zpdian Sammer. Bright dream inal came, and, like a spirit child Lived in our ficids mild, trolled o’e ans aflame With signal torch, plaic with infiuence pure and willie, where antumn's copse, gave answer to the Bweet nlaved gunny smile on gently shaded bir While nature Li ers earthy And young birus came 8ad a Piped gayi home muti { withheld the wild flow- bow, 1 the woods, whose notes wv } forgot they soon from But shadows e'er have wove their web o'er things below; The golden-rod must nod, slumber ge The young birds spread thel first long weary flight, While far above the southern cross s guide them iu the night. the grass to r wings for hall Qctoher's tears LEAL Heids agiow: fall shall quench the The lighted cope toe soon NO voice of sougster know; November clouds are near, her morning breath shall chill Each pulse that waits to beat ag Indian summers still. iin with AEA AFTER MANY DAYS. As the Widow Wilson returned from milking, with her little son Johnny, she saw & wretched-looking youug man lean- ing over the garden gate. Those wild, hungry eyes looked imto the foaming milk pail, awakening a teeling of pity in Mrs, Wilson's gentle heart that could never see any form of suffering unmoved, ‘I'he man, pulling his bat over his ayes, as though afraid of being seen, said: yy ma'am?” Going into the house, Mrs. Wilson sut a thick slice of brown and white bread, and filling a large bowl with new suit, freshly cut her, and clean hands and face, that he failed to recog- nize him. As soon as the two men had ridden off Mrs. Wilson resumed her labor of Jove. She made s bundle for the stran- ger consisting of @ substantial lunch, change of linen, and & pocket Bible, «®t is ono I gave Johnoy,"” she said, shat I can got him another. His name | is in it, but you won't mind that.” Then giving ham a few dollars—all that she bh counsel that sank deep into the heart of the motherless boy she sent him on his WAY. : “John,” said Mr, Davenant to one of his clerks whom he had summoned to his private office, “you've been working all winter and need a vacation.” membe, of the wealthy firm of Daven- | ant, Haviland & Co.. to say much to ————————— HONDURAS. cions Metals and Wonderful Ruins, Honduras is a wondrous jand, and no one can even estimate its immense wealth, Gold, silver, precious stones, rubber and opals are among its re- sources, The country is a platean, and is about the size of the State of Ohio. Prior to the year 1821 it was teeming with mining enterprises. Gold and silver mines had been opened up The inhabitants were Spaniards, and they were the finest engineers in the world at that time. In 1821 the great revolution ocenrred, Tne engineers snd most of r driven out The people who captured the land knew nothing about mining, and as a consequence the thousands of or killed. his employes aside from necessary in- structions, and there was some surprise | in the young man’s look and tone as he | said: { “| hard!y thik I can afford one.” “04, 1 mean tbat it shail be in the | way of business; so your salary will go | on all the same, I've boughta plage in | Milford, Connecticut, and I want you i» | see about some repairs that are needed. Are you acquainted in that part of the | covutry?” i “I ought to be,” eried the young | | man, with sparkling eyes. ‘‘Why, Ii was born in Milford; hving there until I was fourteen, and know every nook | and crook in it. In what part of the | town did you buy?” “In the southern part, on the river It is called the old Roberts place, 1 be- | lieve.” “It's the homestead where I spent the happiest part of my life, Mother's | maiden name was Roberts; the property | | came through her. The speaker's voice trembled with suppressed emotion, but if Me, Daven- ant noticed it, he did not seem to do 80. “It is a beautiful place, I don’t see how you could make up yoa mind to milk, took them down to him, The man~—or rat pot have been over 8¢ venteen—eat as though he was famished. Handing back tbe empty bowl and plate with a *Phank’ee, ma'am,” he drew a long sigh | of satisfaction. «Have you come a long way?” said | Mrs. Wilson, as she noticed the dust aden garments and weaned aspect. ‘A very long way.” «Where are you going?” The lad made no reply to this, save by a wistful, troubled look, and Mrs. Wilson continued: “You've run away from home haven't rou?” Seemingly reassured by that motherly look and tone, the young fellow saad: “I don’t kuow. It was Dever any Luoma to me sites father brought his pew wife Sere. SBS turned his heart | againgt me, so that he treated me worse | than a dog; but 1 don’t know but I'd | Lave stayed if I had thought I'd have | to do this. 1 started to find Uaoele i John, who lives in Baode sland; but I hadn't mach moper; it is farther than 1 thought, and I—got iulo trouble, { must be moving on, If any one aks | you if they seen a chap like me—" Herg the lad caught a glimpse of two i horsemen at the foot of the hill on ; which the house stood. “There they are! ' he cried, in agony | of horror; “hounding me down as if 1} was a wild beast! Oh, lady! for pity's | sake, hide me somewhere!” Giving one glance st the horsemen, who were partially hidden by the trees, Mrs. Wilson seized one of the hands | held out to her, saying: i «Come with me.” After seeing the fog away in the attic cham returned to the gate, jone go when the horsemen ma appearance, Oa perceiving her } H having scarcely | the «Madam, we are constables of ———— county, in pursuit has broke jail, brown hair, and had on a calico shirt and /srown coat and pants, all of them very mach the worse for wear, Have you seen Any ons Alswe description?’ “Yes; only a few minutes ago.” «We thonght be must have passed here. Did he go up or down?” said the sonstable, referring to the course of the river, “He went up.” Urging their horses forward they rushed on. Mrs, Wilson bent over the pale, cold face that was lying on the attic floor, aod noted its youthfulness of outline and expression. “Supposing it were Johuny?” she thought, as the blu: eyes opened, siar- ing wildly iuto bers, “*They're gone; you she sald, in response in every feature, “No, ma'am,” he said, in reply to her questions; ‘1 didn’t do anything to be put in jail for, more'n to pick a little fruit or corn, or something of that kind when [ was most starved, But I fell in with some men on the road —real bad, they were, though I didn’t know it until afterwards, Tley gave me somethl to eat and treated me so friendly hat] stayed with them ove night, and the next moming a lot of people swooped down upon the camp snd took us all off to jail, Ouse of them had put a waten he stole tuto my pocket, so it would it I hadn't got are quite safe,” to she terror de- part with it “Jt was not a matter of choice, sir. | It was mortgaged at the time; mother i kept up the intercsi, but at last a series of misfortunes, in the way of sickness | and bad crops, obliged her to lot it go.” “Where is she living now?” “She is living m a little cottage that 1 hired for her in a town adjoining of seeing her if I go.” “[ wan't to get a trusty, competent woman to take charge of the place, as I don't expect to be there mysell more than two or three weeks in the summer, Perhaps your mother would like to do | i John's face flushed with surprise and pleasure, “Sue would like nothing so well, sir; nor ¢ould you gelany one that would | suit von better.” : “Very well; thou its settled that yon start to-morrow morning. Here is some money; and you are to d-aw on me if you need more. I want yoa to buy a good horse and cow, and some other | things you will find on this list. It is Milford for the sale of our manufactnres, charge of it Dat 1 will attend to that myself when 1come ! Mr. Davenaut was as good as his | word, reaching Milford about the mud- | dle of tbat month, John going to the | station to meet him. The young man pre- occupied | ‘I don't believe there was ever & hap- n mother, now she has | got back to her old home,” he said, as | they came in view of the house, Strangely conflicting feeliogs filled Mr. Davenant's heart as he alighted at the gate, where he stood a homeless outcast boy, fifteen years before. The | same sunset hues burned brightly in | on every side, were | the same bloom and verdure, And | there was the same gentle, meek-browed woman -—somewhat older, but with the same pleasant smile mpon her face— coming down the path to meet them, It is your house not mine, to which yon bid me welcome,” said Mr, Daven- | ant, in reply to her greeting, ‘as you will see by examining tnis paper.” The paper that Mrs. Wilson took into | her trembling hand was a deed of the | | place, made out in her own name. «1 don’t understand it,” she faltered, lifting her eyes to those that were look- | ing at her through grateful tears, “Perhaps this will make you under. stand it more clearly,” said Mr. Daven. ant, placing in her hand a pocket Bible, on the fly leaf of which was written: “To Jonx Witane, From his affection- ate mother, Remember thy Creator in i tons of ore coutaining gilver and gold, on the top of the ground. The iuhabitants are a mixture of Their chief characteristic is honesty, five months of my stay I never heard of a theft A German physician whom I met there, while riding along the moun- tain lost a valuable package of papers. Ha was unable to find them, snd 80 continued his journey. Eight days afterward a native overtook him, and with a polite bow handed him the pack- age of papers, asking him if he had not jost them, The overjoy offered him a $20 gold piece, but the touch it, saying he had y. He had found them, sud knowing that a stranger had immediately mounted his mule and traveled till he overtook him. Words natives. The government is also ex- prise, 1s taken almost bodily from WAY, The land 18 very fertile, introduced, Sugar cane, vested, is just as floe as at first. The scenery is unsurpassed. and robber trees, in which birds fill the sir with sweet songs, Game sbounds in great quantities, Honduras is the home of the Iguana or edible lizzard, I sat down one day to dinner in the house of the mayor of a supposed was tender stewed chicken After I was through my host almost par- nana, try is the remains of beauld built eentaries ago by the Asiecs lo soma instances almost covered by earin, are to be seca idols, monuments and of the most beautiful workmau- Companies have been formed to valuable in sections trodden Ly any American name of the place Where our is conducting its operations gives sowo It is collect these hitherto une Ei Paradiso, or the paradise, Another thing this country is notad eases, The people, though crude in their habits, are healthy and long-lived. Physicians and medicines are almost unknown. Mining companies are bei organized in New pork and other cities; some of them are already in unexpeci- and realize the resources of this land of treasures, i —— AI A — The Make-Up. In character representations,” said the sotor, "a good make-up is essen- tial. In many cases it will pull a bit of bad soting through. Uostil within the past few years ‘he Eaglish actors excelled the native-born Americans in this regard, but the latter have picked up and now average second to none in the art of making up. Bat it's a great study, Of course the actor's face should correspond with his con- ception of the character to be por- grayed, A picture must be drawn in the mind, of the character to be rep resented, aod then transferred to the face of the actor. This maintains con- sistency with the lines he speaks. Careful artists study this in the mirror before applying a line to the features, I will demonstrate to yoa.” the days of thy youth."” Beneath is, in bolder, cent characters, were the “Cast thy bred uoon the thou shalt find it after many days.” nse At What Hour is a Man Strongest? At what hour of the day is a man at his strongest, and fitted to do hard work with the least weariness? ‘I'he question is a strange one, snd probably the answer occurring at once to most persons will be: **W hen he gets up in the morning.” This is by po means the case; on the contrary, according to the recent experiments of Dr Bach with the dynamometer, & man is pre- cisely at his weakest when he turns out of bed, Our m is greatly in i ty fares tion of pulverized ohalk, applying it pisce of chamois skin, This he | evenly distributed, making a surface as a painter would prepare his canvas, This completed, his face assumed the expression of the old man described, From the ‘‘make-up box" he produced several little sticks of granse paint, of many colors and combinations of shades, and proceeded to accurately follow the lines indicated. He blended these with a camel's hair pencil until they ex- the desired eflect, A touch of rouge here aud a little India ink sod yellow ochre there, and the piotare was complete—a wrinkled old man, hollow. oheeked and eccentrio-looking. The actor had adjusted hs tights and the glass 10 lo corner of the i those with opera-glasses, but even then we must exaggerate a bit.” “Wait a bit—I hava not filuished,”” he said. *‘Now, this would be sufliciently strong for the naked eye, but 1 must make up for the opera-glasses and strike a mediaom.” The chamois skin was again brought into use, aad a perfect transparent sur- face was formed, showing the deep lines beneath, The transformation was completed. “As 1 said in the beginuing,” he re- marked, turning from the glass, ‘a good make-up goes a great distance in this business, and some raen, although born between acts, as ons might say, pever learn the act. I’m a villainously bad sctor—I know it—but I believe this is what I draw my little old fifty dollars a week salary for. wissen AR ————— A Thief and His Pal Two young men sat directly in front of me, and were conversing together in low tones, They were undersized, aud dressed in flashy clothes of and their whole aspect unwholesomely repulsive, *Sheeny's coming week,” said one, 'n a half for doin’ flim-flam, Patsey was collared for doin’ the faint act, 'n’ he's down in Centre street now, playin’ eheckers with his nose, They open up at No. 16 in a few days—just got the word from head- quarters last nignt, Most of the gang has lay-outs of their own, but I always carry a pill in my pocket.” Does the reader gsther any information from that, I will translate it In the first placa, these chaps were thieves. Oae Lad evidently been away from the ecity—possibly enjoyin the hoepitality of the State—aud his pal was telling him what had occurred during his absence, It seemed that their mu- tual friend, Sheeny, had ‘‘come down .- In other words he had returned from Sing Sing. E11 had been sentenced to three years sud a half imprisonment for doing *‘flim-flam.” cents, and laid down a $20 bill. While the slorekesper was getting out the change, the expert engaged him in con- versation, and, just as the change Was in his pocket, The coin he threw o2 handed back the change, minus & large from it, The exploit is described as the “faint short Patsey’s career of freedom, is sim- ple. One man goes into a saloon aod faints, or has an epileptic fit, the latter being oousiderad the more artistic, While the bartender is giving restora. Pat- say is now in Centre street—that is 30 oe ridor through the grated door. thus pressed his face close to the grat- ing, and stick his \are interstices between the iron bars, he was playing checkers with his nose, fie mentioned No. 10 was an which closed, The plsce had enjoyed *‘pro- teotion,” as it is called, Of paid the po- lice officials so much a mouth, in Te timely warning when & hen 18 woulda be These thieves are nearly nVerss- tion intimeted that several of them had their own lay-cuts,” or ths neces utensils, The **pili” that ine fellow car- he gratified to a extent his craving for a pipe. aalfe 10 open. i s—— EI ———— Beauty's Abode in Persia. the garden aliotied to the auderun is walled off and the entrance is secured by a heavy door, none of the ad- The portion of i 3 and are not even free lo come and go at will. The harems sre governed by the strictest discipline; the door is jealously guarded by a eunuch, an oid snd trusted se vant of the shah, upon whom de- volves the duty of superintending the royal female establishment. In this in- alosure are the living rooms of the la- dies; those of the favorite are spacions and comfortable, with several windows of colored glass looking onto the gar- den. Tuese colored windows do a great deal towards tempering the austerity of the bare white walls and soften the glare of the sun, There is no flooring but the earth, but this is and, when occupied, is covered by straw mats, over which again earpets or felt are spread, ‘I'he other rooms are small and entirely innocent of the smallest attempt at decoration. This simphoity forms a» marked contrast to those re- served for his majesty; the primitive white walls, in a country where orna- mentation is the rule, have a severe jook, and the plaioness even ssvors of parsimony, Even obairs are considered a superficial luxury, but are replaced y an occasional wooden benon placed against the walls, Such 18 the abode of royal beauty. Here, too, there is water in sbundance, streams intersect the garden, “And cheer the springing plant and opening flower,” or terminate in large oblong, sheets of water, which relieve the dryness of the atmo These tanks, when clear, reflect the surrounding objects as clearly as a polished mirror, bat they siten share the fate of most things in Persia, and suffer from the negleot of pot being occasionally , the bottom of the basin becoming overrun with weeds and aguatio plants, These tanks have flights of steps down to the water, whioh are much by frogs A Strange Story. ——————————— A romantic and interesting story comes from Brockton, Piymouth county, Mass,, of which the following is » sum- mary: Over thirty years ago Leouard Poole,a young msn of Holbrook, Mass. , said good-bye to his his wile and infant daughter and started for Jalifornis, saying that he should not return until he had made his fortune, The wife hesad frequentiy from the wanderer snd received remittances, Years passed, and still the husband remained separa- ted from his family, Iu the hope of bettering his condition Mr Poole went from one Biate to au- other, following the occupation of a miner. In bis letters he emphasized the fact that he should not return to | the home of his youth until he had | amassed a sufficient fortune fo provide | for his family comfortably during the | remainder of their lives, The daughier in course of time became the wife of tn HA A A NS About a year ago since Mrs. Poole died at the residence of her daughter, Some two monthg ago Mr, Poole de- | cided to return to his home, and, secret- ing about his person all his wealth, | which is supposed to have been quite | large, he started to make the journey | While the train on which he was a pas- | senger was crossing the plains it was | captured by a gang of robbers, Among | their victims was Poole, and every cent | of his hard earned money, upon which | he had depended to make his last days | somfortable, was taken from him, snd | it was in motion, moved him to a piace of shelter and { eared for him, | as he recovered from Lis | Poole made kaown his story, aud the | Masons of the place decided to send { him home, that, while at times be acted strangely, | he was prepared for the journey,snd on | the day he started a letter was forward. ! | i | od to Mr. Hayden naming the time Boston. he letter did not resch Hay- | den until a day or two after the time f bis father-in-law's arrival, when he once went to Boston. 1t is ascertained that Poale reached | that ety, but there all trace of him fos | the time was lost. The attention of the | police was called to the matter, at | was learned that Poole had been found | sourt as a vagrant, and sent to the State Workhouse at Bridgewater, Mr, Hay- { den visited that jnstitution and found | his father-in-law, The proper sleps to | now at his daughter's Brookville, tered, but is improving A Bad ramily Mix The case pany vs, Bamiel Haley, which was { argued and submitted to the Court of Appeals at Frankford, Ky., is one of the strangest cases tual has eve the Court for adjudication. The appeal is from Bracken county and involves an | estate worlh upwards of £40,000, Thomas Haley died inteziate in 1883 He had two wives living and one dead. By Martha, his first wife, he bad five children; by his second and dead wife | be had four children; snd by his third | he had six. | ehildren to the first wife the husband | | on the ground of infidelity, and a decree | ju acorrdance therswilh was ren | by the Court in 1547. He then married { his second wife, but lived illicitly with | his first wife, by whom he became the | father of Margaret, who became his 3 i | granted. | first wife had the divorce proceedings i aside and the case reopened for | net | further hearing, but noting thereafter suit 10 a termination, and the case was | finally filed in the coadil | statement of the first wile's marital { relations, Subsequently when the | daughter Margaret arrived at years of mother’s consent, | Ihe children of the first marriage | also claim to be heirs-at-law, which the | ehildren of the other two marriages re- | gist, on the ground that is cannot be | proved that their father was at any | time the lawful husband of Martha Haley. The children of the second mar- riage clam to be the only heirs of the | deceased, because the third marriage was unnatural and therefore void. Both of the issues of the latter marriages are equally interested in proving the ille- gitimacy of the first, otherwise the first would be held the only heirs-at-law, and the two last offsprings of bigamous developed of a daught prove herself of illegiti thereby recover y at the expense of her reputation and that of her mother, who is aso her mother-in-law, er attempting to The Tuhuantepec Ship Railway. ———— The made im cessions ment of Mexico bas Iately portant additions to the con eretofore granted to the Te pusatepeo ship railway. Mexico guar antees the net revenue of the company to the extent of $1,250,000 per anoum for fifteen years after lhe of gives the company the k for additional gaarantees nts {0 the extent per annum, or a total ol being 4 per cent. on §93,- Queer Orders oy Deg» “The run ou cough medicines has begun,” remarked the proprietor of a corner drug swore to a reporter the other avening, **and it is time to put away the cholera mixtures, We drug- | gists have to change our supplies fre- quently to meet the changes in de- mand, as one season follows sunother. Of course, some drugs always are in demand, such ss quinine, opium and potash, Those drugs are kgown to us as ‘‘base” drugs, because they are used as the base of nearly all the pre- scriptions, Physicans usually write the | names of severs! condiments along with | the active drug, thus givin the preserip- tion quite a formidable appearance 10 the uninitiated, Bometimes a physician will write the name of the drug which | he wishes to have es the base ol a pre- | seription with tolerable clearness and | then make some tilegible scrawls which | the intelligent druggist will trausiabe, | ‘season as you like,’ Few of a drug- | gist’s difficulties are chargeable to the regular physician. Most druggist have | to undertake the res ponsibility of pre- | seribing for customers, Every hour or | 80 some person comes in 0 describe | the location and violence of hus pains in | order to get relief. Ten to one have | ordinary troubles which a druggist can | heal as well as not, aud they get for a | tow cents what would cost dollars if | they consulted ; physiciaas, jut the | extra one may have only the prelimi- | nary symptoms of a serious disease, { and his experiments with a druggist, | who hes no medical training, may re- sult disastrously. “Yon would be surprised st the | number of puzzling orders for druge | which come to a drug store, Persons | who are not good spellers hear the pame of some medicine and afterwared | forget the exact sound. When they want to use that particular medicine they try to spell it from sound ss they | remember it, Most druggists are able | to tell what is wanted st a glance, Or a few questions to the bearer of the order, such ss ‘what is this wanted for?’ | will solve the mystery. I have kept in | my drawer some curious orders that | have been sent here within a month, Jast glance sat these and see if you can decipher all of them.” | Several scraps of paper, on which were scrawls of various degrees of ngli- | ness, were luid before the reporter. Quze | woman, who was more familiar with a | broom handle than with a pen, wanted | oxalic acid *‘to take off stanes,” but she wrote “sxiflick ssid.” The order ‘‘for | Mrs, Mulcare, 5 sense with si Peter,” | was plammly meant for saltpetre; a de- mand for “to McCarthy pils” puzzled the scribe until be thought of cathartic piils; but the call for a **bolie of Sed- erate for Canstiffners’” was given up 8s too hard for the reporter t The druggist langhed it was an easy one, The man who sent it only wanted a bottle of citrate of magnesia, i { r } BOIVE, i said t al cms History of a Famous Diamond. The “Orlov” diamond adorning the | imperial scepter of Rassia has a TO- | mantio history, It first formed in its rough state the eye of an idol, and was stolen by a Frenchman who sold it to a Hebrew merchant in Persia for $1 0, 000, | The Shah, having learned of the rob- | bery, and that the thief was trying to sell the gem, determined to arrest the man and seize the dismond, probably for the purpose of keeping it himself, possibly of resioring i% to its owner. | Thed ewish merchant, becoming alarmed transferred the diamond to an Arme- | pian for $60,000, who knew that if he could get it to Si. Petersburg, the rich and famous Catharive would buy it of him st a handsome advance, The trouble was to hide it about his person so that it conld not be discovered. Ba- ing too large for him to swallow, he | made a deep incision in the calf of his e stone and sewed up the | wound with silver thread. When the cut had healed sufficiently to aliow the removal of the wire, he began his | travels toward Raasia, In the mean aad unknown to him, the stone | had been traced to the Jewish merchant and fron him to an Armenian. Bo | when he boldly proclaimed himself an | Armenian to the Shah's frontier offic | fale, he was at onoe arrested and im- prisoned. Strong emetics were admin | istered, but no diamond came to light, | He was stripped baked, plunged into a hot bath, and then examined from head to foot, with no better success. Evens little torture was tried, but the man was firm, and in the end he was bundled aupceremomonsly over the frontier, | whence he reached (he capital of Russia, He wanted £200,000 tor his | &ismond, but the Empress had only | 100,000. So be took it to Amsterdam | to bave it cut. Here Count Orlov saw | it and determined to buy it for his mis- tress, this same Empress. He gave $350,000 for it, an anouity of 2,000 rubles a year, and a patent of nobility. The Armenian became through various {avestments a millionaire, | jez, inserted th | dime, 3 i SRE Variable Stars ————— The brightness of some stars varies periodieally, more { called variable stars being ko many more are “suspected WV The periods range from a few days © many cars, The variation is usually slight, bat is very marked in the Cases of Algol and Alira, the former star alt- Hei if ¥ i H EZ3 § Ex
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