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VOLUME VII.
LAWRENCEBURG, TENN., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1S0O.
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ONLY ONE KIND WORD.
Twos a Httlo thing, only one kind word,
In the hurry and buitle of evory day,
But the heart was touched and the soul was
stirred,
: And a rainbow of hope spanned the darkened
, way I
'Twas a world-worn man with a weight of woe,
Who was groping along, In the orowded street,
When he heard a voioe that was soft and lowt
And a word that was warm, and passing
I sweot!
And tho sluggish life in his veins moved fast,
And the light in his eye was the olden light
'Twas the one kind word, he had met and
passed
'Twas the blue in the sky, where the stars
shine bright I
'Twas a sinning girl, with a reokless air,
Who was one of a throng on a sunny day,
And her painted oheek and her stony stare
Were the signs of a soul on its downward
way I
Dut a greeting come, and a kindly word,
With a message of graoe to the erring one,
And the centered depths of her nature stirred,
Till she turned from the wrong, and the good
was won I
Ella Dare, in Inter Ocean.
"THE WOEM."
An Interesting Story of the One
That Turned.
Shakospoare saya something about
worms, or it may be gnats or booties,
turning if you tread on tbem too se
verely. The safest plan is never to
tread on a worm not even on tho last
new subaltern from homo, with bis but
tons hardly out of their tissue paper,
and the red of sappy English beef in his
cheeks. This is the story of the worm
that turned. For the sake of brevity wo
will call llcnry Augustus Ramsay Faiz
anne "Tho Worm," although he was an
exceedingly pretty boy, without a hair
on his lace, ana with a waist like a
girl's, when ho came out to the Seoond
"Shikarris" find was made unhappy in
several ways. The "Shikarris" are a
hlgh-casto regiment, and you must be
able to do things well play a banjo, or
ride more than little, or sing or act to
got on with them.
The Worm did nothing except fall oft
his pony and knock chips out of gate
posts with his trap. Even that became
monotonous after a timo. lie objeotcd
to whist, out the oloth at billiards, sang
out of tune, kept very much to himself,
and wrote to his mamma and slstors at
home. Four of these things were vices
whioh the "Shikarris" objected to and
act themselves to eradicate. Every one
knows how subalterns aro, by brother
subalterns, softened and not permitted
to bo ferocious. It is good and wholo
somi, and does no one any harm unless
VomporB are lost, and then there is
trouble.
The "Shikarris" shlkarredThe Worm
very muoh, and ho bore evory thing
without winking. lie was so good and
bo anxious to learn, and flushed so pink
that his education was cut short, and he
was left to his own devices by every ono
exoept tho senior subaltern, who contln
ued to make life a burden to The Worm.
Tho senior subaltern meant no harm,
but his chaff was coarse and he didn't
quite understand where to stop. Fie
had boon waiting too long for his com'
pany, and that always sours a man
Also he was in love, whioh made him
worse
One day after he had borrowed The
Worm's trap for a lady who had never
existed, bad used it himself all the aft
ornoon, had sent a note to The Worm
purporting to come from the lady, and
was tolling tho mess all about it, The
Worm rose in his plaoo and said,
in his quiet, lady-like voioe:
"That was a very pretty sell, but I'll
lay you a month's pay to a month's pay
when you got your step that 1 work a
sell on you that you'll remember for the
rest of your days, and the regiment
aftor you when you're doad or broke."
The Worm wasn't angry in the least,
and the rest of the mess shouted. Then
the sonior subaltern looked at The W orm
from the boots upward and down again,
and said: "Done, Baby." The Worm
took the rest of the mess to witness that
the bet had been taken, and retired into
a book with a sweot smile.
Two months passed, and the sonior
subaltern still educated The Worm,
who began to move about a little more
as tho hot weather came on. I have
Bald that the sonior subaltern was in
lovo. Tho curious thing is that a girl
was in lovo with the senior subaltern.
Though the Colonel said awful things,
and the Majors snorted, and marrlod
Captains looked unutterable wisdom,
and the juniors scoffed, those two were
engaged.
Tho senior subaltern was so pleased
with getting his company and his ao
ceptance at the same time, that ho for
got to bother The Worm. Tho girl was
a pretty girl, and had money of hor
own. She does not come into this story
at all.
Ono night, at the beginning of the
hot weather, all tho mess except Tho
Worm, who had gono to his room to
write home letters, were sitting on the
Dlatform outside tho mess-houso. The
of 4 band had finished playing, but no one
wanted to go in. And tba Captains'
wives wore there also. The folly of
man In love is unlimited. Tho senior
subaltern had been holding forth on the
merits of the girl he was engaged to,
and the ladios were purring approval,
while the men yawned, when there
was a rustle of skirts in the dark, and
a tired, faint voice lifted itself:
"Where's my husband?"
1 do not wish in the least to reflect
on tho morality of the "Shikarris," but
It is on record that four men jumped up
as it they were shot Three of them
were married men. Perhaps they were
afraid that their wives had como from
home unbeknownst The fourth said that
he had acted on the .impulse of tho mo
ment He explained this afterward,
Then the voice criod: "O, Lioncir
Lionel was tho senior subaltern's name.
A woman oamo into the little olrclo of
light by tho candles on the peg tablo,
stretching out her arms to the dark
whore the senior subaltern was, and
Bobbing. We rose to our feet, feeling
that things were golAg to happen, and
ready to believe the worst In this bad,
small world of ours one knows so littl
of the lifo of the next man, which, aftor
all, is entirely his own concern, that
one is not surprised when tho crasu
oomes.
Any thing might turn up any day for
any ono. Porhaps the senior subaltern
had boon trapped in his youth. Men are
crippled that way occasionally. We
didn't know; we wanted to hoar, and
the Captains' wives were as anxious as
we. It ho had been trapped he was to
be exousod, for the woman from no
where, in the dusty shoos and gray
traveling dress, was very lovely, with
blaok bair and great eyes full of tears.
She was tall, with a nne ngure, ana her
voioe had a running sob in it pitiful to
hear. As soon as the sonior subaltern
stood up she threw her arms around his
neck and called him "my darling," and
said she oould not bear waiting alone In
England, and his lotters were so short
and cold, and she was his to the end of
the world, and would he forgive hor?
This did not sound quite like a lady's
way of speaking. It was too demonstra
tive Things seemed black indeed, and the
Captains' wives peered under their eye
brows at the senior subaltern, and the
Colonel's faoo sot like the day of judg
ment framed in gray bristles, and no
one spoke for awhile.
Next tho Colonel said, vory shortly:
"Woll, sir?" and tho woman sobbed
afresh. The senior subaltern was half
choked with tho arms around his neck,
but ho gasped out: "It's falsel I never
had a wifo in my life!"
"Well," said the Colonel, "come into
tho mess. We must sift this clear some
how," and ho sighed to himself, for he
believed in his "Shikarris," did the
Colonel.
Wo trooped into the ante-room, under
the full lights, and there we saw how
beautiful tho woman was. She stood op
in the middle of us all, sometimes chok
ing with crying, then hard and proud,
and then holding out her arms to the
senior subaltern. She told us how the
senior subaltern had marrlod hor when
he was homo on loave oighteen months
beforo; and she seomod to know all
that wo knew, and more too, of his peo
plo and his past lifo. He was white and
asby gray, trying now and again to
break into tho torront of her words;
and we, noting how lovely she was and
what a criminal he looked, esteemed
him a beast of tho worst kind. We folt
sorry for him, though.
I shall nevor forgot tho indictment of
the senior subaltern by his wife, nor
will he. It was so sudden, rushing out
of the dark unannounood into our dull
lives. , The Captains' wives stood back,
but their eyes were alight, and you
could see that they had already con'
vlctcd and sentenced the sonior sub
altern. The Colonel Boomed five years
oldor. One Major was shading his eyes
with his hand and watching the woman
from underneath it Another was
chewing his mustache and smiling
quietly, as if he were witnessing a play.
Full in tho open space, in tho center,
by the whist tables, the senior sub'
altern's terrier was hunting for fleas.
I oremember all this as clearly at
though a photograph were in my hand.
I remember the look of horror on the
senior subaltern's faoo. It was-iathqfc
like seeing i.a man hangod, but much
more interesting. Finally the womm
wound up by saying that the senior sub'
altern oarriod a double F. M. in tattoo
on his left shoulder. We all knew that,
and to our innocent minds it seemed to
olinoh the matter. But one of the
baoholor Majors said, vory politely: "I
presume mat your marriage oortinoate
would be more to the purpose."
That roused the woman. She stood
up and sneored at the senior Bubal torn
tor a cur, and abusod the Major and
the Colonel and all the rest Then she
wept, and then Bhe pulled a paper from
her breast saying, imperially: "Talfce
thatl and lot my husband my lawful
husband read it aloud if he dare!"
There was a hush, and the men looked
Into each other's eyes as the Bonior sub
altern oame forward in a dazed and
dizzy way and took the paper. We
were wondering, as we stared, whether
there was any thing against any ono of
us that might turn up later on. The
senior Bubaltern's throat was dry; but,
as he ran his eyes -over tho paper, he
broke out into a hoarse oaokle of reliof,
and said to the woman: "You young
blackguard!"
But the woman thad fled through a
door, and on tho paper was written:
"This is to oertlfy 'that 1, The Worm,
have paid in full my debts to the senior
subaltern, and further, that? the senior
Bubaltern Is my debtor,, by-agreement
on the 23d of February, as Tsy the mess
attested, to the extent Jrt one month's
Captain's pay, in the lawful currency of
tho Indian Empire." '
Then a deputation s6T pit t for Tht
Worm's quarters, and found him, be
twlxt and between, unla&ng his stays,
with the hat, wig, serge JOes, eta, on
the bod. Ho came over ashe was, and
tho "Shikarris" shouted until the gun
ners' mess sent over to know If they
might have a share of the fun. 1 think
wo woro all, except tho Colonol and the
senior subaltern, a little disappointed
that tho Bcandal had come fV nothing.
But that is human natural "There
oould bo no two words abdfcit The
Worm's acting. It leaned asf W to a
nasty tragedy as any thing tl ''Sde of
a joke can. Xi
When most of the subalterns set upon
him with sofa cushions to find out why
he bad not said that acting was bis
strong point he answered, very quietly:
"I don't think you ever asked me. I
used to act at home with my sisters.'
But no acting with girls could ac
oount for The Worm's display that
night Personally, I think it was In
bad taste, besides being dangerous.
There is no use in playing with fire,
even for fun.
The "Shikarris" made him president
of tho regimental dramatio club, and
when the senior subaltern paid up hit
debt which ho did at once. The Worm
sank the money in scenery and drosses.
He is a good Worm, and the "Shikarris''
are proud of him. The only drawback
Is that be has been christened "Mrs
Senior Subaltern," and as there are now
two Mrs. Senior Subalterns in the sta
tion, this Is sometimes confusing to
strangers. Rudyard Kipling, In The
Woman's Journal.
There are fifty-one different post
masters within the corporate Hutu ol
the city of Chicago.
VERY ACCOMMODATING.
After a Hard Run a Tired Ivlan Finds
Friend Worth Having.
I was in the smoking car of a train on
the Louisville & Nashville road running
from Decatur to Montgomery, Ala.
Just as tho train started a man came
bouncing in, broathing hard and evi
dently protty well tired out Aftor sit
ting down for a couple of minutes he
rose ana came over to me. we were
alone in the car.
"Strangor," ho said, as he sat down in
half of tho seat, "I am dead-broke and
want you to pay my fare to Quntors-
vlllo."
"Very well; here's the change, and
you can band it to the conductor."
"Thanks. I see you have an overcoat
lying on tho seat. Would you have any
objection to my slipping it on for five
minutes?"
"None at all"
"You are very, very kind. Suppose
we exchange hats for a minute?"
"Certainly."
"Now, lend me your glasses and that
book."
"Hero they are."
He had just got settled whon the con
ductor came in. Tho strangor said
'Guntorsville" and handed out the fare,
and the official received it and passed
out The man hadn't anothor word to
say until the whistle blow- for his sta
tion. Then he got out of. the overcoat,
handed over tho other effects, and shook
hands and said:
"I can't toll how much I thank you.
They woren't two minutes behind mo.
"You were fleeing, eh?"
"I'd ran two miles."
"And the the cause?"
"Couldn't provo my ownership to a
8250 mule team. Good bye, old chap. If
you ever go into mules and got brought
up short, Bond for me. Detroit Free
Press.
Complimentary.
It was at the county fair. lYoung
Mr. Psoft had plumped himself down
betwoon two protty girls on a bonoh in
tho agricultural hall.
"Well, young ladies," he said, "it I
was the committee on awahding the
prize to tho best spocimen of honey I
should havo to give the blue ribbon to
both of you, I'm afwaid."
"Wo aro not competing for prizes,"
answered tho blue-eyod maiden on his
loft. "Wo're the commit toe on award
ing the ribbon to the prize gourd, and
we disagree."
"You disagwoe?"
"Yos. I seem to!be on one sldojandshe
on the other." Chicago Tribune.
A Misleading Sign.
Farmor visiting a bank in Now York
and Booing tho sign "Teller" in front of
that official's dosk.
Farmor: Say boss whero Is Fourteenth
street?
Toller: Up two blocks.
Farmor: And whoro is. Sixth avenue?
and you may tell mo where Park stroot
is. .
Teller: What is wrong with you, my
man? "I can't answer all your ques
tions. Farmer: Thon why the dickens do you
put up that sign with "Tollor" on it for?
The Jury.
Lost and Found.
Mrs. Do Shopper (broathlossly) Did I
loave my purse bore? I ve lost It some
whoro.
Clerk (who had worked an hour show
ing Mrs. De Shoppor goods without be
ing able to Bell her any thing) I will
Inquire, madam. Cash! Cash! Iloro
minute! Did any of you boys find an
empty purso anywhere around here this
morning? N. Y. Weekly.
Corrections Made to Order.
Staggors (to McCorklo) I undorstand
that you referrod to me as a moral lep
er.
McCorkle-Well?
Staggors Well, you'll have to take it
hack.
McCorkle Certainly, if it doesn't
suit you. I'll tako back the moral leper
and call you an immoral lopor. West
Shore.
Great Privation.
Dysart Whattorriblo hardships Stan
ley had to undergo In Africa!
Nevill Ya-as, so I've heard.
Dysart He even Bays he had to wear
a pair of trousors which wore cut from
an old blankot, and another pair cut
from the curtain of his tont
Nevill Poor fellah! I'm donced glad
I'm not an explowah. Puck.
It Wat, Perhaps, Deserved.
Amicus Why are you so angry at
having your poem reproduced in that
paper?
Great Poot Boca use tho editor has
appended a noto to It saying that he re
produces it not on account of its merit
but to show the kind of rot a man with
an established reputation can get ac
cepted. Life.
Mimics of Snnilford and Merton.
Grandmamma (scoing Tommy for the
first timo) Como hero, doar. You shall
be my pot You look like an old-fash
loned little boy just like tho chlldron
I used to Bee In my day.' lou are good,
I hope. Doos mamma ever punish you?
Tommy (uged seven) YeB'm, ma's a
slugger, yer bet yer life! Munsoy'i
Weekly.
Sound Advlcw.
"Well, I can confide in you, as you're
the eldest" said a lady to a female
friend.
"Ever so little."
"No matter. I confess to you that
Ive entered my thirty-ninth year."
"Really? Well, I'd advise you to stay
there. Judge.
There Was Not.
"Well," said Chappie, impatiently, to
the boy opposite him, "what are you
staring at? Is there any thing extraor
dinary about me?
"Oh no, sir," replied the boy, abashed
"I think you are every ordinary-looking
person," Harper s Bazar.
A cucumber is exhibited at Mont
gomery, Al., which is 33 inches long,
12 X Inches wide and weighs sixty and
three-fourths pounds. The patch in
which it grew ia full of cucumbers
weighing from one pound upward.
GOWNS FOR THE HOUSE.
New Designs for Dainty and Flctnresqne
Toilets for Indoor Effects.
If such a thing can be, robes d'interl-
our, which, by the way, must not be con-
foundod with robes de chambre, are
growing more elaborate than ever. The
fabrics are more elegant, and the garni
tures more costly. Any one, if not given
to wearing these elaborate gowns, will
appreciate, the ease and comfort of a
matinee or toa jacket
The Louis XI. form permits of as ex
tensive elaboration as one may desire,
and if a simplor design is pro for rod, a
graceful one is made of mauve bengal
ine, trimmed with ruffles and insertions
of embroidered chiffon. The ribbons
whioh ornament tho sleeves and girdle
the waist are of a deeper shade of
mauvo. lhero are some lieauuiul ben
gallnes in market, figured with sulf
colored polka dots, and In all delicate
shades, that cost $1.25 a yard, which
would make exquisite tea jackets and
gowns as well.
Pointed bands, corselets, fancy jack
ets with waistcoats, and blouse bodices
aro all fashionablo styles likely to re
main in vogue throughout the wintor.
The newest corsolots of passementerie
or velvet are mado in Swiss belt fashion,
with Blight points below the waist and
much longer and sharper points rising
on the chest in front and between the
shoulders of 'the back. Yokes and
sleeves of passementerie are elegant
and costly too much so for the average
purso.
Here is a little secret Imparted for the
benefit of those who desire tho effective
ness of transparent black over a colored
gown. Cut the yoke or corselet and
sleeves from Brussols net and cover
them with a pattorn of vormicelli braid
ing done with fine Bilk cord or narrow
braid. Small disks of velvet, cut out
with a sharp punch, may be gummed on
here and there throughout the pattorn,
which adds a deoldod richness to tho ef
fect The outor odgos may be bordorod
with a narrow Escurial laco, andtho re
sult will bo qui to as satisfactory as
though one paid 25 or 830 for tho trim
ming ready mado.
This Is another now shapo In millln-
ory and what our English cousins term
as "smart looking. It Is llnod with fawn
velvet and covorod on the low stonplo-
crown with myrtle-green velvot. Tho
front Is ornamented with a bow of green
velvot fastonod with a gold buckle.
Green ostrich foathor-tips aro prettily
clustered togothor at tho back. Tho do
sign may be effectually carried out in
all the newest combinations of colors.
To return to costume garnitures, tho
vogue for fringes is cortainly on tho in
croase and no more suitahlo trim
ming could bo found to roliove tho
oxoeasivoly straight lines of tho fash
ionable clinging skirts. ; Some of tho
newiy . importod -owns of faced cloth
have the, skirfs" bordorod with passe
menterie, from which depends a twisted
silk fringe throe inches doop. A cloth
costume from Worth in pigeon gray lias
side panols and a deep basque, all tho
edges of which aro cut in doop scallops
and bordered with a "Tom Thumb"
fringo of sowing-silk which exactly
matches tho cloth. Chicago Times
THE SERVING OF NUTS.
Few Housekeepers Know How to Do It
In a Proper Way.
Tho serving of nuts on the table is
generally limited to tho varieties of im
ported nuts sold at the grocer-shops,
which are often too old to be good. A
paper-shell almond vory soon loses Its
flavor and becomos dry, though it is the
most expensive of tablo nuts. Of late
years tho practlco of salting nuts for the
table has boon so much In vogue that a
dish of nuts in their sholls Is not as oft
en soon as once. Our Amorloan hazel-
nuts are the same variety as tho English
filberts, though the filbert is cultivated,
and is much longer and larger than an
ordinary hazolnut It certainly is one
of the most delicious of table nuts, and
exceedingly picturesque served in the
husks as it usually Is on English tables,
Our hazelnuts are better, however, than
any imported nuts of this kind, because
they can be obtained sound and fresh,
They will keep longor dried in the husk
In the clusters as they grow. The only
troes of tho truo walnut spoclos in this
country are the black walnut and the
butter nut. The hickory nut is an
allied troo, but is not a genuine wal
nut Our hickory nuts are always
better than stale walnuts, and would
probably be still better if the same care
was taken to oultivate them as is takeu
to cultivate walnut troes In England
and olsewhore. Tho truo walnut treo
dates back to old Greece, and has prob
ably boen In cultivation since then. A
sal tod walnut propared in the same way
as a saltod almond Is vory excellent,
and a hickorynut may be prepared sue
cossfully in tho same way, and is much
moro wholesome than whon eaten raw,
To salt nuts mix up a cupful of them,
blanched wboro it is possiblo, with a
tablespoon ful of olive oil, and lay them
on a pan, stirring a toaspoonful of salt
with thorn, and brown them till they
are crisp in a woll-heated oven. Our
hickorynuta aro genuine Americans,
being found only in this country. They
are an even more delicious nut in flavor
than tho true walnut and more desir
able wore they not so small and the
shell so troublesome to pick. In almost
all receipts in which walnuts are used
the hickorynut can be substituted. The
chcBtnut of French cookery, from which
a meal is- made to thicken soups, is a
cultivated troe allied to our own wild
chestnut The European nut is about
double or throe times the size of the
American chestnut but not as sweot or
fine in flavor, though better for the cul
inary purposes for which it is used in
France and elsewhere These large
chestnuts are imported yearly to our
market in their season for French cooks
and others who use them. N. Y. Tri
bune.
The base of celluloid is common pa
per; by action of sulphuric and nitric
acids it Is changed to gun-cotton, then
dried, ground, and mixed with from
twenty to forty per cent of camphor, af
ter which it is ground fine, colored with
powder colors, cast in sheets, pressed
very hard, and at last baked between
sets of superheated rollers.
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.
The Mlohigan University has twen
ty-five Japaneso students this year.
It is estimated that there aro 30,000
gypsy ohlldren of school age, of whom
not two per cent are ablo to write or
read a sentence.
Salaries of pastors in Gormany are
very low. It is proposed to give a min
imum of 90 a year. At present many
are as low as 40.
The colored Baptists numbor 1,120,-
000; the colored Methodists about the
amo; other denominations, about 22,500.
The Baptists claim 10,000 churches and
7,000 ordained ministers.
-"To know the Lord." That is a bold
aim for my finite soul, and yet my soul
wm be satisfied with nothing less. It
is'not by searching thou oanst find out
God, It is by following Him. Dr.
Matheson.
In Hawaii schools are established
all over the Island, the sum allotted to
public instruction in 1888 '88 bolngJ203,
020 annually. In 1888 there were 189
schools, with 8,770 pupils; ot these, there
wore 5,320 Hawalians and 1,227 halt
castes.
Covotousness of things is always
bad; covotousness of qualities is always
good. If you see a man has some thing,
do not want It unloss you have earnod it
But if you soo a man has a quality that
is good, covet it as much as you like,
and try to get it Christian Union.
It is only to man daring to think ot
himsolf nobly, divinely, aye, as the Son
of God, that there comos tho possibility
of putting his human powers to their
perfect use. Charactor and sorvlco both
fling thoir doors wide open to him who
knows himself the Son of God. Phillips
Brooks.
What is the use of aspirations if
they aro not strong onough to incorpor
ate themselves into charactor and pro-
oct themselves In righteous living?
That kind of piety which knows and ap
proves the hotter course, but consistent
ly and stoadlly follows tho worso, will
not stand tho test of the Masters judg
ment Nashville Christian Advocate.
Episcopal institutions oome into
possession of largo legacies from the
estate of tho late Mrs. Francos Brownell
Holland, of Hartford, Conn., which is
valued at about $900,000. Trinity College,
of that city, rocoivos $50,000; tho cathe
dral church of St John tho Divine, in
Washington, $J00,000, andtheMisslonary
Socloty of the Episcopal Church In Con
necticut, $10,000.
-The proposed school for church mu-
Blcians at Hartford Sominary, under tho
direction of Prof. Waldo S. Pratt, is
arousing much interost even so far away
as England. The courso is to oooupy
throe years, and tho students are to be
in residence thirty weeks in eaoh year.
Both men and women will be admitted,
and they will -be trained as directors of
muslo In churches and Sunday-schools.
-A wealthy Greek, Demetrius Tzanl-
BhlliDPi. has iriven two million francs
for the ereotlon ot a Greek church in
Paris. Hitherto tho one thousand and
more Hellenes living in the Kronen
Capital were compelled to worship in
tho Russian chapel. The Roumanians,
too, have an orthodox church
in Paris. Tho Catholics of
the Oriental rite two years ago, received
permission to worship In the Church St
Jullon-lo-Pauvre, formerly the old
Hotel Dieu. The Catholic Armenians
and Maronitos have for a number of
years boen the possessors ot a churoh
and seminary of their own ia Paris,
which city now has three Grook Ortho
dox and two Catholic Greek Churches
WIT AND WISDOM.
Conviction, were it never so excel
lent, is worthless till it convert itself
into conduct. Carlylo.
If you undertake to hire people to
bo good, they will quit as soon as the
pay stops. Ram's norn.
Ho that labors may be tempied by
one devil; but he that Is idle is tempted
by a thousand. Italian Proverb.
It Is all in tho point of view. If
mulo could bo interviewed, no doubt be
would declare tho teamster decidedly
obstinate.
Autumn Bantor "You want tocome
off," said tho wind to the maple leaf,
"All right; I'm just gotting ready," an
swered the loaf.
Our eyes aro not keen in all direc
tions alike; but every One of us is sharp
eyed for his neighbor's faults. Sun-
da,y-School Times.
The stomach doos not improve on
acquaintance. Whon a man finds that
he has one it is a most troublosomo com
panlon. Boston Transcript -
What is moant By our neighbor we
can not doubt; it is every one with
whom we are brought into contact he
or she. whosoever it be, whom we
have any moans ot helping. Dean Stan
ley.
"Do you expect, my brethren," said
the rireaoher, "to gather figs off
thistles?" "No," said one of bis hear
ors. "But I have raised some mighty
fine pickles in my orange grove." Har
per s Bazar.
It is said that an honost hackman
has been dlsoovorcd In Now Yoik. Nex
thing we know somebody will run down
an incorruptible politician, or marry
woman who doosn'ttalk about her neigh
bors. Ram's Horn.
Never did any soul do good, but it
oame readier to do the Bame again with
more enjoyment Never was love, or
gratitude, or bounty practiced but with
Increasing joy which made the practicer
till more in love with the fair act
Shaftesbury.
-Grocer "Don't buy any more bar
rels ot apples from that farmer.
Clork "Very well, sir. Why? Doesn'
he put the largo apples on top and the
little ones at the bottom?" Grocer
"Yes; but he forgets to Indicate which
is the top, and that's three times I've
opened the bottoms of barrels to show
customers. America.
Clerk "Any thing else, madam. I can
how you some great bargains in ham
mocks, put down to half price on account
of the lateness of the season. They are
fine goods, double strength, and -will
come bandy next summer, you know.
"Experienced Matron "Oh, the ordin
ary kind will do for my daughter nex
summer. She's to m married Christ-
pjas."-N. Y, Weekly.
OUR YOUNG READERS.
A FOOLISH SPARROW.
This nest Is so narrdw,"
Said little Dlek Sparrow,
"I've got quUe a pain In mv wlngsi
Can't vou BPoeze up a bit,
Ana ust lei in sit
On the outsldo, you tiresome thlngsf '
So selfish young Dlek
Made them move pretty quick,
And soon he sat perohed on the odge;
A little brown ball.
A tyrant, though small,
Surveying the world from his lodge.
There's a garden down there
Looks wondrously fair,
now nloe It must be "mong the flowers;
I've a good mind to try,
It's quite easy to fly,
To a bird of my oourage and powers."
'No, don't," said his brother.
"We promised our mother
That we'd certainly stay In the nest ,
While she is away;
So do not I pray
Disobey her, for mother knows best
She says It we're good,
And eat plenty of food,
Our wings will be sure to grow strong.
And than by and by
She will teaoh us to fly
If we're patient the time won't seem long,"
But Dlok said: "Pooh, pooh,
I'm bigger than you,
And fatter and stronger, you see;
Suoh counsel is good
For a feeble young brood,
"Butlt can't be Intended for me."
"Why, yonder's Tom Tltl
HI l there, stop a bit
With you In that garden I'll roam.
Ta, ta, little dears,
toe need have no fears,
rll be back before mother oouies home."
Giving one or two springs.
And fluttering his wings,
Down he spun like a wild sbuttlecook;
With a despvrate bound
Ills feet touohed the ground,
But It gave hi m a terrible shock.
Kow little Tom Tit v
Did not want him a bit
He had plenty of plans ot his own; ,
So In very great haste,
For he'd no time to waste.
Far over the garden he'd flown.
Dlok felt rather slighted,
But soon was delighted .." !
To find he eould Wandor at WW.
Ho spent some gay hours
Among the sweet flowers,
Of liberty taking his OIL
Thon he rested awhile
In luxurious style
On a oouob of tho softost green moss.
For sweet contemplation
And wise meditation
Young Dlok thought himself at no loss.
"How very absurd,"
Thought this foolish young bird,
"Are the cautions and fears of the old;
There's nothing like pluck,
And trying one's luck,
Oh, It's Ait to be daring and bold."
Tw ie felf fast asleen
Till the shadows grew doop,
For the sun had gone down In the west;
Then he woke oold and cross.
From that soft bed of moss,
And wlsbod himself back In the nest
He wended his way
Through the twilight gray,
To the place whero he first bad alighted.
'Twas not onsy to and,
It bad slipped from his mind,
And soon master Dlok was bonlgbtod.
In the deopest dospalr,
He ran hero and there,
And oft had his steps to retrace!
Then faint, sad and tired.
As the twilight expired,
At last ho discovered the place.
The nest was so high,
But yet he must try,
To reach tno snug noroe ne nuu spurn n.
He flow up onoe or twice,
But fell down In a trice.
For, al us, he'd not properly learned.
It was all to no good,
Ho might try as ho would,
The nest was still far out of resell.
(To evory child
Who Is willful and wild,
This story a lesson should teach.)
When Dick's parents returned,
And his aksenoo had learned,
For the truant they sot off In quost;
But no Dlok could they And,
And In great grief of mind
They were foroed to return to the nest
Dick spent all that nlgbt
In pitiful plight-
He was frightoned hall out of his wits;
Cats were prowling around.
And at every sound
He shivered as if he bad fits.
Then, to add to his woes,
A wild storm aroso,
And down came the pitiless ram;
He was wet to the skin,
For his feathers wore thin ;
He was slek with oold, hunger and pain.
Poor little Dick Sparrow,
In penitent sorrow,
Deep remorse and repentance keen,
Thpn humbly confessed:
"An. mother knows best
What a naughty young bird I have been."
Report said he died,
Bntnextdaylospled
Two birds, who wore kissing eaoh other;
I drew near to see.
If Indeed it could be,
And surely It was Dlok and bis mother.
. Mima Flassendale, In Leed's Meroury.
THE BROKEN DESK.
Why Little Josephine Hid la the Old Gym
nsiiam.
"Remember, Josephine, novortoclimb
up on the leaf ot the desk."
This was what father had said only
last week, and Josephine had forgotten
It already. That was why she lay sob
bing on the floor, in grief and dismay,
looking up once in awhile at the ruin
she had wrought Father's desk was
his most sacred possession, alter you
had named mother and the children,
and Bhe knew how it would hurt him to
tee it broken; and she knew it would
hart him more to see that Josephine
bad forgotten his injunction. But she
had seen, up on the high shelf, the
"beauty-cup" which she loved, and she
ild want it so. She had gathered a tow
late flowers, and they would look so
pretty in that cup. Poor posies, they
lay scattered about, wishing, no doubt
that they were back again in that snei
tared garden nook where she had found
them. In her baste she had forgotten
tether's words, and, pulling out one
slide, she had let down the lid and
climbed upon it The stout little
binges did their best to hold up "Miss
Roly-poly," with the help ot only one
slide, but gave way under tho weight
and down all came in a heap. The
crash brought mother to the scene
gentle mother, who never oould speak a
harsh word to a sorrowing little one;
but such accidents were happening al
together too often to this impulsive
child, and something must bo done to
atop it
"Josophino," sho said, with earnost
gravity and a serious shake of the
hoad, "I don't know what father will
say to this. I'm afraid he will give yon
a severe roprimand."
Josophino shivered with apprehension
and bowed her head still lower in abjoot
sorrow.
Thoro, daughter, don't cry any
more," added mothof. "Go, wash your
faoo and run out of doors."
0, dear me, O, dear me suz!" crlod
Josephine, making her way slowly
down the steps, with hor apron over her
head. "I don't want father to givo me
a t'vere repermand, I never had one, but
they must hurt dre'ffuL O, where oan
I go?"
She ran down the side yard and threw
hersolf under the shade of the apple
trees. The birds sang overhead and
tho rosy apples dropped, one by one,
about ber. But she did not hoar tho
birds, she did not want the fruit
She never eould eat again nor play any
moro. To meet dear father's eye in ro
proof would break her heart, and then
O, tho dreadod "repermand." She
umpod up and ran into the gymnasium;
closing the door behind her, Bhe has
tened into the bowling alley. She
caught up a ball and sent it rolling,
but stopped in a panic, foarlng Its clat
ter would botray her hldlng-plaoo. She
wished she knew what a "repermand"
whip was. It must be something like a
horsewhip. She knew of nothing more y
awful. Dinner time came and passed -and
hunger reinforced her senso of ut
ter desolation. Sho crept cautiously to
the window and peeped out Tbobthor
children were playing in the yard, and,
O, dear, thore were the' Sebtt children,
toa Thore bad been company to dinner,
and Bho had not boen there. The tears
flowed afresh. 'Thoy always did havo
suoh good thingsto eat and such nloe
taiics wnon tnore was company to din
ner. But perhaps father would not feel
like talking when he had a little girl to
punish. Sho knew how quiot and sorry
he looked whon any ot the chlldron had
been naughty'. Tbo skies were dark
and dreary; thoy gave hor no cheor.
Shivering with cold and worn out with
crying, she wandered back into the
darkest oorner, and climbing over all
the benches curled hersolf up in a Httlo
hoap on the farthest one. With wet
cheek resting upon hor chubby hand
she sobbed herself to sleep.
Meanwhllo tho mother was busy as
busy could bo, not guessing but what
her little girl had long ago driod her
tears, and not for one moment imagin
ing that her words had been so oruolly
misunderstood. Yot, although oom-
pany had arrlvod and the duties
of hospitality pressed, her thoughts
turned often to hor usually dutiful lit
tle daugh tor whose heedlessness brought
troublo to them both. Whon father
came home ho went right in to greet
the guests, and the tale of disaster was
postponed. Tho dinner table was mora
than full and the younger ones must
wait till the "socond table." So it came
to pass that mother did not miss Jose
phine until she came to provide for
thoir dinner aftor tho guests had risen.
Then she dispatched one of the boys to
find hor. As soon as the guests had
driven away sho hastened back to the
dining room.
"Has Josephine come ? ' she asked.
Did you find hor, John ? "
"No, I can't find her anywhere."
"Why, whoro can sho be? Where did
you soo hor last Winnie?"
"I have not soon hor slnoe this morn
ing when she broke the dosk."
' Fatbor was told of the brokon desk
and the missing child, and he at once
ordorod a gonoral search. Tho whole
big house was ransacked. Then John
wont to tho barn and Joe to tbo garden'
Winnifrod searched through tho east
orohard and Martha hastenod to grand.
mother s. Evory corner ot the wood
house was overhauled and the attle
again explored. The tearful little ones
were adding their lamentations to the
goneral distress, when Joe rushed in
shouting:
"I've found herl I've fouiid herl"
"Whoro, whore?"
"In the old gym., fast asleep. Como
and seo hor. Sho looks so ounning."
All hastenod across the yard. Father
lifted her in his strong arms.
"Poor little girl!" every body said, as
they saw tho tracos of tears.
She gazed about wildly, then, looking
up into the kind, fatherly face, she
threw her arms about his nock and
buried her face in his bosom.
"Josephine is not afraid of father, ia
she?"
"I didn't mean to be naughty, father,
Please don't give me a s'vere roper
mand." "I'll toll you what I'll give you, Jo
sephine. It will be a nice, warm dinner
that mother has waiting for you in tho
oven."
"O, doar," sighed Josophino, as she
pressed hor cheek against his, "I'll
nevor be afraid of you again, father, if
I break forty dosks, and I'll never climb
up on anothor If you should have fifty of
'em.' West Shore
What Heinle Enjoyed In Europe.
Bessie had boen spending the summer
in Europe with hor father and mother,
and had just arrived home.
Uncle Fred took her on his kneo, and
asked ber it she had a nice time.
"Oh yes," answered Bessie, "I had a
lovely timet I scraped the kettle!"
At first nobody knew what Bessie
meant but then her mother recollected
the night they had spent in a peasant's
cottage in Switzerland, when the good
Swiss dame had allowed Bessie to scrape
the porridge kettle, to the little girl's
unbounded delight
At Bessie's home the kitchen was un
der the care of trained servants, and
Bessie rarely was allowed to enter it
Therefore sho missod some ot those
pleasures that fall to the lot of poorer
children, who follow their mother
around the kitchen, sometimes being
allowed to "help" and often obtaining
a bit of some new-made dish before it ii
seen upon the table. And so it was
that of the enjoyments which Europe
gave to Bessie, she counted scraping
the kettle as the most precious one ol
all Youth'e Companion.
An inch of water means one hun
dred tons of water on every acre.f
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