TIIK" ADVHIITIKKU.
o. v. rAiuituoTiii:u & co,
rio V1HI0NH.
Whero oloi thn curving inoiiiiliilnn drow
To clasp thn nl roam In their embrace,
Willi tivi ry outline, curve and hue
Uellectcd In Itn plaold face,
The jilfMvinnii stopped IiIh team to wnloli
Tin" train, its hw.H, II thundcrod hy;
Soimt dMiint glimpfln of lllo to catch,
We utinlns Ins eager, wiKtltil eye.
Tho morning frcdini'HS litis on him,
.Inst wakened Iron) his balmy dreams;
Tli" travelers, hcirimcd and iliin,
Think longingly or iihhiiiIiiIii Htroauis.
Oh. lor the Jovous mountain mr,
'I lie Ir "ih, deilghtttil nut ii inn day
Among Hi"' hills! The plowiiinii llioro
.Must Imw) perpetual liollilnyl
Anil tin, ii nil day long lit' guides
II'h steady plow, Willi put lent h mil,
Thinks or the Hying tiulii that glides
Into some now, enchanted land,
Where, day hy day, no plodding round
Weailcs thu Iratnti unit dulls thn mind
Where life thrl Is keen to sight and sound,
With plows and fin row lid l behind.
Kvjii ho. to each, thn tin trod ways
)l life aro touched hy lane) m glow,
Tluit over Nlii'd4 Us bilghtcst ravN
Upon the path wi do not knnwl
.Iimm Af. Mncimr, In I'riumu Mdvatliir..
A COMMON STOItV AIIOUT COMMON
FOLK.
"Hero' a a piece of ytiod news, Sally,"
orlod Tom I.ovoi-ol to Ii'ih wife, as ho
ran Into tliu tiny kitchen whoro thu
neat tca-tablo was ready spread. " I'm
to ho foi'omim til tliu h!io), and my
-wages aro mt)ro than tloiihlo after tliu
lirst of tho month."
Woll, that, la good news, Tom,'1
cried JSallv, radiant, with pleasure as
flhu not thu dish of ham and eggs be
fore hor husband, and poured out his
ituu. Mitt it'ri no moro than you do
tfurvo, if I do Hity it. I was Haying to
.Martha Docker, wlinn she was giving
mo thu now pattern for your .shirts yes
terday: 'Martha,' says I, it Isn'l to ho
oxnuctod hut what 'Tom's employers
will suit his valitu before long; and from
what I liuar thuy do already.' "
" Woll, I havu put my shoulder to tho
wheel," said Tom. it's not my way
to loaf; and now wo uan begin to suvo
or a rainy day."
"Yes; and you won't want mo to
iHtitoh shirt bosoms tor old Mr. Isaacs,
'jiow you aro foruman," saitl Sally.
" I nuvor did expect it. "L'was your
own thought, Sally," stiil Tom.
Sally hail boon nblo tomako four dol
lars a week by stitching sliirt bosoms al
odd timus, and it li.ul bean hor ttiud for
'hor own drews, anil nice things for tliu
children. Hut that evening situ took in
itliu last of hor sowing, and unit! to old
'llr. Isaacs:
"I sha'n't need to sow any moro;
my husband is iniulu loronuiii at tho
whop."
"That's pood," saitl tho .shirt makor,
us ho took hur liltlu btmilloandoouutoil
out hor pay. "That's good luck, no
tloubt; but um'd bo all tho riohor if ott
wont on doing tho stitching. J-'our dol
Elars is four dollars, anil it's a big sum
tin tho yoar counted all up."
" Weil, perhaps it is," saitl Sally;
"but I don't need it any more."
And so thn poor widow who had
'boon trying to got stitching to do was
lhappior next morning than sho had
Ibtjoii for yours; anil Sally, singing
Jibout hor work, mado tip hor mind to
liavo a littlu moro pleasure now, ami to
'walk out moro and tako tea oftonor
with Martha Dcokor.
That ovuning sho bogau a now sub
doot to Tom.
"Tom," sho said, "this is an awfully
ungontool place for a loromnn's family.
.Now, (hero's a Hat in thu noxt stroot,
only livo dollars a month moro than
'this, that would bo ploasantor. We'd
jhavo a Httlo parlor thuro and nicor
moighbors. You'll fool liko holding up
ryour head a littlo higher now."
" Oh, I sha'n't tako airs," said Tom;
but livo dollars a month won't break
imo; lot's havu tho Hat."
Thn Hat was hired, and tho furuituro
Irom tho old placo looked as Sally
said- like nothing in It. Tho parlor
hvas empty.
"Ot course," saitl Sally, "wo can't
ay out nionov; but thoro is afurnituro
ahot) In tho avenue where thoy tako in
atalhnonts. Now 1 could ijroL tho thinjjs
that way."
1 "I suppose wo must have them."
fluid Tom. "Don't bo uMravnmuit,
Sully."
"1 extravagant!" oriod Sally.
And, indeed, sho hud nuvor boon so;
(but at tho shop, whoro thov know vorv
rwell that Tom Leveret's salary w.fs
dotibluil, thoy were so obliging that be
fore sho knuw it Sally hail bought a
hundred dollar:.' worth or lurnituro.
"Since jou can't pay much down,
Mrs. l.ovorot," said tho proprietor,
'"wo inu-t have ton dollars a month."
Ten dollaiB a month for a voar! Sally
gaspotl at the thought; but torn nskoil
fhor no tiui'stions, and shu had tho hand,
fling of t ho money. So tho parlor shono
resplendent w.th red reps, luruiluio,
marblo-toppud table, mantol orua
Djents, and a "real oil painting" in a
gilt frame, and thu liuust curtains pus
tiible.
Friends called ami adir ired, and Mrs.
?Aiveret lolt that thuro was something
napproprialo in tho wtfo of thu fore
man bu ng mtiinatu with that shabby
little Martha Dockur. Martha took hor
first snub, and was soon no more at tho
now house, and Sally lost hor ttuo.it
Jriond.
"Mrs. Lovorot, ma'am, now your
husband is in good bus iii'ss, why don't
you golyoiiiNolf a handsome silksuitP"
asked tl o wife of tliu dry goods store
frcopor ono mornng ot Sallv.
"Woll wo' vu spent bo much for fur
nishing, I thought I'd wuil a while,"
Bald Sally
"Shaw! Why, we'd givo vott credit,"
crlt'tl tho ladv behind tiiocounler. "Wo
know your meant. Hero's some silk
now, anil velvet to match it -hunter's
green, with gold buttons, and a hat
trimmed to match. They're wearing
every thing aliko now, ami wo'vo splen
did gloves. .lust choose, and pay when
you like."
Sally hesitated, looked again, and
ended by buying; ami soon her bill at
the dry goods store was a largo one, for
the children must be as line as their
mother, and when it was so easy to say
to Mrs. Shaelfer:
"Solid it down to-day," whv not
buy? Ami so, Without Tom's knowl
edge, the tlay came when paving a lit
tlu hero, and pay ng a littlo tlieie, Sally
was striving to stave oil hur creditors,
ami waitetl more anxiously for the pay
ment of the big salary than sho ever
had for the small one.
It all came at once.
"Ma'am, vou'to no lady, and I'm
going to your husband with my bill,"
cried Mrs. ShiteHer; "ho's an honest
man, I hope."
"The meat anil things has got, to bo
paitl for, ami don't ou forget it. I'll
speak to Mr. Leveret," roarud tho pro
iion dealer.
" Coal's is coals, and I want tho price
of 'em,'' explained the coal dealer.
"I don't boliovo your husband would
cheat me."
"You'ro lino enough now, but when
you wore cotton dresses, you paid fur
vour shoes," remarked the shoemaker.
"I'll go to Tom."
As for the furniture dealer, ono tlay
his dray was backed up to tho door,
ami tl'io lirussels carpet, the line
"suit," tho murble-toppetl table, ami
the "real" oil nainting went away up
on it. Fifty dollars had been paid, hut
thu dealer mado no allowance for that,
nor could Sally help herself at all. Oh.
if Mrs. Shadier could but have taken
hack all her linery! Hut that was im
possible. Oneeveiiinir Sally sat crying on a
littlo chair, while Tom, with a solemn
face, counted up the bills.
"Three humlretl dollars, Sally, not
counting the tifty for the furniture," he
.said. "It will be a long pull, but I'll
pay 'em a1!. 1 won't bo spoku of as a
thief h) old acquaintance."
"I wish 1 was dead, Tom," saitl Sal
ly. " Do you hate me?"
" "No. my dear," said Tom. "I
haven't anything but love for von in my
heart. Only wo'vo both learnt a les
son. Crodi't ain't cash and luck ain't
luck if you make poor usu of it. We'll
go back to the old rooms for a bit and
save lor a while."
" And I'll got some stitching," said
Sally.
" I don't require it of von," saitl
Tom.
Hut Sally did it. There was nuougli
for her and thu widow, also, ami sno
loltlod her silk away and wore calico
again, anil sho went to work with a
will, humbled by hor downfall. It was
a hard two years' work, but thoy did it,
ami tho time camo when, l'rou of debt,
tho young couple looked happily into
each other's eyes.
" Wo can livo a littlo nicor now, Sal
ly," said Tom, "but wo must remem
ber our experience!''
And so thoy did, and, beinir really
good ami honest folk, they prospered,
"I wouldn't ask bar while wo lived
so plain," said Sally ono day, "but
now wo'ro nice again 1 moan to ask
Martha Decker to come ami seo mo.
She's a good old Iriontl, thouirh I was
carried away by Mrs. Scliaull'or's Hue
airs and by tho politeness of people who
only courted mo because they thought
mo prospering."
" Hint's right," saitl Tom. "Wo'vo
got something by our experience, anyhow."
Touching Instance el" Filial Devotion.
Not long ago a young man in Carson
got married and started lor Calitornia
w th his young wife. As ho boarded tho
train his lather badu him good-by ami
gave him thu parental blessing.
"My son," said tho aged sire, shaking
witli emotion, uto., "rouiumbur thesu
words if you nuvor sue mo again- Never
go into a placo where yoa would not
take your wifo."
'I ho couple settled in Mariposa
County.aml Inst week tho old man went
down to visit them. Ho proposed a bear
hunt, and thoy were lortunnto enough
to track a gri..ly to his hur among some
ot the bowlders in the ehapparal. As
tho two approached, tho bear roused up
and sent lorth a growl of tlolianco
wliirli shook the trees.
"(Jo in thoro anil kill Mm," said the
old man, excitedly.
Tliu t-on hold back, further acquaint
ance with tho bear suominjj in somo
respect untlo.-urab o.
"Count mo out," ho said.
"Havo i orossud the seas anil settled
in America to raiso a coward." shouted
tho Jathor, brandishing his gun.
" 1 but recollect our advice whou I
left Carson." was iho reply. "How
can 1 lorgot our sago prooopts. Didn t
you toll mo never to go whom L
coultln t tikumy wile. Now, how would
Sal look in thoro with that buar.J"
Tho old man clasped his dutiful son
to Ins bosom, and as tho bear issued
lorth exclaimed:
' Speak ng of Sally, let us hasten
homo ; our prolonged al3onco might
cause her needless alarm "
In about Hlteon minutes they had
roaohod the ranoh. the old man a littlo
ahead, and the distance was about four
miles. -Carton (AVp.) Api.cnl.
Prof. Hoall gives a list of forty
three agricultural ami mechanical col
leges in tho United States, only live of
which havo no farms attached. Thov
aro louated in thirty-sovou ilifloroiit
Stutes. ThoMiohignn"AgriiMiltural I'ol
loijo is oitcd as ono of tho most success
lul kind in tho country.
iiEMuiousANii kducational.
-Hrotlmr ItmVrin Iiils returned frnm
his ovangellcal tour around the world,
ami is now holding revival semens in
Philadelphia.
-Tho Rev. Dr. Thomas, of Chicago,
says of his ox pulsion from the Method
ist denomination forherosy; "Tho He
brew language has tho phrase, 'Hatots,'
which translated means 'in tho out.'
That's whoro 1 am."
- Tho Nov. (J. S. I'elton. latoof Hart
ford Seminary, writes from Dead wood,
Dakota, that he is the only Congrega
tional minister in service in the North
ern Hills, having the eh irge of six
churches and the prospect of an acade
my to care for temporarily.
The reporto of the sumi-nuiiual
conference of the Mormon Church at
Salt Lake tlo not indicate any abate
ment of zeal oo the part of thu men
with many wives. Filteen thousand
delegates were fathered from Utah,
Ari.ona, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada,
ami their religious enthusiasm was re
markable. Tho clergymen of Koxburv, Mass.,
are devising new methods of temper
ance, work, and one of them is to em
ploy an agent to visit the Police Court
every ihu. interest himself in the eases
of men arraigned for tho lirst time for
intoxication, and adopt whatever course
may seem most judicious for their re
form. - The First District Conference of
tho A. M. K. Church, in session at
Haltimoro recently, passed resolutions
Htronirly condemning the practice of
holding camp-meetings. Ono minister
present saitl that a member of his
church spent fortv-live dollars for hack
hire to camp-ineoting, and refused to
givo ono cent to the support of tho
church.
- The annual report of tho St. Louis
Superintendent of Schools shows the
total number of pupils enrolled to bo
A I, Aril, of which 'J.i.OG aro bo,s anil
iifi.AO,; atv girls. Tlie average number
belonging to tho schools is ;J7,.S-i7, and
:H.8!)iJ is tliu average daily attendance.
The average number of teachers is !J7,
and the average numherof pupils under
the charge ot each Hughs!) teacher is
18. Tho avoragu cost of tuition per
scholar is !?1A.28, ami the average cost
of incidentals is Sl.'.i'J, making the total
cost per scholar $17.-'7. The avoragu
salary paid each teacher is .-?.jUL'.01.
Some Plain (Questions fur Pretty Women
to Answer.
Why do women with red or yellowish
hair wear "dead" gold, and greens that
remind the beholder of badh -cooked
vegetables? Whv do pale-faced,
browu-bairetl women wear thetlcoi) roil
anil orange huos which can "go" only
with the olivu and pomesrranata tints
ami tho blue-black hair of the south?
Who is accountable for the terrible
terra cotta garments in which some
otherwise harmless maidons porvadu
fashionable crowds, inspiring tho ob
server with wonder, totally unmixed
.with.admiration?- slender girls arraved
in shapeless clothes, mado apparently
of slices of tho wall of the new Natural
History Museum at South Kensington;
strong minded young women in ag
grosstvu cloa s, so uuspo ikahly hideous
that we sigh for the ulster of last sea
son, which wo ttiQ.li believed could not
bo surpassed m oilibusness; awful tilings
mado of sngo-green tweed with blue
frills, or gosling woolen stuffed tipped
witli pink1, 'iho eel-skin stvlo has
been succeeded hv the bag, and though
the latter is more decent, "it is not much
less ugly. A woman with high, narrow
shoulders, and thin, long army, might
Ho bettor than array her-olf in a black
satin hag. witli a running siring at tho
neck ami at tho waist a "piping."
(taich wo woro assured by a sympa
thetic friend ot the olVouilers' own sex,
is the correct term by which to de
scribe this contrivance,) from which the
skirt hangs shapo'ess to within an inch
of tho anules; and sho might crown tho
edifice moro becomingly than with a
bonnet or w'us ,t a hat? -like nothing
in a nature oxcept a crumbled cab
bage Tho "cozy, 'as an adjunct to tho
tea table, is of dubious elegance as
woll as unquentionab'o fatal to drink
able tea: but when adapted as a cape
to the shoulders of blooming girlhood,
forming a straight line across tho mid
dle of its bao and cutting its sleeves
in two just above tho olbovy.it is thu
very most unsightly piece of dress that
can bo put on, especially if it is of a
sickly color. Salmon-pink satin, lining
a big bonnet of erinky crinoline, look
ing liko half a dozen shells joined at
tho ciUes, would bo trying to the best
complexion; it was consoling to nop it
applied only to tho worst. Why should
a very pretty lady wear a Hat gown of
a poi-uliarly ropu'sivo greon in color,
but of rich velvet in nritorial, ami in or
it a hideous camlet cioak of another,
and, if possible, moro repulsive green,
with a bunch of ollowlsh ribbon at the
bi-ek, and a plush bonnet liko tho vUor
of a. knight's helmot? Whv should
writing people, aiming pooolo. sing
ing puoplc, ncoplo presumably intelli
gent, since thoy all do something that
pleases tho public and is paid for in
money, array ihonnolvos in garment
of price, indeed -shabbiness is not the
noto of tho popular all'ectation but
which rondur them distressingly con
spicuous? Those questions cannot fail
to occur to men ohsorving tho humors
of a select crowd, and especially as tho
dross ot tho "eon hot nggendor" tontls
moro and more to s mplk'itv. Of
course, tnoro w II alwius bu affected
malo idiots, long-haired and short
haired, with neck-tios that make us
staro. and hats that mako us wink by
thoir brilliancy; but those aro thu more
"brats"' of soo oh thoy aro too insig
nilicaut to bo ou'oii8ivo.'--ZicmiM Spco
tutor.
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Youilis9 Dcpnrtiiiciit.
THE LITTLE QlllL WHO TRIED
TO MIND.
5in an, (rood ulster ."usnnl was n ja'titlo kM of
elKht.
And Toity wns but four yeur.s old, when what
I now relaio
Uiiimj to the happy littlu pair, one bright No-
vtunbur day -A
Hnnd'iy, too whllo jrood pupa was munv
mlliH away.
Tloiid-hv, my darlings! don t fowt. Tho
llttli- ones went forth,
Thoir hearts all In a Hininy k'.ow, their f nuoa to
tho north
'I heir fuees to the elilllliiff north, but not a whit
cared thuy,
Though thopruttv church before them stood
full half a mile away.
For inotlior, with linr otnllltiK face mid cheery
voice, ha I said:
"I cannot tin to church to-day, but you may go
Instead.
Haby will need mo here at homo tho prculous
lit i lo pet I
Hut luii)lu khiw in time, yon know. KIio'IIko
to meetum yet.
"Take caro of nliter Stiol" Hho said, while ty-
Inir I'otty s hood
"And, I'ottvklns, I'm nnro you'll bo, oh, vein
Mid and koo I!
Good-by. my durllnirsl Don't forget. Now,
Hue, you know tho pow!
And, Tot, be mamma's little mouse, and sit up
cloiO to Hue."
A pretty night It truly wtvs, to see the rosy
pair
Walk down tho aisle and tako their Heats, with
sweetly solemn air.
And Susie soon was listening, her inauuerall
Intent,
WJille little Tot sat prim and stiff, mid won-
oeren wum it me. nil. i
Tht'ipintnt, old-fashl mod meeting-houso had '
i0WT.seut4 lo,v till I hare,
With lucks that reached above tho hettda when ,
t hey were bowed in pr lycr. I
And thus it was whou Huddeuly n Bcratching i
fco.iud win heard, '
Fulnt at tho llrst, then ulmojt loud but not u ;
person sun ed.
Alt heads were bowed; and yet It ro-te that i
i-uratehlng, pu..liug sound. I
Tho Htaidest members r,l od thch- eyes and
tried to hi ik uionnd;
Till Knslo. tatly little maid! telt, with a
startled fear.
That, whatsoe er Its cause might bo, the nolso
was rttr.ingely near.
Out went her Hlyly-warnlng hand, to reach for
Totty thore;
When, oil. the noratchlng roso above the clos
ing word 4 of prayer!
An empty inlttoii on the seat wm nil poor Su
sie telt,
While on the lloor, In wondious stylo, tho
ear.iojt Totty knelt I
Poor Susie leaned and signaled, and beckoned,
all In vain;
Totty win very much engaged and would not
heo I, 'twas pialn.
When suddenly u ohlldUli voice- rang through
the crowded hou e:
"Don't, Susie: 'cause I vo dotjo bo my mum
ma's 'ittlo mome!"
Many a sober face relaxed, nnd many smiled
outright,
While otaoi-s mourned in sympathy with Su
sie's Mirry plight ;
And Totty, wild wlili wrath because sho could
be mome no more.
Was earrlo I -oon, n s iliblug child, ont through
me wiiii! cinircii-ooor.
Now, parents, ponder whllo yo may upon this
mid iiilrtinip,
The mother, not tho mouse, you see, was
eaug it within the trap.
An Ic-a your little liste.ilng ones may go be-
jond your tScacli,
llo chary of your metaphors and ilgnrativo
speech.
Jncl .Shicj, hi .S7. Xlcln&u.
KENTON S CHILDHOOD.
Sir Isaac Newton is tho greatest of
modern philosophers and mechanics.
Whun hu was born, December '2o, 1012,
three months after his lather's d-iath,
ho was so small and looblo that no ono
supposed ho would livo a day; but tho
weak inlant crew to bu a healthy, ro
bust man, who lived until hu waa
eighty-four years old. He began to in
vent or contrive machines and to how
his taste for muehau cs in early child
hood. Ho mhor.tod some property'
from his father, and his mothor, who
had married a second time, sent h'm to
tho best schools, and to the University
of Cambridge. At school ho soon
showed his natural taste; ho amused
himself with littlo saws, hatchets, ham
mers and' dillorent tools, and when his
companions wero at play spent his time
in tn iking machines and toys, llo
made a wooden clojlc whou ho was
twolvo years old, and the modol of a
windmill, and in his mill ho put a
mouso. which ho called his miller, and
which turnotl the wheels by running
around its cage. Ho mado a water
olook four foot high, and a cart with
four wheels, not unlike a velocipede, in
which ho could dnvu himself by turn
ing a windlass.
His lovo of mechanics often inter
rupted his studio at seho j1, and ho was
sometimes making clocks and carriages
when ho ought to havo been construuig
Latin and Greek. Hut his mind was so
actlvo that ho easily caught up again
with his fellow scholars, and was al
ways fond of ovory kind of knowledge.
Hu taught the schoolbovs how to mako
paper k tos; ho made paper lanterns by
which to go toschool in tho darii winter
mornings; ami somotimos at night he
would alarm the whole country round
by raising his kites in tho air with a
paper lantern attached to tho tad; thoy
would shino liko meteors in the dis
tance, and tho country poop'o, at that
time vorv ignorant, would tancy them
omens of uvil, and celestial lights.
llo was never idlo lor a moment. IIo
learned to draw and sketch; hu madu
little tablos and sideboards lor tho chil
dren lo play with; hu watched the mo
tions of tho sun by moans of pegs ho
had lixed in Iho wall or tho house where
ho lived, and marked ovory hour.
At last, whou ho was about sixteen,
his mother placed him in charge ot a
farm, nnd every Saturday ho wont with
a servant to Grantham market to soil
his corn and vogetaulos. Hut tho af
fa rs of tho farm did not prospor; tho
young philosopher hid himself awav In
a room in a garrot whiuh hu hired,
studying nice unites ami iuvotitimr a
wtitur-whonl or a now umiIoI, whiio tho
snoop wandered away in tho liold, and
the cattle devoured his corn.
Noxt ho went to Cambridge Universi
ty, and boeamu a famous schomr. At
in' miiiiCTWwiimi i rmi
tho ago ot twenty-lout ho bogan tils
study of the spo.'tium, as philosophers
call that brilliant, picture of tho colof
of tho rainbow, which is shown by the
sun's rays shining throtigh a throe
sided piece of glass, callotl a prism. It
is one of tho most beautiful objects in
Bolonee or nature, ami Newton's study
of its splendid colors led to his greatest,
discoveries in Aitics, or tho science of
thosihU In our own time the use of
thu prism antl its spectrum lias shown
ns of what tliu sun and moon aro com
posed. Ono day, as Newton eat musing In
Ids gardou ath's retired country home,
an apple felt from a tree to the ground.
A great idea at oneo aroo in his mind,
and ho conceived tho plan of the uni
verse and of tho law of gravitation, as
it is called. Ho was tho first to dis
cover that famous law. Ho showed
that tho heavier body always attracts
the lighter; th it as tho apple falls to
the earth, so tho earth is drawn toward
tho sun; that all tho planets feel the
law ot gravitation, and that all tho uni
verse seems to obey ono will. Newton
soon became the most famous of living
philosophers. Hut at the same time hu
was the most modest of men; hu never
know that ho bail done any thing moro
than others, nor folt that ho was any
more studious or busy. Yet hu novor
ceased to show, oven in lato old age.
tho sumo love for mechanical pursuits
and the study of nature ho had shown
when a boy. His most famous work,
tho I't'itiriiiiit, proving the law ofirnivt
tatinn and the motion of the planets,
appeared in 1 087. He mado beautiful
prisms of glass and olhor substances,
and line relleetipg telescopes, tho best
that wero yot known, llo wrolo valu
able histories and works. Ho was al
ways a devout Christian and scholar.
Ho died in 17'J7, and was buried in
Westminster Abbey.
Thus the puny babe that was scarcely
thought worth the caro of l'.s nurses
became an active and healthy boy and
man, with tho clearest mint of his
tinio. Ho was stout, ruddy, healthy,
anil never, it is said, lost a tooth. Hut
ho preserved his health by avoiding all
that was hurtful. Ho was a philoso
pher at twelve years old, and tho world
owes much of its progress to Nuwton's
well-spent childhood. Harper's 1'oumj
People.
Heroic Acts.
Last winter a little boy playing on
tho wharf of a river town in I'onnsyl
vania loll into tho river. Tho currout
mado by a passing si earner carried him
into deep water. It was lato in the
evening, and nobody saw tho accidont
but a littlo lamo irirl of oluvon, named
Katy Hrcbchkowsky. With tho aid of
her crutch she hobbled out on tho pier,
and then, dropping on hor face, sho
climbed down to iho odgo of tho water.
Tho boy was wodged between two
blocks of ice noir tho pier. Katy
climbed like a cat out, to the end ot tho
timbers, and then dropped injo the
water, stretching out ono foeblo hand
towards him, but sho could not roach
him. A stop farther and another.
Sho was now up to tho nook in tho icy,
surging currout. She caught his arm
anil pulled his head above water, hold
ing to tho timber oorhead with tho
other hand. In this position she re
mained lor an hour in peril of death
every mome it, until at, last she was
seen by some passers-by, and with
dillieulty rescued. Thu boy was un
known to hor.
Another heroic child, u boy of six, in
New York, left its baby brother for a
moment to bring a drink, and return
ing, found it had crawled near thu
stovo and its ololhos had taken fire.
Tho little fellow wrappod tho child in a
blanket and battled with tho flame until
he put it out, but not botoro his own
arms and broast woro badly burned.
Now every boy and girl woud like
to do heroic acts such as these. , In
deed, young people aro apt to spend a
good deal of timodroamiugof tho valor
and cooiness they will disp ay in saving
life when an omorgency comes. Tho
emergency seldom does come, and
when it does, thore is usually no horoio
solf-sacrilice to meet it, o'lther from
children or mon and women Tho
reason of this is that ono person in a
thousand makes solt-sacrilico aconstnnt
habit in trilling things, while tho uthor
nine hundred and ninety-uino aro plan
n ng for tho supremo opportunity. That
ono alono is ready for tho opportunity,
and rises by habit to meet it. Tho oth
ers aro appalled by it into indecision or
cowardice.
Wo are suro that this poor littlo crip
ple, Katy, and ihe six-year-old hero aro
unselfish, gentle children in their daily
pltMs. Surely tho hab t of unsellish
n ess is worth cultivation, for if tho
crucial moment of trial novor comes,
it ni:i'es of tho lito of any man or
woman a high heroic strain, which up-
li ts tho souls of all who hear it
loulh'.s Companion.
Moon Hli nd nos. There is no per
manent cure lor th s evil, which is apt
to ret i rn. again and again at uncertain
intorvals. and IinaUv leave the horse
moro or loss completely blind. In tho
beginninir of the attack placo the horso
in a darkened stall. Having foil one or
two meals of bran mash, givo a purga
tive doso of medicine, composed of t?vo
drams ot aloes, ono dram of podophyl
lum two drams of niter and a dram of
capsicum. Hatho tho oyos twico dally
with warm water, by means of a soft
sponge, and apply hot ween tho oyolids,
b moans of a siua'l camel's hair pen
oil, a portion of a mixturo of half an
ounce of Goulard's extract, one ounce
of I uid oxtra-t of belladonna, nml a
pint of d.stillod water. Appl also to
tho lids, and to tho hollow over the cvo
a portion of fluid oxtact of belladonna.
Give loos"nlng lood in moderate quan
t ties, strong light and strong winite
should be molded. Uvsttm llurat.
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