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THE GRANGER'S FATE.
Thert^camc from the stock yard# a yellow-laired
Who’d”£eallzod well,” and with nothing to do.
He felt, mid the crowds on the street, llkeastianger,
And strolled tow'rd his depot on Fifth avenue.
The noise of the streets, like the roar of a battle,
How swelling, then dying, again to be heard!
The heavy cars rumbled, the wagons did rattle,
The newsboy had one song, and piped like a bird.
The song of the urchin was lost on the Granger,
*W-ho woulln’tglvo ''shucks” for the news of tho
day,
Unwary of 11 bunkos." and dreamless of danger,
Though “ spotted ” already he paused on the Way,
Ue stopped on tho bridge and leaned over the rail-
W Ins.
swallowed up voices and faces, and noth'
ing could DC seen: but that dark, cruel
shape, sailing triumphantly atoay with
its precious booty, like an aerial privateer,
the poor father sank down helpless and
speechless, but the mother, frantic with
grief, still stretched her yearning ajrms
toward the heavens, and called wildly up
into the uuanswering void.
Tho aeronaut strove to console the
wretched parents with assurances that
tHo balloon would descend within thirty
miles of the town, and that all might be
well with the children, provided it did
not come down in deep water or in the
The no:
summons 1
sooner aid
next she heard was'a frightened ( A Double Contrast.—I have seen a
ns to the door. It seems that no * beautiful^ face when m repose, eyery
feature of which was cut m tl
quteite lines, with a moulding ....
perfect, ami tints which were delicate
mid rich. As I looked upon it at rest.
— ... jg ^ - . m — -
woods. In tho event of descending in a from the tiling a plaintive, trembling
able spot, lituY* was bub one Ganger j iittio voice, “rfcase take us down; we
kSgSmSSSSSi of which was cutm tHegex-
his eyes fell on astrange shape hanging ( quisite lines, with a moulding wh]chwa«
in a large pear tree about twenty yards
distant. He could see in it no likeness
to anything earthly, and he half, fancied
it might bd the comet, who, having] put
out his lights, had come down there to
perch. In his fright and perplexity he
aid what every wise man would do in
like extremity. Reinforced by her, he
drew near the tree, cautiously reconnoi*
tering. Surely, never pear tree bore
such fruit! S©
Suddenly there descended
Up stream sad dowti stream were forests of shipping,
And everywhere, storehouse smoky and brown.
Soma, white gulls were soiling their plumage, by
that ebbs through the town.
The steam-tugu were puffing and screaming; with
power,
Tho bridge turned for vessels to pass on their way.
Tho man on the bridge might havo waited an hour
He'd almost forgotten the time of the day.
''Hallo!” said a voice at bla elbow, and, turning,
There stood a young gentleman doso by his side,
Who, extending his hand, said, “How are you?
Good morning 1 ”
“You have the advantage,” tho Granger replied.
“ What, have you forgotten me? that is a pity 1
’Don't know mo, Sam Vanderbilt? Well, I’ll be
- blamed I
My father’s a banker, and lives In Sioux City—”
“ Why, how are you, Sammy ? ” tho Granger ex
claimed.
''And your name?” said Sammy, “for I always.
know a
Frl«.nd by his features; while names disappear.”
11 Oh, my name is Green. 1 llvo out in Iowa,
And I’ve known your father this many a year.”
“ I say Green, what time does your train go 7 ton
twenty?
Well, I shall go out on tho same train with you.
Till then como with me Green; for I have get plenty
Of friends here.” Said Green, “ I don’t care if I
do.”
No saying, they passed, arm in arm, out of hearing.
That night sat the bridge-tender, dozing by fits;
And starting at signals that vessels were nearing,
When, splash, he was frightened most out of his
wits. *
WhatO, ho! there policeman I a body was hurled.
And whose were the dim forms that silently hov
ered,
And gazed at the ripples a moment, then fled;
Or, who was their victim will not be discovered
Until the biack rinr shall give up its dead.
Which It will; for whenever a man becomes mellow,
If under tho water, he’ll 'rlso to expluin.
But what I would aay is, that he of tho yellow
Hair never roturnod to the stock yards again.
Oh. Green, of Iowa! Oh, yellow-hatred Grangers!
From the green glades of Toxas to pine-crested
Maine,
Say, which would yeratbor, be bunkoed by strangers?
Or read evory day what the papers contain ?
—Chicago Timet.
CHILDREN IN THE CLOUDS.
The terrible Voyage of two Baby Aero-
naate-Thelr Extraordinary Deliver
ance from Death.
All the Year Round.
One pleasant afternoon during the
comet’s appearance, ten years ago, an
aeronaut, after a prosperous voyage, de
scended upon a large farm in -the neigh
borhood or a market town, in one of the
western states. He was soon surrounded
. by a curious group of tho farmer’s fam
ily and laborers, all asking eager ques
tions about the voyage and the manage
ment of the balloon. That, secured by
an anchor and a rope in the hands of the
aeronaut, its car but a foot or two above
the ground, was swaying lazily backward
and forward in the evening air. It was
a good deal out of wind, and was a sleepy
and innocent monBter in the eyes or the
farmer, who with the owner’s permission
led it up to his house, where, as he said,
he coula “hitch it” to the fence. But
before he thus secured it, his three chil
dren, aged respectively, ten, eight and
three, Begged him to lift them into that
big basket, that they might sit on those
pretty red cushions.
While the attention of the aeronaut
was diverted by more curious questioners
from a neighboring farm, this rash father
lifted the dariingB, one by one, into the
car. Chubby little Johnny proved the
ounce too much for the aerial camel, and
brought him to the ground; and then,
hope of the family, was lifted out. The
relief was too great for the monster. The
volatile creature’s spirits rose atotve;
he jerked the halter out of the farmer's
hand, and with a bound, mounted into
the air. Vain was the aeronaut’s anchor.
It caught for a moment in the fence, but
it tore away and was off, dangling use
lessly after the runaway balloon, which
so swiftly and steadily rose that in a few,
minutes those two little faces
iuvoraoie
ty liii **.
elder child might step out,leaving the
younger, in the balloon. Then it might
rise and continue its voyage.
“Ah, no,” replied the mother; “Jen
nie would never stir from the car without
Johnny in her arms!”
The balloon passed directly over , the
market town, and the children seeing
many people in the streets, stretched out
their hands and called loudly for help,
but tho villagers, though they saw the
bright little heads, heard no call.
When the sunlight all went away, and
the great comet came blazing out, little
Johuny was apprehensive that the comet
might come too near the airy craft and
set it on fire with a whisk of its dreadful
tail. But when the sister assured him
that the fiery dragbn was as much as
twenty milesa way, and that God wouldn't
let it hurt them, he was tranquilized.
but he soon after said, “I wish he woult,
come a little nearer, so. I could warm
myself—-I am so cold.”
Then Jennie took off her apron and
wrapped it about the child, saying ten
derly:
“This is all sister has to make you
warm, darling, but she’ll hug you close
in her arms, and we will say our prayers
and you shall go to sleep.” *
bended ■ ho thou~ht th?.t tho> nrp vorv onM.”
Then a second little voice: “And
hungry, too; please take us down.”
“Who are you? And where are you?”
The first little voice said: We are
Mrs. Harwood’s little boy and girl, and
we are lost in a balloon.
The second little voice said: “ It is
us. and we runned away in a balloon.
Please take us down.”
Dimly comprehending the situation,
the farmer, getting hold of a dangling
rope, succeeded in pulling down the bal
loon. He first lifted out little Johnny,
who ran rapidly a few yards towards the
house, then turned around and stood a
few moments curiously surveying the
balloon. The faithful little sister was so
chilled and exhausted that she had to be
carried into the house, where, trembling
and sobbing, she told her wonderful
story. Before sunrise a mounted mes
senger was dispatched to the Harwood
home with the glad tidings of great joy.
He reached it in tho afternoon, and a few
hours later the children themselves ar
rived in state, with banners, and con
veyed in a covered hay wagon and four.
Joy bells were rung in the neighboring
town, and in the farmer’s brown house
the happiest family on the continent
hanked God that night.
Why,how can I say my prayers before
I have my supper?” asked little Johnny.
“Sister hasn’t any supper for you or
herself, but we must pray all the harder,”
solemnly responded Jennie.
So the two baby wanderers, alone in
the wide heavens, unawed by darkness,
immensity and silence, by the presence of
the great comet, and the millions of un-
E itying stars, lifted their little clasped
ands and sobbed out their sorrowful
“ Our Father,” and then that quaint lit
tle supplementary prayer:
“ Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord iny soul to keep;»
If I should die before I wake.
Ipray the Lord my soul to take.”
“There! God heaftl that easy; for we
are close to him up here,” said innocent
little Johnny.
Doubtless Divine love stooped to the
little ones, and folded them in perfect
>eace, for soon the younger, sitting on
;he bottom car, with his head leading
against his sister’s knees, slept as sound
as though he were lying in his little bed
at home, while the elder watched quietly
through the long, long hours, and the car
floated gently on the still night air, till it
began to sway and rock on the fresh
morning wind.
At length a happy providence guided
the little girl’s wandenng hand to a cord
connecting the valve; something told her
to pull it. At once the balloon began to
sink, slowly and gently, as though let
down by gentle hands, or as though some
celeitial pilot guided it through the wild
currents of air, not letting it drop into
lakes or rivers, leafy wood or impene
trable swamp, where this strange, un
childlike experience might have been
closed by a death of unspeakable horror;
but causing it to descend as softly as a
bird alights, on a spot where care and
human pity awaited it.
The sun -had not yet risen, but the
morning twilight had come, when the
little girl, looking over the edge of the
car, saw the dear old earth coming nearer
“rising toward them,” she said. But
when the car stopped, to her great dis
appointment, it was not on the ground,
o __ , . but caught fast on the topmost branch of
unluckily, not the baby, but the eldest a tree. Yet she saw they were near a
rointgw
over the edge of the car grew indistinct,
and those piteous cries of “Papa!”
“Mamma!” grew fainter up in the air.
Vheu distance and IwUgh. joists had
house, whence help might 'soon come, so
she awakened her bruiuer and told him
the good news, and together they watched
and waited for deliverance, hugging each
other for joy and warmth, for they were
very cold.
Farmer Buxton, who lived in a lonely
house on the edge of his own private
prairie, was a famous sleeper in general,
but on this particular morning he awoke
before the dawn, and though he turned
and turned again, he could sleep no more.
So at last he awoke his wife and said:
“It’s no use; I’ll just get up and dressy
asd have a look at the comet.”
Hindoo Justice and Law.
Two thousand years ago there was a
law among tho Hindoos forbidding the
addition of such dishonest articles in
the manufacture ofclothaagaveitgreater
money value at the expense of real
utility. Any such additions these old
Hindoos called “ devil • dust.” Accord
ing to Mr. Wm. Ralph Emerson, devil’s
dust, made up in the clothing of the
armies dropped in rags, and their shoes
give way, and even flags were blown to
shreds, not more by the battle blast than
because of the shoddy in the bunting.
Painters’ brush, glue, putty, and sand
paper are employed, not so much for the
purpose of imitating what a thing is not
as for concealing what it really Is. We
read of furniture put together with nails
made to look like screws, but possessing
nothing resembling the screws, except
the head; of tomb “stones” on sale, in
lots to suit purchasers, yet in their prim
itive color of the galvanized metal, the
tint, whether marble, sand-stone or gran
ite, to be applied when ordered; of brick
work coated to look like stone, and
shortly casting its skin in vindication of
its birth-right; of marble tablets made
with brush upon lath and plnstcr; the
“g-saw, and pagoda architecture for the
isplay of “ tinsel and frippery.” Let
us at least require that nothing' be war
ranted above its valne, and that a fair
price be the assurance of thoroughness.
Preparation of Gruel.—A man,
simply because he is sick, is not to be
starved, nor, on the other hand, can a
man who is sick, as a rule, take such ar
ticles of food as a well man would be
likely to take. It may be doubtful
whether a man, when first taken sick,
should take a large quantity of food, but
one of the articles which he may have is
Indian gruel, if not made too strong. If,
however, you give permission that the
patient may have grqel to take, unless
you give special directions as to how it
shall be made, you will find that the
nurse has prepared a fair specimen of
Indian pudding, and has been administer
ing that for gruel. In making Indian
eruel there should be no more than a
dessert or tablespoontul of the meal to a
quart of water, and this should be boiled
for a long time, keeping the quantity of
water good throughout the entire boiling
process. Prepared in this manner it may
tie made decidedly salt and then admin
istered to the patient during the first few
days of his sickness.
I said it was perfeet-the face of a most
beautiful woman. She spoke, at length;
and the words were coarse and unintelli
gent. How the beauty fled, as the tints
of a rainbow die when a cloud comes over
I have seen another face, less beautiful,
and yet not ugly. I thought it a pxeasant
face, though not specially symmetrical.
But when she spoke, the light of gemous
and culture tipped the outline of every
feature as the'light ol the -un shrr.a
back the iustreof its golden rays to
with beauty the margin of the evening
cloud. How every feature glows with a
regal beauty, which defies imitation; atu
how far such beauty outranks mere
physical beauty.
Eating too often is unhealthy. 4 It is
weakening and injurious tp mix fresh
food with that which is partly digested
and the stomach also needs rest after the
labor of digesting a meal, in grown per
sons four or five hours should intervene
between each meal. Children who are
growing fast need a simple luncheon of
Bread between meals.
—Boy, when you slide on the long
bannister of the front hall stairs, and go
so fast that it burns you clean through
your browsers, that's friction.
Sj>mplomi of Catarrh.
Dull, heavy headache, obstruction of the
nnsal passages, discharges falling from the
head into the throat, sometimes profuse,
watery, and acrid, at others, thick, tenacious,
mucous, purulent, bloody, and putrid; the
eyes are weak, watery, and inflamed; there
is ringing in the ears, deafness, hacking or
coughing to clear the throat, expectoration
of offensive matter, together with scabs from
ulcers; the voice is changed and has a nasal
twang, the breath is offensive, smell and
taste are impaired; there is a sensation of
dizziness, mental depression, hacking cough,
and general debility. Only a few of the
above-named symptoms are, however, likely
to be present in any one case. There is no
disease more common I than Catarrh, and
none less understood by physicians.
DR. sage’s catarrh remedy
is, beyond all comparison, the best prepara
tion for Catarrh ever discovered. Under the
influence of its mild, soothing, and healing
properties, the disease soon yields. The »
Golden Medical Discovery should be taken
to correct the blood, which is always at fault,
and to act specifically upon the diseased
glands and lining membrane of the nose.
The Catarrh Remedy should be applied
warm with Dr. Pierce’s Nasal Douche—the
only instrument by which fluids can he per
fectly injected to all the passages and cham
bers of the nose from which discharges pio-
cecd.
These medicines arc sold by Druggists.
Every farmer who owns a good stock
of horses, cattle and sheep, and intends to
keep them through the winter, should get at
once a good stock of Sheridan’s Cavalrv Con
dition Powders. One dollar’s worth will save
at least a half ton of hnv.
Stonewall Jackson.—Wo under
stand that the well-known publishing house
of D. Appleton & Co., New York, have
nearly ready for publication the “LIFE OF
STONEWALL JACKSON," fully illustrated
We advise all. especially disabled soldiers
and women out of work, to write to the pub
lishers at once, and secure an agency, as the
work is to be Bold by subscription. It will
have a large sale.
—When it was rumored the other dav
that Ben. Butler was dead nobody wept;
indeed, until the rumor was contradicted
nobody felt like weeping.
NCIIEM'K’S HANDRAItfS PILLS
Will bo found to possess; those qualities nocessary to
the total eradication of all bilious attacks, prompt to
start the secreUons of the lirer, and giro a healthy
tone to tho entire system. Indeed. It is no ordinary
discovery in medical science to have discovered a rem
edy for these stubborn complaints, which develop ill
tho results produced by a heretofore free use of calo
mel, a mineral justly dreaded by mankind and ac
knowledged to be destructive in the extreme to the
human system. That the properties of certain vege
tables comprise all the virtues of calomel, without
Us Injurious tendencies, is now an admitted fact
Indisputable by scientific researches; uni
thosa who use the Mandrake nils will I* fully satis
fied that the best remedies are those provided by na
ture In the common herbs and roots of the fields.
These Pills open the bowels and correct ali billons
derangements without sal vation or any of the lnju-
rious cflects of calomel or other poisons. The secre
tion of bile is promoted by these pills, as will bo seen
f ‘ *!! ered COl ° r 01 the 8 * bol »- an d disappearing
of the sallow complexion and cleansing of the tongue,
p^Ample dirccUons for use accompany each box of
J ' if' Schen< * A 8on, at their
^ A " h street ». Phiia-
Frics 25 cent* per bo*.^ ““ drUgglsta and dealers.