OE Le Ll YESTERNIGHT. r 1 loved, il the swestness, in silence nursing 11 the smart tale rehearsing when my hear t forth unto the the t untold —tho' First wer All the world was winter-white And the summer With rich frag maiden air was laden rrance vesternight extereve, what time the shadows Deepened on the dalsied grass, Homeward wending thro’ the meadows id t th o love, 80 le 1 bebe And the Bravel maiden pass; Mg unspoken, y in the Pleaded for Of requital fading light some word or token yesternight r heart unheeding was told ; ling gold Y ned tale ny wistful plea h wp of ry yesternig LA SAS ST SRR MY SISTER'S LOVE, May, dow with The blossoms, and came sunmer was through the half open wii stealing a soft i fill suinme and the The but gaze walking and a trees in } S e garden of 1 y p early full bioom, ol all this [ saw nothing. Was xed upon two figures slowly a man and nd tender as a little girl » acts and courtesies of life. nan was young and very iful, with figure slender and walked, v 1 v - 3 vas tall strong in beau- swaying and dark, 2 a reed as she lustrous eyes, many them to He lifted Geoffrey Bran ' VOArs senior, my sion with the self-inflict It was my suffered—the heart that had Bransc« scious keeping, 1 loved him. he who was to be my sister’s husbans + passed into Geoffrey ymbe’ uncor I had never suspected have known it by t t before 1 sho light in eyes, the new radiance of her beauty the day of the new it burst upon me on return. And wha than that 1 were 7 Did not guardians always | their wards, and wards be should be their had never read a b ed of such relatio nsaip of ~—and yet did it was t th yet oA 08 Sad juel for me to bear ? I tum gaze picture, and from the depths of which I glimpse of DOSES cpposiie, ed my away from that lifted myself up the great chair in 1 Cou other ay, until I catch a 1 my own face in the mirror What a contrast! My eyes, the only beauty I possessed, looked many times too large for the thin, dark and my hair, which had been rival beauty to my eyes, was close my head. They had cut it off as I lay delirious with fever, and crying that its weight hurt me. I sank back, with a instant my sister the room, “Mabel, cried—* ling, I an so happy I” And rapidly crossing the sank down her chair. The contrast was too great, had I seen her half so beautiful. “Don’t tell me-—don’t!” I hastily exclaimed, and lifting up my hands as if to ward off a blow. “I know,” I continued. “I congratulate you: but don’t say any more,” You know, she answered, a look of surprise sweeping over her face, | “How is that possible 2" “Don’t ask Only ' face, the At that entered groan. returning, 1 9 she ‘Mabel, dar- she my floor, on knees beside Never fey dear 7" me. I know. But I could say no more, My weak- into bitter weeping. **Poor child | Dear little Mabel I" she whispered tenderly. “Do you love me 30 well that you hate to lose me 7 But you will not really lose me, dear. When I am married" “Hush I” I interrupted. hear any more,” and, sobbing bitterly, buried my face in my hands, Of course no heroine would have done such a thing ; but I was no hero- ine. I was only a foolish child who had lived but eighteen years, and who could only look forward to a long, long life of misery~for I loved Geoffrey. He had not meant to make me love him-—I knew that, but when I had come home for my Christmas holiday, Alice had been away on a visit, and so 1 had seen him every day, We had ridden and driven and walked together and as I have said, his manner held that unconscious and inherent tender | | w | RLS ! | ness towards things weaker than self which had charmed my heart him- into | ed treasures at his feet, sing all misery My excitement in repre and seeing the seal set brought its punishment ; week later my life was again despaired of, Then boon, upon my own for a because I did not wish the strength came slowly back. Every day he came ; every day he sent me flowers, fruit, or sweel message ; but it was all added torture. At last, when I grew better, the ph sicians said I must have a change, and 80 they me to side, to visit an who house at Worthing I was glad to go. | home I should have | and Mr, or some sent the aunt SOR had a Had I staid at mad. Alice Branscombe went with me had 1 was just about head gone he train. | bade her good-bye, | and the | trair start, when he put his the { window “You will let me come he said, and I had only swer, “No, no; Only time for i you must no the swift look, so moved WF CL swept over his face, away, and my last both shoul hencefortl stand glimpse was thew as, they through side bv side conirary, ne came, in my new home some of the color ck into my cheeks 1000n as I sat | dreamed all } i. we i the face whi had loved, I don’t kn in that hour 1 realized hi snatch from we wands 1+ yy vy silvered by the 1 faced as it turned 8 hand and ng his over mine his arm. “Mabel,” he Youare butachild, and I am a man who has outstripped you in the race of ife by years. But give yourself to me, dear ? Has it been my own blind ie ! has given birth to the sweet hog that I alone might make ness > He paused then waiting for my wer. Only a minute passed, but 1 I had not could find had not thought my sister ever said, “I love you, child. vwenty will you your happi- his baseness ever | | i i } 1 i { Only a minute, but I had torn out my I turned upon the man with hot, flerce I forgot my own baseness, my own love. What burning, scathing words I used but when I had finished le offered me again his arm, frou which I had withdrawn my clasp, and walke d Yet, as he left me, I felt, strange to only my own guilt, He had not convicted of a say, | ! i The next week I went home, Alice was the first to meet me, and that night beside me as she had done once before, “Darling I” she whispered, month I am to be married, nex! and you “I cannot I 1 answered. “Don’t It would kill me I “Do you really love me so well, dear ? | But you will not refuse me this r NB would mar all my happiness, Mabel, and I am so happy. When you and to love him for himself—you will understand. “Harry I” 1 gasped, **who is he ?» “Harry Harry Stretton ; the man 1 am to marry. Why, Mabel, you told me you knew it all, did not know 7" ment which had been entered into dar. log her Christwas visit—an engage- CERIN ET RE IE | guardian whilst I was so ill, It had been this sne had to tell me--this 1 had Oh, the burning | listened at | pulse s been about refused to hear. ith which 1 And then a wild im- to tell her all the truth. | She should know now how pitiable I had though I bought hate and contempt, as doubtless I hame w Ya 1 last | eized me been, even had I did not spare myself as I told story. In silence she heard me through, and then she sealed my lips with the kiss of love and pardon, All night I ted with my misery and remorse, next aay, him, In the CAINS oon, afternoon she into my the i) ‘Some one wishes to see you in library, dear,” Will down |? She spoke 80 quietly that I suspected she said, vou asking no questions went stairs, ed the hal a moment but at the INUow he door nd me, ound some one steg pedffomthe Ww > <3 3} 1 recess—some one whe advanced with wide-op my face I 3 kisses rain @pon ms , \ : noble darih gf $1 HOW package i 1 th Pay a large prot, and ] t®egra ex] compar They say the bus ness Com pPa- and of send- crude petroleum by a pipe for long the Tess 108 the mail. ness Ow done, this practicable, if possible, and not nearly to be small as is n and that was laughed at at first, one is y costly, as the pipes are and can go around as well as on the level ptm——— i —— Military Figeon PFiying. The Director of Fortifications of the Thomas Candithat, of the Eighteenth Infantry Regiment, to visit the principal towns of France with a view to the formation of a ion. Since war the erection military pigeon-houses has been steadily mtinued, It is expected that the War Office, visional societies, will employ from 25.- 000 to 30,000 of these aerial messengers, In every German fortress or town of strategic importance is to be found a pigeon station, under the orders of the National Engineers, a specialist, and two pri. vates, who are under the direct author- ity of the Commandant, In time of war this staff is doubled, and an officer takes command, in each station varies according to 200, Strasburg and Metz share at the present time 600 pigeons between them, and Thorn has 200; but the latter town will soon have accommodation for 1000, A, minute-book is kept at each statione with a complete record of every pigeon, its experiences, journeys, speed, &ec, It may be mentioned that an ordinary hour, It is better to be a beggar than an ig- norant person; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity. A Wonderful BKaliroad Much has constraction of the of the veled of the four per cent fifteen degree been written about the mountain division Rio Grande; travelers have mar- grades and the remark curvature, of the able narrow-g railroad, which pen- etrates the most climbs the most loft auge rugs ged car and 10H mountain ranges Rockies, I nobody Las evel well described the er of the full Little f« ed whic line in Brown wonder sts rl HH inog- Leadville division leaves the main canon and ascends the with tl + t Mviest in mountain gulch- east 16 steepest grades he world that are ordinary drive-wheel Afar up in this even locomotive. range of mile and near- higher the mountains, 5 AWAY, { ly 3,000 feet than the bed of the canon, is famous Calumet! from which is ext: iron ore th of the Be Every norn 0CoIoLIve toils i i] VOLIS Tp Lh i} ft} the y¥ make the loaded valley brakes on the cars wonderiui ralroading ade 1s 406 imum gr feel nearly S per cent., and curvature 25 degrees, pecling every moment to have (0 leap ile, Finally extremely for Heavy locomotives built, and a force of exception. mally brave trainmen were secured. The latter were instructed to cling to were 4 their post at 1 lh every and of danger. hazard, nch in the moment never Not a Starting from the mine every manned so brake case the steam shoul fail the train could be checked. While there have been runaways § two years there has not been a that in several wreck, The sight of one of these trains desc end. one of illing interest, the sparks from the car wheels cuttinga pathway of light down; the mountains, which can best be described as having he appearance of a molten stream of fire rolling down the river bed of ’ 11 thr the In Switzerland there are grades Calumet branch but they are equpped for operation wit! ax those on the o_o w Queen Victoria's Wealth The Queen has made a new will, She away, and as certainly plenty of people to grab for it. Prince Albert left at least $3,000,000: A miser named Neald bequeathed to her Majesty $2,500,000, greater part of her annual ineome The demands on her will come from her numerous grandehildren, Her family has a curious knack of making poor marriages, and the only wealthy mem. bers are the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Cumberland and her son, the Duke of Edinburgh, who inherits in an exaggerated form the parsimony from his father and mother. The children of the Prince of Wales will be provided for by parliament, and his eldest son is to get a grant next year, A isis Happiness is afruit which, ie rows not at our own homes, we nesd no ex. pect to gather in stranger's gardens, Row Sponges Mave Grown, fleet 18 The sponging small sc composed hooners Or 8 from ranging from 10 tons sinaller, Lach Carrie four to six men, and makes periodical trips out 4 Around Abaco, Uma are so y the Andros i ye of the sponge beds, Fx wal fisheries; the land and princi there are hardly any of value in cinity of dive for Me handled this i to fish them out of the » imme Nassau, men them, as gpo literranean d« ord 15 like oyster-Long vater, TI blind» and probe in this cl hh of the ey do ry “, $1 not go it 1i¢ iti mud, they {LIKe oystermen; Sar water ) bottom, wl LAL SACI One care-~ the rock to which the boat, They -— Forestry of Japan livided we h Tokio got in this country Ave a Government a full staff present, 150 sta. ool of Forestrs > with teachers, and with, at dents, who are being p reputed for tical work. efforts made, during recent duce foreis in country. Coffee matized, ¢ 18) pr al (reat ‘been inLro- into the Tea is extensively cultivated, have VEArs, rees and shrubs to has been The chinchona troduced from India, but with partial over one thousand trees—including fir, lime, successfully accli- been in- yet only seeds of forest birch, and SOWnH has is The Yarieties oak, maple the German larch pine been 1580 ; and, although some have others give good promise of Of the least 30 have for exhibition, practical forestry are They include models of tree transplanting machines, of tim- ber rafts and shoots, and of the ponds in which the timber years to mature, water partly salt and partly fresh. The methods of tree felling, of forest drainage and of sur. veying are also illustrated. In the col- lection there are no fewer than 302 dif- ferent kinds of useful timber; produced im Japan, including the Japan cedar, which is the most common forest tree, pines and oaks of many varieties, lex, maple, mulberry, the giant camellia, juniper and yew, In a handsome pillar- el trophy no fewer than 96 ornamental woods are shown in such a why as to exhibit their fine grain and their rich colors. There are also speci. mens of barks used in tanning, of veg- etable dyes, of camphor, and of the valuable lacquer juice obtained from the varnish tree, Cases of richly color- ed maple leaves give some idea of the wonderfully varied shades of foliage SUCCeSRS, i ol ash, the Indian have since failed, SUCCESS, latter, been sent The exhibits in very interesting at specimens over is stored for several in landscape of Japan, There are also iMustrations of the peculiar art of the Japanese in dwarfing, moulding and grafting trees. Altogether this depart. ment, which is well arcanged, is one of the most b teresting In the Exhibition. PES AREY SNE NEAT es YOO YOR THOUGHT, words, warn frie What is ofte; sharacter 18 noth Learn in « IAPDINDEss 18 nid Whoso nue Kes peth The more burdens, sures of TT in tiow strange w concealing fi mwportant facts As So IL 88 & in ' h Er Tal part; axe the ¥ of y LE 14 a pPropensis erful and gay, ali holy; . is real real poverty. When we find that we are liked, we assert that we are not understood when probably the dislike we have ex- cited proceeds from our being too fulls comprehended. We should take the future, but so as torenjoy the pres ent. Itis no part of wisdom to be miserable to-day, because we mas pen to be so to-morrow, Many persons friendly when they are only They counsel 80 much that thes should become wise, as that th wey should be recognized as teachers of wisdom, If one only wished to be happy, this could be readily accomplished ; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is almost always difficult, for we believe others to be happier tha: they are. The charities of life everywhere, enameling the human beings as the flowers the meadows; they are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct. Vari, Jorily, travellers have seen many idols in many couniries; but no Samy 10 have ever seen more dar- ing, gross, and shocking images of the Divine nature than we creatures of the dust make in our own likenesses of our own bad passions, Greatness is not the only condition of usefulness or happiness: it is simpiy one of the factors of society--a factor with which the world finds success. without which the world wanders about aimless and lost, like a group of child- dren without father or mother, There is no doing anything with a man who does nothing but think. The lawyers and doctors did not flock into the ancient church. Thought is the celd lightning-rod; feeling, the spark- ling point on the top where air is charged with electricity. All the apos- ties had blood in them and a pulse, Some people are never satisfied, They look on the dark side. They blame Nature for putting thorns on their beautiful roses, How much better it would be if they would take the good advice of Alphonse Carr, who says: “I always thank her for having put roses on thorns.” This is indeed lookiug on the bright side. riches; one to § 4 ead fr a prudent care 1m binary Liat fancy themselves offi not scattered vales of paint are
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