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NO.?.
VOL. XV.
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Llfo and Lore.
Ah, Love! thou art thu azure sky.
And Life n summer cloud,
Which blends with thee In rapture,
Within thy lovvliglit towed.
And Life is like the ripple?
Which spread across the lake;
Love Is the depth hencnth them
O'er which the ripples hrenk.
Love is one long mellow hreczc
On which ll),'ht Life doth float
Love ah. yes, it Is the oir,
And Life, it is tin) hont.
Boston Transcript.
IN SPITE OF HIMSELF.
II Y III.I.F.N KOKKKST HRAVKS.
"M.iliicI Mattic! did you take that
huckleberry iio out of tlio oven?
"Yes, Aunt Ann."
"And the enn custards you didn't
forget tlio cup custards?''
"They're nil right, Aunt Ann."
"Matty!" in nn accent 0110 degrco
shriller tlinii usual.
"Yes! What it il?"
"There's ft Irnnip coming up the
back garden pnlh. Send liiin about
liis business."
"Yes, Aunt Ann."
Matly Vernor went valiantly to the
bsick door, prepared to do buttle,
glancing this way and that as Alio did
bo, to make mho Hint (hero was plonty
of boiling water on the stove, ami l lint
llio broom was handy, in enso of
need.
"Well," said Malty to herself, eye
ing the mass of rags on tlui doorstep,
"you nie a dump. Nobody could
possibly mistake you for anything
else. What do you want?" she addoj
aloud.
'Could you spare inc an old thirl,
young lady? or a suit of clothes? I'm
in :rcat need"
"Thai's what you all say!" crisply
interrupted Mitty. "I'm sure I don't
Know where you got all your rag
mid t.vters from. "Your'e just from
an hospital, I auppo c. That's the
next chapter."
Ititt even as she spuko lior woman
ly honrl melted within hrr nl (ho night
of thu tii-L-il, palo face, tho wretched
garb.
"No," said ho, with a sigh, "I'm
not frc m the hospital."
Ho was turning away, when she
recalled him.
"Wait a miiiH'e," s;iid rhe. "I'll
go t.eo what I can I'm 1."
Dolling the door unceremoniously
in hit face, sites went to a store-room
opening out of tlio unused best par
lor. "I don't care!" said Malty, arguing
with herself with a certain tierce im
p'tiienee. "I'aclo Job's things have
lain here, of no use to any body, since
lu died. Tha poor fellow may as
Well have them, 1 suppose."
Sho came back presently with a
'oinpact littlo bundle un let' her arm.
"There," said she, lliuging it out of
the window, "take it and begone!
For," she added to herself, "if Aunt
Ann should find out I'd been giving
away any of Uncle .lob's old traps
Why, goodness me! he's eaten up the
hueklcborry pie and tlio three r.ip cus
tards that I left to cool on the buttery
vvindow-Ydgc! Here, givo mc back
those clothes! You shan't liavo so
much as it rag! You don't deserve
them!"
Sho had unbowed tbo door as she
spoke, and, with a quick, light move
ment, caught up the bundle beforo the
stftngcr could possess himself of it.
I'm very sorry," ho said, peni
tently, "but I was desperately hungry
and 1 didn't slop to consider."
"Didn't stop to consider?" indig
nantly rcpeatod Matty. "No, I
should think not. You aro a thief I
Do you hoar that? Not only a vaga
bond, but a thief! And 1 should think
a great able-bodied scamp like you
would bo ashamed (o go bogging and
itoaling around the country. There!'
Thus (eiminating her lecture with u
very expressive outburst, Matty once
moio that the door in (lie poor, tired
face, and resur.ied her occupation of
ironing out Aunt Aim's Sunday lace
cnp.
"Matty! Matty!" called out the old
woman from above siairs, where sho
was turning over the contents of a big
ccdarwood chest.
"Ye?, Aunt Ann !"
"Did you send tlio fellow pack
ing?" "Yes I did."
"That's right that's tight!"
chuckled Aunt Ann. "These stroll
ing beggars are getting to be a perfect
miisanco hereabouts."
But as Matty fluted the borders of
laco with a quick, efficient hand,
thinking the whilo what sho should do
replace the missing pie in time for
Aunt Ann's dinner, a softer mood
Cftino over her.
"Poor wrelch!" she murmured to
herself. "Perhaps lie was hungry,
llo certain did look pahs and tired,
and his ragt were dreadful. I wish I
hadn't snatched those clothes back. Il
wasn't real nice and la lyliko of mo,
now I come to think of it. I wish "
All of a sudden, Matty Yeruor made
up her mind as s'.io hung Aunt Ann's
laco cap on llio nail by the window.
She set her rosy lips together; her
rycsglis'eniug' determination.
Diwn through llio golden gleam of
the ripening rye fluid went a liltlo
curving path clo.-o to tlio siono wall,
crossing tlio brook on a narrow planki
and often losing itself in a wooded
cope, joined the main road close to it
peaceful, willow-shaded graveyard.
Hero ten minutes afterward, Matty
Vernor came upon the tired tramp
sit'iug on llio stone wall.
"Oh, here you are!'' said sho. "I
thought I should overtake you if 1
look tlio short-cut. I've brought yon
a tin of cofloo and some sandwiches
and a pieco of home-baked ginger
bread. I'm sorry I spoke so cross to
you; but, you see, I was vexed to see
the dinner pie gone, and the cup cits
iaidn, too. And hero are the clothes.
I'm afraid you need them very much.
"Thank you," said tlio man, deject
edly. "You see, I haven't always "
"Oh, never minil all that." inter
rupted Maity, imperiously. "I know
about 'having seon batter days,' and
that sort of thing. Hat you really
ought to bu a liltlo inoro particular
about tho tnilh."
Unconsciously Matty had fallen
into l ho air that sho adopted when she
was haranguing her .Sunday-school
class. Her bright eyes sparkled; sho
emphasized each point by lapping her
foot on tho gtound and lifting her
beiry-staincil forctluger in the air.
"Yes, but"
"You should g i to work," said tho
girl. "You can't expect always to
tramp about the country. It will cud,
soonor or lu'er, in the counly jail, and
you aro too smart-looking a man to
bring up like thai."
The man, eating his bread and meat
and drinking his cfl'oo, likened meek
ly uuiil sho stopped for sheer lack of
brent h.
"Ye,"said he, with a sigh. "Hut,
yon see, I'm not it tramp. Oh, I
know appearances are against mo!"
as Matty's glaneo rovorted to his
wretched (alters; "but I really am
not a tramp. You 6cc "
The sound of approaching wagon
wheels startled (he girl.
"Oh, I dure say ! " said she. "Hut
I really can't stay nay longer talking.
I mud get back. Here's a quarter
fir you. Mind you don't spend it for
beer."
And flinging the coin towards hint
it missed is aim and rolled to tho
foot of old Deacon Joblcy's grave
stone, whence the man rescued it wilh
p:ompt dispatch die vanished back
into the wood-path and was seen no
more.
Half an hour later, Srpiirc Somer
set, examining a pile of law papers in
his office, was siariled by the sudden
appearance of a tall figure in his door
way. "Nothing for you, my man go
along!" stid ho curtly, without look
ing up.
"That's always tho way!" sighed a
resigned voice. "Ii's 'Move on!'
wherever I g. I? u I've 'moved on'
just about far enough, old man!"
And he perched himself composedly
on the oll'uo desk.
The squire slarcd.
"The voice," said lie, "is the voice
of Frank Atherlon, and tho counte
nance alto bearcih witness thereto!
Hut the faded corduroys and the vol
veteou coat arc i lie coat and corduroys
of old Job Yeruor, who died two
years ago. Old fellow" (clasping
him ordia'.ly by both hands) "you're
welcome! Where on carlh did you
drop from? For not to disguise tho
truth I honestly di I take you for a
tramp!"
"1 meant to give you a surprise,"
said Mr. Athcrton, still in the same ac
cent of melancholy composure. "And
I've every reason (o I Link (hat I have
succeeded. I left Wyndalo to walk
into Glen's Falls, an I a mile or so be
low hero the river meandering through
i ho woods looked s euliciug that I
vcnturctl on a bath, just nt sunrise.
Unfortunately, however. I was not
the earliest bird going. S uno decp
dyed villain, while 1 was disporting
myself in the lucid e'ement, stolo my
eloihcs leaving n mist of dirty rugs
behind. Then I was a tramp in spilo
of myself, and such a lecture I got
front a pretty maiden at a fui iiiIioiho
on the mad! However, she gavo me
something lo cat, between her piecos
of advice, also this wardrobe, and
when llio express delivers my trunk, I
s'mll bo al right Uichard will be
himself again!"
She gave you thoso clolhes?"
"Sho did."
Then," said Squiie Somerset, slap
;ng the tab!e until the legal docu-
meuls flew in nil directions over the
floor "you've been lec'ured by Maliy
Yernor, the piottiest girl in town
old .Lib's niece, and (ho owner of a
pair of superb black ryes and I lie best
farm in Warren County!"
"Yes." mournfully ncccde-A Ather.
ton. "She told mo thai I ought to go
to work, and ihen threatened nie wilh
the counly jail, and linally bless her
d'ttr little heart! ended up by giving
mo this!"
Ho produced from the pocket of
Cncle Job Vernor's trowsers a silver
quarter.
The squire grinned broadly.
'Here conns the express delivery
now with your box," said iie. "And,
a good thing for you, Athcrton, for
my wifo is going to havo it tennis par
ly bore this afieruoon, mid .Matty
Vernor is (he champion player. You
can handle a racquet, can't you, ok'
man?''
"Uathci," said Mr. Alhertoii.
Matty Vernor canio to llio ten nil
parly in palo pink albatross cloth, cul
after a semi-masculine fashion thu!
was eminently calculated to drivo nnj
ouo mad.
Hut when Mrs. Somerset presenter'
her to Mr. Athcrton from New York,
sho changed color and started a litllo
Yes," said Mr. Alhorton, iu hif
gentle, mournful way, "you're right.
It's the same person. Huckleberry
pie, you know cup custards."
Hut" hesitated Matty, in a be
wildered manner.
"You sec, you wouldn't allow mc
(o explain," reasoned be. "You were
delermiiic.l 1 sliou'd bo a tramp. J
couldn't get any innings then, bill
now's my lime. Ploaso may 1 make
an unprejudiced statement?''
Matty listened to his explanation,
coloring like a rose.
S'.ie would like to have run away,
but she had not sufficient moral com"
age to do so.
"And I gavo you Uncle Job's ohi
clolhes," said she wringing l.cr hand"
in despair.
"You njver can know how accept
able they were," avowed Athcrton.
"And sonio bread-and-beef sand
wiches!" "Ambrosia and ntetar couldn't have
tasted butter. And llio cup-euslards
don't forget the cup-custards anil the
huckleberry-pie. 1 was so indescrib
ably hungry, Miss Vernor."
"And the quarter of a dollar my
last quarter! You'll givo nio back
Dint quarter, Mr. Athcrton ?" said
Matty, wilh a spico of her old mis
chief. "Never!" said Athcrton. "I'll pari
widi that silver coin only with my
life."
Maity dropped her bead.
"How I did lecture you!" said she.
"How insolent I must have ap- j
pcared !" I
"Not in (he least," said Atherlon.
"Your advico was exactly suilod to j
the occasion, if only I had been t
(ramp. Hut I wa-u'i." j
"Wo ore waiting to play, Matty I"
cried Mrs. Sjmcrsel. !
"Come on, Aihorlon !" bawled his t
host. "Io you mean lo keep us wait
ing all tlitt?"
"Please," whispered Matty, c.itch
ing up her racquet, "will you forgive
me?"
"A thousand liin.s ovoi!" Athcrton
answered.
"George," said Jlrs. Somerset that
night, when Matty Vernor was gone
and Athcrton hud bidden tliem good
night, "our guest and dear littlo
Matty seemed very much taken with
each other, lie's rich, and ought to
have a wife, and Matiy is such a
darling! O ily supposo they should
fall in lovo!"
"I wonder," said Mr. Sjmorset,
solemnly, "if the woman ever was
born who wasn't a thorough-going
inatchinakcr. Saturday Night."
The Lightest Metal.
"Some people scent lo think dial
aluminum is the lightest metal in the
world," said a gentleman who deals ;
iu all tho fancy articles now made ol
that commodity, "but that is a mis
take. Tho spocilic weight of magne
sium is only one-third of (hat of ulu
minimi, and is even more hard auJ
durable. It is not as u cful, however?
as it catches firo very easily, even al
Iho open hearth. It is not dostincd ft
crowd Iho popularity of aluminum,
although up to a short limo ago it was
even the cheaper of tho two." Cin
cinnati Commercial.
The Father linprovimr.
Molher Have you heard how Mr.
Spanker is this morning?''
Small Son Oil, he's all right. lie's
getting well fast."
"Who told you?"
"No one."
Thou how do you know?"
"His little boys lias begun to heal
w'en their mother calls." Uood
News.
CHILDREN'S t OLl MN.
A CAT'S S1.II.")I'Y.
An open rajjc, some feathers fair,
Two little maidens crying,
And Pussy seated on a ehair.
The mournful scene isp in;:.
Tear after tear rolls down riHi i lircl,,
fob after soli arises,
Whilo Puss, as well as she can speak.
utility soliloquizes:
"If they would keepu bird in eage,
They would not leave il undone:
I-'or lliui's the tale in every jail.
From Panama to London.
"Their ducks and chiekthey pet and feed,
And yet I've often noted.
They eat the very birds indeed.
To which they're most devoted.
"Then wherefore look so cross and sour'
Why malte this sad eomniolioiif
Why should not I a bird devour.
For which I've no devotion'."'
New York Advertiser.
wittr Tin: row lii i.i. is i ii:.
L'ltlo James, four years old, was
pointing out a cow lo a playmate.
'Seo the bell around her neck," ho
jaid; "do you know what that is for?
l'hat is what she rings when she wants
,o tell the calf that dinner is ready."
IHubyland.
lUUV'S Mlt-sT UOMAM'l;.
The first attempt at romancing of
aiy little girl, who is under three
rears of ago, ran as follows: "Once
hero was a man who ha I a buggy and
t baby, and the daddy and mamma
md the baby were in tho buggy, and
(ho daddy di ovo into the big water
and the baby fell out and was dead.
Somebody ran out and picked ( lie baby
up, and the baby wasn't dead and hu
didn't fall in the water any more at
that age." f Nursery.
A row-Mil. kim; i"';.
A member of the New York Pro
iluco Kxcliange.who lives at Hillsdale,
N. Y.,has a line registered Jersey
cow, which he keeps for her excellent
inilk-producing qualities. Iteccnly
the fl iw of milk was conshlernb'.v
diminished and the cause could not he
ascertained. Thero seemed to be no
trouble with the cow. She was iu ns
good health as ever, and tho mystery
remained unexplained until one day a
farm hand saw a dog in the pasture
with the cow, who was taking his
breakfast from her udder. Tlio cow
appeared to bo greatly gratified with
the operation, and Iho farm hand called
(ho attention of his wifo lo the fcene.
Since tho cause has been discovered
the cow has been placed in the barn
yard during tho night, but tho dog
has on several occasions been seen
with her in the pa-lure lot during llio
day. f American i'ariner.
THE IMSiiU MT:i i ;iW.
A well-known uptown family has a
pet crow, which is given thu liberty of
the whole household. It is as precise
iibout its appearance as a prudish
young maiden, and frequently it is al
lowed a place in (lie dining-room when
(he family meal is eaten. When night
conies it stations ilself at one of the
fence corners and keeps a lookout for
intruders until l he early dawn, selling
up a loud cawing at the siyhl of any
si ranger approaching. A valuable
diamond can ing belonging lo one of
the (laughters was missed from (he
dressing case the oilier day while the
crow was perched on the window sill.
Search was made everywhere for the
missing piece of jewelry without suc
cess, and Ihc finding of it was given
up as one of the impossibilities. A
few days since tho crow was followed
into a corner of the yard filled with
empty boxes, and iu one of them, hid
den oway from sight, was found n
perfect bric-a-brac shop, a number of
bright silver and copper coins, u li:a
greo comb, several lustrous tortoise
hair monuments, a lot of bits of
u.okcu colored glass, and a stock of
shining buttons of endless variety and
the diamond caning. The character
of the crow has been considerably
lowered iu the estimation of the fam
ily since the discovery. Philadel
phia Press.
Killed for lltirnin? Our Capitol.
Midhacl l'ii!z of Kriedensburg,
l'onii. , who recently celebrated his
90th birthday, is a veteran of the war
of 1X12 Speaking of the capture of
Washington by the Pritis'i, ho said
the other day : "I well remember wilh
what rngo our soldiers heard that t licit
Capitol had been destroyed, and how
anxious wo were to wipe out the in
sult. The chanco camo soon after,
Tfhen Itoss, with his army and llect,
moved on IJallimorc. We met him
at North Point with 10,000 men uiidei
Gen. Samuel Smith, who was a
Revolutionary veteran. The British,
as history tells, wore defeated. Here
Gen. Hoes was killed Lv two of our
skirmishers, who wero located in
tres.'
ORIENTAL SHOPS.
Curious Pictures of Life in the
Bazars of Cairo.
A Confusion of Articles Use
ful and Ornamental.
Tho appearance of Oriental shops is
well known. A square cavity hol
lowed out of a wall two feet above
tho ground, that is a shop at Cairo.
Strictly speaking, it is nothing more
than a largo rectangular nicho opon
ing on to tlio street, with no way out
cither at tho back or tho sides, in
which, inslcnd of a statue, is a mer
chant squatting amongst his wares, or
a workman at his task. These shops,
instead of being scattered about in
different streets, as iu Europe, aro all
together at conain corners; and when
Ihc corners arc roofed in, they become
a bnz ir. For (hero is not at Cairo a
special structure for protecting those
shops, as there is at Conslaniiuoplo or
at Tunis.
All theso shops make curious pict
ures. Tlioro behind a mass of pots
and pans, dishes and plates of red and
yellow copper sonic black and rusty
with age, others spick and span with
newness, with here nnd there gleams
of the red or si raw-colored gold so
dear to painters of still-life subjects
au Arab is busy at repousse-work, his
hammering making a deafening noise
which is heard afar oil'. Egyptian
metal work is very line, with a dignity
all ils own, mid Ihc oinmoii ewer in
uso amongst the poorost is of really
extraordinary beauty of style.
Further on wo enne to a collection
of red, black, or gray earl hon-ware;
cheap s(oves, pipes, and vases, en
graved with ornaments in intaglio,
painted blue or roil. This common
Egyptian pottery disdained, I know
not why, by dealers iu Oriental ware,
is extremely interesting. Its shape is
often grand, and (he forms found in
Egyptian tombs have been preserved.
Next, gleaming like a border of jon
quils and poppies with ils masses of
red and yellow, is a shoe-shop, a
regular flower bed for color.
And in the midst of a confusion of
Turkish slippers in scarlet or saffron
leather crouches the cobbler stitching
away ordrilling boles with his awl.
The bazar, par excellence, is broken
up iu an extraordinary manner. Fan
cy au alley so short that it is barely
two hundred paces long; so twisted
that you can only seo a scrap of it at
a lima; so narrow that the houses
seem to bo scowling at and ready to
fall upon (heir opposite neighbors;
and beneath the dull-hiied lean-to
walls, in every nook and corner, arc
shops full of da., iug objects; many
colored Oriental stall's, figured bro
cades, dainty Arab jjwelry, gleaming
daggers and sabres, ancient damas
cened helmets, silver wine bottles,
spread out or piled up for :ile. And
amidst this confusion of sluf!',
weapons, and jewels in glass cases, or
of unfolded silks, is the merchant,
squatting in Ihc shadow and smoking
with absolu'e indifference, his dreamy
eyes ga.ing forth in a kind of
ccslaey of melancholy, whilst be
foro him, in tho transparent bowl of
his nnrgiieii, at each breath ho draws,
floats a regular 11 itillaof roso leaves,
dancing, whirling round, and nifl'er
iug shipwreck amongst tho big bub
bles on tho surface. These shrewd
old merchants really look like poets
lost in the third heaven of blissful
contemplation.
Immediately after sunset the life and
motion of Cairo cease, and it is a rare
thing to meet a native lelurniug homo
on a dark night with a white paper
lantern in his hand, or to see an Arab
cafe still lit up, and w itli the eaud.es
hung up round the door, making a
brightness in the descried street.
Harper's Baz u
Valuable Moss.
Tho valuable mots of Florida, says
Harry Bomford, abounds iu the ham
mocks and back lands. It is gathered
chiefly by colored men. In its na'ural
state it hangs in festoons from the
trees in strands from ono to live feel
in length. Tho moss is gathered by
pulling it from the lives wilh long
poles, or by rutting the trees down
nnd then removing it. The moss is
buried in the earth for about u mouth,
after which it is dug up and is dried
and shaken and sold to the local moss
dealers for ! per hundred pounds.
It is then run through a machine
called a gin, which is nothing more
than a cylinder covered with three
inch spikes revolving bet ween a roll of
similar stationary spikes. The action
of these spikes is to knock out sonic
of tho dirt and trash, but it. docs not
complete the job. It is then shaken
over a rack formed of parallel bars,
after which ' is Dressed ilto bales of
about 2o0 pounds each. Sjiho of tho
moss works do all this work by hand,
except (he ginning. The moss, after
having gone through the abovo pro
cess, brings from $2.60 to $3 per
hundred pounds.
If, instead of allowing it to remain
iu (he earth for ono month, it is left
thero for threo mouths, tho entire
bark of tho moss is pulled oil' and
(here remains a beautiful black fiber
almost exactly like hair. The hair
moss brings from . to 7 per hun
dred pounds.
Mr. Bomford suggests tho treat
ment of this moss as a good field for
invention. He thinks a machine could
be made which would take off tho
bark, leaving the fiber, without the
necessity of burying tho moss for so
long a limo in (he earth.
American.
Scientific
Tools I'setl in the Pyramids,
'hiring i. residence of two ycar in
a tomb at Gi.eh Wilheiin M. Flinders
Pel rie collected evidence showing that
the tools used in working stone 4"00
years ngo were niado wilh tho jjwclled
cutting edges, as in the modern cu.
torn. He has stilted his reasons for
coming to these conclusions, and
proves in a very satisfactory manner
that the pyramid builders used solid
mid tubular drills, straight and circu
lar saws and many other supposed
modern tools in erecting that greatest
of buildings. Ho also shows that
their lathe tools were set with jewels,
and that they did work widi them that
would puzzle the modern artisan. Iu
one place hu found where the lines of
em ting on a granite core made by a
tubular drill form a uniform depth
throughout, showing that the cutting
point was not worn as the work ad
vanced. 'The regular taper of the core would
also go to provo that the drill was set
wiih jewels on the inside and ou the
outside alike, thereby facilitating its
removal. In some specimens of
granite he found that the drill had
sunk oiie-lcirh of an inch at each re
volution, the pressure necessary to
a vomplisli this have been at least two
Ions. The capacity of the tools and
Iho skill of (lie workmen are illustra
ted by the clean cut they made
through foft and hard materials alike,
there being no dill':reiicc in the width
of (he groove when it passes through
soft sardstoue and granite hard as
iron. Nothing is known concerning
the material of which their tools were
made nor how the jewels were sot.
The diamond was very scarce at that
time, therefore the only logical con
clusion is that I hoy used corundum.
Chicago Times.
licstoring Ideal h In Desperate Cases.
Anybody may be called upon to af
ford assistance to drowned persons
while Ihc doc'.or is being sent for, and
Professor I.iborde's simple method
for restoring breath when all oilier
means have failed deserves to be uni
versally known. j
The other day at a watering place ,
in Normandy two bathers, a young :
mail and a boy, who wero unable tc ,
swim, went out of their depth ami
disappeared. They were brought on
shore inanimate and were taken toth i
village. Two doctors were sent for, ,
but the young men gave no sign ol
life, and (hey were declared dead. I
M. Laborde, who was li-hiug a j
half an hour's di-lance, came up as I
soon as ho heard of the accident. 1I j
examined 11. e lody and found that the
extremities were cold and Iho heau
hud stopped. Then taking hold of
the root of the tongue he drew it vio- :
jently forward, giving it a suceessiot
of jerks in oider to excite the re fie
action of the hie i! ing apparatus,
ttliich is always cxiieinely sensitive,
s.iys the L'iml n News. At the end '
of a few minutes a slight hiecougl
showed that the itient was saved, j
In addition ( the usual restorative '
means, Profeor Laborde in extreme
cases rubs the chest with towel: j
soaked in nearly boiling water.
Some Spanish Praclices,
The Spanish shepherds practiced j
marking (heir lambs by branding th( ;
nose with a hoi iron. i
Shearing lime came iu May. Out j
hundred and fifty men weie employed
to shear u"0 sheep; each man was i
expected lo shear eight per day; but
if rains, on!y live. The sheep stood
on their feet vhilo being sheared. Foi
a lime after shearing they wero care
fully housed from storms and the
chilling air of the night. The flocks
were not permitted to cat the grass
while the dew was on it, nor were
(hey suffered to drink ut of brook oi
of standing water wherein hail had
fallen, experience having taught them
that on such occasions they are iu
danger of losing Ihem all. -American
Farmei .
Jo-Morrow.
When Father Time.
Now old and gray,
Was In his prime,
I've oft' heard say,
His one piest was to-morrow.
With L'vc he fulked
The matter o'er,
With Adam walked,
His spirit sore
His seareli was one of sorrow.
From Jordnn's tide
To far Cathay;
Jty Tiber's side
lu I asnr's day,
Fresh trouble he would hoi row;
For where he went,
'Twas all in vain.
Past time was spent,
To-day was plain
Hut where, where was to Morrow?
And so we sec
Him gray and old,
And so he'll be
Through vesrs untold,
There's no case for his sorrow,
(lo where he may,
He'll simply find
Just plain to-day,
Which lasts hchind
That false mirage -to morrow.
R. Ii. Heudrick, in Youth's Companion.
HlMOKOrS.
Driven to drink Artesian wells.
It ran be said of the feminine
fashion of suspenders that it is hold
ing up.
"1 think that young man's conduct
simply shocking." "Thai's all right;
it's professional with him. He's an
electrician."
She Do you love mo for myself
alone? lie Yes, and when wo'ro
murricd 1 don't want any of your
family tin own in.
Johnny What did your motho
whip you for, Jimmy? Jimmy Eatiu'
green fruit. Johnny Who gavo yo
away? Jimmy The doctor.
The gentleman so often mentioned
iu novels, who riveted peoplo with his
gnz", has now obtained perinuncnt
employment at a boiler manufactory.
Said the lecturer: "Tlio roads up
these mountains arc too steep and
rocky for even a donkey to climb;
therefore I did not attempt the as
cent. Yubsley lo they set pretty appe
tising meals at your house, Kcddy?
Keddy Appetizing? Oil, yes. A fel
low gels up hungrier than when he sat
down.
Miranda (sobbing) It is better in
every way that we :hould pari, dear
Orlando. Orlando (in a choked voice)
Only in ono way, dearest. Miran
daYes, beloved? Orlando (over
come with emotion) It is cheaper,
darling.
"Hid you go on that trout fishing
excursion?' "I did." "Did vou fish
with flies?" "Fish with flies? Yes,
we fished with them, camped wilh
them, dined with them, slept with
thrm wby, man, they almost ate us
alive!"
"Your husband," said the caller,
sympathetically, "was a man of ex
cellent qualities." "Yes," sighed the
widow, "he was a good man. Every
body 6ays so. I wasn't much ac
quainted with him myself He be
longed to six clubs and as many
lodges."
Higher Council of Labor.
A British consular report gives an
account of the new "Higher Council
of Labor" which has come into exist
onco in Belgium. The object of the
new body is to form a permanent
centre for tho local councils of indus
try and labor, and to act as the inter
mediary between them and the Gov
ernment; it will also advise tho au
thorities in regard to labor legislation
and labor qne-t ions generally. It i?
composed of 4R members, 10 repre
senting employers and 1(5 workmen,
while the remaining lt aro selected
for special knowlcdgo of economic
questions, all being, in the first in
stance, nominated by (he Crown.
They aro appointed for four years,
after which time it is hoped that (he
organi. ition of the local labor coun
cils will have improved so as to be
capable of clocting the representative!
of tho employers nnd workmen. The
members during sessions arc to re
ceive $1.20 a day and traveling ex
penses. The first subjects for discus
sion are the application of the low of
l)s8!l, regulating the work of women
uud children, apprenticeships, techni
cal education, insurance against acci.
dents, etc. Tho names of the lirsl
members have been published by
royal decree, but it appears that the
Socialists among (he workmen are not
satisfied because they think that the
clerical clement is unduly repirscntcd.
Another Socialist has icsigncd brratitf
his party, which is in a uinjoiity in
the local, is iu a minority iu the higher
councils. Further (roi;blo from this
source is inevitable.