Bloomington Courier, Volume 7, Number 47, Bloomington, Monroe County, 24 September 1881 — Page 3
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I$TILE D O O JR-WA Y
DAVID GIJAHAICADEK.
: Prsident Garfield's aged mother was stoppiagwith her niece at Hlrain. She redeye ( freonent messais fmm Wn&tiinston. nn.i
spent much of the time at the front door cf
the house anxiously waiting for the mess
ttiger who brought her tho dispatches She
was much agitated by fears of the worst, yet clings tenaciously -mo nope.Cleveland dis-
paicn, Augiy.j rs. Mother, mother, t u the doorwavi Waiting, waiting lor :iwon!, Watching, watching for a message Tearful, trusting in the Lord, Would our wealth of .love could nerve you, Would a people's prayers could serve you, And good cheer afford. Moth er, mother, i n the doorway, Once you nursed a baby hoy. Taught his -little feet to toddle, Taught his helpless hands to toy With his playthings, prattling, smiling, Your young motherhood beguilingWith.hiBiufantjoy. Mother, mother, in the doorway Yon who showed hire, virtue's pafh, ?uided him past childhood's perilLs, Tli rc ugh the ways removed from wrath, Weil that son repays your guarding, love with richest love rewardinc lit manhood's aftermath. " Mother, mother, in the doorway, Watching in the noontide glow, On your white leeks seem to linger. Kisses set there long ago, .- And wiih later kisses blending, As the Nation's ruler, bending, Greets the mother's brow. Mother, mother, in the doorway, Strikenwlth a mother's grief. You are booking where the lonely We are told shall find relief; .Looking far beyond the valley, Toward the field where soldiers rally From the battle brief. ' , -. .. y Mother, mother, in the doorway, . Courage! in this hour of woe. For the nation's soul is with him,. Though the waters ebb or do w; " With our hlst'ry his is-written, And onr hearts wltn yours are smitten, Andour heads are low. s Mother, mother, in t he doorway, Great his work and bravely done, On the country's roll of honor Proud the place he nobly won; We, his nnme who dearly cherish, Would not let the soldier perish V Could man save your son. WASHXKGTOJT, Ang.2S,18Sl. An Incident. Mrs. Annie A. Preston. "Cars stop twenty minutes for refreshments," called out Conductor Kichard3on at Allen's Junction. Then, as the train came to a dead halt, he jumped down, and ran along the platform to where the engine stood, and said to the engineer: "Frank, 1 want you to come .baek with me to the first passenger coach, and see a little girl that I hardly know what to make of." The engineer
wiped ms nands, uonned his coat, changed his little black, greasy cap for lus soft, felt hat taking these "dressup" articles from the tender-box, where an engineer always has something stowed away for au emerge ney and went back to the coach as requested. He entered the coach, and made his way to the seat where the kind-hearted
conductor sat talking to a brieht-look--?
uigmuegm aDoui years oio, caeny dressed in woman's shawl and-; bon
net. ....... ......
Several of the passengers were grbujgf
ea aronna tne sect, evidently muehnir t ere s ted in the child, who worn a-sad, prematurely 4 'old countenance bn t seemed tojbe neither timid nor eon fused. ' V s"Here is the engineer," : said the conductor, kindly, as Frank appeared. She held up her hand to him. with a winning smile breaking over her pinched little face and said: 7 'r "My papa wa an engineer before he became sick and went to live on a farm in Montana. He is dead, and my mamma is dead. She died first before Susie and5 Willie. My papa used to tell me after be should be dead there would be no one to take care of me, and then I must go on the cars and go to his old home in Vermont, and he said If the conductor wouldn't let me ride because I hadn't any ticket; I must ask for the engineer, and tell him I wa 3?ame3 Kendrick's little. girl, and that he used to run on the M and
horseback. His uncle, Mr. Boy n ton, who owned the farm next to his mother's, had a wild, four-year-old colt,
been handled at all.
pasture near his
a
wnieh had never
He ran loose in
mother's house. The boy, bv gradual
degrees, got the animal so he would come to tha fence to be rubbod and petted. He continued to pet him for many days, aud finally used to climb
the fence and rub his back. At length he put his bare foot over the ton of the
fence and upon the colt's back.The colt
eroucnea somewhat, aud did not seera
to relish tbe proceeding, but still did
not run away. The colt had at first
been disposed to bite every time he was touched, and the. boy now thought
ne nad so far tamed the colt that the
next day he would attempt to tide.
By the most gradual stages the act o
mounting was accomplished. The boy
was at his post on the fence in good
time, and the colt came forward for
his daily dose of pett ing. The attempt
was made by the youth to set on pe-
cuharl 7 trood terms with his brute
co m pamon. He rubbed and patted
and scratched him. Finally the bare
foot was placed unon the back, and
the leg slipped gradually down upon the opposite side of the animal, and in
an instant he was on the soot where
saddle had never been. The colt was
as wild as the Ukrane steed to whose
baek Mazeppa was tied.
"He looked as though the speed "of thought Wereinhis nmbs: out he was wild, Wild as the wild deer, and tin taught,
witn spur ana oriole uudenieu."
The boy placed his hands firmly in
the mane of the colt, while the latter
at the first crouched low down and
sidled away, until, finding that the the
load was firmly fixed upon his back, he began a series of most, vigorous
rearm gs and kiekings. J? mdng that this was not likelj- to accomplish the desired end, the colt started as fast as he could run across the field in the
direction of a large oak tree with wide spreading branches which came down
close to the ground. The boy made up
uis mum tnat ne was ciesunea to oe
swept off by the oak, and he determin
ea to escape such a fate. He accordingly let go of the mane and gradually
slipped back and down over the rump of the colt as he ran. Just as he struck
he ground the colt gave a most vigor
ous kick with both feet. The boy felt
the breeze that the swift blow created
sweep his face, but he was unharmed.
Me didn't spend and more time court
ing the colt, however;" ?
. Uncle' Tim's Talent. . iin Ilia how r3
.UUU1V A A 44 . UV4U ,Ml . Kit IT, UIU squinted along the teet a to see whether it was "loosing its set." He failed to
decide, in his surprise at finding that he was taking aim at the minister, who stepped in range jus tat that moment on the street side of; the fence His eyes came in to gear aga in as he laid his saw on the wood-pile and stepped up to th&Ience, saying : " Well, it is queer. It's only ax. minute ago I was thiukin' abtfut 'you. f. I? waa thmkinV what a good sermon you gave us last Sunday
inornin7, an' how I
Boad
The plesding blue eyes were now full of tears, but hho did not cry after the manner of children in general. . 5 Engineer Frank now quickly stooped aud kissed her very tender!y,and then, 33 he brushed the tears awav from his awn eyes, said: "Well, my dear, you are lit tie Bessie Kendriek? It is ray opinion a mereiful Providencoguidea ytm on aboard thistraiiil"; 5 "Then turning:4e the proup of passengers, he went on: "I knew , 3im Keudriok, thej father of this little giri, welL , He was a man out of ten thousand. When I fiiet came to Indianabefore I got acclimated I wa sick a great part of the time so that t could not work, and I sot homesick and dis-couraged-could net keep my board bill paid up, not to mention my doctor's Ml and didn't much care whether I lived or not" " 5 ! VOne day when the pay car came along, and the men were getting their monthly wages, there wasn't a cent coming tome, for I hadn7t been free from the ague, nor worked ah hour for the last month." ... t5I felt so blue that I sat down on a pile of railroad ties and ieaned my elbows on my knees, with my head on my hands, and cried like a great boy out of sheer homesickness and discouragement. . 'Pretty soon one of tharailroad men came along and said in a voice that sounded like sweet music in my ears, for I' hadn't found much real symbathy out there, ai thpugh the boys wire all good to mein their way: 'You have been having a rough time of it.and you must let me help you out.' 'I looked up and there stood Jim Kendriek, with his month's pay in his hand. He took out from the roll of bills a $20 note and handed it to me. 'I knewhe had a sicklv wipe and two or three children, and " that he had a hard time of it , himself, to pull through from month to month, so I ; said, half ashamed of the tears that were streaming down ray face r 'Indeed I cannot take the money. You need every cent ot ityourself.' '? ""Indeed, you will take it mn'
said Jim. , 'You wdi be all right in a
jew uays, anu men you can pay it back. Now come home with me to supper und see; the babies; it will do 2pu good.?, 5 6I took the bank note and acoepied the invitatiojiVai;,! afa r tr;t vut to his house frequeutly unHHmt At" 'ed away, aud Igradtf vy jt sight 01 ulat I had retarnedVthv loan, but ic was imjSsible to repay t he good tbat little act ol kindness did me, and I rather gnefs Jim ICeudricfe's nttle girl here will not wan fe, for an v thing if I can help it" ' r Tiien turning again to te child, whose bUiceyes worn ,wideeoah now, the engineer said to her: ' ' "lsl tkeou home with me, Bessie dear, when we got ui to Wayne. My wife will fic you up, and wo will write aud iiud-out. whether those Vermont
relations real ly want you or not. If
they iUK AtKry or I shall go on with you. liufc if thoy don't care much about having you, you shall stay with nsand be mr Utile girl, for we have none of our own. You look very much
use your ramer, uou mess his memory. -v., : y ... v , . Just then the train whistled. ;A11 aboard," was shouted, engineer Frank vanished out of the car door and went forward .to his engine, wiping his e3'es with his coat sleove, while the conductor and sympathetic passengers coold not repress the tears this touching little episode evoked during the twenty min utes? stop afe Allen's junction. - f - ' . A ' - . I - - , " i: . . . ' President Q arfieM and the Colt. Captain Henry, Marshal of the Distrfct of OrK!rtsb!a; tells the following story uf the lrwidiit when hot -was nihe years okiV ' '" rt :,His mother did not own a horsA
nl.i (all irrit c? r
Mr'th first time I saw you." Uncle Tim
was' the woon-sawer and day's-work factotum for the viliiage. Unlearned as he was, the minister always missed him if he was absentfrom church he was such a helpful listener.. ; And tb Uncle Tim's compliment he repiiecl, "You told mo that you thought it was air ther time in the way you listened to it; though, for that matter, you always seem to M interested. I don?t suppose you know what a eomrort sucn a hearer is to a minister. If all the congregation was like you," I think it would .turn ray poor sermons iuto good ones." "Thank you, ;; said Uncle Tim. . MI don't always get the hang of everything that's said, but I should get less if I didn't give attention. An' I always say to myseU, The minister, he works hard to write his sermons, an' if folks don't listen to 'cm; it's pretty discouraging,7 An' I says, You can't put much in. the contribution box, Tim, an' you can't talk in prayer-meetin,' but you can coiinf one in thtenrn'; you can try to'preciate what other folks do.''" "The talent for appreciating is an excellent; one to have," remarked the minister. 11 Well as; I look at it, it's one one as isn't denied to any bodv," said Uncle Tim. uAn' if it's the only one I've got, I'll try not to wrap It in a napkin. When Dra-jon Mason does me good by one of his experience talks in pray or-mee tin I think its no more than right that he should know it. P'raps he has times of thinkin' tht he can't say anything worth while, arid it stan's to reason that he 'can talk better if heknows he's doing somebody some good. An' when Widder Hatch is makin' such a gritty fight to keep her children tugether, an' give 'cm an edacation, I think mebbe ft makes it a little easier ror h erfto stand up to it if a neighbor drops a word of 'preciation once in a while." The minister said nothing, but there was a look of "preciation" on his face, and Uncle Tim continued : "The other day
I see the young scnool-ma'am
lookin' worn out n,ud sober-like. , I
'magined them big boys from the Holler was worryin' the life out of her. An' Idid'nt know how I could help tnat. But at noon I just went down to the school h o use a purpose to tell her how nice your gran 'son wasgettin' along : with his 'rithmetic. Au; she said' it was better than half' a dozen cups of tea too, for cheerio' her up she did. 'An when I see; Sanford's boy take a little Irish girl's part that other
hoys were tormentm', an' they jeenn' him, I wen! up to &him au' 1 says,
'Uncle Tim's notiun' but a woou-sawer, but he knows enough to sec that you've got the stu f of a gen tleman i n y on . ' You see old folks don't notice the young enough. An' there,s Jim Brady, a drinkin' , card-play i n' ,shooti n '-match creatur', who goes arouud a good deal like adog without any owner, fie knows folks despise him. But Jim's right handy with tools, and when I take my saw to him to have it Hiled, an' tell him he does that job better' n any other man I know, I think it helps him to have a little more respect for himself, I do. You see its dread tully easy to look at faults at faults in children, an' faults in hired folks, an' faults in tavern-keepers; an', faults in prayer-meetin'sr But, as I look at it, we'd do a good deal better to think more about the good things in 'em.
feet in length and six iucliss in diame ter, and had sixteen rattles.
James Ooddington, of Thompson
County, N. Y, had no fear of snakes,
aud when he had been bitten by a very
large pilot he simply shook it off, killed itrand sucked the poison from the wound. He then went home and aonlied ooultices of black and white
ash, and is now out of danger. Mrs. Henrv Eoe. li vine in Coif
CountvGa.. was bitten on the foot by
a rattlesnake. Shcjhurried home ar.d
bathed the foot in salt and water. That
stopped both the swell ins: and the pain.
Later in the day reaction caused the foot to swell again , and the pai n was so intense that tbe woman became
insensible. But, despite all these
alarming symptoms, she recovered, Onr Western - Empire. Kansas City Times. Eighty thousand S wedes will come to the United States this year. Nearly
all of these Will settle on the line of
the Northern Pacific railaoad. Do our people know what thia means? Of all the races of Europe the Seandavian is the most, vigorous, and it is, by its law of habits,an industrious, frugal and intellectual race. Next, the whole line of that road is susceptible of settlement. The valley .of tbe Red Itiver of the North is about 225 by 800 miles in extent, of the finest wheat lands on the contineut, besides being better fitted for rye, oats, barley, flax, and
like crops 'Shan any in the world. The climate is just suited to the Norseman,
and here alone he finds room for a new Scandinavian empire. And these
people are from the ho me of civilization and it is to-day the blood of the sea kings that donates the commerce of
the globe.: Then agam,the family and Bible are the basis of the social life of these neonle Thev are honest, con
stant in their convictions, strong, and
wedded to home. In fifty years more
they will have a series of commonwealths there that will serve as a
balance wheel to the more emotional
regions of the south, and it would be
only logical if they were to furnisli a
century hence the armies to quell another secession rebellion. This re
gion has had its difficulties. Jay Cooke
saw its capabilities and sought to use
them, but he was a monopolist ana a
public enemy, and was put aside by the howling mob. But his labor was
not lost, and to-day his road has reach
ed the confines of a country larger
than the whole north of Europe, and
of a fertility equal to any part of the
union, : The people who go there go to
till the soil, to raise their families, to work and crow in comforts and prop- (
erty. Jay Cooke is already vindicat- j
ed.
, Jim's Heart j?oirad In the paint shop of the Detroit
house of correction, says the Jree Press, is a man whom we will call Jim, and
who. is a territorial prisoner on a life sentence. Up to last spring he was re
garded as a desperate, dangerous man, ready for rebellion at any hour.
He nlaued a general outbreak, and
was ugiyen away" by one of the eou-
spirators. He plauued a general mut
iny or rebellion,and was agaiu betrayed. He then kept his own counsel and while never refuting to obey orders, he obeyed them . like a man who only needed backing to make him refuse. One day recently a party of strangers came to visit the institution. One was an old gentleman, the others ladies, and two of the ladles had small children, The guide took one of the children on his aim and the other walked until the party began climbing stairs. Jim was working near by, sulk' and morose as ever, whou the guide said to him : "Jim won't you help this little girl up stairs?" The convict hesitated, a scowl on his face, and the little girl held out her hands to him and said : "If you will I cuess Pli kiss you." His scowl vanquished in an instant, and he lifted the child as tenderly as a father. Halfway up the stairs she kissed him. At the head of the stairs she said: Now you've got to kiss me, too J: Heblusnc'd like a womau, looked into her innocent face and then kissed her cheek; and befoie he cached the foot of the stairs again, he had tears in, his eyes. Ever since that day he has been a changed man, and no one in that place gives less trouble. Maybe in his far away western home he has a Katie of his own. No oue knows, for he never reveals his inner life, but the change so quickly wrought by a child proves that ho has a heart.
MOTJ1EIVS BOYS.
Yes I It now thcre are sttiinH on my carpet,
The traces of .small muddy boots; And I i$ee your tapestry glowing All spotless with blossoms and fruit! And I know that mv wrtUsare disfigured
With prints i f small (incurs and hands;
And thnt your own household most truly In immaculate purity stands. And I know th1 my parlor is Uttered With many old treasures and toys; While your own is in daintiest order, Unharmed by the presence ol boys! And I know thnt my room is invaded Quite boldly til hours of the day; While you sit in yours unmolested And dream the soft qniet away ! Ves. 1 know there arc four little bed sides
Where I must st and watchful each night;
While you go out In your carriage. And flash in your dresses so bright. Now, I think I'm a neat little womau; I like my house orderly, too: And Pm loud of nil dainty belongings; Yet would not change places with you. No! keep your fMr homo with its order, 'Its freedom from bother aud noise; And keep your own fanciful leisure, But give me my four plendid boys!
Lancaster Kxan
in SSgSEgggggfflgggggggg BAOHELOE JACK.
mer.
"Cold, wretchedly cold! And what is
a fellow to do with hnmseH?"
Bachelor Jack. If he had ouiy a
wife and half a dozen responsibilities the want of occupation would he the
least of his anxieties.
If Jack had been a man of business
there would have been some help for
his ennui. Ho thought he was. But
what claim has he to the name cf a
business man who is a silent partner in
two, or tnree houses and lets others do the active work? What occupation is
there in receiving m dividends more money than you can spend I Jack had not even the occupation of mak
ing "both ends meet." And he was in no small danger of lapsiug into bad
habits for the mere want of employ
ment.
He had even made his will. He had
not a hobby. Several had he tried and
ridden them to dchtu ; ana just now,
at the beginning of a snow-storm, on a winter morning, he had the whole day before him. lie was too much a
bachelor to be Willing to get ins ieet
damp.
His room aneciea tne air ana an
fearance of the den of a literary bach
elor with some young American peculiarities. It wa.s furnished with a comfortable carpet, chairs, lounges and
fire, Tnere was a sujpicion of Lynchburg tobacco in the atmosphere, and piles of booka and papers alternated with meerschaum, brier-wood, Pocahont&s, and pipes of curious form, both clay and porcelain. Walking sticks of various styles and other bachelor
trifles occupied the corners.
remained to look about him and ask for information. He opened Ms inquiries with the question. "Would S10 bo acceptable?" The attendiug ladies were heartdy obliged in behalf of their clients . He wras aKed : "Would ho taste the soup?" Of course he would. , He was furnished with a bowl of the savory compound and n pewter spoon to eat with, "Upon my word, this Is not so bad,"
he said.
"I should hope not," archly said the
young lady who had acted as hostess.
"We make it ourselves, and our pat-
rous are very particular."
jacit. having dallied over his soup
as long as he could, and said all. man
ner of pleasant things (S10 worth ), took his leave at last with a grace and po
liteness which a reduced millionaire
eoule not have exceeded. Even such
men do come where soup is doted out
in charity. It is a woeful, changeful world! Jack had no risrht to be idle
in it. as his conscience oegau to ad
monish. But who was there to set
him to work !
At the dinner-table he had amused
the nartv fills home w;s a boarding-
house) with the narative of his morn-
nifrs wa k. Aud the lauaiudV's
daughter, internally resolving to turn
soup-almoner herself, had rallied him
upon the glowing account which he
gave or tne soup-houso ladies, as ne
smoked, his thoughts took shape, and
he said to himself: "Upon my faith.
that lesser one was beautiful, aud they
may Jauch as they please."
Jack woum have sailed out .to the
soup-house again that very afternoon.
but ho happened to femembec that
soup-houses which serv e the poor, like
banks which rccommc date the rich,
are closed in the afternoon.
Bachelor Jack was a tir betimes the
next day, like a man with an object in life. After his morning cigar, ho shav
ed and went down to Third street like a man of business. He went to the
library like a man of letters; he walked to the post-office like a man of correspondence; he stood on the steps of the Continental like a man of fashion; ho
did all sorts of things to make himself
believe he was somebody. The truth
was. he was only a moth, and the
light which attracted him was in the soup-house. So, after flights and counter flights in devious circles, he
struck straight for the
gratis hotel,
the shortest
pretending it to lay in
route to his home.
The house was there, but the light
wTas out. The soup smelt as savory as
ever, but me waee aid not iodic so tempting. There were two ladies
there, a3 on. the day oefore; bat the
number was the only point of resem
blance.
Jack looked arouud the apartment,
and the ladies looked inquiringly at him. He was in for it; but he only
jock wmsueu, nunimeu auu yuwueu, prefiented So to-day. "Would he taste
lcKea up a 000K pun tosseu ic away :hA snnnw Af h
: 4
and he thenght there was nothing in ,.tp world quite & njco as riding oji
Snakes 'That Got Into the Papers; , A rattlesnake with thirteen rattles was recently killed by a young voman in Sylvania, Ga. Jacob Horn, a farmer,of No. 32 Station on the Baltimore and Ohio Railruad, did not dio from the bito of the snake, bo j from the whisky administered afterward in quart doses. " A young spotted adder was killed In the basement kitchen of a lady living in Clinton, N, S. She was about to pick it up, supposing it was a- strap with which, her little . boy., had been playing, ..... The Jackson Herald says that while T. F. Daniels was cleaning a lish on the bank of a creek, a water moccasin jumped from the stream, snatched the fish from hts hand, and made off wiih it .... - ..;.,.
Jefferson Davis, of Sanderson, Ga., came across a rattlesnake while going through his field. H9 cut it in two, and was poking the upper part with a stick when it turned and fatally bit him on the hand. While making repairs on ; a house near Bevilport, Texas, the workmen
removed an old cypress block, the
heart of which had decayed. In the
cavity wore found enough young rattle
snakes to nu a bucket. Mrs. Myers, of Cash Valley. Mo.,
was attacked by an immense black snake while going to her dairy over a
spring,and held it fast to her clothing until she reached her kUchen door, where her husband killed it. The largest snake of its species ever
luiiea m warren uounty, lvlo.,- was re
cently destioyed by Joseph iLewis, of
Bang J8ua X)ifltrictr It measured six
A Bird Story. Sumerset (Ky.) special. . A sight so strange that it would pay strangers to come miles to see, occurs every nigh;, flyo miles south of this l)l8ee, on the Cedar blufls of the Cum berland, river. Every evening just about sundown the sky is darkened a-3 far as the eye can see by great flocks of birds comijig to roost in these cedars. Your correspondent, accompanied by a nnlivnain a lantern, snent a nounle
wa? ! of hours last night among the cedars
watching this wonderful congregation of birds of every tongue, plumage, and of almost every country this rade of the tropics. Startled by .our approach, great clouds of the chattering tribe woula rise from their perches in the cedars and fly' off with a noi3e like deep and distant thunder. We had to scream at the top of our voice to hear one another speak. Lai'ge limbs of the trees were broken off, caused by the accumulated weight of bird?-. Hundreds blinded, by our lanterns would fly into our faces. We could pick thousands of them from the branches of the trees. But what seenied so strange about this bird convention was the seeming peace, and : harmony that existed between the birds. The hawk and dove roosted in peace on tbe same branch, "while hundreds of robias and snarrows circled in perfect safety
yftvound the perch of threat owls. In tae
early morning when these songsters of the groves left their perches in the
cedars for tae helds ol. tne open country it was a most beautiful ,gorgecii3 sight to behold. With the blue of the
jay., the crimson and red of fence wren
and redbird, the yellow and gray 01
the yellow and sparrow birds seemfd
like some grand and splended pano
rama of the floral k 1 ogdom endowed
With the power of music, moving through the air in a procession composed of ;ftll the colors of the rainbow. Hundreds of people come every night to see the strange wonder. A great many poor people gain almost their entire support by catching and selling these birds.
A Hare Proof of Devotion. San Fra4isco. Chronicle. , - About a month ago F A, Learete, of Oaklau fl , ah en giuspr in. the em ploy of the Ceutral Pacific Railroad Company, and stationed in Arizona, was seriously scalded oy the o vertu rn ing of his engine, and one of. his legs was so badly in Hired that the flesh fell away. The
attending physician? tola him that if
his friends would each contribute a small piece of flesh they could restore it to its old usefulness. The statement was widely circulated, and twentyeight of his fellow-workman volunteered and bravely bared their limba to the surgeon's knife. The transplantation of flssh was successfully made.
ana to- any mo leg tooits. almost as natural as tlie uniuiured member; The
heroic act of the men was duly rewarded. " The Railroad Company,
hparine 0 the case, leave of aosence
was given and two months1 extra pay
was ordered paid to each of the men. Mr. Learett is now at his home. No,
S93 Peralta street, and is rapidly
recovering. nm ft-a r -
A physician ought co be carefullest
he tell too much of the truth. When
a lady living in Choi so a sent to London
ior a dector she apologized for asking
him to come such ?i distance. ,l0ont
speak of it ,f answered the M. J).
happen to have another patient in the
neighborhood, aid thus kill too: birds
wita one stone."
picked up
from him. There was nothiner in the
morning papers. There was.. nothing iirhis noddle, except an indefinite idea that he. ought to do something. If he had any kind of an "object", if he had only liked to read with system, as a certain old lady once said, "about worms, beetles, , and such nasty thiugs," he might have found indoor occupation. He tried a purl b it had already smoked enough. He droned a bar on his flute, laid the instvuraent down and yawned fearfully. Now it began to suow, undeniably. Jack lounged to the window aud walched the flakes. .V Drifting along with the storm was a ragged little urchin. The whole of his surroundings were forlorn enough; but his miserable toes were the worst, cropomg out into the snow. He stopped before the comfortable mansion, surveyed it eagerly from eaves to door-stone, and wondered why such places should be the lot of the few, while the many, like himself, were huddled in cellars and garreU. His thoughts soon changed to business. For he, unlike Jack, had something to do. In the great battle of life, hard work falls to the rank and file. He rang the bell, "What is it?,,, asked Jack, opening the door. . 'Only a boy with marble dust," said the servant, Vho had already closed the door in the applicant's face. "Marble dust!" said Jack, "what's marble dust? Let the -little dustman in." The servant, somewhat provoked that such trash should And its wray into a gentleman's room, showed tbe lad in aud went about her business. Bhe had something to do more than wait on little vagrants. The young dustman had evidently never been in such a place before. He looked with wondering eyes aroxmd the room, much attracted by the show of tobacco-pipes, but more by his host's comfortably -dressed feet. The stump of a cigar was within possibilities. Such boots, never! "Wbat's marble dust," Jack asked. "The women cleans the doorsteps with it," the. boy answered. . "They do, eh?" And Jack 3tared at the comfortless stranger till the child blushed through the smudge on his
face.
He did not quite blush, however, for
such a manifestation is rare among the
poor wretches who have to encounter
the worid bare-fooled.
"Would you like some of it?" the lad
asked.
"Well, not much," said Jack, "as
cleaning steps is not quite in my hue.
What would you like?"
"If you have the end of a cigar,
sir-
"A cigar: and is it possible that you
smoke?"
"When the gentlemen gives me the
cigars they have done with' said the
boy. .. ;.
"Are my shoes too big for you?" he
asked, with a look of pity at the boy's
pleading toes. "Indeed, your boots would be small
er tban uli-out-dooi, ' said the Jad,
whh a twinkle of hope m his face; 'and all-out-doors is the size I am wearing now." Jack laughed. The little beggar was forthwith furnished with a pair, which to him were as good as new. Jack thought of adding an old pipe or two to the donation. But he fel t just then too much rebuked for smoking himself ; and while he half resolved to leave tobacco to tbe newsboys and beggar lads tbereafter,he would still not abet them in the nussance. "Are my pantaloons too large for you?" Jack was five feet eight. The boy was three feet two. , "Mother could cut the legs oil1, or I could roll them up. Better to have too much trousers than none t all." Again Jack laughed. The perishing lad was furnished .vith an ample outfit, ample in every sense. .".Now," said Jack, "I must go with you, snow or not, and. see the mother of such a boy." "She's proud of me you better be lieve," said young hopeful. And Bachelor Jack, who an hour or two before, had felt like a prisoner, bound by a slight snow fall, net out in search of a new sensation. He heard soup-houses mentioned in his walk, aud that sent his thoughts In another direction. He remembered that he had responded to an application for a donation annually for several years in support of those useful i nstitutions, and thought he would look a little after his investments. The marble dust boy was his'guide, aceoutered in his roomy boots, his rolled up trousers and a coat, which for length would have satisfied a clerical tailor. But the buttons were rather too stunning. Bachelor's buttons are apt to bo. ; Jack had not felt so igbt-head!ed and merry in a month as while he followed the little caricature of himself in hat and all to the soup-house. He '.' had j- een proverty and misery, to be sure.
but he bad done not a little toward the deviation of distress. The" boy was dismissed with his daily portion. Jack
thesoun?" . Of course he would not.
He did yesterday, but circumstances
alter casos. You can take from Hebe
wnat you decline from Hebe grandmother. Jack talked enough to Intro
duce a casual inquiry, not too pointed, for "the lady who was here yesterday.
"Did he mean Mm. Jones or Miss
Smith?" .
"Miss Smith," said Jack. He knew the name of neither, and
answered Miss for his hopes' sake.
They will not be here, in their regu
lar turns, for a week. But either may
drop in to-day. Shall I give any mes
sage to Miss Smith?"
Message, indeed I The absurdity of
the situation made Jack almos t laugh
outright.
"Oh, no," he said; M will can at her
house."
Oh, man! what a lie you were acliug!
Yes and speaking, too! For you did not know what JindiYidual in ,;thelegiou of
01 Jonn omitns sue was tne aaugnter. You did not know whether it was Miss
Smith or Miss Jones who had enter
tained you.
Jack walked out half lauahmg and
half vexed, and home to dinner. He
did not say soup house to-day at the table. And he pretended not to hear the innuendoes in wl ich the landlady's
daughter persisted. But he resolved
iVithin hitaself: Ml will find her out
if it takes me all win ter." ...
Whore there is a will there is a way.
He made the marble -dust boy his agent
and detective. The bright little rogue.
w'ho found Bachelor Jack's acquain
tance the most profitable "connection" he had ever made in his life, now serv
ed his patron faithfully.
We cannot uesciioe step by step the
approaches to the catastrophe. It came in the early summer, when char
itable som mit tees were no Ion ger in
season, arid the lad ;es had leisure to receive callers, A furniture vau appeared one morning before Jack's late
residence.: and that same isharp boy
acted as his lieutenaant, while Jack
superintended the transfer of his mov
ables. They, were a?stinea to nil one room, his library, in a house which he had taken in L street, which one room he intended to call a memorial apartment, "Bachelor's Hall." But it was not Miss Smith, and it was Mrs. Jones, a charming widow, who had taken Jack's heart. Bachelor no more, he i3 all tbe better for the change. Once the time hung heavy oh
his bandtt ; now, the days are not long . enough. He has destroyed his old "last will and testament," and has not
found time, or loyss life too well, to write another. The landlady's daughter heaved "a loiig, long sigh" as she looked into the dismantled room oa the day of Jack's departure. Whether it was a sigh of "youth,!' depends upon your idea of that state; whether it wa3 a sigh of love, is au open question. Her reverie was broken by the marble-dust boy, who dashed iu, und gathering aheap ol tobbacco pipes which Jack had been ashamed to take away, stowed them in various places on his person. "Dirty little wretch!" thought the landlady's daughter. J3ut Jack has never yet ceased. to bless the snow-storm which brought Cupid to his door in the shape of a little fctreet-boy almost as naked as his mythological prototype. The Nation's Capital. Cor., Clevelaud Leader. If there is a city in the Union that has sufleredlmore than another over the attempt upon the Presidont's life, that city is Washington. Invariably au administration community, probably because Us ideas are colored, and principally formulated by the 14,000 clerks and oftlce.nolders, who are, of course, allied by the closest bonds of political aflliation with the dominant party, it gives thechief magistrate its unbounded admiration and untiriug devotion. The views of the President are the views of the community; his acts have no question as to justice and riht; and to reooin a phrase, "Vox Presidents vox Dei." In brief, half the life of the average Washingtouiau is spent in worship of the occupant of the White House. So you can readily comprehend the painful experience which Washington has passed through in the past seven weeks. The iiast shock all but paralyzed the community. To have its Idol struck down before its very eyes stupefied the faculties of the people. The very, audacity oi the attack saved , the assassin from a quick taking off, and this city from what would probably have been a terrible exhibition of mob rule. I say "terrible," for in such a case I think the most law-abiding citizen would have felt justified in taking a hand in I he proceedings, and the opposition would have been feeble indeed. Before the public mind could fully comprehend the calamity, however, the assassin was safe in tbe hands of the officers of tlva law, and rmblic grief swallowed up public resentineut. Since tbe second day of July there has b:en a constant strain of anxiety. Public business and private interests have given way to consideration for the Presidents con dition. The div has been full of neo-
ple all summer; who woum jiot allow I tuontli,
themselves their usual recreation so
Ion k as the President was in danger
largo excursions and little pleasure par
ties were quicklv anu cneerjuny re
linquished upon any intelligence that a
change for the worse nau taKen place and Washington has almost modi fiet
its daily life in it3 respectgfor the Presi
dent's condition, bo tne strain 0 those frequent relapses,of quick chang
es from hope to lear, from sorrow to joy, are beginning to be apparent in Washington life; and it is not surpris
ing that a sort of mental and physical
lassitude has crept into social ana official life, that public business moves
more slowly, that, In snort, tne wnole of this crreat canital is tired, Oh, so
tired 1 - ' . " - . Turned White from Terror. Colorado Springs Gazette.
Lone Star ranch is becoming famous as productive of some very remarkable
sheep. Ic was on tne ion e star rancn
that the wonderful three-ply sheep was
born. We refer, of course, to the
sheen with three eves, three ears and
three tails, which was fully described
in the Gazette some weeks ago. We
have received advices from our speciel
correspondent. Mr. W. W. Cook.
wbom we have engaged as a specialist
to keep a scientific eye on the peculiar
happenings at the ranch. In the course
of his letter on the recent pnenomenon, Mr. Cook says: 11 As most of your
readers nrobabiv know black wool
brings from five to ten cents a pound
less than the corresnondine grade of
white wool. In order to secure the
separation of the inferior product, as our shearing operations progressed, we placed the black sheep in a pen by themselves. There were thus on last Tuesday night sixty-three black sheep aud some lambs alone in one of the corrals. During the mght a coyote entered and killed a ewe and two lambs, and we were greatly surprised to find in the morning that the wool on the remaing sixty-two sheep had turned perfectly white from terror. Happily the increase in the value of wooL more than balanced the loss of the sheep that were killed. The bleaching effects of fear on the human hair is well known, but I never heard any previouis instance of its action on animals. I merely state the facts as they occurred and leave to others the prac tide application of them, which will, I doubt not, add thousands of dollars to the value of the annual wool product of this country." The facts given so
succinctly by our correspondent are de
serving of special notice, ana ,wiu, no doubt, attract much attention upon the
part of scientists.
Kate Chase Sprague.
Atlantic City Letter.
Did you ever look upon a beautiful
face which told you almost as plainly
as words that mental anguish bad but
added to its beauty? I contempiated such a contenanco in the parlors of the Shelburne to-night. Its owner was a
lady rather inclined to be tall, but with
a 'symmetrical form wnien loosed all tlmmore attractive for the extremely plain costume, black m color; aud almost severe in its lack of trimming or
other adornment. Her blonde hair, dressed, in the prevailing seaside fashion an English frizze covered the forehead to within an inch or so of the
dark" blue eyes, and two flushed cheeks, a mouth full of pearly teeth,
lips liao a ripw uuuJiiy, uuu a suwi,
round chin, completed the picture.
But there -was something in the face
apart from its natural gifts which was
calculated at once to rivet the atten
tion of the observer. It was . an ex
pression of indescribable melaucholy and pain, as if the iron had ente-ed the soul of the owner and left there, not hate or yindicativeness, but sorrow and anguish a look so plaintive,
o anpealins:, that one might; matcn it
to melt the hardest tears.
41 Who is she?" I heard the question
asked twenty times inside of an hour.
and each time the answer was returned,
"Kate Chase Sprague." . The former
mistress of Canonchet has been the
guest of the Shelburne since Tuesday,
ana proposes to remain until me oiose
of the season. A maid aud two nurses
who have entire charge of . her three
children, all girls, the oldest being twelve and the voungest not yet three,
comprise ner retinue. one moves about in a dreamy sort of a way, sel
dom mingling with other guests or engaging with them in conversation. Even when in the society of intimate friends severs! of whom are at the same, hotel, she sedulously avoids all
references to her domestic difficulties.
asked her to-night if the sale of the
Sprague estate, referred to m the
morning aispatcnes trom rroviaenee,
jeopardized any of her interests, and
her mouth was open tor a reply wnen
Judge Tyner put in an inopportune appearance with a remark on the mosquitoes, a popular subject, which instantly changed the drift of conver
sation.
WHOLESALE FABMING.
Fifty Men Let a Child Drown,
London Pall Mall Gazette.
On Monday afternoon fifty strongly-
built and well-dressed Jbugltsnmen
stood round the basin m Kensington
Gardens and deliberately watched a
little girl of 4 years of age drown in two feet of water. It would be a comfort if we could persuade ourselves that this chance sample of the nation all happened to be "so exceptionally thick-skulled that they did not know what to do in the emergency, but a review of the whole circumstances admits of no other conclusion than I hat thev did not care to wet their boots. Auold man who had brought another child out ten minutes before, entreated them to repeat his action, as he was himself .too feeble at that moment but none of the selfish cowaids would move. Our hero asked hi3 dog to do something, and the four-footed brute set the best example he could to the bipeds, who stared in astonishment at his prowess. The dog failing, his proprietor tried the effects of a pole, but the pole being too short, the philanthropy and invention of the assembled company were exhausted, and the poor child was left to perish. If any one had said beforehand that of fifty -Englishmen, taken anywhere at random, twenty-live of them, singly or hand in hand, would not hav dashed even into deep water in a moment, and ou a manly impulse he would have been told that he was slandering the race. Monday's humiliating proceedings, however, reveal to us how we actually stand, explain it as we buy.. Eight Cream-Colored .Bridesmaids London Trutii. The number, of bridesmaids at fash
ionable weddings seems to be increasing Eight cream-colored ladies attended Miss McGarrel-Hogg to the altar on the occasion of her changing
her name- to Saumarez. Ten ol the same tint supported Miss Rose Nieholl du;ri ng the ceremony necessary to her to . become Mrs. Kennard, and a like number (of a different hue) saw Miss Foljambo and Mr. Arthur LevesenGcwer throughthe operation. No one ohjeots to these numbers, except it be the bride-groom, w ho has to give a present to each fair maid of the bevy. Marriage becomes more costly every year, oven as regards the initial ceremony. Is it any wonder that men are unwilling to take the plunge? Last season a slight revulsion in favor of simplicity at weddings was apparent, the very sanguine thought it might lead to a permanent reform. Alas! no. A few sensible girls were married . in travelling dress, witiaout fuss or display; but common sense is eveii a drug iu the market, and until quiet, unosteutatous weddings are made fashionable by prominent leaders of society, people will continue to spend on one morning sums sufficient, to keep the newly married coup!te in
housekeeping money for a twelve
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A Thirty Thousand Aero Wheat
Field Shipping Three Trains a Day How the Big Dairy mple Farm? is Ban, Fa mo Cor. Chicago Jntcr-Ocean.
T stood this morning at the center of
fho lnreresfc farm in tne woria: tne
largest piece cf territory ever cultivated
under tne direction or a single man. far as the eve could reach, north.
south, east or west, there was nothing hi a hut the bluest of blue skv: the
reddest of red barns, the irreat awk
ward- lookin cr threshers, with their
m n ke-becrrimed engines beside them,
h e whirring harvesters and miles after m iles of wheat.
We asked for Mr. Dalrymple, and he
came down trom some room aoove, a
slender, quiet looking man, with apen Ixmind his ear, vt hom you would judge to be a schoolmaster or clergyman at Mtrht. His hands were soft and white
more accustomed to the book or pen .. ,
than tne plow ana uis iace, wnere it was not covered with beard, was not
burned so much as mine. He met us
cordially, invited us to spend the day aud dine, and suggested that he would
have a team hitched up to drive us
over the place.
T noticed he always called it "the
place.' , ....... i
In the meantime 1 asKea mm a rew
Questions. The first one was to the
yield this year.
"It was a Jate spring said uairy tu
ple. "At the time when we were usually putting in a crop the place for miles around here was covered with water from the melted snow, and you could have sailed a boat over a field
where now there is wheat that will
yield thirty bushels to the acre. I
feared at one time tnat tne crop wouia
be a failure, but aui very positive now that the average per acre will not be below twenty bushels."
"Have you sold you r wneatv" "Our rl an is different from the or
dinary method. We are sending about
three train loads a day to Dnlufch."
"How many bushels is tnatv" "About 30,000 bushels. We load a
vessel at Duluth every two days and
send it to Buffalo, where it is sola on
its arrival at the market price.?, . . WW. , ( 1 1 i fll
" wnat is mavr' ........ he price to-dSkV," said Mr. Dal
rymple, consultuig the telegram, "is
$1.27 at Buffalo. Freights are about
twentv-seven cents, so it. nets us about
$1 a bushel.
"What will your crop amount to?" "I am expecting about 600,000 bush
els. Besides that we have about 00,-
000 bushels of oats which we keep, for our stock."
"Do vou keep stock enough.to eat up
90,000 bushels of oats Vs .
Mr. Dalrymple smuea pieasanuy aud remarked that 800 horses ana mules
ate up a good many oats.
"How mucn, noes your crop cost
you?" ,: - .... . - :
"It costs us anouxu an acre to pro-
finno a oron when we use our own
stock and pay our men by the month,
but when we nire men ana teams oy the day it costs u,3 about $8 an aere.,?
" What do you pay your men v" , "We nav $30 a month for reiarular
hands, and $2 per day for extra hands
during harvest,"
"What amount or- niaenmery nave
you going to day ?
"Two nunarea seir-omaing narvesters and thirty steam threshers. These
wo hundred narvesters cut an average sf 2,S00 acres a day, and tbe threshers urn not about 30.000 bushels a day. As
fast; as it is threshed we bag the wheat,
art it over tnen to tne cars, empty tne acks, and send away the trai 1 loads idly." "Where do you keep your men?" "If you had been here at 5 o'clock ,U morning you could have seen 800
men at breakfast We keep quite a
h r M . with lortv cooks."
Mr. Dalrymple explained at length how tbis enormous business is conducted. The 30,000 acres under cultivation are divided into five divisions of 6,000 acres each, under superintendents, who are responsible directly to Mr. Dalrymple, the commander-in-chief. Each of these regiments are divided, into batajjions; with a foreman or major, whp has charge of 2,000 acres. Under him are three companies, eaeh having a captain, and cultivating a section, which fa 640 acras of land, , j Each superintendent plants his crop and harvests it, reporting from time to time to Mr. Dalrymple, who directs and oversees the whole, but spends the greater part of his time at the office, planning and calculating for the beat results from the smallest outlay. The superintendents are responsible for the good order of their men, stock and machinery, and there is a decided rivalry between them as to which can produce the biggest crop. When the plowing commences in tlie Spring the men go but in gangs, each taking 640 acres, under the direction of a foreman, who rides along on horse back to see that the workis done properly. Everything is done in military style. It is a battery of plows, instead of artillery, and before starting they all draw up in line and thoroughly inspected by the foreman and machinist, to see that thev are in good order. The plows are all doubled, and are drawn by four horses, At the word of the captain they start, add go round a field of 640 acres, which is exactly four miles in distance, ten or twelve plows abreast. At the end of the furrow, eight mites, the plowa.are left m the soil, the men mount their horses and ride to neadquarters for dinner. After the horses are fed they remount return to the plows and go around the 040 acres two or three times more before supper-time. At the close of the day the horses plows,and harness are inspected again, and if any repairs are needed, the blacksmith, saddler or iarrkr make them during the night. The same routine is followed at seed ing time and duriug the harvest. The self binding harvesters throw the bundles of ripe grain upon the ground where they are picked up and placed in large shocks to await the wagons which transport them to threshers, which are alwavs placed as closely as possible to the cars. After threshing, the straw is carried away and burned. It souuds very large, but it is nevertheless a fact, that the plows and harvesters regularlarly make a trip of foui miles long without stopping, A furrow nicrht mi I ah m length is nonsidered a
very fair morniug's work,but ten miles is nothing for an afternoon's diversion. As near the center of. the farm as is convenient a store-house is placed, in charge of a comm issarynd book-keeper, Jjach day the superintendent of a division issues requisitions for supplies of seed, or food, or machinery, and these are served upon the storekeeper, who keeps a , double-entry set of ledgers for each, and at the end of a days threshing the crop returns are made to him, so that Mi Dalrymple, at any time, bv examinimr the books, can
ascertain the expenses of every division and the crop it has produced. This year it is ixpected that the 30,000 acres will produce 600,000;bushels of grain. The cost of production averages $7 an acre, or $210,000, The wheat is sold at an average net price of $1 per; bushel, therefore the profit of Mr. Dalrymple's little garden in 1881, which it said, to be a poor year, will be the difference between $210,000 ami $600,000, or the trifle of of $390,000; more than 200 per cent, upon the1, entire 4 investment... : There will be natural inquiry in this connection as to why steam is not used instead of horse powers asked Mr Dalrymple. He said: "We havt! experimented with steam, but have not found it praoticabio except in the way of stationary engines: and again oats are cheaper than fuel. Wood is very scarce. oal costs us practically nothing. We sow and reap our oats, between, times, when the men. and s took would b&herwise be idle, The
cost of norses and mules is nogreater than the price of W'S and tear is less, and during wll?! time wesend our men and norses the lumber "regions here, they moie than pay for themjelvcs. : . , , ;
JOCOSITIES.:
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Ho guzed into tbe his B,1gan , . Saying lightly, -Tis not loaded I Tlieii removed his eyebut not nnim Thi) weapon hud exploded.
Bhogontly seized the paraffin, , , To stimulate the firo, , And the tenoT who bad loved nor At the funeral led the choir, ' . Miss Jane, she wa s of fine phlslque, In art she was a good critique, Her nose was Qrlque, Her temper unique, "-rBut one of her eyes was quite oblique. ( n My ma-ln-law at ourlast Jalk. Kept getting madder'n madder,! Tlli she busted a blood -ves-si-al, .( An d climbed ths golden ladder." The watermelon ia Ireland's national emblem. It has the green above the red, ' V.. 1 '. . , The explosion -of a can of baked beans in New Jersey the other day shows where the Boston people get their energy. Iowa headlines: "Te Lurid JLlghtning Leaps down from its Lofty Lair rt at . t twe rnvinff" Fourteen
Feel the Fierce Flashing of the atal
Fluid."
Leeson for young housekeepers: "How can you tell a young fowl from;
an old one?" "By the teeth.'' -By tae
teeth? But fowl rave no weinre know they-havn't, but I have." There are neonle who don't believe
Aivnra norn t.Vipir bread bv the'
sweat of their brows, but if those peo
ple couidi see us mopping mo copwaion off our desks with an old pair of linen pants, after writing a poem op ivWovm nrtiiAinainr nf the Bumble
Bee," they would change their minds. I7u- aora offA ft. VflimC ITl&n with ,
out a cent on his back, and only one
suit of clothes to his name, entered
Denver and begged ins supper, xaast' ; week he eloped with his employer's iVinufianrl of his cash.
Close application to busmess, coupled with pluck and industry wins every
time. ' . ' - , f
up-tvQra ? riftd thfi eantain. "For- 4
ward there, Dennis McCarthy:" 4Be aisy, Cantam Sooli van," said Dennig; new ninri7 wan h4hfn1 from me VOUtaw, I
and shore, though Oi'm shpoiling to j0 so into this foight,. I would not be for-
ward, don't ye see. Oi thinK it's your rear Oi'd be guarreding While
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make of youT ' "r'O
roits " nappy ooiige u. w. Deacon etiiesT-You kiosed Mrs. 8. behind an elder bush, at our last Sun-dav-sehool picnie?" Brother Potts "Yes." Deacon Stiles ' Well, don't do it again, please as it might breed a coolness between tlie, two families. My motner-in-law objects?'
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MOSAICS.
Wlio never walks save where he sees men's tracks, make no discoveries; w ; Adversity is the trial of princ;ple i Without it aman harnly topws.whetner he is honest or not: . " ; It is one of. tlie worst of . errors to ? suppose that there iw iahy ottier-path ot safety except that of duty. -mk: One of the greatest of all mental pleasures is to hftve our tnoughts oftea divined:; ever entered intbwith4 sympathy;; .... , ' .. f ., 'i V-v' The pious man and the atheist aV wa vs. talk of religion ; the one of what J he loves and the other of what he fears. Nothing more impairs authority than a too frequent or indescreet use of 3 it. J f tnunder itsel: shouhl bo contin- ; ued it would excite no more.terror than g the noise of a millSl ,..?) v. -'' True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the body nourishment and refreshment. ; It is a great virtue; it , covers folly, keeps secrets, avoids djs-1 : putes, and prevents sin. Pennw , ; The last, best fruit, which comes late I to perfection, even in the kindliest soul s is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warnim of heart toward the misanttiropic: - He who endeavors to escape from life's druggery may also cease to compete for life's prize: Even if byma- ? . neuver or trick he seize some of themf they will become but empty bubbles that have lost their significance. ; If vou area Wiseman you will treatf the world as the moon treats it. Show it only one side of yourself, seldomj v show yourself too much at a time, and let what you show be calm, coo andpolished. Bufclook at eeryaeof th n world;....., 'v, . , :' -3rm Seek not to please the world, but your own conscience. The man wnoj has a feeUng within him that he has done his duty upon every occasion isv far happier th?n he who han upoaf the smiles of the greater the still m, rej fickle favors of the multitude. ... ? ?i j Lnek is ever waiting for somethlng to turn up. Iiabor,witli keen eyes andj strong will, wHl turn up something Luck lies in bed, and wishes tne posfcj mart would bring him the news of a. n legacy. Labor turns out at 6 o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer lavs the foundation of competence Luck whines! Lalor whistles. Luc aHiu. nn chance. Labor on (maracterkf -
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Half Human, Half Alligator, 4 Meridian (Miss:) MercuTy. . About fourteen .miles from Live Oaks :i Fla., there lives a woman witha strange family. One day she was wahx-. ing out and had occasion to cross a . y; creek on a log, and while thus crossing t a huge alligator attacked and pursued her forSome distance frightening her very much: Subsequently he gavej birth to twins, both males. They were -perfect children down to their waists, and there the human ended, and tnox are complete alligators on downward, -tail and all. They have short webbed - , feet and legs at the lower) portion of the abdomen like aUigators. They crawl with their hands, dragging them ; r : selves about juPt as au alligator does, They make a squealing, roarticulat noise. The mother has had a Jarwa trough or tank filled with vata,ttt , 4 which she keeps themand .thy aV, yr nofiv u thn Hm in it. Tney v
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