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mE OLD GRINDSTONE.
Kind tho old HiIiik'b broken,
mil ItH bench In torn (mint;
7icn I wiih but n sapling
Of a boy. It brolto my heart.
There It Hch, dismantled, ruined,
And 'tin Joy to koo It prone,
That lnntruinent of torture,
Tho old grindstone.
1 stand upon lt segments
Nearly burled whorw they lie
And memory of th:it iiiigiilnh
Wrings a tear Into my e. e.
I am Kind tho days of sorrow,
That It brought to mo, linvo Mown,
And I can Htand and Htamp upon
Tho old KtliKlfctonc.
Bo many dnyH In summer,
When tho IIhIi were biting Jlno,
I've yearned to tantullzc them
With my brand-new hook and lino,
Hut liad to wort the handle
Until wearied to the bone,
And turn, till I wan dizzy,
Tho old gilndHtono.
At noontime, In the lmylnp,
When tho dark and grassy shado
"Wiis cooling and InvltlriK,
I have felt, my color fudo
When father, or big brother,
Would call, In gruffest tone:
"Como here, you Hcnmp, and turn awhllo
Tho old grlndijtonol"
3'vo made It vvlilrz and wobble
Till the blndo It ground would ring;
And when It needed water,
I must bring that from the spilng;
Hut vvhon 1 thought of resting,
1 was "Just a lazy drone,"
For It seemed I was tho Blavellng
Of tho old grindstone.
Tho ytai.4 are very many
Since tho trials of my youth,
And, though I'vo wished them back again,
To tell tho honcBt tiuth
I think I'd rather bear tho Ills
Along my pathway strewn,
Then bo a boy and turn again
Tho old grindstone.
William I Voucher, In Chicago Tlmcfl
llcrald. IIElt SILVER WEDDING.
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Mill lu jM Mtr
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V13 been thlnkin',
Klvit'y," said Aunt
llnunnh, in the
Ll cnliu iind placid
fij? Aoieo which hurt
smoothed ho many
vnuirli iiloccs in
the com he of n 50
r years pilgrimage,
fr "I' lw.,.11 Hili.l.-lli
that it'll be S."
years come next
Wednesday since
mo and your Un
do Jed wiib mar
ried, ami if he'd n
been spared, we'd
thoy's presents, ly, I don't know of
tiny man that ever dcsoived better of
his nolghboiH than lie did."
Aunt llannnh's voice faitcied a lit
tlt, but she lmd taken t lie flist step
on what she felt to be dangoious
ground, and was not going to recede.
"What if they is piesonts, Dlviry?
I don't nsk 'em to ljrlng none, no
more'n it bride does when who asks
you to the wcddlu'; but 1 guess the
bAdo don't li e these days hat w ouldn't
be dreadful diHiippointed if she didn't
get none: and I own I'd be some dis
appointed, too. 1 like pretty tilings"
Aunt Hannah's voice took a wistful
tone "mi I've never had none only
what I nlrnt. Jed would 'a got me all
I wanted if he'd only lived; but, you
sec, when c was married 'twii'n'tthe
fashion to gho weddin presents. Why,
nil I had was half a do.en teaspoons
your grandma gave me, and n pair of
claw sugar-tongs your orand-Aunt
l'cck let' me in her will. An' look at
Lldyt Why, she hud more things to
start with than me an' your mother
've had in all our lives. Then, if I say
it, as I shouldn't, I've always done my
share; tlieie ain't a bride married in
Harannc Corners thesu SO years that I
haven't look her KMiiothln', if 'twa'n't
more n a set of mats or a crocheted tidy,
and lots of times 'twas stoic things.
An' it does Eeeni, (hough 1 wouldn't
say it to everyone, that it ain't hardly
fair that, jest because I was left alone
this way, I shouldn't have none of the
pleasant things 1 might have had if
I'd had all the rest. An' so, Elviry,
I've made up my mind that there ain't
any earthly reason why I shouldn't
have ti silver weddin', an' I'm a-goin' to
have one."
Whatever misgivings Elvira might
have felt when the project was ilist
disclosed had melted away in the
warmth of her aunt's feeling; and,
knowing that the slowly matured re
solves of a placid untitle are haid to
shake, and trusting to the real legard
of the neighborhood for the kindly,
helpful widow, whose social and pleasure-loving
temperament hud before now
exposed her to the criticism of her
friends without ltnlly nireeting their
liking, she offered no objection, and,
yielding a ready assent to the plan,
was soon in the midst of a delightful
discussion of details, in which Aunt
Hannah's too often repressed love of
hocial functions found full expres
sion.
Early on the following afternoon
Aunt Hannah started out to give her
imitations with a faint ilusli on hei
cheeks, by way of tribute to the con
ventional usage she might be trans
gressing, but with a little foi inula
prepared, which included no explana
tion and permitted no comment. The
invitation to be piosent at the 25 1 h
anniversary of her marriage with Mi.
Jedidiah Hounds wasascaiefuHy word
well set up to have ft silver I menn a
wooden weddin' myself."
"Well, why not? Ain't you expect
in' to, some timu?" asked Mrs. I'ns
com, the minister's wife, in her most
conciliatory tones.
At tills Miss Trlndle preened her
milled feathers, smoothed her black
alpaca apron, and ceased from further
troubling for the moment, in view of
future possibilities.
"What do you s'pose Deacon Whitc'll
say to it?" asked Widow Jenkins,
glviug a careless air to her question
by stopping in the midst of it to shake
out the garment she had just com
pleted. "' Hannah Hounds ain't troubled
herself about what Deacon White's said
all these years he's been n-runnin'
after her, 'tolti't likely she'll begin
now!" responded Mrs. Abijah Hounds,
who, though she was severe enough in
private, on Hannah's easy-going ways,
pink roses and pink cheeks, yet in
public never forgot that she had been
Abljah's brother's wife.
Mrs. Jenkins pursed her lips nnd
was about to make a retort, when Mrs.
Hnscom bethought herself of asking
who wn Mis. Hounds' grandmother on
her mother's side, and in less than five
minutes the company, led by two or
three of the older women, was launched
ire UjP
sun iiunniHD fjiom nousn to
house.
had ft silver weddin'. 1 ain't never
had any weddin' only tho first one."
Here Aunt Hannah dropped her knit
ting needles, which had been clicking
cheerfully, as she sat on the fiont door
step in the Hummer twilight, pleasantly
conscious of the neat little fiont yaul
with its straight paths bordered witli
June roses and tree honeysuckles, and
lifting her eyes to tho blue hills which
shut in tho far horizon, she saw again
youth and-lovc nnd hope. Hut tho
touch of old Hover's nose suddenly
piessed close upon her knee, seeking a
friendly hand, brought her back to
earth again; and with a sigh, in which
regiet was tenipeied by contentment.
Aunt Hannah turned again to Elvira,
mid, sure of sympathy from her fn
voiito niece, piooecdcd to unfold her
plan.
"You know, Elviry," she said, "that
your Unelo .led didn't live but three
ytnrs after we was married, so wo
couldn't have lcep' an annivcisary, even
if't hnl been tho fashion then. Not
but I've thought of him, 1 guess, just
us often as if we'd had a wooden wed
din', and a tin one, tvud all tho rest of,
'cm." f
Here Aunt Hnnnah's needles clicked
a little faster. She was thinking of
bomu lojuiivks that had been made
when, five years after Jed's untimely
death, she went to meeting one Sunday
with some pink loses in her bonnets
roses which matched her cheeks very
well at that time, and still matched her
disposition.
"I guess they can't say much about
that," said Elvira, "seeing that every
one knows you might have had Deacon
White or Minister Stebbins any day if
you'd say the woid."
"Well, well, child," said Aunt linn
nnh, with a conscious smile, "that's
neither heie nor there; but seeing's 1
didn't have 'em, seems to mo it'tf rut her
hard that, jest because Jed died so un
timely, wo shouldn't have any anniver
BJiries like tho lest of folks. He'd liked
'cm he always liked company; wo wius
of one mind about that, as vv o was about
most things; an' 1 know, if he was here
to-day, he'd say: 'Hannah, you jest
go ahead an' have it.' And so, Elviry,
I'm a-goin' to." This was said with
some deciHlon, and then, .as if to fote
ctnll any possible objections, AuntHnn
nuh hurried on: "1 haven't had any
company for most four years not
since your bister Lidy wan married,
Mid 1 give her a wind-on'. Of course,
I've had bcwin' fcticiety, and done my
r.hnre in chuich and tempetance (loin's,
but, -oniehow. it didn t seem jest the
right thing for me, a widow woman, to
start up and asic uie neignuors, men
Lnd Avomen folks both, to jest a party.
But tills Is dltVerent: It seems as if Jed
.as bort of giviu' it with me, an' if
ed as If she had studied it in the piige.-,
of the "Home Manual," as she prob
ably had; and only waiting to add that
she should bo "dreadful disappointed
if they didn't all come,'" she hurried
from hoiibu to house. This unwonted
haste on tho part of leisurely Mrs.
Hounds might have made her neighbors
suspect that she was a little uneasy
herself as to the impression her invita
tions might produce, but she gave no
other grounds for such a suspicion;
and, indeed, when she reached home,
after having made the circuit of the
neighborhood, the plcas.intstir of action
had taken possession of her, and she
set about her preparations for the great
event with as untroubled a mind ns
if slio wcie planning for a church
"sugar party." The momentous ques
tion now was whether the "entertain
ment" should be confined to the ele
gant but unsatisfying ice-cream and
sweet cake, or should boldly cater to
tho tastes of the st longer sex by ad
mitting the golden doughnut and the
lluky pic.
The next day was Sat m day, the day
when the "Corners" went to the village
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"WHAT ir
THICY IS
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ritESENTS.
to do its "trading." It was well that
Mrs. Hound's invitation had been al
ready given that is, it was well for
those who did not wish to go empty
handed to a silver wedding. Who shall
say that she had foicseeu this ditli
eulty, and provided for it?
It was also the day on which the sew
ing society met; and to-day, for the
first time in many years, Mrs. Hounds
was absent.
"tlittin' baked up for the silver wed
din', I suppose?" said thin little Miss
Prindle, the village dressmaker, with
a snort of disapproval, "Most rldlc'lous
thing I ever h?erd ot; why, I might ua
on a sen of reminiscence and gen
ealogical discussion, in which Aunt
Hannah and her party were soon lost
sight of.
The men at "the store" had their
say, too, but they were accustomed
to let their "women folks" settle mat
ters of etiquette; so the question passed
with ft joke or two, mostly leveled at
Dexcou White, who, balanced on a
bench on the little stoop that ran ncioss
the front of the store, his shoulders
propped against the wall and his hat
pulled well down over his eyes, received
them in silence, as one who could af
ford to l"t others laugh.
Wednesday morning Aunt Hannah
was up witli the dawn, and by five
o'clock, when Elvira, came hurrying
fiom school, every room in the little
houso was not only spotless, but had
received every decoration which Aunt
Hannah's fertile brain could devise.
"I don't know but it looks sort of fool
ish," she said, as she led Elvira from
the summer kitchen to the parlor
chamber. "What do you think?"
"1 think it's just lovely," said Elvha,
and Aunt Hannah beamed.
If Aunt" llnnnah couldn't "bank"
her mantles with chrysanthemums,
she had filled every fireplace, and even
tho kitchen sink, with asparagus
boughs. Long sprays of asparagus hung
from every ceiling to attiaet any fly
that dared to ventuie in, and thewhite-
and-gilt china and red Hohemlan glass
vases had all been caiefully filled witli
tight bunches of many-colored flowers.
Hut the decorations were not confined
to natural flowers. Crepe paper lamp
shades had not yet reached the "Cor
ners," or were considered too strik
ing an innovation to lie adopted by staid
people like Aunt Hannah; butlifc-sie
parasols cunningly fashioned of pink-and-wliite
tissue paper were suspended
beneath tho looking-glass in the par
lor; and an chiboiatc pagoda framed
of perforated eaidboaid and decorated
with glass beads, which had once taken
a pri.e at the county agricultural fair,
occupied a conspicuous position on a
small round black walnut table. Tidies
of every si.e and discriptiop were
pinii'd on every available spot; braided
cloth mats, or hit-or-nilss rag rugs,
made islands on the painted floors,
except in the parlor, where a "three
ply" laid over a liberal sprinkling of
straw gave one the sensation of tread
ing on waves; the photographs of the
dilTeient members of tho family in
their oval, black-varnished frames, with
n line of gilt-beading, wcie draped In
yellow tarletau; so was tho ancient
painting on velvet, done by Aunt Han
nah's mother in her youth, and icpre
sentingan elegant classic female weep
ing over a. tomb. In shoit, everything
that was possible had been done to
bring the little houso to tho highest
pi tell of perfection.
Aunt llnnnah heiself was ladlant in
n steel-gray poplin, with some white
lace mound her neck and crossed on
her ample bosom. "It was mother's
lace," she told Elvira. "Mother and
1 favored each other, and w always
picked the same patterns. I'd have
liked," slio continued, with a gentle
sigh, "to linve woie one of the di esses
I had when I wnsinnrrL'd; 'twouldn't
have seemed no moie'n right, consid
ering Jed; but, goodness knows, I
couldn't any more have got into it than
I could a' flew."
Just then came a knock nt the front
door, which stood open to the sum
mer air, and Elvira hastened to take,
from n little boy ft box which came
"with Mr. and Mrs. Hascom's com
pliments." "Now, ain't that just like Mis'
Hr.scom?" said Aunt Hannah, when the
parcel was at last undone. "She does
bent all; some folks might have known
I wanted a parlor clock till doomsday
an' they'd a-got me a album instid; but
die never makes ft mistake."
Indeed, in Aunt Hannah's present
mood not much could come amiss;
and as guests and presents arrived,
ench was more welcome than tho other.
To be sure, when Mrs. Jenkins, osten
tatiously mourning in bomba.ine and
lMHty oi ape, arrived, bringing with her
iv framed worsted-work tablet bearing
the legend: "To the memory of the
dear Departed," worked in black, on a
purple ground, Mrs. Hascom hastened
to Intercept it. Hut Aunt Hannah was
floating on a sea of feeling', flowing
fiom the blessedness of receiving,
mingled with tender recollections of her
jiutii, which boro her buoyantly over
any such attempt to point the finger of
scorn, and, gratefully accepting the tab
l"t, sho found room for it in the very
middle of the mantle shelf, ond placed
a big bunch of sweet-williams beside it,
remarking in tin undertone to the friend
nearest her that "she didn't knew that
his middle name was William, but so it
was. Jedidiah William it stood in tho
Hible; but they'd always culled him
Jed."
Her good humor was proof against
the insinuation contained in Miss
I'rindle's picsent of n black lace cap;
it overflow ed into delight to welcome
the "elegant silver butter dish," the
pickle disli and spoonholder, fash
ioned intricately, witli a maximum of
glass and a minimum of silver; it ac
cepted gayly the gallant speeches of
Deacon White, whose lagging inten
tions were visibly quickened by this
scene of pkasant comfort nnd good
will, though he himself had only
thought fit to bring a. britannia teapot
with a black knob on tho handle.
"Out of his store," so Mis. Abijah
commented to Elvira, "and old stock
he couldn't sell off at that; for there's
a dent down clost to the handle, an'
expect it leaks Your Aunt Hnunnb
better look out; it's pretty lnrd to
marry for money and work for love!"
Hut the evening was without a Haw
for Aunt Hannah; and when, nt last,
tho guests were gone, the dishes
washed and put away, tho house "red
up," the presents inspected for the last
time, nnd she and Elvira had dropped
into their old places upon the doorstep
for a moment's i est befoic going to bed,
she bieathed a gentle sigb as she said:
"Well, Elvira, it's all over, an' I've had
a real good time, too; if only your Uncle
Jed could a' been here to enjoy it with
me!" l'eterson's Maga.ine.
PEEL AND WELLINGTON.
High Sincerity In Vulillo 1.1 fn Mutual Ad
miration. Dean Doyle in his "Ucminiseences"
tells a striking anecdote of the mutual
nppieeiiition of the same quality of high
sincerity in public life ot the famous
statesman, Sir ISobert l'eel and tho
"lion Duke" of Wellington.
Mr. Wood, a friend of Dean Hoyle's,
had at one time, when the duke of.
Wellington was very ill in London, como
from the city to a country house at
which Heel was visiting. As soon as fie
arrived Kir ISobert called him aside and
asked witli intense anxiety what was
the latest news of the duke's condition.
It was consideicd hopeless and Mr.
Wood told him so. The great minister
bioke down utterly, crying out with a
buist of tears:
"lie is the truest man I have ever
known!"
The duke, however, recovered, despite
the predictions of his doctois, and sur
vived l'eel.
Tho same Hcntlomnn Mr. Wood by
a cuiious coincidence, was present
when l'eel was thrown from his horse
and lecelved the injuries which resulted
in his death. He hastened to his as
sistance, proem ed a carriage and ac
companied him home, remaining for
some time in the house to lender the
family what services he might in their
time of confusion and distiess. Ho
was ,ot there when tho duke of Wel
lington arrived to make inquiries and
was deputed by Lady l'eel to receive
him. Ho hastened to the door and
found the duke on the step about to
enfr tho house and informed him that
the physician pronounced Sir Hobert'n
hurt to be desperate and his chance of
life almost nothing.
"He was the soul of truth," said tho
old soldier, huskily, and, turning ab
ruptly from the thiesliold. lie mounted
his horse and todo souow fully nwuy.
C hlcago .News.
Tho Son Ouli In n Itnnofnctnr.
Tho sea gull is doubly the bcnel
tor of man. It not only follows
plow (on farms near tho sea coast).
order to cat tho freshly-turned trrubsj
but it scours tho surface of tho sea!
nenr tho shore and frequents harbors I
to seize on floating garbage, deftd fish,
or other putrefying morsels. Tho serv
ico of these birds lmve saved many a
seaport town and village, round which,
they hover, from plague nnd pesti
lence. Yet every year they are massa
cred by tho thousands for idlo and
cowardly sport or for the sako of their
wings to bo u,od in millinery. Their
eggs are plundered wliolosalo for mu
seums and to fill the shop windows of
naturalists. Ono man boasted a year
ngo that ho had killed 1,000 kittlwako
gulls In a single season with his owi
gun, and an order was given and exe
cuted fro;n ono London houso for 10,
000 pairs of wings. At this rate gulls
must soon disappoar altogethor. Tho
carrion crow, tho' raven and others
which follow their example, more or
less, confer an immense boon on man
kind. Sparrows clear tho gutters nnd
places which they iniiabit from a vnst
quantity of scattered fragmonts.
Though too small to bo seen, theso un
savory morsels would soon becoino
dangerous to human life mid health.
Spare Moments.
Drcuiiift ii n Warning.
If science lias dispelled sucli oliL
wives' fables as that to dream of a
marriage signifies death, or to dream,
of a cat means an enemy she has added
to the btibject mysteries of her own.
Ono scientist systematizsd these subtle
premonitions to mnko them nvailable
for use and guidance. To quote his
opinion.
Lively dreams nro ft sign of tho ex
citement of nervous action.
Frightful dreams are a bisjn of deter
ruination of blood to tho head.
Dreams in which ono imagines pain
or injury to any part of the body indi
cate discaso of the part.
Dreams of distorted forms are a sign
of obstruction or disease of tho liver.
To dream of fainting indicates a
weak action of tho heart.
Gentle, pleasant dreams are a sign
of a slight irritation of the head, but
in nervous fevers often indicate the
approach of a favorable crisis.
Dreaming is an experience common
to humanity, though it varies widely
in different individuals, and in a few
exceptional cases is absolutely un
known. N. Y. Journal.
Citpuclty ot .St. l'oter'H.
It needs 50,000 persons to make n
crowd in St. Peter's. It is believed
that at least that number have been
present in the church several times
within modern memory; but it is
thought that the building will hold
80,000 as many as could be seated on
the tiers in the Colosseum. Such a
concourse was there at the opening of
the Oecumenical Council in December,
1S09, and at the two jubilees celebrat
ed by Leo XIII.; and on all three occa
sions there was plenty of room in the
aisles, besides the broad spaces which
were required for tho functions them
selves. Marion Crawford, in Century.
HiOi &a
Naturally, hnvo a good appetite, keep your
blood pure and your nerves strong by taking.
Sarsapaniia
The best Intact the Ono True Blood Purifier.
Hood's Pills euro biliousness, headache. 2."c,
To Clean Willi I'lipiT.
During house cleaning if an old wall
paper is to be lemoved before going td
wotfk cloao the doors and window h
lightly, place an old boiler or tub in th
room and (ill It with boiling water. The
steam will moisten the paper and the
work inuy be done quickly and more
easIly.--C'h!cago Tribune.
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