WOULD WE BE WILLING,
Would we be willing, if the summous came
To countermarch this life, to live the same
Once more”
Sar pain and joy, and poverty and wealth,
Good days and dark days, illness and
health,
Lived o'er?
The new life just as the old one had been ;
To find like friendship and the viler men,
As yesterday ?
And would it pay? Life, like a play,
Is relished as we go, from day to day-
But stay!
Not many a play is worthy of recall;
The actors one by one come on, and cui
tains fall:
They go away ;
And shifting scenes, and musi
drear
Grates on the listener's weary ear.
'
We dread the play!
long and
And so, as children tire of toys aud sleep,
At the close of life comes anil less 10
keep
less
Us hore alway.
And then so many that have gone
And carried hopes to a brighter shore,
Are saying come !
Those absent
Leading
before
ong, with anxious gaze,
and lighting the darkest ways
Wonld call us home.
a willing to refuse their prayer”
Some day we'll greet them there
me day!
ER I
THE SECRETARY'S CRIME,
Would we i
Ah, no!
When Morris Irvin became sol
his deceased father’s vast estate b
was a delicate young man of twenty-
two. He had inherited his father’s frail
organization, and the family physician
wwely averved that the youpg heir had
ore slender hold on life than even his
er had, who lived to [
0, an age, the
uld probably never reac
speful young fellow did not a
to ossess h gloomy foreboding:
re .rd to his future; he looked forward,
as youth will, to a long and happy life,
and made preparations.
Among his numerous iri
was one willl n he really
to be infataa one wi
ask a favor of i to have it
1 ing man named
handsome and
{ Morr!
FO
Oi
the age of for-
stated, Mo:
h ¥3y
:
i
doctor
v
Sut
appeared
had but t«
his person
Harvey Claike,
ry intelligent fell
»W n ae.
But the more staid «
prove of this fellowship, for Harvey wi
not an exemplary youth, and his many
mad pranks frequentiy shocked therm.
However, when they advised Morr}
cut loose from Harvey, the young l
laughed them to scorn
“What!”
JAKE SO
Why I would a
father’s fortune.
rke and 1 sail mn
hen it sinks we will
and top that 1
3} ke him with me to E
r two and install him as
retary as well as fi
+ 3 ’
about
oe
ie
itizen did not ap-
he excl
good a ?
aside my
Harvey
boat, and
taerether
ogether
wakid
8 So0n casi
No, no,
he same
ao down
mean what i
3
1
Ive
urope A
my
nd
wall te
month
confidential sec
of my bosom.”
True to hi
O
the disgust ot those worthy citizens of
Germantown.
Morris had turped nearly all his real
tat to available funds, and placed
these into the hands of his trusty law-
yer, George Sharpless, a man whom his
father had employed to attend to
matters during his lifetime, and
no mote upright and trustworthy man
could be found in all Germantown than
this same George Sharpless.
“he lawyer, too, disapproved of Har-
y Marke. and advised the young heir
to drop his
Morris 8 very tinate in this mat-
ter. a wonld listen to nothing of the
kind. therefore, Mr. Sharpless resigned-
ly vielded tl yet secretly kept a
close walch Clarke’s movements
while
ex
+
3 h
MEF
ela a
ey (
i the point,
on
e remained in Lhe vicinly
he learned that Morris
intended to young man wit
him: to Europe, he once more entered a
proiest, and came near quarreling with
is young patron, therefore he ceased
his importunities, boping for the best,
vet fearing the worst.
A year passed and Morris wrote fre-
quently to Mr. Sharpless, and injeach let
ter he lauded the young man Clarke,
who was. he said, of so much use to
him in strange lands, so self-possessed,
so courageous and cool in time of peril.
"hat is just it,’* dryly remarked the
lawyer. ‘‘Cool and self-possessed. The
very qualities an unscrupulous person
may make use of to the detriment of
one less 50
day pay dearly for his imprudence,” he
added with a dubious shake of the head.
Once, in a letter to Mr. Sharpless,
Morris dwelt upon the fact that a so-
journ in italy was highly beneficial to
his health, that he was daily growing
stronger, so much so, in fact, that he
would surprise his acouaintances on his
return.
“Perhaps so,”
bious mental remark.
when
take the
FY
UA
be surprised yourself.’
What the lawyer meant by this am-
biguous remark was not very plain, nor
did he attempt to explain the meaning
when asked to do so by an intimate
friend to whom he had made the same
remark.
“You may understand it some day
without any explanation from me,’”’ he
said, with a quiet smile, and more he
would not say on the subject.
Eighteen months wore away and still
Morris remained abroad.
Lawyer Sharpless was really glad to
hear that the young man had physically
improved, and longed to see him; but
there were other changes in Morris
which he did not like, He had mana
ged of late to frequent gambling places
and lost considerable sums, too, judging
by thie frequent request for remittances,
My. Sharpless suspected that Clarke
wis at the bottom of this possibly he
reaped a fair percentage of the money
thus lost. In a word, he believed that
Clarke had entered into a conspiracy
with some sharpers to fleece his aster
for their mutual benefit.
This suspicion may have been wrong,
and Mr, Sharpless admitted that it
be, but his estimate of Clarke
abjure the gaming table, and resuine his
hitherto moral course of life. He ab-
| stained from disparaging Clarke since
| it wav so distasteful to the young heir,
suspicions against the young man,
| separate them or guard the young man
| such existed, and to accomplish that he
| secretly sent a trusty friend, at his own
expense, to Europe to look after the
| of Morris Irviu if they so required.
le awalted with considerable anxiety
the [rst letter from this friend, Jacob
Beard, and sincerely hoped that Clarke
{ was pot is bad as he feared he was.
The letter came at last, and its con-
tents wllayed his fears. The two young
| fellows were then sojourning in Rowe,
the man wrote, and conducted them-
| selves uniformly well, If there were
gaming places in the * Eternal City,”
he said, Morris did not frequent any to
his certain knowledge. Ile was appar-
ently in rolust health, but looked quite
as feminine as usual, being rather slen
derlv built and of diminutive stature,
otherwise he appeared to possess strong
lea of Morris Irvin not knowing mé is
simply preposterous—I, who have
known him from his infancy,”
The detective was deeply impressed
moments’ reflection he suggested that
This was assented to, for the lawyer
They selected the hour after dinner as
He gave one glance at the trio then
utttered an exclamation, his gaze rest-
ing on the face of the delective as he
always in company with Clark, who,
be it said to his credit, appeared to be
devoted to hi master, if one may judge
by his manners.
Now, while
soothing effect on Mr. mind,
a letter shortly after from Morris him-
had a negative one. fie wa
He did vol say for
ie wanted
Lis wanting cash
for then
the young her's
ter had a
Sharpless’
the above let
h |
he!
wanled
OL
in itself,
r gambled
a pernl
envery vigilant,
i to
3 wl 3 i
Be “iti ti
and he falied
One,
wrote,
141 le used
He had 1
Morns’
4
t i
to spend
i
i
nade cautious inquiries
. and
the 5
nd m yal cond
Said,
a Carriage, vis
id for a
acquain
one accord, att
steady habits
and frie
drove about the «
the places of
hy young man
ly modest ih
ctor Hatfield calle
* day and ¢
sted Lo
his hey frequent!
ty in
interest
Mr. Irvi
V
ing al
weal
cide
3 ) .
a his desires,
)
IX i on
iis health,
“I wish you could be
o call on Morris and
observed the lawyer
“I shall certain!
me his address,”
sponse,
**He 18 10
r said.
“WAT 4
All rignt,
prevailed upon
Low n
, in great solici
do “i
was the
bs
Rome at present,”
¥
Ii call on Li
| for myself in regard
state, He may believe himself restored
| to health,’ the doctor reflectively obser-
ved, “but I shall be the better judge of
that. I do not think he has the stamina
become a robust man; he 1s even
more delicate than his father was at his
age, and he was ill for ten years before
he died. If Morris lives to see his thir-
tieth year I am no judge of sympt ns,
fet me tell you’
“Well, go and see him, and send your
report as speedily as possible for I am
exceedingly anxious on his account,’
Mr. Sharoless rejoined.
The doctor went, and instead « f
ting a letter from Bome he
somewhat startling telegram:
{ “I saw Harvey Clarke and a man re-
| sembling Morris Irvin, but not Irvin
! himself. Will write particulars.”
“Good heavens!”
| man of law, “What can it mean?
there really a conspiracy afoot, different
fiom what [| had suspected? In that
| case my suspicions again«t Clarke in-
creased tenfold.”
How eagerly Mr, Sharpless now wail-
ed the doctor's letter. That it would
1
i
3
i
4
vO
§
wo
Wrli-
this
sent
i red, and he grew almost nervous in his
| suspense,
The gentleman approached the young
follow with a peculiar smile, grasped
him by the hair and with a dexterous
when a mass of long auburn hair fell
down almost concealing the features o
the-—woman,
“Red-heade! Moll, as I live!” ex-
claimed Clive, then sat down and
Janghed heartily at the sudden Lrans
formation of the affrighted girl.
cried both the others,
the lawyer sharply
“A woman!”
in a breath, then
observed:
“Perhaps ‘‘Red-headed
to explain how she came
» Mr. Irvin?"
have nothing
Harvey
it,
Af
yO
sit be
Bm
e of his dug
the law
ding mor
" remarked
Footsteps Were now nean
and the next mom
A glance ti
: » of Doctor
yycr
IE,
at thea
it
“Nob at
the other, guile coolly,
prove,
a hctiti
him buried under
Then I hunted up a ‘su
him so that I would not lose
tion as secretary. I saw this g
concluded she would answer
0
pose,
“I made the §
without. however knowing
ceret. and the extent of hie
crime iL may ve ©
sev In male
name of my deceased friend.”
“How long hima he been dead?’
Mr. Sharpless,
“Eig
“ And dunng all this pen
been drawing on me for
TOPOS and she
el
.
yiledd) is £1
attire and
shi ® 11 i}
TRAIAN,
MONE
“Yes: you see, Mr. Sharpless, you
never gave me credit for being an up
right and honorab e fellow, and 1 saw
an opportumty for revenge for those
uncharitable reflections on my chara:
ter, and a fool only would have hesila
ted to take advantage of I am no
Se
he
soft laugh
“i agree with you at
events.’ rejoined the lawyer, ht {v1 gi
are a most audacious knave.”’
‘nn due course of time the prec
pair were taken to Manchester,
proof obtained that Irvin had died
there, all
1]
OS
and
a
| better was just this: He had seen a pe«-
calling himself
| Clarke was with him. But the doctor
| declared that it was not Morris, and to
eonfirmn this belief the young man did
not recognize him when they
What had become of
sal
tor wally belived that Irvin had died at
some place in Europe, and the auda-
cions secretary, Clarke, had secured a
sustitite for some secret purpose,
Mr, Sharpless sent a cable reply, and
instrugted the doctor to go at once to
Seotlasd Yard, London, and secure a
matter,
Thiswwas done, and in the meanwhile
the lawyer set out for Rome. Reaching
that cijy, he and the doctor met and
had a bng, private conversation, du-
ring which they marked out the course
they inended to pursue.
Both gentlemen managed to see the
young man while Clarke was not near,
and the lawyer at once pronounced him
an impottor, nor did the fellow recog-
nize hiuj
A “spitter” of the detective hovered
in the vicinity to keep an eye on the
fraud while the detective was absent on
the appomtment of a substitute,
Several days after Mr. Sharpless had
arrived 11 Rome, the detective, Harry
Clive, joined iim and announced that
he had ticed the movements of the
young men from the day they landed in
England sp to the present, and could
not dissover any “‘crookedness’’ in their
actions; that the person calling himself
Morris Irvin had posumably a right to
that name, '
“But, my dear sir,” oried the per.
plexed Jawyer. with some anger, ‘‘this
fellow is not the son of my okl patron.
Mr, lrvin; of that, I am most ive.
Why the rascal gave no sign of recog-
nition when I was in Lis presence, a
proof that he did not know me, and the
oners could be arraigned for the graver
During their examinatio before a
i
{
tute of London-—was discharged from
custody, with a reprimand, and Clarke
was remanded for trial,
The money he bad received after Ir-
vin’s death be had secreted in a beit
about his person, This was returned
to the lawyer, who, after Clarke had
been sentenced for a short tern for his
offence, bade the audacious rogue go wis
bye, and returned to Germantown to
hunt up the next heirs t
natate,
A A A
Silver.
nost celebrated mines of Europe
are in Norway and Sweden, and those
of Mexico and Peru are in the ccutre of
the chain of the And x in the most
cheerless regions of pw wiual snow;
there are mines also in the north of
Asia. but none have yet been discovered
in Africa. The most productive nines
in the world are those of South Ameri.
ca and the United States, Native, or,
as it is sometimes called, virgin silver,
is not met with in masses, but in large
patches, beautifully branching out from
the central deposit, or sometimes ex.
into an entangled net. Herre-
ra, the Span
discovery of silver mines of Potosi in
Pern to the fact of an Indien hunter
having pulled up a shrub and found its
roots entwined with filaments of pure
silver which turned out to be ramifica-
metal, Silver is frequently met with in
lead ore,
Tobaoew,
The fine" tobacco comes from the
th sla Tso af 1h. ans
8 in ts
both young and o
A Pike County Rifite,
aS —————
| An antiquated nfle stands in a cor.
| ner of the gun room in “Mose” West
| brook’s house in a cosy but isolated
village m1 the Pike county, Pa., back-
| woods—ua | ouse once famous as a sports-
man’s inn and whose hospitality has
| been shar: d by as many of the country’s
celebrities, past and presenl, as ever
| congregate! under any siuilar roof,
| The rifle is a relic and speci nen of the
| was made many years ago
| artizan for the use of the l.'e Judge
Solomon Westbrook, father of the cele-
{better known as ‘‘Baltus’’)
Late and Mose Westbrook,
has served the county nine
Prothonotary and Captain Lafe
been sent by his fellow-citizens six times
to the Legislature, He
John C,
has
to give some of the other boys a chance
for political honors, As to the rifle, it
| breech and is known the country round
as “Old Swivel.” The original owner
of the gun laid low more than a score
of deer before he stood it aside and de-
parted for the happy hunting grounds,
He died than thirty years ago.
Then La possession of 1
stopped the career of every
raised it on, until the war broke oul
Then Leflaid it aside for an army musket,
to the front and came back a caj
with a sword, took up Old
| again and hunted with it i
s (leer
more
fe tock and
deer he
uni
wittr 3 6
FiLAE 36 ANE
irihiess,
de as w
the
ff i
ai
an,
K CHOArge 0
nas a libeler of U
idan k ,
Giant Know
} x i wt thie
ra has tagen Lo
and he hasn't
Old
Up ROW every
it of
ise Swivel
1 %
day
+3
5
>
gi
rong buck tha
sack of the High
rirauge
y when there
But
» wasn't no
when we
there |
a big doe layin’ tl
i Doar has
ere
skinned.
' good in nobody else’s
id so it jist stands there waitin’
for we. 1'll be blame glad to see the
old boy ag'in and I know he'll be glad
to see me, and we'll go out together and
show that buck back o’ the Knob that
old times is come back ag’in and that
we won't take none o' his aggervatin’
ALLS
“About the best day me and Old
Swivel ever had was a year or two ago
‘fore I left Bloomin’ Grove. Lafe had
iot of fellers come up from the city
and he was goin’ to show ‘em how to
knock over deer.
slatur' then and had an idea that a
that was in the Pennsylvania Le.
gislature could knock down anything,
and about them days the most of ‘em
was knockin’ down consud’able, The
party stopped at Mose's. lafe he in-
Old Swivel went out with "em todo the
killin’. We went over on the Shoholy
and she dogs soon started a deer.
don’t know how many o' them fellers
got a shot at it,
t came tearin® ‘long through the brush
in the vicinity of where me and Old
Swivel was standin’, patiently waitin’
killed
was we'd have to doit,
biamed if 1 could hardly tell whether it
Old Swivel its hearin; he hollered at
it. and the deer laid down in its tracks,
We
and found it was a big fat doe.
{ it up in a tree and was dressin’ it when
I
There was a wide and deep place in the
| see the biggest buck I ever see swim-
{min ‘cross, 1 took up Old Swivel,
and not wantin’ to take advantage of
the deer, let it climb out of the water
and git a good three hundred yard start.
Then 1 let Old Swivel speak up agin
{and the buck know'd the voice and
| tumbled in the brush without waitin’
| to be told twice.
| doe and then went over to hang up the
| buck and goake his toilet,
| big I couldn’t budge him.
§
I had to go
| up the creek and ind one of the other
| hunters and git him to come down and
|help me to hang the buck. When be
| sppsy the old whopper he dida't know
i killed or cry "cause he hadn't killed it,
seer pwasn't for it’s horns,’ says he,
| “I'm darned if I wouldn’t think it was
| & hoss, it's so all-fired big.’
| “That same day the boys sent a bi
hick tg one of the party, who though
{he wi a rippin’ hunter, because his
gu cost $160 and he had to carry a
bushel bag on his back to hold all the
fix us and gs it took to work the
gun proper unged
burry either, fur he know’d by the
| sound o’ the gun that it was safer fur
| him to be loatin’ round there than it
{| was to take the chances of rnnnin’ ag’n
sumpin’ more substantial in some other
| part of the woods. Dut the onfort nit
| buek kinder lost his bearin’s and on his
| way got within five hundred yards o’
me and Old Swivel, He smelt us, but
it was too late,
lightnin’ express on the Erie Railroad,
but Swivel spit at him too sudden and
| that made three that we took in
cared fur dunn’ the day.
|
t community back o’ the Knob, hey?
with hun.”
So when the old man comes up Lhe
They want to hear the old gun making
music once more in the woods, anyhow,
and no one ever thinks of using it but
Uncle Ira,
ca —————
In Detroit Sinoe,
A wholesale house in Detroit in whi
the Brio consists of four partner
succeed, and you
on me any day in tl
conversat “died
that, and
was ell
He th
until he
ay Inorn
his eyes Ie
mi the
at off,
a LONE He bows
and he smiled, and he
called after
the man «
seen in Detroi
man
travels
1 his |
I
® ¥ »
ana
tana hit
SANE, DU
been
A ———
An Joeberg at Sea
o'clock We
1 a sailor, and had just
th 3
went
got
per when & Cook put
tie and told us
deck and see the (ines!
aver seen “Wher
asked the first man who
larboard bow.” 0
floating in the ocean, several miles off,
an immense, irregular mass, itstop and
points covered with snow, and its centre
a deep indigo color. This was an ice-
berg, one of the larges! , 48 one of
our men sad, who had be
Northern ocean. As far as the eye
could reach the sea in every direction
was of a deep blue color, the waves
running high and freal, and sparkling
in the light: and in the midst lay this
immense mountain island, its cavities
and valleys throwa into deep shade and
its points and pinnacles glittering in
the sun. All hands were soon on deck
looking at it, and in admiring In va.
rious ways its beauly and grandeur, but
no description can give any idea of the
strangeness, splendor and real sublimi-
ty of the sight. 1s great = for
down the scul
the
size
n in the
8,
in height; its slow motion, as its base
points nodded against the clouds, the
the breaking and tumbling down of
huge pieces, together with its nearness
and approach, which added & slight ele-
character of true sublimity.
with frozen foam; and, as it grew thin
blue to the whiteness of snow. It
the north, so that we kept away and
it the wind died away, so that we lay
to quite near it for the greater part of
no moon; but it was a clear night, and
we could plainly mark the long, regu.
Jar heaving of the stupendous mass as
its edges moved slowly against the
Several times in our watch loud
cracks were heard, which sounded ws
though they must have run through
the whole Ini of the loeberg; and
several pieces fell down with a thun-
dering crash, plunging heavily into the
sea. Loward monring a strong breeze
sprung up, and at daylight it was out
ol sight,
bins IAI BLA
Pilate glass was discovered in
cidental way, in 1658, by a
Thevart, It is attri
a
A loang-Livea Famasly.
{ The recent birthday anniversary of
| Sir Moses Montefiore has been and is
| widely commented on, partly because
| of hisgreat age of 100 years and the un-
questioned authenticity of the record.
And yet the late Bir George Cornewall
Lewis was such a historical sceptic that
hie dented that there ever Lad been or
could be an authentic ease of a man
| living to the age of 100 years. What
made this scepticism seem the more
strange was the fart thal be was a
“double first” of Oxford and learned in
human history. In America his trea
tise is regarded with doubt, in view of
of the unquestioned records of the lives
of centenarians here. Recent reports at
the United States Pension Agency
showed that in N, Y. district there were
| two pensioners who were the widows of
| Revolutionary soldiers. Seme of the
| London journals regard the 100th birth-
day of Sir Moses of vast interest be-
cause **iy is the only well-authenticated
case of a man having attained the age,’
| whereupon a commentator gf goed au
thority ventures to say that *‘the Uni-
ted States alone can at this moment pro-
at least a score of centenarians as
{ well authenticated by the parish regis-
{ters and credible testimdny as the
Anglo-Heb baronet,”
The world recalls Old Parr,
this matt
duce
Trew
generally
in regard
There are
f Old Parr iin
tk, One of tL
10
vitor in XN assan
resident of Hol
#
descends
11
» the 1
I mysell
13 childs
arr’
children,
in work 1 can
i Lhe place T
how that
5, was 1972 3
her like ¥
onger i |
King and «
iis old diet
ed bors Ful
probabl)
ng
Lud
nued Mr. Pa
that i i
It runs in the
five
« ahant 1 3
GBATITUL Aw
4
» good-natured tailor laughed, and
ohn Parr, Is now living
and is 98 years old. His
lived at Simon's
re, died at 102 vears,
, is now
paon,
i
i, who
at the
other,
y Blreel,
+ authorities, 13
ns of my father
Parr—are now living
bakers and acti
1 their exacl ag
. 3 "n
nts have been 4he turn-
the fortunes of more than
ise me, gentlemen,
anything.” sad a
to the entire
drink
Known
Sa drunkard.
st time you uver refu-
said an acquaintance.
day you were hustling
a cocktail, and, in fact,
A aif .
“The other
around after
yi ven asked me to set em up.”
true, but Iam a very
»
“That's very
{ifferent man now.
“Preachers had a hold of you?”
“No, sir; no one has said anything to
me.
“Well, what hgs caused the change?”
“111 tell vou. After leaving you the
other aay I kept on hustling after a
cocktail as you term it, until 1 met a
party of friends. When I left them I
was about half drunk. To a man of
my temperament half drunk is a miser-
able condition, for the desire for more
ia so strong that he forgets his self-res-
pect in his efforts to get more drink. I
remembered that there was a half pint
of whisky at home which had been pur-
chased for medicinal purposes.
“Just before reaching ihe gate I
| heard voices in the garden, and, look-
ing over the fence, I saw my little son
and daughter playing.
“t+No; you be ma,” said the boy, and
I'll be va. Now, you sit here, and 1’
come in drunk. Wait, now, till 1 ll
| my bottle,’
“He took a bottle. ran away and fill-
| ad 1t with water. Preity soon he re.
| turned, and, entering the playhouse,
| nodded diotically at the girl, and sat
dow without saying anything. The
Ww
je
oy
%
girl looked up from her work aad said;
“ ‘James, why will you do this way?’
“Whizzer way? be replied.
© ‘Gettin’ drunk.’
“‘Who'sdrunk.’
“ You are; an’ you promised when
| the baby died that you wouldn't drink
i
| ragged, 'an we haven't anything to eat
hardly, but you still throw your money
away. Don’t you know you are break-
ing my heart?
“1 hurried away. The acting was
during the day but those little children
playing in the garden,’
Huassian Newspapers.
How the average Russian woman
must rejoice that her husband is unable
to secure a newspaper in which to bury
his face at the breakfast table instead
of devoting his attention to her, Rus
sia with a population of 100,000,000,
has but 776 ne and icails,
while the Uni States with its 57.-
000,000 inhalntants has 11,196.