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Tin HkU taut 'an'V vislw
Are few ami fur between,"
Hut most WfU think tint aua-'
Tlicy frejueutly Lave oen.
Tlio Impl y little roxobudrt
ArouuJ tJio parent stem,
AUy think their :;iotL n
AuI tioujjh fur ilioui.
Tlio. vaunt; mm think tho m'.ileu
Ha'bliiHhlutf, treh and wH't,
In jiiMt tin much uu angel
Ai ho Yfould care to meet.
Tim bone lii't ha l'unnd
To whom Iio'h tied for ilfo;
Ho tiixl 1)9 Kot an angel
When ho took a wife.
Tho ohl niau neon an ung'-l
In hit! daughter drar,
When lie help to smooth for him
Each declining year.
'Tin tint all men see angel
If they aro not Mind,
But Homo fcoo only good naci,
,Smo tho other l;i::d.
NONE BUT THE liKAVE.
"This is my daughter Hetty, Mr.
Thortley."
Dick Thortley Lowed, and pretty
winsome Hetty Drown lowed in re
turned. Dick Lad looked the columns of
the newspaper through, and finally
picked out Brown Clin as the place
which he thought would just suit
him to spend the summer vacation
in.
After Hetty's father had introduced
tho young people he went to the ham,
ieaving the pair seated upon the
porch.
"A pleasant spot this," said Dick,
after he had got through admiring
(he pretty dimpled hands which the
girl had carelessly laid upon the light
blue bunting dress.
"You like it?" asked she.
"Like does but half express my
admiration. It seems as though I
would be perfectly satisfied to linger
here for ever," responded Dick.
"But surely, Mr. Thortley, the at
tractions of the city life surpass
those of such a humdrum locality as
Brown Cliff.
"On the centrary, I prefer what you
call the humbrum locality."
"And why, may I ask?"
"Because, because well, I cannot
fully explain my reason. I guess it
is because I am heartily sick of the
city ways.
"And so you come here for a
change?"
"Yes; I believe that is the reason."
Tho pair sat there upon the porch,
talking upon one subject and the other,
until the evening shadowa fast deep
ened into darkness.
.Finally Dick arose, and said :
"As I am somewhat tired with my
journey I will retire."
Hetty called her father, and the
iatter taking a lamp led the way to
the front chamber on the upper floor.
Dick took up his traveling bag, and,
after a "good night" to Hetty, he fol
lowed the old gentleman up the stairs,
iind shortly afterwards was soundly
.sleeping.
"He is handsome, and so is Tom.
He i3 find appearing, and Tom is not
quite so easy. He talks and acts like
n real gentleman, and Tom can hard
ly ever fine the right word to say
when it i3 tecded. Tom loves me,
and I I wonder do I really and truly
love Tom!"
Thus Hetty mused after she had
disrobed herself for the night, and sat
perched upon a chair by the window.
JStrauge, she had never questioned
the fact as to whether or not she
loved Tom. She had always taken it
for granted that she did" love the
handsome brown-faced farmer boy,
who had accompauied her home from
singing-school in the winter, stod tak
en her to picnics and on excursions
in summer.
Their had been an ailection without
any question, any doubt cr mistrust
to mar the sercnitv of its llow.
Two, three weeks pass rapidly, and
Dick Thortley finds himself musing
vcr the possibility of his being able
to provide for a wile. Hetty's lovely
'ace, her pretty figure, and Ler grace
havo U'ou the whole cause of his per
.!cify. Before he met her he never
l :. thought of muryin;.
Th 3 sot in which he moved a pay
hatch of clerks had one und all pro
mised to oohew nil questions of mat-
ituonv. Hence lha had never le-iho-j;;!;t
Limiclf of the subject. New
t lao channel of hh tLcrghis was!
t'nnod ii.:o new findings. j
iwo pounds a v(( wai x.oer co
it." 1.2 .-iJ. "The margin is too
mall, t'oufouud it, why cannot I uo
om:l:::r- to r.-i:C the turd:1 How
rye i, I tuiiA I'll pj ;n and v. in Ler.
I ccnsc-qctnccs what .ey Lay."
t DicL I: I cm i J f. i:.e vi vn? iarra-
with
it-.VT r . :..e rv..
it w. Tom. a .! .:IiLf !c. n.
hiily.-Z ;"::cr.J.
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tho parlor talking with Hetty, when a
trap halted at the door, and Tom
asked her to take a ride.
Again, when Dick requested her
to take h row on tho lake, she Haid
6ko was very sorry, but she had an
engagement with Tom.
"Miss Brown, that Tom seems
to tako up all of your spare time,"
exclaimed Dick.
"Excuse me, Mr. Thortley, not
quito all. I believe I am at your ser
vice when not .otherwise engaged."
returned she.
"Humph! you are pretty much
otherwise engaged, most of the time."
And turning upon his heel, Dick
would leave Hetty.
This soon became common, and
finally Dick was determined to cud
all by asking Hetty for her hand.
"Miss Brown, will you walk with
mo along the lake 6hore this evening?"
uked Dick ono evening after tea.
i--I don't know."
01 course; it's another engago
jeut. No matter; I return to tne
:itv in tho morning," interrupted
Dick
"You are wrong, Mr. Thortley; I
have no other engagement. ' To prove
it I will go to the lake with you."
She put on her pretty wide
brimmed Gainsborough and walked
by his side to the lake.
"It is pretty," she said, gazing out
upon the lake, which reflected each
shilling star and fleecy lloating clovd
upon its mirror-like surface.
"Pretty! yes, beyond all others I
have ever looked upon."
Something in his tones caused
Hetty to look up quickly; and she
blushed as she found his eyes gazing
straight in hers.
"Hetty, I I love you."
There, it was said. The die was
cast, and Dick's heart jumped up into
his throat.
"Mr. Thortley "
"There now, Hetty, don't Mr.
Thortley me. Can you call me Dick?"
"I might, that is if I had known
you longer."
"You call that farmer Tom."
"Oh, Tom and I were children to
gether. That makes a difference, you
see."
"I suppose so. But, Hetty, tell
me, do you love me?" asked Dick,
trying to take her hand in his, a liber
ty which she did not seem to be dis
posed to permit.
"I I let us go back now, Mr.
Dick,'' said Hetty.
"I love you, Hetty. Will you not
give me just one small ray of hope?"
"I I don't know," responded she.
Dick seemed very much in earnest.
Tom had never, during all the years
of their association, spoken of love.
She, like other girls in common, had
a deal of admiration for a brave man.
And Dick Thortley seemed a valiant
personage to Hetty, since he had
dared to tell her that he loved her.
"Who does know, then?" asked
Dick.
"I cannot say; I please let's go
back home now," uttered Hetty. i
"Will we row tlie boat, the little
boat down there, up to the stream
which flews by the house?" said Dick
pointing to a small boat near them.
"If you wish," said Hetty.
Thev got into the boat, and pushing
it out from the shore Dick plied the
oars.
A silence fell upon them after the
boat had gone a short distance.
Dick was doubtless thinking how he
could make two pounds do for two
persons, when it barely sufficed for
one.
Hetty was thiuking that this would
all be very nice, if it had only been
Tom instead of Dick.
They reached the inlet to the lake,
where the small 6ream poured its
crystal waters into the lake.
Dick turned the boat aroundhor
ror! the frail affair struck against a
rock, and in another instant they
were both precipitated into the water.
Dick, aa he went over, managed to
grasp hold of the boat, and Hetty, as
luck would have it, found herself seat
ed squarely upon the rock.
"Miss Brown," said Dick,
in a predicament."
"I'm wet through
and
You are just too horrid to upset the
boat, cried llett
; Strangely tno.igh, the
thorough
1 wetting seemed to take all
tht
ro-
j inar.ee out of both.
j Here in the water up to tl.ir waists,
I Dick hanging on to the shattered boat
tor ilfar life, ami Hpttv sf-fitfil uion !
the rock, some ten ormorevards from
! shore, all a Hairs connected with love
! were as something utterly vjgne to
' them.
' "What shall we do?" .:d HetJv.
D.ck did not rr ply. Swim he could '
; not, and he knew it l.c once iost Lis
' hold Le trcitld go dovr. to a watcry
; grave.
Aciin HtliT m:J:
"What tLa.l ue Io? "
i A strange sound ficr: 1 ;.? l'r
like a babv.
That was enough for Hetty. And
this man had iust told her that ho
loved her. and asked hex if she loved
him. Now ho i3 crying in the very
ttrPRfmca of the woman ho loves, and
docs not seem disposed to offer even
a suggestion as to how they shall cs
cflne mssinc the niirht here in the
I - i M "
water.
I I'm sorry that wo rowed. I I
Mi8sBB Brown, I guess we'll
both be at the bottom by morning.
blubbered Dick.
"Why don't you do something, Mr.
Thortley? Swim to the shore for
another boat. Do anything to get
mo oif this horrid rock.
"I I can't swim."
"Tom can."
"I'm clad to to hear it. I I
wish Tom was here."
Hetty then seemed to be possessed
of an idia which she suddenly put
into effect, for raising her voice to its
highest pitch, she cried: "Tom!
Tom! Tom!
"Hallo!" a voice in the distance re
sponded. "Quick, Tom. Out here in the
lake wheie the stream Hows in," cried
Hetty, as she espied Tom's form upon
the lake shore.
And then Tom dashed into the
water and walked as quhkly as possi
ble to Hetty, took her in his arms,
and walked back to shore.
"Help ! How am I to ret ashore?"
yelled Dick.
"You poor fool! Walk ashore!
The water is about waist-deep. You
don't want mc to carry you, do you?"
exclaimed Tom, as he walked off to
wards the hotise, Hetty, very limp
and dripping, walking by his side.
Dick walked to shore. What a
fool he had been. If he had only
known the depth of the wfater, per
haps he would not have lost Hetty.
Anyhow, he returned to the city in
the morning; and you may be sure he
never mentioned the little circum
stance. Hetty and Tom were married
shortly afterward. She said the sight
of a man crying had cleared away all
doubts, and straightway knew that
she did indeed love Tom.
The Recalcitrant Monkey.
An Italian organ grinder was ren
dering "The Little Widow Dunn" in
the shade of a telegraph pole in
South Fifth avenue. The anthropoid
that was attending to the finances of
the combination, broke his string by
climbing once too many times around
the lower part of the telegraph pole,
and, thus released, he ascended to
one of the cross bars. The musician,
thinking that the monkey was not at
tending to business, gave the string a
jerk without looking around or stop
ping the music. The resistance told
him that something was the matter.
He glanced around, saw that the string
was fastened to the telegraph pole,
and that his collector had absconded,
and asked in a troubled voice :
"Where him nionka gona?"
Then he saw the children
looking
toward the top of the pole, and
glanced upward. Taking off his hat
and swinging it, he addressed the
monkey in vigorious Italian.
The monkey looked down upon
him loftily, and the rotary musician
picked up a empty tomato can flour
ished it in a threatening manner. The
monkey retired to the top cross-bar,
and, apparently to insure himself
against being knocked from his perch,
grasped a telegraph wire on one side
of him, and then carefully reached
out with his other arm and caught
hold of another wire. Suddenly he
seemed to lose interest in the move
ments of his master, and looked curi
ously first at one hand and then at
the other. Then he let go the wires
and began a minute inspection of the
palms of his hands. Having satisfied
himself that nothing was the matter
with them, he took hold of the wires
again, and glanced down at his mas
ter. Then he let go again, inspected
his palms once more, looked around,
him in a suspected way, and carefully
let himself down with his tail from
"we are cross-bar to cross-bar, till he could
! descend the pole. This he did head
through. ; foremost, and with a look which in-
dicated that he thought it better to fly
to ills or which he knew tl.au to en
dure those the nature
a puzzle to him. .V''"
c:
wueu
was
What inriuenci? ui t:.e uooa-
on
the tide V
the teioli-r as
Hccrv. J
lin Ile'-ir- it IeienJeil
on what was tied; it" it wa a dog it
i ma.lc Lhi hovrL au i if it wij a gate it
I untied it, jut as .v-r- a a cow or the
yonng man came alone. It i such
: things a thi that uiik? s?Lo teaoh
' cts wait to lie don ii 1 rvt-ry lar
at for oV!xk.
D..x Cav.ls 'n writra froui Lnropc
th?.t bngs to L;jr 'Le United
ute I-''.g? ir.-i :ie scien
tist ir.vf-i.: a rna
hine :r:;:Ig A rl.-ii.? to tile
en:
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S.MALL FARMS.
I'rollt I'onod la llny ImhUbcvi In California
From tho San FrauUco Alt. Aug. 0
The Bakersvillo CaUJorman has
joined Col. Hollister in discouraging
men of small means irom engagm
in farming in this state. It has the
hardihood to assert that most of those
who have undertaken it have failed,
and that the character of our climate
and soil are such that capital and
larcre area of land are necessary to
success. This may be true of certain
regions, but more than half of the ag
ricultural land of the state has been
brought under cultivation by men of
small means. In 1880 there were
10,081 farms containing less than 100
acres, and 80,295 containing less than
500 acres. Of farms containing more
than 500 acres there were butlittle over
5,000. These figures do not indicate
that all the money is made on large
farms. The Californian says: "Of the
small farmers who settled the delta
at Kern river poor men we mean
only one now remains. If this is true
it merely shows that Kern is not a
good country for poor settlers to go
to compared with others. There are
portions of the Sacramento and San
Joaquin valleys where poor settlers of
twenty-five vears ago have held the
land and grown wealthy. "No man
can create a small farm here," the
Catifomian continues, "of, say, 1G0
acres, or any other part of the state
where there is unimproved land, with
out a considerable amount of money.
In most cases we would say it would
be unsafe to attempt it with a capital
of less than $5,000 remaining after
the land was acquired, and even in
that case the pioneer must possess
exceptional energy and capacity. "If
this be true, it would be useless to hope
that the government land remaining
in the state would be acquired by set
tlers, for not one in. fifty posses the
amount of capital named by the Cali
fornian. But thousands of acres
of these lands in the foot,hills and
more distant counties are yearly tak
en up by immigrants from other states
and by old residents and gradually
transformed into valuable farms. It
is true this land can not be broken up
as easily as Illinois prairie land, and
a big crop of wheat raised on the
whole quarter-section the year after
the settler arrives, but a man who is
willing to adapt himself to his sur
roundings and use his land and la
bor to the best advantage, is sure to
get along. On the other hand some
of the most melancholy wrecks are
men wno started witn capital and
broke up at 'big farming.' in the San
Joaquin valley and elsewhere. It may
be considered a general rule m wheat-
growing districts of the state that tho
arger the ranch the heavier the mort
gage it is carrying.
A good example of agricultural
progress is tound in Napa county.
In 1880 tho number of farms in Na
pa, as returned by the census-takers,
807; just rendered, there are now
1,178. This is an increase of nearly
100 per cent, in three years. How this
subdivision of land affected its value
may be seen at a glance by the fol
lowing figures : Of the land which is
included in tracts of less that 10 acres
the average assessed value $84.81 per
acre; over 10 acres and under 40,
$84 ;61 per acre ; over 40 and under 60,
$35.00; over 60 and under 100, 25.
84; over 100 and under 160, $11;89;
over 160 and under 240, $10.44;
over 240 and under 320, 9.48. Land
which is subdivided into small tracts
i3 generally planted in orchards and
vineyards, and the great resulting in
crease in value goes to swell the ag
gregate wealth and prosperity of the
state.
Profits on Beer.
St. Louis Republican.
A number of members of the house
of delegates were sitting in the ante
room last evening, when the conversa
tion turned upon the all-absorbing
topic of beer and whisky. There was
a dispute between two members as to
the relative profits on beer and whis
ky. They all agreed that the greatest
prorit was made upon whisky. One
man, however, ventured to say that
there was no money in beer, while
another gentleman insisted that 100
per cent, was no money at all to the
saloon keeper. The dispute was grow
ing very warm when a member of the
house, who keeps a saloon, came for
ward and was questioned on the sub
ject. He said: if beer is sold in
small gla.s.es altogether, I can guaran
tee a profit of $4 on every keg. Some
saloon keepers down town very often
make as much as $3 upon a keg, and
ne-ne of them would be snrprised to
make $10 on a Leg of beer. When the
beer is oK in tin buckets and in Mmi
lar in inner, there is no " profit in it
whatever. At festivals and picnics I've
longht a ke cf lt-er for t- and made
out ot it.
strote occurs !
t Sin Ax.tox.io c n tLe ;
? tjax:, Xi.e oti.tr . wcrac.
cafts Treved fatal.
m thin ..
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nl Dealer
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liroprictore.
AFF0RD1NQ BUILDING MATEBi-
FOR BOTH NERVE AND MUSCLE.
StrengtheninBlnvlgorat!n(rFattening.
DOLDEN'S LIQUID BEEF TONlf
ft pronounced by aeoret of pjii;.
...'. tnwn, and by thousands of peopU who
:mve Mscd it, to be tho best known remedy
rr Debility, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Lot of
'.ppetHe, Jams of Flesh, Lung Complaint,
'nn1e Weakness, Gastrin Irritability, Ma
larial Fever and iaiii otlwr diseases where
tonics are required -
differing essentially
Foods and Tonics,
from all pther
qecf
IT IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF
the Blood and enrichrs 1 1, and Is there
fore a fimo tnvlgorant and corrective
In cases ot all chron lc maladies whictt
are associated with an impoverished
state OF THE ELood. Those all yield
to tne regulating and nourishing prop
erties ol Its great food tonic elements.
It compensates tor the toss of vitality,
Induced by Consumption, Catarrhot
Bronchial and Throat affections. It
will remedy Feminine Debility and
reimburse the Female physique tor
those losses of vitality accompany
ing complaints peculiar to the sex.
Mothers nursina their own children,
and delicate women who expect to
become mothers and bring up vigor
ous children should by all means use
It. It will restore sufferers from
Mental or Nervous Prostration aris
ing from Oiier-worJt, Excesses or
protracted Disease. It will curs
Drunkenness and tho Opium Habit
for as the appctlto grows hoalthler
and digestion inoro vigorous through
the use of this Tonic, the unnatural
craving dies awuy until totally ex
tinct. It is highly beneficial in Liver
Complaints, Malarial Fever, and
ALL Malarial Disease. ; and for the
debilitating effects of Fever of any
kind It has no equal. It repairs
tmste, improves Digestion and Ap
petite, and affords tho Dyspeptic In
valid an casilu assimilable article
of food; and Is so pleasant to the tasto
that tho most sensitive palate will not
reject It.
THAT THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
and Invalids generally may properly
understand tho merits ot "Coldens
Liquid lteef Tonic," an analysis by
the eminent chemiBt, AltTHUB HILL
HASSALL, M.D., F.B.S., ot London,
England ; and also an endorsement rr
the celobrated physician, Professo:
SI K ERASMUS WILSON, F.E.8..LL.D.,
of London, are labeled on eacu duhic.
AUTION.-Colden's Liquid
EEEP TONIC Is an abbreviation w
its original name-''COLPEJrs wt-
r,KT-3 LIQUID EXTRACT Of BJJ"
TONIC INVIGORATOK." Each bottle bears g
Unoriginal name a mark of genuineness B
which should always bo observed, as
.nn imitations. The su;un-1
orityof its materials and composition l'
be Etrl.:tly maintained. Sold cy DruggW-
generlly atl ; 6 bottles for $j. C. a. tiui s
TESTON, GENEEAL AGENT, 115 F"JJ "I? i
Ne w York. Sold Wholesale by J. J. SCUlu i
Sc CO., Galveston, Texas.
HAS BEEN PROVSU
ThoGURuQT CURS for
KIDNEY DEaSASES.
Does a toe book or a disoreercdjtrfce tr.&
cn that you aro a victim T--EN
HESITATE t u xnXSEr-WOST 6 onoe,
(drucreiati recomm-nd It) and it w
overcome tho disease- cad restore hcalJ neur
it 13 a cjl
DISEASES of tho LIVER.
It hM ipodao actl..a or. Jg.
E:V , ted ty kccpisT to biux-i uiraeoanO
Uon, eScctiaa it rc-X'--"- -c
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