THE FOREST REPUBLICAN la published every Wednesday, by J. E. WENK. Oltloo la Bmearbaugh & Co.'a Building ELM STREET, TIONESTA, r. Terms, - - - CI. DO per Year. No atibscrlpttnne received for a ihortor period tnnn throe months. Correspondence solicited from (II parte of 1!ie roiintrjr. No notice will be taken of anonymoua emnuiiintcatlone. A LOVJCSONCL A. 1). Hi. When T rr Belnp; liy I but lira? What you sny Yoa, Taught tim I lint nn ear To tho word Heard. From my plnco At your fret Fiwoet, All I know Of your faco I recall All. Being by (In the not), I forgot Why? Austin Dubann, in Then I go, And tho graci Of your face Know. Jlavpcr'a Magazine. A LOST DIAMOND. "And it was (ho moat beautiful swine inat 1 ever saw in a linger ring. None of llioso paltry things you ain't wear till candle light on account of tho yellow there is in them. So whito, 80 clear, so brilliant, pellucid ns a water-drop nnd sparkling as a star! It win all but big enough, too, to Imvc a naniej of its own, like those that tho royal diamonds have 'Ktar of tho Four 'points of the Com pass 'Light of tho World to Come,' 'Glory of tho Middle- of tho Earth,' Mother of tho Moon.' "Why under tho tin," cried ".Mrs. Torrance, tho pretty crcaturo in a bew itching gown, pouring coffee for her husband, tho little butler having I ceii dismissed by Mr. Torrance in fear of tho w rath to come, perhaps "shouldn't our diamonds have names as well as thoso of kings and queens and " "Yours ought to have ono," said her husband, quietly. ' It would bo suitable to call now; it s in tho vocative, you know." "Well, I must say I don't bclisve any man was ever to undisturbed by tho loss of such a thing as that. Archibald, that stouo was worth a thousand dol lars." "Hcally I ought to bo awaro of tho fact, dear, if an) body is. 'You have of fered to sell it and procure that sum for my necessities every time I havo been hard, up since wo married. And if I havo Mildred arrested for its theft, as you RtigTcst, it will cost another thou land b f ra wo arc done with it. For she would certainly be proved inuoccnt, and then a libel suit would be tho next thing in order." "lint, Archy,Mildrid can't bo proved innccent. How can she be, when I know she took it? And there was no ono else to tako it." And Mrs. Torrance paused with suspended cup. her great wonder ing eyes searching space for a reply. "If ever nnythiug lay iu a straight lino, it is tho evidence against that rirl," sho con tinued. 1 "Tho other day when tho ring foil on tho floor sho was in the room, and ho asked mo wbai a stouo liko that was worth, aud then gavo such a sigh that I said, 'I 8tippso you thiuk it's wrong for mo to wear a thousand dollars on my lin ger?' And sho said, 'I wasti't thinking of tho ring; I was only thinking that a thousand dollars can do a great deal of good.' Thcmiux! 'Weil,' 1 said, 'it does s great deal of good in looking pretty on my hand.' 'Indeed it does look' beautifully there,' snid she she's very particular about her adverbs; I wish sho waB about her catechism 'but a good deed done by a hand is its most beauti ful jewel, to my thinking.' Just hear thutl To her mistress! Are you through? Why, I've only just begun." "Sho is.quito a missionary," said Mr. Torrance, picking up his newspaper. "And tho worst of it is, she is right." "Now, Archibald, don't, for mercy's Bake, go to reading!" said his wife." "I do think tho morning news might wait for once. It's nothing but dynamiters blowing iii tho British cinpire.nnd Arabs making mummies of the British army ail abstractions; but my ring is some thing positive, tangible, hero nt hand." "1 wish it were!" said Mr. Torranco. "And then I could be allowed " But ns he glanced at tho lovely creature op posite, with her reproachful brown eyes in which stood two tears as big as the diamond she had lost, her color going and coming with her breath, as you might say. und tho rose-colored ribbons of her morning cap all a-llutter with her earnestness, ho folded his paper, and said, "Well, my dear?" "Well, my dear!" mimicked Mrs. Torrance, in derision. "I should say it's anything but well when a man hears of a servant insulting actually insulting his wife, and says she's in the right." "Now, Janet, I will submit it to your own judgment if that's a fair interpreta tion." "Vou needn't do nnythiug of the. sort. IUsn't fair to suppose I have any judg ment, if what I say concerning .Mildred perfectly ridiculous cognomen. Who ever heard of Mildred for a servant's name?" "Why not Mildred?" "Why not Gwendoline.then.or Fredo gonde, or Thusnelda? How would it seem to be telling Gladys to brush the dust oil my shoes? And Mildred is just as bad. If I had my way all the cooks should be Noras, and all the second girls should be Kllens, and if they came from England, then they should bn Elizas and Mary Anns, aud it wouldn't sound as if you were taking a liberty with your su periors when your own name is just plain Jane. I ought to have been Kosamond myself, you know," 6aid Mrs. Torrance, absently,, twirling tho grounds in her cup," or Katheritie, or Eloise, or something. But I'm sure I havo trouble enough with these people without being troubled with their names. And 1 don't believe her name is -Mildred, auway. I believe it's just plain Martha, and she took the Mildred. If she took my diamond, she wouldn't stop nt. taking a name. Or maybe it was just Mitly " Aud here Mis. Torrance paused, not for breath, but iu mm & VOL. XVIII. NO. 22. amazement lo see her husband's eyes twinkle, and ho himself Moj back in his chair, as he pushed his plate away, with a laugh he could repress no longer. "If she took your diamond. -. Well, my darling, I am glad you havo arrived at tho diamond once moro. I began to think it had been lost again. Hut don't tell mo about tho inconsequence of a woman's mind. Its workings aro laby rinthine, but the thought always comes out at thu placo it went in. Now, lotus bo business like, if wo can, Janet. What makes you think that this pretty Mild red of ours took the diamond?" "l'retty Mildred! Well, perhaps bo catiso she is pretty," said Mrs. Torranco, looking like a satirical sparrow. "Not at all impossible," said her hus band, gravely. "You don't mean to imply that I would denounce a person as a thief be cause you said sho was pretty t" cried Mrs. Torrance, half rising to her feet. "I've ns good a mind to leave the table as ever I had to cat. I would, if the buckwheat cakes had come up." "My dear child!" "Vou treat me exactly ns if I were a child," cried the outraged wife. "What do I care whether my maid is pretty or not? Being pretty, apparently, doesn't keep her hands from picking and steal ing. I know sho stole my diamond just as well as if I bad soon her do it." "But what would she do with it!" "What a question? As if that sort of person didn't know where to disposo of things easily and take caro of tho pro ceeds! 1 wonder if Patricia is never go ing to send those cakes up " , "How in tho world did ourcook come to be called l'atricia?" "I called ho so myself when sho cajuc. Herownnatno was Hannah, a combina tion of sounds I utterly detest, and wasn't going to havo ringing iu my ears all the time. And she is so tall and erect sho justifies Putritia. Don't you think so?" "All right," said Mr. Torrence. think ing it best to mako no reference to the Noras of a few minutes since, "But wo were speaking of Mildred." "I did think' very well of Mildred, I will confess, before this." sarfl Mrs. Tor rance, with judicial calmness. "Sho is educating her sister, who has a voico such a voico! for a church singer, when no will havo a salary that will bo wealth to them, and cive some lossons beside. And bIio was wrapped up iu her. Aud I took - an interest iu them myself, nnd gavo her a si lie dress to make over, nnd got a new cloak that l really didn't need, so as to give lier my old one (and I saw sho had tho good taste to take off some of tho trimming), and luts of my old music. Aud out of her own wages Mildred has to Into a room nnd a piano nnd pay for her lessons; somebody gives ler her board till sho can pay tho debt, and it takes every cent .Mildred earns; and you sco it is quite natural that she should look about her to find where sho cau turn a penny " "An honest penny," said Mr. Tor rance. "A girl who is doing that for another is not one that would be likely to turn any other sort of penny," "How you do love to interrupt me, Mr. Torrance! It really seems as if you couldn't bear the sound of my voice! I was going on to say, before you took the words out of my mouth, that recently this sister of hers has been advised to tako lessons of another master, who asks all creation, but is really worth it. And ho says ho cau make her voice a fortuijo to her. Aud they havo been dreadfully cast down because they couldn't do it. And u'iw you see where the diamond comes iu. If she can get for that stone anything near its value, her sister Mabel cau tako her lessons. And her voico is delicious just perfectly delicious !" ex claimed Mrs. Torrance, forgetting tho diamond again. "Mildred had her come hero and sing tot inc. And I can't de scribe to you. I never heard a lark or a nightingale, but a bobolink isn't a whistle to it. A flute, n trumpet well, it was 8veet aud satisfying and penetrating as tho odor of some flower, aud yet soft as tho velvet sido of the petal of the flower. Angels would sing so, maybe, if there are any. And I was just carried away. I forgot all about her sister's being my maid. I cried and I laughed, and I felt as if I had found her. And now I will solemnly tell you, Archy dear" and sho bent "across the pretty china service, transfixing him with her radiant eyes "I looked at my ring, and I turned it and turned it, anil I said to myself I have had tho good of it ever siuco Grand father Ho Peyser gavo it to me, and everybody knew 1 had it, and my position was pretty well estab lished, diamond rings or not, and when you were able to afford a real grown-up butler, you would probably get me plenty; and if I sold it now, and gave this poor dear girl the money to secure a career, what ti blessing it would bo to her, and what a joy I would bo givingto tho world in her, too; for of course she wouldn't bo confined to a church choir in that case, and if she were, in what a heavenly fashion could those tones of hers swim out over a prayerful audience, aud just take tho prayer on their silvery strength, and lead it up, up; and any body who is the means of producing more of them, and so brings down the price of prima donnc in tho market, is a public benefactor, to bo sure, anyway; and I was just oil the point of saying that I would speak to you, and if you approved, as I knew you would, I could have a thousaud dollars or thereabouts for them to-day, when Mrs. Yeasey hap pened in, and so, as I didn't want Mrs. Vea.-ey to know anything about it, and bo taking tho wind all out of my sails, 1 just told Mubel to come aaiu to-day aud I would havo something further to sav to her! Aud so I shall!" cried Mrs. Tor-! France, taking breath with renewed vigor. "1 shall havo to tell her that her sister has been arrested for a thief, and she may go sing to her in prison." tip . fl 4j TIONESTA. PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1885. "But robbery is a very harsh term, Janet darling, when carelessness may be the whole thing." "There it is again. ' My carelessness, not their dishonesty. When I went to the washstand I turned tho ring on my finger again, and there was tho stone gono." "And how many times have I told you that tho careless habit of washing your hands in your rings wears oil infini. tesimal fractions of the gold till tho stones aro loosened in tho sotting, and drop out without your being aware of it ?" "You aro always so wise after the act! How do you know I wasn't going to tako my rings oil? You aro so ready to find me at fault! But I thought at first the stone must have washed out-" "So it seems you did wash your hands with tho ring on?" said tho turning worm. "Yes, I did. There! And I sent for the plumber immediately, for I knew if it had washed out, it must have caught in the first trap; and ho took up the pipo, but it wasn't there. And ho said if ho made a real job of it, and went down to the main something, ho might find it there; but I thought that would cost more than tho diamond itself " "Wise woman," groaned Mr. Tor ranee. "And so, you see, I didn't accuso Mil dred in tho lirst place. I searched, aud took every precaution. I didn't think of such a thing till I saw her stand there turning moro colors than the lady in tho lobster " "You don't say that you really have accusod her?" "Well, what if I have? I must lose my diamond that my dear grandfather favc me when I was married, and that treasured so, and enduro it all in silence for fear some little hussy's feel ings will be hurtt My feelings are of no consequence nt all! It isn't to be reckoned to my nccount that I was ready to give her -the diamond and I love diamonds. I don't think there's any thing so beautiful id the whole world"" "But, Janet, you are alwavs so posi tive." "How can you say so? What am I ever positive about? You wouldn't have trie distrust the evidence of my senses? And if I ever saw guilt on any face " "There is nothing more fallible than the evidence of your senses." "I beg your pardon. I can sec as far, and cau. hear as quickly, and taste as keenly as' any ono alive. , And for you to begin to run down my eyes now per haps they're not so bright as they have been but I never thought to hear you twitting me of growing old in this way, all of n sudden" (trying hard to swallow her sobs) "because you're interested in in my servant-maid " "For Heaven's sake, Janet, tuittk what you're saying!" "I do think what I am saying," she cried then, in a fury. "And I say, whatever the evidence of my senses may be, I have every evidence that you care nothing at all for my feelings, ano? can see me robbed without lifting your voice, and and oh, a husband ought to love his wife, and protect her, and take her part." Aud here Mrs. Janet rose hur riedly and pushed over her chair, and was running from the room. But Mr. Torrance was not to be out done by any such sleight of foot, and had caught her in his arms before 'she reached tho door. "And do you think," he exclaimed, "thatl don't love you, you abominable iittlo mass of contradic tions? Do you suppose that I won't pro tect you with my life itself? Do you fancy for a moment that I won't take your part, when you decide what your part is?" "Let me co! Let me go, sir?" she exclaimed. "Or, else, at any rate, let mo find my handkerchief!" And she struggled for her handkerchief, that the kisses her husband gavo her might not bo too salt, and pulling it from her pock et, something iu a great arc and stream of lustro whirled out with the violently wrenched handkerchief, sailed through tho uir like nothing so much as a flying rainboW, and fell at her feet. , It was the lost diamond. Mrs. Torrance stopped in the midst of her tears, blushing, disheveled, diamond dropped herself, as pretty a sight as a rose-bush in a shower, anil held back her skirts with both hands while sho looked at tho great shining eve there before her ontheearpet. "The horrid thing!" she said. "The horrid, unwinkling, accus ing thing! It is calling mo all sorts of namy. I shall' never want to see it again. Only think if I had denounced that poor girl! I'm so glad I never breathed of it to her. I remember 1 had on this very gown when Mrs. Venscy was in. How stupid of me! Now, I'll take this down to a diamond broker's to-day, and, Mildred's Mabel shall have her thousand dollars' worth of lessons. I daro say she'll sing at our parties by-and-by. She'll bo our particular prima don na. And by that time I shall havo im proved Mildred iuto a companion. Oh, I should think you would despiso such a ridiculous, wickea little wife as I am!" sho cried, turning to her husband. "Vou ought to havo married a saint. What a good man you aro, Archy!" "My dear." said Mr. Archy, "life with any other woman who didn't arrange these little circuses for my morning en tertainment would be too stale, flat, and unprofitable to endure. 1 should run awuy from the saint, aud take to the fly ing trapeze and you," Jlarjer'i Bazar, The supervising mechanic of the Wash ington monument says that ho has given away at least five tons of chips of marblu to eager relic-seekers, and that the do maud -is now greater than ever. Persons us yet iinsupplied may take hajiirt from tho assuranco that atMeast three tons of chips remain about the base of the tall shaft. iPJCH WESTERN INDIANS. BOMB SAVAGES WITH A TALENT rOB MAKIVO MONET. How Thpf Accumulated Their Wraith A Itlvlllte for Itajiklng; itlelhoda) Heading; tho New. A Montana letter to the Now York Sun says that there are a few red men in various parts of tho country who have exhibited a disposition to amass wealth, and havo succeeded pretty well. Of tho Shoshoncs in Nevada and Utah there are three or four who may be said to be independent. George AVashington and Shoshone Jack are both bloated bondholders and aristocrats. The former began stock raising in a small way sev eral years ago. At first it was hard work for him to get anything or to keep it after he got it, because his dissolute, happy-go-lucky companions exerted an evil influence on him, but when ho finally succeeded in marketing a couple of pigs he was in great glee. Ho put tho first money that he ever saved into a bank, nnd about half of his tribe followed him, giving vent to their disgust in groans and grunts. When tho bank -' failed, George was nearly beside'himself with disappointment and rage. It took half a dozen white men ' a week "to explain to him how it was that a man could put his money in a bank and never get it again, while, the bankers were per mitted to go about their business. George Washington believes to this day that the bank - failed on purpose to give its officers a chance to run away -with his hard-earned money. Some white men ' gave George a little help after. his misfortune, and he soon had other pigs. , Then he branched out into stock-raising in general, tand by careful ecoaomy and the most untiring industry ho has obtained a considerable property. It is estimated that ho now owns.$2,500 worth of ponies, cattle and pigs,' and he has $300 or 1400 on de posit with a mine boss who once helped him. , Ho calls around to see the boss every day of his life, and has dono so for five or six years. When ho comes the Bame dialogue is gone through with. "You got 'cm?" ho will say. "Yes, I've got 'cm," he will sav. "Well, you keep 'ein. Me ecc you every day. No see bank man; mebbe so once, a year. Heap vamoose all same coyote; no good." Shoshone Jack is meaner than dirt, but he has a level head. Some of his associates are envious of him, but most Indians are too lazy, to care about an other's good fortune. J, Jack has a farm, a house, several horses, cows and pigs, and considerable money. ' It is almost out of the question for any one to beat him in a' trade of any kind. He is not an untutored savage, for he knows every trick, and he is one of tho very few In dians who make money by playing poker. What he gets ho keeps. Jack has a great contempt for banks and bankers, nnd no one has ever been able to induce him even to enter a banking house. Ho carries his money in an old leather girdle, aud when he spends a cent it is because ho wants something pretty bad, and there is no other way of gettiug it. Ho never pays anything for railroad fare, though he travels around a good deal, and what he eats costs him little or nothing. Old C'olorow of the Utes is a man of some propel tv, and takes particular do light in lording it over his associates. He is too vain ever to be very prosper ous in a financial way, as he will spend money freely to gratify any whim that lie may have or to accomplish anything that he thinks will add to his import anco iu the eyes of other members of his tribe. One of his pet schemes is to buy papers or books, and assume to read them to tho savages. Whenever he gets possession of a purnphlet.maga zine, or book he will call as many of the redskins about him as possible, and in a dramatic way read them "the news." His only conception of a printed page is that it contains news, aud whether he holds it right sido up or not he will reel oil a lot of stuff about tho things that are going Jon in the world which will evoke many ki-yis from his hearers anr? sago grunts from those who do not pretend to understand. The I'tes have no regular money-makers, though a good many of them pretend to do some farming. With the ma jority tho idea is that tho goverment should pay them for farming. Ono of tho wealthiest Indians in tho country is Chief Pcone, of tho Spokane tribe, who lives near Spokane Fulls, Washington Territory. Not another man in the tribe has a nickel which is not morally certain to go in card playing or horse racing. Peoue has a long head, shrewd business tact, and a consuming desire to get ahead of tho world to some extent, lie never plays cards, races horses, or drinks whisky. Many years ago he made up his mind that "it was only a question of time when tho whites would be wanting land at or near Spo kane Falls, and he took up the best land in that vicinity and made some efforts to cultivate it. Ho built a rude house aud lived there apart from his tiibe, though exercising his authority as usual. In the courso of time, when the Northern Pa cific road was (surveyed, he saw further opportunities for money making, which he did not permit to pass unimproved, and by the lime that white settlers began to arrive he was iu possession of tho best land in that vicinity. Ho sold out at good prices, pocketed his money, and said uothiug. When the town of Spo kane Falls was luid out it was futind that Peouo owned several good lotsiu it. These havo been sold at a profit and the money invested in cattle, horses and bonds. As soon as Peoue made his trades he abandoned faiinin" aud. tak- i ing his money and portable property, ho rejoined his tribe. lie lives now us plainly as any of his brethren, aud is even more careless than they about what he eats and wears. ' It u said that he is $1.50 PER ANNUM. worth $23,000, and that there Is no sue! thing as getting any of it away from him. NEWS AM) NOTES FOR WOMEN. Squares of frosted gold are linked to gether for bracelets. Some of tho most famous women in tin world were old maids. Crossed scarf draperies are still much used for grenadine dresses. Tho prettiest sunshades this summci are made of canvas over colored silk oi satin. Feather fans are popular this season, and are particularly attractive with t dressy toilet. Tho fashion of round waists and sashes is coming more and moro in favoi day by day. Tho ctamine scarfs for cool afternoon; are cross-barred with colored silks and dotted with chenille. Women aro numerous in the Britisb civil service. In a competition for 103 places in the postoffice 2,534 women en tered. A magnificent new black lace is the marquiso, which has a cord running round the design in tho style of tho finest Spanish point. Buff lawns havo" been revived this season, trimmed with white and buff embroidery, and are very clean and daiaty-looking. The revival of an old fashion is that of using alternate stripes of lace inser tion and material for basque, sleeves and apron drapery of a dress. Tho capability of the female mind for practical invention has again been shown this time by a Minnesota woman who has patented a riding saddle. A novelty of the season is the pretty jacket-bodice of white or bull ctamine, trimmed -.with t insertion and lace to match, and very pretty to wear with any colored skirt. Cut-crystal balls, silver-plated ovals and plain, burnished silver, profile heads and horseshoes, with a snake gracefully coibd about, are the latest notions in parasol handles. Koman sashes make very gay round waists, with which young ladies brighten up and give variety to their toilets by having this extra bodice to change witb the lace basque that belongs to the skirts. In bonnets, the largo capote, verj much in the shape of a Norman cap, with a mass of flowers heaped up on the top, is the last nouveautc, while hats are higher and more extravagant than evei in shape and trimming. A Chicago lady who made purchases of bric-a-brac in Paris to the amount of $4,000 get home to discover that every single article was on sale at within half a mile of her home, and at much lower prices than she had paid. Gainsborough hats of immense size, trimmed with large bouquets of any thing (wild flowers for choice,) and tied with a ribbon of any loud color, are all the rage in Paris for the country or sea side. The moro dishevelled the effect the better the hat is liked. Seven hundred women are employed at the central telegraph office in London and about three hundred and fifty more at tho different telegraph and postal branch ullices of tho metropolis. At Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester1' and other provincial centers a considerable number cam their living in this way, be side nine hundred similarly employed outside the civil service. Mr. Young, the coiffure of the Princess of Wales, begins dressing hair at 7 o'clock in the morning of the drawing room day. So great is the anxiety to re ceive his services that he is engaged, not days, but weeks, beforehand. Woe to the lady who comes first on tho list. She must be in a state of worry the whole of the morniug, lest a careless movemerft should disarrange the coiffure before the hour approached for displaying it to the world. 3'hife or cream-colored flannel is the fashionable fancy for seaside and mountain-house toilets. Braid is the usual garnituie for these, either plain, cream colored, or white Hercules braid, or the more drossy gilt braid, which is warranted not to tarnish. Such suits .are also prettily trimmed with velvet, the vest, with collar, cuffs and skirt panel, being of velvet. When velvet trim mings aro used the buttons should be of tho same. Very wide sashes are worn, both with washing and silk gowns, and also foi evening, and the loops are so arranged that they form a back drapery of them selves. A white lace dress with a variety of these sashes, may be made to do a good deal of hard work for morning or evening wear. A velvet bodice iu the evening with a lace skirt is always dressy, and tho same skirt with a luce bodice will do for afternoon wear. Yalenci icnues is tho best luce for this stylo of toilet. Five years ago a remarkably bright and pretty girl of seventeen worked in a San Francisco laundry. The son oi wealthy parents fell in lovo with her. Sho returned his passion, but said that sho would not marry him, as ho wistied, becauso she was uneducated and coarse. Then he offered to send her away to school. Sho accepted this offer. During tho enBiiing four years she was in a Mon treal convent, very apt and studious. The training wrought all tho chauge that w as desirable, und the w edding took place, with a long tour in Europe after ward. The counle returned to San Fran cisco lately. To show that the had nei ther forgotten nor was ashamed of her former employment, tho bride gave a grand supiT to those of her old com panions wlio could be brought together. A woLau in Hutland County, Yt., is the mother cf twenty-seven children. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square, one Inch, one Insertion. t 1 00 One Square, one Inch, one month 8 00 One Sqiinre, one Inch, three month. ., t 00 One Square, one Inch, one year 10 Off Two Squares, one rear is 00 tjunrler Column, one year 80 00 Half Column, one year CO 00 Ono Column, one year .......100 to I-fcal advertisements ten centa .cr line each in acrtion. Marriage and death notlcea irratii. All bills for yearly advertisement collected qnar terly. Temporary advertisements must be pala In advance. Job work cash on delivery. 1IY WIFE AND I. Come and drain a cup of joy, Now with mo, good wife, And bring tho girl and boy Now with thi-e, good wife. Let all hearts be blithe and gay, It is fourteen years to-day Since you spake the little "aye" That to me was lifo. When in wodiling whito arrayed I beheld you stand, Why, I almost felt afraid E'en to touch your hand. And when with love intent Your gaze on me you bent, You seemed a being sont From tho "Belter Land." And an angel you have proved Since that good glad hour, Aye, wherever we have rovod In sunshine and shower. Iu all goodness you transcend, And all excellences blend In the mother, wife, and friend, As a sacred dowor. You have made my life more pure Than it might have been; You have taught me to endure, And to strive and win. With your simple song ol praise You sanctify our days, And our thoughts to heaven you raise From a world of sin. Come, let's quit the dusy town With its noiso and strife, And seek the breezy down Thnt with health is rife. Work is good and so is play, Let us keep our wedding-day O'er the hills and far away, Happy man and wife. -John Geo. Watts, in Casselfs Magazine. IIDMOR OF THE DAY. A cow's horn A milk punch. No man can carry a feather bed and took graceful. The girl who loves William never asks her father to foot her bill. Call. A cyclone is like a waiter. It carries everything before it. JYeie York Neuss. Foot notes Tho patter of the mule'i hind legs on the- hired man's ribs. Graphic. . Speech is certainly silver at the tele graph office. Ten words for a quarter. iSomervie Journal. ' WThen a woman wants to make a com plete change of front sho leaves off her bangs, Burlington Fret Press. Any man who can umpire a baseball game and please both sides, has in him the main , qualifications of a successful politician. Picayune. A school journal advises, "Make the school Interesting." That's what the small boy tries to do to the best of his ability. Burlington 'Free Presn. ' Cold contracts. That's the reason your twenty-five pound chunk of ice is humped up into such a little feller that you can playball with it. Free Press. "What do you suppose I'll look like when I get out of this?" snapped a young lady at a conductor of an over crowded streetcar. "A good deal like crushed sugar, miss," said tho bell ringer. And tho young lady hung on the strap and rode four miles further with the smile of an angel. Buffalo -fc'x-f tress. She was "literary, and she wished to turn tho conversation in that direction, because the languid swell with whom sho was speaking was uttering ail sorts of nonsense. And so she said, gushingly: "I do hope you liko Lumb?" To which he respoudod: "Vaas! A Iittlo! So dooced insipid, though!" "Whatl Lamb insipid!" "Well yaas! unlesi it's tho real spring article, you know, and the mint sauce is perfect." And now sho sedulously avoids him. Boston Go lette. A waiter's bringing dinner ' On the run; He is a reckless siiiuor. Full of fun; He hurried down the aisle With a seraphic smile A beaming all the while Like the sun. A footstool is before hiin, Dobs he sco; He trips. the dinner's o'er him. Where is hut Tomato daubs his hair, Beef gravy tills the air. And he lies sprawling there Helplessly. VUiladelphia Sews. Shops In Japan. The villages aro full of shops. Then is scarcely a house which does not sell something. Whore the buyers com from, aud how a profit can be made is i mystery. Many of the things arc eatables, such as dried fishes, and u half-inch long, impaled on sticks; cakes, sweet meats composed of lice, flour, and verj Iittlo sugar; circular lumps of rice dough, called inochi; rooi boiled in brine; i white jelly made from beans; and ropes, straw siioes for men and horses, straw cloaks, paper umbrellas, paper water proofs, hairpins, toothpicks, tobacco pipes, paper mouchoiis, aud numbers o) other trifles mado of bamboo, straw, grass, and wood. These goods aro on stands, and in the room behind, open to the street, nil tho domestic avocatiom urc going on, and the housewife is usu ally to be seeu boiling water or sewing, with a baby tucked iu tho back of hei dress. A lucifer factory has rocentlj been put up, and in many house lionti men ni e cutting up wood into leuirtht for matches. Iu others uio huskiug rice, a very laborious process, iu which the gin in is pounded iu ;i inoilar sunk it the floor by a flat -ended woo, leu pes tle attached to a lotiii horizontal lever, which is worked by I 10 feet of a man, invariably nuked, who stands at thi ther extremity.