Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1881 — Page 4

“KITTLE JIM.” The cottage was a thatched one, the outride old an 4 Yet everything within that cot wm wondroua seal and clean; The night was dark and stormy, the wind was bowling wild; A patient mother watched beside the deathbed of hei child) A little, worn-out creature, his onoe bright eyes grown dim; It was a collier’s wife and child, they called him Little Jim; And oh, to see the briny tears, fast hurrying down her cheek, As ehe offered up a prayer in thought She waa afraid to epcak Lest she might waken one She loved far better than her life, For she had all a mother’s heart had that poor eoL lier’e wife. With hand uplifted see she kneel* beside the suffeser’s bed, And prays that He will spare her boy and take herself instead; Bhe gets her answer from the child, soft fell these words from him: “ Mother, the angels do so smile and beckon Little Jim ; I have no pain, ddar mother, now, but oh, I am so dry, Just moisten poor Jim’s lips again, and mother don't you cry.” With gentle, trembling haste she held a tea-cup to bis lips; He smiled to thank her as he took three little tiny sips. “ Tell father when he comes from work I said goodnight to him. And, mother, now I’ll go to sleep ” —Alaa 1 poor Little Jinn She saw that be was dying, and the child she loved so dear Had uttered the last word that she might ever hope to hear. The cottage door is opened, the collier’s step is heard, The father and the mother meet, yet neither speak a word. He felt that all waa was over—he knew his child was dead. He took the candle in his hand and walked toward the bed ; His quivering lip gives token of the grief he’d fain conceal; And see, hie wife has joined him, the stricken couple kneel I With hearts bowed down with sadness they ask ones more of Him In heaven once more to meet again their own dear Little Jim.

A TRUE HEROINE.

“This would be jolly, Tom, if it wasn’t for that miserable shanty just under our window, and those infemallynoisy urchins across the street, and—” “ Don’t expect, my dear boy, to secure all the beatitudes at a rental of S2O per month.” “And if you wasn’t so everlastingly bearish, and—” “ What more, my dear fellow ? Out with it.” “ And if that shy daughter of the landlady wasn’t so frightfully ugly.” “Well postscripted. Jack! I knew all along where the chief objection lay.” “ Upon my soul. Tom, I believe you rented the rooms just because you thought her looks would annoy me,” “ You compliment me undeservedly, my dear boy. I had not that much forecast. But, now that you have suggested it, I think I will adopt a new method of torturing you. The great Aristotle imbued his followers with philosophy while strolling about the groves and thoroughfares of Athens. Why should I not imitate the master of the peripatetic school, and make San Francisco lodgings a means of inculcating moral precepts upon your mind ? ” “ Good enough, Tom. But not such confoundedly-disagreeable lessons, if you please.” “ All wholesome instruction, my dear Jack, is distasteful to the beginner. You will relish it more as you advance. ” “ Never, Tom, never, if Miss Corbin is an average specimen of the studies proposed in your new system of objectteaching.” “ Don’t speak so confidently, my dear boy. The future is a great gainsayer of thoughtless utterances. But, to inaugurate the course, the school will please come to order. First class in moral philosophy, attention ! ” “ Ready, sir.” “Why have you seen fit to speak of the landlady’s daughter as a drawback to the jollity of our present location ?” “ Because she is so terrifically hideous, and because—” “No generalities, sir. Answer me categorically. Exactness of definition was the great point for which Socrates contended. She has lovely hair—brown, sleek and tastefully arranged ?” “Yes.” “ Blue eyes of singular brilliancy and gentleness ? ” “Yes.” , “ Fine eyebrows and lashes, and beautiful mouth and teeth? ” “Yes.” “Anelegant figure—girlish, but symmetrical and well developed—and admirable hands and feet ? ” “ Yes.” “ Taste in dress, grace in bearing, and a prepossessing voice and manner ? ” “Yes.” “Then go to! If the total of these be not loveliness, the world is a deception. ” “But, Tom, did you ever see any one so fearfully pockmarked ? ” “ If put to my mettle, Jack, you know I never yielded the superlative to living man. Miss Corbin’s features have a seashell smoothness—a very gloss of finish —compared with faces I have seen. I have beheld countenances that resembled a colander—yea, that were engrailed and corrugated like a mass of conglomerate. But, after all, it is only skindeep. If the nature within be loveliness, these surface blemishes may become as attractive to the eye as a piece of ornamental fret-work. ” “ I grant you, Tom, that Miss Corbin is homely enough to afford to be good.” “Perhaps she is good enough to afford to be homely. At any rate, you were not born the censor of her or any body else’s appearance. The face you dislike may be comely to others and to the Creator. And, if not, remember, my dear boy, that ugliness has a license to exist in this world as well as beauty. ” "And 1 nave a right to express my opinion of it. ” “And may have a reason to regret ever doing so. Thus endeth the first lesson. The class is dismissed.” Tom was awfully cynical sometimes, but we were the best of friends, and I liked him just as well as though he had not been twice as old as I was, and crotchety and bald-headed beside. We had chummed together for years,, and took adjoining rooms in a private residence on Russian Hill. It was during the first week’s occupancy of our new quarters, while smoking on the veranda and looking out upon the moonlit bay, that the foregoing conversation occurred. * * * * * * * I had never seen Tom so moved by a book as he appeared to be by a volume he brought from the library one evening. He fidgeted, and wiped his bald head so much, and uttered so many exclamations, that I finally asked him what he had come across to agitate him so. “A most affecting story, my dear Jack,” he replied, “most affecting.” “It must be, judging by your manner.” “ If it would not disturb you, I should like to read it aloud.” “I shall be very glad to listen to it, Tom. My book is rather dry.” “Excuse me if I read it badly. It was always difficult for me to get through well with anything that affected me. I shan’t even attempt the dialect with which it abounds.” He cleared his throat, turned himself in his chair so as to face me, and read slowly, in a nervous voice : In one of the outskirts of Edinburgh, where the homes of the middle classes mingled with the hovels of the poor that had formerly occupied the site, lived a family by the name of Compton. The husband was a builder. Though his trade was fairly lucrative, the thrifty wife let her spare rooms to lodgers, in order to eke out his income. They had an only child, a daughter named Annie, 16 years old. Her unusual beauty rendered her exceedingly attractive, but she was everywhere more beloved for the sweetness of her dispo-

sition than for her comelifieas. Her modesty and kindness perpetuated, the admiration inspired by her personal charms. Among those who became strongly attached to her was an old woman known as Mother McNavit, who lived in a hovel adjoining. She was past 70, childless, friendless and destitute. She earned a meager livelihood by the labor of her aged hands. per sharp tongue and uncannny behavior had alienated general sympathy and attention, and she dwelt alone, hating the world which had at last withdrawn what little kindness it had ever shown to her. But the poor old heart was not so unfeeling as the world thought it. or .as she herself wished it was. It had simply been bruised and neglected till ite soreness made it angry and defiant toward all that approached. t AU but one. The beauty and gentleness of Annie had come upon it so tenderly that its sensitiveness and hostility were disarmed, and it clung to the child with an unnatural strength as the only object it loved in all the desolate world. The forlorn creature had once had children of her own, but she had buried them all. Bhe fancied that Annie looked like her daughter Hetty. If she had lived, she said, her poor old mother might not be so forsaken now; but the sweet bairn could not have been kinder or dearer to her than was her HettyAnnie, God bless her!—for so she mingled their two names together. The devoted love of the helpless old woman was returned by as warm an affection on Annie’s part. Hes-pity-was touched by the forsakenness and destitution she saw ; the fondness with which she was caressed and idolized awoke the deepest sympathies in her nature, while the constant association of her name with that of the dead daughter finally impressed her with the feeling that she stood in the same relation to the bereaved mother. With a nature as sincere as Annie’s, to feel thus was to manifest her sense of filial love in every possible way. So marked and unremitting were her attentions to the object of this strange affection that her parents and more intimate acquaintances were wont to address her sportively as Mother McNavit’s child. The epithet did not onend her. Her love was too earnest and respectful for her to be ashamed or annoyed by any allusion to it whatever. If the nickname produced any effect at all upon her, it only strengthened the tie that existed between her and the desolate old woman. At the date of this story the small-pox was ravaging Edinburgh. The disease was of an unusually violent type, and the greatest consternation prevailed throughout the city. One day Mother McNavit was ailing. The frightened neighbors summoned a physician, who told them she was stricken with the contagion. They informed her that she must be removed to the hospital. The intelligence appeared to inspire her with a mortal terror. She begged and prayed them to leave her where she was, but they paid no heed to her supplications. As a last favor she asked that before she was taken away they would let her see her Hetty-Annie. When Annie was told of this desire, in spite of her natural timidity and the remonstrances of her friends, she went to the friendless bedside. The poor terrified old creature, upon beholding her, exclaimed wildly: “ Oh, Hetty-Annie, daughter, if you ever loved or pitied me, show it now ! They’re going to take me to the ’spital. Don’t let them ! Don’t let them ! For mercy’s sake, don’t let them ! ” “ Wouldn’t it be better for you, mother ? “ My God ! do you say that, too, Het-ty-Annie? And all this while I have thought of you as my child. They’ve all forsaken me, and you are going with them. God will desert me next; then there can be no more disappointment.” “There, there, mother dear, don’t cry,” said Annie, fearlessly and tenderly pressing her lips to the burning cheek in her eagerness to console the poor old woman ; ‘ ‘ I’m not going to forsake you. I merely asked if ths hospital was not a better place for you because they all said so.” “Yes, they all say it; and they all think the grave would be a still better place for me. I’m willing to go to my grave, but not from the ’spital ! not from the ’spital! I can die here alone just as well, and it won’t break my heart as it would to be sent to the ’spital. Ob, Hetty-Annie !” she cried, wildly clasping her withered arms about the girl’s neck, “ there is no one but you to take my part; for sweet Jesus’ sake, don’t let them take me to the ’spital!” Annie quieted her with endearing names and caresses, and laid her gently back upon her pillow. “You shall not go to the hospital, mother; you shall not die here alone ; you shall not die here at all if I can save you.” “ Her manner was very calm, but her features were deadly pale. She commenced quietly arranging the things in the little room, as if she had taken charge of it. Turning to a neighbor, she said : “I’m not going home again until Mother McNavit is well. Please ask mother to send me the things I shall need.” When expostulated with by her parents and friends, she only replied : “ Here is a poor, terrified, friendless human being, who clings to me frantically as her only hope and comfort on earth. I could never be happy if I forsook her in her agony. ” When the influence of her pastor was enlisted to point out to her the uselessness ©f her sacrifice, she simply said: “I do it for Christ Himself; for He teaches me in His word that inasmuch as I do it unto the least of these I do it unto Him.” And so, immovable in her calm purpose, she watched by the wretched bedside ; watched through the fever and delirium, and all the horrors of the loathsome disease; watched till the danger passed from the sufferer’s pillow, and settled upon her own devoted head. She lived through the terrible ordeal. Health came slowly back to her; but her beauty had gone, never to return. A scarred and repulsive face was all that was left her. The polish of her brow and the velvet of her cheek, that was once so lovely to look upon, had been laid as a sacrifice at the feet of the lonely old woman. “ No, Tom; they had been laid up as treasures in heaven,” I said, as Tom put the volume aside. “ Dispose of them anyhow you please, ”he replied. ‘ ‘ Further the book saith not.” “By Jove ! she was a noble girl! ” ‘ ‘ Could you forgive her ugliness if you saw her ? ” “Forgive it, Tom? Yes, and forget it, and love her to boot! ” “You are quite sure, my dear Jack, that this enthusiasm is unalterable ? ” “ As a Persian law 1 ” “ Then you shall see her.” “ Where ? You don’t mean, Tom, we’re to take a trip to Edinburgh ? ” “Jack, my boy, that story was not in the book. I read it out of this venerable head. The place was not Edinburgh, but San Francisco. The young lady was not Annie Compton, but Marian Corbin. ” “ The deuce it was ! ” ****** “ You’re an old stager, Tom, and know everything. I wish you would post me a little.” ..c, “ If you’ll discard expressions suggestive of my age, I’ll do anything for you, my boy. ” “Well, then, I’ll say a young stager, or a middle stager, so you’ll tell me what to do.” ‘ ‘ Willingly. About what ? ” “Lots of things. First, about thia

ring. Do i give ft to the minister,or do I pdt it on her finger myself? ” * f “ You give iite the minister, my boy.” “ What do I have to say ? ” “ You put y a general affirmative answeF'fo Everything is asked you, and you repeat the words of the minister as audibly as your embarrassment will allow. Thus: ‘I, John, do take thie; Mariptt to jje-Miy apd wedded wife, and so forth.” f : ffLord, owMy Hie. Wg fenced, or hanged, or something of the sort, isn’t? it? And. what do you* do all the time ? ” - “I look imposing through out the ceremony, and hand the minister is gratuity afterward.” “ Is that all a groomsman does ? ” “ That is the whole duty so far as I have ever been able to discover.” “ I wish it was over, Tom 1” . “ Don’t benervousumy boy. . It. Wk# “Do you know, Tom, that sounds wofully solemn. I fancy when a fellow is about this sort of thing he oughtn’t to stop to think.” We lighted our -cigars, and, seating MM “Do you reinember, Jack, a conversation we had here a little over a year ago?” r» “ We’ve had so many-! Toip, I don’t know which yoti mean.*’ “I allude to some instruction I gave you in moral philosophy. The lesson was incomplete.. I mustfinish ik now. You were speaking or Miss Corbin’s ugliness—” “I was a fool, Tom.” , “ That is not so relevant to the matter as whether you are not as great a fool yet. ” “ What in the world dp you mean?” “ You thought then that;.no amount of goodness could hide he? ugliness to your sight. You think now that no amount of ugliness can hide hfer goodnesl to you. You may be as mistaken in this instance as in the other. ” “ Never, Tom, never!” “ Your very answer a year ago, Jack. And I say, as I said then, the future is a great gainsayer of thoughtless utterances. A little story I told, you at that time brought you right. If hereafter you should ever feel yourself going wrong, Jack, that same story may bring you right again. Here it is, old boy—my crowning achievement —the great Edinburgh romance of ‘ Mother McNavit’s Child,’ a tale of real life, in a single chapter, with all the original music and effects, written out and bound, and presented by the author as a wedding gift to the happy husband, of its heroine. ” He handed me a little manuscript volume, elegantly bound in flexible morocco. “ Tom, old fellow, how can I ever—” “ Cut it short, Jack. Drop in sometimes and take a smoke with your crabbed old room-mate. It will be enough.”

GHICAGO NOTES.

STRIKES. There has been an epidemic of strikes in Chicago this spring. First, the strike of the car drivers and conductors of the West Side Street Railway Company, which was peaceable, orderly and successful, because their claim was just and was sustained by the moral sentiment of the whole community. Then there have been numerous strikes by the various trades, which have generally resulted in an increase of from 10 to 15 per cent, of wages. There have been strikes, too, of landlords, merchants and manufacturers'to raise the price of rents and goods, and an excessive increase in the cost of building which has discouraged builders and been injurious to both employers and employes. But the most embarrassing and far-reaching strike has been the strike of the switchmen who make up the trains and transfer freight-cars on the different railroads which center in Chicago, on account of which hundreds of thousands of tons of freight have been embargoed, delayed in transit, and delayed in shipping and delivery, resulting in great inconvenience and loss to merchants and busines s men here and elsewhere. Newspaper offices had car-loads of paper in the suburbs which they could not get, and were obliged to buy and use inferior paper till the blockade was raised. There ought to be mutual agreement between employers and employed, but the greed of corporations is so strong that they seldom raise the wages of their workmen till’they are compelled to by their united protest and'their refusal to work at their old wages. We do not moralize on the situation. We only state the facts. But, notwithstanding these serious drawbacks, the tide of Chicago business rolls on, with ever-increasing volume, and was never so great and imposing as now. We note a few samples of leading houses. jones and laughlin (American Iron Works'), Tlie largest manufacturers of bar iron in America, make most of the goods they sell—iron, nails, spikes, cold rolled shafting, T rails, bolts, chains, etc. The Chicago branch, of which Mr. J. M. Larimer is manager, is a vigorous plant, 25 years old, which has outgrown the original stock, and last year built a mammoth warehouse on its premises, 150 feet on Lake by 230 feet on Canal street, connected by railway with the Pittsburgh factory, giving unequaled facilities for handling their goods by car loads with the greatest economy and dispatch. For financial strength, extent'of business and ability to meet the wants of the trade, it is confessedly the leading iron house of the West. hibbard, spencer and co., Lake and Wabash, Hardware, cutlery, tinplate, fence-wire, etc., stand at the head of the line, like Saul among the prophets. Have been a land-mark in Chicago twenty-five years, and sell more goods than any similar house in the West. GAGE BROS. AND CO., The leading Chicago millinery house, the famous hat and bonnet-frame 'makers, the only Western manufacturers of corsets, keep white goods, notions, and all ladies' apparel except shoes. Their force imitates the speed of lightning calculators in doing their immense business, working with a hearty good will, because this was the pioneer house in giving their employes a half holiday during the summer season. J. A. FAY AND CO., 207-9 LAKE ST. Wood-working machinery and machine tools. Mr. J. A. Roche, manager of the Chicago house, a practical machinist, has a peculiar aptitude for the business. He has made this the leading house of its kind in the West, increasing its trade, so that its Cincinnati factory, employing from 300 to 400 hands, can not supply its customers. Chinese Version of the Prodigal Son. “Aman, he two sons. Son speakee to father; father got money ; give some he; father he take it all rightee. I just now give you half. He gives him half ; he go long way—likee me come China to New York. No be careful of money, use too much; money all gone ;he velly hungly. He went to man. He wantee work, he say; all right; he tell him feedee pigs. He givee pigs beans ; he eatee with pigs himself. He just now talkee ‘My father he lich man—muchee money. What for me stay here I want to go back and see my father. * I say to him, I velly bad. He knows I bad. Emperor (God) see I bad. No be son, me be coolie.’ He go back; hugee way, father see him. He takee him on the neck. Son say, ‘ I velly bad. I just now no be your son. His father talkee to boy and say, * Gettee handsome coat; gives he ring, gives he shoes; bring fat cow—kille cow, give him to eat. ’ They velly glad. He allee samee dead, just now come back alive; he lost; he get back. Number one son come. He hear music; he tellee coolie, ‘ What for makee music ?’ He say, ‘ Your brother come back; your father velly glad he no sick; he killee fat cow.’ Number one son velly angly. Father he comes out; he say, ‘No, no be angly.’ Number one son say, ‘ I stay all time by father; never makee him angly. My father never killee one fat cow for me. My brother he velly bad ; he use money too muchee; he have fat coW and music.’ Father say, ‘ You no sabee; he just dead; he now comes to life; 'he lost; now comee back.’ Theymakee music.” Drowning Men May Catch at Straws, but sensible .people when sick take Wimer's ‘ Safe Kidney ahd Liver Oure. ■ - A Whitehall chap, dressed in his best clothes and lavender pants, was on his way to see his sweetheart, when an old bellwether went for him, and blitted him head over heels into a mud puddle. His visit was postponed on account of the wether.— WAileAall Times.

BITS OF INFORMATION.

The national debt of Great Britain is nearly <k>uble that of the United States. ; average ffiur gallons of milk v&oduee sixteeta ounces of butter. The best butter is produced from cowj fed in rich natural meadows. The following is the production and 'eEfdrt of ‘ whaht for the four decennial years mentioned: ' f IP ’ J ’■ ivi JProduetion. Export. Tfeo../.... .100,485,»44 782,768 .-. 1f...; r......... 34491,215 1880..448,756,630 153,869,935 “Amende honorable ” was a punishment formerly inflicted in France on great offenders. The offender was given over to the common hangman, his shirt was torn off, a rope was placed around his neck and a wax light in the hand. He was conducted into the court and compelled to ask pardon for his mis*The following is a list of the Treasurers of the United States, with the dates of their appointment and their terms of service: Samuel Meredith.. ..1789 John Sloane..lßso ThomaeN. Tucker.. .1801 Samuel Caaeylßs3 M.Nourae (ad. int)..1828 W. O. Pricelß6o Waa. Clarklß2B Francis E. Spinner.. .1861 John Campbel!.',lß3o John C. Newlß7s Wm.5e1dta.....1840 James Gilfillanlß77 The phrase “ dead as a herring” may .be traced to the fact that the herring is an extremely delicate fish, and whenever it is taken out of the water, even though it seems to have no hurt, it gives a squeal and immediately expires, and though it be thrown immediately back into the water it never recovers. Halcyon days is the name given by the ancients to the seven days which precede and the seven days which follow the shortest days of the year. There is a fable that, during this time, while the kingfisher, or halcyon bird, is breeding, there were no storms at sea. Hence the sterm “halcyon days” means peace, calmness ana tranquillity. The origin of the slang expression, “ I’ll cook your goose for you,” is this :■ King Eric, of Sweden, coming with a few troops to a certain town, the inhabitants, in contemptuous defiance, hung out a goose for him to attack. But Eric being in earnest, the citizens sent heralds to ask what he wanted. “To cook yonr goose for you,” was the facetious reply. Tint greatest painters, in order, were Raphael, Michael Angelo, Corregio, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Guido, Rubens, Rembrandt, Vandyke, Tenier, Murillo, Carracci, Claude, N. Poussin and Carlo Dolce. The oldest known painting is a “ Madonna and Child,” done in 886; name of author unknown. The oldest known in England are a portrait of Chaucer, painted on a panel in 1390, and one of Henry IV., in 1405. The leaning tower of Pisa is cylindrical in form, 179 feet in height and 50 feet in diameter, and is divided into eight stories, each having an outside gallery projecting seven feet. It was begun in 1174 by Bonanus, of Pisa, and William, of Innspruck. The summit is reached by 330 steps. The tower leans about thirteen feet from the perpendicular. This was manifest before the tower was completed, and was guarded against by extra braces and an adaptation of the stone in the highest portion. There are seven bells on the top,.the largest of which weighs 1,200 pounds, and are so placed as to counteract by gravity the leaning of the tower.

The Persecution of the Jews.

The Jews have been from all time an exclusive people; pride of race and contempt of the Gentiles round about them distinguished them already in the days when they warred against the Am alekites. They sincerely and truly believed that it was not pleasing to Him that His children should act like the peoples round about them. Eighteen centuries of cruel, senseless persecutions, of enforced exclusion from intermixture with other nations, of inter-marriage in small communities, have intensified all the distinctive physical and mental features of the Jews, so that not only their good but their bad qualities have become accentuated. Not even the eighteenth century, so ready to boast on its enlightenment, had opened the gates of the Ghetto and accorded civil liberties to a people who, of all peoples, are peace-loving, law-abiding and least likely to abuse these privileges. The gates have now been thrown down, the liberties freely granted, and it is difficult to foretell what the Jew will be a few centuries hence —indeed, if there will be Jews left at all. They are far too assimilative, far too keen-sighted, not to be affected by and to recognize the propriety inherent in, the cosmopolitan tendencies of the present day. For ourselves, we have no faith in the schemes of enthusiasts portrayed by Daniel Deronda and his friend Mordecai, in the national restoration of the Jewish people, and feel convinced that, were the attempt made, it would result in a mere exodus of the scum of the population. What has distinguished the Jewish people and kept them a nation so long is the fact that their nationality is not rooted in the land from which they have so long been absent, but in the law, which they can bear about with them everywhere. The Jews are at present in a transitional state. It is commonly said it takes three generations to make a gentleman. It must? certainly take as long to obliterate all the cruel memories of Christian oppression that linger among those whose grandfathers remember the pressure of disabling laws. — Exchange. i ;

Humors of Scotch Police Courts.

At the conclusion of a burgh court in Scotland, recently, the prosecutor said to his assistant: “You’d better lock up all the pens and other things ; the policemen come here to get their wages to-day.” A prisoner at the same court was very anxious to make a statement to the bench before the witnesses against him were examined, but as this was out of all rule he was refused. At the close of the trial he was told he could now state what he wanted. This was his guileless and candid answer: “Oh, there’s no use of me saving anything; there’s been enough of lies told here this morning already.” A Scotch magistrate, who is by profession a pawnbroker, experiences rather awkward things now and then. In Leith, the other day, an old woman came into the Police Court and asked the occupant of the bench if he would sign this “bit affidavit” (shehaving lost a pawn-ticket). The bailie reddened ana told her to go and get a witness. The old woman was nonplussed for a moment, but she soon recovered and pawkily said: “You micht sign it, bailie; he wants it oot for the fast day. It’s yon waistcoat, you ken.” The implied acquaintance of the magistrate with “yon waistcoat” was too much for the gravity of the court, and the laughter became loud and long.— London World.

Sleep.

There is no danger of wearing thi subject threadbare, for people are be ginning to wake up to the fact that plenty of sleep is requisite to health, particularly in the case of brain-workers. The more sleep the brain gets the better it does the brain work. All great brainworkers have been great sleepers. Sir Walter Scott could never do with less than ten hours. A fool may want eight hours, as George HL said, but a philosopher wants nine. The men who have been the greatest generals are the men who could sleep at will. Thus it was with both Wellington and Napoleon. The greatest speakers in the House of Commons have been the men who go to sleep there as much as they like. This explained the juvenility of she aged Palmerston. Sleep is in many cases the best of medicines. A friend told me that he treated himself for a fever. He went to bed with a large pitcher of

lemonade by his side. He drank and slept, slept and drank, till he drank and slept himself well again. When you take to your bed get all the sleep you can out of your bedstead, even although, to quote Dick Swiveller’s saying, you have to pay for a double-bedded room, confessing that yon have taken a most unreasonable amount of sleep out of a single bed. Yon will be banking a whole store of recuperative energy. It is safe to say of any man that if he sleeps well he will do well.

Unlucky People.

A genuinely-unlucky man will .entail as much misery upon those who are dependent upon or associated with him as a genuinely-wicked one. They can never be relied upon. Their speculations turn out ill when those of stupider men succeed. Their inventions are just a little anticipated by those they never heard of. Their books or plays do not become popular. Their crops are sure to be injured by the floods or the tornadoes ; their vessels to be wrecked or burned; their houses consumed within the twen-ty-four hours after the insurance policy had expired, or the day before they had resolved to take one out. Judges are sure to rule adversely to their interests ; juries always bring in verdicts against tnem. Their letters are certain to go astsay; their baggage or expresss packages to be lost or stolen. It is they who are always looking for their missing knives, and are constantly wondering where their hats or their umbrellas have gone to. The money they put into their pocketbooks, or the pocketbooks they put into their pockets mysteriously disappear. Even when they desire to be prudent, and, with considerable sacrifice and pains, buy their potatoes, their coal and other stores in advance at reduced rates, the prices of the succeeding winter invariably fall below what they have paid. They are to be dreaded as Jonah was dreaded. The boughs of the trees they climb always break; the boats they row or sail always capsize. The train they take is by no means to be expected at its terminus on time, and, even if late, should cause gratitude that it got there at all. Or, if they are not the victims, they are the authors, of all sorts of involuntary mischief. Altogether, shrewd old Rothschild was wise when he counseled his sons to “ avoid unlucky men.”

The More Dogs the Less Trust.

A correspondent of a Western exchange, writing from a town in Indiana, says: One evening I was in Musher’s grocery stove, speaking withone of the clerks, when a lady came in and asked the proprietor if he would trust her for some goods for a few days. The lady was well dressed, and I was rather surprised when, after asking her where she lived, where she had been trading and the like, he asked: “ Do you keep dogs ? ” The lady looked somewhat astonished at this question, but, as she was anxious to open an account at the establishment, she answered, after a moment’s hesitation : “Yes.” “ How many ? ” asked the grocer. “Oh, only one.” The lady got her goods and departed, after which Musher said to me : “ Do you know that woman ? ” “No, sir; I do not.” “ Did you hear me ask her if she keeps dogs?” “Yes.” “ Well, you know why I asked that ?” “ I am sure I do not.” “Well, sir, this is the rule I go by. If a person keeps only one dog, I am pretty sure of my pay. On this recommendation I trust them one week; if they keep two, only three days, but if they keep three dogs I wouldn’t open an account with them if they owned half the town.”

Ingersoll on Beaconsfield.

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