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' THE TRUANT. ; ' , if !:- " f tarried Id dreamland tola morn Ins?, and by 1 aaw on a cloud thatHtung over tbo weat Some Kbool cbUdreo romping with facea aglow, On tbelrwlnd drVtedcaoipua wlthjuvenueaest Their laughter rang out and was borne to my ear, - Aa tfiey ran wltb UsUt tud b et to-vaporoue i it plain, A i J..i . : ? And the sound Of theroiW u HolLUto and ciar,' 51 mv - ' Brou)it me back to the days of my childhood .. . again, , . , . ... . But I atoned and ganped and cried out In iurprlae, When the bright tinted picture awung nearer to view, -A And I aaw, through tbateara that welled up to my . ' eyes, - - - f -Vf" t . The matea ot my youth Jn that; rollicking erew( ThaM was Tom.' my old seat mate, hla face brlm- . . mingoer' ..- , With the mlaoblef that lurked Iri his brown, r, f-i t ourly bead, 4w--4, And good Godfrey miyard and bad Bobby Moore, And Jerry and Byron and brave hearted Fred. L - v And there with the rest was my twin brother Ben, . Wno fell at Bull Run in the thick of the fight, And sweet Nettie Chase, looking rosy aa when . We found a red ear at the husking that night, . And now came the teacher, with time frosted nalr, , v i- And the old, kindly' gloatn to Tils sober, gray eyes. ... - And the loud, tinkling summons rang."out on the air.- - - And the group disappeared thro' . A rift In the ! ' skies. '.;'.:.' ,; ..'.'' x':- Tls the breakfast bed ringing I wake with a - sigh, ' ' ;t To wonder what lessons of Infinite worth Mt schoolmates aro learning up there in the sky. While I'm "playing hookey" down here on the earth. ' ? j - Detroit Frof Press. . LITTLE CANTEElf. In the winter of 1861, 1 lay sick in an army hospital, and was worn near ly to skin, and bone by one of those dread , diseases of the camp that has Slain more soldiers than cither bullets or steel. . ' ' In this state. of being; Ijfett likea burden, and scarcely gave more than a' feeble smilo of gratitude when in formed by the surgeon in charge that it had been decided to send mo home as a chance of recovery.; ; - ''. ' J . i But jafter I got on board the cars at Richmond, And the"- train rolled out from the depot, J began to look about me, and as I did so my spirits rallied somewhat, and I rejoiced in the feel ing that home with All of its endear ing associations would soon be reach ed, and there I would get that rest And . loving attention which one finds no where else, so perfectly. And thAt jf my disease could not be conquered, I would At least have the consolation of dying amongst my loved ones. ' -. The train was a . long one, and crowded to its utmost capacity. ' Sol diers off on a spree, impuaant and up roarious; sick and wounded soldiers, pale, feverish and pain racked; here a smart commissary, there a vermin in fested rough from the front; yonder an anxious, sad eyed woman taking her boy home to die, further on a young beauty afnrid of the soldiers and their rough jokes, and yet half courting their notice all sorts and oonditious mixed together, but alj, from the old gray heads to the young est prattlers, ugrecd in one thing, vtt. t undying devotion to the Southern Confederacy. v We were soon past Petersburg, and a little later were rushing., through North Carolina, k-avii'g some passen gers and taking up ottiers as we sped from station to station; but the same general description of my fellow trav elers that I have just given would hold good from beginning to end of the journey. , : ... We were past Weldon how far I can't exactly say and it was late in the night when I was awakened from an uncomfortable nap by the jerking of the train as.it started olf after one of jta -numerous- stoppages. I looked out. to see where we were. It was a wood and water station, and standing on oue end of the wood rack there was a little boy. He was peering for ward into, the car windows as the train slowly moved by.-; I would have thought no more of the'eircumstance, iut almost, next moment the rear door of the car' was opened, and the some boy that 1 had seen on the wood rack came timidly forward. "Why, sonny " 1 said, ''where did you come from? i " . "Out yonder," pointing into the darkness. . know that mncb jdread vfor if Pm 'not mislaken you are the same boy I ' saw out on the wood rack just now, ain't you?" . . ; lie nodded assent. '. "WelL where did you come from before that! Don't bo afraid i. come here and tell me about it," - The boy looked at me, ami seemed to be reassured by my manner and ex pression, for he came forward without any further hesitation to the place at my side, which I had beckoned him to take. - Every bodyelse in the car Appeared to be asleep. Bo no one besides myself bad observed his entrance. lie was a handsome little feUow, but his clothes were torn and dirty, and he limped like one who had been on a long tramp. I. repeated my question, and he re- Elied that be hud come from Charles n. ''From Charleston r I exclaimed in astonishment. "Why, how In the world did you get this far from Char leston by yourself , -. 'l walked." . :' "Now, look here, my little man," I said rebukingly, "do yon know where the story tollers go? I declare, said be his blue eyes swimming in tears, "I'm telling: you the truth I am not telling you a "VelL weli, dont cry, bub 111 take your word for it; and where were you going?". "To Virginia, to find my papa." I puckered up my mouth for a long whittle, but as that would be express ive of diaUlitf, And as 1 didn't want to ribk hurling the little fellow again, 1 restrained myself, and proceeded to draw Lis story from him.. "11 you aw going U Virginia," said 1 in u kind toi.e, "you aro on the wrong train this u takuig us back to CbariialAtt." - 1 know llu:t, sir; but I dou't want to go to Virginia now I want to go back home. ' ; " "Ah, has your heart failed you, my little man?" : "No sir, 'tain't that; but I met a man .today who said he knew my papa, and he told me that he bad gone home on furlough." I was amused by the child's simple faith in the assurance of a stranger, but as. I thought home would be the best place for him, I said nothing to stagger that faith, but contented my- self with questioning him as to his history. ' His name was Harry Binton, And he had reached the mature age of 10, his mother had been dead two years, his father had enlisted at the outbreak of .the wart and had left him to the care OI reiatjvus, wuu uuu uui uccu ycijf kind to him, and he had run away from thorn with the intention of mak ing his way to his father in Virginia. I was irreatlv impressed by the ooy's j intelligence and courage, for it had certainly required extraordinary de termination id sustain such a mere child amid all the perils of such a trip as he had undertaken. I thought of the horrors that would naturally rise up before the inexperienced trfind of a child whilst wandering alone through woods and 'fields that were new and strange; I thought of the inevitable weariness of .the long journey on foot, of the pangs of hunger, and of All the dangers ok the WAy, And impulsively exclaimed: "Why, Harry, you are a' little hero.",- When the conductor made his next round through the tiain, I paid the little fellow! fare, and as he was evidently very tired, I repressed my own weariness and weakness, and gave up the best part of the seat in order to make him as comfortable as circumstances would permit, . : After a while day dawned, and we got some. breakfast, Harry eating as if famished.; I told his story to several of. Our f traveling .corapauioiis, and they all seemed' interested in him, ami quite a group gathered Around us to hear the little fellow recite the history of his wanderings. He told us that he had kept to the line of railway as much as possible, and had traveled at the rate of from eight to ten miles A day. He hod avoided the dwelling houses of .the planters, and had ob tained food and shelter mainly from the negroei for the child was shrewd enough to know-that they would not be as apt to hinder his progress as the whites for the latter would undoubt edly have stopped him and sent him back to Charleston. 1 promised him that I would look up his father on my arrival in Char leston, and with that assurance he seemed perfectly content, and amused himself in the usual fashion of boys for tho rest of the journey. By the time we reached Charleston the journey had so exhausted my strength lluil I left the train more dead than alive, and when my mother clasped me to hxsr bosom, her joy over my return was chilled by tho gloomy anticipations which my appearance aroused, and her very llrst movement was. to gut mo comfortably in bed, and then set oil at once for our fumily physician. . He came at once, and calmed her fours by the assurance that rest and good . nursing would bo sure to null mo througlu ' "We'll have him strong enough, to eat two more rations before lour," he laughingly remarked as he left the bot'.so. But notwithstanding that the home nursing did greatly beuellt me. I was till for some days too weak and ill to givo much attention to my promise to little Harry. ' My brother ascertained for mo that no such name as Binton was register ed at any of tho hospitals. lie also inquired for the fumily with whom Harry li& been staying before ho ran away, but they could not be fouud. . My mother and sisters were too much concerned about me to think much about anything else, and it was tacitly understood that Harry would just rcmaiu . quietly with us until I had gained sufficient strength to hunt up those to' whom he belonged. 1 had been homo perhaps ten days, perhaps longer, when the quiet of my sick chamber was interrupted by the direful calamity that bcfcQ the city I mean the great Qro that swept from riVer to river, and in a few awf aud never to be ' forgotten hours rendered hundreds of people houseless, home less and penniless. It is not my purpose to describe the origin, extent and incidents of the fire. I could not if I would, for 1 saw too little of it to do so; but I well remem ber the scared, white faces of my mo ther and sisters as the lire gained in extent and rapidity. I had been in great pain all day, and had been put under the influence If an opiate; and although rny room was lighted by the glare until it was bright as noonday, and I heard from time to time the frightened exclamations of those who stood at the wiudows, still I did not fully realize the extent of tbe danger. - My brother came in late iu the night, his eyebrows and mustache singed olf, his clothing burned in many "places. "This is awful," said lie. "It looks like the whole town is going." "Let her go," said L, with drowsy inditfereuce. , He looked at me, shrugged his shoulders, and went eJt again. How long ho was gone 1 do not knowj but ere his return our situation became a critical one, for the fire was making iu way rapidly in ourdirection. Before this we had heard tbe crack ling of the flames and the falling of thu houses, but now the dense volume of the smoke poured down upon us. rhe fiery showers of sparks and cin ders seemed ft!l around about us. and the boarsw shout of the multitude grew nearer to oifr doors. At last, when tho women folk were almost beaicJo themselves with terror, my brother bun-4 in, and said: '"Mother, girls, 1 mutt get you away from here. It's rough on you, old fellow," be said, turning to me, 'to take you out on sucb a ui'ht, but it's cither that or a roaiU" - A few thine were hastily gathered together, a litter was inipron.-d for Luc, uad soiuc'ucw cr other we all got in the streets. I have a Vivid recol lection of a sea of faces, a pandemo nium of noise and confusion, n jolting and pushing forward through the crowd, And At last we out came into a safer and quieter portion of tho town. But tho boy was gone. ' ' ; How it happened none of us could telL but it must have been that my youngest sister, who-had been spe cially in chargo of- hiin when we left the house, had released his hand at somo time or other whilst we were making our way through the crowd and the confusion, and the surging mass had swept him away from us. The shock of it all nearly killed me, and many weeks 1 elapsed before I could muster strength enough to get out of doors. In all this time not one word of Harry was heard, and we gave up the hope of overseeing him again. Finally I grew Btrong enough to return to duty, and in the excite ment of war scenes and incidents lit tle Harry Sinton was forgotten. We wore.on the lines at Petersburg towards the close of the war, and on one occasion 1 had charge of a part of a skirmish line. We held our position in a young pine thicket, but as we were about to be flanked And subjected to An enfilading fire, I asked my men to fall back on the main line of works. As we were in the act of executing this movement, A Minie ball pierced my leg and I fell helpless on tho field. I suffered a- great deal of pain as I lay there, but oh I the pain of tho wound was as nothing in comparison with my suffering for water. How I longed for it, even were it but a single drop I At last I managed to crawl towards a deep ravine, some hundreds of yards distant from the snot where I had fal len, hoping to find there what I pant ed. 1 readied it only to te oisapr pointed, for not a drop was there. Another wounded had crawled to the same spot, led there by the same hope, and we exchanged regrets over our failure. - ' "Oh, if my boy only knew I was here I we would not have to suffer an other minute for water," said my com rade in distress. -' The words were scarcely irpoken when a young boy stood' before us, cauteen in hand. "Father, are you hurt much?" said he. anxiously. . 'I'm afraid so, my son. How did you find mo out?" "The men told mo you were wound ed and down this way somewhere, and so I came hunting you as quick as I could." "God bless you, lad. But give the captain there some water, quick; he is nearly dead for it, as well ns myself." "Isn't that Harry Sinton?" said I, in astonishment, as the boy turned to ward mo to assuage my thirst. Al though my appearance hiul changed greatly for the better, antr I was no longer the pale, emaciated creature that had taken charge of him on tho train, the boy recognized mo at once, and manifested his delight in a way that gratified mo exceedingly. It seemed, from the explanations rtiat followed, that his father was in the crowd on the streets during tho night of the firo in Charleston, and that almost immediately after he be came separated from us, Harry w borne by tho crowd right into Mr. Sinton 's arms. "I had to te away the very next day, and so I wrote- to you, sir, in forming you that I hot! foifnd Hurry, and thanking you for your kindness to him, but-1 never received ply." said Mr. bis narrative of the boy'i-rccovery. "I need hardly tell you, sir, that I would have answered it had I received it. But we ueed uot wonder much at its non-receipt, for we soldier know to our sorrow that the mails go badly astray these day." A few moment later wo were found by the ambulance corps and borao to the rear for surgical treatmcut. Harry went" with us, and at his ournr-Kt re quest we were placed near each other, sothal he might bo nblo to wait npoa both or us without (iitllculty. I learned that he had been with his father continuously since tho night of tho great fire in Charleston, and thut in many a battle the brave litt'e fel low had . gone, canteen in hand, among the wounded and dying, to administer relief to them in thcirtnn guislu He was well known along the lines, and the men called him "the little canteen boy," and this was final ly abbreviated to "LiKle Canteen." My wound proved to be'inore pain ful than serious, and in a day or two I could hobble about very well on crutches. But oor Sinton gradually sank, and one glowing evening I stood by hiin as he jkuirou through the deathflgoiiy. ; ' " When ho knew that tho end was coming, ho called me to Lis side and begged me to tako the boy, r.nd o Harry onco again became my charge. 1 treated liinia sou, and he never disobeyed mo except in one thing, end thr.t v;os in regard to .exposing him self lo danger. He would not remain in the rcur for any consideration when flfhting was going on. Evert tho terrible tiny of the "Crster" did not -dismay" him. And after that glorious chargo. t Mahono's, who should I tee but liarry with hi can teen slung around him taking water to the wounded, In those Last days at Petersburg dis cipline became greatly relaxed. The f tickets of the two armies grew exceed ugly friendly with each other, and KXcbangc of tobacco for northern newspaper were of daily occurrence. Hurry obtained a good stock of the weed, and went heartily into the busi ness of peddling newspaper. He used to walk on top of the breastwork wbilst everything ws quiet and sing out, "Here your Now xork Herald," "Here' your'Tribune," etc 1 did not object to hi doing so, merely caution ing him to get down inside the trench es whenever any firing commenced. Well, one day whilxt be was thus cngajpd, and we on the pert of the line where I was stationed, the picket suddenly commenced firing. 'Icalled hastily to the boy to jump down. He sra about to do so, wueu.a rii's ball pierced Li fair white forehead, and tue g.il!ont c'.iiiJ fell garrpii:g into the uvucbis. 1 gave a yell more like that never received any ce- Binton, a he conceded wffirB,,i?9i i.W .i .1,-'-w.; "1 left it homo, of a wild beast than a man's, And rush ed to his side. HO gave Die one lov ing look' from his gfizing eyes, put out his arms as if to embrace mo, and the next moment was dead. " ' Many of the war scenes in which I ?articipated have long sinco faded rom my recollection; but never until my dying day will I forgat my brave little boy and his untimely death, and deep down-in my heart there is a place sacred to the memory of "poor Little Canteen."- O. M. Douglass in Atlanta American!.' "y ". ; " ' ; y . si,i ' Cans and Effect. '. -X -..- -!' Many things which seem mysteri ous, and serve to puzzle the wisest nien,"tnight be, if the cause and effect were understood, as easy of solution as the question in the following in cident, which is related of Buff on, tho great naturalist. One day he enter tained a company of distinguished savants at dinner, at the conclusion of which they all went out into the garden.- i "' It was a very hot summer's day. In the center of the grounds there stood on a pedaital a largo glass globe, which one' of the guests happened to touch with his hand, when ho found, to his astonishment, that it was waito er on the shady side than on the sido turned toward the sun, ' ' lie communicated this discovery to the other guests, who At once proceed ed to verify the statement What could be the cause? ' ; An animated discussion ensuod, in the course of which every imaginable law of physics was made to account for tho strange paradox. At length our scientists agreed that it must be so, owing to the laws of reflection, re pulsion or. exhalation, or some other law of physics with a long name. : The host was, however, not quite convinced, and, calling the gardener, ho said to him:. "Pray tell us why tho globe is warmer on. the shady side than on tho side turned to the sun?" Tho man replied. "Bocousajust.now I turned it rouud for fear of its cracking- .with, the great heaL" Youth's Companion. - . .-t . ; ,w ,ni ripe. ; In former times, when society ig nored tho natural und alt'ected the ar tificial, pastoral poets aud painter de picted such graceful, gayly dressed Bhepherds and shepherdesses as wore never seen save in the Arcadia of dreamland. .Tho "crazo" attained its climax wueii the unfortunate queen ' of France impersonated a dairy maid, and her husband, Louis XVI acted the part of a miller. Tho absurdity of the "fad" is illustrated' by a humorous sketch, quoted in "Ltray Leaves of Litera ture." A London damsel whose ideas had been Arcadian ized by the perusal of pastorals, wandered into the fields in tbe hope of discovering a live "shop herd." ' To her delight, she encountered one utider a hawthorn hedge, with his dog by his side aud his crook in his hand and his sheep roundabout him. just as if ho were sitting to bo modeled in china for a chimney ornament. But our swain wauted the indispen sable accompaniment of a putoral reed, in order that be might beguile his solitude with tho charms of musia Touched with pity at this privation, and lapsing uuconaciouidy into poeti cal languago, tha city damsel ex claimed: . ' ' " ''All. frentlo shepherd, tell mo homo, mlw." replied tho clown, scratching bis head, " 'cause 1 ha'n'tgot no baccy." Youth's Com panion. Large Figures. The population of London ha grown from 130,000 in 1003 to 4,600, 000 at the present time. Supposing that the recent rate of growth were maintained, London might easily, in tbe course of another half century, possess a population of over 7,000,000. The six principal railway lines of tho metropolis carried annually oter 200, 000,000 people. The tramway com panies carried unitedly some 150,000, 000 moro, and the two great 'bus com panies, the General Omnibus and the Itood Car companies, carried from 120,000,000 to 130,000,000 per annum additional The thrco ageucic to gether, therefore, carried annually sofiio 400,000,000 to. 470.000.000 pas sengers, being nearly twelve times the Sreitent population of the United kingdom. Thoro were besides 11,300 cabs, which carried, roughly, some 80,000,000 passengers per annum. 100.000,000 to 120,000,000 more traveled daily to and from thosuburbs by every railway that has a terminal station in London, bringing up the total um ber carried annually, into and out of London, to between 4 JO, 000,000 and 500,000.000. Ouce a Week. - - Aa Old aisasabsatT's Btary Speaking of remarkable incidents, I can tell you one that 1 have never seen equaled, although it occurred more) than half a century ago. Tbe steam boat Charleston was on a trip-from Louisville to U Louis with a big car go of colt in barrels. When just be low Grand Tower, on tho Mississippi, she came in contact with a hidden ob struction, WTiile thoy were prcpar iug to put her afloat agaii'i, after Uiiog at the bottom of the river a day ana night, she popped up with urprisiug suddenness with her deck to the top of the water. - The salt iu the barrel stored on tier melted when it came in contact with the water, and the buoy ancy of the barrels raised the bout to the surface bL Louis Globe-LVmo-craL - - - CawOfMiel Cmmu. It la estimated by a mint official that then are siil 1 in existence sonic where in the country, tied up in old lock ing or in 'the hands of curioaity col lectors, ovEr lUU.UOO.OOO of the old fotdiiooed copper cents, about 120,000. 000 of c;i-ri,iccl ceuts. nearly 5,000,000 of the present bwuo cf brown pennies end 23 OuO.OOOnf nic-tel three cent pic and about 200.000,000 of the uicki-1 fivo cent iecfA Hi3 total value of thr-se fiuUtni!Uir:ij various coins ii put in round numbers tl0J, UJO.WJL New Yark TUc-rai:-. Canrasmn Flowew A l?eotan AitvOTnl iAtrnfnfi frtfllA in- austriol interests of the Caucases de scribes the cultivation or tue pyre thrum plant in the Caucases. - The flowers of tho pyrelhrum (Pyrethrum rose,um) are used for making the pow der which is sold uwtsr various name "insect ! powder," ". "Persian powder," "death to insects," etc. In Europe these flower aro only found in Dalmutia. but these are white, and not rose violet, like those of the Cau cases. The Dalmatian pyrcthrum.is greatly appreciated, and when its crop is scarce tho Caucasian flower are eagerly sought for, and their price in- ko 7ivm Snf) tst RfKI npr cent This was the case in 1887 and 1888. Prices which had varied' between throe and seven roubles for the pre vious ten years, reached all at once, in 1887, fifteen and sixteen roubles at Tifiia- Formerly a certain quantity of pyrethrum in powder was exported from the - Cuucasus, but European wero satisfied with receiving this deli cate orticlo in this form because it was discovered to bo mixed with for eign substances, and growers in the Caucasus could not reduce it to the impalpable state requisite to preserve its elHcacy. At the present time the flowers only are exported. It is nec essary thut they should be cut as short as possible at the stalk, gathered whon ripe, dried in tho shade and in a cur rent of air, because iu the sun the bloom and rose color are lost, and, lastly, that they should not bo mixed with other herbs when being gathered.. Re cently a fraud has been noticed in tho packages of Caucasian flowers, other Howors resembling the pyrethrum, and dyod the same color, being found. The exports amounted to between 175.000 and 200,000 kilogrammes lost year; of those three-fourths were bad ly prepared, the season having been a very rainy ono. " ' . , " '-.'; ;H Cow and tattler Fight to a Finish. A flffht to the death between a fine milch cow and a larco rattlesnake oc curred recently on llie larm oi alt. Joseph Carter in .Bibb county. Ala, Mr. Carter hud turned his cows into a fresh pasture where there was some very fine grass, which they began to eagerly devour. A small ditch ran through tho pasture, aud on iu bank tho gross was very thick. The cows were feuding iu a bunch on tho bonk of this ditch when they scouted a rat tlesnake and moved away with tbe exception of oue large, black cow. She stood for a moment looking in the direction the snake was supposed to be. The gross was very flne in that direction, and the cow soon made up her mind. She ventured a little fur ther forwArd, occasionally stopping and looking about her, evidently try ing to discover the snake. She had moved forward perbpps teu feet from the point where the animals first scout ed danger, when without tho cus tomary warning''rutllo ""the snako struck and buried it fangs in tbe low er jaw of tho cow. Tho cow did not run away, but backing slowly a few feet sho stood still sovcral momenta, lashing her tail from sido to side. Then, with a mad bellow, she plunged U. -. ward directly toward tho spot where the rattlesnake was lying hidden in the grass. The snake wa on the alert, and again struck, -burying it fangs in tho auimal' noso , this time. This seemed to madden tho cow, and she plunged forward, trampling the snake in the ground with Jier fore feet and trying m vain to pin it with hor horns. Tho snake was soon out and trampled to death, and the cow diod from the effects of the two bites in a fow hours. St. Louis Globo-Democrat, , ; De of Good Chewsw There are somo tjiings which seem at first glance to bo matfcrs of temper anient, but which longer contempla tion assures u aro mutters of duty. Among those Is tbe habit of cheerful ness iu a fumily. . If wo are pjaced in. families for each other' protection and comfort and pleasure, each mem ber of a family bos a part to perform hi relation to every other one, which part becomes a duty a a thii assign ed for performance, and accepted, is alwavs a duty. But in what degree docs It contribute to any one' com fort and pleasure to see a sour and dour face constantly about ono, to meet a morose manner, "reticent or brooding, or to be called upon to be the perpetual assuager of ait undying grief, the boArerof burdens of confi dential communications of sorrow, or to be the witness of tears, if any other member of the household ha been subjected to wrong or loss or injus tice? Thus it i as evident as the first law of mathematics that a part of the duty of each individual in a fumily is to keep an even balance of good tem per, and not to let those thing which disturb ono' serenity in any way, but in which the family have no di rect sliaro, come into the bouse aud moke an atmosphere of unpleasant ness there. Even if the disturbing cause is something in the family it self, tbe duty holds in the tame man ner; the matter, if it it serious enough, should bo attended to at once, and eon', posed and settled to that good tern Kir and sercnify may be restored. Harper's Bazar. I CaUferate Wlnea la taw a. "The trade in California wines in the east is steadily growing. There are many people of wealth and taste in this city wuo buy California wiuea for home use. Many of these people have been in California and visited its vine yards, and loarocJ the merits of their wines from personal inspection. But the bulk of the California wine is used by the middio claw, who desire a good wine at reasonable price. F bough not fully equal to the best ranch wines, good California wine som pares fa volubly with foreign wine. Moat of it is hired by way of Capo Horn. The four or Ova tnonlLs' trip around Cape Horn im proves the wine, provided it is well fermented. Dry white nud red Cali fornia wine retails in this city at from eighry-five cents to fl.SO and higher per gallon, and sweet wines at from fl.2J to 3 and higher. Now Yon: Bt'irit (JjucVm. AT THE COMMENCEMENT, Bnrdette Attends the Kxerelses at Two Schools and Learns Something. My son, a few weeks since. I was called out to the great state of Illinois to attend tho commencement exercises . of tho high school in Dwight, a pretty little town in Livingston evu(" You, know about what a high sstiiooT com mencement is; there were oration by the young gentlemen and ladies upom "The Golden Mean of Mental, Moral and Physical Power," "From the Mornlng to" the Evening," "Success," "A Plea for the Boy of Today " "A Plea for tho Girl of Today," "John A. Logan" and "Night Brings Out the Stars;" yod know about, what it is. Well, I listened and I grew interested and I learned something that I should have known a hundred years ago and! I was glad I went to Dwight, 111., and attended a high school commence ment. . , . . On ray way back home I talked ft all over with myself you know I like- e foils rifVi mrsAlf rr, tliA Irain rmich. W Ml . . . .v.. w... v.. - - better than I do with a casual stran ger. Becausp when I get tired I cars shut myself up, whereas thd commu nicative stranger who pulls hi mouth, upon the defenseless traveler wilfc sometimes hold him up from Chicago to Brooklyn and talk him clear into the Eden of The .Eagle office. Thinkine over what the' graduates- of tho high school hod said in oration; and essay, I began to wish that 1 could sav the same tmntrs in the same way. I envied Louise Do Clorcq, and Nellie food, and Bessie Huey, and Dougherty, and Frederick Smith, and nenrv Wood, and Bessie Huey. and Charles Vickery and Nellie Jeffries their views of life. They had a famil-: iar sound, too, but I didn't quite recol lect where I heard them before. But it dawned on mo after awhile. In be gan to remember an essay on "The Press and the Ballot Box, which; at the time I read it, I believed contained" the essence of all truth and philoso-. phy, and was a prophecy of what wa to be within a very few years frons the date of that masterly paper. And! a bright, rosy tinted, glowing prophecy u was. , . I said, "You miserable old cynic" you see in these familiar conversations which I hold with tho best man on the train, I sometimes take things front myself that I' wouldn't stand from smaller man -"you miserable old cynio, I know what is the matter with, you; you have lost enthusiasm; and losing that you have lost all the soul that a man' work has. You have lost enthusiasm, and that makes yon s hireling; you have lost faith and that shrivels your soul ; you have lost your 'hurrah' aud are of noearthly account in a mass meeting; your waist baser-own faster than your mind, and that has made you lazy ; you are too old for tennis, too scantiti the breath for base ball, too active for cricket, too fond of ease for society, aud because none of these things aro right iu your line, you say: iAli is vanity.' Everything is vanity to a useless man. Get back to the starter's scratch and begin over. Look ut the world as do these young sters and you'll' believe more in your fellowmon and more in yourself. You will correct certain mean tendencies toward scolflng and burlesquing every thing that doesn't please you, I talked to myself like a deacon all tho way across Ohio and ' Pennsyl vania. Then, when I came east I at tended a'college commencement. A 'great school; standard higher than tho mortgage on tho Eiffel tower I cowered hi a'corncr aud was pounacd into a condition of numbness with, Greek orations and Latin essays. And tho English orations were marvels of elegant diction, smooth, woll rounded sentences, and the choicest ' English, clothing the noblest sentiments, from which at intervals solid chunks of wisdom fell upon tho floor with adulL sickoniug thud. It was grand, and even .tho president nodded approval and grave professors forgot their dig nity and applauded.; And the presi dent made a speech,' and two or three learned doctors of law and divinity made eloquent and thoughtful ad dresses. But wise aud learned as it all was I kept wondering where 1 had heard it all before saving only tbe Greek and Latin. All, yes: I had it. . . ,v . . . i r i i. Al uwigut. mats wnere i nearu it. Sift the thought out of the language of the high school out west and the university down CTt, and it was about the same thing.1 The same generous, manly, brave, hopeful way of looking ail things, the same earnestness, the same enthusiasm that keeps the learned doctors as young-and brave as the boys whom they teach, year after year; the same sublime confidence in bis pwn ability to do a little better than any other man in the vineyard, shaping the thought and nerving mind and body of tho high school ooy and the college graduate; no wonder I envied them. I felt grateful to them. 1 made up what for the sake of brevity I may be permitted to call my mind, that I, would look at the world with , u : - . . . l. i i l k i ; : them; that 1 would grumble leas and sing more; that I would close out my stock of censure and put in a full line; of praise; tlial I would sigh less fre quently and hurrah moro loudly, and upon slighter provocation. 1 am going to every commencement at Haverford, my boy, between now and the year when you will cross the threshold, and you look to it that when you graduate your old father won't know nearly as much a you do, liob ert J. Burdctte in Brooklyn Eagle. - ' Made a Mlacaloatatloa. A fTtpalctjo pen seller called at this otllce the other day. "My dear sir," said he to Top, "do you know how muc! time you loso dipping a pen into ink? Ten dips a minute means bX) dips an hour, or 6,000 dips in teu hour, and each con-" sumes" ' Top Yes, I know; I have figured it all out. The P. P. a Aud yet 1 Cnd yon still writing in tho clJ way. Ton Yes,-1 am usin'tho re-.f pa tent fountain pen you suid nio a! out a month 870 using il iu the oij wa beoa;ie it won't wriia any c;h r w;t v. The P. P. S. Iks tara..n: 1 1 i tha wro:ij iTieo. Goo-i ur.- . i'rauctaco 'v.-'A's LtUor.