Show ri i v from rom the american abw na azaz JOHN HENRY BENEDICT I 1 BY liy AA G yohn john henry benediet benedict canie came home again a few nights nighta ago not from a foreign shore shorey where it it would be well for his family if he would go and stay for the next fifty years but from his big own little world his office no 2 28 liberty libo 0 row eow low a kind of heaven below where he is at liberty to be pleasant or gr cross gross pross sweet or sour an angelic relic or human timan li yest as he pleases a vind wind of earthly paradise where be tie may not only do a great amount of ot business and earn a great greaf amount of money but take a great grat amount of comfort in bitting sitting with 1 his I ove heels on the highest elbow of the st stovepipe dreaming blissful dreams about unmarried life which was hh before he doubled biby biba himself self seif in mrs john henry berl Beri benedict benediet edict edlet and tripled himself in john henry benedict junior well as has been said he came home afew jew a nights ago poor man he ho has hal to come home every night in a shadier mood wood than usual and with a firmer determination termination to have that little nervous fly about keep still and not interfere with shin toasting or newspaper read ings inge fortunately for john henry benedict benediet junior Tuni or it fias was a pleasant evening and helas he was outdoors out doors I 1 gat git outdoors out doors shirely it was made on pat purpose os for children to them houses are too 0 0 often dismal swamps black holes hoies prisons for there the john jqhn henry benedicts of the world cast their ion lon long iong dark shadows but there are no suel suek sueh such terrors outdoors out doors blessed forever be outdoors out doors outdoors out doors pouring into the ears of children the song of the birds and filling their laps with flowers fl and giving themi what they never can have in the house plenty of room room to play marbles room to play horses room to play hide and go seek spek room to ride horseback room room for everything john john henry benedict benedi e t junior was ait oit outdoors out doors and out of s ight sight tog too as his solemn faced sire passed into the house saying fo to himself ill send the child child into the ne usury i ff he is making his usual racket for ive got a touch of the nervous headache ll 11 noti ou never need to do that sir sin when john henry is put doors for 6 outdoors t never objects tp a racket raut out 0 ut doors paw pam pan paa stand any amount of noise and help heip tl make it too for he is continually stirring up his t tro fro robins bins anid acid orioles and wrens and even hibjan bisi unmusical in aj 61 squirrels and hud cr crows he hg lets and shout he has no nerves f go bohn ah hen henry benediet benedict 1 t senior enlon was not nov a aware awara rie of the fv fact cf th that john henrs venry benediet benedict junior was playing in in the large pleasant nursery pursers of out opt darg or have gone in with any noe nee ner nor adus thought of sending him into the small smail useless of the house but rather with a thankful tha ful fui thought of the he great bless biess blessing nig pig of but doogs doors he would exen even have bave paused a q moment and ind raised his ebenezer on the steps and yet hs his mercies were not mot so many non noc so great as might athirst at first be supposed I 1 I 1 out the apices of lature ia ture its RIS tru truet truer when ewhen herbut he shut the door no childs or binds birds song bong could reach his ears but bup hejhal no sooner taken his seat keat in the house than a wild irish song was heard from the direction of the kitchen biddy had entirely forgotten that john sohn menly henry henrs benedict lenior senior was a nervous man but he be badano had bad not forgotten it he noyer nd r forgets that he has nerves and that they need constant looking after he forgets to pick pIckup up what he drops on the floor he forgets to thank mrs john henry benedict for doing it for him he forgets to take her out for a ride rida nhep she s e needs it if he be forgets to glye her a smile when it would cost him nothing but a little e goodnature good nature he forgets to 16 humor her by using the scraper defore he comes in lie he forgets to say 1 goodnight good night to his child he forgets to say good morning to him he lie forgets that home is the place where a man ought to make himself agreeable he forgets that thi the world is the place where a man ought to show himself kind he forgets the poor he forgets the thel sick ahl and he forgets his god hut he never forgets his lils nerves he thinks there is nothing so good for nerves as everlasting silence 0 and if he had the ordering of things thin gs the whole universe would be made to hold its tongue he would give all children I 1 at the moment of their entrance into life the lockjaw and would have them so framed as not to be able to skip hop or jump jump but only to walk he would have all ali al birds born without the talent or the desire for sin singing eing Cing for they wake him up mornings he would have all that exist in the world he lives in to say nothing about the existence of ather worlds carrying on their intercourse by signs have blessed anbro 4 J ken stillness from pole to pole for it is so good for his nerves what can be done for john henry benedicts nerves stunned stuffed ed birds wax flowers coral shells shello a and 11 d a thousand other things can be protected by a glass covering and kept secure from injury but where can dan be found a covering for the nerves in question what is there that will not convey sound and in which mr john henry benedict may i encase his nerves and find rest noth ing nothing sound travels everywhere and travels fast it m makes akes a lightning passage for itself through everything kassaie and Is s fond of going to mr john henry benedicts ears what can be done for him blip all creation is growing noisier and noisier the birds instead of getting tired of their own music mr john henry benedict wonders they dont are daily composing something new and devoting themselves almost entirely to music and children are refusing more stoutly than ever to be proper well behaved children and in delicious silence their hearts are fuller of music and their thor throats are fuller of sound they give their lungs and voices less and less rest they vie with each other as never before in making a noise no 6 and how bow can mr john henry benedict i hope that the time will come when not anly wars but noise will cease in all the earth he does not hope noise koise is so on the increase especially under his own roof that his bump of hope has fallen in everywhere everything that hath breath is full of noise and mr john henry benedicts nerves are therefore full of pain and unrest and and his bis bump of hope going fast t to decay could he fie only be transplanted at once to the land where it is hoped nervous people hope so children are developed rapidly into men and women and become superior to the folly of bf making a noise and where there are no more chil ehll dren to be born as in this earthly sphere it would be the best thing that could happen to him but this will probably not be at present there are dit pit it is true sudden changes and sudden deaths de atlis but mr john henry benedict senior is remarkably well preserved there is not a bone in his body that is not nicely rounded over with fat beef and beer have been so assimilated that no one would suspect him of having an osseous system but there are the nerves f they 1 continue as they were from the beginning and mr joh job john henry benedict is a most wretched man and the people who live with him are most wretched people john henry benedict junior should however be excepted although he has to endure the sorrows of those who may not make a noise in the house he rejoices more and more in the consciousness that he has hap all outdoors out doors doorstop to himself and can at any time get at a delightful distance from john henry Benedic benedict senior he has so long been called 11 tit little tle tie torment 31 little plague litt little lenuis nuisance little scamp and so many switches not rot not rot quite so little have been broken over him that he has become used both to hard names and switches as eels get used to the process of skinning or as soldiers get used to powder po ader and shot and more than this be he loves his mother and she loves him and they both love outdoors out doors and fit each othen other exactly so that nothing needie need be done for the boy but what shall be donefer done fon for forthe the man what shall ahall be done I 1 for john henry benedict senior i he might take all the quack medi i cines that have ever enriched newspapers ears but not one of them would help heip he p I 1 him im and whatever he takes the cure would doubtless be slow he has so lo 10 long iong ng had nerves but we would recommend commenA re to him to begin immediately to put himself in the way of a cure we would advise him to try for one hour to enjoy other peoples liberty as well as his own and it may be that while he is trying hell find that he can benediet just try this mr john henry benedict benediet compel yourself to tolerate pleas antly if you cannot positively enjoy what others enjoy drive forever out of your head the no tiou that ail all all ail of the race tace who comein come in contact with you or who live in daily contact with mith you must humor your taste for silence and ever bear in mind that you have nerves meros get a lar gerheart larger heart as soon as possible pos pbs sible sibie and you will find that trat that is doing louch to strengthen streng strOng then them and fortify your nerves for the then noise olse oise that must inevitably a be made in this world cultivate in spur heart the love of children especially the love of john henry benedict junior ani and presently find that love makes all things pleasant even a noise A FORTIFIED FRANCE the paris monseur eur publishes an account of a singular cavern just discovered by some workmen on engaged a d I 1 in I 1 digging foundations in a par part te belonging elon eion lin jin to al de do rivals mazeres and situated in the commune of flae near lavaur tarn the existence of this cavern had never been suspected bythe by the inhabitants of flae and not the slightest tradition concerning it has hag remained M G grellet Balg nerie an associate of the des Antiqua Antigua ires de france on hearing of this discovery immediately set bet out for the place with a few friends in order to ascertain the probable date da te and destination of the subterranean recess upon examination they found that it had been used as a fortified dwelling one of those places of refuge which were were had resource to in times of invasion or public disturbance it might have been one of those selected by the gauis in julius caesara caesars Cae sars time it consists of three vaulted chambers cut out in a hard rock and connected with each other by a labyrinth of narrow galleries admitting not more than one man at a time the entrance to the main gallery is extremely narrow and low so that it can only be entered by creeping on ones hands and knees at almost every step the galleries present entering reentering re angles recesses for guards and places where strong palisades or perhaps heavy doors of wood and stone must have existed the art of defence seems to have been here carried to a high pitch of perfection opposite the entrance gallery a sort of I 1 bulls eye or circular window is pierced communicating with this chamber from this loop hole the sentinel lying on a stone bench might watch the al approach of an as saillant and repel him if necessary there is moreover but one entrance to this chamber and that is by the middle one the plan of the cavern has been carefully taken by the architect of lavaur lavaue another cavern it appears from the latest counts accounts rc has been foun found under dunder the fontain du theron in the same commune but has not yel yet yeu been examined tre THE RACE eor FOR WEALTH see it in all its madness our poor friend robinson he has made one fortune but did not consider it large enough and is 19 now busy in making another he we is on to the city at 8 AM never returning till 8 PM and then so worn and jaded that he cares for nothing beyond his dinner and his sleep his beautiful house his conservatories conserva tories and pleasure grounds de haht not him he never enjoys he al ways pays for them he has a charming wife and a youthful family but he sees little of either the latter indeed he never sees at all except on sundays he comes home so tired that ther children would only worry him to them 41 papa is almost a stranger they know him only as a periodical incumbrance on the household life which generally makes it much less pleasant and when they grow up it is to such a totally different existence than this that they usually quietly ignore him oh papa cares nothing about this no no we never think of telling papa anything until some day papa will die olle and leave them a quarter million but how much better to leave them what no money can ever buy the remembrance of a father A real father whose guardianship banshi made home safe whose tenderness fi filled ed it with happiness who was i companion and friend as well as ruler and guide whose influence intervene grated every day of their thein I 1 lives every feeling of their hearts who was not merely the author of their being that is nothing a mere accident but the originator and educator of everything good in them the visible father on earth who made them understand dimly our father which is in hea eni etl v magazine GOING to washington in these days j has very much the deflect ofa of a protracted indulgence in swapping horses it is very apt to make a man a knave ex |