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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. SI 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.