HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-5-20, Page 2HOW TRE SOAR CAME.
:LR After*Dinner Story of Real
Life,
Dinner had been finished about an hour,
sled the gentlemen had jest returned to
the drawleg room, after having conclud-
ed their ccffao and oigars. The guests
had tired of talking to themselves, as the
most patient of guests oftentimes do, and
it was too soon after eating to allow those
who sang bo do themselves what they mis-
called justice, and so the conversation be-
gan to :flag.
"You want a story of some sort, do
you?" inquired the hostess. " Well," the
continued, playfully, "if you will be very
quiet.. children I will amuse you with a
story, which has, however, one very seri-
ous drawback."
"Never mind that," exclaimed the
guests, delighted at any proapeot of amuee•
went. "Give us the story."
"Ib has one serious objection," oontinu-
ed the hostess, without noticing the inter-
ruption. "It is true. Let me see, time
files so quickly when one begins to age
that I almost forget when it happened. It
must have been at least fifteen years ago,
however. Se 'you 'perceive it is quite
modern. Twenty years ago, to begin at
the beginning, there lived in one of those
charming little hamlets of Ontario a poor
clergyman and his only daughter,who was
then about sixteen years of age. Her fath-
er had few intimate friends, although
there were many who knew and reapected
him highly outside of the email congrega-
tion whose wants he faithfully ministered
to. There was a wealthy mill owner about
his own age, a widower and the mainstay
of the church, and a young man less than
five and twenty, tall and handsome, whose
position in the minister's family can best
be described by his title, • Cousin Jack.'
Jack was poor, though, and a civil engi-
neer by profession. He lived In the fami-
ly, and this young girl found in him a
brother, playmate and lover. Civil engi-
neering, however, was not remunerative
in this little village, and Bo one day Cou-
sin Jack kissed little Clara, wiped away
the • tears from her eyes—for she loved
this great, manly engineer more, far more
than he dreamed of and far more too than
he loved her, so unhappily does Cupid
sometimes aim hia arrows—and left for
the! West, where he had secured a posi-
tion as engineer on a building railroad in
the mining country. After he had gone
the house was often lonely, and when two
years later the mill owner proposed to
marry Clara, her father gladly consented,
and they were wed in the little church by
the hillside one sonny day, and she left
the little cottage for a more pretentious
house in the city. Suddenly, a month
later, her father died In hie pulpit, died
while praying for his congregation, died
like a Christian warrior at hie poet. He
was buried in the village churchyard, and
soon the town had forgotten him and hie
almost as if they had never lived.
"In time there came into their house a
little, blue-eyed, golden -haired, baby girl,
and for a time the young mother was so
happy that her home seemed almost like
Heaven. But Heaven le not for this world
in my little story any more than it is in
real life, and very soon she found this out.
One day her indulgent husband didn't
come home to his dinner. An hour pass-
ed and then another and still another,
until at last the anxious wife became
alareaed. At lengththe bookkeeper from
the mill was announced. When he'enter-
ed the room she saw on his face tidings of
evil.
"' My husband!' she cried.
"'Be calm, madam,' he said, although
he was far from calm himself, 'be calm.
He is far better off where he is.'
"Then she fainted. When the awoke
from her swoon they told her all. The
times wee panicky and the mill had fail-
ed, the master,unable to bear the lose*,
had— well, I won't say what he had done,
but the young wife was now a widow and
almost penniless. It took several weeks
to settle up the estate. And when it was
done she found that of her fortune she
had barely $500. With ao small an
amount of money she must of necessity
work to cuppert herself and her child.
The scane of her happiuess had become
strangely diettahefal to her. She conclud-
ed to leave the place and follow the ex-
ample of Cousin Jack in seeking her for-
tune in the West.
"She selected for her home a little city
in Colorado, in a valley through which
there ran a river rippling and tumbling
over sande of yellow gold between great
cliffs of granite, under whose rough, ragged
aides lay hidden counniess veins of the
same precious metal. Here she went, and
finding a little house on a quiet street she
bought it and settled down to her new
lif e, hoping that before her money should
become exhausted some means of earning
a livelihood might suggest itself. Rather
-an impracticable way of doing, you proba-
bly think, but this young widow had little
experience She knew nothing of money
little ability to
earningand'had tt a battle
with the world. There was nothing mas-
°uline with our friend, not even a hus-
band. One day she had a caller. He
came while ehe was out, and when she
returned he was fitting in the parlor with
little Clara on hie knee. He was Cousin
Jack, and he wan still unmarried. He
briefly toid his story. He had built: the
railroad, surveyed other nada, and at
length became a miner with the rest of
the men, and unlike many of there he
had grown rich—rich beyond his wildosb
expectations. He lived farther up the
va:iey on a claim of hie own, and a shaft
sunken at' the door of his cabin led down
under the rocks to where the gold was
found in almost inexhaustible quantities.
He had lost all track of her, had not heal d
of her marriageor her father's death, and
intended in the Spring to go to his ofd
horde, rend if she still were single bring
her back with him, for he had learned in
his abeetioe that the love she bore him
was re u •ned without his dreaming it
This was the story he told and this was
what she lietenod to with downcast eyes
and beating heart. Would ahe marry
him?
"'No,' she meld. She mover would mar
ra, again.
"Never?'
"'No never.' He had welted too long.
Her widowhood wee too tarred to be
thrown away so lightly. She would live
alone the rent of her life for her °held.' FAR.
"Sorrowfully he pressed her hand, and
Deadly Spray for Orchard Insects,
Twontyfive to thirty yews ago my or-
chard bore full crops every alternate year ei
smooth, round apples. I got money then
easier and faster, picking and selling the
raft, than at any other time in my life.
The trees were large, end I could set a lad-
der in a good spot and get a barrelful with-
out moving it. Bat latterly tree() have not
borne as well, and apples have been knotty
and wormy; caterpillars and cankerworms
have inoreased, so as to ruin many oroharde
The oodlin moth has been worst of all, and
rhe moat difficult enemy to ho'd in cheek,
Bat I feel sure now that it la an easy thing
to destroy the whole crowd of orchard in -
soots, by spraying the trees with London
purple—whioh is much, better than Perla
green, and cheaper; it does not settle in
water as the peen doge, and does not need
one person to stir it as you drive along with
a force pump 'tale George Allen bought a
fruit farm neat lolly, N. Y., whioh was in
such a oonoitien' that the whole neighbor-
hood ridicul d the purchase. Cankerworma.,
were in *Vaud, the trees had not been
;rimmed, and the farm had not paid its
way for some time.
thus for a sacro time they parted.
"They often saw each other, though.
and gradually the annshine:came back into
her life and each day added to her con•
tentment. One day she and little Clara
went up the valley to see Jack. It wan
their fleet visit, and he met them ab the
atage and drove them up the valley to
where hie mine was located. A new lead
was to be opened. For weeks they had
worked in the hard granite, biaeting and
pioking, boring and digging,. until at last
there only remained between them and
gold a thiu layer of rook, which was this
day to be blasted through. Long holes
were bored hate the rock and they were
heavily charged 'with nitro-glycerine. The
miners left the tunnel and sought theater
with Jack and hia friends near the foot of
the shaft. At the lower end of the dark.
tunnel there were lights dimly burning,
and like the biaok muzzles of great cannon
the holes with their deadly coutents look
ed out on the little party. One eure foot
ed, steady -handed miner adjusted the
fuse and quickly ran toward the shaft,
There was a moment of stillness, then
little Clara darted past her mother ono
ran toward the burning taper. Quick as
a flash Jack sprang atter her. Another
moment of stillness, quiet as the grave
and longer than eternity, and then a roar
that ehook the earth. A rattle of flying
rooky like a broadside of artillery, a child-
ish shriek of terror, a groan, and the
miners, pale as death lteelf, dashedthrough
the blinding smoke to where Jack lay with
the child. A rock had struck his arm and
crushed it into palp. Another had hit
hie body and stretched him out on the
rocks insensible and well•nigh dead. Bat
the child waa safe. In falling she had
struck a rock which had cut her forehead,
but the death she so unwittingly courted
had bean avoided. In saving her, braze
Jack had sacrificed himself. it was the
work of a minute to carry them to the
surface and the work of another minute
to unbutton his coat and chafe hie tem-
ples. At last his heart began to beat,
at first a few faint flutters, but they grew
stronger and stronger. Ie groaned and
opened his eyes, and then they knew that
he would live. Several of his ribs were
broken and hie arm was gone, but his
life had been preserved. Six weeks later
and he was able to leave his bed to go to
the house in the village. One month
later and the house with its owner were
his own."
"Well?" exclaimed a listener. "Well?"
"That is all," remarked the hostess.
" Isn't that enough for one little story?"
"And you say it fa all true?"
"Every word of it."
"Mamma," interrupted the daughter
of the hostess, "I never heard you tell
that story before."
"Didn't you, my dear?' answered the
hostess, with a smile.
"No; you never told me that I had
been so careless. When I asked you how
that scar came upon my forehead yon
said that Heaven put it there."
"Sc ft did, my love," responded the
hostess; fondly, "so it did."
He pulled out half the trees, gave the
there a good pruning, sprayed with Rorie
green once a week f or a month, and harvest-
ed 1,400 barrele of as fine apples as ever
were Been ; you could hardly find a wormy
one. He expects to have somethousands of
barrels this year, as many of the trees had
been so stripped by cankerworms in 84 that
they did not blossom in. in '85 but seem sure
for this season. Mr. Allen ploughed and
raised beaus and some other spring crepe
between part of the trees, put on what barn
manure there; was on the farm, but what
made the most surprising result was the
spraying. The thinning and pruningwaa
just as necessary. If you think yon cannot
spend timelo spray the trees but once, the
time then is when the apples are as large as
full-sized peas ; then the blossom end of the
apple stands np, and the poison gets on the
blossom end where It will " do the moat
good," 85 the codlin moth lays the egg in
the blossom end and when hatched eats its
way in,
Mr. Arthur Rathbone, of Genesee County,
sprayed a tree on one side and left the other.
On the sprayed side 'the apples were fair and
'not a wormy one ; on the other they were
knotty, wormy and poor. And the trees
appear to bear better if sprayed jaat before
the blossoms open ; leaf• rollers—little cater-
pillars becoming very destructive—get on
the blossom -buds before they open, that
make them look as if singed ; and bade that
way set no fruit. This pest also is killed by
the poison. Three linseed oil barrels and a
borne pump with a rubber hose to put in the
funghole, make a good rig to spray with.
Be euro and not get coo much purple or green.
Mr. Rathbone has experimented more than
any one else I keow; he Bays that half a
pound of purple to sixty gallons of water is
plenty. The purple should be wet like
paste before putting it in the barrel, and
then it will mix easily and not float on the
water. Professcr A. J. Cook, who first
showed the value of this remedy, urges
great Dare upon those who use it; do not
turn stook into the orohard till after a heavy
rain has washed all the poison from the
grass ander the trees.
What the Blind can Do.
A shining example of what the blind
who have courage and determination can
do could be witnessed in the late lament-
ed Henry Fawcett. He refused to allow
his infirmity to interfere materially with
his career and habits, though, of course,
it modified and altered their channels,
Ib is well known that he was an admirable
horseman and fisherman, and if he was
undeterred by the drawbacks of his con-
dition when they were suddenly thrust
upon him in early manhood, surely child-
ren who have never known the blessing
of eight can be brought up to regard blind-
ness as nothing which need prevent their
baking their place comparatively on a par
with the rest of the citizens of the world.
Henry Fawcett is not alone. Other blind
men have, to all intents and purposes,
lived their lives as thorcughiy as thon-
eands with their eyes have done. We
have heard of a€ghtlene travelers and writ-
ers innumerable. There were Milton,
Prescott, the historian; Huber, the na-
turalist, and Braille himself, to quote
only a few that occur to mc. Dr. Armit-
age, again, has ''traveled far and wide,
frequently visiting most of the European
°entree, where he could acquire inform-
ationand, so to speak, see for himself
how the blind are educated and cared for.
Two years ago he made a prolonged jour-
neythrough the States if America with
the same object, though he did not fail
to enjoy the pleasures of travel for its
own sake. Only in very rare Instances
in the future need there be any occasion
r.or allowing a sightless person to become
a burden on his family or the charity of
the benevolent-" the night cometh when
no man can work." Then, of course, the
blind, if they have not acquired resources
of their own, must be provided for. At
the same time it cannot be gainsaid that
they do require imeneeasaletancethrough-
out their lives. It is on account of this
assistance not having been hitherto al-
ways rendered upon a wise and logical
system that so many mtataken ideas have
prevailed as to what are the real capabil-
ities of the blind. -The Fortniglzf y Review.
Worth of a Newspaper.
There !e great rejoicing among the pea
pia when the price of a great paper la re-
dneod from five to four, from four to three
and from three to two cents, or from two
to one cent, and there 'ire no doubt men
who would like the price to go down to
one•haif cent. I never rejoice at such a
time, becalm() it tnoans,penurq, domestic
privation, atarvatton 1 No newspaper in
the land can afford to be published for
less than five cents a sheet.—[Rev. Dr.
Talmage.
The Queen of Italy las el eon a large
order for poplin.dreaseti to a 1Ddblin firm.
She lead a lovely fops and her visitors
were admiring .it. They were ladies of
°enrse.' A man who is not a ahoomaker
area not mention such a thing lenlest they
are alone in a dim dottier of the drawing
room 'where nobody Can overhear. "What
a beautifril foot you have, dear." " Yea
Pa says when woo to Europe he'll have
a boat of it made.'
PBI G SALAD,
Awfully bored --Artesian wells..
The original boy cot—Cain's little orib,
An Irishman, mourning hie wife, tearfully
excla'med'; " F.,ith, an' she was a good
woman ; she always hit me wed de soft end
o' the, mop."
" It le always the beginning of Lent at
our house.", +' I don't understand you,"
Don't you know we have hash Wednesday
all the year round."
There is paid to be a sort of sympathy
between entremee. To Illustrate—many a
homely man's head has been turned by a
pretty woman's foot.
A lady waiter asks c " Why don't bache-
ors .mare y ?' That's so—why don't they?
Come to think about it, we have never vet
seen a bachelor who was married. It'e
lamentable, too.
First small boy—" Say, Johnnie, where
are you in Sunday -school 1" Second small
boy—" Oh, we're in the middle of original
sin," First smell boy—" That ain't much ;
ware's past redemption."
" Is there any plural to deer?" naked
Professor Saone of his olaea in grammar,
" I think there must be, for there is a
plural to beer. You can say ' two beers ;'
I've often heard in" replied Tom Anjerry.
A Toronto man by feeding a tramp found
a long lost brother of hie wife. We suppose
this ought to be taken as a eolemn warning
against something or other, because he has
had to keep on feeding him ever aaLoe.
A Guelph lady recently married, seeing
her huaband Doming Into the house, slipped
quietly behind him and gave him a hearty
kiss. The husband tsld her that she offend-
ed all propriety. " Pardon 1 pardon 1"
said she, naively. " I did not know it was
you."
" Say, Mrs. Smith," complained an irate
boarder at a Bond street boarding house the
other day, pointing to a dish in front of
him, " you shouldn't put such stuff as that
before hogs." " That's ao," the old lady
enappiehly remarked ; " here, Jane, bring
that dish to this end of the table."
You never get to the end of Christ's
words. There is something in them always
behind, They pass into proverbs—they pass
into laws—they pane into deotrinee—they
pass into consolation ; but they never pass
away, and after all the use that is made of
them, they are still not exhausted.
In Corea, so we ars informed by a re-
turned traveler, both men and women wear
hate in and cut of doors. varying in width
from three to six feet. Under these ciroum-
stanoes we are not surprised when we are
told that there has not been a theatrical
performance in Corea for the last fent
years.
A clergyman who was iconsoling a young
widow on the death of her husband spoke In
a very serious tone, remarking that he was
" one of the few. Sneh a jewel of a Chris-
tian—you cannot find his equal, you well
knew.'' . To which the sobbing fair one re-
plied, with an almost broken heart, " 1'll
bet I will."
Sheep.
This is the season of the year.whtn sheep
need special care, particularly the ewes that
are in lamb. Some farmers are in the habit
of allowing their sheep to roam over the
pastures early in the spring, and do not
realize that the meagre quantity of grass
they get does them little good, and that be-
ing constantly on the move in eearch for It
they lose flesh. They should be turned out
enly for a short time each day, when the
weather isnot stormy, and they should have
an allowance of grain daily while changing
from dry food to grans. By proper attention
at this time of year, they will be strong and
thrifty when finally they are left on pasture.
A pint of corn or oats each day along with
their hay will maintain the strength of the.
sheep and keep them in good fiesta It will
be found much better to keep the ewes in the
yard until the lambs have gained strength
enough to follow their dams easily when
placed with the rest of the flock, otherwise
they will not make the growth they should,
It is a good plan to give'theewes extra feed.
while they are suckling their lambs, so they
will provide a full supp'y of milk.
Those who make a apeolalty of breeding
Bieck for exhibition give their animals the
best care and attention, and nnoceed in ac-
complishing that whioh the ordinary farmer
would not believe to be possible. It is ad-
mitted that such animals, by living in arti-
ficially heated buildings, and being fed on
prepared food, as well as having been closely
inbred, are sometimes lacking in vitality,
and prove failures when in the hands of the
farmer, But thoroughbred stock is not in.
tended for general farm purposes, Their
true mission is to improve the common
stock. The, common stook by constant nub•
jeotion to the weather and changeable diet,
become hardy and vigorous, yet Iacking in
desirable qualities. The blending of the
blood of the thoroughbred with that of the
mongrel will therefore be beat for the farmer,
and enable him to keep superior stook with-
out resorting to artificial methods for so
doing.
One .Effect of Prairie Planting.
Upon the treeless plains the enhws disap
pear, says Prof. J3eesey in the. New York
Tribune, very quicklY under the hot
sua
which beats down from the cloudless ekies
ao common there in x,11 seasons. The water
menet penetrate the ground, for it frozen,
end so it runs off and is loot. Where the
fire ran over tho ground and burned the
short prairie grasses, the black surface in•
creased the rapidity of melting. What won•
der that the plains of even eastern Nebraska
were not long since looked upon as desert•
like in their drynece.
With the planting of trees all • this Is
changed. The snow piles up in the piauta-
tion of young treee and gathers in enormoue.
drlits in the leo of the narrow' `wind -breaks,"
Theme masses of snow remain for weeks after
the ground elsewhere in entirely bare, The
water from these melting snowbanks slowly
trickles clown over the ground, soaking into
it, but little running away. In a recent
journey weetward over the plans of eastern
Nobraeka I saw hundreds of places where
such masses of snow were still slowly melt-
ing, although the general curiae° of the
ground had been free from snow far full a
orenight. Y
I arra assured by many farmers that springs
are much more abundant now than formerly,
and that in many instances ravines and 'de-
pressions whioh several years ago could be
plowed are now too wet and springy. This
le dimly the result of keeping the rainfall
and snowfall upon and In the ground, ;as is
done by tree -planting. I might point out
that the oornfielda with their wilderness of
broken and tangled stems help Mao to con•
erve the snows in the winter,
Pompey took little Ethel to see the last
batch of chickens making their first appear.
once in the world. " I wonder they've got
the strength to break their way out of the
shell." " Why, ze see, Mies Ethel," said
Pompey, sagaciously, " dey makes a
mighty big effort at last 'case dey's afeard
o' bein' biled if dey stay longer°."
An elderly lady who, with her daughter,
has but recently returned from a rapid
journey throngh England, Frar ce, part of
Germany and Italy, was asked the other
day if they had visit: d Rome, and she re•
plied in the negative. " La 1 me, yea we
did," said the daughter, " that was the
place, don't you know, where we bought the
bad stockings 1"
A skeptic who was trying to oonfnse a
Christian colored man by contradictory
passages in the Bible, asked how it could be
that we are in the Spirit and the Spirit in
us ; he received the following reply : "Ob,
dar's no puzzle bout dat ; its like dat poker,
I puts it in de fire till it gate red hot,
Now, de oker's in de fire, and de fire's in
de poker."
The height of magnificence in Protestant
weddings is undoubtedly one in West-
minster Abbey. When a cosmopolite
American who was betrothed to an English
girl said : " What do you think of my
being married in the Abbey ?" " Undoubt
edty," was the answer, " since there ien't
the goblin of a chance of your being buried
in Westminieter, the next best thing ie to
be married there."
Young playwright—" Well, Mr. Bun
comb. have you read my comedy ?' ]fun
comb—" Yes, and I find I shall be una`,le
to use it. It has some good points, my
dear boy, but ito crude -very crude."
Young playwright—" Then you couldn't
Clink of putting it on the mage?" Buncomb
—" Well, I didn't mean to say that, I
could have it ground up and use it for a
anowetorm, if you would care to have it put
on that way," (Exit playwright abruptly.)
How Boy's Marbles are Made,
Almost all the marbles with which boys
everywhere ensues themsolvee, says the
Soientifio Monthly, in season and out of
season, on sidewalke end on sandy repots
are made in Oberztein, Garmee y. There
are large °gate quarries and nails in that
neighborhood and the refuse is turned to
good account in providing the small stone
ball for experts to. •' knuokle " with, Tae
stone is broken into small cubes by blowe of
a light hammer.. These "small blocks of
stone are thrown by the ssiovelfule into the
hopper of a small mull, formed of abed
stone, having a level fade on its lower stir.
face. The upper block le made to revolve
rapidly, water being delivered upon the
grooves of the bedetone, where the, marbles
are being rounded, It takes about fifteen
minutes to finish a half bushel of good mar,
bees, all ready for the boys' knuckles. Oae
mill will tarn out 161,000 marbles per week,
The hardest " crackers," au the boys call
them, aro made by a slower process amnia
what analagous to the other.
Too Fond of Medicine.
" I see yon have got that black oottle filled
again 1" remarked 11 Ire, Splatterby, the
other day, as Splatterby wee hunting around
for the sugar,
"Yes," replied Splatterby, " a little some•
thing le good to have about the house in
case of sickness,"
" I don's think whlakey a good medicine,"
Bald Mrs, Splatterby,
" And why isn't ic, I would like to know ?"
asked Splatterby, with some degree of feel-
ing. " Many of the most eminent physi-
cians recommend it."
" Well," said Mrs. Splatterby, with a
composed oast of countenance, "If it is a
good medicine, it don't agree with your sy-
stem. "Inotice that you are never well
while there ie a drop et the stuff in the
house."
She Had Missed Her Man.
A teacher in one of the Indian schools re•
lates the following incident of an Indian
boy's quick thought. He had aeked the
meaning of the word miss. " To mien," I
told him, " is the same as to fail. You
shoot at a bird or at a mark and do not hit
it ; you miss it, You go to a tailor's for a
coat, and your coat fits badly, it is a miss
fit. You hope to 'enter the middle class
next
Year, but you .cannot pass the exam!.
nation, and so you miss the promotion,"
HIa face wore a puzzled air and he shook
his head.
"Then," said I, hero is another mean-
ing of mise. We 1 a married woman
madam, bat an un m vied woman, miss."
His face brightened. He smiled and nod-
ded. " Ab, I see, said he, "she has miss
ed her man."
-aN► r
Is the Dollar your Friend 7
Young man, it is a good thing te keep on
the right side (4 your dollar, It makes a
great difference in your comfort and pros-
perity whether you spend ninety five per
cent, of it, but Ib is a positive ineult to the
dollar to spend 105 per cent. of it. You
will be :sorry enough for it when the dollar
gets a fair grip upon you. A dollar
roseate a mortgage upon itself. It will
never serve you cheerfully if you die
pose of it before you get It Always wait
till you get your dollar before you spend it.
Then don't work it to its fullest oapaoity,
and the dollar will be your friend,
Sudden Wealth
Old Gentleman (to tramp, to whom he hat
just given a niokle)--Now, my friend, what
will you do with alI that money?
(gazing awe etruot: at the niokle
�ramp,(g g )
I think 1'11 put putt of it in the bank, ser,
and the fest I'll spend fel' a peaoh•blow
nage,
The Earth as a Timekeeper,.
A problem which ie attracting to its study
astronomers, relates to the earth as a time.
keeper. We measure time by dividing either
the period during whioh the earth revolves
around the sun, or that in whioh it turns on
its own axia. By the first method we mea
sure a year ; by the second a day. The
earth, a000rdtng to some astronomers, is
losing time. Through two cameo, the sun's
attraction, and the friction, ao to speak of
the tides. the earth each year revolves more
slowly en its axis. The speculative ques-
tionwhioh these aatronomere aro disonaeing
is whether in the end the earth will stop ite
revolution upon its axis, and will present
always the same fade to the sun. When
the event metre, there will be perpetual day
in one part of the earth, and perpetual
night in another, But there is no occasion
for immediate alarm, The rate at whioh
the earth le supposed to lose time, only
shortens the year ty half a second in a cen-
tury. There are more than thirty-one and
a half million seconds in a year. Therefore,
if the earth ever does cease to revolve on
its axis, it will be more than six thousand
million years before it will atop.
A Home -Made Telephone.
To make a'serviceable telephone from one
farmhouse to another, only requires enough
wire and two oigar boxes. First eelect
your boxes, and make a hole about half an
inch in diameter in the centre of the bottom
of each, and then place one in each of the
houses yon wish to couneot. Then get five
pounds of common iron stovepipe wire,
make a loop in one end, and put it through
the hole in your oigar box, and fasten it with
a nail, Then draw it tight to the other
box, supporting it, when necoessaay, with a
stout cord. You can easily run year line
into the house by boring a hole through the
glass, Support your boxes with slatsnailed
across the window, and your telephone is
oomplete. The writer has one that is 200
yards long, and cost forty five cents, that
will carry music, when the organ is play-
ing
laying thirty feet away in another room.
S»opl)ing Experielace..
(Scene dry goods store, )
Lady Customer --"Have yon received
your spring goods j'
Clerk--"Yes'm."
Lady Customer—" Let me see them,
please."
Olerk—" What kind did you wish to
see ?,.
Lady Customer --"Drees goods."
Clerk—" What kind of dress goods 1"
Lady Customer—" Yee, dream geode."
Clerk—" Do you want any 'particular
color or quallby4
Lady Uastomer—"I don't know till I
pgooea ."
phew (Cdftlerk shopromiscuous lob of dress
s. )
Lady Ouetomor-.-"Let ins see your
ginghams."
(Clerk shows ginghams.)
Lady Caetomer—"Let" a see your bon.
rettes and canvas cloth.'; '
bo reties
a °naves °loth
(Is shown u n
ady Customer—"Let me see your
light-welghbbouolea and etaminesuitings,"
(Is shown light -weight bonoles and eta•
mine elide )
Lady Customer—"Let me neo your
albatross."
(Is shown albatross,)
Lady Caetomer—"Have you it in a
light tone ?"
(Ie ehown a light tone albatross,)
Lady Customer—"Have you a light.
weight same shade?"
(le shown light-welgbt same shade.)
Lady Caatomer—" Have you this qua-
lity in light drab or pongee ?'
(is shown eame quality in light drab
and pongee.)
Lady Caetomer—" Have you it in a
awoet gum gray?"
(Clerk—' No, ma'am ; but we have
that shade in nun's veiling."
Lady Customer—"1 wanted albatross.
I thought yon had got in your new spring
goods. When yon do I e ish you would
let me know. Good morning."
She Finally Got Him.
Pindar'e oldest boy has for a long time
been paying attention to Mise Already, but
could not muster up oourage enough to test
his fate. • The other evening he presented
her with a pair of gloves. She sweetly am
cepted them with the remark :
"Thank you, Do ycu want to take a
hand in these 1"
The printer has the order for their cards,
If yon have assumed any character beyond
your strength you have both demeaned
youreelf in that, and quitted that which you
might have supported.
Remember that there aro two guests to be
entertained, the body and the soul, What
you give to the body is soon lost ; what you
give to the soul` remains forever.
Henceforth be mine a life of action and
reality l I will work in my own sphere, nor
wish it other than it is. This alone is health
and happiness ; this alone is life, —[Hyperion
Boots''and shoes may be rendered water-
proof by soak'ng them for some hours in
thick soap water. Thecompound forms a
fatty acid within the leather, and makes it
impervious to water.
.A very convenient rule for determining
the speedrf circular saws is to divide the
number 36.000 by the diameter of the eaw
In inohea. ' Ile quotientis the proper num;
her of revolutions par minute,
When God would educate man He com-
pels him to learn bitter lessons, He sends
him to school to the necessities rather than
te the graces, that by knowing all suffering
he may also know the eternal immolation,—
[Celia Burleigh,
Infinite tnil would not enable you to
sweep away a mist; but by aecendieg alit•
tie you may look over it altogether. So it
is with your moral imprisonment. We
wroetle fiercely with s vicious habit which
would have no hold upon us if we amended
into a higher moral atmosphere.
It is not not the " flesh" nor the " eye'
nor the life which is forbidden. but it is the
lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and
the pride of the life. It le not this earth,
nor the men who ia,habit it, nor tho cipher()
of our legitimate aotivity that we do not
love, but: the way in which the love is given
whioh constitutes worldlinesa,—tF. W, Rob-
erteon.
Opportunities conic to us from God and
are sent to develop the character and to de-
termine what sort of persons we aro. By
them God mete ue is our daily walks, to
bless us in our lives. They come to all.
alike—'t God fa no reverter of pereonfe.''
At every turn are opportunities' to servo.
Christ ; to worship God; tovooate His
dsn$, realize
kingdom ,.to obey His commands a r.
Hie promises ; to do good ; to do right and
help the unfortunate, And yet, the world
is full of slighted meroles, neglected prayer,'
abused blcesfnge, ignored oornmands, excus-
ed dutioe, rejeoted lotto, deepteed eaoramente
and Christian idlers.
English Soldier Life at Hong
][long.
The men are strictly prohibited stirring
out of barracks between 9 a. m. and 5 p.
m. daring the hot season; or, ,f some
emergency renders the dispatch of a Eu-
ropean orderly neoeseary, he is provided
with an immense sun parasol, a certain
number of which are furnished by the
commissariat. To wear a forage cap in-
stead of a helmet before eunnet is a punish-
able offense, and inspections are held to as-
certain that each man has on a cholera
belt. Barrack aoccemmodation is luxuri-
ously spacious—commissariat coolies are
told off to work punkahs in orderly rooms,
schools, workshops, and guard rooms dur-
ing the day, and during the night in the
barrack rooms—though, as an old gunner
explained to me In one pregnant sentence,
"Them punkah coolieot of much
'count, Sir, unless you keep boot handy
by your bedside"— i. c., to use as a miesile.
The following may be taken as a fair sam-
ple of Gunner Thomas Atkins's daily rou-
tine during )the hot months. At 5 a. m.
he awakens with a soft punkah breeze fan-
ning him. 5 :15, cup of cocoa and a bis-
cuit brought to his bedside by a coolie . (N.
B.—A silver salvor is dispensed with.)
5 :30, the barber coolie shaves him, still
in bed. 6, bathing parade. 7 :30, break-
fast, of which half a pound of beefsteak
forms an invariable compos nt. 8 to 11,
nothing whatever to do, and plenty to
help him to do it—the everlasting coolies
perform nearly all the cooking, sweeping,
and cleaning up in barracks. 11, a short
spell of school and theoretical instruction
in gunnery. After dinner, unanimous
repose on bamboo matting, as being cool-
er than a mattress. 5 p. m. one hour's
easy gun drili. 6 to 10, sally forth to
chaff the Chineso folk, try a trifle off
samshu," and practically ascertain that
this potent rice spirit will prostrate with
splitting headache the seasoned old soaker
to whom a tumbler of brandy would be
bub as a glass of water. In fact, during
the hot weather he merely mounts guard
and is available for emergencies ; in the
cool season he is of course made to rub
up his drill. Thie idle life is not a happy
one, destitute as it is to him of interest
and active amusements, and in a very
short time he becomes listless, depressed,
and polled down, contraating painfully
with his newly landed fresh-loeking com-
rades, This unfavorable condition seems
to extend to the officers. I have known
it asserted that no efforts of a commanding
officer can keep European troops perman-
ently stationed at Hong -Kong in a state
of milibaryeffioiency.
They had Tr_a gilled.
" I am sorry yon two ladies are going
all that distance alone," I said to some
friende going East some time ago. " if
we see anybody on the train I know, I'll
put yon in his charge."
" Don't ; I'd rather not," one of them
answered.
"Why?"
"Bemuse you always get more atteif
tion from etrangers. We are all right.
If we have any chaperon we'll be, bored to
death, and he will bo'disagreeabl, the
way. if we have none, every an on
train willbe at our seri a he'll
he ra service/ a A e
only be too glad to attend to us."
" That's queer. I never thought of
tsheaa"rt
dear boy,men are always ine
cM.h"Y of
adventure, and a formal intro;
duction or an intimate acquaintance
makes it duty, and Baty le always diem
greeabie."
" Well; I suppose yon are right."
"Do you else that gentleman there?
He's been quietly looking round to that
what pretty women ere on the train: '''r'
Before we get to Port Hopo he'll be ask
ing my slater if he can do anything
f
o
her shea prettier than 1am. Bub
what he is willing to do for her he'll diet h.
for nee to keep me sweet."
"I don't think you'll geb left your
soif,"
"Between yon and mo and the wind()
I don't think 1 will." '
And I left them 'drith heir arrange
menta all made an to how they were goin
to treat every man on the car.
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117rs. Potter Palmer wears more val
able jewels on fali•drees occasions th
any other woman in Chicago. Her h
band began his business career wit
peddler's wagon through the count
round abeub Albany.