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My Neighbor's Baby.
AcrofB In my neighbor' window.
With Its draplngs of satin and lace,
I tte 'neath the flowing ringlets,
A baby's Innocent face,
Hia feet In crimson slippers.
Are tapping the polished glass.
And the crowd In the streets look upward,
And nod and smile as they pass.
Just here In my cottago window,
Catching the flics In the sun,
With a patched and faded apron,
B'ands my own little one.
His face is a pure and handsome
As the baby's over the way,
And he keeps my heart from breaking
At my tolling, every day.
Sometimes when the day Is ended,
And I sit In the dusk to rest,
With the face of my sleeping darling
Hugged close to my lonely breast,
I pray that my neighbor's baby
May not catch heaven's rotes all,
Hut that some may crown the lorehead
Of my loved one, as they fall.
And whn I draw tbo stockings
From his little weary feet,
And kls& the rosy dimples
In his limbs, so round and sweet,
I think of the dainty garments
Some little children near.
And that my God withholds them
From mine so pure and fair.
May God forgive my envy,
I knew not what I said;
My heart is crushed and troubled,
My neighbor's buy is dead I
I saw the little coffin
As they carried it out to-day;
A mother's heart Is breaking
In the mansion oer the way.
The light is fair in my wImIow;
The flowers bloom ti my door;
My boy is chasing the suubeams
That dance on the cottage floor.
The roses or health aro bluomiug
On my darling's cheek to-day,
Hut the baby is gone from the window
Of the mansion over the way.
Concerning Hogs.
I From Pacific Itural Press
"Are you interested in hogs, ma'ani?" said
an old farmer to me one day, "because if you
are I havo FOiue fine ones in the pen yonder
you may like to look at."
No, I am cot interested in bogs, but have
something to bay about them, and not being
mucn of a talker will put it on paper, so people
can rend it if they wish, and if they do not care
to rend it they can let it alone.
Zoology tenches U3 that certain vegetable
eating animals were intended as food for man,
and some other animals were designed ns
scavengers, to dispose of that which would
poison the air and render it unfit for human life.
Tlie bog evidently belongs to this latler cluss,
forihis natural propensities lend him to deour
whatever falls in hia way, whether it be dead
or live, reptilts, grubs and decayed animal
and vcgotablo matter. In certain places hogs
have been fattened on the refute of slaughter
houses. The fnrmer himself uses hisswinons
scavengers, for in his back yard may be iound
a receptacle culled the swill barrel, con
taining thoir food, which consists us
ually of a most extraordinary mixture.
Besides the sour milk, which is good, thero
may bo found rotten apples, rotten potntoes,
moldy bread, spoiled ment, cooked vegetables
which have soured, the cleauicgs and scrapings
of all sorts of cjaino and fowls, dirty dishwater,
drowned Hies, bugs and even dead rats and mice.
It is dreadful to mention such things, I feel
finite horrified myself at tho idea; but that
is not one-tenth or one-hundredth part as bad
as it is to eat them after they are turned into
p'nj meat, and that is just what people do when
ever they eat pork or lard or bacon.
The hog is in every respoct a filthy animal,
and it is high time his flesh was banished from
the tables of civilized people. Science has
revealed the fact that pork is liable to be in
fected with a certain animnlculae destructive to
human lifo, and that it always has a teudenoy
to produce scrofula and other impure con
ditions of tho blood,
Theso statements niav astonish some stoady
going farmer who has nlwayH had hog meat in
his house, and always expects to, simply be
cause his father and grandfather did before
him; and we cannot blame the farmer so
much, bicauso possibly he is a uiau who
rends little aud thinks less; there are
a few Mich farmers everywhere, and neither
he nor his wife have ever considered
what they should do without pork. ' If there
was no pork to be had they could fill its place
very well with salt beef aud dried beef, salt
and smoked fish aud eggs. Several other arti
cles could also take the place of lard, aud the
family bo ten times better off with regard to
health.
The principal argument used by lovers of
pork in its deleuse is that it usually commauds
a high price, showing that u great many people
buy it.
A parallel case is that of the lowest class of
newspapers, whoso columns are filled with
police reports, aud the soum gathered from
drinkiug and gambling saloons. These papers
also command u high price, because there is
unfortunately a large class of people whose
taste calls for that sort of stimulus; but it does
not thereforo follow that this is good and de
sirable literature.
Aud it can bo only a depraved appetite which
leads people to persist iu the use of pork after
being euilgfcttiied as to its nature aud effects,
L.
Men as Lovers, In tho first plaeo, it is an
imposition on auy well bred girl to keep hemp
later than half-past teu o'clock, when you
have the opportunity of seeing her often. It
yon always leave her with the wish iu her
heart that you had stayed longer, you gain so
much. Neer run the risk of wearying her with
your presence. Be just as earnest aud straight
forward as in your honorable dealing with meu.
Impress your friouds with the worthiness and
seriousness of your love, so that vulgar aud
senseless bantering will appear to them as such.
Lovo is religion the supremest happiness,
wear it uiauiully and proudly, but holily, Woo
a woman bravely. If there is anything hu
miliating to a woman, it is to have a lover,
whom sbo wishes to honor, weak and vapid,
ever J ielding and half afraid of her. She longs
to tell him lo "act like a man." The man who
conceals or denies his love for fear of being
laughed at, is a coward. A loe that has no
elstneut of divluity iu it is not love, but pas
sion, which, of itself, has nothing ennobling.
That was a beautiful inscription ou an engage
ment, riug"Kch for the other, aud both for
Ood." Scroll Work;
The Dccks. Samuol O, Park, of Mark
West valley, near Santa llosa, wonders what
ails bis duoks, as they are all building their
nests iu tree this season, instead of on the
ground, as they ought by all precedent to do,
fBis will there be only twenty-five letters
in the alphabet? When you and I are made
one.
Pests.
Not files nor mosquitoes, although they cause
one to feel rather uncomfortable at times but
men and women pests are referred to. The in.
quititive woman is one specimen. The first
time she enters your house (he asks you where
you were born, how old you are, how many
lovers you have had, what business your hus
band is in, what bia income is a year, how much
you paid a yard for your carpet, and caps the
climax by askinii in a patronizing tone if you
compose your articles yourself or copy them
out of some book (fact).
Pest number two is the growler. The writer
has one in ber mind's eye, and, if she were not
afraid that you would imagiue it was ber hus
band, would describe him (the pest, not the
husband). If it is a cold night he growls until
she brings him a bottle of hot water and places
it at his feet, and soon he is snoring, while sbo
gets warm the best way she can. If the baby
cries during the night, instead of soothing it
and letting his tired wife sleep, he nudges her
until she awakes and tells her to tend to (he
baby so he can sUep, and she meekly obeys,
soothes the crying babe and then creeps softly
into bed for fear of disturbing him. If she
wants a new dress he growls that he isn't made
of money, can't spare more than a dollar or two,
and so on, until the feels as if she had com
mitted a dreadful sin in asking for what was
only ber due.
When there is company to dinner, ho growls
that the bread is heavy, the meat half done,
the potatoes watery, the coffee muddy, and
wishes she could cook like his mother used to,
and winds up by telling the visitors never to
get married; while his wife tries to turn it all
off as a joke, but her tearful eyes and quivering
lips belie her words.
When, on rare occasions, she accomtnnies
him to town, he will tell ber to hurry; tell her
she don't need any ribbons or laces, and so on,
until she is so flurried, that she doesn't know
whether she is purchasing ton yards of nm-lin
or one, and on reacbiug home discovers that
she has forgotten half that she intended to get.
It a chair is out of its place, or a speck ot dust
is on the table, he growls that he never saw
such an untidy house; everything is going to
rack aud ruin; no wonder he is poor, with such
a slack, careless wife; aud after relieving his
mind, he composedly leans back in his com
fortable easy chair, throws a handkerchief over
his face, und in less than five minutes is fast
asleep, while his harsh words rankle in the
heart of his wife for many days. Elisa E.
Anmony in aural t-'rtss.
More Moral Courage Wanted.
"I cannot help thinking that if there was a
little more individual work, a little more moral
courage in tho world to save men, the world
would not be so much of a wreck as it is to
day. If you saw that a friend, a brother, was
taking the wrong course, what would you do ?
Would you merely say : ' Dear, dear, doar 1
how painful it is that so many men are going
wrong. Just as suro as he continues that
course, he is a lost man ; but he will go ; dear,
dear, dear 1" Aud when you hear the despair
ing cry coming up from tho depths, add, 'I
told jou sol' Now what should you do?
Should you not lay your hand on him and say :
' My friend, you are going wrong 1' Wu"t if he
swears at you 1 Never mind, save him if you
can. Many a man has not got so far, gone
from your sympathy but that one word kindly
Baid in bis ear, ' Sly friend, you are going
wrong,' will check him. The difficulty is that
we let men go bo far from our sympathy that
we cannot reach them. Now it is this individual
work that I believe is to reform the world and
bring it back to God," Oough.
r How to Theat Unexpected Guists. When
one of "father's" business friends drives into
the yard at about half past eleven, the good
wife knows that he will surely stay to dinner.
Father is a great story-teller, and he likes to
get hold of a new auditor. How aptly comes
a frown of dismay and displeasure ou the
smooth, fair face ot his helpmeet. What can
be done? Work is going on according to tho
day's plan in the kitchen; the dinner was ar
ranged for none but tho family; the children
are coming home from school aud making a
clatter; all is bustle and confusion. She feels
that the best dishes must be used, and some
thing extra cooked for the inopportune guest.
Now, good woman, don't do it! Your fine
dinner, with its attendant irritation and ''up
setting," will tasto no better than what you
had prepared. Make no difference iu your
plans, but seat your visitor with a smile and
easy greeting at jour hospitable board; and he
will feel more comfortable and happy than
though you gavo him n bauquct. You Bave
temper aud tiouble, and gain the enjoyment of
giving j our friend a real cosy time. A sensible
person knows that farmers do not have six
courses upon their table daily, and the whole
some, hearty fare, with good nature and hospit
able cordiality, will be tinctured with a sweet,
domestic sense that is inevitably lost in grand
dluners. Smiles ami neatness aro sauce for
homely meals. Golden llule.
"noiiE, SweltHome." A gentleman named
Wall, residing at PhteuixUUe, Pa., has several
very fine canary birds, which he has given
much attention. One of the birds he has taught
to sing "Home, Sweet Homo," clearly and dis
tinctly. His modo of instruction is as follows:
Ho placed the canary iu tho room whore it
could not hear the singing of the other birds,
suspended its cage from the ceiling, so that tho
bird would see its reflection in a mirror. Be
neath the glass he placed a musical box that
was regulated to play no other tune but "Home,
Sweet Home." Hearing no other sound but
this, and believing the music proceeded from
the bird it saw iu the mirror, the young canary
soon began to catch the notes and finally ac
complished what its owner had been laboring
lo attaio, that of singing the Bong perfectly.
Mr. Wall has been offered and refused $20 for
his yellow throated soprano.
Ann we Dkoknkiutino, Bayard Taylor
says that tbo assertion that woman always held
an inferior position to man, is glaringly false,
for in aucieut Egypt it is well known that wo
men were honored aud respected equally with
men. Women ofteu Bat upon the throue and
administered the affairs of government. There
was also iu Egypt a lofty appreciation of the
marriage tie, and the wife's name was often
placrnl before that ef her husband, and the sous
frequently bore the uames of the mothers in
stead of those of tho fathers. It is impossible,
he says, to look upon tho statutes of this
period, aud not feel what a high degree of cul
ture was fairly claimed by the race. The sur
gical iuitrameuts are identical with those of
the present day, and various household utensils
the gome. So it follows that the more woman
is equalized with mau Iu the affairs of life, the
greater the degree of civilization,
Stbekt Dresses are growing longer, and our
side-walks will be cleaner. Pull-backs are not
so taut, and our maidens don't look so dis
tressed. Bonnets flare more than they used to,
and there is room for a center-table over the
forehead. French heels are revived, and our
doctors are studying up treatment of splual
diseases.
Early Rising a Delusion.
For farmers and those living in localities
where people can retire at eight or nine o'clock
iu the evening, the old notion about early ris
ing is still appropriate. But he who is kept
up till ten or eleven or twelve o'clock, and then
rises at five or six, because of the teachings of
some old ditty about "early to rise," is com
mitting a sin against God and his own soul.
There is not one man in ten thousand who can
do without seven or eight hours' sleep. All the
stuff written about great men who sleep only
three or four hours a night is apocryphal and a
lie. They havo been put on such small allow
ance occasionally and prospered; but no man
ever yet kept healthy in body and mind for a
number of years, with less than seven hours'
sleep. Americans need more sleep than they
are getting. This lack makes them so nervous
and the insane asylums so populous. If you
can get to bed early, then rise early. If you
cannot cct to bed till late, then rise late.
It may be as christian for one mau to rise at
eight as it is for another to rise at five. We
council our readers to get up when they are
rested. But let the rousing bell be rung at
least thirty minutes before your public appear
ance. Physicians say that a sudden jump out
of bed gives irregular motion to the pulses. It
is barbarous to expect children instantly to
land on the center of the floor at the call of the
nurse, the thermometer below zero. Give us
time after you call us to roll over, gaze at the
world full in the face, and look before we leap.
Exchange.
A Cargo of Music.
The Tinfera Abbey, tho other day. left Eng
land for New Zealand with one hundred star
lings, goldfinches aud thrushes; one hundred
bedge-spanows, one hundred and seventy yellow-hammers,
and a great multitude of bright
plumes and sweet voices. The farmers of New
Zealand propose to let them loose, and thus
clear the ground of noxious insects. Heavy
penalties have been enacted for the protection
of these foreign birds. What a grand thing it
would be if wo could all have an importation of
birds, not only iu our land but also in our dis
positions. We want more music and plumes.
We have too large an impoitation of crows and
owls. Give us a touch of goldfinches. We
have enough who know how to croak; let us
have more of those who know to sing. Let it
be against the law for any one to hunt down the
innocent muniments of life. Let the song
birds loose in our homes and schools and
churches. Be not frightened if some great
eagle of a hallelujah flies through the religious
assemblies. If the earth is ever to be a type
of heaven, it must be a cheerful place. Blessed
the man or woman or child who kindles a
smile or plants a flower or lets loose a robin.
The winged joys of life will eat up the cold
creeping sorrows, as partridges devour grass
hoppers and linnets kill caterpillars. From
the four winds of heaven let there be brigan
tines of good cheer, bearing down upon us
with a rich cargo of starlings and sparrows.
Evangel,
Look Oct fob Motiieb Eabth. And now
there is more trouble ahead for our planet. Mr.
Andrew Wilson, who has been writing pleas
antly about the "Abode of the Snow" in
Asia, revives an old theory ot some ancient
savant that the earth will topple over one of
these days and send the oceans sweeping over
the continents. It seems that the earth, that
is, the portion of it which is not water, some
what resembles a huge iceborg which, becom
ing topbeavy by the destruction of its sub
merged parts, 'thereupon indulges in a summer
sault. So, Mr. Wilson thinks, that owing to
the greater preponderance of water in the
southern hemisphere, the greatest accumula
tion of water is around the South Pole; that
when the accumulation has reached a certain
point, the balance of the earth must be sud
denly destroyed the center of sphericity ab
ruptly changed from the center of gravity, and
the whole earth, almost instanteously, will turn
transversely on its axis, move the great oceans,
and so produce one of those grand cataclysms
which have before now altered the whole face
of the globe. Ex,
Hand vs. HeadLabou. At a recent distribu
tion of prizes at Greeuwich, Mr. Gladstone
delivered an eloquent address, in the course of
which he Baid that one of tho first results of
elementary education was to produce a desire
on the part of young persons or their parents
to csoape from the necessities of manual labor,
and pass into what is called head work. Here
they had before them a very important subject.
There was far too much eagerness on the part
of the working classes to get out of the work
ing class into another which was not a working
class. The first thing a man ongjit to do was
to elevate his vocation. A workman ought to
strive to raiso the character of the work he
performed, and in doing that he was doing
more to raise himself and his family and class
than by hurrying out of his pontion. Hand
labor was progressively aud rapidly rising,
whereas head labor was falling. The ex
Premier, in conclusion, urged that what the
workingman should aim at was to raise the
character of the labor which he was called upon
to perform.
Childben Stddiino. at Home. The Phila
delphia Press complains that children are sent
to school when too young, and deprecates the
blunder of allowing iliem to bring the school
home with them. It says: "When the doors
ot the Bchoolhouse close in the afternoon upon
the cbildreu they should literally close out from
them all that pertains to school until the open
ing next morning. A teaoher should be a
teacher, not simply a mere hearer of recita
tions. Letsons should be learned aud taught
at school never at home. The teacher has no
light to impose upon parents the most annoy
ing part of the work. She has no right to take
from the child a single moment of the few
hours it has out of school."
Pb.isiko the Wobs of Fbiends. There is
auolher matter about which we are apt to be
unjust in our friendships. We are so sensitive
to the charge of over-estimating the value of a
friend's work through prejudice, that some
times we let a stranger get the better of us iu
the expression of appneiation and praise.
This is a small and damnable selfishness. Why
snouui we not praise ine sermon, tne picture,
the story, the poem of our frieud ? How did
' he get to be our friend in the first place ?
I Did we not choose him from among teu thou
1 Baud, because of those very qualities which
I attract us anew in his art 1Scrtbner,
Didn't Want that Kind of Sign. When the
new church at Vestal Center, N. Y., was
finished on the outside recently, the contractor,
to fill the stipulation to put a gilded ballon the
steeple, gilded a nearly round gallon jug, aud
turning it with the bottom up, placed it upon
the spire. The iug, thus placed, did not im
press the Vestal Center people as a proper
symbol to worship under, so some of them re
belled. A William Tell stepped to the front,
and from the first crack of his rifle the jug split
into fragments and fell off.
Embroidery that Is Worth While.
There is no such waste of time, money and
patience as the woisted work and embroidery
to which our ladies give up so much of their
leisure. It isn't beautiful, it isn't useful and
it stands much in the way or educating the eye
aud tho general taste. Of course girls will al
ways make slippers and smoking-caps for
young men at least I hope so; they enjoy
making them, and the young men are not what
I take 'em for if they don't enjoy getting them.
There is no reason whatever why these things
should not be well designed; but they never
will be so long asthe girls are so wanting in
taste as to put up with the oatterns thev find in
the shops. I suppose, however, if the young
men and maidens were not so easily pleased,
or had a taste of their own, there would be a
supply of patterns to meet a more exacting de
mand. So long as people are in the infantile
state of mind that is pleased with little imps
and devils careering over slipper toes, or chas
ing one another along a lambrequin, or with
loxes neaas ana tain, nuntlng-caps anu whips,
or with any out of the whole catalogue we all
know so well, not much can be hoped for.
But the advice to take up embroidery did not
have reference to little love and friendship to
kens of the cap and slipper tribe. It was in
tended to apply to more serious works, such as
coverings for furniture, hangings for doors or
walls, and the like. Since things took a turn
in England, and the arts of furniture and house
decoration began to interest artists and archi
tects, and the new doctrine found a sacred
poet to father it and save it from sinking into
trade and common-place, the arts of embroidery
have been inspired with new life, nnd have en
listed in their service a number of good talents,
who have not only given pleasure to the public
but have found pleasure and profit in it
for themselves. Some of the ladies belong
ing to the families of the house of Morris,
Marshall & Co., have distinguished themselves
by the beauty and originality of their designs,
and no Iobs for the excellence of their work
manship; and they have become important
members of the business, their work and their
tastes having not a little to do with the success
of the enterprise. Scribner.
A Wife's Love. About ten o'clock last
evening an officer of the first police found,
crouching in an alley-way off Eudicott street, a
woman and three small children, two boys and
a girl, aged respectively eight, five and four
years. They were lying in one heap, the small
est child beneath all the rest, and the mother
endeavoring to shelter them all from the bitter
cold. Each was scantily clad, and the party
jjicBomcu u iuuob piuuuje speciucie in lueir uaii
frozen condition. An investigation by the
officer revealed the woman's name to be Eliza
beth Mclntire, and her age to be twenty-six
years. She is the wife of a young man who is
very dissolute in his habits, spending all his
earnings for rum, and utterly neglecting his
family. The woman is also said to be addicted
to the use of intoxicating liquors. Seventeen
weeks ago this family went to live in a tene
ment at No. 107 Endicott street, rented by a
man named McAIear. They havo not paid a
single cent of lent, and finally the landlord told
the woman that ho would give her a room in
the house, free of rent, for herself and children,
provided she would leave her husband; that he
would not have the latter around under any
circumstances. This offer the woman posi
tively refused to accept, and as a consequence
found herself turned out gf doors. Several of
the neighbors also offered to care for her and
her children if she would leave her husband,
but all in vain. Boston Herald.
A Practical Test Pboposed. A newspaper
controversy has finally arrived at this point:
The advocate of spiritualism offers, for $250,
to allow his antagonist to shoot a pistol ball
through the head or body of whatever or who
ever shall appear at the window or door of a
cabinet the party agreeing that a face and
body shall appear. This is the first practical
use of spirits ever invented.
The Vowels. There are two words iu the
English language that contain all the vowels in
regular succession, and if a person is willing to
live abstemiously, and not regard this state
ment mcetiousiy, be win see what the words
are. Norwich Bulletin.
Fading Awat. Au exchange says that, what
with stocking darners, knitting and sewing nia
chines, apple-parers, washers and wringers,
woman as a necessity seems to be lading From
the earth.
What is the difference between the north and
south pole? All the difference in the world.
Mucilage fob Minerals, Etc. Mr. F. 0.
Hill, of the geological museum, Princeton,
N. J., writes to the Journal of Pharmacy as
follows: "My friend, Professor E. P. Whitfield,
of Albany, N. Y., was good enough to give me
the following recipe for mucilage to mend fos
sils and minerals, and, after several months of
experience with it in the museum, I find it so
valuable that, with his permission, I send It
for the benefit of the readers of your journal:
starch j ar
White Sugar l 0z.
Gum Arabic q dr.
Water .....q. s!
"Dissolve the gum, add the sugar, and boil
until the starch is cooked. Professor Whitfield
is in the habit of drying it into sheets, on
paper, and re-dissolving when wanted. He
does not claim to have originated the recipe,
but thinks it is one of the compositions offered
to the United States government for gumming
stamps. It is certaiuly a very adhesive muci
lage, and, owing to the sugar, never becomes
brittle; so that it never scales off, as most glues
do, from stones or other hard substances. In
a geological cabinet it is simply invaluable,"
Am Cooler. To reduce the temperature in
a factory in Paris, recourse was bad to an inex
pensive form of air cooler. A thin plate of
metal, perforated with holes one-tenth of an
inch in diameter, and having a total area equal
to one-ninth of the surface of the plate, was
set at a slight angle in a tight box. Over this
plate a thin sheet of water at a temperature of
55 Ftthr. was allowed to flow steadily, and by
means of a power blower air was forced into
the box below the plate. By its pressure the
air forced its way through the holes in the
plate and through the water, and was then led
by pipes to all parts of the factory. By this
device, the air in the room was reduced to 57"
Fahr., or within four degrees of the tempera
ture of the water. Oilier experiments gave
varying results according to the initial temper
ature of the water, but in eaoh case the appar
atus reduced the temperature of the current of
air to within seven degrees of that of the water.
Steam power is required for the blower, and,
for the nest results, the supply of water must
be abundant and its temperature low. The ap
plication of this devioe might, in our warm cli
mates, prove of use in pork packing and other
industries where a low temperature is desir
able, Scribner,
The regular annual university boat race be
tween Cambridge and Oxford has been fixed for
Saturday, Apr? 8th.
Yoi)lq Folks' ColJ.
Baby-land.
Here's something to tell your little ones, and
while you read the lines and Tom and Lizzie's
little white heads lean on your breast, think of
tho many homes where " Baby-land" is an un
known world or a silent plat in Lone Mountain:
" How many miles to Baby-land?"
" Any one can tell;
Up one flight,
To your right;
Please to ring the bell."
" What can you see In Baby-land 7 "
"Little folks in white
Sony heads,
Cradle beds,
Faces pure and brlghtl "
" What do they do in Baby-lacd ? "
" Dream and wake and play;
Laugh and crow,
Shont and grow,
Jolly times have they I "
" What do they say in Baby-land ? "
" Why, tho oddest things;
Might as well
Try to tell
What a birdie sings I"
" Who is the queen of Baby-land?"
" Mother, kind and sweet;
And her love,
Born above,
Guides the little feet."
For Boys and Girls.
My little boy wakes early, and delights to
creep slily into bed and wake mo with kisses.
One morning, coaxing him to lie still nnhilej
I fell asleep again. When I awoke he was
looking very sadly at me ; perhaps ray closed
eyelids had made him think of a neighbor's
child he had seen Bleeping the sleep of death.
Sighing, he said soltly, " Mamma, what do
little boys do when their mammas go to heaven
and leave them behind?"
My own mother left me so when I was nine
years old. While now my boy's anxious face
lay close to mine on the pillow, there came
over me smothering memories of the lonely
days that came after, when she was not there
to help me off to school, nor to welcome me
home at night those motherless nights, when
first a servant put me to bed,
"I wish, Hirry, neither you nor any little
boy or girl need ever know how hard it is to
live without n mother ?"
So I baid to the little fellow; but to you older
boys and girls I can'c help giving an older
wish ; that you who have a mother love her
carefully. Be ub good as ever vou can be. and
you cannot equal her goodness to you.
Girls, be quick to save her steps about the
house ; she has taken miles of steps for you be
fore you could stand alone.
Boys, yon will always be in debt to your
mother. Money cannot hire such faithful ser
vice as her's has been ; it can hardly be paid
for in pure heart-coin, love I
A Great Mother to a Great Son.
The mother of John Quinoy Adams said, in
a letter to him, when bo was only twelve: "I
would rather Bee you laid in your grave thrn
grow up a profano and graceless boy."
Not long before his death, u gentleman said
to him: "I have found out who made you."
"What do you mean?" asked Mr. Adams.
The gentleman reulied: "I havo heen mul.
ing the published letters of your mother."
"If," this gentleman relates, "I had spoken
that dear name to some littla hoy -who had
been for weeks away from his mother, his eyes
could not have flashed more brightly, nor bis
face glowed more quickly, than did the eyes of
that venerable old man when I pronounced the
name of his mother. He stood up in his
peculiar manner nnd said,
" 'Yes, sir; nil that is good iu me I owe to
my mother,' "
A CHILD, when told that Onrl la AVAPi-TOliava
asked "In this room?" "Yes." "Tn thn
closet?" "Yes." "In the drawers of mi
desk?" "Yes. evervwhfirfl. ITo'a in rnnr
pocket now." "No, he ain't, though." "And
wuy now- j.sutu i am t dot no poltet. '
'VrtAT Aitl vnn linnry tliot of tn Tona,9"
asked the schoolmarm. The boy looked up,
aim wuu a grave iook, answered "jjor mew
tiny, marml"
Aniline Pencils, Copyino Pencils, Etc.
These new pencils are announced at the same
time both in Paris and Berlin. The French
pencils aro made in Paris, according to the
hardness, very much like common lead pencils.
The materials used are aniline, graphite and
kaolin, in different proportions. Made into a
paste in cold water, they are pressed through a
screen that divides the mass into the slender
sticks used iu filling the pencils. When dry
the sticks are fitted to the wooden parts, and
these are glued together very much in the usual
way. They may be used in copying, marking
in permanent color and in reproducing writing
or designs. In copying, a thin sheet of
moistened paper is laid over the letter, design
or document, and the lines are traced with the
pencils. The action of the water on the aniline
gives a deep, fast tracing, resembling ink in
color. The German makers also employ ani
line in the manufacture of these pencils. On
ordinary dry paper they give a well-defined
mark that cannot be removed by india rubber.
When the paper is dampened with water the
markings assume the appearance of ink. These
pencils may also be used for copying purposes,
as when moistened sheets are laid over the
writing, under a slight pressure, they will
transfer good impressions that do not blur and
that resemble the original in every respect,
Scribner.
The Enot.trtt cIttivwpt. Thmmm cinn. t,a
failbre of the Bessemer swinging cabin steamer
uu ine aouoie Keeled uastalia, increased at
tention seems to be drawn toward the proposed
tUnnpl ns tliA nnlv nvanttnal aa1..41a f ah Anatr
channel passage. Some time ago a preliminary
"' was, commenced near tne snore on ine
COmniPTIPAll nn fh. Prannn oIAa a.Ua .li.nnal
The depth of this latter will be 328 feet about
" me inuiusi aepm wnicn it is supposed ine
tunnel will require. The object of these shafts
are to prove by ocular demonstration, in situ,
WflAinOr tV. rVOi-llj-tn.Acil fA.mntlnn i .Aiifaln
depths agree with the theory of the scientists.
tuviiu(j in vciiaiuiy gaining ground turn
such a work is needed and will pay as an in-
Vestment! and ff iKa .!..-.?-. !-.... j-nm.
pleted. should develop the expected facts, the
nTftlAt will rA a.,a,Haa.4 ..,..., 1A1 .. Jt l.A
nothing will be left but to provide the millions
of nounda nfArlinrr MnnlMn n aa. .. V,a
idea. This Utter orovision will he a difficult
one to realize; bat it is not beyond the possi
bilities of a proper combination of English and
French financial enterprise.
It 1b now IiaIIavajI t,a i-a v.a1a a- a.. r,t
losses by the Northampton bank robbery
exceed $1,000,000, nearly one-ball being nego-