,1' ifr. w V 2 WILLAMETTE FARMER. Trji Hf"E Circle. The Autumn of the World. IBt Eoxcud w. Gome.) The lwt wan petals lesve the row, The latest swallows preen for flight. The summer's gone, where, no one knows. With dead men's love and spent year's light, And warm heart burled out o sight. Red roses are the crown of youth; The warm light strikes on lover's lips, Laugh thou, and fondle, happy mouth, And yet, remember, sweet time slips. Death hurries on with full eclipse 1 So short, so sad I Oh, let not death Find only faded flowers and wine, When, hungry for the Joyous breath That dreams not of the ytar's decline, lie lays his cold, whlto mouth to thine 1 Cling to the flying hours; and yet Let one pure hope, one great desire, Like song on dying lips be net, That ire we fall In scattered fire Our hearts may lift the world's heart higher. Here in the autumn months of time, Before the great new year can break, Borne little way our feet should climb, Home little mark our words should make For liberty and manhood's sake I Clear brain and sympathetic heart, A spirit on flame with love for man, Hands swift to labor, slow to part If any good since time began The soul can fashion, such souls can. And so, when we arc dead and past, The undying world will some day reach Its glorious hour of dawn at last, And we across time's sunken beach May smile, one moment, each to each. A Beautiful Art. From Faclflo Rural Press. Some weeks ago, I promised the readers of the Rural Piiess to give them, during the year, some directions how to make inexpensive, hat really valuable Christmas gifts. I am now go ing to describe a process called photographio printing, by which charming pictures may be taken of our lovely California plants, for albums, screens or any other purpose which may suit the fancy of the collector. Tbe beginner had better commence his experiments with loaves nloue, aftorwards simple plants like nemophilas or gtllias can be taken entire, Tbe first step is to lay in a stock of materials. We must have good, well dried specimens ol all the leaves maple, abutilon, pear, cherry; every kind is desirable; but those in which the veins are well relieved make tbe best pictures, and fonts are the most beautiful in form. Lay the leaves into an old book, and dry with medium pressure. Now for tbe chemicals. We must have a lot of sensitized papofl and had better, for econ omy, make it onrselves. As soon as this pretty accomplishment becomes fashionable, as it surely will, we slmll be able to buy these papers, as wo do materials for whx tlowers and tbe like, but at present we cannot. Select a dozen sheets of the best wove letter paper, eschewing cream laid or any which shows the manufac turers wire marks when held to the light. Wo shall want a dozen spring clothes pins or pegs, and a few quarts of rain wafer,' If you have only spring or hard water, this must be distilled before using. Now put in a medicine bottle, holding at least half a pint, halt an ounce (four drachms) of prussiate of potash, in four tablespoonfula of the rain water. When it is all dissolved, so that none is visible in the bottle, pour half of the solution in a dinner plate, and float on its surface a piece of paper of tho size intended, letting it become equally wetted. Then bang it by one of the corners from the edgo of a shelf and let it dry. Thia part of tho business mast bo done in a dark room, by the light of a candle. Candle light does not affect the paper. Daylight would ruin it for this put pose. Now have two sheets of clear class. Lav on ono of them tbreo or four sheets of white blot ting paper; npon this tho dried and sensitized prussiuto of potash paper with tho prepared surface uppermost, and upon this place the fern front or other dtBired leaf with the baok down. (All this, remember, in (he dark room). Then lay on the second stieet of glass, and put the clothes pin clamps on tho edges to hold it in place. Some clear sunshiny day, tako your prepared object into the light, and leave it exposed for a half hour or more to the direct rays of the sun. If you watch tbo paper whilo Nature is printing it, you will observe tho part not cov ered by the leaf changing to a bright blue, deepening with the tint of exposure until it is nearly black. When you take it out of the classes, you have a yellow leaf on a blue ground. Wash the paper Beveral times in the clear rain water, and every traco of the potash will disap pear from tho yellow ground, leaving a boauti lul, oleau white impression. Freshly senlltlteil papers are the best, but y u can preserve them lu absolute darkness if you wish. These nature printed photographs may be colored truo to nature, in autumn tints, or the vernal hues of surina. Theroaro other metViivIn! one, in which the ordinary albumenized paper of vuunrgmruni a UICU, UllCr UIJIHUg It Q(0 B SO- lutlon of. nitrate of silver, sixty grains to tho ounce of distilled water, float and dry as in the previous caie. Whou the picture is painted, and the glasses removed, wash it in rain water, to remove tho nitrate of silver; then wash again in a solution of hyposulphite of soda; strength, two ounces to half a uiut of water. Ynu will neod to keep the pictures, made with nitrate of stiver, immersed in tne Hyposulphite solution for fifteen minutes, in order that they may be permanent. A great many impressions can bo made in the Bame day by economizing time and space on the papers. They may be ruled off Into sizes fit for album cards, and tho leaves selected so aa to leave nest margin, before the paper is sensitised, by numbering the squares and spec Imam, tbe spaces Till be quickly filled, and four or more impressions taken at once. The washing and drying process is thus economized also. It is pleasant to have both the upper aud lower aides of some leaves taken. Very thick leaves, like the California laurel, should be re jected. Alfl.eria'U a beautiful leaf for this pur pose; so are many of tho aoacia. The nitrate oi mver process is tne most perfect, but it is fatal to olothes and delicate hands, and should only be attempted by a careful and dexterous operator. Jeanne 0. Cam. Sensible Advice About Boys. We never could understand why so many parents experience such trouble with their boys. We like boys, and think we could select almost any nine cnap irom tne street and make a good man of him in time. Almost any child requires to be interested in something; if you let him loaf in the Btreets, nine obauces out of ten he will become interested in something detrimen tal to his moral life; but if you put him on the right track he will be just as much interested. And almost any mother or father, by a few ex periments, can learn what worthy way will at tract their child. Give him books, talk over different subjects you can very soon detect what interests the child then follow the lead and give him all tbe advantages he craves. You will find, in time, that it is money in your pocket to keep your boy thus away from bad company and mischief. We expend so much money for our own amusement in parties, con certs, theaters and so on, and leave our boys to the mercy of school life and street associations! Ulve your boy a bit of land, some tormina tools, even to raise a few flowers or vegetables; or a chest of mechanical tools, scientific appa- .ntun, mm DpcuiwcuH, a lent, magnet, micro sc ope. Test all the latent possibilities, and you will yet have a boy to be proud of, even though he be reared in San Francisco. A capable, manly boy is worth thinking about. Keep him busy about something interesting, and you need have no trouble. We stood in a corner grocery the other day when some little, rough, ragged boys came in. They were all smoking; here they met a school compauion, and urged bim to take some tobacco to make him a cigar etta. "I don't use the article, ' ' was the manly reply. We made up our mind that that boy had a mother who cared for her children. When we see mothers leaving their children day after day to the care of hired nurses, and leaving them evening after evening to find their own way of passing time, and knowing the temptations ever offered children, we wonder so many select the half-way compromise be tween good and evil. How does nnv one accent narentaae without its attendant responsibilities? Is a pure life of bo nine consequence r we near parents say, "I cannot manage my bo v." We alwavs want to reply. "It is vour own fonlt." We have known people who acted as though the life of tneir cnuaren tor goon or for evil was not worth a few years of self denial! It should not be self denial either, but pleasure, for the par ent to guide the child. Above all things, interest the boys in their studies. AlmoBt every place in geography has a local history a story that can be told to fix it in the memory. The family accounts can be handed over to the young arithmetician, and very soon mathematics will assume a personal interest. So in writing and spelling let kind letters open the way, and the boy will soon excel. It is bo easily to learn happily. Call. The Family Circle. The Baltimore Sun alluding to the prevalence of crime among bos, very properly asserts that one of the main causes cf the decline of mo rality is tbe decay of dlcipline. The family cir cle the domestic hearth, is the true fountain of purity or corruption to publio morals. Most people become wont they are made at home. They go forth into th6 world to aot out the' character they have formed in the first fourteen years of life. It is alleged, in excuse, thatchildren nave neoome more unmanageable than they usod to be. We reply that human nature and human relations are unohanged. Children are just as amenable to authority as they ever were. This is tbe main purpose for which Providence has made them helpless of d de pendent, mat tney may be trained to qbedlence, to order, to industry, to virtue. It is not true mat parents Dave not as absolute control over their children as they ever had, When there is dependence, obedience may be enforced The real wot is, that parents are too indolent, too negligent, too indifferent, to take tbe pains to train up their children in the way they should co. It requires perpetual visilsnoe. and thv get tired. It requires self-control to exercise a proper authority over others. Self-conquest is the greatest victory over all. There can be no just parental discipline, when there is no charac ter to back it. Itouoit Dots. It is always pleasant to see boys well behaved and kind; but rough boys do not always make bad men. A tried and anxious mother lately wrote to a friend asking what sbe should do with her boy of ten years, who within the last few days drowned seventeen kittens, tied pans to the tails of nine dogs, washed his father's new silk hat against the nap and blown up his sister's pet oanary with a fire r, acker. Tbe friend, endeavored to console the des pondent mother, by answering her note aa fol lows: Your boy will be all right provided he undergoes the necessary moral change. His boyish pranks indicate life, aotivity, energy and force. When these come into subjeotiou to his moral aense, if you choose you can make a min ister of him, and he will preach to some effect, instead of putting his congregation to sleep. A wise mother will find such employment for uur cuuureu as to seep tneni out ot mlsoblel. That is her privilege, her duty. It is occupa tion, suited to their years, that all children need; not drudgery, not heavy tasks of either body or mind, but "something to do." This patents must furnish, or, "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. Tdk Flkascbls of Law Suits. No man is so full of business as he who has a law suit, and no man does so little. lie attends to no thing. "From morn to noon, from norm tn dewy eve," and through the long gloom of night he is full of it. It la his waking dream by day, and sleeping vision by night. It is olng on, or it is not going on; be has to pro uce more papers, or lie has brought forward all the papers that can be produced eaoh is a sufficient cause for thinking and speaking of it to the exclusion ot all things besides. He is like a uiutioal snuff-box that' only plays one tune; you can get nothing bnt that out of him. It is a grief due to every lireasl, in hia imagin ation; and upon every breast that he can hold by the button be mercilessly inflicts It. He is restless, fidgety, nervous, cross, exhausted. depressed, happy and miserable, in delight and ueauair uj turns, ana is forever "rtnclnc tbe .L .. j ., .. - Significance of the Finger. Each finger, and the mount at the base of it, is named after a planet. In the normal hand the second finger is the longest, and the third the next in length, while the first is nearly as long as tbe third and much longer than the fourth or little finger. Jupiter is the first finger; if it be long and not illshapen, and the mount at tbe base be well developed, it indicates a noble and lofty character and a religious minded person. It disproportionately long, it will mean different things aocordin; to the type of hand in which it may be found; or ac cording to the type of that particular finger. In the first type an over-long first finger would denote an inclination to tbe fantastic or exag eratcd in religious matters; or it might, per haps, mean religious madness; or, if other signs in the hand favored this view, it could be taken to denote pride. Pride is a form of worship the culture of self. In the second type of hand, the excessive development of uupuer uiigui mean uluuuiuu, ur, u lb were ill a hand that is eminently unselfish, it might stand for a something that is puritanical in manners or morals a type ot too great a se verity. In tbe third type, a very long first finger would probably signi.y vanity. The second finger is Saturn. If too prominent it announces melancholy, or misanthropy, or downright cruelty, according to the type of hand, but if the finger be within due propor tion, this sadness may take the form of pity for others, or it may mean a becoming gravity. Tbe third finger is Apollo and belongs to the arts. In a "pointed band Apollo will give poetry and music (composition); and in a "square-shaped" hand, painting, sculpture, (here art leaves the domain of the purely con templative it becomes partly active from the combination of manual skill with only what is imaginative ): and in a "spade-shaped" hand Apollo gives histrlonio power, an aptitude for acting, or a love of theatrical amusememems. On the stage art, is joined in the closest man ner to motion. The fourth finser is Mercury. If well proportioned, it promises a scientific turn of mind. Resourcefulness and diplomacy andpilmistry agtee in almost all particulars about the thumb. In both systems it is treated as the most important part of the hand. The upper joint, that with tho noil, stands for the will; the second division, the reasoning facul ties; tbe base, the animal instincts. St. Paul's Magazine. The Wrong Kind of a Candle. Nonsense. A Kentucky paper relates that during the Christmas holidays, Starling Curd, an indus trious colored man, living near Bristow, in that State, gave an entertainment at his house. His wife asked him, coming to town the day before the frolic, to get a tall candle with which to ornament and illuminate the table. Starling called on H. 0. Hines & Co. for the candle, but stated the case in such a shape that Mr. Hines thought he wanted a Roman candle. It was accordingly put up for him, and Starling re turned to his home, when his wife insisted that he had made a mistake, saying that it was a oandle she wanted. Starling assured her that it was the latest style of caudle be had pur chased, and, to prove it, stuck it into the fire. To the astonishment of both, a flaming ball popped out; then another, and another, when the frightened Starling dropped tbe "infernal machine" upon the floor. Another explosion, threatening the destruction of the bouse, and he again seized it, but, unfortunately, wrong end foremost, when a ball Struck him in the abdomen. Suddenly turning it around, an other ball shot out striking a new counterpane, through which it burned a large hole. The whole household was in a state of terror, and Starling went to town the next day with a mind iuii oi lawsuits tor aamages. but. being a rair- mindsd man, was pacified .when it was ex plained that Mr. Hines misunderstood him. Power of Beauty. A lovely woman neces sarily exercises a great deal of power; but the foolish girl who relies solely on her own regu larity of feature, and neglects the cultivation of ner mind, is a melancholy spectacle. Her selfish little heart, her barren little mind, lord it all over her cheap superficial beauties, and will soon leave nothing behind but a dresry waste, ner little victories are temporary, ner little failures lasting. Sbe can never be a Sower. She can scarcely help being a drag. er companions must be amonc the common place, not to say vulgar, for she has nothing in common with the lofty and the grand. She would gasp on the heights. She can assimilate nothing beyond the material. There is danger that she will soon be unable to rise above the mean. A Popdtab Gave.' Here is a new game, very popular In the country just now: A young man takes a chestnut, cuts round the hull with a sharp knife, aud then takes one-half tbe chest nut in his mouth, and a pretty girl the other half in her mouth, and they pnll and the bull comes off. There may be quicker methods of hulling chestnuts, but none more soothing to the feelings of the young folks; and they don't get mad and dance wildly around if the hull don't come off for five minutes or bo. Country games are not to be despised, after all. Tn V ai.u or Tbocblm. A praon it not worth much that baa not had troubles. You rannol aubdu Mlflabneaa without a struggle. You cannot restrain prid without a conflict. You cannot expect to go through Ufa without bearing burden. Bat you an (tola to have halp andsr drcumatanoe that wiU redeem yon from thee thing. Yon are going to experiano hot victorias than defeats. Your suffering will Iw only bar and thar littl spots la a whol ild of peace and Joy. A Manama conceal bis nam, hia age, th elrcnatatano of hia life, but not hia character. That U hi moral attaoapher, and is aa iaaep anU traaa hint aa th fragreno ol th roa fees th roa itaalf. In th glaac of th y, la th oas ot th vol, in mi and stature. meter dialoaa itaalf. world with a vain stir.' Went Home ToamiKa Mr. and Ur n.n. iel Biglow died at Genesee Falls, New York, a lew uaya since, iney wer eacn over eighty years of age, and had lived aa husband and wife for over sixty yean, raising a family of sixteen children. Both died on th nam day, only a isw uuura auan, oi natural cause and they war buried in the sam grave. Tn leading broom manufacturer ot east ern New York, who claim to make a quarter of all the brooms wad in th United States, hare held a convention and decided to elevate th prio of that household necessity twenty five cents on a dozen. A max with an affectionate disposition, who And wife to concur with hi fundamental idea of life, easily come to tturauade himself Hut no other woman would have tutted hint o well, and doe a Utile daily snapping and qsJamUaa ithotaytatflinaUM. -"" How to Educate Princesses. The Queen of England's daughters are examples to tbe rest oi tne i&snionaoie world in industry and taste. At the royal Swiss cottage each of the princesses has a garden which she cultivates with ner own hands. They nave learned to cook, and they frequently sit down to a meal prepared by one or the other. Louise, wife of the Marquis of Lome, is a clever artist, and all oi tnem are accompiuned in some way orotner, besides being excellent linguists. GsEELKi'a Dauobtms. A New York paper says; "It is now nearly two years since tbe death of Mr. Greeley, and this season, for the first time since that event, his daughters, Ida and Gabrielle, occasionally make their appear ance in publio. Gabrielle ia still very young, but has grown during her years of seclusion into a tall and very beautiful girl. Both have exquisite complexions, lovely eyes, ripe, scar let lips, and aweet expressions." Wished to be Excused. A Detroit young wo man tried to be arlstocratio and did not look at the money that she cave the horse-car conduc tor; but he meekly gave her back the lozenge ou which was written, "I'll never cease to love thee," and said he was an orphan with five lit tle Mother to support, and must be extra ed. The Oat. It is an interesting fact, quite re cently established, that the oat of the Greek and Soman waa In reality the white-breasted beech marten (MvMtlafoina), common iu the wooded districts ot antral Europe. The mod ern cat waa domesticated in Egypt. A Bio Woixd. A Georgia paper know a man who want all th way from CassvUle to Atlanta. On hia return he looked solemn with the weight of garnered wisdom, and said: "If the world ia aa big t'other way aait ia that, it'a whopper!" Poo Laxd. Somebod v aara of a not verr mod piece of land, "It 1 so poor that not vea iastareei eeald be sained cwea it. The most striking resemblance of which we have lately heard was that of the hope? ful son who took after " his father with a It is a thing to bo wopdered at that tho advertisements of miraculous cures by the quack doctors are over read or in any way pay for their being printed ; but they must do so or we should see no more of thorn. Hero Is one which may not be all imaginative, or quite a fiction, remember ed, we believe, from reading some English journal : Tberowa.ia Jirs. r., So very deaf hue might have worn a percussion cap And been hit on the head without hearing it snap, . 8bo was by advertisement induced to buy the Patent Wonderlul .Ear Trumpet, auu w put it in use; And the very next day Sbe heard from her husband at Botany Bay. Our farm once beinir in ieopardyfrom land sharks, wo had to attend a term of the District Court of Sonoma County, and the time lianclncr at evonlnc heavy on our hands, we attended a mock trial of a, mem bor of the bar bet'oro a jury of his peers, Charley H., of Petaluma, a son-in-law of tbe lamented Col. Uaker, was a good lei low and first-rate lawyer; but, it appeared, would take cases for what he could get, regardless of the prevailing rule among the lawyers to charge stated prices. His fellow practitioners instituted proceedings to fine bim the champagne supper for tak ing a District Court case for five dollars, when the lowest prescribed fee was fifty dollars. The court-room was tho law-office of Judge T., and the jury of lawyers duly empanelled. Tbe witness for tne prosecu tion was H.'s client, who, being induced to believe himself under oath and bound to tell the truth, the whole truth, and no thing but the truth, admitted that he had employed H. as his attorney to defend a District Court case then pending at the term, and that H. as his lawyer had taken it for five dollars, as all the fee he expect ed. Conviction seemod Imminent, but H. rose, and conducted the cross-examination thus: " Peter Hans C, you came to me to do- tend you 7" "Yes." " Told me your case ? '' " Yes." ' What was the first thing I said ? " " ' You must bring me a fee of a hundred dollars.' " Mine Got 1 I can not 1 I have not got one cent. I am a stranger, all alone. I am very poor. I have no money.' " " ' Haven't you got any friends 7' " " ' I'm all alone mine wife and me. I knows nobody ; nobody knows me.' " i Can't you borrow some money, or beg it, or get it, somehow? ' " " ' How can I gots it ven I knows no pody?"' " What did I say to you then T " " You gets mat, and ret in the face, and you says to me: Git out, you Dutch I ' And I say: ' Mr. H., you must defent me, and safe mine case ; I gives you what I can, and I pays you some time.' " " You gets matter and matter, and say: Git out of here I You goes and borrow some monish, and if you can't borrow any, you begs some; and if you can't bor row nor beg, you steals some I Git out I any now j and don't you comes pack with out coin.' " "Well, you got T' " I did, Mr. H. ; you knows I did ; be cause you kicked me out. But I came pack." "Well?" " I tried hart. I could not get any mon ish, so I tried to borrow, but could not ; then I bogget, but could not ; and then I watohet my chance and stole all I could. And I come pack to you, and said : Mr. H., I have been to work, and could not ; I have begget, aud could not; but I have stole fife dollars, ant here it is.' " " Bo you brought me all you could earn, beg, borrow or steal, and I took it)T " "Yaw; dat ish shustitl You got all I ooult earn, beg, borrow or shteal, ant you knows it ; and you takes mine case." No other testimony was presented. The culprit showed that he had taken as fee all his client had, could earn, beg, bor row or steal, and successfully pleaded that he not only ought to be acquitted, but the prosecution should be mulct as in costs the proposed penalty on him : the price of the supper. The result was as anticipated in his fa vor ; ana we were favored with an invlta-4 uon to join in tne entertainment, where many good bar stories were told, with which " Nonsense " may hereafter bn fa vored. A. w. T. The Sackful of Earth. A rich 'man had by an unrighteous law-suit obtained from a poor widow a small field, by the produce of which she was just able to maintain herself. The inconsolable woman came to the merciless man with the humble re quest that he would allow her to take away a sackful of earth from her former possession. The rich man consented with a contemptuous smile; so the widow went with a large sack, and dug and shovelled till it was quite full from the bottom to tbe ton. When sbn Vnul flnt-v, sbe asked her plunderer, who had been lookinc , uc.j, mi j mi urn ekus. upon ner snout ders. To this he also consented, and exerted all bis strength in order to lift the load; but it was of no use it was too heavy. A he was about to go away to fetch a strong laborer to lift it, the midow held him back, and said, "Friend! stay here; as I am obliged to Sve up the whole field to you, therefore I will ave you the sackful of earth also. But can you answer me the following question: 'As this saok i already too heavy for yon, will not the whole field weigh still more heavily on you be fore God'a judgment-seat, and crush jou to the ground' " Tbe man's conscience waa Yoityq Folks' CoLdpifJ. A Noble Boy. The following touching episode in street life, is a beautiful gem, and should find a place in all memories, surrounded with pearls or sweetest thought and gentlest sympathy. About nine o'clock in the morning, a little boy of twelve, whose pocket and white apron dis tinctly indicated that he followed the profes sion of a pastry-cook, was returning from market with an open basket upon his head con taining butter and eggs. When he reached the vicinity of the Church of St. Enstache the lad, who could only with cifllculty make his way through the crowd, was violently jostled by a stranger who was passing,' bo that his basket tipped and tell to tne ground witn lis contents. The poor lad, when he saw his eggs all broken, and tumbled into the gutter, began to cry bit terly and wring his hands. A person who happened to be in the crowd that gathered round the little fellow, drew a ten cent piece from bis pocket, and giving it to the boy asked the rest who stood grouping around to do the same to make tip the loss occasioned by this accident. Influenced by this example, every one present oomplied, and very speedily the boy's aprou contained a respectable collection of filver. When all had contributed their quota, our young varlet, whose distress had vanished in a moment, as though by enchant ment, warmly thanked his new benefaotors for their kindness, and forthwith proceeded to count the money he had received, which amounted to two dollars and thirty cents. Bnt instead of quietly putting his sum in his pocket, he produced a bill of the article? he had lost, and appropriated no more than that: sum. and then observing in the croup that sur rounded him, a poor woman in rags, the gal lant little fellow walked up to ner, and placed) the remainder in her hand. Certainly it could have been impossible to show himself more deserving of public generosity, or to acknowl edge it in a handsomer manner. The boy's no ble conduct was greeted by the applause of the crowd. A Word to Boys. A writer in an educational journal, tbe title- of which we have unfortunately lost, has the following pertinent and truthful remarks: Boys, listen! The first thing you want to learn, to develop what force there is in you, is-, self-reliance; that is, as regards your relations toman If I were going to give a formula for developing the most forcible set of men, I should say, turn them upon their own resources with their minds well stored, with moral and religious truth when they are boys, and teaob them to "depend on self, and not on father.'" If a boy is thrown upon his own resources at fifteen, with the world all before him where to choose, and he fights the battle of life single handed up to manhood, and don't develop more than average share of executive ability, then there is no stuff in him worth talking about. He may learn "to plow, and sow, and reap, and mow," but this can all be done with ma chines and horses, and a man wants to be some thing better than these. Wipe out of your vocabulary any such words as fail, give up wish ing for improbable results, pnt your hand to the plow, or whatever tool you take to, and then drive on and never look baok. Don't ever sight your person to see if it is straight; "don't' be consistent; but be simply true." If you go "to see a reed shaken by the wind," it ispretty likely you will never see anything of more consequence A Canaet'b Lesson The following anecdote was told me by a very sweet and gentle-hearted - Eerson, who has found through her life great appiness and good from watohing and caring' for animals: She had a pair of canaries, and thinking that they needed something bright and fresh in their lives, she went out and dug a sod of grass and clover, the size of their cage. After a time three young birds were hatched, of whom,, judging by what followed, the parents took un commonly good care. One morning, the fe mole, having taken her bath, hopped on the edge of the nest, intending to take her place with her young ones under her wings, but with out having dried herself. The mole flew to her and scolded her a little; still she persisted, when he resolutely beat her away. Finding she was still determined to come on the nest, he settled himself there and covered his chil dren with his own wings until sbe was properly dried, which was not for half an hour, during; which time he twittered at her incessantly Then, having seen, that she had shaken out and smoothed her feathers, he left the nest and allowed her to resume her maternal duties a wiser and a tetter wife and mother. Out Dumb Animals. tnnfhl tiw M reproof, and b gav th field up again to the A Lawteb Ptxtled.- tms: " Twenty yean aeo. lust after I A Boston lawysr send . taat ftfiv T .a pitted to the bar in Maine, I called on even. tng on the young lady who ha sine booa ?7j?U' A m" Weod "Kb bar littl brother Addle, and when he ran out of the room heard him ask his another confidentially, 'Mamma, do you think angU' winga are strong eaotuh to carry lawyer to heaven?' The good woman answer waa lost in th 'Hush, dear I' but in th battle of life line than theqantion ha com bach snor than one." A Good Ma and a wiaa anon mt b?1!H,'lwUh , nd at time grieved at it; but no nun U vr iMsinalniiJ With the world If b m hit dnty in It. Boys Heed This. Many people Beem to forget that character grows, that it is not some thing to put on ready-made, with womanhood . or manhood; but day by day, here alittle, there, a littlo, grows with the growth and strengthens , with the strength, until good or bad, it becomes, a coat of moil. Look at a man of business, prompt, reliable, conscientious, yet clear headed and energetic. When do you suppose he developed all these qualities? Let us see the way iu which a boy of ten years gets up in the mornings, works, plays, studies, and we will tell you just what kind of a man he will make. The boy who is late at meals and late at school stands a poor chance of beinir a nrnmnt man The boy who neglects his duties, be they ever so small, and then excuaes himself by saying "I forgot! I didn't think!" will never be a re liable man. And the boy who finds pleasure in the suffering of things will never be a noble, generous, kindly man a gentleman. Bekabxabu Pebtobhance. When -Wro. H. Seward made his tour around th world, he witnessed some performance of juggler in India which were quite surprising. He saw a man climb a bare pole alxty feet high, standing in the open air, and when he reached the top he mysteriously disappeared. After n while his feet reappeared, then his legs and body and he easse down. H claimed no supernat ural powers. How did he do it ? An AkeeicahGdu WEaLAirD. ThMcom ber gun fan American invention) waa recently tested at Portsmouth, England, and oonioal t weighing three pound, discharged at tbe initial valooity of 3000 feet a aeoond, a higher velocity than any gun yet achieved. Th range of this weapon ia claimed to b nine mile. A. Naw Istdostbt ia about tob opened up in vlrginia-th saanmfaotur of lfrich, the active principle of madder. Kliaarieh, a here tofore obtained, ha eoet 93,60 per pound; but by th new Brooea it may be mad for tl.as. Th aaaaufaetur i already ia raootaaful pro- aa uvnsMw j. MrsTamu. On. n Jatax. 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