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V ffKmcnrtt flamdeaUr J. TAN 8LYKE, EDITOR AM> PUMJSHW. JfczHfiKRY, ILLINOIS. Art rfi 'r~"^M J*? 'C, * B JUVENILES** / J » j U t f & U . 2 i J * i ' In nilcnoB 1^ most take my neat, *nA give Oofl thanks before I eat; ,,. . . „ Mast for my food in patience w«p^ TlH I am Mked to hola my plate.f !,,!•) •' I Mtut not acrid, nor whine, nor pMt >,,. . Hor move my chair or plate about. Witt) knife, or fork, or napkin-ring, * I muftt not play, nor mast I sing. . I most not npeslt§a ageless word, '*•'•' Tor children nrast be seen, not hMfA. I must not talk about my food, XV fret if I don't think It good. ' • f% >ft' My month with food I most not crowd. Nor while I'm eating speak aloud. ^ ^ lfn«t turn my head to cough or gnetp^ \ | And when I ask, say, " If you pleaae. The table-cloth I must not spoil, . 1if<$ with my food my fingecs 'if Moat k<aep my seat when I am don*.. ; r Nor round the table sport or rnn. * : 'When told to rise, then, I must put •' m My chair away with noiseless foot* .J'. %«?•. And lift my heart to God above. . * f' 4 f B praise for all His wondrous ' . t:;«: t K„ f »«£ Jkm tb« 'su; JBeeiepwl by « JUUnowrHi - " Baas» baas! spoor groed one-born Aellumr'• ' - Such was the, to me, rather unintel­ ligible announcement with which my Irieitd M----bush b<yr oame rushing is just about sunrise one morning, as tire were sitting over otur breakfast at the door of the house--one of those regular old Butch-built farm-houses, that one hardly ever sees now-a-days, except iii South Africa. What he mejmt by it was, " Boss, boss! the trail of a big^-hinoce^os jrafscaU " . Where?" cried M jumping up; iir he was a keen sportsman, and never lost an opportunity of * potting " some- thing; • ! "* : " Out by Hollow spring, bass; spoor gptod!" f % * - * " There's a «hance for you, my boy," Mid M •, turning to me. "Now jDu'll be able to see how these elephant guns of mine do their work; I think J»uH find them the right sort." vi* Let me try the job myself," «riM I, eiagerly ; fo& like alj "greenhorns,"-1 was frantic to do some unheard-of feat, and win my laurels at once. " I*ve never -'flifc1 a rhinoceros yut, y<Jif IniOir.*" ; Can't, really, my dear boy," said 3f----, in the most exasperatingly indul- it tjine; 44 when you're a little fbetter id to the African bush you can cto what yqjn like; but if I were to let you go alone now, the least" I Sould "etpect would be a life-long remorse for having connived at a suicide. No, we'll make m party of three to visit our friend, ind hell hardly give the slip iftSis fill, I fancy." ̂Acebrdft^y ̂ out that "Very liighfc, Swart, the bush-boy, making the our plj .̂butii: a^ppoae tjî rhinoceros was too modest to face so many visitors at once, for, although we kept watch till sunrise, there was no e$gn of him. The next night it was just the same; and, at last, I got so mad a! the idea of losing my chance--the fi*At I had ever hadwith the big game-- that, in spite of what M had said, I made up my mirtd t4 figy rpy lu6k aingle-handed. ' "I should have told you that the Hol- spring, frequented by my four- footed friehd, lay about eight miles from the house, in a deep gully, one side of which went up into a steep hog- backed ridge, topped by a big knuckle of rock that overlooked the spring at a range of fifty yards--as pretty a "stand " as any gportsm^n could wish. So, wlien night came, I stole out of the house ' with one of M 's vaunted "elephant guns"--a piece carrying a five-ounce "explosive bal$,* steel-tipped, ifcii4 hold­ ing enough fulminating powder to blow omt the spine of a megatherium. To guard against the recoil of such a charge, |he stook vffes fitted wrth a thiok p»d {to, " irith gun and ammunition together, I (ad quite ebough to carry for an eî ht- mxle tramp through the bush. ̂ I dare say there are ugly thickets in South America and Central Asia; but Africa beats them both. Imagine a forest of fish-hooks, relieved by an oc­ casional patch of penknives, and you hfcte it exactly. There's one horrid ̂ sanity thing, called by the Dutch "^jkehe-e î-betje^"' which the English Ha^eoituptei into "waifc-a-bit," and it does make you wait a bit, if it oncp ^tBliold ql ydu. '̂ ve known a fellow to be laid up for a fortnight with a gash from one. So you may think that with masses of this nice stuff all •round me, I had to pick my ̂way When I got to the pmce, lot hold I the pad of my gun had fallen off! Tfo*goback and look for it would have fMn,M%e|hunting for a needle in a hay­ stack; sd I .filled my handkerchief with grtss, and tiacked *it tinder the ihoulder^of my jacket &S £ iiibstitute, s lull moon was just rising over gfcridus sighi, I ««n tell you), when I heard a distant trampling, Mke the tread of an elephant, only quicker; for* a full-grown rhinoceros, clumsy as he looks, can be active enough at times, as you'd soon find if you stood a charge from him when his temper's up. So I had not long to wait befdre there "erase"* tlriek wiort, and the great brown barrel of a body loomed out in the streak of moonlight, just over the spring. I harfUy stppped ̂ to take aim]Mfc#e I? pnHed |he t^pgejl The next few gecdhJs were a okiifc ; mnd then I awoke to the consciousness that iay shoulder was Multiiig as if it Were broken, and that something was grunting savagely a few yards off; and then I saw the huge snout and great White tasks coming right st mel I llon't think any acrobat could have been quicker than I was in clutching a pro­ jecting bough, and swinging uj> into the free .overhead; and Fd hardly got there i . when the brute came" bang against the trunk,# almost shaking me off again. sFor a minute on two mp heart was in my mouth, for he thumped against the tree till I really thought he would haVe It down; and, when he foun<| he couldn't, he stamped the earth in a fury, and tore fjfc up with his horn in a itorribly-sug- gestive way that made my flesh creep." Here I was, then, in the crisis of a regular " adventure," such as I always longed for; but somehow, now that I was in it, it didn't seem so very delight­ ful; It's one thing to read of advent­ ures in easy-chair after dinner, and another to act them for yourself all night on a hard bough, with thousands of mosquitos pitching into you, and a mad rhinoceros galloping about under­ neath. y The likeness between my situation and some of those recorded by Capt. tfayne Read *et me overhauling my reo- ollections of that veracious author, in the hope of an idea; but the morel thought, the more the Captain failed the. Basil, when followed up a tree by a bear, got his brothers to throw him up • rope, and slid down; but J hadpo brothers, and no rope. Ben Brace, when "treed" by the lion, lassoed his dropped musket, and. slew the king of beasts therewith; but I had no lasso, and couldn't have used it if I had. Somebody else, blockaded by a "griz­ zly," waited till Bruin fell asleep, and, then slipped away; but my rhinoceros seemed distressingly wide-awake, and even if he had dozed, the experiment would not have commended itself to my fancy. In short, the most masterly stratagem f could devise wad to stay Mill where I waa ̂and If didEs<|i. | That night waj the? longefci I»ever spent, and no mistaker* Toward morn- ing, Master Bhino frequently took a brief leave of absence into the bush, as if to tempt me down; but I heard him trampling in the distance, and wasn't to be caught. Day was just dawning, and I was beginning to wondir how 'much longer I could stand the thirst that was parching me up, when suddenly I heard a shot among the busies, so close that it made me start. Then the boughs parted, and I saw M 's jolly face looking up at me, with a grin from ear to ear. "Fairly treed, eft, my boy? -'WeU, I've gajtsed the siege for you, and yonder lies the enemy. Your bullet's run down his sidei under the skin, without ex­ ploding; sol suppose you must have hit him slantwise. Better luck next time. Anyhow, I'm glad to find you alive; but I fancy you wont 'go out alone again in a hurry!" And, to tell the truth, I didn't, for a pretty long while after that day.-- David Ker, in St. Nicholas for Feb- ruary. ' '. J »* %r* BHKKCBKH. Mr. Spillman had just married a sec­ ond wife. On the day after the wed­ ding Mr. S. remarked: "I intend, Mrs. Spillman, to enlarge my dairy." "You mean our dairy, my dear.re- marked Mrs. Spillman. •Nk,- quoth Mr* SpUiatMi, "I iî ba to enlwg# my dairo? , ' [t Ul "Say bur dairy,Mr. Spilltian." (* f f "No, my dairy." "Say our dairy, say eur--screamed she. seizing the poker. "My dairy! my dairyt^yellad the husband. * ? 5 ̂ "Our dairy! our dairy !* screeched the Wife, emphasising each word with" a bio# On the back of her cringing spouse. Mr. Spillman retreated under the bed. In passing under the bed-clothes his hit Was brushed ̂off; He remained undo! OQizey seteral m^utes, Waiting a lull in the storm. At length his wife saw him thrusting his h£ad <arut ait the foot of the bed, much like a turtle from its shell. i ' g I "Whfit ace, 4ou liking k ex- olaimed the wifl. % •* J J X "I am looking for our breeches, my dea^t8Fshê i . t •"*? " EVERT man should pfbvitl̂ lilfenl- ly for his family," s«y» Mr. ^mith. " Ever since my marfiage •! htlve kept yriy wife provided with a sewingTmar chine, surmounted liy a fine mirror.̂ " What is the mirror for? " inquired a party pr«se*t: f ?Well,"!*ii ̂ ora^e, " I tell her that when she gets so lazy that she" can't run the machine she ©an ait still And ge& herself starve to death." FAMOUS VIOLIN MAJLER8* n K. D. sum.; can just say whlli %6re Inv6nted, btit it ts certain that, though the principle of this instrument --atrinfjv ̂ t jup rEbratipn mpon # sound- i n i r b n t k M I r n n w i t on harpng and drumming, playing pipes, fafoore, lutes, dulcimers and other instruments, of which we have no patterns, for more than5,000years. , k The first violin ia said to have: oome from the workshop of a studious old in­ strument maker, Qasparo di Salo, who lived in the village ofBreseia, in Korth- era Italy, toward the last of the six­ teenth century. He gave the violin its present shape and size and its name, which signifies " little vied." After him, in the same town, came many other makers whom we need not recall, till we pome to the famous nameof Amati. Andrpaa Amati lived in the neighbor­ ing town of Cremona, and spent his time making viols after the fashion of the day. But it was a poor fashion, he thought; and when he heard that Gas­ pare di Salo had made great improve­ ments ' and changes in the instrument he journeyed to Brescia, entered Gas­ pare's workshop, learned all that was taught there, and then, burning with new ideas, he went home and established in his native village the celebrated school of Cremona violins. His sons were brought up to their father's trade, and they handed the secrets of it to their sons, who, in turn, altered and shaped an înyantod, . peeking perfec­ tion. About 100 years after Gasparo di Salo had sent his violin into the world, a young man named Antofiius Stradivarius was among the pupils at the Amati school. He was a slow,.silent youth, not remarkable for anything excepting his close attention to his work and his care­ ful study of his master's instruments. Even after his apprenticeship was over, and' he had started his own workshop, he clung to the old patterns, copying them in every detail, both faults and merits, Mid often, signing them with the name of his master, Nicholas Amati. But one day he seemed to have waked suddenly to a clearer sight, and h$ said to himself: "There's more music in wood and strings and horse-hair than has ever yet been brought out. Antooins, that is iyourwork to do." So, he set about thia newly-revealed task With that quiet zeal and infinite pa­ tience which we describe by the single word "genius," For twenty years he shut himself up in a lonely workshop. All the long time between early man­ hood and middle age he spent before. A> work-bench, with oompass or tool in hand, experimenting with his materials, testing, studying and applying their properties and reeouroes. He was 56 years old before he was satisfied that he had reached ^e. best results of hi* studies, and then, full of knowledge and powar, he began, in 1690, to make viplins with wonderful rapidity, sending them throughout the musical world, where their surpassing merits made them and the name of Stradivarius famous for* ever. ̂ -• _ .. ̂ . 'When we think of the slow growth of the violin, advancing only by centuries, we can scarcely understand why a thing so slight, go apparently simple, should have required 6,000 years for its perfec­ tion. But what was the problem which the makers of the violin had set them­ selves? Simply this: To create a hu­ man voice. The air was filled with music; sweetest of all were the voices of women. No instrument expressed the shrill, olear vibrant quality of a so­ prano voice. Beside it the tones of harps, lutes, guitars and spinets were hol­ low and vexing. Each violin-maker then sought, with his bits of wood and string, to put the air in motion, to gather the sound waves and confine them in the wooden shell, and to send them back to us in tones whioh should be brilliant, flexible, true and mellow as the loveliest singing-voice -- a voice without a human body, and yet one which should thrill us aa if it started from a human souL This was an immense problem, only to be solved* by eountless practical ex­ periments. JThe theory'of acoustics, which our latter-day philosophers have made so plain, had not then been formulated, and these Old workmen groped in the dark, sun of nothing till they tested it. The least alteration in the curve of the lines, or thickneiBS of the wood, or in the proportions of one part to another, cost years of study, :with daily comparisons, end failures. The materials were lew ; bat a thousand variations of sound, volume and quality of tone could be produced from them. . It would be foplis ̂te pay that Stradi­ varius and his fellows worked without method in a hap-hazard way; but they certainly made laws for themselves, and these laws are based upon scientific principles so exact that Prof. Tyndall himself can use nothing which proves ex«vctly with every sh%de and turn of expression that singing-masters say no voice can be perfectly true which has not been trained by the violin ̂ inwtfad Hnnihjg« calling i#* of record •Resolution* _ . thanldus Coa- F'<H AJ&Wu-tf ° nt th* By Senator Mkjbam*, making pristion for the Northern forth*. Illinois stifle Dairymen's Ann t̂ioti' by tor Talliaferro, fa rdatfam to tihe mle'of intoxi- eatmg liquor*....A joint ^Notation by iff pS0" Ihe Committee on BSVSQBO reported baok Senator Dearborn's bill with a favorable reoom- me»d»tion, »ntt»orunng county boarda to iaati- tate suit* la action of debt for the collection of delinquent taxes. Ate committee also import­ ed favorably on Senator Joslyii's bill amending the @0 IA to limit the amount of chuztw property exempt from taxation to 15,000. House.--Tfee Speate sppcbtted Mmmm Bf». bee, Byerc and MeBf.de ®ie committee cm tfel part of the Hooae, to o&rnr ost tha provkions of the Illinois and Michigan oanal resolnti<m&. .,..Tlio following bills *er® introduced: To require public schools to be taught twenty days in each month, and to limit holidays of teachers to such as are arranged by a majority of district school diraetera; to create a State board for tbe omTninfctwi of eurveyora and forbiddiac; persons not^ieenswi by them from doing business of that Mad; to authorize courts of record to require bonds and oaths of Special commiwsiotjers; to confer on assignees the same power and jurisdiction ^h&t receivers in chaacery have; to permit judges of election to accept the vote of unregis­ tered persons without affidavit, at diacre- tion. MONDAY, Feb. S.--Rnun.--Senator Cheaney presented a resolution, which was adopted, in­ quiring into the details of the disbursement of the militia fund... .Bills introduced: By Sena­ tor Fuller, repealing the prascnt Boad and Bridge law; by Henator Dskngr, anwncling the law relating to the administration of eetates; bv Senator Archer, making execntions liens oil personal property only from the time they are placed in the BuerifT'e hands to execute; by Senator Sunt, amending ttie School law no as to provide tftat tne Boarck of Bdaeation oreaeissd under speatw set havt the samoauthority to levy school tax aa is cottfewed upou school authorities under the General hioorporation law; l\v Senator Mnnn, amending tiis OSneml Incor­ poration act of cities and towns so that City Attorneys shall be appototsd instead of elected and that City Treasurers shall be in­ eligible for re-election for one year alter their ofhcia! term expires Hie President an­ nounced Senators Munn and Dearborn as the representatives on the part of the Senate on the joint committee to. consider the ceding of the Illinois arid ° lucfilgan canal to the Federal Government HOUSE. u*»f& . :?< -€ ^ \ • M§t %:% * - • • and illustrates his lectures on sound so thoroughly as a Cremona violin. As to & fouaan voice, that is doae so i*'tn rsf Ift -i f A/n v>:~0 Mr. Wentworth made a report from the Committee on Bulea, providing for a com­ mittee on local option, which gave rise to a long debate, during which several first-class temperance speeches were asade. Mr. Trass- dell offered a substitute, providing for a committee on license, " which was adopted.,..Hie Fee and Salary till was killed,...The resolutioH calitng Congress to grant pensions to all aur living soldiers of the Mexican, Blackhawk and Indian ware waa adopted Mr. Hf»plri»^ presented a petition from the Ghitaao Typo­ graphical Union in regard to totttng of State printing oontraots. TUBSDAT. Feb. 4. --8BR&TB. --A resolutttm was unanimously adopted calling upm the Southern Penitentiary Commissioner* for a copy of the contract made by them with Batles & Wilson for the construction of said penitoa- iiar.v or a part thereof, and an itontnd state- aaii of • -aeoonnto 4«t»»ed. ia their bi­ ennial report, "Location. Warden, house, furniture for "Warden's house, sala­ ries and machinery;n also, the amount paid said Commissioners for their services.... There was a protracted debate on Senator Ham­ ilton's resolution to organise & Revenue Commis­ sion, to sit during the recees of the Legislature. It was made the special order for Friday, Feb. 7. Senator Fuller introduced a bill providing that no real estate within this State shall be sold by virtue of -any power of sale contained in any mortgage, trust-deed, or other conveyance in the nature of a mortgage executed'after the ef­ fect of this act. All such instruments are to he foreclosed in the manner provided for fore­ closing mortgages containing no power of sale. ..'. .Senator McClellan introduced a bill provid­ ing that no damages shall be allowed for the non-payment of money on promise, contract, or agreement, other than the interest... .Senator Bent presented a bill to punish trespass, which is really an act amendatory of the Tramp law, and provides that beggars and solicitors of charity may be imprisoned in the State's prison for not more than fifteen months. HOUSE.--Cook county, as usual, monopo­ lized a large share of the attention of the House. Mr. Hopkins offered a resolution directing the Attorney General to prosecute the County Com- missioners of cook county for reeeiving*95 per day ii.stead of |2.50s as the law provides. A long and fiery debate followed. Mr. Truesdell made a fierce attack on Cook county, in which he stated that the sconndrels there ought to be able to take care of them­ selves. He, for one, objected to interfering in their stealing schemes, and, if they wanted to plunder one another, tnat was their own matter, and something with f hich the Sto^e at large had so concern. Mr. Crocker said that Cook county had a little hell of its own, and they should be al­ lowed to run it themselves with their own devils. The resolution was lost, whereupon Mr. Snigg offered the following: "Jtexolved, That the next member from Cook county who introduces a resolution aski- g for an investigation of any. Cook *n«ity etisiafe shall be conveyed tost foremost est rf the House l>v the Doorkeeper to the i<JB-coo|ef, sad there confined until he is <niArdently reoovared,".. .-4. number .of new bills were introduced,4>ut general interest WEDNESDAY, Feb. 5 - Bex&.tk. -- Senator Jones offered a resolution that the members of the different oouunittsss visiting the various State institutions shall be allowed the amount actually paid by them for necessary expenses incurred on said visits. Adopted... .A number of new bills were introduced, including the following: By Senator Riddle, to establish a library for tln« Appellate Court of the First dis­ trict; by Senator Ford, to amend the revenue law; by Senator Hamilton, to regulate insurance com­ panies ; by Senator Heniman, to abolish normal universities, eta; by Use Bamu, to amend the Mar­ riage law by prohibiting marriages between first, second or third cousins... .The Senate, in executive session, confirmed the Governor's ap­ pointments of notaries public, publia adminis­ trators, trustees of the State institutions, Peni­ tentiary Commissioners, etc. HOUSE.--The House proceedings were ex­ ceedingly prosy, the day being given up to mat­ ters of trifling interest The bill amending the act relating to garnishment, so as to exempt wages of a defendant who is head at a family, to the amount of #50, was the subject of a long wrangle. THVBSDAT, Feb. R--SKKATX--A resolution was offered by Senator Cheany (Dem.), request­ ing the delegation in Congress to use all endeav­ ors to stop Uie outlay of money spent in investi­ gating the Bo-eaiied claims arising from damage done during the war. Adopted by a vote of 40 to 2... .Bills introduced: To regulate charges i none of them of any upon sleeping care, making a uniform charge of It per berth for each night of occupancy; to give inn-keepers the right to forfeit the baggage of delinquent guests, and making it a misde meanor to swindle a hotel, with a penalty attached to the offense of $25 fine; to amend the laws relative to fees and salaries, making the salary of the Governor $5,000, Anditor-TrfifM-pr ftfTi'fitMT*rfStat* ̂ .t±n.nî n A5Qfl-- . < ' t "* '» VHH* O,: /. . lOhoiauj ">? ft-. General ̂ and Siipertntettlent of PuUio limita­ tions each f3,500, Adjutant General tl.200- to JUdg^n^ t110 Oonrt̂ #4.000 per annum... .Bills passes: Ts aft coposrning conveyances; to amsnathe replevin law; to amend practice in a " -- • the law relative to received from Mate apologizing fnr fhm M* »wiliii>l. mm* prin tei....A .rapow as to if >|*j*il̂ Wauiitt and entire cost of tojfpistefetg t?- Baltway and WairekotHe Ppmnosskm... .A large number of com- Wttee report were rsosfred, and n«nerous b«s of rniy-taapottoaee es<isred to sesend ^^S«S3&S'. OMWB, sod Mr. Shetmaa, of Ooelc, had a dtaa- irreement, and sMMbsd eaoii otfeer wife toagoss in lively style The bill was finally defeated. Enaw, Itk SaNATK.--Petitions were introdaoed asking that the IUioeit and Michi­ gan oanal be deeded to the Unity^States.,.^ Several bills were introduced and rsad by their titleci, among them the fooowing: To amend the law of highways sad bridgsa;. to wnend School laws; to make appropria- iions for the Southern pentteAwy; to make recognisance* in criminal cas^ oens on property; to secure the better educa­ tion of pracntaoners of dental surgery; to sup­ press railway ticket scalpers A good deal of time WM consumed in discussing Senator Ham­ ilton'.- resolution to establish a oouatelDtt for the purpose of forming a new revenue oo4e for the State The matter was finally referred to the Revenoe Committee. HOUSE.---A large grist of n®w bills was intro­ duced, the morti tmportaat of which are as fol­ lows r To ihe salsrfea of State officers; to amend the criminal pi actio© ®e as to grwit the power of imprisonment in work-hoiK.es sa cases where the offenses are punishable bv im- prisonmeat in the connty jail; to provide for the education of pauper* children;, to give a mechanics' lien upon fixtures; to release sure­ ties upon the official bonds of guardians; to oro- vide for a uniform asms of text-boom in schools; to provide for redemption from sales under judicial process; to amend the taws relative to drainage; to provide for anti-horse-thfef ao6i«~ ties; to make bigamy and adultery the poly grounds for divorce... .Mr. Neat offered a rsso- lution instructing the license Committee to in­ quire into the feasibility of introducing the Moffei register in this State...'.Senator Frew's reeolntion authorising a committee to investigate the treatment of the inmates of tihe asylum at Jacksonville was adopted..,. The same revenue bill as that introduced by Mr. Hamilton in the Stoat© was offered in the Bouse, and, after a protracted debate, «e whole matter was referred to the Committee on Revenue A communication from the Secretary of the Board of Agri­ culture Was read, in answer to Mr. Hopkins' resolution of Eeb. 5, wbieh recited that there is no contagions disease prevalent among cattle in this Stole or the Northwest ... .The Beveane Committee was instrnosd to oouaidei the pro­ priety of amending the law so that all valua­ tions for the purpose of taxation shall be made ou the basis of one-third faireaah value. urn, BOW TO MI8E. h »? JOSKPH AU>X|b, TMM CUE* ADMIKAV8 HTOMT AMQUT DUCKS. When Admiral Horatio Binnacle, the venerable retired sea-serpent, who Ekea on West Seventy-seventh street, saw roast duck on the bill-of-fare last nî iit, hisalways f»ieaaant face took on an added ray of cheerfulness, but those who sat near him observed that after he had eaten hit portion his brow was corru­ gated. Later, as he stood before the parlor fire, the Admiral said: "I lived once, gentlemen, in a house Which the boarders left in a body. We had one night for dinner roast duck. It was served in rough, jagged pieces, but we thought nothing of that; perhaps the carving-ax was dull. It was tough? That was to be expected. Tasteless? Of oourse. $nt when we had nearly finished it old Commodore Zelotes Fin* nerty held up a piece on the end of a fork, and said: - f *4 Admiral? * ' M * * I ?V# f *. ,v.-» • " * Commodore > ̂• ' S".. ^^Nails.* ' ' -- M And sure enough, gentieman, as the Commodore turned that ple6e of dttek on his fork, I saw sticking through it the points of three nails. It was a wooden decoy duck that we had eaten, served by the landlady because it was cheaper than the ducks that are sold in the poultry market. She was safe in her assumption that we would not dis­ cover in the taste any difference be­ tween that and many other ducks we had eaten from the same table, but, un- fortnaatafy* aba fovgot to paU apt the nails. "It was too much for the old Com­ modore. He went to his room, got out the old-fashioned alligator-mouthed carpet-bag, that he always carried, and began to stow his dunnage. His ex­ ample was infectious. Within half an .hour every bit of baggage, from trunk to grip-sack, was out of the house, and the boarders were seeking other feeding grounds. " Now, Idout mean to any, gentlemen, that the 'lock we had for dinner to­ night was a wooden duck; understand me, I saw no naila, but-- it'*--Jf<w> York Sun. -s . " AFTEM GRADUATION, WtTATf A year or so ago the story was told of the romantic marriage of Miss Bldena Elden, a young and pretty graduate of the High school at Biddeford, Me., and Andrew J. Packard, a wealthy resident of Youngs town, Ohio, and a member of the Democratic State Committee. Mr. Packard found a scray of newspaper while traveling in the cars, in which was an ̂ extract from Miss Elden's essay on leaving school, entitled, "After Graduation-->What?M liked the style and manner Of thought of Hie writer, made her acquaintance by letter and married her. The Youngstown News, of a recent date, contains the following announcement: " Another Democratic victory. It is a boy, and is registered at the residence of A.; J. Packac ̂.on Wood street." THE Massachusetts Senators have cut their pay fox the fesaion from $550 4 ""I » Some persons are content to be Jbewera of They aim eat, There are others who <&Mire, above things, to become h | ers who, while they value wealth an § i.i aire something hiffW THty jama - knowledge, intelligence men%||̂ g^nfe^g S They see persons distinguî # ̂ inr- u , fluential in consequence of mn l̂ anjt- ̂ T. nre. They dcaige msvsuiis ^stSse&m' andinfluenoe. . .*> ww*",'- But they lack the meam of culture '*• Tliey are, perhaps, obliged to labor / their daily bread. The school and'ti*r*'-> instructor, the books and the leienire,4 ̂ *' are not for them. They have a beitiffiSi "I <• thirst for knowledge, but the springing distant and nnapproacliable. ^ ? ) They look with envy upon those wh€»„,.ln enjoy all the advantagea for education,, ̂̂ that can be desired. They look with,,/ contempt upon thaw who possess vantages wiiieh, from indolenee, they»T«i? *i fail w use» It is for this ekes that i * j • article is written.' • • f t«^ Men have, ft ia vexy iiir«*cc{lr •'« ̂ advantages for improvement : but the persons for whom I am writing petaeM ̂ one advaiijagti greater than is poqfyaiwcd^ ^ * by many ol whc«® advant<paa. they envy. It is the desire for edge, the desire for mental î prova ̂, : ment, the denre toriae to^the^-eompm* •/>%'% ionship of men of mind and sahuaa.« H; . Without tifis desire, no external »aflfa«M ol" tages will be of any availi sible to educate a mind that sire for knowledge, no kindling "of eA-' *J thusiasra in contemplating th^se Vhfe*'"' have leftv^" iopt-prinVi on the swida <#' ^ -r.-TT.^A; __ . . . *«ai »» iU My young reader, yaahawa aouie de* f sire to bo^ome an inteUigent and iABl̂ l f ential, nay more,' a dtotogdfeii |l It is to some extent evident that yoti' •>* ̂ have the capacity to become such it This deaba should l̂ e eherislAd ' strengthened. The stronger the deair ,̂' f ̂ the more vigorous will be the action ̂ , whioh it will lead, The more vigoypua,, "f % the action, the greater fthe impro^ppawi% ( ( V i This desire may be atienfethened bf ,A tomidmag the ndmatajg'^ of vj culture. It took Hugh Millar from th ̂o« 1 y nnd plarmd hjia aaningHari :v intelectual ehiefs WISTOJ Rhalland da** ̂ lighted to batflor. " The flUaltWirtHiM" J gave the stotte^entter the JggitlMMI Hi » " ' fellowship when h« llrfd(ia^e,1|jW^4ll8rt , -t . and mftllet and took the editorial chair '* /i of a paper Whose Influence 'wail feW * ' throngliout the length and b|eadtli dt the land. Remember, Hugh no culture but that acquired while laboring as a journeyman, in hovels, and living upon Ton possess far grapter a4y»$ •elf-improvement he Think of Franklin, who, vantages inferior to yours, became w# iU of the leading statesmen of the and its most distinguiahfed phfleeopher; whose writings exerted » glialiir inft#T ence than the writings of the moM ,1' - highly educated men of his day. ' Atti , f" this was done ty tSe ^Hgent hSe means far inferior to those within vow •» « "***' • a : "0 • . .u , | Instead.af«ighing, o^ertjtdwn îgqp,,., whioh you do not poasea* taaolmw w l̂î . t an iron will, to make the baatpoaaiblaw use of those within• yom aaaehi* ajjaana will then be Burpxised to find how aaany < advantages you have, and What pnogHoaiM * yon can make.' The way to seeure' belted 4i is to make a diligent use of thoap yok' have. Men are always disposed y '-»»i v>§ 41. ol J i-4z. •Wk those who earnestly help themselves. Two men were mowing.̂ One had 5|iH cast-steel scythe, with a patent snat^Ui The other had a very, inferior, scythf ̂ m " Your Mend has the advant^e pf youJfi:, said agentkman who was pawaic *» stopped a moment aa the manwadt whefti i, ting his aoythtj; " he has mi|ph the Imk- « ter tool to work with." • ••---•• -» „ " That's ao,w was the reply, * bat thlfe** is the best one I could "get. v *Fhe gtiuH"' must be cut; I must Wotlt the And he went on mowing With a #fd. " '̂*$1 The gentleman was in need of an' -a0,li sistant in his business ̂ He wanted It man to do whatever was necessary to lxi ' done. Bte hired the man with the poor scythe, and thus laid the foundation qr ̂ his fortune, p t^e jnan had remaine ̂ idle till he got first-class sqythe, 1M , would have missed his opportuwty c ̂ making a fortnne. rtu Bo not remain idle waiting lor betfcpi advantages for mental improvemasait. » Begin to-day the diligent use of thoaat ' you have. The world wants men wha>:Sl feel that woik must be done, and wi®*" do it with poor tools if they cannot gdliJ good ones. Make up your nlind t£#^ you will be an intelligent, able and hon-*" orable man; go to work to make you ̂ self such a man, and the world will ealt ̂ for your services, and give you credit ̂ for all that you do. The men who eolB^ ̂ plain that they are not appreciated not the men who are ready to do, Wiat .uimtaMa. nfimga to bund •Mi -4 . f . i %dtr ... ' 4 Umm <mtt «,A >'• n ..<+**.. ilt-, ft fej#