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VOL. II.
The Song Thut Silas Sung,
Neighbor Silas sun’ a song
Every day his whole life long,
Sung it gladly ’neatb the cloud
That hung o’er him like a shroud,
Or when sunbeams with their play
<}learned am' glorilied his way,
hike a shower of joy outihmg
Was the song that .Silas sung:
“Let the howlers howl
And the seowlers scowl,
And the growlors growl,
And the gruff ganggo it;
But behind the night
There’s a plenty of light.
And everything Is all right
And 1 know it!”
Like Die battle drum to me
AVns that song of victory,
Like the flute’s exultant strain
’Mid Die wounded and the slain,
Like the quick bloods', bring life
On the battle-plain of life—
Far and free the echoes rung
Of the song that Silas sung:
“Let Die howlers howl.
And the seowlers scowl,
And the growlers growl,
And the gruff’gang go it;
But behind the night
There’s a plenty of light,
Ami everything is all right
And I know it!”
f?i!as’ soul lias taken flight,
Passed in music through the night,
Through the shadow chill and gray
And gone singing on Its way;
But the (plaint song that was his
Cheers the saddened silences;
Still glad triumph notes arc flung
From the song that Silas sung:
‘•Lot the bowlers howl,
And the seowlers scowl,
And the growlers growl,
And the gruff gang go it;
But behind the night
There’s a plenty of light,
Ami everything is ail right
And I know it !”
— [S. W. Foss, in Yankee Blade.
BESS TREFOIL'S REWARD
Ill' A51V RANDOLPH.
It ivas *a clear, frosty February
morning, (he sun glistening on a man¬
tle of newly fallen snow, the wind
whistling merrily around the street-
corners, and Flora Trefoil made haste
to button her Avell worn jacket and
fasten on her black felt bat with Die
gold-green cock’s plume.
“How I do hate to work,” mur¬
mured she, with a pout of her rose-red
lips. “Hoav 1 wish i were rich, like
(hat swartiiy-coinplexioned little Cu¬
ban heiress, Avho orders such lot3 of
dresses of Madame! I say, Bess,” to
the pale cousin, who was helping Mrs.
Trefoil to clear away the dishes, “do
make haste. Do you want to be fined
Lor being late?”
“I shall not be late,” said Bess. “1
call walk very fasl when once we are
out. But Aunty Nan has a headache
this morning, and I cau’t. leave her
with all this to do!”
“Aunty Nan is always having head¬
aches,” said Flora. “1 say, Bess, if
wc go on that big sleigh-ride to-night,
what shall you wear? The red merino?
Charley Cotesworth likes red! He
said so, last week.”
“I don’t know,” said Bess, coloring
a little. “Aunty Nan, I’ll bring up
some buns for tea, and a pound of
crackers. I’m ready now, Flora.”
At Madame Enrico's place limes
were unusually bus}'. Several brilliant
balls Avere to take place just before
Lent, and Madamo’s customers were
people who seemed to believe that
nothing in tho dressmaking line Avas
impossible. Flora and Bess Trefoil
were among her best hands, and just
as the little errand-girl was lighting
up the rooms, the fat Frenchwoman
waddled hurriedly in Avherc Flora sat.
“Miss Trefoil,” said she, “here is
in order from Mrs. Goldcoin. She
wants an olive-plush gOAVii by lo-mor-
row afternoon, Avithout fail, and if I
don’t lake (ho job, she’ll give it to that
odious Miss Main waring on Union
Square. I must get it done. Your
cousin is fitting her upstairs hoav, and
you must take the gOAVii home to
make.”
“To-night! Oh,” cried Flora, re¬
membering the projected sleigh ride.
“I couldn't, possibly.”
“It must be done,” said Madame
Enrico, knitting her black eycbroAVs.
“In an emergency like this, I expect
iny young Avomen to help me—if they
intend to retain their places. Of course,
I shall pay you in proportion,” siie
added, encouragingly.
“But 1 had an engagement—”
“Your engagement must wait,” said
the modiste, authoritatively. “Here is
the skirt and the pattern-plate. The
bodice will be sent doAvn from (he lit-
ting room directly.”
Flora could have burst into (ears,
had sucli grief been of any avail but
she Avas not yet at her AVits’ end—and
Avheu the Iavo cousins joined each other
at the little side exit where the
“hands” went out on their way home,
I’hedii”, ebe pave (he parcel Into Be..’,
“St!” 1.
I,ing that Madame
wants If you to -el ltni.lie.1 bv tom .now
L. oou on understand Mrs. Goldcoin',
THE ENTERPRISE.
figure. Of course, you’ll have to work
all night, but she’s willing to pay you
extra 1 ”
Bess opened her dark-gruy . eyes
wide.
“I thought thogownwaato bo given
to you,” said site. “Madamo Enrico
told me—”
“Oh, uo,” said Flora, uttering the
ready lie without blanching, “it’s you,
this timo. And, since you can’t go on
file sleigh-ride, do you mind my wear¬
ing the cherry-colored merino? My
crushed-raspberry cashmere is really
getting too shabby to be decent.”
Bess was silent. For weeks she had
been looking forward to this sleigli-
ridc, and in hor heart she dearly loved
Charles Co esworth, who was (o have
been her cavalier. The big (ears
sparkled into her eyes; her lower lip
quivered. Flora watched her with
furtive intentness.
“it’ll suit you, exactly,” said she.
“You are such a money-worshiping
little miser!”
“I am not a miser,” retorted Bess.
“But I do like to help Aunty Nan
a little, and to pay Cousin Thankful
Morse’s ward at the Old Ladies’
Home.”
“One cun’l support all the old peo¬
ple in creation,” Flora said. “Aunt
Nan isn’t our real relation after all—”
“But she brought us up and cared
for us when we were little, Flora."
“And she don’t need half the things
you are always getting for her,”
scornfully added Flora. “You spoil
everybody, Bess.”
Cousin Thankful Morse had come
over from the Home, by the aid of a
stout crutch, to sec the girls start on
their sleighing expedition; she sat by
(lie fire, drinking a cup of tea and
munching toast.
“La me I” cried she. “Bess not
going? And arter settiu’ such a deal
o’ store by it! Well, I declare, it’s
too bad.”
Bess sat quietly down to work at
the olive plush dress with its shim¬
mering draperies of rich olive satin
and velvet passementerie trimmings;
while Flora attired herself in the red
merino, and adjusted a new hat
picturesquely trimmed with fur, that
she had borrowed from Madame Eu¬
rico’s head trimmer for the occasion.
“Bess lias made up her mind not to
come,” said she, in answer to young
Cotcsworth’s eager inquiry. “She had
a chance to do a little extra sewing
for extra pay, and dear Bess is dread¬
fully fond of money for one so young.
Quite a miser, you know.” Aiul
Flora’s laugh rang out sweet and
clear, above the jingle of the sleigh-
bells.
It was long pas) midnight when the
gay party returned, but Bess still sat
sewing at the machine. She listened,
with a pale, set face, to Flora’s exag¬
gerated description of “the delightful
time they had had.”
“I’d help you, Bess, if I wasn’t so
awfully tired,” said Flora, with a
yawn. “Arc you nearly through?”
Bess smiled. Did Flora dream, she
thought, how tired she was? And
there were yet four or live hours’
work on (he gown.
“Oh,” casually added Flora, “I for¬
got to tell you that I stepped on the
skirt of the red merino dress, getting
into the sleigh to come home, and
tore it into ribbons. But it was an
old thing, anyway. You couldn’t
have got much more wear out of it.
And Charlie was so nice.”
“Was he? Didu t be ask where I. !
was?”
Flora shook her head. Where Avas
tho use. she thought, of encouraging
Bess to think loo much of the hand-
some young steam-fitter, whom she,
Flora, had fully determined to make
her own prey ?
“I’m so tired of this everlasting
dress-making,” said FldVa lo herself.
“And Charles CotesAVorth would be a
husband for any girl to be proud of.”
Cousin Thankful Morse sat in hor
little room at the Dal Ladies’ Home,
the next day, Avlien the matron
brought the steamfitler’s foreman to
look at the flawed radiator-pipes un¬
der the window. She kueiv him at
once.
“Why it’s Mr. CotesAVorth, ain’t
it?” said she, peering over Die rims of
her silver spectacles. “Well, 1 do de¬
clare! Why, Bess Trefoil avhs just
here. She come to bring me a new
fur tippet and muff’; I couldn’t ’a’ gone
to church next Sunday Avitli the old
lynx set, so badly eaten witli moths.
She set up all night (o finish a j >b for
the dressmaker; it was one, too, that
Flora ought to hav done, but she
somehow contrived to push it off 0,1 j
to Bess—Flora allays Avas a selfish j
ereetur’—and Be. jet .pull had
the hr m« and
auiit *.! B... i. allay. U,Inking at :
yoplo. It-. Be,, as pay. I
board hare. Mr. Cotesworth,” added I
W,, » Charlie i
b-n, examine ,bo join,, ot the.tone, i
CARNESVILLB, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL IT. 1891.
pipes. “I’d be on t ho to wild cf It
wasn’t for her. Flora wouldn’t care
nothin’ ef 1 was. She thinks old folks
hain’t no business to exist, l’oor
Bess! i was dreadful sorry for her
last night; she wanted to go on that
slcigh-rido awful bad! But sho
knoived of she lost the place at Mad¬
amo 'What’s-hor-name’s, there wouldn’t
be no rent paid nor clothes bought for
Mrs. Trefoil!”
Charles Cotesworth straightened
himself up.
“She really wauled to go, then?”
said lie. “Flora told me—”
Cousin Thankful wagged hor head
of stiff little gray curls.
“You can’t put no dependence on
what Flora Trefoil says,” declared
she. “She’s allays a-try in* to put
other people in the background. I
jest wish you could ’a’ seen Bess cry in’
over her work aider you’d all gone
nway and loft her last night!”
“Do you think,” said Cotesworth,
seizing iiis monstrous nippers as if
with fatal intent, “site would be at
home if 1 were to call to-night?”
Cousin Thankful looked wondrously
sage.
“Ef I was you, Charlie,” said she,
“I’d go to the dressmaker’s place and
sort o’ calculate (o walk homo with
her. Or else, like’s not, you’ll find
yourself caught in some of Flora’s
tricks and traps. I hain’t no confi¬
dence in Flora!”
Mr. Cotesworth availed himself of
the old woman’s hint. When Bess
Trefoil came out of Madame Enrico’s
little side-door that evening into the
daik street, where the gas-lamps
blurred feebly against Die driving mist
Which was fast effacing Die purity of
Die snow, Charlie’s umbrella was wait¬
ing for her.
“Mr. Cotesworth!” she cried, with a
little start.
“You arc not sorry to see me, Bess?”
“No; but—but—”
“Bessie, I didn’t half enjoy the
sleigh ride last night without you.”
Her face shone radiant under the
row of theatre lamps which they were
just passing.
“Really?”
(It seemed such a silly tiling to say,
but what else was there for hor?)
They were in a dark place now; he
drew her arm in his.
“We can walk better under one um¬
brella—so,” taid he. “I wonder, Bess,
what you would say if I were to ask
you to Avalk through all Dio years of
life at my side.”
“1 think,” murmured Bess, “I—
should say—yes.”
Flora Trefoil was amazed beyond
measure when she found that quiet,
pale Bess had been Charles Cotes-
worth’a choice, in spite of Her own
more showy fascinations. But Cousin
Thankful chuckled to herself, in (he
little corner room of the Old Ladies
Home: Tfa!
“She deserves her happiness, every
bit of it,” said Cousin Thankful; “and
l’in proper glad that Flora has got
come up with.”—[The Ledger.
Sea Serpents.
Mr. Garman, in a lecture before tho
Boston Society of Natural History,
gave an interesting synopsis of sea
snake or sea serpent literature, besides
exhibiting a specimen of the real ser¬
pent to the astonished audience. The
professor first gave an historical resume
of the earlier literature upon tho sub¬
ject, going back to llie time of Pontop-
pidan and reviewing it doivn to dale.
on in his lecture iio gave fig-
u res of some of the queer marine
monsters Avhich have from time to time
frightened sailors and others almost to
death, deftly drawing each of the
figures on a blackboard specially pro¬
vided for Die occasion. Mr. Garman
also spoke of a most remarkable recent
discovery Avhicli has brought to light a
species of shark generally believed to
have become extinct many thousands
of years ago, the remains of tlio ani¬
mal being hoav found in the rocks of
the Devonian system. He is of the
opinion Diat this recently discovered
sea tiger is the original of more than
one blood-curdling sea serpent story.
The length and general outlines of this
sliould-be-fossiled shark arc such as to
cause any one except a born naturalist
to take it for an immense serpent, an
opinion which would, of course, be
heightened by vieAving a dorsal ex¬
posure of the creature through a glass
in a troubled sea. Professor Garman
does not discredit sea serpent stories,
however, and is of the opinion that
there are many slimy monsters lying
far down upon the bottom of the sea,
^ jj|. e 0 j which human eyes have
licvev yet beheld.— [St.Louis Republic,
----—.——-
An Bllkin, Important Point.
(reading) - Tka
palat. Lima- ot lino .cal fur. « M the
Mr. Bulkina—Hntiipli I Seem, to mo
the first point i. lb. prioa.-[Goou
.Yews.
A LOCUST PLAGUE.
An Annual Affliction of Aus-
.#• tralian Agriculturists.
Locusts Covering tho Ground
Four Inches Deep.
In order to check, if possible, tho
annual plaguo of locusts that devour
Die herbage and blast the hopes of
graziers, farmers and fruit growers to
a greater or less extent in December,
Die Victorian Government proclaimed
November 7 and 8 last as holidays for
the scholars and sohoolmasters in Dio
rural districts, in order that they
might co-operato with Die settlers in
destroying Die young locusts in the
early stage of their development, be¬
fore they have been equipped with
wings enabling thorn to take flight
over (he country to begin their work
of devastation. With this end in
vicar, preparations were made in
numerous parts of tiff: interior to de¬
stroy the pest in various ways, such
as by healing with branches Die beds
in Die fields whore Die as yet wingless
creatures were known to exist, or har¬
rowing Die ground or turning
flocks of sl.ccp upon the iaud
and moving "them rapidly about
6 o as to tread upon and kill
or injure the young brood, and also by
spreading straw on Die plague spots
and setting fire to it. In such ways
vast destruction was done to tho
armies of the young locusts in the
early stage of tlieir existence. It was
seen, however, that the raid upon Die
vermin should have been inado some¬
what earlier, as numbers were already
so far advanced us to bo on Die wing
on Ibis mission ef mischief; and be¬
sides, the attack upon them was not so
generally made as was desirable in
some districts of Victoria, while north
of the Murray ctffnparativcly little ef¬
fort was put ’forth to cope with the
evil, owing to the fact that on the
New South Wales and South Austra¬
lian side of the Murray the bulk of Die
land is taken up lyilli large squatting
runs, and population is sparse there,
thus giving the ravaging locusts almost
complete scope to propnga’e.
People at home can hardlv conceive
how serious the locust plague is in
these colonies. Recently the reports
came (hat Die creatures massed them¬
selves so thickly along some of the
lines of railways that, although the
brakes were shut down, the trains
could not be brought to a slain! until
they had gone half a mile beyond the
stations, owing to the multitudes
crushed beneath the wheels causing
the trains to pass along as if the rails
were covered with oil. The wheels
actually slid along the rails, in many
of the northernlowns the inhabitants
had to close their doors to keep out
tho invading hosts. Tlio plague has
hoav fairly begun work,Avritcs a corre¬
spondent of the Glasgow Herald. In the
southern parts of Noav South Wales
and some of Die northern portions of
Victoria Die outlook is ominous. In
and around liarnawarthu (Victoria)
the insects arc spreading in sAvanns
and causing great dcstruciion. A
rcsideht of that district reports that in
traversing that part of the country in
his buggy Die Avhccls of ids vehicle
were completely imbedded in masses
of young caterpillars and grasshoppers,
which on many cxieiisivo areas
“covered the av hole surface (o a depth
of about four Indies like a gigantic
and undulating coat of green paint.”
Where the country presented any
depressions it Avas found impossible
to pass with a buggy, and in several
favorable localities, such as low-lying
lanes, etc., the insects were surging
about in masses some two or three
feet deep. The ground iu tlicir Avakc
is quite destitute of grass. Such are
some of the breeding grounds from
which Die fully developed creatures
take flight to iva.stc and destroy other
parts of the country. In Die Bntlier-
glen district (Victoria) the locusts arc
doing great damage, eating up the
grass and invading the extensive vine¬
yards. Ono vineyard owner there hav¬
ing ten acres of vinos reports his entire
crop as spoiled. The grapes are not
yet fully formed, but Die locusts are
busy stripping Die leaves and ring¬
ing the bunches, Iho result being that
these Avither and die. So dense are
the insects that work lias to be sus-
pended, as Die horses will not. face
them. Reports come from the Albury
district that the locusts are attacking
lhe flags on the Avlicat stalks, and in
Some instances the wheat heads have j
been eaten ofl’. One report stales that I
i„ tb. locality ol tV.lbamlrlc. .bon
tliiny mile. Aron. Alliury. tlie pe.t 1.
, r „clli., S southward,, li, the di,Hello,,
lhe M „my. in o.lman. .aver.l
wide, parli.lly oh.cming the
shy, mfh» and ndrniidng.nl the into of l.m I
in twcn.y.fonr bonrs. re,ling: .0
*««•' f~« ........ **
tlicir way to fresh pastures. — [Fall
Mall Gazette.
Alaskan Siren iiim Teem With Fish.
Alaska is 2000 miles in extent one
way by 1700 tulles (lie other. The icy
wustos of its northern part arc tlio
homo of (lie polar bear, while in its
southern forests the humming bird
nests. With fish tho streams aro so
crowded that a favorite method of
capturing them is by thrashing tho
surface of I ho water with a rake-
slmpcd instrument, a scaly victim
being often jerked out on each prong.
AY lien the salmon nrc making their
way up tl’.o rivers at tho spawning
season the bears come down in num¬
bers and feed upon them, eating only
the heads.
Boats aro often much impeded in
their progress by the finny myriads.
Tho ocean fishing banks of Alaska aro
greater in extent than those of (tie
north Atlantic,an.l atl’ord inexhaustible
supplies of fish, certainly equal if not
superior in size and qualiity to those
caught on Die eastern seaboard. Cod
are found there in vast quantities.
Along the Yukon the natives dry their
fish for winter use, burying what they
require for current consumption in Die
ground until it becomes sufficiently
putrid, when they eat it with a relish,
preferring it much in that way. Fun¬
nily enough, alligators in tho south
follow a very similar practise, burying
their meat in muddy banks until it lias
become sufficiently decayed to be
more digestible.— [Boston Transcript.
Weighed in the Balance.
A man who looked like a farmer en¬
tered a Michigan avenue grocery n
day or two ago and said lo the pro¬
prietor ;
“Do you remember that 1 catne here
about four weeks ago?”
“I can’t say that I do.”
“Can’t you remember of changing
a ten-doliar bill for a mau Avho asked
if you didn’t want a barrel of pickles?”
“No.”
“Why, you must, There was a
woman iu here at the time who said
yon cheated her on some butter, .She
said the weight was short. That was
wlmt led me to count my change over
after leaving the store, and 1
found--”
“I never saiv you before, sir!” in.
terrupted the grocer.
“Yes, you did!”
“Don’t attempt any tricks on me,
for they won’t work! If I gave you
change it ivas all light!”
••No, it Avasn’t! 1 found it tAVO dol¬
lars—”
“Go on! You aro asAvindlcr!”
“Very Avell ; good day. You gave
me t avo dollars loo much, hut if you
can stand it I can. It’ll pay for get¬
ting the mare shod all around, and I
Avon’t have anything on my con¬
science.”—[Detroit Free Press.
Whose Face Was It!
A fcAV years ago ivliile a Avorkman
at Pueblo, Col., avub dressing a block
of stone his chisel uncovered a hard
concretion near Die surface of Dio
block. Presently this concretion, which
Avas rounded on the hack, dropped
from the cavity in which it rested,
disclosing a perfect model of a human
face on its under surface, every out¬
line perfect, unhurt and unmarked by
tlio lool Avbicli had dislodged it. The
imprint in Die block Avas as perfect as
the model on the concretion, and many
piaster casts were taken from it by
arehaiologists and local curiosity-scek-
ers. Some of them casts found their
way to Die museums of the learned so¬
cieties of Europe, Avhere they created
much excitement and were the subject
of many debates. Many scientists
Avere inclined to take it as a perfect
human fossil, but the majority insist
upon it being merely an idol of pre¬
historic times. The stone in avIlcIi it
Avas found Avas some eighty feet below
the surface. — [St. Louis Republic.
The A-borning of a Fish.
Few things in (his Avorld are more
curious Ilian Die method by which a
little fish comes info being, The
grown female lays a quantity of eggs
and upon this spawn Die male subsc.
quently deposits its milt. The milt,
examined beiicatli Die microscope, is
found to contain ail endless number of
minute pollywogs. Each egg lias a
.mail Lola „ and through II,.. Hole
* cleus contained »»)<»;'.■ within '7 what ; n is “ called *
the “germinal ? vesicle.” The result is
that the nucleus , takes life and quickly
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,h ® n r> 1 ,e " C ,'f ink-ml’ iJ?i?
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bad «lwa,yh«n used to that ... t o,
FOlt THE HOUSEWIFE.
MEEE DKIPriNO BEATS LAUD.
Housekeepers will find that good
beef dripping is better than lard foi
some kinds of pastry and for frylny
purposes, though for I lie latter use it
burns sooner than lard. Clarify it by
pouring boiling water on it as it. it
\ taken from the dripping pan, idling
it stand till cold and firm, tlni taking
out (ho cake of fat and scraping ofl
Iho impurities from tin bottom; the
rest will be dean ami sweet, Bacon
fat can also be used in place of laru,
but mutton drippings will only answer
for frying purposes and iiiauy cooks
will not use thorn even for that.
— [Washington Star.
THIS Wll.I. ruinin' MANY DHKSSBS.
A small piece of paper or linen,
moistened with turpentine, and put
into tho wardrobe or drawers for a
single day t wo or throe tiinos a year,
is a preventive against mollis. Or an¬
other good way is to dissolvo alum
in hot water, making a very strong
solution; apply to furniture or crevi¬
ces in Dio wall with a paint brush.
This is auro dcstruciion to (hose not¬
ions vermin and invaluable because
easily obtained; is perfectly safe to
use and leaves no unpleasant traces
behind. When you suspect moths
have lodged in the borders of carpet 8
wot the edge of tho carpots with a
strong solution. Whenever it reaches
them it is certain death.
KEK.r (iLOVES AM! LACKS EltUSlI.
There is a simply-made appliance
for Die toilet table Dial, finds great fa¬
vor with the few who know it. It
consists merely of a couple of hoards,
carefully lined, with a heavy weight
to set upon them. Neckties, luces and
gloves are smoothed out after use and
placed between the boards so tlmt,
kept flat by the gentle pressure, they
come out looking like now, and
last much longer than if just thrown
aside ill a drawer or box. To
make this appliance you take an or-
dinary brick, and, having dried it
thoroughly, you pasto brown paper
right over it, packing it, as it Avere,
nearly in a piece of paper avcII satura¬
ted with paste. Over this you slick
neatly a piece of brightly-colored cre¬
tonne or Indian silk, or, if preferred,
» piece of white leather or satin, to he
afterward hand-painted, and then
liatidiea of strong ribbon arc fixed.
Two pieces of board of a suitable size
are covered with Die same material as
the brick and lined with white silk or
while muslin.—[New York Journal.
CARE or THE COOK STOVE.
No cook stove, though it is in con¬
tinual use, should have a fresh coat of
blacking applied oftoner than once a
month, though every stove should be
polished oil' with a stove brush every
morning before tlio cooking begins.
When a fresh coat of blacking is ap¬
plied monthly, remove the o!d coat by
rubbing off the stove while it is tvarm,
but not hoi, with a rag dipped in ker¬
osene oil. This removes all grease
stains. Apply Die iicav coat of black¬
ing Avfieu Die stove is cold, using cold
cofleo instead of water for mixing the
blacking. Bo careful not • to blacken
any of the stove edges, ivliicli arc ol
polished iron, or any of Iho kuobf
and other nickel work, hut pol¬
ish these by using a scouring soap
or brick dust for the polished iron and
whiting or any silver soap for the
nickel work. After tho stove ie
thoroughly polished, Avipo it oft’ with
a dry, clean rag lo remove any dust of
Die blacking. After this polishing,
all that is necessary is to keep a stove
ciotii at the side of the stove to wipe
up spots of grease before (hey are
burned in and make a more enduring
stain, and lo go over tho stove AVith a
polishing brush in Die morning Avhilo
(he fire is coming up. 'Hills Avith lit¬
tle care a slovo may be kept in prime
order, unless the cook is one of those
unhappy slovens that spills or boils
over cvcrytliing she takes hold of.
Cooking Avhich is done in a methodical
manner does not spill over on the
stoA'c. There is no surer indication of
i household sloven than an ill-kept
oook-stove.—[New York Tribune.
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NO. IS.
The Man Who Cannot Laugh.
There arc norne individuals we really can’t
adore,
And (ho chlcfest of the number is the very
trying bore.
Who when you’re feeling jolly ami a bft ot
fun would poke,
Will never see the jxdnt until you diagram
your joke.
Ills eye assumes a vacant stare until he
thinks awhile
With great deliberation, then he dona a
fadeil smile.
0, it would be a pleasure just to write the
epitaph
And hide away the presence of the man who
cannot laugh.
How like a biting frost that chills the roses
In their bloom
Are sombre individuals who wear a clonk
of gloom;
Who cannot comprehend the, worth of just a
spark of fun.
Who shrink from joy and pleasure ns the
huts avoid the sun.
The deeper sober thought within the heart
should have a place,
Hut let glad laughter now and then the
cares of Life cruse;
Away with him who cannot sift the kernels
from the Chaff.'
J’he world could wag along without the man
who cannot luugli.
HUMOROUS.
It lacks point—A circle.
An empty pepper-box is out of soa-
son.
The mane part of a horse is the back
of its neck.
An cclio is like a woman, always de¬
termined to have Die lust word.
“I’ve gone through a groat deal,”
remarked (lie saw as it emerged from
tho log.
Thu limn who tried heroic measures
found .(hoy were several sizos too large
for him.
“Thank fortune,” ai the man said
Avlion his money opened to him the
doors of society.
Littlesliort—Ah, Mr. Cutaway, how
d’do? What’s tho condition of trade
this season? Cutaway (briefly)—
Cash.
When there is ro hawk flying
around tho biggest thing in Die'barn¬
yard is the strut of the smallest
rooster.
Young lady (to young man who
kissed her)—That’s very singular, sir.
Young Man—Ah, well, allow me to
make it plural?
“Why do you object to German
opera? It is full of vigor; it braces
mo right up.” “That's my objection
to it; it is Teutonic.” 1
“Anything now on foot?” asked
one politician of another. “Yes,”
was tho reply. “What is it?” “Our
baby. He’s just learned to walk.”
There is constant complaint of the
lack of morals in politics. There is
no placo yet discovered, even out of
politics, where there is an oversupply.
Canvasser—Can I see tho good man
of the house, madamo? Mrs. Nag¬
gers—No, you can’t. There isn’t any
good mail in ilio house. There’s only
my husband.
A story at hand, describing a’love
scene between tho hero and heroine,
says: “Ho wooed her with a Avill.”
That’s a good way, especially if the
wooer is old and Dio will is in her
favor.
Physician (with ear to patient’s
cbest —There is a severe swelling over
the region of tho heart which must be
reduced at once. Patient (anxiously)
—That swelling is my pocket-bo >k,
doctor. Please don’t reduce it too
lllUCil-
Tiio other day a philanthropic New
Yolk lady found the following appeal
among her usual grist of begging let¬
ters : “Dear Madam—Will you help
me to get a position as teacher to sup¬
port myself and two little ones? Also
loll me where I can buy n parrot one
year old.”
Fanciful Derivations.
’liie San Angelo (Tex.) Enterprise
says: “The term‘greaser,’ as applied
to Mexicans of the loiver classes, was
not started, as many suppose, as a sig¬
nification of disrespect, but Avns ap¬
plied by a Avitty war correspondent in
1840, just after the battle of Palo Alto,
to those Mexicans Avho had foresworn
allegiance to tlicir own country and
in preference to lighting taken the
task of loading and unloading provi
siou trains, which then consisted
mostly of bacon. In this Avay they
gained the name of the ‘greaser brig¬
ade.’” Whatever the term Implies, it
is -----r much older than the Enterprise sup-
poses. lt Avas known to the United
s ta(eg volunteers who camo to ivhat is
llour the Indian territory in 183ifat
the end of the Black Hawk Avar. The
story that (lie name Maverick, applied
to yearling cattle, was given on ac¬
count of Die head of the San Antonio
family of that name, is equally fabu¬
lous. It was in use iu Louisiana be-
fore that stale avia* a part of the L titled
States.— fDailas (Tex.) News.