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Two Pictures.
J.
With dimpled hands folded on heaving
Nlio is lying n sleep.
I'lvunins of pleasures and lov mil R"M.
Cureless nf sorrows tint l.foiniy hold
Willi sweet lips smiling in pel tis-t rest,
Sim is lying nsl ep.
II
With l.i. led li'inds fol-.. i n quid In-east
She i- I villi a hep.
I'.oastires mi'l love anil joy nil "it,
Sorrow sol hfo over at hist
Willi pale hps close I in eternal rest,
Kir- is 1 yn g nsl -op.
-t'HAs. R Si itt in tli Current.
A LOST OPPORTUNITY.
ItV M lis HWIHKTT.
A solitary figure, with few lines of
coiiiilitu-ss or gr:ua, John llollaway sat
upon tlic meadow gate, looking off into
the distance, lit- was whispering softly,
yet he si cmi'il to bo in a deep reverie,
for his tjio.it, ten ler eyes h:tl n far-awny
expression in their brown depths ns be
gazed out over the sunlit meadows
where the blo.nl-red elover ami the
golden buttercups swayed umlor the
soft, caressing bree.e. Su blenly nil
imperious voire broke the silence:
".Mr. llollaway, pleas.: let mo take
down the b.ir-. Tin i:i a hurry, on.l
onme liie -l.m tc-t way.''
Tin: young in hi si.nt,..; ),,. had not
heard her approach, ainl thorn beside .
him stood the very object of his
thoughts. ' j
Ah, clover blooms ami buttercups,
paled were your charms now! A little,
graceful figure in the daintiest of cam- '
brie dresses, and underneath tho wide'
hat n sweet, girlish fare with velvety, '
pcaeli-tintcd ch"eks, and cyei as bin: as
freshly gathered violets, :!i w is Lily
biwrenee, the prettiest gill so the pup.
iiiiir verdict i an -in all tlu country ,
rou i. A flu ill rose to John's sun-
1'Il .. ned fare as ho quii kly tos: and -began
to take down the bars. i
"Out for a walk, Miss Lilyi"
"Yes," very briefly.
"Ss you are foul i f quiet strolls? I
mi, too."
Lily drew herself up, and looked Ht
the presumptuous speaker.
"Iteally, Mr. Ib.llaway, 1 dot, i sec
what it is to you ''
Then she stopped. Mio did not mean
. to bo rude, but truly, she thought to
herself, it was high time she should '
show this young man th.it his openly!
expressed iidniir.i'ioti was exceedingly
distasteful to ln-r. Il ha I been going
on for some time, and i-verve ne, even
Lily herself, hud come to s o that the
sun roso and get for John Holl.iwny '
where she w as.
"Ho must bo intensely stupid not to
know how utterly indifferent 1 am to
him," she thought.
Hut John was not stupid. He under
stood the untinislie I sen ti ne , and as he
drew back without another word to let
her pass, Li'y saw that he did, mid a
slmmc-faced, compiler! ions look sto'e
into her eyes. For, from the richest to
the poorest, everyone acknowledged
John llollaway 's noble sterling charac
ter. Lily walked slowly nlong the r.md,
half determined to turn back and apolo
gize for her rudeness, until a turn
brought Iter face to fa -o with someone
whoso handsoiiK' eyes m.'t her own w th
such a glad i'(..iik that all other
thoughts were for the time driven com
pletely away.
It was li chard Rake, the most ad
mired mi l chip ted young man in the
village.
"Ah, good aftei un i:i, Miss , iwi on ee ;
1 was hopin I would in-ei .m."
And the w ivy black locks were bare. I
to the breeze as K chard courteously
lifted his hat and w a k 1 on In-side her.
What, n contra-l to John llollaway!
And the contrast . gnat in many
other ways than I. iy thought. Hut the j
girl was but young to n-a 1 character, 1
nil 1 that I! i li ir I Hi ike was wry hand -some
and wry elegant none ,.i . ib-nv,
a lover of whom anyone might be justly
prou 1.
When Lily's- Mini- w.-is rcauhoJ, and
with another graceful bow li eh aid had
kit her, she did not go directly into Mi -houe,
but lingered awhile .-Huong t! e
flowers that tiled their little garden.
Her thought were very busy. S!i ;
thought that she had behaved very
unkind to her old lien!, and her
memory went back to the first time she
hud met him. It was at n picnic, mid
she hud fallen and sprained her iinkle. ;
She, remembered how the great f. How, :
so much stronger than his mates, had
persisted in carrying her all the long
distune;: bark to her home. Since then j
he had show . in n hundred ways wha". i
she was to him, and knowing his noble ;
nature, perhaps her heart won d have '
gone out to him before this if liichard
H ake had not coma back from college.
Hut he had, nnd Lily fancied his gay, j
debonair manners, and his entertaining i
conversation, nnd like many another
young girl, had begun to take for true, 1
heart del p love that liking which we ad i
have for things pleasant to the sight. 1
And so she shook oil her reproachful '
feelingr, nnd went into the house.
"Why, mother, dear, what is the mut
ter Ciying, and I out enjoying my '
eilf Tell ni'. what il it, deal I.t me
)ire your trouble,"
VOL. IX.
Mis. Liwrcucc lifted ft face, smiling
through her tears.
"Yes, crtin-;. Lily ilnrbncr. but not
: from grief. Sit down hero beside me,
an I let tile show you what a load has
j been lifted from my mind this morning.
Lily, I did not tell you, but numo time
ago Mr, H ilton, the lawyer, cmnc to
mo and infoi mod me that the holder of
; i he inortgago on our home was in need
! of money nnd intended to foreclose, un
less the mortgage was paid in full when
he should demand it. X iw, child, you
; know what n trouble has been weighing
j upon uie, for I kie w tli.it it would be
; impossible foi me to ruiso tho sum
' iiccessuiy, mid that we must leave the
dear old home that wc hal loved so
1 well. Aud now, this very morning, Mr.
; Hurton came and told me that a kind
Mi nd, hearing of the intended fore
i closure, lias paid the amount in full."
"Who is it that has helped you,
mother?"
"That's tho strangest part of it Lily.
Mr. Hurton said lie had strictly prom
: ised not to tell me tin- name of my bene -,
fnctor.nnd as to who it can be I haw no
idea."
Hut though she did not say so, Lily
i had; nn-l when later, in her u-uil im
! puls.ve way, she told John I'ollnway
how soiry she was that she had been so
1 ru le to him, uud then ii'ked him frankly
whether he was not the kind friend who
had come so opportunely to her mother's
! re i iff, his manner continue 1 her su-pi-j
cions.
It is said that "gratitude is neighbor
to love,'' and whether that hi trie: or
not, it is (rtain that from that time the
! manly young farmer was often in Lily's
thoughts, while l chard H ake was ju-1
as steadily losing groun I. Hut John, of
course, did not know it. lie was not one
to wear his lieiut upon his sleeve, and at
length, i.ftera liar I .-I niggle, had ihcid -rd
to abandon his hopr!c-s suit and
leave the field to that rival who evident
ly was the favored one. I. ly appeared
to notice the diuVreiice; but, woman
like, she did not appear to rare, mid so
the months went much the same, until
at length tho Cli-is came.
The village in which our le-roine lived
was just on the shores of a little bay,
and many were the pleasure parties that
en joyed a trip over its limpid waters.
One afternoon, It char I Hake, obtain
ing Mrs. Lawn lice's consent, invited Lily
to take a sail.
When they rer.rhe I the beach, who
should be waiting in rend in ess to manage
the boat but John Ib-llaway.
"Hallo, llollaway, are you turning
into bunt man.''' ivlaimcd Hlake, in as
tonishment. Lifting his cap to Lily, John answered,
'Not exactly; but Joe came, to me in
great distress, saying be did not feel
well enou;h t i go i in, but had pu tni-ed
not to disappoint you, a-i I knowing 1
could manage a boat, he a-ke 1 nie to
take his place. Joe h is done r many
a g. ii n turn, and so I c ul 1 not refuse
him," ho lidded, wrongfully interpreting
the little lla-li that had risen in L'ly's
face us she li-teii -d ; "and he said, too,
that it was your sister w!i- was to be '
your companion. K.se I should not have
come; I w. ul I not for the world lie a
m r-port."
The l i' ti rne.s in his (oiv touched a
like chord ill Lily's h'-iif. I'.ir some'
little time back she had b.en slowly but
surely learning a les-on, the d IT -rence
between real worth an I mere giitt. r; aud
now Ir r heart sank as she saw, or
thought she saw, how complcteiy her
conduct had driv. n a l affection towards
lu r from John's mind, and thct she had
foolishly thrown away her own happ'
ness.
"Well, llollaway, I'm sure I'm minh
oblig -d. It's very kind of you," was 1
Hlake's reply.
And the two young men -non had the .
little craft in readiness for ils fair j
freight.
Hlukc, ha seen John's, liking for Lily,
but his vanity lull not been alarmi-d; he
knew by rxp. nee.c the powei of his
dark eves, nnd I. Iy Liwrem e was like
any other young lady if she were ten
times pi el tier. So he reasoned.
They floated lightly over the blue j
water, anchoring after n while under a j
bluff, and dropping their lines to fish.
I. ly chatted gaily in her . wu fasci
nating way, and never had she seemed
more lovely in Ibihaid Hlake's eyes, :
while poor John, who had thought of !
late that he had driven her image from j
his inind, feit the old charm creeping
over him ngnin stronger than ever be-
fore; bir he hid his pain manfully and j
kept his part in the lively conversation, j
Time crept on, an I just as (hey decided j
on returning, to their sudden dismay
the heavens suddenly clou led over, and
a peel of thunder suddenly brought
them to their feet iu alarm. Siptalls
were not common upon the bay, but one
was evidently now upon them, and John
saw the great d inger. A moment, nnd i
they were dashing at a mini rate over
th waves, while oveihead the awful
darkness galhere 1 more ominously nil
the while, and every now and then vivid
tl ishcs of flame seemed to envelope them
on ail sides. Su blenly there was a
blinding glar1, then n terrific crash, and
liaif the mast dripped over the bows,
w Idle the s-ids were diag.'iug in the
seething wa'er , F"f mi. in t.mt John
Minn"! 'iii)!i'l; t ::t fin tirt
Ctettam
IMTTSliOliO, CHATHAM CO., N.
thought was I'ly. Whero was she A
s coin! more and lie caught the gleam
of yellow i nils in the cruel waves among
the tattered sails; the ropes had twiated i
about her light figure and dragged her !
over tho bow. I
Ho sprang to H'.akn's side. j
"If she is lo be yours, it is yoU who .
ought to savo her. t), lick ! or it will be
too Into. Your chance will be gone !'' I
Hut Hlake still cowered tremblingly
where, he was, unheeding tho p:ril of j
the one he professed to love.
Another instant John was struggling
among the sails, a few seconds of awful
while the waves were tug
savagely nthiin, then weak, almost
f . i. i...i, ;.... ti. 1.....1
with Lily's insensible form clasped
ved
eiosu 10 ins inavc, ucarr. 110 nan saveu j
her. I
Then, still in imminent danger, they 1
remained clinging to the dismantled i
; boat, until, as suddenly as it hud fallen,
j the sipi alt lifted, and a welcome hail
from the shore proclaimed that help was
near at hand.
Lily came to herself at last, to And
that John was holding her fast, with her
1 face closo to his own.
1 In an i.istaut the memory of what had
! passed came bark to Ir'r. She did not
draw away, but raised her lustrum eyes
: to his as if to read his inmost thoughts;
the cold (lis-k pressed itself closer
against bis own, while her arms
wound theinsi 1 ,es softly atound his
luck.
"John- -dear John!" was all she said.
And J ihn knew that with the greatest
peril tiie greatest blessing of his life hud
e in to him; while Kicliard H'ake, look
ing on with pale, seowling face, com
prehended clearly that John's words hud
been prophetic w hen he had said, "Your
chain will be gone."
Meaning of "Stihlinm Porlc,'
A phrase often seen in despatches from
Constantinople is thus 1 xplaincd by M.
.billiard in his article on ' Life II neiith
the Crescent" in the O.i-mopolitati :
The building of the porlc, called sub
lime, is, or was, a kind of long, low
i barracks, without style and without
beauty. A lire destroyed part of it three,
years ago.
The phrase "sublime potte" applied
to both the buildii g an 1 the rtdininis-
trillion, two things that are important, hut
neither the one nor the other is sublim?.
This word ha, however, .1 very ancient
origin. When the Turks, long before
the compiest, were only hordes of Tar
tars and nomads, their chiefs or sultans
were iu the habit of dispensing justice
at the door of lhc;r tent. There tho
cadis assembled an I heard the com
plaint and then the defense. The sultan
npp vr-d up 111 the spot only at the con-c:!ii-ion
of the trial to get the opinions
of the j nlges and to render his decision.
To go to the poite was for the Turks
the equivalent of seeking justice at the
hands of the sultan and his counselors.
As to the pompous epithet "sublime,"
coupled with this poor poite, it is ono
of those Oriental speec'ies that the flattery
of the weak has bestowed voluntarily upon
the tyranny of the strong. The Turkish
language abounds in thes : ipi ililicativcs
-highness, excellence, divine, celestial,
sublime- which in our day and in th)
Vct offend the dignity of those that
receive them, ami of thoe that bestow
them, but which one in the K 1st can
freely bestow upm high personages
w ithout laughing or making them laugh.
(iotientl Lee's Hen. 1
In Long's life of lieu. Lee an interesting j
story of a hen is told. A few chickens j
were once piv-entc-l to the genera!. In j
the lot was a laying In n whose life was j
spare I. The hen accompanied the nrmy
to 1 lettyshurg, riding in the bnggao I
wagon, and after that battle was with
the t'.itife ler.it'-s for lie irlv a year. At
last the hen grew fat and lazy, ami ono
d;n the steward, I'm ling his supplies
very low, ami knowing that the general
expected a ilislingui-le guest at dinner,
killed the hen, and she was served up on
the altar of hospitality. tieii. I, e was
surprised to see so line a fowl set before
U i 111, but he little dre. line I that his pet
hen had been s'nughtcied. When tho
hen was missed, however, the steward
had to confess that ho had been placed
in a position like unto that of the boy
who had to capture the ground hog.
There was coin puny for dinner and no
meat.
Kights or llio blind hi Streets.
Tiie full bench of I lie Supreme Court
has just salt down a rescript in the case
of J. W. Smith vs. Wildes et al. The
plaintiff, a blind mint, was walking down
Hromlield street and fell down a hatch
way left open by defendants. He brought
suit and recovered damages. The defen
dants excepted, but the exceptions have
now been overruled on the ground that
it can't be laid down as a universal rule
that it would be negligence for a blind
man to walk the streets of Hoston limit- ,
tcmic'i. tiiston traveller.
A Timely Suggestion. i
"Hello, Rein-lieu! You don't call on
Miss Dilby any more- -something up?"' j
"Yes, Arthur, I confess it there isl
Why, don't ym know I stayed a littlo j
late the other night, nnd dash me if she '
didn't get up and wiul tint ilotk!"
Detroit Kn.1.1 ('ie, i
OIILDKLYS COLUMN.
A I. .rue Fnnllls,
"Mnninin," tniil little I'aisy
As she. gnz-d af the stars so mild,
"You tliink I'm a lot of trouble,
And you say I drivoyou wild:
Hut think of the Mniimn Mmm."
Said impassive little liaise,
"Wliat n lot of babies she has,
1 shoii'd think she would go eray.
llaip. i-'s llaiir.
Sirnll iuil mill the Thistle.
It is hai 1 to te!! ' ow tin- thi-tle came
to be the badge of Scotland, but 1 find
the following tradition of its origin.
' When the Danes invaded the country, a
I "'P"se wns linkup,, . . on.er
Hie more completely to hide their ad-
vanee from the Scots,' the Punish sol
J ''',TS walked barefoot. For a while nil
went well, till one of the Panes Imp.
pened to tread on a thistle. The pain
caused by the prick u s made linn cry
out, tui'l his cry ili-c'.oscd the fact of
the intended assault. The Seots nt once
took their arms, and fell on the invaders
w ith such vigor that tle y routed them.
The thistle thereafter became the
national emblem, nnd its Latin legend
' Xeino me iinpune lace-sil,'' which bin
been freely translate I, "Ye daurua med
dle wi' me" denoted tin; pugnacity of
the Sent.-.--; Little folks.
.1I.V H11.1 .lurk.
One of the ollleers ol the post had tm
or a do. en large greyhounds, X itwith
standing its si.-, the greyhound, when
alone, is an arrant e.jward, unless cor
nered ; then it 1-econiis a dangerous nil-t:lgoui-t.
.lack was a coward, loo, but he knew
by instim t that a single greyhound was
even a greater cow ar I than himself; uud
whi n on" of the hounds would stroll
along by the house, n was ludicrous to
see the little si amp Pl-h out ipiivering
with 1 i itcinent, an 1 balking as if he
would cat Mr. t lieyliouiid. Invariably,
the greyhound would 111:11 tail and run;
.I n k would follow a few steps nud then
return with a look iu his face which
plainly said, ' P.d you ever see such a
coe.-aid .'''
H it one d n y .I n k w as taking a w alk
with lie- on the pain le-grouild down to
ward the lake, aud some distance from
the house, Ail al oi.ee the whole puck
of hounds, as if urged by one common
impul-e to get even w ith him for the in
dignities be hid heaped upon tin in
singly, .started in a body for Jack.
At lir-t he did In ( ietiie tin ill, but
when he did, instead ol c nuing to me
for protection, he turned and stiuek out
f r home iu tin-usual manner, withhb
tail between his legs and with the Usual
accompaniment of howls, How hu did
run! He w is running this time for his
life, and In- knew it, lie looked like n
liny yellow vp, , ,(, ,r 1 1 j - r,-1 toward
the hoii-i . T a- j ai k of hounds keep
ing we'd to;.e h r, ga i;e I n him ir.
every jump. T i h e I thou-.-ht lln-y had
ft i 111, and hall ti, rued aw.i. my In ad, bl.t,
no! hedoubbd oil them 110I fairly fit-will
another d irection. T.i hounds coiilii :
not turn as quickly as In- could, and fell
over one another in the r attempts to do
so. As Jack reached the b rrace i l
front of the ipi u ter-, he ll w into the
lioii-c through the open door, safe! '1' .0
door was closed by my w ife - w'o . had
been watching the desOiiat-- raec just
as the hounds met iu a body over n boy's
straw hat that was lying upm the rnss
before the door. Iu about two seconds
the-e was nothing lett 1 I that hat; it 1
was torn into ribbons before they found i
out it wasn't Jack, after aii! Hut from I
tint ,jm,. ,;11c w..s .., ,,, M,....k : ;
t,.rms wi,, ,Hiy (f ti,,, hounds. t. '
Nicholas.
(.'real l'iissihiliti s iu I'liolngriipliy.
It seems that there i- tm end to the
pos.-ihilitit s of instantaneous pho
tography. The artists in this line have
already photographed trains going a
mile a minute, hor-is tiotiingn 2.2
gait, base balls in mid aii, and other
flying things. Why should they 1. -t
give lis photographs of bir. Is iu flight,
thereby aiding a ial experimenter in
constructing air li pi modeled upon the
flying iiiecliaiii-m of Miner's inhnl ilants.'
Perhaps they w Ml al-o show us nega
tives of lui 1-ts and cannon balls in
flight, nnd, to return to bae ball, id
great pitchers' puzzling curves. Dia
gram! of some ol tin s-: curves would be
worth looking at. Till i reminds me
that Douglass, the pho'o graphic supply
man has const 1 noted an eccentric lamp,
having its ow n reservoir of electric ener
gy, by which iiista:itaii"nus photographs
of nil sorts of things and places may bo
taken after night. It is his .del that
ilctoitives and the police wa uid find
such an instrument of service in preserv
ing a likeness id the scenes of night
crimes and such things, and has aski- 1
Police Photograph 1 Lvans and D'-tcc
tive Shea to give the nppiratiii a trial.
Orr, the 1 ountrv genius, ha.mide sev
eral very good street scenes by moon
light. The tine- of exposure was 20
-i "
N'eitliei One Meant Anj thing.
Jocular passengi r lo matter if-!':iot
conductor- "Knocking down much to
day The conductor 111 ulestly but firmly
knocks him down.
"Siy !" (picking himself up a a hVr
nnd a sore 1 man ien,'t y hi tike .1 joki J
I did u'l HI' a'l ill 1 lii'lg,"
"I 'lillll't, ' illn i,
IfUrorfc
C., AI'IML 7. ISS7,
STAMMERING.
V'lint. Rii Elocution':!. Says
A bout D foittsi in Speeeh.
ntnmiieriug; (liirp;l Tlironjll the M'iral
a Well ks th) Physical N itnrtt.
"tstamnieriiig, stuttering and hesita
tion, '' it lady teacher of eh i-ution w ho
has had utidir ln-r ctut many young
ladies aud gentlemen suffering with
such defects of speech, said to a Wash
ington Star reporter, "tin: due to th"
improper use of the vocal organs. Some
time these three defects are found to
gether. Stammering is the worst d lli
inlty. Sometimes stammering appears
iu one lonn and somi-tiiii -s in another;
in fart no two cases are precisely alike.
The wor-t prevalent infirmity it is
really an infirmity- -is the wrong Use of
the lip, too null h lipy 11 may say. You
see a face that might otherwise be hand
some, dbligurcd by a habit of lifting i:p
tin: upper lip on on- side so i.s to show
tho canine tooth. Another infirmity is
lack of proper control over the move
ments of the tongue. Xo, not too loose
n tongu-. The trouble is that the tongue
is not loose enough, 11 lit flexible enough,
Yeiy lew, even among educated people,
sp ak correctly, that is, articulate Eng
lish sounds correctly and speak pure
iviglish, an 1 yet th" people in this coun
try speak belter lvigli-h than i spoken
iu Knglniid.
"Whenever any one announces that
he will cure shimmering and stuttering
by means of aitilieial appliances, or by
some secret remedy, or by dings of any
kin I," said the lady, "you 1 an set him
down as a ipiack. Dings will no
more euro stammering than
they will set a limb, for really the
cure of stammering comes wry near
being 11 surgical operation, in a sense,
because it is the restoration of the vocal
organs to their proper functions. The
troub'e is with the tongu! and the iips
and the dosing of tin: tln at. These
organs become denaturalized in their
use. I never take a case without having
a responsible physician first examine the
throat. After he pronounces the organs
normal and in proper condition for me
to work, I undertake the case. I have
K-ldom had a case in which there was
not some work for tin: physician to do,
for the reason tli.it the wrong use of the
vocal organs caii-os them to he diseased.
Bronchitis ami tlirmt ili-ea-es are iu
many eases dm to tin wrong us-i of the
organs.
"The cure," she w.-m on, "is within
the person's se.f, and depends upon his
tn th I lis well as 1 hysirtil nature. You
must lift up his moral nature. Most of
those who snff r from tin se defects you
will notice are !oo-e-k need and walk with
shambling g it, with heads down, all the
ill it of thi-i . 11 tii-. 1 lit v. Tin- first thing
I try to do i. to lift the pcison up, to
make him free, for his tnoial nature
dominates his physic. I. My system is
simple, philosophical nnd highly moral
in its natuie. No youth cm possibly
pass through it w.ihoiit having his moral
as well as physii nl self benefited. All
sufferers from these defects are exceed ingly
sensitive, one of the r suits of their
infirmity. Ton per-011 of culture and ie
liueineiit such tin infirmity is m ire ter
rible. H is alnn-t impossible to know what
Causes the defects. I a-k parents always
when lln-y bring cises t in-, if they
can tell what c iuse I it. Sun-say that
it cam from few an I a variety of sup
posed i-ins s are giv -n. Sometimes it
is the 1 lb-i t of iinitatioa. It is frequent
ly known to cist in families for several
generations. D feitsnf this charaet r
when inhcritc 1 are harder to cure, and
when inherited from th: inilh-r, the
bar h si ol ail. The most ditli.-ult case 1
ever had was one f this kind. It is
thought by many who have not iu
formed themselves that stammering is
caused by nervousness. If tint were true
nearly nil wom- n and a 'great many men
and childre 1 w ei d stun n r. Hi t'i-:
contrary, how. v. r, it is proved ideally
that the slamnii r'ng or defect in sp h
Causes tin- Her voti sii" s, J n,n ,,f (.
opinion fio.n obs rv.itioii th it th - hab.t
is vciy inl'reipieiilly i-oiit r.-.c!i-I by imita
tion, f r the re isiei that often on- child
in a f -1111 i 1 y will staaini -r and th- other!
will not. The older brother perhaps
will have the defect an 1 not one of the
other children will stammer, though
thcyhiivebe.il together always. What
ever the railse, when a cure is once cs
tablishe I there is no more danger of a
retui ii of the defect 1 r h il it, than th'-iv
is of ils occurrence in a pi t. ou who never
stammered at all. "
A Hunter's I'ai iilisi-.
Five hours rut from l.o, Angelos and
wc hitch on i n extra engine and be
gin to groan and puff and snort up a
tortuous track and rut of the little
river bed to the mountain top. We
see thousands ol rabbits, hares and
squirrels. We hear and s-e long lines
of geese, cranes, brant, swan and all
sorts of sea birds nnd fresh water birls
in the air. We are in the hunters' para
dise here by the Pacific sea. The Cali
fornia quail are o abundnit that ; on
car. see fln-m feeding in the gras
along the rai.io.el tl k lit-.- bainv.iid
few is about llio !oiii-'s :, jjn.
Ijll'll Mill'!,
NO. .2.
The Hark Side or Dakota.
"Xo market, nofii.d, no water, no
fruit, no demand for labor." These are
1 11 11 mora ted by 11 Kimball (Dik.) corres
pondent of Kami and 1'iioside as disad
vantages nf that part of the Territory,
which land-agents and rahroa 1 specula-
i tors have laillcd to the ib-t ri iiient '
j III my restless people who were indiiei d
I 10 leave comparatively comfortable
j homes at the K 1st . "A four years' ivsi
: deuce hen has enali'cd mu to speak a l-vis-illy,
mid when I said that not one
j who came lu re and depended on farm
ing for nit iucoim but has gone down
hi 1, I speak the simple truth; thus1! who
came full-'iornd 0 1 and lo.iiv.-l their
money, or invested it in stock, or went
link to some reservation or isolated
p'ae? and escaped taxation, have made
money. Crops an-short and prices low.
Wheat, live to fifto'li bushels per acre,
ID to tsl rents; oats, fifteen to thirty
live bushels, lo to IS! rents; corn of pre
vious years fair, hit", most of it frost
bitten; Il i, four to ten bushels per acre,
sit to !l ) cents pur bushel; tniik, no sale;
butter, II cents per pound; eggs, .1 cents
per dozen; live stock, 112 to 2 1-2
cents per pound. Xow look on the oilier
side: S dt coal, per ton: hard, $:i;
dried Iruits, '.I to 2D cents per pound,
owing to quality and kind. T in high
price of fit-l has driven even weli-to-do
people to the use of hay, corn-stalks,
llixstraw, nnd through the summer
season almost all res iling in the niral
districts have use 1 cow-chips, which is a
polite name for dry cow dung, for fuel.
Add to this a third of a man's time for
hauling water, mi I your readers will
have soiu 'tbing of .1 lorrect idea of the
ini-ouveiii in- -s and cxpcns-s of livingin
a new country. I might aid that, with
rare oveptiotis, it is impossible f'-r a
laboring man to get employment."'
Prosperous Seal Islanders.
I 111 the Island of Si. lieorge where Jj,
01111 seals are annually taken,, tfin.Dui)
is dividad among the natives each sea
son. A lirst-ches share, last season
amounted to .-V.' V When it is taken
into consideration t hat besides thisiash
paid for services renderi d by each sealer
every native family mi the island hai a
comfortable hone-, with fuel, lights,
medical attindano: and schooling free
of charge, it will not seem an exaggera
tion to claim for these hyperboreans
state of life which it would be hard if
not impossible to improve. With such
advantages over Ms fellow Aleuts it is
linrdlyto be wondered at that the seal
islander should consider himself a trifle
better than his poorer cousins, (in-at is
the flutter ill the social circles of Ooiia
laska when a dusky hero from the bloody
fields of St. i! i-rge or S Paul arrives
ion one of the company's steamers in
search of a wif-. In affairs of this kind
; tin' priest of the parish h is great i;-hi
once, and it has I- m whispered that
! these good ni'-tl III mag- to hind back
I the clinic -st articles in ill - way of in ir
I liiigeabie damsels until less dc.irab'.c
! stock has be. 11 ll ated, thus preserving
I a hi ulthv tone to the market. However
i this may be, marriages are always occa
: sioiisof geiiir.il and profuse enjoyment
: and everybody seems b.ippy. --- Sin
Krancisco Caronii lc.
Heal Complim -nl.
Wh'-le travelling through N-brisk:,
; Mu-m, the virtuos , lounged into the
smoking car to k II a f. w ol the heavy
moments incident to a 1 Miruey act ess the
! plains, lie found a 1 'iititryinan scraping
a polka 1 IT the stri igs ,,r a ti Idle. ,.
played w.ih tl-.e prou I eoiisi ioii-ii' ss of a
man who is master of his art.
"L-'t nie play y 11 something," said
Miisin.
Without a word, the tiddler handed
the virtu 'so bis instrument. Putting
the thing into :it least .1 suggestion nf
tune, M'isin played a touching cavatina,
and then the ' t aruiv il ol Venice," as
arranged by I'aganini.
The player of (in- p ilk. 1 an I s.;narc
dance music open,- I his mouth an I ab
sorbc I every not.-. When Miisin had
ti i-liod he hau b-.l the ti .,. ,- k to its
speliboun 1 owner. Tin- countryman
shook bis head. 'I'hc brilliant notes nf
the "C.ruiv.i." were still chasing each
oiler in a ill ad dance through his head.
"I d'-n'l want it," he -en), h.conii il-
Tin- I'i'ii-aut ainl the Koli'ier.
A peasant who was growing a fine
crop of barley awoke om- morning to
tin 1 that the ll md had ent red his field
and desfoye I every stalk of his gtain.
Ti:ereii;i -tl he began to tear his Inir and
lam -nt. but a stranger who r ime along
tapped him on Mn- should- r an I said:
''llillkee, my friell I, but you do not
know of what on complain. Had your
barley come to maturity and bc-n sent
toinaikct, I should have waylaid and
robbed you of every dollar of the pro.
reeds." Whatever li ippcns is for the
bi st, even w hen the neighbor's cow eats
up our cabbages. H-ir.iit free Press.
A Koirninner at Disaster.
A bright bulking young w un in in ono
of the fashionable dry goods stores told
me she never, if she coii'd possibly help
it, sells an ar'ii Ie to a person who ha 1
lo-t a front tooth, as it i.s always a fore
runner of disaster to her. "I always get
some ol Mn' oih r ei- who are not
up
A ll! U'l s'e, pe p. f" )1V
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I Am (irepJ iiml Von are Smnll.
A s in now- swinging on a branch
1 luce en light a passing tl y ;
''(III let me live;" the iiisoot prnye.1,
Willi trembling, pit.-oiis cry.
'-.No " s-i il tin sparrow, '-oii um:.i (all,
J-"oi- 1 mnii-at nntl you are mhuII."
The bn-.l bail s.-are begun his t'ea-t
before 11 Lawk e one by:
Tiie -nine w as i-.-ciht. Pray ie' inn live".
W'a- now the san.i ej-y.
"No, '.-aid the capita-, -'you must tall,
for I .1111 gi-ea' ami you are small "
An eagle saw- the rogun riie! swooped
I "pon liim fnuii on high;
"I'rnv let mi live; why slioald you kill
So iim!l a bird n I:"
"Uli," said th-eagle. -.01 lulls' fall,
Kor I um great and you are -malt."
Hut while li" nt -, th lui iter came:
lb: let his arrow tU
"Tyrant !" the eagle sl,,-ii.;et. "you havn
No right to inak" me 'lie."'
"Ah," said the huii'i-r, "you must fall,
Kor I um gi eat an I you ar.-Muail.''
I I'ro n th-' litirmiu.
11 r io i;tn s.
The sur .t way to raise pigs is by tho
tails.
Speaking of anion Is, what, does tho
catamount to?
The pngiiist i.s tie: 1110 b.-i 11 Shylock.
Ho is always seek lug a pound of Ilosh.
Although not talkative at all, the ovs
ter is a very pleasant companion at din
ner. Scientist-, believe it impossible for f
nan to have a double. If this is so Lov
can a man "no b-side himself ,'
Merchant to his clerk I am sorry I
cannot let you have your la-t month's
salary to-day. but -i:io, its you very
wa ll know, tiii'e i money, I will give,
you a month's v:e it ion.
Hungry tiit-st ; li -w is thU? I or
dered :i steak ami a poached egg. 1 sec
the egg, but when- is the steak'" Tablf
attendant. "Dn's a'l right sail. l)t
steak am under do egg."'
Il is astonishing how iu.n l: -. en, in
dignation an I - 'ti I t-iii j it a '.v. 'iiui; c in
pill into two words. II you do not be
heve it jii-t list :i while Mm speaks of
s llio ijne .she dislikes as "that man,"
"D 1 y ii have dump sheet-. ' said tho
fussy old 111:111 ;it the hole!, securing n
room, "No," said th- ib rlv, who want
ed to be obliging, "but we call sprinkle
'em for 011 if y. .. .ike 'hem that way."
"Conie in, inv poor in in." said a be
nevolent lady In .1 ragged tramp, "ami
will get you something to rat.''
"Thanky, mum; don't care if I do."' ".
suppose," continued tie- lady, .setting 11
a square meal before Mm, "your life Me
been lull 1 f trials?" "Vi-, mum, an' t 1 if
W'l-t of it wu ', I alius g..t convicted."
All l.lcctt iiiil I! ilon.
I. ' e ling a ch"His by 1 tin-.d ap
p iral u- ha bi 1 ,. ; '. .e I'ai is. Th(
current i- n-cl it- ' 1" : I tine Mr t In"
chon.s ol an "pe: a con p u.v while the
singers ai'- N l.i 1 I '.in 1 lies. Al
electrical hato:-., btc: gin a 1 oiispicuou'
place, is cuiiti-olle I by th" foot cf till
leader i'f the on !, 1 -M a, who has aNo ill
front of him a-tc.ai! duplicate, by whicl
lie can see whether his I iot is beatlio; cor
P ct time. The rlcctrti ai baton does not
1 actually move in space, but it presents
the api'i-arauc of -lolag ... There are,
in fart, two batoi.-, 10 upyiug d:lT rent
n 'sitloU", which 0:1 l" i:ij, lev. lived by
1 the action of cnitr. magnets, present
whiti-nndbl.u k fa- s aiti innti ly on th
back groun I. A 1 optical ii!usio-i is
tlcis pio iuccii ca. t'y 1 ijptvnlcnt to the
llioveineiit of 11 s'.'lgle white baton in
tiie hands of a leader. It i . said that
much gn ati r precision ' obtained by
thisdivlc - than w Ir re ll,.- time is beaten
for the cIiitiis by a s. ,oir ;, ;.,. v behind
the sccn-s.
Ilo.iej in M ,nl.
"You will le v -r have i-.ea 1 :r.'i':-. in
America," -ai 1 an Itab-ui gentleman in
the Colonna b hot' I vester lay, "as long
asyou throw aw iy the ,lai. a Italy
the cleaning of the s'l-'etsis sold to the
high' st bidder at 1 nb ie aueii-M-, and
the 111 1 11 who go's -in- e i.tiaci tairly
crapes the street-, t. , . ; ail t dirl
he c in. is th- i' : ik 1: to ,- lai tory,
whi-re it is press.- 1 i -1 ! , , bi ikswilicll nr '
then sold f.-i- f;-i t i.iz-ng purposes. You
i Americans do no s . in 1.1 know- Mint
i-our strei t dii; i- v i '; .h o. J Miiuk if
VOII WOllld lldvefisi- .,1 .vouid find
.01110 smart man wli ivo.;l I be glad to
'like II ten Vl-ars o-.tr.irl to chilli vcur
I 'tieits for nothing. II would got very
-ich." -- I'liiia b iphi ; t ' 1 I.
A Slrnnge llvpcriiiiciit.
King J lines I V . s -ot iaud i- Siiid to
aavo ordered an experiment lobe carried
Mil which 11111-1 In- regard.' I as one of
the strange-.; ever icoud- I. With a
view to learn what was the original hu
man language, ii- had .lamb woman
.edged on the Nie of Inciikeith, in the
Krith i f Forth, an I two infants entrust
d to ln-r car-'. Old y enough, the
result was consider.. I satislaetoiy, for ill
iue course it was fmiu-l that they spoke
"very go -I lb-brow!" -' lttle Polks.
The Mni L n's Prayer.
"P:d you ev.-i h- ;ic "The Maiden'
Pi.iyor," a.sk'd n trawiing man of an
il l in -nhant who had live daughters,
"Did I -v.-i ' ) -i bet. I have, with
ill tie v 1 i 1 1 i 1 s h an tiialei -e ticket.)
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