SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN.
W. M, CHENEY, Publisher.
VOL. X.
There arc now 3715 places in the
ITnited States which have h population ol
more than 1000.
Tolstoi, the Russian philosopher, says
that the least complicated and shortest
rule of morals that he knows is to get
others to work for you as little as possi
ble and work yourself as much as possi
ble for them; make the fewest call upon
the services ot your neighbors, and ren
der them the maximum number of ser
vices yourself.
Few people perhaps are aware of the
fact, believes the Huston Transcript,
that there was once a Postmistress-
General. She did not serve in this
country or iu the present century, but
the fact that a woman ever served in
that capacity is indeed remarkable.
Denmark was the home of this remark
able woman, whose name was Countess
Gyldenlore, or Dorothea Krag, as she
was called during her term of office,
which extended from the year 1703 to
1711. The present postal system in
that country, waic'a Is considered one of
the best in the world, was inaugurated
by her.
Professor Jameson, of Brown Univer
sity, is lecturing on tho historic colonial
mansions on the James River in Vir
ginia, especially those at Shirley, West
over and Upper and Lower Brandon.
This region and the country about Will
iamsburg, which the professor designates
as "the quaintest placa in the English
portion of America,"was once a virgin
field of discovery for the see'.ter after old
colonial furniture. Many a rare find of
ancient mahogany tables and sideboards
has been made thereabouts, and quaint
Chippendale chairs used to be found
there in numbers—interesting objects of
treasures-trove that could be secured for
the proverbial song. But time has
changed all that, and such articles when
discovered there now are held at fair
price. It is said that much of this sort
of colonial furoitare may be obtained
nowadays iu parts of Kentucky, rare
pieces having been inherited by the
present generation of lventuckians from
their Virginia ancestors.
People who think that the free-pass
business is carried to extremes in the
United States should note how they do
it iu Russia. The Railroad Gazette says
that the Russian railroads have been ac
custoired to give free pusses not only to
their employes, but to relative of their
employes, a practice which may have
been heard on this side of tiie Atlantic.
The term "relatives," however, has been
found to be extremely clastic, aud re
cently the Great Russian Company put
its foot down and issued positive ovders
that hereafter pusses will be granted to
no other relatives of employes tlum their
wives, though a trifling reduction of
seventy per cent, on the prices of tickets
will be made to paren':-, brothers and
sisters of employes and of their wives,but
all aunts, cousins find stepmothers must
pay full fares. If your brothel receives
a salary of ;va much as £750 from the
company, you can get your disccuut only
on first-cla«s tickets; if lie has from 150
to $750, you have second-class tickets;
if less than *!"><>, third-class tickets.
The ides of the bicyclo railroad liuds
favor nt Seattle. A linn is soon to ho
constructed between that city and Taco
ma. The contract calls for its c >m|>le
tion within a year. The following de
scription is given of the road: "There
will l»« two tracks, each of a single line
of steel rails. A Umber will he laid on
the ground acrosi the width of both
tracks at intervals of tweuty feet, an I
across these, lengthwise of the track,
lOxl'J-inch stringers will be laid, to
which the rails will be spilced. To each
end of the sills will be bolte 1 upright
timber* inches md eighteen feet
high, with 4sHdncb braes*. These up
rights will be couuecte I overhead by a
cap, which will ..upport a litinch
wooilen guidi rail, directly above e*eu
line of rails. The cars will run uu
wheels under then centre <iu Ihe
line of rails, au'l, when runiimy »u a
straight track, will bo held upright
their owu iinputu* When rounding
curves, h-iwever, t » cars will b. held
upright by two ruumi aUtt-U utile I to
their roots and i.nuu ' one , t „ | t
of the gui le rail, while t third iuii>ei
wheel will (evolve ' i «t the under Side
ol this rail, p»u««iu., . - tint it an<l keep.
iu« it in jKHiliuii. It intended in tbw
cou<Mi «.I a l>■* ><»• to replai th« tin*
l»rs with it*-'I <i|<i » iur< Mi.»u,
pnaui will b« I, bit ultiiuililt < lei
A GOLDEN HOUR.
A beckoning spirit of gladness seemed
afloat.
That lightly danced in laughing air before
us;
The earth was all in tune and you a not*
Of Nature's happy chorus.
'Twos like a vernal morn, yet overhead
The leafless boughs across the lane were
knitting:
The ghost of some forgotten Spring,we said.
O'er Winter's world comes flitting.
Or was it Spring herself, that, gone astray,
Beyond the alien frontier chose to tarry?
Or but some bold outrider of tho May,
Some April-emissary?
The apparition faded on the air.
Capricious and incalcu able comer—
Wilt thou too pass, and leave my chill days
bare,
And fall'n my phantom Summer?
—William Watsou, in the Spectator.
THE RUNAWAY.
BY PATIENCE 9TAPX.ETON.
■ 1 » m OULD they put her
I 'A \/ in Mylu ol ," she
Ift imM/ wondered, "if they
i I J VIV «* u ghther?"
I J .1 J Folks would sure-
ft think she was
LYI kM i CTazy
(|' XKJjW-yn] She stopped at
111 frjy. i "T-Jl <t the stone wall to
rest - and looketl
back timorously at
t^lc °' d fa ra 'l'a r
* scene.
Far behind her streched the meadow,
a symphony of olive and green in the
iate fall. Here and there the sunken
boulder stood soldiery, golden rod, or
berry bushes clothed now in scarlet and
gold. At intervals in the long slope
stood solitary trees, where fluttering,
brittle leaves fell in the gentle, chill air.
Iu summertime she remembered well the
haymakers rested in the shade, and
the jug with ginger water she made for
the men was kept there to be cool.
She seemed as she sat there to re
member everything. The house was all
right, she was sure of that; tho key was
under the kitchen door mat, the fire was
out in the stove and the cat locked in
the barn.
She held her work hardened hand to
her side, panting a little, for it was a
good bit of a walk across the meadow,
aud she was eighty years old on her Hat •
birthday. The cows feeding looked
homelike and pleasant.
"Goodbye, critters," abe said aloud;
"meny's the time I've druv' ye home an'
milked ye, an' I aUus let ye eat by the
way, nor nevet hurried ye as the boys
done."
With a farewell glance she went on
again, scr.oothing as she walked the
scattered locks of gray hair falling under
the pumpkin hood and keeping her
black scant gown out of the reach of the
briars. Across another field, then
through a leafy lane where the wood
was hauled in winter, then out through
a gap iu a stump fence, with its great
branching arms like a petrified octopus,
to the dusty high road.
Not a soul in sight in the coming twi
light. John, the children and the scold
ing wife who made her so unhappy,
would not be home for an hour yet, for
East Mills was a long drive.
Down the steep hill went the brave
little figure, followed by an old shadow
of itself in the waning light, aud by the
tiuy stones that rolled so swiftly they
{Missed her often and made her look be
hind with a start to see if a pursuer was
coming.
"They'd put roe in the asylum, surp,"
she muttered wildly as she trudged
along.
At the foot of the hill she sat down
upon an old log and waited for the
train.
Across the road, guarded by a big
sign, "Look out for the engine," ran
two parallel iron rails that were to be
her road when the big monster should
come panting around the curve.
At last tho dull rumble sounded, a
shrill whistle, aud she hurried to the
track, waving her shawl as a signal.
This, in the conductors' vernacular,
was a cross-roads station, where he was
used to watch for people waving articles
frantically. The train stopped and the
passenger was takeu aboard. He noticed
she was a bright eyed old lady, very ueat
aud precise.
'•How furt" he asked.
♦•Hostin."
"Git there in the mornia'," he said,
kiudly, waiting for the money, as she
opened a queer little reticule, where,
under her kuitting, wrapped iu a clean
cotton handkerchief, was her purse with
her cavings of loug years—the little
sums Sam had seat her wheu he first In
gau to proa|ier iu the West, aud souie
money she hud earned herself by klilttlug
aud berry picking.
At a cross road, as they weut swiftly
tin, she saw the old sorrel horse, lite
rattling wagou aud John and his family
driving hounu.rd. She drew bat a
with a Utile cry, fearing be luU'lit sew
her and stop the Irani, but they w .at >»u
tu la»t that sould uot be, aud '.lie old
hor.e joggetl into (he woods, aud Johu
uevei thought Ins old Aunt tlanuah, his
th-it.'t lot t«mty loug years, Has tun
Mia:.- away -
,\l tfcwluu * kllnlly MWlwlM buu^ltt
U*i * Uiluugli 111 ltd lui INju-'h
"It 1 « lung lui Ml ullt Uly
Ilk.: )««»," U" Mill.
' Uui l iM «tui ul ■»> •g«," »U Mia
LAPORTE, PA., FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1892.
anxiously; I never bed a Clay's sickness
since I was a gal."
"Going all the way alone?"
'•With Providence," she answered
brightly, alert and eager to help herself,
but silent and thoughtful as the train
took her into strange landscape where
the miles where the landscape went so
swiftly it seemed like the past years of
her life as she looked back on them.
"Thy works are marvelous," she mur
muied often, sitting, with her hands
folded, and few idle days had there been
in the world where she had sat and rested
so long.
In the day coach the people were kind
and generous, sharing their baskets with
her and seeing she changed cars right
and her carpetbag was safe. She was
like any of the dear old grandmas in
Easteru homes, or to grizzled men and
women like the memory of our diJad
mother, as faint and far away as the scent
of wild roses in a hillside country bury
ing ground. She tended babies for tired
women and talked to tha men of farming
and crops or told the children Bible
stories, but never a word she said of her
self, not one.
On again, guided by kindly hands
through the great bewildering city by
the lake, and now through yet a strange
land. Tired and worn by night in the
uncomfortable seats her brave spirit be
gan to fall a little. As the wide, level
plains, lonely and drear, dawned on her
sight she sighed often.
"It's a dre'ful big world," she said to
a gray bearded old farmer near her; "so
big I feel e'enmost lost in it, but," hope
fully, "across them deserts like this long
ago Providence sent a star to guide tliein
wiie men of the East, an' 1 hain't lost
my faith."
But as the day wore on, and still the
long, monotonous land showed no human
habitation, no oasis of greon, her eyes
dimmed, something like a sob rose under
the black kerchief on the bowed should
ers, and the spectacles were taken oil
with trembling hand and put away care
fully in the worn tin case.
"Be ye goin' fur, mother?" said the old
farmer.
lie had bought her a cup of coffee at
the last stition, aud had pointed out on
the way things he thought might interest
her.
"To Denver."
"Wal, wal; you're from New England,
I'l be bound."
"From Maine," she answered; and
then she gTew communicative, for she
was always n chatty old lady, and she
had possessed her soul in silence so lo ■
and it was a relief to tell the story of her
weary years of waiting to a kiudly lis
tener.
She told him all the relations she had
were two grand nephews and their fami
lies. That twenty years ago Sam (for
she had brought them up when their
parents died of consumption, that takes
so many of our folks) went out West. He
was always adventurous, and for ten
years .she did not hear from him; but
John was different and steady, and when
he came of age she had given him her
farm, with the provision that she should
always have a home, otherwise he would
have gone away, too. Well for years
they were happy, then John married, and
his wife had grown to think her a bur
den as the years went on, and the chil
dren when they grew big did not care for
her; she felt that she had lived too long.
"I growe I so lonesome," she said
pathetically, "it seems I couldn'tjtake
up heart to live day by day, an'.'yit I
knowed our folks was long lived. Ten
years back, when Sain wrote he was doin'
fair an' scut mo money. I begun to
thiuk of him; fur he was alius generous
an' kind, an' the gratefulest boy, an' so
I began to save togo to him, fur 1
knowed 1 could work my board for a
good many years to come. Fur threj
years he ain't hardly wrote, but 1 laid
that to the wild kentry he lived iu. I
said b'ars and injuus don't skeer me
noue, fur when I was a gal up in
Aroostuk kentry there was plenty of
both, an' as fur bullalers them horned
cattle dou't skeer me uoue. fur I've been
used to a farm alius. But the lone
sumuess of these medders ha* sorter up
sot lite and made me think every duy Sain
was further off thau 1 ever calc'lated
on."
"But what will you do if S an ain't in
Denver!" asked tho farmer.
"I hev put uiy faith in Providence," |
the answered simply, ami the stranger
could nortuar that trust by any word of
warning.
lie gave her his address ts he got .iff
at the Nebraska liue, aud told Iter to
tend him word if she needed help. With
a warm hand clasp he |>ai'tcd fr.nu her I"
join the phantoms in iter memory of
"folks that had beet! kind lo her, Go I
bless me," aud then the traiu was ruiu-.
bling on.
But litany of tiie |m*.-*sugers had is
teiied to Iter story aud were interest*.!,
aud they cantc to *it with her.
One pale, little lis. 1 iu a Seat in front,
lurued lo look at her uow and then uud
to answer Iter smite, lie was gotu to
the new couutry for health aud wealth,
poor tail, oulv lo tlu I eternal re»t iu the
■uuuy laud, but his last day* brighieaed
by the reward for his thoughtful acts of
ktndnvss.
"She probably brought llt.Me Isiy*
up,' ha thought, "sud denied hsrllli
for them. I» >he to <il«J unrewarded, I
Wuuderl Thele « .until IH> an. g >o*i lit
lb. world tl that l-e so." He thought ol
liei and i»"k .til Ins put. I'hero w»«
MI little money in it. tuo.es.o 1,1,1
male a bin hole in lit* »t Mfe, tut the
I i injiniin»«wi irrf a go<>'t de.»i wa W'.ith
loutsibiug "1 Htjis t ht*s lbs sitss.'
to do m%ny more," thought the lad, but
toning his worn overcoat.
He slipped oft without a word at a
station aud sent a telegram to Denver.
"To Samuel Blair"—for be had caught
the name from her talk—"Your Aunt
Hannah Blair is on the W. and W. train
coming to you."
It was only a straw, but a kindly
wind might blow it to the right one after
all.
When he was sitting there after his
message had gone on its way, she leaned
over and handed him a peppermint drop
from a package in her pocket.
"You don't look strong, dearie," sho
said, "hain't ye no folks with ye?"
"None on earth."
'•We're both lone ones," she smiled;
"an' how sad it be there ain't no one to
fuss over ye. Aur' be kecrful of the
drafts, and keep flannels alius on your
chist; that is good for the lung 3."
"You are very kind to take an interest
in me," he smiled, "but I am afraid it
is too late."
Another night of weary slumber in the
cramped seats and then the plain began
to bo dotted with villages, and soon ap
peared the straggling outskirts of a city,
the smoke of mills, the gleam of the
Platte River and a network of iron rails,
bright and shining, as the train ran
shrieking into the labyrinth of its des
tination.
"This is Denver," said the lad to her,
"and I'll look after you as well as I
can."
"I won't be no burden," she said
brightly. "I've twenty dollars yet, an'
that's a sight of money."
The train halted to let the eastward
bound express pass; there was an air of
excitement in the car, passengers getting
ready to depart, gathering up luggage
and wraps, und some watching the new
comers and the rows of strange faces on
the outward bound.
The door of the car slammed suddenly,
and a big bearded man with eager blue
eyes came down the aisle, looking sharply
from right to left. Ho had left Deuver
on the express to meet this train. His
glance fell on the tiny black figure.
"Why, Aunt Hannah!" ho cried, with
a break in his voice, aud she—she put
out her trembling hand and fell into the
big arms, tears streaming down the
wrinkled face.
"I knowed Providence would let me
find ye, Sam," she said brokenly, :.ndno
] one smiled when the big man sat down
beside her and with gentle hand wiped
her tears away.
"Why, I've sent John twenty >J ''tn
j a month for five years for you," he said
; angrily, as she told him why she rat
i away, ' 'and he said you could not write,
| for you had a stroke and was helpless,
! and I have written often and sent you
' money. It's hard for a man to called his
own brother a villain.
"Wis wun't, Sam," she said gently,
"but just furgit; anil I wouldn't be a
burden to ye, iur I can work yit, an' for
years to come."
j "Work, indeed! don't I owe you
■ everything?" he cried. "And my wife
I has longed for you to come. There are
i so few dear old aunts iu this country,
| they're prized, I tell you. Why, it's as
I good as a royal court of arms to have a
I dear handsome old womau like you for a
I relation."
Then he found out who sent the tele
' gram and paid the lad, who blushed and
stammered like a girl and did not waut
' to take it.
"I suppose you want a job," said the
j big man. "Well, I cau give you one.
I'm in the food commission business.
Give you something light? Lots of your
i sort, poor lad, out here. All the refer
! ence I want is that little kindness of
1 yours to Aunt Haunah."
"Here's the depot, Aunt Hannah, and
' you won't see 'bars and Injuns' nor the
buffaloes; sunniest city you ever set your
j dear eyes on."
He picked up the earpet bag, failed
anil old fashioned, not a bit ashamed of
it, though it looked as if Noah might
have carried it to tho ark.
They said g odby, and the last seen of
her was her happy old face beaming
from a carriage window as she rolled
away to what all knew would be a
pleasant home for all her wauing years,
j —New Vork Herald.
The Astronomers Are Puzzled.
One of the most mysterious caaugcs
witnessed iu the ever-changing solar sys
tem is the variation iu the brightness of
the moons of Jupiter. Two of the four
satellites occasionally cro*tt the planet's
disc a* dark objects, although it is kuowti
that their «unuy sides aru presented to us
and >dioul I appear no less brilliantly il
luminated than the piauet itself. Tin
third and fourth satellites ofteu make
these .lark transits and the first is some -
i time, seen as i brown object, but tha
second has ucv. r been noticed otherwise
than as a bri.lit doc. i'lte phenomenon
still remains »■. ithotil satisfactory eaplana
-1 nou.--St Louis Kcpublic.
Masterpiece of Burmese Art.
I'lin.e li.su.ai> k has just received a
' valuable present Irutu the German colouy
l in Burma)!. It cuu*i«U of a ceutre piece
of solid s 'Ver two lest long and lliree
' let l high Ihe pedestal Is entirely .>v
ered with tieaotlftilly worked figure*, and
'ifwtftMt*, CMli of * hi. II carries a bugu
ivory tusk, which is hollowed out and
die orates! with liui.li. se ear Vlug*. I'll!*
gilt is pionuuu.ed by eSpclt* In he the
' itiiMl liiitsl. iplti. U of li.itiitcse
.|TI industry which ha* ever leashed
l.afupi.. - Ksa York IV»t.
Terms—Sl.2s in Advance; 51.50 after Three Months
SCIENTIFIC AMI INDUSTRIAL.
E'ectric welding is now applied to
the work of manufacturing iron wheels.
Zinc expands up to the melting point.
A bar of zinc six inches long
will cxpanu 1 1-100 of an inch in rais
ing the temperature 100 degrees F.
The average mortality of unmarried
men between the ages of twenty and
twenty-fivo is 1174 in every 100,000,
while that of married men is only
snr.
It is stated that a Gorman firm has
perfected a means of making a profitable
disposition of sawdust. An acid is
mixed with the sawdust and tho wholo
mass molded into blocks or any other
form, resulting in a fine material for
building purposes.
A new machine is being used in
England to level the tips and nails in
the bottoms of boots and shoes and to
produce a fine polish and finish hitherto
impossible by hand work. The machine
is arranged to run by power and is firmly
placed on an iron base, with counter
shafting and pulleys.
A design of an electric boat, pro
pelled by a sea-water battery, has been
exhibited before the French Academy of
Sciences. The battery plates are uuder
the boat, in the form of a keel, and the
current generated drives a motor oper
ating the screw. The plates (copper or
zinc) are raised or lowered by means of
pulleys.
lu the Electricity Building at the
World's Fair, Chicago, there will be
forty thousand panes of glass, or more
than in any other exposition structure.
This building will be especially con
spicuous at night, as, owing to its ex
tensive glass surface, the brilliancy of
its electrical exhibit will be strikingly
visible from the outside.
Thomas Median says that striking
variations in plants occur at times sud
denly by bud variation as well as .by
seeds. The curled-leaved weeping
willow suddenly assumed this character
on a tree of the ordinary kind; the red
sweet potato is also a bud variation from
the ordinary white variety; the double
flowered tuberose is believed to have
originated by bud variation.
One of tho most attractive of the ex
hibits at the Frankfurt Exposition is
that in which the process of manufactur
ing the celebrated Sevres china is shown
to the public. Bohemian girls, attired
in their national costume, manipulate
the plastic clay and wax int* ':!e—like
leaves ami birds. The mass is theu
placed in a furnace and the heat- is so
regulated as to solidify the substance
without the least fracture. A second
furnace evaporates all that is left of the
wax, leaving a very friable dead white
cliin.i flower. On this the coloring artist
reproduces the delicate shading of the
natural flower ami the article is again
placed in the furnace to burn the color.
A Philadelphia scientist has made an
analysis of the brains of a gorilla, and
the results of his investigation are calcu
lated to give little comfort to those who
have maintained there is only a ''missing
link" between man and the gorilla in the
chain of evolution. It was found that
the brain of the gorrilla was really of a
much lower order of dcvelopemcut than
that of the ourang-autaug or the chim
panzee. The gorilla's frontal lobe, in
stead of being round and convex, was
pointed and concave, and the lower
portion of tin- brain, visible lu the
chimpanzee at well as man, is missing.
Tht! gorilla, instead of standing at the
head of tin monkey tribe, is lower than
nt least two other members of it.
No Wonder Indians Are Ikying Out.
Tho conversation hail drifted onto
Indians, and apropos of the topic a lum
berman in the office remarked that at tho
last camp on I'rairie Kiver, from which
he had just returned, he had seen a
goodly group of these noble aborigines
camped near the lumber shanties.
"They cum* to look after a horse," said
he. "Lost a horse/" "No,we lost one;
got killed, ami they came down to cut
him up." "What fort" "Why, to eat
him. I'bey stayed right by the carcass
and hung up ami driud every pouud of
meat ou him. IJucer low they found it
out The horse hadn't been dead twenty
four hours before the whole tribe were
after him. crows cou <in't have done bet
ter."
"That's nothin said an old logger
standing by. "Last winter six horses
died in our caiup o( episootic, and I'll
be hanged if they didn't pick the l.onei
of every one of theui clean. There is no
trouble in accounting for the rapid re
duction of the Indian |>opu!atloii when
you know wiiat ihey eat. Minneapolis
(Mlliu.) Lumberman
I'rnlt Price* lii I'iuueer Hays.
The i trly fruit growers of Oregon had
a wonderful market for a few years at
San Kraut two. I u IHM 500 bushels ot
apples were shipped from Oregon to
California, aud returuvd a u«t pr.illt of
rmmll.Sot- s'ipu pound. iu IMS
the shiftmen.* rose to tIMM bush«U,
will, h K' 'ld at froiu »-> to #.'ln a bushel,
lu th<- shipments rose to"1" 000
bone*. Even tu tin* year big prise* were
received, and lor t holee fruit laoey tig*
ures Here M ,lllcl, on- lv ol K*«pU»
■pit*, ill* I -illtin for #*o. I'lle t ill
lotlitalis pi. ,t. I tppU 1n.., sui att'i
!*#•» lite shipment ol t,.pl. . Horn Of
I _* to d*s 111.. Apple lalsin,; was
inn pi. >liM I lie lb in 'ld mining for the
lust i.all I u yeais of the iu.ln.lir it
Oiv."ii i kOu n '"t'l Until.
NO. 29,
WHEN THE COWS COMB HOM*.
With the klingle, klangle,
Far down the dusky dingle
The cows are coming home.
Now sweet and clear, and faint and low, *" *
The airy tinklings come and go,
I>ike chimlngs from a far off tower.
Or pntterings of an April Bhower
That makes the daises grow.
Koling, kolang, kolingelingle.
Far down the darkening dingle
The cows comes slowly home. w
And old time friend 3 and twilight playa,
And starry nights and sunny days.
Come trooping up the misty ways
When the cows come home.
With jingle, jangle, jingle.
Soft tones that swelling mingle,
The cows are coming home;
Malvine, and Pearl and Florimel,
DeKamp, Red Hose and Gretchen Schell,
Queen Be«s and Sylph and spangled Sue,
Across the field I hear their 100-o-o
And clang of silver bell.
Goling, golang, golingelingle, j
With faint, far sounds that mingle.
The cows come slowly home.
And mother songs of long gone years,
And baby joys and childish tears, ,
And youthful hopes and youthful fears.
When the cows come home.
With ringle, rangle, ringle,
By twos and threes and single,
The cows are coming home. j
Through violet air we seethe town.
And the summer sun a-skipping down,
And the maple in the hazel glade
Throws down the path a longer shade.
And the hills are growing browu
Toring, torang, toringleringle.
By threes and fouis and single,
The cows come slowly home.
The same sweet sound of wordless psalm.
The same sweet June-day rest and calm.
The same sweet smell of buds and balm,
When the cows come home.
With tinkle, taukle, tinkle.
Through fern and periwinkle,
The cows are coming home;
A-loitering in the checkered stream,
Where the sun's rays glance and gleam,
Clarine, Penehbloom, Pbebe and Phillis,
Stand knee-deep in the creamy lilies.
In a drowsy dream.
Tolink, tolank, tolinklelinkie,
O'er banks with buttercups a-twinkla,
The cows come slowly home.
And up through memory's deep ravine
Come the brook's old song and its old-time
sheen,
And the crescent of the silver queen,
W hen the cows come home.
With klingle, klangle, klingle,
With 100-oo and moo-oo and lingle.
The cows are coming home;
And over there, on the Merlin hill.
Sounds tbe plaintive cry of tho whip-poor
will.
And the dew-drops lie 011 the tangled vines,
And over the poplars Venus shines
And over the silent mill.
Koling, kolang, kolinglelingle, - ;''J
With a ting-a-ling and a jingle.
The cows come slowly home.
Let down the bars, let in the train '
Of long-gone song and flowers and rain.
For dear old times come back again
When the cows come home.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Startling figures—Ghosts.
A catch phrase—Sick hira I
A man may be lantern-jawed anil yet
his face never light up.—Kaston Free
Press.
The astronomer who has made a tele
scopic discovery is naturally proud of his
good looks.
The moon is above all human follies
ami always looks down on lovers.—El
ulira Gazette.
A coal dealer cau't be a musician. Ho
can never learn to ruu the scale accurate
ly,—liinghutntou Republican.
The most dangerous "charge of tho
light brigade" is that made by the gas
office clerk.—Columbus l'ost.
When i man is "beside himself" he
generally demonstrates that he doesn't
like the company.—Bostou Courier.
Plenty »>f tall men are "short," loose
men • 'tight," cod men "warm" and big
men "small."-—Puiladelpbia Record.
From the prescriptions of some physi
cian-., it is evident that they have for
gotten their boyhood.—Columbus Pott.
"Will the coining uiau use both
arlus?" 'itki u scientist. "\cs, if he
cau trust lite girl to handle the reius."—«•
Pitilndclphia Press.
Prominence has its drawbacks. The
drum major doesn't see Bear aa much of
the parade as the man ou the curbitoue.
—lndianapolis News.
Anarchist—"We espeul to argue our
CHUM with bombs, sir!" tjuiet Cilumi
—"A bomb, my friend, is an argument
that has been > iploded long ago."-
Chicago Inborn
Jut won (at the restaurant) —"Waiter,
givi me some chicken »alid anil a bottle
of ioda " Jagsoa— "Give me tbe
same.'' Jobson (who is from ll«*tou>—
"Kv use me; it cannot be the * -tine
say, similar."- -Shoe and latallitn lie
porter.
Kutlini li—."How is that little luiuing
scheme of your ifettiu.. aloug I Any
uuu>«) ill u " VN • cub it "Auy money
in it' • 1,1 sbuiihl -ay an! All of
mine, ■ I 1 •( lit) * lie's, >iittl about tifty
ihumoul 1 lu»t I got I rum my frien.l»" -
Huston I i.uiiei
A W«i|bl # >'ai« envoy to Aftlca as
tomsbtil the uaitvvs wtlb *u t.<tis»u
|/hi>ii.>(|is|>b and talking dolU.