Zaandam Windmills. Zaandam is rather an boportant place. Ships and boats are built there, many win lmills thresh the alr with their white arms grind every sort of thing that can be ground, and waen they don’t do that they and pump water, fearfaliv rich: at every jaunty came to guide stopped press on us some notion of its owner's wealth. A! these rich people are windmillers.'® He could speak tolera- ble English so we were spared the wild when expressive of auld uw wood villa we 4 ol Us 10 in- pantomime whieh, four hundred considerable room We were ferried over the watery avenue which to the thoroughfare of the town, the mills, sure enough, miles of them some four, I think-—-on each side of the windmills, takes some in a village street, he SECIS really eye could reach, It looked like a lesson the exact If from imperspective to try for ishing point. siie: to milly side, come to Zaandam, and be surfeited for- any H«l'and its wind- see ever after, all seem to be thriv- ing and flourishing, windmilly town does fl a flourishing point They too: and lourish, view) a thing to lack of to remember. It seems fulness, if one cares for it. an active ten perament it is highly stimulating, It is ol not the in Ince meoney or absent-minded person, there wind-sail, less The iety ed by the merry nn on is somewh it alert. seems to be an unfatl omable vax of indiv taste orati were wash then in the matt I'hey or is nearly bid ht of every known | None of tones here 1 some of hese all as paint HE the esthetic faded-leal : 3 either, but good, riotous, roar nz reds, oreens and blues seemed to sit at onee on anv of “broken tints’ ‘or melting combina- tions.’ Somehow they seemed to get the right tone under t! blue haze that hangs so often over the lan in Holland. their little down to the scape ¢ gardens running flower river’ 5 edge, : summer-house overhanging the water with its inevitable little motto sive of the owners's sweet content, “Lust in Rust,” looks like bud and It only means rustie Van Dunk and fi the ev pin: t wir the fiog=, which at first sight improper shades smoking ena, beverages ——— A Shakinz Mountain About three months miners Monte Amaro, tle Bitter mountain in north m Chili. Near ¢ top of mountain they found i whieh they had heard marvel —the E ¢ 0 the Gold, poetic appomt ing had descend, so the fire ago 4 nuinoer rom San Francisco explored El na Ine Was examine tis fin Even- crept on and it was Calif rn sogv lk a4 TOCK ans light. d a Mien near the summit ht, A wind was blowing from t there to pass the nig fun f Atamaca, sudden wind dropped ; an unnatural calm and silence followed, desert of iy the mur as from a distant, people. swelling to a grinding, crushing sound. A slight shiver ran the solid mountain, more positive, rocking The men got upon their feet as quickly possible, but in another moment were shaken down, One of pectors says that the mountain seemed about to sink beneath them, A horrid roar prevaded all space, and Monte Amargo bellowed like the wind-stirred surface of the ocean. The men seized w th dreadful navsea snd indes- eribable feeling of despair, T.e fright- ful phenomenon lasted less than a haf minute, and when it was over earth and sky were as peaceful as ever. They had experienced **A trembler,”” said to be worse on the Bitter mountain than t any other known place, angry suceeded motion. as all the pros. were Ccmgiliments, “If 1 owned that land of vours,’' sug- gested a florid gentleman bubbling over with good advice, “I'd cut it up in building Jota, sell ‘em and make enough to live easy the rest of my life.” *‘And if I was sure you had as much faculty to manage your own business as you have faculty to give advice to others, I would lend you that $1,500 you asked for yesterday.” And the train rolled on and the florid gentleman changed his Boat rd Comets and the Chinese. The appearance within the last two years of two corets, says Nature, has becn regarded as a most menacing por- tent by Cuinese politicians, Their re. semblance to flaming swords is consid). er.d as emblematical of vengeance ol Heaven on an unworthy nation, The Rivals It was young Count Linden’s twenty- first birthday, and a grand fancy-ball was being given in his honor at his father’s country-house in Schloss Mar- burg, in Westphalia. Among the cava- liers, every one noticed Conrad von Rosenhain, a handsome young fellow of two-and-twenty, straight and lithe, who in his costume borrowed from the court of Louis XV, attracted the brightest eyes in the room, The fourth quadrille was under way, and Conrad with, a pretty little Alsatian was trying his wit of all young came mid- tapped him in a sepul- to the amusement who overheard, But to the presently a sudden chilling shock ; way in the dance some one the shoulder on and said, “Make yourself scarce as s00n as pos- have a long rip in the back tes you of your stoc King ! The horror of that moment was over- he, the hero of the ball, changed to an one were rude flimsy Von to laugh ! products of all Raging at the looms, the Soe one modern Rosenhain dashed through It was al that the tll-room restrained thei did. They probably laughing at him now, confound them! A told him that restore order to his toilet, rent, and he wondered people merri- 11 ment as well as they were man in livery a long corridor pushing ertain door would find one of the would take Ky imly-lighted apartment } is is alldrawn Was no velvet **I have mi HInse) and the girl girl, up frightened. Pray do not be 4! advancing, “I was sent in search mend a rent in mended i and rose feet. offe Ling, scarcely touching Conrad's arm rexd i assistance, “I am much obliged to Very vou." Young man, in earnest tones, “and 1-0 “Oh, trifle ! such a have done as go back to the with whom you mind thanks for wot ld never Any Now tian one much, little You mas peasant Von Rosenhain seemed in no hurry tO go, “So you have seen me before my an pearance here this evening ? Surely [ see you for the first tine now ? he said, wonderingly, “Yes, | was among the lookers-on in the gallery, near the musicians, and 1 watched you particularly during the hour that I was allowed to stay, My aunt declares that I am too young to appear at the ball as a guest—do you not think it a shame ? 1 shall be six- teen next birthday, and I love dance ing 1”? *It is an unpardonable shame I" ex- claimed Conrad excitedly, as he looked into her plain ive, violet eyes, dewy with tears, “‘I will go and beg your aunt to let you come, Describe her to me and I will search till 1 find her,” “Pray do nothing of the kind, Herr von Rosenhain,” sald the girl, laying ber pretty hand on Conrad’s sleeve ; ‘it is kind of you--very kind--to interest yourself in me ; but it is toe late now,” “IF must do as you wish, of course," returned Conrad reluctantly. ‘‘How- ever, it flatters me that you cared to discover my name,”’ “You would like to know mine, I suppose,’ she said with a saucy smile § but I am not going to tell it to you, Call me Penelope, or one of the Fates, or any one who sits working Lusi y while others are amusing themselves, romance about me. Now leave me, beg of you, 1 hope you will enjoy the remainder of the ball, and I am very glad I have been of service to you.” “1 thank you heartily,’ said Conrad, pressing oue of her soft white hands gallantly to his lips. Upon his return to the ball-room the festivity seemed to have lost all its charm for Conrad von Rosenhain ; the guests’ voices were noisy and discordant compared with the low, girlish tones to there was not a face in all the throng that did not pale before the delicate loveliness of the one he had seen bend- ing over the heap of colored silks in the little boudoir, The next day Schloss Marburg ; dark the news spread for like Wis a one striken down with a violent fever, and frightened disperse with all possible haste. guests were begged to Yon Rosenhain was obliged to take his de- with the others, much though he yearned to find out who his benefac- of childisl and lovely pink-tintad face dreaming ever fLress was, whose I Violet eyes he would had been since. It have been heartless to pursue his investiga- he could stricken and stay and be a burden upon the time, not house, A few weeks later ( hain, youth, onrad von Rosen- brave the the together with many anothes was called upon to assist in his fatherland against de fea 108 of French, and in the excitement of army Yrysd i unknown who had so facinated him. In an engagement Lirehfelt 1. ounded in the ent, enough t ‘N aver ¥4 the little declared Conrad, retain ng hand so frankly Hi “How odd t { ii by ¢ +3 ¥ $ i s £F {Hal we shoud mel again, quite ance! But you do not myself I am here know me. [1 must introduce because | am vour hostess, and 1 now, Daphne von Remsthal, live with my father.” vea0 al of the fair unknown who helped me oul of my last I know the name very unpleasant predicament at Count Marburg’s ball ! have asked myself in vain thousands It isa (question that 1 of times since,’ It is astonishing how much these two who had met before but once found to say to each in the old garden, and the summons to luncheon came all too soon. From this day on the invalid soldier found nothing so ben- efic.al for his health as a stroll in the shrubbery, even when the weather ecmed to others unpropitious: and Praphne, a8 hostess, could not but chat with her guest when they met, The two were sitting one day near an old moss-grown sun dial at the end of the garden walk, and pretty tableau they matle-—she with a bright color in her cheeks, ber light curly hair tossed about her forehead, and ber eyes like diamonds, and he with enough pal- lor-—the result of his illness—~to lend a new interest to his face, and his fine figure set off by his uniform. Daphne bad gathered a tiny bunch of winter violets, and was showing her treasures to Conrad, who bent his head over hers to see them, when both were startled by a volee saying, in not the gestiest of tones ; “Lieut, von Rosenhain, you are very imprudent to sit in this damp garde while you are still an fnvalid, Daphne, you will accompany me tothe house, as Fraulin Lindes, your governess, seen to have deserted you, '' Daphne arose with a frightened look never other A very y ruthlessly broken tete with Conrad, The next day Lieut. von Rosenhain took his stroll in the garden alone, Towards evening he was requested to honor Faron von Remsthal with a visit in his study, The baron received the young man with elaborate politeness, and proceeded to tell him that a sum- mons had come for him to rejoin his regiment ; he would regret losing so agreeable a guest from his house, but it could not be helped, “By. man, in upon her tete-a- the-way,”’ continued the old to be betrothed mine, to a distant cousin of Hugo von Pleyel, a man consid- erably her senior, but of excellent char- acter, and possessed of 4 handsome for- tune, It is an unspeakable relief to me to know that my cure, But either new ! alas dreams of with for the fond He, a no other property in the world than his i young officer, horse and sword, could ill offer himself rich Baron von Remsthals were on How the er who was to the when the Von verge of bankruptey. this as rival to Pleyel the Young hated man strang bear off the pm he so Ast “ I ol summer-honse yearned for! girogie past a half-ro from the avenue, sobbing reached another moment he stood clasping both Daphne’ nitol and looking dowd } eyes with a world of his own ‘Am building is, the aban ily, Ri 1 of books. ‘The plas i eYeryil ban piunder il. As do 3 | of books ou the dying flames, not bad arimful the dea i “ Bring and soon the campfire burned merrd hore fod DY SC01v8 Of pric © eas old volumes, “A pity—a great pity ; bint our men ivi g wrap- near Von Rosenbain., piercing dark eyes, but his as ans free te FA da Ta. his cloak, curiously CEN Iw a He had aud a mustache nearly white; figure ithe youth's, . Yon Rosenhain watched him narrow. and wondered that Le had not seen Wis and active ly, him before, Presently Conrad leaned forward, and with his saber idly raked a vellum-bound book towards him out of the burning pie. It was a velume of Dante's Inemo with the date 1530, Un the fiy-leaf were these faded fnk—**Duphne, de Louis, “ Daphne,” said Conrad, half to him- self-—**an unusual mame, aud a very pretty one too.” “1 am glad you like it," observed the dark-eyed stranger at his side; “it is the name of the girl who is to be my wife,’ Conrvad looked at the man in silence, The idea took sudden possession of him that his hated rival was before him: but he could not bear to hear the truth from the man’s own lips, On the first opportunity that offered, asked one of the men who the tall officer was with the eagle eyes and gray mustache, “That is Col. Hugo von Pleyel,” » a8 the reply, The next night it was necessary to send an important message to a certa point three miles distant, The way lay through the village, and was da geous as many French soldiers were skuiking about. Conrad Vin Rosénhain was ittie sou ani enough it fell to the lot Pleyel to accompany him, At dark the two men set forth on their dangerous errand, the elder know- ing little of the hate for him in the younger one’s breast. On the way they spoke Httle, and followed other in the darkness us well as they could, Passing through a narrow gate- at the end tosenhain’s of Col. vou Wily Von struck on the ground, “Who goes there 7 volee in French, report of “Foolish of the village street, sword slipped and called a grufl followed by the ve1, fellow to waste in the dark 1”? said a mus} his bullet aiming (Conrad himself, Outside the village the danger was over, and Von Rosenhain having wan- dered out of hear ing of pis companion, hurried on alone, x 0 on delivered his ms the The Col. RATE, camp, for next inquiring vou stonish Won. level, Conrad heard to his a ment that he had not returned, dering, he set out again over the that they had traversed together on the We were wondering at you » was about to BAY, on his stone-dead brain, Von Rosenhain remembered A Waather Item. vost 144 bef re Lie] COTS #3 id mb, sad thourhits of atmosphere that 4 4 his last the mel byt * suns Chas became rift the voung HO Li HY IAs woom'T man, who has while Wiis i i Lae OCs BL Boose, who is more {i umn of the wake of fleeting time gravestrewn field of ew upon the poscibilitios of fortune or in maiden, own in the ¢ sols marching in FOOLY, Isiiinies vitatious wo events, beautiful snow cinotions and thoughts too bie to as the above, the approaching social the presence of th rise hosts of conflicting and out of nnumera- be stacked mto so sami] a spa -— How a Danish Judge Checked Perjury. A Danish eolonial magistrate, for whose exceptional character and ability we ean vouch, once made a grimly comic experiment in this direction, and upen this principle. He was appalied by the endless perjuries committed in cases before him, determined to stop them, and did. He, of course; said nothing of his method, but an English friend seated beside him on the bench noticed that whenever a witness told a palpable lie he jumped, He asked the reason, and the magistrate, after a can. tion, revealed his secret. “My orderly s auds behind the witness, and when ever IL put my left hand to wy ear that indicates that the evidence is false and he runs a pin into him, [It is a well- known fact to the many who will recog. nize this story that the sting of eon- science in this material form proved effectual, and that the magistrate who died honored throughout Denmark in three years turned Alsatia into one of the most orderly and law-abiding of cammunites, He could always get the The Fair Sex. —— The richest treasure a man ever gets in this world is 4 good wife, The poor- est investment hie ever mukes is a poor no matter how much money she Marriage is a transaction which sliould be removed as far as possible value of either party. The happiest hones everywhere have ihe onied after marriage. that Nothing is a good wife in the 4 money-earner as is who toils with hand or JOuUNg “Marry for love and riches,” It oid but will earnings than the husband brain, hie best otio for every woinan is, for may be an ides, of hones few y 5H. has itted vole The preju- Women to the front. Oregon 8 to be suban ng all offices in thal State, woilnen to 0) 44 for people, allow against women occupying offices oe This is especially with Wilh years roll by. educa. iggi- He in connection Women are now ek mal matters, officers i MIs, Towa, inia. Massachusetts, Michi- New York Peo Wyoming, and to any Slate law il HIIECROLA, 155 i- Vermont Wi aent, In 5 i # 4 Lu except that of Mississ CONSE ppt Lhe that at least man shall a member of the State board of edu- cation. But conservative England is cyigl Aldi WoInen voted COUnLYy, Lave always , Once a favorite dan- Berlin, Ore rman The dancers, Ital aid ok i's toes.’ i, 15 she hears asd NANO Piavel OVER hier HOZeDs Of 8 go ire sO play 4 VO w like - Remarkable Freservaticns., Was Tied hat of Th found in such perfect preservation that it xhiliged for tl pace of eight in the bowl eX raced from the vault o hie: B was was montis act mrbons was tl y irs . and it wus exe hited during which » face, Un the of Louis XIII, Medicis, Anne Therese and Louis Louis XIV... were The bx dy of Louis Xin preservaiion: that of ofthed «pat tla k. The und Isai]. of Ba- Lontained nothing but dry boues, The towb of Dagobert was In light. Ti « Lexy of this King and his queen Nathiide Ly together enveloped in silk. The king's bead was severed from the Lody ; the head of the queen was missing. The customs of the people, in Dagobert’s time must have made it a sather stir thing Ww be a king. take I "Wsls Welle he bodies iH Marie de Austria, Marie Prauphin, son of in good iis X1V, Vila, is consort Ope Led fuel ring i -— The Prattier’ 8 Conquest. One of our daisies, little Hattie R—, is a precocious child, and remembers all she hears. She had been listening to the schoolgirl talk of her older sister and some of her young friends, and treasured up in ber own mind some of their expressions. Last Sunday she went to church for the first tine, and on her return her father asked her what she did. “I got tired,” she answered promptly. “And what did you de then #** “Oh, I mashed the minister 1 replied the infant with perfect gravity. ~Jt is bad policy to wash harmess with soap, as the potash injures the leather. If the harness becomes rusty rub off the dirt as well as possible with a soft brush and supply a dressing of grain black, followed with oil or tallow, which will fasten the collar and make the leather Wabi, Wille workmen wore v diaing wid near Scranton last week they found thousands of living potate buys fifteen
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