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"M folks ain joll? folk% , Ai«' while we #*!t to no -Let's ^in <le fiddle liti o' work And rush de ole banjo. THE WATER LILT. The little village of Chelston, in the oonnty of Hertford, might have been termed with Goldsmith's "Sweet Au­ burn" the "loveliest of the plain," " When smiling rpring it's earliest vipit paia. And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed." And on this bright summer's morning i on which oar story opens it appeared j more lovely than ever, with the rich j foliage swaying beneath the clear blue j sty, the broad green meadows, and the ; grazing cattle, while the gurgle of a! brooklet mingled its music with the I caroling of birds. , Half-hidden amid • shady clump of trees a young artist sat painting at a small, light easel, and the faint outlines I of distant hills and scattered hamlets were already standing out from the can- J vts in front of him. He was apparently but little over thirty years of age, and his face looked grave and stern for one so young, and bore unaccountable traces of some long- hidden sorrow. He had for some time been sitting ab­ sorbed in his work, Almost unconscious of anything around him save the fair skr-tcli of landscape he was so faithfully delineating. The brooklet ran by him--not twenty yards from where he was seated--and the dappled cows lay chewing their ends upon its banks, or quenching their thirst in its crystal waters, reminding one of Sidney Cooper's most perfect pictures of cattle. Ernest Darrell's attention was, how­ ever, suddenly arrested by a new object, and cue which to his gaze was fairer than any he had seen that morning. A little girl, scarcely seven years of age, was standiug near the brook--she had been gathering water-lilies, and in her hand Bhe held a basket containing a number of the pure white flowers. His eyes fell upon her face, lifted wistfully to his own, and then something like a •mile broke over the littleone'a mouth as she said, half shyly: "Do come and reach me this beauty, if you please." Ernest Darroll was hardly sure at first whether it was really himself she was addressing; but no sooner was he aware of the fact than he laid down his palette and brushes and came forward to her assistance. "A water-lily, is it?" he asked, glanc­ ing at her basket. "Yes, such a beauty, but so far out of my reach," she repeated, and then stood eagerly watching Ernest, who stretching himself full length upon the bank suc­ ceeded with his long arm in grasping the coveted flower. The child's delight was unbounded, the sight of which amply rewarded him for his trouble; but the unusual l>eauty of her face and the air of childlike grace wliich accompanied her every movement Cfflnpletely won Ernest's heart, and he was determined not to let her run away just yet. "You must give me a kiss as payment - it," he said, with a smile, iightly for passing his hand over her golden head fitim which her hat had fallen. She etarted back, with a vivid blush. "Oh, no. indeed; I am a great deal old to kiss you," she exclaimed. •*Wby, I am seven, and quite a young lady." "Are you, really? Then I am sure I beg your pardon," said Ernest, hardly able to repress a laugh. "But at any •Sdei°U teH me your name?" ha "Oh, yes; my name is Lilian, but I *m nearly always called Lily," replied the little girl, with an air of consequence. "Lilian--nothing else?" asked Ernest. "No; only that," she answered. Surnames are generally superfluous with children. "Then, I pressume, the fact of your being a lily yourself makes you fond of the flowers that bear your name," he rejoined, smiling. She laughed--a soft, silvery, happy laugh, that fell like music upon toe young artist's ear. "Oh, I don't know; I think I lore all flowers, bnt especially these," she said, glancing down at her basket. "They are so large and pure and white, like, the white-robed angels in the stained glass windows at church. Mamma loves them too, liecause she says when I am not with her they remind her of me." "Yon ore mamma's pet, then and pa­ pa's, too, I suspect, for the matter of that," replied Ernest, his interrupted occupation totally forgotten in the new j pleasure he felt in conversing with the ohild. I "I haven't a papa," she said, droppipg I her voioe; "he died, oh, long 1>efore I i can remember, but I never ask about j him, because it always makes mamma j cry. Would you tell me the time, ' please ?" j Ernest glanced at his watch. "Nearly j 1 o'clock," he told her. i "Then I must bid you good-bye," she ! Biftd. "or I shall be late home." And 1 setting down her'lntsket s'je bethought i herscl/ of the hat, which she proceeded , to adjust on the top of her golden I curls. | ' 'Do yoa come here every day ?" she ! asknd of ••Viest. i ' I Rh"ll be here every day for a little wiiilo," he answered her. "Then I hope I will see you again " she said artlessly. "And thank you so very much for getting me the water lily. For a moment her little ungloved hand rested on bis own. her lips parted in an- oto&r smile find tlieu slit* was jjotie, lias- tening away with all possible speed across the sunny fields, bearing her sweet bur­ den of flowers--types of her own pure soul. 1 Ernetrt Darrell stood gazing after her Was it the touch of her light fingers that had brought so strasago a thrill to his heart ? He sat down to resume his mint­ ing but even that had lost its wonted charm--he was restless, rftid his thoughts wandered back to what might have been some years ago, when he married a girl who laved him only for his father's wealth, and who (when the securities failed in which old Mr. Darroll had in­ vested the whole of his money, and he was a ruined man, his son's prosi>ects also) left him--his six months' bride-- leaving behind her a oooly worded-note, intimating that she could share poverty with no orte, and that he need not seek her, as she never intended to return. And he never had sought her; but the love lie had borne her was as warm in his heart now as it had beeu on the day they were married. And as he sat at his easel there, in the field where little Lilian had left him, he wept for the memory of her who, in those days, had not been worthy one throb of his noble heart Several days elapsed before he saw the little girl again, but during that time she was hardly once absent from his thoughts. He had lived sudii a lonely life since his father died (broken down by the trouble that had come upon him in the loss of his wealth,) aud, with nothing to care for in the world but the art he was wedded to. the child had come across his path like a ray of sun­ shine in the darkness. But one day, as he was returning home, she came danc­ ing toward him, and seizing his hand as if their acquaintance had beeu of years instead of days, she immediately began an animated conversation, such as only children can begin on the spur of a mo­ ment Ernest was oertainly amused, if noi interested; but as their way along led them past the brook where they had met before, Lily broke away from him and ran eagerly toward it She looked back once or twice to laugh at Ernest, and in doing so tripped over a stone hidden in the grass and fell forward into the water, A cry burst from her lips, but imme­ diately Ernest came to the rescue, and ere she became totally submerged, had succeeded in drawing her out upon the bank. Wet clothes and a severe fright was all tlio harm the child had sustained; and as Ernest proceeded to wrap round her a thick plaid shawl, which he gen­ erally carried with him to protect his feet from damp grass, she began to laugh at her little adventure. "I have gatiieroil my water lily now," said the young artist, smiling; "and I would not exchange it for all the others in creation."' He took her, entirely enveloped in the warm shawl, tip in his strong arms and continued his walk, now in the direction of Lilian's home. "I am so sorry--mamma will be out," she said, lifting her beautiful eyes to his face. "She would so liked to have thanked you herself. But do you know which way to go?" "I want you to direct me, Lily," he said. Tho distance was short, as he sup­ posed; and as they reached the gate of a pretty villa residence, which had often attracted Ernest's attention before by its quaint picturesqueness. Lilian informed him that this was "her home." "I thank you so very much," said the child, as she stood once more upon the ground and rang the bell. "I wish mamma could thank you herself--I don't kjifow how to." "You need not thank me at all, dear child," Ernest Darrell assured her, with the old shade of sorrow darkening his face. "I only hope the consequences of what has happened may not be serious " He remained with her until a middle-aged woman, whom Lilian called "nurse," came forward to claim her young charge; and then, after giving a brief explanation of the whole affair, he bade Lily good-bye and walked on. About a week subsequent to this event, Ernest Darrell happened to bo passing the house where little Lilian dwelt, when he heard her voice calling after him down the sunny road: "Come-back--Oh, please come back!" she was saying, in breathless eagerness; "mamma does want to see you so much, and thank you for saving me when I fell iu the brook." And Ernest felt his hand grasped in the child's, and almost before he was aware of it, she had led him through the gates aud up the steps to the portico. Then across the wide hall she dragged him, laughing and chatting gaily the while, into a luxuriously furnished room, where her mother sat. 4 beautiful woman, jnth dark hair and Oriental eyes, rose from an ottoman at their entrance and came toward them. At least, she came half way, and then tottered back, with a deathly palior j overspreading her countenauce; while he--Ernest--dropped Lilian's hand and ! stood gazing at that agonized face. i "Marian--my wife!" I "Ernest! Oh, is it possible that we I meet at last?" | There was a dreadful silence, during | which, at a sign from her mother, Lilian I fled, and those two were alone--after seven long years. | The stern, grave face of Ernest Dar- I rell was sterner and graver still--eveD Lilian might have shrunk from it then | --and Marian, the woman who had blighted his life, fell at his feet "Oh! Earnest nay hnsband -- my much-wronged hnsband--forgive me!" she cried. "I have suffered deeply-- ever since that day I left you." "Suffered!" repeated Ernest, in cold, rigid tones. "Have you ever thought of what I have suffered?" "Yes, yes; ten thousand times," re­ plied Lilian's mother, in a voice well- nigh cheked with emotion. "But mine has been the undying worm of an accus­ ing conscience. Oh, Ernest, I have been justly punished, for my wickedness. I never knew how dearly I loved you until I had lost you--until I had sacri­ ficed that which I would have given the beet years of my life to bring back. Re­ number what I had always been--a Hx>iled, petted child, with never a wish ungratified, and it seemed so hard to face poverty--even with you. 1 was very young--only seventeen, remeuioer, Er­ nest--and all through tlw dim vista of •ears that lay before me I saw nothing out want, penury and deprivation. I fled in a moment of madness, delirium-- anything you like to call it--leaving be­ hind me that cold note, in which I bade yon never seek me. I did not go home, for my parents would have immediately have com­ municated with yon. I went to an uncle, who loved me only too well--sin­ ful wretch that I was--aud I told him a lie, that you had deceived me, and that I married a beggar whom I believed to have been rich. Ho was a bachelor, and lived a secluded life, away from all relatives and friends. I think I was the only creature he loved on earth, and we two lived alone. At his house my little qhild was lx>rn, and it wiu then that I began to thiuk and long for you. I wrote and told my parents--as soon as I was able--of what I had done, and bade them to seek you, and bring you back home. They wrote, I know, but never received any answ.i; and so I thought you had treated me as I de­ served, and hud resolved to forget me for ever. When Lilian was three years old ray uhcle died, leaving me his heiress, aud I took this house, iu which I have lived ever since, alone--quite alone, with my child. Oh, Ernest, how I have longed for you, and prayed to heaven to send you back to me? I have your name in the newspapers sometimes, and I know that as an artist you have risen to fame. And now, Ernest, for our child's sake, forgive me--take me back, and try to think of me as leniently as possible. I know that you can love me again. I don't expect you but--," "Iudecd, Marian, you are wrong; I have never ceased to loVe you," inter­ rupted Ernest's cold, stern voice. "I have been as truly your husband iu heart, nil through these bitter years, as if we had never parted. I have wept for yon and have prayed for you too, over and over again. But--" "But yon cannot take me back. No. no!" exclaimed Marian weeping. "I was wrong to ask it; only I thought for Lily's sake--" "And, for Lily'8 Rake, I will," said Ernest. "I love my child too well to part with her now. Rise, Marian, my wife--my well-beloved--the past shail be forgotten; blotted out as though it had never been, and we will begin our marriage life again." "I am not worthy. Oh, Ernest. I have never deserved such love as this!" said Marian, as she was clasped in her husband's embrace. * "Yon shall make yourself deserving; it is all in your hands now, remember," he said, with grave tenderness, and looking into the depths of her beautiful eyes. How long they remained thus, in happy silence, they might never, have known had not a little hand, the touch of whose fingers Ernest Darrell had felt before, l>een plaeed within his own. F» looked down and met the upturned gaze of his child. In a moment she also was gathered to his arms, while blessings fell upon her fair young head. And as she had fallen like a sunbeam across his path in the beginning, so did she continue to the end; and through the happy years long afterward he could only look back, with joy and thankful­ ness unspeakable, to the day on which he had met her by the side of the brook, carrying her basket of water-lilies. GOSSIP FOR THtf LADIES. EH ,The railway oar was crowded, And a pamenger went through To ftiid i n empty seat, offer Not «t • upied bjr two. «• % ' "• .it taut be came unto one? t , I : On « hich one woman aSK But bundles did atirrounA ner, And she waa old and fat. Be Raced him down be«i4e her; But dul she eee him? Noi Bhe looked ber out tlie window. And aat in statu quo. 41 Tills world is very 8elHah,n Quotli he aa on ho went; To find a p'.ace to ml lilni on The gent eman waa beat Within the oar next forward He came unto a seat. One eud of which was occupied By a maiden quite petit*. He cam* along unto it, And aaid him to tbe miaa: •'Is this teat taken, little oner* (Bhe waa sweet enough to kiss). " Oh, no!" she said, all blushes. Which added beauty lent; While to himfelf he softly Mid: " A little one for aa^ent," SCRAPS OF SCIENCE. THE deepest known worked mine is iu Australia--a shaft having been sunk 3,200 feet. A MEMBER of the French Academy of Sciences has discovered well marked sexual differences iu eels. SPKCIMENS of fossil woods and lignite .\:e reported to have been brought to the siu'faca from the depth of 191 feet while boring an artesian well at Galvestou, Texas. EXPERIMENTS at Woolwich have dem­ onstrated that the transmission of deto­ nation from one mass of gun cotton to another not in contact is so rapid that a row of gun cotton reaching from London to Edinburg could be fired in two minutes. REPLYING to the question whether or not our ancestors were acquainted with the peculiar physical condition known to us as somnambulism, Dr. Reynard, of Paris, said in a recent lecture that one of the most accurate descriptions of somnambulism in existence was tlie sleep-walking scene of Macbeth. FOBR Jour dan glycerine barometers are now in use in or near London. One is at Kew, in tho mnsonm of practical geology, one at South Kensingtou, and one in the oflioe of the Londou Times. The enormous scale of the barometer enables changes scarcely visible in the mercurial instrument to be detected with ease. RORSBTTI has found that tlie tempera­ ture of the positive carbon of the elect­ ric arc is between 2,400 degrees and v,000 degrees centrigrade, aud that ot the negative oarbon between 2,500 de­ crees and 3,900 degrees, making, there- f'ce, the temperatures of tlie extreme points of the electrodes not below 2,500 decrees and 3,900 degrees. EXPERIMBNTS have been made on ani­ mals with pure hydrocianic acid by M. Brame. The bodies of those killed with it remained unaffected by decomposition for about a month. During that time the ncid remained in the tissues, and especially i*i the stomach. It could be easily settled to distillation, but much more readily from the tissues of herbiv­ orous than of earniverous animals. IN A communication to tho St. Peters-, burg Technical Society, Prof. Beilstein recommends the use of sulphate of alumnia as the besi practical disinfec­ tant. He states thai, the best method of making the salt for disinfeoting pur­ poses is to mix red clay with four per cent, of sulphuric acid and to add to the mixture some carbolic aci ? for destroy­ ing the smell of the matter to be disin­ fected. A SCIENTIST in the Magazine of Phar­ macy/ asserts that the usual physico- chemical methods for determining the potable nature of water have proved themselves to be quite insufficient, and he says that " recourse must be hed to the microscope and to the culture-glasses used by physiologists in their inocula­ tion experiments, before any really sound and valuable knowledge can be gained by the examination of waters" as to their purity or impurity. ALARM with indignation has arisen in Halle regarding tarletans rendered pois­ onous by the introduction of copper arsenite in their production. Dr. Rei- man has attempted to allay the general outcry by stating that copper arsenite is not a splendid green color, and as for such goods astarletans, Guignet's green, which contains no arseuic, has quite dis­ placed the poisonous Scliweinfnrt green. TUB authority for tlie statement that after the extraction of the niter from gnupowder the residue cannot Ife dried at 200 degrees, withont a slight loss o tho sulphur, is Fresenius. Herr A. Wagner, on the oontrary, rises from his experiments with the conviction that no such loss has ever l>eeu observed at or In low the temperature given. Above that temperature the residue suffers a uotable diminution in weieht.. The Heroines of Nihilism. They are mostly daughters of poor army officers, or jxjtty civil officers, or even of shop-keepers, who feeling tlie influence of modern times, are anxious to rise above fhe level of tlieir parents, coarse, ignorant people in the main. Either by their own talents or by tlie aid of influential patrons, tlie girls gain scholarships, and enter some high school where their brains are crammed with a heterogeneous mass of knowledge. At 19 they leave, and in turn become teach­ ers. Finding their parents uncompan­ ionable, they abandon home for some wretched lodgings, aud eke out a miser­ able existence by giving pocly paid les­ sons. Food is scarce, the feminine pleas­ ures of dress are impossible, the restraiu- iqg power of family affection is absent, they grow hopeless and discontented, when some day they form socialistic acquaintances, rapidly adopt their ideas, and, having found au object for their life, with femiuiue rashness devote them­ selves to the cause, even to the very death.--Par in Figaro. THB universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other. A Woman's Age. A case has just been decided before the Appeal Court at Metz, which shows how a lady's age is a matter entirely witliin her own control. Fraulein Cathe­ rine Mahl was engaged to a desirable part­ ner, to whom she had imprudently de­ clared her age at six years less than it really was. As soon as the moment ar­ rived for producing the certificate of birth, she was aware that her little de­ ception would be discovered, and she feared that the match would be broken off. She, therefore, took the liberty of altering the official document, so as to make it correspond with the statement already made. The ceremony took place, and the husband was duly united to a lady whom he believed to be quite a jeime ingenue. Unfortunately, the certificate, in passing through some of­ fice, happened to be minutely examined bj one of the clerks. The bride was charged with the offense of falsifying a public document, and condemned to spend, if not her honeymoon, at least three of the first months of her married life, in prison. She had the courage to appeal from the sentence, and cause tho case to be argued out before the court at Metz, which reversed the decision of the inferior tribunal, and acquitted the lady on the ground that she did not in­ tend to commit an illegal act, but had been actuated only by "female vqnity." A Woman'* Share. Woman's share in influencing man is pronounced and clearly defined from the beginning of life. The mother sets her impress upon her boy. One expects to hear of a great and good man that his mother was serene, strong and full of faith. Men are insensibly wrought upon every day by the women of their house­ holds. If you hear a young man speak lightly aud flippantly "of sacred things, if you observe in him a lowuess of tone and impurity of sentiment, which jars upon and pains you, and above all, if you know that he habitually thinks of woman as his inferior, doubting her sin­ cerity, you may rest assured that he has not been under the molding hand of wise and sweet woman. His mother has been shallow and selfish, his sisters have been frivolous and idle, or his wife is vain and silly. But the woman who marries a man is not the woman who makes him--strong and potential as is her wifely influence. She can intensify his self-esteem, exalt his pride, and brood like a black frost on his desires after God. But the set, the trend, the start in his case was given partly, before birth, in the temj>er and spirit of his mother--much in those early days when he lay a helpless babe in ber happy Row a Neat Little Woman manage* Her HuatbandU " My hnsband is one of the best men that ever lived, but he will have his way. I rnust always give iu to him. I've be­ come used to it, you know, and don't mind it now as I once did." The speaker was a neat little woman of middle age, rather tastily and nicely dressed. She had a sunny face and a twinkle of innocent mischief in her eyes. She appeared the very personifi­ cation of a thoughtful, kind-hearted housewife. " He says he won't give but $23 per month for your house, and he won't." Ajid she shook her little head in a ludicrously-solemn manner, as if the de­ cree of $33 was as irrevocable as the law of the Medes and Persians. " There is no use of my trying to change him, he is so awful 'set.' Let him have his wav." Then her bright little eyes twinkled, *nd she came closer to the lady of whom she was trying to hire the house, and assumed an air of meek confidenoe. " You can make the lease for $23 per month, you know," she said, in a half- laughing way ; " and I will pay you the other $2 p«r month." She hesitated, rather than stopped, as chough she had finished, as if she had said or done something wrong, and the eyes of the two women met. She saw something which made her say, in an apologetic way : •' He is so set I have to do it. He will always have his own way, and I have to give up." '* Don't you think it wrong to deceive yotir husband ?" " Oh ! I wouldn't deceive him; he need never know anything about it. I cun easily pay that out of pin money, or by economizing on market bills. I do want the house so, and there is no other way." The arrangement waa made, and the little woman went away perfectly happy, saying, " He is the best husband La the world, but he is so set." Klacryliig m Russia. If we may judge from an anecdote in tlie Swolennkcr Jiote, tlie re are parts of the Russian empire ia which it is no easy matter to get married, owing to the autocratic willfulness of the Russian clergy. A schoolmaster in the District of jaoknew was engaged to wed th^ daughter of a landowner in the neigh­ borhood whose wealth was not at all proportionate to his acres. The bride- groojjj, bride and the parents of the lat­ ter called on a priest of the lady's vil- lagcy in order to settle the amount of the wedding fee. Tlie clergyman fixed it at 25 roubles. Unhappily the bride's father was determined to make a show more in accordance with his ancestral dignity than with his impoverished con­ dition, aud invited all his kinsfolk and acquaintances from far and near to at­ tend the ceremony. The result was that the proeoasion to the church included no fewer thau eleven carriages, all full of weddiug guests. When tho priest saw this magnificent preparation he hurried to the bride­ groom and informed him that the fee for a marriage of such pretensions would not be 25, but 100 roubles. When the man pleaded his poverty as a school­ master, the pastor replied bv pointing to the signs of his father-in-law's wealth. The wedding party held a consultation, and, indignant at the priest's oonduct, resolved that the whole prooession should drive off Wpi village. The priest outwitted them, however. Hisi messenger arrived at his brother cleric's dioor long before the lumbering coaches, so that when they reached the churah and asked the price of the sacerdotal function ths parish priest was ready with the reply : " One hundred rou­ bles !" The procession started again for a further village, but the messenger had been there before them, aud the priest of the place would not marry them for less than 100 roubles. They experi­ enced a similar discomfiture, according to reports, at no less than four village churches, and it was only after a long drive across the country that they suc­ ceeded in finding a little father who readily consented to bestow the THE FAMILY DOCTOR. A POTTLTICE of fresh tea-leaves, moist­ ened with water, will cure a stye on the eyelid. FOR earache, dissolve asafetida in water; warm a few drops and drop in the ear, then cork the ear with WQ&1. TIT* true physiological way of treat­ ing burns and scalds is to at once ex­ clude the air with cotton-batting, flour, scraped potato, or anything that is handiest. To CUBE bunions, use pulverized salt­ peter and sweet oil. Obtain at a drug* gist's 5 or 6 cents' worth of saltpeter; put into a bottle with sufficient olive oil dissolve PERRY DAVBfc t ++M4 ment.il benediction of matrimory for the I dissolve it; shake up well, and nib fee which the lady's own pastor hod I the, mflamrd Joints night and morning, originally asked. , j 411,1 more freqaiently if painful. -- THE following drink for relieving Not Coed for Firemen. j sickness of the stomach is said to be -J Uiose of us who have hearts in us, and • veT palatable and agreeable : Beat up who love women because they are our j one egg very we 1, say for twenty min- mothers, and wives, and sisters and ! utes, then add fresh milk one pint, cousins--remember, we stop at cousins --are apt to argue that women ought to be allowed to vote, and do everything that men do, as far us they are able. Some of us doubt the propriety of the whole thing, but our sympathy an<J love for the noblest work of God, a good woman, would compel us to allow her any privilege. But there are some things a woman could never do. She might draw a Government salary, or be a po­ liceman in a real quiet ward, but she never could be a fireman. If she was a water one pint, sugar to make it palata­ ble ; boil, and get it cool; drink when cold. If it becomes curds and whey it is useless. ACCORDING to La France Medicale, borax has been employed with advant­ age .in cases of hoarseness and aphonia occurring suddenly from the action of •/Old. The remedy is recommended to singers and orators whose voices sud­ denly become lost, but which by these means can be recovered instantly. A little piece of borax the size of a pea is ^1relna^1' when an j to be slowly dissolved in the mouth ten A " 1 ' minutes before singing or speaking. The remedy provokes an abundant se­ cretion of saliva, which moistens the mouth and throat. This local action of the borax should be aided by an equal dose of nitrate of potassium, taken in warm solution before going to bed. A THOROUGHLY qualified medical man has recently, in the ouurse of his prac­ tice, come upon what he believes and uses as a specific remedy for small-pox. The remedy U the bi-tartrate of potash, the common cream of tartar of the drug store; two ounces dissolved in boning water, with the juice of a lemon and su­ gar added. Let the patient drink as alarm was sent in, and the horses rushed out like a cavalry charge, she would not grab a waterproof ulster and catch hold of the hose-c&rt and ride out of the house with a hoop-la, and put on her clothes on the jump. She couldn't collect her thoughts quick enough, and, at the first stroke of the bell and the first rush of the horses, she would either faint away and fall over the stove or she would grab her skirts in her hands, yell bloody murder and go up stairs three at a time, as though she had Been a mouse. Oh, if she eould go to a fire in a carriage, and a malfe fireman should get the hose up on the ladder ana point the nozz'.e at the fire, the woman fireman might taKe his place and let the water sizzle. But then, in that case, when the male fireman had to go down tht. iadder and leave her there, she would want to take her eyes off her business and look down at him, and see where he was looking, and by the time she got her eyes back to where they be­ longed the nozzle would be playing on an adjoining house, and he would have to come up and set her again. The idea that a woman would never be a success as a fireman occurred to us while seeing a woman try to sprinkle a little spot of grass with a garden hose. Her husband had got the hose ready for her and turned on the water, and then he went out to take care of his horse. There was a little spot of grass about as big as a wagon box, and we knew that was what she was goiug to try and wet. We never saw a spot of grass that seemed to yearn for water any more than thi3 did, and there never was a man that yearned less for water from a garden hose than we did, standing out there on the side­ walk. When night closed down on the scene and the stars were singing their evening songs that grass was as dry as a powder house, and if there was a dry rag on us we couldn't find it. She didn't seem to grasp the situation as a man would. Her fingers seemed to be all thumbs, and she could not bring her mind to bear on the rubber hose so as to guide it in the way it should go. There was water enough squirted, for that matter, but it did not touch the spot. She was a woman that you would call deliberate. She was not troubled with that spryness that should charac­ terize those who expect to take tho place of men in the ordinary vocations of life. That is, she wasn't till she dropped the hose, and the nozzle pointed toward her. We never saw such a cliange come over a woman. She heaved a long sigh, like a person going in swimming, grabbed her skirts and went around a corner with a' soonness that was unaccountable, and we will bet she didn't have a dry stocking to her back. But the grass ! It was looking up pitifully begging for water. And as we went home and ran through the clothes-wringer a couple erf times we could not help thinking what a colossal failure a woman would be as a fireman.--Peck's Sun. much as he likes, but not lees thau a wineglassful every hour. In some of his cases this medicine lias exhibited the most remarkable Curative effects. It will purge, but as it is perfectly harm­ less this will not matter, and it does not uppear to be the cause of cure, the remedy acting specifically on the virus, the pustides collapsing, leaving no pits, and a perfect cure following in a short time. ALL kinds of burns, scalds, and sun­ burns are almost immediately relieved by the application of a solution of soda to the burnt surface. It must be re­ membered that dry soda will not do un­ less it is surrounded with a cloth moist enough to dissolve it. This* method of sprinkling it it on and covering it with a wet cloth is often the very l>est. But it is sufficient to wash the wound repeatedly with a strong solution. It would be well to keep a bottle of it always on liand, made so strong that more of less settles on the bottom. This is what is called a saturated solution, and really such a so­ lution as this is formed when the soda is sprinkled on and covered with a moistened cloth. It is thought by some that tlie pain of a barn is caused by tlie hardening of the albumen, and this re­ lieves the pressure. Others think that the burn generates an acrid aoid, which tbe soda neutralizes. SOME time since we made mention of an alleged new and important discovery in Cincinnati, it being a processs for fus­ ing and molding iridium, a metal whioh has hitherto been practically incapable of being formed into bars. The discov­ ery was said to have resulted from exper­ iments made by John Holland, a gold pen manufacturer, who has long used iridium for making "diamond points" on the pens. Since the first anuouueemeut little has t>een heard about the matter, but the scientists have been looking into it, and Prof. Dudley has delivered a lec­ ture liefore tho Ohio Mechanics' Insti­ tute in which he dwelt at length upon the subject. He said the discovery con­ sists of applying phosphorus when the ore is brought to a white heat and after­ ward eliminating the phosphorus by lime applied with great heat. The new metal has the appearance of steel, but is much harder, being next in hardness to ruby. It will not rust and cannot be injured by acids. Iridium cannot be fashioned by hammering while hot, nor can it be filed. It is molded into convenient forms and then sawed or ground by rapidly revolv­ ing copper disks treated with ewtery and water. Great interest has l>een aroused by tlie discovery, and already many uses for the metal have been suggested, be­ sides the electric lamp. It lins been • found to l>e superior to platinum in tele­ graph instruments. Professor Dudley gave an interesting history of experi­ ments by chemists and others with this metal, and said it waa now undergoing elaborate examinations at the Cincinnati university. If these further experiments Cve sucoessful the new discovery will e a great and important influence on many mechanic arts, juid go far toward perfecting tha electric light for populuT use.--Troy Time*. Wires Not to be Trusted. The old rule that a married woniau shall not run her husband or herself in- tias,'family"'ho^Cboa^inT-hon^s^nd ilnnr nvAiAm fen* tha nartAucavuiu <.( : _ » __ i i ° > True as SteeL A good deal of character is summed up in those three little words, True as steel. Yon hear it said of a man, He is as true as steel. You at once make up your mind that you would like to num­ ber that man on your list of friends. In an emergency you could depend upon him. You could trust him behind your back. He would never deceive and never fail you. It has seemed to be becoming less and less customary, of late years, for men in any of the relations of life to be as true as steel. Consequently divorces have been growing more and more com­ mon, until it became so that compara­ tively little was thought of any married couple getting divorced. Fiduciary relations of a pecuniary character have in many cases been con­ verted into mean* erf plucking those for whose benefit they were desmtiod. Guardians and trustees have waxed rich by plun lering the estates of their wards. Presidents, cashiers and Directors of banks have squandered the moneys of their depositors. Public officers have combined together to couvert their offi­ ces into dens of thieves. In the course of time things had be­ come so bad that men of character and men of means began to ask, in all seri­ ousness, Where is this going to end ? And they said something must be done to check it. The prosecution of great offenders of this class was mstituted. Conviction after conviction followed. It is really astonishing the number of men in some of the States, who were once considered liighlv respectable, who for breaeh of trust of one kind or another have been sentenced to State prison. It has come to pass, in consequence of all these things, that positions of trust are now looked upon as more seri­ ous than they were, and noHb be care­ lessly bestowed or lightly assumed. The value of a man who is true as steel is considered beyond computation. So old men of experience say ; so the young men say ; so women say ; so all the girls say. Young man, when you read this, stand before your looking-glass and ask if the youth you behold in that is as true as steel. If he is, he will sleep well, and wake strong and happy.--New York Ledger. Women In Boarding.Hemr: Differences in families united by mar­ riage are mostly on the side of the wo­ men. Woman fails in tact to preserve the amenities of the hearth. Tlie soft answer or the repression which evades an issue is more on the part of the man than the wife. Young women manage their lovers, but lose their skill to man­ age their husbands. Women make tlie cliques in congregations, church socie- to debt, except for the necessaries oi life, has been sharply re-enforccd by a decision iti one of the courts of Pennsyl­ vania. Mrs. Fiegel, wife of the proprie­ tor of "Woodbine Cottage," Philadel­ phia, l>ought of a haberdasher in that city'silks and jewelry to the value of a few hundred dollars--representing to the dealer that she had a separate in­ come of $1,000 a year. But the bill was not paid, though it appeared the hus­ band was abundantly able to pay. Suit was accordingly brought against the hnsband aud wife, but tlie Judge would not entertain tho suit on the ground that a husband was not liable for goods fur­ nished to his wife, without his express authority, unless tliey were necessaries, and that a married woman could not bind her own separate estate, except for necessaries, without her husband's con­ sent The husband very naturally ap­ pealed. wherever lovely womafn predominates. Lack of tact makes the traditional mother-in-law. Fathers-in-law have too much tact to be fussy aud irritating in matters that should be left alone. Men Hve harmoniously in clubs; women can not live in clubs without getting into hostile divisions. -* safe and smr REMEDY FOR Rlniinatisn, Rwralgia, Cramp, Cholera, Dianhm, ppwtoj, AND Scalds, Toothache AND ffeadaclu. FOE SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. • Holman's Pads. TKABS MAUC. Holman's Ague® Liver A Stomaoh Pad. for Malarhf,„ Ague and Stomach troubles. PRICE, $2.CO Holman's Special Pad. 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