Nebraska Newspapers

    THE JOURNAL.
WFDXEr DAY, .JUXE 14, ISSi
Eitcrei at ikj Pe:tcE:, Cdsatr:. Net., as iiwad
eliM ratter.
TWO LITTLE BIRDS.
Two little birds aye linger round tny dwelling.
One called "I-have" is over tame and cherry.
Amid the trees' green palaces still tolling
A simple tile of which I would not wenry.
Ule is so happy when I-have" is sinjrinjr
Sweeter than perfume, and as pure as pray
ing. And full of melodies. like those upspringing
From bands of children in the wild woods
Maying.
Another bird, with many a brilliant feather.
Flits with a mocking splendor through my
garden.
I hear him singing in all kinds of weather.
Sharp little longing notes that chill and
harden.
His name 0-had-I"; and whene'er I hoar
him
Cold discontent and cogcrwishoa seize me:
I chase him far and wide, yet ne'er come near
him:
lie lures me only to deceive and tease me.
Year after year this bird of sad temptation
Wins me and wearies me, awake or sleep
ing: "O had I beauty 1 gold I or fame I or sta
tion!" "VTild luring words that always leave mo
weeping.
O sweet I-have," come thou Rnd sing thy
measure.
Thy little song of calm content so tender.
"O-had-l's" snug may thrill with promised
pleasure;
I never more will heed its mocking splendor.
Harper's Weekly.
PUMPKIN TIES.
Pinkie was balanced on the toes of her
slippers, upon the top of a cider barrel,
gathering hops, when Tom Carroll drove
along with his wagon piled up with red
and yellow apples, and a big, lusciously
golden pumpkin in the copier, and
stopped at the gate.
l'inkie immediately hopped off her
perch and hid behind the barrel; but Tom,
coming up the walk with the pumpkin,
saw the edge of her pink dress.
"Can't fool me, Miss Pink Pendle
ton," said he, rolling the golden sphere
upon the porch. "I can see through
more things than a barrel. There's the
first pumpkin of the season."
Pinkie scrambled up, shook out her
skirt and surveyed the pumpkin, half
wonderingly from under the brim of her
eat, turning her back upon Tom, who,
however, only went off down the path
whistling carelessly, and drove off to
town witli his apples.
Tom and Pinkie having indulged in a
neat little tiff the week before had since
amused themselves with trying to freeze
each other, very unsuccessfully it would
seem, judging by the warmth of temper
both could exhibit on the smallest prov
ocation. And this was the lirst time
Tom had called since the last "unpleas
antness." Did I ever!" said Pinkie, and she
glanced over her shoulder to see if Tom
was looking back, which, of course, he
was, whereat Pinkie turned scarlet and
scowled, though Tom was too far off to
gee that. " lfhe's trying to make up,"
she continued, " what does he be such
a stick about it for? Expects me to go
two-thirds of the way, of course; men
always do. But he began the row, and
if he wants to make it up, let him saj'
so, out and out See through more than
a barrel! Just him always insinuating
things."
And Pinkie, thus foolishly fanning
her anger, sat down on the step ana
kicked 'her toes against a peck measure.
The bone of contention which had
served Tom and Pinkie with excuses for
more than one squabble was a gentle
man from the city, who was spending
the summer at the farm owned by
Pinkie's brother-in-law, a comfortable,
old-fashioned homestead, with clover
carpeted orchards, cooled with dense
shado, and haunted by the gurgling
murmur of a brook and the slumberous
hum of bees.
Perhaps the boarder found an added
charm, thought possibly a fleeting one,
in Pinkie's spirited brown eyes and
piquant manners. And Pinkie why
Pinkie would have been coquettish to
a mullcn stalk and never thought
seriously of the matter at all.
Why shouldn't she walk to church
with Mr. Ilatherton and pin a red rose
bud in his coat? Why, then, should Tom
loom up like a cloud" and cast cold water
on her innocent amusement? To be
sure, they had been the same as engaged
Tom and Pinkie since the days they
went nutting together and quarreled
over their grammar. But that was no
reason so Piukie thought why she
should not look at any one else.
To make matters a little worse, Tom
had a stylish oung lady cousin visiting at
his house whose company, Pinkie had told
him, he no doubt found an agreeable
substitute for hers, a supposed fact she
thoroughly resented, notwithstanding
the proverb says it is a poor rule that
will not work both ways.
But here on the porch lay Tom's gift,
and (probable) peace-offering for having
been unusually bitter at their hist tilt,
and perhaps The scowl had departed
from Pinkie's forehead; her eyes were
growing tender.
Young Hatherton strolled around the
corner, with his straw hat tilted grace
fully to one side and a handfull of early
wild purple asters, which he presented
to Pinkie.
"These," he said, " are a much more
fitting offering to beauty than is a
pumpkin."
He pronounced the word scornfully;
he had witnessed Tom's visit and
now eyed his gift with much disdain,
which unaccountably nettled Pinkie.
"They are prettier to look at," she
answered, "but I don't suppose they
would do quite as well to cook."
Theyouug man shrugged his shoulders
and sauntered away indifferently; his
gallantry of late was growing rather
careless and fitful.
And Piukie was inconsistent enough
to put the asters in her hair, and
then pull them out and throw them
under the step. After which method of
relieving her feelings she picked up the
pumpkin to carry iuto the kitchen, and
o made the discovery that there was a
scrap of paper attached to the bit of
stem which remained to the pumpkin.
And this was written on the paper:
" Coming over to-morrow. Forgive
ness and pumpkin pies can solace an in
jured spirit."
How like Tom.
A small dimple found its way to Pink
ie's rosily-velvet cheek; and Pinkie's
married sister. Flora, a plump, white
and generally sweet-tempered little
woman, came in and saw it.
" Have you and Tom made up?" she
asked.
"1 haven't," answered Pinkie.
"Are you going to?"
"Don't know," perverse Pinkie
turned.
re-
"You are a very foolish
don't," said Flora, "and I
is too good for you."
girl
will
if you
say he
Pinkie scratched her rosy ear with
her hairpin, and smiled at the pumpkin.
'What do you think," she asked, "of
a man supposing he could find balm for
his wrong in pumpkin pie?"
" I should say," answered Flora, "if
the man was Tom, you had better make
the pies, and make 'em as good as
possible."
"Oh, you're so awfully practical,"
said Piukie, darting off, with her chest
nut mane Hying.
But all the same, before next mor
ning's sun had mounted very high in
theheavens, a trim little lady, neatly
done up like a brown-paper parcel, in a
very large linen apron, betook herself
to the kitchen and prowled about in the
pantry, seeking the sugar, the cinnamon,
ginger and all the various ingredients
necessary in the manufacture of pump
kin pies.
A sound of wheels was heard in the
lane, and Piukie
trinned out to the
porch, the nutmeg-grater in her hand, 1
as an elegant buggy rolled by, driven
by Tom Carroll, and Pinkie dropped
the grater suddenly and caught her
breath there was the stylish cousin be
side him, the plume in her hat fluttering
and a faint breath of rose drifting up to
the house.
Pinkie went back to the kitchen and
shoved the pumpkin into a corner, and
flung the nutmegs under the table and
the cinnamon after them, pulled off her
apron -and went into the house.
Mr. Hatherton met her in the hall.
"Shan't we take a ride. Miss Pinkie?"
he asked, wondering a little at the
sparkle in her eyes and the deep bloom
in her checks.
"All right," said Pinkie, and dashed
up stairs for her habit.
lhe shadows were tailing eastward
from the trees on the lawn when Pinkie
again crossed it on her way to the house
after her ride, her habit gathered up in
her arms, and a cluster of scarlet trumpet-bells
in her belt.
"Flora, who was on the step, be
stowed as dark a frown upon her as her
fair, placid countenance was capable of
getting up.
"You've lost him now for good,"
was her first remark.
"Lost whom?" quoth Pinkie, staring
with wondering eyes at her sister.
"Tom, of course! Didn't he stop in
when he came back after taking his
cousin down to catch the train, aud
foundyou gone off with Mr. Hatherton."
" And and she's
srone
home?"
gasped Pinkie, feeling suddenly guilty.
"Of course, she's gone home. She
was engaged to the minister, anyway;
and you've made a nice nicss of it all
now."
Flora flounced away, looking in
dignant Pinkie followed her.
" Don't you think he will ever come
back?" she asked, meekly.
" H'm!" said Flora. "He may come
to-morrow, but only to see John about
the cider-mill, mind you!"
Pinkie had little annetite for dinner:
even Flora's jam puffs had no charm for.
her; and her usual archness had so com
pletely disappeared that Mr. Hatherton
felt called on to become injured, and
indulged in a fit of sulks.
But the moderate bit of hope Flora
had held out concerning Tom's possible
appearance on the next day comforted
Pinkie a little, and inspired her with a
secret resolution.
Long after the dinner hour was past
the neat little figure, done up in the big
"brown cooking apron, again stood be
side the long, white kitchen table, where
a row of bright, scalloped pie-pans were
shining. Spices perfumed the air, aud
a dozen eggs were piled in a cake pan.
The sun had fairly gone down when
Pinkie set her last fragrant, golden
complcxioned pie in the windowsirl to
cool, and stood looking down at it,
absorbed in her own reflections.
"The queen of hearts, she made some
tarts," chanted a voice behind her, and
before she knew it she was whirled
around, apron and alL in some one's
arms and kissed.
"They're not tarts," said Pinkie,
when she recovered her breath. "But
oh, Tom, how did you happen to come
back? I was afraid you wouldn't speak
to me any more."
" Oh," said Tom, "perhaps I wouldn't
have come if I had not seen some one
come out on the steps this morning, to
see who was going by, with her usual
curiosity, and then bounce in like a
little enraged yellow-jacket I sus
pected which way the wind blew, and I
knew Flora would tell you the truth
when I came back; and when I saw
the pies just now I knew it was all
right"
" And now you'll stay to supper, of
course?" said Pinkie.
" Of course," said Tom. "It would
never do to let all those pies waste their
sweetness on the desert air." N. Y.
Graphic
Henry Ward Beecher's Farm.
Mark Twain has written of Mr. Beech
er's old farm on the Hudson River as
follows:
Mr. Beecher's farm consists of thirty
six acres, and is carried on on strict
scientific principles. He never puts in
any part of a crop without consulting
his book. He plows, and reaps, and
digs, and sows according to the best au
thorities, and the authorities cost more
than the other farming implements do.
As soon as the library is complete the
farm will begin to be a profitable invest
ment But book-farming has its draw
backs. Upon one occasion, when it
seemed morally certain that the hay
ought to be cut, the hay-book could not
be found, and before it was found it was
too late, and the hay was all spoiled.
Mr. Beccher raised some of the finest
crops of wheat in the country, but the
unfavorable difference between the cost
of producing it and its market value aft
er it is produced has interfered consid
erably with its success as a commercial
enterprise. His special weakness is
hogs, however. He considers hogs the
best game a farm produces. He buys
the.original pig for $1.50, and feeds him
40 worth of corn, and then sells him
for about $9. This is the only crop he
ever makes any money on. He loses on
the corn, but he makes $7.50 on the hog.
He does not mind this, because he never
expects to make anything on corn. And,
any way it turns out, he has the excite
ment of raising the hog, whether he gets
the worth of him or not His straw
berries would be a comfortable success
if the robins would eat turnips, but they
won't, and hence the difficulty.
One of Mr. Beecher's most harassing
difficulties in his fanning operations
comes of the close, resemblance of dif
ferent sorts of seeds and plants to each
other. Two years ago his far-sightedness
warned him that there was going
to be a great scarcity of watermelons,
and therefore he put in a crop of twenty-seven
acres of that fruit. But when
they came up they turned out io be
pumpkins, and a .dead loss was the con
sequence. Sometimes a portion of his
crop goes into the ground the most
promising sweet potatoes, and comes up
the infernalest carrots though I have
never heard him express it just in that
way. When he bought his farm he
found one egg in every hen's nest on the
place. He said that here was just the
reason so many farmers failed; they
scattered their forces too much; con
centration was the idea. So he gath
ered those eggs together, and put
them all under one experienced
old hen. That hen roosted over
that contract night and day for eleven
weeks, under the anxious personal su
pervision of Mr. Beecber himself, but
she could not "phase" those eggs.
Why? Because they were those infa
mous porcelain things which are used
by ingenious and fraudulent farmers as
"nest-eggs." But perhaps Mr.Beecher's
most disastrous experience was the time
he tried to raise an immense crop of dried
apples. He planted $1,500 worth, but
never one of them sprouted. He has
never been able to understand to this
day what was the matter with those ap
ples. Mr. Beecher's farm is not a triumph.
It would be easier on him if he worked
it on shares with some one; but he can
not find anybody who is willing to stand
half the expense, and not many that are
able. Still, persistence in any cause is
bound to succeed. He was a very in
ferior farmer when he first began, but
a prolonged and unflinching assault up
on his agricultural difficulties has had its
effect at last and he is now fast rising
iroin ainuence to poverty.
There is still living in Prussia a lady
who in her youth was on friendly and
Intimate terras with Goethe. She is now
the Baroness Ulrike von Lewitzoff, her
6 is nearlv ninetv. and her hnmn tc at
I the rastle of Teziblitz. in Lolraitz. when
she lives in great retirement.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
Mr. and Mrs. George M. Pullman
'rode through Italy in one of their own
palace cars, the first that was ever taken
south of the Swiss lakes.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe lately re
ceived the gift from her brother, Mr.
Sam Ward, of a very handsome house
on Beacon street in Boston.
The London Observer thus closes a
feeling tribute to Longfellow: "It is
scarcely too much to say that since the
death of Byron no living English poet
enjoyed so wide a popularity as Long
fellow." The London Truth announces that
Don Philippe de Bourbon, the second
son of the Count d'Aquila, is about to
marry Miss Mackay, daughter of Mr.
John W. Mackay. the California bonan
za king.
More ex-Senators of remote service
are constantly appearing in the news-
fiapers. John P. King, who is now
iving near Augusta, Ga., is said to have
begun his duty as Senator earlier than
any other man now in existence. His
service began in 18S3, and ended in
1837. - Chicago Herald.
Dickens' "Christmas Carol" is now
in the hands of a Birmingham book
seller, who offers the manuscript for
sale. The remainder of Dickens' manu
scripts are at the South Kensington
Museum, exepting that of " Our Mutual
Friend," which was brought to the
United States by Mr. Childs.
Charles O'Conor, of New York, has
moved into bis new house at Nantucket
overlooking Vineyard Sound. He is en
joying excellent health, and spends
much of his time with his collection of
books and pamphlets, which are ranged
on the shelves of a large fire-proof
library, twenty-five by sixty feet in size.
He is said to be preparing an autobiog
raphy, in which special attention will be
paid to some of the famous lawsuits in
which he has been engaged. N. Y.
Post.
Miss Cary's first lyric triumphs were
achieved before her delighted neigh
bors, on the verandah of her father's
house, in the village of Wayne, in
Maine. She was the youngest of Dr.
Cary's six children, all of whom were
gifted musically. The Doctor used to
say of his young daughter: " If Annie
could so far forget herself as to acquire
the necessary ease and abandon, when
facing an audience, I think she would
sing very well." When she began her
professional career Miss Cary was griev
ously nervous and constrained. Boston
Post.
HUMOROUS.
Personal: John, come back; all is
forgiven! Pa kicked the wrong man.
He did not know it was you. Stella.
" What makes you look so deathly
sick. Tommy?" " Well, the fac' 'f the
matter is, I've been taking my first
chew, and I am only a amachewer."
Mrs. De Nudle " Oh, Mr. Cattle
ranche, tell me, are you aesthetic?" Mr.
Cattleranche " Oh, dear, no, madame,
not at all. Neve had anything the
matter with me in my life."
It is rather unpleasant to hear a
public speaker remark: "Myfriends
ur, I wish to say a few words-ur on this
occasion-ur," etc.; but then we must
remember that to ur is human.
A shoemaker states that there is no
money in building shoes for St Louis
people. Queer! We thought that the
man who built a shoe for a St Louisian
generally made a big thing of it Bos
ton Post.
Six medical experts examined a
man as to his sanity, and were evenly
divided. After they had wrangled
about it for a week it was discovered
that they had examined the wrong per
son altogether.
Some one took Charlie up and asked
him if he was his papa's boy. He an
swered: "Yes." "And your mamma's
boy, too?" "Yes," replied Charlie.'
" Well, how can you be papa's boy and
mamma's both at the same time?"
" Oh," replied Charlie, quite indifferent
ly, "can't a wagon have two horses?"
Down at Old Bridge, in New Jer
sey, a woman got a forlorn man so
drunk he couldn't stand, and then she
sent for a Justice of the Peace, and
while some of the neighbors held the
unhappy and limber-jointed bacchanali
an up, she married him. That's the
kind of a hairpin a New Jersey woman
is. When she has once made her
"mash," no cold conventionalities of
our false and much veneered social in
stitutions may stand between her and
her love if applejack only holds out
Hawkeye.
She was a reel sweet-looking lady,
with a sealskin sacque and a big plush
hat, and she stood on the step of an up
town residence, having just pulled the
belL "I called to see," said she to the
lady of the house, who was very red in
the face from frying doughnuts over the
kitchen fire, "if you wished to give
anything to the heathen to-dry." " No,
I don't want to give anything to the
heathen to-day. I just gave the woman
next door a piece of my mind about her
scalawag of a boy that broke down my
plants. That's all I can afford for
the heathen just now." New Haven
Register.
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Senthera Htmsr.
Every people is known by its jokes.
Men are least restrained in their mirth,
and give therein the largest play of
their Tikes and dislikes. The humor of
Harry Fielding, Thackeray tells us, is
wonderfully wise and detective; it
flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a
rascal like a policeman's lanthorn. The
same may be said of the humor of
Rabelais, though the objects of its ridi
cule are not always cheats and scamps.
The difference between opera bouffc and
Anglo-Saxon farce represents the differ
ence between the life of the French and
the life of the English. With the Amer
icans it is not the snob and the husband
who are satirized; our domestic jocosity
embraces chiefly the small boy, the
widow and the mother-in-law, reserving
for its most palpable hits the bully, the
visionary speculator, the gamester and
the commercial agent Thus American
humor may be divided into two classes
that which relates to fighting and that
which relates to money. In the South
the general classification grows still
narrower, gaining, however, in whimsi
cality and local color what it lacks in
breadth.
There can be no mistaking the origin
of the old story of the traveler who
asked a Mississippian whether it was
worth his while to carry a plstoL and
was told: " Well, stranger, you mout
move around here more n a year an1
never need a pistol; but ef you should
happen to need one, you'd need it pow
erful." Equally characteristic is the
record of a well-known Tennessee case.
The principal witness for the common
wealth testified that he was sent to get
a fresh pack of cards, that he got them,
and, returning, sat down in the grass.
Here he balked in his testimony, and
would go no further. At last, after
cross-questioning aud coaxing had been
exhausted, the Judge threatened him
with fine and imprisonment whereupon
he said: "Please, your Honor, if I
must tell how I drapped in the jimson
weeds, I suppose I must It was just
your Honor, to look over Uie Jcerds and
mark the bowers." The following inci
dents no less reflect the local color of
the ante-bellum days: Two Kentucki
ans went to settle their bill at a hotel iu
Boston. There being a dLpute about
the amount, ohe of them grew angry
and began to swear, when the other
said: "Remember, John, who yon are.
Remember you are a Kentuckiaa. Fay
the amount and shoot the scoundrel."
Henry WatUrsan, in the Century.
Youths' Department.
LITTLE ROBIN ADAIR.
rfce very oddest boy I know
Is Robin Adair, with his head of tow,
nd his brave, bright eyes, where' tho ques
tions grow.
For this very strange boy is asking why.
From the time that morning paints the sky
Till the sleepless stars look out on high:
Why does Jack's kite stay up in the sky?
It has no wings, and yet it can tly
And sister says wishes go just as high.
Why is oatmeal healthy and candy good?
Is it always naughty to do as you would?
And would you be an angel if you could?
This rose was a bua, and why did it burst?
This bird was an egg, and which came first.
The egg or the bird? and how was it nursed?
What is tua wind? and where does it stay:
When it hushes Itself and creeps away?
Is it crying or singing? anil what does it say?
Why does the sun sleep back of the trees
At home when in summer he takes his ease
All night In the rocking bed of the seas?
Why is it bad for boys to fight?
And for soldier-men so brave and right?
Why do I love you best at night?
Why do the oaks and elms stand tall.
Ami the apple trees do th j work for all
With their gnarled old branches ready to fall?
Why does a great, strong gentleman ride
In a. carriage, pretty, and soft aud wide.
And a tired old woman walk by tho Bide?
Ah! Kobin, I'll neither laugh nor cry:
But 111 tell ycu a secret, deep and hign:
The grown-up children keep asking why.
And the answers are somewh re safe and fair
Beyond the stars and the stur-lit air
For men and women and Kobin Adair.
Fannie E. Robinson, in ITide Awake.
" NUMBER ONE."
" Look out for number one, my boy,"
said his father, as the baby held up his
bread-and-milk for mamma to eat
"That's what he never will do,"
laughed mamma. "He'd far rather
look out for number two. Not a spoon
ful will he take till he holds it up for me
to taste." .
Just as mamma had taken her sip,
baby caught sight of papa's curling
beard anu laughing eyes. Holding up
the spoon to him, he made a little coax
ing soimd.
" The generous darling!" said mam
ma. "Number two and number three
both come before number one in your
arithmetic; don't they, baby?"
"We'll name him 'Number One,'"
said aunty, from her easy-chair in the
corner; and ever after that she playful
ly called him "Number One." although
he soon had another name. Aunty had
a way of proving that her choice of a
name was a god one however. For,
as baby grew older, his father was con
tinually repeating the saying: "Look
out for number one;" but it was with a
Eroud feeling that his boy never could
e selfish after all. He was so forgetful
of self that he always thought of all
other numbers before number one.
He chopped kindlings for mamma as
cheerfully as if it were the best fun in
the world; and often and often he
scoured the knives, or even washed the
dishes, if she did not feel well. He
helped papa in many other ways. His
sick aunty called herself "number
four," for she came in for a large share
of his loving thoughtfulness.
As Number One grew older, he had a
darling baby sister, number live, men,
by-anu-by, came number six and seven
another sister and a brother.
How could Number One look out for
himself, when there began to be so many
other numbers?
He kept finding out new numbers,
too. There were Grandpa and Grand
ma Gray, Grandma Eaton, and aunts,
uncles and cousins so many that, when
he counted the numbers, they went all
the way from number eight to number
forty-seven. He did not see them all
every day, to be sure; in fact, some of
them lived so far away that the visits
were few and far between. But when
they did meet, they were all sure to feel
very soon that Number One was not
looking out for himself, but wished rath
er to make them happy.
Number Forty-eight was poor old
Darby, who had to sit in his chair from
morning till night, year in and year out
poor, lame and blind! How Number
One did delight to carry him a pailful of
mother's broth, and perhaps sit and
read a psalm to comfort him!
By-and-by he was strong enough to
shovel snow for Miss Patty, who lived
in the lane close by, or to dig up her
little patch of a garden in spring
time. So aunty jailed her Number Forty-nine.
Then there were numbers fifty and
fifty-one Tom Hanson and his little
brother. They had never a sled to their
names. How could Number One help
lending them his for a ride every other
time? True, Dick Jones and Jack Har
vey didn't lend theirs; but perhaps they
didn't think. Yet, somehow. Number
One did Uiink, and he couldn't enjoy
his all by himself, seeing the little fel
lows look on with such hungry eyes.
And so the numbers kept adding up day
after day, and year after year. At first,
aunty kept account to amuse herself in
her weary hours of sickness; but by-and-by
there were so many that she gave
it up.
"I believe there never was a more un
selfish boy," she said; "and he's the
happiest boy I know of, too."
. The numbers counted up pretty fast
when Number One grew to be a man;
for he was married, and had boys of his
own. But he often thought how much
he should love a little daughter; and he
soon round out a way to add two new
numbers to his list A poor woman
died, leaving twin girlies without father
or mother, and Number One adopted
them. He took them to his home,
where his wife was all ready to welcome
them. The twins were old enough to
remember their own dear mamma; but
before long they found that they loved
their new mamma and papa just as
much. Their names were Catherine
and Tabitha; but their new papa called
them Kitty and Pussy, for short In a
few yeare'they were old enough to go to
board ing-schooL
When they came home for their first
vacation, they found that papa had
added a new number a splendid great
tabby-cat with yellow eyes. He had
been sent out to sail on the harbor in a
basket by some cruel boy; and their
Eapa. standing on the wharf, had heard
im crying, and saved him from a wa
tery grave.
"rve named him Moses," he said,
" because I took him from the water.
He pays me well by catching mice."
The next day was papa's birthday, and
Kitty and Pussy each had a gift for
him. As they were talking them over
together", Kitty said: " The trouble is.
Puss, 1 always want to do something
my very own self for papa. He's so
good to us, and to everybody. I do be
lieve everybody loves him. Even Moses
Eurrs on his knee, and catches mice for
im; but all we can do is to buy some
thing for him with the money that he
gives us."
"Oh no."' said Pussy, "that isn't alL
We can try to please him every day,
and Pm sure he will understand from
that how much we love him."
' But then I want to say it somehow,
and not just act it out," said Kitty.
"Oh! I know what Pll do, ril write
him a birthday note."
Half an hour after. Pussy was just
putting the last stitch in the pretty
watch-hook which was to be her gift,
when Kitty held out the note for her to
read.
"That's nice," said Pussy. "And
ril add a little."
Then they folded the note, wrote upon
the outside, "For Papa's Birthday,"
and placed it with their gifts under his
plate at table. When he opened it, he
read:
He stood alone upon the wharf;
A wall came o'er the water.
'Can that be Moses" voioer be cried.
Then I'll pUy Pharaoh's daughter.'
, And lightly springing to a bout.
Ho rowed to reach the casket
But lo! 'twas only tabby-cat.
In cost-off butchers' bosket.
Now tabby-cats caich mice and rats
Thus daily docth Moses:
But Kitty t at, who can't do that.
Her love in rhyme discloses.
With tiiuny sincere pur-r-rs, KtrrT
CAT."
"Next Pussy Cat, with grateful pur-r-rs,
A birthday gic :ting adds to hers;
And wishes every day to try
To show her love. So now good-bye.
Purringly, Pussy Cat."
When papa first began to read he
smiled, but soon the tears came into his
eyes, and he put his arms around both
little daughters, and told them how sure
he was that they loved him as he loved
them.
Say, boys and girls, would you wish
to be loved by every one? Then don't
be so careful to look out for number
one, but think of the other numbers
first. Lilian Pay son, in S. S. Times.
Emma's Ambition.
' O mamma!" she said, looking up
with flushed face; "there is just the
loveliest story in here! It is about a
little girl who was only ten years old,
and her mother went away to see a sick
sister, and was gone for a whole week;
and this little girl made tea and toast,
and baked potatoes, and washed the
dishes, and did every single thing lor
her father; kept house, you know, mam
ma. Now, I'm 'most ten years old, and
I could keep house for papa. I wish
you would go to Aunt Nellie's and stay
a whole month, and let me keep house.
I know how to make toast, mamma,
just splendidly! and custard, and Hattic
said she would teach me how to make
ginger-cake, some da'. Won't you
please to go, mamma?"
"I don't think I could be coaxed to
do it," said Mrs. Eastman. "The
mother of that little girl in the book,
trobably, knew that she could trust her
ittle daughter; but I should expect you
to leave the bread while it was to:isting,
and fly to the gate, if you heard a sound
that interested you; and I should expect
the potatoes to burn in the oven while
you played in the sand at the door. 1
couldn't trust you in the least."
" Mamma!"said Emma, with surprise
and indignation in her voice. "Why do
you say that? You have never tried me
at all. Why do you think I wouldn't do
as well as a girl in a book?"
"Haven't 1 tried you, dear? Do you
know it is just three-quarters of an hour
since I sent you to dust the sitting-room
and put everything in nice order forme?
Now look at those books, tumbled up
side down on the floor, and those pa
pers blowing about the room, and the
duster on the chair, and your toys on
the table; while my little girl reads a
story about another little - girl who
helped her mother."
"O, well," said Emma, her cheeks
very red, "that is dillerent; nothing but
this old room to dust If I had some
thing real grand to do, like keeping
house for papa, you would see how hard
I would work; I wouldn't stop to play,
or to read, or anything."
"Emma, dear, perhaps you will bo
surprised to hear me say so, but the
words of Jesus Christ show that you are
mistaken."
"Mamma," said Emma, again, and
her voice showed that she was very
much surprised.
"They certainly do listen: He that
is faithful in that which is least, is
faithful also in much; and he that is
unjust in the least, is unjust also in
much.'
"And once he said to a man: Well
done, good and faithful servant, thou
hast been faithful over a few things;
I will make thee ruler over many
things.' Can I say that to you this
morning." Pansy.
A Warning to Doctors.
The Chinese authorities of Shanghai
recently issued a quaint decree respect
ing the" neglect of physicians to attend
at once on their patients, and the high
fees which they charge. They give
notice that it is the duty of all physicians
to use their knowledge for the benefit
of the people; when people are sick
they must be ready to attend upon them
whenever they are sent for, without re
garding the hour of the night or day, or
the state of the weather. When people
are ill they long for the presence of the
doctor as the grain of seed longs for the
rains. Instead of doing this, liowever,
the physicians now think that they pos
sess great skill, and not only charge
high fees, but insist on being paid full
hire for their chair coolies, and they do
not care what becomes of the patient so
that they get their fees. If these
were only charged to the wealthy
it would not so much matter; but the
poor have too pay them also. An evil
practice (the decree goes on) also exists
by which doctors will not visit their
patients before two o'clock in the after
noon. Some will even smoke opium
and drink tea until late in the evening.
These are abuses, the magistrates say,
which they will on no account permit
Doctors must attend their patients at all
times. They must, if necessary, visit
them several times daily; they must
think more of them and less of their fees.
Notice, therefore, is given to all officials
and people that a physician who does
not attend when he is called must only
receive half his fees and half his chair
hire. "If you physicians delay your
visits you show your wickness, and sin
against yourselves." The decree is a
model one for a paternal Government;
argument, entreaty, objurgation, ex
position, threats, are all mingled in due
proportions. Nature.
Early Navigation.
" Ever seen navigation open as early
as this before?" Tie repeated, as he
glanced out of the window at the river
and settled back in his chair " bless
you; yes! Why, this is no spring at all
compared to one we had along iu the
forties. I don't exactly remember the
year, but we'll say 1844."
"Very early, was it?"
"Yes, indeed. We only had seven
flakes of snow that whole winter, and
they fell in December. Only seven, sir,
and the other two men who kept count
with me are now up in the sail loft
Shall I calPem down?"
"Oh, no matter. Was the river
frozen?"
Not the first sight of ice all winter."
"Did vessels continue to run?"
" Right along without a break. On
the 10th of January I sailed into Buffalo
with a cargo of wheat, and the weather
was so warm that the men walked the
decks barefooted. On the return trip I
was sun-struck off Point Au Pelee."
"Is that possible?"
"That's a dead fact That was a sad
trip for me, both financially any physic
ally." "Why, you didn't lose any money,
did you?"
" Not on the cargo, but going off just
at the time I did and being gone eleven
days threw my garden patch all behind
and it never caught up."
" But you got over the sun -stroke?"
"Not entirely, and probably never
shall. I can't talk five minutes without
feeling dry, and if I should go to ask
you to have a glass of beer with me I'd
stutter over it so long that you'd have a
chance to asK me twice to arms witn
you. No, young man," he
continued, as he carefully put the glass
down, " don't try to rush the season.
Early navigation has no money in it and
it is full of perils. I've tried it, and the
result is an infirmity which will follow
me to my grave. I always smoke after
drinking, and yet thanks don't
care if 1 do I prefer dark color and
yet that is, don't rush things. There's
nothing gained by it" Detroit Fret
Pro.
ELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
. vansas has 209 Presbyterian
chHies with 12,044 members.
-"- Mororan Dix. of New York, has
SiXtC :..i.., .:..:...., :.. i...'rv:..: I
Paris,
I '" Griffith John, a missionary to t
I "it" 'A rcccnt address in Ghisgow,
I stated China proper is now entirely
upucu the missionary ana the lJible
colporte with tne giugie exception of
one prov,lal capitaihat of Hanan.
. JViresbvterie in the United
Presb.vtenlChurch have voted on the
overture refw the prohibition of in
trumental uic The voters are
! counted by ; ,mbers, not by presby
teries, and loave votea for and 122
against tne rnelre
It is said tt thjs coantry is in
debted to Rtcha Storr3 Wmis more
than to any othejson for the mtro.
auction of olle song3 he having
taught the Yale stent3 the Latm song
of "Gaudeamusj" lichhe had learned
in the German Unijjg
Sir William Blastone teli3 m tnat
marriage was declai an ecclesiastical
contract by Pope lL,cent ill., A. D.
1198. Our own mi;,,,, is that he
has placed the date so, 5i)0Q years too
late, for we trace it ba. ia :l relinon.s
rite to the early days oQn.GJuircJi
man. Among the New Y01 pa3tors whe
object to opening pub!i.1ibraries on
Sundaj are Dr. Johu IIal.fjr y jj.
Taylor, Dr. Sabine and FjverThomtu
S. Preston. Among those jlt) SUpp0rj
Joseph H. Choate's pro,-:.':, ,
I open them are Dr. J. P. Nean n0
! ert Collyer and Rev. Heber Jton.
Harvard students are orgxj7i;n ,
total-abstinence society on ,um"u
sense principles. It is to be ltlii frou
pledges, bigotry and importunity a!U
based on "common sense. self-i..')e,.
and gentlemanliness." The socieiw;j
favor total abstinence, but a meje .
will be allowed freely to withdraw 1,,,
the organization whenever he finds ,6
practice of its principles too much
him. Rev. Phillips lJrooks and Pro
James are to deliver lectures before thJ
society.
The public schools of the State oi
New York were las: year attended by
1,021,282 children, a smaller number by
10,000 than was recorded in 1880. Of
tho 80,826 teachers employed, 23,157
were women. The average annual sal-
1 ary .of each teacher was $375.06. the
whole amount expended m salaries be
ing 97, 775,505.22. The State has 11,248
school districts and 11,894 school-houses.
The total amount expended upon the
schools last year was $10,808,802.40.
N. Y. Examiner.
The Indian University, at Table,
quah, Ind. Ter., reports an increase of
students and an advance of proficiency
this year. Three young men are study
ing for the ministry, and quite a num
ber are preparting to teach. It lian
been proposed to remove the institution
to the limits of the Creek Nation, and s
fine site has been granted for that pur
pose. The great need, however, is fora
building fund to erect buildings of brick
or stone to accommodate two hundred
students. Rev. A. C. Bacone is Presi
dent of the institution.
Presentations to Royalty.
Inside the palace, the same crush, the
same impatience, the shaking out of
trains, the fervent adjurations to friends
to be "set right," the feverish anxiety
to kiss the august hand so quietly
stretched out to receive the loyal salute
Few women walk gracefully through:
the ordeal, and most of them flush un
becomingly in the vain attempt to man
age their trains successfully during
three courtesies, to stop at the proper
moment, and to exactly know when to
relinquish the podgy fingers presented
to them. And yet what care has been
taken, what time has been wasted to in
sure a complete mastery of the perform
ance! Rehearsals have taken place.
masters of deportment have been sum
moned, domestic representations of the
throne-room arranged, debutantes have
courtesied scores of times to members
of their own family till they have been
pronounced perfect and then have
failed deplorably on the eventful day.
It does not seem so very appalling to
pass for five seconds before a short, fat,
somewhat aged woman dressed in black,
with always the faintest soupcon of
weeds about her; and yet stout hearts
have quailed, brave ollicers have got
entangled in their swords, even the pro
fessional beauties have lowered their
bold, proud eyes before the pale, ex-
Iiressionless look of the royal lady,
familiarity with these scenes does
not remove the weird sensation; and yet
every available pretext is taken to re
peat the ceremony. The Queen's mem
ory must be remarkably short or her
desire to note the changes events create
in her subjects very strong; for a girl is
presented to her when she "comes out"
again when she is married, and if, like
Lady Waldegrave, she has had four hus
bands, at each successive nuptials she is
obliged to appear before the Queen
as a perfect stranger. A man also
comes with the charm of novelty, aud is
introduced da capo at every step he
takes in his profession, and at every new
distinction he receives. This naturally
insures a large attendance, no matter if
at times slightly mixed, as it is not un
frequent to be tightly wedged in the
ante-rooms with people one would on
no account have on one's visiting list;
but it likewise causes a crowd so denso
and so unscrupulous that, when fair
ladies have found the use of hands and
elbows insufficient to procure standing
room, they have been known dexterous
ly to dispose about their persons pint
with the points outward, and to trust to
those weapons to remove the more de
fenseless of their neighbors. As the
style of dress is strictly decollete, and
that by the express command of the
Queen, there is a certain amount of
cruelty in this mode of attack. London
Cor. N. Y. Sun.
Spirited Sparrows.
Attention was attracted the other day
by a large crowd assembled along and
hanging on the fence of Washington
park. Examination proved the assem
blage gathered to witness a desperate
conflict between two sparrows. The
venomous little rascals were intent on
business and seemed to be aware that
their "mill" was attracting unusual
notice. They hammered away at each
other with a vim and vigor which would
have done credit to Paddy Ryan and
Sullivan. Each took his punishment
with little complaint, except now and
then a sharp squeak would announce a
telling blow on the part of one or the
other of the contestants. They backed
and filled and came to the "scratch"
after the most approved prize ring fash
ion, aud struck out in full accord with
bird science. After about fifty rounds
were fought with a give and take that
showed the pluck of the belligerents,
they became exhausted and laid down
on their sides about ten inches apart and
E anted like distressed hounds. The
lood flowed so freely from the heads of
each it was difficult to tell which was
entitled to the honor of having drawn
the "rubv" first. Afterabout a minute's
rest they called "time" themselves and
flew at each other again with the ferocity
of bull-dogs; they pulled and hauled and
pecked, aiming at each other's eyes,
which were blood-red with rage, until,
too exhausted to stand, they lay down
on their sides, and in that position shook
each other like terriers. At this junct
ure a small boy entered the ring, and
the gladiators, too weak to escape, were
carried off into hopelese captivity.
Never was the fighting qualities of these
pests more aptly illustrated. Nmeark
Aduertiser.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CUEE!
it . iruEs siwvivs.
SPLINTS, Kl'(i
HOXKS. I'KliS ANT
ALLS MILAUHLK
1SHKS A XI) I:
31UVKSTHK isrvi l
WITIIoLT KLISTr.l:
IXG.
oBKendall?VL
KENBAilr'S SPATIN CURE!
It ha- cun d :hnuands of cases and is destined to cure millions and millions mor
EBKAIiLS SPAVIN CURE!
Is the only po-itive cure known, and to show wh.it tlii- ieuu ly will do we give 1
as a sample of lmm-s cured bv it. a statenu ill hieb vad
GIVEN UNDER OATH.
To Whom It Mav Concern. In the
year 1375 I treated with ' Kendall's
Spavin Cure." a bone spivin of several
iiioniht' growth, nearly half :i large as
a hens egg, and completely stonpedthe
lameness and rrnut ed the en'.irgement.
I have worked the horse eer since very
bard, ami he never ha- been Lime, nor
could I ecr see any ditfcrcisce in the
sie of the hock joints -ince I treated
him with "Kendall's Spavin Cure."
X. A. ;.INKS.
Enosburgh -iIN. r Feb. .-. '7:.
Sworn and sub-cribed to before me
this ,."th day of Feb.. a. i. l-7!.
.Ioiix C. .Iknnk.
.1 list ice of Peace
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE;
ON HUMAN FLESH it has been usccrininul by repeated tr ifc to be.
the very best liniment ever usedj'or any dei'i xatfnl pain of lomi standing
or of short duration. Also for VtHlXS. lil'MONS. FROST-BITES
or any (muse, cut or lameness, dome are ohnxl 10 use tt on fin 'nan jlesli
simply because it is a horse medicine, but yon should remember that what
is good for ItJEAST is aoud for MAN. 'and ire A-noir from Experience
th at "KENDALL'S SFA VJN CI' BE" van be used on a c'titd 1 year V
old ici'th perfect safety. Its Effects are wonderful on human jlesh audit
does not blister or make a sore. Try it aud be convinced.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE;
Read below of its wonderful e fleets us :i liniment for the hu tin family.
IIkmAtitk. Mi.n&ouki. AujHi-t 21), 1SS0.
B. J, IvKN'PAl.L it Co.. (iKNTS: I am so oerj'jycd iu iew of the result of an ap
Pcation of your Kendall's Spavin Cure that 1 "feel that I ouirht for Humanities'
'".e publish it to the world. About thiity-tive vears ago while ridins: a young
ufy horse, I was injured in one of my testicle-, and from that Urn to three weeks
aja slow but constant enlargement has been the re.-ult, giving me a reat amount
ouble, almost entirely preventing me from horseback ridini. wlr'ch was my
uslj w:ly 0j- traveling. I -aw a notice of your Kendall's Spavin t 'lire, never once
noMit of it for anything except for hors-s, but atter receiving he medicine aud
reau.j,ov,,r what it was good for, feeling terribly exercised about my ditlictilty. for
I bau01,sUjlL,( msmy physicians and none gavenie any specific but When it could
be enured 0 longer to remove it with the knife. I applied jour Kent!. ill's Spavin
Cure aun experiment, and it was so painful iu its application that I concluded
not to rpl:ll jt .imj thought no more abi ut it until near .1 wee!., and lo .nul Lc'-ohl
on.e-"a,fhe size was gone, with joy I couhl -rarcely believe it, I immediately ap
P"BU it o-;r again, and have made in all about xi dozen .ipplie-tion- ruuning'over
a space ntwo weeksand the terrible enlargement i- almost goe, iu view of which
I cannot ereSN 1V feelings of delight. It lia been a (Jod send to me. mav he
send to oth.s with'like trouble-. .John Uiuk.
iastor & Hematite Congregational Church.
li i1 :ire :lt '',J,;rly t put this iu any shape you mav plca-e. I am not
ashamed to hve my name under, over or by the side of it.
KENDALL'S SPAVIN CURE!
Kendall's Spjn Cure is sure iu it- ellects, mild iu it- action a- it docs not
jlistcr, yet it Is pt,etrating and powerful to reach any deep s.-.tted piin r to re
move any bony gro.-th or any other enlargement if u.-ed for -everal d iy. -itch as
spavins, splints, ca'us. sprains, swelling, anv lameness and ill ei-l.iigeuieut- of
the joints, or limbs. - rheumati-m in man and for anv purpose for which a liniment
is used for man or be3t. It i- now known to be t he best liniment for man ever n-ed
acting mild yetcertai n jts effects. It is u-ed in lull strength with perfect sarctv
at all seasons of the yir.
Send address for Ilistrated Circular, which we think give- positive proof, or its
virtues. No remedy ha in,.t with siili uiiiuillfi d-u-ejss to our knowledge, for V
beast as well as man. Ice $1 per bottle, or six bottles for $".
. ., ALL DRUGGISTS have it or can get it for you,
or it will be sent to any adre.-s on receipt ol pi id . bv the proprietors,
48 Dr. B.J. KENDALL & CO. Esosbur!? Fulls, Vermont. t
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