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THIS LIFE IS WHAT WX MAO IT.
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Let's ofteqUlk of obls deeds, s
And rarer of the bad ones,
. t And sing about oar happy days,
' ' And not about the sad ones.
"We were not made to fret and sUn.
, , And when grief sleeps, to wake it;
Bright happiness is standing by--1 -V'
This life is what we make it. - ..'
Let's find the sunny side of xuen, . , f
. .;. k Or be belterers in it; .,
s A light there is in erery eoal.
That takes the pains to win it
Oh! there's a alumb'ringgood in all,,
And we perchance may wake it;
Our hands contain the magie wand ,
' This life is what we make it. ' J'
f 4Then here's to those whose loving hearts
, , Bend light and oy abont them! "
Thanks b to them for countless gems
' We ne'er htd known without them.
Oh! this should be a happy world
To all who may partake it; ,
The" fault's our own," if it U not
' ' 'This life is what we make it
My Uncle George.
I imppose you wonder George, why
it U I have never married wondered,
and most probably rejoiced for, at tny
death, you know, the oldplace will
come to you, as it came to me, free from
debt or incumbrance. I suppose you
have attributed my confirmed bachelor
hood to some disappointment in love In
tarly life, eh?
Ah, well; I'll tell you the whole
Htory. 'It may serve as a warning to
you, I was going to ?ay, only I do not
h?lit?ve in one man's experience beinj;
or any ue" to another. And as to waru-
ings-lbah! they never serve. But I
am in a retrospective mood to night;
so if you care to hear the btory, you
shall." i
My Uncle George and I were staying
up at Barling, a small fishing-place of
his in the j Highlands, to which we re
sorted regularly twice a year for about
a fortnight, in pursuit of salmon. I
had tot iny father when I was fovir
years old, and since that time his broth
er, my Uncle George, had been my fa
ther in all but the name. Indeed, I
think we were fonder of each other
than fathers and sous usually are iu
v these days.
It has always been a wonder to me,
' and to every one else, that Uncle George
- had nvt r married. Some people de
.clared that lie had been Iwipelesslyin
love with the beautiful Duchtssede ,
and that U was for her sake he had re
mained single; others hiuted at, some
entanglement; while some majjitained
boldly that Sir Georgo Wyvnie was
married, and that I, hU nephew and
heir presumptive in tile eyes of the
world, should leok very foolish some
day on the baronetcy ind Wyville Gas
tie", being Claimed by the son of my un
cle's old college bed maker.
But to all these stories 1 turned a deaf
ear. I knew enough of Uncle George
to feel sure that there w as not a shad
ow of truth in all of them. My uncle
often" spoke of . the Duchesse dc ' as
what she was one of the handsomest
women and most finished coquettes of
her day. j But I felt certain that he; had
never cared for her ; he would not have
talked so much about her if he had.
And as to an entanglement or a secret
marriage,1 why, I knew all my uncle's
' affairs as ttell as I knew those of Char
lie Baynsford, my bosom lriend aud
brother officer, who had been gazetted
as ensigu and lieutenant in the Fifth
Foot Guards the Same day as myself,
abont two months before. No; what
ever reason my uncle may have had for
remaining single, it was one that hie
had carefully guarded from the whole
world. I was glad that I was going to
hear it at last, j '
I lit my pet pipe, about the coloring
of which I was so anxious,and drawing
my chair nearer to the fire, prepared
to listen in comfort.
I was about thirteen, George, when
I first saw Nora O'Byrne. I was at
Eaton then, and she was a flower girl
in the streets of Windsor. The first
day I eyer saw her I remember it as
well as if it were yesterday it was a
bitterly cold March afternoon, and she
was standing outside the then only bo
te in the, place, sell'ng violets. To
this hour I cannot stand seeing a girl
selling violeu'ln the street. I gave her
all the money I had in my pocket, and
my heart with it.' It is no use attempt
ing to describe her. " All descriptions
of real beauty are futile, f She was sim
pliest the lovliest child, as she' was af
terwards the lovliest woman, I ever be
held. Day after day 1 used to see her.
I contrived to'meet her quietly. I did
all I could for her, and it went to ruy
heart to feel that I could do so little. I
used to giwe her food; clothing it was
of no use giving, tor her mother took it
away again directly and pawned it to
buy gin. . : - I -
I need scarcely tell you that Nora
was no common beggar-girl; Her fa
ther hai been a well-to-do workman,
and during his life-time she had been
to school, and had learned how to read
and write: but after his death they had
been reduced: to beggary, through her
mother's 'fatal 'propensity' for drink.
For nearly two vears oi mrlife I spent
evefY-8hinfDjT 1-B.ouT.d spare upon that
child, and I lovej her as I have never
loved any other human being. And
what is ruore; I kept my boyish love a
secret from every one bo easy matter,
ah you may imagine.
'enffTS! Sften iihad a-badfat-tackj
61 typhus feyerU X was staying at
V"yville at the time of the summer va-
catiprT with: my uncle; Sir Rupert. ' He
bad a perfect horror pf siekness, and of
j fevers especially ahd directly I -was
taken ill he left the house to pay a visit
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to some friends near Windsor. He
promised me that when the school met
again he would ride over, and give the
fellows at my house the latest accounts
of me, j ' ) i I 'i J.
- "I did not return to Eaton till after
the Christmas holidays, and Nora . waa
gone where ! could notlearn Jn vain
I made Inquiries of different people in
the town who knew the girl by sight.
All I could learn was that neither she
nor her mother had been seen since the
beginningof September.' I was nearly
frantic with anxiety. I give you my
word, George,' that never but once
again In my life have I felt anything
like the utter grief and desolation of
that time when I thought of Nora; with
her extraordinary beauty, thrown upon
the wide world with no other protec
tion than that drunken old mother.
'Well,' time passed on, and , when I
was eighteen I left Eaton and went into
the Guards. 31y mother took a house
ou u art ror a street, ana i uvea wun
her. 1 went everywhere, and was made
much of. . I was heir to Wyville Castle
and fifteen thousand a year to say
nothing of the baronetcy; and I could
have married as my uncle and mother
was always telling me almost any
body I choose. But I did not choose.
Strange as it may appear, I never met a
girl 1 could care for never met any one
who could make me forget for one mo
ment my childish love. I grew tired' of
everything sooner than most men, and
at twenty, bavins: obtained several
months leave of absence, I started for
a tour iu the East with mv old friend
liavnsiord, who was then Captain Fel-
lowes. When we .were 'at Smvrna I
received ' jl letter from my mother, tell-?
iug me that my uncle was going t6 be
married. As I had been taught from
chililhood to coTisider myself his heir,
you may fancy, George,, with what feel
ings of d isgu st r I received the intelli
gence. My mothertwrote a very illegi
ble hand, and moreover always crossed
her pages, consequently deciphering
her letters was no easy task. I could
not make out the name of my uncle's
jiancee, ajthough Fellowes and I sat up
half thepigh't trying to discover it. My
mothefrsaid Sir Knpert had met her in
1'i.fTi, ahd I thought the word we could
not decipher looked like a French name.
tLondon was no place for me now, I
decided, and determined to leave the
Guards and exchange into some regi
ment, going ttf Canada a. country 1 was
particularly anxious to "see. We lin
gered a good deal of. the time on our
way home, and were a great part of
the time in out-of-the-way places where
we saw no newspapers. Thus I missed
reading the announcement of my uncle's
marriage. When 1 arrived In town I
heard of nothing but the extraordinary
beauty of Lady Wyville; aud many
were the warnings I received half in
jest half hi earnest not to fall in loye
with my aunt. It was very odd, but I
felt no curiosity to see her." On the
contrary, the idea of making her ac
quaintance was rather repugnant to
me. - 1
"I left a card for my uncle in Gros-
venor square, a day or two after I re
turned home at an hour when I knew
she would be out; and 1 declined, on
the plea "of a prior engagement, an In
vitation that I received to dine with
them the following evening. -
4A few nights afterwards there was
a Jarge ball given at the Russian Em
bassy. 1 heard, directly I entered the
house, 'that my uncle and his bride
were there ; Z but there was a great
crowd, and 1 never caught sight of
them. Towards the end of the evening.
just as I was going away, the Duchess
de ; came up to me In the conservato
ry, and told; in e that my uncle and aunt
were just then on thej staircase.
''You must come- and see her,
George,' she said to' me; 'she is per
fectly beautiful.' f
'I made jsome commonplace reply.
such as that it was only very pretty
women who ever admitted teauty in
others, and then, with the little duch
ess on my arm, I went to greet my un
cle and his bride.
She was
the faintest
all in white not
color about her
dressed
trace of
and her lovely face turned as white as
her bridal wreath, as the came face to
facewithme. It was Nora Nora whom
I had last seen In rags, barefooted, ask
ing alms from the passers-by, and now
met again thus at an ambassador's ball,
and talking! to a foreign prince! s
'M v uncle introduced me to his bride,
and I made a profound bow; and with
a face as white as her own, congratula
ted her on her marriage, and expressed
the gratification 1 felt at making her
acquaintance. '
"She gave me such a look, poor girl f
I knew then that she had never forgot
ten me. I passed on with the duchess
into thei ball-room, and I felt rather
than saw that Nora turned to look after
us. ''( -1 ; -
Is she not beautiful V my compan
Ion asked me with levity. Ah, I was
right, I could see you were desperate
ly apris with her. ; What Is ft. you Eng
lish call It? Love at first sight. Take
my advice, tnon ami, and do not see too
much of your lovely aunt. : ' -
I shall follow your advice,"! said
L'l mean to see as little of her as bossii
speak to her during uncle's lifetime. I
exchanged at once Into a regiment un
der orders for Canada. There I re
mained three years, until the death of
Sir Rupert recalled me to England.
Nora had no Children, to 1 was nown
Sir "George 'Wyville. She might as
.well have-waited for me, I thought
bitterly., ql met her ooce a.t-our soIlciT
tor's upon business, just after mv re
turn homey andLttias was-tlie? Tast time
I ever saw her inthe,worldrShelived
entirely InlLbndonV doing' an! immense
deal of good, I, believe, among the Irish
poor. But her career of usefulness was
a short one. She only survived Sir
Rupert fonryears. To me she died The
hour: when she became - his wife. She
wrote to me once after she became a
widrtw, telling me all the circumstances
of the marriage how that Sir Rupert
had rescued her from a life of beggar v
in the streets, and sent her to school for
four years, and that then she had felt
herself bound in honor 'and gratitude
to marry hltn. .
She concluded her letter by expres
singa hopethat we ndght still be friends.
Friends ! I had no more friendship to
offer her than I had love to offer any
woman; and rny uncle's widow was
sacred in my eyes
4I never saw Nora again.
I believe the world talked a good
deal about my strange conduct towards
my aunt, and pronounced it to be 'very
bad taste,' now that I had come into the
title and estate. Only the Duchesse de
,'gave me. credit for having some
good! reason for thus avoiding Lady
Wyville.
There, George, you know now the
story of my life why I have remained
a bachelor all my days. I was not
aware that there is any particular moral
to be deduced from my tale, unless i)
is Only to fall in love in your own rank
of life.' a piece of, advice that was very
frequently given to me when I was
young. I hope you will profit by it
better than I have done."
I Tne Cat.
'What Is this?"
'That is a cat. Do you see the beau
tiful j curve to his back? If you con
tinue to be a good boy you shall some
day have a thousand cats."
"Are cats a useful animal?"
"Ye, very. If it wasn't for the cat
every house would be overrun with
canafybirds."
" Are cats very brave?"
Yes. They'll hang around a corner
for four hours to get their claws into a
poor little mouse, not one fortieth part
their size." .
" What food do cats prefer?"
" A $20 mocking-bird, is their first
choice. If the family are not able to
keep a ciocking-bird, the cat must put
up with an oriole or a German canary.
It is only when suffering .for food that
a cat jwill accept of a sirloin steak."
" Cats can't sing, can they ?"
"No; but bless 'em ! they keep try
ing to learn hojvLjThey have got so
they ban Sound the first four notes on
the scale, and they are determined to
get the rest.''
" What time do they sing the sweet
est.?M . .
" At, night, between the hours of 11
P. 3l and 4 A. M. You have probably
read Items about bold, bad men flinging
bootjacks, sticks ; of wood and other
missiles at singing cats. Don't ever
associate with such people. . Cats have
as much right in America as anybody
else, and it is only the meanest kind of
folks who will try to keep them from
rising up in the world."
" Nobody knows, as no cat ever had
a fair! show" to see how ms;ny years he
could! put in. After he has , hung
around one neighborhood for fifteen or
twenty years somebody murders him In
COld Tlcod." : r . ;
" Do cats suck children's breath?'
, "They do. Mothers, should let their
children eat onions, as a preventive.
Plug tobacco, will answer the same
purpose." .
Sayings from the Chinese.
Dig a well before you are thirsty.
The ripest fruit will not fall into your
mouth. Great wealth comes by destiny
moderate wealth by industry. The
pleasure of doing good is the only one
that does not wear out. Water does not
remain in the mountains, nor vengeance
in great minds. Let every one sweep
the snow from his own tdoorf and not
busy (himself 'about the frost on his
neighbor's tiles. iEvery to-morrow.bas
two handles. We can' take hold of it by
the handle of anxiety, or the, handle of
faithi -
rat Man Made Happy looses' 61 Pounds.
1 . -Prattvii.e", Ala.. July 20, 1878.
Botanic Mkoicixk Co., Buffalo,' JS.Y.
GentUmeru-About three. months ago
I commenced using your Anti-Fat."
at which time" my weight was 219
pounds. By following your directions
carefully, 1 have succeded in reducing
my weight to 158 1 pounds. This Is ail
very 'satisfactory and pleasant ; but Just
previous to my commencIngthe use of
yourj medicine,. I bad purchased two
suits of fine clothes at a high price, and
find to my dismay, that they are entirely
useless to me now. - When I put one of
my coats h't my; friends tell me it looks
like ia coftee f aek on a bean pole, and
when f put the pant3 on well .descrip
tion fails. My object in writing is to
ascertain whether you have not, in con
nection with your- medicine business.
mn establishment where your patrons,
'Something in-my voice madetoyrioailarly situated, could exchange these
companion glance np; and then with uselesa garments , ror otners wiai wouiu
true tact aua good- breeding, ".'..'3 li.
'Driving; OlTUk F
a kind hearted llttld wotueh, iniblieof 1 whni now -hWf. tn n!.inir, it. In couse-4 that ravrheart aches for you
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ner inning language- iwwj thati quence or the loss they wouiu sustain in
never again to me or any living being throwing aside .valuable, .-. garments.
rllA oKa raour to U'lmf aha hd ! nnHnail
Just turn this matter over in your mind.
. ... ouv .w,,u 1 uni. .li . r . -
ia - iiouang xcaangevi9. wnaii you
did she recur to
more than she chose to say I felti crt
tain. '' '
I never saw Nora again so as to
r want la connection with y odr Autl- Fat
! busidesar r fTbhrs truly."
a o as w
GEOBGE BOYD
On a late passage of the steamer Dme
on the Hudson .she was detained below
Albany by , a heavy fog. , , Captain , Boe
was standing near the pilot house : on
the lookout, when. he was .approached
by a venerable gentleman of rural ap
pearance. The , boat, was pushing fop-
ward, with half speed, and great caution.
"JCaptaln," said t the , stranger, "why
don't you drive off the fog?' ' : f
,'Just the tiling I should like to have
yon. tell me how to do," : . ,.;
"111 tell you how, art old : German
frier d of mine. years ago did it,", and
the passenger commenced by saying : .
'In. the rich ,vHey .of, the Mohawk
there is a quiet little village called
Spraker's Basin. Many years ago, ; be
fore there was such a thing as a railroad
in the State of New York, the veritable
Mr. Spraker, the patriarch and founder
of Spraker's Basin, was keeping a tav
ern a mile or so from the village, upon
the thoroughfare known as Johnstown
Road. Spraker's as it is generally
called," was In early times the great ren
dezvous for the Mohawk farmers, while
Journeying to Albany with their wheat,
and of the Jefferson and Lewis County
drovers. Now and then a New York
merchant on his trip to the Northern
settlements was to be seen before the
great wood fire in Spraker's tavern.
This class of travelers were held in
much respect by old Spraker and the
honest Dutch farmers on the river.
One of this class accosted the old man
on the porch one foggy morning, with :
Mr. Spraker, do you have much of
this sort of weather, down here in this
valley ?" . ' .
"Oh, yees, put we ton t mind it, Mr.
Stewart, I has a way of triving it off.
Ish no matter at all, tish fog." .
"How's that, Mr. Spraker, I should
like to know the process of driving off
a fog?"
"Well, I will tell you; I take a trarn
and goes out and feeds te pigs, and if te
fog don't go off pretty soon, I take ' an
other tram, and den I goes out and fod
ders de cattle, and if te fog ain't gone
by dis time, I takes another dram, and
den I goes out and chous wood like
thunder, and if te fog don't go py dis
time, I takes another dram, and so on
Mr, Stewart, I keep a doln' till the fog
all goes away." -
"Well, upon my word, Mr. Spraker,
this is a novel mode of getting clear of
a fog. How many drams did you ever
takejof a morning before you succeeded
in driving off ihe fog?"
"Let me see; about'two years ago, I
think 1 had to take abouttwenty trams,
but it was a tarn foggy morning."
The By h Elixir.
A woman and boy slowly approached
the station.
They were mother and son. ' . .
The boy looked serious ahd the moth
er was doing a great deal of talking.
She said she'd heard that they had
opened & museum at the station, and
she asked John Henry if he'd liite to
go iu and see the animals.
"Spose they've got any snakes?" he
asked.
"Lots of 'em." .
"And baboons?"
"More'n a. dozen." ,
"And stuffed bridegrooms ?4'
"Yes, heeps of 'em."
The boy had his suspicions, but curi
osity overcame them, and he Anally
consented to go in. As he entered the
parlor, the mother winked at Bijah over
his head, whispered the one word
''Elixir," and she was gone before
John Henry could realize the situation.
"I am ghid to see you, my boy," re
marked Bijah, by way of breaking the
ice. ' 1 . ;
"Where's them baboons?" demanded
the boy, a3 he looked around. ,
"My son, th e way of the trangressor
is hard, no matter whether the spelling
book says so or not." '' r '
, "Where's that stuffed bridegroom ?'
shouted the boy.
"He has gone out for a walk in the
mellow sunlight, Johnny, but come up
stairs and I'll show vou the Elixir."
"You can't fool me I"
"There is do fooling about thip. On
the contrary, this is a very solemn oc
casion. Come on."
The boy suspected th P worst, and
making a dive to get under the table he
upset it and came near getting out
doors. - He was finally secured and ele
vated to the second story, the door
locked, and as he was placed in the big
chair labelled: "Meditation" he had
made up his miml to die in the last
ditch. j
Your mother didn't have "time to'
explain your conduct or detail' your
history," remarked Bijah in a fatherly
tone, "but I think she wants the Elixir
applied on general principles." '
"Murder !" shouted the boy as he
tried to get out of the chair,
I "I should like to sit here and study
your disposition, mused Bijah, ! "but
time flies, and I am leetle a hit anxious
to try this new spanker."!
, "Don't you dare I" shouted the boy,
having a dim idea of what was coming.
J'You observe, my fu j harrr fasten
this sheet-iron pad around "my left leg
as a protection If you feef like biting,
bite away(Then I,piacef the Elixir
handy, bring;, ypu but of. Jhet chair, go,
bend you over in thisshape, aud now
we arejSadfor&usineas..Lt7m
mark at this stage of the proceedings
striking a. boy was heard in the land.
It was also felt In the land, but from
Pthe first stroke the boy snnt his teeth
together bard and refused to utter a
sou ndr He had "been T there before, and
he didn't believe it was going to be
much of a shower. , . !
"I hate to do it. but! remarked
Bijah, as -he worked his elbow: with
more zeal, aud the silence was broken
only by the deep-toned whacks of the
shingle. It was shingle vs. boy, and
the boy had bet ten to one that he would
come In ahead After two minutes'
steady motion Bijah let up and kindly
Inquired: .
"My son, do you now feel as if you
owned this town Y
: "I feel as Ini a mind toi" was the
brief reply.
"What! haven't 1 got down to your
feelings yit! Jist wait a moment!"
: The lad was adjusted and the Elixir
again applied. The arm rose higher
and came down faster, and at the fifth
stroke a new stratum of soil was reach
ed. At the tenth the boy wasn't sure
which would beat. At the fifteenth
he concluded that he was a goner, but
just then Bijah halted and asked :
"My son, do you think you run the
house?"
"I kin rnn half of It," replied the
lad, suddenly taking courage.
"Am I growing weak In my old
age?" sighed the janitor, as he reached
for a new spanker, "or is this an unus
al case?" .
It was simply an unsual aase. The
new spanker started off like a dose of
buckshot aud had only got the regular
motion when the boy gave in. Before
the shingle let go he was ready to
promise anything, He took the most
solemn vow to stay in nights, go to
Sunday-schoolquit righting and earn
money for his'mother and as a proof of
his desire to reform, he took a table-
spoonful of castor oil without a wince.
"Don't you shudder when you rea
lize what a narrer escape you've had
from the gallus?" queried Bijah. as he
wiped off the spoon on his elbow.
"I do, and I shall always love you."
"One day longer and you might have
turned out a pirate. I tell you, boy, a
shingle of the right size, laid on the
right spot, will put new and better
thoughts into a boy's mind as sure's
your born. You can't mention a single
great man in this country, frm Peter
Cooper to Brother Gardner, who didn't
get his regular dose of the Elixir when
a boy. You can now sit with-me, down
stair 8 and learn a lesson in history
while I darn my socks."
"When the mother came softly in, a
look of maternal anxiety on her coun
tenance, Bijah was pushing a darning
needle threaded with pink twine
through an 8x10 hole in the heel of a
sky-blue woolen sock, and the boy was
reading aloud :
"Is the hen on her nest? Yes, the
hen Is on her nest. Is the sun up? Yes,
the sun is up, and no good boy will
laugh at a man who is blind ?"
The Elixir is a success. All orders
by mail promptly attended to.
Corn Stalk Sugar.
it
"Maw! Maw !" screamed John Hen-
ry. ; , ; :, - , ." - r : : .I,
"Your dear maw , Is far, far away,
my eon, -and I a in now; ready for busi
ness , Here I go".', -j j &
He went. The sound of a shingle
A Westmoreland county, Pa.farmer
and scientist, has discovered a process
by which sugar can be made from the
common neid corn-stalks, at a cost or
three cents per pound, and the plant
being only slightly inferior to the sugar
cane of Louisiana, and containing two
per cent, more saccharine matter than
the beet root. The name of the discov
erer is Mr. F. S. Stewart, and his pro
cess, discovered after several years' ex
periment for crystalizlng the liquid, is
as follows : The costly bone black and
carbonic acid are no longer required.
The stalks are cut after the ear has ar
rived at an age suitable for drying or
canning the full value of the corn
crop being thus obtained entirely Inde
pendent of the sugar growth and sent
to ant ordinary crushing mill. The
juico placed in pans, after being heated
to 180 degrees, is then heavily limed so
as to make Itexeeedingiv alkaline. Af
ter being .decanted, and impurities re
moved, a liquid dioxide of sulphur is
then introduced in sufficient quantities
to make the syrup highly acidulous.
As impurities are precipitated, they
continue to De removed, and more, dio
xide of sulpur added to keep the syrup
in its acidulous condition, ; until the
syrup is reduced to the density neces
sary: to form sugar. , It is then thrown
into a cooler and allowed to crystal ize.
1 r draining being performed by a cen
trifugal machine, or other modern pro
cess The color of this sugar as it
comes from the draining machine is
much better than that of ordinary cane
sugar, the syrup of the cane being red,
while this is nearly white.
, Show me a people whose trade is dis
honest and I will show you a people
whose religion is a sham.
Make but few explanations ; the char
acter that cannot" otherwise defend it
self is not worth vindicating.
Who is powerful? He who can con
trol bis passions. Who is rich ? He
who is contented with what he has.
Never fail to tell the truth. If truth
ful,' you 'get your reward. You will
get your punishment if you deceive.
I havx tor atiny years past uses m my owi
tamu . and recommended to th? families 'l a j
congregation, as tne toet remedy Ik owot'ot
Cougos, Coldi and Incipient Coos mp I jn, Dr,
Jayoe's Kip cto ant, and also Ja ne5 gar a ire
.fhisasa iemedy lor CosUTeaess, Biliousness
and I ..polity ot the Blood. M confidence in
tne gre t value of these . edicuv s. increases
the longer 1 use them and oba rye their wou
derfui -nealth-rest'.rtntr effects. The: have
Sren universil batlst ictlon In au the families
w cat I have recommended toenv He- D
Dowlln?, late Pastor oCBerean Baptlit Church,
New York.
Hugh Dougherty w as Introduced all
aronnd Carson the other day as a State
Senator from California, This reminds
one of a little loke practised by that
jolly San Francisco Bohemian, Dan. O'
Connell. Dan was on the train going
to Eureka, when he fell In 'with a
crowd of Engllch tourists. If there Is
one think particular that Dan likes th
manipulate, for practical jokes. It is a
British tourist. He onenetl the ball
by paying the iwrter of the train four
bits to come along occasionally and ad
dress him as "Governor." The porter
earned his money and was earnestly
rushing up to Dan, with t i ; . -
."Governor, did you want anything,
sah!" - . ' : ..
Presently one of the tourists re
marked: yS :
"Mr. O'Counell, I see you are called
Governor; ave you the o u or h Indeed
to be ban hlncumbeut hoff the hofilce?"
"Yes, replied Dan ; "I have had the
honor of occupy!ng( the gubernatorial
chair of this State for five "years, and
expect to be re-elected in the fall.
"Hy ! hindeed ; quite hextraordihary
for one a ha so young." - ,
"Yes, I do look young, aiid 1 am
proud of the fact that for a men of 50
there arefew better preserved 'speci
mens of physical humanity in this State.
I came to this coast in '49 almost dead
with consumption, but the glorious cli
mate of California and the still more
bracing atmosphere of Nevada bad the
delightful effect of rejuvenating my en
tire system. I now hunt the grizzles in
my bear park with as much ardor- "
"Hi beg pardon," Interrupted one of
the tourists, "did hi understand you to
say a bear-park?" (
"Yes," continued Dan, without mov
ing a muscle. "I have a range of four
hundred acres, well stocked with griz
zles, black bear and the Rocky Moun
tain varieties. It is but a small park,
but amply sufficient for what little re
creation I need. It is but twenty miles
from here, and If you can spare a couple
of weeks, my horses, dogs, and guns
and bowle knives are at your disposal."
"Really, though, your kind hofl'er is
hap predated." But is there any danger,
you know.
"Oh, yes, of course; an inexperien
ced hand gets a little nervous when
closing in on the monster with the bo
wie knife, but if you do not1 care to
take risks, you can shoot them with the
rifle. My boy was killed last week, but
he was too impetuous by half, and it
was partly his fault. I might have in
terfered in time to save his life, but the
ligbt was a fair one, and I hadn't the
heart to fire at the brave beast from be
hind. A true Nevadan and '49er never
takes so noble an animal as the grizzly
at a disadvantage, even though his own
flesh and blood be at stake. But to
change a subject, the recollections of
which are painful (here Dan wiped
away a tear), let me invite you to my
deer park at Elko, where a thousand
bucks roam at large and my hounds are
the best in the State."
The tourist ! promised to come ahd
spend a month, and are now doubtless
looking for the O'Connel preserves.
Game on the Sea Snore.
ment of the pursuit attract many who
would not sell the catch for money.
Gunners are not always successful,
sometimes returning with none or but
few. Wild geese are not plentiful, and
very few persons have outfits here save
a few of the old-time gunner. Gee
were killed more frequently here years
ago. It is related that flocks of geese
used to llgnt in a Dig, ueep pond where
the United States Hotel Is now located.
4WIld geeee command about one dollar
each, anil are superior in flavor to
ducks. Other game Is abundant here
in Its season. In May and AugiUt im
mense flocks of bay birds abound; and
compri?e every variety of snipe specie
common to this latitude, among them
curlew wlllet, plover and yellow leg.
Gunners come purposely In May and
shoot them Iu numbers. They are also
attracted by decoys, painted to. resem
ble them, and are supported by stick
to which they are fastened, being run
on the mud flats on which they alight
and feed,! the gunners lying; near at
hand. A nice bed of grass or trash U
made, from which the gunner shoots
and loads at will. To show the attrac
tion of these decoys, and the (mutilation
of their whistling, large flocks are
sometimes enticed back, and settle to
the decoys again and again. Killcues
do this, but they are the simplest bird
and most easily deceived of all. Blue
heron are among our game. They are
seen standing on the" marshes, or flying
about and slowly settling down. They
are a large crane, of a bluish or dark
dove color, and standing with .-bent
neck 'they are about five "feet ihlgh, and
whenflylng With head juid leg
straight are nearly six feet, With about
five feet spread of wings. They are all
along tills coajt. i
Astonishing Jugglery.
Wild geese and duck are the leading
game birds on the coast in the vicinity
of Atlantic City, on the ocean.. The
outfit to hunt these birds consists of a
slight skiff or small batteau, weighing
only about seventy-five pounds, so as to
be easily hauled over the meadows, not
exactly the perfect sneak; box of Barne-
gat, but similar in appearance and use ;
a large lot of wooden decoy ducks, an
excellent double gun; breach loading
preferred. Besidesmost of the duck
sportsmen own a yacht, or a share in
one, tine, cdsy, decked and cabined,
about twenty-five feet long, with one
huge sail. The boats ar provisioned,
so that their owners can spend a week
at a time on board with three or four
companions, sailing along the creeks
and bays between the mainland and
the sea. The more stormy the weather
the greater the chance of plenty of
ducks. "They are hunted so much that
they go to sea all day usually, but in
high winds and rains they remain in
the bays and the ponds on the marshes.
At dusk and dawn each hunter leaves
the yacht in his skiff, and taking separ
ate places,- generally within hail of
each other, they set out and anchor the
decoys, haul their boats on the marsh,
cover them from the sight of the wary
ducks by" pulling grass and seaweed
and throwing it over them, and then
secrete themselves along the bank and
wait for the flocks of ducks to approach
and settle among the decoys. Here in
the bitter, freezing weather and storm
they w ait for hours, when a flock ap
proaches, imitating their cries to lure
them to settle among their decoys
within gunsbotj and If successful in
luring them near enough, shooting
both barrels among them and nimbly
slipping in fresh charges, aud, if possi
ble, firing away again. They launch
the boat and secure the killed and
wounded game, and . hide for another
shot. The ducks' visit the fresh water
ponds aud slashes for water. Hiding
near these the gunners slay numbers.
As they weigh about five pounds to the
pair,, it occasionally becomes burden
some,to get the ducks home.- It Is a
common thing here; for gunners to
start ' for the inlet, the boat houses or
Higbee'sj at midnight with a skiff, de
coyS,gun, and go fle miles to a haunt,
prepare for game and secrete himself
before day. -The money value of a pair
of black ducks Is generally seventy-five
cents, but the fascination and excite-
In Delhi, India, we saw the celebra
ted basket "trick," which Is sometime
poorly imitated by professional Jug
glers in this country. A native pro
duced a basket and a blanket, and after
permitting us to nee that theyxontained
nothing, Inverted the basket on the
ground and covered it with the'blanket.
We paid no attention to his incantation a ,
but kept our eyes fixed on the basket
and the space around It, resolved that
no boy should be smuggled Into it or
out of it without feeing him. What
made the trlekjstlll more wonderful wai
the fact that the performer stood In a
clear space, and we could. look down
upon him as he proceeded. He went
through the customary act of thrusting
a sword through the instersticeri of the
basket, when the- cries of a boy we re
heard as if iu mortal pain Issuing from
the basket. Turning It over, there waa
a boy apparently unhurt and seemingly
enjoying the fun. Restoring the bask
et, with the blanket over It, to Its for
mer position, with the boy under it.
the juggler went through the same in
cantations, and then running his sword
under the blanket, tossed it away from
him. Turning over the basket, no boy
was to be seen. So far as anything
could be observed there was no possible
place in which the little fellow could
be concealed. Another feat quite as
tonishing we isaw performed In the
streets of Constantinople. An itinerant
magician showed us a cane which had
the appearance of being of wood and
very knotty. This he tossed in the air
as high as he could, and when it touch
ed the ground it took the form of a live
serpent, with blazing eyes and rapid
movements. It looked like a dangerous
specimen, and one which no man would
like to approach. Catching up thU
monster. the fellow coiled it round his
neck and fondled It, while It writhed
and exhibited the most venomous quali
ties. Throwing it high up in the air it
fell to the ground the same cane which
we had handled at our eaee.
A Four-Ton FUb that Stopped
Ship,
a Ntcam-
A rvklllalnn hc.tuepn steamxhln and
a gigantic fish, look place theoth;r day
in the vicinity of the Tong .Tong Is
lands. The Messageries Maritlmes
steamer Anadyr, on its voyage to Shang
hai, was suddenly brought to a stop by
a violent shock. Tho cause of the collis
ion was found to be an enormous ray
or flat fih, estimated by those on board
to weigh from 8,000 to 10000 pounds.
The monster was lying asleep on the
top of the water when its repose was
rudely disturbed by a "dig in the ribs"
from the stem of the steamer. After
the first alarm had subsided, efforts
were made to haul the creature on
board ; but, owing to its unwleldiness,
all attempts in this direction- proved
fruitless, and the fish, doubtless even
mre "shaken than the passengers on
the boat, was reluctantly allowed to
move off and seek such remedies for the
Injuries it had sustained, as are to be
procured In ,the roTtrions deep.
Dow to Discourage a Minister.
Go to church only occasionally, and
when you go, go late; take no part in
singing, but keep up whispering.
Find all the fault you can; point out
his deficiencies before your children
and others. Dont aid his work, but
despise hisUack oft good sense. Tell
tales to him about the people and their
criticisms of him. Tell him bow much
his predecessors were thought of. Keep
away from week-day meetings. Get
up gayeties, particularly some enter
tainment near the communion season.
Require blm to be present everywhere.
Keep back his . salary. :Keep talking
about general dissatisfaction ; i
Patient continuance in these prac
tices will surely drive away both the
spirit amltbe minister of God. -