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“Onr Ambition is to make a Yeracions Wort, Reliable in its ? -: Statements, Candid in its Conclusions, and Jnst in Us Views."
YOL. I.
4n statistics prove that each inhabit
of the United States consumes one
per day. This makes necessary the
| r manufacture of sixty millions of
’he tigers were a little behind in India
i year; ono thousand four hundred
3 sixty-four of them were killed by
Qters, and they killed only about one
msand persons. .?
[statistics [it of the peanut trade show
Lber those who are fond of the humble
Etity paid $10,000,000 last year to
their fondness. Altogether about
JOO.OOO bags of the nuts were pro
iced, of which the greater portion
me from Tennessee.
|A report just made by Pension Com
lissioncr Black shows that, excluding
le eighty-two counties from which no
jatistics Ital have been received, the grand
of Union soldiers supported in
[overmnent and private charitable in
litutions was in October, 1887, 35,953.
[f this number, 15,153 wore in soldiers’
tomes, while 21,801 were in State and
to’.mty institutions or supported by
haritable aid in towns.
I The German Army Commander reeent
h-attempted a “minor mobilization” ex
periment near Metz. The railroad station
Luster received at 1 o’clock au order to
prepare coffee for 2,800 men at 4, and a
Binnerfor the same number at 0:30. At
I o’clock 2,800 men came in, had their
coffee, and took the train for another
station, and at 0:30 the next 2,800
promptly appeared, dined and went to
(he next station, where they had coffee,
ind both parties returned to their quar
ters the next morning. The attempt was
lighly successful.
[ ICooper, The history Cornell, of such millionaires as
Peabody and tho late
|AY. W. Corcoran shows that it is possible
for rich men to be public-spirited and
I generous without impoverishing them
selves. Mr. Corcoran gave away $5,000, -
000, and continued to make money until
the last. If he hud been mtSbrTy and
grasping, says the Commercial Advertiser,
he might have died a poor man. As it
was, everybody loved him. Good men
were ready to back him in any enterprise,
and furnish him with any amount of
money, if he needed it.
Texas is a large State, and it does
things on a large scale, says the New
York Observer. Its new State Capitol
is a magnificent structure, looming up
four feet above the Capitol at Washing
ton. It has not cost the State a cent of
money either, and that is where it differs
frem the Capitol at Albany. A syndi
cate was given 3,000,000 aere3 of public
lands to build it, not a very larg
amount, considering that Texas has
about one hundred and seventy millions
of acres left. The State has a balance
in its Treasury, too, of about •>';),000,000
in cash and securities.
Commodore SamuH Barron, of the late
Confederate States Navy, who died at
his home in Virginia not long ago, may
be sakl to have been born in the United
States Navy, for at the early age of three
years he was appointed a Midshipman by
the Secretary of the Navy. This ap
pointment is the only one of the kind
ever made in the United States Navy.
At the age of eight years he made his
first cruise, being ordered to the Medi
terranean Station; and from that time on
until the breaking out of the late war he
served almost continuously, and rose to
the rank of Post Captain.
“The area of dry land in Holland is a
million acres greater now than it was in
the ' +„ ,,
- ’ '
energetic . works of reclamation which
have long been proceeding,” says the
St. James's Gazette. “It is computed
that eight acres of land are ^ daily / re I
e<l 7 to cultivation m the wonderful ,
little country which has fought so sturdy
a fight against the ocean. For forty
years past, Dutch engineers f. have been
P posing ,, the reclamation , of . the .. Zuyder _ ,
Zee—a greater work by far even than the
draining of the lake of Harlem, which
occupied twelve vears. The Zuyder Zee
was se^t formed in lasahv fa an Y invasion of the
•
sea, which n engulied seventy-two f villages. „
The matter is now being taken up very
energetically throu"hout the country,
snr) *nd several organizations . ,. have , , been „
termed to collect funds for defraying the
cost of the preliminary surveys. It is
(Proposed to separate the Zee from the
tpcean □ outside ouisiue bv Dy means means of oi dvkes avaesoi^reat of irreat
' rengtn, and then to pump out the
r ater—obviously a long and costly
deration. That this colossal work of
fffamatiou is practicable there can
h*dly be a doubt. The effort is worth
s o*e sacrifice; for if it be successful, it
w dadd a new province to the kingdom
of lolland.”
GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1888-
STORM AND CALM.
All day the angry soutliwind roaring past,,
With warm, tumultuous showers of fitful
rain,
Rattled upon my streaming window pane,
And through the autumn woodlands driving
fast.
Stripped off and whirled into the air the last
Few wthered leaves. On the wide misty
plain
The bell, the whistle and the rumbling train
Were silenced in the thunder of the blast,
bow all is still. A fow faint wandering sighs
Alone. The patient trees, though robbed and
thorn,
Lift their bare arms and greet the sunset light
S!,ires aml windon ’ s ’ whil « th ”
Glow with i.v.
the promise of a starlitnight,
And the calm sunrise of a radiant morn,
—C. P. Cranch, in Scribner.
SUSY’S BLUE GINGHAM.
The House Committee ou Ways and
Means was in session The house be
longed in to John Van Yechten, and stood,
its old-fashioned whiteness, with its
gabie end to the road. In front of the
wing was what John always called a
“stoop, ” perhaps the only reminiscence
of his faraway Dutch ancestry. The
stoop was the (ommittee-room, and the
committee consi-ted of John, his wife
and the r sister Anna.
H was early June, and nine o’clock of
a discussing bright moonlight night, and they were
whether or not Susy should
go to the seashore for two months. Anna
fiad brought the question with her from
her school in town. “As I told you,”
she now said. “Superintendent l elton
had invited the Governor to visit the
school that day, and, of course, we were
nil in aflutter. That is, inside. Out
side, the school was iu beautiful order,
Miss Forsyth, my assistant, knows Gov
ernor Fairfax very well. She was a
fr ond of his wife’s before she died,
several years ago. Iu fact, she is to go
to little Spruce girl, Beach this summer with his
would to mother, you know. She
give Sue the best of care.”
“If I could see her," began Mrs. Van
Yeehten, doubtfully.
“I can arrange that. I know Miss
Forsyth would bring Alice Fairfax
here.”
“But how did he know you were any
relation ?” "
“That to Susy
came about very naturally,
Miss Forsyth introduced me as Miss Van
yefflfften,' anil Mr? Fairfax remarked that
lie met a little girl named Van Vechten
under rather peculiar circumstances last
summer. lie told me a little of the
story, and I knew the heroine must be
our Susy, for I had heard something of
the same sort before. And iu a few days
Miss Forsyth told me about this plan,
I do hope you will let Sue go!”
“But. we don’t know Governor Fair
fax, Anna.”
“.Neither do I—much.” Aunt Anna’s
face blushed^and changed iu the moon
light, and an inward protest went with
her words. “But I do know Miss For
syth, and Susy couldn’t possibly be in
better hands for two months.”
“And make next summer without
any seashore harder than this summer
with it!”
bright-eyed “No, indeed, it will not!” The
little woman spoke posi
tivcly. that “Our little girl is not made of
kind of stuff. Widen a life once,
and it stays wider, and so can take in
more, wherever it is.”
Mrs. Van Vechten’s face looked puz
zled, but not ill-pleased.
“Bhe hasn’t anything to wear, Anna.”
“I never expected to live long iny enough
to hear you say that I It does
monplace sou! good! But, seriously, I’ll
take care of that, if you will let me.
fact.it is already taken care of. Tell
me I may tell lier to-morrow, Mary.”
“I suppose you may,” answered the
mother, doubtfully, as her sister lighted
a night-lamp. .‘■hill in
“We have our summer a light
house yet, mother, said John, cheerily,
after Anna had gone upstairs. That is,
if I can find a lighthouse to let.”
Mr. Van Vechten was not a typical
American farmer. IDs nose wasnot un
familiar witli the smell of new books. He
really liked the outside of the kitchen
best for his wife, and the outside of the
house better still. To that end she was
never “the infernal without a deputy in what it he called his
regions,” if the were capital in
power to obtain one; but was
not quite in proportion Maine, to the which number their of
acres, so the coast of
Western souls longed for, was, as yet, an
impossible luxury. the
Aunt Anna sat on stoop next morn
ing, with a pieee of dainty work, when
a little girl on horseback, wearing a
rather short long-skirt of dark blue,
dashed up to the gate, and round to the
barn, from which she presently came
with a parcel.
“You’ve never toid me the story of how
you came bv your pony, Sue.”
“Ila en’t I? Butyou know?”
“Yes, in a sort of way, but not very
well. Tell meal! about it after vou take
'
off your habit.”
“All i ght!” called the little girl, al- ,
ready disappearing within the door-ay.
“If mother doesn’t want me I will.”
“To begin with, Aunt Anna, I just
hate blue ginghams! Sometimes I feel
like a whop charity school. If mother
W outd only ,et me have calico, then this
summer’s dresses wouldn’t be just ex
actly like last summer’s. Well, it was
last Fourth of July; Torch o’ Duly,'
cal! s it.
-ff went over to Kate Stevens’s in the ,
morning, and she had the beaufcifulest
white dress onIt was just full of trim
ming. ruffles and tucks and emboidery,
and she had a Homan sash, and bangs,
it was mean, wasn’t it? She waited till
the night before, after school, so the girls
wouldn't know, and then had her hair
banged so she'd look her best.
“Don’t you tbinka dress is prettier the
more trimming there is on it? Well, I I
do, had and Kate’s was lovely! gingham,but You see,
1 hadn't on my everlasting word blue it. The
leaves danced thought a about and the
about so, sun
shone so bright, and I had been so busy
cracking my torpedoes,that I just hadn’t
time to think whether I looked well
enough to go to the Fourth. these steps!
“You ought to have seen
I wished I hadn’t cracked so many when
mother made me sweep them up, and
Danny kept throwing on the clean spots
just as fast as I swept. the lunch. We
“Mamma had put up
had ham sandwiches. I helped chop
the ham, because the knife was sharp; if
it had been dull,I wouldn’t have wanted
to. And jelly cake, and hard boiled
eggs, and cold coffee in a jug, with the
cream and sugar all iu. Mother lets me
have that Christmas and Thanksgiving
and Fourth of July and such days. And
ginger-snaps. morning had watched the
“That we
man go past with the cans of water and
the ice for the lemonade, and another
man with his load all done up in
blankets. That was the ice cream, you
know. They do me up in blankets in
winter to keep me warm* and the ice
cream in summer to keep it cool. I don’t
see why, do you?”
that “1 I had earned twenty-five cents to spend, yard. too,
myself raking the
Danny can’t, he’s so little. Well, I
couldn’t keep still till it was time to
start, so I asked mother if I couldn’t go
down to Kate Stevens’s, and they could
take me in when they went by. Kate
Stevens’s houses is that big one you can
see down the road.
“When I got there, Kate said: ‘Why,
Fourth Susy Van in Yechten, are gingham? you going I’ve to the
your blue got
a new dress.’
“That spoiled my good time all in a
minute, and my throat got a big lump in
it. Queer, isn t it? Does your throat
choke up when you want to cry, Aunt
Anna? I don’t see where the choke comes
from. But 1 didn’t want her to know I
felt badly, so I answered right off: all,
“‘I’m not going to the Fourth at
and that is why I’ve got on my blue ging
gam.’ “And it true, for I wasn’t. I had
was
just made up my mind. Mother said
afterward that it was not quite true, for
I had it wrong end foremost. I couldn't
go with that choke in my throat. Well,
I stayed around till our folks came, and
then went out quick and told mother
that I did not want to go to the picnic, I’d
and if she’d please give me the key,
go,back /‘Mother home. Jopked astonished for
minute, but Kate Stevens came
out, and called her to see her new dress,
and then I think she knew, for she did
not look She suprised any the more, key, but only
sorry. gave me and told
me that there was some of all there was
in the basket left at dinner. home, and that I
could have it for my
had “Then book she whispered birthday, to me and that that she it
a for my
was under the sheets in the lower bureau
drawer. I did not care one speck for the
book. I was thinking so much about
Kate’s new dress; but i went and found
the first minute 1 got home, and then
I forgot all about everything. much!'’ I tell you
my mother knows so
“It was all about those old Greeks _
an d Homans. That’s why I called my
pony Pegasus. 1 named.him first ‘The
Flying Horse of the Prairie,’but now 1
call him‘Peg’for and short. and thought
“I read on on, never
of the P icnic . * mt 1 was do hungry by
eleven o’clock. there’s I always something get good hungry
quicker don’t when Mother won’t let to
eat; you? but had me
bring a book to the table, I a
good time 'andwiches that day,for and I just rocked and
ate "W read about
Achilles.
“When I was a little girl I used to
wonder whether I would rather marry a
nuiu who kept & cftndy store, or ouewho
kept a book store. 1 couldn’t make
m y mind. Which would you? And I
thought if I could only find one with a
little confectioner’s shop back of the
books, I wouid be perfectly happy, but
I’m not so silly now.
“Pretty soon I happened to look up,
and I saw a blue smoke over the corner
°f -'*[■ Stevens’s corn barn. And 1
of tire-crackers, and the city of
Portland, where Prudy Partin’* house
was burned up, and I knew .Jim Stevens
had his out there that morning.
‘‘Then Iran! The woodshed was just _
blazing, and the kitchen had caught a
on one corner. Arid then I thought
of Davy Stevens!
“Who is that < You have not said
anything about him before, asked Aunt
Anna.
“Oh, it’s their lame boy. He can’t
walk a step—not one step. At least he
couldn’t;he’sgettingbetter now.
called as quick as I opened the kitchen door,he
out that he was so glad I’d come,
and what was that dreadful smoke? And
there he was lying on his cot by the
kitchen window, and just down choking.
“He told me to run the road
and get some men,but I said I had to get
himout first; and he thought I couldn’t,
and I did not know as I could, but I
knew that kitchen would burn before I
could go to the grove and get back
again. “I began to push the cot, but .
it was
too shaky, wheeled and I thought of the wheel
barrow. 1 it in and put it right
at the end of the bed. ft was one of this
kind like a cradle, sidewise, you know,
I laid straight a pillow in it, and then just pulled
him on. J suppose it almost
killed his him. hands, He though helped himself a little
with ”
“f wonder how you dared try it, Sue,
said Aunt Anna, quietly, but with
sparkle in her eye.
“Dare! I didn’t dare, I was as afraid
as f could be. But there wasn’t au v
thing ehse to do, auntie. It was a wide
door, but I hurt his foot dreadfully get
ting looked him through, with his and he fainted. How
he head hanging down
on one side and his feet on the other' I
just put him on the other side of the
wind, so the smoke wouldn’t choke him,
and ran down the road as fast as I could
go. Aunt Anna, I was never so hot in
my life!
“When I got there, there was a man
speaking and throwing his arms about,
In a minute I saw Mr. Stevens on the end
of a bench. So I told him as still as I
could that his house was on lire. But he
just shouted and rushed for his horses,
and everybody Stevens followed him.
“Mrs. said something real
quick about Davy, and ran too. The
man that Anna, was who speaking do came down, it and
Aunt you think was?
“The governor!
“I thought with ho would be dreadfully
angry me for making such a dis
turbauce in his meeting, but he wasn’t,
and got in father's wagon and rode with
us down to Mr. Stevens's. When we got
there, there was a whole line of men
from the well to the house, and they
were pumping another water just and handing pails
from one to as fast as they
could. But there wasn’t much left of
the kitchen.”
“Where was Davy?” asked Annt
Anna.
“oh, dear me! He was on a bed they
had brought him around out, npd and the talking doctor about was
pulling ‘the shock to the system.’ He not
was
faint any more and lie smiled a little
weak kind of smile, and said I’d given
him a ride for the Fourth of Julv.
Stevens “By-and-by the and fpe shook was out, hands and with Mr.
came
me, and the Governor stood up in a
wagon and said he would make them a
little ‘supplementary,’Aunt supplementry speech. Anna? What is
I’ve just
remembered that word. And he said
maybe they didn’t all know why the
whole house wasn’t burned down, and
Davy in it. And then he told them.”
“Toid them what?”
“Why—about—what ashamed! And I did, you then know', Mr.
I was so
Stevens lifted me into the wagon, and
the crowd cheered.”
“What did you think about, Susy?”
“Well, Aunt Anna, I was a little
afraid that my face was dust; dirty, running
so fast in all that and I was—
it’s silly, I know, but I was—I mean
I didn’t, exactly like to stand up there
with that blue gingham on. And father
asked him home to supper. Just think!
the Governor and he talked with mamma
ever “Well, so long. dear, That’s all, story auntie.” is rather
the my your
like old saying about ‘the play of
Hamlst, with the part of Hamlet
omit fed, by special request.’”
“ ,vhyV asked Busy, wondcringly.
“f haven’t heard anything about the
pony.” haven’t. About two weeks
“go y 0 u
after Air. Stevens came over one morn
j r ,g with him. He had a beautiful side
saddle on and Mr. Stevens said he was
Davy's present to me. He didn’t bring
him" over right away, he explained, be
ca use he wanted to have him broken ‘to
the feel of skirts.’ Don’t you think
that's, a funny way to say it? Father
didn’t want me to keep him at first, but
j dra beg so hard, and now he is my
lovely, “And lovely Peg!”
how is Davy?”
“That’s the strangest part of it! He's
really getting better. He lias even walked
two or three steps lately.” said
“I have a letter for you, Busy,"
Aunt Anna, taking it out of her pocket.
It was a large, square, white envelope
which Susy opened in a flutter and read
breathlessly. Fairfax?" and
“Who is Charley could W.
before Aunt Anna answer, “‘My
obedient servant,’ how queer! What
does that mean? Oh, will mother let
me “Mr. go?” Fairfax is Governor, Susy,
your ho rather
and I suppose from his letter is
an old-fashioned gentlemen—but all that
means the most perfect of gentle
men,” replied Aunt Anna, with a bright
look.
“But will mother"—
“Yes, mother will, Dame Durden, or
I should never have told you. And I’ve
brought you some dresses and things,
Come up to my room.”
“You are "better than a fairy god
mother, Aunt Anna!” exclaimed Busy,
as she sprang up the stairs, three steps at
a time.
Nothing had ever seemed so full of
interest to her before as the outside of
Aunt Anna s sole-leather trunk.
“O Aunt Anna! If I’m to go, how I
-would like a trunk like yours!”
“You may take this one if you like.
And here's your bag.” but Susy did
It was real ailigator-skin,
„ot know that. She did not say a word,
Put sank down on the floor with along
B igh c f content.
“Don’t you want to see your dresses?”
“Dresses! Oh! I haven’t got as far
as dresses, Aunt Anna.”
But Miss and Van unfold—a Vechten proceeded grayish-blue to
take out
seersucker trimmed with embroidery of
its own shade, a soft, leaf-brown with wool,
of dainty fineness, checked off with just
one line lights of the laid same fady blue, the shadows; and
silken into all
and la-tly, a white lawn, sheer and
beautiful, with enough lace about it to
soften “Thore, all the dear, edges. which will try
you on
first?”
question Aunt Anna by taking began to answer the brown. her own She
talking. up
went on
“You see, Miss Forsyth had the buy
ing of Alkie Fairfax’s dresses for the
summer, and she got three for her very
similar to these.”
Wise Aunt Anna! She had been a
little girl herself dressed on not too
abundant means.
“Of course, we did not get things
alike,” Aunt Anna went on, “ but they
are of the -ame kind after all.” If Sue
had been drawn by wild horses she would
not have aaked what Alice Fairfax was
going to wear that summer, but she
wanted to know, and her aunt, like a
how loving much little she woman as she was, knew just
wanted to know.
I do not know the seashore story. To
tell the truth, 1 am acquainted with the
sands, the sunshine, and tire umbrellas,
only through the hearsay of verse and
novel. But 1 know that the lion,
Charles Fairfax brought Susy home
himself. Miss Forsyth, he said, had an
engagement to meet before the school
year opened. ho did be in
hurry Having come, not again. seem to Two
a about going away
days he loitered about under the.trees
with Aunt Anna, while Susy’s fashion, busy
mother, glancing out in amused began
remarked to her husband that she
to suspect that there w as a method in
His Excellency's madness
One brilliant morning in the following
June, a group of people under the trees
at Mr. Van Yechten’s crystallized around
two who were standing before the min
ister. Susy and Al ice Fairfax stood
beside them. Susy’s white dress, bridcs
maid gear though it was, could, even
now, hardly rival Kate Stevens’s in the
manner of tucks avid ruffles. But her
eyes had grown clearer with two whole
years of open vision, and her mother’s
sense of the fitness of things had began
to dawn in her own brain,
When the last words of the ceremony
died on the, air, the congratulations
hung fire a little, till Davy Stevens,
slowly and painfully rising, began to
take the few steps that separated him
from the rushed newly made husband and him, wife, and
Busy forward to help
Gov. Fairfax, stooping a little as he
warmly shook hands with the boy, re
marked,: “But for this young man,
Anna, I might never churlas!” have known gasped you.”
“Oh, Uncle Susy
and stumbled over the name, but got; it
out bravely , “if it hadn’t been for
mother’s.making me wear that acquainted, blue ging
ham you wouldn’t ever got I
am sure.”
“I think, Sue,” laughed Aunt A nna,
“that it was because your mother didn't
make you wear the blue gingham to the
Fourth ot July that it all happened."—
Frances Vole.
Peculiarities of Some Strange Fish.
“What, an odd fish!”
An old member of tho New Yorl
Maritime Exchange was exhibiting in a
bottle one of the queerest submarine
monsters that the fancy could paint. It
apparently had no beginning and noend
ing. One could hardly tell where its
outlines left off, and the alcohol in which
it jelly. was preserved began, It was like
“It must “that be remembered,” the depth explained
the owner, at of 1,000
fathoms the pressure Upon a fish or any
other body is equal to a ton to a square
inch. These flabby looking Ashes, that
can bo tied in a knot at the surface, at
such depths are firm-bodied and vigor
ous. When these depths, fish, adapted by organiza- (he
tion to are brought to
surface frequently their bodies are rup
tured, their viscera protrude, their eves
start out and they present the appearance
of having suffered a frightful death,
When the fish ascends the pressure upon
its body becomes less and less, the gases
in its body begin to expand, and the cx
pansion causes the demoralized appear
ance of the fish. If the fish could be
popped out of (lie sea in an instant, it
would when it probably reached the explode surface. with a bang
“Just look at its jaws,” continued the
exhibitor. “When the fish are brought
to the surface most of them appear to
bo soft, pulpy masse? The bones and
muscles appear to thin, be feebly and developed, easilg
The tisses seem weak
ruptured. These conditions, implyiny
muscular with weakness, the powerful are apparently shape in- of
consistent
the jaws and the rapacious looking teeth
of some of the predacious fishes.”
“How do they live?”
“That is hard to say. To the absence
of light is due many of the rau-t won
derful pcculiiintics of tlie deep sen fish.
Borne of them arc totally blind, having
no eyes at all or mere rudimentary eyes,
Others collect have huge eyes, light so organized possible, as
to as many rays as
Sunlight, it is said, fathoms. does not If penetrate is
to a depth of 200 there
any light, there at ail it is the merest
glimmer, darkness. and below this depth there is
absolute
“Now these deep sea fishes sunlight, being cut
of off altogether furnish from their the light. many They
them own
have no organized gas light—carries companies, but
each furnishes his own a
lantern or torch around will) him. They
have oigans and shed that light emit a their phosphorescent path. Home
gleam of them little torches on iu the form
carry
of tentacles that rise from the tops of
their heads. Many of them have regu
lar symmetrical rows of luminous spots
on their sides .”—New York Mail and Fx
press.
Big Carolina Pine Trees,
In a private letter to a gentleman in
^ ^ tin from Col John I) Whit ford
ther0 is account of some forest giants
ioif.iv measured in Greene and Wilson
(j 0U ntics on Contentnea Creek. One
T ,j ne tree measures 22 feet in circumfer
am j WO uld rimkea stick of timber
solid heart, « feet square and :r. feet
«,f , on „ or s traight-edge plank pine C feet wide
86 feet long. Another mew
ur(;() |8 {l ,,, t ju circumference and 10 )
to were' the first branch Some make'a whi'e
oaks measured and would
■ k w™ ., r „i <;p making^hin i„ u , r a
* felled for
| (;s , n ,. a sured 41 feet in diameter and
I) j n length. These immense trees
ar e found abundantly command in that section and
wi » « 0 me day a good price.
Il/JAah New.-.
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A St. Loins . that March .
man says is
the lucky month for the birth of great
statesmen, and instances in support of
hris statement the fact that many of the
Presidents of the t rnted States and the
sovereigns >f Europe were bom in that
month.
NO. 27.
DM OTHER’S COTTAGE DOOR.
In the fair, fresh mornings years ago,
When the world was good to see,
When earth seemed a little heaven below.
And youth was a joy to me;
When friomls were real and love was tnu
And life was sweet to the core,
What beautiful morning glories grow
At grandmother’s cottage door!
I can smell the fragrance of roses rod,
And of mint ns tbo soft winds pass,
While the dew like a web of jewels is spread
All over the crowding grass.
The pin): sends love in her fragrant way,
And the robins chirp as of yore,
When the morning glories in rich array
Clnng cdose to the cottage door.
The cottage was old mul small and quaint,
A picture without and within;
The coating of ago was its only pamt,
And moss hid its shingles'.thin;
Its windows twinkled under the eaves,
With the laughter of fight they wore,
And the morning glories with dancing loaves
Laughed back from the cottage door.
And grandmother, too, liko her house was
old,
But the burdens of love and care
Had changed tho dress of her life to gold,
Until she was angel fair;
like tho glorios, her heart, at tho morning
hour,
Unclosed to the sad and tho poor,
She was symbol and _quoen of tho daint
flower
That grew at her cottage door
Oh! many and many a year, the sod I
Has greened over grandmother’s grays;
She went like a little child to God—
Her soul was so pure ami brave;
But I know though heaven's gardens lie fai'
to view
She remembers tho days of yore,
And the morning glories she loved that grow
Round tho dear old cottage door.
—Atary A. Dennison, ta New York Graphic.
PITH AND POINT.
innovation—A hotel seranndc. *
An
A cheap garment—A coat of white
wash.
Joe Cook says he would rather live
among Sioux than in Sioux city, llo
can be euBily Siouxted.— Graphic. ,
A poet wants to know “where the
fleecy clouds are woven.” In the airloom,
of course .—Burlington Free Press.
Wc regret to learn that the AVe Chicago have
Anarchists have disbanded.
always thought they should hang to
gether. —Philadelphia Press.
Many a man goes down under the
slings and arrows of im outrageous for
tune, because if hit by one of the arrows
he tills upwith the slings.— Picayune,
Tho candidate’s boomlet uow hutgingly
boometb. beggarly bee;
And bashfullv Imzzoth tbo
In the bulge of Ids bonnet it busily bummeth
A song like tho sob of the sad sounding sea.
With microbes in the drinking malaria water, in
tyrotoxicon in ice cream,
water melons, Bright’s disease in beer
and paralysis in iced tea, wherewithal
may the thirsty soul refresh itself?
After a midnight lunch of mince pie,
a citizen complained of horrid dreams,
in which he was chased by pirates.
“Mince pirates, probably,” calmly sug
gested his wife.— Youth’s Companion ,
Mr. Waldo—“So you don’t care for
poetry, Miss Breezy?” Miss Breezy—
“No; I acquired a great distaste for it
in early life.” -Mr. Waldo—“Indeed!
IIow so?” Miss Breezy—“Parsing York Sun. Mil
ton’s ‘Paradise Lost .’”—New
Before the wedding day he vows and
protests that his dearest care will be her
happiness, and that there is no sacrifice
too great for him to make to secure her
comfort. Three months after they are
married she lias to tack the blankets to
tho side of the bed to keep him from roll
ing himself up in all the clothes .—New
York Mercury.
Teacher (in loud toues)—“What is
your name?” Boy tin a week voice)—
“Johnny Wells, sir.” “How old are you,
John Wells?” “Twelve years old, sir.”
“Now, John, tell mo who made this
grand and glorious universe?” “Don't
know, sir.” “What, twelve years old
and don’t know who made this noble
sphere! James Smith go and cut me a
whip." The birch is brought and hold
over the trembling boy. In thunder
tones the rigid disciplinarian who made demanded: this great
“Now, tell mo in?” In tearful voice
world we live a
Johnny answered, “I did, sir, but I
won’t do it again.”
. ihnndnnen of
Some forms which human eccentricity
takes are decidedly amusing and instruc
t've, too. It is somewhat rare, however.
lo * md mental eccentricity combined
with and wedded to physical infirmity.
There is an old gentleman in this city,
who, at the age good of seventy-five, eyesight, which rejoices
jn remarkably is,
however, subject to the weakness of age.
It is peculiar that, although ho cau see
clearly enough kind to of read artificial his newspaper aid in th*
without any
early morning, as the day wears on he
needs increasingly stronger assistance
from his glasses. Instead, however, of
having a properly satisfied graded series with of
Imses, he is at 8 a. m.
none,, at 10 a. m. with a pairof pin
cenez, at noon a second pair placed m
front of these, at 2 p. in. a third pair arc
fixed on the nose and held by long arms
over the ears, at 4 p. in. another pair are
added and held in place by a ribbon sur
rounding the head, and when the gas is
lighted the old gentlman quietly holds
itm ,ther pairof “nippers" glance before the the “latest rest
to enable him to over
quotations” in the evening papers.-
Nm York Press,