» 2 i | i - THE GOLDEN ROD, 0, gaily raise your radiant heads, And wave your gold-fringed banuers bright, While o'er the sun-browned hillside spreads Your charm that sweetly woos the sight ! The fairest ye of all the throng, Mild heralds of Autumnal days; In forests dim your light prolong, O'er fields shine through the mellow haze Ye tell us that the trees shall stand All leafl ss "gainst the sullen sky, And birds shall in some Southern land Renew the songs they here let die. How oft a rest the toller finds By roadsides where your beauty blooms, And feels his brow refreshed by winds That gently sway your glowing plumes! Sometimes upon the mountain wild Your watch and ward you fondly keep, life that smiled *Ere storm winds burst with withering sweep. 3 frivn' ox 31 § > er nature's waning How often the towering Benen he tempest’s rushing gale That passes harmless o'er your crown, Still bright with yellew blossoms frail. pines goes down the The splendor of Gathered from summer's smiling skies, Ye throw upon the world anew When autumn’s darkening clouds arise, The brave and generous heart thus sheds, Where'er § Beauty : Of those » sun's gay hue, tine and earth it dwell, essing on the heads who feel its magic spell. which seemed an placed no restraint upon her inclina- tions. which she managed with great skill, “The old forester had often taken 3 { i very well how to handle the gun, 80 that she had already brought many & buck or hare as a trophy of the chase. Yet to-day her father had re- fused her wish to engage in the next ‘this is not for women,’ and pouting she had been forced to submit, “1 had already expressed the wish to choose from the excellent weapons of the baron, which I had already admired a gun to use on the followmg day. He himself recommended to me a magnifi- arm-chest, upon which, after short trial, I decided, especially Adele's suggestion, nt at ! i i i because hunger urged him. I saw him creep slowly forward till I conld distinguish the gleaming spots on his back, He seemed ready for the fatal leap. 1 felt more and more that it was now or taking my eyes At first my hand trembled, but the thought that another dear life beside my ewn ‘Slowly, without “I nad only one barrel for bullets, the other was loaded with coarse shot Calmly I felt for the trigger to the first took aim at the head of the monster, “HA horrible roar of rage was the after, the smoke had cleared away, I The old baron, too, entertaining his daughter the task of “She proposed to subjeet the gun to A DARING HEROINE. “Yes, laugh as creduously as you will, my dear comrades, we can boast of something extraordinary tiger hunt. Oxze need not go as far as India or elsewhere, Is it not Adele 77 On reconnoitering march, for | which the troops stationed in the Prov- | ince of Pomerania were delegated, we | as 80 » the with the smaller half of the company ind a yeunger comrade, wandering from the highway, manorvof Lord B——. He had formerly teen an officer himself, and took pains | ts» receive us as agreeably as possible. | After the excellent dinner, to which our appetites, sharpened by the march, | i1 the cool study of our amiable host, i1 comfortable rocking-chairs, compla- ontly enjoying the aromatic coffee which Lady B——, a slender, graceful | brunette, prepared us herself, while, at tie same time, she would glance anx- itusly toward her little, two-year-old ciubby-cheeked son, who, lying on his ack onla ghty tiger skin before his father’s writing-table, was playfully | Reking and laughing at us. We had entertained ourselves with | tiis and that, when the conversation tirned to the tiger-skin, and Lord B. ad used the words above mentioned, | alter telling us, to our astonishment, tiat he had captured the trophy on his oyn premises, “Who knows,’ edly, whet stpceeded, if hat pot lent me At he earn- 3 1 should ayveral ange: continued her I then here us that.” FFootinnately pre. | decltionately em és, you mut it. Aftes ir companion he began as 150 teil at ‘9t will soon be six years since I, a joli heutenant in a regiment of hus- | sars was ordered to lead a detachment | to Siettin, 1 was quartered with Baron Z—, and was glad, after three days of | marthing, during which I had fre- quently had miserable accommodations, | to spend my furlough in this hospitable | house. “Ve were just sitting down to din- | ner, to which several of the neighbor- | ing Rod-holders had been invited (and, : sined the baron had an excellent wine | cell, we in a highly excited | state), when the servant announced mesenger who earnestly desired speat wilh © After the lat had feceived the message he returned in eansiderable excitement, ¢ The governor invites us,’ said he, as he met our questioning glances, ‘to take part in the great tiger hunt fo- morrow.’ ts 1A tiger eagerly. “He then told us that the owner of a | menagerie, which had visited the mar- | ket at Coslin, had met with an accident | on the highway not far from town, At a place in the road, which was being répaired, one of the wagons had gone | too near the ditch and overturned. At the same time its carelessly-fastened cover had broken, at which a tiger and agyoung leopard had improved the op- portunity to escape from their cages. The leopard had been immediately re- covered, but the tiger, a strong, full- grown specimen had taken refuge in a tense wood adjoining. He had already attacked, the day before, a flock of sheep in the vicinity, the shepherd had varely escaped with his life, and no: one were a to | ir host. ter hunt I" cried every one, | fear of falling victim to the furious beast. To-morrow, therefore, a great tunt of extermination was to be under- taken by the neighboring landholders, “We were naturally very much excl ted at the unusual event. All prom. Leould not better employ my furlough. [ therefore requested my amiable host to furnish me with the necessary outfiv for the chase, which his sister, too, my neighbor at table, readily promised. «8fisg Adele was almost as excited at Wh i I consented, and soot we of an tance, who was here to learn were on the way to the target-ground, which the baron had arranged ie at the § shied in wich my about rifle and game-bag, munition was contained, neck and Adele, young rifle, walked by her side. my escorted while the us to the shots carried the target. “Behind the through a garden, laid out in the glish manner, the lake, which could be seen from the veranda, through shady groves, and past broad, green " house, the led path Nn il y along with its towering truuks, The scorch- ing sun of August in the was slowly smn cloudless toward 1g the horizon, and a refreshing from over the lake rustlied gent! ly among breeze At length we reached ¢ ile he place. Wh the stable-boy fastened the target to the gave lake, and our young companion him the necessary directions, on a bench that was there, proceeded nence, from which was afforded 8 most magnificent prospect over the lake, the park and the castle 1f-hidd Inti ally awoke the voices of had been silent during us the frogs were cro iz] songs in the rushes 5% “The boy 1 uj ad now finished settin target, of which fact director informed mons, “We were just upon the point of going down to the place, which was ”r # his young ly a flock of daws rose above the forest, whose shrill cawing and inbarmonious cries filled the air. At the same time rapid bounds along the well-known way to the castle, ¥ ++ ‘Bellal Bella!’ cried Adele, briskly “The deer stopped a moment 1d if it had already hesitated too long, it ¢on- tinued its flight the more hastily. “What was that?’ cried Adele, while she gazed 1n a listening attitude toward ‘Have our I hear no bark. never saw her so shy before,’ “We had reached the table upon which our guns lay and from which we were to practice; and I was just about a crackling of dry branches caused me to look toward the place where Bella had appeared, The thick bushes which inclosed the border of the lofty forest parted and my blood froze to ice as my eyes met the glittering. blood - thirsty gaze of a monster only too well known to me, It was the escaped tiger ! “My bmin recled with a giddy, growing terror. upon us too suddenly. the time to act to keep cool and clear sighted, “I could not utter a word, Adela, too, who stood near me at the other side of the narrow table, was silent, But she had observed the tiger, as I could perceive by her deep breathing. Instinetively I had seized the rifle which stood beside me and cocked it, “1 had read somewhere that wild animals cannot endure to look into the eye of a human being. 1 therefore gazed firmly and fixedly nto the glow- ing, motiunless eyes before me. Our mutual staring might have lasted a few m spring forward, and lay at his whole 1 not fifty paces from us, m, but the bullet, by had shattered gigantic lengtl going too low, of his fore-feet ‘1 saw that the bheas 11 had no gun, which still for a second leap, and } the otl time to seize UU 101 1 ” 1 ay on the table, could not rescue, nt, and hoy b Wit “A renewed roar ! $i 6 a briel moment saw a mighty felt sharp pain For mass just before me, self thrown to the earth—a upon my breast, 1 heard a loud report close at my ear, I swoon. “How long I lay thus I When I at last recovered consciousness I was gi into the ™ th + 1 Lil KNOW face . yy t Adele, Who Was OCCuUpiea the blook her handkerchief, from My left arm was less, and I experienced the mo ns when I endeavored tretched beside me lay thie terrible mon in my head, 8 Rp] : We Savas was paleand her beautiful dress com- pletely smeared with blood. “Heaven be thanked, he lives!’ the first I heard her who had br water in the hat from the 1 Samaritan-like service. were words B/ny 4 ¥ o stirse} young pup dead feet “The young lad examined th beast, which measured over Myl 1 ¢ and left fore-fool, and Sven in length, d shattered his jaw had then penetrated the flesh, The shot, short a distance, had entirely d his eyes, an Le {able, and while cupied with me through his stantly. “The shepherd boy, whon immediately sent to the assistance, since from my loss of blood, I had swooned I was carried on a litter to the where 1 fell a violent had head, Killing she had castle, soon great manor, into fever. “My detachment had to march with- out me, My wounds were not trifling. and the careful nursing that my deliv- ques odd the disease, Yet beaides the scars that 1 shall bear I won another precious treasure, the heart of my Adele. At the festival which solemnized was emptied to our common weal, I came my beloved wife. After the and since then 1 have myself become the happy possessor of this estate.” With an effectionate smile Lady B thrilling narrative, A delightful walk at evening brought us to the scene of The follow- ing mormng, on devarting, we took a cordial farewell of Lord Bo and his lovely wife, whom I shall ever remem- ber as the daring herorine of that terri- ble tiger hunt, ca. Well backed up—The dromedary, It hiss always been a problem in large Ilumber.producing districts what to do with tho sawdust. In some places they throw it tuto the stream, but this may bo stopped by a complaint from people down the river, who use the water for various purposes in which cleanliness is a requisite, In others there have been srranged bofler-furnsces in which the dust can be used as fuel, Various cosses have been introduced for solidi- fying the dust, so that it ean be molded into pioture-frames, ornaments for fur- niture, and other particles where stncoo work is practicable, to dispose of some of the refuse, The latest idea is to make gas from it, and this, it is said, is earried out at a village in Ontario with excellent results. Mount Athos, | “Haggion Oros,” the holy mountain { of all who profess the Greek faith, oc- cupies a most commanding position on | the western shore of the .Egean Bea. | Rising abruptly from the water to a helght of 6,200 feet, at the extremity of a long narrow peninsula, it seems to be keeping watch and ward over the approach to the Dardanelles, much as Gibraltar does over the straits leading to the Mediterranean, average breadth of six. Itis connected by a narrow neck of sand, through which the Persian monarch Xerxes cut a canal for vessels of light draught vestiges of which yet remain. Deside “Haggion Oros’’ is Mount Athos, Ev- en before the days of Christianity solemn grandeur of the gre and the wierd aspect of its are well calculated to harmonize minds given to wild ana thoughts, The new doetrines surrounding with mystic gave up a | great impulse to this desire to withdraw { from the world, and in the of peninsula be { occupied by Greek monks under {the Dyzantine the privil and ir pos interfer- { ence of any secular cor COUurse { time the whole came to who, Emperors, enjoyed MqrQ of gover: ’ ing themselves seasions without y 1Lrol 1 whatever, | autonomy that has endured to the pres- Tur- is the The only indication of authority in Mount wnoee of Ath 8 who, how- a “‘caimakam,” 4 aver, ¢l joy 8 not { functions limited to that of a This official has gendarmes) his 3 more to do honor being | mere observer. | *“zaptieths’’ under or- than to represent any force { at his command the community having ape of a jan guards, The arried on by a Ilepresentatives presided o {8 own police in the sl body their number, wh months follow rule of Dasili No woman isallowed jon any pretense whatev set foot in er Lo n the district. The pr n extends wl - to female creatures of $i ityie yi | even every kind, 80 that not a hen, cow, she-goat, or any ’ it Lind to be found at Mo There 1 imal capable o 8 but one vills {| sist Lhe monks i other labors, world resembling a town ro fase ar Hirth ¢ IDATTIAZ Of iT L ————_—— Len place, Fuppressing a Dore, he dinner was about man drifted in of the and made his | way with a flamboyant smile toward the supper party. Hs walked daintily, car- ried his cane under hisarm and a cigar- ette in hisleft hand. He wasdressed in a light business sui ! where from thirty of He had a gray mustache, patchy full #3 when a lower do cafe iy { to sevenly years age. whiskers, and wore his hair | be ears and bald at the top. “This leman,” sald the host, | waving his hand toward the new com- er. “is the most stupendous bore in New York, In the of fifteen years 1 have found it impossible a meal iu a eafe or in a decent Over ont gent course to sit down at up-town ful imbecile, Of course you all ‘him. He will ricg in on us now." He did, The stranger bowed with great afla- | bility fo every body including, the wait- ged up a chair witout invitation, and wedged himself in between the host and a tall young man with a gigantic mustache who had just come from Keokuk, and newer before met the “ Commodore,” as the bore was called, be deaf, and smiled vacantly hut pleas- antly upon worthy toyed with his mustache for a moment, and then began to talk to him. The Keokukian insisted upon a repeti- tion of every word until ho had the commodore upon his feet bawling into hisear. Still the western man smiled vaeantly, and suddenly, conceiving that he had been insulted, gravely filled a champagne glass full of vinegar and insisted upon the comodore drinking it. There was a great deal of simulated excitemeut, but in the end, in order, as ho said, to avoid a row in the restau- rant, the commodore succumbed, and drabk the glass to the bitter dregs, then he put his hand into hus vest pock- ot to get a match and brought out a pat of butter which one of the party had placed there during the excitement, Another member of the group had poured half the contents of the crust of cayenne pepper into the pocket of the unfortunate commodors during the struggle, and when he pulled oat his | handkerchief he sneezed seven timo, | he rescued his hat from the hands of | curiously, The host carefully | cigarette around, so that when he pick- {ed it up again he naturally put the lighted end in his mouth, 3y this time he had grown a bit flust- if he could have an occasional drink. | and he raised it to his lips. | clutched his arm and begged him to { wait until he had told a SD story. ix to Lis lips and six times he was obliged to put it down, until finally an othe: was substituted without his knowledge, which contained some to- ZiIA8S bacco and castor oil, with a dash of oil top a flavor. Here an eloquent member of the party sweet on to give it or = rose to his feet and anded body to rise and drink th Lost to a bumper. This was the {iret chance the com! 17141 umped up and dore had had, and he | tj tossed off tl The His eyes closed and opened with t rapid mer running 1e contents of his giass atl a gulp. effect was extraordinary, he ity and precision of a trip ham- at extraordmary speed, | his jaw dropped, and he gave a yell that would have done credit to a ken Then he put op his hat, which did not fit well in consequence of four pats of butter which the small man had put under the linin I have had & very through the door, and ran up Droad- dru Soux, z, said, “Gentlemen large time,’’ dashed vay with an exhibition of speed which sed the yellow around in their 1 in solemn admiration. cab drivers to turn seats and —-— A Wallaby Hunt in New Guinea, i serpy tly gt sea ga ¢ at a 1a ron WBCeNnLY IL Was va large $ 3 go “ wr al) " tract of country ab from here was to be hur t clock the natives began men with nets first, x1, strong nets, of various lengths "ar away to the leeward of the grass to be burned these nets are stood up with short stakes, each man’s net joined to h neighbor's, milled their cateh- Lhe nets stand s The grass is | front of the nets to preve: ing fire, The owners of by with spears in silence and their prey. 1t for all men head- 1 Gnery to tl hunt, ° the hair, Lod ff 1heir SIN Ies, up in pwaiting iB Li 8 Ji the young - ” | dresses and “hey in single file, and the Procession Was a very meeting was at a creek half way to he Laroge River. This was the ren. dezvous, where all rested and waited fora steady wind. The nets had gone on and were in position. The gross was set fire to in many places and was soon crackling, hissing and blazing away before the wind, The air was full of sparks, and a dense cloud of smoke rose above, The natives shout. ed, the dogs yelped, and the poor, dazed there, some IONE one. ae of vrersd surong, wallabies rushed here and escaping spears and dogs, but most fail- ing, It requires a good deal of practice to spear a wallaby going full speed. | Sometimes one would rush past with two or three spears hanging from him and a bevy of dogs after him. There was a good deal of slaughter and some scores of wallaby were carried in, 1s only very plucky men who will face | these, They carry a circle of stout {cord, so as to form several | meshes, This is held so that the pig | when they have tusks the hunter often gets very ugly wounds, nse IAI A Florida Unve, A myster;ous cave has lately been discovered about nine mules from Gainesville, Fla. The entrance is small, but the cave soon becomes quite large, and extends, by gradual inchne, for about one hundred feel to a ledge of rock. Here there is a steep descent of about sixty feet, which has to be effected by means of a rope, to a large, rocky hall, through which a stream of deep, cold water runs, Other small caves radiate from this great recess, and one to the lefi, which is of large size, has its walls almost entirely covered with names cut m the solid stone, some of them dating back fifty years, Several years ago Lwo men were seen to enter the cavern, and as they never came out, it is supposed that they fell off the precipice and weve swept away by thé running stream, the bed of which is a dangerous quicksand Family Gonesdogies. , psa to erm so. The study of family ancesiry anh genealogy is one at once fascinating and full of interest, It is engaged In more to-day in times previous, The oldest book on an American fam- ily is not vet a hundred years old, and than years, Within a score of years have genealogies of the early New England families, These can be made very large books, but as the sale of the books is limited almost to the family name, the price is obliged to be much higher than ordi- dary books. But still the pleasure of for private rr } This study can be pursued by any on for such things can bs obtained having any taste blank book to transcribe the records of the family, This name of connections near and ) far. record should embrace the full, givi death, where born, vier at cy ATPL GY 17 date of ITTiA an married AS many p ! f DIO ess 2 give anv satisfactory informa 3 cerning their grandfathers mothers. saying nothing tors more remote, oo to-day from strictly i: the ni $3 Lilt are of from f il maternal and this is espe England fami] that they are deseer 108, pleasurable task ¢ line of descent, As Novem ber Meteors, The earth as she swings her ponder- bulk in rencounters ; out the 15t This us t where November 1 4} » GQ Lhe Ul neteors through the hole zone, only one- th of which # filled densely the metem swarms, The period of revolution about thirity-three years, and a display occurs only at three intervals when the earth passes a portion of the zone, The last memorable display was in 1866-7 ; the next is expected in 1590 Observers on the nights 11t 12th, 13th, and 14th will be sure to sex a few meteors radiating from the con stellation Leo, and there is always ¢ possibility that an unexpected number of fallen stars may make the heave: resplendent with their fiery trains, sibs AI A505 « 5 r ¥ ¥ SWarln oi 1 are gradually scattering Ww ory 4 vith i now ¥ re grand h of the The First Dank. It is one of the most remarkable of phenomena that the first bank ever es tablished won a success unequaled ir later times. The bank of Venice had its origin in 1171 from a forced public first appearance of a public funded debt. Every citizen was obliged to contribute jons. The persons assessod were {her organized as a Chamber of losus fo their common protection and for the receipt of the yearly interest of 4 pe centum. Subsequently its creditors were permitted to transfer their claim in whole or in part. The government finding that these transfers were in de mand, reduced the rates of intevest un til no interest was paid. Afterward il sold cash inscriptions of credit on ite books, These inscriptions cost gold, but were not convertible into gold. As a matter of fact, although termed ¢ bank, its issue were Government paper. and its business was carried on solely for the benefit of the public treasury This bank is still one of the foremos! financial institutions in the world, Fo two hundred years the Bank of Venice stood alone, The development of the lumber-man. unfacturing business in many parts of the South wh Topi rkable. From Souith ern hen Chattanooga, Tenn, an extendod and vast line of saw-mills sud stave, spoke and handle factories, Lazge numbers of people are crowd. into this region, of Whioh the town of Dayton, Tenn, 1s the business center, 3
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