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Will you not nnd it all too hard to In-ar? And when these utortus and weary hours have tried us. Can we live on and let no power divide us Then if This little chain, so frail and weak It in rubles when our lives are fair and bright. Could l.ud a voice and each small lii.k could SJie-.ik. Would it not say 'twas frighted of the niL'hi If it mut break, and we must humby tiow. In pity lor my weakness, break it now. Uat if you think that it can bear the weight Of lii ry trials us they come and iro. We cau take heart and boldly meet the fate That eivis impartially of joy and woe; And be it sumnu.T fair or wintry weather. We cau Is- brave, and meet all. love, tmrether. Kva MacLonai.Fh. in Harper's Weekly. TIIE KING OF 5SUXS. Wonderful Facts Regarding Sirius, tho Dot; Star. A Mighty t.Hnt Anionjr Sana. Compared MltU lilch Oar Own Sinks lulo iiiaiRiiitieHiire The lirii;hteat Slur In the llrave-na. In the entire firmament, embracing both hemispheres, there are about six tin usanil stars visible to the ticket eye, an-l atnotig this iiuiuon.se numlr. one in particular, cwing- to its reuiarUable brilliancy an, I superior tnaiiituile, must have attracted the attention of all persons who enjoy an occasional survey of the heavens in the winter season. From time immemorial this star has been observed with the rrtt esc solicitude by pets. olivines and philosophers, and is known to astrono mers lv the name of Sirius the famous "tlo star'' of the ancients. There is no other star in the heavens that has been more universally ol served, anil around -which there clus ter so many ancient assiciatioiis and superstitions, or has received more at tention from astronomers in all ajros of the world. W hoover has looked ujxin this beautiful slaw, located in the brightest region of the heavens, und seen it glowinff aikd .(.cintillatin on a clear und frosty nijrht in winter, must have beheld with awe and admiration its indescribable splendor; and one need m l be an astronomer to admire its raili.int glory, or U conclude that this charming' orl possesses character ises distinruishiiiy it from any otlicr Mar hi iuc hi iiiiiueui. even iniist' oi the first magnitude, with which it is classed by astronomers. It is true that "one star differeth from another star in jrlory." and anions the ;i.000.u00 stars revealed by the great telescopes of the present day. the most surpas.-injj plory unp:i'stionably surrounds the peerless "dog1 star,' which has been a prominent eelestial object from the earliest apes, and has played a somwwhat important part in the history of mankind. Sirius belongs to the little constella tion. Canis Major, a group of tbirty one stars situated just south and east of Orion, and almost universally known from the unrivaled brilliancy of its leading orb, but which otherwise pos scsses no noteworthy attraction. AVhen observed throuph a larpe te'e scope, Sirius presents a charming ap pearance and shines with a brilliancy that is startling to the K-holder. The lisrht of this star is so stronfr that. when the glorious orb is entering tlie field of a powerful telescope, its approach is announced by a bright dawn, like that which precedes the risinjj sun; and when the star itself enters the field of vision it shines with a dazzling splen dor, and its brilliancy is so great as to require a colored tflass to protect the eye. Sirius is not only the brightest star in the heavens, but is more than three times brighter than an ordinary hrst-majrnitude star, and Ls believed to be 50U times as bright as a star of the sixth mairnitudo the faintest visible to the naked eye. The author of a recent work on astronomy says: "Everybody has heard of Sirius, or the do star, and everybody must have seen it flash ing and scintillating so splendidly in the winter heavens, that to call it a first-magnitude star does it injustice, since no other star of that magnitude is at all comparable with it. Sirius, in fact, stands in a clasn by itself as the brightest star in the sky. Its light is white, with a shade of green, which re quires close watching to be detected. When it is near the horizon, or when the atmosphere is very unsteady, Sirius flashes prismatic colors like a great diamond, and your eyes will be fairly dazzled when you turn your glass upon this splendid star." It is believed that remarkable changes have taken place in the color of Sirius since it was first observed by astronomers. Whether or not this is the case, it is now a well established fact that the stars change their color, and many instances of the kind have leen noticed in various parts of the heavens. Sirius was described by the ancients as a fiery red star. Many years ago it was said to be pure white, but it is now becoming of a decided green color, as a careful observer will readily perceive when this star is visi ble on a clear winter evening. Yet, many eminent astronomers do not be lieve that Sirius has changed in color, and a recent writer on the subject says: "The question has been much discussed as to whether Sirius was formerly a rod star. It is described as red by sev eral ancient authors, but it seems to be, pretty well established that these de scriptions are most of them due to a blunder made by Cicero in his transla tion of the astronomical poem of Aratus. It Ls not impossible, though it is highly improbable, that Sirius has changed color." Owing to the remarkable size and brilliancy of Sirius, it was once natur ally regarded as the nearest of the stars, but its distance is in reality so great that it has never been satisfacto rily determined. The most reliable authorities, however, assign to Sirius a distance of 100,000,000,000,000 miles which is five times the distance of Alpho Centauri the nearest star known to astronomers and a million times the sun's distance from our earth! It has been estimated that the bril liancy of Sirius is 300 times greater than that of the sun, and if wc assume that the intrinsic brightness of its sur face is the same as the sun's, the sur face of this star must be auti times HE 18 A FKKKMAN WHOM THE TRCTH EBENSI3URG. PA., FRIDAY. APRIL 8, 1S92. larger than that of the sun. from which it follows that the diameter of Sirius is about eighteen times that of the sun, and its volume about i,200 times great er! Prof. (Jarrett 1. Scrviss. referring to Sirius in a recent magazine article, I says: "Accordinij to recent estimates Sirius. while shining with perhaps seventy times the lilit of our sun. is only between two and three times as massive, so that the intensity of its radiation is enormously greater than thw sun's. Planets situated as close to Sirius as the earth and the other inner planets of our system are to the sun would be unable to endure, so far as their life-bearing functions are con cerned, the gush of heat and Maze of li'.rht poured upon them unless, in deed, the organization of livinjj bcinjrs there were entirely different from that prevailing here. We should then ex pect such stars as Sirius, if they are the centers of the planetary S3'stems at all, to be surrounded by glolnrs re volving at comparatively great dis tances and in long periods of time. The mind utterly fails to compre hend the immeasurable distance which separates our earth from this immense orb. Light, which travels with the al most inconceivable velocity of 1m;,oki miles per seeond, requires twenty-two years to traverse the distance between Sirius and our earth. Wt may justly consider this brilliant sun as the center of a system of revolving worlds, and imagine them as being inhabited l-y creatures far more advanced in intel lectual development than ourselves. Hut we are at a loss to conceive of the vast scale on which the system of such an immense sun must necessarily be constructed; and when, in addition to the startl ng facts already mentioned, we consider the recent discovery that Sirius. with its entire family of planets and comets, is rushing through space with enormous velocity, the mind is bewildered in contemplating the won ders of this stupendous orb. Ily means of the spectroscope, I'rof. Iluggins. the eminent English astronomer, has found that Sirius is receding from our earth at tue rate of twenty-six miles per sevond; and yet, even with this al most incredible velocity the passage of a thousand 3'ears will' make no per ceptible difference in the appearance of this brilliant star, so immense is the distance which separates it from our earth. One of the most interesting results of the observations directod to this wonderful star was the discovery that it is attended by a companion or satellite, the existence of which had long been suspected by astronomers, and which was finally detocted by mere accident. The presence of this object had loeii revealed by the effect of its attraction upon Sirius. the mo tion of which varied in such a way as to indicate a powerful disturbing influ ence in its vicinity. The famous tier man astronomer, HesseL nearly fifty years ao expressed his belief that the periodical variations in the motion of Sirius were produced by the attraction of an invisible companion, revolving around the im mense orb. Several astronomers had calculated the orbit of the attracting liody, and its direction from Sirius at various times, and, though it was dili gently searched for, it continued to elude detection, even by means of the most powerful telescopes. Hut in Fel ruary, l.sO, the eighteen and one-half inch telescope which was being con structed for the Chicago observatory by the late Alvan C lark, the famou ; optician, was pointed to Sirius as a test j of its power, when the disturbing J companion came suddenly into view, i at a distance of alout ten seconds from the large star, and exactly in the direc tion which had been predicted for that time. We find, then, that Sirius is a "double star," the two components be ing physically connected, and forming what is known as a "binary system." the smaller star revolving around the larger, or both around their common center of gravity. Owing to certain irregularities in the motion of the smaller star, which cannot 1h ox plained, some astronomers are of the opinion that Sirius has another dis turbing companion, the existence of which is indicated by its attraction only, and which may eventually be dis covereL In conclusion, we reproduce the in teresting remarks of l'rof. laniol Kirkwood, regarding Sirius anil its companion, published in Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia for the year lsTO: "From the discussion of the observa tions of the companion of Sirius, Dr. Auwers has found the period of revo lution to be 4'J years 14ti days; the semi-axis of the orbit thirty-seven times the distance of the earth from the sun, and the eccentricity 0.6148 somewhat greater than that of Faye's comet. The mass of the companion is half that of the principal star, or more exactly-, the mass of Sirius is 13-7t, and that of the telescopie star 6.71, the mass of the sun being unity. As the light of Sirius, according to Sir John Her scheL is 3'24 times that of an average star of the sixth magnitude, and as the satellite discovered by Clark is of the ninth or tenth magnitude, the light of the latter must be much less than 1-1,000 part of that received from the principal star. The facts seem to indi cate a remarkable difference between the physical constitution of Sirius and its satellite." Arthur K. lUrtlett, in Chicago Inter Ocean. I-eoplfi Who Wear t'ellnloirl. There is a store down-wn that has in it what is known as the celluloid counter. On the counter is a large showcase that contains nothing but cel luloid collars, cuffs and shirt fronts. "Is there much celluloid worn now?" asked the writer of the proprietor. "A great deal," was the answer. "I have a trade in it which keeps one man busy at this showcase. The people who mostly purchase celluloid are traveling men, railroad conductors, physicia i, and military men. In fact, it is worn nearly altogether in thearuiy. I should say there is more celluloid worn now than ever before." Imparity of Mcltl Smi Writers in English papers have been again pointing out the fallacy of the very common idea that melted snow is an ideally pure water. The reverse of this is true. So far from being pure, snow is practically a great purifier of the atmosphere from floating particles and noxious gases. These the flakes oi snow imprison or absorb as they fall, and, as a matter of course, when the snow melts it is loaded with this rub bish. . JIAEtS FKEE AND ALL ABE SLAVES BESIDE.' a 1 ftL rv. IN 1 1 r-i i In ancient lulls lorui muee in old-limo days. I The miu.-trels Mim their nonjrs of knightly ' praise, j Of martial di-eds. well-wroupht and full of skill, Of Uurinu' deeds, to serve some sweet maid will; Of fierce encounters met with beaxts of prey. Of vanquished foes, with which they strewed the way. Till vaulti-U rooN sent back the swelling sound. And echoes rluscd the echoes round and round! Whilst courtiers brave unsheathed their scab bard's steel. And phiuUitn loud ran; out for knightly real: And now, no 1sk. the knipht earth ne-ds to-day, Mu.-t lM-ar his srms-mu.it lead life's battle fray For truth, and for its laws, and power, and . miirht. ( Must stay the wrong, and crown the reipn of rifc'lit. Till hi-arts Imwed down with woe (rrow brave ami strong. And feouls set fre send out a glad new song! Enirraved fine upon its bannered tdiielJ. A stamp is set. in richi-st hues revealed A stamp that stands for purpose, and for aim. That rescues race from s llirhnesfc und i-hame That leads man up to truth's hi?h. holy place. And crowns him there a knii-'ht of tiixl-likc grace! Ella Dure, in Inter Ocean. TIIE "INDIAN DEVJL A Greatly Feared Denizen of the Maine Woods. Tho Mrsteiriou Animal That Filled the LsmMrmrn with Super! iriou Awe How the (ireat Cat Was Ilantnl IKiwn. I had gone up north with my t'nele Washburn to "make the round"' of the lumliering camps or "-rangs" estab lished by the firm of which he was a inemWr. l.'p through the wilderness a dis tance of one hundred and thirty miles to the "head of Chesuneock." where there is a supply depot for the lumber men, there had been a beaten road, and we had traveled with a double horse sled, putting the horses tandem as the track grew more narrow, for it was toward the last of January -and the snow lay frora three to four feet deep all about us. Hat at the "head" the ttcalcn trail terminated and snowshocs came into-reiuisition. A "spotted line" led off to the camps the nearest of which was some twenty five miles to the westward. A siMittod line, perhaps I should explain, is made by first R-oing through the woods, with a compass to keep the direction, and spotting a tree every few rods with an ax. After this has liecn done anyone can travel by simply following the spots. In the course of a week we had made the round of all the gangs save two, which were at work up on the Can comgomac stream; and after a long march through the "black growth"' we came out to the lowermost depths of these, situated at the foot o'f the lake of the same name. Here a queer report came to our ears from the upper camp, located some ten or twelve miles above. It was to the effect that the men hail got scared. They had seen an "Indian devil," or "something!" Now, it would have been no very strange thing to hear there had lecn a row in camp: but to hear that a whole trang of lumU-rmen hail got frightened was decidedly sensational. Such was the story, however. And during the evening the "boss" from the scared camp every gang has its 1ks or overseer came down to get a gun. Firearms for reasons above hinted at. hal not been provided at the upper camp Curiosity Vroke loose at the sight of him. "Well. well. Mr. Murch!" exclaimed Uncle Wash, "what's this I hear of your gang?" "Hardly know what to tell you, sir," said Murch. "It's a foolish affair. Itut t.'.e men have got a dreadful bugatoo started. Fact is, they've been telling about seeing and hearing something for more than a week. I .didn't pay any attention to it, though. IJnt day before yesterday they all came running into camp pell-mell, scared half to death! Something hail j d at Hilly O'Xun out of a great spruce r "What did it look like?" asked Uncle Wash. "WelL they tell so many different stories it's impossible to find out. They all declared it was an 'Indian devil!' though what an Indian devil can be is mere than I know. I had all I could do to get them back to their work. And last night, as they were coming in to supper, there was another scare! Something screeched anil rushed out from a clump of cedar. Mike Shea hail the back of his coat all slit to pieces! He suys the creature did it; but perhaps it was the brush he ran through. And this morning not one of them could I get to stir out from the camp. There they stuck, and there they've been all day. I thought I would come down and get a gun 1 may be able to shoot the creature, if there really is anything. I must get their courage up again somehow. You see, tliey "re not Yankees." "Have you ever seen anything of this creature, yourself?" ascd Uncle W ash. "Not a thing. Hut I did hear a very singular cry this evening as I was coming down. I suppose it was rather foolish in me, but I stepped along pret ty fast after that. "Twas a very startling and peculiar sort of a cry." "All, well!" laughed Uncle Wash, we will go up with you to-morrow. Perhaps we can find out what it is." The next morning, loading up the old camp musket, as a reinforcement to our rifle, we set out. It was toward noon when we came in sight of the log camp. A numWr of the men were standing about the door, and, seeing us coming, the others came out there were twenty-three or twenty-four of them. "This is a fine sight!" cried Uncle Wash, as we came up. "Why aren't you out at work? IK I pay you forty dollars a month to lay around this camp all day?" The men looked a little foolish, but the fluent Hilly O'Nun came to the rescue: "Sure and indade, and your honor couldn't blame us. Such a tnurther ing baste as lapes from the tops o' the trees!" "What have you 6een, anyhow?" de- mauded Uncle Wash. SI. CO and "Seen! An" ye may well say that! Seen 'iiu, as big as an ox, an' haard 'im shriek!" It was no use talking with them they were in perfect fear. lr M-d. it was not without the greatest difliculty that we prevailed upon Hilly to go with us to the place where the crea ture had sprang upon him from the tree. He consented at last, very re luctantly, and came edging after us. "We shall be likely to find the ani mal's tracks if there has really been anything of, the sort about here," re marked Uncle Wash. And we did tinil rather larger ones than we had loon lookin.? for! Near the tree which Hilly indicated as "the one." a heavy trail bega.i. loadiivT oil into the forest- Tha snow was very deep and soft, and the beast h..d gone off with easy bounds striking its foot altogether, and making huge plunges some ton or twelve foot apart. n lien. .Must liave lieen quite a cat!" cried Uncle Wash. "Guess we will follow this a little ways. Looks like big game." On our snowshocs we didn't mind the depth, the main thing being to keep out of the brush. Hut, after fol lowing for forty or fifty roils we came t'j where the trail w as crossed by a much more recent one. tlone along here some time to-day. I should judge," said Murch. "May overhaul him by following this. He wouldn't rim far at one heap. Snow's too deep." Looking to the priming of our guns we struck off upon the new track, and had gone twenty rods, perhaps, when tho trail suddenly stopped. Heyond a certain point, whore the last heavy plunge had Ir-cu made into the suow, there were no more tracks! Here was a strange terminus, cer tainly; and we halted in considerable surprise. "JJelike he's snaking under the snow!"' cried Hilly, coming up. "An he'li le laping out on us!" And we were laughing at Hilly's hy pothesis when a strange cry a wild, shrill scream rang out. seemingly over our heads! Our eyes followed the sound, and there, on the limb of a groat yellow birch, up full thirty feet from the snow, crouched a large, light gray animal, with its ears laid back and its long tail licating time on the limb behind, rvady to spring down. A fellow can t turn round very quick on snow shoes; but I assure you I wasn't long performing that evolution. As I hadn't been intrusted with either of the guns. I felt anxious to put the fighting moil in the rear. Hilly was already ahead of me. And just then there came an other screech. Hoth guns wore fired; and, glancing over my shoulder. I saw the catamount bound from the limb, and heard a heavy thud down into the snow. "We haven't hit him! He's coming!" yelled Murch. No time for reloading guns. "Ilun! for heaven's sake run!"' shouted Uncle Wash, puCing up be hind. And. we did run. A man can run on snowshoes after a fashion and pretty tolerably fast at a pinch. Hut the depth and softness of the snow alone prevented us from being overtaken. Screech after screech followed us as we flopped along, but at every bound the creature wmt in even with its back. On we went for dear life, and were not many minutes getting over the seventy-five or eighty rods lietween us and the camp. The men had heard the guns and were out around the door, but seeing us coming they all dove in again, and we rushed in after them full tilt, with the catamount not four rods lehind us. The door was hastily slammed to, and held. "Now load quick!" cried Murch. Peeping out lietween the logs 1 could sec the panther liofore the camp lash ing itself and glaring about. Hearing up against a tree stauding near, it be gan sharpening its claws making the bark fly in a very suggestive manner. "Fix him this time," muttered Uncle Wash, poking the muzzle of the ritie out between the logs. "All ready!" exclaimed Murch, who hail thrust out his gun over the door. They fired together. With the re ports the creature sprang up with a savage growl, and, as if intending to get into the tree, leaped upward upon the trunk fifteen or twenty feet; but fulling back into the snow, turned and bounded away. "After him!" shouted Murch, pulling open the door and rushing out. "After him with your axes!" We ran out. There was blood where the creature had stiod and the trail he was making was marked with gTeat red blotches. The whole gang now turned out after us to hunt him down; but the fighting part was over. At a distance of a quarter of a mile we came up with the old fellow lying panting and ex hausted in the snow. Another shot with a few knocks from an ax, did the job, and it was amusing to see how brave the whole gang liecame in the course of a few minutes N. Y. Ad vertiser. JAPANESE ENGLISH. The I'nlque Complaint of ail Outraged Servant. A Japanese 1mv who works in a San Francisco clubhouse recently sent the following picturesque complaint to the officers: "To-day I wont to the club to got my wages. The steward. Mr. John, ordered me to leave, with many repeti tions of alxiiiiiiialile oaths which a man of some honor can't restrain bis passion from revolt on such a violent shower of curs'. Anger was lieyond my control, and involuntarily 1 returned my share of compliments. upon which he snatched the potato masher and was hnital cnoujrh to give me two severe blows on my person, ami inflicting quite painful injury. Through all this affair I was never offensive. When I wont there to demand the money to which I was entitled he unjustly enjoined me to get out. That is an unreasona ble movement and cannot fail to hurt a man's feelings. What! Without lieing satisfied with that insult made my blood loil and the veins burst with successive onslaught of ignominous swear. My returning was completely excusable, for to le indifferent to such an ignoble treatment denotes that one is a stranger to the sense of honor; and o he ought to have relished it with abashed submission. And what again! The tongue the countenance was capable enough to wreak his savage, fury and then he resorted to that final stop of violence as though 1 was a tuasei of clay, iuusiblv. to di:iacc and rain." postage per year In advance. NUMRER 14. MENDING STOCKINGS. Pair of .;.ry's Mockin-.'s! Tliev .-.r.- -.mn'i! .m l Mack and plain, Hut I liu-1 sii I -itir:iftin In 1. Uin thi m over aain. I mi n'.i ,1 tin-!- name stockirips It rnT Ik- two y,'.:rs And then they wr r- l;.i-.i in the drawer: There was no one to wear them, you know. For our own 1h-:iui if ul haliy l!ud jm;.4 to a l.iirer i lime; She had entered t.- golden city Where wc hnic to meet her some time. And thiuirh in the mi n.iine basket There t;ll were V..K Uinrs small, Th. -re -.vere none lor a tinv baby With daintiest lis t of all. Yet nt'iiiTi fr.-tn the open Heaven A on l, r:.:l rl.'t ha come. And tin s'l.inu of a :t-y ti roolnj; Is L'-ard :ir:iii. iu our boiue. And tiny fis t r.rc rrnvir.7 . Aloint the nursery i; r. i And t'.ainiy tial-y stockiti? Are n" d, d now once more Is it siranre tbnt I find a pleasure In tal.ui them in my hun-l Tin y speak of our n.-wt st tri-aure. And of one in lhe Falherl.mii. Mary J. Porter, in Harper's Iiazar. ONE OF THE MISSINC. An Old Soldier Who Wnndered Back to His tioynood Home. A man was walking along the high way that lie lied with while the green expanse of a Connecticut meadow. Little puffs of white dust rose at each footfall, and hung ludiind him iu a lengthening walL He came heavily, -l'jwly, the impersonation of weari ness, yet steadily. There was that in his gait which associates itself in the iuiti.1 w ith bodies of men in columr.. He seemed the material part of an invisi 1,1 v. hole. His gaze was fixed ahead, is though on the back of a front-rank ile, nnd the momentum of marching comrades swept him along. Yet the meadow farmers and the Iwcllors in the village, whose church -teeple rose beyond a fringe of trees, distinguished him only as one of that irregular army of foragers against wl.r.m, as reputable citizens they were arrayed. They would have given no attention to such fine individual dis t .!:i ti ns oven had their critical quality li -i n educated to it, and it was not. '1 h'ii'ty years had gone by since they had I teen enlivened by the presence of the military; and then it had been for bv.t a few days and their materialized prrtrio isin marched aw ay in bine to the southern war. No. Tramp-, wore inimical to goi.d order and to safety of life and property. A nil to be in very bad odor in the village, a stranger had but to presoi.t himself travel-stained an-l tattered. lie li.urelied up the road in that un seen column, a man of defeats. Some times he h-r.ned so far for-vard that his balance la-came uncertain, and he wavered to the plumb. Men at work h field leaned on their hoes as he passed, to regard him w ith hostile eyes. With some his unsteadiness was the occasion for derisive mirth. Hut the flili-r ones grimly forecast his deten tion in the calalioose. the cost of his maintenance, the tax it brought upon them, and resumed work with a fierce sense of personal injury-. And the tramp, after each wearied lapse, com pellel himself to attention, arid marched on. White, snug farmhouses stood now and then along the road. As he came abreast of one a woman appeared at the door, but, seeing him, she hastily reentered and fastened the dimr. The tramping man turned into the door yard, but he halted as the woman ap peared at a chamber window, flutter ing her arms as though scaring chick ens. She called lo him, nervously, ii prchonsively: "Ho right away. I've got noth'ng f, r you.'" At once he turned and took up his line of march along the dusty road. The woman observed the heavy, me chanical w ay iu w hich he put his legs successively forward, his arms hanging like sticks of wood at his sides, and felt pity for him. "I'm almost sorry I sent him away," she said. Hut she did not call him back, and he passed out of her sight, leaving, however, the cadence of his monotonous sing-song step, to which her mind sot itself for the rest of that day. In another house, as he approached, a girl was singing shrilly a Sunday school song: Hut sweeter than tlielily's lm-atb,' And than the rose n.i re Mir. The tender love of hi.in;i:i hearts TL'psprint'ii.,.- evi ry where.'' Then the song broke oft, and the singer called, warningly: "Mother, there's a tramp coming up the road!"' And the voice of the mother came sharply out to him: "See if tho front door's locked." He plodded past, watched furtively from behind window blinds. He swung along painfully, for his joints were merely worn out, rusty hinges by which his limbs hung. The hot sun sweltered him; the fine dust choked him: his heart was gone out of him. Still he weut on. like a tired soldier expecting the welcome "Halt! Hest!' until he reached a tree by the roadside. On the grass beneath he stretched him self, and lay motionless. Slowly his fatigue lessened. Hy and by he sat up. The dust of the march had settled thickly in the deep lines and w rinkles of his face, and gave it a drawn, sharpened look. His mouth was firmly sot, and his dim eyes looked out resentfully at the bright world He felt the utter friendliness of a lone ly man. and he talked to himself: "They think ine capable of any thing." said he. bitterly. "It's not what I have been, it's what I am a trail p they judge rae by. A war record don't count, nor three more en listments, nor knocking about ia the mines. I'm a tramp. "Thirty years ago, when we marched out of this town, there were cheers und waviugs. There's waviugs enough now, and they mean 'go. same as then. Only there's a curse with it now, in stead of a cheer." He pulled a squ-ire of hard bread from his pocket, luoisteued it in the runlet at the foot of the tree, and bit it savagely. He heard a door at the next farmhouse shut, and knew a woman had come out towards him. Uc ex pected a sharp order to move on. She had nearly reached him, when h looked up and saw that she held a cup in her hand, extended towards him. "Would you like this milk?" said she. He put his hand out slow ly, and w ith the cautious alcrtucs of a dog that covet.-, a prufTticd bone, hut doubts the AclvertiKiinpf Itntcs. The larsesnd rel'shle clrrnlstlon'of tie CUts. Bfti a t ctm conmienas it to tLe favorable conn ii ri n f i. vrrt !! al.ote luvoimlU be icrertrd at tle tolltwii K b w rates: 1 inrh, 3 timer l.to 1 Inch, .1 niontlm 2.50 1 Im-h. 6 oionib? a.ao 1 1tih l year ft on 2 Inrhec nionthn.. 6.00 I iDchen. I year 10.no S Icrbes. montbf H.0O a Inchea. I year 12.00 coiniun. 0 montu. 10. 0C 'j column. 6 tuonths J oo cIuidd, 1 year .11.00 ! column, 6 montU 4Q.0Q I column, I year .. Ti.Ui BulneM ltem, firm lnir:tlon, b,-. er Una; gbe)uetit 4nMrtione. b ?rlfie' A Jui n.t'Txiv.r auii Kiecutor' Notices, fi t Auditor' Noilcea a.uo. Stray an1 plmilar Notice . . 1 b -bef .lunoni or ,r,vpd.nif ol any ooriwra tlun or iety ami emu un i-at I, tin dnmnrd to rail attrMit o to ur.y mxicr il l.n ltiil t Indl TKtnal lDtreft n.ut I e aid f"r a advcrtirement Itfw k and Job I'riut.n f all kind rratly and evealouaiy rxrrued at tl,e Iowifi ricch. Aui, don't yon toritrt it. sincerity of the offer. Then his hand closed on the cup and he draineJ it. His eyes wore on the woman's face, expressing wonder, incredulity, aston ishment, lie h.id had so little use for the sense of gratitude that he har.I'y rec ognized aul expressed it; but at last ho said: "Thank you." s-he was a large, strong farm wife, and as she took the cup she sui-.l.-d at his satisfaction. "It's more tilling than . ;;ter." said she. "I saw you here, and that you was not one of tin I "egging kind, so I outs to you." "1 : topiic.l at otic house dow n here," ho replied, "but not tolx-g. 1 don't Wg. I w anted to ask a quest ion. The sec ond house," he added, tentatively. "Oh, yes. The old Ames place. I guess you didu't t' p 1-ng. It Hiram Ames had U-er alive there, he'd have kept you a week. Hut he's dead." She talked on garrulously, pleased to have a new listener. She did not know many js-ople. "Why, you're sick," she saTid, suddenly. Ht:t the U'.unp shook his le-ad "A little tirexi. that's ail. and disap jMiiut -iL l u- coiiie a good v. i'.Vs to see Hiram Ann s. I cuild have '.old him something almiii hi brother." "Vhal. Jed'.' He went to war and was missing aft or on-- i if those '.attics. They gave up all hopes of him. an 1 Ii. iw there's a beautiful m, in iiiu.-iit to him in the burying-grouud. right be side of Hiram's. You don't uit-an to tell tue he l .n't dead.'" "He is as go.nl as dead." said the tramp, rising. II.- thanked the woi. nn again, and made her a hal f -ir ' lit ary salute. Then he moved oil. in a rising el u.l of dust, till in tlu- distance his figure a; peared vaguely large and multiplied. Ami the old wife, shading her eyes and looking alter him. cried: "1 declare if it don't seeui like a lot of men. ail keeping stop tt get her." I n the heart of the vilhig - large, ollieial-looitii'g man roughly took- the tramp by tin shoulder, ami said: "Here, you eoirn with in " "I've done nothing." he protested. "And yo-i won't have a chance to day. I'll put a lock on you for to night, and to-morrow you leave town." lie thrust the tramp into th" naked calaboose, turned th key. and h ft him there. 'I he tramp went to t lie single window and looked out. He - aw r.xifs :u:d j-i.'u--- that m. !,. ry i.i.k! familiar. Tiie pirr of the church stei pic rose tnperi-.'g. and thnugh the trees he o:-.-.i'- hi i-iiiiip.es cf white marbles in the hii:i: l '-'..ee. '1 here lay the man he ha 1 .! iai:.li d far t-iM-e. Ins mind revert '.-.I to the kindly o'.i woman who had gos.:,i;.-d to h'.in, ami tl.cn to the graves i.gain. That iiiouumf-nt to the missing sol dier, now. Could he see it .' That tall one, ) rhaps no, it w as t-m prcten ".ioiK The epitaph of it private of the line would b- lost on it. It would lie curious reading, that opit aph. Some thing li'' 'his: ".lodutl.Kii Ames. Horn ls.l. A soldier. Missing after Shiloh." There could be n-,t hing im re. lie could have told a longer story had Hiram lived. lie could have told it in the glance of a i eye. Then he could have spoki n of wounds, hospital, western service. It wa, in-t worth while now. 'lhe past seemed insignificant to this tramp. The years of his wandering were but a point of time, and the pres ent day never-ending. Hi. mind dwelt upon it how, with the sun. he had en tered upon familiar scones anil knew that his journey's en 1 was reached TiiHt sunrise was far in the pat now, and Mie day was eternity. Hy and by l.e lay down on the lloor. The sun had sot, and a rain commenced. It made the air damp and chilly, and the tramp shivered. 1!. rose restlessly, and returned to the tv-nilow, but the outside was lost in blackness. From time to time jagged lightning tore the clouds apart, and through the rents the torrents poureiL llestoiMl there and muttered some thing to himself il iiia.v have ln-en a prayer after vvliii h lie swal lowed the contents of a little viiil. Then he lay dow n again. He moaned a little, and shivered as with cold, l'rescnlly he breathed heavily; he was asleep As it was rainy, tin- const ahled'nl not provide the t ramp wit h supper: and the next ill-truing he found him still lying on the th Kir. "Come, get up!" cried the constable, and with his foot he turned the tramp over to awaken him. With snj-orsti-tious terror he then saw the man was dead. Afterwards 'hey interred the body of the tramp in the Ames burial lot, and cut the date of his death on the monument of the missing soldier. tiia I. l'ulnaui. ia Harper's Weekly. THINGS NEAR AT HOME. Of the 1,000 policemen in Chicago 1,5.j5 are Irishmen. Ix will cost s'.t.Vl.ooo to put the de sired wings oa tl.e white house. Ne.vk Caspar. Wyo., a valuable vein of coal lias iK-cn found just beneath the grass rintts. Mai:vi.AM has a boy seventeen years old who is 0 feet 4J inches high and weighs 10.1 pounds. lie lifts ii0j.ujunds with case. Ax island comprised of about fifty acres of rice laud has broken l.mso in a river near Ivjhto, Wis., and is floating down the stream. Tin: St. Lawrence river is the only absolutely 11, toilless river iu the world. Its greatest variation, caused by drought or raiu, never exceeds a f,xt. Thkhk are over five hundred profes sional tea-tasters iu New York city. They decide as to the quality find value; of the tea. The best tea tasters never smoke or eat highly-ccasoned food, It has boon found that a dog in Sa lem. Mass., is responsible for the mys terious disappearance of articles from a grocery. He was watched and seen to carry off the articles one by one to the house of his master. Lawvehs still predominate iu con gress, as probably they always will. There are two hundred and twelve momlers of the present session who hare at one time or another practiced law, while sixty-live are f.u iiier.s. I'rt-pared tit Hear the Yort. M Lady IVx-tor. do you think there is anything the matter with my lungs? I'hysitiaii (after a careful examina tion) I litnl, madam, that your lungs arc in a normal condition. '1.1 Lady (v. hi. a .-iyii of n-signa1 "u) --And about how long e.iu 1 p.-i.t to live with them i:i tli.il condition? l'iiji:a.i -c-'tt: .d i:.a. toperVJD Jt- f "futile. f
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