived a pleasant
house in a respectable locality; so after
supper Kate and I hunted up the land
lord, the next day we went in a body
to inspect the place, and the bargain was
concluded.
Between that time and our departure
we bade fair to lose our reputation of
being the quietest boarders in the house,
for every night thcro was talking and
laughing in one room or the other, while
we stitched and hemmed and figured
this last the hardest of all.
Jvate, with a confidence born of much
handling of money, made out a list in a
twinkling, which list was perfectly sat
isfactory to all of us until we inquired
prices. One thing we were agreed upon,
and that was, rigid economy, so we
cheapened this and left out that, until it
looked quite reasonable.
Well, the first day of December found
us in "our own hired house, " and as Beth
turned tho key in the hall door, we felt
that we had burned our ships behind us.
The outgoing tenants seemed to regard
our experiment in the light of a huge
joke, which they were willing to help
along, so they gave us a number of house
keeping thinirs, nmoncr others a braided
mat, and a half-dozen plants all in blos
som, and sold us their range at a very
low price. Beside this, we had a couple
of bedsteads with the furnishings, a few
dishes, our trunks, and a half-dozen
packing boxes of different sizes.
, The next fortnight was a busy one. We
rose early and went to bed late, and lived
in picnic fashion, while we painted and
pounded, and planned. We were in a
state of mind where we wished for no
advice, much less help, from anybody
outside; but after jamming considerable
plaster from the walls, and skin from our
knuckles, we decided there were times
when a man could be made useful, and
at Nannie's suggestion a certain young
architect from the boarding houso was
taken into or confidence, and did val
iant sorvice in putting up shelves and
hooks.
One Friday night, with the last screw
in the kitchen clockrshelf, Jhe work was
done, and I doubt it many brides, going
into - houses luxuriantly appointed with
out care of theirs, feel half the satisfac
tion that we did in looking round on the
result of our' ingenuity and hardwork.
And it was h right cosy little place. There
was a good-sized sitting-room with two
sleepiug-roovs opening from it, u kitchen
adjoining, a store-room, closets, etc., and
as the house was on a corner, we had the
sun most of the day.
Kate and Nannie painted the floor of
their room soft gray, and covered their
dressing-table and wash-stand with blue
and drab chintz. The one window was
draped with full curtains of unbleached
cotton, trimmed and looped back, with
bands of tho chintz, and a low cushioned
chair and ottoman were covered with the
same blue and drab covering.
A low painted bedstead and chest of
drawers completed their furniture, and
strips of blue and gray carpeting before
the larger pieces took away any suspicion
of bareness.
The room Beth and I shared was pre
cisely similar, except that our floor was
painted a bright warm brown, and our
cretonne covers and bits of carpet were
scarlet and white. But it was on our
common sitting-room ttiat we lavished
our greatest skill. The three windows
were curtained with full draperies of
cheese-cloth, over cream colored shades,
a big crimson bow at the top of each
window where the draperies parted.
Nannie, who was not in the least aes
thetic, pleaded to have the whole floor
covered, but as this meant twenty-five
yards of carpeting, she was voted down
on the score of economy as well as of art.
A. wiao margin was stained a
most delightful dead-leaf brown, and
nine yards of crimson and wood
colored carpet made a square large
enough to come well out around the cen
ter table. And the table we saw it one
day in front of an auction-room. The
top looked as though opposing forces had
fought across it, but the standard was
good and solid; so home it went, and
when it was covered with Beth's old
pray shawl dyed crimson, and the
student-lamp set over the darn in the
middle, the effect was all that could be
desired.
Then we bad Beth's piano and the
plants, and nobody knows until she tries
it how far a piano and plants go toward
furnishing a room. We had a comforta
ble lounge, bought "in the cloth," and
covered bv our own hands, a big Shaker
rocking-chair, and two or three smaller
rockers and camp-chairs. The wall-paper
was subduedJ and our few pictures
and brackets made quite a show, and
when we had leathered our books and
:atjt(
trinkets about the room, it was a decided
success.
"There, Nannie," said Kate, when we
reached the cozy kitchen on our tour of
inspection, "you can tuck your little feet
right into the oven, and feast your eyes
on the braided mat, and if the cat was
only here, you would have reached the
climax of earthly happiness."
The young architect looked inquiring
ly, and Nannie's ideal of bliss was ex-,
Elained to him. lie made no comments,
ut looked at her with a peculiar ex
presion in his handsome eyes, and I felt
that the stability of the society was
threatened.
The next night as we were sitting
down cozily to our tea and toast, and
baked apples and milk, there was a ring
at the door, and Kate, answering it,
came back with a basket.
"It's directed to yon, Nannie," she
said, holding it to the light. So Nannie
opened it, when out stepped a plump,
self-satisfied Maltese kitten, and attached
to one fore-paw was a card which said :
"The Climax." Beth turned the card
over, and read the young architect's
name.
"Oh, Nannie?" she said, turning on
her reproachfully, "I hope you are not
going to spoil everything." But Nan
nie was busy filling a saucer for the new
comer, and made no answer.
I may as well say here that, soon after,
the young man came to me in a very
straightforward way, made known his
intentions in regard to Nannie, and
asked permission to visit her. That
night, while she was gone on an errand,
I laid, the question before the other
girls.
"I move," said Kate, who was rather
given to sounding phrases "I move
that he be granted leave to withdraw."
"Oh, let him come!" said Beth, with
true Southern obliviousness of conse
quences. Well, he came, and came again, and
the little romance unfolded in a kindlier
atmosphere than that of a boarding
house parlor, and after a while I think
we all rather enjoyed him, as he was a
high-minded, intelligent young fellow,
who conducted his wooing with very
little nonsense. Some evenings he
would come in with his drawing-board
under his arm, and establishing him
self at our kitchen table, put in his mar
velouslv fine lines and figures, with
Nannie sitting beside him with her sew
ing, making quite a Darby-and-Joan
picture. Kate sometime!, shook her fist
at him from the covert of the sitting
room, but she usually ended with "Bless
the children 1"
But to turn from love to figures. How
much did it cost?
Now, I do not expect to be believed
when I say that our entire lurnishing,
from the small mirrors in our bedrooms
to the big iron spoon in the pantry, cost
exactly $128. 63; nevertheless, that was
the exact total. It may seem more cred
itable when it is understood that our
dressing-tables, wash-stands, and otto
mans were packing-boxes, and that the
inviting cushioned chairs were originally
barrels. Of course our bedsteads were
not furnished with hair mattresses and
rose blankets, but we had warm cover
ings, and clean straw-filled ticks, which
were simply luxurious after boarding-
house mattresses.
Our table was not set forth with cut
glass and silver (except Kate's spoons
and forks), but it was clean, and the
food wholesome and varied.
And about the cost of living? We
elected Kate treasurer, and every Satur
day night each of us put five dollars and
a half into a box kept for the purpose,
and she paid for everything out of it.
We questioned her often, during the first
month, how the money was holding out,
but she made no satisfactory answer.
The first day of January we each found
on our pluto at supper the following no
tice: "lhe first monthly meeting of the
Iionie Co-operative Society will be held
this evening in the kitchen, as soon
as the dishes are done. A full attend
mice is desired, to hear the report of the
treasurer.
Every member was present, and the
treasurer read her report. After setting
forth at some length the origin and ob
ject of the society, she presented the
following ligures:
Is Account with Horn Co-orEBATivB Society.
Dr.
To Caah 191.43
Cr.
By ton coal t T.9
" t;roceriea iiS.UO
" meat and vece-
Ublca 10.75
" milk 2.60
" labor (waahini?,
Ironing and
cleaning).. . e.00
" rent. 18.00
u balance on hand x.i&
$97.43 $97.41
"Which means," said Kate," droppin
her official manner, "that we have ha
all this good time, and don't owe a cent
for anything, and have sif dollars and
seventeen cents apioce coming back to
us;" and she counted out four little piles
of money.
"And coal in the bin, and food in the
larder," added Beth.
The next month we paid five dollars a
week eaeh, and had a surplus, and after
that, four dollars a week usually covered
all expenses.
When we started, though we asked no
advice, we had floods of it, and no end
of dismal predictions. "You'll quarrel,"
"You'll run in debt," "You'll find the
work too hard," "You'll get tired of it,"
and, most dreadful of all, "You'll be
talked about."
wen," saiu ivate, wnen this was
brought up, "if a good name in the past,
and orderly living in the future won't
save us, why, let them talk. They must
talk about something, and while we are
under discussion somebody else will es
cape." So that was disposed of. And
we did not run into debt, and we did
not quarrel. It would be too much to
say tnat we never differed, but our dif
ferences were never bitter.
We used to think sometimes that Beth
shirked her share of the work, but sba
was the sweetest-tempered creature liv
ing, and always willing to make amends.
Then we had to hold a tieht rein on
Kate, who was apt to want luxuries out
of season, at exorbitant prices; and I
was sometimes a trial about cooking, be
ing absent-minded, and apt to burn
things up. As to Nannie, she was never
anything but a comfort. We didn't keep
her long, for one day, toward our first
Thanksgiving, there was an unusual
flutter in the house. We trimmed the
rooms with flowers, and tied a white
satin ribbon on The Climax; tho minis
ter aad a few friends came in and almost
before we knew it.Nannic and the young
architect had gone off together in a hack,
with The Climax wailing in a basket on
the front seat.
But this did not break up tho society.
for another good lriend stood ready to
fill the vacancy, and stepped promptly
in. And did we not find the work too
hard? Well, sometimes it seemed a
bother, but, divided among four, it was
not oppressive; and it the larder cot
empty, or other work pressed, we took
our dinners out for a day or two.
Ana we did not get tired of it, but
after a three years' trial of the plan, are
more ana more satished, for it is
home. We leave it in the morning with
regret, and return to it gladly at night,
feeling that it is ours, that we are not
there on suffcrenco, but by right. And
this sense of security and permanently en
courage us to add comforts and even
luxuries to our surroundings, and I think
you might hunt up and down tho city
ana not nna a more contented and com
fortable set of people than the members
of the Home Co-operative society. llar
peryt Bazar.
The Cowboy's Favorite Gun.
I dropped into a large store on El Paso
street, which enjoys the reputation of
selling more arms than any other house
in the city, writes a correspondent of the
Bt. .Louis Ulobc-JJtinocrat. While in
specting the glittering array of pistols of
all kinds which filled half a dozen show
cases, a young fellow of about twenty
three entered. He was dressed in ap
proved frontier style, sombrero it would
take three days to walk around the rim
of, white handkerchief tied loosely round
the neck, blue shirt, pants stuck in his
boots, and large Mexican spurs upon his
heels, jingling as he walked. He wished
to buy a "gun." In the expressiveness
and laconic tongue of the frontier a
"gun" is a revolver; a rifle is called by
tho name of the maker; and the weapon
of the sportsman, uncurtailed of its fair
proportions, is known as a shotgun.
Selecting from the case a handsomely
mounted Colt's forty-five calibre revol
ver, the clerk said: "How would you
like this? It is the newest thing out
adoublo-action forty-five." "Ain't worth
a row of beans. No man 'cepr. he is a
tenderfoot wauls that kind of thing.
Give me old reliable all the time. You
see a man that's used to the old style is
apt to get fooled not pull her off in
time and then he'll be laid out coldcr'n
a wedge."
He was handed a single-action Colt's
of the same model, which, after carefully
examining, he proceeded to cock and
tire, twirling the pistol around his fore
finger and pressing the trigger the mo
ment the butt came into palm of his
hand. After some little "kick" about
the price the weapon was paid for and
the customer left the siore.
"There are few men," observed the
clerk, ns his" customer left, "that can do
that trick. I have been ten years on the
Southwest frontier, among the worst
classes, aud don't know more nor half a
dozen. 'Bill the Kid' could do it; so
can Pat Garret, former sheriff of Lin
coln county; so can Dan Tucker, deputy
sheriff of Deming. Curly Bill could do
it best of the lot, and that's how he
killed Sheriff White at Tombstone.
"How was that?"
"Well, you see Curly BUI was trying
to paint the town !, and White heard
of it, and going up to him, covered him
with his six-shooter, and told him ho
had got to give up his gun. Bill handed
the gun out butt first, but kept his finger
inside the guard, and as the sheriff
reached for it he gave it that twist you've
seen, turned her loose, and the sheriff
passed in his checks."
Center of Earthquake Trouble.
Though some terrible earthquakes
occur in Europe and Asia, South America
seems to be the center of trouble. In
1812 the city of Caracas, in Venezuela,
was destroyed in three shocks, each of
which did not occupy twenty seconds.
In 1859 the rity of Callao was also com
pletely demolished, this being the second
time. The first time a wave came in from
the sea one hundred feet high, and with
out warning burst upon the city. In
1822 an earthquake produced some
strange changes in the Andes. Moun
tains were leveled, others were raised,
and a tract of land one thousand miles
square was bodily elevated about seven
feet.
It has been learned from old records
that the destruction of Herculaueumand
Pompfii was nearly accomplished by an
earthquake sixteen years before the aiho
of Vesuvius covered them from sight.
Biblical records tells us that earthquakes
were felt in Syria in the time of Ahab,
901) B.C., and also in the reign of Uzziah,
800 B. C. In Josephus there is mention
of an earthquake that desolated Judea at
the time of the battle of Actium, HI B.
C, destroying over 10,000 people. An
tioch has been visited by some terrible
scenes. The worst visitation was in 528,
A. D., when over 200,000 persons were
destroyed. Sixty years later another
shock destroyed 60,000 more.
There are seven native-born Ohioans
in the Senate, and thirty-one members of
the house tjrat saw light in that State,
SELECT SIFTINGS.
The bread eaten at table in Turin is
a yard long and an eighth of an inch in
diameter, of a pipe stem form, very crisp,
and exceedingly palatable. It is called
"grissiui," after the doctor who invented
it on hygienic principles.
The business of monarchy promotes
longevity. Witness the ages of the fol
lowing rulers: The emperor of Germany
is eightv-seven; the king of the Nether
lands, sixty-seven; the king of Denmark,
sixty-six, and Queen Victoria, sixty-five.
Church bells from a Baltimore foundry
are in demand in England. Already
China, West Africa, Nova Scotia, New
foundland, the West Indies and parts of
South America have drawn upon the
same establishment for its silver-toned
bells.
A great plague, called the "black
death," beginning on the plains of West
ern Asia, swept over Europe during the
years 1348-1351, destroying probably one
third of the whole population. This, by
diminishing the number of people, dou
bled the price of labor.
It is said that no watch will keep the
game time with two people. This is ow
ing to the temperature of the wearer,
and it is claimed that even the mere
physical difference in gait and move
ment between different people will affect
the time-keeping of a watch, which is
probably also affected in some degree by
the magnetism of the wearer.
An Australian has devised a scheme
for bringing down rain to order. The
concern is in the form of a balloon, with
a charge of dynamite underneath it. Tho
balloon is to be sent into the clouds,nnd
the dynamite is to be hred by a wire
connecting it with the earth. It is the
intention of the inventor, it is stated,
to make a trial of the apparatus on the
dry districts of New South Wales.
Statistics show that the tendency to
suicide is much greater among the regu
lar gamblers from losses than among
business men. The sharp strain of the
gaming-table, short though it may be,
spoils the nerves, and weakens fortitude
more than the strain of business. Ca-
vour, one of the most serene of men, was
within an ace on one great gambling
night of throwing half his fortune away
rather than call a card, and only called
it, aa he relates himself, because a drop
of perspiration rose on his opponent'
forehead.
The origin of the trade dollar is thus
explained. The Chinese are paid for their
tea mainly in silver. In 1873 the United
States coined 35.000,000 of the trade
dollars for use in India. Previously the
Mexican dollar had practically monopo
lized the field. The American dollar
was heavier and possessed more intrinsic
value, but it was fouud that for some
mysterious reason the Chinese merchants
preferred the Mexican to the American
coin, a fact probably due to their hered
itary dislike of novelties, and now no
trade dollars are shipped to China. The
The Chinese heard some years ago, that
our government intended to redeem
these dollars at par, and being shrewd
enough to see an opportunity for specu
lation, they hoarded the coins and sent
them to this country. At all events,
they are said to have disappeared in
China as well as in this country.
WISE WORDS.
Behavior is a mirror in which everyone
shows his image.
The society of women is the clement
of good manners.
The wise men of old have sent most of
their morality down the stream of time
in the light skiff of apothegm or epi
gram. No woman can be handsome by the
force of features alone, any more than
she can be witty only by the help of
speech.
Strong minds, like hardy evergreens,
are most verdant in winter; when feeble
ones, like tender summer plants, are
leafless.
Right habit is like the channel which
dictates the course in which the river
shall flow, and which grows deeper and
deeper each year.
It is impossible to make peoplo under
stand their ignorance, for it requires
knowledge to perceive it; nnd, therefore,
ho that can perceive it hath it.
Love seizes on us suddenly, without
giving us time to reflect; our disposition
or our weakness favors the surprise; one
look, one glance from tho fair, fixes and
determines us.
A good momory is the best monument.
Others are subject to casualty or time,
and we know that the pyramids them
selves, rotting with age, have forgotten
the names of their founders.
The beautiful laws of time aud space,
once dislocated by our inaptitude, are
holes and dens. If the hive be dis
turbed by rash and stupid hands, instead
of hon4, will yield us bees.
Infinite toil would not enable you to
sweep away a mist, but by ascending a
little you may often look over it alto
gether. So it is with our moral improve
ment; we wrestle fiercely with a vicious
abit which would have no hold upon us
if we ascended into a higher moral at
mosphere. A Circus Elephant in u lt;ige.
Cole's huge elephant Sampson severed
his chains at Hailey, Idaho, and sturted
to pulverizo his keeper, who made a
hasty retreat. A cage of lions stood iu
the way of the infuriated animal, which
he picked up and hurled to ouo side,
killing two horses. The circu-i people
called on the crowd to shoot the monster,
and a lively tiring beran, but without
appreciable effect. Finally a party of
men succeeded in roping the beast and
he was quieted. Thirty bullet hole
were found in his hide. The dainitce
done by his amounted to tlO.OOOj
MORE IN THE MAN THAN IN THIS
LAND.
I knowed a man, which he lived In Jonas, '
Which Jones is a county of red hills aad
stones,
And he lived pretty mnch by gettin, of loan
And his mules were nuthin' but skin and
bones,
And his hogs yran flat as his corn-bread ponea,
And lie had 'bout a thousand acres of
land.
This man which his name it was also Jonea
He swore that he'd leave them old red hills
and stones'
Fur he couldn't make nuthin' but yelleriah
cotton.
And little o' thot, and his fences was rotten.
And what little corn ha had, hit waa
boughten,
And danged if a livin' was In the land.
And the longer he swore the madder ha got,
And he riz and he walked to the stable lot;
And he hollared to Tom to come thar and
hitch,
For to emigrate somewhar whar land waa
rich,
And to quit raisin' cockburs, thistle and
sich,
And a waistin' their time on the cussed
land.
So him and Tom they hitched up the mules,
Fertestin' that folks was mighty big fools
That 'ud stay iu Georgy their lifetime out,
J ust scratchin' a livin' when all of 'era
mought
Get places in Texas, whar cotton would sprout
J3y the time you could plant in the land.
And he driv by a house whar a man named
Brown
Was a livin' not far from the edge of town,
And he bantered Brown for to buy his placv,
And said that bein' as money was skace,
And bein' as sheriffs was hard o' face
Two dollars and acre would git the land.
They closed at a dollar and fifty cents,
And Jones he bought him a wagin and tenia,
And loaded his corn and his wimrnln and
truck,
And moved to Texas, which it tuck
His entire pile, with the best 'o luck,
To git thar and git him a little land.
But Brown moved out on the old Jones farm.
And he rolled up his breeches and bared his
arm,
And he picked all the rocks from off 'n the
groun',
And he rooted it up and plowed it down;
Then he plowed his corn and his wheat in
the land.
Five years glid by, and Brown, one day
(Which he'd got so fat that he wouldn't
weigh),
Was a settin down, sorter lazily,
To the bulliest dinner you ever see,
When one o' the children jumped on his knea,
And says: " Yan's Jones, which you
bought his land."
And thar was Jones, standing out at the
fence,
And he hadn't no wagin, nor mules nor tents,
For ha had left Texas afoot and cum
To Georgy to see if he couldn't get sum
Employment, and he was lookin' as humble
as ef
He had never owned any land.
But Brown he axed him in, and he sot
Him down to his vittles smokin' hot,
And when he had filled hisself and th floor
Brown looked at him sharp and riz and swore
That " whether men's land was rich or poor,
Thar was more in the man than thar waa
in the land."
Sidney Lanier, in Southern Cultivator.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
The court cryer. A royal infant. Bo-
ton Pott.
The butcher who trusts loses flesh.
Boston Post.
Tho diver is the man who weights for
the tide. New York Journal.
Babies know nothing of politics, yet
they are fond of crow. Puck.
A door is sometimes a jar and an earth
quake always is. Lowell Courier.
In the midst of all the excitement
concerning it, the north pole remains
perfectly cool. Blizzard.
"The work of reclaiming the Potomac)
flats is rapidly going on," so Bays an
exchange. "This must be plousant
reading for Washington dudes. Burling
ton, Fret Press.
A boarding-house cook has been
awarded $450 for the invention of a
new and improved chicken soup. Per
haps tho improvement consists of put
ting in some thicken. Derrick.
"At great heights, dogs lose their
power of barking." It is a fine scheme,
then, to keep your dog in the garret,
or tie him up to the swaying limb of a
tall and lonely tree. llawkrye.
A young gentleman wishes to know
which is proper to say on leaving a young
lady friend after a late call good night
or good evening? Never tell a lie.young
man ; say good morning. Burlington
Press.
SHE AND HE.
She held him fast in her aoft white Brms
And ki-u him warm with a yuArning
hug,
For she was a girl of the U)ier ten,
And he well, he wa a dogoucd pug.
Mfrvhanl-TraveUr.
Maud "Isn't this a queer title for a
book, mother: "Not Like Other Girls ?'
1 wonder w hat she can be if she is not
like other girls ?'' Mother "I don't
know, unless she goes into the kitchen
aud helps her mother instead of staying
in the parlor to read novels." L ife.
A horrible example : A Parisian doc
tor preciibed for a lady wdio had ciMec
tions against growing stout: "TakeVx
ercise, my dear lady. Consider tho i:fea
of the field; they never take exercue,
und i's a consequence they go on grov-
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