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SEi"r. 7, 1888,
Tk[B STORY OF WILLIAM 1.
An Atantrl.te took at This Remarkable 1Hnn
Ileletud the Curtain ofOtangaklp,
Tho late .Louis Sohneider'e moody pub
liaised book, "Rs°olleotioueof the hnpero
William," consisting of three octavo volumes
comprises the time between 18.10 and 1873,
and presents the incidents of the author':
personal inter:murae with the late Kaiser
during all that monlgnbOlte period. Schnei-
der, who died at a ripe old age a year or
two ago, enjoyed the title of Gehenna!
Hofrath (Privy Court Counoillor), a title
which once
Mich has more so n
nd thaneubst but
in Prussia titles are often aocepted in lieu
of tithes, Once King William was careful
to refer to this disinterestedness on the part
.of hie faithful eervant
when presenting him
with lits photograph on the fiftieth anni•
veraary of their connection, " I may men-
tion," he writes, "that all the journeys I
made in the suite of the Prince of Pruaaia
,and of King William were defrayed out of
my own poker, with the exception of my
railway fares," which he generally saved
by permission to travel in theroyal (apooial)
train -a boast with a touch of complaint in
ft, which is all the more noire on the part
of Sohneider, as a few pages previously he
.had warmly praised King William for his
thrift in ouch Small things even as the bind.
ang of books and the wiping of pen nibs -a
quality, however, which waa oounterbal.
anced, as we road later on, by "a truly
,,< trxndigal display is the conferring of decant -
darn" -bis Majesty having once, at Olmutz,
givene:way as many as "seven Black Eagles
in one,,daa' i"
Schneider had been S soldier, condo actor,
and author before hs became !Reader ( Ver-'
!boor) to Frederick William IV„ from whose
service he paseed into that of his anooeesor
as a sort of private librarian, court chronic-
ler, journalistic mouthpiece, and general
facto
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al room
g
treated nia.4,alath, gnowledge, and discretion,
Saaneidar, t it great extent, was the Kieg'a
R F man. -When hie Majesty wished
l+ rt ,t soma fact uaofiforally made known, or
some erroneone impreaeion rectified, he
would give Schneider the necessary hint,
and the thing was done. Thus, for ex-
ample, at the beginning of the "Genfiiot
Time" -when some rank end anonymous
Democrat issued a penny pamphlet on the
Onestionden
of Prussia Whether
a sh uldbe 'enoreesed"mrahe King
wrote to Schneider, " Answer the penny
pamphlet with a halrpenay one -the Dost
to be mine."
Schneider does not record any trait or
aittorance of his royal master which shows
that the latter had much taste for science or
the belles letlres. The only thing that
-tonohed the deepest springs of King Wil-
liam's interest was the eight of :magnificent
body of troops inagnihoently drilled. A
passionate lover of soldiers, he wee also a
strict disciplinarian. Be insisted on the
.alteration of a sketch, intended to illustrate
his own "Military Biography." Thia was
a group of the aIlied sovereigns and their
Generals at Vitry (1814), who had just re•
solved to follow up Napoleon to Paris,
Prince William and his brother were repre-
eented standing so close to the monarchs as
to suggest that they had also taken part iu
the momentous council of war. "That will
sever do," said Prince William to Sohneider,
" we should never have ventured to do any
such thing. Even when, with pardonable
excitement after the council of war, we ask•
ed our father whether it had been decided
to march on Paris, the sole answer we got
was, ' Don't ask impertinent questions,'
and it was only afterward that we learned
what had been determined."
So rich was the Emperor -King in me-
mories of the remote p at that Sohneider
once ventured to suggest to him (when
Prince of Prueia)'that he -should write a
sort of "Histoire de mon Temps." The
Prince Bent some notes of his military career
(it was in 1855) to serve as material foz his
necrologue." Schneider objected to the title,
and the two had a very pretty controversy
on the subject, but all the same the "obitu-
ary notice" of the Prince was got ready es
early as 1856 1
Schneider often ventured to remonstrate
with hie royal master in small matters, but
the only answer he ever got when his Majes-
ty disapproved the proposal was " Wenn ich
.erat todt bin" (wait till I am dead.) At an-
other time Scheider was complaining to the
Emperor that a past secret mission of his to
Hanover (1866) had been brought to light in
'Gregor Samaroff s (Oscar Meddiug's hiabori•
cal novel "For Sceptre and Crown," and his
Majesty merely observed : •
Don't agitate yourself about the matter,
for it is all correct, I have no objection to
the truth beingwritten,(however disagreeable
it may be; but I have a very strong objet•
tion to the propagation of falsehoods, eepe-
oially when this is done with a wicked and
malignant purpose.
Untruthfulness invariably had the effeot
of making the King angry, but this was al -
moat the only thing which ever ruffled hie
otherwise sweet and equable temper. Says
Schneider:
According to the testimony of alt who
ever served the King, no word of abuse or
execration was ever heard to escape his lips.
Not one of his personal servant::
ever got an unkindly or a wounding word
from him, and the only thing that may
have led them to fanoy he was displeased
WAS a somewhat eaoented " Elm,"
Once, for example, the King, travelling
from the Rhine, returned to Potsdam, in-
tending to drive from a particular station
(Nowawese) to Babelaberg, his chateau, But
by Rome mistake the carriages had bon
Gent to the station at Petedam instead of to
Nowawese, 11 was well on to midnight,
and there was great consternation among
the suite, but the Ring was nob at all put
out, remarking, " Well, never mind, we will
walk the distance, and, fortunately, the
weather is fine," The diatoms° was
double, and the night was dark, but
the King never :aid a cross word on the sub-
jeot to any one, and, indeed, did not refer
to the aooident next day at all. He was
considerate to others, too, One day he and
Schneider were working in the library at
llabelsber , when the Ring heard a sound
el voices in the adjacent roma. "Come
out with me here into the consider," said
his Mojesty to Sohneider, " the castle keeper
memo to be showing strangers over the
piece ;" so out they went, and waited till
the castellan had led his visitors through.
And it wee the King's delight to perform
secret acts of charity and generoeity. Ono,
for example -ate quote one touching little
one out of thousands -an apprentice at
Potsdam was mulcted in the sum of 10
thalere (30a,) for indulgfn in forbidden
firework loyalty on the nag birthday,
deeming that on that anoiverea y any Prue- f
elan could do pretty well as he liked ; and
on the youth complaining to Schneider that i
Ilia punishment was really beyond his moan,
and hoping that the Ring would be gamins- I b
ly pleased to remit his sentence, hie Majesty, n
though he dared not, ho acid, interfere with
10W, yet named the amounbef the &no to be
cent to the delinquent and delighted boy. j w
But of all the qualitfos Which distinguish-
ed Ring William, erbaps the meat noble
and touching were hie humanity and merai- 8
!ulna ,s, His Majesty (and we have B
marok's authority for this 0s well as Sohnof
or's) had an almost invincible repugusnce
signing sentences of death, and many
pretty dance he led hie Minister of Juni
^ in commotion therewith, The Miniet
r I would grow utterly tired of waiting for
return of a death warrant furnished with th
royal sign manual, and make personal d
wand of the document from the King hi
aelf, Then hie Majesty, altar fumbli
about for some time In a portfolio (in whi
he knew lb very well to be), would say th
he was very sorry, but he seemed to have
lef b the paper behind at Babelsberg. Or,
if the Minister e had put he question p t q abloss ab
Potsdam, the King would repeat his mance
easeful process of search, and remark that it
woe o
a metannoying
C 99 0 1
a [ oversight, but
B ,
the senteno9 seamed nob to be anion's the
papsre which he had brought out with him
from Berlin. In this way many a murder-
er had his doom deferred till this humanely,
contrived lapse of time ended in is resolution'
of the King to commune the sentence of a
criminal who had already been under the
fear of death eo long. Not even when the
law was allowed to take its course, could
bhe King bear to know the day of an exe-
cution,
It 0011 readily be imagined that a 01000r0h
who thus shrank from exercising his higlee
and moat sacred duty as guardian of his
country's laws must have shuddered at the
idea of imperilling the lives of thoueenda in
the defence of their country'; safety and
honor. "You oannot think," said the Ring
once in Schneider's hearing," "how infinite-
ly hard it was for me to pronounce the
word 'war.' If I had to do so as Prince or
'soldier, I ehould have been beside myself
with joy, but in King I was conscious of my
responsibility and hesitated as long as it
was compatible o alible with the honor Prussia P
of r w
do so."
Abhorring entrance into a quarrel, King
William was always humane and magnani-
mous in his conduct of it when in it. On
the night, for example, of Koniggratz, after
recounting to Schneider (who acted as cor-
respondent for the Reicheanoeiger and h] can
Zeitung) his experiences of the battle (" at
which I commanded, indeed," said his
Majesty, " but without ever drawing my
sword "), he added "but you must only re-
port fan's without comment, and in portion.
lar le careful to say nothing that could
humiliate the foe." Again, on Sobneider's
proposing that the room which witnessed
the peace negotiations in the Sohloss at
Nikolsburg should be done in water oolore
for the King's album, as well as the King's
reception of the Austrian colors captured at
$oritz, Ria Majesty replied. " No, I will
have nothing in my album which could after-
wards be looked upon as galling to the pride
of the enemy."
ie. wan really due to tie nlinistera and General
d- but his Majesty himself sometimoaprobest
to in a quiet and humorous way :gait et thi
a popular assumption.
oe, But though Ring William clailned th
er credit of mach which popular reaognitio
the ascribed to prince 13ismarok, he ie frequent
o ly represented to us by Schneider ae deter
5- ring cluOStione of great importance to lit
re- Chancellor, Thus, for example, wbe
ng Schneider (during the French war at Ve
oh'sailioa) ono day received from one of hi
at numerous :mot triode at tit, Petereburp
telegram to the effect that Russia had no
roeolved to shake heraeif free from the tam
Ina Black Sea oboe, he at ono showed th
message to hie Ma'e to
st who was evidently
g Jt
Y,
fY
i
much surprised by the tidings, the first o
the matter, and remarked :
I certainly knew that something of the
kind would wuI happen •b
n but at the • e
rt nt
PP , a mo
P
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rout, when nothing is yet avoided, this
action of Russia dee: not come at the pro-
per time for ua, In itself the declaration is
all right, and the only question is how Eng-
land and Austria will deaf with it, Bis-
marck will, no doubt, give us details about
it tomorrow, and depict° the business,
In particular the political remarks of the
Ring were also distinguished for their jus.
doe, truth and pithy wisdom. Thus, even
t( before Gravelotte had been fought, the
Ring said :
I am really sorry for Napoleon, for be
has ruled France better than any of his
predecessors, and is only suffering the oon-
eequonoes of having thrown himself into the
arms of a parliamentary regime. It would
be beet if we could conclude peso° with hint
for neither a republic nor the Orleaniets nor
the Bourbone will govern the country as
well as he has done. But then, of course,
France, on her part, will not be inclined to
endure a degraded
Napoleon.
g
Po
Referring to the immense popular enthu•
P
SW= produced in Berlin by the nags of
Sedan, the King remarked :
But how would lb have been bad the
gentlemen of the Opposition made good their
hostility to my ideas of reorganizing the
army? What a frightful fate Pruaaia
would then have had to experience. Now
it will be seen why I stood so firm. You
can see the result of parliamentary experi-
in the French army.
Bazaine he said :
Bazaine was really in a very difficult post.
tion-000aeioned by the struggle between
hie political conviction and his military
honor. When one Bees how the brave
Gen. Uhrioh is now being abused by the
press and by the wounded vanity of the na-
tion for his brilliant defence of Strasburg,
one must admit that a French General in
truth requires courage to serve his ungrate.
ful country.
Such, then, aro a few hasty aklmmiogs
from a work which will be regarded as a real
feast by those who wish to complete their
estimate of a sovereign whose character will
appear more noble and perfect the more
that is known of it -a character that may
wel entitle the late Emperor -King's mourn-
ing countrymen to add to his epitaph the
lines which one of England's greatest poets
wrote of England's great republican hero :
0 A Cook righting a Looking -Glass,.
eg) An amusing testi of the diilareuce of die
position 111 barn yard fowls may by nada by
o placing a piece of looking -glace against the
n trunk of a largo tree, and lying a train o
Dora In front of it. Soma hens will discover
what they all take for a new arrival with
e mild curiosity and merely look et it intent.
n ly, perhaps peering round behind the tree
Ver and thee walk quietly away, end pp Where peck
!the glass
fewnervousue femalestallo w mn uch la
;same noisy excibemonb that seizes upon
I moathens when they spy a snake. We tried
Ire
t valine old autocrat ut of the farmyard
rd
0
't
Y
a
wd h this trick, and
tk he a
wt, at nae
, o roused
to fury. Dropping his head when some ten
' feet in front of the glass, he began the out-
line v
r as ad :nae byI
0.T ale
al width ever
, elle
I P o
(familiar with poultry has seen before a
(fight. But, of course, he anon lost hie enemy
by meviog too far to one alda. After prow.
Jing fieroaly and looking around uneasily for
i a few momenta, he returned to the train of
corn, and almost instantly saw the strange
I
nearer then before. More atealbhy
approach, another failure to keep sight of
the foe, and greater excitement, and a
I third time he began to oat only to bo nerd -
ed by the hostile presence nearer then ever.
At last he worked right up to the glass and
braced himself for the shook of combat, the
counterfeit. of course following his very
movement with ominous celerity. There
was one fierce peck et the angry head in
the gleam, and then a crash, ae our infuriat-
ed companion hurled himself against hie
likeness, breaking the glass into a hundred
fragments. The mingling of aatoniehment,
rage, and triumph in bbiabird's appearance,
as he whirled about, startled ab the oraok.
ing noise, and bewildered by the total die•
appearance of his enemy, was comical to
behold. Then he rushed around behind the
big pear -tree, evidently thinking that the
cowardly stranger might be hidden there,
Not finding hint the rioter strutted abont,
too exited to eat, and crowed long and loud,
over his unprecedented triumph. The other
Dock was entirely wiped out of existence,
and our old fighter, who would crow defiant-
ly in our arms whenever he found himself
being carried off the premiaea, knowing
from experience that a set-to was coming,
could scarcely oradit his Senses.
The Emperor William regarded himself
as a mere tool in the hands of Providence.
On the day after the review of the Prnsaian
Guards at Longohamps (March 3) the Em•
parer dictated to his Press Refresh the ad-
dress which he delivered on that historic,
occasion to his assembled Generale, which
concluded with the words: "But let ua
not forget that we all owe our thanks to
Providence, who willed us to be the instru-
mente of such grand and world.famous
events," In nipping out this harangue it
occurred to Schneider to substitute "per-
mitted " for " willed," as being a less pre-
sumptuous term, but the Emperor at once
interrupted biro:
'I did nob say 'permitted,' I said
`willed."'
' And ao it was, too," answered Sohneid-
er, "in my pencil notes, but the phrase
seemed to me to suggest a doubt whether
every one would at once nee your Majesty'a
meaning. We oannot know what prove.
demos has' willed."'
"Do you think, then," replied hie Majed-
by, " that I could have borne the heavy
burden of this war, or that euoh triumphs
would have been possible, had I nob been
firmly convinced that Providence had willed
it so, and chosen us for His instruments ?
Write exactly what I dictated to 500."
"This is the first time that my judgment
doe not agree with your Majeety's mode of
expression," Schneider ventured to rejoin,
" and may I, therefore, beg that your Ma-
jesty will be graciously pleased to change
with your own band the word' permitted'
into ' willed' and then to sign the whole
document?"
' Well, you are pigheaded ( Was des fur
Din Eigemainn (at/)' replied his Majesty,
"give me the paper. There 1 I have now
altered and signed it, and your mind will
probably now be relieved."
That from the sublime to the ridiculous
there is only one step is ono° more proved
by the next story which Schneider tells.
At this time the Emperor was suffering
from scute rheumatism, and on his "Read-
er" d resenting himself one morning, March
6, as usual (the last time but one at Vela
sallies), his Majesty related the following
catastrophe :
Intending to hold another great review
at Villiers to -morrow, I wanted -in my
present rotate of bodily pain -to see how it
would be with my riding and long sitting
in the saddle, so I adjusted myself on the
arm of this early chair, rising and falling so
as to imitate horseback motion. Bub the
ohair stands on rollers, and I must have
been too energetic in my movements, for
suddenly is slipped from beneath me, and I
fell to the ground with the whole weight of
my body. The fall and the shock were ao
violent that I lost aonseiouenoss, but on
this returning I was able to raise myself,
and now 5 am not in greater pain, at least,
than before,
Sometimes Schneider ventured to ask the
King whether certain popular beliefs re-
garding him were correct -as, for example,
whether it was true that he had never
bad a universal confidant or a disinterested
friend.
"Oja," replied his Majesty, "I have
had two friends in my life -when I was
still a mere youth. One of them was Gen.
Von Brsuse, whom my father appointed ae
my military governor ; and then Von Roder
(he died as lteutonaab general), who served
with me is the same regiment, and who,
although I was advanced over his head,
ma- cbhelees alwaye remained my military
te.., .50 and examplar. Neither of them
eve, wished to get anything out of me,"
"Bub is ib true, your Maje:by," threw in
Sohneider, " tint you have never spoken
with Lieut. -Gen von Manteuffel about poli-
tioal matters; for every one believes you
have, though he end his wife ones as-
sured me that your Majesty only talked
politics with Herr von Bismarck, and about
military affairewith him (Manteuffel)?"
" That is quite right," rejoined the Ring,
I
ih cases whore a
save I have sa t Man
Ent roof -
al on politioal missions. NOither of these
men, who aro deepest in my counsels atpres•
out, osn Bay that I have oonvereed with them
nn subjects foreign bo their department, and
for which they were net aftorwarde bound to
e responsible to me, With Bismarck I
everdieeusa militarynlatbere, and withtMan-
touffel I never talk politics"--
A rule which the .Cmperor-Xing observed
lth all his Miniebors to the end of his life,
It was and is, generally believed that
most of the naorita ascribed to the Ring Mtn -
elf in the carrying nut of ble German policy
His ashes in a peaceful urn shall rest ;
Rio name, a great example, stands to
show
Row strangely high endeavors may be
blessed
Where piety and valor jointly go.
Why Do Bees Work in the Dark.
A lifetime night be vane in inveetigat.
Ing the mysteries hidden in a bee -hive and
still half of the secrete would be undiseover.
ed. The formation of the cell has long been
a problem for the mathematician, while the
changes which the honey undergoes offer
at least an equal interest to the °hamlet.
Every one knows what honey fresh from
the comb is like. Itis a clear, yellow syrup,
without a trace of engin in it. Upon strain•
Ing, however, it gradually 056nme8 a crystal-
line appearance -it candies, as the saying
is, and ultimately becomes a solid mass of
sugar. It has not been suspected that this
ohange is due to a photographic action, that
the same agent which determines the for -
motion of camphor and iodine orysbalr in a
bottle gauges the syrup honey to assume a
crystalline form. This, however, is the
case, M. Sohiebler, an eminent chemist,
has enclosed honey in stoppered finks, some
of whish he has kept in perfect darkness,
while others have been exposed to the light,
The invariable result has been that the
sunned portion, rapidly crystallises, while
that kept in the dark has remained porfe:tly
liquid. And this is why bees work in
perfect darkness and why they are eo
careful to obscure the glass windows which
are sometimes planed in their hives. The
existenoe of their young depends on the
liquidity of the saccharine food presented
to them, and if light were allowed areas
to thio the syrup would gradually aoquire
a more or less solid consistency ; it would
seal up the cella, and in all probability prove
fetal to the inmates of the hive.
A Meal E'or a Cent,
One and one•quarter million meals for
one and one-quarter million cents have
been supplied the poor people of New York
from the St. Andrew's One Cent Coffee
Stands, established about two years ago
by the woman philanthropist, Mrs. J. M.
Lamadrid. What kind of a meal on be
furnished for 1 cent fe a question which will
suggest itself to the reader. The bill of
fere will answer the query. Hera ib is: -
Half pint of coffee, milk and sugar, one
alio bread, 1 cent.
Beef soup, vegetables, one slice bread,
1 cent.
Pork and beano, 1 cent.
Fish cakea, 1 cent.
Sandwiches, 1 oent.
Fish chowder, Fridays, 1 Dent,
Soup, ooffee, and bread supplied to
families at the same rate.
The amount of money expended every
week by Mo. Lamadrid exoeeda the
receipts at the abande by about 50 per Dont„
and consequently the drain upon her
ineeme amounts to quite a large mum. -
(Philadelphia Record.
Appearances will go a good ways, bub
reality will keep going right along,
Friend -Are you happy ? Spirit (through
medium) -Perfectly so. Friend -What has
pleased you moat since you left ua? Spirit
The 't ph on my tombstone, Ib both
amazes and delights me.
it I am very glad to have been of any
comfort to your poor husband, my good wo:
man, Bubhat m
w odeou end y nc For me in-
stead of your own minlater ?" " Weel, Bir,
its typhus my poor husband's got, and we
dinna think it just reef for our ain ministee
bo run the tisk,"
Philadelphia gust t (at a "reasonable
rates" seaside boarding house) -Humph 1
Here is an elaborate bill of fare, but you
'sayoaerything I ask for le out, I 001110
i
into the linin •roam within live minutes
after the bell 'sato ed ringing, Wolter-'
'lyes, soh; but some of the geesta of ih
befell the bell :Stepped ringing, g
A Xias in the Dark.
On one of the sents of a railway train was
a married lady with a little daughter ;
opposite fusing them, was another child, a
son, and a coloured " lady" with a baby.
The mother of these obildren was a beautiful
matron, with sparkling eyes, in exuberant
health and vivacious spirits. Near her sat
a young lieutenant, dressed to kill, and
seokingitviotim, He scraped up en acquaint.
ante with the mother by attentions to
the children. It was not Iong before he was
essaying to make himself very agreeable to
her, and by the time the sun began to decline
ono would have thought they were old fam-
iliar friends. The lieutenant felt that he
had made an impression -hie elation mani-
featedit. The ladydreaming of nowrong,
suspecting no evil, was apparently pleased
with her c,sual accluaintecne.
By-and-by the train approached a tunnel.
The gay lieutenant leaned over and whis-
pered something in the lady's ear. It was
noticed that she appeared as thunderstruou,
and her eyes immediately flamed with in-
dignation. A moment more and a smile
lighted up her features. Wbab changes!
The smile was not one of pleasure, but was
sinister. It was unperoeived by the lieu
tenant. She made him a reply which re-
joiced him very much, For the under-
standing properly of this narrative we must
tell the reader what was whispered and
what was replied.
"I mean to kiss you when we get into
the tunnel," whispered the lieutenant.
"It will be dark; who will see it?" replied
the lady.
Into the tunnel the train ran. Lady and
coloured nurse quickly change seats. Gay
lieutenant immediately threw hie arms around
the lady sable, pressed her cheek to hie, and
fast and furious rained kisses on her lips,
In a few moments the train came out into
broad daylight.
White lady looked amazed -coloured lady
bashful, blushing -gay lieutenant, befogged.
" Jane," said the white lady, " what
have you been doing ?"
" Nothing," responded the ooloured lady.
"Yee, you have," said the white lady,
not in an undertone, but in a voice that
attiaotsd the attention of all in the car-
riage. " See how your collar is rumpled and
your bonnet smashed,"
Jane, poor ooloured beauty, hung her
headl for a moment, the " observed of all
observers," and then, turning round to the
lieutenant, replied, "Tide man kissed me in
the tunnel."
Loud and long was the Iaugh that follow,
ed among the paaaengere,
The white lady enjoyed the joke amazing-
ly.
Lieutenant
mazing•lyLieutenant looked like a sheep -stealing
dog, left the carriage at the next station,
and was seen no more.
A Buggy's Wear and Tear.
"How much do you suppose it coat,"
asked the eccentric statistician, "to pay
for wear and tear on a buggy?"
He asked the question bo answer it, of
oouree, and replied : " It teams two Dents
a mile, That has been figured out by
owners of carriage works, and that Is the
lowest figure. Two gents a mile for a
buggy driven at a trot, next acme heavy
wagons with bade & fraction higher and
buggies behind speedy horses aro higher
still. About three cents a mile is the high•
est, and the wear and tear on all kinds of
vehicles run between two and three cents
a mile, the kind of paving, whether it is
sheet or atone, having considerable to do
with it."
Out of the Way.
Bobby had reluctantly kissed hie sister
goodnight and was off for bed.
"Don't you ao to bed rather early, Bob-
by 7' inquired young Mr, Sampson ; " lb's
but a little past eight."
" I have to go to bed early on the nights
you call on slater," explained Bobby; "oho
makes me."
Doing any one tiling well -oven setting
Stitches and plaiting frills -puts a key into
oae'S hand to the opening of sews different
eoeret; and we Dan never know what may be
to one out of the meanest drudgery.
A plant called the "laughing plant," or,
in soiontifie parianoe, "Caunabalis Salva,"
has been diaeovered and itis alleged that
when it ie eaten in d1t green state or taken
as a tinoture made either from the green or
the dried leaf, se a powder of the dried loaf,
er :molted as tobacco, it is potent ih produc-
ing exaltation, leughtor, and cheering ideas,
Mother -Daughter, didn't I hear Mr,
Jenkins kiss you lest night when he Went
away ? Daughter -Yeo, mamma; but it Ives
againilb my will. Mother -What was?
Daughter --,Your hearing it, mamtaa.
The`Oommon Sense of Marriage,
hfarriage :Mould be waited for, notsoughb,
W110 knows round what ooruer his deadly
may be hiding -at what uaexpeoted turn
he may omen upon the fa00 above all tacos
for him? To put aside as far me possible
the thought of marriage until compelled to
think of it by some strong and :model
attraction toward some special person is
wiser than to be seeking in every chance
acquaintance the possible husband or wile,.
" We shall meet the people who ere Dom.
ing to meet us," no matter in wllabfar.eff
land their journey toward um bogies. Per.
ae
remore to blain
h arents n
a for worldly
marriages than we are apt to think. Ho
constantly we hear the term "married
well aPP
1ie
d not
to oharenter or
on-
genialliy or true fitness, but bo o nanfortable
inoome. And yet therol ie something to be
saldfor " the steruperent" of the novels, with
his" hard foots." The old adage that "when
poverty comes in at the door love pies out
of the window" is true only of small and
poor naturoa-natures incapable of a great
love; but it fa neverbhelese true that to be
oved it is necessary to bo lovely, and that
is is far more difficuit so be lovely when' wo
are hard pressed by want and rende'ed
fretful by care and overwork, Tiernan
creatures oannot build their neat: as
inexpensively no the birds do ; and not even
the scant hospitality of homestead eaves or
orchard boughs await their fledglings. To
marry fer'money, or foe any object whatever,
save and except immortal and all powerful
Love, is to perjure and debaeo the
human heart; but to marry without some
provision for the future, euoh as money,
or money's worth in a well.furnished !Hind
and a capacity for skilled labour, ie to
defy common servo and invoke the evil
fated.
A Lovely Woman
overheard one say of her, "By heaven! she's
painted" 1 " Yes," retorted she, indignant-
ly, and by heaven only." !' .Ruddy health
mantled her cheek, embroiled on the rose
and lily. Yet this beautiful lady, once thin
and pale, with a dry, hacking cough, night -
swots, and slight spitting of blood, seemed
destined to fill a consumptive's grove. After
spending hundreds of dollars on physicians
without benefit, she tried Dr. Pier s Gol-
den Medical Discovery; her improvement
was soon marked, and in a few months she
was plump and rosy again, the picture of
health and strength.
A man can never be happy nolese his first
°bjgsta are outside of himself.
Ne matter what the sehool of physic.
They each can cure its ?mho or phtbtslo—
At least 'tie said they can.;.
But as Science turns the wheel still taster,
And quacks and bigots meat disaster,
To us there comes n man
Whose merit hath won countless =lots,
Who use a.,d praise his "Pleasant ?dilate."
The " Pleasant Purgative Pellets" of Dr.
Pierce, though gentle in action, are tho-
rough, and never fail to cure biliousness,
diseased or torpid liver, and constipation
Many people are busy in this world
gathering together a handful of thorns to
sib open,
" An idler leo watch that lacks both hands ;
AB useleself it gone, as ween It stands,"
Alas 1 how many women, though house.
hold and children need their care, are
noeessarily idle, because suffering from die -
sane peculiar to their sex. To all such Dr,
Pierce's Favorite Preaoripbion is a precious
boon, speedily ouring internal inflammation,
leuoorrhea. displaoement, ulceration, tor-
menting periodioal pains, prolapaus, " bear•
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bloating, weak stomach, nervous proetras
bion, and tendency to cancerous diseaas.
In all those ailments called "female cpm•
plaints," it is the most reliable spooifio
known to medical science.
Some people are ao dry that you might
soak them in a joke for q month, and it
would not get through their akin.
Expect nothing from him who promises a
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Whenever your Stamaoh or Bowele get oat 51 or
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Poverty in youth when ib suooeeds, has
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People who are sobieot to bad breath, foul mate
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