Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1882 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY. APHIL 19, 1882,

BY BRET HARTE. "My sister'Il be down in a minute, and says you're to wait, if you please: And says I might stay till the came, if I'd promise her never to tease. Nor speak till you spoke to me first. But that's nonsense, for how would you know What she told me to say. if I didn't? , Don't vou really and truly think so? "And then vou'd feel strange here alonel And tou wouldn't know lust where to Bit: For that chair isn't strong on 1U legs, and 'we never use it a bit. ' We keep It to match with the sofa. Eut Jack say It would be like tou To floD Tourself rlzht down upon it and knock out the very last tcrew. S'pose you try? I won't tell. You're afraid to, O! vou're afraid they would think it was mean ' Well, then, there's the lbum that's pretty, if vour fin'ra arc clean. For sister says sometimes I daub it; but she only ftav that when fdie'a cross. There'! her p'cture. You know it? I fa like her, but she aiu't as good looking, of course! This is me. It'a the best of 'em all. Now, tell roe. voii'd never have tnoueht That once I was little as that? It's the only one that could be boutrbt For tuat was the message to pa from the photoerath ru in where I sat That be wouldn't print off any more till he first got his money for that. "What? Mav-bc you're tired of waiting. Why, of tn she's longer tnd'l this. There's all her back hair to do up and all of her front curls to iriz. But it's nice to be tuting here talking like grown Twonl, lust von and me. Do you thiuk you'll be coming here often? Oh, do! but don't come like Tom Lee. "Tom Lee? Her last beau. Why, my goodness! t He used to be here day ana nijrnt. Till the folks thought he'd be her husband; and Jack says that leave him a fright. You won't riyi away, then, as he did? for you're not a rich raan. they say: Va savs vou are Door as a church mouse. Xow are you'; Aud how poor are tney? sf'Ain't you R:ad that you met me? Well, I am. for I know now vour hair Isn't red: But what there la left of it'a mousy, and not what that naughty Jack raid. But there! 1 mut ro. Sister's coming. But I wish I could wait hist to nee If übe rau up to you and kissed you in the way that-sße used to kiss Lee." WHO WAS FOOLED? 'Hello, Joe! wait for a fellow, can't you?' shouted Harry Mason, as he plunged down the steps of his father'a fine brown stone mansion and rushed out upon the sidewalk, nearly upsetticg another boy in his head lonpr career. "Hello yourself, Hal! but whals your hurry? time enough, I'm 6ure," returned the other. "Not when your Ions legs are putting in to it at that rate of speed,' fald Harry, catching for breath. "Bui oh, Joe, how long have you been in the bulletin business?" then, seeing his friend's look of astonishment, he added, "for you seem to have some sort of an advertisement fastened to your back." "No. vou don't, my hearty !' lauirhed the other; ''you don't catch Joe Neleon napping on the first of April." Perhaps I don't, but somebody else does," eaid Harry laughing in hia turn, "for aa sure as euns here is 'April Fool' pinned to your coat." "No you don't," repeated Joe. "Honor bright; no fooling about it," insisted Harry. "Here! hold still and let me tafc it off, for there come some girls and they'll be sure to giggle themselves sick if they see it. 1 want to spare the feelings of the dear creatures all I can;' and Harry caught his but half-credulous friend by the coat and succoeded in detaching the obnox lous placard. "Ihere. now, Eaia he. "see if I am foolinsr, and see, too, if somebody n&sn't caught Joe NeLson with his eyes shut on the iirbi of April. Uli, Joel Joel pretty well for you! and Harrys merry laugh rang out on tue ciear uivruiu air. ftut the joke did not seem to be- quite so well relished by the victim. Joe's face was very red as he muttered half to himself, "I'll par her lor this, the ninny!" "Who. Joe? Sadie? l'ehaw! before I'd get mad just because a girl played a trick on ma You've fooled her a dozen times this morning, I'll be bound; but oh, Joe, do yoa know I am just dying to tool SomeDOüy; I feel just like it." 'Whom? for instance," asked Joe, lookincr at his companion irom the corners of his eyes, without turning his head, in a way peculiar to himself. Not your lordship," replied Harry, laughing; "your eyes are too wide open; what's more, you can't take a joke." Indeed!" said Joe, scornfully, "then why not try to bamboozle your sisters?" "Oh, that's no particular fun," replied Harry. "Fact is, Nell is a deal too sharp for me, and Flossie is tco in recent. I can fool the dear little thing twenty times right running, and then 1 can't make her understand that it isn't just the same as telling a lie. No, I want to do something a little out of the common. I once read of a capital April-fool "j.ke that was played on a very disagreeable old lady by some wag or person who owed her a grudge. In the course of the day she was called on by all the tradesmen and artisans of the town, with their respective wares and tools, having received orders as they supposed from herself. The last arrival, I believe, was a man with a huge furniture van, who had received orders to move her effects to another town. Now that was something worth whi!e, and I'd like to be smart enough to do something as cute; bet of course I can't." "I'll tell you, Hal," said Joe, suddenly waking up and becoming interested. "I've thought of the very thing why not come up with that prig of a Jim Valentine, some how." "You'vft hrt the nail sauara on the he:d. Joe Nelson, and I might have known you would," and Harry illustrated the nail-hit ling process vj a vigorous siap va uis friend's back. "I'd like nothing better than to take down Jim Valentine a peg or two; he's too solemn and proper by half tj goody-goody altogether; never g&ts riled like the re6t of us fellows and don't think it is good for him. I'd like to do something to make him just hopping." "He's a perfect prig, and a hypocrite to ot," said Joe, warmly. No wonder he always stands ahead of all creation, for his mother used to bo a school teacher and they l cay she helps him in every one of his lessons does all his problems very likely but when I asked him the other day to show me about one or two, he said he would be very glad to, but could not, because it was against the rule6 and I've no do doubt that he reported me to old Hodges, for I got marked cyphtr on that very lesson, llo's a perfect sneak, that's what he is.' "Dr. Lycn seems to think . he is about right," said Harry, not quite convinced by his friend's reasoning. "Oh, ha manages to pulj the wool over Dr. Lyon's eyes with his pious dodges," said Joe, bitterly, "but he can't fool me so easy. I can see right through him." "On the principle that it takes a thief to catch a thief?" queried Harry, with a roguish twinkle. Come now, Hal," returned Joe, halfugrily, "none o' your chaßiing. I want you to understand that I am not to be classed with Jim Valentine, and if you have any such notion, you and I may as well part company.' "'Nonsense, Joe! what a pepper-pot you ar," said Harry, with a laugh. I to) you you couldn't take a joke. I don't like Jim

ENTERTAINING HER BIG SISTER' BEAU.

I a bit better than you do, but I didn't suppose

there was anything mean aoout mm. x iock ;aVilr to him lust because father is alwavs holding him up to me as a model. It's 'Just look at Jaiües Valentine,' or I wish vou were as much of a gentleman as James Valentino,' or 'I wish you bad half of James Valentine's application, till, I de clare, I was sick of his name. "And no wonder," said Joe, with returning good humor, "but did he ever recommend ycuto employ Jas. Valentine's tailor? My conscience! what clothes that fellow wears! that old coat of his might havo come over in the Mayflower from the out landish cut of it, and it's a seedy as" Oh, come now Joe, none o that, interposed Harry "don't poke fun at a fellow's clothes when he can't afford any better. You know his mother is a widow, ana I supposo they're awful poor." "its. aw-ful poor, arawioa jot, sneer ing! v. ''that's another of their hypocritical dodges, ily Uncle Seth, who knows all about Valentine's said he die not fail poor, and that there is plenty of money some where. His wife keens up a pretense of be ing poor so as to get rid ofpavirg his dctts; but she's got money enough f you bet. I heard Jim t av mvself, that he meant to go to college, and how he is to that without the chink, I desire to know?'' "That is so." assented Harry, thouflhtfullv. it does take the money to go throught ..- . . . i v l Iee JIT brother JUOD. spenus a ;cut, I know that; but I don't think my father knows that the Valentine's have money, for fnr T have heard him say that they must find it very heard to get along." "Ob, well, your lather i lay not know it all. if he is a luJire." said Joe, with an im portant air, as he adjusted his cap to the gido of his head and pocketed both hands. Lawvers like Uncle Seth manage to rick ud a coxl many bits ot information that ctber people are not supposed to know about. But you needn't say anything about this, lor of course uncle would not want it to get out through him. It's none 'o his funeral, ho says, to long as they do not owe him nothing. ' But how shall we go to work to fool m?'' said Harry, feeling that they were getting away from the all-important subject; 'if he is such an abominable sneak aa you tell for. I shouldn't mind pavicg him out pretty well." "I was thinking," sail Joe, "that it would be a rather rich thing to get together some of the worst looking clothes that you can find make them up into the most business like looking packages possible, and leave them at the door this evening, directed to Mr. James Valentine. Of course he will open it with great expectations, but when he seees a card addressed to "an April lovi who would like to make looli or other pecpl3,r perfcaps he wont lcei so toppiDg." Pretty eood. Joe: iu6t the thiDg!" CX claimed Harry fairly dancing with delight. 'It takes vou to plan: but where I aru to get the old clothes is more than l Know, . . unless you can furnish them." '1 lurnirii inemr not mucnr saia joe, drawing himself up. ''This is none o mv funeral," as Liccla fceth savs; ! have only been helping you to ideas." "All right, ' sail Harry; "l m willing to shoulder the thing; only see that you don't step in and claim all the clory when the oko is out. ou may trust me for that," said Joe, in a tone that Harry was not- smart enough to understand. "There ain't any o!d clothc3 continued llarrv. ".Mother bundles off everything to our washer-women as fast as I get through with it, and sometimes faster. But our man Alike has no end of eld hats and boots all gone to Eeed, up in the stable loft, and I can take my pick. Mother bought me a new hat yesterday at Knapp s one oi those new style, toney aäairs, like Jack "White's, and I'll take the box that it came in and put in it one'of Mike's very worsto specimens, and a pair of 'rale old Irish brogans, done un in stvlo. shall go with it. Ob, won't it banch! lwiti we could see the things opened." Easy enough that" said Joe. "All you've got to do is to run around into Ph ill's orchard and climb tne old apple tree close ,he fenco. to have a full view of all that goes on in their rooms. Ibo vaieni never pull down that back curtain, an havo looked in many a time and seen the old mammy coddling her sonny-boy, pm ning a piece of nannel around his precious neck, and kissing him good night.' Harry s conscience gavo a sudden twinge, as he thought of certain good-night kisses which were very sweet to him, but of course it would not do to speak ot this to a boy like Joe Wilson. ' - "I don't believe we had better do that," said he, at length, "for it seems hardly the thing to spy iuto other people's houees." "All right, please vourself, said Joe, "Of course it is nothing to mo. 1 only told you what you could do if you wanted to, but 1 m going in here," said he, halting x before a second-class bock-store; '! want to provide myself with some reading matter for tomorrow." "Does your aunt let you Tead dime novels n Sundav?" asked llarrv. who knew rerH J f fectly well to what style of reading matter hia friend referred. My aunt has learned to mind her own p's and q's," eaid Joe, loftily; "the knows I have quite outgrown Sunday-school Eop." Harry was far from feeling at case when Joe expressed such sentiments as these, lib own careful training had taught him that they were wrong, and he felt instinctively that Joe wilson was not a good boy, nor a safe companion lor himself; but there was a ftcination about the older and strongerminded boy which Harry could not resist. and ridicule from Joe was something which he was by no means brave enough to face. "btop at the house when yu go tack. Joe," called Harry, who had started on down the street; "I'll bo on hand." Joe nodded graciously and entered the toro. Two hours liter a tall, handsome of Judge Mason boy and called at the house ked for Harry. What a fine lookidg lad," said Mrs. Ma son, who saw him as he followed the ser vants through the hall. V l es, but 1 isq I could feel sure that Joe Nelson is as good as he is handsome," said Nellie Mason, Harry's older sister. "I do not think him a good companion for Harry, and I always smell mischief when I see them together. Joe is dirk and dep, and Hal is so easily led. I hcird yesterday that his uncle is thinking of sending him to a na val school, and I hope for Hal's sake, that it may be true.' "öo that was Joe Jelaon," sa:d Mrs. Ma son, musingly, "1 hope he may go away, I do indeed,'' and having folded her work she eft the room with a grave face. Seven o'clock dinner was over, and Harry Mason was about to scat himself at his les sons for Monday,' when he discovered that he needed a new pencil. Might he just run down to Ely's and get one? it would take but a very few minutes. Mrs. Mason gave .a ready consent, and Harry seising his hat bounded out of the house. "Harry! Mother, Where's Harry?" asked ister Nellie, putting her head inside the door. Harry's absence was explained. Nelie motioned her mother to follow her into another room. "'I did not wish to say it before father," she began, "but I fear Harry is up to soxneuung. Jonanna says she heard

a whbtle outside, and just as she looked

out she was sure something fell from Har ry's window. What shall we do about it, mother?" "I think we need not worry," replied Mrs. Mason, with a smile quito incompre hensible to her daughter. "Harry is sale to do nothing very tad, I think; perhaps a harmless bit of Aprilfooling, but you were right to say nothing beforo the ethers, and I think I would not speak to Harry about it if I were you." 'Perhaps you are right, mother," said Nellie soberly, "but I hope Joe Nelson has nothing to do with it." Nell, for pity's take," where are my new shoes,'' ßbouted harry Ma3on from the door of his room, where he was preparing for Church the following morning, "I can t find hide, nor hair of them, and my hat is gone too. "Who has been meddling with my things, I'd like to know. Come Miss Nell, if it's some April-fool, I want you to understand that April-fool Is past and you're the biggeft fool at last." 'Hush Harry I not so loud! it is bunday, remember," said his mother, crossing the hall and entering his room "Can't find your shoes aid you sayr nor your natr Whv Harry! T.he last time 1 saw ycur new hat it was in it's box, right here in this cor ner of your closet and your shoes were done up in a very neat package and lying on the top of it. V hat can have becomo of them? Purely they were bore just before dinner yesterday. Harry stared wildly at his mother for one moment, then a crimson b!u6h spread ovor his face from brow to chin, as a horrible thought flashed into his mind. .ifOh, mother!" he gasped, ''you didn't didn't take didn't change them?" then, reading the truth in his mother's face, he fairly burst into tears. "Oh, mother, it was only for lun, and you're too bad, you'ra too bad." "Hush, Harry," Eaid hia mother, sternly; ''listen to me. I it any worse that you should lose your best hat and boot?, by way of a practical joke, than that poor James Valentine aye, and his mother, too should have been insulted and grieved by the shameless and heartless caper that you two boys had planned. . Oh, llarrv! I wouldn't have believed my boy could be guilty of so mean and unmanly an action. Thin H what a trial it must be to James to be obliged to wear such shabby clothing think what it is for his mothtr to see her boy slighted and humiliated when 6he knows what a good, noble boy he is but ah, that is her consolsticn," and tears whicii Harry well understord welled up in her eyes as she spoke, "and then this is what it would have been to tiem both it they had received the insult you boys had planned lor them." "But, mother," stammered Harry in selfvindichtion, "they say Jim is a sneak; that his mother i a hypocrite, and has lots of money put by somewhere, and that Jim ex pectä to go to Coll gc." "If James goes to College, it will probaoly have to be by his own exertions, said Mrs. Mason; "for it is not true that his mother has money other than a very small pittance which your father succeeded in savin? for her from tho wreck of their once splendid fortune. And, Harry, tho terrible busineis lailure. which cost Mr. Valentine hi3 life was caused by the dishonesty of hia partner, who was none other than the father of Joe Kelson, the boy who would like to make a wreck cf my Harry s coaracter. "Why, ruother, I never heard of that," ex claimed Harry with very wide eyes. 'I suppose not, Harry, for these things happened several years ago when you were but a young child, and they have long since ceased to be talked about. Mr. Nelson found it advisable to leave the country very eoon after tho failure; and as you know Harry he found a grave in the Atlantic. Your father h&s kiown Mrs. Valentine from her childhood and feels the deepest sympathy for her in her misfortunes. But for their long friend f hip I should scarcely have ventured to send them your things, and Harry I almost tremble to think of what would have been the consequence to you if your plans had succceden, and your father been knowing to the ecapade, "lidt you will get me another hat, won't you mother?' Harry asked tearfully. "io, my boy, not at present; your other hat i3 scarcely worn, and will do very well or this spring; and as fcr your shoes, I have had your old ones nicely mended and blacked." "Ob, mother, must I wear patched shoes?" exclaimed Hürry pa.sionately." Yes, my sen," said Mrs. Mason, firmly, "you must for the present. Since it is proved that fine clothes can not make a gentleman, we will see if patches can do anything toward reminding a boy of his defects of character, and help him in his resolve to mend.". "I wouldn't cre so much if it wasn't for Joe Nelson," said Harry, throwing himself into a chair and covering his face with his hands. 'I am sorry that you have beerso under the influence of that bad boy Harry, bat am happy to learn that he leaves town surely to-morrow morning for the K Naval School, and. very likely you will not meet him again cut I hope Harry that you will have the strength of character to write him a full account of h jw your plans have mis carried and expreis your shame and sorrow for having attempted to do anything to mean7" "I will, mother, I'll make a clean breast of it, I promise you, and -don't catch me April fooling again in a hurry." James alentme s appearance -wa de cidedly improved, when he presented himself at school on Monday morning, with not only a new hat. "tho noblest one in the crowd," little Dick Taylor said, and a pair of nice fitting shoes, but a neat new suit of clothes throughout, so near like Harry Mason's that the boy gleamed furtively at his own garments to make sure that they also had not been transferred to his more de serving companion. James smiled pleasantly at Harry, who stood next to him in the class; Harry dropped his eyes an 1 contemplated his own and his neighbor's boots. His henest' mental comment ran thus: "There is just as much difference between me and Jim Valentino as there is between our two pairs o! boots and jolly! if I ever try to make an April-fool of anybody again, I hope I may not turn out to be the biegest fool myself." Many years ago, when new sects in New England began to break the good old Congregational barrier, and make incursions into the sheep-folds of the regular clergy, a reverened divine, a roan of good sense and good humor, encountered an irregular practioner at tho house of one of his flock. tbev bad a pretty het discussion on their points of difference, and at length the inter loper wound up by saying, "Weil, doctor, you will at least allow that it. was commanded topreach theGospel to every critter?" True," replied tho doctor "true enough. Uut 1 never heard it was commanaea to every 'critter' to preach the Gospel." 1 don't know," says Brother Gardner of the Limekiln Club, meditatively, "jist how wicked Sodom was, nor what deviltry aey was up to in Gomorrah, but if either towa had mo' wanity, wickedness, irivoniy andeceiptdan Detroit, Chicago, Buffalo, or any oder city in this kentry, rents must have been awful high."

THE HOME.

if I notdabted that tnrn har a fcoma la that at vlzoro racta o&a ha Mtablibd his hearth and &31 of bis pxfion and furtoce; wbeuoa b J lie Opart, if nothing call aim away; wbenos u . aaa oepartaa aantna to t a anderer, and If & ara b caa to wander. I6nltlo from CItII "Thea stay at hotu, my heart, and reai. The bird U afrat in It naat; 0'r all that flatter tboir wlnp and tj A hawk is hovering in tbe iky." LongfaL'cw. OUR YOUNG FOLKS. "Good-by, Winter." BY M. D. BRINE. Good by, old Winter. good-by once more: At twelve to-night will your reln be o'er. We're tired of you and your sleet and snow. We're tired of hearing your chill winds blow; e lone ir breezes tuat till tne air With the scent of the Spring-time flowers fair; We longor meadows wbvre daUies while Lift up their heads in the warm sunlight. And where the grasses are noddinz all day, With the Spring-time breezes forever at play. Good-by, old Winter. We are sorry for you. nut we re glad your season is nearly through. Vou brought us plenty of fun, we know. For sleighing and suuvv-balliug come with snow; Eut 0 for a breath of the Spring-time sweet, When the earth and the tky in beauty meet! Aud O for the trees where the birds all day AraMuginx the golden hour away I Good-by, old Wiuter; the Sprlug is near. And you may sleep for another year. Harper s loung reopie. Time To Be Up. BY WILLIAM N. BURR. Gold-Locks bends over the old flower bed ; " 'Most time for a crocus, seems to me. The snow is all gone, and I heard papa say The leaves would soon come on the maple tree. Flowers ought to come first, 1 say. For I want a crocus tais very day." Gold Looks turns from the old flower bed : 'hothlne but dirt and the old dead leaves. These are spring dots, but tbe crocus thinks. 1 suppose, tney aie only just make-believes. Seems to tne the crocus ought to know It's ume to come up when the sun shines so. Gold-Locks, Gold-Look, I know a bed Where somebody ele sleeps late sometimes, When the earth is flooded with warm sunshine. And tho hour for work from the old clock shinies. Pe ems to me little girls ought to know it's time to get up when the sua shines so. Golden Days. Amimals, [Jimmy Brown in Harper's Young People.] 1 should like to be an animal. Not an insect, of course, not a snake, but a nice kind of animal, like an elephant or a dog w ith a good master Animals are awfully intelligent, but they haven't any souls. There was once an ele phant in a circus, and one day a boy said to him, Yant a lump of sugar, old fellow?'' The elephant he nodded, and felt real grate ful, for elephants are very fond of lump sugar, which is what they live on in their native forests. But the boy put a cigar in stead ot a lump of sugar into his mouth The sagacious animal, instead of eating up the cigar or trying to smoke it and making himself dreadfully sick, took it and carried it across the circus to a man who kept a candy and cigar stand, and made signs that he'd sell tho cigar for twelve lumps of sugar. 1 he man gave the elephanv the su gar and took the cigar, and then' the intelligent animal sat down on hia hind legs and laughed at the boy who had triod to play a joke on him, until the boy felt that much ashamed that he went right home and went to bed In the days when there were fairies only I don't believe there ever were any fairies, and Mr. Travers savs they were rubbish boys were frequently, changed into animals. There was once a boy who did something that made a wicked fairy angry, and she changed him into a cat, und thought she had punished him dreadfully. But the boy after he was a cat used to come and get on her back lence and yowl as if he was ten or twelve cats all night long, and see couldn't get a wink of sleep, and fell into a fever, and had to take lots of castor oil and dread ful medicines, So sLe sent for the boy who was a cat, you findsrstand, and said shed change him back again. But he said, "Oh, no; I'd rather be a cat, for I'm so tvnd of singing on the back fence." And the end of it was that she had to give him a tremendous Eum of money be fore he d consent to be changed back again. Boys can play being animals, and it's great fun, only the other boys who don't play they are animals get punished for it, and I say it's unjust, especially 4 I never meant any harm ut all, and was doing my very best to amuse the children. This is the way it happened. Aunt Sarah came to see us the other day, and brought her three bojs with her. I don't think you ever heard of Aunt Saiah, and I wish I never had. She's one of father's sisters, and he thicks a great deal more of her than I would if she was my sister, and I don't think it's mu:h credit to anybody to be a sister anyway. The boys are twins, that is, two of them are, and they are all about three or four years old. "Well, one day just before Christmas, when it was almost as warm cut-doors as it is in summer. Aunt Sarah said: "Jimmy, I want you to take the dear children out and amuse thorn a few hours. I know you're so lond of your dear little cousins, and what a fine manly boy you arel" So 1 took them out, though I didn't want to waste my time with little children, for we are responsible for wasting time, and ought to use every minute to improve our selves. The boys wanted to fee the pigs that be long to Mr. Taylor, who lives next door, so 1 took them through a hole in the fence. and they looked at te pigs, and one of them said: Oh my, how sweet they are and how 1 would liko to be a little pig and never be washed and have lots of swill!" So I said, "Why don't yox play you are pigs, and crawl round and jjrunt? It's just as easy, and I'll Iook at you.' lousee, I thought 1 ought to amuse them, and that this would be a nice way to teach them to amuse themselves. Well, they got down on all fours and ran round and grunted, until they began to get tired of it, and then wanted to know what else pigs could do, so I told them that pigs generally rolled in the mud, and the more mud a pig could get on himself the happier he would be, and that there was a mud puddle in our back yard tha. would make a pig cry like a child with delight. lhe boys went straight to that mud pud dle, and they roiled in the mud until there wasn't an inch of them that wasn't cov ered with mud so thick that you would have to get a crowbar to pry it off. Just then Aunt Sarah came to the door and called them, and when she saw them she said, ''Good gracious! what on earth have you been doing?'' and Tommy, that's the oldest boj, said: " We ve been playing we were pigs. and it's real fun, and wasn't Jimmy good to show us how?" I think they had to boil the boys in hot water before they could get the mud off, and their clothes have all got to be sent to the poor people out West, whose thines were all lost in the great floods. If. you'll believe it. I never got the least bit of thanks for showing the Doyi how to amuse themselves, but Aunt Sarah said that I'd get something when father came home, and she wasn't mistaken. I'd rather not mention what it was that I got, but I got it xncstly on the legs, and I think that bam-

j boo canes ought not to b gold to fathers ! Any more than poison. 1 was going to teil why I should like to be an animal; but as it is getting late, I must clcse. Bismarrk. [Harpei's Young People.] The first day of April "All-Fools' Day" is the birthday of one who has done more to change the map of Europe than any man now living. Otto voa Bismarck was born in 1815. the year of the battle of Waterloo. When quite a little fellow he was sent away to boarding-school. The boys were badly fed and strictly ruled, and the lad who, many years afterward, was called "the man of blood and iron" was a "home boy," and did not like school. At the university, howejer, he seems te have overcome his gentleness in some degree, for he was always ia mischief, and very popular. It is net until he is thirty-three years old that we find him in public life as a member of th". Trussian Diet, or Parliament. His sympathies were with the King as against the people, becauso he thought that Germany could only exist as a incdom. Of course his views on this subject brought him plenty of enemies, lie complains in a letter to his wife that he is "famous, but not popular." On two occasions he has been shot at and wounded, and the first of these would-be assassins he seized with his own hands, gave him into charge of the police and then returned homo to a dinner party in his own house. Though Bismarck is a statesman bv pro fession, and not a soldier, he has seen much of war. The short but decisive campaign between Prussia and Austria in I860 was Bismarck's doing, and his forethought has tened on the great war between Franco and Germany in 1870, for he knew that the Germans would win. In 1871, Count VOn Bismarck was ap pointed Chancellor of the German .Empire, and created a Prince. No man in Europe wields greater power tb an he, and yet in his tastes he is extremely simple, being fond ui cvuLiry me ana sports. Ways to Make Money. "The Wise Blackbird" in Wide Awake gives the following hints to boys and girls "lou want the promise kept ot telling boy ana giria now to mate an nonest penny, Very well. I shall tell you of the basket business, which many boys of good family around Boston have taken up. A basket is stocked with needles, thread, tapes and 'findings' for the work-table in general, and the boys go from dcr to door selling them Saturdavs out of school. I don't think it is fair for boys who have fathers able to sup port tnem ana give them all they need, to go into any such business, to the injury o regular dealers and. merchants who have families to care for and who give employ ment to other persons; but there is a chance to supply little nice things not kept at the shops, which people are glad to get, and which will not interfere with any other business. It is a great thing to feel that nobody has a emaller slice ot the cake be cause you have had yours. Nica sewing silk nice Providence yarn, curtain cord and tassels, good cheap toilet soap, extra-good pins and needles, milliner's needles, line darners, very coarse tape-needles, carpet thread of the best quality, heel and knee protectors for children, to save tho wear of trousers and stockings, are things not found at shops in general, and which meet a ready sale at good proats. To children in the country the "Black bird ' suggests: "i ice lengths of wild grape ' ... .. . vine ana roots inmmea ior rustic work, or bundl.s of small straight cedar branches for nailipg on the outside of plant-stands are salable. And I hope you know how to knit, all of you, boys and girls, beginning with wristlets in wool or cotton, to finish cif the wrists and ankles of flannel under-gar mcnts. and going on to socks and mittens spreads and biankets. ' "Laura B. asks how can a girl of ten who goes to school earn money? If 6he has good parents to supply ner witn what a little girl needs, and studies out of school, as most children do nowadays, and helps her mother, as al girls ought, she will not have much time to earn or think of money. She should net attempt any work which will keep her sitting in the house, for she will need all the fresh air and exercise she can get out of school. liaising plants and fowls is the lest pursuit for you, beginning with some carnations and geranium slips in the win dow, and half a dozen hens in the back yard. But remember, to succeed in any thing, you must give it steady care, feed and water the chickens when you had rather be reading a new story, or watering or tend ingthe plants when you want to play with other girls. You will need to study and read about plants and fowls to learn how to raise them, and the best part of the busi ness will not be the trifle of money you will earn, but the experience and knowledge of things you will gain." Grit, President Eliot, of Harvard, recently gave an instance ot what a nrm will and mother-wit can do in enabling a poor young man to surmount difficulties in the way of getting a thorough education: "Two years and a half aaro there appeared in Cam bridge just before the examination for ad mission, a young man of rough exterior who came from a small village in .New lork, where his fatker earned a scanty living as a stone-mason, lie came to see me before the examination, and stated, among other things, that he never had any teacher in Greek, Latin or German; that he had begun to learn these three languages only sixteen months beforo; that out of these sixteen months he had werked ten at his trade as a stone-mason, and that his entire capital was ten dollars. To my astonishment he passed an excellent examination, succeeded in, every subject except Greek composition, which he had never tried to learn. lie was taken care of at Cambridge, as many an oher has boon, and in the first year won a scholarship." No lady who has passed through the divorce Court can, at the present time appear at Court, says the London Truth, however blameless her conduct may have been. Recently the Queen has been disposed to relax the stringency of this regulation in special cases, where no fault of any kind has been attributed to the lady. The matter, however, was submitted to the Lord Chancellor and other officials, and their opinion was not in favor of this proposal. . Answer This. Did you ever know any person to be ill without inaction of the stomach, liver or kidneys, or did you ever know one who was well when either was obstructed or inactive? and did you ever know or hear of any ca?e of the kind that Hop Bitters would not cure? Ask your neighbor this same question. TI mes. - ' - Moving springs of action are deeply interfused with principles subject to certain laws. The nervous man finds his life blasted, but he can be restored to vigorous health by Dr. Benson's Celery and Chamomile Pills. They are simple, harmless andefficacious. v Allen's Brain Food positively cures nerv ousness, nervous debility and all weakness of generative organs; $1: six for $5. All druggists. Send for circular to Allen's Pharmacy, 315 First avenue, New York. Sold In Indianapolis by Browning & Sloan.

CLEOPATRA on tux QUEEN OF SHEBA'S BEAUTY Was But Skin Deep. Andrew's American Queen. The renowned Queen of Shebawith all her royal pomp, majmificent apparel, and brilliant retinue, would never have appeared within the

presence of the grandest of the monarch of the past, had she not also possessed that which is tbe crowning glory of the femala person a skin unchallenged for iti Oriental softnesa and its almost transcendental purity. Cleopatra, holding Emperors at bar, and ruling Empires by her word, had quickly lost her charm and power by ose attack of blotches, or of pimples, or of horrid tan and freckles WOMAS EVLRS THE WORLD Ey her beauty, not less than by her purity of character, loveliness of disposition and unselfish devotion. Indeed, in the estimation of perhaps too many men beauty in a body takes precedence over every other consideration. Beauty thus lorms an important part of woman's "working capital," without which too many (if not bank rupts In what relates to influence within the circle where they move), are powerless for great good. Hcjce we see not only the propriety, but the duty, of eveiy lady preserving with realous care that which to her 13 essential to success, and muueuce, ai.u useiuiness in liie. And, slr.ee "beauty is but fkin deep," the utmost rare aDd vigilance are required to guard it against the many His that liesh is her to. Amorg the grea and annoying enemies of beauty OF EITHER SEX, As well as of comfort, happinass and health, are loose pesuierju? ana noma tin diseases tetters. numors, eczema (salt rheum), roueh and sr-air eruptions, ulcers, pimplfs, and all diseases of the nair and scalp, tor the cure of all these, vr. C V. Benson, of Baltimore, after vears of nutipnt study and luvextication devoted to diseases of tbe emu, ri iawi orougni lorm nig celebrated SKIN tiUKE, which has already, by its marvelous cures, eftaniisnea ltsen as the great remedy for all diseases of the skin, whatever may be their names or character. Its success has bren Immen Kf Art A unparalleled. All druggists have iu it is ele gantly put up, two bottles in one package. Ia ii-ruai auu exiern&i treatment, iflce, 51. EVEBYÖSE rCAISES. Sick headache, nervous headche, neuralgia, iioiuMu., pnuyns. oyspepsia, f ieeiiesne! and brala diseases, positively cured by I)r. C. W, Benson's Celery and Chamomile Pillu They contain no opium, i;ninine, or other harmful drug, Sold by all druggists Price. 50 cents per box; tl for two: S'2.50 lor six postaee free. Dr. C. V. HENSOV. Baltimore, Md. C. N. Crittenton, New York. U Wholesale Agent for Dr. C. W. Benson's remedies. POND'S EXTRACT. THE GREAT VEGETABLE "AIN DESTROYER AND SPECIFIC FOR INFLAMMATION AND HEMORRHAGES. Rheumatism, Neuralgia. No other nrensra uon du curea so many cares of tnese fllsiresf ing complaints as tne Extract. Our Plaster is invaluable in thef diseases. Lumbago. Pains in the Hack or Side, etc Otr Ointment (50 centü). for use when removal cf clothing is inconvenient, is a great help In relieving inllamHnmnrrhnrtPQ Bleeding from the Lungs, nUIilUI I ilctycd. stomach. Nose, or from any cause, is fciedily controlled and stopjed. Our Nasal Syringes (2 j cents) and Inhalers (Si) are ereat aids in arresting internal bleed lnsr Diphtheria and Sore Throat. S Extract promptly. It is a sure cure. Delay ia dangerous. Patn rrh Extract Is tbe only specific for vaiai I II. this crease. Cold In Head, etc wur "caiarrn cure," Hpeciaiiy prepared to meet serious ca es, contains all the curative proterues oi i nc .cxinici; our asai syringe, invaluable for use in catarrhal affections, is simple aud nnexpensive. Sores, Ulcers, Wounds, Sprains onrl Rrniooo It is healing, cooling and (1IIU Dl UiotJd. clausing. Cms our Ointment ia connection witn the Kx tract; It will aid healing, softening, and in keeping out the air. Burns and Scalds. S ÄanyiiDtgÄ rivaled, and should be kept in every family ready for use iu case of accidents. A dressing ox our uintineai win aj u UiaJaj aaa pre vent scars. Inflamed or Sore Eyes. ont tbe slightest fear of harm, quickly allaying an lunaminatim and soreness without pain. Earache, Toothache and FaceOphn When the Extract Is used according abllo. to directions, its effect is simply wonderful. PilPQ J11"!, ßleedin?, or Itching. It is the I greatest known remedy ; rapidly curing when other medicines have failed. Pond's Extract Medicated Paper for closet rise, is a preventive axairiKt Chafing and Piles. Our Ointment is of great service where the removal of clothing is inconvenient. For Broken Breast and Sore NinnlPC The Extract is so cleanly and efnppicd. racious that mothers who have once used it will never be without it Our Ointment is the bet emollient that can be apolied. Female Complaints. SySSsia In for the majority of female diseases if the Extract be UMid. Pull directions accompany each bottle. CAUTION. Pnnrl'c Pvfrnnt Has been Imitated. The IU1IU o 2.AII übt genuine has the words "fond's tract" blown in tne gtara, and our picture trade mark on surrounding buff wrapper. None other is genuine. Always insist on having Pond's extract. Take no other preparation. It is never sold in bulk, or by measure. Price cf Pond's Extract Toilet Articles and Specialties. POND'S KXTHsCT 5ic, 1 00 and 1.7 1 oi let t;ream .l OUKatarrn Cure, Dentifrice ... f C Plaster, 0 25 Lip Salve , 25 Inhaler 00 60lNaal tfyiicge 25 loiletgoap (3 Cks)... Ointment.... 50iMedica;ed Paper.. 25 Prepared oaly by FOX'D'S EXTRACT CO., NEW YORK AND LONDON. For sale by all Drusrjriste. and Fancy Goods Dealers. Orders lor 52 worm, carriage free, on receipt of ?2.25. Orders for S5 worth, carriage free, on re ceipts ot S5, if addressed to 14 West Hth Street, rsew lorx. ASK the recovered Dyspeptie, Bilioua Sufferers, Victims o"Fever and Aeue, the MercurialD! seased I'aUeut, bow tbey recovered Health, Cheerful Spirits, aud Good Appetite, they will tell you by taking Simmons Liter Keguxator. For Dyipepfla, t Constipation, Jaundice, Bilious Attacks, Sick Headache. Colic. Depression of Spirits. Sour Stomach, Heart Burn, Etc., Etc.. IT HAS NO EQUAL. This unrivalled Southern Remedy Is warranted not to contain a simple particle of Mercury, or any injurious mineral substance, but is PURELY VEGETABLE. If von fefl Oktvsv. debilitated, have frequent headache, m .: tastes badly, poor appetite and ! true imH-i. y- u are suffering from torpid liver or t t lousui-Ms. ana notnuig wui cure you so speedily and permanently as to take SIMMON'S UYER REGULATOR. It is riven with nafptv and the happiest results to the most delicate Infants. It takes the place of quinine and bitters of every kind. It is the cheapest, purest and best family medicine in the world. But only tne uennine in vt nite rapper, wun red Z, prepared only by J. H. ZEILIN & CO, Sold by all Druggists. A ACTS, for the 8tJ Spangled Banner for 3 mr I U Nothine like It: 20th yr.8paees. illus.Sr mens FKKE. Address Banner, Hinsdale, N.f hCfn flOfl per day at home. Sample worth$5fi. P J LÜ $11) Address Btinsoa & Co., Portland, Me,

37 Court Pte, LOUISVILLE, KV. nTuany mm Hann pfcnicUa -i tl nox iiioimfu kta prmeue will prvr. Cnr ftll forma of PRTVATT CHWmiC and SEXUAL 1)15 ' Spermatorrhea and Impotence u Ux rcMlt f ir-kbw la yur arxMl ncm a n toirrrnn. M-Mk caum, ud prodadBf mm t f Uw ft. kwg f tlteXK TTMH1M . Smloal Rnudou (althtmtion br drmmi), Diman .f fctfhl, Delmin n, rkr. jVlDay, FimptraM Ttcm, Armom to .r CoaTuwoa of Ideas, La mi Duul Pmr, re urrikgt improper w hrrr, ar UrMjfhlT o4 arrnÄ;;r.uSPHiiis s GLEET, sin. Orcatüä, Kama, iur mMLnZ tutu outer print dimiM quirklj curwL. Ii U Hf-eridnrt that a ph; aicU lw pari metal attratfo te a amaia U of diau, an tnaiin tkMuaada ansaalir. acquire, graat a Ü1. Phradaaa twit ua. ft orwa ncmcmrmd peraoea u my care. Mfhtm It to laeoownirei I iwt th city fcr Ireauarat. BMdiriM eaa U aau urn ale It aad aftlj bj Bail or expraaa anywhara. Caret Guaranteed in all Case undertaken. tuu.iauuba p.noaaHr or hr Irttar rrr aad lritei. Charg raaaooaU aad camapaadeaoa ktvUj cvcltouoial. PRIVATE COUNSELOR ff 100 paei, aratts aor addma, arcarely Mied, fcr thirty (") eeata. Should be read br alt. AiCrrmm aa et, fiea boun tram A. M. W P. M. Sudan, S to 4 r.ifc tang Ui diacaa aad med of ,v- j .:: '--r . " raim nn-t dnrrl. curt sebl aualcd eo p.ica: - , .-,----.- irn-RriHi Prll!r trnt-t f.a .-lrnulic prionplr, ua .,- aadVurr im -.li-.. , .11 an: for LUl oi tlwa Tp ajr.a.rr-1 rr tlo W;rius tr.-a:m.-Lt tr m.ü. ff . . - .nM. Rtl(j..r..h(l. Land tram furirattTjtttfase. e. 1 in i J AOareas, IMC KITTS I V hta St, N. LesJa, la ESTAIHJUKI OVEIt TKIUTV YEA US. THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEI Never ff! to cure New iau-i mil, lilUKIIUU V--S Plü n a 1 WMlrnou T MCI ."d MASHOOU, andallth LjVvil effect of youtMr mules anu excesses, -tops permanently ft weakeninfr, lnvoluntai " !oses and drains upai bepystem.tbe iuevitabv 'esultof these evil piat ? 4 'ices. : which are bo d. -tructlve to mind ant " body and make life mis erable, often leading to Insanity and death. It strengthen the Nervt. Lrain, (memory) BloodMuscW, Digestion and Recuperative Organs, It restores to 11 the orpanic functions their formes vi?or and vitality, max in? life cheerful and enjoyable. Price. $3 a bottle, or four times tb quantity for f 10. Sent by express, secure from observation, to any address, on rcc.-ii.t of price. No C. O. B. Feilt, excei. t on rei--lrt of 1 as a .-nsn. antee. Leiters n-qnc-Mne answrr must inclose stamp. a.4.v. . aa i I'jur-i I Ulll ENGLISH KED1CAL INSTITCTF, Tis OUve n.. St. Louis, Mo Mo. CT'", t'a.da. , TT A nrs iTjrrr. it is me resale of !U rriiric exwrrnir in experiments ia Sowing Machines, it comUm Ok good fxnmli of all present and Jnrwier make. Slid im not a " one m.m " or " one Mea " machine, aa other are. It avoitW the rlrlr-ct of I hrrn, and o Haea new and raluaklt feature aud oos vtiikaicea. It Is lartfe, lifht-mnning, eUeVu, handtoute, row. mint, duralU, and rimpte. Warranted nrd kept inrepnlr free forÖTerir. ClrtnJar Wilh. f nil duwriiuion fh.nt f reeou r-riue--t. ltl mirely tie) best. Atmlwül prove it Don't fnil to fw-r- It bcfoTwyon buv. MaXctactxtied by i LOIttNCK MACHlNK Ot.,riorcne, Mass.; VHOirsaLXP yr GEO. P. BUNT, fcl and vi Jackson bt, ChicagoAYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL, For 1)1 sea He of the) Throat and Lungs, such as Coughs, Colds, Whoopine Coughs, Bronchitis, Asthma and Consumption. The few composition which have won the eonfidence cf mankind and become household words among not nrfiyouebut many Nations, must have extraordinary virtues, l'erhsps no one ver secured so wide a ' reputation, or maintained it M lmp, as AYER'S Cherry I'ECTonaL. It has tieen known to thtt ,.1 public about forty vears. ig&by a long continued " serip? of marvelous cures that have won for it a confidence in its virtues never equaled by any other medicine. It still makes the most effectual cure? of Coughs. Colds. Consumption, that can be made by medical skill. Indeed the Cherry Pectoral nan really robbed thefce dangerous diseases of their terrors to a Rreat exteut, aud given a feeling of Immunity from their painful effects that is well founded, if the remedy be taken in season. Every family should have it in their closet for the readv snd prompt relief of its members. Sieknet-s, suffering, and. even life is saved by this timely protection. The prudent should not neglect It. aud the wise wi' not. Keep it by you for the protection it afioit by its early use in sudden attacks. PREP A JIED BY DU J. C. AM & -CO,, Lowell, Haa Practical and Analytical Chemists. Sold by all Druggists and Dealers in Medicine, AR! AKESIS Er. S. Silsbee's External Pile Eeaody Gives Instant relief and is an infallible CURE FOR ALL KINDS OF PILES. fold by Trupg1ts everywhere. Price, tl .00 per txX prepaid ny man. tampiea sent jrte to roy and all suffrrrs. by P. NeuMacrttrr & Co- Bo ratcans 2ew York City, bole manufacturers of "Anattmt.' MS GOLD MEDAL AWARDEP the Author. A new and great Medical Work, warranted U best and cheapest, indispent ble to every maa, entitled"!! Science of Life, or Self-Pren ation bound in finest Fr t muslin, embossed, full gilti . wT r.-3 eneravlnirs. 125 prescriptic FUnW TOVCn r Price only $L25. sent by mi JUllW lUlUiUJiruggrnpipa. now. Address Pesbody Medical Institute, or B W. H. PARKKR. Ko. 4 Bulflnch street. Boston. TARTL1PJG DISCOVERY LOST MANHOOD RESTORED A Tiotim of youthful imprudence eansrnf Prt' tnre. Decay, "ervous Deaiiity, Lost Manhood. C having tried in Tain every known remedy, bas covered a simple self cure, hica he will send Ii to his fellow-sufferers, address J. II. KEEM 43 Chatham t.. . Y. AGENTS can make S5.00 PER DAY Sellin PLATFORM FAMILY SCALE. Weighs sccuratly lip 0 5 lbs. Its handrnnie appoarnnre ft-!l it at f-ipht. Retail price, tl.."p. Other Family Si-ales weighing S.- Iiis. rot 5.00. KxrliiMve tpmlory trirrn free. Turins rt rnvUi afp snp-ise rld Airents. DOMESTIC ft CALK CO., Cincinnati. O a week ki your own town. Terms and $5a. fit free. Address ILUallett& CcPortUi Maine. ',trs KURD El XTTB - iuw ....4. tmL , . f MMjiis im m K-ai ass Ph SMS d toMiin m Ii.. sw tisrMUHMv

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