i A—————————r MY COUNTRY HOME, Old homestead! In that old gray town Thy vane is seaward blowing, Thy slip of garden stretches down To where the tide is flowing; Below thay lie, their sails all furied, The ships that go about the world. Dearer that little country house. Inland, with pings beside it; Some peach trees, with unfruitful boughs, A well with weeds to hide it; No flowers or only such as rise Self-sown, poor things, which all despise Dear country home! can I forget The least of thy sweet trifles, The window vines that clamber yet, Whose blooms the bee still rifles? The roadsides blackberries growing ripy And in the woods the Indian Pipe? Happy the maa who tills his field Content with rustic labor; Earth does to him her fullness yield, Hap what may to his neighbor. Well days, sound nights, oh! can thers be A life more rational and free. BARBARA. ns my nusing, and get strong and well again.” As Faanie Pleasanton spoke she put beside bed over which she was leaning, a great bunch of fragrant violets, moist and beautiful, breathing their sweet stories of shady nooks in deep woods. A little pale face that had been lying listlessly on the pillow was lifted eagerly. the like home, my own dear home!" Great tears rolled down the pale face. “Tell me about your home. How came you to leave it for the city?’ said Fannie. sold to pay a mortgage. I had a little money, and I thought I could work in the city. Desides—" But here and a fain: cnmson blush her pale cheeks, “Hm! thought Fannie, wise twenty-two years of city | cation: “a love story.” She asked no questions, bul pretty soon Barbara said: **You have been so kind I will teil you. can tell me what to do.” rose upon in ife and edo- Perhaps you pre | tables and wardrobe, drawers overflow- ing with dainty flnery, open trunks | waiting to be packed. And the prepar- | ations were all for a wedding in one | short week, and the bride-groom elect { was Cyrus B. Lenox. What was this story the little seam- | stress she found starving in the attic had told her? The janitress to the ten- ement house had been a servant in the | Pleasanton family, and came to Fanme, | who was rich and generous, whenever any distress came to her notice. And Fannie had gone to her last call, to find Barbara Golding tossing in delirious fever, evidently overworked, poorly fed, and sitting in the little attic chamber. She had paid for a better room on the jower floor, had sent a doctor, had sup- plied medicine, food and care, and vis- ited her often, till the doctor pronoun- ced her on the road to recovery. And in return she heard that Cyrus, | lover of Barbara Golding. “Does he | love her yet?” the girl thought, push- and looking in the mirror. | handsomer. and fair. | Cyrus 18 not poor now since his aunt i died; but will rise in eminence with my burden upon him. Only a week. | before Barbara can ever sit up we shall | be on our way to Europe, and he will soon forget her. Why did he seek me | of his aunt's, not a command that he should marry me if I consented. But he cawe to me, and I love him—I love love than mine? I can give her money | to return to her old home if she wishes, | But if he loves her! ©, Cyrus, do you love her and not me? | I must knowl” As if in answer to the thought, a ser- vant rapped at the door, and opening it, Fannie was handed Cyrus Lenox’s card. “] will come down at once,” ing her disordered hair, : excitement of her discovery nerved her ——— ——————— S————————————- for a long time. Then a hoarse voice said: “You have seen Barbara?” “Yes, I have seez her.” A Novel Timepieces. A watch that winds itself by the mo- | tion of the wearer is the latest wonder “As you describe her?’ | of Europe. The moneyed tourists “Yes? abroad will probably come hows in the “And you despise me as faithless to | fall provided with them to astonish her and you?” | their stay-at-liome friends. The foll- “No, I do not despise you, I am | owing explanation of the new toy will, sorry that you did not know yeur own however, take off the edge of this heart better when you came to ask me | triumph with our readers, to be your wife.” The new automatic i ¥ i timepiece 1s -_—_—_—_Ae naked, working the mines, The holes leading to the mines were s0 small that it was necessary for one to lie down and slowly work through the apertures. At New Zealand our party were just in time to get pgssage on a vessel char- tered to visit the west coast sounds, This was the first excursion party ever taken to the sounds, The sights were remarkable, Everything is wild in the locality. The mountains rise straight up from the water, In some portions Cavalry in Future Wars. Among the military nations of the continent it is recognized that, so fav from the time for the efficacious em- ployment of cavalry either on the bat tle-fleld or in enterprises against the flanks or rear of an enemy being past, a glorious future is dawning for that arm, and that opportunities will arise when well-disciplined, well-trained, and well-commanded cavalry may, through All her pain and love were well hid- den in the cold, proud voice which Fan- nie Pleasanton assumed to cover her breaking heart. But after a moment she said, more gently: “Barbara has been very ill, and is still too weak to bear any great agita- tion. You must be patient, and leave her to me. When she is well enough you shall see her,” “Fannie, you will break our engage- will be the result of any change now? You will not trust me to tear out this old lgve, and be ever true and faithful I am not so weak but I can do go, if you will trust me.” “But I will not!” was the quiet reply. “I will marry no man whose heart is not all mine. I will have no of another love for my constant rival, We can still be He had no words to meet the steady resolution of her voice, but yet he took no coward’s plea for shelter. He would not say, even to his own heart, “She never loved me; she is glad to throw me off.” He knew she had loved him, being too purely womanly to give her hand where she had not already given her heart. He knew the sacrifice she was making. to his tips, saying: ness to her, I will come again when i So he left her, carrying the dream of | with a fictitious strength to endure any ‘word she mught speak. She came | him quietly, dignified as ever, but very | “1 will help you In any way tbat I can.” ‘“T'wo years ago, the summer that 1 was seventeen, father took a boarder, to} pale, so pale he asked anxiously if she | was well, He was a lawyer, and his health had was abou! twenty-eight, not handsome, but so gentle and good that we all liked him from the first. And he would come into the garden with me, and help me with vegetables and fruit, because father left that to me; and would carry the milk up to the dairy room f me, and talk about books don’t you know.” “He made love to you?” “Yds,” mn a faint whisper. “And you loved him “Yes,” again. *I could not help it! When he went away to come the next summer, and he told me when he made his fortune ask rae to come to share it.” “Did he coms?’ “Father dled the next spring, and I came hers. I thought I should find him; but I did not see him for a long time; and when I did I had become 80 poor, 80 very poor, I would not force myself upon him. I worked as well as I could. but this summer I became sick, and but for you I should have starved.”’ “Po vou think your lover is still true to you?" “I cannot tell, I would not trouble him. Sometimes, after I bad found out where his office was, I would pass by after dark and peep in. It was beau- tifully furnished; so I hope he is mak- ing his fortune; but I only whispered ‘God bless him,’ and came home.”’ “Will you tell me his name.” “Lenox—Cyrus B. Lenox.” Fannie Pleasanton turned her face abruptly from the little seamstress, who had been the object of her charity for the last six weeks, and walked to the 91 ¢ he would “Well, but tired,” she answered. | have been out this morning.” | They talked of indifferent matters for a short time; then Fannie said, earnestly: ask you one true woman's question. He hesitated a moment, then said: “1 will answer truthfally whatever | you ask.” “Did you ever love any other woman | before you knew me?" “Do you not think itenough to know I love you now?” he said, “You promised me a sincere answer, | and you give me an evasion,” she said, reproachfully. “Because you ask me to lear open an old wound your love is healing.” “Yet, even if it pains both you and ' me, 1 beg you to tell me of your first | love.” | Fannie’s lips were parched and stiff, but she spoke calmly. “Since you insist,” Cyrus sald, grave- ly, “I will tell you. Two years ago, m | a farmhouse where I was boarding, I met a woman, or rather a girl, a sweet, | fair maiden. [ loved. I was a poor | man then, Fannie, and she had a happy, | pleasant home, | hoping to return the next year and { bring her to the city. When I did | return the farm was sold, and Barbara | had goneaway. None of the neighbors | could tell me anything of her.’ “It was your place to seek her.” | “Idid, faithfully. But I could find | no trace of her whereabouts. In the | autumn my aunt died. She had loved you for years, and her last wish was the | hope that you would one day be my wife. It was a sweet solace to me even She could not trust herself to think, 3 ! Before the winter snows came there | 3 i She was very happy, this pale, little | Barbara, when sheltered by her hus | Southern breezes, She was very happy Little by little she faded away, always gentle and loving, always Gently ing her, his loving touch caressing her, Cyrus turned his face homeward, wid- European tour, taken after Barbara's wedding. A little paler, a little graver, Cyrus found her when he came to call, but still the gentle dignified woman he remembered, the true companion his window, Lifting the soft white cur-|in my sorrow for her loss, and pain at tains she had placed there, she looked | Barbara's disappearance, to have your into the street, while ringing in ber | sympathy, and I soon found there was ears was the name Barbara Golding yet room in my heart for a true, tender had just spoken: llove. You cannot believe 1 would “Cyrus B, f.enox,” | have asked you to be my wife had I not She was very pale when she came | loved you?” again to the bedside, but her voice was | “But if even now, you found Bar- as sweet and steady as ever as she said: | bara?’ “I must leave you now, Barbara, but | “I have long ago ceased to love her.” I will come again this afternoon. If| “Yet if she came to you?" you want anything, Mrs. Harper will | “You are my betrothed wife.” answer the bell.” “Yet if Barbara came to you poor, **Yes, she is very kind, friendless, and sick; If she told you she will come again!" had come to the city, seeking work, “This afternoon. Try to eat a few of | hoping to find you, and had sunk under the strawberries I have brought you.” | her burden of loneliness and toil, if she She went away them, stopping as | told you that, ragged. footsore and ususl to tell the janitress of the poor | weary, she had looked in at you in your tenement house to care for the sick girl | cosey offlice, and turned away, unwil. until her return, Butinstead of driving | ling to throw the burden of her poverty to the stores where she had intended to! upon you; if she had struggled until make (nal purchases for a nearly com- | she had fainted aod fell sick, and was pleted wedding outils, she told the | gaining health slowly, hopelessly, with coachman to drive home. Once there, | no future before her but a future of unheed ing the anxious inquiries of her | poverty and toil; if Barbara came so to aunt, astonished at her early return and | you, Cyrus, what would you say?" pale face, she went to her own room, | Butonly spall face, with greatbeads bolting the door, before she sank down of perspiration upon the broad brow in a chaif, wearied with the effort to | was lifted in speechless agony to meet maintain her composure. her eyes. Only large brown eyes, wists Cyrus B. Lenox, the girl said. . Fan. | ful and saffering, appealing to her Pleasanton, looking around™ her | womanly heart, Bat—you ous room, saw a pleasant confu. | There was a dead silence in the room | > Never to living ears did he tell the gecret he learned in his bref married life—the secret that Barbara, sweet, gentle Barbara, whose girlish beauty had won his love, whose deepest pity loving, suffering, she appealed to his protection, his pity, and he gave her both in full measure, But he knew only too soon that she could never meet him heart to heart as Fannie could-—could never be his true life companion. He was loyally true to her memory, speaking no word of his secret disappointment. And he sought Fannie with a lover's eagerness, a life's devotion; and Fannie loving him with her whole heart, knew it was no divided homage he offered her when, for the second time, he asked her to he his wife, She had made her sacrifice, and knew that she had soothed Barbara's passage to the grave, not hastened it. And with a clear cons sience, a deep, abiding love, she once more put her band in that of Cyrus Lenox, and became his faithful, dearly-loved wile, IN LN Massive Monument. The pyramid of Cholula, not far from the City of Mexico, 18 the most masuive monument ever raised in America, Its base covers forty-five acres, it is 150 feet high, in terraces composed of stone and brick and natural soll heaped up in layers. a sometimes oxolnde 0 6OFTOW OF TemoTes, = ny a. Bg called in Switzeland, where it was In- | vented, the **Marche-Marche,” The | watch is a stemsetter, and in but one | particular differs from the ordinary | watch as to exterior appearance. “works” are protected by a square case will appear after the other features of the watch have been described | tall. | the automatic self-winding mechanism, | which attains the objeet in view to | perfection. On the side of the | that the arbor of the | turbed from a position of absolute rest. | The force of a spring adjusted under | the arm furnishes the reaction, and | the oscillation is repeated with every | step taken by the wearer. This | spring barrel by the wheel, the circum- | clutch of a dog that *“*holds fast all it | gets,” and the most ordinary walking | exercise upon the part of the wearer | serves to wind it up full, The watch when used for the first time is wound quired if the watch is worn regularly by any one of the most moderate hab- | bits of peregrination. stand horizontally, and this can only be when the watch has an upright posi- { tion in the pocket. Upon the face of the watch is the stantly indicates the tension to which the spring is wound, and by a glance the wearer of the watch may tell for how many hours the watch is wound, The capacity of the “Marche- Marche,” when fully wound, is sixty hours, as is indicated by the manome- ter when its hand points to the number at the top of the dial. The amount of exercise required to wind it full is rep- resented by six miles’ walking. The | ing mec | hazzard In missing trains, and sowing | seeds of dissension in the family by late arrival at dinner because of for- | getfulness or negligence in the matter of winding the watch, The absence of | necessity for any contact | hands with the interior of the walch is in | durability, and its shape, which at first i i artistic decoration. The | Marche" js entirely a band-made | wateh, and is consequently a model of | perfection in the chronometric art, the i | its speedy introduction to general use. | The patentees are A. Bourgeois & Co. | of Switzerland, who, aside from having | taken several medals upon the merits | of the “*Marche-Marche,” were aWar- ded the diploma of honor of Zurich re- cently. ss MAP - Queer Adventures. ——————— A banker of London left that city | Oct. 20th last fora pleasure trip around the world. He started in an easterly direction and reached this city a few days ago, having almost completed his trip. In conversation with a reporter Mr. Nimond said: *L have had some queer adventures since I left home, some of which I think other tourists perienced. For instance, when a pas- senger on one of the Orient line of | steamers, after passing through the Suez canal, we stopped at a small island for coal. One of the lady passengers and myself started out to explore the island while the vessel coaled up. We penetrated the heavy forest of cocoanut and tropical trees and had hardly been from the vessel half an hour when we discovered to our dismay and surprise that we were lost. The forest was very heavy, so much 80 in fact that we could not see the sun, although occas | about the waving branches, We | walked first one way and then another, but could not find the beach, although the roar of the waves could be heard in whichever direction we walked. The ground was perfectly alive with snakes and very little crabs. The former seemed to rise up from under our feet. Of course my companion was terribly frightened. Suddenly 1 thought of my pocket compass, and by its ad we found the steamer, just in time to gel on board, as she was ready to sail. I sub- sequently learned that the island on which wg were lost is only one mile long and one-half a mile across, It is ‘one of the Chagus Archipelago, in the Indian Ocean. ; “At Ballarat, Australia, T had the pleasure of visiting the gold mines. In an old costume I descended 940 feet below the earth's surface, where after crawling through a number of small we found a little beach, but any beach at all was a rarity. We saw large numbers of birds and curious animals, The birds settled on us by the score, its power of securing for itself compara~ tive immunity from the dangers to which other arms are ina higher ratio exposed, take a leading part in the con- and did not seein in the least afraid. | filet and perhaps decide the fate of a campaign, Among other high authori~ ties, Field Marshal Count Moltke has recorded his opinion that because in future the destructive fire of artillery will necessitate a scattered formation, the role of cavalry will be most import» | ant | History proves that without cavalry | a victory is rarely brilliant. If cavalry, was only one, | is beaten, according to Montecuculi, One day, accompanied by a small | the battle is entirely lost; if, on the boy, I started to camp out about six | other hand, it is victorious, the victory teen miles from New Zealand. We | 5 complete. From the day when Has- | reached a hut with only three sides | grubal destroyed the Roman host ab | standing and attempted to sleep. Rut Cann until that on which 2,000 years | it was a vain attempt. Rats, mosqui- | afterward, the British squadrons, | toes and sand flies surrounded us bY | charging the flanks of the old guard at the hundreds, While there we ascend- | Waterloo, “‘prevented all rallying” ed a mountain 4,250 feet above the sed. | after the annihilation of the French | We went far above the snow line. | cavalry, this axiom has been true. In From that point I could see hundreds | the last great war cavalry on both sides of snow-capped peaks, thousands of | were on several occasions nobly sacri | small lakes, and could also get &|ficed in order to gain time for the in- | glimpse of the ocean. Later, a small | fantry, or in heroic efforts to avert dis- | party of us coached 640 miles into the | gsters already irreparable, but peither | uninhabited wilderness. We reached a | in the “death rides” of Worth or Re- point 4,300 feet above the sea in our | jonville, or in the terrible slaughter of | coach. We went through the Orlira | Sedan, were the losses as heavy as those | gorge, much resembling your Yosem- | incurred by cavalry in the days of | ite valley, and we also crossed a deep | muzzle-loaders, river running between mountains. | That the effect of fire of modern The manner of crossing was a basket | weapons, requiring as they do in thelr truck on wire, The distance was 750 | ys considerable skill and a correct feet. On the other side we took | judgmeet of distance, would be very another goach and visited the immense | jegtructive to cavalry moving rapidly sheep ranches at Wellington Harbor. | sutside the line of 400 yards remains to We also visited the Maori be proved. These people are very kind, but easily riled, and when so, are dangerous. | They looked very fierce and hideous with their bodies tattooed all over. us a sort of tree, on which they could rest without danger. We visited the lakes of New Zealand, where we spent | many happy hours. On one occasion a large whale came near upsetting our boat by shooting under us, We all thought there were several whales near us, but our boatman assured us there savages, As Elzey’s brigade was pressing for ward to the line held by the Confeder- ates at the bloody battle of Gaines’s | Mill, a squad of fifteen or twenty sol- Their country is wonderful, abounding in geysers and hot springs, boiling cauldrons and boiling mud. Wesawa staircase of boiling water basins, “We have visited all your principal | diers were encountered on their way to the rear. A tall fellow at the head of | the little party drew special attentien | to himself by singing out at the top of . , | his voice with an oath, “Gentlemen, cities ang placesof interest. The rocks | 3 Ya in the Rocky mountains beat anything | we had the honor of being captured by ~ y Stonewall . i "ed LAYS I have ever seen. Wichita falls, Nia- | to wall Jackson mst "a gara falls, Yosemite valley and & thou- i ment which he repeal with evident hs ry » - i ’ aa bi i - a3 ¥ sand other points we visited are won- i prale 4 long the rs ’ a oy | derful. At Texas 1 took a hand | A A his story ‘was le a Gene aounduag up eattlo an Bounding and eral Jackson, having ridden a cutting them. SO Ia AY relied | a 4 . me sudden 31,200 mites, When Iget back to Lon- ne a Sdvane, th ome his Sey don 1 will have traveled 54,200 miles, rahi a teristic tuosity, bad ¢ giving me an average of 136 miles each Wietleths ww ° 3 1 haeged day since 1 left home. render, which they made haste to do, a —— she Gave #1 to a Gambler. S———— i West Pollut. The Board of Visitors td the West - : re 3 | Point Military Academy, in their News from Chicago says, | annual report to the Secretary of War, | says the general impression made by the appearance of the cadets in drill and review gives a very favorable idea of | the discipline of the institution. The Mrs, | Thomas Smith confessed to the city | detectives recently that she had nob | been gagged and robbed of §1,000 as she had reported, but that she had | given the money to her lover, who lost ra. | it at the Washington Park races. Mr. | board are of the opinion that Very | coith is chief ¢raughtsman at the graduate of the academy should bean | po foundry. Mrs. Smith mar- | expert in the use of the rife, off hand | ied him seven years ago. Recently | or lying down, at short or at long range, | | . ; : | they determined to buy & home and | completely understanding and compe- | | menced to save to tend, H | tent to teach all that a scientific marks- | is that a somewhat noted gambler | man ought to know. They recommend here, “Black Jack” Bass, was intimate | that increased opportunities and in-| cps. pefore her marriage and their | struction be given, with a view of | Loo. 0 pave continued since then. Sin tie She xl lh | Dogo ete Rd 7 500 recommended fo Tew EV | ua ore prions a snk sium, $5,000 for improving the cadet | 5 oo tly she gave hum the $1,000 laundry, $10.000 for improving the | i) pad been saved. Recently ber blacksmith and other shops, $12.000 |, 05,3 asked her to bave the money for removing the barracks for the cav- | ly that evening, as be intended to alry detachment nearer the stables and | oo out ae 4 first instalment on the i ! ¥ riding half, $6,000, dor Re et. | Purchase of a house. Meanwhile Bass library By SAS | had Jost it. With the determination of able provision for the departments of | committing suicide she set about wash- chemistry and philosophy. The board | ing herself and otherwise making prep recommends that the number of ap- | 404 for a presentable appearance in pointments “at large” be restored 10 10 | o sy, While using the towel the happy per year, | thought of gagging and robbing fiction Like a Crater Valley, The Beaver Basin, Wyoming, is for all the world like a crater valley with a huge cone towering in the middle, It is 6,100 feet avove the sea level, and | has two wells in partial running order giving what is claimed to be the best | lubricant in the American market, of a lof a color like dark mahogany and | smelling like a mixture of linseed oil and balsam. Crossing the Rattlesnake Basin in the third block to the east is a curious congregation of tall, queer- shapen sandstone groups, which look in the distance like the building of a city, so curiously did the water ‘work in, out and around them hundreds of years ago. Rattlesumke Basin is boun- ded by step-like mils, from which sléven streams of off flow. The ol from these bottoms is of the heaviest gravity at zero of the Beaume scale and is very black, A shovelful when thrown into water will sink immediately and is of anasphaltum consistency, containing jargely vaseline products, Nature ae withien » letter Py credit on some men’ which fs honored suggested itself. Binding ber arms and legs and disarranging her clothing, she crawled out to the front door and made the noise which brought the neighbors Her story was that two men disguised as plumbers had secured entrance to the house and robbed ber. The detectives arrested Bass on general principles and he brought about the confession of the woman. Sireet.onr Fares in Seotiand. Casa — In many town in Scotland where street railvways are in operation a cus- tom is in vogue that is an improvement on the American system. Instead of charging a stated fare, from whic there is no deviation on sccoaht of the distance. the passanger travels, the cam routes are laid off into districts, When a gets on a oar he pays one petmy, which takes him to the end of that distoct, and then the conductor ve-enters the car and collects penny from each person, and eoutinue doing so as each new district 18 entered until (he terminus of the line is reached By this means, a passenger ouly for the distance he den eheouraged to eutpe the AEs he baa but a short distance to
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