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The Bachelor? Surprise.
A chill .December -eremng, with
the rain and snow forming: a disa
j greeable sort of conglomeration on
; tlie sidewalks, the gas-lampa at the
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comers mcKering snilenly throngh
i the mist, and the wind taking one
j viciously, as one came round the
corner. Not a pleasant evening to
j assume possession oi a new borne,
j but necessity knows no law. and Mr.
; Barkdale pnt up his night key into
, the red brick house in the middle of
! the block, sincerely hoping that his
j new landlady would have common
I sense to light the hre in the grate.
"Is it you, sir?" Mrs. Hinman
qoth, beamingly. " There's a good
nre, ana it s Hi rign."
i "All riffht. eh?" Raid the, h.h.1o.
feeling the blue tip of his frosted'
nose to see whether it had escaped
being frozen off entirely. 44 Well,
1 m gJad to hear that. Have the
trunks come?"
"Oh. yes, sir, and the other
tilings."
" What other things?" demanded
Mr. Barkdale.
But Mrs. Hinman pursed her lins
np. 44 1 wasn't to tell, sir, please."
"liatiier an accentric old lady,
thought Mr. Barkdale, pushing past
ner to the third-story front room.
which he had solemnly engaged the
day before.
It had been a rather dark and din
gy little den by the light of the
moon, but now, softened by thecoral
sinne of a well-nlled grate, it wore
quite another and brighter aspect.
44 Velvet paper on the walls. juilt
paneling, red carpet, and a Sleepy
Hollow chair," thought Mr. Bark
i -i -. -
uaie, glancing around. " IVot so
uncomfortable, after all. When I
get my things unpacked, it will seem
quite home-like.
He set down his valise in the cor
ner, tlelilerately opened it took out
a pair of slippers, and invested bis
tired feet therein. JSext he lay off
his overcoat.
44 Now for a cigar," thought he.
uut tne orown-iayered weea was
vet iu his hand, when there was a
bustle and a flutter and a whisper
and a merry noiso on the landing
outside, and the door fier open, as
if by magic, to admit half-a-dozen
blooming, laughing girls.
Mr. Barkdale dropped his cigar
and retreated a step or two.
Don't 1m? alarmed," said the tall
est and prettiest of the bevy; 44 it's
only a surprise."
4 A very agreeable one, I'm sure,"
said our friend, recovering in some
degree his presence of mind.
''There's no mistake, I hope?" said
a yellow-tressed blonde. 44 Your
n-inie is not-Green field?"
44 No mistake at all, I assure von,"
sai t Mr. Barkdale. 'Of course it is
not Greenfield. Sit down ladies."
And he pushed forward the Sleepy
Hollow chair, a camp stool, and. two
rheumatic chairs, which were
all the accomni-Klations presented
by his appartment.
But, instead of accepting his cour
tesy, he girls all fluttered out again,
giggling, antl in a second, before he
could realize this strange combina
tion of affairs, they were back again,
bearing benches and a table-cloth,
dishes, bouquets, a pyramid of mac
caronies, piled up plates of sand
wiches, of frosted cake, and a mys
terious something like unto an ice
cream freezer.
The golden-tressed jgirl clapped
her hand.
44 You need't think we are doing
all this for you, sir," said she.
44 O," said Mr. Barkdale bashfully,
" I I hadn't any such impression."
4'It's a surprise designated for
Kate's cousin."
44 Is it?" said Mr. Barkdale, more
in the dark than ever.
44 And how do you suppose we
found it all out?' demanded the tall
girl with the black eyes and scarlet
feather in her hat.
44 I havn't the least idea."
44 We found your letter to Kate,
and we girls read it, and we resolved
to take you and her both by surprise.
She is to be here in half an hour.
Barbara that is Barbara Morris, in
the blue merino .ress," with a turn
of her long lashes toward the golden
haired girl 44 pretends she lias mov
ed her, and Kate is to come and
spend the evening with Barbara.
Won't it be a joke?"
"Stupendous!" said our hero,
gradually beginning to comprehend
the mortifying fact that he was mis
taken for somebody else.
" What will Kate say when she
sees you here?" ejaculated another
maid, TQerrily.
"Ah! what indeed?" said Mr.
Barkdale, wondering in what words
he could best explain matters.
44 Of course we shall all look the
other way while you are kissing and
hugging her," said Miss Barbara,
demurely.
44 Very considerate of you, I am
sure," observed Mr. Barkdale.
"She's the sweetest girl in New
York," exclaimed the tall damsel,
enthusiastically. 44 1 am one of her
dearest friends. We work our sew
ing machines side by side at Madame
Grillard's. Hasn't she ever written
to you about Alice Moore?"
4 I I don't just this moment re
call that she has."
44 O, well, it doesn't matter," said
Alice. 44 Just you sit down, and be
a good boy, while we fix the tables.
Aren't those roses beautiful? My
goodness gracious, how astonished
Kate will be!"
44 She can't be more so than I am,"
said Mr. Barkdale, sinking into the
Sleepy -Hollow chair, and passing his
handkerchief vaguely across his fore
head. 44 Well, it's a mere matter of
fate; I can't see how I am coiner to
explain myself; and yet, perhaps X i
ought to explain. Ladies " .
r "Hnsh'-shshsht" cried"' the. six ''
Pretty girls all in a hissing; chorus; ,
44 gate's coming;- Bessis has. brought
her. Hush-sh-sh! Don'f .
Mr. Greenfield." Thl mV.T!
girl s hand was clapped promptly
over hist mouth, Alice Moore grasped
his arm spasmodically, and the other
four danced a sort of bewitching lit-
, wr-aance about him,
while a seventh girl entered-a pret
ty Madonna-faced little creature like
a a7ve.
. "Pome. and kiss him. Kate." cried
an the others. "Now don't be ri-
aicmous, ior we shan't take any no
tice. Here he is!" . . -
x-V,l8Swho?" cri6d Kate standing
still, and starincr all nfnnrfc-l 1i.t
. Girls, what on earth do vou mean?"
44 lou provoking thing!" said Bar
bara, stamping her little foot. fcDo
yon suppose we are all fools? Whv
of course we know allnbont him! TV
Mr. Greenfield your cousin, Kate
iue young ju. JL.
Kate looked around in bewilder
ment.
"Where?" -
44 Why, here!"
44 Nothing of the sort," said Miss
Kate demurely.
Our hero stood up, feeling himself
growing uncomlortably warm and
red.
."Ladies," he said, 44 there's some
mistake here. I said at the outset
that my name was not Greenfield."
44 There f cried the girls at ouce.
"There!" echoed Kate defiantly.
44 Didn't we tell you?" cried the
girls.
" Didn't I tell you?" retorted Kate,
Be kind enough to let us know
what your name is, sir?"
"Cephas Barkdale!" said the
wretched victim of misunderstand
ing.
"But," said Miss Moore, 44 yon
said it was Nott Greenfield."
" Of course I did," said the puz
zled bachelor. 44 It isn't Greenfield,
and it never will be unless I have it
changed bv act of Legislature."
44 O-h-h!" cried the girls. "Dear.
dear, to be sure! and we thought you
were Kate's lover and his name is
N-o double-t Nott Greenfield."
44 Do hold your tongues, you redic-
ulons things, said Jvate, half-vexed,
half-laughing. 44 What must Mr.
Barkdale think of us all?"
44 I think you are very nice," said
Barkdale, gallantly.
Miss Barbara in the meantime had
taken a slip of paper out of her poek
et. She uttered a hysterical shriek.
44 It's all mv fault," she exclaimed.
44 It was No. 39 instead of No. 30
and the tail of that horrid figure's
turned the wrong end up that's all.
And the cakes and the flowers and
everything."
44 Stop, ladies, if you please," said
Mr. Barkdale, courteously. .." Be
cause the surprise has come to the
wrong place is no reason why the
right person should not enjoy. Al
low me to give up this room to your
use this evening. I will just step
ac"ws the street, and send Mr. Nott
Greenfield over."
Bat you must retnrn with him,"
said the girls.
And Mr. Barkdale was not allowed
to depart until he had promised.
Mr. Nott Greenfield a good look
ing medical student, who had the
44 sky parlor" directly opposite
came promptly on mention of the
name of Kate Kellford, and did the
polite tiling to introducing Mr.
Barkdale; and Barkdale ate at the
sandwiches, and enjoyed the cake
and cream, and coaxed Miss Barbara
to pin a little pink rose-bud in the
button-hole of his coat, and enjoyed
himself prodigiously.
"I'd like to be surprised like this
every night in the year," said he.
44 Oh, you greedy creature, said
Miss Barbara.
44 But there was one time I serious
ly meditated throwing myself out of
the window," 'said he. 44 when you
told me I was to kiss Kate.
44 Dear, dear," said Barbara, iron
ically, 44 that would have been dread
ful, wouldn't it?"
But the awkwardness of the
thing."
44 1 dare say yon never kissed a
pretty girl. 7 pouted the blonde.
44 1 never did," said the bachelor,
growing bold; 44 but I will now, if
you say so.
44 But I don t say so, said Barba
ra, coloring and laughing. 44 Behave
yourself, sir."
Mr. Barkdale went home with the
fair Barbara, and they grew to be
very great friends, and where's the
use trying to conceal how it all ended?
They were married at the year's end,
with all the six surprisers for brides
maids, Kate Kellford included. Mr.
Nott Greenfield proposes to follow
the example as soon as he gets his
diploma.
Divided in Opinion. The women
of
Michigan are divided in oninion
concerning the pending female suf
frage amendment to the Constitution.
rs. J. A. Church, who edits one of
the prominent journals of the State.
and wliq has as good a right to speak
or her sex as any oi the sntlrage ad-
--rfci (al-oa flio rrrrmn.l Hi-.it f1i
women of Michigan do not wish for
.nir m11it!nnfi1 linrdhns. find that -
considerable portion of them have
asked for or desire ine privilege of
RnflYftcre. She does not disparasre
the influence of her sex, but thinks
that in Michigan women "carry
things pretty much their own way
" Tt i not nrobable that Mrs.
uun. x
.Dunniway, or any of the champion
gOSSipS OI lue sunn-go iuv.j.ui,
would help the cause much in Mich
igan at this particular time.
n, nnnnkr fallacv that a man
v.00 nl vprtift to succeed in bnsi-
ness is exploded by the experience
. LJL TT -.i .
of tt Alassacnuseiw- uuu. wm
menced business forty-seven years
ago with a capitaTrof S00; he hasn't
spent a. centin advertising since, and
COURTESY
The Farmers.
P At pons of HaiImBdrjra.wut fa tJkxm
But who and what i the Granger
after all? He goes off to deliberate in
a room with the blinds -down has
passwords, grips, and signs, an'd al
lows nobody to hear what he says or
see what he does. He must have
many secrets. Mostassuredly hchas
and the Sun looking down impartial
ly apon everything mundane.and im
parting health' And :vigor to every
thing good, knows what the secrets
are. In the first place they relate
entirely to his own affairs, and it is
for this reason alone that he has fail
ed to gratify the general curiosity by
publishing them at large. ' For in
stance, Jhe Grangers make their hard
living by tilling the soil. When one
of them bigins life, it is a great mat"
ter to him to get his reaper, his mow
er, his thresher, and his hundred
other machines and implements, as
well as the household furniture, his
clothing and his groceries, his 'one
horse shay' and his parlor organ at
something near half the price of the
retail merchant or the manufacturer's
agent. This he does by co-operation
with others situated like himself ; but
how and where he does it is one of
his secrets, and a very precious one
at that.
In like manner, when at the end
of a season of incessant toil he sees
his fields yellow with the harvest of
bread and his fatted herd lowing in
the pasture, he reflects that he and
the consumer of all this produce are
situated far apart, and that a host of
intermediate agents and traders ab
sorb a large portion of its value in
money. He resolves to put in his
own purse the difference between the
price paid by the consumer, less
transportation, and the price usually
paid to the farmer. He does this by
means of the Grange; but the precise
method of it is another grand secret.
When . he has accomplished these two
capital operations he has made and
saved enough to make his business
profitable, and to give his wife and
childred some of the luxuries and
advantages in which the families of
flourishing middlemen are commonly
indulged.
An association which promises
him such results, and which at the
same time vindicates the independ
ence of him and his class opens to
him a prospect full of roseate and
radient hues as compared with the
servile and beggarly condition from
which he is just rising. Heretofore
he has taken what whs offered and
given what was asked. Henceforth
he will like other classes of men,
combine with those whoee interests
are identical, and to do himself the
justice of which he has been so long
deprived. His power in virtue of
this wide-spread and coherent organ
ization may well be considered tre
mendous. A million of members to
day will bd two million by the next
spring, and when they begin to hold
back crops or send them forward ac
cording to their own good pleasure,
New York and Chicago, Wall street
and the produce exchanges, will be
gin to count a new and terrible, be
cause unknown and unmanageable,
force in the business of the country.
To the Granger the Grange is an
unmixed good; to the speculator an
unmixed evil. The manufacturer and
the wholesaler find their accounts in
the certain sales and the cash pay
ments which are a part of its econo
my; so that nobody but the blood
suckers, the speculators in grain,
the middlemen and the politicians
have anything to fear. V. Y. Paper.
Small Beginnings. The San
Francisco Depositor and Banker has a
word of advice to its readers that we
borrow for the benefit of the readers
of the Enterpkise:
Laboring' men should reco'lect
that a few cents saved every day and
put out at interest amounts to a large
sum in a few years. The price of a
cigar or a drink of whisky is a foun
dation for a fortune, and from just
such insignificant sums, fabulous
wealth has sprung. A dime looks
small indeed, but then its pur
chasing - power is a million fold
greater than most men imagine.
Such a sum, properly handled,
would, in the course of time, liquid
ate our present National debt. It is
a slow process at first, we admit, but
the increase is rapid and the end a
triumphant success. Haste to get rich
is not wise; and riches quickly won
are, as a general thing, both disrep
utable and unstable. Little rains
are absorbed by the earth , and serve
to feed for months the springs from
which the mighty rivers flow, while
the heavy storm runs off in haste,
carrying destruction and' sorrow in
its course. So little savings make
mighty fortunes which last and bring
happiness to the heart, while hasty
and ill-gotton wealth brings sorrow
to the possessorand ruin to his char
acter. Save the dimes and your for
tune is made.
"I liavfi hpi'n " K.i il .Tlld trn TCntt
, o - )
44 at the bar and in the military ser
vice and mv experience leads me to
the conclusion that women are as
The light breech-loading carbine de'
mands activity rather than strength.
Woman, as a soldier, would have
little to do besides march i ner. and
shooting, and being shot. It is said
that a well-bred, intelligent, honest
woman will make a better attorney
than an ignorant, vicious, unscrupu-
Inna mnn Tliia i a trim lint it is
equally true that a healthy, active
woman will make a better soldier
than a decrepit man."
44 We're in a - pickle now," said a
man in a crowd. 44 A regular jam,"
said another. ... 44 Heaven preserve
Tia!" swaoeel aij old ldjl
OF BANCROFT LIBRARY,
' My Landlady.
BY M. QUAD.
I board now, and I think I have
one of the kindliest landladies in the
world. . She seems to think a great
deal of me, and I sometimes almost
decide that I should weep if any harm
came to her.
She is very particular about her
boarders. Before she would take me
in I was compelled to get a certificate
from three clergymen, two bankers,
and a lawyer, stating that I had nev
er been hung for murder or sent to
State Prison for horse-stealing. J
bargained for a 'front room looking
out on the campus martus and it was
understood that I was to have the
room alone.. . On the third, night I
went home and found a stranger in
bed, and when I began to raise a row
Mrs. Dolby caught my arm and
whispered:
44 There, now, be a good, dear man
and say no more. He's a preacher,
and, as he is going away to-morrow
I thought you wouldn't mind just
one night."
At the end of the week she beck
oned me aside, and smiling like a
load of fresh hay she wanted to know
if I would do her a favor a favor
which would place her under eternal
obligations to me. I replied that I
would die for her, and then she ask
ed me to give up the room looking
out upon the grand square and take
one looking out upon a grand alley,
full of ash barrels and oyster cans.
She had a new boarder coming who
was awful particular, and she knew
I would do anything to accommodate
her.
I made the change, and the grate
ful look she gave me was enough to
melt a vest button. I had only got
fairly settled when I was told that
she wanted to see me in the parlor
after dinner. I found her in tears.
She said that a very nice man and
his very nice wife wanted to come
and board with her, but she had no
room, and it grieved her to think that
she must turn them away when she
was so hard pushed to get along.
I told her that if I had a hundred
lives I would lay them all down for
her and then borrow a hundred more
and add to the pile, and she seized
my hand and said that heaven would
surely reward me for being good to a
fatherless orphan. I moved into the
garret, the awful particular man
moved into my room, and the very
nice man and his very nice wife mov
ed into the front room.
In about another week Mrs. Dolby
whispered to me and wanted to know
if I had a snake in my stomach? She
said that she had observed that I was
a very hearty eater, and didn't know
but I had a snake. I set her right,
and when I promised to take full
lunches down town and urge all the
other boarders to do the same, she
put her hand on my shoulder and re
marked that heaven had a place for
me.
That night my bed was made with-
out sheets, and when I went to raise
a row she took me by the hand and
said that her experience went to show
that it was healthier to sleep without
sheets. I was going to argue the
question, when tears came to her eyes
and she hoped I wouldn't- say any
thing to hurt a poor, lone widow
whose life had been one long struggle
with poverty. The next night the
the feather bed and one of the pillows
went, but I didn't say anything.
Then she wanted to borrow my tooth
brush for a boarder who hadn't any.
j and she took my stove to use in the
lower hall. I didn t say a word until
she wanted to know if I couldn't
spare the old rag carpet off the floor,
and if I wouldn't set the other board
ers an example by drinking nothing
but water, and not taking a second
biscuit. Then I told her that I was
going to leave that house and try to
tear her image from my heart.
She seized both my hands, tears
rolled. down her cheeks, and she
asked . s
"Mister Quad, will you deliberate
ly plot to kill a lonesome widow who
is working her life out to make your
position here comfortable, happy,
and luxurious."
I couldn't go. Fm there yet. I
sleep on the floor, put up with cold
bites and use the boot-jack for a
chair when I have company. I wish
I wasn't so tender hearted, but I
can t think of hurting Mrs. Dolby's
feelings by looking up another place.
Fireside Friend.
New Remedt fob Consumption.
A new remedy for consumption has
liudn fmind or n.t. lfinst. i.hn doctors
think so at this moment, in the trans
fusion of the blood oi animals, in
performed from man to man; but
while it has been found easy to get
men to ' give up their blood for
money while enjoying the eclat of an
experiment in a. crowded ampuune
ater, amid the applause of hundreds
oi students, good oamanians are
rare in private life. A medical man
was unable to find any one ready to
sell his life's blood to a young lady
until he made a romantic appeal, and
in the case of an aged man it .was
quite impossible. But Dr. O. Hesse,
of St. Petersburg, says that human
blood is not absolutely necessary.
He has performed the operation of
transfusion - thirty-one; , times.. In
sixteen of his cases defibrinated
blood was employed a practice gen
erally condemned. In the remaining
fifteen cases the blood of sheep was
used. There was one death; in three
f iioi. cafcps there was no preceptible
improvement; in the remaining elev
en cases there was a marked im
provement throughout, and, in some
cases, perfect cures. Dr. Hesse
hopes to prove that he can cure pul
monary phthisic in this 'way. Dr.
Gedellices has tried the transfusion
of sheep's blood in two cases: ' Iri
one there was" great" improvement,
412 J ti tbe'otb&rja crtnf ltfr cure.
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Merrlmou's Views.
A Talk with tHe North Carolina Sena
tor Before the Election The Civil
Right Bill and the Public School
The Thlrtl Term the Last Alterna
tive. .
Raleigrh, N. C, Letter to Cincinnati Com
mercial. Merrimon was a party to that mem
orable Gubernatorial contest of 1872,
and was defeated. His defeat, how
ever was the best thing that ever
happened to him, although it did
not strike him that way at the time.
In the Senatorial struggle which fol
lowed he was elected as a compromise
candidate, after a long and bitter
contest. His election was a surprise
to himself as he did not expect an
honor of the sort: Poor Zeb. Vance
went down in that contest the man
of all others who was entitled to the
place. He was elected fairly and
squarely shortly" after the war,but
the Radical majority would not let
him in because they preferred a carpet-bagger
of their own political
stripe. The transaction is past, and
pretty well forgotten, but it was one
of the. meanest things that ever hap
pened, even in politics.
Merrimon has made a success as a
Sentor and as he is about the first
man from the South except Gordon,
who has distinguished himself in
that body since the war, the fact is
worthy of reflection what has become
of the carpet-baggers and place hun
ters who represented North Carolina
in the Senate before the people got
control of their own affairs? They
are played out and passed out of
sight, relapsed into obscurity from
which they should never have been
taken in the first place.
I met Senator Marrimon at the
Yarborough house in this city, and
we had a conversation about matters
and things political and otherwise. -
"What do think will be the result
of the election next week?" I asked.
"I think, sir, that we will gain two
Congressmen, make a gain in the
Legislature, and probably elect the
State oliicers."
"Have you been over the State?"
44 Considerably; I have just return
ed from the Western mountains." i
"How is it up there?" j
"Pretty much one way. The white J
Republicans will never swallow the
civil rights bill, nor vote for anybody
that supports it. That is the main
issue in this campaign. Race feeling
is high, higher than party feeling.
I am very sorry the Senate pasel
the measure; it has tended so direct
ly to the awakening of race passion
and prejudice."
"What will be the effect if the bill
becomes a law?"
"Bad. very "bad. Our common
school system in this State is in its
infancy, and it will crush it com
pletely out. There will be no more
free schools. Of course the whites
will not support them, and the ne
groes are unable. Then will come
strife and bloodshed in all sections
of the State. Oh, it will be a most
unfortunate thing for the whole
South."
"Do you think it will pass?"
"The indications are that it will.
I hope not for the peace of the coun
try; but the Radical party seem de
termined to drive it through."
"How about a veto?"
,4The opinion is general that Grant
will veto it, but the party will most
likely drive him into its approval.
If we can keep it off until the new
Congress meets we are safe, for the
November election is going to knock
down the Republican majority, if not
entirely annihilate it."
"Yon are hopeful, then, of getting
under Democratic rale again?"
44 Very; the prospect has not been
so favorable since the war."
4 4 How about a third term?"
"I believe Grant would like a third
term, but I dont believe he can get
it. The Republicans won't dare to
take him up and the Democrats won't
have him."
'Indeed!"
"No sir; they will not touch him
with a ten-foot pole, in a political
sense. Of course it might happen,
that if the race were between Grant
and some other more objectionable
Radical, in which case we would take
Grant as the lesser of two evils, but
we will never take him as first choice.
I believe in a straight, square fight,
with a straight man - at the head of
our ticket like Thurman for in
stance."
I find in the South that, in case of a
straight Democratic fight, Thurman
stands out most prominently in con
nection with the nomination. The
way he and Col. Allen kicked over
board all the old platforms and blew
the bugles and rallied the boys, and
carried Ohio, is regarded as a master-stroke.
People wonder if they
could do it again on a larger scale.
A teacher, wishing to improve the
occasion said to the boys at the con
clusion of a strawberry festival,
44 Have you enjoyed these berries to
day?" 44 Yes, sir," 44 Yes, sir," came
from all sides with unmistakable
heartiness. 44 Well, children, if you
had seen these berries growing in
my garden, and had - slipped in
through the gate, without my leave,
and picked them from the vines,
would they have tasted as good as
now?" 44 No, sir,' was the prompt
renlv. 44Whv not?" 44 Because."
said a wide awake boy, 44 then we
shouldn't have had sugar and cream
with 'em." ,
Reprove a wise man and he will
thank you; admonish a fool and he
will hate you. Relieve an honest
man and he will honor you as an an
gel of God ; relieve a rogue and he will
rob you. ...
4 'What," asks the Toledo Democrat.
"shall we do with our boys?'.' If they
are likely to turn out to be such men
as their fathers, we would advise you
to shoot ! t rQTcaLiCru-uvlle Covryer-
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Mother's House. ; : ' ' 7 x ''
- How many happy, thoughts are
called up by .those two beautiful
words. Is there can there rbe any
place so full o pleasant places, be
neath the waving palms of sunny
isles, or in the chilling shadows of
icy mountains? Our hearts turn with
unchangable love and longing to the
dear old house which sheltered us in
childhood. Kind friends may beckon
us to newer scenes, and loving hearts
may bind us fast to pleasant homes,
but we are not satisfied with them
alone, for there is one place more
fair and lovely than them all, and
that' is the beloved Mother's
House." .
It may be old and rickety to the
eyes of a stranger. The 'windows
may have been broken and patched,
long ago, and the floor worn through
and mended with pieces of tin, but
it is still mother's house, from which
we looked out at life so full of hope,
building wonderful castles in cloud
land which faded long ago; but
thanks to the good. Father, mother's
house is left us still, and, weary with
the busy turmoils of life, weary of
ourselves, we turn our steps toward
the dear house of rest, and at its
threshhold lay our burdens down.
Here we have "watched life coma
and go. Here we have folded still,"
cold hands, over hearts as still, that
once beat full of love for us. Her)
we have welcomed brothers and sis
ters into life, " watched for the first
lisping words from baby lips, guided
the tottering baby. feet from help
lessness to manhood, and here we
have watched, with aching hearts, to
see the dear ones turnedt from the
home-nest .out into a world which
has proved but a snare and a temp
tation to many wandering feet. And
here we gather strength to take up
our lives again, and go on patiently
unto the end. But though the world
call us, and we may find friends good
and true, we turn to the dear old
home, when troubles come, for help
and comfort. God grant that for ns
all there may long remain a "Moth
er s Home.
Be Economical. Look most to
your spending. No matter what
comes in, if more goes out; you will
always be poor. The art is not in
making money, .but in keeping it;
little expenses, like mice in a large
barn, when they are many, make
great waste. Hair by hair heads
get bald ; straw by straw tho thatch
goes off the cattage; and drop by
drop the rain comes in the chamber.
A barrel is soon empty, if the tap
leaks but a drop a minute. When
you mean to save, begin with your
mouth. Many thieves pass down the
red lane. The ale jug is a great
waste. In all otherthings keep with
in compass. Never stretch your
legs further than the . blanket will
reach or you will soon be cold. In
clothes, choose suitable and lasting
stuff, and not tawdry fineries. To
be warm is the main thing, never
mind the looks. A fool may make
money, but it needs a wise man to
spend it. Remember it is easier to
build two chimneys than to keep one
going. If you give all to back and
board there is nothing left for the
savings bank. Fare hard and work
hard while you are young, and you
will have a chance to rest when you
are old. "
Why Should a Man Sweak. I
can conceive of no reason why a man 3
should swear, but many why he
should not.
1. It is mean ; a man of high moral
standing would almost as lief sttal
as swear.
2. It is vulgar; altogether too low
for a decent man.
3. It is cowardly, implying a fear
either of not being believed or obey
ed. 4. It is nngentlemanly ; a gentle
man, according to Webster, is well
bred, refined, such a one will no more
swear than go into the streets and
throw mud with a clod hopper.
5. It is indecent, offensive to deli
cacy, and extremely unfit for human
ears.
G. It is foolish; a want of decency
is want of sense.
7. It is abuse to the mind which
conceives the oath, to the tongue
that mutters it, and to the person at
whom it is aimed.
8. It is venomous, showing a man's
heart to be a nest of vipers, and every
time he swears, one of them sticks
out bis head. -' -
9. It is contemptible; forfeitinjjthe
respect of all the wise and good.
10. It is wicked; violating the di
vine law and" provoking the displeas
ure of Him who will not hold him
guiltless who takes His awful name
in vain. - e '
Fashionable Milliner: "You'll have
the flower on the left of the bonnet,
of course madam?" Fashionable lady:
4 4 Well er nol The fact is there's a O
pillar on the left side of my pew in
church, so that the right side of my
head is seen by the congregation.
Of course I could change my pew!'! O
Fashionable lady's husband: ,4Y-as.
Or even the church, you know, if
necessary. (Fashionable millirter
considers the point. ),... .
Remember that appearances ata
often deceiving. : Many a pale, thin,
young lady will eat more corned beef
than a carpenter.- Because yon find
her playing on the piano in the par
lor it is no sifiT that' hr mother i
not at the corner grocery running in
oeDt ior a peck 01 potatoes. , r
Trouble besets the editor's path
even' in Li Jtle RockArkansas. One
of them remarks: The unknown gen
tleman . who attacked ns last night
can obtain his left eye and the bal
anced hia nose by applying at this
office--" As for his ear, we unfortnaO
t?7 lest it-
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