Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 28, Number 19, Jasper, Dubois County, 19 February 1886 — Page 7

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INDIANA THE POCTOH TO HIS HOUSE. Ah, Httb-, NMMty a day aad sight. Thro' ihe mm mm stormy weather. W'VJBNH( ftioMff Ma M W Mtltfht, WMli ael M-4a lAurfLiMri We've bra red th wtatry UimUt that poured Their doublta fury e'ar us. And mmmi it lonely Kmwue ws've leod rtitr before u. ootor, we've phaMed on aad mi, 0'r road that hw u nr veied IMr mitrkjr wlkM fruM duk to dawn. And etiilM immw travetod; W-'vh thread! woods mt dark and MUl, AimJ vfcMM Willi irhjow mj thiefc. Or, '51m els wwa halfafrwkl to hoot. And whippoorwlll) icrew sck. Mr. Jowii country Iimmm. by ehuraayards 41a, At MtMinUrht we have married, And seen iIm ehi rtU-a momaht swim Above the dead wv buried: for u tlM tra-My'H trim mum) hi lamp In HMtti v a irktuwir tiiU-k-t-We've beard itowM where the beetle camp The rnHK of tb eriekeC 'We've Hatened to the aaap aad erak Of herttrtMs when the portal Of Hte's nrwiitl ttuih. ftwtatrbM,- baek. I -el fmstbt- oul immortal; We've eauirht the sound of spirit wias I n bo vein of atMktkxi. axl heard, amid much imi nriafft, love's bntvert beuedieikMi. We've msm the hardened tinner's area 1-ock up tbIr liffht rrvrr, With KrwdiH. and Maotiie. himI eriea, A ul and riie dhl Miver: We ve mmmi tb jroiMl uM wan eyettds eto. As r them death iM settle, A ftJy a h summer n Shut up JU MHjwy nm1. We've w thf father, stooped with yours, On many a death-Im1 htas-Mk, W ve beard tin wdi. hih! hh-m t W toars S4trvm dowu ih cbeektof arWi O oorarttdH mln! our day kavt- )m A IMiVor tMMtliir triaL We'i-e Marve.1 our souls, and worn lam, Witk UMdy lf-4ial. OM fellow! jfMi bVe rw Moo4 JHy fr,iH ih tnbuUUoo. AihI I momM irivt! you, if 1 eeuM, A royal rcritlon : Ala! I'm rake4 with Ih awd mUm, And you am ireliinr bony. And, IWIIy, liltk rt ivmm na i'oc ytm sod me, my oay. Akn! a Mraniff r pnuv hr. H lih olinkinr itw:l lMMe m. And he houW ik vhi, K,lly dear. If duewweould rilrl ih; Tkf wretch! he rfwi aot undrMd Kxttlir where mr brt K iOt ail Uh woallh at his eoiamatid, Xy MUy.lKty. ctntldimrt u. Jmt Sen. Mtt1i, tm CWrsof. ELECTIUC CALLS. V How a Vulantin: Wm Brought by Wildly Uginjc Tfam. I, it w tha thmt of smile that KhU'nI the rather Urwl nee of Mr. (Ivorgs rivniUHt, fresiiv-arriviNl hxmiant of room Xo. -17. iwrlor lloor of tbi jirinoipnl lioUrl in the metropolis of -uainp. as ue giant-eel at tm-t can I con.INcuoiilv taekv! tip over th button in Uc wall ntar tl heml of th ltdt : BI.KCTKir CAWJS. I : I'm 1 thrne for Itr!) My. : : .. X Ummm , lea Waer. : t . Twish. j : .. 4 .. .. Firr. : : .. .. ChMhTMMlU. : I .. IVrUr. ; : ., " .. IM Walor. : 8 .. Wrttimr Matotiat. : .. .. Hath. : ' roufH hare forxottoii omeiJiin in preparing thefr bilbi of jmrticMlars," k .ttkl to himulf, 'bt at thus moment I can not for the life of me tkiitk what it caii nnls it is a call for jromethiii ki make one forThen he preftHil "one time." When the Ixell-Wy r.KmkHl he tI: "Kinilly ask the nijrht clerk to nnt Ttw down for a call in time for the firat train in the morning for IkvtoH." Tim .Mllinlt? riHIHl-st WM lllailo innm inipreive by Uie quarter he rave the l. r.... i15 i V jch iniiiiitim nnrr nn na IHtween the sheets tryitijr hv sheer foree of M ill to make hinWff believe that he MtMiUl presently fall aiep, although the ache at his heart knew better all the while. In No 43, directly across tha hall, R gentleman Uxv intricate autograph on the regUer below in a rather sneaking, hieiilitr-eoncealing hand H as translated by the bald-headed and therefore expert clerk to read "(J. J, Hrowne.'' He was nen-ous, ill at case, evidently chafing under an enforced and altogether unwelcome break m hh railroad journey; while hw breath, no less than his manner, contained suggestions in the laet degree abhorrent to the principles m xeakmly advocated bv Neal Dor. To put it mildly, he had teen drinking, and for this or mme other cattoe was not in the moat amiable temjwrs. Steadying himelf as best he could iu front of the programme of "electric calls," with which hit) wall waa also ornamented, Mr. Itrowne perused it with frequent digressive lurches, interaK?red with a running commentary of criticism of the unique avMem to wfiich he wju now for the first time introduced, designed to convey pree&e information a to a large range of one's nU, through the medium of the bedroom button to the office annunciator. V 'Hell boyM" he exclaimed, in a detiMvo verlml marginal note. " 'llell iKyold man, atotp. lkl-headed, 'H'n a lKiy1 sixty mid vears probably; Hii water in thu morning, thanks awfully; towela-Hre chambermaidwhat do they want to ifire' the chnmliermaid for? When she forpts to leave those towels, of course, V ,rt?r7'' aounila something like Mn t know they were allowed to sell milt liquor ojxmly in this blarated State, "lough; hot water writing materials -"-that s "gHt writing materials have Mt me, as well as some of their Augusta Matesme,,, 5n .j,ot water' Iwfore now; mthrlu.re8 Yankee concision to L?J 0,lftr i$ tHl rtf1 v of Hg up the old bar-room jo'ke? 1,1. . attorn? They '"l ? t Kt it half on here-a verj inuous and comprehensive 1'wt, but j it're are no end of other things they've 'here's the call far t' !.i : 'T' the electric light f aker? Tk tailor, hand-organ, sSn--Mthool m.nrintendent, eakler, dewi inikn psnij

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of tbe4Helve4-MMi a reriaed editkm mmu woaWn't leU a fellow. Hough whtW ahe has goneU, W friend in Montreal. I'll ha? to eh tll when I do Mud her" rbe look fa hia face a he left the aentenee HnHniHl boilta no rood u u oojeet of hhi thoughU were aMccea to erowu kk widkiw 'in... i... -i ... lreed ''one time" but with a pendatenumphaala that brought a breathless bell boy rapping at his door before he fain iku.l 1. 1 si Jl m. . . nnger i row uih tHHton. iirumy heordertalhiiuiiMir ) li i.u morning train forMimtrealaml a quart jh omnuy. i-or the unavoidable delay in tha mip)earanee of the 1kv with the inv "eniai got roundly curaeti ntm uvhuhi a ihi no silver as a salve for the brutal affront to his sensiUllllMH. Leaning against the ahlu of a window in o. 41, in the dim lit-ht of the turmwl-down gas, seeming only a deeper ami denser and darker shadow than that Of tht llMW Kllptalnu was tne weary ngure of a voting worn an. fcven seeH at this disadvantage one could Init feel the wftehorv rrf a rare and loveable presence, rendereI uoiiiiiv auracuve y the fact, which half-lights and ithadnwa (null nnt ceal, that she was in sore distress that sue whs nelit nr on, of thtme, ItattW winch all of us must aoniitimM Hht and fight alone. And yet for her it seemed a cruelly hard and unnatural thin if that some kninrht. nf nl.1 should not do brave battle and win tlu victory. indeed, if you had seen Miss slnn I I I P a j. mm; swii xiiii Knnwn Mr. i earless ami leal, vim mivlit hava mit - ? the facts in more elegant phrases; but me Kiiiuuer ami oetter chnn vour wonts the less caiii wmihl rnu hav lirnt to regret the hoteless poverty of the lamniaffe in what mivlit hava iiann vour irlad tfutv to sav nf or far hr ,i ihi K" "'"t wni3' uieu not so we a avo, jtne shmi soitiv to liersell "Uh. mvdear! imi wnn tnitt &nI noble and gool. How could I have ever, even for one minute, lwlieved him when he softlr itiKinnaUxl th aw. fnl falsehoods he was too treacherous. too base to put in honest words? He would he about an anjrel from Heaven if he thought it would serve Jus base entis, I sent you away we are parted forever I, only, am to blame. 1. too. must I do suffer for us lioth and yet, Uie pain would lie harder still to bear if I thought, if I could think, von do not care at all. Heaven bless vou bless you wherever you are!" rreewiir sue. too. nressetl "one turns" and asked that she might be called for tha morning train to Moatread. n. They had, indeed, parted forever." Those who part themselves forever, though, have a more or less awkward habit of meeting, sooner or later usually the former. The world is small when we would, or thi cape any one human being. It is only when we .ay "Good night I'll see vou to-uiorroH,'' "Good-bye we'll meet next week," that to-morrow never eontes that next week is swallowed up in eternity. 0 Why these two had arted "forerer," as she Sid and telieved. U unit an. other matter. 1'crhaog the gentleman in 'o. -KS could have exnlatiM! if h wouhl. But I have nothinv now tt i!n with causes. Jbflects are about an large a contract as the maioritv of u in tiiU life are able to concern ourselves with. Hut to glance once more at the three rooms in the Down East Hotel in which we arejtt this moment interested: In No. 47 was an homwt. whnbsouled Init far from whole-hearted had not yet compassed theirose and -.1.11 t !. ...., . .... .... Inuiem pnuoHipny iaa "it is oetter to mve loved and lot than vir tn havu loved at all." In Xo. 4S Wax SL tmalurruia Mr ri.tr. Vi who was ratiMllv rniilaninv tha bottle as a congenial receptacle for its ncry eonuenis. Ill Xo. 1 Wa thf nall.lilo dhailow rJ the iigure that till lingered at the winuow s siue, nan tost in the caressing outline of the curtain, while a pale face was upturned to the eokl moonlisrht. with sleepless eves that 4wm(I half closed in jirayer A nrvnr that svuul nlit fi VaUniina heanl, if k went no hijther or farther. tor the morrow WM St. ValAHlinna day. and alremlv was the spell of his .u..1.ub.u... .. 1 I ! .1... . 11 cuv.iiniitinciH UIUU tai ma nufiu. m. Thev don't rinvniuiniclir hnlln in th. ----- - - - a -svaaw a7 V metropolis of Maine to honor the advent of any saint's day, but the clerk on uuty at his principal hotel might have been pardoned for thinkinr that Prof. Widilows who in 1876 made himself noisily known to Centennial visitors or some other artist in cTiimes. had suddenly materialized, by the perturbed condition of the annunciator. The performer certainly succeeded in makinr musie for all con cerned by his impartial and lewildering persistency, as he scandalized the hour and the proprieties by ringing all the changes on the nine "electric calls." In rapid succession he trave 3 times for towels." "7 timM t ir hot water." " timus for bath" and "4 times for fire," then he displayed an ardent fancy for "three of a kind" by demanding the contemporaneous appearance of the "nrese 1 time" bell Kv. "press 5 times" chambermaid. ami "presa 6 times" porter: without pause he conveyed with resonant dis tinctness a iwrcmptorv wish for "2 limbs'1 Wi wntitr attil a niimiiint talni a reiteration of a previous hint by pressing "4 times" that more fire "was essential to his comfort here m Km at this aiare of the pro gramme ti.t bald-headeil night clerk, aniMMl with the remains of a half-eaten sandwich and righteous indignation, rushed angrily to Xo. 48 parlor floor to see If by his personal presence he might Handly quell the riot, which by thia tiutw inviilvmt in a nniumnti mill nf awkwani adjectives, elaborate and orlt. MVItlulluud tAltll UtlllAji tl.ttl ttlJlt n,r .ir,.,, , itct iiuirvi. win Mil J would tlirow up their job in the raoninr v-(rv lat nmiitovi who liail 1umh on duty since ten o cltlck. M...1. .1... l. U .!. .1. i nun mib oiwrn, iioiuingni? w ram in check as beet he could, sought to extHMri ulatM wilii t.ka imMiitlart' ioniialil of the department for erfarlng anothh: Are for kis graW, wkfak waa already

tfawfaaT In a wav in brg aaJaswaiKfar. Mr. lkowie, or the Wbukma wrack of Mr. BmM(niM Siote?. at the top of "Fire?" I'll patron of yoei aeveH-by-nine eountry tavern ean't have hr-. when he orders are!" Unhappy paople in rooms eontiguottt to Xo. 4H, already made nervous by the viimwm uf nuises emanating irom It, now thoroughly arouaod hr what in the otherwise still hours of the wight they naturally thought to he an alarm of nre, this impression being painfully intensified by the rushing to the scene of numerous employe, determined to stand by Uie valorous bald-headed clerk at all hazards, now came pouring out into the hall with that large degree of trepidation and small quantity of clothes characteristic of hotel patrons in a conflagration at night. The occupant of Xo. 47 had not been aaleep a fact he now regarded as yrovidential-and it was a brief toilet that he made previous to his prompt appearance in the hall in reeiwuse to tne instinct of self-preservation although he had that Hlf-am filer lit tiTil himself over and over again that death was far preferable to living with Katliy Kggleston eliminated from life. He Wiu ftmifrnntiul 1 scared facm, half of them women's, and his first impulse was: "How many can I save who shall I save first?" In Xo. 51 the ocounant had no tnilm to make. She was still standing in the rhoatlv inmmlierht and was !. lac in a ' J o v .m9fc w be roused from her numb nain that made sleep impossible by the commotion outside her door. As she ioinml tha crowd of excited men and livsterical Women, thehifrhlv ajrati'd anil unw nn. controllable Hrowne was still shriekiiif "Fire!" at the top of his lungs, while mic o iiuic umra toreu were engageu in trying to drag him down-stairs. Miss Egglestou recognized the stnigglingcauseof the commotion and shuddered. Shu had reason tn fear tlmniun Browne worse than she fearod lire. Contemporaneously with her aptearancel'lvnintoirs inental innmrv "Wl.n shall I save first?" was auswere'd. Thuy saw each other at the same instant. This was no time to lie bothered with the "parted forever" part of it. A moment more and ther were both sav.l to each other and for all time. Utterly bewildered and hopelessly shattered by the extraordinary rush of events the bald-headed clerk rushed up from tha lower rMiruuiE wlmnno tin. in. Satiable fire-fiend of No. 48 had finally 1 a . mane a scenic disappearance, and man . ,i ... ageu in av: "There is no lire, ladies and gentlemen; there is not the leai-t danger fltlll f uc if 4 you can retire at oncea nappy thought had suddenly his mental epiipoise, "if youV restored rant anyi mug, pise ring lor it you'll Half nf rA s in vtAin tind the 'How aboutthat tirev. utitairiLMl luna vnti.i asm vevai a. u7iii tic in Xo. 4S who has been working those calls till the whole house is a bedlam?" sarcasticallv inmiired a pentleman who for some reason persisted in shiverinr demite the reassuring overcoat that left only his bare feet ex posed. "Oh, he's too full of fire-water and we ve put him out," said the clerk, with a faint twitching to the comers of ids mouth, which showed an inward appreciation of a remark that he thought worthv of a nrofMinnal nam. grapher. "He had theo jiin-jams and we've sent him around to the stationhotiie to sober wn." hp &i!i1ml u a onn. cession to any order of intelligence not ivi an niiiu rrvriniiun oi ni uullORlr i. i ..t t .z vntiiii ui niiiuur. 'Don't lav it to the lintinr. vnnno man although I've no doubt "that's villainous Anniirli lir in Maim. n growieii the getitlcinau in bare feet. nil... V. l.l..... 2. ink me uiainc niicic ji ifciuu.i, till rruir rnnfniimliul ctvlnni nf ilonKlu. entrv electric calls!" Hut," said Mr. George Plymptora, sotto voce, in a glow of gratitude, while reflecting that had it not been for this same complex combinatian which his enemy had worked to his own discomfiture .Montreal and New York would in twenty-four hours more have divided himself and M iss ferrieston. "I find that these 'electric calls' iave fawn run to siioh ntiriwve that , -"r, i - thi'V Itavi Urnuvhf. til till ilnarnal anil sweetest and best valentine the blessed old saint ever sent to heart-hungry mortal!" Then, in a voice not confined to a single auditor, more csjiccially addressing the bald-headed clerk, while a dozen of the female guest subordinating a natural impulse to scurry back to their rooms to a still more natural and wholly commendable curiosity that scents out and heartily enjoys a genuine romance he said: " Some hyitercritical persona think jn.il 1 1 mum; uhiis ah unuttiunv innovation in electricity as applied to hotels. ...,..... i L.i.i. inniiTnu ui iij;in:iii n nn in in superficial ami erroneous view of the adtuiraoie utility oi your system, you may say to the proprietor in the morning, with my compliments, if you please, that I would suggest the immediate addition of a tenth call." " For what" asked the bald-lieadcd clerk, suspiciously, never before having heard a mortal being say one good word for their "electric calls," but, with a prompt, human and hearty thawing out, as Mr George Plympton replied, still engaged in very earnestly saving Miss Eg rloston not "only from ire but from all other possible harm: 'For the clergyman, of course." KtltciH II. TrafioH, in X. Y. Graphic. Valuable Sweepings. It ia estimated that the value of the sweepings of the floor of a goldsmith's workshop occome worth about one hundred and fifty dollars per square foot in ten years. A tub, used in one of these workshops a a receptacle for the dust from one polishing lathe, yielded fifty dollars in a yean Of course whera Mich valuable priaes are to Iw got from "dust," tricks are not wanting to secure them. It is said that the Workmen sometimes oil their hair, and then run their dusty fingers through it, and that the gold-dust which then adheres to the hair is afterwards waahed out. One man carried off in a few weeks, ihi the moistened tip of his fngcr, thirty dollars wortk of gold Mlllags. ChrU4knml Her.

THt IaT WOC Tfca M t Hsmarfcaale lrt Mm MM aiaUHa.'MHa. A aeody-lookbig ehap went through the smaller hamlets cf Xer Kagfand a few yearn ago lecturing on New York City." He told his hearers imU the wut of the eity lying west of Broadway was calletl the West aide and the pc'rt east of liroad way the Kast side, and that all who dwelt on the West aide were social aristocrats, while all who lived oft the Kat side were of no aoeount socially. If he had been somewhat acquainted with the subject he could have stated an actual difference between the East and West sides of the town which would hare been as marked as the one he imagined and considerably more interesting. For a little more than two miles from the Battery Broadway separates the East and West sides. From Washington square to the Harlem river, some seven miles, Fifth avenue is the dividing street. In respect to the population the West side is like most American cities containing a preponderance of nativeborn residents with a fairly even sprinkling of people of other nationalities. The exceptions to tliia statement are the regions in the vicinity of Thompson street and of Twenty-seventh street, favored by the eolored element, and the French quarter, which lies close to the break in the dividing line near Washington square. But thu great East side has a distinctive feature, a feature that is found probably in no other city of the globe standing out so conspicuously iu quarters where the people are almost without exception immigrants, or the children of immigrants from another land. The Germans of the East side make New York the third largest German city of the world. They are found prettv nearly all over the East side, but there are regions in which there is little that is not German. The Irish element also is numerous, but is so well diffused that there is no Irish "quarter." But most of the other national ties represented are confined chiefly to some district of which they have taken possession, but there is hardly any national custom or observance, social or religious, which is not kept up in these colonies. The Czar is killed, and there is a memorial service in the little Russian church in lower Second avenue. Garibaldi dies, and there is a gathering to do honor to his name, at whichever' thinir is purely Italian. An anniver sary of the Bohemians comes around, and the Bohemians flock from the tenements over beyond avenue A and lielow Sixth street to keep the day according to the custom of their people. The Franco-Chinese war-cloud looms up in the East, and the Chinese of Mott street hold a meeting, and you might as well be in Canton as in this meeting. The Xew Yorker who has not gone up to Jones' Wood to attend the Volksfest has missed a great national anniversary. He who has not strolled through the Jew market-place down at Norfolk and Hester streets I think it is lias missed an opjiortunity of seeing those who might have been the originals of Cruikshanks' drawinc of Faein. And now recently a son of Mme. Modjeska is niarricu, aau a iioiewormy company gathers in the little Polish" church at Stanton and lorsyth streets, right the thickest of the iammed-ui tenement district. Truly, the Great East side is a wonderful part of a wonderful town. If. I, Cor. Albany Journal. GERMAN SCHOOLS. A AmeriOM Farmer's Vhw ef Edaea tiMl Method 1m Germany. .ine paternal form of government, that seems so to emasculate the men and make them dough in the hands of the rulers, causes the schools to be the very ideals of what they should be. was delightfully impressed with the first visit, and the more I see of them, the impressions grow deeper, To meet the "director," I was sent to a long, cheery room, where was a table the entire length, covered with all sorts of literary matter, in that delightful conniMon so attractive to a lover of books; scats comfortable arm-chairs, placed " Jt""".' munca it n ra uie CMlMliet, m to speak, of the chief, and here the professors were gathered for their examination of exercise, consultation -.lie aim relaxation; some were passing incir pupus exercises tinner examination, with that rapidity so surprising to a layman uouiuiiii oi ins own ', and 7 ,,- iwo were enjoying, evidently, a letter written to one of them by an exKsiwraicu motiter; outers were evidently aewly arrived from Berlin, and a chatter of gossip went on, while the exercises were at the same time quickIv examined; others only came in to deposit books, and departed with a salutation to all, not even forgetting me, who sat with my tongue in a double twist to encounter the German language. Almost all were smoking; all were in the prime of life, younger than 1 expected, nervous, intellectual, by far the finest collection of men I had vet seen. When the director was at leisure, I was invited to his study, where I met a genial, thin student, "with capability written in strong characters all over his face. To my great relief he had one of his "staff," a charming young man and fluent English scholar, who bridged we safely over the interview. The prinoipal was as interested in my plan as if the six hundred other boys in the gymnasium were never on ft is mind, lie examined mv children fully, to see where they could enter so as to preserve their self-respect and not lie in classes with companions too small; suggested in what branches thoy had best have private instruction to hasten them, on, and made them, as well as me, feel that every consideration would be paid. As every class has a special guardian, appointment were made where I could meet and consult With thom, so that 1 felt I had alwut a dozen private teachers, instead of dropping them into a sort of maelstrom, as one feels la leaving boys at a large school with its. Tills feeling oi personal interest in the pupils increases as the system becenies mare familiar. At every holiday (Wednesday and Saturday alteraoomn when suitable weather, Mm

My I to Mm saffMMM m4 have royal fa of foot-ball. OaMal

Um profawora is always Umm, wk generally eaters into um gas o um weaker aide, to add latere; keeps a KOfwrai aupervMMon, ana Uiu the play never oversteps the bounds of safety or temiMir. One day the pupils of this and the outer large college had a grand sham battle a few miles from Town: there were captains, flags, a regular nera oi oauie. ami i aa not know what. aJI only I know the faces were Husked with healthy excitement when they earn e home, and all were full of their prowess, their struggles and Anal victory or defeat. The satisfaction that one has, to sea studies so administered that all the scholars enjoy them thorough to the last degree, but gradual, gentle, persistent! No boy is mads to feel that he is exiected to cram two years' study into one. Yet, to show how thorough it is, my boys said one day "We are far ahead of the class in Ctesar, but all the boys can talk in Latin just as easily as in German." It is not a dead language to them, but a lire one; and so in whatever is taught So absorbing is the desire to have the whole nation educated, that it has changed the natural habits of man for no adult, of his own free will, would start the wheels of life at five a. m.; yet here, for half the year, schools beS'n at seven; for the excellent reason at two hours in the morning are, for instruction, worth four later in the day. Every thing bends to this. All places of amusement begiu at half-past six, out at nine, and we go to bed at ten without a blush. I wish I could say we rise at five with alactity; but as I see the advantage to the children, I must admit that m every way we should find it well to adopt it at home. Think of the wasted morning hours, and the horrible suffering our children endure in summer! If they were over the worst of the day's studies at eleven, think of the relief, the vast improvement, in their health, what a different thing study would be! And, quite as important, the pressure here is gentle; the children take to study about as willingly as to play; the teachers are separated by no gulf, they are familiar to the verge of impudence; but their power being autocratic, the line is always clearry defined. I wish all our school trustees (for remember, those are all public schools) could be impressed with these facts, and that parents would support the teachers in carrying such reforms into practise. ftruwnotck (Germany) Cor. Country GenUeincm. HISTORIC DOGS. i Shewing Hew These Faithful Anlmalt Fljr,Hre Ih Aaaala. At a time when dogs, specially metropolitan dogs, are somewhat under a cloud, it may be well to recall some of the claims of our old friend to respect and esteem. Every one remembers the dog of Ulysses, who died in greeting his master just returned from his long wanderings, and the story shows the consideration in which the dog was hold in the heroic aires of Greece. The old Persians, too, held the dog in high esteem; to the Magians he was a sacred animal, the representative and friend of Ormuad the Beneficent, and the great satraps were distinguished by taeir trains oi hunting dogs, as was the King himself, and Xerxes set out for the conquest of Greece surrounded by a great oouy-guaru oi laithtut dogs. Those most hiffhlv prized bv the Per sians camu from India, so called, probably from the Bactrian regions, where the de is still held in high repute. Captain Woods tells us that the oldfashioned Uzbeg would think it no insult to lie asked to sell his wife, but would resent an offer for his dog as an unpardonable affront; while among the border tribes of Turkestan the epithet of the dog seller is one of the profoundest contempt. Indeed, the birthplace of nations is probably the original home of the dog, aud when our Aryan ancestors began to migrate westward from their ancient seats with their flocks and herds they brought with them, no doubt, their fierce and faithful dogs, who have left theirdescendants ofto-day the English mastiff, the Pyrenean sheep-dog, the Albanian wolf-hound. Ancient laws too record the estimation in which the dog was held. "A herd-dog that goes for the sheep m the morning and follows them home at nirht is worth the best ox," say the ancient laws of Wales. The best herd-dors of the present day perhaps are the Breton sheep-dogs rough, shaggy, uncouth with an aspect as if they had a little of the blood of bruin in their veins, but highly valued by their possessors, who are not to be tempted into parting with them by anything- under the price of the best ox; and the Breton dog is one of the most sagacious of his kind, watching and tending his flocks with an almost incredible zeal and devotion. the Year Hound. Forgery Made Easy. David X. Carvalho, a handwriting expert in the district attorney's office at Xew York, says that forgeries by amateurs are increasing, and that they are encouraged by the bad practices that have grown up in commeroial houses the use of stylographic pent and of aniline inks. Many large houses. ic says, recognizing the lack of char acter in a signature written with a stylographic pen, have discarded them altogether in signing checks and mioen of similar importance, and the surro gate's office at New York requires pa:er to be signed with a steel or quill cn. A stylographic signature is easily mitatcd, and when it comes to identi fying the genuine signature, a difficulty is met arising from the effect ol the movement on the essentia characteristic features. Aniline inks are still more dangerous, because they can be copied exactly by the use of copying aus on the principle of the hektograph. -Miss Catharine Wolfe, ike wealth!. est spinster in tha country, has $16.000,000, Curious that Catharine, witk so much eapital, hasn't oantured a anib-liktt mate ys. AT. Y. TriUtm,

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Uriah taot n Aad wUa'stM's married. tfcM the 9a he a maid again. We tfclak if we a mlthM had. Oar trouble would We want a mllUoa tore. A .!,.. 1 k . r - ats-Caii. N old Cat, I hia 1 ---"- and philosophlsal fans aff mind, met a smaH loyaarf said to him: "Little Boy, did ysaavsr Me a tin eaa to a Dog's tail?" "Yes, I've done it oftea," replied Um Bey. "Weil, I know a better way faaa that to have fan." "What w it?" 11 "Just tie a eaa of milk to a Cat's tail.' "Will I make the Cat run?" "Yes, indeed! It's the fussiest thine fa the work. If you were to tie a eaa off milk to ay tail I'd aearly kill tayseM run aiag." "Mav I try it?" "Yes, if you'll atop fee eaa up tight." The Boy went to work at oaee aad Mm can was aooa securely tied. Then, wtta a sudden jump, the Cat started down tha road like a cyclone, an earthquake and a freight train, all rolled up into a gra Recombination. Whea the careeriag aaimal had reached a eequestered plaee la the woode, he paused and soliloquised sowhat as follow: "It's a lucky thine for creatures of MIKant talents like myself that there are e many fools in this world, for, if H wore otherwise, you would see most gifted ani mals starving every uay. now, for In stance, if that silly Boy had just oae-half of my shrewdness and ingenuity I never eouki have gotten this can of alee mine with eo iinich ease. Moreover, I've gotten this arise honestlv. for it ia niranlv the trib ute that genius exacts of mediocrity tM. rer the workl. There is nothiag en earth like solid brain power. It's tempting subject, and I eouM spin out a fine eeeay on it, but I must forebear. I must try this milk. I ant tired as thunder dragging that heavy eaa, and my tall feels as if it had been unscrewed just back of my ears." With these words the Cat impatiently opened the eaa and found that it was filled with mustard fa stead of milk. Moa This Fable illustrates the imprudence of premature rejoicing, and teaohsa that all the pretty day-dreams aad ilhtsir fantasies did sot pass away with . aad Malvelio. Life. UNDYING HOPE. The reelhur That Ssfbias Steraal la Maldea's Heart. An old makl at least seventy years of age was helped into a chair in the ofHee of a Xew York police justiee. She was very much excited. "Do I understand yoa to say that yen. think your pocket was picked by a young wan who sat alongside of you fa a Third avenue car?" asked the justice. "Yes, I'm sure of it. He squeesed me up lathe comer so that I could scarcely breathe; and he kept smiling at me, aad satiaag at me, aa if he knew me." "Why did you permit him to defeat. Why dkl you not complain to the Ht ductor?" asked the justiee. I-I " "Out with it." "I thought perhaps he was he was "Was what?" " Going to propose to me." Jf. Y. Tit graai. It Was Her Wreath. "Mother," said a Philadelphia youth, "I eaa not understand Hattie. I'm afraid she's a coquette. Last night, while passiag, I saw her in the parlor, ami, dropping fa, found her alone. When I asked her to marry me she gave a little shriek, and jumping up, ran out oi the room aad lei ma fro home feeling like a fool. 1 eaa not untlwaWuiu such conduct." "Bat I can. my son. She was around here early this morning and explained it an. You know she didn't expect yoa?" "Yes." "Well, she had onions for sunner. and when you popped the question she knew you would want to kiss her if she said yes, and she was afraid you wouhl smell the onions. She told to tell you to oohm around to-night and pop agaia." PhilmrfeMs Herald. A FalaaWM Mhrtatte. Mrs. Smith I am very sorry, Mrs. hsadrioks, but I consider it my duty te iaforaa you that I saw your husband comfag out of a saloon last evening. Mrs. Hendricks What time was it, Mrs. Smith? Mrs. Smith About eight e'eleek. Mrs. Hendricks Dkl yen say he was coming out or going bt? Mrs. smith Coming oat. Mis. Headrkks (positively) You have mktakea fafa far same one else. John never eomes euCnf 'a.siafaa as early as eight flJ0Ce""Jfs ,a'4rWH. Knickerbocker Jones, a young soolety dude living oa Madison avenue, took a Tide on horseback for hie health last day. la about aa hour he came home Ihmmc and was very fame. $ "Where's year horse?" asked his sttfa. wMs win be horn after awhile. You see I. ea straight cat through the park, but mrm took another read. I wasn't. ; te wait far hhn." Jf. Y. Timt.

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