BMY BOY. What the stars are to the sky, What the light is to the eye, What the river's to the ses Is my darling boy to me. What the dew is to the flower, What the vine is to the bower, What the leaf is to the tree Is my darling boy to me. Sweeter than the violet, Pura as lily.bud, stil wet With the éarly morning dew, Is my darling, good and true When the dreams of youth are done, When the tight of age creeps on, May I lean, with pride and joy Upon thee, my darling boy! I CAPTURING A LUN NATIO All Dixon, Tom Giffard and I had | gone up the river camping out; we had done our second day’s work. early morning on the third day, glorious weather. I was in the beat getting the Steering lines in ‘order; Giffard and | Dixon were on the bank, talking to Dr. Rawle, was at the head of a private asylum for lunatics. He had been taking a consti- with us just as we were s our open air breakfast; ing led (riffard’s share our gypsy meal. He was a pleasant fel and not too young. Iliked him exceed- ingly. We talked of things in general, and of lunatics in particular. thing led to bis mentioning—I think it was speaking of the cunning of a cer- tain class of lunatics, and the difficulty of keepi fact that one of his inmates had escaped two previonsly, and had retaken, This was the more singular as it was tolerably certain he hie had not gone far, and search had been made in every direction. As Giffard and Dixon were saying i-bye, preparatory to getting into the doctor laughingly said: you happen sitting down to ; thechance meet- inviting him to He did. low, +, VO Some ~ a day or yet not been Lo come across hall consider you bound to bring k safe and sound. He’sa man t 44 or 45, tall and bony, hair, and has a curious habit of ring his teeth and winking his left Don’t look for a raving lunatic; 1¢ most points he’s as right as you . He's wrong in two things, :ver you do, don’t let him lose his tem- per; for F.Wheneya er he does, though ever | ightly, he variably goes in for murder; he’s all but done for two keep- ers alre And England or Englishmen; for if he should n his native land, he'll favor you we observations which will make pen your eyes,” Alf and Tom with him and got into the mised if we 80 sl in don’t t aay. as shook boat, atughed, hands We pr 1 certainly see him ret Alf = hore food ond y WE up and sang our last good- » doctor standing on the 8 a beautiful morning. slicious, clear as a crystal bottom, and every stone } breeze into a it traveler, crannies in forcign lands; I have lived abroad as much as at home, but I wi higher reaches of Thames for beauty and for against any scenery in Europe. on the early summer morning, after a spell of glorious weather, it is in all its prime; the water so cool, so clear, banks so green, so charming; the stately trees on either side, and the mansions, seen over the meadows, are among trees, You may choose your Rhine, your Garda, or your Mag- or your Bay of Naples, but leave Cookha Father Thames for me, Presumably we had come for river beaut’ les and the camping out—presums- ably; but as a matter of fact there was 2 young lady lived not so far ahead, a mutual friend, Lillian Travers, Sepa- « Just a surfac e of the wi rater Welit our p ae] tle y +s UK Wd ipes and took easily, know 1 a | aval . - any lovely nooks and I am a good bic of Father charm And Our own the giore ; and old dusk g brown suit of Oxford mixture; he had a stick mn his hand, wore a billy cock hat, and his coat was buttoned right up to his throat. He had light whiskers, a heavy drooping mustache, hair unusually long, iron-gray in color. profession, or an artist out painting— he certainly looked a gentleman. We were passing on when he raised his stick and shouted out, “Stop!” were half a mile from him, We stop- ped, although 1t was an unusual method of calling attention, “Gentlemen,” he said, still atthe top of his voice, *‘I should be obliged if you could give me a seat, way to go, and I am tired.” We looked at him and each other. was a frec-and-easy style of £7 Common politeness dictated civility. “I am afraid,” said Alf, **we hardly room; she’s only built for three.” **Oh, that doesn’t matter,” he said, an oar for one of you.” I was at the point of making a point- blank refusal, not appreciating his off- r, but Alf thought differ- ently. “All right,” he said, if youdon’t. Steer her I steered her in, near the shore than | he stepped almost on my toes, the boat from side to “Hang it!” 1 said, you'll have us over.” “What if I do?” he returned. It’H only be a swim; and who minds a swim in weather like this,” We stared at him, ence of the remark, was boat s in, Jack.” quite unexpecledly, rocking side. “take care, of the coolness, not to say impertin Degging a seat on the and then spi Hed telling us into If by me, knowing it was full, us he didn’t care if the river! He s¢ ting the boat see- ing me into a corn he ated himse set. tT awing n your leave or bs y my leave, 1g lines from my nd shipped them over his shoulders. NC Exense me,’ I said, making at them; “but if you’ll allow me." ‘Not at all,” he said, *‘I always like soinething to do, and 1 expect you've had enough of it”? il took t be steeria "hands, a snatch His coolness was amusing; he was I know I for one regret. | ted that we were such mules as to have anything to do with him. We waited in silence a second or two. he said, “Come, “when are you go- ion of Miss Travers, beauty, not only for her net have to return until at least we had a peep at ber, Unfortunately, though quaintance with Mr.—there Mrs, several dances and such like; but on one occasion she was under the chap- eronage of old Mrs, Mackenzie. parently Mr. Travers was not a man. Bat Lillian had promised to in- troduce us to him whenever she got a chance, and we were nol unhopeful she would get the chance now. So you see the little riverward excursion had more in it than met the eye, was no party oars in and out; smoking, watching the smoke circling through the clear air. And all thoughts of the doctor and his parting words had gone from our minds, ‘We talked little, and that little was of Lillian and the chance of meeting. We had gone some two or three hundred yards; we were close to the shore, Alf could almost reach it by stretching out his oar, We were dreaming and lazing, when suddenly some one stepped out from among the trees, He was close to us—not a dozen feet away. He was a tall man, rather over than under six feet, He was dressed in a » Alf, a boat a hoose our own time." bit netted 3 s wv a # self-invited “Perhaps, sald “as you're in Our guest, you'll let us The stages said id and silent. TT: . 41 ; thestranger # wothing: he sat ig: h im ‘and ad teered 1 stol rowing the stre “Wi ““ K ee] uh in 4 LL VO strong.’ Amn, ore a us in." gong into He bad the line, sist on his keeping on ferred the other. opposite bank, willowtrees, F minutes peithe of With him cramming on my and his into my side; my position was not ple ant. At least I let him know it. “I don’t know if you are aware you are occupying all my seat.” righ t to He took 1 under the shadow of WT SOe us spoke. sal, ramming He turned on me short and sharp, All at once I goticed his left eye go up and down like a blinking owl; his mouth was wide open, disclosing as ugly a set of teeth as I should ever care to see, Like all, strong, about 45, hair, a habit of showing Iron-gray iis teeth Gracious powers! was it possible we had a lunatic with us unawares? I know the possibility, nay the probability, of such a thing mads If there instinctively fear, it is mad persons, I know littl of them; have never been i pany. my dread; is Possibly my ignorance explains but the idea of sitbmg in the Dr. Rawle's warning, “Don’t let him in-the-box. The boat tioped right out of thé water, but I1Widn’t care. i i : my muscles were strung, my fist clinched, throat, you?” t Excitable temperament, hot-blooded youth,” said the stranger. I could have said something had 1 chosen, but 1 preferred discretion; I didn’t like his eyes, “N-o-nothing,” I said. I'll sit in the bow.” didn’t wait to learn if any one had objections, but swinging around I sorambled past Alf, and tripped fall length on to Tom's knees. The boat went up and down like a swing; it wasa miracle she wasn't over, “Is the fellow mad?’ roared Alf, At the word “‘mad’’ the stranger rose up straight as a post. ‘*‘Mad!” hesald, “do you know, sir—'" He checked himself and sat down. “Pooh! he's only a boy." In passing Tom I whispered in his ear. “The lunatic,” I said. “What!” said Tom, right out loud, “Hold your row, you confounded don- key! It'sthe man from Dr, Rawle's.”’ Lar ‘hee? He was going to say something naugh- with all his eyes. Either Alf overheard me, or else the same idea had occurred to him at the same moment, for he stopped dead in the middle of a stroke, and inspected the man on the steering seat. Tom I kept my head turned All at once I felt the boat give a great throb, half way out of his seat, looking have him look at me. lence?” he said, The question was not unwarranted; been stared at as said 1at Insolence “1 beg your pardon,” cool as a cucumber. **To wi chuckled: 1 Tom actually couldn’t risky; I couldn’t forget Dr. the homicidal tendenct He turned saw such over a man’s face déemomacal. To as, never expression come I be- fore—perfectly my ly and deliberately as possible, ‘““Thank you,” he said: “I shall not There was a sound about his “I shall forget this” I did not Alf said no Tom and he set off row- as cooly as though nothing pened. I extemporized bow, and tried to make fortable ; gible, I noticed, altl 85 4 % ¢ 1¢ . Ing had hap- a seat vier wiiil wugh Alf and Tom were ol, they il ardly took thelr eves aft him for more ths His behavior CE Was pec he ti 3 in a second atl a Lime. y their Ive gl is furt uilar, ie conidn’t sit still: Ali~ 1 1 $ . Pus | 3 looked first at one bank and then at 1@ other; his eyes traveled everywher rested nowhere, his hands id } ' red og ana s M1 gels i 1 a an 1; he seemed all of a him to break OXySsms, hadn't called ou have run 1 called he clut jer ¥ ity, Gui- Ver, into par- ud en 1 V10- t he wor right hore, wi ched the other ¢ the string alm round Jericho before jerking boat I heartily wish him he } 14 ibe Ost Lt ne 1 Noone spoke watching ¥ al ox Near us. We we At gl cane alive ntl slowly aiong each other. last he said or ng. “I—I will get ou odd nervous way. ith 1 t ed 3 il piCasiire 1 him, he man glowered at him full saw a look in in his, Alf rel ment he looked never g ' 1 : iim look for look. i } hliy he auicke. i iy, be quick ened his stroke, little lower down wie § 4 all ts hry t with Well-known When er said ' was a little hamle inn and a capital Ins ding we came alongside, the “This will do; oh get a stage. st rang out here, He turned the boat ashore. No s00- ner were we near enough then he in his seat and sprang on the beach. There were several people about—water- men and others, Alf was after him wn an instant. He rose almost simultane ously and leaped on shore; he touched himwon the shoulder, “Now come,” he saul. foolish; we know all about it, oly rose “Don't sy be The other turned on him like a flash “What do you mean." I'om was too quick for him; he was on the other side and took hisarm. “Come,” he said, “don’t 8 have a TOW Th e stranger raised height and shook off L$) let’ himself to full Tom with ease, did style. Tom and Alf went down like ninepins, But my blood was up. on shore and ran into him, dodged his blows and closed,” pretty strong. He was old enough to but I found 1 had met I was like a baby in his arms. He lifted me clean off my feet and threw me straight into the It was a splendid exhibition of strength, Tom and Alf finding their feet, made for him together, and scrambling out the best I could, I followed suit, The language he used was awful, his strength magnif- OF course, they interfered and pulled us off, “Here's a pretty go! What's this?” said one. “Stop him! lay hold of him! he's a lunatic!’ said Alf, “A what?” said one man. *‘He’s a lunatic, escaped from Doctor Rawle’s asylum, Instead of lending & hand, the man went off in a roar of laughter, and the others joined, The stranger looked frantic with rage. A gentleman stepped out from the crowd, “There's some mistake,” he said, **this gentleman 1s Mr, Travers, of Tollhust Hall, You could have knocked us all three all down with a feather, Could it be possible? Could we have been such consummate idiots as to have mistaken a sane man for a lunatic? and that man Lillian Travers’ fatherl I could have shrunk in my boots; I could have run away and hid myself in bed. all others in whose g ood books we wished to stand--Lilllan Travers’ father! Never did we three men look such fools as we We were so confoundedly in earnest about it; that was the worst of all. don’t care what you say; you must have been an eccentric sort of an elderly gentleman, If he had } sensibly, it he had made one he would sions to the winds, We tendered our apolog behaved sensible 168 a8 best go insulted; the ory ne of an unsympathetic crowd, es and jeers And place each as wretched as us in our secret heart declared with And to this I have never From that Ba11 we haven't, day I'ravers, nor do I wish i # of Dakota. to. Girl Farmer A broadshouldered. young woman, v compactly vith brown face and hard hands, sat in the Lake Shore depot, for the departure of a East. She had just arrived In town from Dakota. foolishness out our w young man whe ted with her “There half wheat waiting rail “We don’t waste ay a she said to a y seemed to be acquain sno love -maki on my sect it's Ko 2 M iy Tha it there I own and manage a farm and th 101. from L's what we are o is Yeu 1 will look aft Wd I'm for : . Marriage?” s emark by hat's what all the ks of men that off to 1 good-f 1 see from Or- thing crus plowing time What dol are more in Dakota net to harvest can talk about, get married for? J of want ¢ Wall WW Us giri than I never saw a around, 1 get money wrtably, and t hen n of doing abot ine, I would have down in get ip. He have the st Saysl: ‘Oh, You don't eat enough No 2 Then I put the rick up in good We is of such fellows there, but send for him.’ enissetliili—— 5 didn’t RO AWAY. wheat.’ style. out meet Faise a Hey are when will iii suppose, I want one Twilight Cathe ral Dance, A tourist in Spain, says: the most curious privilege of the Seville dral 1s the so-called ses, which takes place every evening at twilight foreight consecutive days after the festival of Corpus Domini. As] was at ille during days, 1 went to see it, From what I had heard I thought it must be a scandalous buf- nery. 1 entered the church with my mind prepared for a feeling of indigna- tion the profanation of this sacred place. The church was dark; only the chapel was illuminated, A crowd of kneeling women occupied the space between the chapel and the Sev those at and left of the altar, Before the steps was stretched a broad carpet, and two rows of boys from 8 to 10 years old, dressed like Spanish cavaliers of the white stockings, were drawn up oppisite each other in front of the altar. from lence of the church, and the boys interiace, separate and gather again with a thou- Then ail broke chant, which echoed through the dark- ness of the vast cathedral like the voice they commenced to accompany the dance and chant with castanels. No religious ceremony moved me like this one. Itis impossible to describe the under the immense vault, these little creatures at the foot of the altar, that grave and almost humble dance, the ancient costumes, the prostrate crowd, and all around in darkness, 1 left the church with my soul as peaceful as if I had been praying. —— a AIMS is, «OF 60,000 Hebrews mm New York city not one is a bartender, Down the St, Lawregoes, editor, ‘the Cavé, went through of another writer and a man the gloomy entre: fr to be taken out at first aroused the laughter of his friends, and yas 80 demora- his mental balance; yet it was said that Bo with the rapids; delicate women often take delight in the lurches of the vessel and the visible signs of danger, sirong men retire below, though passengers entering fully into the enjoyment of the scene, Long Sault Island forms tw the river at this Plage, 1 he Canada side, whil though pitt, 0 channels in rapids being on the the American channel, can ied for tows times, The turbulent waters can be seen before the The upon be u “at av hed. Hi8 rapids are act sengers ually take their reac pas posit the 1.41 vi $05 4 holdingon 188) ti sides of the boat, nd downward rush commences—a de doen a hill of Four good men ar 1 Talis, the walter nine miles ¢ at the wheel, should break? v BUpPpoOBe the rope **Oh, we have two men at was the the breaks?’ But the 3 isshoulders expressively and rolled his eves, The fact is If th steamer sl she hould would she tiller,’ that shrugged h set broadside on the first struck and go rolling down stream, | the chances are against it, Ti is slowed first, until and contrary to the impression it is off, soon turned on in full force, to to keep steerage Ww g waler now ing into Oli capsize rock 16 slean at 3 18 taken, gen- but JUL enable yb vibi b 2 738 Vive# not sus eral the vessel bubblin 1 4 ay. 1 about whirl air in 2 leaning poois, leaping Lhe - i 1 the deck, rance of that fall h { 3 waves of spray oar, the wate at the wheel, and the occa- and danger faces arm s a sense of excitement agreeable, Some that Ian had his about a rope, the other ife; desperate] “ about are pale; a around nne C ling Ine miles of thi ndden that at times the steamer would swing broadside she shoots in the as if i AWAY new L that what for another target for CLs ‘ channel, headed iis is that nd there, and by keeping the i for these for certain of the channel are is a singuls looms up on shore, th these curious ot are appear here a ball distances the rocks led. The One man said SET sati 100 that h AYO One, $i fever aww Was SUGIDE down a be 50 atlecis ther as if Ano WAS iady WAS d by yi# $8 e v wens tad €1 Lila boat, wip- chances all against them. Passport. The tri] made in 1848, and an by he name of McGanon, who is still a pilot on the river, held the wheel, Th that made all the rapids was She went down by accident, they say: got goicg and they couldn’t stop her, crowded on steam and let her was the old Was a in eo first 1 steamer the Gill, psoas The French Canadians, Interesting as sections of ancient rocks or drifts to the geologist are those soctions of the France of the teenth century in the lap of the ni teenth century in the new world The ancient '" ill the centre of all seven ne to the sociologist, city of Quebec the French of quaint beauty and poetry it is only they know fully who have been wearied to death by the opulent sameness of American cities, The student who make inquiries into this life, the music, the customs and the way of thinking among the people will find a strip of country extending down the river in the vicin- of Quebec, a most accessible dis. trict, and at the same time possibly the | most perfect illustration of what he is st monotonous ago, the Abbe Ferland said, “In the his and the for him, songs, his customs. ”’ superstitions Unfortunately ing, as well as to old songs, and the stiff Lombgrdy poplar that his ances. tors brought from France. He does not care to spend money on expensive agri- cultural implements. He enjoys social merrymakings wore than political dis- cussions, and prefers steady hard work by day, and smoking his native tobacco with his neighbors in the long even. ings, to thinking over rash experiments on his narrow terres. Alt the head of the ancient social pyramid on the banks of the St, Lawrence stood she Gover nor-GGeneral and the bishop. The Governor was supreme, though with a bishop like Laval it was often a ques- tion which of the two was the Gover- nor. Then came the seigneurs and the cures, The base was constituted by the habitants Underground periis All telegrapi, tei lighting ephone and electris wires in Berlin are now under- A popular German magazine furnishes some details of the under. ground plant of the city, The gas sup- ply ot Berlin furnishes light for 14.000 gas lighting was first city in 1862. it has steadily improved, the nereased demand and furnishing power for a great many small industries, so that the tric lighting een meeting use of elec has not The and caused ordinary ¢ for repairs ion ot gas, pipes are 1 under the sidewalks, little inconvenience is street trafii The supply in 1854 hy a private co 1875 th oF lai or extensions, water was first it ha Deen own ¢ | i wat A fra iviae Graliing er ha 18 heen sue complete f 1 g yg dey ine % ACY 1 and asu pPpiement + pes, Luo WAS carried tage is the drainage Every ted with this ry apm walter carried 4 ny vil 3 age by an OYeéQ SYBLe off t have and the rain iS RisO ils waler Every house, too, mus and this careful i in} nl da regul consider: ipply, is also y with IAW, will bones ds ais, Berli point. The cost of the ci | in Berlin amounts seven millic works to eight mi h vi hat inhabit ns of di drainag course the great | of over twen invested in yet it capital lars is as recently contrae- I i¢ rd oy bi dl nd, and ity of Berlin h te th the Ger Edison Light Co of undergroun Nan mpany for a thorough system 1 wi which lit, and every res, by riagat 1 ha street can be ¥ ‘ ii he OWI 3 a ff the Amer rican plans cana —— The Climbing Perch. ff hs 3 LA have heard « e rch of the Indian gained the name from h by its discoverer on the stem | Palmyra palm, five feet above th i ground, where it was apparently strug- | gling, by means of the spines on | scales and gill covers, to get hughes: As that happened nearly a hundred years ago, and there 18 no has in- stance of the fish having since been | detected climbing trees, the occurre nee may fairly be regarded as incidenta rather than habitual. There is doubt, however. that it travels long and far by land generally in the morning when the dew waters iis path, although lon ope occasion Mr. E. L. Layard | met a number of them jot | a dusty road under a m ad | are oo to form a favorite boatmen on the Ganges, known to keep them alive six days without water, and them at the end of that time as liv as when first caught. The typi tal fist | cannot breathe out of water, t th | climbing perch can, because, ht ite | gills and in the same cavity with them | lies an organ, composed of a complica. | ted system of thin bony plates, which | acts as a lung. The fish was until | Intely supposed to fill this cavity with water and to make use of the latter | from time to time in wetting its gills, just as the camel in the desert draws upon its internal reservoir of water in order to quench its thirst. This theory however, has not been able to survive the fact that those who have sought for water in tins labyrinthine organ have never yet found it, A ich Landholders, yt people Ie region, aviug sSe0n 110 food of who have been for five ot find w to Few people reflect upon the fact that the Indians are the richest landholders, in the United States. There are 237, 0060 of them, exclusive of the Alaska Indians, holding 151,307,668 acres of land, Some of the tribes owa 3,000 acres perindian: The average 18 about onesquare mile to each Indian, while a white man is not allowed more than one hundred and sixty acres of public land. ~ Female pedestrian matches ave pros hibited in Allegheny, Pa. “In sax inferior to woman?” asks t. That on whether | t is o married man or a bach
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