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TO  !,__©„  1§   ICO   EKA-"?.
Pause not to areata of the future before us;
Pause not to weep the -wild cares that come o'er _;
Hark hop<6-;e^iej*?s-Seep musical chorus,.
tTnintermtHag, goes np into heaven! *'
Never the ocean -wave falters in flowing;
Sever tho little seed stopB in its gro-wing;
More anymore richly the rose-heart keeps glowing,
Till from its nouriBhing stem it is riven.
" "Labor is -vs-orship!" the robin Is singing;
" labor Is -worship!" the -wild bee is ringing;
"Listen I that eloguentwhisper, upspringing,
Speaks* tothysoal from ont. nature's great heart/;
Erom the dark cloud flows the life-giving shower; -
"from the rough sod biowB the  soft-breathing
flower j
&om _e small insect, ihe rich coral bower;
Only man, in the plan, shrinks from his part.
iabdr is life I 'Ms the still water faileth;
Idleness ever despairs—, bewaileth;
Keep the watch -wound of tiie dark rust assaileth;
Flowers droop and die in the Btillness of noon,
labor is glory!—the flying cloud lightens;
Only the waving wing changes and brightens;
Idle hearts only the dark future frightens;
Play the sweet keys, -wouldst thou keep them in
tune I ■
labor is rest—from the sorrows that great us;
Best from all petty vexations that meet us;
Best from sin-promptings that ever entreat us;   °
Best from world-sirens that lure us to ill.
Work—and pure slumbers shall wait on thy pillow;
Work—thou shalt ride o'er care's coming billow?
lie not down 'neath woe's weeping willow; ;
Work with a stout heart an.d resolute will!
"Labor is health!   Lo, the husbandman reaping,
How through his veins goes the life-current leaping!
How his strong arm in its stalwart pride sweeping,
True as a sunbeam the swift sickle guides,
labor Is wealth!   Inthe sea. the pearl groweth;
Eich the Queen's robe from the cocoon flbweth;
From the fine acorn the strong forest bloweth;
Te_pl&an_ siatue tha marble block hides.
Droop not! though shame, sin and anguish are
icalnd thee 1
Bravely fling off the cold chain that hath bound
thee! . •     * ;.
look to the pure heaven smiling beyond thee*!   ,, *;
Best not content in thy darkness—a clod!
Work for some good, be it ever so slowly!       ■      -
Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly!
labor!—all labor is noble and holy;
let thy great deed ba thy prayer to thy God.
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" *■ A   MIKACEE.
At night all bare of verdure-
The hill and meadow lay;
Tbe brook 'neatn bushes leafless
Went rapid on its way.
A.£ew short hours t left them;
Jj%o ! when I dame again,
The brook, slow threads of silver,
Wound down s leafy lane.
■The hill was green and shining
With turf of tender Wade, "
And blossoms in the meadow
A gay mosaic made.
If 1 had stayed and waited,
and watched there day and night,
No secreinf their, marriage
Could I have brought to light.
Oh! miracle most splendid,
• Oh! magic all divine,
Of which our learned dullness
But calendars the sign.
How dare wfe speak it lightly,
As name of common thing,
The name of this great miracle,
The miracle of spring!
WOKEIES BOTH WATS.
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A Tale from JSeal IMe.
)*7it"h, as pretty a little piece-of femninity v lady.
as Dick: 'had ^ever" seen :°witSai;! -The ™**« *
dainty, curly-haired little woman
straightway went tothe "kitchen, and
then Mrs. Olemmens informed her son
that she hadrmai<2l"matters aUright-with
Mrs. Mipperj^and that the pretty conglomeration.-©:! muslm^ curls^ pink and
white was a new cook she had engaged.
'"Ah!" cries the inteEigent reader,
"you can't deceive ns; the pink and
white little cook is Kitty Flipper, and
tiie Wiree women have formed "a plan to
eatell ©leg ■pnawiares." j&ndTthe intelli^
;gent readers are correct, but we vow
and declare that we never had any intention of shrouding the dear girl in
mystery and practicing deception. If
we had—but this is egotism, and we digress. With the advent of the new
cook came luxuries, such^ap tiad never
been seen ofi the* Glemmehs1 table before. The cuisine (as Dick's Kitty Flipper might say) was perfect. Eichard's
stockings were mended so neatly that an
old pair of socks were better than a new
pair. His shirts, too, were washed and
ironed so perfectly that their whiteness
anct gloss epuseil en^in-ihe -bosoms of;'
all his male friends.
But another change had been effected
by the cook. The pink-and-white young
ladyf"whom the hottest fire never made
iced and white, was^ accustomed to take a
seat in the sitting-room in the evening
and attend to her sewing—the kitchen
being locked ■dp--- to save gas, Mrs. O.
said, and Dick, Remained at home at
night, something"|inusual for him.
In fact, Dick was in love with the
"Kate, by Jupiter! what  does
Tihis mean ?"
"I'm Kitty Flipper and Kate the
cook, too. I tried you, my dear, and
you stood the test nobly. You've proved
yourself my ideal of a man. Take mo,
if you will, my darling."
And he did take her, while the old
lady discreetly looked out of the window
and thought of her youth.
" Aud you were all in the plot against
me, eh ?" asked he.
"Yes," exclaimed the ladies, half-
Trightened now they were found out.
'•"Weir,-I'm glad of it. Kate, you've
made a man of me. I insisted on my
wife being a worker, and it's a poor rule
that won't wort both ways."
Three days after the little village
church—but, pshaw! the intelligent
reader can guess the rest.
THE SACBAMEHT© MUB-DEE.
"When Horatio Flipper and his. bosom
friend, Josiah Olemmens, on the same
day, in the same church, married Augusta Lawton and her dearest friend,
Anathnsia Meakim, a contract was made-
betweenthe two couples—a contract entirely independent of that which in the
eye of the law they had made when each
answered " I wall," in reply to the somewhat inquisitive question put by the
clergyman in regard to their future intentions as to supporting, loving, and
honoring each other. It was this: They
bound themselves that if one family had
a son and the other a daughter, that son,
and daughter, when they arrived at a
proper age, should become man and
wife. There was nothing so novel or
original in such an agreement; if there
had been, the-parties to the contract
would never have made it, for they were
neither novel nor original in any thing—
they were simply maudlin with romance,
and this covenant was merely the effect ,
'   T*"^H**'*-^5--^
auser :_ ""You're a laSTy
"Now
tales and plays was the cause,
So much by way of prologue,
for our story.
Flipper and Olemmens had died full
of years and gout and rheumatism, and
left each a large fortune to his wife.
They had each left, as well, a child—
Flipper a daughter named Kitty, Olemmens a son named Bichard, otherwise
Dick. The old men had forgotten, long
before their deaths, aUabouttheiragfee-
ment on their wedding day, but not so
with the mothers.   They had been in „.
correspondence for ihe last five years without help from his mother,
about nothing else.   The children had    "    *■ ■■■■*-•-■■-
their  majority;
now reached their majority, and the
mothers were anxious for the consummation of ;the plan.
''Mother," said Dick, at the breakfast
table, "there is no use in/urging that
girl Kitty's suit, for I will never marry
her."
" How do you know, my son ? You
have not seen her for twelve years, and
you might be delighted with her," returned Mrs. Olemmens, eoaxragly.
"I know I shouldn't," Dick said.
" She was a red-headed abomination
when she was a child, and I'm certain
she's the same now."
rt*Ohs Bichard!"
"Even if Tshe was as handsome as
Hebe I wouldn't marry her. I'd feel
disgusted the moment I met her, and so
would she, if she had any sense. We'd
be introduced, we'd look at each, other,
and say to ourselves, 'And this is the
person I've got to marry,' and then we
would hate each other."
"Well, it seems to me, Dick, that you
might at least wait until you do see each
other before yon make up your mind.
This is too bad," whined Mrs. Olemmens, wiping her eyes with a napkin,
and not discovering her mistake until
she rubbed some mustard into her blue
orbs,, which occasioned the use of her
handkerchief in good earnest—" just
when I thought I had suoh good news
for you?"
"What is the news ?"
"She's coming here?"
"Who, Kitty Flipper?"
" Yes. I received a letter this morning from her mother* saying Kitty would
start in a day or two.""^
"O, my!" groaned Dick. "Yon
must stop her," he said, seriously. "If
she comes, I go. I know what she'll be;
a little stuck-upminx, full of the French
airs she acquired by studying abroad for
twelve years. She'll say, 'MonDieu,'
and * ma foi,'and she'll talk about her
naivete and her gaucherie and her chic;
she'll speak bad French in the present
tense, indicative mood, of the first conjugation, and She'll commence all her
questions with ' Esker,'and then stick
like the young man at the Veneerings'
party. I sha'n't see her, that's settled.
Write to Mrs. Flipper (mellifluous appellation !) and say we are going on a*
visit; and we don't know when we will return; or, better, go to town, see Mrs. F.,
explain openly that I will never marry a
Frenchified wax-doll, but that I want a
wife who knows how to keep a house in
order, can cook, preserve, sweep, bake,
darn, sew, mend, dust, and, as the advertisements say, make herself generally
nsefui. In short, a woman like my respected ma; and, so that yon may Mil
two birds with one stone, find a cook
who can cook, and fetch her back with
you."
An idea seemed to strike Slxs. Olem-
snenSj and she answered, gayly, •» Well,
Dick, everything is for the best-. If you
won't marry her, yon won't; so Til do as
yon say."
Alter breaMast she made
toilet,, and-took ihe'first
Sowasd '©veaang
cook£.and he^ fOund-%liundred excuses a
day to go'tO the Hl^m and have a word
or two with the. dtirly-headed little
woman. .,      -
At first she was vei^ cold to him, but,
gradually, as she sawSte respect increase
with his love, the ice Of her reserve began to melt under the warmth of his
passion, and the young man was correspondingly happy,. *=
_. Perhaps there were no conferences,
with comparing of notes, between the
cook and her mistress when our gentleman took his afternoon walk ! Oh, no
—of course not—why should there be ?
At length Dick found himself so entangled in the net of love that nothing
would- but marriage free him, so he entered the kitchen one afternoon, and,
with a preamble, proposed marriage.
- And here is where we triumph over
the intelligent reader,   who  says,   "I
knew how it would be—she accepted
bim, they were married, the fraud was^
exposed, and they lived happily ever-I
more."
Wrong, Oh, intelligent reader!
"Will yottmarry me?"-said he.
ffj
No, I will not," she answered.
;^_rt^-fe_-.	
as well as ja cook, and
fit to bear gentleman's wife." -
"I dare say I am, but I don't want tol
be a cook all my life."
"Then marry me."
"And work to support you ?"
"Why, my dear, I'm rich!"
" You mean your mother is."
"Well, she, would -deny: me nothing."
I don't^khow about that; You don't
know how she'd act if you married her
cook. Besides, I've no fancy for a man
who can't support himself and his wife
I under-
hurried
for ihe
stand you, Dick, and I admit that I love
you."
4' My darling!" f he, cried^ embracing
her."; - -   "*; '    "•-      \'-' • -"~:  '•■*«■*■-
" "There, now, stop. You wouldn't
marry a wax doll of a girl, who couldn't
keep a house in order, cook, carve, preserve, darn, m4ndrsew, dusfeandjweep.
I heard you say so."
"That is true," ruefully remarked
Dick.
'' "5f ellf •!fcyfdl -aoi i marry: ,a.. man who
cannHt sfip^port meTt)y his dwtffeboiv I
don't want a club-house swell or a
lardy-tardy man of society for a husband ; I want a real man, hard-fisted
workmanpwhd can knock down a gniht
if he insults me. A good honest son of
toil, one whom I'll be proud to point
out as my husband, and on whose
shoulder, I can lean- m;yheadj. and, confident of his strong love, know ho fear of
the world."
"What do'you want me to do, my
darling?*'^ % \i \" ■-.; : £? ,j -.;
; "Learnttrade"; be a man," ah independent man. When you have earned
enough money to buy a set of furniture
and can show me that you are able to
support me, I'll say, "Dick, my boy, I'm
yours.'"
"I'll do it," cried Dick.
. "Next day, .without a word of. opposition from hia mother, which he thought
rather strange, he left home, went to
the city, and made arrangements with a
friend of his, a carpenter and builder,
to learn a trade.
Dick was a natural mechanic. No
workman was ever needed at home; he
mended Everything. There was no tool
he couldn't use, and, therefore, at the
end of sis months there was not a journeyman in the shop that could compare
with him fpr elegant work. Then/ he
rented a little shop, and set up for himself,
Strange to say, his first order came
from .the Widow Flipper to thoroughly
repair three of her new houses. Of
course little pink-and-white had nothing
to do with tMs.
Mrs. Flipper recommended him to all
her property-owning friends. His business increased wonderfully. Item: His
work was always well done.
At the* end*of the year he had a really
good business.
Then he went home one Saturday
night, with a bank book and a plain gold
ring in his pOcket. He went in the
kitchen way; there was no one there.
On his way up stairs he met his
mother. Embraces followed, and he
as*ked*;^-.*g?^--•*■'-*?,     ':     •,•'.-'■   - '■■ ■' -■-•;
"Whefe'sKate?" —
We have hitherto neglected to mention that the Qfok'f name was; Kft§.
"Hot in," answered Mrs. Olemmens;
"but Kitty Flipper is up stairs^, come
up sffl__&_*esehted." „ .' - ■ ■•'_'":' ■ ■ Q1
"Hang Kitty Flipper!" said he.
"There need be no embarrassment,
,Dick; she's engaged."
" Oh, she is, eh?   Well, come along."
"Miss Flipper, my son/' .said ]p:s.
Olemmens," presenting him.
Dick looked *ap,
•'"Whafel'-'■'fae.yeUfld, looMag oft fee
Confession of tlie Accused Parties—How
TuUis Was Killed by the Public Administrator's Accomplices.
[Sacramento Oor. San Francisco Chronicle.]
Troy Dye was arrested on Monday
night at 11 o'clock. On the following
day he made a full and complete confession of his complicity in the murder
of A. M. TuUis. On Tuesday about 9
p. m. Anderson was arrested, and, during the first night of his incarceration,
also confessed. Dye says that the first
mention of the plan of killing Tullis
was made in a jesting manner at the
dinner-table of a gentleman living near
Oourtland. Subsequently he began to
think seriously of the matter, and later
planned the murder. He chose as instruments Edward Anderson, a Swede,
a butcher, who for the past two years
has been employed by him at intervals,
Dye being himself a butcher; also a man
whose name is not given, with whom
Anderson had become acquainted. Dye
says these men proposed the plan of
killing some wealthy man without heirs,
but Anderson's story consistently maintains that Dye originally proposed all
the crimes contemplated. It may be
stated that each to some extent tries to
place the other in the light of being the
tempter. At last Tullis was selected as
the victim. Dye has been his neighbor
and friend for twelve years, and knew
the value of the estate. Tullis was an
uncommunicative man, and had never told
his neighbors anything about his family
connections. The supposition was thathe
was the last of his race. Plans were a "*
once formed for his murder. Anders&s.
and the third party were to have $3,000
each for committing the crime. "Over
two months ago they went down the
river to put the plan in execution. They
returned and reported to Dye that Tullis was not at home. But Anderson's
confession accounts for this failure by
urged the crime with persistency, and
-Anderson conceived the idea of murder
by poison. Two bottles of cocktails
Were prepared in Clark & Dye's saloon
on K street, known as the Sierra Nevada
saloon. One bottle, only partly full,
was poisoned, the other was good. Anderson, armed with these implements of
death, went down to TuUis' ranch. Calling at the house, he solicited work.
Anderson then brought out the good
liquor, and they draDk about half the
contents, when Anderson changed bottles on Tullis and came away. The as-'
sassins expected to hear of Tullis'death,
but heard nothing from it.
,, At last, the decision was reached that
Jbold work was required. Anderson proposed building a boat, and going down the
river and committing the crime by violence. After some objection on the part
of Dye as to the propriety of building a boat, the lumber was purchased
and the boat was built at Dye's house.
On Wednesdaj', July 31, at 9 p. m., the
boat was launched from the foot of B
street. An expressman was employed
to haul it down. Dye helped to load
it, and with the aid of Anderson and the
expressman launched it. Anderson
rowed it down the river, and was joined
some distance below by his confederate.
They reached Tullis' about 5 o'clock p.
m. on Thursday. They went some dis-
=tance below, and landed. Anderson
went up to TuUis' house. The Chinaman told him the "Boss" was not at
home. He paid a second visit to the
house, and was told that Tullis would
not be at home before 8 o'clock
the next day. On his return toward
the river he met Tullis and entered
into conversation with nim. Anderson
asked for work and was refused. Tullis
proposed that they should go to the
house and get something to eat. Tullis
walked before, Anderson following.
After proceeding a short distance Anderson struck Tullis on the side of the
head with a sand-bag, knocking him oflf
the levee,npon which they were walking,
into the orchard. Tullis turned upon
his assailant, when the other assassin
came overthe levee to the aid of Anderson. He fired on Tullis, hitting him in
the neck. TuUis' dog fought for his
master, making a. great noise.. The*
other assassin said to Anderson, '-Stand
aside." Anderson released himself from
Tullis and stood apart, when Tullis
started to run. The" other then fired,
hitting TuUis in the back. TuUis fell,
and the assassin ran up and, placing his
pistol close to his victim's head, finished
his bloody work.
Dye's plan for realizing something
handsome out of the estate was to compound with the creditors. The legitimate .commission would have amounted
to $3,200. Dye has always borne a good
reputation, but there are those coming
forward to affirm that during the late
war Dye was a bushwhacker who murdered and pillaged indiscriminately.
The confessions comprise about eight
columns of closely-printed matter, developing every stage of progress in the
commission of the crime. The Sheriff
and his deputies have followed the case
\§th untiring zeal and energy. District Attorney Blanchard and his assist-,
ant, 0. T. Jones, have also beenuntir-
^ ing in their efforts to develop and collate the evidence. Neither party will
:he aUowed to turn State's evidence, and
j the District Attorney is confident that
both wUl be convicted.
An old resident of OH Oity, Pa., says
* * I have lived here since oil was first discovered, and I can confidently say that
over 70 per cent, of those whohave grown
rich in oil production aad oil speculation
aE&aow paupeESn'*'
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SABBAT A  BlIMM?.
. .—— i.r
A Summer MoTriguing.
Oh, the earth and the air \i
Honeysuckle and rose iM.
Mr-trees tapering high*^
* Ifltto the deep repose' =">•  ,-.
Of the flecTiless sKyt*^ ' "*'
Hills ihat climb and ar^etjong"
EaBldng. contented plavBfc
Sunlight poured out suocg
The sea of the grass lifcel∈
Spice-burdened, -winds il»t rise,,
"Whisper, -wander o-id niHh;
And the caroling harmonies
Of robin and quail andArnsh—
O God, Tby world is fairT|**~
And this but the place of His feet!
I had cried, - _efc m&m^ letindheof.
Show me the ways of Thy hand;"
For it all was a riddle drjal
That I fainted to undert^ind.
Canopy, close drawn rouna,
Part not nor lift from th?*- ground;
Move not your fingei! .tij>,    _,
Firs, from the heaven's «*-«.
When this is the place «S£*-*>s feet,
How should I bear to raife
My blasted vision to me^.
The inconceivable blazer
Of His majesty comT)lete?S> ,  .,
—Scribner'8 Monthly for September..
In tbe Stoj?**!■;.
Several years ago mj*? husband and
myself were ; homeward "bptind ,on the
steamer Atlantic. It wa| only, I think,
her second return voyage, and she had
not yet been tried in ^severe storm.
But, on the enthusiastic recommendation of a friend who had.-orossed ih _er,
we ventured a passage. *-*
From the first we heard mttoh of tti©
excellent discipline of $*f^7 W, and the
systematic    life-boat" W0' /and „w""*-!
quickly grew as proud *f"***^_r craft as
ibe veriest sailor.      .'*•'?,, k   »
One day as we were sfe^ding on the
companion-way, idlygazu_ on a, ^chart
of the officers and cr^w, a weather-
beaten tar, who was atwoy*fc there, pointing his. finger with great pride, said:
"That is mymesSi ne^fi-_iy,name,
and there is my life-boat^    -
"Ah!" Baid I Ustles^y; "andwhat
do yon do in case of danger ?" *   "'     * ■
He explained in detaii^te part he was
to bear. "But," I saic^-i",suppose you
are not there?" I shait never forget
the look offiiinglediBcp^rli >afid ind^ja^
tion the bronzed veterlm.gave."" Itwasa
moment before he con"Qi utter a word;
then he panted,-in aste,-iish|d)dis"^|i5,
" Danger ! needed! and^e^ not" 'thereT
Every man not at his po^ I" Gathering
up his tools, he gave anther, look fuU
in my face, and said sl#wly, *'I'd be
there, madam if    ..-^f^-t & .,<,.-.   -,*•,,
The next day, a*? 'we*j*5§3fe p'fdhiehad-
ing the deck, the same Sajfor was busily
engaged in cleaning the* brass railing,;
which in its clear polish f Slowed that he
"did -wittr'his might -*Ahathis ha_d
found to do." He Io6k0l,j^-^ye Approached, and, touchingf **" jJiaulia,
said, quickly, "I'd be •
His duty seemed to be
dgyii#fter .daywe paff-
maaamr
"In less thantwo da-ya we^all be
home," was. the "greeting at breakfast
one morning. The skies were smiling,
tiie sea smooth, and the steamer speeding on her course. Suddenly, jnst before lunch, we were startled by a sound
like a cannonade, foUowed by another
in quick succession. We were caught
not like Paul in tho Euroclydon, but in
a cyclone, the nearest approach to it I
ever care to be in. For hours we realized, as we had not done in aUth^ outward passage, the words of the Psalmist, " They mount up to the heaven,
they go down again to the depths," their
soul is melted because of trouble."
Steerage passengers were locked up to
keep them from bein0 washed overboard ; cabin passengers needed no persuasion to.keep them befaw^ffidtfgh tied
securely to a mast we were permitted to
see something that day of the Lord and
his wonders in the deep.
But where was now pur hope ? Was it
in those taU iron masts that even then
were swaying in that fearful wind like
reeds ? Was it in that iron hull whose
strength we had so often heard boasted ?
Was jt jn the raaohinery that almost
seemed to groan and shiver itself ?
In none of these. But high on the
mast head was perched a lookout; on the
bridge above our heads paced an officer;
in the wheel-house stood a man with his
hand on the wheel, and his eye on the
compass; every tew feet on the deck
were officers shrouded in oil-cloth, whom
we had only been wont tq see in guttering uniform studded with buttons; while
the Captain, himself, seemed to be ubiquitous, and the ringing word of command could be heard above the noise of
the;storm.   '
Aye! every man was at his post! No
wine nor cards, nor meerschaums, nor
musicj nor chit-chat then.   „
But "He maketh the storm,a calm,
so that tlie waves thereof were"* stiUJ.";"'
The nfext day was the Sabbath, in its
quiet, still beauty, making one wonder
whether the scene of the previous day
had not been a sea-sick imagining; At
noon, everyone of the crew who could
possibly be spared from instant duty
was drawn np on deck for roU-calL As
We paced before the long line, arranged
in their different messes, I saw my
sailor friend. Discipline was stern, and
only a shadow of a smile showed that
the recognition was mutual; but, a few
moments later, I heard his. voice close
by me:
" Madam, I was there!"
The next day "He bringeth us unto
our desired haven." Scarce two years
after that same beautiful =steamer Atlantic went down amid the wails of the
lost. " Neglect of duty" are the sad,
sad words written against that terrible
story. * ■
The Captain who had guicfed her so
safely through our time of danger had
been transferred to another steamer. I
know not whether my sailor friend was
there; but of this I am sure that, if on
the ship at aU, he was at his post.
" "Officers and teachers having charge of
the Sunday-school life-boat^ can you always say, in this time of soul-danger, I
was there?
Shall those fearful words ever be
writtgn bty the name of one of your
scholars—"Lost! Through neglect of
duty!"—Mrs, M. S. Kennedy, in Baptist Teacher,
goes down she goes down on her knees
and prays for me." This man was brave;
had been% in a number of battles; he
could stand before the cannon's mouth,
but yet this letter completely upsethim.
-_*'I have been trembUng ever since I re
eeived it." Six hundred miles away the
faith of this girl went to work, and its
influence was felt by the brother. He
did not beUeve in prayer; he did not believe in Christianity; he did not beUeve
in his mother's Bible. This mother was
a praying woman, and when she died
she left on earth a praying daughter.
And when God saw her f aith and heard
that prayer, he answered her. How
many sons and daughters could be saved
if their mothers and fathers had but
faith.—Moody's Anecdotes.
Keeping Things Lively.
Two women caught sight of each other
in one of our dry-goods stores the other
day, and, rushing forward simultaneously with outspread arms, nearly dislocated one another's noses in trying to
find each otner's mouths.
'/Why, la! bless you, Mrs. Hixley,
I'm so glad to see you," said one, with a
quick, nervous voice, as she fell back a
little after the scrimmage, and furled
her features into a look of satisfied joy,
warm enough to soften ice. "You're
looking so splendidly well, toq; it's a
wonder I knew you. I wouldn't, thougn,
I don't think, if you hadn't smiled first.
But, dear me, what a dreadful long time
it's been since I saw you—it seems an
age. You _ve in Middleto wn yet, I sup-
pose?"
"Ohmercy,no—we left three months
ago and moved to Hamilton."
"You don't say?"
"Yes—but you? I was remarking to
Hix the other day that I'd lost aU track
of you."
- "We're in Lawrenceburg now, and I
do -&b wish you could come and see ns.
I've got so much to tell you. You
wouldn't believe how times have changed
Twith us. Got a nice home now and
-everything nice—three bedrooms up
stairs, large haU, elegant parlor, lovely
sitting room, splendid dining-room,
paiitry and Mtchena big yard and garden and the sweetest lot of plants you
ever saw—and d'ye think? Alex has
really got to like fLwers—anyhow he
don't npset 'em any more and growl aU
:ffie time about their always being in the
way.";
"But Louise?"
"What! hadn't yon heard it? We
sent you a paper with the notice. Why,
she's been married six months nearly."
0"^Yon don't teU me ! But how did
she do?"
"•Splenfid! A widower with a farm
^■^|bS0®,childre_, and a church mem-
?     '""%   He's not so much for looks,
j'lJ~"U "-**"-■^-rr&Zf     CSX,/! ^«„1^I„'A
'a done bei;„r.
"That is ni
her?"
"Oh, yes—too good, IteU him sometimes. But they do get along the nicest
kind—as happy as larks ail the time. It
almost brings the tears to hear her call
him an old fool and a bald-headed idiot
as soon as he steps into the house. She
alwavs was so Uvely, you know."
"What! Do they quarrel.a'ready?"
inquired the Middletown lady, with a
pained look of anxiety.
• " Why, no^—certainly not, never—yon
wouldn't hire'em to."
:' "But you said she called him h&rrid
. names, and threw up his looks."
"Oh, yes, of course, and she .may
even spank ihe children right before his
eyes, and teU them they are a pack of
good-for-nothing thick-headed little
beggars; but then it's only her way, you
know, and she don't mean anything by
it. of course. It's only a way she has of
being cheerful and keeping things
'Hvened up around the house. IteU
you, Louise ain't going to let the dust
settle around her much, no matter where
she is."—Cincinnati Breakfast Table.
^SBM. Shi couldn't
but is he .good to
Faith.  More Powerful &ha*o, CSpnpqwdeii*.
I remember at one of the meetings at
Nasnville, during the war, a young man
came to me, trembling from head to
foot.   " What is the trouble ?" I asked.
"•iThen-jiis 0 lefitet <| got from- sjy'.sieteiv
u sadih© tsllo _># §YSsg* sight ©a fe© Dim
The Decimal System of dotation,,
Ten is, theoretically, ill-suited for the
radix of a> system of notation, because it
permits of only one bisection; The
half of it is five, an odd number. It
also is incapable of any other division.
On account of these defects the system
is ill adapted to the operations of the
shop and the market. Although our
calculations are universally made in the
decimal system, none of our tables of
weights and measures are decimal in
any one of their subdivisions. In all
departments of trade the current prices
have been derived from the process of
successive halvings. The Bhopman
reckons by halves, quarters, eighths,
sixteenths and thirty-seconds, and not
by fifths or tenths. The yardstick is
divided, in its practical use, into halves,
quarters, eighths, etc., by successive
bisections. Even the sixteenth of a unit
is more commonly used in trade than
the tenth. In the stock exchange,
shares change in price by eighths of a
dollar, and not by tenths. Even with
our decimal system of money, we require
coins for half and quarter of a dollar for
practical use in trading. Almost the
.entire price-list of our stores advances
"and recedes by these fractions of a unit
formed by successive bisections.
The attemf $ by the French to compel
the use of the^ecimal system shows the
difficulty of such an undertaking. Popular necessities compeUed the introduction of binal divisions. The prices of
their money and stock markets are still
frequently" quoted in quarters and
eighths. The attempt to divide time
decimally was a. failure. After trying
to give to their decimal metrology a
universal appUcation, they have beer
compelled to modify it in many of their
weights and measures. From the inherent defects of a ten-scale, all attempts
to introduce an international decimal
system of weights and measures have
met with strong opposition.—Popular
Science Monthly.
Tramps in "Petticoats*
Trampa in the vicinity of Pittsburgh
have adopted a new and original plan to
gain access to the houses of such persons as they desire to rob. They don
female attire, and, under the plea of
seeking housework, gain ^admittance to
man-*** private residences where, if their
true characters were known, they would
be excluded. The plan has wo _ed suo»
esisf mlly ia ssvssbJ mottaasee.
EOIA_   WA&ES.
-The Pecuniary Allowance Paid to "Foreign
Potentates.
Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria
and King of Hungary, born in August^
1830, has a civil list (as his salary is
commonly caUed) of $4,650,000 a year,
Jueopold II., King of Belgium, born
in April, 1833, has a civU Hst of $660,000
a year.
Christian IX., King of Denmark,
born in "April, 1818, has a civil list of
500,000 rigsdalerb, or $277,775. His
eldest son has an annual allowance of
$83,333.
Marshal MacMahon, President of the
French republic, has an annual salary
of $120,000, with an extra $60,000 for
household expenses. President Thiers
had the same salary, with $77,560 for
housekeeping.
Napoleon in. had the largest civil
list in the world. It amounted to
$5,000,000 a year, in addition to which
he received the income of the crown domains, amounting to $2,400,000, and
the free possession of. a number of palaces, parks, forests and mansions kept
at the expense of the state. His total
income reached the sum of $7,800,000.
Nevertheless, the debts on the imperial
civil list were stated in 1867 to amount
to $16,000,000.
WiUiam I., born in March 1797, receives no salary as German Emperor.
His annual salary as King of Pittssia is
$3,079,790. Most of the expenditure of
the royal family and the court is defrayed out of the sovereign's immense
private property.
Lndwig II., King of Bavaria, born in
August, 1845, has a civil Ust of $1,378,-
865. Karl 1.^ King of Wurtemberg,
born in March, 1823, has a civil Ust of
$391,685, with an additional annual
grant of $1,357,350 for the other members of the royal family. Albert I.,
King of Saxony, bom April, 1823, has a
civUlist of $635,000, with an additional
$127,950 s year for the Princes and
Princesses. This latter grant- may be
justifiable, as in 1830 the reigning monarch surrendered his domains to become
•the property of the state.
The Grand Duke of Baden has a civil
Ust of $374,655 for himself "and the members of his family. The hereditary
landed property of this dynasty, valued
at $20,830,000, has been made over to
the state. The Grand Duke of "Meck-
lenburg-Schwerin, who claims to be the
only European sovereign of Slavonic
origin, pretends that he can trace his
descent to Genseric, King of the. Vandals, who conquered Spain in the fifth
century, and, going over to Africa, took
Carthage in 439 A. D. In his full title
he styles himself * -Prineeof theYandals."
He has no civil list, but is absolute
pwnjrofione-fif th of the whole area of
The Grand Duke of Bk*gie7_m-in-Wv-^
of Queen Yictoria, has a civil Ust of
$328,716 for the support of himself, his
near relatives and his little eourt at
_BQS   -_®__KIS"   __K®S1S
The pipe of the quail in the stabble-ttelcl
Tha scent of the new-mown hay;
And all day long the shout and the song
Of the reapers so far away.
The restless racket amid the grain,
The noise of the reaping-machine
And ever again the howl of pain
Comes over the meadows green.
Oh. sweet is the field whereihe meadow-iari  its
And sings, as It soars ami dives;
Where the Granger sits, atid yells as he gits
His fingers among the _iives.
Ho longer we hear on, the hillside sere
The scythe-stone's _intety-clihk^
But the reaping-machine cuts his leg ofi*, I ween,
.   Before ever the man can think.
WithlfJQreboding au d tears his good wife hears
Tjieanati of tlie house say: good-by; .  ;'...';
•^preturh, in sooth, with a horse-rafee tooth
•; Sticking four inches-out of Ms eye.
When the threshers come in with halloo and din,
How burdened with sorrow the hour,
When they pause to scan whsvt is left of the niaa
Chawed up In an eigh1>-horsa power.
Oh lithe and listen!   From over tiie hills,
What voice for .the doctor begs ?
'Tis the stoker who fell, and. awful to tell,
^The steam harrow ran over his legs.
Thus all day long, with mirth and song,
They laugh at the dread alarms;
Though the waving field shall its harvest yield
Of fingers and legs and arms.
the
Then pity the sorrows of a poor old Granger,
Whose mangled limbs have borne him fo
fence;
Who braved, with reckless courage, untold danger,
And ran his farm with modern implements.
—Turlington Bmdk-Eye. .
PITH  AHB  POIKT.
Patteen women—The dressmakers.
Did you ever see a saw set or an apple stand?
How to get rid of bad habits^—Exchange them for articles of virtu.    .
We say "a
laving
hen," instead of
" a lying hen," because sheis pnnest.
When there is a chasm of misunderstanding between a mistress and her
Irish help, she should Bridget".
The reason why editors have their
manners -corrupted is because they receive so many evil communications.
A man in Detroit has recently invent-;
ed an apparatus for arresting and extinguishing sparks.   Are the girls going to
stand that?
Pa__oii question by the Sultan—"Is
this Turkey, or is it merely portions of
England, Bussia, Austria and other
countries?"
A St; Louis Coroner,, who was formerly a base-baU man, instructed his
jury to bring in a verdict of "out on a
sun-strike."
Who hath woe—who hath sorrow?-
Well, that Nevada man who traded a
mule for a wife feels about as red around
the eye as any of 'em.
A disoomeited soldier, who found
that he had shot an Indian .already de*
xunct, was overheard to murmur, "I
didn't know it was Lo dead."
Since the weather- has grown cooler
in St. Louis citizens walk in the sun,
shake their fists at it, and ■.threaten to
knock its darned head off if it strikes
them.
About the first bit of scripture a boy
gets knocked into him is when he is
barefooted and Bteps on a bee. Then
he reaUzes that " there is a time tq
dance." ,
NoTHiNa betrays the innocence of
men's natures more than to see one feeling over his coat-tails to find a pocket
Darmstadt.
The civil Ust of the Grand Duke of
OMenburg is $125,000; of Brunswick,
$250,000; of Saxe-Weimer, $210,000; of
Saxe-Meiningen, $90,000; of Anhalt,
$145,000; of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, $100,-
000; of Saxe-Altenburg, $107,250; .of
Waldeek, $183,675; of Lippe, $50,000;
of Schwarzburg-Budolstadt, $60,000; of
Schwarzburg-Sonderhaussen, $110,000;
of Schaumburg-Lippe, $125,000.
The Grand Dukes of Mecklenburg-
StreUtz, Beuss-Schleiz and Beuss-Greiz
absolutely own most of the states -which
they govern. It is fuU time for the
whole of these petty sovereigns to be
absorbed under one ruler, so as to constitute a real German empire.
Victoria, Queen of England, born in
May, 1819, has a civil list of $1,925,000,
with $300,000 from the Duchy of Lancaster, one of the crown lands which she
did not surrender, according to contract
with ParUament, to the state. Thus,
her annual income is $2,225,000. To
her children and to the Duke of Edinburgh is paid a further sum of $880,000,
making a total of 3,105,000 to British
royalty.
George I., King of Greece, born in
December, 1845, has a civil Ust of $260,-
800 a year. Humbert of Italy, born in
1844, has not accepted the large civil
Ust ($3,250,000) granted to his late
father. William HI., King of the Netherlands, born in February, 1810, has a
salary of $250,000, with an addition of
half as much more for members of the
royal family. He and the King of Wur-
temburg are believed to be the richest
sovereigns in Europe. The whole grants
to Louis I., of Portugal, born in 1838,
and his family amount to $660,000 a
year.
Alexander II., of Bussia, bom in
April, 1818, possesses the revenue from
the immense crown domains, equal to
$10,000,000 a year. Alphonso XII., of
Spain, born in November, 1857, has a
civil Ust of $2,000,000. Oscar II., King
of Sweden and Norway, born in January, 1829, has a civil Ust of $338,330
from Sweden and $94,445 from Norway.
He also has an annuity of $83 330, voted
many yeara ago to Carl XIY. (Birna-
dotte) and his successors on the throne
of Sweden; the total is $416,105 per
annum.
The President of the Swiss republic,
who has only £ single-year term, receives
$3,000 per annum. Nevertheless, Switzerland is well governed.   .
There is no knowing what is the salary or income of Abdul Hantid, Sultan
of Turkey, born September, 1842. The
civil Ust of Abdul Aziz, who was almost
his immediate predecessor, varied from
$4,557,580, in 1868, to $5,351,020 in
1875, but it has been calculated on good
authority that in the latter years of his
reign, which closed in May, 1876, Abdul
Aziz spent $22,500,000. it is not near
that amount just now.
Lord Lytton receives £25,000 a year
salary, and £12,000 for "allowances " as
Viceroy of India. The Duke of Marlborough gets £20,000 a year as Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland. The Earl of
Dufferin had £10,000 salary as Viceroy
of Canada.
Mb. J. L. OkosiiEY, of the great carpet firm of Halifax, Yorkshire, has had
a microphone placed in the pulpit of -a
chapel and connected with his residence
a mile from the town, by wire. He
heard the whole service except a few
words rendered indistinct by theprea©h-
I %x dietrarbiag the miesophoa©,
which is in his coat at home.—Detroit
Free Press.
"SmENOEin the court-room!" shouted a Texan poUce magistrate. "■** The
court has already committed four pris-
—-in^sBwmmxoTiy.     .*■-..  .... ■ —^^~~-—•
The man who made a shoe for the
foot of a mountain is now engaged on a
hat for the head ol* a discourse—after
which he will manufacture a plume for
General IntelUgence.
Industby does not always pay. Let a
husband be seen oiling the hinges of the
doors in his house, and his wife wiU at
once charge him with intending to remain out thl midnight.
A scientist says angle-worms do. not
suffer when put on the hook. They
wriggle around ont of pure joy, we suppose, the same as a man does when a"
good-looking woman steps on his corns.
" The sun rises in the east," explained
the teacher. "Yes, and there's suthin'
rises in the west, too," chimed in one of
the smaUer boys. " WeU, what is it ?"
asked the schoolma'am. "Injuns 1"
shouted the urchin.
A man ordered some spring chickens
for dinner, and, when he attempted to
carve them, one of them sprung into his
lap. "That settles it," he remarked;
"these are undoubtedly spring chickens, but they have seen a fall or two
beforethis."—Chicago Commercial Advertiser.
We met a farmer, a day or two ago,
who was so hard pushed that he was on
his way to pawn his hoe. We told him
we were sorry to see his case so hopeless. "Hopeless!" ho exclaimed, "far
from it! You know the old motto, 'Hoe-
pawn, hope ever!'"—Yonkers Gazette.
A young and pretty girl stepped into
a shop where a epruee young man, who
had long been enamored, but dared not
speak, stood behind the counter selUng
drapery. In order to remain as long as
possible she cheapened everything, and
at last she said, " I believe you think I
am cheating you." " Oh, no," said the
youngster; " to me you are always fair."
."Well," whispered the lady, blushing,
as she laid an emphasis on the word,
" I would not stay so long bargaining if
you were not so dear."
We love to lie beneath the shade
a nd quaff the cooling lemonade;
We love to feel the ch- erf al ants
Crawl calmly up our summer pants;
We love to see the apple-worm,
Prone on our shirt-tront, squeain and squirm
We love to watch, with placid ej e,
The doodle-bug go tumbling by;
We Jove to hear. In d.stant bogs,
The rueful rumbling of the frogs; '
We ove to hear the slimy snake
Wind in and out the verdant brake;
We love to hear the crispy cry
Of bumble-bees bumb bumbling by;
We love to scant, upoa the air,
The balm of squash-bugs banning there.
With ivy trailing all the land,
And poison-o ik on every hand,
Far from the city's dusty strife,
How sweet to lead a rural life!
—St. Louis Journal.
Bapid Transit "in ^eW lovko.
Another new link in the great chain of
rapid transit has been completed. The
New York Elevated railroad, running up
on the east side of the city, was opened
recently to the pubUe. -Trains are
now running from the Grand Central
depot to the South Ferry, It is thought
that the east side road will prove less
noisy than that on the west side. In any
case, steam transit was a necessity for
the metropoUs, and, though the companies are in duty bound to do all they can
to abate the noise, yet individuals wiU
be compeUed to put tip with any unavoidable annoyance due to the presence
of the elevated railroads in view of the
benefits which they are destined to confer on the oommunity at large. The
horse car had its-day, and gave rise to
its annoyances, We now enter definitely upon the era of rapid transit,.-
wbiehj Tinfortunately, cannot be fie©
from annoyances of its own. No rose
3 without a. feora,-—Ifes* Ywh @?&pM®,