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ItSLT'SiiJ Wt '. - 1a wt m H' k r-f-- flf ? - -ae rAr? " 21 It . . r . , r f ST. " -' r . f--r ifjoir . J'flR r , &- jm ? Jmtri - &LM' I immTif mm MStfM m i J Its s- 4,: fl jij r- fr fe SI I T4' .1 i t U I L- '$' ' far AM mm Id b MMMnuiti b- m ATE. taor;ot MQMMrlir fee msMestlsa. fa m evMeneeof gee fatta ea the part of wnwt r -- rat sun of tao as . Baaarttevlarlreanfaltectviav usm CUf Ml HVI MttMS ...-. i . ,. .Ti : IfffStM pltt WM'RtMBC. OITY LYRICS. Sftt M so rare an a day la Jane "Wja tnuapa aad auckfters are In tuae? jaa an wita ftrawberrie to sell fte tunas upoa the front-door, bell I When It is aiaety In the shade, aad boys with matches coreo to trade: 'While doira tao stiMlat- street tkere Koes "Wad shrieks ot "'Ts-toes! oh h 'ta-toes." "When sultnr sildnivht's dnnrnnnn 'ScboM the aeroe atosqalto's tuno; 7rora restless sleep he bids you come, -Aad softly slag-: 7Are ycu to huai? "When, oft as day's long heat is o'er THhj cockroach skims alone the floor;' When in the door-fratae snarly pressedi u.ae mua-wasp oauas ser ciay-riDbea ni When on the trees, so tosv swoet. The early cherries sy: " Come, eat -n.ua long oeioro uo set 01 sun The robins est them, every one. When on the clover sward von etsL 3Jy heat and tennis sore opprcied. You nse with glad and sweeturprlso u.ae Dee beneath tbe clover J When loitering' down thohaded lane, The meadow's fragrant weath to gain, 3Tou pause, erabaiTasMl, as you stray JA. mad-dog moots youn the way. Waoro evcrytbin; vlth feet and wings That crawls and tickles, bites and stings, Creeps eut of cjrg, nest and cocoon "What Is so rare as some days In June? . J. DunlctU, in Brooklyn Eagle. ON THE PRAIRIE, Our house stood alone in the midst of vast prairie. It seemed very lonely to ray mother, I dare say, and "though -we children were content, I think she lungered for the old homestead in the fKast. Still she seldom spoke of it, and .kept up a brave heart before father and us children. She had, that lirst year .after moving on the prairie, a strange ifancy when alone of closing the doors, -drawing the curtains', and shutting out the sunny outer world. The earth seems -so vast," she would say, "it wearies mo to see it stretching into the sky. I feel such an atom in the uni verse." Father wasted no time in fancies or -regrets. A mortgage had swallowed up the old homestead, and thankful he lived in a land where such an alterna tive was possible, he devoted head and liands to creating a new home for his loved ones in the West At tbe end of the second summer we felt that we were well established in our new house. Like those of our few neighbors, it was a small, unpainted dwelling, built very economically, with s few angles as possible, looking mother used to say "like an upturned dry-goods box." The summer had been delightful, and the dry season, which prevails to a .greateror less extent nearly ovcry 3'car, camp too late to damage the growing erop3 materially; but it dried up the .'shallow water-courses and parched tho drank firrass drv and brown, so that, ft rustled drearily in tho fierce soutrJ -winds. " $ OnR ninrninar if-, woo tlm Ortfl. nt Cn. .. ZZZ '", '' .""" Tv u7 V tumour a uaio written lor us in letters of fire father started for Prairie vills Jiow the wind raged that day! r .liouso quivered in every beam. I jires were not kindled, for mot'itr .greatest dread during such winditi Tsras ure. ouuuemy one ot tne en dozen Tushed in, exclaiming: "J see a black -cioua 01 smoke oil in the south! I saw mother's faire glow whKisjJli "Can it be a prairie lire, aud'fijBuch .day." she exclaimod. Hying 'i'fS up- per window for a better view. Silently . -we crowded around her. wattjUitg the 3dark cloud that widoncd evefrfifistant. ml wno flmwinw tsi...aMl iUH:..t.i fright- .iul swiftness. i Alter a bnof survey nu turned :swav, saving: "It wa nraii re! We .must fight it, my childreu!K: best we -anay. licr face was pale ilo her lips; but she srW ath. even an a arm Tvoice, for our mother eou; be a brave .--woman when there was'j ."We fight it! Hov$ cried, in -Auuumuuu uuurus. 1: icre were six of U5.tMill, a delicate oy 01 luiriccn; rcn-VMUf-o a Jamie, a c j i- ; a. . . Lr i 1 t -a-obust little folloyrSi;ttlo ones To ,3n- and Sadie pVe&io Sadie! h: 1)111- iby Jxell and I, Dora, a 01 littceu. Mother did not er us. bhe was ixisuing auout n g preparations. : gathering up nr; inful of woollen -clothes from the .for I, in my igno, on tho wall, what e, could not guess. "A'ow, boys!'), cried, "harness the .norses to tho ir and lift the plow an.' Wo wUL jj, he south side of the inrm and do we can. Uo w:111 -take 'eff Our c dresses, Dora," she iadded, "and on our tlanuel ones. Hien run to f ell aud draw a tub of nvater." Frighteui to silence wo oboved. another wc the cloths in the w'ater sIdrow m the well. Then, with many pa;- injunctions to the chil- lrcn, we; them. Whenj ached tho southern cde of our the panting horses were the plow. We exnected liitcke rtn t.ri few furrows and set a back- r4mA 4 rvf t tho liery flood pouring down This was mother's ho do but mponi at.Wi almost impossible task: for tbe nd was baked hard. :md thn idled by tho summer's work. all efforts of Willie's weak arms it in the oround. and inmnil d yards at a time. The panting strained and pulled, ierked for- and (lew back, aud on the second w stopped short and refused to t again. hid-all this time the fire was rushin Already the air becan to bo. Ullod mil cinders. Mother rraw dosnnrato. ?t. me take tho.nlmv Willio ' cl.n laid, f JlJll Stronor.r tlmn vnn nm iif- 'hapS ICa Imld tt Vnn ArU-nt,n J.AJL, lead them,. whjp ti,en,t anvthw t0' make them fe?t for even-thmg depends on them !" v L Again they suged on, mother flinging desperate to the plow, now liold.iigit with all Scanty strength, then le ng half : dragged behind it when, thrown out, it slid ov te ora jerked furiously along bj the frantic Jiorses which Jamie guides and Will "whipped. I, compelled to lo idle, stooo. watch ing to catch the lirst glimpse of the ad vancing flames. They had just returned to the starting-point," leaving lour fcr xows a ragged line behind them, whea saw a tongue of llame, and then an other and another, flash out through the dense smoke which had now rolled P out a mile away, and screaming : --Here it comes!" scrambled from mv perch and ran with the news to mother. She and Will had seen it, and stood looking in each other's faces with frightened, -despairing eyes, but only tor an instant ''Turn the horses loose, boys!" she ried: "and, Dora, give me the matches nd help me start a back-fire; .you ronght the matches, didn't you, child?" e exclaimed, seeing my look, of dis y as I thrust my band into my .pocket aad brought it out esipiv aaii & tmmmr mm fvBB LBBF S'aV I rasrjad?! tboorflt T0 dM' r ' I Tb boys. too,9? ! Tain, anri ihZlth dreadM aink- inr at nnr Tiftwe realised tke P- palline truth o perfect helplcw- neaw. in ther uu .-wnuaiuu, mc " - - - A 9 AM A a . m A matcbec hav00611 i"gwnt sou wo were left wja no defence ive the pitiJ Zi fully uiAjMuato one of those fewr iucjjf rows! fW Mo ran lor the wet ciotns, aw. ino to each, stationed us at iij mvmj fjave vls oar orders m hurrf.4 iervar tonJ taking herself tbe most dan 't- fib, and tiien we waited- '4 ij?- Like a terrible picture the isa ebefore me as I write. Thftri ia aii awful sublimity in a prairie fir I-?s there is in a storm at sea, wsrfjjtfjto familiarity can efface. Whajf ;jsta. must it have been to the .UcaiMfng woman and children who babe4i-t in its awful splendor for the firiijf wm On it came in the longfJYasiiipe I have since learned to kov swcll. The head-tire, the point 'm Vtf'Y. a rushing tongue of names,-;loalig into the air sixteen or eightoeeii ftift, and, like fiends ravenous fair7 tMr prey, springing forward, so toft t&fir sum mit was some feet in aiifr.nesjf of their oase. from tnis apex,-vaia with a furious wind will ofX-'.tvml a fast horse, the side-fire strojr bsjslffar away. The crackling roarlrtnslgthe dense smoke ihick with cintevs,pere appall ing; while soon the Ust';MsWheat smote our faces like a blast? '.roaif a furnace. Small were ouriiresfyet we deter mined to battle tost'.i at. We little knew the mad streirrthjif our foe, and with the bravery o dtiperation with stood the fierc'a h aaVaml it was not 1111 tne aensesmoK'jscMned almost over hanging us thatjwa & from our posts. e ran as fast' as ur wearied limbs would carry us? llie horses were all out, we led out' tbrcalf from the barn, and dragged everything movable to the plowed groiiii?,'im the midst of which the house 6trxX ; Tbe fire wi upon us almost before we finished' tjwas evident that the stable wagf'isiStcd to destruction, as woll as the oats which were stacked within a fevr feet of it. All our fears were now foe? our wheat-rick, which stood a Pttiaj aside. The grass was tramped rjrowul it. and it seemed that wo migy, save tht- We four stood guard,y setting the lire down as it reach ea fltsflow grass. It wayilesperatc struggle, the flames leaped jnypj in our very faces, singeing eyebrcrtnand hair; and but for moth er's pMftutinn in the matter of dress, we niutrcertainly have been enveloped in II'ijms. Our shoes became so that the; birned our feet. Yet neirer and nerrtitlie greedy fire ate its way. Wo nujUM it in one direction only to have it ll upon us from another, while the from our swollen eyes ran over tf c Smoke-begrimined faces, which, 74Mbur hands, were burned almost to blisterinir. Hut when the tire had sub- sisjed our stack till stood, though sur- rfnmieu oy a DiacKcucu line wmen ai ibst touched it. When the need of cxertipu was over, other sank on the ground nearly faint- ng, aud wc all dropped beside her, "breathless, scorched and utterly ex hausted. " I am thankful that our homo and children are spared," she sighed: " there is little else left, and Imust go to my babies now," she added. "Poor father, this will be a sad home-coming!" " Ah, how sad we little dreamed! We opened the door upon a pitiful picture. Baby Nell had cried herself to sleep, and" on the floor beside her crib, lay Tommy with his little troubled, tear-stained face. Our entrance roused him, and he sat up in drows3 bewilder ment. "You poor children!" mother cried, "vou have had a lonely time; but where is'Sadie?" "I don't know, mamma," he an swered, his lip quivering. "She runned oil': said she wanted to see the big fire too. 1 couldn't lock the door, and so she went." " Where did she go, child, and when?" cried mother. "She went towards the stable. O mamma! 3011 don't s'pose she's got burned up. do you?" be added, asking with childish frankness tho question which was knocking at all our hearts. As he spoke, mother's overtaxed , strength gave .way. and with a wailing cry she sank fainting to the floor, the ry. cry awoke the babv, and she and Tom my burst into a doleful chorus of wail ing, in which wo older ones silently joined. We laid mother on the lounge and applied water to her face, and in a few minutes she opened her heavy eyes and sprang to her feet, but sank back from utier exhaustion. "Oh, don't stop for me, children! run! search evervwhere!" she cried, wildly. "Go! go"!" As she stopped speaking, I heard the thud of hoofs. Father had seen the smoke, aud leaving the wagon and one horse, had galloped home on the other. "Thank tJod, you are all safe!" he exclaimed as ho entered. No one told him. Who could tell? "What ails you all?" he asked, huskily: "Is it worse than I. sea?" We told him then. Ho shivered with horror, and groaning, " Please Heaven, wo will find her yet!" rushed from the house. Suddenly we heard a cry of agonv, and looking out, I saw that father was standing in a swale where the fire had raged the fiercest, fed by resin-weeds, which shot up nine and ten feet hi"-h. Almost benumbed with dread. I draped myself to the spot. It was one of thoso sights it will take a lifetime to eflace. itirv i Sadie. Nearh nil of w oWi,;., i..i uuuaru, i;i wuai naa Deen our been burned, and tho sweet dimpled ' flosh nuil hrio-i.f ot-i , .i:, ! colored and burned. What a death for our darling! Father bore her homeward, sending me before to break the news to mother: but mv face told the story before mv trembling lips. "Is sho much disfisnred?" she fal Z3 w v.v uiiv liio I tered reacneo. -vor. f,, . s 1 struggle. "Thank Goa?thatrshe ejaculated, fervently. I heategj theiiext bSrdt enterei his precIous She gave one shudderingg.- d then again came the blessing ot-Wyon. sciousness; and for a few 'lours shT t" got her anguish. --"j I scarcely remember how the next few days passed. I know that friends came, "that they were very kind; and -that before they left, lit Sadio was laid to sleep beneath the white lilac that had been brought from the old hose in tbe East Our neighbors showed their sympathy 1 in our desolatioa wjjth tbe hearty ood- ,(v i t j ,..i -- airo. while at breakfast, his v - .3.;lUu, mc me an "iTeorn? I wish vou would cfve un ' V -uai ws overooani, ana what results u ouio cacct in her face. The smoke was very dense I ,iSSSlii J i.S0.i LI we sot there bailing and half sckr: to Jes! viere,,Madded.brinMnfortliascantV '.'" "T-T ?L A w death. j ..0h ves men chew um crr ( n r. "j".t" i.. ,i. iauxious while vouare awav that 1 can't .,..,. I . un: -, . m . l .. ,'zum i..lvumiull -auu u iumiSui,Nic ,.,,,- - --Accment.-' 1 couldn't iv mvt them uo. its a naor. mat luu- ' 2"'e suffocated before the tire r tLu..-i'i euzui i.AM.i A likely it was. Shnrt fr..M Ct-o tho one. It's fearful fas-nation is uieru uau ucuu iiu t characteristic of nettlera !n ntrv. And but for the loss ;hing could replace, we would that ther strou, earnest ex and acts of kindness in crreat sf p4 mpensated for the terror and the i H . -S that had. come to us in tow our rperience of a prairie tire. -Belle LWitc Fierce, in Youth's Companion Some Penalties of Wealth. mbablv nobodv will ever believe flncerely that it is not better to be rich thau poor; and certainly it is best for Civilization that the difficulty of reach ing that belief is practically insupera ble. From the foundation of" Christiani ty to the present day, to go no further back, men have sought riches with all their energies, and in tho majority of cases have enjoyed them when found; and though writers, who are imagina tive people, are seldom practical, have often pretended that decent poverty is better than wealth, as a rule they" did not believe these assertions themselves, and certainlv tho world has refused to accept them. A frank statement of the average creed on the subject would un questionably involve the admission that wealth is better than most other things; Jil whiln it i tirnnr thffirptifnllv in j deprecate an intense desire for it, most ,-lMm . .. - W-W v.. WV . .. - w people make it their Alpha and Omega; that as regards the current talk about its burdens, nearly everybody is willing J to assume them at a moment's notice. I The world, in short, loves money, ap preciates it, seeks it, pays respect to it. Vet, when all this is fully recognized, the fact remains -that wealth sometimes has its penalties. Here, for instance, is Mr. Garrison, who, to everybody's astonishmont, has just made an assignment. So far as can be ascertained, the fundamental cause of this action is the fart that the old gentleman's money hs become stronger than he is, and has literally overwhelmed him. Age and infirmity incapacitated him from attending daily to his many investments. But in theso days of rapid change, constant vigi lance is the price of linancial stability. The Commodore could not give tho necessary attention to his affairs, and the result is that everything has got into confusion. Take other cases: those of men who hae the largest fortunes in the country or the world. They are all necessarily hard workers. Their wealth constrains them to ceaseless supervision and watchfulness. Doubtless with some there is a pleasurable excitement about this, but at all events there are penal ties which can not be evaded, and which attach to great fortunes. Thcro is, in fact, not much exaggeration in the say ing that in many of such cases the money owns the men rather than the men the money. Perhaps these drawbacks are mtro- iliifoil fnr tho ovnrnsa Tinrtitci rtf rrin. sonng the masses to whom gieat wealth , ,- ,een denied. Thev can :it least trv I to hnliovi! tliat th nai-ns nf thn rinh RX- ceed their pleasures; and once in awhile thcro occurs an even, which seems to justify the adage that "all is not gold that glitters, ' and which shows that wisdom lay in the prayer o! Agar, when he said: "Give mo neither poveity nor riches;" for it is after all in the happy mean between the two ex tremes that the most satisfactory condi tions are tound, and that mean for tunately exists in greater proportion ! among the American people than any where else in tho world. A. 1. lriu tine. The Early Fly. If the origin of all things Is a mys tery, the genesis of tho early Hy is" a still greater one. Nor is this statement antagonized by an ancient and well worn notion that the wholo is greater than any of its parts or, if it is. then so much the worse for the old axiom. It is easy enough to see how the origin of e.vistenco iu general should be . - a w general should he a mvsterv Existence in general is some thing large and vague, and it is not specially mortifying to confess one's ignorance in regard to tiie origin ol some tremendous generality. But the fly the early fly in particular is not general, nor vague, nor large. He is particular in hi attentions, if not in his diet ami very deiinite, and small. It is therefore the more wonderful that he should spring into existence out ol apparent nothingness. But that is what he does. Nobody knows whence i,e comes, but on the first really warm U:IV he is bere aml rc:uiv for business. tin ,- ua .,..,. ,:.-w.f nt i.j..jj : fancy, either. He begins full-grown and self-reliant. He clinirs. to bo sure. but it is not for support. We never yet heard of a fly who was not fully able to support himself. And yet he soon becomes insupportable. But to return to his origin. It is the general bel of of children that he grows on window panes, and wo do not know that any better theory has been devised. That is where he makes his hrst ap appearance, at any rate. A manufact urer of window-glass who should patent a process for making paues that would not produce or nourish flies would make a fortune out of it. We do not believe, however, that such a process is possi ble. It seems to be an inherent and essential propert- of window-panes to produce Hies. It certainly is an inhe rent and essential property of flies to produce or aggravate pains. And yet, strictly speaking, flics have no property of their own. They live altogether on other people's property. Perhaps that is the reason that such persons as Mr. Ferdinand Ward are sometimes called "too ny." At all events, flics are very expensive animals. The coming of the early fly terrifies the housekeeper into providing wire-screens for his doors and windows, at a cost of one hundred dol lars or more. It necessitates the en- wffl f ?BPr for there face- shrouding or cnamieucrs anu piuiuru la u' ' firamn. When the swarm arrives in . .. , ,,..! .. force it is verv hard on shoos. The only consolation possible is the reflection that next November the fiv will have ovnft almost as suddenly and myste riously as he came. A. J. Jlau and Express. . Why She Trembled, An Austin gentleman is in the habit of -etting up ven- earlv and going to the'river to bathe. A few mornings wife said: thiuk that his wife cared so much for his welfare, and he said to her consol ingly: "Don't be alarmed, dear, about my getting drowned. The water is quite shallow, and I am a first rate swim " mer. t It is not that at all, but I am afraid some sneak-thief, seeingyou go off, and fcamwing there is no man about the hosaa.-Bjay get in and steal the silver spoons my ma gave me. You can't imagine how much I suffer when you are off bafcing," she replied, with a tterry laugh. Texas Sifting t. Carl Schurx Ja lectures in Hew Catand nexv M9tt0m SermUU , fifty a Uacle Bill Baadj wU Ub Xjteria Uabrella. la the neighborhood of North Ninth street and Franklin avenue was ob served, the other day, an old darky whose hair h.ad become almost white from the frosts of more than sixty win ters. He stood on the edge of the side walk, and was noticed to shake his nead ominously and heard to mutter a ly ana few words a he eved most intentlv a large umureiia he held up in front of him. Despite his apparent seriousness there was something about the expres sion of his face that indicated there was considerable fun in the old fellow. "Hello, uncle, what are you thinking about so earnestly that causes you to stand there like a" cigar sign?" " asked the writer, who happened along. "NufFs de matter, sah, to cause any man what's seen a heap uv dis worn! to think de judgment dayaint fur ofT," respouded the old man. " He continued to shake his head, looked up and down the street, and then remarked: "'Taint no us to tell you all dat's gwine on in dis brain uv mine at de present minit, kaze vou wouldn't bleeve it no way; an' if it's one thiug what 'sturte me more'n another, it's ter have a man think I'd say what I don't 'bleve myself, an' specially a white gemman. "Out with it! What has happened?" was asked. " Well vou see dis umberrella. Puttv good truck in dis old rain kiver, ain't it boss? Many a white man what clerks in a bank wouldn't miuo totin' a um berrella like dis. Deed he wouldn't. Now den, de strange part nv what I'se tellin' you am hard ter 'bleeve, but jes as sho' as eracklin' bread an' home made sassage is good, dis same um berrella what you see, staid right here ou de public street for two hours an' more, whar I don lef it, an' no one, nigger ne'r white man. ain't tech it. When I git home 'bout two hours arter I done lef her dar my ole 'oman say: 'Billy, whar do name er goodness am de umberrella?' Bless grashus. my heart come right spang up in my mout, kaze times is mighty hard, specially wid hones' cullud fokes let lone stniar' white men; an' boss, I '-gun ter think dat ole pairsoll was a goner, sho." " You don't mean to say that you left a-good umbrella like thaton the public streets for more thau two hours aud then found it, do vou?" "Dat's what I done, sah; jes so sho' as you am staudin1 on yo' feet. I did liab idea dat fokes was gittm wuss an wiiss all de time, but de sperwnee uv dis day would er upsot me altogedder but fer what my ole 'oman tole me when she Iicerd de umberrella was safe an' soun n He paused awhile, then laughed to himself and proceeded: "I ruu jes as hard as my legs would 'low me, an' when I git here what you reckon I seed? A great, big, black, hungry roustabout nigger, wid his eyes sot S'piar' on my umberrella: but, boss, dat nigger ain't tech her. He je stan' on, he did, .an' eyed her. an 'twant no p'lctcenien 'bout needer. Putty soon here come 'long a young white hood lum 1 hates hoodlums wuss dan de ole bo- hate a good Christian- an' he seed her sett n' dar in do cornder, an' he look like he gwine take her, sho'. But he stan' back, ho did, an' he nebber tech her. None uv 'em aint dar' tech her, an' dat make me laff away down in my bosom." "Strange, indeed, old man!" "I reckon 'twas strange. But my ole 'oman done tricked it, an' ef you don't know what trick mean, why she done conjured it, an1 dat was de onliest rea son some rogue aint had her hist up 'fore dis. My ole know'd I was sich a 'oman say she fool 'bout talkin' poiertics, au' standin' on de street gwine over ole times wid my cronies, dat in order to keep dat umberrella in de family she was erolecdged to trick it She did dat: an' here's de umber rella, an' bore I is; an' dis minuit I bet my ole 'oman is lafling to hersef while she cookin' .supper at home." "How can you trick an umbrella?" was asked. "Now, will you lissen at dat?" said the old man, as ho laughed immoder ately. "I aint savin' what sho (lone it riu, O.HI. uut n jli "Uiail "b UC , luff in de mountains uv Teniies. an' lav she's always loaded, an dey aint e "man. nigger" 'er white man." what iu, siiu. um mv uiu uuiiiii ;oi ue stuff in de mountains uv T I tie kin git away wid us long as dat stull lasts." Before the old man shuflled oft he said: "Billv Bundy is mv name: I useter 'blong to de Johnsings in Ten- I nessee; I was in de wah wid mV marster, i an now I is heah for good an' all. t.f 11 ' ver want to know 'lout good ole times, i an' heah what I thinks uv things in ' i,,r..l i vnn linnf mo i.r, Ua ,... ...., j T.. ....... .y, ,.j,, v.j.-,, rw.t: ct 'rtmon t unfa I ' . Lr .li.. T I .-- . .i oughter bin in Congress ?sted uv dese I Ail Mij otuuii tiiuirvo A. Ill .111 11. kill I niggers what s so mighty Inghforlootiif , and still doaa know nuthin'. ' St. Louis Republican. Adreatares with Sharks. 'Yos, it was a close shave and I crnt off easy with this." The speaker, who was a Gulf coast piiot, held up an arm done up in splints "I came ua from Pensacola to take a schooner to Tampa, but I shall have ti lie off for aenimlo nf weeks or so. It happened in this wav: T st.irtwl fnr Fort I'icL-ona n :L ' boat under sail about two weeks ago I and when we wem h-ilf.w. Ann Yu " ----- uurru LUC way down the man with me speaks ut and v-1 speaks up and savs: Captain, sharks is sorter thick.' And I'm dogged if they warn't. Their fins was a-cutting water all around the boat for'ard, astern and on both sid -a. some going one way and some another, and I should reckon there was twenty a-fol-lering us. I didn't like the Iooks'of 'em myself, but I says: thev can't daniae us in the dingy.' I hadn't no moreen got the words out o mv 1ms when. U:.t .. t-. , 7 . r- "--t ",31 "ci us, uiraancil lor n. Af f-lll.VJ - .-S, l. 1. . 1 m minute. . sending one of the oars into the air, and "?.fn f"'"n 5" hea1 around, and, as I , ?Ja,, ?,for :he l !er Jo &Vti ll a , ', . ne LtaIi c.ome agJn my arm and i m two. in a minute water when they're choeil vnd it may uum. uwut a nuneen-ioot shark clean , aeductive nature appeal.?. .Men chew a out of the water. We both gave a jump crUOd deal. I can't say how much zam to the wind ard, and the fish struck E; sold in Chicago, but ro doubt the fig about a third in witn a crash that a!-:rs if th-v could be rxt at are aonall- not have seen the boat, but we didn't ' are yielded to. Then; is ay oung fellow waste anytime after that I can tell vou. ' that buys of me steadily "who Is a vic Tiie splash of the fish had collected tim of the habit- Be "complains and mem until the water was full of 'em. . ' and I didn't feel safe until I was on the beach." "Will thevmV?' asked the listener. 44 Will a duck swim?'1 replied the pilot. 'Why, my friend, in Jnlror now. I'd just "as soon swim a lae of red-hot pitch as to swlia over from Pensacola to Fort Pickens. There are not so many .nerident on record there, because peo ple know tha daagera and look out fori them, tot I know el at Jeas-a.aoza ie. The lass ewe happened last ftiimtnrr. A reaeel caase in port- for a j tad oi lBber, aad tie Capiaia's ojt,i quite a good-$ized lad. in fooling about the rigging, fell oerboard. Tbr mon heard a scram and ruhcd to the mi'. but the only sign they saw w.-v t rod cloud in thewatcr. Thy got out the boat and final! v recovere-I'the bod v. but the head ami limb ..ere gone. An other time a Mildiur trini to de.-ert from the fort and was eat.n bv shark. You see the brutes follow vosls in from oil shore, and get in the habit of swallow- incr nwrvthincr f liit innu.c .li.. ... I tt-lun ?i limn trrww ,,t-,ir),u,.! ,1,. r..j'n fnr ft.n cf-l. l'-.v -.. -. I htH-s. They geucrallv swnn slowlr when not chased, but thev can work up a tremendous race when they are chafed, and I've seen one jump twenty feet into the air. "To show vou how hanl they can bite." said the pilot, I have seen one take a piece o.it of an oar. Another that was hauled alongside of a small boat took the cutwater in its mouth and nearly crushed it to a jelly, leaving twenty or thirty teeth in tho wood. " Some time ago a Spanish gun-boat dropped in there, arid the officers amused themselves shark fishing. They had qu.te a circus. They would take a small dynamite cartridge, bind a piece of salt pork to it. and hx it to a float and wire, and "send it two hundred foot astern. Pretty soon a shark would take it, and they would tiro bv the wire, and the fish would tly into a thousand pieces. If one was wounded the others went for him and ate him up.' .V. J. Sun. m Dr. (Jross's Advice to a Patient. I heard a storv about tho late Prof. dross which everybody who knew h.m will recognize as characteristic. It was while he was practicing in Kentucky, where he is remembered as a fine sur geon and physician and a splendid man before he received the flattering propo sals that drew him to Philadelphia. A prominent jurist, the father of tho man who told me the story, had an ear trou ble which threatened to destroy his hearing. He had consulted one d'L-t.n-guished physician after another. Kvery one had pretended to Imj abl to cure him. ami had "doctored" him uutd ho grew weary. He had .spent a small for tune in fees. t length a friend sunt him to Dr. Gross. He stated his case. The Doctor made au examination. "Can you do auvthing for me?" asked the Judge. "Yes," said the Doctor, "on one condition." "What is it?" a-ked the Judge. "That you obey my in-true-tions implicitly." replied the Doctor. "I will." sait! the Judge, auticipatingsomu terrible physical ordeal. "Well," .'.nid the doctor, "I can not euro you; no one can do that. But if you obey me you will never be any wore than" you "are to-day. If you do not you my bo stone deaf to the end of your da'vs." "I will obey vou to the letter" saiI the Judge. "Well." said tho doctor, "go home, take good care of your ears, but put nothing in them aud allow uo ono to examine them or prescribe for them. Keep away from vour phv.siciaus. If you feel yourself at any time, despite my prediction that you will be all right, becoming worse, then come to me. but never go to anybody eke." "I never w 11," said the Judge. "Now doctor, what's your fee?" "Nothing at all. mv-dearsir." said the doctor: "I am said the doctor; very glad to havu been able to advie you." The Judge insisted that he should take a fee, but Dr. dross reso lutely declined. The Judge lived for many years after that and never grew anv worse, and neer had occasion to see cither Dr. Gross or anv one else on ' ... I the car account aga n. But he never grew wearj of telling this story. Washinqlon Cor. Philadelphia Jlecord. Shetland Ponies. There is an increasing interest 5i thee diminutive members of the hor.se fami ly, and successful breeders find them very profitable Docile, intelligent, hardy and easily kept, they ate the ideal of pet for child en. A Shetland foal can be raised to its third year for one half the cost of a steer at the same age. while the former finds a ready sale at $10D to $200. The great cs' obstacles " . to success in weeding "Miellies ar.se ; from pampering them in the way of j food anil shelter. The r native habitat is tin the bleak, storm-swept .Shetland . .till I1s.on ,th,; .T",' f "rni-swi lflK with little or no "w"'. woolly coat, a shelter save nd no food but the scanty herbag- eked out with fish. The change from such conditions to warm stables and abundant food, is so violent that those which survive it nro I,Ke,r l" ,,ecomy "arren a mv wi icn was ""Prtcd from the slo of ell hal ueeu rearcti so ecnisie; on wsii me I I .1 ' . 1 .1-11 " - , ' 5"e lhsi1t rter ll3, OUlV learned oniv ioou tne oarren isiaim nwonieu arri'al in this country it only learned to graze by imitating it nnu' ntnmattinti i nnnnrm it nrioii " -wiu i.uiiwu'. Mn - . . " ,wh wh ch,w rougnt over witn me ponv, was fed to it while it was becom ing gradually accu-toined to vegetable food. A little wholesome "roughing it" is far better for them than pamper ing. The market value of Shetland jonies is in an inverse ratio with their size. Nine hands (thirty-six inches) is the highest allowable for a well-bred ponv. and one of only thirty-three inches ii salable at a fully twice as much. The foals when dropped weigh from ten to tWelve pounds. shapely than lh anil are mucn more e voung oi luu-si.eti horses." They are as playful as kUI and as tame and friendly as kitten. . .. j- Llke most "fancy s'ock. Shetland po- nies can be bred with profit Prairie rarmcr. Chewing dam. " Let me dispel an illusion," said a dealer in gum. "All right; dispel away." "It i not lioardinir-sehools and semi naries that consume all the gum made. i Xc ,.- .Inno f-iir mrlhriod In which it .ii. io uuw ..... .. ,.----- -- --- ing. Only think of the vast waste ol niuscnlar'jwwer in chewing it I have had fanta-tlc dreams over it If it could only tc uuhzeil thc power of thec tho-ands and taouands of jaws munching awav hours ana hours -why. mecnan- lots of grows on belraved immediately its insui'ocs enticements often says he wishes be could overcome it But he's the oaly man customer that complains. The rest like it- You see, there are a good many who find the habit beneficial, speakers for instance. Quite a number of Board of Trade men chew it It helps keep their voices in , shape for the wear and tear they are sucjecica 10 m laejr business." Ch cage Tribune M Aaglosaaiac mxj mot care ndr for a royal esipof ceffee. Wt they are srr foad of "tt" mjiitft(tMM Temperance. KSAMTT ASD I.VTEMrEIU.NCE. a review r rkv. c. o. MTuuK.l TheTemiwrance question U no longer anc of i-cniuifiitalLsra; it can be noth- Ijiv to-dav if not tratical. Its rulvo - V c:in T.r n" lo.Scr ,lhe Pnr,IfP sj W n looger the prinlege of the public ear. in order that they may. with dramatic elocution, nlav UpOU lOO vmnnlhifM of iho nonnlnr ... . . - BCarl. L Tho pubticLot. cconora-t and . . . idal philo-ophfr prganl it a a . qn not unworthy of th-.r do-et a"''","u- "uw mw nct- itudied ancr before. Men of nw .w.... -v - -.' M4v 4 w .- , eulinu brains and public spirit claim that xside from moral, whatever weak- ' ens the productive no i or of the citlen ! or restrain- the uw-t enlarged growth Manv nenon are wondering what of his every capao ty. i a source of the women of tho W. l T. I. really menace and ei! to the Stile. No quo.- mean bv tho term "scientific Instruc tion has Kn ?o thoroughly studied for t,on" which tber notico more frequont thc pat lift year a-, that of Temper- jy than formerly in article- on the juU ance It has been oreached and prayed, j t 0 Tempcranoo; also what 'A ' aro sung and shouted, lectured and" It.- nlmin- to accomplish by it In tho pub toned to. till now a man who pro- iie.5eho.N If their plans are airneJ to mulgatos a new idea in reference to it a Miccovsful l.uo. is in positive danger of being imnmr- Manv teacher claim lo be already lalized for his brilliant discovery. Tho teaching Tonqwrranco principle, ami latest pha.-e of this subject U an attempt 0 thov"are In a verv mild wav, by ca-- todiscoverjusttowh.it extent the ex- uallv remarking now and then t their ceive use of alcohol contributes to the pupil thai whi-kv drinking U morally prevmenee ol in-anity. It has been a sorted ujnnv time br the advocate-s of total abstinence tha strong drink is largely nt-jvjnsiblo for the rapid spread of insanity among tho American people. Now, "if it an be proved that then? i a constant waste of mind force going on in the Nation, (which seems pretty certain) as a re sult of intemperance, thou thore would seem to to an additional rmton for ciijju-iii-, uum me diauujkmhi oi jkiiu- Lllli f.-i tr a m .. .-AH.l...w.a .. . 1 . b ical ecttnomv. that such a waste was detrimental to the growth. progresand perpetuity of the Mate. I-or it is held tlmt. they b.t sunt forth armed an.l to b: philosophically true that Uon tho 0,,ipped to defend tho laws of a fr.-o power of tho citizen deienL the mate. I jeplc. in .short lint thev be good clll nal prosperity of the Commonwealth. zu,. 'jho greatest otitnc!u ihoy meet h was wuh n dasiro to refute the XI thir path 1 Intemperance. Thoy tho charge so often made, via that in- nn. WM,!a,,iiv tomptetl to indulge in temperaiita pro.luces to a groat extent , t,o so called Wial (?) glass, andono of the uisanitv of the country that Mr (J. ' tl,e most Important .pi.wtions of to dnv Jhoniann has written a pamphlet or i ,. How -n tho Imssji bo taught to re some sio. entitled "Heal and Imagin- It t,.. temptation which leads to tho ary Kneets of Intemperance," of which moraf ni0Mlai nd physical ruin which one copy has been ent to tho Vofc' i,,.s u ,ho cu wf Jirtoxicatlon? i'he CiM.Hf. i he book is published b tho alwwur scontitlc instruction, ami I nited State. Brewery Association t)f tu, b,.,t . whrro Bl,rh i,,struetin ew 'iork I. itv. which is. of con no. :i nI h, ivun n ,,nr,v jjfu u , lh f)lll. pleilgu of gtx)I faith that the author i lc 0)lloi. There an? fewtenchnr who in favor of -beer. Tho work purport. wouj, consitler thomche Spared U to contain "letters and statements ..ivo n-gul.ir aud systematic lemons on from Mipermt louts of eight Atn-r- this Mib.ect without special preparation. lean Insane Asxlums the history of five The work to lo thonmgh and perma hundred inebriates etc.. etc A tho nunl ,mt be done as ell as that in book is published by a ltrewerv Ao :inth,etio or grammar . step bv stop elation, every .statement is necessarily from the .,i,,,le statement which a child correct and none of the figure lie e ; , undersMnd lo the more difficult therefore accept ever.thiu- said a onw, a tho pupil devoloi a capacity thoroughly impartial, in .leferenco to fr higher gr.ole.s of mental work, the birthplace of the volume. It is not A !on,r M u. matter of having siiel, o.ien one sees a oook mat was ixru in :. brewery. We are not sure but the author lia.s immortalized himself. If tho .statement upon the subject of insanity are correct this is the hot look of life vear for the lemporance cause; if false, no great harm is .lone I':ws,ng over the hr.t half of tho work, which is in main instances soph istical in argument and hetitious in his torical data, we hae to do entirely with what ho.as of tin insane. The author wishes to show that intoxicants do not j product i but wc rod u co msaniu to anv ;reat u.Ment. must av that the statistic, he cites, and tho hvsiciau he otiote., are tory uamagiiiir to ni- cause. e snouiil not care lo ie inu oetore a .Juugo who Thc iWaturo of Vunuont. with a would pass sc eicc ere the testimony kcen uQUl Illtolho ,.,.,, of h was taken rius in our opinion r fI , 1 such a bill, tho prin- just what his authorities do upon tho c, , cbuof nhcl R..l(N ' Mtiest.on of alcohol c.nsan.ty. e are .'. u rnnctfM, , told that Dr. D. I). Kiehardson, Physi- Jnw of Vermont nrn ainrndl. n.t.lltirf to Urn c:an-in-t'hief of the Philadelphia llos- . Uif re-julivl m.lirs in the t.utii. thMl. pital sav (p. I'M)- "Asidu from her- '",'","r3r VyHohmy an.l hygu-nv whll ' i". i V I- ' Vt ! Uill irlvn ntHTlnl prninlnnriisv to thr effnets or etlltV, I IkMIOVo there IS no ctllse so fro- I nleoholle ifrluki. ntltniilnrit an. I nnrtioikf (iiientlv productive of insanity as the ' "," "'' ,,um,,n y"'n ' excessh-c use of intoxicants." ' Dr. II. j New Hampshire and Michigan quickly Mathewson. of the Nebraska Asylum ! followed her example. Do you ask for the Inanc.writcthu to the author, i w'bat is to prevent Illinois from" having "I can not gio the statistic you ask. a similar law in oueration? Ask thos.j I know it i bad enough -bail" beyond legislators who fid not dan to vote comprehension" " ' against it, yet did not want it to pass All the pin sicians whom ho author "" I" WH wa manipulated when addressed for information were not i presenUtl Iat winter. A tlll mor.rde oi(uaIly prepared t- answer, with thoso , .rmined effort in that direction Is to abo;o mentioned, but nearly all point L' "i.nle. For tho sake of our future out intemperance a an ellicionl cause -'itlen let iw plead for it. for the sako of insanity. We glean some startling , f otfir who ould thus bo spnrud facts from Mr. Thornann's jagcs which l,u ngny of beholding promising ioi. .e wonder he did not break down tin- K reeling Into drunkards' graves let tier. Af the Marshall inlinnary for the i u wrk tor it Insane in Troy. N. Y.. in lfil'J. out of 1' every jwrson as soon a convinced 271 patents admitted. Jl. or nearly t tho need and expediency of such a forty-two per cent, were them from law would earnestly -et to work to cori tlrink. In the New York City Insane , vince ono other, how rapidly a little A-yluni in the year 1877, out of VJi pa- leaven lho would leaven the wholo tents admitted, -'J, or forty-five and Jump and public sentiment would soon one half per cent, were insane throuirh demand such a law a a rWhr w,.t. drink. We -- rr k elect at random twenty- f three asvlums jroui me inimiH-r no i mentions, and we find that In the vear lis: they contained 10:J0 patients, or nearly ten per cent of thc wholo num-1 bcr of inmate. Ami tins estimate, it must be remembered, doc not include those in whom "alcohol was an excit ing cau-e," or in other words who were predisposed to insanity prior to . U . . w,u 'mVloy a forming thc habit: nor doe.4 It embricc , ? dnink. But they are now those wno. though free from the habit HT ulfft l . !Inc at lhc mnu whf ifi ln themselves. loit their raindt through the f f habit drinking. Ho U a Kwl habits of cither. Tills moreover? does ?,CJmn. cr a qukik and accurate Uk not even include the feeble-minded and I i'7?rip. , aB1, oWlP d all that idiotic lxrn of intemperate parents' a.s . nnk to rauc, Octroii Ernt an imiirect cauvs Ir A. B. Kiehardson ' .ff (p. 130) of the Iowa Hospital, testifies ' ,.i,MTl" S001 ork done bv the Cath that twenty-five per cent of the pa-1 Ilc li"hoP of Albany, iu ortierin" that tients were insane through drink ms "o more bar be permitted at Ca'thofic direct caiiM: and twenty-five per cent. I'lcnlc in his dioc;? He .say, he Is more .is an ir.direct factor in their in- tl?'im to discourage tho has practice sanity, making a sum total of one-half ol bolic Churches, which i.ai hither ot all the patients admitted. It is true to obtained, of farming out the bar a 3 the testimony of all the physicians cuf:f of reverue Uy tbe chtirclu Tb qnoed is not equally strong. 'but we "prohibition iMiied includes la-er beer confess we hae never read expert nion SujnrJ. tcsUmon- on an examination of a pa- Tiir. King of Sweden neve- !, n tient so uniformly agreed as this. Ti.e opportunity of a ing a good wol for preponderance of evidence Ls af-ain.i Temmrranrl.. Z v..i -7r.. oru. . alcohol though the author of thl, pamphlet hjs written in thc interest , f alcohol"c Vverage. sniements as alums ami lunatics; bad excellent faHlit: fwttfl ITr. Ui r.M.mu r ,.... ... ..- vu uj a ,ue Bern ot mvestiirattoa and we ran nr.t .. be 5hoa!d not ptih the inatiiry a liufe : farther in the interest of Temperance. There are mamr more -s.yum tn . j grinning skeleton of the crazy man. j ..u'i l-VC:" a 5 The Sla f DrnW. One of our exchanges thinks there k "-" -. ..BKIii. v- "rv"uw ruar- ter to cosatwMioi ta. i.ii or to exteauate the sia of dn - It is nuite possible that sosm very well moBBimv l mmv i ii n i .. !.. sfeoM kare himImmJ wv. j f ! 1 mil ii wnn nir i oecurs. tae XssUt is aot lcm I 7. 1'. 1 the tcKer: itisauoia t Jv i . - - i . x, -.- -i. .- '"j" ; t ...Vvr.. ... Z.. . .m1 . ... -- --. u3 - ....r nun inn ravBBfe.. u-iritVi4 uj iii'ani .!. naonrcii'iiiiui !.;, wf.L he has evidently Jwelrr. the nr. nTZ? es for the t.mdv tit Kinz. on Ani, Jr,f-..i .. . m 1. .1 ,...,: ..JTi.. ,". ""virc tai a lare near xrorn. ooth in Itils country and in mr.rcuL.. -j i..r " .-U7 foreign lands. We can onlvsar that are to r 77ui C3er chlrva if this book proves anything; grovel fa an?S S5 f aa'1 iaXxt everything L the atW.aopasSS make oTt ? and we would kindir sogeen that tk tra.V -CllL TVer? at- tvij wh wavowsat9aai - W takes that which steals a brain and make him a brute; but wa apprehend that the principal guilt I charged In the court. of Heaven againt thn jitTVm!rrr at n tnnoh iarHtrdatC than 4 1 n,.i f ihluiii.. After the aptx? . tl0 n3, b-,:,.. a dieae. the will 1 0cr has given way and tho man L 1 Lint,ti !rn thr may be little re- 1 ,.,, -. - .- ,ponlblIttr. but hb gmlt lay in , -tMn.sibllttv. but hi gmlt lay in hi , rnrlPr induigmcic. when he wa hi -n f..r- m inrndfttr the appllt to -- ... -.. ." .-...- - , . .u u k u r 1 KAnm i nrcr: ill ii ii ii in- ii-a.'w - vf .-' z - .-.titiritino nn. trfni?thoniP!r a habit ' hat hx completely Ci'tvonw him. Wo jutk condemn him forgetting into lhl, ninHt honcle iarpry. whtiw w rritudi - . Lftotncsttc Journal. f fw-- --- 1 tttrr rirt ni' n nt zii7aijscjv lit! Scientific lRtnctln. . wruti ami that tldo-rades. dehaso and . hit jki oris ties those who indulge in tho habit. To teach Temperanco truth. scientific ally Includes much more than this. It is to gie regular hvon on tho nature of alcohol, it ettocU on the dltlervnt organ ot tho human bod. and tho chanLti that slowlv but .sure-lv take place a tho blood "becomes poisoned nnd carries ihU ixibon to uVUTV tart of i tjj 5vtetU. Tli ' of it, ehiblron and demand In return .. T'i!ii trnvini inr iriri i-iiitTLiini i.f, ...;.. . ti... -..). I u ..,.tt..,.nl i is optloi with School BoanK so long will It Imj done in a half-hearted manner by a large iiiiihImt of teachers, under the impression that a change iu the adiuiu- j htration of school affairs will perhap , ht, lho aj , for a . in t,, w y 'u T wclini fM.r maiieney In this work, to Inspire teach ers with a laudable ambition to excel iu this lino, the State must make it ot- I llgatory in all schools under it control; a matter easily accomplished by pass ' ing a law requiring tho otfect of alco hol and tobacco upon the human sv , torn to bo regularly and scientifically taifht . - -fai' legislators, whether personally farora- w w n, or doi. would not ilan vnt ,n opposition to tho known wishes of their constituent. Emily V. Ktcncr. ln Cnlon Siqnul. Teperaace I teas. Bwi INr,S men IisVj. rr.t ,.L. l. tt. . . 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