MOUNTAINEER'S PRAYER. The speed of Thy streams give mo! In the spirit that calms, with the life that thrills, I would stand or run for Thee. Let me be Thy voles, or Thy silent power As the cataract or the peak An eternal thought in my earthly hour, Of the living God to speak. So . Clothie me in the rose-tints of Thy skies Upon morning summits laid; Robe me in the purple and gold that flies Through Thy shuttles of light and shade; Let me rise and rejoice in Thy smile aright As mountains and forests do; Let me welcome Thy twilight and Thy night Aud wait for Thy dawn anew | Give ma of the brook’s faith, joyously sung Under elank of its icy chain ! Give me of the patience that hides among Thy hill-tops in mist and rain ! Lift me up from the clod; let me breathe Thy breath; Thy beauty and strength give me! Let me lose both the name and the meaning f death In the life that I share with Thee | DOLLY DEVOLL'S LOVER. Hall came slowly down stairs, and looked in at the parlor door. Demure little Dolly sat by the win- dow, sewing away as busily as possible, She looked up with a bright smile, and a brighter blush. It was a most unusual occurrence for Hail Dempster to be prowling about the house at ten o'clock in the morning; and his sudden appearance surprised al- most as much as it pleased her, for it did please her; you only needed to look at her pink cheeks and bright eyes to see that. Hall studied them a moment with vast approval, before he came slowly across the room, and said, as straight- forwardly as possible: “Miss Dolly, I love you dearly; will you please be so kind as to marry me?” The pink cheeks flamed into crimson, the busy fingers trembled a little as Miss Dolly realized that she was being pro- posed to; then like a sensible girl, she entered into the spirit of the occasion, and replied with great candor and deci- sion: “Why, ves! certainly it mother 1s willing.” “Well, I wish you would ask her,” said this remarkably young man; **I am regularly done up now, and I know that I should make an awful mess of it if I should try proposing twice in one day.” **Never mind,” interrupted a placid voice; and Dolly’s mother, large, serene and comfortable, appeared before the astonished pair. Noting the conscious guilt of the two young faces, she hastened to add, **1 am quite willing that Dolly should have her own way in this matter, and”’ —laying a large ana comely hand upon the arm of the abashed young man —**I am not sure but you will hear it pretty stiongly hinted that I have planned and schemed for this very object. It is not so Hall, I could not hold Dolly so cheap as that; nevertheless I am glad to give ber to a man whocan make her life easy and pleasant. I think I can trust you to make it happy as well “You can trust me to try,’’ answered Hall with emphasis; ‘“‘and, Mrs. Devol if there is one thing about Dolly that i admire more than anether it is her mother I never had one of my own, you know, at least the step article does not count, and I have always just han- kered after a real genuine mother-in- law.” **Now if you really do not mind, won't you please turn your head away just a moment. I want to kiss Dolly awfully and she looks as though she expected me to.” “I don’t doubt that she does,” said Mrs, Devoll indulgently, “so I will give you just ten minutes to talk non- sense in, then I want Dolly down stairs.” : That night an oppressively brilliant diamond winked knowingly on Dolly's slim fore-finger; and Hall Dempster re- ceived with delighted complacency the congratulations of his friends. He was such an honest young fellow so thoroughly truthful and above board himself, that he could not make allow. ances for deceit in other: people; so in spite of all his efforts, a few unpleasant words that he overheard troubled him not a little, Miss Bruce was the speaker, and she was just old and plain enough herself to resent youth and beauty in another. “Of course,” said that envious wo- man, ‘Dolly Devoll would not be fool enough to refuse fifty thousand dollars, with a young fellow thrown in; she and her mother nay vhink themselves won- derfully shrewd, but I bave seen their little game ever since Hall Dempster came to the house.” He was vexed and indignant that any one should think Dolly mercenary and designing. He was not a little provoked that Miss Bruee should regard him as a thing to be thrown in, along with his more desirable dollars, He bad always admired Dolly's neat ways, her industry and thrift, her soft grey dresses, the total absence of any- thing like dash or display about her. Why, even his diamond, a very perfect and beautiful gem, had a sort of pert, gut of place glitter on her soft, white hand. Every time he looked at her, he felt the utter impossibility of her Slaying A pr and yet he did wish ce had held her to or that Dolly's poverty and daily toil did not make his fifty thousand dollars so allur- ng, Hr ssw] that Mrs, Devoll should hire more help, so that Doll have more time to . He took her out or walking at all hours of the day, and they went fairly to the verge of dissipation in re rd to the opera every week of their ives, enjoyed all this extremely, a ' Bary Miss Dolly She had been - working litile help-mate for her wid. owed mother ever since she could re. member, This surprisingly long holi- day, this new and pleasant companion ship, she found most delightful. It might have gone on thus sudefi- vitely: even the little cloud, no bigger 3 than a man’s hand, the faint shadow of Miss Bruce's inadvertent words might have faded quite away in the full glory of wedded sunlight had not a most unexpected event occurred. This was nothing more nor less than the ad- vent of a new boarder, Not only was she a strikingly hand- some woman, but she was also an old friend of Mr. Dempster’s. There was moreover a certain episede of their acquaintance of a peculiarly painful character, so painful indeed that he had never mentioned to Dolly that period of his history in which she Was concerned, It struck him now almost in the light of a personal insult, when entering the parlor on the evening of her arrival he had been contronted by the vivid dark eyes and beautiful face that had worked so much mischief to his earlier years, He would have accepted an introduc - tion ignoring any former acquaintance, had she not made it impossible, by holding out a very lovely hand, with a rather impressive gesture of wel- come. “Mr. Dempster and myself are ever 80 old friends,” said she, with a daas- zling flash of her dangerous dark eyes,” x And then, while Miss Bruce's thin nostrils were all a quiver to catch some seent of mystery in the air, he led this fair new-comer straight to where Dolly sat, ‘Mrs. Nelson,” said he, this is my Dolly, otherwise Miss Devoll, I am awfully in love with her, and we are to be married as soon as she can get one dozen new dresses, hats and sacks made. Everybody in the house knows all about it, but I thought I would like to tell you myself, because I remember that you used to be interested in such things; and Dolly, I want you to be particularly kind to Mrs. Nelson, for my sake, because—" with a sudden pride in the present and pique at the past—*‘‘she once dia me a great ser- vice,” For an instant, anger and surprise flashed into the beautiful eyes, then they faded into a gay, careless smile. ““Wnyiso I did,” said she. “It was ages ago; I had nearly forgotten. Miss Devoll don’t you find Hall a perpetual surprise?” “No,” said Dolly, loyal in word and deed though rather awed by so much grandeur, “Well, he always seemed to me the personification of the unexpected,” de- clared Mrs, Nelson, settling herself be- side the girl with the manner of one who had come to stay; ‘‘does he not strike you so?” Now Dolly was not at all sure that the unexpected was a favorable light in which tc view a lover, therefore she found herself at a loss how to answer; and Mrs, Nelson, perceiving her advan- tage, discussed Hall in all possible moods and tenses, with an ease and fa- miliarity that nearly reduced Dolly to the verge of imbecility, Powerless to help, Hall watched with deep indignation the discomforture of nis little love, Mrs, Nelson had that fortunately rare faculty of shining by borrowed light. Her striking and peculiar loveliness seemed to spoil any otber face brought near to it, Now Dolly, left to herself, was re- markably bright and attractive looking; beside Mrs. Nelson she seemed to fade into a colorless slip of a girl, while her companion absorbed all the life, ani- mation, character of her face, growing by contrast more brilliant every mo- ment. Hall was glad when Dolly excused herself and left the room. He would have followed her, but Mrs. Nelson claimed his attention so openly that he could only get away by positive rude- ness, 80 he suffered himself to be half amused and wholly astonished by her cool assumj.tion of a long and friendly intimacy. Dolly did not like it at all; she grew quite sharp and snappish at times and Hall noticed that these unpleasant symptoms always followed a more than seductive toilet, or aggravating display of proprietorship on the part of Mrs, Nelson, At first the idea that she might be Jealous stritk hum asa hage joke, Af terwards as a dim masculine perception of the elder woman’s attractions and fascinations, dawned upon him, he took himself sharply to task, He knew his little, honest, true-hearted Dolly, to be worth a dozen accomplished flirts ike Mrs. Nelson, and he told her so the first time he caught her quite alone; he told her also the true story of his former acquaintance with the lady. **It was years ago,” said he; “I was a young fellow at workin old Growley’s for ten dollars a week, and she came into the store; had the counter next to mine, She wus awfully pretty then; I was dead gone on her 1n no time; 1 used to spend all ny money buying presents for her, and she always thanked me with that slow, sweet little smile that she uses to this day, I wanted to marry her out of hand and live on love and faith, She was much too sensible for that even in her younger days, but she promised fair and square to walt for me: **She didn’t though; she ran off with Bart Nelson, and they both took pre- cious good care to keep oui of my way, Bart had piles of money, but they went through it all ina year or two, and then he and left her not very well pro- vided for, It is rather amusing to see what a difference money makes; with- out it, I did not deserve fair dealing and common courtesy; with it, I am worth cultivating.’ “So 1 perceive,” sald Dolly; with much asperity; then, a merry smile creeping over the sweet, indignant face: Oya that the favor she once did you “Certainly it was,” he answered; “js it riot the greatest favor such a woman can do a san, when the saves him from the result of his own folly?" After tnat Miss Dolly held her own bravely, in spite of the widow Nelson, Mr. Dempster could not help an oc. casional twinge of masculine vanity as he saw how evidently this very beautiful Sou regretted her youthful indiscre- 1. He had such perfect confidence, hiow- aver, in his own integrity, and Dolly's devotion, that he never avoided her in the least; so one evening, when most of the boarders were enjoying an unusual musical treat at the city hall, and Dolly was so seriously indisposed as to be confined te her room, he settled himself to a solitary tete-a-tete with Mrs. Nelson without any misgivings, To be sure he tried to avoid it, and would have left the parlor immediately, when he found her its only occupant, but she requested a few words with him so directly that he found himself in a manner obliged to listen to her, “Mr. Dempster,” said she, with great directness, **I have long wished to speak to you in regard to a certain ac- tion of my past. During the life of my husband, my lips were of course sealed; now I feel that I owe an explanation to yeu and to myself,” “My dear Mrs. Nelson,” interrupted Hall, “I do not wish to appear dictator- ial, but I never did believe in the resur- rection of a past, which is decently dead and buried; let us speak of more mod- ern subjects’ “No,” smd she quietly, “I have borne your scorn and contempt long enough; years ago, I broke my promise to you, made myself in your eyes, a thing of falsehood and deceit, To- morrow 1 am going away; most likely we shall never meet again, it can do no harm now for you to know the truth, When Bart Nelson bought me, body and soul, he paid, cash down, three thousand dollars; the night I left, I sent you—or thought I did, that money and a note, a note for thirty dollars; it had Peter Growley’s name on it, and had been altered to read three thou- sand. “Bart told me you were guilty of forgery. I knew old Peter Growley, and that he would have no mercy for such a sin. When I married Bart I thought I was saving you—don’t speak please, I know all you would say; my husband told the truth before hs died. My sacrifice, and the terrible year that followed it, never did ydu any good, for you were an honest man always; I was breaking at the thought of the wicked deceit that had spoiled my life,” She had drawn very near to him as she spoke. Her lifted dark eyes were full of tears, a subtile perfume, so faint and intangible, that it seemed a part of the fragrance of her beauty, drifted about him, “Hall,” sald she and the passion and pain of years trembled in her voice, “my past I have never buried, it is as fresh and fair, and dear to me to-day as it ever was. Your heart 1s full of Dolly for you are a man, and men change, but women never; there can be no reason to her in forgiving mea fault I was never guilty of. O! Hall, look at me once, with no sneer on your lips, no contempt in your dear eyes.” Hall Dempster was terribly moved. It was misery to think that he had so misjudged anyone, a horrible sense of loss and injustice filled him: and when the trembiing Lips tempted, and the dark eyes entreated him, he took her in his arms and kissed her asin the old days, It was like the woman, that after leading him into so much of an indis- cretion, she refused a y further con- versation. and insisted on leaving him to the unpleasant companionship of his own thoughts, *Gool night,” said she, sweetly flushed and tearful, ‘‘we may not see each other alone again, but if in the morning you send me a white bud from Dolly's pretty rose tree, I shall know that the past is forgiven, and not quite forgotten" Then she left him, greatly perplexed and distressed, That this beautiful misjudged wom- an, should go through life a suffering martyr to ber undying affection for himself, seemed a picture too pathetic for contemplation. In the light of her noble self sacri- fice, her grand devotion, Doll's minor virtues faded into insignificance; the girl herself grew weak, common place, almost undisirable, Here Hall brought himself up sharply with the trite re- minder, that two wrongs never yet made one right; and started to possess himself of the rose bud of reconcilia- tion. A small architectural excrescence, dignified by the name of conserva- tory, adjoined the parlor, thither he bent his steps, Drawing aside the secluding cur- tains, he entered a domain redolent of Dolly. This pretty bit of summer verdure, was her special province, her care, her pride, her heart's delight. The room was sweet with f nce, a cool moisture filled the air, the silver moon light gave a fairy like grace to every leaf and blossom; it fell in a flood of soft splendor, over a bowed brown bead, and little gray figure, Hall stepped nearer, his heart bound. ing to his throat in great suffocating throbs yes, there was no mistake, it was Dolly, a crushed, pathetic, heart broken Dolly crouching against the great jar that held the white glory of her splendid bridal rose, He stood beside her, tilled with pity and remorse, Glib of tongue as he had ever been, he found no words in which to break the silence which had come between them ; and so he crept away guiltily, glad not to meet the sad reproach of those honest eyes, Strange to say, the rosebush lost neither bud nor blossom, He went to his room and passed a sleepless night, In the morning, little Sally, with a look of wisdom beyond her years, brought him a note. He opened it, half impatiently and MY VERY DEAR FRIEND iI deem it a matter of prudence to leave the house before seeing you again ; and If you will permit a word of advice, I would caution you against trying to fight a woman with her own weapons. *You made a most uneivil remark upon the occasion of my introduction jo tian Dolly. You also told that most young person, some unneces- sary truths about me, 'I feel confident that by this time you have amply aton- ed for these indiscretions of speech, and are ina frame of mind to thank me for showing you the natural insta. bility of your character, and opening the eyes of your lady love, As for the little fiction with which I entertained you last evening, I need only remind you that it is the first day of April, and I lay the flatteriag unc. tion to my soul, that no one is expect. ed to tell the truth upon all Fools day. Farewell, ADA NELSON, For a few minutes Hall sat stunned, He had been insulted, fooled, ruined for the amusement of this woman, Dolly was too noble and truthful, too honest herself to overlook such a sin as his had been. In contrast to Mrs, Nelson's unwom- anlyness, Dolly's sweetness, and purity shone out, most desirable, most unat- tainable, He had one moment's mind to run away himself, then he put the cowardly temptation aside, and went downstairs, to face the worst. To his great relief Dolly did not come down to breakfast. He wanted to see her alone once more, after that, the scandal and disgrace of a broken en- gagement which he meant to take en- tirely upon himself, He trifled over his coffee until all the other boarders had finished their meal and gone away; then, as he half ex- pected she would, Mrs, Devoll asked him to go up to her little sitting room for a moment or two, as Dolly was most anxious to see him, How like a great big naughty boy he did feel as he went up stairs to his well merited doom. A pitiful apology for his pretty Dolly met his sight as he opened the door, A purple, red eyed, swollen Dolly, How the poor child must have suffered, to have cried herself into such an awful shape, thought he, looking remorsefully at the watery ruin. “Hall,” said she thickly, “I ,wanted you to see just what a fright I am cap- able of becoming.” “I took cold last night, and this is the result. Do you think your love would survive many such attacks?” “11 not understand,” stam- mered he greatly surprised at his recep- tion, “Well!” said Dolly, “if you must know the whole story, I was just child- ish and silly enough to want to April. fool somebody, so last evening I went down and fastened more than twenty paper blossoms onto my bndal rose bush.” “1 was going to ask you to pick me some after the folks got home from the concert, “When I got it all fixed, Mrs. Nel- son came into the parlor. I did not want her to see me, s0 I thought I would walt until she went out; I was not feeling well, the flowers were so sweet, and the air so heavy, that I fell asleep, I must have slept some time for I took this terrible cold. “Were you then really asleep?’ cried Hall In great excitement, **Now be honest, dear, for 1 saw you in there; you did not lock up, or speak, and I thought you were angry with me for talking so long with Mrs. Nelson.” “What an idea!” laughed Dolly, scornfully, “I hope I never was jeal- ous of that woman; though to be sure, I am glad she has gone,” “So am i,” aflirmed Hall, with flat. tering sincerity. “And,” said Dolly, wiping her pink nose reflectively, “it seems you thought I was angry, when I was really asleep. Don’t you see dear, that after all I did April-fool you?” “So you did Dolly! so you did!” cried Hall with vast appreciation. “You fooled me finely.” A ——————————————————————— do Austria's Empress, The Empress 18 at once proud and capricious, and in some ways is one of the most interesting, as well as extraor- dinary woman of her rank that the century has produced, writes a corre. spondent from Vienna, She i+ equally proud of her hair and her figure, the first being as abundant as a Magdalen’s the latter as slender asa girl's. The former she wears as loosely as possible; the latter she tights as mach asshe can. Her waist belts used to be shown as curiosities in exhibitions, They measure only eighteen inches in circumference, I can remember but one other woman with a waist so small, The Emperor has always been a model husband, so far as admiration for his wife's beauty is concerned. He is reported to have said on one occasion that ‘the Empress Eugenie might be the most beautiful woman in the world if there were not my wife,” When the Shah of Persia traveled some years ago in Europe, the Empress of Austria was the only sovereign who would not receive him, She shut hers self up in a country castle all the time that he was in Austria. She never could be induced to go to Paris during the empire, the style ot living at the Tuileries not bemg to her taste. A short time ago, also, when passing through Paris, «he would not go to the Elysees to return the President's visit, She. never follows a fashion, it is said, but makes her own fashions. and as all her inventions are suited to her own peculiarities of person, they do not be. come many other women. It was she who introduced the abominable fashion of high shouldered sleeves fulled in on the shoulders, a fashion which does little credit to her artistic taste to say the least. Al r, however, Austria is proad of her Empress, who, take her for all in all, Is a wonderfully attractive woman for her 1 must add that no woman ever studied her own beauty so much as the Empress does. Every hour of the day 1s em aad in its conservation. She rises by reak and goes to bed at dark, to keep her complexion clear, and she spends her days on horseback to keep her figure trim. Her food and drink are lated, and for the same object, This is better than painting ber face, but it isa life of sacrifices which few women would be willing to lead, even for beauty 's sake, A coxvextion of barbers was broken up use one man said he had & raz. orlution he desired to offer, - Wild Indians of Niagars Falls, Mark Twain says: The noble red man has always been a friend and dariing of mine. I love to read of his inspired sagacity, and his love of {he wild free life of mountain and forest, and his general nobility of character, and his stately, metaphorical manner of speech, and his chivalrous love for the dasky maiden, and the picturesque pomp of his dress and accoutrements. Especially the picturesque pomp of his dress and accoutrements, When 1 found the shops of Niagara Falls full of dainty Indian bead work, and stunning moccasins, and equally stunning toy figures representing human beings who carried their weapons in holes bored through their arms and bodies, and had feet shaped like a pie, I was filled with emotion, I knew that now, at last, I was going to come face to face with the noble Bed Man. A lady clerk in a shop told me, indeed, that all her grand array of curiosities were made by the Indians, and that there were plenty about the Falls, and that they were friendly, and it would not be dangerous to speak to them. And sure enough, as I ap- proached the bridge leading over to Luna Island, I came upon a noble Son of the Forest sitting under a tree, dili- gently at work on a bead reticule. He wore a slouched hat and brogans, and had a short black pipe in his mouth. Thus does the baneful contact with our effeminite civilization dilute the picturesque pomp which is so natural to the Indian when far removed from us in his native haunts, I addressed the relic as follows: “Is the Wahoo Wang-Wang of the Whack-a-Whack happy? Does the great Speckeled Thunder sigh for the war path, or is his heart content with dreaming of the dusky maiden, the Pride of the Forest? Does the mighty Sachem yearn to drink the blood of his enemies, or is he satisfied to make bead reticules for the pappooses of the pale- faces? Speak, sublime relic of bygone grandeur—venerable ruin, speak?’’ The relic said: — An’ is it mesilf, Dennis Hooligan, that ye'd be takin’ for a dirty Injun, ye drawlin’, lantern-fjawed, spider-legged divill By the piper that played before Moses, I'll brain ye!” I went away from there, By and by, in the neighborhood of the Terrapin Tower, I came upon a gentle daughter of the sboriginies in fringed and beaded buckskin moccasins and leggins, seated on a bench, with her pretty wares about her. She had just carved out a woodden chief that had a strong family resemblance to a clothespin, and was now boring a hole through his abdomen to put his bow through. I hesitated a moment and then addressed her: “Is the heart of the forest maiden heavy? Is the Laughing Tadpole lonely? Does she mourn over the ex- tinguished council fires of her race, and the vanished glories of her ancestors? Or does her sad spirit wander afar to- ward the happy hunting grounds whither her brave Gobbler-of-the- Lightnings is gone? Why is my daugh- ter silent? Has she aught against the palefaco stranger?’’ The maiden said: — “Fax, an’ is it Biddy Malone ye dare to be callin’ names? Leave this, or I'll shy your lean carcass over the cataract, ye sniveling blaggard!”’ I adjourned from there also, “Confound these Indians! I said, “They told me they were tame; but, if appearances go for anything, I should say they were all on the war path?” I made one more attempt to fratern. ize with them, and only one. I came upon a camp of them gathered in the shade of a great tree, making wampum and moccasins, and addressed them in the language of friendship: “Noble Red Men, Draves, Grand Sachems, War Chiefs, Squaws, and High Muck-a-Mucks, the paleface from the setting sun greets you! You, Ben- eficent Polecat—you, Devourer of mountains—you, I Thundergust ~you, Bully Boy witha Glass Eye-—the paleface from beyond the great waters greets you alll War and pestilence have thinned your ranks, and destroyed your once proud nation. Poker and seven-up, and a vain modern expense for soap, unknown to your glorious an cestors, have depleted your purses. Ap- propriating, in your simplicity the pro- perty of others, has gotten you into trouble. Misrepresenting facts in your simple innocence has rad your reputation with the soulless usurper, Trading for forty-rod whiskey, to en- able you to get drunk and happy and tomahawk your families, has played the everlasting mischief with the pic. turesque pomp of your dress, and here you are in the broad light of the nine. teenth century, gotten up like the ragtag and bobtail of the purlieus of New York, For shame! Remember your ancestors! Recall their mighty deeds! Remember Uncas!—and Red Jacket!— and Hole in the Dayl—and Whoopde- doodlede! Emulate their achievements! Unfurl yourselves usder my banner, noble savages, illustrious gutter- snipes—'’ “Down wid him!” “Scoop the blag- I” “Burn him!" lag “Hang him!” *Dhround him!" It was the quickest operation that ever was, I simply saw a sudden flash int the air of clu “EN clothes off me; they broke my arms and legs; they gave mea thump that dented jhe 0 my ea A Sound hold coffee A saucer; an crown their d proceedings and add insult to , they threw me over the Ni. agara and I got wet. About ninety or a hundred feet from the top, the remains of y. 1 sailed round in it forty-four times-chasing a chip and gaining on it—each round trip Hh» juste lymissing it bya hair’s-breadth every time, At last a man walked down and sat down close to that bush, and put a pipe in hus mouth, and lit a match, and fol- lowed me with one eye and kept the other on the match, while he sheltered it in his hands from the wind, Pres. ently a puff of wind blew it out. The next time I swept around he said: “Got a match?” “Yes; in my other vest, Help me out please,” “Not for Joe,” When I came around again, I said: “Excuse the seemingly impertinent curiosity of a drowning man, but will you explain this singular conduet of yours?” “With pleasure. I am the coroner. Don’t hurry on my account. I can wait for you, But I wish I bad a match,” 1 said: “Take my place, snd I'll go and get you one.” He declined. This lack of confidence on his part created a coldness between us, and from that time forward I avoided him. It was my idea, in case anything happened to me, to so time the occurrence as to throw wy custom into the hands of the opposition coroner over ou the American side, At last a policeman came along, and arrested me for disturbing the peace by yelling at people on shore for help. The judge fined me, but I had the advantage of him. My money was with my pant- aloons, and my pantaloons were with the Indians, Thus I escaped. I am now lying in a very critical condition. At least I am lying anyway —eritical or not criti- cal, I am hurt all over, but I cannot tell the full extent yet, because the doctor is not done taking the inventory. He will make out my manifest this evening. However, tLus far he thinks only sixteen of my wounds are fatal, I don’t mind the others, “It is an awful savage tribe of In- dians that do the bead work and mocca- sins for Niagara Falis, doctor, Where are they from?" “Limerick, my son.” Magnetic Watches, “Did you ever see a magnetic watch?” said a gentleman to a reporter the other day. **Well, look here,” The gentleman pulled a heavy gold watch out of his pocket. The reporter looked incredulous, **Oh, you don’t believe it, do you? Do you expect an aurora borealis or a thunder storm to play around a magnetic watch? Well, you are doomed to dis- appoictment, But come along with mne.’’ The reporter stepped with him into an opticlan’s. The gentleman borrowed a compass which he placed upon the counter. He brought the wateh near to the compass and moved it gently from mde to side. The needle followed the watch as though it were a strong magnet, “This watch is a $400 watch,” the gentleman, ““which I bought in New York recently. It would lose some days ten seconds, and others ten minutes, varying with strange irregu- larity, I took it again and again to Jewelers, but their efforts to repair the difficulty were unsuccessful. I sent to a noted watchmaker in Newark. He replied that it must be a magnet watch. I thought that he was trying to guy me. I made the trial you have seen, accord- ing to his directions, and with the same result as you have seen, I am cone vinced, now, that the moment the watch is in the close vicinity of ron, it is affected so as to lose time,’ . A prominent watchmaker said: ‘Watches are magnetized generally by too close proximity to an electric bat- tery. In these electric light offices watches are often affected, You should be careful, also, to avoid carrying a magnet about your person near to a watch. The test of bringing a watch close to a compass is not a good one. All hunting cases have steel in them that would affect the needle of a com. pass, If those steel springs were mag- netized, they would of course, affect the needle in a greater degree. The best test is to take out the movement from the case and place the balance wheel, for instance, on a cork floating upon the surface of water. Then Lring your needle up to the cork, and if you whirl it about, you may be sure your balance wheel is magnetized. A good watch is spoiled by becoming magnet. ized, but you can have it demagnetised sometimes,” said ——————— Right Ams, With all our boasted education. we have yet to utilize those lessons of self- knowledge and self-respect which should Juspize each young boy and girl not to look forward with greedy eye to the possibility of becoming a great states- man or leader of fashion or star, but to search diligently for his or her capa- bility, and to develop it, whatever it may be, in all earnestness, faithfulness and loyaltys Bosh in home-life and in school life, our influence over the young should always be in this direction. It a on nienon: O, ihe con . gnnobling a brightest hope. It is the ouly path to for no one is ever 80 happy e-is Jagesssfully engages in 1t is assuredly
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