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A Song of the Early Autumn.
wnr n In late summer the streams ran yellow,
Bnrsl the bridges and spread Into bajs:
'When bar lea an black and 1 eachea are mellow,
And bllla are hidden by rainy bate;
When the golden-rod la golden atlll,
But tbe heart of the sunflower la browner and Hidden
When the corn la In stacks on tbe slops of the hill,
And over the path slides the striped adder.
When butterflies flutter from clover to thicket,
Or ware thrlr wluga on the drooping leal,
When the breese cornea shrill with tbe call of the
orlcket
Grasshopper's rasp, andruatleof shesf.
When hlxh in the fields the fern leaves wrinkle,
And brown is the grass where the mowers bare mown,
Wren low In the meadow tbe cow-bells tinkle,
And brooklets crinkle oVr stock snd stone.
When heavy and hollow t je robin's whistle,
And thick lies tbe shade in the beat of noon;
When the air is white with tbe down o' tbe thlstb,
And tbe sky Is red with the hsrvest rooom
O thn bo chary, young Xtobert and Mary:
Let no time slip not a moment wsltl
If tbe fiddle wonld plsy It must stop its tnnlng,
Aod they who would mirry must be done with
their mooning;
Mind well the cattle, let tbe churn co rattle,
And pile tbe wood by the birn-yard gatel
R. IK. O., in Saribnrrfor October.
If I Had Leisure.
" If I bad leisure I wonld repair that weak
place in my lence," said a farmer. lie had
none, however, and while drinking cider with a
neighbor, the cows broke in and injured a
prime piece of corn. He had leisure then to
repair his fence bat it did not bring back bis
corn.
"If I bad leisure, " said a wheelwright last
winter, "I would have altered my stovepipe,
for I know it is not safe." But he did not find
time, and when his shop caught fire and burnt
down he found time to build anotner.
"Ill had leisure" said a mechanio, "I
should have my work dono in Beaton." The
man thinks his time hag been all occupied, but
he was not at work till after sunrise; he quit
work at five o'clock, smoked a cigar after din
ner, and spent two hours on the street talking
nonsense with nn idler.
"If I bad leisure," said a merchant, "I
should pay more attention to my accounts, and
pay and collect my bills more promptly." The
chance is my friend, if you had leisure you
would probably pay lo ip attention to the mat
ter than you do now. The thing lacking wiih
hundreds of farmers who till the soil, is not
more leisure, bat more resolution the spirit
to do; to do now. If tho farmer who sees bis
fence in a poor condition would only act at
once, how much would bo saved? It would
prevent broachy cattle creating quarrels among
neighbors that in many cases terminate in law
suits, which take nearly all they aro both worth
to p ty for.
The fact is, farmers and moihanlcs have
inoro leisure than they are awaro of for study
and improvement of their minds. They have
the long evonings of winter in which they can
post themselves upon all the improvements of
the day, if they will take ably-couductod agri
cultural journals and rend them with care
The farmer who falls to study his buslnet.8, and
gets shaved, has nobody but himself to blame.
Jf. Y. Farmer.
Last Woman.
Has it ever ooourred to you what a commen
tary on our civilization are these lost women,
and tho attitude- of sooiety towards them? A
little child strays from the enclosure, and the
whole community is on tbe alort to find tho
wanderer and restore it to its mother's arms.
What rejoicing when it is found, what tearful
sympathy, what heartiness of congratulation?
There are no harsh conimonts upon tired feet,
be they ever so mirey, no reprimand for the
soiled and torn garments, no lack ot kisses for
tbe tear-stained face, lint let the child be
grown to womanhood, lot her be led from it by
the scourge of want what then?
Do Christian men and womoii go in quest of
her? Do thoy provide all possiblo help for her
return, or if she returned of her own notion,
do they receive her with Buch kindness and
delicacy as to secure her against wandering?
Far from it. At the first step she is denounced
as lost lost I echo frionds and relatives we
disown' you; don't over come to us to disgrace
lis. Lost, says sooiety indifferently. How bad
these girls aro. And lost irretrievably lost
is tbe prompt verdiot of conventional morality,
while one and all unite in bolting every door
betwoeu her and rcsptotability Ah, will not
those lost ones be required at our hands here
After. Mrs. llurlelgh.
In the way of adornment for tho pedal ex
tremities of the ladies, perhaps tbe most stri
king shoos are the "MiuseillesExtonsion Boot."
It is a square, box-toed, sole extension boot,
with a doublo row of stitching on the extended
sole. Tho "Ohinque Mars Sandal," for its
neatness and beauty destrves to bo mentioned.
It is a high-cut slipper, having four sandals
aoross tho instep, trimmed with square buckles
and lace to be worn over a handsomely em
broidered (.ticking. It is made with either
plain or Frcuob heol. Tbe invontress guards it
very closely for fear of Its being copied. Tbe
"Nav HfllliirA.tnAfl ftlltiiiAC ' Alii 1ii1-c- !.
the ordinary slipper, will be worn for tbe
house. It is trimmed with a large velvet bow
and stoel buckle across tbe toes. This slipper,
like all fashionable shoes, is square box-toed.
Black satin and bronze boots will again be
revived and become the rage.
We doubt if the women of America will for
give Mr. Stoddard for penning the following
lines;
Was ever yet a man,
Hince this old world began,
That look'd upon a woman bewitched not of her eyeil
Mating or separating,
Or loving her or bating,
In all his commerce with her tbe fool was never wise.
llelghol it cannot tw,
fir, seeing she Is she.
She bas him at advautagela body and la mind:
Pursuing or undolug.
She still compels his wooing,
And therefore l It, ladles, that Love Is painted blind I
Tuts story cornea all the way from Atlanta,
Georgia: " Uncle Peter " was asked to sub
scribe fifty cents to bis parson's salary yester
day, " Can't do it, I tell you; kase dere's mighty
hard times 'proaobin'. on by at I" ,
"Ob, nojK'te, de craps it good, and we hub
plenty money dls winter."
" You'ae a fool! How kin dat be when I beer
Mr, Jeeniea up der at de bank say dat de Chlor
aforoey lunk done basted, lis like dat Freed-
man bank did? uaut 'scribe uutuiu , noney,
bat I'll lend de preaober my wood saw and
book ef be wants to yearn souieun."
This proposition was not aooepted.
Nothing is so discouraging to a young lawyer
Jost as be waxes eloquent about angers tears,
auniaif willows and tombstones, as to be in-
- terropttd by
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A Lost Method of Expression.
It has been too much tbe fashion of late to
decry this department of tbe work of house
keeping as useless and menial, and to insist
that money ought to buy its result, leaving to
the wife and daughter time for self improve
ment and higher duties There can be no doubt
that tbe average American housekeeper otten
becomes a slave to ber store closet, one-third of
the year being (.pent in preparing food for the
remainder; canned vegetables, salted meat,
pickles and preserves are often tbe millstone
which drags her soul and body down to a very
low level. But there is another side to tbe sub
ject, and we may strike tbe just middle ground
on it as on any other. Nobody wants a George
Eliot, Florence Nightingale, or Jessie Fremont,
to give ber time to compounding piccalillis or
fireserves. Bat, while one woman is a leader
n society, literature, or philanthropy, ninety
nine adopt some smaller way to make them
selves UBoful and helpful in bettering and
brightening the little world about them, and
these, smaller ways in city life are frequently
incessant devotion to visiting, to mnsio, to
m iking horrible and exhausting efforts at house
decoration. We confess that when we have sat
down to feasts where the vegetables smacked
too Btrongly of tbe professional canner's art,
where tbe meats were ill cooked, the offense of
the pickles was rank with vitrol, and the des
serts bore that inextinguishable flavor of the
confectioner's shop, and when, after dinner,
we have been called on to listen to fe-ble strum
ming of the piano, or weak criticisms of the
last exhibition, or to admire works
of art that were spatterdash, or Per
sian embroideries on Turkish towel
ing, we have remembered the busy
Pennsylvania kitchen and the bonnliful tables
of old Virginia matrons; the delicious flavor,
idiosyncrasy, if we may call it so, of every dish;
the care with which tbe father's taste in soaps
and the boys' fancy for certain jams were re
membered from year to year; the thousand
ways in which skill snd good taste and affec
tion were shown in this base art of cookery;
tbe genuine home made fl tvor of tbe dishes,
the talk, the very fun we are not at all sure
that women, in ignoring this ancient craft so
utterly, have not slighted one of their strongest
modes of expression. "Home and Society,"
Bcribnerfor October.
Husbands by the Bunch.
Bundy has been married two weeks, and has
left his wife. Bundy is a little man, and bis
wife weighs two hundred and forty pounds, and
was the relict of tbe late Peter Potts. About
ten days after marriage Bundy was surprised,
on waking in the morning, to find his better
half si ting up in bed crying as if ber heart
would breaK. Astonished, ne asKeu me cause
of her sorrow, but receiving no reply, he began
to surmise that there must be some secret on
her mind that she withheld from him, that was
tho cause of her anguish; so ho remarked to
Mrs. B. that as they were married, she should
toll him tbe cause ot ner griet, so, it possible,
he could avert it, and after considerable coax
ing he elicited tho following from her:
" Last night I dreamed I was single, and as I
wnlkul through a wed lighted street I came to
a store where a sign in front advertised hus
bands for sale. Thinking it curious, I entered,
and ranged along the wall on either side were
men wiih prices fix-d to them. Such beautiful
men, and some for $1,000, some for $500, and
so oa to $150. And as I had not that amount
I could not purchase."
Thinking to console her Mr. Bundy placed
his arm lovingly around her and asked:
"And did yon see any man like me there?"
" Oh, ves." she replied, drawing away from
him, " lots like you; they were tied np in
bunches like asparagus, and sold for ton cents
per bunch."
Bundy got up and went to soe his lawyer as
to whether he hadsufflcient'ground tor divorce.
Califobnia bas no Vassar College, and the
opportunity is yet open for some of our bonanza
princes who are opposed to co-education, to fol
low the oxample of Vassar, and place our girls
on an equality with those of New York in hav
ing an institution of. tbeir own, wkioh combines
all the masouline advantages with the feminine
graces and accomplishments in the system of
education. But the girls at Vassar have somo
queer ways. Among other things, they fall in
love with one another, and some of the students
get the reputation of being regular "lady killers, "
though they are not known by that term there,
but by one less delicate if more euphonious,
" smashers." One of the young lady graduates
lately wrote an interesting letter to a Buffalo
paper about these "smashers." She says: I
have seen girls' cry themselves sick, because
their loved one smiled more favorably on some
rival than on them. I have known of $C boxes
of confectionery, and $15 bouquets being sent'
through some zealous friend, by tbe victim to
the victor. And speaking of these tokens of
pure, unadulterated affection, reminds ms of
something quite funny. The offerings are
often more practical than poetioal. Dishes of
pine apple, hot lemonade, fried oyBters, etc.,
are common, and one young womin of an in
tensely practical turn of mind, sent to her
adored one a hot boiled sweet potato! It is
quite the thing at Vassar to have the reputation
oi being a suocessiai "smasner.-- une enter
prising young woman boasted of her three
nuudre
limited and flflv victims. Sim wah Malnn
girl, and her charm lay in the faot that she was
quite gentlemanly in appearance. Very few
reach the zsnith of two dozen, and if one were
to successfully aspire to more than that I think
she mlcht sav: "Now let thv servant denart in
peace." I think, also, that under the circum-1
stances it would be the inot laudable petition
she could possibly'put up, Rural Press
A lbttkr from Norwioh, Conn., to the Hart-1 evaporate for years. It is pleasant either to
ford Times, contains the following story as told nave on one's parlor mantel or chamber toll
by George W. Fuller, a submarine diver, who ' ette table. As a perfume for monchoir cases
is now in the former oity: "While performing ' r scent bags it is unrivaled. Let thehonse
somo work for ' Uncle Sam ' in oue of tbe i keeper also try laying it among the stores on
Southern ports, where it was oustomary for tbe shelves ot her linen closet.
those who supplied the market with early
garden-truok to load their boats and row tbem
around to tbe wharf, it happened that one day
a burly negro loaded bis boat with water
melons, and bad just reached the dock where
tne usual number or loungers stood watcbing
tliA AlUMtlnii. ftt ill iliv., rT'I.A am-n nil
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unconscious of bis situation.' was zealoaslv en-
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deavoring to disposs of bis cargo, when Fuller I
suddenly emerg&helmet nr?t.Bfro.n the water,
thrusting his goggle-eyes and ugly bead before
the astouished occupant of tbe boat, and, seiz
ing one of the largest of the melons, 'Bank im
mediately. Tbe darkey, with a yell and a
bound, reached the dock, and neither stopped
miT iilrliiwt until ha v.ua)ia1 ItnniA ulth tl.
tidings that ' de debble had 'nsoited de melons '
aud was taken urn down, ' "
In tbe following lines, tbe word "that" is
used to exemplify its various significations:
Now ttai Is a word which ma often U J olned,
Yot M tat mar ttt doublsd la clear to the muni j
auii uoi hu hu m risni is a Plain 10 in view
Aa tat Mot nil ( we uaa la rightly uwd tool
and Uil Mai Ual ttiat ttaf lint has. Is rlftit
In aooordanoa with grammar la 1'laln In oar sight.
A MawAUKKC man says he wonld like to -be
wrecked as Enoch Ardeu was and come home
and And hi wife re-married. He'd go oat o(
ths garden with hop and skip instead of
breaking his heart.
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The Next Duty.
This is an epoch of elevators. We do not
climb to our rooms in the hotel; we ride. We
do not reach the upper stories of Stewart's by
slow and patient steps; we are lifted there. Toe
Simplon is crossed by a railroad, and steam has
usurped the place ot the Alpen-stock on tbe
Bbiui. Tbe climb which used to give us health
on Mount Bolyoke, and a beautifal prospect,
with the reward of rest, is now purchased for
twenty-five cents of a stationary engine.
If oar efforts to get oar bodies into the air
by machinery Were not complemented by oar
efforts to get oar lives ap in the same way, we
might not find much fault with them; but, in
truth, tbe tendency everywhere is to get ap in
the world without climbing. Yearnings after
the infinite are in fashion. Aspirations for
eminence even ambitions for nsefulness are
altogether in advance of the willingness for the
necessary preliminary discipline and work, The
amount of vaporing among young men and
young women, who desire to do something
which somebody else is doing something far
in advance of tnelr present powers is tearful
and most lamentable. They are not willing to
climb the stairway; they must go np in an
elevator. Tbey are not willing to soale the
rocks in a walk of weary hoars, under a broil
ing sun; they would go np in a car with an
umbrella over their heads. They are unable,
or unwilling, to recoznize the foot that, in order
to do that very beautiful thing which some
tuuer ujuii in uuiuq, luey juusii gu niuwiy
through the discipline, through the maturing
processes of time, through the patient work,
which have made him what be is, and fitted
bim for his sphere of life and labor. In short,
they are not willing to do their next duty, and
lake what comes of it.
No man now standing on an eminence of in
fluence and power, and doing great' work, bas
arrived at his position by going up an elevator.
He took the stairway, step by step. He climbed
the rocks, often with bleeding bands. He pre
pared himself by the work of climbing for the
work he is doing. He never accomplished an
inch of his elevation by standing at the foot of
the stairs with his mouth open and longing.
There is no " royal road " to anything good
not even to wealth. Money that has not been
paid for in life is not wealth. It goes as it
comes. There is do element of permanence in
it. Tbe man who reaches his money in an
elevator does not know how to enjoy it; so it is
not wealtd to him. To get a high position
without climbing to it, to win wealth without
earning it, to do fine work without tbe discipline
necessary to its performance, to be famous, or
useful, or ornamental without preliminary cost,
seems to be tbe universal desire or the young.
The children would begin where the fathers
leave off.
What exactly is tbe secret of true success in
life? It is to do, without flinching, and with
utter faithfulaess, the duty that stands next to
one. When a man bas mastered the duties
around him, he is ready for those of a higher
grade, and he takes naturally one step upward.
Whoa he has mastered the duties at the new
grade, he goes on climbing. There are no sur
prises to the man who arrives at eminence
legitimately. It is entirely natural that he
should be there, and he is as much at home
there, and as little elated, as when be was
working patiently at tho foot of the stairs.
There are heights above him, and he remains
humble, and simple.
Preachments are of little avail, perhaps; but
when one comes intooontaot with so many men
and womeu who pat aspiration in tbe place of
perspiration, ana yearning' lor earning, and
longing for labor, he is tempted to say to them:
" Stop looking np, and look around youl Do
the work that first comes to your hands, and
do it well. Take no upward step until you
come to it naturally, and have won the power
to hold it. Tbe top, in this little world, is not
so very high, and patient climbing will bring
you to it ere you are aware. Dr. Holland, in
Scribner.
" Next Winteo's gwine to be a mighty hard
one, ef ye b'lieve me," said a steamboat rouster
on the elevator yesterday.
" Why sot" a Herald reporter asked.
" Look at de mus-keeters. "
"Well?"
" Y'ever see 'em so thick ?"
" They are 'rather numerous."
"And dey don't sing a bit."
" Maybe they're oat of musio; besides, you
know, tbe acoustics of this building are bad."
"Cowstics?"
"Noj.acoiufigure, sounds, you understand.
Throats of the little warblers out of ord-r;
ceiling of the building phonocamptic. Their
little songs melt away in the distance, as it
were; the sound is refracted, and "
" Well, I don't know nuflia' 'bout dat. bo3s:
nut x tell you's gwine to be a nard Winter.
When you see so many sketers not singin' a
bit. but iest cettin' down richt souare to hnsi.
ness, you may know dey's layin' in a supply of
pervismons lor a nara winter, uat s my
sign," Vicksburg Heruld,
Consebve of Rose Leaves. Gather the
leaves of any s veet-seented, fresh, full-blonn
roses, early in tbe morning, while tbe dew is
still upon them. Have ready provided, equal
auantities of cloves, mace and nutmeg,
nrinklfl wiih suit, than with tliA nnippa tifa
' Dared. Take a box of anv hind (hut la rmhnr
Bhallow, plaoe in the bottom a laver of rose
leaves, sprinkle with silt, then with the spicts
prepared; then put in another laver of rose
leaves, then sp:ces, etc., nntil the box is filled,
Lastly, tie on tightly a cover of sheer Swiss
muslin, and expose to tbe sun daily until per-
fectly dry. You may then pack the conserve
in pretty china bottles, with wide mouths bat
close stoppers, and you will be provided with a
delicious perfume, whose sweetness will no:
When ChildbknGbow Most. An old citizen
ot Dayton, Ohio, who has raised two families,
has been for many years in the habit of ob-
1 serving among other things the growth of
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assertions, ne taxes tneir measures in Jan
!)'u Julv ?na n8 discovered that growing
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,h fdf!n " far more between Jaunary and
$ Jtth.0 1h.ehA1' ' he.v. J6?' ,,.
during tbe former period. Tbe pbibjopber
inters irom mis tnat an nature is uarmoniona,
and that the physical growth of humanity is
governed by tne same laws which prevail over
tbe vegetable kingdom.
Incident at a Pcauo School Examination.
Philosopher to sharp bay What are the prop
erties of heat.
Boy The chief property is that it expands
bodies, while cold contracts them.
Philosopher Very good; give me an exam
ple. Boy Iu summer, when it is hot, tbe days
are long; in winter, when it is cold, tbe days
are short.
What is that doj barking at!" asked a fop,
whose boots were more polished than hi ideas.
" Why," aald tbe bystander, " he eea another
puppy la your boots."
KtcraM:
Offensive People.
If to be a good man and a snocessfnl man is
offensive to tbe world at large, to be praised is
exasperating. No greater dnkindness can be
done to any man thsn to praise bim much.
People generally will stand a moderate compli
ment paid to a neighbor, while they are left to
qualify it, or to admit it as a matter of gene
rosity or courtesy: but praise persisted in will
ruin the reputation of anybody. There is
nothing more off nsive to the average human
being than persistent laudation bestowed upon
another. To bear a man warmly praised is
sufficient usually to make us bate him; and it
is only necassiry to have the praise repeated
often enough to make us desire to shoot him.
Praise is one of the articles we would like to
have distributed a little not that we want it,
but the object of it is not the best man if we
know ourselves. Virtue is a good tbing, tern
peranoe is a good thing, genius is not a bad
thing altogether; bat no man is to be mentioned
so many as ten times as having either of them
in possession without making his name a
stench and an offence to the nostrijs of a sensi
tive world. The true way of getting along well
in the world is not to make one's self offensive
to one's friends by excellence of character and
habits of life, by success, or by doing any
tbing praiseworthy. Lst us strike tbe average
as nearly as possible. Let ns be good fellows
rather than gond men, and choke the first man
who dares to asoribe to us a single virtue. Let
ns all keep down and out of sight. All that we
do for ourselves, and all that we do for man
kind, only feeds hell with slanderers, and so
betrays the baseness of human nature that we
may well blush to think that we are members
of the human race. Dr. J. O. Holland; Scrib
ner for October.
AWbinbxe about Obass." That's a new
wrinkle, sure enough," said a friend who had
been cultivating pasture and hay-fields all his
life, yet had never notioed the faot of our com
mon green grass shedding its roots in the
winter, just like it loses its tops. Everyone
who has given a strawberry bed a spring weed
ing has noticed how very easy shoots of grass
are pulled out then, although in tbe summer
and autumn tbey are so very tenacious of their
ground. In mellow soil grass sod can be rolled
off with a prong hoe, and we know bow it is
turned over with ease at the same season by
bogs. This has much concern with grass cul
ture, for in the short term which our climato
allows for the growth of grass it is plain that a
dry spell in April or May must be especially
trying to grass, the new roots of which are
then bnt issuing from the subterranean stems
which lie in the soil very near the surface.
Repeated trampling on lawns or pastures is at
that critic 1 time especially injurious, although
a single pressing or rolling is quite advantage
ous by closing the earth into contact with all
parts of the stems which are about to send
down fresh roots. Where fresh sod is to be
laid, the policy of paring it and placing it quite
eirljr in the spring becomes, in the light of this
" wrinkle," very obvious. Ex.
Men and Their Faces. The life and works
of Dante tally with his face. In the face of
Cromwell the great front U miss of his brain,
as left in his mask, and the power of his lower
i'aw, are the upper and nether mill-stone3 of
lis history. In modern portraits Garrison's
lamb-like face has abolition; Grant tho grip,
fighting it out on this line if it takes all sum
mer, and leaving not a crow's ration in the
valley; letting ns have peaoe in unconditional
surrender. A true portrait is that incorrigible
page of history which neither justice nor meroy
invalidates. It is tbe dead-level of man 'mid fluc
tuating fashion and fickle opinion. Oar national
portraiture, though likely to be hang for a
while in the Rogues' Gallery, is incorruptible
history, every truly rendered face proclaiming,
" Enow all men by these presents, ' as untying
as light itself. A good likeness is a rogue's
worst enemy. It will surely betray him, and
anon retort on his alter ego, ' I told you so."
God made man in bis own human image. So
tbe soul creates its outer shell in likeness to
itself. If the man is hid in his stature, it is
the duty of tbe artist to pick him out. Scrib
ner. Goino Abboad to School. As It is now the
fashion to send children abroad to be educated,
many parents will be glad to learn that an
American school has been established in Ger
many, at Stuttgart, where, with all tbe eclat of
a European residence, young ladies and gentle
men can be taught the same things as if they
had stayed at home.
An Exchange says "the Sandwich Islanders
believe that Beelzebub walks the earth in the
form of a woman." And now and then you will
nna a man in tnis country wno believes so too,
and that be has inarriei the woman. Courier
Journal. The Late Texas Cyclone and the Signal
Service Bureau.
The efficiency of the United States Signal
Service department has been clearly displayed
on a great number of occasions, and one par
ticularly on this coast, whereby, no doubt,
much damage and disaster was saved to ship
ping in this harbor. Tbe last, and perhaps one
of the most notable instances of its efficiency,
was evinced on the occasion of tbe late cyclone,
which barst with such terriflo violence on the
coast of Texas.
This storm originated, probably, in the Car
ribean sea, or to the eastward thereof, and tbns
mostly outside tbe stations of observation,
either under the direction of the Bureau or
connected with it. Bat certain marked atmos
pheric disturbances were noted upon its north
ern margin in Georgia and Florida, from which
it was inferred, three days before it bad reached
Texas, that a cyolone was raging somewhere in
the neighborhood of Cuba. The indications
grew quite decided on tbe 13th nit , and danger
signals were ordered np along tbe Atlantic,
coast from southern Florida to Cape Hatteras.
On the Hth tbe indications were still more de
cided, but it was evident that tbe cyclone was
moving more directly west than was at first
supposed, and it was ordered that the signals
on tbe Atlantic coast should be lowered and
those on tbe Golf from Mobile to Texas should
be raised. Had there been stations at Galves
ton and Indianola, danger signals could have
been ordered np there also. Tbe next day,
Sept. 15th, tbe storm burst with the most in
tense fury on tbe coast of Texas, where it
wrought the terrible destruction, the fall par
ticulars of which are now reaching ns by mail.
Rxubeb rnoM Milkweed. A substance simi
lar to and answering all the purposes of India
rabbsr, has been produced from the common
milkweed ascleplas cornatl. By tbe action of
fermentation on this weed, the yield of elastio
valcanizible gam is largely increased and very
much improved in quality, aa compared with
that obtained from the unfermented weed. The
result of exneriments civs a vield of five ner
cent, and it is thought the yield might be in
creassd if the waed was ground to a greater de
gree of Inenesa before fenaeatatloB.
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Yoil(Q Folks' V
A Manly Boy.
What is it makes a boy manly?
sizs or weight, for there are some lat
boys that are any tbing bnt manly . Wi
once, a big, burly fellow about fourtesi
old, with a fist like a small sledge bammi
a voice as load, almost, as that of mul
we did not think he was very manly whe
saw him pick no a small boy, who was qui
E laying with a little wooden wagon, lift abo
Is bead, while be soreamed in his ear as lou
as be could, and then set him down. The little
fellow was pale with fright, and cried; the big
fellow went his way, ha-ha-ing as he went, no
doubt thinking he had done a very fine thing.
But he was not manly.
Nor does the power to smoke cigars, without
getting sick, make a manly boy.
Some boys think so, we know. We have
even seen small boys, nine or ten years old,
pick up stumps of cigars whioh men bad thrown
into the gutter, and puff away at them, hold
ing np their beads and stalking along, as if to
say, "Ladies and gentlemen, look at us. We
are men, we are. We smoke" and we don't get
siok." Bat tbey are not men.
A manly boy is one .who shows good manly
qualities. We do not expect him to be as wise
as a man. Bat he will be truthful, honest and
well behaved. He will never speak of his
father as tbe "governor," or the "old man,"
nor will he speak of ' his mother as the "old
woman." He will not be ashamed to have it
known that he loves both his father and
mother; nor will he be afraid of all the ridicule
which silly boys may heap upon him because
of this love. They may call him a "baby,"
and say what they please about being "led by
his mother's apron strings;" he does not mind
that, for he knows he is right. He will never
engage In low, mean sports, bnt will do noth
ing for fan that he would be afraid to tajk
about at the dinner table. He does not tor
ment small boys, but is ready to help them
when he can. His sisters are not careful to
hide their work, their books or their toys from
bim, lest he should disturb or destroy them; he
wonld never think of that. He is careful not
to ba greedy at the table, or rode in oompany,
but remembers that others have rights as well
as himself. ,
Does anybody say this is all very well to talk
about, bat that no one ever yet saw such boys
sb are here described? We answer, ''There are
such boys, plenty of them." They are as fall
of tun as othor boys; tbey equal anybody at
tbe different sports in which boys ball, and roll
hoop, and ran just like other boys; bat their
behavior is gentle and kind.
xnese manly boys, wnen tbey grow np, will
make real men; they will be. in the best sense
of tbe word, gentlemen. Ex.
Childhood's Dictionary.
George Macdonald says that "It is marvel
ous how children can reaoh tbe heart of troth
at once." And tbe author ot "Childhood"
gives some beautiful children's definitions of
simple things:
Answer to prayer. "Mamma, did God say
'Yes' ?"
Apple tree in blossom. "God's boquet."
Apples. "Jbe babbles the apple trees
blow.' r
Baby. "A live doll."
Baokbiter. "What does backbiter mean?"
"Please, sir, it may be a flea."
Baldness. "Isn't grandpa growing up
through his hair ?"
A boy who was sitting playfully on his
father's bald head said, naively, "Father, I
must get this seat upholstered."
Baptized (mistaken for vaccinated.) "My
boy, were ypu ever baptized ?" "Oh, yes,
half a dozen times, but it never took."
Bed time. "Shut-eye-time."
Bill of a fowl. "Nose."
"What's the matter with you, my pet?"
"O auntie I I just went to tonch a little ohloky,
and the old ben growled at me and bit me with
her nose."
"If You Please." When the Duke of Wel
lington was siok, the last thing he took was a
little tea. On his servant handing it to him in
a saucer, and asking if he would have it, the
Dake replied, "yes, if yon please." These
were his last words. How muoh kindness and
cqurtesy are expressed by them I He who had
oommanded great armies, and was long accus
tomed to the tone of authority, did not over
look the small courtesies of life. Ah, how
many boys dot What a rude tone of command
they often use to their little brothers and sisters,
and sometimes to their mothers! They order
so. This is ill-bred, and shows, to say tbe least,
a want of thought. In all your home talk re
member "if yon please." To all who wait
upon or serve you, believe that "if yon please"
will make you better Berved than all tbe cross
or ordering words in tbe whole dictionary. Do
not forget these three little words "if yon
please."
A little Bangor girl, after returning from
church Sunday, was found at tbe washbowl,
sprinkling her doll's head. She excused herself
to her mamma by saying that tbe minister told
tbem that all children who would go to heaven
should be baptized, and she was't going to risk
' Sissy' any longer.
What Went Oveb thk Central Pacific
Railboad Last Month, During the month of
September the freight shipped over tbe Cen
tral Pacifio railroads was as follows, tbe
amounts being given in pounds: From San
Francisco Wine, 387,391; rags, 7.7i5; wool
3,718,203 (7.300 bales) ; cigars! 5.373; cannld
522d.M'347i lnon, 1,162,656 cases; salmon
358 325 barrels; Beal skins, 493,333; fur seal'
8, 777; teajotter, 3,566; land otter, 245; beaver
skins, 6,59a; mink skins, 614; deer skinB, 2,678:
marten skins. 705; bear skins, 365; silk goods.
80',743iP le8' 3'833! refln borax, B
Sf1"' A3iE0; ,ea- 3.109.786; Chinese merchan-
!!' ?2?' -wheat' 2167'! bftriey. 507,821;
lal, 19,496; ivory, 16,963; quicksilv'er, 98 070
leather, 23,759; hops, 57.426; brandy, 13 027 :
antimony, 19 240; glue, 42,925; syrnp 42;i8oi
tty hi?8!o232,495i woolen WaC 16900
K6 h3H'' To8"1' 5'392i Mk fruit,
S'Togggfol' 2'985; ae"'""". a.:
Amebican Stbeet Cabs Fob Russia. The
shops of John Stephenson & Co., in New York
have recentlv comoleted ami ihimuj ... ! .
cars for the St. Petersburg tramwayoompany,
of 6t.Petersbnrg. Russia. That companyhii
also ordered several cars from English andBel
gian makers, which are to be n sed-i noomDeti-
lion Willi lO ln.... -..?'-
1 .7 . """"" ana tne nnal
oontraot for a larce nnmhw nf .. -in t. iVT
.1 oS1" wh0M work. P moit "tisfac.
tory . The cars are somewhat different from those
in use in this country. beincarranS V"."0."
I0 "f? i.niiide' Md the number on the
top. The length of the cars is twenty-sixtot!
As no passenger will he lin.. ur"Xl
cars, when loaded can be drawn by tn horses
m sSSh.ff Ty- Bd the " top
h.r!2?,!d b' tMy7 each end of tha car.
The empty ,, wdgh mbont
i m, Kaoiau, pnoarn, 91,135 each.
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