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The Sifting of Peter.
A FOLK-SOXG.
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mo* *07 <m *'hrot.m—st. I.uke, nil. 31.
Iv St. Luke** Uospei wo are told
How Peter ill the day* of old
Wi* sided;
And now, though age* intervene.
Sin is the same, while time and *4*ene
Are shifted.
Satan de*ire* u*. great and •mall.
As wheat, to -iff u*. and we all
Are temp ed;
■ Not one. however rich or great.
Is by his station or estate
Exempted.
No house so safely guarded Is
Hut he. by some device of his,
« an enter;
No heart hath armor »o complete
Hut he cau pierce with arrow fleet
It* centre.
For ail at la*t the cock will crow
U ho hear the warning voice, but go
Fnheeding.
Tnl thrice aiul more they have denied
The Man of >orroWs, ertlcifie«l
And bleeding.
i» m look of tb it pale sutT* ring face
Will make u* feel tin* deep disgrace
of weakness;
W shall Is* sift«*d till the strength
of H'lk^iurii t* changed at length
To meekness.
Wound* of the soul, though healed, will ache;
The reddening sears remain, and make
Confession;
l»«t innocence return* no more;
Wo are Hot w hat we were before
Transgression.
Hut nobb* soul*, through du*t and le-at,
lti*e from disaster and defeat
The stronger.
\nd coiisciou* *till of the divine
'V it bin them. lie on earth supine
No longer.
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The Brakeman's Parable.
Tlirousli l.iur* to llrairn and El*«*.
■ here.
The Hint lluulr Hrrlrrrrd
!)••' IturiiiiKt"!) Ilawkrir
To me comes the hrakeman. and seating
him-clf on the arm of the mat say- ; "I went
t<» church ye-terday
"Yes?" 1 -aid. with that interested inflec
tion that a-k- for more. "And what church
did vou attend?"
"Which do you guess?** he a-krd.
"Sonic union mi—mu church ?" I hazard
ed.
-aul. "1 don’t like to run on
tbe-e branch roads verv much. 1 don't very
often go to church, ami w hen I do. 1 wan't to
run on the main line, where your run i
regular and you go on a schedule time and
don't have to wait on connections. 1 don’t
like to mu on a branch. («ood enough hut
1 don’t like it."
"Epi-copal I guessed.
"Limited exprr--.” he said, “all palace
cars, and $‘2 extra for a -cat; fa-t time, and
only -tops at the big station-. Nice line,
hut 1-mi exhaustive for a hrakeman. All
tra.u m* n ni uniform, conductor’s punch and
lantern silver plated, and no train Ikivs al
lowed. 1 hen the passengers are allowed t«*
talk liack at the conductor; audit makes
them t*M) free and easy. No. 1 couldu’t
-land the palaev cars. Kich road, though.
I K.u’t often hear of a receiver living appoint
ed lux tnat line. Some mighty nice people
travel on it, too.’*
“I’niveraalist?” I guessed.
“llroad gauge.” -aid the hrakeman “does
too much complimentary business. Every
body travel- on a pa--. Conductor doesn't
get a fare once in fifty miles. Stops at all
flag stations, ami won't run into anything
but a union depot. No -moking car on the
train. Train orders are v ague, though, and
the trainmen don’t get along well with the
passengers. No, I don’t go to the t’niver
-alist. though I know some awfully good
men who ran on that road.”
“Perhaps you went to the l iiitarians?”
“No, 1 didn’t, hut 1 might have done
worse. Thai is a mighty good road, well
ballasted w ith reason, though it runs through
a region a little bit cold, and there is apt to
lie some ice and snow on the track, but in
ca-e of an accident there i- no danger of up
setting the’ stove and l*cing burnt up; and
there's one good thing al>out it, the neighbors
are generally ready to come and help w hen
you do get into trouble. They like to have
things nice and comfortable in this world,
doing what they think i- about right and
taking their chknces for the other. They
don’t seem to take much sttick in being as
miserable as you can here in the hope that
you will Ik* the happier for it there. They
seem to think that a man's going to reap the
same kind of crop that he plants, and that if
he puts in a selfish, worthless kind of a life
| on this earth, it ain’t a-going to come out a
very fine specimen in heaven. Seems to me
some sense* a- well as jioetry in that, hut I
was raised an ’orthodox’ and’twouldn’t do
| for me to lie seen on that train or 1 might
lose my place on the other lint*, as there’s a
good deal of competition between the two
roads, ami our folks are getting afraid of
! losing travel.”
“Presbyterian?” I asked.
“Narrow gauge, eh?” said the hrakeman,
i “pretty track, straight as a rale; tunnel
right through a mountain rather than go
around it; spirit-level grade; passengers
have to -how their tickets before thayget on
the train. Mighty strict road, hut the cars
are a little narrow ; have to sit one in a seat
ami no room in the aisle to dance. Then
there’s no stop-over tickets allowed ;got to
go straight through to the station you're
ticketed for. or vou can’t get on at all.
When the car’s full, no extra coaches ; cars
built at the shop to hold iust so many and
notiody else allowed on. flut vou don’t of
ten hear of an accident on this road. It’s
ran right up to the rules.”
“Maybe you joined the free thinkers?”!
said.
“scrub road, said the brakeman, “dirt
mail tail and no ballast; no time card and
no train dispatcher. All trains run wild and
every engineer makes his own time, just as
he pleases. Smoke if you want to; kind of
a go-as-you-please road. Too many side
tracks and every switch wide open all the
time, with the switchman sound asleep and
the target lamp dead out. Get on as you
please and get off when you want to. Don’t
have to show your tickets, and the conduc
tor isn't expected to do anything but amuse
the passengers. No. sir. I was offered a
pass, but 1 don’t like the line. I don’t like
to travel on a line that has no terminus.
Do you know, sir, 1 asked a div ision super
intendent where that road run to, and he
said he hoped to die if lie knew. I asked
him if the general superintendent could
tell me, and he said he didn’t believe they
had a general superintendent, and if they
had he didn't know any. more about the
. road than the passengers. I asked him who
he reported to. and he said ‘nobody.’ task
ed a conductor who he got his orders from,
and be said he didn't take orders from any
living man or dead ghost. And when I
asked the engineer who he got his orders
from, he said he’d like to see anybody give
him orders, he’d run that train to suit him
-i If or he’d run it into the ditch. Now you
: < e. sir. I’m a railroad man, and I don’t care
| i . run on a road that makes no connections,
run* nowhere and has no superintendent.
It may be all right, but I’ve railroaded too
long to understand it.”
“Did you try the Methodist?** 1 asked.
"Now you’re shouting,** he said with some
'enthusiasm. "Nice road, eh? Fast time and
j plenty of passengers. Kngines carry a |h>w
1 er of steam, and don’t you forget it; steam
gauge shows a hundred and enough all the
j time. Lively road; when the conductor
shouts ‘all aboard.* you can hear him to the
next station. Kvery train lamp shines like
a headlight. Stop over check* given on all
through tickets; passenger* drop off the
train a* often a* thev like, do the station two
or three days and flop on the next revival
train that comes thundering along. Good,
| w hole-souled, companionable conductors;
i ain’t a road in the country where the pas
! sengera feel more at home. No pa*.*c*;
every passenger pay* full traffic rates for his
1 ticket. Wesleyan house air brake on all
i trains, too. Prcttv safe road, hut I didn't
ride over it yesterday.”
"May lie you went to the Congregational
church ?” .1 said.
"Popular road,” said the brakeman. "an
old road, too ; one of the very oldest in the
country. Good rood lied and comfortable
j ears. Well managed road, too; directors
l don’t interfere with division superintend
ent^ and train order*. Hoad's mighty popu*
j lar, hut it's pretty inde)H*ndent. too. Sec,
! didn't one of the division superintendents
1 down east discontinue one of the oldest
stations on this line two or three years ago?
Hut it‘* a mighty pleasant road to travel on.
j Always has such a pleasant class of pasacn
I g*T*.*‘
"Perhaps you tried the Haptist?” I guessed
; once more.
I "Ah. ha!” said the brakeman. "she's a
I daisy, isn’t she? Hiver road; beautiful
i curves; sweep around anything to keep close
| to the river, hut it’* all steel rail and rock
ballast, single track all the way and not a
side track from the road house to the ter
minus. Take* a heap of water to run her
through; double tanks at everv station, and
there isn’t an engine in the shops that can
{mil a ]Miund or run a mile iu less than two
i guoge*. Hut it run* through a lovely
country : these river mad* always do; river
on one side and hills on the other, and it's a
steady climb up the grade all the way till
the run end* when* the fountain head of the
river begins. Yea, sir. I’ll take the river
mad every time for a lovely trip; sure con
nection* and good time, and no prairie du*t
blowing in at the windows. Ami yesterday
when the conductor came round for the tick
et* with a little lm*ket punch, 1 didn’t a*k
him to pa** me. hut 1 paid my fare like a
little man—-twenty-five cents for an hour’s
run ami a concert by the passenger* throwed
in. I tell you; Pilgrim, you take the river
road when you want — ”
Hut just here the long w histle from the
engine announced a station, and the brake
man hurried to the door shouting :
••/.lonsville ' I hi* tram makes no stop be
tween here ami Indianapolis !**
John Melrose's Nerve.
Tkr kiorj mi a .Ulckicaa kraal.
v pkI'omr wiid uui'i.i» Nor >r\\ c.%r
Tt KM>.
“\\ hut constitutes nerve ” a*ked the A.
) . I!’.»)■/•/ the other day of :t* reader*. One
man will answer that it i* presence of mind,
another that it i* pluck, auother that it i*
being cool ami collected in an emergeucy.
It ** none of the*e. It i* something back of*
all of them, and something which a man
never had unless it wu* Itoru in him. In
stances of presence of mind were met w ith
every day in the army. An officer out in
charge of forager*, on a reconnoixsance,
would Ik1 suddenly attacked. Presence of
mind aided him to form hi* men for defense,
lie hail that presence of miml even though
hi* face wa* white a* Hour and his chin shak
ing. Brave men wire common enough in
the rank*. Call for men to face certain 1
death and a hundred priv ate* would step out
at once, yet, test their “nerve,” aiui they had
none.
Among two or three cases in mind that of
John Melrose, a troojn*r in the Sixth Michi
gan Cavalry, is recalled. He was an under
sized. quiet-spoken man. and he hail that
wonderful nerve which not three other men
in the whole brigade possessed. While act -
I ing a* a scout in the Shenandoah Valiev he
j wa* one dav eating dinner at a farm-house
w hen in w alked seven Confederate soldiers.
They knew him for a Cnion scout, and he
knew them for Confederates. A brave man
w ould have made a rush or had a fight. Mel
rose simply looked up ax they filed in.smiled
over hi* fix. and called out:
“Say, old woman, put on more dinner
j here, and we’ll have a square meal together !”
“You are my prisoner !” said the sergeant
i of the squad a* he adv anted.
“Yes, 1 know it, hut I'll pay for a dinner
for you and your men just the same! Sit
right down and make yourselves at home.”
His nerve upset the soldiers, and after a
moment they ti»ok seats at the table, form
ing a complete’circle around the hoard. A*
soon a* they liegan to eat he begun to think
of escaj>e. It was summer and the window
Ixdiind him and ten feet away wax oj»en. If
he stood up all eyes would l»e fixed on him,
and any excuse to leave the room w as not to
lie thought of.
1 lit* meal was about nail nniMieu anucap
i torn and captive were chatting away when
Me!rone suddenly filing himself backward,
upset his chair and hounded through the
w indow. The soldiers ran out and fired and
pursued him, but be made his escape.
In the l.uray Valiev, just liefore the atlair
known as Woodstock races, Melrose and
! his companion fell out of the ranks to for
j a^e. After securing a supply of meat they
i pushed on after the column and were riding
at a gallop when five bushwhackers, well
mounted, came out of the cross-road about
twent\ rods ahead of them.
“W i* arc dead men" said the scout’s com
panion as they came to a halt.
I .(Hiking back they saw four more bush
whackers climbing the fence to take position
on the highway. Melrose calmly viewed
their situation and finally said:
“We will charge them! Kail in behind
me and there will he less danger. Draw
your sabre and strike hard.”
The other dared not try it, though he was
a brave man. He therefore kept his place
as the scout dashed forward. Melrose rode
straight at the men with drawn sabre and
the volley they fired went over him. He
struck the line, sabred a man as he passed
i and soon rejoined the column. His com
panion was never heard of again, probably
being murdered in cold blood.
In 1>UH Melrose and three other foragers
were captured ill the Shenandoah Valiev,
taken to a small encampment and the four
placed in a log house under guard until their
] cases could be disposed of. Thev talked the
; situation over and the bravest of them could
| see no hope of escape. Melrose quietly lis
) tened to their discouraging remarks and as
quietly replied that he would he insidearf the
Union lines liefore midnight. There was a
] circle of sentinels around the building, w hich
| had no door. The sentinels paced within six
i feet of the building, and the one in front
could see the prisoners through the doorway.
Melrose said that if all would ruah together
the sentinels would be confused and either
hold their fire or fire wild. The three ti.c::
had participated in more than twenty battles
and were known aa brave fellowa, hut here
thev wanted nerve and nerve waa what they
hadn't got.
“Very well; I will go alone!” waa the
quiet announcement, and aa night came on
Slelrose was ready. Standing in the door
way he asked the sentinel what time it was.
“You git back thar, or I’ll shoot!” was
the prompt reply.
“Yes; I’m going right back!” said the
scout, and he dashed upon the man, hit him
a stunning blow and made for the woods.
He had to run across an open field in full
i sight of camp, and though it was dusk hi*
' could see quite plainly for half the distance.
More than fifty shots were fired at him, and
then pursuit Itegan, hut he reached the
j woods and made his excu)>i*.
He was one day scouting up the vallev,
having on a mixed uniform, when he sud
j denly came upon two ferocious-looking
guerillas w hile crossing a thick wood. They
were seated on a log. t»ack to him, but at the
sound of his step they sprang up and cov
ered him with their carbines. It would have
1k*cii bold to holt and take the chances of
being hit. Melrose never slackened his pace
nor changed countenance, but walked direct
ly ud to the men and quietly said:
“I’ve got new s for the Cofonel, and I want
you both to go along and show me the
way.”
“Mho said so?” asked one of the men.
“If I miss the wav there’ll l»e a row, for
this is imiHtrtant news,” he answered.
“Who be you?**
“Come along and ask the Colonel.'*
“Well, we aint going to tramp clear up
thar. \ou go down to that road, follow it
for a mile, ami when you come to the old
log-stable on the right turn into the blind
road.’*
“Why can’t one of vou come along?”
“Oh, you can’t miss the way. M’e are
watching here for game.**
Melrose slouched off in a laxv, tired man
ner. He hod got al»out fifty feet when he
heard them cock their guns. He did not
turn his head nor quicken his pace.
“He’s a \ ank—shoot him !’ called one of
the men; but the scout walked on. They
were Irving him ; but he had the nerve of a
Napoleon, and he kept his leisurely pace
until well away from their neighlxirhood.
An Innocent Abroad.
The other day the police at the In ion Dc
pot noticed a feeble-looking old man wan
dering in and out to kill time until hi* train
should depart, and a* he several time* di*
played quite a roll of hill* he was cautioned
to l<»ok out for pickpockets and confidence
men.
••Wouldn’t anylxxly rob an old m.;ii like
me. would they? he mmx^ntlv asked.
The warning was repeated, hut he jogged
around a* lx?fore, and after a time was seen
in consultation with two strangers, who had
walked him around to the wharf. An officer
got him away from them and angrily said:
••Didn’t 1 warn you against strangers?
Those fellow* arc after your money.”
••Hut how can they git it when I have it
in my pocket and my hand on it all the
time J"
“Well, you look out."
“Yes, I’ll look out; hut I don’t want to lx*
uncivil. When anyIxxly talk* tome I like
to talk back."
1 he strangers *0011 had him on the string
again and in alxiut a quarter of an hour they
left him in a hurried manner, and he saun
tered into the depot with hi* wallet in hi*
hand.
“There vou’ve let ’em lx*at you”’ exclaim
ed the officer. “How much did you lend j
them
“\N ail, they wanted twenty dollar*,’’ he i
•lowly replied.
“And you handed it over, of course?”
“1 gave ’em a fifty dollar hill and got
tlurtv hack.”
“Well, vou’ll never see the bill again.”
“I kinder hope not" he chuckled a* he
drew d**wn hi* eye. It was a counterfeit
lull which my •on found 111 Troy, ami Ixung
u* 1 .211 very old and innocent and not up to
the trick* of the wicked world, I guess I’ll
get into the car* before somebody rob* tne
of my liool*! If any one should come
around looking for me please say I'm not at
home.”—[Free Press.
Aural Disturbances from bathing.—
The frequency of attacks of aural inflamma
tion from bathing demand* more than a
mere mention, for complete deafne** may
result from the injuries to the ear from this
cause, and partial impairment is frequent.
These injuries from bathing are mainly
due to the fact that man i* not afforded the
protection to the ear which amphibious
animal* poaaeaa, and hence the water may
act injuriously in various ways. In surf
bathing the mere force of contact, when the
water flow* into the ear, may injure the
tympanic membrane, and when an incoming
wave dashes against the face, water may
freely enter the mouth or none, and thus be
driven into the ear* through the Eustachian
tube*. The presence of cold water for a
long time in the canal leading to the ear, a*
when much diving is done, may *et up in
flammation in the canal or in the tvmpanic
membrane, which may extend to the drum
cavity itself. Ill effects may lx? produced by
allowing the ear*, head, and body to dry in
a current of air after coming out of the
water. Sea-water i* probably more obuox
ious than fre*h, on account of it* compara
tively low temperature, ami the large quantity
of salt it hold* in solution. A continuance
in the w ater should lx* av oided. The Hu.*»ian
bath should not lie taken without protecting
the ears when the cold plunge is used. Div
ing is. however, the most dangerous practice
connected with bathing, for it is difficult to 1
keep water from entering the ear*, or nose
and mouth. In diving, the pressure of
water on the tympanic membrane from with
out may cause vertigo. Even syringing the
ears gently is known in some instances to
occasion decided dizziness.—Dr. Sami j 1.
Sexton, in Harpers Magazine for March.
_
Tilt Hi man Fig l'HE.—The proportions
of the human figure are six times the length
of the feet. Whether the form is aiemler or :
plump, the rule h^lds good; un\ deviation
from it is a ucpuriure from the highest
beaut) in proportion. The Greeks made all
their statues according to this rule. The
face, from the highest point of the forehead,
where the hair begins, to the chin, is one
tenth of the whole stature. The hand, from
the wrist to the middle finger, is the same.
From the top of the chest to the highest
|>oinl of the forehead, is a seventh. If the
face, from the roots of the liair to the chin.
)>c divided into three equal parts, the first
division determines the place where the eye
brows meet, and the second the place of the
nostrils. The height, from the feet to the
top of the head, is the distance from the ex
tremity of the fingers when tlie arms are ex
tender!.
A Shrewd Uarkky —“I)atculled pusson
on dc jury, him’s de man I olijee’ to,”
said a negro when put oil trial in the Marion
(S. C.) court the other day. The black man
was unseated, anil the prisoner given acquit
tal. After his release the negro was asked
w hat he had against a juryman of his own
color. “Nullin' at all, boss,'’ said he, “but,
ye see, 1 knowetl if 1 flattered de prejudus
ob de odder jurvuien dat I get off, an’ golly
I did."—[ Wneebing Intelligencer.
—It used to be said of Rev. Dr. Peabody
he was so absent minded he could go to a
party get interested in conversation, tie bis
legs up in a silk handkerchief, and when he
started to leave his seat he would fall for
ward on his face having forgotten to untie
the handkerchief.
—A stage-driver in the White Mountains,
when asked what he thought of the Notch,
replied; “Well, 1 was born around here,
you know, and 1 don’t mind it to much,
but if I should go down to New York I
reckon likely I’d gawk around considerably
myself."
—A philosopher lays; “You require in
marriuge precisely the same quality that
you would in eating sausage—absolute
confidence."
Stealing State*.
! DfMKnUc *'ra**Mracr u
P»f«< A* Will •* ik» Pn*l*.
Chicago Times.
The preparations for capturing the White
House without regard to the result of the
Presidential election go bravely on. One
thing which may become necessary in order
to effect the capture is a Bourbon majority
by States in the House of Representatives,
and Mr. Springer’s committee on elections
has in hand the important work of securing
this majoritv. It is part of the programme
to unseat Washburn, Republican, of Minne
sota, ami seat Donnelly, Democrat. That
done, the Minnesota delegation will he
changed from two Republicans and one Dem
ocrat to two Democrats and one Republi
can. Then, should the election of President
be thrown into the House, the State of Min
nesota, which is Republican by more than
20.000 majority on the popular vote, will
cast its vote in the House fur the Democrat
ic candidate for President. The sub-com
mittee which has the Washbum-Donnelly
case in hand has decided to report in favor
of earn ing out this part of the programme,
ami it is altogether likely that the full com
mittee will do the same and that the House
w ill complete the work of counting out.
On the face of the returns Washburn's
majority was 3,012. This is a pretty large
I majority to overcome by the counting-out
process but the sub-committee has proved
itself equal to the emergency. It has suc
ceeded in figuring Donnelly in by a majority
of 16*5 or more. To begin with, 1,700 votes
cast in Minneapolis are thrown out for the
reason that they were numbered. A law of
the State requires election officers to num
ber ballots m cities having a population of
more than 12,000. This law has been pro
nounced unconstitutional by judicial decis
ion. upon the ground that it provided for h
violation of the secrecy of the ballot. It
seems that this decision was disregarded,
ami the ballots were numbered in six pre
cincts of Minneapolis, ami it is for this rea
son alone that the 1,700 votes are thrown
out. That numl»er of voters are to bo dis
franchised. not liecause of any fault of their
own, but U*cause their agents, the election
officers, numbered their ballots, in disregard
of a court decision. Fair minded citizens
will have no difficulty in arriving at a con
clusion ,i* to the justice of this performance.
They will agree with the Supreme Court of
Maine, thut citizens cannot be justly dis
franchised through the neglect or errors of
their agents whose duty it is to see that their
votes are received and given full effect.
There is no doubt whatever that the 1.700
votes were cast by qualified electors, and
there is no reason to sup|>ose that thev did
not express the will of tlic {lersons who cast
them. To reject these votes is simple an
outrage.
Hut it was not enough to throw out the
1,700 votes in Minneapolis. Washburn
could spare that numl>er and still have a
handsome majority. Hence it became nec
essary for the committee to find a pretext 1
for throw mg out votes cast in other locali- 1
ties. This they had no great difficulty in
doing. They found 1,070 more votes which
for some cause or another they could reject.
Some of these, it is stated, they have throw n
out because the returns were signed by two
justices of the peace uud probate judge in
stead of three justices of the peace. It is
not pretended that the returns were false in
any respect or that the votes were not nrtu- I
ally and freely cast. The committee have
thrown them out upon the merest technical- j
ity, in utter disregard of the priori pie enun- ;
ciated in the Supreme Court of Maine, that '
the people cannot In* justly deprived of their i
electoral or representative rights by any mere
informality—a principle which commends
itself to every fair minded man as not only
sound, hut of vital im}x>rtance.
It is ttelieved that for Presidential reasons
the House will postpone action upon this
case until aAer the Presidential election.
For prudential reasons tne House hail bet
ter not postpone action. The best thing the j
majority can do for their party’s good is to
give some evidence that they intend to act
with fairness, and respect the results of pop
ular elections. Kven as partisans they can
not afford to do a thing which every honest
man in the land would regard as an outrage.
To }>ost|x»ne action would not relieve them
from odium. Postponement will naturally
and rightly be understood as signifying that
the muiority intend to consummate the out
rage after the Presidential election, if they
can see an opportunity to gain a partisan
advantage thereby. If they want to give
evidence that their party is deserving of the
confidence of the country they can best do
so, not by threatening to commit a wrong,
hut by promptly refusing to do so, and giv
ing notice that they intend to act honestly
and fairly. It is not to lie expected, how
ever, that thev will act wisely. It is charac
teristic of their party not merely to blunder,
hut to give proof on every occasion of an en
tire want of fairness and the sense of public
responsibility.
Another part of the programme for the
capture of the White House is to unseat Orth
of Indiana and seat McCabe, Democrat.
The majority have an easier task in this case
than in that of Washburn. Orth was elected
by only UK plurality, and the united vote of
the Democrats anil Nationals was 4,437
greater than that cast for Orth. It will Ik*
an easier matter to find a pretext for throw
in;: out 1(h) or 200 votes in Orth’s district
than for throwing out nearly 3,700 votes in
Washburn’s district. Furthermore, Indiana
is regarded as a Democratic State, and it
would not seem so unreasonable and wrong
to give its vote in the House for a Demo
cratic candidate for President as it will to
give the vote of Minnesota, with its 20,IKK)
Republican majority, to the I>emocrat«.
"Good Times."—My son enjoy yourself,
lluve a good time : pleasure is eminently
right ami proper, but a good time isn't se
cured bv a headache that lasts all the next
day. The simplest pleasures are the most
lasting. After you haw- spent two years in
Kurope, you come back and sit down by
your own fireside aud think of a picnic you
went to down at the Cascade one afternoon
in June that cost you just Bo cents. The
“good times" that y ou uuren't take your w ife
to, rnv soil, that you would lie about rather
than nave your sister know about them, the
“goodness" of them uever comes back to
refresh you and gladden your heart, as does
the memory of the B5-cent picnic, when you
(battered nonsense with the girl you loved,
and laughed just as the leaves rustled, be
cause y ou couldn't help it. The “good time"
that wakes in the morning and wonders
where it was and who saw it, and where all
its money is gone; the good time that tails
itself off w ith a headache, there's precious
little fun in that. And it only takes a very
little business of that kind to poison anil
cloud the memories of your past." It doesn’t
take many such “good times,” my boy, to
mingle tears with your bread, and gall with
your drink. The sting is the smallest part
of the bee, but when you pick him up by it,
though the rest of the bee were as large as
an omnibus horse, yet would the sting out
weigh all the good, sweet, harmless, honey
laden portion of the bee, and you would
think about it oftener and longer.—[Robert
J. liurdette.
-- M it-.ready was once victimized in “Vlr
ginius." I lie XiimitoriuM couldn't remem
ber his own :...me. “You will remember it,
sir," said the tragedian, carefully pronounc
ing it for him, “by the association of ideas.
Think of Numbers, the Book of Numbers.”
The Numitoriui did think of it all day, and
at night produced, through “the association
of ideas," the foUowitqf elect:
Xumilvrms Where Is Hrftmimt Wherefore do
jroe hold that maMee's hand*
CIndies Who asks the gwesUee?
Nmmitorimi I; her eerie ftselsrsesew
—{Tie Theeler.
Sayings, and Who First Said Them.
Many of our common saying*, so trite and
pithy, art* used without the least idea from
whose mouth or pen they first originated.
Probably the works of ^hokspeare furnish
us with more of these familiar maxims than
any other writer, for to him we owe: “All
is not gold that glitters,” “Make a virtue
of necessity,” “Screw your courage to a
sticking place,” (not point), “They laugh
that win, ’ “This is the short and long of
it,” “Comparisons are odious,” “As merrv
as the day is long,” “A Daniel come to judg
ment,” “Frailty, thy name is woman, and
hosts of others.
Washington Irving gives us “The Al
mighty Dollar.” Thomas Norton queried
long ago “What will Mrs. Grundy say?”
while Goldsmith answers, “Ask me no ques
tions and I’ll tell you no fibs.” Charles C.
Pint ksicy “Millions for defence, but not one
cent for tribute.” “First in war, first in
peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow
citizens” (not countrymen.) appeared in the
resolutions presented to the House of Rep
resentatives in Decetnlier. 1790, prepared by
Gen. Henry I^e.
From the same we cull, “Make assurance
doubly sure,” “Christinas comes but once a
>ear.” “Count their chickens ere they are
hatched,” and “Look before you leap.”
Thomas Tasser, u writer of the sixteenth
century, gives us, “It’s an ill wind turns no
good,” “Better late than never.” “laxik ere
thou leap,” and “The stone that is rolling
can gather no moss,” “All cry and no wool”
is found in Butler’s “Hudibras.”
Dryden says: “None but the brave de
sen c the fair,” “Men arc but children of a
larger growth.” “Through thick and thin.”
"No pent-up Ctica contracts our power.”
declared Jonathan Sewell.
“When Greeks join Greeks then was the
tug of wur.” Nathaniel Lee, HS92.
“Of two evils I have chosen the least,”
and “The cud must justify the means,” are
from Matthew Prior. \v e arc indebted to
Colic) Cihlier for the agreeable intelligence
that “Richard is himself again,” Johnson j
tells us of “A good liatcr,” and Mackintosh j
“Not much the worse for wear,” Cowper.
“Man proposes, hut God disposes,” Thomas
a kemttis.
Christopher Marlow gave forth the invita
tion so often repeated by his brothers in a
less public way. “Love me little, love me
long. * Kdward Cooke was of the opinion
that “A man's house is his castle.” To
Milton we owe “The paradise of fools,” A
wilderness of sweets.” ami “Moping melan
choly and moonstruck madness.”
Kdward Young tells us “Death loves a
shining mark. “A fool at forty is a fool in
deed, but, alas for his know ledge of human
nature when he tells us “Man wants but
little, nor that little long.”
From Bacon comes “Knowledge is pow
er.” and Thomas Southerne reminds us that
“City's akin to love.” Dean Swift thought
that “Bread is the staff of life.” Campbell
found that “Coming events cast their shad
ows before,” and “Tis distance lends en
chantment to the view” “A thing of beau
ty is a joy forever,” is from Keats. Frank
lin said, “(iod helps them who help them
selves," and Law rence Sterne comforts us
with the thought. “God tempers the wind 1
to the shorn Iamb.”
F.ven some of the “slang” phrases of the ,
day have a legitimate origin. “Cutting :
your foot in it” is certainly not a very ele- |
gant mode of expression, hut, according to j
the “Asiatic Researches," it is quite a fine !
point of law; when the title to land is dis- :
puted in Hindustan two holes are dug in the !
f:round and used to encase a limb of each
awyer (?) and the one who tired first lost j
his client’s case. Fancy, if you can, some of i
our famous “limbs oftthe law ." pleading in j
such a manner! It is generally the client
who “puts his foot in it.”
When things are in disorder they are often
said to Ik* turned topsy turvy; this expres
sion is derived from the wav in which turf
used for fuel is placed to dry, the turf being
turned (low nw ard ; and the expression then
means top-side turfway.
Clutarch, in his life of Arcesilaus, Kingof
Sparta, gives us the origin of a quaint and
familiar expression.
On a certain occasion an ambassador from '
F.pirns, on a diplomatic mission, was shown
by the king over his capital. The ambassa
dor knew of the monarch’s fame—knew that
though only nominally king of Sparta, he
was yet ruler of Greece—and he had looked
to see massive walls rearing aloft their em
battled towers for the defence of the town;
hut he found nothing of the kind. He mar
veled much at this, and spoke of it to the
king.
“Sire," he said, “I have visited most of
the principal towns, and I find no walls
reared for defence. Why is this?”
“Indeed. Sir Ambassador,” replied Arce*
ilaus, “thou const not have looked careful!.
Come with me to-morrow morning, and 1
will show you the walls of Sparta.”
Accordingly on the following morning the
king led his guest out upon the plains where
his army was drawn up in full battle array,
and pointing proudly to the serried hosts, he
said :
“There, thou beholdest the walls of Sparta
—ten thousand men, and every man a
brick!”
A Royal Huntress.
Tfc* Empress of Asalrls ss is Lever of
•he those.
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria ha*
perfect health, the spirits of a child and the
liloom of y outh, and it has conic from her
constant exercise in the open air and on
horseback. Gen. Grant is not a better judge
of a horse’s tine points than she, and Rosa
Bouheur does not take more pleasure in fine
groupings of blooded beasts than does the
Queen of the Magyars. Elizalieth is an
early riser: 5 o’clock sees her at breakfast,
and an hour afterward, no matter w here she
hapjiens to lie stopping, she is in the saddle
or walking in the open air. Her habits of
life are )icrfectly simple and perfectly regu
lar. Not a woman lives less ostentatiously
than she when away from the ceremonious
court. She believes that her open-air exer
ciseiyhave kept her beautiful. To the poor
she is a silent and constant friend, and many
are the noble arts that might he related of
her majesty in every quarter where she has
been. Yearly, however, her magnificent
steeds, a stud of them, some forty in num
ber, are hurried into the cars, and she is off
for the foxes in Ireland. , The fox hunt over,
she is bark to the quiet of Godole. In the
affairs of state she concerns herself not at
all. This is her husband’s business and his
ministers’, and the whole Hungarian people
say amen, for they would rather see their
Queen following the hounds than see her
mixed up with the politics of the state. The
pictures one sees of the Empress, striking
as they are, do not do her justice. In ap
pearance, Elixabeth is everybody's ideal of a
queen. She is tall and slender, and in every
movement is grace and majesty itself. She
has dark brown hair, and more of it than
any woman in her empire, and Austria is
famous, too, for the beautiftil hair of its
women. It is cut square, or “banged,”
across a square forehead, and fringed above
a pair of splendid eyes as dark as itself.
When flowing, this wealth of brown hair
reaches nearly to her feet. Her complexion
is fair, her face slightly oval, and her figure
is excellent in its curves and outline. She
knows how to dress, and how to wear jewels,
and how to look even handsomer than she
is. But, when she will look very handsome,
she mounts her fine chestnut mare, lets her
hair to the winds, gives her steed the reins,
and then everybody thinks if there is a
Diana anywhere any more, it is this Em
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Impertaal Rules ef l eedaet.
[From Hill’s Manual of Social nod Business
Forms.]
Never exaggerate.
Never point at another.
Never lietxay a confidence.
Never wantonly frighten other*.
Never leave home with unkind word*.
Never neglect to call upon your friends.
Never laugh at the misfortunes of others.
Never give a promise that you do not ful
fill.
Never send a present hoping for one in re
turn.
Never speak much of your own perform
ances.
Never fail to be punctual at the time ap
pointed.
Never make yourself the hero of your own
story.
Never pick the teeth or clean the nails in
company.
Never fail to give a polite answer to a
civil question.
Never question a servant or child about
family matters.
Never present a gift saying it is of no use
to vourself.
Never read letters which you may find ad
dressed to others.
Never fail, if a gentleman, of being civil
and polite to ladies.
XeYer call attention to features or form of
ant one present.
Never refer to a gift you have made, or
favor you have rendered.
Never associate with had company. Have
good company, or none.
Never look over the shoulder of another
who is reading or writing.
Never appear to notice a scar, deformity,
or defect of any one present.
Never arrest the attention of an acquaint
ant e by a touch. Speak to him.
Never punish a child for a fault to which
you are addicted y ourself.
A Puzzled Parson.—An old gentleman
from the Hast, of clerical aspect, took the
stage from Denver south in ante-railroad
days. The journey was not altogether a
sate one, and he was not re-assured by the
sight of a number of rifles deposited in the
coach, and nervously asked for what they
were.
“Perhaps you'll find out before you get to
the Divide,” was the cheering reply.
Among the passengers was a particularly
(it seemed to him) fierce-looking man, gird
ed with a belt full of revolvers and cart
ridges, and clearly a road agent or assassin.
Some miles out, this |>erson, taking out a
large flask, asked, “Stranger, do vou irri
gate?”
“If you mean drink, sir, I do not.”
“Do you object, stranger, to our irriga
ting?"
“No, sir." Ami they drank accordingly.
After a further distance had been trav
ersed, the supposed brigand again asked,
“Stranger, do you fumigate?”
“If you mean smoke, sir. I do not.”
“Do you object, stranger, to our fumiga
ting?”
"No, sir.” And they proceeded to smoke.
At the dining'-piace, when our friend
came to tender his money, the proprietor
said. “Your bill's paid.”
“Who paid it?”
“ That man”—pointing to the supposed
highwayman, who, on being asked if ne had
not made a mistake, replied, “Not at all.
You see, when we saw that you didn’t irri
gate and didn’t fumigate, we knew that you
Was a parson. And your bills are all right
as long us vou travel with this crowd.
We’ve got a respect for the Church—you
bet !” It was no highwayman, hut a re
spectable resident of Denver.—[A. A.
Haves, Jr., in Harper * Magazine for March.
Houau'a .Strategy.
“Jack,” said a pretty girl to her small
brother, the other day, “I want you to do
something for me—that’s a good fellow.”
“What is it?” growled Jack, who is a
brother of the period.
“Why, you know that wig and moustache
that vou used in the theatricals ?”
“Well?”
“Well, won’t you just put them on and go
to the concert to-night? Augustus and I
will be there, and Jack, I want vou to stare
at me the whole evening through your
glasses.”
“What! you want me to do that?”
“Y es; and as we come out you must stand
in the door and try to slip me a note—take
care that Cius sees you, too.”
“Well, I declare!”
“Because, you see, Jack, (Jus loves me, I
know ; but tfien, he's awful sfow, and he’s
well i>tf and lots of other girls are after him,
and he’s got to lie hurried up a little, as it
were.”
— I am reminded of a story about Dr.
Bartol, of Boston, which I have liberty to
repeat. It seems that Mr. Savage, the
Unitarian minister, hail instructed his little
girl very sensibly w ith the idea that a por
tion of (iod was |>erceplihle in everything
that was noble and beautiful. The child, as
children do, had got this idea very ingen
iously fitted into her own inind ready for
application at a moment's warning. One
day as the door-bell rang, she presented her
self in the hail just in season to receive one
of Dr. Bartol’s benignant smiles, and to
fully observe tluit gracious, benignant figure.
Immediately she sped to her father with this
exclamation:
“Oh, papa! papa! The whole of God has
come now.
Dr. Bartol, as well he might, declared that
he had never been so flattered in all his life.
—[Providence Journal.
— Wide Awake fur March is in advance
of an, thing heretofore done hy this magazine.
The frontispiece, hearing the legend "I just
won’t stay in the house with such a Girl,”
illustrates a good story by Nellie A. Hop
kins, entitled “How L’ncle Tom ran Awavi”
but the opening article is a two-part story'
“Hilly’s Hound,” by Sara E. Chester, and
will interest all boys who admire a dog. It
promises to be one of the best stories we
have seen. “Surprised," bv Anna Eichhurg,
is another good story, and has three inimi
table pictures by Francis, the cat artist.
Mrs. Macy has a very funny narrative, en
titled "The Story of the Clock." The serials,
“Five I.ittle Peppers” and "The Young
Homesteaders," are fresh and wholesome,
each with admirable pictures. Mr. Benja
min’s “American Artists" paper is about
Daniel Huntingdon, the President of the
Academy of Design, and has some fine
pictures. The long illustrated paper is en
titled “How Newspapers are Made,” and is
said have been written by a former mem
ber ’>:< the N. Y. Tribunt staff, and is a
brigi.i readable article, with sixteen spirited
illustrations. The poems nf the number are
fine ; “March,” by Celia Thaxton, “The Child
Angel,” by Mrs. W hi ton, “March and the
Boys,” by Mrs. Brine, and “Gold Locks’
Kindergarten," by Clara Doty Bates, “Con
cord Picnic Days,” by G. B. Bartlett, giTes
some interesting facts about the young
sculptor, Mr. French, and has directions for
a spirited game called “The Potato Race."
There is also a “Shivering Song" for use in
schools, “Tangles,” “litters for Little
Folks,” etc., etc.
—If boy’s boots were made of east iron,
covered with tar and gravel, and than painted
four coats and varnished, mother would
still have cause to wondar how on earth
“that boy” got his feet sopping wet.
—A I
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