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Ths South wind breathes n clinnt as it goes, Blessing the rilwticd enra that bond And murmur low n.x If each one knows The warm South wind as tho touch of a friend. The inland son lms noepie song Of storm nnd conquest nnd trophies ram; The sweot South wind ns it sweeps along Has no note in it of four or care. The golden strings of tlio inlnnd flea . Sound rich full chords of a gratoful land; I'lonty and Pence aro all that I goo Where the bursting wluut ears nodding finnd ; Garners full with a yellow store, Cupboards once empty no longer baro, Labor repaid, nor craving nioro, Joy and contentment everywhere. London Society. DOCTOR GEOUGR About tho only earthly po-aession of any valuo George llixson had on Lis twenty-second birthday was a bandsomo diploma of parchment tied up with a blue ribbon. The diploma was from a medical college, of very high standing, and Georgo hud worked liard and faith fully for four long years for that diplo ma. That ho deserved it made it a valu able pos-c-sion. lie had with it a pood deal of capital in tho shape of courage, enthusiasm, fail If in himself nnd tho world, lie was honest, nianlv und patient, and could begin lifo nl the right end of tho ladder, lie was so poor that ho had to walk pin t way from thn college to his old Lome, tho village of Sharon. The first man ho met at tho end of his tiresome journey whs old Enoch Lampson, a man w ho had known George from the day of bis birth. "How do do. Ccorgc, how do do? Homo again, ch?'' was the old man's kjiectinjr. 'Yes, sir," replied George, "borne to stay this time." "So yer a full fledged pill maker, an' ready to go into partnership with old Hilly, our graveyard sexton, bey?" asked the old man, with poor wit. George ft It disposed to resent this, but ke did not. "Yc don't cal'tlato on scttlin' down here in- Sharon, do yc?" coutinucd old Enoch. "Yes, sir, I do." "Wall, now, I duno I duno 'bout that, George." "Why shouldn't I begin here?" asked tho young nun; "I hear that obi Dr. Edmonds has died lately, and no one has yet come to take bis place. Why should I not do so? I win young " "That's bit, George I i hut's hit!" in terrupted old Enoch; "yer too young; that's jist wbar tho shoo pinches, Leas wixe, that's one place wbar hit pinches. 'Nuther thing is that that " The old man scratched his Lead in evident confusion.. He looked keenly at the voting man, whose face began to flush". "Wul," resumed the old man, "you know as well as anybody, George, jiss w'at yer fani'ly connections is; you know that" "I know it so well that you need not take tho trouble to enlighten mo any further on the subject," replied tho young man, very quickly: "I know to my sor row that my father was a common drunkard, aud that I am generally known ns 'old Joe Hixson's son.' 1 know that my eldest brother followed in my father's footsteps, nnd was killed in a drunken brawl in this town. My other brother has gone to the bad, too. But I know, as you know, too, Mr. Lampson, that my mother was as good a woman as ever lived through years of shatno aud suffer ing, to die at last of a broken heart." "That's even bo, George," admitted the old man. "I knowed your mother when sho was purty Mary Jackson, 'foro it was ever her misfortune to know yer reperbate father, an' she was, us you say, ns good a woman as ever dru wed breath; bvit hit's yer father's name you've got, an' the name o' lixsmi don't stau' very hih in these parts. But I'll say feryou, Georgo, that. I hain't a woid to say agin you pussonally an' irdividooly. I urn free ter say au' b'lieve that yer of a miud tcr do what's right, an' that you want to raise ye: name far 'bove tho o'jeeum that's now on hit." "I do want that," was the young man's earnest reply," ami it's strange if tho Christian people of this town refuse to give mo heip and encouragement. My own record hero is clear; 1 am not ashamed to have it read. Of course. I nm young, anil most people aro a little afraid of young physicians; but all phy sicians were once young, und 1 must have a beginning, you know. ".Now, I have studied faithfully, care fully, even prayerfully, for four long years. I Jiavo spent every dollar I bad educating myself. No ono knows of tho deprivations I have had to suffer for this," and be held up nis diploma ns ho spoke. "I havo earned if," he weut on; "it is my own by light of four yeaisf Lard study, (if course, I know of tho oppo sition I will probably meet with in tho beginning. 1 am young; I know more of theory than of practice so far. But there aro several reasons why I want to locate hero in my boyhood's home. 1 am bound to win iu the end; you will see that I do." "Wall, George, I hain't a thing ag'in you myself. 1 wish you well as far as I'm concerned. Yer gritty; I remember that you had that streak iu you when you was a little youngster. But I jist made up my uiiud that I'd tell you fair aud square what the chances wuz for au' ng'in you hero." "1 am greatly obliged, I'm sure," said George, "but 1 was prep.ued for all you Lave told me. 1 leel that I shall suc ceed in the end. 'Commit thy way unto the Lord. Trust also in Him, and hq shall bring it to pass.' There is the foundation of my faith and courage, Mr. Lampson. I havo often proved the truth of that most helpful and most blessed promise It gives mo courage nnd conlidence now. I know it will not fail me." But there were many days and weeks nnd months after that when poor George's courage and confidence almost failed him. Old Enoch had truthfully said: "Dr. George will have a hard row to dig." Ho had, indeed. Tho name of llixson was in bad repute in and around Sharon. Tho people were prejudiced against the poor young fellow, although they could not but admit that his own character was above reproach. They had known him from his baby days up, and it did not "seem natural" to call him Dr. llixson. And ho was so proud of that hard-earned title. Those w ho used it at all call him "Doc tor George;" that took away half tho dignity for him, and was a familiarity ho resented in secret, although ho dared not do so openly. Others called him "Doc," and that was simply galling to the high strung young man. Ho was daily hurt by covert or open sneers. Even children ridiculed him end his new title. Could anything be more exasperating than to have a crowd of ill-brod urchin's assemble iu front of his poor, shabby little ollice, while one of their number sung out: Doctor, doctor, kin you toll Wlint will make a sick man well! Grease his heols and tar his noso, And that will do, I suppose. The doctor's office was a shabby little affair, and ho was quite too poor to make it better. It had no carpet, no pictures, nothing but a cheap desk, a chair or two and tho few old but valuable books which comprised tho doctor's library. Appearances go a good way toward a physician's success or failure, no matter how greatly wo may effect to underrate them, lie should be well dressed. A Bhabby man can never assume a digni iicd appearance. His ollice should be neat and inviting It augurs ill for the amount of n, man's practice if his oflico is as sliabby as poor Doctor George s was. If the young fellow could only have had a chance. But there were tho people sending ten miles to K , a neighboring town, for Dr. Graves, who could ride over in his carriage nnd count their pulse-beats by a magnificent gold watch, ins clonics were of the best and tailor-made, and ho had graduated from the samo college from which Dr. George's diploma had come. His father had left him a moderate fortune and he could bo gin his career in a manner becoming a physician. And then George had to sit in his dreary ollice, in his frayed and patched garments, waiting for tho patients that would not coir.o, while Dr. Graves went driving by day after day. Every few days tho disturbed and dejected young doctor heard rumors of a rival coming to Sharon, and tho village paper openly published in its columns that "An ex perienced nnd competent physician will da well to locate in Sharon." After that Doctor Geors-e thought he would really have to seek a new field of labor, and in depest despondency he feared that he bad perhaps relied too much on the promise that had so long encouraged and consoled him. But ho read another promise, solemn and sweet, to his troubled heart: "I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." "It will all come right in the end," ho said ; but the end seemed so far away. Ho would be only "old Joo Hixson's son" to theso people all tho days of his life. There was no end to that shame and sorrow. The sins of a drunken and depraved father were visited upon tho head of a son who was deserving of tho world's honor and esteem. lie had risen above them into the beauty nnd clory of a pure nnd uoblo manhood. Through shame nnd sorrow, discouragement nnd poverty, he had struggled up to a higher and a better life, and yet the good peo ple of Sharon daily made him look back ward to the lifo he had left. And no friendly hand was stretched forth to help him onward. "It is really surprising to see the as surance 'old Joe Hixson's son' displays," suid Mrs. Colonel Giddings, the wealthi est woman in Sharon, "with his anteced ents, to set himself up forour physician." During six months Dr. George had but two patients. Ono of them was a boy who had cut his finger badly, and the other was a child with tho colic. He had not, however, wasted his time, llo had studied and learned much. But at last ho made up his mind to go out West. Hone had died out in his heart. The people of Sharon were de termined to ignore him. Ho could not succeed there. Ho need not be "old Joo Hixson's son" among strangers. But there wero thoso precious promises! "They will bo fulfilled yet in tho Lord's own time and place," he said, cheerfully. "He probably means tint I shall go away from here to something better than I have dared hope for." So he made ready togo. Tho home of his childhood was dear to him, and he was fond of familiar faces, even if they were not always kindly. He had always felt timid about going among total strangers. Hut his poor little trunk was packed, nnd ho had gone around saying good-byo to the few frieuds who cared to say good-byo to him. He intended goinj; on Tuesday. On Monday afternoon a little tow headed boy met him on the street. "Say, you, Doctor Georga," ho said, "my ina wants you to como up to our bouse and see if there's anything the matter of our Tommy ; 'cause if there is ma wants to send for Doctor Graves." Tho insulting message made the blood fairly tingle in the young doctor's veins. But the next moment ho laughed. "Oh! well, it don't matter," be said; "I'll go. It will help me to say truth fully that I've had some practice." Tommy was tho very urchin -who had sung the hateful doggerel before Dr. George's oflice. Tho young physician examined the boy carefully; then ho said: "Well, Tommy, my boy, it will take something more thnn grease on your heels nnd tar on your noso to make you well; you have the small-pox." "I don't believe it," said Tommy's mother, sharply; "I don't believe you know small-pox from tho measles. I'll send for Dr. Graves right off." "Very well, madamo,"said Dr. Georgo, politely bowing himself out. But Into that evening Tom's mother camo crying to Dr. George. "Dr. Graves wouldn't come," the said; "he wns going to, but when he hoard that it looked like small-pox with Tommy he said he wasn't well, and just sent somo medicine that ain't done him a bit of good. If you would come up, sir!" It was the first time ho had been ad dressed as "sir" for many a day. "Of course I will go," he said. That was the beginning of Doctor Georgo's practice in Sharon. Within ten days there wero fourteen cases of small pox. The annals of the little town contain a record of how it was scourged by that fearful disease. Before the end came there wero one or more cases in nearly every bouse. The means taken to prevent tho spread of the disease had proved ineffectual. At last the town was quarantined. When Dr. Graves was sent for a sec ond time it was discovered that he had suddenly been called away "on busi ness." Ho stayed away all winter. Dr. Gcoreo went back to his empty of fice after seeing Tommy a second time. He unpacked his trunk, lighted a can dle, and began to read a certain medical work. He read until midnight, until 1, 2, 8 o'clock, until the dawn cf day, that found him on his bended knees, prayer ful, and even tearful. He felt that there had been given him work to do that a change was coming in his life. He became a tower of Etrengthto those stricken people. He was doctor, nurse, consoler more than ho thought ho ever should be to suffering creatures. His success with Tommy was assured within a few days, and others came eagerly after him. His skill in baffling the disease was wonderful. Had he not tho heavenly help? There were few deaths, nnd many people came forth, their fair and blooming cheeks unmarked by tho dread disease. Mrs. IC'olonel Giddings' beautiful daughter was stricken down while making preparations to fly from the town. Mrs. Giddings' own carriage came for "old Joe Hixson's son." Ilia contami nated presence was in her splendid par lors aud in her daughter's dainty room. His skill and careful watching brought her beautiful daughter forth with all of her giilish loveliness unharmed. He bad hardlv time to eat or sleep for many days. His very presence gave hop and courage to the suffering'. Ho escaped the contagion, but when his last case was dismissed ho was utterly ex hausted, and quietly left tho village for a week or two of rest. When ho returned his heart sank within him. In the win dow of ono of the handsomest office rooms in the town he saw the word "Physician" in great letters of gold. Handsome curtaius wero before the win dows. Everything indicated that the new-comer bad been a successful man. He hardly dared to read the name on the door. When he did he rend : "Dr. George II. llixson," "Go 'long in an' see how you like it," said old Euoeh Lampson, who stood grinning on the pavement. The amazed young doctor opened the door and went into a beautiful ollice. A handsome carpet and rugs covered tho floor, walnut aud mahogany chairs with velvet aud plush cushions were in cor ners, a mahogany table and secretary stood in the room, pictures and orna ments were on the wall, books filled a walnut bookcase with a silken curtain. Back of this pretty room was one for a private office, fitted up in tho handsom est style. "1 I don't understand it," said Doc tor George. "Don't, hey?" queried old Enoch. "Wall, hit's a little s'prisc fixed up for you by Mrs. Colonel Giddings an' tho rest of us. 'Bout the hull town bed a finger in it. Hit's all yer own, an' all paid for. I reckon you hain't lost noth iu' by trustin' iu tho Lord. Hegiu'rally bring His promise to pass, you know." Boston Ktaminer. Egyptian Houses. The towns on the Egyptian shores of the Bed sea stand along the borders of the khors which come from the mouu tuius back of them, which find their way through many shallow channels to tho sea. Theso channels, which aro dry three-fourths of the year, are passage ways, or streets, of the villages. The houses stand on tho slightly higher ground between the channels. They are scattered about in a very irregular man ner. The better class of houses are thus constructed: First, a framework is made of boughs aud branches of the acacia tree; then a wattling of straw is woven closely among the boughs of roof and sides, so as to make a water-proof cover ing for tho interior. Around tho houses of tho chief men inelosurcs of similar construction are made to keep pryiDg eyes from peering into the tacrcd pre cincts of the harem within. The hutsol the poorer people aro more tent-shaped structures, lightly covered with skins ol auimals or with coarse matting. Careful estimates place tho number of deaf uutea at 800,000. There are oUI institutions in the world for their educa tion, of which Germany has M0, France 67, Great Britain 40, and the United States 38. AMONG- THE LOG DRIVERS. HOW TSB HARDY FELLOWS WOSK AID XXTJOY THEMSELVES. The Periloti Positions In Vhirh They Place Themwclvee When Ilreaklng- a "Jam." A Bangor (Me.) letter to the New Y'ork World describes the lifo of those hardy, dnrinsr, rod shirtcd fellows who drive the logs cut by tho woodsmen through the tumbling, rushing streams nnd the swift waters of tho Penobscot to the booms, whence they are distributed by their various owners to tho mills: The principal drives are from tho east and west branches of the Penobscot, tho Mattawamkeag, the Piscataquis, Pleasant and Passadumkeag rivers, all tributaries of tho one great watercourse. Driving logs is a laborious and often dangerous occupation. When the win ter work of cutting the logs is over and the icy brooks and streams are full of tho great spruce, pine and hemlock trunks, the axe-swingors come out and the lumbermen engage their driving crews. To bo a driver one must be ac tive, fearless and equally indifferent to cold water and hard work. The drivers are generally Tarratine Indians, a liberal sprinkling of that much detested class known as the "P. E. I.'s' Prince Edward's Islanders. The crews, with their bosses, go to where the logs are stocked, part of the way by rail and then by tom, buttcau or on foot. Arriving at their destination they start tho logs in the quick water and follow them down along the shore. If there were no falls, no edges or other obstruc tions the work would he easy, but if a single log of the rushing mass 6ticks on the brink of a dam, or is caught against a rock, thousands of others are stopped thereby and a jam ensues. This must be broken up at all hazards and some one must go out upon tho logs at the risk of his lifo aud, with what is known as a "cant-dog," set the mass in motion again. If he makes a misstep, or the ob structing log yields at an unlucky mo mnt, the driver disappears in the whirl of waters and goes down to his death, and if his mnnsrlcJ remains be found it will not b ; uutil weeks afterward, many miles below. Ono of the drivers I met to day. He was of muscular build, with that hearty manner peculiar to Penobscot rivermen. He had just "comedown" and wa quite communicative, talking intelligently, if undulj loud, as he punched the floor of the boarding-house bar-room full of holes with the steel calks in the soles of his shoes. He wore the conventioual driver's dress heavy trousers, red shirt, woolen socks nnd ponderous boots or shoes. I asked him why his boots were cut in several places at tho toes. "Oh." said ho, "that is to let the water which pours over mo out and keep my feet from scalding." He said that driving was hard work until one became used to it: then there was a fascination about it which always kept one at the work. Tho driver, ho said, is out day aud night, as circumstances demand. Sometimes two or three men arc sent ahead of the main body to keep tho log running free past a point where a jam is likely to occur. They are given a junk of salt pork, a frying pan, a dry codfidi and a quantity of hard bread, as tho task may require days. At night this advance guard buil ds a big firo nnd sleeps on the ground. "Once," said Iho driver, "on the west branch of the Penobscot, I aud a com panion were delegated to look out for a jam below and ahead of the main body af logs. We bad no boat, and when a log stuck out in the stream we had to paddle out on n big spruce trunk to clear it away. In returning we landed in four feet of water, the big log grounded, and we had to wade ashore waist deep in the icy water. A fierce storm was in progress, and the walk back to camp was anything but pleasant. At another time I was with a crew trying to get sime logs out of a small brook in which the water was low. It looked as though the logs would stay there all summer when we turned in one night at a little cabin on the shore. My friend had an upper bunk, in which he slept souudly uutil early morning, when he jumped out of his bunk, lie lauded iu two feet of water, in which tho cabin furniture was floating. There had been a heavy rain and the little brook had overflowed its banks." Tho driver's work begins in the hitter part of April and lasts until July 1.) or a month biter. A green hand is paid $1.1 '2 per day; fairly good men $1.7.5 to $.'.50; an experienced man $2.75, and a boat man $:l, beside food, which is princi pally of beans. Woodmen have beans threo times a day, drivers four times, wi h mola-ses for sweet uess and dried apples as an uuti-scorbutic. The woods men and drivers receivo their money ou arriving here and it generally amounts to from $200 to $;!()0. The red shirters spread red paint at high cost for a week or two, the cheap bars and boarding houses reap a harvest, thu police station is crowded and then all is quiet ou the Penobscot. The Fantee's Dead. The Funteeof Africa is religious if any thing, lie lives in dnily, hourly inter course with depurtcd friends, talks with tnem, sings lo them, aud ltels that they aro near lain. Wo never meet an athe ist in (iuiuea. He ma revile bis idol images when they do not please him, but he never disbelieves tho ever-living prin ciple of Good as well as the twin spirits of Evil. The Fantee is bound but by one tie that of family. To its members he is ever kind and cenerous. His dead he buries under or near his house, that they muy be near him. This custom, nn doubt, is a relic of probably tho first re ligion the worship of the dead. Jkulun Jlttltctin. Sober thoughts tho kind that come ! next morning, you know. ! SELECT SIFTINGS. According to the traditions of the Jewish rabbis there was no physical ill ness among men before tho flood. A Wisconsin girl has horns growing on the sides of her head. She conceals them by a careful arrangement of her hair. It was formerly customary in various parts of England to have a garland of flowers or sweet herbs carried before a maiden's coffin, and afterward to suspend it in the church. It is asserted that crows have twenty seven distinct cries, calls or utterances, each readily distinguishable from tho other, und each having an unmistakable connection with a certain class of action. Salamanders fell from the clouds dur ing a heavy storm of rain and hail at Velasco, Mexico, recently. A curious fact in connection with the case is that no lizards of the kind are to bo found in the lakes round about. Mr. Carles says that at Phyong Yang, in Coroa, the hats worn by the poor women are baskets 3 feet long, 2 wide and 2 deep. The men wear a similar basket, but smaller. It requires both hands to keep it in place. Women of the better class wear a white cloak over their heads. A foreign paper says that a Frcuch physicinn, nt the time of tho pestileuco at Marseilles, wore, on his round of visits, an armor consisting of a short mo rocco gown, a helmet of the same mate rial, and a nose stuffed with aronintics, in order that the air which carries infec tious germs might be kept from him. A health society in London finds by experiment that currents of air in a room have direction and angles definite as those of billiards. An illness of the Duchess of Connaught was caught on a sofa ex posed to a draught of foul air from the basement, which would not reach her bed. Speaking tubes, pipes and hoists are all conductors of dangerous air from the lower regions of a house. A Georgia paper says that before the war there was a bird in the South that foil exclusively on cockle burrs. At certain seasons of tho year theso birds would sweep down upon the lields and when they departed not a burr remained. The smell of burnt and burning powder for four years seems to have been too much for the burr-eaters, since now not a bird of the kind is to be found in tho bush. The rope that binds a murderer is util ized by those who know the superstitions of negroes. After an execution in Georgia a colored coachman got a piece of the rope and went among tho negroes and sold the bits to them for charms. He had no trouble in finding buyers, tho negroes all believing the little pieces of white rope to possess hidden and pow erful charms for both evil and good. Ho said that ho got from twentv-live to seventv-five cents for each bit of tho "charm rope," realizing a handsome sum from his trade. A riiysiclan's Secret. A pathetic story is told by the English medical journals. Dr. Warburg com pounded for many vears a valuable rem edy for malarious diseases, which was especially useful in tropical climates. lieneral Oordon, wheu he was governor- general of tho Soudan, declared that he owed his life to it, and the English med ical profession camo to regard it as one of the most powerful febrifuges. Pro fessor W. C. Maclean appealed to Dr. v arburg to reveal tho secret ol its com position for the benefit of medical sci ence. The request was heeded and the formula, which had previously been n well-guarded secret, was published in the London Lancet. The consequences were disastrous to the inventor's fortunes. Druggists in Eugland und India prepared the remedy themselves and sold it for their own benefit. The inventor's income was taken away as soon us ho parted with his secret, and his profits went to the wholesale and retail drug trade. Tiie government of India mado a irrant of $1,000 to him in token of its appreciation of the value of the remedy. Otherwise the world was indifferent to his fate. Ho is now in destitute circumstances at the age of eighty-one, and the English med ical journals are making appeals to t he profession to relieve his poverty. The Medli'al i!t vrd, in which we find the dctaili of this interesting case, read ily concedes the hardship and personal sacritice of the man, who gavo to "trop ical medicine a powerful weapon to con tend with a disease that kills twice as many victims us cholera and sm:illpox put together." It returns, however, an emphatic negative to the question: "Shall a physician keep secret bis for mubcf" It maintains that whatever in justice may fall upon the individual, it would be demoralizing to tho profession and injurious to tho public if physician? attempted to make secrets of their favor ite and most helpful remedies. Food and Conscience. Never go to bed in any danger of be ing hungry. People are kept awake b hunger quite as much as by a bad con science. Kcinembcring that sleep is the essential forco which tho whole scheme starts, decline teu or coffee within t hours beforo going to bed. if the women kind insist, you may have your miik and water at thu tea table co'orcd with tea: but the less the better. Avoid all mat he matics or intricate study of any sort in tho lust six hours. This is the stull dreums are made of, nnd lol heads nnd the nuisances of waking hours. K-er your conscience clear. Kemcmbcr thai because tho work of life is infinite, you cannot do the whole of it in unj limited period of time, and that, there fore, you muy just us well leave off in ono pluco as uuother. l'.dicard Lcereii llale. "Lifo is vthnt we make it," and when you "make it" hearts, you want to gel ! either a "louo baud ' or a very good I "paid." CHESTNUTS. rhe chestnuts brown are falling down Where long, rich grass is deeply greeny The light is clear, the sky seoms near Where far-off purple hills are seen; Wild hedge flowers make shady bowers, Shading the warm sun's amber light; A fleecy veil, transparent pale, Melts away in the blue so bright The ivy's shade Is softly laid Ou the old wall where lichens grow, Where soaring swallows' nestaare made In chestnut branches bending low. Dreaming I lie beneath the sky Listening to tho linnet's tuue, While soft, white clouds above me fly, And bees on thistles softly croon. Like Robin Hood, in leafy wood, I am sole monarch here to-day, For Nature's subjects, kind and good, No harsh, rebellious sounds display. My monarch's crown, the chestnuts brown That lightly fall upon my head, The dewdrops here, on roses near, Are all the tears my subjects shed. -Afr Henry O. Horjers, in the Current. IIU3I0K OF THE DAY. Astronomers aro generally peaceable men and yet a night hardly passos but they see stars. When a miner has been eaten by a grizzly, the Western people speak of him as being admitted to tho b'ar. Yonkert Gasttte. Ginger ale is said to be good for the blood. That's tho reason the dude drinks ginger ale. The dude is a blood. Yonlers Statesman. Cannibalism is still practiced by 1,230,000 people, and it is very evident that tho demand for missionaries will long exceed the supply. Loitell Citizen. Lovers and burglars have some things in common. They both laugh at lock smiths, nnd they both have a good deal of cupidity about them. HiMon Budget. Mixed with the sweetness there's some gall In many younj men's lives; Tho pretty gil ls ure uugels all Until they're wedded wives. Boston Courier. The Atlanta Constitution propounds the editorial conundrum: "Docs it pay to go in debti" It certainly does. It's getting out of debt that grinds. Vhicwjo Keitt. An Ohio man has invented a practical thinking machine. It will be the great est boon for dudes since the invention of the sword pointed shoe. Burlington Free Press. There is considerable similarity in one particular between a locust and a crow ing boy. It is supposed that a locust devours three times its own weight every fifteen days. Chicago Ledger. Tho citizens of Parsons, Kan., seldom question a stranger unless ho is seen with a saddle aud bridle on his arm. Theu they simply ask him whether ho prefers to be hung or shot. Free Press. ADVICE TO HfSUA.NDS. Discretion's valor's better pars, And tis the wisust plan, Whene'er your who is mad, to start Down towu to see a man. Boston Courier. "Did that rough fellow that you passed bacK yonder offer to take off bis hat to you, Tom?" "No, but he" made as though ho were going to pull off; his coat for mo." "What did he mean by that?" "1 don't know. I didn't wait to see." Ella Wheeler sings "body and heart' seemed shaken, thrilled and startled by that greetiug." An enthusiastic admirer! thinks that some big fisted fellow must have slapped Ella on tho back and, asked, her how tho weather suited her. New' York Journal. " My son, go eat -h tho lliuiy tribe, And try und bring home plenty; But should one weigh five or six pounds, Why don't swear it, wei-hoil twenty. Let all your thoughts, my ..'ntlo youth Hour up for somothing higher, And keep your friends from eallinj you A piscatorial liar. Ki-antritle Arijus. Eclipses of the Sun. The eclipses of tho sun are caused by tho nicou's passing between the- earth nud tho sun. if tho two bodies fol'owed tho same track in the heavens there would bo au eclipse every new moon, but as tho orbits are inclined, tho moon generally passes above or below tho suu, und there is no eclipse. Occasionally tho sun is near one of tho moon's nodes the poiuts were the planes of tho or bits intersect wheu it pusses, and then an eclipse occurs. If tho suu and the moon were always a: tho same podtiou with regard to the earth, and alwuys tho same distance from it, the eclipses would always be of the same si.c. But us theso conditions vary, so do tho appearances of the eclipse. For instance, let us sup pose that ut the time of uu eclipse the centre of tho moon happens to pus di rect over tho centre of the sun. If the moon is near the point in the orbit which is at thu least distance from the earth her apparent diameter will exceed that of the sun, and tho latter will be quite hidden from view, and wo have what is known as a total eclipse. Of course, evcu iu this case, tho eclipse will only appeal total to the observers near the lino joining tho centres of the sun und moon. If, however, tho threo bod ies occupy similar positions, but tho dis tance between tho earth and moon is greater, the whole of the suu is not cov ered by tho moon, aud the eciipto is annular. If the moon, however, does not pass centrally over tho sun, it cau only bido u pe.rt of tho hitter on one sido or the other, und tho eclipse is said to be partial. As tho moon's orbit is quite el liptical, tho distance of that body from the earth varies greatly. Its least dis tance is 221,000 miles, its greatest .'.!, COO miles. Jut- r- Octiin. In Sun Francisco there are ;i00 Chinese laundries; employing 3,000 men. the value of which is rou;,' V ' "stimuted at $250,000.
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