AN EGYPTIAN DANCING GtRL.
Utbe, lutruno, with large and lustrous eye
That hine uk rooona from eat bar nicni at
hair .
Th&t orpent-vrtHO Mtnsd her colls a uuni
charm alike the witless and the wise!
The taring sounds of dreamy lutiug3 rise.
And e'er her head her shapely umi and burp
biie Knees, while her supple iiiabs and fair
Move slowly to the subtle harmonies,
bark nanus elide swifter o'er the taut drau
strings:
And now, with look and motion paastonate.
Uke some wind tossed resplendent eaaturn
bloom
"ai tranced erstacy she sways and swinga.
Until she seems to ns the enthralled fate .
That drew treat Antony to his disgrace and
doom.
Clinton Scollard In Pitaburg Builotin.
TIIE NEW BABY.
One day last week Babe was a-setteu
" fat my lap, and I was tellin' her a story
I bad jest got to the thrilHn' part of it.
"when the good little boy, who always
minded bis ma, had a hall pail of red
apples gin to him. And Babe was n
lookin' np into my face with her big.
blue gray eyes a-shinin' and her golden
yellow hair a-fallin back from her little
-eager, happy, upturned face.
When all of a sadden the kitchen dour
pened and Miss Pixley came in, and
before she had been there some time she
ays to Babe. a-winMn' to me at the
amine time:
"Your nose is broke novt, young lady!'
Babe put her little fingers np to her
nose and felt of it, and I winked to Miss
Pixley to not say no more, for I knew
what she meant; I knew she meant that
Thomas Jefferson's little new baby
"would crowd Babe, our Tirzeh Ann's
tittle daughter, oat of oar hearts.
Bat Miss Pixley went right on. She is
an old maiden, and has had fiye disap
pointments, and some say seven, and
they have embittered her. and says she
to Babe:
Tittle Snow, the new baby will take
your place now in Grandma's heart."
Babe looked troubled; on her smooth
-tittle brow. I could see fall the first faint
shadow of that great black shape that
we call jealousy. Her big, sweet eyes
looked as if they was clondin' np nicely
for tears.
And I wank severer and more vigelent
winks than I had wank before at Miss
Pixley to stop! If ever a wink spoke
them did, to stop immegidly!
Bat she kept right on. Poor creeter.
1 epoze them disappointments was the
cause on't. ' She kep right on, and ses
she:'
"You won't be grandma's baby any
. more now; she has got somebody else to
love now."
' And then the cloud did break into a
rainfall of tears. Babe jest bast ont
t-cryiu'. and snuggled down into my
arms, and laid her wet cheeks on my
bosom through the force of old custom,
and, anon! (how much like older human
reeters acoordin' to her size) she drew
ber head away as if sayin':
"I can't lay my head there any more,
if the love has gone oat of the heart it
"won't rest me nor comfort me no more
to lay there." "
And pride woke np in her; she was too
proud to make a f ass, or beg for love.
How much, how much like big children!
Bo she sot np kinder straight in my lap,
with her pretty lips a quiverin', and the
tears a-rnnnin' down her cheeks.
- And I riz right np with Babe in my
arms and went out of the room pretty
uick, but not vigelent.
J obj ah was there. I wouldn't misuse
Kiss Pixley owin' to the six or seven
things mentioned by me prior and be
fore this. But I felt that I must make it
right with Babe that very minute.
I knew how she felt wounded love
and pride and jealousy, etc, etc, etc
I knew that a few syllables of about
- the hardest lessons of life had come to
Babe, and I must help her spell 'em: I
most help her with' her lesson.
So I took her right into the parlor and
et down with her in the big chair, and
-never said a word for a minute or two,
only held her dost to me and kissed
the shinin' hair that lay np against my
cheek.
She a-Btrugglin' at first; jealousy and
pride a-naggin' her; and she at first a-not
bein' able to hear any voices, only jest
them of j'.alousy and pride jest like
older children exactly.
But after awhile, I held her so warm
and stiddy, with my cheek a-layin' on
the pretty head, the stiddy, firm clasp
. and contact sort o' calmed her, and then,
anon, she drew one little arm up round
my ueck, and anon the other one, and 1
looked down deep into her eyes, right
into the little true soul, and that little
true bouI saw the truth in mine.
Words couldn't have convinced Babe
ao well as that look that she had learnt
to depend on.
Love has a language that though
maybe it can't be exactly parsed and
analyzed, yet it can be understood ex
actly, entirely understood, and Babe see
. that I loved her.
And then was the time that that
aweet little creeter put up her arms and
kissed me, and I says sort o' low like,
but very tender:
"Sweetheart, you know jest how much
I love you, don't you?"
And then I kissed her several times in
"various places on her face, every one on
em sweet places. And then I went on
and talked dretf ul good to Babe about
the new baby. I confided in her, told
her all about how the little new soul
bad come, unknown to itself, here into
; a great, strange world, how helpless it
vaz, how weak, and how we must all
' help it, and try to make it feel itself at
at home amongst us. "
And I tried to explain it to her how
that as she had come first she owed a
-courtesy to the newcomer, and that she
most be ready and willin' to neighbor
"with her. I didnt use jest those words,
but them was my idees.
I told her how blind the little creeter
was, and Babe, if only out of politeness,
most try to see for her, lead her straight
over ways she knew nothin' about and
. keep her from harmin' herself. "
' How Baby Snow couldn't talk for her
' aelf at all now, and Babe must talk for
her good talk that little Snow could
learn of her bimeby; how she couldn't
I walk, sad Baie ii:u-r tro ahud o hft
! and mak a good i rttii for her to follow
. i. t - .
wueu bue got rag enougo. .
I told her jest how hard it was for the
little creeter to be put here in the midst
of sorrow and troubles and dangers, and
how we must all of us be jest as good to
her as we could out of. pity for the dear
little lone-some creeter.
So 1 roused op Babe's pity for her, and
she was all animated about helpin of
her: and then I told her the baby had
come to be a great blessm' and comfort
to her if she was only patient and gocx'i
to her. '
And, don't you see, the very fact of
Babe havin' todoakindnesstoSnow, hav
in' todo good things for her, was the surest
way of makin her love her, for. it is a
great fact in our human nature that yon
can't love 'em that you have injured in
any way. And at the same time, if you
have ever been good to anybody yon al
ways feel softer towards 'em ever after
wards and more mellerer. .
Carina, ain't it?
But it is a fact.
And I spoze the reason of it is that you
have sort o lowered yourself in yonr
own estimation by doin' a mean, unkind
act, and so. in order to satisfy yonr men
tal criticism o yourself, to make it right
with your own soul, yon lay hold antt
bring up all the faults you can of that
person to justify your own act. And so
you keep on that mental naggin' at 'em
that uncomfortable sort of a feelin' to
wards 'em makes yon restless and uneasy,
and you feel glad and relieved every
time you stand justified to your con
sciousness by ketchhV 'em in a bad act.
Haint it so? Now, honestly, haint it?
Why, I know it is, and so I made sure
that Babe should begin right.
For if you do a good, helpful thing for
a person your hull soul feels comforta
ble, and you bring up unconscious men
tal reasonin'8 why yon did it; it was be
cause they were so good, so smart, etc..
etc
And so you keep on a feelin' good and
comfortable, and you keep on a provin
np to your own self, till you get fairly in
love with 'em. Bless you if you don't!
A very carious thing. Bat the way I
do, when 1 get bolt of a strange fact or
truth, I don't expect to explain it full
to myself before I act on't.
No, I grasp holt of it and use it for my
own then, and afterward wonder at it to
my heart's content.
So Babe got to thinkin' she was neces
sary to little Snow's happiness, and that
tickled her little self esteem, jest es if
she was a older child, only accordin' to
her weight.
She got to thinkin' she must watch
over her or she would get hart, which
called out all the good protector's
motherly impulses of her little soul
which was in her still accordin' to her
weight, forty pounds more or less.
And day by day Babe's love for the
little creeter grew till it was fairly beau
tiful to see 'em together, and so Josiah
said, and Thomas J. said so, and Tirzeh
Ann and Maggie and Whitfield.
And as for Miss Pixley, I thought to
myself, disappointments or not, I have
got to give her a talkin' to. and the very
next time I see her.
She had gone when Babe and I went
ont of the parlor the Babe with happy
bright eyes and I with kinder thought
ful, pityin ones, and all four on 'em
kinder wet, '
But the next time 1 see Miss Pixley
alone I tackled her, and she as good as
promised me she wouldn't ever say to
any woman's child what she had said to
Babe.
And 1 don't believe she will either, for
she's got good in her.
She haint such a bad creeter after all.
and, good land! what can yon expect?
seven, right along, one after the other!
Josiah Allen's Wife in Ladies' Home
Journal.
A Short Talk on Sheep.
At One of the New York farmers' in
stitutes Mr. J. H. Rutherford, of An
gelica, in an address on sheep husbandry
said:
Sheep must have the best of care. My
advice is to buy sheep and to keep them
This we must do if we would restore to
our farms their former prosperity. . We
can do this the best with sheep, and at
the least cost. In the following state
ment I have charged for pasturage at
cost, as if you hired pasture, and have
given the manure for the. little care, in
cluding the pleasure: One hundred sheep
will cost (100; yon will pay for hay and
grain to winter $100, and for pasturing
remainder of year, $80; cost of shearing
and -washing, $8, making $588. You
will raise 135 lambs at $3.60 per bead.
$438; 650 lbs. of wool at SO cents, $165:
total, $603.
You have also saved enough to keep
the original number more than good. 1
have given advantage in the statement
to the debit side. Ought not any farmer
to be satisfied with the returns? Do not
hold your wool over there is no money
in that take the market price; stick to
the business; do not ever get discour
aged and sacrifice your sheep. No ani
mal reposes more confidence in man than
sheep; none affords greater reward.
Most Change the Platee.
Miss Twilling 1 suppose you remem
ber, Mr. Calloway, that last night, in
spite of my fruitless straggles, yon had
the effrontery, sir, to actually kiss me.
Calloway (meekly) Yes, 1 remember
the circumstance.
Miss Twilling Well, if you think
yon are going to repeat that operation
in the hall to-night yon are much mis
taken. I don't propose to leave this
room all the evening. West Shore.
An Old Question Answered.
"What is the deepest depth of ignor
ance?" asked the philosopher musingly,
and the man of the world made haste to
answer, "It is the ignorance displayed
by a railway official when there is a
wreck on bis road." St Joseph News. .
Costty.
I envy your husband's jolly way. He
is always laughing," said Mrs. Bints.
"Well, it has its drawbacks," returned
the other. "John laogha so much I can't
keep buttons on bis vests." Harper's
Banc.
- JL (loot Protective Association.
Oat in that part of the northeastern
section of this beautiful city of magnifi
cent distances where the festive goat
blossoms - as the roue of Sharon and the '
lily of the valley", and his fragrance fills
the soft Swampoodle air, a goat protec
tive association has been formed to the
discomfiture of Pouinlmater Einstein
and the defeat of the ends of justice.
One of the rules and regulations govern
ing the internal economy of the glorious
capital of 62,625,250 people, mere or less,
provides that a goat which wanders un
licensed upon the purple hills of Swam
poodle, and browses on her luscious to
mato cans or masticates her esculent
old boot legs, may be apprehended by
tne minions or tne law, ana being duly
impounded, its owner shall pay the sum
of $1 in the coin of the realm for its res
toration to the empurpled heights and
the enjoyment of the tomato cans afore
said. But the people affected hate this tyran
nous restriction upon the liberty of the
goats and their own property rights, so
each man's castle is a house of refuge to
the innocent kid or the rancid old butter,
and when the minions of Einstein ap
pear every door is opened, and the flee
ing goats escape pursuit and are hidden
away until the danger is averted. By
this means the goat population in the
northeast is rapidly increasing, while
the poundmaster'8 goat fund is actually
dwindling away to invisibility, and the
poundmaster refuses to be comforted.
Washington Star. .
- Mankind's Greatest Bonarai.
The "two greatest scourges of man
kind," according to Dr. Lander Bran ton.
are generally supposed to be phthisis
and rheumatism, but we are told by this
eminent authority that if any physician
were asked which is the worse of the two
he would probably decide for rheuma
tism. It not only leads to as "many
deaths as phthisis, directly or indirectly,
bat causes a vast amount of loss of time
and power and immense pain. The
rheumatic tendency shows itself in a
great many other disorders, such as. in
digestion and headaches. It produces
not merely pains in the- joints, bat in
flammation of the serous membrane, and
leads to the formation of "clots" or
fibrous masses in the heart, which, be
coming detached, are liable to be carried
to the brain and cause paralysis. Dr.
Bran ton stated that the old fear of caus
ing serious damage to patients whose
hearts are weak by abruptly checking the
pain is now much diminished. This is
owing to the discovery that the well
known remedy, salicylic acid, may be
freely employed without risk, provided
it is absolutely pure. London News.
. A flran Mistake.
"It is a grave mistake," said the doc
tor, "to eat quickly. ' Those animals in
tended by nature to feed hurriedly have
been provided with gizzards, or with
the power of rumination.
"No matter how good a man's teeth
may be, if he bolts his food his stomach
must suffer thereby. When a person
swallows an imperfectly masticated
piece of anin'.-.l food, the result is
that the f- -"rtstead of fulfilling
the purpose.-, ; attrition, acts, on the
other hand, as a source of irritation to
the stomach. Thus, either the physi
cal condition runs down or additional
food is required to maintain the general
standard of health. Americans are
called 'pie eaters.' Do you know why?
Because a pie is something that - may be
eaten on the run, while the great Amer
ican enterprises may thus go on unim
peded by loss of time. Overhasty feed
ing is the bane of our American life.
We are all of ns becoming dyspeptics."
Detroit Free Press.
. Characteristics of HaadvrKtttn.
Handwriting has its characteristics,
and is a study in itself to those who want
to become familiar with its peculiarities.
It can very easily be told whether a per
son whose writing you want to identify
is a man or a woman, a minor or adult.
It is very seldom a handwriting assumes
its permanency before the writer is 25
years old. The age of the writing can
approximately be determined by various
methods. If it has a Spencerian appear
ance yon may know it was written after
1882, as at that date the Spencerian sys
tem was introduced. If it is the black
aniline ink that is generally used every
where now, you may know it was writ
ten after 1873. The older inks had iron
or some diluted dyestuff for a basis, and
preceded the aniline. An analysis of the
writing will most generally determine
the date of the writing. St. Louis Globe
Democrat. To Prevent Paint Prom Sesklina;.
To prevent the paint on iron or wood
from scaling off when exposed to the
weather, first thoroughly wash the parts
to be painted and then brush over the
surface with hot linseed oil. By follow
ing this method, especially with iron
articles, no scaling of the paint will oc
cur. In cases where the articles to be
painted are small and can be , readily
heated, it is better to heat them and
plunge them into the oil. The thin
liquid oil when hot enters into the pores
of the metal, absorbs the moisture, and
the paint then applied so firmly adheres
that frost, rain or air cannot effect a
separation. Philadelphia Becard.
A Cisssm Exploded In His Ksxrtfeu
It is on record that a German called
Bocholz lifted with his teeth a cannon
weighing about two hundred pounds
and fired it off in that position. While
rjerforming at Eperaay, in France, the
sarne feat the barrel of the gun burst.
Miracoloaary he was not killed, although
several of the fragments were thrown
over fifty yards. At Berlin two strong
men appeared, one of whom performed
the same trick as Samson, and his rival,
Sandow, of bursting iron chains by con
tracting, and ao enlarging, the biceps of
bis arm. Chambers' Journal.
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