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Dafle Cony Ties.
TRENTON, GEORGIA.
During the year 1888 nearly 700 per
sons disappeared in Philadelphia, a largo
percentage of whom were never heard
of.
There were a greater number of lynch
ings in this country last year than there
had been in any previous year since
1880, except 1884.
The New York Herald doubts if it is
good policy for any American tourist to
go to Cuba, as lawlessness is rife and
Americans are hated.
i
The City of Mexico is full of tramps,
and the anti-American papers satirically
refer to them as “prominent Americans
visiting the Capital.”
The Cleveland Plain Dealer is prepared
to see spectacle makers grow rich out of
the next generation, as so many school
children are obliged to wear glasses.
The Legislature of Ohio will be asked
to pass a law prohibiting any minister of
the Gospel from being present at an exe
cution as the spiritual adviser of the con
demned.
Boston’s January dividends amounted
to $12,500,000, a million and a half more
than those distributed in Philadelphia.
On an even distribution this would give
every Bostonian S3O, and every Philadel
phian sll, -
The Bermuda Islands are at last to be
connected by telegraph with the re
mainder of civili/.ation. A line from
there to Halifax, 750 miles in length,
will be begun in the spring, and the
British Government will pay a subsidy
of $60,000 per year.
The Chinese Immigration Bureau of
San Francisco, which has for a long timo
been doing a large business evading the
law and helping Mongolians to land in
this country, has finally shut up shop.
It would seem, infers the Chicago News,
as though the chinks in the tence had
finally been stopped up.
It has been noted iu the Chicago
Times as a strange coincidence that Ellis
Phelan, an ex-Confcderate soldier, was
elected Judge of Probate in Waterbury,
Conn., at the last election, and on the
same day a Union veteran was chosen a
member of the Alabama Legislature in
the same district where Phelan formerly
lived.
A recent judicial ruling upon the
question, When is a man drunk, is:
“When consciousness becomes modified
in any degree whatever through the
influence of alcohol, and when, or as
long as, no exercise of independent
nervous force is adequate to restore it to
a normal state, the man so affected is
drunk.”
With the first of this year Germany
abandoned the old pound weight and
adopted the metric system in its entirety.
America, which set the example of the
metric system in her decimal coinage,
still lingers behind, says the New York
Telegram, in adopting this convenient
and logical progression of weights and
measures.
Cremation societies are being aug
mented in this country by women of the
better clase, who are joining them
rapidly. In New York, Brooklyn and
Boston particularly there are a great
many well-known women enrolled among
the cremationists, and the movement is
endorsed by a sti 1 greater number who
have not taken pains to become mem
bers.
The Michigan cattle breeders propose
to ask the Legislature to enact that all
meat supplied to State institutions shall
be from animals fattened and killed in
Michigan. They also ask for a meat inf
spection law, which shall provide that
all cattle killed for consumption within
towev of more than 3000 inhabitants
shall first have been inspected alive and
on foot.
During 1888 the number of failures in
the United States was 10,500, against
9740 in 1887. But the aggregate liabili
ties of the parties failing in 1888, where
about ten per cent, less than in 1887,
while the aggregate assets of the failing
traders are only four per cent, smaller.
This gain in the ratio of assets certainly
“indicates increased healthfulness in
commercial conditions,’’ as a leading au
thority on the subject puts it.
The livery of the coachman of Count
d’Arco Valley, the German Minister at
Washington, is creating a sensation in
that city. Gold and lace seem to be the
principal part of it. A double row of
silk buttons runs down the front, while
rows of gilt cord are swung across the
breast and fastened upon the right side,
from which depends a sword. The tall
t>lue hat is decorated with a plume and
cockade of German colors. No one
seems to know what the sword is for,
unless it is to “cut behind’’ at the small
boys, whose republican irreverence
causes them to “steal a ride” on the gor
geous equipage.
It is proposed to make a new county
for Connecticut from the Sixth and
Twentieth Senatorial districts. The
same suggested iS “Waterbury” County,
ind it would include eighteen towns,
with an aggregate wealth of $22,458,093.
It has been discovered by the New
York Tribune that the grave of William
Penn is in a sadly neglected condition.
There is not even a mound above it, and
jnly a flimsy slab of stone stuck in the
ground, at the head or foot— no one can
tell which. The Friends do not approve
af the erection of elaborate and costly
monuments, but there surely could be no
abjection to some more definite and per
manent marking of such an interesting
ipot. '
The Duke of Edinburgh has won for
fiimself the distinction of being perhaps
the only man who ever despatched a ship
on a journey to fetch a trunk. The oc
casion was the recent trip of the Duke
and Duchess to Greece, and the trunk,
which contained a part of the Duchess’s
wardrobe, was accidently left at Malta.
Instead of telegraphing to have the next
steamer bring along the missing baggage,
the Duke sent one of the vessels of the
squadron after it.
Says the Washington Star: “Phila
delphia statistics show that the suicides
of the city during the past year reached
the astonishing number of 99, more than
three times as many as the homicides.
The quiet and self-restrained people of
the City of Brotherly Love destroy thei 1
own lives rather than those ot theii
neighbors. Perhaps the monotony ol
life and of residence architecture causes
them to grow weary, oh, so weary, and
to wish that they were dead.”
The combined Vanderbilt wealth, ac
iording to the New York World, amounts
to $274,000,000, and the estimated in
come from it per annum is $13,861,400.
No other single family in the world is so
rich. If kept intact the total fortune
will at the end of twenty-five years
almost reach $1,000,000,000, and this
result will be attained by the simple
arithmetical progression of compound
interest. The rapid increase of the Van
derbilt millions clearly shows how money
begets money.
The inventive genius who got up the
drop-a quarter-into-the-slot-and-take-an
opera-glass device, which has been in
troduced into one of the New York
theatres, has received a bad setback at
the outset. A busy newspaper has in
terviewed the doctors on the subject.
One of them says: “It is certain that
contagious diseases of the eye can aud
will be transmitted from png, person tc
another by the use, as proposed, of these
opera-glasses.’’ Several other physicians
concur in this opinion.
Vice-President-elect Morton’s place at
Ehinebeck, on the Hudson, was origi
nally purchased from the Indians in I
1686 by Gerrit Aartsen, Arrie Roosa, I
and Jan Elting. In 1702 it was sold tc
Hendrick Heermance, the son-in-law of
Aartsen, who left it to his son-in-law,
Jacobus Kip. It remained in the Kip
family until 1814, when it was sold tc
Maturin Livingston. It passed through
several other hands, until it was pur
chased by William Kelley, of New
York, who added a thousand acres to it,
spent a fortune on it, and whose heirs at
his death sold it at a sacrifice to Mr.
Morton. Mr. Morton has also spent s
fortune in improving it, and it will be,
when completed, one of the costliesl
places in the United States.
The St. Louis Qlobe-Democrat de
clares that “the introduction of leprosy
into the United States must be stopped
and the terrible diseu&i stamped out at
once, or it will be the most unmanage
able of all epidemics that visited
our laud. There is no longer any
question of its being communicable. The
lepers have invaded British Columbia,
and had such free access to the Indians
that the whole race of red men is in
fected. The antagonism to Chinese im
migration will be more widespread than
sver, and will be based on something be
fides race prejudice. It would be far
better to stop quarantining against yellow
fever and smallpox, for while the lattei
till more quickly, leprosy devours its
victims with a living death. When will
our authorities get aroused to appreciate
the danger that is coming upon us!”
One-fifth of the immigration to this
port from Europe last year, observes the
New York Sun, was from two countries
which have only recently begun to con -
tribute to our population—ltaly and
Russia. The report from Castle Garden
shows that out of 383,030 immigrants
for the year 43,683 were Italians and 32,-
937 were Russians. The immigration
from these two countries was as high as
that from Germany,and the immigration
from Italy alone was just about equal tc
that from Ireland. We are informed
that very nearly the whole body of im
migrants classified as “Russians” be
longed to the Hebrew race, and that they
find life here so much more desirable
than they found it under the Czar, ol
Russia that they are encouraging their
brethren whom they left behind them tc
follow their example in coming tc
America. There are several interesting
features :n the Castle Garden report fo7
the pa?*
\EoTtSrtL)A.Y.
My friend, hespoke of a woman face;
It puzzled me, and I paused to think,
He told of her eyes and mouth, the trace
Of prayer on her brow, and quick as wink
I said: “Oh yes, but you wrong her years.
She's only a child, with faiths and fours
That childhood fit. I tell thee nay;
She was a girl just yesterday.”
“The years are Swift and sure, I trow,'
(Quoth he). “Vou speak of the long */
Once I strolled in a garden spot,
And every flower upraised a hex,
(So it seemed), for they, I wot,
Were mates of mine; each b!oom and bed,
Their hours for sleep, their marry mood,
The lives and deaths of the whole sweet
brood,
Were known to me; it was my
To visit them hut yesterday.
Spake oue red rose, in a language low:
“VVe savv you last in the Eng ago.”
Entering under tUe lintel wide,
I saw the room; ’twas aT the same;
The oaken press and the shelves aside,
The window small for the sunset flame,
The book 1 loved on the table large;
I opo’d and lo! in the yellow marge
The leaf I placed was shrunk and gray,
I swear it was green but yesterday.
Then a voice stole out of the sunset glow:
“You lived here, man, in the long ago.”
Tis the same old tale, though it come 3 to me
By a hundred paths of pain and glee,
Till I guess the truth at last, and know
That yesterday is the long ago.
—Richard R. Burton, in Harper's Weekly.
DORA'S SISTER.
“I do hope you’ll like her, Burton,”
said Dora, leaning toward her handsome
youug brother-in-law, with her pretty
eyes bright with eagerness; “and 1
don’t know how you can help it. Every
body does. And 1 don’t think you’ll
find her gawky. I know you’ve always
thought me rather provincial, Burton',
dear ”
“No, no,” her brother-in-law inter
posed.
“Oh, yes, you have; and I know I am.
But Lucy’s ever so much nicer than I
am. She’s prettier in the first place ”
“Impossible:” said Burton, gallantly.
“And then,'’ said pretty Mrs. Salkeld,
earnestly, “she's awful-ly bright. iShe’s
been away at boarding-school for four
years. She hasn’t stayed in Gordon
Centre as I did, you know, till Alfred
came and took me away. And she’s al
ways so stylish, and . Well, wait
till you see her. 1 know you’ll like her,
Burton.”
“I m certain of it, Dora,” Burton de
clared, reassuringly.
Mrs. Salkeld rose lingeringly, in re
sponse to a small cry from the nursery.
“Sarah never can find the pins in that
little blessing when he cries, and I know
they’re there. She’s coming to-morrow,
you know, Burton. You’ll come right
around to see her, won’t you? Ever so
many have promised to call.”
‘ I’ll come immediately after break
fast,” Burton re joined.
His sister-in-law laughed as she went
through the but she looked bskdc
at him with seriousness.
I* would not have been hard for a keen
observer to guess that she was not with
out a timid ambition concerning her
brother-in-law and her sister Lucy—
timid, because Mjrton was, iu the es
timatAn of his wife, as nearly
a pet»t being, morally, mentally and
as had ever existed—the one
person who enjoyed an equal distinction
being her husband.
If it had been any girl but Lucy, she
was sure such a thing would never have
entered her head. But Lucy! She
smiled with sisterly fondnesses she rum
maged among the baby’s flannels for the
offending pin.
Dora s brother-in-law called promptly
at eleven o’clock the next morning. He
was a good-natured and conscientious
young gentleman, and he would have
disappointed Dora on no account.
But his mood, a 3 he rang the bell and
pulled off a glove, was not an especally
eager one. He was too polite to form
ulate his feelings, even to himself: but
had he done so, the fact would have
been clear that he ? didn’t expect much
from Lora’s sister.
A pretty girl she might be; Dora was
pretty. But a girl fresh from Gordon
Centre, though she had had four years
at a country boarding school! The young
man raised his brows, with a slight
smile.
Nothing, however, should prevent his
doing his utmost for Dora’s sister. His
good breeding did not even allow his
dubious smile to remain. He looked
seriously expectant when the door
opened.
“Mrs. Salkeld is just gone out. Her
dressmaker’s little boy is worse, and she
wept dpwn to see him,” the servunt ex
plained.
“Miss Trumbull is in?” Burton
queried.
“Yes, sir; Miss Trumbull came this
morning.”
Burton gave the girl his card, put his
hat and overcoat on the rack, and took ■
a seat in the parlor.
It was some twenty minutes before
Dora’s sister came down.
Burton was deep in the latest maga
zine when the door at last admitted her.
She came in with a sweeping rustle of
draperies, a beaming smile aud a warm
greeting.
“Mr. Salkeld, ain’t it? Burton. I
come pretty near saying. Dora she al- 1
ways calls you Burton, and it was jest on
the end o’ my tongue. Well, I’m real
glad to see you. Dora she’s told me all
about you, but hearing about folks ain’t
like seeing ’em.”
She shook hands warmly, rolled an ;
ottoman in front of the largest chair
with a strong push, sat down with her
feet on the stool, and smiled yet more
broadly.
“Well, I’m awful glad to get here.
I’ve been coming for 1 don’t know how
long, but I hain’t seemed to get round
to it; and so last week I savs to pa: ‘lf
I'm going up to Dora’s, I’m jest going
to go.’ And pa says all right, to fix up
and go, then; and ma and I jest went
right round and put things together
what I needed, and pa took me down to
the cars Monday morning, and here I be.
I ain’t a bit used up, neither; ma, she
said I would be.”
She laughed quite heartily, tapping
the arm of her chair and fingering the
bow ol ribbon on top of her head.
Burton murmured something in re
ponse—he did not know what. He sat
stiffened in the attitude of polite defer
ence which he had assumed, quite
motion'ess.
He felt no desire to smile; he was too
much shocked and appalled for that.
Good heavens! this was far worse than
anything he had imagined. His head
fairly buzzed; he sat staring at Dora’s
sister in utter blankness.
“Pretty big place you’ve got here,
hain’t you?” Miss Trumbull proceeded,
her cordiality unaffected by his silence.
“Considerable bigger’n Gordon Centre,
I guess. I hain’t never b’en in cities
much, and I get kind o’ turned round
in ’em. I don’t know as I should like
it living here. It’s *o kind o’ lonesome, j
meeting so many people you ain’t i
acquainted with. Why, in Gordon
Centre there ain't anybody in town you
don’t know; and if you do see a stranger, |
it ain’t very hard to find out who ’tis.” j
Burton gasped. Was it possible that
Dora could have believed what she had :
said about her sister? Yes; he reflected j
that Dora had not seen her before for
some time, and her fondness for her, and
her good tempered admiration of every
body, had done the rest.
Burton gazed at her. Her clothes did
not fit: she had a string of beads on, and
a blue bow aud a breast-pin at her neck,
and red ribbons on her hair. Pretty?
Yes, she was undeniably pretty; that he
admitted freely. But stylish, and not
provincial? What could Dora have been
thinking of?
The young man passed his hand across
his forehead weakly.
'"“I s’pose I’d have be’nhere long ago,”
Dora’s sister went on, serenely, “if I
hadn’t be’n off to school. Dora, she’s
told you I’ve be’n to boarding-school for
four years, I s’pose? ’Most all the Gor
don Centre girls get along with what
learning they can get to home, and I
think myself it’s plenty. But pa, he
thought different, and ma joined in with
i him. She’most generally does. I don’t
know as I learnt much. The East Low
ville Seminary don’t amount to so terri
j ble much. East Lowville ain’t so big as
; Gordon Centre: but pa’s satisfied, I
s’pose. Ever be’n out our way?”
“I have never had that pleasure,”
Burton contrived to say.
“Well, it’s a real likely place, Gordon
j Centre is, if it ain’t so big as some.
There’s considerable going on ’most all
the year. There’d be’n two sociables
the week before I come away, and there
was going to he a warm-sugar party that
night, I hated to miss it. Do you have
much going on here?”
Burton took out his watch and dazedly
consulted it.
“We have no sociables uor warm sugar
parties,” heiesponded, grimly.
And then he rose.
“I am sorry to be obliged to go; but I
have an engagement at twelve,” he said,
bowing. 1
He would have retired without further
ceremony, but Dora’s sister intercepted
him with outstretched hand.
“Goodness! you hain’t be’n here above
fifteen minutes,” she said, regretfully.
“Well, comein again—drop in anytime.
I don’ know jest how long I’ll be here—
long as Dora’ll keep me, 1 s’pose.”
She talked on with friendly confi
dence, accompanying him to the door,
and standing by while he put on his hat
and overcoat.
He was aware, as he went rapidly
down the street, that she was standing
in the doorway and watching his de
parture.
He spent the rest of the day in trying
to forget Dora’s sister, but he found it
not altogether possible; he had been too
deeply astonished and horrified. He
had not expected much, he reflected
somewhat wrathfully over a cigar in his
office; but what he had found. And
Dora’s description! Surely love —and
sisterly love particularly—was blind.
He was glad it was the night of the
Gills’s reception. If anything was calcu
lated to remove unpleasant impressions,
it was one of the Gills’s receptions. He
wondered, with a qualm, whether Alfred
and Dora would go—and take Miss
Trumbull. Of course they had cards.
Well, at least he could keep a safe dis
tance.
Almost the first person he saw, as he
entered the Gills’s spacious but crowded
rooms, was his sister-in-law. She
greeted him eagerly.
“We were so afraid you wouldn’t be
here. I do want Lu yto have a good
time, and it will be so much nicer to
have somebody she knows. You’ll take
her out for the first set, won’t you? un
less she’s engaged.”
“Miss Trumbull is here?” said Burton,
wretchedly.
“Why, yes, of course,” Dora rejoined,
briskly. There she is. Doesn’t she look
lovely? And she’s taking so well! Mr.
Sanford has been with her ever since we
came, and ho never looks at a girl. But
I don’t want him to get the first set,
Burton dear. Do hurry!”
She took his arm, led him over to the
group she had been watching, and
tripped away.
The group was composed of one young
lady and six gentlemen; and the young
lady was Dora’s sister.
t-he smiled on Burton graciously, and
went on talking to Mr. Sanford, who
looked radiant, bestowing an occasional
smile upon one of the other five young
men, who in turn looked happy.
She wore a charmingly-fashioned,
perfectly-fitting, and wonderfully pretty
gown, and she looked dazzliuglv p etty
herself. Her sole ornament was a bunch
of roses at her corsage.
She wafted her black gauze fan, and
sparkled acros* it in all the glory of
black eyes, white teeth and pink cheeks.
“Oh, I don’t know that 1 am prepared
to admit that, Mr. Sanford,” she was
saying, with a light laugh. “I’m aware
of the vanity and shallowness of society
in general; but I don’t admit that every
individual composing society is vain or
shallow. I believe that a good share ot
the pleasure-seekers—those who seem
mere pleasure seekers—are as serious at
heart as the cynics and pedants who hold
aloof. I believe that a certain amount
of social gaiety is necessary to one’s
happiness—yes, and welfare. Emerson
owns its value. Don't you remember
that passage in his ‘Culture’ ”
The orchestra in the next room struck
up at the next moment. Miss Trumbull
looked at her opponent brightly.
“Now. Mr. Banlord. you will dance
this quadrille as gaily as any of us, and
it won’t prove your unworthinesseither.
We shall see your theories confuted in
practice.”
She laughed mischievously.
Mr. Sanford, with an enraptured
smile, eagerly offered his arm; so did
the other live young men, frantically.
But Burton quietly intercepted them
all. He placed Miss Trumbull’s hand
within his elbow, with a firmness which
was not to be ignored, and bore hei
away. He did not take her to the danc
! ing-room; he led her to a sofa in a dim
corner of the deserted hall, and sat down
beside her.
“Well?” he said, simply.
Miss Trumbull put her fan to
There was silence for a space.
“I—l don’t know what made me dc
it,” Dora’s sister murmured, with a queei
mixture of apology and defiance m hei
soft voice, and with her eyes cast down.
“Only—Dora had told me all about
you—”
“So you remarked this morning,’’Bur
ton interposed, with an attempt at stern
ness. • ‘
Dora’s sister laughed guiltily.
“And I got the idea—l don’t know
how; she didn’t say-so,and I don’t think
now that it is so—that you were—well,
‘proud and haughty,’ as the novels say:
and when she begged me to be just as nice
as I could, because you were so particulai
and talked so much about how—how
nice you are,” said Miss Trumbull, with
a blush, “why, it mfde me feel contrary
right away, and that ridiculous idea
occurred to me, and—and I did it.”
The corner was dim; but he saw quite
plainly the pretty repentance and plead
ing in her eyes; and Dora’s sister saw a
full forgiveness in his.
They laughed together, somewhat
shyly.
“Where did you get the—the things?”
he queried, gazmg at her perfect attire.
“Oh, the dress was Dora’s—she’s so
much stouter.you know—and the beads
are the baby’s, and I hunted all through
my boxes for the ribbons 1 That’s what
took me so long.”
“And the East Lowville Seminary—
you ribbed about that?” Burton ques
tioned, moving nearer toiler.
“Yes. Madame Bcauce ‘finished me.
And you fibbed about your engagement
at twelve?”
“tes,” Burton confessed, inwardly
wondering how he could have done it.
How pretty she was!
“Then we’re even!” said Dora’s sister,
laughing with sweet gaiety, as she took
his arm for a quiet promenade.
Dora’s doubts and anxious question
ings were speedily calmed. Her irre
proachable brother-in law not only liked
her pretty sister exceedingly, but her
pretty sister liked him—so much so that
a gay wedding at Gordon Centre that
fall p r oduced another Mrs. Salkeld.—
Saturday Night.
Pet Animals Spread Disease.
“The spread of diphtheria which has
been so great lately,” remarked a West
Side physician, “is largely attributed tc
a carelessness that is crim’nal when the
virulent nature of the distemper is con
sidered. It is the experience of most
physicians that almost all sickness comes
from the ignorance or willful careless
ness of the people, but iri no case is this
so bad as in that of diphtheria, because
of its extremely infectious character.
Once diphtheria is knowi to exist the
greatest precaution should be taken to
prevent its spread, but instead of that
nothing is done until all the children in
a whole tenement house, or in fact in a
whole block, are infected, tr at least en
dangered, as was the case down on
Tenth avenue lately.
Pet animals are a common and con
stant source of the spread of this distem
per. Cats and dogs are permitted to be
around and even to drink/the milk left
by a child suffering froVn diphtheria.
These animals take the disease and then
go out and spread it amo: g their fellow
animals, which in turn ca rry it into the
houses where they belong. 1 have known
several cases where a cat caught it in
this manner and infected all the cats in
the neighborhood, and wa j the cause of
numbers of deaths of humjnn beings, for
children will play with (cats and pet
them if they appear sick. ( When in that
condition a cat or other pet animal is
more inclined than at other times to
crawl up on people to get sympathy.and
this makes the danger all the greater.
A remarkable case of this kind occurred
in my own house a few years ago. A
little girl residing in the house con
tracted scarlet fever aud died. During
her illness a pet alligator was around,
and soon after the child’s death the ani
mal took sick and also died. A couple
of medical students who were stopping
in the hou=e made a post mortem exami
nation of the alligator and found all the
symptoms of death from scarlet fever. I
made an examination myself, and there
was no doubt whatever that the creature
had caught the fever from the child, and
had died of it. I know of no more pro
lific agency in the spread of diseases of
this kind than the household pets—the
dogs and cats—of which some people
are so fond.”— New York Mercury.
Wonderful Are the Arabians.
A wonderful people and m’ghty are
the Arabians. How much we are in
debted to them for the tires of Divine
truth they caused to be infused into Euro
pean literature in the seventh century.
Much we may yet learn from their strict
system of hygiene. Probably they are
the best looking race on earth. If not
descendants of Og. King of ancient Bas
han —said by historians to have meas
ured eleven feet six inches in height,
and whose bedstead of iron was nine
cubits and a span—equal to thirteen feet
six inches —they come very close neigh
bors to his proportions. Broad shouldered,
tall, six, six and a half, seven and seven
feet two inches -the average height
being from five feet six and one-half
inches to five feet nine and one-half
inches tall. Dwarfs are unknown in
Arabia. The life of that people is one of
plainness and simplicity. Their food is
mostly vegetable, often only one meal a
day, taken at sundown. Washing the
body in cold water is a specialty for
health, winter and summer. They have
no poor, no insane asylums or hospitals;
and prisons are so few that thousands
don't know of them. They are united
as one man. and their unfortified coun
try is uuconquerable as a result. They
are said to be in possession of the spot
where the Garden of Eden once stood,
where herbs of a life giving nature grow
and rare balsams for internal and exter
nal use are found. Lettuce with them is
highly prized, and if our people should
eat more of it we should need less drugs.
Everything is done in the name of Allah
—God—the Most High and Merciful
Lord, and for a semi-barbaric race I
doubt not their happiness is to be coveted.
D.troit Free Press.
THE MAIDEN.
There’s a poem in the lily
With its lowly-bending head;
There's a poem in the sunset
With its brilliant tinge of red
There’s a poem in the forest.
In the lofty mountain wall;
But the poem of the maiden
Is the sweetest of them all.
She is tall or she is slender
With the lily’s face of white;
She is lovely as the painting
Made by sunset’s ro\v light;
She is noble as the forest,
As the lofty mountain wall;
Ah, the maiden, of all nature;
Is the sweetest gem of all!
Let the cynic rant on fashion
And its catalogue of whims;
Let him teil of the flirtations
At the church between the hymn*;
Let him point at coquettes’ costumes
In the operatic stall,
Yet, the maiden, notwithstanding,
Is the sweetest gem of all.
Win, llosea Ballou, in dournalist.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
Harmless “White Caps”—Nurses.
Regular “old timers”—Dutch clocks.
Well watched—A jeweler’s window.
A bad scrape—An amateur’s violin
solo.
Schnapp judgment—Deciding a bet of
the drinks.
Down in a coal mine—A young miner’s
first moustache.
When the flakes begin to dance, look
out for a snowball.
Rolling stock —Cattle on board a
steamship in a storm.
The rain of terror —For a lady with
no umbrella aud a new bonuet.
A burglar who was recently prostrated
with lockjaw cured him elf by picking
the lock.
A little girl’s view of it; “Minerva
was the Goddess of Wisdom ; she never
married.”
The clarion notes of the rooster if
written, would, no doubt, be divided
by crow-bars.— Merchant Trace Ur.
A parrot will talk on the least provo
cation, but a crow seldom opens its
mouth without caws. —New York World.
You’ll write it us sure as fate.
But don’t find fault or pine,
But scratch witb care tire
And make it 8.1.
—Merchant Traveler.
We sometimes say “out of sight out of
mind, but we do not necessarily imply
that a blind man is insane.— N. w York
News.
A.—“ The crop of young doctors m
New York is going to be very large this
year.” B. “Yes, but what will the
harvest be?”— Siftings.
Nature uses a great many quills with
which to make a goose, but a man can
make a goose of himself with only one.
Orchard and Garden.
“John, you are not listening to a word
lam saying!” “Why, my dear, iam all
ears.” “1 know you are, and that makes
it all the more provoking.”
A “deaf mute” church has been dedi
cated in Philadelphia. A fellow could
snore all through the service aud disturb
nobody.— Danse il e Breeze.
A young man who becomes em
barrassed when he calls on a certain
young lady, says she gives him the shake
every time he goes to see her.
The stores are now crowded no longer,
The salesgirls get rest and grow stronger,
While prices of gifts have so dwindled
That some of us feel we’ve been swindled.
Boston Budget.
A Chicago clergyman who married
three couple's on the cars the other day
resents the suggestion that he allow
himself to be patented as a car coupler.
Chicago Post.
Miss Parcutalstem (age thirty-five)—
“So you are going to get married at last,
Pauline?” Pauline—“ Yes, dear, I should
think it was about time; you know I’m
twenty-four.”— Life.
“What is your fortune, my ancient maid?”
‘ My wealth is my fortune, sir,” she said.
“Can I marry you, my pretty maid?”
“If you are as wealthy, sir,” she said.
New Yor , Sun.
Wife —“Shall I put your diamond
studs in your shirt, dear;” Husband—
“ What on earth are you thinking of ?
Do you want to ruin me! 1 have a meet
ing with my creditors this morning.”
— Jewelers' Weekly.
Ethel ito her betrothed) —“Do learn
to skate, George. I'm sure you would
look lovely on ice.” George (a young
and rising undertaken—“ Look lovely
on ice, would I? Thank you. No hurry
about it.”— Sijtings.
Y'outhful Innocence: “One of you
boys has been stealing raisins again; I
have found the seeds on the floor.
Which one of you was it?” Tommy—
“lt wasn’t me. I swallowed the seed in
mine. — Scranton Truth.
“ Is marriage a failure:” he asked of a maid
Who clung pretty close to his side;
“ I’m sure I can’t tell, sir,” the young lady
said—
“ Until you have made me your bride!”
—New York World.
Jeweler —“The inscription you wish
to have engraved on the inside of this
ring, if I understand you, is ‘Marcellus
to Irene.’ ” Young Man (with some em
barrassment) —“Yes, that’s right. But
—er —don't cut the ‘lrene’ deep.”—Chi
cago Tribune.
The Professor having given out as
subject for an essay “The L'se of Navi
gation,”! one of the students concluded
his production with the somewhat novel
statement: “And thus we may say:
‘The ship is the camel of the sea.’”—
Faegende Blaetter.
A Collin on Her Back.
A very dignified lady of fifty, looking
like a Duchess, strode through Union
Square, New York. “That lady,” said
one who knew her,carries a coffin on her
back. She is a Berliner, and in her
youth she had two lovers, both of whom
she encouraged. Her fickleness brought
on rivalry between them, ami at last one
sent a challenge to the other. They
fought a duel, iu which the younger of
them was killed, and it is the shadow of
this coffin that she carries through the
streets of New York. After a time she
married the rival who slew her lover, but
in a short time he died under dramatic
circumstances. She subsequently be
came the wife of yet another man, who
brought her to New York, where they
are well known to many who do not
know the record of her career.”