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THK III Nil OF FATK.
Intolerant skepticism and intolerant
belief are only tho two extreme of the
same thing. There is a fautacism in un
belief not less absolute than the fanta-
cism which established the inquisition or
lighted tho fires of Smithlield. La
Harpe, the celebrate! materialist, is said
to have fought a duel with a friend, who
had asserted the existence of his own
conscience. Sneli a skeptical fanatic
was I at tho date of the events I am
about to relate. was president of a
society for the suppression of supersti
tion! I believed in nothing beyoud the
ken of my five senses. I was a furious
enemy of dreams,., omens and presenti
ments, and ghosts and spirits. I
was not likely, therefore, to have been
misled by snierstitions credulity or per
verse imagination in regard to tho cir
cumstances. 1 was living: in bachelor lodgings in a
uiet street in the" upper part of the
city. I went little into society and had
few friends. I spent most of my even
ings, consequently in the seclusion of
ray room, with no company but my
boeks.
One autumn evening I reached home
at a late hour, but feeling no desire to
sleep, I lighted my lamp and sat down
by the table for the purpose of finishing
9. volume which I had been reading. It
was a dissertation on a favorite subject
of mine, namely; The physical causes
of dreams and apparitions, the author
tracing ail spectral appearances to illu-
lusions brought about by disordered
nervous functions. I was deeply inter
ested and read on steadily until after
midnight.
Suddenly, and without warning, my
light flickered and went out. - For a mo
ment the room was in intense darkness.
I had drawn the curtains before the
windows, and the tire in tho grate had
died down long before. Just as I was
on the point of impatiently rising to
light my lamp, I was nailed to my chair
by a strange phenomenon. Against the
opposite waif of my room a faint glow of
light began to appear. Iu shape it was
like the circular patch which is thrown
by a camera upon a screen. It contin
ued to increase in brilliancy till the
whole room was a glare of light equal to
noonday. It was as if a circular win
dow had been cut in the wall, admitting
the full power of the sun.
For an instant surprise held me dumb
and motionlsss; then I arose, and going
to the wall placed my hand upon the
patch of light. I observed that my hand
cast no 6hadow, and that, therefore, the
light did not come from behind.' Puz
zled, but by no means alarmed, I went
back to the chair, calmly resolved to
watch the matter to its conclusion.
For a moment the light remained
clear and stead y; then a slight mist
seemed to overspread it. Out of the
mist, by slow degrees, a picture was
evolved. There was a wide, deep river,
crossed by a railroad bridge, in the fore
ground. I could see here and there a
vessel drifting idly with the tide, for it
appeared to be a still, wafni day. Iu the
distance the hills looked bine and hazy.
There were white clouds in the sky, and
at a distance the tmoke from a town on
the river bank rose lazily into the air.
I could note and memorize every de
tail the color of the wooden trestle of
the railroad bridge, the shape and num
ber of the signal boards; the peculiar
arrangement of the telegraph wires. In
fact, I could have sworn that I sat be
fore an open window, looking upon a
material landscape of real sky, earth and
water. I noted, too, particularly, a
weak spot near the center of the bridge.
The bed of the road seemed to have
warped" and several of the sleepers were
decayed and loosened. I even said, un
conscously: "There will be a terrible accident at
that poir.t some day." .
While I was gaping at the apparition
with sensations impossible to describe, I
observed the smoke of an approaching
train. It rushed swiftly around a curve
and upon the bridge with unabated
speed. I was conscious of a feeling of
intense interest in it. I felt very much
like a person witnessing a drama with
bight-wrought emotions, breathlessly
watcning the action which is drawing to
ward the tragic denouement.
On came the train. I counted the
cars; there were sixteen four of a yel
lowish color and the remainder of a deep
red. I saw on their sides the words,
'Northern New York and Canada Ii. R.'
I saw that the engine's number was 12,
and that the engineer, leaning out of the
window toward me. was a large man with
a red face and heavy black beard.
As the train came upon the bridge
there seemed to bo a sudden jar and
stoppage. The engine leaped into the
air like a frightened horse and rolled off
the bridge, followed by six of the cars.
There was an intense movement of alarm
and horror, a shower of fire and a cloud
of steam which for a moment hid every
thing from sight.
A moment afterward my attention was
irresistbly drawn to two figures strug
gling in the water. One was a girl, very
young and beautiful, attired in a gray
traveling suit. She had lost her bonnet,
and her long fair hair was floating upon
the water.
The other figure was that of a man,
whose appearance gave me a shock of
strange surprise. I seemed to recognize
him, though his face was turned away.
At first he seemed to be making prepara
tions to strike out vigorously toward the
shore. Then he seemed to catch sigh t of
tie young girl, for ho turned, and, swim
ming toward her, supported hers on one
arm, while with the other he kept both
of them afloat.
At this moment I caught sight of his
face. I started up and uttered a shout
of absolute terror. It was my own face,
white and stern with excitement and
resolution that I saw before me.
As if my voice had broken the spoil,
the light landscape, wrecked train and
struggling swimmers disappeared like a
Hash of lightning. I rnbbed-my eves
and looked around. The' light was buru
iug as brightly as before. The book I
had been reading had slipped from my
hand to the floor. I perceived then I
had been merely dreaming u. vivid
dream.
To say that I was not startled would be
untrue. I was very much moved, but it
was neither with superstitious fear nor
the slightest faith. Here; I thought, was
a good opportunity to put ray favorite
theories into practice. I liad dreamed a
dream of such distinctness and detail
that it might be readily be supposed to
le a fore-warning. That it would prove
to be nothing of the sort I was perfectly
convinced. I would write down the cir
cumstances, and when jthe event had
proven them wholly false, use the whole
as a knock-down argument against all
faith in any forewarning whatsoever.
On further investigation I confessed
that I was somewhat perplexed. I found
that there was such a railroad as the
Northern New York and Canada, that the
cars were of the color seen in my dream.
I found furthermore, on conversing with
a person who had traveled over the route,
that tho road crossed the Black river on
a trestle bridge, and that, viewed up tho
river, the landscape would appear about
as I had seen it.
I was by no means convinced, however.
I might have heard of the railroad in
question, and forgotten the fact. The
color of the cars was such as is common
to railroads. The landscapa may have
borne only a general resemblance to the
Black river; moreover, my description of
the one seen in my dream could at most
have given a few salient points, such as
hills, water, a distant town and a trestle
bridge, common to a hundred other re
gions in the country.
Moreover, I could imagine no reason
why I should travel over the route. My
parents live in Northern New York, but
in visiting them my course would be at
least a hundred miles east of the Black
river.
The winter passed by with no renewal
of my strange dream, aud the occurrence
of no circumstance bearing upon it, and
the whole matter passed out of my mem
ory, j
One morning I received a talegram
from home to the effect that my father
had been taken dangerously ill, and that
his physician despaired of his life.
Skeptic as I was, I was no infidel m
the matter of my family affection. I
made my preparations in haste, and took
the night train for my father's home. On
arriving at Utica, I learned that a freshet
had washed out the track of the regular
line, and that I should be compelled to
take a branch road a score of miles far
ther west. '
My dream now occurred to me. I wa3
traveling near the region I had dreamed
of. One accident hid forced me nearer
to it than I had any reason to anticipate.
But I wa3 not foolish enough to sup
pose that any set of circumstances would
bring aboutthe f uldllment of my vision.
During the night the train halted at a
large town on the line and the passen
gers were informed that another transfer
would be necessary. The rains which
had destroyed the track of the regular
line had also thrown down a bridge on
the branch.
As I alighted in the dark and made my
way to the train in waiting I admit that
I was very much startled to read upon
the side of the cars the words I had seen
in my dream, "Northern New York and
Cauala B. It." I counted 'the cars; they
were sixteen in number four yellow and
twelve red.
My philosophy was considerably
shaken. It seemed as if au irresistible
"hand were forcing me to the fulfillment
of my dream. But 1 was still stubborn
in my unbelief.
I resolved to investigate the matter
still further, aud satisfy myself that I
simply met with a series of coiuciderfces.
Freshets' might occur on railroads with
out the special intervention of destiny.
Cars might be. of a certain color and
number without proving dreams to be
true.
At the earliest peep of dawn I went
through every car on the tfain, earnestly
scanning the passengers' faces. I was
looking for the girl in the gray traveling
suit. I was highly elated to discover
that no such person was on board. Here
was one point in my favor.
But very shortby this one point was
opposed by two others of a very start
ling kind.
During a halt in the forenoon I alight
ed and went forward to the engine. There
upon the bra s piate on its Bide was the
number 12. And as the engineer leaned
from his window I was stunned to recog
nize the -man in the dream, the red face
and black whiskers. .
I went back to my seat in a maze of
wonder and dread. My incredulity was
oozing out at my finger ends.
Just as the train was about to start a
carriage drove furiously up to the station
and a late passenger was assisted aboard
one of the forward cars as the wheels be
gan to move. It was a woman, whose
face I could not see, for she wore a veil,
but her dress was of a light gray color
and her figure that of a young girl.
By this time I was thoroughly un
nerved. I dared not go forward and en
deavor to catch a glimpse of the girl's
face. I feared to see tho face of my
dream. I threw myself back into the
corner of my seat and fell into a moody
reverie. But, meantime, I gathered from
the conversation of two of the passengers
in the seat before me that we were to
cross the B!ack river before noon on a
trestle bridge.
Presently the landscape on either side
began to look strangely familiar. I
caught glimpses of hills in the distance
that seemed not new to me. A moment
later, as the train passed through a cut
ting and came in sight of the river I
started up in terror. I beheld the land
scape of my dream. The wide, deep
current, the hazy hills, the trestle'bridge j
tho pale, blue sky with its motionless
clouds, the dropping sails of the vessels
anil the distant town with its dun vapor
rising into the air I had seen them all
before.
I was now prepared for the full reali
zation of my dream. The last thread of
unbelief had broken. I sprang out upon
the platform as tho train ran upon the
trestles and waited breathlessly for the
crash I knew was coaling.
The train ran on smoothly until it
reached the center of the bridge, then
there was a hideous jar, an explosion, a
chaos of shouts, shrieks and crashes, and
I found myself in the water, swimming
for life.
In an instant I remembered the con
clusion of my dream. I turned about,
and there, within a dozen feet of me,
floated the figure in gray, with her long
hair spread out upon the water and her
beautiful eyes turned toward me in terri
fied appeal. My dream had not told me
whether I was to escape or die in the
attempt to rescue the girl. But I never
thought of that, I swam toward her, and
passing my arm about her, struck out
toward the shore.
- It was a loug and desperate struggle.
The river was wide and the current swift.
I could make little progress with ny
inert burden. I struggled on, growing
weaker and weaker with every stroke.
Presently I saw a boat pulling toward
us. I uttered a shout and was answered.
In another moment my companion was
drawn into the vessel, anct utterly over
come by my terrible efforts, I sank back
into the water insensible.
When I awoke to consciousness I was
lying in bed and some one was bending
over me. It was a woman, and she was
weeping; I could feel her tears falling
upon my forehead as she brushed back
my damp hair. Presently the mist
cleared away from my sight, and I recog
nized the young girl whom I had res
cued tho girl I had seen in my dream.
She uttered a cry of joy when she saw
that my eyes were open. She seized my
hand and pressed it convulsively.
"Thank heaven!" she said, "you will
live."
"Yes,'- said I, with a feeble smile,
"since it is of importance to you."
"I should never be happy agjnn," she
sobbed, "if yon were o die after what
you have done for mo."
Being still very ill, yet anxious to
reach my father, I resolved to get on at
once. Finding me determined to proceed,
my young friend insisted upon accom
panying me the short distance I had to
go. " It is needless to relate the details of
the remainder of my journey; how, when
I arrived, I found my father in a fair
way to recovery, or how, in tho natural
course of events, I fell in love with my
beautiful nurse.
When I returned to the city with my
young wife, my friends discovered that I
had left my old skepticism in tho depths
of the Black river. I dis olvel my con
nection with the "Anti-Snperstition
Society," not without considerable jeer
ing, which I could afford to forgive. I
am now convinced that there are things
in this world that our raw logi j will not
account. My clearest proof is the doar
wife whose life I was led to save for my
self by tSe irresistible hand of fate.
Bralu at mulatto i.
Dr. Breunton
in tho Contemporary
Iteview says:
The anatomist is
fact that tlicra are
sensation known as
familiar with the
two large nerves of
tho "fifth pair"
which are distributed to the top of the
head and face, and to the mucous mem
brane of the month, noae and eyes.
These nerves are connected with the
nerves which control the action of the
heart and of the blood vessels. By their
stimulation, the heart's action may be
increased. This explains the fact that
application of cold water or cold air to
the face is one of the best means of re
viving a person who has fallen in syn
cope. It is a curious fact that people
of all nations are accustomed, when iu
any difficulty to stimulate one or an
other branch of the fifth nerve and
quicken the mental processes. Thus some
persons, when puzzed, saratch their
heads, others rub their foreheads, and
others stroke or pull their beards, thus
stimulating the occipital, frontal or
mental'branches of these nerves. Many
Germans, when thinking, have a habit
of sticking their fingers against their
noses, and thus stimulating the nasal
cutaneous branches, while in other
countries some people stimulate the
branches distributed to the mucous
membrane of the nose by taking snuff.
The late Lord Drby, when translating
Homer, was accustomed to eat brandied
cherries. One man will eat figs .while
composing a leading article; another
will suck chocolate creams others will
smoke cigarettes, and others sip brandy
and water. By these means they stimu
late the lingual and buccal branches of
the nerve, and thus reflexly excite their
brains. Alcohol appears to excite circu
lations through the brain reflexly from
the mouth, and to stimulate the heart
reflexly from the stomach, even before
it is absorbed into the blood. Shoitly
after it was been swallowed, however, it
is absorbed from the i stomach, and
passes with the blood to the heart, to the
brain, and to the other parts of the
nervous system, upon which it begins to
act directly.
A Brooklyn boy wrote a composition
on the subject of the Quakers, whom he
described as a sect who never quarreled,
nevei got into a fight, nover clawed each
other and never jawed back. The pro
duction contained a postscript in these
words: "Pa's a Quaker, but ma isn't."
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AGRICULTURAL.
Trees that have a good top-dressing of
straw, chip manure, sawdust or shavings
will be found growing well during the
hot months, while they will ripen up all
the new wood well in the fall.
Jbvory farmer should grow plenty of
small and orchard fruits. When per
fectly ripe they are healthful, and will
keep the system in good order; but half
ripe fruit is to bo shunned. A nice row
of blackberries, raspberries, currants and
the likV iround the garden fence affords
substantial enjoyment.
Dftn't relax any efforts in manure mak
ing at any season of the year. If the
cows are kept stabled at night, dry earth
or sandy loam may be used for bedding
to absorb the abundant liquid droppings
made when at grass. Such manure should
be abundantly supplied with absorbants,
or the hogs will not work it from the
heap. They may be encouraged some
what by punching holes deep into tho
piles and putting some shelled corn into
the holes.
Feeding young pigs is most profitable.
A bushel of corn will produce more
pounds of increase in weight when fed
to a pig three months old. The cost of
producing a given weight of pork in
creases with tho age of the swine. If it
is desirous to produce an increase of one
ton of pork by feeding one hundred
swine, that increase will be more cheaply
obtained by feeding pigs under six
months of age than by feeding those
which are a year old and cider ones. The
man who allows his younjj' pigs to have
a scanty allowance of food permits the
opportunity for most profitable feeding
to slip by and is obliged to produce his
pork at an increased cost by feeding
when his swine are older.
The Fall Calf. For many years I
had an idea that a fall calf was hardly
worth raising, and I find there are many
farmers still of this opinion. After rais
ing both spring and fall calves, I decid
edly prefer the latter. My reasons are
that I have more leisure to attend to a
calf in winter than in summer; there are
no flies to torment it, and tha milk is
richer and keeps sweet. But my prin
cipal reason is that spring is a more fa
vorable time to wean a calf than fall. It
requires as much care to keep a spring
calf thriving the first.winter as a fall calf;
and thus you have a whole year of spe
cial care for the former, while tho latter
goes on pasture at six months old, and
will be past the nursing period by the
next winter.
Cabbage for Stock. Nearly five thou
sand head of cabbage can be grown on an
acre of ground, if the plants are set a
yard each way. The size of the heads
and weight in tons depends on he ma
nure and method of cultivation, but as
high a yield as thirty ton to the acre is
not uncommon in New. England. They
are easily kept during the winter, either
by burying the heads in the ground, or
by storing them in trenches with roots
down and heads up, covering them with
straw and boards. The latter method is
better where they are to be fed every
day. The cutting away of the heads
leaves the stalks standing, which sprout
in the spring, Eto furnish excellent
greens for the table when such are very
scarce. The disposition to market cab
bages is generally too strong to permit
of feeding them to stock; but if a care
ful comparison is made between their
market value and the benefit derived
them in feeding, no objection will be
made for using them for such purpose.
Cabbages contain a fair proportion of
nitrogen, and the outer leaves are more
nutritious than the heart. Exchange.
Handling Horses. Men differ greatly
in the amonnt of-work they can get out
of a team of horses, and the animals
know this as well as the drivers. Some
will fret and sweat a team when only
drawing an empty wagon, while others
will drive the same horses before a large '
load and not wet a. hair. This difference
is more easily seen than described.
Kindness in manner and tone of voice go
a great way towards making the load
draw easily, the owner's handling of the
reins is frequently far different than that
of the hired man. We have seen teams
kept poor in flesh by the almost incessant
worry from an ill-fitting harness, an un
human jerking upon the bits, or a fre
quent and injadicious use of the whip.
Boys are not exempt from these stric
tures. Many teams have had their use
fulness impired by a disregard of the
feelings of the horses. It is not the we'l
fed horse only that does the most work
and keeps in the best condition; he must
also -have a kind master, and be treated
with a just regard for equine sensibility.
Agrioultualist.
About Barbed Wire Fence. In build
ing wire fence the chief requirement is
an immovable end post. Several years
experience has taught that an end post
needs to be set very firmly, to be of
extra size and length, and sO well braced
that there can be no possible chance for
it to be pulled over. The post had best
be set three and a half feet from it, so
that it may serve for a "foot" for the
brace. I In carrying wire over the "ups
and downs" o'f the land, it is disposed
to "run," and the fence can be made
much stronger, and also guarded against
this by setting every tenth post Sleet and
tamping it with small stones so to hold
it secure. Then in crossing hollows, the
tendency of the wire is to "lift," so that
in the lowest places extra care should be
taken and set one or mere posts very
deep and secure, so that it cannot be af
fected by the contraction of the wire.
Always use the galvanized wire. Its
cost is only one cent per pound
more than the painted, which last is in
reality no protection to the metaj, for it
Boon peels off, and then to save the wire
from rust, it has to be painted, and those
only who have painted a barbed wire
fence can enter into the spirit of a recital.
Toombs an Lamar Bury Old Animosi
ties In Ben Hili's Grave.
The talk fell upon the funeral of Sena
tor Hill.and Mr. Beck said it was plainly
to be seen that while a great many of the
people in Georgia did not like Hill, they
were all proud of his intellect. .
"I didn't look at him," said Mr. Beck;
"I never look at dead people when I can
help it. I just passed by the coffin: so I
don't know bow he looked horribly un
natural, Senator Morgan told me."
"It was a time to bnry animosities'
he continued "A great many were put
out of sight in Ben Hill's grave. Bob
Toombs and! Senator Lamar had not
spoken since Lamar, in the house, had
delivered hisjeulogy of Charles Sumner.
I .knew all about it, and it seemed to me
absurd that two men eaoh holding an
idea he had a perfect right to maintain,
should be so near together and not
speak; so I said to Lamar: 'Come into
my room, Toombs wants to see you."
" 'No he idoesn't,' said Lamar. He
has no use for me. You are mistaken.'"
" I tell yoii he does. He asked if you
were here;' and I gave Lamar a talking
to for holding out with his differences. I
told him that Toombs was an ; old man,
would probably be dead in a year, and it
was folly to keep up the estrangement.
So Lamar went in with me, and shortly
after we were all three riding about the
city of Atlanta with Senator Brown, and
Toombs was as hapyy as a clam."
Speaking further of Toombs, Mr. Beck
told how he took pride in holding out
the bill of fare, and saying: See! vou all
put on your! glasses to read it. while I
can read it without. . Yet they say I am
blind, or will be very soon," and he
talked on about his eyes, which are
really, of very little use to him, saying
that he had lived so long and had so
many things come into his life that he
could shut his eyes and see more than
the young fellows could with theirs open.
He told how the oculists in Paris and
NewYork had advised him to permit no
operation with the knife so long as he
could see at all, and he said, not without
a glimmer jof fun, "D n 'em do you
know I believe I will die before I go
blind, and so fool 'em "all yet.' f Wash
ington Corr.j Cincinnati Commercial.
Tlie Cost or Llvia
A discussion has been carried on re
cently by several papers on the cost of
keeping house by young married cou
ples. A yodng mechanic at Springfield,
Ohio, writes the following on the sub
ject to the Louisville Commercial:
I married two years ago,at the age of
twenty four, and on a salary of 22 per
week. Of this amount I allowed my
wife $12 per; week for household expen
ses including rent. At the end of the
first year she had clothed herself and
showed a balance of 29575 a saving of
SO per weekt My clothing and neces
sary expenses in the meantime reaching
$55, makingj the total amount of neces
sary expense the first year only 383 25.
For the second year I allowed my wife
$100 additional for clothing;my expenses
reached 75) Of her 100 she saved 50
and said she had plenty. The second
year closed 6n July 21, and our settle
ment showed an additional balance in
our favor of 400 from her allowance. I
in the mean-time had saved and accumu
lated nearly! 900. So we put our sav
ings together and last week moved into
a little house of our own, whioh is all
paid for except about $300.
Never at! any time have our total ex
penditures exceeded 9.30 all told. We
think a young couple who cannot live
on 9 a week won Id -mike as great a fail
ure on 22. I will add that I am a good
liver and our table has always been am
ply supplied. One thing I should men
tion, however, is that I had bought
nearly 5000 of furniture just be
before our marriage.
Fu!iIonabIe tiab.es.
Next to dogs in importance come the
babies and their maids. These are a de
cided feature on the porches of the great
hotels. Some of the nursemaids have,
on their white caps, two long streamers
of gay striped sash ribbon, reaching
nearly to the ground behind; others will
have a square of diaphanous veiling
pinned ove their nurse-caps from the
front. In one way or another the maid's
attire must .minister to the whim or the
pomp of the mistress.
One particular girl baby, at the
"States," rejoicing in the name of Cata
lina, is carried about on a pillow resting
in her nurse's arms, the pillowand the
baby's dress being stiff with costly em
broideiy on a sheer white groundwork,
displayed one day over a pink founda
tion, another day over a blue or laven
der, and the maid's dress will be of
chintz or gingham of exactly the same
shade. Thus baby, pillow and nurse
form a symphony . in blue, or pink, or
purple, as I the case may b. This is
called the prize baby" of the "States,"
and the Union has one nearly as fine. I
don't know 'just why I am sorry for such
pampered babies, but I aai. Said Emer
son, "When 1 think how I am sparing
my boy all that made me the bare
footed chambers and the stern denials of
poverty I know I am making a mistake.
But," he added, after a pause, "I cannot
help it." Saratoga Corr. of the Provi
dence Press.
"E. H." wishes to know if a large
Christmas pudding can be boiled in in
stallments, so that it will ,be possible to
have one 'ready for a 1 o'clock dinner.
The better way is to make a smaller pud
ding than -jthe recipe calls for, keeping
the proportions the same, and then, of
course, it will require less time to .cook.
Or if to meet the requirements of tho
family you heed to make the whole quan
tity, divide! it in two parts and boil in
separate kettles.
SHORT BIT8.
An idle man is like stagnant water; he
corrupts himself. f Latena. y
The great consulting room of a wise
man is a library Dawson. 1 .
In general, pride is at the bottom of
all great mistakes. f Ruakin.
Life always takes on the character of
its motive. J. Q. Holland. .
Grief counts the seconds; happiness
forgets the hotfrsj f DeFinod.
Our happinesses but an anhappinesa
more or less conspled, (Dacw. -
Keep good company and yon shall be
of the number. I George Herbert.
Adversity borrows its sharpest sting
from impatience. Bishop Heme.
A prison U never narrow when th
imagination can range in it at will.
Duties and -rights are inseparable;
one cannot be delegated without the
other.
Whoever has loved knows all that life
contains of sorrow and joy. George
Sand.
' Where the mind inclines, the feet
lead. Love climbs mountains. Arab
Proverb.
Notning is more dangerous to men
than a sudden change of fortune.
iQuintillian . ,
Modesty in a woman is a virtue most
deserving, since we do all we can to cure
her of it. Lingree.
With God, how short Is the step from
the greatest evil to the greatest good---Rev.
S. F. Herron.
Can one better expiate his sins than by
enlisting his experience in the service
of morals! De Bernard.
Where life is more terrible than death,
it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Sir Thomas Browne.
There are three things that I have
always loved and have never under
stood: Painting, music and woman.
Fontenelle:
Newport ladies are dressing very
plainly this season. They must do,
something to distinguish themselves from
their maids.
The power of wordsis immense. A
well-chosen word hasofton sufficed to
stop a flying army, to change defeat into
victory, and to save an empire. E. de
Giardin.
The Drouth or '49
"Stranger, I take it?" observed an el
derly resident the otner day, as I stopped
him and asked if there were, any black
berry trees around his way. "I j edged
so. I was a stranger myself when I fust
kim here. That was in the summer of
'49. Hottest summer ever known in
these parts."
"Any warmer than this?" I asked him.
"Summut, summut! That summer of
'49 the cedar trees melted and run right
along the ground. You notice how red
that ere dust is?"
"Pretty warm," I'ventured.
"Why, sir, during the summer of '49
we had to keep meat right on the ice to
keep it from cookin' too fast, and we had
to put the chickens in refrigerators to
get raw eggs.
"Where did you get the ice?"
"We had it left over and kept it in
b'ilin' waterl Yes, sir. The tempera
ture of b'ilin' water was so-much lower
than the temperature of the atmosphere
that it kept the ice so cold yon couldn't '
touch it with your finger."
Anything else startling that season?"
"That summer of '49? Well, yes! The
Hackensack river began to bile early in
June and we didn't see the sky until
October for the steam in the air! And
fish! fish! They were dropping all over
town cooked just as you wanted 'em!
There wasn't auything but fish until the
river dried up!"
"What did you have then?"
"The finest oysters and clams that yon
ever heard of. - They walked right afthore
for water and they'd drink apple-jack
right out of the demijohn 1 Yes, sirl
You call this hot! I feel like an over
coat!" "What is your business?." I' asked of
him.
"I'm a preacher," he replied. MBj
the way, yon wanted blaokberry trees.
Just keep np the thumb-side of the road
until you come to the big pasture, and
there you will find the trees. Climb np
on my goose roost mod yon can knock
down all the berries yon want if yon can
find a pole long enough." Brooklyn
Eagle.
SIftrrlage Insarauce Gamlllnff.
A picturesque view of the "marriage
insurance" system is givsn by a writer in
a Southern paper. He was asked
whether be thought the wedding of a
certain young lady would take place at
the time said to have been set. .He gave
his opinion and asked the reason for the
inquiry.
"Oh," was the response, "I have
bought four matrimonial policies of
3000 each on her, and I'm anxious to
know if I'll get my money."
"Does she know of this?"
"Oh, no. That isn't necessary. Any
body can take out a policy on anybody
else. If you know of a lady that is en
gaged and will not marry within five
months from the time you take a policy
on her, you can get any amount . cn her
wedding that you want. I suppose there
is 25,000 or perhaps double that on the
young lady I asked you about."
"How does the Company make its
money?"
"I suppose it bets on the fickleness of
the young folks. No policy will be paid
except five months after it is taken out.
There are very few couples they think
tnat love each other well enough to
marry that will wait five months to marry.
If they do, five months of engaged life is
full of dangers."
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