k= THEY ARE FALLING, —— BY A ASHMUN KELLY. They are falling round us, as sternly day y day Death the tyrant calls some loved ones AWAY. The A and the young, the loved and the best, : All silently together are entering into rest. To-day they are with us, to-morrow they are gone, : : Leaving us to travel our il grimage alone; ‘We scarcely brush away thelately fallen tear, Ere we are called to mourn angther bier, teside They are falling round us, like summer's atest bloom, That sheds abread with lavish hand its delicate perfume ‘When sudden hoar-frosts come, with sure and deadly power, And turn ail black and tender shrub and flower Or like in sober Autumn as falls the rip- ened corn Before the reaper’s blade, that proudly in the morn, Lifted high to sunny heaven its tassel plumed head And ere the dewy evening all enough is laid. lifeless each low They are falling round us,as the Autumn leaves that fall ‘When the herald winds of winter Epirit voices call, Like the grass betore the sickel, or bloc upon the heath They full and are gathered in the har vest field of death. Eyes that beam so brightly grow lustre. less and dim The song of health and gladness ends in the funeral hym And we are only waiting for the sum- mons 100 to come, That shall bid us fll to the tomb, like Hx WwW our love i GLnes They are falling round us- dear ones still are here, OO), while the that what I had read was part of a telegram which had been sent by some- body at a distance, and that either the sender or receiver intended to destroy it. Now, if the deceased had received it, jit must have been sent by somebody, and that somebody intended to meet him, and probably did meet him at the railroad station, Well, then, where was that somebody and why had he allowed his eorrespon- dent te visit that out-of-the-way room alone and cominit suicide without ever going near him afterward ? And why should the man come to such a place to kill himself ? And could he have found the room without a guide, and got acecss to it unknown to any one, if he were not the man who had rented it in the first place ? not that man, uniess he was in disguise when he hired it ; and why had he gone to all that trouble merely to hang him- self, when he could have done it quite effectually io ten thousand better places ? No; look on it—reason as I might— I could not bring myself to believe that the stranger hanging in that bare room I told the Ceroner of my belief ; but The body was placed in the mortuary shedding of a tear; bestow, For the hour they may leave us how lit le do we know. In that nour we'd mourn the we gave them pain, When ail our tears alas—in vain, hen the look of an cruel m gave Would surely to haunt gspectres {rom their grave of grief woul which guish words the rise Lured to His Doom. B AN ENGLISH DETECTIVE, do is working up the case, I started out with the bits of paper in their consecutive I was soon fortunate in getting pos- of what I believed to be the It was addressed to Horace Granger, eomplicated case, vicinity of London Bridge the wall, his feet resting on the floor. He was discovered some days after smell sent forth from his decomposing body. He was a stranger whom no I have [found her and loc) ] her up in MOne on an i se A par th inst day the train at London hridea a (+ s authority. Take and I will [meet you [stati ni Judging from this it was a case of a run-# way daughter whom *“*G:.”" had Londen, and the anxious father had to see and probably taken back with come that place to commit suicide was a mys- tery. He was well dressed, had As the dead man appeared to be not no natural to that of his could be beyond her it was suppose cluster ring of diamonds on one finger . containing over two hundred pounds in bank notes, It was therefore evident that he not committed suicide on poverty, nor been murdered for money. Was it suicide or was it murder ? of account A school girl perhaps, who had played truant anc run away. But then, if she had been caught and locked up, it was not reasonable to sup- did it The room, which was an upper story of an old building, the lower portion of which ws agent, contained no article of furni- ture, It had been rented. about ten days previous to a rather venerable-looking wan, who walked a little lame and wore goggles, who said he wanted it for an office for the sale of a patent that would soon become very popular with sea-going people. When questioned about the patent he said he would not then explain it, but would have some things on hand for exhibition in the ceurse of ten days or two weeks. The dead man was not the one who had taken the room, however ; and how and when he had got access to the apart- ment no one knew, There was an old-fashioned fire-place in the room, and some piper ashes in this attracted the attention of a detec tive, who happened to be no other than my humble self, Iu turning over these ashes, I discov- ered two or three little bits of paper not entirely consumed, and they had these words written on them, though now barely distinguishable: found her and locked private room meet you station 0. Now, after reading these disjointed sentences, I began to study and pender them. Might this not be a portion of a mes- sage sent to the dead man, to lure him to the city for the purpose of putting him out of the way ? But for what motive ? Ah, that indeed I could not know ; that was something only to be found out after a serious investigation, in case one should be made. 1 examined the charred paper as well as I could, and reached the conclusion contained no other lodgers, And then again, if the on and found her, become of her, and of “'G." sent the message 7 and why father had what had who had had the Come Or had the girl assisted by “G..’ murdered her father ? In any event, the affair was one of great mystery, and on privately report- to the end. To do this properly I went to Manchester, The addresss took me to a large ele- gant mansion in the suburbs, which led me to believe the owner wasa person of means, I did not ring, enter, and state my business, but visited the nearest apothecary, as the man most likely to know the general facts about his neighbors, “Would you be kind enough to answer a stranger in the city a few questions ?'’ I said to the dispenser of medicines, “Proceed,” he replied looking eurious- ly at me, “Do you know a gentleman by the name of Horace Granger 77° “1 do.” “What is his business ?"’ ‘‘He is a broker. ”’ “Is he reputed wealthy 7’ “He ia.” *‘Has he a family ?" “A wife and daughter,” ‘About what age would you judge him to be ?"’ ‘About 35." “Is Mr, Granger now at home 7” “1 cannot say. I have not seen him for more than a week.” “Is his daughter at home ?’ “I think not. I think she is away at a boarding-school., ”’ “Pardon me, sir if I seem too in- quisitive,’” said I ; but I have a reason beyond mere curiosity for all the ques. tions I ask, and some time, if not just a8 this moment, you shall know all, Could you tell me if he is on good terms with his wife ?*’ “Ha!” he said with a start, “Is this some scandal for a law court immediately ness 7’ “No, sir. On my honor, no use of your name shall be made in connection with any information you may give me." “Well, then,” he answered, with a peculiar smile, “it is rumored-—tind you, I only saythat it is rumored-—that hefis jealous of a certain gentleman of whom he has no reason to be, and that he has all confidence in one who may yet turn out to be a treacherous villian,” This was becoming very interesting to me, “May I venture to ask the name of this second party 7’ “Well, sir, as you are a stranger to me,’”’ replied the druggist, I will not mention any names, but if you should ever happen to have business with the head clerk of Horace Granger it is my opinion you will be within a hundred miles of the party.” “Thank you,” 1 said, feeling now pretty sure of my course, After some further questions I left the apothecary and repaired to the office of Horace Granger, the street and num- ber of which I had ascertained, I found a tall, dark, muscular, sinis- ter-looking clerk, about 30 years of age, standing at a desk behind a counter, ‘Is Mr, Granger in ?” I asked. ‘*No,”” was the curt reply. “Will he be in soon ? “Don’t know,’ ‘“Has he been in to-day ¥”’ “Can't say.” **Was he in vesterday 7’ ‘*Can’t say,’ “Will he BEvER be in again 7’ WAY. “What do you mean 7’ he asked. ter 7'' I questioned, in turn. sharply scrutinized my person ; but, as 1 fancied with a guilty conscience, “Who are you? What do you want bere ? And why these impertinent ques- tions 7" he demanded in a fierce way. “Don't ger is dead 7" said I, fixing a look upon you know that Horace Gran- he fellow that made him quail, “Dead amazement and horror, How? When? “How ?-—by ago ; I"? he echoed, in well-assumed “Good heavens! Where ? hanging ; where Y— London,” 1 when ?—six an- “You take away my breath,’ he al- most gasped, “What is your name 7°’ 1 queried. “George Grenham. “Ah, yes—the ‘G.’ *’ I thought. “Yow knew Mr. Granger went to London nearly a week age to find his daughter 7" 1 proceeded. I saw the man turn pale and shudder as he in a mumbling, con- fused way : wy where,’ “But his daughter was not in Lon- don, you know.” I said this at a venture, for 1 fancied I had divined the plot, “Why, how did you know that? That is : “Never mind, daughter was were, ”’ “Man !" and his eyes fairly glared. “You have been there before in the disguise of an old man.’ I went you had engaged a room in a commer. cial house to exhibit a patent ; you went answered believe — he — did EO Sone- I mean %" I interrupted. “His not there, but on; ployer that his daughter was found London Bridge Station. him ; it was in the night; you him to the room you had previously en- wall ; you burned the telegram, and then you hastened back here to play the role of innocence.” I went through with my accusations rapidly, giving the villain no time for consideration or even interruption -I piled one fact upon another so quickly and surely that I seemed to the guilty wretch to be an eye. witness, relating what I had seen; and I brought the whole damning scene 80 vividly to his mind’s eye that, with a face distorted with horror and cov- ered with the sweat of mental agony, he staggered back, sank down and half groaned and half shrieked out: “Good heavens have mercy I” Well, I had my clew ; but before I could make much use of it the mur- derous scoundrel blew out his own brains, It turned out in settling up the estate of the murdered broker, that his mur. derer had been his confidental man of success and trusted friend; that the latter has systematically robbed his employer of many thousands of pounds; that he had been too intimate with the wife, while poisoning the husband’s mind against & true friend ; and that, not satisfied with all this, he had ocon- cocted the hellish plot of murder, Of course, the affair made quite a sensation in certain circles at the time but was kept as much as possible from the public at large, and was soon hushed up and forgotten by everybody not in any manner interested beyond the mere curiosity and scandal of the hour, What part the wife had in the wicked plot I do not know, I, of course, won the distingnished- approval of my chief for the part I had taken in the dark affair, and that proved of much importance to me in the future of my profes sion. A MA PNA The Chickadee. He is, par excellence, the bird of the merry heart, There is a notion current, to be sure, that all birds are merry ; but that is one of those second-hand opin- fons which a man who begins to observe for himself soon finds it necessary to give up. With many birds life is a hard struggle. Enemies are numerous, and the food supply is often too scanty, Of some species it is probable that very few die in their beds, But the chicka- dee seems to be exempt from all fore- bolings. His coat is thick, his heart is brave, and, whatever may happen, something will be found to eat. *‘Sufii- cient unto the day is the evil thereof” i8 his creed, which he accepts, not ‘for substance of doctrine,” but literally, No matter how bitter the wind or how deep the snow, you will never find the chickadee, as we say, under the weather, It is this perennial good humor, I sup- pose, which makes other birds so fond of his companionship ; and their exam- ple might well be heeded by persons who suffer from moods of depression, Such unfortusates could hardly do His whistle and chirps, his graceful feats of climbing and hanging, withal engaging familiarity for, of course, such good nature as his could not consist with his SUFpiciousness would most likely send them home it a The time will come, we may hope, when doctors will pill. To iliustrate the chickadee's trust. fullness, I may mention that a friend of mine captured one in a butterfly-net, and carrying him into the house, lot him The litte stranger was at home immediately, window full of plants, proceeded to go over them carefully, picking off the lice with which such window-gardens are always mo. loose in the silting-room. and seeing the * less infested, A little later he was taken friend’s he climbed up to his shoulder, and, after for a few minutes on his coat collar, he selected a comforta- into my lap, and soon hopping about bie resting place, tucked his head under his wing and went to sleep, and slept on undisturbed while carried from one room to another, Probably the chica- dee’s nature is not of the deepest, 1 when joy to Still his feelings are not shal- have seen bim his rose ecstacy, low, and the faithfulness of the pair to each other and to their offspring is of The has sometimes to be taken off the nest, and even to be held in the hand, before th eggs can be examined, the highest order, fewmaie COMMON WORDS MISPRO~ NOUNCED, Naiad na’-ad, ni-yad, not ni'-id, nor Nainsook—-nan’-s00k, not nin’-sook, Naive—ni'-év, not nave, nor nive, Naivete—na'-év-ta, not ni-véte', nor na -ve-ia, Nauseus-—naw -shus, not naw’-se-us, Negligee—nég le-zhit’, not neg’-le-zhi nor negele-jé’, Newspaper — niiz'-pi-per, not nis’ Nomad-—ndm'-ad or no-mad, Nomenclature- no-men-clia’-bure, not nd’-men-cla-ture, Nonillion—né-nill-yun, not ndn-ill’- yun. Notable—ndt'-a-ble, not nd'-ta-ble, Nymphean-—nim-fé'.an, not nimf'.e- an. Obesity—obis’-i-ty, not o-bé'-si-ty, Obligatory —ob’-le-ga-to-ry, not o lig’-a~to-ry. * Often—of'-n, not 6f'-ten. Omega—o6-mé’-ga, not m’"-e-ga Web- ster sanction o-még’-a, Onerous « on'-er-ous, ous, Only--0n'-ly, tin’-ly, Onyx &"-ny¥, not dn"yx, Opal—o'-pal, not 6-pal’ nor 6-pawl’, Opponent—op-pi-nent, not Bp’ pos nent. Orgeat—or'-zhat, or 6r-'zhi, not or'- ge-at, Orthoepy-—or'-tho-e-py, not or-tho’ e- py. Orthoepist—or'-tho-epist, not or-tho'- e-pist, Bryn Mawr, (Pa.,) Home News. nom'<ade, not not o'-ner- ~The New York Herald says : “The feet and legs of horses require more care than the rest of the body, They must not be allowed to stand in filth and moisture, and in grooming a horse the feet and legs must be as thoroughly brushed and cleaned as a cout, ’ { Religious Sentiments. ~ Virtue is the first title of nobility, ~ Prejudice is the reason of fools. —Indolence is the rust of the mind and the inlet of every vice, ~-No, is a surely, honest fellow, speaks his mind rough and round at once, ~-“Wheelbarrow religion’ is what Richard Baxter said some persons had who lived in his day; that is, they went along when they were shoved, The same may be said of many living to-day, —(rod never accepts a good inclina- tion instead of a good action, where that action may be done ; nay so much the contrary, that if a good inclination be not seconded by a good action, the want of that action is made so much the more criminal and inexcusable. ~—In the estimation of the thinking class, men of deeds are held in high esteem, but the unthinking prefer men of gab, the men who say, that generally attract being, produce the greatest sensation, But sound and sense are two very dif- ferent things, and we should be govern- ed by the former and not the latter, Seif-Praise, saying : ‘Behold my eleven lie sleeping, and I am the only one who wakens to praise and pray.” said the wise father, » No your brothers, fault seek and speak of other people’s wrongs, to keep one from temptation and sin. There are times, perbaps, when spirit- a low ebb in the heart, and little of God’s sweet love seems to have Then ving——a habit acquired through place therein, this habit of cor- purpose---holds the to man ings that might soil his soul, In order to enjoy the present it is pres- To be doing one thing and think necessary to be intent ent. upon the life. are always wishing themselves some- where but where they are, or thinking of something else than what they are doing, of eise than to whom they are talking. way to enjoy nothing well, and to please mode of spending Some people or aomelx dy nobody, The least and most hopeful among us are, 1 know, sometimes disposed to des- witness such floods of lawlessness infidelity swelling and sweeping so many of the old landmarks of moral- ity and religion, glorious things which the bible has al- ready done for mankind since the open- ing of the christian era, and which can never be lost. From what other source bas all true civilization, directly or in- directly, emanated ? ence has so elevated humanity, so lifted the poor and humble, so freed the op pressed, so enlightened the ignorant, so hood of man under a common father, so restrained and rebuked vice and crime, and brought the indispensable sanction future responsibility and future judg- ment to the support of earthly laws and human government ¥ From what other pages than those of the bible have all the noble philanthropies of modern times deprived their incentives and examples? What can legislation do but confess that all its laborious statutes are little more than the detailed application to existing society of the laws first prom- ulgated on Sinai, and of the two great commandments into which those laws were condensed and crystalized by Him who died on Calvary? And even all the signal triumps it is daily achiev irig ; now soaring to the skies, question. ing each particular and comet and re- motest nebula, and analyizing the tints and texture of the sun itself; now sounding the depths of the sea, snd spreading out its countess contents, animate and inanimate, to be the sub. ject of an exposition for princes to in- augurate and the world to admire ; now searching and exploring the caves and caverns of the earth, and laying bare to our insatiate gaze the long-buried treas- uros of liliou or Assor, or the hardly less interesting outcomes of mounds and shell heaps in our own land; and now suspended over the broad current which had so long separated two great sister cities that mupendous bridge over which travel and traflic may pass unimpeded from hour to hour, and look down upon the tall ships sailing freely beneath them-—even science, 1 say, in all the just pride of these and a hundred other successes, has never found, never and can find* any other fixed and steadfast — point of departure, or any other sure and final resting place to fall upon, save in that sublime announcement, in the very first verse of the bible: ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” —R, O, Winthrop. ss I ss Dean Swift's Loves, Perhaps the least commendable epi sodes in his life are to be found in those relations of his with the other sex. which are become almost as famous as the adoration of Petrarch for Laura. Or, possibly, the loves of Abelard and Heloise would be a more apt compari- son. For though we can do no more than touch the subject, it seems as clear as anything resti' g on presump- tive and internal evidence can be that the explanation of coldness amounting to cruelty must be sought in physical reasons. Swift had always a craving for feminine sympathy and affection ; he loved unreserved intercourse with a graceful, intelligent and complacent | confidante, where there could ne idea of anything like equality or intel. { lectual rivalry ; but the attachments on | his side were purely platonic. Up to a | certain point we loubt his feelings were fa ex he have ithfull | pressed in the lines which have always no write bh enougn | struck us pleasantly : “That innocent deligh To see the v rin mind Was but the master's secret joy In school to bear the finest boy LOOK her book, As for his first flirtation with Varina, there was no great harm done on either The lady was clearly a heartless coquette and voluptuous, but with a But in | the cases of the unfortunate Stella and } Vanessa it is quite impossible to acquit | their tantalizing admirer of the egotism side, great deal of worldly wisdom. | that consciously, although perhaps re- morselessly, played fast and loose with | their feelings. He abused the extraor- which a will must impressionable femi- He seductive dinary powers of fascination ' tern character and an iron exert on certain nine natures, could hardly have 1 ffered a more tribute thao o women disposed to worship the per- sonality which could unbend so flatter- and yet | loomed so large in the eyes of the world ingly al convenient seasons ! And the jealous sense of the rivalry | which wrought such direful consequen- | ces must have stimulated devotion had All that must have been patent to the Dean, with his perception of the weaknes: es nature, and st | b:st we can only admit some extenu- | ating circumstances when we pronounce him guilty of sacrificing the two women | 10 his selfishness, — London Times, { stimulus been needful, unrivaled of almost human ee Domestic Animals. | Their Intelligence, Affection Reasoning Faculties. and ~ Philadelphia has a dog that eats | joe-cream, Itisa Sky terrier belong- | ing 0 a police sergeant, who shares | his cream with his pet, of which he is | very proud. He exhibited her accom- | plishments the other day, remarking “She knows when it’s her tum. You can’t fool her, Watch.” The sergeant {took a spoonful himself and threw {another on the floor. The morsel { had hardly touched the wood before it was snatched up. One spoonful | for the seargent and one for Nell was the order, until the sergeant pur- posely missed count, and then the beast set up a hideous barking as a re- minder, ~The most humble of the civil fane- tionaries of the French republic are the naval cats, There are some hundreds of them, and their importance is duly recognized by the state which supports them. The French naval cat enters the service in his Kittenbood, and spends the first year or two of his active career on board a man-of-war, where he is berthed in the hold and permitted to devour whatever he can catch, Having thus passed through apprenticeship, be is sent ashore and quartered at one of the five naval porte a8 a terror to the rats and mice that swarm in the victualling yards and store sheds, He is then entitled to an allowance of five centimes a day, and this sum is regulary paid on his be- half to the director of cats, who lays it out in horseflesh for the use of his forces, An Elephant in a Dining Room. A French gentleman, living in In.
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