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'''■!<•< > ; • ( ‘ i t ! t J / J . / : f < < I i n ; t r < i I * ' 1 * ' > , \^Jlarewoll I Ic la no sorrowful word, naver bat bad * paog fora#, r •' Ihreet as.Uielast aongof ».bird,', ; ¡t ¿.7‘‘r<?L^0^ a0 4 wind*8\voH from tho so», y r j ' - i Th* word Farewolh j - :< ':j| part wtth joh^m I k bj?oro ^ ^ 1 ! * ^ ~ I ’vo partod witU, doar friends and sweet, '*;iAod iiow I_8hO{o (for evoriuoro) jSl Your jnouiory’a gold duet from my feet, Farowoll! farewell! ' '.••on I b I ik II find a new bwm I face', J ' A n d ^ lifr^aiM m n iAd strong ’■* '^^yonro Aw ndir/arrd!T^«-a epiibfl .'*/ life that ripples ioto aoug, ' ¡ ‘V?y \ i . t AuJ tb^u farewell! i 'Farowoll * ■' Throw me a kiaa 1 tU«» diatanoo grows botwoen ! o |’ 4 f^r-ryit iniat of tilvory aboon: L f r I Good-bye 1 farewell! >3?V? * ï i h ■ - \ i T H E n i S A P P O I N T I X U B O Y .i '. •■• “ lly deer Septimus,” I said, \ Icon - ' you on your;‘«ou. Ho is a : » 0 «t jileasant fellow j'cheerful withciit ■'aillinesB—intelligent, but not n prig.’’ Humpli I\ replied ray friend. '■ A groat purfc o f conversation in tbis . «wintry is earned on by grnntg ; but .there is anything wliioU cannot be *':-i< 3 *'e.TOd jn Hi.i£.rotipr:*i it ia~ccrd}*i ' amaax . , JI' relppsod' iuto inUeHea and . «nea roy pluss. Soptimtia passed his ^ i* L l l over his hair, which is rather long ,i «ad stiJl thicS, though streaked with „ ** n y .threads. r of gray, apd gazed . thoughtfully through: the 'window; • -wfc»h opened on tho lawn, A. faint lifh t lingered in tho west, and one ' «tar shouo briUinntly above tho blnck i ' 0 «dar, neiir whioli was dimly soen tho E icefnl figure of my friend!*,.wife. .'At r side vus a youug m»n on 'whom, moved by a genuine likiugj and tho p.mctions natural to h benevolent p6r ;• tOB who has dined vrajl.jl-had/just pro- ■ounccd'k «tieiiiiiigly inopportnnopane tJtic. Wo «at at a round tablo, ovor C'^Hiich a ehnded light'waa'hanging, and ; tte olarp.i passed slowly between us. ■M was too old to bo hurried. • After a‘ «ler.co of a few,,minutes,, my friend : i n InH rfiair'ftnVt Wnirl • • ^ ^ *■* \ , *4J ;':'**»-ned back in liia cliaiip'and Waid ; L . \ I f would not boro you, I, should Itko to tell yon a fow anecdotes of mv .. « * r boy’s life.” . PrAy do,'1 I ^ said. I waB in the Oning—disposed for si' :Bood for listo l«c e , and ^oderatoly’cnrion8.” \Septi' * < had.,n.m, nnei-gentle-Rs the eron “ 8> ‘'-.nd ;a';Tpice ' which! mighi j huve <*0'Vu'mollow' in'liia own cellar. ........ . -V It has long seemed to me,” he be- ■Vin, “ that tho rules of condaet which jwt try to impross on' our ‘cUildron aro .. .«beurdly inconsistent with those by . ^fcich wo oxpoot them to regulate their ,>U(er life. Whon they are young they •W to be unobtrusive and to givo up to -.Werybody; wheu they bavo reached .■ » n V ’ettate they,. aio;i to. glve''w»y to ,V*obody,':bi»t to pu«Ii'their fortune« “in >.<fco world. ¿J Aa well1 might we pani«h ■• • m e child for going near tho'-water and •»poet the man to swim, or train the . * vanner for tho raco by making him •- J *lk backward. When Tommy was born I made up my mind to avoid the ;;y»mmon..errojr.. Ia.U ie,;battlo of life , <M should b# taught to win and not'to' . IP® vonna, when Ui* fighting was! oter/ ^ Wltli:» red cross [on l>is k o , Wft«n! he > a baby lie showed a great love of ■ '••lor, and would lie for hours smiling •t tho sunlight aud{m»Vi^^litil«'2»V\. ' Mons witK his' liarids. 'Tt'seemed to me .• 1 » those days that tho child would be a S ent'- painter (yon •know ithat ' I ' wts »aye fond of art) and take » ‘high poai- 5 ? °' . ^ lero ’ a a Rfeat opening in that direction. An aotive mas, ,who enlti- *»tes a bold style and i* •borehiggling over details, pan paint teif piotaies in a year, and when he haa^mad«'». name ..«ftn sell them for ,'£Il000vMoh. „Wheu . I pointed out^to Jeaai* whit'A'road of - Mrtnne lay biforeoar.h«*yah« laughed ; ■! him and called liim T o m »j.B .'A , ■' “ But of oourse in tboae da^a I conld ■ot be sure of tho line in which my son • Wonld excel. My, .dnty wa3 to. prepare . ktm to < exoel;iii•’ any ,which ? ie mi jkt; _ *hoo3o| ny‘developing’ in' liim a 'taste ”'r.fcr competition. I looked about for a ” .’•»mpetitor, and hodl.thej.good.luck to ■■ .«ail my nephew Theodore, who is ten • ■icntes older than Tommy. I borrow- ‘ .-•d him from Lis \parents;'and at once’ ktonght the two lads into competition. I well remember, my first attempt r and . Mi failure. . I ,liad been..loft in ¡charge ' i f the children' for a sliort’ time, and Mizing the opportunity, induced them - vto race across the rodm ior ‘a lump of - ‘ tU)re_ I interrupted my friend 'by , Mking if tho boys were( npt young for ¡•incation, “ N o tat all,”jsa_idthe';'.‘ *;for.•let’ me ■f ■‘••II you thaT ia“'t’liesn \days when' tho ‘r.Uea of individnal liberty is in the air we’ ^'fceathe, children rabel against the in- e j are'.broeohed.\ You\ surprise; me,” I said, “ and Jlenc« pf their parents'ilmoit ’ before ^.-¡wéllnigh make. me,, accept the poet's ' -’¿picture. ïo u remember tho lines : i^Didat oerer hear how. the' febélliou» » f t t i ’ ■ BloodJnp i’ the'sVrtir; 'and to lii«'Stother \ ' î W O0089 \ lUdun, I will not be ut cpon.\‘: il j8eptimu8 smiled in a deprecating ^^nner,7»'fewha_t'unoeHaini ; I think,1 ...?^etKer\I 5 wero'iifjest or\\earnest He -.^Mntioned liis story,... .“ Tommy waa % ;a*od. walker, if yoUjmake allowanoe for novelty of, the accompluhment, bat •,^'ii jiwt some time in lateral motion, lik* of a ^n'Js^an on a rolling *ea ; '..^•ctefore''Thëèdorel who'had' a per- !-.:C;J**nal .incliuation forward, and went, ~âag»th an- iatoluntarÿ gàorn atép,> took ■ I f e l e a d at once, and would hav* won, ■•^d not his head','-advancing too quickly 'usin, icho was prostrate and hpwl- g? he sat down, on'the carpet “and llowod t'wice ns lotid for sympathy. •*ie said that I ought to be’ ashamed myself, and divide! > the lump of gar between the two competitor*. “ .When .tliejboya irere.a. UUle-oldir l ain borrowed Theodore and made a ttle class of him and Tommy, hoping healthy rivalry in the aoqoiution' knowledge.; I began .with »n open- aflareas, in which I 'pointed out to £ fi}k em thaFthidnt^ of each waa io'Beat '¿Vv»to other, asd that, a* every mss ioihe . 51 • j ~ ) j v ;i r- (j grown-up. wofla was trying t6‘ ie t \ ? « much of the luxnric* »nd lloaors as he conld, so each boy should tty to gain for himself as largo a share as possi- blo' 'of the marbles, toffee and'other prize* which I should frott time to time offer. They haard-me with great gravity, and our opening, day was a decided success. ,1 sodtrfonnd, how ever,1 that my priae'-iyitem was a failure, since, as the' student« ¿lwayg played together, thoy-ttared not a jot who won the toys, whioh they enjoyed in OoClmon, and as to the toffee, they both suffered so much after the first, prise day that Jessie put' iher ;v»tr> en that form .of reward,; • ;' r-j After this i iatcfhiined iiovanbstil; tute pennies, and for a time thought I had effected my purpose, Toihtny grew wonderfully industrious, and in spite of my, slriot impartiality.acffumn-, lated a ‘ v»st storo- of ooppers. Week' after, week ho drew on me with papers of. marks, whioh were duly honored, until I saw myBolf in days to bo the aged father of.the first'ct gentle finan ciers. Hb/shocid direct the applioa-. :tion ol hi»,neighbor’*' fortunes, spoon-, ‘lat* in a'-'gigajtic-war, becomes' Baron Tommy at a foreign oottH, perhaps Sir Thomas at his own. M y dream w»s rudely dispelled. One day hiy small nephew came to Sue in great gleo. ‘ Uncle Septimus, .said he, ‘ do you birthday -J’ ‘ 1 replied, ‘ and Tommy’s birthday, too, although you ccrtaimy gained an ad vantage over him, for which no activity on hU j-pw t. can ever ,compensate,’ ‘ And please; uncle ’ Septimus,’ con- tinned Theodore, do,look- at the pres ent whioh Tommy,! has given me,’ ‘and- .ho held i Up ;* highly, decorative whip' aud scarlet rein's. • - I t was bnt tifc oloa*' that tho fortune which iny son had ac cumulated by his industry had been ozpouded in a prosont for tho defeated candidate; and when questioned on the snbject, the young prodigal at once .allowed that this had been tho sole mo- .tive of his extraordinary devotion to study. Whilo I was trying to impress upon him that if tho triumph of the successful resulted in tho gain of tho runsiiccessful competitor, emulation was impossible,^Kis mother came in'with'a' rush and hugged him. ~ Jessie.is'apt to act from impulie, as: almo«t'aU_wo(nen; aro. • When I pointed out to her on one occasion that unless overybody is al. ways trying to got os much of every thiug lor himself as ho can the most valuable laws of political economy are false, she said she did not care if they were, and that she knew that it was better to help another than to help one’s self.” Hero I .¿Quid not help, interrupting my friend Septimus with the remark that there was no better way of helping one’s self than appearing as a helper of others, if you knew the right moment at which to loave them, and that some had grown wonderfully rich in this manner. i Septimus seemed to think my re mark irrolovant, for ho took no notice o f it, but continued his story. “ You may Buppose,” ho said, “ that in choosing a school for my boy I should.be greatly influenoed by si*o, for if^edmpetition be good, the wider the field of competition tho bett'eri I sent him off to Eaton with a copy of ‘Mr. Smiles’ stimulating work on * Self- Help ’ and a manual of political econo my, to- whioh hia motlior added, a large liataj>er and a'Biblo. His »cliobl career was fairly successful 'a n d 1 would4 have been brilliant but for that moral ob liquity- of whioh, alas I thero wan. no longer room for doubt. There was no limit to his generosity, which was con stantly developed by an ever-growing popularity.” There never was so popu lar a boy. ” The master* conld hardly Gnd fault with him, and his school-fol- lowa mado a hero of him, as was natu ral, indeed, for he could refuso them nothing. His'gayety, which never flag ged, grew riotous whon he was confer ring a-favor.. .He^waajthe' author of more Latin verses than have been left to us by tho poets of. Rome, and nover dashed off his own copy until he had wooed tho Muses .to the, side of Tom kins,'! Brabaaon, . Jonea, Montfontery and a' host of othersr Again and again I told him, both verbally and by letter, that popularity.« tho reward ,of those, who are the gulls.of society.;, and there’ ''is'no current coin of so little value, and .that’ the only real proof of a man’s sue- coss is tho jealousy which he oxcites.!' He now not only neglected my advico, but overa retpeotfully oontradieted Bi« j and it ’ inust'' be” confessed1 ''that ' his' answer had a great look of. brilliancy, for he was an unusually olevorlad, and might now be anywhere if, he chose. I ought to add that he nevor grew angry in argument. He had liis mother’s sweet temper, which ia a very good thins; in a woman. • r - Perhaps'you think that I . have given undue importance to trifles ; and indeed I made light of them.myself un til my son,in a great crisis inhis career, behaved in a manner, which I could not misinterpret,,though I am thankful to say that I could, pardon it. .H o . was ,now eighteen yean „old,. when’Jie^and !liis greatest friend, a boy of the name of Dart, entered together for tsoholar- ship at one of the Oxford oollege«. I will not linger over the story; indeed, i f rou will excnw'me for a moment I will ¿ring my son’s letter, from which you ,will learn the catastrophe at a glanoe, while I shall, be. spared the.pain ..of-, re-' oiUl.” . [ jj j . 'J f . j ! A j i -, i , . 1 _.Septimus, who had I risen' slowfy while he was speaking, crossed the pas sage to. hi* study and came ‘back .with the following note, which he placed in my hands: O xtobd , ----- , 18—. M r Deab Father—I hope that you won’t be awfully sick at what I have done, but I am afraid that you won’t like it. I thought of you a great, deal before I made up my mind, bnt I don’t know what else I could hare done. There is a fellow up here oalled Mill*, who is just going to take hi* degree, and is very thick with the dons. He was at m j tutor's when I first went to Eaton, and wa* very keen that I should get one of the scholarships here. Some how or other he found ont from one of hia don friends (which, of course, he had no bnainess to do), before the first day of the examination, thata Clifton fellow was pretty safe fo r r the* first scholarship,, sod that the other was a . i &n3'cr\e. _■ oïy near thing, betweea Dart ____ Now yon know that old Dart conld not have oome up. Jo Oxford,at all if he hadi not got',’*’ :acl»ol<ir*liip;\«nd; its did riot make apy difference to iile, because you always leUtsoj dojwhat I ¡want.1 Su the: fact is that 1 -’didriot do quito 'niy-best' in the last papérs. I - un a*.good a* sure that it ilid^oi'i^kke tH* least difr ference in the world ¡''for the dn^ir old man is a perfect needler-at a critical paper (Greek',partiealars, and \ scholar ship ‘ tip«! ^ito. you; know) ( and'' wai bound to liok me any wajr. ^Onlÿ I Sid not like- te< kco^ .itrdark from’ you,, though* o f òohrse h'e ninst nerér know 'anything , about, it, and you.never .saw any feliow .toi Üappy M .lia la ; and; so you mtist 'üôi bé v«xéd,! or '»t-least must; havo got over it before you see your affeotionate son,, rr,, r, , , ..Tovrnv. P. S.—Of course - you1 will tell! the niothor, and. sho will make you forgive me, I know. ,' I ’f t m ’ awfunytwell - a id’, happy; ,*udj; the ^follows >hei^ ’.'¿re tromendoBily-ktad «najdllyis J a i K t ~..'When',i hid finished reading “tliis witli! other-pebple’B-‘:business.’ >Bomn day* «go .'my, laborer ¡(I^had b « i n« i o ) Abrnptly.loft the place, and on inquiry ft fbana 'that Tomm^. -'aniioai1 to’df- miuish the surplus agricultural popnla- .tion.liad helped him to imoiigraie.-.r. He ia‘ on theipoint pf deliveripg a ,s«d«s of lectures.^ to .our p e w e fn l rustiosi who hayejheretofore been perfeetly ^afiiifled with my penny readings,- and'by:.4he<ie moans he .will probably.' depopu!|kle the ;village.'!,:iHe.tolks o f r » visit of.iajapeo-: tk>n to the valley, of tho. Missiasippii' In short;'‘I begin t o ' fear,th»t I'am.the father of an agitator. A 'strang#'lad, ¿1 .Whom-the only thing which ydtt ean ftafely predict iit that lie .will do ,w)^at ho likes, and that his mother,-Will .ficet himt Will you have any'm o re'im e 'f” “ O n e ‘moment,” I tn»id.!i;! “ l i « a l y want to - ask; -What has boeode at Uk* borrowed Theodorei.’ u-i'i v. “ He isi(a very fair player’ at Poio, replied iny host. ' •• You won’t h'ave sany|more wine ? Then let us join Jessie and my boy on • the lawn.”— Black wood’»'M a g a z ine; -, , chaneo Of ¡*r£initig my youug friend for r. virtue which'even a paront’could not deny him. And, calliug to, niind au old talo of our university life; at whick Bep and .1 wore iroht to 'smile when1-we were 1.1 PrecaBtlons A r s lvst Fir«:, * Fire' Marshal'Dnrkce, o f 1 Siin Frim- oisco, in, hi* annual report to the Board of FirelUnderwritoro, presents the., re sult« of hi* experience to tho public in a number of precautions against 'fire ¿nvpigs*! nnileryraduates-I laughed and aud in'case of its occurrence. The fol- said, “ You should Be1 thaiflTar!W*,liP^I*(WfcifvV honest a-son, who did n o t k e e p . in dark,’ as iho,. might; have'-*dene'.*! !, He secma os' anxious’ to afoid all misunder standing ia wa*r.Toby, O’Counor^when he oarefully engraved his_nanie upon the stone Which he afterward flung throiigh the. deun'* plate glass window. '¿¡That aneodoteiliaa nev«c before failed to raise _a. smilo ; but my^ friend .was evidently.'.in}-no^‘; mood j'fòr.: l»ugh ter.' After a Biinper of aeknowleJgment ho carefnlly folded up1‘the ’ letter, and, smoothing -it with' his-hsnd, continued; his story*-* ^ ‘ ‘ Can you imagine my feelings when 1 read this missive?” ho said. “ I could not;speak.; go.cl'threw it, across tho breakfast tablo to’ Jessie,1 and: went away to my Htudy.j. KFor - a -fu]l 'half ,hour there was' ho\ sounil. * ' Tlién I heurd thè door; of 'the.diningrroom 'open, and'm y'wife’s' Btep''fn the' pas sage. I called, to her. > When she came in I saw that her eyes were full of .tears. I took hor in my arms, and begged her not; to.fret < about-, it/ saying that it was''s territ>le disappointment and that'wó'shall bear' ft together. *■' 1 was quite ’ ohoky, and she did not ap pear to hear mo. ‘ O Septimus,’ she said, after n few minutes, ‘ what have we done that God should have given ,us suoli a noble son ? ‘ and she : burst ont sobbing. I have long ceased to feel surprised at tho\ behavior o f women. Every man marries1 n'Sphinx. Tho power which that, boy, with ;his frank manner, cheorylaughterandhonestheart (fo r i aclmit his cha_rm, as who does not ?)’ had got' over liis mother, who was no fool,:i'can,telUyon^is\inexp1icable. If ho had robbed ' tlio‘ banlc to' buy sweetmeats for tho urohius of Littlo Britain, I believo .his mother^would. have cried for,jaiy and goneUo^aày 'her prayers. Thero is a poeufiar beauty ■about a woman's charaater ; but as to expecting rational conduct or logical argument, you might as well mako a salad of \roses or .walk! in’ high-hoeledf boo ts.^ ;!.\ ]/iJnV j;^ ! !;!(! '!! .Septimus had now finished the anec dotes of his eon. Leaning his head upon his hand and looking across the table, ho asked, “ What is my boy to bo?” _ “ What docs ke'wish to be ?” I asked in turn. s r< This is just what ltasked him 'the other day,'’ niiid my friend, with à half smile; “ and the.young: wretch ang- gested that he'should.follow my pro fession.” ^ 1 ‘ Your profossion'l\ ' sried' I, in amazoment. I had known Septimus all my life, aod-was weli.awM* that hehad never followed‘ an oeCnpntion'for'-inoTe than six day* at n time. The routine of work which he plaiiied on Monda# cally, and'BaiU;j/‘Sl am sfrsid'.lis laughing at'fne', YouKnoV thut I went in,for all sorts of things when I was a young man.r-1''was' wild 'about art at one tim e ; and onoe I seriously thought' of making a fortune on the Stock Ex change/' <’Ydd rtoiethW j d y ’ 'devotion to lituntmte.;! siid bow I «tudifd a*clii- tecture that year when we traveled to gether. I might have made something of them.'if Thad/not been so often ma-: ticipated by Mr.' Matthew Arnold, Mr.’ Baskin and others. It was not until I was engaged to ' Jessie that I took' up political economy and found,tbafl'had been an unproductive'consumer.,' ' I t was a wonderful .science, and makes humanity' so simple, showing you that all men are very mnoh alike, if you look at tUemf i n , the rightiway,- and don’t confuse yourself-1^ the analysts of people's character.” “ Well,;., 8eptimn«1” ' I said, ,“.you can’t be surprised that yonr son should be as idle a young dog as you were in your youth. Perhaps he may some day catch this science, as. you did, for it i* certainly in the air.” Bnt,” said Septimus, “ the carious thing is that he is not idle at all. On the oontnay; he - vwHfs i'vsry,- steadily^' but hates' to get anything for\lt.'‘ T have sh^wn him bishops in their aprons and judges in th«ir gowns, but withonf'the’ alightest^cffaet. 'W h en\I took him into; the Hoase of Ooamoa* be «xpns*ed an opiaion that! all .the members' should ’ irttr wigs Hke ;the speaker's, maintaining that no man eould be revolutionary'in a wig. H e added that bnt for the headgear of the lawyers codification would be inevi table. When I introduoed him to the peer of my acquaintance he oross-questioned my noble lord aboat hi* tenants’ cottages. I should'suppose him to be entirely, without reference if he did not sometimas^ bfrtut i n t ^ eithnssMai />ver, people of “whom, 'for “tfie most parf, I have never heard, and who certainly have achieved no position. Bat thongu he is without ambition, he is *a far from idleness that hia.lindastry i* almost a vioe. He not only purines evsry study 'whichr.eannot:poasibty .lead7 to fortune or plaoe, bnt be oooapias his spare time. deserve wide pub licity : it I f Be well acquainted with tho best 'means, of escape from your house both at the tdp and bottom. 2. Do not get confused; admit no one to., your houso except; firemen, policemen, or. neighbors. •£8. I f a lady's or child’s dress takes fire, endeavor to roll tho person mp in -uarfrt!g, carpet^ or any picoo of woolen stuff. r.j „ • •1. Koep all doors and windows closed until’the firemen arrive. ' * •I'JB. Always keep' in yonr-be'droom. a piece of rope' sufficiently long to reaoh the sidewalk; in case you cannot make your exit by tho stairway. - , - '-6. I f you cannot make your way from a building by the' stairway;' endeavor to get in a front room;- a n d 1 be careful > to keep all doors; shut behind yon, for smoke will follow a draft, and,. flomeB the smoke. I f smoko enters'tho room and ¡it \is difficult to stand'erect, get yourimouth as dose to the floor as' pos sible; and breathe easy, as' there., is al- \*ays a fresh -current of air, near tho floor. A wet cloth over tho month will groatly’aid broathing. - v 7. In getting smoke from a room, al ways open tho upper portion\of “a win dow. l 3 - , • ; 8. In ease of .a fire in a hall, or any place where numbers ' of persons aro, keep perfeotly cool, and do all you can to provont a panic, ns- there is genor- ally plenty of time to esoape i f thero is 110 pauio. i 9. Do not go into a building whero thero is a thick smoko i f you cau help it, without a saturated sponge, in your mouth, or a wet clatU or handkerchief over your month.and_nose. 10. In ascending or descending a lsclder.'-do so with a regular stop, to prevent vibration. 11. Always try your coal-oil by pour ing a little of,it. in a saucer or cap, and if you can make it bairn with a match or>a piece of paper do not uso it. I ¡{12. Sand in place of--sawdust should bo used on the,lloor o f loil .stores, drng stores and. iucli like. . foolish Habits. > Dr/H*ll enumerates several practices of the careless public,' which aro some times as dangerous as tlioy are foolish : Walking\ along the ’ streets with\'the' point ot an unbrella'i.atioking ont 1>6' yond, under the arm or over the' shoulder. By suddenly stopping to speak' ta ’a'friend; or, other’ cause., a person 'walking” in th e 're a r 'h a d bis brain ^penetrated through tho oye,_in one o f our streetspand died' in a1 few d a y » . , . v J . A - v > 151 u To carry a long pencil in veBt or out side coat pocket. , Not-,long since a ,clerk, in , New. Yark fell, and his long .'cedar'.penoil'so pierced an important ijartery that 'it.had to be cut down from f f ^ t h o top of th%slioulder : to prevent his bleeding to death, witlx.a three months’ illness. - - .• . , 1 To take' exercise,' or walk fo r ' the health, when every step is, a drag^and instinct'arges repose. , < T o gnczle down a glaaa of cold -water, 'od getting np in,' the morning, without any! feeling of thirst, under the 'im pression of the. health-giving nature of its washing-ont qualities.. To sit down at the table and; “ force ” yourself to eat, when there is not only no appetite, but a decided aversion to food. To take a glasa o f soda, or toddy, or sangaree, or mint drops on a summer day, under the belief that it is safer and better than a glass of water.;,. To persuade yourself that yon are' de stroying one unpleasant odor by intr»- ducing a'stronger on e ; that is, to swoet- en your 'nnwashed garments and per; son, by enveloping yourself in the fumes of mask, «aa de cologne, or rose w a ter; the beat perfume being a clean akin and well-washed clothing. 1 l •' V f , if. ' I Cure« Her. .' Xn old man had a poor, cranky bit ol wile, who, regularly onoe a week got np in', the night and invited- the family to, see her die. She gave away her thiingv/ spoke her last words, made her peaoe with Heaven, and .then about eight she got up in the usual way and duappointed everybody by going at her household duties as i i nothing had liappenad.-, The old man got sick of it finally, and went oat and'got a ooffin, with “ Farewell, Mary A n n ” worked in, and a handful of silver-plated ‘screws. Laying the screw-driver,. be side -the collection, he invited .her to just to holler die once more. “ D o it,” said,he, “ and in yon go, and this fare well business is over.” Mary Ann is at this moment baking buckwheat cakes for a large and adm irirg family, while they dry apples in the ooffin np in the garret. _______________________ The Barling ton F r t t J*rcs»' says that the Eddy brothers, the Ohittenden materializing mediums, are regarded aa .hnmbufs'in their own neighborhood.. , floa.Carlos at Mass,,,; - , ’- i A oorrespondont o f theLondon Daily Jtfcitis, writing from.Estolla, says.: , ; Every day each issjnfeftt is marched to ohuroh.at *ome hour'or other tot ihd saying of the rosary ; but on Sundays the oeremony beoomesi moro striking. T h e 1 midday mass is attended , by,, the, king, whoso Quarters are in a roomy housè j lisi op'i*>site thè sqnaro. A.little before twelve ou.'that day the ^men of the' king’* esoort, numbering about i> hundred, and :the.r regiment of the king's foot guards, are paraded in arms upon the sqfiafe ititli their, band, their fifes and drams, etc'.,' and 'a* tho clock’ ■trikes twelve are marchêd into church, with fixed bayPcot« and bands playing.- The; infâçtry stands faoinç the,.high\ ‘altar in oolomns of companies, leaving' to isle.in 'tlie conter of thè church. Thia ia iinéd a i rince t ÿ ibs dismounted 'horsemen of the .king’s escort. The king now enters ..the., church, .accom panied by his staff, and proceeds lip tho aisle to tho foot’ of the altar.'! The batid< strikeo upj the troops present arms, and à low maâs ia ssid, a.fe#.drummer boys in their regimentals doting uii aeolytes. Tho band plays during tho wliolo short service, only at tho'mciiâoct'ïf the ole- yiition tho escort draws swords and s!l tho troops drop on oiié’ Sùto, ’whichfis customaryiu Boman Oatholic countries.. On Sundays .tlie Bquaro of Esteilft is' thronged with men and women from all parts of the throe provinçeSj who come to see the king, and when ho the oliuroh poroh, mas* boing ovor, he ,is saluted by vociferous ncolamations. It is in vaia that his followers close around hini, and that a'line of soldiers on either side endeavor to keep the way cloar— the, people, men, women; and' children, press forward; and a struggle begins among the foremost in the orowd to' catch hold of tho king’s hand to kiss it. They falli on thoir luieoS. before him, they get botween the soldiers and aro .quite irropressible.i ■ Such is'tho enthusiasm of the inhabitants of these provinces for thin yonng prince./ As 1 said before, they, »h o * nqjVsigcs... of weariness of .this long war, and'of the burdens it lays upon them1. Indeed, one of the' most remarkable features of this strange .'struggle , ia,cthe I perfect amity whioh, reigns between th^,sol diery and 'the' populatio'n. ' When off dnty tho soldiers will holp the ' people upon whom thoy are ' billeted in>' their labors. The vintage lias just-been fin ished, and while it lasted the/vineyards wero full of soldiers.assisting tho coun try people to got in their grapes. ' What One Vote Did. ‘ I A single voto in .Now Yorli.city, says' tho Express,:mhi&e Jefferson'President of tho United States, and this ono vote moved the polioy of tho .Government, not only under Jefferson, but. nnder his Buccessor, Jamos Madison. ' So a tin- Klu voto of 100,000 votes mado Marcus Morton Governor \of Massachusetts.' So one vote elected Wm. Allen, in the. Ohillicnthe district, Ohio, to Congress in 1834, and .one yote subsequently made him Unitod States 3eaator for six years later. The following case of the kind is still more remarkable : ''In 1830, Dan.Stpne, of Cincinnati, was a candidato for. the Stalo Legislature. Walking .up Main street on the'morn ing of the election, ho overtook an ac quaintance going' to the polls, who in-, tended to voto .the ;opposition ticket., Stono solicited his voto. “ Wo are'old frionds,” said ho,' “ and I ' know ¡you .will show an' old friend • that mark- of kindness.”, Party spirit.was then com paratively, quiet.,, /The; .voter .replied, “ Woll, Dan, you aro'a pretty clever' fellow.' I don’t'care i f ‘. I do.” That ono vote'elected Stone',< aiid'gavo a ma jority of one.to the:Legi«latnre, .which made .Thomas, Ewing United States Senator. Mr., Ewing's vote on tho ques tion of confirming Martin' Van Buron as Minister-Plenipotentiary to Oreat Britain enabled the -Vice President, to give the casting vote.,against it,.aud so inado Mr. Vau, Buron first ,Vico Presi dent and then 'President;'' and \deter mined the general 'policy of tho coun try for four yoars. i! .' . ; - . The,Christmas Tree.* ' The size of , tho , Christmas tree de? pends on the number of. prosonts it' is to.be laden with,; for a Sunday-school one or sometimes'two trees of qnite large size are proenred. - They may be of pine, homlock, cedar, arbor..vitto,,or spruce; any, evergreen' of snitablo Bbape^will answer1the \ .purposo; The tree 'is usually set in a' box and firmly fastened in ,plaoe. f -The box is covered w ith , white,paper, or, muilin, prettily decorated with greenery,.and' serves os a resting place for presents too, heavy- to be hung on the troe: ; f Pop corn strung may be gracefully twined.in fes toons on the tree; ornamental balls of various colors of shiny surface come on purpose for decoration ; also’ small wax candles with' tiny -'candlesticks which' are fastened to ,the tree with wire ; also miniature flags, oornncopiss of brilliant tints and filled with candies are pleas ing. to the children. Egg* from which the' contents -have been ‘ oarefully' re moved may be covered with bits o f gilt paper cut/from the band,of..envelopes, with flowers or,fancy shapes' cut out of calioo o r ’silk or any highly colored ma teria)-and-pasted on—these-suspended from the limbs add beauty to' the tree. Bed and scarlet apples look well. ..The presents are labeled with'the name of the persons for whom they are intended and hung npon the tree. The distribu tion takes: place after the feast whieh it crowns and closes; ,the lighting of the candle« in the tree giving the final ef fect to its beauty,'before the gifts are removed. ,'1'' ' ' ’ ' 1 n ’ < - ----- r~ . ---- ------- —y i W h a t h i wxli < Do.— When tlie elected candidate in New’York is reminded.' by “ heolers” of ante-election promises, he will point to the following new eon- stitutional amendment and remirk Mi at he cannot tell-a lie : “ And I do farther solemnlyawear affirm) that I have not directly or'indirectly paid, offered or promised to pay, contribnted or of fered er proaised to oontribnte, any. money or other valuable thing as a con sideration or reward for the giving dr withholding a'vote at the election at which I was' elected to said office, and have not made'any promise to infloanoe the giving, or withholding any auch •vote.” , . THE B ESCU E»;CH tU )K E K . , .Terrible Story o f the 1/0M pr Falb«r,' iltMk'. cr» itHti Brother by lb« T w l i n r h •.< -ACWUi’. Tnle «flU rrcr. . : - À ooffeepondent,- writing from Texas, says : I had a tale Tiitli the little, girls who have,,just been rescadd from the liorrovs f ’of their Iudian ' captivity. Their ; appearanoe, despite -their ,li(e aniong barbarians, is still gentle., and eagaging, such. »3 ia wotn by,more for-, iuu&ts ehiidren of oivilizatibri;; The1 naivete with1 Which the elder o f the two sisters told their toucliitfg'story ; would penetrate any heart with its simple .but airful tempering of pathos. - She mode lieistdtinlentay follows:' 1 .Mynamo is Juliana Arminda Ger- jrian. I am’oged seven years. - M y sis ter here,-Sancy Adeline,.is aged five, and a half years, ,.. My father’s name was John .German, my mother’s Oath- cfins «i>d my two ' elder' sisters-Oath- erino ElizsbeiU, 'aged fifteen -years, aud Sophie Lewie, ogod , twelve years.., My older sisters ai;o, yot .with tuo Indian*. I havo only *óen,Ctttlieririe!siùce. ,.Sho told mo Sohio was well and among the Indians;' -I'conld hear her voioe some times whoa she Was beaten : by the „ In dians and,.waa, acreamiug.ybut oould tt&v-saa her-o’Fesv -55l«5y killed pit'about, throe weeks.ngo on1 Smoky 'H ill river, Kansas. ’ He was going 'from Georgia, in Fanning county, wliero we came from, to' arttlo in Colorado. Wkop.ray father ¡heard tini Indians coming ho turned black in tho faco and èonUV’not get his gnn up\1 tò shoot, -j: .They came aud took an axe, after taking., ¿ o ld, of, pa's liorso, and.strnok;himin the head, outtiiigiit opan.; Then they killed 'iny oldest brother', (S,t'eplicn,' ¿ud eldest *is- •tar, Itobecoa’ Janb.' They cut’ into tho heads of all, oxcept ray, b iggest, sister, and scalped them. Then they dragged mo out lrom undor tho ^feathor bed in ttio wafjon, Whcro I was 'w ith sister. She oommeuded’ iimV set up crying, i J crawled iu again and wotlt to sleep. I could not cry. ^Thore_wasn’t cnottgh tours iu my eyes. TiTey tbok 'ftll'the feathers otlttof<tbs)bada.and utade.pU-. ■lows out of ono of them. . They ‘ liked soft pillows, but they, won't have, soft beds. Thoy .don’t treat mo'well.' They had plum's to okt tlie Brst day for ‘din ner1 and’after they got through eating thoy gitve us wluttiwos loft,, Thoy thou bridled up the horses and pot sister in front ofr one, y 9 ung. buck and me in front of another;1' on ‘ horseback.'1 We were jolted'so tliat oiir necks got atift1 After awhilo they, took.u*' ,t>nt. one day and loft us on the pralrl« all alono, ' I don’t know what^thoy 3id.it for.'“ After; awhile siBtor'and I got up and'!found a wagon trail and''we followed i t s i x miles to where there had been somo,,camping party and we^fonud somo corn and oraokors, with a littlo grain of , meat.' Wo got an'old broken oup; and ' bucket dud wont down to the creek and , got somo water/ [This was one of tho old camps of the United, States troops.1 -Then some Indians camo that day anil took in away again and'put us down in a càmp where there were 'Indian squaws—where your.soldiers oame and found us on the day of the. firing. The Indians didn’t havo. nny otlier fight whilo we, wore with thorn; W o heard tho firing bnt did' not hear the yelling,. ; ! • - •' ■ , A Mistake Ab’iint I » ; ” ‘ ■ \ ‘ h i < !.i ■' \A writer in the Spectator ^fchinks *fc * mistake to call the moon a mere aatel- lito of the earth,'when tho is in reality a companion planet, following'-'a path round tho sun’ which ;aot nearly, ¡re sembles that;, pursued by tho earth, in shape as. woll as in extent, that i f the two path* wero tweed down'òn a quarto sheet, ' i t ’ would not be'-ea:y to dis- tiugnish \one -from .the other. ; ¡„Oar earth,- remarks this writer,, is simply the, largest, while the moon* is'\the smallest of .that inner family o f worlds' over whioh tho snn bear* special- sway; hor does Meroury exceed) the moon to tloigreat a ;degice: in , masa and in volume, as the earth, or Venns exceed* Mercury ;. y et the moon; with* ber bm- faco of ' fourteen million' square miles,. seems to be, beyond a doubt, a mere desortiwaste, without air or water,-ex- po3od. to alternations of, heat and'cold which no living 'crcaturo'k'uown to'man eould ' oiidure; ‘ and, notwithstanding tier position'as an importanti' member of the ..solar, system, as well aa the undoubted, fact that in her motions ,she obeys the snn in preforence to the earth;' she has nevertheless’ been so fareo- croed by the earth’s inttuenoe aa to be compelled to turn always the. same faco toward her 'larger companion orb, so that not a ray from tho earth ever falls upon fnlly five millions of square mils* of the farther lunar hemisphere. Feand ¿ Coal Mine.' i ,Tame* Taylor is a very wealthy owner \and manager of coal mines in Perry county; Ohio. • He used to be a jour nalist. Believing that Perry county was the heart of the trans-Allegheny coal fields, he went on a pedestrian tour of inspection in that section, in: tending to describe what ho saw in let ter* to a Chioago newspaper. After gathering, all the accessible informa tion, hestopped at Columbns, where'he met tho lato. Gov. Tod, to whom he de scribed his'frip. The Governor appre ciated more fully than did-Taylor the value of the 'discovery. ' “ D o n ’t- pub lish it/’.he «aid, \ bnt go down there and buy up or'contract for f i f t y thou sand seres-of the most promising land yon ean' find. I will back you np.” Taylor had made the tour on bis own account, intending-to sell his letters to the ,ne.w*paper' that ‘ would pay him tho most; So the information which he had acquired was legitimately hia own, and he used it a« advised. G ov. Tod died: too soon to profit by the enter prise, bnt other men fnrnished the capital,and now Taylor is a millionaire. F rench F ab « * « . —Recent statistics shew that the whole number o f farmer* in Franoe is 7,383,250, of whieh 5,875,- 945 are lasd proprietors. O f the . non proprietors, 380,533 farmers rent land, 201,227 farm lands for a share o f the produce; and 869,364' are day labrtera. The’ land- proprietors eoaatiiat* on»- seventh of the: entire population, and eighty .per.oent. of, the antfM aftietil- tnral adult male ; \ ’ ' ’ l(e a * of luterest. t‘A police oonrt in Lawronoe, Mass., had a father, mother, son', and daugh ter arraigned together for intoxication, - ‘ A machine - (aid to be oapable of hntking - 800 bushel* of 'corn per diem „ baa been exhibited at Mishawaka, Iud. The State Temperanoe Alliaiioe of California has determined upon the oitablishment of a oold‘water political party. •Thero is a smart ’ woman in Kuights- town, Ind. She oan.pnt out a b ig wash ing and ,get , dinner while, her two daughters arc playing a game ol cro quet. 1 Aü èîtitor says' the only reason he knows of why his house'was not blown away the other day, during a severo gale,,was,,beoause *,horo.was a hoavy mortgage upon it. ' \ it i*' asserted by,a well known chemist - that ‘moat1 will not putrefy in com pressed air, and even when putrefaction has begun it may be arretted by plaoiug tho meat in compressed air. . tìòrsral convicts having escaped from the jail at West Point, Mississippi, the judge of the county oonrt has tried tho experiment of putting, tho jailor into one of the vacant cells. lt 'a përnou in » house on flr'o has the prosenoo- of mind to apply a wet doth to his mouth or nostrils a passage oan he offected^ through tho densest smoke without' auy serib'us inbonvenieuûur ~ — - ■“ Can yon spare’ me five minutes?” said a friend,, entering our eanotum. “ Not if,two will auawer your purpose,” wo replied. ’ Ho occupiea but one, and thanked us kindly for the intimatlon.- •”: Mrs. Fawcett mjniion* the oase of an EogliBliman who oppoi.ed-the.educatiou of women becansoi.ho. littiV tried it on his..own\ daughter,' “ and it- was all wasted, for, after all, B.ho was lAarriod at ninptoon,” \ ■’ 1 I !l “ Verts” is the wòrd-'nów appliod in England' to persons who change: their faith, Oouvertibeingin pomo,oases,top respectful, and,pervert in other eu^oa 'dot rcBpeotfùl enough, tho-barbarism is hold to bo jiistiflabis. ’ ••'l’he oourts of ’Haddam, Conn., are regularlyf attended by a lunatic, wbo walk* nine mile* evory.- morning and night for that purpose. Hia delusion ia that thè suits woiild oil.go wrong it lie (lid not’look after them. • ' ' A \ man1 was1 recently ‘ arrested at • .-Whitoport,: N. Y., for the novel crime of stealing bolts from.a,;raUrpad traok. Ilo ùnaorewed,„and, carried off 100 at one 'time. ^ Luokilÿ the theft' was dis covered iii^ season to provent acoident. > -The inow.hotel in San Francisco is to be. BoVen'ntories high, and a Mansard roof is to be built above tho scvonth story. The waiter* will all bo required to part their hair in the .middle, and address the humblest gncBt aa “ Col onel.” ' ‘M\ 1 Twelvo States have adopted oom- pulaory eduoation laws. : Now Hamp shire, Vermont, MassachuBetts, Ken- tnoky, Bhodo Island ‘ Now Jersey, Miohigan, ' Kansas, ' Texas, Nevada, California; and from 1st.of January, 187D, New York. ,. , • Yoa can’t tell m u c h about tho girl* nowadays, .they are. so liko a, good news paper—capitally made,up. T o eco a girl as'she really is, you must drop in on her unexpcetedly. ■ As some one has, remarked;- the way .to find.a g ii. ;put >*. to call when she isn’t in. ' A canal boat, was passing under the , bridge in Syiacuse’us the locomotivo was1 crossing abovo. Tho engineer damped'a'pan of live' eoals; whioh fell into the boat.’. A load of hay and, straw afforded goodoombnntible material,and the boat.jvtts entirely eonsnmodj \‘At a competitive examination for a prize for the'best'composition at a grammar sohool in New York city,^one of the'1 effusions handed in contained the following ,p*s«sge : “ A “ an who has been born and bred m the lap of liixnry is more apt to succumb to bed bug poison than the hardy pioueor of onr Western' forest*;\ ’ i They were Beiere, U*. ■ Moire than twenty-five years ago it was discovered that oopper mines .had bc&n worked on the shores of L a k e Su perior, in ,ages so,remote that their period in,tho histoiyof the earth conld only be conjectured, thongh. the fact that copper implement* have been foand among,the remain* of the monml builders..leaves little donbt that the siime prehistoric race, were tho first miners in' North America. Very re cently an enormons mas* of native cop per wa* fonud on the premises/of tho Minong Mining Company of Detroit on , Isle Boyal, in a pit which had been ex cavated by the ancient miners. _ Liko similar masses found elsewhere in the Lake Superior region, this was prob ably left by the monnd_ builders be cause they had not sufficient'mechani cal ingenuity to raise so heavy a body of metal, and so had contented them selves with hammering off all project ing angles, leaving the mass quite smooth. ~A letter from Mr. A. O. Davis, who discovered \tKe'Isle\Ilòyal Speci men, to the president of! the Western- Reserve Historical Society, Bays that tho' pit in, which it was found is ono ol. a teriea sunk on a belt which for a mile and a'half had been completely miuéd by the ancient workmen. It took four days to get the water out of_ this pit. Mr. Davia expresse* the opinion that timber must have been vory scarce on the idaiid. at the time the pit was origi nally-opened, from the faot that the miner* used large 'granite boulders to hold up the hanging ground ; boulders that would weigh from 400 to 500 ponnds, where any modern miner would use timber to prevent the ground from falling in. A Y o r a o M ax T a u x at h is W o rd .- The other day Bish'op Haven took an unfair advantage of a gushing youth .at Marysville, in Marion county, Iowa. The Biahop was dedicating a ^Methodist obnrch and soliciting subscriptions for it, and a certain young man whi*pered that if i eertain yoang lady in the oon- gragalta a wewM ■ ■*■ i y >iaar l»e -, would S 've,- « a a t - t e the^
