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f und a man busty with her bureau
answers. But Friend Jane only passed
fl and closed the door behind her, and
eet hee +leek against it,
TrIb fellow had her puree and ber friend who sometimes deals in second
hand clothing. lie has been looking was acted up to Isitn. `I'ween't the
at some of iny old dresses; with which being let go so uuch as the way of It,
words she uelsered the burglar past I I ain't stole othinsince that night,
unsuspicious Friend Epi ain and, as lady. I've tried to work.
he went, caught a look upon his face Then thee has done thy Christian
that stamped it indelibly upon her duty, said Friend. Jane.
memory. It's all gone, said the man with a
She returned to her room, settled sob. There ain't no chance for we,
her disarranged burette drawers, hung I had a start, but just look around us.
up her watch and the precious pr.otile, Look above us, said Friend Jane,
and went down stairs calmly to take The stars are just as bright and the
her tea, and no one ever heard a word sky just as glue as ever. Thee needn't
of her adventere, or knew that there be afraid. The Lord will provide. I
had been a burglar in thhouses trust Him, and just now sin as poor
e
Tune passed. mond Friend Jane had as thee.
ceased to recall her adventure vividly, • Then a sudden,/ Impulse possessed
when, as we all know, a certain cow ben She put lier hand into the ex -
of Chicago kicked over a kerosene burglar's.
lamp and set the city in flames Friend Stay and help me, she said, and
Tin, forgotten by her landlord and will help thee, and we will help others
his family, in thefor a while, and thee will see. The', terror and °ouster,
nation, awakeie'd to bear the flames Lord will provide.
crisping ancr cracking 'about her He stayed. Had he left her then it
would have been to join with those who
witelew sill, and to find the satairway
aflame and for her utterly impassable. were pillaging the city. The poor fel.
This was a desperate state of things. low was not of himself strong enough
to beat his pecuniary ruin bravely and
Even Friend )ane felt disturbed by it, begin an
honest life again, but this
but she only cried a little;very meekly,
as she dressed herself. Meanwhile, he placid Quakeress helped bine strangely.
the street below, Friend Ephraim .had During those first terrible days they
worked together, nursing sick people
discovered her absence,the from family
who bad no one else to care for thein.
FRIDAI , DECE BER LSO I.
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gow Beautiful.
/low beautiful is life,
If we but give it
thought diet mortals should
And wisely live.
Our eyes were given to see
Earth's good and glory —
Our melds to utideretand
Its charming story.
How beautiful is health
To hitn who reaps it ;
And -like a jewel race,
Still guards and keeps it.
Use half the luok (2) in life,
That has foundation,
Is debtor to this fact,
"Good circulation."
How beautiful is home,
If we but make it
The alter of our love,
And ue'er forsake it !
Bow sweet the wifely kiss
That saothes thud blesses—
The little children's love
And from caresses!
Mow beautiful is love
When .oue has found it I
No power, small or great,
Bath ever hound it ;
It woveth heaven and earth—
A mighty lever ;
It goeth ou and ou,
And will forever.
Jth.N E.
BY DIARY 'KYLE DALLAS.
Chicasso never was, probably never
will be, a city where one would expect
t� find many of that grave and honor
able order who call thereseltes Friends,
and are called Quakers, but one, at
least, lived there for many years, a
certain maiden lady named Jane Or.
chard,of whom every one always spoke
as Friend Jane.
She was orthodox to the backbone,
and at the tune of our story undeni-
ably old, She was neither rich nor
poor, aud, being quite alone in the
world, boarden with a family of
Quaker des.cent, who had become in a
great ilieasure , backsliders, inasmuch
as the young folks had abandoned the
sad colored garments of their eeet, but
who still retained in the home circle
at least thtepleasant thee and thou.
Pretty and' trim aud fair as a waxen
doll baby even in her old age. it was a
marvel Friend Jane had never
married. The truth was that a cer-
tain Obadiah Black hart never found
courage to make her en offer.
Being questioned on the subject by
a curious friend, she had thus explain
ed matters :
Friend Obadiah lilted me,and I liked
Friend Obadiah, but lie wanted to be
sure that 1 would say yes before he
asked me to marry him. He wanted
me to creep through the fence before
he climbed over, and I did not choose
to do anything so unbefitting. If a
man wants to know whether a girl
likes him let him ask.
Obadiah had died, a bachelor, years
before, and Friend Jane had a black
profile of hire banging over the mantle
of her neat bedroom. It had pretty,
cowardly nose, and a small, womanish
elin. Her own prefile was finely
aquiline, though very soft. Buto.hough
she had sighed over this counterfeit
presentiment of Frieud Obadiah, elm
had not wasted her beauty in tears.
Placid in love as in grief, her heart,
had never throbbed or fluttered ae most
women's do, A cannon fired suclden-
ly within ten feet of her whereabouts
would not have made her scream.
When Friend'Ephraim's children beat
their drums and blew trumpets and
screamed awl tumbled down stairs,she
only sett', blandly :
How remarkably fond little boys
end gide are of making a noise.
She had no nerVes, in the feminine
view of the case. She never judaped
or twitched or squealed or wept fur -
lonely ; she never laughed aloud. '
She caked hysterics fits and. treated
them with large ,jugs of cold water,,
and was altogether 'a very Model of a
Quakerees.
Any other woman would have abaM-
cloned this calm demeanor for once, if
she, like Prima( Jane, hati,one autumn
evvfling just at dark, passed, with
sliken,soft footsteps, up the stairs,and,
roan, huskily. As for a mother, I
never had .ene.
On the pore' stood Friend Ephroins
Don't disturb, tlivSell, she said, as
he 'stepped aside, This is a young
hide he saidsju•t .retnember this too ;
there been a to of preaching to him
in jail and ektewilete all his life, but
he was never treated like you treated
hint before, Obeistian duty was talk.
ed to hitn,but Christian kindness never
watch in his hRna, and was dragging
front its depths it costly and greatly
va'ued drab shawl. Other things lay
heaped before him. Friend Jane saw
each article plainly No desecrating
liand had ever dived into her bureau
before ; her property had Always been
held sacred. She looked at the
loper very solenanly,and having shaken
her head solemuly, said, calmly :
Friend, those are my things.
The than turned, and his hand wept
into his breast,as if searching for some
weapon.
Make any noise, and be the
death of you, he hissed. 1 ain't fond
of hurting women, but 1 won't be
caught like a rat in a trap. '
I do not wish to make any noise,
said one to remember. *III you let
go? •
Poor ycung maissaid the Quakeress.
So thee had no mother. No wonder
thee turned out poorly. Take the
money that is in the purse, as I told.
thee. It its but little, and thee is
welcome.
I don't want it.said the tnau,tremue
lonely. I'm sorry. I meddled with your
things. If I'd had a mother like you,
I—There, no matter 1- let me get out
of your sight. I'm ashamed.
Follow tide -said the Quakeress, and
do not look disturbed if 1 disoblige
the truth.
She openedthe door, and ruetled
softly down stairs, like some dear old
gray dove. Friend Jene, hut I feel
a call to speak to thee about the im-
propriety of thy cooduct. It is very
siogu:ar, to say the least. Perhaps
thee has made some mistake that thee
can explain.
You are a cool hand, the man mut-
tet ed.
1 am not. frightened, said Friend
Jane, because if there were cause I
could soon. call Friend Ephraim and
his grown, son, but I do not wish to
harm thee,only thou must not have my,
clothes. Perhaps tbee is a burglar,
but perhaps thee has been driven to
dishonesty by poverty. Thee must
not take my shawl, and thee must
leaye my watch and put down that
money
profile, but thee can take the
out of the purse—it is not much—if
thee is actually itedWant.
The man strife:CI at her, flung the
purse with the rest of the things he
had huddled together upon the bed,
and walked toward the door.
Let we pass, he said ; I haven't got
a thing of youre. Let me go.
Speaking as thy friend, said Friend
Jane, I'd -advise thee not to rush out
in such haste. Friend Ephtaitil is on
.the front porch., and he is apt to for-
get, the peaceful doctrines of our
Society when he is vexed. If the
departs alone, thee my be arrested and
pat in jail.
Is this humbue,e ? Are you setting a
tratefor me, ojelifildy ? asked the man,
his hand stilpi:ithin his bosom, his
eyes glaring at her,
No, said Friend Jane, niuidiy, I do
not wish, nor shall I permit, thee to
to take my clothes; but I do not wish
to' see thee severely punished. Is it
our Christian duty to forgive those
who trespass against us, and I am oid
and 6hou art young. If .1 had ever
had a son, and had brought him up as
badly as thy mother has thee, I should
wish others to give him every possible
chance to repent and lead an honest
life.
She paused a moment, and looked
severely at tim—not tts most people
would have looked at a burglar, but as
a kind grandmother might look at
.some favorite, naughty child who had
broken her flower blossoms or meddled
with her knitting.'
Doesn't thee think an able bodied
:young. man like thee might' earn a
,14ing without taking an old wonaan's
freaks Ad shawls ?
I'll take none of yours, said the
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group, and, bewailing it aloud, felt his
arm caught by a large but supple
hand.
Which room cried the man,
Friend Ephraim pointed, and the
next moment the man who had spoken
to him dashed into the burning house.
Frietel J ane, kneeling at her bed-
side, hiding her face in its covering,
and waiting for death, suddenly felt
an arm flung about her, and was
wrapped in ti blanket and borne
through smoke and flames downward,
over the tottering stairs. out into the
blazing streets—away, with t4, fire
behind them like a raging fiend spitt-
ing at' them with red-hot moutlestriv-
ing to (deep them in his horrible arms,
but failing, somehow after all.
At last, in a .place of safety, the
man set Friend Jane down amidst a
group of terrified beings huddled to-
gether under a great stone wall, and
uuwrapt the blanket frOm about her.
She was half suffocated by the fire,
but the blanket had. saved her from
spot or mark. She smoothed her
dress, settled her cap, and looking up
into the face of the man who had
saved her life, reeoguized;lier burglar.
'I'm obliged to thee, friend, she said.
I hope thee hasn't found 'me very
heavy.
He smiled upon her faintly, and
worn out with his terrible exertions,
fell senseless at her feat. She stooped
over him, a strange contrast in her
lily,like old age to the flushed and
blackened and scorched and panting
ereature who had saved her. She
took her little bottle of smelling salts
from her pocket and held it to his
nostrils, and waited until he came to
himself before she uttered a word,then
all she said was :
Is thee hurt ?
No, said the man.
Then he put his hand over his fore,
head,
I canst-remember, he said. There's
something else—Ah, yes—he dived his
hand into his bosom and brought forth
a watch—saved that for you, he said.
fle aroped again in the same place.
Your 'picture, he said, and there'
lady, your purse, saved that • too, for
you.
Thank thee, friend,said Friend Jane
very softly.
I'd have saved yer frocks if id had
time enough, he said.'
And when at last those task was ended,
and Friend Jane left Chicago for Phil-
adelphia, in company with Friend
Ephraim and family, the exeburgler
went with them. And this is what
Friend Jane has said to him :
Friend WillittneIhave recommended
you to Friend Smith as a very honest
young man.
Early Lambs for Market.
W. D. Hopkins, in the New York
.Tribune, expresses the opinion that the
demand for early lambs has become so
settled that there is little clanger of
over production. .The season of great.
est demanct bigins at the present
season and lasts until the spring
weather becomes too warm for safe
shipment. lie says :
Ewes need not not be young, al.
though it does not pay to keep them
after four or five years old, but they
must be strang, healthy, and of good
breeding. Tho best ewes for this pur
pose 'are crosses between merinos and
some coarse.weol sheep—Soethdowns
preferable, - This produces animals of
full size, with wool' that weighs and
sells etell. Each year poor milkers
may be weeded out and the flock made
nearly perfect. About December 1st
ewes should be enclosed in the pens
This time may vary, according to the
season, but it is often earlier than later.
The fold must be lightmell-ventilated,
and warm—between sixty and sevent
degrees Fahrenheit. If the tempera-
ture be warmer than the common
living rooms of a house the sheep do
not thrive, and if below fifty degrees
it is too cold for the lambs. Ventilae
tion and drainage are important to
prevent dampuess and mould. Almost
any basement may be made warm
enough without artificial beat by lining
the sides with bogrds and straw or
chaff. Paper may be used, but it is
not much better. For a few days after
shearing the fold should be kept quite
warrn, as sheep feel the cold ; but as
soon as the wool starts a little the
temperature may be lowered. It is
needless to try to raise limbs in wins
ter without shearing the ewes ; if the
place is warm enough for lambs ewes
suffer from heat,and vice versa. Then,
too, lambs get ticks from unshorn
mothers, which hinder grotetli ; they
also look dirty from rubbing against
the ewes, which sometimes hurts the
Thee seems to forget that thee saved the sale. Moreover, ewes not sheared
my life, lose considerable wool,
Thon he took both her whine hands These read like practical, Common..
in his own and kissed them. sense hints,whieh those who are going
When you remember that the men into the production of,young lambs
that cam into your room one night to without much experience in the buei..
help himself to what didn't belong to ness will do well to hoed.
4 onamoe or Improvement.' •
Virst Aretio exploret--I say 1
Second Arctic explorer—Say un.
I say 1 We're in a box.
Jesse,
We'll have to wait for a rescuing
party,.
`font's it,
. One will come, I suppose,
Yes, they always come—but not.
always on time.
I say!
Well 3
Don't you think the present etyte
of Arctic exploration might be im-.
proved ?
Perhaps so, what would you suggestZ
I think the rescuing party ought to
go ahead.
"La Grippe,
4'isa Grippe" or luiluenza cau be quickly
cured by the use of Wilson's Compound of
Wild Cherry, the old reliable remedy for
Bronchitis, Whooping Cough, Croup,Colcls,
Coughs and other disiiases of respiratory
systetn. Wilson's Wild Cherry has beau
in use for many years and is highly recom-
mended by all who know its virtues. Sold,
hy all protninent druggists.
fox skin is worth a dollar; but
it's the hardest way to earn a dollar
to get a fox where you can skin him.
New Sarum Notes.
DEAn Sins, —I have used six bottles of B.
B. B. 1 took it for liver complaint. Be,
fore nook it 1 had headaohe and felt
stupid all the time, but now I ant healthy
aud entirely well. In addition I have a
good inetite, which I did not have pre.
viously.
Linais POUND, New Sarum, Cut.
I don't think that justice should
uide love. Why not?Beeause it would
be a ease of the blind leading the
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MISS MURPHY
Has received a large and choice stocic of •
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comprising
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Mantle Grbths, Brocades, &c.
LATEST NOVELTIES.: IN EVERY DE-
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MISS FARR, otTetrolia, an experienced
city milliner, has taken the position
of head milliner and every effort
will be used to please cus-
tomers.
MANTLES MADE ON THE PRE-
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Storeopposite the Queen's Hotel.
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