| ONEBY ONE
Lhough frem the boughs to which they've
long been clinging,
Yhe Antamn leaves are dropping one by
one,
Yet from their dust new forms of beauty,
springing,
Bhall smile again in Summer's gentle sun
Though one by one the pearly drops of mor-
ning,
From drooping flowers, on viewless pin-
ions rise,
We'll seo then yet the gorgeous clouds
aderning
With glewing arches of celestial dyes.
Though ene by one the stars are fading
slowly,
That all night long kept vigil in the sky,
The distant mountain peaks, like prophets
holy,
Proclalm that morning's light and song
are nigh,
Though with slow step goes forth Its sower,
weeping,
And on earth's lap has precious treasure
leaves,
Yet comes the harvest,
reaping,
When shall be gatherad home the ripened
sheaves,
with its J
Though one by
cherish
Withdraw from ours the cold and trem
ling hand,
And leave us sorrowful, they do not perish
They yet shall greet us in a fairer land.
the friends we
b-
slumber
frast,
Stainless they'll rise, in
*Neath scorching suns or Arctic snow and
now baer;
All, all shall mest—
ta}
08 Wrst,
myriads without
there shall not one
OR CEES LR
His ii EAL.
“Of all the loves on earth—a man in
fovel” Hal Liscomb exclaimed, watch-
ing the cload Vapor
among the branches. **1
my whole heart, that t
of blue ASCENT
wish, with
he whole mass
en could be sent toan
South Seal”
His companion looked off t
a softened light in hi
smile on his mustached
“How many of your
think would remain
questioned. “Hal,
love yvoursell; it’s the
low; and wien
which you ce
won't you
womea-hgters do; it’s a sort
ment on then,”
“When Id.
ume in the
may laugh
clined——"
Galloping he
quiet, and Hal left his sen
ished, Biting bin
gen the herse and
pony was coming along the
full speed, bearing a girl whose beauty
was ephanced by her enjoyment. and
who seemed at perfect ease in the san
dle; she did not see the two friends,
who were lying among ‘he shadows
Just in from the roadway; and in a
moment, as it seetned, she had appeared
island in the
k 3
y the west,
he
then?”
some time
All
of judg-
take ba liv! you
: here was a v
“When I do, you
at me, 1
Ol
lone,
as feel
hiohmay sit
NIguway a
i
masses of dark bair, falling far in rich
disorder, framing this face of mine-—"’
“ Yours ?” with an uplifting of
Grant’s eyebrows. ‘You would want
to own it then? You are in love with
your ides), as that sculptor was with
his status, Ha!, and if I don’t make a
mistake, my boy, you have found it.
Here we are, and the girls are on the
veranda. No more at present, but if
you are not blind"?
when he reached Grant he found hm-
self before a dark-eyed stranger, with
whom Grant was laughing.
» Allow me to attract your attention |
to an individual who holds a deadly |
commenced, solemnly. “Miss Allen,
this1s our woman-hater, Mr. Hal Lis.
comb, Enlighten his darkness,”
iithel Allen lifted her dark, dreamy
and a slight smile touched her lips as |
half extended before it had reached his |
OWn.
noe or pride, I had
she quoted gently. Aud a feeling akin
1 J b
I man,
, slumbrous eyes with
their hint of hidden fire, were tracing
118 blonds face earnestly; and he under
stood that because of the term “woman- |
hater’ he had lost a touch of the
erirl’s
girl’
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He saw her at when |
in al
p, with erimuson and
white roses on her bosom, and when he
and Grant followed the the |
adalin ainner,
ladies to
ing black hair, and her upright, grace-
hand fluttering above the piano keys,
that
é that
far
far
at
irom
moment
the heart
the |
the |
world was of
ice recalled her, and look- |
his request for a |
once more and
hat peculiar Ger. i
“Death and the Nightin- |
Tae, he lights were low, owing to |
rit shown In
Hal
@& Sociable
warm
drew i
weather by the mosquitos
somewnal apart,
I 40 Open windagos
hair shone under .ce sweet touches,
There wus an open book on her knees,
and her clear voice floated to him,
teuching him as no voice had since a
child he had so sat at the knee of his
mother while she read, as Ethel read
now, the word of God. The voice was
like music—sweet, low, fervent, Tis
his eyes, moistened
while he listened ; and all the hardness
that had enveloped his life for half a
dozen years melted from it in that
moment, as though the mother-hand
er-lips whispered him, “My son!”
He turned silently away, going back
thought went with him, one purpose
grew strong in his ¥osom-—if she was to
be won, he would win this girl for his
What blindness had possessed
While deaming his idle dreams
beautiful life by
beauty and womanly
While looking for an ideal
he had closed his eves when the reality
had been met by bh
him?
he had passed this
with
gentleness,
its silent
im, His pulses were
throbbing when he went from his room
that evening Oo join the others at din-
ner,
and went straight to her;
of ti
and neck
He met her in the corridor above
she
Wore
from
ryt ¥ | fal
COSLUING in bla Ky
Arms shone dazzingly
carried a cluster of
hand, and looked at him
white roses
with a smile
as he approached her,
“Miss Allen,”
IF +
g, AL Aa
tones
he said, b
man should tell
that his future lay in your hands, what
would you do?”
She looked
her
Surely those
you
with darkened
uiverad slightly.
hut he had
sought for his great picture, those we
. 1
the delicate, earnest lips!
him
lips q
t
were
al
eyes, and
eyes
ie
i at
he ques-
hted with
answers
“Should a man lay his he
« What
A Youll
would wi do?”
Mi
lig
womanly strength as she
ions
iaidn.
“1 would lift it.” she sald, softly;
“1 would tell him t the] feet of
not
a
woman like
and I would t
Was its place;
ake it as God's
yr granted to my
Was
her hands
gaiust |
HEU a * Ai
“If it
Was
the meadow, among the |
yes that fri
ils began to
wi d forth plaintive calls, |
! left
hed, Miss Allen
the piano, crossed the room and went |
4} ¥ #1 5
and, the sony find
$ ’ $a vd phyd
out to Lhe starigai.
*"
she called *‘let us go out-
side; I want to hear the whappoorwills;
‘Come,
her from them instantly.
Grant Lawson merely lifted his dark
head, and allowed it to fall back again
into his clasped hands, when he saw
the rider. But he smiled a rather sat-
irical smile as Hal, flinging his cigar
hurriedly away, sprang to his feet, try-
ing te follow tbe vanishing beanty with
his eves,
In the name of all the godesses!"
he ooed, “what have we seen,
Grant 7”
“One of those animals which are not
Grant answered, indolently., ‘‘She has
a few ethers lke you at her chariot
wheels, Hal, Don’t lose your head!
Jove!” booking at his waleh, “we’ll be
late for dinner!
riding bike a jockey. Come, Hal.”” And
he lifted himself from his easy position,
took up his hat, and prepared to proceed
toward his home,
“Ethel?” Hal repeated, as they
walked along. “Is that the cousin you
were telling me of 77
“The same. I told her of you, too;
told her you were a woman-hater,”’
“Very kind of you,” Hal answered,
grimly. “What did she say?”
“Oh, not much She remarked that
there was always something wrong
with men who railed at women, 1ly
the way,” he continued, inwardly
amused by the uncomfortable look on
his friend’s face, “how are you doing
with your great picture?”
* Falling,” Hal maid, laconically.
“Can’t find my ideal face; and the face
I want is that of a worn too,”
“What sort of face do you want?
Don't betoo ideal since you paint for
humai eyes, my friend,”
“I have never sought it in a ball
room,” Hal responded, a trifle Y.
“1 never fancied 1 would find it in the
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They foliowed her, all save Mrs,
Lawson, who settled herself for a nap
in ber chair; and presently Grant asked
his friend to sing. Miss Allen turned
from watching the clouds that were
mingling their fleece= above her, and
looked down to where her cousin's |
guest sat on a low seal, almost at her
feet, Was it the soft light, he won-
dered, that made her eyes so dark and
dreamy, her lips so red and sweel?
“Let it be something plaintive,” she
said; and he obeyed her, singing Scott's
beautiful gem, “To Mary:
“The heath thre might must bs my bee
The bracken cutis Ds for my head;
My ollaby the warder’s tread,
Far, far from love and thee, Mary.”
Below, the whipp»orwills still sane,
the man's voice echoed softly on the |
silent night, and when he had finished
be looked up. Was he again mistaken,
or had the girl's eves gloomed to mid-
mght, and were her lips tremulous?
Three weeks had gone and Hal Lis-
comb wondered why he [elt so reluct-
ant to go back to his home, He did
not see very much of Grant, for that
young man was very deeply in love and
speat much of his time with the girl
who was to be his wife, leaving his
friend to idle as he pleased, knowing
this would please him, He-—Halhad
made many sketches; but his pencil
was very willingly Iaid aside when
Ethel would allow him to be her com-
panion in het walks or rides, or when
she would bid him read for her on the
wide veranda, or under the trees of the
lawn. On this particular day he had
failed to find ber, and 80 had gone
aimlessly rambling about. Sud
denly, coming upon a cottage which
stood quite alone, nearly a mile from
the village, on the edge of which
Grant's home was, he saw her black
pony at the door. :
“1H surprise her and walk back with
her throngh the shadows," he told hir-
self, not stopping to agalyze the pleas-
ure which this thought gave lim; and
he went swiftly toward the open door.
On the Shinemiyaid he Putiedptued,
ii hands
¢
fi Hal
E hel
ia 3} “tte s
FOI his, CAVIDE U
1 $4
BRAOW,
Lo
fistia A
ing a Jittie, As
drew her hands
ity
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EE ——— ——
A Piers
1's Wisaom.
In California ithe woodpecker stores
away, aithough he psver eats
He bores several holes differing
slightly in size, at the fall of the year,
Then he
which he
holes prepared for iis
But he does not eat the
finds an acorn,
of the
His object in storing away the
acorn exhibits foresight and knowledge
his wisdom bas provided, at a lime
snow, he found he would experi nee a dif-
palatable food, It is a subeect of spec-
sugar pine is invariably selected,
not probable that the insect, the wood-
pecker is so fond of is found only on
the oulside of two trees; but true it is
that in Calaveras, Mariposa and other
districts of California, trees of this kind
may be frequently seen covered all over
their trunks with acorns, when thers is
not an oak tree within several miles,
a
ss A AU 0S As.
fetter Too Cold Than Too Het.
asked Lieutepant Sewatka if he
had any hankering after another polsr
trip and he said that he would not at
all object to one, as he thought after a
man had once been up in the polar
region, he wanted to go again, and that
it waa not as hard (o stand the intense
cold as to stand intense heat; that he
would much prefer a winter at the
pole to un summer such as he had just
passed at the military post in Arizona,
whete he was stationed, He said that
many & day this summer the thermom-
eter was 118 in the shade, and even at
n it was 104. The on
hg wake their Ay Ase?
habitable was by filing a wisp
room with water and sprinkioeg
the sheets, and then, he said,
the water at the foot of the bed would
dry before he was done sprinkling the
plows, He seemed to think arctic
life a luxury to this; and though I
should
with
Si
vourting in Church,
sm
3 $y
wid
them, and herd
{and there is a maiden lady. Then in
the centre is a broad desert of empty
| pews, and way back in the rear, massed
{around the doors, as you might say ard
| young people, always in pairs. I am
| glad to see them, 1 always preach bels
| ter to the young, and I plunge into my
sermon with energy and animation,
| After a particularly telling point, aimed
| Ther wives are wi
J
| right at these young people, I look up
to enforce with gesture and personal
| glance what 1 have to say, and instead
| of finding the eyes of my back-seat
| tive interest they are not paying the
| slightest attention to me. They are
not even looking at me. But there they
Et like
hang. he adiled
or, PETHADS, if aiid a
Lies oon
wl wii 3
looking into each other's éyes
young calves,
with bitter sarcasm ex-
4 1s 1h
i it. ‘Soil eves looked 10ve
2 sin ir”
that
4 resnmed, i
pause, “and I made up my mind that
thant
would have their atte on fx
while at least, began
sermons, except that
which I mark, 1
force *Y¢
panse as if for rhet
vale
man’
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4
gTEAL ng
orical
1 desers
mnie other churcl
¢
t
yx ? sis de 0%
ey al :
oT
gpice of
)
*
gatisled smile,
‘
s renlied wit)
ey seem to like i
Ves a dang and adven-
gir courting, as if some one
nea 1
element
was trying to separate them, Si
began these sermons this
the evening oc
increased,
in
ngregations has actually
You see, they are obliged
to hear some of the sermons, and, their
attention being arcused so zuddenly,
$ impressed on thei
they remember it, From
circumstance, which is entirely
experience, they get
minds, and
this
novel
in their
elegant preacher, and my fame has ex
tended,
AA Oss
Mosoow,
It would be a very incomplete sketc)
in their nambers the public houses bf
Everyone has heard of fhe
precions packages of tea, the best that
across the steppes of Tartary and
Euter a traktir at what howd of
the day you please it always stems
crowded, A corpulent little samt with
a stmling countenance, who is supposed
is perched in one corner. The Rasdans,
as they enter, uncover their heads and
bow to the patron of ‘the cup that
cheers, but not inebriates.’’ Profusely
perspiring, and, indeed, completely sat-
urated with tea, the habitues talk over
and settle matters of business or ploas.
ure, strike bargains. or balance accounts,
Merchants, brokers and bankers confer
and transact business; pleasure seekers
arrange their plans; estranged frends
make up their quarrels over the steam-
mg tumblers. Who can doubt that tea.
drinking in Moscow is a great National
institution?
One of the chief bouses of all for
merchants in Moscow is the Muskonski
Traktir, This is no ordinary establish.
ment, Tall, robust servants, in white
trousers and tunes, move 10 and fro,
and ssviduonsly wai upon the guests
[The cooking at this establishment is
celebrated, but it is Jor © ;
have no one to talk to, you cn smoke
a pipe or cigarette, or listen
gan, At almost all the re
the
{
§
plays when i} is wound up, and is Hmi-
year must (ind a little sameness in the
| pe jut, after all, it is in the
tea~-gardens and similar aburban
formance,
tussian tea-drinking are
Beneath the trees, in every direction,
happy families surround the burnished
urn, and in retired nooks
are witnesses to J Petrof-
ski Gardens are a very fuvorite resort.
Overs’ vows,
+» chateau built by the Empress
Elizabeth, The road from Moscow
thronzed with carriages and
and well dressed pedestrians,
Gunids and police keep order at the
Bates that adinit to the vaned attrac-
tons within —the promenades, and
lawns, and Copses, the rustic cottages,
stalactite eaves
and glens, and grot-
5: the lak
the
In the evening, aven-
colored lights and festooned
Los thie fountain, and
Trig
las
t to pagodas used as the-
s entertainments ~comic
i
which the fun is somewhat
grotesque, exhibitions of
Grand dispiays of fire.
The
aTects a
: fhe ¥ sir 3 vy
ve L068 Prodesdings,
undyed homespun eloth,
tockings he winds cle
ors, His feel are sho
pla ted linden
im Mose
ling and good-n
shahihy §
ng, and shabby in t
Dark.
IW are,
1
also ver
CRITYInG shrines
and burping tapers in their hands.
Next « searse with four horses,
On the steps of the hearse are more
urests holding in the Saviour
Yel more follow, speak-
ng words of con
and relatives of the departed, As
procession moves on the people in thw
| streets cease from their occupation, un-
cover their heads, bow. and pray for the
| pepose of the deceased, The countless
| pigeons of Moscow are a feature of the
ty which ought not to remain unno-
ticed. They enjoy life freely, and in.
{ crease and multiply to an enormous ex.
tent, for no one thinks of killing them.
o |
Aes of
over the coffin,
the
emblems of the Holy Spirit,
: ¥
A Relic of the Revolution.
A —
anearthed
relic of the Revolution
“a
| have ever heard of, much less seen.
| The relic is a cannon which was seed
tended for use on board of a ship, #8 it
cannot be mounted on wheels, It/is 5
feet Jong, with 8} inch bore, aod the
charge used 813 pounds of powdeg. It
was purchased many ‘fears ago irom
the late lawyer Gibbons of Aldiegiown
by the late Capt. C. Ritter off Jiibers-
villa, The latter sold y
company, consisting of Cn
Ginkinger and Frank, i
Tilghman Reichart, 4d
now controls the greater bal .
stock, and be bas been the ml
the past thirty years and = J
many political celebrations. ne.
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Gambeats. IF
The accepted design, by MMA ube
and Boileau, for the Paris i dof
Gambetta shows a quad Py
: L BOR THODGES.
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like a good mame, ingot
is, and lost by eno.
Praerved is sathes In dis.
Good
py ang
Prais
guise,
Let of
ability,
The wore
creaks mos,
There is 201
duty.
Bare-footed
thorus.
A crooked sick will have a ereoked
shadow. i
When sil 18 consumed, rbpentance
comes too late.
The doing pvil
not be good.
Assockle
i
pie do sceording to
wheel of a ecard always
4 moment, witheut some
en must nob ge among
Lo avould am evil can
1 the wise, and their
knowledge ding to thy slists,
Nothing isf0 credulous as vanity, o
s0 ignorant of what becomes Meelf
The desire of appearing ie be pers
E q
| of ability oilen prevents oer being so
Satire ofte oceeds less foam Hl-ns
ture thus frgm the desire of displaying
Wits
Even gegins itself is bot fie obser
vation gstipgihiened by fixiby of pur
mea ibibude
50 does pelitencas he
ares for the west, but
worst for the day whe
heart, like the moen, 1
man’s
ng; yet thers salways a
Hang
r knowledge w hurtful to o
pt the science of honesty and
Ble “I will’ has no worse
the cowardly, sel-deceiving
{ | choose.”
tract hearts by the eualities
iv; we retain them by the qua
er lost,
flow
x
¥
4
.
If nok reciproca
back amd soflen ar
siness is net fo ses what
ance, bul Yo do wis
™ to pe an econsmist in
y fear of your not
adversity.
“loses his head’ soon-
i & mam who !
Ly: there Is 1
IR. IS Re
¢ a windew cwslain——
namens, bub ¥s usa 1
nly the zirit
Tealrays Sa wl
Toesens,
rirruvk
|
d heweat i
anv ono
yes, be Wik
for the pres
*
ple happy, and here wil
the qu ling or a tenih
f the wickedness there i,
&®
sign to ses the cedar of
health vu; a man’s face, bul not to
see it all concentrated in his nose
Moods are the climates of the mind.
They warm or chill resolves and are |
turn our flatterers or our saliriets,
i Open your mouth avd purse can
tionsy, and your stock of repulation and
| wealth shall, at least in repute
| great,
{ It is with narrow-souled people as
with sparrow-pecked botiles; the less
| they have in them the mere ages hey
make in pouring it out,
Contentment is a peas of great
price, and whoever proouras if al Lhe
| expense of ten thousand desires makes
a wise and happy purchase.
Open your mouth bul eeldem, and
| pever but to the point and purpose.
Shut it close when misjudgmg friend
ship holds the glass to your lips,
Write your name with kimdness, love
! and merey on the Lisarts of the people
you come in contac with year by year,
| and you will never be forgobten
Exploding many things usder the
| name of trnfles is very fulse proef either
| of wisdom or magnanimily, anfl a great
chek to virtuous actions with regard
| $0 fame,
There are persons who havearore in
| telligence than taste, and others who
have more taste than intelligences,
| There i8 more vanity and oaprice in
| taste than in intelligence.
In ature the valuable and the besu-
| tiful dsually go hand in baud; and if we
| do nod always trace their union, it is
| because our limited experience has not
yet fathomed all ber secre,
t a price is paid, as » knowledge of
ba ot oF 1
SR 2000
Fue
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adept in it, except al the expense of a
wed and wounded hems,