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SPPFL iff ^Uhrtralft J. VAN SLYME. Mtor M4 fubltsher. MOHENRY, •J^SSSBSSSSBSS ILLINOIS f TUB DEFENDER. fmwnc and laid Her hand upon her shoulder, A«dKROWcame, her lids with fait tears wet; And pain, with features marred and white and %A her Ride: and then, otern-visaged. »K:-' W| • > i ' fiff „ t*ntnK her shaken son!, unpitylnz want £ tared in her face; and then crowing bolder By all thwc ilia, tempution, pmilimr. fair, |Ipnwd tor her weiry feet a charmed snare, With tender, crul hand. So cold the world! Ail her weak sonl in a strance tempest whiiled; Sith whitened lips and sad, imploring breath, le stretches out her helpless hand to death. Then lo! one cime, before whose radiant {trace Sorrow *rew dumb and prim care hid hts face. Before whose pre-* nee, radiant as the day; temptation, vexed and beat en, fled away, For whose dear sake she tremb.ed at the thought W: death, whost palli l kiss she fain had sought, ith a stransc rapture, holy, restful, sweet, .Against her own she felt a true heart beat. Oh life, she cried, no ill of thine can hold me. Since 1 ve, the mighty, in bis arms doth fold me. -jm*CarloUa Perry, in Vanity Fair. » ••OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY'S,* , ^Hasn't it pleasant, O.brother mine. In those oid days of tl;e lost sunshine - Of youth--when the Saturday's chorto Were through, £d the "Sunday's wood" in the kitchc$$Mt d we went visiting, "I and yon, ? i, Out to old Aunt Mary's?" It all comes back so clearto-day! Thoogh I am aa bald as you are any-- , Oat by the barn lot »nd down the lane • Wep atter alon^ in the dnst again. Ail light M th*> tips of the drops of the rain. Out to old Aunt Mary's. We cross the pasture, and through the wood Where the old gray sn ig of the poplar stood, Where the hammering red heads hopped away. And the buzzard raised in the open sky Ana lolled and circled as he went by Out to old Aunt Mary's. td then in the dnst of the road again; d the teams we met and the countrymen: d the long highway with the sunshine spread thick as butter on country bread, d our cares behind : nd our hearts ahead, , J Out to old Aunt M iry's. her now in the open door here th; little gourds grew up the sides and o'er clapboard root And her faine--oh, me! asn't it good for a boy to seeV " wasn't it good for a boy to b9 Out to old Aunt .Wary'*? And oh, my brother, so far away, Thi-> is to tell you she waits to-day ~fo welcome us. Aunt Mary fell sleep this morning, whispering, "Tell >boys to come!" And all is well Out to old Aunt Mary'a i**Jameg W Intconib Riley. tw, Whei THE TROLL-WOMAN'S 6IFTS. One time there was a poor woman, rho, with lier son, used to go around legging, and who had neither a crumb 4>f food nor a stick oi fuel at home. At first she went about through the neigh­ borhood and then she came to the city. After she had for awhile gone from fcouse to house there she came to the residence of the burgomaster, a fine, good-hearted man, one of the best in the city* He was married to a daught­ er of the richest merchant there. As they had no other children but one daughter this little girl was the pet and djuiing, and there was nothing too good for her. When this poor boy came there with his mother, the little girl immediately became acquainted with him, and when the burgomaster saw that they were good friends so soon he took the boy that she might have him lor a playmate. Well, they played to­ gether, and busied themselves together, Mid read and went to school together, and were always good friends and never disagreed. One day when the burgomaster's wife Sas standing by the window watching ie children as they went to school, she •aw that there was a pond or large pud- die in the street, and that the boy first carried the dinner basket over the pond #nd then, coming back, carried the little girl over, when, after setting her ;ilown, he kissed her. That sight made her angry. "Is such a good-for-nothing young «ne to kiss our daughter, and we the ^frest people in town ?" siHd she. The husband tried his best to restrain her, saying that no one knew where children were to live, or what might happen to his own; that this was an fionest, good-natured boy, and that of­ ten a large tree came from a little twig. »V But no, it was no matter either what lie was or what he might become, no­ body knew if penury was coming to Itonor, and one that was coined for a shilling wonld never be a dollar, though he might shine like a golden du- *»t, said the burgomaster's wife, and lie should not remain; she was deter­ mined to get rid of him. As there was no help for it, the bur- fomaster sent him awayfto be cabin-oy for a merchant who had come thither with a ship, but told his wife Ihat he had sold the boy for tobacco. y ? Before he went away, however, the daughter of the burgomaster broke her k fling in two and gave him half, that if they ever met again they might know each other. Then the ship sailed and carried the Boy to a distant city. A clergyman had lately come there who was such a great preacher that everybody had to go to lliurch and hear him, so on Sunday the people of the ship must go and hear him, too, and they left the boy on the ^«1)ip. While he was cooking and setting the - j|able he heard someone hollowing on ; fhe opposite side of the sound, close by, and, taking a boat, he went over. He found it was an old woman who had ; rbeen doing the shouting. 5' "Well," said she, "here I have been •Djtanding a hundred years shouting And halloing and trying to get across the sound, but nobody has heard and Answered me until you. When you liave ferried me over you shall have Jour pay," said she. . Then she made the boy go with her fjo her sister, who lived in a mountain close by, and asked for the old cloth •which lay on the cupboard shelf. Well, when he arrived there, and the troll-woman found out that he had helped her sister across the sound, she •aid he must have whatever he wished. "O, I do not want anything but the #!d cloth that lies on the cupboard jlbelf," said the boy. "You did not think of that without kelp," said the troll-woman. "I must go on board, now and cook the Sunday dinner for the church " raid the boy. er mind that," said the old "it will cook itself while you «r« aWSV. If you will stay with me TOO shall have more pay. I stayed by that Bound and shouted and halloed for ahundredyears, buc no one heard or tueflafl it untfl you." Then she made ikigl|Mi with her to her second sister. At tttsplaoe he was to ask for the of such a kind that if he put it in his pocket it would »knife, apd il he drew it out 'WDM ft long swoid; that he struck with the black would fall dead, and struck again Hie white edge would onoe more lo life. v Well, wlieu he arrived there, and the troll-woman found out that ha helped her sister across the sound, she said he must take ferriage, and could have whatever he liked. "O, I do not want anything but the old sword which is liangiug on a peg in the cupboard," said the boy. "You did not think of that without help," said the troll-woman. "Come with me," said the other. "I stood by that sound, shouting and hal­ loing a hundred years, and no one heard or heeded it until you. You shall have more pay. Come with me to my third sister." At this place he was to ask for the old psalm-book, which was of suoh a kind that when any one was sick and he sung a psalm referring to the sick­ ness the sick one would become well again. Well, when they arrived there, and the third troll-woman heard that he had helped lier sister across the sound he was obliged to accept ferriage there, too, and it should be whatever he liked. "O, I don't want anything but the grandmother's old psalm-book," said the boy. "You did not think of that, without help," said the troll-woman. When he came down on the ship again the folks were still at church. Then he tried the cloth, spreading out just a little corner of it. for before he laid it on the table and used it he want­ ed to see what it could do. Well, sure enough, there appeared on it delicious tood and a great deal of it, and plenty of drink besides. He took just a little taste himself, : nd then he gave the dog as much as he could eat. When the folks, who had been to church, came on board again the cap­ tain said: "Where did you get all that food for the dog ? He is as full as a sausage, and as lazy as a pig." "Oh, I gave him the bones," said the bov. That was a good boy, to think of the dog, too," said the captain. Then the boy spread out the cloth, and in a moment it was so full, of food and various drinks that the ship's peo­ ple had never before sat down to such a feast. When the boy was again alone with the dog he thought he would try the sword, too, so he struck the animal with the black edge, and it fell dead upon the deck; but when he turned the sword and struck with the white edge it sprung up alive and wagged its tail at its play-fellow. But he had no chance to try the book. Then they sailed prosperously a long time, till a storm came upon them which lasted many days, and they lay and drifted so that they did not know where they were. At last the weather cleared, and they came to a country far away, where they knew no one, but they could perceive that there was a great trouble there, and that was the case, too, for the King's daughter had the leprosy. The King came down to the ship and asked it there was no one there who could save her and make her well again. "No, there is no one," said those who were up on the deck. "Is there no one else On board this ship ?" asked the King. "Yes, a little ragamuffin." said they. "Let him come, too," said the King. The boy came and said he thought he should be able to make her welL Then the captain, when he heard this, grew so angry and frightened that he Hew around in a circle, like a bumble­ bee in a tar barrel. He thought the boy might get himself into some scrape which he could not easily get out of, and said it was not worth while to heed such childish nonsense. But the King said that wit came with growth, and children were of the same material as men. If he had said he could do it he must try. There were many who had tried and failed before. He took him along to where his daughter was, and the boy sang the psalm once. Then the King's daughter could lift her arms. He sang it once more and she could sit up in bed, and when he had sung it a third time the King's daughter was well. The King was so glad that he want­ ed to give him half his land and king­ dom and his daughter with them. The boy thought it might be well enough to have half of the land and kingdom, and he was profuse in his thanks for them, but he had promised another, he said, and could not take the King's daughter. So he remained there in that country and recieved half of the kingdom, but after awhile there was war to which the boy had to go, and he was not sparing of the black edge of his sword you may easily believe. The enemy's soldiers fell like flies and the King was victorious. Then the boy used the white edge and they all sprung up- alive again, and submitted to the King because they were once more permitted to enjoy life. But then there were so many that there was a scarcity of food, ahd the King would gladly give them plenty both to eat and drink. So the boy was obliged to out with his cloth, and then they had everything they wanted. After he had been with the king awhile longer he began to long for the burgomaster's daughter. So, equipping four ships of war, he went away with them, and when he arrived before the city where the burgomaster lived, the shots he fired thundered in a way that made the glass fall crashing from the windows in the city. On board the ships things were as magnificent as with a King, and so grand was he that he even had every nail headed with gold. It was not long before the burgo­ master went down and asked if the' foreign lord would be so good as to come down and dine with him. He accepted the invitation, and, go­ ing up to the burgomaster's house, he there sat down beside the daughter and the burgomaster's lady. As they were sitting there in the height of the chat, eating and drinking and having a good time, he dropped his half of the ring, nnperceived into the daughter's glass. She was not long in thinking out what it meant, and, making an errand away from the table, she put it with the other half. Her mother, observing that something was on the tapis, hur­ ried after her as fast as she could. "Mother, do you know who that is there?" said the daughter. "No," said the burgomaster's lady. "It is the boy that father sold for tobacco," said the daughter. Upon this the lady fainted and fell on the floor, and when the burgomas­ ter came and heard how the matter stood it was not much better with him. "This is nothing to be frightened about," said the tobacco boy, "I have only come to get that little girl that I kissed on the way to school." And then, turning to the burgomas* ter's wife, he said, "Never diatftin a poor man's child; nobody knows what it may become, for children arc of the LTUHALK sihM 'f-' JV ' . '/M » *\{ •W ' * v : sane stuff as men, and wit coaca with growth."--The Norwegian. Mexican Indians. I rather like the Mexican Indian. He is capable of courage, is alert and enduring, and is one of the most hum­ ble and obetiient of servants, being even given to s^lf-abasement. He will come 100 miles from a distant village and tote to the city a few chickens, or eggs, that cannot bring him more than a dollar or two. When employed as a porter his average load is 100 "pounds, out in the mines he will elimb up a rude ladder--merely a notched pole-- .with 400 or 500 pounds of ore on his back. In the city those porters carry every thing that can be carried. I saw one man go past this morning with twenty-four ordinary wooden chairs upon his back, making a tower ten feet above his head; and last week I met one bearing alone a large upholstered sofa and six upholstered chairs! I sup­ pose a grand piano requires two men. The Indian's dwelling is a modest affair--high enough for him to stand in when bent, and long enough for him to lie in when ditto. In the lowlands he builds this cabin of rushes or bam­ boo, with no windows save the crevices between the upright sticks; on the tablelands of adobe--mud baked in the sun. Out at San Juan, on the site of the ancient Capital of the Toltecs, the Indian huts were built of the stones of that long perished city. I pushed some naked Indian children aside and stepped into one. The roof was of palm branches. The floor was of earth. The room, the only one, was unpapered and unpainted; in fact, there was nothing to paint or paper, for the walls were of loose stones, piled up haphazard like those of a rude stone fence. There were no chairs, no table, no bed, no stove. There was a bit of charcoal fire between some stones. Near by the fa­ miliar flat stone, by the side of which the brown lady of the house knelt and broke grains of corn, mixed some wa­ ter in, and flattened the paste into cakes with a stone roller. The ward­ robe of the family not in use was in one corner--a shirt suspended from a bit of palm-leaf. There were a few un- glazed pots and pans, large dippers of gourd-shell, and a ohromo of the vege­ table compounded by Lydia Pinkliam, which I suppose was an object of re­ ligious worship. Rush mats answered for seats, table, and beds, and would ultimately serve as shrouds. A shovel hung on the wall, and the woman's sticks for weaving lay on a mat. Pro­ bably no meat of any sort was ever eaten in this house. The master brewed his own humble liquor from that species of cactus called the ma­ guey, and maize and pulque are their sole support. They seem contented, the whole family. I wonder if Van- derbilt, or Jay Gould, or James Keene is any happier.--Mexico Letter. Proper Nomenclature. Everybody knows what a ,dog is. When the word is mentioned it con­ veys a distinct idea. When a person says dog he does not mean a horse, a cow, or an elephant. Then why should it be caHed a canine ? Canine does not mean a dog, but something having the properties or qualities of a dog. And yet some people think it has a fine scientific smack about it, and that it is an evidence of liberal education to use it. It is the same with our friend the cat. The cat is not an unfamiliar beast. It belongs to the genus felin, as do many other animals. The defi­ nition of feline is, pertaining to cats; not cat-like; not cat. So, when we read in the newspapers that "a number of felines were seen on the back fence," we can know only what animals they are from the country in which the in­ formation happens to be published. Felines might be lions, panthers, ti­ gers, jaguars, or similar animals. Some people know what an inn is, and still more are not unacquainted with an ho­ tel. Either of these words ought to be sufficient to convey to the mind of the average man that they mean buildings in which to lodge. But, somehow or other, they are not sufficient for him. He must needs talk of a caravansary. Now, an inn or a hotel is not a cara­ vansary, which is a peculiar Eastern arrangement, and is nothing in common with our hotel. It is simply a build­ ing where caravans rest at night, with a court in the middle. Just as appro­ priate would it be to call a hotel a prairie or a tent, because trav­ elers sometimes happen to rest in a tent or on a prairie. To carry out this principle of calling things by their wrong names, it would be in* future just as well to speak of a whale as a halena, or a horse as an equine, of an eagle as an aquiline, of a fly as a mus- cine, and of an elephant as an elephan­ tine.--Puck. Hard Luck. The expression of "a husband wear­ ing the horns" is derived from a custom that was started by a Greek Emperor, who was very much given to cultivating the society of married women. Ju order not to be interrupted by the presence of the husband, the Emperor conferred the right to hunt upon the husbands of such ladies as he was disposed to visit, which linsbanbs, in recognition of the royal favor, were authorized to nail a pair of deer's horns over their doors. There may not have been anything wrong in the conduct of the royal vis­ itor, lor His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, was in the habit of calling on Mrs. Langtry, and taking breakfast with her, even when Langtry was not about the premises. However, people will talk, and in time a husband who had a disreputable wife was said to wear the horns. The foregoing explanation is required to enable the reader to appreciate the following little story that is told of an aged army officer in Berlin, who has a very young, and somewhat frisky wife. She had, moreover, wealthy relations, and her aged husband expected that she would receive a legacy, but when they died they failed to leave her any­ thing, much to the chagrin of her hus^ band. Still another one of her rela­ tives died not long since, and on his receiving a letter that she had again been neglected, he said, angrily: "I never get anything by the death of your relatives. I verily believe that if the devil were to die I would not inherit even a pair of horns." "My dear, hadn't you better be satis­ fied with the horns you have already got?" the wife replied, innocently, kiss­ ing her hand to a handsome cavalry officer who was riding past the window. --Texas Si/tings. A COAT-TAIL flirtation is the latest. A wrinkled coat-tail bearing dirty toe marks means: "I have spoken to yonr father." " A woman never sees a baby without wanting to run to it; a man never sees a baby without wanting to run from it. WHEBE is any author in the world teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? ,AT THE New York Agricultural Ex­ periment Station it has been found that one part of Paris green mixed with 200 parts of ground limestone proved en­ tirely successful against the larva) of the potato beetl$. Great care is, how­ ever, required to secure a thorough ad" mixture of the two substances where so small a proportion of the poison is used. In this dilution Paris green seems to lose its danger to the human family, as we can scarcely imagine in­ jurious results coming from its use to the careful man. To HAVE mignonette the year round it should be sown in February, again in April, in September, and October. It is best to grow in pots first until just ready to bloom, and then transfer to a box where the plants can branch out and flower for a long time. For soil in the pots use three parts loam, one part manure, one part leaf-mold. Apply water in the mornings that the foliage may be dry before night. Thin out the plants as fast as they grow up until only five are left in the pot. Shade from the sun in the middle of the day, as otherwise the foliage will be discol- ored. % A WHITER in The London Garden says he has discovered that grape vines in houses do better under rough-rolled glass than under clear glass. The two most striking things he observed were the good quality of the fruit, and espe­ cially its color, and the health of the foliage of the vines, which was less af­ fected by red spiders than any he had ever known before. The green state of the foliage before and after the fruit was ripe he attributed solely to the subdued rays of the sun upon the leaves through the rough plate glass, which obviated the necessity of giving air, thus trying the leaVea less than they would be otherwise. THERE is no trouble in making a water-tight ditch in cow stables if you have good clay. Dig the trench as deep as the width of the boards you use for the sides, which should be not less than fourteen inches. They should also be two inches thick, as they will take the Elace of floor joists, and they ought to e of durable timber. If good tough clay can be had, pound six inches in depth of it into the bottom of the ditch, and on this a floor of inch boards can be fitted. This floor need not be nailed at all, but should not be omitted, as the ditch can be more easily cleaned from its use. The floor back of the ditch should be on a level with that on which the cows stand, and should be wide enough to allow the passage of a wheel-barrow.--Pittsburgh Stockman. To THE average wool-grower the fu­ ture of that business seems anything but bright, but it will pay to consider well all the interests involved before deciding to abandon the flook. A prominent wool-grower says: "Our lands will go to the dogs if we go out of sheep." This is true in a limited sense, but will not have much weight with farmers who have kept up the fer­ tility of their farms for many years without having a sheep on their land. But a few farmer? fully realize how profitable sheep are, through their economizing much food which would be wasted on the farm but through them. It is unquestionably true that the road sides alone of this country furnish food enough to support all the sheep in the land, and the roadside for­ age represents but a very small part of that wasted for want of sheep to eat it. In many places the wool of sheep is al­ most or quite clear profit A WRITER puts the case of the "little butter cow" as follows in the Western Rural: "The principal object seems to be to breed a cow that is the best for milk, butter, and beef combined, which is as hard a job as it is to breed a horse for the dray, farm, and race-course all in one. Some object to the Jersey be­ cause she if too small to turn into beef when she is too old to milk. No.w, then, it is generally admitted that the Jersey will make two pounds of butter a week more than most of the large breeds, if not all. Allowing such to be true, which my experience teaches me it is, two pounds of butter a week at 25 cents per pound would be 50 cents a week--$2 a month--for, say the first six months, would make $12, and one pound a week for the next three months, at the same price, would make $3, mak­ ing $15 in a year. Allowing each to be milked ten years would make $150 in favor of the Jersey for butter; at this age put both up to fat and the Jersey will dress 500 pounds and the large cow- 800, making 800 pounds of beef to offset $150 for butter, which makes pretty dear beef, does it not? This is allowing it costs as much to keep a small cow as it does a large one. Now, brother farmers, as by exchanging views on different topics all may be­ come benefitted, let's hear from some more of you." APPLYING SAND TO GRASS LAND.-- Those who have meadow land that has been drained and seeded down to the better quality of grasses often, find it necessary to apply a dressing of sand, experience teaching that it very much improves the condition of the grass roots and increases the crop of grass, sometimes quite as much as a dressing of manure. The application of sand to a meadow often accomplishes a double purpose. First it lightens up the soil and gives the water a chance to drain off, and, second, it furnishes silica to the grass, which is necessary to strengthen the stalk. Meadow land that is composed entirely of partially decomposed vegetable material settles together sometimes so closely that wa­ ter will not readily pass through it, except in small streams. This is very unfavorable to the growth of any crop that the farmer desires to grow. Un less there are numerous passage ways for both air and water (lie roots of plants fail to get the material necessa­ ry for their growth. In reclaiming meadow land the first effort is to drain off'the surplus water; ditches are dug low enough to draw the water, perhaps two feet below the surface; but if the meadow be composed entirely of de­ cayed vegetation, advanced to just that stage which makes it so compact that the water cannot pass through it, for some time ofter the ditches are dug the water fails to readily drain off, ex­ cept near the banks of the ditches. Such land needs a few inches of sand to bring it into a favorable condition for vegetable growth. When it can be done without too much expense the Application of sand will be much more beneficial if mixed with four or five inches in depth of the soil, because by mixing the sand with the muck it se­ cures a combination of materials that fa highly favorable for rapid decompo­ sition, thus soon bringing the soil into that state which encourages a rapid growth of grass. While surface appli­ cation is not as good, it is often very beneficial, especially if a good dressing of manure is applied at the same time, and a liberal quantity of grass seed •own and harrowed in. The winter eeaBon is the most favorable time to apply sand to low land, because time is worth less, and the meadows are fro­ zen so that full leads, can be carried over it without danger of cutting tht'< land up. THE KITCHEN* boil tea. APPLE fritters make a nice entree to be served with roast duck. Two SMALL tart apples are a tooth­ some addition to the stuffing of a roast duck or goose. TRY a piece of lemon instead of soap for removing dirt from the hands. This is particularly good for hands which chap in winter. BOIL eggs from 20 to 301 minutes when liked hard. Ten minutes makes the yolk of an egg hard and soggy, while 20 minutes makes it light and mealy. AN old-fashioned and toothsome spice cake is made of three pounds of seed­ less raisins, one and a half pounds of citron, two and a half coffee cups of sugar, two cups of sweet milk, four cups of flour, six eggs, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, and two of mace. LEMON cookies are made of one large cup of sugar, a little more than half a cup of butter, half a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in two teaspoonfuls of hot water; flavor with lemon, and use just fiour enough so that you can roll the cookies out thin; bake in a quick oven. THIS is a good dish: Fry one pound of veal in hot lard, having first cut it in strips about two inches wide, and three or four long; when nearly done, add a little butter and half a pint of oysters chopped or cut in pieces; sea­ son with pepper and salt; serve hot with or without toast BACON DRESSING FOR LETTUCE.--Ba­ con dressing which is often used by those who do not like oil is made by cutting the bacon in thin slices and frying them slowly until the oil is all extracted; remove from the fire, drain off the oil, taking care to let no bits of meat drain off with it. To the oil from half a pound of bacon add the juice of one lemon, ono wine-glass of sharp vin­ egar, a spoonful of cayenne and black pepper. A NEW BREAKFAST DISH.--A break­ fast dish that is especially appetizing is made by broiling some very thin slices of ham. Butter some thin slices of toast and lay the ham on them; then ppur over it a sort of omelet made by beating eight eggs with about one cup of sweet milk; add pepper and salt, and fry this in a saucepan in which you have put a lump of butter and allowed it to melt. Serve at once and while very hot. VEGETABLE SOUP.--Chop a small tender turnip, four potatoes, two onions, add a teacup of cabbage, one- half cup of carrot, a few green or dried boilt d beans. Boil the cabbage and carrot half an hour, then add the other vegetables and boil another half hom* in sufficient water to moke a good soup. When done, add cream and salt for seasoning, or milk and butter, and thicken with a little rice flour or corn starch. An egg well beaten may be added last, simply letting scald for a moment. Squares of toasted bread or cracker crumbs may be used for thick­ ening. JELLEY BASKETS.--Six oranges, cur­ rant jelly, apple jelly, confections of any kind. Orange-skins can be emptied of their fruit and cut in the shape of baskets, as follows: Mark out the shape of a basket upon the skin of six oranges without piercing the frait The handles should be formed across the stalk end of the fruit, and should be a good width. Take out the quarters, which will not be required, and with the small blade of a sharp penknife cut out the baskets. Then pass the flat part of a teaspoon carefully under the handle to separate it from the fruit, and scoop out through the open spaces. Fill the skins with different colored jellies or confections. The basket may be scalloped or ornamented, according to the taste of the operator. This is a very pretty dish. The Great Financier of the Revolution. To Robert Morris is certainly due great credit for his success in obtaining funds with which to prosecute the war of the revolution, flow he managed may be seen from the following inci­ dents : He employed his "own splen­ did credit, which he often stretched to the utmost, but never abused." At one time he requested General Schuyler to furnish the army with flour, agreeing to be personally responsible; at an­ other he obtained funds from the Com­ mander of the French fleet to pay the American army, upon his individual promise to return the same within a specified period. In no instance did he fail to fulfill his promise, though on several occasions he seemed to be near the brink of failure. Morris' own notes, given to a large amount for the benefit of the government, were in due time redeemed, and every obligotion which he had assumed was fulfilled. Morris, in his old age, entered into some land speculations which turned out disas­ trously, and on May 7, 1806, "the man who had controlled the finances of a rising nation, and by his personal ex­ ertions sared it from bankruptcy, died in a debtors' prison."-- Inter-Ocean. Bunyhn in London. In his later days Bunyan's figure was tolerably familiar in London. He preached regularly in Sonthwark--in an open space near the Falcon--and people thronged to hear him, so that he could count upon a regular congrega-* tion of some 500 souls. John Wesley's father heard him preach on Newington green. That he had many friends in London is evident from the number of people who attended his funeral and from the handsome tomb that soon af­ ter his death was built over his grave. Twenty or thirty years ago this toml: which had fallen into decay, was re­ stored, but has already assumed a time- worn, weather-beaten appearance. Stone probable perishes more quickly in a London atmosphere than under any other conditions, and, looking round at the headstones and tombs, it is evident that at the end of fifty \ears or so inscriptions, unless renewed in the meantime, are mostly illegible, while in country church-yards epitaphs of the last century or even earlier dates are often easily to be deciphered.--All the Year Hound. r, - ' • • * : . ° . . • .4; THE ruins of friendship are a more melancholy spectacle to me than those of desolate palaces. They exhibit the heart that was once lighted with joy nil damp and deserted, and haunted by those birds of ill omen that only nestle in ruins.--Campbell. THE reading of romances-will always be the favorite amusement of women; old peruse them to recall what they have experienced; young to anticipate what they wish to experience.--A. Rich­ ard. .k&ktb&y * . • A Pioneer tiovernor. An indiscreet remark may ruin a politician. Some forty years ago, a Governor of Indiana was a candidate for re-election. Puring his term the Methodists had nought legislation to establish Asbury University. The Governor opposed them, and was reported as saying that the Methodist Church did not need an educated ministry, as an ignorant one was better suited to the capacity of its membership. The indignant Methodists cast their votes against him and elected James Whitcomb, a lawyer and a class-leader. "It was the 'amen' corner of the Methodist Church that defeated the Governor," said the late Bishop Ames; ' and I had a hand in the woik." The successful candidate had been brought up on a farm, where there was plenty of hard work and coarse fare. The boy loved books, and read all that he could borrow, much to the chagrin of his hard-working father, who, being a pioneer, thought that his son should be a laborer rather than a reader. "James," said his father, again and again to the studious son, "you'll never amount to anything. You handle a book too much and a scythe too little." "Jimmy," said a neighbor, who had noticed the boy's craving for knowledge, "s me day youH be a United States Senator; you study while others play." The neighbor's prophecy was fulfill­ ed in 1849, when the Legislature sent James to the Senate of the United States. The Governor was a good man, and played the violin with skill. Once, while journeying on horseback, he stopped at a log-cabin on a prairie. As he entered, a young man was scrap­ ing on an old fiddle. He laid the in­ strument on the bed, and led the Gov­ ernor's horse to the stable. Taking up the fiddle, the Governor tuned it and began playing.; The young man returned and, seating him­ self, listened as one entranced. The Governor played "Hail Columbia." "If I had fifty dollars," shouted the youth, springing to his feet, "I'd give every cent of it for that fiddle. I never, in all my life, heard such music!" The Governor, pleased at the com­ pliment, continued playing until he was tired. As he laid the violin on the bed, the young man seized it, carried it to the fire, where he could examine it, turned it over and over, and then called out: "Mister, I never saw two fiddles so much alike as yours and mine 1" A. distinguished geologist says that his success in life is due to a few words of advice given him, when a young man, by Governor Whitcomb. "Follow," said the Governor, "one line of thought and research with your whole mind and soul. "Take no active part in politics until maturity has brought you settled con­ victions. "The life of a politician is not always reputable. It has so many elements of deceit that it is hard to • follow it and keep clean one's hand and soul.*'-- Youths' Companion. President Polk's For get fulness. They tell the tale in the backwoods of Tennessee. Polk could never re­ member a face, and he had little tact in concealing this failing. In the cam­ paign for the Governorship of the State, before Polk was elected Presi­ dent, Polk was nominated by the Demo­ crats and Jones by the Whigs. The two men made part of the cam­ paign together, both speaking at the same places. At the first meeting Polk told a few stories and Jones followed, beating him badly. Alter that Polk took another tack. He saw Jones could brat him at the facetious and carried on his campaign with a wi-e and grave air filling his speeches with argument and sneering at story-telling as below the dignity of statesmen. One day during the campaign, while riding along a country road, a farmer who had for years been one of Polk's constituents, and had lived within two miles of his home, met him. It was in a county to which this man had moved the year be fore, and it was several miles away from his old home. As he saw Polk he raised his hat and said: "How do you do, Mr. Polk?" Polk looked at him coldly and Could not recall his name. Ho said: "I am sorry, sir, but you have the advantage of me." The man then told him who he was. Polk at last re­ membered him, and asked for his vote. •While this was going on, Gov. Jones was riding along in his carriage about a half mile behind, and as the man got through with Polk he approached. As soon as he came in sight of him he raised his hat, and when he came up stopped his carriage and held out his hand, saying: "How do you do, Mr. Blank, I am glad to see you. When did you move out here ?" Jones had met him at a political meeting at Polk's town, a year or two before, and had merely shaken hands with him. Blank was surprised at being remembered, and as he left, said: "Governor, I am going to vote for you. All my life I have been working for that man Polk, and here he don't know me when he sees me. He is too high-toned to recol­ lect a poor man. You remember a fel­ low after seeing him once, and hereaf­ ter I am going to give my support to you."--"Carp" in the Cleveland Leader. ; Where He Lost. A burglar, who was caught sfo the door of a store with his arms full of plunder, was so disheartened that, when brought into court, he pleaded guilty, and was sent up for five years. The sentence had scarcely been record­ ed when a lawyer rushed in and offered to clear him for $50. "But it is too late; I pleaded guilty." "Foolish man! why didn't you trust a jury?" "Because I saw that the panel was entirely composed of men whom I have likewise robbed and injured." "Aye! but that was the very point of the case! I was going to sot up the plea of kleptomania to secure your ac­ quittal 1" MORAL.--And $10 would have proba­ bly bought up a juror to hold out for disagreement.--Detroit Free Pqjfeb. » Ironclad. * "Great Scott, I've killed him?" yell- e l the baggage-smasher as he hurled a Saratoga plump in the pit of the stom­ ach of a stout old gentleman standing on the platform. But the injured party rose with a gay air and laughed out: "Not much, ver lopeared idiot I've just got outside of a beefsteak in that restaurant an' I'm solider'n the sides of an iron-plated gun-boat. Sling along yer Saratogies; 's long as yer aims straight at that 35-cent lunch yer can't hurt my feelin's!"--Evansville Argus. A BLACK8NAKR measuring eleven and a half feet in length was recently killed in Warren County, Mississippi. A LIFE spent worthily should ba measured by deeds, not years. AID POINT* Jli A gentleman rose to make a spee<& at a supper atDelmonioo's, New York, he broke his leg. This ought to be a warning not to eat more than one's legs can carry.--Peck's Sun. A POOR, but pretty girl, who has to go up Ninth street every day, calls the loafers along the thoroughfare "Pov­ erty and Want," because they stare her in the face.--Merchant Traveler. IT IS reported that the habit of ott* - rying concealed weapons is on the crease in Iowa. Scarcely a man in thai State can be found who does not carry one or more corkscrews.--St. Louis Breeze. A CHICAGO dude blushed and ran into a stairway when he saw a party of ladies coming down the street. He had forgotten his cane and could not meet them in such a nude state.--Bismarck Tribune. LET the hairy-headed citizen displM* his charms and speak with sneers and ridicule of his less favored brother, but let him remember meanwhile that the proud emblem of our glorious counts- is a bald-headed eagle.--Boston Olob$i.. A Parte young man called a dud® « Baocesflfnlly courted and wooed . »?: sf ATerre Haute maiden ' "" Whose pockets were laden ^ With money to buy him brain! toaS. ; " ^ r-= --Paris Beacon. IF A man wants peace to reign in the household he should count ten before speaking at times when he feels as if his clothes don't fit him. And on days when the kitchen stove doesn't draw he should count 480.--Middleton 1'ran- scfipt. - J- "SOMETHING must be done to redu|p the taxes on the poor man," wrote a country editor, and the next week he received a communication reading: "That's it, eld fellow; keep up the' fight on 3-cent beers."--Philadelphia Chronicle. Chop! chop! chop! With cleaver and hatchet of steel. On the softest part of the window-mop^ For the boarders to have a nleal. Scrape! chop! cut! And a couple of auburn hairs Tied round the end of a splintered bone Will waken the boarders' prayer*. WHEN the young man with a soft voice, few ideas, a downy upper lip, candle-mold trousers, a high choker, and a slender cane takes his leave of the young woman at half-past 11, the old gentleman rejoices in the du-depart-. ure. --Lowell Courier. IT MAY be interesting to those wlto have an idea that base ball is pi ay 4a just for the fun of the thing to know that one hundred thousand dollars will be paid out to players of this game this year. Who can blame the boys for playing so hard in the hot sun ?--Peck?8 Sun. AN EXCHANGE asks: "Why do w» . dream ?" That is a hard question for one to answer and bo sure of being cor­ rect, as the editor's personal habits are not known. It may be the fear of the wrath of an impatient creditor or it may be a big pioce of mince pie eaten just before going to bed.--Peck's Sun. THE recent revival of "Lend Me Five Shillings" in this city recalls the remi­ niscence that when the author of the piece, John M. Morton, was Govern­ ment censor of London theaters, our own American Falstaff Hackett brought him a play called "Cousin John," which he reeognized as a harmless perversion of his own piece. So he indorsed it and added: "Since Hackett has hacked it, let 'im hact it"--Boston World. BY WAY of confession: Miss Edith --"And are you really an American, Mr. Fitzmaurice ?" Fitzmaurice (delighted) --"Aw, yes, I assure you." Miss Edith --"Then you are not an Englishman, just arrived ?" Fitzmaurice* (more lighted)--"Pon lionah, no. I am a New Yorkali. But--aw--why did you think' I was--aw--from deah old England, y'know?" Miss Edith--"Well, to be frank, I thought you must be. You seem so green about everything in thj§ country. SAMUEL L. CLEMENS, "Mark Twain," is a member of the Bev. M. Twitchelri church in Hartford, and so was the late ex-Gov. Marshall Jewell. But the ex- Governor was "higher up" in the church, as the humorist expressed it, and used to pass around t be plate. One day Mark Twain said to the ex-Gov­ ernor: "See here, Governor, they let you collect the donations, but they would never let me do it." "Oh, yei^ they would," said the ex-Governor, • adding, "that is, with a bell-punch Harper's Bazar. Training of the Voice. Emerson says that Channing's voice was one of the three most eloquent he ever heard. A skeptic once complained to Dr. Channing of the severity of Christ's denunciation of the Pharisees. The latter read the passage complained of in so calm, solemn, and sympathetic a tone that the disbeliever exclaimed, "If Christ spoke that way my objection is withdrawn." So Father Streeter, a Universalist preacher in Boston, an* swered an objector who asked him if God had not threatened to do so and so if men did not believe: He answered, "No;" and then repeated the same words, in an entirely different tone--the ills- fiectio J s conveying a wholly different temper and purpose. # Henry Clay's voice has been called ft'- band of music; Webster's, a trumpet* and«Channing's, a harp. The cultiva* ion of the voice is worth all that i$.v costs. X The best culture of the voice is the- culture of the heart. He who would speak with soulful and enticing tonea must have strong emotion within. There may be tears in the tone if there be tenderness in the soul. There musfc be fire in the heart if there is force in the voice. A tame and lifeless spirit will reveal itself in mnilled vocal tonea. A statement that is untrue will very, likely be expressed in tone* that ave not clearly articulated. The schoolboy, telling an untruth oftentimes tries to cover bis falsehood by indistinct utter­ ances. The earnest and honest tone shows the earnestness and honesty of' the heart. So with all the other affeo» tions. When the whole nature is enno­ bled, the voice attains its fullest excel­ lence and its most fasoinating power.-- Home Science. Wasn't His Disposition. "I hear that your brother is given to somnambulism?" "What's that?" "He walks in his sleep." "Well, that makes me smile. I guess you don't know my brother. He is the, laziest man in Texas. He. wouldn't;! walk in his sleep no matter how soundi asleep he was. He is too lazy entirely. I might not be surprised to hear thai'. he had ridden in a street car in his sleep; but as for his walking, that iaj out of the question. He doesn't walj^j when he is wide awake when he osi^i^ help it"--New York Journal "FROG LIMBS" is the modest sign - played in a New York restaurant coa-. . trolled by a woman. %r^r; FLOWERS, leaves, fruit are/the ai#<^ woven children of light. i ; m < j