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VOL. I.
The last penny of the $100,000 which
Buffalo proposes to give as a prize to the
man who invents a feasible method of
harnessing the immense water power of
Niagara has been subscribed.
The total of anthracite coal for the
past year is put at 34,400,000 tons in
round numbers, exclusive of local sales
it the mines and colliery consumption.
The total for 1886, with which these
figures are to be compared, was 32,130,
362 gross tons. Crediting the present
year with an increase of 5 per cent, only,
will showupa total of 36,120,900 tons
for 1888.”_
Colonel George L. Perkins, Treasurci
of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad,
is the oldest railroad official in the Uni
ted States, and probably in the world.
He is ninety-nine years old, is six feet
two inches in height and stands as
straight as many men of thirty. Colonel
Perkins is the only surviver of the pas
sengers who steamed down the Hudson
in Fulton’s pioneer steamboat, the Cler
mont, on her trial trip.
Among the many expenses that AVall
street brokers have to face every year is
the item for flowers with which they
brighten and adorn their offices in the
Aletropolis. AVinter and summer, spring
and fall, huge bunches of expensive po
sies are kept on hand in many of tho at
tractive offices. It is reckoned that the
average expense for an office is $10 a day.
At dusk the office boys and lesser clerks
divide the flowers, and who knows but
some tender heart has had one or two
ecstatic 1 e ts at receiving some of them?
Late details of the Chinese floods
make the story one of the most terrible
in history. What was a beautiful,
populous district of 10,000 square miles
is now a rolling sea. At least 3.000,000
people are homeless and absolutely desti
tute of the barest necessaries of life,
while it is thought that the loss of life
will reach 750,000. Everything in the
way of figures is as yet. however, pure
speculation, with the chances of a total
morta'ity far greater than the present
estimate. Court and business circles in
Pekin, Canton and other centres, are
doing all la human power to cope with
the disaster.
The new industry in the South, which
lias been noted, develops another Use
for pine needles besides that of spread
ing an aromatic odor from the filling of a
pillow. One product of these needles is
a remarkably strong oil, claimed to pos
sess valuable medicinal properties; an
other is pine wool, which is bleached,
dyed and woven, this wool being a fleecy
brown mass, possessing a pleasant odoj
which gives it value as a moth destroyer
when employed in tbe form of carpet
lining; and to these is to be added an
other product made from this wool, viz.,
a strong, cheap matting, adapted for
halls, stairways and offices.
Alore than a hundred descendants in
Alihvaukee of Martin Kroeger, the oldest
man in Wisconsin, received their aged
relative at a party reunion recently, lie
is 114 years old and a native of Prussia.
He was a resident of Milwaukee from
1850 until three years ago. His eldest
son is 78 years old, and he has great
grandchildren 25 years old who have
children. He looks as though he were
about 00; goes about without a eane,
and is as clear-headed and jolly an old
man as there is in AVisconsin. He can
see very well without glasses, hear per
fectly, and has an unimpaired memory.
He was in the wagon train of Napoleon’s
army in its invasion of Russia, and tells
many a reminiscence of the campaign.
rpi American t . ivt, ,, ivator reters to the
tact that New Zealand is making a prac
tical effort to compete with America in
the supplying of cheese to the English
nd adds: j. ’Advices from New
Zealand 7 state that in the provinces of
Otago and Southland alone there are
twenty cheese factories operating
V, niag out each i season „„ . an
of fifty or sixty tons of cheese,
capable of doubling the production,
the other factor^ wrovinees Tn nneraLn there are also
1. ’ and ’
,, less extensive scale, the
on a
yield from both the north and
islands for the season ending
las* is estimated at nVinnt 1 'itm fnn« '
1 . cheese. ", I to last market ,
p year a was
for the whole output in New
and Australia, but this year the
" are lookinc f to Fnoland ® for a
arket , for , their surplus cheese. It will
be some time before there is an
factor in the competition with
American cheese, but it will be well for
„ oar cheesemakcrs , to bo forewarned, , , that ., ,
they may endeavor, by superior make
and quality, to still command the
markets,”
GRAY’S STATION, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1888-
THE END OF THE STORY.
You were standing alone in the silence,
When I passsed down the stair that night,
Alono with thoughts in the shadow,
Away from the fire’s soft light,
And never a greeting you gave mo,
Not a word your lips lot fall,
As 1 came from the light to your side, dear,
That night, in the old oak hall!
But I know, ah, so well, the secret
You fancied you kept unseen,
And I hated the pride that was standing
Like a shadow our hearts between.
&> I told you, that night, a story,
And you listened as in a spell,
Till 1 saw that you guessed the meaning
Of the story I tried to tell!
A ou fain would have silenced me then, dear;
To leave it untold were best—
Too late, for f learned, as you drew
To your heart, that you knew the rest?
And the shadow passed by from between us
Forevor, beyond recall,
As you whispered the end of the story
That night, in the old oak hall!
~G, Clifton Bingham,
PLAIN MARY JANE,
liY MAltUAUET E, SANGSTER.
T inc , uarterets ,, were conspicuous for
tneir pretty names, which they always
wrote m lull, even before a revolution in
taste imvt put Bessie, Nellie and Madge
onto! lasluou everywhere, except as pet
names to be used at home. There were
Clementina, Gladys, Marguerite and
Lilian among the girls, and
dore, Reginald, Maximilian and Francis
helix among the boys, and then came
No. it,with Francis Felix out of kilts,and
Clementina beginning to go into society,
Airs. Carteret had always had the naming
of her brood, but Mr. Carteret, holding
the blanketed bundle in his arms and
surveying dared the wrinkled, rosy face, do
that it was liis turn at last.
‘I shall call this daughter plain Afary
Jane, after her Grandmother Jenkins,”
he declared, “and, my dear, if ever we
have another son, his name shall be
John, you may make up your mind to
that.”
They' never did have another son, how
ever, and Airs. Carteret was spared the
humiliation of hearing a boy of hers sa
luted as Jack on the street or recorded
as comrades. Johnny on the baseball score of his
Alary Jane was a round, rosy-poly
child, sturdy and strong, and as differ
ent. from her brothers and sisters as if
she were no relation to them. Her
mother, lying lanquid on the sofa with a
novel in her hand, was distressed at the
air of rude health which distinguished
her youngest, and wonuered why so
great when an alMiotion should have come to
her, Afary Jane declared that she
preferred making puddings to practicing
her scales, and would rather mend the
stockings for the than paint cups and saucers
decorative art stoic. It had come
to teen, pass, that by the time Alary Jane was six
the family circumstances were
not what they had been when Gladys
and Alargueritc were growing up. IIow
it had happened Air. Carteret could not
explain, * but vear bv uy year voir bk jus law law husi on si
Sfadi „ i i ?“
none with of little the outside" farn^y fell the office to" $£ dfl
five never' limi’ 01 -’ C XZ*U>’ v CC,>t , somc l ' n F 0< | £ uc :
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ins mi .,uhith would have astonished
tfie neighbors, had they dreamed of their
possibility. The boys were nice fellows,
weii-bred and agreeable, but withuut a
particle or push; the girls were elegant
am. accomplished, judged by a finishing
scnool ftamlard; yet Clementina’s piano,
Lilians embroidery, Gladys’s wafer-colors
and Aiargueritc’s French and German
" were v: - each and all sources of expense, and
not one, had either young lady chosen to
use her skill, would have brought in
enough to pay for decent gowns and
decorative gloves.. Lilian art, only in patiently while tried selling the
once a a
cusniouor hot-house a flowers card-case, on which occasion
in profusion always
adorned the mother’s table and the
family had ice cream for dessert.
Meanwhile Mrs. Carteret grew more
and more fretful, languid and depressed,
and Air. Carteret’s face took on a hunted,
anxious look, which if it troubled nobody
else distressed the heart of his daughter
Alary Jane.
lf “Papa’s little girl” | she had called her
Be as soon a3 s i0 CO ufil speak plainly,
and “papa's little girl” she remained
when her brown hair was brushed
sm0 °thly back from a compact, sensible
forehead, and her gray eyes looked
straight on the world with the courage
of a young woman who meant to make
her way, asking no odds on account of
youth “Who or sex. happy-faced
is that girl who.so
0 ft en W alks down the street with old
Carteret?” said a merchant one day,
standing in his door toward and watching Mr. the
progress of the two Carter
at ’ 8ollice -
“That,” said the person addressed, “is .
fiis daughter—plain Alary .Jane they call
her, 1 believe. Fhe has taken the place
of otfiCe boy for the old gentleman just
at present, and it’s no doubt a great re
lief, for even that expense is a burden
when a man's funds are as low as Carter
et’s “Whew!” chronically are.” with
said the merchant, a
,on £ whistle. “I didn’t know that
Carteret ngh had a the daughter who knew
6n0 Had curiosity to play led part the of critic office bov." follow
to
the pair he would have seen Alary Jane—
her stiff dress covered with a brown linen
wrap, f ’ her hair enveloped in a hands cap, long
, oos e gloves Meeting dusting, her ihings and
arms—sweeping, rights, singing setting the while:
to a merry tune
then later, copying legal documents and
looking ing him, up references for her father, serv
telligence indeed, with a quickness, in
and interest unknown to the
tribe of office boys.
“I hope no one among our friends will
ever find out that papa allows Mary Jane
(o Gladys go so deprecatingly, familiarly to the office,” sighed
brush daintily into the lemon-yellow as she dipped with her
which she was touching a withered leaf.
“ft’s not good form!” raid Reginald,
posing of before the glass to vry the effect
bangs for his patrician countenance.
“Papa has always spoiled Mary Jane,”
echoed Mrs. Cateret, regarding her son
with complacent satisfaction.
“There is a manishness about Mary
Jane which is singularly unlike the
gentility remarked of the women of our family,”
Clementine, Marguerite. who had been married
for
several years, and who had less tolera
tion than formerly for the Carteret de
ficiency in the exchequer, threw cold
water on the general disfavor by saying,
in a matter of fact way:
“()b! well, girls, and mamma, you
know very well that nobody will ever
choose 51 ary Jane for her beauty, and if
she can help papa, for goodness sake let
her do it. Jerome says that papa must
have managed dreadfully to let affairs
drift as they have, and I agree with
him.”
The housekeeping had fallen a good
deal into the hands of Mary Jane. She
had a perfect genius lor contriving
ragouts and fncasees out of (he left
overs and fragments: slie would buy a
delicious “soup-piece” pot-au-feu, for a few and cents for and watching make a
as
the weekly bills and cutting off a cent
here and a sixpence there her talent was
marvelous. Plebeian if you choose, but
nevertheless a convenient and comfort
able talent for the child ol an impe
cunious parent.
But the day came when not all Alary
Jane’s magic could evolve dinners out of
nothing. tion beyond Invention she had, but crea
was her powers, and not all
her willing service, diligent and faithful
as it was, could bring business enough
to poor Air. Carteret to more than pay
his office rent. Airs. Carteret, poor lady,
cried till her eyes were red, but
good with did that do ? Lilian went to live
Clementine. Marguerite thought
she would try writing for the press under
Hie impression that here was an easy
road to fame and iortunc—so
Die, H>o, and needing so little outlay—
for couldn’t she throw off poems and
stories at a sitting if she could only find
ari editor to pay for them ? Two of the
boys went off on a ranch in the train of
an English nobleman they and the others
were llUle at work, though tliau were able to
do more supjort themselves,
Mal 7 Jane determined to improve the
situation, . but tho do question which was bring how?
AVhat could she would
ght mone y? thought, Buy after day, night after
n, ®he but could fix upon
nothing definite. Alcan while she mended
and darned, turned curtains and furni
* uro covering, kept the house bright
and shining, and found herself repaid by
sccln " her father lose the discouraged
cheerfulness. expression which had overlaid his-natural
faculty,” . "l nu „ *! be avc said .inherited day. the “We Jenkins Car
•” one
, Je innthei-’s rSS, iwink tin.
Truemans, lacking wts in but
my mother’s mother Mary Jane Jen
££ P?* 8 ™ a ~ a “ on S a
lenkins f-icnUv or Wkwi Carteret 4t» tie mince
»"» •'“» to coin
She was mounted on a step ladder re
hanging a portiere, which she had spent
hours visitor in repairing announced. and freshening, when
a was It was a certain
Airs. Despard, an old find fashionable
friend, and Maria, now maid-of-all work,
hurried from her tubs to open the door,
and ushered her, without ceremony, into
the room where the young mistress was
busy with her amateur upholstery.
rite, “For pity’s sake!” ejaculated Alargue
in the chamber above. “Alary Jane
is in tire middle of the work niul she’ll
never apologize. I will not go down.”
“Afary Jane mortifies me every day of
my life,” foamed Mis. Carteret, brushing
her thin hair and taking her best lace
handkerchief from the bureau drawer.
“I wish,” site continued, sorrowfully,
“that dear Mrs. Despar<1 had called
when the drawing room was somewhat
in shadow. Alary Jane has no doubt
admitted floods of light and every
bare line in the carpet and all the
shifts will show, and oh! it is hard to
let the world know how poor we are 1”
Thus tragically the mother and daugli
ter above stairs regarded each other,
while below Alary Jane having tripped
from the step-ladder, shaken out the por
tiere and established the caller in a great
easy chair with a hassock at her feet and
her back to the light, a screen between
her and the bit of lire in the grate was
finding with herself all at once face to face
ber opportunity.
“Is it possible, my dear, that you can
find such things yourself?” exclaimed
Airs. Despard. “Do pardon me, but
neither for love nor money do I know
wi ieTt! U) ll,ld f ”‘ e "ho can take
stitches . when they are needed, arrange
my pretty things daintily, drape a Jam
brequin daughter and generally done see to what hail my
would have if she
lived. Yon know I lost Afignori wh <!n
she was the only two. You and she were
born in same month with the April
violets, Alary Jane.”
How it came about Alary Jane could
not have told, but before Mrs. Carteret
entered the parlor a compact was made
and the Despard portieres and furniture
were all to pass in review before the
girl s bright eyes the next day afternoon.
‘ You will let me mv you, my dear
child? said the lady, in a soft aside, as
she went away.
Hut this plain Alary Jane was not sensitive
«n_ point. Flic said, in licr usual
voice:
“Certainly, Mrs. Despard, if I am able
to.serve price, but you I will charge yon a fair
you must not count upon me
until you find out whether or not I can
really be of use.”
Mrs. Carteret exclained as the door
closed:
“ 1 hat I should have lived to see this
day. Mary Jane! Mary Jane! What
will people think of you ?”
“Oh, my dear little mother, what mat
ters it what they may think if only they
will find my work good of its kind and
pay me a living price for it.”
It was not many weeks before Mary
Jane had all she wanted to do. A dozen
families were in need of precisely such
helpful assistance ss she could render,
and she had her regular days and went
from one to another, gradually coming
to be regarded as a household oracle.
For, were there stains on the linen, Mary
Jane could remove them; was a bit of
lace frayed, it her deft hands could re
store to its primitive freshness; did a
lady there need a hat for reception or opera
and was no time to send for a
French miliucr, here was Mary Jane
with magic in her finger-tips, and give
her a few ends of ribbon, a flower or two
and a bit of tinsel, and there you were.
File could mend a three-cornered rent
so that you would not see the
scar of her repairing, and as for table
cloths flic and skill napkins,‘she had the patience
an d of a medical man in rcstor
j U g them when they had begun to go.
The Jenkins faculty stood hoi- in stead,
in these days, and though Mamma
Carteret fumed, she was so environed
with new comforts that she grew resigned
in spite Carteret,with of aristocratic pro nulire, while
openly Papa boasted ever-incrcasin«' pride,
of this business like
daughter. “Papa’s little girl,” mean
while, was s > happy and busy, and sue
cessful, that she began to look beautiful,
!UK misnomer 1 “plain Alary Jane” seemed like a
in earnest,
One day she was looking over the
morning paper, when her eyes fell upon
a paragraph which set her wits to work
in earnest. 8 ho drew her father aside,
and, hand, smoothing his which dear had old head with
ber a baud a good deal
of suddenly magnetism said: in its tender touch, she
“Papa, dear, wouldn’t you like to take
, ne on an excursion?”
“Where, my darling,” was the sur
prised reu'v. Provident Alary Jane wns
seldom acinous that money should he
spent on jaunting for pleasure. Was she
tired, he go|>rt? wondered,and would an outiug
do her But there was no hint, of
fatigue in'the wide-open childish gaze,
in tradietim' tho lips he with laughing their forceful if set, con
eyes,as to pro
test titer A#, rlj viftne Was a woman for all
her girlish fun and freedom,
“j <jo think, papa, ” said Alary Jane,
faking his breath away by her audacity,
“that you and l ought to do something in
about that cranberry sin swamp and a.shame of ours that
New Jersey. It’s a
jt isn’t paying us something, instead of
being a-co -t which we dread whenever
it's time to pay the taxes. And so, dear,
I propose that we go and sec what is to
be done.”
1 U1 . ’® " a f several several years years vro a 0 o. Tliis
winter . the Carteret ship, under the
of plain Mary Jane, finds itself
SsVls"itf ZZuutC^il hSqnaTS. The u»h"£S ft
little office, where Miss Carteret takes
«*«■«' (™»'wl*I'»l'e >cm|eo»l. men
me to fulfill an engagement nor ever
breaking her word,
“I tell you what, addressing girls,” says wife Cletnen- and
tine’s husband, used his
her sister, “you all to be ashamed
of plain little Mary Jane, but what a brick
the child has turned out!”
“ft’s the Jenkins faculty!” says Papa
Carteret, smiling. doctrine,”
“it's Emerson’s says poor
Marguerite, whose literary work has not
been appreciated. ‘“Get your brick
ready for tho wall.’ I begin to see thatl,
for one, have been all these years work
fag away at the wrong brick.”—P/n’fa
dclphin Time-.
__________ "'
*' s<! .. 1 ‘irpedoes . in . v Naval ,
Wtiiiaie.
Francis Edgar Bhcpperd is said to have
been the first man to use the torpedo in
naval warfare, lie came of an old North
Carolina family, and was a graduate of
the Naval Academy. and He entered resigned the when
his State seceded, Con
federate Navy. Twenty-five years ago
federate Shepperd, Navy, then blew a Captain the United in the States Con
up old-fashioned
gunboat fixed torpedo Cairo fastened with an the bottom of
to
the Mississippi. Lieutenant-Commander,
now Rear Admiral, Thomas O. Selfridge,
was in command of the Cairo, lie and
his men were badly shaken, but no one
was killed or seriously injured. Captain
Shepnerd, who was lying on the bank
watching the explosion, made up his
mind then and there that that was a
cowardly way have of fighting, and that lie he
would not any more of it.
never recently used in Georgetown, another torpedo. and He buried died
was
near Philadelphia .—Noe York Bun.
Weliding CeIelirations.
The following list shows the order in
which the various wedding celebrations
properly At the end come: of the first year—Cotton wed
(li ?£
Second y^r/v^tiLredJiin^ year-Paper wedding.
Lm
Seventh vear—Woolen wedding.
Tenth year—Tin wedding.
Twelfth year Silk and file linen wedding,
Fifteenth year—Crystal wedding.
Twentieth year—China wedding.
Twenty Thirtieth filth vear—Biher wedding.
Fortieth year--Pearl wedding.
Fiftieth year— —Golden Ruby wedding. wedding.
year
Seventy-fifth year— Diamond wedding.
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
A Hint, to tlio Housewife.
At. this season of flic year stewed
apples, ticles pears and plums are favorite ar
of diet. For breakfast or luncheon,
in the dining-room or in the nursery,
there arc few table dishes more whole
some and more delicious than well
slewed fruit served up with cream or
custard. There are many persons, how
ever, who cannot cat it, on account
citlier of tbe acidity of the fruit or the
excess of sugar necessary to make it pain
table Sipr does not of course^ conn
teract acidity; it only disguises it, and
its use in large quantities is calculated to
retard digestion. The housewife may,
therefore, be grateful for the reminder
carbonate that a pinch—a of soda, very sprinkled small pinch—of the
over
fruit previously to cooking, will save
sugar, and will render tho dish at once
more palatable (Ural and more wholesome.—
British. M< Journal.
Mutton Suotasa House hold Homed V
It is very vexing and annoying, in
deed, to have one’s lips break out with
cold sores, but, like the measles, it is far
better to strike out than to strike in. A
drop the of warm night, mutton suet applied retiring, to
sores at just before
will soon cause them to disappear. This
is lips also and an chapped excellent hands, remedy It for should parched be
applied at night in the liquid state, and
well rubbed and heated in before a brisk
fire, which often cause» a smarting
sensation, but the roughest of hands, by
this treatment, will often he restored to
their natural condition by one applica
tion. If every one could but know the
healing properties of so simple a tiling
as a little mutton suet, no housekeeper
would ever be without it.. Get a little
from your butcher, try it out yourself, ready
run into small cakes and put away
for use. For cuts and bruises it is
children almost indispcusible, and where the.veare of
and bruises. always there are deep plenty gash cuts that
Alany a into
would have frightmed most women
sending for a physician at once, I have
healed with no other remedies than a
little mutton suet and plenty of good be
castilc soap. A wound should always
kept clean, and the bandages changed drench
everyday, or every other day. A
ing of that warm soap lie obtained suds from is the purest only
soiqi can not
cleansing but healing; then cover tbe
surface of the wound with a bit of old
white miisliu dipped into melted mutton
suet. Renew the drenching and changed, the suet
every time the bandages are
and you will tic astonished to see how
rapidly Herald the Health. ugliest wound will heal.—
of
“Good Cheer” lteCIpcs.
Potato Cakes. —Take cold mashed
potatoes,mix if two beaten flour eggs the with hands them, and
season into necessary, oblong cakes. Fry in beef
make
drippings and butter. Turn carefully
when browned on the under side.
Corn-meat. Muffins.— One cup of
meal, one of flour, one and one-half cups
of sweet milk, a liltlo salt, a tablespoon
fid of white sugar, one egg, a piece of
butter the size of a walnut, one scant
spoonfuls teaspoonful of of soda, of t wo scant tea
cream tartar, or two
heaping teaspoonfuls of baking-powder.
Hake in muffin tins.
Bean 8oui*. Take one teacup of dry
beans, par-boil until the skins will roll
up when you blow them. Drain, and
add two quarts of boiling water and a
little salt. Cook one hour and a half,
when there should be about a pint of
water on them. To this add one cup of
sweet cream about live minutes before
serving. Children like this very much
I think farmers’ wives are very unwise
in is cheaper not using and more cream wholesome in cocking. than It
more
butter.
Chicken Salad Without Oil.—
Mince fine tho white meat of cold,boiled
chicken, take one and a half times as
much celery in bulk, having cut in
pieces a quarter of an inch long; pre
pare a dressing of three eggs beaten light,
one-fourth cup melted butter, one-half
cup each of cream and vinegar, a half
tablespoon each of made mustard and
sugar, with salt and pepper to taste.
Mix well and put in a dish over boiling
water, stirring constantly till it thickens
like custard. Four it over the salad
when cold, and oniy a short time before
using.
New Way to Cook Mutton.— Put
the leg of mutton in an uncovered stew
pan with a wine-glass of water on a brisk
lire. When the water has evaporated
and the mutton is a good color pour with over
it h onion, wine-glassful of leaves, stock,seasoning three of
an two bay sprigs
parsley, a little thyme, salt, pepper and
other spices to taste. Cover the stew
pan and let the contents simmer until
the mutton is done. Before serving
strain the gravy, mix with it half a pint
of cream and set it on tine fire. Let it
boil up once and thicken it with two
yolks of eggs. Dish the mutton: pour
the sauce over it and serve.
Beef Fhitticus.—O ne pound of cold
roast beef, ten ounces of Hour, one tea
cupful of (the water, whites), two ounces of butter,
two eggs pepper and salt,
beef dripping. Shred the beef as finely
is possible, and season to taste with pep
per and salt; make a smooth baiter with
the flour ami water, blending them well
together, fwhich should and stirring in the butter
first be melted); whisk
the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth,
and add them to the batter, and lastly
put in the beef. Stir all well together,
ad I’-* -,„e beef dripping boiling
hot . fry the fritters this,
m a pan. m
but do not drop too reduces much of tbe batter
ja atone time, as it the tempera
ture 111 of the 1 fat lut ’ ' which v ‘“ l in trvino ‘"U *"! should l"* 1
n(!V,:r , •«’ a,i ,, " w ‘- , > to get below the boiling
point. drain Fry to a nice brown, and when
done well and serve on a folded
nankin *
NO. 18.
UNCERTAINTIES*
Pink linen bonftefp •
Pink cotton gonu, «■
Boses printed on it.
Hands burnt brown.
O, blitho were all the piping birds, and th«
golden belted boos,
And blithe sang she on the doorstep, with her
apron full of peas.
Bound of scythe and mowing,
Where buttorenps grow tall;
Bound of red kino lowing,
Anil early milkmaid’s call,
g ho on tho doorstep, with the
young peas in her lap.
And he camo whistling up tho lano, with tho
iblions in his cap.
“ You called mo a bad penny
That wouldn’t bo sent away—
But here’s a good-bye to you, Jenny,
For many and many a day.
There’s talk of cannon and killing
Nay, never turn so white!
And I’ve taken the King’s shilling—
I took it last night.”
Oh, merry, merry piped tho thrushes up in
the cherry tree,
But dumb she sat on tho doorstop, and out
through the gate went he.
Scent of liny and summer;
Bed evening sky;
Noise of the fife and drummer;
Men marching by.
Tho hay will bo carrried presently, and tho
cherries gathered nil,
4ml the corn stands yellow in tho shocks,
and the leaves begin to fall.
Berhaps some evening after,
With no more song of thrush.
The lads will cease their laughter,
And tho maids their chatter hush;
And word of blood and battle
Will mix with the sound of the find.
And lowing of the eatttle.
And clink of the milking pnii;
And one will read half fearful
A fist of names aloud;
And a few wifi stagger fearful
Out of tho little crowd;
And she, perhaps, half doubting,
Half knowing why she came,
Wifi stand among them pouting,
And bear, perhaps, his name—
Will weep, perhaps, a little, as she wanders
up the lano,
And wish one summer morning were all to
do again. — Macmillan.
PlTll AND POINT.
Yes girls, this is leap year, lmt it is
well lo look before you leap,—- lliwjham
ton Jtrpuhliran.
Strange as it may apper, it is usually a
cold day for a man when he is “fired.”
- Boston Courier.
I Map till the last armed male expires;
Leap for your husbands and for sires;
Leap fora chance to build the fires,
Fair ones throughout tho land!
—Oil City Hlizzaril.,
A South Carolina paper tells of a
farmer in that State who has been at tho
plow for sixty-eight years, it is time to
call the old man to dinner .—Alta Cali
fur n in.
The young man who would waste
time kissing ngirl’s hand would eat tho
brown paper bag and leave the hot
house grapes for some one else.— Burner
villa Journal,
The new Harlem Police Vagrant--“That Magistrate—
“What is your name?”
show* you are a green hand at the busi
ness. All your predecessors Mercury. knew my
name.- — Ncm York
“What is the most religious portion of
the body?” asked Maudie the othe'r day.
And no one guessing the answer, she
told it: “The head, because it is be
tween two temples.”— Jeir.is'i Messenger.
Life is re'd, life is earnest, its goal;
And the grave is not
Dust tlion btiycst, dust of the thou coal. burnest,
That was s, oken
—Nebraska State Journal.
As soon as the German Crown Prince
was “given up” by the doctors lie began
to grow better. This shows that the
doctors can euro a man if they only go
about it in tho right way. -Chicago
Times.
Mr. Taliaforo, of Atlanta, Ga., says
that ho has solved the ho; problem tho conceit of per- of
petual motion. though Ho, he the only
some men. As was
man in America with a ten year old boy.
Burdette.
An advertisement reads: “Wanted, a
young man to be partly out of doors and
partly behind the counter,’’ and a young
lady has written to ask: “What will b*
the result when the door slums '?”—Oil
City BuzzurJ.
Tons of Diamonds.
Burely even Bindbad the Bailor never
ventured to compute his diamonds by tho
ton. Six and a half tons of diamonds,
valued at about t’4 0,000,000, are reported Africa*
to have been extracted from four
mines alone in the course of the last few
years. The other great diamond field of
the world is India, also a British posses
sion. Everybody knows that Amster
dam has hitherto been the center of th«
diamond-cutting industry of the world,
and in former times there was a good
reason for tliis, as in London, at least,’
the industry was extinct. But every
body probably does not know that of
late years efforts have been successfully
made to reintroduce diamond cutting in
England, and that English several cutters prize have
beaten the Dutch in recent
competitions. trade—the Considering United the enormous
value of the States
alone, it is calculated, diamonds requires .1"!, 000,000
worth of cut per annum—care
should bo taken that England, English and diamonds
should be cut in not bo
sent either to Amsterdam or to Antwerp
and Paris, which have lately endeavored
to secure a portion of the Dutch trade.—
Hnglish Paper.
