he = THREE SONNETS ON LIFE. I. BY LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON, Fair life, thou dear companion of my days— Life with the rose-red lips and shining oy os— Paradise And stand 'st beside me still, in these dull ways My older feet must tread, the angled maze Where cares beset me and fresh foes sur prise; On the keen wind and from the skios Is borne a whisper, which Mays, That thou and 1 long, Wilt thou not stay with me, inconstant Love? Nay, then, the ery upon the strong I must without thee prove; And yet it may be 1 but do thes wrong And 1 shall find thee waiting where | rove, far-off my heart dis must part. Beloved so wind grows fresh adventure 11. BY PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Prisoner I was within a noble hall, Ringed round with many graeious images, And through it floated strains which might appease The soul's sore thirst for music. wall Fair pictures hung, to hold thrall High mountains, clothed maculate peace, A light of water between wavering trees, Wild seas, wherefrom drowned mariners goemed to call; A table stood there, heaped with fruit and wine, But lo! the fruit turned ashes at my gaze And to my taste the gold juice seemed li} brine. Here must one for strife, Loathing the impo place: Then these words shivered past me is Life." On each the eve in cold, im in ne die, then, with beauty 111 HERBEKT E pain CLARK being BY ETAVE NEArs Folly and noise fi Till, as we are born die And over us God's domeo Ww here sur powers Sweepson, enterally, through siler or — Recent Legal Decisions. CORPORATIONS PRODUCING BOOKS IN COURT.—In persons the Presid corporat a8 witnesses to pre and papers of the They refused to bring mn were court. and company In the : ' DOOKS papers on the ground that where eorporation is not a power to issue such a subpena. In ease The Contin Railway and Trust Company United States ( New York, Judge Wallace in a motion to compel the production « the books and papers, said : ** This pro- ceeding is opposed upon the authority of several cases in the New York which deny the right of a party to com- pel the officers of a corporation to pro- duce its books in evidence in a which it isnot a party. Notwithstand- ing these decisions, however, it lieved to 1 ave been the common prac- tice in this State to subpeena officers as witnesses to produce the books of their corporations in action between third persons. In other States, so far as is known, the right to do s0 has never been controverted. Why should not the officers of a corporation be required to produce its books as evidence ? The eorporation can act only through its officers. The suggestion that the books are in the legal custody of the corporn- tion, and not of its officers, may be theoretically correct. If technically true, it is not an objection to compelling the officers to produce them, for as Lord Ellenborough said, in Annry va. Long, 1 Copt., 17. *' Although a paper should be in the legal custody of one man, yet if a subpoena as a witness Lo produce it served on another who has the mesns to produce it, he is bound to do so,’ CONSTRUCTIVE LARCENY Bair. MENT — INTENTION TO STEAL. -- A handed to B, from whom he had made # purchase, a $20 gold piece, from which he was to take the price. B could not make the change, and gave the coin to C to go out for smaller money. C took the piece, but never returned, and he was indicted and convicted of larceny. The case Murphy vs. The People was carried by the defendant to the Supreme Court of Illinois, by which the conviction was affirmed. Judge Schol- field, in the opinion, said: “If the owner of the goods alleged to have been stolen parts with both the possession and the title to the goods to the alleged thief, then neither the taking nor the conversion is felonious, It can but amount to a fraud, It is obtaining goods by false pretences, If, however, the owner parts with the possession voluntarily, but does not part with the title, expecting and intending that the same thing shall he retuinei to him, or that it shall be disposed of on his secount or in a [particular way, as directed or agreed upon, for his benefit, - bar +3 pariy { - Wertheimer vs, D. grant rcuit Court, S. Courts cause to is be. is then the goods may be feloniously con- and make the taking and conversion a larceny. The pointed inquiry in such a case must always arise : Did the owner part with the title to the things, and was the legal title vested in the prisoner 7°’ SALE—BREACH OF CONTRACT Proor-—-RecovERY oF Moxey PAID, —A sold te B a quantity of corn, and B claiming that A failed to deliver all the grain, sued to recover an advance he had made breach of the contract. on it and damages for the A denied that he had broken his contract and counter- him and B's refusal to take the balance of the grain, Judgment rendered for A. On the trial the only witnesses were A and claimed for the balance due for the damages he suffered from Wiis B themselves, so that there was no pre- ponderance of he part of B, the plaintiff. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court of affirmed the judgment. evidence on { lowa, which Adams, “Unless the plain- Judge in the opinion, said : tiff has proven his case by a preponder- ance of evidence the appellate Court cannot give him a new trial, and a ven- dee cannot break a contract and recover from the vendor what he has paid on it unless he proves by s witness that the vendor is in fault.” PROMISSORY NOTE 0} AND WIFE—INBOLVENCY CHARGE Wire, their Hi AND BAND Dis- OF HUSBAND LIABILITY A husband Promissory OF and wife he Xr. notes toget the husband was subseqi ira #2 IN Insoivent brought on the pleaded the disch: pleaded with her charge also no possible of her laws shoul Her trustee, IAKES hel he oblig 3 48 Lie hat » bankruptcy the mes replied put ints atute had been suspend not proved his debt Court dee » v8, Er + our icial « which the judgment was affirme Chief Justice Morton, in the opinion, **The bankrupt United States des not prohibi tor debt has not from bringing an action against bankrupt; it only prevents him from prosecuting his suit to final judgment until the bankrupt has had an oppor- tunity to obtain his discharge, said : law of the w hese been proved the IxsoLveNT Lire Insurance CoM- PANY—LLAIM OF AGENT OX FUND, «= A general agent of a life insurance com- pany which had become insolvent and been placed in the hands of a Receiver, claimed that he should be allowed dam- ages out of the fund in the Receiver's hands the breach of with him by the company. for the contract The trial Court decided against him, and he car- ried the case—the Globe Mutual Life Insurance Company—to the Court of Appeals of New York, by which the judgment affirmed, Judge Finch, in the opinion, “There was no breach of the contract between the agent and the company by either of the parties; it was being fully performed on both sides until the in- junctien was issued forbidding the company or its agents from in any way or manner conducting ox interfering with the affairs of the company. This injunction paralyzed the action of both the contracting parties. Before the agent can recover he must show that he had fully per- formed, or was ready to perform, the services for which he claims he should be paid; but, in the face of the injunc- tion, even an attempt to perform these services would be a criminal contempt of the injunction. Therefore, he cannot show any ground for his demand.’ oS -—— i ei The new town of Naples, in Idaho, on the Oregon Short Line Railroad, main. tains a jail which is at once cheap and secure. It is nothing more nor less than a deep hole in the ground, into which. prisoners are dropped with the People vs, Was said ; grim warnin + that the guards will put Religious, A greedy man God hates, The wrongs we inflict upon others follow us like our shadow, Have the courage to speak your mind when it is necessary to do so, and hold your tongue when it is prudent that you should do so, The work which God has given me to do is to amend whatever is amiss in my natural disposition—that is what he would have me do; correct my faults, sanctify my thoughts and desires, be- patient, lowly of heart, How many times we are Impatient with our friends when they do not do come more more meek and as we think they should. If we knew the circumstances surrounding them, the difficulties they have come, our pity, instead of lm- would, no doubt, be excited, to over- Ol patience, We judge harshly because we do not know the facts. When will learn to be patient and charitable, we at to be real least until we have just reason otherwise, . AT NIGHT.— Here eray’'s pleasantest touches: ** It is night ard here } Gathered under the roof, children alike at rest. In the OOK is one of Thack- now : is 10me, elders and midst of a great out peopled with fot 11% 103 5 si} upon it. Uncre Esex’'s Wispus, forgiveness, If you suspect a man wrungtully you 1 to defraud vou, Bimy i i Ox Yet ¢ g elon | a i + SOT% is the dream of a wise man makes his own Wea baggage y nu f une, in this world is just so {to be taken care of, but a eul- tivated brain which all cheerfully, SCATCE, Impossibilities seen more than half a dozen nas not them since the creation. a8 consists in particular rule all that cu 4 to make him ir Too greal economy avarice in old age. were obliged only changed because they to, Experience has a very poor memory, and true charity none at all A fair compensation for henest vice is the best present you can make a man, and the best gift he can receive, ser- Doing nothing is the most slavish toil ever imposed on any one. True eloquence is the power of com- pletely impressing others with our ideas, The charities which a man dispenses after his death look suspicious, Adversity links men together, while prosperity is apt {o scatter them, Some men seem to have a salve the woes of others, but none for their Own. Extreme gravity is oftener the result of stupidity than of wisdom. Serib- ner's Monthly, for - Clips. The export trade in furniture is con- fined chiefly to medium grades, which are sent to Africa, China, the Sand- wich Islands and to South America. The little canary seed, which we feed to our birds only, is used by the natives domestic food. It contains a large por- portion of nutritious farina. In Florida the strong fibre of the leaves of a species of cactus is turned into rope, its juice into a pleasant bev. erage, and its trunk, after the removal of the pith, into pails, French silk merchants are thinking about acclimatizing a species of spider which has been discovered on the Af- rican coast. This spider makes a thread very like yellow silk and almost as strong. One of the industries of Australia is the cooking and eanning rabbits, which are so plentiful in some districts that whole crops are sometimes destroyed by them, One firm during the last season which lasted twenty-five weeks, canned 675,000 of the animals, According to the London Court Jour nal the institution of bronze earrings, with ‘““Merit’’ engraved on them, is said to be contemplated by the authorities, These orps ments are to be given to fe- male nurses who have distinguished War. Girls as well as boys need to under stand A greal many fatal accidents happen from trying to pour a little kerosene on the fire to make it kindle pouring oil into a lamp while it is light- ed, Most persons suppose that it is the kerosene itself that explodes, and that if they are very careful to keep the oil itself from being touched by the fi about kerosene explosions, better ; also by re or the light there will be no danger. jut this is not so. If a can or a lamp is left about half full of kefosene oil the will dry up- ‘evaporate V'—a little and will oil that is, form, by mingling with the air in the upper part a very explosive You cannot this gas any more But if it is gas, BEG than you can see air. dis- turbed and driven out, and a blaze reaches it, there will be a terrible ex- plosion, although the blaze did not touch the oil. There are several other liquids | used in houses and workshops which will produce an explosive vapor in this way. Benzine is one ; burning fluid is alcohol, ether, the another; and naphtha, and chloroform, do thing. t} In a New York workshop lately there may % a4 can of benzine, or gasoline, stand- sixteen years i 4 cigarette, brn iro +} n {1} 1 burning match on the flo He did no Call. danger becaus IR Cale Of Le Ol There is n¢ safely except Never pour oil on a lighted fire a lighted lamp. — Christian ———— tle Elifin's Plea. A Reminiscence of the Last Days of Parepa Rosa. Lit The season of Satiated with praise, Parepa Rosa drew her fur wrzp around her shoulders, and stepping from the private entrance of the Grand,’ was about to enter her carriage when ‘‘“* Please, mi in low pleading accents, arrested her atten- tion. It was only the shrunken, mis- shapen form of little Elfin, the Italian street singer, with his old violin under his arm ; but the face upturned in the gaslight, though pale and pinched, was as delicately cut as a cameo, while eager and wistful light in the great brilliant eyes, the quiver of entreaty in the soft Italian voice held her for a mo- ment against save her the annoyance of hearing a beg- gar’s plea, “Well I" said the great singer, half impatient,” yet full of pity. “Would mi ladi please,’’ in sweet broken English, and the slender brown hands of the dwarf held up the fragrant white lily, with a crystal drop in its golden heart. “Deo you mean this lovely flower for me?’ A passionate gesture was her answer, Taking the flower, Parepa Rosa bent her stately head, *“You heard me ging ?*’ “Mi ladi, IT hid under the stair "Twas yesterday I heard the voice. Oh, mi ladi, mi ladi, I could die!" The words came brokenly from quivering lips, passionately in earnest. The loud voice of the world she had just left had never shown Parapa Rosa the power of her grand voice as she saw it now in these soft, dark eyes in a flame and in the sobbing, broken words, ** Mi ladi, oh | mi ladi—I could die,” “Child,” and her voice trembled, ‘meet me here to-morrow at 5," and holding the lily caressingly to her cheek, she stepped into her carriage, and was driven away. It was Parepa Rosa's lastnight, Ina music was closing. adi,” box near the stage sat little Elin, like ane entranced. Grandly the clear voice amid the arches with unearthly power and sweetness, The slight frame of the boy swayed and shook and a look #0 wrapt, so intense, came on his face, you knew his very The curtain rolled up for the last time, and heart stilled, was as simply as possible the told of last and announced that Parepa Hosa’s fare- well to them would be the lad through the | Italian manager the audience night's incident, imple bal a bitter day little Elfin, warbled many city streets by musician, mnged was Long and prol the applause, and at the first pause, sweeping in Of fragrant her royal grace, At At Queen, too, by right Came our the of omanhood, as well a queen her breast was beautiful by the power of her sublime voice, She stood unstained w a moment, then sang clearly and tle ballad, with well, Sweet La her came the Elfin’s violin great house went up that s A whisper being heard th: 4 meant to educate the bov musically generous hearts of a few had v 1071 Healthy Homes, tobert E., London, has given the following rules for secur- ing healthy hous Rawlinson, C, #, in his ‘Letters and Papers on Sanitary Questions,” The naturally dry, or it subsoil beneath a house should be dry should be made by land draining, The ground house should s and, street, . , or road outsid and the toward Middens, the SOAK ment T he } should hax nd there alla Lier ling-houses asphalted gravelled, be in good i 1 A success, and rs are at work making estimates « constructing a shelter f ships at Matamoras Iw five deaf There said to y or twenty are AS ANY as mutes in the quite a large proportion, and less than 3000, They are well versed in the sign language. Ex-Governor Stanford possess the largest vineyard owned by the world, an individual anvwhere in The vineyard at Vina, Cal., embraces 3500 acres all in thriving The blight | Ceylon and the Fiji where the loss is already so serious that Vien, from Brazil, coffee has spread Islands to the Minister of Agriculture is making | every effort to discover a means of stop- ping it. The United States | caster, flagship of the European squad- { ron, the command of which; has transferred by Rear Admiral J. W, A. Nicholson, who retired, has sailed and steamed 21,000 miles since leaving New York in October, 188], steam frigate Lan- been is to be Queen Corola of Saxony has beaauti- ful face and engaging manners. She is fond of English literature, and reads stories of American life and customs to her children. ‘‘She is to-day,’ says the London Queen, ‘‘one of the three perfect sovereigns in Europe,” Steps are about to be taken by the people of New Castle to commemorate, in some fitting way, the services to the town, direct and indirect, rendered by Sir William Armstrong. He has been a large contributor to the funds of various religious and educational so- cieties, while his gifts of parks and pleasure grounds bring up his dona- tions to between £500,000 and £750,000 within the past 20 years, During the last thirty years the Cali fornia quicksilver mines have produced 100,222,267 pounds, of which 67, 307,800 pounds were exported. California pro- duces one-half of all the quicksilver in use threnghout the world, The Roths- ehildscontrol the Australian and Spanish mines, and shrouded d dirty clothes which are a¥uzd vl «} PE LA JAI YUS . i never These ar ints of « ire “$3 - onstruction to be attended to which I will name, so a8 to record for the remembrance time or put them or of those who may, al some other. build cottages or small houses, or be in communication with those who do build. or are going to do so. over the of es will vastly modify otherwise indeed, a bed A bed of concrete ite cotiag ¢ i 1 3 ¥ objectional positions | but, of concrete should be used in all cases To ventilate stairs and passages, the stair window, both, by several open ase or passage Oj rawing down the top sash inch 11 sunner, one or more inches in winter, and in some cases rerew thessash fast, so that these win- dows must be open all the year round 3 there stair- case, let there be ventilation here whiel be Pay 1 casual remark, “How Let the ladies But the remark is a skylight above the cannot be closed. The result will improved health to the family. attention to any cold your staircase is!” put on an extra shawl, will seldom be made, Schools, as a rule, are very defectively ventilated, Ordinary flat-ceilinged rooms are totally unfit for public schools, The space should be open to the roof- ridge, and this should be louvered. Nurseries and children’s rooms shoud be permanently ventilated. Dormito- ries for children should have ample ven- tilation ; clothe the children warmly, cover the beds warmly, prevent direct draughts, and the cool air will not in jure, Avoid flue ventilation of every sort : let the fresh air come in as direct as possible, Night air is the only air you can have at night, so do not fear ib. Dread foul, because tainted, air manu- factured within the rooms. Any out. side fresh air is better than lung and skin tainted inside air. Do not build on heaps of rubbish, fl. lings in with cesspool rafuse, chemical waste, or on swampy ground which cans not be drained. Thousands of houses have been so placed, and are now being s0 placed in the suburbs of eur towns,
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