by a sadden inspiration, he plunged again 
into the waves, not to flee, but to die. Bet¬ 
ter death than a disgraceful servitude. Deep 
in the water lay head and neck ; the ripples 
played over his loosely hanging wings; his 
feet rested immovably upon the surface, and 
not the slightest motion indicated a spark ot 
life in the bird. 
In this pitiable condition the gander was 
taken out of the pond by a servant, and 
placed on some clean straw upon the bank. 
we shall never have our sense of justice in¬ 
sulted by beariug any person called “ a 
foolish goose.” 
A MISTAKE CORRECTED 
n Uaturalist 
I didn’t know what to make of it,—such 
an avalanche of indignation hurled at me 
about a man’s having a dozen clean shirts 
a week. “ Why, 1 haven’t said any such 
thing ! for don’t 1 know there are plenty of 
men who don’t deserve a clean shirt once a 
month? and any man who hasn’t mercy on 
a woman’s arms and back over a. wash-tub, 
_ is half a brute, he is! ” 
■ • spoke I to the editor 
with the steel-blue 
;'v must have said so* or 
, written so," lie per- 
^ \ elated. “ But I never 
f • N did!” and glancing 
through the “Modes 
\ and Manners” made 
up when 1 was two 
ij' Wr/ thousand miles away, 
I found that somebody 
nJflV- e ' se had, '“deoil, made 
Wftmmm remarkable ussor- 
/ tion t-liat “ farming 
I didn't pay, if a man 
couldn’t afford to wear 
a decent shirt all the 
V$fiKv* time.” Of course, eve- 
L •' **TO V mA' ; rybody who knows 
TT f- ““ything about, farm 
Jm P* life, knows that in 
/ rji | - U- r I sili'; • his -'ll il l evi-r\ 
£ half hour, to have on 
a clean one all t he time. 
C 1 ’ , ~ For a working shirt, 
dark flannel is sensi¬ 
ble and excellent. For 
1 a dress shirt only a 
V ’ , j while one is accepta- 
'“n sliirt, only a clean 
one, that has not been 
worn during the day, 
is lit for a bed. But 
yi \> dirty shirts arc often 
' Ml a half the result of dir- 
’ X' .. ty> unwashed bodies. 
* Every man or woman 
i uho builds a house 
with no internal or 
_ external conveniences 
/' r for bathing, violates a 
,<; — ■ prime law of godliness. 
x I believe in decent, 
y \ y. _ y \ clean clothes, but I 
_! don’t advocate nnne- 
cemtvry clean ones, 
when, by so doing, 
half the women in the 
country must be sacrificed to supply the de¬ 
mand. In brief, I don’t believe in a woman’s 
wasting her time and strength over wash 
tub and ironing-board for the mero sake of 
keeping some man wrapped in immaculate 
linen every minute. And, indeed, I don’t 
know a man who desires she should. Men 
who indulge in daily clean linen are those 
who employ professional washerwomen and 
pay them for their work, and it is quite well 
enough all around. Mintwood. 
THE REAL DANGER. 
AS SILLY AS A GOOSE 
CHINESE DEER, 
BY L. D. BURDICK 
Two of the animals above portrayed are 
now in the Zoological Society’s Museum, at 
London, England. In 1805 M. Armand 
David, a French missionary at Pekin, dis¬ 
covered the existence in the Imperial parks, 
“ Regret ! remorse! shame ! ye three 
hell-hounds that ever dog my steps and bay 
at my heels.” Such was the language of 
Robert Burks to Mrs. Riddel. At an eu- 
We call a man a “goose” because be is 
deficient in some qualities which, according 
to our ideas, nature should have furnished 
him with; and in do- __ _ 
ing so we make the 
comparison between a 
goose very degrading, — _=V y ’ 
indeed, to the latter 
The fact is, we are not jig|§(g_ 
justified in calling a : gB§^^jjjg|S|gjg 
the moral qualities of §jjg|pg|3|©||r;Jra 
the goose she would he pjil|§l|l||5fp £j| 
some will of course ex- - O 
claim, but wo do. " V 
Pliny and a number rvl ■ 
of other ancient and a* I 
modern observers have jj 
modesty to be one of aV;! 
the most prominent ^1 
qualities^of our muei JV V-' 
band happy —for the 
goose is faithful, de- aSs s* T . JBr? 
pending, w a t c h f u 1, ' 
musical,and still more 
yea, even sly. In proof 
of this assertion, we y V 
will adduce some au- 
thcnlic anecdotes,com- 
mu tired German geese 
A goose once lived in 
a poultry-yard along -—- 
with a very presumptu¬ 
ous rooster, which re¬ 
peatedly and continually provoked and 
teased his larger and less boisterous com¬ 
panion. For a long lime the goose bore 
his ill manners with true goose naticnce: 
k/Wva I'Mta 
CHINESE DEER. IN THE ZOOLOGICAL 
He lay there just as though he were dead ; near the Chinese capital, < 
the people now began to feel sympathy for ciea of deer, and informed 
hint, and the farmer bad the fetters immedi- authorities of the fact. A 1 
atcly lemoved Horn bis feet. But. no sooner to Franco skins anti parti 
had this been done than the apparent- these singular beasts. E; 
ly dead gander hurried to enjoy himself in through the British Amba 
the freedom of the pontl I The most interest- the Zoological Society mat 
ing part of the story is that the gander know Prince Kuxo for leave to ol; 
lie was being observed during liia suicidal mens from the royal park 
attempts, for he had been already three days pair illustrated were shippe 
a captive upon the bank, and it was only on in April, reaching London 
the fourth day, when a number of persons These deer arc called by 1 
were lingering on the bank, that he attempt- lou,” or more often “ Sseu 
ed to take away his own life! latter meaning “not one < 
That goose evidently deserved both his cause of a fancy that they 1 
freedom and his life. And these anecdotes in their horns, the cow i; 
should suffice to redeem this useful bird camel in their neck, and tin 
from the charge of stupidity so often made, and yet are different from a 
It never has been considered as a foolish or long tail and large ungainly 
dull bird; on the contrary, in the days of at once distinguishable fre 
antiquity it rejoiced in the best renown. And deer. The horns of the 11 
we cannot, of course, admit that the intel- shown are not yet clevelope 
lect of the goose has become any less siuce one is pictured as fully mati 
that time, especially as it has always kept curious growth of the antle 
pace with our human civilization. The de- _ + 
velopmcnt theory of Darwin and Carl SQUIRREL WT 
Vogt ought certainly to apply to our bird- _ 
client as well as to any other bird or animal Ik regard to one of the r 
enjoying existence. of animal instinct, the One 
To show in what degree the goose was die following : 
formerly venerated, we need only to quote Some one has deposited i 
Pliny, who was a friend of geese, and says: curiosities a half dozen bul 
“ One would be almost tempted to believe the state they were left pic! 
that these birds know how to honor wisdom, ncl by a squirrel. Attentioi 
for it is related that one of the same was the economy of the little rodent 
constant companion of the peripatetic on the paper under them, as 
FAITHFULNESS 
Whatever happens, never forsake a friend. 
When enemies gather, when sickness falls 
on the heart, when the world is dark and 
cheerless, is tlio time to try true friendship. 
They who turn from the scenes of distress 
betray their hypocrisy, and prove that in¬ 
terest only moves them. If you have a friend 
who loves you, who has studied your interest 
and happiness, be sure to sustain him in ad¬ 
versity. Let him feel that his love was not 
thrown away. Real fidelity may be rare, 
but it exists—in the heart. They only deny 
its worth and power who never loved a friend 
or labored to make a friend happy. 
FAMILY COURTESY. 
In illustration of this it was said of one of 
the most distinguished men of the present 
century, that to every member of his family 
lie manifested at all times the most supreme 
courtesy; considerate and polite to his chil¬ 
dren, bis bearing to bis aged mother was 
marked by something more than veneration 
—a quick and courtly attention to every 
want, a certain air of gallantry, which was 
to that stately old lady of ninety, what more 
profuse but no less sincere and respectful at¬ 
tentions of a multitude of beaux had been to 
the graceful and blooming belles of three- 
quarters of a century ago. 
Lacydes, and never left him, neither on the 
slieet nor in the bath, neither by day nor by 
night; ’ and Atiien^us reports that on the 
death ot this same wisdom-luving goose the 
philosopher honored it by a magnificent 
funeral. Tho Egyptians, too, used to cat the 
flesh of the ox to gain strength, and the 
flesh of the goose, which they considered 
sacred, In order to obtain wisdom. 
With such examples, then, from ancient 
history and modern anecdote, how can we 
persist in insulting this bird by calling an in¬ 
capable man a capable goose ? The goose 
that, laid the golden eggs waa certainly a 
capable goose; the individual that killed the 
poor thing to get at the golden mine was the 
incapable one. But we need no more trails 
in favor of our much-abused client. We 
have already proved that she possesses a 
Reconciliation. —It is much safer to re¬ 
concile an enemy than to conquer him. 
Victory deprives him of his power, but recon¬ 
ciliation, ol his will; and there is loss danger 
in a will which will not hurt, than in a pow¬ 
er which cannot. The power is not so apt 
j to tempt the will, as the will is studious to 
moderate drinking is to join the enemy’s 
ranks. Tho young man is Inilf lost who 
secs shame only in tho excess, lie sleeps on, 
at the beginning of the fire, when a little 
water would quench it, and lie wakes to find 
the building in flames and the roof fallen in. 
Passion is a drunkenness of the mind, and 
therefore, in its present workings, not always 
controllable by reason. 
