Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1882 — Lucy Had Her Ice-Cream. [ARTICLE]

Lucy Had Her Ice-Cream.

Little Lucy’s big brother Charles promised to buy her some ice cream every Saturday if she would keep her hair nicely brushed during the week. One day Lucy and her brother were going to the place where the ice-cream was kept. Lucy was trotting along, holding Charles’ hand. She heard a strange noise in the street near them. Looking she saw the boys with a little ecru dog. One boy had tied a string to the poor little dog’s tail, andon the other end of a string was a deserted oyster can. “Oh brother!” said Lucy, “see what the wicked boys are doing.” And then tears filled her eyes, because she felt sorry for the dog. Then Charles asked the boys to lett he dog go. They would not do this, but said they would sell him the dog for 25 cents. “If we buy the dog, Lucy, you can have no" ice-cream, for I have only 25 cents in my pocket,” said Charles. Then Lucy was very sad, for she loved ice-cream dearly, but still she knew it was her duty to prevent the dog from suffering. , So for a moment she was silent, and tljen looked up to her brother she said in her pretty way: “You kick in the ribs of the boys, dear brother, and I will hustle the pup up the alley.” And so Lucy had her ice cream, after all.— Chicago Tribune. Mr. Hammond, engineer and general manager of an important Brazilian railroad, bears strong testimony to the value of coffee as a preventive against miasmatie fevers. He instances the case of Father Vaughan, who, on a journey through a most unhealthy country from Panama to the River Platte, considered that he owed his health to taking strong coffee, and mentions that since the natives in pestilent districts in Ecuador have taken to drinking it the death rate has fallen considerably.