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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.