CRIMSON. A flush of sapset in the West Hangs crimson banners in tho sky, Eights up each solemn mountain crest, And glisiens in the lake's blue eye; The stern old hills for many a mile Grow soft in that reflected ray, As white-haired elders stand and smile, Watching a little child at play. Belated bees are humming still From yonder sunflowers’ golden row; Sometimes a laugh floats up the hill From happy voices far below; And in the flower-scented grass A brisk, unceasing rustle tells Where, with gay bounds, incessant pass The never-wearied sauterelles. Oh, is not this the home of peace” A shelter from the cares of life, Where every jarring voice must cease, Aunt hushed be every sound of strife’ Where ever fresh the happy hours On noiseless pinions gently pass, Where nothing fades, nor shadow lowers, Save the cloud shadows on the grass? Nay, that would be a Paradise, And Paradise is lost to men Till, freed from earthly stains, they rise To tread its fadeless bowers again. Here comes the thought oi death and sin, Of battle-flelds where thousands die: Before whose carnage and its din Pale the red glories of the sky. MADCAY MARY. Mary Claremont went down the ave- nue swinging her shade hat by the strings, Mary might make a fine looking wo- man, but now she was rather too angu- lar. And Mary was asad romp; conse- quently, as her handsome sister Cecil sald, “looking more like an Indian” than anything else. Mary was undeniably brown; but her eves were magnificent with their shift- ing hazel lights, and thick black lashes, and even Cecil envied the child her wealth of dark hair, long and glossy, which Mary usually wore in one braid down her back, as the easiest possible fashion of getting it out of the way. Cecil was entertaining her father's guest, Mr. Leslie Granville, in the cool, pleasant parlor And Cecil was complacently consclous of her own lovely white skin and soft black eyes, and queenly figure, and was (quite ceriain that Mr. Granville would uot fail to appreciate her. She was doing her best to win his favor, for he was by no means to be de- spised. In the first place he was wealthier even than Judge Claremont, whe owned the finest estate in the county, And then he was handsome, accom- plished, and had been such a traveller. He had hunted lions in Africa, and elephants in Asia, He had flirted with dark-eyed Spanish beauties, and floated about Venice in a gondola. He had shivered in Siberia, and per- spired in the tropics, and goodness knows where he had not been. The Judge was an old friend of Les- lie's father, and thoroughly loved and respected the young man. Poor Mary had been in disgrace ever the coming of this paragon. In vain Cecil lectured, and Mrs. Claremont mildly expostulated; in vain Mary made desperate resolves to rjuiet and ladylike, Twenty-four hours could not pass over her head without the household being electrified by some of the girl’s esca- pades or blunders. And worst of all, Mary felt in her heart that this clegant gentleman was laughing at her, for an awkward, child- ish hoyden. For all she asserted stoutly to herself that she did not care, she did care very much indeed, and wished, oh, so ar- dently! that she could keep her skin white and soft like Cecil's, and that she could sweep into a room in the stately, graceful fashion of the ladies who called on her mother and sister, and attended their dinners and receptions, She admired Mr. Granville very much, and likened him to all the brave and gallant heroes of whom she had ever read, and thought how proud and happy must be the woman he would choose from all others for his wife, She sauntered on down the broad country road, past the scattering houses, until the generous pastures on either side tempted her with their clover blooms and ox-eyed daisies, Some of her father’s property lay along here, In one broad field was Mary’s little pony, Dick, prancing about in the sun- shine, while a beautiful red heifer with tapering horns stood looking at him gravely. Now this heifer, Daisy, was Judge Claremont’s especial pride, He was noted as an owner of fancy stock, and had raised this animal on his place, Mary dropped the bars, entered the pasture, and whistled to Dick, but the rogue tosced his head, and throwing out his hoofs, galloped away to the further corner of the enclosure, Mary laughed as she gazed after him. The fragrant summer breeze blew into her face, wouing her to a frolic. “Wouldnt it be fun to ride Daisy?” she said to herself, No sooner had the thought passed through her mind than she proceeded to put it into action, without a thought of the consequences, With a handful of fragrant clover dire coaxed Daisy to the stone wall, and in another moment she mounted thereon, be back, gmsping her curving horns to steady herself. Duday frightened and angéred jumped and backed, and twisted her head in frantic efforts to relieve herself of her unexpected burden. In vain. Mary was the best rider in the county and she kept firmly to her seat on this novel steed, her head uncovered, her checks flushed, and her eyes dancing with fun and determination, Of a sudden Daisy started straight across the fleld. Oh Mary, Mary, you forgot to put up the bars when you camé in! And Daisy dashed out into the road, and took her way homewards, executing marvelous capers that would have con- vulsed a spectator, while Mary’s face was red with mortification and distress, now that she realized how her wild prank was ending. Leslie Granville finished his chat with Cecil in the parlor, and had been strolling about the place with Judge Claremont. The two gentlemen finally paused in the great doorway of the cattle-barn, and were animatedly discussing the relative merits of grain, when up the lane came the Judge’s pet heifer with the Judge's youngest daughter on her back. Straight into the barn dashed Daisy, trembling in every limb, and Mary slipped to the floor in an agony of shame, and stood before the very man whom of all others she would not have seen just now, The Judge was divided between amusement and pity for his chlld, and astenishment and anger at her usage of Daisy, ‘You may go, Mary.” he said grave- Iy. **I will talk with you by-and-by.” Mary flew past him, and Leslie, meet- ing his host’s eyes, smiled a little irre- sistible smile of amusement, and then both the gentlemen broke into a hearty, ringing laugh, the echo of which reached Mary's ears, as under the big oak trees behind the house she crouched in the grass, sobbing distressfully, “No wonder he laughs,” she said, with burning cheeks; “well he may!” The sun weuat down behind the wes- tern hills, and still Mary lingered there, dreading to enter the house. Presently there came borne on the breeze the scent of a cigar, She heard Leslie's clear tenor hum- ming a snatch from ‘“The Bohemian Girl,” and he paused beside her. She sprang to her feet, and looked at him defiantly, and then turned away with quivering lips and tearful eyes, He made some indifferent remark about the weather, bnt Mary was too far gone to recover herself, and burst out passionately — “I don’t know what of me, Mr, Granville!” “I think very well friend. beg. can think you of you, Come, cheer up! You forget to go into the parlors to-night this. I am always doing something dreadful; and when Cecil was of my age she was just as graceful and lovely as she is now.”’ Leslie smiled rather peculiarly as he smoothed Mary's dishevelled hair. “Undoubtedly,” was his comment. “And, Mary, I am sure that you will some day be graceful and lovely your- gelf. Already I know you for a warm hearted little girl, whose greatest fault is her impulsiveness. There is the tea- belll Now wipe away those tears and let us go in.” That evening, while smiling groups were gathered in the great parlors, and the band throbbed out the melodious pain of a passionate German waltz, Mary wandered about the passages like an uneasy spirit, dreading to go among the guests, yet longing so much to have that waltz with Leslie, She was dressed, as becoming to her youth, in white muslin; with loosened hair waving over her shoulders, and only held back from ber face by a band of scarlet satin. She had at first rebelled at Cecil's command that she should wear gloves; but Mrs, Claremont came to the rescue, and declared that unless Mary would consent to be dressed properly, she should stay in her own room all the evening. So Mary yielded with a sigh, and drew a pair of four-buttoned white kids over her brown hands, which after all were small and delicately shaped, and upon the whole, the child looked re- markably well, In the course of the evening, Leslie caught sight of ber, and before long he was by her side, smiling approval at her appearance. “Now, mademoiselle,’’ he said, giving her hus courtliest bow, “will you favor me with this waltz?" Mary gave a confused assent, and he fed her into the room. Together they swung graceful step. On and on. Mary is transported into the seventh heaven of delight, Awkward and hoydenish as were her ordinary manners, she was graceful enough now--light and free as the air; sud Leslie experienced a real regret when at last the music ceased, He led her out upon the veranda, into the “Mary,” he sald, you are the most delightful partner that I ever waltzed with,” Mary laughed, “Ah, thank you; I love to dance. The music makes me forget every- thing.” He pressed slightly the slender gloved hand on his arm. “1 would not like to have you forget me, Mary,” She was silent, “Do you think you will?” he per- sisted. *“‘Because if yeu do I would like to give you something to remember me by,” She looked up 1n surprise, He was watching her with his eyes full of laughter, “Wint is that, Mr, Granville? ’ she queried, flushing sensitively. “This, Mary!” He bent and pressed his lips to hers. “Dear child,’”” he whispered, softly, “‘your father tells me that you are to be sent away to school intheautumn; and next week I cross the ocean for an ab- sence of months—possibly years, When we meet again you will have attained your desire, You will be a graceful and lovely woman, Until then remem- ber me,” Here they were interrupted by a laughing group who came flocking out of the low, French windows for a prom- enade, and Mary, slipping away, ran up to her chamber and was seen no more that night. So far as outward evidence was con- cerned, the memory of those softly- whispered words, and that stolen kiss had faded from LeslieGranville’s mind; for during the remainder of his visit, he was simply the pleasant, courteous gentleman he had ever been, and de- voted much of his attention to Cecil, From that tisne Mary was no more a wild and uncouth hoyden, Judge Claremont was particularly fond of his youngest daughter; and Mrs. Claremont began to think with satisfaction that Mary would, after all, develop into a truly noble and refined woman, She graduated from her school with honor, and carried with her the respect, love, and good wishes of her teachers and classmates. In honor of her coming home a social party was held at her father's residence. Radiant in her trailing robes, stood under the chandelier receiving her guests, This Mary was not to be compared with the Mary of three years ago, graceful and lovely she was now beyond she all doubt. Her clear brunette skin, with its brilliant color, was far more beautiful Her figure was perfect, the old fault of angu than Cecil's cold white cheeks, | i i i ! i i larity having wholly disappeared, Judge Claremont approached with a “My dear,” he said, **here is an old stood he. fore her, “Well, Mary, have you remembered me?” he mischievously, for a few moments he drew her « the veranda, where they stood night three years before, She laughed a little, blushed most charmingly, and carried her head in a stately fashion, that said “Yes and I am proud of the fact.” “Mary, you have grown into so lovely a woman now,’ he added with undis. guised feeling, “that I hardly dare to recall old times, Yet—""and he paused, Did the half-startled, but all radiant look in her eyes reassure him to con- tinue? “Yet the memory of that kiss, and the happiness that then flashed over your sweet, young face, have brought me hither again. 1 have come unbid- den. Am I welcome—am I anything to you now?" You are welcome,’ she answered, the words tremulous and low, “*Am I anything to you?" he repeatea, touching her hand. “You are very dear to me, and always have been!” and the bhalf-averted face was suffused with a deep flush, He drew her gently towards him, “Look up, Mary. Am I dear enough to you, darling, to ask for your heart and hand?" She did look up bravely, now, as she answered “1 have loved you ever since that kiss; I have striven to be worthy of you, yet did not dare to hope for your real love in return for such a madcap as you only knew me to be.” “Ah, you cannot guess how that madcap twined herself around my heart, nor how I have cherished her in all my absence; nor now I feared and dreaded lest she might be lost to me after all. And you will be mine?” How eager his fine face and how tender the look of his fine eyes, “I will be yours forever and forever!" and she gave him lips to kiss that trem- bled with the deep emotion of a long pent affection, “What will Cecil say?" asked Mary, “I dont think she will disparage my taste in choosing Madcap for my queen,” was the proud answer, as tne two, arm-in-arm, returned to the par- lors, No more long dresses till after "84: Dako ta-—**please, ma'me, moy I be a State?” Columbia "Next year, my dear, is a bad year for new States, Call again dear, asked, when 4 ut to that Imported Ostriches. At the corner of Royal and Montegut streets, New Orleans, is the sign upon a high board fence: ‘African Ostrich Krasl,” In a small inclosed space were twenty-three huge birds, who came trooping toward the reporter with seemingly as much curiosity as that individual possessed. Mr, L. J. Self- ride, who has this caravan in charge, appeared and explained that this was no show, but a business enterprise, that these birds were imported for breeding purposes; that they were brought to the city some days since on board the Italian bark Josip, and some or all of them would soon be shipped to Cali- fornia, where the experiment was to be made as to whether American soil could not nourish the animals whose ever- fashionable and beautiful plumage bedecks American women. Beveral Boston and Maine men, realizing the profit in ostrich farming, determined to make a trial in the United States, and were incorporated under Maine laws as the American Os- trich Company. This company selected as its agent aud Superintendent Mr. E, J. Johnson, an energetic young man of great ability, whom it sent to South Africa to learn the business and import as many birds as be deemed sufficient, After making a careful study in Cape Colony for more than a year under the most successful and experienced ostrich tarmers, Mr, Johnson purchased twenty- three of the finest birds that could be bought in South Africa. A vessel was chartered to land them in New Orleans, La., where they arrived December 9, 1583, after a voyage of fifty-three days sailing time, They were confined in the hold of the Italian bark Josip for sixty-five days, owing to a delay caused by the Captain in putting back into Cape Town, after leaving for the purpose of landing two stowaways, The birds were placed in padded ostrich stalls, 5 by 44 feet and 5 feet high, and arranged in the hold of the ship as homes are in a city, During pleasant weather the birds were exer- cised four at a time in the streets thus formed, which, no doubt, accounts for their present splendid condition. All the birds reached here alive and in good condition. The birds imported by the American Ostrich Company are the first direct importation from South Africa, They are all breeders, and the object is to raise chicks for sale and for feathers. The company expects to realize 50 per cent. profit, AM Mss Fighting a Pack. Andrew Couch, a noted hunter of Monticello, N. Y., exciting adventure. He was engaged by a party to “‘drive’ deer for them. They started two on the first day, but On has had a most did not succeed in getting a shot, the second day Couch drove Big Hill for the The dogs started a buck afternoon and toward CO h. As It came over the ridge through the scrub oak, the guide gaw that it was an enormous buck, and sportsmen desiring that the should have a shot at it, he discharged one barrel of his gun a few feet in front of the deer, with the intention of turn- ing it off in the direction of the other hunters, who were stationed in differ. ent “run-ways'' on the ridge. The deer did not change its course, as Couch supposed it would, but turned and made directly towards him. He discharged his remaining barrel at the deer as it came bounding toward him, and it fell almost in its tracks, Couch ran to the spot and drew his knife to cut the deer’s throat, supposing that it was dead. As the hunter was bending over the deer it suddenly sprang to its feet, knocking Couch’s knife from his hand, and attacked him with fury, leap- ing in the air, and striking viciously at the hunter with its sharp hoofs. Couch jumped quickly aside and escaped the full force of the deadly stroke of a wounded buck’s fore-feet One of the feet, however, struck him on his left shoulder, spun him around like a top and cut through the sleeve of his heavy hunting-shirt from bis shoulder to wrist. Couch had his gun in his hand, but it was empty. Before the deer could gather itself for another attack the hunter dealt it a powerful blow across the neck with the stock of the gun. The blow staggered the buck and shivered the gun to pieces. Recovering quickly, the buck sprang at Couch again, and planted the fore- feet on his shoulders, felling him to the ground. Knowledge of the great peril he was in lent agility to the hunter's movements, and before the buck could deal a blow upon his chest with his hoofs that would have doubtless been fatal, Couch regamed his feet and instantly closed with the buck, shout ing meanwhile to his companions for help. He bad dropped his gun barrel when he closed with the deer, but at last in the course of the struggle, the spet where it lay was once more reached, By a quick movement he disengaged himself from the deer, and sprang for the weapon. He had scarcely secured it and risen to his feet before the buck was once more upon Rim. Couch raised his gun-barrel in the air and put all his remaining strength in the blow he dealt the deer, It struck the animal back of the antlers an d felled it to the ground, The skull was crushed and hunters, in the drove it 3 OL visiting another blow ended the contest, Couch exhaustion. The other hunters, not having heard anything from Couch after his two shots, came upon the scene in ahout half an hour to see what the resu™ had been. They found Couch and the deer lying side by side. The hunter was not seriously hurt, but was badly cut and bruised. The deer was the largest that has been killed in Bullivan county in many years, It weighed 210 pounds, ee oti — The Tower of Babel, The magnitude and grandeur of this Oriental capital of twenty-five centu- ties ago stagger all belief. Any account of them, even the most sombre, is like a fairy story or a tale of Arabian ro- mance, It was fifteen milessquare and was entirely enclesed by walls 100 feet and 300 feet high, The walls were further remounted with 240 towers, 75 feet higher than themselves, There were 2,500 miles of streets in the city. In it was built the marvelous hanging gardens, These were a kind of artifi- cial garden, lifted into the air upon immense piles of masonery., It wasa stupendous work, and was the result of gallantry. King Nebuchadnezzar constructed them that his Queen, who came from 4 mountainous country, Echalana, might have the delight of a mountain garden, There were trees here from fifty to seventy-five feet in height and four feet in diameter. The Tower of Babel was partly a temple and partly 4 mausoleum. It was built of sun- dried bricks, and in eight enormous stories, each of a different color. That land of Shinar, between the Tigris and the Euphrates, is a rich alluvial plain, devoid of stone, yet nature has com- pensated its inhabitants by making the soil a peculiar mixture of clay and sand, which, mixed with water and baked in the sun, produces a brick more duralbe than anything we are acquainted with. The bitumen, which flows out of the ground, forms a ce- ment so solid that the bricks are held together as one immense mass, Hence the marvellous durability and preser- vation of these ancient ruins. The summit of the tower was crow with a shrine, and within it a mighty image of Belus, the Chaldean Jove, forty feet high, and of solid gold, was placed. The terrible denuncia- tions of the wicked, effeminate and cruel city which are contained in the Hebrew prophets have been strikingly and literally verified. Its palace have become a dwelling-place for owls, and 80 the voice of history speaks with a loud startling emphasis to our generation, assuring us that the wrath of God rests upon the workers of In- iquity, and that it will sooner or later surely overtake them. om———— A AI Arkansas Gentlemen, edd and I suppose that Arkansas is abo dangerous a place as Texas fora bully to go to, but { rom personal observation at $s bend vy . ic un Yitél think Arkansas is a little both points, 1 safer place for a gentieman than Cin- The general urbanity of the people astonished me more than thing else. This is what I propose to illustrate. We stopped at one station, and traveled about forty miles by stage, On our return the stage—a large wagon without top—was loaded with men, They were of different types. One had a bottle of whisky, One was a minister. We came to a creek where a party had stopped to water their horses, There were two women and a little girl, apparently very poor. They wore sun- bonnets and faded calico dresses, The horse was poor, and the vehicle was as shabby and rough an old specimen as I ever met with. One of the women had unhitehed the horse and led him back to water, and had just turned to come up the bank as we reached the level after crossing. Our driver stopped. A well dressed man hopped eut of the stage, and with a bow offered his assist ance. He led the old horse up to the vehicle--1 dont know what else to call it— hitched him in, assisted the woman to her seat, and then, as she heartily thanked him, he politely bowed her good day, lifting ‘his hat clear off his bead. In a moment he was in the stage and on we went, After my exper- jence in the north It struck me that this was all for sport, and that the men would have lots of fun about the affair, But I soon found it was all in earnest, All regarded it a matter of course, for from that moment on to the end of our journey not one man uttered a syllable about it. “Para,” she said, as she sank into an easy chair after a hard day's work at his office, “I noticed in the evening that seal-akin sacques are advano- in price.” ‘S80 they are my dear, so they are.” “And you know you promised to buy me one this winter.” “I know I did he replied, “and I will keep my word. But with the in- price and the scarcity of money creased Iex i will sp D3svuewiut, “J was thinking, ” daughter then said, as she clasped a pair of soft white srms about his neck, *“if it would not be better to wait until next winter, My old cloak will do very well, and per; haps sealskin sacques will be cheaper then,” The old man groaned in spirit and murmcared to gn i Wout Joure are Reapad.” eo morning young woman was tendercly taken to an insane saylum, where it is believed that with proper care she may utilihately recov. Cinna, ATE adi y er her reason, The Modern Bartender, Just in proportion as the elegance of the saloon predominates, so does “style” obtain among those who are employed to serve up the decoctions. The modern hotel clerk, with the dazling diamond and beautiful buttonhole bouquet, is no more of a swell in his way than the barkeeper of the period. There are various grades of bartenders, as there are distinctions in the young men who preside in the offices of first-class hotels. A young man who aspires to the honors has to begin by washing glasses, freeing thew from the aroma of all that is beautiful in a bibulous way, and leaving them so that there is no taint of what has been to interfere with the flavor of what istobe. A probationary period enables the bar keeper to gauge the merit of the fledgl- ing, and if “he has the material in him?’ he is taken in hand and put through a course of object study. He is permitted to draw beer and ale and wait upon such customers as take it straight, He also fills the bottles, and when opportunity occurs be watches the man of experience make the drinks which call for nicety in choice cf quantity of the various materials used, and a high grade of taste in the seleetion of the ingredients themselves, He iseducated, too, in the esthetic side of the artistic placing of other bar decorations, the disposition of such works of ert as may lend grace to the “back bar.” He imbibes lessons of politeness to customers for in the higher classes bar courtesy is the rule, and it isn’t once a year that a person requires a dexterous twisting toward the street, Everything is supposed to be on a higher plane, and even when the customers *‘go over the bay’’—that is to say, excessively stimu- lated, or, as common people call it, “drunk’’—they are expected to do it in a gentlemanly way, and to violate ne of the proprieties, as proprieties go, in the company they happen to find themselves in, A year behind the bar is supposed to enable the youngster to emerge from his cubbood. He then becomes second barkeeper, and can afford to put on a few airs—a few sub. dued airs, He waits on merchauts and professional men, and finally they begin to take notice of him. If his eyes are wide open—and they usually are—he has begun observe hu- manity’s follies and weakness, and his first year has taught him barkeeping, y crystals and 1 Also 1a Ww more than mixing drinks. He knows by this time a thing or two of the current. He has branched got ‘tips’ on races and elections, bought some unfortunate pools. probably, but still he looks forward to the days when he shall go to wood carvers and decora- tors (NN social under — Ou, and hand them over $1,000 or § to fit up a little place of a bar-room for is developing magnili- cence in the way of In short, first-class barkeeper. A first makes his clothes, and his Possibily iif ; ] a dollar now and himself, he into a class tailor linen is always spotless, “knock down’ invest it in policy, and make a fortunate *‘hit.”” If not lucky this way, of course it is s0 much worse for the proprietor. He knows just what customers to salute with familiar- ity, whom to treat with deference, and whom to simply stare at. The couple of years he spends as assistant bar- keeper are his experimental period, After the training he has had, and granting that he is sober and gentle- manly, he is always eligible to a posi- tion 1n some first-class bar, ————— Going to Werk. may then, he is “J.0o0k here, When are you going to work?” “Well, next Spring, I guess,” the calm reply. “Do you know that you ought to be flung off the dock and left to sink?”’ “Mebbe I had. I don’t purtend to have any opinion about it.” “Now, then, if you don’t hunt up some other locality you’ll hear some thing drop.” “1d like to hear ten cents drop on the flagstones,” sighed the old man, as his mouth puckered up. “I'l tell you what youll hear,” whispered the citizen. ““T'wo of us will walk you abroad of a ferryboat. and when we get to the centre of the river—" “What then?” “We'll drop you overboard.” “And drown me?” “Yes” “For sure?” **Just as certain as you stand there.” “When will this happen?” “Any time after noon to-day." “Well,” said the old man, as he scratched his grizzled locks, ‘1 can’t leave here, and I can’t stop you from drowning me, but I wish you'd do me a favor.” “What is it?" “Wrap me up in an oilskin suit be. fore you fling me overboard. I haven't had any water near me for six months past, and there's no use in prolonging my sufferings.” He was whirled around and given a heartfelt boost, but he was still smiling as he turned and said: “It will cost the two of you twenty cents to go out and drown me. Why not gimme fifteen of it and let me fill up and fall in?” eh Ah He who knows his power, doubles it who is distrustful of it destroys it. Was
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