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LIFE GROWS S50 WEARY.
Oh! life grows so weary that early or late
We turn longing eyes toward the beautiful
gate
At whose p
laid down,
rtal our burdens and sorrows
Rest, perfect and peaceful, becomes our
ill crown,
The r« that bloom
in the pathway of
Are trampled
The
s0 soon in its turbulent strife;
crystal-bright fountains turn bitter
some day,
And hopas that
AWAY.
were fairest fade swiftly
Even dear little children
soon,
ETOW Wear)
They tremble and faint in their earliest
bloom,
And with pale hands crossed meekly o'er
fluttering breast
They haste to the master who giveth
rest.
them
The strong bore the burden and heat of th e
day;
Life slopes to the westward, yet, waiting,
they stay,
With forms bent and careworn and
ing head,
am weary, so weary,” how
tan ‘sia
alten fis
“cy
said.
No summits are
toil,
wearisome
mined bat
With
+
marches pr
spoil ;
How we er—take |
de par,
Y'ressing on to the
fair.
L 8
©
* life grows so weary, that early
turn wistful eyes toward the
gate
ur burdens |
vhese portal
down,
“A MADMAN."
Whenever ' hear anybody say: **You
know Jacques Parent died mad in an
insane asylum,’ a painful shudder, a
of fear
through all my bones; and I ~ee again
before me ti
the figure of that tall strange
man, mad perhaps long before I
him
creeping and anguish passes
“a
- afl Alarming
maniac,
» was & man of about forty
iil, JAnKYy, Signi stooped.
8s of one tr
son he was—hringis
ing around nim an
easiness,
y 5 sinh an STII TY hang 1 PF 1
body, such an incomprehensible feeling
atmosphere of un
a vague distress of soul and
of nervousness as inclines people to be-
lieve in supernatural influence,
He had one very unpleasant crank—a
mania for keeping his hands concealed.
He was scarcely ever seen to
hands wander
upon surrounding
Never did he tou
listlessly-—as we
inky in that famil
which nearly all men have,
he
long, b
slightly
buried in his
behind his coat-tails,
his armpits wi he fold
let them be seen uncovers
ny hands
nervous
either
der
his arm. AVE Supposed
was afraid thy
hands might,
gpite of him, do something wrong
might perpetrate
shameful act if he allowed them to re-
free—if
to remain masters
some ludicrous or
main moment he suffered
them
movements.
of their own
When he was obliged to make use of
them for the
life, he did so only by sudden jerks, by
swift movements of the arms,
though wishing to prevent them from
having time to act of their own accord,
to refuse to do his bidding, to do some-
thing else instead. When at table he
would handle his glass, his knife or hi
fork so quickly that
an opportunity to observe what he was
going to do before it lu
essaries of
as
nobody ever had
ul already been
done,
Now I was able one evening to ob-
tain the explanation of his astounding
disease of mind.
He used in those days to pay me visits
from time to tame at my country resi.
dence; and on the evening in question
he seemed unusually nervous.
A storm was rising in the sky, black
and stifling, after a long day of atro
cious heat,
the leaves.
passed across over faces, made us pant
for air. 1 was feeling very uneasy,
very yunch agitated, and I wished to
go to bed.
When he saw me rise to leave the
rootn Jacques Parent seized me by the
arm with a grip of terror.
“Oh, no!” he said;
while with mel”
I looked ut him in surprise, and mur.
mured: :
“108 only because this storm is mak-
ing me very nervous.”
“And ‘mel Ohl remain bere, I
beg of you—I1 do not want to be left
alone,’
His looks were wild, I asked him:
“What is the matter with you? Are
you losing your senses?’
And he stammered in reply:
“Yes, now and then, on such even-
ings as this— electrical evenings—I am
I am-—I am afraid—1 am afraid of
myself. no, you do not understand me.
It is because I am gmited with a might
10, #4 power--non, witha force. In
short 1 ean not tell yon what ft is; but
f
{ I find in myself a magnetic action, so
extraordinary that I am afrajd--yes,
| terrified at myself, as I have just told
| you,’
And he concealed his madly
ing hands under the lapel of Ins jacket.
Then I myself to
feel the trembling of fear—a fear vague,
mighty and horrible. 1 felt awiui
desire to get away. to run away, to es
quiver
began suddenly
inn
i cape from the sight of him, to escape
tne sensation of feeling his wandering
| ave passing over then turn from
ne,
{
me and circle about the
inz some dark corner of the room to IX
i if he wanted to hide
well
git pon, us
gaze as as his awful
1G
i stammered out: **Why, you never
told me this before.”
He went on:
“Do I ever tell anybody?
[his evening I cannot keep my secret,
and 1 would you should know
everything. Besides, you might be able
Listen!
rather
! $0 succor me,
know what magnetism ist
it is. Bao
ence is fully estavlished; its
1: the doc-
it; one of the
“Do you
No.
its exist
t
Nobody knows what t
manifestations are recognized
tors themselves practice
most illustrious, M. Charcot
is n
ite
11
il i
I'herefore there is no do
exisis,
**A ma A
and incomprehensible power
1
b has the
oeing
Ol
force of
COl~
pelling another being,
by
mele
to sleep, and of
Me
posed tO DE HL
the soul, t leep of being
sth
ailing
y
m
-the soul, which i asylum of
Avow, of
hat one desires to
cies that man dares i
hidden things, of all t
conceal trom other |
he tears it open
cediy-
—he violates -he
-he flings
not atrocious
exX-
4
Ww
can this be done?
anybody know?
body know
We have
with other objec
avout
134
i
} Ie
ine
Two bodies strik
ihe
5 Are more or less nur
id, more
ne to tha 1
ig 0 Le I
a
air vibrates,
5 TA]
algebra
that art made «
themat wind, exists only
igh the strange property of a little
reel of skin. Did it not exist,
£4 Fenner
neither
i nd af
ics and of
EARLY
things the existence of which we will
never be abl suspect, simply
0 SENSe-Organs
al them to ns,
“Perhaps magnetism belongs to this
things.
of
‘ £ 41
ASE Ol
We can only have a
pregentiment this power--we
ine
¥ in
neighborho can on
ly
3
of nature—becanse the natural instra-
ment of revelation does not exist with.
{ in us,
possessed of a frightful power,
as though there were within me an
me, incessantly trying to escape-—an-
i other being who is ever striving to act
| against my will,
| gnaws me, exhausts me, What is 1t?
What is he?
| are two of us in this miserable body of
mine; and it is he, or the other one, who
often proves the stronger, 8s he ia this
evening.
“I need ony 100k at people in order
to stupefy them as thoroughly as
| thotigh I drugged them with heavy
doses of opinm. I have only to extend
my hands in order to produce things
things—hferible tomogs! If you could
only know! Yes, if you could only
know! My power does not merely ex
| tend to med, but to animals aod even
| evel to inagimate objects!
“All this tortures and terrifies me,
1 often think of tearing out my eyes
| of ¢utting off my hands.
“But 1 am gomg to show you--l
watt you to know everything! ‘lere!
I will show you the power I speak of
not over human creatures--that can be
seen anywhere~~but over-over animals,
Call Mirzal"
He walked to and fro with great
rapid strides, like one in a hallucina-
tion; and he stretched out his hands,
which had beem kept hidden in his
¥
!
| ble as though he had suddenly produged
two naked swords.
And 1 him
completely subjugated, quivering with
obeyed mechanically,
terror, and nevertheless devoured by
an impetuous curiosity to see, 1 open-
whistied to my
who was lylug down in the hallway.
Forthwith 1 heard the hurried patie:
of her nails on the steps of the stair.
ed the door and dog,
3 i
way; and she appeared at the door, all
joyously, wagging her tail,
down in an
hen I ordered her to lie
armchair; she leaped upon it, and Jac
ques began to stroke her and look into
her eyes,
she commenced to quiver, turning her
in order, to avoid the fixed gaze of the
to be seized with
over-growing fear. Then suddenly
she began to tremble all over, as dogs
tremble,
shook with long shudderings; and she
But
skull
man, seeming
tried to escape, to run away.
simply placed his hand upon
of the animal; and under the touch she
uttered one of those long howls that
may heard
great silence of
the
night through the
the country.
I felt myself numbed, d
d of
I saw the furniture bending, the
moving. I
be by
as on
feels when on the deck rockl
ship.
|
wills
a
PAE
gasped out:
f
ough of this, Jacques!
he did
enough
NUOUS mManGer.
and let
the stairs
jues again ap
§ not the worst,’
terrifies me the
fen
pets obey mel
mos
tnd
abd
lying a
ich 1
of books, It
moved slowly—and all
eK
14
knife itself
1% HE WAS ort of o
| namental poniard wi used to cut
the
crawl—it
leaves seemed to
lonce 1 saw-—yes, | tu
Saw
i tremble and and slide
own accord, slowly, surely t
tretched hand waiting for it, into
he fingers ready to (
Le
quiver,
0 the o
| grasp of 1
it.
I screamed with terror. I thought for
a moment that 1 had become mad my-
self : but the shriek of my own voice
! at once calmed me.
Jacques continued:
loge apon
way. That is wny I hide my hands.
What is this? Is it magnetism, elec-
| tricity, loadstone-power? I don't know
—-but it is horrible, And do you know
why it 1s horrible? When 1 find my-
self alone—the very moment I am alone
~] cannot belp calling to me every-
thing about me. And I spend whole
days in moving things this way from
| piace to place-—never tiring of ‘exer.
ting this abominable power of mine,
or not.”
hands in his pockets; and he stared into
the night. A light nolse, a faint shud.
dering seemed to pass through the
trees.
It was the rain commencing to fall,
I muttered: ‘It is fnghtfal”’
He repeated: “It is horrible!”
Then a great tremor rushed through
the folage like a gust of wind, It was
the heavy shower descending--a thick
rnd torrential rain,
| Jacques began to breathe in the alr,
with long, powerful aspirations
| lifted his chest.
“Leave we now,’ he
will give
the raln
me calm, |
alone.
-
English Farin
1 al i a'clo
ty 1
Lie y
(LR RA
3
BOIL
100d,
my i
Lhe gir
8 (gu
jumps on with our clo
our beasts, whatever
(rod has given us to look alter,
hen at 7 o'clock Bilston and all
| have breakfast. We have home-m
| bread, and there’s bread and
the girls; and we always has a
After we Ls
continued Mrs,
‘master he bids they settle the
and we all sits this
| and Tom yonder, and
bacon on Sundays,
breakfast,”
wise Pi
Bilston
armchair,” and the good woman enu
in
merated and showed me exactly
each member of ber family sat,
the master calls fou
bel nged
3 wey
is written
died of
0.4:
the measles
and
ways keep they sweel
} a Yara ’
(Ss a Day good
The Crops.
November f
Department of Agriculture, indicate
a crop somewhat Jarger than 1 It
is in unusually fine condition, of good
unstained by storms and free
from trash and dirt. Wwturns of the
ry # ory
returns of cotton to the
<1
SND,
3
DOLOT
' een hundred million bushels, or an av.
bushels per acre. The best yields are,
as in 1883, iv what bas been designated
| the “Great Amencan Desert.”
arid region,” in the vicinity of the
| crops of maize of a high quallity, and
| that line of longitude has ceased to be
| an absolute barrier to the corn produce
tion or general farming, The quality
of corn is better than in 1883, nearly
everywhere, and the Northern belt is
worth 25 to 75 per cent. more, The po-
| tato erop is nearly an average yield of
1 00 bushels per acre, and exceeds 190,
000,000 bushels,
A ——— A ——————
Helles of Monmouth Fields
Ambng the the relics exhibited at
the unveiling of the Monmouth Battle
{ Monument at Freehold is a sword car
| ried by Major Joseph Powell, and the
very cannon used by Captain Molly
Pitcher on the battle field ot Mon.
mouth, The exhibitor of these relics is
the grandson of Major Joseph Powell,
the venerable T. McChesney, M. D., of
Cranbury, N. J. The old gentleman,
though now in his eighty-third year, is
quite active, and is apparently as full of
patriotism as was his grandfather, Ma.
jor Powell,
A RAST
An Old German Tow.
The Harz mountains have no consi
erable elevation, except al
the Draken three thousand
dred fect.) bit «
FAVE
forere
r and |
OE
§ Wi
furniture ol would
fe
iil
iIL8 rooms
a burdem. The explanation
and its early times more
f fortress is ob-
The town the
ow Lhe
18 built on
and the
bel
wall depends fron we loop, wil
makes about heavy masonry
Burg, as
i —
« Maighiand Lassies
h
handsomest woman 1 have ever:
was a young married lady, who, some
years ago, happened to be travel in
the Clansman, and whose gently modu.
lated English indicated an
origin. When a Highland girl, even of
class, is pretty (and the
phenomenon is not of a very rare occur-
vier
AE
Inverness
intellectual type; the forehead
i
i
i
|
plative, the mouth fine, and the expres.
Wordsworth never forgot the beauty
naid. Indeed, it is said he had to recur
to that fount when he wished to pay a
poetical compliment to his wife. For
the rest, the way an educated Iigh-
land young lady speaks English is one
of the most delightful things in the
world, though, no doubt she would be
nant, if she was told that she had any
accent at all.
A Honansh.,
There are three and a half pounds of
seed to every pound of fibre. More
than 4,000,000 tons are produced annu-
ally, but notwithstanding the rapid in-
crease in the number of mills, only
about ten per cent, of the seed iscrush-
ed, the rest being largely thrown away.
A ton of seed yields 36 gallons of oll,
22 pounds of cotton, and 760 pounds of
cake, used for fattening cattle, The
value of these products is $10. The
oll is largely used for making fine soaps,
and when refined properly can hardly
be distinguished from olive oil, which
it is superseding for many purvoses.
SUN EERRTAT RRA
Cainphor.
We
i
ALO
i
had
Was Li ph 1 i
iy
tres,
t
fragrant
fa pald
albornl
+
the camphor-ires
tial
of which
than
nerete form,
brushed
Another s
8 gun
In this
the trees with
it is down «i
tuliv with long brooms,
f the same tree yields in
{
form of piteh. the
Ca
i A
herers first pierce an
no out-
t of
# hear
wetit
“ain
* WUE THO
His papers,
of characler
of his county, Judges
others, of any doubt
might be entertained of his identity or
statements,
In 1812 Captain Andrews a
wagon between Sumter and Boston and
between Charleston and Boston. He
subsegnently, in the same year, was
employed by the Government to drive
a wagon between this city and Boston
which carried Government gold and
silver. He intends trying to gel some
body interested in his case at Washing-
| ton to procure him a pension. The on-
| ly obstacle to him getting it is the fact
| that although he was employed by the
i Government in 1812 he was not enlist-
ed. Heo says the records at Washing-
| ton will prove all that he says about
| his employment by the Government.
| Captain Andrews” dog Fido accompan-
|io8 him in his travels. The captain
| never used tobacco, but always inkes a
drink when he thinks he wants it. He
has never been sick in his life,
p——
Canfornia Prodaocts,
A San Francisco paper estimates the
total value of California products for
1884 at $81,000,000. About $50,000,000
will bp exported, sonsisting of wheat,
barley, Sour, wine, brandy, woel, sal-
mon and canned fruits. Wheat leads
the lists of exports, the total preduct
hang 1,500,000 tons, valued at $40,500,
6 pived,
include certificate
the Sheriff
ar
ad apased
drove
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: your impure