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Since It Must llo.
Binee It must ho that fairest flowers will
wittier.
Blight springtime days dopnrt, wo know not
whither ;
Binoa It mint he
look well upon tho blossoms while ye, may,
Glenn nil tho gladness fri a-li golden day,
(Bo gain sweet memories for your weary way;
Since it must lie.
Binee it must ho that hearts are ilaily break
ing, Tbat sorrow oom"3 to soiuo with o.-v'h day's
waking ;
Since it must lie
Why boar thy sorrow with a smiling faeo,
Nor grant " I" "'.V thought tho chiefest
place,
Turn ever onward. Inking heart of grace;
Hinoit it must lie.
- Ei-mson 11. Pkaiiovy in the Pathfinder.
Mother Ballard's Homo.
11V l'liAMI.-i R. VVAIII.I'.ltlll.
Tlmt is my eouiiii Susie; L -C, mid
that is Inr husband ; that fat baby is
lu-r olilcst; we aiut got '" picture of
her other children, (hough she's been
u-1 ri in iniii' them to in this long (line.
'I'll ill other hiiby 0:1 t lie opposite page,
tile one with the cuiiliili' bare tors, is
Al'tler's youngest, taken g mil tell
years ago, and so mi, und to on. un
til every picture ill Setll Milliard's
idiolugi.'iph-nlbiliii had lieell described
in full to the soinow h it weary visitor.
J ; 1 1 1 '. ii'i l eh, could Id i, Aimer
lialla'd's wife, do to entertain the
gin-sl, n Inly from New York, who
knew no mi ! in th little town of
Clifton save thj cumin who was her
hostess? Ii in r:i Marlin, the gin st,
knew nothing and e.ired nothing for
tho details of farm life; in faet, she
Would never have come to this iiiet
place lint thai she had lieeti ordered
there by Inr phy doian.
The cousin whom she was visiting,
ItuftiH Martin, was almost u stranger
to lier; ami his wife nnd her family
who hud never before seen or heard of,
Sho exerted herself to be cordial to
them, nnd never allowed them to sus
pect how fearfully who was bored.
This afternoon she nnd hur coiisiu'H
wife, I.iiunah, wero visiting Abner
liallard; mid his sister l.anuah, mid
Serena, his brother Set Ii'h wife, wero
there also assisting to entertain her.
Heretia would every now and then
disappear into tho kitchen, and then
after a muni-nt's pause Ida would fol
low bor. During one of these brief
absences, while lzanniili was attending
to the wants of her youngest baby,
Laura, being left to her o n resources,
began to examine thu gavly-boiind
books which lay on thu center-table
carefully piled mid inathoiiiatio illy
equidistant. Presently she Kiev a vol
ume of poetical selections not quite so
now or shiny as its o iiniianion ; and,
iih sho was glancing over its contents,
(die ciiiuo upon a photograph which
represented a" bright-eyed, curly
liaired, good-looking fellow about lit
or 20 years old.
"Who is this good-looking young
man, 1uiiiuih? His face is wry
familiar," urd she, shuwing thu pie
turo to Mrs. M t r t in.
"No one whom you ever saw," an
swered Iznnuih, with a Hushed face
and confused air.
"Ah lull Ono of your old beaux,
ch? 1 must my that ho is ten times
as good-looking as Unfits. I nm sur
prised yon didn't take liim instead of
my worthy but very homely cousin.
l)o tell mo about him."
"Nonsense I he wasn't any beau of
mine. Put the picture away ; 1 don't
want to talk about him," answered
l.anuah in tho abrupt, snappish man
ner common to her when she was tired
or busy or worried or sleepy in fact,
her usual manner when at home.
Laura fully appreciated tin1 many
domestic excellencies which l.aunah
possessed; she saw that, liko her
brothers, she worked early and lute
and could mako a dollar go as far as
five times its value would under the
m inipiilatioii of must people. The
IJillards wero proverbial in Clifton
for their industry, th-ir ability to do
everything quickly aid well, their
sobriety and promptitude, and, also,
for their econom; ; only most people
thought that in them virtue had de
generated into tho vie- of stinginess.
Success was tho standard by which
thoy measured even thing and every
body; and succ 'ss, to them, had none
but u pecuniary tot lining. Thoy were,
perhaps, a little "slurp" in their busi
ness dealing, but they never eros -oil
tho lino into iictu il dishonesty.
At that moment Ida entered the
room, and Laura a pealed to her to
know who was tho mysterious original
id the picture.
"That? Why that's Mark liallard,
in- husbaud's youngest brother. I'm
sure, I.annali, you neeeu't try to dis
o in him, for cveryho ly in tho County
k iew him. lb" w..s tho you igest of
toe fnii'y, ri! no ii it i) : he lt d
mds than nualk's like choose, lie nun
idle by nature; and, as his father died
when ho was only ton years old, it
never got beat out of him as it ought
'a' ben. Mother liallard hadn't no
moro forco to her than an. old sottin'
hen. Ho was her pot, ami who cer
tainly did humor him to death. Well,
it turned out as it always dues when
ono child is petted to extremes and
the others taught to work as they'd
ought to do; Mark got lazier and
lazier, wouldn't do nothing about tho
farm, wouldn't go into tho mills,
wouldn't ilo nothing but read, read all
tho time; said ho wanted to bo a
scholar, which was ridie'lous in a poor
boy liko him. llo and his brothers
didn't agree, an I, finally, ho runaway
ami went to tho bud. He ran into
debt mid took to drink, and as wo
ain't heard notion; of him for nigh
onto 15 years 1 s'poso Iio'h dead. No
great loss if ho is," added Ida, Hot
unwilling to exhibit tho deep Into of
tho Jiallard black sheep. Thcl'0 was
not a real cist rly lovo between her
and I'. mimh.
"lbd his mother give up all hop:; of
him before sho died?'' linked Laura,
pitifully.
"Oh, mother ain't dead, nor won't
be for many a y. nr, " answered l.ali
iiah, cheerfully. It was her turn now,
not lla's. "She's beautifully Kelt led
in tin! Old L'idies' Homo over to
FiiillioM. Out! of u ; goes to see her
every year or two. You see when A li
ner got married, bein' the oldest sun,
he anil Liu naturally chose to live on
tho I'u r m ; mid us I I I ha I to have her
mother with her there wa'n't no place
there for anybody else's mother. In
deed, the two of 'em h id alw ivk hatod
one another liko poison ; so notlier
h itl to give up tie! o'd house to Ab
ner. She never did like furinin', any
way. Mark took his luvo of idle
readiu from her. S.rth said ho
couldn't have her come to his house,
for there w.i'u't no room for her; his
hoiiso is dreadful small, and come to
get three hired men and S.-th ami his
wife in them aitics for that's all his
bedrooms are it ii pretty full.
"The boys thought I'd ought to
have taken mother; but, dear mo!
how could IV I wu'n't livin' in the
old house, n:nl what with my troop of
young ones, a baby always in my
anus, ami my work round tho house, I
hadn't no time to tend to invalids ; for
by this tini" motlicr'd not real poorly,
So we all joined together nnd got her
a beautiful room in the 1'iiirlicld
Home, where she don't havt' a t h iug
to tin all day but just enjoy herself. "
Laura was so shoeked and pinned
by this evidence ol Millard heartless.
Iiess t li lt she c t (.'tol l her Mslt to
Clifton, and Mail. .1 lor 1 1 c homo the
llet Wei I,.
A part of In r join le y was by water ;
and I in J 'I o 1 1 1 1 1 ; to In I ml :it r-a-
tloil with the lady who s it in l I,, In r
mi the boat, h,e r, bit". I this inenleiii
to he.', plef.ieili; il Willi t h - t It ill :
"I'.i yoii kiioii iiiivoiitt in Ciiftou?"
"No," replied lie' stranger, "nor
in any purl of tln Stat.', We, mv
children mi I I, are simply piissin
through it mi oar way home from a
visit to i he ni .miliums. "
"1 am glad of that, for I want to
t. ll you a litl le meld. 'lit which illns
trutes the very trail, Il 'al t lessiiess, of
which wt- were josl speaking. Hut,
of course, 1 shall . urpri.ss all names.
(letting excileil with her recital,
however, Laura involuntarily let fall
the name of Itallnrd as well as olio or
two of the Christian iianiej. When
sho had finished her story tho stranger
said.
"Whero in this Ciiftou?''
"It is near a railroad center called
I'lamum? indeed, it was called Har
mini Mills until a few years ago. Per
haps you've heard of tin; linriium
match-works?"
"Oh, yes; 1 have. Ah, here is the
place where I leave the boat. Let me
bit! you good-by, wi;h ill hope that
wo may meet ag.iiu soiu time;" an. I
so saiing I hi! stranger took her leave.
I'arly nex- morning this same
stranger "might have been seen'' (as
(. 1'. IX. .lames puts it) entering the
comfortable, if lonely, little room
assigned to Mrs. lanuali llillurd in
the Old Ladies' ll.uii ut 1'airtield.
"You once lived in i -.111111 1 11 Mills,
or Ciiftou, as (ley now cull it, did
you Hut?" the Mtrill.;er asked Mrs
Hilda id after th first greetings were
exchanged.
"Yes; I was married in Ciiftou,
nnd my husband bought a larin tin re.
II" lies slot ping there now, nnd my
three children live in Clil'luu si ill.
Have you come from t h.-re?" was the
.uswer.
"No; but I know some mi, who
Old, ami I understood hi 11 to say that
j in had four children. "
'Yes; I had four children, but my
y ungest is - oh, 1 do:i't know where;
dead, I am seuo, as it is years since I
hoard from him. Poor Mark I He
wt i my comfort. "
"I hoard ho was wild."
"He may have boon, but if ho whs,
others were to blame. Ho was always
good to me. They culled him lazy ;
but ho never let mo chop a stick of
wood or draw a pail of water. I never
took any extra stepa when ho was
round. Ho didn't lovo to work maybe,
as the others did ho set great atoro
by his books."
"Are you comfortable hen ?"
"Yc-es; but it's kind o' loneaomo
sometimes, 'specially when I remem
ber that Abner and Seth nnd Iznnnah
have all got good, cheery homos of
their own. If Mink hud lived it
would all bo different."
"it shall bo different yet, mother.
I am Coir a liallard, your sun Mark's
wife," cried tho visitor, embracing
and kissing tho surprised old lady.
"You shall bo in a cheery homo of
your own before this tiuio tomorrow.
Willie, come and kiss your grand
mother. Isn't hi) the image of his
father?" added Clara liallard, proudly,
us the buy caino forward at her bid
ding. "My Mark is alive again in him!"
"Your Mark -our Mark is himself
nlivo nnd well, iimthtr. He was a lit
tle wild at first, ho says, and unfortu
nate in everything he undertook; but
he grew steady, and then ho persevered
in ono thing instead of trying first
one, then another, ami, finally, got
into good practice. You knew ho was
II doctor, didn't you? No? Ho is one
of tho leading physicians iu our State,
lie wrote ever so in my letters to yoil,'
but got no replies, 1,0 we thought you
Were dead.
"1 never heard a word from him!
His brothers were always so afruiti
he'tl come home to bo a drag on then:
that one of them must have destroy eii
those letters. They always got olll
mail from the oflico. "
"Ho never will bo a drag on any
one! I know ho was a good son,
mother, for ho is tho best husband
that ever lived ; and when my undo
died a year ago and left me a fortune,
I was glad to get it so that we could
have more to givo away, bless him !
Come, mother, help mo pack your
tJiiii.'S and I'll take you homo as a
welcomu present to Mark."
Someone, Clara liallard never said
that she knew who, had inserted in the
next issue of tho Ciiftou County pa
per (which Aimer nnd Seth took) 11
long nrticl'! describing the remarkable
manner iu which "Dr. Itallnrd, our
foi mi l' tow iinuiiiii, now the most- able
lung s inlist in the Slnte of N ,
than whom there is no more honored,
generous nnd useful citizen 111 our
t try," found his mother iu the Old
Ladies' Home iu Fairfield. It also
gave an account of his handsome
Ionise and of I he warm, sunny, luxur
ious room which his little ones now
call "giiiii lin i's room," when! they
love to g.ilinr nt twilight and hear
lung stories of lion thoughtful and
obedient their father was iu his youth
ful days.
Oh, how Abner and Seth did grind
their teeth with rage to find that their
black sheep was the very reverse of
black, mit even a gray hue! How ono
of them wished ho hud read a certain
letter or two before ho burned them,
unopened ; then he would have known
that, instead of begging money, tho
truant had some to give nwuv. And,
horrid thought ! may Imp one of those
letters had money iu it! He never
knew, nor dared to ink. Demurest.
A Clack's Hands n Pigeon lioost.
If the time kept by any clock in the
city should bo accurrate it is that in
dicated by tho tower c'oek at tho
(iriiml Central Depot.
To the attendants at the Oraml Cen
tral the clock is 11 constant source of
trouble, mid about twice a day, as a
rule, somebody has to set it right. Tho
clock is all right, but the tbllienltv lies
in the fact that no glass protects the
lace and hands.
I'i.'eoiis and spiu rows, attracted by
the crumbs and sweepings from the
ears in the railroad .Mil. I, niakti the
depot a it 01 ti 11. ; place, nnd a roust of
I lie linn. Is of the cluck. line pl"eoli
alone cannot nlV. cl the hands, bill
when two or three cluster together
upon one hand, the works fail to lift
to hit il.e l,,u.l, ami the linn. I steadily
drops bell 1 11 I. New York World.
I'etl Sium ha 11 Its.
Orient' the must cunspic nulls land
marks, or, ralh. r, snow marks, iu tin
whole of the arctic region is the red
siiuw banks diseuvci ed near Cape York,
I ili enlali.l, by Ciptmu .lohu lloss in
the year lX. For miles nnd miles
the hills are covered with snow that if
as red as though it bad been saturated
with blood. Lieutenant (ireelcy, who
visited that region w hile on his famous
arctic expedition, microscopically ex
amined these Hood-stained cliffs mid
reports the color ore to a minute or
gituisni which lie -nils Protococeus
nivalis, Chicago lluuld,
CIIILMtEVN COM'MS.
A SUOIIV Kim;.
iieigii-iio!
Ail In a row.
,1 'liuny an. I .l ie,
, IS ill .III I Tel.
nnd N'il
O.i one Ioiil; sll,
1 II-ilt upright, eaeli in his plii 'i',
I Willi a siiiilo on every i. ;ir little fner-;
I It 'a ly ! an. I so
! Tin y start it elT, and 11 way they go.
j Heigh-ho,
Tipped in tlio snow !
.T iluiiiiiy ami .1 ',
li.ih.'llJil Teil.
An ntoh mid Neil,
All liielert'i" sli'tl,
T ipsy-turvy. Ii-els in tho air;
For 0110 riile iliey fa l'-.l to oln rv with
''are, -j
! sure you kno-.v
Wiiuu you start a thin:,', how to make It go.
! -Yoiitln (' jiiipaiiioa.
j AN I'.Xi'l-MM'ION TAKKN.
A friend nt th - ( i -i-mit 11 court tells
I us this good child r.tory : The (i.-rm 111
I empress, most 111 iterual of mot hers,
j always ha is the 11 M'ltly prayers ol
her young lumily, which, as ,wu kimw,
, consists of six boys 1111 I one girl, tin
I latter being the youngest. In the
i cuiirsi' ol h'.r 11 -mil iilfei in-s t 1 henv. n
1 the little girl includes, "Pray, ( bid,
make me a good girl." This sin- re
i pi ills after her mother, but more often
, thaiinot she say..;: "No, mother, pray
I (toil make me n good boy; Idontwiinl
; to hi- a girl. " What is one girl anion.'!
! so inn 11 v bovs! -N -vv York lii-cord 'r,
Mt si'iiir.vor.s mow.
Strangely en nigh, there w is noth
ing of which In- stood so inn 'h iu lent
as crows them lve. Often they would
come perilously near and "caw" lit
him. H'-lter-skelter ho would lly to
the house, and his relief was plainly
manifested when he was safe inside
the kitchen. Their wild life evidently
had no charm for him. Ho was in
I terror of largo snakes, too, but small
I ones ho gobbled up in fast as ho could,
j It win a mod ell' -final way of pre
venting them from friglitt-niug him
j when they grow bigger.
-No attention was given to his educa
I tion, but at last wo ili.-c ivered that he
: c mid repeat a word or phrase of a
j conversation ho had just heard. Ho
i could Inn ;h like a Ini nan being, and
j imitate th ! cackling ol 11 h,-u. "Stop!"
j "Hello !" "H dd 0:1!" were favorite
j expressions of his, ami g 'lu-rally his
i use of them w.is intelligent. Ho liked
' to perch on top of the biru and shout
out "Slop !'' at tho farmers who went
I by in tileir wagons. If they reined in
their horses, thinkin; it was som !
! person who had called them, the sue
I cess of his little jolie would cause .Tun
' to burst into immoderate laughter,
j lie iic.ually enjoyed being suow
I bulled. Ho would stand upon 1111 old
tree-stump, nnd look suie ly at the
boys, as much as to say, "Come, now,
! here's a good shot! Why don't you
! hit m ?" Hut .Tim was always too
j quick for thorn. No b.iy ever could
hit him. Ho would dodge liko light
ning, laughing lioar.-ely us tho ball
Hew harmlessly pat or broke iu pieces
on the other side of the stump. Then
up he would hop ajai'i, with another
challenge, readv for the next snow
! bad.
i He was nut afraid of a gun. Ho
j would stand close by whiloouc was be-
: iug loaded, and it ;d be fired off a
number of times without having any
perceptible effect nil him. But ho wan
1 keenly alive to its d uiger.ai.'d the very
moment the uiuz.h- was pointed at
him ho lost no time in getting out of
, the way.
.Inn was 11 very mischievous crow
I indeed. When (.race, the baby, was
learning to walk, bo would st her
1 slyly by the dress and cause her to
, fall. lie would peck at the t oes of tho
linn-looted children who came for
; water, ami laugh heartily us he drove
1 t ln-iii dis led from the yard. Smiio-
1 times he would steal down into the
! cellar. The blow s ho would give w it h
j his ben!, had the force of a small
j hammer, so that it was a very easy
matter for him tn turn tho spigot of a
barrel. One mis pretty apt to dis
cover after such a visit that all tho
vinegar had run out on the Moor. St.
Nicholas.
In 11 .Inpatiesc Hospital.
The captain of one of our American
warships iu the east says, after visit
ing a Japanese war hospital near Nag
asaki: "The hospital was the admira
tion of the French ami Kuglish sur
geons, as well as our own. The med
ical stall' was nil Japanese, who had
graduated in iiiedicino and surgery
either in America or KnglanJ, then
taken a post-graduate surgical course
in clinics at the Paris ami lierlin hos
pitals. They bad the best modern
inst ruiiietils ami systems, the newest
antiseptics-evi rvthing a honpital on
modern lines should havr-. Ami all
this is the work of a generation,"
Chicago Herald.
tipi: oit.nhr:
No Appetizer Better Than a
Draught of 0zir,B.
A Physician's Disc jvory Whilo
in a Rufrlgt'iMtQi.
No b -tler appetizer can be found
than a draught of crisp, ooid air mi a
bright, ch-ir day when the tempt ra
ture reaches down toward zero. On
such a day the d-,sp, ptic, llie nervous
mail, he who cannot cut with 11:1 appe
tite or sleep iu n Mini slumber, should
throw his cocktail nppetia ri mi l ell
his medicines to the dogs, take a long,
brisk walk nnd breathe through the
no t rils, an 1 u it ii tightly close I lips,
iu full, Strom.', vigorous inhalations,
the delicioii'i 11 i.1 i t -fr.-.di 11 oxygen
of such nil at :n. 1 -phere.
A noli d I'll 11 'h physician 1. -coldly
.vhile imikin ; experiments with refrig
lilt" I uir di-eovei-e I that his lost np-p.-t
do wa ; c imph tc-l y re tored when,
well 11111III d, he ruler. -I his r,i'rigi r
utili ; npp u iiiis nil I breiithi-d 11 '1 10
iitm-i-phi re for a brief iiiter.n!. Cold
air, like cold wat r, is coming into
Vogue as a gleil restorative all I re
medial ngeii.-y, the only hp enil re
ipiiremeiil on behalf of the patient
being t, , he sh , I, . w. ll clothe. I, so
that In shall not be ieeh-II. ,. Some
phys fiiiiis are i'i eomui' udnig, even for
feei'l-' puii nls, tint 1 hoy bo Well
miilll'-il mi l placed iu a room with
open windows where, while snii 'lyiiii I
warmly covered, they breu'.he in mod
eration I In' colde-t air of loidvv inter.
Tho wonderfully smeiv-"ful treat
ment of lung disc is-'.s in tho north
woods proves tile IU ! icy tif fresh,
pure, cold air as a healing instrumen
tality. Consumptives win 1-0 k the
north woods sanitarium me oblige I,
even in the depths of white:', to spend
much of their time out l'iors. No
medicine is given, the diet ii light and
nourishing, pure air is tho great re
storative, and the ell' -els of this treat
ment' in ne uly every instance have
boeti luiirvvloiu.
Tho American people, with their
intensely nervous temperaments, their
devotion to sedentary pursuits, their
long hours of labor at the desk ami in
tho counting room, IV.il to appreciate
the beta-lit of a cold bath and a vigor
ous rub in the morning, and of gen
erous and frequent cold air bath for
the lungs during tin day. Let the
reader who has not tried it ta' e a
brisk walk from his counting room
down town to his home, t o, three or
four miles up town, Ins aihing deeply
through the nos n!,i and note if, when
he reaches his h. 1:110, he does not feel
the Iresheiietl blood current - tingling
in his veins, hoc the bright glow of
health mounting his pallid el,.-, l-s and
tind "that tired I'ee'ing" by 11 quick
exhilaration ant! a sharper appetite. -New
York Mail jnd Kxpii-ss.
Mveilisli Method ol' Making Matches.
A ileseriptioi, is given of the Swedish
inelliod of manufacturing mutches,
which has at least the nu-rit of sim
plicity in the niiinipu' it ion of the wood
stock. The timber is cut into blocks
nboiit fifteen inches long and placed
iu a turning lath-; with each revolu
tion a strip of veneer is pealed off the
thickness ret pi i red for tho match hlic ks
while at the same time eight small
knives cut the slice into seven pieces,
like ribiions.audof Ih length r. q liivd
for sticks; these ribbons me then
broken into lengths of six or seven
feet, knotty 11 ml tlefeciiv- pieces arc
removed, and the ribbons are then fed
through a inaehiiii! which cuts tie-in
into pice, s like a st raw cutter, these
then passin through 1111 autom itie illy
iiriiingi-d machine with cutters which
slices oil' as inaiiy pieces, the thickness
required for a mutch, as there are
cutters, one machine turning out from
,",IHIl),(l(H) to 10,11 lll.niM) match splints
a day. The dutu given of this m.iiiil
tacture shows that Swetleii and Nor
way have long been among the largest
match-producing countries of the
world, their exports amounting to
about, 20,000,000 pounds of matches
per annum, whilo in Genu my the
number of factories is stated at 2H0
with an annual yield of about 70, Hill),
000,000 matches and iu Austria there
are some 150 factories with a corres
pondingly large output.
' Punctilious.
Wife Oh, John, us I onmo iu just
now I saw smoke pouring out of Mrs.
do Lancey's windows, and not a soul
seemed roused.
Husband Well, did you ring the
belt and (ell them?
Wife Of course not ; I don't owe
her a call. Judge.
Mexico has an area of 751,000
fqunro miles, or nearly one-fourth.
tb$t of tbs United States.
A
Jtliick llenis Are (I rent Her Hunters
1 No bee hunter can line and iiml a
I I I- tr. e w ith more precision than the
black bear. When he linds the tree
be climbs it, stopping every little dis
tance to hammer on tho trunk with
one of his paws, so that he may know
by (he sound when he reacuos the hol
low place where the honey is stored.
When this spot is located, the b.-ur
MTiilchc:; mul paws tin I bites away ih'J
wood until he has a hole big enough
in tin1 hollow stem to thrust his puw
in and renc'.i tliecoveted sweets. Ho
sops the honey out 111 d licks it ell' his
paw, and smacks his lips like a boy
would lifter eating taffy. If it is
. mii rm weather the bees buzz about his
head and attack him with their s.'iiigs
but bruin shuts his eyes and laughs,
nlid keeps mi nipping up the honey.
Thobinck bear has just us swci t a tooth
I for domestic honey ns for the wild,
I and it is no trie'.; at nil for him to step
i iiilo the bui'kwo ids farmer's yard and
1 walk oil' w t i 11 beehive under his arm.
I Why, Inr is less considerate uf tho
fanner in stealing honey than he is iu
stealing pig. Tho backwoods admir
ers of tint bear do not attempt to ox
plain, for bruin does not hosituto to
("line out of the woods in broad day
light and snatch a beeskip from the
door yard. At b ust one old Potter
e unity, (Teim.) woodsman has an idea
ab nil il, how- vi r.
"A b 1 -kip can't squeal." ho says,
"an' hain't m hard to get away with
ns u pig is. That's the reason a bear
don't care to bother tin.' farmer by
goiu' after his pigs in tho tlayt me.
'T 1 i ni 'cause he's considerate of tho
fanner, but 'cans 1 he's a lectio shy o'
1 nek hut. If lit! was considerate for
tin- fanner he'd show it by only robbiu'
the eggs out o' crown' nests an' haw ks'
nest nn' owls' nests an' the nest of
other birds that hain't no friends of
the Inrmers. He'd be jest as consi
derate of birds as they say he is o' the
farmer if the birds had guns." New
York Sun.
The Lazy Gas.
Argon, the luzy gas, is tho nomo
given by its discoverers, Lord Kay
lei'.rh nil I Professor Ramsey, to the
new nitrogen-like substance found iu
Pie air. It is a most extraordinary
thing til it it bus never been discovered
before, vheii it is all around us. The
explanation isiu its very inertness ; for
it cannot be made to combine with
anything else, even under the stimu
lus of the h 'at of the electric arc. It
has been separated in large quantities,
and Professor lirookes has studied its
speel roscopic qualities, and Dr. Olsze
wski, of Cracow, has liquefied nnd
solidified it, and both declare it a new
g is, the only question being whether
it be not a mixture of two gases, as
suggested .by the two spoct roscopie
Inns, one red mid the other blue.
Pi l imps we h ive colne hero near to
t he mi igiued primordial clement out
ol which, tilers are made. Of course,
its 11 11 1 11 :u it' wi ight is imi known, as it
has not been made to combine with
anything; bu.' Is density of thirty
nine or fol ly set-Ills Hot to lit Melldeli
jeil'sl iw. If tin re was auv thing we
thought chemists knew all about, it
was the air ; nnd here is 11 revelation
of ignorance to appall us all. Now
York Independent.
Iliingr.i In llcil.
Physicians declare that it is injuri
ous to go to bed hungry ; much of tho
prevalent insiuiiiii is tin- result of nn
Hue otiscioiis c in ing of the stomach
for food iu per-uus who have been
unduly fright lied by the opinion that
the-, ni nt not cat Int.' suppers.
Ii is unwise, ol irse, to indulge
ill V lauds w hull heavily lax t lie di
gestive organs ; but a l ow I of hot broth
or soup, or thin gruel is a positive aid
to nervous people and induces peace
ful slumber.
This is especially the case on cold
w int r nights w In 11 t he stoma eh craves
warmth us much 11s any other part of
1 he body. I '.veil a gin -s of hut milk
is grateful to the palate on such occti
simis, but a light, well cooked gnn-l is
bettt r, niwl in our I'liiiiiite during the
culd muni lis of winter, should be the
retiring food of every person who
feels, as many do, the need of food at
night. New York Dispatch.
.Ii 111 iii.i's Itclliiitbin of a Pig.
'Now, Jimmy, said Mr. Parkins (o
his young hopeful, "when you go to
the party tonight you must not make
a pig of yourself. Now, remember J
you know what a pig is, 1 suppose?"
"Yis, '" said Jimmy.
"Well, what, is a pig?"
"An old hog's little boy."
Satisfactory.
Ada (pensively) I hope you'll in
vite mo to tho wedding when you get
marl ied.
Jack (boldly) I'll invite yon the
first ono, and if you don't accept ther
won't be any wedding. Life.
Always to Thee.
In the f pring, when lilies came.
Ami crocus set the woods aflame.
AH tho world with love's delight
Flushed and glowed from duwu till night.
All tiny long the luippy birds
Sung and sunc, oiid found no words,
Aud my heart tho whole tiny long
Sung to thi't) a wordless soug.
When the roses white and red
On thu winds their fragrance shed.
Through 11 world of sunlight went
Love nnd laughter and content ;
And my heart from leafy Juuo
Caught and kept the strange, sweet tuuo;
Brook aud biuiieb, ami bird and boo
Sung of thee, my sweet, ol thee.
Now, when golden autumn tills
The purple vvino cup of the hl:K
'.Mid their happy harvesting,
Ktill Of love the reapers sing;
Wlcn the plover wheel ami lly
liiui'k against tho shining sky.
In my henrt the old refrain
Swells and falls and swells again.
When winter comes, with iey bp-a-i,
And holly Hashing in his e rest.
All love's Singers SWeet lire gull".
Save t!ie robin : lie alone
Pipes his music, sweet nnd strung -
I leath ul"i ail still his m.nig.
Like the robin, so shall I
Sing to thee, love, till 1 die.
P. .1. ItoiiKiiisoN. iii Longman's Magazine.
IUM0IUHS.
A good backer the curt horse.
Hard luck is often the result of ef
forts to secure a soft simp.
The fm-tle-sieele lover put it thus:
"I lovo the very ground Miss Woollier
vi heels over. "
MeSw utters- -Talk is cheap. Me
Switters Not when you talk hack ton
justice in court.
"It's strange, says a philoi ophor,
"but you've got to raise tho wind be
fore you can sow it."
Master (angrily) What did yon put
in this coffee? Ma'-l (innocently)
Nothing but water, sir.
When it comes to paying campaign
assessments, the deeper you are in
polities the more you nro out.
"Young man, don't you know yon
ought to lay something away for a
rainy day?" "I do, my rubbers."
There goes a man who used to sou
rly raise cum down south." "A reg
ular tire eater, eh?" "No, a sugar
planter.
Woman mny have n sphere that is
boundless, but she strikes nn impiiss
uble barrie when she comes to a barbed
w ire fence.
Spencer Show nie a man who likes
to be interrupted iu tho middle of a
sentence. All right ; come along with
me to Sing Sing.
Suitor I am sure your heart is in
the right place, lioloved I am glad
to hear you say so. I have just given
it to the other fellow.
We believe it was a well -menninn
citizen who alleged, as a reason for
nut wishing to live on a hill, that the
climb-it did nut suit him.
"Did old Grabgold shjw you the
least attention when you called upou
Irs daughter?" Jingle Yes, ho
showed me the door nt once.
The most cautious man wo ever
knew was the one who was afraid to
buy a lead pencil for fear tho lead
would reach clean through it.
She So the Punt thing Tom told
you about his linnceo was that she was
"awfully sensible?" Ho Yes. She
That settles it. She's plain.
Hoy Papa, what are the "happy
days of yore?" Fat her The happy
days of y.ire are right now, when
you've got somebody to hustle for
you.
Humorist Whore's that joke T left
on your desk yesterday? Klitor I
don't kii-iw. It's probably gone home ;
it was certainly old enough to kuow
the way. i
A Kensington youth, who had been
told that a certain young lady's father
had plenty of dough, proposed to her
before he discovered that tho old mail
was a buk i r.
"I don't see how Kiln-1 has so ninny
admirers," she remarked. "She nei
ther sings, plays, paints nor speak
French." "Il'ni'in," bo replied re
llectividy, "iiiiybo that's why."
Mrs. Pancake (suspiciously ) Why
are you hanging around my back win
dow so lung? Turnip Mu'tim, those
apple pies of yours are purty as pic
tures, nn' I'd like to bo the frame o'
one o' them.
"I'll just tine yon mi even twenty."
remarked I he judge to (he ninbitioi.s
young iiiiiii who hud tried to lick i,
a policeman. "Nobody but the ml':'
director in (his country Inn a right 1
put a head on a copper."
"I say, Chappie," saitl one Pi; I
burg Willy boy to atio'.ber, "isn't th .
a heavier ciiuo than you usual
euvvvvy?" It is, deah boy," was t
reply, I'ho doctor vvocommonds mo.
exercise for me, donchcrknow."