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HILLSBORO, WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1876.
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My Ships ut Sea.
How many ships I've- sent to sea
. Buoyant with hop and full of srlee.
How few return to tuff
Ships that I've freighted with myall;
Drifted away beyond rcrall,
But storms will rise and storms will fall.
And ships go down at sen!
How oft, with pail all golden bright
With sunlight they have passed from sight
While from the chore have I
Kept watch with eager eye,
I'tifil my si ips had floated hy
rlhc lilui- whore hra melts into sky;
L ntil with sail. all proudly act.
Just where, the earth with heaven met.
They vanUhed while I lingered yet.
iiut storms will come, and winds will tduw
My ships are driven to and fro-
And some go Juwii at sea!
And some mere wreck, from out the past
Mere hull, and spar and broken mast.
With all the'n' asures overcast,
Floaf back to me.
And then I.siiih o'er what I've tot ;
Weep o'er my life so tempest-tot
So cheerless and so drear!
Why trust frail baro.ue unto the sea?
What bring they back but grief to me?
But grief and pain, and misery.
To rend my soul with fear!
These shattered wrecks the cruel sen
'ast on the shore to torture nut
Are tilled with phBiitoms dread!
Phantom of all I've lost before
Of hopes and joys dead in the yore;
Of hopes and loves that eome no more;
Ami with these dead from unknown shore
Come other dead to make me sore
The cruel, living dead!
But still, forgetting all my pain.
My barques I launch upon the main.
To cross the heaving eu.
Hoping that when all storms are past.
Some sunny port I'll reach ut last.
To tind with joy, all anchored fast.
My ships awaiting me!
HENRY FLETCHER'S LUOK.
HY HORATIO AI.OKIt, JU.
"What have you got there, John?" in
quired Henry Fletcher of his fellow clerk,
John Raymond.
"A ticket to the concert this evening."
"Who is to sing?"
"Signora Bcrtauiga, inl one or two
others whose names I tlo not remember.
Shall you go?"
"How much are the ticket)!?"
"A dollar."
"Then I shan't go."
"Why not?"
"Recause I cannot afford to pay a dol
lar for an evening's amusement."
"You can afford it as well as I can.
We both get the same salary."
"That is true. We both get ten dollars
a week. Hut doesn't it seem a littlo ex
travagant to spend a tenth part of your
wages in a concert ticket V
"How prudent and cautious you are,
Henry. Of course I don't want to ex
ceed my income. Hut I shan't do it
1 can live on ten dollars a week, and still
atford myself a little amusement now
anil then. So could you if you only
thought so."
"I do think so."
'Then why don't you go"
"Because I want to" do more than live
on my income."
"You don't mean to say that you ex
pect to save anything out often dollars a
week?"
"Yes, I do."
"Hut you'll find you can't do it," said
John, incredulously.
"I have done it."
"You have?"
"Certainly."
"Half a dollar a week, perhaps! but
that. isn't worth while."
"I should think it worth while if I
couldn't save any more."
"How much have you saved?" ques
tioned John, with some curiosity.
"During the six months that I have
been here, I have saved fifty dollars."
"Why, that's two dollars a week."
"Yes."
"How in the world did you do it?"
"Hoard costs us five dollars a week."
"Well V
"I set apart from a dollar aud a half to
two dollars for clothes."
"It costs me more. And how much
for sundries?"
"Enough to make eight dollars. The
rest I save."
"Hut you have to pinch yourself."
"No, 1 am not conscious of it. I can't
go to concert's where the tickets are a
dollar, to be sure; but I take two or three
weekly papers, and get out books from
the .Mercantile Library, anil with these
I have no trouble in passing the time."
"Well, I had no idea money could be
saved on our salaries. If all the world
were like you, Henry, tiie signora would
make a poor living. You approve of
nothing ex pensive t"
'I didn't say that. Some people have
larger income than you or I. It is
proper for them to pay for expensive
amusements if they like."
"Hut after all you can't save much.
What is your object?"
"I'll tell you, John. I don't want to
to be a clerk all my life-time. I want to
go into business for myself. Hut I can't
do that without capital."
"So that is what you are saving up for.
Well, fifty dollars will set you up in a
peanut stand.
"J hope to have more than that when I
get ready to go into business. Hut ex-
cuse my lecturing. I hope you will have
a pleasant time this evening.
"No doubt I shall. You had better
give up your economy for once, and buy
a ticket."
"I believe not."
"All right. Perhaps you are wiser
than I."
Six months later both the young men
who took part in the preceding conversa
tion had their wages raised to twelve
dollars per week.
O n the strength of this John Raymond
went at once to a fashionable tailar, and
-ordered a new suit of clothes, which he
particularly desired should be made iu
style. The suit was not needed, for he
was already well provided with clothes,
but the extra two dollars per week made
him feel rich, and he took this way of
making known his prosperity to his ac
quaintances. Henry Fletcher, on the contrary, did
not think it necessary to increase his ex
penditures at all, but kept on as if nothing
had happened.
"I don't see as it does you much good
to have your salary raised, Henry," haid
his fellow clerk.
"Why not.'"
"Why, you don't spend any more."
"Hut I save more."
"How much?"
"I can lay by four doliui a week,
now."
"You can? I don't sec how it is. It's
two mouths since our pay was raised,
and I have not laid by a cent. Beside
I am still in debt on my new suit."
"Hetter have waited until you could
have paid for it."
"O, well, I knew I could very soon."
No more passed between the two clerks
at this time. At the end of the second
your their wages were again raised this
time to fifteen dollars a week. Constant
to his original purpose, Henry Fletcher
continued to live on eight dollars a week,
thus saving seven. Hut it is not our pur
pose to follow the fortune of the two
young men in detail. Suffice it to com
pare their pecuniary jositions at the end
of three years.
At this time Henry Fletcher was the
master of eighteen hundred dollars.
His fellow clerk, John Itaymond, was
just even w ith the world. He had in
creased his expenses as his income ad
vanced, and this was the natural result.
He had long since ceased to question
Henry about hi savings, and had no idea
he was so far in advance of him.
It has been remarked that fortuue
often showers her benefits on those who
do not deserve them. At all events John
Raymond about this time had twe- y-five
hundred dollars left him by a near rela
tive. It of course exhilarated him not a
little. He had got tired of being a clerk.
He determined to go into business for
himself. He announced his intentions
to Henry one night.
"Well, Henry," said he, nonchalantly,
"I've given old Fairbanks warning."
"You have! When ate you going?"
"I've dropped clerking. I'm going into
business for myself."
"I thought "
"That I had no capital?"
"Yes."
"Well, I'm lucky enough to have re
ceived a legacv of twenty-five hundred
dollars."
"I congratulate you. That with your
savings "
"Pooh! I have saved nothing."
"At any rate that will give you a good
start."
"I suppose you'll go on clerking for
some time to come."
"There you are mistaken. I have en
gaged a store, aud expect to begin busi
ness on my own account in a fw weeks."
"You don't say so!" ejaculated Itay
mond in surprise. "Have you had a
windfall, too?"
"No."
"Then w here did you raise the fun Is?"
''I have saved up eighteen hundred
dollars, and that must do for the
present."
"Eighteen hundred I You don't mean
to say you saved all?"
"With interest, yes."
"I had no idea you were worth half
that. It is most as much as I have."
"Not quite."
"Well, we shall start in business about
the same time. I wonder how we shall
be situated four years hence f"
"Roth prosperous, I hope."
"So do I."
It so hapjened that the two young men
went into their new stores on the same
clay. Join unoersioou ineir ousiness.
So far as that went there was no reason
to doubt of their succes. Hut John Ray
mond went at- once to a fashionable
boarding house, where he paid a high
price for a fine room, opened a bill at a
fashionable tailor's, bought a horse and
carriage aud boarded the horse at a livery
stable, and in fact lived as if his income
was equal to his stock in trade. lie had
no reason to complain of the patronage he
received. His expenditures had been so
great in proportion to his business that
he found it hard to meet his bills as they
became due; but this never led him to
retrench his personal expenditures. 1I;
must still keep a carriage and pay high
board.
So tilings got worse and worse, till at
length a crisis came. In a little short of
a year laiiure came, i ne money wun
which ha had started had somehow melted
away, and he found himself thrown upon
the world. He was glad to accept his
old situation at "old Fairbank's store."
How stood Henry Fletcher at the end
of the year? He had managed his busi
ness prudently, lived economically, and
put ins surplus proms into uis stwn iu
trade. When lie took account of stock
at the end of the year, it footed up twenty-five
hundred dollars just where John
Raymond had been at the beginning ot
the year.
Five years later Henry Fletcher found
himself worth ten thousand dollar.
Joha Raymond is just even with the
world, aud so fixed has the habit of self
indulgence become that it is to lie feared
ho w ill never be any better off. He thinks
Heury Fletcher "a very lucky fellow;"
but we know that there is something
more and Wtter than good luck at the
Iwittom of his prosperity. Gleaaon'a
Monthly Companion.
Pkactkai. Christianity. The Chil
dren's Aid Society, of New York, has
this year taken care of 13,911 different
boys and girls, and supplied 233,4!
meals, and 17ti,2tfl lodgings. In the
twenty-one day, and thirteen evening in
dustrial schools of the Society were 10,357
children who were taught and parti v fed
and clothed; while 4,026 were sent to
good homes, mainly in the West.
Beware of the
will give you fits.
tailor who
says
he
Gen. Washington's Coach.
On this spot, w here the hungry rider
of Pleasonton and Stewart looked around
in vain for "grub" and forage, where the
last of the F. F. V.'s had stood and be
wailed his desolate fields and fallen for
tunes, the Mount Vernon coach, driving
four, with liveried coachman and foot
man, and with the ancient arms of de
Hertburn emblazoned on the panel, and
drawn up amidst a crowd r.f powdered
beaux, who always came to church early
and were ever ready to vie with each
other for the honor of handing Mrs.
Washington from her coach. This car
riage, which Harrington, or some other
distinguish! Irishman, would have
called "a specimen of Gothic architecture
on wheels," was built to order in Iondou,
and for a long period served as a model
afu-r w hich those old Colonial swells had
their equipages made. The running gear
and lower section of the body were
cream color, with gilt moldings; the "top
hamjer" mahogany, with green Venetian
blinds, aud the interior finished iu black
leather; two great "head lights" on the
box served at night to let the curious
traveler know that "a jwrson of quality"
was on the road, and aided West Ford to
keep his bearings on the dangerous high
ways not yet smoothed by the magic
hand of McAdam. Our great prototype
republican also had his coat-of-arms on
the door panel, fully emblazoned and
"tricked." As the crest is emblazoned
on a ducal coronet, we may perhaps ac
cept the story that these are the armorial
bearings of William tie Hertburn, a Nor
man baron, who was lord of the manor
of Washington in the 13th century. On
the four side panels were pictures repre
senting the seasons. This coach came
into the possession of Hishop Meade of
V lrginia, w ho, w ith one eye to business
and the other to charity, had it cut up
and soli in pieces at a church fair.
Rusines Maxims.
After the feast the giver shakes his
head.
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
Creditors have excellent memories.
Caution is the father of security.
He who pays before-hand is served behind-hand.
If you would know the value of a dol
lar try to borrow one.
Great bargains have ruined many.
He silent when a fool talks.
Give a foolish talker rope enough aud
he wilt hang himself.
Never peak boastingly of your busi
ness. It is hard for the hungry man to wait
when he smells the roast meat.
An hour of triumph comr at last to
those who watch and wait.
Word by wont Webster's big dictionary
w as made.
Speak well of your friends of your
enemies say nothing.
Never take back a discharged servant.
If you post your servants ujton your
aff.drs they will one day rend you.
No man can be successful who neglects
his business.
Do not waste time in useless regrets
over losses.
Systematize your business, ami keep an
eye on little expenses.
Small leaks sink great ships.
Never fail to take a receipt for money
paid, and keep copies of your letters.
Do your business promptly, and bore
not a business man with long visits.
Law is a trade in w hich the lawyers
eat the oysters and leave the clients the
shells.
Rothschild, the founder of the world
renowned house of Rothschild Jc Co.,
ascribed his success to the following:
Never have anythiug to do with an
unlucky man.
lie cautious and bold.
Make a bargain at once.
The Way Indian Jugglers Kntertaiued
Alliert 11(1 ward.
First Madhar Sahib squatted down be
fore the Priuce of Wales, says Dr. Rus
sell in the London Timet, and put down
a small basket on the carpet about the
size of those in which a lady would carry
Rerun wool. It was empty, ot course.
Madhar Sahib was almost undressed hi
arms were quite bare. He turned his
basket down and chatted at it, then turned
it over,and lo ! there was an egg on thecar
et, which was handed round tole looked
at. Then he put the basket over the egg
and chatted at it again, turned it over, and
lo! out walked a pretty pigeon, so tame
that it let itself be caught by hand. Next
Madhar produced another egg from le-
neath the basket, and then placed it under
the basket any one could see that the
latter was a thin, frail composition,
without cover or talse oottoni. Then,
after incantations, he raised the basket,
and out strutted the first pigeon aud an
other exactly like it, and went pouting
over to the spectators. Other things did
Madhar Sahib, but none so striking, for
peas under a thimble have before now ex
ercised the finest intellects, and baffled
the greatest intelligence in England.
Poolee, w ho came next, I think, w as a per
former of extraordinary merit. After some
tricks of no great novelty, but executed
with much neatness, he converted him
self into a magazine of horrors; took live
scorpion which he handled with impu
nity, out ot ins mouth; spat out stones as
large as plums one after the other, or
showed them between his lips and swal
lowed them; then evolved from depths
unknown a carpenter shop full of nails,
large and small, and coils of string, till
there was a pile of hi products before the
Prince.
Dairy Aids. The Fancier'e Gazette men
tions an instance of a cow, belonging to
a Mr. Wilson of Barrowdale, having been
safely fitted with a wooden leg, with
which it is now doing well. This wood
en leg, we must confess, is almost
too much for our understanding, unless,
indeed, its possessor is some way re
lated to the famous cow with the iron
tail with which so many dairymen are
only too familiar. Or perhaps there is a
mistake somewhere, in which case it may
possibly be distantly allied to the well-
known Insh bull. The re-revpine.
Take Care5" of Your Health.
Mr. Money-Get work and delve his
sixty years, unceasingly, and makes
enough to satisfy himselt; but he does
not see it so. He wants fcr put another
thousand out at ten per cent., and on he
goes, day after day, hard at work, a slave
to money, until one day he dies suddenly
in his work, his poor heart tired nut, and
his friends find him in his old working
suit, a very sincere offering to wealth.
Verily he might with care have held out for
years yet, but he conld not afford to stop
and enjoy his possession for a little
while.
Mr. Thrifty is in a p 4tio;s to spare
himself a little, now at forty-five; but he
wants to le very speedily iu the scale of
"upper ten," and he rushes on in a very
rapid way, although he is aware that he
is overstraining his frame, and that Ids
constitution, uow injured, needs rost and
care. No mutter for that, harvest must
be rushed to itscompletion. He is taken
sick, but works on iu the hot sun until he
fails, is helped to his bed, and iu four days
is a corpse. His dear wife, over-worked
and heart-broken, die a week afterward,
and they leave the thriftyestate and sweet
babes to the care of others.
Oh! how many fatherless and mother
less children, and desolate homes, attest
the neglect of the subject of health!
Everything but this. People study all
kinds of science but this. They become
men and women, enter life, and die le
fore they attain to old age, often die
young, and the probate settles the estate,
and appoints guardians for the children.
J. C. in the Health Jiefrmer.
Gkttino Wkt If the clothing Iweoines
even a little damp, the warmth of the
bodv converts the dampness into steam,
which carries the heat from the lxdy w ith
great rapidity, leaving it chilled, with all
its dangerous results. A New York
banker built himself a country seat in
Connecticut, costing over twelve hun
dred thousand dollars. He walked from
his house in Fifth Avenue to the Academy
ot Music, was caught on the way in a
very slight sprinkle; he thought it could
not hurt him, and determined to see the
opera out; when he reached home he felt
chilly; next morning he had pneumonia,
and died lefore the week closed. He
w as a stout, robust man in the prime of
life; his mansion was offered at ten cents
on the dollar w ithin a year after his death.
Hence, if the feet of clothing become
damp in the slightest, don't wait an in
stant ; keep on walking until you get to
the fire. llalVe Journal.
Si'onoe Cake. Take five large, fresh
eggs, PreaK mem one uy one; separate
the whites from the yolks, ana le;.l the
latter for ten minutes; then take the
weight of five eggs iu lump-sugar, finely
crushed. Pat in the sugar gradually, and
leat it well together. In the meantime,
have the whites whisked to quite a solid
froth; add this to the yolks; ami when
they are well blended, have ready some
flour (the weight of three eggs), which
must bestirred into them gently. Flavor
it with the grated rind ot one lemon.
Pour the cake into a mould that has
leen well buttered, and let it bake in a
moderate oveu for one hour. All the in-
gredients for a sponge-cake must lw of
the very lest quality ami the sugar and
tlour quite dry.
Sckap-Book Paste. Dissolve a tea-
spoonful of alum iu a quart of water;
w hen cold, stir in as much flour as w ill
give it the consistency of thick cream,
being particular toocatup an ine lumps;
stir in as much powdered resin as will
lav on a dime, and add also six cloves.
put a teacupful of boiling water on the
tire, and pour the Hour mixture into it,
stirring well all the time. It will soon
be like mush. Let it cool, and keep it
cool. Lay a cover on it. r or use, sot ten
with warm water. It will keep twelve
months.
Hoston Hkown Rueah. One quart of
milk (sour if you have it , four cupfuls
of corn meal, two cupfuls of rye meal.
nearlv a cupful of common molasses, an
even teasjoonful of salt and a heaping
teaspoontul of soda or saleratus, tnor-
ourMily uissoiveu. l ui ii mio a eovereu
tin pudding boiler, leaving room for it to
rise; set it into a kettle of boiling water
and cover the kettle tightly, so as to keep
in all the steam first putting into the
kettle three or four large nails (or any
substitute) for the pudding broiler to set
ujmhi. Steam it for four hour; take the
lid off and set it into the oven for a little
while. Slice and eat with plenty of but
ter; toast what is lell tor the next
meal.
White Son. Take a large knuckle
of veal, one jK)und of ham, and a fowl, if
required ; a few peppercorns, a head of
celery, fehred fine, and two or thrae onions;
add six quarts of water, and let it stew
for several hours. Strain the soup, and,
when cold, having taken off the fat, add
to the liquor, on the day it i required, a
matter of a pound of almonds, blanched
and pounded. Roil it very genMy, then
pass the soup through a sieve, and thicken
w ith half a pint of cream and two eggs.
Ham Cakes. A capital way of dispos
ing of the remains of a ham, and making
an excellent dish for breakfast, is: Take
a pound and a-half of ham fat and lean
together; put it into a mortar and pound it
or pass it through a sausage-machine.
Soak a large slice of bread in a half-pint
of milk, and beat it and the ham well
together. Add an egg beaten up. Put
the whole into a mould, and bake a rich
brown.
CotOANTT Cake. One cup butter; two
and a-hair cups sugar, level; threw and
three-quarter cup sifted flour, level; two
cups grated cocoanut; whites of fifteen
egg; one level teaspoontul soda; two
level teaspoonfuls cream tartar. If
properly made this cake i splendid.
Crcli.ers. Four eggs; six teaspoon
fuls sugar ( heaping) ; one and a-half table-
spoonfuls butter; flour enough to make
a soft dough; one teaspoonful yeast pow
der. Roll out rather thin, cut into small
cakes and fry.
Porridge. Add one part barley to five
or six part water, according to the taste.
This is more like soup and can be eaten
with bread.
Visit of the Emperor of Brazil.
The Emperor of Brazil, Don Pedro II.
and Teresa Christina, traveling incog, a
the Duke and Duchess of Rraganza, hav
ing Ix-en granted one year's leave of ab
sence by Parliament, with $1,000,000 to
defray expenses, are to leave Rio de Ja
neiro (in the 1st of April by the steam
ship. John Elder, of the British Steamship
Company. Two steam corvettes,the Vital
deOlirera, 12 guns and 200 horse power,
and the Trajano, 18 guns and 400 horsj
power, of the Imperial navy, are to sail
in company with that In-ariug the
Imperial party, while the corvette
Xitheroy, 12 guns and 200 horse
xwer, will be ttationed at San Fran
cisco, as a part of the IuiK;rial squad
ron during the stay of the Emperor.
This fleet will be under the command of
Vice Admiral J. R. de Lamare, who will
hoist his peuant Uoii the Trajanu. The
Imperial party is to consist of Senor Com
meudador Lojez Netto, Harondo Rio
Hon i to, Countess Hara. and Piedra Branca
and Viscount of Rio Branca, Senor Par-
anhos a famous statesman in connection
with Paraguayan affairs who represents
Brazil at the Centennial as president of
the commission from that country; be
sides, there will be the personal attend
ants of the Emperor and Empress. Ten
ders of a formal reception and entertain
ment have been made by our Government
and the State authorities, but have been
uniformity declined. It is understood
that the party, after visiting the Centen
nial, will travel through to California,
visiting other point of interest in the
I'nited States and then proceed lo Europe,
where the Empress is going to avail her
self of the German waters, under medi
cal attendance, her health Indng somew hat
impaired. Should the balance of the
year's sojourn thereat prove insufficient,
she will remain longer without the Em
peror, w ho, unless allowed by Parliament,
will have to return within the h pec i tied
period of time. During their absence
Princess Isabel, heir to the throne and
wife of Count d'Eu, will fill the regency
of the Empire.
How Enui.isii DitLoiasrs Make
Money. Some very disagreeable revela
tions as to the manner in which physi
cians' prescriptions are made up are
contained in a report by Mr. Allen, the
borough analyst at Sheffield, giving the
result of an exeriment lately tried with
the view of testing the accuracy and hon
esty of druggists. Various prescriptions,
each including a full dose of some costly
remedy capable of ready and accurate
estimation in a mixture, were presented
to certain druggists. A series of three
samples in which 120 grain of iodide of
potassium were preset iled were found to
contain 122, 120 ami 7C grains respec
tively. Of these samples, which should
have contained 1G grain of sulphate of
quinine, one contained only nine and one
half grains. Another sample, which
should have contained forty grains of
sulphate of quinine, had but thirty
grains. Of twelve samples of glycerine
only five were pure and of the standard
strength. Three sample of citric acid
were found to contain a minute trace of
lead. In short, the result of the exeri
ment w as such as to give just ground for
apprehension that druggist are not more
troubled with consciences than grocer,
and that the effect of the poison retailed
by the latter is often enhanced instead of
removed by the adulterated antidote dis
pensed by the former.
Fierce Wolves in France. The se
vere weather seems to have inspired the
wild iK-asts in the forest of trance with
great audacity. Recently, Michel Chou
serie, a farmer at Veyssiere (Dordogne)
was mowing some heath just outside the
village, when he noticed a large wolf re
garding hi dog, which was lying by his
side. After having made a menacing
gesture without any effect, he struck the
animal w ith the back ot hi scythe, and,
instead of leaving, it attacked him
ferociously. A violent struggle ensued,
during w hich the man was severely bitten
on the eyes, the cheek, the arm and leg.
Fortunately, he at last managed to in
flict a serious wound on his assailant,
which made off, bleeding. The man
succe eded in dragging himself home,and,
having related w hat had occurred, hi
son and some more young men, armed
with gun and pitchforks, set out in
search of the brute. They soon found it
and one of them fired and hit it, when it
sprang at him and would probably have
grievously injured him if the other had
not fortunately attacked it vigorously
ami dispatched it with their pitchfork.
Umhi examination it turned out to Ik of
unusually large m.c and strength and
eleven years old. The wound received
by the farmer are sufficient to cause se
rious anxiety to hi family.
How They Fixed It. A New Yorker
while journeying the other day, was
recognized by another citizen doing
business near the Bowery, he being ulso
away from home on business, and after a
little preliminary conversation, the first
remarked :
"Well, I hear that you had to make an
assignment."
"Ye, dat i drew," replied the other.
"And your brother, over on Chatham
street; he assigned too, didn't he?"
"You zee it was shust like di," said
the Bwery man. "I vha owing a good
deal, aud Jacob he vha owing a good
deal. I make over my stock to Jacob
and Jacob make over hi stock to me,
and I do his peesntss and he doe my
pcesness. and dein vellers vhat vha after
money (loan get some;
Awakes! no. What i this world? A
dream within a dream. As we grow
older each step has an inward awaken
ing. The youth awake, a he thinks, a
from childhood the full grown man
despises the pursuits of youth at visonary
the old man looks on manhood as a
feverish dream. I death the last sleep?
No it i the last awful awakening.
Sir Walter Scott.
Said Croesus to Cyrus : "No one is so
foolish us to prefer war to peace; for in
peace, sons Imry their fathers; but in
war, fathers bury their ons. Herodotus.
Relic Hunter.
Near the eventful battle-field on which
the star of Napoleon went down, Victor
Troyon opened a small tavern. Natu
rally, he was beset by relic hunters for
souvenirs of the battle; but he honestly
answered that he had nothing of the
kind. He was very poor, and he worked
hard to keep his little tavern going. One
day he w a complaining to a neighlmr of"
hi Miverty, and also of the annoyance
coutiuually put upon him by relic hunt
ers. "Well, why don't you make the
source of annoyance relieve your poverty ?"
suggested the friend, "How can I do
that?" "If you have no relics make them.
At Brussels they make any quantity of
them. For instance, the next man who
asks you for a relic, tell him thai Napo
leon or Wellington entered your house
during the battle aud sat in that chair.
Or tell him that ou that table Napoleon
wrote hi order to the different division
commander." Well, M. Troyon profited
by the hint, and told the next English
tourist who chanced that way the chair
story, selling the simple piece of furni
ture at au immense price. The table on
which Napoleon had written at least a
dozen orders to hi marshals, wa sold to
a tourist from the south of France for
two thousand francs (I'SO). Hy and by
M. Troyon called to mind that he still
preserved th glass from which Welling
tou drank; and the "Wellington (Has"
is stilt shown the admiring visitor at a
substantial English resilience by the sou
of the man who paid fifty pound for it.
Even the nail u which Napoleon hung
hi military coat was pulled out from the
wall to satisfy a craving relic hunter. In
short, M. Troyon kept on until, piece by
piece, he had sold the very roof from over
his head; and it is said that more than
one enthusiastic worshipper at the throne
of Waterloo, when there was nothing
else to be gained for a souvenir, took
away a package of dirt on which stood
the house in w hich both Nanleoii and
Wellington had rested! Of course, M.
Troyon made quite a fortune by this
means.
Transit ok Animals. -The law of
Congre regulating the carriage of ani
mal on railways, now operative, is alike
merciful and stringent. It demaud that
no animal shall be confined for a longer
iMirioJ than twenty-eight consecutive
hours without being released from their
confinement, for rent, water and food,
and this respite from the toil of travel
must continue for five hour unless pre
vented by unavoidable cause. This esti
mate include the time the animals have
!ecn upon the cars of connecting road
without relaxation. I hu there i now
all over the country an absolute prohibi
tion of confinement beyond the time
specified, of any animal in transit
on the cars.
The penalties for violating the provi.
ion of this law are very severe, a per
haps it was projter it should be, any fail
ure to comply with the provisions of the
act being visited with a tine of one to
five hundred dollars, recoverable by civil
action iu the United States Court. The
act des not affect the carriage of animal
for whose comfort, in tho w ay of furnih
ing food, and ample space ha been pro
vided, a where valuable animals, a few
to a car, are transported, .a John Har
kt transported hi horses, with abundant
supplies of forage and one or two care
ful attendants sharing the car with tliciu,
and giving them every needed care.
A Man's NEionnons. The Raleigh
(N. C) Neira report that Rev. Dr.
Pritchard of that city referred in a thanks
giving sermon to a conversation held
some year ago between Dr. Thomas E.
Skinner, formerly of Raleigh, uow of
Georgia, and an auti-misiouaryit. Dr.
Skinner, he said, was soliciting aid to
foreign missions, and applied to this
gentleman, who promptly repulsed him
with the reply, "I don t believe in for
eign missions, and I won't give anythiug
except to home missions. I want what
I give to Iwneht my neighbors.
"Well," replied Dr. Skinner, "whom
do you regard a your neigh!or?"
" by, those around me, replied the
brother.
Do you mean those w hose land joins
yours?" inquired Dr. Skinner,
"Yes."
"Well," said Dr. Skinner, "how much
land do you own?"
"About five hundred acres."
"How far dotrtt tlo you own?" inquired
Dr. Skinner.
"Why, I never thought of St before,
but I suppose 1 own half way through."
"Exactly," said Dr. Skinner; "I sup
pose you do, and I want thi money for
the Chinese the men whose land join
your on the bottom."
The hardened brother had never
thought of that, and gave a good sum
for foreign missions.
AfiK and Memory. While arguing a
case before the I'nited State Supreme
Court in Washington, a few day ago,
Mr. AUert Pike made a clever reply to
an objection of Attorney-General Pierre
pont. The Attorney-General had ques
tioned the evidence of one of Mr. Pike's
witnesse, on the ground of the extreme
age of the man seventy-three year and
presumtive failure of hi faculties. "Well,
your Honors," said Mr. Pike, "I don't
altogether like that myself; for I am
sixty-six years old, and in a little while I
shall be seventy, and even seventy-three,
and I am somewhat sensitive about old
men with no memories. I see on the
bench before me one Justice hearing thi
case who is sixty-nine year old, another
who is seventy-two, aud I would like to
ask with what force the Attorney-Gen
eraP argument strikes them, that a man
has no memory at their ages?" 3Ir.
Pierrepont yielded the point. Curiously
enough, the client for whom Mr. Pike
was arguing was ex-Governor Rector, of
Arkansas, with whom he had once fought
a duel.
The Duke of Cambridge, at a public
dinner recently, warned the English
people tnat before they were many weeks
older a warlike state of affairs might
possibly arise.
Detroit Free Pres Item.
The New York Companies haven't cut
a pound of ica yet.
They have just discovered one church
in Chicago which isn't mortgaged.
Conway's lecture on "The Devil" I not
very interesting. The public are too well
acquainted with tho subject.
Black well's Ul.i nd is not only surround
ed by water, but by aboutas much official
corruption as c;ui be grouped together on
one pot.
It i the opinion of some of the best in
formed Philadelphia paper th.it them
will Im tramps enough in (hat city by May
to eat the whole Centennial up.
Over 2,500 building were burned in
New York State lat year by iueemli
urie. Wheu au incendiary i caught hu
ought to be reasoned with and left theru
until hi frieud pick him up.
The Christian at Work says that k)
chewer of tobacco can ever go f-j heaven.
We've seen a go id many Christian ut
work on fine cut and plug, aud trnuu of
them ever took till view of tho case.
A clergyman of Raleigh says ho w jll be
one of one hundred preachers to oiler up
free prayers for the editor of the I'nited
State. He says if Chicago and St. Louis
were left out ho wouldn't need any help.
A St. Louis man says that dynamite I
a harmless a a baby mile you really
want it to explode. However, no pru
dent man would want iibaby lyingarouud
in his front yard, or a box of dynamite
either.
Wheu a newspaper record the fact that
burglars failed to enter a house, they
should wind up the item by stating that
the fellow would have secured so many
hundred dollar' worth of cash ami jew
elry had they succeeded. Thi encour
age other burglar.
A Chicago lawyer had a dream that he
died and went to heaven' gate. What
passed between him and St. Peter no on4
will ever know. The lawyer ha dropped
hi profession, however, so it may be sur
mised that even Chicago law cau in.iko
no case up there.
Clarified Crumb.
FIN PI NO.
I find the "golden rule" beautiful iu
theory, and desirable in practice, but too
costly to uit most men notion about
every day business.
I find some public speaker who con
sume much time in telling what thov
know, but would consume much morn
time were they able to tell w hat they do
not know.
I find many men who want part of the
honor of killing the bear, but remain
perched up ou the rafter until the light
is over.
I find idleness may give rest to tin
weary but not food to tho hungry.
WAVstPR WARNINGS.
Don't let the treasures of thi world haz
ard your prospect for the next.
Don't disregard the right of other in
trying to exercise what seem to be jour
own.
Don't get more promise on the market
than go current.
Don't preach charity and leave some
body else to practice it.
Don't think it condescension to speak
pleasantly to that form beneath those tat
tcred garment. They may, perchance.
cover form a comely, ami a heart as
honest a your own, Into which might bo
reflected a ray of sunshine by a pleasant
look.
Don't letard the progress of other be-
cause you fail to keep pace with them.
Dim t dwell too much upon the great
nes of your ancestors lest your hearer
think the stock ha sadly degenerated.
POUUTS.
I don't believe men's opinion have
much to do with the change in the
weather,
I don't believe every man who eat
bread does it by the sweat of his face,
unless loafing on the corner require
more exertion than it seem to.
I don't believe an official positional
ways a voucher for honesty. Ma.iou Mt'
Hi nole, in Detroit Free 7Ve.
Not Ashamed ov IImTiuhk. The
snobbishne that despise labor i itself
most dUpicable, Many a noble Ainerl
can ha improved the opportunity to re
buke it in courtly society,
On a certain occasion, while Friend
Hopper was visiting a wealthy family in
Dublin, a note wa handed to him, in
viting him to dine on the following day.
When he had read it aloud, hi host re
marked, "These people are very respectable,
but not of the first circle. They belong
to our church, but not exactly to our set.
The father i a mechanic."
"Well," said Isaac, frankly, "I am a
mechanic myself. Perhaps if thou hadst
known that fact, thou wotildt not have
invited me hither,"
"I it posHibleYxclaimed the host,
"that a man of your standing aud Informa
tion can be a mechanic?"
"I followed the business of a tailor for
many year," returned the guest. "Look
at uiy hand. The marks of thu shears
are there still. Some of the mayor of
Philadelphia have been mechanic. When
I lived there, and while working ut my
trade, I often walked the streets arm-in-arm
with the chief-justice. It never oc
curred to me that either wa thus partic
ularly honoring tho other, and I don't
think it did to him."
The Dublin aristocrat did not give up
hi hold upon the popular philanthropist,
though it is doubtful if he profited further
by the lesson of Yankee equality thus
preented.
TnK proposed new bridge, the "Royal
belt, across the St. Lawrence, at Mod-
Albert
t rail I Id (ik I ui U it II lnrti I All d k 4 1. , t m '1
Tho
length will be 15.500 feet: one span
of
500 or COO feet ut a height of 130 feet
above navigation, five of 300 feet each at
the same height, four of 340 feet each,
and fifty-one of 200 feet each; tho esti
mated cost is four million dollars, aud ths
work may bo completed In three years.