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NO. 51.
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imi a ii ii nn
Kissing (he Rod.
Oh, heart of mine, wo shouldn't
Worry fh!
What we" vo missed of calm wc oiuldn't
Have, you know !
What we've met of stormy pain.
Ami "f sorrow's driving rain,
We can better inert aain
If il Mow.
We have cried in that dark hour
We have Known.
When our Iran fi II with the clinivcr,
All Hlilllf
Were not shine and shadow blent
A the eraoioiis Master meant?
Let ii" temper our content
With III, own.
For. we know, not i vrry morrow
Cau 1)0 nnl ;
Po. for a tlim,' nil the so-row
We have hail,
let us fold aav our fears
And Mit by our foolish tear,.
And through all the coiiilng year.
Just lie pl.nl.
--1. lames Whit.omh Ulley.
THJ-TdOCTOR'S BOY.
"Mother, it's uw I'ul eolil to-night!
('mi I put n lit lie none wood on the
lire only one more log?"
Mis. Net ley glanced j;rmli;in;l y b
Ward tbc wood-box in Iho corner a
receptacle which, by tlio way, win not
loo well lilleil.
"I iimsi' .so," said she. "lint be
raioful .lobn ; woo l gels away so fust,
iiinl tlio pi ii'o always jjurs tii toward
winter."
Ami kneeling on ibe braided nix in
front of tlio liu .lolm Netloy amused
himself with littilili titr up tbi! founda
tions of a theory sheet iif flame, while
on olio side of. Ike (able bis mother
made buttonholes mi vests, and mi the
oilier Aunt Eunice stilebed lui-i ty away
at shirt finishing for a factory near
by.
Mi s. Nellov was a pale, hollow-eyed
little w blow, l-'tinii-c White was ten
or twelve years y mincer, and allhouyh
not in the lic.t blimiii of yoiilb, might
liave been preily if ber cheeks bad
been a little rounder mid ber eyes less
mournful in their expression.
'J'be rnoin, although furnished with
n pitiful plainness, was neat a:id clean.
A very old blackbird gave nn neou
sioiinl spasmodic chirp in its cage near
the ceiling, and a loan cat watehed in
tently at nil inliiiilesinial nioii'-e-holo
behind the bureau.
"Well, lumber," said .lobn, who
was the only real young eivature in
(be loom, "why don't you ask what
luek I bad?"
' "Hceause." sighed Mrs. Notify, bit
'ng oil' tbo thread to save the trouble
of reaching for ber scissors, "you
never do have any luek. Folks don't
seem to want a boy."
"Tbo new doetor doe 9, though," said
lobn, chuckling, as bo reviewed the
result of bis arebiteetiiral dealings
with the lire. "And he's engaged me
to look after bis Inn sen and row.
There!"
Sirs. Notify paused, with bor noodle
suspended ill iridair.
"Well, that is luck," said she. "Tbo
newdoelor! 1 suppose bo's a very
growl gentleman, eh?"
"He's wry uieo and pleasant," said
John; ' that's all I know. And bo's
going to give nie two dollars a week.
Ami bo says 1 mustn't be 'discouraged,
because ho w as a poor boy once, with
empty pockets and never a shoe to bis
feet."
"And now," said Mrs. Netloy, "he's
bought that big stone bouse and
ground,. It's well to be lucky."
"Hut," cried John, "he says it Isn't
luck. He says it's nothing but bard
work and puh. And I mean to work
hard too, and buy a nice house, some
day, for yon and Aunt Eunice to live
in."
"What's his name, Johnny?" list
lessly asked Miss White.
"Dexter," Iho boy answered
'Doctor l)uvid Dexter."
"Mercy on us, Eunice!" cried Mrs.
Netloy, "what possessed you to give
sueh a start ?"
"1 1 pricked my finger!" mur
mured Eunice. "Can't wo have
another lamp, Mary? This sort of
thing is ruinous lo the eyesight."
Mrs. Netloy rose to bring aim. her
etarvcd-look'ng liltle lamp.
Jobu sat and stared at the tiro, with
speculative eyes.
"I'm only to feed the horses, and
carry wood and water to the kitchen,
and look after tlio fancy Hrahinas inn
Leghorn fowls," said bo. "Doctor
Dexter has a man to drive around
with him. So you sec I can study at
home evenings, just the same as if I
went to school; ami I'm sure Aunt
Eunice is asgood as any school-teacher
going, to keep me up with my
geography and arithmetic."
"Two dollars a week will be a
great help to us," said Mrs. Netloy.
And then she coughed that dry. bard,
rattling little cough that Joint disliked
to hear so much,
"It seems strange, don't it," said
she, after John had gone to bod, and
the two sisters were putting away
their wearisome work preparatory to
seeking their own pillows, "tbo idea
of a now doctor settling hero, after old
Doctor l'lyinploii bad resigned for
forly years? How t mes do change,
tc-be-s uro!"
"Yes," said Eunice, almost inaudi
ble Mrs. Nellov looked sharply at ber.
"Eunice," said she, "what does ail
you tonight? You ain't sick, uro
you?"
"Yes," said Eunice. "Sick of liv
ing sick of drudging sick of this
endlessi light for daily broad! Oh,
Mary, Mary! what a fool I have been!
If I could only undo the past!"
"Eunice, what do you moan?"
"Do you remember w hen I taught
school at Milford, .Mary, w hen John
was a baby, and yon were living over
at Dawson s Point, before Albert
-bed? Well, I bad a lover then,
a lover that really loved me
for I was tolerably good looking in
those days. I In I bo was plain and
ipiiet ami not very vwll-lo-d . I
thought I could tin belter, ami I found
it great fun to lease tlio poor fellow as
I've soon hoys play a trout in that lit-
I tlo crooki d slreani up tic hills. And
I ended by refusing him, and be went
away."
"I've beard all this before , haven't
I I ?" said Mrs. Netloy, w ith a puzzled
countenance.
I "Yes; but you never beard his
j name. It was David Dexter."
I " Jootluess me!" ejaculated Mrs.
j Netley.
"Ilitsh!" said I tuiieo. "Don't
i wake John. Oh. yes, I know I'm
J rightly served; but it don't make the
j dose any the less bitter to swallow.
Doctor Dexter is a rich man now, and
I 1 hope yes, 1 do really hope that he
lias a good wife, one vvoilhv of him,
by this lime. Kill I can't help think
ing what a dreadful mistake I made in
! those old days. He was m good and
. lino."
I "Well." said Mrs Nelley. slowly,
! "it's done and il cau'l be undone. So
: far ns 1 can see, folks are always
! making mistakes in Ibis world. Don't
; fret, Eunice. It's small good crying
j after spilt milk. And it's pal ten.
and tin' lire's dean burned out, and
i we'd boiler go to bed. I vu-ss."
.lobn Netloy went to his new place
' the next day, and any boy who has
been thrown on bis own resources can
eaily imagine the delight he felt when
Doctor Dexter placed two big, round
silver dollars in bis little brown
palm at (be end of the first week, with
the pleasant words:
"You have well earned them, my
boy ."
It was a dreary November evening,
with tbo windy air full of living dead
leaves, when Ali-osi. the old cook,
came to tlio olliee door in Doctor
Dex tor's line stone house.
Please, doctor," said she to her
muster, who had just, .sealed himself
wilb a book before tbo red light of the
tire, "do yon know what's come of
liltle John? I've called and called,
and he in't there."
"Not there?' repented Doctor Dex
ter. "And I let Collins go homo to
spend Sunday- Call again; the boy
must be there."
"Ho isn't, doctor. It's tbo tirt
night he has failed us since you hired
him. And now I come to think of it,
be had an awful hoarse cold this morn
ing, when b came in for the chicken
feed. Perhaps lie's sick."
Doctor Dexter laid down his book.
I'll go down and take the horse
out of the traces iny-elf," said he.
"Whore docs Johnny live?"
Alison did not know; neither did
the doc or.
Itut as Dexter opened the stable
door, outside of which the patient
horse stood waiting, hi, mane ami tail
dtoopiiig before the knifclike wind,
tbo flash of a lantern greeted his eyes
with unexpected light.
"S you are there, after all, John?''
said ho.
Hut it was not John Nelley. I; w i
Iho tall, slight ligure of a woman th it
shrank back from its task of throw in :
hay into the manager of fo'iierul, t! c
big iron -gray horse.
"Why,"' cried Doctor Dexter, in
inn ii'inenl. "whi are you?"
"I am John's aunt," faltered alow
voice, "lie's si k, and he fretted so
much about the hmses' supper thai I
told him I would conic and put bay
iiitothc'r maiigers ami water Ibein. I
am not timid with cattle," she added,
"and I did uol suppose any one would
know."
John's aunt!" repealed Doctor
Dexter. "L'l hid take that lantern a
minute, pease! Why do you turn
your face away from ine? it Hue?
Y'ou are Eunice While, then?"
Ye,," sh. cried out. assiointely,
"I am Eunice While. Ittit I never in
tended ou to know it. David I.Vxlcr.
Fortune has dealt very ditleiom ly w it'i
me fioiu what it has with you. Opea
I'm
sorry I over canio hero.''
"You are cold, Eunice," said he gent
ly ; you shiver. Come to the bouse
and let mo give you a cup of tea."
"No," (die said, resolutely, "I will
go homo ;"
"Then I w ill go with you, Eunice.
I must see Johnny. I in you know,
even without being aware thai bo was
any kin to you, I have got fond of thai
boy? 1 shall be fonder still now. !
have wondered this u any a day, Eu
nice, where you were and what bad
become of you ?"
"Have you?" Eunices heart had
begun to boat strangely now; her
cheeks glowed deeper than any daui
iisk rose. "Well, that is a question
easily answered. 1 inn living hero
with my widowed sisier John's
mother and I am sewing for a liv
ing." Il cost ber something to make that
confession, for Eunice White was a
proud woman yet. !ut she scorned
to dissemble.
"Eunice," ho said, looking wist
fully down upon her. as he walked by
her side, "I could have done belter
than thai by you. I'll do it still. Eu
nice, if you will let me. I'm not one
of those thai vary and shift with every
change of the moon. I loved you
then, and 1 love ynii now. And as
for llie.-e twelve years that have .sepa
rated lis, I've loved you steadily all
the tiin". I've remained single for
your sake. Now you can decide. Is
it yes, ot is it no?"
Was not loyally like this worthy of
a return? Eunice While t li mil: lit so.
She put mil her cold b ind and lei il
rest in David liextor's watiu grasp.
"It js yes," said she.
Old Alismi was iptileoulof patience
thai night when the doctor did not re
turn to the dinner of clear soup,
salmon-steak and roast grouse which
she bail cooked with so much care,
until it was all spoiled w ith .standing.
Hut w hen at last he came in w ilh a
bright face, and (old her Ibe cause of
his delay, she did not so much blamo
him.
. "I've always said," declared she. in
ber quaint Scotch way, "that the ono
Ihing you wanted, doctor, dear, was a
wife to vn!e the house. And if she's
as douce and as braw as you loll mo,
why, I'll bo contented to call her
missus."
"I'm sure you will like her, Ali
son," said the doctor, rubbing his
hands.
"Isn't it nice, mother?" said John.
"1 told you how good Doctor Dexter
wa. And now he's lo be my rea
uncle, and 1 can go out and hold his
lioro every day ; and yon uro to live
there, mother, ami re-t from all this
dreadful sewing that's wearing your
heart and eyes out. Oh, Aunt Eunice,
I'm so glad joil found your old lover
again !"
"John, you are a goose!" said Aunt
Eunice.
Hut she laughed and blushed as she
spoke the words, and John knew vol y
well that she was not angry with him.
Vegelahle liuuiivrniits.
Naturalists familiar with the habits
of the English sparrow seem lo doubt
the possibility of preventing its enor
mous increase ( the expense of our
indigenous birds, ami a similar result
may follow the introduction of a tree
which in the course of the last twenty
years has elici ted at least a thousand
fold extension of its North Ane'iican
habitat. It is the ailanliis tree, im
ported originally from the Moluccas,
but now found in almost every shel
tered river-valley from Pittsburg lo
Southern Alabama. It, fecundity and
rapidity of growth exceed that of the
Canada llii-lle.
In less than live years a small plan
tation of the vegetable colonists will
cover a doen square miles of river
b itlonis with their pale green sprouts,
and in live years more any one of
those sprouts is capable, upon the
slightest encouragement, to develop
.11,0 a tall and really beautiful tree.
None of our native arboreal plants
seem capable of competing with Iho
cgelalive energy of iho hardy stran
ger, which prosper in the poorc-t cal
careous soils, and appears (o llotirish
equally well in Southern China ami
Norlherii Ohio. Along Iho line of iho
Miami Canal, north and east of Cin
cinnati, it has superseded sumachs mid
willow; near llui.itsvillti, Ala., it,
thickets are smotherinc' both weeds
and forest trees, ami within the last
live years il has extended its conquests
even lo the rocky uplands of Western
North Carolina. New York Voice.
A Seven-Pound 4eiu.
The largest oat's-eye of which there
is any record was recently 'onnd by f
digger of tiallc, Ceylon. Il weighed
nearly seven pounds. The tinder way
a Moor man v ho bad boon very poor,
lie has been ollered $10(1,11011 by a syu'
dicate of local dealers.
the door; lot mo go back homo.
HlI.IHtEN'S COl.l'.MN.
tommy's i lion v..
A hoy that iloi'sii'f like ii''lcj
Is very hard to please;
And ptai hes are Hie nicest thinp,
That ever crow on tree,;
lint of all the fruit, the s rt lo suit
And the linest every way
Is a jolly, juicy melon
(in a Millry, summer day!
-- oimIi'k I i.nii:inlon.
Ti;n Ks i' Till." minis.
'l was much amused one afternoon,"
says an observant friend, "by a little
family scone on a twig of an elm tree,
where a tly-eatcher had her tiny brood
of live, just out of the nest, all perched
in a row. She w as feeding tlieni, and
the little dots look their rations with
great content as often as the mother
t aught an insect and Hew back with the
morsel to each open beak in turn. The
regularity with which she kepi account,
feeding one after another, in exact
order, from lop to bottom of the row,
was very inloreding.
Piesoiitly one small chap grew inpa
tient, and while the mother was away
fluttered over and crowded himself
into the place next lo ihebird last fed
exactly as if he bad planned to get
the next lly. lie sat (here, looking
very sober ami innocent when the
mother returned, bul sho saw the
trick at once, ami gave the lly to the
rig1'! bird, whisking the interloper (as
I fancied) w ith her w ing as slit; pa-sed
him, by way of eiiU'rig his ears.
Probably be was the rogue of the fam
ily and she knew him loo well. bos
ton Ti adscript.
A I I'NMMi III-' K.
The coote, you must know, i very
stupid about some things, and in al
most nil Pueblo lairy stories is the vie
tim of one joke or another. The bear,
on 'bo other hand, is one of Ibe wb
csl of animals.
Once upon a time the Ko-id-deh
(the bear) and Too-w hay-deb (Iho
coyote) chanced to nice! at a certain
spot and sat down to talk. After a
while Hie b- ar said:
"Friend Coyote, do you see what
good land Ibis is hero? What do mi
say if we farm il together, sharing
our labor ami the crop?"
The Coyote thought well of it, and
said so; iiud after talking they agreed
to plant potatoes in ptirtnerdiip.
Now," said the Hear, "I think of
a good way to divide the crop. I will
lake all that grows below Iho ground
ami you lake all that grows above il.
Then each can lake away his slmic
when he is ready, and there will he no
trouble lo measure."
The Coyote agreed, ami when the
lime came they ploughed Hie place
w ilh a sharp stick and planted their
potatoes. All summer they worked
together in the lield, hoeing down the
weeds with stone hoes and lolling in
water now and then from Iho ungat
ing ditch. When harvest lime came
Hie Coyote wont and cut oil" all Iho
polalo tops at the ground and carried
them homo, and nflerw ards iho Hear
scratched out t tit potatoes from the
the ground with his big claws and
took t liflil to his heu-e. When the
Coyote saw this his eye were opened
and he said :
Hut Ihi, is not fair. You have
(hose round thing-. .. Inch are good to
cat, but what I look home wo cannot
eat at all, neither my wife nor I."
"Hill, fiieml Coyote," answered Ibe
Hear, gravely, "did wc not make an
aureemcnl ? Then we must slick lo it
like moil." The Coyote could Hot
iiiisw er ami went home, but he was
not satisfied."
The next Spring, as ihov met one
day, the Hear said :
"Conic, f ; ictid Coyote, I think w o
ought to plant this good land again,
ami Ibis lime lot u plant il in corn.
Hut last year you wore diss;ili-lied
with vour share, so this year wc will
change. You take w hat is below I bo
ground for your share, ami I will lako
only what grows above.''
This s"omed very fair to the Coyote,
and he agreed. They ploughed and
planted ami tended the cms; and
when it came harvest lime the Hear
gatheied nil Iho stalks and ears ami
carried thciu home. Win n the Coy
ote came to dig his share he found
nothing but roots like threads, which
were good for nothing, lie was very
much dissatisfied, but the bear remind
ed him of their ai;! cement and bo
could say nothing. fXew Yoik
World.
One Think- He Hid Not Want.
" The trouble u ith Hoodletoii is that
he wants the earth."
"You wrong him," said the book
agent. "There are some things ho does
not want. I labored with him two
hours the other n'ghl Hying to get him
to buy a copy of yo;ir poems, and 1m
wouldn't have Vin." Ha.ar.
The lirsl steamboat was built in
England in 1.16.
SUN WORSHIPERS.
A Wonderful Relic of llieir
Handiwork in Mexico.
A Stone Roadway Up n Mound
1200 Feet Hiyh.
Charlej J. Wimple, ono of the
wealthiest minors of Mexico, is a re
cent arrival in the city. To a repre
sentative of the Call ho told the fol
lowing wonderful story:
"You have asked me to give an ac
count of the interesting mountain my
friend. Josse 1. Orant, and myself
saw during our trip through Mexico
en route to this city. Well, that
mountain i, at once one of the most
gigantic exhibitions of man's I'andi
work, and something almost I evmul
credence were we not already fauiiiiar
with the works of the A.tec,.
"Just imagine a valley l'o-ty bv
thirty miles in area, and frmn its
centre i ising a mound over I ,'.' i feel
feel in height. Then you tan realize
tbo first oU'eet created upon our minds
when we came before the bill I am to
describe. My foreman was w ith us,
and had partly prepared us for the
surprise, but wo bad treated bis story
with incredulous remarks, and had by
no means suspected he bad but given a
modest description of the mound.
"We gazed to tbo top and allowed
our ryes lo follow the windings of a
road down to Iho base. We wont
I around the base ami conjectured it
was about one and a half miles in cir
cumference. Then we started for the
summit. The roadway was built of
solid rock clear to ibe pinnacle, and
was from thirty to forty feet in width.
A wall of solid rock formed a founda
tion ami an inside wall at the same
time. The outer edge of the road was
unguarded. These stones weigh all
the way up to a ton each, and are not
erliifiilcd. The roadway is as level
as a floor, ami is covered with broken
pieces of f arlheiiware water vessels.
"Half way up the moiiiilaiii is an
altar cut in solid rock: in the ni.-lie is
a boulder which must weigh at lea-t
six tons. The boulder is of dilleri'iit
stone from Hint used in the walls. The
rocks in Iho walls arc dressed by skilled
workmen, but are not polished. We
saw no inscriptions; in fact we bad
no time to spare in making a searching
iavedigalimi. We did look for arrow
heads or other warlike instruments to
satisfy ourselves (hat the mound bad
not been Used for defensive or oll'en
sive purposes. Nor was there any
evidence to prove thai Iho roadway
had been built for Hie purpose of wii
nessiny bull liglus and other spoils in
the va;ley.
"I could only conclude the Aztec
sun worshipers expended yours of
labor on the bill in order that thev
might have an uppeop-iatc place to
celebrate their imposing festivals, in
asmuch a, the roadway was strewn
wit'i broken earthenware, ami l hose
K'ionsof a bygone and notable race
were known to carry nl ninri-e larae
quantities of water in earthenware
jars lo an eminence, ami there pour
out Hie liquid and smash the vote's.
"When we descended we bronchi
with lis a number of small i -.hells
which had pctriticd. ami if mui look
at these on my table you will see huw
they have been perforated by the In
dians. We again took a loin,' look a
the mountain ami saw it w as ,.l..,n- in
shape, and thai the upward road coin
lin need on the ea-tei n side. I have
traveled oil both sides of the liii'lin
tains from bi iti-li ( 'oluinbia to l Vuir.il
America, ami on either side of tlio
S.crra Mailres here the olitl'-dw ellcr
have left such reinai kable mementos
of their skill and cii-toiiis, 1 . 1 1 1 I haw
never witnessed any thin:: so w omb I till
and tuau'iiticent a- the moiiml uln. li I
have been lellino you about.
'The valley is about six hundred
feel above the sea level, and i ahoiil
seventy miles from the coa-l. It is
situated in Sonora, between tl jtic-
of Altar and Mautdalena and m ar the
Magilalcn.i Uivcr. We called the
curiosity Pali-ado Mountain, and it is
Well named. Sail Francisco Call.
A Novel Km; Horn.
A fog horn operated enlirely by
steam and compressed air has hern
I established at the light station at , !,
' Hud point, which i the eas.crti ex
tremity of Discovery Island. The
horn w ill sound blasts of eight seconds'
I duration, with intervals of one minute
between blasts. The foc-ahu in bind
ing is situated about ono feci soiitli
j westerly from the lighthouse and is of
I wood, painted white, with brow n
j rooting. The horn is elevated nhoni
forty-live feel above high water mark.
San Pram iseo California.
The Monographer doesn'l live from
band to in mill, although his business
(s from mouth to hand.
All Arab Foundling' nreer.
The public has been reading lately a
great many dispatches from France
and Africa, giving tin) progress of
the war which the French government
has been waging in Dahomey. I.ieu
leiianl Colonel Arehinard was the
nllii'iT mentioned as being in coimuaii I
of the Frem-li Iroo-ts. who. although
merely a handful of some four or Iivo
hundred cavalry, have inllielnl great
.-laughter on llieir opponents, killing
as many as a thousand in one engage
ment. There recently arrived in Ibis citv a
young French nfiieor who is an inti
mate friend of Colonel Arehinard. and
who lelate, tin; following strange
history of the dashing young colonelY.
life: '
"Ahoul twenty-six years auo, at the
time Franco was ( imaged in a series
of petty wars iioaiii-t iho noma hi ibe.
in Algeria, ami a fier oic of Ihe-e en
gngeiiicnls a ceriain I ia-loti Arehinnrd,
thru a captain in a cavalry logimeiil,
was attending tk" removal id' the :
wounded, when m f hi- men dis-
covered a liltle Arab child, who had ,
evidently I n abandoned by il- par- 1
cut- in their Ibhl. !
Hciiig- a bachelor, and. liking the '
bright, intelligent look in I he liltle I'd- j
low 's face, the captain ib'tet inilied lo j
adopt him and oive him hi-iiaine. lie,
therefore. ont Mm toalyooo or French
si'bool in Horde nix. where the lad w as
((liiealed, and later, in 17."'. Ibe cap
tain having rien In the iniik of briga- j
dier general, Ic call-oil him lo been
listed as a private in the ."seventh Hus
sars. under bis ow n nan f An hin inl 1
( Jainiiig rapid promotion he was s,, on'
sent lo the Cavalry School at Sauiuar,
from whence he graduate in I
only (en M'ars ago, as a .sub-lieutenant j
of ealvarv.
He was thou soul lo Tunis, mid
fought through the campaign of ISSJ.
anil the following y ear saw him eolii
inaiidiiii! a baltalii'ii in Toiiqiiiu. In
ls; ,. wa sent to Senegal a , major
in the famous regiment of .-qiahis Scn
rgalais, w inch he onminaiided, as lieu
tenant colonel, in his lute successful
campaign in Dahomey. Although a
pme-liloodi'd Arab, with a Ihoroiiyh
French niililarv education. Colonel
Arehinard. it i whi-perod in proini-
lent Parisian military circles, is next
on the li-t tor lironi'ition to th vot
ed rank of general of a division of the
French arinv. - fNew York Star.
What a Prison Assuelalbi'i is Doing
The convict's career is no longei
blighted forever by his term of im
prisonmenl. nvers the New Yoll
i i : i... i .i.... i... , : ...a.
toss. i tioeo't in.,, in s, ,.,,,,
kr.els his period of eriine and shows
evidence of hi- intention lo had a bet-
ter life, he can now got a job and start
afresh. There are several thousand
ex convicts w ho me now employed in
r.'pniai usmess nouses minis city
and w ho can, in case o! cli ng". get
uiigb'y good recommendations hoih as
to conduct and ability from tbeii
einpl.oel's. This condition of allairs
is brought about by the Prison Asso
ciation of New York.
The association is a brain b of the
National Prison Association, which
ha- il- branches in nearly all the lead
ing States of the I'liion. The New
oi k association, however, has done
more good and accomplished more no
li, cable and far-reaching le-nlt, than
! any of the ether branches in the conu
! Irv. It secured positions for ie loss
i than I 'I'll men last year, all of whom
; had at -ome time occupied a cell in one
I .,(' flic m-is. os .tf' this I 1 1 1 1 -1 c Sill,'
"Missionary Heats.
A novel craft is in course of con-
-trill I i ii at the Henicia shipyards. It
i is no l.-s than a missionary packet,
I which i- built in the order of the
! Ann" io. m Hoard of t 'ommis-ionci s for
Foreinii Mis-ion-. Her diuicii-ions
! are a- follow-: I .ninth over all.
i fc l ; mi the waicr line, feel:
i breadth, K'. feet 1 I inch.'-: depth of
1 hold, feet; draught, .- feel :'. illche-.
i Win n completed she will lake on
bonr.l a ini-si'inai y out fit coii-i-tuig of
Hible-ami devotioiial tracts, and will
lake an evanoe.ical ci ui-e to Hie south
ern seas. The Seventh I lav Aiheuli-ts
are also having rv , raft built, to be de
voted to a similar pin ioso. sh- will
he of about t Villous register ami will
U completed by Aimiist of the present
year. San Francisco Chronicle.
-
Wibl Camels in California.
A proof that the camels brought lo
Arizona a number of years ago are
not extinct and are breeding rapidly,
Ibe followins. from the Yuma (Cal.)
Si nliucl is reproduced: A laige band
of camels, numbering id. wore seen
vviihi t a few miles of llartisburg last
week. Jim Dolon caught one with a
lariat, and after bringing it into (lie
camp was forced to shoot it, as all th
horses around became bidly fright
ened at tho sight of the ungainly boast.
Evening
The sun nor out Ik hind the purple sen:
The gray clouds swim along llu yellow
west.
Shadowless, shapeless, and In llu lo un
rest, Alonu' 1 lie west, all dark and silently.
The nitfht with solemn stiilr and maic'V
1- throned hrhiiid the i astern wean's
tin-ast.
Wrapped, like the ea;le in her secret
ii est.
Wailing the hour w le u In r broad winn are
tree.
The ewium: smiles a smile of fear and hope;
Tlic pence of slurh" hi ma) nun" rtilh tlio
nls-lit.
Ur nil the thunders of the sky m iy npe
To unite the sleeping earth to waking
fright.
Which shall it 14? What prophet Ims the
Mope
To read the wariiin.- in yon waning
li-lu'.'
- II. Ib iehisoii in Sen Yolk Tillies.
HFMOIMM .
A road race Tramps.
Ibiw -onu the crying baby ill the
house grows to be a girl with a piano!
Charles -Mi-s Ella-Flla- y I
h"pe lo win you? Ella- Why, t hai lie,
do y oil think I'm lo be rallied?
Merchant (in wan' of a boy. In ap
plicant --( an mui spell corioitly:
Hoy- Yi", sir. C o-r r-e-c l-l-y.
Kaiser Wilbelui now calls hiui-clf
"the man of rock ami iron." A little
sar -apai ilia added will make a line
bill. is.
P.irber Does the raor hurl yon,
sir? Victim- Are you -me it's a
razm ? I had an idea it w a- a piece ot
I'.n rel hoop.
The man hc-t qualilied to enjoy tbo
honey nioou is the one w ho had all tilt1
loniance kicked out of him before ho
leached ilia, period.
Mendicant Can't you give me a
few pennies for
my poor family at
home, sir? Merchant--No, no, man;
I don't want to buy any poor family.
"1 am sober nnd .-'eady . I w as ten
year-in niv last phne and live in the
("tie before that." "Hut where was the
hist place von worked?" "In the
slate's pri-on."
Time. One . m "I know I have
my sho t comings, Mis- Edith," began
the voting man deprecilinele. Yes,
(;,., p.," .-..idied. "but they don't
i,,,,,! ., ,.,ln,n,, , ,,. I1;r j,lf,s."
i High-priced (looter You air now
j convalescent, and all you need is ex
ercise. You should walk ten miles a
! day, sir, but your walking should have
1 an object. Patient All right, doctor,
I'll travel around trying to borrow
! enough to pay your bill.
1Jr ,,H1I.0 (n Ev(l.y SUv(,r )(,llr
. -,,. ,.,.,, ,,,, ,,. ,.,. f
, OUI. filV(l. ,,,,,. u ,( VKm.t
, ,ik,,ll(.si Mj, Alllm W. Williams.
a young lady of Philadelphia. The
profile is the w ork of a young Hriton
, m,,,.,,,,. Whe ,.. Morgan
came to this country, in I?'', to devise
a stamp for the coinage of our stand
ard dollar, he at once entered the
Academy of Fine Arts at Philadelphia,
that he might ni 'i'r thoroughly Ameri
canize his work. Here ho remained
for several month,, then spent several
days I rv ing lo sketch the head of the
fanciful (ioddess of Liberty.
Finally, he concluded to abandon tho
idea of making a fanciful design, and,
in its -(cad. use the profile of an
Ameiiean girl. Aided hy a friend, ho
began searching tor one whoe beauty
would entitle her to the honor of the
position. For weeks he coiiiinued his
search without success, until he was
inlrodneei! lo Mi Williams, then ;i
re-idolit of I1".';; squaiic lotrdi ll -treet,
Philadelphia. With great iliHi.-ully ho
periiadod ber to -it for a -kei. h.
After four trying sitiing. Mr. Mor
gan succeeded in oblaiiiiug uHieieut
tracings ,t eiialde Mm to proceed with
bi- work. With what degree of success
he met may be -ecu by an examination
of Hie silver dollar. As to the beauty
of her ligure. Mr. Morgan declares
her profile lo be the most pn feet ho
ha- ever seen either ill this country or
England. For two year, tin identity
of the ligure was kepi a profound sc
erel. and the original picture is still
carefully preserved. - New ( liicans
Times-1 leniocral.
Miming on Sunday.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
i , to ho called upon to (lelerminn
j win -liter shaving in barber shops on
j Suudav is a necessity and thcreforo
lawful. I ho ipicstion has been passed
upon by the court, in several Stale,,
and the general conclusion has been,
slates Ibe New York Herald, that open
baibersbop, are in violation of the
law." In ono ease the Court remarked
1 that "if men want to got shaved on Unit
j day they must be their own bai'ien or
j appeal to the Legislature to chauj..' I'm
law. The latest tribunal hem, from
on the subject is the Supreme Court of
Imliaima. It holds that the que-tiou
is ono for a jury to decide, t