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“Our Ambition is to make a Veracious Work, Reliable in its \ : Statements, Candid in Its Conctnsfons, tnd Just in Its Views."
YOL. I.
AChicago firm has already sold 10,000
drums this year— presumably m antici
pation of the presidential campaign.
A recent article on the “Seven Cities
of Cibola,” is responsible for the state
ment that the Zuni Indians believed that
the stones in the brooks caused the water
to run. It is also a fact that this curious
people believed that the summer did not
bring the birds, but the birds brought
the summer.
The Georgia colored man is getting on,
remarks the Detroit Free Press. The
taxes assessed against the property of
colored men this year amounts to over
$!i,000,000, being an increase of $2,000,
000 in a single year. There is not one
of the race who cannot get ahead if sober
and industrious.
The most progressive official in China
is undoubtedly the Governor of Formosa.
Ou Chinese New Year’s Day his
“Yamen” or palace in Taipak-fu was
illuminated by the electric light, and it
is his intention to have the whole city
lighted by electricity as soon as it may
be possib’e.
: One of the first, if not the first, of the
great medical institutions of America to
open its doors to women was the Medi
cal College of the Uni verity of Michi
gan. The Michigan College of Physicians
and Surgeons, situated in Detroit, has,
through its Board of Trustees, decided
to pursue the same course, and hereafter
women and men will stand upon the
same footing as regards the enjoyment of
its privileges.
\ There is every indication that more
cars will be built in the United States
this year than ever before iu one year.
As it' requires two tons of bar iron aud
three tons of wheels and axles for each
ear, the demand for the products of the
mills, foundries and forges will be x’ery
heavy for this purposes alone. It is es
timated that 200,000 cars will be built.
This number would require 400,000 tons
of bar iron and 000,000 tons of forged
and cast iron, makings total of 1,000,000
tons.
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..no ‘green goods’ business,” says
the New York Tribune , “has been
damaged so much by newspaper ex
posures that some of the swindlers in
this city have got out new circulars foi
‘fool-bait.” They now profess to deal
iu ‘hardware ’ which cannot be told from
gold coin. Countrymen are invited to
travel to the city and look at the new
coins, which are offered at tempting
rates. One of tho circulars were sent by
a wide-awake farmer to Superintendent
Murray. The farmer was invited to deal
with Henry Dix, of Third avenue and
Sixth street. Of course, if any man falls
into the trap and makes a deal with the
swindlers, he -will be tempted with
genuine gold dollars, and then be sent
home with a satchel full of lead pipe.”
Dr. Junemann, an Austrian chemist
claims to have invented a fluid of the
most destructive properties. This fluid
when brought into contact with the air
after the explosion of a shell in which it
has been contained, is transformed into
a gas, which being heavier than the air,
descends to the ground, killing all men
and animals within its reach, and more
over destroying iron, bronze and other
metals, as well as setting all inflammable
things on fire. This, the inventor de
Gares, in a letter published in one of the
Vienna newspapers, and he adds that as
far back as 1848 he offered his invention
t0 Austrian War Office, which, how
e'er, declined both then and on a subse
quent occasion to make experiments.
I or this reason be now gives publicity
lo his invention, as his patriotic feelings
do not allow him to reveal his secret to
foreign governments.
bile I -was on the Continent last
month,” wr i tes T. C. Crawford to the
: evv York World, “I heard a number of
interesting ffie stories concerning the early
of the Princess of Wales. These
stories are not particularly new, and I do
D ”t propose to allude to them except to
f ve the exact income of her father be
fore he was called to the throne of Den
ai *rk. This Prince lived in the most
obscure poverty for a number of years,
Re had an income of exactly $1200
a
K'.tr. There were five children to be
supported and educated from this beg
sum. The young ladies of this
ousohold learned to cook, to sew and to
‘ o ail kinds of housework.
uged to They were
make their own dresses for
Y ears . No members of any family
. °
o scurely placed have risen to
niiiant more
^ positions than this Danish fam
he head of the family became the
of Denmark. His oldest son is of
11 fh® Crown Prince of that country,
no. jrr son is the King of Greece. His
au "^ ers are the Princess of Wales,
tv za ’’ !D * °* Russia
w Cumberland.” and the Duchess
GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1888-
“FAME.”
The master wrote his grand old name
Upon the whitened sands of Time;
Above, he traced a land sublime
To speak forever of his fame.
Again he came; an hour, a day,
Had wrought a change upon the sand,
As tho’ an unseen, jealous hand
Had swept his laurels all away.
The singer sang a tender lay
Unto a smiling, eager throng,
And dreamt her little, fleeting song
Wouid last in memory for aye.
A year, an age; she sought again
In broken voice and tattered gown
The chosen friends of her renown,
But sought remembrance all in vain.
A little child, in meadows green,
Danced gayly o’er the budding flowers,
Nor counted laps of fleeing hours,
Nor envied Fame her title—“queen.”
The butterfly, in gaudy dress,
Was her especial care, the bees
Joined voices with her ’neath the trees—
And this alone was happiness.
—Flora -V. Montgomery.
A BBAVE GIBL,
“There, mother; there’s something for
you.
The girl, who was well nigh blooming
into womanhood, threw into her mother’s
lap a half dozen oranges, Her mother
looked up, a smile brightening her pale
face, and, drawing the child close to her
side, kissed her most tenderly.
“I’ve got some good news for you,
mother. Would you like to hear it?”
said the girl, as she removed her bonnet
and laid it on the
The smile that grew brighter on the
mother’s face ivai the only answer made
to the query, and the girl, standing by
her parent’s side and holding one of her
thin hands in her own, said: “Well,
you recollect that advertisement 1
answered day before yesterday—I think
I’m it has going turned to leave out a the lucky envelope thing forme.
Saturday, and Monday I factory
on on shall be
employed in Smith A* Williams’s dry
goods and fancy store as a saleswoman
at that a salary of $8 a week. Now, isn’t
good news?"
She leaned forward and kissed her
mother, in whose eyes the tears were
starting. “I feel happy
she said, “for so I hope to-night, m other ,”
now that we shall
bo able to leave tbesd disagreeable rooms
f a- -pleasanter .Apartments, w here ypu
be rn mo ''o ik'ertaMc. niei-e, now,
QOn ’* ; Cl 7- Maybe the sunny days will
come back to us, after all.- I want you
to be happy, dear mother, and I am
going to make you so if I can. There,
now,” she added, as she kissed her
mother again, and then went bustling
about the room like the busy and restless
creature she was, aud began to prepare
the evening meal.
Jennie Wilson, although she had passed
through much affliction for one so young,
was a handsome girl, who had nearly
reached her 18th year. Her features
were and her regular, her eyes were dark blue,
luxuriantly light brown hair fell back
in a cluster of glossy curls.
Though slightly below tho average
stature, she possessed a fine figure and
was graceful in her movement. Nature
had endowed her with many personal
charms, and some might Have pronounced
her a beauty. Under more favorable
circumstances she certainly would have
ranked as one.
But Jennie Wilson was only a working
girl, and as such she was a type of that
class of wage earners of the gentler sex
which, through trial, sorrow, and often
privation, bravely deserted fights the battle of
life and is seldom by fortitude,
hopefulness, and self respect.
Mrs. Wilson, her mother, was a woman
who had seen better days. She had been
a widow for nearly ten years. Her hus
band, who was a commercial traveler for
a New York firm, had been killed in a
railroad accident during one of his busi
ness trips. He had supported his wife
and daughter very respectably, and at
the time the disaster by which the wife
was widowed and Jennie was made
fatherless occurred, his prospects were
brightening, and he hoped ere long to
be would placed upon a business footing which
prove a sure step to fortune. But
up to that time ho hud applied most of
hisearuings and to the support of his family,
when the sudden ending of his life
came the wordly possessions consisted of
$200 worth Of household goods aud $50
in ready money.
Although the widow was almost heart
broken by the calamity that had befallen
her, after the grief had mellowed into a
rational sorrow for the dea l husband,
she looked with eyes more loving than
ever upon her little girl and resolved to
bear her bereavement witli as much
fortitude as she could command and
live and toil for Jennie’s sake. “We
shall never see papa strain in this world,
mv darling,” she said one day to Jennie,
“buthe will always be with us in memory
ami, in the remembrance of the love he
bore me and you, I must make the best
of our affliction. You arc my only
treasure now and 1 shall do all I can to ,
make your future life a happy one.”
At the time of her manage Mrs. Wil
son was employed in a millinery shop in
the Bowerv, and now that she must
again earn her bread by the toil of her
own hands she became re-employed
there. Jennie was a faithful attendant
at one of the public schools, and for sev
cral years the mother and daughter lived
very comfortably and contentedly in
some neat apartments in one of the pleas
ant streets on the west side. But
ness came. The mother was taken ill
with fever and for weeks she lay hover
ing between life and death.
It was a terrible blow to Jennie—who
had now reached her tenth sympathetic year—and,
although some kind and
friends made frequent visits to the sick
chamber, she alone acted as nurse and
kept ,- the Louse” in order. Several
pieces of jewelry had to be sold in order
to procure the money to pay the doctor
and purchase medicine and the common
necessaries of life, and during the long
period of convalescence which followed
the breaking of the fever, Mrs. Wilson
obtained money to meet her necessary
expenses niture. by selling some articles of fur
“I must have my rent or you must
leave here,” said her landlord ono day.
“You're owing me over two months’ rent
now; so if you can't pay you must get
out.”
“I expect to be able to go to work
again in a few days,” answered the poor
woman, who, although still very weak,
was now able to be up and about, “and
I will pay just as soon as I get enough
together to do so. I hope, sir—”
“No, no; I must either have my
money or my rooms.”
The words were cruel in themselves,
but the tone in which they were uttered
was still more cruel. The unhappy
women burst into tears, and Jennie
turned to the window and looked out
into the street, feeling as if her heart
would almost break.
it’s “Well, I’ll give you till Saturday—
“If now don’t Tuesday,” said the landlord.
you pay up then you must
leave.
He walked out, slamming the door,
and left the wretched mother and
daughter to their misery and tears.
Saturday came and he received his
rent money. By selling some more
furnituie and pawning several small
articles—Mrs. Wilson had gathered a
sufficient sum to meet the indebtedness.
But when the next month, came the land-
lord was prompt iii his demand for the
rent. The poor woman had not been
been able to resume her work and she
had no money. The landlord was inex
orable, and in a few days he served lier
with a legal notice to vacate the apart
meuts. She secured two small rooms on
Jlie top and floor although of an East still side weak tenement from her
nouse,
long illness, she returned toiler work
in the millinery shop. But she was un
able to accomplish much and her earn
ings were very scant indeed. Jennie
found employment in an envelope factory
downtown, and with their meagre wages
combined they continued their fight
against starvation.
But there was still further misfortune
in store for them. A year later the
mother was again taken ill K and this ill
ness left her a confirmed invalid. Jen
nte, however, was in the enjoyment of
excellent health, and she had proved
Herself so., faithful a,ud jefficipfS a% her
work that Lor wage* hacr been raised,
and with the small stipend that she re
ceived each week she supported her
mother and herself. Again, and then
again her pay was increased, and at the
time our story opens she had become so
accustomed—young she and inexperienced
as was in the ways of the world—to
her life of labor, and had been so en
couraged by even the small increase of
wages she had received that the natural
buoyancy the of her nature had risen above
had depression of spirts which at times
made her life seem almost hopeless,
and she had resolved to make the best of
fate, to cheerfully work on for her
mother’s sake, and to look forward to the
future with the hope that some day she
might discover had a silver lining to the
cloud which so long darkened the
sky of her young life.
Monday “Good-by, mother,” she said, when
about leave morning for her came aud she of labor was
to new scene
as saleswoman in a fancy store.
j."9^ bless you, my child!” said the
nivalid. . I shall for all day
and pray with you
wait your return anxiety,
1°^ k is $ed eac h 9^ ier > an< ^
, ^er humble aitiding place with a
lighter heart than she had known for
y cars - She hummed an air as she tripped
the poorly lighted stairway of the
Wlt ol .d h tenement feeling and that hurried akin on to to the store
a was joyous
ne33, “he found the situation a pleas
ant one, and as the dajs went by and
the spring advanced she resolved to
celebrate the advent of summer by re
moving to a more cheerful dwelling
P lac ?; Mrs- Wilson was still invalided,
but by the labor of Jennie she was made
comfortable, and poor as they were, both
"ere quite happy under moderate the improved
condition of their means of
subsistence.
singing It was now the mid-Maytime. Birds were
in parks, leaves were whis
pering from the trees, and the air was
redolent with the perfume of blossoms.
Only a few would weeks be exchanged longer and the old
quarters for other
and pleasanter ones. And Jennie was
so ^ happy. home Weary as night, she often cheerfulness was when
* s ie carae at
was ever her companion. Fidelity to
her mother was to her a religion, and
she was thankful to heaven for the con
tinuance of her good health and the op
portuuity to earn sufficient money where
with to purchase the simple comforts
which made her life to a degree plcasur
able, and by which she was enabled to
keep her mother from becoming the in
mate of some chantablc institution. It
was a hard struggle for this girl to keep
the wolf from the door, but nature had
cast her in an heroic mold, and she
never for a moment lost cart.
One evening on returning home she
found her mother rery ill so ill, indeed,
that she became alarmed and sent a lad,
who lived with his parents in some apart
meats aujoining, therisvery lor a s,A,,mis£"said .
“‘lornmo
the doctor .as He was ea ingAhe place
aft ( - r prescri > g e patient, but I
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un dnntnr “XT ’“ ’ ’> said Tennie f,.. r
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.
f0 * me
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,nc ,ll ° , ' * clor ’
(ioctor ,,
She could say no more. Her poor
heart was almost breaking, and leaning
against the rickety bannisters in the
li&ilway she buried her face in her
hand** aud sobbed bitterly. I he doctor,
who was a man of sympathetic nature,
spoke console to her encouragingly and tried to
her.
“I will call again in the morning,” he
said. “Arc you all alone? Is there no
with . and
one you your mother?”
“We are alone, doctor,” she said be
tween her sobs, “but there is a kind
old lady who lives in apartments next to
ours, and she will come in and stay with
us to-night. Please don’t fail to call in
the morning, doctor.”
She was now quite calm, and bidding
the doctor good evening, returned to
her mother’s bedside.
Oh, the weary watching by day and
night! wretchedness . Oh, the heartache! Oh, the
of that poor young heart!
Oh, the loneliness! Oh, the cross that
she must bear!
But the end came soon, and within a
fortnight's time she sat by a coffin in
which lay the body of her dead mother.
The weary and over-burdened spirit had
taken its flight, and this faithful, reso
lute girl, surrounded by a number of her
shopmatos and a small group of sym
pathizing of the neighbors, awaited the coming
morrow, when the remains were
to bo borne to Greenwood and there laid
at rest.
It was the flrst day of June when the
burigj took place. Natuie was arrayed
in her loveliest robes, the sky above was
cloudless and the birds above were
grief-stricken cheerily singing in bush and tree as the
and now orphaned girl
stood by that grave, and as she t.irncd
away and was driven back to the city
she seemed to bo dazed. The ordeal of
affliction through which she was passing
was indeed terrible for one so young to
face.
Minnie Hayward, one of her shop
mates, invited her to her own little
room in a boarding house, and for sev
eral days Jennie was unable to leave her
bed, she whs so prostrated by the blow
dealt her by the hand of fate. 8he was
very Weak and many days went by bc
fore she felt strong enough to resume
work. Her place in the store had been
given to another and she was obliged to
seek employment elsewhere. The few
articles of furniture in the apartments
-where her mother died she gave to the
kind neighbor who had assisted her in
attending to the wants of her mother,
a nd she accepted Minnie’s invitation to
remain with her until she had found
something to do.
All the money which she had saved
since the holidays and with which she had
intended to secure more comfortable
apartments for her mother, had been ex
hausted by the cost of medicine, by the
dor • qr’s foes, by the purchase of a burial
Gal 'tKrceTneury, '»o-d-ln defray tug
the fji expenses, and she was now
penniless. Many her elders Would
a one among
have completely broken down undersuch
a heavy load of affliction, but the stead
fast resoluteness of her nature abided
with her still. Her spirit, though dead
ened by bitter experience, was still un
broken, and despite the anxiety, the
injustice temptations, the dangers, the which possible she
and perhaps cruelty
might still be doomed to encounter, she,
with solved a true toil womanly persistence, future re
to on and trust lo the
for some bright day when the clouds
would break and the sunshine of happi
ness flood her pathway with its glorious
light. after day she answered advertise
Day
ments situations and in made personal and factories, applications but for
stores was
unable to secure a place; and if it had
not been for the kindness of the hospita- bed she
ble friend whose room and
shared, God alone knows to what ex
tremity she might have been driven,
She knew of no living relative in the
world except an uncle who, before her
father’s death, was living somewhere in
Maine; bufwhether his he residence was now living she
and exactly where was in
knew not. She was really alone the
world.
something “Oh, Jennie! I’m going you’ll to tell like you
that maybe to
hear,” said her kind-hearted friend one
evening when she returned from work,
“I’ve got something lor you to do.”
In the full gratitude of her heart the
poor girl burst into tears. do Jennie,”
“Now, now, don’t that,
said her cheery-hearted companion,
“There now, stop crying,” she added,
as with her own handkerchief she
stanched the tears in the eyes of the
weeping “The girl. $4 ” said
wages are only a week,
Mamie, “but you cau manage to get
along on that for the present. You can
remain here with me, for I know what
trouble is myself, Jennie, and go to
work. Heaven only knows what we
friendless girls would do in this great
city, so full of temptations and wicked
ness designed to entrap us, if we didn’t
sometimes stand by each other. Jennie,
I am thatthere your friend, and when I heard to
day was a small situation vacant
in the store, I at once went to the fore
woman and asked her to give it to you.
such She thought you were too proud to take
a place, that but I took the liberty of
saying you would take it. Now,
will you, Jennie?”
The child of affliction throw her arms
around her benefactor’s neck and kisse I
her.
Pride! It was no time for pride. The
living ” d that might would come from that small
Btipc better than be oor but it would be
a continuance of the depend
e nce upon the generosity of her compan
ion, who had been so kind to her, and
whose own life was a struggle for exist
ence . go she accompanffid Minnie to
the store tbc next day< and weut to
wor k ) earning wages for her own sup
I ,ort ’ sliC f(:lt th ® okl buoyancy of spirit
return, and in a few weeks she once
more looked like the Jennie Wilson as
she appeared when she told her mother
of her intention of removing her quar
tors on that June day—alas! that June
da y when, instead of taking up in her
abode in a pleasanter place, she sat tho
old tenement in tiie presence of death.
Several years have passed since then,
and her namd is not Wilson now. Love
came to her one day and led her to an
altar where a ring was placed on her
finger, happy aud for the first time she was
made by a husband's kiss.—A T < id
York Sun.
Implements of the Baseball Player.
“I can tell you a few things about bats
and balls which the general public do
not know,” said one of the largest sport
iug goods manufacturers in the world to
a Tribune reporter. “The baseball of
to-day and the little globe of even seven
or things. eight years ago are quite dillerent by
The balls now in general use
professional fection clubs are about make as near them. per
The as it is used possible to quality,
materials are the best
and some of them have to be imported The
from the other side of the water.
rubber centre andlioisehido ver we cau
get without much trouble, but the yarn
used has to be of tho very best quality,
and have to be selected with great care.
The thread used in sewing the cover we
import machine from Scotland. with which Wc have roll the a
now we
balls after the covers have been put on,
and in the if there rounduess is the slightest, in the imperfection stitching it
or
can instantly be detected and the bail is
thrown out. These balls are used in all
National League contests and retail at
$1.50 each. Even at that figure there is
little in them for the makers. You
can buy balls from 5 cents to $1 each,
but you will not, get much service out of
a ball when you pay less than the second
price. Nearly all the factories arc in the
East. The balls used by the League and
Association are this year almost exactly
alike. We sold last year 2,000,01)0 basc
ba Is. Probably fully 8,000,000 balls
will be sold this year, of which number
we will probably sell about onc-lialf.
“More attention is also given to the
bat than of old,” continued the dealer.
“Ash is now used almost exclusively in
the manufacture of these clubs or sticks,
and the best ash obtainable. At that
much trouble is experienced in getting
the right kind of timber. The best bats
arc made from wood with extra wide
grain and solid timber. The effort is to
get tho weight as light as possiblo and
yet have the bat contain the necessary
strength and firmness. The weight of tho
bats will run from 33 to 40 ounces, only
the heavy-weight players using the latter
weight. Connor, Kelly and Anson all
use the 40-ounce bat, but there are not
many players of that calibre in the coun
try. You will find the average weight
of the bat used by professional Thayer, players of
to be about 34 ounces.
Howard Gnllfige, invented tho catcher’s
mask. It was a crude thing at first, and
yet through royalties and finally by the
sale of the patent, he has made a small
fortune out of his little invention. Will
iam Giay, of Hartford, invented the body
protector u c ed by the catchers, and also
made a good sum out of this wind
saver .”—New York Tribune.
Freaks of Memory.
Absence of mind produces some
strange freaks of memory. Charles
Lamb used to tell extraordinary tales of
a friend of his who was as absent-minded
as Fontenelle or Sir Isaac Newton. On
one occasion this dreamy individual
walked out of Charles the Lamb’s lodgings
at Islington into New River. At
another time the absent-minded one, who
was a Baptist baptizing minister, fell old into a deep
reverie while an woman,
and field her so long under the water
that she was nearly drowned. The
notorious Lord Lyttleton, the day after
his wedding, stepped whom into he his had carriage made
before the widow
his wife, and then drew back with a
hasty apology to “dear Mrs. Peach”—
her former name. Sometimes the strug
gle against absent-mindedness results in
worse social blunders. There is a story
of a family, who had made a fortune in
the musical who trade, visiting especially some desirous country
neighbors, allude were the former occupation
not to to
of their visitors now settling down as
country gentry. The hostess parefully
kept the conversation away from musical
topics of all kinds until her callers rose
to leave. They were lengthy in their
farewells, and the servant came to the
door. “Nothing is wanted. I only
rang for Mrs.--’s piano,” said the
wretched hostess; the fatal word which
she had been so carefully remembering
not to utter, The slipping out in the place ot
carriage. time before they newcomers called again. were a long It
is
strange how one portion drop of a person’s
life will sometimes out, as it were,
from memory; how patients everything recovering
from illness will remember
except the events of some weeks or
months, which for ever remain a blank
to them. Sometimes an accidental
allusion will, as it were, unlock the
gates of memory, and bring back the for
gotten time. There is a story of a young
girl, carried off by the Indians, who had
entirely forgotten the events of her life
previous had to her captivity, restored to until, her family, years
after she been
a.song familiar to her in the old days fell
on her car, and in an instant all the rec
ollections of the past came upon her.—
London Standard.
W ^ a<Rr J of , r Ror barest .. t I ill ity.
The best water is that which has gone
deepest in the earth, where there is the
tightest Continued pressure and atmospheric intensified and te bl
ric. filtration
has refined it; but it is here and not in
;ts open air exposure, before or after,
that the water gets effective oxidation,
The remarkable fact that water absorbs
oxygen in something like a geometrical
ratio to the increase of pressure, coupled
with the other equally important fact
that under a certain pressure and temper
ature organic germs cease to exist; both
these conditions, protracted for the watet
by a long detention in the depths of the
earth, secure the rarest refinment and
also vitilization of tho element. -San
itury Fra,
NO. 36.
THE CHALLENGE.
( Heard to-day upon the street,
Where beggars sang a careless song,
A note, a tone, so wondrous sweet
That I stood silent in the throng,
But, ah, I saw not those who sang;
1 heard not their wild madrigal;
A thousand voices round me rang,
Ami sweeter still, ono maiden’s calt,
For which I'd change the fame of men.
My load unloosed like Pilgrim’s thrall;
I fed my hungry heart again;
I saw my boyhood home and all—
And heard the blackbirds, nestling, sing
Their tender songs of evening!
Clear, martial call of buried hosts!
How sure thy challenge passed the years!
I saw like sentries at their posts
A myriad forms; the pine3 like spears
Shot through the after sunset’s red;
The darkening fields; the gleam of panes;
The murky dusk, star-panoplied;
The lazy kino along the lanes.
The school houso dun,the village spire;
The homo bent, dusty harvest folks;
The cornfields flamed with suuset tiro;
And in our tryst beneath the oaks,
Wo heard the blackbirds, nestling, sing
Thoir tender songs of evening! _
Thus, Angel of our later days,
With ever hovering unseon hand
Are flashed upon our blinded ways
The hidden shrines wo understand,
Wo climb the rugged steeps of truth,
And falter. Lo, they helping bria;
The lesser to the larger Youth!
A note, a tone, the humblest thing,
Sweeps irresistless all between,
And there tho Now prays with the Then
Where once our heaven was lived unseen,
And where like pilgrims como again,
We hoar the blackbirds, nestling, sing,
Their tender songs of evening!
—New England Magazine.
PITH AND POINT.
An ill-word—Sick.
The dog star is a meaty planet, but a
shooting star is meteor.
When a man buys a cradle lie pays bed
rock prices.— Picayune.
A good oyster is sometimes called a
native—a bad ono is certainly a settler.
A young Madras Brahmin speaks oj
his marriage as “tho eternal knot of
sorrow tied.”
The June bug disappears May; in June,
The lightning bug in
The Anri mosquito takes his bonnet off
says: “I’ve come to stay.”
“Eight loves for a quarter,” is sign
displayed by a Kansas baker. This is
the cheapest matrimonial bureau we ever
heard of.
It is all very well to advise people not
to build houses ou sand, but how can a
man build a houso at all unless he has
the “sand?”
Augustus used to rave and scold,
Because Sophia was so cold;
But since they Vo wed, ho says with vim,
>Sho makes it much too hot for him.
—Detroit Free Press.
If a man and a half throws a boot-jack
and a half at a cat and a half in a
night and a half, how many cats aud a
half will be hit in a month and a half?
>—Mobile Register.
Doctor—“Well, my dear sir, what
seems to be the seat of your disease?”
Patient—“It doesn’t seem to have any
seat, doctor. while It’s just .”—Burlington jumping up Free and
down all the
Press.
At tho present moment there are not
less than three hundred aud seventy-fiva
champion baseball nines in the country.
There w'ill be only onle left next Octo
ber, and that one will be somewhat the
worse for wear.— Harper's Bazar.
Oh, why down her cheeks do the tear drops
fall!
Oh. is there an ache in her heart, I wonder?
Her shoes are new and a size too small,
My friend, and they’re pinching he feet
like thunder.
—Boston Courier.
Teacher (infant natural history class)
—“You will remember that, will you,
Tommy, that wasps lie (with in a torpid state
all winter?” Tommy an air of ret
rospection)—Yes’in, an’ i’ll try an’ re
member that they make up for it sum
mer.— Life.
“Zaleoiscoffokenonischi” is the name
of a Schuylkill miner. After barb-wire
fencing his half acre lot with his name,
he still has enough left to climb in and
out of the mine on, when he can’t wait
for the bucket, but the mine is only 800
feet deep .—Banscille Breeze.
t
Not Such a Hurd Bargain.
Not long since a party of young men
went from Boston to a country town
in Maine for a few day’s fishing. They
had a full outfit of “tackle” and “gear,”
and upon arrival at their destination
stood in need of but one thing—bait.
After consulting their local adviser they
secured the services of an ancient resi
dent, who started out to dig the needed
worms. He was gone three or four hours,
but turned to he good had purpose, for bucket when he full re
a water even
of a wriggling mass of earthworms.
Now this was more than the boys had
bargained unheard-of for, wealth and thoughts of bait would what such
an cost
began to trouble them. To end their
suspense they appointed with plenary one of their
number spokesman, powers,
but with instructions to make the best
bargain possible. he asked, “How much do we
owe you?” bait digger npproaching tho
venerable and taking out his
wallet. “Well, I don’t rightly know,”
rejoined the old man; “the grouud is
kinder solid and the worms is fur down,
and its been hard on my back to dig ’em.
But I’ve half a notion to go fisliin’ myself
to-morrow, and if you’ll give me half the
bait we’ll call it square.”— Boston Herald
ises 't he to raisin become industry both of important California prom
and re
munerative.