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BETWEEN TWO STOOLS.
In tlie liro.nl hack pnreh of a pleas
ant farmhouse silt two young girls
engaged on some light needlework.
Tlie porch was h1i;iIi!I by the wide
branches of an elm, beneath which, at
around table sat a tall, good-looking
young in tn, partaking of an cloven
o'clock lunch. lie win evidently just
from the field, for ho was in his shirt
sleeves, ami a sunburn', straw bat lay
on the grass, while he partook, with a
bealthv, hearty appetite, of the light
biscuits aid fresh milk and butter
plat! il before him.
And as he ate he looked at the two
young g'rls on the porch, particularly
tho prettier of the two, whose light
yellow hair the breeze h.nl Mulfeir'
most b-cnm'mgly about her fair face.
She had somelhmg of a coquettish
look and air, while her companion win
ipiiet, with thoughtful gray eyes and
an almost ditlidcnt expression.
"Mother!" called the young man,
prcs-jitly, looking toward the open
kitchen window, "some inoro milk, if
you plca-e! '
Mrs. Wheeler came to thedoor, with
her sb'evi'4 rolled up, and a small
pitcher in her hand.
Roth girls rose to take it from her;
but she placid it, as if instinctively, in
the hands of the light haired girl,
saying:
"Tom seeim thirsty to-day; but
in;idow mowing in .Inly is warm
work."
"And hungry work, too," Tom re
marked, laughing. "Thank you,
Lottie; but wont you stay and talk to
my here while i eat!"
"Xo, ilid-ed; I've too much to do to
be able to waste my time here in chat
ing." 'Why, fiat's something new!
Don't you always sit and talk to me at
lunch time?"
"Not always, by any mean. And
became I've done it occasionally is no
reiso:i why I should k-ep on doing it.
a'l my life."
lit! looked up af her inquiringly.
"What's the muU-r, Lottie? Any
thing happened to ve you?-'
"Xo, indeed! J low unreasonable yon
are, Tom! If l am n jt always laugh
ing and chattering, you think I am out
of temper."
The girl on the porch looked up
gravely from one to the other, but said
nothing,
Tom sipped his milk slowly. Hi
appetite seemed suddenly to have de
serted him.
The girl stood at a lit t lo distance,
partly turned from him, an I sewing
on the rutlle in her hand.
After awhile, setting down his
empty mug, he said, in a lower tone:
"Lottie, wouldn't you like to drive
to the picnic tc-iuorrovv in my new
buggy ?"
"I don't know that I am going,'
hhe answered, without raising her
bead.
"Xot going! Why, for what
reason ?"
"It will be so hot and the road so
dusty," she answered, hesitatingly.
"Well, I don't wish to take you
against your will," In answered, a
little coldly. "I wonder if Alice will
go?"
"I tlare say she will, .She expected
to go in the carryall with the Burtons,
but of course she will enjoy a buggy
ride more won't you, A Hie?''
So Tom Wheeler, who had intended
merely to pipue Lottie into accepting
his oiler, found himself quite unex
pectedly drawn into an engagement to
take Alice P.iown to the next day's
picnic;.
And what was very puzzling to him
it was entirely Lottie's doings.
What could she mean by it ? he won
deredfor until now sho had never re
fused his escort anywhere.
Lottio was distantly related to the
Wheelers, and was in the habit of ply
ing frequent little visits to the farm
house. Mrs. Wheeler liked to have young
people about her; and she was, more
over, particularly anxious that her
only son, Tom, should marry and
"settle dowV with his wife on the
farm.
Sho had sen enoiigh of late to con
vinco her that Lottie was to bu her
son's choice, and she was well enough
satislied, though the girl wasalittb
"Mighty," and not quite so sensible and
sterling as sho could wish.
But that would wrar oft after mar
riage: and Lottie certainly was a lino
girl, and Tom loved her; so the mother
was quite content to let Turn have his
own way. Only now and then she
would catch herself wondering
whether Alice Brow n, the niece of a
neighbor and old school friend of hers,
would not make Tom a more suitable
wife, and herself a more desirable
ilatigliter-ln-law.
That evening Tom Wheeler, coining
up from the meadow, caught a distant
view of Lottie and Alice in a lane
'eading to a private road which ran as
a boundary line between his farm and
that of .Judge Redmond. Alice was
gathering Mowers in the hedge, while
Lottie swung on the gate with a care
less grace peculiar to her, in conversa
tion with a nice looking young man,
j whose whole appearance bespoke him
I from the city. A momentary jealous
pang shot through Toin'g heait. He
rcmeiiib -re 1 that in the last week or
two .ludgo Kediiiond's nephew, Mr.
Archie Redmond, had several times
called to see Lottie, and only last Sun
day had walked home with her from
church across the meadows. Now,
walking slowly, he watched the two
until tin' gentleman, lifting bis hat,
turned away, and Alice and Lottie
came up the lane toward the house.
Then Tom hastened 1 1 i s .steps and
overtook them.
"Where ha e you been ?"ho inquired,
j " To .In Igj Redmond's, to seo Miss
I Marion Redmond," answered Lottie,
I who was looking bright and smiling.
"I thought you did not like) Miss
J Marion Redmond-" ho returned, a little
cldly.
I ".Neither do I. She's so absurdly
Idigniliel and self-important But
i that's no reason why we should not
visit, being near neighbor., and old
j scboolin.it es.
j "I thought you 'paid the last visit, a
i few days ago." said Tom.
"os," she answered, coloring, "but
this was quite an informal call. 1
wanted an embroidery pattern."
"And Mr. Archie walked home with
yon."
"As far as the gate. As he had to
go to tin post-ollice, we would not let
him come any farther."
Then she added, looking down and
carefully imprinting each footstep in
the moist sand:
"1 shall seoeiiough of him to-morrow,
I suppose, at the picnic."
"So you are going to the picnic, after
all ?" said Tom, quickly
she looked up into his face with a
charming little smile.
"Now, Tom, you have no right to
scold. If Mr. liedmond hail offered to
take me through the hot sun and dusty
mail in a buggy, 1 would have refused,
lie knew I had refuse 1 your escort
under those circumstances, so he pro
posed that we should walk he and I
ami Katie Redmond through Marsden
woods. It's a private way, you know,
and I promised. They say it's a lovely
walk, and, being a direct path, not too
long."
Tom made no answer. Lottie affect
ed not to perceive his moodiness, till
near the house ho left them and turned
off to the stables, to see that the men
were properly attending totho "stock."
He did not stay long there. He felt
tired and depressed, and entering the
house, laid himself down upon tho
comfortable sofa in the parlor.
The windows were open, and a cool
breeze, laden with the perfume of the
multillora roses on the porch, came
softly and soothingly in.
Presently he heard the girls coming
lightly down stairs, and then Lottie's
voice on the porch.
"Where's Tom? Xot come in yet, I
suppose. Well, wo will sit here till
suppei's ready."
"Lottie," said Alice, as the two
seated themselves oa tho bench insido
the screen of roses, "I suspect that Tom
isn't pleased, and really I think you
aro treating him badly."
"I low so?"
"You are not kind to him. You
know he loves yon, and until within n
few days I felt suro thut you loved
him."
"Oh, well, we like each other well
enough. What have I done to bring
upon myself one of your solemn
lectures?"
"If you love Tom, why do you en-i
Courage Mr. Redmond?"
"Why, Allie, I'm not married to
Tom yet, and I don't know that I ever
shall be. And, my dear, you ought to
know a secretit's always a good
thing to have two strings to your bow.
It gives you a choice, you know; or If
one should fail, you have tho other to
depend upon."
'Lottie, you're not in earnest?"
"Indeed I am. I like Tom. He's
handsomer than Archie Ueel-nond, and
li -her, too, with this line farm all his
own, and the money his father left
him; but some people would say that
Mr. Redmond was a better match
altogether."
"Why, Lottie, if you think in this
way, you cannot really care for Tom.
I felt sure that you and he would make
a match."
"Well, it isn't impossible. Only he
hasn't asked me yet.'
"But he will."
Lottie laughed.
Suppose bo don't? Then I may
have Archie Redmond to fall back
upon. Andsupp se I can't get Archie?
Tnen there is Tom."
Tom Wheeler roso up slowly from
the sofa, and walked softly from the
room, out into the yard and garden.
"S. that is her game, is it? I would
not have believed it of her. Two
strings to one bow! Two stools to
sit upon, rather. Well, she'll come to
tno ground for any support that sho
will get out of me. '
The picnic was a wry pleasant
affair, im evervbo.lv said -evervbodv
j but Tom Wheeler.
Strive as he would against, it, he was
consumed with jealouv and disap
I point inent ; and bis unhappiness was
apparent to most lookers-on. Kvon
Mr. Archie Redmond perceived it.
"What is the inaMer with Tom
Wheeler?" ho said, as the latter turned
away aftr giving an abrupt reply to a
remark of his. "lie is not like himself
to-day."
The inquiry was addressed to his
cousin, Miss Redmond; but Miss
Triplett, the gusip and newsmonger
ol the neighborhood, took upon herself
to reply.
"Why, Mr. Relmond," she said,
archly, "yoa ought to know, if any one
does."
"I ? Wh it have I to do with il?"
"What a look of injured innocence!
But really, you ought to be ashamed to
llirt so, and cutout poor Tom Wheeler,
you naughty man!"
And Miss Triplett smilingly showed
her false teeth, and playfully tapped
Mr. Redmond vvi'.h her fan.
"Really, Miss 1'iiplett, you speak in
mysteries."
"You don't really nvan to say that
you did not know tii.it Tom Wheeler
is as good as engaged to Lottie
I steward? Whv, it's been an under
stood thing for at least a year past."
Rediuond colored. He had admired
Lottie, and been much struck with her
pretty face and sweet manners; and
this news regarding her somehow
affected him unpleasantly.
"I never before heard of this," he
said, quietly.
"Is il, possible? But, then, you have
been here so short a time. Well, in
that case we will exonerate you. But
there is no excuse for Lottie steward.
A girl who can change as suddenly as
she has toward Tom Wheeler must be
altogether heartless."
Archie Redmond overheard ono or
two other similar remarks during the
dav, and watching Lottio closelv, ho
saw that while she gave him undoubt
ed encouragement, she yet seemed
anxious to not entirely break off with
Tom.
lie was pained, for ho had, uncon
sciously to himself, become interested
in the pretty, sprightly girl.
"Sho is deceiving either him of
invself." ho thought; "and, in either
case, is not the right sort of a girl for
me."
"Tom," whispered Lottie, with one
of her sweet smiles, "as Alice is to go
homo with her mother from the picnic,
I I'll ride back with you in the buggy
I've told Mr. Redmond that I am too
tired for tho long walk bnck."
"Thank you!" said Tom, coldly
"But Alice won't ride with he.- mother.
I've promised to tak"? her h imo in my
buggy." .
Lottie turned and looked around for
Archie Redmond. She would havo to
explain, and walk bad; with him,
which win no disagreeable prospect,
despite her declaration of weariness.
The weariness, in fact, had been
assumed; for sho saw that Tom was
not pleased, and wished to put him in
a good humor again.
"Where is Mr, Redmond?" sho said,
hastily, to Katie, who was at that
moment skipping past.
"Cousin Archie? Oh, he's gon9
home with the t'alverts Miss Calvert
asked him and I am going home with
mamma and tho rest. Xot half so
nice as walking is it?"
Poor Lottio! Both her bow-strings
had failed her -a predicament she had
not foreseen, or, to accept Tom's ver
sion, between two stools she had come
to tho ground. However, a kind
neighbor gave her "a lift" in his
wagon, in which situation she had the
mortification of seeing Mr. Redmond
drive past in Mrs. Calvert's carriage,
beside pretty May Calvert, while Tom
and Alice, in the nw bugsry, ha1 left
them far behind.
She was very angry with Tom,
though she had to admit to herself
that it was all her own fault. And
when she left tho farm, a few days
after, she and Tom hadn't quite made
up, neither had Archie Redmond
again c tiled upon her.
Lottie had promised to spend another
fortnight at tho farm, and she made
up her min 1 that she would besatis
f!"il with Tom and marry him after
all. But before the lime for her visit
came, she had heard two astounding
reports, Mr. Archie Redmond was to
be married to bis cousin. Miss Marion
Redmond, and Alice Brown was en.
gaged to Tom Wh-eb-r! There were
to be two big weddings, and Lottio
was invited to botii.
There is no doubt but that she was
bitterly disappointed, for, ih she con
fessed, she really liked Tom. But sho
had also to admit that only herself was
to blani". she had tried to sit on two
stools at once, and she had come to the
ground.
Polish Hospitality,
The Poles are extraordinarily bosplt
ble ; they entertain without grudge.
; At every table in the large houses
some cxtia places aro laid ready lor
, unexpe. ted guests -as they say, "for
: the traveller that comes oer the sea."
j It is possible in Poland to go uninvited
: to visit your friend, takimr your child.
! ren, your servants and horses, and to
j stay five or six weeks without receiv
ing any hint to go. '1 he Poles are
j fond of gayety, of aiiii'seiuciit, of soci
ety; they love pleasure in all its bright
j and charming forms. The country
j houses are constantly full of visitors,
j and in the w inter there is often the
j "Kulig," a gathering which increases
I as it goes from house to house. It is
! taken fioin a peasant custom, and the
nobles, when they get up a "Kulig,"
wear the peasant costumes, very beau
1 tifully made. They go over the snow
in sledges from house to housei
I dancing for two or three days at one,
j and then going on to another, taking
the people ol the house which they
leave with them. At hut there may
be perhaps twenty sledg-vs all full of
p ople, dressed in bright, colors and
singing the soagi of the "Kulig." At
every house they dauee the character
istic dances of the occasion the
"Krakomiak," the "M iur," and the
"Oherek." The first is a very pretty
and peculiar d. nice, in which the part
ners turn away from each oilier and
then come face to fac"; the "M.rur"
is something like the quadrille, though
it is by no means the ..-; the
"Obcrek" resembles a wait danced the
reverse way, and with a very pretty
and characteristic figure, in which the
man kneels on one knee and kisses bis
partner's hand. They are all most
(harming and pretty, and tho Pole,
dance with enthusiasm as well as
gra e. They havo many national cus
toms and ceremonies which are occa
sions for dancing and pleasure. Then
in the autumn and winter there is
boar hunting. In this way, with
these var ions auiuseinents, the time
passes in the country house, and visi
tors will. stay six weeks or pet haps six
mont lis.
The Wild Horses of the West.
The wild horses of Wyoming and
Western Xebraska are compact little
animals, weighing from Kn( to I.Iimi
pounds. The majority of them stand
fourteen hands high. In color they
are usually brown, sorrel or bay. A
gray is seldom seen, unless it is a horse
that hai strayed away from civiliza
tion. Their tails grow leng. frequent
ly dragging the groun I. but their
manes aro like those ol o! her horses,
and not Mowing to the knees, as they
are represented in some b ioks. The
eye, probably from being constantly on
the watch, is larger than tlie eye ol the
domestic horse, aud even when tamed
the eye remains a distinctive mark of
the horse's origin. Wild horses, w hen
captured or ta n 'd, are superior to
other horses of the same size. Many
of them are used by tho cowboys, and
others are broken to harness and driven
as carriage hor-es, being entirely
trustwoithv.
Deluded Drinkers.
"I suppose few drinkers of whiskey,"
said a wholesale dealer in the Moid,
"realize how little of origin il value
they get for their money. The cost to
the distiller of making the best possi
ble whisky is only about li'cnits a gal
lon. Xow, a gill is a fair quantity
for a drink, the charge for which at
the most st vlish bars is twentv cents.
That is to say, a thingeosting the pro
ducer a sixth of a cent in Kentuckv is
retailed at nearly forty times as much.
Of course the government tax takes
some of (been onions profit, and tho
wastes of storage another portion
Toe ga nsof the handlers remain as
tounding. I know of no more solid
temperance argument than the ridic
ulous hig i p ices charged for liquor.-'
by th glass." Xor York .Sun,
iI-IFKAMONCTIIK LOCGKRS
jWintop S(.'sio:-; in n Mfiiiif
j Lumber Gump.
, Hard Work hj Day and Jolly Times at
j N ght in the Fmvsts;.
j Despite the unprofitable past year in
j the lumber business, the woodsmen
have gone in swarms from Bangor, as
usual, this winter, to cut spruce and
pine on the upper Penobscot. One
, inducement to tho lumbermen to oper.
ate, is the low cost of provisions, il
: being possible to board a crew of men
! -i to 2"i per cent, cheaper than a year
, ago. Labor also is low, as the Prince
L'dward Island boys have poured into
' Bangor by the hundreds this season.
1 looking for employment, and lh"y have
put wages down and kept them there.
I Think of a stout young man swinging
an a.xe all winter for f b) to $1.1 and
his board. These are the wages nc-
cepted by many of the Prince L'dward
! Island loggers. There was a time in
! the days id' big pines, near by, whin a
j woodsman was looked upon as a mau
I who had learne I a trade.
Many people have queer ideas of
; on w loggers live in the wool's. They
build a camp immediately, if there is
, not one already near the scene of their
, work, and are seldom morn than a day
! about it. The camp is simply a log
house, with low sides and stecp-pitchcd
roof. The chink of the walls are
filled in with mud. moss, and leaves,
j and a high banking of earth or snow
I reaches allied to the eaves oulside.
! The entrance is in cue end, and the
only window is in the opp i.-ite end.
The cook and his assistant have a sort
of pantry partitioned oil at the win
dow end, and there are wood and
provision storeroom on either side of
the entrance. The remainder of the
building forms one room. On one side
is a 'ling couch made of boughs, hay
or straw, covered w ith heavy quilts
or blankets, on which the men sleep in
a row, t n i!.e opposite side is a long
table, made of small logs, hewn smooth
on top, on which the food is served.
In front of it is a big log hewn out for
ji settee, and called the deacon seat.
The men, when done eating, have only
to turn around in their seat to toast
their shins at a big lire of logs, which
glows like a small volcano in the midst
of all, and sends its Mnoke and sparks
through a hole in the roof, six feet
square, the draft being aided by a
roof-tree.
The fare h plain and nionolonoiH,
but wholesome and substantial. Pork
and beans, bread and molasses, and
pork fat, the latter used for butter,
make up a breakfast at sunrise. Tie n
the crew go to work, and if near by the
ramp, they come back at 12 o'clock for
dinner, which is beans and pork, w ith
pork scraps and doughnuts. The men
work until it is too dark to tell a hem
lock from a spruce, and then come
back to cat a supper of the same
viands, varied with dried apple-sauce.
Fish is served once or twice a week.
The beverage is cheap tea.
F.veiiiugs and Sundays are spent in
Idling wonderful arns, singing ear
splitting songs, and smoking. In some
tamps the men play cards, and gamble
for tobacco, clothing, and even the
wages.
The woods beans are tho best of all
baked beans, and put Boston cut rely
in the shade. They are cooked in an
roil pot placed in a pit surrounded by
live coals, and covered tightly with
?arth over night. In Mie morning they
ue done to a turn. Xo range can com
pete with the bean-hole of the logging
swamp.
The woodsmen range in age from It!
to t'.", dress in heavy woolen cr knit
under wear, cheap ready-made clothes,
riot h or knitted cans, moccasins, and
many socks and mittens. They work
itn an average four months, come out
is fat as bears, and with from $"iO to
frl.Vi due them. They spend the mon
ey, and then aro ready to work on the
river or go driving.--.Vw York Sun.
The (.rent Chimes of the New Orleans
Kv posit inn.
One of the features of the World's
Fair at New Orleans is the great
chime of bells over the chief entrance
to the Main Building. These chimes
are played every wick-day from
twelve to una o'clock, and on Sunday
sacred airs ring out over the city for
an hour or more. A correspondent
thus describes the scene as he first
discovered Professor Widdows at
work among the bells: "The Professor
sto id before a rack of levers in a
b i m all roughly furnished room. He
pulled vigorously first at one lever
then at another. Beforo him on a
rack was a sheet of music, and as he
worked, the great bells overhead
boomed out in volumes of sound that
all might hear the notesof our national
anthem. "Yes," said the Professor,
in response to inquiry, "that is the
way I do it. You see these levers,
Ofteen in number, aro connected by
means of win s with the clappers of
the bells overhead. By means of this
lever 1 can produce a jiimri cll'ect.
Tin: chiii'o consists of fifteen bells,
having a register of mie and one-tilth
octaves, with Mat seventh, sharp fourth,
and sharp eleventh. With a chime of
this size and arrangement I 'n play
an almost unlimited number of airs.
Mv consists of F.i-glish,
Irish, Scotch, and American ballads
waltzes and other dance music, and
selec tions from all the operas. Now
let us go up and examine the bel!s
themselves.
A further ascent of several steps
brought the correspondent and bis
guide to a point immediately above
'be room in which the forgoing
conversation occurred, lb-re, on a
heavy oaken framework, fourteen
bells w ere arranged in the form of a
square, while high above tho centre
was hung the monster bell of tho
collection. Wires ran from the clap
per of each bell to the centre, then
passing through the door to the room
below. "Now." said the professor
this chime is notable, for a. number of
reasons. Tn begin vith, it. is tho
largest chime evir cast, and is, there
fore, eoiniiieu.snraie with the greatness
of the institution whose birth il is to
herald to the world. The total weight
of the bells ymi see MiSpended here is
22.UIII pounds. This little fellow,"
patting it lovingly with his bands,
: weighs 2oo poitiuls, and that big ont
over your he-id will tip the b am at
.something over 1.2"" pounds. Now
another remarkable feature of thi.
chime of bells i; the fact that they art
played jiid as they come from the
molds. In the ordinary method ol
manufacture nf bells, tho bell when
east is put into a large lathe and
turned and chipped until it yields the
proper tone. They have not been
touched by a chisel, but were cast sc
as to insure the proper lone.
The Phibisophiciil ltiuio.
We have most interesting acquain
tances and some warm friendships
among dogs, says a letter from New
Mexico, but we had to come to Santa
Fe to me.-t with the charming litlh
burro. This delight I ul little creature
is quilt) the philosopher among ani
mals. Itn meeting you he eyes you
over thoughtfully, see im to weigh your
character; if , voti are found "-.anting
lie ceases to noMco you with Indian
stoicism or dismisses yoa with au im
patient toss of his head. If, however,
you im et his approval he soun times
tips you a merry wink, gives vo i a
meaning look, and says unutterable
things with his cars. 1 ml t less he
could speak if he woiihl, but. being a
philosopher and s-unowh.it given to
despising th.- human animal, be has
devined the secret of t he proverb that :
-Speech is silveiu. but silence is gold
en." II'! v ill ijt.iti I -.vitli pa hetic or
c inteinptiioiis patience to be laden, so
deeply overla lea thai between burro
and burden only his expressive eyes
and ears and the t bin wisp nf a tail
are apparent at cither end. We are
told that when In- understands th.it
his way lies toward the mesa;, anion,;
green pastures, he ambles on with fair
.speed, but arrived there not all tho
king's horses, not all the king's men
can make him return t ithe city. He
rolls an-i kicks and laughs to scorn his
driver, who usually bows to ne.vs-.iiy
and leaves the creature to wandr at.
his own sweet will until, satisfied with
mere materia' pleasures, he again re
turns to the haunts of men to study
minds and morals. .
Origin nf a Familiar llvmii.
There is an interesting r.ii-i. I -nt
mentioned in tie1 life ol't'liarle-i W'e--ley,
which led to the writing of one of
his best known hymns. One day Mr.
Wesley wa sitting by an open win
dow looking out on the bcautiHii ueld-i
in summer tune. Presently a li'tle
bird ilitting iibniit in the sunshine at
tracted his attention, .lust then a
hawk come sweeping down toward
the little bird. The poor thing very
much frightened was darting here and
there, trying to lind some place of
refuge. In the bright, sunny air, in
the leafy trees, or the green fields
th'-re was no hiding place from the
fierce grasp of the hawk. But seeing
the open window and the man sitting
by it, the bird in its terror ib-vv toward
it and with a beating In art and
quivering wing found refuge in
Mr. Wesley's bosom. lie sheltered
it from the threatening danger and
saved it from a Cruel death.
Mr. Wesley was at the time suffer
ing a severe trial and was teeling the
need of a refuge in bis own time of
tr u de as much as the tn mbling little
b:nl did that nestled itt his bosom. So
he took up bis peiK and wrote the
beautiful hymn.
".'o,n, Savior of im soul
I.el nil' to l liy l o-oin il, ,
W hile tho waves ul ti,ul,.. mil,
While the tenipe t still is nhiu."
Waterloo, A'. Y., Obstrwr.
Rules of Life.
'In he ihe lliini; we st-ein .
'I'n do tin tiling we deem
J.itjuint-il hy ilnly ;
T.i walk in luiih, nor ilo-am
1 1 1 1 'i.,ninu' i .mi's -i-licmi
1 1 tui'li nn I liennly .
Cnslin- sell. line il-iite,
I i-c.n!'n:: human n )!",
I iill hem I - In Mle-l-llle ;
In huml-le h,iM-ohi.l.-Kich
olimie,)' in loilioej'- ii-li',
.VI I'- -'"I I i-l'-.i-nre.
'Jo trust, :,lll Il ih-i -en I'll;
J. II truth, th null not he
I';i!-i-!v lsii;linie
I'.iiii nl ul ills i iM-l,
"In i-aiihin. Miii-ii iii ie et ;
r.is.siou i c-l l :iiotoix.
Will hoi- lie mi ours em chill.
'1 i -II , till w e;ll .I 'l si ill,
l i e w --.iK l ieui laihni: ,
II,,-. Is to , i.o-l s ,ll
i ',, i nil, .in i lo 1 1 , ; i , ; I
I 'HI hejUI-nh C.,llie.
iimoi.'ors.
iVbore time is money -In a watch
factory.
T!i- fool no'i'.of any goo 1 medical
work ought to contain cure for corns.
In some puts of the coiintiy just
now it i-s tin- fadiioii to kill time by
leighing it.
Mrs. Ing ills says that woman is a
sile-it power in tic Li-1 I. That will
be now.-- to tiioiisaudsof husbands.
It has 1 n leiiuuki'd that some
men gie according (,, their means,
mid Mine' a rding to their meanness,
A machine has been iim-ntt-d which
will darn slocking! by just t inning a
crank. "Who will cue for mother
how '-"
"No," said an old mYi 1, "I don't
miss a husband very much. I have
trained my dog to growl every time I
feel him, and I have just bought a
clothing-store dummy lh.it. 1 can scold
when 1 feel like it."
Soin, Mine has bund a petrified vil
lage in Nebraska, i h" prairie dogs
stand pi-iriii".! in front of petrified
huts, while various o'li-r petrified an
jmals give the eoiniiiutiiiv a solid
character that is rarely met with in
th -so degenerate days.
Altera performer has executed a
(lillicult fandango in (i-ilal, the whole
liiigtb of the key board and back
again, and lost two suspend, r buttons,
and is bathed in perspiration from
head to foot, it is a triih1 unrea-ionablo
for the musical critic to say that he
has been playing at the piano. It looks
more like vv oik.
lion llliliins Paint Their Faces,
The Indian- hive, without much
doubt, been called red men on account
o'' the tin v.-i-s.il custom of painting
their facs and belies, and for this
purpose they u-e i fine days containing
dillVront o',,b!s of if.. n. since the
cstabli!iui"u! of their trading stores
they purchase th -se ochres to a great
extent, ba's usually have some of a
similar charaelcr which they havo
themselves found. Some advantage
are claimed in the use of these paints
as a protection again -t the rigors of
the climate, both the i y winds of tho
north and th" torrid summers of tho
south, but it i-i also because of their
superstitions in regard to il, viz., that
it is conducive to goo I In, k, and that
its original use was in obedience to the
direct command of !ol. In applying
it, an Indian puts a little ochre and
grease in the palm ot the hand, and
then the p i'.nis are rubbed together to
thoroughly mix and obtain the proper
consistency; this is use I for the "Mat
tints" and the stripings and fancy
touehrti aro put on afterward:. Some
Indians take more, kindly to a particu
lar color, imagining that it gives better
luck than another. When the paint is
rubbed on the lace tho eyes are closed,
so that the li Is may have their full
share, and it may be for this ruasoii
that some t ribbs pull out the eyelashes,
as these, by holding an extra allow,
ance, might cause irritation of tho
eyes. The skin of many Indians'
faces, especially that of the nose, be
I'oines full of little holes, caused, no
doubt, by the paints used. The squaw
ordinarily use red for tho cheeks, and
a bright vermilion does add to their,
beauty, or rather, in a way, hides their
ugliness; a perpetual atmosphere ot
smoke, grease and dirt, with such
accessories as long and fatiguing rides,
severe work, and rough bod, is not
C'indiie'ivo to female beauty. War
paint, so call"d, is only an excessive
use of any color. After returning
from an expedition most tribes paint
faces Black of those who have been out,
that being tho color of rejoicing.
Frequently these oches are rubbed
over tho uppers of lnoca.iins and on
clothing, and at their dances horseshoe
marks are painted on the body or on
the clothing, nnd tho pony is also deco
rated in this way. If one has been
wounded, tho place of the wound is
glaringly represented by red paint on
their Listoricul pictures. IF. i Clark'
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