Hrs
He Loves, but He Censures.
In bangs I never ean delight,
My gentle Phylis dear;
Why will you hide from mortal sight
That forehead white and clear?
1 do detest that halo hat,
Whose wide, umbrageous brim
Encircles like a pancake flat,
And hides your face from him.
Of jargon, prattie, small talk, slang,
These things do sadly mar-
But spite of these, big hat and bang,
I'll take you as you are,
Our One Life,
‘Tis not for a man to trifle, life is brief,
And ain is hore
Our age is but the falling of a leaf,
A dropping tear,
We have no time to sport away the hours;
All must be earnest in & world like ours,
Not many lives, but only one have we
One, only one,
How sacred should that one life ever be,
That narrow span
Day after day filled up with blessed toil,
Hour after hour still bringing in now spoil,
Our being is no shadow of thin alr,
No vacant dream,
No fable of those things that nover were,
But only seam,
"Tie full of meaning as of mystery,
Though strange and solemn may that meaning
be.
Our sorrows are Bo paantoms of the night,
No idle tale,
No cloud that floats along a sky of light
On summer gale.
They are the true realities of earth;
" Oh, life below how brief, ani poor, and sad !
One heavy sigh !
Ob, life above, how long, how fair, and glad |
An endless joy |
Ob, to be done with daily dying here!
Ob, day of time, how dark! Ob, sky and earth
How dull your hue !
Oh, day of Christ, bow bright!
earth
Made fair and new |
Qome, better Eden, with thy fresher green |
Come, brighter Salem, gladden sll the scene!
-— Bonar,
Ob, sky and |
i
I like change; I delight in the un-
known and unexpected, io contrastsand
adventures. I had been ‘‘ont” several
seasons, and knew by heart the deadly,
lively routine of a winter in the eity.
Therefore I was spending the winter in
the mountains of Maryland with Mar-
garet Hastings. i
Margaret had beena “belle, a beauty |
and an heiress,” a wife and a mother,
She was now only the last. Her hand.
some husband had carried her away
VOLUME XV,
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NUMBER 25.
The young girl awoke calmly, and
instantly got out of bed, and ocom-
menoced dressing herself with all speed,
and no words,
“What are you going to do, Kitty
{ asked her mistress.
| “I'm a-goin' to see of there isa man
{ about,” she answered, quietly leaving
| the room,
i 1 followed her, aud together, holding
{ each other tigut by the hand, wa crept
jdown the stairs again, and softly
| opened the door of the long room oa
| the tiny entry. The four gray spaces
{in the blackness clearly defined the
| window, and at first we oould see
i nothing else. But there was the noise
| and Kitty's fingers trembled. Present.
{ly wosaw. A man was bending for-
i ward at the end window, with a regular
| slow movement, that explained the
| sonnd perfectly. ie was turning the
| handle of some boring instrument just
{ under the catoh,
We fled precipitately
{ “He's ther,” announced Kitty, “ an’
| he's a-comin’ in."
Betty groaned. It was ourions, but
| the knowledge that no one could hear
{a cry had the effect of suppressing
| them. Under any other circumstances,
| where there was the faintest shadow of
i & hope that it would have brought us
{ help, I am sure each and all of us
| would have screamed lustily, But we
| knew our danger and its hopelessness,
The mountains had been gaining an
evil reputation for rome time as the re-
sort of the border ruffians of the war,
Margaret's mode of life, in its differ-
the eyes of the valley people, and her
fame had spread across the ridge.
Kitty put it into words in her usual
terse manner:
“This comes of yer big silver teapot,
Mis' Hastings.”
“Oh, Kitty, hush! And it is only
plate. Oh, I wish I could throw it out
of the window to him,"
“If we only had a horn,” I moaned,
“ or a pistol.”
“There's the dinner-horn,” cried
“(an you fire a pistol, Fan?” cried
Margaret.
“1 can do anything,” I answered
frantically. “ Anything but stand here
and wait for that wretch. Kitty where
nearer, to right and left, as we stoxd
facing eash other,
The professor was tall, dark and
handsome, I saw at a glance, as he |
stepped into the cirele of light, that he
was another sort from any I had seen of
late—or ever.
He was wonderfully ocol and calm |
the quietude of strength and geutle. |
ness. [nvoluntarily I bent toward him, |
relieved, soothed, thankful, at rest
He drew my hand through his arm, and |
led me at onoa to the large, low couch |
near the fire, |
he said, smiling pleasantly, ‘You are
chilled from exoitement.
frightened you? Who fired
shots #"
“Idid. Ob, Ishot a man!
think he can be dead ?”
“Dead I" cried one of the farmers,
with a jolly langh. “My lawd, miss,
I'll bet he ain't dead, of you p'inted it
at him.”
Do you
mind it, There was more behind than
they knew. The ory and the fall came
back to me with terrible meaning.
“Qh, but he was hurt! It was the
first shot. Oh, somebody, please, go!
Heo was at the window of the long room,
on the other voreh.” {
“This way I" cried Kitty, openingthe |
door into the long room and taking up
the lam
They all followed her except the pro- |
fessor; I candidly own I held him and |
would not let him go. |
“Oh, den't leave me II am so fright. |
ened. It was so terrible!”
“ But it is all over now,” he said,
gently. * You must not lose your self-
control when you have been so brave
I must go now. They are calling me,
Don't move! I will come back and
tell you what it means,”
There was no need for him to come
back. I heard plainly what they said |
to him, although their voices were ouri-
ously subdued and mufilad.
‘‘ She's right, professor. She hit him,
He's a goner !" said one. ’
“Laid him out like a log!” exclaimed
another,
“It's Sam Prout,” said a third,
And then it suddenly rushed upon
me in its full meaning the thing I had |
done, and they were putting it into |
: |
The professor stood just behind us
and had heard every word,
I covered my face with my hands in
“ Mr. Crawford,” began the profes
sor, instantly and coolly, * it will not |
surprise you if I enter upon this sub
uw
*‘ No, sir; not at all. Nathing sur- |
prises me now!" said my father, as]
I felt an arm, strong but infinitely
tender, take me iato its kindly shelter.
“Your daughter's expression of her
feelings natnrally prepares you for the
the professor.
“ Naturally,” interjected my father,
“She is the one woman of the world
but held me olosa, “If you will give
her to me, I shall devote myself to
making her happy.”
“1 think youn have made a very fair
said my father, grimly. ‘Possession
being nine points of the law, I need
make no merit of gracetully ceding the |
tenth. At all events, she is evidently |
yours." |
And my father walked away, carefully |
closing the door behind him,
Of course, there could be but one
ending to my story. I have been the |
professor's wife these five years, and I |
am more than ever convinoed that ‘love |
is enough.”
But I have never owned before that |
the professor, like Sam Prout, was
brought down unexpectedly, When I |
fired that candid confession at my |
father half in jest, half in earnest pro-
test against his objections to the pro- |
fessor—1 had no idea it would strike |
home. Until that moment the profes- |
sor had never spoken to me of his feel- |
ing for me, and { was not at all sure
of it. |
How can a girl be sure of such a thing
until she is told? And what would |
have become of me had he met the |
acknowledgment in any other way? |
But he did not. It was all right, as |
it tnrned out, and I don't care in the |
least when he laughs at my “lucky |
hit,” i
i
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i
Our Manufacturing Clties,
The statistics of manufactures, as
returned for the tenth census, show
SCIENTIFIC NOTES
The oranium in man isto the cranium
in woman as 100 to 84.7.
Baplings of the Australian eucalyp!
On starch, grape sugar and cane
sugar gastrio juice has no perceptible
effect.
Ornithologists differ entirely on the
water,
The elder Pliny states that the num
ber of stars visible to the naked eye in
his time was 1000,
The locomotives on some Russian
railroads are heated with crude naphtha,
which is introduced into the he nd as
it comes from the wells,
(tases from the furnaces in iron dis
triots are very injurious to trees in the
neighborhood. The sulphuric acid
contained in the gases is absorbed in the
leaves.
The eggs of a gnat are placed side by
side to form the figure of a boat, so that
the gnat-boat, like the life boat, has
capsized.
An examination of dogs after the ad-
ministration of arsenic showed Dr. E.
Lndwig seventeen times as much of the
poison in the liver as in the brain. He
has concluded that in all casses the
any other organ, from which it would
examine in cases of criminal poisoning.
The Sanitary Eagineer regrets that
the bill legalizing the sale of skimmed
milk has passed the State senate. It
any measure of this kind. While ad
mitting that commercial interests ought
is a question of permitting the sale of
an unwholesome article of food the
public health demands that such arti-
cles as skimmed milk should be em.
When the vessel La Provence, which
sank in the Bosphorus, was being raised,
the telephone was added to the diver's
Oue of the glasses of the
that the diver had only to tarn his
head slightly in order to receive his in.
tOR THE LADIES,
A Little French Romance,
4 romantio incident occurred recently
i Bougival, a few miles distant from
Paris. One of the youngest and most
fascinating of Parisian aotresses, Mlle,
L , who lives in that neighborhood,
was at 2 o'clock in the afternoon wend-
ing her way to a friend's house, when
ai she neared the bridge she was polite
ly addressed by a gentleman who,
faultlessly gloved, and with hat in hand,
faid: “Madamoisells, I find myself most
awkwardly placed. I have forgotten
my purse, and for want of a halfpenny
I shall be unable to cross the bridge
unless you kindly come to my aid.”
Mlle. Li—— immediately felt for her
purse and at once handed to the ‘‘ex.
quisite” the coin solicited when, before
abo kad time to close il again, he
dropped into the purse a tiny little
packet and rushed off with all speed.
On recovering from her surprise the
young artist opened the said packet,
which she found to contain a magnifl.
cent turquoise ring and a note, which,
translated, runs thus: “Mademoiselle
Fora long time I have been burning
with a desire to possess something that
has belonged to you. Will you forgive
the device and accept in exchange this
trifling pledge of the affections of yours,
X¥ The most amusing part of the
story, however, is yet to be told. The
gentleman in question, who is well
known in the financial world, was seen
at his club to have exchanged the hand-
| rome gold locket previously appended
{ with a simple but exquisitely-chased
| gold rim.
Surah Dresses.
The twilled surahs with or without
| satin finish are in great favor for street
| suits, and these take the place of the
| summer taffeta silks so long used, and
rival the popular foulards. Dark
surahs are used for the street, such as
| navy blue, gray-blue, very dark garnet
and cypress green. These are trimmed
with embroidery on the material or
with the ecru mull embroidery, or else
with black lace frills either of French
imitation thread lace or the silk Bpan-
ish lace. Navy blue silk surah skirts
1 of French cashmere in Turkey red, with
tha puffed front of rose pink surah,
The puffs slightly overlap ruffles of Ori
ental Inve, and lace finishes the neck
and trims the sleeves.
Bimple and attractive flannel costumes
have the skirt tucked the entire depth,
and bordered at the foot with narrow
plaiting, without extraneous drapery.
A ocassquin jacket, made as severely
simple as possible, accompanies the
tucked skirt, Another style is to tuck
the full back breadths, from the foot to
the belt, and to tuck the front two.
thirds its depth, and then to dress it
with a short apron laid in several wide,
straight, upward folds.
——
Russian Character,
“Russia,” a8 one of my easy-going
friends said to we, while we sip our
coffee after an excellent dirner on the
Vevaky, “Russia is a very pleasan
place to live in after all." he
Most of them care for none of these
things. The horrorof anassassination,
real as it is for the time, passes over
swiftly.
ur from a round of visits to
tell us a terrible story. How a
young widow, one of her intimate
friends, had just baen carried off toa
common jail, and Rpt there for a week
(amid disgusting filthiness, and under
the most degrading prison regulations,
rested students had falsely represent.
ed, years ago, that she was his aunt.
Her child of five she had been forced to
leave unattended in her rooms. She was
not allowed communication with any of
her friends, and even her landlady was
so afraid of the whole matter that she
professed to any one who called thatshe
did not know where or why the lady had
gone. The rarrator told his story with
sympathetic horror and detail. When
she had finished an Englishman present
exclaimed in indigoation: “What »
barbarous country it must be where
such tyranny is tolerated for a day.
But our hostess reproved him with
dignified surprise at his impatience,
““ When such barbarities have bap
pened as the brutal murder of om
sainted czar, little inconveniences jike
this are not to be wondered at, I pity
| my friend, but I would not change the
And go the Mascovite wo Id
| system.”
a
A BOYE TERRIBLE CRANE,
—
#lurdering Two Men~The Yeuthiul Mars
dever Lynched.
The mtirder of two men in Minnesofs
by John Tribbetts, 8 boy only fifteen
a lh id area
outhful depravity. 6 onp~
Jared and taken to jail after making #
full confession. About 1 o'clock in
the morning about twenty resolute men
| broke through the # erowd
| and to batter in the on
| of the jail. It offered little resistance,
| and they were soon nile) Hoon this
{time a on drove up, impres-
| sion & we that would be taken
juto woods
ns. kin t
: reaking open
cell; the sounds
i
{| He was
posted 15
| t the
| drove off without
etvied Hi to the niilsoal
AWRY began
| finish their terrible
had been provided and
i ti a g ¥
| wus then
thrown
roands,
| the murderer, and ina few minutes
| was over. No one but the |
| allowed to come
hanging. All others were
| keep sway and
“The blstory of the if
John Tribbetts reveals
latter
ea fie
as 8sFE
8%
elf
- make a strike to join the cowboys
| plains, and, as the sequel
| Black Hills was his objective
favorite literatare was the 1
James boys, the Younger
life of Billy the Kid, Burton
and when he could
i
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ff
Siicemer
from her Ps worn out her beauty,
spent her fortune, and died in time to
save his memory, at least. She shut
hater Shay Rup the 39 aur 1 And the pistol is downstairs in
bez time to his chaldren. : | Bertie's tool-chest on the porch,”
It was something of a surprise when | sighed Margaret. then?
she wrote to me, once her intimate, and | be 1B ong, :
begged me to come to her for the next | POTOR*
four months. She had quietly and | I think the fowseconds that followed
steadily refused all advances for so long | Were the longest, the most terrible, the
that we had grown indifferent to ler | most heroic of my life. I have always
movements, and seldom spoke of her, | felt proud of myself when 1 recall the
except to pity her changed fortunes and | Sinking of my heart, and the wonderful
ber infatuation. When the letter came | Yic:ory over my natural and excusable
I forgot her rejection of intended kind- | cowardice that brief struggle brought
nesses in the quite selfish idea of some- | about.
thing more blood curdling
| structions and report what he had seen
The adoption of this means of commu-
nication in diving operations will, in
case of danger or accident, tend to in-
sure safety to lives that otherwise would
have been sacrificed.
HEALTH HINTS,
foot and low apron drapery that has a |
' goes on.
Words, Vneouth Dut Jreighted with eter. | frill of French black lace four inches |
New York to be the greatest manufao-
nal woe to a lost soul. | turing city in the Union. Philadel- |
A sense of fear and horror I had never | phia, which has hitherto enjoyed that
| conceived came upon me, a wild despair | pre-eminence, is now relegated to the |
| that crushed me, snd from which I sud- | yeeond place, though its capital invest-
i denly slipped away into a vast blank. ed in manufactures, $£170,000,000, is |
When I saw Margaret's pale face close | §5 000,000 more than is credited to
to mine, and felt some one's hands | Now York city. In number of estab-
moving across my forehead, and some | |i,hments New York has 11,162 and
one’s strong grasp on my hands, I knew | philadelphia 8,877. The amount paid |
that I had fainted for the first time in {in Wages daring the census YOAr Was: i Do not force children to eat at this
my life, and I knew why. ; { New York, $93,370,000; Philadelphia, time, and do not allow them, unless in
“Oh, Margaret I" 1 cried, faintly. 260 000,000. The value ¢f the mate | the most sparing measure, pastry or
But it was the professor who an- ls nged in’ the industries was: New | sweetmeats to tempt their appetite or
swered me, bending over me, and cheer | york, $275 000,000, and Philadelphia, | for any other reason when they seem
ing me with his voice and eves, | 8187,000,000. The value of the prod. | unwilling to eat. Plain bread and but.
is the horn ¥"
“ut to the barn.”
“Qh, yon little goose!"
gis
:
| Bo a Here al hie ort indi. ou the blood and thunder
deep are very stylish, Dark green satin | Vidual drops out info exile, OF | gpi0) Western homes are
surah with « Greek apron on which islaid | 18 removed to B beria. on ' pH boy was only fifteen years
like a border ecru Irish point em- | baps a few of his immediate abl t, yet
broidery on mull, with the scalloped | *'® converted into irreconcil 4 little more mature
edges upward, is very eflective. The | allies of the revolution. But the circle | ¢ 40 0 He was
olka-dotted or leal-figured Spanish | Where he bad his place closes up ad muscular ; had =» most vicious
Po that is all silk edges the plaitings | forgets him. If this is so with the Le | countensnoe and sn
of black silk surabs of light quality, | it 28 equally 80 pong the poor. th | ing black eye, but his frm
| their privations be ever so severe, they | square jaw betrayed resolution.
father and mother of this precious villain
while those that are heavier have em. | ean always forget them quickly. They |
live at Perham and have the reputation
of bei worthy people.
broidery in square designs only two or | have something of the Yrish ax ity
ing very
The folle is
aE :
hE
Ok, on the
i
Jib
three inches wide asan edging for plait. | a i : :
od frills. A French fancy isto tuck Pe | for being happy under difficulties, wits
frills ball their depth, stitching each | 00% 8ny of the Irish tendency to period-
plait near the edge to form a length. | ical and furious reaction t circum- |
wise tnek, then letting it fall loosely |
; : stances, Like the Irish, too, they have |
“The man is all right, Miss Fannie,
thing new. It was not until I saw her, |
pale and sweet and sad, that I felt for |
er any of the old-time love, and re |
alized there might be more in my life |
with her than the mere escape from tire-
some sameness or the rapidly waning !
pleasures of novelty. |
She lived in a small house on the |
mountain side—a curious, rambling, |
one-storied structure, with an attic, in |
which we slept, snd oid little porches |
between the downstairs rooms, where |
they jutted out or lapped over each |
other, {
She “kept her carcriage”—a light |
rookaway—and a steady horse ; and her |
servants, one old woman, a half-grown |
girl and a young man. |
Everything aronad her was neat, but |
plain in the extreme. Society there |
was none, The few farmhouses scat- |
tered here and there along the valley |
were only shelters for their hard-work- |
ing, poorly repaid owners. No one had |
time for mere courtesies or means for |
other than pure hospitality—food and |
warmth for those who absolutely needed
them. !
She was the ‘‘great lady” of the]
country, and went to and fro in a sort of |
stately exclusiveness, which enabled |
her to devote every moment to her |
little ones—s boy and a girl. Idid|
not wonder she had at last grown restive, |
sand reached ont a longing hand for |
some kindred touch.
We had a very pleasant time together. |
It was so delicions to do just as one!
pleased, and take up only such interests |
as one chose. I read a good deal, and!
walked, and drove and, above all, |
talked.
There was so much to tell of my
world, once Margaret's as well. And
there were some things to hear in the |
quiet hours when the depths of our]
natures were reached. began to
believe, after all, that ** love isenough,”
for Margaret had had that, and minded
nothing else, She had not been at all
deceived as to her husband's real self,
and did not attempt to deceive me.
had simply loved each other,
each with the best that as in them;
and if his best bad been poor enough,
it was his, and she asked no more. i
Cne night we had an adventure that |
suggested the charms of a more civil- |
ized state of society, as well as its draw-
backe. The children were in bed, the
servants u irs with them-—the man
went to his own home at night—and we
were reading in the east room.
The silence was profound. The very
fire was noiseless. Suddenly we raised
our heads with one impulse and gazed
steadily into each other's eyes.
* What is that?” whispered Margaret,
after a moment that seemed an age.
“Some one at the long room win-
dow,” I answered, almost breathlessly,
The long room ran off at right angles
from the east room; the dining-room
branched off from the long room, paral-
lel with the east room,
Between them was a covered porch.
Each had three or four windows and
two or three doors. There was not a
shutter to the first nor a bolt to the
last. And we were a honseful of women
unsrmed and unprotected.
The noise ¢:ntinued. There was no
doubt of its meaning. Some one was
trying the windows of the long room,
steadily, carefully, persistently,
To reach the stairs and join the rest
of the household we must either pass
through the long room, all uncurtained
and open to inspection from threesides,
oroross the pcr:h to the dining-room,
thus going out into the black night
where we knew not what danger lurked
unseen, but fearfully near,
~ We eat in terror too deep for words,
and then, as with one thought rose,
slipped x tly through the door on to
the porch, sped across it, and threw
ourselves breathlessly into the dining-
room.
“Qh, Fan |” gasped Margaret, ‘‘were
you ever so glad in all your life be-
~~ fore ?”
“1 thought I
“ Never I" I answered,
would never reach that door! Oh, what
can we do.” >
“ Let us ask Betty.”
In the same noiseless manner we
steht upstairs and roused Betty in her
at was an enormous, dingy old
creature, who lookel able to protect
herself and a score of women younger,
fairer and less ponderous. But she
“I will go and get it,” I said, very
quietly. “Tell me emactly where it is.”
“Oh, I cannot! You will have to take
a candle!”
Conld anything be worse? Go out
irto the night with my very lile in
my hand, and a light to show where
Iwas! But I was wrought up to it.
“ Very well, give me the candle. Kitty,
come down and stand ready to lock the
door, if any one comes.”
Margaret began to ecy and Betty to
moan, but neither of them uttered a
word.
Kitty and I again crept down the
stairs. I had an unlighted candle and
some matches, which really was an after-
thought full of relief, since it allowed
me to slip unperceived through the
dining-room door, and to reach the
ness.
The night was profoundly dark and
still.
shadow of the mountain against the
gloomy sky just over my head as I
pan for one brief second to draw
breath and steady my hand. Then 1
knelt down, raised the lid of the chest,
struck a match, and looked in before
applying it to the candle.
The pistol was ready to my hand, and
I recollected that only the day before
Bertie bad found it somewhere up-
stairs and carried it down in high glee.
I seized it and rushed in to Kitty's
welcome presence. Margaret had joined
her, and had come to her senses.
“1t is not loaded, Fan,” she said
softly, * but I have the cartridges here.
He is still at work. Light the candle
and slip them in, and then we can fire
from the long room door.”
“Do you mean me to shoot the man?”
I gasped.
“No, only to fire at him. You'll
never hit him, bat I wish I could!”
I followed her advice. I was not an
adept, but I knew enough to load a
Then we put
into the long room.
Margare* snd Kitty stood close to me,
but at my back ; the man was just rais-
The next instant the thunder of
heaven seemed ringing in my ears
mingled with the crash of broken glass
and a wild, terrible ery, half-oath, half
prayer, followed by a dull, sickening
thud,
A very demon of rage took possession
of me. All fear was gone,
I dashed across the room, and, one
after another, in frenzied succession,
fred the remsining barrels of the revol-
ver out into the night through the shat-
tered window. Then I turned and fled
upstairs after Margaret and Kitty, who
were leaning as far as poesible from the
atiic-window, and screaming for help at
tbe top of their lungs.
It was nearer than we hoped. When
Kitty paused to take breath before a
fresh cutbur:t, there were audible
through the thinner piping of Margar
et’s cries a violent rattling and rapping
on the door below us. + :
Kitty only added greater volume to
her shouts; bat, nevertheless, I heard
distinctly a clear ani fail haloo that
brought comfort to my heart.
“Oh, do hush?” I screamed, shaking
them vigorously. “There's a man down.
stairs. Listen!”
“Who's there?’ piped Margaret,
musically, for all the quaver in her
tones.
“ What is the matter, ladies?” an-
swered a gentleman's voice, ‘‘What has
happened ?”
“Oh, for the love of heaven |” burst
forth Betty; “we're all murdered in our
beds ?”’
“Js there anything wrong?” impa-
tiently reiterated the voice.
“Yes, thero is,” I called in my turn’
“Who are you, and I will come down?”
“J am Professor Jouvain,”
“From Ralston!” exclaimed Mar-
geret. “I thought I knew the voice.
Oh, thank God I”
She sank crying on the floor by the
children’s cot, and I hurried away. By
the time I opened the east room door,
where the lamp was still bright and the
fire glowing as when we sat down to
our books and a quiet evening, the pro-
fessor had been joined by some of the
neighbors.
The ringing shots had echoed far and
with terrible meaning through the quiet
was a8 great a coward as either of us,
less cautious,
valley. There was the rapid beat of
You did hit him, but
stunned.”
“Then I am safe?”
“You are, certainly.
he was only |
i
And quite a
As soon as you are able, if |
you wish, you shall see your prize, |
although he is not beautiful to look |
upon.”
Margaret kissed and petted me for a |
few minutes longer, and the professor |
held my hands and chafed them me- |
chanically. I was myself again, anda
very merry, light-hearted self I felt!
after that terrible burden of blood and
death,
I looked up at the professor and
laughed. He Pad my hands sudden- |
ly, and stood up very straight,
“Will you come now and see Sam
Prout in the flesh ?” he said, with an |
effort to appear unembarrassed.
We went, The farmers were keeping |
guard over poor Sam in the dining. |
room, while awaiting the constables
arrival,
He was sitting in a great chair, lean.
ing his head against the chimney-piece, |
a very much used-up man. There was |
a good deal of blood about him, and his |
head was bound up pretty tidily, if not |
scientifically. He looked pale and |
dazed and wretched, and I felt quite |
ashamed of myself for the ruin I had |
wronght.
What creatures of the moment most |
women are, to be sure!
We only peeped in at the doo for a
few seconds, and then went back to the |
east room. Of course we were too ex- |
cited to think of rest. The professor |
had been thrown too close to our inner |
lives to seem strange, and we sat over |
the fire chatting as cozily as friends of |
years, He told us how he came to be |
on hand, riding home from a lecture in |
a neighboring town in order to com- |
plete some work at the college early |
the next day (and which, by-the-bye, |
he seemed to have forgotten), and we |
told him every incident and throb of |
feeling during our experience.
We saw Sam Prous off in state, and
then went to bed.
The professor and a young farmer
from the adjoining place volunteered to
remain until morning, and were made |
comfortable before the fire in the east
room.
Left to himself, the professor remem-
bered his task, and did set off at day-
break, leaving his adieux for us with
Kitty. But he came back that after-
noon, and Margaret invited him to stay
to tea, because he had missed his break-
fast. He did not refuse the invitation.
That was the beginning of a gay
season. We were the belles of the
county, and had admiring and awe-
struck visitors from all quarters.
How many times we went through
the recital of our night of terror, I dread
to think. Every nail-hole and paint.
scratch about that window remains
photographed upcn my mental vision,
Then there came the trial of Sam
Prout, and we had a court rvene, in
which the professor and I seemed to
figure largely, to the great delight of
the public and his serene enjoyment. I
was very broadly complimented for my
bravery and prompt action, and Sam
was sentenced and sent off to jail.
“ Now, Fan,” said my father, who had
come down to see me through the or-
deal, “I intend to take you home with
me, my fir lady! I am inclined to
think Bam was not the only victim of
your night's shooting, and the other
may prove fatal. If it does, you will be
best out of the way.”
“What do you mean?’ I asked,
somewhat faintly.
“You know very well what I mean.
You are inclined to be soft-hearted to-
ward the sufferer, and I am not. You
shall not marry Professor Jouvain, if I
can help it.”
““ Well, you can’t,” I said, coolly.
My father and { were ‘‘cronies” al.
ways, and said what we pleased to each
other,
He looked at me intently, got np, ad-
justed his glasses and then turned me
round for inspection.
“I think you mean it,” he said, slow-
ly. “And I had sucha splendid chance
for you in New York |”
“Ihave had two or three myself,” I
replied. “But they were nothing to
the professor. He is a man after my
heart.”
I raw my father's face redd®n with
mingled embarrassment, irritation and
amusement, aud I turned hastily.
was: New York, $448,000,000; |
Philadelphia, $304 591,000. i
The largest single item of manulae- |
‘ore in New York is that of men's
is valued at $60,798,000, The wages |
paid in their manufacture were $40, !
200,000, Toe value of the produot in |
is $18,930,000. |
Viewing only the value of the product,
prodact
for 1880 being $29,207,000. “Printing |
and publishing” shows a product of
The cigar product is
That of refined lard is |
$14,758,000, and sngars and molasses,
In Philadelphia the largest single |
product of manufacture in value is
sugar and molasses reflned —824,294,-
920. The industry having the largest
capital invested is that of woolen goods, |
{
of men's olcthing is $18 500,000; that of
cotton goods, $165850,000; carpets,
$14 263,000; drugs and chemicals, $11,-
804,000; machinery, $9 684 900; boots
and shoes, £9 034,000; worsted goods,
$8 327,000; hosiery and knit goods,
87,683,000; printing and publishing,
leather, dressed skins,
$6,741,000,
The third mannfactaring city is Chi-
a capital of §64 000,000, paying $33,.
000,000 in one year in wages, and whose
product in 1880 was $241,000,000, The |
leading manufacturing industry is meat
packing, whose product in the census
year was $85,000,000. Brooklyn is the
fourth city, with 5,080 establishments,
paying $27,000,000 year's wages, and the
value of whose products is 169,000,000.
The leading article is sugar and molas-
1880 was 859,711,000. Boston ranks fifth |
on the basis of the valne of the manu. |
factured produc’ it being $123,000,000; |
men's clothing .nd sugar and molasses, |
refined, being each $16,000,000, The |
sixth city is St. Louis, with a product
flouring and grist mill products, Cin.
cinnati is the seventh manufacturing
city, its product in 1880 being $94,000,-
000. The manufacture of men'sclothing
brought £13,873,000 of this and meat
packing $11,614 000, Baltimore comes
number eight, with a product of 875,-
000,000, the largest item of which is
men's clothing, £9,446 000,
Pittsburg is the ninth in rank of
manufacturing cities in the value of its
product, which in 1880 was 874,000,000.
It has $50,000,000 of capital invested
in manufactories, which exceeds that of
84. Louis, Cincinnati, Boston and Bal-
timore, and makes Pittsburg in that
respeot the filth manufacturing city of
the Union, those ranking it being in
order Philadelphia, New York, Chicago
and Brooklyn. The number of Pitts-
burg establishments is 1,071; the
men employed are 31,0661; the
wages paid in 1880 were $16,918,-
426, and the value of the materials used
was $41,201,000, The largest item of
manufacture is iron and steel, the prod-
nots of which are $35,490,000. The
next is glass, with a product of £5,000,
000. After Pittsburg the cities rank in
the order of the value of their manu
facturing products as follows: Newark,
tenth ; Jersey City. eleventh; Oleve-
Jand, twelfth ; Buffalo, thirteenth ;
Providence, fourteenth ; Milwaukee,
fifteenth ; Louisville, sixteenth ; New
Orleans, seventeenth, and Washington
City, eighteenth,
Still Here,
First boy—** Are you going off to be
a pirate this summer?”
Second boy—** [ dunno,”
“I knew you wouldn't,
got any git.”
“I hain’t, eh? I've got just as mnoh
as you have, but when a feller's mother
is willing to boy him a goat and a pair
of roller skates and a fish line, what's
the need of his turning pirate? Yon
said you was going off to fight Injuns,
but youn hain’t gone.”
“I know I hain't. You don’t expect
me to go till I get big enough to sleep
alone, do you?"
“ Pooh!”
“ Pooh!”
Ad they rub along the fence in op-
You hain't
posite directions.— Detroit Free Press,
ter, with plenty of oatmeal or cracked
wheat mush, well-cooked vegetables
and lean meat, and plenty of fresh fruit
if accessible, particularly oranges, form
There is no danger that children can
sleap too much. The old proverb, “Who
sleeps eats,” is illustrated in those
little ones who sleep most. Wakefal
children are usually peevish, irr table
If they can be induced to
sleep abundantly, they are quite likely
to become good-natured and plamp.
Their sleep should be as much during
the hours of darkness as possible, and
go to bed early to have their sleep out
than to sleep long after sunrise in the
morning. It is well to let any health-
ful, growing child or young person to
sleep until he wakes himself, and then
give him sach a variety and amount of
outdoor exercise as shall make him
glad when bedtime returns.
Fines. —If the clothing of a person
takes fire, wrap them about at once and
completely with blankets to extinguish
the flames. II caught in a burning
house remember the best air to breathe
is near the floor, and that a wet hand.
kerchief placed over the mouth permits
breathing and excindes smoke, thus
avoiding suff cation. — Dr. Foole's Health
Monthly.
————————
False Eyes,
Most people are under the impres.
sion that the artificial eye is in the
form of a globe, and that to have it in.
serted it is necessary that the entire
eyeball should be removed. Dat this is
not the case, In very few instances is
the eyeball completely destroyed, and
to cut it out to make room for a false
eye would be an operation equally dan.
gerous as useless, The artificial eye is
merely a thin shell of silica that
can be inserted under the
eyelids by the individual himself. It
is held in position by the contraction
of the lids, and is moved about by the
optic muscles pretty much in the same
manner as the natural eye. No dis-
agreeable sensation is felt by the wearer,
and, as far as appearance goes, it would
be duwionlt to detect anything out of
the common, to such a degree of per
fection has the manufacture reached.
There is a great difficulty in match.
ing eyes, as the contraction and dila-
than it really has, owing to the differ.
ence in the density of the pupil. The
is to have the artificial eye several
eye, a.d this is invariably the practice.
The first thing a man, alter getting
an artificial eye does, is to ask every
friend what they thought of it; whether
it matohed in color and size his other
to have a ouance of airing an opinion,
aftor a slight examination declares the
color wrong and probably the eye a
misfit in every way. The purchaser then
taat it is owing to a nataral phe-
nomenon that his eye nl a
slight change in size and color in
the open air, and so on. A comical
side of the picture is when the party
who is anxious to remedy his defect
cames attended by, say his family and a
and each perhaps selects a particular
eye from the case and declares that it
is just the thing, The argument waxes
hot and heavy and the inevitable con-
clusion is that the unfortunate man is
compelled to go away with an eye un-
suitable in many respects, and which he
is only too ready to come back and
change a few days later,
While on the subject of eyes, it may
be said there is scarcely anything more
absurd than the practice. usually ocur-
rent of going to Europe for ophthalmio
advice whenever it is reqaired. Amer-
ican ooulists have long since earned for
themselves a world-wide reputation by
their wonderful skill in treating this
disease, and besides understand the
peculiar phases which are the product
of a different climate far batter than
their European compeers could possi-
bly do.
"he output of eoal from {he mines of
Alabama Las increased from 10,000 tons
in 1872 to 400,000 tons in 1881.
below, aud sewing on lace or embroid-
ery. For instance, edge a short
wrinkled apron of surah with a plaiting
six inches deep, tucked by machine
down its upper half and finished be-
low with two inches of embroidery.
To complete the front of such a skirt
have two narrow knife-plaitings of
surah at the foot, and above this another
plaiting so deep that its head is lost
under the spron just deseribed ; this very
wide plaiting is also tucked lengthwise
half its depth, thev simply pressed (or
tacked on the wrong side), and edged
with embroidery. The back drapery is
then of two widths from the belt down
to the lower ruflle, where it is tacked
permanently, so that it cannot be dis.
placed, and may be either widely faced
on the wrong side, or else its edges are
torned under and sewed to the lower
skirt. Buch dresses must be made up
on a foundation skirt of silk, alpaca,
silesia or other fabric less flimsy than
surah, in order to make the skirt pre-
serve its shape; and this is not to be
objected to as a sham skirt, as it often
costs as much or more than the thin
fabric of the outside which it is meant
to support; the best French dresses
have this foundation skirt, and the best
modistes here use it, taking care, how
ever, to 80 arrange the drapery that the
foundation cannot possibly be disclosed
when worn,
The short round polka basque is much
uscd for summer surah dresses, This
reaches two inches below the waist
line, is nearly straight around, is whale.
boned to the lowest end of each seam
(ss all basques should be), and is
finished on its edge with one or two
full bias puffs, or else two thick box-
plaitings of satin, aud perhaps on this
may fall a frill of Spanish lace that is
very scant on the sides, and full like a
fan in the middle of the front and back.
A stylish ruche that is not teo full
and fussy for trimming the foot ofa
silk skirt has first at the lower edge a
gathered frill, either straight or bias,
two inches and a hall wide when fin.
ished. Then above this, with its lower
edge falling upon it, is the ruche six
inches deep when finished, either
straight or bias, and gathered by three
parallel rows in the middle. It is well
to line this ruche with erinoline or stiff
pet, and to tack the top edges to the
skirt to keep it from falling.— Bazar,
Fashion Notes.
Pillowshams are said to be the inven.
tion of American housewives,
On new silk hosiery appears embroid-
| ered butterflies in various colors.
| QGrenadine dresses are stylish when
finished with bangle jet trimming.
Oriental lace is much used for trim.
ming foulard silk, nun's veiling, alba-
|tross cloth snd all the light weolen
muslins in white and delicate colors.
Dainty hats for garden wear are in
{ pale rose color and ciel bine, trimmed
| with a monture of plumes and tips of
| the exact shade, disposed to shadow
| the brim,
To fix bonnet strings, many elegant
{ pins are devised; notably, two arrows
tied with a ribbon, a small umbrella in
| pearls with diamond handle, running
| hounds, owls’ heads, and sets of five
| sparrows strung on a silver thread. Be-
| sides these there are eggs represented
| by pearls in a nest,
The prettiest shoulder capes thie
| season are ,cut quite plain across the
| back, fitting the showmiders perfectly,
{ but in front they are laid in loose easy
| folds across the chest, fastened to-
| gether about the sixth batton from the
{ throat with a bow and by long ends of
| watered silk ribbon,
{ Spanish Jace is the most popular gar-
| niture for black diaphanous material ;
| and jetted passementerie and jetted orn-
| aments come into nse, with Spanish lace
' as the objective trimming.
Sateen and French percale costumes
have the skirt flounced from the foot to
the waist, and without drapery; or the
drapery is a short apron forming nu-
merous wrinkles, or a demi-long bouf-
fant arrangement on the back, Sateen
and peroale are sometimes made up in
the round, Garibaldi waist, which is
worn with a belt.
Handsome tea-gowns are of French
cashmere and surah, the cashmere form.
ing the gown substantially, and the
surah appearing in a puffed Moliere
shirt-front, A charming gown is made
{a constant resource in their deep re.
| ligious fervor. The Orthodox church
| is obviously far less of a spiritual and
| moral power than Irish Catholiciem ;
| but the Russian peasant can always find
| a moment's peace, and even & very ex-
| quisite kind of bappivess, when he
{turns sside into one of
gorgeous cathedrals and prostrates
himself before the priceless sacred
| pictures. He does not pray
for this and thst advantage, temporal
or heavenly, He does not repeat any
traditional formula. Much Jess does hq
bethink himself of sin and repen
and as the smell of the incense hangs
about the pillars, and the angel voices
of the choir wander along the roof, the
patient, miserable man is happy.— Mac-
mullian's Magazinr,
How She Loved Him,
* Myrtle, dear?”
“Yes, George, what is it?" replied
the girl, glancing shyly upward.
The radiant glory of a summer moon
shone down upon the earth this Jane
night, bathing in all its mellow splen-
dor the leafy branches of the sturdy
old oaks that hsd for oenturies
shaded the entrance to Castle
McMurtry and laoghed defiance
to the fierce gales that every winter
came howling down in all their cruel
force and fury from the moorlands lying
to the westward of the castle, On the
edge of the broad domesne that
streiched away to the south, stood
large brindle cow, and as the moonlight
flecked with silvery luster her star
ribs she seemed to Myrtle a perfect
jcture of sweet oontent and almost
oly calm.
“Is it nota beautiful night, dear-
est?” murmured the girl. * Bee how
the moonbeams flutter down through
the trees, making strange lights and
shadows that flit among the shrabs and
flowers in such a weird, ghostlike fash-
ion. The dell is indeed clothed i
loveliness to-night, sweetheart.”
“Yes,” said Goorge W.
“this is the boss dell” —and then look-
that was lifted to his, he took in his
own broad, third-base
band that erstwhile held up Mytle's
polonaise. As they stood there silently
in the bosky glade George h
arm silently but firmly around Myrtle's
waist,
The noble girl did not shy.
“Do you love ma, sweetheart?” he
asked in nocents that were tremulous
with tremulousness.
Myrtle's head was drooping now, and
the rosy blushes of Calumet avenue in-
Mhnoence were chasing each other across
her peachy cheeks. :
Goorge drew her more closely to him.
If a mosquito had tried to pass between
them then it would have been bad-for
the mosquito. J
“Can vou doubt me, darling?” he
whispered. * You surely must know
that I love you with a wild, passionate,
whoa- Emma love that can never die.
{ D>» you not love me a little in return ?’
For an instant the girl did not speak.
George heard the whisking of the brin-
solemn stillness of the night, and ever
and anon came the dull thad of the
bullfrog as he jumped into a neighbor-
ing pond. Presently Myrtle placed
her arms about his neck. and
with a wisful baby's - got - the-
cramp look in her sweet face, she said
to him: “I love you, George, with a
deathless devotion that will eventually
keep you broke.” And with these
fateful words she adjusted her rumpled
bang and fearlessly led the way to an
ice cream laie.— Chicago Tribune.
President Arthur’s Letters,
President Arthur, itis stated, receives
600 letters every day Allowing him to
give each letter one minute's time, ten
presidential hours of the twenty-four
are accountel for. A famous English-
man of a century ago, who suffered from
the same kind of inundation, urel
pleasantly to say that one-third of the
letters he received were answered, that
another third answered themselves, and
that the other third got no answers of
any kind. It isto be supposed that
the President follows tre precedent of
the Eaglishman, who borrowed his
practice from a royal philosopher of the
classic times,
surveyor of the Minnetonks Mill com.
about thirty-five, and George Feim-
| Pucker loy of Washingion,
in the employ
| from New York city, and who had been
| living in Perham or four months,
| His only relative in this country is a
| sister living in New York A
left Perham on the previous
stati
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loaded
| with fine shot. Tribbetts
| the timber, leaving the two
| Dornbusch’s house, where
| dinues, leaving Share at
: stating were
| 13, ing Sh he
| ing with them an ax and a
and each having a silver watch
aud chain. They not returning
search was made for them,
{ and their bodies were found, one on
morni about thirty
| a ¥ashington was found wi
| gunshot wound in the back of his
| with his pockets picked, his boots
| bat gone, his maps and plats
the ground beside him, together
| pocket compass, The of
| er was found wou t
| north of the body o
was found to be horribly butchered.
| Th und the indicated
t So hal made a hard fight with his
assailant. His throat was cut and his
skull broken by a savage blow from the
AX.
Young Tribbetts made his appearance
Perham on Monday, the next day
following the murder, with plenty of
' money, which was unusual for him. He
| purchased a new suit of clothek,
| his picture taken and exhibited a watch,
| chain and revolver. He offered the
| watch to several different parties,
| ing that he was going West to
taps and that he would like to
| them. He finally sold his
| chain and took the train W
| sup L
coroner's j
| the watch
| were in his
| erty of Wa
| possession about $35.
'rgbbers snd stockings worn by
| THibbetts were found near the bodies
of the murdered men: Other strong
circumstances proven point unmistaka-
bly to his guilt. A post-mortem exami-
nation was made by Dr. Newcomb, of
Jerham. Four buckshot were found in
the brain and an extensive fracture of
the skull of Washington. The body of
| Fermbacker was literally hacked to
| picces; more than twenty outs, ranging
rom the full breadth of the ax down-
ward, were found. The skull was
erushed in and even the ribs were cut
through by the ax in the hands of this
buman fiend. The remains of Wash-
ington were buried by order of the cor-
oner and those of Fermbacker by the
Catholic church of Perham, of which
he was a member,
Ferm
ington.
The Late Eclipse of the Sun,
The scientific journals of Europe are
jnst now fall of the results of the ob-
garvations of the last total eclipse of
the sun made in Egypt by English and
continental astronomers, whose work
tention of physicists to a degree
only equaled by that performed
by our own observers during the solar
eclipse of 1878, In accordance with
present tendencies in the study of solar
phisiss, the astronomers coanected
with the English expedition have given
special uitention to the purpose of se-
particularly success!
spects.
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