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“Our Ambition is to make Yeracions Work, Reliable Candid in its Conclusions, and Jnst in its Views. ”
a in its • : statements,
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! Holland reclaims an average of eight
acres per day from the sea and 5the salt
■water is no sooner crowded out than cab
bage is cr owded in.
_
In the ten years, since 1S78, 370 per
sons have been killed or maimed or seri
ously hurt at crossings of the Reading
railway in the city of Philadelphia.
At Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.,
ground has been broken for the first
gymnasium and mechanical laboratory
for colored people the world has ever
seen.
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The merits of newspaper advertising
were well estimated by a prominent soap
man of Philadelphia when he said that
he'confined his advertising to newspa
pers “Because the man who does not
read the papers docs not use soap.
It is reported from Cape May that if
the Government cannot be induced to
build the proposed channel from Cape
May to Atlantic City an eiiort wall be
made to raise the money by popular sub
scriptions at the two resorts during the
summer.
The people of the Pacific Coast are
taking considerable interest in the Mel
bourne Exposition, which will be opened
in August, though why it should beheld
in winter is not clear. It is expected
that there will be a very creditable ex
hibit of California products at the Ex
position.
A prison revolt, which was not quelled
without much bloodshed, took place re
cently at Damauhour, Egypt, aboul
twelve miles from Alexandria. Two
prisoners in the jail who were under
sentence of death, aided by eighteen
other convicts, managed to make their
escape from the prison. The police at
once started in pursuit, but before they
could come up with them the prisoners
took refuge in a mosque. Here a des
perate fight took place, iu which fifteen
of the prisoners wave killed and two
were wounded, while the police had four
killed.
The Taos Valley of Colorado and New
Mexico is about to have a boom. A
company will soon irrigate the eutirc
valley. 8ays a recent visitor: “The
beauties of the valleys of Southern Cali
fornia are much extolled by foun ts as
well as by the inhabitants. 'Laos, how
ever, discounts anything in the Golden
State. The climate is much more de
lightful, and the enemies to vegetation
much fewer. None of the destroyers of
fruit which are common to California are
found in the Taos region, and I can as
sure you that watermelmons picked there
two years ago are good and fresh, and
St for the table at the present time.”
A eorrespondent of the Philadeldhia
Ledger suggests that the court of the
new City Hall in that city should be
smbellished with statues of eminent
Philadelphians, after the manner of the
Lffizi at Florence, He suggests, as ap
propriate subjects, William Penn, Ben
jamin Franklin, Benjamin Rush, Ben
jamin West, Bishop White, Stephen
Girard, John Fitch, Robert Fulton,
Robert Morris, Lindley Murray, Dr.
Kaue, Charles Brockden Brown, T1 lomas
Buchanan Read, Bayard Taylor, Henry
' • Carey, I)r. Gallaudet, Horace Binney,
\ Ice-President Dallas, Dr. Ilayeq John
W elsh, and others.
Boulanger, the fleeting idol of the
tolatile French, is described, by the
Boston Transcript as “an off-handed,
father open-hearted fellow, who likes to
Phase, delights in rendering services to
no ma ’ter whom, is charmingly gallant
to women of all ages and ranks, has an
elegant figure and a handsome face, a
winning smile, sits on horseback like a
centaur, and took when he was in the
ar niy as much enjoyment out of his fine
^clongings unday clothes. as a He child does out of its
esque his was really pictur
on black prancing horse, sur
rounded by his staff. The rank and file
a ‘ored him; for why? he them
c f an beds, gave
P^cs, lavatories, mess tables and
meu tumblers, knives and forks. For
wko Bad to spend three years at
.
- a -t in the army this was a good deal.
cfore tke time of Le Beau General they
.
C almost like hogs, each eating out of
a tin can, with his fingers or penknife as
bes t he could, c The beauty of the thing
^■as °. that k this being change clipped cost off the taxpayers
i their contractors
n( patrons. Wilson didn’t like it;
u oulanger didn’t Boulonger
t care.
1 a t care either whether influential
politicians took, when he was war minis
ter. m bad P art his refusal to tame col
Ij for* 0a 8 * ke by
r ' sending a military
t0 ft - ! eir ^ ack c °uhtry to dragoon
them .' ^ keQ tho colliers starving,
■d u were
anger telegraphed to the soldiers to
? ^ victuals with them. I don’t
hi ® d d this
’ to win popularity, but
.. . from
e y a kind impulse.”
GRAY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1888.
WEDDED.
Some quick and bitter words we said
And then we parted. How the sun
Swam through the sullen mist of gray!
A chill fell on the summer day,
Life’s best and happiest hours were done;
Friendship was dead.
How proud we went our separate ways.
And spake uo word and made no moan!
She braided up her flowing hair,
That I had always called so fair,
Although she scorned my loving tone,
My word of praise.
And I! I matched her scorn with scorn,
I hated her with all my heart,
Until—we chanced to meet one day;
She turned her pretty head away;
I saw two pretty tear-drops start,
Lo! love was born.
Some fond, repenting word I said,
She answered only with a sigh;
But when I took her hand in mina
A radiant glory, half divine,
Flooded the earth and filled tho sky—
Now we are wed.
— Chambers' Journal.
A DRUMMER BOY HERO.
On the first day of the battle of Cus
toz/.a, the twenty-fourth of July, 1818,
about sixty soldiers belonging to one of
the Italian infantry regimepts, having
been sent to occupy an isolated house on
a height, were unexpectedly attacked by
two companies of Austrians, who, firing
on them from different points, barely
gave them them time to take refuge in
the house and hastily barricade the doors,
leaving fields. several dead and wounded in the
After barricading the doors the
Italian soldiers hastily ran to the win
dows on the first floor and began to
pour a steady fire into the assailants, who
circle, were gradually advancing in a semi
and replying vigorously.
The sixty Italians were commanded
by two subalterns and a captain, a tall,
old fellow, lean and severe, with white
hair and moustaches; with them was
Sardinian drummer boy, a boy not much
more than fourteen years old, aud who
scarcely appeared to be twelve; lie was
small, with olive brown face and two
sparkling captain little directing deep black eyes. The
was the defence from a
window on the first floor, shouting liis
orders of emotion like pistol his shots hard face. and with The no'sign drum
on
mer his boy, who was a little pale, but firm
on stretching legs, got his up on a table and was
out neck to see out of the
windows and leaning against the wall;
through forms the smoke he saw the white uni
of the Austrians, who were slowly
advancing situated through the fields. The house
was on a summit of a steep slope
and on the side towards the slope had
hut one small window, high up, which
looked out from the garret; therefore the
Austrians did not threaten the house
from that side and the slope was clear;
their fire was directed only toward the
front and two sides.
It was a hail of leaden bullets, which
on the outside cracked the walls and
crumbled the tiles, and on the inside
smashed ceilings, furniture, window
frames, and door posts, filling the air
with splinters, clouds of plaster and
bits of pottery and glass; hissing, re
bounding, with crashing into everything
a noise fit to drive one-toad. From
time to time one of the soldiers who
were firiug from the windows fell
hack on the floor, and was dragged to
one side. Some tottered from room to
room, pressing their hands on their
wounds. In the kitchen there was al
ready one dead mail, with a ball through
his forehead. The semi-circle of the
enemy kept closing up.
All at once the capfain, who until
then had been impassible, was seen to
show signs of uneasiness and to stride
out of the room followed by a sergeant.
About three minutes afterwards the ser
geant came running back and called the
drummer bov, beckoning him to follow.
The boy ran after him up a wooden
stair-case, and went with him into an
empty garret, where he saw the captain,
who was writing with a pencil on a
sheet of paper, leaning against the win
dow, with a well-rope on the floor at his
The captain folded the paper and
looking with his cold, grayish eyes be
fore which all the soldiers trembled, into
the eyes of the boy. said abruptly:
“Drummer boy!” The drummer boy
saluted. The captain said: “You’ve got
grit.” The boy’s eves lighted up.
“Yes, captain,” he answered.
“Look down there,” said the captain,
rushing Him to the window, “in the
plain, near the houses of Villafranca,
where there is a glittering of bayonets,
Those arc our friends, standing idle,
Take this note, catch hold of the rope,
slide down from the window, run down
the hill, go through the fields and give
the note to the first officer you see.
Chuck away your belt and knapsack.”
The boy took off bis belt and knap
sack and nut the note in his breast pock
etr the sergeant threw out the rope and
grasped one end of it ivith both hands;
the captain helped the boy to pass back
wards through the little window. “Take
care,” he said to him, “the safety of the
detachment depends on your courage
and on your legs.” replied
“Trust me, swinging captain.'’ himself the
drummer boy, out.
“8toop as you go down,” said the
captain again, helping the sergeant to
hold the rope.
“Never tear.”
“God help you!”
In a few minutes the boy was on the
ground ; the sergeant drew up the rope
and disappeared; and the the captain boy flying sprang down to
the window saw
the hill.
He was already hoping unobserved, that he when had
succeeded in escaping clouds
five or six little of dust which
rose from the ground warned both him before he had and
behind the boy that
been seen by the Austrians, who were
firirg Those at him from the top of the hill.
little clouds were earth thrown
up by the bullets. But the boy contin
ued to run at a breakneck pace. All at
once he fell.
“Killed!” roared the captain, biting
his fist. But he had scarcely said the
word when he saw the boy get up. “Ah!
only a fall1” he said to himself, and
breathed again. In fact, the boy began
to run again as fast as lie could, but he
limped. the captain. “A sprained ankle,” thought
A few more little clouds of dust rose
here and there around the boy, but they
were always farther oil. The captain
gave an exclamation of triumph. But
he continued to follow him anxiously
with his eyes, because it was a question
of minutes; if he did not get down
there as quickly as possible with the
note, which requested immediate re
lief, either all his soldiers would be
killed or he would have to surrender
and become prisoners with them. The
boy ran swiftly for a while and then
limped and slackened his pace, and then
broke into a run again, but he seemed to
become more and more fatigued, and
every little while stumbled aud paused
for a moment.
“Perhaps he has been hit by a glanc
shudderingly ing bullet,” thought the captain, and he
watched all his move
ments, and encouraged him and spoke
to him as if the boy could hear him; he
measured incessantly with keen eyes the
distance interposing between the run
ling boy and the glittering of arms
which he saw down there in the plain in
the midst of the wheat tiehls, gilded by
the sun. And meanwhile he heard the
whistling and the noise of the bullets in
the rooms below, the imperious and an
gry cries of tho officers and sargeants,
the groans of the wounded and the
crashing of the furniture and plaster.
his “Up! courage!” distant he cried, following “Forward! with
ga/e the hoy.
run! be lias stopped, curse him! Ah!
'lie is running again.”
An officer came, out of breath, to say
that the enemy, without ceasing their
fire, were waving a white flag as a sum
mens to surrender,
“Don’t answer!” he cried, without re
moving liis eyes from the boy, who was
already in the plain, but appeared who was no
longer dragging running, and who difficulty, to be
himself along with
“But get on! run!” said the captain,
grinding his teeth and clenchiug his
fists; “kill yourself, die, scoundrel, but
»° on Then a horrible oath burst
fl ' om him. “Ah! the infamous coward!
he has sat down!”
I* 1 fact, the boy, whose head till now
be had seen projecting above a wheat
field, fallen. had disappeared, as liis if head he had
But in a moment came
hito view again; finally he was lost be
bind the hedges, and the captain saw
bim no more.
He then hew down stairs; it was rain
ing bullets; wounded, the rooms were whom encumbered reeled
with the some of
about like drunken men, catching at the
furniture; walls and floors were spat
tered witk blood; corpses were lying
across the doors; the lieutenant’s arm
bad been broken by a ball; everything
was 111 a whirl of smoke and dust,
“Courage!” jelled the captain. Stick
to your posts! Relief is coming! Cour
age for a little longer!”
The Austrians had drawn nearer yet,
th eir contorted faces loomed through
1110 smoke; above the rattle of the firing
rose their savage cries, insulting, de
sanding surrender, threatening slaugh
ter. Occasionally a soldier, terror
stricken, retreated from the window;
th « sergeant drove him back, but the
defenders’ lire was slackening; their
f aces s ll0Wed discouragement; it was
impossible . to prolong the resistance.
Suddenly the firing of the Austrians
slackened and a thundering voice
shouted, first in German, then in Italian:
“Surrender!
“No!” howled the captain from . a
window.
And the firing began again .... steadier
and fiercer 011 both sides. More soldiers
bdl. Already more than one window
was without defenders. I he fatal mo
merdl was close at hand, i he captain
was muttering between Ins teeth in a
broken voice: “I hey re not coming!
They’re not coming!” and sabre he ran in furi
ousiy about, twisting his his
clenched hand, resolving to die, when a
Sergeant, coming down from the garret
* loud vo ? ce • Tney re corning!”
They re coming, „ the captain re
peated with a shout of joy. At this all
shout, unhurt, wounded, bergeants and
oftcer « rush to the windows, and once
the resistance . fierce. A. few
more grew
moments after sort of uncertainty _ and
a
beginning of disorder were remarked m
the enemy. Immediately, formed m grea.. haste,
’be captain a small company
d <>" n stairs, with fixed bayonets, ready
to make a sally. Then he new up stairs
again. He had scaicely got up there
when they heard a heavy tread, accom
pamed the widows by a “iey formidable advancing hurrah,and through from
saw
the smoke tiie two-cornered hats of the
^'an carbineers a squadron dashing
along at full speed and the flashing of
sword blades brandished in the air, de
spending on the heads, shoulders and
backs of the enemy. Then the little
troop rushed out of the door with low
ered bayonets; the enemy wavered, be
came ._____ disordered and took flight; the
ground remained clear, the house was
free, and a shorn time after the height
was occupied by two battalions of in
fantry and two cannons.
The captain, With his remaining sol
diers,rejoined his regiment,fought again
and was slightly wounded in the left
hand by a glancing ball, in the last bay
onet charge. The day ended in victory
for us.
But the day after, the fight having
begun again, the Italians were over
whelmed, m spite numbers of a brave of resistance,
by the superior the of the Aus
trians, and on morning the 20th
they were compelled to retreat sorrow
fuby toward the Mi ncio.
The captain, although wounded, ]
marched tired on foot with his soldiers, who |
reached were Goito and silent, the Mincio and toward and sunset 1 j
on imme- who!
diately sought out his lieutenant,
had been picked up, with a broken arm, :
by our ambulance, and who had arrived i
there first, lie was directed to a church,
where a field hospital had hastily been i
installed. He went there. The church
was full of wounded, reclining on two
rows of beds and mattresses stretched on
the floor; two doctors and various as .
sistants were going and coming, and i
stifled cries and groans were heard.
On entering, tiie captain stopped and
looked about him, in search of his otli
cer. Just then he heard a faint voice
close “Captain!"' by hailing him:
He turned around: it was tho drum
merboj; he was stretched on a trestle
bed, covered up to tho chest by a coarse
window curtain with little red and white
squares, with his arms out; ho was pale
and thin, but with his eyes still spark
ling, 111 two black tlfe gems.
‘‘Arc vou here?” captain asked him
in an astonished but stern manner,
“Bravo! You did your duty.”
“1 did what 1 could,” answered the
drummer boy.
“Have you been wounded?” said the
captain, the beds looking around for his officer
in near by
“What would you have?” said the
boy, who took courage to speak from
the proud pleasure of being wounded for
the first time, and without which be
wouldOiot have dared to open his mouth
in the presence of tho captain. “1 had
to run like a hunchbac k, they saw me
immediately. J should have arrived
twenty minutes sooner if they hadn’t
hit me. Fortunately I found a stall'
captain directly to whom to give the
note. But it yvas hard coming down
after that lick! 1 was dying of thirst,
kept thinking that I shouldn’t get there,
and was crying with rage to think that
every minute's delay some one was going
to the other world up there at the house.
Bab! I did what I could, I am con
tented. But, allow me, captain. Look
at You are
In fact, from the captain’s badly
bandaged palm a few drops of blood
were trickling down his fingers.
“Do you want to tighten the bandage,
captain? The Hold it out a moment.”
captain held out his left hand,
and put out his right to help the boy
undo and retie the knot; but no sooner
had the boy raised himself from the pil
low tin n he grew pale, and was com
pelledto “Enough, rest his head again. the
looking him enough,” and drawing said captain,
ill away his
band'veu V hand, which the boy wished
to keSpj ‘take care of yourself instead
of thinking of others, because even
slight things neglected.” can become serious when
they are his head.
The drummer boy shook
“But you,” said the captain, looking
at him attentively, “you must have lost
a good deal of blood, to be as weak as
that.”
“Lost much blood?” answered tho
boy, with a smile. “More than blood.
Look!”
And with a jerk he pulled off the cov
ering.
The boy captain had stepped leg; back, his horrified. left
The but one leg
had been amputated above the knee and
the stump was bandaged blood. with rags
which were covered with
Just then a fat little army surgeon
passed “Ah, in captain,” his shirt ho sleeves. said, quickly, nod
ding at the drummer boy, which “that could is an
unfortunate case; one leg
have been saved easily if he had not
forced it in that mad way; a cursed in
flammation; it had to be cut off at once.
Oh, but a brave boy, I assure; he didn’t
shed a tear noi utter a cry! On my
word of honor. I was proud he was an
Italian of boy, while I was operating, II*
came good stock.”
And he hurried away.
The captain frowned and looked in
tently at the drummer boy while draw
ing the covering over him again; then
slowly, almost without him, he knowing raised liis it, hand and
still his looking head and at lifted his
to cap.
“Captain!” exclaimed the boy in sur
prise, “what are you doing; captain—to
me?”
And then the rough soldier, who had
never said a gentle word to an inferior,
replied in voice: an inexpressibly soft and af
fectionate
“I am but a captain; you are a hero.”
Then he threw himself with open arms
on the little drummer boy, and kissed
him three times on the heart.— Cosmo
politan.
The Biggest Geyser at Work.
The Excelsior geyser in the Yellow
stone Park is in operation. This geysei
is in the great middle geyser basin, close
to the Fire Hole river, it is in t he form
of an immense pit , 820 feet length and
in
200 feet wide, and the aperture through
which it discharges its volume of water
is nearly 200 feet in diameter. Its gene
tal appearance is that of a huge boiling
spring, and for many years its true
character eruption occurred was not suspected. in 1880, Its first
when it
revealed itself as a stupendous geyser,
The power of its eruptions was almost
incredible, sending an immense column
of water and to hurling heights of from 100 to 300
feet, with it rocks and
bowlders of from one to 100 pounds in
weight. Its present eruption is said to
\ throwing )(: a repetition of that of 1880. It in
its volume of water 300
into the air, and Fire Hole river is
ported rushing to floods. have risen two is feet from its
This now conceded to
be the most powerful geyser in existence.
—Chkaqo Triinme.
—-. ............
The new Hebrides, which are situated
a j )0U t midway between Eastern and
Western Polynesia, embrace a total area
of some !{.-,00 square miles, and have 200,
(m native inhabitants, who are noted
for their savage barbarity.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS
The Care of Lamp*.
— ,
The disagreeable flickering of , a stn
, , ent : ; -ra l J 3 s som etimes caused by tiny
petioles of the wick dropping into the
uiside tube of the cylinder surromvuiig oil flitfv
! hu ' V1C C ' ! hus preventing the
! n S frfro1 ! 1 tho l,arrcl - I 5etor .® luser ‘‘
^g a new wick remove the , oil barrel, ,
! llu ^'pty the lamp entirely of oil,
. the opening, down the wick cylin
der and wherever fluid will touch inside,
boiling water to which has been added
a spoonful of spirits of ammonia,
Damps are now so universally usee of
that , ,llc c,lro of thom has become one
the daily and most important of domes
tic duties, not only of the country, but
° f , the luxurious city home. If not , at- ,
ended to every day, ho perforations ol
the burners become clogged with carbon
a «d dust '» a short time, refuse to move
uasl tll “ 18 d,mmud - auA 11 ,, “' t
unpleasant odor ensues,
1| occasionally our duties exceed the
.. llm, ts of our tl,ne > and the wick
weil-nlgb , . , consumed, a strip of old soft
cotton may be pinned aml to Um3 the end of the the
"!! , k for the llon, 0 > conve y
oil to it.
At some inauspicious ^ t moment a hole .
. the lamp chimney confronts
one, no
oth, r 13 nearer than the grocer’s: a neat y
cut l ,1 « of letter-paper, generous y
COTCr l n R il the offending fracture, nicely
pasted on, will serve until we can do
bettor.
" beneycr the lamps are filled, . with ... a
f , k;au soft P leco °. f 1,a "“ e P ohsl1 tk ®
burners and mountings 4 of the lamps. It
f but» moment’s work ami keeps them
bright and shining. Smoked chimneys
and eyesight, ill-kept lamps are trying alike to
and temper,
A clear, bright light adds so much to
the comfort and enjoyment of the even
occupations, that one is well repaid
k,r tke dul .y ‘bsagreable task ot keeping
the lamps in perfect order. Kerosene oil
and lamps are now so cheap that, regarded even
in the country, it is no longer
as a luxury, but a necessity to have an.
abundance of light for home cheer and
use.
The lamps used for sewing and read
ing should be provided with shades,
not only for positive the comfort saving they impart, for
but for the they are
the eyesight. having A chimney frequently tightly
breaks from been too
screwed on; the glass expands from the
heat of the flame. The wick is more
evenly snuffed by rubbing the charred
edge with a piece of paper or soft rag,
then by trimming with a pair of
scissors. Before using lamp wicks soak
them in vinegar, and dry thoroughly to
prevent their smoking.
Turning the wicks lightly Into the tube,
and removing the chimney before cleanly blow
ing out the flame, is a safe and
method of putting out a lamp. 'Not
only is the odor extremely from a lamp disagreeable, partially
turned down
unhealthy. but the noxious The gases chimney from it are be quickly equally
cleansed may
and easily by breathing polishing upon it
and into it, and wiping and
with newspaper. A piece of red flannel
put into the bowl of the lamp, besides
giving a dash of color, gathers the im
purities of the oil.
Burners sometimes get clogged and re
fuse to turn up and down. This may bo
remedied by putting them of into an and iron
kettle containing a quart water a
double handful of wood-ashes. After
boiling a little while take out, and with
a soft rag wash and dry them pcrleetly.
Or they may bo put milk into and a bath vinegar, composed and
of equal parts of
boiled.
Jf after putting the wick into the
howl of the lamp, and before pouring in
any oil, the howl is crammed with
sponge, the wick and sponge then satu
rated with the oil to the fullest capacity
of the bowl, the lamp is converted into a
safety lamp, so that there is no danger
to life from accidental upsetting or
breakage of the lamp, or fear of spots on
table-scarf or carpet. Add more sponge
as ihe wick burns away; keep the bowl
full of it. The lamp will continue to
burn until the oil in wick and sponge is
exhausted.— Independent.
Recipes.
Thickening i-oit Hour.—Put into *
saucepan half a pound of butter; when
hot, stir into it half a pound of very dry
‘flour; stir this over the fire till a delicate
brown, taking care that it does not burn.
One large tablcspoouful tiff, thickens a quart
of This ‘ " will keep
soup. , a
a long time.
Scalloped Parsnips. —A nice way of
cooking parsnip is to take it prepared Place
as for the balls, except buttered the eggs. pudding
in the bottom of a
dish, cover with bread or cracker
crumbs,, season with pepper and salt,
d °t it with bits of butter, and bake it m
the oven to a nice brown.
Povkktv Pin.—Bare and slice as
many potatoes as you think you will
need; put them in a baking-pan; pour
i„ water so you can just see it. Place
B |j ceg 0 f fresh rmrk, bacon, or beefsteak
! here and there over the potatoes,
j j Sprinkle with flour, pepper, and salt,
j{ oag t in oven for one hour,
Ahi'Aragus Salad.— Boil two bunches
of . salted .. . water , until quite
asparagus in
tender. Place on the ice until very cold,
1 Hcrve with the following dressing: lwo
tablespoonfulsof olive oil,two saltspoon
’"Is of salt, one ot pepper, and two
tablespoonfuls and of sugar. the Mix all to
gether pour over asparagus,
Rasimiekuv Vinegar.—R ed raspber
j ' ries, any quantity, or sufficient to fill a
stone iar nearly full, then pour upon
them sufficient vinegar to cover them.
( over the jar days, closely then aud strain set it aside through for
eight or ten muslin, and add to the clear
flannel or
liquor one and a half pounds of sugar to
each pint, place over a fire and boil for a
few minutes. Allow it to cool, and bot
tie for use.
NO. 38.
THE OLD-FASHIONED HAIR.
Oh, the old-fashioned hair of the sweet long
ago
Is tho kind I shall always love best,
And the faces it framed with its beautiful
grace
Of the dear onas long since gone to rest.
There were tresses, and ringlets, and long
braided looks,
Tlfre were beautiful, bonnie bright curls,
A<d high combs and side combs, and fair
shining coils,
That were worn by the old-fashioned girls.
I remember the roach that my grandfather
wore,
brushed back from his broad, honest brow,
With an elegant, easy simplicity, which,
Though I look for, I never see now.
And my grandmother’s hair—snowy white
hid away
’Neath a head-dress of dainty white lace,
Curving down from her brow in a smooth
silver band,
Framed a queenly and beautiful face.
As tho proud, noble face of my great Uncle
George
Looks down from the canvas at me.
With the ‘‘old timey” stock and the fins
powdered wig—■
’Tis as handsome and grand as can be!
But the dearest and loveliest hair in the
world
Is my mother’s soft, beautiful brown.
With a touch of tho gold, and glint of the
sun,
And away to her knees falling down.
And it tells its own story of womanly grace,
And the old-fashioned modesty, too,
Of that sweet, indescribable beauty of soul.
And the mother’s love, tender and true.
For the angel that painted the rainbow could
find
Not a tint so exquisito and rare!
Oh the wealth of luxurious, rippling waves,
Of my mother’s brown, beautiful hair!
Bo I honor tho hair of the sweet long ago,
Whether silver, or duslty, or fair.
For it brings back dear faces, and good,
honest hearts—
And I love it—the old-fashioned hair!
—Margaret Andrews Oldham.
run and point, i
Lost at sea—The sight of land. ,
A game of cards—Formal visits.
Unbidden guests are welcomest when
they are gone.
The choir organ should always be dis
tinguished by its high morul tone.
Milk has so little to do with the milch
cow that a distinction is made in the
spelling. —Lincoln Journal.
What an immense town must be Parts
Unknown, Ontario, Canada. People
keep going there .—Rochester Post-Ex
press.
In the public schools they do not have
to keep up the interest of the scholars in
order to pay the principal .—Re to York
Rat's.
That Ethel is an artist, !
All must admit with grace;
How could one ever doubt it
Who’d ever seen her face I
—London Tid-BUs.
“Was Rome founded by Romeo?” in
quired the pupil of the teacher. “No,
my son,’’ replied the wise man; “it was
Juliet who was found dead by Romeo."
— Once a, Week
At a Traveling Agency.—To Clerk:
“ Did you ever realize anything in tho
German lotteries?” “Yes, sir. “Itried
one five times, and realized that I was
an idiot 1 ”—New York Observer.
There was a young doctor of Bkye,
Whose But ho patients left them seemed day, destined to die, '
one
To go fishing, they say,
And they all got well, just fora Journal. guy.
—Somerville
“What ft beautiful child! What an
extremely handsome fellow!” says tho
gushing visitor to the lady of the house.
“Yes, he is a handsome hoy, I think.”
“Oh, indeed, he is. He is the perfect
imago of liis father—the perfect image.
Don’t you think so?” “Well, I don’t
know, f never saw his father. Wo
adopted him.”
The charming damsel had no appetite;
Her health was delicate, her mother said;
But at the table she put out of sight
As much as would l>avo two’longshoremen
fed.
“I eat no more than would a bird,” laughed
she; she table
But when rose and from the went.
The landlord frowned and bit his lips; said
he,
“I guess an ostrich was the bird she meant.*
—Norristown Herald.
Lameness in Horses.
Horses often suffer from lameness
through some foreign substance working
its way into the frog and imbedding
itself there, causing inflammatory ulcera
tion and sometimes lock-jaw. Borne
twenty years ago or more, when Captain
Moore’s horse Privateer was a two-year
old, his owner had just given him a
splendid gallop over the Crab Orchard
(Ky.) track when he suddenly went lame
and for weeks all treatment failed to cure
him. Finally, Captain Moore, at the
suggestion veterinarian, of a friend, took told I’rivateer to
a who was to cut into
the frog of the ailing foot. The veterin
arian examined the foot and demurred,
saying mind, there but was nothing there. whefe “Never
you cut away I tell
you,” said Moore, in the emphatic style
for which he was noted. The “vet.”
cut in and a stream of “pus” flowed
forth, and on further examination a
piece of walnut hull was found imbedded
in the frog, which was the cause of the
whole trouble. I’rivateer mended rapidly
afterward, and his career is a matter o/
turf history.— St. Louis Sayings.
English chemists have discovered a
fluid that will dissolve metal of any sort,
even gold.
