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YOU ME XI. NUMBER 13,
FROST.
iumo is etched with wondrous tracery’
' Jr uic iUt0I ' lilCed curvc and lino with
L'ke subtle measures of sweet harmony
transformed to sh.;pes of beaut ,* crystal!! no.
Stun, graceful vines imd tendrils of such sort
As never grew save in soma fairy world
R ind up from roots of mi ed si;ver wrought
Ahrouch tulip flowers nd lilies half un¬
tuned.
Thoj firs and hemlocks blend "with i-.lumv
Spiked paims.
ea ti spring from feathery ft-ms and
And wei ds,
soa-blooms no such os l-ock iu South -n
Mingle calms
their foamy fronds with sedgo and
recas.
And there are fllphtsof birds with Iris w nn
i hat chert in ni d-air many a brilliant ptenvv
a ™* 9- nti luting,U dto.cf swimm'ntr tt.inas
-Ht boh m lo iioat iii clear green ocean
gloom.
•And there arc diamond-crusted diadem a.,.
And orbs of pearl and scepters of [n i ? ! • Srol-I, t
stored up in crystal grottoes, lit v/itb terns
Aud paved with emeralds of price untold.
And marvelous architecture of no namo,
i- acudeHand shafts ot 1 •vo'iiest iorm :vt ulb ue.
Keen pinnacles und turrets tipped wi li ilnmc,
-And tretted domes of purest sapphiie blue
All these the Genii ef iho Frost last night
Wrought through the s till cold hours to
charm and rune;
And now, Jike dreams dispelled before tto
Hu y iioat r.ivay ; n vapor ett the noon.
— -tianesL lli'.areih. in Hay per'* Jta-jazine,
THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
Miss Betty Van Dyke had curled her¬
self up in the corner of/ the spacious
window-sill in h r mother's kite] en to
v/ateh F'ifine flute the flounces oi her
India muslin. Miss Betty wa asprett.
and ire h as a rose; her eyes wore ef
heaven’s own blue, her hair like threads
of g*oid, her cheeks “like a Catherine
pear, the side that’s next the sun.’’
i iiine was nothing- more than a bundle
of old bones wrapped in a piece of par. h
she was a native of Lorraine and
bad lately married an F.n Ji-lmian fa¬
miliarly knomi as “George, • : whom
she had loved tor many a year.
Miss etly was romantic, and it so de¬
lighted her when George at last y'e’ded
to the idolatry of poor Fifine that she
coaxed her father into leasing a bit o!
scrubby house woodland, with a tumble-down
could have upon it, garden to George, and so t iat atch be
and a potato )
raise some chickens and take nice
care condescended of poor Filine. Miss Betty even
to go to them during tlio
liouse-linishing Filine and the little honoymo domestic n and
assist in her fur¬
nishing relation and adorningand garden, advise his George
m to his potato
patch, But, his chickens and wood-splitt had ng.
studied truth to say, and George attributes so
the character of
the noble Indian that ho mode’.o 1 his
li e upon it so far its resigning all do¬
mestic dut es to poor Filine. lie gave
over to his sp .use tlyoentire supervision
of the garden, potato patch, chicken
raising and oven the wood-splitting, lie
for was hours ot a dreamy nature and would -it,
on a rude bench he had placed
near the water, and there he would
smoke and meditate until Fitino had
tidied up the house and tod the chickens
and hoed the potatoes and washed a
couple of and dozen pieces for one o.' her
patrons, dinner spUb some wood and got
upon the table, aud then Ge ego
would come in and eat dinner w.t-h
Fifine aud (ell her of all he had been
thinking the bench about while sitting there upon
under the trees.
Fi ne was very happy. Sh - knew
that George was -u enor to her in
m nd, but he had told her time and
superior, aga n that it was he right loved he her shou all d he her
and the bet¬
ter for it.
But M'ss Betty liad her misgivings,
like and ono day, w en she was curled up
sill, a lovely said kitten Filine; upon “What the window¬
she to docs
of George the household? do, F'ifine. towards the support
It seems to nre that
you What are does always George slaving do?” and toiling.
Then Fifine shrugged her should rs,
which had become somewh t crooked
tnul l.ulgy t om the heavy burdens the .
had borne all these years, and elevated
her eyebrows, which were ratlmr scrag¬
gy teel andgiav, and said, “What with a w il l oi
ng in hor voice: does l.e do,
my angel? He gives to me the h.-irepi
uess which is my all: he gives to me tho
conver ation which is beautiful; he tells
mo of what is groiiig on in the big, busy
world: he pities, he consoles, ah, my* lit¬
tle one. he loves me!”
Miss Betty biushed and was silent,
and thought, foolish ch id, that after
ail this was ever, thing, rilio left Filine
to iron the tucks and furbelows with
which Mrs. Van ; ykedel and glitedto under idorn
her daughter Betty w iitout
the grape-vine and wab-.eil to and fro
and ' thought that b somebody—and
here she trembled and bl;:shc : l at the
thought of his name—would read to her
again, would tak to her again, would
tell her of the big, bea t; I ul world once
more; if he would lo*. e her—all, what
would she- not be glad to give in return!
She would work for him—aye, she would
work her slim lingers to th-- t>< ne, only
of course lie wouldn’t let her; he was
too noble and generous and thoughtful.
But if t’ e necessity should arise. It .w
glad she would be to do even 1 ke poor
Fifine, if only he would love her in re¬
turn! inank’ml
ut, alas! the pre-eminent.’ tfftperfi rip, of He the
mt&a here also w;.«
new minlst'.r. th- Rev. Peg na! ! Roake.
Tlie consistory had too ght it he- to
get a young man, so that he could board
around among the parishioner-san 1 Un:3
s&'ethe >.ent of a parsonage. Gupta had n
Van Dyke, Miss Betty’s father,
thought it best to economize in . cry
way that they could and ha 1 even iskcii
the younw man to board at first lie
told his wife they’d scarcely miss what
the par-on ate and tho church must he
helped possible! along as much as was prudent
end after few nior.’hs,
But the changed Captain, ifi nil:. a ’’ The } ‘g
such ten! ■
v imagination
minister was very fertile in
and uiek n thought and id- sermons
were speed lv pro are !, and the --tig
s- mmer davs had so many * - eet, n
hours aiVltehti to dill Miss Betty’s "was duties still were ire
her m th ■ r ac
and robust and there were two st -lv
young w mc-n in the kitchen, here’-s
the occasional artistic wore: rd re.
The Captain’s sight >ut AN sailing In the
strong: when he was liffuros
bav he could see a co iaC O
bending over some \ jook
bouse or wandering amon t£
along the sands upon the The
would come home « lu *
Hamilton ■ Journal.
vexed, and take his Wife to task for this
misdoing. I don
” t want anv beggarly parsons
hanging around my daughter,” said the
Captain.
shoeked The good and lady would tremble look very much
the really in her heart
at Captan’s temerity, for she
thought it was alinost tempting Provi¬
dence ft) cast a conh mptuous word
Upon the clergy, but she had that whole¬
some fear of the Captain that she never
ventured to remonstrate tv th him. lio
sighed Captain in secret with her daughter when
the managed to transfer the
preacher to the care of a wealthy and
comely widow poach in tiic neigWborhood. that
domain,” “ lie can all he pleases And on short¬
said the Captain.
ly afterwards reverend lie was delighted to with see
the gentleman ridingont
the fair widow and ga boring grasses
and ferns in the pretty woodland haunts
about. Granville.
“We can’t keep a parson dinner-ta* single,’’
chuckled the Capta n at his
hie: “the women won’t let Inn alone,
do what we may. But the widow Ben¬
son owns her own house, and that will
sate rent for a parsonage.”
The morsel upon and Miss the Betty’s Captain fork
remained untasted, in
th s way spoiled many a meal for his
daughter. Waned, and Sep¬
And so the summer
tember was at hand—September rich with
her soft blue haze and warm sun¬
shine; and though the widow had a
brilliant garden of her own she was
fi nd of the wanton wil 1 flowers that
grew so luxuriously in the woods of
Grain*,lie. She and the young minster
tilled tho house with great clusters o:
golden-rods and asters and big j urpie
poke berries. One day the pony pW e
ton stopped before the door of Ca ta n
Van 1). ke and the widow was led info
the sltt ng room, where she found Miss
Betty almost hidden by a mosquito net¬
ting which she was busily-patching. said the widow,
“Come, child,”
“put away that rag and run and get a
pretty dress on. five promised myself
this many a day we should take th s
drive together, and 1 declare to y ou it
shall he the. rarest one you ever had iu
your life. The day is made richly gold- to
or or for it; the balmiest air. the
cnestsunshine—not a cloud in the sky!
Pun away and make yourself look as
p:eltv as you can.”
“ You are very kind,” said Miss Bet¬
ty. her with a little “but trip 1 must of cold mend jealousy this on
longue, net
t ng for poor Fifine. She is sick with a
fever, and the mosquitoes are dread til
('own there in the wood. Mamma says
I may have this netting if t can make
it do, it is so badly torn,” said poor
Betty, co.dd “and sleep, ro 'perplexing! Mrs. Benson,” But she 1
not.
added, with an air of gentie dignity, in
which there was also a slight sniff of
reproach— bed • I could not sleep in m , own
of luxury and know that pool- Fitino
wa languishing there a prey to fever and
mosquitoes.” widow had thereupon oTercel
If the
to drive to town with Miss l ettv and
buy or •. iline a brand-new canopy Miss
Betty would have put the old netting
a ide; hut she ladv was ottered at heart such very glad
Unit the line no sacri¬
fice to charity, for she could not bear to
find “Ten her altogether chances perfect. dear,” said
to one, my
the widow, “you’ll These have your labor lor
your pans. poor creatures are
Very superstitious and queer them, and don t
know w. at. is best or l vc no
do b . in any case, she lias pretended to
he sick to get rid of some clear-starch¬
ing for your good mother. Fiimo
won <1 rather work at home, so that she
can 1 c with that She lubberly lout of a hus¬
band of hois. is the finest and best
of laundresses, and sorry should I be
to have anything befa’l her; but you
roust nut believe all t ese wily French¬
women say.” mantled high in Miss Pet¬
The to'.or
ty’s cheeks as these slanders fell upon
lie ears, and she steadily refused lo p it
her work aside.
“ You are length. a Fttle goose,” Must I tell said the
widow at “ you,
then, that we shall have We some charming
com| any with ltsi’ are to stop at
n; lion e for Mr. Roake—there, now,
Miss Petty, run away and dress.”
The color tied from Miss Betty's
cheeks and the needle trembled in her
lingers. As she raised her blue eyes ;o
the tine black ones of the widow a tear
or two trembled wi bin them.
“ You are wel ome to your will charming
company,” wi work she for said. “I Fifine. go on
h my my poor
11 he widow laughed lightly* and went
away, leaving -poor Mss Betty task, to
s niggle on with her troublesome
which was more and more irksome
now that she. knew how some
oilier people we,re spend ng their after¬
noon. As rent after rent yawned be¬
fore her, and her weary little fingers
grew less and less nimble, more than
once the question arose with n her
whether it was better to go on. Since
nobody cared for, why should she care
for anybody? But her generous heart
conquered all these mght-fall bitter she temptations,
and nearly at ran up¬
stairs to slip on the pretty muslin robe,
a and 1 smoothed industry and of crimped }- iline. by The the net- art
poor
ting was not a very heavy burden, but
she carried also a kettle of iee with her
and a pot of jelly. She took the road
through the woods, and though heart it beat was
growing darker and her
jaredh and she could not brush the
mosquitoes away because her hinds
w re so full, yet-she was upheld by the
thought of rescuing poor Fifine. .Since
she could not save her from the stings
of slander and reproach she should at
least be free from those of she mosquitoes, could
the At chicken-coops last through the of trees Filine. and see
soon
she was at the poor woman’s bedside.
The heart of Miss Betty was tired with
indgratwn when she remembered the
cruel words of the widow. Fifine lay
anon a r de bed in the corner. Always have
thin and brown, she might now
be. n t-ken for an exhumed Queen of
Egvnt, and Miss Betty could not imag- find
ine bow all these mosquitoes could
it n their anatomy to prey upon poor
F fine when the fat and unctoons sub
stance of George was temptingly athand
ui on the bench outside, where he was
e:; joying his evening pipe- if MS and Betty said
sto pedo ertfce sick woman ice,
softly: “I have brought yon some
dear 1 ifine.”
•• Ah, my angel! my angel <2 of light!” the
ta.-l I ifine, ‘ ’thou hast hearts
HAMILTON, GEORGIA. MARCH 30. 1888.
toost ttler -tful; but, alas, i cannot have
the i<6. I am too cold already, my
little one- There is a cold hand at mv
heart. No, no; I cannot have the
ieo.”
“Very well, Filine,” said Miss Betty,
putting down the kettle which had been
such a nui-ance to her, “you shall n il
be troubled with the ice but here is
some jelly.” one!”
“All, my blessed cried Fitino,
“thou art like asa nt from Heaven: but
talk not to mo of jelly. They have
given me of jellv many years ago, a ter
some bitter medicine, and 1 have since
that time the no Wildwood! hunger for jelly. Ah, mv
rose of It makes me sick
to think i f it.”
“Then do not think of it. F'ifine,”
said Miss Betty, putting aside the jar
that hail grown heavier and heavier at
every step of t! o ournoy. “But these
dreadful mosquitoes, they are devour ng
you.” “Ah, adored
demons yes, Without my one, they they are.
mercy; have
drawn all the blood from my body, and
their dreadful song is madness to my
brain. But rest tranquil; death will soon
p t an end to my misery.”
11 But see here, m poor Fifine,” cr'cd
Miss Betty, cxultingly unrolling her
precious We net; will “now you this cau sleep in
peaie George and I, and spread of over the you,
not one mon¬
sters can reach you. See, my poor Fi¬
line, we will draw this over von—so,”
and suiting the action lo the word Miss
Betty pulled the net over tlio high post
of the bedstead, when suddenly a terri¬
fied look upon the sick woman’s face
stayed her hands, and. she cried out to
Fitino in dismay* “Don’t you want the
net over you. Fifine
“Ah, life of my life!” said Fitino, “it
is sad, it i-s terrible! I know not how
to deny thee, after all thou hast done
tor me; but, oh, my little one, 1 can
not have it over me. I have tried, for
thy dear sake, to bear it. I told myself
that I would say no word against it—at
least till tliou were gone, when George
could pull it away—b 11 can not oven
for one little moment. Ah, mv angel,
wait until I am dead, and then they can
draw over me the pal, and p it can¬
dles at my head and feet, and do with
me what they will; but while 1 am yet
alive I can not be treated like a dead
bodr.”
Miss Betty said no further words of
entreaty or remonstran e, but lot the
miserable, flimsy thing fall out of her
hands upon tlie I’oor; and ha ring
smoothed Filiue’s pillow a d held sonic
milk to her lips aud promise 1 to come
again n e nl u >ruing. i.ad Miss Betty t ok
the wo home again
It w; n> quite dark, and big
shadows i e .rod to threaten every s ep
of her way. Her neartwas heavy with¬
in her, and her poor ii lie fed, seemed
scarcely able to carry men her light
weight along. VVliat a wretched abor¬
tive attempt had been hors to a deviate
ttie misery of poor i it nr? ft was as
the beautiful widow had said, she had
ha 1 her labor for her pains—the beauti¬
ful. mocjting w (tow, wiio was no doubt
rid ng Rev. homo Kogit through Itoakc. the g oaming with
the aid
At that re y moment behind Mis-Betty her, heard and
the tr. inpirig of hoofs
stepped asiue to let the light-l inbed
pony of the widow pass by. i lie basket
s des of the phaeton wore tilled w th
wild flowers, and the white ! ands o F the
minister hold a bunch of shy, sweet for¬
get The me-nots as blue as \ issi’et y’seye.s. and
wi o'.v drew up her ponv
bade Miss Betty get in by her side, lest
the hobgoblins ol the wood should de¬
vour he ; but the young girl stoutly re
fused nor would she be coaxed from
her decision.
“I am not afraid of hobgoblins,” heart
she said, thinking in her there
could be none so greed v and rapacious
as the beautiful widow herself.
“Now what is to be done with this
obstinate child?” said the widow. The
m roster had long since ’eaped from the
wagon and approached Miss Bett ; I) t
she turne I her back on b in, perhaps eh
to hide the tears of wrelehedn s- wh
were ••Tick falling her out and ot fier ey« her s. in here :
me,” said up widow put “J myself y
the am a
little afraid o th* satyrs of the wood
Come, child; do not be ,* goose and go
jealous of y< ur grandmother. the
gentleman of there has gathered for a pretty hat
uososrav forget-m •- ots • oil t
were Ie r t over from spring. We have
been looking for you far and wide, and
ho has done nothing 1 ut talk to me of
(i s ove for you till 1 am sick of the rn
fra n ”
behind' Betty turned a -wift, melting game
her. In a twinkl n;r the in n s
ter Ik d lit ed lier to the widow s side,
and forgot to take his i rut away. it
was quite dark, and the only star that
shone in the sky was that of Venus.
They drove rapidly on, Miss Betti’s
heart thump ng in unison w.lli the hoofs
oi the pony.
“I told you,” said the widow, “you’d We
have your la or for your pains.
sto ped at Filiue’s. The poor creature
was full of adoration for you. She
ca led upon every saint in the calendar
to shower blessings upon your head.
She said that you had brought her some
beautiful iee and delicious beautiful.” jelly, an i a
net that was most
“But she refused them all,” said Miss
Betty. “Ah, yes,” replied the widow; “hut
George did not refuse them. He had
chopped up the Ice in the milk arid had
spread at the jelly upon his bread and
had wrapped himself up m ine mosquito
netting and laid upon the lounge l:k as we
entered, snoring, a-Fit ne aid, an :
angei. Fit ne was parched With fever
and devoured with mosquitoes, but she
d-dared to me that she was qu.uqcmn- de
fortatle and happy. I do no it
stand t.” , She nestled , ,
But Miss Betty did.
closer to the arm about fier, and iif’ed
her flushed and rad ant face to the one
above her own. he
“My sweet little Samaritan!’
whispered: and although the widow
could not understand the happipes of
Fi ne, it wm c.ear to the heart oi Miss
Betty!— Harper’s WtM'j
To restore velvet: Where velvet
has beencrushed, hold the wrong side
over a basin of quiet Ixuling water, and
the pile will gradually rise. Do not
lose patience, for it takes a considerable
*”• ““• ■—
The zee oi a policeman cannot be told
by hi* rattles.
Cross-Cut Religion.
Tho meeting-house of the tfickskillii
district was crowded. The preacher, old
Noah, with his grizzly beard and head
half white, like a cotton field when the
bolls are just opening, sat in the pulpit
surveying his congregation in that pecul¬
iar way which has ever characterized the
colored preacher. when the A melody spontaneous had ceased by mo
arose, and
the preacher arose and said, “Let us en¬
gage in prar.” The congregation preacher’s kneeled, who
even young Iko, the son, spring,
had just come from down to tho
where he had been deacons. trying to swap mules
with ono of the
“Oh, Lord,” began the preacher, thank “wa
’semble in dis house ob worship to
thee fur the many blessiu’s oli de past,
an’ ax dat yer would sprinklo our lan’
wid a leetle moali rain. We must hah a
shower ’twixt dis an’ Saturday night,
’case, Lord, we’seneedin’ obhit. Amen,”
Just as tho preacher arose there was a
stir at the rear end of the house. A tall
colored man, followed by several parties
as intensely colored as himself, filed down
tho aisle. “Como up ter de stall’,
Brother Robinson,” said preacher the preacher, of
for ho recognized the the
Blacksnort district.
“I doan want fer come up ter yer
stan’,” said Mr. Robinson.
“Wliut’s de matter wid yer, sail!” ex¬
claimed old Noah. “What’s a ailin’ ok
yer ?"
“Tuther day I sent yer a note, axin’
yer ter stop prayin’fur rain,” remarked
Robinson, with emphasis. sunshine. “Our We’se cotton had
is sufferin’ fur
moab rain den we wants, an’ heah yer
goes axin’ fur moah.”
“We hain’t had no rain, shah, an’ I
‘tens tsr pray fur it until hit do come.”
“Is yer tryiu’ ter drown us out?”
“No, but I wants Trough rain,”
“I understan’s yor game, Brudder
Noah. You sees dat rain is puttin’ is us do in
do grass. You know dat hit to
wori’ly intrust ob dis section fur ter keep
us dar. Yer wants de Lord ter drown us
out, so dat your con’regation will git de
heels ob us id de market. De Lord at
dis season oh de yeah, has got so much
business ter tend ter dat he ain’t a noticin’
how much rain is a failin’. You keep
a Bondin’ up your jirars, an’ be keeps n
pullin’ de string. 1 wants yer to stop
hit. Does yor lieah, Brudder Noah?”
“I heah, but is mighty loft about
hark’nin. We wants rain, we does. We
prays, and ef de Lord grabs n hold ob de
wrong string it taint no fault of ours."
“Well, I came heah prepared for a let
up or a light. Sicli foolishness ns you
send up is Trough ter git. de Lord so tan¬
gled dat he can t git himself straight for
a yeah. You’ll put de sun in de clips.”
“ Do what wid de sun?”
“Put hit in de clips.” beat mistake
“Well, ef dat doan any
I ever heard a nigger make. No wonder
do Lord won’t pay no say?” ’tention to yor.”
“What would you
“ Why, do reel ipse." fact I
“ Dat’s all right, but de want
settled is dis: Is yer gwitie tor stop?”
“No, I isn’t.”
“ Den we mixes wool.”
Mr. Robinson sprang toward the pul
pit. Noah sprang to meet him. The
wildest confusion prevailed. The two
men grappled, and the (Liv/ns ga thered
around.
“Gimmy do plantation grip,” ex
claimed Noah, while Mr. Robinson vo
ciferated “out yer capers, entyorcapers!” Noah mounted
Finally Robinson fell,
him, choked him int o oh idienco and
raising himself up, exclaimed: “Let us
pray again. Brudder Johnson, git down
dar.” The preachers have become friends,
—LiUle Jtoc/c OsttcUo.
Canaries Trained to Whistles Operas.
Mr. Jacob Wiss, trainer of canary
birds in Ibis city, has achieved remark¬
able success in getting bis pupils belongs to
whistles times. One songster that
to Airs. Townsend, of Philadelphia, a
daughter of Hon. William L. Bcott,
whistles “Der Freiscliutz” as well as an
expert whistler. Mr. Wiss says that it
takes two years to train a lin'd, and de¬
scribes the treatment as follows: “ The
bird when quite young is isolated from
all other birds and bird sounds but his
own. This little instrument is a music
box specially constructed for this pur¬
pose. Two or throe times a day it is set
playing, hut always the same air. Tlio
young bird, hearing no other sounds, be¬
gins to imitate tho air; right short when
he has snug all he knows; ho never at¬
tempts to go through the whole until
every note is committed to memory, and
is as perfect or imperfect as the music
from the instrument.” Mr. Wiss states
that he trained one to whistle “God Bave
the Queen,” and an Englishman paid
him 805 for it. He never gets less than
$50 for a trained bird— Erie (Pa.) Dis¬
patch.
An Absent-Minded . , , Farmer. „
Wednesday’s The. - contained some
sinmilar accounts of absent minded
m-ss which it is believed, are rivaled i
hv ti ip freaks of a larnier living at ! 1
Shutt s Corners killilwt a hamlet two miles
from (’oWe summer he
drove to Cohlcskill, accompanied spend by his
w if 0 to do some trading. After he drove
. ® several hours in thevillage,
, e a]one jjq t] ; s ••chores,” and.
^ n ” o}a<r lo , h( . } l0usei wa8 provoked tie
t at } g better-half, who was not to
geen , had made no preparation fof sup- j
anti He failed to find her in the house, ;
in a few moments she arrived home.)
jn a conV eyance J ron the village, where
h { , b e n anxio . JS iy J awaiting her j
sppcarance At another j
time he rode a horse to the villa.e to
have it shod. He was engaged until
evening, when he walked home, a ter
waiting some time for a r de. His wee ,
recalled to bis mind the fact that he j
had left his horse in the village, and lie j
returned lor it .—Troy (A’. Y ' Time*
- — ___.
_____
—Isaac Brice, who was little appointed ham
Postmaster of .Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, a
let of Che-ter County. resident,
when General Jackson was t .
has ji-gt resigned the post be has held
{or fift, years. His successor is h won, .
p. p Price. The hamlet contains now
but one bouse m addition to those there
when he took the office. Sco.es o. busy
rr&i-s
century railroad opened travel.
way of
Knowing How to Swim.
The recent disasters on tho waters liat e
conclusively proved the advantages of
tho art of swimming. Those who were
conscious of their ability to of swim word; were
cool iu more than one sense the
for they not only hum. were not Even panic-stricken, who
but they but float did not In the water feel those flint they
can
have resources which others do not share.
Among tho passengers of the Seawan
hakawns Mr. Samuel Barlow, of New
York, who having provided himself with
a life preserver, gavo it away to another
passenger and dropped into the water. and
He turned himself upon his back
floated, managing to keep his nose above
water until he was rescued. All the pas¬
sengers who could swim, or at least who
did swim,, reached tho shore in safety.
It would reinforce persons otherwise
liable to ho fear-stricken, with assurance,
enabling them to take measures for sav¬
ing themselves. If, for example, the
water were not an absolute terror to ono
half or three-fourths of the passengers,
when n collision occurs or a tiro breaks
out, they would, with some degree of
carefulness and deliberation, set about
lowering the boats. They could exercise
their reason and take precautions, would
look to see if the plugs woro all in, and
would lower the boats, perhaps, without
emptying everybody out or tilling the
boats with water. On tho Narragnnsett
one of the boats was lowered while the
plug in the bottom, allowing the rain
water to run away, was out, and the boal
filled. The patent plug, which, by the is
pressing of the water on the bottom,
forced home, ought to ho used in all
boats; but it. is not, and a little caution
and preservation of the mental balance
on the part, of the passengers would avoid
these unnecessary dangers. tho
It is not merely, therefore that art
of swimming wul save tho lives of voy¬
agers, hut the familiarity with tho water
and the consciousness that one can, even
when he must take to the water, support
himself in it for a time at least, and un¬
til help comes, would prevent tho dread¬
ful panics to which more than to tho dis¬
aster itself, tho great loss of life is due.
Shouldevory man, and every woman, and
every child that’s old enough to learn, ho
aware that as soon as they touch the
water they could support themselves in
it, nearly all of the immediate danger
would disappear. A swimmer, too, advan¬ can
use even a life-preserver to hotter
tage than one ignorant of tho art.
Of course swimmers drown sometimes,
but the proportion is vory small, and it
happens quite aB often that it iB tho hoy
that cannot swim who is drowned while
iu bathing. Tho number of swimmers
that ore drowned is very much smaller
than tho number of non-swimmers who
nro drowned while bathing or sailing.
CHILDREN’S TIJJ3TH.
How Thcj Nhoulft fee Atttmi l«wl to nnd
Dh’iij Prevcnl4 | il.
[American Agricultural. 1
A mother of soveral children lately told
mo her experience. A few years ago she
thought that her oldest boy s teeth in the
front of tho lower jaw were decaying the
badly. This was a fed disappointment her children to
mother, who had eare
fully on nourishing and wholesome food,
as a general rule, keeping both pickles and
confectionary from jumped them. Studying conclii- the
matter over, she to the.
sion that what she had read concerning
the mischief-making properties of the
tomato must bo true, especially ns her
husband, who was very froo in tho use of
Lis tomatoes this season, had a had peculiar ob
trouble with his tooth. Slie
served that her children’s, especially clean when the
boys’, teeth grew white and
there were plenty of ripe tomatoes, mid
she thought that the acid of tho vegeta¬ enamel
ble went too far and acted on the
of tlio teeth. But when tho boy, then
fourteen ye.ars old, went to a dentist to
bavo his teeth filled, lo! there was lio
filling to ho done. “Your boy has a
splendid set of teeth,” the dentist told
tho mother. “There is not a cavity in
them. Unusually good teeth for a boy
of his ago.”. Anil tho dentist liad no
doubt that the teeth were better than
they would have been if the owner had
munched candy and pickles, as children
usually do. “They must he cleaned,
and that without delay,” lie said. The
tartar which had gathered and crusted
gradually at the crown of tho tooth was
removed by the dentist, and with it all
appearances of decayed teeth. Now
the boy has nothing to do but keep his
teeth in order to avoid dentistry hills in
the future. The younger children are
warned to avoid the older brother’s
trouble by the daily use of tooth brushes.
From their father’s case they learn to
avoid the opposite extreme. His teeth
are hopelessly discolored, and a few are
habitually loose, but tho useful tomato
is no longer suspected as the cause. Ho
had an opportunity to read sorno in a
work on dentistry and came to the con
elusion that hard “scouring” of the
teeth with gritty substances when a
young man had worn away the hard
enamel of his teeth, so that the strong
coffee he draDk (during his soldier life
especially) colored lbs penetrated and permanently of
teeth. I dislike to hear
scouring tho teeth. When they have
been neglected this may be necessary
to get them once clean. The dentist
has peculiar tools for removing tartar
crust, hut the yellow deposit on eiiil
dren’s teeth can be cleaned away as the
dentist does it by anyone. Take clean, finely
powdered pumice stone and a little
gqft pine stick to rub with. Dip the
pine {fored stick into water and then in pow
pumice, Wash and rub the teeth gently, and
Afterwards them with soap
water, using a tooth brush. Itiswellto
use a little fine, clean wap occasionally of
f or cleanilig teeth, but plenty cold weather) pure
wa te r (»little warm in the
usually suffice for cleansing the
teeth of persons of good dietetic habits,
*jo make good teeth in the first place,
j M!! /innine when we can begin, arid allow
jug for “ anfipstry ” the mother should
eat diet plain well supplied arm nutritious withbotPWWrud foajtivaned as
the grains are meat. when it For is bolted*pr«£inca eh
out, and lean young 1 wen
milk should be freely used, and Graham
oat meal also.
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00 A YEAR.
SCIENCE AND ART.
From the speed of light, which has
been measured, it is proved that at least
four hundred and fifty-one millions of
millions of those minute waves flow into
the eye and dash against the retina in each
second.
Write fish less than a week old and
looking like a pair of eyes with a tail, if
placed beneath a microscope are found to
bo transparent, and exhibit beautifully the
the action of the heart in propelling through the
blood, and its circulation
tail.
If seeds (barley, corn, etc.,) ho placed the
between moist pieces of litmus paper,
roots stick to the paper and color it so in¬
tensely red that even on the back of the
paper thoir course can he traced in red
lines on a bluo ground. If tincture of
litmus be repeatedly added, the intensity
of tho red color is increased.
Prof. J. Lawrence Smith, of Louis¬
ville, Ky., in a paper road before the
French Academy of Sciences, says that
tho meteorite which fell at Esthorville,
Iowa, on May 10, 1879, should ho placed
apart for tho phenomena of its fall, es¬ its
pecially tlio force of ground, penetration and for of the
fragments into tho
rnodo of association of its minoral con¬
stituents.
An Italian Antarctio expedition is pro¬ of
posed by Lieut. Bova, who was one
the officers under Nordonskjold on the
Yoga, It is to Hail in the spring of 1881,
and touch nt Monte Video, Terra del
Fuego, Falkland, and South Shetland
Islands, and, proceeding in a southwest
wardly direction, commence explorations, winters
expecting the Antarctio to bo engaged for and two return by
ui region, The
way of Ilobart Town. expenses are
estimated at 000,000 lire.
An instrument called tho stathmo
graph, for recording invented tho speed by of German railway
trains, has been a
mechanician at Cassel, and works so well
that tho Prussian Government is about
to tost it on some of tho State lines. A
dial iu view of the engineer enables him
to ascertain tho velocity of tlio locomotive
at any moment, and the changes of roll speed of
are graphically represented studied upon tho a end
paper, which cau ho at
of the journey.
A few years ago Herr Kolbe suggested
dringing-water used on long voyages by
might bo preserved from corruption
means of u little salicylic acid, and this
was supported by laboratory experiments.
Afterward experiments were made on a
largo scale on board ships without stio
cess, and when tho water was examined
not a particle of the acid could ho found.
What became of tho acid is an open
question. Hen* Kolbe considers that tho
action of tho wood of tho cask decom¬
posed the salicylic acid.
SoMKwnvr in these words an English follow¬
scientific journal introduces the
ing suggestion; They propose to light
the whole of London by means of circular a grout
central Ught-lionae. feet Suppose a with gal¬
tower, say 1,000 of or more, hundred feet,
leries at iutorvals ono
and each gallery provided with n sorios
of electric lamps, with reflectors ar¬
ranged at suitable angles. Tho light
could thus bo directed and diffused over
the entire metropolis, rendering suburbs. gas-light Thin
unnecessary except in the
is the suggestion. Who will carry it into
effect?
The Philosophical exhibition Society of of apparatus Glasgow
is to hold an gas
on a large scale next autumn, and it is
intended, also, to make a display at the
same timo of tho apparatus which will
illustrate tho progress mode in oleotrio
lighting, in telephonic communication,
in the manufacture of mineral oils, in
hydraulic engines, in heating and venti¬
lation, etc. There can ho no doubt that
this exhibition, taking up, os it means to
do, some of the most important given prob¬ at
lems to which man’s attention is
present, will prove of great service to
thoso who have to deal practically with
sanitary appliances.
According to M. Edmond About there
nro at least 2,000 which pictures in dealer the present would
French Salon no
show in his shop. Within tho lust twenty
years tho numl»cr of pictures hung has
doubled, without art reaping much ad¬
vantage. M. Paul Parfait gives us an
amusing description of some previous
Balons. That of Year IX all descriptions, (1801), con¬
tained only 485 works of
instead of, as to-day, 7,289. M. Oallet
exhibited of tlio 18th a Brurnaire, magnificcntcanvas of which symbolical the centre
was occupied by tho vessel of tlio State,
which was represented as having safely chain
entered port and as moored with a
of laurel wreaths. Tlio British leopard,
too, was displayed on it vainly lavishing Dis¬
guineas on expiring monsters, and
cord was flying before the dawning rays
of a luminary doing duty for a new era.
Light, Not Aofse. « ....
One of the members of the bar in Bara
toga, the following, and anrifeathe applies tne
relates counsel
moral to himself: He was in a
case before Judge Pratt, referee, and
during tlio progress of the trial became
a little bit noisy, a. he sometime, does,
when the Judge looked up and said to
him: Mr -, did you ever hear
the man who was lost mth* woods dunng
* thunder storm ? On being answered
in the negative, the Judge continued:
“A man, in attempting to pass through a
piece of woods lost hw way, and while
lie was in that predicament a foartil
thunder storm came up. The woods
grew awfully dark. Hie roaring of the
wind and the The washing of the frightened thunder
were terrific was
and started to pray, but, not bemg used
to'that business, said: Oh, Lord, gw«»»
a little more light, and a little less noise,
I dont mean you, Mr.
the Judge but the audience supposed J
the time that the Judge did mean him,
and now that he thinks of it himself he
inclines to that opinion also.
*
Mees Stine,
^ gtj v.-f { the bee is said to be a
« ' A n bee in inoffen
me o^ beina » ^ provided with this
therefore when
one of these insecu alights upon a bare
footed boy the soliloquy of Hamlet im
mediately" forces itself upon that boy’s
WAITS AND WHIMS. !
A MOMR-MAMtB—tbs schoolmaster.
Tkb soda-drinker often t hink s of
foam.
Th* promises of some men always re¬
main shall owe.
Nnw way to “know nomination. all abont thy¬
self’—get a Presidential
■ Isn’t it slightly paradoxical to call a
man with full beard a bare-faced liar?
Fly time—when you hear your
father’s cane thumping along the hall.
Commissioner Lb Duo, in Ms crop re¬
ports, never mentions the hops at the
seaside.
A western £ jonrnal heads an article:
“A Lnnatio Escapes and Marries a
Widow.” Escaped, eh? We should say
he got oaught.
A Whitehall man has discovered a
way of instantly turnin* sweet milk into
fresh butter. He feeds it to a goat,
Fatent applied for. that hay
A Wisconsin theorist says
will satisfy hunger. There may bo some¬
thing in this, for a couple of straws will
frequent satisfy thirst.
It is claimed by some medical men
that smoking weakens the eyesight. how
Maybe it does, but just see it
strengthens the breath.
Boston has a public vinegar inspector
at a salary of $1,000 per year. One
would think he would get awfully tired
looking for his “mother. ”
A little girl in church, after the con¬
tribution plate had been passed, “I paid com¬ for
placently and audibly said, right?”
four, mamma, was that
Said Jones: “Smith won’t have so
soft a thing as he had.” “I don’t know,”
replied Robinson, “he’ll have a soft
thing so long as he doesn’t lose his
head.”
Bridget— ^“And how shall I cut the
poie, mum?” Lady of the house—“Out
ifc into quarters.*’ Bridget—“And how
many quarters wood I cut it into,
mum? ”
You may have noticed that the flies
never bother a speaker, no matter how
dull he is, hut Invariably attack the over¬
worked sitter who is trying to get a lit
‘Ah" heavenst ones ..ana, sentiment¬ adored
ally, to her visitor, “when one is
by a magnificent captain like you, noth¬
ing ever can make her love again— unless
it is a major.” decidedly
“My umbrella is getting about town
shabby,” said a young man
one evening last week. “I believe I will
have to strike another prayer-meeting
the first rainy night.”
Occasionally you find a Detroit man
who can stand having his when whisky, the stolen flies
and not complain; but
pester them during ft morning nap, they
all swear.— Boston Post.
Bullion is wealth in a crude form,
and after it is coined and kept at interest
a while, it becomes wealth in accrued
form again. This langnsge of ours is
worse than the gem puzzle, a heap.
Deuced queer how men differ about
different things. When a man hooks a
lot of fish he will brag of it for three
days, and when he hooks a lot of apples
he hasn’t a word to say about it.
“Oh I thought this was a drawing
room lady to carl” apologetically the door of observed the smoker a
a man in
as she discovered her mistake. “It is'
mum he said, drawing on hisn with all
his might
A fort asks: “ When I am dead and
lowly laid, * * * * And clods fall
heavy from the spade, Tailors Who’ll and think shoe¬ of
me 'r Don’t worry.
makers have very retentive memories,
and you’ll not be forgotten.
fight A New duel York the man other was day, challenged and being to at
a
liberty to choose his own weapons pro
posetl a trip to Boston on a Bound steamer.
The challenger backed out. He said the
idea that death must attend a duel was a
relio of the dark ages.
A visitor enters a French flewspaper
office and is monsieur greeted politely by fight the office duel
boy—“If will have to be kind comes enough to to a call
he
again; all our editors are already engaged
for to-day .”—Paris Charivari.
An Owego man, alter a little experi¬
ence, truthfully and indignantly asserts
that no woman, however nervous, has a
right to wake up her husband from a
sound sleep to tell him on inquiring
what’s the matter, “Nothing, only I
wanted to know if you were awake. ”
“Nashy” takes pride in the service of
liis fattier and grandfather, for himself, in he one way
or another. As says:
“My own military record is clear. In
the late rebellion I served by substitute.
I furnished three substitutes, allot whom
to-day are in good health—la Canada.”
81x Little Women *f the Olden Time.
In 1816, sixty-five years ago, says tho
Boston Journal, six little women of
Waterford, Vt, rode on the same horse
and at the same time some miles over the
Waterford hills. Their names and ages
were as follows: Lois Rowell, aged
twelve years ; Nelly Caswell Polly and Caswell Rhoda
Pike, aged eleven aged years; eight and
and Lois Pike, aged years, Lois
Anna Caswell, saddle four years. held the
Rowell sat on the and
reins, and small Anna Caswell and the
other four misses rode behind her. They
had a nice time, which they all still re¬
member, for they are all still living.
Lois Rowell, now Sirs. Charles S. Greg¬
ory, lives with her son-in-law, Mr. Cas¬
well, on a beautiful farm on the west
bank of the Connecticut in Concord, Vt.
She has been totally blind cheerful for some and five
years, but is intelligent, venerable ladies whom so¬
cial, on# of those
it is pleasant to meet and converse with.
Nelly Caswell is now Mrs. Jiles Jones of
Victory, Vt.; Rhoda Pika is Mrs. Nelson
Millen, whose residence the writer does
not remember; Polly Caswell, now Mrs.
Horace Buck, and Lois Pike, Mrs. Jef¬
ferson Hosmer, live in Littleton, N. H.,
and Anna Gaswell, Mrs. Wilson Buck, fer
Charleston, Vt They are Ml s cm
widows exoept Mrs. Millen, and Mr.
Millen is her seeond husband. Who
knows of six other women who together that
enjoyed a lark sixty-four years ego
has been a pleasant memory to them
from that time to tid e?
It is a lazy _ fly thir^nnot oounterset
the good a minister dose by hie Sabbath
morning sermon. ____________