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VOL. II.
Sweetheart.
Tlie sun fades out of the purple west,
Tlie sleepy songsters have gone to rest,
Tbc dew is over tho rose’s breast,
Dear love—good-by 1
The shadows lengthen down the lane,
The crickets whistle a shrill refrain,
Sad night approaches with starry train,
Dear love—good-by!
The cold stars twinkle In yon blue sky,
So clear and silent, so v ,st and high,
The moon’s cloud chariot rollelh by,
Sweetheart—farewell!
Day will dawn chill in the pallid morn,
No roseate flushes the east adorn.
So my days without thee will be all forlorn,
Sweetheart—farewell!
0 blue eyes, weave ye no sorrowful spell,
O red 'ips, frame ye no sad farewell,
O true heart, love’s sweet story tell,
Sweetheart—good-by '/
Whisper with lips that are trembling, sweet,
Vows that a lover would have you repeat,
Then say farewell, for the hours are fleet,
Sweetheart—good-by!
— [Minnie Quuin, in the Independent.
JIM’S WAIF.
ill PAUL GRANT. /
own at Long Branch on a warm
summer day, a young man was enjoy¬
ing himself in tlie surf, together with
two or three companions. They had
all come down from New York on a
little "lark.” Jim swam remarkably
well and delighted his friends and the
company at large by some of his per¬
formances.
IIo was good-ratured, too. lie
took out several girls he knew and
helped them to float, and so made
himself very popular.
Among others who watched him
from the beach was a poor woman
with a baby. At last, as lie brought
one girl back whom ho had been leach¬
ing to swim, she beckoned to him.
"Young man,” said she, "could you
not kindly take my little baby out and
give her a dip in the surf? She is
puny and ii would help her.”
But Jim shook his head as he looked
at tho child.
"I’m afraid of babies,” he said.
‘‘Never held one in my life. If might
slip out of iny hands ami drown.”
"No, I guess not,” said the woman.
"You can’t hurt it, and tlie surf-bath-
ing would help the little dear.”
Jim hesitated, then ho looked at the
small, peaked face. "Give me the
‘little dear, j >> said lie. "But don’t yon
budge, for if the young ono should
squall, I am going to bring it back to
you.”
"It won’t squall,” said the woman.
"It’s net afeared.”
The young man took tlie child cau¬
tiously, as though it was made of
glass and might go to pieces in his
hands; hut it did not. Neither did it
cry. So he waded oft' with it, grasp¬
ing it tightly. At last lie resohodto
give it a gentle immersion. Far from
being frightened, the baby seemed
pleased, and even ventured on a mild
laugh. Jim now returned to Die beach
and proffered it to its mother.
"Tlie kid seemed pleased,” lie said.
"It laughed.”
“Poor dear,” said tlie woman. "She
has [>eoii very sick. Young gentleman,
your batli has been a God-seud to her.
Now you see you can’t' hurt lier,
couldn’t you give her another dip?”
After a little persuasion,Jim agreed
and went off with Dio baby. This
time ho joined his companions, and
amused himself with now dipping,
now floating the child on his hand,
After a time he wearied of this sport,
and returned to the beach to give the
child to its mother. But she was no¬
where to be found!
Horrified, the young fellow ran up
and down the beach, unmindful of
his scanty bathing suit, anxiously in¬
quiring:
"Where’s tlie mother of this child?”
Nobody knew. Then everyone be¬
gan to make merry at his expense.
"Mado you a present?” cried ono.
"A handsome legacy,” sa'd another.
"Hello, Jim,” cried Ills companions,
who, seeing tho commotion, had come
ashore, "what’s tip?”
"The wretched woman has van¬
ished.”
"You were green, indeed, to take
the brat,” said they.
"1M drop it very soon,” said Jim,
sotting it down on the sand.
"No, you don’t, either,” said the
policeman on duly. "This beach is
not to oa made a foundling hospital.”
"But I don’t want this baby,” rc-
mon-traled Jim.
“Can’t help it. Take it up.” And
Jim was forced to obey. "You can
take it back to town and carry it to
some charitable institution,” tbe official
deigned to suggest.
“Wlnit could have become of the
woman?” cried Jim, in wild despair.
Nobody knew; no one bad seen her
walk away. Everybody thought it a
fine joke, and everybody laughed—
except the baby. Jim bad taken it up
a little roughly, and it began to cry.
The young man looked about him,
full of horror.
THE ENTERPRISE.
"Ladies,” cried ho, approaching •
group of women. "For God’s sako,
ladies, take this thing! I can’t do
anything with it!”
But tlie Indies, with ono consent,
refused. "No, indeed, they would
not touch it!”
Wildly the young man van up and
down the beach. The strange woman
was nowhere to be seen.
"Come, Jim,” cried his compan¬
ions. "Time we were dressing to go
back to town.”
"Certainly, but what am I to do
with this — this — thing — while 1
dress?”
"I know,” cried one kind friend.
"We’ll leave it at the dressing room
after you have dressed.”
Jim eagerly agreed to tiiis, hut tiie
mau in charge blocked that little
game.
"Say, sir,” said Jim, "I’ll just leave
(his little one out here while 1 go in
mid dress.”
"No, you won’t, either,” said the
man. "You take it in with you.”
Jim set tlie screnming child down on
the floor while he made his toilet.
Ho (ore his wet hair with rage.
"Hush, you brat!” but it yelled the
louder. "Oh, my goodness! This is
dreadful I”
"Jim!” cried his friends from tlie
next room. "Can’t you make it hush?
Muffle it in a wet towel.”
“I wish to goodness ldid know how
they do stop thorn up' Deuce take that
woman!’ Where are my shoos! Get
off my shoes!’’—to Die helpless baby.
He pulled out (lie shoes and rolled it
on its side. "There now! It’s fallen
on my coat!”
He continued to hunt up the differ¬
ent articles of attire on which die baby
seemed to have a special faculty of
falling, while it screamed so that it
mado his ears ring and Ids head ache.
"I declare this tiling is enough to
make one mad I”
At last lie was dressed and saun¬
tered out.
"Go back and get tliat child,” said
the dressing-room keeper.
"I won’t,” said Jim. "I’m not going
to lug it to town.”
"You shan’t leave it hero. I’ll call
a policeman and have you arrested if
you don’t take it right up and get
away from here.”
Remembering his late encounter
with that official, Jim angrily obeyed.
When they learned lliat ho had to
take it with him to town his com¬
panions all forsook him and fled.
In its dripping stale tlie little
creature was most detrimental to his
good clothes. The angry Jim tried to
hold it at arm’s length, and so nearly
let. it fall. And thus lie elicited a run¬
ning fire of comment from the by¬
standers.
"You’ll kill that child fooling with
it that way,” said one.
"Ugh! The brute!” cried another.
"The poor innocent!” as the baby be¬
gan to cry afresh.
"It’s all very well for you to talk
that way,” retorted tlie angry Jim,
"but none of you would do any better
in my place.”
"Sure, I doubt ef they would do n g
well, tlie spalpeens,” cried an old Irish
woman. "Sure, the croythcr is cowl I
Here, I’ll give you me ould shawl,”
and removing a faded article of ap¬
parel from her ample person, she pro¬
ceeded to wrap tlie waif in it.
"Couldn’t you just take it to town
with you,” suggested Jim. "You have
so much more experience in the hand¬
ling of this sort of article than I
have.”
"No, iudade! Niver a hit will I
tetchitl Git away from here, you
young spalpeen!”
She shook her fist at him, and Jim
retreated.
No sooner was lie on the boat than
Jim deposited his charge on a sofa in
tlie cabin, and hid himself in a remote
part of tho steamer. But ono of the
boat officials soon hunted him up.
"It's not my baby,” cried the bad¬
gered Jim.
"IIow not yours, when you brought
it on the boat?”
I—it’s—
"Don’t its me. Go this instant and
it, or I’ll have you arrested when
we reach town.”
The wretched Jim was forced to
and resume his hated load amid
the jeers and jokes of Die passengers
who had been his fellow bathers on
the beach.
By this time the enraged baby had
unmanageable. It screamed
with rage and refusing to sit down
it stiffened itseif so that it slid off Lis
The wretched young man was
ready by this time to throw it over¬
board.
"Ladies,” said he, turning to a
of feminines near him, "for
G;d*s sake take this chil l aud make it
hush, for I can’t.”
"Sir!” cried one, haughtily; tho
others answered wish a stony a«.ro.
CAItNESVILLE, GA„ Fill DAY, JULY 17.1891.
Turning from this stiff tipper crust,
he appealed to a motherly-looking
Irish woman.
"Faith an* bo jabbers, no,” she
swered promptly. "Don’t play
your thricks on me, young maul”
While Jim had been absent on this
begging torn- some ono bad nppropri-
ateil his gent, so he now paraded dis¬
consolately about, evory one whom ho
approached shunning or jeering him.
Suddenly some one touched his arm
and turning ho saw a young lady in
deep mourning.
"Here, let me bold your baby for
you,” said she.
"O, thank you, madam, God bless
you,” cried the wretched Jim.
She made room for him on tho seat
beside her.
“Mind, Gertrude,” said a lady on
Die other side of her, "lie may run off
and leave you in the lurch."
"No, I expect not,” said the lady,
half smiling. She took the hapless
baby, and as she set it on her lap, to
Jim’s astonishment it ceased crying.
"Poor little creature!” said she, wip¬
ing its tear-stained face with her
handkerchief. Then she tried to
straighten out its clothes. "Why, it’s
wringing wet!”
Jim hurriedly explained the situa-
lion.
"How shameful! I heard those
men laughing about it,” motioning to¬
ward a group watching them.
"Yes, the wretches! I feel like
fighting tlie whole lot.”
"This child is hungry,” and opening
her lunch basket tlie lady took out a
piece of soft bread and fed it to tlie
baby with the remainder of a bottle of
cold tea.
Thus comforted, the waif began to
look about, and its joy was complete
when its benefactress gave itact.icken
bone to suck after getting Jim to
scrape it clean with bis pocket knife.
In Us rapture it began to coo, and its
new friend replied to Us remarks in
baby talk.
“You certainly know all about
babies,” said the delighted Jim.
"I’ve lost mine, and the remem¬
brance of my darling makes my heart
go out to all oilier babies,” she said.
"O!” cried Jim, eagerly, "then
wouldn’t you like to take this one?”
"No, indeed!” cried she, pushing it
oft’. "No one can ever take my An¬
nie's place!”
"No, to be sure, madam.” said the
young man, hastily. "Of course not;
it was brutal of me to suggest it. But
please help me with this one till we
get to town.”
When tbe boat landed at (lie wliarf
the baby was fast asleep. Wrapping
it well in Die old shawl, she laid it in
his arms. He held it gingerly and
then took his way over tho gangway
to the elevated road.
After some thought, he determined
to go homo ar.d let liis mother ar¬
range with some charitable institute
for its reception tlie next day.
Tlie horror of his parents when tho
young man came on them with his
strange burden language fails to de¬
pict. boy,” cried his mother ho
"Poor as
hurriedly told lii3 tale.
"Well, who would have thought
you such a fool!” said his father.
"Don’t speak of it!” said Jim, "but
this is a lesson to me. I’ll never
touch another baby as long as I live.”
"Come, come/’ cried his mother,
“make no rash promises.”
She now took the waif in hand and
fixed it off comfortably for the night.
The next day a rich and childless
friend, calling and hearing the story,
determined to adopt the baby. She
has done a good part by it.
This was years ago. The waif is
now a tall girl in her teens and very
pretty. Jim is still unmarried, is
still called a young man. And he
now takes a lively interest in tlie waif.
— [Atlanta Constitution.
Just AVIiat a Toddy Blossom Is.
The toddy blossom on the nose has
been for years an affliction to the ama¬
teur inebriate. Usually be is interested
as to tbe philosophy of the symptom.
It is very simple. Tlie skin that covers
the nose is very full of little blood
vessels, highly vascular as we say.
Alcohol weakens the nerves which
control the circulation of the blood.
Thus an accumulation of blood at the
end of the nasal organ closes up tho
mouth of one of the liitlo sweat glands
which are found all over the body, so
the perspiration fails to escape from
Die pore that is ordinarily open. It
forms a clot, and nature seeks to re¬
move the clot by inflammation. That
makes a toddy blossom. Long con¬
tinued indulgence in an excess of al¬
cohol occasions a general clotting of
tp 0 sweat glands, which results in
a swelling of the nose, so that a man’s
proboscis may eventually assume the !
appearance of a sweetbread, through
fatty enlargement of tlie degenerated
tissue. This is tlie fiual stago.
“LAND OF FIRE”
Some Facts About the Island of
Terra del Flie^O.
Not so Desolate a Place as has
Been Represented.
The notions of Terra del Fuego
(Land of Fire) which prevailed ten
years ago have been completely upset
by recent explorations. The latest
travelers there are Messrs, ltousson
and Willems, who have just returned
to Franco from their scientific mission
in Terra del Fuego. These explorers
believe tho northern part of tlie island
can bo turned to good account, and
that tho day is not far distaut when
large herds and flocks will be raised
upon ranches established all along the
river valleys. A large district north
of tiic Straits of Magellan, in Pata¬
gonia, which was wholly unoccupied
twelve years ago, is now full of little
farms devoted to raising sheep and
cattle.
The owners have prospered so well
that tho territory they occupy has be-
como too crowded. It is impossible
to extend this business further north,
and the farmers will, therefore, be
compelled to turn to Terra del Fuego,
which will receive the overflow from
Patagonia. On Dawson Island, near
the northwest coast of Terra del
Fuego, Jesuit fathers are now engage 1
in stock-raising, and for two years or
so a »nc ranch has been established on
the northern coast of Terra del Fuego,
where there are today about 20,0o0
sheep and 6000 cattle. Tho English
have been the first to establish them¬
selves in tiiis territory. Stock-raise - s
are now reaping a profit of 00 per
cent, per annum. The explorers say
tlie availability of the island for stock-
raising has been amply proven, and
there is now no doubt that a pros¬
perous future is before it.
Rousson ami Willems explored tho
northern part of tho island, about
sixty miles south of the Straits of Ma¬
gellan. They mapped all tho little
rivers, and found that the Cullen
River, which empties into tlie Atlantic
Ocean, is quite an important stream.
The valley of this river is a fine coun¬
try, and the rich herbage afforded
abundant nourishment for tho horses
upon which the party rode. They
mot tho Ona Indians all through their
journey. Quito a number of them
were 6 feet 6 inches high and very
muscular.
They wear only over their shoul¬
ders ill-made capes of guanaco skin.
The only ornament which they pos¬
sess consists of a bracelet or a collar
of shells. These Indians iiihahit
about two-thirds of tlie island. The
men occupy themselves wholly with
procuring food. Their bows and ar¬
rows are always with them, and they
use flint arrow-heads. Much of their
time is given to making weapons of
tlie chase and war. They are contin¬
ually in trouble with Die Indians to
the west and south of them, from
whom they differ greatly.
Tho women carry the burdens
while on the march,prepare tlie camps,
keep the tires going and take care of
the children. In preparing their
habitation they dig circular excava¬
tions about six feet in diameter and n
foot and a half in depth, usually on
tlie side of a hill. Around the excava¬
tions they stick poles,upon which tiiey
place tlie tent, made of the skins of
animals. Over the floor they scatter
dried grass. The upper part of the
tent is wholly open. Each of these
little habitations shelters a family of
three or four persons, who nestle to¬
gether like a litter of puppies. The
people are a nomad race.
They arc frequently on tho move,
leaving one place as soon as the game
there becomes scarce. For this rea¬
son the country is marked by the sites
of old tents. The people are very
much afraid of while men if they
come in considerable force, but if
their numbers greatly exceed the
whites who visit them they are very
impudent, and are likely to be hostile.
They are not antliropophogists, as has
been asserted. The fact that they aro
in the habit of burning tlie bones of
the animals they eat probably gave
rise to the report that they indulge in
human flesh.
One camp of Onas communicates
with another by fire. Using Dio root*
of plants as torches, they are able
to communicate with one another for
great distances in the night time.
There are no trees and very few shrubs
in the northern part of the island.
The quadrupeds are also few m uum-
her, hut there is a la-go variety of
birds.—[Chicago Times.
Irate Father — I nerve! - gavo my
father impudence when I was a boy.
Son—Maybe your father didn’t need
it.
Taking Fire at the Month.
That a human being may become so
completely supersaturated with alco¬
hol as to take tiro ut the mouth ns
readily as a barrel of whiskey at tho
bung-hole seems to bo an established
fact. Dickens, who kills off tho rag-
aiul-botUo merchant in "Bleak House”
in this way, claims to liavo investi¬
gated tho subject thoroughly, and
quotes many apparently well authen¬
ticated instances of what is called
spontaneous combustion. Neverthe¬
less, tho possibility of tho thing has
been doubted by a considerable nutn-
bor of scicntitle men.
Many years ago, an inebriate of tho
name of Nolte, a German, residing at
Columbus, lnd., was found dead, in a
condition which warranted tho belief
that bo had literally caught lire at tho
lips and been destroyed by internal
combustion, llis mouth had been
burned to a shapeless bole, bis tongue
charred to a crisp, and all the respira¬
tory organs partially consumed.
There is nothing incredible in this;
the only wonder is that cases of the
kind arc infrequent. There are thou¬
sands of habitual drunkards whoso
brenth is simply an alcoholic fume,
and it is surprising that It docs not
ignite when it comes in close contact
with flame. There must be such a
large percentage of inflammable gas in
vapor smelling so strongly of spirits
that it would hardly surprise us to see
any one of these liquor-soaked indl-
vidunU combust, as Nolto is supposed
to have done while lighting a cigar.
It is not correct, however, to call a
catastrophe of this nature spontaneous
combustion. Tho human body never
bursts into flames, like a stack of damp
Inly, by reason of heat generated
within itself. It is only when ex¬
ternal fire reaches the animal plilo-
giston—or combustible clement—that
it ignites. When a man is surcharged
with alcohol lie had better not smoke,
lest he share the fate of Andrew
Nolte. — [Now York Ledger.
Hoses and Turks.
"It would give u genuino and relig¬
ious Turk a fit if ho saw how little
appreciation Americans show for the
rose and what little reverence they
have for it,” spoke a florist as ho
wrapped tho foil about the stem of a
boutonniere.
"Tho rose is, beyond question, tho
prettiest flower that blooms, and it
was so considered by the Turks many
years before tho conquest of Grenada.
There is a religious legend generally
belioved in throughout Turkey that
the red rose sprang from a drop of the
great prophet Mohammed’s blood.
Everything beautiful in nature is
ascii bod to him. Tlie Turks, there¬
fore, have great reverence for tho
flower, and allow it to bloom and
dio untouched, except on state occa¬
sions and for the purpose of making
rose water.
“After the conquest by the Turks
they would not worship in any church
until tiie walls were cleansed and
washed with rose water and thus puri-
lled by Die blood of tho prophet. It
i 3 used on the body for the same pur-
pose. A Turk whoso conscience is
stung by somo act or deed he lias com¬
mitted will caress and pay reverence
to tho rose to appease the wrath of tho
prophet and Allah.
"With these ideas inculcated in him
from youth it would shock him severe¬
ly to see the pretty flower strewn in
Die patli of a bridal couple, thrown on
Die public stage or banked up in hun¬
dreds at a swell reception or party to
be crushed and spoiled in an evening.”
— [St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A Tiger Beats a Lion.
Jt is popularly supposed that tlie Hon
is the most courageous and powerful
of the carnivora, or at least of the
fetid®; but on the few recorded occa¬
sions of a battle royal between the lion
and the Bengal tiger the lion has come
oat second best. One such combat
occurred recently at the Calcutta Zoo
between an African lioness and a
tigress. They are exhibited in the ad¬
joining compartments of the same
cage, aud the door having been care¬
lessly opened between the two com¬
partments, the tigress rushed in and
disposed of her rival in a fight which
lasted about ten minutes.—[Forest and
Stream.
An Aged Crow.
"Do you know that the average life
of a crow is 100 years?” said an Atlau-
tian, who poses as a naturalist, yester¬
day. "It is so. One was killed down
in Dougherty County a few weeks ago
with ‘37’ branded on his back. He
was feathered everywhere except Just
between the wings on his back, where
the figures ‘37’ could bo distinctly
scon branded in the flesh. I can see
hut 0110 meaning to that, and that is
that some one canglit him in 1837,
branded tlie figures on his back and
released liim.”—[Atlanta Constitution.
FUR THE HOUSEWIFE.
spinach.
Wash it well through several
as it is apt to bo gritty, l’ut it into
pot without any water, lot it cook
slowly until it is very soft. Then
drain and mush it with a piece of
tor, pepper and salt to the taste.
in a vegetable dish, and strew over
top eggs which have boon boilod bard
and flnely chopped, or poached eggs.
— [Boston Cultivator.
KinnON CAKE.
One-half cup butter, ono cup of milk
or water, two of sugar, tlueo of flour,
throe eggs, one tcuspoouful cream tar¬
tar, one-half of soda; beat well. Take
one-third of the mixture and one-half
cup flour, one egg, ono largo spoon of
butter; boat well, then add one cup
raisins, stoned and chopped, ono cup
currants, one-half nutmeg, one tea¬
spoonful cinnamon, one-lmif tcaspoon-
f ul mace, and spice to taato. Put the
dark in Dio middle; bake in jelly cako
tins. If desired soft frosting may bo
used between layers, or jelly, just as
you prefer. This is not an expensive
cako and will be found very good.
■ >
SOlIl* WITH MOULDED K1CE.
Have a first-rate beef-broth, amber-
colored and clear. Take of rice, well
washed and scalded, six ounces; of
butter, three ounces; put into one
quart of boiling broth, which may be
of inferior quality (water will do
also) ; sco that the liquid is salted ex¬
actly right; boil covered up for half
an hour; then set uncovered in a hot
place until all tho liquid left is evapo¬
rated, when you empty tho rico into a
deep mould. Press it down to have it
lake Dio shape of tho rnonld. Set it
in a moderately warm place for a
while, and when ready to servo turn
the rice out of tho mould on a hot
plate. Dust all over it somo grated
Parmesan cheese. Or have the cheese
handed around separately, and pour
over the rico some melted crayfish
butter, garnishing its base or not with
cither shrimps, crayfish tails, button¬
hole mushrooms or forcemeat balls, or
with all of these. Have tho rice
handed around with each plato of
broth from the tureen. It is rice
enough for six persons.
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
Lise soap bark for cleaning woolon
dress goods.
Cream and acids do not curdle,
while inilk and acids will.
If dust has settled in the carving of
furniture, wash the wood with kero¬
sene oil and dry well. Tho oil will
not injure tho wood.
To clean paint so that it will shine
like now, mix whiting witli water
until it forms a paste; rub tiiis mix¬
ture on with it cloth and then clcanio
thoroughly with warm water.
Children’s clothing should bo as
light and warm as possible, with flan¬
nel or wool next to the skin; cither
material so worn will ward off dan¬
gerous chills and prevent colds.
A dainty little cracker is now served
with oysters oil fashionable tables. It
is in Die shape of a bluo point
oyster shell, and is said to be specially
nice in quality ns vkell as picturesque
in form.
A little alcohol In the water in
which mirrors are washed helps to
give a fine polish. Never wet a mir¬
ror all over when cleansing, but
dampen and instantly dry a small part
at u time.
By applying a little of the best car¬
riage oil varnish carefully with a cam¬
el’s hair brush to the edges of broken
china, the parts being neatly joined
together, the fracture will, when thor¬
oughly dry, be hardly perceptible, and
the china will stand fire and water.
An egg cooks just under Die boil¬
ing point, anil if a custard boils it
is liable to curdle. To tell when it is
cooked sufficiently, dip a spoon into
tlie hot custard, and if a coating re¬
mains upon the spoon tho custard
should bo taken from the lire at once,
hut if the spoon comes out clean let
the custard cook a minute more, then
test it again.
Longevity of Lower Creatures.
Crows are commonly said to live for
100 years, and turtles aro reported to
have even longer life; but if tbc late
Professor Baird be right, tbe greatest
amount of longevity is possessed by
fishes. Professor Baird onco said that
as a fish lias no maturity there is noth¬
ing to prevent it from living indefi¬
nitely and growing continually. He
cited, in proof, a pike in Russia whose
ago is known to date back to the Fif¬
teenth Century. In tho Royal Aqua¬
rium at Si. Petersburg there are hun¬
dreds of fish that were put in over one
hundred and fifty years ago.—[St.
Louis Republic.
NO. 28.
Vrttdle-Nonff.
In the garden of Dreamland a flower ever
grows,
In form like a lily, in hue like a rose,
With odor like jessamine sprinkled with
dew,
And It bourgeons and blossoms, my darling,
for you.
Then travel, my baby, to Dreamland.
Slowly rock, cradle, to carry tbe baby;
Steadily, rein Illy rock, and it may be,
Ere she shall know it, the baby will go,
JIapplly smiling, to Dreamland.
In the garden in Dreamland in summer Is
heard.
Trilling there In the moonlight, a beautiful
bird;
And It sings, and it sings, all the pleasant
night through,
Amlthe music, my darling, is only for you-
Then travel, my baby, to Dreamland.
Slowly rock, cradle, to carry the baby,
8'eadily, readily rock, and it may tie,
Ere she shall know it, the baby will go,
Happily smiling to Dreamland.
Tomorrow my darling, refreshed by her
rest.
With tbe bird in her band, and the flower on
her breast,
Shall return to licr mother, and frolic and
crow,
But tonight on her journey to Dreamland
must go.
Then travel, dear baby, to Dreamland.
Slowly roek. cradle, to carry the baby,
Steadily, readily rock, and it may be,
Ere she aliall know it, the baby will go,
Happily smiling, to Dreamland.
— [Thomas Dnnn English, in Youth's Com¬
panion.
HUMOROUS.
Tired, but not weary—A wheel.
A sago remark—"A little more
Bluffing, please.”
When a woman wants (o drive any¬
thing out of tho house sho “shoos” it.
A man usually boots it.
It is not the fisherman who tells the
biggest fish story, nor is it the fai uier
who tells the most harrowing tales.
Tho sons and daughters of present
day railroad magnates will somo time
proudly boast of tbc "hauls” of their
ancestors.
"Mercy me!” said Miss Passeo, "I
ilnccrely hope they will not pass the
law making a day of eight hours.”
"Why not?” "Just think how rapidly
we shall age! Just three times as
fast.”
"No,” lie said, rising from the pi¬
ano, "I have not been able to give
much time to my music lately.” "And
the time yon do give to it,” cheerfully
responded his rival, "is simply atro¬
cious.”
Mrs. De Gumps—I see by the pa¬
pers that an American girl, who is a
student at Oxford, lias taken the sen¬
ior wranglers’ prize this year. Mr.
Do Gumps—Oil, our American wo¬
man can just beat Die world on a
wrangle.
A lady of our acquaintance was re*
ccntly telling what a famous nurse
her sister was. "Why,” said she, "it
makes no difference who is sick or
whut ails them; 6he just goes right to
that houso and stays there until tho
sick ones are dead und buried.”
"I am sorry I didn’t come and dine
here a fortnight ago,” observed the
customer, blandly. "Vory good of
you to say so, I’m sure.” said tbe
landlord, beaming tho beam of tho
just and contented. "Yes,” went on
^he customer's if to himself, "I should
have liked trying this fish when it
was fresh.”
A Plant’s Self-Protection Against
Sheep.
The subterranean clover lias been
driven by its numerous enemies to take
refuge at last In a very remarkable and
almost unique mode of protecting ite
offspring. This particular kind of
clover affects smooth and close-
cropped hillsides, where tho sheop
nibble down the grass and other herb¬
age almost as fast as it springs up
again.
Now, clover seeds rescmblo tlieir
allios of tho pea and beau tribe in
being exceedingly rich in starch and
other valuable foodstuffs. Hence, they
aro much sought after by the inquiring
shoop, which eat them off wherever
found, as exceptionally nutritious aud
dainty morsels. Under these circum¬
stances, the subterranean clover has
learnt to produce small heads of
bloom, pressed close to tho ground, in
which only tho outer flowers are per¬
fect and fertile, while the inner ones
aro transformed into tiny, wriggling
corkscrews.
As soon as the fertile flowers have
begun to set their seed, by tlie kind aid
of the bees, the whole stem bends
downward, automatically, of its own
accord; Dio little corkscrews then
worm their way into tho turf beneath,
and the pods ripen and mature in the
actual soil itself, where no prying ewe
can poke an inquisitive nose to grab
them up and devour them.
Cases like this point in certain way*
to the absolute high-water mark of
vegetable ingenuity; they go nearest
of all in the plant world to the simili¬
tude of conscious animal intelligence.
— [New York Journal.