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OLD THINGS AH8 BEST,
O’d tilings' are best. We wander
Bo strangely an 1 so lonely
From here to that world yond »r,
Why not grow foud aud fonder?
In tried affections only?
Old friends are best. Their faces
Each year seem dearer, dearer.
And glow with now-found graces;
Then, ch! These vacant places
But bring the living nearer.
Old homes are best. The laughter
T hat (ells of childhood’s pleasures
Beneath the ancient rafter,
Surpasses all that’s after
And all of manhood's treasures.
Old love is best. Its sweetness
Makes pleasant sorrow’s chalice.
And spite of Time’s dread floetness
It gains in calm compleness
And laughs at Age’s malice.
fid faith is best the teaching
Of heart enshrined mothers.
What profits subtle preaching,
Or blind aud eager reaching
For doubt that mocks and smothers?
Old ways are the best; the gladness
Of simpler lives and titter.
Ere wealth had come with madness,
Or folly left its sadness.
l And sin its lessons bitter.
Old things are best. The glimmer
Of ago forbids new choices.
Oh, as mine eyes grow dimmer,
Faintly across the shimmer
Waft me the old, sweet voices!
*■ —George Horton.in Chicago Herald.
OLD MAN MIXALL.
BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES.
“So you’ve got back ag’in, Lo-i-sy!”
laid Old Mao Mixall.
“Yes, Mr. Mixall,” said Louisa Hill,”
“I’ve got back again.”
“Any news, Lo-i-sy?” cheerfully piped
the octogenarian, folding the week-old
newspaper so as to bring the “Financial
News” on a level with his old steel spec¬
tacles.
Louisa shook her head.
“Well, I vuin!” said Old Man Mixall.
“It’s a shame!” Adam Putney always
was as queer as Sancho, and I do b’lieve
he grows queerer every year he lives.”
Louisa Hill sighed softly, and went
ibout her work of preparing beans.
The morrow was bean-picking day at
“Desperation Hall," and there was at
least a bushel of the leguminous vegeta¬
bles ready to be picked over and
stemmed.
I The boarders at Desperation Hall were
partial to pickles as soon as the cold
weather set in, and the matron was
anxious to keep them satisfied and
happy.
Desperation Hall was a long,low erec¬
tion of gray %tone that had been a snuff
mill half a century ago, and was now
utilized for the accommodation of the
town poor.
Captain Elias Fotherindyke, a retired
sea captain,, was at the helm of this in¬
stitution ; and his wife, a thrifty dame
of him many 'resources, aided and abetted
in every respect. And of all the
boarders, old Simcn Mixall was the
cheeriest and most helpful.
“Cau't I help ye, Lo-i-sy?” said he,
laying down the paper. “ ’Pears to me
yo've got a dreadful job there, with all
them beaus. I’m awful sorry ’bout
Adam Putney. I s’pose Peter’s clean out
o’ patience with him.”
The color mounted to Louisa's cheek.
“Peter don't say much,” answered
she; “but, of course, he's vexed. But
I tell him that the farm belongs to Uncle
Adam, and if his Uncle Adam hasn’t a
mind to sell to these railroad people, he
can’t be made to do so.”
“An’ ye can’t no ways be married
without the money?” wistfully spoke Mr.
Mixall.
Louisa shook her head.
“Peter has hisf cother and his lame
sister to support,” said she, with a sigh.
“We shall have to wait, that’s all.”
Old Man Mixall shook his head over
the emerald drift of beans.
“I hold with the proverb,” said he,
“that ‘it’s ill waitin’ for dead men’s
shoes.’ And the Putneys always was a.
long-liyed race.”
i 6 He may live as long as he wants for
all me,” observed Louisa. “I don’t
grudge him a moment of his life, poor
old man!”
! “No, I don’t. believe you do,” said
Old Man Mixall. ‘ All the same, it’s
pretty hard on you and Pete. How’s
Widow Blivcn? Any better of the rheu
matiz? Me and Nancy Bliven we’ve
danced many a Virginia reel together in
our young days', though p’raps ye
wouldn’t think it, Lo-isy.”
“She’s a little better,” said Louisa.
“And the young folks are going to have
a masquerade frolic at the Lyceum to
earn money to paint the old Bliven house
and re-shingle the roof before fall sets in.
I’m going to borrow the Quaker dress
that Libby Weldon's grandmother wore
when she was married. It fits me ex¬
actly.”
“I want to know!” ejaculated the old
man.
‘ ‘And Peter’s going to ask old Squire
Lomax to lend him the chest of Revolu¬
tionary uniforms and things he’s got in
the garret of the old house,” added
Louisa. “He’s going to be ‘George Wash¬
ington. i J) him,” Old Man
“I’d admire to see said
Mixall. “I wonder now if Cap’n Elias
would object to me goin’ down there and
seein' you young folks rigged up?”
“I’ll ask him myself,” said Louisa,
v;ho liked the kindly old soul and wanted
him to have the simple treat.
“You see, I don’t ofteu ask for an
evening out,” said Old Man Mixall.
“Not but what I’d like it oftener, but if
I ask, there’s forty others would think
they’d ought to go, too, an’ I don’t want
Cap’n Elias to hev any more trouble
than’s absolutely necetsftry. But I would
like to see how you look as a Quakeress,
and I’m mortal sure Peter Putney’ll make
nil A No. 1 Iievolutioner!”
And when the beaus were all prepared
for the morrow's pickle, Old Man Mixall
strolled cheerily along the front of Des¬
peration Hall, tying up some fat African
marigold he had planted, aud placing
new strings for his scarlet runners to
climb on, in front of the windows where
old Aunt Buggies lay sick.
For the western light hurt her old
eyes, and when the scarlet-runner leaves
waved in the wind, she babbled vaguely
of the green Maine forests where she had
been born.
“I jest wish I was wuth a million dol¬
lars!” said the old philanthropist. “I’d
give Pete Putney and Lo-i-sy Hill the
finest farm in Middle County. I don’t
see what possesses old Adam to stick to
his stony fields and mullein pastures so
tight, when the railroad people offer him
five thousand dollars for ’em. Guess I’ll
go mound an’ see him about it. Lo-i-sy
Hill’s too pretty a gal and too good a
oh to be kept waitin’ until Pete can dig
a home out of the rocks for her. It ain’t
no pa’tickler fun that I know of, doin’
housework at Desperation Hall.”
And so, on the evening of the Widow
Bliven’s masquerade party, Old Man
Mixall trudged around by the Putney
Farm to see his ancient contemporary.
Old Adam sat warming his venerable
bones in the sun. Suushine was cheaper
than firewood, if less satisfactory, and
he returned his greeting.
“So ye won’t sell the faim to the
Quantick Company?” said Simon, sitting
cheerfully down on the wooden settee
beside his friend.
“I can’t sell it,” said Putney, drum¬
ming his wrinkled fingers on the win¬
dow-sill.
“Why can’t ye sell it?”
“He won’flet me.”
“Who won’t let you?”
“My Gran’ther Putney.”
“Land alive, man, what ye talking
about?” cried Mixall. “Yer Gran’ther
Putney, he’s been dead an’ buried this
seventy years!”
“I dream about him every night,”
said Adam Putney, in the same slow >
mechanical way. “I see him a-settin
on the pld oak stump by the well. And
lie’s always a-sayiu’, ‘Don’t sell the farm,
Adam?’ I can’t go agin him, can I?”
“Wal, I calc’late I should if I was
you!” declared Mixall. “Dead an’
buried folks hain’t no business meddlin’
that a-way.”
“I can’t go agin him!” repeated Put¬
ney, with the slow, settled policy of old
age. nephew,
“But here’s your Peter, as
smart a lad as ever steppped, goin.’ and Lo-I-sy They’d
Hill, the prettiest gal
have money to go to housekeeping if
you’d listen to reason.”
“I can’t go agin Gran’ther Putney.”
“And here you be, poor’n Job’s tur¬
key, holdin’ on to the rockiest farm this
side o’ Serape Mountain, all jest for a
consarned whim!” persisted Mixall.
“I can’t go agin Gran’ther Putney,”
dreariiy repeated Old Adam, winking his
bleared eyes in the sunshine.
And Old Man Mixall, fairly out of pa¬
tience, got up and trotted down the
road, muttering unutterable things as he
went.
“There ain’t such a dumb fool as he in
all the foolish ward at Desperation Hall,”
said he.
And it took a good deal of the laugh¬
ter and merrymaking at the Bliven mas¬
querade to erase the disagreeable impres¬
sion from his mind.
Old Man Mixall was a ‘favorite every¬
where, and the hospitable dame in charge
of the refreshments cheered him with
hot coffee, newly browned waffles,
chicken salad aud frosted cake, before
he went in to see the young folks dance.
“That’s Lo-i-sy!” he cried, shrilly.
“Ain’t she jest as pretty as a pink in that
Quaker gownd and the scoop hat? And
there’s Pete Putney cuttin’ pigeon wings
in old Squire Lomax's Revolutionary
togs. Wal, I never!”
And Old Man Mixall laughed until he
shook like a mold of jelly. seriously
Cap’n Elias Fotherindye was
alarmed when his oldest boarder did not
return until the next morning.
“Why, I swan to gracious,” said t’ye!” he,
“I allowed suthin had happened
“No, cap’n” said the old man,
“nothin’ hain’t happened. But Pete Put¬
ney. he axed me, seein’ I was cornin’
right past the place, to leave his Revolu
tioner rig to Squire Lomax’s; an’ when I
got to Squire Lomax’s, they axed me to
stay ail night. Dre’tful sociable folks
them Lomaxes!”
And the Old Man Mixall went out
to water his marigolds and scarlet run¬
ners.
The sun was setting behind the to¬
mato vines in the back garden when
Louisa Hill came breathlessly up the
path. Mixall,” said she, “Peter
“Oh, Mr.
has just driven away! He has taken me
for a ride.”
“Eh?”
“And what do you think? We’re to
be married next week?”
‘ ‘I—want—to—know 1”
“And Uncle Adam is going to sell the
farm to the Quantick Company, and give
the money to Peter, and he’s to lm with
us l”
“Wal, I declare!”
“Uncie Adam says he saw Grnn'ther
Putney last night a-settin’ on the old oak
stump by the well, just at midnight.
And this time he was all dressed in tho
suit he fought at Bunker Hill in—mus¬
ket and cocked hat and all—and he says,
says he, ‘Sell the farm, Adam—sell the
farm,* as distinct as ever ye heard any¬
thing in your life. And Uncle Adam,
he says it’s a direct message from his an¬
cestor, aud the deeds are to he hauded
over to-inoriow. And we shall be happy
at last!”
“Did—vou—ever!” said Old Man
Mixall.
‘‘It was a dream, of course!” said
Louisa.
“Oh, of course!” said Old Man Mix
all.
But when she was gone to toll Mrs.
Fotherindyke, the octogenarian walked
slowly out to his scarlet runners, and
laughed long and silently.
“I hain't outlived all my usefulness
yet,” said he.— Saturday Night.
Their First Bay in Court.
It is always amusing to watch young
lawyers when they appear in court for
the first two or three times. Either they
arc very r.iuch frightened and forget all
they wanted to say, or they are very bold
and seem to think that they can give the
Judge more points in five minutes than
he could otherwise get in half an hour.
Some have committed to memory what
they want to say, and, while they go on
glibly with no obstacle ahead, let the
Judge ask a question and they are
swamped, and flounder about hopelessly,
unable to give a coherent answer, until
the Judge gives it up and lets them get
back again to the set speech.
And the effect these young lawyers
have on the old and toughened Judges is
astonishing. Some of the Judges are
thrown into their crossest moods by the
appearance of one of the youngsters.
They will make suggestions and ask wlmt
the law is on that point, and what au¬
thority there is for that proposition, un¬
til the ablest lawyer might well wish he
was somewhere else.
Other Judges are caused to remember
the first time they themselves appeared
with fear aud trembling before some
stern judicial light, and they at once set
about making the young fellow feel as
much at ease as possible. They nod ap¬
proval and speak encouragingly and re¬
frain from making any suggestions that
might throw the novice into a flurry,
so that he goes away feeling that he has
done pretty well after all, and is rather
surprised and pained when he reads the
court’s opinion showing the utter fallacy
of his whole argument.— New York
Times.
Regreening of Vegetables.
It may be a superfluous task to pain*
the lily or to gild the refined gold, but
the regreening of vegetables has assumed
the proportions of a gigantic industry,
which has its headquarters in France,
gives employment to 20,000 persons, and
represents a business of $8,000,090.
Nine-tenths at least of the green pre¬
served vegetables sold in France or
abroad are said to be regreened with
sulphate of copper to give them the ap¬
pearance of freshnes^
According to the British Medical Jour¬
nal the Glasgow Health Committee have
decided that, as the French Government
have annulled tlieir re-greening prohi¬
bition, it remains for consumers to take
care of themselves.
“A foolish British public,” says the
Glasgow' report, “expects to get green
peas at Christmas such as ft gets from
the market gardens in summer. The
French manufacturer makes them to suit
his whim. The consequence is that it
eates stale peas greened with sulphate of
copper all the year round.”
A-curious fact is said to be that the
largest sale of preserved peas takes place
in that period of the year when fresh
peas are in season.— Newcastle ( England)
Chronicle.
Electrifying a Postal Card.
On a dry day rub with a brush or with
the hand a thin piece of paper. It will
become electrified in a short time and
will adhere to your hand, your face or
your coat as if it had glue on it, and you
will not be able to get rid of it.
Electrify in the same manner a thick
piece of paper, a postal card for exam¬
ple, and you will see that, as with seal¬
ing-wax, glass, sulphur or -resin, this
card cau attract light bodies (small
pieces of cork, etc.). Balance a cane on
the back of a chair and wager any one in
the audience that you will make it fall
without touching it, blowing it or mov¬
ing the chair.
All you need do is to dry the card well
before the fire, rub it vigorously with
your sleeve and put close to one end of
the cane, which will follow it as iron fol¬
lows a magnet, until, having lost its
equilibrium, the cane will fall to the
floor.— Churchman.
“Derrick.”
Derrick is the name of a crane used in
shifting aud lifting heavy weights. It
is said to be so called from one Theo
doric, who, while serving at Cadiz a3 a
soldier under Robert, Earl of Essex, was
doomed to death for some crime, but
pardoned by his commander on condition
that he w'ould hang twenty-three other
malefactors. Such are the revolutions of
fate that subsequently he was employed
in London to behead Essex, the man who
had saved his life .—Philadelphia Record.
In British India 28,000,000 acres are
cultivated bv irrigation.
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To the Ci eat South American Medicine Co.:
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State Montgomery of Indiana. County, \... f •
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“■SSS5W*' Subscribed and to before mo this Jus*
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22, i«87. Cuas. W. Wright,
Notary Fublio,