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Nsaw tftia fapsr trtea yes write OOD BLESS HEa Bhs never burned with pamiou’s fires, Bhs nerer craved a mawktih fame) Hsr nerves were never strung on wire* But sunshine followed where she cams, Her ways in school wore circumspect) And made her seem a trifle prim; Hsr maiden manners were correct, tier choerful goodness naught oould dim. Although she ne’er disdained life’s joys, She ne’er forgot religion’s claims, In Sunday school her girls and boys Were all imbuod with life’s grand aims. In church she ne’er seemed sanctified, And only flt for angel sphere While others talked of Him who died, She worked In love for mortals here. Bho married poorly, in thn sense That life’s great goal is glittering gold; But for her pains had rocotnpeuso In love of man in God’s own mold. And further* on in life thero came A group of childreu in her home, Who honored e’er their father’s name, And from her guidance ne’er would roam. Old ago came ou, and children brought Grandchildren to the sacred place W here mother, wife and maid had taught Grand lossons to His grandest race. Then "earth to earth, and dust to dust," Was said at last above the bier Where lay tho flower of earthly trusty Whose symbol rose to heavenly sphere. Qod bless the homes such wonnn make I God bless the world wtiero such are rife I For hearts would love and never break 11 PHILIPS FIRST SUIT. BY EDMUND LYONS. HAT had become of MAblo Stone? That way tho prob* Ism that puzzled tho peoplo of Squa- lackct, and they were no nearer to a solution in January than thoy were in July, when, one op* prussiveiy hot mom* ing, Mabel's place at tha breakfast tablo was vacant, aud Deacon Stone learned from a servant, who had been kept awake by a toothache, that his daughter had arisen at four o’ciook in tho morning and gone out hurncuiji in* to the gray dawn. She had not returned at nightfall,and when it wu9 ascertained that her aunt in New York, whom sho frequently visited, was ignorant of her whereabouts, and that her brother, who was tryiug to build up a medical prac tice in Bostou, hud not seen her or heard from her, a dark suspicion arose in Squaiacket that she had run away with Philip Mesmer; for Squalackot was a Now Eugiand town, nnd overy inhab itant in it had grown weary of compar ing his or her own goodness with that of tho neighbors, and arrived at u comfort able if somewhat monotonous conclusion that tho home virtues weie a littlo purer and rather more securely rooted than any others. If there is such a thing ns an cxcoss of righteousness, Squalackot kuow what I it was, and a ripple of wrong doing ap- j peering upou the otherwise unruffled surface of its purity wns like a little flavor of onion lurking in a bowl of j salad. “Half suspected,” it animated tho wholo. So tho people of tho strait laced town were perhaps unduly hasty I in grasping a forbidden fruit when they declared, with something nearly ap proaching unanimity, that Philip Mcs- 1 mcr and Mabel Stone had eloped. j To be sure, the circumstantial evidence j was strong against the young couple. Philip was only twenty-two, and though I all his friends suid ho had iu him the making of a great lawyer, he had not yet beeu called to the bar. This would not have mattered greatly, because his life lay before him, and his crusty old uncle : allowed him enough money to cover his bare expenses, with the provision that it j Bhould ail bo returned, with accrued in- j terest and by increasing installments, us , soon as his profession began to yield him 1 an income. But Philip, though not yet a barrister, was too good a lawyer not to be ignorant of tho dangers of delay. IIo had already, he hoped, carried ono suit to a successful issue. It was a suit for Mabel's hand iu marriage, ond tho young lady had rendered judgment in his favor. But DeAcon Stone had reviewed this de cision, reversed it, and thrown Philip’s case, on motion of appeal, out of court. He said hia daughter was his heiress, and, as bo was rich, no penniless young fellow, on the strength of his expecta tions, should marry her. Philip, however, was not easily non suited. At a lust interview with Mabel, beforo he went back to Philadelphia to digest more law, he ofTcrcd to release her from her engagement to him; but Mabel was not the sort of girl to take advan tage of his generosity, and perhaps he knew that before ho exercised it. Love (especially love with a profound knowl edge of law behind it) is rarely quite un selfish. she promised to wait for him, if necessary, until time was no longei young, and he assured her that he would return to Squaiacket to claim her aasoon as he had mastered the contents of his lirst brief, which ho expected with the new year; for he was called to the bar about Christmas, and in Jauuary the case <>. Colly vs. West would be tried in the Superior Court, and Colly, who was a friend of his dead father, was pledged to retain him as junior counsel to show tho jury that West had cut down a tree which stood evenly on the dividing line of the West and Colly properties, and laughed derisively and scurriously railed at Colly for saying that bis half of the trunk should have been respected aud left standing. “And if that isn’t a good case and a sure winner, darling,” said Philip, en thusiastically, as he folded Mabel in his arms, “I wonder whst is. Don’t you?” >Then he kissed her again, and said he wouldn't weary her with tho dry detaila of tho law. It was vory encouraging. Ami thus hopefully they patted. Philip went back to Philadelphia by a night train, nnd Mabel roturned to her father’s house. But tho dcncon gavo her a vory bad half-hour after supper. Ho said Philip wosuothing bettor tlum u beggar, dependent upon his Tluclo's bounty; that ho wns a mean fellow, and too dull to succcod at nny bar except a marble- topped ono with bottles bohiud it, and totnobody with him boforu it to pay his reckoning. He said many other things about her lover that Mabel, being a high- spirited girl, could not stand at all. Sho went t.oher room when she oould restrain her toar9 no longer, and when sho had locked hor door, and roliovo'* her heart with such tears as sho had not shod since her mother died, twelve years before,sho decided that sho could uuver again have a homo until Philip made ono for her. Sho had promised hor lover that she would never marry any other man; but sho had also promised hor father that sho would not wod without ids oonsont. Tho situation was rather conflicting, and only ono thing was qulto clear to hor; that was that neither Philip nor the deacon should have an opportunity to urge her to break either pledge. 8I10 trusted her lovor.and sho trusted herself; and abovo all, sho had a higher trust that her dead mother Imd taught her. 80 when sho packed up a fow articles of clothing in a small hand-bag, counted her savings, which amounted to about seventv-five dollars, and stolo away with tho dawn unobserved by any ono in tlio oned, but not at all tho guilty consciunoa stricken creature that tho deacon and most of tho pious people of 8qualuuket folt assured that she must bo ns soon as her flight was discovered. Deacon Stono was not, any time, a man of many ideas. IIo had only room for ono now, nnd that his wayward aud rebellious daughter Imd gone to Phila delphia to joiu Philip. IIo lmstonod thero as fast as steam could carry him, nnd went at onco to tho law student’s ono dingy room in Arcli Street. Ho found its occupant wrestling manfully with tho Revised Statutes of Pennsylva nia, aud the earnestness with which ho assured his visitor that ho was quito ig* no rant of Ma|>ol’s movements ns well as his own distress as hohenrd of her flight, wculd have convinced an unprejudiced person that he spoke tho truth. But tho deacon was a man of very llxod opinions. Ho cniled the objectionable quality that usually won for him his owu way “do- tcnuinatlqn.” Ilia fellow church members referred to it as “pig-liondoilness,” but that was only when there was no chanco of his hearing of tho term so appliod. lie now openly refused to credit Philip's declaration. But tho young man listened to his rambling, vehomontly told story, and then with the sumo coolness and deliberation that afterward greatly helped him in tho caso of Golly vs. West, ho pretty thoroughly cross-oxaminod him. He learned enough about tho sccnu in tho f.arlor tlio night precodiug Mabel's flight to give him a tolerably cloar in sight as to tho actual stato of afluirs, and his knowledge of tho proud, solf-roliaut character of the girl assured him that when she returned it would bo of her own frco-will. Whatever efforts ho inado to And her must be advanced with tlio utmost delicacy, for ho know that any thing liko publicity would dooply offend her. It was with great difficulty that ho ffuully persuaded the deacon to refrain from taking tho polico into his confi dence; and the old man departed,Anally, vowing that if his (laughter wore not back in Squalackot beforo tho ond of tho week ho would obtain a warrant for Philip's nrrest, and rnlso such a hue and- cry after Mabel as would lead to her dis covery if sho were still above ground. Other and more importaut matters must have clnimad his attention, for, so far as Philip could ascertain, ho made no fur ther uttompt to And tho fugitive. And so the dreary weeks lengthened into months. Mabel's retreat was nearly as muok a mystery as ever—not as much, for Philip received one short letter from hor, which relieved ins anxiety. Bho was in New York, and was sufo and well. She refused to toll him her address, but promised to write to him again when events justlffed such a course—say,when the Philadelphia newspapers announced that Colly had won his suit against West. With this assurance he was obliged to bo contented; and in tho caily days of December Philip was called to tho bar. But while ono man may load a horse to the water, twenty mon cannot make him drink; and Philip soon found that it is easier to become a barrister than to find clients. The care of Colly vs. West wont over until the next term of tho court. Tho parsimonious uncle had stopped supplies, and if the briefless young lawyer had not succeeded in ob taining a littlo literary work as book- reviewer for a newspaper, tho room in Arch street might have wanted a lire. It was warm and comrortablo enough, however, when he hurried into it out of the biting air ono eveuing; and, lighting the lamp, he saw that two scaled enve lopes lay upon the table. Tho ono lie opened first contained a circular from a New York land syndicate, setting forth the great opportunities offered to obtain prairie homes where the wilderness would soon be made to blossom liko a rose. The address on the second envelope was in writing thut was strange to him. It enclosed a letter from a lawyer, an nouncing the sudden death of his uncle, and his accession to a reasonably large fortune. And now where was Mabel? She would not communicate with him, ho knew, until good news reached her. She might learn of a successful issue to the suit of Colly vs. West, but how was she to hear o? this windfull unless ho told her of it? IIc was a comparatively rich man now, but he cared nothing for his wealth if Maboi could uot share it with him, and, with a great longing in his heart, he took her last short bravo letter from his desk nnd laid it on the table, while he drew the lamp toward him. It was beside the other two envelopes, but be knew her writing well, and looked fondly at tho address as he picked ui ono that boro it. Thou he oponod it, and drew out tho dosplao J land circular. Hor did that wrotchod advertisement gci thero? Suddonly tho blood rushod to his forehead ns iio saw that tho addresses ou both omvolopes wore precisely similar. Not (or a moment did Philip doubt that thoy had both boon written by Mabio. But how could such a thlug liavo Imp- pened? Tho young man had not wastod his timo as a law stndont. Ho know how to woigh evidence, and in half au hour ho was on his way to Now York. Ho has- tcuod to tlio office of tho land syndicate, which having a pressure of business on hand, was still open, shewing pooplo how to acquire homos on tho prairio. Ho hnd littlo troublo in ascertaining that a Miss Mabio Stone was ono ol its army of workers who addressed envelop*s, and a young woman who was in tho otfleo gave hor address to him. Ho found her with a long list of names boforo her, and a box coutlining a thou sand envelopes on the tablo. Sho wns about to ndress tho first when ho ontorod, and said, quiotly, “Lot us do it to- gothor, Mabel.” Iu iier amazement sho nearly upsot the ink; but when iio hnd told his story she was satisfied, and allowod him to help her. Splendidly thoy did it. Before ton o'clock thoy had addressed a thou sand envelopes, and carnod sc vonty-live cents between them. Then ho loft her, but on tlio following day thoy journoyed to Squalackot together, aud Deacon Stone, though nt first inclined to turn them both out of tho house. was inolHflud .is soon ns Iio nonra ot the altered aspect of affairs, nnd wns easily induced to con sent to their marriage. A lawyer was a useful person to have iu n family, any how, lie said, aud as ho was thinking of suing tho church trustees for applying tivo dollars of tho funds aubscribod for u now pulpit to tho roliof of a widow whose hushnud hnd boon killod on tin railrond track, it wns woll to bo prepared for emergencies. Philip and Maboi wore marriod whoc tlio case of Colly vb. West was triod ic tho Suporior Court. Collj’s senior coun sel wns unable to attend, niul tho brunt of tlio buttle fell upon Philip. Ho won it triumphantly. Tho jury gavo Colly six conts damages, but that carried th< costa.—Harper’s Wookly. Tlio Eskimos Surely Starving. Hitherto the Eskimos havo depended for foud upou tlio whalo, walrus, and seal of tlio coast and the fish of tho rivers. Tho first three animals havo also supplied thorn with clothing, boats, and all other neccssurios of Ufo. Fifty years ago the whalers, having exhausted other wators, sought tlio northom Pacific for wlmlos, pursuing thorn into Boring Son, and cnrryiug tho war of oxtorminatiou into tho Arctic Ocoau. At lougtli tho fow surviving wlmlos have boon driven to the neighborhood of tho polo, nnd their species has boootno well-night ox- tinct on tho Alasknu const. Respond ing to n commercial demand for ivory, the whalers’ turned their attontiou to the walrus s.nd proceeded to wipe them out of cxistonco likewise. Sometime* ns many ns two thousaud of thu valuable beasts would be slaughtered on a single cuke of ice, merely for thoir tusks. Thus a walrus is hardly to bo found to-day in those wators where so short a timo ago the animals were so numerous that their boliowings were heard abovo tho roar of the waves nnd the grinding of tho floes. Seals and sea-lions are now getting so scarce that tlio natives have difficulty in procuring enough of thoir skins to covor boats. Thoy used to catch and cure groat quantities of fish in tho streams, hut their supply from this source has recently diminished owing to tho establishment of great cnnnnrics which send millions of cans of salmon out of thu couutry an nually and destroy vastly more by waste ful methods. Improved firearms havo driven tho wild caribou Into tho inac cessible regions of tho romoto interior. Thus the process of slow starvation and depopulation hot begun along tho whole Arctic const of Alaska, and famine is progressing southward year by yoarou the shore of Boring Sea. Whore vil lages numbering thousands were u few years ago, the populations havo been ro- ducod to hundreds.—Boston Transcript, Some Pythagorean Mysteries. Every lover of rare and curious in formation knows thut most of the ancients were “dead sot” against beans, but no modern unraveller of old-time mystcrios knows why. It may be truly said that there are but few philosophers ot tho present day that “know beans.” Pythag oras admonished his pupils to “abstain from beans,” but on what grounds no one knows. Ho was also authority for the old-time superstition that nny sen tence written iu boan juice could bo seen plainly reproduced on tho disk of tho moon I Andrew LYng says that the ancient folk-lore of beans is a most curious and interesting topic, because it seems wholly out of tho question that we should ever understand what it was all about. Demeter was the pntroness of ull fruits an I vegetables, but the ancients considered it impious to attribute to hor tho discovery of tho bean. Heraclides, on the authority of Orpheus, declared that beans buried in manure piles forth with became human beings.—St. Louis Republic. Advertising Extraordinary. “We have a shoemaker in our town,” says a Quebec, (Canada) man, “whose business in selling overshoes had been almost ruined by a hustling rubber house, and who this winter, to get even, had a great opening sale, at which he gave to every purchaser of shoes a pair of rubber overshoes, upon the soles of which was his advertisement reversed, so that at every step the wearers take through the snow they leave his advertisement neatly printed in their tracks. The effect is magical and powerful. You can scarcely look at the snow any place in Quebec without seeing footprints with this rnan’4 name glaring boldly from them.”-— Rochester Uuion. MAKING THE BANK NOTES. A Number ot Ktigrnvora Work on ICroIi Hill—Tho Curious Geomet ric Lntlte—Printing tlio mils. I will endeavor to describe very brief ly and clearlv tho process of making a bank note, *aya Homer Leo, Preaidoutof tho Honur Luo Rank Note Company, in tho St. Louis Republic. First of all, a model <s made, partly of India ink and partly by pasting together impressions of small pieces of leather work aud cyclo idal designs. This is almost an exact representation of wlmt tho bank note is to be; something after the fashion that an architect makes ills plans for a build ing, only it is made on heavier paper nnd executed with tho brush. Tliosu design ers are so clover in thoir art that you might well mistake some of the designs for the ougruvings themselves. A bank bill is novor engraved by ono man, but by a number of men. Ench engraver is skilled in his own particular branch of thu work; one man may bo expert in ongraving portraits, another in makiug tho old English niul other fancy letters you always suo on tho bills, another in tho “script,” or writing stylo of letter phrasos liko: “Will pay the bearer,” or “Payable to tho bearer on demand.” The engravers all start on thoir ro- r stive kinds of work so ns to finish ut the inmo timo, vory much In tho same stylo as a railroad is built. Several on different sections of tlio road, com plete tho enterprise sooner than ono gang of laborers engaged ou tho whol# route. So oacli engraver is given n small part of tho bill to exccuto. Ho engraves it on n piece of steel known as die steel, not quite as largo ns a postal card. Euch pioce is hardened nnd aftorward taken up on tho periphery of a soft steel cylin der, known as a roll. This, in turn, is hardened Uko a razor and tho complotod noto ia then mndo up from those rolls. Tho rolls by groat pressure, are impressed on to a large plate which, whou finished, becomes tho bank noto you are accus tomed to sao. A vory curious mnobiuo used by en- gravers in their work is called tho geomet ric luthu. It is with tho aid of this ma chine that tlio peculiar and intricate laoe- work pattorns so familiar on our paper monoy are made. It looks very much Uko a scroll-saw, with a revolving bod aud numerous little cogs, pins nnd thumb-screws. Projecting over tho bod is an arm carrying u finely tempered steel graver. Still more curious is it that it U impossible for tho oporntor on this in strument to roproduco exactly tho cutting ho lias made, of which ho lias neglected to keep tho record or combination; if one of the thumb-scrcws is turned tho hundred tit part of an inch it changes the entire design. Tho pay of ongravers ranges from to |100 a week, soinotimes more. Quito a large proportion rccolvo (150, mid tho man who rccoives #100 a week or more must be an oxcoptionally clover person. The host qualified workmon are those who can execute portraits. After thu engravors havo finished thoir work upon thu die it goes to the harden ing room, where, by ineuns of furnaco lient and cortuin chemicals, It ia made so hard that oven u file will not scratch it. Then the die is put on tho transfer press and au exact improssiou is niado ou tlio circumference of a soft roll of atcol. Tins is hardcucd similar to tho dio, und trans ferred to the printing plate. Thu first plate-printing presses, nnd those in general use to-day, consisted of two metal rollers, between which is a slab of iron runuingon four guide wheols. Tho press looks something like a four armed windmill. In using this press tho printer first puts his plate on a small gas-stove, called a “jigger,” rolls ovor the surface of tho plate with ink, removing most of tho surplus with a piece of mosquito netting and the roinaiudei* with his hand. Then he polishes the plate by rubbing it over with the soft purt of his hand, covered with whiting. Hu does this till it shinoa liko a mirror, leaving the engraved lines full of ink. History iiifonnes us thut hank notes were first printed by tho Chinese, 2C97 B. C., and, even in thnt early day, plutes ware polished by tho palm of the baud in tho mauner just de scribed. But now the Chinese nro trying to learn the art of bunk-noto engraving from Americans. Some time since 1 assisted in furnishing the Japanese Gov ernment with an outfit which, in time, will enable them to become expert bank note engravers. Tho Japanese, being naturally artistic, will not make the poorest engruvers in the world. After the plate lias been polished the printer places it in the press, where it receives a sheet of puper placed by n female assistant. Then he gives a hard pull, nnd the impression is made. Bank-note sheets after being printed are taken to tho drying-room, where tho stearn-hcatod temperature is 250 degrees abovo zero. They remain hero one night. In the morning the sheets are exurnined for imperfections. Imperfect und torn sheets arc thrown usido. Per fect sheets are put up in puckagcs of 1000 with a slip of paper to indicate each hundred, und then put between mill-boards and pressed in a hydraulic press. Then the bill are numbered by the automatic numbering machine. Postal notes go through a similar pio- ces?, with tho difference that they arc printed on a stcaui-plute printing machine. WISE WORDS. <*A son that slocpeth in harvest shame.” When people do not love they are not flt to live. Hatred is a fire which burns, but con* lumos not. Whorovcr there is ignorance there ia self-conceit. Meeting nnd overcoming diflicultlea makes charactor. An hour lost will get bohind you and ohaso you forever. If work Is growth, the world is full of peoplo who are very small. Tho teat of true manhood is wlmt lie is willing to suffor for others. No bad man ever makes himself any bolter by claiming to bo a saint. Tho poorest of poor are vory often those whom thoir neighbors cunsidor rich. You can’t toll by tho length of n man's face what ho can do iu a hone trade. There is no more wrctchod life thnn that of a child thnt 1ms to livu without sympathy. Unless you think more thnn you talk, perhaps it would bo just ns well not to talk much. The higher tho building is to lie, the more care there must bo in propntiug the foundation. Complaining about tho hard times you arc Imv I lift au vaatui lor anybody else. H an old man only knew as much as a young ono thinks ho does, how this old globo would whirl. Whenover you knock down a man who has opinions of his own, you tum ble a wholo crowd ovor. When a dog is in his own dooryard, ha doesn't have to bo very big to be bravo enough to bark at an olophant in the street There nevor was a son who hnd a father who loved him, who could ask as much for himself as his fathor wanted him to have. Tho mau who goes around looking for spota on other peonlo never likes to look in the glass to seo liow he looks hiintolC —Indianapolis (Ind.) Ram's Horn. 4 The Domestic Cat. No ornament about a houso is more associated with domesticity than tho cat, especially in thu oold season, when she comes into the house. To be sure, she looks well at an open window or door,or asleep on tho piazza,or sauntering ovor the f frouuds. But her most picturesque place s in tho contro of tho hearth-rug bofore an open fire. Charles Dudley Warnor may woll ask if a ent was ever deceived by a gas log? Of rourso not; no cold artificiality like that dccoivoa her. She half shuts her (70s with a souse of the dehoiousness of firelight, nnd purrs hei song of grateful delight nt tho mingled warmth aud boauty before her. Cats havo au evident proferonoo for certain mombers of tho family. It is an unjust insinuation that 1t is always the hand thnt feeds hor. But we suspoct the principle of “Mary loves tho lamb, you know,” may have something to do with it, and why should not reciprocity come In hero us elsewhere in affectionf Shakespeare, although he consummately read and paiuted human nature, hardly seems to do justico to the feline. In over forty passages in which he mentioned tho cat, it ia as a typo of sly* ness and deceit. In that singular hook, “Tho Silcnoo of Doan Maitland,” n cat figures con spicuously. She is fed on cream and seated in tho lisp of hor mistress and in troduced to all tho family friends. For somo persons she manifests partiality, while others can never propitiate her goodwill, and her elections are truo to clmrnctor. Tlio hero—a man of taste, refinement, moral sensibility, of great harmony of person und manner—can never win nny advuncos from tho cat, though he stroke or speak to her ever so kindly. Meanwhile (he man is weakly, secretly sinning against tho laws of God and man, while he basely leaves another —nnd that his friend—to be suspected and condemned for his own wrongdoing. Yet be deceives himsolf and the world by an atoning nioty and apparent Chrif- tiun consecration. But tho cat ndker believes in him! Wo may say this ia overdone; but who can set the limit to tho divino polico on tho earth or con- fino ic to human intelligence?—Boston Transcript. Central Auatralia. Explorations arc expensive and some* times useful enterprises. A recent ex pedition sent into Central Australia was more noted for the former than tho luttcr characteristic. The report shows thut nothing has been gained beyond the gratification of a little geographical curiosity. The country explored ia practically u desert, almost destitute of water or vegetation. It contains no traces of gold, diamonds, or anything else worth having, and Hceins to produce scurcely anything but spinifex. In this desolate region a number of “black fel lows,” us tho natives are called, contrive to exist, and as they havo uothing that anybody can envy, thoy are not likely to be disturbed in the interests of civiliza tion. This information was obtained after many hardships and discourage ments.—New York Witness. Finger Tips of Idiots. Impressions of the finger tips of idiots have been found by Dr. d'Abundo to show very different markings from those of sane people. In u number of idiots tho markings on the tips of all the fingers of each hand wore identical, and in one idiot the tips of tho thumbs had the same markings as those of the fingers. There was a noticeable smoothness of the linger ps in all the idiots.—Now York Jour- uoL The Grip In Aucient Greece. E. W. Bishop, of Norwich, Conn., who is a student in Amherst College, has discovered by reading Thucydides, Book II., that tho grip prevailed in Greece 470 B. C., and it was by far more violent und more frequently fatal in its effects than to-day. In the book named there is an entire chapter on the disease and all its symptoms, which arc minutely de scribed, and are like those noted in these times. It is described as being a queer and troublesome malady, and the mental dejections of its victims ure said to be the most distressing feature of the disorder. —New York Times.