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P8& M: •Hfc* *. »»-** •foge*1* B-wjj ^I.^SSAAAU -•* Beard *»«* th* tr«ad of burryinjs foot* • / X was again a child. ^ Bowsing the wild woods, glad and frifct . BuBting tto mountiin stream; «•-* - >„.:r iht^manym^ Wild melody, " . L, , ,' * And thrM^ttbA sero?n of leaf and 4M§* I caught tba river's gleam. The deany Book where lilies grew , ^ •*! I sought by pathways lono, v And vkmiM alder thicket threw . •' ?/.>v Its tangled ahada of dusky line, ff- J ' 1 he snow-white blossoms shone. \.y > And she, that o'er my heart bore ral% 1 i'.-j. My sweetheart, scarcely ten, "•;;i For whose dear sake I stole from aohM|.. ' To pluck the li'ies from the pool-- V j X >ee her once again, j . .. Aswhen.uponherde.sk, my price if:" All sweatly flagrant lay. * •'1 flM blush that told her glad aurpriaeif j t' The love-light of those tender eyes ' * j Is In my heart .to-day. t-r "> © IiUy fair, with Heart of gold! Where may thy presence bll . , i '• Fall rainv a weary year has ™1M *• '* ' Since, on "life's ocean dark and oold, iyffi vH's I drifted far from thee. ' Parchaaoe, for aught that I may > '*-• Asteidand sober dame, i v:'V flSbe walks this very street. Ah, no, ®r - Ifjr food heart will not have it so, ,vt si| ghe to to me the same. f- . * i And aft, when sleep unseals my| v , With bud in band again, v':V. We roam beneath unclouded skies ,C»*J , 4' And p nek the flowers of Paradise, $}* 'J A boy and girl of ten. V'M yip&loston Post. • AS" A WOMAM'S TROUBLES. -v- ifer BTE JOHNSOJ Ilbftol been a teacher of tHelbiigtflfflSd' •I P---- for several years, and the summer of which I write, I had become worn out, mind and body. My eyes became afflicted by my bodily condition, and made an imperative demand for rest. So with my sister, the dearest', little old maid Bister a man ever had, I went to the village of Benton for the summer. "We secured rooms in an old barrack-like building, on the west 'side of the lovely little lake, on whose shore the town is boilt, and having hired a boat for the sea- Mai, proceeded to make ourselves comfort­ able. I was so feeble for a time that we could not return the kindly calls of the people, SO they gradually came to let us alone. Which we desired of all things. We begtm going on the water as soon as I was able to walk the few rods to the boat landing, and See would raw np and down and all around the lake. She loved the exercise, and it was good for her, so I had no scruples •gainst accepting her services. t The town lay along the southern bank of lite lake, and we were on the western side. Directly opposite, and nearly hidden in dense shrubbery, was a large white build­ ing that excited my curiosity, and I de­ clared one day as we rowed past, that as soon as 1 was able I should go on shore and spy out the land. One day Sue called my attention to a solitary figure standing on the beach. Wi were passing far out, but a stroke* of the oars brought us cl to enable us to see her face, for -woman. "Divinely tall and most di MOM Into my mind, rihe looked aVus in­ tently as we floater1 x>ast, and some way her attitude and appearance had a soirowfjtil " itroubled me. recurred to me, and Sue out her. Sue had often d watched her, from our with a spy-glass. She dumb, for she had people, and had any one, or a word Addressed to her. For many days after that we saw the solitary black-robed figure, alwavs alone, and always gazing across the water! Often We would row as close to the shore as the •hallow water would permit, and I caught many a glance from a most glorious pair of ej*a. One day when 1 had become strong eneogh to take my place at the oars, al­ though Sue, who dearly loved to row, pre­ tended I was not strong, in order to do a pad of it, we had been np to the Lof lb! lake, and returned laden with i «aowy water lilies. I jre'nested a clump of huge willows, w^gffes feet were washed by the sparkling wsters, I saw Sue making a bouquet of sains of tin finest. I watched her euti- Onriy, hslf divining her purpose. When opposite the trees 1 saw, what Sue bad seen long before, that silent figure leaning against a tree, watching us. Sue oast the lilies with a gay, "I give you good •tfen." Two white hands were outstretched to «stoh the snowy treasure. A low bow, and ftwh of gratitude from those radiant orbs, was answer enough, and we glided on. Many days passed, and often we would gain sons sign of recognition from the strange SW.', I was as one possessed. Sleeping or Waking", I could think of nothing else, and »»e, perceiving it with a sense seldom seen, said nothing, but prepared to help me all she could. We noticed that she never seemed to see us, if any one was by, or in flight* and at once leaped to the conclusion that she did not want any one to perceive the understanding that had been established between us. ^ Us, I say. But not us, for Sue alohe •ad made all advances, I keeping well in we background. Matters ran along in that Way for weeks, and I was becoming im­ patient to learn something of her, when "One evening we were out on the water much •Bter than usual. r ' We slowly passed the grounds of the ".'fteange house, and when off the willow trees I lay upon my oars, idly speculating, when a pebble splashed into the water Wear by. An instant later a small parcel •track in the boat. ; Sue seized it eagerly, and uttered an in- "all right" We saw no on®, but the shadows were deep under the trees. A few minutes steady rowing brought ns ®ome, and alone in our sitting-room, we ••examined the package. It contained a complete set of papers WBCh..ss are required to prove a person's 'Ine name was the same in all, Clsrs 8. Dunning, and as I turned the last paper a cry of delight escaped me, for , flMM tell out a photograph of the most beauttflli woman I had ever seen. Sue, «x»«n« over my Bhoulder declared it was thepicture of our unknown. s following note was written in pencil f' fM| Che Inside of a torn envelope: Mr my brother will be from home, en to resemble a physician, and oome to the house, and When I appear -wkj, 'Madam, your brother is verv badly injured •Od reque«tB yourpr Bence.' I .hall d. c'ai'e my fWtaetaaee to go. Insist strenuously, and almost mr TV.n» * v . M my company. Then when I am once in Sliln iSST-untiI ™ __ , , I CLARE STELLA DUNKING." We stared at each other, Sue and I, Some moments before a word was - ...tb®n S,a? only ottered a positive *i§||Eflrill, ^ and I as positive a "certainly." * ?• sleP4 tbat night, I was so full came, and I went early into the 'chased a medicine case, a cane, some glasses, and a I also hired a team for the day; o'clock I was so changed) a»d laughed heartilv. with eye glasses and e medicine case just tonast-pocket of my to perfection. Way, Kut arrived on mkby a pom Md toy horses wbSfal alighted/ tad pompously inquired far Miss Dunning. Another servant led the way into the house, and ushersd me into a handsomely furnished room, where he left sas. to carry my message to the lady in question. I only had time to glance abottî when the door again opened and the same obsequious lackey announced "Miss Dunning." Putting on all my dignity, I declared my errand. Her acting was superb, almost deceiving me, I demanding her presence, and she half refusing, until seemingly out of patience, 1 ordered a servant to bring her hat, briefly explaining my errand to the several men and women who had gathered around the door of the room. As I assisted her into the carriage her hand trembled in mine, and a grateful glance shot from her eyes. That was all until the grounds were passed and wo were speeding swiftly away. Then turning, she caught my disengaged hand, exclaiming: "O. God bless you forever and forever for this," and pressed her lips against it, then burst into a perfect tempest of sobs and tears. Controlling herself at last by a supreme effort, she turned her face to me most eloquent with gratitude. Seeing it would be an effort to speak I asked quietly: "Shall I take you to my sister, or is there some where else you wish to go? You know- where we are staying, across the lake." "Oh yes, lake me there. I can explain so much better wilh her by. You have those papers safe?" and there was an anxious gleam in her eyes. "Certainly," I replied, and turning the next corner, in a short time drew up at our door, where Sue was awaiting us. I as­ sisted my strange companion to alight, then with a few words of introduction I left them alone together, while I returned the team to their owner. 1 was more in­ fatuated than ever. Never in my life had I seen so perfectly beautiful a face and form, and the touch of her lips on my hand had set every pulse in my body bounding. Hurrying back, I found them in our sitting-room, and for the first time had a chance to get a good look at her. Surely an angel could be no fairer. She was dressed in black, and there were traces of great suffering on her face. Rising as I entered the room, she came forward, ex­ tending her hand, and 6aving: "Mr. Bald­ win, 1 can never, never,*sufficiently thank you for your kindness." I took her hand, and feasted my eyes oh her glorious beauty, while I answered 1 was only too glad to be of use in this world. "I am going to tell you my story truth­ fully, and then ask further help of yoQ. Your dear sister has promised it me," mid sitting down by Sue, and clasping her hand, she told her story. She and her brother, Albert Dunning, were only children, and upon their father's death it was found he had willed his property equally to them. The brother was left in charge of her share, but with no legal control of the income, which was hers unreservedly. It was a large fortune, and her trouble bet- gan at once. Her brother took possession of her check book at once, and for a time doled out a pittance to her, but soon she found it difficult to get money for the most trivial expenses. He showed a most miserly spirit in every thing. Their household expenses were cut down to the lowest possible amount, and all the old family servants left, or were dis­ charged. She found herself in a strange position. With four hundred thousand dollars in her own right she was unable to pay a bill or hire a dress made. He had sold the horses and carriages imr mediately_ JME. father's death, and compelled to walk she had not money a street car. She jtime and again, and nt nature occurred itf the»« His only reply to her ret i quest to be allowed to handle her own in­ come, was that she was not of age and it should not be wasted. He was not so careful of his own money, and was continually buying expensive rings and pins, and dressed in the extreme of fash ion. But whenever her money was mentioned he acted very strangely, and she soon became afraid of him. One day she went so far as to threaten to have recourse to the law, and find out her rights in the matter. He behaved so vio­ lently that she was thoroughly frightened, and dared say no more for fear of her life. There was that in his manner that showed him a mad man on the subject. Matters ran on in that way for a year, and 6he was suffering for all sorts of things to wear, even the table was stinted now, and only one servant remained m the great establishment. She was not allowed to go into society because dress cost so much, and the life she led, shut np in the now silent, glooipy house, was utterly unbearable. Stealing away one day, she sold a few trinkets, and taking the cars went to an uncle's in the country. There she made her great mistake. But shame kept her from tell­ ing her story, so, when after a few weeks' stay, she went away as suddenly as she had come; they thought nothing of it, and when in a few days they received a card from the brother, announcing her safe arrival home, they thought no more about her. , So she had been constrained of het liberty ever since, almost two years, and no one had ask<?d a question. Most of the time had been passed at the white house from which I had rescued her. The servants thought her mad, and hef brother the most devoted of relatives. He was sane in all points save her money matters, and so extremely cunning about them that no one, not even the lawyers, mis­ trusted anything wrong. She was now of age and prepared to fight for her rights and liberty. Would I help her? What a question, when I wafe prepared to lay down my life if need be, for her. I did not say as much, however, but convinced her I was to be depended on. We talked the matter over in all its bear­ ings, and decided to go at once to Chicago, which was her home, and where all the property was located. The 10:30 train that night had us for passengers, and soon we were treading the streets of the city. . Lawyers were at once sent for. and their amazement knew no bounds when they heard the story. She was advised to keep quietly indoors, and the matter would be at once investigated. '> I heard afterward that her brother was summoned to appear before a jury, and show proper cause for keeping her in con* finement. and withholding her nrniwrtv. He came at once, but in such a condition of mad excitement, that no further proof of her story was needed. He defied both judge and jury. Declared the money was in his power, and dared any one to meddle with it, and ended by drawing a revolve*, and attempting to shoot the judge. Well, that ended the matter. He was taken to prison, and in time to a private mad house, where he will spend the remainder of his life counting and recounting a box of coin, which he fondly imagines gold, but which is only cilt, provided by his sister, who does all she can, to mitigate his suffering, and render him content in his enforced seclusion. Well she knows by experience, how awful a thing it is to be shut away from friends and blessed liberty. Sue and I never returned to P , for I obtained a professorship in a school in Chicago, which makes me independent in personal expenses of my wife. Yes, of course, 1 married Clare Dunning. eago Ledger. The Hairs of Tour Head. ^ - Scientists have found that blonde hair is the finest and ted the coarsest. This not a very important contribution either to physiology or to tonsology, but, nevertheless, in ordep'to prove it, a German physiologist has counted the hairs on four heads of equal weight-- brains, bone, etc., excluded--with the following result: The red head con­ tained 90,000 hairs; the black, 103,00Q; brown, 109,000, and the blonde, 140,- 000. . ; - -- JAPAN has A population of 37,OO0,ObO, jLji KftA iQuQQA nAfinava , 3$rs. Bowser's Kx|kl*tt*ttan of Mr. Bowser's Falling* as a WsraM| to Tons| WouMn Contemplating; Mirrlsie, / , rDetroit Free Press.] And there are other thing* about Mr. Bowser which the public ought to know, and which I am determined to hold up as solemn warning to such young women as may be thinking of marriage. For one . thing. Bowser doesn't treat tho baby right. For the first few weeks lie made a great fuss over it, and one little squeal at midnight would bounce him out of bed, ready to go for a doc­ tor, without taking time to pull his boots on. Alas! what a change! The other night poor baby had the colic or some other ailment, and it cried steadily from 11 to 12 without Bowser moving an eyelid. Then I roused him np to build a fire and make a peppermint sling, and even before he got out of bed he said "thunder!" and called the baby a "thing!" I remonstrated--Certainly I did--and lie turned on me with: "I know what the young 'un needs He wants knocking down with a crow­ bar three or four times to take the ugly out of him !w I've lived with Bowser a good many years, but I never knew him in his true light until that night. He went off down stairs, built a roaring fire, heated the tea-kettle full of water, and he brought that up in one hand, the sugar- box in the other, and the peppermint in his pocket, and sat them down on the floor, and said: "There, now, either cure or kill him, but don't bother me any more." 1 began to tell him what I thought of him, but ho went to sleep and choked me off. The next morning lie tickled the baby's feet and tried to lessen the enormity of his crime in our eyes, but we were firm. I knew just as well as conld be when that child was only 2 weeks old that Bowser would give me trouble. Be­ cause he can run a lawn-mower lie argues that he can run a baby, and though I tried to make him see that there was a wide difference between the two, I couldn't succeed, except to gain a grudging admission that baby didn't run on two wheels and work with a ratchet. How did he weigh the little darling? Held him up by one leg, same as yon would a rabbit, and it took two days for the blood to get back to his toes again! The child wasn't four weeks old when Bowser began to look for teeth, and because he couldn't find any he turned to me and said I would' probably have an offer from some side­ show to travel wityi the monstrosity! When baby was 6 weeks old Bowser came home one afternoon and insisted on seeing him walk. He said he walked at 3 weeks, and his father at 2, and that if baby didn't begin then he was no good. I tried to jam some sense into his head, but in vain, and he had a fling about my family being bow-legged and spineless. One afternoon I left baby asleep and Bowser to watch him. In a few minutes the child opened its eyes, and Bowser remarked: "The old woman has gone over to Black's to see abcfcit a salve to cure your sore toe, and if yon make me any trouble I'll warm your jacket good and stout!" The baby began to cry. What baby wouldn't when threatened in that cold­ blooded manner?" "Shut up!" shouted Bowser. / Baby wouldn't. .» "Look-a-here!" continued Bowser as he spit on his hands, "you'll either dry up or leave my house! I don't intend to have any one around, here who won't obey all reasonable commands! If you go out you'll never come back--never!" The baby almost went into con­ vulsions, and all that saved its life was the fact that I returned while Bowser was hunting the cook to ask her to be a witness to the fact that baby left the house rather than obey the parental command! The child was scarcely 3 months old when Bowser wanted to put him into pantaloons and boots, and because I objected he roared out: "Oh, well, make a focj of him if you will, but I wash my hands of the whole affair!" When the boy was 5 months old Bowser sat down one day and asked him his age, name, etc., and when the dear thing put up its lip and began to cry -- as what baby wouldn't when jumped on in that manner ?--his father shook his great big fist at him and ex­ claimed: "Young man, this is the third or fourth time you have impudently defied me in my own house, and I give you notice that it is the last!" Last night I had the minister over talking with Bowser, but I don't sup­ pose that it did him much: good, as I suddenly heard him slap his fist into his hand and protest: "But the idea of a young 'un waking up in the middle of the night to howl! Why not-do it all in the daytime, when he's nothing else on hand!" Orange Groves in California. ^comparison to the extent of South­ ern California, the localities suited to the growth of the orange,-lemon, and lime are very limited. I mean by this that the places where the orange «nn be brought to perfection, without cod­ dling, wrapping, etc., are few and lim­ ited in extent; even on the far-famed Riverside there are many groves on the lower ground where they get an occas­ ional freeze, and where, in their young stage, the trees have to be wrapped and covered each winter, and in the valleys nearer the coast, Los Angeles, for in­ stance, they get so many fogs that the fruit is more or less spotted with fun­ goid growth, which materially affects their keeping qualities and sale, so that, really speaking, there is only the mes% land, near the interior foothills, where the orange, lemon, and lime will flour­ ish summer and winter, where the fruit is brought to its highest perfection, and where, year by year, the grove yields a good income to the grower. But given a good location, planted to good budded fruit, there is no tree planted that will yield such an income as the orange. The planting is done from February to June. Seeding plants cost from 40 to 60 cents each; budded trees from 75 cents to $1 each. They are planted all the way from eighteen feet apart to thirty feet, and the estimate of last season's planting in the three counties r~viz., San Diego, San Bernardino, and Los Angeles,--was 1,000 acres, or nearly 100,000 trees, and these are almost ex­ clusively Washington Navels. The output of last season was about 153,000 boxes, or somewhat over 35,000,000 oranges, and Riverside alone netted $300,000 for their crop. An orange or­ chard, if it is well attended to and properly cared for, will begin to pay about the .fifth year from planting. The lemon is harder to cultivate than the orange, and the crop is more ex­ pensive to handle. The owner of a lemon grove must have a cool curing- if thing 0 > • > ; W-- ' be picked before it and placed in bins in a cool room to care. When picked the skin is thick and not very juicy, but wlutfk properly cured it comes out with a thin skin and an abundance of juice, and Irach fruit always1 finds a ready market at a good paying price; but the California growers are only just beginning to find this Magazine. , v Soaping a Geyser. I learned of a curious circumstanoe while at the Upper Geyser Basin in the Yellowstone Valley, which is not gen­ erally known to the public, and which is unquestionably true. Many off the geysers are inactive, others merely bubble and steam without erupting, while others again spout with clock­ like regularity. I held the watch on Old Faithful again and again, but this beautiful geyser, true to its name, sent up a magnificent stream nearly 200 feet high every fifty-five minutes. Not once was there a failure or the slightest variation in the time. I saw it in the modnlight, and no spectacle on earth can compare with this sublime spec­ tacle. The Castle geyser also treated me to a rare exhibition, butl was informed by the proprietor of the hotel that the "Splendid," one of the finest geysers in the" basin, and which once had a record almost as good as Old Faithful, had completely failed, and had lain dormant for nearly six months. I strolled over to the Splendid and saw a man busily at work dropping bars of soap into the crater. What in the world are you doing that for?" I inquired, totally unable to restrain my curiosity. "Just wait and see," replied tho stranger. . ' He kept steadily at work, dropping bar after bar down the yellow-coated throat, until the monster began to rum­ ble and sputter, and finally behaved in very boistrous manner. Eleven, twelve, thirteen, and, as the fourteenth bar was swallowed up, away went the Splendid 150 feet into the air, as mag­ nificent and as grand as I had ever seen him. "There," exclaimed the experimental stranger; MI reckon I've made as big a discovery as either of those scientific cusses, Wiggins or Proctor, ever did in their lives." It was an odd way of setting geysers to work, and no doubt strictly original with the gentleman whom I saw trying it--St Louis Globe- Democfat What Pleased Her Most* A damsel from the wilds had the good fortune tg marry a young ranch­ men who had suddenly become rich. A bridal tour of all the large eastern cities was planned and away they went, jubilantlv happy. On their return the bride was asked1 if she enjoyed herself. "Well, I should smile," was her positive reply. "What .did you think of Niagara Falls?" "Oh, they were real nice, but I didn't care much for them." "How did you like Washington?" "Oh, just tolable. The Capitol was pretty fine, but I don't take much stock in such things." n "Did you go to New York?" * "Yes; we dawdled 'round there a week, and got. tired of It. Brooklyn Bridge was a good deal of a show, but I didn't see anything else I cared for much." "Well, now, do. tell me--what did you see that you'd like most to see again! What pleased you more than anything else?" The young bride's face brightened visibly, her eyes twinkled joyfully as she said: "Well, when we was in Chicago we went to a dime museum, and we see there a calf with two heads and two tails. It was born that way. I tell you, it beat anything we ever heard of.. John and me, we've both said many a time since that we'd rutlier see that calf agin than all Washington and New York and Niagry Falls put together. It jest beat alll"--Detroit Free PrettSi • , -•< A Matter of Taste. A reverend gentleman connected with the secession church, whose son at present occupies a most conspicuous place at the Scottish bar, was preach­ ing on an occasion of baptism in a farmer's house in a muirland district. The audience was necessarily very limited, and the kitchen was sufficiently large to accommodate the worshipers. The mistress ordered the servant maid to attend to the broth--which was bub­ bling up a stomach-cheering strain-- and pour into the pot, at the proper time, a large basinful of onions which had been shred and were lying on the dresser. The reverend gentleman had never been able to teach his stomach the elements of Egyptian cookery, the delicacies of Goshen--the relish of onions; on the contrary, he had a most rooted dislike to this strongly-flavored esculent. He commenced liis sermon, but kept a most suspicious eye on the onions, which he could not only see, but fancied he could feel the flavor of. At the given point in the ebullition of the broth, the mistress gave a signifi­ cant nod to the servant, who picked up tlie basin of onions to obey the signal. As the maid came forward to drop them in the broth, *his reverence stopped short in his sermon, and, pointing at the offending onions, said: "I say, my las?, if ye put a shaving o' thae in the pot, I'll not put a spoon in the kail thin day!" . Names Among the Indians. The Indians have some queer cus­ toms regarding names. They some­ times exchange names, sometimes sell them. An Indian maiden has a name another Indian fancies and covets. The name may be sold for a consideration, and thereafter maiden No. 2 possesses it. Sometimes an Indian takes a new name because of some achievement or some event of his life. The cause may be grand or a trival one; ennobling or ridiculous. He may don the new name of his own volition, and sometimes, like greatness, it is thrust upon him by his fellow-savages. This is true not only of the individual but of a whole tribe. Thus the Kaws got their name. They were once a part of the Osage nation. A dispute arose between two rival chieftians whether the tribe should go to war with another tribe. One chief raised his voice for war, the other for peace. Their followers divided on that issue, the war party calling the peace party "Kaws"--cowards--and that name lias stuck to th«m ever since, and the two factions are at enmity, the Osages refusing to associate of have anything to do with the Kaws.--Burlington Hawkeye. "OUT of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh," as Fogg remarked when hearts were trump and he "or­ dered it up." BARKEEPERS say they find by observ­ ing their customers that "a man may. aufle and muilf and still be willing.! ̂ ; There was a loud knock heard upon tiie door, and it was the very doorv too, upon which a piece of black crape flut­ tered. The ladies within the house were a little startled, for it was an Unusual oc­ currence for any one to knock upon the front door. There was a bell in plain sight, and it was customary for people to ring it very softly when the sign of death was placed so near to it. Indeed it seemed almost irreverent for any one to knock in that way upon the door while Annie, the household idol, was lying still and cold in the room close to the door. "Some tramp, I guess," one of the ladies said. "I wili tell him to go. to the back door," she added, going to­ ward the place where the knock was heard. To her surprise she found a little ragged boy standing there with a few wild flowers in his hand. "Be -you Annie's mother?" he asked in an eager voice. "No," the lady answered; and then she asked, "Who are you?" "I am Tom Brady, and I want to see her," he answered ruickly. The lady hesitated and was about to say to liim that Annie's mother was in deep affliction and could not see him, when the lady in question came to the door herself. "What do you want, little boy?" she asked kindly. "Be you her?" asked the little fellow, with tears in his eyes. "I mean, be you Annie's mother?" he explained. "Yes," was the low answer. "Well, I heard that she died, and I brought these flowers to put upon her coffin, he said, while the tears effe larger and brighter into his eyes. "What made you bring them, little boy ?" the mother asked, while the tears came into her own eyes. " 'Cause she always said 'Good-morn- ing' to me when she went past our house on her way to school, and she never called me 'ragged Tom' like the other girls. She gave me this cap and coat, and they were good and whole when she gave them to me; and then when our little Jean died she brought us a bunch of flowers to put on his coffin, and some to hold in his hands. It was winter then and I don't know where she got the flowers. They looked very pretty in Jean's hand, and he did not look dead after that. He was dead, though, and we buried liim down among the apple trees. I could not get such pretty flowers as she brought to us, but I went all over the big mountain yon­ der and only found these few. You see it is too early for them, but I found two or three up on a high rock where it was warm and sunny. Will you put them on her coffin?" and the little fel­ low reached out the half-blown flowers that had cost him such a long, weary tramp. "Yes,, and we will place some of them in her hand, too," the mother answered in a broken voice. - "Could I see Annie just a moment?" the boy asked, almoat pleadingly. "Yes, come in, little boy," the mother again answered, as she led the way to the little dead girl. The boy looked at the sweet face very earnestly, and then he took from his torn coat pocket another half-blown flower and placed it in the shiny golden hair of little Annie. "Will you let it be there?" he asked in a sobbing voice. "Yes," was the only answer. He went out softly, and the sweet spring violet remained just where •'his trembling hand had left it. The others were placed in th6 little white hand and upon the coffin. Surely, the rag­ ged Irish boy could not have expressed his gratitude to his little friend in any better way.--Pacific Christian ddmi- cate. ' • fight with a Bull. ' In the "History of Summit County," Ohio, the following incident is given: Henry "Van Hyning, of Norton, had for his farm work a yoke of very large bulls. In the harvest-time Abel Irish, who was at work for him, went to yoke them. After yoking one of the bulls he motioned to the othef to come under tfie yoke, but the animal threw himself on his reserved right and refused to obey. Upon this Irish struck the bull with the ox-bow several times over the head. The animal bore tho punishment with­ out a movement for a few moments and then sprang at Irish, raising him on his horns and tossing him eight or ten fedt into the air. As the man came down the bull rushed upon him to fix him to the ground, but his horns were long and went each side of the man's body, lrolding him to the ground without much injury. Irish seized the bull's nose with his teeth and gave him so hearty a bite that the animal sounded a retreat. As soon as he got his nose released, the bull returned to the fight, and again, taking his antagonist on his horns, threw him into the air, and catching liim in his fall, threw him several times, until Mr. Van Hyning, who saw the fight from the house, some ten rods distant, caught up his rifle and went out to shoot the bull. By this time Irish was again on the ground, with the bull's horns astride his body. He again got his teeth well fixed in his enemy's nose, and used them with such effect that the bull seemed willing to call it a draw game, or else feared the re-enforcement that he saw coming to the aid of Irish. He retreated, but thS man could not follow up the victory. For three weeks Irish was confined to his bed, but recovered, and was still alive at last accounts to relato his wonderful escape from the horns of a bull--an experience which few men would have survived.--Youth's Companion. Independence and Flies. It is wonderful how little matters af­ fect great deeds. I came across a funny story as told by Randall, tlie man who wrote the large biography of Jefferson, which shows how the Declaration of In­ dependence was hastened. Says he: "While the question of independence was before Congress it had its meeting near a livery-stable. The members wore short breeches and silk stockings, and with handkerchief in hand they were diligently employed in lashing tiie flies off their, legs. So very vexatious was this annoyance, and to so great an impatience did it arouse the sufferers, that it hastened, if it did not aid, in in­ ducing them promptly to affix their signatures to the great document which gave birth to an Empire Republic. This anecdote I had from Mr. Jefferson at Monticello, who seemed to enjoy it very much, as well as to give credit to the influence of the flies. He told it with much glee and seemed to retain a vivid recollection of an attack from which the only relief was signing the paper and flying from the scene."-- "Carp" in Cleveland Leader. SUNOAJT-SCHOOX. TEACHEB--Methuse­ lah Hved 900 years. Boy->-That J jpretty tough on his ikm-in-law. iry iŝ fmnti. ^ 8ays*Maife Twain,"in a recent ar­ ticle : Xiit«ilftturc, like the ministry, medkine, the law, and other occupa­ tions, is cramped and hindered for want of men to do the work, not want of work to do. When people tell you the reverse they speak that which is not true. If you desire to test this, you need only hunt up a first-class editor, reporter, business manager, foreman of a shop, mechanic, or artist in any branch of industry and try to hire him. You will find that he is already hired. He is sober, industrious, capable, and re­ liable, and is always in demand. Ho cannot get a day s holiday except by Courtesy of his employer, or of his city, or of the great general public. But if you need idlers, shirkers, half-in- atructed, unambitious and comfort- seeking editors, reporters, lawyers, doctors, and mechanics, apply any­ where. The young literary aspirant is a very, very curious creature. He knows that if he wished to become a tinner the master smith would require him to prove the possession of a good char­ acter, and would require him to promise to stay in the shop three years--possi­ bly four--and would make him sweep out and bring water and build fires afi the first y ear, and let him learn to black stoves in the intervals. If he wanted to become a mechanic of any other kind, he would have to undergo this same tedious, ill-paid apprenticeship. If he wanted to become a lawyer or a doctor, he would have to do fifty times worse, for he would get nothing at all during his long apprenticeship, and, in addition, would have to pay a large sum for tuition and have the privilege of boarding and clothing himself. The literary aspirant knows all this, and yet he has the hardihood to present himself for reception into the literary guild and to ask to share its high honors and emoluments without a single twelve-month's apprenticeship to show in excuse for his presumption. He would smile pleasantly if he were asked even to make so simple a thing as a 10-cent dipper without previous in­ struction in the art; but, all green and ignorant, wordy, pompously assertive, ungrammatical, and with a vague, dis­ torted knowledge of men and the world, acquired in a back country village, he will serenely take up so dangerous a weapon gas a pen and attack the most formidable subject that finance, com­ merce, war, or politics, can furnish him withal. It would be laughable if it were not so sad and so pitiable. The poor fellow would not intrude upon the tin-shop without an apprenticeship, but is willing to seize and wield with un- practiced hand an instrument which is able to overthrow dvnasties change re­ ligions, and decree tlie weal or woe of nations. ^ Where the Presidents Are Buried. Of the twenty Presidents who have passed away, Gen. Arthur was the fourth to be buried within the borders of the Empirei State. James Monroe died at his daughter's house in this city, and was buried with civic and military honors in the old cemetery on Second avenue. His grave was unmarked by a monument for several years, and then the Legislature of Virginia had his re­ mains disinterred andxonveyed to Rich­ mond, where they were afteward buried in Hollywood Cemetery. Martin Van Buren, the eighth President, was buried in the old church burying ground at Kinderhook, and was the first of the nation's chief magistrates to find a permanent resting place in this State. A handsome granite shaft erected by his sons marks his grave. Millard Fill­ more's grave is beside those of his own two wives and daughters in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo. The remains of Gen. Grant, whose funeral was the most imposing ever seen in the United States, lie in a splendid tomb at River­ side, and Gen. Arthur's body was interred in Rural Cemetery, near Albany. In point of age, Gen. Arthur was the sixth youngest of the Presidents. Gen. Grant attained the dignity of chief magistrate at the age of 47. Franklin Pierce was next youngest, be­ ing 48 years old at the time of the in­ auguration. James K. Polk was only 49 when he attained Presidential honors. Garfield was inaugurated in his 49th year. When called to the noblest posi­ tion known to the American form of government, Gen. Arthur had just turned 50. President Cleveland was made chief ruler at the age of 47. Gen. Arthur was the first of the Presidents who wore side-whiskers. None of the other Presidents wore any hair on their face until Abraham Lin­ coln's time, and Grant, Hayes, and Garfield were the only ones who had full beards. President Cleveland is the first and only President who has worn a mustache only. Gen. Arthur was regarded as the best dressed of the nation's Presidents. In the matter of wealth, Gen. Arthur comes about fourth on the list. Washington died worth about $350,000; Madison left at his death something like $260,000, and Van Buren's estate was valued at $300,000. Jefferson was wealthy when he became President, but died insolvent, as did also James Monroe. Buchanan had about $200,000 when he died, while Lincoln left less than $100,000. Grant was ruined by the failure of Grant & Ward. The sale of his memoirs, how­ ever, has netted his widow half a million. The estate left by President Garfield was not worth more than $40,000. Numerous gifts made to his widow have increased this amount tenfold.--New York Herald. Methods of Evarta and Conkling. People have been regaled from time to time with samples of the oratory of William M. Evarts, in which single sentences have been given of more than two hundred words each. As a con­ trast we may mention Roscoe Conk- ling's address to the jury in the case of Favnsworth, Receiver of the Bankers' and Merchants' Telegraph Company, against the Western Union Telegraph Company, a pamphlet of forty-eight pages, in Which the speaker uttered no paragraph larger than sixteen lines, in­ cluding 120 words, and this in live sen­ tences. There is 'a great difference be­ tween gr«at .orators.-- Pitt&^g^J^- " Wpm ,, .... M" •' ^ ,f K Colds. # Many persons take cold by having cold feet, and to these the cold douche to the feet is a most effective cure. It stimulates the nerves and arteries of the feet and produce a brisk reaction of Warmth. A single application will sometimes set cold feet glowing that have not been warm for a whole winter. Often it will entirely cure the life-long affliction of cold feet. The colder the water the better; and if one has not the convenience of a douche it will serve fairly well to stand in a tub or basin, filled to six inches deep with the coldest water at command. The warm reaction is essential.--Harper's Bazar. - , I THERE may be a vast difference be- I *weeA a noble and an owe»able man. TBADK winds--drummers' remarks.- New Haven News. - i BUDS is the summer of beeatwe it goes before a fall.- hatl Crimes. FIERT degree, speculation; second do* gree, defalcation; third degree, humil­ iation, prison, or Canada.--Harffort* POSt "'y!; A CINCINNATI pork dealer has had his career written up. It' is in the form of a buy-hography. --Pittsburgh Tela* graph. THE toothache is a hard-glove, fight* to-a-finish content between pain an en-; durance, in which "endurance geti knocked out every time.-- Detroit Jrrea Press. , - ; MRS. JONES--How do you govern Sur husband so well, Mrs. Smith?, rs. Smith--I don't let him know thafc I'm governing him. I make him be*; lieve that he's goTerning me.--Boston Courier. , , - | "I TAKE it, sir, that you are a pro- ' fessional man, " he said to his fellow passenger. "Yes, sir." "I amglad to hear it I'm a professional man my­ self, and I like to meet professional men." "Lawyer, I s'pose?" Gambler." f FRIEND, (to young lawyer)---Did yofc succeed in convicting your man? Young lawyer, (gloomily)--No; he waa acquitted. Insanity did it. Friend-- , He never acted like a crazy man»; Young lawyer--He isn't It's the jury - who are crazy. . Miss CLEVELAND, in* an article on "Home," says: "There is no measuring a woman's lever." A woman up town says if her husband is referred to in th» matter of staying at home of ni there s no measuring a man s leave heik --Washington Critic. \:H "CHARLEY, what is a chestnut bell ?** said his girl. " Oh! it's a bell that ring# when any one tells an old story.* \ "Well, they couldn't call me a chestnut belle; I have no ring." It succeeded and they are to be married when Char­ ley has his salary raised. "WHAT'S the price of sausages?" "Dwenty cends a bound." "You asked twenty-five this morning." "Yes; dot vas ven I had some. Now I ain't got none I sells for dwenty cends. Do| makes me a rebutation for selling; cheap, and I don't lose nod dings." PAT MCCLURE!" "That's me, sir.* "Charged with disorderly conduct ";# "How so, sir?" "They complain that you alarm the neighborhood where yott are working at carrying a hod at a new1 building." "Yes, sir, I do sing; but it's a quiet Sunday-school melody, sir.? "What's that?" "Still there's mor-ts®' follow."--Chicago Ledger. FRIEND, (to legal author)--I heat you are out with a new book? Authot Yes. Friend--Is the scene laid ill this country? Author--No; in Syrii Friend--Syria? Why, great Scotts, man! you know nothing about the laws of Syria. Author--I. know it, bt& neither do my readers.--The Judge!. 1 "Is IT true, Joe, that you have quar* . reled with Miss Simpkins?" "Yes, Bill. Our engagement's off." "Isn% reconciliation possible?" Bill--"H isn't;" "Why what grave things liap» pened?" "I presumed to give her a lit" tie advice. I told her that she had better give up writing poetry. She hasn't spoken to me since."--Philadel* phi a Call. MRS. MUSHBY--I met Mrs. MotW erwell| this afternoon. What a tedioup thing she is! Forever talking about that baby, you know. Martha--But, aunt, now don't be cross; did it ever occur to you that Mrs. Motherwel§r> might think you a grain tiresome wheft you get talking about Rover? Mrs, Mushby--That's an entirely differen| thing. A dog is so interesting, yo^ know!--Boston Transcript v A CASE OF BIG HEAD. , ^ An«ditor sat in bia easy chair . .. Scratching his head (whieb, by the '#ay, w** entirely bare), • • • • - it,'.' For ideas which were not there • Any more than his hair. His brow, once alabaxterian and fair. Was wrinkled with care. . In his eye gleamed a glare- ; V4 ' Fill stare Which meant beware 1 " . lJon't daro • " To disturb me while I'm trying to ptfpm} • 4 A report of this measly allWr Orlawear ' 1 *11 brain you with tbat baokleasolMif,, ,. -»• Keep out of bis lair • , • For the wrathy Editalre , -v Bo full of despair w' Has been out on a tear. • ~ . • Let him have plenty of'ittr : «» -.. --DanwiUe Breeze. * -m Pel and How They Eat It. ' j: But what is it? some of our readers may inquire. Briefly, it is the Ha^t waiian's staff of life* Without poi Hawaiian would not find life wortfe living. Give him poi, and, with an oc| casional allowance of raw fish as || desert, no matter what may happen h^> is liappy. He will take it three times a day, and oftener if he can get it, an<§ every day in the year, and always witl|: equal if not increased relish., Poi is made from the root of th« kalo or arum esculentum. The root,* which is about the size and shape of |f. large beet, is baked in an underground oven and then pounded in a hollow stone or board and mixed with water until it has tlie consistency of printer's | pasta. It is next laid aside for a few days and allowed to ferment. When. > ready for use it has a slight sour tasta • and a pink of lilac color. The taste i* | not unlike that of sour bookbinders^ paste, and is anything but palatabl# . ,~ when one first essays to make a meal ojf i it. But a liking for it, a« for ftlmosfc ™. anything else, is easily acquired.' ? Eating poi according to nativ^. fashion is quite an art, and required considerable manual, or, rather, digital; v " dexterity. The index finger, or thi4| g and the second finger together, arqp . " dipped into the pasty mess when it if - quickly and deftly twirled around thens ' s and then elevated above the mouth an<$; $v jf allowed to trickle down the throat ill 4 way that simply astonishes any one but a born Kanaka.--Sacramento News. • The Smelling Bottle. < ̂ The action of perfumes on the olfac% yA tory nerves varies with the particrularW ci­ ties of the individual and the nature oC "*";- the perfume. Gretry, the composer^ , ^ wpuld swoon at the smell of a rose. The Duchess of Lamballe, the con<( v-* fidante of Marie Antoinette, could endure the odor of violets. Louis XIVv " enjoyed the fragrance of orange bios*'. - - soma. During the Directory, musk was'" - ^ the fashionable perfume, whence thai ? term "muscadin," tho "dude" of thos^tg days. Josephine used to' scent hetf, ^ dressing-room witj£ musk, while Na« poleon had himself sprinkled witl^, V cologne every morning. 1' IN a British Association paper, Mr|ltv W H. Preece has recorded an experi*' , ment by which he localized a fraigmenf ? of a needle in his daughter's hand. fine magnetized needle was suspended? by a delicate fiber over the hand, and < on cutting at the point indicated biff this needle the troublesome bit of gteeii\ Was found and extracted. . > V*- 6 . . _'*4i Ai