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The Man That Fraud Made.
That is the man that Fraud made.
This is Schut'z that clings to the man that
Fraud made.
This is the Gould that bought the Schurz
that clings to the titan that Fraud made.
This is the Noyes that started the Gould
that bought the Schurz that clings to
the man that Fraud made.
This is the Count that followed the Noyes
that started the Gould that bought the
Selmrz that clings to the man tnat
Fraud made.
This is the Key that closed the Count
that followed the Noyes that started the
Gould that bought the Schurz that
clings to the man that Fraud made.
This is the Matthews, shaven and shorn,
that fathered the Folioy, all forlorn,
that forged the Key that closed the
Count that followed the Noyes that
started the Gould that bought the
Schurz that clings to the man that
Fraud made.
This is the Country, cheated and torn
that spurns Stanley Matthews, shaven
and shorn, fathered the Folioy, all for
lorn, that forged the Key that closed
the Count that followed the Noyes that
started the Gould that, bought the
Schurz that clings to the man that
Fraud made. — N. 47 Sun.
Kind Word -Why Use Them.
1. Because they always cheer him to
whom they are addressed. They sooth
him if he is wretched; they comfort Jiim
if he is sad. They keep him out of the
slough of despond, or help him out if lie
happens to be in.
2. There arc words enough of the op
posite kind flying in all directions —sour
words ctoss words, fretful words, insulting
words, overhearing words, irritating
words. Now, let kind words have a
chance to get a broad, since so many and
so different are on the wing.
3. Kind words bless him than uses
them. A sweet sound on the tongue
tends ro make the heart mellow. Kind
words react upon the kind fooling which
prompted them, and make them more
kind. They add ficsh fuel to the fire of
benevolent emotion in the soul.
4. Kind words beget kind for lings to
wards him that loves to use thetfl. Peo
ple love to see t! e face and hear the voice
of uch a man.
Kind words arc, t hcrcforc, of great val ue
in those hard times. — Our Church, Paper.
Small Things Test Men.
(n things small lie the crucibles and
the touch-stones. Any hypocrite will
come to the Subbath worship, hut it is
nit every hypocrite that will attend
prayer meeting or rend the Bible in secret,
or speak privately of the things of 0 )d to
tlie saints. You shall find the same true
in other tilings. A man who is no Chris
tian very likely will not tell you a down
right lie By saying that white is black,
but he will not hesitate to declare that
whitcy-brown is white—he will go that
length. Now, the Christian will not go
halfway to a falsehood; nay, he scot ns 10
go an inch on that road, lie will no more
cheat you out of two pence farthing than
he would out of two thousand pounds.
He will not rob you of an ell. liven a
Pharisee will ask Christ to his house to
sit at moat with him— lie is willing to
entertain ii great religious leader at his
table, but it is not every one who will
stoop down and unL.oso his shoes; for
that very Phareee who made the feast
never brought him water to wash It is
feet, nor gave him the kiss of welcome;
he proved the insincerity of his hospitali
ty by forgetting the little things. I will
he hound to.say Martha and Maiy, never
forgot to unloi se hi.s shoe laces, and that
Lazarus never failed to see that his feet
were washed. Look, then, I pray, as
Christians, to the service of Christ in the
obscure things, in the things that are not
recognized by men, in the matters that
have the honor attached to them, for by
this shall your love be tried.
Child Love and Faith.
About three years ago a gentleman of
this city went Fast on a visit to his old
home. One of his brothers there had a
bright arid brauti'ul little son, not yet two
years of age. The hoy —little Benny
scon became strongly and strangely at
tached to his Uncle Ben, from Washoe,’
whose namesake he was. Ijnclc Ben often
took the little fellow in his arms in the
summer evenings, and, seated in the
porch, talked him to sleep. At such
times lie would point out the evening
star, telling the hoy that far, far away,
just under that star, was his home. The
child would look long at the star, then
for as long gaze up in the face of his
uncle, as though thinking on wiiat a
bright and heaut.ful place his home must
he. At last the day came whet. IJnele
Ben was to leave for his home in the far
West. Little Bennie knew this as well
as any one about the house, and, with
both eyes and ears, was on the alert, lie
would not allow his uncle to be a minute
out of his sight. Several attempts on the
part of Uncle Ben to steal away resulted
in such fits of crying that he was obliged
to return and sooth the child. However,
the child, wearied with crying and watch
ing, at last fell asleep in his uncle’s arms.
When he awoke Uncle Ben was faraway.
Long the boy looked for his uncle, and
often called his name. Many times of
evenings he was found gazing earnestly
at the bright star that stood as a guard
over his uncie’s home As he gicw, his
love of the star deepened, and he talked
more and more of it and of his uncle,
both so far away at the edge of the sky.
Even when three years had passed, and <
Benny was nearly five years old, his belief
in the story told him by his uncle con
tinued. Poor boy! another year was
never added to his age. It was Ii s fate
to die a fearful death. By accident, he
was scalded over nearly hi.s whole body
and lived hut four hours. Ho seemed to
read in the faces of the dear ones about
him that he must, soon die. He bore his
pain manfully, only uttering an occasional
moan. As the shades of evening deep
ened he was seen to turn his face anx
iously towards the window of his room.
At last he asked: “Is it there —the star?’’
lie was told that, the star was there and
shining brightly. Feebly he said: “Take
me ta the window." Ho was earned to
the window. A smile lighted up his face
as he said: "Ah, there it is! Now I can
find the way to Uncle Ben—l can see his
star!” He closed his eves us though
wearied. The smile faded out of his face.
One n nan as he was laid on his bed, and
the light of his life had gone out and up
to meet and mingle wit Ii that of the star
ho so long had watched and loved.—
Virginia (Nev,) Enterprise.
For the Last Time.
There is a touch of pathos about doing
even the simplest thing “for the last
time.” It is not alone kissing the dead
that gives you this strange pain. You
feel it when you have looked your last
time upon some scene you have loved
when you stand in some quiet city street,
where you know that you will never stand
again; the singer whose voice is cracked
hopelessly, and who, after this once, will
never stand before the sea of upturned
faces, disputing the plaudits with treslior
voices and faTcr forms; the minister who
has preached liis last sermon—these all
know the hidden bitterness of the two
words “never again.” How they come
to us on our birthdays us we grow older.
Never again young—always nearer and
nearer to the very last—the end which is
universal, “the last thing,’ which shall
follow all last things, and turn them, let
us hope, from pain to joys. We were too
old to walk any longeron our stilts—too
tall to play marbles on the sidewalks.
Yet there was a pang when we thought
we had played with our merry thoughts
for the last time, and life’s soriou:,
grown up work was waiting for us. May
it not be that these, too, shall seem in the
light of some far i ff day as the boyish
g inics seem to our manhood, and we shall
learn that death is hut the opening ot
the gate into the new land of promise?—
Acanthus.
Germany excels any country in the
cleanliness of beds. It seems as muen a
part of yearly house cleaning with them
to have the hair removed from the mat
tress, to have it well beaten and sunned,
and the cover washed, as it is with us to
have the carpets whipped and freed from
their disease-begetting dust. I grant
that it would be a difficult and expensive
undertaking 'or an American liouse
koept r, for skilled laborers are rare, and
when found must he well paid, as they
should he. Knowing the obstacle, then,
in the way of thorough renovation of our
beds, we should take all the more care to
protect and air them- HI very boil should
have especially made for it, the size of a
tick, a white tucked comforter, not 100
thick, so as to he unmanageable in wash
ing: over this the sheet is spread, livery
bed in daily use should he subjected to
the purifying rays of the sun at least
once a week, and should be left open for
the reception of air and lielit sometime
before being made up. Beds riot un
frequcntly used are often found very
musty and disagreeable to guests. The
parlor hods, that swallow their own on
tents by a magic touch, are fair without,
hut in lime, for the lack of proper airing
they become foul within.
Among the Seminole (Florida) Indiana
them is a singular tradition regarding the
white man’s origin and superiority. I hey
say that when the Great Spirit, made the
earth he also made three men, all of whom
were of fair comph xior ; and that, after
making them he led them to the margin
of a small lake and bade them leap there
in. One immediately obeyed, and came
out of the water purer than before he
bathed; the second did tot leap in until
thu water became shightly muddy, and
when he bathed ho came up copper
colored; the third did not leap in until
the water became black with mud, and
came out with its own color. Then the
Great Spirit laid before them 3 packages
of bark, and hade them choose, and out
of pity for his misfortune of color, he
gave the black man his first choice. Ho
took hold of each of the packages, and
having lifted them chose the heaviest;
the copper colored one then chose the
second heaviest; leaving the white man
the lightest' When the pac.ages were
opened the first was found to contain
spades, hoes, and all the implements if
labor; the second enwrapped hun’ing,
fishing, and warlike apparatus; the thitd
gave the white man pens, ink. and paper,
the engines of the mind, the natural,
mental improvement, tlie social link of
humanity, the foundation of the white
man’s superiority.
“Five or six years of married life,”
remarks a veteran observer, “will often
reduce a naturally irascible man to such a
condition of angelical humanity that it
would he safe to trust him w.th a pair of
wings."
No man can sec a fashionable lady
make a wild dive for the bottom ot her
dress without fearing for the moment that
she is going to use her train to knock a
fly off her bonnet.
A Texas Story.
“You’d hardly believe now what I am
going to toll. In Texas wo use rawhide
straps, or thongs, for tracts, and in wet
weathe they do stretch amazingly. Why,
often in damp weather, at home, I’vo
hitched up two horses and drove down
the bill from my house into the creek hot
tom for a sled loud of wood. I have
loaded the wood, and many times driven
back home and unhitched the horses and
the sled would not he in sight."
“How did you get the wood home,
then?” asked ttn inquisitive bystander.
“Oh, I just tied the ends of the traces
together and threw them over a post,
went knocking about my work and waited
till the sun shone out. Sometimes it
would lie more than two hours before that
sled load of wood would get home; hut
you’d see her crawling up the hill at lust,
gradually approaching as the rawhide
traces shrunk up into their proper length.
Yes, Texas is a great country, you bet.”
Growing Old.
11 is the solemn thought connected with
middle life that life's lust, business is
begun in earnest; audit is then, midway
between the eradio and the grave, that a
man begins to marvel that lie let the days
of yout.li go by so half-enji yed. It is the
pensive autumn fooling; it is the sensa
tion of half sadness that we experience
when the longest day of the year is pa-'
and every day that follows is shorter, and
the light fainter, and the feeble shadows
tell that Nature is hastening with gigantic
footsteps to her winter grave, bo does
man look hack upon his youth. \\ hen
the first gray hairs become visible, when
the unwelcome truth fastened itself upon
tlie it,iml that u man is no longer going
up hill, but down, and that the sun is
always westering, lie looks hack on things
behind. When we wore children, we
thought ns children. But now there lies
before us manhood, with its earnest work,
and then old age, and then the grave, and
then homo. There is a second youth for
man, better and holier than his first, if
he will look on, an 1 not look hack. —F.
W. Robertson.
Miss Mary Vim Green, cook nurse,
washer and ironor, and general house
keeper for Mrs. hausen, called at the
court house yesterday, and said that there
was a marriage license on the books which
had to conic olf. It was taken out by
Mr. Mat Sofelia, a Russian Fin, who lias
been hullo ring her for a long time. She
has told him repeatedly that site loved
another; hut this seemed oid.v to have the
effect of making him more devoted in his
attentions. She sa.ys that Mr. Sofelia lias
taken out the license so that he can get
that faOi published in the papers, and
thereby terrify her oti er admirers from
paying their court. Already her ,fiends
have congratulated her, and Mr, Sofelia
has flaunted the license in her face and
told her that she would have to go to
Huntsville and servo fora thousand years
in the penitentiary if she dared to marry
aim her man wliiie this license was out
against, her. The situation startled h-*r,
and just as soon as she could knock
Soleiia down with the stove filter she
slipped off to have the r cords rectified,
blie was sent to the police station for
relief, hut the He goant tailed to find an
ordinance covering her ease, and she do
parted vowing that she never would marry
Mr. Sofelia Galveston News.
Interrupted Table Talk.
The other evening the Rev Mr. l’lnl
ac'e: sat down at the tea table with a
very thoughtful air, and attended to the
wiiiitc of liis brood in a very abstracted
maun :r. Presently he looked t.p at hi.s
wife and said:
" l lie Apostle Paul ”
“Got an wiul lump on the head
'sollei noon,” broke in the pastor s eldest
sin , ''playing base ball. Ba. flew out i t
the sinker’s hau ls when 1 was umpire,
and cracked me right above the car, an’
dropped me. Hurt? Golly!” and ilie
lad shook his head in dismal hut expres
sive pantomime a.s he tenderly rubbed a
lump that, looked like a hi hard hall with
hair on it. The pastor gravely puu eu
for th interiuption, and resumed:
"file Ap t-lie Pain ”
“Saw Mrs. O'Glieminie down at Green
bamu s this afternoon,” said his eh.cut
daughter, addressing her mother. “.Sue
had the same old everlasting black silk,
made over with a vest or t'lluei green
silk, coat-tail basque pat tern overskirt
made with di.igonui iu rout, edged with
deep L luge; ye,.ow straw hat, wi ll nlaek
ve.vet lacing inside the brim, and pale
blue flowers .She’s g. irg to Cliioag
Tlie good minister waited parioutly,
and then, in tones just a shade louder,
than before said:
“Too Apostle I aul says—”
“Went, in swimmin' last night With
Henry and Ben, pop, and stopped on a
clamshell,” exclaimed liis youngest sou;
“cut ii y feet sole lift wear my shoe,
and, please, can’t I slay home to-mor
row?” .
The pastor informed his son that lie
might stay away from the liver, and then
resumed hi.s topic. He said:
"4 he Apo.-tle Paul says
“My teacher i> an awful liar,” shouted
the second son; “he says the world is a.s
round us an orange, and it. turns round
all the time I aster than a circus man can
ride. I guess lie ain’t got much sense.”
The mo her lifted a warning finger to
ward the hoy and said, ' ."rill and tlie
father resumed: i
“The Apostle Paul says ’
“Don’t bite off twice as much as you
can chew,” broke out tlie eldest son, re-
NUMBER 40.
proving the assault of his little brother
on a piece of cake. The pastor's face
showed just a trifle of annoyance as ho
said in very firm, decided tone:
“The Apostle Paul says ”
“There's a fly in tho butter!” shrieked
the youngest hopeful of the family, and a
general laugh followed. When silunco
was restored the eldest daughter, with an
air of curiosity, said:
“Wed, but, pa, I really would like to
know what the Apostle Paul said.”
“Pass me the mustard,” said tho pas
tor. absently.
'Then the committee rose and tho Sen
ate went into executive session and soon
after adjourned. — Burlington Free Press.
A Masonic lodge in Indiana was pre
sided over by a Master who had an exag
gerated notion of discipline. One night
lie ii et his lodge in called meeting (not a
member absent) to instruct them in tho
work. Teaching them tho use of the
gavel, iie had just called them up with
three knocks, when he leaned too far
back, fell through a window to the ground
four stories—and broke his neck.
Pickoi up next morning, he was buried
decently, but not a Mason came to the
funeral. More strange still, not a Mason
appeared any morn in that village. It
was inexplicable. Forty women left
widows, two hundred and twenty children
left orphans, eighty-four merchants left
in the lurch with unpaid hills. Twenty
years after that somebody went up into
the fourth story, broke open tlie door ami
and beheld the lodge, a lodge of skeletons!
Strange, hut true, tliev had strictly
obeyed tlie orders of the W. M • and wait
ing for the knocks to seat them, starved
to death. Each was standing in an atti
tude of respectful attention, “looking to
the cast,” and had no pitying citizen
taken them down they would have been
standing there still. St. Joseph [Ala.)
Herald.
The following is from tho Lock port
Tinas: “James Brown, Tonawanda, is
engaged in building a novel raft for a
novel purpose. It is of pine logs, and
mensuies one hundred leet in length and
ten in width. ’The cribs arc divided Into
ten sections of ten feet each, and arc
coupled together with strong chains. On
tlie rear end of the second raft a house,
occupying the full width of the timber, is
built, and in this it is intended to stoic
dogs and cats and several other kinds ot
animals. At the extreme end of the raft
is a steering apparatus, and here a man
will he stationed to direct its course.
The above is a description of what is to
bn used fur transportation over the
Niagara Falls on the Canada side, of
animals in a few days. The animals are
intended for an experiment, and should
the fall have no fatal effect on them, it is
said a nan lias been found who will at
tempt the perilous voyage."
Luck and Labor-
Don’t charge your failure to ‘had luck,’
my hoy. I’ll tell you what, your trouble
is—you are lazy. Learn Mr. Cobden’s
proverbs about “Luck and Labor:”
Luck is waiting ior something to
tur" up.
Labor, with keen eyes and strong will,
turn up si meriting.
Luck lies in lied and wishes the postman
would bring him news of a legacy.
Labor turns out at six o'clock, and with
busy pen or tin mg hammer, lays the
foundation of a competence.
I,nek wins.
Labor whistles.
Luck relies on chance.
Labor, on character.
Luck sips down to indigence.
Labor strides upward to independence.
Texas Christian.
A London Time- correspondent, de
-1 scribing the awful effects of the famine in
.South India, says the great hulk of tho
people are n nv emaciated, their ribs are
siicking out in painful prominence, and
their skins covered with a dirty looking
dis adoration of the cuticle, described in
the Irish famine ot 1840-7, by l)r. Dona
van as peculiar to famine. Hwe look at.
the thousands of peoi le collected at the
relief works, the famine marks are almost
universally prevalent. ’J he superiuten
i dent of relief operations in Adoiii reports
that the journey over one ot his roads
resembled the path ol a great battle in
the numbers of dead and dying. It tho
people had been smitten by a local out
break of cholera in ordinary times, they
would have fled from the works and never
returned; hut so severe is the pressure for
food that none could afford to leave the
works even for a single day.
A voiy careful experinent, intended to
test the speed of carrier pigeons, was
tried on Friday week Tho bird, one of
the homing pigeons known as “Belgian
voyageurs,” was tossed through the win
dow of a railway carriage as the express
train with tlie Continental mails left the
Admiralty pier at Dover. Tlie train had
been time to travel at sixty miles an hour
hut the bird reached its home in Cannon
Street twenty minutes holore the train.
As it could only have shortened tlie dis
tance by six miles, it had traveled at a
pace of seventy-five miles an hour. The
birds, when released troiu the railway
carriage, too. nearly halt a minute to dis
cover its hearings, rising to an altitude of
half a mile before it set off on its course—
behaving, in fact, exactly as it would if it
knew ttint by losing in the air it could see
its home in London. The wind was wes
terly, and the bird carried an urgent com
munication from the I'tench police.
Best thing out of jail—A pretty girl.