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r**H - V * < i ' - A > j-f \ - » r * - V ?v. . ' - ; v "" ^rr'] • ^ A SUMMER RHOItEB. ' - -V" 5 ' BT UTT1E *• c*«w*«;i-:^-' 1 , What can bo more reviving, . On a saltry August day, ; ? , i. * Than a quiet littie chowQr, jw And the Mceut of new-mowa hay ? §|sj How the laborer's (spirit* brighten, And he whets hl« Bcythe anew, Tot'inR with ren- rated vigor, When the blessed shower ia tbroagk. Forth ROBS the whiftUnp boy ;« T-0 turn thn dripping Bwath; _. Ho fear of further shower*--• 4J The wind if from the north. The water stands in pools Along the muddy street. The ««lioolboy wades it through, « With bare and tawny feet. , The tront are clearly seen . In the limpid meadow brook, And the cunning angler'* bait Dccoye them to his hook. The flowers look up and nniile, And the fieldR of waving grain Look fitter for the harvest After the gloj-iouR rain. The birds trill little snatches From their "ongH of early June; The been swarm round the clover. Buzzing a drowsy tune. But the crickets, those foreteller* Of the summer's coming doom, 8et up their doleful music Iu » corner of the room. One listens just a moment, And feels a twinge of pain, Then dispels his saddened feelings, Thinking of the summer rain. PrrTSFICLD, Mass. ONE TEAR OF A GIRL'S LIFE, "Let's leave tliis room just as it is, momma. See, isn't it quaint? Jeaa- nie, do look at this head of Beatrice and the frame--how elegant! This certainly must have been some girl's room. Ethel Ad§ms went prying curiously about the room as she spoke, it was a most unique and strange apartment, which seemed to have been hidden away from view for years, perhaps. Many things had b«en removed, but the win­ dow-hangings were still left--a massive walnut chair, a stool of embossed velvet, and mnny trinkets that make a room cozy and homelike as well as elegant. At one side was a mantel of stained mar­ ble, and above this hung that wonder­ ful picture of which Ethel had spoken. The sad, mournful eyes seemed to plead for the absent owner of that room and to beg for the old silence and oblivion. " Jeannie, I forgot (o show you what I found, yesterday night, in this room, in the bottom of that bronze vase. 1 happened to tip the vase over, and this fell out. Edwin Dale was here at the time. See, it is set in garnets; isn't it a lovely face ? I can't make out the en­ graving, only the last name, 'Kent,' and two letters, ' s-e.'" "A proud face, truly, and not one of a peasant's daughter," said Mrs. Adams, who was assisting the girls in deciding which rooms Rhould be furnished for the summer. The three bent their heads together scrutinizing the small, olive face in its setting of gems. "Kent, Kent, did you say, my dear? It seems I remember something about that name. We'll ask your father about it to-night." "Oh, girls, is mamma up there?" called a voice from the foot of the stairs. " Yes; come and see what I found." "I want you all out on the west ve­ randa. "I've something to show you. Bring along your discovery, and we'll set up a curiosity shop," replied the voice below. The group settled themselves in rus­ tic chairs or. reclined in swinging ham­ mocks. The venerable and dignified Horatio Adams came down from his duaty oigce and joined the family, post­ ing his golden spectacles to the top of his forehead, and passing his fingers through the obstinate-curling white hair. " Just see, papa and Owen, what I found!" And all the group bent to­ gether over the face that looked out at them so saucily, so defiantly, as though lialf angry at being inspected. "'Kent' is engraved on the back, and two other letters--part of a name, I think--'es.' See, there it is." " I declare," s&id Horatio, drawing liis 'ihair closer to the rest of the party. " Can it be possible ? Why, wife, you re­ member the Kents, don't you ? This old mansion has been known as Castle Kent for a century, at least. It still belongs to some unknown heir--a Miss --, Miss --, let me see," running his fingers through and through hi& hair^ grasping liandfuls, as though the half-forgotten knowledge might be lurking among the thick clusters. " Miss Agnes Louise Kent--that's the name--only heir of Sir Gregory and Lsabella Kent. I read an account of it not half a dozen days ago. The property amounts to something near three millions of money. A valuable estate, indeed--a moneyed estate. Quite a fortune--aye, in fact, a princely fort­ une." Owen Adams gave a long, incredulous, though appreciative, thistle, at which the two girls exchanged knowing glances. "What have you there, Owen?"ques­ tioned Ethel, the inquisitive. " I hardly know myself. It's strange I should have forgotten it for so long," replied Owen Adams, the polished and elegant, fresh from the society of the elite of Paiis and the continent. A pure­ ly English face, with its added charm of true refinement. He unlocked an ebony writing-desk, and took from it a small, handsomely-bound book. It was slight­ ly discolored as though at some time it had been wet in some way. The back was of ivory, inlaid with pansies of mother-of-pearl. The lids were clasped with a single flower, mounted in gold. The whole was charmingly unique and beautiful. They all examined it closely while Owen tokl its history. Passing through a street in Paris in­ fected with an epidemic, he espied this book lying nnder the projecting slab of a stone step. He picked it up, but, not daring to enter the house or even to knock, he hastily slipped it into his pocket, thinking he'd advertise it the next morning. On reaching his hotel, he found the telegram calling him home, and, as the time was short, he threw this into his writing-desk and had never once remembered it until this after­ noon. " I think it must have fallen from a window, or else been dropped, in carry­ ing out other goods ; for, see, a part of thw spray has been broken," said Owen. Ethel, no longer able to restrain her cariosity, took the book into her hands and unclasped it. " It's a girl's diary, as sure as I live !" she exclaimed, throwing up her hand, and pointing the front linger at the others--a fashion she had when deeply interested or excited--all the while run­ ning her eyes rapidly over the page. " Read it aloun, Eth," spoke Jean, raising herself from her lazy position in the hammock. It took a great deal to excite her, for she was of that sluggish, luxurious temperament that little heeded mere passing excitements. "Just listen," and Edith reads -from the book : ENGLAND, THUBSDAV, Oct. 6, 18--.--As thin is my last year at school, I shall Seep a diary of auy important events that may happen to me. I don't know what to say, as nothing has happened since mv last visit to London. I dou t believe I ahali like this new business very much. But, as Cousin Rob gays, "The prac­ ticed man niaktth the perfect man." I wish I were iv man ; no. I don't either, for men are generally mean, and sellish, and crueL 1 only know two men L really like--one is Cousin Boll, and the other Prof. Huntington. I despise the rest " He, Monsieur Owen! " interrupted Jean. If folks should read this book of mine they'd think it funny I didn't inciude that individual calling himw'lf jrafcer Tamilian in my list of ad­ mired masculines, bnt 1 class him with all the abominable lot--and why ? Louise Kent know- eth why. "Heavens! Eth, is that name tliewy or are you fooling us ?" asked Owen, coming up, and looking excitedly over her shoulder. All the group gathered round the girl to satisfv themselves that the reader had not played a joke on them. But Ethel's face told plainly that the revelation wqs as shocking to herself as to the others. Her excitable nature displayed itself in the short, ' tremulous breath and flushed cheek, as 8he pronounced the name, " Louise Kent." " Marvelous coincidence," ejaculated the family sire. "I fear it is some omen of evil," responded the slightly superstitious wife, who had learned from her Scottish grandams the fostered stories of witch and fairy. "I remember now," continued Ho­ ratio Adams, "hearing once that there was some mystery in the family. Sir i Gregory was killed almost instantly ' while on some wild expedition. He kept blooded horses and meed a great • deal, I think." _ | " Read on, Ethel," spoke up the in­ terested Jean; " see if she's the girl. " Ethel reads : 1 guess I'll tear this lca&tft and begin again, for mother might find rKjnd then t-lie'd cry, poor darling, and I'd feel awful. Mother "is such a lady. Why did she marry Uiat fox? I'm lm a dark mood to-niglit, so I'll "mdc yon away, little diary, and wait until some brighter day. SUNDAY, Nov. 6.--It is another dark, damp day. I hate gloomy days. This old house, 'vith its forest of trees everywhere, making such mournful Bounds, seems like a prison. I'm sorry I wounded l'rof. Huntington's feelings to-day. I'm ahvavs stumbling into so-mebotly's tender feelings. 1 guess I out a serious mis­ take, as he whom 1 so hate has so often told me. I can see his steely eyes before me eontinuaUy. Sometimes I wish he would never come home again. I wish to goodness I could be like other girls or like my mother. I don't want to be a lamb, nor a bird, but 1 do hate to be a porcupine, so full of hatcfulness I don't dare to be touched. I believe I'll write me out some resolutions and try to live to them : Whereas, I, Louise Kent, or, rather, Agnes Louise Kent-- "The same girl, as I live!" ex­ claimed Owen. "The very same; heir, sole heir, to $3,000,000 of money, a most magnificent estate," chimed in the father. "I wonder if she's alive yet," said Jean. "I feel awfully guilty at reading this book. It just seems I'm doing some mean, sneaking thing. Here, you read awhile, Owen," said the conscientious Ethel, laying the book on her brother's arm, and throwing heraelf back, as if half exhausted. "We had best find out, if possible, if this is the true heir. Such an estate, so valuable and so extensive, ought not to get into anyone's hands on a mere pre­ tense," remarked Horatio. Owen reads : Whereas, I, Louise Kent, or, rather, Agnes Louise Kent, am given to always doing those things I do most earnestly desire not to do, and ever leaving undone those things I desire most to do, and as I wish to correct--" " Here a blank has been left for two or three pages," said Owen, turning the leaves to another date. SUNDAY, Jan. 8.--How the tinlK has flown since I last wrote ! Ah, me ! it seems like ten years. Something dreadful has happened in our fanulv. It makes my blood run co ldjto think of it now. But I believe I have no human heart vvhen I think of him. How he has cursed us all. But when they earned him in. all mangled and bleeding, with his wild eyes star­ ing at us with such a glassy stare, I did pity him. Yes, I almost forgave him. And to seo mother, poor, dear, broken-hearted mother, af­ ter all he has done for her ; after all the deso­ lation he brought to her, to nee dier take his face in her hands and bend over nim, whisper­ ing " my husband ' as tenderly as though that same face, with its leers and taunts, had not erusli&d all the glad, joyous life out of her. Oh, rtfwas all so dreadful! I wonder if God forgave him at the last. I'm glad I'm not God to judge men. 1 couldn't cry; even when I slotKl and looked into that cold, still face I could only say to myself that those close, white lips were never agnin to utter words that would sting me almost to madness. I could not shed a tear, even when I saw them bury him away forever. I felt only a deep sens'.- of freedom. But my poor, dear mother ; I must: upport her tenderly with all the strength I possess. FRIDAY, Feb. 5.--I have given up my school, and shall do all I can for mother. She is droop­ ing and failing every day. I must do some­ thing to brighten her lit'e. She is my all! How , I love her ! All the love and devotion I might have given two are centered in my mother, am changing. I can see it in myself. The careless, defiant Louise Kent is now a sober, al­ most a somber, woman. How circumstances change us. To-day I was 20. Twenty ! I can­ not realise it. just one year ago to-night brother Mark and I rowed up the Take to see the old town l>v moonlight. How distinctly I remember the lonesome screech of the owl, and how cold and spectral he looked, outlined against the nkv. As we dipped our oars silent­ ly along under a willow, a nightingale, startled by our gliding boat, sang out a long, wild, wail­ ing song, as if his heart were breaking. I re­ member Mark sat so quietly as we came along, and I uoticed as the moonlight fell across his face there was on it an unspeakable look of pain and sadness. As he lifted me from the boat, he bent so tenderly and kissed my hand, saying : '• Your birthday kiss, Louie ; recall this l>oat-ride, and the owl, tlie toive' and the night­ ingale when this day returns again. I shall be far away, but I shall remember you." Oh, my darling brother ! come back to your lone­ some sister. Littie did you dream that as far as earth is from heaven would you be separated from me to-night. Here Owen coughed and curled his mustache; Jean had turned her face away; impulsive Ethel was sobbing, with her hands and face buried in her mother's lap ; Mrs. Adams sighed sym­ pathetically, and toyed caressingly with Ethel's brown curls; Horatio Adams leaned back in his chair, rubbing the eyes of his glasses most vigorously. After a moment of silence, in which no one spoke because the feeling was mutual, Owen read on : The noble boy! Whv was it all his bright > dreams and curs must lie broken in one short ] year V Why must he lie like a shattered shaft | that was so beautiful, so fair, so shining V I With his proud intellect that had Hashed out . before the world like a spotless saber. Some­ times when I think of the dear boy's deatli, and of all his liurd fate and mine, I grow bitter j against God, and man, and' nature, and every- ! tiling. In my insanity I clench my hands and ! shake them in the very face of heaven. I Can I be forgiven? ! Crave I forgiveness V j THURSDAY, April 1.--Mother grows frailer. ; Sometimes I pray that she may be mine yet a j little longer. She clings to me so tenaciously, | depending on me in all things. The estate is I settled. Everything is mother's and mine-- | even this prison-holise. Cousin Rob writes me i that our apartments iu Paris are awaiting us. I I think I shall have mother removed before the warm days come on. I do not knofr whether I I shall like Cousin Rob's new wife or not. Some | way the Spanish women were always repulsive i tojmc, but I have decided to receive her as gracefully as ;x>ssible. Is it miserably selfish in me to wish that Cousin Bob had never mar­ ried? TUESDAY, June 11.--We are in Paris. I think mother has improved. Whom should I meet to-day but dear Prof. Huntington? I came near making myself foolish, but it was BO like meeting something infinitely dear to one. He is so silent, so sober, so gentle, so gallant. His face seems to tell me of some history. I wonder what it is. I wonder if he has carried some secret in his heart until it haw turned to stone, like mine? He is the same lone man. WEDNESDAY, July 3.--Last night mother slept bnt little. I feel she is slowly slipping from 1 me. She has been telling me to-day of the happy days of her girlhood when her proud old father, Lord Autly--- " Autly, did you say, my son?" asked Horatio Adams, starting from his seat like one half wild. All the group invol­ untarily started to their feet. "liord Autly," repeated Owen. "That was my grandfather's name. Autly, Autly--yes, that's it, my mother's father. He had seven sons, one married a peasant's daughter and grandfather I sterling for disinherited him. But I have hea-d j IT is rumon that he was a shrewd fellow and became : the Governor, SORTS. TEXAS is to h/ve a State convention of wool-growers. THE Princes! of Wales dances lightly and gracefully, A TREE near inches in diam|< NEWARK, N. Nashville is ninety-two iter. J., last year, i--mfact- ured 100.000 k> gs of beer. A. BBONSONIALCOTT has not touched animal food fof fiftv years. ENGLAND iiud Germany £3,000,000 toes last year. that Lome will resign ueralship of Canada. rich, enormously rich, in fact he owned j Mrs. Lome is/too fond of England. a moiiAl* rnncsf l\a T» 3 ° a manor. He must be the one. Bead l NEGRO ip Harris county, Georgia, pulls the ploy while one sou holds the ! handles and another drops the cotton seed. on, my son, read on." Owen continues : How her father, Lord Autly, tanght her to ride to the ciiase, and play "at back-nan mmn his favorite game. Then "she told me cf her ' betrothal to young Sir Gregory Kent, the dash­ ing English heir, and of her great love for the poor peasant, Lea McHunt, for which niv fatiier , , iu \ <T forgave her, neither did he fail to recall ' vo*ie °* 19 to 12. it though she has been to him all these years a ' OF 100 oatents issued from fW- loyal, tender, forbearing wife, never even al- issuea irom tlie Uov- lowing this old love a place in her memorv. ! ' w 4 °ffice V* ^"»lungton, ninety- She told it to me to-day for the first time. Then I ucver l^J" back the amount of the she sank back on her pillow and closed her j ^ to the owners. Ed SEJSSfiJt it ,h?» .to w" firmly believe these years of silence, of wait- i «mmtry lecturing in what the Lon- mg, of enduring, of persistently burying the j 4on PaPers C»U " the quaint unemo- past, have almost taken the spirit out of its frail j tional American tone." us to^da?.CtaAs heleft. hea^kl^me totoiveont I 1etThb busine8sa't ^ Boston Clearing- with hini again to-morrow. It mother is strong i JUse ^ie las*' year has amounted to • enough to be left alone, I may go-for a short ! $8,000,000,000, which is #300,000,000 time. I feel I must be near her every moiuent j greater than in any year before. MONDAY, Aug. 5.--Last mght we sat together. I ^ /( * . two friends. Kind and tender the ties that ' * YHARI,ES says that one pair bind u*. But how widely different -our .lives ! -j °*" hearings,- .if unchecked, would in a His 1 knew but briefly. It was a lonelv. l:»st i few vears stock the Atlantic ocean so a PS? had 1e,,tt'rt,d if' a I that there would not be room to move depth ot 8adne>s fathomed by no human crvat- : _ __ ILUAM M. EVARTS seems to be coin- posed of will and steel; he is never ill ; lire, li t, above it all, he smiles and puts back the hatefulness of many and soothes those about hi:n with the winsome winning of his spirit. Why can I not love this man who has told me so passionately of his long, patient wa;t ng for my love ( He fulfills mv highest ideals of manliness and manhood." Whv is there no answering note to ihis pleading erv? Has my heart become granite that it is so icv still : so shut away and barred from human love ? We sat alone--all alone as the darkness of the night settled down over Paris. It was that time of oppressive silence after one has been asked a question one dares not answer with loyalty to truth. The muteness seeming fittest, we sat in silence. Down in the busy street below us we watched together (he pass­ ing panorama. Some boys played hide-and- se-jk among the irees and boxes; two lovers passed slowly by ; an old man bent under his burden of years plodded home from his hard day's work with to-morrow's bread ; two sober, thoughtful business men met, stopped, settled ! of,in some point in daily work, wrung each other's i , ', Hkelj to get his wife back, for hands and passed on, each to his own wav; a returns with a fortune of $30,000, • carriage drove slowly np just across the way, | while the Philip Ray is a shiftless fel- a?sd a short, white coffin was brought out arid i low, and has led the Annie Lee a miser- stowed away as though it already contained j able life for fourteen veal's. tlie spectral form of some mother s dead baby ; : - a wood sawyer with his wife and dirty children 1 the western part of Connecticut a came out of an alley and stole noiselessly down j large worm has been discovered witliih a narrow street. Some guards in uniform came ( the husk of ears of green corn, eating trampmg down the street with measured tread • iu„ lie never shows signs of fatigue; and the amount of labor daily performed by him is prodigious. " Yoc couldn't hit the side of a barn with that pistol," said Warren taunting­ ly to Jones, at Hillslnwo, N. C. "But I can hit the side of you," retorted Jones, and he fired at Warren, inflicting a mortal wound. Tiik bullet with which Hiram C. Briggs shot Erskine Wood at Coeymans, N. Y., the other day, passed directly through the heart, yet Wood was able to run a half mile and to live fift^-eight hours after the tragedy. AN Enoch Arden at Mount Vernon, at the shouts of their [Captain. On. on, thev all swept, the multitude, the uuthinking throng', each with his own burden, his own secret inner- sell" a mystery still. We had noted all uncon­ sciously almost. His eyes met mine. We were asking of each other the same question. He arose quickly, saymjr, "It grows I»te, I will see yon to-morrow," and was gone. SATURDAY, Sept. IU.--1 must write but a word. My dear mother has beeir attacked bv an epidemic fever. I greatly fear for her. I must be stroug to meet" anything. Prof. Huntington is untiring in liis attentions. TUESDAY, Oct. 6. Mother is still very low. My head reels. My pulses throb so violently. I am almost beside myself. It is only because of the constant watching and care. I'll be bet­ ter to-morrow. It is oue year to-night since I wrote first in this little book. Oh hfe ! Prof. Huntington has been smitten with the fever. I cannot write more to-night. What next shall I write, I wonder, and when, and where V" Owen Adams tossed the book into his mother's lap, and passed his hand over his eyes, for the strain of 3teady reading made them painful. " Elegant!" Jean remarked, less lan­ guidly than was her usual wont. " That's as good as a novel, Eth. Let's have it published." "Jean Adams, how could you ! " re­ proachfully answered Ethel. " Husband, I think you'd best adver­ tise this book, had you not ? its way the whole length of the cob among the tender kernels. It appears t^ enter the ear at the bottom. THE bodies of fully 200 persons drowned in Cayuga lake within forty years have never been recovered. Vari­ ous explanatory theories have been ad­ vanced, a latf one being that the rocky bottom of the lake has many cavities, in which the remains lodge. BY a recent decision the old New Jersey law denying the right of liquor- dealers when sued for violation of local ordinances to demand a jury has been repealed. Several dealers of Passaic City tested the question, and the long­ standing decision of the Supreme Court was set aside. DR. CARVER, the champion glass-ball smasl^r, seems to hiVje made a great iinyik'iuon «n the cr«rind heads and tkei7|V»i\)geny. The (ferman'kaiser has given him a diamond ring, the Crown Prince a costly scarf pin, and the Prince of Wales a number ot valuable presents, including a horse. PHII,IP STEVENS shot John Green at Meriden, Ct., in 1861. Tlie Wound healed quickly, though the bullet was left in the body. Green accepted #130 Mystery of Exchange. Most of our readers are aware that the quotation of foreign exchange represents a premium considerably in excess of the actual fact; b*t we doubt whether all of them know precisely what is the dif­ ference. By the usage of bankers, the old Spanish dollar is assumed as tin; par of exchange, one pound sterling being equal to four and four-ninths of these dollars. In point of fact, however, in the established moneys of Great Britain and the United States, a pound sterling contained as much gold as $4.87 of United States money ; and this is the true par of exchange or rate which must be used in converting the money of one country into that of the other. For instance : if anything costs £100 in Great Britain, its true value expressed in the money of the United States is $487. Accordingly, it is a fact, familiar to all bankers, that, when exchange is quoted at 109?,, there is no real premium, but the true par has l>een attained, l>eeause, if we multiply $4.44 4-9, which is the nominal par, by 109 i, which is then the quoted rate, we get $4.87, which is the true par. We need scarcely add that it is owing to this circumstance that the exports off gold from tlie United States are not larger. If there really existed such a heavy premium on bills of exchange, as many persons suppose, it would be immensely profitable to export gold to Great Brit­ ain. In point of fact, in view of the necessary expenses of freight, insurance and loss of interest, the margin does not more than cover the risk. Tne United States hsiif-eagle, it may be added, con­ tains 116 grains of pure gold, equivalent to $5 ; the British' sovereign, or pound sterling, 113 grains, equivalent to $4.87 of United States money.--Economist. American Olive Oil. We notice in the Mining and Scien~ tifie Press a formula for making olive oil on a small scale, as produced iu Cali­ fornia, conparing this with a description in the Pharmaceutiftche Haudclsblatt of the manufacture of olive oil in south­ ern France. In California they grind the olives liefore pressure. This appeal's to be au error; they should be crushed between two stones turning agaiust each other vertically. We can quite under­ stand that crushing leads to quite differ­ ent results from grinding. In cider-pro­ ducing counties iu England apples are prepared for cider in the same manner as tlie French prepare their olives, by grind­ ing them under revolving stones. Cider thus prepared will keep for years, and improves with age, some say, on account of an esseutiid oil pressed from the ap­ ple pips. In America cider is made from crushed or chopped apples, and possesses neither tlie flavor or the keep­ ing properties of that produced in Devon­ shire or Herefordshire, England. There is another point which may be important on the "Illume." The oil, when filtered, is stored in stone vessels. On the Pacific they use tin cases. Live Stock in ftuenos Ayres. Tlie province of Buenos Ayres eouuts 54,000,000 sheep, of which 13,000,000 belong to Irish settlers within a day's ride of the city. These flocks will suffice, if necessary, to feed the National Gov­ ernment army for many years, wit'iout counting 6,000,000 cows. "Yes VCR "ANSWRWL HnwHn in settlement of the affair, on condition les, jes, answered iloiatio Adams,Evening. A issu. ,i rising and pacing back and forth with J a » his hands behind him, "Yes, I'll attend This Cantata has been brought out In to that to-morrow. Too valuable anhe cities of Wisconsin, during Hie estate to be lost to its owner. If theiagt season, with great, success, and is yes," half soliloquizingly. "What's th« J. P. WKBSTKR, last date? Oct. 6? Why, let me seethe composer «.f Tlie Sweet Bv-nml- that s something over three months. T „ , , ... . "Owen, we inust see to this matter to?y; Lorena' Msu,,K morrow." f"1" of other beautiful songs, Owen gives another prolonged whistli'ileftr to tlie American people and asks Jean for the picture set in garf nets. Supper is announced. Louist Kent is discussed. The book is advei tised, and all wait patiently, or impn tiently, as the case may be, for some r< sponse. And £0, dear reader, must we.-- Chicago Ledger. Doors open at 7:30. ence at 8 o'clock. Concert to com- The Pride of a Child. A St. Louis paper tells a touching story of school life. It illustrates both tho longing of the children to appear as well as their schoolmates, and the mental sufferings incident to poverty. In one of the St. Louis public schools many of the children who came from a distance were accustomed to bring a lunch, and thus save a long walk home for dinner. They generally ate it together and had a merry time. Among those who stopped, one of the teachers noticed a little girl who never brought any lunch, but looked wistfully at her playmates as they were eating the noon meal. But one day the girl brought her bundle also, wrapped in paper. At noon she did not go with the others, but remained at her desk, as if preferring to eat alone. The teacher, thinking her unsocial, ad­ vised her to go to the lunch-room with her playmates, and walked toward the desk to take her bundle. But the little girl, bursting into sobs, said: "Don't touch it, teacher; and oh, teacher, don't tell, please. It's only blocks." The poor girl had no dinner to bring, but wished to keep up " appearances," so as not to seem unlike her schoolmates. Aud she was one of the best scholars in the school. She was very dear to the teacher's heart after that incident. Iu another place will be found the as con- spirit hands, yanked with all his miglii and not only pulled Star Eye (the medi­ um in disguise) out of the cafoinet, but also an assistant wlibs^was endeavoring to hold her in. / A Just Tribute. A just tribute is paid to women in the well-known play "Under the Gaslight," and it is as true as gospel. It is worth preserving and runs in this wise: "Let the woman you look upon be wise or vain, beautiful or homely, she has but one tiling she can give or refuse, and that is her heart. Her beauty, her wit, she may sell you, but her love is the treasure with­ out money and without price. She can only ask in return that when you look upon her your eyes shall speak a mute devotion; when you address her your voice shall be gentle and kind. That you shall not despise her because she cannot all at once understand your vigorous thoughts and ambitious plans, for when misfortune and evil have defeated your greatest purpose--her love remains to console you. You look upon the tree of strength and grandeur; do not despise the flowers because their fragrance is all they have to give. Remember love ia the only thing the can give." The Straage Will of Barou Steuben. In 1860 or 1861 a copy of the will of Baron Steuben was published either in the Louisville Courier or the Louisville Democrat, and he makes this strange provision in his will: He devised a goodly portion of what estate ht had at. the time of his death to two of his fav­ orite house servants, on the explicit con­ dition that the said house servants should carry away his body aud bury it in some secret place, where no one can ever find it. How he was buried the writer does not know, nor does he know how it happened that said will was recorded in the will-book of the Court of Appeals in Kentucky; for I find by reference to Chambers' Encyclopedia, volume nine, that Frederick William Augustus Steu­ ben died on his estate, near Utica, N. Y., on Nov. 28, 1794. He was bom at Madgeburg, Prussia, Nov. 15, 1730, and was educated at the Jesuit College at Niesse aud Breslau. But why this will was recorded in this State the writer of this is not advised. He only knows that it was. Probably tlie original will was recorded in the proper office in Utica, N. Y. If not so, tlieu there is no record of such will, as the will-book in the Court of Appeals office at Frankfort, was burned up when that office was destroyed by fire in 1860.--Louisville Courier- Journal. Tea as a Harvest Drink. A story is going the rounds of the English papers that a large agriculturist has been giving his harvest hands cold tea instead of lieer to drink in the har­ vest field, and that the results were ex­ tremely satisfactory, there being none of the sullenness, excitability and rude­ ness that had previously been observed and attributed to beer. An Elinois farmer tried the same experiment, but on returning from dinner found that the hands had organized a kind of male sewing circle in one corner of the field, and were discussing the minister's wife, fall bonnets, etc. The deleterious ef­ fects of tea upon those not accustomed to its use cannot be overestimated.-- Chicago Tribune. THE most troublesome and dangerous effects sometimes arise from the slightest cause, and often the Baby's serious sickness could be pre­ vented by promptly using Dr. Bull's Baby 8yrup at the beginning. Price only 25 cents a bottle. PERSONAL. [8anduiky (Ohio) Dally Register.] Mr. H. Lulay, Suffickl, Ohio, writes: Fif­ teen years my wife suffered with liver dis­ ease. I paid an immense amount of money to the doctors, but without any benefit to her. Last year she began to use Hamburg Drops, since which time we have had no occasion for doctors. THE Earl of Leitrim, nephew of the murdered Earl, recently made, in the House of Lords, an impassioned appeal to the Government to protect the Irish landlords, and not allow them to be " stoned like the Apostles of old." [Peck's Snn.] "We are going to do something we have never done before, and that is, deliberately and unsolicited to puff a patent medicine. We want to say that we indorse, jiersonally, all that is said of St. Jacobs Oil. We have tried it for rheumatism and neuralgia, and it has given instant relief." A MINER was accidentally thrown out of a bucket at the top of a California shaft. He clutched wildly at the jag­ ged rock, and by chance his wrist caught in a crack. During ten minutes he was thus suspended at a height of 200 feet. TEACHKBS, authors and others of sedentary habits highly prize Malt Bitters. AN Illinois girl with a breach-of-pron,- lse suit testified that it was the usual thing for girls to show their love-letters to fifteen or twenty other girls, in order to make tln-m jealous. FAINTNESS before eating, pain and distress afterward, prevented by Malt Bitters. THREE men caught poaching on Mr. Gladstone's grounds at Hawarden were sentenced to two months' imprisonment with hard labor. The only game in their possession was ten rabbits. A Miracle. Anthony Atwood, a retired minister of the M. E. Church, 809 North Seventeenth street, Philadelphia, Pa., says : " Hunt's Remedy has cured my wife of Dropsy in its worst form. All hope hail left us for months. All say that it is a miraele. Water had dropped from her right limb for months. Forty-eight hours had taken all the extra water from her system. All other means had been tried. None succeeded but Hunt's Remedy." Trial Hize. 75eents. Are Yon Not in Good Health t If the Liver is the source of your trouble, yon can find an absolute remedy in DR. SAN FORD'S LIVER INVIGORATOH, the only vegetable cathartic which acts directly on the Liver. Cures all Bilious diseases. For Book address DA. SAK- roan, 162 Broadway, Mew York. Dn. C. £. SHOEMAKER, the well-known aural surgeon of Reading. Pa., offers to send by mail, free of charge, a valuable little book on deafness and diseases of the ear--especially on running ear and catairh, and their proper treatment-- giving references and testimonials that will satisfy the most skeptical. Address as above. VEGETINE is not a stimnls'IN# bitters wbicb creates a ttc'itious appetite, but a gentle tonic which agists naiuro to ixsioitj the HnwMwh to a healthy action. WILHOFT'S Fever and Ague Tonic. This old reliable remedy now sells at one dollar. THK Eraser axle grease is the beBt and only genuine. We know it CORRECT your habits of crooked walking by naing Lyou'n l'dtent Metallic Heel Stiffctiers. •l'toe Voltaic Belt Co.. .Ilanball, !Hlch^ Will BCUS their Electro-Voltaic Belts to the af­ flicted upon thirty days' trial. See their adver­ tisement in this paper, headed, "On Thirty Days' Trial/] HYPOCHONDRIACAL condition from an over­ tasked brain requires Medetur to revive the nerves HOFHAKS'S HOP PILI^aiptcMccan for F jwr and Acne, Biliooraies* and MiliKil ot tho Blood. Fifty pill* for SO cento. Wive* liters. WARCMSRS UTERINE CATHOLICOH «<H - - • www vara i or a , t , certificate# from phjvksiaaB _ McL.VIX'S "VERMIFUGE BOXBOXS IW Worms in Children are dollclooa and n«ver fall to Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache, Soreness of the Ches% Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell* . fPgs and Sprains, Burns ouf Scalds, General Bodily Pains, Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted Feet ami Ears, and all other Pains and Aches. KO Preparation on earth equals Sr. JACOBS OIL as a mafe, •wtv>, simple and cheap External Remedy. A trial entails Imt tho comparatively trifling outlay of 50 Cents, and every one ittlerin{ with pain can ha TO cheap and poaiUva proof of its claims. Directions in Eleven hngiajM. BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALEB8 IK MEDICINE. A. VOGELER & CO., Baltimore, JK, V. 8. JU FREES A Musical Journal. Add'sF. Brehm, Erie, I*a. & fi fi » week in your own town. Tonne and Outfit tpou free. Address H. HAI. ~ I.LETT k Co., Portland. Ut. B U S I N E S S C O L L E G E . CLINTON BUSINESS COLLEGE. CUnton, Ia. Flnt-claaR faoilitina. Annual announcement free. *nrri A MONTH t Asenta Wnatc* ! .Vinil Best-Selling Articles in the world: a sam. *Www glt/r«. JAY BEONSON, Detroit, kick. YOUNG MEN earn11MO?^l*M?a • mopth. Ermv graduate (runranU>ed a paying oitna* Uon. Addroaa R. V AILENXIWC. Manager, Jaucsville,WIS. A TEAR and expense* to Ments. Outfit Free. AddreM P. O. V1CKERY, Augusta, Mate. $ 7 7 7 CCi. 6Qn per day at home. Samples worth ®o fn Vv Vv WmV Cmtvunw J, Pn -- - OPIUM Address ST1N60N & Co., Portland, Me. Morphine' llnblt farad InM teWdaya No|Mjgrtill€nre<. l)u. J. Hi'icrHExs, Lebanon, Uhio, T.\ YI<OH.--All persons of family name of TAVLOB will r««cei%-e interesting and valushlo infnrmatt " sending; address to J. KIRK TAYLOR, Jersey City, kill hjr , H.J. Each IO ct*. hy mail. Alan, othor oan- GIIDCICl n iliii.it^c. Agents Wanted. GEO. bAnrlCLII. i'KRlNE, IOO Nassau St., New York. •TEETH IB MIGHTY I DPBULL'S BABY SYRUP \]|TAS(TE1>--Agenta eveiywhera to sell our good* V V by sample, to families. We give attractive preaents led fint-elass goods to your customers; we give rou good profita; we prepay all express charges; we furniah outfit nee. Write for particular*. PEOPLE'S TEA CO, Bos MM, St. Louia, Mo. Our W E L L A U G E R is the cheapest, borer, the fastest. We are the oldest and largest llvui ill Aim rica. Kcml for our pictorial catalogue. UMTKD STATES MFU CO., Chicago, IU. n Jft 9%#% Sgf © V Campaign BADGES, with gilt 0 A DfLe Ead ! Kngle and Shield, on red, white and blue ribbon, with life-like photographs of both can­ didates of wither party, fl.MI nerdoz. Sample 15 rente. Big tiling to sell. PATTKS * CO., 43 Barclay St., ». Y. S H A K E R T H E O L O G Y . (Script" K:«tloni»l --A book that every Statesman, I»t'iciiii, Lawyer, Doctor and Preacher should read. A ne:it steel engraving of the author in Shaker rontume adurus the frontispiece. It iB neatly printed and bound, containing 2i! iwijmx vn . and sent, pnstace paid, for Wi.OO. Address IHSHOP KADS, South Union, Ky. AO EX TB wishing to canvass for the Live* of GARFIELD i HANCOCK Should write at once for Circulars and terms of agency to FORSH&E A McMAKIN, Cincinnati, O. LiHIIPA AXO MTOR E-K V. K P EH H--Y oa can C5«»<id* eliesp, by writing us iin order on a Postal Card for our Price list, which enables you to tinloi* bv inaCl tlie best vruy, and soe the many kinds of Merchandise we keep for *1»le at 6uv- iiriKiiitflv low price*. We send samples of Hamburg. I/icetf, lRiblx»fi8, Fringes, etc., if requested. We seh Wholesale and ftctiiil fo* down. A «vw combi­ nation system which we hive just started enables us to quote veiy close price#. We have $i, $52 and $5 packages of notions which cannot be bought for twice the money ebewhere. all w.-mted in every fumily. Money returned if not. satisfactory for any purchase. HOUGHTON 4 OCTTON, M Tremont St., Boston, Mass. rOU CAN BE CURED OF YOUR CATARRH! HOW? Sand l*e to DR. O. R. SYKES, K. Madison Chicago, Hl.r and will gend by return mall "ThaTroa Theory of Catarrh and full Information of a Bun Gttra.* Name this paper, and write without delay. C E L L U L O I D E Y E - C L A S S E S . representing the choicest-selected Tortoiae-Shell and Amber. The lightest, handsomest and strongest known. Sold by Opticians and Jewelero. Made by SPENCER O. M. CO.. 13 Maiden Lane, New York. Are »old by all Hardware and Harness Healer*. Tb«S is no one owning » horse or mule but what will find in this Hue of goods, something of great peciallv adapted to their wants. COVERT 41 F*G CO* Wur Tuov.N'. T., Sole Manufacturers. AlAaWMk. tW a day at home ixiallj mad*. C>wUr 91C-OuUHbm*. Uiiwluttlla,Aa«*sta.Ma. NORTHWESTEM G0UE8E, Oi 3A DAYS' TRIAL WswUl •adon SSSsS w&fj?«n!g •M» I nmtmn. 'sas'N MM ununsM, NtiilF*nffTIff .Cs«rsv4«skj* / fiMiAiVAA » MBRS MUtE *5^K> PER DAT •ESXUIO OVI KKW i -T'? Platfbna FAMILY SCALE Weixte Mcoratelr np to *5 lbs. It» ^v^ handsime appearance Mil* It at ihfl . to koM«4Mq«. A BK6VLA1 BOOH FOR AGENTS. j !£&22?o. The Koran by George Sale. Kanml) naMiahed at SlTft; a -^wr: baantifal tvpe, neat, tMMonid edition; price. •eats, and • cents for peatage. Catalans of w»ng standard work*, remarkably low in price, with extra tersait to cluha free. Bay where yon saw thia adTOrtfwment. AKX&ICAK BOOK Kxouiivt. Tribosa BoOding, N-Y„; NOTICE! iiltt No. '27. AMY reader M tkin Pane* not ia poMenkw off onr Price Lin . 4? skauld tend fera«wr tancdiatdr* Free to any adtfams. Rednted priesesf > limited to Anst 91st, 188®» MONTGOMERY WARD A CD,, CMcac*, DHL^ AGENTS WANTED to «n LIFE <*• GEN.GARFIELD^HL Omplete. autkmtie, lo.r-pneei Fally Ills Poaitirely the to* ond ckaope* Book. ALSO THB LIFE OF A"™*- !!••< J. NVFOHNFY acltor Philadelphia Fret*. Fally lllaMratnl. Pod Orel? the able* and moat truly official work gran the beat terms. Send SO cents for outfit of eithe book, or 8 I for ootflt of both. Address 11UBBAKD BROS.. CUcsm IH. GEN. HANG0G MEDETUR. Pearls of strength, and specific cure f.rr Ttrn/U, achee, Dyppep^ia, IXISH of Memory, Rheumatismi:; Keura'gia and NcrvoaanetM. Supply nerve a:id hraiifr power, repair waste and revive the organic svstem^r By dr-irrfrista or mail $1.00. THE SPECIFIC "MEI>4i ICINI',. CO., 169 & 161 Lake St,Chicago,prvvrietortuyT' NATRONA'S la the beat in the World. It Is absolutely pure. It is tna bast for Medicinal PnrpMes. ft is the best for itnk> ~ fSaldbyall I •i ••3 and all Faus'lv Uw I Uruggista and Uluwiv MaSaltMaifacfiiCoJIiiia, RED RIVER VALLEt 2,000,000 Acres Wheat Lands bast la the World, for aala by tha H It. M, MnneaiioUs & Manitoba 8.R.C0* Ttirea dollars per %cr» aitowad thesetUai far hiaaljfr, • lag and oultivaiior For particulars apply to • D. A. McKINLAY, Idwtf CaaiiaiMi^sr. at. Paal. JllBa> ̂V*° FOR CHILLS AND OP THB BLOOD. A Warraittf Price, $1.00. ITIOI IUJ BT AU. MBMIIW. . PERMANENTLY CURES [ I D N E Y D I S E A S E S , LIVER COMPLAINTS,] |Constipation and Plies. , IT HAS If fIIV WONDERFUL If If f [ POWER. "Wi 1 BECAUSE IT ACTS ON ILITER,TUB BOWELS AND |NETS AT THB SAME TIME. Became It dean-- th* nctmic.. •the poisonous humorstturt dnttopal lln Kidney and Urinary diseases, BIM llousness* Jaundice, Constipation,! IPiico, or In Rheumatism, Neuralgia] I and Iremalo disorders. KXHWEY-WORT Is a dry vegctaM* « loswl eaabeeeel&yinsiipeepeM. | One package will nukaatx qta ofmedtrias.] THY IT NOW | Buy It at eke DmdsU VEL1S, SICHAPPSCT A CO., Propirtoa, IO BirllKtaa, Yfc Important to the Fair Sex! THB GRIAT acaav;'orwbi»i rianDiaaaee% uphtiaspm. add • 91M pa* baa or six S ». 38 a.«. u. WHEN WHITING TO ADVERTISE! I'lrase say )oa saw the adn la thia paver. C R T " M A S O N & > H A M L I $ M A T C H L E S S ' - F R A N Z L I S Z T - ' U N mv.i«=r« AWARDED IHIGHESTHONORS • AT ALL THC MEAT WORLDS EXHIBITIONS RO* THIRTEEN YEARS NO OTHER IAMERICANORGANS HAVE BEEN AWARDED SUCH AJ ANY. ^MUSICIANS OENERAU.Y REGARD THEM AS UWGOMSM,F TWEOOORG C A B I N E T O R G A t Cm A' PRICES is!.*sn«&f TOlMQ AMD URHM9S: AUO FOREASVRM Is PER MOMTMFOR »M0NTIIS)«l|«St6 PfR QUAMEM rou*?] iqiMBCTrg wmJ uwaommg