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NARIIATII READING.
Hri PATBIV4V ©* THE EA.
BY M. t. PIUUSMT.
Our sen, aft whiles, are howden, I^rt,
Tbo’ we are to Thee,
Bm malftt >’ a\ w** Im That not
By )ai hwuv o’ the aea.
Oh, weep fi*r them that gnng awa',
An* let your grief h* salr;
For twice yon wa ha ta’en frae me,
Ad' gle* them back uae matr.
Alnre matr to see my darling'* face,
Hta aweot young lip* to klaal
Bui a’ the yenn I h**" to lire
WtU never gletne this!
Bae young he waa, dear I*d, to gae
Yon at or my way, hi* lane—
AlaneT 0 thou a little faith,
The Lord wan wi’ Ilia alnl
1b merry Thou hart hid frne na
The knowledge o' the dree,
Tboae frariu’ hour* faring death
Upo’ the wintry aoa.
Rae ujony aoulc went up to God
Yon awfu’ Sabbath hay,
The atorniy awi a' maiat might lie
The angel'* shining way.
Yet after while* my heart erica out,
Ahum* nsy teit. r creed,
" Lord Jeena, if Thou hadst l*eeu there,
My brother had na d'acd!”
Oh. mind ye, fatthhaa, aching heart,
How, aince in rasing storm,
U|o’ the wave* o' Galilee
Ho walked iu human form;
An’ In If la han’ o' hiving strength
Held Peter safo frae death;
An' yeara, I ken, h:u* wrought nae change
In Christ o' Natireth
His voice yon atormy morn
Wrought peace frn* decmiat strife,
An' He it was who I our bairn
A grander gift (had life.
For In Ilia han' an* life an’ death,
Jle km* wnile gift is txnt,
The Jure that “ hived unto the end ”
la surety for the rest,
Tho* what Ho does, like Peter, aft
At Amt we manna ken.
Oh, sure the swwd Iwivifior comes,
An’ we shall know 11 then '
For aye, a< woudrou* word o' Thine
Kings out ahfuie our dree,
Tiic promise that ill yonder land
There shall la? nae mair sea.
The Blle*MaaN of Life.
Do tlioio of iik who nro iipariug and
piumiiiK Nome of tin 1 later mUo-Htonoß of
our on. wuSlily jouniny. ripi'ii welly Jh
tliorv an momuiiiiK hwim liii'sh, a brighter
iwllownoKß of lif<■ and '•haiuctcr? Have
wo morn of tliogentli’ih : sof ('liiiat, morn
of tin l aln)OH|>hnr() anil f/l<nv of linaven ns
wo near our liouic? On Uioho ]Kiinte, an
rxlriu-t. from lln> letter of a dear minia
teriai friend, i- tun khml to lie kept, pri
vate: “Well, I am with you on the
heaven aide of sixty, having just ‘croaaed
the line’ aa Bailors nay. I thought nmo I
should feel like an oh! man, that tint
grace of ago which conies, they nay, for
early piefy and inch devoted manhood,
would fall all over me, and I should feel
myself lxhiignly glorilied But I don't
ee a I am materially improved by ]iaHM
ing this big mile stone •uiotigli I think T
ran B>e Home improvement siuee 1 wuh
forty. I think I have com ju<*red some of
the lmd things that have bothered me,
though, alas, not all. I think l have
more patience and pity, larger sympa
thies, higher hopes and a more eliastened
joy. I think I love ('hrist better and
hold my friends dearer; that life was
never mo full and sw. et; the gos))el never
seemed no rich and blamed; and the work
of the ministerial never bo delightful.
You, I am sure, can say ho miteli."
I’lU’l'il IliUt.
A mouKter newly settled in Olnsgow,
Scotland, determined to visit every person
in bis parish, tie began his round and
aueoeSdeu in tliiishing the entire list- -
with a single exception.
Up four flights of stairs, iu a poor
tenement house, lived, or hovelled, an
intemperate man who was ho repulsive
and Bttvage tlmt lie dated not meet him.
Tlie minister's friends had warned him
not to rail there, for fear of personal
harm. The wretch had driven his family
away. Nobody eotild live with him, and
he was land lot alone. He was a “beast.”
This was continued by the minister's ow n
impressiona tho few times he had seen
the drunkard, and ho shunned him.
Htill tlio gtnnl man could not lu'l|> feel
iug ashamed of his fount; and the slmme
grow ujmiii him tlio more ho thought of
the matter.
At lost, one aplendid morning, rising,
utter a perfect night's rest, full of vigor
and spiritual oourago, hosaiil to himself,
"Now is ray time to go to l‘ij r’ Alloy
anti son Tim Burke. I'm just in tho
mood."
Ho went straight to the plane, ('limited
through tlie dirty entiies, and knocked
at the man’s door. He listened, and
theu knocked again -mid soon after again.
The drunkard must he in tit this hour, i
ever, and he "a i .-solved not to lose his
errand.
Finally he lifted the latch. There was
no loek and the door slowly opened.
Before him, eronehi I over the the-place,
he saw Tim Burke the "Is ast.''
Wilil uuil dAngeiviis enough the crea
ture hHiked, in his tilth and rugs, ami
with his glaring eyes.
"Who Iw< veil?" That was his first
greeting to his visitor.
" 1 mu u minister.''
" Minister! What d' you want?"
“ 1 etuiie to see you. ”
" Well, look at me. then,” and the
man rtise to his feet and came forward.
“Ain't l a lieauty, eh?” shipping
nearer and nearer. The minister ex
pected an attack, and was prepared
lor it
" Have you lonktsl enough?” said the
drunkard, approaching so close that his
visitor caught lus foul lu-eath. "Now
I'll tell ve wliat I'm goiu’ to do. I'm
goiif to kick ye down stab's!"
“Hold on. hold tm! Not now!' said
the minister, "If you kick me down
staiiw, I'll have to come all the way up
aguiu. I've a call to make ou the next
floor. Wait till l come hack, and then
it you conclude to kick the minister who
wanted to make you a friendly visit.,
wliv, l shall la* at your service.
“Well, you aiv a cool one." muttered
the drunkard; and he went and at down
again.
After making his call, the minister re
turn'd. and presented himself voiding
to promise; but lit found the in: n not at
all dutjKised to kick him now He had
evidently boon thinking
"Hit down, said lie; and tin minister
aal down and talked with him like a ten
der brother: and when he sjaike lo him
of Ins w ife and children lie lc , ncgtui
to roll down the jssu- drunkard 'luniks;
“Oh, lin a God-forsaken wr, toll, be
youd mercy! he groaned. Hut the
miuutU'r jxiinted him to Christ, and knelt
and prayed that tin fallen ami might
have strength and grace to rise again
The good man followed up hi - \ ..ver
with persistent kiinltn ss, and hiithfullv
stood by Tint Burk, till h, saw him re
united to his family, and established in
honest employment. solv i right
minded. chtuvh-gouig miui.
Evur afterwards w hen luulin, and e l>c
afraid of a repulsive duty, it was nougli
for live minister to remember that dav
when he “rescued the perislmi .
Youth's Oovtpanum.
Ta Middletown Pres, asks; Does a
man think that he is strictlv t mp rate
because he does not drink any spirituous
bquors, but eats with a voracious appe-
Sd as ."fifi* *° thjUh# beoomes stu-
A Rough Translation.
A young lady moving in the most ex
alted social circles of Galveston, after
much toil and practice at the piano,
learned to play with considerable dexter
ity apiece entitled "Picnic Polka." It
is something after the style of the cele
brated " Battle of Prague.'’ The listener
can readily distinguish tho roar of tho
artillery, the rattle of the musketry, the
shouts of soldiers and the groans of the
dying. In the “Picnic Polka” the nowo
of the wind among the trees and tho
joyous carols of the birds are reproduced,
the finale liciug a thunder-shower which
disturbs the sylvan revellers. It linpiiens
that a country cousin is in town just
now, and the young lady thought she
would play the piece to him and hear )uh
comment. He is a pbiin, simple-minded
youth, and although not very bright, is
very appreciative. Him tola him wlmt
the piece was and then proceeded to give
him the “ Picnic Polka.'Jim first notes
are rather slow and hesitating, the idea
sought to ho conveyed Iming the solemn
solitude of forest, through which the
gentle zojihyr (not heifer) sighs. After
h!io got through with this preface, she
nuked him if lie did not almost imagine
himself iu a lodge in some vast wilder
ness. He replied that he thought all
that alowness meant tlm delay in getting
off. Said he: “There is always some
darned cuss who oversleeps himself and
keeps everybody else waiting."
She did not care to discuss tlm jsiiut
with the ignorant fellow, so, to conceal
her emotions, she once more let herself
out on the piano. The woods were tilled
with music. The mocking bird whistled
as if his throat would split, the cuckoo
filled the sylvan bowers with his repeated
cry, while ever and iumn the mournful
cooing of the dove interrupted tlm mntin
song of tlm lark.
“There, now, 1 guess yon know what
that, sounds like?" she sold, as she
paused.
“You mean that ‘tootle, tootle, biotic,
chug, chug, chug?’ You just bet I un
derstand that. Many is tlm time at a
picnic I’ve heard it from the month of a
demijohn or the btinglioleof a beer-keg."
Her tirst impulse was to hurl tlm piano
stool at him, but it passed off, and once
mole she went at the piano as if it, was
the young man’s head and was insured
for double its value. Tlm thunder
growled, tlm lightning flashed (from lmr
eyes) and the first heavy drops are heard
11]mhi tlm leaves. Him banged and maulcif
the keys at a fearful rate; peal after peal
of deafening thunder perturbed the
atmosphere and re-echoed in still louder
reverlwrations until it wound up in one
appalling clap ns a grand tlnale. Then,
turning b> the awe-struck youth, she
said: “I suppose you have heard some
thing like that before?"
“Yes, tliat.’s what the follow with
linen pants said when he sat down on the
custard pie.”
The audience found himself alone, but
lm piekrd up his hat and sauntered out
inbi the street, densely unconscious that
he imd said anything out of the way.
How a Famous Cheese Is Made.
Perhaps the most justly cclebruted
plieeso made on the Continent of Europe
is the Swiss Gruvere. This is made
mostly in huts, nulled chalets, high up
among tho Alps, at the time during which
the pastures on the mount it in-sides are
accessible, ami the huts habitable, sax
from the melting of the snow in May tr
the end of September, when men and ani
mals descend for the winter into the shel
tered valleys thousands of feet below.
The chalets are located in the midst of
the mountain pastures oil a s)stt safe from
avalanches, and generally near to a small
pond or spring of water, when such are
available. Provisions from tlio valleys are
curried up weekly to the chalets, and it is
under such diflieult circumstances that
a elieeso is mode which for hundreds
of years has been considered almost, if
not quite the best on the Continent.
The milk, partly skimmed, or not, ac
cording to the quality of the cheese de
sired to be made, is put into a great kettle
and swung on a crane over a gentle tire,
where it is allowed to attain a temperature
of seventy-seven degrees Fahrenheit,
when the kettle is swung off the lire and
rennet is added to the milk. When coag
ulation has advanced far enough the ouril
is cut into ns tint' pieces as is practihlo
with- the large wooden knife which is
used for the purpose. The kettle is then
swung over the tire again, and the curd
is taken up in small quantities in a jsir
riuger and jaunt'd back through the lin
gers, where it is still more finely divided.
Great imjairtanoo is attached to this
division of the curd, in order that each
particle may be fully exjMised to tho no
tion of the float iu the "cooking" prtstsss,
which ensues up to a point when a tem
lierature of 90° has I veil attained. Tho
kettle is then immediately swung oft' the
lire, and the waste of curd and whey stir
red for some fifteen minutes longer, and if
the cooking has Is'cn projierlv performed
the particles of curd have the appeiu'tuieo
of bursted grains of rice swimming in the
whey. The curd is then collected in a
cloth, and great care is taken toexjielull
whey. The salting of the cheese is ulso
considered a delicate and iuqiortant pro
cess. Tlio sidt is rubbed from time to
time on the outside of the cheese, care
luting taken to discern when enough shall
have 1 veil absorbed. The Gruyore cheeses
are commonly t hree feet ill diameter, and
weigh over one hundred pounds. A suc
cessful cheese of this kind is like a soft
yellow paste, which melts in the mouth,
and it is tilled with cavities about the
size of jva, one or two, say, in each
square iuoh of cheese.— Dairyman's
Journal,
. -
Don't Overwork the Brain.
There is something more dreadful in
the consequences of working the mind to
exhaustion than in similar abuse of the
body.
Dr. Parker, of New York, delivered a
lecture in that city, in which lie allowed
the evils j * veeding from the transgres
sion of the limits of their powers by liter
arv men.
Tie said: “No man can do hoadwork
faithfully for more than four or live or
six hours. If that time is exceeded, all
the phosphorus is carried off, and the
man luvomes irritable, broken down,and
has softening of the brain.
“1 have seen this overwork in lawyers,
doctors, elergvmen and merchants who
"have worked tlie brain for ten horn's.
“They have dropped under the burden.
Yon cun not violate the law of God with
impunity. Sir Waiter Scott did a large
amount of lirain work in his day, but ho
did not overwork himself. In his latter
days, however, he became pecuniarily
gmbarrassed, and resorted to nis literary
pursuits to save himself; but lie worked
too hard and completely broke himself
down.
“One of tlio Ixvit scholars I ever know
completely broke himself down in liis
younger days, but he livetl on to sev *nty,
though he could oulv work some four
hours a day. After these hours he en
gaged in vigorous exercise to keep him
out of the house as much as possible, and
he continued one of the host professors
in the country."
Yiutt-e comes in small packages, but
nee by the baleful.
WHAT IT COSTS TO LITE.
Th. Number of Oullar. On. Kal u|> In
rtflj Yrara.
Mr. Hover, who in his lifetime gained
so much fame as a cook and food econo
mist, made a calculation as to how much
of the finer wines and incuts wi re con
sumed by a professed bon-vivuut iu the
course of his lifetime. This curious feat
of calculation is based on a lifetime ex
tending over sixty years; the life of a
Isin-vivant is estimated as enduring for
three score years and ten; but though
ho might have extended tlm number—
the first bm years are not taken into ac
count., as during that period the lsiy is
not allowed bi consume anything but
wliat is placed before him. Taking the
round figures of the accumulated “ser
vices of meat and drink,” it appears, by
Mr. Hover’s calculation, that a professor
of good living will consume iu the sixty
years allotted bi him, üboiit sixty bms
of viands, which lie probably washes
down with a hundred hogsheads of wines
and liquors of various kinds. The fol
lowing are the material)! which, accord
ing b> Hoyer, coin]sates the daily dinner
of tho average epicure—namely, half a
pint of soup, four ounces of- fish, eight
ounces of meat, four ounces of jxmltry,
four ounces of savory meats, two ounces
of vegetables, two ounces of bread, two
ounces of pastry, half an ounce of cheese,
four ounces of fruit, one pint of wine,
one glass of liquor, one cup of coffee or
tea, The solids, it will lm seen, which
are consumed at this meal amount b>
thirty and a half ounces; whilst at lunch
eon time, eight ounces would be con
sumed; and calculating tho eggs, fish, or
cutlets eaten at breakfast, an additional
twelve ounces would full to be added to
tho account, equivalent b> forty-eight
ounces of solid final perdUrn\ and there
would he at least three pints of liquid
material in coffee, soup, wine, and
liquors. At present prices, the eating
and drinking of a professed go<xl liver
could not be, accomplished for less than
twelveshillings sterling ($3.00) p< rdiem,
including wines and liquors. That may
seem a large sum; but the money which
is necessarily expended in cooking such
a dinner as an epicure would order is
considerable, and necessarily fails to be
included in tho bill of costs; while if
high-class wines be selected, twelve
shillings will hardly cover tho expendi
ture. Twelve shillings a day for a per
iod of three hundred and sixty-five days
amount to two hundred and nineteen
pounds ($1,006;) and in sixty years at
that rate, the gisid liver's commissariat
account will him up to tlm very hand
some sum of thirteen thousand one hun
dred and forty pounds sterling ($65,-
700.)
A healthy anil hungry eater of tho
upper middle class, able to afford a good
dinner, will in the course of Iris lifetime
consume thirty fat oxen, two hundred
slmep, as many lambs, a hundred calves,
fifty pigs, twelve hundred barn-door
fowls, three hundred turkeys, four hun
dred 'ducklings, and as much game us
he can afford to purchase; his consump
tion of fisli, fruits, and vegetables will
lie iu proportion, say sixty salmon, a
hundred and fifty cod-fish, two hundred
soli's, and many hundreds of the minor
fishes, not hi speak of a few hundred
lohsb'i'H and many thousand oysters.
Taking, then, tho food expenditure of
the professional and higher mercantile
men --we cannot compute it at less, in
cluding wines, spirits beer, than eight
shillings (#'2.(K)) per diem, which, when
expensive fruits and choice vintages are
taken into account, is a moderate enough
estimate, especially if the occasional din
ner and Hupjier parties given in tho
course of the year be included. A
year's dinner anil food expenditure ut the
rate just mentioned would sum up to one
hundred and forty-six pounds ($730);
and taking u similar rate for a period of
fifty years, it represents a total amount
of sovt'u thousand three hundred pounds
($36,500). Presuming that, if he pleased,
the professional or mercantile man of the
class indicated might easily so restrict
his expenditure as to admit of a saving
of two thousand pounds ($10,000) on his
life’s ford account, the total gain would
bo positively enormous. If there are,
say, a million of such persons—and for
illustrative purposes we may assume
there are a million—the sum gained
would be represented by no less a sum
than two thousand million jammla ($lO,-
000,000,000)! Such figures must of course
be set down us übipiuu, because men as
a rule have become such slaves to their
appetites, that it would be hopeless h>
attempt to wean them from what they
have grown to consider a necessary of
their lives; but the fact remains notwith
standing that “we all eat and drink too
much.”— Chambers' Journal.
A “ Squaw Man.*'
‘ Squaw-man” is the name given o a
white man who lias married one or more
Indian wives and boenrogularly adopted
by their tribe with whom lie lives With
the exception of Iving of occasional use
ns an interpreter he is an utterly worth
less jvrson Ho has completely left his
own race and taken to the ways of the
savage aud is equally despised by the
whites and by his adopted brethren.
Many of the woodcutters who supply
fuel to steamboats on the Upper Missouri
marry, or rather buy, Indian wives; but
they tit not form part of the tribal fam
ily, as does the "squaw-man. ” Often it
is policy foi client to take wives from
tribes which art' dangerous to their
safety A wife insures proteetioi from
the depredations of her tribe; and when
her lord and master is tired of her, or
wishes ti. form other business relations,
he simplv tells her and her progeny to go
home. These men have the reputation
of Iviug most active agents in supplying
ammunition io Indians
All these frontier folks eat, drink and
live, and after their manner enjoy life.
We can perceive that they have oc
casional hardships, but they have pleas
urcs which may not la- so easily under
stood by jhsij ile who live iu comfortable
houses, and drive in well hung and well
cushioned carriages, or walk paved
streets. A life in the open air, freedom
from restraint, and a vigorous appetite,
generally finding a hearty meal to satisfy
it, make difficult a return to the hum
drum of steady work and comparative
respectability They have their place in
the drama of our national life, for better
or for worse, and their pursuits and char
acter must t>e recognized and studied by
any one who would comprehend our
great Western country. — International
Review,
Joseph Kearney's ingenious plan to
make money, in Philadelphia, was to
tell mothers that their sons had been
horribly mangled, and ask for a few dol
lars iu haste to buy medicine. The
trick was successful in several instances.
Then he boldly went to a woman with
the false news that her son's body would
arrive on a certain train, with SS due for
delivery. She hail heard of him, aud he
was arrested.
Jeanne's mother attempts to dissuade
her from marrying a soldier of tin* line
with whom the girl is desperately in
love. “A war may come ana a cannon
ball may take off h'is head,” she tells her.
“Ah, well! a widow at 16!" exclaims
the daughter. " What is more poetic ?*
The Traitor’s Reward.
A vivid account of the career of one
of society’s nebulous evil-doers, by G.
Lippurd, closes with this warning picture:
There was a day when Talleyrand ar
rived in Havre, hot foot from Paris. It
was in tho darkest hour of the French
revolution. Pursued by the bloodhound*
of the reign of terror, stripped of every
wreck of property or power, Talleyrand
secured u passage to .America in a ship
idsmt to sot sail. He was going a beg
gar and a wanderer bi a strunge land to
eurn his bread by daily lalior.
“ Is there any American gentleman
sbiying at your house ?” he asked tlie
landlord of his hotel. “ I am about to
cross the w ater, and would like a letter
bi home jiersou of influence in tho New
World.”
The landlord hesitated for a moment,
and then replied: “There is a gentle
man up stairs, either from America or
Britain, but whether American or En
glishman I cannot tell.”
He lion)ted tho way, and Talleyrand—
who, in his life, was Bishop, Prince,
Prime Minister—ascended the stairs; u
venerable supplicant, lie stood before
the stranger. He poured forth his story
in eloquent French and broken English.
"lain a wanderer—an exile. lain
forced bi fly to the New World, without
a friend or a hope. You are an Amer
ican ? Give me, then, I beseech you, a
letter of introduction to some friend of
yours, so that I may lie enabled to earn
my bread. Give me a letter to one of
vour friends. A gentleman, like you,
lias doubtless many friends.”
Tho strange man rose. With a look
Talleyrand never forgot, he retreated to
ward tho ihxir of the next chamber, still
downcast, his eyes still looking from fie
ri eat h his darkenedbrow*. He spoke as
he retreated backward ; his voice was
full of meaning.
“ I am tlie only man bom in the New
World that can raise his hand to God,
and say—l have not one friend—not one
—in all America.”
Talleyrand never forgot the over
whelming silliness of the look which ac
companied these words.
“Who are you?” be cried, as the
strange man retreated toward the next
room—“your name?”
“My name ” —with a smile that had
more of mockery than joy in its convul
sive expression—“ my nunio is Benedict
Arnold.”
He was gone. Talleyrand sank into a
chair, gasping the words, “Arnold, the
traitor.” —Central Christian Advocate.
Milk and Lime Water.
Milk and lime water are now frequent
ly prescribed by physicians in cases of
dyspepsia and weakness of the stomach,
and in some cases are said to prove very
beneficial. Many persons who think
good bread and milk a great luxury, fre
quently hesitate bi eat it for the reason
that tlie milk will not digest readily—
Sourness, of stomach will often follow.
But experience proves, says the Journal
of Materia Mediea, that lime water and
milk are not only food and medicine at
an early period of life, but also at a
later, when, as in the case of infants,
the functions of digestion and assimila
tion are feeble and easily perverted. A
stomach taxed by gluttony, irritated by
improper food, inflamed by aleoho], en
feebled by disease, or otherwise unfitted
for its duties—as is show n by the vari
ous symptoms attendant upon indiges
tion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery,
and fever —will resume its work, and do
it energetically, on an exclusive diet of
bread and milk and lime water. A gob
let of cow’s milk may have four table
spoonfuls of lime water willed to it with
guoil effect. The way b> make lime
water is simply to procure a few lumps
of unslaked lime, put the lime in a stone
jar, and add wator until the lime is
slaked-and of about the consistence of
thin cream; the lime settles, leaving the
pure and clean lime water on the top.
Brilliant, But Unhappy.
Headers of Lever’s amusing novels
would imagine their author to have been
of sunny temperameut and joyous heart.
The fun that sparkles in them is of the
most rollicking kind. But the biography
of Charles Lever shows that the gay
writing was often a reaction from a pro
found despondency.
Lever was a genuine Bohemian, without
principle or any serious aim in life. An
inveterate gambler, fond of carousal, he
wasted health and money, mid made no
provision for the future. His income as
an author was sometimes fifteen thou
sand dollars a year,but it was all sjauit iu
dissipation. Curious as it may seem, w e
learn that he did not like writing, and re
sorted to it only as a necessity. It exist
too much hard labor for one of his tem
perament, and when his works were fin
ished, lit' had not patience to correct
them. It is not pleasant to read such a
biography of a writer of brilliant gifts.
A Peculiar Fitness far His Work.
Many Australian shepherds are con
victs. A sheep farmer had ten, and he
used to describe their peculiarities iu an
amusing manner. One was a clergyman.
He was idle, sat down, and let the sheep
wander. Another was an English shep
herd. He could not adapt himself to the
vagrant ways of colonial sheep. Another
was a murderer. He drove the sheep
too hard. The best of the whole ten was
a London pickpocket. In the exercise
of his profession lie had been observant,
cautious, and dexterous, taking constant
note of persons, peculiarities, and dress.
He had to estimate the value of his
victims, and to obtain liis object with tlie
least disturbance to their sensibilities.
He watched the sheep carefully, knew
what each had iu its ixx'ket, and did his
best to secure the prize for his employer.
Such is the power of personal attention
and discrimination.
Speech mill Size.
The Power of Speech. A man who
cannot use his eyes should use his
tongue.
Man’s darkened soul can call for a
light when it cannot trikc a light.
The spiritually blind man can niter a
loud and exceedingly-bitter cry that
shall pierce heaven and enter into th
ear and heart of God.
Size. —Bigness is not greatness; and
yet smallness is in itself no blessing,
though it may be the occasion of a man's
winning one.
Happily for little men the giants have
seldom any great wit.
It is not pleasant to see every one
about you a bigger person than yourself.
Yet this is a sight many do see who arc
not dwarfs in stature.
M iss Wilson is a Delaware heiress
aud lieauty. She fell in love with a
farm hand, because she deemed him he
roic ; but when they eloped, and he ran
away from her across tlie fields at tlie
approach of her pursuing father, she
concluded that she had overrated him,
and went back home contentedly.
When his cousin. Charlotte Dunne,
was married, Jones said, “ It was Dunne
before it was begun, Dunne while it was
Ifing done, and not Dunne when it was
t 5 mm. ”
Moth*.
A word in season, if it ia tho right
word, regarding moths, will bo equiva
lent in utility to the old adage, “A
stitch in time saves nine." An obscure
student of economic housewifery, who
has attentively regarded for a series of
years the action of different vegetable
substances on the life and the destruc
tion of insects, has discovered the prop
er food for the greedy moth, all mouth.
It Is cheaper than camphor or bibacco,
lias no smell, and is always available. A |
pound or two or three of black pepper,
ready pulverized for table use, scat- j
tereil freely among your furs anil wool- .
ens, can easily be shaken all out j
in the fall by some hand, will- j
ing and happy bi he hired
to sneeze, and tho garments will !
lie found uninjured. A lady who packed
ti]) her ]>eraonal effects in the loose eon- |
fusion of too little time and strength to ;
devote thereto, hurried them off to one j
of our great storehouses, and left them j
untouched during an absence of three j
years. Hhe hail tossed the pepper with ,
iavishness through each trunk, box, and
defenseless hag of bundles. Hhe found
her fur-trimmed and all-wool gar
ments perfectly unharmed after their
three years of extra exposure among the
quantities of other families’ gcxxla ac
cumulated in the proper moths’ lioard
ing-house. Not only this triumph ; an
other divulged experience bring* to light
a handsome muff, which, being super
seded by other furs to match suits, es
caped use for fifteen or twenty years,
and was seldom looked at. Well pep
pered, and without extra care, it is clean,
fresh, and undamaged to-day. —New
York Times.
Ancient Petroleum.
Prof. Skeat has called attention to a
passage in North’s translation of “ Plu
tarch's Lives ” (1631, p. 702), from which
it appears that petroleum was known in
the time of Alexander the Great. Tlie
j lassage nuis as follows ; “ For a Mace
donian called Proxenus, that had charge
of the King’s carriage (baggage), as he
digged in a certaine place by the riuer of
Oxus, to set vp the King’s "tent and his
lixlging, he found a certain fat anil oily
veine, which, after they had drawn out
the first, there came out also another
clearer, which differed nothing, neither
in smell, tast, or savour, from natural
oile, having tlie glosse anil fatness so like
as there could be discerned no difference
between them ; the which was so much
the more to be wondered at, because in
all that country there were no oliues. ” *
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know wliat a blessing Dr. Bull’s Baby syrup is
until the youngster is able to yeil by the hour.
Thebe are now 07,000 miles of sub
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Nmtvous debility, weakness and decline pre
vented by a timely use of Malt Bittern.
Never jump at a conclusion. It’s as
bad as jumping out of bed and landing
on tlie little end of a tack.
Malt Hitters regulate, purify, strengthen
and nourish the maternal fnnet ons.
About two-thirds of a pint of air is
inhaled at each breath in ordinary res
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Susan B. Anthony's lecture—“ Woman wants
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ment in support of her theory, but something
more convincing are tho testimonials to tho effi
cacy of Tabler’s Buckeye Tile Ointment, a
remedy which men, and women, too, some
times need. The price of this valuable medi
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A Nllracle.
Anthony Atwood, a retired minister of tlie M.
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cured my wife of Dropsy in its worst form.
All hope had left ns for mouths. All say that
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Vegetine is not a stimulating bitters which
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which assists nature to restore the stomach
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