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| THE MILWAUKEE BAD BOY. His Scriptural Meditations, 1 From I'rck*. sun. 1 ! "What you kitting tbrre for hilr an hour 1 for, Atari Dg at Tacaney!" aid thr grooorymanto the tad toy. as be at 011 s sloal ; bribe More one of ib«r foggy morning., when cscrybody feels like quarreling, with bis flngere ciaiped around bia knee, locking us though be did not know enough ■ tn kititim to bed. "Wbal yon thinking ab em anyway r "I was wondering where you would bare boa (o^Uy if Jumh had run bis ark into such a fog us Ibis, and there bad been no fog-botn on Mount Ararat, and be bad passed by with bis excursion and nof made , a landing, and bad* Dated .round on He- 1 freabel until all the animal* .tarred, and tbe ark bad .truck a snag and hurst s bole In her bottom. I tell you, we can all oon- ] gratulatc puraetecs ibst Kaahjmppcord lo ( r3sem£8ss® been cold work trying lo |»puhic this: world. In that ease anolher Adain and | wrong again, and failed to rniv a family, t and where "wouM we haec liren. I tr'llj we have bad it is a wonder to me that we I I have got along na well a. we have." ; j "Well, wlien did yon get out of the a«y- , j lum." said the grew it man. who bad liecn ' j «anding back with "I en mouth lucking at j the boy at though be was crazy. "What (yon warn Is to have your head soaked. 1 V I. ate getting so you reach out too far I With that small mind ot yours, tn about I arxsher year you will want to run tbi* world yonrself. 1 don't think ynu are re'. I forming very ouch, it is wicked for a boy of your sire to nrgue about such tilings. Your folks better send vou to :'alkjfc." «' i "pWist do i wanMo^ pt to college for, player. I can lie tail enough at home. believe 1 can ever in- goal enough to go lo heaven, anyway, and I guess I will go inlo tbe newspaper b-Aioaaa, where they don't everywhere. Do yflo know,"5! thihk I when I was tmilt tbey toll out n cat wlun l or something in my bead. I caul think some bnvt I get to thinking about Adam and 'Eve in tlic (aatdeu of Eden, and of tbe dude with I be cloven hoof that flirted with Eve, and treated her and Adam to the dried apples, anil I can't think of thein as some boys da. witb a flg leaf polonaise, and flg leaf vests. 1 in.- ■ aginc tbemdrpased op in tbe latest style. 1 know it Is wrong, but that is wbal a poor boy bu to puffer wh.. has an Imagination, and where did I get tbg imagination? This confounded imagination of mine shows ■ tar Arinm with a plugbaluivjask like our . minister wears, and a srsnd up collar', anil light" pants, and peaked toed shoes, and Est Is plctnred to me with a crushed nn(Mworm -colored drew, and brown striped alockings, and newspapers in her draw to make it set out, and a bat with dandelions on. and a red psraao I. and a lace bandkiat chief, wbicb she puts tn Iter lipa and wmkt wilb her left eye to the masher who It slindiog by the corner of the Louse, loan attitude, while the lad with the datloa ' the end is * ouad around tbe nun kanel, so Eve wont aee it and grt scaraL Say, don't you think ii is Idler for a boy to ' think of our find parent, with clothes on, than to think of them almost naked, exposed lo tbe imJemracr of tbe weather. ■ wilb nothing but flg lean* planed on? .1 want to do right, as near as 1 can, but I tad rather think of ibem dressed like oar folks «•*■ today, tlwn lo IbiDk ot lb— in a cyelono with Josvosdnr wearing ap(«iel. Say, it is wrong to fight, "hut itotrt vou ' think if Adam had put on a pair of box- ' gloves, wbea be found tbe devil was getting tod fresh about the place, and 1 knocked him out in a couple of rounds, and pasted bim in Ibciuec. and tired him out cl the summar garden, thai it would barfi bnen a bia tliine for ihi. wortn Ynw Sffef world. Now,

"Liokoherr," said the grneery man, whrt tisrt "been looking at the boy In dismay, "Yon better go right borne] and let your ma tlx up some warm drink for you, and put you to bed. 'You am all wrong Jo-Mse bead, and ilyouare not attended to ji*> will have brain fever. I tell you. boy, am in danger. Cone, 1 will go home wilb yon. ' ."O, danger nothing. I am Just telling To* tilings look to a boy who has not gr a tlic facilities far being too good lo bis vqulh. Some boys can take things as tbey read them, and not think *oy for but I am a thinker "from Thinkervilie, and my imaginalion plays ihe dickens with me. There is nothing I nad about old limes but wbal I compare it with Ihe tame line of business it the present day. Now, when I think of tbe of Galilee, drawing their seines. 1 wonder what tbey would have done If ■ here tad been a law against hauling Kinea, as there is in Wisconsin to-day. for Hie arrest of tbe Galilee fisherman, snatching Ibe old apostles and takingibcm | the police station in a patrol wagon, i " know i| is wiong to think bke that, hut S2"*n ,^C ^sy. anppoie these j seines, and our miniatrr should come aloog ■with bis good clothes <«., his Jointed rod. I bis nickle-platrd pel. and his ailk fish linr, i and bis patent flab bonk, and pat i frog on tbe book and cut hi. line near tlx Galilee > flsberm.o and go 10 trolling for hasst : do you suppwe I lie lone flsherlnan [of the BiblF ilmea would bare thought | atvwt the gall of ihe J**inird rod fi*her. i j mir? I So you mpporo ihry would ban- i i thrown «uce» in l lie water where be was •: trolling, or wnnld tliey have told bim I bete c i wu good liolllng around a point about i half a mile up tbe shore, where they knew . he wouldn't get a bite In a week, the way a fellow at Muskrgo lake lied !.* our minl isier a spell ago? I tell you, boss, It it a ••d lbinc.fpga boy to tare an imagina- . tins." and ihe bt^ put Lis other knee In tilt "Hag made by the clenched Angers ot both lands, and waited ft* the grocery man lo argue wilb bim. | "I wish you would go away from here. ( I mu afraid of you," said Ibe grocery man. i "1 would give anything If your pa or tbe , minister w mild come In and have a talk 1 with you. I our mind is wandering," and , tbe grocery man went to tbe door and | up and down tbe stmt to see if i somebody wouldn't come in and watch J the^ crazy boy. while be went In break- ] "O. pa and tbe minister can't make a \ first pjvmcnl on roe. Fa get. mad when ] '"'riiai — r'tilrirr thinks I < put S^W Pa aaid yeuerday t that taldoero su canted, in every case. I^apen'i wearing plug hats, and when I 1 asked bim where tbe good Elijah, (wbom t tbe hoys called "go up old bald bead,' and c ihe bears bad a free lunch on than. ) got t bit ping bsi, pa aaid school wu dismissed . nad I could go. Wbea tbe minister wu ■ tHHng me aboat tbe good Elijah going up r through (be cloud, ha chariot of Art, and t '••ked the mtniaur wbal be thought , Elijah w.uld tare thought if be tad met i oar Sunday trbonl mperinleudenl combw • down ihrougb the clouds on a bicycle, be t Kbl. I od no my bead and said my a r wu all wrong. Now, I will leave it . W yon if there wis anything wrong about e ItaL Bay, do von know what 1 think it L the most beautiful thing In lbs Bible?" k "No, 1 don't,* mid tbe grocery man. a "aad if you want lo Mil it I will listen l •butnpibestoreindgotobreakfuL^ou I —he me tired."

-"Well, I think tbe finqM thing Is that story about lbs prodigal no, where the bey look all the money be coalil scrape up and went out west to paint the town, ir red. He spent bis money in riotous lis. r- ing. And row everything that was going il on. and got full of benzine, and stoic* si! i. lb* pangs of roughs, IFitb male and femsle. j, and bis stomach went tack on him. and e, be bad malaria, and finally lie got lo be a h cow-boy, berdlog hog». and had lo cat ig husks thai tbe hog. didn't ■want, ind got pretty low down. Then he thought it wu d a pretty good scheme lobe getting around k home, where tbey had Ihree meals a day. n and spring mattresses, and be Muted d bome. baling his way on Ibe trains, and le he didn'i know whether tbe old man would receive liim with open arms or pointed d boots, but ibr old man came down toll* e depot to meet bim, an I right there before ,. the passengers, anil the conductor and n ( brakemen, lie wasn't ashamed of bia tt>y, k 1 though lie was ragged, and looked na L i t bough be bait Iwen on the warparh, and e ' tbe old nun Ml on his neck and wept, e and took him borne in a back and bad a is veal pot pic for dinner. That's what I d call sense. A good mAy men now days I i i would have put the police on tbe tramp j r ; and bad him ordered out of town. Wflat, . i yon going io close up the store? Well. 1 1 If I wiH we yog lalcr. .1 want-fa talk witb s | you abdhi something that is weighing on ,■ I my mind," and tbe boy got oat Just in I | time to save his roat tail from lieing caught | . in -the door, and when Ibe grocery man - . t in front. " 77./. *wr i. rj-rof tillfurOrr | , , notir*. — .S3 mjr. " -a, r A Brave Clrl. ■ In Ibe year 1781, while Clinton and *. Washington were watching each other's , , movements near New York. General * Schuyler, Irnvlng resigned bis cminiaiid, ; on account of some unjust charges against bim, was staying at bis house, wbicb tbrn stood outride the stockade or wall of AlJ tany.. The Hritisb commander, therefore seeing liia opportunity, sent out John , , Walter Meyer, with a party of Tories and , , Indians, tn capture General Schuyler. -, When they arrived at the outskirts of ' , the citr, tbey learned from a Hutch la- ■ liorer tied llw- General's bouse was guard- | - ed by six soliWa. Tbe Dtitrhman. tbe , minute the taod wai out of sight, took to ■ 5 bia legs, and warned tbe General of their - . approach boon after, a scrratil announced thai , J there w». a strange man at tbe tack doer , 1 who wished to ace tbe General. , , Schuyler, understanding tbe trap. gatb. . . ervd hi* letnily in ooe <d the upper room", , I And giving orders ihaljtho d.s.rs aod win- , dows be tarred, fired a pistol from one of , ' t^tofGlPO-lttdowsn. alarm lire nrigl,- , i The guards, who bad Iwen lounging in • , lb* (bade of a tree, started to their few at , r W^pd of tlic pistol; but alas, t.«, late! , I for ibey found themselves sorrounded by J I a crowd of dusky figure* who bound them ( . hand and foot -before they bad time to , [ resist. , And now you can imagine the little , group collected in that dark room up- . stab*; the sturdy General, standing reso- , lutely bj tbe door, witb bis gun in his . , band, and bis black slaves gathered , around bim. each with some weapon: snd t , at tbe rtber esd of Ibe room, tlic women 1 . huddled .Joaeltar, aume woeulog. tern* , praying. Suddenly a crash Is beard wbicb I ; chills the very blood, and brings vividly . to each one's mind tbe lairs of Indian | ' bMdtad brok00^1™011 " d*^' "I1" Al ttat moment, Mrs. Scbuylrr. spring- | [ ing to ber feet, ruabed towarel tbe door; t . for she remembered that tbe baby] only a i , few months obi, bnvjng been fotroltea in 1 . the hurry of flight, SSU asleep in its era- t i 'be on tbe first fiodr.' Itot thefjeutral, i . catcliirg lier in bit arms told ber ttat ber t , Ufe Ksa of more Value than tbe cbiM'a, , I aod that, if any one must go, be would. > While, however. Ibis generous struggle i *as going on, their third daughter, g'io. ( | mg ^est them, wu aoen at the aide of the t

All wu u black as night in tbe ball cxl§ Oept fer a small patch of light Just al the i. fool of tbe stair* This came from Ihe ., dining-room, where' tbe Indians could be , area pillaging tbe shelves, pulling dewn r tbe china, and quarreling with ooc another u over tbeir Ill-gotten booty. How to get peat this spot wu tbe qoc*. e lion, but the girl did qui beaitate. bbe reached tbe cradle unobserved, mad Wu c Just darting back with ber- precious barden when, by ill luck, one of tbe savages a happened to aee her. Wbixl went • bia a Sharp tomahawk within a few inches of v the baby's bead, aod, cleaving an edge of " Hal *!Sl eirl ' d^C,,' *Urk dwp inl° 1 Jutt then one of the Tories, seeing ber i e flit by. and supposing hot to be » servant, c called afrer bur. "Wench, wench, where t e is your mutetP Bbe. stopping for a mo- i i. meat, called tack, "Gone to alarm the 1 f town!" and, hurrying on, wu soon safe g again with ber father upstair* And now, very nearly all tbe plunder ■ t having been secured, thy Iwnd wu sbeut i i, to preweed to tbe real object of tbe expe- i i dluon, wberi the General, raising ooe ol t I tbe upper window* called out lo lusty t tone*, u if commanding a large body of ' r men: "Come on, my brave fellows! Sur- I r round tbe bouse! Secure tbe villians who ' : are plundering?" Tbe cowards knew that I , voice, and they each and every one of i . them taok tn tbe woods u fan u their t i legs would carry them, leaving tbe Gen- I - era! in poaHoion of (be field. i • Tbe old Schuyler bouae looks now u It < i looked Uwn. rxoept that tbe tack wing ■ i for tbe slaves bu been torn down, and ' . some few alterations have been made ' - around tbe place; but when you are shown > • the bouse, you ran Hill seethe dent in the > stair-rail made by that Indian'Uhatchet < I than a hundred years BK— SL t r Jfic/iolai far July. v i • . , ' I They Gather Shells. J ■ A SEW ASD IMFOEIAXT ITEM OF HALTI- ' I Momt^roinnracE. , Tbe shells on the seashore, cut up by \ the restless ocean tides, beautiful in their | opalescent tints, tbeir variegated colors 1 and their fantastic shapes, and la tbe mur- " : muring echoes that they send forth to i lie b car, suggesting the poetry of tbe f ■ea, have always Itoco objects of interest 1 | tbe strollers no tbe hrach. Hare tpcci- * bare been eagerly sought for. and " prices have been paid tor Ibem. * But tbe nigged, homely, oyster shell, witb " Its unihapcIvTMUer coat aod ungraceful J1 t of Baltimore have attached to tbeir walla ° the inscription* "Oyster Shells Free." At laH however, a use bu been found for tbe shells wbicb promises to render u Ibem articles ot value rather than of in- " convenience. Il bu been discovered that 1 tbey form the beat possible bottoms for ■ artificial oyster bed* Tbey are literally »i In tbe sea, and a crop of ojatesa are " reaped from them, oysters in uwn bring , thinly scattered about on ibem and tbe young bivalves attaching tbetnarivm te u the shell* where there are M firat mere * ■pecks of a rediab brown oolor, and where they.^gradusl'y ^grow until tbey form a ^ A repSet" of tbe Bahiman News railed upoc Mr. Cbariet H. Alfred, or the flrni of Thomas Kensrit A Oa, well to our Ope May Reader* who said: "We arc only too glad to get rid of the shell* Tbey ought to have a market in valor, bet there are so many of then that j « we give tbrui away willingly to get lid of T •.ban, and are very well satisfied Lf at tbe ' •

t end of the pocking season we are entirely e clear of them. There are about five rnlfr lion busbrls of tbem to be disposed of s during the smarm. Many of Ibem are used in making piers and in harbor imz proremrnti and bulkhead* Tbe Balll11 more and Ohio railroad is naing a good . many at Curtis crock. A large quantity 1 of tbem are burnt into lime, and h is aaid s that tome are used al the iron furnace* t where they ate thrown Into tbe fire witb t lbs coal to prevent the formation of din- • kcrs." 1 "Do you know anything of tbe ales of . shells to oyster planters ?" 1 "Ye* There have been a number of I coastwise schooners here lately which 1 base loaded with sbdirtoc return cargoes 1 These shells are purchased ate price ragr leg from a cent to a cent and a half per > bushel Several reads wen- loaded at ! Cantos last week with shells." Mr. W. a Hdpsoo, of the St* World 1 and 1 "ackers' Journal who morally ro1 aided in New llaven. wu called no. and . said Oval, r planting in Long Island > t iiqtl-a-.iiouuicd Ii— mi proportion* I : The u -ii. an of tbe sound is sold lo plant- • - et AJvbu have lb» same right in them that ' s farmer lias im his land. These plaatn- . j teats ate ran tully tended and the oyster I ' prnductVm .,( these water* bu been at t [ Icwt t it bled fit two yean. In places I I wltere tbe bouom is t>ot suited to. tbe : | planting of oyster* artificial beds are : trade and oyster shells are the best poo. i stble things to be used for this purpose." i | Mr. I lops- >n at this point picked up a ' shell in wbicb be .pointed out about a ; dozen ot tbe reddish-brown spots menI lionod above. "Tliesc be continued would have developed into edible oysters in a few years 1 tad lite shell been left in tbe water. Ins reived an order two days ago lor 10.000 1 bushels nl oyster shells, at 11 cents a bushel. If Ibe five mUlioo buabria of ; shells ttat are removed from oysters every 1 sraarn in Baltimore could be sold at this rate $75,000 could lie realized from what is dow a burden to tbe packer* This 1 could be done if Ibe Maryland law granted Ibe tight to planters lo bold private , possession of tbe bottom of the bay. would axis teem with prolific lied* and ' the cooacquenoc would be that tbe present ' alarm about the condition of the bay would never again exist. 11 a home demand wpte. crvattxl for shells for planting purposei^t would soon be found that tbey could be put to a better use than filling bulkheads aod making or mending rood* One hundred thousand bushels sL. least tare been shipped North Ibis seaand the demand is growing. Connecticut uses up ber own shells and bu lo send South for more. The Long laland Sound planters are making lots of money by selling seed oysters to Callforni* New otk. New Jersey, and Europe. Tbe* oysters are too small for use. but are planted lb beds In tbe localities named, and are found to thrive aod fatten rapidly. Oyster culture in that Stale bu been carried to the highest perfection." Fishing In Ihe Pamunky. ' Footsore and weary, (be army rested on tee banks of tbe Punnnky. We bad left our base of supplies far in tbe rear, and tbe cooauy wu dean Swept through the rebels of all live stock; is it even a or a chick wu left to reward tbe salof tbe moat tireless forager. Near al hand,, there wu one source of supply ttat could not well be exlisted by either rebel or federal army, tbe river— Ibe beautiful Pamunky— which supplied witb fisb. In our ranks there were men representing almost every vocation, among tbem those who, before the war. followed fishing for * living, aod who could handle a net with u much ■kill u tbey now could their Enfield* So, there were flab lo the river and in tbe army; but by what means these fishermen should gel the fisb was the perplexing problem. Foe, so lar as

- we knew, there was not a net to be bad, : not even a fish-hook, abort of Richmond, ? wbicb place at that time wu about u in. - accessible lo us u tbe Any inhabitants of t tbe Pamunky. In an active campaign, r soldiers tare enough tn carry without Ibo But lite northern soldier did not leave ! all bis Yankee wit and grit at borne when ■ be enlisted; and ia Ibis Instance it wu - satisfactorily demonstrated that when > once an idea gets Into bis brad, be will ■ give it no rest until it bu evolved arane- ' thing practical. Tbe particular idea that f took poascasian of Ibem at this time wu : ttat a net might be constructed nut of shelter tent* and it soon crysubxed into r an experiment, though It meant sacrifice , to some of tbe boy* no roof but tbe sky > at night, and no protection from tbe . scorching sun and pelting storm. Tbe : incredibly abort tim* a net wusprrsd out upon the share, made from acvcral pieces • of the boys' tents sewed together, pert orI a ted, and leaded with build* Soon, a , corporal's guagd of expert fishermen were ■tripped of tbeir uniforms aod in tbe river. With their akillfnl handling, lite nd worked charmingly. Enough bullets had . been attached to make it bug the bottom i snugly; and though tbe meshes were only : boles cut Into canvas* wbicb caused i to drag heavier than a ad made in tbe ■ usual way would have dooe. yet the brave fellows [succeeded by a firm grip, and steady pull, and cautious tread io making clean sweep. It wu manifest u tbey approached the shore, by tbe commotion in tbe water, and an occasional ill very on tbe surface, that tbeir effort wu not to be bootlcu. Tbe net U now brought end tn end, and carefully dragged toward tbe share. As tbeir limits grow narrower, tbe fish fairly make tbe the wales boll and splash In fruitless effort* to be released. Soldiers crowd dosrn and press upon tbeir fishing comrade* witb ail sons of delighted ejaculation* Negroes on tbe tacks above distend tbeir eye-ball* and display their ivories in a broad grin, and from tbeir thick Upatbeaboutiabrard: "Ixir'Massa. I Dcber aee the like ob Jat on de Pamunk." It wu a light worth flcltolding. Even professional* who, lb their lifc-limc. bad raughl car loads of shad in the Hudson and Karilan. contemplated tbe result of . their firet draugld in thr Pamunky with wondering amnrtncsL Tbrirsubseqirm 1 attempts were likewise successful; so that t we bad a sufficient supply to furnish a I whole battalion witb a royal feast. And I from our frying-pans, long used lo alt- t Junk, there arose a clood of Incense that I hung like a bravcaly benediction over the • I am at a has to know Just where to I classify tbe specie*. That did nul concern 1 modi then, nor need It now. Tbey I neither herring nor shad, averaging « little larger than tbe former and a little ' smaller than tbe latter. In shape and geoeraJ they were somewhat similar to either, aad u sweet u both on tbe dish, t Loth were we lo have tbe bountiful , Pamunky, but the supreme rail a then, la ear counter's trying emergency. <- to tlmy. and when the order, "Fall c in! " wu giren that afternoon, we promptly t obeyed, grateful foe twelve bom* of roat, . and a mass of fresh Jtah. Strength *or Mind aad Body. e There is more strength restoring power io s boule ot Parker's Ginger Tonic than p I in a bushel of mail or a gallon of milk, a explains why invalids find it audi a c I wonderful io vigor aat fut miod aod body. 1

IT CAPE "MAY, i Its Sanitary Condttloo— The Stock- ™ ton House Amuigwmwnts. t>- Tbe aanilaty condition of Oipc May ia L in tbe tad possible shape lo be secured by sc tenor, skilled labor and a huge outlay, of Id money. No city on the Atlantic coast ia * better protected against malaria aad lbs ^ diseases resulting from it than Cape May. Its water supply is drawn from the purest taustible In quantity ba h la exceptions! In quality. Tbe city is free from all nul- * health of Its resident or vhdteqppopalslioti. 11 Tbe Uteris are piodds of neatnest and a cleanliness, while the "lay of the land," 4 largely utilised In tbe very sococasful syaf tem et arwengo which pugfica tbe town. (. Tbe great hotels are tipr telly constructed it wilb reference this necessary sanitary precaution, and no expense Is spared to T make tbe vcnlBstkin, sewerage and wales family perfect. , Improvements are being aooatantly made in this direction, upon the principal * ttat " an ounce of pretention Is worth a ,. pound of car*" Ibe latest week done be- . lag tbe entire raaotallun of the Stockton Hotel, by the introduction of over 9,000 , fret of new Iron pipe devoted solely to Ihe drainage and ventilation ottesayMUiotel. Tbe new system bu been pat In place . upon tbe most approved jdana of adencr, under tbe Supervision of ante ikllietl en- „ grocers u Colonel Waring and .General . Thayer, end the work dene by the equally skilled mechanic* Meetr* Beneset&Oo., ' of Cape May. Four large main* nianlng ' fictm the 18 inch sewer far above tbe root [, of tbe bouee, convey away all cares and i- vapor* while an endlrve net- work of pipes . cany to tbe sewer the refuse of tbe kit- .' chm, closets and sink* To present the injection of sewer gu. ; to fetal toe botaaebold, not a ogmection , of the pipe is made without the seta guard .ofa "trap, " and An moat easee aooublc "trap" makes assurance doubly sure. ; Bo carefully bu Uiia idea prevailed, that _ separate pipes have even been provided ; for tbe dish paolry and the puns as of , scrubbing. Everj wash-basin bu boen £ fitted up wilb Brewer's glare "trap," and , Ibe closets furnished with Demoreat's tasin* perfect pre retail! ree. to- vile odors Tlic usual tasin iQ slop-sinks it metal , with porcelain lining. In pine* •( there. wbicb keep wboiaanmc but a short time. J solid porcelain basins are used which ran ' Surrounding tbe entire structure is laid i a continuous drain pipe In receive tbe .' clean rain water from the roof, which is .' carried directly lo aod serves tojluth the main pipe. Tbe soil beneath tbe kitcbaa, danets, laundry and work rooms of Ibe hotel bu been dredged aod replaocd by a boot two feel Ot dry fresh mod. end over this tbe air plays freely, baring no score of damp5 The Stockton ia to day tbe heat sewered and ventilated botal in ibe country, with. j out any exesptkw, and tbe improvements a made redound greatly to tbe liberal enter - I prise of the management ia securing the hcakbnnd comfort of the patrons of the c 1 Tbe Fuurth of July ia cktre at band. : when the very air will crackle with rep porta of tbe toy pistol It ia ao ufe, c carries neither shot nor bullet. ' Aa 1 tried it oooe, I ran tell yon about it. Firat, I twisted one of tbe cape around , a match on fire. When the flame reached tbe peper cap there wu a Htllc explosion. Suddenly I felt a stinging sensation in my band, and, on looking at it. I found rev. arid, looking at

. rral tiny black splinter* 'nicking In tbe • akin. I pulled tbem out, but I felt tbe ' pal a for eome time Urns afterward. Then I placed a rap on tbe brartb aad Brock It 1 with a hammer. This time I wu well ' scared, and kept toy bands u far away u " I could. Wbea il went off I fell the seme sensation in my left band, wbicb wu ° el ruck again by e flying splinter. This thing wu retting dccldelv dangerous, and I when 1 took op tbe piHol to try it, Icarr- . fully wrapped sny right band in my bandkerchief. It went off beautifully, but— ah I There wu tbe miecbief ! The band- , kerchief wu dotted here mod there with the black splinter* from tbe exploded rap. Tbe insane demre of tbe small boy to cany a ptttei la one of Ibe wooden of Ibe ' age; aod tbe worse than folly of those who allow bim to do so it almost Incredible. I Of what use is It t It the pistol will not . go off. it I* u its owner would scornfully , ex prom it, "no good." If it does go off, ft ._ is a dangerous weapon that bu power to maim and kill Did you ever think wbal It means to kill— lo lake away life ? Who shall do ao .[ dire and terrible a thing u that ? Are you J fit to bare a pistol ? Are you wire enough tn carry a rcrolrer ? No, air. It is against the law in some States to carry pistol* A Why, then, should you wish * toy -pistol. ttat will aboot nothing but tbe boy who ; holds K? If vou live in tbe backwoods, ,1 and tare lo fight tbe terrible wild crow , or tbe ferocious chipmunk, you may Irani : to use a good rifle. In cities and towns, ' where tbe moat terrific wild beasts la be seen are tbe rat* a bey who carrica a pis- ; lol is a boy without sense — a boy whom girls deepisr aod brave bora rail a coward, x Prom "Thr Try a*d Pirtrt." by Char. , Barnard, in BL KieMar for July. I A Chicago hotel derk went last year to Dakota, to a hotel reputed to be doinc a r rearing trade-it wu. He retornod lately . completely cured of all deetre for change. ■ Tbe hotel, be any* wax a small frame r Structure * ilh a school section on Ibe top r floor, and three hundred people often . slept in tbe house. "Tbry ramc in wagon ' load* Tbe landlord made money, but be i never wu around, and I bad to do every. , thing. Tbe landlord wu selling town i lots aod surveying, and ran a lumber I yard and everything. Tbe firat day I i wu there I had lo leave the office and t drive thirty teams around to the tarn. I aod help to unhitch the borne* and all I tbe time I was there I wu half hostler. I half chambermaid, half cook, aod talf . everything there wa* Why, a hotel drrk alrietman bere. It would make you sick. I had to help nit on table, belp make , split stabs for fuel bail out tbe oeldeal for a faro back io which (be landwu interested, milk ml cow* go out and bold a chain for surveyors, scrub ibe office floor, and lay out corpse*" Down in Mem. New Jersey, a cam wu up in cocrt, in wbicb an old boat the property in dispute. "Well, you are," said ooe of the w Unread* "I owned ooe-thml of the boat, and BHl Monk owned one-third. So we—" "But who owned Ibe other one-third?" asked the plaintiff's attorney. "Hub?" queried tbe witness. "Who owned tbe remaining one-third?" repealed tbe lawyer. "Oh!" exclaimed tbe rrflnem: "Nobuddy. There want only about twojhlrda of a bo*L" Even a man who bu bad both Iras *mpul atari, when be opens bia mouth to tell startling stories of tbe war. will occuionally put bi* foot is It. -Oil City