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TTliat First to Do.
It's no use to grumble and sigh,
It's no iiM to worry nud frftt,
It I useless to groan or to cry,
Or fling yourself down in a pet.
You'il never be wise or lie grout
If you bluster like bees when tin y sr rra;
'Tis folly your woes to berate,
An. I I'itcli like a ship in a storm.
Ion't get in a tnntrum rind shout
Wlien obstacles rife in your p itli,
A' il don't let me beg of youpout,
Hy way of illsp'aviiifr your wrath ;
ron't butt out your brains jul to sp'.lo
Some fancied injustice of l;itc,
For time will set everything right
If you'll only bave palienet' to wait.
Tlie blutering wind ean not cbill
The lake, though he rullles .Ih face,
Hut the froft, w itli It v1''''1"'0 'o still,
Locks it fast in a spent cmlirare.
8o you may win fume lieyoiiil price,
Ami eoniiM r the worli wit li its pelf,
If you wl I only lircd this advice,
Anil liit learn to conquer yourself.
tiuldcn Days.
THE LIMITED EXPRESS.
nv iiiaki.otik i:oi;ki;s.
It wns (iio Inst of limitary and n
Saturday night. A keen noi'lli wind
wus blowing down Broadway, filling
the nit' with occasional flurries of
snow, nml night had long since eome,
III nigh it was only six o'clock.
,1. Wcldon Bradshaw, attornry ami
counselor at law, stood on tin; steps of
tin; building in which lie had his ofii -o,
and buttoned hisovcroat in lie looked
up nmt (lou'ii the now deserted street.
For some thiii- year lie had ilono
the same tiling nt the same hour every
day, when lie was nut out of town on
bu-iiiosK ho never went away for
pleasure lie was pun;,' out of town
now, as soon ns ho hail swallowed hi
dinner. Large nud iiiiior!nnt husincs.,
interests of a cln nt e tiled him tu the
northern part of the slate, nml it never
occurred to him to delay twenty-four
hours for wiint he considered a mere
question of sentiment. Sundays were
pretty much the sumo to him person
ally ns any other day, except that they
interrup'ed lui-ine-s.
Ti lie he had been wonderfully suc
cessful in life, but ho would have told
you it was entirely owing-to bis own
ill'orls, and not through any iuter
V litimi of IVnvideiieo.
Shortly af'.er nine o'clock that eve
ning lie walked into a passenger-car
on the northward bound express in as
pi oat a state of in itatio:i ns be ever per
mitted himself to indulge in. He bad
n-'glcelcd to engage a berth in the
sleeper, nud now found I hat he must
make the best of a night in a chair.
11c settled himself with the expert
l ess nud deliberation burn of age and
experience. Then he took from his;
pocket documents hearing" on iho
ciining case ami proceeded to read
them.
Presently ho found his mind wan
dering, a tiling it hail not done for
years, and putting' up the papers, ho
turned to look out of the window. In
spile of shading the glass with his
hands nothing was to be seen, hut an
occasional lig'il limited into view and
out ULfuiii in an instant.
He drew hack and sat idly looking
before him till suddenly ho hcc.imo
conscious that thero was something,
after nil, to be seen ill the window
liis own rclleclioii. Ho looked at him
self with growing interest; it was Ihn
Cist time in many years he had had
such protracted opportunity for study
of the subject.
Ho fell as if the face opposite him
Iclongod to some familiar stranger,
met every day but never known. A
man well advanced i:i life, Hearing- fin,
perhaps, looked back nt him. Hair
(fiay, getting a little thin now; aqui
line nose; clear, shrewd-looking-eyes,
of no particular color, wilb innumera
ble, tine wrinkles about the corners, as
if from constant contraction to enable
Ibrin tho better to see through other
men. The lips bad narrowed almost
lo a line from long- compression, and
mado the entire face look hard.
lie had fought the world single
handed the hard, cllMi, crushing
business world of a great city, and it
had marked him as its own. Ho bad
wrung from it wealth, position, recog
iiitiou of his ability by other men; but
ho hud given iu return youth, love,
pleasure, all aspiration after better
things. All thoso longing's and hopes
which prove the existence in us of
some sparks of a higher nature. Hi
very life lie had given to become that
most perfect mechanical production of
the niueleentli cou'ury entirely u
business man.
Tho train slowed up at u station nud
a young couple got in. Sho was hi
bright nud pretty nud confiding, ho so
unceasingly attentive and protecting,
Ibo other pnengor watched (hem
with intercs'. The men smiled and the
women sighed. They sat in front of
Wecdon ItraiNbatv, ami something In
the girl's face quickened his memory
and sent bis thoughts m-hiiig l.ck
into the past.
I
He turned again to his window, but j
tho i nst was with him and the face
(hat lookod back was no longer old
and hard.
It was a boy's face, handsome, bravo
and honest, with faith in those clear
eyes, and a promiso of noble deed'.
Other faces were there, too. A laugh
ing, winsome pair of eyes peered nt
him for a moment, ami then a gentle,
sweet, old face Binilcd sadly at "her
boy." Ho remembered her dreams
for him; ho realized for the first time
how far he had lallen from her ideals.
Now ho fully understood what she
l a I onco said lo him: "Experience is
sorrow. Only is life happy ns wo
live it for others."
Tho faee wns a ninn's now ; hnnd
somo slid, but nn eager look hadeonio
into the eyes, and the mouth wns '
more firmly set He w as starting out
into tho world anxious for knowledgo
of it; determined to light nud con
quer. Clearly the night he left homo
came back to him. She of tho laugh
ing eyes wns willi him, but they
laughed no longer. Tenrs were brim
ming over and the little lips too trem
ulous for words. He held her hand
and a mighty struggle wont on within
him. He knew what the tenrs meant
and he longed to take her in bis arms;
but pride and camion whispered:
"Wail! You have the world before
you.''
And so he spoko no word, but left
her.
Ho had never really meant to givo
her up. Ho intended in tho near
future to go back for her; but, first,
he was too poor to take the time, nud
afterward the business world claimed
him as its slave its slave when most
he felt himself i's master.
So the days passed by and ho never
went back.
Then he heard that another had
won her, nud for a moment J. Wee
don Bradshaw nlinilted to himself
tlmt he had possibly mado a inistako
in life after all.
In course of time he married his
partner's daughter. He pni I her bills,
treated her whhj respectful considera
tion, nud when sl.o died regretted tho
unfortunate circumstance. 1 III t her
face had no place on the window. The
you h of the past wns crying lo the
man of to-day for reparation aud
would not be silenced.
"Why did you treat mo so?"' ho
cried. "Why did you stillo my love,
teaching me this terrible nbsoiuto in
dill'erenco lo everything good or bad?
Why did you train me to think that
money and what money could buy
was the best in life aud nothing else
mattered? What have you given me iu
return for youth, love, and liberty ?''
And Weedou Bradshaw bowed his
head in silence. Iend Sea fruit.
Clearly he saw now, ns in the light
of uooiiuay, the life ho had missed.
Tiie life of love nud higher aspiration,
the abnegation of self that lends to
tho "larger heart, tho kindlier hand."
All this ho saw, and groaned in
spirit.
On through tho night rushed the
' express; but sido by side with it kept
tho phantom tin in filled with the
ghosts of Weedon Brad-haw's past.
The young bride had cone to sleep
with her head on her husband's shoul
der and tho other passengcis wero iu
various stages of unconsciousness.
Suddenly a violent, shuddering jerk
throughout tho train a ni'ghty crash
and heaving, aud then silence more
to Tilde.
Silence for a moment's sparo only,
however; then cries, questions, excla
mations a wild confusion of tongues.
The engine had jumped the track on
n down guide and half dragged the
baggage car with it ; but tho passen"
gor conches wero only badly shaken.
It would have been a terriblo disaster
but for tho quickness aud nerve of tho
engineer ho stoppo l tho train in its
own length, but his life was tire prico.
The crowd grew silent as they stood
about the wreck and that motionless
object now stretched upon the road,
side.
They peered into each other's palo
faces, scarcely visible by the flickering
light of a few lanterns carried iu
nervous hands.
Thank (iod! they wero all safe
but ouo man had givotl up his Ufa for
them.
"He did his duty nobly," they said,
and then began to think how they
could conlinuo their journey.
It was not that they wero unfeeling
only "practical"; thero was noth.
ing to be done- mid they were in a
hurry.
Only llrndsliaw remained standing
by tho body ho felt shaken, un
nerved, strangely old. Those silent
lips seemed bidding him stay. A
voice was speaking to him through
them unheeded by other cars ''Even
as I am wilt thou be." Frank Les
lie's lUuitrntod.
The Eporh of Huge Animals.
It may bo suid that the epoch of
huge animals has nearly passed away, !
though not quite, the elephant and a
few other types remaining as excep
tional survivors, A few thousand
years ago the sabre-toothed tiger, the
woolly rhinoceros, tho cave bear and
Ancestral forms of the elephant all
of tlieni very much larger than tho
species which represent them today
wero still abroad. The sabre-toothed
tiger was as big as the largest Hon of
the present, with enormous strength
and an unequalled dental equipment
for carnivorous purposes; tho envo
bear was nearly twice ns big nud
powerful ns tho dreaded grtt..ly, and
the mastodon and its successor, tho
mammoth, dwarfed the probi scidians
f this generation. ltoth tho mam
moth and tho woolly rhinoceros were
provided with long coals of hair, lis is
shown by their remains foi'nd within
a century cmheddodiii the frozen earth
on tho shores of the arctic, circle. To
the snmo period belonged tho giant
sloth, which attained a length of
eighteen feet, of far greater size and
with bones more massive than the ele
phant's. It procured its vcgotnbh
food by uprooting largo trees or
breaking them short oil' above the
ground, so as to get ut the foliage-
To accomplish these feats of strength
the animal sut upon its huge haunch .s
and nvghty tail, grasping the trunk
with its powerful arms and deliberate
ly wrenched it away. Armadillos i:I:t
feet in length were common iu thos.,.
Jays, while, by way of contradiction
there wore pigmy elephants that wero
not more than two and a half feet iu
height when full grown. The history
of tho world has shown that the smaller
forms of animal life are better adapted
for perpetuating their existence than
the monsters, and so tho latter have
steadily given way. Washington
Star.
Ilrala Throbbln?s of a CliUil Visible.
"ScO thoso blood-vessels of the brain
throbbing beating now slow andmV
fast," said Dr. .1. T. Knox tho other
day as ho pointed to a hole two inches
equnro in the occipital part of the head
of little Willie (i nil, the seven-year-old
son of Charley Call, the well-known
Lower Market butcher. "Mow (lint
child ever recovered 1 consider a mira
cle," continued the doctor. "About
six weeks ago the kid was running
through an alley near lower Broad
way, where they were tearing down a
building, when he was hit with a
brick. Tho child was carried to a
drug storo, where I saw him. I
found n swelling hack of bis head, and
on examination found that it was a
portion of the brain protruding. I
had him at once carried home aud
called in Dr. J. 1). Davis. Wo gave
tho child aniesthetics, and look on4
with the forceps a half a dozen pieces
of the skull. One was so firmly im
bedded with its sharp point that it was
liko pulling a tooth to get it out.
Vow tho skin has grown over and you
can look into the little fellow's brniu
as through a shoiv-wiudow."
"Is not the child's condition most
critical?"
"Certainly it is. I expected an ab
scess would form and meningitis
follow. Now tho greatest caro will
havo to bo taken to raise the little fel
low. Too much heat in that spot, a
blow, pf rliaps, or a full, or thu least
excitement may prove fatal. I don't
consider that ono in 200 cases could
have gone through what that child
has.'' Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Strauge Discovery.
On Saturday last (. Suttle, whilo
excavating for a levee, at Skelton un
earthed a niainmolh foot supposed to
be of tho ostrich species. Tho leg
was disconnected nt tho knee joint.
Tho leg from the kneo down was in
tact. This rolic was found about
Dight feet below tho surface of the
ground. Tho entire length of the
limb from tho joint to tho end of the
middle toe is six feet nine inches; the
length of tho toes are respectively
nine, seven, six and one-fourth inches
each. It is thoroughly petrified and
heavy as rock. Mr. Suttle has vainly
searched for the balance of this won
derful creature, but as yet has been
uiiablo to liml it. It is the opinion of
old timers here that this mammoth
bird was killed by Indians nud left on
the bank of Little Cottonwood creek
; after being stripped of its meal, where
: it became covered by sliding earth
from tho mountain bide. Elk1
(Nov.) Independent.
i Well-Posted tattle.
Fair Maiden (a summer boarder)
How savagely that cow looks at me.
I Farmer Hayseed Its your red pt w
1 sol. mum
Fair Maiden- Dear mc! I knew il
: wis a little out of fashion, hut I didn't
1 suppose a country cow would not' el
U. fNew York Weekly.
CHILDREN COLIMX. ,
HOW Ml) SUE Ti l l?
Ill HttV Pni-y's dimpled hand two bright,
new p miles shone;
One was for Hob (at seiooljust then), the
other Daisy's own.
While waiting Itols return she rolled both
treasures round the Door.
When suddenly tiny ilini eared, and on
was teen no more.
'Poor Daisy. Is your penny lost?" wni
asked in accents kind.
"Why, no, mine s here!" she quickly said,
"It's Hob's I cannot liud."
I il Mi I Id IN I is.
There is a dog friendship on Laurel
Hill avenue between n burly white
setter and n short-legged, smutty-nosed
pug. Although r.o unlike, these dogs
exhibit constant sigils of regard for
ono another, and run in company.
The speed of the bird dog is much
greater than that of the pug and pre
cludes the possibility of his keeping up
with h'm iu a race; but ordinarily tho
setter slows down to accommodate his
speed lo that of his shorter-legged
friend. When, however, necessity re
quires (he big dog to let himself out,
he reaches down and sviy.es the pug'i
harness in his teeth and runs Willi bin.
iu his mouth as a cat carries a kitten.
MnltKs TM ISS A T l.'l(IT.
Near Oggeisheitn, a small village
on t!ic bauksof iho Khiue, there is a
large meadow where every autumn
the storks are in thu hnblt of meeting,
previous to their annual migration.
On one of these occasions above fill
storks wero observed formed in a ring,
in the ('litre of which was one whoso
appearance showed the greatest alarm.
One of the parly seemed lo address
the ns-einbly by clapping iis wings
for about live minutes. It was fol
lowed by a second, a third and a
f un til, w in each clapped its wings in
the same odd manner us the first. At
hid all the storks forming the ring
commenced clapping their wings, and
when they hud done Ibis they, with
one accord, fell upon the poor culprit
iu the middle aud dispatched him iu a
few seconds, afier which they rose up
iu a body, and one, ace rding to cus
tom, taking the lead, they winged
their way tow ai d tho south. What
ofl'ence the poor stork had committed
that had lii'oug'd upon him so sad n
fate is, of course, unknown. Pic
ayune. A PAVll.lnS IS MAM.
The King of Siaut is said to have in
ono of his eoiiu'.ry palaces a wonder
ful pavilion. It was built by a Chi
nese engineer ns a refuse for tho lving
during the extreme heal of l lie sum
mer. The walls, ceilings and floors
aro formed of pieces of plate-glass an
inch thick. These are so perfectly
liled together w ith u transparent ce
ment that the joints nic invisible, and
no lluid can penetrate. Tho pavilion
is I we'ity-eight feet long nud seven
teen wide, and stands in the middle of
a huge basin undo of beautifully col
ored marbles.
When the King enters tho pavilion
the single door is closed and cemented.
Then the slu'ee-gatcs are opened, and
tho basin is filled with water. Higher
and higher it rises until the pavilion
is covered, and only the ventilators at
the lop connect it with the open air.
When the heat of the sun Is so great
that tho water almost boils on the sur
face of the freshest fountains this pa
vilion is deliciously cool. And this is
tho way the King of Siam cools him
self oil' in hot weather. It sounds
very delightful. Harper's Young
People.
Till: SKAI. VI 1TU)N MMPI.IFIKH.
The llehring Sea controversy sounds
very formidable, but it is really about
seals, nud so, ns nny one can see, it has
a great deal to do with our sealskin
coats. For unless the controversy is
settled wo may never have aey more
mulls or capes or coats out of this
lovely fur.
To kill any bird, animal or fish,
even for food, when they aro taking
care of their young is know n to be so
wicked that even the law forbids and
punishes it.
Now, when our seals are breeding
up iu th" llehring Sea they swim over
to (ho Pribih ll' Island to-rear their
young. In sw imming there they go
outside the threc-milo limit beyond
three miles from ehoro the waters aud
everything in them cease to belong to
any one country so the Canadians
have said that the seals caught thero
were no longer ours nud they havo
killed them by the hundreds whether
they were mothers or not.
( If course it is very cruel, but, leav
ing out that question, to whom do you
think the seals belong even if they do
cross over st range waters? Think of
nil the games you play with othcrboys
nud girls, and how would you decide
if the property o' one side were found
outside the limits of the other? New
York World.
Jg JJJJJJJ,
A West Virginia Well the Deep
est in the World.
TheCovernment to Take Earth's
Temperature.
The Oovernment has taken an Inter
est in an experimental well which is
being drilled on Hogg's Hun,
near Wheeling, West Virginia,
Thu well is now over 40UO feet i
deep, nud it is thu intention, if pos
sible, to drill it to the depth of an
even mile o'-'fto feel. The I'liited
States Ccological Survey will contrib
ute .imiu to the fund. It is thu pur
pose of the (lOvernuient to take the
earth's temperature at these low levels
and obtain other scientific data. Satis
factory tests of this character havo
never heretofore been made in this
country, owing to the water or oil
that hns been encoiintero iu the few
other deep wells that have been
drilled.
If the Wheeling well is driven to the
depth of u mile it will bo the deepest
well iii Iho world. At present the
deepest well in Ibis country is one
drilled for gas iu Pittsburg soino yenrs
ago by (ieorge Wcstinghotise, At. It
was sunk to the depth of -HiSO feet,
w hen work had to be abandoned on
account of the drilling cable breaking
of its own weight. Tiie weight of tho
cable now in use hi the Wheeling well
is 7000 pounds. Powerful machinery
must, of course, be employed iu drill
ing these deep wells, and the work is
slow and expensive.
In the event of any tool being lost
iu the hole, the job of fishing it out
becomes a scientific siehh Yemeni.
Tools arc made expressly for fishing
purposes, ami they are many and in
genious. Iu the oil -field there arc
men who make a bu-iucss of fishing
loU tools out of wells.
Jonathan Watson of Titusville, Pa.,
drilled in l.sfw one of the deepest
wells ever drilled in the oil country ;
be sunk it to the depth of 'XihW feet, at
a cost of ifao.i'ini. Mr. Watson is a
rich man and a Spiritualist, nud flic
well w as drilled under the guidance of
the spirits. It was drilled for o.l, but
was not a successful venture. The
well is located on the flats below
Titusville, not far from the Drake
well, the pioneer oil well of America.
Oil in the Drake well was found nt the
deplh of but CS feet. In August, Ins'.i,
Mr. Watson completed a well in this
locality w hich was also a "spirit well,"
having been drilled at that particular
spot by the advice of the spirits of two
Into friends whom he had known in
life. The well produce. I 1"0 barrels a
day at the start, but it was soon ex
hausted, and probably did not pay for
the drilling.
There arc wells in tirecne county.
Pa., producing oil from a depth of
about one-half a mile. These are the
deepest oil-producing wells in the
country. The cost of drilling a welj
to Ibis depth approximates $18,000.
The Boston School of Technology
was soma time ago a-ked to give an
opinion regarding the possible depth
the drill would have to penetrate be
fore it could got through the sand
stone in a deep well being drilled at
llockville, Conn. The well was being
drilled for water by a silk manufac
turing firm. It bad at tlmt time
reached a depth of 3 H0 feet. All this
distance hud been drilled through
snudslone, with the exception of 200
feet. The Boston scientists did not
venture an opinion. Prof. Emerson
of Ainhcrsl College declared that the
drill was tho only scientist that could
tell anything about it. Nothing but n
practical test would determine an
thing certain as to where tho sand
stone would end.
St. Louis has a well which is ;t 1 47
feet deep. For a time it belched forth
".') gallons of water a minute. The
deepest well in the world at present is
one at Potsdam, (iermany, which w as
drilled to a depth of MiO feet. New
York World.
Safety nml Business oil the Ocean.
So keen is the rivalry between tho
various lines and so much does their
success depend on i reputation for
safetv, that self-interest, iu the ab
sence of a higher motive, is siilliciciit
to stimulate them to leave nothing un
done in the construction and manning
of their vessels, which may if any
way be the means of averting disaster.
In furtherance of their efforts, the
Biiiisli and American Governments
unite iu giving thuin the most perfect
system of lights, buoys, and fog
signals iu the world. When 'Ju or
moro miles at sea, the captain may
discern tho rays of the first light, and
us he near port and enters the Chan
nel, there are nearly as many beacons
as lamp-posts iu acity street. Scrib
, ner.
An Attorney's Successful Utise.
Iu n trial in the I nitcd Slates court
where a young man had been indicted
for passing a counterfeit 10 bill, the
counsel of the latter, C. A. Baldwin,
objected to General Strickland's eouro
iu endeavoring to prove by business
men the fact that the bill iu question
was a counterfeit, but to no purpose
Finally, improving a favorable chance
Mr. Baldwin substituted a good bill
for tho counterfeit, w hich g. nuino
inoney General Strickland then proved
by three business men to bit the rank
est kind of counterfeit. Thereupon
Mr. Baldwin vehemently demanded
that attention be given to bis objec
tions and Judgo Dundy iii-inted that
the District-Attorney send out for a
bank cashier nml nil expert. With
great confidence General Sir'cklund
handed to the expert the bill after
establishing his lm-iiieis ami his ex
perience ill handling money and
said:
"Stale to the jury whether, in your
opinion, that bill is go d or bad?"
"This is a good bill, sir," returned
the witness.
"What!" shouted the attorney, "do
you mean to say that hill is not n
counterfeit
"Yes, sir; if you will bring il d- wn
to the Oniaba National Bank we will
give yon the gold for i"
Then there was a scene, iu the
midst of w hich Mr. Baldwin managed
to explain to the 'otirt that he had
chnnged bills without the knowledge
of the District-Attorney, and that in
view of the fact that three good blisi
nes men bud testified that the genu
ine bill was a counterfeit, he thought
considerable allowance should be. mado
for his client an ignorant country
boy in mistaking a counterfeit for :i
good bid. The jury were evidently
impressed wills the idea, for they re
turned :i verdict of acquittal. (ma
ha Bee.
How Paper Barrels Are Jlnile.
English manufacturers of paper
barrels huvo brought that industry to
such a degree of perfection as to rival,
in quality and economy of co.-l, the
ordinary wooden article iu a great
variety of uses, the materials cm
ployed iu the making of these barrels
being, for the most part, waste paper,
cardboard, and for the better quality
old sacks. In the -f. of cardboard,
the material is soaked or boiled for
six hours, und, after careful sorting,
is put into a rag engine or beater,
where it is beaten and torn to pieces
by a series of knives for about an
hour and a half, being afterwards
mixed with water until a pulp of uni
form consistency is gained; this is
rolled, joined, shaped and dried, and
the bairel is finally covered with
hoops. Previous to the putting in of
the tops and bottoms the barrels are
painted with a waterproof composition
made of linseed oil nud rosin for ordi
nary purpose barrels, and with n
special varnish for those in which
food articles arc to be placed. The
standard sizi made is 1C 1-2 inches in
diameter by 28 inches long, and,
whereas a barrel made of wood is
found to cost IU cents, the paper bar
rel is produced for about six cents
'e-s. Tho process provi 'es that all
wastc be beaten up into pulp again.
A Railroad In the Arctic (ircle.
In one respect, at least, the Swedish
und Norwegian railroad between
I.ulea on the Gulf of Bothnia and
I.tiliodeu on the shores of the North
Sea is the most remarkable engiuei'i"
ing achievement of the present cen
tury. It has the unique distinction of
being tho only rnilroud in the world
situated wholly or partially within the
Arctic Circle, it being some 1200 miles
further north than any railroad in
Canada. An interesting nieteorologi
cnl fact stated is in relation to this
boreal railway, viz.: That snow falls
much less frequently along the line and
in far less quantities than at points on
other roads looO to2'0 miles further
south, the darkness of the long w inter
nights being partly compensated by
the light of the aurora. The object iu
view in conducting this "North Pole
through line" is to tap the enormous
deposits of iron ore in the Gellivarn
Mountains, the exhaustion of the ore.
iu the Bilboa field making it alxoliitely
necessary that the iron-workers find a
new locality if the magnetic pole itself
has to be undermined lo get at the
precious mineral. St. Louis Repub
lic Deathless Devotion.
Kind Father My dear, if you want
a good husband, marry Mr. Good
heart. He really and truly loves
you.
Daughter Aro you sure of that,
pa?
Kind Father Yes, indeed. I've been
borrowing money of him for six
months, and still he keeps c oiling
fNow York Weekly.
Silence of Love.
Of all the words that hear their rrt
In nil the deeds of day to day.
One wind ischielly in my heart f
line little word I must not say.
The hills of tniilwire straight and steepi
They bioe a smart iu every stone,
And climbing them 1 needs must weep
To think that love, must die unknown.
Night follows day. day i liases niht,
And brings a lesson strange to teaeli,
That love is lifeless in the light,
And silence is the fullest speech.
Longman's -Magaluc.
jii. mo no is.
Wheiin man pulls down tho shado
and jerks it oil lite roller he gets, a cur
tain led tiro.
The watch is no longer nn emblem,
of modern Ichor. It works twenty
four hours a day.
Whenever two people find il neces
sary to agne on their rights, there's
going to be trouble.
For every man who knows moro
than ho tells, there arc fifty who tell
moro than they know.
Who was tho author of tho taying,
"There is always room ut tho top?"
The hotel clerk, I believe.
It is sometimes safer for a man lo
complete a round of pleasure than it
is for liiin to make things square af
terwards. It takes a tramp a long, long timo
to break up a cord of wood; but it
doesn't lake long for a cord of wood
to break up a tramp.
A married man should always make
it a rule to give his wife an allowance.
She always has to make a good many
allowances for him, you know.
First Student You said you had a
marvelous manuscript anil then show
me a receipted tailor's bill. Second
Student Well, isn't that a marvel?
In Church. I'.iliel How harmo
nious the color of everything is.
Margaret Yes, excepting the sexton.
Why doesn't be wear stained glasses?
"I:i practicing the banjo," writes a
teacher, "don't get discouraged."
That's wise. You can safely leave
that for tin: persons who havo to
listen to you.
The story that comes from St. Jo
seph, Mo., about a .'i-iuoiiths-old baby
with a beard is inches long is no
exactly a bare-faced lie, but it would
be if it were shaved.
Excited lady Why don't you inter
fere lo slop that dog tight? Hy.
slander I was just a goin' to, mum;
but you kin calm y'r fears now. My
dog is on top at last, mum.
Some flood Distance Hiding,
General Merrill in 1M7'.I rode with a
battalion of the Fifth Cavalry lo the
relief of Payne, and covered 1 7 miles
from 11 a. in., October ;ld, to o.;io p.
iu., October fth two days and six
hours accompanied by a battalion oi
infantry iu wagons, w hich much re
tarded the inarch, lie arrived on ihc
scene in good order and ready for a
tight. Single couriers had ridden in
over the same distance from Thorn
burg's command during tho previous
two or three days in less than twenty
four hours. Captain F. S. Dodge
inarched his command on the same
occasion So miles iu sixteen hours.
Lieutenant Wood, of the l"ouith Cav
alry, marched his troop 70 miles iu
twelve hours f a.m. to ti p in. and
came in fresh; and double that
distance lias been made from 10
a. in. till ft p. m. next day.
In l7o four men of Company l,
First Cavalry, bore dispatches from
Fort Harney to Fort Winner, 110
miles, o er a bad road - 20 of it sand
with little and bad water, iu 22
hours, is 1-2 of which actual march
ing time. The horses were iu such
good condition at the end of the ride
that after one day's rest (he men
started hack, aud made the home trip
at the rale of fio miles a day. In 1SK
Lieutenant li'obcrlson, I'iist Cavalry,
rode from Fort l.apwai to Foil Walla
Wullti, 102 miles, over the snow, deep
iu places, iu 211 I 'J hours; and, start
ing next nioriiinir, rode buck iu two
days. These are but a few out of
scoies of equal performances. The
keen appreciation of pace and of tho
ability of the animals ridden in such
feats is marked. Men who can do
work like this and come in fresh must
be consummate lioisrineu. Harper's
Magazine.
The Spiiler'd H-.ily.
Tho body of every spider contains
four little masses, pierced with a mul
titude of holes (imperceptible lo the
naked eye), each hole permitting (ho
passage of u single thread; all tho
threads, to the amount of limO to each
mass, join together w hen they come
' out, aud innko the single thread with
which the spider spins its web, so
that what we call a spider's thread
consists of moro than 1000 threads
1 united.