Meadow Hymn, Only when soaring sings the lark, Btruggling to fields of purer air; Silent her music when she sinks Back to a world less giad and fair, Only when soaring sings my heart, Flutt'ring on tremulous wing to God; Fainter the music as I fall, Hush'd when I reach the lower sod. Lark of my heart | this morn astir, Upward to God on eager wing ! Rise with a burst of grateful song, Carol the best that love oan sing | — Richard Storrs Willia, My Little Girl. Perhaps you never saw hor My little girl ! 80 have no tenderness for her, This little girl; Nor any sort of feeling You fancy needs concealing, Because you know she is my Tittle girl, Well, then, I'll show her to you~ My littlegirl, She'd tell you, if she knew you, This little girl, That though she's small of stature, She's out of frocks, and that you're Not to think she’s such a vory little girl She likes to have me call her My little girl; And feels a full inch taller, This little girl, When her hand within my arm, I unfold the little palm And whisper, “Dear, you're little, but—oh, my! She has two big brown eyes — My little girl; And when to scold me she tries, This little girl, 1 laugh because her eyes speak To me a language not Greek— For my little wife she'll be, by-and-bye. The Church Union, —— «Oh, missus, missus! Somefin's done | happened x Blank horror and dismay were de- | pioted upon tha face of my young Afri- | can as the stood upon my threshold | with upraised hands and eyeballs that | seemed starting from their sockets. | Her pause was one of preparation, for with the innate consideration of her race she sought to break the news gently to me, but the burden of it was too great for her, and with the next breath she exclaimed : “Dem pigs done chawed up Miss Lyddy's weddin' gown !” “Glory,” I exclaimed (she had been jously christened Gloriana), *‘Glory, ow did it happen ?” “Dunno!” said Glory. ‘Pears to me dem pigs has got Satan in ‘em. Guess dey's 'scended from de ole lot what run down a steep place inter de sea. I'll go and fetch ye a piece.” She out and instantly returned with a tattered shred of India mull that had once been white, and still bore some resemblance to 8 gown. Poor Miss Lyddy! This was all that remained of her dream of wedding splendors. It was too pitiful! I felt at once that the bonds of good neighborhood had been irretrievably broken, and that Major Hawthorne must be made aware of this last and worst depredation of his un- seamly pigs. But who would break the news to Miss Lyddy? “ Glory,” said I, * where is she?” “Gone over to de buryin'-place to tend to de ancesters,” answered Glory. Poor, faithful soul, even in those last days of her maidenhood, with the vague terrors of matrimony and the still more appalling responsibilities of unsaved heathen souls hanging over her, she did not forget the ancestors. Long lines of Lindkinses lay buried in little sunken hillocks in the family burying place, which lay just in sight of her sitting. room window. She herself was the last of her race, and until within three weeks it had seemed that the only fate which awaited ber was to live out her little space under the ancestral roof- tree and then take her place in the silent racts of those who had gone before. But a change bad come. It came in the person of a returned missionary from the Micronesian Islands, who had buried the first and second partners of his joys and sorrows somewhere un- der the trees of those tropical. lands, and had come back to the scenes of his youth to recruit his health, serve the cause and look np partner number three. He met Miss Lyddyat a woman's missionary meeting. Hecalled the next afternoon and was invited to stay to tes. He accepted the inyitation and the next morning Miss Lyddy came into my rocm—ifor I, too, domiciled under the Ludkins roof-tree, for a considera tion—and with much hesitation and many faint and delicate blushes in. formed me that she had promised to share the future lot of the Rev, Nehi- mish Applebloom, to take care of his gix children and sustain and support him in his arduous labors among the heathen of the Mieronesian Islands. I was struck dumb with amazement. ¢ Miss Lydia,” I said at length, *‘ have you duly considered .his project?” Her thin figure qunivered and her white face, that had yet a delicate re- membrance of youth in it, grew tender feeling. . “Yes,” she said, “I think I have, I have always had a presentiment that I should marry a minister or a mission- .” Admirable and pathetic faith! ." Mr. Applebloom says he knew the moment he set eyes upon me that I was ordained to be his wife; so you see it is not the surprise to either of us that it is likely to be to our friends.” I knew then that her mind was fully made up, so I demurred no longer, but lent myself at once to a discussion of the wedding, which I plainly saw was what Miss Lyddy desired of me. ** You will be married in church, I suppose ?’ ‘Ob, no,” said Miss Lyddy, with gen- tle decision. “Iam the last of the L All the Ludkinses have been married at home, I will go out from under my own roof-tree. If I must seem to forsake the ancestors” — she paused to regulate a little choking in her throat—* I will not at least for- sake their traditions. I shall leave a little money with the parish clerk that he may see that the graves of my dead are kept in order, as I always have loved to keep them, and I hope they will forgive my departure; butt will at least go as a Ludkins should. It is my desire to be married in my grandmoth- er's wedding-gown.” Miss Lyddy’s voice trembled, and there was a humidity in her eyes at which I did not wonder, for it was much like a funeral after all. “I thought, perhaps,” went on Miss Lyddy, “if I brought the venerated elic to you, you would tell me if any- thing were necessary to be done to fit it to me. I don’t care for the fashions, you know, and my grandmother, as I remember her, was about my height, but still, you know—something—some changes might beadvisable.” “Certainly,” I said, “do bring it to me. I should so like to see it.” “It is sprigged India (she called it Ingy) mull. My grandfather, Captain Simon Ludkins, brought it home from over the seas, I'll bring it.” ¥ "ke some pale and gentle ghost she rose then and went to a bureau drawer AANA Meme NA OI 3540) —————————————————— VOLUME XY. Eo " As she did so the changes in fashion’s mandates became only too evident. It had Bo waist to speak of and just a lit- tle lnco-trimmed puff for sleeves, Miss Livddy was evidently surprised. She had not thought of this knew well what the troubled look upon her face meant, and I pitied her maiden sensi bilities, Could it be possible that her grandmother, Mrs, Captain Simon Lud- kine, had ever worn such a gown as this ? She said not a word that could indicate the depth of her mortifloation, but her face was a study for an artist, “ There must ba sleeves,” she mur mured, after a few moments of silent and embarrassed contemplation. “Yes,” I replied, cheerfully as my constrained gravity would allow. “And you might have a fichuand a flounce on the bottom." She looked down. She had not be fore realized that the skirt of the vene- | rated relic lacked a full quarter of a yard of touching the floor. “ However could they I" she ejaculated in an undertone. But she quickly re- covered herself and looked up to me cheerfully over her spectacles, « How ingenious you are!” she said, with an air of sweet relief. “I knew you would help me out.” |” We wennt out together and bought | the requisite mull that day, but when | we came to put it beside the “venerated evident that time had so enriched the most unfortunately anlike. “ Wao can lay it out on the grass,” I said; “these June dews are just the thing for it, and as it will be evening nobody will in the least notice.” Again Miss Lyddy smiled rally and declared that my suggestion should be carried out in the most faithful man- ner. The Rev. Nehemiah A A lovely name, don't you think so P' said Miss Lyddy, and she blushed and smiled like a schoolgirl in her teens— had but a short furlough, and the mar riage was to transpire next week, so the relic was put ont to bleach forthwith. It had already been upon the grass three days and nights snd been Taligipusly watered by Miss Lyddy at morn an noon and dewy eve, and the next day it was to be taken up early and put in the dressmaker's hands for the necessary alterations, when the dreadful event occurred with which this story opens. Glory,” I said, *‘ do you keep watch for Miss Lyddy when she returns. Say nothing about what has happened un- less she misses the gown from the In that case tell her that I thought it was bleached enough and took it up 10 dry, and you don't know where I have put it. 1am going out now, but if she asks where tell her you don't know.” Glory was faithful, and had besides the natural eraft of her race, and I knew that she could be trusted. As for me, I swiftly donned my bonnet and set out to find Msjor Hawthorne. It was a bright June evening, and my walk throngh the meadow and the grove that skirted Hawthorndean would have been a delightful one if I had borne a mind more at ease. The major was a gentleman by birth, but he lived out his fifty bachelor years in a gay and careless way that had seemed to set the gentler part of creation at defiance. In the lifetime of his parents Hawthorndean had been a beautiful estate. It still re- tained many marks of wealthy and oulti- vated ownership, bul it was sadly run down, as the home of a bachelor is apt to be. The grove, which had once been the pride of the place, was grown up to brush now, and the sere leaves of many summers’ growth rustled under my feet as I walked through it. At one point, coming suddenly around a thick clump of undergrowth, I heard a chorus of tiny snorts and the scampering of numberless hoofs, and knew that I had invaded a haunt of the major's last ag- rieultural freak, the very brood of Berkshire pigs that were the source of all my borrowed woes. Away they scampered, their snouts well raised in the air, and each with a curl in its tail that seemed too ornamental to be wholly the produet of nature and to justify the village rumor that the major’s own msn put those tailsin curl - papers every night. They had the air of spoiled children, every one, and were evidently the major’s pets. But that didn't matter; they had ruined Miss Lyddy's wedding gown, to say nothing of a dozen other aggravating exploits which do not belong to this story, and 1 was determined to have satisfaction out of their owner. I found the major sitting on his piazza with an after-dinner look upon his handsome, good humored face. He rose to greet me with an air of old-school politeness, dashed with a faint wonder that I, a woman, should have the hardi- hood to approach a place so little fre- qugnted by women. “Good-evening, Miss Grace. I am happy to see you. In what can I have the honor to serve you?” He had read my face and knew that I had come on a mission. “ Major Hawthorne,” I eaid, payin, no attention to his offer of a chair, * have come on a very painful errand.” “Sit down, madame,” eaid the major, politely. * I cannot possibly permit a lady to stand on my piazza. I ought, pernaps, to ask you to walk in, but it is rather stufly indoors this evening.” “No,” I said, * I will sit here, if you please.” seen through the window, bad not the most inviting look, and I was glad to compromise. “You have, no doubt, heard — plunging in medias res—* that Miss ydia Ludkins is about to be married.” “ Married! Miss Lydia! No! Hadn't heard a word of it,” said the major in genuine amazement, * Who is the for- tunate man, pray ?” “The Rev. Nehemiah Applebloom, a missionary to the Micronesian Islands, who has come home to recruit his health and find a wife.” “J know him,” said the major. ‘‘SBaw him down at the station—a long, lean, lank individual —just fit for his voca- tion; no temptation whatever to canni- bals! But what the dence is he going to do with Miss Lydia? What will Balaam’s Corners do without her?” it can,” I said—I fear a little sharply— for my mind was still in a most sggres- sive state toward the major. “" They are to be married next week, a — “What will become of the ‘ances- tors’ ?’ interpolated the major, in whom surprise seemed to have gatten the bet- ter of habitual politeness. “Qh, she has made arrangements with Mr. Orow about that.” « Just like her ! Dear, faithful girl.” The major had all his life loved all the sex—not one—and I was not to be beguiled by this show of feeling. ¢¢ She had set her heart upon being married in her grandmother's wedding- smelt of lavender the fair, frail relic of Mrs. Captain Simon Lindkins' wedding state. It was fine embroidered mull, the undoubted product of Indian looms. Lobe Ba Mag bg it wi us e thi or ou. Will you try it on ? We can tell «Old Mrs. Captain Simon? I remem- ber her well. A mighty fine woman. She never would have gone to the ends of the earth with a missionary. of.” I began to fear I should never get to my errand. “It was put out on the grass to Ect JO Nas es Boe vo diasobe hate J bleach, being a little yellow with age. 1s woes lovely ebroidered Lodia muslin thatthe ld eaptain brought home frem Indias himsell.” “ How well I remember him in my boyhood! A jolly soul! A grand. daughter of his go off to the Cannibal Islands to be eaten up by savages! I won't have it!" ‘“‘Her hoart is set upon going,” I oon tinned, “The wedding-gown was put out to bleach, and this very afternoon those little Berkshire pigs of yours they are a nuisance to the whole neigh. borhood, major—trampled and rooted it to pieces, so that itis ntterly ruined.” “Little black rascals,” said the major, with a chuckle behind his neck-eloth. “And 1 have come, without her knowledge, to tell you of it, beoause I was sure that, nnder the cironmmtances, a gentleman of your breeding would feel in honor bound to make some reparation to Miss Lydia.” he major mused and looked at his boot for a moment in silence. + Miss Grace,” he said at length, “1 thank you for the service you have ren- dered me in this matter, Will rou have the goodness to say to Miss Lud. kins, with my compliments, that I shall do myself the honor to wait upon her to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock to ad: just this unfortunate matter ? I beg in the meantime that she will give herself as little solicitude as possible, for though I cannot restore the ancient and venerated dry goods, I will do the best possible under the circumstances to make the loss good." He bowed over my hand and the au- dience was evidently concluded. Was I satisfied? No, indeed | What woman would not have felt wronged to be left at the end of a mission of disinterested benevolence in such a state of doubt and uncertainty as this? But I was obliged to go home nevertheless, and wait as patiently as I could for the stroke of 10 next morning. Glory had been in hearing when the message had been delivered to Miss Lyddy and she too was on the watch, At last she scudded in from the hedge, her ivories all a-glisten, and her eyes wide open and full of a rather inocom- prehensible mirth. YW" she maid; “He's a-comin’, such a sight !” At that minute the gate olicked and up the walk strode indeed a most as- tonishing figure. The major had gotten himself up in a continental suit, which “and depths of the ancient attics at Haw- thorndeau; black velvet coat with lace ruffles at the wrist, knoe breeches, white satin waistooat, slippers with shoe buckles, powdered wig and cocked hat. He was six feet tall, 2 and well formed, and he looked every inch a signer of the Declaration at the very least. He was followed by his colored man who carried a large brown paper 1. ‘‘ He's come a-courtin’, missus,” said Glory; “ye oan see it in his face.” I had not the instinet of Glory, and doubted ; but what his errand was I was dying to know. But he disappeared into Miss Lydia's parlor, and I was left outside to temper my impatience as best I could. Present- ly Glory entered on tiptoe. “ Missus, missus,’’ she whispered. “De do's swung open jess de leas’ orack, an’ its jess opposite de big mur- ror, an’ if ye come out here in de hall, ye can see it all in de murror as plain 85 day, an’ it's a. heep better'n a play.” It was a temptation, but believe me, dear reader, I resisted it. Only as Glory ran back to her peeping, I followed to pull her away and send her out of doors —that was simply my duty—and there he was full on she with that rapt seraphic look upon her face which no woman ever wears except on the most vitally interesting occasions. But Glory disposed of, | went back to my sewing and waited as best I could the conclusion of the mo- mentous interview. The major came out at length, as smiling as a May morn- ing, leaving the brown paper parcel be- hind him. It was very still in Miss Lydia's room too, emerged from her retreat. Spread over her hands was a gown of cream- colored brocade embellished with the loveliest roses in full bloom, with blue among them. It had an smple waist, elbow sleeves, and a train a yard and a half long. “My dear Grace,” she said, ‘the major hus brought me his mother's wedding gown to be married in.” “It is beautiful,” I said; ‘‘but who is to be the bridegroom ?” She smi... as angels do, and looked afar; a delicate flutter of pink hung out in her cheek to deprecate her recreancy, as she whispered in a tone of gentle but consummate triumph: “The major himself! Didn't he look grand in his knee breeches |” “ And Mr. Applebloom ?" “Major Hawthorne will adjust that matter.” “ That matter,” indeed! She spoke as though it were already as remote from her as the pyramids. «I congratulate yon, Miss Lydia,” I said, growing formal, for she had be- haved shamefully. “Don’t blame me,” she murmured. “Major Hawthorne declares that he has loved me since I was a child, but never thought himself worthy of me (the gay deceiver!); and Mr. Applebloom, you know, is only the acquaintance of a TY wavied to ask her how she had dis- posed of her presentiment, but did not dare, Major Hawthorne subscribed fifty dollars to the Mioronesian mission and sent Mr. Applebloom elsewhere to look for a wife, and the verdict of Balaam’s Corners was that he had done the hand- some thing. “Fore goodness!” said Glory, ‘‘ef dere weren't a clar’ relation between dem pigs an’ Providence den I don’t know nothin”.” Miss Lydia took the same pious view of the matter, and made the major the most dainty and dignified of wives,— Our Continend, re ———————, Wearing the Hair in Japan, In Japan much may be read from the arrangement of a woman's hair. That of my friend, the teacher, told that she was a widow and never meant to marry again. The age and sex of a baby may be known by the tuft in the back of the neck, or the ring around the crown, or the bunch left in front while all the rest is shaved. A girl of eight or nine has her hair made up into abowon the back and wound round with red crape, while the front is shaved bare and bangs dangle at the sides. A young lady combs her's high in front and arranges it as a butterfly on the back of her head, plumaged with gold or silver cord and gay hairpins of gilt balls, Some very stylish young ladies prefer to have their back hair resemble a half-open fan instead of a butterfly. A married woman must keep the water- fall style, while a widow who is willing to think of matrimony wears her hair tied and twisted around a long shell rpin placed horizontally across the back of the head. But when a widow firmly resolves never to change her name again she cuts off her hair short in her neck and combs it back without This is the new Tl tic toashor, Wore Res, OT FACTS AND COMMENTS, The world's production of precious mntals last year, aocording to the Me $31,000,000 gold, $42 600,000 Mexico and Spanish America, $15,000,000 silver; States, silver; £8,000,000 gold, Russia and Asia, $23, $500,000 silver; Earope, 81,600,000 gold, $10,000,000 silver; Austria and the Paciflo islands, $26,500,000 gold, $500,000 silver, Total, $90,000,000 gold, $51,600,000 silver, or 8171,000,000 in all. QO it takes a Mormon newspaper (the Utah News) to boldly declare that for upward of fifty years the Mormons have testi- fied to the world that the sick are healed in this age, as in former times, through “the prayer of faith,” and it adds that there are thousands of people able to bear testimony to the truth of the statement, and that in all kinds of diseases, also in injuries through aocci- dent or otherwise, the Mormon ordinance of laying on of hands for the sick has proved efficacions. What is called officially “The Wael. come Lodging House” has been opened in New York. It is an idea of the Women's Branch of the City Mission, and itz purpose is to provide shelter for urrive in New York and have nowhere to go. It is intended to afford a home for girls looking for work, The con. ditions are generous. Fach inmate is supplied with a clean comfortable cot bed. In payment for board and lodging each inmate is expected to do two hours’ work a day in cleaning the establish. ment or aiding in the making of sheets aud the like, A French commission of fifty mem. bers, all leading men of France, have the inundation of the Bahara and its conversion into a sea under considera. tion. They have resolved themselves into three committees, one of which is examining the practical diffionlties to meteorological and hygienic oconse- quences of the work, aud the third the political, commercial and maratime re sults to be expected. If the three sub. commissions report favorably, a fourth will be a to decide whether the work should be undertaken by the State or left to private enterprise, and on what terms, * Representation in legislative bodies 1s much smaller in the United States, in proportion tc population, than in any of the leading countries of the world, While the United States, with a population of 50,000,000, bave only 369 ators and members of Congress, Germany with 45,000 000 has 397 dele- gates; England, 34,000,000, 000,000, is represented by 950 senators population, has cortes; and Austro-Hungary with 000,000 people has a legislative body of 1,600 in the two houses, If the United States had a representation in Congress upon the same basis as Austro-Hungury, there would be no less than 2,286 mem- bers of Congress and Senators. The Women's Silk Culture associa- tion of the United States, whose head- uarters are in Philadelphia, continue oir efforts to introduce this new do- mestio industry, and are meeting with encouraging success, They have offered aw Ee $100 to $10, for those who produce the ten largest amounts of cocoons during the present year, and $50 additional in three preminms for the best three pounds raised by colored people. The aim of the association isto create a home market for the sale of small quantities of silk, and persons inter- ested in the project ean secure, on rea. sonable terms, information, books of instruction and the mulberry cuttings and silkworm eggs required for trying the experiment, by addressing the der- to be in the best of hands, and its projectors should receive hearty support from the public. The care of emigrants to this coun- try during their passage across the ocean and upon their arrival has of late attracted general attention. The cruelty and neglect shown to have been practiced toward a number of steerage passengers recently landed in New York proved the necessity of thorough over- of funds brought up anew the old ques- tion of emigrant treatment after they reach our shores. The steamship com- panies finally concluded to pay a tax of fifty cents per passenger which the emigration commissioners demanded, and thus the barbarity of turning the new-comers adrif$, to shift for themselves in a land of strangers, has been averted. Meanwhile the House has passed a bill long pressed, which try, and authorizes the secretary of the treasury to arrange with the State authorities for the temporary support and relief of emigrants. Another bill has both branches of Congress which is designed to secure good quar- ters and treatment for steerage passen- gers at sea; and the two measures, taken together, can ecarcely fail to do much for the comfort of emigrants, Two-Handed Swords. The claymore, once famous in Soot- tish history, was a very long sword, with a hilt so large that it could be grasped by both the hands of the war- rior who wielded it, and when the tre- mendons weapon was swung around by any of the brave “Boots, wha ha’ wi’ Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,” there was every reason for the opposing soldiers to want to get as far away as possible. Long two-handed swords were in nse in various parts of Europe during the middle ages, but it is from Beotland that we have heard the most about them. Some of the German swords, used by the soldiers in the French religious wars, were enormous two-handed weapons, with sharp points, jagged edges, and greab Spikes near the base of the blade; but these heavy swords were used only by soldiers who were uncommonly strong and skillful; for any awkwardness or: the part of a man swinging such a tremendous blade was apt to inflict as mach injury on his companions as on tie enemy. Some of the long swords of the middle ages were used more for show and ceremony than for actual service, The sword of Edward the Third, which is preserved in Westminister Abbey, is seven feet long and weighs eighteen pounds. This, it is said, was carried before the king in processions, and was probably never used in any other way.—S?, Nicholas. The people of Geneva, Switzerland, expend more money for wine than they do for bread, the average amount spent Dy Sach person for article being francs yearly. HEROES | The Fertiiude Displayed by De pong and i His Compantons-Loval to the Last. The diary of Lieutenant De Long, found beside his body, extends from {| Qotober 1 to October 80, 1881. It is { the record of terrible suffering borne in death. | nobler or more pathetic story, De Long and his men died of cold and hunger, They supported life during thirty days by the adoption of except cannibalism, No one seems to have thought of that horrible expedient. At first they had a little dog meat, and they managed to shoot two or three ptar- migans ; then they were rednoed to tea made of willow twigs and to aleohol, At last they gnawed the leather of their boots and bits of deer skin, and then, Yoo weak to continue their march, lay down to die, They were slowly dying of starvation for fully three a ae in this condition had to resist as best they could the terrible cold. Through it all thay never lost their courage. “All hands weak aud feeble, but cheer. ful," wrote De Long, when it must have been partestly clear that nothing but a miracle could save the party from death. There is not a line in the whole diary of i man, It too often happens that discipline inhumanity, if not to actual erime. There is no such stain inthe story of the crow of the Jeannette. De Long seems to have maintained his authority unquestioned to the last, and his men evidently shared his generous spirit, For days they dragged a sick comrade with them lashed to a sled, and never soem to have thought of abandoning him in order to increase their own chances of reaching a settlement. The officers and men never manifested the slightest hesitation between duty and solfishness, They clung together and helped one another loyally while living, and so long as the survivors had their dead given Christian burial. There was ap- parently no difference in the bearing and devotion of De Long, the Ameri- can, Erickson the Dane or Ah Bam the Chinaman, Every man of the little band was a hero, knowing how to do his duty and doing it with unflinching faith- falnoss., In their distress the shipwrecked men turned for helpto Goud. In De Long's diary there is constant mention of religious services, When the faith. ful Alexy was dying the surgeon bap- tized him, and when all hope had gone we are told that “all hands united in saying the Lord's prayer and Creed.” The humble, cheerful trast in God and submission to His will, of which De Long's diary gives constant evidence, heroes that perished in the Siberian Bitterly as we may at first sight re lost, the men of the Jeannetie's crew that beautiful pessage in the prayer book where we thank God for those who have departed this life in His fear, DeLong and his men have made us prouder of our humanity. They have shown us to what sublime heights of heroism educated officers and ignorant seaman can alike attain. They have given an example of calm and cheerful performance of duty which is without price. They have shown us once more that faith in God can survive all suffer- ing. Let us thank God for the life and death of these hercic men. It is im. possible that their heroism can fail to r its priceless and perennial fruit, But let us have no more costly sacri- fioes of life in the vain search for the pole. Itisidle ns well as ungenerous to blame the projectors of the Jeannette expedition for its disastrous failure. The vessel was to follow a route hither. to untried, and there was ample justifi- cation for testing the question whether the pole could be reached by that route. Exploraticn becomes unjustifiable only when it is demonstrated that the end sought cannot be attained in spite of every effort and sacrifice. When the Jeannette sailed it bad not been de- monsirated that the pole could not be reached by steering northward from Wrangell Land. Her experience has now proved that the ice barrier is as impenetrable in that direction as itis wherever else it has been attacked, The chances that the pole can never be reached are now so infinitesimally small that we are not justified in wasting any more lives in polar expeditions. To send out another expedition would show a reckless indifference to human life of which any nation ought to be ashamed. Let usoclose the record of hopeless heroism ard useless suffering in the frozen sea with the story of the noblest of all the Arctio heroes, George W. De Long.~New York Times. WISE WORDS, Happiness is something to hope for and something to love, Every man is occasionally what he ought to be perpetually, Acts, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you spell character. Let no one overload you with favors; you will find it an insufferable burden. Pleasure is the mere accident of our being, and work the most natural and holy necessity. . Idleness is hard work to those who are not used to it and dall work for those who are, More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us. Nature never sends a great man into the world without confiding the secret to another soul, Wit is sometimes like a sword, keen and cruel, sometimes like a sunbeam, bright and genial. . A moment is but a brief and fleeting passage, yot how often are vast interests secured or lost in that circle of time. Instead of complaining of the thorns among the roses, we should be thank- ful there are roses among the thorns, As pure aud fresh country air gives vigor to the system, 80 do pure and fresh thonghts tend to invigorate the mind. Ohoose for your friend him that is wise and good, and secret and just, in- genious and honest, and in those things which have a latitude use your own liberty. He that is proud eats up himself ; ride is his own glass, his own trumpet, Bis own chronicle, and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise. Know the true value of time; snatoh, seire and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastina- tion; never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. ————T A ———— The counties of North Texas, twen-, ty-three in number, will raise 210,000 bales of cotton this year, an increase of ono per oent, over last year, FOR THE LADIES, News and Notes for Women, There ar. three women doctors lp Portland, Me. Queen Victoria bas finished the fo y fourth year of her reign, Of the 1,150 convicts in the Obio penitentiary, bul seventeen are women, There are now employed in the pxb lie schools of Massachusetts 8 801 tewchers, of whom 7,727 are women, | The next annual meeting of the | American Women Suffrage association { will be held in Omaha, Neb, early in | October, | Dr. Mary F. Thomas, of Richmond Ind. read a paper on employing lady physicians in hospitals for insane women, before a conventiqn of regular physicians recently. The Woman's Obristian Temperance union of Des Moines recently purchased two acres of land north of the city and will prepure a home for fallen women in the building now on the property. Mrs. Emma B. Knight canvassed Ina vale precinct, Webster county, Neb, for signers to the petition asking men to vote for the impartial suffrage amendment, and out of thirty women seen in one day tw.nty-nine signed it. Mrs. Ida M. Bittenbender, of Osceola Neb,, president of the Nebraska Woman | Suffrage association, has been admitted to the bar as practicing attorney. The judge, in admitting Mrs. Bittenbender, at the close of the questioning, spoke in the highest terms of the manner in which she bad passed the ordeal, stating it was far above the average. All the attorneys present freely admitted it was the best examination they had ever wit- nessed. At the wedding of Prince Leopold Princess. Beatrice was called upon to sign her name in the register. She gave her bouquet to the Bishop of Lon- don to hold, and then she quite forgot to reclaim the fragrant burden from the right reverend divine. *‘In his di lemma,” says the London World, * the bishop turned to the lord chancellor, | who was standing near him, and baving | consulted the highest legal authority | in England on the subjeci, the bishop | decided to retain possession of the | same," Mra. Mary Beecher is forewoman of | a department containing 200 girls in {the Naugatuck (Conn) Rubber Bhoe | company, with full power in reference | to engaging and discharging help. Al- | though all the other rooms of this large | establishment are in charge of men, | hers is admitted to be the best con- ducted. She apparently does very little watching, having work of her own to { do, such as looking over the shoes be. | fore they are packed, making “‘samples,” | and getting up new designs. But many | » girl who gets behindhand is quietly | helped forward by the deft and tireless | fingers of the forewoman; and thus | helped and encouraged, the large num- ber under her supervision give entire satisfaction. Mrs, Beecher is said to have au interest in the firm, i Fashion Fancles. Prune de monsieur is the name of the new French shade of mauve. Lunar dots are the latest, Terra cotta shades are very fashionable. Japanese costumes are rivaling the Greek dress in the favor of London rosthetes, Fruit blossoms, cherry blooms es- pecially, are exceedingly popular in millinery. White ** Indians” silk is a sheeny material much used for evening dress or young girls, The latest shade for evening wear is called “dawn,” and is a delicate rosy pink, just tinged with gray. Cardinal parasols are decidedly fash- ionable, a freak which will probably prove profitable to the oculist, It is the correct thing to have the whole costume en suite, and fans as well ‘as parasols are shown to match sateen, foulard and brocade dresses. Ruches of silk, pinked out on the edges, or alse cut bias and fringed out, are again in fashion for trimming dress- o They should be very full to look well, A new bow for the garniture of dresses has three colors of ribbon in it such as blue, red and bronze when dark shades are used, while for lighter bows pink tillenl green and sky blue are combined. Light colored grenadine dresses ave again in fashion. Turquoise blue, Nile green and lavender shades are chosen for young ladies. They are trimmed with silk laces, and worn with many natural flowers, The new oolored veils of chenille dotted tulle add a gay touch to the costume, but they require the flowers or feather garniture of the small bon net and are not becoming to the face in warm weather, An elegant dress for a brunette is made of copper-red tulle over faille of the same shade, with a border and . ols of darker red roses olustered to- gether without foliage. Another, also for a brunette, is of yellow satin with a lace overdress and cordons of yellow roses with foliage of dark brown leaves. The design for a pretty fan, for which a prize was awarded to a young Japan- ose aitis’, shows four different views, representing the foliage of the different seasons, Held in one way the fresh green leaves of spring ure seen; another view of this side shows the rosy blush of summer blossoms. On the opposite side are drifting red autumn leaves, while in another view there is seen a lone bird on a bare bough amid the fall- ing snow. Jaunty-looking corsages for young girls are shown, made of tinted satin, to be worn over skirts of white surah, nun’s veiling or French muslin, adorned with embroideries. They are high at the throat, with Marguerite sleeves reaching to the elbow. In front they are open all the way down, but laced together over a chemisette of silk-embroidered tulle, with silken cords the color of the corsage material. For older persons this style is reproduced in fabrics of velvet or moire, “ Biz,” a Commercial Name, “I never was in favor of war,” said an old Arkansawer, “but I notice that some of the world's greatest men are not of my opinion. Now there's old Trademark, He's a great man, and he believes in war,” “Old who ?” asked a bystander, “Old Trademark,” “Who the deuce is Trademark ?” “No wonder they call us ignorant when such fellars as youn show your lack of schoolin’. Didn't you never hear of the great German military man, Trademark ?”’ “I've heard of Bismarck.” “That's a fact, ‘Biz’-mark, I knowed that it was some sort of a commercial name.” Oregon's wool olip last year was 8,000,000 pounds, and this year's yield is expected to bo 1,000,000 pounds . NUMBER 28. RESCUED FROM A MINE, The Stery of a Disaster in the Comstock Lode, The Virginia Oity (Nev.) Enterprise give the following scoount of the res. oue of the miners from the flooded Alta wine: [n the afternoon about 8 o'clock, when the water in the mouth of the drift had been reduced to about three feet, John Van Duzen entered the drift. He had on him an apparatus invented and constructed by Andrew Peasley, of this city. This armor consisted of a mask for the face, from which there was & rubber breathingtube passing into a tin box strapped on the man's back, which box was filled with frag. ments of ice and perforated with holes to allow of air J ning through the unded ioe earing this armor Van yusen struck boldly into the drift, He was gone about half sn hour, when those at the station heard a ory for help. Men went in the direction of the ory, and when out about a hundred feet from the shaft found Van Dasen in an exhausted and fainting conditon. They brought him out and supported him on the case till he reached the surface. Here he became unconscious for a time. The physicisns in sttend- auoe gave him stimulants and in a short time he fully revived. As soon as Van Dusen was able to converse he said that he had found the seventeen otiglugis imprisoned in the drift alive and all right. He said they were in the cooling-off house, about one fire in the early days, the whole conntry was made : The Country Newspaper, The following is from an article n A. BH. Deakins, in the Metuchen (N. J Enquirer : he coun With picks or bars they had broken the pipe carrying compressed sir, and had then so bent it as to oarry the end into the cooling-house. In this house, when they were first imprisoned, they had nearly a barrel of ice-water. When this was exhausted Sey panied into the barrel hot water m the drift. Then they twisted the end of the compressed air pipe down into the water in the barrel and allowed it to exhaust there. This rendered the water nite cool and drinkable. They had light in the cooling houses, but 0 to eat. The great heat ren- dered them weak and feverish. To the sir as cool and fresh as possible men all crowded round the barrel and breathed it as it came up through the water in the vessel. When the men found that there was joe in the box which Van Dusen carried at his back, they pulled the slide which served as a door, and, taking out the lumps of ice, crushed them in their mouths as though they had been so much lamp sugar. At last one of the men warned the others to take no more of the ice, saying that if they did so Van Dusen would be unable to get out of the drift, Mr. Van Dusen told the men he would inform their friends that they were all right, snd assured them that a host of brave men wers outside doing all that could be done BY human beings for their rescue. As joe was fast melting away, Mr, Van Dusen could not remain long with the men; besides, he was anxious to get out and give notice of their being alive and of their situ. ation. It was owing to the consum tion of the ice in the box at his or that Mr. Van Dusen came near losing his life. There being but a few lumps rolling about, much hot air and foul air entered his wrmor, whereas had there been the proper quantity all the air en- tering the mask must have been cooled snd purified by coming in contact with the air fragments among which it q 8 n ‘While the majority were inclined to believe the ascoount of his adven- tures, as given by Mr, Van Dusen, there were not 8 few who thought he had gone out into the foul air, wandered about and become delirious—in fact, that he had seen all the things he de- scribed in a delirious dream. Last evening about 7 o'clock, six men entered the drift, and, at the risk of their lives, pushed their way through to the cooling-hounse. y carried with them some milk punch and some jce. They found the men about as described above ; indeed, the six men were in a worse state when they reached the cooling-station than were 0 the found in it. However, they 3 on reaching the fresh air sent in by the COM Pressor. The men in the cooling-station tried to persuade the new arrivals to stay and take their chances with them, instead of venturing back. This, how ever, they dared not do, as it would have left their friends outside in doubt as to theit fate, and would have caused reat anxiety. The men in the station nformed the Jew-somets Shut in the morning the seen lights SPou: ing far out in the drift, and ed who it was that had been trying to reach them, The lights they saw were doubtless those of William ett and Denis Callahan, as they were trying to make their wey in with the boats. Though the six men had seen the bodies of Bennett and Callahan while on their way in, they thought it best to say noth- ing about their having lost their lives. The imprisoned men then asked if they saw any dead bodies in the drift as fney came in, they wishing to know if all escaped at the time the bulkhead gave way. They were told that all got out but themselves, After resting and recuperating for a time the six men set out on their return trip and got out to the station in a greatly exhausted condition, but joyful that they were able to bring such good news as they were the bearers of. Work was then pushed with great vigor on the air-pipe, and at length a current from e blower was sent through its whole length. This grad- ually foroed out the belt of foul air, and presently it was decided to make an attempt to bring out the bodies of Bennett and Oallahan, This proved a hard task. One of the bodies was in four hundred feet, and the other five hundred feet from the station, A shift of five men was sent in, and they were only able to bring a body out f way when they were forced to leave it and go to the station. Then another shift wae sent in to bring the body the remainder of the way to the station. The men about the mine became so exhausted by about 9 o'clock lust night that they sent up from the mine to Bu- erintendent McKenzie, of the Sierra evada, to send down a fresh force from his mine. Meantime the air had so far improved that the imprisoned men could be visited. By the advice ef the physicians they were given stimn- lants and refreshments, and kept in the cooling-house to get some strength before an attempt was made to bring them out. The men told their visitors that they had at no time been much alarmed for their nltimate safely. They gaid that before the accident hap- pened they had frequer tly talked about what they would do in case of the bulk- head giving way, and had concluded it would be best to- remain in the upper end of the drift and wait for the water to be pumped out, The faces of some of the men are said to be considerably swollen by the beat, and Morris Connor's tongue was swollen so that he could not talk very glibly. They were first brought up to the 1,500 level, and there alowed to n and cool off time, a8 to have at once brought them country brother the case is quite having but few helpers, he gladly welcomes the effusions of rs, To this fact_we we indebted for the publication many a Which first forth its brillince in some out-of-the-way country sheet. The suthor of the gem has been introduced to the reading world, perhaps, as in many instances, another hus been stazted along rough Bagh Lie day the is learning that coun! weld and a do not ive ia nome sity Sieh sitesi, us the country newspaper wide field for the cul int, Kindly spirit sn a wise editor, An Kindly yi that the custodian of man i a a in and requiring a to bring anything out. The power which EB : : ek pe a 2B g. ih { § E iH gpd kl E po uusullied by contact with ring corporate forces. A Cheap Oration, There is yet living in Central gan a lawyer who, sixteen years ago, committee from a small 5 urpose of engaging Fourth of July orati suited his peice, ho anid ered $25 cheap “Mercy on mel” enough. ¢ price as that! regular Henry Cla aT fe vorably an enry “Oh, but we can't stand it—we m have a cheaper one.” “How cheap?” “Not over five dollars, We'll give you five dollars, your dinner, and all the lemonade you oan drink for the cheap- est oration in your head. “I'll do it!” replied the lawyer, and the money was paid him on the spot. He was on band on the foriatis Ba7, and by-and-bye rie. moved the grove, the orator took the stand and was introduced, and without fooling sround he walked to the fron! and said: + Fellow-countrymen : We England twice and Mexico ® apt are a free people. This is the glorious Fourth, Give "em * Hail Columbia’ and go in for a time—the end.” He had given them a $5 oration, and every soul in the crowd one old woman was perfectly Bhe followed the orator around until she had cornered him, and then ex her disgust by saying: a Ans huh if you had really desired to please the crowd you woaldn’t have chopped that off without a single word abont Noah's ark or the battle of Bunker Hill I"— Free Press. Young Love’s Dream. They are young married people and bave aes to housekeeping, and the neighbors who assemble at their front windows to witness the harrowing sight of their pasting for the day declare | the following : a verbatim account of their conversation : “« Good-bye, Charley, now be careful the street-cars don't run off the track with you and—kiss me, Plistler «these was something I wanted to let me see. Was it hair-pins? got them—w-h-a-t could it have been ?” “I'm due at the office, pet,” says Charley, bracing up and looking very handsome asd manly; “was it some- thing to eat «Why, of course it was; there isn't a bit of mashed potatoes in the house, nor a mouthful of bread and butter. We want & half yard of beefsteak—see and have it cut bias #0 it will be tender —and a loaf of sweet bread, Oharhe, and a strawberry shortcake, dear, snd —and anything else you think of, dear. « But, my little wife,” says Charlie, looking very wise, * these ronst all be made before we can eat « Must they? oh, dear, and I never learned to do fancy work! I never crocheted a bisout fit to eat, and I couldn’t paint a tomato to save my life. Oh, Charlie, go to the e made stores, do, there's a darling!" Ho 0 ets wal siren meal of lo baker's rusk and lemonade, but Charlie has written to his mother to come - » g i ® 1! 3 ; £ 5 i i EE i : 8 } E FE f i | i ! iit : by E : 4 oT gt it FEERIAf IgE Ll i 5 % g 3 ; i : & iH Bir, i It i g Peter Helm’s Gratitude. ago He bad killed a popular client is Fp to ran
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