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•—.w»iy.~ 1 j-wj\ j V ':^ 3 '-*^ TT' 1 '\*^Vitf' l L ^ 1 ^ VOL. I. KNOWEKSYILLE, K Y., SATUEBAY, DECEMBER 13, 1884. KO. 21. COMPENSATION. The iraest words we ever speak Are words of cheer. 'Life has its shade, its valleys dsep; But round our feet the shadows creep. To prove the sunlight near. Between the hills those valleys sleep— The sun-crowned hills, And down their sides will those who seek With hopeful spirits, brave though meek, Find gently flowing rills. For every cloud a silvery light; God wills it so. For every vale a shining height: A glorious morn for every night; And birth for labor's throa. For snow's white wiug, a verdant field; .Againfor loss. For buried seed, the harvest yield; For pain, a strength, a j\oy revealed, A crown for every crown. 4 LACONIC WOOER. Mrs. Abigail Widgin, a buxorn widow of four and forty, sat sewing in the win- ter sunlight which, fell through the stand of geraniums and petunias before her sitting-room window. A cheerful wood fire burned on the hearth, its flames re- . fleeted in the glistening brass fire dogs glistened only less brightly than the sun- beams themselves. Mrs. Widgin was a roly poly- little woman, with snapping black eyes'cheeks like Baldwin apples and hair in which only a few white threads disturbed the raven gloss. There was an air of de- termination, it is true, in her firm lower jaw, but this was so overshadowed by the general posiness and jollity of her face as to be hardly perceptible, and even a close observer wuuld have pronounced Mistress Abigail, as she sat placidly sew- ing in the afternoon sunlight, a dame as gracious as she was comely. The clock in the corner ticked monot- onously, the cat on the hearth rug al- ternately slept, and then, awakened bv a sudden snap of the fire, awoke to purr lustily until drowsiness again overcame her. The widow sewed on with perfect composure and scarcely a firmer curve of the mouth betrayed th.3 fact that she was keenly debating some ' important matter ip her mind. Only from time to time her glance was raised raissd to the dial, and when at length the sound of footsteps crunched on the snow without was heard, the quick, comprehensive survey which the black eyes made of the room indicated some desire that everything should be right and trig tor the coming guest, and showed, moreover, that the newcomer had been expected. A moment later, and Tilly, the trim inaid, had ushered into the room a dap- per little man with a markedly legal air, shrewd, twinkling eyes, and a shining bald spot on the top of his head. \Good afternoon, Mr. Sharperson,\ the widow said, briskly, rising with hos- pitable alacrity. \I began to fear you were not coming.\ \Good afternoon,\ the gentleman re- *turned, allowing his hand to be shaken \vigorously. '' Sit down by the fire,\ pursued the ..Widow, bustling about with the desire of doing something, yet not quite knowing exactly what to do. \It must be a cool day for all the sun. The snow crunches too much for one not to know that. You found it so, didn't you?\ she concluded, knowing by experience that nothing short of a direct question was likely to elicit a response from the taciturn law- yer. \Yes he answered, briefly. \Uncommon cold, I should say,\ went on Mrs. Widgin, seating herself opposite her gaest and spreading out her plump hands to the blaze as if talking of the temperature made her more sensible otit. \Colder than usual for the sea- son, don't you think so?\ \Perhaps.\ \Oh it certainly is much colder.\ No response. ' 'But then it is, after all, the time of year, when one expects severe weather.\ Still no reply. \ 'The days .begin to lengthen,' you know the proverb, 'the cold begins to strengthen.\ 1 Still unbroken silence on the part of the lawyer, and the hostess was forced to abandon the weather for a more prom- ising topic. \You brought the papers for me to sign, I suppose, Mr, Sharoerson.\ \Yes.\ \Of course, you know that they are all right. I trust it all in your hands. I never did know anything about mort- gages.\ It was in Mr. Sharperson's mind that for one who knew nothing about legal documents the widow had managed her property with remarkable shrewdness, butit not being his custom to waste su- perfluous words by putting his thoughts into speech, he made no remark. \I will sign whatever you tell me to,\ his client continued with really touching confidence. \It is hard for a woman to have nobody but herself to lean upon. I'm sure you don't know what I should do without you.\ Again no response. \I quite depend upon you.\ ^till no reply, unless a faint sniff, more or less scornful, might be so cond-is ered. \Where are the papers?\ Mi\ Sharperson rose with great delib- she, a to the dimple, in her \Yes.\ \Mr. Sharperson, I have the greatest mind I ever had in the world to kiss you.\ \Do.\ The widow was so astonished at hav- ing elicited a monosyllable of such a character from the bachelor that she al- most forgot to bridle, but fortunately remembered in time what was expected of her sex. \Keally she simpered, \you are pos- itively dreadful! I* wouldn't have be- lieved it of you!\ She paused to give him an opportunity of adding something more, but Mr. Shar- person had already exceeded the ordi- nary limits of his habitual reticence, and by a not unnatural recoil was now more silent than ever. \I shall soon begin to lOolc out for for- tune hunters,\ remarked Mrs. Widgin, archly. \I hope you'll protect me from them when they come.\ Sir. Sharperson's looks expressed such entire willingness to undertake the defense of his_ fair client that he evidently did not feel it necessary to put it intb words. \I don't know,\ pursued the widow, gazing abstractly into the fire, \but I shall have to look about for somebody to take care of me. • What do you say Mr. Sharperson?\ \I?\ \Certainly; you. You know my-busi- ness affairs perfectly, and can advise me better than anybody I can think of. Is ow to be perfectly frank, what say you to my being married again?\ \Nothing.\ \Oh you think I ought not to talk so plainly a'bout it. WeB, very likely not, but you'll at least allow that there might be circumstances which would make it best for me to marry again.\ \Yes.\ \I've been a widow five years, and if the right man turned up \ She paused with the secret desire to shake the gentleman opposite, to see if by that operation his taciturn, tongue might not be loosened. \If.\ echoed he significantly, as she paused. \Why of course,\ she retorted, \you- will allow that there must be a right man somewhere, if one could find him.\ \Yes.\ \And perhaps,\ continued mischievous smile revealing lawyer's eyes a quite new hitherto wholly unsuspected, cheek, \and perhaps you would even let me cooie to you for legal advice in mv choice, if I paid well?\ \\Certainly.\ \ Well, then, advise,\ cried the widow desperately. She had been perfectly sure for two or three months that Mr. Sharpersen was longing to propose to her could he but get the words over his tongue, and she had said to herself that this afternoon he should, do it if feminine wit could devise a way. Anything short of deliberately proposing herself she was prepared to do' and she began now to fear lest she should be forced to even that extreme measure. Now when everything had been so ad- mirably worked up to a speaking point for Mm, instead of uttering the decisive ward the lawyer only smiled and was silent. To tell the truth he was as eager to get the important question asked as was the widow, could he but overcome his natural laconic habit and the bash- fulness which jusc now exaggerated it. Mrs. Widgin's mouth set itself a trifle more firmly than before. \ That is always the way if one really wants advice. If 1 didn't'you'd proba- bly be- ready enough to give it.\ This was so obviously absurd that they both smiled, and both, pretending to move nearer the fire, moved their chairs a little nearer together. \I see,\ Mrs. Widgin said, with an air of mock despair, \I shall have to make it a catechism. Do you think I had bet- ter get married; yes or ho?\ \ Yes,'' he replied, with a significant smile; \Have you any idea where I had TaeU ter look for a husband?\ \Yes.\ \Good! Now we are setting on. Where is it?\ \Here.\ • \Here in Westerly? Oh, very well, Mr. Sharperson, but who is therein Wes- terly for me to marry? I. assure you I wouldn't think of Mr. Smithers, with his five small children; I never could en- dure Mr. Green, the tailor: I'm sure you don't mean me to marry Mr. Church, the butcher; and Mr. Stinchlield is too odi- us for anything. You see, don't you, that I can't marry any one of them?\ \Yes \ \Well who else is there?\ \Me.\ \You!\ \Me.\ It was done at last, and if the lawyer could but have so far conquered the habit of half a century of bashfulness as to fol- low up his advantage, every thing would have gone on swimingly. He was, however, almost stupefied .by his own temerity, and while the widow on her side of the fireplace cast her eyes down coyly, believing that now at least he would take the initiative, Mr. Sharp- eison on his side none the less abased his glances out of sheer bashfulness. \Heavens!\ thought the widow, slily reconnoitering out of the corner of her eye. \have I got to get up and rush into his arms? Was there ever so aggravate' his suit for the rich widow'a hond was to have any chance whatever of success it must be ufged witli more vigor. He aroused himself by- great effort and with some warmth: \That showed it more.\ \Come the widow thougnt with some complacency, \we are getting on: it is something to elicit a speech of that length from him.\ Aloud she said: \Very well, that showed it more, if you will. How am I to judge,\ she con- tinued, smiling, and glancing up in a manner which no man with blood in his veins could have resisted, how am I to judge but by what I see?\ For reply Mr. Sharperson committed the most remarkable deed of his entire life. He rose from his chair with the utmost deliberation, tooS a step across the wide hearthrug to the side of his hostess, threw his arms around her neck and kissed her with great heartiness and apparent satisfaction \Mercy!\ cried Widow Widgin, making ineffectual efforts to disengage herself. \Who gave you leave to kiss me? I never saw such impudence.' 1 But the other, having once tasted the sweats of her lips apparently enjoyed them far too well to abandon the feast so easily, and proceededj'with unction to kiss her again. \I declare.\ she exclaimed, yielding with good grace to what she evidently could not help, \by the way you go on one would actually think we were en- gaged.\ Whereupon the lawyer gazed at her with great satisfaction, and proprietor- ship shining in his twinkling black eyes. \We are,\ he said.— Boston Courier. eration, and from the green baize bag j ing a man created?' which, on entering, he had deposited I She coughed \softly she patted the upon the table, produced a small pack- hearth with her trim slipper tip, secretly age of legal paj ers. He turned again to determined that nothing short of the most the window and fire, his eye dwelling [ absolute desperation should make her appreciatively upon the cherry propor- break the silence this time. tions of both, as, without speaking, he \ '—^ —'-— A1 —\-- handed the documents to Mrs. Widgin. c 'Are there four of them?\ she asked, with some appearance of surprise. \I only expected three;\ \Four he said, but he volunteered no further information. The widow unfolded the papers while the lawyer watched with professional j narrowness, and as she looked them over j the color flushed yet more in her some- what florid cheeks. •'Did you succeed in selling that ten- acre lot to Mr. Woodhofflea?\ she ex- claimed. \Mow perfectly splendid! Why, Mr. Sharperson, I am positively getting to be quite, an heiress. Isn't there some mistake?\ \No.\ '•And the sale is really made?\ *'Yes.\ ' ' fPor three thousand?\ At length when there seemed, an emi- nent prospect that the pair would con- sume the remainder of their mortal ex- istence in staring wordlessly into- the coals, and just as the widow reached that point when she felt that she must speak or go mad, Mr. Sharperson did renew the conversation. \Well?\ he queried. \Well\ she echoed. \Eh!\ The lawyer was wholly unprepared for having the burden of the talk thrown upon him, and beyond this rather inco- herent exclamation could say nothing. The widow look'ed at the fire and looked at her taciturn wooer. \I must say,\ she observed, with.a touch of sarcasm in her voice,, \that I have seen more ardent Ipvers.\- Miy Sharperson looked rather abashed • at this; and indeed began to^feel that if In a Panther's Claws. A Bombay shikaree narrates how he once actually fell into the claws of a pan- ther, and lived to tell the tale. After describing the incidents of the hunt up to the time when the beast broke cover, he says: \I had to wait until the panther Was withiu a few feet of me, and I then put my rifle down to hi s head, expecting to roll him over like a rabbit (as I had suc- ceeded in doing on other occasions), and then placed fny second bullet pretty much Where I pleased. To my horror, there was no ^report when the hammer fell! The next moment the panther, with an angry roar, sprang on me. Hanging on with the claws of one fore- paw driven into my right shoulder and the other round me, he tried to get at my head and neck, but I fortunately pre- vented this by raising my left arm, which he instantly seized in his huge mouth. I shall never forget his sharp, angry roar, the wicked look of thegreen^ ish yellow eyes within six inches of mine, the turned-back ears, his foetid breath upon my cheek, and the feeling of his huge fangs closing to the bone through my arm above the elbijiw. -*•'•• . \' I endeavored, by giving him* my knee in the.stomach, to make him let go\. Those who'nave ever kicked a cat can imagine what little effect this had. It was more like, using one's knee for a football than anything else. The pan- ther, with a roar, gave a tremendous wrench to my arm, hurled me some five paces down the side of the bill prone on my face, bringing my head in contact with a tree. Stunned and insensible, I lay some seconds on the ground, and the brute, thinking me dead, fortunately did not worry me, but, passing over me,Went for the retreating police constable, who had brought me into the difficulty. I remember when I came to, raising my head from the ground, leaning my'fore- '• head against a tree, and smiling with a certain faeling of grim satisfaction, when iny eye caught the retreating form of the constable and the pursuing panther down the hill, and I thought the police- man's turn had come. • \The civil surgeon of- the ^station probed the teeth wounds in the arm} and found that at the back of the arm ran right to the bone and was an\ inch and a half deep. The two wounds on the in- ner side, in or closf^to the biceps, were, one an inch and a quarter ana the other an inch deep. The claw a wounds on the right shoulder Were not serious, and had fortunately just missed the large artery near the collar-bone, injury to which Would have resulted in my bleeding to death in a very few minutes. —Times of India. .. • An Evening Call. A residentj of Chateau avenue, re- cently made up his mind to move, and. as he had become greatly attached to the frame house in w hich lie lived, he determined to take the structure with him, together with the furniture it con- tainsd. Yesterday, according to the programme he had formulated, he had the house placed on rollers and started on its journey. As darkness closed in on him before he could complete his task, he found it necessary to let the house remain on a side-track of the Mis- souri Pacific Railway company over night. The track was in an out-of-the- way place, and he quite naturally sup- posed, it had been abandoned by the company. In fact, he was so well satisfied that the building was perfectly secure that he and his children went to bed in one of its apaitments When the time for retiring arrived. While the happy family were snoring away and dreaming sweet dreams, one of the locomotive of the Missouri Pacific company struck one side, of the building and came out at the opposite side, passing through the parlor and crushing through the floors and walls. The dreamers, who slept in aa adjoining room, Were shaken out of their beds, and the engineer and fireman in charge of the engine were almost frightened into spasms, but, as luck Would have it no one was injured.-^Sft. JLouis (flobe- Dernocrat. Dog Barber Shops. A barber shop exclpsively for dogs and puppies,Where an/good,respectable canine, who has the money, can get a shave, or a shampoo, \\or-^a hair cut, is about to be opened in this city; Dog \slipping.\ Or hair cutting, is getting to be an important branch of the barber business. Fashionable dames have their pet poodles shampooed and comaed every day, arid the swell owners of ex^ pensive pugs orskye terriers are regular .patrons. •^-PltiladeljiMa i/ews. A blind man will not Ahattk you- for a- •- •— *••••*-'• - • - - £ - r THE PROTECTOR. & MAOT SAVED rSOH VA4IQUS ?EB- ILS BY HIS DOG. Wild Scene* in tlio Saskatchewan Country-— Adventin;en Wills Bar - cnoua Animals and Prairie Fires. Philip Baird, a man of about forty years of age, arrived in St. Paul, Minn., recently an his way .East, and told a Day reporter a pitiable tale of suffering in the western part of Manitoba. l a his own words he says: \I Went out West, four years ago and settled on a claim in the Saskatchewan district, near the Bow river. I had con- siderable money, and noticing the splen- did quality pf, the \soil decided to. <co|i- sume it all in'-improvements.' Part of my land was wooded, and I soon had a nice garden laid oft and a log cabin built. All I had around me was my dog, the most trusty and affectionate canine I ever saw. He was as large as the shep- herd dog and had proved his devotion more than once. He was a yellow dog. Prospects were very encouraging for me after I was there for two years, having in that time gpt possession of a borae and some rough agricultural implements which I made myself. My crops were splendid on what ground I could culti? vate, and I always found a ready market at Fort Walsh \or Fort McLeod, both places several days' journey. I always made preparations in the fall so that I would not be compelled to go to either fort during the winter, as a jour- ney in the winter ineant the signing of one's own death sentence. It would be impossible to Ditch a tent for the night during the journey in winter, and then one had no protection against the wolves, which were very fierce and dar- ing. It was the winter of '82, about the middle of February, I became weary of sitting around the cabin with nothing to occupy my mind. I determined to risk all danger I would be subject to and make a trip to Fort Walsh. So, prepar- ing myself and fixing a blanket around my horse, I set out, leaving my dog to take care of itself at home. The day I set out was a very fine one and the ther- mometer could not nave registered below zero. The snow was light and I reached the fort in three days from the time I left. The mounted police at the fort were much surprised to see me and were persistent in their efforts to detain me from undertaking the journey homeward. But I was not to be deterred, and I set out on my return, buj; took a different route. I had bought myself a sled and a few buflalo skius, beside some ammuni- tion to provide against an attack by wolves. \It was the third night after leaving the fort, when I was about to rest my horse, that in the distance I heard a savage howl that stirred my blood. Oh, but what a shock that One cry gave me. 'My blood ran cold through my veins, so well did I know what it meant. ' My horse understood its meaning, too, for he picked up bis. ears and gave a low whinny. He did not need any urging, but started at full gallop and nearly blinded me with snow. I was about forty miles from home, as near as I could judge, but my hopes of ever reaching it were slim. At all events I determined to die game. The cries came weaker and weaker, and I dared not look behind, but only kept asking myseif what 1 had to live for and who would ever think what became of me if I should furnish a feast for the ravenous beasts. At last my horse began showing signs of exhaus- tion and I looked to my fire-arms. I had two pistols, two barrels each, a rifle and a shot-gun together and a fine revolver of six chambers, and then if it came tn close quarters, I had an axe to defend- myself with. After I had inade prepara- tions 1 ventured to glance behind. There they were, only\ a few hundred yards off, coming like race horse** There was not over a dozen of them and I felt that all hope was not lost. My noble steed made a last effort, but the wolves Were soon up with us, so taking my rifle I aimed at the head one and had the satisfaction of seeing him give a leap and fall. About half of nis companions fell on Mm while the others continued after me. When they were within a dozen yards of me I discharged my shot-gun among them. It was charged heavily with buck-shot, and two more fell. The others stopped to devour their companions and I was alone. But it did not last long. I had Sot proceeded over a mile when they Were again in hot pur- suit. My horse could not go any further from fatigue, so I re-loaded\ my rifle and shot-gun and awaited the onset. They appeared more ravenous than ever; but courage and aim did not fail me and I fired right and left among them. They were all right around me and one big giant beast leaped up to grab me, but he fell from a bullet in his head; I looked forward and shot one as it was seizing iny horsei There were only two left, and 1 dispatched the one in a hurry, when on turning around I noticed two rolling over and over in front of my horse. Great Scott! if I wasn't sur- prised to see my dog Yellow in fierce conflict with the remaining wolf. He soon had it at his will and strangled it to death. Such a warm greeting I had with the good fellow; never wa,s a friend more welcome. I was not fully per- suaded how the dog found me until I Went to the fort the next summer, when they told me that iny dog had been there sad had only left after satisfying himself that I had gone; \I only tell you this,\ said the narra- tor, \thinking it might interest you about what I have really to'say occurred last August. \I had only got my harvest half done when one night I awoke to find my room brightly illuminated. I understood, its meaning at once and made all haste to dress and get my wallet of money, {near- ly $3; 000, and get out of the cabin. It was as I suspected, the dreaded prairie fire. Away in the horizon I could notice its rapid advance. I knew that my only way of escape Was in hasty flight. My hoi se was foaming over the prairie, and I could not afford to look for him, so along with my faithful dpg I plodded my way as rapidly as possible toward the Bow river. The 'distance was ten miles, and whether I could make it or not I did not take: time to consider, .but ran as I never did before. How I lasted the distance is a problen} to me. I reached title bank of the .river as the iaging flames were withia a hundred jatdsj- b I was- standing .theye- dai^d j|S?. ' doa took hold of me, and With a sudden jerk pulled me headforemost into the river. The cool waters revived me, and I stayed there until the flames leaped the river and were licking up the dry grass on the other side. Several buffalo were in river, having been driven by the flames. I had no home any more, and knew not what to do. I wanted to go back and look at the place where my home was, but I knew there was nothing there for me any more. Then the first thought dawned upon me that I had no means of sustenance, not even a firearm to assist me in securing game. I started down the river, intending to keep by its course until I reached the Saskatchewan, thus making sure of something to drink if nothing to eat. The route was a good deal the longest, but the safest, and 1 plodded on. That night I was tired and hungry when I laid down to rest. Strange to say I slept sound and awoke with .1 prodigious appetite. To appease it my dog had a fine prairie rabbit lying in front of me. He had not touched it himself after killing it, but by the wist- ful way he watched the dead animal I» knew he was as hungry as myself. I shared with him and continued on my way. I reached Fort Walsh in five days after, my dog always having something fresh each morning that would last us the rest of the day. I told a young cap- tain by the name of Forbes of my mis- fortunes, and he was 30 pleased with my dog he would not allow me to take him with me to the Ea3t, but kept it himself. I have my money yet and intend to go to Elmira, New York, where I used to live.\ ______^_____ Pay of Baseball Players. It was confidently expected by base- ball managers that salaries for next season Would rule very much lower than they have been in the past, but present indications are that they will be much higher than ever before. Good players are much sought after. James O'Rourke, when he announced his intention of leaving Buffalo, was beseiged by all the leading clubs. Providence wanted him, Boston would have been glad to have had him, St. Louis offered .fiim the man- angement of a club, New York and Cleveland did the same and the Athlet- ics of this city, showed their faith by offering him a salary^ of $4,000 to play and manage the nine next year. To the latter Mr. ' O.'Eourke \wired a reply that he Would be delighted to play in the Quaker city for the sum of §6,000 per year. This figure was not favorably considered by the Athletic management, and so O'Rourke signed with the New York club. His salary is to be $6,500, the highest ever paid to a ball player* Pitcher Mullane, who is to receive §5,000 from Cincinnati, is the next high- est salaried player in the profession. Ward, of New York, is said to receive $3,400, and \Buck\, Ewings, the New York catcher, is put down at $3,000; Radbourne, the Providence pitcher, is said to have received an offer of $6,000 for next year, provided he can got his re- lease. Foutz, the St. Louis pitcher, is to get $3,000 for twirling the ball, be- sides the S3,000 it cost to buy his release. Fred Dunlap has a two years' contract with the St. Louis Unions at §3,400 per year, and George Shaffer also holds real estate security for a big salary With the same nine. Among the • other players who have secured contracts with the Union clubs, With salaries all over $3,000, are Brad^ ley, McCormick, Briody and G-lasscOck, of Cincinnati. Anson holds an interest in the Chicago club and besides is paid $3,000 as manager and player. AnsOn entered thj profession eight years ago, a green country lad and is said to have made $100,000 in that time. Stovey and Knight draw between them over $4,000 out of the Athletic treasury and Taylor requires ab\out $3,000 to support him. The players who are to receive $2,500 or next season are numerous. Larry Corcoran, the Chicago pitcher, is to ge^ $2,100 and Morris is to receive the same amount for pitching in Pittsburg. Barkley, the crack second baseman from Toiedo, struck St. Louis for the same amount and' was signed without much talk. Hackett, the Boston catcher, would not sign for less.than $2,000, and Manning, of the same club, was offered the same amount by the Philadelphia ciubj but preferred to remain in Boston. The new players developed during last season are demanding and receiving high figures. Joe Gerhardt, of Louisville, wanted $4,000j but ias signed with the New York club for onerhalf the amount. Philadelphia Times. • A Lion Tamer's Nerve- Forbes, in his \Soldiering and Scrib- bling,\ says: Crockett made the greatest name for himself of any lion tamer, not in England alone, but also in France, Germany and America. I remember well the time when the six lions were loose at one time in Astley's. The San- gefs had sent the beasts up from Ed- monton the night before. Nobody to this day knows how they got out Of their dens; but it was thought at the time that some of the grooms-^with whom the manager was very unpopular, he used to fine them, so uninercilessly^ had jet them loosfe maliciously, that they might get at the horses. There they were, anyhow, loose and mad in the place, smelling the horses anct mad to get at them. They had already killed a man, and half eaten him, when\ Crockett arrived; without halting an instant, he dashed in among them single-handed, with only a switch in his hand, and I'm blest if he didn't manage to den them all single-handed. That was a nerve for you. At that time Crockett never drank. A Judge's Kiddie. One of the most distinguished Ameri- can judges, while sitting with hisfamily, was roused from his book by the uproar- ious shouts of his children at a very badly rhymed riddle which one had .made, and said he could make a better one about anything in the room. ' 'Oh, do!\ was the cry, when he immediately wrote down these lines: My first connects related words; My sesondforms the sharpest swords; My whole supports the forest's pride,. Dispensing heat on every side. This Was\ more than half a century ago, and theaaswer may be well known ; to riddle people 1 ;-But it will be new to most p.eaplei^Scfrjr Offier^Sattirchiy. 'the. riddle evidently is- ^ ^ ;: ••; - > WISE WOKBS. .-£*... !W :*'?:'• Our greatest ills are self-procured. Honey is sweet, but the bee stings. Wounds given to honor never heal. He who hath a trade hath a share everywhere. Whatever good is said of us we learn nothing new. He's not the best carpenter that m ake the most chips. He that gives to be seen will reiiev none in the dark. We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt. If you have but moderate abilities, in- dustry will supply their deficiency. Tne best and most important part of a mtti'ii education is that which he gives himself. Every act of self-sacrifice is followed by a long train of pleasant thoughts and happy sensations. Truth—the open, bold, honest trutli— is always the safest, for any one, in any and all circumstances. A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address; if pleasing, others at once conclude that ho has merit; but if imgiacefui, they decide against him. The cause why adornment of the body is so much esteemed is the respect the world taketh of the outward appear- ance, and neglect of the inward excel- lence. In all the arrangements of a homethe ease and comfort of the mother should be considered before all things. This is her right. Nor is it less the interest of the family, for their happiness depends chiefly upon her health and cheerfulness. What makes us like new acquaint- ances is not so much any weariness of our old •aanes, or the pleasure of change, as a disgust at not being sufficiently ad- mired by those who .know us too well, and the hope of being more so by those who do not know so much of us. Never quit your.hopes. Hope is often better than enjoyment. It is often the cause as well as effect of youth. It is certainly a very pleasant and healthy feeling; A hopeless person is deserted by himself, and he who forsakes himself is soon forsaken by friends and fortune. Awful Poverty in Naples. A letter from Naples, Italy, says: The great problem with the government now is how to disembowel Naples, or to spread around the shores and the neighboring hills the surplus population which over- crowds the basement of the city.- -The basement is a dirty institution of Naples. In single rooms on the ground floor or in the cellars whole families live together, with donkeys, goats, chickens and pigs. They are so poor that they cannot pay for better quarters. It: 13 not a depraved taste which makes them crowd in these dark and dirty holes and keep their lit- tle ones in the gutter, it is only need. The Neapolitans are not brutes. They like music, bright colors and light. How can they pay high rents when the best wages are scarcely one franc a day? There is no city in Italy where wages are so low as in Naples. The best skilled Workmen—the tailors, shoemakers, type- setters, job printers, masons and car- penters—even in the busiest seasons scarcely get thirty cents a day, while the second-rate wofkingmen must get along with ten cents a day or less. It i3, therefore, impossible for a Nea- politan to pay more than $1 a month for his rent. The condition of the women is simply dreadful. A poor mother is obliged to get work outside of her home for her bread and for that of her children. Hatmakers, dressmakers and flower-girls make only $3 or $4 a month. The great majority of the women are obliged to go out to service as domestics. A servant girl gets ten francs a month, without any dinner. Some have two or three houses in which to do housework for $1 at each house every month. They are con- stantly running from one house to another, and scolded and threatened in each place they go. Many of these mis- erable creatures'have children to nurse when they go home at night, a baby, per- haps, that has been left the whole day in the arms of a little sister. The poor mother, going home without sufficient food and half exhausted, has to nurse the little one, and at thirty years of age looks as old as if she had suffered the wear of sixty Winters. How very, very many of them have fallen victims of the cholera! Children in Naples are considered a sort of burden or hindrance. When a boss takes a boy to work merely to 'pay him his daily bread, a Tnother is happy, and when a little girl makes five cents a week by hard daily work, the work of a regular servant girl, the mother is equally delighted. No wonder the government is taking up for serious consideration the question how to lodge a little better this immense crowd of human beings, swarm- ing like ants in the filthy, dark cellars and rooms of the Neapolitan basements Pay During the Revolution. The scale of compensation was at the extreme of moderation. In no degree, however, in the absence of value to the currency in wh : ch it was rated, could pay have been invested with the attrac tion of reward. Yet it is submitted as no: devoid of interest. To the office of director of the military hospitals was attached the pay of $150 per month, two rations, one for servant and two of forage; to that of the chief physician and surgeon of the army, $140 pet month, two horses and wagon, and two rations of forage; to each of the three chief physicians and surgeons of tne hos- pitals, $140 per month and two rations; to the purveyor, $130, and his assistant $75 per month; to the apothecary, $130 per month, and his two assistants, $50 per month each; to the fifteen hospital physicians and surgeons, $120 per month each, and to each of the twenty - six mates, $50 per month. The stewards received each $35 per month; the clerks and storekeepers $S per day; the seven matrons.fifty cents each and a ration per day.; the thirty nurses each two shillings and a ration per day, and the orderlies, if soldiers, one shilling and a ration, and if citizens\ two shillings and a ration a day.^-Magazine of AmericanHistory. The agricultural classes of France have §26o,000,0o6oii deposit in the Govern- ment Savings Tjank, on which they aivi paid four per cent interest/ They ate also, in the aggregiiteSjamong:fbte[largest investors in goyeSjfi3?ent. bonds;.: . THE TONGUE INSTRUCTED. Guard well thy lips; none, none can know, —Prov. ini, 3. What evils from the tongue may flow; —James iii, 5, 6. What guilt, what grief may be incurred, —Judges xi, 85 By one incautious, hasty word, —Markvi, 23, 27. Be slow to speak, look well wit-iin, To check what there may lead to sin; •—Jamos 1,28. And pray unceasingly for aid, —Col iv. Lest unawares, thou be betrayed, —Luke xxi, 14. \ Condemn not, judge not \—not to man —James iv, S, Is given his brother's faults to scan; —1 Cor. iv, 5. The task is thine, and thine alone— —Matt, vii, 3, To search out and subdue thine own. —John viii, 7- Indulge no murmurings; oh, restrain —1 Cor. vii, 10- Those lips, so i-eady to complain; —Lam. m, 23. And, if they can be numbered, count —Psalm ciii, 3. Of one day's mercies the amount —Lam. iii, 23. Shun vain discussions, trifling themes: —Titus, iil, 9. Dwell not on earthly hopes and schemes; i4? Let words of wisdom, meekness, love, —James iii, S' Thy heart's true renovation prove. —Luke vi, 45. Set God before thee; every word —Gen. xvii, 1. Thy lips pronounca-by Him is heard; —Ps. exxadbc, 4. Oh, eouldst thou realize this thougnt;, r-Matt. 3di, 35. What care, what caution, would be taught! —Luke iii, 35. \ The time is short,\ this day may be —1 Cor. vii, 29. The very last assigned to thee? —Eph v, 16. So speak, that shouldest tliou ne'er speak more, —Col iv, 6. Thou may'st not this day's words deplore. —Rom. xiv, 13. HUMOK OF THE DAY.. Head-Work—Shampooing. A footpad—The cork sole. Where there's a Bill there's a Will. Expansive sweetmeats-Honeyed words. The widow's favorite musical instru- ment—Cast-a-net- A great deal of the time of the young men of the present day goes to waist. Like the earth, many a man's political aspirations are flattened at the polls. \Hurry mamma,\ said the little inno- cent with his cut finger, \it's leaking.\ It • is but natural that girls who use powder should also wear bangs. Bangs always follow the use of powder. Four sisters named Carr were married at Joiiet recently, and the clergyman who performed the cerem.mies is now called a patent Carr coupler. \What is a curiosity, ma?\ asked little Jamie. \A curiosity is something that i3 very strange, my son.\ \If pa bought vou a sealskin sacque this winter would that be a curiosity?\ \No my son, that would be a miracle.\ A Pennsylvania lady, ninety-three j'ears of age, milks, washes and bakes for a family of three persons. A great deal can be got out of old peop.e if they are properly managed. Young people do not get half enough rest. \What do you think of this recep- tion?\ asked the leader of a vigilance committee, as he placed a rope around a horse thief's neck. \I wouldn't mind it a particle if it were a little less cor- dial,\ was the significant reply. The postmaster general of Victoria, Austra.ia, has decided to try, in several districts, a postal delivery system by tri- cycles and if it proves successful he will extend it over the whole colony. We suppose the postal districts will be called wheel boroughs. \Humph!\ said one little girl to hei playmate, \ I guess your pa is nothing but a drummgr, and I woa'* speak to you.\ \I don't care,\ said the other, \yeur pa is nothing but a drum.\ \My pa a drum?\ .' 'Yes; he's got a bald head and nothing in it but noise.\ They were discussing their natatorial capacity. \Swim? Dive? Why. I can , remain under water twenty minates at a' time.\ \Only twenty minutes? Why, the other day I stayed\ under the water a whole hour. To be sure, it was because I fell into a doze and overslept myself, but still—\ (The other liar faints.) A boy was caught stealing currants and was locked up in a dark closet by the grocer. The boy commenced beg- ging most pathetically to be released, and\ after much persuasion, suggested: \Now if you'll let me out and send for my father, he'll pay you for the currants and lick me besides.\ The grocer could not withstand this appeal. \So the Arabians go to lodges and come home late, just as you do,\ said. Mrs. Mannerly to her husband, who was of a convivial turn of mind. \1 don't know,\ he stammered. \But I know they do, for I read in a paper that when an Arabian enters his house he removes Ms shoes and keeps on his hat. That's what you do when you come home late from the lodge.\ An Emperor's Amusement. A favorite amusement of Dom Pedro n., of Brazil, is to leave his gorgeous turnout in a side street, and, accompa- nied by a grayhaired chamberlain and a stalwart life guardian, walk the distance of a square or more to a manufactory or other establishment, and surprise the Dioprietor and employes by his sudden and unnouneed appearance among then: Of course he is given the liberty of the establishment, and he takes his time in examining the machinery, and modus dperandi. With a kind word of encour- agement and commendation, he goes away, perhaps to. pay a similar yisit to another establishment* These visits he makes impartially t& c ihe mechanical and mercantile establfchiBSnts controlled Ji V ^l&\
