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VOL. I.
Sleep Son?.
Cockshy, baby, adrift on the river of dreams,
Uockaby, lullaby, light as a lily afloat;
The winds are asleep, !in 'l the moon bath
withholden her beams;
Soft be thy blumber, at rest in thy cradle-
boat.
Here in the dusk and the dimness, the silence
of sleep, is unfolding
Life is outgrowing its bands,
for flight;
Love, in tby heart thou art learn ing to iaugh
and to weep—
Love, in the dark thou art learning the les¬
son of life.
•
Uockaby, lullaby! now thou art miue, thou
art mine!
Lgng be the summer of growth, oh'my
child, oh my own!
for sad is the soul of the mother, when
swift, at a sign,
The hearf she hath held is a-wing, and her
baby hath flown ! J
—[Ida W. Beubam, in the Independent.
THE ST0EY OF PEG,
Sjie was oaly a wee bit of a Iloasicr
ginT and yet she looked for nil the
world a little witch as she flitted in the
i
hitlier and .thither about the
old Indiava^farifc. Peg had
It was tho only home Hint
ever.known—and right well she did
know it, every nook and corner.
From the time she could walk alone>
until sho was ten years old, Peg, in
her' snowy pinafore and big sunbon-
net, had garried dad's morning lunch
to him, and found the new-laid eggs
for mother on her way back.
How the child enjoyed the little
frame house with its white Avails and
green ‘ blinds, and the monster barn
with its great haymows! How she
fhre!’ rebelled Ilow in she the loved orehai-d tlio and woods, the with pas-
their weai(h of ferns and wildflowers!
Yes, her voting affections were all cen¬
tered iii the old farm, of which the
hay and the horses, tiie liens and the
flowers, were to her as necessary to
make it lovable as were mother and
dad.
And always in her little brown
* “
_ hands *v- Peg earned- sVrcefc flowers, until
the neighbors 'considered the daisy,
apple-biossom and mignonette as much
a part and parcel of the child as her
own long, wavy golden hair.
But ono day there came a cloud, and
sudden end to Peg’s happy child-life.
died, and then it was found that,
owing to'busiuess reverses' and the in-
dorsement of a false friend’s note, the
old homestead was heavily mortgaged.
Mother and Peg had to leave the
farm to those who were almost strang¬
ers, while they went out into tl:e great
heartless and busy world to earn a
living.
They drifted to Chicago, where
mother made scant enough wages with
the needle, which she could ply so
skilfully.
But poor mother, although she'tricd
to work and be cheerful for the sake
of her little daughter, was sick at
heart. She yearned for t He old home,
the old times and the old faces. ,
By the time Peg was twelve years
old, the girl had to seek work in a
paper-box factory, to eke out tlio liv¬
ing, which grew scant'er as mother’s
health grew poorer; and in another
year little Peg was the breadwinner
for two.
"When Peg was fifteen she felt like
a n old woman—old in trouble, and
disappointment, and heartaches. Per¬
haps, if she had not been a simple
country girl, she might have made
some friend among the neighbors; but
neither! she nor mother thought the
more respectab e folks very neighbor-
ly, while those who were willing to
(visit them were certainly not desirable
acquaintances.
So when, five years after they went
to Chicago, mother's tired and broken
heart stopped beating, Peg was quite
alone amid the thousands of- the big
and bustling city. -
And Teg was not very strong either.-
She was such a little bit of a thing,
and she found it hard work to keep
up with the s out and healthy girls who
worked beside her at the factory.
When mother died sl e felt worse and
grew homesick for the old Indiaua
farm. Tiie factory work seemed
hai-der than ever.
One Saturday' afternoon, when the
hands were paid, the foreman told
Peg that they would require her servi¬
ces no longer.
“I’m sorry, tny girl,” he said, “but
you cannot do the work. You ought
to take a rest.”
Peg:looked at the meagre sum of
money in her hand, and wondered
how long she could rest with such a
reserve fund, and no wo.k iu view.
Poor Peg!
All through the following week the
weary child wandered up cud down
the streets of tire great Western city,
seeking wepk and evening"her finding none.
Bar Satifi'il ty money
was nil gone, and, there was u° more
coining to her. Sift: hadn't felt like
THE ENTERPRISE.
wandered aimlessly about, up or
street and down another.
It was late in the f pring, and it was
nearly eight o’clock before it grew
dark. About that lime 6ho saw lights
in a small church.
It was a Saturday night.praycr-mcot-
ing, and the singing caught Peg’s ear,
Sho wandered into the vestibulo,
and scarco knowing wiiat sho did,
threw herself into the one chair which
she found there.
The people (not many) were sing
ing and Peg recognized the hymn as
an old favorite Which they used to
sing at the little cross-road church in
Indiana.
Every word of the hymn and each
note of the ttine went to the girls’
heart.
"I liqard the voice of Jesus.say,
‘Come unto me and rest;
Lay down, thou weary one, lay down.’ ”
Poor Peg! She could bear no more.
The tears were flowing fast, and she
fell on her knees beside tho chair,
while she buried her face in tier hands
and sobbed, and sobbed, and sobbed.
-Soon an elderly l .dy, leaving the
meeting earlier than the rest, came in¬
to the Vestibule and was surprised to
discover Peg kneeling dowu and cry¬
ing.
“Poor child,” sho said kindly,
“what is the trouble? Had you not
better go home?”
But the gentle words only made
Peg cry (he more; but she managed
to utter between her sobs:
“I have no home.”
Something touched the good wo¬
man’s susceptible heart, and raising
Peg to her feet she took the worn-out
girl to her own home not far away.
She did not weary Peg with words.
asked no questions, but herself
undressed die little thin form, and
helped her into a bed whose linen was
as white as Peg’s pinafore used to be
in the old days on the farm. And
soon Peg was sleeping,a little restless¬
ly perhaps, hut still sleeping, while
her unknown friend sat by the bed¬
side watching this child who had been
friendless Tor so long. The warm
tears coursed down the good woman’s
cheeks as Peg, in her dreams, muttered
lines from one of her old Sunday-
school hymns that had always, some¬
how, reminded tho girl of her early
life in the country.
"Where everlasting spring abides,
And never withering flowers.”
She murmured. And soon after¬
wards,
“Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood
Stand dressed in living green.”
When Peg woke from tiie first sleep
she was in a fever. She grew rapidly
worse, and for many days she knew
nothing about where she was or who
was caring ft>r her. But she was ten¬
derly nursed and the motherly soul
who was Peg’s good angel
came io love the waif she had so
strangely picked up iu the church
vestibule.
One. summer evening, when Pog was
much bett.Qr, her good hostess said:
“My dear, I am going to take you
to my son s place in the country. John
is a farmer and has a delightful farm.
I think that down there we can bring
back tho roses to your cheeks. Wo
shall start tomorrow.”
Peg was still very weak, and unable
to stand, or even sit up. So she was
taken to the depot in a hack, and then
placed in the snug little stateroom of
a Pullman car. The ride was not a
long one; for they left. Chicago after
breakfast, and were at their destination
before noon.
A roomy spring wagon, with plenty
of pillows and rugs, met them at tho
country ttaiion, and Peg was made
very comfortable. As they drove
along the roadway, between the fields
of golden wheat and green waving
‘corn, Peg seemed to recognize
•objects. Little' by ; little the truth
dawned upon her, though she could
hardly believe her own senses when
the wagon halted ill front of her old
home. Yet it was really true, though
even her kind friend did not know it*
and the room reserved for Peg was
the identical bedroom which she had
occu pied in the days of the little white
pinafore an I the big sunbonnet.
The good lady’s son was the man who
had bought the farm, and he and his
sister proved to possess as kindly
hearts as did their mother. At all
events, although it is almost four
rears since she returned ‘ so
p»e'edly to her old home, Peg (strong
and healthy again) is still a visitor at
the Indiana farm. And she is quietly
happy, for she is engaged to be mar¬
ried to the owner of the farm,
she cxpec's to remain on the dear old
place the remainder of her
[Yankee Blade.
According, to the London
Journal the number of rich
who rent moors and fishings in Scot-
is on the increase.
CAllNESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10.1800.
A NOVEL HALL
It Is Made From One of Cali¬
fornia’s Mammoth Trees.
Ten Men Took Seventy-Two
Days to Cut the Forest Giant.
A novel hall is now on exhibition in
San Francisco which is only seven feet
in height ami twenty feet in diameter.
It contains nothing inside but a row of
bright lights, yet it is an aged curiosi¬
ty. It was made from a section of a
“Big Tree,” Sequoia Gigantca, which
was growing until last winter in Tulare
Count.., Cal.
Tlio tree is supposed to have stood
in the forest for nearly three thousand
years. It measured at its base ninety-
liinc feet in circumference, and its
height was three hundred and twelve
feet. Last January men were seat
into the forest to cut the tree when
snow was sixteen feet in deptti around
its trunk. It took ten men seventy-
two days to cut tiie tree, and several
months were consumed in taking out
the inner portion of the section and
preparing it for exhibition "It was
the hardest work I 'ever did in my
life,” remarked one of the exhibitors.
The section composing the hail was
severed from the 'trunk at a distance
of twenty-eight feet from the ground-
No saw was long enough for cutting
through tiie large trunk, therefore it
was necessary to have one made for
this purpose. Tlio Pacific steel woiks
produced one as long as possi-
b'e, it being twenty-two feet and rc-
quiring eight men to work it. This
length fell short of what was needed,
but by fastening strong wire on eithe 1 ’
end of the saw tlio section was at
length cut from tlio trunk, which was
sixty feet in circumference at this
point.
The section was separated into
several pieces. One which is now the
floor of the hail is a solid pieco weigh¬
ing 19,728 pounds. It is one foot in
height by twenty feet in diameter.
Another piece of the sifme height
and diameter, makes the flat roof of
the hall. The. various pieces were
transported to the city on flat cars, and
freight was paid ou seventy thousand
pounds.
As one enters the large tout on Mar¬
ket, street, the section now made into
a hall is seen in tho centre. It is
raised several feet from the ground
and stands on. nine turned pedestals
made from the same tree. Five or
six steps lead up into the hall, these
being also made from the tree. Much
of the outer bark has been burned off,
leaving some of tho remainder
blackened by the tire.
Many big trees have this blackened
appearance, caused, it is supposed, by
some great fire hundreds of years ago.
In proof that the tire is of no recent
date, sugar pines from thirty to thirty-
six feet in circumference, and two
hundred and fifty feet iu height have
been found growing by the side of
blackened sequoia trees and showing
no signs of fire, proving that the pines
have grown to (heir large size since
the great conflagration.
Elegant souvenirs are carved and
polished by wood turners at one side
of the tent. All souvenirs bein-g made
from the tree and its thick bark, found
one hundred feet up the trunk, where
the fire got no hold upon it. One hun¬
dred and thirty little boys were Stowed
inside of this hall at once, not long
since, and another day eighty-four
girls and boys from the asres of seven
to fifteen, also one man, were all stand¬
ing in the tree-hall together. After¬
wards a photograph of the latter group
was taken, and is now exhibited there.
A swinging door was cut from the sec¬
tion and serves to close tlio opening at
the top of the flight of stairs.
In the floor of the hall a curiosity is
seen in the shape of tree bark several
inches in length. It is supposed that
some hundreds of years ago the tree
was injured at this spot from some
cause, and as the trunk increased in
size it grew around it, leaving the bark
inside as seen today. It is the inten¬
tion to exhibit this section of the
largest tree ever cut in California in
various cities prior to being taken to
the World’s Fair at Chicago. — [New
York Observer.
The Chinese Sacred Lily.
The Chinese sacred or Oriental lily
is one of the most charming plants for
indoor culture. The Shui 8in Far, or
Water Fairy Flower, .Toss Flower, or
Flower of the Gods, &c., ns it is
called by the Colestials, is a variety of
narcissus, bearing in lavish profus’ou
chasto flowers of silvery white, with
golden yellow cups. It is of exquisite
beauty and perfume. It is grown by
tlio Chinese, according to their ancient
custom, to herald the advent of their
new year P,ud as a symbol of gcQ.l
luck.
The uulbs aro grown by a method
known only to themselves, whereby
they attain great size and vitality, in¬
suring luxuriant growth and immense
spikes of flowers; in fact, the incred¬
ibly short time required to bring tho
bulbs into bloom (four or six weeks
after planting) is one of (lie wonders
of nature. ‘‘You can almost see them
grow,” succeeding everywhere and
with everybody. They do well in pots
of earth, but are more novel and
beautiful grown in shallow bowls of
water, with enougli fancy pebbles to
prevent them toppling over when in
blooin. 1
A dozen bulbs started at intervals
will give a succession of flowers
throughout the winter. As the plant
is partially aquatic in its nature,plenty
of water is necessary, if it be grown
in soil it should be light and sandy.
After the bulbs liavo been planted
they should bo kept in a closet or in a
cool, dark place for a few days to in¬
duce a growth of roots before the tops
start; afterward they should be placed
in a sunny window.
■ They succeed in ail ordinary living
room, yet it is necessary for them to
bo kept away from the gas, as it
causes the flowers to blast. By halv¬
ing a small incision with a knife
across tho top of the bulb in two or
three places from one-half to one inch
from the centre, a fresh lot of leaves
is caused and flower stalks will start
from those points. The culling, how¬
ever, must be carefully done, so as not
to injure the bulb; tlio skin simply
need bo cut to liberate tho leaves.
The Chinese lily bulbs sell at 25 cents
each or $2.60 per dozen.—[New York
Times.
How She Drove.
"Wagon loaded with building stone
going up Cass avenue on the righ hand
side. Two women iu a phaeton coming
down Cass avenue cn the left-hand
side, Horses meet head to,head and
stop.
Lady Driver—6«y!
Wagon Driver—Well?
“W-whnt do you mean? 1 '
“What do you menu?”
“Why don’t you turn out?”
“Why don’t you?”
“It isn’t my place to.”
“And it isn’t mine.”
“Yes, it is, you aro on the wrong
.
side.”
“Beg your pardon. The law says
keep to the light.”
“But I’m to the right.”
“No ma’am you’re to the left.”
“Mrs. Smith, which is my right
hand?” she asked of her companion.
“Why this one.”
“Then I’m wrong?”
“Well, I don’t care! lie ought to
know that I don’t know how to drive
and am almost scar’t to death and that
I've run into three grocery wagons al¬
ready this morning. You cluck and
I'll pull, and we’ll turn ont; but that
man is no gentleman. I don’t believe
he ever went through college.”
Fire Escape Drills in Schools.
The practising of pupils in the fire
drill, in order to prevent accidents
from the alarm of fire, is now regarded
a 3 a most important part of ■ school
training. . In the schools of Vienna,
the fire-escape drill is executed in
three different ways. In the case of a
fire in the neighborhood (Signal No.
1) the pupils place their books in their
satchels, put on their outer garments,
and leave tho class room in groups of
four. If (lie danger is imminent (Sig.
nal No. 2) the books aro left,, the
outer garments rapidly put on and the
class room is vacated.
In case of extreme peril (Signal No.
3) the books and clothing are left, and
the exit is made immediately in groups.
In the fire drill at Hamilton, Canada,
arrangements are also made for each
class to keep Us own side of the stair¬
way, and move on independently of
other classes preceding or following.
Tn this school 600 pupils have vacated
their class room in less than two min¬
utes. The fire drill is not only .an ef¬
fective safeguard against the danger
of panics, but is also a good gymnas¬
tic exercise.
The Ludicrous in Otter Hunting.
Hunting the otter is not altogether
devoid of the ludicrous element, for
in the excitement of tho chase many a
bold foliovvor lias lost his foothold on
the slippery rocks and lias tound him¬
self not lauded on terra finna, but
soused into an adjoining pool, amid
the shouts of laughter from his more
fortunate companions; then, again, in
these days of barbed wire, used by tho
farmers to keep their cattle from wad¬
ing across the stream into their neigh¬
bor’s land, the unwary sportsman finds
himself hooked up, and in trying to
extricate himself from the ih-st grasp,
finds that ho has hopelessly got himself
entangled by a further and a stronger
hold.—[Commercial Advertiser.
CHILDREN’S COLUMN,
WHAT 11ENNIK SAID.
Bennie had eaten an orange,
And a smile Ills sweet face wi%
Ifelaid eaten apples many a tint*
But never an orange before.
“Oh, it was gold I” lie to d mo;
Then naively added ho:
"Mamma picked all the apple-seeds
Out of the orange for me!”
ADOBE.
Adobo aro sun-baked bricks, of fine
sand and clay dust, made in tho same
manner as common bricks, but very
smooth and hard. They aro much
used for building dwellings in Mexico
apd Central America. Adobe houses
are generally of one story, and warmer
in winter and cooler in summer than
wooden or stone houses.— [Detroit
Free Press.
STOKY OF A DOVE.
A Massachusetts young woman re¬
ports that she saw an unusual atten¬
dant iu a church in a rural Maine
town which she visited during tho
past summer. Hearing the cooing of
a dove she looked around and saw a
white dove perched oil the organ and
listening to the music with great ap¬
preciation. Sho learned afterwards
that the dove lmd been a regular at¬
tendant at (lie church for eight or ten
years, being attracted by (lie music, of
which it was very fond. It was
twoive years old, and was tlio pot of a
woman who lived near. Af ler church
the dove was taken to a Sunday school
class, and seemed to enjoy the pro¬
ceedings—[New York Witness.
A ROYAL PICKPOCKET.
Frederick the Great rang his bell
for liis pago to attend him, but no
page appeared. Again and again lie
rang, but still tlio summons was disre¬
garded, and the monarch, opening his
door and passing into the autc-cliam-
ber, found the heedless page asleep in
a chair.
The corner of a letter was projecting
from the youth’s pocket, and liis royal
highness, probably thinking it was a
love letter, and that it would aflfo: d him
some amusement, quietly abstracted it
and began to read the contents.
It turned out, however, to be a let¬
ter from the mother of the page, fer¬
vently thanking her son for his kind¬
ness in remitting to her a large portion
of his salary.
The king was so gratified at this in¬
stance of filial affection that lie inclos¬
ed a large sum of money in the letter
and returned it to the pocket of his
page, who slept on, oblivious of either
his royal master’s larceny or gener¬
Citizen.
“SING A SONG Of SIXPENCE.”
“Tlio four and twenty blackbirds
represents twenty-four hours. The
bottom of the pie is tho world, the
top crust is the sky that overarches it.
The opening of tlio pio is day dawn,
when the birds begin to sing, and
surely such a sight is a ‘dainty dish
to set before a king.’
“The king, who is represented as
sitting in liis parlor counting his
money, is the sun; while the gold
pieces that slip through his fingers are
golden sunshine. The queen, who sits
in the dark kitchen, is the moon, and
the honey with which she regales her¬
self is the moonlight.
“The industrious maid, who is in
the garden at work before the king—
the sun—has risen, is the day dawn,
and tiie clothes she hangs out are the
clouds, while the bird which so tragic¬
ally ends the song by ‘nipping off her
nose’ is the hour of sunset. So wo
have the whole day—in a pie."
THE SPIDER’S APPETITE.
Tt is not everybody who knows how
much a spider can eat. Most of us
have derived amusement, and perhaps
instruction, from watching tho suhtlo
arrangements and devices of the little
tactician with a view to catch some
dainty little insect, and many of us
would know exactly where to place this
interesting creature in the classification
of animal life, but probably very few
of us have any ide i what a voracious
gourmand the spider is. A gentleman,
scientifically inclined and luxuriating
in tlio rare possession of leisure, has
recently given to the world some very
curious and startling statements a9
regards the voracious appetite.
He captured a spider an 1 kept it in
confinement, supplying it liberally
with food and carefully recording his
observations. Ilo estimated that fie
creature ate four times its weight for
breakfast, nine times its weight for
dinner, thirteen times its weight for
sapper, finishing up with an ounce of
food. In the same proportion a man
of average weight would demolish an
ox for breakfast, two more for dinner,
a couple of bullocks, eight sheep and
four pigs for supper, and then a hun¬
dredweight of lull to prepare the way
for in aldertnaiiie banquet before re¬
tiring to bed.—[Picayune
Elephants at Work.
Tho lion. Carter II. Harrison, in his
“Paco with tho Sun,” describes a visit
to some timber-yards and saw-mills in
Rangoon, where he saw what ho calls
tho lions of the city—the working ele¬
phants. Tho lumber is not sawed into
boards, but tho slab is taken ofl' and
tho good stuff left in tho form of a
square timber. The logs arc many of
them throo feet in diameter and 30 or
forty feet long. These tho elephants
draw from tho river, and pile in sys¬
tematic order. Then, when (hoy arc
needed, they roll them to the ways and
assist in adjusting them for the saw.
After tho log is cut tho elephant
goes among the machinery, takes the
slabs away, and carries the good tim¬
ber and piles it up or lays it gently
upon 1 ho ox-carts to be hauled off.
While wo were present a carpenter
wanted lumber from n particular log
which was under several others. One
of (he monsters rolled the upper logs
oil'and pushed the chosen stick to tho
mill. The way was not clear—the log
butted against tho others, lie pushed
these aside Ihciji and guided his pieco
through with a sagacity almost
human. V
llis stick l [ beeamo wedged, lie
pushed and tugged; it would not
budge, but at a whispered word from
tho mahout and the promise of nice
food he bent to it. Stilt it stuck.
With a whistle audible for half a mile,
lie got on liis knees, straightened out
his hind legs, and put his whole force
into a push. lie was successful. We
could almost read his satisfaction, in
the gentle flaps of his Inigo ears and
the graceful curve of his proboscis as
lie put it up to the mounted mahout,
nsking for his reward.
Sticks more than two feet thick and
twenty feet long are lifted bodily up"
on the great ivories, and aro then
carried off and laid upon tho gangways
so gently as not to make. ajar. We
saw one of the ck phants carrying such
a limber along a path not three feet
wide among masses of loose logs.
He had to plant his fore feet upon
the logs, and thus walk a considerable
distance. lie looked as if lie were
walking upon his hind legs. The cor¬
ner of a frail little bamboo lint stood
in his wav. He lifted the log over
tho roof and bent his body so that his
Bides gently scraped tho corner of the
house and did not shako it. A hun¬
dredth part of his weight would have
caused it to topple from its pile foun¬
dation. .
Caprices of Soils.
The system of studying the ndnpta
tion of soils to crops lias grown out of
the failure of attempts to settle such
questions in the laboratory, This
work, as is shown in a Bulletin of llio
Ohio Experiment Station, is attended
with great difficulties. So great is
tho variation in natural fertility in
soils that appear to the eye to be iden¬
tical in composition, that the results of
field experimentation are liable to be
even more misleading than those of
tlio laboratory.
Take any single acre of ground for
illustration. An open glade in tho
original forest may have permitted the
wind to sweep away its winter cover¬
let of leaves, and they may have lodged
in a thicket of underbrush adjoining,
carrying stores of potash and phos¬
phoric acid with them. Such a glade
may have been for centuries the pas¬
turing ground for deer. It would
then accumulate nitrogen, but would
lose potash and phosphoric acid
through an additional channel, while
the thicket would accumulate these in
excess of nitrogen.
The grow tli of a surface-rooting tree
in one spot may have drawn upon the
adjacent surface-soil for supplies of
potash; that of a tree with a deep tap
root in another may have drawn its
support largely from deeper layers
the soil, and also liavo opened a way
for drainage. A slight depres-ion of
tlio soil here may have received added
fertility in the wasle from a
elevation there, and he who has
the soil carefully, especially where
levels are shown by the melting
snow when the ground is frozen,
havo detected irregularities of
unsuspected by the casual
[Popular Science Monthly.
Prices Paid for "Wild Animals.
In the European market even wild
beasts have their price. The
centre of the wild beast trade (says
Continental contemporary) is
burg, where the price list is as follows:
Lions and tigers average $380 apiece;
leopards, $90; spotted panthers, $150;
while black panthers range from
to $760. For spotted tigers Hie
sum of $1200 is paid. The
value of a rhinoceros varies
$1750 to $4000; African
average $250; Indian elephants
The price of monkeys ranges
$4 for a small monkey to $500
chimpanzees aud orang-outangs.
NO. 50.
Endurance. >
now much the heart may bear, and yet not
break!
Ilow much the flesh may sutler and not
die I
I question much if any pain or ache
Of mil or body brings our end more
nigh. .. ,
Death clioscs his own tithe; till that is worn
All evils may bq borne.
Wo shrink and shudder at the surgeon’s
knife,
Each nerve recoiling from tlio cruel steel.
Whose edge seems searching for the o liver-
ing life;
Yet to our sense the bitter pangs revea,
That still, although the trembling flesh b«
torn,
Tills, also, can be borne.
Wc sec a sorrow rising in our way,
And try to flee from tbo approaching ill,
We seek some small escape—wc weep and
pray.
But when the blow falls, then our hearts
are still—
Not that the pain Is of its sharpness shorn,
But think it must be borne.
We wind our life about another life,
We hold It closer, dearer than our own;
Anon it faints and falls In deadly strife,
Leaving us stunned, and stricken, and
alone;
But all 1 we do not die with those wc mourn;
This, also, can be boruc.
Behold, we live through all things, famlno,
thirst.
Bereavement, pain; all grief amt misery,
All woo and sorrow ; life inflicts its worst
Oil soul and body, but we canhot die,
Though wc lie sick, and tired, and taint, and
worn;
Lo! all things can be borne.
HUMOROUS.
Lumbermen and mariners keep a
log book.
No man is as good at homo as liis
picture looks in a neighbor's album.
If ono cannot go to s’ccp, why not
wait patiently for sleep to come to
him.
The finest young ladies’ seminary in
this country is noted for its miss-man-
agement.
No matter how deaf a man may bo
elsewhere, he can always ..have a hear¬
ing in court.
Bolts—I can toil plush from seal two
blocks away. Watts—Ilow? Bolts—
By the way the wearer carries her
head.
If I’m not a little more careful, said
the lien as she discovered n china egg
in her nest, I shall be laying bricks
next.
Philanthropist—I sunposo this lazi¬
ness is bred in you fellows. Tramp—
Not liy a big sight. I’m as empy as
a vacuum.
Mrs. Wrangle—If you keep on stav¬
ing out so late you’d kill youiself.
Mr. Wrangle—Then I’ll still be youi
late husband.
“Ten dimes make one dollar,” said
the schoolmaster.” “Now go on, sir.
Ten dollars make one— what?” “They
make one mighty glad these times.”
“Father,” said the young man who
had been severely lectured, “1 hav t
done my best.” “Yes,” said the old
gentleman, “when I think of youi
facility in the line of blunders I am
disposed to conclude that you have.
You have done nothing.”
“I see,” said a man entering a enter-
cr’s establishment, “that you adver¬
tise weddings furnished.” “Yes, sir,’
replied ttie caterer briskly. “1 wish
you would semi a couple to my house
right away. I’ve two daughters I’d
like to get off my hands.”
Malaga Grapes.
The Malaga grape is largo, crisp and
delicious, and is now a spcciul favorite
since tho physicians were proscribing
it last Winter as the thing that eo.uld
he eaten by sufferers from the grip.
The consumption of the fruit in this
country has increased 100 per cent, in
tiie last ten years. But supplies are
limited. From a small province only
of Malaga aro the grapes . shipped.
They are of such a tender nature that
they can be shipped only in September,
when the fruit is first ripe, and a few
thousand barrclls is the limit of
American shipments. Spain, how¬
ever, sends to this country largo'quan-
titics of grapes which are called
Malagas.
Tho Spanish fruit is while in color
and has astonishing tenacity of life.
The grapes begin to ripen about the
middle of August and are usually liar,
vested by October 1. The Lunches,
when plucked from tlip vines,are piled
in ventilated places to a depth of two
or three feet and allowed to “sweat”
for a couple of days; this is to toughen
tlio skins. They are then packed in
barrels between layers of cork dust,
and will keep in that condition for a
long time—indeed, for a year. Last
year 140,000 barrels, or about 3,600,-
000 pounds of these graues came to
America, and prices f ir them ranged
very high. At least 200,000 ba role
aro expected to arrive in New York
this year and tlio demand it high pri.
ces, will also bo active. — [Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette.