Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 3, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 May 1879 — Page 7

Che Ligonier Banuer, J. B. STOLL, Editor and fr;prletor. : LIGONIER, : : + INDIANA.

+LINES TO THE FIRST FLY OF : - 1879. ; _ DANCE oo m@noge with your tickling feet, - e :Bllx'e-mle ﬂyfy : | | Bingin mﬁfleam with your buzz to greet i Mens e e ~ You will seek me eut in my dark retreat, With an eager zeal that no screen car. beat, And I try to slap yeu clesr into the sweet, ; Sweet, bye and bye. I haven't seen you since ’seventy-eight, ’ Little -house-fly; - ? |And I see you now with the bitterest hate You can defy. Oh, how I hate you, nobody knows, Author of haif of my summer woes, : .~ Oh, how I prayed that you might be froze, ; Villainous fly. . All through the winter you did not freeze, . ‘ . Not much, Mary Ann. j Now all the sunmer you'll do as you please, | S . That is your plan. . : When, in the warm atternoons we would sleep, Near us your wakefullest vigils you'll keep, - Precious is sleeping, but waking is cheap, -~ Sleep, man, if you can. Ob, how I wish my two broad hands, - Spread left and right, Stretched from the poles to Equator’s bands, ‘Giants of might. ‘ it . Some summer day in my wrath I would rise, ¢ Sweeping all space with my hands of size, And smash all the uncounted millions of flieg : . Clear out of sight. : Vain are my wishes, oh, little house-fly, 1 ! You'ré hard to mash; i i ‘Strong men may swear and women may cry, "~ *Teething their gnash; ' - i | But into the house your triends you'll lug, : | You'll bathe-your feet in the syrup juﬁ. And your cares you'll drown in the baby’s mug, | . Cheeky and brash. Still, precious lessons, dear little house-fly, You teach to me. ‘Hated or loved, you tell me that I : ' Happy may be. Q{L * Why should I care, when I tickle™ nose, -~ Whether it's owner’s conduct shows I That he likes it or hates it, just so it goes . Pleasant to me. *This line 'should read, *‘ Gnashing their teeth,” but = little poetic license was necessary to bring in the rhyme.—Burlington Hawk-Eye.

" EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIMENTS. Curious Tests and Wonderful Results in Medicine and Science. ' ON Nov. 14, 1666, Mr. Pepys wrote in his diary: - ¢ Dr. Crone told me that * at a meeting at Gresham College, to-. ' _ night, there was a pretty experimént of the blood of one dog let out, till he . died, into the body of gnother on one side, while all hisown ran out on the other side. The first died on the place, - and the other very well, and likely to do well. This did give occasion to many pretty wishes, as of the blood of a Quaker to be let into an Archbishop, and such like; but as Dr. Crone says,’ may, if it takes, be of mighty use to man’s health, for the amending of bad blood by borrowing from a better.”” A year later the Secretary was mightily pleased at making the acquaintance of a poor debauched man, who, having had twelve ounces of sheep’s blood let into his veins found himself a new man. The value of his-testimony is somewhat discounted by Pepys’ remarking, ¢‘He is cracked a little in the head,”” while declaring him to be the first sound man that ever submitted to the operation in England; ‘¢ and but one that we hear of in France;’ that one being probably Dr. Denys, of Paris, - who successfully transferred the blood of\i’n animal into his own veins. G e rather wonder some inquiring spirit has not tested the truth of the ; fancy.,underlyinﬁ Pepys’ ¢‘pretty wishes.”” That, perhaps, is to come. The transfusion of blood, however, is a recognized resource in desperate cases, like that related in 'a London medical journal four years ago, in which the patient suffered so terribly that the nurse fainted and the doctors despaired. Still ‘they-persevered, and by making alkaline injections into an open vein wrought a slight improvement, an im“provement followed by a relapse threatening the worst. Then they opened a vein in the husband’s arm, and injected his blood into his sinking wife. She began to rally from that moment, and in two months’ time was almost herself -again. Fortunately for those who may be in as sad a plight with no near and ~ +dear one willing to. bleed for love's sake, Dr. Brown-Sequard has discov--ered that warm milk injected slowly into a human artery is a potent reviver; a discovery already turned to good ac-. -count by the ghysician_s of the Dublin Provident Infirmary, who, finding an inmate of that institution anarently -dying of exhaustion, promptly opened a vein, injected into it a pint of milk “fresh from the cow, and had the satis- - faction of seeing the patient rally ‘atl -once, a prelude to perfect recovery. | Very different was the regult of the rash experiment of a young Berlin doctor, who fancied cholera could be kept at bay by minglini tainted with untainted blood. He took some blood from a cholera patient, and introduced -it into his own veins. In seven hours he was a dead man. ] Poor Oberndyer is not the only in‘stance of a medical theorist falling a victim to a mistaken belief. Prof, Walker, of Brooklyn, finding nothing "to allay an excruciating a'&min i the face, took it into his head that & cer“tain deadly drug would serve his turn. His wife sat down by his bedside, pencil and note-book in hand, intent upon carefully taking down, from his -dictation, every sensation I_})roduced by ‘the action of the Crug. 'Her task was - ‘not a long-lasting one. After swallow- ~ ing the third dose of sixty minims, the _unlucky experimentalist shrieked out, ‘“ Water! water! water!”’ and expired. . Somebody once pretended to have -agcertained that the curse of Brazil was identical with a disease which the . .ancients cured . with snake venom. A patient at the Hospital dos Lazaros—--an establishment near Rio de Janeiro ‘devoted to the reception of persons affected with leprosy and elephantiasis—- . -offered to submit to the hazardous ex- - periment. A rattlesnake was put into his bed, but shrank from the companionship, until the desperate fel?ow, g séizing it in - his hands, squeezed. the eptile so hard that in self-defense it ruck him with his fangs, but so lightly that the man was unaware of the k@ fact until the on-lookers told him that the snake had fulfilled his mission, and he saw a little blood oozn;g from the' 'puncture; but in twenty-four hours there was a vacant bed in the ward: - When one of Pizarro's - warriors received an ugly wound from an Ome-

guan spear, the Spanish leech took off the knight's coat of mail, put it upon an Indian prisoner, ﬁut him on a horse and drove a spear through the hole in the armor. Giving the Indian his quietus, the surgeon opened his body, and’ seeing the heart was not injured by the spear thrust, concluded the knight’s hurt was not mortal; so he freated it as a common wound, and soon set the'patient on his legs again. A similar method of diaghosis was practiced by the French surgeons when the eye of Henry the Second was pierced by a splinter from Montgomerie’slance. In orcﬁar to arrive at a knowledge of the injury inflicted, they cut oé the ‘heads of four condemned men and thrust splinters into the eyes at the same inclination as that at which the fatal sliver had entered the King’s eye. It was common enough to utilize criminals in this way in tﬁe olden days. In the sixteenth century the College of Montpellier was allowed one criminal a year to dissect alive. Doctors were never so highly favored as that in England, although the Barbers’ Company and the Society of Surgeons were, by act of Parliament, once privileged to receive an annual :allowance of four bodies of executed criminals between them; and so late as 1731 weread in the Gentleman’s Magazine that there was great talk about an experiment to be made upon a ‘malefactor in Newgate, reprieved for the occasion, whose tympanum was to be cut in order ¢to demonstrate whether the hearing proceeds from the tympanum or the nerves that lie between it and the conception of the ear; it being the opinion of some that deafness is principally caused by obstructions on the said nerves.”’

The same magazine, recording the execution of a highwayman named Gordon, in 1733, says: ‘M. Chovet, a surgeon, having, by frequent experiments on dogs, discovered that opening the windpipe would prevent the fatal consequencesof the halter, undertook Mr. Gordon, and made an incision in his windpipe; the effect of which was, that when Gordon stopped his mouth, nostrils-and ears for some ‘time, air enough came through the ‘cavity to continue life. When he was hanged, he was perceived to be alive after all the rest were dead; and when he had been hung three-quarters)of an hour, being carried to a house ‘in the Tyburn Road, he opened his mouth several times and groaned, and a vein being opened, bled freely. It was -thought if he had been cut down five minutes sonner he might have recovered.” Seventy years afterward, through the intervention of Mr. White, Surveyor to His Majesty, leave was granted to Prof Aldine, ¢ inheritor of the science of his uncle, Luigi Galvani,” to make galvanic experiments on the corpse of a murderer, the first of the kind ever made in this country. What a hubbub there would be nowadays if the Home Secretary permitted anything of the sort!—although our New Zealand cousins were not at all shockedby the authorities there allowing the doctors to take possession of the bodies of three murderers, that they might satisfy themselves the spinal column was uninjured by hanging, and that strangulation, not dislocation, was the cause of death.: :

Sir Humphrey Davy was once tempted into playing an amusing practical joke by‘waﬁy/, of testing the curative power of thie imagination. When the properties ofsnitrous oxide were discovered, Dr. Beddoes, jumping to the conclusion that it must be a specific for paralysis, chose a subject upon upon whom to try it, and Sir Humphrey consented to administer the gas. Before doing so, Davy, desiring to note the degree of animal temperature, placed a siall thermometer under the: garalytic‘s tongue. | Thanks to Dr.. eddoes, the poor fellow felt sure of being cured by the new process, al-. though utterly in the dark as to the nature of it. Fancying that the thermometer was the magical instrument which was to make a new man of him, he no sooner felt it under. his tongue than he declared that it acted like a charm throughout his body. Sir Humphrey wickedly accepted the cue, and day after day for a fortnight went through the same simple ceremony, when he was able conscientiously to pronounce the patient cured. M. Volcipelli, a Roman physician, played a similar trick upon some of his hospital patients, who were greatly affected whenever powerful magnets were brought near them. Placing them under exactly the same conditions to all appeargnce, but taking particular care to exclude magnetic influénce, he found that every one of them was disturbed in the same degree as, when the magnets were actually employed. ‘A French doctor, desxirin(gi to learn how fowls would be affected by alcoholic drinks, administered some brandy and absinthe to his poultry, and found one and all take so kindly to their unwonted stimulants that he was compelled tolimit each to a daily allowance of six cubic centimeters of spirits or twelve of wine. ‘The result was an extraordinary development of cock’s crests, and a general and rapid loss of flesh all round. He persevered until satisfied by experience that two months’ a.b:sinthe-drinkin%l sufficed to,kill the strongest cock or hen, while the brandydrinkers lived four months and a halt, and the wine-bibbers held on for ten gmnﬁhs ere they died the drunkard’s eath. .

According to the Scientific American, a German lady, Fraulein Maria von Chauvin, is to be credited with showing the possibility of transforming an amphibious, gilled, double-breathin animal into a lut(lig-breathing lanﬁ creature. The lady obtained five strong Mexican axolotls. . And put them into shallow water. Finding they did not thrive, she adopted the bold measure of keepingsthem on land, giving them tepid baths three times a dag. to insure cutaneous respiration, an packing wet moss between their bodies during the intervals between the baths. They were fed upon earthworms. A worm was ingerted as far as possible in an axolotl's mouth; and its tail pinched until it wngﬁled itself so far down that the axolotl was obliged to finish the operation of swallowing, whether it liked it or mnot. Three of the curious creatures gl;ov,ed stubborn, and persisting in ejec %btheir food, died of starvation. The others quickly displayed signs of & coming change, their

gill tufts and tail fing apparently shriveling through the action of the air, and, when a little later on they were put into water, showed a dislike to their natural element and struggled to get out of it. By-and-by, further changes took place;' they cast their skins repeatedly, their gill-clefts closed, their eyes became larger, and their skins, originally black and shiny, became of & brownish purple-black hue, decorated with yellow spots. Finally, the axolotls assumed the complete form of the true land salamander, breathing only by the lungs, and in their new state developed an astonishing greediness. .

In one of the southern districts of New South Wales a man discovered a fine soda spring. He opened a bushinn close by, and soon drove a brisk trade in spirits and soda-water. One day some genius hit upon the idea that a great deal of time and trouble might be saved by converting the well into a huge effervescing draught. A lot of sugar and acid, with a due proportion of spirits, was thrown into the well and stirred about with a long pole; but, to the infinite disgust of the thirsty operators, and something more than the disgust of the proprietor, the final outcome of their labor was the muddying of the water and the irremediable spoiling of the soda-spring. Another 'unhappy experimentalist was Mr. Masse, of Brooklyn, a gentleman havin%mgreat faith in science, but very little knowledge of it. Happening to come across an account of a method of horse-driving by electrieity, by having an electro-magnetic appuratus placed under the coachman’s. seat worked by a little handle, one wire being carried through the rein to the bit, and another in like manner to the crupper, so as to send the current along the horse’s spine, and by the sudden shock subdue any inelination to jib or bolt, Mr. Masse, a timid driver, resolved to avail himself of the invention, and soon had the horse-queller attached to his carriage. Thus pre|pared against equine vagaries, he istarted one morning for a-drive. He ‘was jogging along until up ;dashed a tast roadster, drop went bhis horse’s ‘ears, and soon he was straining every ‘muscle to keep the lead. Now was Masse’s time. Grasping the handle of the machine, he gave it a turn. For an instant the astonished horse stood stock still, and then—then the driver thought earth and sky were about to meet. The animal jumped high in air, came down again, and dashed along the road as if bent upon making a never-heard-of ‘‘record;” his master holding on to the handle and administering shock after shock, and shouting the while: ‘“Stop him! Stop him!” The horse concluded to stop of his own accord, and set to kicking his hardest. ¢ Why don’t you jumé) out? Do you want your idiotic head kicked off?”’ cried a passer-by. Masse jumped out and alighted unhurt. The horse, released from the electric current, quieted down, and was led by his owner to the nearest livery stable. ¢ Sell him,” said he, for whatever you can %ft for him; I am | not going to keep a horse that thinks ge }r.nows more about science than I 0 ; 5

More successful was the stage-man-ia.\%er of the Baltimore Academy of usic in his application of electricity. Mr. Keliy was much annoyed by loungers congregating at the stage entrance. Taking advantage of the presence of a man in charge of an electric apparatus to regulate the lighting of the auditorium, the manager had a wire directed to the zinc-covered floor of the passage he wanted k((;{pt clear, and, when it be‘came blocked up, all the man had to do was to touch a knob and thereby communicate a livelg current to the zine, and the scared intruders took themselves off, ‘their antics resembling the jerky movements of those supple-jacks with which children amuse themselves,”’ says the American journalist. It would not be a bad idea to have a small electric battery connected with a strip of zinc fastened to one’s doorstep, so that book-agents, soap-peddlers and hucksters generally could be disposed of effectually and without any annoyance.’’—A4ll the Year Round. S

A Fight With a Bear—A True Story. WE make the following extract from a huni:ing»st;or}7 entitled ‘‘ The Big Bear of Wannetola,”’ printed in St. Nicholas for May. The incident took place in the back country of Arkansas, in the year 1860, and the hunters were Harvey Richardson and the narrator. They were after a big bear, whose depredations had made him the chief topic of conversation; and they started out with their dogs early one November moraing: g‘ Just at day-break, we came to a crossing of the bayou where we felt sure the bear must pass on the way to his den. Harvey placed me, the dogs, and himself. A fallen tree was in my front, and through its interlaced roots I could see in every direction. Hardly had we completed our ambush when' a quick movement of one of the dogs startled me. But, in a moment, noticing that his looks were directed toward the crossing, I, too, looked thither and heard the sound of a heavy animal sauntering slowly over the sodden ground and approaching my lair. In an instant a pair of yellow eyes glared at me, and with as wide a look of surprise as there was in mine. Recovering myself I fired atthe monster, which appeared like a huge, animated black cloud as he rose up before me. The brute disappeared with the smoke of my Eun, but in a moment I was startled by the report and shock of a second discharge. The other load of my . gun had been accidentally exploded. LookinE in the direction that the bear had taken, I saw he had run along the other side of the fallen tree and met at the farther end the two dogs, when he turned about and came toward me at his most rapid speed and in savage humor. ‘Then there was a fearful crash and rush. The black mass came:on, with eies gleaming, and bewildering me with the reflection of their glare in the sunlight. . 3 ; 1 was conscious that my gun was useless, and so instinctively grasped my }ii:dtol, but - toung it hopelessly en?ng, in my belt. For a .second, despair came upon me, but &~ sudden

Tevulsion aroused every sense and | prompted me to defeuse for life. } Quickly drawing my knife, it was presented at a thrust as the dark mass sprangatme. . | | [ ‘At this ‘moment, one of the huce dogs leaped at him so fiercely as to divert the monster's attention from myself and make him miss his bite. He reared, and as he again came down on his fore-feet and was in the act of going over the bank, I plunged my knife to the hilt into. his body, in the region of his heart. He turneg and made a terrible snap at my legs, but at the moment I fell backward over a bush, and so we all went into the bayou together, floundering in the water and mud. “I scrambled to the edge of the slough, and watched witn intense anxiety the result of the battle. In another moment, and when the bear had nearly reached the farther side of the pool, desperately fighting with the dogs every inch of the way, I heard a rushing sound and the whirring flight of more of the pack as they sprang over me. In the same instant a flash shot out from the brown barrel of Harvey’s rifle, and the bear rolled over, though he still feebly fought the pack, and kept on fighting to the last moment of his existence. To my mortification, an examination of the huge carcass showed that myshot had not made any visible mark on the animal, and that my knife had not quite reached his heart, . Harvey’s shot had killed him.- The weight of the savage animal | was over five hundred pounds.”’ | g e et e \ - Epidemiecs Among Insects. |

’ Dr. HazeN, of Boston, in a paper read in that city a few days ago, gave ‘the following information about epidemics among insects : ¢ A really pestilential epizootic of the common barnyard fly was observed in 1857. Not only those, but many other insects, died in the same locality and in the same manner ; also, other species of flies and gnats, the.caterpillars of moths and of phalenids, and the common hairy caterpillars. Of some species the destructiori was so complete that the next year they were very rare. During recent years the caterpillars of two species of moths had destroyed pine forests belonging to the State valued at several millions of dollars, and a larger calamity was imminent, when suddenly all caterpillars died from the same fungus. Similar observations have been made in other places.in Europe and here. Mr. Trouvelot formerly began in Medford, Mass., the raising of the polyphemus moth for silk, and was successful enough to get a prize in the Paris Exhibition of 1864. Unfortunately he brought home eggs from Paris of another species from China, which purported to be superior for silk-raising in the open air. Those eggs proved to be infested by fungus, and the caterpillars hatched from them died, but not those alone. All caterpillars of ‘the polyphemus moth became infested, and even most of the other indigenous species living on the twelve acres of shrub land, which Mr. Trouvelot utilized for thispurpose, died rapidly. After two fear&of asimilar calamity, Mr. Trouveot was obliged to stop his experiments, which might have developed, perhaps, a new source of wealth for this country. A similar pest of an indigenous species of moth stopped only las Hear the interesting observations of Mr. Tiemers in Newport, Ky. : The common silk-worm in Europe has been in recent. time extensively affected by a sickness which is also the consequence of fungus. Similar fatal epizootics have been observed on the honey-bee, and one killed several years ago in Brazil nearly ali beehives. In entomological journal§ are reported fatal epizootics of leaf-lice, of grasshoppers, of the cabbage butterfly, and of the currant worm, both imgorted here only a few years ago, and both very obnoxious.” - = .- i

- They Were Going to Be Married. HE was evidently a tramp. Nothing about him seemed to say he was anything else. It was not very cold and a number of the passengers were out on deck. Presently the seedy individual moved up toward a well-dressed man and inquired: ; : ‘¢ Hudson River, eh?”’ ‘¢ Yes, thisis the Hudson.” ‘¢ Pretty deep here?”’ ““Guess sol” and the man looked over the railing into the water. ** There seems to be a great deal of ice in the river,”” was the next revelation of the tramp, who was trying to be sociable. - ‘¢ You mean there was?”’ : “Do I? Do you know, sir, that your dau%hter and I are going to be married?”’ , : ¢ Great guns, no,” screamed the other anﬁrily, as he made a crack at him with his umbrella. ‘“ Well, we are; your lovely daughter and I are going to be married!” ‘¢ Oh, let meat thatruffian!” shrieked the offended individual, as he brandished his parasol, and tried to get away from the men who held him. : After he was:slightly pacified he said to the bystanders, with great emphasis: “ My daughter is g"oin%dto be married, on the 18th, to John R. Murphy.” _ And then the tramp shouted: ‘‘And on the 20th I am (Foing to be wedded to R. Angelina Ruddington. Then, old man, won't your daughter and I be married?”’ ; J . After the boat landed, all the crowd, including the tramp, had a drink at the expense of the man whose daughter is soon to become Mrs. John R. Murphy. —N. Y. Dispatch. —+* Business is %)Vicking ‘up, and no mistake!’”” began Woollenburgher the other night; ‘“why, I put a thousand pairs of gloves in stock this morning—only thigmoming, gents—and, would you believe it, when I locked up this evening there were onli five hundred left; yes, sir, only five hundred.” Of course all felt encouraged, and of course all conﬁr-atu'lated %egllenburgher warmly. But you should have seen the mob go for him as he hurriedly shot through the door :fter remarking, ‘¢ The other five hundred were rights,’ you know.”’—Boston Transcript.

_—lt costs more to kill an Indian than it would take to build a school-house. —N. 0. Picayune. e . ‘

G I e A ’ v Ry i ¥ v. " Youths’ Department. MY LITTLE LOVE. : My little love has eyes of blue, g A wild-rose mouth all sweet with dew; _ And her heart is as tender a little thing As the first anemone of the spring. : : From the wilding sgring to winter gray, She is seeking ever her own sweet way. = = My little love has a temper, too, : Thox_xih her ‘eyes are made ont of Heaven’s own lue. P How glad lam she’s a child of carth, Tha.ti have nodoubt of her mortal birth! I nev?r think, when she croons and siugs, That I must look for her budding wings. What should Ido in earth’s rain and snow ' With a stgr;a little angel, I'd like to know. * My bad little girl ” is dearer far - Than any cherub from yonder star. o With her eyes of love and her anxious brow, - Who is our little care-taker, now? : Who comes tugging her brother’s coat, As he idly sails his painted boat? A Who feeds the birds from the window-sill? Who cries over kitty stiff and chill ? ) Who leads her “ doilies,” with mothér-hand, Far out into realms of wonder-land? ' Who weeps, with such a tender thrill, _ | For **a wel live baby’’ to tend and still— A baby-sister in long ** fite fock,” ! A baby-brother to hug and * wock?” ' Who, when the children rush in pairs, Comes heavy laden down the stairs? R Who carries after them, down the road, ! All of the other children’s load ? . Who, but my little lover dear, o ' With her heart of care and her laugh of cheer, With her wild-rose mouth, and eyes of blue; The brave little woman, fond and true] i I’m happier, far, for my little love; Her tiny arms ever lift me above . The weary cares of my working-day, Into & heaven of mirth and play. : And dear, when the twilight is at its best, To gather her into my arms to rest— To.think, when her ba.b{ldays are done, How it will be with the little one. Into these liquid eges of blue, : Will love for luve fléw deep and true? Will they find—these burden-bearing arms— - A pair as quick to shield them from harms? ‘ Ah, my little love! She who lifts the load, May carry it alway down the road; ‘ Sometimes, but seldom, she finds the friend Who will lift and carry it to the end. i I fold thee close. I read thy fate. o Dear little lover!—how soon or late ‘ Thou wilt pour, unstinted, love’s largess, - - And find thy blessing is to bless. —Mary Clemmer, in Wide-Awake, ' -

e Start Right. ; ‘“TAKE nothing for granted.” is a golden rule for a. 1% traveﬁars. ‘That is, we must see things for ourselves, and find out all about our journey. We must not depend upon the opinions of others as to hours and trains. ‘ I remember two boys, some years ‘ago in Philadelphia, who grew tired of going to school and minding their own parents. So they made up their minds to run away. : ; They packed up their clothes, each one for himself, in a red silk handkerchief, and put their bundles over their shoulders on a stick, in a true pilgrim style, and sallied forth from tﬁe %ack gate of their father’s house very early in the mornin% of July 4th. They chose this day because they thought it was a good day on which to assert their independence. They thought they would be like the American Colonies and would strike for freedom. So they went on .to the West Philadelphia Depot to take the train for Washington. It was in the war times, and they thought they. would go and see President Lincoln. They "wanted him to ﬁive them commissions in the army as rummer-boys. They felt sure he would do this, for they had always heard that he was very kind. K They thought he would invite. them to dinner at the White House, and would very likely take the:.: out for a drive in his own carriage. L So when they arrived at the railwag depot, . they saw a train headed sout for Baltimore, and they got on the rear platform. They had no tickets, and as they wanted to save what little money they had, they thought they would steal a ride to Washington. But the conductor found them, about an hour after the train had started, hanging on to the steps on the rear platform. He landed them at the next place he came, to, and, lo and behold! it was Trenton, N. J. They were on the train to New York instead of the train to Washington. They were going north instead of south; they had entered the wrong train by the wrong gate; and were started all wrong. 7 o So thosé boys who wanted to be so independent upon the Fourth of July, and strike out for themselves, like the American Colonies, had the pleasure of spending their money in going home by steamboat on the Delaware River back ag’ain to Philadelphia. And that very night, at ei%lh‘t o'clock, just fours teen hours after they had passed out of their father’'s back %)ate, they passed in again and went to bed. And their father, who was a very kind and wise man, let them have abundant time, for the next three days, eack one in his own room, to meditate upon the great lesson of getting started right whenever we g 0 on a journey. - Fa And to this day those boys, who are now grown-up men, are very careful when they want' to go to Washington to be sure and not take the train for New York. . For it is not enough to want to get started right; we must first find out for ourselves that we are right before we go on our way. You know the old motto says, ‘Be sure you’re right, then go ahead.” = . “Eynter ein at the straight gate;”’ or, as our iord says in another place, ¢ Strive to enter in at the strz;sght gate,”’ the right gate.—Rev. Mr, Newton’s ¢« Wicket Gate.”? :

Out in the Rain, THERE is & touching story of the famous Dr. Samuel Johnson, which hag had an influence on many a boy who has heard it. Samuel’s father, Michael Johnson, was- a poor bookseller in Lichfield, Eng.. On market-days he used to carry a package of books to the Villaﬁ.e of Uttoxeter, and sell them from a stall in the market-place. One day the bookseller was sick, and asked his son to go and sell the books in his })lace., Samuel, from a silly pride, reused to obey. - :: Fifty years afterward, Johnson 'became the celebrated author, the compiler of the ¢ English Dictionary,” and one of the most distinguished scholars in England, but he never forgot his act of unkindness to his poor_ hard-toiling father; so when he visited Uttoxeter, he

determined to show his sorrow and re pentanee. .. oo . : He went into the market-place at the -time of business, 'runoo_vetes -his head, ‘and stboql there for” an hour in a pouring rain, on -the very spot. where the ‘book-stall nsed to stand. * This,” he says, “* was an act of contrition for my disobedience to my kind father.” - The spectacle of the great Dr. Johnson, standing bareheaded in the storm, to atone for the wrong done bj’ him . fifty years before, is a gfan and touching one. There is a representation of it (in. marble) on the doctor’s monument. o ‘Many a ‘man in after life has felt something harder and heavier than a storm of rain beating upon his heart, when he remembered his acts of unkindness to a good father or mother now in theirgraves.. = - - ~ Dr. John Todd, of Pittsfield, the eminent writer, never. could forget, how when his old father was very sick, and sent him away for medicine, he (a little lad) had been unwilling to go, and made up a lie that “the druggist had not got any such medicine.”’ ; ‘The old man was just dying, when little Johnny came in, and said to him, ‘“ My boy, your fathersuffers great pain for want of thag medicipe,”, : < - Johnny started in great distress for the medicine, but it was too late. ¢ The father on his return was almost gone. He could only say to the weeping boy, ‘“Love God, and always —speaﬁ the truth, for the eye of God is always upon you. Now Kiss me once more, and farewell.”” = .

Throu§h all his after life Dr. Todd often had a heartache over that act of falsehood and disobedienceto his dying father. It takes more than ashower of rain to wash away the memory of such sins. . Dr. Todd repented of that sina thousand times. ~ | % = _ The words, ¢ Honor'thy father and thy mother,”” mean four things—always do what shey bid you, always tell them the truth, always treat them lovingly, and take care of them when they are sick or grown old. I never yet knew a boy who trampled on the wishes of his parents who turned out well. God never blesses : a- willfully-disobedi-ent son.’ ; : | . When Washington was sixteen years old, he determined ;to leave home and be a Midshipman in the Colonial Navy. After he had sent off his trunk, he went . in to bid his mother good-by. She wept 8o bitterly because he was going away that he said to his negro servant, ¢ Bring back my trunk; lam not going - to make my mother suffer so by my - legving her.” .. . otai He remained at home to please his" mother. This decision led to his becoming a surveyor, and afterward a soldiér. . His whole glorious career in life turned on- this one simple act of - trying to make his mother-happy. And happy, too, will be the child who never has occasion to shed bitter tears for any act of unkindness to his parents. Let us not forget that God hassaid, ¢ Honor thy father and thy mother.”’— Theodore L. Cuyler, in Youth's: ‘Companion. i

. *“He Has No Mother.” : SITTING in the schoel-room, I overheard a conversation between 'a sister and a brother.. The little boy complained of insults or wrongs received from another little boy. His face was flushed with anger. The sister listened - awhile,- and then, turning away, she answered: e aek “1 do not want to hear another word. Willie has no mother.”’ oy The brother’s lips were silent. The rebuke came home to him; and, stealing away, -he muttered, “I never - thought of that.” - == | He thought of his own mother, and the loneliness of Willie compared with his: own happy lot. ‘“He has mo mother.” o P ‘Do we think of it, when want comes to the orphan, and hard words are spoken to him? Has the little wander- | ‘er mo mother to listen to his little sor- ' * rows? Speak gently to him, then.— Good News. <ot ’ i

| . Not the Man. ; ' A BIG chap up Grand River avenue ‘got a bright idea the other day and ‘made some money at it, though his career was brief. Selecting some one ‘'whom he thought he could scare, he ~would pretend to be drunk, seize hold ~of him and call out: ‘ ‘“Ha! John Thomas, I've got you at last! Ten years ago you ran awa.i' with my wife, and for ten long« years I have pursued you to kill you!’ e The vietim of course denied that he was John Thomas, or any other Thomas, but was quite willing to hand over a quarter to pay for the drinks, particularly as the big chap insisted: that he ought to have his head punched for looking so much like the said Thomas. Three or four men were attacked in this. way, and then things changed. The big man rushed at the wrong man. ‘lt was on astreetcorner, and some men ‘would haye jumped:out of their boots at hearing a fierce voice cry out: ¢ Ha! John Thomas, prepare to die!" I have sworn to kill you, and now I'll do it!” - This man didn't scare, however. In'deed, he didn’t even deny that he was ' John Thomas, but he seemed to rather like the name and the idea that he had some day eloped with the big chap’s wife. When it was found that no money for drinks could be scared out of him the big bluffer said it. was all a mistake, but the other wouldn’t have it so.. Leaning his umbrelia against the fence, he calmly replied: * . ““There is no mistake—[’m the man! ‘Yo said you wanted to mash. me, and ‘now come and do/it!"” . B .. It wasn’t much of’a fight. When the big chap got up from the grass he started on a run, and after being chased five blocks he hid in & woodx;ged and escaped, and at midnight he called at a corner drug-store with the worst looking nese in Detroit. He said something about being kicked by a horse, but the clerk was sleepy and didn’t look to see if the heel corks had left any holes to be filled up.—Detroit Free ese . - s e s - — A paper hasbeen started called theHamdkerchief. There is :‘Etott deal of blow about it, and the editor nose a thing or two, and is not to be sneezed at,__xmm. g