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§: 'irt W. TOOKONl&Sk ™--r t'M ife. near to m«, clwrTom, i,vi: , <Come rest yourself in this arm ohiJr. "Y% comfort liero, dear Tom . , " *i you and 1 Khali shai*. • - 't«j H*M have gone bv. Tom, . '.-MT you e.is<l I WW boys toMbK, • ™*a ft strife v.ri t h you and ut, ¥• ..v Since w« went hounding o'er the heather. *• :• sutis of many years, Tom, t _H«ue marked your old familiar face, JRow white vonr locks are, T<vni; All, mo! there's wrinkles I can traoe. p- We've grown gray together, boy, «Hv- Though fate has cast our lots apart, Wine's traced us both alike, TOBOL : As we, have traced each othersneaH. not Ji/e's battles. Toih, :' : ; ; Nor cares that's burden to the heart; *Vi, " "TRS fRte •which blights life, Tom, •••.'f--:'*And 1>W» oar sweetest joys depart, yours ago. dear friend. " , ( . The Harvest time, the moonlit nights , W: ! IBhed a halo o'er the sceno 1 > ' ' .And whispering Angels took their flight. " *lt. wooing time, dear Tom, , A time when youth's ardor at its height Breaks from its bonds and chains . *To perfect day spring of delight--1 -Ah then! It was, dear Tom •>$$$&(. 1 wooed and won the fairest ooii . • ®cav«>Ti ere smiled upon, " •:* And life was fairly then begun, - ^ y$ ' Mi.iv f' •• .Ci*'- Xlfc's hut a phantom, Tom, CTV^ ~h ' ' 1 scarce did grasp when it aid titti ' ' ^Midnightdid intervene; t 'A mound of earth, a grave new made .'Dispelled the joys of life. *The treasure's gone, the loved one dust, . xekui lends us jewels for a time, ~; •; ,(^ay you 'tis wise J Can you distract?,. ,:*ihir journey's end is near, Tom ! - We'll cross the river at its flood.- ©0 you fear its current, Tom? , , Are you not to pass where others Stocd? '^Wta'i t know yonr courage, boy, * ' V • TTou will not falter at the call, Shaven is a perfect rest- . . For you and I, and loved ones' sji. OF TWO TRUNKS Bt CURA ME It WIN. bar- IE?*? V* ̂ f̂ letter take it, sir. A regular iv'fjain." And the proprietor of A. Jackman's Trunk and Saddlery Emporium, cm Trade street, thrust his hands deep V -down into his trousers pockets and as­ sented the insinuating grin that is sup­ posed to facilitate business. "But I wasn't expecting to pav so •touch," hesitated Mr. Edward Emu, a pos-tly, middle-aged gentleman, with •gold eye-glasses, a spotless suit of fresh Ivtxiadcloth, and irreproachable linaw- ""I had limited myself to " "Only two of 'em made, sir,* per- cnuively broke in A. Jackman, lower- •ing his voice to a whisper, "Couldn't be Afforded at the price. A dead loss to ~6m trade, sir. Why, we've got to sell * them for a mere song, $25. It's enough to make one laugh. Look at them zinc landings, sir! Look at them wrought- ircrn clamps! Just see the patent locks, ar, and the straps as a man might hang Mmself by and never feel it! Why, sir, y>u might fill that there trunk with lead «or granite and cart it across the con­ tinent without starting a nail." "It certainly appears very strong and serviceable," said Mr. Erwin, reflect­ ively, feeling his chin. "And perhaps --although I have limited myself to $18 n "Youll never feel the difference, sir," «W><1 Mr. Jackman. "Dear me, air! •wney spent for a valuable article, is as good as an investment. Will you have JW name painted on the end, sir ? We <io it gratis." "No, I won't," said Mr. Erwin, rather •enrfcly, "1 don't believe in advertising any self while I'm traveling." "And there's another advantage, sir," * saw Mr. Jackman, "in a trunk of this semaifcable style and pattern. No diffi- •eulty in identifying it, sir. Ha! ha! ha! "Why, a man could tell it in Arabia or Lower Japan!" So Mr. Erwin bought the trunk, * ordered it sent to his address, and went lis way rejoicing. Mrs. Erwin--she was a sharp-nosed lady, a few years older than her liege lord, and given to unreasoning jealousy --pot on her spectacles to look at the * sew purchase. "How much did you giveOfctfit, JErwra?" she demanded. n , *; ^Eighteen dollars, my love,* Mr. Er- • responded, with a mental* reserva­ tion of the other seven. "Too much," was the conjugal com­ ment. ̂ But as, according to Mrs. Er- ; win's views of social economy, her spouse ; invariably paid too much for everything be bought, he made no attempt to justify himself, but went on laying out his shirts, socks, and slippers tor a pro­ jected commercial tour. ~I suppose you couldn't wait until next "week," said Mrs. Erwin, stirring a com­ pound of rock-candy, squills, and liquo- •iceina small stone pitcher. "For I really think my cold would be enough totter to " "Quite out of the question, Esther, my i. dear, quite out of the question," Mr. E5r- ' win hurriedly answered. "Link and ' Dnnn regard it as essential that I should igo at once, preparatory to the opening of the spring trade." *" Mrs. Erwin sneezed out her regrets. She never allowed Mr. Erwin to go traveling without her when she could i*elp it, but Providence and influenza were too strong for her upon this occa­ sion. b»ow you'll get into some scrape, Erwin, if I'm not with you,* sighed she. Tou're as thoughtless as a- child, and " ."I hope not, my love," said Mr. Er­ win, secretely exultant. It wasn't often ne had the privilege of being his own master, and he felt like a boy just let * out of school. Miss Maria Ann Binder bought the second ""great bargain" at the Trunk : *ud Saddlery Emporium on Trade street. She was an old maid of the old snaidie£& description, lean, lank, and sullen, with not a great deal of money ®o spare; but she was going on a visit to her <cousia's up in Maine.where there "Were two or three eligible old bachelors, and she resolved to go in style or perish in the attempt. v babd-boxes "taurell smash up the minute the express man dumps it on the railway platform," caid she. "I want a real good, sub- . st&rtfcial *1^*? CTU SU^ y°u exactlv, ma'am '••id Mr. Jackman, rubbing his hands gleefully together. "Only two o< 'em made. Too good! Hatha! ha! Just sold the other one at a loss, and as * 3 .̂5® * 7 wel1 do "luaUy well by Fate is an irresponsible agent as v« are taught to believe; but there is a ««ai of sly waggery about Fate, after all. Else, how did it happen that Mr. Erwin and Miss Maria Ann Binder met <tha n<»them train that gusty Febru- mj might, about two weeks subse- ^peatly? Maria Ann was jubilant, as she ^jWipqght of Miss Saiepta and Barbara pWi^more, and the two Mr. Black- Mr. Erwin, who sat directly ^lllilPfU'iiri the isle of tha railway car, was dejected. Mrs. Erwin had re- from her cold mid telegraphed t f ; a'£' '\l x%% Opte *' f k «t...."..«'.k , i feiv.-5*..i "Of course shell go the rest of the route with me," pondered Mr. Erwin. * 'Dear me, dear me, why can't "woman Tie contented at home ?" There had been considerable changes of train, owing to the break-down of a locomotive on the snowy road, and the passengers congregated about the bag­ gage-car, when at last they reached Whiteport. Miss Marie. Ann Binder presented her check to a Mr Jfervin chanoed to select the same funo^ tionary. - "If them trunks ain't as like as two ;peas," said Jehu to himself, as, his pas- fcengers snugly seated, he banged the trunks on behind. "Guess likely they'll know 'em apart, though; if they don't I Can't be expected to!" Mr. Erwin was dislodged first. "Whiteport Hotel, sir!" Said the Coachman. **This your trunk, sir?" "That is my trunk," answered Mr. _Erwin, blissfully confident that no one had a trunk like his. Jehu pocketed his fare, shut the car­ riage door, sprang to his box, and rat­ tled away over the pavements at a break-neck pace to No. 95, Box street, •here the celebrated family of Black- more resided. "Here you are madam!" cried he pitching the trunk into the marble- paved vestibule with an energy that nmde Miss Binder rejoice in its zinc corners and iron clamps. "Now, then! One dollar, ma'am!" Miss Binder unlocked her trunk in tiie presence of all four of the cousins. , "I've an India crape shawl out of XJncle Dixon's red-chest for each of you girls," said she, "and a set of carved ivory chessmen, * and a real Turkish chibouque for Charles and Caleb and As she spoke, the wards of the key revolved, and the lid flew up. Mian Barbara uttered a shriek. ( , "Men's shirts!" cried she. Mr. Caleb Blackmore recoiled# , %. " Boots 1" uttered he, in a htlHow voice. While Mr. Charles glared, voice- lessly, at a set of shaving tools and a yellow-covered volume. "I wouldn't have believed it, Maria Ann, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes," said Barbara. "A gratuitous insult," cried Miss Sarepta, the elder sister. "It--it isn't mine," squeaked the un­ fortunate Maria Ann, bursting into tears of mingled perplexity and mortifi­ cation. "Not yours? Then whose is it?" fiercely demanded Sarepta Blackmore. "Maria Ann! Maria Ann Binder! I'm ashamed of you!" But if Miss Binder was subjected to obloquy and misconstruction, what was the gloomy cloud that settled above Mr. Edward Erwin when his better- half, taking calm possession of his keys, unlocked the zinc-bound trunk that the hotel porter deposited in their room, and beheld a brown velvet bonnet, two China crape shawls, and a work-box. "Mr. Erwin!" she cried, jerking out the tray as if it burnt her fingers, "what is this?" "My things dear, aren't they?" un­ consciously answered Mr. Erwin, who sat with his broad back towards his wife and the trunk that wasn't his, toasting his feet at the fire. "Your things, indeed! Pretty things! I wonder you don't blush to speak the words! Slippers, embroidered hand­ kerchiefs, fluted underthings! Erwin, Fll sue for a divorce. I will!" She sank back on an easy chair mak­ ing evident preparation for a good old- fashioned attack of hysterics. Mr. Erwin jumped up and Sprang to the rescue. "Edward, whose things are theg&2" . "My dear, I donft know." * "Is this your trunk?" "It's--my--trunk," unwillingly tmretl Mr. Erwin. "But somebody hashocus- pocussed my things out of it, and some­ body else's in." "Edward, that is ridiculous nonsense!" shrieked Mrs. Erwin. "Oh! oh! oh! that I should live to see this day! Go away, you false, unnatural, deceitful, double-faced--;--" "Please, sir, interposed the voice of the hotel porter, there's a lady here with a big trunk as says she must see Mr. Ed­ ward Erwin." '"Call the police! send for the land­ lord," called Mrs. Erwin. "Coming here, her own bare-faced Belf! Well, I never did see such impudence! Put her out doors! Erwin, how dare you look me in the face, and " "It's my trunk!" cried Miss Maria Ann Binder, bouncing into the room. "And it's as bad as burglary to open it. Ill have the law of you. There, you, porter bring up that other trunk!" "Go away, you bold thing!" piped Mrs. Erwin. "What business is it of yours?" vir-' ulently demanded -Miss. Binder. "It's my husband!" " Then what is he doing with my trunk?" "Is it--your trunk?" faintly asked Mrs. Erwin. "Ladies! ladies! do pray' preserve the peace," soothed Mr. Erwin. "Don't you see the trunks are exactly alike. It's a mistake of the hackman's, madam," he addressed Miss Maria Ann, "I hope you haven't been put to any serious in­ convenience." Miss Binder was mollified, Mrs. Er­ win unwillingly confessed herself in the wrong, Mr. Erwin wiped the persperai. tion from his brow, wondering what on earth would have become of him if Miss Binder and the other trunk had not made their opportune appearance just in the nick of time. "She would have got a divorce," «nid Mr. Erwin to himself. "I almost wish she had." Miss Binder took her own treasure back to the Blackmore residence, and made her peace with the four cousins, Mrs. Erwin ordered a cup of strong tea to compose her nerves, and Mr. Erwin bought a pint of white paint, and spent his leisure evening in inscribing his name in big letters on both ends of his trunk. "For," said Mr. Erwin, "it's the last time 111 be caught so." Let us charitably hope that it was^ REPUBLICAN COURT B£I£Eg. BMItflW Vxctted Women Who Bavi Admiration. All through our national history wo­ men have exerted a strong, though'gen­ erally quiet influence in shaping the destinies of our country; not, like the women of the days of Louis XIV, Louis XVI, the French Revolution and the two Napoleons with intrigues and schemes, and liaisons, but with honor and for the country's welfare. When Patrick Henry was on Kis way to the Continental Congress in 1774, passing a day at Mount Vernon, Martha Washington talked to him lite a Spartan mother. "I hope," she said, "you will stand firm, I know George will." The encouragement was not without its ef­ fect upon the destinies of the oountrv. The wife of John Adams supported him in his advocacy of the Declaration of Independence, while John Dick in* son's women made him timid by con­ juring up visions of the scaffold and he dodged the vote on the adoption of the Declaration. Abigail Adams constantly supported her husband in his efforts for American. Independence. John Hancock's wife, who was a Qnincy, married him when a price was set upon his head and he was in hiding. She said she would willingly inqur beg­ gary to see the colonies throw off the British j oke. Martha Washington was frequently in camp with her husband, aud they spent that awful winter at Valley Forge to­ gether, enduring the same hardships, while she devised means t6 comfort the sick and wounded. Elizabeth, the wife of Alexander Ham­ ilton, and daughter of Gen. Philip Schuyler, assisted him in his labors, counseled him in his affairs, and kept his accounts in order. She was a beautiful, accomplished and educated lady. The wife of Gen. Henry Knox was an intelligent, sensible woman, of shrewd wit and a popular favorite at the early Republican court. She was a very large lady and a lady of fashion of the day. Mrs. Robert Morris was an elegant, accomplished, and rich lady, and when her husband was cast into debtors' prison she refused to sign certain papers in favor of the Holland Land Company until they agreed to have her husband released and grant her an annuity of $2,000. Mrs. John Jay was a very vivacious beauty and a great favorite of Mme. Lafayette and the other social leaders of that time. She was possessed of rare accomplishments, talked French like a Parisienne and was a fine artist and musician. Dolly Madison, the beautiftit Quaker' ess, when she entei-ed the White House became the disputed queen of society. She became the rage, for she was pretty, amiable, winning, a charming enter­ tainer, bon mots ros6 to her in appar­ ent unstudied spontaneity, and her favorites always secured what they desired. Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr, and wife of Gov. Joseph Allston, of South Carolina, was a beautiful and learned woman. She idolized her father, and attended his trial for treason at Richmond, where her beauty and in­ tellectual graces did much to conquer popular hostility and secure a favorable verdict. Sl\p was lost at sea while go­ ing from Charleston to New Y-ork in December, 1812. Mrs. Eaton (Peggy O'Neal), wife of Gen. Jackson's War Secretary, though beautifful and lively, was snubbed by all the other Cabinet ladies, and be­ cause the President's niece, Mrs. Don- lelson wouldn't recognize her he sent that lady home. Jackson, who could conquer the Indians and the British, couldn't settle the women's fight, so he reformed his Cabinet and sent Eaton abroad, where the latter's wife had de­ cided social success. Among the ruling beauties at Wash­ ington just before the war were Mrs, Slidell wife of the Louisiana Senator, and Mrs. Fremont, daughter of Thomas Benton. The fascinations of the later were so ftreat, her intellect so strong and bright, her wit so sprightly, that her power with our leading statomen became mighty.--Washington Critic, J advise him to provide himself with a good, strong cord. A long garter will do if nothing else is handy. Wlijen the cramp comes on, take the cord, wind it around the leg over the place that is cramped, and take an end in each hand and give it a sharp pull, one that will hurt a little. Instantly the cramp will cease, and the sufferer can go to bed as­ sured it will not come on again that night. 1 have saved myself many a good night's rest simply "by posting my pa­ tients, subject to spasms of the legs, how to use the cord as above. I have never known it to foil, and I have tried it after they had worked half the night, and the patient was in the most intense ag­ ony. Even in such cases, at the first jerk of the cord all pain left.-^-JZ. W. St. Glair, M. Z>., in Medical Age. $ Didn't Agree with Him. Just after the new circuit-ride* of the Oak Range circuit had finished his first sermon, an old fellow, a deacon and evidently a man of great influence in the community, drew him aside. The preacher's face was flushed with ex­ pectant pleasure. "Parson," said the deacon, "yottseem ter be a putty honest sort uv feller." "I hope so," the preacher, somewhat crest-fallen, answered. His heart was yearning for commendation, for that "first-sermon approval" which buoys the i aspirations of the circuit-rider, an ap­ proval which promises -a comfortable station in a town. "Yas, I hope so, too, but thar wuz some uy yo' statements that I wouldn't be willin' to hang my hat on." "What were they, brother? I am sure that I did not depart very far from the bible." "Oh, ez; long ez you stuck ter that ole .book you wuz all right, but you tuck ercasion ter climb outen the field fe&ced in by rails split-by ole Peter and John. Clim over the fence, ez it were, an' sorter sa'ntered off down inter the cypress swamp uv Satan." "I don't understand you, brother." "Wall, you tuck ercasion ter say er good deal erbout ballot-box liftin'." "I said it was just as much of a ain to steal a ballot-box as it was to steal a horse." "Yas, parson, an' I take issue with you right thar. I have lifted ballot- boxes, parson, but I want you ter un- derstau' that I wouldn't steal a hoss. Now, wbut do you say?" The young preacher was embar­ rassed. "Come," said the deacon, with it.. Don't hem and haw." j "I do not suppose you would steal a horse, brother." . "But you say that a man that would steal a ballot-box , would steal er hoss." "No, I didn't say that." "What did you say V" "brother, let us step a little farther off down into the woods. I don't want the brethren to hear us." They went farther into the woods. The poor * preacher evidently thought that his chances of ultimate success were slipping away from him, for an expression of deep concern had settled on his face. . ., "Now," said the deacon, explainyour- sel." "Brother, I did not know the senti­ ment of the congregation, or I should not have made the statement. I cannot believe, however, that you ever took a ballot-box. " "But I t&l you that I did." "When, brother" It must have bee a long time ago." "Not so mighty long ago. Qn!y a the last election. With a startling movement the parsoi drew a pistol. "Throw up your handi. until I search you. Oh, a knife, eh ?' he added, as he put one hand under the deacon's coat. "Here (producing a pair of handcuffs), put your hands in these bracelets. You must excuse a poor de-! tective for working a dodge on you, Your circuit-rider will be here to-mor­ row. I had him delayed. Now, march, not toward the church, but toward the^ railroad."--Arkansaio Traveler. ] ft* % The Acute Sophomore. He was only a sophomore, but had a large head. He was undergoing the agony of a sophomoric love and he pined for his adored one at home. All his "cuts" had been used, and he could see no way to fly to her side. Suddenly an idea siezed him from be­ hind, and he, overpowering it, grasped it and hung on. , The next day he knocked at the office door of the president of the faculty and his eyes were filled with tears. In his hands he held a telegram, yellow and forboding. This he gave to Prex, who opened it and read: No Nights for Two Weeks. "" "How are you, Colonel ? Awful cold, isn't it?" said a little puny-looking m»w to a big, red-faced individual as they met in the postoflice. "Well, rather," said the man from North Dakota, "but it's nothing com­ pared to what -it was in the winter of '49. Why, it was so cold that winter that we had no nights for two weeks-- had to sleep days." • " Why, how did that happen ?" "Well, you see about noon one day the earth froze to its axis and as a nat­ ural consequence it couldn't revolve." "AwfuL" "Yes, and they, say follts in China slept the whole two weeks."--Buffalo Exprew. Iv none bnt those without fikitft thiraw, •tones nobody wouldbe Iftt.' 4 ,, _ , „ HARTFOBD, Coon. •M®; k- JI B --, AMHEBST COIILKOK : Charles is not expected to live. Come home at ONCE. FATHER. llie good-hearted president spoke a few kindly words to the grief-stricken lad and told him to remain away as long as necessary. V The next day he sat with Alice on the sofa, and as he read in the paper of the execution of Charles Maxwell, who was hanged for murder that morning, he knew that the dispateh had not lied. His sophormoric conscience was at ease, and Alice and he were happy. ---Lif^ Oil of Sassafras ' * ̂ The manufacture of the oil of sassa­ fras is becoming an important industry in some sections, and especially in the Southern States, where this tree is common. Only the roots are used; these are chopped up into small pieces by a machine constructed for the pur­ pose, the oil being then distilled from the chips by the aid of steam. About one gallon of the oil, weighing nine pounds, is obtained from 1,000 pounds of the chips. The uses for which the oil of sassafras can be employed are nu­ merous and varied. It is a favorite per­ fume for soaps and candies; it is used M a solvent for differeut gums, and as a liniment. It is also very largely em­ ployed in the manufacture of several popular proprietary medicines. - •* Remedy for Cramps* Many persons, of both sexes, lure greatly troubled with cramps in one or both of their legs. It comes on uml- dehly, and is very severe. Most peo­ ple jump out of bed (it nearly always comes on either just after going to bed or while undressing), and ask some one to rub the leg. I have known it to last for hours, till, in despair, they would send for the family physician; and even then, it would be for hours before the spasm would cease. There is nothing easier than to make the spasm let go its hold, and it can be accomplished without sending for a doc­ tor, who may be tired and in need of & good night's rest. When I have a fla- tetat who id subject to Sramp, BUI Arp's Advice t© Boys. It is an old saying that if a young We wqukl inifst the s®,ves J1*8 JB.000 he will get j boy, blaaaed with a clear head which no bad habits have ever befuddled < and strong muscles that hard work has toughened, to take care of himself in any emergency. The boys in the fol­ lowing story from West Virginia, were in a pretty tough place, however. Charles and Tom Flinn, aged re­ spectively fourteen and sixteen years, accompanied by another boy named Ned Phillips, about seventeen years old were crossing Block Mountain on their way to the Phillips farm, about six miles distant, when, in the densest part of the mountain, they suddenly came across two full-grown catamounts feed­ ing upon a sheep they had just killed. Two of the boys were armed with a hoe and a common iron farming rake, while the third had nothing. They were brave boys, however, and determined to drive off the brutes, really expecting little or no resistance, but in this they were badly deceived, as, when they ap­ proached, the immense cats, with brist­ ling hair and glistening fangs, began to growl and snarl in a vicious manner. Perceiving that they were in for a ght and had no way out of it, the third lad quickly cut himself a stout hickory club, when all three approached the animals. The catamounts didn't wait an attack, but boldly advanced upon the boys. The large one sprung at Phillips, who struck it with the blade of the hoe as he sprung aside, and as the cat landed on its feet it received another severe blow on the back of the neck from the hickory club in the hands of the younger Flinn boy. Meantime the elder Flinn boy had his hands full, as the other catamount had made for him. TTi« spring would have carried him squarely at the boy's face, had not the latter jumped to one side, receiving a terrible clawing on the left shoulder and several bad scratches on the cheek as it passed. The rake now did good service, the lad succeeding in sinking the iron teeth deeply into thd catamount's back as it landed. The fight begun in this manner lasted fully five minutes, and ended in the boys killing both Animals. When the fight was over, it was found that young Flinn's clothes were torn into ribbons, while he had received a serious bite on the right leg aud several painful scratches on his arms. Tom was by far the worst hurt of the three boys, having received a number of severe scratches on his right shoulder and face, two severe bites through the hand and arm, and a badly torn leg. Young Phillips was torn across the back pretty severely, and would probably have been killed had not the force of the cat's blows knocked him down, causing the brute to fall clear of him, when it was dis­ patched with the club in the other boy's hands. After an hour's rest, and tying up their wounds as best they could, the boys returned to the Flinn farm, drag­ ging their game after them. The cats weighed forty-four and forty-one pounds respectively, and were monsters of their speoies. rich--that is so in nine cases out often yes, if he will Bave his first $100, he will succeed, and any young man can save that much in a year if he will let whisky and tobacco and the society girls alone --society will keep a poor young man poor. It keeps married folks poor. I am thinking now of a married man who is bowed down with debt, while his family is trying to keep on the ragged edge of society. A milliner makes their olothes, and they are just obliged to ride in a carriage when they go visit­ ing. Such people are the town talk and don't know it. There are nice young men in every town who have been clerk­ ing for years and havn't laid up a dollar. They must take a girl to every show that comes along, and spend $5 on every dance, for those who dance must pay the fiddler. Capital is very particular now-a-days. _ When capital wants a young man it looks round for one who doesn't drink or smoke or gamble-- one who saves his money and doesn't run about every night. Family influence isn't worth a cent now. A young man stands on his merits, his habits, his as­ sociations. Young man, there is a blue book in every town and your name is on it. But there is ho excuse for a young man failing to get employment in this blessed country. If he does not it is his own fault. If he can't get rich fast he can slow. If he will begin young and work hard and behave himself he will accumulate a plenty for his old age. Old age wants some money. It wants rest and should have it. " Otium cum dipnitate" is the Latin for dignified leisure, bnt I heard Judge Underwood say it meant, "rest comes after digging." Dig first and rest afterwards. Old age don't want to get up a cold winter morn­ ing and make th ̂fire and cook the breakfast. • Welding of Metals. Hitherto welding has been confined to wrought iron and steel, and the most perfect welds had only about 75 per cent, at their best of the strength of the solid bar. Other metals than these could not be welded by any means whatever. The process of welding iron by the blacksjnith is at the best crude and imperfect. Now this all seems destined to be suddenly changed in all industrial works. Not only iron is perfectly welded in a very short period of time, but all kinds of metals can be welded with equal facility not only to each ether but to any kind of metal. More­ over the line of juncture of the welded pieces--in the case of iron at least--is strouger for an eqnal sectional area than the original bar, this being due ap­ parently to the fact that the fusion of the metal by the electric currents eliminates the cinder present in all wrought iron bars, so that the line of juncture of the welded surfaces is more liomogeueous and consequently stronger than the original section of the bar. The principle involved in this new art is tliat of causing currents of elec­ tricity to pass through the abutting ends of the pieces of metal which are to be welded, thereby generating heat at the point of contact, which also becomes the »oint of greategfct«iaialiance. while at the Bismarck's Heme Life at Yarzin. We had an hour and a half's drive) from the station to Varzin. As the pos- ] tilion sounded his trumpet and we drove j up to the door, Bismarck, his wife, I M-----, and H---, all came out to the \ carriage and welcomed us in the most affectionate manner. I found him lit­ tle changed in appearance since '64, which surprises me. He is somewhat stouter, and his face more weather- beaten, but as expressive and powerful as ever. Mme. de Bismarck is but lit­ tle altered in the fourteen years that have passed since I saw her. They are both most kind and agreeable to Lily and she feels already as if Bhe had known them all her life. M is a pretty girl, with beautiful dark hair and gray eyes--simple, unaffected, and, like both father and mother, full of fun. The manner of living is most unsophis­ ticated, as J-ou will think when I tell you that we were marohed straight from the carriage into the dining-room (after a dusty, hot journey by rail and carriage of ten hours) and made to sit down and go on with the dinner, which was about half through, as, owing to a contretemps, we did not arrive until an hour after we were expected. After dinner Bismarck and I had a long walk in the woods, he talking all the time in the pimplest and funniest and most interesting manner about all sorts of things that had hap­ pened in these tremendous years, but talking of them exactly as everyday peo­ ple talk of everyday matters--without any affectation. The truth is he is so entirely simple, so full of laisser-aller, that one is obliged to be 3aying to one's self all the time: This is the great Bismarck--the greatest living man, and one of the greatest historical characters. *. * * In the evening w& sat about most promiscuously -- some drinking tea, some beer, some seltzer water; Bis­ marck smoking a pipe. He smokes lit­ tle now, and only light tobacco in a pipe. When I last knew him he never stopped smoking the strongest cigars. Now he tells me he could not to save his life smoke a single cigar.--John L&throp Motley. Positive Proof. . *ay» sir, the man that bought that $15 suit from you yesterday morn­ ing has brought it back. \ Dealer--Why, whajrs the"matter? Jake--He says it ain't wool. ' ; .ueaier--It ain't wool! Weif( Watf don't you tell him it is. ; - Jake--I did, and he wont believe me. ' , Dealer--Thafs too bad. Well, the only thing we can do is to show*him where the moths had eaten into it. He didn't notice it yesterday when he took the suit.--Detroit Free Press. THE oats, dogs, and poll-parrots of England having been properly provided for, a hospital for fish has BOW been es­ tablished. Fish are much exposed to dampness, and ̂ pulmonary would naturally be most com common. Chinese Cheap Labor. The Chinese cities are bee-hives of work. The streets are made up of cells open at the front and full of manufac­ turers and traders. Everything is done ---<*by hand and the working hours are from ydaylight till dark. I have made in- Vquiries into wages, and I find them so o . - T, . , u ,, , , . j low that they would hardly pay for the Spring Prints. 8atteens, tfing-, tobacco and coffee of our American hams and Domestics, fttjm 3 1-2 ̂ laborers. Coolies employed in foreign '^families get as low as $3.50 a month a^d ! board themselves. Skilled cooks re4 ive $4 a month, and at Foo Chow, one Very choice new stock cents up. •.A. *f } •• v 1 ? V*. CLOTHING, For old or young. Wedding Suits a specialty. Styles in keep­ ing with the times. Men's Suits 4.40, 5.00, 6 25 to 22.00. No shoddy, no jobs but $1*00 worth omg Jf: •Mwuvcedsum.e ;,r»»r | In &>me localites the dog is' $u$ evi­ dence of wealth--the wealth of fehe in­ dividual increases in an inverse ratio ac­ cording as the number of dogs he • pos­ sesses increases; that is the wealthier the man is in dogs, the poorer he is in available collateral. The possession of a dog used sometimes to be in acknowl­ edgement that the owner possessed mar­ riageable daughters as well, and the duty of the dog was to assist the pa­ ternal discrimination, but this practice *is rapidly dying out except in cases \vhere the daughters have a cash value. (Certain days of the year have been set apart as dog days, but dogs do not con­ fine themselves to getting in their work iu those special days. Every dog has his day; he is bound to have it; he also uses a part of the twilight and night. A: medium-sized boy and a dog thoroughly in sympathy with him can awaken interest in the most stoical com­ munity, but it's a dogoned shame that the canine gets a majority of the popu­ lar vote condemning the combination. The origin of the name dog is hidden in mystery, at least to the lecturer, but it is not improbable that ages in the rear of of the present time our ancestors had noticed the habit the little beast had of running along at the heels of his master--dogging his steps--so they called it a dog, and the name at once became popular.--Texas Sifting8. A Carious City. Imagine a city with most of its streets narrow, muddy, and crowded, where the seller of lottery tickets takes the place of the newsboy, where the pavers of the street, the conductors of the cars, the clerks in the stores, the policemen on their beats, the soldier with his mus­ ket, the barefooted men and women who peddle their wares, and the very beggars at the doorways all smoke cigarettes or cigars. The street cars carry the coffined dead to the ecmotory, with the mourners in the cars that fol­ low. Men, women, and children, half- naked and without shoes, bear the bur­ dens that we put on drays aud wagons; water carriers peddle the limpid fluid from the aqueducts from house to house. Every other woman has a baby dangling contentedly from a sack upon her back. Imagine the picture and you get a glimpse of the street scenes that you look upon about the great plaza, facing the costly palace and the mag­ nificent Cathedral of the City of Mexico. --City of Mexico Cor. Albqny JournaJL •' *•-- S'sti lfr( % i of the wealthiest Chinamen of the city told me that the wages of masons were 18 cents a day, and the best carpenters receive but 20 cents. Women engaged in making grass cloth, a sort of linen, are paid from two to three cents a day, and an old missionary tells me he AHTI get ten men to work a whole day for a t'/iilar and leave 10 per cent, to the man no hires them for him. Here in Can- in the chief means of conveyance is by vhair. The chairs is made of wicker tnd covered with cloth, so that they of Choice Clothing added to our4£°k likf a ^°f' Th+isb?x is syungin 6 , jviie center between two long poles, and Stock in last two weeks. i.>ne man walks in front with two poles 1 ^testing on his Shoulders and anothefv walks behind, holding up the chair in the same way. The 'regular native on/I ^ages for such men is $4 a month and «DW v till II i pJilV/vP« less, and in the interior the prices are >till lower. Ordinary field hands get rom three to four cents a day with food, d skilled workmen receive irom five six cents. Doctors who often get as high as 20 cents a visit in the cities often come down to 10 cents a viait in the oountry, and engravers and paintera receive from ten to twelve cents a day. Theater actors are paid proportionate low rates, and there are no $5,000 a night Pattis or Henry Irvings in China. The theaters, you know, last all day and half the night, and a troup of thirty players will play for forty-eight hours for $30. Silk weavers and silk reelers are among the highest paid men, and their work can only be done when the cocoons are ready for reeling. During this time the men work for weeks, day aud night, and they receive from one to two dollars a day. The grand average of skilled labor runs, however, about as follows: Master workmen receive $3 a week, or $156 a year, and workmen under these $1.50 a week, or $78 a year. Youngsters and females get 50 cents a week, and these are considered good liv­ ing wages. For them the laborer does not growl as to the hours of work, and the labor unions of China regulate the hours only in the case of men working by the piece and not by the day.-- Frank G. Carpenter's Pekin letter,' He Knew Her. Foreman of the Jury--Well,how much damages do yon think the young man is entitled to ? First Juryman--As I understand it, he ain't suing for blighted affections nor anything of that sort, eh? Just merely wants to get his money back that he expended for presents, ice cream, and the like? Second Juryman--That's all. First Juryman--Well, I ain't in favor of giving him a cent. If the fun he had didn't amount to more than his pres­ ents, that's his lookout. I courted that girl myself once--Terre Haute Ex­ press. ' A Praying Base-Bailer. She I uuucrstuuu uunv you 2r« esc of the praying base-ball players, and that you are studying for the ministry. In fact, I am told yon have just been or­ dained. He--It is true. "Are you going to take ohacge of a parish at once?" "Well, I don't know. I have received a call to a mission church at $500 a year; also an offer from the Bostons to sign for $10,000 a year, and J have been wondering whether I hadn't better de­ vote a few years more to base-ball pray­ ing hefore accepting a regular pulpit." --New York Weekly. •• Claiming his writes--the poet asks for his rejected manuscript. THE counterfeiter never stands «tjTf in his profession; he is always forging ahead. • -J ST. Louis boasts of a clever barter 1 less than four feet high. He must baa W little shaver. ,; THE way to win a pretty woman's j». V * gardis never to praise the beauty of others in her presence. IT is doubtless a knowledge of thi M fact that every one can see thronghit •*»»» causes the window pane. ^ SHORT bits from other papers headed • "The Cream of Our Exchanges" are made by editors who skim over them. NOT all the good die young. If thar did, how in the world would you and I ' J ever sucoeed in explaining our ence? • > ,/*; A man who has one jug of com whisky aud another of rye refers to $ them as his grain elevators.--Merchant 'M Traveler. . A NEW baby made its appearance' at J Squildigs house the other day. Whin papa heard it cry for the first time lie fi remarked: "Listen to its inauguration bawl." , A? "OUB dear sister," said the Nebraska, pastor, "has gone to a better land--tliSit M is, if there be any better land than cast be found right here ia the Missouri bot- . I toms." The old-time ruslilight was even dila- mer than parlor gas. Still, the young men of those days were well satisfied with it, and didn't call early to avoid the rush. A FINANCIAL report states that "money. is off." We suppose it is the Bame dia story: The cashier has gone to keep it from being lonesome. -- Yonkers Statesman. . GENIUS is like a barrel on the top of a hill; it will not indeed move unless pushed, but once pushed it goes itself!. Talent is like a load on the roadway; < will not go forward unless dragged. ^ ; s JINKS--Hello, Blinks! Hear you had a great time getting married--eloped with the girl--father and mother furi­ ous--gave chase, but they didn't catch you, did they? Blinks (sadly)--No-o. FASHION authorities say that large checks in men's suits will be the fashion in the spring. If the checks arc in the pockets and properly signed and in-. , dorsed the style will be gladly woli* corned. , * "I WANT to buy some flowers." "Are you a widow?" "Yes." "Then you can't come into the conservatory, mum. It might hurt the flowers^" "Hurt ti. flowers?" "Yes, mum; because of the weeds."--Chicago Ledger. "DARLING," she said, weeping, "wh^n we were married, five years ago, I never expected to see you coming home at t o'clock in the morning!" "Well, yon wouldn't now, m' dear," he replied, "if you'd only go to sleep earlier." WIFE--What are you reading, John? Husband--A story about a fellow whoV trying to get a divorce. Wife--Does lie get it? Husband--I havn't got that far yet, but I guess he does. The case is called "Triumph of the Bight." s SON--Papa, how do they teach lunljr -* tics? Cynical Father -- With large straw hats and feathers and white dresses, jewelry, and neat gloves, my boy. Mamma (musingly)--Yes, I r$» member, that's how I dressed before were married. PHYSICIAN--Your husband is quite lirious and seems utterly out of mind. Has he recognized any one day? Wife--O, yes. He called me t dragon this morning, and he constantly speaks of the governess as an angeL-f*; ; Boston Beacon. ^ s "SAY, Jerusha," said Farmer Furrosr I to his wife, "this ere paper says thai New York's goin' to be enlarged. Now, I think it's too big already. Why, the last time me and you was there we bol|t; got lost. Some folks don't know when, they've got 'nougli, b'gosh!" } OFFICE Boy (to editor)--Please, sir, there's a man outside what wants to see ver. Editor--Well, did he send in hb card? Office Boy--No; guess he aura got any card. He ain't got any boots qp? collar. Editor--Ah! a literary gentl^ man. Show him right in, Joe. || HOSTESS--And so you really belief! the moon to be inhabited, professor*? Prof. Eiuzumachen--Ah, veil, I do not Bay zat. But zere is vun moon in whicj$i zere mus' be vun man. Hostess-- Awl which might that be, pray ? Prof. B. (putting on his party manners)--Vy, ste --vat ym call it?--ze honeymoon!-# Judy. : I*-;; . *' - HOVE. . ... A man can build a mansion ' And furnish it throughout; A man can build a palace, ' - • • With lofty walls and stout; ' A man can build a temple, With high and spacioua dome; But no man in the world can build That lnecious thing called I t i s t h e h a p p y f a c u l t y . . . . Of women, far and wide, I W To turn a cot or palace 4», •' Into something else heside-- " ^ * Where brothers, sons, and husbands, tin* With willing footsteps como J . J A place of rest, where love abounds, " A perfect kingdom--Home. • -R Both Got 111* '• "What is your profession?" aiked Peter. / . "I'm a lawyer," was the proudly spoken reply. ; "And what was yours?" was asked o£ the next comer. "I am a lawyer also." r "Humph, I suppose you may a|3 well both go inside. I don't like tjjfe .send both of you to the other place * :r because we've got more down there thai 6* we can accommodate now, and if I serufa, / o n e o f y o u t h e o t h e r w i l l s u e o u t a w r i _ : of habeas corpus for him so quick it V would make mv head swim. Go onfc * both of you."--Merchant Traveler. Bleaching the Babies' Haiti Talking of babes, the latest fad amoii{|. the fashionable mothers of New York isf > - to bleach their little one's hair, and on0^* . «, sees hundreds of flaxen haired littty ^ toddlers on Broadway on whom natur^.; * had bestowed an entirely different shade^ It is bad enough for the silly creature*' V ^ to ruin their own locks, but it seems t4> : me that something ought to be done to ' I* prevent them from ruining the hair of their offspring in this way. Mrs. Buri| ̂ nett and "Little Lord Fauntleroy" are responsible^ for the crass, so they xei^ me.--New York letter in Philadelphia^ Newt. •- But Still He Stayed. , He--How slow the clock ticks, ' Saccharine. r She--Yes; it always ticks that w^T;| about this time. It wants to be woundLf - up, you know. I always wind it up at a|^ s quarter of 11, and then I go to bed.f I'm going to wind it up in a few mo-;V;; ments.--Yankee Blade. ^ THOMAS NAST, the artist, has ao«^: ^ cepted a place on the Saa Franciftoo .|:j Examiner as cartoonist. " " jv! "M M.J; - ; W A,1. I 4 *>•.-«/, ' mm {"J 4 >;-.J v th-t k ' $•,> t l!W.&l-<4 y/'i-