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About Harrison press-journal. (Harrison, Nebraska) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1902)
M l I I I I OLD I FAVORITES I The Death of the Flonrri, The melancholy days have come, the ead- dcut of the year, Of wailing winds, and tinked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollow g of the grove, the uutu:im leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread. Tho robin and the rwi are flow!!, a-:d from the shrubs the jay. And from the wood-top callM the crow through all the gloomy day. Where arc the flowers, the fiiir young flower, that lately sprang mid otood In brighter light, and softer airs, a beau- t'-uiiH xixtcrhood ? 'Alas! they all are in their graves; the gentle race of Mowers Are lying in their lowly beds, with the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie; but the cold November rain Calls not from out the gloomy earth the lovely ones again. The wind-flower and the violet, they per ished long ago, And the brier rose and the orchids died amid the summer glow; But on the hill the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood, And the yellow sunflower by the brook in autumn beauty stood, Till fell the front from the clear, cold heaven, as falls tho plague of men, And the brightness of their smile wan gone from upland, glade and glen. And now, when comes the calm mild day, as still Hitch days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home; When the sound of dropping nuts Is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the wat ers of the rill, 'The southwind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more. And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died, The fair, meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side. In the cold, moist earth we laid her, when the forests cast the leaf, And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief; Yet not unmeet it was that one like, that young friend of ours, So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the fh'Wera. William Cullen Bryant. i The Itiiiner Hour. O hour of all hours, the most blest upon earth, Blest hour of our dinners! The land of his birth; The face of his iirst love; the bills that he owes; The twaddle of friends, ami venom of foes; The sermon he heard when to church he last went; The money he borrow'd, the money he spent; All of these things a man, I believe, may forget. And not be the worse for forgetting; but yet Never, never, oh, never! earth's lm ki.nt sinner Until, uiipiinish'd, forgotten the hour of his iJinucr! Iielige!ji.n,.iliai; conscience of cM-ry b:ij hiouiai'h. Shall fletiili-Khly gnaw and pursue him with some ache Or some pain; and trouble, reuiorseh-fs, his best ease. As th Furies mice troubled the sleep of ( (restes. Wc may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we ltiiiy live without books; Put civilized man cannot live without cooks. lie may live without books what is knowledge hut grieving? He may live without hope what is hope but deceiving? He may live without love what is pat sum but pining? Uut where Is the man that can live villi out dining? Owen Meredith. ftonif Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gala sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chalieed flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With everything that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise, Arise, arise. William Hlmkipoare, NEW-STYLE CATTLE-PUNCHING. la Now Done bjr Klectrlclty, with He murkable Keeulla. The employe of the Hchwarsehlld & Hulxtx-rger I'm-klng Company here now employ electricity to drive the cut tle Into the Iwef tied Instead of shouts, clul, whips and prods. The application of electricity In made by two Insulated wlrea connected with the light wlrea over tho catch ing ix-n and the knocking pens. The curreut passes through a atlck and con neeta with two brass points on the end. "Punchers' Is the name Riven the ticks. There are two punchers, em li six feet long. In the catch pet), mi 1 five, four feet long, In the knocking pens. The Insulated wires are nboiit twenty feet long, thus covering n ills tanco In the pens of about thirty feet each,' One hundred and twenty-five vol's of electricity are turned on. It Is enough to make a sharp, stinging mn Mtlon, without leaving a umik or limine on the beef. It Is said flftj Volts would be us effective. The work Is done In one half th time and with half the exertion. Th effect on the steer of the magic toucb Is amusing to see. A steer touches on the left hip Immediately throws hll hlnderqunrters as far as he can to th right. He cocks one ear straight aheac and one straight back, switches hll tall and Marts straight ahead, not car lug for a second shock. There Is a look of surprise In hit eyes, oud he seems to know that al the trouble lies In the end of tin stick. He doesn't stop to get mad o howl. He has urgent business at tin other end of the peu. That Is exactly where the drivers oud knockers wanl him. ' ' It completely does nwoy with all back rushes and drugging In wltt chains, for Just as long as the punchei Is behind, the steer Is just as far ai he can get in front. The savings ol time and of bruised meat are also itemi to be considered. This novel Instrument, says a Kan sas City special to the New York Her aid, Is the invention of L. E. Uuroe the machinist In the beef beds, wbc has made several other useful Improve ments In the machinery. Superintendent J. L. Sterrett says "The cattle puncher Is a great money saver, as well as an Instrument foi saving breaths, muscle and morals .Many actual dollars are saved because bruised beef Is kept at the lowest min imum ever reached." DO NOT SCOLD. Women of that Temper Are Disagree uble to All rikI Unuully Unhnppy. No one is so disagreeable as th habitual scold, who is continually crit iclsltig and finding fault with thos who surround her In dally life. Sons daughters and husbauds have beet driven away from home because ol her, and thousands fall Into daugoroui temptations. The scold sows scedi which bear a rich harvest for the sa loon and clubrooms, says a writer it the Pittsburg Press. All women In authority, be it at tht head of a home or a business depart merit, should study consideration ol other people's foldings. The commoc scold or the continual fault-Cutler It perhaps the most disagreeable person In the world, not only unhappy herself but mnklng others so. Scolding, In one light. Is really at accomplishment that is, when uses' for the proper correction of servant! and children. If you feci called upot to deliver a rebuke to a servant makf It clear to that offender that your dis pleasure Is justified; never lose youi temper, but be culm and dignified, foi remember that your bearing has muefc to do with the resect that you an held In by those under your authority Never let a scolding degenerate lutt nagging, for If you do you lose aL' claim for respect from the delinquent and the person at fault becomes youi critic, and a very scornful one at that Let all scolding be gauged by th error, but do not make any one re buke long drawn out. Give each a hopeful ending. When properly administered n mer ited scolding quickly bears the frill! of better behavior oil the part of the offending one. Many wives have spoiled the good nature of their husbands by seizins upon some fault, trivial perhaps, and constantly dwelling upon it. The art of pleasing consists In mak lug our daily lives agreeable to oth ers ns well as to ourselves. To throw a grain of the Ideal and of poetry lute our surroundings Is going to makf them less commonplace and more con genial. It a woman has the tact ol making others comfortable, then shf Is endowed with the gift of making life happy. The gracious womitE shines through u collection of beau 1 1 ful qualities. She not only please) the eye by her outward air of fresh ness ami health, but she charms tlx mind by a characteristic worth. Th cultivation of the physical body, pro duces the bloom of health; but quljf as necessary In making a woman beau tiful Is the cultivation of the Intellect which gives her the Inimitable attrac tion of knowledge. Then there Is th cultivation of the heart, which glvei her those gentle graces which are t her what the perfume Is to the flower. Where home Is made unhappy by 8 great fault of the husband. If he li worthy of loving and saving, he If more effectually appealed to by tender ness than by denunciation or scorn. It Was Hopeless Case. A balky horse Is on annoying creature under any circumstances, but the story of an Incident which happened during a regimental drill raises tho question whether such a horse may not simply be overconscleritlotis. The sun blazed down on a Held ol hot, tired horses and excited men, all waiting for a big, raw-boned animal tu succumb to the urglngs of the starter and get Into line. "Bring up that horse!" shouted oii of the ofllcers at last, his patience hav ing given out. "You'll get Into IroubU If you don't!" The youthful rider of the refractory horse looked at his ofllcer despairingly, "I'm as tired of It as you are, sir," he said, with dull resignation, "but I can't help It. He's a cab horse, sir, that's what he Is. He won't start till he hears the door chut, sir. and I haven't got liny door to shut!" The time conies terribly soon to pw pie when they quit slaying out lata nlghls, und Join those who lie whin awake It' worrying over those who nro out. The girls named Lillle never agreii on the spelling. Home spell It Lily, others Lilly, and others Lillle. TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER ESTING ITEMS. Comments and Criticisms Bused Upon the Happening of the Da Histori cal and News Notes. Urittannla rules the wave when Mr. Morgan waives his rule. Feople have died for love that would Dave made them miserable If they :ould have hud it. Peary says the north pole can be 'cached. There are others who say !hat perpermil motion can be solved. M I:-:s Snow Flake Uvea at Pilot Point rtxas. Let us hope that she Is always ible to keep cool under the most trying :ircumstunces. We still Insist that the greatest of ill American heroes Is the taxpayer. His Is the sort of heroism that keeps ihe government going. Lieutenant Peary says he found much Ice. If he thinks the public Is ;olng to get excited over that sort of t discovery lie Is a poor guesser. It Is safe to venture the assertion that en most cases the people who kill them selves because they fear losing their ailnds have mighty little ralnd to lose. Iiee sting Is now considered a cure or rheumatism. A man who runs winter to the little Insect's Ideas of ts personal rights usually forgets bis heumatlz. The Boer generals were said to be deeply Interested In the London chorus girls. But this may simply be a rumor Invented for the purpose of Injuring Ihem at home. Prince Victor Dhulep Singh asserts lhat If his allowance had been suffi cient ho would not have run In debt. That's Just the way It Is with most young men and some old ones. A Massachusetts man sent King Ed ward some verses on appendicitis, and Edward has sent him a letter of Ihanks. There Is no doubt that En gland wants to be friendly with this ;ouutry. There Is a story going the rounds of a nmu who saw an advertisement offer lug, for thirteen stamps, to tell you how to win the girl you love. He sent the Btamps, ami the reply was, "(Jet a mil lion dollars and let her look at It." 1'et he had no case against the scoundrel, for any court would see that it might Influence the lady's choice. Of 23,000 children placed In families By tho Children's Aid Society, only six ty have been arrested and sent to re form schools;. New York letter. This aught to stagger the old notion of in surable hereditary tendency. Common lease application of kindness und mor al training still ma Intuitu its position is the most potent force In the world. The truth is that the Newport set is made up of silly, jaded people, with no resources In themselves, who are eager .in their quest for a new sensation. 'They mean no wrong because they do ; not mean anything. The trouble with them Is not that they live vicious lives, .but that they do not know what tuor j ullty means. We have no doubt that a sensational press exaggerates their mis 1 doings, but It it; impossible to exagger ate their lack of stability or their fail ure to appreciate the responsibility that rests on them. "Do a large portion of the sons of ministers not turn out as well as the sons of other people?" 'This was the Interesting question discussed by the Society of the Sons of Ministers of the Church of Scotland, at its recent ses lon In (ilasgow. The cbief speaker, who Is the Moderator of Ihe Gcuerul Assembly, declared that the "sons of '.he manse" have given more ornaments to art, literature and science than any ther class. It Is probable that any American who takes the trouble to count up the children of ministers known to him, and to weigh them In the balance, will come to the same :oneluslon. The history of Arctic exploration has feeu an unbroken chronlclu of scandal ind disaster, ever since the abhorrent rruze first found lodgment In the mind f man. Some of the chapters are too frightful to even think about, much less dbicuss. All of them are tentl lionles of failure, tragedy, often horror ind disgrace. The record Is without a redeeming feature so far as concerns 3ie hopplness of mankind or the In crease of human knowledge. Untold thousands of money have been expend ed In this crazy quest, Innumerable hundreds of lives have been vainly sac rificed, scandals, hatreds, animosities without number have been spawned. Rut the world Is no wiser, no better, no more prosperous In consequence When tho novelists get through re writing history shall we have to revise )ur Ideals? They have reconstructed nberlus and Aaron Burr, "Bloody klary." Henry VIII. and other "shady" tharacters, almost persuading some of ss that these were gentle hearted, high tnlnded creatures who have been gciin ialously vllllllcd. But suppose (he nov elists should take to "writing down" Washington and Martin Luther, Sidney ind Bayard and Joan of Arc? Then Ihe next generation might find Itself worshiping new heroes nnd heroine. I Seriously, however, there Is something to be said In ruvor or attempts to nit tho load of obloquy thnt resls upon many a historical character. A mail's contemporaries seldom see him u k really Is, and they do not at all see him as he thinks he Is or as he wants to be, They put their own lnterpr4atIon upon bis deed, and give him limited credit for his aspirations. But such persona) prejudices die with those who hold them. In the clear white light of his tory one who chooses to look may see the actual character a compound of good and evil, like all the rest of us. The danger that really threatens from the new fashion of rehabilitating his toric personages is that an author who In good faith undertakes such a task may become a partisan and an apolo gist Then the Infatuated ma.u as sumes that his hero's acts were Justifi able because his hero performed them. Then every page he writes sets up -a false standard of conduct, and con fuses the difference between right and wrong. The tiling to be borne lu mind by both the writer and the reader of historical fiction is that a tendency to excuse Ul-doing is not an "amiable weakness," but a betrayal of principle. Librarians are now busily engaged in "weeding out" the works of Oliver Optic and all that class of Juvenile books, and are substituting others of a higher literary finish. Probably the reform deserves all the adult enthusi asm and praise with which it Is accom panied, but the librarians are liable to err If they reckon without the boy in this matter. There are worse books than the Oliver Optic kind, and It may be well to consider the danger that too hlgii a literary standard may drive boys to reading behind the barn rather than lu the library. The point in ques tion appears in the statement of a Pittsburg boy of 15 who said: "I like Conitn Doyle, but he comes high; you can get a lot of this for a nickel" "this" being a second-hand copy of "Jesse James." But, as Harper's Weekly points out, "Sherlock Holmes" can he had at the public library for less than a nickel. One suspects that the Pittsburg boy was not quite frank in stating his reasons for preferring the tempestuous biography of the Ameri can bandit to the carefully analyzed exploits of Sherlock Holmes. The truth Is that a boy of 15 has not yet arrived at the age when analysis of motives appeals to him. What he wants Is action- something doing on every page. He does not read "The Life and Adveu- ' tures of Jesse James" because he likes the criminality In it, but because the robber keeps things moving. He reads Oliver Optic for a similar reason. When It comes to a choice between the yellow backed story of crime and the trashy but harmless biles of the cur rent "juvenile" writer, there Is no liiestlon as to which is preferable. The Using of the standards of juvenile lit rnture Is very desirable, but the mo icnt the standard is elevated above ne plane of youthful Interest It closes .lie library doors to the boys ami sends them to the literature of the back stairs and the street corners. The line that excludes Oliver Optic Is not far from the region of ultra reform. Librarians will do well, at any rate, to remember that a lwy must have action, and plen ty of It, In the books that he reads vol untarily. If he cannot get It In a whole some or at least a harmless form he will get It In robber romances. T I G E RS LOVE LAVEN DER. Ex per lm cuts of a Naturalist wit h Herb on -Membrrs of Cut Family. Lions and tigers dearly love lavender. They liko It quite us well as cats like catnip. 'The naturalist Uev. J. (',. Woods tells this: "Wanting to be on good terms with the leopard Old Man, 1 took some lavender water with me. Helore giving it to the leopard I thought I would try the effect on Bessy, a Due tigress, who has for sonic; time been very gracious in her conduct toward me. I poured a few drops of the per fume on a small piece of brown paper and held It out to her. She first gave a prolonged sniff, and then scraped the paper out of my hand and laid It ou the floor of the cage. First, she sniffed at It repeatedly, raising her nose high In the air after every sniff. Then she tore It Into little pieces, which she strewed over the floor. Then she rolled over and over and over on the perfumed fragments, giving a series of mullled yelps of delight, and then began leap ing all over the cage, springing up un til her bead struck against the roof, turning over In tho air and coming down on the Isjarded floor with u mighty thump, os might be expected from an animal weighing more than .'!K) pounds. Next I tried the effect on the leopard Old Man, who occupied the next cage, and found that be was even more powerfully affected than the ti gress, slobbering over the perfume un til the floor of the cage was quite wet, and rolling over and over, exactly as his neighbor had done. Meantime Em press, who occupied a cago ou the op posite side of the building, had scented the lavender water from a distance ami was loudly expressing her opinion that she had been shamefully deflected. So I gave her a liberal dose of the per fume, and ihe, being only a young thing and unaccustomed to self-control, straightway proceeded to go maul over It." What a Horae Power la. A horse power Is the force required to lift a dead weight of 3.'I,00u pounds one foot a minute. To find the horse power of an engine, multiply the urea of the piston In luches by tho average steam pressure In pounds per square Inch. Multiply the product by the travel of Ihe piston In feet per minute and divide Hint product by 3X,U00. If an engine Is rated at ssiventy-three, horse power it will raise poiinfis one foot fVinty-ti')r ttrjiss la cne minute. The light comedian, narly atwsyt weighs n.orc than tho heavy lrjct!i.i COUNTRY BOYS RISE. WHYTHEY EXCEL LADS BROUGHT UP IN THE CITY. Lack of Opportunity the Best Equip ment for Serious ttruggle of Life Ihe Town-Bred lioy la Likely to Early Become Blase. A country boy's lack of opportunity Is his best equipment for the serious struggle of life. This sounds paradoxi cal, but It Is true. It Is just as true as the opposite proposition, that the great est hindrances a city boy has to contend w rth are lire oppoi luniries" w bich beset him when young and pursue him till he begins the real business of life a busi ness which each Individual must curry on for himself. For the city boy every thing is made as easy as possible. Even pleasure becomes to him an old story before he Is out of bis teens. Brought up in the feverish rush of a place where great things are happening; day by day, he sees the world with a cynic's eyes and despises the small things which, like the bricks in a house, go to the upbuilding of characters and careers. He believes in using large markers in the game of life; for pennies and small units of value he has little taste and scant regard. The conditions surrounding the coun try boy are as different as possible. There Is a deal of regular work that every country boy must do, and this regularity of employment, mostly out of doors, Inculcates Industrious habits, while It contributes to a physical de velopment which In after years is just as valuable as any athletic training that ran be had. He cuunot run as fast, per haps, as those trained by a system; he may not be able to jump so high or so far, or excel in any of the sports upon which we bestow so much time and from which we get so much of pleasure, but Ids development enables him to buckle down to the hard work In which hours are consumed, and from which very lit tle or no Immediate pleasure Is extract ed. His strength may be something like that of the cart horse, but the cart horse Is to be preferred where a long and steady pull is required. The thor oughbred racehorse hits a fine flight of speed and canters with delightful light ness and grace along the park bridle paths, but the heavy work Is the work most In demand, and for that we want the draft animals every time. Enthusiasm Is the spur to endeavor, ind at the same time it is the savor of life. The country boy whose ambition lias taken him to town conies filled with enthusiasms. Even the little things are novelties to him, and as he accom plishes this and that he feels that he is doing something not only Interesting but valuable. His simple tastes have not been spoiled by a multiplicity of gratifications, and so he Is glad pf ev erything good that comes bis way. At thirty, if he leads u clean life, he has more of the boy in him than his city cousin has left at fifteen. He does what is before him because It is his duty, while the other is too apt cynical ly to question the value of doing any thing and ask, "What is the use?" Of the men who have achieved great prominence and high Influence in our affairs of state the country boys are at least twenty to one over the city luds. Nowadays. Indeed, our cynical city lads look upon men who take an active inter 's t in public affairs as rather low fellows md quite beneath their associations Hid notice. But the country boys are it the top In other lines of endeavor. In finance they are pre-eminent, and the great bank presidents of to-day in the great cities nearly all learned to read and to cipher in country schools where birch and ferule had not succumbed to the civilizing Influences of scientific pedagogy. Our great railways were in the main built by them, ond to-day the idmliilstriitors of these great compan ies are In great measure from farms and country villages, from places where work began lu early Infancy, and a sense of duty developed while still the lisp of childhood lingered. Some city boys, however, are of such sturdy stuff, and endowed with such natural gifts, that they succeed by rea son of their Inherent superiority; others succeed abundantly because they have used their opportunities wisely, and In real life have pursued the same course which enables so many country boys lo win fame and fortune. The more honor to them for having survived their too great opportunities. But the coun try boy when he comes to town reaches out for the high places; though not all And seats of the mighty, nearly all of the exulted stations are Oiled In the end by men of country birth and country rearing, for they usually start out with he sound theory that what Is worth laving Is worth striving for. John (Ul- ner Sliced, In Brandur Magazine. IfOUTH AND CRABBED OLD AGE. Youns Men Who Wonld Not Allow Themselves to lie Hquelched. Our respect for age dwells In us side by side with enthusiasm for youth. S'othlng gives one more of a glow than when a young man deservedly beats a man of an older generation. It Is that glow which has made a familiar quota tion of Pitt's famous retort to Walpole, Unit crushing sentence beginning, "The atrocious crime of being a young man." A judge named lloblnson was noted for his peevish, sneering manner. Ilonre, the Irish lawyer, was once ar iculng In a case before him. The Judge was unusually stern, and finally roused (he young barrister by accusing him of intending to bring the king's commis sion Into contempt "No, my lord," said Hoare; "I have end In a Ixiok that when n peasant, luring the trouble of Charles I., found the crown In a bush, ne showed It lH reverence. In like manner I shall r spect the king's commission, though I find it on a bramble." Itobinson was reported to have risen to his rank by the publication of soma slavish and scurrilous pamphlets. Once In the days when Curran was poor and unknown, struggling against great ad versity, he appeared before Bobinsoa The judge tried to extinguish him. When Curran declared that he had con. suited all his law books, and could nol find a case that did not support hist position, Itobinson answered: "I suspect your law library Is rathei contracted." This brutal and unnecessary remark stung Citrrati's pride und roused biro at once. "It is true, my lord," he said, after a moment's contemptuous silence, "tha I am poor, and the circumstance has curtailed by library. My books are not numerous, but they are select, and I hope I have perused them well. I havi prepared myself for this high profes sion rather by the study of a few good books than by the composition of great many bad ones." The Tradition of i St. Swithin's Day. Somebody at Boston has taken tht trouble to expose Saint Swithin, who is shown to be a pious old fraud, and incidentally some rather Interesting figures are collected showing the num ber of rainy days in various summers since J 872. Saint Swithin's day, it will be re membered, is July 15, and the reputa tion of the saint is staked upon the tra dition or adage which runs to the ef fect that if it rains on Saint Swithin's day it will rain on each of the forty days following. This did very well be. fore the days of rain-gauges and weather bureau records, but now 1J does not go down. In point of fact, thij tradition came nearer being true this year than for twenty years past, saya the New York Evening Post. Out of the forty days this year it rained on twenty-two. This was nearly equaled in 18!)(i, when it rained twenty-one out of the forty days. In TSS'J and I'.WIJ tho record was nineteen days, in 1S72 and 1S91 eighteen, In 18S(i seventeen, ill 1HU2 fifteen, and so on. As to the amount of rain, 1872 was much th wettest at this particular season, near ly twice as much rain falling as in any of the years since. The next rainiest year was 1884, when St. Swithin's day was fair and clear, with not a drop of rain In Boston at least. There seems to be no relation between the amount of rain on St. Swithin's day and the amount of rainfall following. The best the saint could do of late years was in 1880, when .1)0 inches of rain fell, yet it . was only an average wet season for the next forty days. This year's St. Swith in's day was rather wet, .70 inches fall ing at Boston, yet since August 1 the rainfall has been only about the aver age. The year 18S-I, when the saint's day was dry, had :!.(!." inches of rain during July and August. I'lants Which Cough. Man has not u monopoly ou cough ing. Before there was a vertebrate on the earth, while man was in process of evolution through the vegetable world, Ef.'ida Tussien that is what the bot anists call him, while we know him as "the coughing bean" coughed, and blew dust out of his lungs. Recently botanists have been giving special at tention to this bean, and tell interest ing things about it. It is a native of warm and moist tropical countries; and objects most emphatically to dust. When dust settles on the breathing pores in the leaves of the plant and chokes them a gas accumulates inside, and when it gains sufficient pressure there comes an explosion with a sound enxctly like coughing, and the dust is blown from Its lodgment. And, more strange still, the plant gets red in the face through the effort. Loudon Ex change. Testing the Sermon. The minister of a parish In a part of New England where doctrinal points are considered of great Importance says that his test of a satisfactory ser mon is the opiiosite of that which is commonly applied. "My clerical friends In the city tell me that so long as their congregations appear wide-awake and. Interested they feel encouraged," he said to a visitor, "but with me It's different "Of course I wish to Interest the con gregation, but If I look over to Deacon: Drew's pew, and then to Deacon Snow's, and see thetn with their eyes closed and heads nodding, I feel that all Is well. Just as6 surely as I dis cover them wide-awake and alert after I've been preaching for ten minutes I know that there's something wrong, to their minds, and that I shall hear what It Is as sisin as the service Is over." A fish Story. A Uirge pike was recently caught at (iondor, lu the Netherlands, and sent to Paris packed In Ice. Whim It arrived It was discovered to be still alive, notwithstanding tbq many hours sliK-e It was caught. Tho pike was plunged Into water and quite revived. It has been placed In, the aquarium of the Trocadero. Such tenacity of life hi a flsh Is said to be remarkable. But they who mf so cannot be acquainted with flKucr men. London Express. A Hot One. The amount of heat generated by a man's body In a day's work Is ufll clent to raise sixty-three pounds of witer from freezing to boiling point-. London Answers.