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W'th nmiiho 1 dawning
lli lglit is tlioniot niiiR,
Hioiis.it,; miii has a d'nihle clinrin.
(Ilieim linn no lining
Yniilli only wi'ing
Tin' n i if life ns n s-n of calm.
With manhood l inning
Yimili m-lily scouting
Tlip word nf caution, goes madly on;
Heckles, imliiviliiiK,
All bounds oxii"'ilni)!,
ftini'n Imt shadow, tm ipiiokly genu.
Wit i manh ml n Miing
I ot. ii i Ink" warning
A .1 1 rm 'iiir elves fi r the sterner frny.
I' casiu e pursuing
I lit lends In ruin
Fo away iili .limfuwi, ny, nway.
- Ilnl Itrrlrin Ih h t it hWi- Yes..
A Modost Man's Adventure.
If there is mil' thing in t It is worM that
I hate more llimi iiiiiiIIiit it ii an even
ing 1'iirly, whether it take the furin of
tea, inn -ic, and twaddle, it mini' in the
more awk-wml guise of ;i regular dance.
I nfoittlliately, I mil short nil' I ill-fa-vnn'il.
Indeed, I run well remember
even now (In? rage and yriff which pos
sessed my youthful mi ml when I discov
cred that 1 was called "Tins Tn:id" by
ir.y school i ouip.iiiions, and how Unit mir
old c nu hman, wlio wits ntv ally and
confidant in those days, roulil lind m
l( Iter winds of consolation 1 1 ft ft "Never
you inind, Mister .I n k ; yon lei 'cm talk,
a puck of young impertinence-. What
I say is 'iind-onie is 'auilsoinn does."
'rime has Imt accentuated my many
personal defects, of which lam painfully
conscious, and tin- result is tliat I am
shy, (.allelic and nervous in society.
One fell and dreadful day I mark it, O
Time, with (he Marked letter in thy
cnlcmlai I I was invited by niy cousins to
( sijiiiie (In m to a dancing party at South
Keli-inglon. 1 made feeble, excuses;
they were overruled. 1 appealed to my
respected mother; alas ! she thinks I only
need lu nging out to bci mil ! an cnter
t '.tin i ii ornament to society.
Well, I gave ill. What would you
have me to do' I'gly as 1 am, I can't
help seeing that Kale is a most ph nsin
person. I lind it dillieult to say "No"
to any one, ami mi impossibility in the
ease of this lovely roll. ill of mine.
Kate and MiHieont me what are railed
"line girls," and am not Hire that 1
did not catch the ghn-t of a pin upon
ibe long list (if fbmky fares in tbe ball
ns I stumbled along in my tight booti,
with Kate on my right arm and Mdli
cent on my h ft, and both of them talk
intf t one another over my head, alas!
The bill! room w as a long obloii'.', and
opposite to tin.1 end where the musicians
were si at loned there was a kind of al
cove or bay window, in which was
placed one of those large circular otto
mans which have a cushioned sent all
round, and on top of the lounge a re
ceptacle which is lillcd with foliage,
plants and drooping ferns. Now, rould
anything be more enticing to a man of
my retiiing disposition; If I could only
get behind that happy cltoman, behold
me blissfully concealed until the gen
eral move to supper i-limiM dra"; me
from my n sting place. Fortune favored
me for out e. Hut ju-t as I was begin
ii i nil " rialii! the pleasantness of my
si elusion and the relief from the shy
ness which assails me in public I felt n
most depressing sleepiness rieeping over
me.
1 must have, slept soundly for some
time, Imt at l ist, mi ldenly, and with a
stitillol and (hilly feeling, 1 awoke.
Confused at I'll -t I e uld not imagine
where I was or how my ordinary sleeping
attiie had become ( h inged into the claw
hammer coat mi I oilier male habiliments
ef evenini society. However, as I crept
round the ottoman, nnd peering out from
my coiner, sawn wide stretch of white
II inr-( loth, dimly lighted, hi fore me,an I
mai ked the iriusic stands at the other
end of the r 'oin, the dreadful truth
burst in upon nc; they had all oj.ine
down to supper. Now in my purturba-
tion at the prospect of jjoini; to the itlinm
iiinble tlaiii ilie; pally I liaj been tumble
to attack my dinner with my usual
robust appetite. I was therefore, raven
ously hungry. Moved by a desire to cut
and drink at w hatever cost to my rou
st ilutional modesty, ami ai.Minie'l at the
fear lest the supper should be over and
the debris thereof cleared aw ay before. I
could obtain what I bean In want with
an incrcasiit"; craving, it struck mo that
it would be ipiite possible for me to
glide into the Riipper-ro 'iii among the
servants, who would be constantly J"'"c?
in and coming out.
I slipp 'd quietly down tho stairs, and
9oon found myself close to them. Now
was my opp .rtunity, and I was just gn-
to seize it, when a fiend in human
shape, a waiter in evening (In ss, pushed
a lingo dish of straw b' ti ii s into my
hands, saying in that unpronounceable
cockney twang, "now then Swancy, (my
mother rails my hair auburn) look alive;
Tnko those yern strawberries round ;
and mind you don't spill 'era,"
Not a single minute's tinio was give i
me for rxiostulation or explanation;
other waiters wero pushing on behind ;
and Ixiforo I rould gather my scattered
wits I found inysi lf in tho brilliantly
lightoj supper nx'in, aninng the hired
waiters, and with sn e loruious dish of
fruit in my hano. What was I to do?
h't not ft moment to decide. The
VOL. IX.
horror of being seen In such a too-rldic-culous
position terrified me, nnd I found
myself handing round the fruit, with a
waiter following me with cream and
sugar. Imagine the awful state of my
mind when I approached my cousins!
They were close together, separated only
by the partner of one of them. I rould
see, ns I drew n"iir, that they were talk
ing vivaciously. It was their turn next.
The gentleman beside Kate said, "No,
thanks." I tics him! Kale refused him
without looking up, Milliccnt allowed
her friend to place some si raw berries on
her plate, talking eagerly all the time;
and with a sigh of relief I passed on my
strange round iinreroguieil. No tpu s
lions wen! asked, and not knowing what
to do, 1 followed them, or, rather, went
with them, ti: the kitchen pail of the
mansion, leavini; one or two in the sup
per room to attend on the gentlemen who
remained there.
"Now its our turn t i get n blowout,"
said a long an I c i laverom w.iilei to me,
as wt; went dow n st lirs side by side. "I
iluiino 'ow you feels, but the sight of
them swclh a bustin Yinse Ivci, and the
smell of the viltles 'as made me that
'lingry ns I i Id cat the 'ind leg of a
dog, raw."
I ipiite agreed w it t my gentleman, mid
painful as my posit on was I felt some
what cheered at the prospect of fond
which his words opened out to me.
"Well," at length sai l my long friend
leaning back in his chair, heaving a sigh
of repletion, and casually picking his
teeth with a folk, "hall I can say is
I done myself wrry well, and I 'ope
you 'itve, loo, young in in. I only wish
I 'ad a go i i like litis heveiyday; but
life ain't all beer and skittles, ,-ts the
sayin' is. Keen long at this tiadi ? I
ain't sure if I've seed your fait a fore."
"No," s;tid I, "Ibis is the Ii -t job I
ever had of the kind."
"Well," said he, "yer might do
wus", though the hour, is trying to the
Villi."
"I s'pose you know whit you've.
Hot t'T do, matey ;" said my companion.
"No," S c , "Ir.'Ul'l My do."
"Well, look yere," said he, "Islands
'ere at lite bar and lakes the tickets
It "in the gents and mils out the num
bers to you. You liads the numbers on
the 'caps and 'amis tin; toppers an
ceterer to me, and I gives 'em to the
gents. They're all ill holder, for I took
'em myself, and yer won't ';tvc no
trouble."
.lust then the exodus began, nnd
"Here, waitei, No. '.'I; look sharp! Not
that; the brown coat. All riuhl ; this is
mine." I A clink of silvei i. "Thattk'cc,
sir," from my friend. "1'otly-lwo, I
tell you" (to im ; "can't youliudit?
Clumsy idiot" Hinder his breathi;"do be
piick. Don't keep me waiting here nil
night!" "tint a light, waiter; Tlta-n ks;"
and so forth. I wm trying, in a eon
fu.ed sort of way, m the midst of the
hubbub, to think how I should oet out
of it all, when I got sight if my top
gear, with its appropriate ticket pinned
mi in a convenient corner. .lust then I
fancied I distinguished my cousin Kate's
voice, and soon I caught the words
mistaktibly her-: "Where on earth can
.I n k have hid leu him,, If, Millie; It is
too bad of him. "
)e-H rati ly I snatched up my hat and
mat, and belore my fellow di-pen-cr, in
his utter astotiishiii 'iii, Ind time to cry
out "stop thief !'' I win over the bar,
dow n the steps in a trice, and seated in
the farthest corner of my aunt's carriage.
I need scarcely add after this woeful ex
pel ieiice and alter the toil urn of those
hours, that my cousins have had to lind
some other escort, and society hai lost
an ornament (!) in tin; person ol
Mr. John de la llorhe llrow n. l:'ii:lifi
J'dj'iT,
A Last Hgyptliiii Tnnii.
Tho ihriphcrcis of the papyri which
hai-e been bnnnht to Vienna from Kl
Fayum have learned from oun of them
the existence of a town in Lower Kgvpt,
all ti new of which si ems to have disap
peared fur the last linn jearsor inure.
The document is a papyrus a little ovci
four feet long by one foot w ide, contain,
ing n marriage contract in I J reek, and if
well preserved. The date is not given,
but Profs. Karabacek and Wessely be
lieve it belongs to thn early part of tin
sixth century. The bridegroom was
named Theon, the bride Maria. She hail
a fortune of her own nmounting to 101
gold pieces, nnd the fir lire husband en
gages to lind for her food nnd clothing,
and everything suitable for "an ordinary
legitimate wife." There are. witnesscf
and a notarial certilieate. All tho par
tics lire described as belonging to till
town of .Iiistianapolis. The editors de
clare that they can lind no mention ol
Ihis place mining the lists of towns, cle.i
of Lower Kgypt.
Cheesn nt Swiss Weililinps.
Mr. Hoy I Winchester, the consul gen
eial of the I'nitcd Slates in Switzerland,
stales that one of the customs that for
inerly prevailed in the cheeso legions ol
that country was for tho friends of I
bride anil bridegroom to join in tho pre--entatioii
on their wedding day of ni
elaborate cheese. This checso was Usee
ns a family register and heirloom, oi
which the births, marriages, and dentin
were recorded. He says Im has sect
some of these "old cheeses" that dab
hack to llKO.
IMTTSPOHO
THE FAMILY rilYSICUN.
Kxcciltritt for Nriirnlala.
Yelk of one egg, one teaspoonf'sl of
-all, one tenspoonfiil of ginger, hreo
Irops of turpentine, . llent the liigre li
nts together and spread it on a pioro of
!d muslin, applying tho poultice di
rectly to tho part nllleted.
Itnnnllrl for ljirpl.
There are, doubt less, some readers
who will, for reasons of their own, hesi
tate to seek professional advice; for them
Ihcse simple I ith s and iflincilies are
given. Uegulate your diet, otherwise a
. lire will be absolutely impossible. For
excessive acid risings, and the heartburn
connected thrrewjlh, alkalies such .'IS
lime w ater, soda water, the bicarbonate
of soda or magnesia will bring iinmeili
ite relief. These must imt be taken in
loo large doses, or for any prolonged
period, as the advantage gained by their
use is only transitory, mil in certain con
lilions they i, re capable if doing more
harm than good. In many forms of
lyspi'psia, (specially (Iiosh which con
stipation and "bloating" occur after
meals, the following often proves nn efli
e'ent preparation: Bicarbonate of soda,
powdered ihubarb, sugar of pi psin,
pmvdcrcd ginger, sulmitrato of bismuth,
in I powilere I i ul o l n, each in cipial
piantities. Any ipiantity may be orb-red,
but three drams of each will bo
piile siilli' ienl to prove whether or not
.'In: use of the remedy is judicious. Of
:his powder from one-fourth to one
half a tenspoonfiil may be taken ill a
wino glass of milk, water or colTeo lifter
atilig, the dose being less "lied if too
great a laxative action i induced. Aft r
the dyspeptic symptoms have disap
peared, tonics will be needed to obviate
the danger of a recti rrciiee and restore
the general health. As previously
stated, never should dyspeptics alt 'nipt
to treat themselves with patent, niedi
t ines. If the simple tieatiuent herein
nlvtscd does not prove successful, then
liny should see a c iinpetent physician.
lSontmi rill.
I'nr Arhr null l.rv Arh.
One if our little girls has been
troubled with ear ache since her baby
hood, saysliiissa Potter in (Aid Ifawu--Li'ii;.
No sores have gathered, but a
cold or exposure to a strong wind is al
most certain to cause her nciili! siilTeriug
with car ac!te. After trying nearly every
thing that 1 have seen or beard recoin
uiftiilc'l, 1 have settled on this applica
tion as giving -u'est and ipiickest relief.
It is a flannel bag slulf d w ith hops and
wrung from Imt vinegar. I lay the big
aver the child's ear, ns hot in she will
bear it, cover the whole side of the face
with dry ll innel, and change the hop
bag as often as it In-coni'M cool. Tho
warm steam tilling the child's ear soon
relieves the pain. Mulling the ear with
lite "heart of a roast" I onion," trickling
(if molasses, wads of peppered cotton,
mil lumps of mutton tallow, has never
vet, in my cxpeii-nee, eased car ache, and
.ueh irritating messes crowded or poured
into the delicate labyrinth of the car may
do mischief.
Another child is a victim of leg ache.
Inherited, po sibly, for well do we re
member what we sulT re I from its tor
tures in our ow n childhoo I. Heal and
moisture give us relief, and following in
:mr mother's footsteps, we have routed
night after night Irom our warm ipiar
lets, in the dead of winter, to kindlo
tires and till frosty kettles from water
pails thickly ( Ill-ted with ice, that wc
might get the writhing ped tl extremities
of our litt'e heir into a tub of hot water
ni ipiirkly as possible. Hut lately we
have learned all this work nnd exposure
is needless. We simply wring a towel
from salted water a bowl of it standing
in our sleeping room p a ly for such an
eiitergency--wrap the limb in it from
ankle to knee, without taking the child
fr.nn his bed, and then swathe with dry
flannels, thick and warm, tucking the
bl uikets nroiiud liim a little closer, and
relief is sure. A croupy cough can often
be loosened and prevented by swathing
the throat with dry warm tliuiiels; a
thick pin k of them to sweat the throat
and chest often helps so speedily it is not
necessary to sicken tin.' child with ipecac
or to wake the Inni.e knelling lires and
preparing hot p icks.
HtlillCHt Mtxlius,
Ask thy purse w hat thou shouldst
buy.
Inordinate demands should meet with '
sturdy denials. i
A man may lose his goods for want of
demand ing them.
lletter one's home be too little one day j
than too big all the year round. j
Lost wealth may be replaced by in dustry,
lost knowledge by study, lost
health by medicine; but lost time is
gone forever. I
What sort of morality is that which
gets olTendcd w hen nsked to pay a debt
which the debtor promised to pay long
before the time of dunning? t'inrin
ilun h'ni'iirtr.
l'erpelual Mallon. '
"I see scientist, all agree that tho i
pro'.ilcm of perpetual motion cannot be
solved," said 11 ibinso". !
' Tney ought to come down to our
house; they would Ibid a solution there,"
growled Tiiompsi n.
"How so" I
"Oh! my wife nays she's continuallv '
on the "o,' jet Ivrk dVt,
ii ii r 11 ii ii ii
CHATHAM CO., N. C,
CHILDREN'S tOU MX.
A l.ltll. II on. i ma til.
I am a I it tie hoiis'Mitoiil ;
Tliisswe'iinK cap I wear
Iteenn e 1 must, for fear llc iltist
Would settle ill my liair.
I've put on grandma's glas-e.;
Those, mi'l Hie ken h ef, loo,
Are to make me look like our old i ook,- -
I wonder if 1 do;
This hunch of keys is auntie's,
Tin y .jingle as I walk :
linl I mii.t go, for mauls, I stnov,
Me.nl I nut stop long to talk.
-Kiitntii I'ioieil in )milli s ( 'tnnitt ti i"ii.
A Jniimirar I'ntilr.
Once there was a crab who found n
C! nmb of i ice cake, w rites Helen N. S.
Tiiontpson in the Ora-laml for Septctn.
Iff. .lust then a monkey met him, nnd
oirered to ei hange a pel iuminti seed
for the rake, to whuh the good-natured
crak agreed. Tie.' monkey ate lip his
portion, while the n b went to his hole
in the hill mid planted his pcisimmnii
seed in the garden. S ion a line tree up
pea1 ed, and the crab was happy enough
over his bargain, lb' used to sit on the
balcony of his hcii.e and watch the fruit
grow mid ripen wilh g eat delight. Hut
one unlucky day the monkey came to
see him and begged for some fruit, of
fering 111 climb the tree to get it. The
crab, being a very polite fellow, ipiietly
consented, but reipiesteil his visitor to
throw down some persimmons to him
itbo. Hut the dece t Tul scamp lillcd his
pocket and nt ! the best fruit, stoning
the crab mi a iw hile with tin: seeds. The
nab, inwardly raging, determined to
tench that monkey ; but, s'licwdly pie
tembiig to regard this treatment as n
joke, challengid the monkey to descend
headforemost. Yam of his abilities, he
accepted the challenge, and began his
descent. The ft nit, of course, rolled out
of his pockets, ami the crab was ready
to sei.e it, nnd tln u ran to his hole.
l!y and by, win n the i nib came out.
the monkey gnve him a thrashing. S' re
nnd smarting with hi. in juries, the crnh
called in the aid i f his friend, a rice
mortar, who was passing by, with his
apprentices, a seawnsl, an egg nnd n
wasp. After list ming to his pitiful tale
tiny agreed to punish the impertinent
monkey. Proceeding to the house and
limling him out, the seaweed hid behind
the door, the egg in the ashes, nnd the
v.asp in the closet, while the mortar stn
tinned himself over the door. When
the monkey relumed and lighted his lire
for ten, the egg burst and spattered hi.
face, bjinling and burning him. Start
ing for the well to cool his pain, ho
slipp' d on the seaweed, the wasp llew
out and slung him', and the rice mortar
tumbled down anl cru-hed him.
"Wasn't, t .at splend" I '" is the usual
linale, while the moral to greedy or tin
gralelill children is pointed out. in f In
most approved fashion.
Out III the l lrlit.
"Hi! What's this?" sii I Hit im.
Phil was closely following Hiram ns
he swung his scythe. II" always ad
mired lh" way in which tic old in in lay
the heavy swatlles of giasi m his keen
blade cut through it.
"What;" repealed Phil.
He saw three or four tiny soft looking
gray things running this way and that
way through the stubble. Hiram (lied
to tread mi them with the heel of his
heavy boot, but. they were out of tho
way before Puil could get a good look
at them.
"They're harvest mice," said Hiram.
"See, here i t their nest bu It eloso to the
ground in this weed that i."' at tho
edge of the wheat."
P.til looked with great, intere-t at tho
little nest. It w is curiously woven of
grass and hung upon the sIi-oh of tin'
weed.
"I didn't know mice were so sannrt ns
to do all this," said Pinl. "Why did
you try to kill llieiti, llir int?"
"li'Ciiiise if yui let them live they
soon become too plenty. Tin y will des
troy a great d"al of wheat or of veg
etables if tin y get illton g.lldetl."
"See! hen is one of th un dead," said
Phil, picking up something from thn
ground.
"Yes, I must have stepped on il with
out knowing," said Hiram.
Phil laid the morsel in his hand.
"What a little hit of a thing it is!" ho
said.
"Tlicy'ie tho snnlh'it four-fooled
animal that grows the field mouse,"
(aid Hiram.
"I wish it had got away with tho
others," said Phil.
"It seems cruel to kill them, I know,"
said Hiram. "Hut you have to, just as
you would a rat or a weasel or anything
else that does mischief. "
"Why does (lod ninko them if they
are no good;" asked Phil.
"I can't tell that. There's plenty nnd
plcnty'of things He's made so plain that
wo see the good nt once, and when
there's a thing wo can't understand it's
my way just to believe it's for somo wise
reason."
Phil thought it a good way. nut no
looked over the great field of wheat
waving in the sunshine, nnd felt suro
there was enough foi the mice nnd
eveiybody else, nnd was glad that tho
other mice had escaped. ttinheitm.
Virginia raises 1,300,00(1 bushels of
peanuts a ycnr.
NOVKMMW I, INWi.
TUB KYKSIGIIT.
An Oculist Tolls Sumo FYk.U
About His Tr,nlo.
How GIiun Eyus aro Woru hy Somo Pooplo
atul Lye Glasses hy Other
A (ray lilted with little velvet-lined
ciiiiipailments, out of which stares a
glass eye, is one of the objects ill tlte
w indow' of a store on Pennsylvania ave
nue. It is surrounded by spectacles and
eye glasses of v.irioin kinds and other
articles s ld by opticians. In ide Hu
ston! hanging around the walls are many
little screens or hungers having on them
letters of different si.e, from the huge
type used mi cin ui bills down to the
most minute type known to the printer.
"Oil, yes," sa'd th" optician, wlct
the .V' reporter entered the store and
a ked about the glas eyes, " sell a gn at
many. In fai l, I( ttol the trade here.
Never saw a person with an artificial
eye? Well, there are a thousand p- ople
in this city wearing them. I could take
ynii along Pennsylvania avenue now and
show you fifty persons with theiii, and
yoil Would never suspect il. We keep a
large slock. Still one might kicp a
tboiis mil on hand, and that would rep
resent a gnat deal of money at l"
apiece, and some one might come in and
nut be able to lind in the whole thousand
an eye that would mulch his sound eye."
"What are they made off" a,Ued th
reporter. "That is a secret which I hive not dis.
covered myself," said the optician. "I
have tried to melt the eyes made now
w ith a blow pipe and could not do it.
The glas, eyes that il.ed to be sold i mild
lie melted. Tiny are covered over Willi
an enamel that is very durable."
Here the optician took a glass eye
from the ca-e and clappe I it over o ie of
his own eyes, to show how it worked.
The eye was delicately veined, jiisl like
the natural optic.
"It causes momentary pain wlicn ilis
inserted for the fir-1 tiui"," vtid the
optician. "It docs not move at fust.
It is like a new shoe, w hich has to be
come fitted to the f.)ol. u a few days,
liowiver, it becomes well lilted in the
socket and will turn and move ju-t as
the sound eye does, following all its
motions, unless the wearer t ints his real
eye far out of the natural lines of vi-ion.
Sonic persons will wear the sani" eye
three months, oth is for ten years. A
stonecutter or bricklayer or a person w ho
works in dust is apt to we ir on' an eye
sooner th in other p-ople. Th" line du-l
cuts the cnaiiii I. Yes a p'-ison looks
much better w lh an att.li' ial eye than
with a disfigured eye-sin ki t, it is per
sonal vanity that inie. suit- get them,
but others wear th' in for comfort. We
sell more in winter than at otlu i -ra.-n r-.
It protects the sensible parts of the eve.
Most people who wear them lake them
out , at night and place t'leui in water
nnd at the same time wash out the eye
socket. You cannot tell an artificial
eve from a real one if it is propcrly
fi'lted.
"How do you let i i c- : ;ht :'' i:i
iplin d the reporter, looking ai"iui l at
the assortment of printed h Iters that
adorned the walls.
''That is something I have been learn
ing for UK years," said the optician with
a smile. "To tell you all in a few words
would lie impossible. It is .something
that comes by practical ixpericiic.'. ( i.n
may have theoretical ki.owh dge, but lie
must have piactica! experience .'dsn.
When a man comes in to get a pair of
glasses you will watch him very closely,
see how he looks about him, and get
some idea of the defects of his vision
from that. Then it is ncccs-ary to know
what his habits of reading are, wln 'ltcr
he reads in the morning oral night, and
other circumstances that might alb i t the
case. Yes, many people delay getting
glasses and sulT 'i' by it. They think
they can save thcm-clvc from ghis.e,
just as a man nt the beginning of winter
will go without un overcoat, just to ac
custom himself to th" cold. e catches a
bad told, and then he wants to wear
two or three overcoats. If a person gets
proper glasses they will in vi r do him
any injury."
"Some people have two pails -one
for reading, one for the street," sug
gested the reporter.
"They have a pair for short distances
nnd another for seeing nt longi r dis
tances," said the optician. "Such cases
nre generally those of persons who have
delayed too long in getting glass.. We
make glasses for such people, that are
divided, the upper part, being for long
distances and the lower part for read ng.
It is prido that keeps some people from
wearing glasses. They dislike to ac
knowledge any infirmity. Soin tiines
you will seo such a person hoi. ling a book
or paper in very strange positions, so as
to enable them to read with some case.
Many people who use glasses seem to
try and keep it a secret. They put them
in their pocket and only use them w hen
they are alone. There is a great deal of
mechanical skill required in providing
aid t the eyesight. Wliei: there isany
thing wrong behind the eye, tiny dis.
cast; or disorder of the optic nerve, that
is a professional matter for the oculist,
hut the appliances for aiding vision are
mechanical and rcipiire mechanical
knowledge, and oculists ns a rule have
Done of that, Wn.ihiiiijlon S(iir,
NO. '..
I.'Kiilly Hurtled nt llto Make.
The 'i '.''; '. iluh'j reminds its ti-aden
that one hundred years ago the punish
Ineiit of burning a criminal to death w:u
(allied out for the last, time in I! rliti.
It ipiolcs fn :u the issue of the time r,
letter, written on August ly, li!'ii by
an cyi -w ituess describing lite pm.i -Ii
incut. All lii'tlin had been in consider
able excitement for some day. before.
It was seveiily years since a similar pu.i
ishitient had been rained out intbr
Prussian capital, and it wa- supposed
that the enlightened view, of lie king,
no li s. a pi i .on than the in at Fn d' i n k,
would move him on to cumiul" lie
punishment. Th- criminal was a ser
vant, one I lopniT, convicted of I "li'e i
and setting lire to the Iniii-e wlide hi
iito.li r and family bu d. The sciTold
WS.s raised liiitii the gioiind s-veil m
eight lei I, upon w hich t In ic w as a Italic
work si i tired with a do ir, tnikiiu it :
sol t ot open I'Vell, witllill wlli'lt till
(lull lulled in. in was incl I. Tin
A li b' W.lsCoVeled . 1 1 1 ' I - U I I " 1 1 M ' I ' ' I will.
wood and straw. Th" inlpiil w.r
brought float hisptisoti at Ii a. in , ami
placi d In Ion- the rath hau-, and on be
ing interrogated admitted hi- guit.
lbs sentence wa i then r. el of the I ,-t
time, the ollicef of the Colli t broke hi-
wall I of i Hi' c, and II"iiht wa. halt led
overt i the ex cut i -liter, ''a ai i h ing nt
the place of i ai i ut ioii Ii as si i ii;. t'
his shirt and iii.-io-eil in tin- Ii mie. Tin
pile was then tightened, and it burn'-d
for three hour..
A
iii'iniug Lxperiment
Alino-t i ', iy one has heard
Mark Twain tells about Hour
Ward
I! i cher win ii tli" latter lir-t indulged in
th- luxury of amateur larming. Tin
great preacher bought a pig", fed it st
worth of coin, and lie u s,,, n r sr,,
lie said lie in el-on the pio, hm ,. ,,,,
the corn. A -iniilar experience In fi 11
two of my friends in this city whoi-aim
to the colic lllsjotl (hi y W ould improVi
the b tck p o t of their lots. They an
young men willi plenty ol lui-itc ., n,i
hand, and so could imt work tit ermvict
themselves. The other day lie of thellt
ma le a stall im iit of i xpeiise, and gain- ',
o lind out how he .to,,d with his faun j
ing cxp' limeiil. lh di-covered that In
ha I paid ijs .., l.-ittli.-r., ST. for labor, !
and had wi'!n Vm limes at his neigh-
hols' i h i-ki-n - hi oil n fe'.'il twice oil I
ibis account, v, ', ,,i one loi l.i li. .. The Flying lUltclimnil.
two t ats. neatlv mobbed lor U king a It is a fact not get,, r illy known that
dog out ,.f bis tomatoes, a, had I'm the Fiying Dutchman waa a real ship
his gainsoiie s, of green peas, live and its cap! tin a real charieter. In the
tomatoes, on,- .,., n ears of c,,r, an I t j, ... seventeenth century, when ct.mpe
piospictive I., ck "I potatoes. After thi, I ,-ti, , bet,.,.,, . and Knglish
my y "ting bi. ml will plant his f , i j ,,. y hl,; , ,.., ,,
lawn grassand altetid the luaik.-t lor bis ,,vjr .,u,, ;.,tion!atii and .lava.
best Vi
.'table
1 1.,
it',
Wanted to Pay fur ills Men!.
Lovers of dogs will be inter.-!,
the follow ing till" story; A lady
w as
visiting Irlein
there was a !r
ill the It. tint i :
day I., buy : i
butcher's carl.
the se.-isid", w Iti-fe
wl.o-e lua-ti-r w as
Ilill! motley very
lis dinner front the
ialv, admiring lite
via '
The
handsome, inn lligctl animal, calle l bint
to In a a- s,.. , it at brctkl i-i an I I'd
him from In-r plate. Tic do- at once
w . nt to his ina-tcr, tin. I .rinding oitbi;
hind leg-, p iwi d ami s, r tt,he. at ibe
gentleman's bn ast pocket. i i,-t the
tn i.n r failed to nnd r-t ind, and ..: I rod
him away ; but the in. tin, e pi r.i.i ing,
he lin illy slid : " . II. I do b -Ii. v.- b
want, bis in y," alt I oil', n I him a
coin, which the do ; in-t mlly took, aie I
trotting up to the Itieudly vi-il.i .1 -posito
I it in her lap wilh a w.igol his
tail and a look w lie It
I to. ay, "I
alw ay -
IV the I'lltihel,
an
I whv not
votif' ;
III Iblllll'.
Young Matron twith ll l ies on i ai"
of children lo nurse t . .lam-.'
Nuise -Ycssiiin.
Young .Matron When the bale, hai
finished his bottle lay him in theci idle
on his right side. Alter c iting, a i bil l
should always lie on the light side; that
relieves the pressure on the heart. still
(I. Ilcctively t the liver is on the li-lt
side perhaps, after all, you ha I bitter
lay him oil the h ll side. No, I am sure
the tn alis,. mi "Infant Digestion" said
the right side. I In the who'e, .lam-, you
may lay the baby on Ins bn k .le'il I
have looked up the matter nior- ' ,
oilghlv. iti-.
Fully Demonstrated.
Since it hrc. imc fashionable for
ting
lad ies to w ear a collar and in ekti-, t!
supi riotttv to men has been I'til'v .b
onslrated. You never see a lady wilh
her necktie over her tars. A brief ti ial
of six months has taught women ntore in
the necktie wearing art than lueti have
h allied in six thousand years. , hu
man being that can make a necktie stay
in place should have the right to ca-t
two ballots at every clcctioii. l.yun
I iiinii.
Long Tiiunt'ls.
The longest railway tunnel in F.n'l.iiid
is the Stand F. lge, which is three in i s
and sixty yards long. Hut the Severn
tunnel, which lias jns been opened, is
four and thrcc-ipiaiti r miles long, two
anl n ipiartcr of which tire beneath the
rapidly-flowing Severn itself, nt a 'epth
of fiom forty-live feel to nearly lint tn t
below the bed i'f the I lver.
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Ill I he, (Jnrden.
We wen working ill tho garden,
Hy liflelioy and I,
I'lith ilig n weeds.
And planting seels
'l'o hlossom by anil by.
"Il-re is soin i i n, dear," I said,
"I'd ni-'' you for your own;
To 'l nil mi'l h'',
And w.tleli il jii'ow,
Ami li.i'.e M wh"ii it s grown.''
He look the kernels eitgerly.
Ills llt'le It... ll ,ii.,,. I,
T.iett, out h" burst- -
' I el's pop il til -t,
So It w ill ei-lit" up p ipped :''
;. s.e- ('i.nt.er iii si. An fi'i'.n
III Mo If (MS.
A ".safe burglar" is one in tho peniten
tly. Then "s in tn a sltp'twixl the i up and
lie s tlll'et .
A picsi-itt whnh i in vei n i eived with
'ntlilude A bill.
Tie re are not so many eow, wauling
It" eailli now since its i t.icki d.
A In in who i. nlwey- lo-.itig his ti in
r iicv
iclitig
ns to have mm Ii trouble in
H again.
Tit- tailor and
, hv flu il. who ,1
sinaki r an- tho in
ttost un tie- 1 1. -rinil
'title s oft lungs.
A i r.iss old I..,, h. lor suggests that
, iii I It- -lion d be annoiim d under tins
n ad of in w niii-ie.
i S"t im a-ks; "Is there a field for a
; it. in who can I ve on lil'ly cents a week f
fie n i-. It i. called Poller's hold.
I
j "Invisible seam umbrellas" are adver
ised. A gnat many of the old stylo
inibn llas invi-ib'e scent, when you comn
: h.ok l'..r lie m.
11. not be discouraged bet pis" you
It-covei thai you an- not a man of
: g ' ii i ti s. An eminent scientist dot lares
that geiiiu, i, a f nil of cpih-psv.
I ii.
j "And then, gent leini n of tin1 jury, I
1 1 1 1 1 t appeal to your sett f ju-tiee.
oil niti-l ii member that ) u are twelve
stong, well-ted teen opposed to this
one ini-et able, pitliv liefetidaiit."
A scientist says --your .scientist, is hI
way. saving something that each adult
pi I'sott carries 'tii'itgh phosphorus in his
I oily to make lii.iinil matches. They
wic know how h ir I it is to m ike a
in itch ol 1 wo pcopl" w ill begin to lose
faith ill scientists.
was known as the Flying Dutchman. lis
captain and owner v:i. one H-mard
j I'okke, whose name deserves to be ex
humed as that of the tl t-t man who used
inui in thecon.trtietioii of a ship. Sheets
f inm were visible in many parts of
l-'okkc's ship, and the populace, know
ing well that iron naturally sinks, grew
sii-picioii- wlnii this one, instead ol
sinking, -tupus-ed all others in swift-tii-s.
ll secnii"l urn tuny as the S otch say.
Wi.eacies ol the vli ut' shook their heals
as the big taciturn apt nil passed to his
j -hip w hich
j .p i il'n- gravity
of the air ot tin
1 hen 1 1 .ni on.
. ) d. Ii d the laws of
Wit ii w hat dark power
wave was he in league?
of hi- vvages the Flv-
in.: Dutchman level returned these sin
pi. ions oig.itii.' l into the seed from
which g'ew the well known sup, Islitioll.
It w.e- whi-. n d lltat. in trying to
round the Tape of 11 1 Hope, the iron
bound ship was repeatedly driven back
by storm-, till at-hist tin- captain cried:
"I will round thai cape if it, takes im
till judgment day!" Then a voice of
thunder echo-d down th" sky "till
judgment day!" So the Flying Dutch
man WHS believed to be doOllli d to t ry
and round the cape till judgment day.
'
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o More Interruptions.
Aileinu- Ward said that mice while on
a I-1 tore tout, night found him at a
in. ill town in N. va.l i. In the landlord
i,: the hotel he n i ognie 1 a friend of his
bovhoo I, wh , gave hint a hearty greet
ing. Supper over, tin' landlord said to
?s guest: "Now, lliown, we hardly
. i have any show of any kind ill this
p lie, and I don't think we ever had a
i dun. t'.iu't you give us your lecture
up in the ball-room . It will please the
peop'.! mightily, and I'll take it IH A
- .it f-vor if you will." Wilh charac
teristic good nature Artemus consented.
The ball-ruoiii w is well tilled when he
rose t" speak, and belore he had been
'
I'
his let a minute be made an obscr
vatioti which provoked a roar of hit gh
ler, at wlin It the landlord, his face white
w ith rage, rose ami advanced toward the
plat form with tie: remark, "One minute,
Mr. lliow n." Artemus paused, and tho
landlord having taken his place beside
him drew a revolver from his back
pocket and, addressing the audience,
said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the
speaki r is a par'icular friend of mino
and if he's intct niptcd agin, blamed if
I don't shoot. Ymi ran proceed, Mr.
ISrown." Alb ums proceeded, nnd, al
though he gave them his funniest lecture,
he reported that there was afterward no
further interruption A'i Yurk J'rit-
i !(((,
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