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Tbe gannt lamps flare In the ndy street- Tlare on her shivering, shrinking form; Pelting, pitiless fingers of teot Shake her soul to on Inward stoirn , Wandoring, wandering by. A A sweet child stands al a lighted pae, Watching with innocent, love-lit eVos, Itamitoa like a blow! She has rallied isain Y, A poor hurt thing, with her amothored cries, I As memory wanders by. Was she oneo fair, with a baby-face , That gazed from a sheltering, fJ re-lit home? Measureless, chill In her deep disgrace, The gulf between, as her tired feet roam,' With penitence wandering by. . The hours of the moaning night slip past, Drearily counted, one by one; Like pearls from a string, they are dropping fast In the lop of dawn while the swift sands run Of the sad lifo wandcriug by. Rest! And the grief-wrung hands are stilled. Sleepl And the pain-bound forehead gleams. ' Burning eyes, with your salt tears Oiled, Close on life and its fovered dreams For peace goes wandoring by. Helen T. Clark. THE BEACON FHIE. It was a wild and rocky coast, along which ran the path that led to the home of bid Martin Frero. At ordinary times the cottago would have possessed but little attraction for a bold sterling youth like Owen Glenn. But a visitor hud of late brightened up its precincts a young girl named Annie, named after the aged grandmother who dozed by the hearth through the long evenings, content to watch the bright flames as they shot up from the broad fireplace, and perhaps to see visions of the past with her dim eyes. Dame Frere was a sharp voiced, Lust ling woman, long past middle age, and not having tho name of possessing a very sweet temper, but sho had a sou place ; in her heart for granny, and it was to ; please her that she had invited her pretty namesake to come and visit them for a few months. Annis was a tall, slight girl, as straight as a pino tree, and as graceful as a fawn. Her yellow hair hung in a perfect maze of shining curls nil about her Bhoulders and fur down below her waist. Imagine a sweet innocent face lighted with great lustrous dark eyes, and a red mouth al most always curving into smiles, and you have some idea of Annis. Most of the young girls in the vicinity were buxom, merry lasses, with hair and eyes to match both of intense black , ness and with more or less of the hoy den in them. Their laughter was loud and hearty, and their ways more frolic ' ' some than retined. So that it is not strange that when this graceful, quiet stranger came among them, with her shy ways and blonde coloring, her swift changes of expression and native ease of manner, sho was at once taken into the hearts of all the young people in the neighborhood. Owen Glenn had fallen head overbeds in love at his first meeting with Annis, and had not missed an opportunity of meeting her at the various rustic gather ings to which she had been invited, and to-night ho wrb going to seal his fate by telling Annis that ho loved her, and ask if he could hope for a response to the ar dent feeling with which he had been in spired by her. Owen was not at all certain as to the success of his suit, for there was another who admired Annis, and who was far above him in worldly station and wealth, and as Owen, in his freedom from vani tv. also thought, in good looks and in oLnher qualities calculated to win a girl's fheart. riundsjl Annis naa received tne pleasant nine rux-- At courtesies ana attentions ot uotninaway "I I j calculated to wound sither; though, as t ,$ to that, it would h'i j been an impossi Vl bility for her to be other than so sweet "r and gracious as not to enkindle hope in 1 I each passionate young heart. Thus matters 'stood as Owen started (wrm Yia Ti nmA tn fulre thA Inner ami I tedious walk over the cliffs, which must " K.. ru vnrcntl hfWArn lin rmilil runfh the pottage which sheltered the object of Shis love. It had been raining steadily all day JIahm avt.l aa Tl 1 or V i f CO (11. nn thn Willi! V .. ,J -I ..., .1 tr, n .ml. h.UI.14 I13CU bait. ii Hut. wranoed in his waternroof cloak .', t . ' ti . Sand liehted on his way by a lantern, Owen cared notmng lor tne threatening iemeuio, nuu wumcu aiuu, vy uiouiu softly, now and then pausing to shake i 1 1 . ,i i i. ; ..( i ; water dog. Then he would trudge on again, think ing what a terrible night it must be at -fa, and breathing a prayer for the wave Issed mariners far from home. I Suddenly a dull, booming sound sached his ear. j . It came from a seaward direction, out at liist he kept on his way think ing: "This'is not the harbor, and every one who has the slightest knowedge of the locality will be sure to avoid such a dangerous couat ; so it's no business of mine." Again the sound came. This time Oweu stopped aud listened. A thought came into his mind as he did so.but it militated so directly against his inclinations to give heed to it that with an impatient 'Tshaw !" he started on. Hut he could Aiot rid himself of it. It was this: "If j ship is in peril, and has lost her way, the ouly thing that could save her would be a huge beacon fire to cast a light upon her surround .ft To build a fire would bo a work of timo and of hard labor. To keep one up lone enough to do any good would tako hours of watchful ness, and ho would have to abandon all hope of seeing Annis that even ing. It was a hard Btrujnrle, but inclina tion proved to be made of a material which could not hold its own against his own strong sense of duty. Jle gave up all thoutrht of tho pleasant greeting he had been living upon in his heart all day long, and set himself to work to gather fuel for the beacon fire. After several hurried journeys to the woodland, which lay a little distance away, he succeeded in accummulnting a pile of branches and dry twigs, which he had raked out with his hands from a de serted hut, which stood on the confines of the thicket, and had evidently been gathered together for tome purpose; but under the circumstances Owen felt him self justified in taking it, as it would have been" almost impossible to have kindled a flume of green wood. Just as he had succeeded in coaxing a splendid bla.e into lifo, a voice cried: Hallo, Glenn, is that you? What in the name of wonder are you doing?" 1 am answering to a signal of dis tress. Hark I" as a dull sound came again from the sea. Wg old fellow, I wish you jov of your pi ', and hope it'll do the good you expocC t or my part, I'm off to old .Mart i a - - 1 hear little Annis is going away .to-morrow, and I don't want to miss a sii lit of her beaming face to- night. It's bright and sweet enough to be a man's beacon light for all his life. Good-bye, and good fortune attend your work. It's lucky all are not such selfish fellows as I am." It was as if a thousand fiends were tugging for the mastery of Owen Glenn's heart, as he listened to the rattling talk of the gay, light-hearted youth. bhould he givo uobert this chance of seeing Annis, and ot perhaps asking her to bo his wife during this very night. while he stood and worked to do good, and in God's providence tried to be the means of saving the lives of people who were nothing to him? 1 litis his thoughts run over and over again, repeating tnemseives like the voices of mocking demons, while out- wardlv he labored on as unremittingly as though no influence of the kind were at work piling on fresh luel for tho names, or pushing somo burning log into a bet ter position, and in that way won the victory. Peace succeeded to the wild storm of agitation whioh had momentarily threat ened to engulf him. Thus the night wore through. With the morning came a great calm. One would not have thought that the sun-flecked waves which came leaping in, white-crested and tumultuous, to meet the stern barrier of rocks, and crawl up, tip almost to their summits, could be aught but playful in their force. Ah, it is a treacherous beauty that of the sea. Too tired to notice the beauty of the transition from storm to sunshine, Owen walked slowly home. His work was done, and he must have rest. Later in the day he started out for a walk. He was in that miserable state of mind which oftentimes follows some great exaltation of spirits. The thought that Annis had gone away without his seeing her again weighed upon his mind like an unwelcome incubus. At the voice of Robert Hunter, who stopped to accost him, he 6hrank and trembled as though in pain, but he list ened as intently as though his life de pended upon what he was about to say. Had he proposed to Annis, and had been accepted?" "Glenn," he began, "I wish you and I could change places about last night's work." "It's rather late for that now," was the quiet answer. "I'm fully aware of the fact, and that's what I regret about it. I'm afraid it's all up with' me in a certain direction." "What do you mean?" asked Owen, rwith sudden interest. "Why, if you believe it, I might just as well have left my visit unpaid last night; indeed, had far better have done so. Annis was so interested at the chance of there being a ship outside in distress that it was all I could do to prevail upon her not to face the storm and 'come and help,' she said; and she gave me some pretty rubs, I can tell you, about my leaving you alone to do 'the good work,' as she called it. 1 don't believe that An nis will look at me again without 1 thought in her mind of what I ought to have done and didn't." Suchra tide of joy rushed through Owen Glenn's heart that he could hardly speak, and while he was struggling to hide his emotion Robert went on with his revela tions, little realizing the effect of his words : "She's not going home to-day just on that account. She told me to tell you to come up and see her and tell her all about it. I wish it had been my luck to make such a hit. Women are great on any one who touches their feelings You ought to have seen her eyes suap and sparkle when she was lecturing me about not staying to help you. I never saw her look so pretty. But, hallo what has come over you?" For Owen was hurrying off in the direction of the cliffs. As he went Robert caught a look upon his face which told him more than Owen intended. He stood staring at him thinking to himself : "I see it all. My failure will be Owen's opportunity. Well; he's a good fellow and as long as 1 can t have her, what odds does it make? And I saw last night she cared no more for nte than if 1 had been a stick." When Annis caught sight of Owen annroaching the cottage she ran out with J an impulsife, "Ob, how glad I am to see you! I do not want to tell you what I think of you." Then she stopped short. Something in Owen's face tilled her wltn confusion. But outstreched hands were already within his clasp, and his low murmured words of lovo were sounding in her ears: "I am as glad as you that 1 have done something to please you; for, oh, Annis, I love you so denrly that 1 would do or daro anything for your sake." And then, she never knew how it came about, but his arms were about her and his kisses were upon her lips, and she found that she loved him so well she was willing to promise to be his wife, when ever he should be able to earn enough to make a home for her. They were both young, and it would not be hard to wait, nnd they were so sure of one another's love. Tho prospect was at first that several years must elapse before their marriage, but suddenly all was changed for them as if by magic. A letter came from abroad within a twelve-month. It was addressed to the minister of the little seaside village, and asked for information as to the person or persons who had kindled a beacon light in answer to a signal of distress from a sailing vessel on tho night of , giving the correct date nnd time when Owen had sacrificed inclination to the dictates of duty and humanity. That light had saved a valuable car go from being lost, and the wrtier pro posed to give a goodly sum to the parties who had been instrumental in the matter. Also, a medal was to be struck oil commemorative of his gratitude that the lives of all on board had been thus preserved to their families. Owen became at once the boast of the village. For when a man's fame 'has reached foreign countries his own towns people are always sure to re-echo it. The wedding day was set for the first anuiversary of the evenings when his good fortune came t. him in the guise of disappointment, and Robert Hunter was the first to congratulate the young couple. " Who'd have thought," he whls- lered to Owen, "that the tables would iave been so turned? Truly, 'There's a tide in the affairs of men which taken at tho flood, leads on to fortune,' and you took it, my boy." Philadelphia Call. Red Pepper ISalhs. "Red pepper baths, that's the latest fashionable wrinkle, and it takes like hot cakes," remarked a professional man of West Forty-eighth street to a Now York Star reporter. "Have you many patients?" "Quite a number, and the list is in creasing. The remedy is not a new one by any means, but it seems to be getting popuiar, and that is the reason, I sup pose, lor the revival in the red pepper business." "For what purpose are the baths ap plied?" "Rheumatism, sciatica, neuralgia and similur ailments. In tho hands of an ordinarily intelligent person these baths are quite simple, and when used with discretion are really efficacious." "How are they applied?" "The pepper is simply placed in hot water in certain proportions, and the parts of the body mostly affected are thoroughly well rubbed with a coarse Turkish towel. People who suffer from sluggish circulation have been greatly benehted." "Ib there no fear of inflammution?" "None whatever, provided due pre caution is taken against sudden exposure to the cold." "Is the remedy unpleasant?" "That depends a a ood deal upon the temperature of the patient's body. Upon somo it has the effect of extreme irrita tion. The skin tingles for days after. On others it produces frequent coughing. These symptoms, however, soon pass away as the patient becomes used to the remedy. In cases, however, whero it continues for an immoderate length of time it is better to discontinue them." "What class of people use them chicflv?" "Wealthy persons bevond middle age. There is always a certain kind of people who may be said to live cnieny Dy doc toring themselves persons whose ail ments are mostly those of the imagina tion. They are too weak-minded to dis cipline themselves, or too scltish, which ever you like to call it, and prefer trying some new remedy to striking at tho cause of their supposed ills. For in stance: Instead of regulating their sys tems upon a daily scale of dieting, they will entirely disregard their physician's instructions and then blame htm because his treatment is not successful. There are hundreds of just such people in this world, and as they invariably try evory new-fangled remedy that comes out especially if if. be fashionable they become very profitable to people who give them baths for their relief." Japanese Baths. Attached to each hotel in Japan "is a bath for the use of guests. The bsth tub and the heater ure combined so that the water, once heated, must furnish the bathing material for the whole house. Arriving at a Japanese hotel footsore and weary, you ask the landlady, "How many have used the bath?" ihe instantly replies, "Only eight." You forego the luxury of such a bath. Passing through a town just at nightfall you see a woman boiling her husband ut tiny rate the man is half immersed in tho bath, while the dume is stoking the lire beneath with all her might. The flames pour forth from beneath while this contented Jap is being cooked. Perhaps, though hi was only a preliminary boiling. bucb public boiling is bow prohibited iu the cities, but "far from the madding crowds ignoble strife" these sirnple peo ple see no harm in public bathing if it suits their convenience. WITH" A FLAVOR OF HUMOR. SOUS SKETCHES OF A CHARACTER. COUICAX Why Iln IMdn't Fall Ho Onlr Wanted lo See I at With Their Hands An loa Invention. Last spring an Indiana man started a bank in a town in I)akota,aud about the 1st of October, having secured deposits to the extent of $23,000, a notice was one morning posted on tho doors of the bank, reading: "Temporarily closed hope to pay the depositors in full." The banker wanted to test the temper of the public previous to a big scoop. In the course of naif an hour tho doors were kicked in, tho otlice gutted, the banker stepped on until he was seventeen feet long and only two inches thick, and the chap who had held a revolver to his ear jovially remarked: "Now,, then, my friend, we give you just five minutes to unlock that i-afe and count out the slugs to the depositors in full." The depositors were paid in full, and the banker has come East in search of more civil people. Wall Street Areu. Ho Only Wanted to Sec. Judge Gerald Cummings is a respected resident of Fort Worth, Texas, notwith standing that he is immensely stout and a member of the legal profession. Ho tried many anti-fat remedies to redute his weight, but without any satisfactory result. He finally went to the Hot Springs in Arkansas, and much to his joy he lost considerable adipose tissue, and returned to Fort Worth in a most happy frame of mind. He thought and talked of nothing else except his loss of flesh. lie went to market one morning re cently, and said to tne butcher: " Cut mo off twenty pounds of pork." The request was complied with. The judge looked at the meat for some time, and then walked off. " Shall I send the meat to your house, judge?" asked the butcher. "Oh, no," was tho reply, "1 aon t want it. I have fallen off just twenty pounds, and I only wanted to see how much it was." Sijtingt. Eat With Their Hands. A lady who had married a farmer re turned to visit her frionds in the city, and one lady was anxious to know about farm life. "Don't you get lonesome away out in the countr, " she asked. "Qh, no," was the reply, "farmers' wives are always busy and don't have time to be lonesome." "It there anybody about the house?" "Of course; we employ quite a num ber of people, especially in harvest, and I see them at meal time every day." "You don't have to be very stylish, do vou?" "Oh, no; all of the people are just plain country folks, and you know farm ers always eat with their hands." "You don't say so; is that really true?" "Certainly it is." "What do they do that for? Can't they get knives and forks in the coun try?" The farmer's wife gasped and choked andtstopped talking. Mtrchaut-l'ravehr. An Iowa Invention. A farmer from Iowa traveling toward Chicago was inquiring for the address of an electrical manufacturing concern in the city. "Have struck a big thing, and an going down to Chicago to have it de veloped." "Electric light?" "No." "Telephone?" "No, none of them things. My inven tion is agricultural, and will be a bless ing to every farmer in the northwest. You see, years ago when we had no fences on our farms our hired men had no place to sit down and rest, there be in' no stuns or stumps. When the wire fences come in stylo we chuckled to ourselves and said the barbs on 'cm was good not only to keep stock from scratchin' or rubbin' of 'em down, but to keep the hired men off. Well, the hired men have beat that all to pieces. They sew leather strips on their pants and seem to delight in sitting on tho barb wire every time they come to tho eud of a row or furrow. They think they're so smart, you know. Now I calculate that the farmers of the northwest lose $700, 000 every summer and fall by hired men wastiu' time sittin' on the fenco. But I've fixed 'em my new invention will stop that." "New kind of barb on the wire?" "No. There hain't no barb-wire on earth that a hired man won't contrive to sit down on at least two hours a day. Just wait till next spring when I con nect my ten-horse power electric battery with the wires on my fences. Won't it be fun? The wires will look nice and inviting as usual, but about two ecouds after the hired man has hat down you'll see him jumpin' clean over the mules in his anxiety to get back to the plow. Whoop, but won't it befunl County rights for sale." Chicago Tribune. The Extra Day For Leap Year. Smith fc Jones are in the flour business. This is not their real firm name but it will serve the purpose in relating tho predicament they have been in for some thing over a mouth in fact ever siuce the trial bulance was taken off for lb84. Over two years ago Smith &; Jones got an order to supply five barrels of flour a day to one of the big hotels up town. Tliey thought their luck had really come, and celebrated it by a champague lunch at Uelmonico's. When they came to foot up their accounts and take account of stock for January 1, 1883, they found themselves five barrels of flour short. Smith looked at Jones, and Jones looked at Smith, when this fact wag discovered, and they both looked ot the bookkeeper. r or over a month thev have been trying to find out where that flour went. They suspected tho bookkeeper, and came down to the office one night and looked over the books in his absence, but found everything straight so far as no was concerned. I he ware houseman for Smith & Jones is a big, good-natured Irishman named Mike. It popped into Smith's head yesterday thst Mike might know something about the flour, although he was not an expert in double-entry bookkeeping. They sent for Mike. Smith stated ihe case slowly, so as to let all the facts penetrate into the presumably thick skull. When the case was fully presented ho said : "Now, Mike, you have the situation. You put out five barrels of flour last year more than the year before what became of them?" Mike pulled an old pipe out of his mouth and replied : "Wuz that fhat yez wuz looking so sober about? Wuz that fhat yez brought me oop from tho warehouse about? Ax me somethin' aisy, why don't yez? Av coorse I know where that five barrels av flour wint. There's yer hotel contract, and there's yer extra day in Fibruary for lape year." Smith looked at Jones, and Jones looked ut Smith. Then Smith said : "Mike, you can go. And, I say, Mike, you can send yourself home a barrel of our best flour. And, I say, Mike, you needn't mind saying anything about it, you know." But it got out all the same. New York Tribune. The Right Sort or a Tenant. "Oh, yes, I have all kinds of tenants," said a kind-faced old gentleman to a Chicago Herald reporter: "but ono that I like the best is a child not more than ten years of age. A few years age I got a chance to buy a piece of land over on the west side, and I did so. I noticed that there was an old coop of a house on it. After a while a man came to me and wanted to know if I would rent it to him." " What do you want it for?" says I. " ' To live in,' he replied. "'Well,' I said, 'you can have it. Pay me what you think it is worth to you.' "The first month he brought $2, and the second month a littlo boy, who said he was this man's son, came with $3. After that I saw tho man once in awhile, but in the course of time the boy paid tho rent regularly, sometimes $2 and sometimes i. One day I asked tho boy what had become of his father." " 'He's dead, sir,' was tho reply. '"Is that so?' said I. 'How long since?' " ' More'n a year,' he answered. "I took his money, but I made up my mind that I would go over and investi gate, and the next day I drove over there. the old sued lOOKea," quire ucceni. i knocked at the door and a littlo girl let me in. I asked for her mother. She said she didn't have any. " 'Where is she," said I. " 'We don't know, sir. She vent away after my father died and we've never seen her since." "Just then a littlo girl about three years old came in, and I learned that these three children had been keeping house together for a year and a half, the boy supporting his two little sisters by blacking boots and selling newspapers, and the elder girl managing the house nnd taking care of the baby. Well, I just had my daughter call on them, and we-keep an eye on them now. I thought I wouldn't disturb them while they are getting along. The next time the boy camo with the rent I talked with him a littlo, and then I said: "My boy, you're a brick. You keep right on as you have begun and you wid never be sorry. Keep your little sisters together and never leave them. Now look at this." "I showed him a ledger in which I had entered up all the money that he had paid mo for rent, and I told him it was all his with interest. 'You keep right on,1 says I, 'and I'll be your banker, and when this amounts to a little more I'll see that you get a house some where of your own.' That's the kind of a tenant to have." A Cat Mesmerizes a Mouse. One of our well-known citizens is tho posses-or of a cut, which is a great pet in the family. Indeed, it is doubtful if the family could keep house without that cut. A few evenings ugo the cut came into the house bringing a mouse, no un common thing for the cut to do, as it is a good mouser. But the cat played with the mouse for un hour and a half, then bet it up by the wall and crept into bed and went to sleop. Tho mouse, though still alive and apparently unin jured, remained just where the cat put it for so long that tho family became inter ested in tho mouse, ami the gentleman proceeded to stir it up. The little animal started to run, went a short distance and returned to the very spot where the cat hud left it. Then the gentleman tried to entice the mouse away with a bit of cheese. This succeeded only so far that the mouse would leave its position, get the cheese and return. This was tried again and again, aud always with the same result the mouse returned to its former position us if under orders which it dared not disobey. Later tho cat awoke and also the mouse. Now the family ure very much inter ested in tho question: "What did the cat do to the mouse to make it so anxious to remain just where the cat left it uutil the former could look after it? Was it annual magnetism, or was there somo subtle means of communication between them, and thecat told themouse to remain there, and the mouse did as it was told, except when interfered with by more intelligent humanity?" PiHiJemx Journal. HAVE FAITH INTIME. There's a quaint and curious proverb. The years have handed down, Vou'll hear it in the village street, You'll hoar It In the town. You read it in each blado of grass, And in the river's chime. All nature's works, with one accord, Proclaim, "have faith In time." "Have faith in time," Impatient ono, Go watch the roses grow, Silently, Imperceptibly, No chango your eye con know. But now there's borne upon the air A cloud of perfume sweet, A flush as of a sunset cloud, A rose is at your feotl "Have faith in time." Thy future life Thou may'st not seek to know. 'Tis veiled from thy too curious eyes, For God has willed it so, Tet hoed the moments as they go Ere they are lost to thee. For each one, as it passes by, Is big with destiny. Eliza M. Shtrman. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Paris generally loads in the fatuous, but Niagara cannot be equaled for fall style. Texat Stftingt. Beginners with the roller skates usual ly complain that the wheels are too round. Buffalo Timet. Somebody has noticed that a woman who shakes the door mat on the side walk fills the public eye." Lynn Item. A policeman is a curious creature. He knows a rogue when he sees him, but very often he doesn't seize a rogue when he knows him. Judge. Oscar Wilde has been so toned down that he can fall off the hind end of a horse car in as plain a fashion as any other mortal. Pittsburg Chronicle. "Misfortunes never come singly," whined a man meeting his friend. "What's the matter now?" "Why, -last year I got married, and last night mv house burned down." j A Queen City girl, rating souse Caught a glimpse of a beautiful mouse, When the note that she reached, As phe stood up and screeched. Would have drawn a 81,000 house. Boston Folio. "Yes," said the Scissors to the Paste Pot, "first there was the Golden Age, then came the Silver Age and the Brazen Age, and now comes tho Mucil Age," whereat the Paste Pot went into convul sions. Boston Globe. "Did you enjoy the party, Emma?" "Ever so much, mamma." "I hope you were a good little girl and listened to what was said to you?" "I did, mamma, I listened nil the evening to one person talk." "Who was talking?" "I was." An exchange has an article on "Char acter in AValkinsj." This just suits us. We can tell in two minutes by the char acter of a man,s tracks iu the mud whether he is bow-legged or has been out celebrating all night. Burlington Free Presr. "How do you like your boarding house. Crimsonbeak?" said a friend to that individual when they mot on the street. "First rate 1" answered Crimson beak. "Any life down there?" "Lots of it; but it's all confined to the cheese." Statesman. ODlt TO A BLIZZARD. Oh, thy breath is as bitter and biting As the sting of a serpent's sharp tooth. And uercely tuy force we are nguiing, For we reckon thee reckless ot ruth 1 Though sweet and serene is the summer 1'huc borrows her breath from the rose, Yet the coachman and cold-hearted plumber Beam blithely when Boreas blows. New York Journal. Lieutenant There is nothing like presence of mind. One day in battle a soldier near me had four of his teeth knocked in by a rifle ball, which would have surely passed through his spinal column and killed him had he not with rare presence of mind quickly swallowed the ball. FUeqende Blaetter. "What's the reason you d;dn't speak to Jones when he passed us just now!" "He iusulted me the other day. " "What did he say to you?" "Ho called mo an old ass." "Called you an old ass! How ridiculous! Why, you are not old; you are just in your prime. Y'ou will not bo an old ass for ten or fifteen years yet." Sifting.. There was a court martial held on a young officer who had gone on a spree and had a fight in a barroom. The bar proprietor was brought before the court atd put in the witness box. The pris oner was placed in full view. "Witness, do you recognize the prisoner?" "Yes, your honor, and most of the court." San Franouuv Chronicle. The Pine Wood Treatment. At some of the watering places of Ger many the very simple prescription of the physician is that t he patient should spend several hours a day walking or riding through tho pine wood. This simple treatment is said to be sometimes sup plemented by tho takiug of piue baths, and iu the caso of kidney diseases, and for delicate children this is claimed to be highly beneficial. The bath is pre pared by pouring into tho water about half a tumblerful of an extract made from the fresh needles of the piue; this extract is dark iu color and closely re sembles treacle iu consistency, and when poured into the bath gives tho water a muddy appearance, with a slight foam on the surface. As an adjunct to the daily bath this iufusiou of pinu extract is said to induce a most agreeable sensa tion; it gives the skin a ueliciously soft aud silky feeling, aad the ellect on tne nerves is quieting. If you keep all pleasure out of home when your children are young, they will continue vour example when you are old. " A
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