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; WITHIN AND WITHOUT.
The tide (low. up, the tide flows down;
The water brims the creok,-and falls;
A cottngo, wMther-atninwl and brown,
Lifts nt tho brink It a time-worn walls.
Beneath tlio lowly window-sill
A little honk of lildnu gay
The wandering airs with fragrance fill.
Sweeten tho night and charm the day.
The tide flows up, the tide flows down;
From the low window's humble square
A woman in a faded gown,
With care-dimmed eyos and tangled hair,
Looks out across the smiling space
Where goldon stars and suns unfold;
Blue larkspur, the piod pansy's face,
Nasturtium bulls of scurlet Ixild
Fihe see them not, nor cares, nor knows.
A man's rough figure, noon and night
And morning, o'or the threshold goes
No sense has he for thoir delight.
The tide flows up, the tide flows down,
In that dull house n little maid
Lives lonoly, under Fortune's frown,
A 11 fo uuchlldllko and afraid.
To her that tiny garden plot
Means heaven. Bhe comes at eve to stand
'Mid mallow and forget-me-not
And marigolds on cither band.
They look at her with brilliant eyes,
Their soont Is greeting and caress;
They spread their rich and glowing dye
Her saddened soul to choer and bless. '
The tido flows up, the tide flows down;
Within, how base the life, and poor I
Without, what wealth nnd beauty crown
The humblo flowers boside the doorl
Celia Thaxter, in Atlantic Monthly.
TRAINING A HUSBAND.
So you want to know how I came to
hev'Caieb, when I knew jeat how he used
Nancy, his first wife. Wall, I'll tell jou
all about it.
You know Dan'l left mo pretty poorly.
I had two little children, and what ter
dew I didn't know. The mortgage) was
ter run out in about a year and a half
after he died. I'd sent tho children
down to brother John's to get ter school.
Brother John wanted mo ter give them
ter him an' he'd do well by 'em, an' I wus
meditating on it, orful "loth to dew it.
But what else could I dow with 'em
when the old farm was took away from
me ?
One day when tho tiroo was near cout,
I was hooin' the beans ono side of tho
fence jinin' Caleb's cornOeld. I tell yer,
Hannah, I never felt bluer in all my days.
I'd alters lived an' worked a farm, an'
couldn't do no other kind of work; so
what was to como of mo I didn't know.
"Purty good hoen' for a green hand,"
ses somebody over tho fence.
"Yes," soz I. "I've done enough of it
since I was loft alone. Practice makes
Eorfsct,"wo used to write in our copy
ook when we were children, an' I
couldn't help heavin' a sigh.
"Wall, F.muicrline," says he, "your'n
I seem to bo in tho same fix. You need
a man to do your hoeing un' I need a
woman ter see ter my house, an' if your
agreed we'll hitch horses aud work in
"juble harness. I can't find no hired
flelp that'll do as Nancy did." (Thinks
mysell. an' you'll never find another that
will, either.) "So, what d'yo say, Em
merline?" '
P'raps I didn't think o' nothin' for the
next few minuits. It all flashed over me
in a second, what an unfeclin' man he'd
allers ben. Poor Nancy had ter dew all
the housework, an' a good deal belong
ing ter him ter dew, an' ho was stingier
than an old miner, tow.
I knew he was a smart man to work,
was forehanded on' was able to live in
good deal better shape than ho did, au'
jou know, Hannah, that poor Dan'l was
just the opposite. Ho was a norful clever
-man, was Dan'l, but kind o' shiftless an'
easy, an' it alters worriod roe tor have
things going so slack. 8c, I to inyself,
a body can't have everything; there's
alters soma douts, an' a poor man's bet
ter'n nono. So I speaks right up an' I
lot:
"Caleb, we've been nubors for many a
year. I know your failing' an' sjwse you
know mine; an' so, if you say so, all
right; p'raps we both might do wuss."
Wall, ter make a long story short, we
agreea to tho business right oil. Caleb
said that it was stylish to go on a wed
din' tower nowadays, and as he wanted
ter go deown ter Bangor to see about
selling his wool, an' as Sarah Jane Cur
tis (who used to work for him) lived
about half way, an' wo could slop there
both ways and not cost us anything, ha
thought we'd better go. His niece,
Rebecca Oilman, yer know, lives there,
and we could make her a visit at the
same time. Brother John lives there
tew, you know, an' I'd made up my mind
that I'd bring home the children.
An' so I did; butCuleb ho was orful
sot agin it, but scd, "of course they can
come and mnke a visit;" au' I let him
thiuk so, 'cause I wasn't quite ready to
have words with him yet.
Wo stayed about a week an' got homo
along in the afternoon all right. Tho
next moruiug' I woke purty early, an' I
sez to myself: "Courage, Kmmerline,
now or never." I kept still, fr Caleb
was still a snorin', but bime by ho
fetched up an unairthly snore that wak't
himself up, an' when he sees as it was
gettin, davlight he nudged me, an' sez
he:
"Wake up, Kmmerline, Erumeiline,
its broad daylight; come, come, get up,
we shan't have uuy breakfast ter day."
I was orful hard ter wake, but after a
while I manured ter, au' while I was a
rubbiu' my eyes I sez, "Got a lire, ain't
ye, Caleb?"
"Fire I" sez he, "No, I never build
any fires. Nancy allers built the fires."
"Did she?" sez I, cool as a cucumber.
"So did Dan'l."
I turned over and went to sleep ognia
or at least I thought I did.
Wall, he wijjglcd, and turned and
twisted, an' he didn't move ter get up
for about an hour, and when tho sun
rose an' shono inter the bedroom winder,
ho got up an' built tho fire. An' there
wasn't no kindlings nor a stick of
wood, an' he had to skirmish in a lively
way and get some.
Arter the fire got to cracklin' In good
shape I got up. I didn't hurry none, let
me tell you. I most died lyin' abed so
long, but, sez I to myself, "ef I make
the fire now, I'll prob'ly hev to do it in
cold weather, an' I won't do it for any
man."
Ho was pretty sullen all day, but I
didn't take no notice of him, an' ho got
over it. The next day he was ter begin
hayin' an' ho had six men to help him. 1
had ter do all tho work, an1 take care of
the milk an' churnin', an' it was no fool
of n job. Come timo to get dinner, an'
there wasn't a sliver of wood cut. I sent
Johnnie (ho was then about seven yenrj
old) out in tho field to tell Caleb
wanted him.
He came in looking savage, and
wanted to know what it was I wanted.
Sez I
"I want some wood tor burn,"
"Wall," ho sez, "there's a whole
woodpile out tboro. Holp versef."
"An' not a stick split," sez I. "Yon
will hev ter get a bigger stove to bum
that."
"Wal, it ain't such a hard job to split
it." sez ho. "Nancy used tew, often,
when I was bi.zy."
"Did she?" soz I. "Fo did Dan'l."
lie got the wood, an' said, as he was
going out, thnt ho didn't want to be
called in out of tho mowing field again
unless 'twas for victuals.
"All right," eez I.
The next day 'twas tho same thine;
net a stick split. Thinks I, "Old fel
low, you ain't got Nancy hero. I'll lam
ye a little something that p'raps ye don't
know," So when it was dinner timo I
blowed the horn, an' in comes all seven
of theso men an' sets down at the
tabic. 8ich 'stonished lookin' faces as
they viewed the grub. The biscuit and
the pertaters. an' meat, an' vegetables,
nnd everything was washed clean and
put on raw. Not a thing was cooked.
Caleb looked blacker'n a thunder
cloud.
' "What does this mean?" sez he.
"Means what it means," sez I. "You
said yest'day that you didn't want tei
be called in from tho niowin' field unlesi
it was for victuals, and here they are."
"Nice shape, tew," sez ho.
"Wall, I can't cook 'thout wood," sez
I, dryly like.
With that all seven of 'cm started fot
the door, and they never left that pile
until it was ready for tho stove. I
never was bothered for wood again.
A few weeks after I wanted some
money purty bad. I wanted to send
Johnnie and Nellie back to school, an' I
was bound that they should have some
clothes fit to wear I asked Caleb a
uumber of times to let me hev some, but
he mado ull kinds of excuses.
I didn't tell him what I wanted
of it, mind ye. So ono day along conies
a peddler buyin' butter'n cgg9. I had
considerable on hand that Caleb was in
tending to carry into the city when ho
had time. So I sold every pound of but
ter'n eggs I had in tho house. I got
nigh on to twenty-five dollars for 'em.
When Caleb come home I told him I
had sold tho butter'n eggs.
"Heow much did you git?" sez he.
I told him.
"Where's tho money!" sez he.
"I've got it," sez I.
"Wall." sez he, "Nancy allers gives
mo all the money that she took for hei
butter and eggs."
"Did she?" sez I. "And bo did
Dan'l."
He got tired of holding Nancy up
afore my eyes, for I would offset her
with Dan'l every time. He found that I
was powerful sot in my way. an' he
thought he might as well let me have my
own way, and so he sez:
"I don't moan to bo ugly, but I won't
be trod on by nobody."
When he wouldn't let me hav what
money 1 wanted, I'd sell somethin' every
time. I sold two tons of hay one time,
when I know ho only had enough to
winter his critters. So, on the whole,
he found that I wasn't afraid of him. and
he behaved quite decent. I told him
not long ago that ho was growin' clever.
"Cleverl" sez he. "1 rather you'd
call me a dog-gnned fule than clover."
But I notice he hasimproved, an' lay
it ter his trainin'.
How Brnin linked a Uusy Saw.
"Talking about funuy things." said a
big, bronzed, bearded man in the reading-room
of an uptown hotel, "the fun
niest thing I ever heard of hoppened in
my saw-mill out in Michigan. Ve used
a heavy upright s:iw for sawing heavy
timber. One day not long ago the men
had all gone to dinner, leaving the saw.
which ran by water power, going at full
speed. While we were away a big black
bear came into the mill and went nosing
around. Tho suw caught his fur and
twitched him a little. Bruin didu't like
this for a cent, so he turned around and
fetched the saw a lick with his paw.
Result: a badly cut paw. A blow with
tho other paw followed, and it was also
cut. The bear was by this time aroused
to perfect fury, and, rushing at the saw,
caught it in his grasp and gave a tremen
dous hug. It was his last hug, and we
lived on bear steak for a week. When
we came up from dinuer there was a half
a bear on each side of tho saw, which
was going uhead us cicely as though it
had never seen a bear. This is a fact, so
he'p me, Bob," and the big luinberinun
bit oil a fresh chew of tobacco. Neto
Yuri. Tribune.
Some natures uro so sour aud ungrate
ful that they are never to bo obliged.--L'L'itraryt,
THE TRADE IN LEECHES.
A PECULIAR IWDUSTaT WHICH
STILL rLOUXI8HB3.
Gathering; I.rrx-I.ra for h IOiidon
HI ark r( How they are Caiijlit
and Kept Applvlnf l-eerlies.
Of the two firms in London and there
arc only two to whom tho foreign
leeches are consigned from Hamburg,
one practices as a dental surgeon and the
other sells pipes, tobacco, triid other tri
fles. Both are of sufficient standing to
recall the great times of indiscriminate
blood-letting, when, whether the patient
suITercd from a black eye, a headache, a
liver or a heart, he lost a couple of
ounces of blood and was declared to bo
better. Now scarcely ono is used where
a century ago a hundred flourished, and
tho sixpenny leech of even so recent a
date as 1800 has fallen to something less
than a half-penny at wholesale price. No
completer proof of the popularity of the
leech with tho early practitioner can bo
afforded than by the fact thut the verb
"to leech" means to treat with medicine
and to bleed, whilo the doctor himself,
even so late as tho days of Shakespeare,
borrowed the name of his favorite in
strument of healing. The slender.meagre,
hungry leech comes fiom Turkey, within
a radius of fifty miles of Constantino
ple, and from Buda-Pesth, whero tho
country people bring them in. like water
cress, by thousands from the ditches,
and sell them to the dealers. They are
found there in all ditches and ponds,
and wherever there is pure running water,
weeds for shelter and muddy bauks and
bottoms. They are, as a rule netted in
nets prepared with bait, though we are
also informed that it is not rare for the
hardy peasant to walk bare-legged
through the water and strip them off as
fast as they can adhere to the cnlf.
However they are caught by plain,
honest fishing or by human artifice from
Buda-Pesth, without distinction of age
or size, they travel to Hamburg, whero
they Ho in vast pools or reservoirs until
the time for their selection arrives. In
theso reservoirs they lie generally for a
year, and during all that time, if they
are properly cared for, they should re
ceive no food, or rather no more than
they can find for themselves in the water.
But this is a rule that is not always ob
served as it should be, for there are many
merchants who give them blood, and
some liver, and some, so that all tastes
may be satisfied, the cntiro body of a
horse thrown among them, with the re
sult that on arrival in this country their
appetites aro fatigued, and they are
found to need certain stimulants to per
formance. From Hamburg, when tneir
time of probation is over, they are im
ported here direct in bags and
boxes, and at the back of the surgery in
Pentonville, or among the pipes and to
bacco of Houndsditch they lie in shallow
earthen vessels tightly covered with
gauze or linen, the halting stage on the
way to the wholesale druggist and the
hospital. With the importer they rarely
tarry for more than four or five days,
but are sent out almost as fast as they
come in in small wooden boxes similar
to those used by fruiterers for honey
comb. From the wholesale druggist
they pass again to the chemist and apothe
cary, and when the perils of travel and
the variations of climate they go through
are considered, the intending purchaser
must not be surprised if he finds himself
asked a sixpence for an animal that cost
the first dealer a shilling for a couple of
hundred. Many die on tho voyage, and
many in the short time they remain with
tho importer, and though in theory the
selected leech will stand an extreme of
heat or cold, many of the five-and-twen-tic8
and fifties ordered by the chemist,
carefully treated as they are, do not live
to fulfill what seems to be the sole reason
of their existence that of drawing blood.
The leech should never properly be ap
plied more than once, ana can be applied
anywhere. It fills in about a quarter of
an hour, and will absorb altogether from
forty to eighty-five grains of blood, or
in all about half an ounce. There is an
ingenious instrument known as the
artificial leech, ono occasionally
used, but now scarcely ever met
with. It consists of a small, sharp steel
cylinder worked by a spring, with which
a circular incision is made, and with an
interior glass cylinder capable ot being
exhausted by ti pistan worked by a
screw. It is not a good instrument, and
is, as we say, not used now. There is a
specimen to be seen in the museum of
the college of surgeons among the "sur
gical instrument series." In England
there is a less-powerful species common
ly found, though now never used. It is
known as the horse leech, from its hab
its of attacking the membranes lining
the mouth and nostrils of animals drink
ing at the pools it haunts. It is in its
way venomous, and, when applied to
the human subject, inflammation, leading
to erysipelas, has been known to follow
its bite. There must bo something in
our waters unfavorable to the growth
and culture ot tho parasite, for not only
is the indigenous leech useless, and in
deed harmful, but the foreign specimens
which efforts have been made to accli
matize have never come to any good.
Thirty years ago a prominent English
firm projected and founded a farm at
Norwood for tho breeding and cultiva
tion of the Turkish and Hungarian leech,
but, either from Ignorance of treatment
or changofulncss of climate, they all
sickened and died, aud the schome col
lapsed. Cornh ill.
" Smith, why don't you get your dia
monds insured?" said Jones. "Where
run I do that?" innoce.nt.lv asked Smith.
" At tho United States Pluto Glas In
surance Company, of course," aud a cool
ness bus grown up between them. J'ilt
bary Telegraph.
A camel someti we a lives to the age o
100 years. No wonder he has a hump
upon his back. Bvtin lindgtU
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
A recent invention for the use of eleo
tricians is square wire, which is claimed
to be not only mechanically but electri
cally.bctter than round wire.
Dr. J. Milncr Fothergill predicts a
great future for malt as a food. Among
other things, he commends lemonade
made with malt instead of cano sugar.
The forests of tho United States com
prise 412 species of trees belonging to
138 genera. Of these forty-eight genera
and sixty species are peculiar to Florida.
A vegetable leather, said to bo fully
equal to the animal product, is made in
Purls from gutta pcrcha, sulphur, raw
cotton, zinc white, kolkothar, and
oxide of antimony. The first two ingre
dients are necessary, whilo the other
parts may be replaced by chemicals of
similar character. Tho proportions are
varied with the purposes.
Horsehairs immersed in water do not
turn into snakes. The presence of what
is called the hair worm (gordius) in pools
of stagnant water by the roadside has
led to this belief. This worm is a para
site inhabiting beetles, grasshoppers, etc.
When full grown it leaves the insect aud
deposits its eggs in long chains in moist
earth and water. When seen in tho water
its appearance is exactly that of an ani
mated horsehair six or eight inches long.
In Sardinia, Sicily, and the region
around Naples, large cork plantations
are being destroyed in the improvident
haste of their owners to realise profit
from the superior quality of tanning af
forded by the bark, and from the wood.
The French have plantod this valuable
oak largely in Algiers, .where there is
now over a half million acres iu good
condition. The number of trees in Spain
is also increasing. It continues to grow
for ISO years, and reaches tho height of
some fifty feet; The wood is not valua
ble except for fuel. It is thought that
the tree would thrive in California.
The dental processes familiar to us aro
not so new as may be supposed. In the
museum of Corncto,on the coast of Italy,
are two curious specimens of artificial
teeth found in Etruscan tombs, probably
dating 400 or 500 years before our era.
The teeth wore evidently taken from the
mouth of some auimal, and had been
carefully cut and fastened to neighbor
ing natural teeth of two young girls by
means of small gold rings. The den
tist's art was also applied to treating
natural teeth in various ways, but the
fact has hitherto escaped notice on ac
count of the rarity of Etruscan skeletons.
The . remarkable arrangement lor
breathing which insects possess is thus
lucidly described: If we take any mod
erately large insect, say a wasp or a hor
net, we can see, even with tho naked eye,
that a series of small, spot like marks
runs along cither Bide of the body.
These apparent spots, which are general
ly eighteen or twenty in number, are,
in fact, the apertures through which air
is admitted into the system, and are gen
erally formed in such a manner that no
extraneous matter can by any possibility
find entrance. Sometimes they are fur
nished with a pair of horny lips, which
can be opened and closed at the will of
the insect; in other cases they are dense
ly fringed with stiff interlacing bristles,
ferming a filter, which allows air, and
air alone, to pass. But the apparatus, of
whatever character it may be, is always
so wonderfully perfect in its action that
it has been found impossible to inject
the body of a dead insect with even so
subtle a medium as spirits of wino, al
though the subject was first immersed in
the fluid and then placed beneath the re
ceiver of an air pump.
Car Wheels.
An official of tho Pennsylvania rail
road stated to a Pittsburg DUpatch re
porter that there are fully ton million
iron car-wheels in use on American rail
roads. That figure does not include tho
wheels on palace coaches and the better
class of passenger coaches.
"How much iron docs it take to make
a wheel?" he was asked.
"About 525 pounds of pig-iron," he
replied, "and about 1,250,000 wheels are
worn out every year. But do not con
clude from that that the iron men aro
called upon to supply the 812,000 tons
of materials required to mako tho new
wheels, because the worn-out wheels
themselves supply about 290,000 tons."
"How long will a good car-wheel
last?"
"Formerly it would last eight years.
But now the reduction of railroads to a
standard guage and the improvement in
leading and unloading facilities keep the
length of service down. This is because
the uniformity in guage keeps the cars in
more continuous use, and tho improve
ment in loading and unloading facilities
enables the cars to be put to more active
service. The wheels on palace coaches
and on first-class passenger coaches uro
known as paper wheels. They are made
with a steel rim or flange, and iron hub,
but the web is composed of sheets of
paper cemented together. They com
bine lightness with strength."
Weighing a Hair.
"To number the hairs of your head is
not a very difficult task," the refiner of
the assay office said. "A very close ap
proximation can be made by weighing
a single hair. The weight of the former
divided by that of the latter will, of
course, give the desired number. If you
will pluck out a hair from your beard 1
can show you."
A long and straggly one was accord
ingly detached, the refiner putting it on
a scale, which was enclosed in a glass
case, and graduated with extreme ac
curacy. With little weights of alumin
ium he piled up one arm, until an equi
poise was reached. The hair weighed
three milligrammes. "If you reduce this
to figures," he said, "it would require
8,000 hair, to weigh ao ounce, and sup
possiug you have six ounces, you have
49,000 hair." .Yie Ytrk Sun.
THE BLIND.
8UBSTITUTB TOXSTXS I3T THE CASE
or sxaxTLESs people.
How Titer Are Taught to Itead,
Write and IIay on Itluairal in
strument An Interesting Study,
In a general way it is known that a
blind man may be taught a few of the
rudiments of learning, and to care for
himself under certain limited circum
stances and after a fashion. And it wns
not until the last five yoars that the edu
cation of tho blind much exceeded those
limits. During that time, however,
progress has been mado which puts tho
sightless nearly on a plane with those
whoso sight is perfect. Tho educated
blind man of the period not only reads
and writes, but he does so with unerring
accuracy fluently and well. He studies
geography, with maps; astronomy, with
sidereal charts and apparatus; nnd
ranges at will through all the hitherto
forbidden fields of natural science. Let
a seeing man, if he can, read to him a
sheet of music; ho will transcribe it
faster than it is read, and, taking it to a
piano, will compel that instrument to
give up a faultless interpretation of the
notes. It is no uncommon sight in tho
neighborhood of a blind school to see a
group of the pupils at a popular lecture
taking notes which they will afterward
transcribe at length in their rooms.
There are actually thousands of persons
in Illinois, who never saw the light of
day, carrying on an untrammeled corre
spondence in characters which nro
neither English, nor Hebrew, nor Chal
daic, nor cuneiform nor anything eho
than the "blind alphabet." Blind men
teach their seeing friends to do this in
order that they may correspond as other
people do.
These splendid results have been
achieved by means so simple that the
wonder is that they were not known
long bofore. Until recently tho blind
pupil received all instruction orally.
Everything was read to him for the ample
reason that ho could not himself read, ex
cepting in the old-fashioned "raised-letter"
liierature.pf Which there was compa
ratively little in existence, and which, as
is generally known, was traced with
great labor by the ends of the bli nd man's
fingers. This he could read, but, neces
sarily, he could not write. It was to
overcome this defect that the existing
"point systems" were invented. These
are two in number, tho "New York
point" and tho "Braille point," between
which there is only a technical difference.
Taking the "Braille" by way of illustra
tion, the blind man's writing outfit con
sists of paper, a "slate," and a "point."
A "slate" is best described as two nar
row strips of brass, folding together
something liko a pocket rule. .. In the
upper arm are punctured two or more
oblong holes like this:
Upon the other arm, under ea:h of
these holes, and conforming to its di
mensions, are six dots indented upon
the brass, thus:
The pupil inserts a sheet of paper be
tween the two arms and begins his work
with his "point," which is simply a di
minutive awl. By inserting this awl at
any one of these points the paper is in
dented, but not punctured through, with
a corresponding point. Thus an impres
sion is made on the lower side of the
fa per which is appreciable to the touch.
t will be seen that this system of six
points admits of a practically unlimited
numbei of combinations. Upon these
combinations are based tho alphabet, the
Arabic numerals, musical notes, or any
other character in common use in any
literature. Thus . : expresses one letter,
: another, and so on. As his characters
aro written in tho reverse, the blind
writer begins at the right and works
backward, as in Hebrew.
By theso moans the blind writer at
tains a very creditable speed, varying,
of course, according to his individual
talents. For purposes of ordinary cor
respondence he uses common note-paper
and makes au impression that suffices for
ono or two readings before it is obliter
ated by contact with the Augers. For
more enduring mutter a special, heavy
paper is employed.
From writing to typo setting was but
a step, and there are now very few blind
institutions not provided with a composing-room
and complete outfits of
types, cases aud other paraphernalia,
which are brought into requisition to
print anything required. Blind printers,
pressmen and binders do all tho work.
Maps for the blind, geometric figures
and all similar devices are easily made
by raising the boundary lines and im.
eating cities, points, etc., by brass p
J he eagerness witn which the pu
seize upon these means of supplying th1
great defect, their great desire to ieai n
and their grateful appreciation of what
has been done for them compensates in
a great measure for their lack of sight.
Instructors of the blind delight to dwell
ipou the facile disposition aud talents
-if their pupils, and exhibit evidences of
their work which teach the lesson clearly
that intelligent philanthropy has done
much to take away the sting of one ot
the greatest of physical bereavements.
(JIucmjo 1'ribune.
Nothing makes a man prouder than to
find when he has got his earden nicely
laid out and the seeds all iu, that evtrv
hen within a mile of him net-ins deter
mined to have a cluw iu the job, and to
show him how she would bRve arranged
matters if he had consulted her. U!t
INSTRUCTING
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(Than ships ate buried in the sea.
And men greet death unflinchingly
VVhen, as In battle's bloody shock,
Death finds his prey firm as a rock.
Or when, between sob-echoing walls,
Wo', hardest blow on life's joy falls
Death seems unmeet, heroic, or subliBS
The mourners give a fitting pall;
Fame crowns those who in conflict full;
And waves chant dirges on the shore
For those who sail the deep no more;
Tiiese live in stone, or brass, or thought
Half welcome death to lives thus wrought-.
With fame complete, thoy merit deathle
rhyme.
To bear a storm of lies and sneers.
And die for right bereft of tears;
fn haunts of dire disease to walk,
Life pawned, death, visiblo, to balk;
To do and die, unheeding fame
Tho' man may not, God marks your name
Oh, grand and sweet these fates I They
conquer time.
T. G. La Moille, in th CtirrenL
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
It is the man with tho most property
that has the greatest will power. Low
ell Courier.
When a man is just about to sneeze
you couldn't buy him oil with a con
sulate. Boston "ot.
"Nothing is impossibto to him who
wills," says a philosopher. No, nor to
tho lawyer who conducts tho case.
Bolton Pott.
A grain of sand may be the germ of a
Dew world, but a button in tho right
place docs more good in the rushine
present. Carl PceUeVt Weekly.
A writer asks, "Why does tho modern
woman tire so easily?" One reason is
that tho modern woman usually has a
modern husband to look after. Graphic.
Her pa and ma were safe in bod
They'd gone to sleep with the birds;
The girl hung on to the gardeu gate,
Her beau hung on to her words.
Merchant- Traveler.
Boll, the telephone man, has an article
in the current issue of Science, telling
how to avoid icebergs. We haven't read
it, but ono good way is to travel only by
railroad. AiorritUncn llerald.
Profcsfor Huxley calls a primrose "a
corollitioral dicotyledonous exogen," but
he wouldn't do it if tho primrose was
able to hit back. Some men are terri
bly overbearing toward the weak. Bot
toix Post.
"Have you," asked tho judge of a re
cently convicted man, " anything to offer
tho court before sentence is passed?"
" No, your Honor," replied the prisoner,
"my lawyer took my last cent." Scran
ton Truth.
It is claimed that tho highest faculty
of language is to conceal thought. It
may be, but when a man falls over a
wheelbarrow in the dark, it seems to
lose its grip somewhat in that particular.
Chicaqo Ledger.
A Vermont paper, speaking of the
fashion of making gold badges to repre
sent kitchon utensils, asked how a gold
gridiron would strike us. Very much
like an iron one, perhaps, if wo didn't
dodge it. Binghamton Jiepublican.
At a recent social gathering an Osb
kosh woman demonstrated that she could
hold her breath two minutes. Within
threo days afterward she got nineteen
proposals of marriage and au oficrfrom
a dime museum. Chicago Ledger.
Attorney General Garland decide
that an Indian cannot hold a postofiice.
Not havinz a very loud voice in the
matter, this paper will not criticise the
Attorney-Gcnoral's decision, but it does
seem that a man who can hold a buck
jumping pony can hold almost anything.
ArkaiuaiB Traveller.
A NEW CONUNDRUM.
'Pray tell me the difference, dear,"
Said Edward to his loss,
"There is between a store cashier
And the teacher of a class!"
The damsel, smiling, said, "I will,
This difference you will find:
The ttore cashier he minds tho till,
Tno teacher till the mind."
Boston Courier.
A Remarkable Class of Thioves.
The police of St. Petersburg have been
for some time puzzled by the conduct oi
a remarkable class of thieves, who com
mitted robbery not only in the open day,
but, moreover, with ostentation. They
were Finns, but were all young men.
When arrested, they calmly pleaded
guilty, and were sentenced to imprison,
uient for terms varying from one to three
months. At tho expiration of the sen
tence, they promptly disappeared. It
turned out that they had returned to
thoir own country, and had there re
sumed their several avocations without
loss of social position. The law of Fin
land forbids ttio enrollment in tne army
of any persons who have undergone im-,"-isiimient
for civil offenses,, so these
, Finns had deliberately
ition. London 'Truth.
A Royal Ratcatcher.
I once met a chimney-sweep who
prided himself on being a royal rainoneur
on the strength of having tho contract to
sweep the chimneys of St. James palnre.
Hut I was not awure until last week tli'
there is a proud individual who can '
tho title of "Royal Kutcatc-he- '
I aay "Ratcatcher i"0'- ''
Majesty." Sit, 4
haw been viA'y e-t;
nits have sf .
deemed a'lPv, -tcbet
for the p.v, v ..ul now re
ceives pay V' i'S l,er xuiiuiu,
though whel' . .e other loyal servants,
n spti iul livery has been devised for hit
lc-u deponut knowetU not. ZwuJen
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