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necessary to slap and pound themG Have
they less intelligence Have they cold
hearts? Are they lower in the scale OF be-
ing. We have heard many people say,
"If we were to bring up another child,
we would never whip it" They are wise
but too late. Instead OF God dong so 1T
tie for children that they must be whip
ped into goodness, he has done so much
ior them that even whipping can't ruin
them-that is, as a rule. But, alas, there
are many exceptions to this rule. Many
children are of such quality that a blow
makes them cowardly, or reckless, or de-
ceittul, or permanently ugly. Whipping
makes them steal; whipping makes them
hate their parents; whipping makes home
distasteful to them; whipping breaks
their spirits-makes the boys runaways,
makes the girls seek happiness anywhere
and anyhow. Whipping is barbarous.
Don't whip.-Golden Rule.
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ORIGIN OF THE TERM UNCLE SAM
Immediately after the last declaration
of war with England, Ebert Anderson,
of New York, then contractor, visited
Troy, on the Hudson, where was con-
centrated and where he purchased
large quantity of provisions--beef,
pork, etc. The inspectors of these ar
ticles at that place were Messrs. Eben-
ezer and Samuel Wilson. The latter
gentleman Invariably known as Uncle
SAM generally superintended in person
large number of workmen, who, on
this occasion, were employed in hunt
ing over the provisions purchased by
the contractor for the army. This casks
were marked E. A.-U. S." This work
fell to the lot of q facetious fellow in
the employ of the Messrs. Wilson, who,
on being asked by some Of his fellow
workmen the meaning of the mark (for
the letters q. s. for United States were
then almost entirely new to them) said
he did not know, unless it meant Elbert
Anderson and "Uncle Sam" Wilson.
The joke took upon the workmen, and
passed currently, and "Uncle Sam"
himself being present was occasionally
rallied by them On the increasing extent
of his possessions. Many of these work.
men being of character denominated
'food for powder" were found shortly
after following the recruiting drum and
pushing toward the frontier lines, for
the double purpose of meeting the enc
my and of eating the provisions they
had lately labored to put in good order.
Their old jokes accompanied them, and,
before the first campaign ended, this
identical one first appeared in print; it
gained favor rapidly till it pen etrated
and was recognized in every part of the
country, and will, no doubt, continue
SO while the United States remain
nation.
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HPrOpOsingn in Texas.

They manage these things differently
in Texas. This is how fond couple come
to an understanding, according to one
who pretendsto know. He sits on oneside
of the room in big white rocking chair
she on the other side, in little white
oak rocking chair. A long-eared dee,
hound is by his side, basket of sewing
by hers. Both the young people rock
necessarily. He signs heavily and looks
out of the west window at a myrtle tree
she signs lightly and gazes out of the
east window at the turnip patch. Al
last he remarks:
"This is mighty good weather for cot
ton picking"
''Tis that" the lady responds, "if We
only had any to pick"
The rocking continues.
Whats your dogs name?" asks she
"Coony!' Another sigh-broken still
ness.
whats he good for?"
whats lie good for?" says he alb
stractedly.
"Your dog. Coony."
"For ketching 'possums."
Silence for half an hour.
"He looks like deer hound"
"Who?"
"Coony."
"He is, but he's sort O. bellowsed, an
gettin' old an slow, an he Amino count
on cold trail"
In the quiet ten minutes that ensues
she takes two stitches in her quilt, q
gorgeous affair made after the pattern
called "Rose ofSharon."
Your ma raising many chickens?"
"Forty-odd.'
Then more rocking, and somehow
the big rocking chair and the little
rocking chair are jammed side by side,
and rocking is impossible.
Maxim quilts?" he observes.
eyes," she replies, frightening up, for
she is great on quilts. 1--WE Just fin
ished gorgeous Eagle of Brazil a
Setting Sum- and Nations Pride
Have you ever saw the yellow Rose OF
the Prairie?'"
NO"
More silence. Then he says:
DO you love cabbage?"
81 do that"
Presently his hand is accidentally
placed on hers, Of which she does not
seem to be at all aware. Then he sud-
denly says:
Use great mind to bite you"
what have you great mind to bite
me for?'
"Kase you won't have me"
"Kase you amt axed me-"
"WelP now, I Ak you"
"Then now I has you"
Coony dreams he hears sound Of
kissing, and next day the young man
goes after a marriage icense.--ChGm-
bers' Journal.
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4 Tough Question.

Children are often puzzled by ques-
tions which are not understood by their
elders. During the late Franco-Prus-
sian war a Sunday-school scholar read
about the prayers with which the Ger
mans and French were petitioning
Heaven for success to their arms.
Mother" asked little girl of her par
ent, IT don't see what the Lord can do
under the circumstances. do you? He
can't give the victory to both Of them,
and it seems to me like terrible di-
lemma to be placed in" Her mother,
who was not entirely satisfied with the
role which Great Britain played in the
affair, remarked, well, my dear child,
perhaps he viii do as the English do,
and remain neutral"
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How MYTHS Originate.

No doubt many legends of the
ancient world, though not really his
tory, are myths which have arisen by
reasoning on actual events as definite
as that which, some four years ago, was
terrifying the peasant mind in North
Germany, and especially in Posen. The
report had spread far and wide that all
Catholic children with black hair and
blue eyes were to be sent out of the
country, some said to Russia, while
others declared it was the King of
Prussia who had been playing cards
with the Sultan of Turkey. and had
staked and lost 10000 fair-hsired, blue
eyed children; and there were Moors
travelling about in covered carts to
collect them; and the schoolmasters
we're helping, for they were to have
SIS for every child they handed over.
For time the popular ex-
element was quite serious; the pa
rents kept the children away from
school and hid them, and when they
appeared in the streets of the market
town the little ones chung to them with
terrified looks. DR.. Schwartze, the
well-known mythologist, took the
pains to trace the rumor to its
source. One thing was quite plain,
that its prime cause was that grave
and learned body, the Anthropological
Society of Berlin, who, without a
thought of the commotion they were
stirring up, had, in order to class the
population as to race, induced the an
thorities to have a census made
throughout the local schools to ascer-
tain the color of the children's skin,
hair and eyes. Had it been only the
boys, to the Government inspection Of
whom for military CONSUMPTION the
German peasants are only too well &C
customed, nothing would heve been
thought of it; but why should the Off
Gals want to know about the little girls
hair and eyes?-Popular Science
Mo7lthlu.
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The Reporter.

A man falls from the scaffold. The
reporter hastens to the spot and pushes
his way to the mans side. my life
voyage is nearly ended" whispered the
dying man, as he held the reporters
hand. Ny soul, like an unfinished
craft, is being swept from its earthly
mooring and carried out into the great,
painless ocean of eternity. Oh, how
unprepared I am for this journey |!
How my spirit shrinks from embarking
on that silent, solemn seal I have a
wife and beautiful child who will mourn
my absence; and now that I see no fu-
ture, nothing but the dark, impenetra-
BILE shadow of death, which will soon
hide me from earthly eyes, the world
looks more beautiful, and I long-oh,
how long to stay. Good-by. Good
farewell. Pre-prepare for this"
Couragel courage!" whispered the
reporter, while tears as big as hickory
nuts chased each other down his nose /;
but-business is business" Sour
ageI' he whispered; @how-how do
you spell your name?"-Erchange.
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VOltaire's Remains.

When he died at Paris in May, 1778,
the church there refused sepulture to
its arch-enemy, and his body was in
tered in Champagne. During the
revolution the National Assembly de-
creed that Voltaire's remains should be
brought to Paris, and they were &C
cordingly deposited in the Pantheon
with great pomp, in 1871. Thither,
loo, presently came the body Of Rous-
seau. One dark night in May, 1914,
when the Bourbons were enjoying
their own again, some of the faithful,
indignant that the bones of such enc
mics to religion should rest in conse-
Grated ground, threw then. rell-men
into sack, and carried them to point
in the suburbs near Bercy, where there
was large vacant lot belonging to the
city. Here a hole had been already
dug, and the contents of the sack we're
shaken into it and covered with quick
lime. The hole was then filed in, and
the conspirators trampled down the
earth. Voltaire's heart had been saved
by friend, in whose family it remained
until 1864. On it's then being offered
to the Government, Napoleon III. de-
cided that it shouldHbe placed with the
body. On consulting the Archbishop
of Paris, that functionary suggested the
expediency of verifying the actual
presence of Voltaire's remains. An in
vestigation followed. and the truth
came out. The heart was then placed
in the National Library, and portion
of the brain appropriated by the sur
geon at the autopsy was publicly sold.
Its present whereabouts is unknown.
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Growing Old.

Yes, We are all growing old, though
unconsciously, and the current of life
flows On as smoothly as ever; indeed,
the fuller the current, the more noise
less the flow. And months and years
are, after all, SO very much alike that
they pass without special observation,
and we begin to get old before we think
of ie. And when we sit down to a
simple sum in arithmetic-t the sub
traction of the year of our birth from
the current year-we are astonished at
the answer, and are so doubtful OF its
correctness that We go over it second
time, but always with the same result.
Children grow up around US, but we
get used to that, and seldom stop to
compute their ages and realize the
swift fight of the years. In fact, our
children never get old to us. The wife
who has stood lovingly and faithfully
at our side so long never changes, and
is always the fair young bride of the
old and happy days. And so with hus-
band-to the wife. Though his hair
might have grown gray in some way
which we do not understand, and his
firm step may seem little less elastic or
firm than it was. the husband does not
seem to have changed much, after all.
He is to us the same strong, manly one,
whom we loved so much, and to whom
we confded so much just a little while
ago. To be sure, the few friends of our
youth that remain are all gray-headed,
but we do not think much of that, for
we all seem to be using the same fash
ionable hair-dye. There is nothing in
that to attract special attention. Some
one-he may have been philosopher
has said that if we doubt whether we
are really growing old we should look
in the face of friend whom we have
not seen for twenty years. The preacher
tried that few days Ego. He did more;
he looked in the face of friend whom
he had not seen for nearly forty years.
What his thought of him was he does
not know. They were both too polite
to express their thoughts. He knows
that he kept wondering, and wonders
yet, what had happened to his friend
that he should look SO very old.
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Wild Animals in Africa.

Although the gradual spread of the
population toward the interior of Africa
is driving the wild animals further and
further inland, and though they are
consequently difficult to reach in the
more inaccessible haunts to which they
have retreated. yet the larger wild ami
mails have, with one or two exceptions,
scarcely suffered any diminution from
the advancing tide of civilization. Os-
triches have suffered, perhaps, the most,
but only to exchange a wild for do
mesticated state. Elephants are fire.
quently seen within short distance of
southern and southeastern coasts. Hip
popotami are abundant. Even the
larger beasts of prey are by no means
uncommon, and tigers are especially
depredators. If the reports Of diamond
diggers in the Northwest are to be be-
ieved, new animal has lately made its
appearance as candidate for the honor
of being chased by an enrerprising
sportsman. It is called by the pushmen,
or natives, the bear Gon," and il de-
scribed as being about the size of a
lion, but far stronger in make, and with
a tremendous head and neck. It's legs
are much shorter than lions, but much
stouter, and it is apparently far more
powerful. Its color is a dark yellow,
with black spots. 1t runs or creeps
along the ground, but does not bound
like lion. 1t has sometimes been seen
accompanied by a smaller one probably
q cub-so that the race is apparently
not yet quite extinct, whatever the ami
NAL may be.
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The COlOnel's Advice i.

In reference to anecdotes of the late
war, a story is told on Col. B. of the Nine.
ty-ninth Illinois Volunteers. While that
regiment was being transported down
the river from St. Louis, soldier by &C.
cident fell overheard, and, as usual, ev.
erybody became excited. Above the
noise could be heard Col. BIS stentoriar
voice calling out to the struggling man
"Grab root! Grab rootw
The idea of a man grabbing hold of &
root in the middle of river, to save him.
self from drowning, was ludlcrous. The
boys remembered it, however, and at the
first charge on the works of Vicksbure
the Colonel received an ugly shot in the
calf OF his leg, which brought him to the
ground. He rolled over several times IL
pain, and, while the balls from the.work:
were cuttin G the dust around him, he
cried out, "Cease firing. Cease firing
You are drawing the fire from the enemy
on a wounded man,
The boys saw their chance, and the
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True Stories About Animals.

"Do you know" said the spotted
horse, who is considered great philos-
opher by the rest of the menagerie,
shat the groomiest hour is just before
morning feed-time?"
"Aye," replied the trick-mule," there's
the rub"
The zebra said that "these remarks
were too profound for animals that
hadn't been through the entire curri-
culum."
The carrier-pigeon wondered if a
steady course of that treatment would
make homing birds of all of them?"
"Combing birds?" asked the Poland
rooster; there's no carrier-pigeon in
the menagerie can lay over me in that
feature"
The Mexican dog said, he would
like to see any man, from the lion
tanner down, comb his hair with steel
curry-comb."
NO." the elephant remarked, @they
would have to follow the old recipe for
cooking hare; they would have to first
catch the hair"
The buffalo said that, speaking of
combs, it was his hornest opinion"
Hello" the elephant interrupted,
"here comes the advertisement of the
B. g. M. land department. Say" he
added, "does John Bonnen know you're
out of your frame?"
The buffalo asked him if the use Of
celluloid in the manufacture of billiard
balls had affected the ivory trade enough
to sour his temper2
But the tiger said the discussion had
wandered from the subject and was
growing too purrsonal. @And, beside"
he added, licking his chops hungrily, as
the keeper passed too close to his cage,
"it was about breakfast-time," and as
she didn't feel very well that morning,
little mamma d be about all he cared
for" and then, as he made pass at the
wary keeper and missed him, he added
that if he couldn't have it, about thirty
five pounds of rare beef would do.
And then the keeper passed around
the usual refreshments, and the me-
nagerie speedily ate itself to sleep
H1lDE-Eue.
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Strange Food.

Some score or SO of contributors to
a French sporting journal dined one
day upon the ham and heart Of lion,
killed by Constant Cheret, in Algeria.
The flesh of the lion was found to be
particularly firm and close-grained, like
that OF a horse, but although pronounced
palatable, it only achieved what is
termed a success d'estime, while the
Heart. skillfully prepared with truffles,
was unanimously voted tough and indi-
gestible. In fact, the French journal
lists were not much better pleased with
their fare than was Bruce, the traveller.
when the guest of the Arab tribe of
Yelled Sid Boojanim, the sons of the
fathers of the focks," bound by VOW to
eat lions flesh once every day; for the
traveller found male lion meat lean,
tough, and musky in flavor, honess meat
a triie fatter and more palatable, and
whelp flesh the nastiest of the three.
Mindful that an unlooked-for pleasure
is thrice welcome, Frank auckland did
not advise his guests on certain occa-
sion that they were about to enlarge
their gastronomic experiences, but when
the soup had been disposed of asked
famous gourmand sitting near him how
he liked it. Every well, indeed" was
the answer. " Turtle, is it not? L only
asked because I did not find any green
fat" auckland shook his head. Il
fancied it had somewhat musky taste
peculiar but not at all unpleasant"
remarked his neighbor. All alligators
have" replied the host, the cayman,
especially-the fellow I dissected this
morning, and which you have just been
discussing" Half dozen Of the sud-
denly-enlightened diners suddenly
started to their feet, two or three SUNK
from the room, and the rest of the meal
was enjoyed by only a portion of the
original company. See what imagi-
nation is," said auckland. Had I told
them it was turtle, or terrapin, or birds
nest soup, or the gluten of fish from
the NAV of a sea-bird, they would have
pronounced it excellent, and their di-
gestion would have been none the
worse. I tell them that it is alligator
soup, and their gorges rise at as good q
dish as ever a man need have!" Fore
warned, and, therefore, forearmed, were
the gentlemen who lunched on the oc-
topus at the Brighton aquarium, trying
it in turn boiled, broiled, and cold.
They found it excellent eating, resem-
bling skate, but not so tender as might
be. The verdict would probably have
been still more favorable had the octo-
pus been boiled first and then roasted,
as is the way in Corsica, where the
monster is esteemed a great delicacy.
Chambers Journal.
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Taking Oath Upon 1t:

The London Sporting Times tells this
good story: A clergyman who lately left
Liverpool in On Of the huge ocean steam
ers began to feel rather uncomfortable
soon after leaving the mouth of the river,
and having had an introduction to the
captain, sought him out to learn if there
was any danger. The captain did not
answer Immediately, but led his passen-
ger to the forecastle and told him to list
en- TO what was going on. The clergyman
was shocked to hear party of sailors
swearing vigorously, and expressed his
honor to his conductor. The captain mere
ly remarked, "Do you think these men
would swear in such manner If there
was any real danger9' Whereupon the
parson seemed satisfied, and retired.
A day or two afterward, when they en-
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Neglect Of the Eye.

Whatever an ounce of prevention
may be to other members of the body,
it certainly is worth many pounds of
cure to the eye. Like a chronometer
watch, this delicate organ will stand any
amount of use, not to say abuse, but
when once thrown Off its balance it very
rarely can be brought back toits original
perfection of action, or, if it is, it be-
comes ever after liable to return Ct
disability of function, or the seat of
actual disease. One would have sup
posed from this fact, and from the fact
that modern civilization has imposed
upon the eye an ever-increasing
amount of strain, both as to the actual
amount OF work done, and the constant
" increasing brilliency and duration
of the illumination under which it is
performed, that the greatest pains would
have been exercised in maintaining the
organ in condition of health, and the
greatest care and solicitude used in it's
treatment when diseased. And yet it
is safe to say there is no organ in the
body tie welfare of which is SO per-
sistently neglected as the eye.
I have known fond and doting moth
ers take their children OF 4 and years
of age to have their first teeth filed,
instead of having them extracted. so
that the jaw might not suffer in its due
development, and become in later years
contracted, while the eye, the most in
teilectual. the most apprehensive, and
the most discriminating Of all our
organs, receives not even passing
thought, much less an examination. 1t
never seems to occur to the parents that
the principal agent in child's eduea-
ton is the eye; that through it it gains
not only its sense of the methods and
ways of existence of others, but even
the means for the maintenance Of its
own; oor does it occur to the parents
for an instant that many of the mental
as well as bodily attributes of a grow
ing child are fashioned, even if they
are not created, by the condition Of the
eye alone.
A child is put to school without the
slightest inquiry Oh the part of the
parent, and much less on the part of
the teacher, whether it has the normal
amount of sight; whether it sees objects
sharply and well defined, or indistinctly
and distorted; whether it be near-sight-
ed or far-sighted; whether it sees with
one or two eyes; or finally, if it does
see clearly and distinctly, whether it is
not using quantity of nervous force
sufficient after time not only to ex-
haust the energy Of the visual organ,
hut the narYoIls system at large
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Stuart's Artistic Treatment of the Eyes

Stuart, the painter, once executed
the portrait of lady in New York who
was fussy, critical, overexacting and
nice to a degree that tried in the ex-
IRENE his rather-excitable tempera-
ment. The portrait was changed again
and again; the shade OF the hair, the
color of the eyes, the expression of the
mouth, the pose of the head, the Or
rangement of the drspery, etc, were
repeatedly altered at the suggestion Of
the lady. One day madame came il
with several friends to see the portrait
and, as usual, she began to criticise, and
said: 81 do not think, Mr.. Stuart, you
have given my eyes the right express
sion" The patience of the artist was
exhausted; he could stand no more.
Walking up to the portrait, and draw
ing back his fist, he thrust it through
the canvas, and exclaimed in blunt, but
vigorous Anglo-Sexon: Madame, -
your eyesl" throwing the canvas aside
the portrait was finished. He had
given it the last touch.