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Tin- ltnyN IVitvh.
Pothy day's work, my dear,
Though fust mill dark the clouds arc driftim:
nrnr.
Though I nn' lm litt if lei'l fur hope Bii'I very
inucli fur fear.
Po lliv day's work, tlioiigli imw
The liiiinl nui-l falter umi tin' Ixii'l I""--'
how,
Anil fnr nlvir tlio lalliiv; font show., the
hold ignuiilain brow.
Ypi there is Ii ft fur u.
Who on l ho viilli " verge sl'ind iinul'lm.;
lliii".
A light llml In- I ;ir i 'I"' "'('"l foil. t:il nt .
hill luminous.
ffr run give kindly -'f h.
Ami rrn ly helping hands to all anil r eh.
Anil patience, t" the voim. iirmnnl. hi sriiil
int; sllciue ! ni'li.
H ran give gentle thought,
Anil ehatity, by Ii f-M loin; lesson tmii;lit,
Ami ivl-e5oiii. from old fwi'ts lived down, by
to I and failure vv rotight.
We urn kip love, iininaticd
Jtv so li-li Niinti'.i of happiness. 1111.1:11 red
V the keen aims of power or .toy dial make
youth cold and hard.
Ami if itay hearts reject
Tin pets we hold - would fain fail' on tin
clicked On tin- bright rmds t lint f. arrf'y yield nil
that young eve- r rcl
Why, do tl 'lav'- work still.
The i .i'in, drop I'mints of oi ni o ! to
chill
A I'll lionvcit mav yi t tin Ii inr.l yioM. tin'
wot k-WOIH Ii ni.l- (' till.
; !l ir'ps K. Slirttei ly. in I hirugo Ib'l.ild.
. -
JUST IN TIME.
Sho followed him nil day long like
b little clou. If he 1. in. elm run. fell
ami scrubbed her knees, cried mul
was lifted up ngain. Tim it wont
on from tin? in'ck's beginning to tlio
mil.
He grew iiri'il of her, ami would
have liked to run uiv ay front her. Hut
ho iliil li'it duo. for sho was his mas
ter' daughter, mul lie was -well,
thero v:is tho i ii!i lit' iliil not know
who ho wit.
llo woke ii one il ay an. I foiiml
hiin-flf horn. Tlio sky wm nhuo
liini, nml there wou'il hnve heeti earth
beneiith his foot if ;n? ha I not niinleil
them in (he vron; ilireetion. lie
chri'teni'il in n rami nn way O a, 11 11. 1
m jut: 011 lb ' (iiiiRlt, a- 1 bey bay.
leiM 0 -iti u look In 11 a- hi share
of the pir Kh Inir.leni. W.ien he v.
lix years 0I1I In: c mlil be 111 i'l" useful
C110114I1 to earn hi fool i'ti'1
bheitur. .leu- O'-trit') llieu
wniite.) to M'liil him iiway, but
bin liltlo ilau.'liter l!ii:it is so foml
of him lint "leeiili'il to kep him.
When (('a was twelve yem ehl he
coulil kirk 11 caji from 11 nail hiyh
above In-lie nl. Illi cit w.is so foml
of ()!n tlmt evei ylhinx ho iliil seeinoil
Gilmirable. t),ce he auil :i bail wonl
ami ()1 11 was wbipi'dl for it.
So OI11 wan sent to the mountains;
lio roiimeil with his iiliiue horn over
the wiiltf moiintiiiii p'liins, ate berries,
caught li-h. net traps ami was happy.
Ho haiilly thought onre of tlio lit t lo
gir! il-jwn in the valley.
One diiy ln'e in the summer she
citiuo up lo the ilairv with bur mother.
M10 tva carrieil iit on liorebiu'k in a
binkel. When she sinv him i-lie tiling
liersclf ilown upon upon the rass mul
tereninvil witli ileiiylii.
Mill when her mother h ul rcnetictl
tho hut. she tan up lo him
ami hue.l him. While the
cattle weie be inn milked lie
went to look ufier his things. She
followed him, pi.nt I in the lliou-ht
Hint lie lolerutcil Her.
'l.-ok here," he erieil, lil'iiu up 11
brown hare, "isn't that :i big fellow i '
" What is it ?" she nskeil.
"It is a. hare.''
"No, it isn't a hare. A haro is
white."
"It is blown ill Minimei. It lmn;ei
its skin."
"Hits he two skiup, one imiile the
other?''
luslead of iiusweiiiio; be took bis
knife mul cut the lime's skin.
"No," be Kiiitl, "ho hinti'l jot
Iiioru'n one."
. . . . . .j
The lime enmo when he bail lo go
to the pars"ii to prepare for eoiiflruir
lion. Ii so happened that she wet.t
bo snine year.
Mitt thoiili bo hud a coat now, it
wim a eiist-oll' one of .lens Oi'sIi iik',
which whs much loo bljj for hi 111.
His boots, too, urnl his trouers bad
seen belter days, before they nude bi
Bi'ipt lillllllli c.
llo walked aside fiom the test: bis
ears burned when any one looked at
bint. Mill if any one dared to mnrk
1 j i in ho u-ed 11 pair of lisi- whi.h in
spired respect.
He was a b iiidoiuo enough lad and
tinely made, but his cloihe4 nml bis
frowsy hair made him look itirly.
Heavy thoughts eiinin to him, and a
tiirce, delimit spirit was kindled wilh
iti him
It wh at null a lime that Birit
ought him and spokt kimjlv to him.
"You tiunu'l tn i 11 1 the s',''"" K'10
aiilt"lhey lauoli nl evei ythiii";. They
don't mean anything by it. It's just
H wny Ihey have.
"Sonti boily will ci'tne to harm if
you ever do it," ho answered fiercely.
Tliai's foolish talk," she jontly re
iiionsiriited. "I know you too well,
tl'ti. You wouldn't burin 1110."
"Ah. you don't underst iiid in ," he
said. "It's no ue talking."
"Oil. ve, I do uinliTvinid you,
Ca," she replied, with 11 smile, "and
1 wish you would let me say one thing
to you before I go."
"Say i(."
"I wish - 1 wWh." she slamirn'red,
while a ipii k Mu h siprnnj; t' her
cheeks. "No, I think I won'l sny it,
nfier all," the linished, mid hurried lo
,'
es, sny il," ho entreated, sei.iti";
her hand.
'Well. I -1 wish yon could il as
the hare, change your skin."
site drew lief hand away from his
and ran down the iii'.'.-iile, so that I ho
stones and dry leaves flew nbout lief.
Thai night 'o picked a iiiarrel with
Thorger Sletten, who was said lo be
(iltciitiv.! lo Hirgit, ami he thrashed
him. All thii followini! winief lie
kojit waleh of her from it far and
picked ipiai'iels with everybody whom
she seemed In favor.
"t'limio my skin," he pondered.
"I'liange my skin, like the hare.
I low, oh, how- can I do it '"
This thought followed him day nml
night. 0,10 (lay, in tho spring, an
emigrant ship bound for America ap
peared at (he mouth of the river.
)ia packed together bis few traps
and went up to t slruo's to sny yood
by. lie m il Hirgit in the birch grove
behind the barn. It was the time
when the buds were bursting and llm
swallows ii ul ju-t returned.
Wcl , t!ii, whore ate you going T'
she asked, as she saw hint coming
I'll bundle ami stall in baud.
"To America."
"America!" she cried, "Anterii a!''
The answer .seemed lo frighten her.
She turned p ile and caught hold of a
: birch tree for -itp.iort. llo watched
I her narrowly.
"What are) you g;oiug (o. , , in
America, Ola?" she a?ked softly.
'I'luingo my skin," he replied with
a vigi l' that stm'thd her. "And if I
come back within live years with a
c!i!iiu;nl skin you will promise to
wait for nie'r"
"I promise," she whispered, weep-in-;
quietly upon his shoulder.
i.
l ive years from that day a young
man was seen ha-trniug up the hillside
to Od-tt'ito. He bad a big slouch hat
on his head ami he was well dressed.
I lis face was strong, square and de
termined, his eyes danced with joy,
for in his pocket bo had a royal niar
riago license witli which he meant to
surprise somebody up at O'slruo's
farm. Il was livo years todav siiuo
be left her, and it was five years sho
had promised lo wait for him.
l'or this hour be had toiled, saved
and sullered for live long weary years.
He had been a silver minor in I.ead
vilie when the place was yet new, and
he sold his claim for .".ii.niiii.
As he was hit frying along nn old
woman, who was sitting by the road
side, hailed him.
(ientlefolks out walking today.'"
sho said, holdim out her hand for a
penny.
'(Jetitlcfolks?" he cried, with a
' bnppy laugh. "Why, (iitiid, I inn
Ola who u-ed to herd cattle at Oest
l'lio's dairy."
"You, Ola! who was on the parish?
Then you inu-t have changed your
skin."
"That was what 1 went to America
for," he answered, laughing.
The church lay halfway up the hill
side. There Ola sat down to rest, for
he hud walked far and was tired.
Presently he iid music up under
the ledge of the fore-t ; there w as one
clarinet and several liddh-.
A bridal party! Ye, there wns the
bride, wiih a silver crown upon her
bend and shilling brooches upon her
bosom.
The procession eaine nearer. Now the
liiie-ter of the ceremonies opened tlio
chin ell door- wide mid wnl I 1 meet
the I ride nml gi until.
Ha s it tti'l like a rn.'k ; but a
s range numbness came over him As
tin: party drew near to the gate of the
b'li'i'hviird be aro-e and stood, tall
Mot trave. in the mid lb- of liie rend.
'1 bene ime Hirgit O sliuo and Thor
ger S otleii. She looked pale and sad,
I be di Haul.
' "You ilnlii . expect me 10 011r wed.
i
ding, Hiieii Oisinio?" he slid, and
1 Oared bard at tier. She g:AC a fere 1111 ;
'the crown to I from h -r head, she
I u-hed forward mid Hung h i arms
niton t hi neck.
"Now eomi ," be cried, "whoever
it'iie'. an1' I'll nuke a mm 1 v biidiJ "
dens Oesiru stepped forward nml
upoke. His voice shook with wrath
and the veins swelled upon his brow.
"Here. 1 am," he -aid. "II yon
want tho girl ynu shall light for her."
"Not with you, old mini," retorted
Ola; "bill with Thorger I'll fight.
I,"l him conio forward "
The bridal gu "ts mado a ring oil
the green and tho bridegroom came)
slowly forward.
"Hard luck," he said, "to hive to
light for your bride on your wedding
day."
I'iglu':' Hirgit, who in her linppi
110.1 had been blind and
deaf, woke up with a start.
S 10 unwound her units from
Oia's neck and stepped up between
I ho I wo men.
"Oh, do not light, do not light,"
sho eiilrcnted, ho'.tling out her bunds
litsl lo oiio claimant and then to tho
other.
"You know, faiher, for whom I
have wailed for these live yenrs. You
know w hom I have loved since I was
i child. Hut vou used force against
mo ami threat. Now he has coine
bad;. 1 am no longer afraid of
you."
Whoever will be my wedding
guest let him follow," shouted Ola,
"for I have in my hand a royal
license to be urn Tied to Hirgit, dous
t le-lt no's daughter."
All that money can buy you shall
have," he ndded. "I'll make 11 wed
ding the fame of which shall be heard
in seven pari-hc around."
llo took I he bride's arm and
marched Imldiy into the church.
Th" wedding guests looked at dous
Oestnto, who was venting bis wrath
upon the groom.
You coward!" he yelled, "vou let
the girl he snali lied away before your
very nose. I inn glad enough to bo
rid of such a -on. in law. Come,
folks, we'll have our wedding yet. A
girl belongs lo him who can catch
her."
With a wrathful snort he stalked in
through tho open church door, and
the wedding guest- slowly followed.
I H islon Olobo.
11cicnt ami Muilcm Mress.
"I think the ancients exercised
vastly more judgment iu the mutter
of wearing apparel than 1I0 the mod
erns," said Thomas M. Lindsay at the
Southern, "t 'outpace the dress of a
limim ti Senator with tlio haberdashery
of a member of the American bouso
of millionaires. The former w'as
graceful, comfortable, picttiresitie;
the latter is the revcrso of nil these.
Wo do not realize how incongruous and
iuarlisiic the modern male costume is,
because we have In come accustomed
to it. A high silk hat, spike-tailed
coat and baggy trousers constitute our
ideal of faultless aliire. yet ii is sutli
eieiit to give mi ji rt i st an acuto attack
of mu'.ligrulH. Sculptors avoid it as
Ihey would the plague; artists fre.
queutly resort to gross anachronisms
to get around a combination which
makes a man resemble nothing created
by the Almighty, and destitute of a
single lino of beauty. VVo are con
tinually lecturing the ladies 011 tho
subject of drcs, yet they have pre
served some of the beauties and coin
foils of ancient costumes, while wo
have siici iliccil (linn all and arc proud
of it as an Indian sipiaw who has
trailed a butl'ilo robe for a second-hand
pair of soldier pants. Kven tho ia
iravagaiu ies nf male costume during
the Middle Ages were intiuilely pref
erable to the stupid garments of the
pre-eiit. We w ill probably never re
turn to the toga of the Koiunns or the
gaudy color of the crusaders, but the
baggy tro ters, the spikc-tiuled coal,
and tho idiotic 'plug' cannot last for
ever. Some genius will yet lead us
out of the wilderness of absurdity in
to wh ch we have f alien."- St. 1 ottis
( ilobe-l'eiiiocrat.
4 aimed fruit from Pompeii.
Po vou know that we are indebted
to the old I'oiiipeinns. who lived in
tho fir! centiiiy nf the Christian era,
for our knowledge of bow lo can
fruili' Perhaps mil, but it is a fact,
ncvei Iheless. Years ago, when exca
vation were first being made oil tho
site of the old lava-eovci ed cily, a
party from America found a jar of
tigs, mil only one, hut several. I'poti
openimr one of them the contents
were foil ml to be ns fresh and per.
feci as w hen put into tho jar 10 cen
turies before. Iiive-tignlions iustilii
led on H.e spot proved that the fruit
had been put into the j.n- in a highly
heated state, nml that mi aperture for
the escape of steam bad been left in
the lid, which, when it bad served its
purpose, was seined over with wax.
Yankee iiioeuuily caught the idea at
once ami the next vear caiiiiiug fac
tories were oveelnl all over lb" I'llitcd
M ie.--il I. Ui b Millbln,
llll IHU'VS Oil MN.
UIMIIV. l' W-U.M
I saw the momi lie.i In i
slender met
new.
Over my sliou'ili r, ni 11.10 . nr. too,
And I wished (or a luviiii'i flutter;
So dire.'tly smne iced- in my garden I
sow rd;
Thru I I'.ikrd mid I 11I1 re I. I Hn'drd 1111 I
hoed
My neat littlr, swi rl IiiiIi i-met .
And tuy garden a j..y the i.;!i lie' lo i;:1''
summer went her,
por wishing ami working "'i see, wrni
together.
.iin:i M I'riin, In Youth's Com
panion. 1 1 likl-ll 1 "1 1.1; II.
The ancient Turk1 h cornier, nl
ways ran wiih bare feet, which grew
so hard and destitute of feeling lhat
Ihey are said to have had llieuiseU es
shod like horses, with light iron shoes. '
To render the resemblance more 1 011." j
plcte, (hoy curried in their months
bulls of silver, pierced with hole-,
and champed these as a hor-e dors his
bit. I'llt'ther, their belts and garters '
were furnished with little bells, whirli '
tinkled wherever Ihey went. ' iho fishes lhat many nf (hem died of
Hesidcs their pay, they iceeivcil I wo he di-temper. In I"" there wn-an-full
suits of clothes every year. Their other eruption in the pre-Christian
costume consisted nf an Albanian i is- era, almost destroying Natalia, and
sock of damask, or striped satin, ami ; dm last before (ho birth of Christ oc
a belt of silk enriched with gold, in j curred just before C.-e sar died. Il was
which they carried their puiiard. accepted as a prophecy of the great
Later they began to w ear coverings ltmnan's appi onching end.
til.oii their feet- long stockings, as;
well as a rude kind of shoe.
I 'poll
their beads they wore high bonnets
covered witli silver, from which waved
enormous plumes of ostrich feathers.
In 0110 baud each man rallied hi
hatchet, and in tho other a bag full of i lava (lowed fur nine days, and almost
comfits, with which they kept iheir reached Catania. The devout lit-Ki-mouths
moist while running. ! iaus of the time relate that its course
In this costumo they necumpauied ' was only staid by the veil of Saint
Iheir noblo master, and conveyed his Agatha, who had been martyred the
messages as fur as lie plea-rd to send year before And buried in a tomb in
them. As soon as they had receive'', j tht volcano' h slope. Two more ernp
his orders, away they went, leaping lions followed, in I-1' ami M.'.
and capering among the crowd w ith 1 Neither of thesn did any damage lo
the agility of a deer, crying: "Siuli. ! speak of.
sauli!" ('J'ake care, take can!") ( n ; In iro.'.'.i followed the lii-t of
they ruslied night and day with .'i-tou- : Llua's eruptions nf which theie
ihitig swiftness, taking no repose 1111- is a good, comprehensive ar
til they had delivered the message in- ' count. At one ..(age during (bi
trusted to them, Harper's oung
People.
SIHANi.l 1 HUM us ul n i tnlSlliK
An Indian who diveiis in a house
nt all seems no Indian at all to mo-t
of us, who know none loo much about
our own country. W e picture him as
living iu his wigwam or tepee of bark
or hide f ir a few weeks or months
at a time, and then moving his "town'
elsewhere.
There are sonic tribe- nf civili cd
natives in the Indian Territory who
have learned to dwi.i 111 ordinary
houses nnd to give up their roving;
but this is a lesson they have mastered
mile within tho la-t few years. There
is but one Indian race 111 North Amer
ica above Mexico which has always
lived in houses since their history be
gan. And in very similar hou-es ihey
dwell today, and iu very much the
suiiie style as before the first I uropeau
eyes ever saw America. i here are
hundreds of ruin-of these enormous
community-houses scattered over the
territory of New Mexico, and a few
are still iuhabitc I.
Tho most striking example in use i
tho present pueblo of fans, in llu- ex
treme north of the territory. That
wonderfully pieluresiiie town look
ing at which t lie traveler find- 11 bard
lo realize that he is in America ha- but
two houses; but thev me six stories
high and coutnin some three hundred
rooms apiece. Acoma. in 11 we, mi
county, has six houses, all three
stories high; ami Zuni, slill farther
west, has a six-siory enmiunuiiy .
house, covering inniiv acre and cou
tainiug several bundle I room. V
for ruins' ol such building, ihey are
everywhere. Nunc years ago I di
covered, in a remote and dangerous
corner of the Navajo country, sin h a
ruin. " The Pueblo Alia,"-couiitle-s
others in w hi
the type of
1 the live-
story cominiiiiity-hou-o formed 1111 en- j to n,MV , :, great slieaiu. mid for I wo
tire rectangle, inclosing a public j , lays made straight for ihe village of
siiiaro iu the middle. ' Nicolosi.
The outer walls of these house-I On the 'J I th tin veil of M. galh i
never bad doors or windows, M they was di-playcd by the Hishop, and pen
presented a blank wall of great height unco services were celebrated, t n
to any robber foe. On one side of .tunc I the lava linally eased llow ing,
this ruin is a great tower, wiih part of after having reached a point within a
the tlfih story still standing, ami still few hundred yards of the vi Inge,
showing Ihe loopholes through whit h The lava coveted I "no in res and
the besieged Pueblos showered arrow destroyed properly valued at .'.'iii,
011 Iheir besiegers. This pueblo was (inn. since that time until ihe recent
a desertctl and forgotten iiiiu w hen oulbicak I Ina has been ipiici - New
the first Luropean entered New Mcx- ' York Times.
ico, 00O years ago.
All these great house were built of
stone, very well laid. The omcr 1
edges of all these -lab of stone are as I
smooth as if it had bom chi-cled- and
yet wo ore absolutely sure that befoie
the coiictiet the Pueblos had no metal
tools whatever. Their only imple-
menta were stone nxes and the like.
rSt. Nicholas.
A UVHLY VOLCANO.
There Have Reen Highly-One
Fin pi ion:! ol Ml. Ktna.
A Luiik Roiord of Dos I ruction
ami Death.
Altogether there have been eighty
one eruptions of Ptna w hirli me fairly
well authenticated. The licsl of these
occurred I 17 15. C, the second t-'
15. C. The I bird, o'.'f. 15. .'., was
ainoiig the most important of iiiicieni
limes, and much damage was done.
The fourth is recorded II" l!. C ,
w ben il is recounted that forty people
were killed. In lol H. C. there was
, stilt another, followed by the sixth
eruption in P.'ii, the results of which
w ould please I lie Sicilians of todav
inighlily.
The innltcii lava so healed the sea
that rooked fishes were I blown oil to
ll.c "here. Nol much damage was
done, hut the people ale so greedily of
ll would appear almost as if the
coming of tho Saviour had iii;etrd
the turbulence of the huge niass.foi it
we not unlil J"o A. 1. that, there
was Another eruption. I hen its
y was most pronounced. I he
eruption new wall- were built by the j
inhabitants of Catania to arrct the j
progress of the seething flood, but j
they were found nf no avail. Then I
religious processions were organized I
nml the people paraded wiih the -acred j
relics of St. Atiatha lhat were kept in i
j i :il. Hut the lava still
1
Til need, and finally the Kishop and the j been accorded reasonable facilities for
Senaic, carrying the relic-, piocerded I acipiiring gcneial infoi ination. is
to Mont" di S. Sofa, w here they eicci- j mueh wiser than s men who
cd an altar and remained until the have been honored wiih proud pn-i-lava
subsided. Many ilmm-nuds wetc ! tion and expensive fimeial-. I ho
killed during (hi- eruption, and fol- aveiago (own c..v ran open a -ato
lowing closely upon it c nine the eal.iiu- I that fastens with a tune io, !,, -et into
itv of IC.il'.. when over t'l towns were ; the garden and do ' worth of
destroyed ami nearly i.o.noii people
lost their lives.
I'uiiiig the present contuiy lliern
have been Ihirleen eruptions, none of
which, however, emailed auv smh
loss of life mid properly as is credited
to the outbreaks of earlier days. I hir
ing an out break in 1 :'-', while a com
pany of people were walrhiug the
lava llow near Hronte, t lio front of
the inolleu mass suddenly exploded,
1 m-aiieri
louth and de-tl uetion.
Thirty-six were killed oiiliiglil and
twenty others fatally injured.
Twenty years later, nn the '.'l-l of
August, ls.'c.'. six Lngli-h tourists
were killed during an errupt ion, and
at one point a cascade of lava formed
which fell sixly feel. The al del
Hove, a huge depression on one side
f t ho volcano, ovi 1 llowed with lava.
Iu
1,Mi
im'.I, 1 Mis, 1 Mi'.i, !s;:i, ;;,
lliere were al-o eiuplions. The
last was the most violent.
Prom March -J until May l of
lhat year there had been tlneali niugs
of an outbreak. 1 'n lie latler dav the
large centra! crater suddenly sent up
a great nia-s (it vapor, nccouipnuied
by showers of ashes. The next uiorii
iug a violent earilupi ike was felt, and
( a ,.w renter was loiined abmii oono
; 0,. alinvc the se.i level. I.ivn began
(.lai ier Delicately Itahinectl.
Caciors plunge into the sea ii. ninny
cold countries mil polish by drown
iiiu, their iliuienibered reniaini limit
ing away as bergs. Hut their end is
by dissolution where die annual mean
: temporal rises considerably above
I tho frceing point. At some certain
i leve! thev melt faster timn thev can
llow, and so icimiuale, Tho level,
indeed, i" a Ihietunt'uig one. Icelandic,
glaciers are now Meadilv advancing;
Siviss glaciers, tn cording to M. T erel,
have undergone, during the pie-ent
century, live alternating periods of
diiiiiiiulioli and growth.
The mclci'ologii al changi.- nccasinn
ing, mid emphasized by. ih".-e n-riila-tioii
are very slight. Their charac
ter, however, is iinmi-takuble, and
such as might have been anticipated.
That is to sav, glacial decrease ac
companies a warm mid dry cycle;
glacial ineiea-e mie that is d imp mid
cold. l.'nn-iderable iilaiin was ac
cordingly fell le-t the II iodine; of the
Sahara, numbered among lie futile
projects of a recent saotiuiiie epoch,
should result in a largely iinTcaed
snowfall upon the Alps, and the com
scipietit ice subniei gence of inhabited
valleys. Such fears, it i- tiue, rested
on a lueleiirologii 11! misapprehension,
yet they weie, in pi im i pie, well
founded.
The glacial balance i- scii-H : e. A
very slight eouiiumiiis pi epomb i anee
of supply over wasting might, in o
few years, letray itself by ic.ihc for
midable and altogether 11 roi-til;
t fleets. Without our nddiliou.il de
gree of roll, il i- eniio'ivab e thai a
pei .-isleiil l -aug inented deposit of
snow upon the ( .er-lenhoriicr and the
o rstork, .lilhoiih olIoTtti-o
scarcely pel ecptible, m:ght en ibl. tho
1 1' In me 1 1 la ie to overwhelm Hrieg.
Poll Ibis would bo an exceedingly
small slep toward th" re-tor.ii ion of a
former mate nf thing-, when 1111 h
stream cln.-e upon miles in lem-th,
starling from tin sain: sonice, crossed
1I10 fiii.-en or noii-ci-'o'iit I tie of
(ielieva, and debouched by Cuio, lip
oil Lvi.ns. Without seM'ie ci'M as
well ns heay precipitation, ice could
not possibly have gained so great nil
ascetidetu y. And thi wa- nn local
phenomenon ; it was biiuiiilaiieoii-ly
prevalent over w idelj -separated Hai ls
(f t he e.n th'-!-111 la. e. j I'.tliiiburg lie-view.
Tile lloi; lletli foiled.
"It is a popular belief that the i
l1'"' intelligent ol all imir-innt.-.i
aiiima s, ami that next in the mental
hore," said lieorge
' Daniel, at the I inib'11. That i-a
mistake. The cow knows more than
horse and dog combined are capable of
learning-
An ordinary town cow wlnclihp.s
damage before the t xa-peiated owner
can lam a dim go of slugs into a muzzle-loading
gun.
"I once lived 1:1 a village where
one half I he inhabitant kopt cow and
expected thrill t forage their living
etl the othei half. I Hiding llieii-unl
gate fastenings of 110 avail, 1 added a
holt and slept lhat nigh; .secure. The
next morning evoiyrnw in I'ar village
was in mv
ami so I'm, o rah
, luiee that co-l nie .'.' a head loiai-i
that ihev 1 u.'d no. go ihrou-'i the
! gale, and I had to knoik il 'W 11 a
j panel of tho I'ence t hi tl.cni out.
; That night 1 added a loo-cluiin and a
! paleul padio. s. and .il up in company
j w ith a double-b arivled gun in w.itcli
j pii lings.
An old blind ed she pirate ctinie up
and surveyed the hou-e to make -ill H
we were abed. Then she sh.ink llu
gato and again surveyed the h-oi-e.
Next Alio went to vvoik mi the boll
with her buigim. In live iniinrc- -lie
bad il drawn and si iried t' come in.
! !he looked
n.-ed to Hud hn -ri
I sni on the out-id
II ill a d. v. ii f
In r roiupanioiis 1 aim iij- ami sin v eyed
ihe new ii'wcli v Then briudle I rol.o
a hoi ti 1 1 y inn to lift t he gale cr) it
binecs. Ihev iij'peared t" hold n
t'oiim il of war ; tl.en a'l old -potted
o.mii maud iusci ted a hoi 11 under Un
chain, lilted il nvei the po-t. and the
w I10I1 drove marched in-idc. I gave
il up ami took the gale etl ii- hinge.
I now rai-e aii my vegetables al the
liliirki I." .!. Louis 1 1 io'.h -1 'eimt
cral. Snake Miihin 11 nake
Iu looking over the moiiulaiils of
Huntington, Point , ilairv C. Nilliu.
fi'i liK l ly of Philadelphia, met a Id.ick
snakc six feet long. The ebony 111011
sler seemed to be ill nt case, nml it did
hot reist death. When Mr. Nillius
w as skinning the reptile he leuiprd
about a rod straight iniolhe air as be
beheld a livo snake, throe feet long,
wiiggiing fiom the throat of tho dead
serpent. The larger snake had swal
lowed the smaller one, ami was suf
fering evidently from indigestion
when slaughtered. -vertiser.
New York Ad-
t.obleiiroil.
pic the stout yenr be ws.xrn shrewd and
t.M.
And vvhiie the grnm upon the well piled
stark
Waits vet tin thrashed, by every woodland
inn It,
I " stream, and meadow, nnd vvidewssto
nut rolled. ,
ty 1 very fein 1 that skirls the forest mould,
iV.len mid thiol., its at tin- reaper's hall.
'I hcv .nine. 1 ipanioic' of the harvest,
fi ;ni
lirirn forest;. vell.".v in;: upward into gold.
I ,,, where your 'liafi of level sunshine
g rimiu
! llll "ii those pendent vvriath. those bollllt-
1 "II- plumes
(.,. i,i, and -0 -I. Ion : Mark them
tt.ll.
1 1 ;;,. and )"-! from siuiiiuer's empty
l.-.e.ns.
I lei I'ei.i dn i'i ,..i'ii'l tire .nn of drentns, 1
iie Inline- i.' In r -fin ma lo viinble.
."Archibald l.iiupmaii. in Youth's t.'oin-
p:iiii"M.
Ill MOPOl s. -
A heated term "You're another. ''
liovv to get inside information:
t -e a stomach pump.
The .iilulteiating grocer evidently
iloe-u'l believe thai holiest tell is t!l8
Lot policy.
It i-n'l caiing wlielher school keeps
el nol that hoiheis a muii. It's caiing
whether the ice keeps
Yea-i I ,'o your wife cook well?
Ci iiii-.uil.eal; 1 never Iried to cook
In 1, but I'm often iu 11 stew myself.
" I hey tell inc. professor, that you
have iiia-ieicd all the modern tongues."
Piofes-or- All but two - my wifo'g
flllll her tllO hei's.
"Tiie. 0," the -aid. standing on her
tlpuus, "1 am about your size." "On
the c. unary." sail the disconsolate
lovi r, "my sighs are about you "
'-In blushed a-slit rend the address,
-w 1 1 tly l.er pill -i s thrill .
b ivm fioni an "id. "id tlaine;
.lust a nio 111. i ii h-i d'l pas bill. '
Wite 1 sobbing) -You Used to any
I vou could face death for my sake.-Ilu-baiid-
Nes; but it was you r death,
not mi no. that I wa- thinking' about.
When a man dies and leaves a nicO
M iing widow with plenty of money,
and you -or her winking out with tho
executor on Sunday afternoon, a
(haiige is imminent.
Wooden -You don't seem to smile
al my joke. What's Ihe matter?
I. i't you understand il? Wagg Yes,
I understand 1'. but I was brought up
nt v cr to laugh at old ego.
"When 1 gmw up, I am goi'"g to
' live on a farm and eat lot.- of tipples,"
: -iid a little ini.-s b her younger sister
tie ' ' t h e r day, "If vou do," said the,
young-:ei. you',! get die apple-
H''V "
(.oil as 11 Medicine.
Avoiding nli 'li-eusiou of tho filer
us or demerit- nf Ihe so-called bichlo-
' I'hh'-of-gold chic, now so prominent
in the public mind, we propose to
show lhat lie Use of gold ns a medi
cine 1- not so novel us comniouly
thought, ami b ex'racis from early
' wi iter-mi chemistry and iiiedicino to
imlli ale Ihe opinions held wiih respect
to a.Si'ged "tiiii'tures ef gold" at dif
fcieni period during several eeutu
1 ies.
The pro toils metal has bem em
ployed both c,rniaiiy and internally,
in (lie metallic -late, in solution, nml
bv iv iiipaliir, for a great variety of
the ill- lint 1! --ii i- heir to. for over
two 1I1011-.111! yon-. Tiie train of
flmiighl w hi' h led the ancients to
i employ thi- highly pri.ed nihicfiai
i can be we, 1 ii'id 111 theipia.lil hui
: giiage of 1 be distinguished Ibl'ch phy
sician and ehcniisi. Ileriiiti'in 15oer
haavo; writing about IT'.'o, he says;
"'I In 1C1 1). inisi will have thi metal
iiuitaiii I know not what radical balm
nf lite c.l ibie of le.lolilig beaith alld
i coin inning it to tie longest period.
hat led lie- early phy-irian to im
agine -neb vvoiid -iful riiim; in gold
vv.islh.il 1 bey jui'iivid i ci tain ilial
' i;ie- lii' ie'.ii which they fancied tnnst
: It conveyed lliereby into the body;
' golil, lot iiisiam e, is not capable of
: b tug de-t roved, hence thev concluded
il 11111-I bo veiy proper to preserve nn
1 mini -ubsl.imes ami save llieui front
' pii 1 1 fact inn . vvhith i a method of
i 1
I rca-oliing very milt Ii like that nf somo
; fanciful phicians who sought tot all
j assuaging remedy iu the blood of an
I ass's car by reason the ass i a very
calm Least!'' - Popular Science
i Monthly.
Had Noticed it
Mr. liichfeilii - Isn't Mi-s I e Mine
pretty when hc blushes '.'
j Mis P.eaiili I noticed it the ol her
, dav. It was Ihe fust lino I ever saw
I her face color.
Mr. Ii - Indeed. What w a she
blushing over'.'
Miss H. - Over a plain of hot soup
- rNc-" York Wt-ekh.
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