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Just 4 Family Affair.

did you make that, papaP' inquired
Johnny Smithers. aa,a lat ha9
"Yes, my son." replied Mr.. Smithers.
dissatisfaction and paternal pride
beaming from his countenance.
"And You made it all out of your own
head, papa?" .
Yes, my SON."
"Really and truly?" ''sni e -
johnny interrupted Mrs. Smithers,
in an icy tone of voice, '.you will often
be surprised. IS You grow older, to learn
how many curious things can be made
from wood" - $3.50.
And then Smithers felt cold chill run
down his back as he remembered that
he had not stopped at various stores on
his way home, as directed, to get spool
OF silk twist. paper Of needles, abox
OF matches. pound of,coffee, paper
OF tacks, some sausage. pound of bBt-
ter, and one or two other things which
he could not just then call TO mind
on Cssy Blizzard. -.
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ORIENTAL GRASS work. .
The New Made by Men, and the Repair
Ing by Damascus Women. f

The New Made by Men, and the Repair.
Ing by Damascus Women. f
The trays usually called Algerine are
always beaten out on thin brass, are not
useful in domestic sense, being apt to
"wobble" when weight is carried on
them, but their color being peculiarly
golden, as decorations they are perfect
They are ornamented with many pointed
stars or varieties ofthe double triangle.
They generally present a mosque. often
a ship, a crescent and star. or one OF
the varieties of the conventional sign
known as the hand of Mahomet. They
are never made now in Algiers; the
only brass work known there resembles
that from Tangiers-patterns cut out in
low relief. Some very handsome trays
of this latter sort can be purchased, and
inscriptions of notices made to order:
they are more expensive than the 9TH
ers. Women and children in Dainas-
Gus are much employed in restamping
old trays from which patterns have be-
come effaced by long use-this being
probably not thought such important
work as the making new ones, a task
reserved for men. 3eh 800 ~
Thus / have seen an old Venetian
platter preserving the familiar twisted
rope and embossed center, but with all
the rest of the surface incised in flat
Damascus work: the conventional loz.
enge could still be seen at the back.
This was most unnecessary waste Of
labor on the part of the Damascus
woIkmen, as Venetian platters. though
riddled with holes like a sieve when held
up to the light, are still cherished as
priceless bits Of color. The inscriptions
on Venetian platters are unfortunately
often 0ike those on Eastern work) so
degraded as to be incomprehensible
even to the experts of the British Mu-
scum. -.L0nd0n Queen. ,..n 81 II aiSud,
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FOB DUB YOUNG FOLKS.
THE way TO eRowN-uP LAND.

" Good-morrow, good-morrow, my bright
Now what may your trouble be3'
" Good-morrow," he answered me. sober and
Here is trouble enough for me: +
! The shortest, kind stranger, pray?
For these guide-boards all point with diff
ferent hand.
In dreadfulIy puzzling way.
This says: BY the Town of Saving Cent;
Another: Just follow your Natural Bent;
This points to the Road of Wisely Giving;
And that to the Turnpike of Truly Living:
A fifth struggles OF here to Leap-frog
And q sixsh-climbs the 'hiii-eicpe- High
These lead to the By.ways of Bat and Ball,
And the Highways Of Courage and Know 1t
ANA there are AZ CROSSROADS Of ray and
And the Post-roads of Duty and Things
Good Graciousi How can boy understand
Which way sisp t6ei shortest to Grown-up
Land?'
Don't fret, my lad, for the roads, you see
Have been travelled by many like YOU and
And though each road has different name,
To Grown-up Land they, all of them came.
And hour by hour, my bow, you II mud
That, little BY little. they drop behind:
I'LL almost before you know II, you stand
On the breezy submits of Grown-up LandY'
IT. ~ ii.s ea
GOod-morrow, my lassie, with face so sweet,
Now whittier away with your flying feetF'
ood-morrow," she answered, with wave of
hand,
81 am OF In hurry to Grown-up Land.
But wish you would show me the shortest
way,
For these guide-boards, I'm certain, win
lead me astray. .f
just thinkI One says: It's Stitch in
Time: st.. ati 90 fttstffsl ss1
And another: Through Smiles and Tearss
This says it is only: BY Uphill Work;
And that: By the Flight OF Years.
Another says, Play; and another Books;
Aud another: Just Dance and Sing,
And this one says, Help; and that one,
And this. Care in the Li.tlest Thing
], @, the reads are so many' Who can under
Which way is the shortest to Grown-np
LandY' .tsi f.s .gsal 16sss. f
Don't worry, my .lassfe, with eyes 80 blue,
For whichever the road that is Travelled by
9 n VIZ yHs carey you forward dus,i you stand
On the sunlit hill-tops of Grownsup Land"
And lassie and lad u
Ran off in glec,
p b Re without so much
As "Good-day' to me.
And in Grown-up Land,
ft'. ~ Whatever their way,
They VIII meet together
On Big Folks Day. "a f..t.s
-''- -Jenrfc T.. I. D0tcc. IN ST. Nicholas.
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The Almighty has done muc.i

The Almighty has done much. fol-
us, giving us prolific soil, rich min
erals, q temperate climate, and every
advantage at our very doors except
population to develop our resources. and
money to enable it to dos These two
essentials we need. and we need them
badly Mobile Register. ~, 4. 49,.
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The language of letter seals is the
latest. A seal OF pink wax means con-
graduation; one of black, coincidence:
Of blue, love; of purple, friendship; OF
red. business; and an invitatiea to a
wedding or other festivity is sealed with
white wax Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Obituary, notices in England fire.
quently contain the statement that. by
the wish Of the deceased his relatives
win not wear mourning
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AT THE WINDOW.
Grandma Tells How She Once Saved the
Life of Caribou.

Life of n Caribou.
I'D ike to hear story" said Ava,
siding up to grandma chair one morn
ing; ..for cause it's showing, and my
foots are cold, and don't want to be
dressed" Grandma laughed at that.
You see, Ava was always wanting to
hear story .'for cause" Of one thing
or another. And grandma almost al
ways had story to tell. This time she
cuddled Ava up in her lap, red flannel
nightie and all, and held out the two
cold little feet to the fire.
IA good many years ago there lived
little lame girl named Marcella."
'.Oh,' said Ava; "a lame little girl
gram ma?''
.'Yes, y said grandma; lone winter
she was so lame that she hardly took
step without crutches, and for q long
time she didn't walk at all. She had to
be carried to the table, and to bed. and
to the window, where she used to sit for
hours and hours, and very often she
cried. softly, so nobody would hear,
because the doctor had said he didn't
think she would ever walk in all. her
life again." ~ ~ q
-'Oh dear!' whispered Ava. Don't
tell teary things, gram ma"
s.But one day." went on grandma,
.swhile the little girl was sitting at the
window looking out across the field,
where wheat had grown in the summer,
to the tall trees loaded with snow,
something happened. Out from among
the trees cHme a prstty creature, very
much like u deer, though the little girl
had never4seen a deer then, so she
didnT know. 1t had branching horns
and 4 short tail and reddish-gray hair
and It wasn't much larger than half
grown can. 3
4Tkozlittle girl scarcely dared to
breathe for tear of frightening Il
away. She Matched il lift its head and
sniF Nv air, end finally came but in the,
wheat-field and began to paw the snow
away, and eat tho wheat-stubble. Es4
.sWhat fun it. was! Marcella didn's
cry 4 tar all that day, not even after
tho little creature had goue away
81 know fitll come again to-mor-
row., said she, and then I'll show it to
mothef But she didn't tell anybody
wotd hebut 4 saens II was so nice to
have secret paaMnl5
.,Thaucaritou,, for It was q caribou.t
whikhis kind of. deer, you know, did
cons hin next day Somebody eisc3
came, too. It was Mr., Bangs, the near
est neiahbor. Msrcslla saw him creep
ing ARtg viii. his gun, Oh desrs
".He musrtrs cried Marcella. 4
can't have thnt little dear darling killed.
l ca-an't!'
$50 she pushed zshe window up and
| put AlJt tsashead md waved her hands
"Rnnzs arfmt hnnl 'S.shc screamed.
| Oh, rxs!fz .tniGfrsnei1 4eTat .s-sif
.sThe -6Asjb0ue lifted its head and
| turned, with long, frightened leaps, into
the woods. y Mr.. Bangs fired his gun.
but 1t d 1fn' & do a bit of good And
Mr.. Bangs was provoked enough. But
Marelia was very glad indeed
That's niece said Ava US the
little girl Tame all the time forever,
grammar -helsHrs1tf
'ph.-no.'' said grandms. ~ ?.
WAS she you. grammap'a
EYES," said grandma. fouth's Com.
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"A company in New jersey 10 max.
ing counteFpanes and pillcw-shsms ~
paper asi4,s ~ ap.og u bg4i
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-.sGynametry"ssis the science for
dress-makaF toghsnsh pin. An Alan-
ta mantua maker. an. adept in it, tells
what is pecessary to be known to one
skilled in. the science in order 10 cut n
dress. sYDo You mean TO say that you
can make my dress fit by simply meas
URN synAy I.eck2'' II do, il see you"
'.And IL YOU don't see meg' Then
l must know the measure Of your neck,
the measure Of your waist and which
toe is the longest Dear me! Why
do YOU want to know which toe is the
longestP' elf your big toe is longest
your shoulders are square. If your
second toe is longest your shoulders
are dropped and the waist is cores
pondingly shorter
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-07-18
CHAPTER XI.
MYSTERIOUS BEHAVIOR OF THE YOUNG
GENTLEMAN.

About this time Matt noticed curious
change come over her artist friend. He was
more thoughtful, and consequently less enter
tanning. Often when she appeared and began
chatting to him about affairs in which she
thought he might take some interest she had
the modification not merely Of eliciting no
reply but Of finding TINT he had not heard
word Of her conversation.
Now, this style Of proceeding would Ger
tainly have caused her some annoyance but
for one compcnsating fact, which put the
balance entirely on the other side. 1t was
evident that, despite tho change Brinlileys
interest in Matt WIS not lcssening; nay, it
rather seemed TO 10 on tho increase; and this
fact Matt, very womanlilIe as she was, was
quick to perceive.
Very often, on looking suddenly at him,
she found his eyes fixed wondcringly ind
syInpnthetically upon her. She asked him
on ono occasion what he was thinking about
"YOu, Matt he answered, promptly. Il
was trying to imagine he continued, seeing
her blush and hang her head, show you
would look in silks and Yelvets; got up, in
fact, like a grand demoiselle. What would
you say, now, if a good fairy were to find you
out some day and were tooffer 10 change you
from what you are TO q fine young lady
would you say HcsN
Matt reflected for moment, then she fol
lowed her feminine instinct, and nodded her
| head vigorously
"Ah!-by tho way, Matt, can you reddT8
"Irnt, not writing
| "And writer
Just bit
who taught you William Jonesp
mo, that be didn't; learned off Tim Fen
rem down village. William Jones, she cam
read aud he can't write no more canlY jllikn
Jones' father
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"COME ASHORE"
BY ROBERT BUCHANAN.

The first night he saw nothing--it was
stormy, with wild gusts Of rain Tho second
night was equally uneventful. Nothing
daunted, he went for third and last time,
and lay in the moonlight ON the cliffs, looking
toward the village,
The night was dark and cloudy, but from
time to time the moon came out with sudden
brilliance on the sea, which was gently stirred
by a breeze from the land.
He waited for several hours. About mid
night he rose to go homo. As no did so he
was startled by tho sound Of oars, and, lying
down, perceived a small boat approaching on
q silver patch of moonlit sea. Tho occupant
of the boat was a solitary man.
It approached rapidly, making direct for
tho DEVILS Caldron. Lying down on his face
and peeping over, Brinlley saw it stop short
just outside the foaming passage, while the
man stood up, stopped, lifted something
heavy from the bottom, and threw it over
board. Then, after watching for q moment
dark object which dIifted shorewarl, right
into the CaldrOn, he rowed away until he
reached q sheltered creek close to the scene Of
the swimming adventure. Here he ran the
boat ashore and leaped out
The next minute Brinl.ley heard him com
ing up the cliffs.
lTtluullilB WIN tANlblAlANAAb lAJ 10y NNONA
fiat on his face and waited. Presently the
man emerged on the top of tho cliffs, within
q few yards of Brinkley's hiding-place. Just
then the moon flashed brightly out, and
Brinkley recognized himl
Il was William Jones, carrying on his shout
ders something like loaded sack, and ding
ling from his left wrist horn lantern.
He looked round once or twice and ther
hurried toward the sandhills. Brinkley fol
lowed stealthily. The moon now went in
and it became pitch dark Presently Jone
paused, set down his load, and lit the lantern
then he hurried on
For fifty or sixty yards a coarse carpet o
greensward covered the cliffs; then the sand
hills began. Passing over the first sandhill
Jones disappeared. Quick as thought thu
young man followed, and, peering over, saw
the light in the hollow beneath; it rose highe
and higher till it reached the top of the mex
sandhill, where itpaused. Crawling on hand
and knees, Brinldey slipped down into tn
hollow and then crept upward halfway u
the mound; he found huge rock, benin
which he crouched and peepcd.
AS he did so William Jones, light in hand
seemed to dive down into the solid earth an
disappear.
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City Mothers Must be Ready for an En-
ergcncy.

Often Baby runs down" perccptibly
from day to day. Indigestion is sue
ceeded by emancipation in frightfully
brief period the blush-white tinge that
menaces fatal collapse settles about nose
and mouth. The sensible physician, too
frequently summoned only when domcs-
tic practice is demonstrated to be disas-
trous failure, speaks out strongly. In
slant change Of air and place is demand
ed. This is not case for medicine or
tentative treatment.
"But it is impossible for us to leave
town before next week." said one
mother when this verdict was rendered.
Furniture must be covered, servants
dismissed, and laughing nervously-
81 must have a new traveling-dress."
"This child must leave town without
an hours delay" reiterated the dictator.
Tomorrow may be too late"
In three hours the infant, in an appar-
emily dying condition, was laid on a pill
low in the mothers lap as she sat in an
easy-rolling phaeton the father took
the reins, and they drove out of the city
by the nearest route, slowly and with
careful avoidance of noisy streets and
rough payements. For the little ones
short battle for life seemed over. The
eyes were half-open, but the iris was in
visible under the dropping lid; the ex-
tremities were cold the features set in
waxen rigidity. There was no longer
room for paltering with the awful issue.
Stopping half-a-dozen times in as many
miles to pour few drops of nourishment
between the poor, pale lips, now and
then leaning anear to them in agonized
suspense to learn if the last sigh had in
deed nuttered through, the parents
reached a hill farmstead and established
their charge in an airy upper chamber
In twelve hours change for the better
was evident; in three days the danger
was passed.
This true story has replication, with
variations, in the experience of almost
every mother to whom many children
have been born. By and by she remem
bers the catholicon for herself and does
not await the more alarming stage of the
decline.-From 1.-THE Baby that Must C
to the country" in Babyhood
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"Christmas Eve, 1864, on board the ship
Trinidad, fast breaking up on the Welsh
coast If any Christian soul should find this
book and these lines where place them, if
they sink not with their bearer ION whom !
leave my last despairing blessing) to the bot
tom of the sea, or if God in His infinite mercy
should spare and save the little child.n The
book trcmbled in his hand as he ready The
writing went on 81 cast her adrift in her
cradle in sight of shore, on little raft made
by my own hands IT'S desperate hope,
but He can work miracles, and if it is His
will she may DO saved. Attached to this holy
book orc the proofs OF her poor dead mothers
marriage and my darllngs birth. May she
live to inherit my name Signed MATTHEW
THORPE MONK, Colonel, 18th Cavalry, Ben
gal"
The mystery was deepening indeed
At last BTinklcy thrust the book and Its
contents into his pocket, and after one look
round took tho candle and made his way up
the rocks and out Of tho cave. When he saw
the light Of day above him he blew out the
light and crawled up through the aperture.
Them tanding on the lonely sandhill, he
surveyed the scene on every side. There
was no sign OF any living soul.
Carefully, but rapidly, he returned the
trap-door to Its place, covered it with the
stones and liberal handfuls Of loose sand, and
walked away, taking care, for the first hun
drad yards, to obliterate his footprints as h
| went.
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A LARGE SNAKE.--From Ash Cab
in Run we have an account of a
very large snake killed thcrcrcccnt-
ly. The reporter asked for n larger
one. John William Taylor gives
an account of a cow-snakc that he
killed in his fathers barn before he
was married that was much larger.
John S. Rodgers will vouch for Mr..
Taylor us to the veracity of this
story. He says he saw snake of
the same description in the brush
by an old fence near the barn that
was so large that he would not at
tack it. The snake was partly UNI
der some straw, and Mr.. T. killed it
with fork before he discovered its
full size. After he had killed it he
measured it with a long pitchforb
and found the snake to be about
three feet longer. These forks are
usually twelve feet, long which
would make the snake fifteen fee
long. He says he would be safe t
do so, and is willing to make oatl
it was thirteen feet, and thick &C
cordingly.-Mountain Echo.
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ITO be C0ntinucd.l

PRINCE ALBERT.-It was a rule
adopted early in the royal house
hold of Victoria, in Difference to
the strongly expressed desire of
Prince Albert, that the subject of
war should never be discussed, or
even mentioned in the domestic
family circle. This determination
greatly increased the respect of the
Prince Consort among the best
minded people Of England.-Eng-
fish Women's Diary.
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A LITTLE FIsuY.-A coppcr-color-
ed snake, five and a half feet long,
and as thick as a mans arm, was
killed on Tuesday last in the run
which passed through the foundry
Of Messrs. Weirick d Weller, by Mi
chael Kahn. 1t had swallowed n
bunch of small fish, which were tied
in the water, and was held fast, be-
ing unable to get the fish up or
down. No one could tell to what
species of snake his snakcship be-
longed. One said it was a beacon,
strictor, another an anaconda, an.
other q horscracer, etc Certain it is
his career was cut short by his at
tempt to swallow a string of fish al
at once.
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DRESS IN HOT WEATHER.
THE DIFFERENCE IN MEMS CLOTHES IN
PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND BAL
TIMoRE.

A tailor took "Sun" reporter to
the back part of his shop on Satur-
day, and, pulling dark gray coat
out of the drawer, said
Here is a novelty you want 1t
is a jersey, light as feather, and
fits like a glove. Try it on"
81 wouldn't have the thing for a
gift. I'd have everybody staring at
me on the street"
The tailor threw the coat back in
disgust. "Well" he said at last, give
seen many a city, but Baltimore
beats all. None of your new-fang-
led things fol me, seems to be the
watchword in everything, even in a
mans clothes. If a coat, or a col
lar, or a hat, isn't strictly convention
al, you Baltimoreans won't wear it.
Here's this coat, as easy and comfor-
table a garment as can be imagined,
but it's just like everything else {:
everybody isn't wearing it, and no.
body will make the start. Men here
won't wear secrsuckers to any eX-
tent. They say they'reloud. They
won't wear linen clothes-well, be-
cause somebody Nigh turn around
and look at them.
In the hottest weather they'll
} wear four-button cutaways and vest
all buttoned up and snugly fitting
SO as to look nice. Why, in New
! York and Philadelphia you see mer
: come along looking cool and cheer
, full with coats of the lightcst, thin
nest material just hanging moun(
q them. OF course the coats do no
, fit perfectly, and no one expects
q them to. Pm speaking now Of sol
k id business men-men of taste anC
i refinement in dress as in everything
e else. But when they are at thci
= work they are unconventional, an,
y that is what a Baltimore man is al
"a ways afraid of being, it seems t
o me.
4 Let Baltimorean put on a Mo-
or folk belted coat-as breezy and mic
" fitting a coat as you can want-an
lg if he walks along Baltimore stree
to every-almost every-man, woma
a and child will turn around and loo
Sc at him with Multiplying, half-col
re temptuous look, and some will sa
81 dude and some something worse.
You always want your clothes
,w sit just SO; you're like old maid
N. so prim and particular, If yC
r. wear anything that will make pc
on pie look a little you feel bad, NJ
no, rarely wear it again. What can
nicer than a loose, easy, jaunty co
, llo of white linen You look cool al
en- and feel cool. But I'll wager y,
I o won't see n dozen men nthis livel
enterprising, go-ahead town we
d al white linen coats this summer.
oT you would far rather pull throui
,ni al the hot weather, putting and gru
ten ing and perspiring, when, if y,
~ would feel as cool and cheerful as
. a turtle.
- There's one other reason, he &C
lle ed, after a moment. The avcra
Sc Baltimorean does not buy more tn
to one summer suit year. That s
of must last, and so he prefers to hG
of it strong and thick enough to he
or out, and also to fit well enough
,tic wear outside of business hours.
ion that between conventional scrup
the and economy, Baltimore men,
est lieve, wear the hottest sunni
ng- clothes in the country. "-Ba
more Sun.
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RATHER DoUBTFUL.-One day
last week, while "Dock" Hopkins
was engaged in cutting briars near
Washbun's run, he discovered
three black snakes lying close to-
gother, their snakcships discovering
him at the same time. The doctor
fed, and the snake pursued him so
rapidly that he was forced to turn
and fight. He succeeded in laying
one out with his scythc, and upon
examination it was found to be of
the species known as the "black
racer" The other two at once
turned tail with bitter lamentations
and had gotten half way to the Cor
oner's before that gentleman saw
them, and, falling Off his horse in Il
fit, broke his bottle.