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CORNELIUS VUAEJNHjOm fetitc^
For the cause that needs assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
>re in the distance.
And the good that we can do.
CANTORS VLLE, : : GEORIGA.
TIKE HERITAGE.
BY JAM ES RUSSELL LOW ELI*
The rich man’s son Inherits lands,
And piles.of brick, and stone, and gold,
And he inherits soft, white hands
And teridrr flesh that fears the cold,
Nor dares to wear a garment old:
A heritage, it seems to me, ' tf
One scarce would wish to hold in fee.
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What doth the poor man’s son Inherit?
Stout muscles and a sinewy heart,
A hardy frame, a hardier spirit : ;
King of two hands, he does his part
In erery n*eful toil and art;
A heritage, it seems to me, ,/
A king might wish to hold in fee.
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Whajt doth the poor man’s son inherit?
A patience learned of being poc*r,
Cntirage, if sorrow come, to bear it,
A fellow-feeling that is sure
*Td make the outcast bless his door;
A heritage, it seems to me,
A king might wish to hold in fee.
Oh, lich man’s son there is a toil
That witti all others lerel stands;
Targe charity doth never soil,
But only whiteu sqfr., white hands—
This is the best crop from thy lands;
A heritage, it seems to me.
Worth being rich to hold in fee.
I ' yt '' ’ t £ ’* 1 h* ’ • O * ■ ’
Both heirs to some six feet of sod,
Ap equal in the earth at last;
Both children of the same dear God,
Prove title to your heirship vast
By record of a well-filled past;
A heritage, it seems to me,
Well worth a life to hold in fee.
THE HEP OH TEH.
Home of Hit PcoulUtriUee.
This is a reporter. You will notice
how finely he is dressed. He wears his
best clothes every day, because he
doesn’t know what Sunday is. Report
ers have an easy life. They seldom go
to work before 10 o’clock in the morn
ing, and are often through with their
lalwrs at 42 at night. There are many
kinds of reporters. The society reporter
goes to parties and weddings. He tabes
down the names of the people who have
been invited, whether they are there or
not, and prints them in the paper the
next day. Once a man started for a
party, but got too full for utterance be
fore reaching there, and was locked u,p.
The society reporter said he was at the
party, all the same, but the police re
porter said he was fined $3 for being
drunk, So this man got his name in
the paper twice, but ha cut out one of
the items for fear his wife might fee
them both and think the press was mak
ing too muck of him. Men are not oft
en so modest. The sporting reporter
goes to horse-races, and base-ball games,
and cock-fights. It is wicked to go to
horse-races if you bet on the wrong
horse. Once there was a croquet tour
nament in a large city, and the editor of
a paper knew that somebody must write
it Up. So he spoke to the sporting re
porter. “What have I got to do with
those dizzy croquet players ?” said the
sporting reporter. “That’s a society
event.” “ I guess you are right,” re
plied the editor; “so you can go up in
the country about two miles north of
where the street-cars run and see if it
looks as if we would have an early
spring, and then this evening there are
fom Land-LeagUe meetings for you to
look after.” So the sporting reporter
had a little something to do, after all,
and clubbed himself quite heartily. A
man need not have a classical education
in order to be a good reporter, but he
must be able to hustle around some
and hump himself when there is a big
fire or a murder. Reporters can get
nearer to a fire than anybody except the
firemen, and tho new ones do it. But
the old head* at the business know bet
ter. They stand on the corner until the
fire is out, and then they get a hack and
go to the house of the man who owns the
building, and ask him how much the old
shell was worth, and if he thinks the in
surance companies will have him wrest
ed for setting it on fire. This is when
the man acts mean and does not open
the door for them, because he has just
got out of bed and deolinea to answer
questions. But if he acta square, you
bet the boys treat him right, and in the
morning people read of him as “our
estimable citizen, Mr. Report
ers seldom die early. They are too
tough. Perhaps some other day I may
tell you more about the reporters.
Many of them are married men and live
happily with their wives, because they
never see them except when they come
home to-go to bed. ▲ drowsy man can
not quarrel much. *
You h#ve learned already what easy
times reporter? have but often those
who have the best chances in this world
do nqt seem to appreciate this fact, and
sometimes a reporter gets this way and
Jhinks his salary ought 'to be raised. So
he speaks to the editor about it. Ed
itors are very liberal mefl. Many of
them do noi think any more of a dollar
than some men do of their lives, but
they know that if the Yeporters were
paid too much they would gave their
money and buy the paper, and then
the editors would be bke the Chinese—
they would have to go. So in self-pro
tection they are obliged to keep thd'sala
ries of the reporters at $5,000 or $6,000
a year. They hate to do this, but self
preservation is the first law of editors as
well as of nature, Many eciitori pre
serve theipselves so well thatuhebrepo®
bWthem out So yfett fefe
tliafijthefaine* are kiid tolthole who
do good Some good atari#® are told
about* reporters." vjrrce mg man,
who had graduated at Harvard College,
and was a splendid scholar in base-ball
and rowing, came to a large Western
city and hired out to be ftxeperter. The
next day the editor sfent him* to'an in
quest. He came bttek to the office at
night with enough manuscript tof make
a book. The editor gave this to an ex
perienced reported and said: “ Cut this
down to a stickful.” After a while he
went -ovef to where the .experienced re
porter was sitting and said: “How did
that new duek manage with the in
quest?” “Oh,” said the experienced
reporter, “he got everything—except
the verdict.” 4nd then the other re
porters that were sitting around laughed
heartily, but the editor only let drop a
few words of tropica! warmth and dis
charged the new who was very
much surprised to see that the paper
continued to come but regularly after he
had left it to its fate. New reporters
always tell everybody that they are
“ journalists/’ but the old ones call them
deck-hands. New reporters always
think they know everything, and in
some offices it is customary to put a
dish of salt on anew reporter’s desk.
This is a delicate way of telling him he'
is too fresh. Reporters never like to
hurt anybody’s feelings. Once an ed
itor in Cincinnati hired a reporter in
Chicago to do some work for his paper.
After a while the reporter forgot to send
anything about an important matter,
which made the editor very angry. So
he sent a dispatch to the reporter say
ing : “You are discharged. Why did
you get left on that murder? Answer.”
When the reporter read this he laughed
to himself and said : “I wonder if that
old plum thinks he can get the best pf
me? ” So he wrote the longest kind of
an answer, explaining all about the blat
ter, and closed by saying he w;is glkd
he had been discharged, because he dis
liked to be connected with a paper that
allowed itself to get scooped. It took
1,700 words to say this, and, as it was
sent by telegraph, the Cincinnati editor
had a pretty big bill to pay. But it
taught him never to ask for explana
tions by telegraph again, and that Chi
cago reporters were pretty liable to keep
up with the procession.
Villi COMPOSTTroS OW SiCIZTF>NT)P
nvj iwsrHSyQNn n*t*d i
What a wonderful thing the venom of a
serpent is! Chemical analysis fails to
deteat anything in it to Recount far its
action. Water, a little albumen, some
mineral salts, and traces of mucus, epi
thelia, cells, etc.* Jumped together as
“extractive.” Nothing more—nothing
specific about it at all. Tasteless, col
orless and inodorous, it may be rubbed
on the sound skin, or applied to the eye,
or taken into the mouth without any re
sult whatever. The bites of different
kinds of snakes produce different effects.
Some act as a depressant to the vascular
system, some as a powerful narcotic,
some cause inflammation of the spine,
while others seem to give rise to disor
ganization of the structural constituents
of the blood. All are attended more or
less with rigors, delirium, syncope, con
vulsions, paralysis and coma. Whether
the poisons of any two or more species
are identical I do not know—it seems
probable; but in the five species with
which I have experimented on myself,
so far I have found five distinct and
separate venoms. I imagine, for in
stance, that the rattlesnake and copper
head will prove to possess the same, and
perhaps several of the viperine snakes.
I hope so. Some of these fluids are very
unstable, and decompose if kept only a
short time or if their specific gravity is
disturbed, while others retain their
deadly properties even when dried. That
of the common French viper {Vipera
aspis) may be diluted down till it forms
a mere local irritant. No true antidote
has ever been discovered for the bite of
any snake, and the search for something
which shall be an antidote to the
bite of all appears to me to
be irrational in the extreme, see
ing that there are so many different
poisons, producing in many cases oppo
site effects. One might as well expect
to find a general antidote for opium,
belladonna, strychnine, arsenic and
mercury poisoning. The action of am
monia, upon which so much stress has
been laid, is probably nothing more
than that of a strong stimulant; cer
tainly its action in maintaining the fluid
ity of the blood is quite Hypothetical,
seeing that premature coagulation of
the fi brine has never been actually dem
onstrated. > Indeed, it is said that at the
autoppy of the keeper Girling, bitten
many years ago by a cobra de capello at
the Gardens, the blood formed no clot
at all, but was found permanently fluid
in all the great vessels.— Land, and
Water.
SAD WASTE OW MONEY.
A gentleman was recounting, in a seri
*>us manner, his many misfortunes and
losses within the year, naming the death
of his excellent wife among the number.
“Anci just think," he said, wipingaway
a falling tear, “ only six weeks before
she died she had her teeth fixed in apple
pie order at a cost oI $32, and now that
is gone with the xmLlis m mdt
onrsßß nr ops qjp becastle .
The watcH is pparij^oveß;
seven fiells—h al£-pas|jll -~havA bq(|n
struck, and at Co#© Jack dines when fie
’is at homer is4beof and imy ;
yesterday there were pea-soup and pork.
The “duff” was made an hour or twe
ago, and, hot being a Christmas plum
ppdchng, the skill to prepare it
was hot considerable ; for when the oooh
had skimmed off the grease from the
water in the coppers and mixed it with
flour, and, wprked the whole into a paste,
and poured the paste into a conical
canvas bag, closely resembling a man’s
nightcap of fifty years ago, fiothing Re
mained to complete jack’s pudding but
to boil it. It is 4 now boiled and ready
for Jack to eat, and so is the beef.
The beef is forked oht first from the
copper and thrown into a mess-kid;
then the pudding is fished out and
dropped into cold water, after which the
bag is opened, and the pudding slides
out of it and faUs rather heavily into
another kid. A* boy or ordinary seaman
from each watch lav* hold of the kids
belonging to his mess, and conveys
them into 4 the forecastle, by which time,
eight bells having been made by the
skipper’s sextant, all hands assemble in
the forecastle, and dinner begins. There
is never very much ceremony in Jack’s
borne, though what etiquette there is is
very stringent. In this forecastle there
are no tables. The men help themselves,
cutting off a junk of beef and a lump of
duff with their sheath knives, each man
judging—and judging very accurately—
how much he should take, so that he
may not dome off better nor worse than
his mates; and walking away with his tin
plate either to Ms bunk or to a sea-chest,
or whenever else he may,feel disposed to
litfeH4ff *t *r!w iitni* LJ ’ * nU
■ * v *ll $ | 4 * f i
. Qne may easily conceive that Jack’s
appetite is usually very .good; and
though the fumes from the mess-kids
are decidedly more greasy than most
land-going palates , would , relish, and
thpngk the beef might, seem to have a
queqr color, and though the duff strong
ly, resembles a mass of putty after it has
been turqed about by the hands of a
glazier, yet one can only earnestly hope,
for the sake of the poor fellows who sit
iq all sorts of places and attitudes,
munching the queer repast with more or
less avidity, that tlie meat and the pud
dings are to Jack’s taste, and that bring
;y both are—-that quality not hav
ing been diminished by the salt water in
which'they were boiled— nothing more
unpleasant than the excessive saltness
predominates ovef the general flavor.
For when I add a small amount of mo-
every ship does not furnish
her forecastle as much—and a gill of
rum, I have, so far as my own experi
ence goes, exhausted Jack’s bill of fare.
It is beef and duff, pork and pea soup,
tea and Vinegar, rum, biscuit and lime
juioe. And those who know the life will
admit this, that—so far as respects the
quality of these articles as we find them
at sea—the diet sounds very much nicer
than it looks, and looks very much nicer
than it eats.
A NEWSPAPER BILE 02F FARE.
The Baltimore newspaper boys had a
grand banquet recently, and they turned
their funny man loose to prepare the
menu. This he succeeded in doing
without any perceptible harm to the
victuals, which was the main point. The
card was a two-columned holiday edition
of the Baltimore Brens, Vol. 1, Nd. 2,
issued at the Eutaw House. It
was surmounted by a neatly grouped
fetc-simile of the Balti-more dailies.
“Inside matter” (the other half
crowded out for want of space)
was the pain table bivalVe on omy one of
its two native shells. “Boiled down"
were the soups. “The old defenders"
(pieces of resistance) were sirloins and
saddles, while “ our ’steemed contempo
raries ” were, obviously enough, boiled
turkey and the like. “A slight cool
ness” (between English and French)
was supplied by the following Aspect
de Volatile garni aux Truflos. Guillo
tine de Turkey, au harem decoree. Beef
ala mode, sur preme. Patti dt> foie
gras, garni au hunkey doiree en aspic.
Ham ala sedentaire. Tongue ala tai-,
sezvous ornate. Patti froid des capon,
retiree de business. Aspic of oysters,
ala heavenly smile." “The business
department ” was not inaptly )iamed, for
with canvas backs, pheasants, venison,
wild turkey, Illinois grouse the serious
work of the session may be said to have
begun. Salads were mere “Amuse
ments, "peas, asparagus, beets and the
like, “Our country exchanges,” olives
and sauces “Pungent, personalities.”
Cakes and things were sorted under the
caption; ...
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[Left at the OfRcE.)
THE WANT COIiTTMN.
The creams and ices came under “ An
other cold spell." ’“Fruitful topics",
were grapes and figs from the drowsy
east, and the combined doxology and
benediction was conveyed in the orna
mental line r “ Lock up and go to press."
This arrangement of the menu did not
in the least impair appetite, and the
whole press must have gotten a great
scoop on old Boniface.
Th* Turkish Minister at Washington
because* he couldn’t get
enough salary to ay board.
I think it beat notjte dispute where
thaw in go oi convincing.
AN HEROIC MOTHER BTMIK
fss paper relates interesting
■ (fNi"" M
g anem the list
qnj the lightning struck a bam
in the village of Lowenberg, and a
Btork’s nest —in which there were some
young storklings—was threatened by
the flames,
H)o ty h parent birds contemplated
die frftrfffolp situation from a distance
with evident distress, At last the
mother bird darted down Upon the nest,
apd, seizing one of her young family
with her beak, bore it, off to a safe spot
upon a meadow. The father followed
her, and settled down to keep watch over
liis offspring. When the mother re
turned to the scene of danger the fire
had reached the nest, in which one bird
still remained; but while she was flying
around it, preparing for a descent, the
young one fell through the charred nest
iiit,o tiie burning bam. It was no mo
ment for thought. Down darted the
mother into the smoke and fire, and,
coming up with her Sproseling in her
beak, flew off, apparently unhurt.
On the next day a wounded stork fell
to the ground in the market-place in the
neighboring town of Trebbin. She was
unable to stand, and the policeman of
the little town carried her into the guard
house, where it was discovered that both
legs were sorely burned, and she was
recognized as the heroic mother who
had done the brave feat of rescue at the
fire in Lowenberg.
A physician was sent for, and the
burgomaster found her a temporary hos
pital in the Rathaus. Meanwhile, the
spouse of the sick she stork had discov
ered her whereabouts. He attended
’diligently to the two young ones, and
paid daily visits to the mother, as if to
inform himself how the patient was get
ting on, and to assure her that their chil
dren were dbiiig well.
The school-children of Trebbin readi
ly charged themselves with the task of
finding food for the patient, bringing
her every day far more than the neces
sary number of living frogs. The bur
gomaster paid an official visit every day
to the sick guest of the municipality, to
see that the doctor’s orders were duly
barried out, and in lees than a fortnight
the bird was sufficiently hale to fly a way
to her husband and children.
HER TEETH.
Unfortunate letters get entombed at
flie capital sometimes without going so
very far'* and the cause or consequenoe
may be serious or droll—or both.
Avery amusing incident occurred at
the Dead-Letter Office. A lady ordered
a set of false teeth from a dentist in Har
risburg, Pa., and directed them to be
sent by mail. She waited several weeks
for their arrival, and, as they did not
come, she wrote to the dentist to know
the cause of the delay. He informed
her that he had mailed them soon after
they were ordered, as instructed.
The lady went to the Dead-Letter
Office to inquire if anything had been
heard of a package addressed to her. As
i<he was very modest, she did not like
to give the name of the article contained
in the package. But upon being in
formed that in order to recover the lost
package she must describe its contents,
she did as requested ; and imagine her
surprise when Superintendent Dallas
]landed her a mutilated box containing
the fragments of what were once a set of
teetli. The pouch in which the package
was mailed had been run over by a train
of cars, which separated every tooth
from the plate.— Washington Herald.
WHAT ANGELS AIN'T IN THE HA Bit
OF DOING.
“Mrs. Topnoody,” sadly remarked
Mr. TANARUS., after an agitated scene, “you
are not what I thought yon were in the
happy days of youth. ”
“ Oh, I ain’t, ain’t I?”
“No, you are not. I thought you
were an angel, and now—and now—”
“And now,” broke in Mrs. TANARUS., “and
now you find that you’re a fool, and
that angels ain’t in the habit of slinging
pots and dish-rags around, and spanking
babies, and sewing on buttons, and
wrestling kitchen stoves, and making
niurlin plasters for husbands with the
.colic, and bossing hired girls, and doing
the cooking for a big family, beside go
ing to church and being married to a
Topnoody, all the time. No, Topnoody,
angeU ain’t in the habit of doing such
things . and it is a mighty good thing
they ain’t or the angel business wouldn’t
last till the middle of next week.”
Topnoody did not pursue the conver
sation further, but put on his hat and
went down street to wonder how many
women we re angels.
Thebe is a Baltimore boy named
“ Ollie,” who is just out of his dresses.
A friend of the family asked Ollie
‘ ‘ whose boy he was ? ” “ I'm mammy’s
boy.” “Why, Ollie!” said his father,
reproachfully. * ‘ Yes, ” continued Ollie,
* * and i’m papa’s boy. * 11 How can that
be,” asked the friend. 41 Why, my gra
cious ! ” was the reply, “ can’t a wagon
have two horses ? *'
It is unlucky — To fall out of a third
story window on Monday. To meet a
red-headed woman on Tuesday—espe
cially if you owe her anything. To break
a S4O mirror on Wednesday. To dream
Vou see red snakes or green monkeys
5n Thursday. To get hung on Friday.
Or to get locked up on Sunday. Paste
this in jour hat.
kfirir MOSLEM PEASANTS.
It teems rather hard upon the Mos-
whether tfcey be Arab, or Turk, or
slav, that the sympathies of % British
public should be entirely withheld from
them on the ground that they /**) not
bear the name of Christian, even though
they may be of the same race. Asa
rule, the Moslem peasant is, in fact, far
more worthy of their sympathy, for he
is more oppressed, more honest, more
orderly, and quite as industrious It is
true that there are exooptions to the
sSj for instance, among the Cir
cassians and Kurds; but they form a
small proportion of the Mohammedan
population of the empire. The religion
of the former is of so vague a nature that
that they can scarcely be called Mos
lem ; and for the latter, who are a sav
age race of mountaineers, I claim no
sympathy at all. It is for the poor (
down-trodden Moslem peasantry, devout
according to their lights, whether Arab
or Turk —t han whom a race braver or
more enduring in war, and more patient
and well-conducted in time of peace,
does not exist—that I would plead. In
regard to the sentiments which both
Moslems and Christians entertain toward
their own Government there is very lit
tle difference. Ido not see, therefore,
why those in England who denounce the
Turkish Government should make so
great a distinction in their feelings
toward those who share with them their
dislike of the executive authority. If
the result of their Christianity had been
to make Christians in any way morally
superior to Moslems, I could readily
sympathize with the popular British
sentiment upon the subject.—“ The
Land of Gilead' ” — Oliphant.
Two Fbhnoh savants have, for the last
twelvemonth, been keeping nine pigs in
in a state of habitual drunkenness. This
has been done with a view to testing the
effects of different kinds of alcohol on
these animals, and the Prefect of the
Seine last year kindly put some styes
and a yard in the municipal slaughter
houses at La Yillette at the disposal of
the savants, in career that they might
conduct their interesting experiment at
the smallest possible cost to themselves.
The experiment is interesting, because
we are told that the pig is the animal
whose digestive apparatus most closely
resembles that of man; but then
drunkenness does not act on a man’s di
gestion only, and the behavior of a tipsy
pig furnishes but a slight indication oi
what a tipsy man's would be who had
drunk of the same liquors. However,
we learn that the pig who takes absinthe
is first gay, then excitable, irritable,
combative and, finally, drowsy ; the pig
who has brandy mixed with his food is
cheer M all through till he falls to sleep;
the rum-swilling pig becomes sad and
somnolent almost at once, while the pig
who takes gin conducts himself in ec
centric ways, grunting, squealing, tilt
ing his head against the stye door, and
rising on his hind legs as if to sniff the
wind. Dr. Decaisne, writing on these
intoxicated swine in the France , re
marks that they are none of them the
worse for their year’s tippling, which
may be regarded as satisfactory or the
reverse, according to one’s point of view.
THE TACTILE SENSE.
The sense of touch, when highly
trained, enables the blind to read with
their fingers almost as readily as others
with their eyes. With it alone Laura
Bridgman rapidly recognizes a friend ;
feels the approach of one coming in the
hall, and even picks out her own clothes
returned with those of others from the
laundry.
The ancient sculptor determined the
final finish of his statue in marble, not
by his eye, but by the nerves at the
roots of his finger-nails. The expert com
positor depends less on his eye than on
his finger-tips in handling his types.
The wonderful capacity which lies hid in
all our senses is brought out only when
necessity forces us to their special train
ing, but it might be well if their fuller
development was made part of the edu
cation of the young generally.
Without this sense we could hold
nothing in our hands, except when look
ing at it; nor stand with safety ; nor lie
in bed with comfort. Few are aware
bow dependent we are on the sensations
located in the surface of our bodies.
A man in Germany, on recovering
from a severe fever, was attacked wiib
numbness, which was soon followed b\
loss of all tactile sensation. He would
wound or burn himself, and become
aware of it only by seeing the blood or
the scar. Gangrene (mortification) fol
lowing an injury to his finger, the latter
nad to be amputated, but it was done
without the slightest pain. Though he
retained his. full power of motion, he
could tell only by his eyes whether fiis
arm was extended or bent; nor could he
walk, or even stand, in the dark, and
when in bed he simply seemed sus
pended in the air.
The case was regard#! as a vei* Inter
esting one by the medical * profession,
and, on the person’s death, some twenty
years later, a post-mortem examination
showed that his brain was wholly unaf
fected, but that there had been exten
sive softening of the spinal marrow from
the top of the neck to the small of the
back.— Youth’s Companion,
Certainly, a sheriff is an executive
officer. , . ,J 7
FLEA S ANTILLES.
! A sliding scale— Climbing a gtt asefe
pole.
High words—Lofty, elevated, top
most, summit, etc.
Which of the digits is forever lost r
2, because it is never won.
Australia is ever a far-away land, bui
it is an island, too. See ?
A Lenten custom Letting your
friend take your umbrella.
The dressmaker is the pattern saint
of the women of America.
Illinois hogs get trichinosis, Ohio
hogs get all the fat offices.
Restaubant-keepebs find that the ice
cream customer takes the cake.
Solomon was the first man who want
ed to part the heir in the middle.
Motto of the conscientious man—l
would rather be right than be left
“Hold the forte for I am coming,”
said the piano player as he stepped upon
the stage.
Brigha ; Young acquired the title of
(General from having been called “Briggy
dear” so often by his numerous wives.
Deacon Richabd Smith says a co
-is like a snake. Presume it’s be
cause she acts coyly, and a snake acts
coily, too. ‘
<fc How shall we take the sense of this
meeting ?” asked the Chairman, “Pass
around your hat if you want our cents, ’
yelled an unruly boy.
“What hoi without there!” ex
claimed the fierce tragedian, and the
new “ supe ” hastened to say, “There
isn’t any hoe at all, out here.”
“ When will there be only twenty-five
letters in the alphabet ?” asked a bache
lor teacher. “When U and I R made
1,” answered a young-lady pupil.
To Vassab there went from St. Loui*
A dazzliugly-beautiful Jewess
French, Latin and Greek,
She learned not to speak,
But she Baade an accomplished gum chewess.
Every man has a skeleton in his closet
and a private and personal tombstone on
which is inscribed the epitaph, “ Sacred
to the memory of wasted time and lost
opportunity. ”
There is a place for everything, fel -
low-citizens, but there isn’t a place lor
every man. Remember that before you
start for Washington. If there is a
place for every Ohio man, it’s just about
as much as there is.— Hawk-Eye.
“It is a sad thing,” said Mrs. Spil
kins to her husband, “ for a man to have
his will contested after he is dead.”
“Contested after he is dead!” cried
Spilkins. “ That is not half so bad as to
have it contested after he is married 1 ”
What did Oliver Twist? What did
Charles Reade? What was it Bulwer
Lytton ? What did Ivanhoe? What was
Wadorworth ? What did Mrs. Mulock ?
Where did Victor Hugo? Where did
diaries Lever ? What had Mrs. Brad
aon?
• ‘ Now, Susette, where are my boots?
Do hurry with them ; I am sure I have
called for them a dozen times.” “ Yes’rn;
in a minute, ’m. I heard you, and I
thought, to save you time and trouble,
I’d button them for you before you put
them on.”
USE OF THE EYES.
The man who avoids excesses of every
description has a fair chance of retain
ing his eyesight until old age sets in. A
time comes to every one when the
physical powers begin to decay, and
then, unless the brain has been kept,
active and recipient by exercise, there
is nothing left to live, and the man
perishes. We say that he died of gout,
or over eating, or of heart disease, or of
kidney disease, or of the failure of the
particular organ which was the first to
exhibit symptoms of the approaching
end. In reality he has died of stupidity,
artificially produced by neglect of the
talents with which lie was endowed.
That vvhich is true of the organism as a
whole is true, also, of its parts; and
the eyes, among others, are best treated
by an amount of systematic use which
preserves the tone of their muscles and
the regularity of their blood supply.
Acuteness of sight is aided by the at
tention bestowed upon objects within
the range of vision. In people who
cannot read, the sight is far from acute.
I have even had reason to think that
the wives of such men are indebted to
their household needlework for the main
tenance of a higher standard of vision
than that of their husbands ; and I have
• no doubt that idleness of the eyes, if I
may use such an expression, is in every
way hurtful to them, and that proper
and varied employment is eminently
conducive to their preservation in beaut v
-and efficiency.
Professor Stourbridge before the
State Hoard of Agriculture of Connecti
cut: “fhe soil is best plowed when it
is most thoroughly crushed, twisted and
broken, w’ith the so t well covered. On
'jome kinds of land f would have fur
rows la. ped an inch, as the Canadian
i farmers plow. 'Let the air and water
have a chance to circulate underneath
the surface. Light lands, however,
should have a fla_t furrow if we wish to
make such lands more compact.”
Let the middle-aged reader count
upon his finger all the companions of his
youth who have become distinguished,
whose names are known upon the two
continents, and mark how few they are
and far between.