A GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN, Light after darkness, Gain after loss, Strength after suffering, Crown after cross, Sweet after bitter, Song after sigh, ome after wanderings, Praise after ory, H Sheaves after sowing, Sun after rain, Light after mystery, Peace after pain, Joy after sorrow, Calm after blast, Hest after weariness, Sweet rest at last, Near after distant, Gleam after gloom, Lave after loneliness, Life tomb, After loag agony, Rapture of bliss, ht was the pathway ading afl to this, A TN ARO NO JO A POCRET-PIECE, Mrs. Rutherford sat down, and fold- ing her hands—a thing she very seldom did—iocoked ruefully at the breakfast. table, with its array of unwashed dishes, at the pile of basket nea longest, ai lap. They were bills, every one of them; even the aristooratic-looking square white envelope, which none could have suspected of beins a dun, held the doctor's memorandum of the sum due ‘for professional services during the past six months,” there were bills from the from the butcher and the baker, the raditional econdle-stick being formid- sbly represented by the gas company with its quarterly statement, I'he total made her sick at heart. Y ot ghe bad tried so bard to be econom- icall—too hard, she thought bitterly, «s she remembered in her secret soul that Johnnie's attack of pneumonia might have been averted by stout rab- ber boots and by new and warm unde: - clothing in place of the old flannels she had patched and darned so faithfally, The nad be pur- chased er all, in spite of her short sighted They, were the Doctor's first pre after the crisis was past. She thought too, how, {0 save expense tf a sick , which t could s« afford, she had tried t for the boy day and nigh the heap of letters in ber grocer, r new garraoents to £4 thrift. Sr the nurse } Care i, at a ical system Bis 30e store, wit! ficed, witi and butler little famil Sill, they ) keep a modest bank account, and thir was the first time thi hey i really run behind- hand, Bat while she was sick, there had been one to watch and guard agninst all possible leaks, and gro- cery bill was what 1. ought to have been generous warm- na the doiible As for oount dollars, much less pennies, with his wife and boy lying ill—~the honse Lad been kept like an oven, and the amount of coal and gas used had been frightful. She thought of all this, azain and again, thromgh the long day, «nd there was small wonder if her children found her absent-minded more than once. That sum-total haunted her like a nightmare, and for the first time in her like she dreaded her husband's coming; because of the burden of awaited Him. She put the hateful envelopes out of sight—at least he should eat his supper in pence comfort—and made the ehildres y for their coming. The fact that New Year's is a legal holiday, no wise shortened his day's work: the books must be posted before taking acconnt of stock. It was long after dark, when at last " iad the lock of the front door, and she hastened hurry pp supper, as the children rashed pell mell to welcome their father usual, the center of a small tnmult of joyful news, “Maybe you think it isn’t cold out of doors,” he said brightly, “Bupper most ready? I'm as hungry as a hanter.” the mantel, "No letlers?—ounly one de- divery to-day. 1 remember,” “1 think they might have let you off thas she answered evasively ty a Fors ’ TOOL, Seary 10 laid the newspaper down, and looked up with the air of a man who has im- portant news to tell, “What do you think, Nell?” he said, **Tom more is going out to St. Paul.” ‘So far?” she answered, ‘He will be quite a loss to you won't he?’ “Well, ves, I shall miss him: we have be a rather good thing for us, as it is for him. He has a good offer out there, good salury, and the chance of an interest in the business—an offer he can’t afford to refuse. 'L'he thing that concerns us most, however, is that he wants me to take his place in The Building Fund—at just what it cost hi five hundred dollars, sad fif- teen dollars a month to the Fund.” { “I don't quite understand.” “Oh yes, you do, if you wiil think a { moment. Don’t you know he got his | honse by joining a building association, | and the rent of the house goes to the purchase money, He has paid five hundred on it, and the rent now is fif- teen dollars a month,” ‘1s that s0? Why, it is a better one than this, which costs us t8n dollars hy “Which into our It really i8 a wonderful chance for us, because the property has advanced in value sinee he bought it, and 1s certain to increase iv the future, but he svants ready money to move with, and so offers to let us have it at cost, He gives me the refusal for a week, which is very good of him.” **And yon are going to take it?” asked eagerly. *“1 think 1 can,” he cried, Mr, Barker is the President Building Fand, so there trouble about my taking Whittemore's place. Then, I have four hundred dollars in bank, and 1 think in a week or two I ean manage to raise the rest. By the way, have the bills come in and how much are they?” There was uo belpjfor it, tie dreaded moment had of me, with a fresh bitter- ness added th She brought the pile envelopes, sud handing them to him sat down in a calm despoe- ration, while be examined them--the that she was only indirectly re sposible for the s of the bills in no wise tending to make Ler feel erimioal, “Whew!” “Plenty of tl HOes she “Our of the won't be any ¢ 4 reto, out of {aot 12€ less like ae sal, as be took them, em, at all events-—Doctor, Hars; Draper & De Lane, dred and ten—Jones fifty Brow rent twenty-five—gas thirty Well, that pretty L agcouns. » i an figunng lopes, t fall the pape WL and sr, with exciasmatic room i thie one apd up-stairs, circnmsiancs probably she had imagined that she heard the baby cry or Johnnie cough. In a very few minutes sho came beck, laughing aying all together flung herself o shoulder, holding out a silver coin. ‘“*Iake it, John! take it! it really is! now you can pay the bills and take the house too!--oh, I am so glad! so glad!” she sobbed incoherently. Mr. Rutherford was no numismatist, COIMmmon aud his It cost him no small eff rt at seii-con- trol to draw her gently to him, add ask in tones whose very quistness told of effort What do you mean, my darling?” “Why, John, don’t you understand? This 1s the silver dollar Grandpa gave rue when I was a baby, and it is an 1804 dollar—it really is—and pericet, don't you see? Now what do you think it is worth?’ He took the coin, and examinen il critically. “I don’t know,” he said doubtifn “ven dollars, perhaps.” “Ten dollars! oh, John, you dear old goose! ten hundred wonld be nearer to it, Just listen,” and she ran for the evening paper, which in her hurry she had left lying where she had dropped ily, “Listen,” and in tones that quivered with excitement, she read, ‘A VALUABLE COIN, ‘Mr. Kobert Smith of Blank County has in his possession a genuine silver recently purchased of an old colored woman, fo whom he paid ten dollars Mr. Smith has been offered six hundred dollars for the coin, which is perfect specimens being known to exist, one of the four being in the collection the U.S. Mint. Mr, Smith veloes his specimen at oue thousand dollars, h extravagant price any numisma- ho w to secure the ooin will at as inhes f it i in the world ! | when first issued. He looked up now, | with a face of intinite satisfaction and relief, *I was waiting for you to get through | your story,” he said, ‘*‘and really I {don't see what there is left for me to say, If this newspaper paragraph is true, aud I dare say it 1s, your grand- | father's will take us safely out of the | woods. 1'll take it to Burdin's to-mor- | row and see how much it is worth, but | Bo the next day the ooin was taken | to the principal dealer in curiosities in ulation; and though he did not pay a thousand dollars for it, ne did pay enough to more than make it possible to accept Mr, Whittemore’s offer, : ate Gamins of the Great Town. Charles (i, Toland, from Chicago says: As I went home I met near the | Marlborough Station two small boys, | who were selling groundsel or cresses, | The elder, who might have been 9 or 10 years of age, remarked to me in | tones of gemal impudence that he was, O-—s0 hungry, 1 recommended him to eat his water-cresses, and walked on. Returning, the same boy greeted me as an old sequaintance, with a de- hightful grin, and said he hoped | was well “Lattle boy,” 1 remarked, ‘you have such uncommon cheek you must be lomany. No other child could hold se The boy looked at me resolutely, “Wandy can saker Romanes and chiy | # tan apray” (I can talk gypsy and he replied. “Pen yer nay,” I sad, name. ) “I don’t know what answer, “Then you're name,” ‘* ‘Moneker’s’ the name,” cried the child, “Little boy,” I answered, “don’t be rilgar. ‘Moneker’ 18 not Romany. It i# tinker's alang, It is less refined than Romany, Bat sce that yon in. deed understand that deep and mvste- rious dialect whose position in Celtic yet determined by any phil- Now if I say: “The nidias of dou’t grani what mandy's a * what does that mean?” ' replied the child repealing a (Tell your nav’ is,” was his not gypsy. ‘Navy is gypsy word for lowly, gson, ‘‘the derstand "ny house don an savin” you ure, my son, And how all & hail penny?” roung street Arab, with the ut | volubility, gave me the word in ang, back-slang, shaelta ook ont a six-pence: sh a good little | oil, You ure tried art have wha lnently a Innguag Which was gle gentleman or » Britain previous to my discov There is not a word of it whatever in my “"Gyp- , Bud nota member of the Fug lish Dialect Society has ever heard of Ab, wall, ry inng--not by a great deal Frying to Heat Draw Poker. Mr, MeDow. the Legislature of is loaded with a bill famous faro bill all hollow ‘This one i corker. Hw other bill knocked {aro out in this city completely, and to dey there are not over a dozen profes. sional gamblers in Nashville. Nothing but poker goes, A great deal of draw is played here, there being several large houses devoted exclusively to short cards. The games are rather big ones, too, thie most of the players being mer chants, clerks, officials and bavk people “What is the prospeet of the Tennes. see gambling law being repealed?” a proprietor of a poker room was asked, “1t will not be repealed, There will never be any more faro in this Stats, Nobody wants to go to the penitentiary, and that’s the siz: of it if you fool with the thing,” Mr. MeDowell’s old bill merely re. ferred to faro, keno, roulette, hazard, ete. It didn’t touch poker. Mr, Mo. Dowell now proposes to make it a pen. itentiary offence to play poker in Ten. nessee. He proposes to send to the penitentiary anybody and everybody who plays a game of cards for any stake ~-gyen for the beer. He takes in dice throwing, pedro, seven-up, euchre, Boston, whist, all Learta, pinochia, sixty-six, eribbage, casino, black. jack, black maria, marbles, basc. bail, foot bull, hop scotoh, Inst tag, ide and seek, pusey wants a oorver, leap frog, flip, mumbly peg, tnnk, backgammon, dom- inoes, checkers, billiards, pool, last one over the fence is a nigger, buneo, wheel of fortune, fim flams, bluff, kite flying, burglary, jug distemper, and | Bave we don't all Ruow eve i 8 member of the Tennessee, He that is to beat his of " Mr, MeDowell's will go through, and then the boys will not have a chance | Mr, MoDowell is going to do more, | He is going to make it a penal offence | for anybody to buy, or sell, or make anything to drink in the State of Ten. | This will do away with all the stillerion, saloons, and the State. There is ling the bill 80 as Wo ervybody in the Slate go to echuareh | remain there Mr. MeDowell what he is ral Impression Is with the will be | and onuse ‘ if poker, amoved as one | the State of devil to (1 Oe sgeg” Were, 88 in Ougn effect rest the no desire but to be a great deal i “That Woman," “Youn, Winona, the less you have to do with that woman the better pleased I will be.” said Frank Bennet to his wife as they stood together ou the veranda of the Mountain House, “At an might at ‘east proper tit a term for designate | -‘that woman’ gentleman to us r by her searcely Bertha Roland, the woman of whom thoy were speaking, was a wicow, eight Her nar was | | i Being in the shadow they did not ob- “What a pity,” Bertha was saying. **What a pity you tied yourself down to “I am very proud of my wife,” he ’ ‘“*And you love her, too, I suppose? “Why should I not?” “That is evading my question. You have led me to suppose your heart was without would of cosmetics, but artificial additions “Ve these she “Well, then,” said her husband, with her to come to an end at once,” “Then you will want in vain,” ro- “f am not going to insult her just on account of your silly is cansed by your begrudging me the little pleasure I get in her society.” ’ liberty to enjoy yourself us much as you please, but vot by putting yourself under obligations to that woman,” “There you are,” ‘that woman’ again. Mrs. Roland, my dear husband, con- siders me nnder no ovligation because I ride out with her on ‘But I have no money, my dear you? ‘““You are uuvkind; yon are cruel, I have wealth sufficient for two; what in the tuture. Mr, Jackson, take me ‘Yes, Mrs. Bennet, sald that gentle. man, “after 1 have informed you that your husband ie perfectly innocent, and this has been a ruse of his to show the true character and unbounded friend. ship of Bertha Roland!” “Thank heaves!” gasped the young wife; “and thank you for opening my friend, and I am not going to be un- “Very well,” Frank sadly said, ‘do as you please, Winona, I shall say no more, no matter how much respectable woman,” "Then he walked RWAY, Winona was too angry to speak, This wis their first quarrel, and she felt it keenly. They had just been married six months, and uaotll summer had brought them to the Katskil bad been peace and happiness, No more was said in Mand, until alter inoua said: “Frauk, as you have promised to play cards with Mr, Jackson, 1 think I will just run over to Mrs. Roland's; | promised her 1 would,” “That woman again,” but he said inona went, Her husband watched her enter the gate of the magnificent villa, and then turned away with a sigh, Mr, Jackson was beside him, ‘You don't seem to like } said he, or] C8 Mrs, when regard to supper, exclaimed more no Ww rs. Boland, dislike her,” returned ut we nothing antecedents, My i all 1 say nse, oe take a tun tell you the ior your wife's a burs ROU L wile i know wiil ad music beamed with smiles as abe comed Winona, aud until 10 o'el the merriment unbounded, Winona's atter surprise and dis ushered into the Mrs, iand’s wel. ook WAN tine n, to pleastre, wer husband was Par He spoke to the hostess, politely bat idly, and received her introduction to the other guests in ke manger, Thea he advanced to his wile ing: “Winona, I have comp to escort you home as soon as you are ready to go. You need not be in any particular hurry, though,” Winona was pleased with his words, aad followed her own inclinations as to hastening her departure, Music and wine followed, and while Winona played on the grand piano her husband talked to Mrs, Holand On the way home be said to Winona “Your friond is a nicer woman than I thought her to be.” The young wife's face beamed with smiles, *‘Ob, Frank!” she cried, “I knew you would come to my way of thinking yet. When you know her more you will like her better.” This was not his last viait at Mrs, Roland's; many more followed, and soon the young man could not speak highly enough of her. Winona was overjoyed, to his senses and learning how to ap- preciate her friend. Oné evening she sat sewing on the hotel verandah when Mr. Jackson approached, and seating himself beside her, asked: RY - “Mrs. Roland, my dear,” said Frank, “aot ‘that woman!” Remember how you berated we for so designating her! Winona only sobbed and sioser to his breast, A Aghting Bove, A Beir} A patent issued to a St Louis man for an automatic fire-lighting machine was made the subject of investigation, Chis new-fledged genus, a native-born Irish-American citizen, imbued with Yankee ingenuity, has just been granted letters patent for a device fill a desolate void in the widows’ household, and pecked husbands, mankind might be taken, at first sight, for an iofernal machine, but it isn't, It has clock work that reminds one of dynamite fiend, but it's not dangerous. When the thing goes off it startles the beholder with a fit and a flash of flame suggestive of 1nstant death; but it will not explode, It will have a depressing elect on the matrimonial market. The women of biessedness will be more tuan thrice blessed by it. They need pine no longer for a handy, good- natared husband ght fires for them, I'he machine will do the work. All you to do is to wind it up and make it go off any hour you choose sud then ] on the hearth, At the de- time a sulphur match is ighited end of a hollow brass tube, h chlorate of potassium flashes into a burning ire to a ball of asbestos arpentine at the farther §y 4 Ta Og 8 C0al ire f 4) single fa 14 S28 AVE set the clock gired 1a of her n a § § breakfast chief delight,” he added, as the reg walked away, after exhorting hum ven! an automatic cook. rior y in. ¥ # #4 AI Ins A Long stance Telephonin. Ibis is a feature of the telephone business that is still to a great extent & matter of experiment, Lines are in unccessinl operation between Boston ud Providence, and are in daily use for commercial purpose, Messengers are also transmitted between Boston snd New York, and generally with sat wiactory results, Men are constantly employed mn the experimental depart ment of the Bell company in developing is moreased, the marg maining is ascertained, aud serves ar a oasis for further experiments. Con. versation has been carried on between New York aad Chicago, buy the condi- tions were exceptionally favorable and the results wholly satisfactory. With batteries in good condition, wires clear, and transmitier and receiver in perfect order, it is possible for experts to at. tain results that would not be practic. able under ordinary conditions. The an in of power re- to the of 1, wuara? “No,” she replied. “1 have it here,” he continued: you would like to read i, you mey, It is a remarkably well written story. It deals with a» subject 1 have often thought of. another woman's friend only to take from her her husband's affection. you not think such treachery is un. pardonable?” “1 do,” eried Winona, ‘‘but—but the husband is often to blame.” Then her face finshed and tears filled her eyes, “Why do you speak of this to me? You at my husband and oe is infatuated with wer, Oh, 1 wish I had never met that woman!” ‘I fear, Mrs, Bennet,’ said Mr. Jack. son, *‘thet your husband is not to blame, I mysell do not think Mrs, Roland entirely ignores his attentions; at least lot me advise you to wateh him a little more closely.” That evening Mrs, Roland gave one ol her charming garden fetes, and the prettiest woman present was voted to be Mra. Bennet, Mr. Jackson was there, apd about nine o'clock asked her to walk about the grounds, Soon the dazzling hghts of the house were left belund and they stood in an obscure or “Why have yon brought me out here, Mr, Jackson?” ssked Winona, when she saw they were alone, “Hash,” he said, ‘some one is com. ng." “I shall not remain here." but her protest was out ahort by the entrance of her husband and Bertha Roland, rate of interest on the investment it would be necessary to put the rate so high as to prevent a general use of the line. But it has been found practicable to welephone a few hundred miles, and the New York line will soon be extended Philadelphia and Washington, Seventy-five wires will be put into ope- aud Boston. A 5 Milk Lawey A committee of the Massachusetts Legislature has been giving a heari to interested parties on the subject of milk adulteration, For the benefit of the proposed legislation in this State it may be mentioned that it was stated at this hean that the Saperior Court had decided it was unconstitn. tional to require a person to furnish evidenoe against himself by giving samples to the inspectors, It was thought that the statute on the sub. ject should be amended by giving the be obliged to give, the height of letters marking the skimmed-milk oans is evaded, it seems, for though the letters were made of the required height, rome dealers had them *‘so attenuated in width” as to be almost illegible. One witness t ht the law should prescribe the th of the letters, if the apirit of the health act was to be preserved. A representative of the farmer stated that they were gener. ally against radical in the milk inspection law, and in favor of maintaining the standard of thir. teen per oent, solids, A vigorous mind is as nooossarily ace ant omy ey k A Terrible Night Halligen is the name given to a group of small islands on the west coast of Schleswig, which rises very little above the level of the sea. At high tides or storroy weather they are completely under water, so that | only the earth bills, on which the houses | of the Inhabitants are built, stand above | the waves If at high tide the waves are driven | by violent storms, the danger then com- mences for even these higher dwellings, | And naturally it is still more formid. { able when the furious waves make play - | things of large blocks of ice, which, | with a noise like thunder, hurl against | the crashing houses, Many years ago in the month of Jan- uary, a terrible night occurred to the unfortunate inhabitants of the Halli- Her, For several successive days a violent wrthwesterly storm had been blowing; raging sea had already passed over only with great risk of gall from one X the i the island, and life was t possible house to auother. A thick darkness lay over the surging | waste of water, which was only now i and then illuminated by a flash of light ning, which tore asunder the thick cloud | masses, while its forked tongue darted | down from the sky into the Angry wa- Lo The howling of the wind seemed to { via with the roar of thunder, and to ! both was added the raging of the waves, | which seemed as if they were determin. ed to swallow up the unhappy islands, Abont 10 o'clock the waves, which were casting great blocks of ice against | the unprotected islands, overflowed the earth-hill, which was about twenty feet | high, and the wretched inhabitants had to take refuge in the upper stories or on the roofs of their dwellings. And fortunate indeed were those | whose houses did not give way before mighty waves of Lhe sea and the { the Ql e first shock broke down thestrong- | est piles upon which many of the dwell. } whole build- hat ving man and | ings were built, so t the ing fel beast in lin at once, bt s 500m (as Lhe arish clerk of Keitum, a village on the ud of Syll relates) the neighbors had one of my friends and had, while ! orm every minute increased, prayed together and read the Bible, The father had taken the eldest child in his arms, the mother pressed the two to her oreast, and another ighbor undertook to measure the rise { the walers, At3 A.M. they would 3.4 v yt FF Ppls greatest neigh + WONT reve i 4% y Hata aide ali ordinary occasions mes £1 in thelr s twenly feet » block a nd ded ng pass oy cane, the weir iar y Ai >i * sunder-st Was rale over the sea, and forked lightning ferers beheld an UY Lh RiG4m 1 ue the 3 awful sight. They saw | § ed against t i asses of houses, whole en and cat. le——were bein i hither and ther in the floods and driven helpless. ly by the house my friend. With this th storm the tide rose th apidity. The walter now poured into the house; the furni- ture began to float; the storm broke the windows and drove the rain inside, Through the thin partition wall, which separated the stable from the dwelling-room they could plainly hear | the groaning of the cows: and when a huge wave tore away a portion of the wail, they perceived the bow of a large | boat fast stuck in the stable wall, As the water had now risen so high that Pappy people were in Jdan- ger of being jammed against the ceiling, and perhaps drowned in the room, they forsook the tables and benches on which they had hitherto floated, and fled up a ladder into the hay-loft; but the sea soon robbed them of this last refuge. Like a hungry monster it rolled every | minute, and followed the fugitives till | they were quite under the roof. No longer finding a dry spot for him- self and his family, the wretched father, who still preserved his presence of mind, made a hole in the thatch of the i roof. He first swung himself up on the | roof, where, passing bis hand reand the { staff of the weather-cock, he took up his dangerous position. i sing dash- ice; and ¥s Den LATE x Wi incredible 1 the 11 Add “Now for the children,” he cried out as loud as he could; and even if the | storm drowned his voice, the mother's | heart understood his words, and in | trembling baste she reached the two | eldest children up to him, and then, ! with the youngest in ber arms, she fol- lowed her darlings, and soon the whole family sat trembling with cold aad bhor- | ror, firmly clinging to each other, the | father with his back to the storm, with one arm round his wife, with the other holdinggfast to the stafl of the weather- cock. When on the morning of the 4ib of January, the sun shone down upon the work of that fearful night, the tide had ebbed, and my friend with his whole family, were saved. The fisherman of Folir who on this occasion won the admiration of every | one, found the wretched family on the thatch of their roof; and though their limbs were so stiff that it was feared the children would die from the exposure, yet by God's mercy they all recovered, What we know of the South pole, is simply this: That nebody has «itl in seven or eight hundred of i