Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1881 — Page 4

* dO*OMd to yield! And' 1 !, with twlft clwi-hlghthaneta from pain, , S* Like one long Mind, who sadden gaining. Ori«e oui'ilt ftrxt, fca soAtLng from the ligttk Lookbtck and know, wjth anguish keen as ▼ IklD, ® Ho foe who had hr treacherous ambush lain, And stealthy sowed h* poison terse by night, H Did work upon my beauteous field this blight. - _ . Humble I vrsik beside tbe loaded wain; My bead bowed down by shame, and dumb my tongue.! * v Fate glvee each man tbe gift* he baa bestowed, , And meets exact all measures which are The seed from which-these poison tares hare sprung One idle day my own hand carelmUTnng. I only reap the harvest that I sowed. , —H. H. In Independent.

COMPENSATION.

Argonaut. . > ‘ W “Ach! I have no letter from homey’ We were sitting, Herr Schenping and I, In the shade of some young redwoods, far up In tbe mountain side, having strayed & little from our own band of nicnicem The trees, scarce moving in the light breeze, drooped their long shadows down the grassy slope., where in the sunny places the yellow butterflies flitted in and out amoDg the purple lilies. The msdronas spread their broad and shining leaves to the sun. delighting in its fervent heat, and making cool shade where the deer might rest when there were no picnickian revels to desecrate their solitude. Through our sympathy with this beautiful spirit of solitude there had fallen upon us a long silenefe. „ \ . f •. “What news have you from home?” I asked Herr Schenning at last, merely by way saying something. Witnout a movement of a muscle to show that he had heard me, he continued to gaze at the mountains, or rather far beyond them, to Some white clouds slowly sailing through theblue—l was about to repeat my auestion, but paused, seeing the color deepen ou his dark, German face, and presently,with a great sob, as the flood-gates burst, came the cry: “Ach! I have no letter from home!” He buried bis face in his hands, and with dismay I saw the swiftnCaliing tears slip through his Angers; bat the storm was as brief as it was intense. Herr. Schenning was not one to give way to maudlin grief. “You must think I am a glittering Idiot,” heeaid, as he laughingly shook the last tears from hisflDgers. “No,” I answered, "I lturk you are homesick, and I know the misery of that malady.” “Yes; in fact, I had a sudden and overpowering attack of it. Your question was a drop added to heart’s full cup. That tree”—pointing to rfTir tree ’hat pointed to the sky—“with its great waving arms and whispering boughs, had borne me far through yonder calm sky to the fatherland. I was a boy again, and had strayed to my favorite fir tree at the edge of the forest: rocked m its branches. I heard the wild songs of the woodland; I saw the silvery ele.lining of Murg flowing down the Rhine; Isaw ihe blooming or ehards. the bird-haunted grove and thelittle white house of Blumen wald, Tbfc fragrance of its flower-garden came ui me across tbe meadow, and I knew

who walked there, wearing in her golden hair the blue flow* rg that I loved—my little Barbara. I caunOt reuiepiber the time when I did not Iqve her, and think of her as mine For her I studied, and struggled and won my school-dky prizes; for hpr I sought' to make myself wise and honored; for her sake, who had no gl Id for her dower, only her sweet self, more precious to me than all the gold of California—heaven knows too precious, I thought, to be degraded by the slavery of our old-world life of poverty —for her dear sake I put aside her little clinging hands aud kissed her pleading mouth, and came away to thi * gnat golden land of America. I so wise with my Latin and Greek, so skilled in metaphysics,so deep in all the subtle science of the old-world savants, came to California to make my fortune. I laugh to think how 1 have groped and stumbled in the broad, bewildering light oFthis splendid young world, while those who can scarcely write the plebian names they , bear, dig into the mysterious earth, and lift their hand* glittering tfcith treasure. At home I might have walked with princes. Here, poor, illclad, and—shall I say it?—sometimes weak with hanger, 1 wander uucared Dr, 'except when some gentle heart, ike : pours brings me, for pity of my i loneliness,into a pleasant day like this. But forgive me for showing you such a broken spirit.” “Broken! Oh, dear! I'exclaimed, struggling wiidiy with my tears. “I should think it would be that of Mr. Plovinst’s father, pulverized, crushed quite out of you. Herr Schennmg,” £ added abruptly, “why don’t you put your pride in your pockety aud go home.” 1. . r He laughed. . a s * “Alas! my pockets are too small, aud, beside, it would not' be accepted for fare. No, I have committed suicide; I have no place, There or here. If I should one day slip from the sun-loved heights in some black abyss, where the starlight never falls, I should not be missed.” “What!” I said; “not even by little Barbara, who is wailing for her in Blumen wald? ” \ “Heaven!” ho crie d in aflotherjexcess of despair, “there ii no one waiting for me. Think you such a fool, such a begger as I should be worth that! No, the father was right; he did well to roarrv her to Herr Heimsteher, whose broad orchards stretch to the verge of our beloved forest. Frau Baibara is rich, I trust, and happy, with her fair haired childreu clustering at her knee, if she ever gives Hthobght to the lover who ieft her so long ago it is to smile at tbe fairy like future he promised her, though I dare to hope that sometimes, when the voice of my fir tree comes to her through the twiUght, or when she plucks those hlue flowers from her garden, she will remember my with a little throb of the old love. G«> 1 bless her—and pity a poor vretch like me. • The fir tree waved its long arms in the freaheuiug breeze; the shadows crept up from the gorges and spread along tne, hillsides, as if seeking him . who had speken of their dark retreats; the bold outline of Uie palisades showed stern and frowuiug against the sky, but the face of St. # Htlena, grand and sweet, lay smiling toward the west, • waiting for the sunset glory and the solemn starlit night. • • * * • , - How it could have happened to the ever-splendid Ulrich and myself to to loee our way I cannot imagine, but we achieved that hribiaat feat. Driving quite by ourselves in the rear of the small picnic: n g procession, we fell in to ftirther talk-of California ways. I was trying to impress mriobeer that he was too young to c..!l his life a failure; that no cne, at any age. iu Califoraia, need despair, unless he lay down like a coward and let the crowd rush over him; that he must* light, and keep on lighting; that as often as he was thrown, so to speak, he must get up and rush at it agaiu; that just as sure aatate there was a competence, if not a fortune, for every brave roan here, then I repeated my well-tried motto, h-For every woe tjtere is some oom-

ynaikaah-wmMuat than we diaoovand imtfwe wen out of sight of our com pan ioni. Hbrr gehepaing touched the home, And we sped over the road at a p*f»4hat |*emWl to soon bring way -began to seeoa strange- Herr Bcnenning adjusted his spectacles and took a survey of oug.surroundings. “It Is altogether the wrong way.” he said, “but if we make baste backward we may reach home before It if very late.” '.7 My heart aahk M? IHUe, for the way over which we had come was particu-larly-mountainous. There which I hardly cared to pass after dark, JJert Shenning, with bis short sights was, as he himself said, “not a pretty good driver.” And bow they would laugh ns! However, there was , nothing for it, but to retrace our way as swiftly as possible. Our conversation drooped somevfßaf, we both seemed'to have a good deal of thinking that would not bear putting into words, although we mad# a brave,joke now and then to keep up the illusion of not caring. ~ “But you are getting chilled,” said Herr Schenning, anxiously.I was indeed sniveling in the cold night wind that came rushing down the canons. “Will you please put on my coat?” he Implored, In comical distress. I stood but a moment upon ceremony, then allowed him to wrap the warm garment about me. “Now,” I said;laughing, “if you contract an acute bronchitis through your gallantry, I shall take you home and take care of you.” “Thank yon.” he answered; fervently. “To be taken home and taken care of seems to me, just now, to be the greatest good. If you kindly conduct me to some asylum for ' the ‘imbecilious’ I should be forever grateful. What compensation, think you, there can be To! 1 our present woe?” “Let us await developements,” I replied, with, I confess a sort of tremor in my feith. I looked at tbe frowning cliffs and glaced at the yawning gulfs below. The sun had set long since—the night was deepening., I felt all courage fading; I did not care now “what they thought.” I wanted to be out of the terror of tbe way, safe under some roof.

“Herr Schenning, do ydu remember that snug ranebe we so ..much admired as we came aldfig this way?” . “Yes, we must be near it;' aud there indeed, is the light from the little house ” We soon reached the gate. The moon at that moment rose grandly above the mountains, and poured her raflidnee down uponjthe cottage with its clustering out-buildings, its embowering shrubs and trees, the orchard and vineyard stretching far Along the hillside. ’The fragrance of mignonette and roses came down from the garden like oli) friends to welcome us. “How lovely!” I exclaimed involuntarily. “It is a little Blumeuwald,” said ’Herr Schenning with a tremble in his voice, . Our first greeting came from the porch, a cloud of smoke from a generous pipe, and from its neighborhood came an unmistakable German voice, making answer to Herr Schenning’s salutation. A rapid conversation in their own laugu ige seemed to put us in the right.light, for our host usherod us cordially within the cottage, f. “I dinks you moost pe quite, shilly,” lie said, placing a chair for me near the hearth, where a pleasant fire added its ?glow to the hospitality of the kindly voice. “It is zo cold aut der mountains ; it is petter you taste dis vine. Mein frau will pooty quick come; she is mit dershildren. Ach, she is come,” he added, as a fair-haired, rosy young matrou entered. “Katrina, dese pe zom young people vat got lost from a bignig.” * “Ach zo!” exclaimed Katrina, compassionately, looking at us as if she thought we might be the veritable Babes in the Woods grown up. At that* and the touch of womanly sympathy in her look and tone,l burst into hysterical weeping. Her arms were about me iu a moment; aud what with her droll English, her humorous expressions anti comforting assurances, I recovered my composure, and glanced at Herr Schenning to see how it was with Wm. P>Je, and with lips tensely set, he was gazing at Katrina as it intent Upo- penetrating some mystery. Ka’tna, in her enthusiasm,was running about the room, and putting supper on the table, quite ignorant of the fact that we belonged to a picqic. Taking up a book that lay upon a table beside me. I started at reading the name, “Frau Heimsteher,” and gave Katriua such a look that she came to see what was on the page. * “Aeh, yes; that is pring me from Germany by mein sistei. She comes pooty soon. She makes asleep mein kleine mann, mein ltetle Ulrich vat she give him de name. “It is,” she added, confidently, “de name of ven she lose long, long ago. He is dead now—poor Ulrich. Ach, wat a peetv! Zo nice he vas,so vise.und she so much lose him! She vfll never get married to any odder von. Ach, no!” said Katrina, pensively returning to give another touch to tbe ueatly spread table. Herr Schenning sat . with bowed head, his face hidden. I heard soft footstep*approching, and a faint odor of violets came through the v door. I looked. There in the doorway, with the little;Ulrich sliiiped -from her arms and eliogmg to her dress, stood a golden.haired woman, fair and sweet as any pictured Marguerite, though a little past the time of blooming youth. She looked beyond me. her blue eyes slowly dilating, to Herr Schenning, who had risen and was gazing at her a 3 if spell-bound by an angelic vision. Her sweet face flushed like any rose, ; till, with an ineffable smile aud cry of joy she reaches «ut her arms to him. j “Ulrich!” “Barbara, liebling! Acb, Gott in i Himmelj” • ••••• When some months after this, Herr SchenniDg had taken out citizen’s papers, aud, with his little frau, settled upon some Government land adjoining Herr Heimsteher—who, after all, hadn't stayed at home, and hadn’t married Barbara —and had, as-a climax discovered upon his ranch a gold mine that promised to pav for working, I a±ked him what he thought of the law ol compensation. “It is divine!” he answered, fervently. -

Moral Musings.

It was said of a Boston philosopher that he had grown to be so tall that lib had forgotten most Of the incidents that occurred during his childhood. When you say in praise of a man that he fc a tried man, your judgment is made more valuable by adding the name of the court in -which the trial took place. *lt does not follow because you and your wife both agree on one point—namely,, that you want to be master, that you should therefore have a peaceful and harmonious household. - {'lt could not have been an Irishman who put a sign board on a road across a bog with this inscription. “Please take notice that when this board is under water the road is impassable.” If yon should never worry about a misfortune until it actually happened, you would be far more cheerful than vou are. We borrow trouble as natu* rally as we would like to borrow money. I The farmer who told Lord Landsdowne that he was so accustomed to the company of “honest, plain spoken people” that be felt out of place in the presence of His Lordship, showed t&at .- .......

“My Drethxdb,” said a Western minister, “the preaching of fee Gospel to some people is like pouring -water over a chicken ooop. My experience of this eoncregattaa im that it ooftthipa more chicken coop* than sponges. 1 It is the pride of America that she offers an opportunity to the hum blest to become great. We knew a boy who -was so poorAwsnty-flve years ago that hrhaffto Secretly borrow a loaf of cake from from a passing baker’s eart to keep him from starving, while now he is one of the best shoemakers in Jgiog Bing. ? It is said that the real dilterence.be--tween a blonder and a mistake is that —When a man puts down a poor umbrella and takes up a good one he makes a mistake, but when he puts down a good one and takes up a bad one. he makes a blunder. For the former there is abundant excuse, bat for the latter there Is none at all. Borne knaves are meek like Uriah Heep, and others are but knavish and impudent. A judge, after a teasing examination of a culprit, lost his patience and cried; “Sirrah* y° n are an unmittigated rogue.” Tbe fellow, locked blandly at the Judge and replied; “Sir, just as you uttered- that sentence the clock struck two. Did you notice?”

Freaks of Lightning.

Lightning struck a tree at the head of Colvin’s Creek, N, C., and kindled a Are that swept 7,000 acres of land, destroying timber, crops and turpentine. Mother and son were struck by lightning in the residence of Widow Crenel, at Watertown, Wis. Tbe mother lost her hearing and her twelve-year-old son was killed. - Lightning struck the house of A. J. Smith, at Amherst, Wis., and made kindling wood 1 of the four posts of the bed on which Mr. and Mrs. Smith were sleeping, killing Mrs. Smith instantly and injuring her husband and child. Mr. Lill, of New York, was talking with Mr. Payne and Mr. Wynn, in their warehouse, at Dadeville, Ala., when lightning struck the warehouse. Mr. Lill was tossed up against the ceilings, Mr. Wynn threw an involuntary double Bomersault backward, and Mr. Payne was stripped of his clothing and thrown to the floor. The sun was shining bright at Adrian, Mich., although there were indications of a distant sterm, when a lightning stroke instantly killed Charles Mead' a boy who was playing ball. The holt struck tbe boy’s right temple, burning off his hair, stripping him of his elotbes, and sent into the air the ball he held in his hand. A bolt of. lightning shattered an elm in front bf the residence of George Tate, at Biadeford, Me., entering the house by a second story window, shivering tbe mirror without injuring the* frame, broke a fragment from the steel Elate of a sewing machine, cut a round ole through the floor into the room below, broke a vase on the mantel in this room, and departed after throwing to the flobr Miss late, who was sitting in the next room. Iu a recent storm iu lowa, h ball of fire came out. of the sky, remaining apparently motionless for a few seconds, aljff than sent out in os many different directions, fully thirty zigzag bolts o( lightning, which flashed over the whole northern heavens. In this same storm a wave of'light shot up from the southwestern horizon and illuminated the heavens for twenty minutes. Tbe light was flame-colored and bright as sun-light. It changed to violet and bluish-red, which colors lasted forty minutes.

Keep the Blood Pure.

I will now tell, writes a physician in Harper’s Weekly, of a few things which tend to render the blood pure and healthy. Rising in the morning at an early hour, and going out for a short walk before breakfast, does, pre-. viously having bathed and dressed without undue haste. The walk need not be along one,and a glass of pure cold water can always be taken, just before starting, with advantage, or a cup of milk by thope who are weakly. Seven o’clock, or earlier in summer, is a good Time to get up. It is just possible, however, that when called you may be enjoying a sound sleep,not having rested well in the first part of the night. If such be the case are you to get up? Yes, get up all the you will sleep better the next ‘night. Secure yourself being aroused at a certain hour every morning by an alarm or otherwise. Early rising is a habit that is not by any means difficult to acquire, but it really is a blessed one. The walk too, before breakfast may not be relished Tor a time, but it will soon be found to have improved the appetite. The breakfast on the live-by-rule principle sbould be a fairly substantial one both in quality and quantity.- As to the latter, be guided by your own* judgment: there ought to be a sense of satiety after eating, but no feeling of fulness and no depression of spirits or sleepiness. The morning meal, and indeed all meals, ought to be taken at the same, hour every day. By getting up soon you gain many advantages, two of which are these: yoH have not to hurry through with breakfast—due mastication is tbe very first act in the manufacture of healthy food—aud you can spare half an hour alter the meal qefore gpiug to work or business; this gives the stomach a fair start, aud enables it to do its work properly. If you have more than a half an hour to spare and letters to write, by all means write them, for the evening before retiring to rest should be a time of perfect peace of mind and repose of body.

Quick Fortunes.

Oil City Derrick.

That the oil region is a country where fortunes are made quickly, is well known. The man w'Uo is begging his bread to-day may be wearing a diamond in his shirt front to-morrow, and the day laborer of last week is a monied man of the next month. On our streets we can point to men who couldu’t draw a check for ten cents six months ago. Now they can draw their check forslO,oOO and the bank wouldn’t aocept it. Yonder is a man who walked into OH City as a tramp a year ago. To-day he is a porter in a hotel. Here comes a man who borrowed ten cents of us to get a glass of milk. Now he wants to borrow ten - cents more. He says he wants to buy a meal. He dines on liquid meals. Go to Bradford aiid you will see the same evidence of prosperity. A man who came into this field when the excitement began, with lees than SIOO, Is now worth as many thousands. Another, who was put in the lock-up and borrowed money to ■pay his fine, was arrested last week and sent to jail. He couldn’t borrow anything this time. Here’s another man who went there with his last cent in his pocket. Last month he drew % check for $20,000. He, too, is in jail. He signed another man’s name to the check. Such are the ups and downs of oil life. Here to-day, in jail to*morrow. The diamonds Bparkling in yonr shirt front in the rays of the morning sun may be pawned for fifty cents ere the orb of day sinks to rest The man who hasn’t a place to lay his head tonight, will be provided with a bed in the “cooler” before morning, but thW man with pluck and perseverenoe, who has less than. $lO on his Arrival here, will in three weeks own a teii acre lease and an ell well, with a $15,000 mortgage on it . . The drains leading from the Philadelphi Mint yielded about SI,OOO worth of gold and silver at the last annual scoifripg. The rroovery of metal by by that operation has amounted to s2l WO in nineteen year*.

TABLE TALK.

The Pul login 'Company- had at the works near Chicago, a fortnight ago, 3,176 men on tbe pay roll. All the chief French lighthouses will soon be lit by electricity, and provided with powerful steam trumpets for fqg signals. _ On a recent race day in one of the English meetings, Archer, the jockey of Iroquois when lie won the Derby rode five winners oat of seven; The Rev. Mr. Vetterling, a Detroit pastor, got ditonk. en an excursion steamer,- was caught kissing a girl, got a violent blbw from another whom he tried to kiss, and was finally arrested. Plagiarism has met with punishment in the case of William A. Mestayer, an actor, who produced in Boston, after an injunction had been obtained, a play which he bad stolen. He has been fined $1,481. A Philadelphia man, being slapped in the face by his wife, turned white with rage, stood still for a moment as though.lrresolute, and then . procuring a gun.from an adjoining room, committed suicide. Italian laborers are nearly as unpop ular in France as the Chmeee are in California, because they work for wages at which a Frenchman turns up his noee, and because they are steadier and more intelligent.

A lady who occupied a cottage at Mount Desert last eummer had a box made for her jewelry iu imitation of a Bible. While absent one day some one entered her house and carried off her silverware, but her box of jewelry was undisturbed. The hanging of nineteen Molly Maguires in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania* completely destroyed, the order of asses3ius there; but the recent murder of a mine .manager at Dunbar brings out the fact that au organization of the same'kind exists in the western part of the Btate. An attempt is to be made in Philadelphia to enforce the law against carrying concealed weapons. Policemen are to arrest every man whom they have any reason to suspect, and arrest those on whom pistols are found. The Mayor, who Is responsible for the movement, believes that it will do much to prevent murders. Do clergymen commonly fish on Sunday while on their summer vacations? A minister’s wife says so in a letter to tbe Congrcgatipnalist, but the editor replies; “We believe this to be a gross libel upon evangelical ministers generally. We have seen a large number of such ministers on their vacation year after year in various places, and have never known one to go a fishing on Sunday. Mr. James Harley, the inventor of the modern bicycle, is dead at the age of fifty. He was the son of a poolfarmer in Albourne, England, and showing great skill as a machinist, became foreman of the Coventry Machine Company, in which capacity liis inven t.ve mind conceived and carried out the bicycle. But the first machine was very rude, and has since been much improved on. It has been the practice of the Interior Department to hand each Indian reservation over to the religious teachings of one particular denomination, to tluft the converts became Methodists, Baptists,or something else, purely according to chance, and never from choice. This is not to be changed. Under the new arrangement the Roman Catholic church will go into the field with a large force of priests.

A compound is described for the preparation of what are termed safety envelopes. That part of the envelope covered by the flap is treated with a solution of chromic acid, amonia, sulphuric acid, sulphate of copper, and fine white paper. The flap itself is »coated with a solution of isinglass in acetic acid, aud, when this is moistened and pressed down on the under part of tbe envelope, a solid cement is formed, entirely insoluable in acids, alkalies, hot or cold water, steam, etc. Mrs. Proudfutjs one of the loveliest girls in Southern Kansas, and a year ago was the recipient of much admiring attention from the opposite sex; but now there is a disposition on the part of the youqg men to stay away from her. Thedhange is caused by the lact that three bf her sui ors have received gun shot wounds while in her company. It is not known who the assassin is, but he is supposed (o be somebody who, being unable to secure the prize himself, is derei mined that nobody shall do so.

Fourteen heavy-laden freight cars broke away from a train c n the Chicago and St. Paul Railroad and started down a grade of eighty feet to*the mile. A locomotive went iu pursuit, and made a brisk ebase, but gravity proved too much for steam, and tin? runaway cars were soon thundering along at the rate of( sixty miles an hour. A telegram was sent to clear the track, but it could not be obeyed quick enough by one train of cars, .; mm which the occupants escaped just in time to avoid death in one of the most violent collisions that ever happened. The hero of “The Romance of a Poor Young Man,” at a Milwaukee theatre, resolved as usual to burn the paper which proved his ownership of the proud Marguerit’s home. “This sacrifice do I make to my love,” he cried, and held the document over a lamp. It did not ignite, and he nervously thrust It down the lamp chimney, burned his fingers, aud extiuguisliea the flame in his mad efforts to make the sacrifice to his love; but all in vain and the paper only got a crumpling. The sign language of the North ’American Indians has been newly considered by CoL Mallery, who argues against the theory that the tribes speaking mutually unintelligible dialects, or languages, have a common system of signs. He believes that the signs were used to enforce, rather than to convey, meaning. The Indians in general know comparatively few of the more abstruse signs, though faoility of expression by simple signs Is common among them, and is due to wandering individuals frequentlycoming in contact with tribes whose speech they can not understand.

Grough and Spurgeon—An Affecting Incident.

John B. (lough’s new book- “3unlight and Shadow. A beautiful day it was for London as we rode together, chatting all the way. The history of the Orphanage is intensely interesting. The commencement was a sum .of £20,000 to Mr. Bpurjß?on, from a lady, to commence an orphanage for fatherless boys. All the money that has been expended has been raised by voluntary contribution, and the £20.000 is invested as an endowment. When we entered the grounds, the boys set up a shout of joy at the sight of their benefactor. I asked, “What are the requirements for admission ?” He said, “Utter destitution. Nothing denominational. We have more of the Church of England than of the Baptists. We have Homan Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists—all sorts.” After the boys had gone through their gymnastic exercises and military drill, I spoke a few words to them. Mr. Spurgeon was like a great boy among boys. He said, “There are two hundred and forty boys—only think How many pence are there In a shilling?” “Twelve.” “Right How many shillings In a pound?” “Twenty.” “Bight. Twelve times twenty, how many?” . , “Two hundred and forty.” “That’s a penny apiece for eaoh boy.” “Here, Mr. Charleeworth,” handing him a sovereign, “give these boys a penny apieoe:” when a shrill hearty I hurrah was given, as Mr. Spurgeon

turn'd wit* tit kem vi*%wm L you go to rt w« in need a good seal of purifying. We hare one boy very ill with consumption; ha can not live, and I vriah to see him, for he would be disappointed if he kpew I had been here and had not seen him.” f . * . We went into the 000 l and sweet chamber, and there lay the hov. He was very much exeited when he saw Mr. Spurgeon. The great preacher sat by his side, and I Can not describe the scene. Holding the boy’s hand hi his, he said: j“Well, mv dear, you have sotoe precious promises lh tight all around the room. How, dear, you are going, and you are very tired lying h «fe> *? d soon you will be free noito all pata, and you will rest. Nurse, did he rest

last night?” . ~ “He oougbed very muoh.” “Ah, my dear boy it seema very hard for you to lie here all day In pain and cough all night Do you love Jesus?” “Ysb,” “Jesus loves you. He bought you with bis precious Wood, and He knowß what IS best for you. It seems hard for you to lie here and listenfco the shouts of the healthy boys outside at play. But soon Jesus will take you home, and Sen He will tdl you the reason, and you Will be so glad. Then, laying his hand on the boy, without thejormallty o 1 kneeling. he said, “O Jesus, Master, this dear ohild is reaching out his thin hand to find thine. -Touch him, dear Saviour, with thy loving, warm clasp. Lift hinaas he passes the oold river, that hia feetbe iipteiUttedhy the water of death; take him home in 'thine own good time. Comfort aim cherish him iW that good time oomes. Show mm'tbyseu-as he lies here, and Met him see thee and know thee more and more as his loving Saviour.” After a moment’s pause he said, “Now dear, is there anything you would like? Would you like a little canary in a cage to hear him sing in the morning? Nurse, see that he has a canary to-morrow morning. Goodbye, my dear; you will see the Saviour perhaps before I shall.” I bad seen Mr. Spurgeon holding in in bis power sixty-five hundred person ain a breathless interest; I knew him as a great man, universally esteemed and beloved; but as he sat by the bedside of a dying paupei child, whom his beneficence had rescued, he wu -> to me a greater and grander man thin when staying the mighty multitude at. bis will, r

The Fly.

Bill Nye’s Boomerang. Muoh has been said of the fly of the period, hut few write about him who are bald-headed. Hence we say a word. It is of no use any more to deny the horrible truth. Although ns beautiful as a peri in other ways, our tiesses on top have seccnmbed to the inclemency of the weather and our massive brow is slowly creeping over toward the back of our neck. Nature makes all things even. If a man be possessed of such ravishing beauty and such winning ways that his power might become dangerous, she makes him bald-headed. That is our tlx. When we have our hat off and go chasing down the street with that camel glide of ours every one asks who that noble-looking Apollo with the deep and melancholy eye is,, but when we are at the office, with our hat hung up on the French walnut sideboard, and the sun comes softly in through the rosewood shutters and lights up the shellac polish on our Intellectual dome, wo are not so pretty. Then it is that the fly with gentle tread and seductive song, comes and prospects around on our bump of selfesteem, and tickles us and makes us mad. When we get where forbearance ceases to be a virtue, we haul' of and bit the place where he was, while he goes over to the inkstand and snlokers at us. After he has waded around in the carmine ink a while he goes back to the bump of spirituality and makes some red marks over it. Having laid off his claim under the new mining law, he proceeds to sink it. If we write anything bitter these days; if we say aught of our fellow man that is disagreeable or unjust, and for which we afterward get licked, it is because at times we get exasperated and are not responsible. If the fly were large and weighed 200 pounds and came in here and told Jia if we didn’t take back what we had said about him, he would knock out the window with our remains and let u-i fall 100 feet into the busy street, it wouldn’t worry us so much, because then we could strangle him with one hand while we wroteacolumn editorial with the other. We do that frequently. But a little fragile insect with no home and no parents, aud'only four or five million brothers and sisters, gains our confidence and (Jien tickles our scalp till we have to write with a sheet of tar roofing over our head. Then he cornea in and helps us read our proof. We don’t want him tb help, but he insists on making corrections and putting punctuations in the wrong place, and putting full stops whers they knock the sense all out of the paragraph. If the fly could be removed from our pathway we would march along on our journey to the tomb in a way that would be the envy and admiration of the civilized world. As it is we feel that we are not making a very handsome record.

Odd Tastes in Jewelry.

N. Y. Sun. “Hereis something new in the way of ornamentation,” a salesman in a large uptown jewelry store said, openiqg a box. Out walked a monster beetle, fully four inches in length. About its body was a solid gold band, looked by a tiny padloek, to which Was attached a costly gold chain, about two inches in length, fastened to a pin. The beetle’s back glistened in the light, having been treated to a suit of gold, and as it lumbered along Us long legs worked together in a curious fashion. “It’s a shawl pin. You fee the pin is used*to fasten lace or a shawl, or perhaps worn on the bonnet, the insect crawling around the’ length bf the chain. They are perfectly harmless and not expensive, as they live on air—that is, they have never heed seen to eat. This one was brought here to mount, which is a ,very fine operation, as the legs and atteume are all so delicate. After all there is nothing so objectionable nbout them, except the idea of having them crawl over you. They all come from South America, and the only lot now in the city is to be taken to France, were the owner will try to introduce the fashion of wearing them. They cost from $lO to SSO, depending entirely on the mounting of tne ring. There is nothing cruel about it, as they are bound looely, and the gold has no effect on their hard aides.” In Brazil the fashion of wearing beetles is carried to a great extent, A well known resident has a beetle with a-collar of gold which meets at the top, and is there ornamented with a diamond of great value. The insect has a' cage, surrounded by th*, plants among which'it lives in its native state, and nothing is neglected to make it as comfortable as possible. But the most popular insect used for ornament is a small phosphorescent beetle. These are often worn fastened in the hair and as the tWo phosphorescent or lightgiving spots are on the sides of the head, the-black insect is of course in* visfable, especially when in the raven looks of the fair Brazlllians. Twenty or thirty of these beetles will throw out a light sufficient to read' by, and when acanged around the head in a circle,

Several years age a New York lady gave a masquerade ball at her rammer: house in Newport. The dancincf was on the lawn, and the guests were re--quested to be there half an houf before dress, covered with ivy leaves; did act attract special attention, bat when .she appeared In the gay throng after dark she presented a perfect blaze of light, and was the center of an admiring and wondering' company. Tremulous waves of. relish-yellow flame seemed to move over her entire drees, while in m cap on her head gleamed one flrey star. The cause of this illumination was the phosphorescent light of more than five, thousand fire-flies. .For weeks previous to the ball the designer of the costume had been storing away fixe-flies, and on the day of the fete they were rapidly put on the dress; As the light-giving is on the ventral surface, each one was placed on its back and held down by a fine Bilver wire, so

skillfully caught that it could not torn over or escape, and was not injured. Thestar waS formed of mkny beetles. In Jamaica a large beetle, the Lampvris, is used by ladies. Some of the pnosphoßßSoent beetles Used < by. them give ou.t lights that have to be seen to be appreciated, and more than twenty different kinds are used, representing a« many different degrees of light, shade, tint, Ac. One, the Pygolampis, has a rich orange color, changing to yellow, flickering in intermittent flashes of light; another, called r Photuris, is curious for the gradual increase of light it shows. Commending with a faint reddish hoe, it rapidly grows in brilliancy, finally bl&zing.like a torch, a rich green 7 light, and then dying away to reappear again. They attract other light giving beetles, and frequently numbers of lesser lights are seen flitting around them, combining red and yellow lights of the greatest brilliancy. Other uses are made of these beautiful creatures than as ornaments. Travelers have fastened them

to their feet and carried them in baskets of wicker to light their way in the dark. Southey mentions this in following lines in his poem. “Madoc:” She beckoned and descended, and drew ont From underneath her vest a cage, or net It rather might be called, so fine the twigs Which knit It—where,confined, two Arc flies Gave their luster. Snakee has been Used as ornaments, the small inoffensive green snake being the most popular, on account of their beauty and harmless nature. They coil around the arm, clinging on with all the tenacity of their golden, bejewelled imitators that are now so fashionable. Animals, or parts of them, although naturally the adjuncts of barbaric splendor, are generally used in the make-up of fashionable toilets of the present day. Someof the handsomest sleeve buttons and studs are made of polished fish skin—shark or dogfish being preferred, ar> they take a fine polish, ana closely resemble Jhe fossil 1 coral FavositieS, that is also used 1 ) and when highly polished the delicate cells that were once the home of the coral polyp are distinctly visible, and as a whole resembles honeycomb.

An expensive costume was a cape made of an extremely rare humming bird. The whole bird was jiardly larger than one’s thnmb, and on its breast a single patch of gold wab found about an inch in length. The cloaq was composed Wholly of these patches, and in the sunlight must have vied with the golden fleece. The birds are vsiued at SSO each. A lady (in St. Augustine created a sensation by appearing in public with a chameleon renting on her headdress, and .held there |by a delicate silver chain. The little oreature was perfectly tame, and made no attempt to escape; but when touched by other than its owner its throat puffed up and curious waves of color passed over the whole body, ranging from deep green to a dark ~ brown. Small lizards are used in Egypt by some of the natjve ladies as ornaments, and lie half concealed in the drapery that overhangs the face. The red-clawed soldier crabs are some times used in Mexico as pins. The crab isxfislbdged from its stolen - shell kndgivefl a beautiful pearly one, or onithat Inis bCe»—plated with gold or silveTr—Fastened to the lace by a i n and chain, they make inents.

Bathing.

Among the luggage of an English family tbe leather-covered hat bath is as inevitable as a portmanteau or a hat box, and is packed with movables of one sort or another, as if It were a trunk, and the well Englishman, women and child takes his ‘"tubbing” ad certainly and as much a matter of oourse as his breakfast. This bath is l usually a bedside affair. The. maid who calls you in the morning lays be/ aide the- bed a soft thick drugget, and places upon it the tub, fills it with water, and places your towels,one Ri»sian and one huckaback, within eapproach, and you step from your bed if to your bath. / People who have no opportunity to enjoy sea bathing will be glad to know that a substitute nearly, if not quite as strengthening, is found in an ammonia bath. A gill of liquid ammonia in a pail of water makes an invigorating solution, whose delightful effects can only be compared to a plunge in the surf. To weak persons this is an incomparable luxury and tonic. It cleauses the skiu and stimulates it wonderfully, and leaves the flesh as firm and cool as marble. More than this, the ammonia purifies the body from all odor of perspiration. Those in whom the secretion is unpleasant will find relief by using a spoonful of the tincture in a basin of water, and washing the armpits with it every morning. Many people find great comfort and benefit from salt water baths, arranged ■in this wav: A coffee cup of-fine distilled salt is mixed with a gallon of water, and-with a hair glove or Russian bath cloth, the body Is thoroughly bathed with the mixture, rubbing until the body is aglow. Then follows an exhilaration akin to surf bathing. Tbe druggists sell boxes of salt especially prepared, and weighing three pounds, for fifty-five cents. For a delicate child such a bath is recommended

as especially beneficial. Many people fiqd an occasional bran bath greatlv improves the condition of the skin. The French women find it leaves their dark clear flesh as soft as a baby’s. A peck of common bran, to be had at any of the feed stores, is stirred in a tub of warm water. The rubbing of the scaly particles of the bran cleanses the skin, while the glutefr in it softens and strengthens the tisues. The friction of the loose bran calls the blood to the surface, and nervous and irritable people find special benefit from it' for their minds as well as their bddies. Physicians say the habitual use of soap on the face leaves the skin brown, and recommend a little oat meal In the water, or the ammonia suggested above. Ladies who have moist or cily skins should use Suite hot water for their baths, and a ttle fine bay ram rubbed over the face or a . little of any of the fine toilet waters. A tablespoon ful in the wash bowl of water prevents that shiny appearance of the 'skin which is so annoying. ' -

The Discipline of Drudgery.

New Haven Pallaainm. f A. “liberal education” is a capital thing,and the thousands of young men who are now honored with the title of A. B. are to be ooxfrratulated upon tbe tioacquite tbementaldiscipline resulting from a four-years oourse of academic study. But these young men must not make the mistake of supposing that this disaipllne is an all-sufS-cient preparation for the higher callings of life. - That is, the young men

«■ Hie, for instance,must not immaghaa that the foot of their havtngooUegeeducation will permit have is valuable, hut chiefly no as a Urt* for the acquirement of practical knowledge, without Which riuccoss is impossible. By practical knowledge we «««» acquaintance with -the mingoto make up all occupations. Such knowledge a oollege education cannot give, and is not intended to give. It is 0% to be 1 acquired by patient application. The discipline of Um college curriculum must be supplemented by smother kind of discipline, namely, the discipline of drudgery. No one, however largely endowed with mental power, can be exempted from the necessity of acquiring this discipline. It is far more essential to success than the discipline fbrnished by a oollege course.

HUMAN PINCUSHIONS.

How Needles and- Pins Work in and Out of the Body. London Lancet. Hildanus related an inoident of a woman who swallowed several pins and passed them six years afterward; but a more remarkable instance of prolonged detention was reoorded by Stephenson, of Deiroit—that of a lady aged 75, who last year passed, after some month’s symptoms of yessical irritation, a pin which she had swallowed while picking her teeth with it in the year 1835 —forty-two years previous. M. Bitty records some years ago the case of a woman who had a penchant for pins and needles so strong that she made them, in fact, a part or her daily diet,and after her death 1,400 or 1,500 were removed from various Darts of her body. 1

Another, case almost as striking has been recorded by Dr. Gillette, that of a girl in whom, from time to time, needles were found beneath the skin, which they perforated, and Were removed by the fingers or forceps. Concerning the way m which they got into her system no information could be extracted from her. .Bhe was carefully watched, and in the course of eighteap months no less than 320 needles were extracted, all being of the same size. The largest number which escaped in a single day-was sixty-nine. A curisus phenomenon preceded the escape of eacn needle. For some hours the pain was severe,and there was considerable fever. She then felt a sharp pain, like lightning, in the tissues, and on looking at the place at which this pain had been felt, the head of the needle was generally found projecting. The needle? invariably came out head formoet. No bleeding was occasioned, and not the least trace of inflamation followed. The doctor in attendance extracted 318.

That little weight is to be attached to the place at which the needles escape as proof of their mode of introduction is evident from a case recorded by Villars of a girl who swallowed a large number of pins and needles, and two years afterward, during a period of nine months, two hundred passed out of the hand,arm, axilla, side of thorax, abdomen and thigh, and on the left side. The pins, curiously, escaped more readily and With less pain than the needles. Many years ago a case was recorded by Dr. Otto, of Copenhagen, in which four hundred and ninety-five needles passed through the side of a hysterical girl, who had probably swallowed them during a hysterical paroxyywm; but all these emerged in the regions "below the level of the diaphragm, aud were collected in groups, which gave rise to inflammatory swellings of some size. One oflhese contained’ one Hundred needles. Quite recently Dr. Bigger described before the society of surgery of Dublina case in which more than three hundred needles were removed from the body of a woman who died in consequence of their presence. It is very remarkable in how few cases, the needles were the cause of death, and how slight an interference with functions their presence and movements cause.

Belshazzar Smith and His B r other William.

Belshazzar Smith had a ve>y bad and very dangerous habit of walking in ibis sleep. 'His family-feared that during one of his . somnambulistic saamtenngs he would charge out of the window and kill himself, so they peruaded him to sleep with his* little brother William, and" to tie qne end of /a rope around his body and the other around little William. The very first night after this arrangement was made, Belshazzar dreamed that a burglar was pursuing him with a dagger. So he crept over to William’s side of the bed, stepping over William’s slumbering form, jumped out on the floor and slid under the, bed. He staid there awhile and then, his nightmare having changed, he emerged upon the other side of the bed and got under the cover in his old place. The rope, it will be observed, was beneath 'the bed, and it- was {killed taut, too. Early in the morning Belshazzar, about half awake, scrouged over against William. To his surprise the movement jerked William clear out of bed. Belshazzar leaped out to ascertain the cause of the phenomenon and at the same -time his brother disappeared under the bed. Belshazzar, hardly awake, was scared, and he dived beneath the bedstead. As he did so he heard William skirmishiag across the blankets, above his head. Once more he rushed out, just in time to see William glide over on the other side. ’ Belshazzar just then became sufficiently conscious to feel the rope pulling on him. He comprehended the situation at once and disengaged himself. Perhaps little Wiliiam was not mad. He was in the hospital Undergoing repairs for about three weeks, and when he came out he had a strange desire to sleep tdone. Belshazzar anchors himself to an anyil now.

Two Important Oversights.

Detroit Free Press. Ondfof the stall-keepers at the central market had a basket of vegetables to go <k> a house on Fort Street east, yesterday, and coming to a whitewasher whq was hanging around for a job, he said\to him: “Here, old man, take this basket to No. Fort street, and I* will give you a watermelon.” The colored brother closed the bargain at once, and upon his return, after a suspiciously brief absence, the man handed him the two halves of a green melon. “I promised you a melon, and here it is,”as he clapped the two halves together. “Bat dat mellyon hante ripe, boss.” ‘‘Can’t ~heio that. I -didn’t specify that I wouki give you a ripe one.” “Dat’sso boss, but I didn’t specify what timedis summer,l should tote dat basket up dar, either, an’ I kinder reckoned it was best to leave it in a lumber yard till I saw de size and color of de watermelyon • ’P<-*rs like I haint much behind in dis tifcde,” Q* had a ripe melon in his arms as he started off to finish, his errand.

The superstitious inhabitants of Garcard, Ky., stay in their houses at night for-fear of a naked old man with a white beard reaching to his knees. They believe him to be a ghostjodging by his mysterious appearance and disappearance, and the whole country is in excitement A few men. lees cowardly, go out every night to hant for [the strange being. These think he is I some lunatic who has for years hidden

JOCOSITIES.

Tlx well to quote the census number, - ” To show the greatness of s nation, But better yetfe the green cnenmber To double up the population. J This party's front name it was HagglnT' He camelnto town from Bullraggm; He tickled the mule % And the lanorant fool Was healed home stone dead in a wagon. Hie wife’s name was Bally Carathers, Bhe married four times to four brothers; ~ '"j When she uw Haggin dead This was all that sue said: “Go bury that fool With the others," u O, fly with me cried tee wild esthete,” As he nttered h is lo vo-too-too; *• We shall float down the utterly utter tide In this utterly frail canoe.” “Quite too utterly sweet would it be to flee In that stall canoe with yon; But l utterly fear my parent dear, Which his specialty la glue.” A Buffalo girl never has her wedding dress made in that city, for fear somebody will say she was married in * Buffalo robe. A Philadelphia man who recently be came the father of a strong lunged youngster, says he don't need Prof. Bell’s eleotrio balance to locate the bawl. , .

“Hazel Kirke” was performed at Carson night before last, and so affected the audience that it was necessary to mop the floor of the theatre between the acts. Ts Garfield Bhould recover and Mrs. Garfield should refuse to accept the purse of $250,000, how would it do to give Mrs. Abraham Linooln thirty-five or forty cents of it? “Chinese barbers shave without lather.” This reminds ns that our old schoolmaster used to lather without shaving. One is said to be as painful an operation as the other. Birky—“l got off a good' thing the other day; did you hear about it?” Jimmerson “No, what was it?” Birky—“Well to tell the tiuth, it was my red flannel undershirt.” An old man-of war sailor, who had lost a leg in the service of his country, became a retailer of peanuts. He said he was obliged to be a retailer because, having lost a leg, he oould not be a whole sailor. .

“No,” said Ragbag, “J can’t really afford to keep two pianos and have both my daughters take music* lessons, hut the son of a pirate who lives next door let his hens into my garden last spring, and I’ll get even with him if it, fails me.” - - . “Veil, my mercy gootness!’! .-exclaimed Count Von Fiddlastickski, as he gazed for the first time at Niagara Falls. -* ■“I has never in der whole course mit my oxperience seed der vaterfall liter dat one. I feel mineself all full up mit axcldemendt. Vere ish der parroom ?” A Hawesville (Ken.) negro congregation recently held an indignation meeting and resolved “dat> it -am not rite to senshure de ministah for the losin sf $9.35 on free card monte, kaze why; we know dat it am a werry excitin’ game, an’ de werry best ob us is li’ble to at any moment ob our lives. A Middletown paper publishes am article, addressed to girls, whifth says: “The hinges* of hell are greased' by flirtation*” Thus, one by one, are the questions that have puzzled risen for centuries beiDg solved. This, is real newspaper enterprise. None but a lively city editor would have thought of detailing a reporter to settle this vexed question. Mother of esthetic young lady a t Long Branch r- “Julia, you havea’t been in bathing yet?” Julia—“No, mamma.” Mother “What ris tie reason?” Julia—“l don’t like to tell, mamma.” Mother “Stuff, let me know at once.” Julia (blushing)— “Because Mr. DeLacey’s dog comes down to look at me every time Igo to the bath-house, and I know Mr. De-, Lacey sends him.” The Burington man says: “If the young man who stood under the aft window of this office last Tuesday night and sang, “Let me Die when the Lilies are Blooming,” will kindly stand where the forman can reach him with the mallet the next time h§ comes, we will do all in our power to get him in about two laps.'ahead of the earliest lily of the season. No man who sings as he does should waste any time waiting for the lillies when it comes to dying. , . A reverend getleman in Aberdeenshire, was summoned before his presbytery for tippling, and one of his elders, the constant participator of his orgies, was summoned to appear as a witness against him. “Wee! .John,” said a member of the reverend court “did you ever see the accrued the warf' of drink?” “Weel, I wat no,”» . swerea John, “I’ve mony the time seen him the better o’t, but never seen him the waur o’t.” “Bat did you ever see him drunk?” “That’s what I’ll never see,” replied the elder: “for lang before he’s half el ikeneil I'm aye blind sou.”

The Effigy Mounds of Wiscinsin.

ui&uißon (Wisconsin) Journal. The mounds of Wisconsin afford to the scientific'world one of the most uniques'.ubjects of study, and there is aothing|like them in the United States, Or so far as known, iu the world. They are called, from their shapes and resemblance to certain animals, emblematic or effigy mounds. The object of erecting them has been hitherto unknown, and hence their significance has been hidden. There are, however, certain facts now known in reference to the native tribe, which promise to. furnish the clew to their mounding. It is probable that a complete system of ethnology will yet be drawn oqt from these mounds , and other data, which shall solve some of the many problems in reference to the origin of society, tbe rise of religion, and other subjects, These subjects are becoming very important. Aside from them, however, the Wisconsin also have long engaged the attention of the scholore of this country and of Europe. We are happy to learn that the Smithsonian Institution at Washington is about to . undertake the work of resurveying these works, and that a monogram is now being prepared by the Rev. 8. D. Feet, of Clinton, Wis., whoT as editor of the American Antiquarian, is' well Known.

A Ruined Life.

John O’Neil, of Dublin, died Id the Preebvterian hospital, New York, last week,* from drink and destitution. Twenty years ago he was worth $150,* 000, and in his native town of Ireland was a most popular young man. One of Tweed’s friends visited Ireland with his family, and O’Neil fell in 1 >ve with one of his daughters. "She seemed to favor his suit while in Ireland, but when he followed her to New York she jilted him. Broken hearted lie returned to Ireland and tried to drown his sorrow in drink. For several years he divided his time between Ireland and America, dissipating his wealth in riotous living. At last his money was exhausted, . and abandoned by v- to friends, he became a tramp. The qfhejr morning he was found lying on a dray where he had spent the night, and was in a dying condition when taken to the hospital. •

Remedy for Sleeplessness.

The Medical Press and Circular contains some good suggestions about th'e hygenic treatment of sleeplessness, which are summarized as follows: Wet half a towel, apply it to the back of the neck, pressing It upward toward the base of tbe brain, and fasten the dry half of the towel over so asto prevent the too rapid exhalation. The effect is prompt and charming, cooling the brain and inducing calmer.stfeeter sleep than any narcotic. Warm water may be need, though most pwsons^preJwSexcitemenS off the result of brain work or pressing anxiety, this simple remedy has proved an especial boon. , , .