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THE JOURNAL.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 3, 1S8J.
Iiicrd si ito rctt::e, C:fcsta, list., a: nasi
elits sitter.
j SUSPICIOUS 8P0USE.
Twas In the timo of sweet spring tliM.
A morning-cool and clear,
A happy husband, blithe and gay.
Exclaimed: "I think, my dear,
Tiuit this is just the finest day
That wo have had this year."
Then at his sldo his wife replied:
It gives nut great delight
To the weather settle down
So beautiful and bright;
And if you want to btay down town
Don't hurry home to-night."
He said Rpod-bye, but in his eye
Blistrust began to prance.
And at his trusting. loving wife
He (jiiickly looked askance.
While through his brain, suspicion rife.
Wild thoughts commenced to dance.
Again, again, with fevered brain,
lie thought on what she said.
When to his office he did come.
Ills mind was tilled with dread;
"She told me not to hurry home."
He moaned and clutched his bead.
With furious haste his tteps retraced.
And with an angry stride
He sped across the trembling iloor
And homeward quickly hied,
lie entered through the open door
Ah, what a sight he spied I
Confusion great there reigned in state
Disorder everywhere;
Amid the seem- his wife arose.
Her blow was bent with care;
A patch of soot was on her nose.
And i hitevvash ilecked her hair.
Most Weak and bare appeared tho air.
With blinding dust galore;
There were no pictures on tho wall.
No carpets on the floor;
lie gazed disgusted at them all.
Then turned his back and swore.
He gave a groan: "I might havo knows
That this would be her plan;
In future I will lie content
To ne'er her conduct scan."
Then hack unto his store he went,
A mad but wiser man.
iVcw York Journal.
OCT OF PITY.
She was just seventeen; the Tery
youngest littlo bride that any one re
membered ever coming to reign at Arn
wood Towers; the sweetest, daintiest
little ljidy Fielding that tho county had
ever welcomed.
To herself it was all like a dream, it
had come .so fast; it seemed as if all her
life had lived it.self in tlioso six niontits;
the leaving her English school, and go
ing out to her father's plantation in
Ceylon, so proud to bo his housekeeper
and companion; the strange, brief life
on the up-country coffee estate. Then
the young English stranger who passed
through Lindoola, m his rather vague
wanderings for adventure's sake, and
who was received and entertained at
Holme Harcourt with the delightful
open-handed hospitality of the colonies.
And then the awful night when the
sudden terrible stroke of cholera left
her fatherless, and life seemed one
great black void; and the Chaplain's
wife had been good to her, and kept
her from dying in despair; and Sir
Harry Fielding had been still more
good; and then and then she was
resting her poor little orphaned head
on a heart that was kind and true as
her own father's, and a strong arm was
close round her slender waist, and the
voice .she liked alone to hear of all the
voices around her. was telling her she
should never know another sorrow he
could guard her from. He seemed the
only real thing in ail that dream-time;
the sad past, and the present that was so
happy, but just as unlike reality. Was
it really herself, simple little Ncsta
Harcourt, that people were fussing over
and petting and welcoming homo as if
she hatl been a royal princess?
Perhaps it was well she could not re
alize it, or her head might havo been
turned. Why, had not the whole week
Harry and she wero spending with his
sifter, Mrs. Mostyn, to present Ncsta to
the countryside, been one round of fes
tivities, of which she was the queen?
This evening they had all driven to a
grand concert in the countv town, to
ear a famous singer; and Ncsta, in her
wonderful golden satin gown, rich with
embroider- and lace, with her eves out
shining the diamonds on her white neck,
and her cheek Hushed with ita pretty
shy pink, had been an attraction only
second to the queen of song herself.
Sho felt a little weary with the excite
iiieiitaud the happiness, now that they
hatl reached home and wero having sup
jior in the great hall, for the concert had
loreed them to dine rather earlier than
usual.
The house was crowded with guests
.ami they weie all vehemently declaring
that the night was hardlv begun yet,
and they meant to finish It with a few
fames. The furniture in the blue draw
ing room was being hastily moved, and
Nesta's heart sank at the thought of
further exertion; her head ached aud she
was worn out. She would slip away
quietly to bed and leave Harry to make
Iher excuses to Eleanor. Where was
Harry, by the way? Mie had not seen
!hini since they .sat down to supper, and
he and that beautiful Miss Trafford wero
talking in the dtrway. A hasty seareh
through the nearest rooms had no re
sult, and Ncsta .stopped bvan open door
to glance at the half-cleared drawing
room. Two portly dowajrers were deen in
conversation, their heads bent together
behind their fans; but their voices rose
above the music Eleanor was pluv-ing.
and Nesta could not help hearing what
they said.
.'Gladys Trafford; yes, indeed!" cried
the black velvet gown to the purple
brocade. "A very, very old love affair,
"that, my dear, lie and she were in
separable, and a most suitable match it
would have been. The two oldest
families in the county; his equal in
position and fortune: Lord Stour
bridge's estates are next his you know,
aud Gladys is heiress to a great part"
What made Nesta's heart give such a
leap, aud her feet feel spell-bound to the
spot where she stood? Arnwood Towers
was the only place near the Traffords.
It w:is as it her whole being were
strained to hear the rest: she -never
thought of eaves-dropping, poor child;
and it was life aud death work to her.
-And why didn't it come about?"
asked the purple brocade.
"Heaven knows! A lovers' tiff, I
suppose, or some such rubbish. It's a
thousand pities! A Lady Fielding has
always boon at the head of the county
society, and Gladys Trafford is just
made for the position, with her beautv
and cleverness and talents. She has af-waj-s
been immensely popular."
"And who is the irl he has married?
She seems a nice little thing enough."
"Oh, ." harmless sort of creature;
pink-and-white prettiness, nothing more.
She was a planter's daughter in Ceylon,
or somewhere: aud lie was staying with
them when the father died. She was
left quite friendless and destitute, and
he married her out of pity. He was al
ways a quixotic goose, Harry Fielding."
The spell was oil" now; and Nesta,
white as death, was hurrying up the
stairs to her room. There was a little
sofa in a sheltered nook in the corridor,
and there sat Harry the missing Harry
and the woman he should have mar
ried. Nesta sped past, but as she did, she
saw Harry bend his head and kiss the
beautiful hand he was holding, and she
beard his low murmur:
"If I had only known, years sgo,
things might have been so different."
On, on, till her own door closed be
iiind her, and she gazed wildly round
at the pretty ornaments that strewed
her bower, as she had never seen them
before. She flung the diamonds from
Iter 'throat and wnsts as if they hurt her;
And sauk into a chair beside "the nnaint
-void ebony table, leaning her head, with j
" 'iliule of crisp, brown hair, down on j
W folded sm Ste did ot shad a
Uar. bat kr fcraia seemed an fire.
BssJds her stood the tall rase ef
rushes that Harry and she had gathered
from the lake only yesterday. Wasn't
it a hundred years ago?
"Never another sorrow he could
guard her from?" Well, it was true;
he couldn't help this; it wasn't his fault,
ho had meant to do right, he had mar
ried her "out of pity'" when he loved
another woman. It must be her own
fault, not his; yes, because she was
pink-and-white, and nothing more; and
she was not tall and stately and tal
ented; and she oucht to nave known
ity wasn't lore, only it had seemed o
-.
Iiko it!
"If he had known years ago.
, .
imogs
might have been so different!" Mhrht
they not still? What if she were to go
away that very night, and never trouble
him again? She had not a friend in the
world except her old Brighton school
mistress; she would go to her and beg
her to take her in, and let her teach the
little children. And perhaps she might
die soon; and Harry could be happy
with the woman lie had always loved.
Nesta felt as if deatii wouldn't be long
in coming, she felt so ill now.
Sho got up to fetch a time-table. Yes.
the mad train passed through Middle
hampton at one o'clock; it was only
twelve now, and though she couldn't
very well understand tho puzzling fig
ures, she thought it must stop at the
little station just the other side of the
park.
She drew her blotting book to her, and
began to write fast. A big tear or two
slashed down on the paper, but she
wiped them patiently away; it must be
clear, that Harry might, read it.
"They say you only married me from
)ity," she wrote; "I might have guessed
t, my darling, but you were so good to
me that I never, never did. I can't
make you free again; but it is better for
us never to sec each other any more.
and perhaps I may die, and you can go
back to the woman they say you havo
always loved. I saw 3011 just now,
when vou kissed her hand, and said
things might have been so different if
you uad only known years ago. Yes,
they would have been different for us
alL God bless you, my poor, good boy!
you were not to bhirue!"
She paused and looked up.
"What shall I sign it?" she said; "I
am not his wife any more, for only love
really makes a marriage."
Her eyes fell on her little wedding
ring, its brightness scarcely tarnished
J-et. She stooped and pressed it to her
ips gently, solemnly.
"Oh, Harry, my Harry!" she whis
pered, "if it had only been love, not
pitv."
She rose and slipped off the golden
satin gown and put on a dark warm
dress instead.
"I must even go away from him in
the things he gave me, she said, as she
fastened her long far cloak with its sil
ver clasps. "I haven't a singlo gown
that was mine before I knew him. He
has even dressed me out of charity. His
pity has been more generous than other
people's love."
She opened the French window in her
dressing room and stepped out on the
balcony, whence a llight of steps led
down to the terrace below. She glanced
back at the prettv room, with its Japan
ese cabinets, and blue and white china,
and the ebony table where the letter to
Harry lay, with the light full upon it,
so that he could not miss it. Then she
shut the casement sharply behind her,
and resolutely turned away.
The moon was bright "with a fitful
brightness now almost as light as day,
now hidden behind hurrying clouds
and it was bitterly cold. Nesta drew
her cloak tighter around her, and tried
to walk fast, but she was desperately
wearj', and could only stumble along.
Somehow the way to tho little gate had
never seemed so incomprehensibly long.
Surely she could not have missed her
way? The moon and the clouds were
playing such pranks that one could not
bo sure, and her heart had been too full
to notice all the turns. It was as black
as Erebus now; a darkness that might
be felt. Ncsta took a few steps for
ward, then stopped short, bv some
mysterious instinct, just as the moon
shone out bright once more, its golden
sparkle reflected as by a thousand
broken mirrors in the waters of the lake
which slumbered at her feet. A
strange, sharp pain shot through her
heart, as she saw the very rushes Harry
and she had been gathering yesterday.
Yesterday? A thousand years :t-o;
when she was happy.
A wild thought flashed across her
brain; she hatl wished to die; it would
b; better for Harry and for herself, yes,
and for that other woman, too, if she
wero Jying under those cold, smiling
waters in a dreamless sleep! It was
only a moment, her soul was too white
and too brave for more; she recoiled
with a start of honor; but, ah! the bank
was worn and smooth, her little feet
slipped on the edge; she threw out her
hands to stop herself, but the frozen
grass slid through her lingers; there was
one short, sharp cry, and a pale sweet
face lay still among the rushes in the
silent moonlight.
It was dark and warm and deliciously
restful when she knew anything again.
She heard Harry's low voice beforeever
I she opened her eyes; and felt his clasp
01 ner uauu iiarrys iiauu-clasp, there
was no other like it anywhere and
thought it must be Heaven, and was
glad she had done with earth, since this
was so much better. And so she slept
again.
And when next she awoke, she knew
that the clouds she seemed to lie on,
clouds soft and billowy, were her own
bed. nothing more etherial; and she was
awure that it must bo earth still, but felt
it did not matter since it could be so
like Heaven, for Harry's voice and
Harry's hand were there still; and she
slept again, smiling gently.
But the next time she woke the hand
and voice were missing, aud only Harry's
back was visible in the room beyond, as
she raised herself on her pillows. And
a? she rose she caught sight of herself
in the long Psyche glass opposite, and
started at the reflection. For all her
tangle of brown hair was cut short, and
there was no pink and white prettiness
now, only great dark eyes, and a small
Whito face. And as she fell back on her
pillows, half fromsurprise and half from
weakness, for sho was very feeble, the
tells burst out clear and sweet and
mystical, in a perfect carol of exultant
jOy.
"Christmas bells! Is it Christmas?"
she said. "Why, it was November when
I died.
And as Harry turned and hurried to
her side, she smiled up at him, and
atked again:
Christmas? Is it really Christmas,
Harry? ' but he only bent to catch her
u iiu arms.
She yielded to his kisses; then sud
denly she tried to push him from her.
'Harry, you must not youjnust not!"
sue said.
He saw the troubled look in her eyes,
and knew that memory was comin
bact. "Yes, I must," he said, "mv little
darling, my blessing, my life! The doc
tor says a may tea tell you all about it,
for the worry will hurt you more than
the. talking; and, oh! how I have waiter!
for this moment to come! It has been
one long nightmare since the minute I
heard your scream, avd ran u -j$t in
time to see you sink."
Then it was you who found me? Oh
Harry!"
"Yes, j'ou must hear it all. j. came
to j'our room five miuutcs after wn
must have left it. ami there was ti,c
tiniK-table open, and your lilllo iio'j',
bless it!" (that tear-spotted bit of papoi
will merer leave Harry Fielding's heart
while he lives), "and so I just set off
for the station as hard as I could go. I
had almost reached the park gate when
that cry came off to the right and I
turned just in time."
His voice broke, and be beat his head
down to hexs.
"Nesta, it was all a lie, a Tile, in
famous lie, whoever told it. Gladys
Trafford and I were always dear old
boy and girl friends, nothing more. 1
knew my cousin Wilfred loved her, and
I always thought she had something to
do with his going to Australia, yean
ago. It was only that night she con
fessed to me that they had been en
gaged all these years, and Wilfred was
trying to make a fortune for her sake.
I told her I would soon put alL that
right; and then I scolded her for never
having told me before, when I could
have saved them both all these weary
years of waiting. Nesta!" for her
face was hidden, and she was sobbing
softly "you will not doubt me again?"
"Never, never, never! not if you told
me so yourself! But, Harry," in a
whisper which scarcely reached his ear,
"did you really marry me out of pity?"
Yes, my sweetheart the very sincerest
pity for myself."
And Nesta never asked any more
questions. CasselVs Magazine.
The Cost ef Living in Russia.
A man had better not fall ill while in
Russia, for all the doctors outside the
large cities are believers in phlebotomy
and violent purgatives. They prescribe
tea, but drug it without telling you,
and the effects are felt a few days after
ward. The prices of goods in Russian
stores are assessed according to the
apparent wealth of the customer. A
stranger must first choose the article he
wants, then offer what he thinks reason-,
able, and turn on his heel if the offer
be declined. Should tho tradesman
hurry after him into the street he may
bo sure that he has offered too much.
Should he be allowed to go his bid has
really been too low, and of course this
is liable to happen with persons accus
tomed to Western prices, for the cost of
everything in Russia is exorbitant. A
suit of fairly good clothes costs seventy
dollars, a pair of knee boots thirty dol
lars, an average cigar twenty-five cents.
The only cheap things are tea. vedki,
and articles made of leather, but even
these cannot be had at a reasonable
price unless bought through a native.
In the large hotels, where Parisian
furniture and beds are to be had, the
day's board for a bachelor, without a
servant, cannot be put down at less than
ten dollars. The price of a singlo room
ranges from three dollars to five dollars;
table d'hote dinner costs two dollars
and fifty cents without -wine; a bottle of
pale ale seventy-five cents; one of cham
pagne four dollars, and so on. Amuse
ments, such as theaters and concerts,
cost about three times as much as in
Paris. The theaters and restaurants
are luxurious, and so are the first-class
railway carriages on the line from
Odessa to Moscow and St.Petersburg.
If a stranger confined his travels to a
journey on this line be would go away
with aline idea of Russian comfort, for
all the latest American improvements
in the way of sleeping and dining cars,
dressing rooms and attendance are
available.
There is one good side of traveling in
Russia, and it is this: If a stranger be
not fairing for commercial purposes, he
will be made a welcome guest at the
houses ot the authorities in any town
where he may wish to spend more tha
a day. The Civil Governor will dispatch
a Secretary to his hotel and be glad to
have him to dinner for the sole sake of
hearing what news he has to bring. This
is pleasant enough, anil the hospitality
is the more gracious as the passing
stranger cannot make any return for it
beyond thanks. On the other hand, a
stranger who settles for any term ex
ceeding a week in a country town will
have to be careful of the company into
which he falls, for Russian friendship
soon turns to familarity, and one of the
first manifestations of familiarity is to
ask the stranger to take a hand at
ecarte. Then it becomes a question of
refusing aud being deemed a boor, or
accepting and being promptly cleaned
out. The Russians are fearful gamblers,
and a stranger with circular notes in his
pocket is a godsend to them. They do
not cheat, but play and play until the
result is utter impecuniousness to one
of tho two parties to the game. Tho
women arc as bad as the men, aud think
nothing of winning a few thousand dol
lars from a stranger whom they have
not known for more than a week.
Odessa Cor. Brooklyn Eagle.
Medes of Salutation.
A French traveler xeport.1 that every
race among whom he has sojourned has
its own mode of salutation,- not accept
ing the great Yankee Nation. He in
forms his readers that, however, a few
polite Europcanized Americans may sa
lute one another, the characteristic na
tional salutation is "Hello!"
We fear he is right. The telephono
is accused of having fastened this stigma'
upon us-; but in truth the telephone
only adopted a word already familiar to
all boys and most men.
The Arabs say on meeting: "A fino
morning to you!".
The Turk says, with dignified gravity:
"God grant you His blessings!'
The Persian salutation is familiar to
all the world from its comic quaintne?s:
"May your shadow never grow less!"
The Egyptian is a practical man. He
has to earn his taxes by toil Under a
burning sun, and accordingly when ho
meets Ids fellow, he asks: "How do
you sweat?"
The reader is probably aware that in
those low latitudes all is well with a la
borer as long as he perspires freclv.
The good Chinaman loves his dinner.
"How are you digesting?" he kindly
inquires, on meeting a friend.
The Greeks, who are keen men of
business, close bargainers, ask one an
other: "How are yon gettingon?"
The national salutation of Naples was
formerly: "Grow in grace!" At pres
ent, in all parts of Italy, they use a
phrase equivalent to "How are you?"
The Spaniards say: "How are you
passing it?"
The French: "How do you tony
yourself?"
The Germans: "How does it go?"
The Dutch: "How do 30U travel?"
The Swedes: "How can you?" mean
ing, "Are you in good vigor?"
The Russians: "Be well!"
The English-speaking races, in addi
tion to the juvenile and telephonic
"Hello!" say: "How are you?" and
"How do you do?"
We also take off the hat, shake hands,
embrace, bow and kiss, as, in other
climes, people rub noses, touch fore
heads and take off their shoes.
The American in Italy is surprised to
see men embrace and kiss eachothe.-, as
in Bible lands.
The Italians in turn look upon our
hand-shaking as cold and ridiculous,
the bobbing up and down of the arm
having no meaning whatever in their
view.
The touching of the tips of gloved
fingers, if more graceful than hand
shaking, must also seem to people of
the East as professional and expression,
less.
The bow, as a mark of respect, is a
custom used by nearly all nations, and
one that had its origin in ancient time.
Youth's Companion.
It has been discovered that the
calla is not a lily, and the dog-tooth vie
le. i- not pmjierly a violet. Now, if
. me daring konoclast wHl only prove
t at the ouioc is not an onion! Bolts
i'.
'Oat.
M Afe.
Old age, which used to come gradually
and be in no particular baste to besrin
its visible progress, has recently caught
the spirit of the time and advanced upon
some people at a galloping pace. The
fault is with the victims themselves.
The life-endurance of any given person
is fixed by nature, and the man who
draws most largely and steadily upon
his physical capital must be the first to
display gray hairs and discover chronic
bodily weaknesses. In New York any
one can find scores of men who at thirty
five have whitening heads and nerves
that need "bracing at short intervals
every day. Whether they reach this
condition by too much work or too much
play (of the kind that uncharitable per
sons call dissipation), the indications of
hastening age are equally significant.
How is the progress of the destroyer to
be arrested?
Many physicisns in New York are
devoting themselves to tho task of pro
longing the lives of persons who are not
ill, yet have begun to wear away too
rapidly. Among the practitioners who
study the subject carefully, there seems
to be but little difference of method.
Their first and hardest work is to con
vince their patients that it is daugerous
to live "fast" a word which has a
special signiiicance which makes it ab
solutely insulting to man)' eminently
respectable transgressors of the laws of
health. It seems impossible to persuade
a merchant who does more work in one
hour than his best clerk can do in three,
that he is guilty of fast living and dis
sipation; even if he never drinks a drop
and refrains from all improper
pleasures. The lawyer or broker who
accomplishes wonders in the morning,
but feels a sense of "goneness" early in
the afternoon, cannot bo made to be
lieve that pat of him is literally "gone,"
and that if he urges himself beyond that
point, without first taking a little rest,
he . expends vitality with frightful
rapidity. Ladies who, between house
hold cares, religious duties aud social
responsibilities, are steadily active from
eight in the morning until midnight,
sometimes wonder why they lose tho
freshness of youth, while some of their
sex, whom they occasionally see, but
would not for worlds speak to, preserve
face and figure in spite of lives of which
the less said the better.
But when these, as well as less inno
cent classes, are convinced that they are
living too rapidly, aud physicians begin
to arrest the advance of age by urging
rest. No practitioner of high standing
now prescribes stimulants to any per
sons not reany 111. excepting tuose wnu
are absolutely compelled to more exer
tion than is good for them. Short
periods of relaxation throughout the
day are always found beneficial; some
business men have been greatly helped
by dropping upon a lounge for five
minutes in every hour or two; they may
not cannot stop thinking, but there
seems great relief in merely assuming a
recumbent position for a" little while.
During the recent civil war a general
whose men were noted for coming out
of a hard march in fine fighting condi
tion, attributed his success to his imper
ative order that his men should lie
down whenever a halt was ordered.
Regular and full hours for sleep are
also insisted upon, and until the patient
endeavors to adhere closely to this rule
he does not begin to comprehend how
nature's great restorative is diminished
in quantity by the demands of business
and society in a great city. One or two
half-nights of sleep per week do not
seem to mar the health of young peo
ple, but auy person who has reached
the age of thirty-live is weakened by
such privations, aud few of them who
have active nerves can ever make good
the loss.
"High living" is remorselessly ta
booed not only the custom of drinking
a great deal of wine at dinner, but that
of eating concentrated food, with stim
ulating codimeuts and sauces. Much
meat and little vegetables is the rule
with active people in large cities. It is
the result of a physical craving, born of
rapid waste of physical tissue, for stim
ulation. A hard-working farmer, who
is in the open air all day, would not,
because he could not, eat as much meat
as a slightly-built business man will
consume daily in New York, and
he would become excitable almost
to madness were ho to partake as
sparingly of bread and vegetables.
Good physicians place no restrictions on
the quantity of food for a city man or
woman of "active habits, but they urge
that the proportion of meats and pas
tries to vegetables be lessened. Ihe free
use of fruit and milk is strongly advo
cated, to correct the bad effects of over
eating and of stimulating food. Fruit
juices are believed to accelerate tho
natural and healthful action of the
alimentary canal, to prevent the reten
tion of wasted tissue, and to maintain at
Its normal condition the prespiratory
system, one of the most important and
least remembered portions of tho plrysi
caI machinery. While not delaying or
diminishing nutrition in any way, fruit,
if used in suflicicnt quantity, is known
to lower the temperature of the blood
that is overheated by liberal feeding
combined with lack of exeituso. New
York has plenty of melons and pfeaches
during the summer months; but in eight
of tho twelve months of the year fruit is.
regarded as a luxury rather than a
necessity. A physician with a large
Practice in a fashionable district in New
ork said recently that carofl iuquiry
failed to discover that any one of his
patients ever bought apples, except for
special treatment in the lutcheu, al
though the apple is the most abund
ant, cheap, and ever-present of the
fruits which are peculiarly 1-cneiJcial as
food.
The few rules given abovi do not ob
viate the necessity for special treatment
for persons who are growing old too
rapidly, for age nearly always manifests
its approach by finding Hs victim's
weakest part and attacking It. Tbey
are, however, so contrary to general
custom that they will be now to most
people who read them, as ihey are to
nearly all who obtain them, for the first
time," from familv physicians. N. Y.
Hour.
k Sassy Little Fellow Who Get.Feeled.
"I am a rustler, and don't yer furgit
it," said a man with a bro id-brimmed
hat on and a belt full of deadly weapons
on Front street the other day. I'm a
bad man from Dakota; and ytr kin put
me down whenever there's any senm
magiu' tor be done. I'm thur when j"er
want some big work, an don't yer fur
git it None o' the white-livered sons
o' washwomen kin run over me."
A number of men gathered around
him out of curiosity, and a little bit of
insignificant maullood stepped forward
and said:
"Shake, pardner. I'm a rustler my
self, an' ther' ain't no white-livered cuss
from Dakota that kin come around hyer
an' brag about his stufl 'tbout lickin'
me."
"You? You?" asked the surprised
Dakotan. "Why, if you Itved whar' I
come from they'd eat yer up alive."
"Go 'long! You're a big knock-kneed
coward !" cried the little man, frothing
at the mouth, and the crowd clapped
their hands and cheered heartily ; but
before the cheer had died away the Da
kota giant had the little fellow bent
across bis knee and was spanking him
like all sin.
"Yer thought yer'd come a game '0
bluff, did yer?" I heard yer tell that
fellow over yandcr what ycr'd do, and
that ar war what made me talk big.
May-be you' 11 learn by this that there's a
darned sight o' foolishness in the stories
about little men lixiu' big uns. Yer kin
go over thar now, an tell yer pardnei
ow yer got fooled." Exchange.
Silent Women.
The scientific world is now agitated
by the subject of the evolution of silent
women. Up to date they have generally
been classified with the peculiar species
known as white black-birds aud black
swans. The question is now, whether
the few specimens "that are found are
signs of a uew and unheard of type of
women, or whether they are mere
freaks of nature, exceptions to a rule
and no more prophetic of a species of
silent women, than the Siamese twins,
skeleton meu, fat women, six-leged
calves, and other curiosities, arc signi
ficant of a raco of such creatures.
Silent womeu do not seem to be pe
culiar to any section or climate; nor
are thoy indigenous to any special local
ity. Sometimes they are found in cities,
where people necessarily do a good deal
of talking, sometimes in the agricultural
regions, where talking is mainly con
fined to the sewing circle, or to trie Suu
day noon gossip between morning aud
afternoon service. Two of the largest
cities of the country. New York and
Cincinnati, are just now furnishing tho
two most perfect specimens of the new
species extant that, is if it is a new
species; if it is a freak of nature, they
still hold their own as profitable invest
ments of a dime museum.
One, whom we have already referred
to, is witness in a will case in Now York.
She is an old servant of the man whose
will is contested; and, when put in tho
witness bov, loudly announced her reso
lution "to keep "still," not to say a
word, and that it was no use tusking her
anything. She sat back iu her chair and
read "A Christian's Secret, or a Happy
Life," aud shook her head, said she
wouldn't answer a question not one;
that she needed all her breath for some
thing else; that they could lock her up
to the day of judgment if they wanted
to; it would not make a bit of difference,
and for two or more days held out iu
her determination.
A Chicago woman has not spoken to
hor husband for two years, and the fel
low actually wants a divorce from her.
But that's the way in this world. Hun
dreds of men instead of divorcing her
would be clad to marry her. It is like
the two men who were telling each other
why they joined the army and went to
war. One because his wife never had
buckwheat cakes; the other because his
wife wouldn't give him anythiug else.
The Chicago wife's only mode of com
munication was writing notes and leav
ing them about. Her husband says he
would have given all he had and trudged
home on foot to save car fare, for one
kind, sympathetic word from her. He
lit her lamp ami warmed her foot stove,
but no word came. 'He went to Toronto
to the Sovoreig'n Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows aud she locked herself in her
room so as not to bid him good-bye.
She would rattle a dish to call him to
dinner and then, putting hers upon a
separate plate, walk away with it.
Everything which some husbands would
crave as a sweet boon in their wives,
this man esteems a thorn and a
grievance.
So little credence do the ordinary
minds of the country put in the notion
that a silent woman may be a regular
and healthy development of nature, that
both of these are called insane. Detroit
Free 1' ess.
"Help Me Across, Papa."
There was anguish in the faces of
those who bent over the little white bed,
for they knew that Baby May was drift
ing away from them, going out alone in
the dark" voyage where so many have
been wrested from loving hands; and as
the-tried in vain to keep her, or even to
amooth with their kind solicitude her
last brief sorrows, they too experienced
in the bitter hour of parting the partes
of death. They only hoped that she dTd
not sutler now". The rings of golden
hair lay damp and unstirred on her
white forehead; the roses were turned
to lilies on her cheeks; the lovely violet
eyes saw them not, but were upturned
and lixed; the breath on the pale lips
came and went, fluttered and seemed
loath to leave its sweet prison. O, the
awful, cruel strength of death; the
weakness, the helplessness, of lovo!
Those who loved her better than life
could not lift a hand to avert the de
stroyer; they could only watch and watt
until the end should come. Her merry,
ringing laugh would never again gladdeu
their hearts; her little feet would make
no more music as they ran pattering to
meet them. Bab' May was dying, and
all the house was darkened and hushed!
Then it was, as the shadows fell in
denser wives about us, that she stirred
ever &o faintly, and our hearts gave a
irreat bound as wo thought, "She is
better! She will live!" les, she knew
as; her eyes moved from one face to tho
other, with a dim, uncertain gaze! O!
how good God was to give her back!
How we could praise and bless Him all
our lives. She lifted one dainty hand
cold almost pulseless, but better, bet
ter we would have it so and laid it on
the rough, browned hand of the rugged
man who sat nearest to her. His eye
lids were red with weeping, but now a
smile lighted all his bronzed face like a
raiubow as he felt the gentle pressure of
his little daughter's hand the mute,
imploring touch that meant a question.
"What is it, darling?" he asked, iu
broken tones of joy and thanksgiving.
She couid not speak, aud so we raised
her on the pretty lace pillow, and her
wee white face shone in the twilight like
a star or a sweet woodland flower.
She lifted her heavy eyes to his eyes
that even then had the glory and the
promise of immortality in them, and
reaching out her little wasted arms
said, inner weary, flute-like voice:
"Help me across, papa!"
Then she was gone! We held to our
breaking hearts the frail, beautiful
shell, but she was far away, whither we
dare not follow. She had crossed the
dark river, and not alone.
'Over the riveritlie boatman palo
Carried unothcr household pet.
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hnnda.
And fearlessly entered the phantom bark;
We felt it glide from the silver sands.
And nil our sunshine grew strangely dark."
O, inlinite Father! When we weary
and disappointed ones reach our plead
ing hands to Thee, wilt Thou take us
even as the little child, and help us
across over the mountains of defeat and
the valleys of humiliation into the eter
nal rest of Thy presence, into the green
pastures and beside the still waters, into
the city of the New Jerusalem, whoso
builder and maker is God? Presbyte
rian. '
Been to the Club.
"Where have you been at this late
hour," sternly asked Mrs. Tonguelasher,
as her liege and lord staggered in at the
door, bowing to the hat rack.
"Been to club," he answered, with
much difficulty.
"You know this is not club night,"
she howled emphatically.
"Was call mectin' by Scc'terry," he
replied, thicker than before.
"Oh, yes, it may have been called a
meeting by the Secretary, for he runs a
gin shop; now tell me," what was the
object of this called meeting?"
"Was call meetin' to confer with
crowd lawyers," he returned, feeling
his way to the water bucket. "An' I
tell you, Liza," he continued, "I met
shev'al mos' prom'nent members of.
bar."
Sorrowfully she looked at him and
said, as he snugly tucked bis boots be
tween the sheets, and threw himself un
der the bed:
"Yes, from the way you smell, I
should think you met all of the distin
guished members of the bar." Atlanta
Constitution.
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A taxidermist in Heading, Pa., has
a collection of 75,000 butterflies.
FAUX AND HOUSEHOLD.
Fruit-growers would do well to
watch their trees for mildew.
As soon as there is food for insects
011 fruit trees they will be on hand to
eat it. Be ready for them. Watch for
the first "tents" of the caterpillar and
removo them while small. xV. Y.Timcs.
Mutton Broth: One pound of the
neck of mutton without any fat. one
tablespoonful of Barley, one quart of
water. Salt to taste. Cut the mutton
into small pieces. Simmer gentlv, but
do not boil, for two hours. IJu house
hold. Nothing is more susceptible to for
eign matter than bad butter, tf a
farmer be not sure of this let him place
a pound or so of butter near a piece of
ordinary soap, or a few onions, and ex
clude the air for a few days and he will
be convinced. Albany Journal.
Water Pound Cake: One pound of
flour, oue pound ot sugar, one-half
pound of butter, four & and one cup
of warm water. Use prepared flour, or
put into the flour before sifting it two
teaspooufuls of any good baking pow
der. The cup of water must be quite
warm, but not really hot. Beat tho
eggs separately. Exchange.
A Western writer says: "Buy small
trees. Small trees, ten chances "to one,
will come into bearing sooner than the
larger ones. The larger the tree the
less liber there will be upon tho roots.
A tree thai has plenty of fibrous roots
will live and flourish, while one that
lacks such feeders will languish and
die."
German Bread: One pint of bread
sponge, one cup of sugar, one vg, one
piece of butler the size of a walnut;
beat them all together till light, stir in
flour till it is as thick as a cake, let it
rise till light, then bake iu a moderate
oven. After vou butter your tiu. sift
cinnamon over it, and just before baking
sue sugar over me lop ot the bread.
Toledo Blade.
Cleansiug Liquids. Water in which
potatoes have been boiled exercises re
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spoons discolored bv eggs. Hyposul
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Farmer.
The New York Tribune mentions
an easy and profitable way of disposing
of the hard bones which are usually left
kicking around the backyard ordistrib
uted by prowling dogs : "Bury a peck
or half a bushel or more of the hard
bones under a newly set grap-vine or
fruit tree, or within reach of the eager
roots of an old one, which will search
them out and feed on them year after
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Linseed Meal.
As to the matter of linseed oil meal
there are a great many who think that
they know all about it who do not Wo
suppose that there is no food that there
are so many erroueous ideas concerning
as oil m-al. Men who have fed it to
some :: nimal.s foryears, entertain the idea
that it U hurtful to animals that would
do well with it; others feed it when or
iu such way as they should not do.
Some think that they ought to havo it
whatever it may cost, and others be
lieve that it wouldn't pay to buy it
at any price. Generally it is a capital
food, but if the nrice continues to ro
up, its use will soon be discontinued. It
is not always advisable to use it. It
may be ro high in price or dillicult to
get, that it vould be advisable to use
mill stuffs instead. While they will not
precisely fill the bill, they are largely of
the same character of oil" meal, and it is
often desirable to use a less meritorious
food, on account of price, or other cir
cumstance, if it approaches to the more
meritorious. Oil meal is linseed meal
from which most of the oil has been
taken. Still it contains some oil and
the small percentage that it does con
tain, is of use to the animal. There is,
perhaps, no food that will so well keep
the bowels in order, aud the oil that it
contains gives it this superior character
istic over flesh forming foods. Except
as to its small percentage of oil, it is a
flesh forming food, containing usually
twenty-eight per cent, of muscle form
ing element and all of this class of foods
are more conducive to good digestion
than are the fat forming. It is fed in
conjunction with other foods, and if fed
properly it is good for an animal under
any circumstances. It has been ob
jected to as food for animals carrying
their ycung. Especially what is called
the new process meal, from which tho
oil is extracted by the use of benzine,
has come under this condemnation.
But we have fed it, and like it, and we
think think the charge of being injurious
has arisen from the advertisements of
rival companies. In consequence of its
loosening character, it must necessarily
be fed with caution to animals with
young, and if it is fed cautiously it is
good for all animals, we repeat, under
ill circumstances. If we could feed
more of it we should have healthier
luimals, and less 11 ted for drugs. But
then, we cannot all get it. and as before
said, if it keeps on increasing in price,
done of us will be able to get it. In view
of this, we have alwavs been careful to I
nuggest that middlings and flax seed
may be used instead with ver' satisfac
tory results.
In a recent issue w& noted its use as
an ingredient in forming a ration for a
calf. It will be remembered that we
-iaid that after the tirst week the calf
could be Ced on skim milk and oil meal,
beginning with two tablespoonsftil a
day, dissolved in warm water, and
gradually increasing the quantity until
It reaches a pound a da, which "will be
quite sullicieut until the calf is two
months old. In the production of beef
some such daily ration as two pounds
of oil meal, four pounds 0 wheat mid
dlings, six pounds of corn meal and hay
in proportion will suggest how it may
be used. To fattening cattle, some feed
as high as six pounds per day. Cir
cumstances, of course, have to be con
sulted in individual cases, but the feeder
will be able from the proportions given
to arrive at the proper proportion of oil
meal. The best English feeders, it may
be mentioned, are accustomed to over
stock their pastures, and make up the
deficiency by feeding oil cake. We
mention it to show how valuable an ad
junct to feeding this class of food is.
For milch cows the amount of meal per
day in connection with full ratious,
6hould be about two pounds. Horses
may be fed two pounds of the meal per
day as a part of their rations, aud they
will be benefited greatly by its use.
But we'desirc to impress" the" fact that
combinations of food can be made with
out any oil meal in them, that will an
swer all practical purposes. Take for
instance rations for a horse, and we
must leave the subject with these sug
gestions. A good combination is red
clover, eight pounds, oat straw, six
pounds, com meal, twelve pounds,
wheat middlings, six pounds, or tim
othy hay, twelve pounds, corn meal,
eleven pounds, malt sprouts, live
pounds. This will give some idea of
what may be a combination, and the
combinations are almost endless. We
will say, for it is a matter of great im
portance, that the hay fed, or when
straw is fed. it should be wet and mixed
with the meal. Western Rural.
J. A. Peabody, of Jforragansett R.
I., lost a good scarf-pin in the woods
twenty-nine, years ago, and, after many
searches, gave it up for lost. Sunday
ho passed the spot, brushed away a few
leaves and found the pin. Prcvidencs
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Lo.s of Tower, premature old age, and all
those diseases reiuiring a thorough in
vigorating of the sexual organ. Price
$2.00 per box, six boxes $10.00.
DR. "WARN'S SPECIFIC No. 4.
For Headache, Xervous Neuralgia, and
all acute disease of the nervous system.
Price r0e per box, six boxes $i."i0.
DR. VTARN'S SPECIFIC No. 5.
For all die:uc caused by the over-ue
of tobacco or liquor. This remedy i par
ticularly elOcacioii in averting teiNv :nnl
delirium tremens. Price ?l.00 pe- 'ir.x.
six boxes $."i.00.
We Guarantee a Cure, or agree to re
fund double the iii-.iiey paid. Certilieate
in each box. This guarantee applie to
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to any addre, secure from observation,
on receipt of price. Be careful to mention
the number of Specific wanted. or
Specifics are only recommended for pe
eilie diseases. Beware of remedies war
ranted to cure all these diseases with one
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tieea. Convulsions, fits. Nervous. Neuralgia.
Ueadacho, Nervous Prostrntion caused by the ua
of alcohol or tobacco. Wakefulness. MpuUjI De
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sanity nnd Ipadinjr to misery, decay and death.
Prematura Old Ar. Barrcnni-ss, JLoea of power
in either box. Involuntary losses and Bpcrmat
orrhcea canseu byover-ozortiou ot tho brain, self
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one month's treatment. 1.00 a box.or eix boxes
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To cure any caao. With each order recoivedbyna
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end tho purchaser our written guarantee to re
fandthe money if the treatmentdoeanoteflcc!
cure. Guarantees issued only by
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