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THEN AND NOW,
Wo laughed to see tlit whirling snow
And honr tho racing tempest blow:
We recked not of the, ley blast,
Nor how tlis storm came wild and fast
Our hearts had sunny woather;
Nor snow, nor hail, nor wild wind moan,
Could chill the glow around thorn thrown,
For then wo were together.
Oh, awectwt word togothnrl
( trend, in golden summer hours,
A pathway through a land of flowers,
Meneath tho bluo of peaceful Rides,
With wenry feet and tear-dimmed eyes:
I care no longer whether
The day 1 bright or dark, nor how
The lonely tlnio goes by, for now
Wo walk no moro together,
Ah, never moro together.
Anna C. Ilowter, in the Current
"MISS FOURES"' FORGERY.
Old Captain Jonathan Forbes was tear
ing through the villago in a state of piti
able excitement toward his neat, com
fortable little cottage. A cottage vino
clnd, flower surrounded, tree-shaded,
ind tended und cherished ns few homes
are in country or city.
Tho captain had been a hard worker
until within the hist live years; then at
tho ago of sixty ho had "given up tho
sea," nought tho cottage, deposited all
his earnings in n city bank, said to bo as
sound ns sound could be, and with his
dour old wife and his invalid sister had
lettled down to what promised to be a
very comfortable old age. In younger
years the captaiu hud been rathcra spend
thrift, inclined to profanity, following
tho deplorable habit of sailors in general
and swenring roundly when things did
not work to his satisfaction. But his
extreme kindhcartcdncss, also a dis
tinguished trait of tho average sailor,
hud won the love of a good, pious
woman; and under her influence, the
captain had grown provident and saving; j
he also had given up tho use of. protano
language.
But givo vent to his feelings in some
form of expletive he must upon occa
lion, 60 it had becomo a habit with him
tinder strong prcssuro to blurt out the
name or names of tho first places occur
ring to him at such times; and the moro
wide apart and incongruous tho mating
of ports or places, tho better it answered
his purpose'.
And now as ho went ruling poll mell
through tho fragrant country roads, ho
Ejaculated with distressing vehemence:
"Jerusalem and Troy! What shall we
do! I'm a beggar man and worso than
k beggar nmn ! Now, if I'd only a list
ened to Miss Forbes' advice, and not a
gone and chucked all my savin's in ono
place, I shouldn't a boon caught in such
a miserable tight place us this!"
"Egypt and Capo Cod ! Just to think
of it I and there her brother, a merchant
of fifty years' standin', would ha' given
us within ono per cent, as much interest
as that rascally bank, But thero! I
long to get homo und tell Cynthy all
about it. Poor Cynthy, whatever will
ihe do! 'Wish to mercy Miss Forbes
wasn't out o' town; dread telliu' her aw
fully. Point Judith and Hurl's Gate, if
don't!''
But tho captain had reached tho cot
tage, and swinging wido tho gate, he
hurried up the gravelly path, and soon
entered tho cool sitting-room, where his
filacid. Christian sister eat knitting,
loth feet were bound about and placed
on a high footrest, as rheumatism in a
aerere form lcudcrcd Miss Cynthy
Forbes a confirmed invalid, and often
in intense sufferer.
At sight of her usually unperturbod
brother mopping his warm and dis
tressed looking face, she looked up with
anxious solicitude
"Sing Sing and Bambny, Cynthy !" he
burst out. "I'm a ruined man if ever
thero was oue! "What do you think?
The L bank has bursted nnd carried
with it every cent we have in tho
world 1"
"Why, brother, that's too hard. Cau
it bo true?"
"True us the world! It's town talk!
There's tho greatest crowd up at tho
postoflico; there can't anybody think of
tallying of anything else at all. . Somo
others ruined besides me, all because tho
president of the bank was brought right
up hero and all thought him tho very
iota o' honor, contotiud him!"
"Now, don't, brother," said Miss Cyn
thy, soothingly. "Perhaps it won't bo
as bad as you think. May be there's
lomcthing saved."
"Well, Turkey and Boston!" roared
tho captain, "if there is, wo never shall
see the lirstceut of it."
Then lie continued in a different
tone, atone full of distress and regret:
"Oh, Cynthy, why don't they think
of us poor iellows who've toiled night
and day to scrape together a littlo some
thing against old ago? Why don't they
think of the poor widows? There's poor
Widow Ellis most-distracted, and old
lame Captain Simpsou, he's round a
roarin' like a furious nor'easter. Why
don't they think of us all, I hay, before
they go to speculatin' und siukin' the
little funds wo have to set such store by
and become so dependent on. I say it's
inhuman, it's out o' nil reason, it's
worse'n swearin', ten times, Billingsgate
and Carthage, if it ain't!"
"Well, now, I'd calm down if I were
you," said Miss Cynthy, again using her
most consoling tones. "It's too bad
Maria's gone to the city, but her week's
most up, and I know she'll say some
thing comforting when she comes."
"She'd do just right to storm like a
hurricane," said the poor captain;
"course she won't say the fust word to
vex me, Miss Forbes ueverdoes, but if I'd
a listened to her, we might a'been com
fortable enough."
"Strange such trouble should come the
first time in a dozen year or more she's
been away for a week. But there, wo
must do the best wo Can. You mustn't
worry on my account, brother, you know
the Lord will provide, somehow."
"I'll have to sell the cottage," con
tinued tho enptain, despondinglv. But
don't you go to worrvin', Cynthy; Miss
Forbes and I, wo'll look out thut you get
carod for, wo won't either on us forgot
how you struggled and brought mo tip,
wicked little imp as I was, too. How in
the world did you ever havo such pa
tience, Cynthy?"
"It was perhaps the hundredth time
he had askod the same question and
only to receive tho same comforting re
ply: "Oh, I knew there was good in you
Bomowherc, brother, nnd it would only
take time and patience and plenty of
prayer to bring it out, and sure enough."
Two moro days must clapso before
Mrs. Forbes would return from the city,
and it was both pitiable and laughable to
noto tho conflicting emotions with which
her worthy but troubled spouse antici
pated her nppcaranco.
"Of course she'll know all about
tho failure and our losses," ho said to
his sister, repeatedly. "So, thank
fortune, wo shan't havo to tell her
about it, but I should think she'd hurry
homo on that very account now, shouldn't
you?"
"Well, I supposo she thinks sho might
as well havo her visit out," Cynthy
would reply. "You know her brother's
wanted this visit lor a long time."
"Hope they ain't a urging Miss Forbes
to stay away from mo in tho future,"
said tho captain the afternoon of the
day his wifo was expected home. By
this time the poor man's anxiety and
forebodings wcro truly painful to wit
ness. "Now, Jonathan, that's downright
naughty of you," said Miss Cynthy, "as
if Maria would deport in trouble of all
times."
At last tho stage coach stopped at the
cottage door, but somehow, tho captain
could not go out, us expected to greet
his wifo, longed for as she had been.
lie stood peeping through the blinds
as tho stage driver helped her alight,
then rolled her littlo trunk into the
gravelly puth. All at once he turned to
his sister, his faco fairly working with
emotion.
"Oh, Clnthy, sho doesn't know a
thing about it. I know sho doesn't.
She's a smilin' and a noddiu' to the
driver, an' her face is as peaceful as tho
coral isles, and poor Miss Forbes don't
know, I know sho don't."
But he could hold off no longcr.his wifo
was at the door, and the next moment
had entered the room, given him it lov
ing embrace, and receiving his sounding
smack, then went over and kissed "Sis
ter Cinthy" affectionately.
The littlo maid of ull work soon an
nounced supper, and although tho cup
tain sat with tho most lugubrious faco
imaginable, yet throughout the meal,
Mrs. Forbes was as bright and joyous as
a young girl, her round, dumplinglike
face and figure shaking with laughter at
tho queer stories she had to tell, and the
amusing reminiscences of her journey.
After tea, when they were sitting
rosily together, the husband, wife, and
sister, C'uptain Forbes felt that at last his
timo had come, so summoning all his
courage, he said with a gigantic effort
at calmness.
"My dear, there's awful nows."
"Now.tho littlo black kitty ain't dead
or any of the chickens, I hope," said
Mrs. Forbes.
"Mercy, no!" Then as gently as pos
sible, the captain broko tho disastrous
tidings, how the bank had broke, and
they had lost all.
"Law, yes. I knew it had broke,"
said MrsI Forbes, complacently. "But
thank a kind, merciful, Heavenly
Father, it ain't hurt us any."
"Why, what do you mean!" gasped
the captain, fearing her senses had de
serted her at the news; "all wo had was
there, wife."
"No, 'twasn't," she answered placidly.
"I'd drawed it all out three days aforo
tho smash came. Brother William has
it all safely invested in his business."
"Why, but Maria, you could't draw
it. I deposited that money, no ono
could draw it without my order."
"Mrs. Forbes broko into a rippling
laugh.
"Well, now, do you think, Johnny
Forbes, I've lived with you all these
years without bein able to write ex
actly like you? I never did appro vo of
all your money bein' in that bunk,
and William didn't, to I just writ out
an order on' endorsed it. I had your
book along, had an idee onco in tho
city I might want it, so I just got the
money as slick as could be, an' its all
safe an sound. I didn't tell William
that."
But Captain Forbes was regarding his
wifo with distended eyes. Finally he
roared in true sailor fashion.
"Honolulu and all tho (Julf States!"
Why, Miss Forbes, that's forgery."
"What's forgery'i" asked his sleek,
contented wifo.
"Why, coppin' my hand writin'.
Didn't you know that;"
"Sakes, no; I wouldn't n done wrong
for all tho money in the world! But
how long since you and I have been
two, Jack Forbes, I should like to
know i"
When at last she became convinced
of her innocent wrong doings, Mrs.
Forbes at once wrote to her old ac
quaintance, the president of the bank,
confessing tho wholo transaction and
asking what she should do.
Butlhe conscience st rickeu man replied,
that gravo as the mistake might have
been under other circumstances, he was
yet only too glad that they were saved
the engulfing ruin of the batik's collapse.
Mrs. Forbes always speaks regretfully
of having done a wrong deed, although
unwittingly and for the best. But with
generous hands, both she end the cap
tain help to their utmost ability thoia
who did suffer from tho bursting of the
bank, while the captain often declare!
with characteristic vehemence, that
"women are amazin' cute and curious
when they take business matters into
their hands. Heavens and earth! if they
ain't." Mrt. Harriet A. Cheever.
Tho Mind Cure.
Boston's latest craze, mind cure, has
appeared in New York, says a writer in
tho Brooklyn Kagle. No less than three
of the disciples of the new system have
moved to New York, and two of them
havo set up gorgeous establishments up
town. They all use the prefix "doctor"
before their names, and their establish
ments are run in every way like those of
prosperous physicians of tho old school.
Ono of them, on Madison avenue, is
reaping a harvest. Ho charges $3 a visit,
has a handsome brougham, a liveried
man in the hall, and all the other acces
sories of a fashionable doctor of medi
cine. These men are rapidly building
up a boom in tho line of quackery. Mrs.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, the novelist,
who has written one good novel, "That
Lass o' Lowrio's," and ono weak play,
"Esmeralda," nnd gained considerable
famo thereby, is the most prominent con
vert the mind cure people ever had. They
have been using Mrs. Burnett's name ever
since sho was cured or converted by them
as n sort of trade mark, and, as tho gen
eral opinion among women seems to bo
that whatever cures Mrs. Burnett must
bo cflicacious, the mind euro people find
tho use of the novelist's name very profit
able. I called on tho Madison avenue
men just to seo what tho much talked of
mind cure was. In the first place the
man was as arrant and transparent a fraud
ns I have ever met. lie was along
bearded, hollow-eyed and nffected crea
ture who could not talk gramatically, or
express two idcaj consecutively in any
thing like nn intelligible manner. Ho
not only does not know how he cures
people if ho does cure them but he
also has not formulated any theory by
which ho can account for his assurance
in accepting money from pcoplo for al
leged services rendered. He sat
like Napoleon in a chair, while
he talked to mo in tho most pompous
and stagey manner, and spoko somewhat
as follows: "In tho a first place it is a
matter of somewhat extreme dillicult
ness to account for my treatments. Firstly,
disease doesn't exist. If a man has a
boil it is because he thinks he ought to
have it, and not because he really has it.
I devoto my intenscst mental activity to
bear on that man's mind and that cures
his mind of tho delusion, which is that
ho really has got a boil. After his mind
has been cured this here boil of his cures
itself." If this is a fair specimen of tho
mind cure disciples of Boston, I am
rather surprised at the extent of the
craze there. Tho mind cure business is
tho silliest humbug of all tho forms of
quackery that flourish in New York.
One Woman Tries Nine Husbands.
Cynthia Boardman was a girl of lov
ing disposition and her affections were
true as gold when once they wcro fas
tened. William Rawlings was the hap
py man who first led Cynthia to tho al
tar a blushing bride. A mule killed
Mr. Hawlings. 2 lis relict then mnrried
Henry Ladd. He was drowned. Mak
ing a visit to Pennsylvania she was
snapped up by Mr. Henderson. He
died. Returning to Ohio, her native
place, she became Mrs. Johnson. Hedied.
Mrs. Johnson then took Mr. Dixon.
Ho died. Again tho widow goes to
Pennsylvania, nnd again is she snapped
up; this time by Mr. Maybury, and they
move to Indiana. Tho ague killed him.
The much-tried widow returns to Ohio,
whero Henry Ladd, a brother of her sec
ond husband, married her. Ho died.
She now takes a rest for four years, and
then becomes Mrs. Tipton. Ho died.
Sho now went on her farm and proceeded
to ornament her house with the portraits
of her lamented dead, and hung them
ui) as a general reminder of the fate in
Store for the unfortunate man who should
next marry her. She next married Mr.
Dyer, a frail man, who was not ns popu
lar as some of her other husbands;
"but," she said, apologetically, "I was
gettin' too old to bo perticular, an' I
took him. George ain't overly stout,
and I reckon his pictur'll soon go along
with, the rest ot em. Cincinnati in
quirer. The Dead Sea of the West.
Tho famous Dead Sea of the "West,
Mono lake, situated in Mono County,
California, is thus described by a writet
:n the San Francisco Chronicle: Its wntci
is so strongly impregnated with ulkaliei
that the hand held for a few minutes in
it will crack open and the skin will be
eaten oil. No living thing exists in it,
though it is said that often, after strong
winds have blown across its surface,
there is a layer of worms several feet
wido on its leeward shore. It cleanses
cloth dipped in it almost instantly, and
if they are not as speedily removed does
worse. Its shores aro barren, bleak and
lonely in the extreme, boidercd by a
soil that will grow nothing but tho
scrubbiest of sage-brush. In the pros
perous times of Bodiu a steamer plied on
the lake, but it is now laid up in ordi
nary. Tho length of the lake is ubout
thirty miles and its greatest width about
eighteen miles. Seen from this niagui
ficent point, surrounded by the fgreat
walks of Bloody Canyon, it is ono of the
noblest views on earth, but at the same
time it only proves to one who has been
ubout its shores and toiled ocross the de
serted and sandy interval to tho wel
come loot of tho Sierra, with even no
better way ac ross than tho Bloody Can
yon, that truly "dUtauce lends enchant
ment to the view."
A Texan, who lias lived for years
among the cowboys, says that many of
thm are graduates of eastern yllej;i.
A QUEER RELIGIOUS SECT.
MIXI.IONAr.BE3 WHO HAVE NEVEB
HANDLED A CENT OF MONET.
The IVnn.i'lrnnla "I'ronoinlte" A
orlety of About Thirty member
Willi Weal til of l UU,UO0,O4IU.
Ono of tho most remarkable and ec
centric of all tho religious sects to
which tho fruitful social soil of this
country has given birth, is that of the
L'conomitcs, who aro located in this
State, says a Pittsburg (Pcnn.) letter. The
Kconomite society is possessed of great
wealth; some assert it reaches $100,000,
000. At the present day there aro not
more than thirty Kconomites, They are
all aged, nnd in all probability ten years
will tind them gathered to their fathers.
In the last two years thero have been
twelve deaths. The houses at Economy
are of . the plainest, built gable end to
the street. Modern wall paper is now
on nearly every house, Lut all else is
ancient. Rug carpet is mostly used, and
everything is spotlessly clean.
Miss Rapp, the daughter of the
founder, is still living in Kconomy. Sho
is a beautiful, silvery-haired, blue-eyed
lady of seventy-eight years, but looks no
more that sixty. In her younger days
she was very accomplished, and to this
day she furnishes all tho church music.
Sho was a beautiful singer and her voice
is yet musical and sweet. In her house
she has a little mahogany workstand and
sideboard that belonged to J. G. Blaine's
father. She also has two pianos that
are over fifty years old. They have four
pedals instead of two, like the modern
makes. One pedal will give the tone of
an organ. They are line toned and in
good repair.
The old fashioned garden is well
stocked with modern and ancient flow
ers. A high stone wall, covered here
and there with ivy, fences it in. In the
center, rising out of a lovely lake, is a
high summer house, decorated with mar
ble vases holding beautiful plants. In
this tho band plays once every week. To
the left is a large round mound, built of
rough stones, over which climb a variety
of vines. A back door leads into a'round
room, beautifully frescoed. Set around
in this are four immense stones, on each
of which is inscribed :
: Geohok Rapp, :
; Founder of the Harmony Society :
; Born 17:77, died 1847. :
;Hannony, Pa., 18U5;Harmony,Ind., 1815. :
; Economy, 1B25. :
"When Mr. Rapp settled here he bought
some property from Mr. Blaine, father of
James G. The old Blaine homestead is
still standing, nnd was used not long
since for a schoolroom. In the center
of ono orchard of twenty-five acres is a
large mound, where, after the French
and Indians had a battle, the braves
were buried together with many valu
ables. Mr. Rapp never allowed this to
be disturbed, and now Mr. Henrici sees
that Mr. Rapp's wishes are'obeyed to the
letter. The mound is held sacred, and
still holds its sceret. Many beautiful
flowers at present are planted on it. Near
by, in the orchard, is tho Kconomite
graveyard. Side by side the dead sleep
in peace. No gaudy stones, no flowers,
simply covored with tho bright grass.
There are many men and maidens
hired to do the work. These, of course,
livo together, but the unmarried are not
allowed to flirt with each other. If two
are seen talking or walking together, or
if they marry they ore immediately sent
away. If a man smokes in the town
limits ho is discharged. "Whisky and
beer are strictly forbidden. If any citi
zen wishes to go out of town, or, in fact,
wishes to do anything, he must first ask
permission of Mr. Henrici or Miss Rapp.
Groceries, dry goods, milk, bread and
meat are furnished at stated intervals in
any quantity desired milk twice a day,
meat once, bread three times, etc. The
members of the society with tho excep
tion of the managers never handle any
money us they have no need for it.
Many would not know a piece of money
if they should see it, never having han
dled u penny in their lives, and yet ench
is worth at least (1,000,000. The wash
ing for every family in the town is taken
to the laundry, where hired help handles
it.
At five a, m., they breakfast, at sis
tho bell rings for them to go to work, at
ten o'clock they have lunch, consisting
of bread, butter, cheese, meat and cider;
twelve to ono is dinner hour, threa
o'clock lunch again, and 6:0 supper.
At nine i r. the bell rings and every
ono must go to bed. Nine watchmen
nightly guard tho town and enforce the
rules of the society, which visitors must
observe.
Tho church is built of brick, and sup
ports a large bell and two town clocks.
Straightbacked, uneushioned benches
hold tho congregation. At each side,
directly opposite, aro raised rostrums,
ono for the pulpit, the other for the choir.
Mr. Henrici preaches about nn hour every
Sunday morning and evening. Nearly
thirty young people compose the choir,
over which tho venerable Miss Rapp pre
sides at the organ.
The clothing worn is made perfectly
plain. The dresses consist of a gathered
skirt, plain waist, full sleeves and a
square kerchief across the breast. The
best of silks und woolens used to be man
ufactured ut Economy, but the factories
6tand silent und deserted now. Tho
members are too old to work, and the
hired help does jiot take interest enough
iu the work to insure success.
Everything is raised in abundance,
and the large wine cellars of the thrifty
community contain over 50,000 gallons
of the best article. Some of the choicest
wines are lully lifty years old. Lust year
500 barrels of cider were made. It is
drank iustead of water. No oneever be
comes a drunkard here, und a quarrel
has never occurred or a cross word
upoken.
Mr. Henrici has built a schoolhouse,
trnd pays a uachtr to instruct the chil
dren of the people who work for the so- j
ciety. Thus they live day after day
peacefully, quietly, religiously, prepar
ing themselves to meet the God whom
they faithfully believe in. They do not
flaunt the.ir great wealth in the faces of
tho deserving and struggling poor;
neither do they count their gold like
misers. What will become of it all when
the last survivor passes away no ono out
side of a small circle knows. They aro
a living monument to the old adage that
"Economy is wealth." They aro not
miserly or uncharitable. No tramp ever
passes Economy hungry. The poor of
the vicinty only speak to bless tho plain
folk, who by thrift and industry, have
accumulated wealth and earned happi
ness. Hovf Clay Won a Picture.
Senator Beck, of Kentucky, went to
school as a boy at college near Ashland,
the residonce of Henry Clay, and he de
scribed the other night a visit which a
number pf the college boys once mado
upon the old statesman. Said ho, "As
Mr. Clay rose to meet us his face shone
with smiles, and every boy in tho party
was straightway his friend. In tho course
of the talk he asked us what we thought
of his pictures. There was a number,
some paintings and some engravings,
hanging upon tho walls in different parts
of the room. We finally decided upon
one, the picture of a woman holding a
bowl of steaming mush in her hand as
the finest one in the collection. As we
did so, Mr. Clay laughed and said: Yes,
boys, I think you havo picked out my
best picture, and as you have done so I
must tell its history. I got that picture
at Ghent, and in a curious way. Albert
Gallatin, John Quincy Adams and myself
were there making the treaty, and Mr.
Gallatin and myself took chances in a
picture ratllc. My prize turned out to be
that picture, pointing to an interior en
graving on tho other side of the room,
'and Gallatin got this. Now Gallatin
knew very little about art, and I did not
know very much, but I could see at a
glance that his picture was far better
than mine, and that I should be laughed
at if we took the pictures home and com
parisons were made. I saw that I must
get hold of Gallatin's pictures, and I
said to him: 'Mr. Gallatin, these two
pictures were made to match each other,
and the man who has one ought to have
both. Now I will tell you what I will
do. 1 will put my picture against yours
and we wiil play a game of cards for
them. The man who wins shall take
both pictures, and you may name the
game.'
" 'Mr. Gallatin thought a moment,
consented, and said "seven up," and,"
continued Senator Beck, "I can "hear
Henry Clay's hearty laugh now and see
his smile of intense merriment as he
concluded. As soon as Gallatin Baid
"seven up" I knew I had him. He knew
but little about cards, and I was one of
the best seven-up players in Kentucky.
The result was as I had anticipated, and
I got the picture.' " Cleveland Leader.
Fifty Thousand Miles on Horseback
A minister of the gospel in Western
Ohio, who was long engaged in .homo
missionary work, writes the New Tt'ork
Evangelist of tho way in which ho used
to get about his field of labor:
"It has been my lot to occupy a home
missionary field nearly all my ministerial
life for about forty years. When I first
came to Western Ohio wo had no rail
roads, but a plenty of woods, swales and
mud. My mode of traveling to my ap
pointments was uniformly on horseback.
On my field in Western and North
western Ohio, I have ridden on horseback
more than 50,000 miles. For several
years I occupied a field which required
me to travel in going and returning, as
follows: One twenty-four miles, another
forty miles, another fifty-two miles, an
other seventy miles. And for the first
eighteen years of my ministerial life I,
failed but two Sabbaths to meet my reg
ular appointments. My salary never
exceed over $300 per year, aud proba
bly did not average more than $430 per
year. I have cause for thankfulness in
believing that the Lord made mo useful
in building up His kingdom.
A riace Where Women Kulo.
Among tho dependencies of Holland
there is a remarkablo little State which,
in its constitution and original costume
of its inhabitants, surpasses tho boldest
dreams of the advocates of women's
rights. In tho Island of Java, between
the cities of Batavia and Hamarang, is
the kingdom of Bantnam, which, al
though tributary to Holland, is an inde
pendent State. The sovereign, is, in
deed, a man, but all the rest of the gov
ernment belongs to tho fair sex. The
king is entirely dependent upon his
Sta'e council. The highest authorities,
military commanders and soldiers aro,
without exception, of tho female, sex.
The Amazons rido in the masculine style
wearing sharp steel points instead of
spurs. They carry a pointed lunce,
which they spring very gracefully, and
also a musket, which is discharged at
full gallop. (Jlube-Dtmocnit.
Gold Found Everywhere.
It has long been well understood that
gold is the most universally distributed
of metals, being found in nil parts of the
world, but most readers will probably
be surprised at a statement recently niiule
by Professor A. E. Foote, of Philadel
phia, to the effect that there is more gold
in the clay under the city of 'Philadel
phia than would equal the entire , valu
ation of the city. In 1812 men male
sixty cents a day washing the sands near
Chester, on the Delaware river, whero
William Pcnn first landed, and quite re
cently several dollars' worth of gold in
gruius were taken from a well 150 feet
deep within tweuty miles of Philadel
phia. Scicntijio American.
A iwtll gathering A boil.
THE BTORM,
Ye hills and dales and rocks of ages,
Ye mighty lakes and Dounatesa mi,
And tempest dread, wnicu grandiy rage)
O'er hearts oppressed with fierce aocrees;
Proclaim from whence, ye powers stupendous,
Proclaim from whence' your terror roar.
Lashing the world with thews tremendous.
Dashing mad so as from shore to shore.
My soul is wrapt In stygTan wonder
O'er lurid bursts and tonguos of fire,
As demons rend the vault asunder
With rumblings vast and thund'rings ridt
Now madly sweeps the wlli tornado,
H ith lightning on his streaming hair;
Now sovereign swells the foil cruiado
Along the winf'd Cimmerian air.
Erebus black outpours his legions, ,
Convolving on the lightning1 beat,
rhen plunging Into godless regions,
To gambol in the rolling heat ,
rhe North and West in awe a turmoil tin?
A huge Colossus rears hi ftmu.
And, to the furies mad consenting,
He lifts the floodgates of Uia storm.
My life takes wing and upward charges
The demons red to battle's wage;
Valor the bounds of earth enlarge.
And high transcends the fury's rag
From center wild to whirling border .
Tho furies reek and rush in painr
While teems the spheres in crazed disorder,
Till hells are quenched fn torrent rain.
Without the cross thcie s no apprizemont
In sun or sky, on land or sea; ' '
Like man, all things need God's chastisement
To Him all worlds must bend the knee.
Huah Farrar ilaVtrmqlt.
HUMOR OF TH.E BAT.
Homo rulers women.
One-legged orators are always success
ful on tho stump. Sifting$.
A wooden wedding Marryiogatlock
ucad. Oorhnm Mountaineer.
A forger should always write run
ning hand. Botton Tranteript.
An egg that gives birth to a rooster
cannot properly be called a hen's egg.
The man who delights to get up with the lark
la never seen out upon one after dark.
Boston Courier,
A camel sometimes lives to the age of
100 years. No wonder he has a hump
on his back. Botton Budget. '
A Kansas man has been fined $10 for
smiling in church. Kansas is a prohibi
tion State this year. Graphic.
The extreme height of misery is a
small boy with a new pair of boots and
no mud puddle. Chicago Ledger.
Arkansaw has an agricultural organi
zation known as the Wheel. Its mem
bers are constitutionally tired. Chicago
Sun.
A Northern paper praises tho Indian
bair restorer. He is a fraud. No Indian
was ever known to restore any hair.
1'exa tSiJXings.
A health journal says you ought to
take three-quarters of an hour for din
ner. It is well, olso, to add a lew veg
etables and a piece of meat.
Tell us not in mournful numbers
Sorrow cunie by eating apples,
'Tis the man who eats cucumbers
Who with keenest anguish grapples.
Hoton Courier.
"In certain parts of Minnesota one can
travel 100 miles and find no one but
Swedes," remarks an exchange. Tho
eamo thing, we believe, hns been no
ticed in Sweden. Xeu Yerk Graphic.
Miss Corson makes a business of in
structing people how to roast a chicken.
This is the easiest part of it. How to get
tho chicken to roast is generally the
question that agitates tho public mind
most. S'ftings.
Coddlepato used to ravo over Miss
Gurligurl's hyacynthino cutis. Since he
has discovered that they are fastened on
with hairpins ho has chosen a new floral
emblem, end now calls them lie-locks.
Bodon Transcript.
Inquisitive offspring (to fond father)
"Papa, what is tho meaning of 'Tra-la-la,
la,' in tho song I uui IcuiuiugJ''
Fond father (perplexed for a moment,
but recovering) "It means, my child,
the same us fol-do-rol-lol' in the song
you have'already learned." Offspring
silent, but not edified. Aio York Jnde
fendent. THE SEVENTEEN-YEAR LOCT'ST.
The seventeen-year locust conies
l'p smiling in the Went,
And as he hugs himself lie hunC
And slaps his hnllovv t he
Then merrily
He shouts with gleo
I will go for the oab,
I will fatten on rye
And will warble j'iy r.oies
In this wheat by und by.'' '
Sew York Journal.
Lightning Rods for Human Beings.
Mr. P. B. Delany, of this city, inven
tor of the wonderful synchronous tele
graph system, has recently patented a
lightning rod for the human body. It
consists of a large copper who that
passes down tho back, with branches ex
tending along tho arms to tho hands,
and along the legs to the exterior of the
slices and to metal soles thereon. The
wearer if provided with this rod may, if
standing on the ground, handle elec
tric light wires with impuuity; and if
out In a thunder-storm, would stand n
good chance of not being hurt if his rod
were struck by lightning. Mr. Oeluney
ought tocatry a branch of his rod up
the back of the nock, und have it con
nect w ith a point on thchclimt of the
policemen, und so give thorn protection.
It has heretofore been proposed !o have
lightning 101I umbrellas, that is to nay.
Hit umbrella ptovided with a flexible
wire that extends from the tip Of fer
rule over the outside of the umbrella,
the wire reuchin;; to and allowed to
trail on the ground. Suiitifif America.
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