| Show COL tell A few tew an since a mr slocum was reading redding an account of af a dreadful accident which li happened ap at the factory in the town of L f and which the village editor had described in a great many words i ibi 1 I deblare declare wife that was a dreadful accident over to the mill said mr locum loeum locum what was it lir mr sir slocum it X will read the account wife and then you yon will know all about it mr S began to lead Hb horrible trible and fatal accident it comes cornea our painful and melancholy duty duty to record the particulars of an accident that occurred at the lower mills yesterday afternoon by which a human being in the prime of life was hurried to that bourne from which whick which as the immortal shakespeare says iio ilo no jio traveler returns DU tell teli exclaimed mrs S mr david jones a workman who wh 0 has but few superiors this yide tilde side the city pity was superintending super shpen intending oneff one of the large drums drum 1 I wonder if it was a bass drum such as has unum printed ont said safa mrs airs slocum when he became entangled his arm was drawn around the drum and finally finall lle ill I 1 his is whole body was drawn ove over r the shaft at ata uta a fearful rate bate when his situation was diceo discovered ered lie had revolved with immense imm enie euie velocity about fifteen nil nii minutes his head and limbs striking a large largo beani beam a distinct blow at e verbye 11 poor erecter erector how it must lave bave av hurt liim him 11 I 1 I 1 when the machinery had been stopped it was found that mr jones arms and legs were macerated ma into a jelly well it kill him asked mrs 14 so sourn 1 0 4 mn uin with increased inte interest Test portions of he dura mawr macer cerebrum alq an cerebellum in n confused masses massed me feere e sea scattered about the floor in eliol tha him aa gamus gates tes of eternity had opened upon here mr slocum paused to wipe ills his spectacles and his ills wife seized the opportunity port unity to press the question was the man killed r 1 I dont know come to that place yet know when ive finished reading the piece and mr hr S T continued 11 it was evident that when the shape 1 less form was taken down that it was no longer tenanted ten anted by the immortal spirit that the vital spark was extinct was the mail man killed what I 1 want to come to said mrs airs slocum do have llave a little patience said mr j S eyeing his better half over his ills spectacles 1 I presume we shall come upon it right away 11 and he lie went on reading I 1 aliis fatal casualty has cast a gloom over our village and I 1 trust it will prove a warning awarding to all persons who are called upon to regulate the powerful rn machinery of our mills I 1 now wow said mrs urs sio cunY perceiving that the tile article was ended now I 1 should like to know whether the mail man was wa skilled killed or not 1 I s mr slocum looked puzzled ho he scratched his head scrutinized the tho article he had been reading and toba a i careful survey of the paper 1 fl I declare melare wife 11 said he I 1 ilu e uri urt ous but really the paper dont say io i 1 JACO JACOU U consultation WITH SQUIRE ABOUT nis HIS Vi feys EPITAPH her name was vlas sarah simply sarah said sald jacob as if the fact were a testimony to the modes modest ot nature of the departed she was of late years 68 11 lie he continued referring at the same time to an old pocketbook pocket book but according to my reckoning reckon ingi we kle kee lost three three years or seo teo from not keepings keeping pinga a cheek check upon her birthdays output but put her down at 68 she must have known knon her own ae age better than any one else mr wro wrote tt aged 68 11 1 would you say aged asked j seiw selwyn y n 1 I 1 dont think she would have havo liked that say in hi her year if you please mr wrote as lie he was requested I 1 I 1 she was an excellent cook I 1 and made liams hams better I 1 think than any woman in the country 71 baid bald selwyn with a pardonable feeling of pride 1 I dont think we call can put that in her epitaph ll 11 remarked iino lino no no perhaps not but its a pity t to go down as it might nav hav have stimulated other young women to have as much said of them 11 said selwyn adding after a pause she was good at figures and taught me to cypher when we were first married but that cant go down either I 1 suppose she was a very tidy woman band ind made others tidy broke in a lot of good servants who never had a kind vord word to sa say for her I 1 dare say that cant godown go down I 1 suppose up it would be difficult to express it answered Wyc wye lierley pickling and preserving she was a great hand band at both 11 said selwyn with an inquiring look but receiving no encouraging cou raging response from froin his ills amanuensis lie he took another shot always early with her eil ell chickens ickens lekens and turkeys and pretty nigh found herself in clothes what do you say to that that ought to go down mr replied well I 1 think all the good qualities you have enumerated selwyn must be comprised comprised in she was an excellent affe 1 I 1 ali ail all ah that she was said the bereaved husban husband d and its haril hard she cant have it put stronger than that she was affectionate 11 yes im uhl sure of that sometimes rather too affectionate and showed a little unnecessary anxiety anxiety y about me I 1 used to vex her sometimes on pur purpose ose just to try her temper aa and how did you find it said slyly well it varied sometimes smooth enough at other times warm perhaps very warm but as her good qualities cant be set out at length I 1 wont have her ittle ittie infirmities advertised on the churchyard 11 marb mark lems lovci at east last 1 PROVERBS BY THE BILLINGS F FAMIL PRESERVED BY JOSEPH joserh i BILLINGS dont swap swai with your relations unless you can atford afford to give them the big end of the traid arald marry marry young and if circumstances require it often say how are you to everybody cultivate Kulti vate mo modesty deAy but mind and in haye a stock of impudence on liand hand 1 tet r ool I 1 0 phree e ila lla iia hai rat 19 three cent n L piece I 1 berei were made oly 4 jit dit ma I 1 in e pun se balt take a anybody hylod Y advice e except your own it costs more to borrow than to buy if a man flattens flatters you you can kaiki late he is a groag roager or a fule keep both eyes open but dont say morn half you know cheit you pray pray r hight right to the centre of the mark dont mortify the flesh too tob much It nt the sores of Las chatsen tha that tsen sent t him up to liea ilea heaven en if you itch for fame go inter a graveyard and I 1 scratch yourself agin a tume stull stun yung men be more anxious about the pedigree youre going to leave than you are about the one somebody left you As good a way tog to git it riel rich i as any ally is t to r him rim ii ii li in debt two hundred thousand dollars 0 and then go to work vork an and d puy pay your debts debts Filos tell u us the world revolves on its own axis and josh billings tells us that full half the foks folks on alafi almi aimi think the they are the ax axis N B these ere ia proverbs have stood a hundred years and faint gin out yet childres CHILDREN IN i JAPAN jaran the following extract is 18 from a recent letter from japan during more than half a years residence in japan Ji pan I 1 have never seen a quai quarrel trel among young or old J 1 have never neven neverseen seen been a i brow blow struck scarcely an angry gingry face tace I 1 llave seen the children at their thelt sports flying their kites on the hills and no amount of df intermingled strings or kites lodged in the trees provoked t angry words or im impatience c e I 1 have seen them intent on their gameson games of jackstones jaek jack stones and marbles under the shady gateways odthe of the temples but hav have e seen no approach to a quarrel among them dieni they tite are taught caught implicit obedience to th their parents but out I 1 have never seen one of them chastised respect and reverence for the aged is universal acry A crying child is a rarity seldom heard or seen we have nothing to teach them in this respect out of our civilization I 1 speak from what I 1 know of the little folks of japan fermore for fo more ranore than any other foreigner have I 1 been among them of all that japan holds there is nothing I 1 like halfss half so welt well as the happy children I 1 shall always remember their sloe black eyes and ruddy brown faces with pleasure I 1 have pa played a battledore i with the little maidens in the streets and flown kites with as happy a set of boys as one could wish 0 o see they have been my guides in in my rambles shown me where a all ali 11 the streams and and ponds were where the flowers lay hid in the thickets where the berries were ripening on the hills they have brought me shells from the ocean and blossoms from the field presenting them with all the modesty and a less bashful grace than a young american would we have hunted the foxholes fox holes together and looked for the green and golden ducks among the hedges they have nave laughed at tm my broken japanese and taught me better r and for a happy good natured set of 0 children I 1 will turnout my little japanese friends against the world udd biesil bies the boys and girls of siphon wiio wilo SHOULD NOT BE A WIFE under this heading some one lays down the law in the cunning guise of questions has that woman a call eail to be a wife who thinks more of her silk dress than her children and visits her nursery no oftener illan lilan than ehan once a day arasa has a w yoman oman a right to be a wife who calls for a cashmere shawl when her husbands notes are being protested has that woman a call to be a wife who sits reading the last new novel while her husband stands before the glass lass vainly trying to pin together a buei buri onless shirt bosom has that woman a call to be a wife who expects her husband to swallow diluted conee coffee soggy bread smoky tea and watery potatoes six days out of the sevens seven habshe has she a eail call to be a wife who flirts with every man she meets and reserves her frowns for the home homen fireside has she slie a call to be a wife who comes down to breakfast in abominable curl papers a soiled dressing gown and shoes down at the heel has she a call tobe a wife whose husbands love weighs naught in the balance with her next door neighbors damask curtains or velvet carpet has she a call to be a wife who would take advantage of a moment of conjugal weakness to extort money or extract a promise has she a call to be a wife who takes a journey for pleasure leaving her husband to toil toll in a close shop and have ail an eye when at home to the servants and children has shea she a call to be a wife to whom a good husbands society is not tile greatest of earthly y blessings anda and a house bullof full of rosy rey children its list best t fur bishing auda aud prettiest ke otiest br h amen amentis tar tir ar ex j j j 1 META the fashionable jre ire medy remedy for foi headache at present in paris is which in francs france means a copper saucepan the original lual machine employed applied to the head A noted physician cured mrs D of a 9 headache by this means and wrote all alt about it to the fac fae facility bality and the facility y drs trousseau Ti an and d tardieu at the head write very learnedly about thy and its efficacy in certain diseases eess especially headache mrs D aforesaid ato who was subject to frightful headaches as soon as she found the saucepan in infallible had a band of copper made and puts it on every time she is threatened with an attack and is invariably cured it appears that this cure with the hard banic panic name has been practiced from froia time imm immemorial immemorially by the women of Auvergne who wear as their national address headdress lle lie a thin copper band more or less decorated and give as a reason for not no falling in with the newfangled new modes of de decorating ing themselves that their metallic ornament has the virtue of preserving them from the tiie pains in the head of course the experience of peasants could not be accepted unless under 11 nigh high h sanction which the late letters of tte the facility of medicine accord to it ex freedon FREEDOM FREEDOM OF THOUGHT IN im SCOTLAND if the great mass of the people environed as they adeon are on every side slue with Jenkin sons gons Perce vals vais melville melvillee Mel mei villes S and othera other perils perlis ceils were to pray for fr divine illumination and aid what could providence dp in its mercy than send the them nithe the example of scotland for what a length of time wag was it attempted to compel the scots to change their religion horse foot artillery artiller yi and armed preben daries were sent bent after the presbyterian parsons and their con rogations negations rogat ions lons the Perce vals of those ays eys ays called for blood and this cailis caltis eail call is never made in vain and blood was shed but to the th e astonishment and horror of the Perce vals vais of those days they could not introduce the book of common prayer llor or prevent that metaphysical people from going to heaven their finstead olour true tru way eway with a little oatmeal for food allaying irritation with tho tho the the one hand and fand holding his Cal cai calvinistic Calvani vanis tie tle tic creed in the other sawney ran away to his flinty hilde hilte sang his ills psalm ou out bof of tune his own way and listened to a sermon two hours long amid the roughest and most melancholy this thistles whistles tIdA es but sawney brought up his offspring in cordial hatred of the oppressors and scotland was as much a part of weak ness of england then as ireland Js is at this moment the true and only remedy was applied the scotch were suffered summered to worship god in their way no descended from heaven the country was wag not nat ruined the world world did not come to an end and scotland has ever since been an increasing source of strength to great britain sidney smith smita FASHION AND WOMEN the laws of fashion are areas as inexorable as the laws of moses an exchange gives the following view of the matter fash ion lon kills more women than toil toll and sorrow obedience to fashion is a transgression to the laws of womans comans nature and iury injury to her physical and mental constitution ution than the hardships of poverty and neglect the slave women will live and grow old and see two or three generations of her mistresses distresses mi stresses fade and pass away the washerwoman with scarcely toray fc ray rny of hope to cheer lier her in her tolis toils will live to see her fashionable sisters all die around her the kitchen maid is hearty and strong when her lady has to be nursed like a sick baby it is a melancholy truth that fashion pampered women are almost worthless for all the great reat ends of human ilfe life they have but little force of lium ilum human n character they have still less power of moral will and quite as little physical energy they life for no great purpose durpos e through life they accomplish no worthy ones they are doll forms in the hands of milliners and servants and dressed to order they dress nobody t they he feed nobody they instruct nobody t they it oy bless nobody and they save nobody b 0 dy tiley write white no books they set no rich example of virtue virtud and and woman life if they rear children servants and nurses do all save to conceive and give them birth and when reared what are they what do they ever amount to but weaker scions of the stock who ever heard of a fashion albe aibe comans womans child exhibiting any virtue or power of mind for which it became eminent read the biographies of our great and good men and women not one of them had a fashionable mother they nearly all spring from strong minded women who had about rs s much uell 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