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.•j^A'Ay-v ...... 'm^Mm irnA to atwaaMe taitetnflMd Ms 4mA I'*!*' I the platform bandbox • where'er It abapeies* IW1. . Or stove th« "Saratoga Mice the flimsiest egg- •bell. & iron-clad B, especially, befell fnH ruthlessly, d eke the trunk derisively called "Cottage by the H-a," ftnd puileri and hauled and rammed and Jammed •|! the same, vinci :tiTe!y, Ototil a yawning breach appeared, or fractures i « two or three, _ _ j straps were bust, or lids fell off, or auuM cat­ astrophe ̂ Unowned hfe Satanic seal, or moved hi« diaboli- - %,*, fed glee. > • . . i-, , "" *"• 'Ihe passengers surveyed the wreck with diverse discontent, I some vituperated htm, and some made Iond M.ikx. • -lament, **t wrath or Jjunentation on him were vainly •pent. fbhlmthoncaoM a shambling man, eaa-eyed At »li nnrt meek and thin, ' ,. ; Peartng an humlile carpet-hag, and scanty staff ' *'• therein. And unto that fierce baggage-man he spakst with quhrertng chin vBehold this scanty carpet-bag 1 T started a With a doaen^aratc^a trunks, hat -box, and port- . - ,* mantean, ]fot baggage-men along the lOute have brought rMyv'H me down so low. careful with this carpet-bag, kind air," said j'1' ^ he to him. .froe baggage-man received It with a smileex- t.reraely (nim, • ^•nd softly whispered, "Mother, may I go ont to 'swim?* |Ehen fiercely Jumped upon the bag in wild, sar­ donic spleen, • vV y|N lnt<> countless fragments flew,--to his prd- found chagrin.-- . •or that lank bag contained a pint of nitro-gly- ; s'i:. oerine. fhe stranger heaved a gentle sigh, and stroked his quivering chin, lincl then he winked with one sad eye, and said, *"'Z with smile serene, fjThe stuff to check a baggage-man is nitro-gly- \0y oerine." m-Gommercial Travellers' MagatimA .•~fV V Clock-Work. n.. . -- |«My! no!" said Mrs. Poysett, laugh- ||ag at the very idea: "we ain't afraid to ftav in the house one night 'thout men- folks. Be we, Lindy ?" "I guess not," said black-eyed Lindy, eerily, washing her hands as a pre- __ninary to putting the bread in the • «V 4>m«. -•> ••>1 ,̂* "Frank says, when John wrote him to come and stay over a day in Boston, pfoall be afraid, mother, with all Lin- 'W*8 presents in the house.' And he was i * feel put out at first because-I wouldn't • kave some of the neighbors 'eome in to ileep." ^ "Well, I don't blame you, ef yon feel's t.f" *-v4f you could sleep--on'y two women- folks," said the caller, sharp-featured *-r" .'^ftfiss Haines, with prominent elbows and emphatically clean calico. "It'ud *!*•: *"<&n'y amount to makin' up a bed for * iuthin'." "Yes," Mrs. Poysett went on, aceom- lyingthe slicing of apples for pies ith the regular swing of her rocking- 4hair, while she now and then placed a particularly thin and inviting piece of " Ihe fruit in her mouth, "that's what I thought.--Ten--'leven--Lindy, when ' ifon go into the other room I wish you would turn that clock round- It strikes fi ||ne too many." "ii*? "7esm>" sai<l brisk Linda; .and then, ? Jjirying to extricate the recipe for com- position cake from inevitable dreams •bout her wedding-day, she forgot the elock --and made an incident fortius ^Itory. "Your presents are handsome, Lin- f #y; there's no mistake about that," said the visitor, turning the conversation skillfully to the quarter towards which ^{Cib© town interest was just then tend- | "Yes," answered Linda, blushing a pttle. She had grown used to blushing iff late. "People have been Terr kind •ii'eiiD me." it;:: <* "No more"n you daaerve." said Miss flames, oracularly, and with an empha­ sis that left no room for denial. "Folks to ine, 'John Willey's been pretty 4tiddy to go out west and make a home, thencome l>ack 'n marry the girl he's 'Ifeen with ever since they was chil'en.' -But I say to 'em, 'No credit to him. No JBore'n he orter do. Lindy's pure gold, «ad he's got the sense to see it.'" And aha finiahed he* eulogy on the door- wtep. perhaps to avoid having the mat- tor d)^>^Ma, wlrile Lindy ^-ent back to cooking-table, lauguing, and still gratefully rosy over the sense that «raqfko(hrin getebeel was far too good her.: It was a <»se of the* smooth - ytauaing'OT 8^e^> Waters. She and John VV~:'$ bemmm _ rw^...i4dii . ^ 11 * aw Mt* such a ,tt MiiMKl lt« two would tmv«r h»T» don« talking it all over. Benrr, the nearest neighbor's boy, had abut up the barn long ago, tli* milk was strained, and the pails were washed. I've laid out a dozen o' them coarse crash towels for your dishes, Linda," said Mrs. ppy^ett. "Yes, I know you've got a lot o' new ones; but you can t have too many o' snoh things. There ain't any such tiling as bein' extravagant about keepin' your dishes clean and shiny. Your grandmother Poysett used she bmieved I'd like a clean Qm*- ___ TOWR^FMWTI* to aak his wjf. • a* SoathfleUt m>1m» "Where Inft habaen ?" "Ob, Mgnwiwre," airily and jauntily; "trawUn ,̂ aXtont 11M oonntoy. Might take up with work somewhere, inNound any worth doing," "Hard times," said Pete, looking moodily at the little red stove. "What's yon trade?" "I've been a sailor," said the man, filling his pipe--a process Pete watched greedily, for his own tobacco-box was empty. " Twenty years before the mast. I should have been a captain before this time--but there's jealousies. So I got sick of it. I call myself a lands­ man now." "You don't nave the look of a sailor," said Pete, his eyes traveling from the shabby fur cap and the dark face with rather narrow bold black eyes down over the shabby suit of brown. The man gave a slight start and glanced at him ke^uly. "You don't think so? Well, I've been on land some time now. Salt water's easy to shake off. What might your name be ?" "Haydon--Pete Haydon." "And mine's Job Whetttss. Queer name, ain't it? Don't believe there's another like it in the country. Good day, mate. If I'm round this way again 111 look in on you." And he did. One day, as Pete wms soldering a milk-pail for Mrs. Burge, this time whistling a little, having work to whis­ tle over, the man came in without warn­ ing of rup or voice. "Thought you's twenty-five milos away afore this," said Pete, plying his iron. "Take a seat." "Things don't please me much over that way," said the fellow, pompously, again beginning to cut his tobacco, per­ haps as a cover to his furtive glances. "1 may stay round here a spell. Jjpr- haps I'll do a bit of work on some­ body's farm." * "Can't get it," said Pete briefly, view­ ing his completed job with approval. "Ain't no farm-work to be had just now." "Well, doing chores, I me in--light work. I'm not particular how little I do for my board," with a coarse laugh. "Folks do their own work round here," said Pete. "Some of 'em have got money enough to pay, but they are able-bodied, as it happens, and don't want a hired man round in the winter." "Seems a pity--don't it ?--that things can't be equally divided, so that you and I could have our share," said the stranger, puffing industriously at his pipe, but not forgetting to watch the tinker. "I should like to help myself to somel>ody's pile; now, shouldn't you?" Honestly enough, of course, man. You needn't jump. I mean, sup­ pose the young fellow that owns the big farm over there--Poysett?--should say, 'Whettles, take half my bank- stock. I don't need it at alldo yon think I should say 'no'?" Of course the tinker laughed at the fanciful notion. He was a sunny-tem­ pered fellow; it hardly needed a very bright thing to provoke his mirth. Where Whettles stayed at night was Sometimes Pete suspeeted door on his hauds and kneea. There m 4 lmrn biturnfi | «*«*» the old desk, with its high spin Tnf: 0itea he dle ^ half of it an exaggerated guessed Toppan,the saloon-keeper, .hadow and half thrown into light by a rm ^^ sbaft from the moon- Probablv the tnmes th*t lingered about his shabby j k M in the lock. He had seen it . J?* k 0n^L.aL rfV0r ! J ^re h^elf a dozen times,-had seen V? * I Frank bring in a large roll of bills after 23Tf £ T T ** h» oxen, toss them in there and R T; ¥ 'iid ? P** the cover without turning the wJSJ ffc f? a^re.°f " k*-T There had been no robberies in WrR ™ If t Beiburn, and so people trusted more in human nature ^nd less in steel and persistently than did any more respect- to say i towel to every oup, Lindy, how glad I am that you ain't, got to live with a. mother-in-law!" A husky sigh of relief was here Mrs. Poysett's tribute to the memory of the woman who had made the first ten years of her own married life a discipline. "To think John uid Frank will be here to-morrow night at seven," said Linda dreamily. "We'll have qoince for supper, wont we,mother?" "Yes; and I guess we'd better be abed jnst as early as we can get there. You be fastenin' up, and 111 wind the clock." Mrs. Poysett did that in the dark, for Linda had taken the lamp into the kitchen. "Eight! Well, I deelare!" said the good lady as the clock struck after she had groped her way up stairs. "And it's right, too; for Lindy put it round this mornin'. Seems to me it took you a good while," she Went on, as Lin­ da came in with the lamp. "I don't b'lieve but what you went through some extra fastenin'-up, now we're alone." "Not a bit, mother," said Linda, with a smile cut short by a yawn. "I stop­ ped to put the cat out." "I always think of what your father said," mused the old lady. "It was af­ ter the Hampstead murder. We never'd had our doors fastened in the world till then; and as soon as the news of that come, everybody was scared to death, and your father put a button on the back door. And the first night he turn­ ed it, he laid a-wMle thinkin', and then says he, 'If there's only a wooden but­ ton between me and death, I guesa I'll trust in the Lord and not in the button.' So he went down stairs and turned it back again. What a lot of hair you have got, Lindy, and how quick you braid it!" When pete crept up to the house at ten, the women had been soundly asleep for two hours. He tried the kitchen window; it had no fastening, and went up noiselessly. He stepped in and stood trembling. The clock in the next room ticked with appalling loudness. His knees smote together, but it requir­ ed as much courage now to flee as to re­ main. Perhaps for ten minutes--per­ haps hours, judging by his own exagger­ ated reckoning--he stood in fear; and then, as the clock ticked on steadily as if it had no reference to him, his heart­ beats grew fainter and his courage crawled back. He crept towarct the sitting-room door on his hauds and knees. refUM tosluuvl gngfrlir Tnitrniili a dltt.'SlliS-' niher unustial that it so late, but he had fcappen before. He had money enough for a dram, aad then tried the door; it Vfifev had been prosiacally faithful to «tbcr far years before he asked pWMuiuo to marry him. Eighteen jbonths ago he had gone west to set up ;',;|n buamesg as a carriage-builder, and .:tL.16pw, having prospered, wau coming * ^ i«a*t for his wife. Within two days' . Jpuruey of home he had written to aek Frank, Lindy's brother, to meet him in « jBoston for a day's sight-seeing and an ' •' evening at the theatre. Perhaps you say that the ideal Jiover should !,{ Iiave hastened to his lady on the wings ©f the wind or with all the power of Steam; but Linda thought differently, v "It wap just like him--wasn't it, '/inother?"--she said that very morning, rafter Miss Haines had gone, "to think v* •* '.-Frank would be the better for a change. I'd rather have him go to Boston for a jt . fojgood time than see John one day sooner. ~;JLnd I'm sure nobody could speak t^^stronger than that, could they,mother ?" "I don't know what I Bhall do with-•out you, Lindy," said the mother, rather ^^irrelevantly, putting down the knife to .*<•' '• i wipe away a furtive tear with her apron ',!» »'"I'm sure I don't know." -fj-. Linda was at her side in an instant. ^ with a tear of her own, and the two ^>r,woman kissed, laughed, and went on '^,/',;.(.with their work, as they had done .^lmndred times within the last fortnight r •'^or Mrs. Poysett had the equable tern as. v^perament that sometimes accompanies •; 4. ;J:;*rotundity of form and a double chin. ^ aad Linda, besides being sensible, could 3*r . not keep miserable very long at a time * Thus you preceive that circumstances . _ "were rendering it as easy as possible for ^ ' , them to weather the gale of coming sep- ^^.'"•ration. . f ay 1, Meanwhile, everybody in the township was not rotund and possessed of double « > chins, not all the houses were keepers of new and shinning wedding-gifts, and, Grange to say, not everybody was happy, Pete Haydon, who lived down in Tan 1 ** * Lane, was poor and savagely discour- , -Med. He made shoes ordinarily, but iTOat winter there was no shoes to be had His was a fine and "practised hand; he ^DOld do all sorts of jobs, from cleaning » watch to building a chimney, but no •f* bbdj saw fit to have making or mend fug done. There had been only four or 32.'m >. pieces of work since fall for Tinker for none of which could he in ience ask more than 50 cents. His sick, the children's clothes , ;ii ,W*e» too shabby for school, and just then some one tapped him on the arm aad tempted him. 4 -# t tm> " mi mrfi'mW 'ili'n"," *• able person. And Whettles was a sociable fellow; he could tell more stories in half an hour than any six of the honest people Pete knew taken to­ gether. He was, so Pete concluded, nobody's enemy but his own. It would take more time than you are willing to give and a deeper knowledge of mental intricacies than 1 possess, to detail the process through which Pete was brought to the point of promising to creep into the Poysett farm-house and rifle the old desk that stood between the sitting-room windows. The grocer's bill was growing longer, his wife paler, and she worried him by entreaties to let Whettles alone and forsake Toppan's: the aggregate of such straws is Hot small. The opportunity eame, fitting the mood as exactly as though the mood had madeit. Frank Poysett was going to Boston to meet John Willey; the ^women-folks" would be alone. "You take Poysett's." said Whettles; you know the lay of the land there; and the same night I'll try Turner's, over on the hill. Well meet •me- where about one, down there under the big elm, and divide. After that I'll make tracks across lots and take a train for somewhere, nobody'11 think of you." Tinker Pete was equally sure of no­ body's suspecting him. He had always been bonest--this he'thought with a pang--and, being a simple-minded sort of a fellow, he never calculated the effect in other people's eyes of having been seen with Whettles. "But s'pose my courage gives out?" he said, uncertainly. "I don't know's I can do it, after all. It's easy enough to get in, but suppose somebody should see me? It might end in what's worse." "Man alive!" said Whettles, im­ patiently. "Afraid at your time of life? Well, here's what I'll do. They go to bed early; you can have it over by-mid­ night. Ill come back that way, and if you're there and afraid to stir, I'll go in and do- it myself. But mind, I don't expect you're going to back out. If I have to do all the work I get all the pay" \ "Oh, I mean to do it fast enough," said Pete, doggedly. "Things can't be much worse off than they are now." "And if I ain't there by twelve youll know somethin's happened and I can't come; so you'll have to go on your own hook. But be sure you're at the big tree by one." Whettles, like many another skilful tactician, did not tell his catspaw all his plans. He had no intention of doing what might be done for him. It was only politic to assure Pete of helping him out should his courage fail, for fear, nnder too great dread, that he might break away from the plan alto­ gether. Whettles, who had as little right to this name as to many another article he had possessed at various times, was as truly an arrogant coward as a villain. All his ill deeds, and they were numerous, had been done, as far as he could manage it, at the expense of somebody else. If the robbery at Turner's seemed feasible without too much danger, he could keep his word if not, there was et hand the excuse of having been wHtched or prevented, atid Pete could be coaxed or threatened into sharing what spoil he had from the Poysetts'. That night Mrs. Pojsett and Lind# • saloon, __ room. S should be known it to jost about rfo tapped, aad was unfastened, and he went la lightly. A man in a great-ooat rose from his seat by the stove and swiftly, dexterously pinioned him. Toppan himself, always on the winning side, was there ready to help, and Whettles was arrested for his last crime. Mrs. Poysett and Linda were afoot early the next morning, parting the house in holiday trim. "I declare if 'taint an hour earlier 'n I thought,* said Mrs. Poysett as she came down into the sitting-room, where the little air-tight was already doing its ar­ dent best. "Lindy, you didn't strike that clock 'round yesterday after all." "No, mother; I forgot it," laughed Linda. "I should forget my head, now­ adays, if 'twasn't fastened on." "Ill tell you what it is," said the mother, beginning to spread the break- fast-table, "I'm just about out o' patience with that clock, strikin' the lours away afore they get here. It seems malicious, tryin' to hurry you off. Now, perhaps its only half a day's job or so; let's send for Tinker Pete and have him come up and fix it." So the chore-boy was despatched for Pete. He came like a culprit, uncer­ tain whether the message was feigned to cover suspicion of him or not. But no one could look into Mrs. Poysett's clear eyes for a moment, or hear Linda's laugh, with even a lingering fear that either had anything to conceal. When they described the clock's malady, I am inclined to think Pete was as near being faint with surprise as ever a man was in his life, and I think he touched the worn old clock-case reverently, thank­ ing it for keeping his deeds honest, however he had sinned in thought. He stayed for dinner and Mrs. Poysett put up a pail of goodies for the children. On his way home he heard the news: Whettles had been arrested and taken away on an early train. Again he walked in fear and trembling; his hair grew used to standing on its end in those days. He expected an interview with Nemesis concerning his intended crime, but, whether justly or unjustly. Nemesis stayed away. The wedding? It was a very quiet one, and the happy pair went away next morning, followed by blessings and old shoes. Frank had had such an extrava­ gantly good time in Boston that he felt he could only counterbalance it by plunging into work deeper than ever. So he began cutting the timber in the old wood-lot, and hired Tinker Pete to chop there evfery day till spring.--Lip- pincotfe Magazine. , ; ? Since yed at id7' 1 tae snow ground Mid wood. But the sitting-room was so liglii! He should never dare to go in there; the very thought of having his shadow thrown on the wall, distorted like those of the tables and chairs, gave him another sickening spasm of fear. What if there were only women in the house ? Suppose one appeared ? where should he hide himself? He was not a thief by,/ training or nature. He would crouch clown iu a corner and wait for Whettles. He had been there ages, when the clock gave warning; ages longer, and with an alarming pre­ liminary whir it struck twelve. He started up with an after-impulse of gratitude that he had not shrieked. When had the hour before struck ? It seemed incredible that he could have slept, but it must have been so, or, what was more probable, he had been too absorbed to hear it. It was time for Whettles. He crept back to the kitchen window and waited in the cold draught of air. Minutes passed, each seeming ten. He began to grow angry. Did the fellow mean to play him false and not come at all? As anger rose, courage to do the deed ebbed. I do not believe conscience asserted itself very strongly. Life was harder than it had been even one day before, and there was no flour in the house now. He was still bitterly at odds with life, but the after-effects of the whisky Whettles had given liim were nervous­ ness and irresolution. The clock gave warning for another hour. False, friendly old clock, if he could have seen your face he would have known it lacked ten minutes of midnight then: instead, he believed it would strike one. Too late for Whettles. Perhaps he was now at the old elm; he would hurry there and bring him back to do his share of the work. He closed the window behind him and hurried off to the rendezvous. There was no one there At that moment the relief of having been prevented from sin over balanced every other feeling, Some­ thing must have happenen to Whettles; perhaps he had been caught; perhaps he would say that his accomplice was waiting for him under the elm! He start­ ed on a swift run for home, to find his wife watching for him in the moonlight She was too thankful at finding him sober to worry at the lateness of his coming. Being a woman of tact, she did not question, but went to sleep while Pete lay till daybreak in a cold bath of fear, expecting a rap and sum mons to jail at every tapping of bough or snapping of frost-bitten nail. Whettles had lingered about Turner's a great house over the hill, in the hope that the guests--fo? there was a party that night--would take their leave. But no; the house was lighted from cham hers to parior, and sleighs came instead of going away. He walked up and down in the orchard, cursing himself to keep warm. Later and later, and the sing ing and dancing of shadows on the cur tains did not cease. He would hurry over to the Poysetts' and see if the cats paw had done his work there. He stole up to the designated window, as Pete had done. No one was there. He list ened, and whistled softly. The clock struck one. He had no idea it was so late. Pete must be waiting for him at the elm. And so he too hurried away, But there was only a mammoth lace- work of shadow under the elm. Where ' Camping Ont. " Provide an abundance of bedding; buffalo robes and comforters, and a plenty of blankets, are usually suffi­ cient, though some may need ticks tilled with straw. In starting out foi camp, do not take too many things. One of the useful lessons of camp life is to show how little one can get along with. The most important part of the outfit is an abundant supply of good nature; a disposition to make the best of everything, to overcome difficulties, and be always cheerful. A grumbler is an unpleasant companion anywhere, but in camp he is a nuisance. In warm weather, the camp-tire should be at a good distance from the sleeping tents, and precautions taken that no spread­ ing of the fire can occur. It is well to leave nearly all of the crockery at home, and provide a supply of tin plates, tin cups, and cheap knives and forks. Prepare in advance sufficient food to serve for the first two or three days, and then be governed by circum­ stances. If the locality furnishes fish or game, the procuring of these will afford sport for the men and boys, but it is not safe to depend upon these, and there should be in reserve a ham, a supply of the standard camp-food, salt pork, which, with an abundance of po­ tatoes, hard-tack, dried apples, and cof­ fee, will keep the table well furnished. Have meals at stated hours, let each one in his or her way help in preparing them, and--what is still more import­ ant--help in clearing away aud washing dishes. Keep the surroundings of the camp in good order. Have a pit in r, convenient place for scraps and Blops, and provide other conveniences m » sheltered place at a proper distance. If guns are taken into camp, let it bo the business of some one to provide n proper place for them beyond the reach of children, and where no accident can occur. See that the guns are always there when not in use. Reduce the work to the smallest possible amount, so that the greater part of the day may be spent in rest--in "leisure," in the best meaning of the term. Be sure and provide an abundance of reading mat­ ter. Any hard-worked family will re­ turn from a fortnight's vacation, or a longer one, of this kind, better fitted to take up the home routine, and perhaps be more appreciative of home comforts. --American Agriculturist. In a Persian City. Besht contains over tea thousand in­ habitants, and is important as being the principal Persian city on the Caspian, says a correspondent. It is noted for its tobacco, which is very delicate and mild, and for a sort of embroidery on broadcloth called Eesht work, which i sometimes seen in America in the shapf of table-covers and sofa-cushions. The city is very unhealthy, owing to malarin from the low grounds and the stagnant pools of water which cover the numer­ ous rice-fields. The streets are narrow and winding; the houses low and built for the most part of mud and sun-dried brick, and thatched with mud and straw Some of the summer places in the neighborhood are very pleasantly sur­ rounded by rose gardens, and have fine avenues of shade trees. In a visit to one of these in company with a Persian of high rank, we were both amused and disgusted at the absolute control he had, not only over his servants, but over all inferiors as well. As we came to a' party of bovs bathing in a small river the humor seized him to make one of his servants bathe, and, not content with this, he made other servants throw several of their fellows into the water with their clothes on, and was quite de­ lighted at the sorry plight they were in as they came ashore. He had the boys, who came up begging for a "shia's," thrown heels over head from a high bank into the water. One little fellow was seriously hurt. The gentleman thought, when his fun was over, that he had settled all scores by tossing » - W la a New York Saloon. There is nothing cheap here, and few kings have taken their toddy in better quarters. You walk up brownstone steps under blazing lights iuto a room as bright and beautiful as any in New York. If at night, the blaze of light dazzles you, and you might think you had stumbled into a palace. A knight in plated armor stands before you, bronzes and statues look at you from different parts of the room. The most elegant paintings hang surrounded by rich velvet upon the wall, and great mirrors of heavily-plated glass reflect the many-colored lights of the cut-glass chandeliers. Everything is elegant here. There is no shoddy and no ve­ neering. The room is paneled with carved mahogany, and the tables scat­ tered here and there over the Mosaic floor are of the same polished wood. If yon take a chair, it is of' the bent wood of Austria, and if you call for a drink yon Will be served in a cut-glass goblet, and your ohange will be handed you by a gentlemanly waiter on a silver plot­ ter. A silver cuspidore. shining as i - f • T * y Z '* M ttgr a a j Ooferado I have pa the last day of ladies scrape away, flowers from the the saow, and I have M«a red-ripe strawberries picked from green bushes alter kicking off a foot of snow irom them. This at Alpine pass. I have seen men on horseback along the railroad tracks, where we have men afoot, as track-walkers, have seen these horsemen draw out a red flag and ride back at dare-devil gallop over the ties to flag a train. I have seen the ticket agent at Mar­ shal's Pass, 10,725 feet altitude, sitting by & roaring fire in his office on July 30, while outside the ladies of our excur­ sion were gathering wild flowers and berries, thermometer 4A degrees in the shade. I have seen the adobe houses of the Mexicans at Pueblo, wherein was more dirt and filth than ever dreamed of by an English family; wherein men, wo­ men, girls and visitors alike slept under straw on a clay floor, in a room which was alike kitchen, parlor, and bedroom. I hare seen Mexican girls with castinets dancing a fandango, wearing nothing but a few sunflowers in their long, black hair, unabashed in the prensence of a hundred on-lookers. I have seen in the streets of twenty saloons towns open gambling hells, with a sign above the door, "Cards and Rum." I have seen on the streets of Denver splendid houses, the occupation of whose female inmates was only too friainly indicated by a transparency gas amp suspended in the vestibule. I have seen mountains of rock»thous- ands of feet high, with the stones ar­ ranged layer upon layer as if built by a mason, as regularly and carefully laid, and I have seen standing in the middle of a plain a flat stono, on its edge 330 feet to its top. And I have seen in the Royal gorge a mountain over 2,000 feet high,' all seeming one solid stone, without a crack or crevice--actually one big solid rock. I have seen, and have in my sachel, specimens of ooal brought from the same mountain, one from an anthracite vein proving up 80 per cunt, carbon, and another of bituminous coal from a vein eight feet thick, and from a tested field of 3,500 acres owned by one man. I have seen a girl dashing over the plains on horseback dismount to pick a bouquet for her hat, and, calling her Newfoundland dog, step on his back, and remount. I hare seen an open Bible lying on an elegantly carved oak altar at the en­ trance of a rum-shop and gambling den at Lcadville, and above the Bible a sign Sainted, saying: "Please, Kind Friends, •on't Swear." Think of such an appeal made in such a way by the keeper of a drinking den! I have ridden in a palace-car on a Rio Grande railroad, the name of which, painted on its sides in gilt letters, was "The Blood of Jesus," followed by an­ other car named "Heart of the Savior." I have traveled nearly two thousand miles over the territory west of the Mis­ souri river, in a land which my mind had peopled with Indians, and have not seen a single Indian on the whole trip not one--except two filthy squaws on the station platform at Cheyenne.-- Mommgahela Republican. How to Sleep Weft. Tlie question of chief importance to most people in these overwrought wake­ ful days and nights is how to get good sleep enough. Dr. Corning drops a few simple hints which may be of value. In the first place people should have a regular time for going to sleep, and it Bhould be as soon as can well be after sunset. People who sleep at any ttme, according to convenience, get less bene­ fit from their sleep than others; getting sleep becomes more difficult; there is a tendency to nervous excitability and de­ rangement; the repair of the system does not equal the waste. The more finely organized people are, the greater the difficulty and the danger from this cause. The first thing in order to sleep well is to go to bed at a regular hour, and make it as early as possible. The aext thing is to exclude all worry and exciting subjects of thought from the mind some time before retiring. The body and mind must be let down from the high-pressure strain before going to bed, so that nature can assert her rightful supremacy afterward. Another point is, never thwart the drowsy im­ pulse when it comes at the regular time by special efforts to keep awake, for this drowsiness is the advance guard of healthy, restorative sleep. Sleep is a boon which must not be tampered with and put off, for if compelled to wait, it is never so perfect and restful as if taken in its own natural time and way. The right side is best to sleep on, ex­ cept in special cases of disease, and the position should benearly hori­ zontal. Finally, the evening meal should be composed of food most easily digested and assimilated, so that the stomach will have little hard work to do. A heavy, rich dinner taken in the evening is one of the things that murder sleep. Late suppers, with exciting foods and stimulating drinks, make really restora­ tive sleep next to impossible. Narcotics are to be avoided, save as used in cases of disease by competent physicians. The proper time, according to Dr. Corning," to treat sleeplessness, is in the daytime, and it must be treated in a wise and temperate method of living rather than by medicines. This is good common sense, says the New York Star, from which paper we copy, and doubtless a vast deal of debility, ner­ vous derangement, and the insanity of our time would be prevented by more good, restful, natural sleep.--Michigan Farmer. table. -- Cleveland L«td*r. Cape Cod Juries. The fallowing is from an artiole on "Cape Cod" in the Century : "Three or four years ago, a ease was tried at Barnstable, in which a lawyer from a distance was concerned. Talking over the prospects of a verdict, he said that with a rural jury, who knew nothing of the world beyond their own door-yards, of course he could not expect a verv in­ telligent consideration of the case. Some one took pains to inquire who the jury­ men were, and it turned out that eleven of the twelve had been either all over the world, or pretty nearly all over their own country, as masters of vessels, or in some business of responsibility and that the twelfth was a substantial farmer. "In view of such juries as these, it seems almost a pity that the people of Cape Cod do not show a litigious spirit and improve their opportunity. In fact the courts have hardly business enough for exercise. Although there is wealth there, the little county having a valua­ tion of $16,000,000, and although there is a boundless field to: disputes in cftaims under the cranberry-flowage statutes,, and in fishing and in beach privileges, there is in fact no litigation of any account. There are well-to-do populous villages on the Cape which probably have not furnished a law suit for twenty years. The population of the county is 30,000, and there are only five practical lawyers. Perhaps a gen­ eral familiarity with the world has had its influence in imparting a certain good- humored tact in settling controversies. A characteristic story is told ot a jury case at Barnstable. A man was tried for a violent assault. In argument, his counsel, who was from an inland coun­ ty, alluded to tlit. fact that the injured person had not called a doctor to wounds which he had described as seri­ ous, and based the defense very largely upon this. He saw no possible answer to his argument. But he did not know his ground. Judge Marston, the dis­ trict attorney, afterward Attorney Gen­ eral of the State, was born and bred upon Cape Cod of a family of Barnsta­ ble lawyers, and he had his ready an­ swer 'Gentlemen,' he said, 'you have heard the plausible argument of my ingenious young legal friend, who has come from a distoot city to enlighten your benighted understandings, and you see through his sophistry. You ftU kpow Captain , the father of the victim oi this assault; you know what our young friend, with all his learning, has plainly never discovered, that a man is not master of a ship for thirty years without learning how to deal with wounds, and you know well that there is no doctor on Cape Cod who can heal cuts and bruises better than the Cap­ tain can. Why should he have sent for a doetor?'" The Wisdom That Comes Only With Years. It is a singular analogy which is offer­ ed with the life of human flowers by the growth of those of a frailer and more perishable sort. Fair and sweet and delicate are youth and maidenhood as the strawbell and anemone and twin linnteas; rich and beautiful are the early years of life as roses and carnations are; but in the riper, maturer life is strength for1 vital work that needs must exhaust the earth, so soon is it to be followed by mild decay. Our statesmen do their great work in this season; our poets try their wings in May and June, but their larger flight is now; our novelists write from intuition only till the ripeness of experience comes; our young lawyers may have talent and acumen, but they have not the power that is theirs later with rounded intellect and completer knowledge of life; our young physicians may be fresh from walking famous hos­ pitals abroad, but they have not the habits and memories of twenty years by night and day at the side of sick beds to make their wisdom seem like genius; our young preachers may tickle the fan­ cy with their airy eloquence and gift of words, but they will not touch the heart as they do when they have tasted at all the springs of sorrow and sympathy the draught that added years, and they alone, shall proffer them. It has need­ ed what is equivalent to the fervent and accumulated heats which belong to that middle of life as of the year, to call out the full force of - what is in them, and the flame burns then with all its might, for presently it must fall in ashes, pres­ ently the beats will all be gone; no more will the vital efflux of the receding sun send its impulse through the roots of life, no more will soul or flower ex­ pand to the rich light of day, but the autumn damps and thechill of the grave will rise round them.--Harper'9 Btuar. "Mind Your Business." An anecdote is told of a elockmaker who, being employed to construct anew clock for the Temple, London, was de­ sirous of a suitable motto to be placed under the clock. One day he applied to the benchers at the Temple for the motto while they were at dinner, and one of them,annoyed at the unseasonable inter­ ruption, testily replied, "Go about your business." Understanding this to be the selected motto,the clockmaker inscribed it under the clock, where it still remains to admonish all to attend to business. The Cotinental cent, usually known as the Franklin cent because its legend was proposed by him, gives the same ad­ vice in the words: "Mind you business." This is frequently misquoted and cor­ rupted to "Mind your own business," which, instead of a counsel to diligence, is a rebuke to meddling. Franklin's advice was an* admonition to perform duty and to care for the concerns which make like successful. It contains the very kernel of all business wisdom. A liomely adage is that "It is better to drive your business than let your busi­ ness drive you;" better to be a master and manager of your own business than to be its slave and victim. This is the essence of the Franklin cent motto, and, whether acknowledged in so many words or not, it is the actuating prin­ ciple and the underlying cause of all business management and business suc­ cess. . Evenings at Home. We visited once in a large _ family where it was the duty of each sister in turn to provide the evening's occupa­ tion, and there was a pleasant rivalry between them as to whose evening should be the most enjoyable. The brothers entered fully into the spirit of the simple home entertainments, and were as loth to be obliged to spend an evening away from home as their sisters and parents were to have them absent. Every one spoke of this family as an uncommonly united one, for each and every member showed snoh a strong attachment for the home to which each one contributed ao lauoh pleasure*-- #1 if % OAixnrot Avmnmni stonaisa bur. A BATCHKtoa compares a aliM lm| ton toUfe, b0osau»attoooA |̂tfî isl)j a thread.- . ,v. "No," LAID a &ropist, "I care swindle; I only sued tba wMi asaa act of charity. There are lawyers in the United States, aadaotWork enough for hall of them--Philadelphia News. ® OUR esteemed local contemporary, the Timeft, had an editorial yesterday morning headed. "What Can We Bave to Drink?" yrtm you are diililiiiig with us, brother, you can have just what you call for, if tha apothecary has it in stock.--Lowell CUieen, A BBIDBOBOOM'S caution; The Rev. Samuel Earnahaw, of Sheffield, says that he was once m arrying ̂ a ooople when he said to the man: "Say after me, 'With my body I thee worship.'" The man innocently asked: "3Hst I kneel down to her"?--London Echo. "Do YOU always kiss him and sajr 'good-bye,'every morning, as he leaves the house ?" asked a lady of a wife who had just parted from her husband at the street door. "Yes, every morning; I may never again see him alive, and ii that should be il«e case, 1 wish to retain remembrance of a pleasant partinJK,M the wife replied. "WELL," remarked a woman in a New England village, talking to her sum­ mer boarders about a neighbor, "she's the greatest natural liar I ever saw, and I've often thought if she'd only bad a first-class education in her youth what an author she'd a-made before us.--JBos­ ton Transcript. IN a crowd--"Who's that man ?" "Oh, it is one of the most prominent Irish- Americans." " Who is that other man ?n "He is a distinguished German-Ameri­ can." "And that one?" "A well-known French-American." "And that one over there with a bundle under his arm ?" "Oh, he is nobody--nothing bat an American-American. LAWYER--"Do you not consider Mr. Biggs, my client, a man of truth and veracity?" Witness hesitated. Law­ yer--"Well, I put my question in an­ other form. Do you think he has a mind which can not distinguish truth from falsehood?" Witness (eagerly)-- "Oh, no, sir. I'm sure he can." Lawyer --"Your sure of it--and why are you sure of it?" Witness--"I know'he eaj distinguish between Che twdT It isn't possible that he would always - happen fo lie. If he didn't know the difference, he would tell the truth by mistake once in a white." Lawyer--"ThatH do, sir; you may stand down." "Now, JOHNNY you've been in the hot sun again." "No, I haven't, either." "Why, I saw you right in the hot sun." "No, you didn't see me in no hot sun." "Do you think I'd lie?" "I don't know what you'd call it, but you didnt see me in the sun." "Why, Johnny, will you presist in contradicting me ? I saw you sitting on the curbstone, right in the broiling hot sun. Poor child! Maybe the sun has affected your mind! Now, wasn't you in the sun?" Maybe it's done that with your mind, fur now could I git in the sun ? Do you know how far the sun is from here?" Then !rt| his mother slipped off one of her slip- pers, and Johnny slipped out of the side jdoaKf--iKentucky Journal. „ , V-- '» f •" YET ANOTHKB. ~i ' ' <'< 1 « €»tyap»irofbrewhes, " v4. Only a n«Red coat. M " -* . ;f,.;.v.v Only some little trinkets,ii *: 1 Only a home-made boat, " v Only a mangled baae-ball " Placed In a drawer wiUi oaM* • <„ Only beside It some marbles; fj A pocket-knife, too, was there. ' Only an empty trandle-bed, • ;v; . k . ; _ Only a young Toloe gone, r s • > ' , » s Only a mother s bitter tears, " , - 4 Only a heart forlorn. -n* ' Only a slender figure s-..> Laid away in the family lot. - Only a little toy pistol ̂ Thatbuated when it was ahot. K O. PieayuneX WHKBE THE WASP RAZUN. • A wasp went madly to his worktf And various thintrc did tackle, itt vliHestnngaboy,aadtheaadofc' . : . And made a rooster caolde. • He settled on a drummer's oheek And labored with a will; He prodded there for half an tear. And then he broke his drilL --30tUdo Blade. ; . •, • Didn't tiet the CMckea. A : California hen, while engaged her brood of chickens in plowing up a neighbor's garden, was charged upon by a full-grown rat. The old representa­ tive of the "poultry show" immediately established herself as a cordon around her flock and awaited the onslaught. The rodent, somewhat checked by the bold front presented by the "garden de­ stroyer," crouched for a moment, and then made a dart for one of the chick­ ens. In an instant the old hen opened her cackle battery and commenced bat­ tle. She flew at her enemy, and strik­ ing it with her bill, grabbed it by the back and threw it in the air. The ro­ dent came dowh with a thump on. the walk, but before it could regain its feet the hen repeated the performance, and kept it up until the rat was only able to crawl away a few feet and die in dis­ grace. After contemplating her fallen foe for a few moments the old hen called her brood around her and walked off. H)nlj a Peplar." It wont do to be exclusive in taste about trees. There is hardly i of them which has not peculiar beauties in some fitting place. I repiember a tall poplar of moeueaamtal propbrtiona and aspect, avast pillar ef glossy green, placed on the snmaait el a lofty hul and a beacon to all the eaantry around. A native of that regim saw fit to build hie house v«*y near it, aad, having a faacy that it aaight blow down some time and exterminate himself and any incidental relatives who might be "stopping" or "tarrying" with hns--also lalxn-ing un­ der the delusion that human life is un­ der all dircumstaaees to be preferred to vegetable «xistenoe--had the grsafc poplar cut down. It is so easy to qqy: "It is only a poplar!" and so nrqrfl harder to replace its living cone thaa la build a gigantic obelisk! Haunted Bjr His Record. - A young man from Boston was. sent to the House of Correction by the courts of Suffolk county in 1879 for three years. He got oat and hunted for employment. He obtained a situa­ tion where he hoped to work until ha found occupation at his trade, but one day a detective saw him and told tha employer what the young man's history was. No fault had been found with him. Probably none would have been. He WAS at once discharged and is now idle from necessity. His wife works (or a pittance. MA Y patients at our beat reefeiv gruel treatment. VAULTING ambition--The lha beak-burglar. •>?:'* . * - 4 ^ y .•* * I •s - * ; .*1 , U* i