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Of five people, who on their dying
beds last year confessed to great crimes,
only one told the truth. In the "other
cases it was shown that the "confessors"
could not possibly have had anything to
do with the crimes.
There. i3 a depir--ion in the Englisia
marriage market. Population is increas
ing, but marriages are decreasing. Di
vorces rc increasing. The Registrar
General decides these vexed questions:
Is a divorced husband widower or a
bachelor? Is a divorced wife a widow or
V spinster? They are bachelor and spinster,
"he says.
trUd U'txtte of St. Louis
makes the announcement that there has
just been uncovered near Tuscaloosa,
Ala., a bed of ryhematite iron ore, six
teen feet tliickifJlich analyzes sixty-two
and c-A naif per cent, of metallic iron,
and is PT.Vvcd to be the most extensive
and valuable deposit of the kind in the
United States.
The Boston and Maine, the Eastern,
the Boston and Lowell and the Fitch
burg railroads have decided to erect a
m.im mouth union station in Boston. The
-cost of the proposed structure will be in
the vicinity of f.i, 000, 000. Sixteen
iU be run into the Jj'iilding,
'ooru for 200 pussenlrs cars
; roof.
Correspondent in Berlin says that the
genentl house servant in Germany is not
to be envied. Work begins often long
before daybreak and continues sometimes
till tost midnight. The floors must be
acnrd , every other day and the Win
(IowsVXt week; for tllis a broom is not
own. but a brush, is the article used.
the arduous duties which, she per-
the servant eets only sixty cents a
wei
The Methodist Episcopal Missionary
Society furnishes this data of the propor
tion of the world's population devoted to
religious faith and to heathen darkness:
"Protestants. 110,000,000; Greek church,
,000,000; Catholics, 190,000.000; Mo-
uumnedans, 170,000,000 ; 8,000,000 He
brew and 830.000, 000 heathens." There's
plenty of missionary work left for all the
churches. ,
-
Two well-known cattlemen of Hen
rietta, iTexas, have contracted with a
firm in Montreal, Canada, to furnish
them by June 1st, G. 000 head of cattle from
yearling to six-year old cows for $00,
000. The cattle are to be used for breed
ing purposes. The Galveston Xeict says
that this is the first sale of cattle ever
made direct to Canadian buyers, and
Texans believe that it will develop into a
brisk trade. .
v answer to the question, "What
speed is attained by the fastest steamer in
the world?'' the New York un replies:
"The ordinary good torpedo boats in
foreign navies make about twenty-two
miles an hour over the measured mile.
There are a few, including the American
boat Stiletto, that can make twenty-five
miles an hour. The fastest boat in the
world is the French torpedo boat Oura-
gan. She is credited with about twenty
nine mites an hour. At that rate she
would move as fast as ordinary passenger
trains between New York and Chicago
average."
The SvttUh Gcoijruph'u-ul Mt'jazint,
contains an interesting paper bv i?ir
Charles Warren on the present condition
of Palestine. Though not very hopeful
in tone, it asserts that the intlux of
Europeans is altering the country for the
better. There are "places where cultiva
tion has been fostered by societies, and
where the whole climate has altered."
The plains are in great danger from the
vast billows of sand whit h ure irrnd-.ily
rolling inwards frm the ma-lilF. In
fhe north they are thirty to forty feet
high, while in the south "they have
reached the height of several hundred
feet, and have quite covered up the old
land of Goshen."
Vksy
If any person fond of travel has a fancy
"to explore a savage country it may be
wise to first estimate tho ro-t. The
luxury comes high. It Las been esti
mated that the avenge expense incurred
bv exploring parties in Africa is over $11
a mile. Stanley's trip across the cu:.ti
nent is said to l-e cost about I'ii'.Ooo.
Dr. Holub. who las recently killed L1!
working Lis way from South Africa to
the Great Lakes, took with 1 i an out
fit that cost '2,0"0. TLo money ex
pendiml by most important exi-diti"ns
VilrieU from JlO.OuO to tl'M-'oo. An ex
plorer's force cf jurteri and other native
issiiitants variei In m about f-jr'y to ."J
sou! Mr. Staules'j ,r. !.t exprditiou
iucludeS about 1 OeiO s.l., and L'S
traveling outfit and tr i ie yoods ha' e cut
aoniclLiiii over $'.).oo0.
I
THE WAY OF IT.
This Is the) way of It the wiile world over:
Ona is beloved, and one is the lover;
One gives and tba other receive.
One lavishes all in a wild emotion,
Ona offers a smile for a Ufa's devotion ;
One nope, and the otlier believes.
One lies awake in the night to wep,
And the other drifts into a sweet sound sleep.
One soul is aflame with a God-like passion.
One plays with love In an Mler's fashion:
One speaks, and the other hears.
One sobs: "I love you," and wet eyes show it.
And one laughs lightly and says: "1 know it."
With smiles for the other's tears.
One lives for the other and nothing beside,
And the other remembers the world is wide.
This is the way of it, soil earth over;
The heart that brinks is the heart of the lover,
And the other learns to forget.
For what is the use of endless sorrow!
Though the sun goes down, it will rise to
morrow, And life is not over yet.
Oh! I know this truth, if I know no other,
That Fasaiouate Love is' Fain's own mother.
Ella Wittier Wilcox
HAD HE A HEART !
BY A. D. BAILIE.
'Tm tired now. and sleepy too,
Come put uie iu uiy little bed."
So she softly sang, and then she gasped
and rubbed her eyes.
"O, Willie Moore, if I had you here
I'd comb your little head for you with a
three-legged stool, I would, you ra.ical.
Two o'clock in the morning, packing not
half done, and your precious wife with
her back broke."
Thus groaned sleepy, tired little Henri
etta Mooro (nee Henrietta Miles), pro
fessionally known as Mile. Henrietta
Millesturoli, late of the Theatre.
A little over seventeen years of age,
slight but perfect in form, with a pure,
fresh, complexion, blooming cheeks,
clear, blue eyes, and movements of free,
undulating grace ami flowing ease, with
irregular feutures und chanceful expres
sion, which would have delighted an ar
tist and driven a photographer to despair,
she was a sprightly little beauty to glad
den the eyes of those who loved a good,
pretty face.
The room in which she waited' for her
husband was by no means tidy. Two
half-packed trunks stood open; upon the
bed and floor dresses and coats, shirts and
skirts, lay scattered in confusion.
William Moore, just of age, inclined to
be fast, good-looking, soft of heart and
head, until lately a bookkeeper in a com
mission house, had a week before mar
ried this child of the theatre for love
thereby pleasing himself, gaining his
idol, and losing the friendship of his
highly respectable relations anil his situa
tion for which he cured little. The
young couple were to start on the mor
row in the noonday train for Chicago,
where AViiliam was to invest the $3,500
just paid into the bank subject to his
order, his portion of his father's estate,
with an established firm in whose house
he was also to till the pesition of book
fleeper. He had gone out early in the evening
to have a farewell supper with some
friends. It was 2 o'clock, a. m., and he
had not yt returned.
Uenny (she was always called Henny)
gaped again, and then seizing a pretty
little gray traveling bonnet (just new)
from the be.3, she went through, for the
twentieth time, with the "trying-on"
process.
She heard the front door shut and lis
tened ; the step upon the stairs was slow
and dragging.
" Tain't Willie," she sighed, and
turned again to the mirror.
The door of the room wis thrown
open.
"Why, Willie!"
It was her husband. He entered the
room in silence, his dress disordered, his
face pale, and his hands trembling. He
sank into a chair ami looked at her in
despairing sadness. He had been drink
ing, but was nearly sober now. The
wife began:
"-L you're real mean to go ami
leaf (il night by myself and go get
tigl.1 all the pat king to do yet; it's
shabby of you, so it is."
"All right. Henny. Pitch into me!
Go ahead ! But you needn't puck any
more. We can't go !"
"Needn't pack any more! Can't go!"
she echoed, with surprise, " hy not t
"Cause I'm dead broke; lost every
rap. There ! now it's out !' he said,
dashing his hat wn the floor. She turned
on him fiercely :
"William Moore, do you mean to tell
me, after all you promised me, that you've
been " and a look finished the question.
"Pitch into me pitch in, Henny," he
grounetl; "I started for only one game
alter supper, and kept on ami on, anil
now it's all gone, every rap!" and, poor,
weak sinner, the tears began to fill his
eves.
I "Will Moore, you're a ," com-
I mem ed the wife; but, looking at him.
i the big, good-looking boy of a husband
that she loved so well, the harsh words
) died upon her lips, und she went anil sat
; ujwm hit knP and coddled him, saying:
, "Oh, Willie, I'ui so sorry. I had
hc'd so much so much and now it's
j all oer;" ami she gave a deep, sobbing
, aigh. "! it all gone, Willie.' Who was
it! ' she asked, alter a time.
; "Cleaned out; every cent," he an
; sweretl. "Alu-r supper I'd been driuk
, Lug some, and Chick Lofton proposed a
game and I didn't tho.k of what I'd
promised you and I didn't lose much;
I'd have ou eery cent back, sure, only
eld I). D. came in. and he roped in und
' tuk a Laud; and he's got my ( heck for
I r very cent we have in the world. Ou,
llcnr.v. I Uon t cure fr myself; u s you
i'm thinking of, and that m litrs me
Lea.-iy nay."
"You ought to have thought of me bo
fore it was to late, Willie."
"I know, IIrtnv ; but it ws only a lit
tle (rime with CL: k. lie wouldn't have
taken it all from nie like r id I). !., when
he saw I was tight. Chick's a (roM f' I
low oven -body mvi but old 1. D.
has no ni"ie h-srt than a turn:p."
"Ile:irtj and giMitl f. Unm! lm't talk
to tne 1" said the little w if. sharply.
"Chick Lawton has no t:Hre heart than
I don't know what. I know more nlniiit
Chick Lawton than you do Will. H'sa
scoundrel, that's what he i. But I didn't
think Mr. D.nl -n would have done it; I
thought better of him."
"lie's got no heart, lb nny,I. l. Lan't;
you a-k hit k if he Ills." groaned Will.
"Oh, bother Chick! I v. ntjldn't speak
to the rascal. Mr. Dotlge can treat one
like a I nly, ami that's more than your
Chit.k-chi' Kt.n ht art' ii-Lawton can do,"
answered the wife.
And then for a long time they were si
lent; finally the brave, self-reliant, child
wife said to her boy husband :
"Willie, will you promise me, once
more, never to drink or play another
card ?"
"Ilennv. dear," he answered, like a re
pentant schoolbov, "if voti'IIonlv forgive
me this time I'll never drink or play a !
card again, so help me God!"
"Good boy! then kls the book," and
she held up her bright red lips.
"And now, AVillie, let's get some
sleen. anil to-morrow we'll attend to
everything. All this finery we've bought j
to cut a dash with ia Chicago we'll either j
pawn or sell, ami we'll go to New York j
or somewhere, anil you can get something j
back to the old business."
Soon all was dark and silent ia the
room. The mau slept, but the little wife
prayed, as well as she ctxild, to Him to
" give us this day our daily bread," and
that the husband whm she loved, and
for whom she was willing to work and
save, might have strength to keep his
renewed pledges.
In the morning ilenny, stiarp little
business woman that she was, with a lov- i
ing kiss hurried Will off to find some one
who would buy her now useless finery, ;
which, with a sigh, she proceeded to j
arrange. She was a woman; it was a ;
sore task to part with the pretty dresses
just bought. As she was kneeling at her
trunk there came a tap upon the door.
"Come in!" she cried.
A man entered ; it was Delos Dodge,
professional gambler.
Henny started to her feet and faced
him. looking like a little furv. Delos
Dodge had nothing ot tne reverena cnar-
acter which the title D. D. that his asso-
ciates bestowed upon him would have in-
dicated. unless it might be his appear-
ance. Faultlessly dressed, with no dis-
play of jewelry, a smooth, pale face, and
quiet deportment that notumg was ever
known to disturb, a white neck-tie,
would have transformed him, so far as
looks went, into a modern minister cf the
gospel. But the spare chin and firm
mouth and the cold, fixed glare of his
eye showed "old D. D." to be a man that
it would not do to affront; a few men
risked his anger, and most of them lived
to regret it.
He eutered the room anil closed the
door, and then said, most politely:
I beg your pardon for disturbing you,
Sirs. Moore, but the servant informed me
that your husband was here. I wish to j
see him. Busy packing to start, I see."
Then Ilenny poor Ilenny poured out
upon him, the man who robbed her bus-
bantl, her heaped-up wrath :
" Packing to go 'way, you impudent
villain! lou know that we can t go way
when you robbed yes, robbed my poor
Willie" after making him drunk, of every
cent he had in the w hie world. Oh, how
I hate you! And you have the insolence
to come here, after all, and look me in
the face and ask me about going 'way.
You'd like to see the poor boy starve, all
of you that's what you want. But I'll
spite vou. I'll work for him work for
him, yes, till I drop dead.
Ilennv stopped to take breath, und
then Delos Dodge spoke calmly and
quietly:
" Mrs. Moore, please listen to me for a
few moments. Your husband is young,
and rather foolish ami weak, but I like
hitn, and I like and respect you: you ure
uu honest, good girl. I went to our rooms
last night, und found your husband, de
cidedly the worse for liquor, pl.iving with
Mr. Lawton. Mr. Moore had lost all his
readv money, and applied to me to cash '
his check for a considerable amount, ij
knew what would hat in n. and forced i
ravsch' into the game mat h to the disgust
of the others. In three' hours I had your
husband s checks for f '.'.oOO in my pos
session. Here they are," continued D. P..
producing them from his vest pocket. "I
came here this morning, trusting to find
Mr. Moortf alone. You will do as well.
I What I now do with these checks you
will please tell no one; it would ruin my
j enviable reputation." And Delos Dodge,
the gambler, t a low laugh as he tor-:
j the cheeks ..ill bits and scattered
j the piueerJe f,-Lt of the staring, as
! tonisheoritle. wife.
j "Oh, D. D. Mr. Dodge. I mean How
, can I thank you.'" she cried.
"Bv saing nothing of this to anv one
j but vour hu-banti. Pack up now and j
I get him away lroui here, and tell him1
i from me to drop the drink and the play; I
I he h i-n't the head for either. And. now, !
j good-bv, Mrs. M.jore. und a pleasant '
joumev und good fortum; to Vou," und ,
j he held out his hand. j
"Please forgiv: rue for what I said. ;
j won't you.1" she begged. '
' "Oh, certainly; 'twas but natural, and :
! did vou good. Good -by," and again he !
; held" out his hand. :
She looked up at ht;n. If h. r friends I
had heard of u hat she next did, they '
I would nave siu.i : i uai s just 1 1 i.ny a. :
over." i-he r.-a. Led up, put h. r anus'
j about his neck, tile h:-, he.nl ilou u and
, kised him. Then she sank upon the. '
; floor, sobbing, woman-like, l'.jr j. y. (
Mr. Dodg! walked down the stairs very
lowly. Ilia face was palcrthanusu.il,
anl there was a slight moisture in the
cold gray eyes that softened their stony
glare. As hi: parsed through to the street
upon the steps of the house he found Mr.
( hit k Lawton.
"Why. hello, P. D. 1" exclaimed Chick.
' What are you doin here? I saw Billy
Moore r i-hlng down street, and I thought
I'tl pt drop round and cheer Ilenny up
little; but you was ahead of me, you
old 'K.ssum. Billy's down on his luck
this morning. I guess, anil I'm so tender
hearted that I thought I'd come and offer
them a V or an X. I'll just run up and
keep Ilenny company till Billy comes
back."
Dodge laid his hand on Chick's arm.
"Mrs. Moore is very busy, Mr. Law
ton, "said he, with an ugly look in his
eyes. "Take my advice and don't go
up. You hat! much better walk down
street with me this fine cool morning
imbed you ha'l. Mr. Lawton. Cornel"
Mr. L. did not care to disoblige Mr. D.
It mignt make Mr. D. angry. It was
dangerous to anger the quiet Mr. D. ; and
so Mr. L., who was particularly careful
of his "big-heartetl" self, trotted down
street beside old D. D., who seemed in-
clined to silence. But Chick hated si-
lence. and soon broke out
"You wouldn't have acted toward
Moore as I was about to do now, you
know vou wouldn't, vou heartless old
D. D."
"I certainly would not," was the mean
ing reply.
"I knew it," crowed Chick. "That's
because you've got no heart, you see. It
gives a fellow a cold in the head merely
to look at you. Come in here and take
something to warm up that cold blood of
yours."
"I thank you: I seldom drink."
"I knew it; that's because you've no
heart. I actually believe your veins are
filled with ice-water. Come in and take
something warming," persisted Chick.
"Go you ami get your drink. Excuse
i me. 1 nave something on my lips that
I don't want to wash oil," was the quiet
rejoinder, and Dodge passed on down the
street.
But there was a warm feeling on the
left hand side, under old D. D.'s spotless
shirt-bosom. Had he a heart? Chicago
I.iter-lfr-ean
Shopping in Cairo.
An Egyptian peasant, when asked the
price of anything he has for aale, will
say: "Receive it as a present." Customs
change not in the East, and thus, hun-
j dre,Js- of Te;ipj B!JOj E.)nron answered
j Abnham,'w ben he expressed a wL-h to
I pup.g tie nKl,j. an j cave of Machpelah.
i Thij answer a COmmon form of speech,
; anii tQe Fa.int know, thiit Bo advantage
, wiu he uki,a of it wht.n he a?:lia
asked to name a price, he gives one,
which is generally exorbitant. If the
would-be buyer is also a peasant; then
the two begin a contest, so vehement ia
tone und gesture, that a stringer, igno
rant of their language, would think they
were quarreling.
A rurd Yankee delights La a horse
trade, not merelv because it may brin;:
him a better hor-e. but for the pleasure
which the trad.- affords him. An Oriental
j men hunt and his customer find a similar
. pleasure in buying and selling. The pro-
cess may be long, but it is never tiresome
to them.
When a shopkeer of Cairo is asked the
price of an article, he a-k more than he
j evpects to receive. The ru-tomer d.v
; dares the price exorbitant and offers one-
t half the sum named, whit h the merchant
declines to accept. Ihe cu-toint-r then
takes oil his t-htxs, ami, mounting upon
the raised seat, seat hiinself bc-iUe the
men hunt, fiiU uu.l lights his pi. Tin n
the content begins. The shopkeeper low
ers his demand, and the customer bid-i a
little higher. Sometimes the customer
interrupts the contest by introducing urj
irrelevant topic, us if he liad detenuiut d
to bid no higln r. But the haggling is
soon resumed, und continues, m,!;! ti:e
! two met t half-wav bt tt t n the
1 sum tir-t
demanded and tl.at erst oil. n -i.
purchase is a large one the rti
If the
Ti hal.t
calls t the lxy of the lit ar. -t cotf- c
shop und orders hitn to bring coffee. It
is served to the customer in a sm.id ch''i.i
cup placed ithin a cup of l.rt-a. A
soon us the cu-totuer L.is d- artcd, his
servant reminds the mt rt Kant cf Lis
presence, and rec eive a small si.ui of
i money.
Sava:
"The ni
e Foes of the Congo
st dangerous aage f.
j huve to fear, said M.wi.ey, tin: exp
n r,
"are biiil.uo. v e lost i;ve men H iring
mv last visit to the Congo from these um
mals; three ere killed by crocudi:rs. one
bv a hippopotamus and one by a buffalo.
There are large numbers of hippi polami
along the Congo and its tributaries, and
thousands upon thousands of crocinLlo.
I The latter ure by far the most insidious
! foes we have, because they are so siVnt
and so swift. You see a man bathing in
j the river," said Mr. Stanley, with one of
his vivid, graphic touches; "he U staiid
i ing near the shore, laughing ut you, per
haps, laughing in the k.-eu enjoyment ol
I his bath; suddenly he fails out and v.j.i
j see him no more. A crocodile has a p.
j prouched unseen, has struck hi:u a blow
i with its tall that knocks him oler. and
he is instantly seicd and carried oil. or,
it may be that tin- man is swimming; he
is totally unconscious of danger; tl.ere is
nothing to stir a tremor of appr. Ii rision;
but there, in deep wafer, under the
shallow of that ro k. or hidden beneath
the shelter of the trees yonder, is a huge
crocodile. It Ills spt tied the w in. mt r.
and is w-atching Us o poi'ui.ity. The
swimnierf.ipprt a he. he is i ith.n Mr.k
iug distant c, stealthily, i!en:ly. imp. r
ccivcd. the creature manes ;..r
the man know s nothing until L
Its prey
is si !.'
bv the leg and tlp.ggcti uu
r, and h
U now no mm
e ites the p . a " i
and tnat ia all
A bubble .
ere lie has
r two umi-
i- I
:orie do ii.
WISE WORDS.
Spend less than you earn and you will
be rich.
One may do without mankind, but one
has need of a friend.
The court is like the sea everything
depends upon the wind.
The tree overthrown by the wind had
more branches than roots.
There is no better excess in the world
than the excess of gratitude.
One ungrateful man does an injury to
all who stand in need of aid.
A good way to make the children tell
the truth Ls to tell it yourself.
True benevolence is to love all men.
Recompense injury with justice, and
kindness with kindness.
Oh, how small a portion of earth will
hold us when we are dead, who am
bitiously seek after the whole world
while we are living.
Water that flows from a spring docs
not freeze in the coldest winter. And
' those sentiments of true friendship which
flow from the heart cannot be frozen bv
adversity.
Experience has taught me that the only
friends we can call our own, who can have
no change, are those over whom the grave
has closed ; the seal of death is the only
seal of friendship.
The luxury that drains off the strength
of men is a poor substitute for the hiring
of themselves to some honest labor. Bet
ter to have been bred and bora in the
house of honest toil.
It is the glorious prerogative of the em
pire of knowledge that what it gains it
never loses. On the contrary it increases
by the multiple of its own power; all its
ends become means; all its attainments
help to new conquests.
Honor to the true man who takes his
life in his hand3, and at all hazards
speaks the words which is given him to
utter, whether men will hear or forbear,
whether the end thereof is to be praise or
censure, gratitude or hatred.
Oscillations of the Earth's Crust
First among these oscillations of the
earth we may notice the slow up or down
movements which are probably of the
same general nature and of the same ori
gin as the movements which build the
continents, only much more rapid; so
rapid, indeed, that they may be observed
from decade, to decade, or, at least, from
century to century. Ia this class we in
clude the down-sinking of the coast of
New Jersey, the uprising of the northern
part of S.andinavia, or the oscillation of
the shore on the coast of the Bay of Na
ples. These movements which, though
in a geological sense rapid, rarely change
the level of the land more than a foot or
t wo ia a century, appear to be divided in
three distinct classes as follows: First,
those which are due to the imposition of
a heavy weight upon the earth's surface,
or to the removal of such a weight. A.
good case of this is the deep depression
of the northern part of North America,
w here the glacial sheet came upon it,
anil its ripitl re-elevation when the ice
melted away. Next, those which are due
to the formation of a great fault or
bn ak through the rocks as they are
shoved about by the compressive forces
which build mountain chains. Anil,
final! v, those which ure due to the move-
, nu nts of volcanic gases and the lava
j which they propel towanl the enter,
j whence, ia time, they are to be dls-
charged.
. of these slow movements the most in
I ten-tintr. Itecause the best known, is
: that hit h is shown by the ruins of the
! temple of J iiiter Sera pis. near Naples.
I WV we by the evidence of these ruins
that the temple has sunk down since the
i Chri-tiau era. o tl't the marine animals
. I. re. I into the marble columns at the
height of m. re than twenty feet above
the recent level of the ca: it then rose
up to itst.rigin.il level, ami is now again
1 'inking at the r ite of one inch in three or
i four M art. A s.milar nionetiicnt con
' n. it'd with the process of mountain
l.'!!'l eg h.is Neri observed ut Subiaco,
1 n!- (it f-.rfy milt to the north of Home.
I A hundred years or so ago the chun h of
' Jen ii w.s invisible from Subiaco, while
no it is. i:i pl.uu vi. w over the uuin.it of
the iutt rven.ng mountain. This change
run oiiiv I expl.iimd by an alti-r.it ion in
, the 1.. ight of the mountain. .Vfmc'i
1 .('...".
I!traiiriiiiijrv (ontempt of Court.
An cvtriot'iiiiary incident has ju-t oc
curnd at the liou.ti ( oiirt of Appeal.
Three nu n who had U-en cn!em ed to
vari' us terms of imprisonment at Havre
appealed to the It. u. n Court. They were
I r.'tght in together, and on the first
pi is. ,m r U ing asked the question, "Hive
y..t a; x a!. .1 .' ' he replied. " Ves, 1 did
so to s. . if the I! .ueii Judges are as great
last ils us those of Havre."
This pit i e ot in. .in I' ll, f produced a
gr, :;t scn-at i. n. und the man was f. rth-
i:li ri.inl. iwiiol to one year's imprison
ment f..f ioHi'ting the magistrate.
What wis ti..- gt nerui -urpiUe when
the - i did pi:s. ... r. on b ing asked the
fr.iinc ipi. -i.o.i. r turned an identical
reply. Th! tune the Judges dealt
out a d. i.l le pi i: .dry, und he was sent off
w::h tw.
t a is
i:
risoiuneut on his
book.
No i . tlr.-aiut that the third man
would dan- to t ice the Court in this in
solent fi-l.io:i ali.r the punishment to
wl
it his two companions hud been
tre-i'etl. and . thn.l
through t he a id . PIH e
the f .in. a! .pit ry. "H i
amazement ran
n ri. in urisw e'r to
y i mi .. ppeah . I '"
l.e returned t: . it
ri-p.v
j' is. 1 i s . 1 1 1 . I
V I 1 I
S. I t" l e if the li 'l.en .J uig.-s ae
feat
r l as th.se d Hat, re. "
'l i e t ..tut t deni ed this man I i three
Sea:s' i..-.s as I., I, .hit I, . !'!
I' has b. . 11 h .red ...
I h..t I .t.t-o. ooo o. i l.ir M!
u. i
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IMPATIENCE.
Orite to Impatient children when the sky
Frowns on some morn of Ion ged-fer fee
day
To cheat their happy hearts of outdoor
plar,
We fret when sends of ill above us fly,
And every cloud and menace magnify,
Till thus we waste our manhood's strength,
as they.
Their rest for pleasure in some indoor way,
Our age scarce wiser than their infancy.
If we could chafe anil chase the clouds afar,
Rather than borrowed gloom upon them
bring.
Our gain its lack of grace might palliate,
But leave us yet with manliness at war,
That brave defiance to oil fate would fling,
And by endurance make us strong and
great
WiU iam C. Richards, in Earptr't.
HUMOE OF THE DAY.
A good thing to tie to A hitching
post. Merchant Traveler.
Our present fishery trouble would seem
insignificant if somebody would invent a
boneless shad. Puck.
"Heavens! Look there!" "Where 1"
"There that messenger boy running.n
"Sh-h ! It's his regular meal time." PUU
iurg Diyatch.
In this country there are two hundred
thousand men blowing in brass bands,
and twenty million blowing at them.
Danville Breeze.
Probably this world couldn't get along
without cranks; but sometimes it can't
help thinking it would like to try.
Smerzule Juurnal.
A married man in words unkind
And with much emphasis avers,
His wife destroys his peace of mind
By giving him a piece of hers.
ilercluint Traveler.
Husband "If you only had the ability
to cook as mother used to I would bo
happy, dear." Wife "And if you only had
the ability to make money enough to buy
things to cook, as your father used to, I
too would be happy, dear."
Fogg has said the meanest things any
was was ever capable of saying. When.
Mrs. F. left him alone in the house the
other evening she remarked: "You won't
be lonely, dear?" "No," he replied; "I
shan't miss you at all. The parrot, you
know, is here." Bonton, Transcript.
"Give an example of an immovable
obstacle," said the teacher. And the
smart bad boy at the foot of the class
suggested three girls on the sidewalk.
The teacher, who usually had to walk in
the middle of the street herself, sent him
right up to the head of the class and told
him to stay there for a week. Burdette.
"Be kind to the animals out on the farm.
Let thom see a kind smile on your face
wreathing :
Oh, let the horse pause in the plough as he
plot is
Tip the hill, for a moment of breathing;
Be kind to the rooster who s winning his
spurs.
And be kind to the rake when it 's teeth
inz." Puck
Trees and Blizzards.
I have been much interested in watch
ing the effect of tree planting upon the
blizzanLs. The blizzard drives along the
ground, and it has for uges upon ages f ound
no tree to halt or veer it. The settlers on
the plains planted trees, however, and
these trees now stands as obstacles to the
full sweep of the ice laden wind. A few
days ago as a blizzard swept over the
country, I passed through a loosely plant
ed grove of trees, Cottonwood, silver ma
ples, green ash, etc., and noted with
pleasure that among the trees the violence
of the ind was greatly reduced and the
flakes of snow dropped lazily to the
ground, w here they rested as contentedly
as if they had fallen upon the tree cov
ered hills of New England. As soon as
I hail passed out of the grove I had to
face again the furious flakes, driving hor
izontally in their mad career over the
earth. As often as I passed through a lit
tle gnive of trees I found that I left the
blizzard ; but as soon as I emerged from
the sheltering trees, the blast struck me
again in all its fury. This bit of experi
ence is duplicated thousands of times
every day upon the plains. The tree
planter has routed the blizzard wherever
he has set his little army of trees. The
blizzard tyrant no longer rules as will
over all the Mississippi Valley. Wher
ever a grove has come into existence
there the blizzard scepter has been
broken. True, he riles as fiercely as
ever outside of the groves, but as these
enlarge his domitiiuu contracts. When
once the groves are approximately con
tinuous, und when once they have grown
to greater heights, the blizzard will be
thing of the past. The settler upon the
plains need not fear the blizzard for more
than half a dozen years, if he culls to his
aid the friendly cottonwood, maple, a-h,
and elm. They alone can vanish this
terror of the We-tern Winter. Let
every settler's motto be: "Trees rather
than blizzards." .1 nu-ri-u.i Ayru-uit'irint.
How to know Good Meat.
Dr. Lciherby las down the following
simple rules for the guidance of those iu
search of good meat :
It is ini;iierof a pale pink nor of a
deep purple tint.
It has a marked appearance from the
ratui.'i.-af ion of little veins of fat among
the muscles.
I; should be firm and elastic to the
touch. Bad meat is Wet, sodden and
flabby, ulth the fat looking like jelly or
w i t parchment.
It -Mould have little or no o, lor, und
fh- .1 .r shoui i n..f be ilis.ipiee.ible.
Diseased nie it has a ickiy. cadaverous
smell, and soti.i times a sin. li i f physic.
This is di coven .1 ;:' the nnut is chopped
aiid .ii-e'i. lied with warm water.
I; should not lu ink or waste much Iu
-tcaine-. Jl-r.i.'ii -J tuo'i
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