' DONT BE IN A HURRY.
Phaw’t be in a hurry to Answer yes or no;
Nsthing’s lost by being reasonably slow.
Te = hasty moment yon may give consent,
Awd thro' years of torment leisurely repent,
fa lover seeks you to become his wife,
Fiappiness or misery may be yours for
life,
Thowe"t be in a hurry your feelings to confess,
Bat think the matter over before you an
SWer ves,
Slwen iil one ask forgiveness for a grave of:
tense,
ti onest tears betraying earnest penitence,
ity and console him, and his fears allay,
And don’t be in a hurry to drive thechild
AWRY,
Perry brings us worry, worry wears usout,
Busy going people, know what they're
about.
$hewd loss haste will bring us surely to the
diteh, -
And trouble overwhelm us if we hurry to
he rich.
Wam't Le iu a hurry to throw yourself
away, :
By the side of wisdom for a while delay.
Miske your life worth living, nobly act your
pare,
Mad don’t be in a harry to spoil it at the
start.
Eran’t be in a hurry to speak an angry word;
don't be in a hurry to spread the tgle
you've heard.
I¥aa’t be in a hurry with evil ones to go;
And don’t be in a hurry to answer yes
Or no.
EVELYN.
“Surely, to-night, I am the personifi-
oation of the character my dear friends
choose to ascribe to me: they ought to
mecognize me,” Evelyn Kurtz exclaimed,
with a hard bitterness in her usually
masically modulated voice, as she viewed
Trarself in the long French mirrors that
intensified and multiplied the amber
and maroon beauties of Aer boudoir.
She was a handsome woman, this
sprond mistress of one of an Eastern
wity’s grandest mansions, The world—
Ber world—said that she was haughty
and icy as she was regally beautiful,
There were others who thought differ.
ently. however. It was enough that
she was the joy of her father’s heart.
Enough that there were those who knew
she had a heart—humble, loving, piti-
fal, A nature tenderly sympathetic,
aad compassionate with the compassion
of love for humanity, freed from pride
and condescension.
But there had come a time when her
love for her father failed to satisfy
every demand of her soul. She cared
asaght for the adulation, the proffered
passion of the men who thronged about
hor always, Bat she had begome con-
soious of the existence of a nature that
she felt mated her own. She was vo
soy, silly girl to tell herself that she
could not know what love meant until
it was sought, Miss Kurtz knew that
the great lengings, the restlessness,
that disturbed her life after meeting
Ieroy Cummings was Jove for him, If
be was never more fo her than now, a
mere acquaintance, she could love no
other man with the wealth of passion
that throbbed in her heart for him,
And what hope had she, she asked
herself as she stood before her costly
mirrors, arrayed for a grand bal masque,
¢hat Mr. Cummings, whom she had met
but a few times, ever would be any-
thing more than a mere stranger to
har?
“He thinks me wondrously beautiful,
as I am,” she murmured, idly pulling
on her long, white gloves. ‘And not
that alone; not that alone, I am sure,
"There is in his nature some subtle affin-
ity for mine; in his heart some pulsings
of love for me. But he 1s poor, and
proud, and probably believes me heart-
less and very cold. I never cared be-
fore what society called me, I care
«mow, because he will hear it.”
She took her frosted white silk mask
snd - went down to the grand lighted
ai to receive her father's good by
i,
Miss Kurtz's costurae was singularly
rect erche—embroidered frost, Her
dress, ove graceful, trailing mass of
some silken, sheeny fabric, dazzlingly
frost:d--was wreathed with vines of
«dead, icc-cased leaves, garlands of glit-
Serving grasses, and tiny branches of
tre os thickly coated with crystals, Her
rough
Just beyond, separated by folds of
filmy lace, was the softly lighted
Wbrary, Wooed by the dim seclusion
of the room, she put aside the laces and
ontered.
collection of ohoice
Esatibing > holo
ia a black wi ropi mrbe vo
wae ES PBR Sh ah ts Lo
before this man that she would so freely
make king of her life.
“Ah! madam, you are one of the
few that appreciate their blessings,”
he said, with a quiet smile,
“Nay,” she said, slowly, ‘I would
willingly give all the blessings I have
for one I have not.”
And then® her partner brought her
ice, bowing to Leroy Cummings, who
replaced his mask ana went away,
“It was Miss Kurtz; there was no
mistaking her voice,” thought Mr,
Cummings, wearily, as he re-entered the
thronged saloons, “It is cruel that I
must catoh the infatnation with which
she inspires men! I-—I, a man with no
heritage but toil and poverty, to be mad
with love for her! Verily I am insane
to dare worship her as [ do. Thank
God! we are so immeasurably apart in
station that no harm ean come of my
madness! Is she, can she be wholly as
cold as people say she is? As cold as
that she chooses to represent to-night?
What matter what she is to me?”
But down the room the Krost glit-
tered now, and Leroy made his way
towards it.
“Miss Kurtz,” he whispered, “will
you honor me with one dance?’
“With pleasure, Mr. Cummings; I
had no idea you knew me. Shall I
keep this waltz for you? I would give
you a choice, but all are promised. I
think I can arrange all about this,”
**You honor me too much. Believe
me, I shall not lightly value the pleas-
ure,”
The crowd parted them,
When they met again, and the courtly
woman was within his encircling arm,
her lustrous eyes meeting his, masks
had been laid aside, and the rare, mad-
dening beauty of her dusky, cream
face was close to his own. Was it
strange that for the few moments he
held her thus his love was veritable
mudness? Was 1t not a marvel that
each seemed to the other cold and un
impassioned? Is it not a false world
that would have made one word of what
burned in both hearts seem a stain if
uttered?
He sought a piace, the dance ended,
where Miss Kurtz could get a breath of
coolness from the conservatory.
“La belle Kurtz is regal to-night, is
she not? And such an appropriate cos-
tume as she has chosen? Who do yon
think she is making her latest victim?
Mr, Cummings, Poor fellow! he is to
be pitied if he gets infatuated with her
heartless majesty. She is certainly an
iceberg—veritable frost.”
The words eame distinctly from
among the plants, gleaming with blos-
soms, just a hand's breadth away.
Distinctly to Cummings, who fairly
shivered with pain and anger, and bit
his lips,
who, forgetful of
them, turned
her patrican hands on his arm as plead-
equal, entreatingly—
“You know
lieve what you just heard of mel”
though he had never seen any other
passionately to him,
you, but that you are good and noble—
a woman worth naught less than wor-
ship; and that you are in no wise to
blame that I have come to reverence
you above all your sex. Do not think
too hardly of me that I have spoken
the truth; for, believe me, I am quite
conscious of my own madness|”
Weary weeks had passed since Leroy
Cummings had breathed those words to
Evelyn Kurtz, and passed from her
presence,
Since then they had never met,
Wearily, with a deep sorrow ia her
heart, she moved daily among the poor
and sick; langnidly, coldly, more frost-
ily than ever she smiled snd talked and
danced in the salons of the rich,
At last she told herself that there
could be no unwomanliness in her, the
heiress, suing to the poor man she
loved.
So she wrote to U and told
him what his words had meant to her,
for she, Evalyn Kurtz, had loved him.
His answer, bearing a date three days
old, had been placed in her hands. His
answer, blessing her for her kindness
but firmly stating that it was impossible
for him $ so far forget what was due
to her or his manhood as to fake advan.
tage of her noble condescension.
‘With white lips she crushed the note
in her hand.
An hour later Miss Kurtz was tread.
ing the streets on her daily round of
errands of mercy,
“] will eall on Lizzie before I go
home,” she decided; and turned into a
pleasant, respectable street, and ran up
the steps of a house on whose door was
a dressmaker’s plate,
*Yes, I have been a long time away,
Allie, dear, How is Lizzie?”
“Quite well,” said Allie, lead the
way to the second story, “We get
along so nicely since you found this
for us. Lizzie suys she shall soon
y to the
She is up a] woo
£
£
Ead
From that day Miss Koriz kept him
supplied with flowers and luxuries,
hen his mother died, she placed
waxen blooms upon her quiet breast,
Then came a night when ashe said to
the dressmaker—
“I have a favor to ask of you to-
night, Lazzie., I want to lie down a fow
hours upan your lounge. By midnight
the doctor will pronounce the vardiet of
life or death upon my patient, and I
have become so interested I wish to
hear it direct. I have sent the carriage
home until one,”
And so, wrapped in a warm shawl of
Allie's, Miss Kurtz rested hor stately
form upon the Little chintz lounge,
and waited for the doctor's tap upon the
door,
Midnight,
Ten, fifteen, twenty minutes after,
Miss Kurtz arose, and went softly up
to the sick man’s room, pushed the door
ajar and entered,
The doctor stood beside his patient,
with his fingers upon the thin wrist.
“He is dead,” Miss Kurtz heard him
say, softly,
And then another man, bending over
the white, upturned face, dropped some
fears upon it,
At the sound of the woman's gently
rustling dress both men looked up, and
Evelyn Kurtz stood face to face with
Leroy Cammings, his golden hair thrust
back from a pallid brow, and tears in his
blue, proud eves,
‘Miss Kurtz, poor Stanley is dead,”
the doctor said kindly,
"He was a friend of yours?” she asked
of Cummings, from whom she had not
removed her eyes,
*‘He was, and X have much to thank
you for in his behalf, If he had lived,
it would have been through your kind
“Or yours,” said the doctor, bluntly,
‘since you watched with him every
night, You both did all you could.”
“How is it I did not know this?”
questioned Evelyn, still of Leroy.
*“I took eare that you should not,” he
answered her,
He bad come close to her now, and
was gazing with passionate longing into
her beautiful, jsorrowful face. “I did
not mean that you should meet me,”
For a minute both were silent, then
Miss Kurtz said, slowly and low—
“Your pride is manly and patural;
but is it not bitterly wrong?”
“Oh, Evelyn, I have only such hum-
bls rooms as these of Stanley's, What
would the world say of me if I dared to
ask you to be my wife?”
His voice was fall of suppressed pas-
sion, his eyes of intense love, despite
his resolve not to be tempted,
“Is what the world will say of more
account to you than your own Lappi-
“God forgive my folly! No, Evelyn,
He gathered her hands 1a his, and
her finger a quaintly-
And so they were betrothed, snd as
he led ber away from his friend's death
bed, he whispered
“God bless you forever, my noble
wile; and forgiye me, that to you I
Stiver Spoons,
Probably there is no article of table
or other household use in the produe-
Almost all the work
on solid silver spoons is haudwork; the
exceptions are the rolling of the ingot
into plates and the production of spoons
with omamentation in relief, which is
produced by recessed patterns on the
rolls,
The material for spoons is coin silver
obtained from the Government mins in
ingots, or from trade for old silver, or
from the use of current coin, This is
melted over a charcoal fire in plumbago
crucibles to a certain heat, known to the
Slope by the appearance of the surface
of the molten metal. It is poured into
cast-iron moulds, forming bars of
about seventy ounces weight each,
These bars are heated over a forge
fire of charcoal and worked on an anvil
by hammer and sledge, precisely as
fren or steel is worked, or are rolled into
plates or ribbons, Occasional anneal
ings are necessary to prevent cracking,
the annealing being heating red hot and
quenching in cold water, The ribbon
for the ordinary teaspoon is four and a
half wohes long by three-eights of an
inch wide. When rolled a blank of two
and a quarter inches is lengthened to
four aud a half inches, to thin it down
to spoon thickness, Before rolling or
hammering, silver is very nearly as soft
na load; but with these
cesses it oan be made hard and
Good springs, retaining their qualities
for can be made of silver ham-
mered or rolled.
To form the bowl of the
Surf-Bathing in Winter,
“Bathing,” said the proprietor of a
row of weather-beaten boxes on the
beach at the Highlands, N. J., “cannot
be said to cease entirely at any time of
the year. Of course, after ths middle
of Beptember it wonld be useless to
keep the boxes open, but now and then
somebody comes to the beseh in the
middle of winter, undresses hastily, and
plunges in, Put he seldom remains in
the water nora than a few seconds, and
to say the truth, I have seldom seen
the same face twice. ‘I'he finest days
are chosen for such work, but, no mat-
ter how brightly the sun is shining, it
is an awful ordeal, and only to be under-
taken by persons of strong constitu-
tions, They come out, for the most
part, looking as though the sen was
boiling instead of freezing, dress them-
selves on the beach as though they had
no time to lose, and race along tue sand
for half an hour.
“I'he most persistent winter bather I
over saw was a boy about 16 years of
age, who used to come here a couple of
years ago. He lived about a mile from
the beach, and every morning from De-
cember 1 to February 28, at 8 o'clock,
rain or shine, he was paddling in the
water. The most singular thing about
him was that he could notswim a stroke,
and did not seem disposed to learn the
art, I offered to teach him, but he
said, ‘No, thank ye; if I swum I'd be
goin' beyond my depth and gellin’
drownded.’
‘‘He never bathed in the surf, but al-
ways in the smooth water inshore, He
wonld stand breast deep for half an
hour, occasionally ducking his head
under, but for the most part he was
contented with splashing the water over
himself with his hands or wading slow-
ly about, When be came out he did
pot seem to be chilled, and, unlike most
of the others, he dressed himsell at
leisure and strolled home whistling,
He was not a profitable customer, for
he never bathed in summer, He said
he hated warm baths, His family have
gone to Nantucket, so I suppose he is
now astonishing fishermen there.”
A Sad sea Dog.
Lisutenant Garlington, of the United
States army, who is now stationed at
Fort Buford, in Dakota Territory, and
who had charge of the Government re-
lief steamer Proteus that was sent to
the Aretic regions last summer iv search
of the Greely party, was in Pittsburg
rec ently, and when interviewed said:
“1 am sorry I cannot give you a con-
pected story, as 1 have been working
hard all day, and feel very tired, but I
suppose the people would like to know
my opinion as to whether the Greely
party are alive or not, There is not a
bit of doubt about it in my mind. 1
don't see how it can be otherwise, If
they are at Lady Franklin Bay, which
beyond a doubt they are, they are cer-
tainly alive and well, Greely had plenty
of provisions tc last him through the
winter, and he was stationed where he
could get plenty of fuel, and I see no
reason for his not being alive,
“I don’t see how he could well get
away from the bay. The ouly season
you can sled up there is in the spring,
and that is the only way he conld move,
I don't think he would attempt to move
farther north under the cirenmstances,
and if he had started south I would
have met him when on that expedition
last summer,
“It i# not so dreadfully bard fo live
up there as some suppose, provided
you have plenty to live on. 1t is cer.
tainly very cold, but one becom in a
measure adapted to it, and does not
mind it. We were within 2° of Greely
station when our veesel was crushed by
the ice. It was rather a trying positien
to be ifn. Thousands of miles from
aany succor and no means of getting
out exoopt » a small boat. But my
men did not lose conrage, they kept in
good spirits, although our provisions
were limited and we had {o use them
sparingly, You can well imagine a
man's feelings placed in such a position
and knowing that when the supply of
provisions is exhausted there is no pos-
mbility of securing any more.
“But, notwithstanding what I have
come through, I would like to go back
I intend to make n,
when I get to Washington, to join the
Rrantut expedition that is now being
tied out. I bave nol seen as much of
that region as I ‘would like fo, There
is nothing so exceedingly charming
about it, but there is a strange fascina-
tion seizes one, when he has a taste of
it, to see more of it, When you get up
among the glaciers and rocks the scene
is one of terrific grandeur and picture
esque beauty, but the seme of dreari-
ness, No sound or stir except now and
TEE
£
eis
:
;
§
when caught between two such icebergs,
No boat can ever be built that could
withstand the pressure, Although they
seem to be moving slowly, they have
terrific force and are often crushed by
their own weight,
Walrue are very plenty up there in
some places, At the mouth of Melville
Bay 1 believe I saw a thousand at one
time, They crawl up on the ice and
lie there apparently asleep, but on the
approach of a hunter they drop into
the water in a lubberly, awkward man-
ner which is amusing, At times they
sport and play in the water and out and
keep the sea in constant confusion,
They are an interesting study, especially
when they are the only animated crea-
tures that can be seen, While watch-
ing them one forgets that he is out of
the habitable world, The only land to
be geen is an alluvial deposit thrown up
by the waves near the north shore of
Greenland, There is a kind of moss
growing on the rocks, but from what it
draws the substance of lite I know not,
One of the most interesting sights in
the whole northern region 1s the falling
into the water of huge fields of ice. You
will see thousands of acres of ice and
snow that extend high in the air, The
water wears this away on the under
side, and when the point projecting into
the water becomes so heavy as to force
itself off it breaks with a loud report
and falls into the water, ‘I'he traveling
is all done up there with dogs in sledges.
The dogs are about as large as Indian
dogs, and are able io draw about their
own weight, They usually harness
from eight to twelve dogs to a sledge, |
and under favorable circumstances and
smooth ice can go about sixty miles in
a day. I the surface 15 uneven and
soft the animals are worthless, and the
sledge has to be drawn by hand,”
mA AGI PIO
The Mohammedan World,
Though Ctinstendom cannot be said to
be in dasger from El Mahdy, it 1s likely 10
be put to senous incoavemence. ‘The
countries which the Mobammedans con.
tro! are considerable in extent of territory;
they interlace with Christian countries
and across several of them he some of the
world’s most important lughwayr. Others
lie off the beaten tracks of travel and are
only valuable for their scanty contributions
to the world’s commerce. ln discussing
the question we have to consider the dif-
ferent opinions and interests among Mo-
hammedans and the prospect of their unit-
jog in lsrge numbers, either for the pur.
pos? of holding their deserts or mvading
countries controlled by Christians, but par-
tslly occupied by people of their own
farth. The majority of Mohammedan
zealots are nomads, without fixed homes
tor occupation, and often robbers by prio.
ciple. These occupy the sahara in Africa,
lining chiefly on the northern and soutbern
edges, and extending more or less into the
Barbary States, Egypt and the Middle and
Western Soudan. There are several mil-
lions of them between tbe Atlantic Ocean
and the Hed Bes. East of the Red Ses
they occupy all of Arsbis—a portion of
them living in towns—8yna, Persia and
Turkestan. They form an imporiant ®je-
ment of the population of Chins and Indie.
In British India there are over forty mal-
The populstion of Persia is nearly
eight ‘millions, partly vomads, The pop-
ulatisa of Tirkestan does not exceed
two pullions, mostly pomads. The pop-
uistion of Arabis 1 perhaps cight mil.
lions, divided between the towns and oascs
on the deserts. A few millions more may
be found scattered along the fouthesstern
coast of Africa, between Cspe Guardafu:
snd Cape Colony. The few millions of
people who oocupy the Soudan are Mo
bammedans by profession, though they
have so intelligent understanding of the
faith. Most of them ure negroes, with an
intusion here and there of Arab blood.
Their Kings, Bultans or Governors are
mostly white or yellow. A few sre Af-
ricans. Mohammedsnism bas made prog-
ress 1m Africa alone of recent years, the
sword playing its traditional pant io the
conversion of! the feeble natives. These
are the countries and the people on which
the fanaticism of the Mohammedan faith
must hereafter do its work. It is the ma-
terial that lies ready to the hand of the
False Prophet if he bas the genius or the
power to use it
3
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£500%,
Health Hints,
Don't shake a hornet's nest to see if
auy of the family are at home.
Dont try to take the nght of way
from an express train atl a railroad cross
1
py talx back to a woman who han
dies the fireshovel with grace and dex-
tenty.
Don't go near a draft
comes toward you, run away.
draft is the most dangerous.
Don’t blow in the gun your grand.
father carried in the war of 1812. It is
more now than it was then.
Don't hold a wasp by ihe other end
while you thaw it out in front of the
stove to sce if it is alive, It 1 gener
If a draft
A sght
SS A HN SES A EB HA UII
Americans and Weak Eyos.
Within the past quarter of a century
opticians say that the portion of the
world’s population using eyeglasses has
increased 400 per cent. At thet not very
remote period, in country districts espec-
wmlly, the eyeginss was regarded ns a
silly toy, and its wesrer a8 a person de.
ficient in brains, but pow the business of
mounting and selling cyegiasses in this
couniry bas grown 10 minenss propor
tions. All the superior lenscs are 1m.
ported from England and France at the
rate of over a mullion pairs a month,
and 80 per cent. of them are mounted in
this country, the principal factories for the
purpose being in Philadelphia and in
Bouthbridge, Mass, The work done in
these establishments is superior 10 any
turned out in Europe, although not one of
them was In existence ten years ago. It
is estimated that there are st present in
the United Btates ten million persons whe
wear glasses, and the number 1s constantly
increasing. Bome very interesting stat.
istics and general information on this sub-
joct were obtained from Mr. J. Ehrlich,
an optician and manufacturer of Brazilian
pebbles, who had been engaged in that
business for the past twenty years,
“Is the large increase in your business
an argument in favor of the theory that
the human race 18 degencraliog in our
tuned’ quired the writer,
“Not by suy means,” sald Mr. Ehrlich
promptly, ‘“I'bere is nothing to show that
the eyesignt of farmers and other men who
rise and retire with the sun 18 not as good
pow as il ever was, nor that the eyes do
not last as long as ever. ‘I'he great in-
crease in the glass-wearing population is to
be found in the cities, and even there
among persons who keep no regular
bours, and who are compelled to write
in bad and unequal light or under the
glare of the ges.”
“Dut did not tins condition of afisirs
exist & quarter of s century back as well
as now"
“Not to the same extent. Year by
year the population that is compelled to
work under the gaslight is on the in-
crease, and thus increase represents the
number of persons who are compelled to
use glasses two, three and five years
sooner than they would under ordinary
circumstances. Every year brings some
new scientific imvention, and there is
scarcely one of them that does pot ip-
duce what 1 may term fasler living, and
faster living means shorter healthy living
for all the or pans, but especially for the
eyes, which are the most delicate of ail.”
“*What class of persons suffer most in
this wayl"”
“Those that sregenerally termed ‘mght
owls.’ Among them are printers, iele-
graph operators, mumcians snd writers for
the daily papers. All men who are com.
pelied to fix a slesdy gaze on a given point
for any length of time must damage their
eyesight sooner or later. This is the case
with tallers, shoemakers, students and
book-keepers, who work in badly highted
offices, Then there isa growing disre-
gard for the dictates of ordinary pru-
dence 10 using their eyes. Ii 1s a common
thing to see men and women reading on
railroads and steamboats. This should not
be done unless necessity requires it, and
perther should 8 porson read by gaslight
while reclining in bed. As a rule the
most intelligent classes are whose
eyesight frst fails them.”
“How does 3t happen (bs! 20 many
young children require giasscs nowadays?’
“There are two kinds of npear-righted-
pess. Ope ys soquired from over-iaxing
the eyes, and the other inberited by chil-
dren irom their parents. The very young
children who wear glasses belong to the
iatter clase. Too close attention to study
eventually deranges the vision of the young
student and compels him use glasses.”
“What proportion of the juvenile popu.
lation suffer from imperfect vision?”
“The figure msy seem large bul our
estuna’e is sixteen per cent. This covers
the ages from four to eighteen. Of course
by far the largest number of these are to
be found in Colleges and Youog ladies’
Semioarks.”
“And of elderly personst™
‘Seventy-five per cent. of those who
are fifly years or over use glasses. 1 io
clud, of course, those who use them occa-
sionally as well a8 those who use them
habitually,”
“Do the mmprovements in glasses keep
pace with defects in visionl™
““T'wenty years ago pol ove in a hundred
who wore glasses got a good pair; now
twenty-five per cent. of the glasses worn
are the best that can be made, and cost
ees than infeior ones did formerly; twenty
years ago the present style of glasses was
rare, and were geoeral. Now
the frame is of such finely tempered and
delicate steel that the eye giass has driven
those
France, and the best of convex from Eng-
The former sre used by short.
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