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UK ADVERTISER. I U. W. lUlltllltOTIII'lt .M III., 'MCWi nwl I'nirHlmt HA VKI). Thn wlinl In spout unci I he Kill" ! PHSt. Anil thn morning sun chine torth ut lust : It shines cm u strip nl yellow sund, And it good Hhln nlliklnu- In sight of liiml. (Ivor Iter dock mid her buttered nlclo lii.lly washes the ebbing lido; Out or thn struggle iiml doudlv strife, l.n I nothing saved lull 11 hit by lire. A wee, frail thing Is thn one oor widC A weo, frnll thing to In- sound Mini witfo; Hut till forgotten Mm brief1 iiliiruis. It Kiiyly crown In thn Mrutigeriiitns. A Hiillnr looks ut thn llttln form ' "I'Im a tiny rriirt to hiivcHininiiicil tlio storm I" IIOHIgh H lilt lit lit) lllMftH him low, Ami IiIh thoughts lly buck to thn long ago. .MiHt Hiii'li u Imli" 'Hi lili voting wlfo'H breast, With I'llnglng lingers Mm own ounmod', .liiHt nucli imotliiT Inil wln'io N lie? Wrecked on tin- voviigo til llfn. tuny ho. Ik this but tipuri'il tlntl In your In como It tuny iliirt iiwiiv Iroui lt-4 Heaven y homo? I'lio huhv liiuvlM us hlM boy owe did; Ahl will It bo mo? Nnv. ioil lorhlill ThoMdllor'M hiunl hus u gentle touch I'orthoMikoiil tin-In I hn loved mo much: A ml stilt from hlsllHitrothe word thiuriill: "dod blo the clilldroii-(Jd keep thoni nil. Shillirlntl Ann. tiii; u:ji:ni or ijhost lank. You see, iiwuy buck in I7'J1, ot along thoro somewhere, there lived n inunicn in Saint Andrews, u bountiful Ciuiii'liiin named l'omigowasot MoKirohenthiini bach, the loveliest Mower thai overgrow in tho sunshine and showers of Char lotte County, chaste us Diana, true as Penelope; the violets paled in tlio blue of hoi' oyt's nntl pearls sold for second choice in tlio pools when she smiled; ivory wliilo was hor bnmtl, hili brow, for hIio didn't iionil) hor bangs down into hor eyes like tho forotop of u Shot- liiud pony, iind tho seini-occasional fogs of hor niitivo hind kopt down tho freck les iind cleared away tho tun. " llcr fort hoiiouth hor petticoat, l.lko llttlo mlcoMtolo In ami out, Ah II thov toured tho light." And hor "arrowy bund" was dimpled find fair and soft. Shu woro good clothes anil movod in tlio highest cir cles; hIio embroidered hor own nutnbor 1J moccasins, iind wan tho bollo of tho singing-school. Hor fathor ownod tnoro noros of Hpruoo iind pine lands than ho could counl in a month; ho could got out enough ship's kuooH in u day to build a United Status navy ami two schooners; ho had an abiding faith that tlio Mogtintio Railroad would make Saint Andrews its tide-water terminus, and he carried a hat full of preferred Htock in that colossal enterprise, and was rich and proud. Ho sat in the best pew in the eliureh, and responded louder and contributed smaller than any oilier member of the congregation, and possessed all tlio other ear marks of u wealthy man. One day a man named Miohiliinachl nao -l'iorropout T. Miohiliiniiohinue, oaine down from the up-river country with a load of pelts. He was a mighty hunter and every year ho captured, by I trapping, shooting and swindling the I untutored Indians out of them for a keg of rum, enough furato control the mar- kot, and ho was a growing monopoly. He wore a plug hat and a shirt that I buttoned behind and hung his watch chain outside Ids coat. He was mashed , on Poinigowussot in the first inning. Ho j was a lonely man ho said. He took her hand in his, and said he wanted some fair maiden to go with him and sia, in the north woods about nine mouths in tho year and help him skin beaver and mink and otter and fox, nntl certain va rieties of eats and bears, and cook for him and help him to bamboo do the In dians out of their pelts, and pack the furs for him and help him down tho river with thorn. Would 'ho 11 v with lilmP She .shook hor wealth of silken hair anil told the hunter ho was away oil' his base, mid sho would sou him fur-der be fore she'd go. Siraightway tho Miohiliniuohinao led her to Tier father, and told the umpiro that ho had been put out on a foul. Tho old man bent his brows upon the rebellious girl. You'd otter have him," he said. "What fur?" replied tho maiden. "Because It would bo very gratifying tome," said hor pupa. " J cannot boar to think of it," she said. " Hut you uro very dear to me," put in tho lover. "That's where tho gazelle comes in," sighed tlio maiden. "I'm afraid jou'ro lion to me. "Make 'ermine," tho lover said. And the old man said ho would and called for sumo mink and paper to draw up tlio sottloniont. Hut l'einigewassot simply said: "Thou art so near and yol so fur," and lett the room. There was another. A vouthful sail or man, with a straw hat and wido trousers and a broad collar with an- cliors worked on it in white thread and lovely yacht club buttons, Ceorgo Au gustus Saskatchewan. Ho was a daisy. Ho played on tho mouth organ and danced tlio racket divinely. Know all tho now songs of tho street, got :?i)00 a year and spent every cent of it on his clothes. And when the old man found out where tho previous attachment oxistod: There was Circus. Tho irascible parent Grabbed George Augustus by the Collar, And the slack of the ' Legging .Awl lilted Him Clear out of His boots. And he Set tiio dog On him, and Chased him down Tho front path, And banged him through The gate Aiidliowlod antl Yelled after him and Told the "(Joggle-eyed, Kinpty-hondod, Long-legged, Turkey-trodden, Clam-eating, Bcer-guzzling, Billiard-playing Son of a Soulpin, To keep away from There." And thou Daughter. Ill) sought his And scolded and Coaxed and Threatened and Bribed and Commanded and Stormed and H lived and Koared and Kiimuod up and down The house. Hut the bravo girl Stuck To George, And saitlif Hie Old man , Didn't like George, ho Needn't marry him. Hut as for Her, Slio was his Hairpin Or words to that oll'oct And that was The kind of a Girl Sho was. And inasmuch us it was not ploiisnnt for (Jcorge to visit I'emigowasset at the house, as he didn't fool able to feed her father's dog three times a wool: out of Ids scanty salary and sensitive legs, those devoted young people used to waudor clear out to this lane and moot when the moon was full, and, when it was gibbous, and when it was half, and when it waned into the last quur ter, and when thoro wasn't even enough moon to oxeuse a gas company. They sat in the shadow of tho silent rook, or tlioy clambered up on its broad old summit and ate gum-drops and talked of tho stars, mid planned a quint little wedding in tlio cathedral of Frodcriclon and a modest little trip to Niagara and Chicago, and out to Colorado and tho mountains. And ho held her in his stron; arms while sho cried and sobbed over iioi troubles with pa, and thuy talked all tlio sweot nonsense that young people are very liable to talk in tlio lonely night, out under the listening stars, and in tho shadow of a most dis creet and silent old bowlder. And to gether they sang old lovo songs that tho hemlocks bent to hear, and their stolon hours at their woodland tryst were full to nvorllowin" with truth and the tenderness of their love; so full that sometimes lliey could not speak, but could only sit and hold each other's hands, soft and dimpled, and strong and manly, while their thoughts dreamed out of their eyes. And so one night, while lie bent his head to ga.o into the happy face that was nestled against his breast, and laid his hand soltly against tlio dimpled cheek to press it yet more closolv to his heart that throbbed beneath it, there was a moving shadow by tho rock that was not cast by tho waving hemlocks, a stilled iiiss of a breath that was not tlio sighing wind of the night, tlio cold cruel glitter of steel in the starlight, and tlio heart throbbing so warmly be I noath the cheek of tho girl was still, and site held her lover in hor arms only i to seo the love light in his dear eyes die I out in tlio glassy stare of death. Only i thvglooiuy aisles of tho forest and tho I rocky caves of the mountain called ; back hor screams of anguish in inelan- eholy echoes, and a mocking luujh I from a voice site know and bated jarred I on her soul. I It appears that the rejected rival, l'iorropout T. iMichiliiuuehinau, had I taken a bowie-knife two inches wide I and a foot and a half long, and tapped (ieorge for laudable pus, penetrating tho poriliolion at tho ba.o of the car , dale apothegm by a lateral incision, I bearing sou' west half west through tho I metacarpal phalanges in apogee with the base of the lifth rib. The operation I was highly successful and tho Coroner 1 was notilied the same evening. The treacherous Mu'liiliinachiiino Hod to tho north woods, and in tlio follow ing mouth ato himself up with a wild bear, and the Indiansgobbled up alibis skins. I'oinigewassot got lior to a nun nery, and followed her lover to tlio summer laud in a few months. The stern parent, having bit on" ti little more Megan lie stock than ho could maslioato, wont ou'( 'haiiL'u to unload one dnv mid , got caught on a falling market and was skinned alive. And to this day when the bell in tlio castle toils tlio hour of midnight, two ghostly figures wander down the lane with tlio skaling-rink-glido all'ected by ghosts, and, in the shadow of this rock, tho lady ghost on lior bonded knees lifts her clasped hands in tlio passion ate eloquence of a voiceless appeal to tho glittering stars, wliilo her shadowy liguro bends above the prostrate phan tom stretched before hor, staining tlio crushed ferns with tlio crimson current of a Uto.llurilettc, in ttiirlinyton Jluwkcyc. D wight L. Moody, the evangelist. in a talk to ministers at tlio Northliold convocation recently gavo them tlio fol- lmvim iulvico; "Don't talk by tho yurd.n How to Kill u Mosquito. To kill a mosquito requires a combi nation of strategy and taelics. Thoro must bo tho mind to conceivo and tho nervo to execute. There must bo a ra pidity of movement and promptness of action. In fact, it lakes a high tlegreo of military skill to kill a mosquito. Of course, no person over trios to kill a mosquito In tho air; or on the wing. This lias been done, but it is always at tended by a great outlay of muscular ttll'ort and some danger. It is estimat ed that for every mosquito killed on tlio wing there are 17,0li:j inellicient passes or blows. Kaoliono of tlio pass es or blows represent a certain amount of wasted muscular cllbrt -enough, probably, to raise a weight of cloven tons through three feet in a minute, or if converted Into beat, enough to melt three quarts of brass buttons in a quar ter of an hour, iicsides the powder thus wasted by striking at mosquitoes in midair and missing them, a person is very apt to wrench his frame or injure himself in some wa . A very estima ble gentleman of tliis city hurt himself so badly this way some throe years ago that ho has not been able since to put up a stove-pipe or even carry water on w.ish day. A lady mi a neighboring town made a dash at a 11, ing mosquito last summer, while sitting near a second-story window, and with such force that missing the mosquito she was pre cipitated out of the window, and only escaped serious injury by tailing in tlio brunches of :i peach tree which, by tho way, lias not borne any fruit since. It is plain, therefore, that it is not safe to attack mosquitoes wliilo they tiro on tlio wing and in their native element, as it were. Tlio way to kill a mosquito is to wait till he lights, and then still hunt him. The operator should keep perfectly (piiet until tho mosquito uiitimber.s and goes into action. In other words, wait till he has commenced boring. Tlio in stant that ho strikes blood is the time to strike him. At that instant he is wholly absorbed in filling his stomach, ajitl is partially intoxicated by the first tasto ot blood. At this juncture bring the hand slowly and cautiously over tho little brute, and, without moving tho part of the body whore ho is operating, bring tho hand within about four inches and a half of him. 'fids is a critical moment. If the hand Is brought too close the enemy scents impending dan ger and Hies away. If the blow is de livered slowly he escapes by a Hank movement. When tho hand is within tlio requited distance, summon all the strength and energy of your nature, throw your whole soul into tlio olVort, and como down on tho enemy with crushing force. If lie is there when your hand roaches the objective point, tlio chances are that ho will be over whelmed and destroyed. If ho is not, thou you have the satisfaction of know ing that you have done the best thing possible under tlio circumstances, and deserve success uven if you did not achieve it. Indianapolis 'J'inics. The Man Willi "the Crayon. Shortly after dinner yesterday a man who 'was coming down Jeil'crson Avenue with a framed cravon under his arm was met by an acquaintance, who said: "Ah! ha! Hcon to the auction-rooms. oh? Crayon of tho douce is it.J a female, oh!' Who Looks like the head cook in a lumber canin. lining to nang it in tlio barn, I suppose? Well, so long." Half a block further down ho mot an other man. who began: "Whew! but I didn't know as you cared lor pictures. Let's see it. ell, I'll be hanged!" "What's the matter?" "Matter! Why. it's tho worst-look ing picture I oversaw. If you bought I that you mint have wanted the frame pretty bad. Say, it's a bad give away on you to carry'such a picture as Unit i around." 1 Tlio next man who halted him was more quiet. "1'ioturo. eh?" "Crayon, I see. It isn't a picture of your grandmother?" "Oh. no." " Well, then, 1 am free to any that it is one of the ugliest, faoos I ovor saw worked up by an artist. Good day, mv friend." Tlio owner of tho picture was plod ding along with a serious look in his eyes, when some one called him, and lie halted. " What yo got?" .asked the man, as ho came up. "A crayon."' " Lot's see. Therehold it there. Say, old fellow" " I wisli to observe," said tlio ownor of tlio picture, "that this is a crayon of my wife!" "Your wifoali yes- -alters tho case- tm-la!" and lie went oil' at a trot, while tlio other hired a boy for twonty ilvo cents to carry the picture tlio rest of tlio way homo. - Detroit Free I'i'is. i'o oil for Kitttlcsnukcs. A lady in Hout.dale communicates tho following remarkable story to lior pnronts in this place: A Swede minor of that place on Sunday hist went upon tlio mountain to gather whortleberries. Not returning homo in duo t'uno search was made for him, when he was found dead, with innumerable rattlesnakes fastened to and feeding upon his body. The searching party had much dillieulty in dislodging tho misikos so as to recov er the bod, and thou only succeeded after building a lire around tliem and the free use of lirearins. The man in tlio search of berries had ovidently in vaded one of tlio haunts of these dan gerous reptiles, who usually gather in mass to chosen localities, and fell a vic tim to their united assaults. AUoomt H'a.) livcniny Call. Youths' .Department. TUB PllOUD BANTAM. Thuro lived n, biuitnm roostor on ft farm not fnr away, Ho haughty mid putted up, as I havo hoard tho neighbors any, That from morning until evening ho would strut tho country round, And orow iilotid Molf-pralsos as ho stopped. iilong tho ground: " I'm (hiintlclucr Grundlsslino, my pedigree la lino, Oh, who etui hIiow us yellow claws or such u comb us mine? Where some huvo ono tall feather, I urn proudly waving two, And I huve mi extra doodle to my Cook-a- doodle-doo!" Tho other roosters In tlio b.iru-ynril tulkod tho matter o'or, Tho llttlo upstart really was becoming qulto a bore. At last u hand.somo gitmo-cook volunteered to tuko the ouse: " It's time," he siild, " tho creature nhould bo taught to know his pluuo; It gnus ugulnst tlio grain, my Irloiids, to whip ii thing ho emnli. Hut hIiico It's for our puuuo of mind, why duty first of nil." And hardly had those acntlmouts escaped tiio noble bird Than up eiimo llttlo Untitle, with his haughty, scornful word. Tlio liimdouio guino-cock'H feathers glistened golden la the llulit: J.0111I cried the tiny rooster, in ills coat of snowy white, " .lust step aside and lot your betters puss, I'll thniiK you, slrsl" " We've all a right hero," mild replied tiio ownor ot tho spurs. Oil, then the lliintam tiptoed round: "What's that I herd ynu my? I'm Clnintleleer drundlsslmo!" ahl In tlio dust lie lay. Aboo him stood tlio game-eoek, like a giant in lil- might. And round him all tho other fowls rejoicing In his I right. And while ho tlll lay, giddy, with his dainty claws in uir. lie was forced to hour a louturo from the oth er, then and there; And, greatly to tho credit of tho silly llttlo bird, He changed his mutincr afterward and heeded every word. " My niinio Is Coek-it-doodlo Small," he meekly learned to snv, lie minded Ills own business, nor got in oth ers' way. So in our world wo sometimes Iind GriuuUs siiiios, and all Would do well to recall tho fate of Cock-u-doodie Small. C L. Iturnhiim, in Wtilf'AiL'iOsc. WHAT (JOT INTO JOHNNY. " What has got into Johnny?" asked Grandmother Harding, as she sat down beside tlio stocking basket. " Why, what do you notice about him?" asked her daughter, moving to and fro as sho picked up tlio breakfast dishes. "Oh, I don't know, except that he used to be such a little chatterbox, and now lie skorcely answers a body when you speak. Hesides, '.hor's an anvious expression on his face, and lie seems reading things in his bread and milk, and gits away from folks. My mind's oneasy." "He's growing more of a boy, that's tlio reason, more quiet and thoughtful, I hope. I notice lie often has a book in his hand." "What sort of books?" asked grand ma, who could recite whole pages of "Watts' Hymns," and had the old "Now England Primer" at her tongue's end, besides being aide to place any text in the Bible from Genesis to Revo lution, only give hor time. "Oil, good onough. 1 guess the boys lends 'em to him; brings homo a stack sit a time a' most. You can't bo always running after a boy like Johnny. I'm rather' glad ho likes reading keeps him out of tlio way, like." Grandmother looked dubious. "Depends on what he reads," sho said, iind went on with her darning a pair ot tJoliuuy s red knee as well as heel. stockings out at Meantime what had got into Johnny? Tlio brightest visions that were ever heard or read of. Grottos of pearl, mountains of gold, rocks of crystal, gatowiiss of precious stones, tlio pal aces of Kings, tlio romance and the glory of adventure. No wonder John ny was lost in dreams; that ho never heard when the baby cried, or ids moth er called him. No wonder ho thought tho old farm-house about tlio meanest, prosiest place; tlio same tilings over and over; cow to milk, shoes to brush, wood to split and school to attond, no matter what tho weather was. Gradually tho desiro to see these glorious tilings took possession of John ny's mind. Ho stared at tho lire longer than ever, and answered granny's ques tions with a vacant nod. Ho hardly know that the baby was crying when that abused innocent demanded his services, and lie ttnsot and broke so much that his life was embittered by i tho scoldings and whippings lie got from day to day. ! "I ain't a-going to bear it," mut tered Johnny. "I'll go oil' like Alex ander Lo Huron, who went away just my age with a bundle on a stick, and came' back twenty years after with mill ions of money and made everybody ho know rich." Johnny made up his mind at last, after a groat deal of thinking, that lie would leave homo to seek ins fortune. Most of tho heroes in his books had started early to soo the world; why shouldn't Iio? Johnny's books woro gcnorally slyly put under his pillow, and wore read tit night as long as the candle, which ho also concealed, would hold out. Ono of tlioso, "Tho Bandit's Bride," was a great favorite, as it described caverns whore troasuros ot gold and siivor wore hidden, and mndo tho bloodthirsty hero a marvol of intelligence, a chief of groat ability and an accomplished gentleman. This was the book that led him at last to tho determination to seok his fortuuo. Ho had a ten-dollar gold piece that his uncle had givon him, and which lie had saved with the laudable desiro of purchasing a house somo day. Ho took no ono in his con fidence, though ho did talk the matter ovor to his noavost neighbor, a charm ing, rosy-chee'red, brigliUosed littli body of o'iglit summers, putting himselfy in tho third person. "What should you think?" he would ask, "of a boy who should travel off, you know, and see awfully grand sights, and go to foreign places, and got rich, and como homo and buy up lots of houses and marry somebody?" And Hessy Lee, listening, entranced, said she thought it woulubo splendid, and never wearied of talking about the fabulous adventurer. Ono morning nobody answered to tlio call of "Johnny! Johnny." The cocks had done crowing, the cows were wait ing to ho milked,' the baby had kicked his stockings off, and screamed till ho was purple in his efforts to waken Ills lagging brother. Thoro was no response from Johnny. His lied was found un touched, save by the "Bandit's Bride," which lie had loft on tlio pillo The boy's best clothes woro gone, and a note on the bureau road as follows: "(iud by. inutlior, grony, pa and the Unity. 1 ha koiikluded to go away. When I cum buck I hIiiiII II growed a Maun! and will bring you lots of mutiny. Kopu a gud heart. I mono to II a grate traveller. "Vures. .Johnny." His mother sat down mid cried as if her heart would break for her pretty, curly-headed boy, but his father throw bacli his head mill laughed. "The young scoundrel!" he said. I wish I had known it. A good rope's ending would havo set him till right. I didn't think tho little fellow had so much grit in him, Now don't you worry, mother; bo's got two hundred and seventy miles to walk to the nighest sea-port town." "But lie's got ten dollars," sobbed tho mother. "No, ho ain't. I took that out and put a bogus jiiece in the box somo time ago. I put it in tlio bank for him. So ho'll Iind out 'foro long that that's no good." "O, Lislia, how could you?" moaned Johnny's mother. " 1 know 'twas kinder mean, but 1 nevor thought tho lad would want to use it. Now don t you fool bad. Lot tho young man havo the benolit of his experience. It'll do him good. No body'll harm him, and bo's not goin' to starve on tho road. Lot him travel. Won't ho bo glad to git back agin that's all?" Two days passed. Johnny's mother cried herself almost blind, but Johnny's father and the baby behaved like stoics. Tlio baby contemplated its toes, when it was not crying, with an air of compla cency. Johnny's father nobody knew what ho felt inwardly, but outwardly ho was as calm as a summer lake, and nover went further than the end of his own acres to socif tlio boy was coming back. " He'll stop at his Aunt Sady's," he said to his wife, "and she'll send him home." Ho was right. Tiio third day aj. soiled and bedraggled specimen of boy foflornness came limping along tho path that led to tlio farm-house. Mlis mother saw him first, and, throwingthe baby in granny's lap, just How down tlio road. There wasn't much said, but a good deal of hugging and kissing was goingou when Johnny's father appeared on tlio scene. " Well, sir, what you want to com plcto the cure is a good Hogging," lie said in his sternest voice, but his lips trembled, and there was something suspiciously like a tear standing in his eyes. "Como hero, you young rascal!" Iio called: and wliilo the mother silently dried lior eyes with tlio corner of her apron, ho took tho boy up and squeezed him si little. l'oor Johnny's head fell on his fath er's shoulder, and before they got to tho house ho was fast asleep. When lie awoke on tho following morning in his own bed, never iiad lie listened to sweeter music than tho old familiar crow. It wasn't tho least trouble to do all his chores. The baby behaved like an angel, and granny was till smiles. Little Bessy came to soo him, nobody taunted liim about his experience, and ho came to tlio con clusion that homo was about as good a place for a ton-year-old youngster as had thus far been involuted. l'oidli's Companion. Forests and Water Courses. Tlio rapid itv with which our forests are disappearing, while scarcely an effort is being made by either tlio Gen eral or tlio State Governments to re lduoo tlioso that tiro cut down, natural ly excites tlio apprehensions of all who understand what important factors trees are in tlio economy of nature. At a meeting in a Western city some time ago of gentlemen interested in tho lumber trade ligures wore adduced to show that at tlio present rate of con sumption iind destruction the forests of Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin will havo given out in less thtrti a mar- l tor of a century. The question is ono j of the highest importance, and we are glad to see that it was ono of the themes I of discussion by ',ho scientific gathering that lately mot in Cincinnati. Prof. I Thompson, of that city, pointed out that there is a close connection bo- tween forests and water courses, and that tho disappearance of the great tim ber tracts in a country invariably loads to a decreased depth in its rivers. Tlio ' most remarkable illustration of this fact is furnished by Palestine, whore I the smaller streams aro drying up. The I Danube, the Elbe, the Rhino, the Mis sissippi rivers aro all said to be much , shallower now than formerly, and tho scientific explanation is that' which wo have given. Tree planting is eucour ' aged in some of the States, but ir. so j weak and half hearted a way that roul ! ly very little is done in tho ni&Uwr. For evory tree cut down at least tv o should bo pmnted.--.iY. Y. Herald. A. j