Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 17, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 October 1886 — Page 6

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WOMAN MD HOME.

THE GIRL BABY AND HER FIRST *HOUR AT SCHOOL.

rhjiiaal Health of Women Utilizing Stale Bread—Short Visit* the Best—Dlsease Breeder*— Hoase Files—Earache and Legache—Notes and Paragraphs.

To-morrow my baby will be my baby no longer she is going to school. Her world is about Vo widen, her life is about to broaden, bat I, I shall lose my baby!

What a short six years they have been! They brought her and put her on the pillow beside me I put my finger near her band and die grasped it. Heaven came closer to me than I had ever dared hope it might. The first day that I sat up nurse gave her to me and I held her in my arms. My own little baby! I wanted no past, no future I was supremely happy in the present.

When she lay in her crib and followed me 'with her eyes! that was bliss. When she cooed to

me I When she stretched out her little hands to

me! When she laughed as I came near her! Ah, God is very good to mothers, and I wondered why such joy should come to me. Perhaps there was a pang of sorrow as she left off her long clothes. Yet the cunning little feet, the creeping figure, tho aimless •tops, tho final walking, these mado the change a time of fulness for the mother, and the baby was still all my own.

Hlio has grown in everything except in getting along without me. Mamma has been tho pivot around which her life has revolved. She has come to me with her pains, her disappointments, her failures and her joys. In my ear she has whispered the wonderful thoughts that childhood lives upon. No question could reach so high or pierce such depths but that mamma could answer it. No danger could threaten her that mamma's arms were not a safe refuge from. No pain ao

severe but that mamma could relieve it. How many hours in these six years have wo two been together? Ah, mo, wo shall be but ono from this on, but we have been but ono thus far. Not any less real to her than I am, are tho hundred heroes of stories that I have ovolved for her they seem very real indeed, to me. If I have entertained her she has no less been my "Scheherezade," and has related tales fully as impossible as the Arabian Nights. Of late she has wandered further away, but never so far but that she could run quickly homo if her fear was aroused. She has brought with her thoughts gathered from other children, but they are brought to be tried in the crucible of mamma's judgment and wisdom. When sho "keeps house" I of ton take tea with her, and sho cannot take more pleasure in the "make believe" than I do.

But now she is going to school! I shall lose my baby I havo lost her. Sho will leave the door with kisses on her lips, and my words in her oar, but sho will come homo full of school, of companions, and teachers. She will pass into a world whore I am not where I can only follow at a distance and sho will never again bo wholly rainev Oh, good toacher! sho is but one of fifty in your room, and, perhaps, in your eyes, ono of tho least interesting. But, oh, she is my one owo Iamb, and heaven shines on mo out of her eyes. 1 must share my kingdom with you. Your praise will count with hor greater than mine your frown will be more fearful than all my thundering. She was but a baby an hour ago, but sho is ono' no longer. I shall pick up most of the playthings and put ther.i away. To-morrow night she will look on them with great scorn, she will b© a baby no longer, nnd sho will have put away her baby things.

So I sit hero pitying myself while I press her to my heart* She is full of the happiest anticipations, but I whisjjer to my aching heart--1 am about to lose my baby.—William H. Maher, in The Toledo Journal.

Short Visits Are the Best.

It is not always wise to make a rule that no one is to be admitted during the ovening on the contrary, a guest may bo heartily welcomed if it is known at the outset that he hak come for a short time, that ho is cheerful, and friendly, and amusing, and, in short, worth listening to and ontcrtaining. From the boresomo visitor at all times, good Lord, deliver us. But the ill-eoncealod gloom that settles down upon ono tired face after another, while tho clock strikes the succeeding half hours, and each member of the family in tarn comes despairingly to the rescue of the faltering conversation, is a deplorable thing. We hit) responsible for the state of our conscioncm, and if we have allowed them to become so dull that they do not give us the unmistakable warning to go away, then we must not frot. if we are wanted off, dreaded and called bores. I was de.ighted to hoar some one say, not long ago, that she did not think she hnd any right to spend two hours at a time with any friend, without a special invitation, since it could not fail to be an interruption and it gave joy to my heart that ono person so respoctod tho rights of others. Picture some one, who has assured himself that be is not likely to find amusement under his own roof, sotting forth in search of a more agreeable place In which to spend the evening. He hunts from door to door, finding that one family has honestly paid its money and gone to a play, another is dining out, the third bnjoying ita invited guests, while at the fourth he is met at sight with tho informer tiofc that the ladies are engaged. Perhaps at the fifth be gains an entrance.

One person rises hurriedly frcWi the libfa another comes reluctantly from a desk, where aomc notes and letters must be written at some time during that evening, and tho stricken group resigns itself to tho demands of friendship and society. The master of the bouse returns presently to his vocation, with a brave exeum. It may be 8 o'clock when the guest comes it may be 0, and he may be kind-hearted and unobjectionable: he may ©ven be profitable ami entertaining but he stays until after 10 everybody thinks that he never means to go. and inwardly regrets his presence, For half an hoar he could have felt cure of welcome in that time be certainly could have said and done all that was worth doing, and have been asked to stay longer, or to come again soon, when be took leave.

There is no greater compliment and tribute to one's integrity than to be fairly entreated to sit down for ten minutes longer. Of course, we treat each other civilly in an evening visit, but it is a great deal better to come away too soon than to stay too late. In a busy, over-worked and over-burrkd city life, nothing so precious as a quiet evening to one's self, or even a pan of one. We all wfe*h—or ought to wish—to make life pleasant for ourselves and other people, and are ready to be geoemu* even with our time ba^ no one Ukr* to be plundered and defrauded. It Is the underlying principle of our neighbor's action and conduct toward us which makes thankful or resentful when he comes to visit un—Atlantic Monthly.

To VttUae Male Bread.

A great deal of bread is thrown away by those who can ill afford it, from the lack of knowledge how to utilise It On the farm, in most instances, of oowrM) stale bread is not wholly kst, for if wes a little it makes good food for the poultry, or may be giveo to the jplgs, but this to not the be* way to make use

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at it, even by those who have pitilfery and piga. There are many ways to utilize stale bread. It makes delicious griddle cakes when soaked in cold water. Three snail slices, with water enough to cover them, should be when the milk and flour are added, to make two quarts of batter. Some prefer to put in one egg, |rh|le others like them folly as well without ''J-*

When the bread is soaked soft, make it fine with a spoon, add the milk and sufficient flour to stiffen enough so that the cakes can be easily turned. If sour milk is used add to the batter one even teaspoonful of soda. If you do not use sour milk use twice as much cream of tartar as soda. French toast, always a favorite dish with children, con be made of thin slices cut from a stale loaf and moistened in milk and eggs—two eggs to a pint of milk—and then fried on a griddle with a mixture of butter and lard or butter and beef drippings, and may be eaten with sugar or syrup, like griddle cakes. Pieces of bread which are not too hard can be made into a resemblance of turkey dressing. Cut the bread into dice, and if you have a quantity of gravy from which fat can be taken, left from any kind' of roast—though a piece of butter will do as well—thoroughly grease tho bottom of a spider, put in the bread, with some little chunks of butter and plenty of seasoning then pour enough boiling water on to moisten it, cover tightly, and in a moment it will steam through and you can stir it, and either brown a little or have it moist, like dressing. It should be eaten with gravy over it, and is a good substitute for potatoes.

The little dry, hard pieces and crusts which always accumulate can be put on a pio tin in an oven that is just hot enough to dry and make them alight brown then roll them fine and put away to use in making croquettes, frying fish, etc. Even these slightly browned crumbs make excellent griddle cakes with the addition of one egg and a handful of flour and milk to a batter. Stale bread may be utilized in making a custard pudding, also. The fact is that where economy is the rule bread will not be thrown away.—Chicago News.

Physical Health of Women. Now the laws that govern physical health and the conditions that promise it are far better understood and moro generally obeyed by this generation than by any precedent one. Intelligent people sleep in well aired beds, in well ventilated chambers, rise to take their stimulating bath in a comfortable bath room, invest themselves in flannels and heavy suitings when the weather requires them, eat their well cooked breakfast of well chosen food, wrap themselves sufficiently, and wear heavy booting, and beginning tho day thus thoroughly fortiflod, seek to spend as much time out of doors as their affairs will permit. Young women ride, skate, bowl, play billiards, go out in all weathers, and in most ways lead far more healthful lives than their rgothers did.

If, with dll these offsets, the stimulating influences of their lives still tell upon them with harmful effect, making them old before their timo, the cause, wo think, is to be found in iheir omotional precocity. From the baby of 2, stimulated by cal-essings and cajolings to exhibit a dramatic passion of affection for its mother or its nurse, to the maiden of 18, l-eady to toss her heart to the first empty Prince Charming, it is hardly too much to say that ovcry girl is hurried in her emotional development.

A certain famous teacher once'declared that she would not havo in hor school a protty and charming under-teacher, who *fa9cirlated" the pupils, because they were there to have their minds and not their son"Bibilities educated, and because a grand passion for a young woman was even more pernicious than one for a young man, because loss normal. But no experience is commoner than this. The late hours, the familiar mingling in the festivities of their elders, the reading of sentimental books and papers, the stimulating effect of complex diet—the sharing, in a word, of tljo moro sophisticated life 'around them—prepare girls to spend their all of sensibility in their early youth, and leave them but a dull monotony of middle age.

If wo are to have wives and mothers equal to theis high offices, wo must protect and secludo our young girls from being pushed into womanhood by this terrible "go" of American life. It is not study that win hurt them it is the over-sensibility that study does much to control. It is not thinking that will wear them out it is feeling.—Harper's Bazar.

Disease Breeders.

Far too many houses, both in city and country, ore positively dangerous. Many city houses stand on mado land, or at least that which was formerly swampy. Thafoundation walls, when there are any—for houses often stand on posts alone—are built of solid masonry, but with no cement either outside or in. Such walls aro porous and soak up water nearly as rapidly as a sponge.. Then it slowly trickles down the inside, emitting malaria, forming a fine soil in which all manner of fungokl growths flourish. Tho rooms over such places are first-class disease breeders, and every home should be frequently examined to see that this source of danger does not exist*

Then, drain pipes often leak in tho cellar and basement This adds to the danger to the rooms above. Tho two fiends, stagnant water from the sewers and the water filtering slowly in through the walls, work in concert to gap the life of the little onos, and to fit them to yield to the first disease.

Tho walls of tho. rooms themselves, in far tod many houses,' are diseaso breeders. A mat and tasty paper upon the wall makes a room inviting and adds to the home ownfort But, unfortunately, even when the paper is nutde free from posison—a good paper can l« so made—the paste with which it is attached is just tho home for the minute organism* which produce certain diseases. This is bad enough where there is only a single layer of paper, but when,

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the case, several layers of paper and paste are spread upon the same wall, outsufc of one another, tho danger is multiplied many times. Such walls are really masses of festering filth. The best wall is, undoubtedly, the plain plastered walL—Le Roy F. Griffin, in Chicago Current.

Karache and Legache.

One of our little girls has been troubled with earache since her babyhood. No sores have gathered, but a cold or exposure to a strong wind is almost certain to cause her acute suffering with earache. After trying nearly everything that I have seen or beard recommended, I havo settled on this application as giving surest and quickest relief. It is a bsg stuffed with hops and wrong from hot vinegar. I lay the beg over the cbfkfti ear, as hot as sbe will bear it, cover the whole side of tho ace with dry flannel and change the hqp bag as often as it becomes cooL The warm steam filling the child* ear, soon relieves the pain.

Stuffing the ear with the "heart of a roasted onion," trickhngsof molaat*, wads of peppered cotton, and lumps of mutton tallow, has never yet, in my experience, eased carache, and such irritating mo— crowded or poured into the delicate labyrinth at the ear may do roach mischief.

Another child a victim of legacba Inherited, possibly, for well do we remember what we suffered with ita tartans in our own chtMhoocL Heat and rooter? gave us retteC, and, following fat our mother* fuutsUps we

have routed night after night from oar warm quarters, in the dead of winter, to kindle fires and fill frosty kettles from waterpaQs thickly crusted with ice, that we might get tho writhing pedal extremities of our little heir into a tub of hot water as quickly as possible. But lately we have learned all this work and exposure is needless. We simply wring a towel from salted water—a bowl of it standing in our sleeping room, ready for such an emergency—wrap the limb in it from ankle to knee, without taking the child from his bod( and then swathe with dry flannels, thick and warm, tucking the blankets about him a little closer and relief is sum

A croupy cough can often be loosened and prevented by swathing the throat with dry, warm flannels a thick pack of thcrn to sweat the throat and chest often helps so speedily that-, it is not necessary to sicken the child with ipccac, or to .wake the house kindling fires and preparing hot packs.—Clarissa Potter, in Good Housekeeping.

To Get Kid of House Files. I have discovered a good way to destroy house flies. It has the advantage of cheapness, and also preventing dead flies from falling into everything, as they do when poison is used. Mix together equal parts, by measure. of melted resin and castor oil. Stir until thoroughly mixed, which will take only a minute. While yet a little warm spread thin and evenly on any strong paper that is not porous. We use foolscap, writing papers, catalogue covers, show bills, etc. Spread with a case knife or any straight-edged instrument, slightly warmed. Leave a narrow border to handle with. lay the papers on tables, shelves, or any spare places where flies are numerous. They will soon cover the papers. As soon as they alight they will stick fast, and soon pull themselves down. When the papers are covered two or three flies deep, put in the stove and replace with another ona Be sure to use no water. The oil prevents the resin from hardening, and has the peculiarity of not evaporating. The oil leaves no odor when cool. Ten cents will buy enough to kill all the flies in a hotel.— Cor. Western Rural.

Kules for Living Well.. it

If living well consists in living neither luxuriously nor expensively, in what, then, lies the secret, and how may the man of moderate means take advantage of it? The question is not a difficult one to answer, and we will put that answer in the shape of a few short rules: 1. Buy with judgment. 2. Buy the best, for the best is always the cheapest 8. Let your economy regulate tbe quantity, not the quality. 4. Lot your cook bo a cook, and one that knows how to utilize what is now thrown to the dogs, or otherwise wasted. 5. Study simplicity in tbe number of the dishes, and variety in the character of the meals. 0. Let tho housewifo be watchful enough to trace the leaks that aro liable to spring in every larder. 7. Let the mistress be indeed the head of her own household and of her own kitchen.— The Caterer.

What Queen Victoria Can Do. It is raid Queen Victoria can wash and dress a baby with any woman, and can generally diagnose tho trouble when a child cries. The queen's skill in baby nursing was acquired from tho famous Mrs. Lilley, who attended her majesty at the birth of the nine royal children. .This excellent person was a great favorite yritji the queen, who honored her with her. confidence upon the rfiost delicate matters. When' Mrs. Lilley died, in her 92d year, her majesty unaffectedly grieved, feeling she* had lost a true friend. The old nurse to the last proved worthy of her mis­

tress1 confidence.—London Letter.

Sign With Her Proper Title. •. The Springfield Republican suggests, that it is allowable and proper for every woman, in addressing a stranger, to sign herself with her proper title in parenthesis before the namo, It holds, inde~l, that to omit it, In fact, is hardly proper. Time will be required to educate women to tho point of realizing this, but it will be an aid to others and may save themselvessome mortification if they take this course. P)f

Mme. Wagner as Director. Mme. Wagner was the virtual director of this year's representations of "Tristan and Isolde" at Baireuth, giving to the artists tho same kind of suggestions that her husband used to give, and taking his place to the best of her zeal and ability.—Frank Leslie's.

To Wash Straw Matting.

Straw matting should bo washed with warm salt and water wring out a soft cloth in it and apply quick'y, not wetting the matting much, only enough to take out the dust and stains.—Good Housekeeping.

They Should Remember.

Flirtation is the besetting sin of underbred women. They should remember that the man with whom they flirt is invariably their coarsest critic and most unsparing judge.—Tbe Argonaut.

Miss Harriet Hosmer, tbe American sculptress, now living in Italy, is reported to have lost much of her fortune in Keely motor stock.

Maudo Howe speaks rather disapprovingly of the fashionable American family of one child.—Boston Herald.

If a little flour is sprinkled over mcr.t that is to be minced it will not adhere too tiowly to the chopping knife.

They do not vaccinate women in Burmab, as they aro not considered worth the trouble and expense.

Do not wash raisins, but wipe them with a dry ctotjh.

TEHEE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENDTG MAIL.

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Relative Merits of Xoted Men. It was never known what a foolish world it is till tho smaller journals took to asking tbe opinion of their readers on tbe relative merits of men whom no sensible human being would evar think of contrasting. The latest competition, organised by ona of these curious miscellaneous papers, has been to decide who are the "twanty greatest men" since 1500 A. D. Tbe greatest is Napoleon, and the Duke of Wellington is along way higher up the list than Cromwell or Newton. William Ewart Gladstone is only the ninth greatest man since 1500. Perhaps there is some misprint here. Stephenson almost exactly four times as great a man as Carlisle, and Rwdrin, Thackeray and Dumas together are only one-thirty-third as great as George Washington. There

is half a Tennyson in Burns, and 352 Ward Beechera go to make upaPMertbe Great. It is time tbe competition editors were propounding the ancient problem: Which is bettor, a pound of butter or a flannel waistcoat f—St James* Gaaette.

Xot a Great Be«f Katcr.

{Statistics, man or less accurate, show that John Bull is by no means the beef eater that he is cracked up to ba. Englishmen eat but an average of forty-five pounds a )HU, while tbe Australians average 190 pounds and dtiaensof the United States 180 York

DUMMIES OF SOCIETY.

FELLOWS WHO ARE ALWAYS IN THE FRONT AT WEDDINGS.

Youag Men with the Manners of a Girl Who Officiate as Professional GroomtmenaBHurrying Up lovers and Providing Bogus Presents.

One of the most amusing products of modern civilization is the professional groomsman. Society requires lacqueys, who should act as dummies for the belles of the season until an eligible party makes his appearance, when poor "Augustus" is retired to the anteroom to hold wraps and shawls. "Augustus" is usually some mild young man with the softened manners of a girl, whose voice is well modulated, and whose eyes are large and rolling. He finds himself first invited to the "big" houses as a kind of padding, ladies being plentiful and acceptable suiters few. As he is entirely harmless and very convenient the girls "take on" over him wonderfully, and as a result he imagines that he is "in society." From this beginning he is pushed forward until he becomes one of the figures in the germ an, and later still develops as the professional groomsman.

To talk with one of these young men at the beginning of a season furnishes food for a year's reflection. He has advance information of all tho receptions which are to bo given, of tho prospective marriages, and of all else that is likely to transpire. In the course of the season he will be the escort of perhaps twenty "belles of the ball." They will all smile on him sweetly, honor him with their small talk, and occasionally grow semiconfidential. If "Augustus" should at any time grow amatory he is good-naturedly shoved off, but permitted to retain a little hope,

THEY ARE INDISPENSABLE.

"Such young men," said a charming young lady the other day, "are indispensable. They wait upon us with all the devotion of accepted lovers they are always roady to answer any call made upon them they hold our shawls and act as escorts when no one else can be had, and," said she, dropping her eyelids demurely, "they are of excellent service in hurrying up slow lovers." •**'*, "How i3 that?" sho was asked. "Well, when the young man hesitates about coming to the point, wo can grow sweet on the dummies. The acceptance of an invitation or two from them will inspire a timid lover with a determination not to bo outdone. He will grow jealous, and within a week ho will either propose or take himself out of the way. Of course, we would not be so heartless as to deprive the dummy of his reward, which comes to him in the shape of a request to be one of the groomsmen.

And thus it goes. The poor dummy, up to his oars in debt, harassed from day to day by the presentation of past-due bills, dreams away his troubles while listening to ravishing music in some house of high degree, whero ho is filling his professional role. He does not think of the future, for that will reveal to him the time when fresh padding will push him out. He dares not aspiro to tho hand of one of the fair ladies upon whom he waits, for that will, in time, bo claimed by some schoolmate who worked hard for money while "Augustus" was idling away his time for a mention in the society column. He has no sympathy at home, for his mother and sisters are never invited to the "fine" .houses where his figure is so often to be seen. Though in the center of the whirl of society, he is as completely isolated from it as if he sat upon, the north pole itself.

Tbe writer once followed the announcement of a winter's fashionable marriages in Nashville.' In eighteen marriages five names Appeared continuously as groomsmen. These live men, who seemed to have a monopoly of the "spiketail coat" business, were nothing more or less than dummies,,who Jiad been of service to the brides, and who were being thus repaid for the tender attentions of balf a dozen seasons. Tbey were tbe stock in trade of a certain coterie, and had been privileged with seats at the kitchen conferences, where the details of the bridal trousseau were fully discussed.

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STILL ANOTHER SERVICE.^-

There is still another service which tbe dummies perform. In the rivalry of society weddings, there is a great effort to excel in tbe display of wedding gifts. Of course, there are always the gifts which are sure tc come from near relatives and friends, then from parties who feel themselves to be under business obligations to tho family, and, lastly, from well-to-do people who have been invited, and who know that a $10 present, at least, is expected. But the presents thus secured fall short of tho necessary display.

It is then that the professional groomsman understands a hint The five gentlemen, whose kids and spiketails have done service twenty times, go to a well known jeweler, who ordinarily would not trust them for a nickel. He has been "seen," however, and meets the professionals with a bland smile. They make their selections, and leave their cards, The presents are not intrusted to them, but are sent directly to the mansion, where they are properly displayed. In the society column of the local paper next morning, among other presents are noted the following:

Beautiful silver service—"Augustus" Swinburne. Gold card receiver—Alfonso SoftshelL

Silver table service—Harry Lovemewell. Gold mounted opera glasses—Eugene Dryso. Toilet set, solid silver—Frank Always. It is needless to stato that the bills for these presents are never presented to tbe supposed donors. Tho "old man" goes around next day and arranges for their return on the payment of a slight rental.

To a newspaper man, who knows the efforts of the dummies to keep afloat, and the small pay in tbe way of social wares which tbey receive, the matter looks like a roaring comedy. The same labor given to any reputable business would bring competence, when tho social dummy awakes to tbe fact that he has nothing but asues on his lips.—Atlanta Constitution.

Bothering the Passenger Agents. Passenger agents are much bothered by class of persons who repeatedly ask questions about routes, prices, connections and every detail of a journey, without any intent of making it. To than

they havo applied the

name of mind travelers, who are so easily distinguished by certain outward signs and characteristics that an experienced agent can often tell them at sight. Tbey not only come once, they come again and again, gather every bit of information, carry away circulars, time tables, etc. talk of the size of their "party," and furnish every detail, so that anybody who did not know them would suppose they were in earnest. Tbey become so learned concerning tbe routs they assume tbey want to take and tbe points they want to visit that tbey know far more than tbe agent himself. They become such an annoyance that be is constantly tempted to teU them that they have no idea of traveling, and that be has not leisure to answer their idle questions. But, as it is always possihle that soma one of them might make the journey, and as it is his interest to becivfl, he exercises •elf-control and treats each one of tbem asif he were a profitable patron. Human nature does a great many things that am generally accounted unnatural.—Ssw York Commas dalAdvwttasr.

30MEH0W OR OTHER WE IETALONQ.

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lOUSe, it smile.

The good wife bustled about Her face still bright with a pAsari As broken snatches of happy a ig

Strengthened her heart sad 1 nd the while. The good man sat in the chimi nook, His little clay pipe within his ps. And all he'd made and all he\l et,

Ready and clear on his flngei lips

"Good wife, Tve just been thin tag a bit. Nothing has done very well ye&r Money is bound to be hard to

Everything's bound to be vefr dear How the cattle are going to be sd. How we're to keep the boys school, Is kind of a debt and credit sui

I cant make balance by my: ile.11

She turned her round from tb baking bread, And she faced him with a cl erful laugh "Why, husband dear, one wou think

That the good, rich wheat only chaff. And what if the wheat was on] chaff, As long as we both are well strong? I'm not a woman to worry a bi

Somehow or other we get al ig. "Into some lives some rain mu fsll, i», Over all lands the storm mus beat,

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But when the rain and storm o'er,

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TM after sunshine is twice a sweet. 't Through every strait we have und a road/' In every prief we've found a ong We've bad to bear and had to' ait,

But somehow or other we ge along. •n

"For thirty years wo have love each other, Stood by each other whateve befell, Six boys have called us father moth -r,.,

And all of them living and do ig well. We owe no man a penny, my u\ We're both of us loving, well id strong,' Good man, I wish you would sra fee again,

And think how well we've got ilong.'*^

He filled his pipe with a pleasai laugh He kissed his wife with a tend pride He said: "I'll do as you tell n» love, ril just count up on tho othei side." She left him then with his bett*

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And lifted her work with a 1 sweet song— A song that followed me many yeart Somehow or other we got alo g.

SOMETHING LIKE SI LITUDE.

The Wail of a Bridge Policeman With Absolutely Notliingfto Do. The life of a Brooklyn bridge policeman is noC a happy one, though it lia its attractive points. To any one but a policeman the prospect of strolling- back nnd 'orth across the plendid structure, away up icro tlfe air is fresh and the breeze is free, uld seem to be the pleasantest thing in the rid. That it is not so is apparent from a rem irk that one of the night policemen mado to a reporter. "It's all well enough," ho id, "to talk of the splendid viow and tho co istantly changing panorama of boats of

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other, as you do but don't ou know that after a week or two of stead] sightseeing of this sort there is a monotoi about ferry boats and tugs and schooner), with twice a day a few sound steamers, nnd once in a while a private steam yaclit? "You like it," the policema said, with an injured tone. "You like it, lx cause you don't havo too much of it. I do. lero I am, with a few hundred feet of promei iade, no excitement, no nothing. Tho same 'i ang goes straggling along over the bridge every day,'the country visitor who stops antl stares, and the regular crosser, who is in a hurry to cixss. Even an occasional bridge ju: nper was a relief, for it gave a man. som thing to think about here. "At night things aro worse," he went on. "Sometimes for hours no one passes. It is about as lonely a place as a man Could go star-gazing, except that yob can't see the stars, on account of tbe glaive of the electric lights. Or coursfj, if there were no policemen on the bridge thero would bo robberies and fights, but, being here, th^ro isn't anything for us to do. Sometimes I talk a little politics with the officer down on the wagon track below, but even that is tame sport. Tlie one thing wo have to look forward to, which makes life worth living, is tho relief which is bound to come at the end of every day and every night.

It was just midnight as the policeman spoke, and at that moment a file of men in uniform came along from Brooklyn. It was inspiriting to note with what alacrity the discontented policeman braced up, touched his helmet to tho officer who relieved him, and walked with tho vim and springiness of a schoolboy toward the station in Brooklyn.— ifew York Sun. •,

Glasgow and Its Chimney Pots. The outlook from hero over Glasgow is a fine one. The river Clyde, wilh its network of shipping nnd its miles of shipyards, winds its way through the town telow, tbe University of Glasgow stands in its grandeur on an opposite hill, and this great city of 700,000 people, with its arteries of business life flaming in pavements of stono in every direction lies all around you. Just opposite you is tho Glasgow cathedral, with a churchyard around it paved with flat, brown, sandstone gravestones, which have sunken by age deep into tho ground. Their inscriptions have worn away years ago, and tbey look now as though they were merely tho pavement of the cathedral yard. Tho cathedral itself, smoky with hundreds of years, stands as well now as when built by tho monks of tho middle ages, and wi it looks down upon tho city's chimney pots, seems to sigh with reflections of time's changes.

These chimney pots are white clay tiles, about a foot long and from six ft) ten inches in diameter. From two to dozen of them stand in lines upon every chimney in Glasgow, and they form a strange and ugly sight as one looks down upon them. They appear in some cases like mammoth-tooth combs, and they aroused to prevent the smoke from blowing down-the chimneys and at tbe same time to better tho draught. All of the Scotch houses about here have tbem, and they are to be found on all the country villas of this part of Scotland.—Frank G. Carpenter in Cleveland Leader.

Appearance of the "White Water.'* While the Cape 8able fisheries were at their best a short time ago the "white water" made its appearance, moving toward tho west It showed for along distanoe on the surface, and seemed full of minute fibres of curd-like consistency. On its western edge it was apparently thirty fathoms deep and as perpendicular as tbe walls of a bouse. Tbe fish fled before this rare phenomenon, and after tbe water resume! its usual clearness tbey were very scaroR—New York Son.

Altar the Author's Ieath.

It is pleasant to know that the MS. that has been paid for you will never see in print, isntitt Tbe magazine editors always keep one or two on hand to spring upon tbe public after the death of tbe writer. Tbey do not wish for any writer's death still, certain visitations of Providence mean "biz-ness."— New York Graphic.

For the Working Classes.

Tbe French Academy of Sciences has been bequeathed the entire fortune of Mme. Pinsen, of MODS, for the purpose of founding a prize, to be awarded every five yean, tor tbe best work on political economy especially adapted for the working classes.—Arkansaw Traveler.

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CRANKS AND LOVERS.

The Trouble They Cause Policemen at th' Capitol. Cranks are drawn to the capitol like birds about a beacon light There is an officer placed on duty up in tho dome expressly to keep them from jumping off. Not a day passes while congress is in sejsion that the} are not at the capitoL Cranks, newly-mar-ried folks, and lovers tend naturally toward the dome, with a view probably of getting nearer to heaven. There is a turn in the stairs that is known as the kissing corner. It is proverbial that lovers never pass up' to the dome without stopping thero to—take breath. It is said that a properly constituted girl always gets tired when she reaches' that point, and a young man was never known to object. Tbe turn is so situated, that two persons standing there eau be seen from neither above nor below. It oilers a great temptation to rest The whisperinggallery has become so well known that young folks who don't want their secrets carried to the other side of the dome and. make public property of it by the echoea are very careful to keep quiet wheu they reach that elevation.

Cranks, if tbey are recognized as such,, are not allowed to go on the dome, but they^ are always hangng around for an opportunity to slip up. Several attempts havo. been made by these adventurers to step out into space in pursuit of eternity, but as yet only one has been successful. One man was caught by the tail of his coat just as h& stood ready for a plunge forward. Mauy have been caught calculating with insaneeyes the distance to the concrete below. They have always en induced to go dowu iu the ordinary way by tbe winding stairs.

Very innocent and harmless looking men will stop at this point as they go climbing up the crowded stairs, and will at once become engrossed by the beauty of the great circular floor of the rotunda, and their eyea. will get bright and round at the prospect. Then they will begin climbing over the rail in a great hurry, as if they had forgotten, something and hadn't time to take the stairs, to get to it A policeman always appears. at this juncture, and tbe visitor is advised to take bis time about it and go by way of the stairs. "1 can tell them on sight," said the polioeman to a reporter. "I can tell when they come for a jump, and I never give tbem eL chant e. There is something in their eyes, and tbe way tbey look about them that reveals their purpose. But I presume any crank who got on the dome would feel it to be his duty to jump off. So we think itbest not to lot any cranks go up. "No, we don't stop lovers," ho added, in respooso to an intimation that this variety^ of crank was not dangerous. "They never have energy enojgh to jump otf. They have to stop at every landing to rest Sometimes they make a good deal of noise, about it Thj 'kissing corner Yes, of course, tbey stop'tfaere! But the real genuine article ain't satisfied with that They stop at every turn in the stairs: Let's see,, now* Let's makd a calculation how many kisses a real spooney couple \Vho ara Visiting Washington LU their bridal tour will get in on a round of the capitol. No, they can't kiss in tbe elevator that's crowded nor in the gallery, Out t.iey look as it they'd like to. There's the' tomii of Washington under the crypt they always put their heads close together to wejp over that, and. uever hear you tell them that it's empty. Tbi» is a particularly good place, because itVda'rK, and there are so ninny narrow aiales near it Thsy'Il score halt a dozen before they finally get out. .Next is tbe en-gine-room. and then'the crypt After that, tbey get uneasy. It's all light in the library and thd rotunda. But they make up forthis on toe way to tae dime. Now, just count the landings and you've got it But it isn't fair to call them crank*.'

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Tlie Kinaiiolpatlon Proclamation Pen*

I was given tbe following information by a friend whose veracity I have never had cause to question,' and who called u,on Mr. Lincoln a very few days after the proclamation had been issued.

He relates that Mr. Lincoln told him he. bad been asked for the pen he used in. signing that historical document "But," said Mr. Lincoln, "1 can not for the life of me say positively which it is. It isone of a doien or two lying on my desk at that time. Yet," he added, "1 wdl do tbe best I can to gd.ect tbe rgbt one, and, in. any cas it will be a near relative, which reminds me of a story" (you know Llucola always had a story, it said, with which, to illustrate a point) "of the man who was importuned for a great man's autograph in. his possessioa Aft.*r securing a good round, price for it, he assured tbe purchaser be bad. made a great acquisition to bis collection. That 'it mmt be genuino, for it was written by the great mans brother-in-law.'"

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brother-in-law of tho proclamation pen that is in Chicago at tbe present time.—S. & Pomeroy In Chicago Ledger. I'

Punxsutawney, Pa., has an ordinance' providing for tbo arrest of children under 15 years of age found on tbe street-* after o'clock p. m. from April 1 to November l, and after 7 o'clock y. la from November I to April 1.— Chicago Time*

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