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the distance a sea showed itself, then
arose walls with flowing flags, peaceful
huts and sunny gardens.
"Oh mother, let us husten there,
cried the little camel.
Beware, little one y said the old
camel &" il is a wicked illusion, more
cruel than the birds OF pray that hoyel
around us to devour us If we were to
follow it, it would lead us farther into
the hot desert. More dangerous are
the pleasures that would lead us to de-
struction than the open dangers that
beset our path. What you see is
mirage.
The little camel did not understand,
but tried to keep up bravely by its moth
er's side.
The caravan was dragging YEARLY
along sometimes in despair a cheering
word arose from one of the drivers to
the patient animals upon whose strength
the fate of the whole caravan depended.
Even the lions voice would have beto-
kened the nearness of vegetation.
Listlessly the guidance was left to
the camels, whose instinct was sure
guide.
AluS ltlC OlN lOOhtU
very anxiously at the hot sands stretch
ing before them, and then at her little
one. Was it instinct or mothers love
that make her keep on, and not lose
hope ?"
The sun was sinking and the shadows
falling over the yellow sand when the
camel-mother stretched her neck high
into the air, shifted and cried. With
wild effort, as if she would burst her
bonds she rushed forward. A cry of
Joy broke from the caravan, for they
knew the unerringinst of the camel,
that can perceive water at few hours
distance. All eyes looked bright, all
limbs were full of life. 1t might be a
few hours, but yet they would reach it
sometime and on they pushed, forgetful
of all.
AT length a well known sight offered
itself to their eyes. A few palm trees
arose in the distance, and between the
grass bubbled the fountain. The poor
tired ones drank and rested, the little
one by the mothers side The camels
were unburdened, and the next morning
they started again refreshed. In few
days they reached their journeys end,
bearing with them costly merchandise
destined for European markets. Chill
drca'S Hour.
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ANOTHER CREMATION POEM.
A Sailors Opinion of a Comet.

We were told by a celebrated naval
officer the following anecdote On one
of his cruises the sailors saw comet
and were somewhat surprised and al
armed at its appearance. The hands met
and appointed a committee to wait on
the commander to ask his opinion of it.
They approached him and said:
GO We want to ask your opinion, your
honor"
Well, my boys, what is it about ?"
We want to inquire about that
thing up there"
"Now, before / answer you, let me
know what you think of it..
Well, your honor, we have talked
it all over, and we think it is star
sprung a-leak. "
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CELESTIAL TIT FOR TAT.
NY MARY MAPEs DODGE.

One day, wnen the sun was going down,
lie said TO a star hard by.
"sparkle your best I; for you see, my friend,
I'm going out OF the sky"
Now the little star was old as the sum-
Though rather small Of his age,
SO he Kept quite stil in the yellow light,
Aud looked as wise as a sage.
"I'm going, you see A" cried the sun again,
"Going right out of the sky"
And he slid away, but not out Of sight
or that little star hard by
The little star peeping, saw him go
ON hisgorgeous western way;
And twinkled with fun, az he said, I" o sun
You're in for another dayl
" And as for going ont of the sky,
Your majesty knows you can't;
You are shining somewhere, full and strong,
In spite OF your rays aslant.
No answer. Then the star grew bright,
And sparkled as neighbors came;
lie told the joke to the twinking crowd,
And they laughed the sun TO shame.
One merry star was so amused,
He shot across the sky;
And all the others bobsed ahd blinked,
To see him speeding by.
But, after awhile, rosy light
Appeared on the eastern side;
And, one by one, the stars grew shy,
And tried in the sky to hide.
"Ho no 4" the sun broke forth. "Ho no
Just stay where you are, my dears,
And shine away, for you can't be seen
When all of my hight appears.
"The people below will say you gone,
Though you're shining. Think of that!
Well, they thought all night / had left the sky,
SO it's only tit for tat"
st. Nicholas for June
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Badly Sold.

The Bowling Green (Ky.) Democrat
is responsible for the following One
of our good citizens, being aroused a
little earlier than usual by the strong
odor of a skunk, left his couch at early
dawn and proceeded to make his home
ly toilet. Having drawn on his unmen-
tionables, he stirred up the dying EN-.
bers SO as to have a little more light,
and then reaching round to the corner
of the hearth for his shoes, proceeded
to the front TO put them on. Happen
ing to glance back, he saw black and
white something follow him. Pole
cat" he yelled, and made for the door,
shoes i'll hand. Being closely pursued,
he had not time to unfasten the door,
and passed on round the room. Com
ing to the bed he shouted, Polly, I'm
gong to Jump in NO, you won't,
came from deep down under the cover,
and so round he went, still holly pur-
sued. He endeavored to open the door
again, but the enemy was upon him,
and round he went on the second heat.
Reaching the bed again, he exclaimed,
I'm going to jump in No, won't,
came again. Yes, but burned il 7
dou't, and dropping his shoes, III lac
went, and, hauling the cover over his
head, awaited the attack. Finding all
quiet, after time he cautiously peeped
out, and with the increasing light dis
covered-not polecat, but his wifes
black and white knitting, with the ball
of yarn in his shoes.
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Matrimonial Freaks.

Our cousins across the Atlantic con-
trive to amuse themselves for an hour or
so every year with the oddities of the
marriage reports. They have Regis
ter General in London whose reports
are always dssected with curious inter-
est, and the press often dwells on the
singularities those reports present with
evident junction. Thus they tell us
that in 1870 no less than eleven gentle
men, each approaching the age of
ninety, instead of "getting religion, P"
got wives. One OF these veterans mar
ried lady aged ninety, while the other
ten took wives of from thirty to thirty
five summers ripeness. One fair and
innocent creature of sixty-fve conde-
scended to take to her blushing arms a
husband of thirty but several widows
who had passed the grand climacteric,
and reveled in all the fascinating
charms of three score and ten, dotted
their weeds with a courage truly COM
mendable, accepting husbands, how
Only fancy, though, a bachelor, of sew
enty- five, after half centurys refec-
ton upon the perils of double harness,
wedding an infant of seventy-one, while
widower of the same age, with a
greater taste for the inanimate, carried
off the heart and hand of bride barely
twenty Three hundred and twenty
five girls married at sixteen and under,
during that year, while over eight thou
sand bachelors married widows to con-
sole them for coniugal losses. Nearly
double that number, though, preferred
to wed spinsters who could not, in mo-
ments of vexation, throw mp the per-
fections of some "dear departed, some
marvellous "number one"
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Popular Ignorance in Italy.

According to the census of 1871, more
than twO-thirds of all the adult men
and women of Italy could neither read
nor write. The degree of illiteracy diff
fers very greatly in the several States
of Italy. An official return issued by
the Government in 1870 furnishes de-
tailed tabular information regarding
the amount of education received by
the conscripts for the army between
1867 and 1871. According to this re-
turn the percentage of analtabete," or
totally illirerate, young men of the age
of twenty-one years drafted into the
army, was as follows for various PROV
lnces
vicenza. 23b in every 100 men.
Turin 2Gt IN every 100 men.
Novara, 293 IN every 100 men.
Milan, 80 in every 100 men.
BcrgamO, 80 in every 100 men.
Venice, 63F in every 100 men.
Payia, Al IN every 100 men.
Genoa, 54S in every 100 men.
Modena. 66 in every 100 men.
Mantua, 80 in every 100 men.
Florence. ca in every 100 men.
Bologna. ga in every 100-men.
Leghorn 3jl in every 100 men.
Rome. 6S in every 100 men
Naples. 49, IN every 100 men.
Ravenua II in every 100 men.
Calabria, 81 in every 100 men.
The Island of Sardinia, II in every 100 men.
The Island OF Sicily, 81 in every 100 men.
The whole list of seventy provinces
exhibits a general average of Ga per cent.
of young men without the slightest rudi-
ments OF education. The whole of
Southern Italy averaged II per cent. Of
total illiteracy.
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Pith and Point.

A BAD oMEN-To owe men money.
EYES they have, yet see not-Nee-
dies.
THE beer kegs are at lager-heads with
the women.
WHICH is the longest rope in the
world? Europe.
A MARRIAGE on a railway train may
properly be called a railway-tie.
A BAD -eminence-What is thera
that beats good wife A bad hus-
band.
WHAT word is always pronounced
wrong even by the best scholars?
Wrong.
GA SPLENDID ear but very poor
voice" as the organ grinder said of the
donkey.
KISSING your sweetheart is like eating
soup with fork /; it takes long time
to get enough.
In Dublin newspaper appeared the
following ga number of deaths are
unavoidably postponed"
BROOKLYN ladies have begun a cru
SADIE against corsets, being consistently
opposed to tight" lacing.
A CINCINNATI physician was absurd
enough to take some of his own medi-
cine. The Coroner's fee was so.
A MOTHER advised her daughter to oil
her hair, and tainted away when the
damsel replies, "Oh, no, ma it spoils
the gentlemen's vests.
WHEN Sir Edward Thornton came into
the theater, during the engagement of
Lydia Thompson, "Gath remarked,
Here comes the British lion to see the
American calf.
a TRANscENDENTAL preacher took for
his text, Feed my lambs" After he
came out of the church plain old
farmer said to him "That was a very
good text, but you placed the hay SO
high in the rack that the lambs couldn't
reach it, nor the old sheep either.
A GENTLEMAN riding on horseback
came upon an Irishman who was fen
cling in a most barren and desolate piece
of land. "What are you fencing in
that lot for Pat ?" he asked. A herd
OF cattle would starve to death on that
land" "And sure, yer honor" replied
Pat, "wasn't fencin' it in to kape the
poor bastes out NV it. ;"
A GENTLEMAN living in Banks county,
Pennsylvania, under the influence of
wine, undertook to kiss a couple of
young ladies against their will. They
retreated to the kitchen, whittier he
followed and, in his struggle to get into
the room, one of his legs caught in the
door, and the excited young ladies
amputated it with saw. 1t was wood
en- leg.
ANOTHER CREMATION POEM.
l have another wife, long to treat
without which wife, my JOY would be complete,
To fires crematory, until see
Five pounds of ashes-all that's left Of she.
Then on some spot, remote from worldly din,
I'd dig a hole and dump her ashes in.
Thither, perchance-when fades days gairish light
And drowsy murmurs soothe the ear of night,
Till silence like benediction flies
From bower to bower, and on the pig-sty sits
Some friend might stray with soul more fond than
mine,
And DER her train the wild cucumber-vne
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Victims of Opium.

A reclaimed victim of opium sends to
the Cincinnati Commercial his prescrip-
ton for the cure of the dreadful habit.
Arguing that the average victim uses of
the drug what is equivalent to twenty
grains of morphine day, he counsels
the preparation, by competent ply
stefan or careful druggist, of go grains
of morphine, % grains of belladonna,
and 40 grains of quinine. Divide this
into ninety pills, each of which will con-
tain three grains of morphine, and
begin by taking three pills day. The
nine grains of morphine thus taken,
with their admixture, go as far with the
patient as did his previous twenty
grains day, owing to the peculiar eff
feet of the belladonna in the combina-
ton. Lower the quantity of morphine
in each successive batch of the pills
until two grains per diem are reached,
and then lessen the proportion of bella
donna and, perhaps, add small dose
of nux vomica. The cure is said to be
almost certain, but too much care can
not be exercised as to the quality of the
belladonna, which is a deadly poison in
anything over cautiously small doses.
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PARIS is substantially fire. proof, with
out the use OF iron-girders and beams,
iron lathing, or brick or tile floors, by
the adoption of simple principle of
construction, which is, that there shall
be no air-spaces left between the doors
or between the plaster of walls and the
studding or wall itself and the roof
must be covered with tile, slate or
metal. There is not such an incen-
diary thing as a wooden or tar-and-
gravel roof in Paris.
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THE LITTLE FOLKS.
How the Baby Came.

The Lady Moon came down last night
She did, you needn't doubt it
A lovely lady dressed in white;
I'll tell you all about IL.
They hurried Len aud me to bed,
And Aunty said, "Now. maybe
That pretty moon up overhead
Will bring us down baby.
% You lie as quiet as can be;
Perhaps you'll catch her peeping
Between the window-bars, To see
II all the folks are sleeping.
And then, if both of you keep still,
And all the room is shady,
She'll float across the window-sil,
bonnie white moon-lady.
:" Across the sill, along the floor,
Youll see her shining brightly,
Until she comes TO mothers door,
Aud then she'll yanishly lightly.
But in the morning you will nnd,
If nothing happens, maybe,
She's left us something nice behind
A beautiful star-baby.'
We didn't Just believe her then,
For Aunty's always chatting;
The tales she tells 70 me and Len
Would make You die a-laughing.
And when she went out pretty soon,
Len said, THAT'S Aunty's humming;
There ain't bit Of ladylnoon,
Nor any baby coming"
thought myself it was a fb,
Aud yet wasn't certain;
So l kept quiet in the crib,
And peepeG behind the curtain.
/ didn't mean 10 sleep wink,
But. all without warning,
/ dropped right oif-and don't you thiak,
never walked til morning.
Then there was Aunty by my bed,
And when / climbed and kissed her,
She laughed and said, " You sleepy-head!
You've got little sister
What made You shut your eyes so soon?
I've half IA mind 10 scold you
For down she came. that lady moon,
Exactly as l told you"
And truly it was not joke,
In spite of Lens denying,
For Just the very time she spoke
We heard the baby crying.
The way we jumped and made rush
For mothers room that minute!
And Auuty stopped US, crying, " Hush
Or else you sha'nt go in it,
And so we had to tip-toe in,
And keep as awful quiet
As If 1t was mighty sin
To make "A bit OF riot.
But there was baby, anyhow
The funniest little midget
[ wish you could Just peep in now,
Aud see her squirm and tidget.
Len says he don't believe it's true
(He isn't such a gaby)
The moon had anything to do
With bringing us that baby.
But seems to me it's very clear,
As clear as running water
Last night there was no baby here,
So something must have brought her
CHRISTIAN Union.
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To CORRESPONDENT.

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A LAW is about to be promulgated
abolishing imprisonment for debt in
Russia.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-01-07

A Boy, FELL Orr H1s, sEAT-THE PANIc
THAT CAME OF IT.-rFrom the Buffalo, Ec-
press, December 27.l---A concert i'll kehr's
Hall last evening drew tremendous crowd.
About 10 O'Clock, when all were intensely
q little boy who had fallen asleep
in the gallery tumbled off his seat. Some.
body shouted "FigItln and this outcry
being nlisinterpreted by several persons,
who, not understanding what had hap
pened, and imagining that the building was
in flames, raised the cry Of ''Fire ., In q
moment there ensue1 scene which battles
description. The audience en- naasse arose
TO their feet and made q frantic rush for the
doors. Shrieks, curses, screams, intermingled
with groans and cries for help from the women
and children, were heard on all sides from the
frightened, frantic mass struggling to escape.
Men and boys threw themselves from the
galleries to the floors below. Others, many
ofsthem women, spraDg for the windows,
and endeayored to climb down on the
benches which they had thrown out 1; bat
finding this means Of escape unavaihng,
boldly precipitated themselves to the ground
a distance Of over fourteen feet: g Syipeak
children were hurled to the floor, and, hna.
BILE to rise, were trampled upon by the surgina
crowd; women tainted; Clothing was tori
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-01-07

A BILL TO PROTECT ALL CITIZENS IN THEIR CIVIL
AND LEGAL RIGHTS.
Be ii enacted Ly the Senate and House OF
REPRESENTATIVES Of the United STATES OF
america in Congress assembled, That Who
ever, being corporation or natural person,
and owner or in charge Of any public inn,
or of any place Of public amusement or en-
tertainnent for which Il license from any
legal authority is required; or of any line OF
stagc-coaches, railroad, or other means OF
public carriage of passengers or freight; or
of any cemetery, or other benevolent insti-
tutionS, or any public school supported in
whole or in part at public expense or by
endowment for public use, shall make any
distinction as to admission or accommoda-
ton therein Of any citizen of the United
States because of race, color, or previous
condition of seryitude, shall, on conviction
thereof, be fined not less than $500 nor more
than s. 900 for each offence; and the person
or corporation so offending shall be liable to
the citizens thereby injured, in damages to
be recovered in an action of debt.
SECTIoN2. That the offences under this act,
and actions to recover damages, may be pro-
secuted before any territorial, district, or
circuit court of the United States having ju-
risdiction of crimes at the place where the
offence was charged to have been committed
as well as in the district where the parties
may reside, as now provided by law.
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Letter from ,aar Same Old Fosy.

CLIFTON FORGE, january !, 1914.
L"~rs q !ac Ui>rGtet:
Eorly twriy" months ago. as an ayowed
"tid .o.y. wrote you OF the melancholy
t,aU.l> wiic.. Time has wrought in this
Ni.Iuilin rtGou since the days when jigs
ad Ids and ap;,iebutter boilings were the
Agpy medium, that brought together loving
sWan> and hiU>:!;n: lDaidens; of the wreck
An! ;'iA tiAi unfortunate circumstances and
st -".r!a.c race lad effected in this once
i,,r,.ug locally: and Of the various rumorS
d contemplated Improvement and progress.
NJ; iGciutc WAS lad. and drawn in sorrow
lui "2i"r>. htr " Temporal mutantur, ct nos
iH'2mT en- ilhs."
/. i now lny pleasing duty to chronicle
Sou" & tie changes which have since taken
ii"'. fir-'. | will mention that fine,
Substantial dam has been built upon the site
q he old dlu. several new buildings have
l't"n erected, others repiired, the marks Of
fi!yiGation AID .@:!i are fast being efiaced,
"," bu>'!chUrs" begins to wear some of
H. ANc!tut airs Of importance. A number
Of Land, are engaged in eYcavating and
t'"cf"hc preparing for large iron manu-
ia'uiIhs establishment. and the kind genius
"Ao has lately come TO preside in this noun
ta'i' region Is constantly pointing out new
aho most valuable mineral deposits. This
l'i!yr WAS used for al iron-Smelting furnace
ana alofge for number Of years, and the
or was hauled a considerable distance.
NOW, IN almost endless supply of rich fossil
ore has been discovered within stones
'H!ow OF the new furnace.
a lew miles above here branch railroad
~ To "a -, -.
aLu quite village, called "LoWmoor," has
sIEVhS up, where there is said to he an
abundance Of ore, and the company expect to
iHEtease their force 10 400 hands as soon as
st"s opens. Two miles and half below
M, pace, On the south side of The Rich
AGA mounttu "Callie Furnace" has
n'EH QUIT IN the most complete and SUBJ
f1'n'iai manner, and has steam machinery
WIiE"ea for blowing another furnace, which
wiz Dc built this year. 1t is thought by per.
so''' competent - judge that this property
"'4 some lands adjoining (which belong TO
""D."eF party, and aave not been built upon, }
,T'n".n lie largest and most easily-mined
IT','>S!s Oh IRON Ore that is to be found 10
,t~ 1n of, Perhaps, anywhere this side of
NV Ai>,l>slppi river.
"> i at>tncd soon to be the centre of a
l ,,; manufacturing district, aud il our wise
.>M''S az Washington would so lesislate
I. " n'H It's from financial panics and con-
Ws WIN, II would much facilitate matters.
E.tt lave paper currency as stable and re-
"s Tue Government itself, and the peo-
=, o a,r satisfied with its quality, but not with
=. I.,h'l'y. just as well expect one horse
f,, w. 'i!e work Of horse and q half as 10
.mi t,'' 'he presen, amount of currency to
d"y ,"'' Tue Business requirements OF the
H.
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TIE RELIGIOUS FAITH OF AGAsslz.-I can
not close this haSty and inadequate yet
feryent and hearty tribute without recalling
to your memory the reyerent spirit in which
he pursued bis scientific labors. Nearly forty
years ago, in his first great work on fossil
fishes, in developing his principle of CLASH
fication, he wrote IAN Invisible thread in
all ages runs throughth this immense diversity,
exhibiting as general result the fact that
there is:a continual progress in development,
ending in man., The four classes Of verte-
brates present the intermediate steps, and in-
vertebrates constant accessory accompani-
ment. Have we not here an immense mind as
powerful as prolific. the acts of an intelli-
gence as sublime as proYident, the marks of
a goodness us infinite as wise, the most pal
pable demonstration of the existence of a
personal God, the author Of all things, ruler
of the universe, and dispenser of all good !?
This, at least, is what read in the works of
creation" But it Is what he ever read, and
read with profound awe and admiration.
To this exalted faith he was inyincibly loyal.
No laws of nature were to linn the eternal
word of God. His repugnancer to Darwin
ism grew in a great part from bis apprc.
hension of its atheistical teEdency-an
apprehension which at best I cannot
share, for / forget not not that those
theories now in the ascendant are
adopted by not few determined Christian
men; and while they seem to me not only
improved but improbable, I could deem
them truth without parting with one iota of
INV faith in God and Christ. Yet can best
sympathize most heartily with MIN in the
spirit with which lie resisted what seemed
to him to lessen the majesty Of the Master
and supporter of the universe. Nor was his
mere theoretical faith. His whole life, in
its peryading spirit of service, ia its fidelity
to arduous duties, in its simplicity and truth
suluess, bespoke one who was sincerely full
filing mission from God to bis felloW-men.
DR.. Peabodys Memorial Sermon. !