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If we strlvo to lift the gloom From a dark and burdened life If wo seek to lull tho storm O." our fallen brother's strife; If wo bid nil liato and scorn i From tho spirit to depart— | Tho' 'tis winter in tho sky, Yet 'lis summer in tho heart' —George Cooper, in Sunday School Timdi. GRANDPA I'INNKY'S MOVING BY BELLS C. GREENE. H ilonr, Almok'!" cx claimed Mrs. I!bd- I gcra to her ausbijud sii&i.'■*.. H "' lO Slay moiniuias B (the bustled] nbiut the Uitchon.'Jl d,.j.'t "ce how in thfi in rid rm cvcr io v get through kith ill my spriiig kori.l— cleaning and everything! If i lidii't have to keep one eye ou gril.'jin I could do more. Seems us if lie gr* AV worse and worne." She paused with a nigh. Hey In s band waited silently for more. "When the peddler called ho was setting quiet as a iamb by tie stove, with the eat iu his lap, kind if playing with her, so I ventured to ptt up garret and pick over the rags— t makes such a litter down here—ani when 1 got hack grau'pu was still sc - ting iliero and fast asleep. I thougLft everything was all right, but conic t> aiaUo my lire for dinner a few mluutt, after, there was an awful towsing an\ mewing iu tho oven. I opened till door and cut jumped (he cat! ]( there*d been a hot lire he'd douo just] the same I suppose!" Abner, who v.-as sitting by tho table looking over a lot of garden-seeds fur the spring sowm;.', laughed shortly and shrugged his shoulders. "i'ou know what I think nbout gran'pa's doings," lie said ; "you know where I think folks had ought to gig when they lose their faculties and nr< no good to themselves nor auybodvl else." "Now, Abner," said his wife, re proachfully, "don't say you'd send gran'pu to the pool-house! Thiol; what a good mail he's been, and what a smart man. How can you be so un feeling! You wouldn't want your children to do so by you, iu your aid ago." "I sha'n't probably outlive my use fulness, "answered Abner, coldly." "My father worked till tho very day of ins death—moro'n paid his keep till the i last." "And father I'inney lias airenlv moro than paid liis keep, if ho livei to bo a hundred, and you know it!" re turned his wife, indignantly. "Am always lay out to forget that he's slve us tho old place!" "Well," said Abner, "I sha'n't liire help at present; wo can't afford to, uot while we liavo such an exptiso a-going ou iu tho family." Her father, when lie came to livo with them, had made over to Alner the old homestead, the "PinUoy I'laee," as it was called. It was a good farm lying adjacent to thoirs, but the house was old mid of little value. 80, also, was tho house they now occupied, and the plan was to tell tho "Pi iUcy I'laeo" and with the money buiil a new house where their owu now Lilt Abner seldom elioso to rei.iem bcr tho ample provision grandpa had made for his support, and on this oc cusiou, instead of replying te his wife's reminder, lie picked up a pack age of early lettuce seed, aud skirted off. At tho door he turned, liovever, and said, perhaps with somo idea of encouraging hoi" "Ain't it about time for grnu'pa's May-moving? He won't be round un derfoot so much when ho gets up in his tree." "I hope ho won't go. I hope he's forgot all about it," slio said, anxious ly. "1 tell you, Abner, it isn't safe and it isn't respectable for an old man liko father to sleep outdoors in a treo ! Seems us if I couldn't have him do it again." She dashed tho tears away from her eyes as her husband went out. "I do wish I could ever learn to hold my tongue, complaining to Ab ner I" she exclaimed, bitterly. "He always blames everything off on to gran'pa, and that's all tho good it does. It's u burning shame I can't liavo help through house-eleunin'; but if gran'pa 'll only givo up his May moving this year I won't say another word—not if I work my fingers to tho bone!" Two years before, when tiio spring oamo round, Grandpa f'iiiuoy had taken a queer freak into his head. As Abner expressed it. "ho gut cranky on air." When tho weather groiv warm, and tho trees loafed out and tho birds began to sing iu their branches, the old man became strangely restless and uneasy, talked incoherently about "stifling" and "smothering," and in sisted 011 having all the doors an I windows in tho houso wido opon. Later ou, ho soomed unwilling to stay in tho houso at all, ami moved his armchair out under tho great twin oaks across the road. There he spout most of his time, reading his largo print Testament or watching the birds aud looking contentedly off over the pleasant fields. Tliey hail hard work to get him in doors for his meals. The idea of sleeping outside, however, hud not then occurred to him. This was two years ago; the next year, not content with silting under the trees, he built a sort of rude plat- form around them, just below where the main branches joined the trunks, and made some steps to lead up to it Then on tho last day of May, which was unusually warm for the season, in spito of his daughter's coaxing and scolding, ho insisted on dragging his bed and bedding up there. A singlo chair and his Testament completed the furnishing. From that time on, not only did ho spend his days in tho tree chamber, but ho actually slopt thcro at night. Nothing but a smart shower could drive him into the house. What seemed strange, no harm came to him from the exposure. Ho did not get the terrible colds and rheu matism that Bel iuda had feared; on tho contrary, ho seemed to grow stronger ami happier every day. And oho found she cutild accomplish twico as much work. It was true, as Abner jin d said, "he was out of her way;" still, she did not feel quite easy about him. It seemed a dreadful thing to have her old father sleeping out there alone in tho darkness of the night! So she anxiously hoped that he would not think of going this year. But a few days after tho recorded conversation, Belinda came homo from an crrund to a neighbor's house, to find that the "May-m viug" had taken place. Abner, who had been a wit ness to tho proceeding, only said, carelessly: "Let him lie, he's all right; nothing happened to him last year." What finally reconciled Belinda more than anything else was a remark her father mado in his rambling way, which gave her new insight into his feeling. "Bolindy, darter," ho said, 'don't hendor me. Everything is freo out of-doors, free and welcome." Sho knew theu that lie realized how grudgingly ho was housed und fed. His withdrawal from the house seemed but a natural iustinct, tho protest of his self-respect. After that sho could not oppose him farther. Bhe allowed him tho most perfect freedom to come and go as he liked. "God 'll take care of him, as Ho docs of the birds and tho rest of His creatures," she said to herself, trust fully. One day Abner came ill very much elated. "Belindy!" ho exclaimed, 'what should you say to un oiler of four thousand dollars for tho old placo! What kind of an offer is that, hey?" and he rubbod his hands in great sat isfaction. "I should say it was a bouncing good offer, aud you'd better take it." said his wife. He went ou excitedly to tell her the particulars. "Aud now, Abner," sho said pres ently, ill her coaxing way, "I do hope you'll try and feel a little moro pa tient with grand'pa. Just think of all that money coming to us through him!" "Tho best of it is," oontinuod Abner, who just now could think of nothing but the mouey, "tho best of jit is, Bolindy, it's going to bo paid llown! So all I've got to do is to clap it iuto the bank, aud lot it stay till after tho crops aro iu. Then We'll begin tho now house right away —have it all douo mid ready to move iuto by spring!" "Aud when wo get into the new bouse, we're going to hnvo Mary and tho baby come home to livo with us, ain't we? You know you've prorn ieeil," reminded his wife, bout on tak ing nil possible advautago ot her un usual opportunity. Mary, their only daughter, had Harried a poor man, and was now a vidow, supporting herself and child y working in tho factory in a distant town. To have her child and griud •liild at home with her had long boon ho wish of tho mother's heart; but jjor husband bad always put her off. "Wait till we get iuto the new louse, " he had always said. "Theu tpereTl be more room." But sho had tared that he never really meant to ftmsent. Now, to her astonishmont ilid delight, he uuswerod good naturedly : "Yes, yes; let 'em come!" His good luck soemed to have Vanned his heart, and made him for ilii'o fatherly and benevolent. Tho next day tho mail who had Ipuglit tho Finney farm paid to Abner tho jirioe in lull—four thousand collars; moro money than either Abner or his wife haa ever seen bo fore. Iu the midst of tlieir joyful excite meut, they were both suddenly struel with mi anxious fear. Since Abue coulil not take the money to the bau till the next day, where should the; put it for safe-keeping through til) uight? After much deliberation thoy di ciiled to hide it in a little cupboarl over tho mantel in tho parlor, anl accordingly, whilo Belinda tiptoed t > the window aud mado sure no ono wai nigh to see, Abner wrapped the mono? carefully in a large baudunua handler - chief, and put it iu a dark corner if tho cupboard. Several times Abner left his wode aud Btole into tho parior to niako sire that the money was safe, and as ofl u questioned nervously as to whether they had chosen tho best hiding place; but finally he concluded to kit it remain. "I shouldn't supposo anybody world be likoly to look there for mo in y; they'd bo more apt to think I hai! it under my pillow," he said that nigit. "At any rate, we've got to run he risk of losing on it wherever we ;Ut it." Thus philosophizing they went to bod, and notwithstendingtheir anxiety, slept soundly, as hard working poiplo aro wont to do. Well along toward morning (hoy botli nwoko with a terrible feeling of suffooatiou. The room was full of smoke! They sprang out of bed, to sco the dames already bursting through tko door opening into tko parlor. "The money! the money !" screamed Abner, frantically, anil rushed into flames, only to bo driven quickly back. Ho flew outdoors and round to tho parlor windows, hoping to gain en trance there ; but ho was too late. Tho whole house seemed to bo in flames; it burned like tinder. Ilefore any of tho neighbors wcro aroused, beforo Abner and his wifo thought of anything but tho money, tho whole liouso and all it contained was gone—money, furniture, clothing —everything gone in a night! At llrsfc the thought of his loss drovo Abner almost wild. Ho raved like a madman, and his wife looked into his fuce in speechless agony. What could she say? How was sho to comfort a man liko him for the loss of his projierty ? She did not think: of herself for a moment; she only fob | for him. But all she could do was to prry silently that God would uiercifuly help him to bear his griof. And at if in answer to her liumblo prayer a miracle began then and thero to bo worked in Abncr's sordid soul. WJlo he sat 011 tho great ckopping-blocJin tho dooryard, in tho midst of the ruin of his hopes, gradually his m.sory sccmod to abate. Tho sun had risen, the birds ivero twittering in the trees, and by inid by tho cows came up the lane one ky one of their own aceord to tlio m Iking. Tho old horso anil tho colt in tlio fielil, put their heads over tho fenoo and whinnied, and finally tho great roostoi strutted up quite close to Abacr and crowed encouragingly. Abner, looking uj> into his wife's face, almor,t, smiled. "1 forgot tho creatures," ho saiil, slowly. "They're left to us—anil there's tho land. If wo only had the money to build the new house with I wouldn't care." "Nevermind; wo shrill get along somehow. I reckon tho Lord'll pro vide," she answered cheerfully. "Belindy," said Abner, tremulously, "the worst of it is I deserve it all. Aud see here," hesitating and speaking with evident effort, "I—l'm afraid I've got nobody but myself to blame for the lire. Uelindy—l suppose—it was my own hand that set that fire. You sec I went into the parlor just at dusk to make sure tho money was safe be fore going to bed, and not contented with feeling it, I lit a match to see. I expect tbnt match done the mischief; it must be ! And I believe it's a judg ment upon me, too. "Yes/' ho sobbed, breaking down entirely now, "yes, I've been a grasp ing, wicked inau, and now granpa's money—" At t/iie mention of grandpa Belinda sprang up with a cry, and hastened to the chamber in the tree, closely fol lowed by her husband. Iu their sel fish grief they had quito forgotten graij lpa! Was ho safe? They clambered quickly up the stops and reached tho lauding. There on the bed lay tho old man, still sleeping. He was a very sound sleeper always, and evidently the tiro had not wakened him. Asthey looted upon him, the thou,?lit of what would probably have boon his fate bad be been slooping iu the bouse, irudo tboir blood run cold. "We should have forgot Him—and wo couldn't have Eavcd him, anyway!"' thov said. While they stood there bo awolce. Seeing bis unusual visitors, be sat up in bed and rubbed his eyes, a littlo bewildered; then suddenly a wonder fully bright expression illumined bis diia old face, and bo luugbed aloud. "I know, llelindy. Ihaint forgot!" be chuckled, and slipping his band under the pillow, bo drew out the bundle done up in tbo bandanna thut they bad bidden in tbo parlor cup board, and delivered it over to Be linda. "I knew it would bo safest here with :ae," ho explained simply. "Thieves don't never look up in tho trees for money." They built the new house, and grandpa's room wns the largest and best room in it. Mary and tbo baby came home to live, and mother an.l daughter did the housework together easily. The next year grandpa forgot all about bis May-moving. Ho was con tented aud happy in tbo now bouse, wliero he now found everything "freo and welcome." But bo still likes liis chamber in tbo tree, and sits there often of a summer afternoon, poring reverently over bis Testament or gaz ing up through tbo trees, dreaming perhaps of boaveu.—Youth's Compan ion. Bicycles ior Horses. Why couldn't wo bavo horse bi cycles? It wouldn't bo much oxpenso. Tbo poor horses shouldn't bo askod to walk iu this day of universal wrig gling ou wheels. Think of tbo fun 1 Iu crossing a street it is so diverting now, after long planning, to succeed in dodgiug fivo or six wagons, aud ditto electric cars, only to bo run down by a snoakiug bioyelo that was not in sight when you started. But bow fast and furious tbo fun would grow if wo could ouly put all horses on wheels, too—a sort of swift-travel ing trend-mill nrraugoment. This needed reform should prooood at oner. —Boston Transcript. A Thirsty Stone. A now kind of wliito hydrophanft has been found iu Colorado, which is remarkable for its power of absorbing liquids. When water is dropped slowly upon it, it becomes chalky aud then, by degrees, perfectly transpar ent. It lias been named tbo "magic stone,'' and is coming into uso by jew elers for lockets, to conceal photo graphs or other objects which the wearer may wish only to reveal at pleasure. —New York tress. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS, TO MAKE MUSTARD. j Four heaping tcaspoonfuls" of mns lard, ti toaspoonful of sugar and a half a toixpoonful of salt. Mix theso iu gred ents together thoroughly and add boil ng water, u little at a time, till it is Kaootli and thick. Then add a tciut teaspoonfulof vinegar.—Detroit Fr.e Press. KALSOMINING. Kalsomining, or wall coloring in ustemper, is best done when walla re not too cold or too hot. It may e done any time during tho winter, o that the walla do not freeze. Thcro are a good many preparations put up for this purpose nnd called by various names.. However, if you aro where you cannot procuro this, it may bo prepared in tho following manner: White—To ten pounds of best whiting use 1$ pounds of whito glue, half a pound alum anil a little ultramarine blue. Put the glue iu cold water, set it ou tho lire and stir until dissolved. Tut a half a gallon of hot water over tho whiting, and when dissolved add the glue, the blue anil the alum, which must also bo dissolved in hot wutor. Stir the mixturo well anil run through a sieve. For lirst coating this may bo used whilo hot, but the other coats must bo cold. If your color works too stiff, a littlo soap will help. All colors anil shades aro mado by udiling tho dry colors. Before kalsomining, tho cracks and nail holes should bo filled with plaster of paris. Mix this with paste, and it will not dry so quickly. If you have a good brush auil work as quickly as possible to avoid laps, you will have a good job of i kalsomining. A nice stencil border run around tho top of tho wall makes a neat finish. SALADS IN SEASON. Beef Salad, With Tomatoes—Scallop or trim in slices some cold boiled or braised beef; pare tho pieces round shapoil, and Heason with salt, pepper, oil anil vinegar; also very finely cut up chervil anil chives; lav all on n plato or salad bowl, giving it a dome shape, and garnish around tho salad with peeled und quartered tomatoes. Asparagus Salad—Cut tho tender parts of asparagus into pieces of equal length and tie them in bunches; then cook them in salted water anil leave them to get cold. A few minutes be foro serving mix them in a bowl with a third of their quantity of pared crawfish tails; season with salt and pepper ; rub through a sieve the yolks of six hard boiled eggs, dilute this with oil and vinegar, and pour over this sauce the asparagus and crawfish ; then arrange tho salad symmetrically in a salad bowl and add the seasoning to it. Herring Salad With Potatoes—Wash four salted herrings, soak them in milk for several hours, then drain and dry them ; remove tho fillets and cut them into half inch squares; cut into three-eighths inch squares, eight ounces of cooked potatoes; add a four ounce apple, peeled and cored, then mince very fino half a pound of roasted veal, cut in quarter inch squares, u tour ounce pickled beetroot, cut iu three-sixteenth inch squares and four ounces of salt cucumbers, cut equally into quarter inch squares. Put into a salad bowl tho potatoes, herrings, apples and veal; season with oil unci vinegar, a little hot water and broth, salt, pepper, mustard, and somo chopped chives, all well mixed; smooth tho surface with a knife, and decorato it with anchovy fillets,pickled led cucumbers, beets, capers, pickled cherries, and the yolks and whites of hard boiled eggs, chopped up very fine ; also somo chopped parsley. Chicken Salad, American Stylo— Cook a four pound chicken in somo stock ; the time allowed for this varies considerably according to tho age of the chicken, but tho usual length of time is about two hours. When th? chicken is dono put it into u vessel; pour its own broth over it aud let it cool therein ; remove it and begin by lifting off all tho skin and white parts from the breasts; cut tho meat into dice from five to six eighths of an inch, and lay them in a bowl, seasoning with suit, pepper, oil and vinegar. Chicken salad may bo prepared cither with lettuce or celery, the latter being generally preferred. Chooso fine whito celery, wush it well, drain and cat it across iu one-eighth of an inch thick pieces or else iu Julienne; dry them in a cloth to absorb all of tho water remaining in them. Put at tho bottom of a salad bowl intended for the tablo somo salt, pepper, oil and vinegar; mustard can be uddod, if desired; mix tho seasoning in with tho celery. Lay tho pieces of cliickcu on top and cover the wholo with a layer of mayonnaise sauce; decorate tho surface with quartered hard boiled eggs, anchovy lillets, olivcH, capers aud beets; placo somo lettuce leaves around and a fine lettuce heart in the center. Japanese Salad—Cook soino pooled potatoes in broth, cut two pounds of thcui in slices while still warm and season them with salt, popper, olive oil, vinegar, ohovil chives, tarragon, shallot, parsley and bur not, allliuoly and separately chopped up. Cook some mussels with mincod ouion3, branches of celery, mignonette, but no salt, adding 11 vinegar and water ; set them ou a good lire, toss them frequently and when douosothat they open, take theni from the shells and cut away their foot or black ap pendage. Put the potatoes in a bowl, with one pound of tlio mussels, or else very small clams may bo substituted; stir the 111 up lightly and dress in a salad bowl. Sot the salad in a cold place for one hour, and when serving mix in the trulUes. —New York Herald. The island of Ceylon is the most ro marlrible gem deposit in the world. ASIDE from the fact that the l cheap baking powders contain alum, which causes indigestion and other serious ailments, their use is extravagant. It takes three pounds of the best of them to go as far as one pound of the Royal Baking Powder, be cause they are deficient in leavening gas. There is both health and econ omy in the use of the Royal Baking Powder. ROYAL RAKING POWDER CO., 10G WALL ST., NEW-YORK. A Sign of Pressure. Among the signs that the high pressure at which American profes tional and business men are living is idling upon them, the great increase in the number of sofas and couches to bo used in offices is very interest ng to the student of nerves and tervous diseases. 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