OUR DEAD. Just a little while, ere they are flad ; One by one life robs us of our treasures ; Nothing is our own except our dead, “They are ours, and hold in faithful keeping Safe forever, all they took away ; rael life can never stir that sleeping, Creel time can never seize that prey. Jastice pales; truth fades; stars fall from heaven ; Human are the great whom we revere ; Na true crown of honor can be given, Till the wreath lies on a funeral bier, Mow the children leave us; and no traces Enger of that smiling angel band ; Sone, forever gone; and in their places, Weary men and anxious women stand. Yet we have some little ones, still ours; They have kept the baby smile, we know Which we kissed one day, and hid with flowers, heir dead white faces Ont long ago. When our je Theu vo w Save with Batien beyond all present pains, tender-hearted, leay radiant shadow-—fond i, i1 » far, bright to-n living yet Peath, Sal We = Joy as to ROTTOW Bu vn? ind cruel lesecrated, ove dawn nu COmiy the dead Love, t Es thus « Aud no cl forever, rob us of our de to besiege our elty nake our tlowe So, when fate comes Dim sid, or 1 Fleath, ! And, tosay nes in love and AsUres, cat EE. N —— FME COLONEL'S SECOND WIFE, “What! her dowry ten thousand and tex eighteen! You are a Bucky dog Hewett! Of course it’s a Sove match?” “1 flatter myself, yes, on th part, at least)’ and ti zather handsome man, saperciliously; though, family arrangement.’’ “How is that?” “Why, you see, Colonel Harding my father, General Hewett’s gi chum. When dying, he left me my future to the former's guardian a trust he =aw no better friendly way of carrying out engagement be daughter Kate— rich aunt’s wealt “Some people fall into pleasant certainly, When is it to be?” “In a month, fanc Colone! has take home a > | fe, he d gather have his daughter's room than her company. ”’ Deuced “Possibly. Mrs. Harding—eh? Very self-willed and fast, I'm want a tight curb, but will I imagine the Colonel will Bands full, and need Keep his eyes ope. “They have been married a year, and witi:in the last m } have ted is preoccupied, while t appeared on his foreh wese old fellows,” | “fake the lessons I’ cally read us—Decembe: May? Ta, ta! Remember, for the Benedict cerem The two gent the above conversation passed ep of a West End clul the one addressed amoung his less f{: rfewett, proceedin Colonel Harding Arriviug the speedily 1mtrods Harding; at with whom Le was i the Colonel in the Library, T! save surprised at the haste d 1rpr i amfl conld not refrain from remarking ma the subject. “Whatever is that Kate marked, when the officer had gone, “To sig: arriage-setilement led Mis, 3 ‘WG ense! do you not thir od lately?” ‘For many days I have seen it, Kate, iI fear something is wrong.” “Then I fancy he might confide it to the Captain. ndar unael e lady's 1e speaker, a tall, drew himself up \ ot it is in fact, it 18 Was eatest and #} n hy myself and the sole inheritor tween places, Deen pret emer ter exchanging sumni for?” ré- Way, mamma, has looked alter- you instead of “True! Mis. Harding's lips percepti- bly contracted; then she added: ‘Kate, E forgot to tell 1oy maid about the trim- mings for my dress next Friday. Would you wind doing so?"’ Rising the young girl readily went on her mission, when the other's entire manner changed. Her expression be- came grave, perplexed, She cast aside her work, and leaned her head on her hand, “fan my husband possibly suspect?” she murmured. ‘“‘There is a change In him, Kate sees it, too! Then there must be a cause! Can he have found us out? If so, everything is runed-—ruined!”’ she paused; then added—'‘l must be certain—I willl” Hurriedly throwing a shawl of Kate's, passed through the open glass doors mato the flower garden. ously she crept through a shrubbery of filacs and syringas, until she came 1. Charles Hewett was leaning back in military-looking man, sat by the table, kis brows contracted, his features ex- mently, and exclaimed, as the listener came within range: “1 wouldu’t have believed of her! € all women, I would have staked my life on Constance! When you hinted that you had seen a fellow suspiciously Saunging stout the villa, I thought mothing about it; but Jackson, the wnder-gardener, declares that it is true,” The listener became livid with rage. Fler susp! lous were well founded, “What do you intend doing?’’ asked Captain Hewett. “That’s my perplexity to accuse her wn the word of an under-gardner seems ! preposterous;’’ and the Colonel uneasily | drummed the table with his fingers. “Something must be done,” he said, { “or I shall go mad. I can't support this terrible suspicion, for—I was that? Shut it; we stance devotedly. What Why, the window is open, want no eavesdroppers,” Captain Hewett complied, bnt before closing it, leant forth and looked around, { The Colonel's wife had flown. ‘If my fine lady would only commit herself,” he thought, *Kate herit the Colonel's wealth. It is noth- ing.” he said aloud, resuming hs seat. Trembling at her narrow escape, Mrs, Harding hastened from the shrubbery. Just as she emerged, she ran violently against a man “Robert! Tell doing here?” “Ten thousand pardons! I thought—' “Never mind what you thought, Why are you here? Quick go to the side door. If in five minutes I call you, if not, go away." ile raised her hand to his lips, “How good you arel” ald *'] I have prepared every- yr our flight on Friday." i he answered, me, what are you ’ come he came lo 8 thing | Onis as she fled minutes after, the white ie stranger opened, A ckone s00n 1 with locked boudoir. The next {he surpri agam sealec, doors, Harding's means Lo an- would take him letais deialn “rg plonel business evening. and the her sorrow at 1 to hasten Wis bou- rding expressed 1 begged hen she her icham- window of An hour passed evenlle hen lamp i Amp in to a spare be from ber just the which half shadow fl ted § i It is the Captain,’ t Harding. * ! t sphere, The t it. Welll, each shall reward.” She waited. So Finally the latter, while he watched would d caution the window. The temptation was Harding noiselessly opene fF § 4 she } shit nougnL lave elect enjoving 1sly drew near, and ’ ' w . 1 LICH WAS Closed ure ul wording have been a " he growled. 7 1d IL USLY yusemad, HiShe con have seen nn Ie passed on to a break ige, by which he and redclied the main 3 v } Gary ne DIACS ih Fad quarter of a Ve slicouniere a Den a “George,” exclaimed, *‘n Was over in greater rpiexity i For the last mor [ have been enga to the Dunderl 5 to dim [his morning Constance ares ing wel eraelf too ill attend, n ‘i'n refuse clons, pe dee and hearty Dut urges me t tell you what, Colonsl you may only You had hetter, therefore, go, and I'll watch for Perhaps this time something may discovered.” “I war thinking,'’ began the Colonel, doubtfully, ‘whether it would not best to ask Constance right down truth.” “Absurd! If a woman will stoop to deceive a husband, she will not hesitate | at a falsehood.” “That is true. be as you say,” The Colonel went to the dinner, and the gentlemen had long been left to their wine, when a footman whispered to the officer he was waanted, Making an excuse, ha withdrew, and found the Captain in the hall, “Come home,” said the latter; must speak to you at once,” The Colonel growing pale, followed him into the road, “What is it?" “Bear it like a man, Colonel,” re- | turned the other. “Your wife is un. worthy your affection; she has fled with | her lover. I saw them | in the train going to London.” “Oh, Constance-—Constance!” groaned, “Why have you brought this { disgrace upon me!” And be grasped the hedge, to save him from falling. | his mood changed. “George!” he exclaimed “Come we will follow them. If you arouses her suspi- Ol i bas be 3 the Well, George, let it “i flercely. The vil- done me; but tell me all about it.” passed him on the road to the villa In it he had recognized a strange gene | tleman and Mrs, Harding. Ile pursa- ed, but only reached the railway sta. tion in time to see them leap into a first class carriage as the train moved off. The true statement was this: Captain Hewett iad seen a fly waiting near the villa, Concealing himself, he had per- ceived a gentleman, escorting a lady thickly vailed anc pvelin | come through the break in the hedge, hur- riedly cross the intervening fleld, enter | the cub, and drive off, alter giving the direction: “The railway station for London. Had he put his hand out, he could have stayed them. But that was not his plan. Let her go beyond recall and “IHurrying straight to his dressing room, the Colonel secured kis pistols. “1 nave never used them against a fellow-being befora,’” he exclaimed, very stern, and determined, **but a bul- let shall reach his heart or mine, One shall not leave the field.” “Wny, goodness gracious, my love, how early you are, back! I hope noth- voice, Joth gentlemen swung round on their heels, with an ejaculation of sur- prise, for there, in the doorway, looking Mrs, Harding, “You here, Constance?’ § “Ilere! Why, where should I dear?” The Colonel and vice versa, “Whatever i8 the matter?’ asked the lady: “and—gracious, Edmund, love — what are you going to do with those pistols? “yi Colonel, be looked at the Captain, was going,’’ blurted out the half-angrily, *‘to take with them the life of vour lover, Constance! “My “Surely, darling, you ver contemplated suicide!” Con 3 ' over. LANCE. look that you have no vou he face and say one than 17" there sir! But can you |! say you ever were 3 8 ifs of opped instan she want on. on what grounds?’ “That of a man having been enter tied DY YOu in ein) this in a fly with him.’ Mrs. Harding burst laughter. “Why, Edmund, lover!" she cried. “Kate's!” both ger “No less. Do not girl, for you your his step—asking Cag YOUr rooin, adi yout i flight RU DDOSA “Yi ) into a peal of that was Kate's repeated. 3 ¥ WM POC itlemen blame have driven her to tain lHawett pardon my speaking out,’ said tt with a mali rinkle., *“‘Because ywax] his father, you ordersad youl daughter to accept the ral’s son. owed slsewliere thi it the laqy ous Ly you l (yene Sie ber Hear aid ‘Nay; became your fidante. I, i ‘AY’ «1 gO from ing, as a gentl determined YOu nay I have done 1 in saving her fr tive." tatty date allnaieu ei she swep! us courtesy. you wa fod Walled Broerty Pei 1d kK aie r ! “111 pardon her. for “You dear, That Kiss is for a rewan And that is how Caplain was checkmaled by the Colon wife.” dear Edmun i i v Tonquin, Probably ow r 4 bua nd 4 robably owing to t IXITNILY much « the immedi Elephant mo tivation going on in neighborhood of the tain, round and round which the Haiphong branch of the Songkol wan- ders in a most bewildering way. As we got nearer the main river, however, it was very different. On both as far as the eye could reach over the flat lands, stretched paddy-fields, with hundreds of people—men, women, and children—occupied upon them; men plowing and turning up the soil with mattocks, the women and children breaking the cloda with heavy pieces of wood, Everywhere the green ring of bamboos which denoted a village could be seen, many of them running into one another, and apparently extending for miles, According to national cus fides, the the river, and those that were at all near were protected by a ditch and mud walls, surrounded by bamboo palisades, in addition to the ordinary cane fence, There can be no doubt that Toaquin is one of the finest grain-producing coun- tries in the east, far surpassing anything to be seen in the southern provinces of ton river delta, the area of which is, however, much smaller, Two crops is no The sugar-cane and mulberry are so abundant in the Namdinh district are not so much seen between Haiphong and Hanoi. Add rarity. for four or five months in the year Eu- ropeans can easily work, and it will be warranted in going to great expense try for themselves, A rieasaxTRY attribated to M. Thiers: “When I was very young I was 80 little—s0 littio—that I needed a pole to knock down the strawberries,” vhased by the Fiames. In the Autumn of 1855, John Rolfe one of a party of surveyors Iowa He was about did physique, wonderful endurance, and more than average intelligence. He had graduated at an Eastern college several years previously, and in the drifted farther and farther West, until ough frontiersman. During the Sum- mer previous to the opening of our story, Rolfe’s party was engaged north and east of the present town of Algona, life, had cultivated the acquaintance settler—Manton by name-—at Sundays. What magnetic influence the ayes of pretty Mary Manton, the farm- hither, we will leave for our readers to determine. Buffice it to say, that farm- er Manton’s rather rude log-house had become a rather home-like place to him, warm-he WAS ever extended, and the eyes of Mary the farmer's daughter beamed more brightly at each urring visit. To-~ ward close of De NEeCESSAry arted welcome re the it Ae Hopportant + 10 papers © HINect . Fort Dodge, where the government laud office was then tance was something 1 = dla prairie Over nearly all Lhe way foines River, » s forly a d To John Rolfe was 3 kK; and as Mary Manton lad of some eighleen a hud been for sone LASK . OroLiier, i Vis- ity time desireus of led take advan resi at the presen ircumstance, and with him tl The John especially, ywned f( had made about noon and were wi by y river. I'l Hake Liorse- URCK, well rode a YEATS. mounted, had They the distance bY mites of oning-pl s for ppiug-piace 101 1 i f thie if Of & 's rest, the ion t changed 0 & +i fan it SLICE Hmnsel wonderfully cool ; ed m route ahead, ground and selech: way. where the grass was the ybatructions lowest, o tionsof h moveamen erect, pale, and outward that must bosom he rougn ‘ou tad 12 an, Carefully Avo ding ng Lhe and « the at rade; and directing their Mary sat in her saddle, silent as a statue, giving evidence of the fearful storm have raging within Joe. too was silent and restrained; but a nervous ig of the lips, and a frightened gleam in the eyes, betrayed a fear that only the exercise of a strong wili power could repress, The smoke that rolled in a dense cloud over and around them made the air stifling and almost unbearable, Game birds of va. rious kinds whirred over their white deer, elk, and occasionally wolves and other animals, aroused from their Jairs by the advancing destruction, raced alogg. apparently scarce noticing the motley company, so intent were all in reaching some goal of safely. Hardly more than half the distance was accomplished ere it became evident that the pursuing flames were gaining and that the speed of the horses must be increased, Bui could they bear it? the same time the a no been ner blowing froth maxed with blood from its mostrila at every expiration, so terri. ble was the strain upon his strength, together with the injurious effects of the vitiated air they were compelled to inhale. Joe's horse, also, good one, began to show signs of weari- Rolfe's (fine horse, was proving his gave still the fire gained. They could hear like a fierce whirlwind, All their lug- gage, every article of superfluous cloth- Progress Was cast away divested themselves of their apparel down to their shirts, pants, and stock- ings; then unbuckling the girths they burn so quickly as dry. ve without perceptibly increasing or diminishing the distance between mile away, could be discerned a dark fringe that betokened a which they knew was on the opposite bank of the river. tolfe was the first to discover the glad intelligence, and he screamed the welcome news Lo his com- paniong, and urged t¥em to make one supreme effork for life Jut even as he grove, and who was riding close to her side, had but time to snateh ber from her perilous postion and swing her in front of him, when the lll-fated animal fell and was swallowed up in the fiery death, Dut even that momentary delay was almost fatal, Flercely and bravely the survivors struggled on, their riders urging them their utmost, and it seemed for a brief time that all would be it 0 well: Dul of the river-bank, Joe's and was caught in the awful flood, ant with a scream of terror that rose wi blood-curdling distinctness above roar of the conflagration, the poo wis lost but memory fore this life, splendid Calij enwrapped in flame, reach with his double burd the sheer the to all Over decliy that place, dropped dead water’ were burnt to Of f both | fire i 8 edge, 1 the sk 16 and his compat § i HIE Bal ina with thelr brother thie ght with sori but INUchi=is | t Fis) ightfu barely ved adeatl § ait iad Oil very b f safely, and she ful parents when news, They walked setlier, stance in Lhe where Mary ob t Ju forebod:ngs of the grief of th they should learn the 1 to the Bouse of a grove, ined a welcome shelter and with Rolfe’s assist- 4 a short 4 I £ 4 {16 refnains oil poor $ he next morning on Lhe ys dug two graves, in of posited all th in Lhe oth L where in after were ipl, arita i 3 nu rears anda hat loving hat A OVIDE Banc wit inremit- y Man- 4 time iudin WAS day, ri with a happy family, and surround by all the of life. conveniences and refine They have ide prairie, over whici y 80 ODER AZO, | face grow seri with a look of terror, jon of that awful experience, A The Deautfal Batlerfliy, nigh pidoptera or bulle shall find some f the same sort 1 he lepidopiera are divided groups, moths and Now, the moths fly about at late at night ; the flowers which attract them are pale, brilliancy, and, all, destitute of honey guides in the shape of lines or spots ; and the selves are generally dark and dingy in coloration. Whenever they possess any beauty of color, it takes the form of silvery scales, which reflect what little hight there may be in the gray 0 great the rs 3 i the bDulleriiies, dusk or above inseacis Lthems- hand, fiy by day, and display, as we insects. Here we must ence recall that difference between the structure of the eve in nocturnal and diurnal species which Mr. Lowne has pointed out. Nor is this all. While most moths are night fiyers, there are a few tropical genera, which have taken to the same open day- light existence as the butterflies. In these cases, the moths, unlike their noc- gorgeous possible mixtures of brilliant I m—— Apparitions, A very remarkable paper on the phy- siology of apparitions is in preparation tion on the opening of the season of 1884-85; attention having been direct. ed to this subject by the work of Mr. Sally. and by elaborate articles in the Enghsh Magazines, It isa familiar fact tain conditions of the nervous system not highly morbid or excited conditions, either—a phenomenon resembling reflex action of the retina takes place; the image thus formed being really optical, not cerebral, in thelr origin, and true spectres, Certain medeiines notably those of the narcotic class—possess the property of inducing retinal phantoms; monobromate of camphor being one of the most active in this particular. In the paper proposed an effort will be made to explain the physiological causes and relations of these by No means infrequent optical phenomena. Hauning, alking snd Jumping, i in ons bv Deer- LIBsre tye ng Li. The greatest distance ever 1 foot, at Oid Brompton in 1863 foot's real name and address tennet, Catteraugas County, America, The fastest time in which o has ever bean run, ground, is 4 min., 16 1-5 sec., by W, Cummings, of ’aisley, in 1881, at Preston; but in 1863 W, Lang ran a mile over a which was partly down hill in 4 min, 2 sec, The swiftest runner hitherto seen is a man named Hutchens, formerly newsboy at Putney Station. He has not yet been timed accurately for a stardard distance like : 120 yards; but in a Bheflieid handicap he covered 131 in 124 a per- formance which shows him many yards better than *‘even time’ at yards, and even time is the unattain ambi- tion of great amateurs, A hundred vards in ‘even time means in 10 8ecs,, Or a rate averag- In 157 } RB, juatter of 1e mile O11 eve] COUTrse yards sec, 14 10¢) od the tay of aru fhe un- | has t pales before what mus greatest recorded, pedestrian performa namely, rales (MK ines i t one he seemed , sore, jaded, peregrin ation seemed (rale . 2a 4 ” NE ALO AS Bar ward, a died quite full-size feat as well as ability; on Chester cleared a table lengthways-—a COUTALR: QCCARIONn, jumped the enormous feel 7 1uches, He wedge shaped block of wood inches from the ground ive pound dum pole jumping— prettiest ail the great height of inches has been cleared bY awateur champion, T. versione, requiring race distance took bebwell of past-Limes x 44 ent sesso AI A —— Home After Basiness Hours. The road along which the man of business travels is not a macadamized one, nor does it ordinarily lead through pleasant scenes and by well-springs of delight. On the contrary, it is a rough and rugged path, beset with ‘‘wait-a- bit'’ thorns, and full of pitfalls, which can only be avoided LY the watchful care of clicumspection. After every { day's journey over this worse than | rough turnpike road the wayfarer needs | something more than rest; he requires | solace, and he deserves it. He is weary | of the dull prose of life and a thirst for the poetry. Happy is the husband who can Und that solace and that poetry at home, Warm greetings from loving hearts, fond glances from bright eyes, | the welcome shouts of chiliren, the | many thousand little arrangements for ! pur comfort and enjoyment that silently | toll of thoughtful aad expectant love, the gentle ministrations that disen- | cumber us into an old and easy seat | before we are aware of 1t; these and like tokens of affection and sympathy | constitute the poetry which reconciles us to the prose of lite Thank or this, ye wives and dau, .4 of business men! Think of the toils, the anxieties, the mortilications and wear that fathers undergo to secure for you comfortable | homes; and then compensate them for | their trials by making them happy by | their own firesides, | Oxna is a great addition to chicken gravy or to that made when coking any fowl. Tt is somewhat like gelating in vv effect.
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