——————— SE 5 THE REALM OF LIVE, Tar, far away in the distance. Lieth the bounds of life, § Lieth its pulsing sweetness, Lieth its quick’'ning strife. Never its glow enchanting Greeted these eyes of mine, Turning toward it ever As to a shrouded shrine. Once, thro’ the misty distance, All on a sea of song, Led by a spirit tender, Drifted my soul along. Nearing the mystic portals, Then from a deep disguise Flooded a light like morning Down from her starry eyes. Eyes that were like twin oceans Troubled with fitful rain, Bright as the sky, for pleasure, Dark as the clouds, for pain. Faint came a breath of odor, Light fell a rhyming tread, Rustie of robes anear me, Sudden, and swift, and sped. Far, far away in the distance, Lieth the bounds of life, Lieth its pulsing sweetness, Lieth its quick’ning strife. JANET'S WAGER. avail herself of these same opportun- ities, even to save herself from losing,” “What a beautiful sunset,” cried Bessie, desperately; the country is al- ways beautiful, but especially so on sum- mer evenings. “The rays of the departing sun have affected your cheeks, my dear,” said Janet; “Won't you take this seat? It is more in the shade than the one you have, This vine will screen you en- tirely.” The answer to this kind offer was a stony glare, which so amused her that she could not resist laughing, a pro- ceeding which infinately disgusted Lau- rie and Bessie. Fred restored the peace of the party by saying quietly, as if nothing had happened: “By the way, Janet, if you don’t ob- ject, I think I'll ask Dick Landsdale down for a few weeks.” “Of course you may ask him -— any one that you choose; why, where are you two going?" as Laurie and Dessie were strolling off. “Just for a walk on the beach,” an- swered Bessie over her shoulder. *Won’t you join us?” “Pwo is company, four is none,” called Janet. “Who is Dick Lands- ¢ Well, I know one thing,” said pret- | ty Bessie Carlton decidedly. *‘I never | shall marry a man with red hair, May | Brown doesn’t how know she haslowered herself in my esteem by marrying such | a fellow as Clem Weston. I wouldn’t | have believed it of her. But the deed | is done; she really has married him; | here are her wedding cards, Janet,” | and she tossed them across to her | friend. ‘No, indeed,” she went on, | leaning back in her comfortable lawn- | chair, *‘my mind is made up, mark my | words, Janet. I never shall marry a man with red hair,” Japet laughed most provokingly. “Don’t be too sure,” she said mn a | warning tone, ‘‘there’s no telling what you may do before you die, as old Miss Gaylord is always saying, ‘we're born but we're not buried.’ ”’ Bessie laughed, then asked seriously, | “But why shouldn’t I be sure? I never could fall in love with him, Think how unromantic ic would be. In nov-! els the heroes alway have ‘waving au- | burn carls,” or ‘jet-black locks.” 1 never have come across one endowed | with my pet abhorrence, red hair,” i “I regret to express my feelings Bes- sie,” said Janet coolly; “but I feel it | my duty to tell you that you are mak- | ing a goose of yourself,” and while her friend stared in a mixture of sur- prise and indignation she continued | calmly. *“To begin with, you are not | in a novel, so you can hardly expect young men with ‘auburn tresses’ and | ‘jet locks’ flying to the wind, to be al. ways hanging around doing nothing, | as seems to be the aim of the impossi- | ble heroes in the impossible romances | that you refer to, and to end with, you | are only a girl doomed to live a useless, | unromantic life, like all the rest of us, | until some kind creature with black or | red hair, I don’t know which, shall | take pity on you and marry you. So 1 wouldn't be so vehement against the unknown red-haired Do you know,” she cried starting up. “I will wager a box of French bon- | Hons that you marry a man with not | golden hair, not auburn, but real down- | right red hair; what will you give me | it I win??? “This diamond,’ answered her friend. | lazily touching the beautiful jewel at her | throat. “(0 mo,” remonstrated Janet, “I | won't take anything so handsome; you | are too generous.” “Not at all,” was the reply, ‘‘be- cause I am sure I never shall have to give it up.” “Eh bien! nous verrons,” was the | guick retort. “Ah,” changing Ler tone, ‘‘here come the boys,’ as across if I were you. | some young fellows, “What's the row,” called one of anue, aud with our customary courage flew to the rescue, Whose life is in danger?” 4It is just this,” explained Janet, “Bessie declares she will never marry a man with red hair.” Upon this Laurie passed his hand complacently over his mond pin that she will. Won't you take it down in black and white, Fred?” turning to her cousin. “Certainly, your majesty,” And af- ter a prolonged search amid his numer- ous pockets he produced a diminutive note-book wherein he made a most bus. iness-like record of the bet and the stake put up by both girls, “And now we shall see who wins, I am all anxiety, although I think with Janet that you are doomed to lose your bet, Miss Carlton,” turning to her. He was a tall, handsome young fellow and Janet's cousin, while his companion Laurie Edwards, was only a friend down on a fortnight’s visit, Laurie was Miss Carlton's devoted slave, and now he cried eagerly. : “1 don’t see why she should lose, I am sure she has every opportunity to win.” “Oh, yes, we all know she has every opportunity,” laughed Fred mischiev- ously, causing Miss Carlton to blush and Lourie to vow vengeance against her cousin. gerly. but he has the reddest hair you ever SAW. ton to fall in love with, visiting here?” think he will be willing?"’ “Oh, yes, I know Dick.” was the re- assuring answer, “Then I shall ex- pect him to fall in love with Miss Des. sie, and trust her own stony heart will be touched; then when they are en- gaged he shall appear with his natural red hair, the plot shall be disclosed, I on the villains you and I, Laurie the “That would be splendid,” cried Janet: **but suppose she doesn’t fall in “Why, nothing. There will be no harm done, only a crushed plot, am sure she will like him." “PoorsLaurie,” said Janet, sorry for him." *“Well, you needn’t, she doesn’t care a snap for him. You can see that he bores her awfully, and he'll get over it “I feel Come now, let us join them Remember, mum's the myself. on the beach. word,” A few evenings after, as Laurie and the two girls were standing on the gal- lery, preparatory to taking their cus. tomary evening ride, the dogcart came bowling up the avenue, drew up at the followed by eyed young man with an intelligent face and distinguished air, After the usual introductions Janet, with her comer, saying: “If you are not Loo tired, Mr, Lands- dale, we will be happy to have you go to ride with us.” or not,” interrupted Fred before his friend could reply. around the horses, **you, Miss Carlton, Laurie frowned a little at this ar- rangement, but, as it could not be help- glowering darkly at his friend. No sooner were the three ahead, out of ear- as you said, and his hair is beautiful. I never would have guessed it was false if I had not known all about it.” “Yes, ' said Fred in a satisfied tone of voice. “I am sure our plot will succeed; I think she fancies him al. ready. when be speaks. am almost sony for him. think he will stay much longer after this; he’il learn his fate and depart.’’ Nor wis Fred mistaken. After two weeks of protracted misery, Laurie could stand it no longer, so declared his love, was told calmly by the object Poor old Laurie; I the following day departed. al war with all men, ar rather all woman kind. With the conspirators all went well, Bessie, unconscious of Janet's treach- ery, expressed to her without any scru- ples, her admiration for Mr. Landsdale’s many good qualities, “He is sb intelligent,” she said one evening after a long discussion on the subject of “Woman's Rights,”’ “Yea, dear, I agree with you,” was the sympathctic reply, encouraging Bessie to goon. “And so handsome, Don’t you think he is handsome, Janet?” “Very,” said Janet, enthusiastically; then, glancing up with a mischivous look in her eyes, which Bessie remem- bered only too well afterward, * don’t you think his hair is beautiful?" “Lovely,” cried her friend, ‘‘Abh, him; “but I doubt whether she will Janet; I think I shall—" She stopped short, overcome with confusion, for she was going to say “win my bet.” Janet understocd, pretended not to notice, finished the sentence off in her own mind and told her fellow conspir- were turning out very well. At length the crisis came. They had been rowing on the lake all the evening Bessie and Dick in the front boat, Jan- et and Fred in the one behind, It was quite warm rowing in spite of the pleas- ant breeze hovering about, and Dick had dropped his oars and stopped for a while to rest. Strange to say, silence had fallen upon him and his companion. He broke it by saying, abruptly: “I am going away to-morrow, Aren't you sorry for me, leaving all this beauty and pleasure for a dusty desk in a busy office?’ She had been leaning over the side of the boat, letting the water run through her hands, but now she started up glancing at him with a hurt, pained look in her big blue eyes, “You are not really going so soon?" she said slowly, as if she couldn't be- lieve it. “Yes, really,” he answered picking up the oars and begining to row with unwonted zeal. ‘*Are you sorry?” i“ Y 8, 1" ¥ will wait awhile, then rich man,’ he went on hurriedly, *‘but I have enough to make my wife ha py. Will you come, Bessie?’ He dropped the oars, held out his hands for answer, She put her own dimpled white ones m his big brown ones, bringing them back to their senses, The walk home was very quiet and mther embarassing. if it was exactly right to accept a lover without so much as asking her father’s To be sure, his indulgence and Stil to have gained Ste expressed her Landsdale, sot her she thought she ought his permission first, fears to Mr. who mission to try his fortune, winding ap with ‘‘she’s a dear girl, Landsdale, and porch. With a hasty “good-bye” she her room, where Janet, on her return, her tell-tale cheeks, “Won't you come out on the lawn for a game of croquet’ she said, pre- tending not to notice, “No, thank you; I have a raging You go down like a dear come down to-night, 1 "” I will may feel better then. “Perhaps you may; + will be dark;" with which farewell shot she departed to inform Fred she thought “the blow was about to fall.” Beasie out on the broad front gallery, blissfully unconscious that Fred and Janet were ensconced behind the blinds, waiting, as Fred expressed it, ‘to see the fun,” She looked around, surpris- ed to see no one, and had half deter- mined to go back, when some one step- ped cut from the shadow of the pillars “Is that you Dick?" she cried, dart- ing forward; but no-—she drew back with a hasty “I beg your pardon,” for by man, ‘“‘Excuse me,”’ she went on, “And so I am,” dnswered a familiar “1 haven't forgotten you, Dick,” she desperately, *‘what’s the matter with your hair?” “Now, don’t be angry with me, darl- “You know afflicted with red hair, so I adopted this terribly in earnest.”’ And then he told When it was finished the blinds flew open and out rushed the conspirators, “Pity and forgive, most beautiful la- dy, ‘‘the humblest of your servants,” cried Fred, falling on one knee, while Janet overwhelmed her friend with kisses, crying at the same time, ‘Oh, I have won, I have won, I have won!” As for Bessie, she forgave them both; then, with tenderest smile, said, laying her hand on her lover's, “I think I would have loved you anyway, Dick, in spite of your real red hair,” Trout, The wild duck is probably the most dastructive of all the enemies of the trout, for it confines inss'f entirely to feeding on their spawn. Always a glutton, when a duck finds the spawn- ing beds of trout in the small streams that feed the main water, it will soon devour thousands of eggs and shovel the entire contents of the bLreeding places into itastomach, if not molested, One flock of wild ducks can easily de- stroy the entire breeding prospects of any trout stream in a short time, masa Flowers are the pledges of fruit. A bad custom ought to be broken, $ Rise of a French Marshal, Andoche Junot was a Burgundian by birth, born in 1771, and in his youth, after a preparatory schooling, he studied law but never practiced, When he was as a volunteer; it was in the height of the revolution, a few months previous to the execution of the king, Louis XIV. In September, 1793, when Paris had become comparatively quiet under the constituent assembly, Napoleon Bonaparte, then scarcely known beyond the old convention and his own section of the army, was sent to wrest Toulon from the English and Spanish; and among the men under hig command was young Junot, During the siege that followed Napoleon had occasion one day to send a dispatch to a distant point, He was in the saddle, halted longed, and, running his eyes along the line, he asked if there was one of them who could write. Junot raised his cap and bowed, upon which he was called out and conducted to the right of the line, where the musicians were; and here a large drum was set on end, paper, pen and nk furnished, and the youth- ful soldier was directed to write, two-pound round shot--tore up earth close to his left foot,covering him and the drum with dirt. saying as he did so: **That dirt is raiher And he folded the after which he handed it up to his commander, who 3 “Young man,” said Napo- i you What can I do for you?” unless and silver “Very well,” my shoulders ant nod, “you can ride?” “Anything that can be ridden by I think.” “Then find a horse and carry this mes- sage to My orderly the On man, its destination. Bear and then report to me.” message the fol- ant, and he was a captain at the end of In the campaign of colonel, and in Egypt he was a briga- dier-general. Afer this governor of Paris, became lieutenant- he then —— A555 AAI 5 Paper of the ast. Many years ago, before the days of “shinpiasters’’ were Gold was scarce and treasury notes by no means plentiful. Banks in those days gener. Naturally the important industry, and among the Wilcox wares found ready purchasers. jssuing them. The old mill is still tinued the manufacture of shin plas. ters. A few days ago the old place was given an overhauling and a lot of the chase discovered buried away under a tot of debris a large quantity of this old It was ascertained that the paper had been placed away over G5 years ago and forgotten, The junk dealer sold his find to a dealer who will dispose of 1t im turn to some of the fashionable prin. ters, They will print in ancient and antique type upon it wedding, ball and other invitations, and thus what was once intended for money will after a long sleep make its appearance in fash- fonable circles in another way, The paper bears little or no marks, except a very slight discoloration of its long rest. 1t is made of pure linen fibre, by hand a8 its rough edges attest, It is unusu- ally strong and a dealer said recently that it is better than any paper manu- factured at the present time, sb Phenomena at the Equator, Twilight phepomena of a similar character to the asppearances lately so prevalent were according to letters just received, observed in the Island of Mau- ritius, This is especially remarkable as in that island as a rule, night follows the day without any noticeable transition. On several evenings of October, how- ever, thero was a splendid glow In the west quite half an hour after sunset, and when night had fairly set in this glow soon extended over the whole sky, being reflected on the clouds and cover ing the island with a purple tint, The sea is described as apparently on fire, the vessels and their masts looking black and standing out In bold relief, The Cheap Copper, Copper was never so cheap as now, it went up to B50 cents, Curiously creased, and hundreds of things are now made of copper all. { ures, frames, and a thousan. oi other | one-third spelter or zine?” | was asked of the manufacturer. { count for it”! he said, “but it is a fact, | Here is a copper tea kettle, such as I | used to pay $2.25 to import. I cau now | sell it for 75 cents and make a profit, | The home manufacture has increased | enormously. Thousands of workmen {ness Processes of manufacture have improved. We are learning how to | make things to better advantage. We can export instead of import, 1 do not { think the tariff has much to do with iit. Here are seamless edge, planished i copper tea kettles, extra heavy, spun | from the bottom vp to the breast, mak- ing a body of great strength, I sell them { to the trade at $20 a dozen. It was not { long ago that one of them—indeed, one | not so good as one of these—would cost | almost the price of a dozen, For a few i cents more we sell them nickel plated, They are used as ornaments for parior stoves sometimes, Here are { tumbler warmers, cuspidors, | boxes, brass mats, umbrella urns, jewelry stands, | stove platforms, and lots of things that | could not have been made a few years ago, owing to the high price of the cop- | per. of every day use.” In more another large copper store were than sixty brass piacques imitating hammered work, at prices varying from $1.80 to $20 per This is comparatively a business, In another varieties of dozen. new store were cop- per bath tubs of half a dozen patierns, basins, closet pans, boilers, pipes and copper balls for water tanks. Walking up Fulton the stores, there were copper and cages, wire and other utensils sparkling in the sun. reel among wire brass Yabl copper Cio, “How do you account for the boom in the copper and brass business?’ was asked of a merchant in that line of trade, ““Easily enough; we can buy cheap- er. “What makes it cheaper?” “The coming in of Arizona and i Lake Superior copper. The price has copper has kept pace with it. New uses were made of it every day. For- merly the lake copper people bad it all | their own way. announce ihe year, and would be to pay it. But now it is quite different. The Arizona copper is not quite so good, but it answers just as They would calmly price of copper for the price down. The lake copper 1s about half a cent to a cent dearer, but the monopoly is gone. The old high tariff on copper, from which fortunes were no longer take any account of foreign { Copper, : plenty of it and plenty of manufactured | goods,” The rapid progress of electrical in- ! ventions ‘has required an | electrical machinery. It has been found | ties that make it desirable for telegraph lightning and telephone lines for which, during the high price of copper it could not be used. Now the copper wire trade is enormous and constantly growing, and the varieties manufact- ured are many and carious, Tons upon tons of these varieties in wire are kept in stock, though only a short time ago such a thing was unknown in the trade. Immense quantities of brass and copper are used in house, hard- ware, water fixtures, railroad supplies, clocks, and fancy goods, where other and cheaper metals were formerly made to do, all owing to the marvel lously low price of copper. Whales, The whales of the Pacific Ocean seem to be in love with the Pacific coast, and ave hugging it very closely from San Francisco to San Diego, and are run- ning very near to land. Hundreds of these seagoing animals, which are warm- blooded and not fishes, are now within the reach of hunters of that game, AAAI MI A little leak will sink a great ship. A man oan do no more than he can. Charity is the first-born of religion. wun is the most powerful mas. A little more breaks the horse's A man apt to promise, is apt to for give, True refinement unites strength with purity. A day to come shows longer than a year that’s gone, No man envies the merit of another who has enough of his own, When you come into the house, do you bring sunshine with you. A man as he manages himself may It requires no small degree of art to know how to conceal it. Action may not always bring hap- piness, but there is nc happiness without action. As a man is known by his company, his manner of expressing himself, Not one 18 perféct: all have their de- We think our civilization meridian, but we are yet i3 near its only at the Any man can do a casual act of good nature, but a continuation of them shows it is a part of their tempera- When you fume and fret at the petty ills of life remember that the wheels which go round without creaking last longest, lestraint and lberty go hand in hand in the development of character—in- deed without the former the latter is impossible, The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hid- den underground, secretly making the ground green. A word of kindness is in vain, while witty say ily lost as the pearls seldom spoken ATE AS eas- slipping from a We often meet with m of true charity among the ignora: poor than among those wh ire instances 4 t and y profess to ieflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; pot on misfortunes, of which all By holding a very little ite it sight misery » ¥ Baik yond which be taken. The sting of every reproachful speech is the truth of it; and to be conscious is that which gives kindness to the No case can be more that of a person, who, lights of sense forsal of the 1 imvective, tule than pleasure Our understand to error; nature and certainty hard to come at, and infalli mere vanity and pretense, Memory is a net, t full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. One may find i We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. There is a gentle element, and man may breathe it with a calm, unruffied soul, and drink its | * ng waters till lus heart is pure, and tais is human happi- love does not aim simply at the conscious good of the beloved object; it is not satisfied without perfect loyalty of heart; it alms at its own completle- The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us and we only know them when gone, There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man. who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of doing them to others, It is necessary to hope. t should be always deluded; { . they are hough hope hope it- frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction. Thinkers are as scarce as gold: but he whose thought embraces all his sub- ject, who pursues ii uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a dia- mond of enormous sizes. True modesty is beautiful, because » wi tory over force and vanity. In the lottery of life there are more misfortune there are fifty advantages, feeling a man can indulge in, The only way to shine, even in this false world, is to be modest and unas- suming. Falsehood may be a thick crust; but in the course of time, truth will find a place to break through. Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, thovgh it be but the paring of his nalls, ie buds swell imperceptibly, without hurry or confu- sion, as if the short Spring days were an eternity. God made both fears and laughter, and both for Kind or Tes hinder sorrows from becoming despal and madpess: and laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species, Some readers are like the hour-giass {their reading is as the sand; it runs in and ras out, but leaves not a vestige behind), ome like a which im- bibes everything, returns it in the same state, only a little dirtier; some
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