A DIFFERENCE, | You drink from out your cup The sweetest wine; I have but bitter dregs And lees, in mine, You have the richest fruit In all the land; Mine has turned to ashes Within my hand. You count your conquests o'er And little dream My love is greater far Than all they seem. A thousand hearts are yours, You care for none, I'd give my life to have The heart of one. “EVER THINE.” “It is very cold, dearest, Are your wraps sufficiently warm?” said John Elton, as he placed his hand caressingly on the shoulder of Ella Wardour, who was going out for a sleigh ride with him that crisp, cold, January morning. “Oh, ves,” replied Ella. Look, my | cloak is fur-lined and my hood is made of eider-down. 1 am weather-proof, I think.’ The jinglirg of bells announced the arrival of the sleigh at the door. Ella went out into the hall, and returned with a letter in her hand. “‘Sea,” she cried, as she held up the | wissive. ‘James found this in the sleigh, where you must have dropped i” “Yes, dear. Come let us be My horse is restless in the cold.” “But the letter?” “Oh, yes, the letter. “Not until you tell me the name of your correspondent. The writing is certainly feminine, and the dainty seal 1s of blue wax, bearing the motto ‘Ever Thine’ impressed up on it. ‘Ever Thine,’ indeed !—ta a man whose love has been off, " Give it to me. plighted to me for a year! Tell me the name of the writer and give me permis- the lett lo that answered “Would you bave me betray the secrets of cannot Ong fair lady to another, when they are both unmarried, and profess to be equally fond of me?” “Then you correspondent is you?" “Yes, my and I believe she is fond of me." “Now John,” cried Ella, **I will read the letter and you cannot prevent me!” As she attempted to break the seal her lover snatched the missive from her hand. Ella still smiled; but there was a bitter tone in her voice, and an an flush deepened the roses on her ches John could not ke change in her countsnance, and of sternness and determ with the smile upon his swered: ‘Will, Ella, is not a pleasant word for rosy lips!" letter into fragments and . threw them in the fire, adding as he did so" Nos are you satisfied? as well to me as to yourself. ? acknowledge ' lady : , correspondent is a lady, ry "iJ 1 4 ke observing the a shade nation mingled Li he an- ps as Thus speaking he tore the v The contents are lost An angry retort rose to Ella’s lips as she witnessed destruction of the letter, and the request that had only been playfully made now took the form of action of vital importance. *‘I will never forgive him!” was her first thought, but she paused before she spoke again. Then with a calm gaid: “Mr. Elton your sleigh is at thea door: I have the honor to very good morning!” She was about leaving the room when John sald to ber: “Stop, Ella, fof a minute. I was rude to burn the letter and I ask your pardon. Will you not give me one kiss before you go?” . “1f you tell me what was in that let- ter!” a “I know no more about its contents than you do.” “Then tell me the name of your cor- respondent.”’ “How can I tell you when I did not see it? Have you not learned yet that requests succeed better with me than demands? The kiss first,” he continu- ed, as he took her unwilling hand “‘and then I will tell you all I know about Hy *“The information first,” replied the girl “Mo,” sald John, “If you never kiss me again!’ His look of determination was unmistakable now, and his proud | lips pressed hard against each other. “This time, farewell, Mr. Elton!” Ella made a slight inclination of the | head, while an angry flush burned brightly upon her face, | “Farewell? Let it be so, then!" | cried John, “Farewell, Miss War-| dour.” In a second John was gone, and the | sleighbells shat had rung such a merry | peal in Ella's ears now seemed to sound | a death-knell to all her hopes. She | buried her head in the sofa cushions and burst into a violent fit of weeping. “Why, Ella, dear, not gone yet?” said a sweet, motherly voice, as the door opened and Mrs, Singleton entered the room, When she saw the prostrate form of her niece and heard her stifled fobs she quickly approached her with a sace full of sympathy. “What is the matter, Ella? here is John? 1 thought you had gone out together, What has happened,’ “Oh, Aunty, iv was a'l about a hor rid letter!’’ sobbed the girl. *'1 have the voice she wish you a been rude and unfeeling, and John has back to me, and my heart is broken— “Ella, you have not quarreled with John? Surely vou have not parted with him in anger?” such a tremor of alarm that the girl looked quickly up. She saw that every tears. “Oh, Aunty!” girl, “why do you look at me so? you know that John will never—-. A fresh burst of throbs choked voice and her head was again buried in the sofa cushions, 1" knew the story of my would not wonder it fills me parted in anger. “Your life, Aunty?—and I have always thought you were so happy.” “There was a time dear child, when I was young and fair, and 1, too, had a lover, noble and true, on whom 1 stowed my heart. My parents gave me to Henry Singleton willingly, because they thought he would be sure to make We were married and alter our bridal tour, when returned to our lovely cottage home, nestling among the trees and shrubs that quite Ind it from the of the we lived a life of perfect felicity. be- view passers by, “It was in the third month third month—of our wedded existence that Henry came one day the kiss without which Lie His horse was saddled at the gate, only the to give me he never left me, and a bouquet ot roses he hdd gathered for me was in his hand, As he entered 1 1 % looked s0 handsome and the room he good that my whole heart went out in to God for having made thankfulness me his wife, “i 'My darling,’ he said, as note, ‘1 must ask your ¥ ot Fy forgetf nass, This was | store vesterday, bn I Tarocat it 41 0 » i to you ‘+ T* i both Henry and myself, Ww sy ~ " v . HOLe WAS Iron irik nds dear ¢ tald +1 It told us th were dine with us that coming out to day, and begged that Henry would +) 3 LOT z #1} s } i 3 WON, a8 Ley Lada 8 I . 4 4 1 ¥y ular to tell him. home I said to him, aft 1 cannot pr ) would be glad to I have an engagement FRY ii. he Seckoiimile at three o'clock tL pus fv Oils must be put the wilfulness of a pets & friends have ne « Wn MAT 1 been here and you must promise posi- ively to come home.’ “You must not wife,’ he answered, merchant and cannot 1 ness I must keep my PCIOCK., “And this eng consequence LO you your wife?’ 1 po “Don’t be un “Promise the ty » Rieger ’ home to dinner, “¢I have already told you I promise,’ y 1 ' 5 5 “Well, then, go!’ I said. ‘I do not \ ’ care whet! Canno ier you ever come back again!’ and 1 left him, “Henry mounted his horse and rode AWAY. wuld ling him Had he looked back 1 sal have called him, and after te him, begged for the kiss and embrace that were always mine at parting, but repentance came too late, and he was gone, “] passed a wretched day with my friends. My were constantly strained to hear the sound of the hoofs of Henry's horse upon the road. It was not because I expected my husband bome, for 1 didn't, but a feeling of un- Sars if some terrible calamity were about to ass=ail me, At last I heard a dull sound as of marching footstepa along the ave- nue, and after a viclent ringing of the bell I was summoned to the hall to hear that my Henry, in his efforts to reach our dwelling in time for the dinner, had stones that lay at tue roadside, workmen had borne him home on a rude “ ‘Henry, dear Henry,’ I exclaimed, He smiled faintly and opened his eyes but in another moment he closed them again, and the smile faded from his face. God in His mercy spared him for a sea- son, but he never recovered from his imjuries, and his life was misery to him, All my time was devoted to him now, bat 1 could not repair the mischief I had done. 1 never left him day or might, till the end came, and he died in my arms,” Mrs, Singleton arose from the chair in which she had been sitting during her recital. Her bitter experience had been told, and in sadness she sought her chamber, Eila raised herself from the sofa with # look of sudden resolution. She walk- = - be spared to go to the city. “Have you a sudden demand for new “No papa. I want a letter taken to John.” “A letter to John? Why, he has just us! Well, well, don’t cry. Jumes anywhere you please, but tears, child, no tears.” repentant maiden, dear John?" And the answer came: Automata. In mechanical curiosities there have been many wonderful exhibits in the present day, the Great Exhibition of 1862 drew crowds to it; but we remember during the sale of Week's mechanical tion, half a century ago, a similar grace- collec ful little warbler, and we saw two other mechanical songsters which the French from the Emperor's Summer Palace al Pekin. We regret that we missed the machine for making Latin which was eXnibited in our day at the Egyptian Hall—a real school boys; nor have we seen the squal- ling baby which a modern man of sgience constructed—surely a bringing verses, ¥ : * blessing Lo of coals to Newcastle: but we remem- ber well, abot very wonderfu which had been originally designed as to Emperor There was a young lady, presents the layed tunes upon a spinnet; anothe the 11, - 1 o} - av a) adic CAIUS WULICH ia tions inscribed on t >» 4 - wt r making you HB GOOT, given was $ to the q reply always priate iestion, sre general character, y the answers on conversation won, when we ask, Ar ou not troubled vy A ialtnny ATOUS VIsILOT with the ir 9 ¢ hould be ungrateful Our next question different kind. “What is tha ture?” Wis It was, we belr sweetest The conjurer the gate, and and ten years later, « of marvels, Dabbage’s machine, AI cis tireat Hells, jussia 1s in the lead in the line of bells, some of her manufacture being the most famous of the world, It is said that in great fire, there fewer than 1700 large bells, One called the giant, which was cast in the sixteenth century and broken by falling from its support, Moscow alone, before the were no required twenty-four men to ring it; its was suspended from an immense beam at the foot of a bell-tower, but it fragments, which were used with addi. tional materials in 1732 in casting the King of Bells, still to be seen in Mos. The bell is estimated to weigh 443732 pounds; it is nineteen feet three inches of 400,000, St. Ivan's, also in Moscow, is forty feet nine inches in ecircumfer. ence, sixteen and one-half inches thick, and weighs 127,830 pounds. The bells of Chiga rank next to those of Russia in size, In Pekin there are seven bells, each of which, according to Father Le Compt, weighs 120.000 pounds. The weight of the feading great bells of the world may be seen in the following: King of bells (Moscow), 443,732; St. Ivan's (Moscow), 127,830; Pekin, 120.. 000; Vienna, 40,200; Olmutz (Bohemia) 40,0004 Paul's, 38.470; “Big Ben’ ( Vestmin. Peter's (Rome), 18,600, a ——— True religion 1s full of acts-—not words, Mow 1t 1s Guarded, It 18 often said that *‘if thieves are That may be true of private houses, and such a thing as perfectly guarding that the great public treasurles are seldom molested by burglars, and one at least has never had so much as an attempt made upon it. The resources of a whole country are needed, how- tion, A party of Englishmen who recently sury, “Why,” they said, ‘“‘at the Bank of England the military is alwayson duty, and to get past it and into the building is worth one’s life, unless he has author- ity. Here I dont see a guard,” But there are guards, and plenty of them, only they don’t wear red and parade up and down the street in front of the building. “Do you this armory?” said Capt, Cobaugh, the chief of the force, to your correspondent, opening a door cout 8, 1, BEG as ho did so and displaying line afte: line of loaded revolvers, They were of the largest and best variety known to the military authorities, “We sixty men with these,” he said,’ and nearly all old sol- diers, have armed I should like to seeany suscoss- These men are divided into watches, and are on duty in all parts of the building at all hours, 16 of cl ful attempt to rob the treasury. ’ erks and officials goes TR ght, our and safes apparatus officers enter nspect every room, the th { see that the are all locked, 11 “© heating all right and water turned ff, “If a safe is found $+ &y Vid vores f UL ill Charge ol nd the guard INDAXKEs [18 Tounus every the walchman patrol fiftonn 1 Hiveen ms nutes or « there OF OWerw i111 . 110858 ever It would be an before re 10CKed, Perhaps it was his isness over the fright that made his signature so crooked, ——— Bubltermilk With His Soup, (General Sheridan says: [ was station. ed at New Urleans when Mr, Greeley came there on his tour when a date for the Presid candi. ney, The old Cre o ole residents gave him a dinner, and, to affair as possible, each of the many hosts was laid under make it as fine an the contribution for some of the rarest wines in his cellar. When dinner was announced and the half-shell oyster had disappeared, the waiter appeared at Mr. Greeley’s seal with a plate of beautiful shrimps, “You can take them away,” he said to the waiter, and then he add- ed apologetically to the horrified old Creole gentleman who presided, ‘I never eat insects of any kind.” Later He pushed it aside quietly, but not un- “Do you “No "0" . **Is there anything yon the host asked, a littie disappointed, “If you've got it,’ answered Mr, Gree. ley, “and it isn’t any trouble, I'd Like to have a glass of fresh buttermilk.” “Mon Dieu!” said the host afterward in bis broken Englhsh, ‘‘ze idea of elec- ting to ze Presidency a man vot drink buttermilk vis his soup!” mss s—— II Ie ————" Stoel Ratls, No steel rails were imported into the United States during March, and only 7.010 tons during the nine months en- ding with. March, against 105.128 tons imported during the corresponding nine moths of 1883, Of iron rails, 84 tons were imported in March, 1884, 142 tons in March, 1883, 5687 tons in nine months ending with March, 1884, and 5,216 tons in the nine months ending with March, 1883, ——————— Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits, Experience is a torch lighted in the ashes of hopes and delusions, A Victim of Rolltaire, A story is told of an old French gen- tleman, who, when he could not play piquet, passed all his time at sohtaire, He lived some distance beyond Paris, not far from the Dridge of Sevres, Wheu the Prussians invested Paris his modest room in the upper portion ot a house was terribly exposed, being a mark for the shells of the beleaguering force. There was no one who could so this old geutleman played and played solitaire, all by himself, There was one particular game that had never come out straight, save once before, and that was in 18458, when Louls Philippe was deposed, and then the house he had lived in had come tumbling down over his head. As all card players are superstitious, this old gentleman believed in coincid- ences. He was then working at this same intricate game when crash a shell and knocked off half the making the houses shake to its founda- tion. His servant woman begged him her leave the “Never,” he sald ; “I have the firm -se6 Marie, I wanted the king of hearts and the king is come—1I have the that I shall bring the game to a happy conclusion, caine roof on knees to house, conviction firm conviciion I must have now the three of or +2 £% fas BPaaes, ir the game is abruptly closed if it don’t turn up. -a8 if by i } of here is the dear three smiled, the Ee Hiagic spades,” and Then a solid shot tore through the story above and the servant woman When the Prussians burst into a quarter of ar ol veld old gentleman him fled. the house hour afterward they found an old gentleman quietly seated before a table with or a pack of cards on Though the house had been riddled Ke a sieve, Lhe old solil “ 1 ana iw } hed hi v 3 vias : --e The Coming Woman, Speaking of wrestlers, says aNew Y ork a young woman, can throw any oir Kili i } at rurd fa ¥ she allands, an suntry girl who can the pupils of ti was maint ial aplown | which vined so many Park, and oy ight I know ? The girls wave begun to save lives already from It was a little Miss of good in Harlem lad from the Harlem river last summer, Where is the country Ars Central Near in up is still for a go Sot ue water, — ongings who dragged a oir Rill in these lati- the womanly, short at the roller-skating rink last winter ? Where is a farmer's daughter who knows the points of a horse like the young women tudes who can skate like brunette in skirts who carried off the pair 1 well-rounded little who figured conspicuously at last week's horse show 7 At sight of a horse did they say— “Oh, what a perfectly lovely creature! Oh 1sn’t he nice? Isn't he just too splendid 7° Not at all. They criticised the width of Lis breast, the size of his head, the taper of his legs, the hoofs, joints, nos- trils, back, ant, in short, every point of the beast had got or had missed, and all in technical terms, talking as confident ly with a horse far.cier or a jockey as one lady used to talk to another about the number of flounces on a fashion- able skirt. Milttary Servioe In Rossin, By the general military law of Russia, with the colors and nine years in the re- The number of years to be passed in the ranks could, however, for recruits who have received a certain measure of education, be shortened to three; while students who bad passed the leaving examination at a gymnasium could get off with six months’ service, and students who had graduated at a University with three, Either because students are out of favor just now, or because it has been found by actual ex- periment that academical training can. not be accepted as a substitute for mile itary drill, the period of obligatory ser. who have been through all the classes teen months FOOD FOR THOUGHT, Jaws catch flies, but let cape, (zod book. The mob hath many hea brains, Most 149 queror! If every meuded, hornets es. deliver me from a man of one men cry, “Long live the con. one mend one, all may be It is a bad action thal success cannot justify, The more a believes, Prate is prate, but it is the duck that lays the egg. The absurd never changes, There 1s more of self-love than in jealousy. ¥e i man knows the less he man 18 the man who Ove Religion and language are sucked in with onr milk. Complaint of present times of all times, The best instruction is what we teach. He who owes well to his shoes, The world 18 a buy way and often a highway besides, Bend your pedigree to ses what it will bay. It is behind another's horse, is general to practice brambles must market, ard better to walk than always ride A To test the strength of a fries him to indorse a note, 1d—ask to God or A woman can lead a man drive him to the devil. When two friends have a common purse, one sgins—the other weeps, When a man boards a wrong thought he is liable to run off the 1 1» rin rv » Men searching for luck to givethem: ride only scare up horses for enterprise to saddle, painter whose One ent i i hour. Write every day is the Dest A man need only imself with the same rigor that he others, and excuse others same indulgence that he sh self. Virtue consists reprehends with the "WS 10 lume- in making desire subordinate to duty, passion to princi- ‘he pillars of character are moderation, temperance, chastity, sim- plicity, self-control; its method is self denial, Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they cannot harm you, uniess you are wanting in charac- ter; and, if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble. The truly virtuous do not easily credit evil that is told them of their neighbors; for it others do amass, then may these also speak amiss; man is frail and prone to evil, and therefore may soon fail in words, ple. One of the first duties of a woman's 18 to always look as pretty as possible, It goes without saying that wives, mothers, and maidens shall be good- tempered, skilled in housewivery, true- hearted and kindly tempered, In the hnman temple character should be the foundation, intellect the heavy timbers, wisdom the roof, and If the temple is laid over with Christian graces it will become fire-proof. The gifts which distinctively mark the artist, without which he must be feeble in life, forgotten in death-—with which he may become one of the shak- ers of the earth, and one of the signal- He who is sympathetic has his ene trance nto all hearts, and is the solver of all buman problems, To him is given dominion where he thinks to serve; and the love he gives without stint, as without calculation, he re- ceives back without measure, as with- out conditions, Obedience is the crowning grace, stability, and its bappines:, faith its Exactly in proportion to the majesty of things in the scale of being is the com- pleteness of their obedience to the laws that wre set over them
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