WHAT DU WE LIVE FOR?
What do we live for! 18’t to be
The sport of fortune's jowet 2
To launch our bark on p easure’ 4 800
And float perhaps an hour ?
To waste our time in idle dreams
Of what may be to-morrow,
To glean with care from present scones
The source of future sorrow?
What do we live for ? is’t to find
The ties of friendship broken?
That love's a sound to cheat mankind,
And dies as soon as spoken ?
To mark the woes on others hurled,
Nor weep thelr hapless lot?
I'o hate onr fellows—curse the world—
To die, and be forgot?
No ! wo were formed to seek the truth,
Through paths made plain by reason;
T'o hail that light in oi jest youth
Which shines in every season.
Yes! we were made to win below
The boon hereafter given;
I'o calmly smile at earthly woe,
And find our home in beaven,
THE INVALID,
Rossitur sat beside an open
in a small cottage home, wait-
the return of her lover, who
gone from the village seven years
before to make his fortune. It was
t before sunset, and the sultry heat
Evelyn
window,
ne for
i
had
tionless, while the parched earth and
flowers pleaded for rain. Yet Evelyn
wore a dress of warm cashmere, and
about her was shawl of
{finest Shetland wool. Her
intensely blue, were unnaturally
illiant, and her hair, soft, thick, and
glossy, hung in long ringlets around
her face,
wasted fingers, mournfully touching it.
‘* Bessie said, softly—and at her
call
wrapped a
and
br
she
a gir
side—**
it
to night? I wanted Louis to see me as
i was when he left me. But lI only
look more ghastly than ever.”
caressingly
Bessie, it was a strange vanity,
was no
Bessie bent her
cousin,
lips quivering with emotion, *He
scarcely expect to find you entirely un-
changed in seven years, Evelyn,” she
gently. *You will regain
beauty with your health,
has come.”
“Never,
me die, to
fatality.”
“It's
Bessie;
over
said,
Bessie; he has come to see
bid me a long farewell.
of the said
imagination.’
you cannot mean that
nothing sort,”
“iL is
“Bessie,
not sick.”
“No, I de
‘And wi
disease that
brothe
1am
» not mean that.”
th the
my parents, tw
only sister
consumption,
has taken 0
. and to the church-
me, Bessie.
Louis
family. You will try to take her away
—will you not?—that is the only way to
save her life.”
can never
“Most certainly; and I
me,’ replied Mr, Dalton.
“Let me hurry home now, and you
follow soon, I think we had better not
go together,” Though she walked
quickly, Bessie found Evelyn already
excited at Louis's non-appearance.
“I heard the whistle more than half
an hour ago, Bessie,” she said. *'Can
anything have happened to Louis?"
“We will not think
said.
a spare minute or two to devote to
Martha.”
“You wil have
| step. He has come.’
death was on Evelyn's face as she rose
to her feet to greet Louis, und he could
| scarcely suppress a cry of horror as
ghastly race rose before him,
a quick
word's he
| words to Eveiyn.
How
not it. I hear a
rememberance of
spoke chee fully
ya,
Bessie's
We darling.
glad I am to come to you again.’
The white aivered painfully.
“hi new life to vou, Louis,
only to say farewell.”
li 1s i
is WO
“Farewelll You don’t get rid of me
again,” he said, his heart sinking as he
watched the quick breathing
bling agitation of his betrothed. *I
i hope you are all ready married.’’
“Louis! canno to marry
| me now,’
to be
you t wish
“Not wish to marry you now! 1 have
wished it for seven long years, Evelyn.
“Bat 1
“You look as if
the said, **rut I
These are my Evelyn's
dear blue eyes, her little mouth,
| for kissing.”
am so changed.”
vou had been sick,”
see no other change,
heavy curls, her
made
| in the kitchen, w
{ of —**She
rith an accompaniment
is better already,’ in an ener-
| getic tone, that was suspiciously
tears. “Now, Martha,” she said, “you
are not to refer to Miss Evelyn's sick-
i ness in any way. Remember.”
“It is flying in the face of Providence
for you to talk as you ds,’ croaked
| Marcha, a dismally-minded of
| fifty. **Aint she going the way of all
| the rest?"
‘‘She was going
{drive her. But IL
my protest, and, M
If you
44
¢.
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Gatnsel
rest O05ti}
[ASC a8 you « ould
have come Lo enter
1
r. Dalton
SAY «
ai
8 10
SAVE
me word now
COL Hn
vou )
ij
id Martha. with
make you
» said Bessie, brig
ro for some extras for
iis. He will
tons 13
veivIL
Paid
Root
Alartha go?”
wt be
she spoke, into an adjoin-
put on
Her errand was soon
LE
8
ONE.
Wi
. s
Codjue ttish
® 2nd a
straw hat,
but,
wimneward,
where the
Gone;
hie she went to the station,
train wos nearly due. It
came as she climbed the wooden steps,
and nger alighted, This was
rown-bearded man about thirty,
iandsome face, and an express-
eager haste. Ie was rapidly
across the platforin, when
Hoss ie put a little w hite hand upon his
“Mr. Dalton,” she said.
my ” he. replied,
one Dass
:
Hr
by 108
a }
ai
of
AIT,
"”
name,
hat.
y of
Sue
r valsing his
s IR
all
said, “I
proprieties by
tl you, and I am about to
o outrage them still more, by
¢ a few minutes.”
est face belied her light words,
ywed her
ench upon the
utterly alone,
it a little outside of the
'
8 with
HANA
nis Dalton ¢ e {oll
en 1 - 3
WwW WOOLen
were
for Evelyn's sake,”
“If you Lad sent us any |
you wrote you were coms-
home, 1 should have written to
. As 1 could not do that I have
come to meet you. You have heard of
ble fatality in Evelyn's home
seven years?!
address when
ing
ine disease that has left her alone in
the woild. 1 want you to save her
life. You rmy think I am but a pre-
suming child, when I tell you I do not
agree with the doctor about my cousin;
but [ love Lier very dearly, and love has
made watchful, I believe some
poison lurks io that house, I can feel
mysel! weal-ning every day I am init,
and I know that I was in perfect health
when {| wen’ the o.’
“But why not tell Evelyn this?”
YI bave, again and again, but de-
pressed by the death of all near and
dear 1o her, she is convineed that con-
sumption has fasiened its grasp upon
her as upon hem, “1 is usoless for
me to argue,
a whole corps of old women croaking
to ber every day. “Mr, Dalton,” and
Dessic's sad face became sadly ciroost,
if you let her see that you aroshivesed
at the chinuge in her—and she if fear
fully changed-—if you encourage her
depression, you will kill her, When
her health began to fall, everybody in
fe
said Dessie,
Miss
cath t
f ber room, Miss Be
s 3 coming.’
**Plate, cup and saucer,
| put upon the table; and les
to bring in the dish, Bessie f
Wo
| stairs again.
{out o
were rapidly
itted up-
Louis was just protesting he did
care for
0) 0
UL
tea,
you
said
“Evelyn! Will Evelyn come down?"
“Certainly. Come, Evelyn!”
“Don’t you think it will hurt me!”
**Not a bit. 1 told you Louis’ com-
| ing would make you well. There is no
| doctor like a Lappy heart.” So Evelyn,
| leaning upon Louis’ arm, went down
oe for the first tiae in three months,
|
|
will
Bessie,
help Evelyn to the
table,”
Dessie had made the room a perfect
bower, with cut-fl urs on the table,
SNOWY ’ curtains at the wins and a
fresh brightness over
Martha had groaned as one funeral
lows,
i
|
|
{
{
a
terrible loss she has suffered was pressed
hourly before Evelyn's notice, She
was broken in health by sorrow and
and every surrounding
aggravated the trouble, Martha would
and Martha has had the aid of the
whole village. “If you take up the
chorus, she will die, But you will
not,” she added, with a pleading
eagerness; ‘‘you will help me to bring
sunshine, flowers, music, happiness
into her life, Do not think I am heart-
loved my uncle and aunt, my
cousins who are gone, and I sorrowed
Bat I waut
LE)
“*Grod bless you, and help me to carry
» said Louis.
, under Providence; for, but for
I could not have hidden
my fear and sorrow.”
jut Dessie
only repeated-
rising to say good night,
S41t all rests with you."
to Evelyn's own intense
found herself out
Louis, very white and
but with a faint hope, long
stranger, gathering
It was appar
s She
it}
With
about her
ent to Louis him-
had first seen in
couraged by
this, he entered heartily
coaxed into co
of wedding garmen
ald she would
them, she yieided to Louis’ whisper—
“Be my wife soon. darling, that I need
leave you.’ was
horrified when the
ind more than one came to see if ‘that
girl actually dving of consumption was
But Dessie
not live
i
The vi
were read,
never lage
banns
really going to be married!"
be driving with Louis; or
whenever company appeared,
tuting herself a
her,
resting,
consti-
there
wedding, and Louis took his bride fora
long wedding before they sotiled
in the pleasant home he had pre-
for her. many miles from be:
village. Slowly health came
happiness and hope, and
ghingly protested Evelyn
Was younger an
In Seplember Was a quiet
tour
pared
a ied
and
Yaad
au
3 1
ACK
Dalton
Evelyn
1
Lidl
d prettier than
ur had ever been.
take
staid,
long years, did they
Then, by
them
nr
Rossit Not
they were a married couple
! i
five go
it invitation,
A pretly
health ug
her,
1
ana
roan
Uriel
again.
she & visit,
wn of
}
cheek, wted
made
matron, with the blo
rounded
noble |
war old were presented
vs of three ye
all im said Des.
“Mr. Em
arson who bought
“It was not
ETAVEe:S
use, bad (wo i
' ngering Cases
of illness resulting fatally in his family,
The new purch
whole house enlarged; and in
the floors, the building
rest a4 green swamp.
miasma have penetrateq
Ase
had the
upon
mist
“it was common-sense against
19
“for Evelyn has told me of
ion t hat there was
a fatality, and she conld not hope to
Her first real hope came, when
| room. It seemed to the old servant
i
| mementoes of the terrible fatality
So Evelyn, with louis on
| one side, all eager, lover-like attention,
Bessie on the other, all bright anima-
| tion, flowers, pretty table decorations,
| and dainty fare tempting her, ate
broiled chicken and found herself
actually laughing over her cousin's
witticisms, Tea over, the parlor was
vigited. The long closed shutters were
open, the room as bright as hands could
make it, and Evelyn's piino wide open,
She whispered to Bess, “Oh, darl-
ing, it has not been touched for five
years. Not since Willie died.”
“But remember, Louls has come.”
said Bessie, quickly.
* It was still early when the peremp-
tory little cousin ordered Evelyn up-
stairs again, and after bidding Louis
good-night, watched the invalid till she
wasasleep. Dut going downstairs then,
she was to find Louis in the
porch,
“Not here,” she whispered, seeing
he was about to speak: “we are direct.
ly under Evelyn's window, and she
sleeps lightly. Come to the end of the
| garden.”
“Pessle,” he said, hoarsely, once
they were out of hearing, “she is dy-
ing.”
“She only coughed twice while she
| Was downstairs,” said Bessie, tri-
muphantly; “and she Las been congh-
ing every few minutes for more shan
{| Tes solute,
amazml
were thoroughly
and her cough a nervous affec-
tion,”
up croaking then, Dessie,"
“glad to believe 1 might
ive for Louis and long years of happi-
ness,"
“1 gave
“Was 1 not a true prophet?” asked
Bessie: “I told you when Louis came
fatality, and love was conqueror,’
EIA
Sanken Ships.
The diving for the remains of the
Greek and Persian ships sunk in the
great sea fight at Salamis has caused
a flutter in archeological circles, Little
is known of the great galleys with their
banks of oars of the ancient world,
presented to us in the delightful gossip
of Athenmus of two ships built by Ptole-
my Philopater, and one built by Hiere,
tyrant of Syracuse. Bul the descrip-
tion is wholly of the interior. We read
of rooms in these ships with columns
of Milesian cypress and capitals of gold
and ivory, of marbls statues of Venus,
of purple hangings aud exquisite cary.
ings, of gardens with trees and pisnts,
and all varietios of bathrooms, One of
these vessols had forty Lanks of oars,
but it 18 iffieult Lo form an idea of
what they looked like externally from
these descriptions,
————————
What is sald to be the fastest Hime
on record for unloading a gacgoof of su
was made in Doston recent ii
liam McLaughlin, He ya 1178
ar from the steam
hogsheads of su
schooner Walker Armington in 11 hours
and 8 minutes,
“Mz challenge the jury?” exclaimed
the nocused. ‘*No, Hapa you, Jadge,
am,” Ho was
keep tho peace
i
:
vy
Fast Haters,
about the rapidity with which we eat,
It is a subject which has been
many & newspaper article, and the
national disease, dyspepsia, is attributed
to this cause, That we are fast eaters
there 18 no doubt; but the English are
slow eaters, and they have livers
for general and unremitting torpidity
will discount ours, while the average
any other people on earth, Over in
seldom heard of
over by a Yankee
consul, the people
fast as we do. 1
eating in all
1
buyer or tourist or
eat about twice as
never saw such fast
my life,
» when at a railroad res
the conductor gets up and looks at his
And their stomachs do not
them. They have as little
with their indigestion as
American bank cashier wilh
science. In America we are told that
we should not go about our day's busi-
ness until we have first a good
breakfast. A good breakfast is supposed
to consist of a cup of coffee,
and eggs, beefs
bacon, or oatmeal porridge, and a
or bre and
a good breakfast until
had eaten all that
In Germany, people do
bother
eaten
some ham
or w ak, or a few slices
¢ toast ad
It is not
feel as if
you could eat
not
you
eat big breakfasts
mkflast at
cup of coffee, with or without a slice
of bread, may be called by that name,
At noon business is suspended for two
hours, and a hearty dinner is
followed by a rest or nap. Two hours
of rest at dinner-time give them plenty
opportunity tw rest
thoroughly, both in
before beginning
afternoon. And
not eat we bre
all, unless a
good
of
and body,
of the
as 1
are as plain as
plain could be. But there isnothing on
the table not genuine when they sit
down to eat, The coffee is not rye or
chickory. The milk isn’t lime or water,
The sugar isn’t sweetened sand. The
butter is neither lard nor oleomargar-
ine. The beef did not
death, The vinegar isn’t
The mustard isn’t yellow clay.
the entire meal f
the case
country. There are laws
punish
represen
mind
the labors
their dinners,
POISOTOUS,
And
isn't a id as is so
Ou
which
adulterate
cle of food.
there
everybody who
ts an arly
laws are neithes
nor winked at more t!
ce
Soothsaying In India.
ras has re
ve peti
dersigned inhal
4
OF Wikas
ated public nuis
2
Lady
ands
not a half fi
there isa Kali
peculiar
tem]
nature of ils
been marked « an
of soothsaying
Here once a week
thrice, as he chooses) a soothsayer man-
ages to gather about him a number of
people of both sexes and various castes
by his powers, of which we need hardly
casting
of the
place,
situation,
Os itageous
XCICisi.
twice or
as adva
and ex
{and LOW
place
aving,
Speak
hat {ake
Th
Wig SiG
ot vs vd , $3
A ayia ng, of SOOL DE
Noi
fipona
to
.
*
Ci Ree
sible & and tie mely objec tionable on
following grounds, which, howeve
but a few many. Tha
place abounding as i
s AG
ainong
+1
does with
113 1e
Snaxe
fp
AUR
holes 1s a very dangerous ¢
to resort to in the night, the
when he beg business
12 P. M; that it has boea found to b
resort for wicked persons with ne
ily bad desigas; that it being the dead
of the night when the seance com-
mences (and it continues the whoie
night and some hours in the morning),
his dread howlings and jarring drums
disturb our night's sleep and startle
young children in bed; add to these the
general behavior on the occasion, which
is an outrage upon the public sentiment
of refinement and moral On these
grounds we petitioned the Commis-
sioner last year, and, on inapection by
the inspector, he was pleased to order
that the soothsaying should stop at 10
. M.. which order, however, we grieve
say. camo to bo relaxed as soon as it
was passed. We beg to further state
that a public meeling was held in the
reading room premises for concerting
measures to puta stop to the sootheaying
and oxorciam nuisance, and that this
petition is only the outcome of a reso-
lution adepled therein, P. 8.~Ann-
stance omitted fu the body of the peti
tion wo beg to mention here-the ill
treatment of an adult girl of about
twenty years. This girl, it is given out
was possessed by a devil. She was
cured, but a period of strict regimen
must be allowed to make sure of the
effectual cure—cight days of severe
confinement in an entirely isolated
room, alone and unaccompanied; three
times bath, nine vessels of water each
time, during which she was to come
round the temple with a vessel
ne
usual Ve
il «
being
it
dead
COSSAT-
Lime;
regimen
very frrational.
perfect waking all day-
extremely impossible and
The girl cbserved
but whenever she was oppressed
by sleep she indulged a little in
a talk with her neighbor. Ou the Fri
day night which was the last day of the
term, a woman who had also come
ia
to
mayer, suddenly pulled this almost emac-
and shaking he:
locks of her hair still
firmly grasped by the other’s arm),
screamed that the devil had not left the
inflicted excruciating
Thus the devil was chastised out of the
In a few hours more, Madural
Viram came boldly forth and the girl
before soothsayer,
now his Awful Majesty, ‘What!
father spends so much money for you
your mother
her energy
pain upon the girl.
the
your
’
exerts and almost exhausts
in drawing w
from the well; I took s0 mudh tre
the from you, i
think
wander
rater
to devil ont
don’t
but thoughtlessly
with
Pi te ously
‘Keep away my |
ey
cast
illy girl, you
y
of all
about
chat away
your neigibor?
girl appealed § to the man
the man, surely:)
that is so heavy on
will not do it.
me! Hold out
The girl
ner by the
iny
s ALY 3 all
So audacious to talk to
hand,
but ther
youl will you?’
shrank back nan pulled
hal: cane with an angle
al the end, and he was assisted by
by a
the
3 r i
the back, and
using all can hear
thrashed her
limbs became
words which no eax
can utter,
till her
black, Itisa
well known to
notorious fact and too
lire Jabor of proof.
It being 80 important, it is hoped that
you will not for it
vhich it deserves from vour
ex]
disdain the notice
hands.
-
Lovers and Dyspeptios
On the one clear r night last week says
a New York writer, I walked
from PErooklyn on the bridge and
noticed the large number of loving
ocuples slowly promenading the smooth
plank walk.
“This appears a convenient
‘Jovers' Walk,” I remarked
policeman on the New York tower,
“Well, 1 should smile,’
a grin. “If you had
think this ‘ere bridge was buil
special ef
peplic
regular
and from
over
be
0
t 8
vw a
* said he,
ny piace
with
snience of lovers and
people. he great
& 4
aver suops
time til
about
10.3
that
senel She §4 whist!
A L4 dad WY RIAD
1 - f tha wind
i Imusic 01 the wind
woeln
wires above. 1 ‘spose that
“What alx
“Oh,
slopes.
down
the dyspeptics?’’
the dyspeptics take the land
They go up em on a walk and
on a trot tl {Limes,
Wri overcoats
wand git us to
heir wind. They
ain’t got no wind, though, to speak of ;
and they generally go off badly blown
“No extra charge!”
“Why, no. After they pays their
you can’t order ‘em off. 1'm
» trouble, though, on
”
4
three or four
Wear sl
grip an umbrella,
summer nights.”
tA
missing Beef in Wyoming.
Reliable statisties show that the
largest and best cattle come from the
Northwest, from the cool mountain
valleys, rather than from the hot plains
of the Southwest. And while the
winters of the former are more severe
than those in the latter section, the
Joss from the cold and exposure in the
one does not exceed that by heat, fovers
and drought in the other, and the extra
stimulus given by the pure frosty air of
the mountains adds to the quality as
well as the bulk of the animal.
Stock raising in the valleys of Wyom-
ing and Montana is managed in a
different way from what it is on the
plains. A rich valley is selected that
is bounded on {wo sides by ranga of
mountains over which the sloelh do not
incline to pass. Al either oud of tie
ranch, herders’ cabins are locatud, sod
in some instances pole oo Wie i*noee
are placed across the valley from hill to
hill. In this way the stock is prevented
from straying away, and other eatlle, if
any Should chance in that vicinity,
cannot mix with the herd or graze on
Mhe ranch,
While snow frequsntly falls in this
region in winter, it lays but a very
short time on the southern slopes of
the hills and interferes but little with
winter pastures These valleys and
hillsides are covered with a rich nutri.
tious gress in the spring of the year,
that matures and dries on the ground
in summer and furnishes excellent
pasture for the stock during the autumn
and winter, uninjured by the frosts, It
is only green live grass that is Killed by
the cold and renderad useless as pasture,
The Bory of a Yorkshire Groom,
The bistory of Tom Ward, the York-
shire groom, fllustration of the
“profound” of Mr, Weller
senior that ‘a man who can form an ac-
curate judgement of a horse can form an
accurate judgement of any * And
here, fortunately, there’ misty
traditions which
ruthlessly
riance
deaths,
is an
remark
hing.’
are 10
criticism
no tombstones al va-
of births and
and no entries about one sister’s
ich ghown to
. + ox f
LOTn ail
the sun of
dispels,
with the registers
which are subsequently
have
vard, but chr
Of early advan
Neither the
the parson,
reference to another
l by t
Ww
$1
ister © Sate nam
tages :
“juire
nor even Lhe
for his schooling or gave
life, He went
x”
Howden, 3 1 Oris
to the ch
Kk re,
and: 7:1. 3 $
scholar, and, wha
acquired good,
to **whi
life
pose,
s steadily
in the
trainer, he was sent 1
horse, and was 3 Fetained
von Lictenstein
remained with
that of a Ligh
. and a man of
iy the Duke of
ish in
tunatel
f
Ward,
under-
3
Gres
a4 man on whom
5, beset w ith f fis atte rers and
the matter
, and carried off
hat this clever
14s LIU
eyes, neat
bles and horse
He soon found t
groom, with his gray
uly person, was
int ii -
ghly depend. From
Ward
t confidant and keeper
Then th
to confusion,
irom
privy
finances fell in-
mn became valet, and
of the
e public
and by
duchess the task of checking
restoring credit
Ward, as the
but, by her he Austrian
Archduke, Ferdinand, governor of Ga-
the advice of the
abt
intrustec
ise and
Wak
reader might
agency, lo t
1 maternal le to the duchess,
However, Ward’s eleva was
long de! He was created a Baron
af ud made mini ster of finance. Practi-
became prime
oriant negolia-
3 f th 3
CIA, Ald unc
evation not
aved.
seem, he
'
CeRsion
hy of Parm
are matie:
Ad Haq manny
wiledge of French,
ative independ
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Raising Wages.
been
years,’ said
ye Wabash
by my side and
and eoupons.
York Central, have
Shore
here I am on the Wabash.”
have
sorted out
“1 started in on
been on
, Pennsylvania and three re’
“Did you know old Vanderinitr”
“Did I know him? Well, He
to keep a pretty close watch of every-
thing. I tell you, and there wasn't much
going on along the road that
know about. One time I
into a box. At Albany they broug tht a
corpse into my train, and nobody had
bought for it, according
rules. At first 1 refused to carry it
but station agent said it Delonge
to some of the railroad folks, and the
charges would be paid to me in New
York. When we got to New York no-
body called for the corpse. I was in a
hurry to go home, but I waited around
for my fare, 23 I knew I'd be held res.
ponsible for it. Nobody came, and no-
body at the depot knew anything about
it. ‘This vexed me a good deal, and so
I made up my mind something bad to
Le done. So sent word over w the
medical college these was a “stifl” at the
Central depot for sale, A declor cine
right over and I sol! him the body for
1 st enough to pay “he charges, entered
taal fact on my r=port ad returned
home. Next mo-ning I hea:d the body
ws ‘hat of a relativeof old Vanderbilt
himself! And I had gone and sold it to
a medical college! Well, I went straight
10 the old man’s office to get my dis
charge. I knew my time had come.
Put, would you believe it, I wasn't
bounced. The old man took it very
cool.”
«What did he say?"
“Je said he had got the body back all
right, and had inquired into all the cir-
cumstance., Then he raised my wages
£100 a year!”
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don't marry me,’ ho ex.
“i'll take out of this
hated world, and I'll haunt as
Jong a You § ” yo “1 will be
ono ly Please stand = Tittle Broasnt
off. I never conld bear the smell of
alcohol so soon after tes.”
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