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LABOR. James L. Blair. There's a never (lying chorus Breaking on the human ear In the Im'jr town Iwfore ui, Voices loud, and iIm p, and clear) This ii LiUir' endl' im ditty, Tnis is Toll's prophetic voice, Bounding through the town and city, liuldiug bunion heart rejoiiu Sweeter tban the mtVi singing In the anthem of the free; Jilitlier 1m the anvil's rinjjinK Thaa the song of lilrd or lice. There's a glory iu the rattle Of the wheels 'mid factory gloom! Richer thau eVr natcbl from battle Are the trophies of the loom. See the skillful uiaon railing Gracefully you towering pita; Round the forge and furnace Lluzinj Hlan.i the noble mnn of toil. They are heroes of the eople, Who the wealth of nationi ralne; Every dome, and iipire, and steeply Rear their head iu Labor's prulsa. Glorious men of truth and labor, Khephrrdi of the human fold, That shall lay the brand and wilier With the bar'hroun things of old; FriflsU and prophtU of creation, Bloodleu Woe in the fight, Toilen for the world's mil vat ion, Messenger of peace and I gut. Speed the plow and speed the harrow, Peace and plenty tend abroad; Better far the ipadd and barrow Than the cannon or the iword. Each invention, eich Improvement, Render's weak Oppremion's rod; Every sln an I every movement Brings us nearer truth and Uod. NEW 0RLEAN3 "AUNTIES." The Feminine Negro of the Crescent lty In Her (ilory. CNanby" In Toledo Blade. The pure feminine uogro is scon in and about Now Orleans iu all hor old-time glory. You see them in the kit.'lieiiH, on tlte streets, in the horso-car, evorywhore anybody is soon, and tiiore in a t iniilarity that is jvondorful. Thoy are almost univer sally fleshy, without vinible necks he Load rusting on a cotnfortulile cushion of Jat on the shoulders, with enormous arms, partly baro, and no waist wHatevor. This applies only to the middle-aged and old. Tho young 'onca are as slim and jaunty a noed be, and why thoy should a (cumulate flesh as thoir years roll on is a mystery. Hut thoy do grow fat with thoir in creasing years. They are abundantly iloihy at bO and still more so at ISO. What Ibby would be at W may never kr.own. t iMdand young, fleshy or loan, the love of color is ovor all of them, and the color thoy wear must be pronounced. Their blacks are the blackest of any thing on earth, their yellows cunnot be too yellow, and the various sha les of red must all bo as bright as possible. No one color satislies them. Thoy min gle all of thorn, aud the more that can be crowded into a pattern the bjttor it plensos them. It is a pleasant sight to see an agod negross ruli ng along tho stroot, bearing a basket or bundle, her mouth half way open so that tlioiaigh mat is very ciose to tho surface may 11ml the outer air with the least troublo, with good-hu-inored twinkle iu the eye and lurking in tho wriuklcs about hor mouth, hor short petticoats displaying two ankles im mense in size, and about hor head the inevitable gayly colored handkerchief wound iu tho shape of a tm ban. Without this turbau tho dress o! no Heiress would be complete. It takes the place of lfat or bonnet, and is a uni versal as tlte petticoat or shoos. Indeed, it is more tho thing than shoes, for, though one may lack in tho matter of allocs, she always has the turban. 1 1 is bound closely about tho forehead, just below the hair, or rather wool, lino, and tied or inuod neatly at tho buck of tho head, t inier this wealth of color the shiny black face, tho dueling white teeth that always ehow. for the laughter either begun, iu progress, or just ending, display them, make a not unpleasant picture. Ho jolly aud good-naturod are they that one does not wonder that whito chil dren, cared for and almost reared by those colored women, came to love their "maiiunys" in childhood, and continuod the liking so long as thoy lived. Tho streets of New Orleans would not be complete without tho nogresses and thoir turbaus. They tit the brijht nun ami the tlower.8 aud tho foli.ige ex cocdiulv veil, and mako a sort of varie gated t nish to tho picture. And that color will always bo tiiore. Tho race is increasing with great rapidity, and there is no reason why it should not. The vo mer rentiire verv little care in that delicious eli:iiato. " They are turned oil to shift for themselves at a very early ago, and a pickauuiiiny is as little trou ble to its mother as a colt is to its dam. Turned Away Ilia Wrath, Harp- r's Bussr.J An up town pastor, who enlivens his Friday evening talks with anecdotes, is no fond of a joko that he woul.'. rather tell one at his own expense thau not toll i no at all. This is his latest: "1 was writing by my study window, and a little Irish child was busying himself by throwing beans at the w.udow. Los ing all patience, 1 rushed out of t'io Lou e, determined to friglitt n tho boy. It happened that his mother was coining after him at the samo moment, and wn mot by his side. 1 stormed at the ch Id, and then, as tho mother seemed ex cessively stupid, I gave hero piece of iny mind. Finally, as a fraud at d over whelming conclusion of my scold ng, I said : 'A 1 ttlo discipline n-iw with your children w ill save you much pain, if not disgrace, in the future. Think of that, madam; that is, if you ever do think.' 'Think, it i 1' she replied; I think if you'd go baok to your bod-room and wipe the ink a? av your nose you'd bo prettier, even if you didn't make so much av a sensation.' It was not a soft answer, but it had the oflect of turuinj way wroth." The Mack Poodle. The black poodle is again becoming fashionable iu 1 nglaud. These animals, to be in correct style, must have their hair shaved into knots and knobs, auJ be rendered generally hideous. Uarnum says the nearer a circus per former can come to breaking tho neck without a -tusllr doing so, tho higher WHAT KIND OF BOOKS? Hot. Hobrrt foil) ei Talk Before 1 1.0 Young .Hen's Christian I nlon. I have felt that it would be a good thing to talk to you to-night about the companionship of good books. They will deopen and sweet.-n the joys of young men and womi n. 1 supp sothat I might sa' it is fifty-five years, or nearly so, since 1 droame 1 ovor the ) rt of them, of one of them especially, " hittingtun anl His Cat." it was when I was 5 years old, and it was the first book I remember reading, Every boy should have it. Good hooks are good irionds; they will never dese.t us. I sat in Shakespeare's chair ut Strut-ford-on-Avon, and went into his garden aud had flowers from the flower-bod near his door. It was all as lovely as a midsummer night's dream; but I could not muko him live in Stratford; I e lives with me. Aiy companions may bo your friends, young men and women, and till your life with pleasure, as thoy have mine. The best books often reveal their worth aftor munv years. They diJ not think much of sliakespeare in his time. Good Ik oks are like the wine we hear of (that we never see of course), that grow s precious in the long lapse of years. Such is the genesis of all the great books. We old readers know we can only get the goo 1 Horn a book by some suoh pio.es as thut by which it was written. I speak only of the best, not of such as you can read as you would crack a nut 'the greatest books sre always growing better. We cat hardly blame the simple fellow who read ilobinson Crusoe through every year ; and who, when he was told it wus not true, said ho would not believe it, adding to his iniorinunt: "I don't thunk you at all for tolling me, oithor." I would say a word of caution. There are books we can read as a man takes opium, which muke us feel like heaven, but they leave a greater desolation thau opium. There nre also books wo may devour in any quantity without any harm, except tiie taking up of our time books that are as foam to the sea. It is not for me to say, however (human nature is So ditlereut), what to take and what to leave. This is a suro cr.terion, however: First, if when I roud a book abont (iod, and find it has put me further from Him; or about humanity and hud it has put me further from mm; or about li e, and it makes me think it loss wortli living, then I know that for me it is not a good book. It may charm mo, but it is not my book. 1 want to speak of novels. I always enjoy a bright, good story. I use! to liido thorn under the bed whou I was a boy, and would do it again if I had to. This is what Walter heott did for me forty years ago. And I read him now with del ght. You say you cannot vead Scott; you do not know .Scotch. I would sav, then, "Go loam Scotch." Some calf novols week-day sermons and authors week day preachers. It is about so. ' The Monday Schools of I lie World. Mr. Fountain J. Hartley, one of the secretaries of tho Sunday School union, has published in Tho Sunday School Chronicle two statistical papers, in which he gives an estimate of the number of Sunday school teachers and scholars in the I n ted Kingdom and throughout tho world. Jn tho United Kingdom the totals are teachers, ti j 4,704 ; scholars, (i,Odl,o77. In Great Pritan there aro 7t!U,i!i."i teachers and t!,'Jo,7()S scholars. In tho Ulited Mates, V&l.'Mi teachers an I 0,W0,H:15 scholars. As to Sunday schools on tho continent, and iu connec tion with the various missionary socie ties throughout tho world, only an ap proximate estimate is possible; but Mr. Hartley gios the following figures as tho minimum computation : in i.tiropean countries f;t,0.".l teachors, and 7 ill, 100 scholars: iu connection witn the several missionary societies, '21, -104 teachers and SHli.HOS scholars. The grand total throughout the world is therotore teachors, 1,700,9.10; scholars, U.bOOy 451. Solemn Word lo Keiitucklsus, tfxmlsvillo Courier-Journal. Again we say, as so often we have said in those columns, that from the sin of blood guiltiness no citizen of this commonwealth is f reo. We do not deal with crime as we ought. Wo tolorato murder and pardon vice aud honor criminals if thoy are brave, l'hysical prowess is tho only virtue that appeals to us. We aro passionate, unreasonable, unrestrained, lawless. Society protect no mini either by its recognized rulei of law, or by that public sentiment which kivcs Btrengtli and fo;eo ami vi tality to all written laws. I'ntil we chauuo all tins; mill muiiier is pun ishod; until w o educate mou to look to tho law for protection and vindication; until tho law does what it prdtends to do, what it is mutated for, wo should cease our boasting, and no longer con tent ours dvos with traits and achieve ments which equally distinguidi the barbarous and half civilized communi ties. llottli-d Tear. E stem 1,'Oor. In lYvsin thov bottle their tears as of old. This is done in tho foilowiug man uer: As tho mourners are sitting around aud w eepiiw. the muster of cere monies presents each one with a piece of cotton, with which he wipes oil' his tears. This cotton is afterward squeezed into a bottle, aud the tears are pre served as a powerful and oilicacious remedy for reviving a dying man after every other means have failed. It is also employed as a churm against evil lnllueno.'S. llus custom is probably alluded to in l'salni vi., 8: "l'ut thou my tears into a bottle." Tho pnetiee wus once universal, as is found by the tear bottles which are found iu almost every ancient tomb, for the ancients buried them with their dead as a proof of their a loction. norhjr the Chraa Flayer, Chicago Journal. Faul Morphy, of New Orleans, the great t chess player of the world, is a geutly demented wreck. A very small man, snare of I'esli, scrupulously neat and styl sh in dress, cane iu hand, up and down he goes jabbering softly t himself. Ilis iusanitv, not always ap- parent, - not cause I from nveistu-ly low cf !a-s Nhakruprareaii Nlaug. "Hermit" In Troy Times.) The power of Shake-peare over the public is shown by the extent to which bis phrases, aud even his slang, has be come incorporated into onr language. In this point, indeed, ue is une piaieu. Among the-e is ba ( and baggage, "dead as a door nail," "proud of one s humility," ktell the truth and shame the devil," "hit or miss," "love is blind," "selling for a song," "wide world." "cut copies," "fast nj loose," "unconsidered triilos," "we.itward ho," familiarity breeds contempt, "patch ing up excuses, misery makes strange bedfellows," "to boot" (iu a trade), "sho.t and long of it," "comb your head with a three-legged Btool." "danc ing attendunce," "getting even" ( re venge i, "birds of a feather," "thats Hat," "tag raj," "Greek to me" (unin telligible;, "send OLe packing," "as the day is long," "pa -king a jury," "mother wit, "kill with kindness," "uiu n (lor silence;, "ill-wind that blows no good," "wild-goose chase," ' are-crow," "lug gage." "row of pins" &a a mark of value', "viva voce," "give and take," 'sold" i in the way of a ioke), "give the devil h's due," "your cake is dough." These expressions ha' e come under my notice, and of c oure there must be many others of equal familiarity. The frirl who playfully calls some youth "a milksop" is also unconsciously quoting Shakespeare, and e.en the "logger head" is of the same origin. "Mtem pore" is first found in Shakespeare, and so aro almanacs, l lie elm ami vine as a nVure) ma also be mentioned. Shakespeare is the first author that speaks of "the man in the moon," or mentions the potato, or uses the term evesore. for annoyance. Anotner often quoted utterance may here be mentioned, simply because it is goner ally misunderstood : "Une touch of na ture makes tho whole world k n," which is supposed ' to express tho power of ivniiiathv. whereas it solely relerred to the widespread operation of selliBuness. Ueu. Urant'a Nlnnourl Farm. St. LouU fciiectator. Onn of the possessions of the Grant familv, which will Dow probably go to pay their debts, is their old Dent farm near St Louis. Jt is about ten miles from the citv. tierlians fifteen, on the Carondelet branch of the Missouri Pa cific railroad. It was left to Mrs. Grant by her father, aud is now held probably in her individual uume. It was tiiore vuere Mrs. uraniwasraisea, ami it was from there that Gen. Graut used to haul wood to St. Louis. The place n iw looks well worn aud some what dilapidated, tliougn it lias an iinmeu.se barn. built BOU18 years ago when. Geu. Grant pur chased a number oi line uorses anu left tlinm there. It was his intention at one time to turn the old Lent home- steud into an extensive stock farm, but he soon got tired of the experiment and had a salo whereat he let go all his fine horses. I wni there last srtrine and the once splendid farm was onW a reminder of what it had boeu. The only family rn.idenee where l eu. and Mrs. Graut bad lived for a number of yea s was almost readv to t amble aown iro.n age and neglect, and all that was left to re mind one of Gen. Grant's abortive ven ture in stock-raising were the magnili cent but empty barn, ..and. a vagrant broken-down mule that minced the grass lonely enough m a slovenly-look-in ? pasturo. Mrs. Graut has always rtmid ft war.ii affection for her family homestead, an 1 when she an I the gen eral were in St. Lou s tho l ist time they hired Mr. Jesse Aruots best pair of horses and drove out to spend the day there. The Hoys' Fault. Chicauo Times.) A veteran of Wall street fays it is re markable how many young men there are iu i he street. Go int some of the largest banks and banking houses and vou will lind responsible positions tilled b.v striplings hardly showing the down of adolescence o their checks, f-o it is at the stock board aud o hor ex changes. The old fellow, who says he has no predjudices against young men, adds : "The great financial business of New York is done by an army of bumptious boys. Is it strange that we have constant failures, plunders, de linquencies, and dishonors? It is not strange; but it is strange that nothing is learned by bitter experience; that there is no attempt at reform. If you observe tho bulk of tho failures in that quarter you will liud them occasioned by younger members of the firms, who have tried to improve on the fathers' methods, and who scout conservatism au I caut on as old-fogyish." A Very Meady l'ule, Chicago Journal. L. D. Chevalley, a native of Switzer land, aged 0t, when rotvntly onboard a steamboat on the la'.se of Geneva, en gaged to indicato to the crowd around nim tho lapse of a quarter of an hour, or as many minutes or seconds as any ono chose to name, and, further, to indi cate by the voico the moment the hand passed over the qu trtcr-niinutes or half minutes, or any other subdivision stipulated. This he did withojt mis take in the midst of a dive siticd con versation. He acquired by imitation and patience a movement which neither thought nor labor nor anything can stop. It is similar to that o; a peudu lum, which at each motion of going and returning gives him the space of three tn.ininlx o that tweutv of them make a minute, aud these he adds to others con tinuously. A liliioe Notion. The Chinese hold the theory that by nrwri-iniT a f.'llow creature from drowning, the rescuer is answorable in the noxt world for all tho sins aiter ward committed by the person rescued, which literally moans tnut a wise uis pensation of Providence has been fras trated. Incombustible Manuscript. An incombustible paper, and inks and colors not atiectea uy nre, nave Kn invented. At a trial sumo sneci- mens were consigned to a retoit in a pottery furnace lor tour uors ana came out uncnngej. Coleridge: Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon e 1 1 ." "eer r muss into ti: i'-iua ABOUT LAUGHTER. ITIany Different Varieties Commer cial Value of a Good Laugh. (Chica.-o Tribune A laugh may convey all manner of sentiments joy, s.-orn, or anger; it may be the most musical or most discordant ofsonuds, the lno.t delightful or the mo t horrible which can full upon our ears. Contrast the happy laughter of merry children with the gibbering cry of the maniac, or the home laugh of a dofiant criminal; the musical ripple of cultivated mirth with the roars of a tipsy crowd at a fuir. A really musical laugh is, perhaps, rarer than a really musical voice. The giggle, the snigger, the half-.-h.oke 1 lauirh are common enough; but how seldom do we heir that melodious Bound, the laugh in its perfection. It should not be shrill, nor too loud, nor too long. It should not bear any double meaning, any hidden sarcasm in its mirth. It should not be so bo sterous as to exh mst the laughter and deafen the listeners. Teg Wollington is said to have been celebrated for the musio of ,her lauzhter on tho stage a most dirtionlt accomplishment, for nothing (except, porhapt, a sneeze; is Harder to counterfeit than a laugh. There are many variet'es of laughs. There is the musical, cultivated, and extremely rare one, pleasant to listen to as a chime of bells. Tliere is the glad, if tomewhat shrill, merriment of children, the hap piness of which condones its noie. There is the loud guti'aw of the vul gar, and the laughter which appears likely t3 tear tho laugher in pieces, ausing him to wipe his eyes alter the explosion is over. There is the laugh of e nbarrassnieut, when a shy person at a loss w hat to say next, "remarks to lie," as Arteuuts Ward describes it. There is the pehoolgirls giggle; and the i-ch o'boy's snigger, as he reflects on Bonio roeenfclv-perp trated, but ttill rocollocled, pio e of mischief. Thore is the chuckle of the suo. e.ful man. All these bear some iaui ly resem blance to each other; they all. in their degreo, express sensations o' pleusure. There are darker descriptions oi laughter. There are laughs more cut ting than the bitterest speeches, more alarming than the cruelest threats Satirical lauirhtor is most oflensive. A laugh can convey contempt which words womd fail to express. Is any one proor against being an nove 1 bv ridi ule ? Even a dog is ; en- sible when he is laughed at, and resoutt the impertinence. Some animals are indeed quite as tensitive to dens on a human beings. The laughter of the underbred, which finds open amuse ment in the minor troubles of their neighbors sav the ridicule lavishe I on sea- ick arrivals at a pior, or on hapless foreigners in an altercation witn n c Io nian, or an old gentleman who falls down a slide also ranks among "laughs offensive." Then there is the laugh of . incredul ity. When Tom goes to his rich old uncle, full of glow ng descriptions ol the perfections of the lady to whom he is engaged, or oi me oppoinimoni which he e .pects to obtain, does the old gentleman damp his nephew s ar dor by a long harangue? No, he onh gives a dry laugh : aud Tom's hopes of a check fall rapidly. Too rare laughers are as unpopular as toi reudv ones. A toller of good stories never forgives the man who does not laugh at his jokos. Many perrons have male thoir fortunes by laughing at judicious moments; ap plauding some poor jest, or becoming convulsed with mirth at a dull pun. To ba duly appreciative of his patron's wit was an important part of the duty of a hanger-on. With what ready laughter are a schoolmaster's witticisms received by his class! There is a story of a dramotic author, whose play had boon accepted, being requested to make sundry altera tions to suit the taste of the actors. Among other changes the manager sngueste 1 that "a laugh" should be in troduced in the conclusion of a speech of an out going performer; "it would civehim a better exit." The author plea led that to admit this alteration would spoil the whole dialogue, but the .. t o;it "nin'r it IUallUgur Dili uiji-uk obii. v over and do what you can. 15 's position in the theatre demands it!" Whon laiighi are thus prize I it is not won 'erful that persons who rarely use their nsiblo muscles are unpopular. F.ronomlcul Theology. .Ti'XHS SiftincM The season for raising corn was not a very good oue last year, m ana a ont Austin, on account oi tne arouiu. eev eral members of the Austin Blue Light Tabernacle called on their pastor, liev, Whanedoo lle Hatter, to pray for rain, he having n glet ted to do so. Whang- dood'o received the delegation gra ciously. They stated that ruin had been prayed tor in most of tae promi nent cluir hoi of tua white folks, an I they thought that he also should urge the necessity of rnmcdiate showers, as the corn was almost too far gone to raise more than half a crop. " iou all savs dat de white, piscopal bishop an 1 de res' ob de preachers prayed for rain":" quoriod Whunj- doodle. "Dev has done did hit," was the re ply. "Fool niggahs!" exclaimed Whang doodle indignantly, "w hat's de sense ob mvprayin'lor rain too d.n? i f de white folks gets ra n, won t you got it too, wulout my prayin for hit? Vacation Advice. fCbaioT-l'iin.l Last week, when about to break up for the holidavs, Mr. Spurgeon d.s missed his young men with a caution. "lou't get courting, 'that is not good for etudents. I omo back, as so i:e o.ie puts it, with vour hearts and mann -rs uncracked. Walk iu the fields l.ke Isaac, by all moans, an 1 meditate, but don't lift np your eyes for 1'becca. She will come soon euough. Pr. Talmage: A man is no better than the picture he loves to look at . I vour eves are not pure your ueiirt can not be" One can guess the character of a man by the kind of pictonul he pur chases. ITelen ilmans: A mans wronzt are his rights unt 1 he a -cumulate eioub f.i:r' to resent them. Curious Customs of the Seinluoles, Pbrniolwrjcal Journal A child at its b'rth is called pappoose, but when old enough to walk it receives a second name. A girl is a s pnaw at 11; at i0 another cognomen Is given denot ing that she is of ago. The boy has more dilliculty in outnininz his last name. When he enters his teens he is summoned bsfore the warriors, who procetd, with shaip hints, to make six scratches on each side of his four ex tremities. If he endure the ordeal bravelv lie receives a name indicating the valiant warrior he is expected to become. Of this he is very proud, and takes the utmost pains to verify it. If. however, the boy shows any sign of weakness during the scratching process he is dubbed for life with some derisive epithet, as "king of the alligators." Among the Seminoles intempernnce on 1 theft are neorly abolished, they say, "because they strike at the root of the matter." A man arrested for theft re ceives, the first time, fifty lashes; the second, 100 lashes, and is marked for life by having one ear cut off. The third otience costs his life. As Indian laws are promptly and surely executed, the fir t or second punishment, gener ally, effectually cures kloptoman a. I'or intemperance justice is equally sum Wry. The Indian, excited by liquor, is a noisy fellow, and his whoops in variably attract attention to the vender of the poison. A companv has been organized among them called the l ight Horsemen. As soon as unusual yelling resonnds Irom anv particular locality, down sweep the Light Horsemen, who seize the whisky-keg. pour its contents on the ground, compel the ow ner to pay Stagalionfor all it originally con tained, an I leave a slight souvenir of their visit in the sha m of 100 lashes. Jackson's Power Of Actlua. Washineton Cor. Cevelan I L" er. Andrew Jackson was a consummate actor, and much of his anger, wh.ch was the terror of office seekers, was feigne 1. Senator Hugh L. White, of Tennesseo, once tol I me that he was in Washington during the trouble a to the rechartering of the United States bank, which, it will1 be remembered, wus located at Philadelphia. The friends of the bank held a meeting at Philadelphia, and appointed a commis sion to go to Washington and to remon strate with the president about his cour-e. Senator White was with the president when the delegation arrived. Ho received them graciously enough at first and permitted them to make their plea. This they did in the strongest terms, telling him he was ruining the country, und that if he persisted tho grass would grow in the business streets of Philadelphia and the country would go to the dogs generally. As they thus proceeded Jackson's face began to cloud an 1 his brows to knit. When they ha I finished he roe and went for them in the roughest fctyle, pretending to take some of their remarks as insulting, and swearing, by the eternal, he woul I not submit to it. "In a few minutis," taid Judge White, "he had driven them terrified from the room, and as tho last man left he turned to me with a laugh and said, That was an easv riddance, wasn t it, judge?' and commenced to talk of other matters. The fact oi it was, he was not angry at all, but he had used this method to get rid o' people with whom he did not wish to be bored." Where Uluckburn .Viet Ills Haby. U'-iii'-'i-pssniaii K si-HKien, of Kentncsv. ' . Four days before I went to the front with my regiment we had a little girl baby. She is now grown, and you always see her with me at any social gathering. Well, in our a -my the fur loughs came very rarely. uen we got into line tliere was no great chance tor a man to get home. It was about three years afierward that a few of us were one night goin down the Mississippi os a river steamer. I had been sick and was returning to my command, b.it pretty well broken up eve., then. As for money, wo did not hava any, and the niglit'was hot as I laid down on the deck, my throat almost parched with thirst. Pretty f oon a little girl came along with a big gla--8 of lemonade. I tell you it looked fiood to me. She saw me eyeing it. stopped a minute, looked doubtfully at mo, and finally came up to my side "You looked as if you wanted something to drink," she soid, and offered mo the glass. It wasn t the suuare thing to do, but I took it and ban led it ba'k to her empty. It was like nectar to mo. Then 1 thanked the little creature and sen! her away. Soon after, just like every child, she came ba k. leading her mother to see the poor soldier. Py Jupiter, it was my wife, and the girl was the baby whom I had last soen as a baby but just born, You can imagine the reunion. They were with my brother s family, and hap pened ti be going down the river. That w as the only time during the four years' fighting that I saw my wife i:nd baby, and under these circumstances what man would ever forget it? American Inventions. ' An English journal gives credit to Americans for at least fiiteen inven tions and discoveries which, it says, have been adopte 1 all over the wjrld. First, the cotton gin ; seeon 1 the plan ing-machine; third, the mower and reaper; fourth, the rotary printing tiress; fifth, navigation bv steam: sixth the hot air or ca'orio eugiuo: seventh, the se iug machine ; ei-j;ht, the ' India- rubber (vulcanite process) industry; ninth, the machine manufacture of h rse shoes; tenth, the tand-blast fot carving; eleventh, the gauge lathe; teftli, the grain ele at or; thirteenth artificial ice manufacture on a large sc.dei fourteenth, t ie electro-magnet and ts praitical applicat on; fifteenth the composing machine lor printers. Several Things, A Chieaso rarer enumerates these things which every man can do better thau anyone el e: l ote a tire, put on his hut. edit a newspa:cr, tell a story after another man has commenced it and exa.uine a ra lway time table. Philadelph a Ledger: The prevail ing disKsition is t trust too much to legislat.ve remedies lor moral snoit comic . TWO SCORE YEARS ACO. Some of the Customs or Our Fathers Various Changes, The San Francisco Chronicle notes aome of the changes that have occurred within half a century in the subjoined paragraphs : Family cooking was bet ter than at present. Our mothers and grandmothers "took a hand" in it. Bread was made at home. Coffee was freshly ground evory morning for breakfast. The grinding of the family coffee mill was a familiar sound of the early morning, long ere the children wore un. Foreign help had less sway in the kitchen than now, and F.uropeun hands did not mal e a botch of such purely American dishes as pumpkin pie, codfish cakes, pork and beans, corn bread, buckwheat cakes, and succotash. People then did not live as long, nor was the average health as good as it is to-day; they ate more meat, more greuse, more hot bread, more heavy dishes, drank more at meals and after ward chewed more tobacco. Dyspeptics and consumptives were more common ; disease and premature death w ere devoutly laid at the Heity'i door and alluded to as "dispensations of Providence." Tombstones had larger epitaphs and more verbosity engraved upon them. At funerals the undertakers cried with the mourners -the How of tears being proportionate to the expense of the funeral. Collins were very plain and burial caskets unknown. Young folks in couples counted it a privilege ta sit up nights w.tu the corpse before burial, and in many cases it was a welcome recreation. New Orleans molasses, very black and thin, was the common "sweeting" for buckwheat cakes. Refined molasses was 0'iinpuratively scarce. Tho bank bills were of state banks, and the further west their locality the shakier were they. Illinois and Indi ana bills would barely pass in New ork o ty. Much of the silver currency six pences, shillings and dollars was of Mexican coinage, bought to this country by the Santa Fe traders. The country retail trade was betty than now. People then could not so easily by rail run up to the city and spend their largest cash accumulations for the more expensive stufl's. The country dry goods stores renewed their stock from the city twice a year. Tho arrival of new goods created quite a flutter. It tilled the store for two or three days, untd all the women in tho village had seen the new stylos. lipRs were a shilling a dozen and bat ter was considered high at 18 pence per pound. There was i orK currency, Doing o shillings to the dollar, and 'ew Eng land currency, ii shillings to the dollar. business letters were more volumin ous and formal than now, and w.itten in a precise, round hand. Isolated rural settlements contained greater proportion of lunatics, paralytics and victim) of St. Vitas' dance, than they do toJay. The railroad had not strung places together, and there wore fewer hospi tals for special diseases, hence most oi their cases were kept at home. The diet was more surouargod with grouse, ine winter oreaaiasis aitnon- snnils of tables consisted ot salted ham and hot oukes. Dinner was simply a hasty lunch at noon, liittie importance was auacueu to tho nece s ty for good digestion or a pori d of rest after eating. Tho same heavy diet prevailed in many fan. dies, w.thout change, winter aud itimmA'. Heoce on the first ap proach of the warmth of spring cams "spring ffver" aud biliousness. For this the doctors of the period gave strong cothartics, possibly a "bluemass pill or a dose of "calomel. The regular profession then used mercury in a manner w men wonia now be doomed reckless. The patient was given 9 regular purgation and directed to "diet for a few days, cnudren were Ftrongly dosed with castor oil, and rhubarb, and salts and senna on the leat provocation. It was a strong age for medicine and an age of strong medicine. Under such treatment the stroug managed to re cover, the weak died, and the medium class physically lingered on and suf fered. Liehtuing rods made their way into use with (li.liculty. The ultra devout actually opposed them on the ground that they were an insult to the Peitj, and that it was an interference with the works and will of Providence. Negro minstrelsy was just cropping out iu the traveling circus. There were generally two performers, w ho assumed male and female characters. The pop ular melody was "Jump, Jim Cro..." England's Hunting Season. Frank I. Jervis in The Current. Xo sooner does the welcome item in tho yoarly calendar inform the world of Britain that the season for the legal slaughtering of nauie has commenced, thau politics stagnate, the oracles oi tho L.w slumber, business becomes 1 1 bore, and from the crowded metropolis a general stampede begins. Every feudal castlo, mansion, manor house, county seat and hunting lodge become scenes tf Ih'e and jollity. He is the richest and most coveted nobleniau who has the i.-ost stocked preserve, and the siinplo country gentleman who is good man in tho field, who can boat ttnbblo field, ra se a covey of birds sou titio a double barrel right and left wits umnriug aim, stands on a higher put' n iclo than the most subtle intolle-i the brightest imagination or tho mo" copious flow o. eloquence. ? nclo Kick's Moral Proverb. rrhe Ontury. Ti e unvd never was known to plJ icy kind of a game, e cept for keep- lie who forgives, and doesn't forget, is trying lo settle with tho Lord W 50 cents on the dollar. The man w ho has nothing but non csty to recommend him is suro of s r ward hereafter, but he can't get a jo- here on earth. Men will swear by their relig will fight for it, will be martyrs for it will cr cute others for it, will do thing and all things for it, except s.-rve it themselves. the f.-- !t"hv to r,;.