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APRIL 15,' 1888.
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THE HOME;" I ;
! 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.