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The Blue-Looking Bird. A tired, worn-out mother, who had gon- to the country with her little girl, sat under a tree. Soft air came down across aclovered slope, and silken grass hung over and lint- tered on the dimpled surface of a rivulet. The yellow poplars were in bloom, and the hummingâ€"bird, with her Easter dress still new, twittcred in ecstatic vanity at a wood- pecker that sought to woo her. A handful of violets, held by the little girl, were yel- lowed by a dandelion. She was a pale child, with, it seemed, a premature plenitudc of brown hair. She had never seen the coun- try until that very day, and she could scarce- ly believe that she was permitted to gather the flowers. ‘ ‘ Won’t the policeman come and take them away from me ‘3” she asked, looking about timidly and sitting down beside her mother. “No, dear, there are no policemen in the country. " “'l‘hen why don‘t everybody live in the country ‘3” “If everybody did then there would be need of policemen.” “But we could live here, couldn't we “No, for there would be no work for me to do.” “But you wouldn't have to do any work if you lived here.", “Oh, yes, dear, I should have to wiirk no matter where I might be.” “Why ‘2” “Because I am poor.” i Farming in the States. The proposition assumed by Mr. C. Wood Davis in his interesting article in the April Forum, viz., that the farmers of the United States are not prosperous, is confirmed by some startling figures collated by Hon. J. VM. Fippen, of Tipton county, in the state of Indiana. “The county of Tipton,” says Mr. Fippen “has a rich soil of black sandy loam, unsurpassed by any in the State of Indiana, or even in the broad Mississippi Valley. It has been in a high state of culti< vation for the past twenty years, yielding annually during all this time, in amount, more than double its consumption. Its people are industrious, prudent, economical, and intelligent to a degree unsurpassed in any county in the State. But they are not contented, and they are not prosperous. Year by year they have been ‘ runningr be- hind" as their phrase iswthat is, their debts have been increasing faster than their iii- come or the value of their property.” To assure himself of the correctness of this complaint, Mr. Fippcn consulted the county records to ascertain just how much this indebtedness had been at the close of each ten years, beginning with 1850. To his surprise he learned that while the amount of real estate mortgages in the county amounted in January ")()toSl.">6,129 in Jan. ’90 it had swelled to $-,‘287,435 ; the 'alue of real estate meanwhile increasing from $408,310 to $2,309,685 ; that is to say, while the value of real estate in the county increased not quite sixfold in the forty years, the amount of mortgages increased almost fifteenfold. Nor is this the only discouraging circumstance, for the further fact must be added that according to the estimate of Mr. Fippen the earnings of all capital in farming are not over 4-per cent., while the current rate of interest is 8 per cent. Clearly, a farmer who pays 8 per cent. on half his capital and makes but 4 per cent. on the whole cannot get ahead. Considering the many advantages and few drawbacks which characterize the country in question, the view presented of the coli- dition of the agricultural population of the country is far from hopeful or satisfactory. 9” “ ‘ho made you poor ?" “ 11, don’t ask such questions, Mary." “You never did anybody any harm did you '1” “Never in this world.” “And have rich people done harm ‘2” “Some of them have.” “I am too tired to gather flowers. \‘l'ill I catch cold if I lie down here ‘3” “No,” the mother answered, making a pillow ofa shawl, “lie down and go to sleep.” “And if that big blue-looking bird comes back will you wake me up so I can sec‘him 2’” I“)? es” She was soon fast asleep. The tired woman bent over her. (.‘attlc came down and drank at the brook. A farmer boy, breaking tip the corn land in an adjoining field, cast glances at the sun, as though longing for the noon hour, and a foot»sorc A “'onderl'ul Japanese Family. man, with a rusty bag thrown across his ‘ _ “A thousand years in one household” (flu/(a snoulder, trudged wczirily down the road. sum/m) is an old Japanese saying, employ- ed with reference to an cvcul which, in res- pect of extreme rarity, may be classed with the sight of a dead donkey or a tinker’s funeral. The IIOI'hi Shim/mu says that an instance may at present be found in the household of a merchant called Mizuma (x‘cnsukc, who resides in Kanazawa, in the Saitama district of Sade. The family con- sists of the following members 2 Greatâ€"great- greatgrandpapa (lengo (aged 130), great- great-great-grandmamma Tomi (aged 132), grcatgreat-grandpapa (lembci (aged 101), great“great-grandmamma Miyo (aged 99), great-grcat-grandaunt Yoshi (aged 105), great-grandpapa (lensukc (aged 81), great- graudmanuna Kinii (aged 79), grandpapa (lempachi (aged (31), g‘andmamma Toyo (aged 60) ; papa Gcnkiehi (aged 40), mamma 'l‘omo (aged 38), uncle (lenroku (aged 35), son (lcnshichi (aged Isl), daughter Tokiflaged 5). The united ages of the fourteen amount- A woman in a far away door-yard stood with a bread-tray resting on a low gate post, and checrily called the chickens. The little girl awoke. “Where are my flowers 1” she asked. “Here they are, dear, just where you left them.” “I dreamed that the policeman came and took them. Did the blue bird come back 1’” “No, but he may be back after awhile. Do you feel rested ‘.’” “Almost. I wish you would sing to me.” “Oh, I can’t sing now, Mary, I declare I can‘t. It is almost as much as I can do to talk.” “Please sing just a little bit of a bit.” “Precious, I really can not. Don’t you know that I have not been able to sing any since I had that awful cold in the wintcr‘! Come, let us go up to the house.” They went to a farm house not far away. A ln‘ “Uh, no,” the city woman rcplicd. “This is the only resting place I have found for many a day.” “Well, I guess it does keep a body on the move in the city, havin’ to go to so many balls and parties.” “I do not go to any. factory.” “'Why, I didn’t ’low that city folks had to Work at all. I always thought that the folks in the country had to keep them up in their idleness.” “And my little girl expressed the opinion just now that the people in the country did not have to work any. Her idea of work is that the laborer must be shut iip in a house. " “Ho, that ain’t no work at all,” spoke up a slouching boy that had left his plow and came to the well to get a drink of water. “If I didn’t have nothin’ to do but stay in the house I wouldn’t care wliuthcr Sunday came or not. It’s bein’ out in thc br‘illau’ sun that makes a fellcr hump." “ Mamma,” said the little girl, “ I want to lie down. I am tired.” “I am afeerd,” said the farmer's wife,” “ that you brought her here too lite, and I don‘t know but you came too late yourself.” '> ll‘ “'1‘ 91' 4v f: 9(- whilc, the aggregate ages would be 1,008, and as 994 is nearer 1,000 than 1,008, the family have resolved to celebrate their {Hurt ran-nan this spring by a visit to the shrine of Isc, and afterwards to Kioto, where the whole fourteen, from the little tot of 5 to the grayhcad fifhc still has any ”Illtll'w~()f 131), will do their sightseeing in company. I work in a shirt _.â€"â€"-â€"-4-â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€" Saving Grace. “.1“arinton" says, in the A draw? : “Fre- quently am I invited to tea at the house of some parishioncr. A blessing is always asked at the table. As I sit down it is easy for me to detect. whether the blessing repre- sentsa custom. The behavior of the child- ren, as well as the behavior of the maid, is a clear indication of whether the pater~ families is accustomed to say grace. I am frequently asked to say grace, but I rejoice in the growth of that custom by which the visitingr minister is not asked. It is, I think, becoming more usual for the head of the family, as we call by courtesy, no matter how it may really be, the husband and father, to say grace himself. It is, I think, a right which belongs specially to him ; a right, of course which he may delegate, if he pleases, but a right which I am always glad for him to keep and to exercise. There is a special fitness in him who represents the household asking (Rod’s blessing upon the household as it gathers about the table. The same principle applies to the pronouncing the benediction in the public meetings of the church. It was formerly the rule for the most distinguished or oldest of those ministers present to pronounce the benedic- tion. But now the custom is obtaining for the pastor himself, whoever may be present, to pronounce these words of valedictory blessing. It is fitting ; this privilege and this duty belong to him, as the father, the minister of his church.” A little white face in a beautiful tangling of brown hair. A high, oldâ€"fashioned bed, â€"â€"whitc plaster kittens on each corner of the mantclpieee aml a clock ticking mid- It was late at night, way between them. “ rafter ” and the tired boy snorcd in the room just above. The mother and the farmer’s wife sat beside the bed. The child had been sleeping. Suddenly she awoke. “ \Von't you sing to me ‘3” she asked. The mother tried to sobbcd on the pillow. “ You can‘t sing, for you have such a cold,” said the. child. “ Did the blue-look- ing bird come back mamma ‘3” i sing, and then “ N0, angel. ’ as a -i.- v x r- a The tired boy snored in the “ rafter ” just The child was aslecpw-aslecp for evermore. A handful of flowers lay on the bed beside her. The policeman did not conic and get thc1u~ 011i“ 1’. It‘z‘ml. ____._.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€". above. Shall Women Be Allowed to Vote ‘.’ The question of female suffrage has agi- tated the tongues and pens of reformers for many years and good arguments have been adduced for and against it. Many of the s )ftcr sex ( ould vote intelligently, and many would vote as their husbands did, and give no thought to the merits of a political issue. They would all vote for Dr. Pierce‘s Favorite Prescription, for they know it is a boon to their sex. leucorrhea, abnormal discharges, morning sickness, and the countless ills to which \vov men are subject. It is the only remedy for woman’s peculiar weaknesses and ailments, sold by druggists, under a positivcguaraite ; from the manufacturers, that it will give satisfaction in every case, or money will be refunded. Sec guarantee on wrapper around bottle. You may not have noticed it, but you will find that the man who shakes hands tie hardest is the hardest to shake. A Positive Guarantee ol‘I‘ure is issued with Dr. Pierce‘s Golden Medical Discovery, when taken for chronic catarrah in the head, or for chronic bronchial throat or lung disease, if taken in time, and given a fair trial. Money returned if if don‘t I care. The “United States Alien Labor Law. rlilic citizens of the United States have made the startling discovery that what they . had been considering an impregnuble defense i is really a wall so weak and insufficient that , “a coach and four” can be driven through it. 1 Their Alien Labor Law, thanks to the hair- splitting abilities of some of their legal lights, has been weighed in the balances and found wanting. And this is the way interested ,‘ parties propose to evade the provisions of E l the law. Instead of importing contracted labor, which is prohibited, the “bosses” pro- pose to delay the matter of settling the ques tioii of wages until after the arrival of the workman who thus enters the country under the head of a still laborer, upon whom the obnoxious law lays no restrictions. Accord» ingly the New England contractors, hamp< ered by a strike among the freestonc cutters, have advertised in all the leading papers in l England for frccstone cutters, telling them I l i where to apply upon arrival and what the pay was. A large force is said to be coming The Government is at its wit’s end to lure vent it, and the local labour unions are fur- ions, though to stop these men coming would be to stop all immigration. J(l‘w woman was sweeping the yard. ed, at the close of last year, to 980, and conâ€" A lac/y dog With one eye shut, lay on the scqucntlv bscame 994 0,, the first day ofihis PM?” 1 1, 1 . . 1t 1 year, according to the Japanese method of "’ rccmn you nu 11. until ‘ ouesoine . . ' ”3 ~ , *7. . ' .. . . . _ t V” . , . H “in the f-ercr’xv \iIifc) calculation. I\c.\t l\cu Ital s Day, sup 0“ ““9! " ‘ ' ‘ ' posing that death had not intcrvcncd mcan- ‘ It is unequaled for the cure of ; l Charles Saunders, the professional cham- pion court tennis player of England, signed The articles for a professional court tennis match for the championship of the world, of which Thomas Pettit, of the Boston Athletic Club, is the present holder. On Saturday next Pettit will sail for England to prepaie for the contest. Miss Emily Harper, of Alexander, Gene- see county, New York, isa female Herâ€" cules. She didn’t discover her strength until the other (lay. Having broken a lamp, her mother chided her. In reply the girl gave her mother an affectionate hug. The woman dropped to the floor insensible with two ribs broken, It Depends on the Liver. “ Is life worth living”? somebody asked, and the facetious reply was, “ That depends on the lircr.” Health and happiness aie twined together. If a man’s liver is out of order, his while system is deranged. He suffers from top to toe. This is the time to take Dr. l’icrce’s Pleasant Pellets. These efficacious little globules are as much in ad- vance of the old»fashioncd, griping, drastic pills as electric lights are ahead of a wick stuck in whale oil. It is quite natural that a weeping washer- woman should attempt to dry her eyes by wringing her hands. The youth whose attentions were ignored b ' the 'ounu woman said that his trouble .) s - was slight. It is an excellent thing to chew Tutti 'li‘rutti (1 um after the meal and induce the secretion of more saliva. Sold by all Drug» gists and Confectioners, 5 cents. Horsefiesh is said to be the worst thing in the world to give people the nightmare. All Men. young, old, or middle-aged, who find them- selves nervous, Weak an exhausted, who are broken down from excess or overwork, resulting in many of the following symp- toms : Mental depression, premature old age, loss of vitality, loss of memory, bad dreams, dimness of sight, palpitation of the heart, emissions, lack of energy, pain in the kidneys, headache, pimples on the face or body, itching or peculiar sensation about the scrotum, wasting of the organs, dizziness, specks before the eyes, twitching of the muscles, eye lids and elsewhere, bashfulness, deposits in the urine, loss of will power, tenderness of the scalp and spine, weak and flabby muscles, desire to sleep, failure to be rested by sleep, constipation, dullness of hearing, loss of voice, desire for solitude, excitability of temper, sunken eyes surround- ed with LEADEN cmoLn, oily icokin skin, etc., are all symptoms of nervous ( ebility that lead to isanity and death unless cured. 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