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NO. 10.


Why toll 'gainst fate-fate triumphs at the
last;
What is to be Is fixed as is the past.
Success in some brief schems but blinds our
eyes,
And lose or win, tits fate gives or denies.
The past was once the future the iconoclast
Ne'er breathcd who undertook to change the
past.
Yet all would mould the future; cropping
man
Aspiring to recast the eternal plant
Uncertain means unseen-some clearly see
That which to most is shrouded mystery,
Ard see It's fixed and changelcss as the past;
What they see not Is none the less forecast
II aught is destined, naught is left to chance
Events rest on each other-the omnscient
glance
Notes what will be as plain as what has,
been,
Nor can change come to that which is fore
seen.
III. r. Graham in Boston Transcript.
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Good Society.

The extremes of individuals serve
o balance society, and out of their
manifold differences is produced her
harmonious progress. Just as the
perfection of a curve demands that its
uccessive portions shall have constant
v differing directions, so the best good
If society requires that each individual
hall think his own thoughts, live his
,wn life instead of copying or being
merged into those of his neighbors.
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standing, with hand elapsed in hand
for the first lime in years, the two
who had loved long before waited
their turn to descend to the boat.
Once the captain touched LuciIle on
he arm ard mo ioned for her to ad-
vance, but she shook her head and
pointed to mother who was standing
near by clasping her infant 10 her
breast. So the mother and child were
lowered and the lifc-boa set free. 1t
pitched moment on the waters and
went down before their eyes.
Lucille, with cry, covered her face
with her hands and Harold drew her
into the shelter of his arms, unre-
proved.
In this hour of peril, with the
shadow of death over them, it seemed
that the old love lived asain-nay, had
never died.
The last boat was lowered filled;
suS.. ss7essssSlss,9a ss3sti sis.syyyses s,]i.t;y
Lucille towards the vessels side.
"My love-" lie said, at her ear, "we
may not meet again on Garth; | go
with the ships officers on raft we
have prepared. But would have you
know that, through all the years since
our parting, have loved you as l did
in those happy days when we thought
we would be always together. Now
farewell, my de'rest. In life or
death, OH earth or in heaven, my life's
love is yours and yours only"
They were at the ships side as he
finished. For answer she put up her
lips and met his kiss. Then she clung
to him with passionate strength.
al will not go-I will no; go!' she
cried, her voice ringing out through
the surge of the wind. "Let another
have the place reserved for me-some
one who has love on shore. My love
is s~ffgTe:: 1 wait for tie raft"
"Nay, that would be folly, my Lu-
cille," cried Harold, aud he strove to
loosen her clinging hands that he might
pass her over the ships side.
Ere he succeeded, the ropes that held
the lifeboat parted, she shot from the
side of the Swallow, was caught on a
wave and bolne away. away, while
Harold looked down sadly in the face
below him and caught smile like sun
light there.
"My love-" he said, "my precious
one, you have chosen death"
"With you," she answered. and hi,
heart bounded at the surety that love.
on either side, had never died.
The taft was already constructed
they had but TO launch it, which thew
did at once, and Lucille Blancoc found
herself on the wide waste of waters,
with pale sky above her and winds
tea'ing by, and realizing tha. death
might be in every wave that billowe,l
toward her, she did not shrink; her
hand was in Harold's, her head Law
restfully upon his shoulder; she could
die so content.
There, between the sky and sea. AL
that had seemed great enough TO mart
them in the old days was explained
away and found very trife.
ITO have lost all those years Of han
piness, and now to meet only 10 touch
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A Profitable Error.

Last May man handed aten-pound
note, as he thought, to book-maker
to bet on a certain horse, and his state
of mind may be imagined when, after
the horse won, lie discovered that he
had accidentally bet thousand-pound
note instead of a "tenner," and had
won sixty thousand dollars instead of
six thousand dollars.
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lack Rabbits Strict yegetarians.

The festive jack rabbit is strict
vegetari n, and will not touch grease
of any kind, nor will he tackle vegeta-
bes that are seasoned with grease.
Orchardists in Colorado take adyan-
tage of his fastidiousness, and protect
their trees from his incisors by rub
bing the body of the tree with bacon
rind.
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of one would --e dreary and unroman-
tic to those who wish TO bask in the
light of Hymen's torch. As an aid to
Irritation it is twin sister to fan. If
a young couple ever trust themselves
to the support of the same hammock
at the same time, Cup has his own
way thereafter. The pair must of
necessity be brought into such sweet
proximity that every particle of form
ality and reserve is melted away. One
may withdraw from his fair one on a
bench, may hold aloof while seated on
the same grassy bank, and may hitch
his chair away, or closer, as his feel
ings may dictate.
But in the same hammock one can
do none of these things. He cah only
submit to fate and propinquity and be
led delightfully."- 70 the momenlous
question. The hammock has come ID
take ihe place once held by the narrow
sleigh. Fate and the weather have or
daincd that the days of the cutters
existence are ended. but kinder fate
has supplied the hammock. 1t is
fashioned much like a spiders web.
But who would not willingly be fly
when the web holds charming maid
en-? And what man is there with soul
so dead who is not glad that the ham
mock has come to stay?
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TOBACCO, MARYLAND. AUGUST 30 1890.


Too Young for Love
Too young for lover
All. say not SOL
Tell rcddening rosebuIs not 10 blowi
Wait not for sp ing TO pass away
Loves summer months begin with Msyl
Too young for love?
All, say not sol
Too youngY Too young2
All, mol mol mol
Too young for lover
All, say not so,
While daisies bloom and tulips glowi
June will come with heightened day
To practice all love learned in May.
Too young for lover
All, say not sol
Too young? Too young7
All, mol mol no!
-t0liver Wendell Holmes, In Atlantic
Monthly.
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Far of he saw the curling foam
crests, even before sharp breath from
the stormy demon struck on his cheek;
then there was hurrying of the sail
ors hitler and thither, slight heavinc
of the vessel, total disappearance of
the moon behind the rolling bank of
cloud, and then the passengers were
sent to the cabin aud Harold Jerome.
laying his strong hand on the rail,
stood calm in the gathering might of
the tempest.
The hours wore on, and with them
the gaze that tore hungrily at the
Swallow, seerIed to increase; ever
and anon, from the darkness of tie
sky, came keen flash of light, fol-
lowed by crashes that were deafening;
rising like demons that have burst
their chains, the roaring, maddened
pillows swept the vessel from stem to
stern, bearing all loose objects with
tbem-bearing in the weird, faint
dawn, human life.
Harold Jerome did not join the other
passengers below; through all the
hours of the long night he worked
with the captain and his men, striving
to battle the tempest; his hand it was
that fell upon the wheel when the man
there sank back exhausted; his hand
it was which struck the firmest blows
when cordage had TO be severed and a
broken spar sent out to the waters, and
his strong hand it was which tore back
ono victim from the hungry jaws of
the sea as once it swept the deck.
And day dragged on and still the
suddenly born tempest ragged and tore;
the engines refused to work, the fires
were out, the wheel was broken; the
Swallow, with her human freight, was
at the mercy of the waters.
In the dimness of a pallid and sor-
rowful dawn, through which strug-
gled faint reluctant sun, the vessel,
with crashing jar, rocked on the
sharp teeth of a reef.
Then there was despair on the broad
deck Of The Swallow, for hope was
over; save for the frail promise Of the
life boats, they were doomed
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The Left Hand and Health,

In connection with the subject of
he quality of the brain there is one
'oint of great Importance about which
can only say few words, writes
Dr.. Brown Sequard in the Forum. 1t
that we have great many motor
dement's in our brain and our spinal
ord which we neglect absolutely to
EDUCATE. Such is the case particularly
With the elements which serve the
movements of the left hand. Perhaps.
however, fathers and mothers will be
more ready 10 develop the natural
,owers of the left hand of their chill
lren, giving them thereby two power
'ul hands, if they accept that, as ] be-
ieve, the health of the BRAIN and
pinal cord would improve if all their
motor elements were fully exercised.
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letting Satan Behind Her, to Push.

letting Satan Behind Her, to Push.
Armand-Come! Fly with me, l
mplore you?
Camille-Neverl Sir, you insult
ne.
Armand-What! You will not go?
Camille will resist you with all
strength of my woman's nature.
f you would tear me from this place,
fou must first drug me and render me
unconscious. You will find bottle
# chloroform on the bureau over
here From an unproduced drama
,y Dumas.
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Made $50. 900 With His Pen.

sThat man once made $4,000 by
bis pen."
s1s he an author?"
NO, a forger."
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lie down." replied the doctor.


A penny saved IS a penny earned;
but the pocket piece you carry ten
years accumulates no interest.
Wibble-Thcy are now making
policemcn's clubs out of paper.
Wabble-Rapping paper, | presumed?
Slightly different Minister IT. Are
you going to the church, miss? Miss
Highsee-No, sir; Pm only member
of the choir, sir.
"What makes you write your arti-
cles in red ink?" "Oh. I'd like to
make sure of their being red come
time OF another"
Judge-Well, officer, who is this
prisoner? Officer O'IIooley-Plazc,
yer Honor, captured the mon, but his
name eschapcd me.
Ella (spitcfuIly) -'rhcir marriage
was nothing but trade uaion. Soph e
A trade union? Ella Yes; she
traded her money for his title.
Mother (of spoiled child)-I am
greatly obliged to you for bringing my
little boy back Or an Grinder--I
fraida he tcacha munk bada tricks.
Daughtcr-Fathcr, 1 believe | was
born TO marry a nobeman. Father
Yes, but, daughter, try to Iool, on the
bright side Of life-perhaps you'll die.
Barber (cxecuting m artistic swipc
down his customers check Does it
pull? Customer (with his teeth firm
ly seD-No-it doesn't pull-it exca-
Yates,
Professor (to class in horology)-
eff cheap watch were brought you to
be repaired, how would you begin"
Bright Student-"By asking the own
er to pay-in advance.
From the frequency with which the
words, "Take the elevator" meet the
eye inside numerous buildings about
town, one might almost imagine prop
erty owners were anxious TO give
everybody a Gift
No wonder that we're feeling blue,
There's nothing left us TO console,
For when the summer time we're through
The iceman turns us over to
The one who deals in coal.
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80 ss*'s'' ~ f@1s sss
ed; yet 50 they had mef,.,wo days be-
fore, and looked in each others faces
with the blank, unrecognizing gaze of
strangers.
''She has wholly forgotten. Low,
sweet and clear her voice is-one is re-
minded of the German legends of the
Lorelei," said Harold bitterly to him
self, as ont on the night rang the
strains of ''Larboard Watch"
Far up in the sh ouds a sailor took
up the refrain and sang it softly, be-
low his breath. In England bonnie
lass had sung it for him many time
and oft, and her healthy, rosy face
arose before the mental vision of the
sailor as he sang so softly.
But the face of the woman sitting in
the fading and flashing light of the
moon was the only object visible to
Harold Jerome. Although his eyes
were turned to the waters he saw it as
.sa..-.s---...--.s>.s~.sesssss- .asssaggl
white and set and scornful, because
he had said words which might not
be forgiven and doubt had crept in
where love and faith had stolen first.
"It was very little thing that part
cd us, "he whispered very low at last;
ga lovers unreasoning jealousy, as !
knew later. knew it when it was
too late, my lost Lucille, and oh, how
perfectly you have forgotten!"
He turned and looked at her; fair
still, for all the years that had passed
since she had loved him; stately calm,
perhaps thought too cold, but still
gracious woman; surrounded by her
friends, clad in a long robe which
looked almost white in the uncertain
light, with her darklY crowned head
against the back of her steamer chair,
she looked one who had set her foot on
all remembrance which could bring
regret; and from her lips rang the
old, old song "Larboard Watch
Ahoy!'
"She has forgotten; why is she
still rescrvcd?n he asked himself as he
watched her, al would be tempted to
fling myself on my knees before her
there and pray her for at least a kind
ly thought, but that know that love,
burning ont once, leaves only ashes
behind which any breeze may scatter
and no power warm"
The captain and first mate presently
passed close by him.
'Those clouds mean storm, SIR
the mate was saying; ''bcst be pre-
pared to meet it,"
"Ycs," answered the captain. scan-
ming rolling mass in the southwest
with anxious eyes; "wc're in for a
gale, or I'm mistaken; but we mustn't
alarm the passengers.
Then they passed beyond hcarin.
and Harold turned again to the sea.
No longer like sheet of silver,
with wavering reflections here and
there, it was suddenly growing dark
and sullen looking, and faint flecks of
foam marked the rising of the bill
lows.
Old traveller that he was, accus-
toned to danger by land and sea, he
read the portents in that cloud and his
face paled little through its bronze.
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A HeadIess RattIesnnke.

Prof. Brewer of Yale recently
It Meriden told good snake story.
Tears ago he was in California, and
lad his tripod and other surveyors in
truments in the field. Stepping along
n the bushes he felt a movement un-
Ter his feet, and found that he was
tanding on a 1-2 foot rattlesnake-
large, vicious and fighting fellow.
But the snake was so completely pin
eI,-,...s. = Ma not strike the thick
300 e * d sai'S'sim fat. Prof. Brewer
sseld. - Z Fs head down with his
fTSifsissii ,ss !. EsFst IL off. Then he cut off
lis ratiA "a " 8cpping aside, he saw
hc basi2 . > hQIsnake partly coiled, ly-
aee reisN atj Taking out his rule to
.neaFute 9th, the Professor took
I'D Of fI|e = aEsnt to slraighten him
anfelectric shock" said
"that headless snake
q1b stump over and
-. s,;,0s, the back Of
ay hatid eoi1nqY% qY% that his mead 'e'sS,s' was
fl and that he-eould not poison me,
mt that quick and hard blow of the
attler fairly made my hair stand on
nd"
Prof. Williams, standing by, said:
Il have on two or three occasions seen
imilar sudden blows by headless rat
lesnakes. - Harti ord Times.
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THE STORM AT SEA.
By MARY.C. PRESTON.

II was a still, calm night at sea.
The waters scarcely murmured as the
good bark Swallow glided Though
them. Almost il would seem as if
they slept, but here and there a waver-
ing reflection of the moon which ever
and anon escaped from the flceces that
sailed about her, told that the unquiet
heart of the ocean was pulsing still,
albeit silently.
Harold Jerome stood leaning silent
ly over the rail, seemingly lost to his
surroundings, diesming of the land
he had loft or the md to which he was
returnins-a s'AIwsrt, manly figure,
cut clear agail't the mingling sea and
sky.
And yet he was not thinking of any
spot on which his wandering feet had
trodden, nor was he fondly dwelling
vi tiU ~ WAlCli ltC wac OphhNt
as his eyes traced the broad plain of
waters; lie was listening, heart and
soul, to the voice that was caroling
forth SO sweetly the words of song
familiar to his youth.
Youth Had he lost it in the alien
countries he had visited-on the banks
Of tho Rhone, in the Scottish hills of
heather, in the shadows of the snow
clad Alps, in the valleys beside the
Rhine? Nay; but the white hands Of
The singer yonder had torn it from his
heart ere he had gone roaming.
So strange that they should meet
again after all the long years of their
severance and meet OH board vess d
l.. -. -. -
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The Deadly Single Instance.

elbow single incident may become
representative exclaims the Chicago
Advance. General Scbenck is popu-
larly supposed to have spent the larger
part of his evenings with Dukes and
Duchcsses, Marquises and Marchlon-
esses, teaching them the great
American game, and yet | believe the
evidence is that it was only upon one
evening, and only as an accident OF
that evening, that the American Minis
ter at the Court of St. James said
word as to the game of poker. Andrew
johnson is commonly supposed to
have been q drunkard. The common
supposition had its origin in the fact
that at the time of his Inauguration he
was intoxicated. lie was; but it was
the last as it was the first time. lie
was suffering from serious and an
noying disease.
At the recommendation OF friend
he took a strong dose of brandy just
before the public exercises of the in'
auguration. The charges of his p lili-
cal enemies that he was drunk were
true. Drinking was not his habit.
So Minister, from single incident,
gains a reputation which is not pleas
ing. For the sake of keeping an ap-
pointment, he may drive horse 60
hard as TO produce sting injuries !;
this incident M be the cause Of q
reputation that he delights in fast
horses and isnlsQ cruel. Beware Of
suaerin4 or 4 tohc the subieef of
aconspicuoa and il,lihlisl7 lkl'aMs' rxs
feptional inri,.s. .. not iIoA z.'.
seif d dTa rs Som 40 ssa'Si'ss
! ! !,
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HUMOROUS.
Called down-Feathers.

Called down-Feathers.
A cheering word-IIurrah.
Well backed up-The camel.
Hope that is oer-The lucky miners
find.
Claws in the will-Fingers of the
lawyers.
High tied-The couple that were
married in balloon.
A horse may pull with all his might,
but never with his name.
''No moose is good news" to the man
who expects to be hanged.
Mirrors are for the indolcnt; they
encourage idle reflections.
tits when fellow is broke that he
most feels the need of change.
1t is probably the number of tars on
board which makes vessel pitch.
The peculating bookkeeper becomes
so cowardly that he cares not strike
balance.
The course of true love never did
run smooth, and it would not be half
the fun if it did.
'IIe laughs best who laughs last
doesn't apply to the man who is slow
in appreciating joke.
"Don't you think young Reginald
De Jones very promising youth?'
every. I'm his tailor"
nWbieh is the best position in which
: IS, ~ Gnaganteed y s''' ~
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A penny saved is a penny earned;
but the pocket piece you carry ten
years accumulates no interest.
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rnnr Ll,iro AIrhonso XIII.

] often say that poor people must DC
fonder of their children than the wealthy
are of theirs There is snch q poignant
interest i'm child who will have to face
n sea of troubles. Poor little Alphonso
XIII must be invested in his mothers
evos with an interest of that kind, being
the posthumous son Of a viveur OF bad
constitution. who. having used himself
mai tbe age of GO, died of galloping
cansumption. A Spanish deputy told me
last october that the poor little boy had
mo- chance of a long life and that 1t wouiu
ho rather a misfortune If he grew up
Tho nervous system was so bad that the
j".,ors were afraid 90 having nm
IoGed in the sea. A shock of any KIND
u,iaht knock it to pieces. HIS mother
ne ~ of fine most epileptic branch oil
.In immortal family Of Austria:
''I Or a little Alphonso has, said the dep-
~ nuote. iloshless little legs, with
uS ny, no thicker than chickens lhey
pom pom, a ~, thc weight of an abnormal
pe'' Lio bead. which points to hydroce
lin J'1 Altogether the conformation sn % o.
plo,iu. ,t,o monarch is a thing rather Tor al
tl'o , ''',, museum than to bear ", ,n'
ana,I n,r ,rappings of regal state. In
welghS l. aITavs in ear shot of him an'
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-04-22

There has lately been much tribulation
about astrakhan in England, owing to
to Irregular terrible story" invented by
somebody as to the device by which the
wool was made curly, and sealskin was
attacked the other day by Canon Bell,
of Chelsenham, who told his congrega-
ton that each jacket represented some
half dozen dams, who had "been more
or less skinned alive, while their little
ones were left to die in all the agony of
starvation" Whereupon trade journal
dryly reioined that it was the bachelor
seal which was killed for its fur, and
that. as the calves were not present, and
as their mothers were not killed, being
much too valuable TO be slain, there was
no slow agony of starvation in the case.
Apparently, persons and parsons desir-
GUS of an effective subject for lamenta-
ton must take that poor creature which
is annually half drowned and then de-
prived of its warm coat and sent SILVER
ing back to its young, who, unable to
recognize it, utter the most pitiful cries.
If the subject were well worked up,
doubtless every man to whom the case
was stated would cease to wear wooden
garments and dress in cotton, linen and
silk until somebody told him about the
grief of the silkworms, foreseeing the
fate of their cocoons, when he would fall
back on the other two materials, holding
himself ready to give up the cotton TO
the army worm whenever requested TO
do so.-Cor. Boston Transcript.
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the doctor handy to her. A corkscrew
stair communicates with his and her
bedrooms, and there is a speaking tube
close to his bed, so that We're anything
the matter with him the nurse could al
once tell her and the doctor. The kings
two sisters promise to be winsome, and
have fairly good constitutions, though
their flesh is slow to heal. Mercedes, TO
whom told you so early as November
Spaniards here were beginning to make
up as shown in ''homages" of French
toys, still nurses dolls. They noticed on
the sands of San Sebastian what weak
ling the poor brother was, and jumped
to the conclusion that the crown would
soon drop down on the head of his eldest
sister. She and Theresa are very pretty
and CHEEKY. Mercedes is very like the
queen of the Belgians, who was never
either one or the other. Her majesty is
an aunt of Queen Christiana. Mrs.
Crawford's Letter in London Truth.