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reel more 'an over like a fool
sineo Picket's Nell eamebitek from Scheel,
She own wee twelveRnd see eighteen
Old better friends younever seen);
But new-0hp my I
She's dressed so ere. 'nd rawed so tall,
l'arnite--ehe lea knOws it all.
She's eighteen now, horns so igoi
Pra whar 1 vials six years ago 1
Six Years 1 Waal. waal 1 Don't seem a wreak
Sauce we rade Dolly to th' creek,
*kid fetched thcattle/acme at night,
41er hatigue to my jacket tight;
But now—ch. my
She rides in Pickett's new coopay
Jeep' like she'd Wen brung np teet way,
"Naloolthe like a reglar queen—
Th. inostest like I ever seen.
She 'ester tease„ tease, '414 tease
fer to take her On int" knees;
Then tired rue out blarge'y dew,
Thl lathe tell ray throat was raw,
Bat now—ch, I
She Sets up this way—kinder proud'
tigglloyar Imes laughs out loud,
You veu'dn't hardly thsn that She
He ever see -sawed on my knee.
1ga sentetim, es, et at noon Bd. choose.
To find a SOISdr place 'lid snooze,
rd wake with burdocks in my hair
'.Nd elderberries in my ear.
But now—oh., my
Somebody said ('twus yesterday);
'Arleta hey some tun while AWRY;
list's turn biSlaQkftt inaide out eo
But Nelle -slid just turn red 'nd pout,
'ISA °not 'talent wuz cheapen. like,
Arbrowite alcorns in tit' dyke.
She put her arms clean rourig my boo
tci„ whispered softly z "1 like you. Ilea 1"
But. now—oh.my
she courteseyed so stiffed, grand
Nd never oncet held coat her hand.
..3,A ogledale " MisterBdwardi" IpaTe
That ain't reY 144340 Ala &CVO' WM.
d them 'at/cm:wed 'or yeara 433
dee leuelied V am to Put en 4f:t
thei it vim often talked 'ud, saki :
keUfickett's lea CIA QUt !Or Ned,
mut OQW,,014 ray!
She bold her party head, so high
'zee Mutely sew me gee:I,' Wee
X w'uN:111,t dast fatnq 140 nrehtl
nerposely came user her sight,
last night—es 1 wits startin' out
To ;it tb,' cowl! 1 heard & shout.
'44, sure es ;hostess. oho was tbar,
A Wen' on en Pickett's mar' ;
tliee--41414, raY
She laid she'd cried for alt tis' weee
To tett tis' or ride to Me creek;
Then talked about tenets and said;
" =teat diva wuz heppy, wa:n't they. ried
Tie folks wuz talleite eierywiaare
neetaberputtee on sechairs,
'Se amuted to rue like (bey wee right
.afore tie COWS come home last niget,
But new—on, my!
—father nem Eiralsall,alial ZSMCS Wintrerabe
say,sn the Centura
THE GOOD OLD DAYS."
The Condition of Labor in England
120 -lean Ago.
SIXTEEN' EMIRS A DAL
The Wages Of Treeletinen and. laborers—
Princely Palatiese-What lerOgrese ?
"The good old dart " i.o tabistorite phrase
with certain people when referrieg to tbe
condition of things e oentarY go. ItoW
often we hear posimistically inclieed
people lamenting the degeneraoy At *hie
latter age and sighing for the buried 'met.
WQ grumble is more or less natural to all;
to eomethe privilege in a real luPturYi and
were they deprived et it they would be we -
happy indeed- Happiness a relative term
largely dependent upon oententment ; and.
;some are ao oonstituted that oententment
is a °audition of mind wellnigle =attain-
able. Moreover, tineyennglive itt prospect,' oninuire on the cause.
and if they Ogle for the "old days" Ais One et the ortriosities of life displayed
probably a hinging born of the teles of the alee8 the water-froot of this oitY is the
nays of ohivalry, or the outcropping o the way children are reared in absolute eetety
• barbaxte be the human orgenizetion. But aboard canal haste. Any pereon who
• the old incline to dwell with the past in tab* 'dm 'trouble to visit Oeentim slip
or
the neighboring ;lecke where esatal beetle
heritage et mankind. and they aereemed to
be she ineas to whom the earth belonged
and to , whom its tallneeit was to
be preeented. Those who labored
—wine produced—were may in the
world by their toleratien, and
they had no rights peva whet their ler&
afire allOYnel them tr.1 have as * matter of
eepree Von Tell IstaXemir49.
Indiana Science Toe eincle tor therieeas
tating nootatne ceineeerae, 'tummies.
Baldbeeied nien,who have had to suffer
the slings aid arrows of outrageous fortune
io the oboe); et the gibes of those who eit
behind then at the opera and "Atoll the
grace. We have improved upon that (eine Aloy of tte bellet refleoted from their
digest of ailetre somewhat, butthem is shining nob:, will be pleetied to learn that
much to be done yet in the Ramo direolion. ina Indiana iliernist has paved the way for
their deliveance says tile Indianapolis
jeuenai. The is not an advertisement, and
the individud who speaks of chestnuts or
who mattes Bats " withoot further
epplyieg bliteae to wisdom and his heart
to—imderatreding may have ocotteion to
regeet his bety judgment. It seems Bonne
German %linnet, finding hie forehead
malting father back than WAS strietly
demanded let the Iwo at bomity, began to
voetigate tee allhjed closely, and Tonna
thee the dimeage was erased by a microbe,
=vilikila, for tle sake of brevity and to die-
thignigh it ;ram other parasites, he celled
the Hitedirta Orinevorex Humana's. This
microbe, WO ere told, is shaped like the"
point of onsdle, and has a power el rotary
motion like a steant drill, which, it neee to
bore into thesoolp ot, the Viatica, 100Senieg
the tootenioca at his *atoll, and finally
unman hitt as completely as the lieniais
OYelQue Unrode the linnible habitation of
the hardy eekler. It might be supposed
that with tie= powerful quelitiett of de-
stractiveues3 the B. 0, H. could parolee its
lefismetiS Cialeer Of deselation imobstrueledp
but the Indiana Men has devised, A prepa.
ration which promptly ream:ell it to A
000 i
4On at rinearietie deenetede. The
rot Atee mum it to *teenage ite nofariona
upetion tend xemerk On the rapidly
gthwieg Tesheathluluese at the neighbor.
awl the not epplioetion comma it
er te VaCiate the premises or give up a
ulietteree and misspent lite. Not only
does it rid the eettleneriet et the unwelcome
ietroder, but it detain. °there of like ilk
from coming in to tette rip the ebendatied
eleina and the owner et the poll, who
formerly went ebeett with a OratitAT as
bare taa hintera ball thereafter reactioee
like elealore in the beauty end lexerienott
of his lacks.
The O&M& Obleetions are urged to -day
spinet progress in the improvement of
the oonditien of the mamma as then. The
ery Contribute to the support ot the
poor be oharitelne. But it won't go down.
Xustioe, not Oberity, is the demand; Right,
not Patronage, its the watehwerd. These
movements aecumnlatepower eetheygrew.
and *emigrate in speed es they "Tema&
their goal. Who knows how Seen the
efforts of the maidreformers may he
crowned withthe greeted moms ol Puede=
times? Aele nothing but justice; it is
enough. Look beck but 10 learn the
preeent and the future are for Work-
NASUMEn
Center. tictoritee German Dragoons.
The Pixel Guard Dragoon Regiment, o
which Her Majoity hes become chief,
not only one ot the raolt distinguished
cavalry regimeate in the German army,
but in military history it will live as one
Of the partimpatore in theta epleodea which
Occutred at oritical moments m 'the great
battle of Vionville•Mere-le-Tour, A,n°aust
16th, 1870, whine there depended! for the
moment on a mere heedful of horsemen the
fete ot some thouseude at their otraredee.
Twice during that battle am the Gerroeu
cavalry, in order to avert the impending
oatsetropbe, nide to aertain destruation, and
on one at theme cooesione it was the Elroy
Guard Dragoons Quit, [Angle headed, first
arrested the almost tnumpbed onward
=arak of the enemy, and thus helped to
beat beck the well-nigh overwheltmog tido
ot advance. The formation of the mgt.
merit dates from Pah, 21s1, 1815,00 which
date Bing William Frederick the Third
teemed an order to the following effeet:
gq, bevel determined to raise three new
guard cavalry regiments itt plum at exist.
Ing light cavalry regiment, and to form
them from the three national cavalry regi-
ments which have fought with the army
during the war, in order not only to give
the provinaes to which these regiments
belong, and to which they owe
their origin, a frail proof of my
kindly feelings toward them, and
which they derierve, but also ,to testify
my satiefeation with the spirit 'abown by
the light guard cavalry regiment during
the war. •The three regiments thus formed
became the guard lancers, the guard dra-
goons and ibe guard hussere. The
dragoons Were composed of tbe guard are, -
Moen squadron, two squadrons of the
Pomeranian national cavalry regiment, and
a squadron from the Queen's dragoon regi-
ment. The men and horses from the
' national regiments sere selected with
•spacial care. Those men who had ob-
tained during the war the decoration of
• the Iron Cross were first chosen'and then
• preference was given to any whohadserved
arming the var.—Fortnightly Review.
which their activities were sputa, and
it is perhaps not to be wondered that,
their eyes once turned backward,
they see beyond their own experiences.
arta give to each circimestenoe and Bitterne
tion the coloring ot their youUltut reraini,
mimeo. We are very apt to tall into the
habit ot minimizing our edventagee and
opportunities end viewing either the die.
tent p, est or future through paztiecolored
gleams.
Hen is a progreeeive animal. The home
of to.dey has probelay no greeter entibi.
Sloe and no Mina numerous eventathen heti
those There* drove. The sheep of tredaY
ere pnebelAy meole the Seine itt that re -
sliest ea then Abraham herded. Man, on
the other bend, tinda bis aufbitioue end
&aim inerefteed by their ttignMent* Ma
evolution in this direetien is in pro-
portion to the improvement in his enviore.
remit. Perhaps it is the infinite within
him etrugeling to rise. Whatever it is ha
is in thie roger" 4 ;mine() animal. And it
is only bythe nee ot his otopeteity
for noting ' testa and his reflective
facultioo - that he la prevented teem
failing into the erroneoue belief that we
mettle= beet expounded by them who
thould knOW better, that tblo old world is
%el failure; Valet all reente efforts are
r eaughe in unpzove ' tp and that men.
nate going to the a ' goingialy. lan't
the ides rather A Zee en on the Creator
at the world and idis ability to make a,
MOMS at Ens handiwork?
It la quite COMMCM to bear, in these dale
of strikee end labor disagreement% thee
eveu he Elegised, the Mother ot Proves,.
the lot of the laborer is growing harder ot
late years. Is -fleet tbe feet? Or is it but
the growth at the ambition of the MASK,*
tea by their attainment to an already
greatly improved condition, ? Itet me
carry the reader beck just 120 yore and
glean atnne information AS tO the condition
of the English workmen, The figurer I
give aro from the pen of an enquiring faun
6pp:tenet whose "Six Weeks* Tone" con.
teens much inforroation of the times its
• -which he wrote.
His report on the wowing industry at
Whitney, where 500 weavers were at work,
thaws *het the /bleat wool was worth 81.
to liel.per lbewhile memo wool Bola at 41a.
Blankets. 104* sold at 245. to X3 per pair.
Mutton coat 43. to 40., beet 5d., one bacon
ad. per lb. The wager( were not so high as
to make the tradesmen of today envious.
The author says: a ffottrneyrnen, in
general, on an average, cern from 10s. to
12s. a week, but they work from 4 to 8
[o'clock], and in winter by candle light»
ma women of 00 and 70 earn ca. a day in
picking and eorting the wool. A. good
stout woman can earn from ioa. to ie. a
day by spinning, and a girl of 14, four or
five penoe." It will be remembered, too,
that in those days weavers were -trades.
men of some importance. At North
Leach /arra hands got ild. to 103. a day in
winter and spring and la. a day itt sum.
mer ; or for reaping barley and oats 63. to
93., and wheat 49. to 5s. an acre. The
anther aide: " In winter and to hay
time, sa., oa. and 103., the stoutest fellows
often want work for 93. and cannot readily
get it.
At Salisbury, where the cloth industry
flourished, and where provisions cost about
as qouted. journeymen earned "from 7/11.
to 9a. a week the year round, and a girl of
16 to 18,a shilling a day by weaving, but in
the neighboring village, by spinning, not
hall as ranch." Not very enticing wages,
surely. Taking twenty miles around Lon-
don, the great size of which city he viewed
as an evil, inethat he contends it unduly
increased the wages of laborers, the author
finds the average wages Is. 63. per week.
But as by far the larger proportion of the
farm laborers were ontaide that circle, and
as 4s. 63. was not an uncommon wage, the
average is deceptive. The general average
of tradesmen's earnings was 8.e. 53. per
-week. Against these low rates there had
Scan a great outcry and overal riots, but
while the author thinks the laborers getting
4s. to 50. a week had reason to complain he
has no good word for the tradeemen luxu-
riating on 8s. 5. a week, working sixteen
hours daily, and he says: "The more
such fellows earn, the more succeeding time
and money they have for the ale house and
disorderly meetings."
This comment is still made when wages
and hon.re of labor are discussed, but the
theory it follows has been unhappy in its
demonstrations itt actual practice. Nen iM-
prove with improved wages and leisure. As
we improve our appetite for improvement
grows; we desire to do better and in con.
templing that desired condition and
lay up ma enures% **wavy day the COMMI:la
sight of a group ot toddling children play.
tog on the open deoka of the tow het/worked
boats, but he never hove et one Min
overboard. On 0110 yang beet, the Bettie
Ann, Rt Whitehell, that ley in Ocentlee
slip the other day, was ixOticed
nerd arrangement for keeping t'--
liltla
onee within the bounds of eetety.
Abe After dealt a rapier playground had
Scan tonged off for the youngsters leybeild-
tag * high picket tenter over which -they
conld not 0100. Thielied a swinging ;pito
Bemired by heap, etaple and padlock. Ineide
tot Olio inoloteree were four obildren who
wide the Air ring with their oilmen', rain
ot their unalloyed happineeet and content -
merit with, the arrangement. On another
boat a little wive dietent la the same tolip
was another rineer arrangement to keep
the little tete from falling overboard. In
the centro of the deck was festeeed a Atone
ring bolt, to which, Were fastened
three stent but emelt opee. At
the end at eeoh rope wee * stout
'either belt 'molded About the WISTO Of
rugged, stueleuret youngcter. The rope*
were pet long enough to prevent the
ran reeoldug the edge of the deck. /eat were
not too eleort to allow them ample room to
Vey be, The children seemed lumpy,
and wore not disturbed & perticie by their
tether. Oa newly ell the boats the ohild.
ren are allowed to roam about the deck it
will, both while *inning down the river ire
• tow and while -*tea up to the &var. ge
of them are born aboard the boate. There
they pow up and, in guilty mom, merry,
selecting their mates from *bond Other
boats and immediately taking up the nte
followed by their parente.—New Farb VMS
A Royal Nirldow Wants to Wed.
The Duchess of Albany, who hag been in
Germany during the last three months, m-
inding with her /ether, the Prince of
Waldenk•Pyrmont, is desirous of contract-
ing a Second marriage with a member of
a German Princely family, who is a distant
relative of her own. It would be a suitable
match in every way, but the Queen will
probably oppose it, although it is difficult
to understand why the Duchess of Albany,
who is now only in her 291h year,
and who
was left a widow after less than two years
of married life, should be expeoted to pass
the remainder of her days alone at Clare-
mont, where existence must be dull beyond
all dullness, the only variety being an
occasional visit to the Queen at Windsor
or Osborne, and a yearly trip to Birkhall,
whiela is rather more dreary than even
Claremont. —London Truth..
• A Pig a Party Prise.
At a card party given at a residence in
Hawley street last night the first prize was
a sacking pig of exceeding agility and awl-
feronspess. It was won in the battle of the
ade-boaras by M. P. Walshe, dealer in
hardware and Moves, who valiantly under-
took ,to carry his trophy home in his arms.
On the way he was followed by a throng of
admiring friends. At the corner of Jamee
and Townsend streets ill front of the Century
Club, the beast slipped his hold and trotted
• -off into the darkness. Mr. Walshe cheered
..on by his friends, gave chase and though
•
the pig had a good start on the new asphalt
, it was overtaken, and after a desperate
4, struggle, recaptured. The episode woke tha.
echoes of the neighborhood and brought
aneny people in their night dreams to open
windowo.--Syracuse Standard.
The Art of Sharpening a Butte,.
"Do you know how to sharpen a carving -
knife ?" The question' was asked by a big
butcher in Fulton market. "Very .few
eleople do," said he. " The carver ought to
be held at an angle of 20 to 25 degrees en
the 'steel. When the other Ride of the blade
ie *timed yon must be careful to preserve
*lie same angle. Then draw the steel from
beet() point against the edge, using only a
!slight pressure."—New York Herald.
It is said that Mark Twam's wife hae
written a book, under a &Miens name.
They say I am growing old, because my
hair is silvered, and there are crows' feet
on my forehead, and my step is not so firm
and elastio as before. But they are mis-
taken, That la not me. The knees are
week, but the knees are not me. The
brow Li wrinkled, but the brow is not nee.
This is the house I live in. But I am
4 yoring—youtager than I ever was before.—
' Guthrie.
Thu Came of Gambliug itt finugampse
Theorists. who *siert that the mile of
turf gambling AM much direiniahed iu
countries whore publio batting ageeelea mete
tolerated ettould, %eye a London Times or-
reapondent, reed * report on tbte totollose
teurs welch, the Hungarian Government le
going to ley before Parliament. Um:metes
of the totalboteurs at Earle routuals ere
pt to say that these institutions bre its
well rammed ail bulk°. Tbey tire, ioa
so well mansigod that, OW it senate, -
youth of Hungary, inarteing schoolboys,
invest money in them recklessly during
the racing seam. The tiokette by par.
chase of which the buyer banks a OarMill
horn at the current odds, are not only eoia
OA the notecourses, but in any lottery oftloe
or toluene atop. The report speaks no
indignantly at all this that onto is quite
prepared for the annottneement that the
Government intendele askParliament for
powere to abolish the betting agencies alto.
gather. But the Government temple, pro.
pees to restrtotthe tale of tiokets to race-
courses and to tax the winnings of the
gemblere. Thia muerte that the Govern.
went proposes to abate a great social
netiesnoe by aoquiring a vested interest in
it maintenanoe.
remembering what we have enjoyed we for-
get our present advantages.
But what a contrast to the poverty and
low wages of the workers we get when our
author turns his powers to the description
of some of the " stately homee of Eng-
land" 1 "Wanstead," with ite ball room
75x27 ft.; its four immense drawing rooms,
one 40x27 ft. and 60 ft. ceiling, and its four
great dining rooms, its capacious halls, one
30 feet square and one 53x45 ft.1 What a
revelation of princely 'magnificence is given
us in the story of the decorations and fur-
niture! And Blenheim House, with hi
library 180i43 feet and Hallows
House with its rich treasures of
statuary in a hall 114x22, • its
great saloons, halls, drawing motes, etc.,
not to speak of a dozen other abodes of
splendor which he takes the reader into in
-vivid description. Yee, while we May
with these scenes we can think of the
"goOd old days" with pleasure, as long as
the vision of the four.and.eix.pence-it-vmek
men is kept away from us. The producte
of the mestere of painting andmenipture—
the Thiene, the Raphaels, the Vandykes,
the Tintorettos, the Reubens's, the Angeles
and others—they all belong to those who
toil not and who, even in those dam had it
constitutional eversion to spinning wheels.
Their ancestors had probably by force on
fraud or the favor of a king obtained pos-
session of a goodly slice of the common the latter.
Some in Court.
Proseenting Attorney (to witneted—State
where you were born.
Attorney for the Defame (rising in great
eacoitement)—I 'bleat, y'r Honor!
"What is your objection?"
"This man has no positive knowledge
where he was born. All he knows about it
is what his parents have told him. Hear-
say testimony, y'r Honor, is not—"
"I think it will do no harm for the wit-
ness to anewer the question."
(Hastily consulting with oolleagues)—We
take exception, y'r Honor,"
Prosecuting Attorney—You may answer
the question now, Mr. Thompson—by the
way, you spell Thompson with& ,p,1 do you
not?
Attorney for the Defense (jumping up,
frantiaally)—Wject1
The Court—The objection is overruled.
Attorney for the Defense (again consult-
ing colleagues)—We take excaptione.
Promenting Attorney (wiping his brow)
—Gentlemen, isn't it too warm in this
room?
Atttorneyfor the Defense (mechanically)
—'Bjecit I
£ Dagger Van.
A. very armlet tan of iimocent.looking
rose-oolored silk has it dagger, after the
Chinese fashion, concealed in the handle;
it is nothing unusal to see them with sword
handles put into umbrella sticks ; but the
lastest mode doesn't hide them, but insists
that mademoiselle shall wear her weapons'
of defence stuck bravely through her broad
Empire 'belt. It becomes & question as to
whether she will need a permit to carry it,
though certainly even the most stupid of
policeman could not claim that her weapon
was concealed. -
A. Stingy Nam • '
Canadian Cattle in Ireland.
the following letter appeared in a recent
lame et the „Trigs Timm, of ;
tine—Boen en Irishmen and heed a
flartadiene I terret you 'will afford me woe
it; your widoCpTMd and hapeentiel pereet
to ley before the pnblio A schen* *like
bonefiriel to both oonutriee. I allude to
thipplog et the Canadian oettle as
to the weetera parte et
of to Glasgow, as at present.
saving 500 miles ot see travel and
eavel teem Glasgow to Aberdeen
• at iaast 600 nillea, ;Wei to
nine in Inlaid is both better
than in Scotland. Queue/sou
mg the eettle as Moro inatead of
extra risk and extra bulk when
,
as ineterte the shipment In Mute
by the Cartbaginbut• when 162 bola
tat cattle vete lost' by reason at the
a the 165 miles ot river between
al and gmbee, none of the store
ffering. Another reason in favor
et uisipping atoms it; that when the fet
battle arrive at their port of flute. destitute
*Ion they Are oftin no braised, as to einem
groat loos by dedectione by the slaughter.
ters, themes, rhe storey, if injured, would
w weeks ou the grate by the
eto of *Iron:141°n to the it:slaved
ome itt every way 'fitted for con.
Out visit to the town of
rae thet the port at that
town, tau °teeny he nettle Imitable. I (=-
not speak of the other western, parte, as I
have not yetvisitee there. though,' purpose
doing ea before my return in September
next. In the port of Galway I mow -vessels
unloading deals from New Brewed* that
were sufficiently large to ship a large °ergo
of live cattle, and I was inforznee that the
harbor at full tide eotaa Beet any V8SSO
required for the cattle trade, toxa that *
meeting at the harbor oominieeionerst
would take place on the following or next
Tneeday before whom the imoratery has
promised to lay the etherne. The question
next stem of return cargo and tuel. I
auggeeted as it staple the marbles of Conne.
mare, might be relied on, to which may be
oadoa the most lovely granite, eamplett of
*which were exhibited to Ina by tar. Miller,
at his marble factory, which is litted with
every requirement for a large trade aria
hint Abe advantage of water power
unlimited, and as there are now in Canada
and the Troitoa States some 10,000,000 of
tteay teoetwirwer, 'US QV TUBE."
1•••••••".
now a Detroit. Goon Firm stage " Amer.
loa"—A Bad Qutionk ter rarmerOp
Xesors. Gillet & Hall, grain oommission
meroliente at Detroit„ msue 4 monthly
letter that must be looked for with interest
by their customers and correspondents.
Thet for Nov, let is* breezy presentation
of the bMiltess eituation, will be seen
from the following extraote
Blustering IsToveinixir is already nigh,
admonishing eastern shippers to expedite
their lake wpm.
Prices cot formers' products continue
falling with the MALMO leaves. Netts
quotations( : Wheat 790, against $1.14 lest
year; Oorn 32e, against 45c ; oats 21e
Against elover seed 43.50, *gen*
155,50; pork oo, against 515 ; barley
iesleat 0-50, *)te4 Foreigners eenneatcelY
Polnletit of prime, but are slow buyero of
wheat, figuring on gotting our Faclile
oesett crepe—lacking °slier outiot—st still
further redactions.
Exports of ceerse gm.ine and meats are
heavy. iteoeipte Qt northwestern Bering
wheat are large, indicating good *rots Awl
inability of farmers to hold. Corn and
°ate berate, paying to uttove, are being
Oozed et home, and will walk out on the
hoof later on.
Winter wheat is meetly of interior
quality. Choice eemplee axe eagerly
sought by millers or vied to bring up lower
grades.
Stocks at grebe centres are anal. At
Detroit, elevator owners gaze sorrowfully
on empty Wheat stock e only 300,-
000 hipbone, against 1,300,000 hAehela last
year.
D040414 the week Red deluge iii. the
emit twee etude otleee with OA energy
rivaling the onto% tlao tiwate and
"drys"ou the tempereece queetion. The
growing wheat plane, with little or no root,
se ill prepared for winteee vialeeitwlea. A
OrOp SCAM might be rather prOctiatnre at
pretiont, but it is likely te develop into it
certainty next May.
For a woe" month has Ohicego, oblivi.
008 Qf ether MUM lettered in the valve Of
the Crouin jury. The wale OleteesieGeel
vs. Illinois. TheS0 meloonteute, badgered
by Zolfo= and nerelyzed by the Rope,
thew more 'vitality then a cootahea matte.
Should the myth of eeffering Ireland 000 -
Synapathizing Vriend—Your rich old
uncle, they tell me, did not leave you a
cent. 1 thought he once entertained the
idea of making you his heir.
Poor relation (bitterly)—Entertained the
idea? Ite never had hospitality enough to
entertain anything.
King James I., of England, Wired hie
famous " Counter-blaste to Tobacco" in
1620, when he decided smoking "loathsome
to the eye, hurtful to the nose, harrabil to
the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in
the black siekening fame thereof, nearest
resembling the horrible stygian smoke of
the pit that is bottomless." What desorip-
tion could more accurately picture this
plague to.day, than that of the English
ruler.—Rev. 0. TV. Scott, A. M.
Before General F. E. Spinner's advent in
Washington not one woman was employed
in the departments. They were given
places gradually at his suggestion.
At the recent State Convention of the
Connecticut W. C. T. U. the resolutions in
behalf of woman suffrage and of prohibi-
tion were passed by stronger votes than over
before only twelve members voting against
Irishmen and their iminediattgdemendante,
sac% a trade would meet with great favor
on the western side of the Atlantic. Other
articles are also available, such as the
Carigeen or Iriale moss there, worth less
than a pound a ion. I saw a boatload of
seven tons offered for 25, In Canada
ite value would be over tanked.
Many other oommoditim, could, no
doubt, be may procured, such as
&Way from the upper Shannon. In
fact, I find the county of Galway
alone contains 1,569,505 statute acres, or
7.6 of the total of Ireland, and is as yet
aimed as unexplored as to its mineral
wealth as the centre of Africa. As to the
question of fuel for the return, it ehould be
but & slight obstacle. The upper Shannon
is said to abound in Goa ona iron of good
quality, but undeveloped, added to which
the oompreesion of the turf by hydraulic
pressure has been tried with marked ene-
mas both in Canada and pther countries,
and when so operated makes a strong and
lasting heat for all purposes. I have gone
through the country sines my arrival in
Cork in June last, and have been struck by
the business apathy that seem everywhere
to exist as compared with Canada. As an
instance, since the completion of the
Canadian Pasiific Railway we sell mad on
the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean border to
the United States, and in the centre, where
I reside, purchase our coal from Pennsyl-
vania and our raw cotton from the South-
ern States, manufacture the cotton into
cloth, bap, eto. ; ship our flour in our
Sega to John Chinaman, • and he first
empties the flour, then slips the bag over
hishead for a shirt and pantaloons, and
promo& to business full fledged. Trusting
you will excuse so long & lettersend hoping
that the Rip Van Winkle sleep of Ireland
may soon pass away. --Yours, ete.; a. R.
Mame, 8 Leinster Road, Rathmines,
Dublin.
Unite Jobe repleoed by the reAlitY auf-
tering America, the old watchword,
" Anemic* tor Amerineete," tent *goo be.
SPOMO popteler.
Further west the granger legtelator girds
On his *rearm for a deadly fight agebeet
treste and. and railwey ayedicotea. He
feirly tweet Overages of bond purtheses
Ana * -watered railway_ doelem
Fossil atateemen eon nolouger grMi, as
to the benefits ot indirect taXation.
44 Thelew will not permit any *Pe to
kick you dew/A.414ra," Advises the attorney
as he pookete his reteiner. "But I hem)
alretedy heart kicked down stain," reepends
his aggrieved client. And ao the femme
products hoeing been Molted way down
Moire, it is difficult to 001Wituie hire that a
war tub! ie even of* blueing in diegulee."
The finenciel outlook is tall of interest.
Welt etreet brokers tire wildly sorembling
ter funde. The truota axe sueourebing to
dewily broedaidee. Savings blinks are
ehalting io their thou. finding that western
mortgages fail to itatlety clamorous depoelt-
ore. Frantic efforta of railways to allow
int:roomed cornier are moulting in ace".
dente that 'will neoessitate the old expe-
dient of chaining direetora on the oaw.
mitt:there. Meroantile collections aze elow,
and farmers poor br.yerte Attie brenehos
of trade show a spasmodie aotivity, Reek.
WI& investment at Enelith coyest in in-
dustrial enterprisee is likely to be short-
lived. Conservative bankers width° Lou-
don prom already sauna notes of warning.
Capitaliate chuokle over incretteed inter-
est rotate and millionaires Wrenched
behind a hedge of high -prima bonds,
rejoioe that they are safe whatever hap-
pens. When discoursing their Thanks-
giving turkeys, how few of the plittoormy
will give it thought to the hardy -western
pioneer on whose °enrage and stioritios Bo
MS12Y ti their fortunes are founded!.
Chill winter &ptomaine. The Nebraska
granger site moodily in the shaky otthin
that lumber lords have left within his
meatus The native blizzard whietles
through the cracks, threatening to blow in
ehrede from his back a shoddy mit the
wool tariff confines! him to. toaste his
feet over a fizzling fire of fifteen cent corn,
and solaces hie attenuated. stomach with
ten cent oatmeal gruel. He eight; as he
.8888 his semi-annual intermit soon coming
due, realizing that his corn crop willbardly
bring the cost of outing to market. Dole.
fully he bums the hymn, "1 would not
live away, I ask nos so say," bat is shooked
to reflect that with anundertakerst tenet in
the field he mu scarcely afford to die.
The beneficent statesman who represents
his" neostriot " advises him, as a remedy,
to " restrict production."
A happy thought strikes him.' By offer-
ing a liberal divvy to the agent of some
"farmers', loan company," he can re-
mortgage the fe.rin for twice its' value, and
betake himself to the fasoinations of city
life. Dum.ping his geode and ohattels on
the "prairie schooner" he hitohes up his
steers and points for some happier haven.
Six months hence, about interest day,
will be seen some female repreeentative of
the Silurian epoch from New England's
granite hills, seeking more minarets in-
formation as to the investment her Spin-
ster's Savings Bank has recommended. An
abandoned hut and farm, inetead of fertile
fields, greets her astoniehed eyes, and in-
veighing against the depravity of the
human race, she flounces homeward to
t"hgeirvee.ifhat cashier it piece of her mind, so
Our granger friend will probably find him-
self nuadapted to city life. Every joy has
its sorrow. His daughter Mary Ann, des-
pising domestic service, will prefer the
dubious surroundings of factory life: The
flash novel from the public library will
infect her with false Lima. A" Bridget"
rarest be hired to ruin the family digestion
and deplete the paternal pocket -book.
Do we picture a Beene in some foreign
land? No. "My country, 'tis of thee,
sweet land Of liberty, of thee I sing 1"
WUAT A BNAL. BAST=IL
Little Opportunity for Display of 13Emoies
Or roetlo DlerY.
A battle does not consist, as manir
imagine, in a grand advenoe of Waterloo*
lines of attseis, sweeping everything befozo
them, or thtt belter.eleelter flight of thet
inefertemate defeated, Bays the United Ser-
vice Review. The historian must Bo Pforturw
it in his descriptione, the ;tenet M bis
peintings. Even the writer of an offfinat
aceount muet limit himself to the preeentam
time of meth moments as demand special
treatment, or to ouch episodes me involvel
important and instrootive tacticel move-
ment. All these events which, are lase
which Rata more quietly, bah
which, nevertheless, eentribete to the finer
result, cannot be reproduced without toe
much expaneion. Thotie inelaentewhick
• no 6000MA of She battle, officiate or mica-,
chtl, takes any note of—the thotieend an14.
one events observed only by the particle
pante, the innumerable °sees in whittle
the direction and control of affairs
glide mkt of the hands Of the
officers — these are the little
drops of water that make the miehter
mean of bottle and +determine victory On
defeat, Tha. opening of the day of a greet
battle is generally very preside. After am
uncomfortable night PasSen in a Fat or
cold hivopeo, where the men wrapped tit
their overcoats, hove been gathered shiver-
ing about the camp tare, tr,ying vein to
get warm; after the simplest of break-
fasts, of which the draught of poor ealcl
teeter was the only pole.ta,ble 0010011M3lia
She Midler pee forth to 'battle. Thera be
may never even Pee the enemy ; Wawa!
unusually 10111140, n000ratortabla lava.
lug still uuder threpnel tire, or oppuonikr
melees camping in mud and under small.
arm fire *Wait Wm. Who fooling of being
exposed. to the invisible ntiesilee of the
enemy, initialed, with the 11ACettli-AtY es to
what is going OA to the right sea, lett,oftem
le:edema' in the best of troop; great dee
preettien end conseleeot felling Off la
offensive strength, Men when the battle ba
general is reeking apleudid progreate Int
Ruth momenta teetice are alienated., =tit
is only a question ot grit and sense of duty..
Sheridan tent; ute, "Indeed, the battle of
Chickamauga WAS riomething like that of
Stone River, eietory resting with the aide
that lied the grit to defer longest its retie.-
qufehment of she field," Still more preatt-
Ing is the appeal te the =rile of the erao_pa
when ten unfortunate terminetion at trie_
battle forces an army which has ame its
duty to retire. Exintuated to its lee* pow
lis realstenote pealed te the highest pitehe
gives way, and with trightfol rotation. the
resistletaresee plunges to the rear. Thisbe
no longer an arganixed retreat from poet -
lion to poeltnan, as our predeemeors Wight
and prectieed, but an unoontrolleble acre
rent, like the mountain totrent, whittle,
fraught With ItaVOC and disiatero OternOWS
its Winks. Woo to the lend "het oancetposto
isa other dune to this stream then strategy'.
tactics end the leatructlon of the trove.
These will be washed *way Ilk* amid heaps
by the roaring waters.
Give the Baby FS Chance.
Do not try to make the baby "notice."
Do not try to make him "forward," Soya
the Herald of Iffoala "Blessed le the
mother," said a lady thoroughly exparieno.
ed in domestic affairs "blessed is the
mother whombabyis a 1' lunkhead.",
Stupid babies make wise men and women.
A baby is little more than a plant. Let
him vegetate in his infamy, and be content
to wait for his intelleet's development until
a later date. Give the babies it chance to
rest while they are babies. They will pro-
bably never get it afterward.
Among the many sweet sticks, diskand
Pestels burnt as an incense is prepared
orange rind.
—There has been another wedding in
Texas. The wounded are doing well.
Ingentoua Biodea for Cbeekleirletree.
An ola story is being resurrected against
usually quiet, but somewhat exoita'ble
readout of the suburbe. ia slteged that
the gentlemazt queetion dierovered that
a Are baa been etarted ia the Mao at his
house through tho hut of one of the chim-
neys. With rare presence of mind he
ruched dew/estates ena eeizea omilk piteher
from the kitchen. table, rushed out to the
cistern, threw the milk out of the piteleer,
pumped Boma water into it end rushed up-
etairs, only to find that hie wife had seined
a large pitcher ot_water front one of the
bed -rooms in the upper "dory and Wine
visited the incipient conflagration. A*
there were four large ewers ot water in the
upper stories the program; of mental !co-
ttoning which had induced, the molted resi-
dent to make snob a futious onslaught on
the milk pitchisr would be extremely in-
tereellitg to trotoe,if each a thing were par.
Bible. lee shonle have had the -presence of
mina possessed by another properhyourner,
who dmoovered that a spark from a neighs
boring conflagration had lighted upon the
slightly denting roof of his house, and had
eat fire to the thinglea. All the buokets
and tubs and. pitchers boa gone for nee in
the big Aro, and there was no one to being
them back. But the owner of the bengal
even in that moment of peril, kept cool-
headed. Ete rushed to the pond, which
stood by the house, and deliberately Saii
down in the water. To race upstairs and
out upon the root was the work of a =-
twat, and then he "sat on" the ftre ia,
more sent= than one. He saved. thehonee.
—Boston Advertiser.
HIS 'Troubles.
Editor—You want to run right down into
the press -room and get caught in a belt. It
will be an °Key death compared with the
onery000.re
you w
lael—veothhy,h
erwwie:t.
r ,0 up ?
Editor—What's ,in') Why, in thie ao-
No Muddy Meet on Chinamen.
Nobody ever saw a Chinaman with
muddy ohms, no matter what the weather,
utdesa SOMO hoodlums had pushed bins
into a puddle, Maya a Chinaman in the St.
Louis Glote-Deasecrat. We take oare of our
feet instinatively, and. get into a habit of
walking carefully. 11 you watch on o
muddy creasing you will me one A.meriame
after another pick his way over cautiously,
and yet land on the other side with random
hi e tom, while a Chinaman Neill walk along
after them at his usual gait, and, seemingly.
not notioing hie feet, stepping on the other
curb with not a particle of mud on tbe tope
of his shoes. But when he crossed the
street he did not walk as the Ameri-
cans did. Had he done so, he
would have been as muddy as they. They
stepped along gingerly on their toes, or, at
least, the front part of the foot. In this
way they put all the weight of their body
on the thinnest part of the shoes, from top
to bottom, and when it flattened out with
each step the mud tonohed the leather.
The Chinaman walked over withthe weight
of hie body on the heel and instep of thee
shoe and the toe barely grazing the ground.
The foot of the shoe tbat felt his weight
was firm and unyielding, and did nos
spread into the mud.
wet Governed.
The Chinese have a politiooa saying
which is worth the reading even of Ameri-
can statesman. It is as &Move "Where
itethe empire well governed and affairs go
aa they should go? When swords are rusty
and spades are bright; when prions are
empty and grain bins filled; when the laW
courts are lonely, and' o'ergrown with gratis;
when dootore walk and bakers ride. It Is
then things go as they ought and the state
is well ruled." --Youth's Companion.
count of the Cornea's ball, an the descrip-
tion of Mese Teteatete's dress the oopy she A 31°31°121ant to 311.8.11°Yelh
gave me read," trimmed with a jabot of On the lofty top of Pike's Peak a mount -
pale ceraphane," and you let it go" trim. ment has been reared to the memory of
naed with a job lot of male ceraplaane.” Go Mn er me bLe ur Be y ol WebbthHwayeso. . T.
u.whowsabewere n ay
on down stairs and commit snioide—I'll
write up an account of your death.
Rev. William N. Cleveland, brother of
the ex -president, has been called to the
pastorate of the Presbyterian church at
Chaumont, New York. '
estit—FirstrB, oys(einoosnuarliBriosey)_—s•Wohtyt,i'll heard
youyou ran off to join a circus. Didn't you
ba-•-cliNheowmee.
paper advertising, rightly started,
rightly stuck to, solidly backed up, ensures
business success.
atones was heaped up, and now the naontio
whioh friends reared neer Colorado
travelling there,_.__and a notice was erected
inviting all who wished to add a atoneI. nt
nsipe rni nt gisihas nOtioeable ai3 that of Helen Hunt,
less than three months a massive pile of
Thirty years ago the British government
,armed the battle ship Duke of Wellington
with 131 guns at a total coat of 285,000.
To d3 it costa that government 5120,000
to pat a aingle sixteen inch gun in a man of
War.