NO LOSS,
There the warm sunset sank
he sea;
ht wavelets broke,
he low breezes spoke,
1
There the eve's magic woke
Rapture for both of us,
Yon,
love, and ma
There the gray morning rose
Over the sea;
There the t
There the wind’s moaning swell
: .. 11
ick raindrops fell,
Murmured farewell, farewell!
for both of us,
and me.
» noontide shines,
ng yet;
vowed and wept;
gladness crept;
he record kept?
oth of us
ASTRANGE MANIA.
Brom
In the fall of the year 184— a family
and all efforts on the part of the people
in that little town to find out anything
of their past history, except that they
were Judge Henry Wamble and wife,
and daughter, and-son, from Tennessee,
proved unavailing.
The family had arrived unexpectedly
one evening about dusk, and as they
rode in a
said he got a ghmpse of them.
‘Sg 2
one
L
covered wagon Squire Cobl
t a glimpse of the daughter for
11 1 gaid Bernard Wilder, the
handsomest and smartest young
h PRCT 1
OW In all
tant
nsiant
was the prettiest
1 ever saw. If she
turn the heads of all the Ix
will have to leave.”’
And so the people
the Wamble family
mysterious as ever.
“Squire Cobb,” said
“judge”
called, had arrived. *'I
tively a strange
monthe after the
months aiter ue
am
could
witch, Edna? 1
that all h
explanati
“Yes, and did it never occu
hey would
get
» it
nk iL vers
n
never
0 you
““Why, that this matter o
ankad i
looked 1n
susp!
‘* Listen: Shoemaker
other night to ask her father’s
t
t
N y One knew
He never returne
there the
permission to J
her,
time he had
nighbors.
. Pickrell went on
errand. Bernard Wilder
the way, and waited
how he
met
around ou
find out succeeded.
there—but here he comes now:
tell you all about it.”
“Ben, exclaimed several voices from
the crowd, that had gathered in
little store where I had been talking to
Squire Cobb, ‘‘tell us about Ed.
rell, and what you know."
“Well, when I had waited
the
Pick-
outside
lover ought to come out, I started to
walk off. when 1 heard a dull thud,
followed by a faint laugh—but
iaugh as froze my blood and made my
teeth chatter, and you know 1 am no
coward. I could not make out any-
thing
make me determined to find out what
it all meant, and what had become of
Tom Shoemaker and Ed. Pickrell—
and perhap :the others. And
ask every ope present to keep silent
until you hear from me again,
going to anravel this mystery, or dis-
appear as mysteriously as did
others.”
“You do not intend to try your fate
in order to find out that of the others?”
asked Squire Cobb,
“1 do not know about that, I will
connected with this mystery, Edna
Wamble is ignorant and innocent of it.
SOTTOW,
saddest and sweetest look I ever beheld.
me to come there In a hurry,
and see her,’”’ and Ben at once walked
to the corner of the block, where Edna
stood, pale and trembling, awaiting
him.
“Ah, Edna, have you come to recon-
sider your answer and clear up this
mystery?” he asked,
“No, no; Mr. Wilder,” she cried, “I
love you too dearly—I mean I have too
much regard for your future happiness
—t0 permit you to do what you might
ever regret. If you could penetrate the
secret of my life, you would turn from
me, Dear Bernard-—Mr., Wilder, I
mean-I came here to ask you not to
come to father’s to-night—to never
come at all, 1 ask this in the name of
the love you profess for me. Ob, if
you stay away and trust me, I-—father
is calling and I must go,”’ and she was
gone are Benard could stay her,
“Her strange eagerness made him
more determined than ever to go there
3
that very night. But one thing almost
drove him wild, and that was that she
what was nndcubtedly a series of mys-
terious crimes,
He went to the house about dark, and
was admitted to a large room in which
were only two chairs and a table, one
chair setting in the centre of the room
at the end of the table,
The judge gave him the centre chair
and took the other himself, and called to
Edna to bring wine.
set it on the
with two colored glasses, and retired to
The
suppressed tone:
She did so, and
a side room,
“So Mr. Wilder, you want to ask the
Well, you don’t know what
my friend. Take a glass of wine, and
we'll talk it over.’
you ask,
Just then Bernard noticed Edna at a
side window, with her hand
14)
h and
i up to her
1
| mou shaking her head nega-
tively
understood that
he was not to drink. But what was he
i to do? He had no excuse not t
land to use his pistol, whl
brou be
He instantly thou
Quick as a flash he
1
ht
ril
od
. would rovoked
unj
lence as yet, ght
a plan and said:
“Judge will yon
please? I
get me a lump
sugar, drink v
without
As the old man t 1 his back,
Bernard cha:
never
ged the glasses quickly,
and remamed as if he suspected noth-
» return of the judge, Berna:
gar in his wine, and he
- drained the
KiIa85e8,
the judge
boi hy, you
steal my daughter
have pre
'
RIASSEs, li
Bernard,
ne hist
Tennessee.
losk of amazement,
| at last, and you must
} Bern arid my more tha
a, Nard, my more than
dearest friend.
stay.
I can now tell you all
that has been so mysterious, Come, sit
i down here by me,"’
“Years ago I had a sister, three years
older than I was, Father almost wor-
shiped her, and seemed to have a per-
fect dread of some young man falling
her. This
ed him to often times treat young men
| who called with almost
Well, to be brief, sister Ethel
in love with a worthy, noble
Father having no excuse
| except his desire to keep sister at home,
| They went to a neighbor's and married,
and father forbade them both from the
They went to New Orleans,
and in two months both died of yellow
fever, and no one but mother and I
could sooth him. He was always pas-
| sive with us,
i of a madhouss, and being rich, and
soon learning to humor his whims, we
| came here to please him. The strangest
| part of the story is that one of his
whims was to administer a powerful
in lave od 0 1
in love with and
1
IMAITYIng
did fall
nan,
objed ted,
house,
| thought likely to gain my
while they were in a deep sleep, he
| would precipitate them through the
floor, by a trap door under the chair
you sit in, into the basement beneath,
He would then indie them, by some
means unknown to me, to leave, prom-
| sing either to not come in s0 many
} years, or to never reveal to any one
| why they never got me,
how he did this, but I know he never
| harmed any of them,”
“Well, I can inform you, if the oc-
| casion of my luckier friend’s success is
not too sacred for a third party,” said
Ed. Pickrell, who came in just then,
Edna and Bernard both were sur
prised,
“The judge would come to us,” con-
tinued Ed, “‘after we awoke from a
deep dream of peace, and show us a
note from you, Edna, telling us that if
we loved youas we professed, we would
leave and be silent; that your father
was mad, and any further advances
would make him rave. That if we
would hope for your hand, we must
leave until his mind was restored or he
died. Of course this always did the
work, I had not gone yet. Your
]
{ brother always did the negotiating with
the lovers, I find.”
| “I never wrote such a note,” said
{ Edna.
said Bernard; “that is ano-
{ ther of your father’s strange manias,
| Very well, Edna; since hope has been
| held out to all of you, and I have not
been bound over yet
. Qe '"
‘1 see,
, I guess I will have
{ to settle the disputes by taking my little
bright-eyed will
held open,
upon breast like one who
was weary and had been seeking such
Edna, if she come,”’
and he his and she
| nestled
arms
his
| & resting place for years,
The judge recovered,
all his
{ consent to the marriage of
i the
and had lost
He gave his ready
Edna and
coolness had
madness,
young man whose
i restored hin to reason and life.
All the x
| somehow, and came bac
snished ones heard
ir time ty
#10 time uo
present at
whole
the wedding and join
village in rejoicing
the
over
happy termination of
“Strange Mania.”
A sn
Population in the Arid Region,
20m
Denver
Nevada
es east of
he Sierra mot
of rainfall that
, 48 i Tue,
MaKes
the arid
the Medit-
ie patches of
is are tilled, it
ir home market 1
Ole Agr!
however much the lat
temporarily,
and manufacturing looms up,
come to consume much more than our
anid region
its hope for a
upon its
| farmers can raise, “he
must depend for large
to manufac-
dlales
, 1lat ' 11 .
population abilit
ture for the agricultural to the
It must hold the same re-
Jation to them that New England has
long held to the West and South. Of
course the ebb and flow of mining will
| always furnish a large but transitory
| population. But manufacturing is al.
most as permanent and constant as ag-
| riculture itself. It can be carried very
far and made to sustain millions of peo-
ple engaged In fabricating articles for
all parts of the country. In this way
| it is quite possible for the arid region
| to sustain a population nearly as large
| as an equal area in the humid portions
| of our land,
isms AAI se —
Whalebone,
east of us,
i
| Few persons know what the whale-
| bone of commerce represents in the liv-
| ing animal. Whalebone, in fact, re-
presents an enormous development of
the gum of the whale, and exists in the
| living animal in the form of two rows
of plates, which, like a great double
fringe, hang or depend from its palate,
| One hundred of these plates exist in the
mouth of a whale and the largest plates
may measure from eight to ten or
twelve feet in length, The inner edges
of these whalebone plates exhibit a frin.
ged or frayed-out appearance, and the
whole apparatus is adapted to serve as
a kind of gigantic sieve or strainer,
Thus, when the whale fills the mouth
with water, large numbers of small or
midute animals, allied to jelly-fishes
and the like, are engulfed and drawn
into the capacious mouth cavity, The
water is allowed to escape by the sides
of the mouth, but its solid animal con.
tents are strained and entangled by the
whalebone fringes, and when a suffi.
clent quanity of food has been captured
in this way, the morsel is swallowed,
Thus it 1s somewhat curious to reflect
that the largest animals are supported
by some of the smallest beings.
Two Clever Collies,
If you
New
should visit Central Park,
York, some fine morning you
might see young Shep, the collie that 1s
being trained to take the place of old
Shep, the eighteen-year-old veteran, at
his lessons, Ile is never whipped, not
even when he does wrong or makes mis-
takes, because that breaks the spirit of
a collie, as, indeed, of any other kind
of dog, and a shepherd dog must of all
things be brave. When he doesn’t carry
out an order correctly, or in such a way
that the sheep can understand him, old
Shep is sent with the same order and
Shep Junior is made to keep
watch him until it is
first le
still and
His
ply to guard a hat or
a coat or stick thrown the
by the shepherd, and he is left
the
him the importance of
executed,
won 18 sim
} upon grass
. out with
it sometimes until late in evening
Lo show
the
fidelity,
very first essentu n
Next he is
hepherd
gather the
and
learned, |
wong the flock and findin
them are
imagined,
with a flock
sixty-nine lambs
do it, for
tiie flock,
server they all look almost
ul, old
She Pp can
C4
', Are vel
beauty
¥§
a
+ VAriely and
Scottish pebl
Kinnoul Hill,
YE AIX
near Perth, or
mila
Aa I0
continued and
extended long
i, or:
for. the raw material of the
Lave
be mined
rocks
05g six} to viel
industry.
The agate quarries of Oberstein were
abandoned owing to the discovery, fully
half a century ago, of a rich supply of
those stones in the river gravels of Uru-
guay. Some German workers in agate,
who had emigrated to that region,
ticed the courtyard of a
paved with pebbles that reminded them
of the agates of their native Oberstein.
Specimens were accordingly sent home
and cut, and tha» surmise proved cor.
Since that time there has been a
regular export of agate nodules from
Uruguay to Oberstein, where they have
long formed the staple material used in
the agate mills, These ‘Brazilian ag-
ates.” as they are called, when brought
to Germany, are arranged in lots and
sold by auction, stones of ordinary
quality bringing, it is said, not more,
usually than fifteen shillings per hun-
dredwelght, “German agates,"’ age
thus, for the most part, South Ameri
can stones cut and polished at Ober-
stein. The extent of the industry has
greatly inoreased with this ascession of
fresh material, and a few years ago there
were no fewer than 153 agate mills,
working 724 grindstones, and giving
employment altogether to about 3000
persons. Cheapness of labor ana a
plentiful supply of water power have
had much to do with the continuance
of this industry at Oberstein. The la-
bor is both ill-paid and severe. The
agate worker, says Professor Rudler,
who some years ago visited the mines
and mills, “lies upon a low weoden
grinding-stool, specially constructed to
fit the chest and abdomen, leaving the
limbs free; the hands are engaged in
holding and grinding the agate, while
the feet are firmly pressed against short
stakes or blocks of wood screwed into
the floor, the reaction enabling the grin-
der to press the agate with much force
against the moving millstone, The
friction thus produced causes the agate
to glow with a beautiful phosphoresent
light, and red carnelians under this
treatment look, it 1s said, as if they
were red hot, The millstones are of
no-
farmhouse
red sandstone, measure five feet in di-
ameter, and generally make three revo-
lutions per second, The finer agates
are sliced by means of steel wheels
diamond or ¢
and
the
into
they
bu
conrser stones are simply chipped
Afterward
are polished on rotating
rig
ill
emery powder,
shape and ground,
cylinders of
wood or lead covered with meistened
tripoli,
The ingenuity of the agate worker
is not confined merely to cutting, cary-
ing and polishing his material
manner of He
ceeded in varying its colors by artificial
means, Ti
into all
3 1 1
BLADES, HAS fAI80 BUC
1e layers composing an agate
differ considerably in porosity, those
that are transparent, for example, be-
ing less porous than opaque layers,
SS 1 6s ¥ { Tr on al ’
SOme, indeed, seem to be allogethern
impervious at ordinary smperature
and pressure; and agats
al (1
then
Wi HAN
stein and in India
--
Mock Marriages,
TT okt and .
I'he LL ANG 113%
HOg peopie, more
. regard marrage
mber of n
um nock weddis
that
ti
\ rags §
144 "ICL
to light in
“make believe’ marr
unusement there, bat if it
ber of sad denouements ought to admon-
tittle
HIE
wholesome
order.
it of this kind occured
ish the elders that a
advice or correction would be in
The latest expl
in the vicinity of New York, where two
some Kind
were mock married to two mischievous
all In
the nonsense
been uproarious, but it transpired in a
day or two that the man who perform.
ed the ceremony was a person author-
ized by law for such purpose, and that
the young people were therefore legally
bound to each other. In most
severe penalties have been prescribed
for men falsely impersonating clergy-
men or magistrates and in those capac-
ities assuming to perform marriage cer-
emonies, Many innocent have
been lured to destruction by such means,
and it has been found necessary to pro-
tect them, or at least make that
method of villainy exceedingly danger-
ous and unprofitable, The other style
of mock marriage, while not to be class-
od in the same category, is in some re-
spect quite as reprehensible. In the
latter there is no well-defined conspir-
acy to deceive anybody, though both of
the parties to such jimeracks do fre-
quently find themselves deceived. It
would not be out of place to legislate
such performances into the realm of
misdemeanors at any rate. The ten-
dencies of the times seem to be favorable
to the growth of the idea thal marriage
is a ceremony to be lightly entered into
and its obligations to be easily put off,
A mock martiage ought to be impossi-
ble in a private parlor or in any respec.
table company anywhere as a mock
funeral.
m— I RP —
Though we seem grieved at the
shortness of life in general, we are
wishing every period of it at an end.
The minor longs to be of age, then to
be a business man, then to make up an
estate, then to arrive at honors, then to
retire,
young women at a party of
cadets, They were fun and the
enjoyment of must have
states
girls
wo
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
1f you would not fall into sin,
sit by the door of ter
do nov
nplation.
rren but that
Nothing present is so ba
there are fertile field
Nothing is so
g0 ignorant of
i»
is beyond
eredulo i
becomes
wr bit
Wild
There is always
: it is the sl
Converts who boast
ness are not always
I'he progress ol
not so rapid as tha
ward and
shall be,
is impossible.
Conf
thing ratber than two,
of God. He that fears most trusts most.
He tha ttrusts most fears most.
The action of man is a representa-
tive type of his thought and will; and
a work of charity is a representative
type of the charity within, in the soul
and mind.
He seldom lives frugally who lives
by chance. Hope is always liberal, and
they that trust her promises make little
scruple of revelling to-day on the prom-
ises of to-morrow.
Honest or courageous people have
very little to say about either their cou-
rage or their honesty, The sun has no
need to boast of its brightness, nor the
moon of its effulgence.
Some favorable event raises your
spirits, and you think good days an
preparing for you. Do not believe it.
Nothing can bring you peace but your-
self. Nothing can bring you peace but
the triumph of principles.
A man may usually be known by the
books he reads as well as by the com-
pany he keeps for there is a companion-
ship of books as well as of men: and
one should always live in the best com-
pany whether it be of books or men.
Moral beauty is the basis of all true
beauty. This foundation is somewhat
covered and veiled in nature; art brings
jt out and gives it more transparent
forms, It is here that art when it
knows well its powers and resources,
engages in a struggle with nature in
which it may have the advantage.
A silent look of affection and regard
where all other eves are turned coldly
away--the consciousness that we pos
sess the sympathy and affection of one
being when all others have deserted us
—48 a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the
deepest affliction which no health could
purchase or power bestow.
Alas! how few of nature's faces are
left to gladden us with their beauty!
the cares, and sorrowings, and hnges
ing of the world change them as they
change hearts; and it is only when
those passions sleep and bave lost their
hold forever, that the troubled clouds
pass off and leave heaven's surface
clear,
lence and fear a
when we speak