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Fltteboro; N. O. Then FORGIVE i. era, Would the frnvms we are constantly Pen 'mid the children so AfD FOHGET. Were we but gebei Wl kind and f orbeiLdrl j, Boon would this ctrth be an Edea of flow- ,. ... .. would DO so Hiere , -were wcannr f. Be lost in the JaugMer of happier hours; Then would ahoJiar lijat ; il Make lifo'i dark iaGrtray fright, Bhlning whore anger auA-dtcrdl hare met; I Tlien would all wi)rfarf caase, i Afiz'els wouTdi whiaw 'Peace!? If we would ohlyi"forgire aul forget When a loved friend we . hive thoughtle ;. j' r.j:!und4dJ!i .-,...:.;-Let us not reejc his forgiveross alone ; ' i Owning bar err6r, with courage nnbounded Oh! kt us earnestly strive t? ttone; -.. 1 j Conquer cW prl le, and. the.' , t Hold out iitr ihand againvl f lure that cur friend 1 will respond b ttVyet; Then win be haste once more Knowinc: lour wrath iso'er- Eager as we tb Norgive and forget; ' T- (-71 Jay Oou'u deceives. id! '1 . . inreaic seven ;cniug iletters p:r mys noc thd slithtdst altcntion avemce Ilej rcasdns 1 hat any man; :wh6 plan to takd hiUife would not! letter put ljip on hh! Euard. o: fdayfJ,but to tliem. had a Write a! Thegojd Seal, center of the Unitca j miuway em Wx-i States i? Klinsas. The nbint between this eastern and wes 1 .... ! ' ill I U. .!. . . ' " .1 ,i i remit res orinciuaitca mates, inc.uuias I . . Ill i I . ..if K Alaska, js said to bi in tho Pacific ocean, i ran Cisco. The few miles ft ' : few miles frmt ofiSaa center pt' population, is eortheat ti CinciauatL Mr. Qoorio ;jFayJ a wealthy man, wno qu llvea lor scvera uuauajaataj jji ill- 1 Whica I Tho i' build in 2 in the sxibuib 0 pajaco n 10.000,00. leas thin lpO feet bi3h, lurouttdcdby will recall itho of! TlnViwlrtnl nri Hlaed fan I ! I: ' ,Tho jUnUrersity is now Engliib- years at erecting AN UXixNOWX FRIEND. exieo, that city a magnificent he expects to crneni will be; not and jit will bo immense ignr.iiens that famed ban sin 2 cardens to which iccess will bo ic e levator. tlalf-Mobn waa a deep canon at Giinnuon. 1 .0 class known jthe fait of 188 country,; lollo uijion its bac' .1 . and feVing Often the voiife of dissension may rise! An!?e5s Kok earthward with face3 reproving The glances of 'anger tl a; flash from tteir eres!: Eut ere the night descends, Lo! all tlie tumult ends, Innocent kissvs and tears of regret I Minjle with gracious words, Childhood's fcweet lesson,- "forgive and fer- : get." t'ealfest may cruelly grieve Trien's that Wfte 1 . - I".- .- ifi. s; tter resentment but adds to our pain; Le; us te mrcifiVf-soon thev mav. leave us. t I ; I " . . i 1 Let them not reek oar forgiveness in vain. !j j Thou :h Wf Iiv4 suffered long j j i Under a dloud of wrong, whybave wounded rr ay comfort us ye Tongu?8 can but idly preaeb, j : Only kind actions teach L if e's nc blest lesson,! ' 'forgive and f orgetf ' I-Fanny Forieshr, ta CasseL'j Magakini, I ; ! 1 II ' I ' ' I i i thougn By this trail iherS storm, there "was wdrse. slides, precipices, and difficulties innum erable. Beside, it would only lead into the broad valley of the Gunnison.' The range must yet be crossed to the east be fore a railroad town could be reached or the advantages of shelter and medical at tendance secured..-. They : bejieved the boy would idle; before morning., llow, then, could he be saved f ,y--. "j VBill, seeing; their f questioning looks, answered them ' J l" ' 1 1 ' - x -1 f - "See here, pards; the boy ain't near so sick as ye tnink he, is. . lie's tired, iwere out; an' teetotally discouraged; bat hes young, ain't burnt .out with whisky !-- an' in my opinion's more homesick than sick. I've seen theja feliars before.: If we can make ninl : uliderstanu there's a chanee'Of4d tnttn1 bnrrielJ bn!! hanw on so wTkiil git him home f rii rig a' Utter on JBalaanl (Baiaatd was -Bill's burro), an' We'll fake him down the valley to Taylor Creek. A icouple o' you feliars kin then by Brush Creek trail to an git more feliars thar, the kid on: the summit of Ther's 'an empty cabin at timber-line pn the west! o' Red Moun tain, an' meet mc thar an hour by sun to morrow.- If ver - hustle yer'li git thar, Yer ought Iter fetch ! up by midnight on tne summit." -1 f iv j - ;,i; t it is useless ,;to ; attempt to convey an idea of what this plan involved. " ; ; n i They were ready! in an hour. I Bl rigged a litter upon his burn), as Indians do, arid in it placed Little John. At ii; B'clddk ! Ihe. procession ! started down the gulch;! . There were two men beside cross the range Copper Greek, anr meet me an Red Mountain. Pit4 ;None of them thoughUUiad; HUMOflOlTS PRESS I STORIES. Off, and there was a;sadness in theirifaceft, '''"'" '.-i y-'r . if: ' and d hush in their voices. i f , : H xtTOHABW uxrn r&OX tkh TUV Place for tlie Cow: a'rfcer We DidaH ' - Enirg IIakd Bean Dl " - L ' : :::.: ' i- t 1 , . , - ' ; jpiACK FOB TlisS CGWCATCHfiSi . '' .Of the countless good stories attributed to Artemus Ward,! one of the best is the one which tells of the advice he irave to a Southern railroad I conductor, soon after the war. The rond was in a wretched condition,' and" the trains consequent ly were run at a phenominally low rate of speedj "When the conductor wa punch- insr his ticket, Artemus remarked : ' i'Does this railroad company allow pas sengers to giv advicct: if, they do in a fgSpccTful triantterr' . Th? conductor re plied In errufi tones that lie fjuesrcd so. v Weil," Artemus went on, fit occurred to mei that it would be well to detaih t'ae cowcatcher from the front of the ensrine and hitch it to the rear of the train. For you see, we are not liable to overtake t cow, but what's to prevent a cow stroll ing into this car and biting a passenger? BilU i While picked out the litter. Their an break; roi brary tjuii 000. m t a as 1 rcauy oprn pect soon j 000 fo,thy tional . i 1 mcnt joa of Pennsylvania for! lot tho'USQ will for a haydome li- which will pit $150,. n amount 120.000 has al. rilled, and the trustees cx- the rcmaiafnc t39. h 1 w S 150.00 addi- endowment. 1 Taisrt bui an la Liavcqwor icres of t from tho'Vii sis penac rniles mined,!' at overla)l,f ind dins and alcnt 1 .also underway j to i jumniuaiijto Contain a large a students. miles move- erect aa Qitoriura a new mining jcamp'in the head waters of thj& ne ot ; that iavehturous as " pros!)ectors " had, ih wandered through "hat sg a burro which bore ill his worldly! wealth, and had j brought into winter quarters in the valley pi hG Arkansas such promis ing specimens of brittle and rujjy silver that many,! seeing them, were induced to gcj in the spr'ng to spy out the' land. And so ft happened, pn a March! night in 1883, j that aj dozen camp-fij-es yerje briiihtly! burning, a dozen teilts Were dimly outlined in the shadows and open ings of the stunted pine3, and; forty or hfty men, m groups of frpm three to siti were gathercd around the tires smoking their evening pipjes and relating) their ex periences and (wonderful finds of the year before. fifty Jmen brougrht part of the world, Among frpm every country by abnjrpose born,! to tent at "least, It tW0 Kan.J thcra ano kll which Will ia tiow worked 00 Q00 bush- 'I 1. ' i "M 11 ; " an.djfrom the i.jrw of 12. SW.UUO bu3h2U i can bo the lowest ( a verigo; profit pcnsjcs pan be placbd nt twe mostibeyon The irh isch ial U the finest t is id the J i: If. :nrric9s0U!i 1 fire cents ! per bhsh would 'fproJuce 184. 320.000 I cqmprehen9i)k and abcut! 92, 1C0, produce! 1 1 1. which a sum an! .1 belief, some ;are likflv to be found brutishness' predominates. There werti several such ilk the camp at Half -Moon. Bill Lewis had seert nature in all her majesty, moods and aspects for morel; than j j thirty years; had traversed the countrv from the Missouri to the Pacific shore lunched on the highest summits ,ahd camped in the deepest gorges. And -, tune anc! Ivet hisdepravifv was immense I lie had" an age before jbeen convicted of a dozen I crimes, and committed an hundred others without! conviction. ' ": . . ; : ! jThere was another man or rather boy eight net handsomdi le P,cn i cy a Crown ot 1 tyer worn- jiorm oi a Di.uop s mure am s crost a cross composed of ost beautiful diamonds ever Ruisiaa sovereign - d cut sdftnortinir (he larcrest riibv in the! world. EJfVca -great diamond! in a foli tted crch! rising from the front and! back of the 5ctow!n support this cross and ruby; nd 04 either si le is a hoop pf thirty- y dhan which there are no kniwh. The Arnkla A tourisjj tr hand abou useful j a; Bho frees herself tcj where she s certains itop itt a nsvlvahia' railroad Jrmnlora ' 1 . I ,1 1 . 1 - - Chtindrori Mr. TT V nrAUT t - Til t 'Tp ' .rr v f Of PhUnuLibhia.! It is ho'r dutv to look after unirbtetted!; Iadie3!. iwhh go-upon1 Pf.r She posts hersfelf before- - t " I - i . . I ! the route and makes herself jimparter of i: throdgh a train aid Introduces 3 ladies, and then tells them an be found i the! best .1 platps ithei towns visited, . fiaest tiews trejetc. Ofl these! went forward and trail, Bill attended, to the progress was " low and their mishaps many; but without serious accident they reached the! valley at day light, and at 12 o'clock were at Taylor creek. ' j:-: t- i' '--' . Little John was' no Worse. He was partly conscious and had been made to understand that he was going toward home. Bill's assistants were to leave him at this! point,! and he delivered a last iitjuflctiorl. j .j. . j j ;. j .i ''Ndwi pards, let's uave hd hitches. I kin make the cabin in' fiye of six hours easy enough, an' sht.ll itopi thar ah hour td rest an warm. ; If I kin make the next two.; miles pyer the summit ; the thing's done kih make it; If It's- quiet-like; niebbe' I If it stdrmSr-God help us. 1 ou must be thar at the summit at mid night. If the show's drifted bad, Ba laam can't make it. an' jwe 11 have i to an a selfishhess anl greed, in whom together1 rid some ei w carry the boy. When you git thar, if it storms, hunt 'round, an' yer'li find me ah' Balaam an' the kid somewhar in. the snow. :; JSow git; an an 11 you ever loved ver mothers don t you' fail It i i ! The two departed!; reached and passed the summit be frrj :day light had faded, and at six o'clock were -in the timber bf copper ureeK on the eastern slope; xn a few minutes more they were in 1 cabin by a gl wing; fireJ ;; telling their story to four fearless, big-hearted miners, They all knew Bi he could win if any had little hope of. all, 1 Lewis, and thought man could ; but they finding Little - John however, willingly alive. 1 : , They made ready to miles of comparatively easy trail,! Which they thought set. put. They had eight they could do in three hours, leaving! them! two hours in which to climb the two miles from timber-line to Red ; Mountain summit. Without great difficulty they! reached' the foot 03 the slide in the time proposed; . ; i ! --One by onethey crawleduathe fearfu d pi . winding way. . Not No one had heart to sparCi j Even minutes seemed ce like a word was spoken. 'speak or breath to long in a ihis,and it seemed they saw the top, and, oh, -Hin that camp; but he couia not ue,seen that evening tiround any of the fires. He not the t After a few hours Bill came. The miners proposed to go to the railroad station for a physician and such delicacies as mining camp j do not aHoreu - Uiu accepted ; the Eropx sltion Lin regard to the delicacies,' ut ii isisted that he himself would be the L I 1 : -. . i . k i nursq ana pnvsiciau. ; Unfler his rough but - gentle care the boy rapidly improved, and at the end of the Week Bill called the two Half-Moon men put for a little talk, i "; . . " ilev yer got an j plans "bout this -; Both answered .that they had Thetf left ever vthinff to hint. i UrThis kid wui elear-headed at cabir Oil t'othef feiie, . ah' hiirt att' mj talke L .We.'te" taifee'd hefe: Ah' y tju seej he wi us E clerk 3r sunithih In '& barikjj back in 01 id, an there Wuz mdriey stol i i The'j took biun up for stealin it; but lomehow they couldn't prove it on him,1 an had totum him. loose. But many people said he stole it all the same, ! an1 he couk n't bear the disgrace, an' so come to the mountains. His mother's poor Wha ; he got in the bank wuz all both on 'emiiad; Since he come toP'eblo he'f foun 1 out who did steal the money; But ie hain't got a shiner to go j back With an' set himself right. That's how he's here. u ' .:..! I " ', !fow, ' pards, Vve I got ''I nineteen thoujand odd in the Leadville hahkl paid in on my Belden sale. I hain't got .i pesky relation in the. world, an' if I git my hands on that money! I'll likely) blow it all in. So I'm coinsr to send ! that kid home, an' give tenthousan to his mother. The. balance is a bis enoush stake fur me; an' then, ye see, if I do a good thing or his mother may bo it'll count lagain the mfcrnal meanness I did to mine ! So we'll tak him down to Hayden's, ah' one o' yc u can stay ! with' him an' t'other go up v ith me to Leadville an' 1 get i some money an' a draft I've:- got her name and kvhar she lives an' then we'll! come back an' send him home, an' send this draft td his mBther. D'jer see ?" L j rTftree days afterwards they put Little John in a sleeping car, with a ticket and fifty dollars in his pocket, and on the sam dfiy-a draft fdr ten thousand dollars Was mailed to1 his mother in a letter "of remittance sighed "Aii Unknown Fkeend." i 1 HE DIDN'T ENGAGE HER. A young lady went to The Old Gentleman's Mistake. "rXio 1 1 I irr wi?a aVkil- " nTTil an old gentleman, crossing the , aisle ana addressing the mother of the boy who had liust hit him in tbe eye with a wad of paper. "How old are you. my boh ?" of . vour business'." replied the youigster, taking aim at another - passen ger. J 'Fine boy," smiled the oldj man, as the parent regarded her offspring with pride, a. remarkably-fine boy; -1 What is your name, my son?" "PuddinTame "" shouted the youngster, with a cigffle at his own wit the fold man, given me three guesses at it, that have beeh the first one I would struck on. Now, Puddih', you can blow ! how long before they reached it! Thev had hitherto been; warm enough. 1 But when they turned the summit the j cold west wind chilled them through , There was no isriow falling, but the win ! "was driving and swirling the recent snow had cpme into! "the gulch in a crowd of! in-small cyclones of horror around their seven,! who had bcenpon the trail jsomep shrinking iorihs.!' In a moment they had twenty davs! together! and Bill Lewis vasi abandoned every hope. i another! 01 It&e seven, ills iname was- 1 a?re was no nm jjcwis were, a ;;;r; 1 Zeno Brown. His comrades jhad failed ; " There waa no council iheld there was to catch or comprehend his first riami no. time for that (;bttt instinctively every arid he had dome to be called "Little : man rushed forward for some, slight John," L j ;' j i ! I shelter. Onward they went, at times !He would hdve been reniirkedi! an v-i i easily and rapidly over, the hard, old . T r i i t ; x - i i v ji : f wanted.- She or them to In ipite 1 . .... 1 1 . a o: 1 no iacc in 11 not one inn ,n 1 1 , . . 1 , .71 T 7 1 iT hundred of patents' returns the inventor s dolUr for Chicago Ura offer all sorts m :. t . : 1 . . I i i IT I B t as welt as nefu'J to the f patdnt office; Ono of th been patehiod is the idea, of for thft ton of a horse's heid. where the - ill hii naiat. remarks thai I, Americans cpntinuo toj of inventidns, 1 ridiculous curious notions which have a lanterni -A hood where in a mining region as one wholly out ! of place. He was light ; delicate and fragile though seemingly ii 1 good health before coming to the gulch--arid was illy fitted to meet jthe vicissitudes of a moun tain life. j He; mighthave been' born-for an artist or oet, or both; he! certainly .waa neverintended for a ThinerJ ! I ill In coming into the gulch the party had ah unusually feerious trip! The triaVwng . illy: defined ; the 6now was deepj and sofJ they had been compelled to unpack their ammais a score i times, ana o sleep m wet clothes and wet snow. Fpr all this, however, moat of them cared but little. They, "were nclt : nvalid tourists and they had crossed the range too many times in bad weather io je much5 troubled by one trip more! .I -," ;lbk -- ! j But with Iitt e John the case wiis dif ferent. : He bad never before jbeen, thus exposed, and! was evidently not sus ained to any considerable extent by a hopeful spirit, and bi biad succumbed!. 'J; He lay in his tent in bis rough blanket bed! sickl 1 1 1 : . 1 . I - I i 1 . 1 . - I -i pro3iratea, exnausiea. 1 1 1 , ; 1 ; 1 They had peen talking of him around the; hrc when some one, comii tent in a grove near by, said: H " I think Little John'llgo up to-highti He's crazy nowJ an' thinks he's in jiOhio; an.'; keeps talkm' of his mother." j T Bill I Lewis; before silent and sullen started up at mcc. . " I'll go see the kid,'f he said. : . I . - k-i iVi 'l-'i 1 He went, and all followed in wonders one, coming from a fitting? over, the top of thot head and c has tf, lantern fastened to it. '-isuyl meturd.'a street lighted by these bobbing lanterns. One can was But The bed enough Vve're terribly j his condition ii Sickness insurance is me tome lavor !! cjting with in Leipsic and other German the operai . 1 ; ,Tho lawj authorizing of stiih companies jpcii crmits thi ioA ;cities. ttons mranco to all' classes of hand-workers except clerks and salesmen, may be included by local The action of this law is ycry 1 in the tax fori maintaining the sick poorj It having decreased 21,073 marks ! ti. :. jj Jt i i 1 t.-f. -''J.'V.; 11-1-auurg in no year. 1 i ne total nura j ber infixed 4r the law iisi 4,2$i, 173 j or 81.'perj 1)00 of the population. ! j warm enough,! and ; sou it and its surronhdings rough j for ono like him lh Ii Tho pale face! amid the shaggy blankets, lit up by a tallow candle- buruiug J itt-a tan; !; the saddles, Iropes; kettles and tjpop scattered around among the bushes upon the earth floor all toj gether formed a scene weird and impres sive, -i; i ;:: I 4 4"r : :. i Av:v 1' f "Pards! that yer kid ImUst be saved, -j' said Bill Lewis. uIf you fellers have a mind to turn in an' help! well! an' good; but anyhow, that kid's, going to be saved 1-nl tKAtt 1...-L ;...'.( I for his mother I auinornyj U wa1. thirteen miles east' over the noticeable I range to the nearest cabin.! i The summit was nearly jfourteen thousand feet in height, and upon it a storm was raging. The spurs to Ithe north and west were ut terly impassable. The only way out was down the gulch by the same , route over 1 1 .1 .ll .1 ,1 ! . ' A 1 ia snow, ana then struggling through aeep drifts,) until, half a mile from the sumrnit, they saw. something" dark in the snow ahead j ;- ;-;;:' ' f -v-v-!.' u'- ' 1 ' !!" f ! ' It could be nothing else. But were the' alive or deadlj .1 , j Gooid, faithful ! Balaam ! no " man shall abuse thee moWe. , Brave Bill Lewis ! Thy sins be forgiven -thee! ' : . J Bill; had worked his way up from the cabin by tramping' the snow in front of Balaarii, a hundred yards at n time,! and going iover the ground' several times until me unimai couiu pass-inrouga, ua men repeating for lariot her hundred fectl This he had done in biting blast and blinding snow,s never iaitermg, never aespaurng, for six long, hours. ' ;! '! iv Bill s greeting was characteristic j : ; 4 4 Well done, pards 1 I know'd you'd come.! The kid was better at the cabin.; but whether alive; or dead now Ii don't knowj Look an' see." ; ; Little Jphn was alive and warm. . WVaw -rciiv?o iTtArod air f ' -"Ri laam's pretty nigh played out. Shoulder ; tne euas o' tnem ere poies, an' eiriKe lor Caspar's cabin first trail to the left after ye strike limber. Balaam an' I'd go back to the cabin,! an' come over in the morn m'. v You kin wait for me. I'll come for I've learnt sumthin' at that thar cabin,; an' I'm goin' to see this! thing through 1" , i 1 The six men took up the litter;; land Bill and Balaam went back to the cabin at timber line, f i j r y , The next morning was a bright one on the eastern slope of the main raHge., Low down j' on the big!, timber, nestled in a warm! nook, with an eastern and southern exjosure, was a miner's cabinl Already Jthe water was dripping from the roof -logs which overhung the front; "the pile of mineral specimens On the rude shelf be side the door sparkled in the sunshine; the dog basked upon the chips; the bur ros rubbed I their !necks together at the watering-place: the' fire was snapping in the rude forge, and a miner was heating and pounding his drills and picks.- Other men were sitting on the shafting timbers which were piled around, smoking their pipes and talking of the ick boy who lay within. ' !-'.' I . ; - 1 , ? Little John had already made hu way to these strangers hearts. ' He was not delirious now. '. But he wa - "l thought so," con pleasantly, "it you mued had Would have pretty straight, can't bet!" Squealed the boy. ."See over those things you?" "You delighted at the compliment. me F take that old fellow theric!" "No, no!" exclaimed the old gentleman, hastily. "Try it on the old woman I was sitting with. She has boys of her own and she won't mind." I Can't you hit .' the ladv for the' gentleman Johnny?" asked the fond. parent. John- ny Kirew a peaa ana; lanaea tnerpcuet on the end of the old woman's nos. liut she did mind it, and rising in her wrath soared down on the small over him which an intelligence office the other da v, and, as there-was no girl in at the time, sat down to wait for one. She is a Jefferson avenue belle. and Jeads the gay procession in society circles; she'iS also a good daughter and model housekeeper, takirig. all the care" of a large establishment off her mother's ageing shoulders j As she sat and waited in the intelli gence office a gentleman whom she knew cama in to get a girl; she had met him at a social reception a few nights pre vious, he in full evening dress, she in i costume of pink silk and Spanish lace, -with roses in her hair. : He had whispered sweet words of admiration to her, and she had blushed beneath his too ardent gaze- It was only a rehearsal of that foolish old play, "Love s Young .Dream," but it had left pleasant memories with both; ! '',-. She could not! help showing shd was gladjtd meet hini agairi,' and half roje; But he passed her to speak td the woman at the desk,: who supplied "help" td dd-- mestic Macedonia; .. . "My brother's family are in need Of a" girl, Mrs. r. i Can you send one up there to-day?" .; J "No, sur," said the woman, stolidly, 4tha ain't one in now.!' ."Why won't this one do?" asked the gentleman, curtly, turning upon the young lady, who, in her plain walking dress arid" veiled turban sat trembling with apprehension, ii V ''La- now, she ain't, nc girl," said the mistress of the intelligence, but the cus tomer paid no" attention to her. - . ; "See here, Miss, or .Mrs.' what's your name," he asked, abruptly, "can you do general housework, ! (wash, ' iron -; and cook? If you can and are worth your salt,! you can get the place- d'ye hear?" The girl shrunk hastily from his ex tended hand, and he asked: -;- "Are yoii a Gerntan or a Swede? Be cause if you can't speak English we don't want you. What's the matter with you? Ain't deaf and dumb, are you?" By this time the indignant -girl had .collected her wits, and, rising from her chair, she walked, out; leaving him star ing after heK -. , ' She w.'ll meet and she will mist hi n, There wdl be ore vaea 15 s'.aiv." - i But he will never know what fate did for him in the intelligence o3ic3. Detroit Fres Press. ericg with ti president of the College, and tiro same day tbe' champion, who bore the appearance ot a roeK-iooxing young man with eje-giasse ana va cough.' was - entered as a student and as signed a room in the dormitory. That night about iwrotr ox tne " Wahoos," as the hazers called them selves, stole softly to the new members room. : Having arranged their . ear twisters,' too pinchers ' and other in struments of torture to their satisfaction, fie'y tddk dff their costs, rolled up their sleeves and tapped gently on the door of their victim, who nftidiy ; orita mem in. , - "- -. - S I ". i . The invaders lit the gas, and beheld the new comer lying in bed. smoking a cigarette, and benignly regarding the mob through his goggles. - " GJet up there, r res hie. e re going to hare some fuu , with you," they said. "ixot reauyi ' aaia tne vicuxn, wuu a bcrtlcrw cough. ' i ' "Yes; wok pry nowln " Well, if I mast. I Butfposo' I must," whimpered the new man, junfplrJj cut on the floor. The next moment the ring leader of the inquisitors got a " facer that drove him clear across the room and through tha aish of a window. The surnvora of what followed all agree that language fails to do justice to the scene. ; Sullivan : kicked the dopr shut, and then sailed in and began pil ing up the dead. Some of them didn't get around again fori three weeks, and half a dozen baily flattened " Sullivan " noses can be 663a in this year's gradu ating class. 1 ' . This1 U the A Xj most of our readers have Heard . The result Was to entirely abolish " hizirig ' at Princeton until tbe beginning of the prdsent session, wheu the old custom started in with renewed vigor. ! A student named Harrison, from Cleve land, learned that his "den" was to be raided upon a certain ; night,' . That day he repaired to the outskirts of the town, and by means of a cabbage, decoyed to his room, under cover pf darkne s,- a pe culiarly vigorous and' vindictive i billy goat, the terror of that quarter. He had kept the animal in a pacific frame of mind by much provender until the hour for thq ; assault. When the freshman heard the stealthy gathering of the" class outside the dPor, lie turned off the gas; gave the goat a few jabs with a Eenkdife to lived it upl and dodged be wld the ddarr. ; ; f As soon as the besiegers had rushed in he shut the door, locked it, and hastily WITH HUSKY.HaUOMTY LIfS,OH, ; ;SEA.r . : ji . With busVy-haaghty lipi, Oh 8a! 1 Where day anl night I weed thy aarf -beai bore, . . 1 Imagm to my tense thy varied Strang gag- ' , gestlons, ; !:.."! ' 1 I Thy troops ot while-maned racers radns to .- the goal .':..-' H Tbj ample, uillng face, dah'd with th sparkling dimples ot the sou, j Thy brooding tcwl and murk iby urdoos'l ' .hurricanes,' , . '".-. ', Thy ursnbdnednM, caprices, wCira"jnes; Great as thou art above tbe rest, thy many tear-a lack from all eternity hi thy content ' - ' ; . J ' ' Ofaught but the greatst ttrogses, wrongs, . defeats, ooaU make tnee greatest n - - lass could wmX thert. j -. j. Thy looelystaU-aonjethlngthoaeTerseeVi and seek'ss, yei never gain'tt, . Surely soma right withheld jome vol c, ia -. ' hoge nionotonoas rae, of frsodaa ' . loverpent, ' , ; . j - Some va?t heart, like a placet's, chain d! and .!"' : rhanng in thoje breakeri, j i By lenglbcn'd swell, and spasm, anl pan tin; bretih, !--'';.!.' i " And rhythmic rsspiirj of thy sands anl , i ! waves. ' - ! And perpent hiss, and savage reals of laugh- : ter, . - i i ; And nnlertones of distant lion r Mr J (Sounding, appealing to the sxy'i deaf ear. I, but now, rapport for once, 1 1 A phantom in the night ' t'jy csnndaat for "; onx), i 1 ') Tbe nrtt an 1 last oonfession of Ui9 globe, Outsanrinz. mattsrinr ' from thy souTa abysms, . , ; - i 1 The tale of cosmic elemental paalon, Thou telleat to m kindred uL , -; Walt Whitman, in Harper't Majatins HUMOR OF THE DAT. last A man skilled in forging. A Llack- smith. !; H . , Christopher Columbus was ono of the first men to "gp W est." bijlinp. ' While rummaging in the garret night we came across s . old diary of ours bearing the date 188L PiUtijAvt CalL ! Every affliction has its blessing. Tho man with a wooden lcg.never knows what it is to have rheumatUm in that ankle. Chicago Sun. ! ; j j , j- . ; ! No. my son, the irrcat talker is not mathematician ' simply Do nee essan I v a climbed upon the wardrobe, being just in I cause he understands how to i multiply . . S l.taS 'I' . . I time vj escape the nrstrusn oi tne omy, i words. Boston J rantertpt. ; j who knocked three men over the bed the very first biff. . . ' The pandemonium iof shrieks, curses and butts lasted for some ! five minutes. Then a forlorn hope of battered hazers managed to grope their way to the door and tear it open. As they, tumbled out into the now crowded hall half a hundred excited voices asked what the matter was. - "Matter P gasped one of the worst used up of the gang, "Why, they've rung that Sullivan in on us again r an rraneuco PosL boy like a blizzard She '. put hini the line, reversed ; him, ran backward till he didn't know endjof him was front, and finally dropped him into the lap of the scared mother. . with a benediction whereof the purport Was that she d be back in a moment and skin him alive. "She didn't seem to like1 it, Puddin'." smiled the old gentle man, softly. . "She's a perfect stranger to me, but I understand she is the .ma tron : of a truants' home, and I thought she would mistaken." like a And fun; but sighed sweetly as sea.t.JersetmaC little the he went back old gentleman to his I was Church Fires. The Chronicle states that nearly eight hui dred churches an average ofj about eig it per month have been destroyed by fire in the United States in the past nine years.! According to the fire tables of the above-named journal, there! were on hundred and nineteen churches de stroyed clurmg the year.1882, at aj loss; of $61 2,170, and a loss to insurance , com panies of $312,280. Among : the princi pal causes ascribed for these fires are de-; fective flues and heating apparatus and incendiarism. The incendiary is no Re specter of buildings; and not.jonly bears his flaming torch through the thorough far :s of pur large cities, but also Appears at ntervais in" our smaller cities , aha ob scire country towns.! -Churches, "and pai tipularly those located in country i towns, are too often built of the cheapest an. weakest. material, ana present strong temptations to the inherent lovers of fires and easy prey to the fire fiend. Church societies owe it to themselves to pay more attention to the building of their edifices aslwell as to the prevention of! fire. Sdentific American. H: f 3 i ! which they had recently come in, AI-! pale, and wore a hopeless look that wa A BAKED BEAN DISASTER. Probably as laughable a. thing a? has been seen in a long time took place at Janesville at the Grand Army reunion a couple of weeks ago. ;, There was to be a baked bean banquet for the vis'ting vet ersms, and Inlf the families in town fur nished a pan of baked beans tit the oc casion, sending them to the armory late in the afternoon piping hot. A couple of boys, sons of a soldier,, were entrusted with a large pan of red hot baked beans i to take downtown, and th?y put the pan on a hand-sled and started. Arriving The Declaration Fadinj Out, IW people know that th3 original Declaration of Independence is kept in the library of the state department, says a Washington letter. It Is in a cherry case and under glas. j Bui ths doors are thrown oped all day long add strong rays of light are eating up its ink-day by day. Tho Constitution is written 6n parchment. The text of it is in a hand as fine as copper-plate and the ink of this part can still be plainly read. The signatures, however, are written in a different ink, and they are very fast dis appearing und-T th? action of the light. The bold signature of John Hancock is faded almost entirely out. Only a J, o, h and an U remain. Two lines of names arc entirely removed from the paper; not a vestige of ink remains to show that nams were ever ther . Bsn Franklin's ' name is entirely gone. Roger Sherman's name is fast fading. I could not find the name of Thomas Jefferson, and Elbridge Gerry has lo.it his last syllable. Robert Carroll and John Adatni have been s soared off bv the light, and onlv eleven names out Br rubbing a cat's back in the dark you can see the electricity fly, and when the cat claws yoar hand you can feci tho shock. Philadelphia Chronicle j Speaking of feats of strength Tcminds us that we eaw a Fort Wayne man knock , down a horse and two cows the other day. ne was an auctioneer. Uaotlcr. J Old Lady "Only think, one mission- ary for 10,000 cannibals?' Young Lady ' "Mercy 1 they must have terrible light appetites or awful big missionaries !r puck. ;;;,. i : ;.;" i ."Use your fork, Johnnie! Have yoti forgotten so soon what I told you about ' using your fingers P "Well, 1 mamma; fingers were made be lore Xorks I" 7 let; I know very well they were ; but not your fingers.' Stntumar. . - ' , i ! She' went into a store to buy some toilet soan, and when the clerk was ex- , Estiating on its merits, about made op t rr mind to purchase, but, when he said 'it would keep off chaps," she remarked that she didn't want that land.; j "What influence has the moon upon the tideP asked the professor. The class wag replied that he didn't ; know exactly what influence it had upon the tied, but that it had a tendency 'to make the untied : awful spoony. Burlington rn Itu. "If there's anything I love, it's j roast goose, n ! remarked Fendcrson, as be iiassed up his plate for a second help ing. It does -vou credit," aid Fogg; "there's nothing so beautiful as affection . v - i r r ; 1 - n 3' Of femi gent eman at the top of the big hill, where the road 1 of the fifty odd can be read . without a . 1. V. ;i' i. .il. 1 - - - i H A "White House Boom. a. room in the "White House is decor ated in the style of the thirteenth cen tury. ; 'It contains also a Japanese; screen, that portraits of Grant and Van Buren, a piece of tapestry showing Gutenberg reading aloud from his hrst block-letter Bible, and furniture' iof cherry i wood. Wjhen, after the lapse of a century ;br two,1, the decorative; artists of. that period search for specimens iof nineteenth ccn tuta decorations, they will doubtjess find ill i' .a j ij i. - uismseives a inne piujeu on eaienao1 this room. The Current. i A Hint of Unseen Danger. fThey -were in the parlor , and Bhe was playing the piano and singing-the new sojng. "Oh, Where have the Old. Folks GoneP He wanted to be funny and said: ". Guess they've gone to bed by this titoe.w.'-.';. J.ll-i--:, :- :r ' I " ; Don't ' you be - sure about that," answered the charming " girl ; "pa- may be out in the back yard at - this moment ' 4ting the dog loose." LoaeU Citizen , runs straight down into y the Dusiness street, the temptation to ride down was too great, and the boys got on the feled with the pan of beans in front of them, steaming hot. ! They started, tvery ; crossing they struck a gob of ' the bian3 would fly ! out,! , and I before they were half down the hill the boys were cov ered with beans from head to foot. They ' shut their eyes and let the sled' went." A girl stood by a crossing as they passed, and as . the sled struck a hummock, a handful of beans hit the girl in .the hair, and as the hot mass began to heat up she felt that the hairs of he hsad were num bered, and put her hand to her head, and when the beans burned her hand 6he yelled fire and. went away on a gallop. A dog ran along beside the sled and barked at the boys, but a quart of beans struck the dog and th-3 weather j was too warm for him, and he ran a way; with a hot box. The sled fin Uly turned over and boys, beans an 1 slediroliei and slid for half a block, "and ; the street wa3 paved with good intentions and baked beans. - The boys got up, scraped ' the . beans off .ot their clothes, thought the matter over a minute, when each toik hold of a side of the empty pan, and they carried it down to the armory, and reported to the microscope Just below the constitution lies the I original of it in Jefferson's handwriting. It is on foolscap paper, yellow with age, and worn through where the manuscript has been folded. .The writing is fine and close, and the whole constitution occu pies but two pages. The ink is good, and it remains as fresh as when it left the quill of Jefferson over 100 years ago. It is full of erasures and interlineations, some of which are ia Franklin's hand writing and others in the stronj script of John Xda.mi.Correpjndence CUcelond Jjeoder. i , committee on beans, 1 ; , The circumstance was related to the soldiers, . and the empty pan, tho hand-sled and .the boys decorated with beans created as much amusement for the old veterans as any one thing. ''i j ';H-"i '': .. i - v i - n to rrrrx tt a tTsi " -: ; Everyone knows of the! trick that was played some two years ag by a ' fresh man at Princeton college, at which time th custom of " hazing " in a rc illy brutal manner was; so prevalent there. The hazing, gang of sophomores ( thit year were so roug'a and cruel that th? faculty was at its wit's end to devise some means for its suppression. One or two cases of severe and lasting bodily injuries to the victims placel so ssrioxs an aipict upon matters, thit applicants for scholarships were few. 1, At this junsturcthe father of a new man, who had incurred the en mity of the hazers by stubbornly resist ing their attacks, conceived .an ingsnious idea. He quietly halted - up Sullivan, took him up to Princeton, liad a confer- Harvesting Ice. Soms idea of the magnitude of the ice industry in America, may be gathered from the fact that it supports a monthly trade paper, and that the total annual ice-crop of the States is twenty million tons, of which som? twelve million tons are consumed. Mining and storing this ice has given rise to a separate branch of engineering, and special implements for the purpose. There are scrapers of various kinds to remove the snow; tracers," or hand-plows,, to mark out the areas to ba cut by grooves. These grooves are afterward deepened by a tool, called a marker, fitted with knife edges, which, on being lowered to the ice. cut it deeply. The ice-area b cut and cros3-cut with! these 'tools, then tmnf:h"d or sawn by the ice-plow shown in the figure, until two-thirds of tbe total th'ckncss Is cut through. This plow consists of a succession of curved blade like teeth attached to a long beam. , The teeth are so formed as to clear thcmsclve and carry the chips oat of the groove with little resistance.4 A channel u cut by the above means between the ice-field . . . , . 1 . i . i., t ana tne e levators wmcn raise mc uiocu into the ice houses. ; The blocks are then loosed by ice-chisels, ' floated to the eleva tors, and raised by steam-power on end less chains working up an inclined plane. The ice-rooms are built one hundred feet long by forty feet wide, and the ice-cakes are placed so as to leave a three-inch space all around to prevent undue wast iag when broken out for summer use. The .cost" of all this preparation is only twenty -five cents per ton. CukITs Jlajazine. . -" - among the members floshm Traneriit. i There is said to be an old in this citr so fond Ot muic that lie can-. not keep his foot MilK Only the i other night a young man began to serenade his . daughter, and the way the old fellow's 4 foot didn't keep still is reported. to be a caution. Pittsburg . ClironCde. 1 j A merchant traveler took his place at the table of a" Western hotel, where the landlord was the only .waiter, and after finishing a very scanty meal he said per suasively, "I should like some desert, "Desert? Wot's that? ; We ain't got none.' "Well, give mc aome rae. "Piet We ain't got no piel Help your- . self to the mustard !" JJertJuir.t- Trailer. j ; ii "Bread P exclaimed, a Vavar College girt. "Breadl Well, I should say I can make bread. We studied that in our first year. You see, the reast lennents, ana the gas thus formed permeates every where and transforms the plastic material into a clearly obvious atomic structure,' and then " "But what U the plastic material vou speak of P 'Ohl that is . commonly called the sponge how do you make the sponge p you don t make it: the cook alwsys at tends to that. .Then we tet the sponge with the thermometer and hydrometer and a lot of other instruments, the names of which I don't remember, and then hand it back to the cook, and I don't know what she docs with it then, but when it comes on the table it is just splendid." Chicago JJcrald. 'But fWby, A School la Tunis. We visited a college for young boys i a Tunis, (North Africa) writes a correspond ent. The claw-rooms were small, without windows, and lighted from the" entrance door only. Little benchea a foot high were used for, desks, the scholars and teachers sitting on the floor, i Thry all studied aloud. Each schoUr in reciting took his scat directly in front of the teach er, and within easy reach of his rod, both continually swaying their bodies back and forth. . Most of" the professors were quite voung men, with very intelligent faces. Wench is considered very cascntisl ia the education of boy? The poor girls are not educated at all, very few being' sblc V read- We only heard of three who had this accomplishment, snd ihe were tfce daughters of the secrrtary r.f tl. ly. . )Vr.,i, t,m in mfttir.' I IIVA tliVU It," their clothe, drwdng and sJerr'ag.