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The Advocate, 1887-07-14, Page 3Iy PWe Po Pearl Alyiittla Bo People fast asleep, and her head au nty heart is lying, / gently rock, and the old hall ale* aarikee a lanai of the day thatIsalYing4 But what care I hi:487'th° aours g° Whether 3y7iftlY they go or creeping ? :blot an hour eoela he but dear to me, Who° my babe oilniy arm is act/Ping, ller little bare feet, with simples sweet, ;prom the mai> of her gown are Pel3PI°df Aitd each woo too like a daisy in blow, .caroisaasho 110 a -sleeping ; Her golden hair as over tbio chair, Its treasures of heady unfolding, I press my lips to her finger tips That my hands are so tightly holding. Tick, tock, tick, took ; you MAY. Wait, Old cleat It was foolish what Ivali SaYPS Let your seconds stay, your nunutes play, And hicl your days go all a Blaying. Q. 'Brim t stand still—lot ine china rnyfthl Of content while my babe is sleeping; As 1 smooth he; bair, my life looks fair, And to-morrow—I may be lveeping. That Hateful Man. I hated Henry Carling from the first tirne he took hie goat in front of me at table d'hote in the Sea Beach Hotel and looked at me so much it interfered with my appetite. When I went out rowing and the boat upset he was on hand to fisli rae out. I suppose I ought to have been grate- ful for that, but I wasn't. Pm sure he knew my boat yeas cranky and followed me on purpose; besides the waves were not running very high. He was an artist and could spend hours looking at a sunset. Did you ever know anything good of a man who could sot in that incomprehensible manner? I was out walking about a week after I allowed the young man to save me from drowning. I walked, and walked, and walked. Pres- ently I carae to a cottage, outside of which a beautiful little child, with long hair, was playing. The pretty little thing ran after me laughing. I held out my hand to him. We walked on toward a clump of wild flowers that hung over the road in a grace- ful way that I am too stupid to describe or draw, though Henry Carling can do both. I suppose that, though I may dislike a person, I'm able to do that person some sort of justice. Wo—the child sad 1—wore seated toge- ther on the little rock I had chosen as a resting -place, when suddenly there came in sight an object I shall never forget—no,not to my dying hour. It was a dog; mad, it was too easy to see. It ran on, hanging its head, but with wild eyes and foaming at till) mouth, hideous and furious. It flew at the little child. I only remember one thing. As it flew at the child I caught its threat. I held it with the strength of the madness of that terror, for the little creature's sake, that had come upon me, and there I stood. I did not tremble. Thehorrible saliva ran from the dogs mouth. It did not touch my hands. Fortunately, too, I had doeskin gloves to keep my hands from freckling and tanning. I stood so—and ages seemed to pass— when Henry Carling came up. With him were three men. How they mastered the dog I do not re- member. After that I fainted. When I revived I had been carried, I found, into the cottage of the little claild's . mother. She was kneeling beside inc ancl. saying all manner of things to me about " saving her boy's life." As for Henry Carling, he'was crying. The idea of crying like a baby, a grown man And all because a girl held a mad dog I I suppose he would have had me think of nobody but myself and run off! Ihatesuoli people , Two days afterward his sister °mete see me. I had to keep my bed. I was over- come by something or other—fright, I sup- pose, for ,when it was over I could not but admit that I did feel strangely. When I finally came down -stairs there was that provoking man, as large as life. He looked pole and had tears in his eyes, and when he tried to speak to me he seemed to choke and could not do it. Then what do you think, of all things, that he did say? Ile said he loved me. To -day week we are to be married. Papa made a little fuss at firsts but Aunt Julia, who had taken a mother's place to me ever since my poor mamma died, advised him not to thwart me. - "What is the use of being rich, my dear Charles," said she, 4' if you cannot let your child fellow hr own inclinations? Carling is a fine artist and a gentleman." There that horrid matt calling now. He is in papa's library. He wants—a kiss 1 He says it is three weeks since he had one. Dees he suppose for a moment that I am going to him to give hina one? I am in the sitting000m writing all this. I presume that if he must have such an indulgence he is big enough, and old enough, and ugly enough to come for it hintaielf. • Watch the Insects. Injurious insects demand attention throtighout the summer months. Look for the borers near the base of young fruit trees; if sow -dust is Been frorri a hole in the bark, Or if a portion of the bark lemon to be depressed, ellt 011t the borer. If the leaves of ourrant and gooseberries are eaten by the worm," apply white hellebore at once. Stir a teaspoonful of the powder in a pailful of water, and apply with a syringe. Repeat this after a few days. If later broods appear, continue the remedy, which is a very certain,one. The greenish sling Slug, which appears upon the leaves Of oherry, peak and Other trees, may be de- stroyed by applying air -slacked lime or , wood ashes. This they bo cliteted ripori the leaves by means of &bag of coarse fabric, attached to a pole. The insects attacking the grape vines this month are mainly large caterpillars, which are most readily picked by hand, and the se -celled " thrihs," which ' is properly the " grapevine leaf hopper," and I" not related to the true *nips. It is a little whitish insect which often rises in clouds when the vines aro disturbed. Ile best treatment is to go among the vines with toadied; gently beating them to distiirb the ° insects, which will at Mice fly towards the light. The first appearance Of grayish ; spots on the undersides of the Vino indicates mildew, and flow* Of sulphur should be applied With a bellows Made for the par, Pose, Dora Pedro, Emperor of lAttail, sailed from Rio de Andra yesterday for Europe on the stearifer 'Gironde. THINGS ,O0O1D To EAT; And How to qo Tbem 'pp with Sagafan- t9rIl •44a$10r. Chocolate Cookies.—One cup of hatter, two cups of ,sugar, throe cups of flour, fear eggs, one oup of grated chocolate, one-half teaspoonful of cream of tartar, 1011 thin and bake in a quick oven. Lemon jelly.—The yolks of two eggs, one cap of sugar, ono cup of water, one table- apoonful of corn -starch and the juice and grittecl rind of one lemon; cook till thick. This is nice for layer cake, Yankee Muffins.—To one quart of milk add one gill of yeast, one tempoonful of salt, with four or nye eggs beaten ; add flour sufficient to make a thick batter; hake in muffin rings. Serve with butter. lierrion Soda Cake, --One cup of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter, two eggs, one- half cup of sweet milk, one teaspoon of soda, two teaspoons of cream tartar, one pint of flour, measured after sifting. , Puff Pudding—One pint of boiling milk and nine tablespoonfuls of flour; mix first with a little cold milk. When cold add a little salt and flour, three well -beaten eggs, and bake in a buttered dish. Serve at once. Excellent Cake.—Take one cupful of sugar, three cupfuls of flour, one and a half cupfuls of milk, half a cupful of butter and eggs; mix thoroughly, aading two tea- spoonfuls of baking powder. Bake in a hot oven. Eggless Cake. --Two-thirds of a cup of sugar, two-thirds of a cup of sweet milk, one-third of a cup of butter, two csuns of flour and two teaspoonfuls of baking pow- der. Flavor to taste, and before putting in the oven grate sugar over it. Tea Cakes,—Rub together four teaspoon- fuls of butter and one cup of sugar, add one well -beaten egg, one tablespoonful of cream and two cups of flour, into which has been sifted two teaspoonials of baking powder. Bake in small pans and eat while fresh. Beef Frittera.—Chop pieces of steak or cold roast beef very fine; make a batter of milk, flour orid an egg; mix the meat with it. Put, a lump of hatter in a saucepan, let it melt, then drop the batter into it from a large spoon. Fry until brown, season with pepper and salt and a little parsley. Cream Cake.—One half -cup butter or one cup sweet cream, one and a half cape sugar, foureggs (one beaten separately), one half - cup sweet Milk, two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar and one teaspoonful soda. Bake in a long pan. When done, out open and Spread between one pint whipped cream and one cup sugar. Flavor with lemon. Bread Griddle Cakes.—Soak a small bowl of bread over night in milk. In the morning mix a half a cupful of flour, into which is put one and a half teaspoonfuls of baking -powder, with one quart of milk, three well -beaten eggs and a little salt. Beat up the bread with this batter until it is very light and fry a delicate brown. The batter should be thick. Ice Ceeam.—Three quarts of milk, nine eggs, four tablespoonfuls of arrowroot and three cups of white sugar. Set the dish containing the milk in a kettle of water, and when hot add the arrowroot, previously wet in milk, the sugar and the eggs. Cook a few minutes and.fiavor when cold. This will fill a gallon freezer, . LeSe eggs maybe used, but your cream will not be so nice. Water Pound Cake.—One pound of but- ter, one pound of powdered sugar, four eggs, one cupful of boiling water, one pound of prepared'flour, flavor with lemon. Beat butter, sugar and the yolks of the eggs to a cream, then add the boiling water and stir gently till cold, then the pound of flour with the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, the lemon lo.st ; bake one hour. This cake cannot be told from real pound cake, and it will keep two Weeks. In making beef pot pie, • out in small pieces two pounds lean beef and one half - pound fat salt pork. Place in kettle, with one fine -chopped onion, one carrot, one- half turnip and water to cover well. Stew until tender, then add salt and pepper to season and place over stew the following crust: Two teacupfuls flour, in which havc, been thoroughly mixed two teaspoonfuls baking powder; rub well through flour one tablespoonful salt, and wet with cold water or sweet milk and mix to a stiff dough; roll into a sheet to cover stow; make two or three perforations in crust. Keepkettle closely covered, and stew twenty minutes to half an hour after adding crust. When no dough adheres to straw when thrust into the middle, the pot pie 'is done. • lIa Won Her by the Book. An exchange relates that a young gentle- man bappening to sit at church in a pew adjoining one in which sat a young lady, for whom he conceived a sudden and violent passion, was desirous of entering into a courtship on the spot, but the place not suiting a formal declaration, the exigency of the care suggested the following plan: He politely handed his fair neighbor a Bible (open) with a pin stuck in the follow- ing text, II. St. John, 5: "And now: I be- seech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that whieh we had from the beginning, that ',We love another." She returned it, pointing to Ruth ii. 10: " Then she fell on het face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou SbOUICISt take knowledge of xne, seeing I am a stranger ?" He returned the book, pointing to HI. John, 13: " I had many thins to write. X will not with pen and ink write unto thee, but I trust I shall shortly see thee, and vie shall speak face to face." From the above interview a mar- riage took place the ensuing week. Awaiting the Result. The popular Major Priest, of the New York Central road, very, muela resembles Dr. Burton, Of laultonvillo. The ether day a lady entered a ear in Whicili the Major sat, and, stepping up to him, said Doctor, my husband is net so Well to -day." The Major understood the sittiotion at once, and inquired: What mamato be the diffi- culty ? " Well," said the lady, "ho seeing to bo Omni nervous than he NVS.S.:" '44 Oh," Said the Major, "that's all right; give hint three Mere "1 *Ili," said the lady, and with that the Major departed. What the result of this predeription, will be teniains to be deota-aeftbaity ,Tounicia ' ea - There are moro than 65,000 widiatati in Massachusetts, about half Of theta 'beitig lead than 40 Yeara Of age. A. 40MANII0 CAREEnt A Tonna Alan Steals $50M0 and 041Pa to South Pacille pdand, Wkern. He Bancanna a Pin> That wickedness Bernath:40s PaesPere is avid_ ahead, says tbo New Yerk Warta, by the rather romantic career within the last feW months Pf Charles W. Banks, formerly of Albany, this State, later of San Francisco, Cal., and now elevated by the power of love to the throne of, Ring of Cook's Island in the Smith. Pacifio Ocean. A history of Mr. Bank's life in Albany would add so little interest to his later life that it is unneces- sary to refer to it now, except to state that in that rolling town he married a very interesting young lady, for whom, accord- ing to his latest letter to his friends in this city, he still entertains the most touching affection. It is also hardly necessary to say that the lady in question, Mrs, Fanny A. Banks, who is new in this city, places so little faith in these assurances of unbounded love that she hae begun a divorce suit, and charges his /flagship with desertion and infidelity. Soon after the marriage of the couple they journeyed to San Francisco, where Mr. Banks, being intelligent and bright, as well as a handsome young man, obtained employment in the express office of Wells, Fargo cis Co. There he prospered, pros- pered too well for his personal good; for having obtained a positionof trust, and gained the entire ,confidence of his em, ployers, he suddenly disappeared six months ago, carrying with him over $50,000 belonging to the company. His many friends at the Golden gate mourned his departure; for he was a good fellow, reekless with his money, an interesting talker, and a good story -teller, while his little suppers at home and at his club were the talk of society for days after each event. Mrs. Banks, too, mourned his loss, but her reasons were widely different, and she came to thia city salter gathering enough'evidence in San Francisco to prove to her that her husband had not been all that , she had expeeted.: Consulting the Iawfirm of Messrs Mines, Benner & Will- cox here, the papers for a divorce werepro- perly drawn up, but pending information as to the whereabouts of her recreant hus- band, she withheld proceedings. Meanwhile Wells, Fargo cis Co. had sent detectives after the defaulter, who tracked him to Tahiti, Sandwich Islands, but the wily young man fled in a schooner a few hours before the sleuth -hounds of the law reached there. From this point the gay defaulter's Movements much resemble those of Billy Rid, the illustrious hero whom Rosini Vokes sings about in her clever song, " His 'Art was true to Poll." Like Billy Kid, Mr. Banks Landed on a strange shore and looked out for an inn, When a noble savage lady, of a color rather shaly, Came along and accosted him. "Oh I stay with mo and the king you'll be, And in a palace loll, Or I'll eat you liko a filet ;" so ho gave his hand, did Billy, But his 'art was true to Poll. Mr. Banks was certainly in luck. He had sailed away from Tahiti for a point any- where out of the grasp of the law, and favoring gales had directed his craft to the shores of Rarelonga, Cook's Island, in tbe South Pacific, where the beautiful but dusky Queen TJlakea (Makes in English, but something else in herown picturesque language) reigned quietly and kindly over her loving tribe. She is a widow, but ceased abruptly to grieve for her departed lord when the handsorae face and manly bearing and figure of Mr. Banks( oomed up before her in her quiet, luxurious home. He was a wanderer, weary and forlorn, and she a widow, sad and lonely, but with lots of this world's goods and a large heart, which she unhesitatingly threw at his feet. Her kindness won him, coupled with his own YankeeingenuitY,whichtold him that he had struck it noh, to use an Americanism, and he availed himself of the fortunate oppor- tunity equally as unhesitatingly as it had been opened to him. There at Rarotonga, safe from the law's strong grasp, where the cliinate is glorious and warm all the year round, Banks is now living, duly domesti- cated and acknowledged as king, and re- ceiving the homage of the people, who adore hira because their beloved Queen has set them the example. The detectives who found him there say he expresses no desire to return to his native country, but seems satisfied to continue his life of idleness and power. Mrs. Banks has heard of her hus- band's fortune and has decided to begin divorce proceedings ationce. Her counsel, Edward R. Jones, appeared -before Judge Lawrence in the upreme Court chambers recently and obtained an order for the Publication of a summons in the suit, a copy Of which will be mailed to Ring Banka I. at his palace at Raro- tonga. Although Mrs. Banks has suffi- cient evidence to Secure a divorce without reference to her husband'spresent position, the detectives who have traced Mr. Banks and discovered his new mode of life will make affidavits which will be used in the suit in order to show the man's utter un- worthiness. Wells, Fargo & Co. have not given up hoped bringing Banks to justice, or of obtaining from him the money he embezzled. Banks' flight at the time of the discovery of the theft tweeted a sensa- tion. The publication of his subsechent movements will probably prove a greater surprise to the many society people of both San Francisco andthisaity.who know him and his wife. Ile Changed Ills Mind. A well-known New York hoincoOpothic physician sari that he Was °nee antis UP in the middle of the night; and requested by a man to tall itnimo dedoiately upon his * "Very well," seaihdor. " How rateh will it gest 2" Mired the caller. " Ten dollars—to go that distance." "How Mita Will it bo if you call in the mOrithig ? " " Two dollars." " Wall, call it the morning," shad the husband. A Man at Geneseo; 'Ill., teak kelt the other night and sent his nephewa Out for denied pills. Thd piing mail, ilritling the drug stores all alearid, and One solitary grocery open, catered and procured a hand- ful of small white beans.Whets be got hand he filled a pill box in his teoin with Wand and took them to his uncle. The beans wore taken and proved quite office - es the man recovered thci following day. /IAS THE GIFT OT' Ifp,ALING. Au Old Ohio Farmer wbo Banishes rain PY a TdPrn X940,1* f$ pg you *gee that white-haired, countri, fled -looking oliap tatting in front of the Red Lion fletel ?" asked a busineeis man of a !need whom he met on the ppm* Bide of the Streat- JaWell, what pf him ?" answered the ether, " He is one of the most peculiar old chaps I ever met," eaid the first speaker. "Ile cleans to be possessed of the healing power,' and his touch is something wonder- ful. It makes your nerves fairly tingle. For my part I don't understand it." This conversation was what led a patch reporter to look up the man with the healing in his heads. He Was found sitting outside the door smoking a regulation tobie and quietly watching the passing throng. His hair and beard are snowy- white and worn short after the country style, while his dress ia more substantial and comfort- able than rich and fashionable. Taking a seat beside him, the reporter asked ; "Are you the doctor ?" "No, sir," he answered rather inno- cently. "Ain't you the faith cure dootoe that is stepping here ?" "No, sir; I ain't no faith cure doctor, but I can knock a pain out of you in a jiffy if I sot my hands on you," he replica with a good deal of animation. The interviewer was at a lose to know how to take the old gentleman's answer— whether he Meant that he would knock the life out of him for his impertinence, or that he would kindly relieve his physical suffer- ings. As he did not take a threatening hold on the big dpgwood cane that be carries, the interviewer proceeded to explain: ' "1 was told that you were a faith cure or pow -wow doctor." "Pm nothing of the kind. My name is Josiah Stonebraker, and I live down in Belmont county, 0., near Demos post - office, and I don't have to pow -al ow for a living. I am a farmer, and I do most of the undertaking business in that section. I used to make my own coffins, but I don't do it any more. You fellows up here make 'em cheaper than I can. No, I'm not up here after coffins; I just came up to see some old friends and look around. I was here about twelve years ago, but it doesn't look like the same place. Then it was so smoky and dark that I thought I would have to get a lantern tcesee my way onthe streets." "Yes, there has been a great change. But I would like to know something about this pain cure." "Well, young man, all that I know is that when a person comes to me and says: Si, I've a pain, so and so,' and I put my hands on the place, the pain goes away, or if I rub a wart or corn they go away, and I've known cancers to disappear after I've rubbed them that way. You needn't lorigh, young feller," says he solemnly as he laid his hand on the doubting Thomas' thigh. It may have been imagination, but his hand seemed as hot as fire and sent, thrills to the ends of the toes. "No,never laugh at such things, for you don't now what might happen. I have saved life, and while I do not travel on it, still I feel that whenever I can relieve suffering I ought to do it. As I said before, I don't have to, and am up here just to look around. Do I believe in faith cures? Of course I do. Every Christian must believe in them. In the early days of the Church all cures were effected by means of the lay- ing an of hands, anoiting with oil and offer- ing up prayer. Why may it not be just as good now? I &a ,1 know anything about magnetism, galvaulaaa nor none of your isms. I only know that if you have,a rheumatic pain there in yoiir knee, a tight- ness in your chest, or a pain in your head, I oan drive it out. Now, you can call it whatever ism you please." "Do you believe the power is frora God, or is it your own?" "Every good and perfect gift is from God; beeides, we have no power of our own. In olden times the people possessed divers gifts; some the gift of prophecy, some the gift of healing and others the gift of teaching. I reckon mine is the gift of healing." " Did you always have this power?" "Yes; but I didn't know it until a gifted healer told me so. He said that I had a great deal of power, and he showed me how to use it. My wife, who had been an invalid for twenty years, and had been in bed four years, and weighed only about 50 pounds, now weighs 150, and is able to do hee own housework. Why, sir, the bhuned doctor bills just kept inc poor, and she got worse right straight along until I struck this. Then she quit taking medicine, and hasn't taken a drop since and is now well and hearty."—Pittabure Despatch. Origin of Hand -Shaking. In the early and barbarous times, when every savage or semi -savage was his own law -giver, judge, soldier and policeman, and had to watch over his own safety, in default of all other protection, when two friends or acquaintances, or two strangers desiring to be friends or acquaintances, when they chanced to meet, offered each to the other the right hand alike of offence and defence, the hand that wields the sword, the dagger, the club, the tomahawk, or other weapon of war. Each did this to show that the hand MS empty, and that neither war nor treachery was intended. A Man cannot well stab another while he is engaged in the act of shaking bandit with him, unless he is a double -dyed traitor and villain, and tries to aim a cowardly blow with the left while giving the right, and pretending to be on good terms with him. —Rochester Post...Express. All colors aro Welcomed. A European ball -room is full of surprises to an American. In the first place, he is astonished to find that, in general, leaving Out the very high society people, every one dances with cooky one else, without intro- duction. Another thing in a large ball at any of the various European resorts, you will sob men of all colors, froth: a jet black down to a little yellow, waltzing with the young ladies, chatting and flirting with theta ; in Net, quite as well received as any one else.—New York Sun. aa -la the charge agalhat Wm. Lahey, of Dundas, fer assaulting, striking and knook- ing cloivri Michael Ladefaaan old oiSat, the Police lattigiatrato Saturday Vaned La. hay guilty and fined hint ft5 and deataala $12.35 iti all, VY.119NIP ligN1"/P1'4 AICITIYAR, P911'ee-c91cm54 P194m1ft Laco—Oaaaft-Pacaal and Pasiarloti—NOtaa- A correspondent' writes; " One of tha, chief features of the new fashions seems to be a revival et the whirs and forms of the Pat. I saw a boariet the other day, fresh from Paris, that recalled the 'Jane Clark " of bygone times. ;It was of pale coffee - colored blonde lace, and on one side A the cap,' as it used to be called, was a wreath of blush roses. On the top of this head- gear was 0. knot of grass -green ribbon and the strings were pi the same hue. :9ruaiss-areetli Paalieiertost:-plahltavl 0 said What ah to it? But it was a very pretty bonnet, all the same. Another—still prettier—was composed entirely of unripe cora (green), over which Was drawn a yell of green tulle. The front was formed by a wreath of pop- pies, and on the left side was an aigrette of poppies—three, placed one above the other, to mount it up high—with the stalks sh0W- ing, and the tem poppy the smallest of the three. The sleeves of a different materiel or collo to the dress show another return to an old and a very pretty fashion but great care must be taken, or the toilet4 will look patchy. Dun -color and dark brown, stone - color and pale blue, grey (pure and simple) and violet, pr dark green, go well together; but the sleeves should always be of the more telling color and the richer material. The present has one great advan- tage over the past. The inexpensive stuffs of to -day are prettier than any seen of yore, more especially the striped ones. 1 have just seen a material composed of alternate stripes of white poplin and white, Valen- ciennes lace, which would make a lovely wedding dress for a bride in her teens. Another material was composed of alter- nate stripes of tussore silk and lace of the same shade. A frock of that stuff might be worn with almost any color, and at the smartest day festivities, and would outlast two or three of the white canabrics trimmed with broiderie Anglaise, that threaten to become the rage, and need to be so very fresh and clean.—London Lady. He Wasn't ,Qualified. "Did yOu hire that young man who applied for your school?' was asked of a. Dakota school district officer. "Well, I should rather say avedidn't." " Why not?" "His edioation didn't come up to the scratch." "What in?" " Gram'er." "How did you find it out 2" " W'y, he got in my wagon to ride from the field to the home an', says I, 'Did ye ever drive much!" Of late years,' says he, I have driven very little. 'rove very little, ye mean,' says I. I beg your per don,' says he, 'but I mean driven.' 'Drove is right,' says I. 'No, sir,' says he, driven is the most granaaticalista Oh, well, mebby ye know,' says I sorter sar- castic. '1 reokon I do,' says he. 'I'm jes' corain' out here to learn you folks some- thing.' Do you see that road?' says I. '1 does,' says he. Well,' says I, 'it goea to town, an' you want to git right out an' humpen yerself down it mighty fasten, 'cause I'm goin to begin to kicker' ye in about a minute by the clock He saw linowed more 'bout gram'er than be did and he got out o' that wagon an' mooted down the road. You bet we're goin' to have a teacher that understands grana'er or none at all."—Dakota Dell. Moses was a Gentleman. Some alnu4pg stories are told of the wit and wisdom of London school children. A class of boys in a boardingschool was being ;examined orally in scripture. The historgof Moses had for some time been a special stud, land one of the examiners asked: "What would you say ,pt. the p general character of Moses?" "He was meek," said one boy. * "Brave," said another. "Learned," added a third boy. a. "Please, sir," piped a pale -faced, neatly dressedlad, "ho was a gentleman." "& gentleman?" asked the examiner, "how do you make that out? " The boy promptly replied in the same thin, nervous voice: "lease, sir'when the daughters of Jethro went to the well to draw water the shepherds came and drove them away, and Moses helped the daughters of Jethro, and said to the shepherds : 'Ladies first, please,. gentlemen.' "—Christian World. "Seed 'Ern a Doing It." It is almost impossible for country people to recognize the dense ignorance as to all matters agricultural and rural from which the children of the London poor suffer. A, day or two ago the parson of a London parish asked one of the children who had been boarded out under the new poor law regulations how he enjoyed the change of &Wand scenery. "Please, sir," said the urchin, "I.don't like it at all; instead of giving me milk out of a nice clean tin they squeezes it out of a nasty cow—I seed 'oni a doing it! "—Pall Mall Gazette. Scone Etiquette. In calling on a lady who is away from home leave your card. If the visit is in- tended for two or three Mims at the house leavetwo or three cards, but do not turn down one corner of the card, asthat custom. is now exploded, except in three card monte circles, and even then it is regarded with suspicion.—Bill Nye. Economy. Pater—" Tom, Tom !—this '11 never do. Pad 11 o' look 1—and you've been in bed. fifteen hours out o the twenty-four." Tom—" But it's cheap, Gov'nor—'costs nothing. Wh'eati directly a fellow's up and dressed, expenses begin !"—Punch. A Truism. dont know that I ever toined a niatini worth repeating, but if I ever have it is this: "1 oWe my mamas to printer'saink." —P. T. .Barnunt. The Vossieha keititag says the Porte litta ordered tho GerraliaiS Company, of Itiel; t� despatch .to Turkey & vessel With two torpedo catchers, oleo 010,0 torpedo boats. The vessels are regniked tO be powerful and cnealll hey—Life may change, but it May fly not ; Hopei:nay vanish, but can die not ; Truth be veiled but still it burneth ; Love kepultsedsahiit it teturnetli,