——————_—.... pg meatal marasmus — NOT TO-DAY, Not to-day the golden fruition Of the hopes that beckon on, For the joy of attained ambition Flashed not from the eyes of dawn. Not to-day the vessel! riding In the port of Happy Isles, ‘Where rapture is ever abiding And illusion no more beguiles, Not to-day the bloom of the lotus To gladden seasick eyes, And a glory like that of Canopus On the evening's tropic skies, All of these for evasive to-morrow, But to-day desire’s unrest, The toil of endeavor and sorrow For the slow, uncertain quest, — erent ra— WRONGLY ACCUSED, The sunshine of a morning in early June was streaming across the bare and discolored floors of the dreary old ser- vants’ office where blue-eyed little Re- becca Glenn sat patiently waiting for her chance in the great lottery of Life. She was a modest pink-cheeked lassie with lips like a ripe red raspberry: rippling brown hair that needed no “crimping pins” to give it the fashion- able undulation, and a clear, healthy skin, browned with country wind and country sunshine. Her dress was of cheap calico, of the color known as ‘‘madder red,” and she wore a bonnet, tied down under her dimpled chin with a sober green ribbon been washed and ironed more than once. “*Oh, dear,” thought Rebecca, with a9 me 7 Rebecca was getting rather despond- ent, in spite of the brave courage which had upheld her during the long weary hours of the sultry morning. for cooks, waitresses were wanted in all directions; children’s nurses, seamstresses, lady's maids seemed to find no difficulty in obtain- ing situations, but nobody appeared to want a maid-of-all-work. “ne by one the companions of her morning’s vigil dropped away, and still Rebecca sat there, flushed and weary, thinking of the solitary two-shi piece in her purse. She knew that would only suffice to purchase another supper and another night's lodging. And then—then what would become of her, friendless TO Hing it a solitary, multuous babe! of that great city ? But all of a suddéh, a cheery, pleas —the voice of a portly old lady, in a rustling black silk and gold spectacles, who had just came into the office “I would prefer a young girl, ma’- am,” said the pleasantly modulated voice. *‘some one who isn't too old to learn my way of dung things, and suit herself to me and my bel some one ma'am, whi mgings— y could make her self generally useful, and be always ready when I called, and treat my cat and green parrot kindly. [am not at al 1 experience, or The mistress of the registry struck paused to take breath. *I young person here, madam, that I think will suit you exactly,” she said peering over the top of her hig, railed-in desk, “She is from the country and very Interesting face.” ‘‘Rebeccal she called aloud; ‘‘Rebecca come here 1"? And Rebecca came, timid and blush- have a has a heart beating so that she could hardly speak, “There, Mrs. Perkins,” sald the dame of the desk, waving her hand to the girl. and approved. ‘‘Well,” she said, after swered. “I like your looks and I think I'll engage you.” Rebecea’s heart leaped up within her. She had been so nearly homeless that a prospect of 8 home in good truth seemed very inviting to her. “Thank you, ma'am,” she said, shrly, “Two pounds a quarter is all that I can give you at first,” went on Mrs, Perkins, smoothing down the thick folds of her silk dress, “You kuow, its always best to adhere to your set rules—but if you make yourself of use to me, I shall probably increase the amount in the course of a month or two.” So little Rebecca Glenn found a situation at last, in the roomy old fashioned house of Mrs. Perkirs, where the back windows opened upon a garden full of honeysuckles, and tangled gooseberry hedges, the lovely alleys, shaded with the umbrella. like foliage of huge old pear and cherry trees, gnaried and ancient, and fringed with silver-green patches of moss, “Oh, this is beautiful I” was Rebec- ca’s first involuntary exclamation, *It makes me think of my home In" the country.” “Do you like it my girl ?" asked Mrs. Perkins with a pleased smile; and Rebecca had unconsciously made another step in the cheery old widow's good graces. Hebecca was very happy in her new home. True, there were drawbacks to her complete felicity, The parrot was vociferous and quar- relsome; and the cat old, irritable and 1 of her claws ; but then, Mrs, Perkins herself was such a perpetual fount of beaming good humor and smiles, that Rebecca, whose heart was like a convovulyus vsne stretching out to whoever would welcome it, grew very fond of her. Nor was the girl's partiality unreciprocated. I shouldn't sometime or other,” said Mrs. Perkins to her next-door neighbor, Miss Verbe- na Webb. *She’s an orphan, with no one to care for her, and very pretty and amiable, and really I am getting to be very much attached to her.” Miss Webb elevated her ancient nose rather disparagingly in the air. Miss Webb was no optimist. ‘““There’s al- ways some low, vicious streak about those sort of people | know ? I always mistrust a girl who has no friends. not her fault. for that I”? “Perhaps she isn’t—perhaps she is,”’ | repl'ed Miss Verbena laconically. ty would not trust her with my silver spoons, that I know." Mrs. Perkins rubbed her spectacles with a troubled air. Verbena Webb's misanthropic scale of life did not agree with her sunshiny | scale of philosophy. She went home | to trim her Sunday cap, wishing had not been to see Miss Verbena. ‘‘Rebecca, my dear just bring me my work-basket, and my thimble, and the right hand corner of my top bureau drawer.” “Here's the basket and ma’am, but I don’t see the | said alert little Rebecca. { “Look again, child. I put tinctly.” “It is not there, Mrs Perkins. The old lady jumped up and across the room, to institute a | al search. Rebecca the lace was not there. Mn trotted person- jut was right— In Perkins turned all her burean drawers, and boxes and baskets, and Her search was utterly fruitless. She stood a moment in deep, | puzzled meditation. Was Miss Verbe- | na right after all # And had she been | deceived all these weeks by the airs of | an unprincipled adventuress ? inside out upside down. { “the lace was | ten shillings a yard for it, were four yards and a quarter.” “Yes ma'am.” said Rebecca, woun- | dering what was to come next, “And if you have taken it my very dear, | it be better to it at once? 1 won't be angry with you--1 won | deed —and we'll overlook it, “Mrs Perkins I" The it blood suffused Rebec- ca's cheek, like a scarlet restore ¢ in- anda ina'g banner. She burst into tears, “Yes, but, my dear, what else could have bec: ? No one has nd 1 hav and 1 have Ff is ne of IX been in U i ed all my keys t ee »R% 1 house but you, triad ed US ot y you, and Rebecca's 51 the OE aL ~Y out-burst sobs checked 1y’s speech. might Indes Lh th have convinced | Ler of the grieved girl's innocence, | for Miss Verbena who had hurried in, like a the field of batt! “Of eourse sh said the irate “It's as plain as | daylight, and I wonder at your doubt- ad Webb, to | it not been vuiture, has stolen it IV Te spinsier, | ing it for an instant, Charity Perkins ? | What did I tell you about these sort of | girls, eh 77 | faltered soft-hearted Mrs. “Dismiss i» her | Of | ought, without a moment's delay, and | I should pack her off in charge of a policeman, and have all her baggage { searched — the bold-faced little | hussey I” For Rebecca's dimpled beauty only served to hardeu the sour maiden’s heart against her ; and the pink cheeks and the brown, rippled hair were an abomination past for- | giveness in Verbena's eyes, “No," said Mrs, Perkins, resolutely, “there shall be no policeman. If Re- | becca must go, she shall go quietly, but L do wish she would make up her mind to confess.” The sun was sinking like a huge | ball of blood, behind the September | horizon, when poor Rebecca Glenn | crept crying away from Mrs, Perkins’ | threshold, as utterly alone and home- less as one of God's Innocent creatures can well be. “Where can | go? What shall 1 do?” she repeat- ed over and over to herself as she toiled on. ‘‘My head aches, and my eyes feel {so hot and burning—and I have no place to hide myself in, away from the i cruel world,” The moon had risen | when Rebecca sank down on a stone | by the roadside, to rest and ery, She | somehow had fancied that the quiet country lanes would be a place of ref. uge, yet now that she had reached teem, every bush and stump and gnarled tree seomed to point the fingers of scorn at her, and every breeze to murmur, mockingly-*‘Sas. pected as a thief, suspected as thief.” Rebecca thought her heart was break. ing. Ah, ifjit only would break, and not ache so bitterly. She leaned her head against the trunk of a tree, and closed her throbbing eyes, with a mut prayer ut her heart for the blessed gift of oblivion. “Relwces, My dear little Rebeca.” Perkins, course surly, with a great genius for the use She opened her eyes with na quick, | convulsive start, almost fancying the { familiar volce wag but the delusion of | & dream, | “Mrs, Perkins!” | ever since the sun went down, Come | back with me, Rebecca, and be as my own child, henceforward, I've wrong- ed you cruelly, and I could bite my | own tongue out to think I let that vin- egar-faced old maid talk me out of my common sense, Rebecca.” **Where, ma’am ?"’ “Well, you had hardly got out of sight, before I heard the parrot chatter- tering like all possessed, down in the garden, and there he was with his beak and his claws down in the hollow and something white shining among the | the leaves. I called John to bring the ever I could, and my dear, it was my Valenciennes lace, all in a tangle. And | not that alone, but one of my bast sil- | ver spoons. | A Base Ball Fastory. “The base ball manufacturing busi- ness has had a rapid but presperous growth,” said a manufacturer recently. bably will not be encroached upon by speculators. There are in the United states to-day only eight factories of any importance, and yet these are entirely suficient to supply all the balls that are wanted in this country. Recently ball market. Thisis caused by the adoption by clothing houses throughout the country of the custom of giving to juvenile purchasers base balls as pre- The balls are of different grades and prices. The kind that are given away are, of course, cheap but quite durable. Perhaps you would like to see how the balls are made, Follow me and I will show you the whole pro- On the upper floor of the establish dampened chamois and buckskin clip- | think [ had wronged you so bitterly, | my poor, innocent, little girl. However, you'll come home with me now, and | never leave me again, my child.” And home with her, to a life of peaceful happiness once more, bena Webb's belief in *‘natural deprav- ity" still remalns unshaken, in spite of | circumstances, RISEN. Pelitics as a Profession. ! to me Ben Abrahim. ay son, if you foms upon your heart with hooks of | steel, as it were: It 1s right to steal from the govern it x hs it IBN If right, it which gives the practice a color of legal is riguat. though you were ashamed of it, Only of his Plunge your | a common pickpocket is ashamed | profession. Steal boldly. thievish arms into the coffers of the gov- ernment clear up to the shut both hands tight and come away witha full hold and a fair deck-load. When | you grab, grab as though you never ex- ells IWS, | pected to hold cffice again. Be like the lightning, which never strikes twice in the same place; because it doesn’t need | to; because it never leaves anything to strike at, Promise everybody everything ask for. It is so much easier to mise a man what he wants than 1t | refuse him and have him with impor torment you tunities and § for Then, whet +s wster you reasons, for fulfilment hand, renew the promise, » by 1 V | 1a s day the of 36 go bas kK, h And hat you will no any man. Wha | this hie throws on the beard of | oer? him? if you de back, say to him ¢ your place of 3y the head of the Sultan, there are hardly enough places for your own fam ly. In your official career ever practice a In disbursements out of off " rigid ecopomny in all departments and Your own inimne- | diate reach. Cut the appropriation | for chewing-gum for the orphans’ homes { and recommend that the orphans solace their infantile but juvenile jaws with in- expensive but long-lasting q 1ids cut from the heels of their overshoes., The money thus saved to the stale you can appropriate for the usual purpose of giving | with all the | appertaining. Talk a great deal, but never say any- thing. And strive to keep what you | say from the ears of the scribe who sit- appurtenances thereunto a mould, hemispherical in shape, in which the Taking a handful of the cuttings from the basket, the work. man pressed them together in his hands Placing the embryo ball in the mould, he pounds it into shape with a heavy flat After testing its weight on a pair of its diameter with a tape i i i | When the newly- the receive are carried to the sewing-room wo Forty young women sat te} on 1 on floor below where they are Rg 10 hide. Grasping a ball hand, with her right hand one of covers of horse- i rmiy in her left the young women thrust a three cornered k pieces of the cover and drew them firmly together. In was completed. less than ten minutes her work 3 A smart girl can cover two or three dozen of eight dozen of the cheapest grades of balls a dz The skly aoa from 87 t 5 Weekly range irom $i vo $0. are afterward the are 1 ana best, in AY. wages earned The balls packing smoothed down and the proper stamps are put on. I'he best balls are made entirely of yarn and india rubber, “My brother was one of the pioneers in this business’ said the manufacturer, “He was the inventor of the taken to room where the seams two-piece throughout If my brother had only patented his invention the members of the country. ir family would now be wearing dia- monds instead of bits of white gl r al ABS iD sy & 8a SITS STONLS, Ball covers are made, { xeepltion, of moulding mac! g order will be alx 1 Lew 0 machine 1 » } 1 i. A UR -—-—— Nitro -Ulreerine Hombes, destructive iceableness in reducing rel ng, i ustruction a is claimed, unexcelled heavy conical irat cast and so arranged that much the other, one end being also closed with a 18 heavier than screwed after shell is tightly fitting g. ‘The interior of the divided into three compartments, each cap, on BATgin separated by a heavy plate glass cap; the division farthest from the open end is filled with sulphuric acid, the next with glweerine, and the outer one with nitric acid—these three elements being the cap fitting the open end of the pro- | i i of which is firmly attached a small cir- cular piece of metal, the inner end rest. ing against the first ; the outer cap is fon. venomous quill the honest statesman a two-weeks' wacation, break the leg of his camel. May Allah ——— AI A ————— Smyrna. The city of Smyrna is situated in a | of high hills, time of the crusaders, | fallen 1n many places, bul enough re. wains to show it was very formidable m its day, long stone quay has been built, and nt is lined with hotels, cafes and stores, It is called the Bhum, and is the loung- ing place of the whole city, especially pear sunset, when every one comes oul for a walk. The city is much more European in character than any Oren. tal city we have seen; most of the peo- ple wear European styles of clothing, and Live in modern style of houses, The bazaars are large and numerous, but somewhat disappointing after see~ ing those of Cairo, Em A great mind is formed by a few great ideas, i i i According to the gled, and a nitro-glycerine discharge takes place. Cemetery at Sebastopol. The Russian cemetery at Sebastopol would be considered a handsome necro- anywhere, The men are laid away in batches in great graves, but tombs in many instances are veritab'e and bust over the remains of Prince died ih Warsaw in 1861, but who ‘‘de- sired to be buried amid those defenders of their country who did not permit the enomy to enter their fatherland further than where their graves stand.” Bat the most conspicuous object in the cemetery is a magnificent memorial chapel of granite, marble and bronze, in the form of of a pyramid over one hundred feet high, the walls of which, inside and out, are covered with the names of all who took part in the de- fence of Sebastopol, and for whom prayers are dal y offered up. Good that comes Loo late is as good as nothing. Teolography. — We have often heard of the wonder. ful line between this country and Te- of 5800 miles, but we scarcely realized | ¥OOD ¥OR THOUGHT, He's a wise man, who, when he’s well ’ ’ able through so great a length of wire until recently when we availed our- drews, the managing director of the Indo-European Telegraph Company, Lo make a visit of inspection. It was be- tween 7 and 3 on Sunday evening, April 13, when we reached the office. In the basement of an unpretentious building in old Broad street we were shown the Morse printer in connection with the main line from London to Teberan. The courteous clerk in charge of the wira, Mr, Blagrove, informed us that we were through to Emden, and with the ease with which one ‘‘wires’ from the city to the West end, we asked a few questions of the telegraphistin the German town. with Emden, we spoke with the same facility to the gentleman on duty at Odessa. This did not satisfy us, and in a few seconds we were through to the Persian capital (Teheran). There were no messages about, the time was favorable, and the employes of the va- us an opportunity of testing the capac- ity of this wonderful line. T. H. N, (Teheran) said “Call Kurrachee,” and in less time than it takes to write these words we gained the attention of the Indian town. The signals were good, and our speed must have equalled 15 words a minute, rachee, when he learned that Loudon was speaking to him; thought it would be a good opportunity to put us through to Agra, and to our astonishment the not fail, and chatted pleasantly for a few minutes with Mr. Malcolm Khan, the clerk on duty. To nake this triumph of telegraphy com- we $13 Hii plete, Agra switched us on to another line, and we were soon talking to a na- tive telegraphist at the Ir ian Govern- ment Cable Station, } Calcutta, Atfiirst “‘at the other end that in direct communication will vi $l 4 45 TY the gentleman wire could not believe the glish i and he exclaimed in Morse London 7° language, "Are you reaily ach Truly this was a great Metallic communication a break, from 18 old Droad street, Lon- don, to the telegraph office in Calcutta! 7000 miles of wire! The rignals excellent, and the speed Was not less than 12, perhaps 14, words per minule, ¢ wry d evemenst. thant ALAAU UL w were attained - oy Nombay Street Scenes. A correspondent says : Bombay is ex- i i love to interestin inleresiin to me. ceedingly g if is « 13 3 ny handkerche fT ir camphor, and the edge of the wi » f « with hes yiy 1a Denzin hits as to the have grave dou their mission ashore; but y fay they compare se from the Dritis I do Here are orably with the men h ships in conduct, that rebuke them as 1 pass by. beotblacks, the San Francisco. not , 1 rat MIB. 2 sone Y our shoes are always blacked by the poriler 1 business of the I do net hear the familiar American cry, ‘‘Shine These Hindoo bootblacks should visit New York and see how it is the steamer s0 that the hotel porter, Or these parts, 4 Here a great crowd of natives are look also, but see nothing. I move on farther until I come in sight of the sea- shore, when I discover thousands and nousands of people sitting down and gazing at the blank cloudless sky. I Hindoo New Year, and it is a great na- tional custom to look for the new moon. After much looking I discover the queen of night—the smallest crescent 1 have ever seen. The streets are thronged with men, women and children, all attired in cos- tumes that are more showy than any 1 above the Babel of street cries, elbow my way along to the scene of operations and find that a Hindoo is piercing the nose of one of his daughters, aged per- haps 10 years, This is, of course, & part of everp Hindoo girl's education, but it is & medicine that is not appre. ciated in the taking. The weans adopted for performing the operation are rather primitive. The child's head is held by one person, while another jams the wire of the jewel through the shrinking cartilage of the nostril. Love lights more fires than hate extinguisies, Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. A day to come shows longer than a year that's gone, 11+ who revealeth his secret, maketh Blimsell a slave, A good cause makes a stout heart Beek not to please the world, but your A blunt edge will sometimes do what a sharp edge will not. All reform is the flower and fruit of the great tree of faith. A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture. Defaming or slandering others is the Be deaf to the quarrelsome, and dumb to the inquisitive. No man envies the merit of another who has enough of his own. Some men of bad habits are like fishes, and are not cured until after death, Keep to the right, the law directs; keep from the world thy friends’ de- fects, 1f it could be possible that skimmed milk is best for food, cows would give it that way. When a man threatens to give you a the peace of yours, When you marry you fondly expect to see the end of your troubles, but you can’t tell which end. The most censorious are generally the least judicious, who, have nothing to recommend themselves. Good taste rejects excessive nicety; There are some persons more solicit ous about the preservation of rank than The pity which 18 not born from ex- perience is always cold. It cannot help being 80; it does not understand. The more self is indulged the more it 1 men, the selfish are the most discontented. When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the m ring slau th } thon ssf ¢ Lae on the rusting ure ook and g lower than friendship, 1 There 1s nothin sy. To profess snmity, is a sure proof of total d Antithesis may be the blossom ¢ but it will pever arrive at matul less sound se be the trunk an the root. Few things are necessary to make a wise man happy. Nothing contents a fool. and this is why many men are miserable, A m looks upon does upon b their of title, weulth and place he considers but as harness, nse wise “e Orses; all No school is more necessary to chil- dren than patience because either the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age. If men had only temptations to greal sins, they would always the fight with litt them to defeat. be good; but dally le ones accustoms “Know thyself” may ba an excellent sort of proverb, but some people wouldn't know very much if they obey- in the ele- Then, to Gr business TOW NODE place of to Wiki you are in you YOU Will ou are oul A modest person seldom fails to gain od will of with. because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased witl him- self. Go will 15 f ie, * the gq those he converses ness of temp ’ or I ympanion for © 1 nature and even n give YOu an easy 1 virtue and good friend: love and consi or husband. % 2 ¥ % SENSE Al agrecaons vv a good wif Good breeding is the art of showing wen, by external signs, the internal re- gard we have for them. arises from good sense, improved conversing with good company. A cottage will not hold the bulky furniture apd sumptuous accommodas tions of the mansion, but, if God. fs is by be The chief secret of comfort lies in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great Those men who destroy a healthful and an irregular life do as manifestly kill themselves as those whe hang, or He that visits the sick in hope of a Yegacy, let him be never so friendly in to be no better than a raven that watch- *Tis the property of all true knowl- o enlarge it without swelling it, to make it more capable A woman has suggested that when diately growing mn its place, Shakespeare, with all h's wisdom, sdid some funny thmgs, “Give every few thy woes; take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment,’ might lead a good many to a repetition of the experience of the man snd his donkey, No two things differ more than hurry and despateh, Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one, A weak man in office like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, bat to no purpose; in constant motion without getting a jot; talks a great deal, but sys very little; looks wto evervthing but sees nothing: and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them hot, and with those that are he only burns lus fingers,
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