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About The Eugene City guard. (Eugene City, Or.) 1870-1899 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1881)
JUtt WINDS OF GOD. Blow, tnft apring wlndl f,.t f n, ..Lv at when dawn Ilia llfV Th ihuiowi alowlr ciwn, tod braveo'l lit lum K fiMMik of ev'nlng nigh, Fan wuh thy living breatb the routing artli, And M Hit voioa toll to all drowar li'artj Tb wr'i new birth. B.O" tumiicr wind! When, tfler Hv f drought end nultcn beat, Out of tii heaped-up cioudi there coniei a ouna T.Hia rholnr fast. While from the diaunoe, borne on breeiy wing, The rein descending on tb tbintr plain, JU beauty lliuga. Blow, lutumn wind! Outon Ihe yellow wooili end itubble landi; Btir tbe brown brake end traiter tbiitle down With myriad handa, Rtnnn flr tnhni" aftur toil rttt: Br atreneth and wcaknoM. yea, by life and 4 a - death, Tbe woi Id il bleat. Blow winter wind, rinl nVr Lhc tiinibllnir aeaa roll cloud and mint; lioar through bar branches, atriking wiiard note Where'er you liat. Driving the ihii: and in and out of all Working Ocd'a will who, from thetroicnae Came at bia call. Blow, breath divinol Beyond the di'pth of tbe unrounted host, Beyond the inynlin circle of tbe iky, Come, Holv Oboetl Lot hatred, b.'uajilioriir and ain aapire To raiao their tlevil-tnronea amid the gloom; Come, ijuenidileM fire! -Ycal and the world la buried at ill in night, And loud and long thy watchmen warn iu vain; Come, living lignu , Argoay. Kold'i Time Barer. Tbe other morning as the munaging editor of the only really first-class adver tising medium on the Pacific coast was grinding out an editorial entitled, "Our Corrupt Legislature," terrible chattering and scratching was hoard on the stairs, and a man and and two dogs entered with noise gonerally suggestive ol hurricane behind time. As a usual thing the M. E. of a daily paper nover answers a preliminary ques tion inside of fifteen minutes, but in this case the pnblio instructor turnod furiously around and demanded to know what tho dovil the intrudor wanted. The man was raw-boned, jukey sort of a customer, in ft red shirt and yellow pants, and bis dogs, bngo, sorabby look- lug mongrols of the approvod poorhouse breed. "Why, I want this yer paper to go for that swind'in' bench show up here at tlier rorvillian, said the intruder, doftly aiming a squirt of tobacco juice at the editor's loft too. "It's the durn bluinest put up job since the Hoenan and Bayers tight, and I want yon fellers tor jump right on to it with both foot an' don t you forgit it." "You don't say so, now?" 1 "Yas, I do say so, young feller; I've bin a taking the Post for the past four years." "From tho doorstops, I suppose," said tbe quill driver, grimly regarding ono of the docs engaged iu swallowing the dramatio critio's lunuh, basket and all." "From niy own doorsteps, smarty; so I think you follors are bound to give me lift.' "Oh. we'll give you a lift fast enough," said tho journalist, wondering why the fighting editor was always out wlion wanted." "All right, thon; I'll give you the business. You see, this wbolo d d Bench Show Committee aro a gang of old stiffs and duffers, who aro work ing to got all the prizos for their own lot of brokon down curs, and nerowding out all tho fine Mood iu town. Now, just look at that animal, uniy nrst-ciass pointer in tho State, and they acterally wouldn't let bira in. Lie down tlioro, Bonypartel" and be throw a ruler at the leanest of the two shodowa, who was just finishing tho paste pot. ltestiaining an inclination to blow a police whistlo. tho moulder of publio opinion led the way to another room Extondod. on a lounge in tho corner was the figure of a man with au exchange covering bis face, , "This is tho man you want to too," said tho editor. "He is our sporting editor. lies not asleep the light hurts bis eyes, you know. Just go ahead and tell him all you know," and bo slid out. "Well, then, as I was asaying," con tinued tho dog owner, lighting a five- center and taking a seat, "they wouldn't let that splendid animal enter their blamed old show." "Woll-and then?" said thoS. E. from under his paper. "Tho cheek of that crowd is iiiBt aw ful, and yet they let in Mcares' lot of snide rabbit dogs, and Colonel Taylor's mangy, ono-eyod, brokeu-dowu wrook of ft watch dog. "Well-audthon?" "That air dog, Munchor I call him Muneher. because he's such a bog has got nioro trainin' than all the rest of 'em put together. I sold him onco to a man goin' to Australia. Tho man lost him in Sydney, and in loss than two weeks he reach home again. Swum all the way, Now, what do you thiuk of that?" ."Woll-and thon?" 1 Ohl bo did no end of other things aavod six men from being drowned, acts as spociul watchman and Fire Patrol on the square whore we live. Tumi on the alarm every time." "Well-ndthen?" "Why, ain't that enough? Now, Bonyparte, here, is the bent duck dog as walks on logs, lie lioa in the tules and 2uaeks just like a mallard decoys the ucks right up to him. When they light he dives under the water, catches 'em by tho legs, pulls 'em do we and swims ashore with 'em. Uot ninety-two last Batnrdoy." . "Well-and then?" lions, too. Hunts 'em hisself. Last win tor be killed two about ten miles from camp tied their tails together and polled 'em both " "Well-and then?" "What tho infernal blazes do yer mean by croaking that way every few minutes. You can't como any nv yer games on me, young feller. Yer can't gay me fur ft cent. Get up here and I'll paste yer one on tber mob fur yer gall." "Well-ftnd then?" Tho exasperated dog fancier was about to fetch the exasperating sporting writer tremendous kick in the ribs when gust of ir blow off Iba paper. Instead of bead, the figure on the lounge, (which was carefully dressed in thread bare elothoa to rosemble a newspaper man) ended in a eigar box. Let into thin waa tin tube, which led through the plastering into tho next room. Mncb amazed, tho dog trainor opened the ad joining door. At the othor end of the tube smaii ana ainy pnnwr uevu tat, sloepily watching the clock ana working off the familiar aentonce every two minutes. tie waa rnnnlng tnat bnautiful and wonderful invention of Whitolaw llcid'a known as tbe Patent Intorviowor, or Editor'i Time Baver. The man with a griovance threw off bia hat and rolled up bis sleeves with ft bowl, but before be could annihilate the entire staff, be was seized with an epi leptic fit and rollod clear down four flights before be came to t'ogs and all. Hut whon the racket bail died out the sleepy devil calmly pnt bis lips to tbe pipe ana remarked: "wen. ana tuonr For the Time Saver qn ft daily works day and night hit or miss. Jo. I. Post. The Black Death. Already Europe is becoming alarmed at the appourance of the plague, or black death, in the East, and fears are ex pressed that it may spread westward. It therefore becomes important to know the characteristics of the disease, ine lion- don Standard states, on pathological grounds, that it is a "very malignant form of contagious fovcr," which breaks out suddenly in certain localities and spreads with frightful rapidity, and that the present "typo" is as virulont as that of tlm Middle Ares. It is oharacterJtod by swollings of tlie lymphatio ghJnds and by carbuncles, and beyond doubt one seizure seems to afford no security against a second attack. This is, how evor, a point upon which physicians have not often had a chanoe of studying, since the pest does not usually louve tue same individual ft chance of experiencing its symptoms twico. It has beon con tended that it is not contagious, but in almost every case of an outbroak tho (lis ease has been traced to persons having como from in foe tea districts, in tue Astrakhan epidemic of 1879, and in that of 1771, which cut off lou.wu people in Mosoow, tho pestilence was known to havo been brought, in one instance from Central Asia, and in the other from Choczin. Again during tho latter out broak, tho 1400 inmates of the Imperial foundling Hospital, who were isolated and in 1813 tho town of Jegla, in Malta, which was Bbut off from Valotta, where tho disease was raging, entiroly escaped. Quarantine, however, as a preventive against tho ravagos of the cholera bos beon proved to be utterly futilo, and it is vory gpnerally allowed that it is not much more potent as barrier against the plague No othor form of death boa ever enlisted into its sorvioo historians of such bril liant tulent. Do Foe could not bavo been an eyo-witnoss to the horrible soonos of ldtiO in London, But lie bad doubtless talked to many who bad survived those droadful times and were familiar with the tales of the corpso-earrying wagons go ing its dreadful rounds, of the living being unable to carry out the dead, and London deserted by tue court, and, in dood, all who could escape into the country. In "Rionzi" tho late Lord Lyt ton has given an auoount scarooly less Pictorial of tho plaguo in 1 lorenco, and In almost every other European country "the pest whiou crept liko a foul miasma ovor Asia, Northern Africa and Europe, from Naples to Archangol, and even to distant Oroonland, where it smote tho Esquimaux by thousands, has secured such able chroniclers that at the slightest sign of its reappearance west ern Europo naturally grew alarmed. In the years IMS, lUCl, 1303, 15GD, and 1C02 London was visited by the "Bluck Death," though these early attacks of tho disease sink into insignificance when compared with that whioh desolated tho city in 16T5, tho year which will evor bo known as "tho year ol the piuguo," in reality, however, though it caused before Christmas a mortality of 68,01)0 out of the 000,000 pooplo whioh the metropolis thou contained, it did not abate until ItlOG, while in the thirteen subsequent years there were many fatal cases recor ded. Hut after 1079 no death from plague is known to havo occurred, and 1704 so entiroly bad it disappeared that the namo of tho disease was actually omitted from the bills of mortality A Womfto'i Tlctory. Across tho river there lives a woman who has been twico married but is now a widow. She has one child of her first husband and two of ber second husband to support. When tho latter gentleman (Ilea no was in ueui oy au emiorseiueui i , . i . i ... i . for $1000, aud among bis assets was a seoond mortgage on ft small farm which it would not pay to take owing to the size of the first mortgage, How tho wife managed to work things whon thrown on her own resources makes quite a story of feminine Now England enterprise lake, for example, tho case of the worthless second mortgage The owner of the farm bad abandoned tho property, and the holder of the first mortgage, real mnir that somo ilnv he would net it. thought it wise to Win early, aud so planted a crop on tho land in the spring. The plucky widow, however, finding it would take him several months to (ore- close, got from tho owner deed of the land. Then sho went and plowed under the first mortgage man a crop and set the fields herself to tobaoeo. The other party was owerloss until tho machinery of tho law foreclosed bis bond, and, be fore that time, tho widow bad cut and removed bur tobacco and was just so much in. Bv ulnck and activity, work ing bard herself, she got along supported herself aud family, and, little by little, reduced the face ol the SUWU dobt.wuicu farm, and was held by ft trustee, and so oould not morally be compromised by him. Finally by ber own labors she cleared the whole farm of debt aud wiped tho mortgage all off. This per haps answers the question whether farms ran be made to pay in Connecti cut. To finish tho story it may be added that the husband loft uo will and conse quently the farm, now that sh has paid for it, does not belong to ber but his children, and for all her labor she has no ownership. The law ia rather queer bits working sometunts. Springfield Republican. 1 Ira, General Logan. A special correspondent of the Cincin- ton, says of Mrs. Senator Logan: All my personal knowledge of Mrs. Logan was gained in three short visits, so it is not extensive.-Bhe is beautiful woman, with snow white hair and dusky eyes; with the merry laugh of girl, and tho tender kindliness of mother. To the young ladies who bavo been with ber during tho winter she has the caressing manner which so endears mature life to young hearts, and enters at the same timo into their frolics and adventures with the spirit of 10. There is nothing prosy, precise, or mocking about Mrs. Logan Yot sho is verr earnest in ber convictions and conscientious in princi ple. She is a Methodist and a teeto taler never touches wine or offers it to others. That she was an incorrigible girl, the following aneolote, which she a1ua1 irk anma vnnn innVPnt CM 11 II " is proof: "1 wont to Catholio school; the dear old sisters, what trouble I made them! When we went into chapel I would nover go through all that bowing, and I was taken to task. I said I was a Protestant, and I would not do it. I was very fond of the Mother Superior, and she pnt it on the ground of our affection that I should conform to this. It was a small thing for me, and it would please bor very inucb; it was very mortifying to have me bold my bead stiff, when all the others, whether Protestant or Catholic, made tho gonulloxion. "I said: 'Now Mother, you don't want me, just bocause I love you, to do a thing which I don't behove in? It would 1)0 mockery, hypocrisy. You would not teach ine that, would you? You are so honest snd so pure and so sweet?' Nothing more waa ever said on the sub joct; but I was put at the head of the prooossion of girls, and oonsoquently whon we entered the church my failure to bend was not so noticeable as it would have beon in the middle of the line." "But what was such a trivial thing," snggosted ft young hearer; "I should thiuk you would have done that, as all the rest did. It was nothing wrong." "My dear," returned the lady, "there are no trifles in life. It would have boon mockery in me to have followed the slightest custom to which my heart did not assent. If I believe thing, I do it; if I do not believe, I do not do it simply because others do. "Don't you see? It is vory much easlor to fiva happy if you follow this rulo." Tho gentlo pat on the girl's lit tle hands, and the bending of the protty white head ovor tho blonde bangs impressed tho lesson as argu ment could not have done. "But I was an awful girl," continued Mrs. Logan. "I often wonder bow thoso dear old sisters put np with me, There was a cometory near bv our school. One of our girls married ft Protestant, who died during tbe honeymoon. It niado groat ira pression on our romantio minds. He was buriod just the othor side the fence in nnconseorated ground. His wife was a Catholic, but he was not a professing believer. It looked so hard-hearted to put that poor follow out of the palo, One night 1 got a lot of girls and we went down to the gravoyard, took down the fence it was an old-fashionod stake and rider and built it up so it took in tho grave. In a few days it was discov ered, and the rails roplaood. So our band workod all winter; first we would bring that poor man's body within con socrated limits; then the authorities would Bet the fence straight again. At last I was discovered, aud threatened with expulsion if I ever did if again. 1 ill i.-l it T 1 nover mu uuiu tun iiikiii utuuio x kiou uated. The next day it had not boon discovered I bado good by to school, and sisters, and priosts. I said to Father , 'I want to make ono last reqnost of you. Floose don't tear that fence down again. I built it strong tins time; pleaso let poor Mr. Smith etay in your yard.' "I novor will forget bow horrified Fathor looked. Just as I was lcav ing for good, I pooped in to see if he was in a good humor, lie laughed in spite of himself, and shook his long finger at me as I drove away. 'I did not see that place again tor ovor twenty-five ycors. A fow years ago I wont back on a viBit. no one know wus coming, vt hen x was at scuooi i was a slondor thing, wore my hair ourlod down my back, and put back with a round oomb. I look so unlike now what I was then that my own mother would not know mo, but as I was crossing the stilo over the fence, tho old portress cnod out: 'lioro is Mary coming liomo, comiug ovor tho stile, and when I got to the door the sisters wero gathered there to welcome mo.' "For all I am a Trotestant, I had my daughters educated in a convent the sisters and tho old convent school are among tho vory sveotost memorios of my life." "Did you find Mr. Smith out in the cold whon you weut back, after twenty five years?" "Yes. poor Mr. Smith's grave was suukou and almost obliterated. I gave up trvinff to get him into tho fold, but I pulled the weeds off and freshened him up a littlo ono day when 'Sister' and I wero walking ovor tho old grounds. She had bunch of wild roses sho had tokeu from a bush in the pasture, and we put that on his shabby old grave. All of his own folks Boomed toliave forgotten him." Mrs. Logan's work basket stands by tho Senator's writing table in their rooms and ono evening I found bright silk hexicons scattered over and above the letters and documents thereon. 'I am making a silk quilt you see; yes I always sew when I talk, and as I talk most of the time, I sew a good deal. That is what Mr. Logan says. I always keep some little pick-np work around. My silk quilt is almost fin is hod. Some pwpia thiuk these preiiy iinie things waste of time, I do not. I do this when I would be doing nothing else. The combination of colors is ft great pleasure to me. I enjoy work in colored silks or crewels especially. Mending? Yes; what woman is exempt from mending? This is my company work, the socks I keep for Mr. Logan. When I appear with an apron fall of socks and sit down by my husband's side, be realizes that he is in for it. Socks mean a good family talk." Mrs. Logan during this pleasant tete-a- tete, showed ns the picture of her grand son, the child of her only daughter. On one card the little fellow sitting on bis father's knee, bos beside bim two grand fathers and two great-grandfathers. In the other photograph he is surrounded by two grandmothers and two groat grandmothers. A very unusual sight this ia, and gives promise of long lifo to the beautiful little rogue sitting so un concernedly amidst three generations of bis kin, Tim are bloominflf plants in the win dows, a fur robe thrown over ft lounge. placqnes on the walls, tidios on the easy- chairs, ferns and grasses nodding auove picture-framos; framed photograph of the General is on Mrs, Logan's tuble,snd a pearl encirclod portrait of tho same face fastens the lace at ber nock. T am anrrv that I cannot toll the in quiring friend more about Mrs. Logan, for I share bor interest iu ber. She has tho name of brilliant, magnetic wo man, of irriststible power. 1 can only give the glimpses I have had of her in her home, ami surrounded bv ladies. Thess brief glances have impressed me with her remarkable magnetic power, her simplicity of manner, and ber de votion as ft wife and mother. Or the feanie Opinion Still. The renowned "sun" orator.Rev. John Jasper, preachod from the Book of Exo dus: "The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is His name." In a very graphic manner tho preacher carried bis large and very attentive audience over tho times, when Israel was in Egypt, and across the lied Sea, the Wildorness, the Jordan, passed Jericho, and down to the wars of Joshua; and at this point proved to the satisfaction of a large class of his bearers that Joshua did command the sun to stand still." Tho preacher refer red to many passages referring to the the rising aud going down of the sun. Ills logic about the distance of the sun from the earth was very fine, when with contempt lie said some wise mon, so called, stated the distance to be 40,000, 000, others 50,000,000, and one as much as 104,000.000 miles. "Whar could you got tape line long enough to ineasuro such a distance? And how could a man got up close enough to the sun to latch it on so as to measure? The railroads can't got thar. The bal loons come nearer than anything elso, but who can go up? ' Now, in August it is bo hot here that folks want an nm brella, a fan, and plenty of ice water, and yet those wise mon say we are 104, 000,000 of miles from the sun. It is too foolish to believe such stuff." And, turning around, ho looked into the faco of ono of tho most accomplished divines iu Virginia and one of the best civil engineers in this oountry. Air, Jasper treated all such figures as the work of a wicked, foolish mind, who was not satisfied with the plain word of God bnt must go outside to teach such things that no man can learn. To his mind the idea of the earth being round is so fool ish that ho would not insult his hearers with any argument on this subject. Tho Scriptures say the earth has four corners and that was proof to him that ii, is not round. "How could men be under his feet? How conld they stick to the earth? Dey must be like flies, that can walk on the walls. I don t believe any such stuff. Mr. Jaspor is a most earnest man, (fully believes all ho says, wields a powerful sway over his people, who regard him as the most powerful preacher of their color. Richmond Dispatch. Silk Waste. It was quite by accident that Lister conceived the idea of utilizing silk waste. Going one day into a London ware-bonse he camo upon a pile of rubbish which strongly attracted his attention, lie had never scon anything like it before. He inquired what it wits, and was told that it was silk waste. "What do you do with it," ho asked. "Sell it for rubbish that is all," was the answer; "it is impos sible to do nnythingjflse with it. " Mr. Lister folt it, poked his nose into it, and pulled it about iu a manner that aston ished tho London warehousemen. It was neither agreeable to the feel, tho smell, nor the touch; but simply a mass of knotty, dirty, impure stun, full of bits of stick aud dead mulberry leaves. In the end Mr. Lister mode the offer of a half ponny a pound for the "rubbish," and tho side was then and there conclud ed, the vendor boing especially pleased to get rid of it on such advantageous terms. Whon Mr. Lister got this "rub lush" to Munningham, bo spent some time in analyzing it, and he came to the conclusion that there was something to bo done with it. no found silk waste was treated all the world over as he had seen it treated in the London warehouse as "rubbish." Ho built new machinery and imported skilled workmen, and in the end conquord his difficulty. But he spout nearly two millions of dollars in perfocting machinery for the manufac ture of silk waste before be ever mode a shilling by it. Now, thanks to bis per sovoranoo, everything that enters within the gates of the Manningham mills is utilized in some shaio or other, a sur prising variety ol articles being pro duced from silk waste. The following mav be enumerated bv way of example: Silk velvets, velvets with a silk pile and a oottou back, silk eartots, plush, velvet ribbons, imitation seal-skin, corded rib lous, sewing silks, Japanese silks, pop lins, silk cleaning-cloths for machinery, bath towols. floor-cloths, dish-cloths, etc. And all these from tho once despised silk waste! The consequence has been that silks have been greatly cbeaiened, and that a material which was regarded as worthless has come to have a value in the market. Cuccolatk. For those who wish to ;eep the imagination fresh and vigorous, 'lioenlatu is the beverauo of beverages. However copiously vou have lunchod. a cup of chocolate immediately afterward will produce digestion three hours after, and prepare the way lor a good dinner. It is recommended to every one who de votes to brain-work the hours he should pass in bed; to every wit who finds he baa become suddeuly dull; to all who find the air damp, the time long, and tbe atmosphere insupportable; and, above all, to thoso who, tormented with a fixed idea, have lost their freedom of thongbt. To make chocolate (it must never be cut with a knife) an ounce and a half is requisite for a cup. Dissolve it gradu ally in hot water, stirring it the while with ft wooden spoon; let it boil for quarter of an hour, and serve it hot with milk or without, according to taste. ' Tbe Fashions In Women. Tho fashions in womon are varying, like tho shapes of bonnets, and tbe colors of thorn, and the coming and going of flowers and feathers and rib bons. We nsed to be ooutented with the simple fashion of dark or of fair women, each of whom had their particular sea sons of success,bnt the world has become more exacting in its tastes and now de mands that the women in fashion at the moment shall be not only of the fashion able oomplexion, but shall also have the known fashionable features. Just at this timo the style seems to be of women with large mouths, a style quite as un accountable as anything doviBcd by dress maker or milliner. Who invented this fashion of big mouths it is impossible to state officially, but it probably has its advantages, if anybody oould tell what they are. The lare mouth is pretty generally accompanied by a generous ex panse of lips, and woman's lips are a thing of actual delight that the inventor of the fashion of large mouths doubtless supposed there could not be too much of them. If they wore delightful and sweet according to their size this would com pletely account for t' e fashion, but as they are not always so and as fashions are quite often popular because they are actually bidoous, tbe present style is not fully accounted for and the confusion is made still greater by the ever present probability that in a week or a month the fashion may demand small mouths. All tho arguments and reasons in behalf of large months would then seem ridi culous. Thero is but ono conclusion: The mouth is large because it is tbe fashion, and that is all the reason that an.vono who follows the fashion wants. The suddonness with which fashions of all sorts change must lead to particu lar embarrassmont in the matter of fash ions in women. Nobody can make over a big mout h to suit the caprice of fashion as bonnets are made ovor into shapes and sizes. The blue eye in style to-day can not be made over into a grey eye or a block to meet the fashionable require ments of to-morrow. Thedimplo cannot bo taken from the chin when dimples go out of style, and the pug nose will re main a pug in spite of the fact that the fashion may demand any other sort of a nose but that. It is going to make it very troublesome for the man who wants to get married. If he cares anything about the slyloB and every man cares moro for such things than he is willing to have thought he is likely at any mo ment to discover that his wife is alto gether out of fashion. If he had married her because her big ears were in the very height of fashion, it would be a dreadful drawback to happiness to dis cover that large ears were no longer ao ceptublo, but that fashion lequires the very smallest thing in ears. When tbe girls come to consider dispassionately the peculiarities of this branch of fashion they will feel like discouraging it, and allow tho world to go on as has been done in other years, when all sizes of mouths and feet and ears wore in de mand according to the multifarious tastes of men. Getting married will be moro popular when the fashions in women are less rigid. Philadelphia Times. Mother's Boy. "Is there a vacant place in this bank which I could fill?" was the inquiry of a boy, as, with a glowing cheek, he stood before tho president. "Thero is none," was the nnswor. "Were you told that you might obtain a situation here?. Who recommended you?" "No ono rooommendedj me," was the answer. "I only thongbt I would see." Thero was a straightforwardness in the manuer, and honest determination in the countenance of the lad, which pleased the man of business, and induced him to continue the conversation. He said: "You must havo friends who could aid you in a situation; have you advised with them The quick flash of tho deep bluo eyes was quenched in tue underlying wave of sadness as no said, tnougn nan mus ingly: "My mother said it was useless to try without friends," then recollecting him solf he apologized for the interruption and was about to withdraw, whon the gentleman detained him by asking him why he did not stay at school another year or two, and then enter into business life. "I have no time," was the instant re pip; "but I study at homo and keep np with the other boys." "Then you have a placo already?" said tho interrogator. Why did you loave it?" "I have not left it," auswored tho boy quietly. "les. bnt tou wish to leave it. hat is the matter?" For an instant tiio child hesitated; then he replied, with a half reluctant frankness, "I must do more for my mother. Brave words! talisman of success any where, evervwhero. They sank into the heart of the listener and recalled the for gotten past. Grasping the hand of the astonished boy, he said, with a quaver ing voice: "My good boy, what is your name? You shall fill the first vacancy that occurs in the bank. If in the meantime, you noed a friend, come to me. But give me your confidence. 'vVhy do you wish to do more for your mother.' Tears filled the boy s eyes as he re plied: "My father is dead, and my sisters and brothers are dead, and mother and I are left to help each other; but she is not strong, aud I want to take care of her. It wjll pleaso her that you have been bo kind, and I am much obliged to you." Se saying, the boy left, little dreaming that his own nobleness of character bad oeen as m bngnt glance oi sunsnine to the busy world he had so tremblingly entered. The American Builder says the accu mulation of soot may be prevented by potting a quantity of salt into the mor tar with which tbe intercourses of brick are to be laid. Tben there will never be any accumulation of soot in that chim ney. The philosophy of it is thus stated: The salt in that portion of the mortar which is exposed absorbs mois ture from the atmosphere every damp day. The soot thus becoming damp, falls into the fireplace. SHORT BITS. Rnrttilr liftld nikAAl lii Lies ara liiltWa iwJ. l . On one ii ubl readba Watch for little nnnnv4nt,:t: . ing and put littlo annoyances oat u a Deeu ll not There is one thing that evert J from day to day, and that l , puts off ,ere is, nocktio. TTnmolv WAmnn 41.. v. hats. We state this in the hope ol ? hrJen. 1 i alinos led. , iiiK uuijr aiumi uuis at ine theaters. "A babe." says ft disoiplo of Tut ib ft mouiers anchor. And n,:- the mother is the 'anchor's' spanker ' We don't iuBt see whv a woman .1. like bor mirror better than a nun ii.. . :n ii.ii. i . .. " ends. tbe man will Hatter her and the mVI the be won't. loud of The man who enslaves himself to money is proclaimed in our very gnage to be a miiSer, or a miserable BiT French a iana speculator, in describing 4y ou a certain estate, says: "It is an,! and deep that by looking into it you J ann tlinm rrnilriniT tt& in China " 1 In pr Garriok heard a noise in the street morning. "What's all that?" he al "A temperance possession," was tueXner t swer. "What nonsense," he crie4,l,ne, w don't make such a row whon I got soli It goi" For Worms- in Hogs. Give JlrtAl spoonful of copperas to each six mn-llr con orover; give half the dose to your auinioiH. uive oy mixing witu n; Such mode of chopped gram. Jones (a tailor suddenly clapped II.. 1.- . ....1 . UTr .i fciiu vuujh vj n vusLuiiioiry j xlullO, r. you nearly frightened me into at Customer "Well, I wish I could r frighten this coat you made me. im i, i ni. 'Yon aro a fraud sir! When I bond tnis norse irom you, you assured that he hadn t a fault. Why, sir; L stone blind! Vendor "I know he bnt I don t consider that a fault. I a it a misfortune. "Did that rough fellow that you pas back yonder oner to take on his hat you, Tom?" "No; but he made though he were going , to pull off coat for me . "What did he met by that?" "I don't know. I didn't ttopt DVDI Fearful iniquity overheard whi leaving the Fifth Avenue Theater: H "And now, Miss B., we will finish tl evening with oysters and ice-cream u Delmonico s shall wef Miss ii.: "0! thanks; but you can't expect m t have much appetite after Ol-i-vette." Tho Dead Cltb I In the year of our Lord 79 VesuYit had an uncommon eruption, which sua denly and very completely buried out a sight the cities of JL'ompeii and Uerca laueum;and they remained so buried fo: sixteen hundred years until early in tLi lost century, when their sites wore acci dentally discovered. After much patici: labor and at an enormous expense, abec one-third part of these dead and burit; cities has been dug up; and the excari tions are still going on. Vast treasure! of gold and silver, rare statuary, pain: ings, and housohold utensils were rccov ered in good condition, and manjo; these are now preserved, as I have said in the National Museum at Naples. Tbt paved streets have been cleared of rub bish, and compare favorably with the of the cities of to-day. The houses art open to inspection, and ono can casil; gather from thorn a good idea of tin manner of life among the peoplo wh; were buried into eternity with suci frightful celerity eighteen hundred yes I There is a large museum just within the main gate of Pompeii, in which are stored vast numbers ol articles recov ered from the unoovered houses. These are bottles, vases, plates of bread, dried frvit, glasses, towols, candlesticks, ladles, IHHj scales, needles, baskets, funnels, etc. fefl But, among all these familiar things, lto was most impressed w ith an iron safe an actual iron safe identical in pattern with those knobbed articles that only t few years ago were cousidered the besi safes in the world for banking houses and counting rooms. And yet dozens ol persons have within fifty years taken out patents for newly invented safes. I saw also a lot of fish-hooks of the identical pattern now so eagerly prized by anglers the veritable Limerick hook. Is the world progressing? And then. there are prostrate figures of men and women, skeletons of liorsos, cats, dogs, aud rats. And there are many skulls- lis, one of them still retaining some of IU hair. All these dreadful trophies, snatched from the iaws of death, serve to illustrate the terrors of the dreadful liet night when fire and brimstone rained Bj, down upon the devoted cities ami wrapped them in the dorknoss of death id desolation. If I may judge from paintings and sculptures on the walls of many rooms, and from the translations of numerous inscriptions on door posts, the people of Pompeii were not strictly virtuous in every respect.for there is everywhere evi dence they had reachod a remarkably low degree of licentuonsness, as well as of luxury. Almost every house bad its fountain, its hot and cold bath, its sps oiousyard or garden, its statuary sad pictures, and excellent culinary arrange ments. But now it is a silent city. Its houses are tenantless, and its streets ore trodden only by the feet of enrious tour ists. All is desolation still beautiful and wonderously attractive, but dead, very dead. Despite its paintings and its stautes, and its glorious sunshine, it was to me but a pathetic suggestion of woe and despair. I would not care to live in a dood city, and if I did, I could find one nearer home. Correspondence Bal timore Americas. Ground for early peas is best manured in the fall. If that has not been done, plow in the manure early, letting the ground warm a day or two, then harrow and let it have a day or two more of son in which to warm np. By this practice you will get peas earlier than if yon put the seed into the cold ground as soon as plowed. It is a pretty serious thing to break an old friendship, for, like old china, it can never be made quite whole again. A broken friendship may be soldered, bnt it will always show the crack. 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