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Silent Music.
Thou canst not know that in my heart,which
waits the touch of word,
The music in life’s silences thy soul’s hand
loaves unstirred.
•T’s there ( feel it oftentimes,when not a soul
is ni.-'h,
Thrilling along life’s hidden chords, unseen
by dust-dimmed eye.
The silent music of each life doth wait the
artist’s band;
A whole life full waits to respond to all who
understand!
As if an untouched instrument the world of
music lives,
Or played ir on by countless hands, retains
more than it gives.
So, hidden iu the silences of every human
sou!,
Tbo’much is given out in word, doth still
abide the whole;
And only he who has the potv’r to read be¬
tween the lines—
Those spaces ’twixt the motive and the out¬
ward given signs—
C'au hear the music of that life akin unto his
own;
Tbo’ it to others muffled be’ he hears the
undertone.
The silent side—the waiting side-each fears
to give it voice
For fear the other cannot hear for earth’s
dis racling noise.
Hut, oh, there is a hand, by both 'tis now
unseen,
■Which lovingly'doth them unite, the’mist
may hang between;
Thi y feel together, ami the heart doth clear
translate the word
Which others do not understand. Love has
the meaning heard.
—Philadelphia Ledger.
A DISAPPOINTMENT.
iSY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
" “Debt—debt—nothing but debt,”
g. mftbled Major Monthill, as he tore
hp-u on.c after another, tlio numerous
tellers which lay upon his eleven
o’clock, breakfast-table. “If 1 was
M’das, himself, 1 couldn’t pay em
a I—and I wotildn t either. Ihere’s
only one alternative left open to me
(list I know of—and tiiat is marrying
r.n heiress.”
The major eyed himself critically in
the opposite mirror. He was a (all,
handsome Apollo of a military gentle¬
man. with well-preserved teeth, hair,
and whiskers, bright hazel eyes, and a
general air of stylishness.
“Yes!” quoth the major, “I must
marry rich—and Letly Price is the
woman. She’s as ugly as n Gorgon—
what very unpleasant-looking females
those Gorgons must have been, by the
way, to get themselves such a reputa¬
tion for homeliness; bu# a man must
overlook all minor deflects when ,. his
settlement in life is at stake. ,, I’ve
been a gay young bachelor long
enough; I must really turn iny atten¬
tion seriously to Letty Price, But
there are several preliminaries to bo
considered, and one is lhat she has a
lover for every day iu tlie week, and
every lover l believe a more genuine
fortune-hunter than mvsclf. It takes
policy to outgeneral so ma..y suitors,
and I’ve got to look sharp if 1 expect
to win (lie prize.”
Miss Letty Price was lather t.fle i
the Gorgon stylo of womankind.
Major Monthill was right in Ids enti-
eism of her style. She was fat and
stout, and ungraceful, with a dumpy:
figure, a short neck, gieenisli-giay
eves, reddish-brow n liaii. a tunied-iip
nose, and teeth broken and decayed.
Her complexion was muddy, and her
chin retreated, and nltogetlxn she win
a picture tiiat sorely needed the giittei
of a golden frame to set it. eft. But
then Miss Letty’s grandfather was
worth $200,000, and she was conse-
quo ally what (Ins newspapers call a
“society favorite.” People listened
when she spoke, and laughed obse¬
quiously at her jokes, and admired her
taste in dress; and Miss Letty, nat¬
urally of a confiding and credulous
disposition, be ieved it all.
"With Major Monllnll to will was to
do, and no sooner, did he make up his
mind that lie must marry an heiress,
and tiiat heiress Miss Letitia Price,
than lie set vigorously about consum¬
mating tlie affair. Bouquets, drives
in tho Central Park, books and photo¬
graphs, soft glances and poetically fla¬
vored quotations were all alike the en¬
gines of his warfare; and when at
length the time had arrived, in his es¬
timation, to strike the final blow, be
dressed himself in tho guise of a nine¬
teenth century exquisite, and went to
oal! on Miss Price.
“It seems to me,” said the heiress,
who had contrived to make her bloivsy
cheeks a shade blowsier than ever by a
hideous ruby-silk dress, with a scarlet
cashmere scarf looped over it, “tiiat
you are unusually dull this evening,
Major Monthill.”
The major affected to Hart from a
deep and absorbing reverie.
“All, Miss Price, you of ail others
should not reproach, uio with my lack
of spirits,” he said, senSim’enfaily.
“And why not?” demanded Miss
Letty, with elephantine playfulness.
“Need you ask we, when yon know
so well that my heart is racked by con¬
tending emotions.”
THE ENTERPRISE. t
“I’m sure,” quoth the heiress, look¬
ing down at the points of her Mario
Antoinette slippers, “l don’t know
why It should he racked.”
“Because I love you, and I dare not
speak of my love!”
Miss Price colored and essayed a
faint little giggle.
“I’m sure, major, I don’t see auy
necessity for such timorousness.”
“Because.” iinrvessive’y went on
the major, looking unutterablo things
into the greenish gray orbs—his own
eyes were an exquisite white-brown,
and well lie was aware of the advan¬
tages in this respect—“becauso yon
are rich and I am poor, and l have
registered a solemn vow upon the tab¬
lets of my own soul, never to wed an
heiress!”
“La!” said Miss Price.
“Of all men, -1 ’said Major Monthill,’’
“I ain the least mercenary. A roof to
shelter mo from the driving storm, a
crust, a glass of clear cold water from
the spring—that’s all I want. Money
I spurn, gold is my bugbear. And yet,
Dear Letitia—nay, let me call von
thus for once—fate has decreed that 1
should hopelessly lose my heart to one
who is unfortunately rich.”
Miss Price burst into tears and im¬
pulsively put her fat hand into the
major’s slender palm.
“Don’t talk that way, Marmadtike,”
she sobbed, “and don’t look at me
with those mournful eyes, or vou’il
break my heart.”
“Lelilta, do you then love me?”
“Yes, yes, I do,” wailed the heiress.
“I love you with all my soul.”
“Al is!” groned the major, “that
two such hearts 'as ours should be
parted by a wall of gold.”
“Blit they shan't lie,” asserted Let-
iy, her nose growing red mid her eves
twinkling iu the enthusiasm of the
ra0 ment. “No, Marmadtike, no!
Not if grandpapa was leu times as ob-
siinate and pig-headed as hois.”
‘•My Letitia!” sighed the major, in
a voice honey sweet and low as sum¬
mer winds breathing o’er tiio twilight
sea.
And when lie left the Price mansion
he had the satisfaction of knowing
that he was Miss Letfy’s accepted
lover.
Ha plunged ruthlessly into more
debt the very next morning, to the
of two hundred dollars, to buy
a solitaire diamond ring to deck the
fat forefinger of his affianced.
“It will bo a mere drop in the buck-
ct,” , ,, . ho said .. to . himself, .. “when , , I T come
to handle her cash. I hope the old
gentleman moans to place it entirely at
her disposal, and I’ll sec to the lest.”
And Major Monthill contracted for
a pair of cream colored horses, a
yacht and a cottage at Newport for the
summer season on the strength of his
known engagement to old Zadoc Price's
granddaughter.
Just at this time —life, we all know,
is proverbially uncertain—Mr. Zadac
Price took it into his venerable head
|0 bavc a stroke of apoplexy and dc-
p£u . ; thig exWence without tho cerc _
mouial of more than two days’ illness,
(<Tho most sellsibIo thing tin old
fudgc coul(1 posg | blv bave do ne,”
bought dutiful grand-son-in-law
e j ect “Letty’ll come into her
’
^ wUhout any aifricu Hy, and I
8hft „ bc made ilu1ivi(Ulft i m
jj c S [ 0p p ed a [ a ba t store to get his
j, ;it draped j n a suitable mourning
weed> nnd thought it very becoming,
,p be third day after the funeral lie
caJ|e( , on Le ,j t?a .
Miss Price received him in her new
black suit, her nose swelled with much
weeping, and her eyelids as pink as if
they had been painted all round With
a red lead-pencil.
“Dear Letty,” murmured the ma-
■jor, Ills voice attuned to the tenderest
sympathy, “do not mourn too deeply 1
AYc must all die—and our departed
friend had lived out the three-score-
a:id-tcn-ycars allotted to man’s life
here below.”
“I know it!” sniffed Letty, taking
out her black-bordered pocket-hand-
kercliie . •
‘‘You are not bearing your grief all
alone. hea«ker.
“><o: 9 Cousin Bet mi ah Jenkins and
husband , , have , been . here ^ for
her a
" ee ’ ptt v > aiisue.ci.
-
Major Monthill pricked up ins cars.
Cousin Bethuah Jenkm*! He liad not
heretofore b en aware that , ins . Lcitia r . .
had any relatives s’-vc her grands.,e
However, the two hundred thousand
dollars would well bear a few rever-
siouary legacies, and this cousin Bc-
thuah was doubtless an attached rcia-
tive wbom.it would bo scarcely credit,
able for the old gentleman to omit eu-
«***~*w«. ■
“The only thing that I regret in ibis
sudden and Aulooked-forldispensation
of Providence, dearest Letty,” went
ba our smooth-tongued Major, that
it make? an heiress of you—and I bc-
Hero that I have before expressed to
you my horror of the imputation of
wedding a rich wife.”
CARNE8VILLK, GA„ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6.1890.
“Don’t let that trouble you, Manny,
dear!” cried Lelty, hysterically. I—
I meant to Imre told yon nil about it
before, but somehow there never was
a real good opportunity.”
“Told me ail about what, Letitia?”
asked the major, in some surprise.
“About my quarrel with grandpapa
last mouth. He said you were a for¬
tune-hunting miscreant — you, dear
Marmadtike!—and I never should have
a eml from him if I married you.
Ami then I repeated to him the noble
words you had spoken, and lie said—
grandpa always had an inelegant way
of expressing himself—‘that he’d seltle
your hasli for you!’ And lie called
me a fool, and we had an awful quar¬
rel. and he made a new will, and left
ail his money to Cousin Bclhuah Jen¬
kins; but I don’t care, Manny, darling,
for I knew,” cried tlio disinherited
damsel, with a fresh burst of tears,
“that you loved me for myself alone,
and not for mere filthy lucre!”
And so speaking, Letty IVice flung
her hundred and sixty-seven solid
pounds of dumpy humanity fondly
into the major’s arms.
Marmadtike Monthill felt like the
man in the old tale who lias sold his
soul for forty pieces of gold, and finds
l lie treasure changed into dead leave 1 .
Ho had got Lotty Price, but not Lefty
Price’s fortune.
He went home, promising to cali
early the next morning. The next
morning came, but not Major Mont-
liill.
Miss Lottie Price is living, a disap¬
pointed damsel, with her cousin Beth¬
nal), who is a good-natured soul, and
does not. grudge the ‘‘bite and sup” to
the poor girl whom she really thinks
has been used very ill both by her
grandfather and tlie major. As for
the gallant Marmadtike, nobody knows
what has become of him, not even Ids
creditors, wno would certainly be tlio
ones to find out, if anyone could.
The diamond solilaire is not yet paid
for, and soincby else is living in the
cottage at Newport this season.
But, after all, it is only one more
illustration of the daily lesson we ail
read—the mutability of human af¬
fairs.— [The Weekly.
To Detect Impure Water.
Water has a great variety of impuri¬
ties, and tlie means of detecting these,
of course, vary with the kind of im¬
pure matter existing iu it. The most
dangerous impurity is organic matter
ia a state of decomposition and yield¬
ing ammonia and other nitrates, but
to detect this kind of impurity, unless
it is very large, a chemist’s analysis is
required. The following simple tests
may be made: If on addition of a
small quantity of sugar of lead dis¬
solved in water it affords a black de¬
posit, the water contains sulphur. If
the water reddens bluo litmus paper
moistened with it, it contains carbon¬
ates or acids.
If on adding a few drops of hydro¬
chloric acid and then a small quantity
of solution of prussiate of potash the
water turns blue there is iron in it. If
it turns red litmus paper blue, it con¬
tains lime. If sugar is dissolved in it
and tlie solution,kept in a warm place
for a few days, becomes cloudy, it
contains decomposing organic matter.
A peculiar sweet taste indicates organ¬
ic imparities, and if by adding a little
sulphuric acid, the water is blackened
it is dangerously impure. Oxalic acid
dissolved in water containing lime
causes a white precipitate. A few
drops of a solution of bisulphate of
alumina or even of alum, causes a
cloud in water that contains organic
impurity.—[New York Times,
The Modern Goths.
Lord Wolseley believes t.iatthe Chi-
nese will iu time overrun the world—
as soon, in fact, as a great general or
lawgiver arises among them. At
present they have no great leaders, for
the simple reason that tlie government
puts out of existence every Celestial
who displays more than avcrarc intel-
ligCnce. It is narrated that when Coin-
^ wa>asked , vlletber it was
trite (hat he had beheaded 60,000 men
in three , years he . replied: “O, surely, .
moro than (hat .» Lord Wolsely thinks,
j ba t a Chinese Alexander or
Mogcg wiU „ to thc front somtJ
day, and that Ins people will thou
^ ofcg8lon of armg a|1(f
ovcr India> RlMBia aud the coll .
u and flnally givc Englandf
America al)d Aust; alia a tussle £or , u _
c ' „ Tbij soundg chimerical,
but we ghould uot forget Rome or the
Goths ._ [Toronto (Canada) Mail,
’
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~ 7
His Daily rllonano.
Tailor (to impecunious man just
married to a wealthy git])—Will you
inatfuey pocket iualde y'dbr Veat>
¥ ,. Sm.iUrt?
Smallart—'Y—ye-u—no, but
mJ y make a pocket in my coat
large enough to hold fifteen ceuta.
—[Buffalo Courier.
» t Dll J'P'rT i-Llv P L'V'LwiNl. zv\t OMV
»*■
-'iffy White Folks Who Live Oil
a Lofty Rock.
Lord Howa Island, an Arcadia
in the Pacific Ocean.
A few months ago the handful of
l eiplowlio live on Pitcairn Island cele¬
brated tlie hundredth anniversary of
tlie landing of their .fathers on that
little rock. The world is always gltul
to hear of the prosperity of diis peo¬
ple, and several oilier litllo communi¬
ties inhabiting the smallest specks of
land iu the ocean also excite much
interest.
There is one island, however, of
which wo seldom hear. It is Lord
Howe island, die hefno of fifty or six¬
ty while people, about COO miles north¬
east of Now South Wales. Years ago
two or three families from New Zea¬
land thought they would seek a new
borne. They had heard of the pro¬
fuse vegetation on this eroseent-shape i
little island, and decided that they
would build new homes line.
Bo ihey went to Lord llowe island,
which is only six miles long and about
a mile wide, and rises precipitously
from die sea to a height of nearly fiOUO
feet at nearly every point. They built
their lints, tilled the land, and after a
while two or three other families
joined thejn. Some of these original
seniors are slid living, but most of
tlie residents arc their descendants.
The island is under the government
of New Zealand, and once a year it is
visited by a magistrate, who settles all
little disputes, it is a very easy task,
for (here are seldom any differences
among die people. Like Pitcairn and
other little island communities, they
have never found it necessary to build
a jail.
There were none of the Higher mam¬
mals on die is amis, when they went
there, but now therawc quite a num¬
ber of goat-*, swine mi l eats, which,
having escaped from domesticity, have
lived in die woods so,long that they
have become quite wild. While some
of the men engage in tilling their gar¬
dens, others are out fishing, A great
many edible lisli are caught there, and
tlie people find it very easy to live in
comfort without as largo amount of
labor. They say they have not the
slightest desire to return to larger com¬
munities.
They do not encourage immigration
because they think they and their chil¬
dren will need all of die 3220 acres of
the island. Sometimes a sailor from
a passing ship spends a little while in
die community, and lias been known
to carry away one of the daughters as
his wife, but most of die people are
born, live and (lie there.
They cannot travel more than a few
hundred rods without seeing the sea,
an I of course they come to know
every nidi of their litllo world. O ice
or twice a year a vessel comes to them
with a large variety of supplies and
they purchase with their copra and
other products the goods they need for
die ensuing year. At die same time
their libraries are replenished witli
new books, a large lot of newspapers
come to their homos, and it takes them
a good while to read of all that lias
happened in die busy world since they
last bear of it.-*-[New York Sun.
How Old is the Wheelbarrow J
The history of tlio wheelbarrow is
of no great importance iu itself, but it
happens to illustrate well tho sources
of historical knowledge, and how they
yield the facts melt desire o know.
Tho invent! n of (ho wheelbarrow
lias been credited commonly to Pascal,
a French philosopher and writer of
about the middle of tho seventeenth
century. According to Litire’s dic¬
tionary of tho Fiench language, how¬
ever, the wheelbarrow was iuveutel
by a Mr. Dupiu iu 1GG9. One or the
other of tiiese two accounts lias been
accepted generally—in France at least*
where every useful invention is be’
lieved to be of French origin.
Now a writer in tlio French scien¬
tific journal, La Nature, calls attention
to an old book printed in 1555, iu
which ii a curious wood engraving
that represents a single-u heeled bar-
row pushed along by a laborer.
Another plate of the same book shows
a tramway car running -upon rails.
This pits the use ct the wheelbarrow
back move than a hundred years earlier
tuau tlio time cl Uscal.
ported that the origin of tbo
barrow was to bc found in the tbir-
tecutff dmfiarv. ^ In tho margin of
manuscript to tiiat rime is
drawing of a am wheeling another
person in a single-wheeled
precisely like those in use at
., reseMt
In a manuscript of the fourteenth
century may be seen a wheelbarrow
used for tho carriage of a load which
looks like bags of grain. Another
miniature painting upon a manuscript
of the fifteenth century represents a
hospital where nuns are attending to
the lame and wounded. There is one
wounded person who is being brought
iu on a wheelbarrow. This indicates
that the vehicle was used to carry the
infirm or disabled.
Still another.fifteenth century man¬
uscript shows a wheelbarrow used for
moving building materials. As the
picture is intended to illustrate the his¬
tory of Bonie, tlio artist of course taw
no want of consistency in represent¬
ing this vehicle as in use at that early-
period—ami who can say that it was
not? The laborer made tho work all
the easier by the uso of a strap which
passed over his shoulders.
At present, then, the wheelbarrow
is known to be at least six hundred
years old, and not two centuries, as
was at one time supposed. The next
step is to show that William tlio Con¬
queror carried wheelbarrows with him
when lie moved his quarters across the
Channel from Normandy to England
in the eleventh century.— [Youth’s
Companion.
Wanderings of I),-relicts.
An interesting instance of die
strange wandeiiugs of derelicts at sea
is furnished by tlio Atlantic pilot
chart. On November 20, 188 >, die
Port Royal buoy, having gone adrift,
began its career of adventure off
Charleston harbor. Drifting out into
the Gulf Stream it tema'ncd in tlio
warm waters of the current during tlio
remainder of tlie year, gradually mov¬
ing northward in a zigzag eonrso,
probably under the influence of con¬
flicting winds. It was last seen in die
Gull Stream on December 4, 1880.
Three months later it was discovered
floating off die eastern edge of tlio
Gulf Stream, soma 200 miles north of
the Bermudas. Then it started for a
more southern latitude, and during
die month of May voyaged along past
the southern side of the Bermudas,
passing only a short, distance from
those coral islands.
For more than a year it was lost
sight of, but although it had been in
and near the track of the great hurri¬
canes, it was seen in good shape on
June 9, 1888, GOO miles northwest of
the Bermudas. It lias now evidently
found a part of the ocean to its liking,
for it has remained in that neighbor¬
hood, always drifting and sometimes
retracing its tracks, but never ventur¬
ing more than 100 miles in any direc¬
tion. It was seen by passing vessels
several times during this period. At
last it took another trip south, and ac¬
cording to ti c latest advices, on Sept.
25 last, it had again got below the
latitude of the Bermudas, but keeping
500 or GOO miles to the eastward of the
island. It was still iu good condition
when last seen. The lonely four years’
voyage is particularly interesting for
the light it throws upon tlie old stories
of drifting relies having been carried
from America to the coast of the Old
World before Columbus sailed- — [New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
Giving .Shape to Feet.
Every one, but especially children,
should wear properly lilting shoes, no
matter how common their material.
They should be neither too large nor
too small, and should have low, flat
heels that must bq promptly “righted”
as soon as they begin to wear to one
side. If die toes of (he foot show a
tendency to overlap, they should he
rubbed with the hands once or iwieo
eacli day; and if this care bo given
when tlie curving commences, it will,
as a rule, prove sufficient to correct
any irregularities of this nature, If
a nail is wayward in its growth, trim
it only lightly at tlie ailing corner, but
fully at the opposite corner, If both
corners grow too deeply into the flesh,
clip them carefully and lightly, and
then scrape the center of the nail from
tlie tip to near the root until it is thin
and flexible. This process seldom fails
to correct refractory nails, provided,
of course, they are not neglected too
long.—[Farm and Fireside,
Ancestry of the Thoroughbred Horse.
There arc three horses—known in
horse literature as Darby Arabian,
Byerly’s Turk and Godolphin Arabian
_ t0 which all pedigrees of thorough.
bredg „ e d to be ,, aced . Tll0
ifil . fetwa3 b ht t0 EllgUuid from
Aleppo about 1700. The second was
1,1in EF aud F ” "1? f ai
j , have come tiom duikc}-. It is no
! p ■? wxto pbw Ani an
• ..
j ™ ‘ “ kno '*j ^ a w
j Uim fur bor tiiau t1ia “ 110 wus bo 2 ht
j iri Paris aud brought to England soma
i time during the reign of Queen Anne,
i ,
—[New York 8-in.
('Ill I,HUM VS COLUMN.
I.ITTl.B WUKKLH.
The weaver waits for the spinner’s yarui
The spinner is idle for want of wool;
The shearers watch in (ho fragrant barn
For the sheep that graze by the ticailow
pool.
But little Boy Blue who drives Uio flock
lias fallen asleep by a sheltering rook,
While many a baby in Boston town
Is evying for want of a soft wool gown.
The shearers threatened in laughing strong;
The weavers’ wrath can never he told:
The wheel is spinning in angry song,
And the babies’ toes arc purple with cold;
For the shepherd- ad who is sleeping still
Is a little wheel in the world's great mill,
And the world’s full grist is not well ground
Till oacli little wheel turns round and round.
I dreamed this dream but an hour ago.
Whin 1 awoke to my surprise
To iind nurse galloping to and fro
And baby’s lists thrusts into his eyes.
Oh, what little wheel was running away
And nuking so jolly a baby cry
Till ins face was ns red ns a poppy’s silk?
The lassie was late who briugs the milk!
—filay Biley Smith in Wide Awake.
KAimiTS.
Rabbits are terribly destructive ani¬
mals ami destroy just out of mischief
hundreds of plums which they do not
care to cut. They do very great dam¬
age to young trees, delighting in strip¬
ping them of tlio tender bark as far as
they can reach while standing on their
bind feet.
In Australia they have become such
a pest, increasing as they do so rapidly,
that the government has offered an im-
monso reward to any one discovering
Hie means of exterminating them.—
[Detroit Free Press.
SPARROWS AS NURSES.
In tho Jersey City (N. J.) ferry-
house of (lie Pavonia ferry, a few days
ago, tlio passengers watched, with
much interest a flock of sparrows
taking care of one of their number,
who was evidently very sick. There
Avas much chippering among the bird*»
until it was finally settled to put tlie
patient behind the top cornice of a
pillar. Tho sick bird was (lien carried
between three of its companions and
then deftly dropped into tho chosen
place. Then a dozen sparrows
perched on tlio telegraph wire aud
chippered loudly at the passengers
beneath them. When last seen tlie sick
sparrow was bundled up in some straw.
— [Picayune.
HOUSES IN GOWNS ANI> CAPS.
A. E. Mauuin of Bristol, Vt., has a
large apiary and sells honey by tho
wagon load. To defend his horses
from possible bee stings lie slips a
thin cotton hood over the head of each
horse. These hoods have apertures
for tlie eyes and nostrils of their wear¬
er, otherwise fitting closely, and there
is a blanket of cotton cloth for each
horse which ties across the breast and
looks like the hierophant's robe of
some strange society. Mr. Manual, in
an article in “Gleanings in Bee Cul¬
ture,” says tiiat the old horse, long ac¬
customed (o work ill the bee yards,
knows why ho has to wear a cap atid
gown, aud holds down ids head for
the first in a most obedient manner.
The men employed in tlie apiary keep
the horses capped and gowned until
ihoy arc half a mile distant from the
hives.
A ROMANTIC CAT.
A coitaln household in a London
suburb were without a cat and the
mice grew thick. A very beautiful
tabby was given to them. But lo and
behold! sin: proved to lie a sad thief,
and sho stole all from the pamry tiiat
she could get her claws on. She was
given away and sent away, but she
c imo back. Besides this she proved
to be very much a belle of the neigh¬
borhood aud the garden of her owners
was full of (lie most awful concerts
each night. Finally she was drowned.
Tho weather was too cold to dig her
grave at once, and while waiting for
sunshine, as it was freezing outside
)
tlio body of thc sinner was laid in au
old arbor.
Tlie next day, as one of thc family
was walking toward the arbor, what
did lie sec but a strange eat, dark in
color, squatted down beside tlie dead
tabby. The coming of thc person dis¬
turbed him and lie ran away. The
next day he was seen in thc same posi¬
tion, aud the next. It was tlie cat of
ii neighbor that had been fond of play¬
ing with tho deceased. A third day
of freezing cold came, and lo, the
stranger was discovered to be again
beside his playmate—but dead. He
had been frozen to death while mourn¬
ing for his friend. The family buried
them in the jame gravo in the garden,
like lovers in old ballads —[Harper’s
Young People.
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"What They Left Him.
Bloomer (to ragged urchin)—Y’our
parents left yo\i tomethiug Nvlion they
died, did they uot?
XTrchin*—Ob, yes, sir-
bloomer —And what did they leave
you, my little man?
UixluiF—tAu orphan, sir—XEpoch.
NO. 48.
A Soiir of the Mulberry Tree.
My hem! in the shiule, my foot in the suu-
Heigli-lio for the mulberry trcol
Little core 1 how the world josra on,
Heigh-ho for tho mulberry tree!
Bc/nnir mid scholar, low and high,
Merry and mad, they all go by—
Ileigh-lm for the mulberry tree!
The sun on my Unger linrns like a kiss—
Heigh-ho for the mullierry tree!
Where is tho cushion soft as this?
Heigh-ho for the mulberry tree!
Nu[,for the squirrel, sweets for the bee,
Ibureiy Heaven means well toward me—
Heigh-ho for thc mulberry tree I
The old kind earth, tho mother of men—
Heigh-ho for the mulberry tree!
Breathes her secrets into my ken,
Heigh-ho for the mulberry tree!
Wealth like hers to the soul is sent—
Shoreless, measureless, sweet content,
Helgh-ho for the mulberry tree!
— [Dora R. Good ale, in the Independent.
HUMOROUS.
An egg plant—A hen’s nest.
Well known—Thc man who is never
ill.
Nature seems to make a great fuzz
ever a little thing like a peach.
Tito most interesting sugar question
is, “How many lumps do you tako?”
Even tlio caterpillar lias to bump
himself if be wants to make any pro¬
gress.
A man in tho east lias a hen which
ho calls tho highwayman, because sho
is always ’way lavin’.
There is great pleasure in showing
some other fellow up as a fool. It
lakes awuy tiiat lonely feeling, as it
were.
Maud—However can you get rid of
that awful tun? Minnie (a school
teacher)--! shall transfer it to my
pupils.
There is a good deal of talk nowa-
days about passionate poots. Just as
if most poets leaving editorial offices
were not passionate.
lie—I feel very jolly tonight—thor¬
oughly wound up, you know. Sho
(very sleepily)—l shouldn't have
thought it, for you don’t seem to go.
Mr. Handsome—“Oh, you know,
mother, women can’t keep a secret.”
His mother—“Yes they can, my sou.
You have been industriously courting
that Miss Highly for a year, and you
don’t know her real age yet.”
Mrs. Hrownstone —“I didn’t suppose
Carrie Sharptongiu would settle down
into such a meek little woman as she
lias become since she married. She
acts as if sho did not dare call her soul
her own.” Mrs. IJrickrow — “No
wonder, poor thing I She lias three
servants.”
Mabel—What a perfectly oxquisito
new bonnet, dearest! Ethel — Oh,
Fin so glad you liko it! I was so
afraid you wouldn’t. Arc you sure
you liko it? Mabel—Sure? Oh, per¬
fectly! I always did adore lhat shape.
Why I had three just liko it wliou D
was in fashion.
Uoeliinenl lings and the Coffee Plant.
An extensive dealer in coffee in this
city tells mo that Ihe crop in that arti¬
cle has been well nigh ruined in some
of the provinces of Guatemala by tlio
cochineal bug. This insect formed, at
one lime, one of Ihe industries of tlio
tlie country. When they are examined
under tlie microscope they can he scon
to contain a yellowish liquid, iu which
tlie female carries her eggs, This
liquid grows less and less as the in¬
sect grows older, and it soon changes
to a reddish powder. In December
this transformation begins, and in
March the female lays her eggs. At
present these insects have selected
the coffee plant on which to fas¬
ten themselves. Tho result has been
(hat it soon begins to wilt and turn
yellow, and if it arrives at tlie period
of bloom its buds are poor and small.
Some of tho planters are spraying the
plants with nitrate of soda.—[New
York Star.
Why Chinese Cobblors Wear Spectacles.
“Do you know why all Chinese
cobblers wear spectacles?” said a San
Francisco friend to me as we were
walking through Mott street together
recently taking iu tlio sights. “No?
Then I will tell you. It is recorded in
Chinese history that once upon a time
a cross-eyed cobbler, who mended the
noblo shoes of Confucius, had red
pepper thrown in his eyes by his hot-
tempered spouse, and would have been
unable to see straight for a month
after but that his learned patron loaned
him a pair of spectacles which not only
made him see perfectly at once, but
also took tho squint out of'his eyei.
Tlie sequel of the happy care was that
tho cobbler's wife, deceived by
miracle iu his eyes, refused to
that ho was her husband aud
him to pass the remainder of his
pi single blessedness. Since
every Clnucse cobbler from New
to Shanghai wears spectacles to
him from red pepper, strabismus
had wives.”