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Where Trade Dollars Are. "What has become of all the trade dollars?" inquired a reporter as he rubbed up against the cashier of one of the largest banks in the citv yester day. "Locked up for false pretenses, the brief answer. "False pretenses?" exclaimed the scribe. "Now, yon see, the 'trades' paraded around and made a people believe they were worth a fall dollar, but at last the citizens tumbled and the "trades' were locked up for eighty-five cents, but I hope not for eighty-five y tinued the cashier. "The Io aDd will not fall upon the banks, because they had but a small amount -of the dollars on hand. You see the bankers received a friendly tip of what was coming, and they unloaded so far they could. Of the whole 2,500 Na tional banks in the country, I do not believe any one of them has a larger pile than 10.000 of the 'trades' in its vault which it will be obliged to wait to realize upon." "But the banks have plenty of tho dollars hidden away," said the re porter. "Bless you, yes; but not on their own account," replied the cashier. "Just as soon as the scare came the tradesmen who had the pluck to take them at par sought the banks and de posited them, as cash representing eighty-five cents. For instance, 10,000 of the 'trades' entitled the depositor to draw from the bank upon his usual ac count $8,500. Then other persons whose credit was known negotiated bonds and put up the trades as collat eral. The usual interest was generally charged, but in many of the cases the was small. Just what is to n was ears," con oss does not percentage be done no one appears to know, be cause no concerted movement has been made looking toward the redemption of the 'trades' at par. One gentle man, who is out of active business, bought 90,000 on speculation. Some he purchased as low as eighty cents. He merely hired a space in a safety de posit company, aud had them |oeked up until Congress speaks. Two largo brewing firms in this city have, one 60,000 and the other 40,000 of them. A clothing house has 10,000, and so it is all through the list, coming down to the person who has 6,000, and so on. Probably one of the largest individual holders is the Reading Railroad Com pany. This concern continued to re ceive the 'trades' until the last horn blew. 1 guess they were current up the Schuylkill Valley for some days after they had been called in by the popular cry in the large cities. One bank in Pottsville has 20,000 which it would gladly turn out at par. Nearly every miner and trader has some in the coal regions, especially those of a fru gal disposition who "did not deposit in bank, but kept their little savings in the old stocking at home. "Here's a point on this question that I will not charge extra for. I have heard people say; 'YVe won't vote for this or that candidate for Congress un less he promises to have our trade dollars redeemed at par.' Now, sup pose he says 'yes' to the demand. It would be bribery, becauso he would be paying fifteen cents a vote, as the market value stands now. But there are more ways of killing a dog than choking him to death with butter, and if the people refuse to vote for a man unless they know he will help to remove the nuisance, you bet all your trade dollars it will be done." At the United States Mint a few of the objectionable coin have been re ceived for melting up, but the figures are small. A United States Treasury official lays that there are at least 15,000,000 trade dollars in the New York banks, and that if Congress can bo induced to legalize the coin there is at least a profit, ■pf $2,500,000 in the scheme.— Philadel phia Bccord. The Leaves of a Tree. In a recent lecture Professor Beal talked about leaves. Among other good things he said: As is well known, a tree can not grow without leaves. These are put forth every year and nre a contrivance for vastly increa sing the surface. An oak tree of good size exposes several acres of surface to tho air during the growing season. It has been estimated that the Washing ton elm at Cambridge, Mass., not a very large tree, exposes about five acres of foliage, if we Include both sides of the leaves. Leaves are more nearly ■comparable to stomachs than to lungs. A leaf is a labratory for assimilating manufacturing raw materials into plant fabric. The cellular structure of the leaves, wood and bark of a tree is a complicated subject to treat in a popu lar way. It requires a vast surface of leaves to do a little work. By counting the leaves on a seedling oak and esti mating the surface on both sides of each, we can see how many inches are needed to build up the roots and stem for the first year. After the first year the old stem" of the oak bears no leaves. It is dependent on the leaves of the ibranehes, or its children for support. A tree is a sort of community, each part having its own duties to perform. The root hairs take up most of the nour ishment. The young roots take this to the larger ones, and they in turn, like ithe branches of a river, pour the flood of crude sap into tho trunk, which con veys it to the leaves. The assimilated tor digested sap passes from the leaves to all growing parts of the plant, and a deposit is made where most needed. If a branch is much exposed to the winds, the base of it has a certain support or certain amount of nourishment. So with tho trunk of a tree. If the base of a branch of the main trnnk is much ex posed to the winds and storms, a much thicker deposit of food is made there. The winds give a tree oxereise, which seetns good to help make it strong. Our toughest wood comes from trees grow ing in exposed places. The limbs of a tree are ail the time striving with each other to see which shall havo the most and the most sunshine. While some perish in the attempt, or meet with only very indifferent success, the strongest of the strong buds survive. or 3 run —A magazine only differs from a sword In this wise: With one you gen erally have to out its leaves while the other generally leaves its cuts.— N. Y, •World. Family Letters. When John and Mary leave home for school or to go into business, the inter course between them and the circle they leave must be oontinued, if at all, by the interchange of letters. These messen gers are the shuttle that still weaves the fabric of family affection across what ever space may be between those who have parted. And curious as it may seem, sometimes a liner fabric is woven by letters than by personal association. The timid, the reticent, the self-con tained, often express themselves more freely with the pen than with the tongue, and entrust to the sealed let expressions they use if speaking. Many a boy and girl feel better acquainted with their father and mother after corres them a year than if they bad been for the time associated personally together. With others, absence from home ders for the time all communication, and only memory keeps alive the liame of family affection. It is a great task for some people to write, a task they cannot easilv bring themselves to per form Hands at home with the hoe and the hammer, the axe and the trowel, the broom and the churn-handle, find the pen quite too slender a tool to be managed deftly, and the forming of sen tences and the phrasing of ideas awk ward work. But even with these habit and custom would make letter-writing easy. YVhat to write is the great question. To answer it, one needs to put himself into the nlace of the person to whom the lettw Is to- he sent. When John is away from home, what is he most de sirous of hearing about? What does Mary care most to know? Shouldthoy come home what would be the first questions they would ask with their eyes, their ears, their lips? We ask many questions with Onr cars that we do not choose to plirhse in look or word; we wait to hear things said that are often of vital importance to us, but of which we would not speak for the world. If 'we can thus form an idea of what John want! to hear and what Mary is most interested to know, it is then ejjy enough tq^hi^k And when John and Mary write home what shall they say? Just what their parents are most solicitous to know about them—their surroundings, their successes, their Hopes, their dis appointments, their friends, their ob servations and experiences. So can their parents know just iiow it is with them and keep exact reckoning of their latitude and longitude on the chart of life. would hesitate to ter with ran what to write. Those who have been away from home in early life know how cheering and stimulating are cheerful, sunny letters from home; letters assuring them of constant love and remem brance, and breathing an atmosphere of trust and confidence in the absent ones. They may know, some of them at least, how dark when their nearest friends appear cold, indifferent, and even doubtful of their good intentions. The world is a very frigid and dark place outside of the home circle, and when a boy or girl goes astray there is little danger that censure will not be quick to put a fin ger on the error. If in such an hour the home is found a place of refuge and forgiveness, aud letters from homo are winning and encouraging and per suasive, rather than severe and censo rious, further error may be prevented. The love of God is the salvation of the world. Tho love of the parent is the salvation of the child. Those who have children away from home know how eager every word they send back is scanned, how the let ters are read and re-read, till the mood of the writer and his intellectual and moral tone are caught; how what is not said becomes equally significant with what is said, and the handwriting is made to tell all it can of the condi tion of the writer (and it can tell a good deal), and how when ell that can be gleaned is gleaned, the parent longs for one look at the child to supplement the information in the letter, and as sure himself that his child is all right. Boys and girls away from home can not realise the tender solicitude which follows their ever haps it is well Tribune. the world seems ry movement. Per they cannot.— N. Y. A Mexican Monstrosity. At Guadalajara, 3ays a veracious Mexioan paper, there lives a man hav ing a scaly skin exactly like that of a viper, even to the green color. He has, besides, the viper habit of changing shedding his skin every year. The skin comes off in a single piece, and not as might be supposed, in parts. On the man's head there is not a single hair. A sister of this man, who died some time ago, manifested the same phenom enon, and toward the close of her life began slowly to grow blind, owing to the viper's skin encroaching on tho eyes to such an extent that she could only see through a narrow aperture at each eye. The same thing is now hap pening to the brother. He can scarcely see any object, and the head presents the repulsive aspect of a viper. In Cu autia these unhappy beings havo been known as the "viper man and woman," and the phenomenon is attributed to the fact that their mother ate an excess of viper's meat to cure a disease of the blood, tice for remedy for blood diseases. or In Cuba it is a common prac people to eat viper's flesh as a Extravagance at Saratoga. The dress parade at Saratoga during the season is reported to have been dis tinguished beyond all its predecessors by the extravagance of tne toilets of the ladies. One dazzled reporter re cords with admiration that the wife of a Philadelphia millionaire, whom in charity we will not name, appeared in laco and silk that were valued at $30, 000, while her diamonds represented a valuo of $75,000. Her uniform on pa rade therefore represented a cash value of $100,000, and this appears to have been regarded as its chief attraction. But if a mere display of wealth is all that is required in a dress parade, why do not some millionaire's wives appear in mantles made out of thousand-pound notes? It would be more original, more effective, and not a whit more vulgar than the parade of tho$100,000 costume which attracted such attention at Sa ratoga.— Chicago Herald. FARM AND FIRESIDE —Cabbnge as a succulent, green food for poultry, ha3 no rival.— Troy (N.Y.) Titties. 4- Thorough preparation of the soil fori wheat and the best plump, clean are the surest route to successful whfcat growing.— Cincinnati Times. a pear orchard as to the varieties. Too many sorts has been the cause of many sad disappointments.— N. V. Post. —If you wish to drive your horse with an open bridle, have him tried with one beforo putting him to your top wagon, othurwi.se he might get aw*y with you.— Detroit Post. -rTomato Soup: One pint of toma toei, canned, or four large raw ones cut fine, add one quart of boiling water, and boil, add one scant teaspoonful of soda, when it will foam, then add a pint of sweet milk, salt, pepper and butter- When this boils stir in eight small crackers rolled fine.—TA« House hold. —Soiling must of necessity become the common practice on land of high value. Land worth more than twenty dollars per acre should not be used wholly for pasturing. If one cow can be pastured on five acres of this value it is clear that one cow should be kept on pne acre worth one hundred dollars. —,V. Y. Post. —For the horse that has lost its ap petite,is hide-bound, and otherwise "out of sorts," nothing acts better than bran mashes, which should always be made with boiling water. These are laxative, afford some nutriment, and serve to assist the action of purgatives. Mashes may also be made of oats, malt, linseed, barley and other grains, after being bruised or ground. —Prairie Farmer. /, —To remove mildew or stains from white cloth take one tablespoonful of chloride of lime in half a pail of water, let it stand half an hour, then dip the cloth in, wet thoroughly and spread in the sun. Repeat this until entirely out, then wash thoroughly- and rinse, and the lime will not injure the cloth. To leave the cloth over night without washing, the lime will rot it. Yellowed or unbleached clothes may be bleached in the same way.— The Household. —For fast driving oats may be the best food for horses; but we hold to the old-fashioned mode of feeding horses, which was generally in vogue from forty to sixty years ago and is still so among a great many people, even liv ery stable keepers—tha't is regular feeds of bran and short-cut straw mixed with a sufficient quantity of water to make it palatable; half a dozen eat-s of corn per horse daily, when the weather is not too warm, and plenty of good hay. Wo have known whole stablesful of horses to keep the best of health and be capa ble of doing the hardest work a horso can be put to by this mode of feeding.— Germantown Telegraph. M —Before planting tike careful counsel Nalls In Horses' Feet. At the invitation of tho manager, Mr. Hugh Paton, a number ot gentlemen connected with the city papers paid a visit to the extensive stables of the Shedden Company, on William Street, yesterday, for the purpose of witness ing the effect of nails which some of the horses have inadvertently trod upon while doing their work. Besides the press gentlemen there were also present Veterinary Surgeon Baker, Mr. Gailey, Inspector for the Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals, and Mr. Andrew Young, foreman of the Shed den Company. It has been found that the delicate internal structure of a horse's foot renders an injury in that region, no matter how slight, extremely difficult of treatment; and any way of preventing nails and other sharp articles from being thrown in the way of horses' feet is there fore of considerable importance. The habit prevails among many of the care takers and others of our mercantile es tablishments of burning the old broken boxes which have been used in tho shipment of goods, etc., and then throwing the ashes, including the nails which have hitherto held the boxes to gether, in the streets and lanes in the neighborhood, thus putting them right in the way of the feet of horses used in carting the goods from the warehouse to the station or steamer, and vice ver sa, and causing many of them incalcu lable pain. After being shown over the stables yesterday in order to take a look at the fine horses, some 300 in number, the party was taken to what is known as "the hospital," where are kept all the horses which have been disabled to such an extent that the treatment of the veterinary surgeon is necessary, and .shown among other things ono horse which had been so se verely injured by a nail entering his foot that an abcess had formed above the hoof, and in all probability the animal will have to be shot in order to relieve its suffering, as the result is al most certain to be fatal in the end. Since the 1st of April tho company have had forty-four serious cases in which the animals have been laid up from one week to two months each, besides about iitty less serious ones that have probably only required a few nights' rest and the application of poultices. The following table will show to some extent the Inconvenience which the company have been put to on account of this, being a statement of the time when the horses were put un der the treatment of the veterinary and the date upon which they were dis charged cured: No. of hones. Placed under treatment. ...June 20... ...May 18... ...May 17... ...April 6... ...May 17... ...June 13... ...May 3.... ...May 4.... Besides the above there havo been several fatal cases. Last fall the company lost a gray mare, one their valuable teams of heavy draft horses which, it will be remembered, took the first prize at the exhibition, and which was valued at $1,500 for breeding purposes. From the forego ing it will readily be seen that some steps should be taken to prevent the throwing of ashes containing nails or other sharp substances on the streets ot Discharged cured. ....Aug. 8 ....June 11 ....Not yet ....Not ycl ....Aug. 21 ....July 21 _Not yel —Not yet i i i i i i i i of lanes, and it has been suggested that a city by-law should be passed prohibit ing it .—Montreal (Can. I Gazette . SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Armv of England it built, with seating —The Salvation having fifteen halls capacity for 25,000 people. —A collection in a Bowline Green (Ky.) church yielded four hundred cop pers. —The Fulton Street Daily Prayer Meeting has passed its fwenty-sixth an niversary.— N. Y. Examiner. —A leading religious paper estimates that at the present rate Of conversion Japan can in seventeen years become a Christian country. —It is found that there are now over 3,000,000 scholars of both sexes in the schools of Italy. This is the ninth part of the whole population of the King dom. —A high official of the Roman Cath olic Church in Galveston, Tex., has for bidden children destined for Roman Catholic communion in that city to attend the public schools.— Chicago Journal. —The German language is taught in nearly all the white public schools of St. Louis. Tho entire number of pu pils who arc now studying German is over 20,000, or more than half of tho whole number of pupils in all the schools of St. Louis.—St. Louis Post. —"Adirondack" Murray told au au dience in Chickering Hall, New York, the other day that reason leads people to reject the theology taught by the The Christianity taught theologians, by Christ Himself, he said, is alone worthy of acceptance.— N. Y. Tribune. —The Uni versity of Alabama is crowd ed with students, "and no more can be reoeived until the new buildings are completed, which will be in a short time. This is the first time that the University has ever been full, and indi cates a gratifying state of prosperity.— N. Y. limes. —Mr. A. T. Hemingway, General Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association, has returned from Dakota, where lie attended a convention of Christian Sioux Indians. He says there wore two hundred and fifty Indians present, that there are now nearly eight hundred Christian Indian members of the churches represented, and that tho work of evangelizing the red men is pro gressing well.— Chicago Tribune. —The Boston Herald gives currency to some serious charges against the public schools of Lowell, Mass. It, states that many pupils are graduated with only a smattering of knowledge, which is en tirely useless in practical life. General inefficiency and too much red-tape on the part of the school committee are named as the causes of this state of af fairs. The great value of a practical education that will prove to be useful in actual life is being more clearly rec ognized every year. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. —The absent friend that writes no letter now doesn't care two cents for you.— N. Y. News. —People who attend horse races gen erally belong to the better class ot society.— Somerville Journal. —It was rather breezy the other morning. We stood on a corner and countednine men chasing their hata. And then we started after own til*— Boston Post. —A family of Swedes in Chicago tried to use a railway torpedo for fuel. It is needless to say that they have had pxercise enough to warm them up—in the Swede by and by .—Boston Post. —Little Ireddie (late to breakfast): "Papa, what is the difference between me and those baked potatoes?" "Give it up, Freddie." "Why, the potatoes Early Rose, and Ididn't."— Burlington Free Press. —"Did you ever think what you would do if you had the Duke of West minster's income?" Village pastor: "No, but I have sometimes wondered wtlat tho Duke would do if he had mine."— Boston Globe. —Even a multitude of fashion papers, and diagrams enough to keep the country in maps during a thirty years' war, have failed to decide this question: How often must a skirt be "gored" be fore it is entirely "kilt?"— Pittsburgh Telegraph. —Some people havo such a pleasant way of putting things: "By the by, let me congratulate you on your articlo in The Penlonville Pulverizer .. It's admir able!" "Oh, you flatter me-." "No, I assure you; it's quite splendid—so good. I was never so surprised in my life as when I saw your name at the end."— London Punch. —Jonadab's trouble: Jomidab begins to sigh And gouge his little eyes and crigh, Because he cannot catch a High Who roams the window pane. Now he eats a piece of pigh, Now he makes u face most wrigh. Then hours upon the floor does ligh; Jonadub's a child of migh , Cousin Murtha Jane. —Oil City Derrick —George A. Clarke, a colored bar ber of Toronto, married a niece of Sur veyor Stanbury, of Washington, several years ago, and the two lived a humble life in Toronto until a few days ago they received announcement that Mrs. Stanbury had died and left $30,000 to Mrs. Clarke and a similar sum to Mrs. Clarke's sister, who had also married a colored man.— Washington Star. —Landlord Roberts woke up one night by hearing some one travel about the house, and, lighting a candle, found one of his guests in full shirt dress wandering through the rooms. "What do you want?" said Roberts. "I want to find the hen-pen," said the man. "What in thunder do you want of a hen-pen at this time of night?" asked Roberts. "Well," said the man, "you see I lost my pillow somewhere, and I wanted to get into tho hen-pen and get a feather and make another."— Bangor (Me.) Commercial. —The Boston Gazette says: "Atiny— very tiny—pig was served at a fashion able dinner the other evening, and when he was placed on tho table a howl went up from the assembled rank and fashion surrounding him. The lit tle beast stood on bis own hoofs in the midst of a bed of Marshal Neil roses; in his rosy snout was the customary lemon, anil twisted in his small tail was a blue pond lily. He was pronounced too sweet for anything, was duly cut up and tasted, anil tho health of the Chinese cook was duly drunk in cham __ii pagno. For Young Bonders. WINDS. Have you listened to the wind, my dears. To the strong wind when it roars. When it whistles about the windows, And rattles and shakes the doors? Havo you heard the soft wind whisper? Did you list to the gontle breeze? Huve you heard the sad wind murmur And sfgh among the trees? Have you listened to the glad wind. To the fresh wind when It sings, When it <1 rives away the storm clouds, And golden sunshine brings? Shall I toil you about the winds, my dears. And what they do and say. What they bring to us as the soasonB change, Scarce resting by night or day? O, fleicely comes the north wind From his haunts of ice and snow. With ills breath so cold And his strength untold. Over the earth to blow. He tosses the wintry clouds on high, And pends the frost from tho clear cold sky. The birds and the brooks will cease their song. The flowers will die if he tarry long; But the children's hearts must grow bold and strong, For to work, to work, is tho north wind's song. Then cheerily, steadily work away. The cold, bold north wind blows to-day. O, trently comes the south win'! From the sunny land of flowers. With his touch And his fairy miirht, With the sun and sparkiinz showers. The snow-banks know him on his way, And shrink like winter ghosts away. He sets tho brooks trom their letters free, There is joy and music o'er land and Rea; 'TIs a welcome sonv tho south wind sings, And joy to tho children's hearts ho brings. Bo happy, oh, fling dull care away, Tho gentle smith wind blows to-day. O, gloomily comes the enst wind. With darkness and clouds aud ruin; With his breath so chill, And his sullen will. He breathes o'er hill and plain. He broods o'er the sea and the waters roar. And the waves rJso high on the pebbly shore. The tali trees know when ho draws nivh, And they bend and whisper, and pob and sigh. Oh. a wild, sad chant is the east wind's song, And the children sigh If he stays too long. Oil, for blue sky and the sun, we say; The gloomy east wind blows to-day. light O,'cheerily comes tho west wind From his h ome in the sunset land, And tlie day will seem I.iko a trolden dream With earth by the fresh breeze fanned. The storm clouds knew him aud fled apace, The trees stand erect in their (frandeur and Kraco. Bendintr o' all is the deep blue sky. And still waters reflect tho peace shining; on high. A sontr ot' the sunshine the west wind smj?s When ho comes at morn on his srolden wings; Fill all your children heart, with sunshine to-day, , rejoice and bn glad Oh, your way. O, the winds blow every way, my dears, But our Father knows them all; He sends forth the winds at His ownwiso will, And the winds return at His call. He sends the east wind aud tho rain, Then the fields grow groen und fair; And tho north wind and tho south wind, And the west in His tender care. 'll trust to the all-wise Father, Then For Ho knows which is best, Be it slroug or gentle, or glad or sad, From the north, south, east or west. —A'. Y. Examiner. OUR DOG ROVER. Rover was a gift. Born on the same day with baby Charley, he was a pres ent to him. It was winter, and Rover was wrapped in a square of flannel and laid by the kitchen fire, and fed milk from a saucer. Five pair of hands helped him change his position—five pair of feet ran themselves tired wait ing on and capering about him in their joy, and five tongues said: "Oh see!" when he opened his eyes and put out his cunning little red tongue to lap the milk. One of the differences between him and the baby up-stairs was that lie grew so much faster, and when little Charley was ready to creep, and rolled over in the effort. Rover could bound after a ball and curvet around, as much at home on his own legs as he ever could be. Rover was well named. He never saw a patch of water that lie didn't make a dive for it, nor a piece of wood land that he did not explore. The chil dren were all lively. They ran races with him, and swam with him, but were not always ready for his mischief. ;Once he seized a little pair of pants (tho owner was in the water). What a commotion! His eyes shone with fun. The bare-legged owner started for Ills . Whenever at a safe distance Rover stopped and shook them vigorously, pawed and rolled over in the grass with them, and finally deposited them on tho door-step. Now, little Dick could not appreciate so much fun, and howled and vowed all sorts of punishments when lie should be caught. Caught, indeed! Well said! The little scamp never could bo caught! No burglar ever kept out of police track he did theirs after one of his tricks. It was not often he was quiet. At one time he had rushed through an open doorway into a bed-room, seized a boot, which he mumbled, shook, tore, and then hid in his kennel. He was caught and tied up. His release was due to the appearance of a pho tographer, and in a subdued state of mind he allowed himself to be made a picture of. Whether he thought this a part of his punishment or not, I can't say, but he immediately afterwards gravely marched to tho kennel and brought the injured boot and laid it at the owner's feet. The puzzle now was, should he be praised for returning the stolen property. It was incur injured, but the way they taken to teach him right from wrong was to always praise him when he did right. He stood now demurely, without a wag of his tail or a move of his long ears, evidently in an ticipation of something—should it be praise? I think no one could help it; and "Good dog. Rove! Nice dog! satisfied him, and the "cloud rolled by" off his dog mind, and ho trotted off, evidently thinking virtue was its own reward. Rover had unbounded dare about him. The snort of a locomotive engine was always looked upon as a challenge for a race that could not be resisted. At those times the car platforms were not protected by gates as now. It was in erediblu how far dog and engine would keep pace together; but no one knew better than Rover that steam would beat finally, and just at the right point he would slacken his speed enough to jump on the platform, and so. of course, the dog and the engine arrived at the sta tion at tho same time. This cunning maneuver was watched for by the engi neer, who gave him a reserved front seat for the rest of the ride. But how tho boys' hearts thumped the first time they saw him race in front of the engine, barking at it, and 1 Ml SITS as ably had i" then lie down in the middle of thetjj (this was before the oow-catelien J made to clear the track) and let 3 whole train of cars run over him, 3 ishing his bark at the rear end the J wav he bad commenced it in front I 1'hese freaks were only a small J of Rover's incessant activity. The3 ness of life was so abundant in himU must whisk it off in some way, andu was just as full of love, too, aDd wj always be bringing something honied the boys and lay it directly at ty feet. ] His moral nature did not always It him right, especially in his zeal to s« his friends. One day a splendid W laqilj was found on a long bench ini kitchen. The butcher soon appear, fuming and wiping his blazing | face. , " Your, your d-dog must p-pay a-J for my m-meaf!" sputtered he, SOM he couldn't talk straight. j "Certainly," said his master, J paid the price. But Rover had to h] that meat back, and Rover could nwa found. It was ordered to be left a|<J until be returned. The next dajj came. Pointing to the meat tho bc3 ordered him to carry it where ho go(|| With a look of disgust he sniffed around then taking it between his teeth intu daintiest pyiqnfr, slunk away with 3 hugging the fences on the way, audit] it, as he did the breeches before, on tU butcher's door-step. He never stoJ meat again; but once he brought houJ a pair of gloves and a cane, and anotfl time a parcel of school-books; butti funniest was when he pounced upon tM old cat and laid her mewing and scratch] ing on the hearth, and then watchd her arch her back until her feet ltardM touched the floor, as she spat at him 9 her wrath. 1 But Rover, sobered down, becad the most loving protector. He wool have gone regularly to church, but tM church requested him not to. The bJ always vowed that he knew almost J much as they did.— Little Gems. 1 Playthings of an Old-Fashioned Our bows and arrows were made d the straightest-grained hickory. TU cross-gun required considerable trouble in the making; but, once done, its aid was much more accurate than that of IM simple bow and arrow. In the first place] apiece of half-inch pine plank, tlireefes and four inches long and six inches wide, was selected. Both sides ha™ been planed, the shape of the cross-gal was marked and the wood cut awat Three inches from the end a hole aboil an inch square was cut with a knit or ohisel, through which tho bow niiga be slipped and fastened. The distant from the end to the trigger was t*i feet. The bow was four feet long. Tin upper surface of what might be calld the barrel was channeled with a gougi or curved chisel; and there was atri* ger so placed that, when it was pullet it would release the string from a notd and shoot to a great distance the arioi tlmt lay in the groove. The simplest pop-gun that we hai was a quill three or four inches long with a bit of a stick for a ' 'rammer. Slices of potatoes—four or five slices t the inch—furnished the ammunitioi the sharp ends of tho quill cutt/s through and punching out the wail without any trouble. Larger pop-gnn of course, were made of pieces ot tt alder-bush, about a foot long. T! pith having been pressed out, the gi was ready for tho wads of wet pape Sometimes a bit of bamboo fish-pa served the same purpose; but the boi was required to be not only straigh but of uniform size throughout. , "squirt-gun" was made after the san a pop-gun, except that on alder or bamboo was close manner as a end of the with a block of wood through which awl-hole had been bored. The also became a " tion of a piece o at the end. Equipped with this wall gun, the boy was a terror to the who school. Another kind of pop-gun w made from a piece of bamboo, simple hollow-tube of alder was at used as an air-gun for shooting peas t the quick expulsion of the breath. Aside trom an old, roughly mail hickory pistol, painted in green an red, none of our appliances for firiq fire-ernekers have survived to this dal We were so fortunate as to be presents with an old rifle-barrel, and it was ii deed a prize. There were three of B and the barrel was therefore cut int three pieces by a file. Then came th hardest work of all, for each of the thru boys wanted the roar end of the band on which there was an old-fashiond flint-lock. So we "drew cuts," and ii two who drew the pieces of the bad that were not so good took them to th gunsmith and had the ends "pluggd up" with pieces of iron. After a gred many trials, we finally gave up tho dj gun-barrel, and went back to our led cannon as the safer of the two. rami plunger by the f leather or "suck add A Remarkable Coincidence. Those who love to dilate on so-c«Il supernatural occurrences are just » reveling in a remarkable story whi comes from Sherman, near Honesdsl Pa. A Miss Wertz, of New York Cit has been s house of Mrs. Reynolds, of Sliermi She left, in New York, a very dearl* friend. On August 16 she received i formation that the friend was vety ■ Some days later, as she sat sewingh) table at 10:30 a. m., a heavy gold t» on her finger broke with a sharp repo loud enough to be heard by all *1 were near. The break is said to in' ing the summer at been at right angles with tho ring, was as bright and smooth as if cut w an instrument. This ring was a p? ent to Miss Wertz from the lady fri® who was reported to have been sick, was not until some days after this i currence that Miss Wertz returned New York, when she found to her i tonishment that her friend died on t day the ring broke so mysteriously N. Y. Sun. —Humphrey Lynch, of Marshall, JW on hearing of his brother's death New Orleans hospital from the drew malarial fever, went there for the W pose of taking the remains home, he was also taken sick with the dreB ful disease and expired in the ssfl hospital that his brother died in .—-M Times. \