Hymn to the Mountain.
Within the hollow of thy band—
This wooded dell half up the height,
Where streams take breath mid-way in
flight—
Here Jet me stand.
Here warbles not a lowland bird,
Here are no babbling tongues of men;
Thy rivers rustling through the glen,
Alone are heard.
Above no pinion cleaves its way,
Save when the eagle's wing, as now,
With sweep imperial shades thy brow,
Beetling and gray.
The happy vapors, where they lie,
Look upward to thy blues intense,
And in the glory scattered thence,
Worship and die,
Thive is serenity complete;
Tem pests and thunders jar below,
And rain-drops curve their radiant bow
Even at thy feet.
Wiint thoughts ar» thine, majestic peak?
And moods that were not born to chime
With poets’ ineffectual rhyme,
Aud numbers weak?
The green earth spreads thy gaze before,
And the unfailing skies are brought
Within the level ol thy thought,
There is no wore,
The stars salute thy ragged crown
With syllables of twinkling fire, |
Like ctioral burst irom distant choir
Their psalm rolls down,
And i, within this temple niche, |
Like status set where prophets talk, |
Catch strains they murmer as they walk, |
Aud I am rich. |
MYSTERY OF HOLLY HOUSE.
THE
In the romantic and pi turesque re-
vion of the White Mountains stands a
large, fine hotel, which was the
popular resort for miles around for tour-
ists and boarders, whom
beauty and healtl the place
brought to that vicinity.
Holly House was known far and near
as furnishing
the most ua
greatest amou
of any hotel in or about the
Holly House stands
deserted gloomy and
famong
around it ¢l
Once
summed uid
thiuiness ol
best accommodations,
the
t of pleasure excursions,
place, Yet
to-day emptied and
forbidding —
jO) hotels; for
ers the horrors of a mys- |
i Can
he
courteous attention and
ot
i
yous sister
not be forgot-
In
vy House
usual
follows:
i was
number of
Among
Hunter,
and
more
wealthy and fashionable guests,
James
2
eairice
Trix. as she was called by
intimate friends, was al
wenty-t . rather
I » and attractive in
manner. heo, on the contrary, was a
ys beauties Of
one cannot tire beauty made of rip-
3 that came
changing
ging
and spring-
hree or four
whom
pling smiles,
and went
face, and the
ing ste
Y es, Theo was a
come, creatur
p of unconscious, hagpy girlhood.
glad, always wel-
, a universal favorite, the
er for her ever ready and
0
i i
the old for the
voung lovin
taal
genial
or
Spirits, sweet
t and ki
arked her intercourn
And vet on th
1.1 full tha reibile tragedy of
EINE AAR LINC REL E2AIS tfageay UL
Sr
is sweet and
oe tr toonith
NEL neileentt
rT
11
rirl hot IV
MEAL Uy en given &
» both present:
fond of dan
ball room
bv ensconced in a corner
voung Harry Ga: warned
the nd advised her
i elder-sisterly manner, to re- |
dner,
lateness of the hour, a
in a kind,
tire.
Theo promised to obey in five minutes
so Trix left her and retired to her own |
FOOL,
The five minutes had lengthened into
a half hour when Theo came up stairs |
humming gayly.
“Good-night, Trix!” she cried, rap-
ping lightly on her sister’s door as she |
passed.
“Good-night, Theo!”
sponse; then Theo passed down the hall
to her own room, and Trix heard the
door shut and fastened behind her,
In the morning Trix was late at
breakfast; but late as it was Theo was
still later, and not having yet appeared |
below stairs, Ten o'clock came and |
passed, and the half hour had rung
from the parlor clock, when Trix, grow- |
ing uneasy, rapped at the door of her |
gister’s room. No response greeted her |
summons. Growing thoroughly alarm- |
ed, she called for aid and demanded that |
the door be forced.
It was done, and the sight which met |
their eves was horrible to witness, i
Theo was sitting before the dressing-bu- i
vreau. her hair hanging about her shoul-
ders, quite dead. The expression of her |
face was one of unspeakable horror; the |
eves were starting from their sockets, |
and about the fair, white neck were the |
marks of eight fingers showing how poor |
Theo had met her death, Her dress had |
been removed-—evidently before any- |
thing had occurred to disturb her as it |
was carefully turned wrong side out and |
laid across a chair, beneath which stood |
the little white shoes. Upon one foot |
was found a black slipper from which |
the buckle and bow were missing; the |
other slipper could not be found. No |
sign of a struggle could be seen. The
murderer had probably stolen upon his
vietum as she sat before the mirror
brushing her hair, and the deathgrip
was upon her throat when she first saw |
his face in the glass,
Nothing of value was missing as far
as could be determined, though at the
other end of the room were several arti-
cles taken from a drawer in a table, a
féather torn to shreds, some lace, a pair
of gloves, and also the missing bow of
the slipper, with its buckle broken in
half, and the hair-brush which the dead
girl would seem to have been using.
The door-the only door in the room-—-
was found as before stated, securely
locked, and both windows were closed,
though not fastened.
A noted doctor examined the body
i
was the re-
and decided that the unfortunate girl
must have met her terrible fate within
an hour after going to her room-—that
is, about two o’clock,
Then skilled detcetives were sent for,
who thoroughly examined the room, but
were unable to find the slightest clue
to the mystery. No theory as to the
way the murderer left the room could be
given. No human being could scale a
smooth perpendicular of forty feet with
nothing to give a foothold, and nothing
save a flag-pole ten feet distant was
there to afford the slightest help.
Trix, being sworn, testified to
has already been stated,
Harry Gardner swore that he had sat
what
could not tell exactly
how late—thouzht about one o’clock, it
might have been later, Theo had re-
fused to remain longer; had bidden him
good-night, and ran up stairs humming
as she went.
till a late hour
went down
the left toward his own room,
while Theo ran up the hall to the right
and up another flight of states,
to her in his life.
Mr. Rowland was sworn,
of the nineteenth. Saw Miss Hunter
could not hear
i judge it was
but
} i1
1011
heard them laugh,
their conversation; 8
it
iv
looked at my watch;
Was near enough to
the voung lady as she
up stairs;
up stairs;
after one, touch
RAW
started to heard
or 1s 1
gO up a
landing,
ond flight singin
first hall,
run up the sec-
3
vey (OY
y ro dow
then heard her
rr. and n the
In vain did cleve
discover some cl
some motive whi i
detection of the guilt
weeks passed and
Poor Theo
grave, and Trix a
Oowiul Lh
none Was
more opened
- h
el
|
la tragedy
Ww
Were opened,
1 « ent
wked and grie
tt + all eh x
aller adi she was
he
sl
where
ame
“Yes; all but Banjo;
“But how do
Gardner.
“Well, I raise my o
ters.’ was the reply; and I
village once in a
need,’
“And vour son;
with you?"
“Oh, with a grin. J
goes about twice a year, so 1 lock
up when I go. He's a
But I'll git
You
while for
does ie
only
Banio
little peculiar,
vou something
yes,’
With the best intentions
recluse set about providing
of his guest, baking a hoe cake with
con and potatoes with
cleverness,
After his guest had done ample justice
to the humble but welcome fair, the old
man seated himself upon a rude
gan to talk:
1s¢¢1 to be a circus performer,” he
neatness and
“yx
said,
on me arter the old woman died; things
not seem cheerful like, So Banjo
and me concluded to slide, 1
have no friends ‘cept Banjo, and so we
wasn’t missed much,
show you my boy.”
small outer room, and presented Harry,
to his great astonishment, to a gigantic
ape chained in the corner,
“Ie was a mighty clever performer!
Could jump farther than any ape I ever
seed!
tricks, and always found him straight
and square mister,
of folks; but I've dropped ‘em all; I
don't even read a paper any more—1'm
sick of humans and their doin’s, and I
steer away from ‘em; I hain’t got no
troubles no more—me and Banjo hain’t!
I'm satisfied!
“About a vear ago.” he continued,
after they had returned to the main
room, “I thought I'd lost Banjo for
good. I had to go to the village, and I
left Banjo shut up at home, Wall, when
I got back, he was gone. I hunted all
over, but I couldn't find him no where,
About three in the morning he came
home, looking sly and viclous-——more so
than I ever seen him; and what do you
think he brought? You'd never guess,
See here!”
Opening the table<lrawer hie drew out
ga little black slipper with a velvet
bow and steel clasp
Harry Gardner gazed at the little shoe
in mute horror, for in it"he recognized
the missing mate to the one found in
Theo Hunter's room. Here, then, was
the mystery solved, here the murderer
in the shape of a loathsome animal, irre-
sponsible for the deed.
The secret was never made knows,
No good could possibly come from
making public the discovery. Gardner
told the story to his host, whose hermit-
like life had prevented his hearing of it,
and warned him of the necessity of
guarding well so dangerous a creature.
grave,
row in their distant home, never guess-
ing the secret of that terrible night at
Hol'y House,
—lp > >
STAMPED ENVELOPES,
Nearly $00,000,000 Required---One
A special despatch from Washington
says: Third Assistant Postmaster Gen-
| for bids for making stamped envelopes
for the next four years. On
every four years these bids are adverti-
sed for, and the competition Is more
ment makes, For twelve years
Company of Springfield, Mass, have had |
the making of stamped envelopes,
the Government began in 1851
stamped envelopes there has
t required
steady
ford, Conn., and the Morgan Envelope
increase in the
eaeh vear,
1 vears been selling
than all
Last
pes, 1 $5.773,000, were sold, |
every letting the size of the con-
: price of enve
Envelopes
thousand can nu
thousand, ane
then
alnoun
ment has
more
he (xovern
severu
opes otl producers com-
bined.
envy
sar 270,000,000 stamped
ith
tract inc
reduced.
1:1
sid tor £1.80 per
ize which
letior size W
i
id for $2.40,
Bidders are req:
HN) (NK) that
ne 18 eXIgen .
adden d®mand came up
ild not meet the
the Postmaster General |
and buy, 1
i
S00,
v $A :
tractor co
$ ¥ iy - ¥ vl $
to go into open INAarsel i
this way
some firms ‘ at uu pr
Postmaster General Vilas has inserted a
clause in the contract this'vear by which,
if he is compelled to go into the open
market, and
above the contractor's bid shall be de-
i ducted from what is him on his
contract,
~
all excess in jpwice over
ue
is
Facts About Fires,
A diagram graphically showing the
known causes of fire and the proportion
i they bear to the whole number of fires
which have occured inthe United States
during the past year has been issued by
a New York insurance company. A
i large segment of a circle, more than
one-fourth of the whole represents fires |
| attributed to incendiarism. Another
interesting feature of the diagram is the
proportion allotted to fires which in in-
| surance circles are of preventable origin,
| In this is not included incendiarism,
. Next to incendiarism, the most fruit-
| ful source of fire is the defective flue.
Startling as it may seem, these two
| causes equal almost all the others in the
space they occupy on the diagram, |
| Among the other sources of fire which
are given prominence are: Explosions
{of lamps and lanterns, carelessness, |
| lightning, matches, sparks, and spon- |
| taneous combustion. No mean burden |
is placed on “tramps,” while fire works
i and fire crackers have almost as much
to answer for, ‘‘Ashes’ do not show
up as prominently as “‘stoves and stove |
pipes,” but they have cansed more de-
struction of property than ‘‘gas jets.’ |
“Cigar stubs’’ destroyed as much in val- |
ue a8 “furnaces,” and almost rank with
“prairie and forest fires” in annihilating |
national wealth.
The major portion of preventabie
fires, the circular states, could have
been prevented with reasonable pru-
dence and foresight, To this end these
suggestions are made:
Good foundations and careful point-
ing of joints inside and outside of flues;
the use of metal receptacles for matches
used and unused; the use of high-grade
oils in lamps; substituting ‘‘thoughtful-
ness’ for ‘‘carelessnessy’’ burning
greasy, oily or paint rags to prevent
spontaneous combustion, and numerous
other minor attentions to seemingly
trivial things,
LEGAL ANECDOTES,
Wise, Witty and Pungent Sayings of
Bench and Bar.
The writer remembers hearing of a
gentleman who, not wishing to pay the
legal and recognized fee for a consulta-
tion with his lawyer, devised an expedi-
ent whereby he expected to gain the in- |
formation he required without the usual
cost. He accordingly invited the man
“earned in the law” to dine at his
house on a particlar evening, as a friend
and old acquaintance. The lawyer
and at-
i
his friend and |
client promptly to the minute The |
was very |
and by it the |
the house of
and agreeable,
ing, at last drew the lawyer out into a |
learned and explicit dissertation upon |
the subject the host wished to be in-
formed upon, The client, pleased, sat-
isfied, and smiling, chuckled in
sleeve, thinking how nicely he
wormed out the advice desired
imped his lawyer free of cost,
The feast over, the lawyer departed, |
his |
had |
and
fied, all went merry as a marriage bell. |
3ut a few days aferward the client re- |
ceived a letter from his lawyer inform-
consultation and advice was 13 shillings |
and 4 pence, and would he “kindly at- |
1 to the payment of same at his
jest convenience and bl n
Ww
being determined
tend ear- |
5 Ol re
i1d
1d
3 i
fed
il
the 16th inst, ,
witle the Inclosed bill he
1 1 . “01 Fig ty 4 ett
too pleased and happy to sell
The ay
HIE BAN
COMInen
this manifesto
we grimly replied
mbted alibi as
alibi wag sometime
"
‘ *
A 43114 x . x . ¥ .
cessfully proved io an Amen
oH
y 1
HG
ey RIM
Wa Su
i
court
1
as follow
“ And vou sav you are innocent of the
x Mr.
Jones?’ que ried the Judge.
“Yes sir; Lam it
as a child.”
“You are confident you did not
the rooster from Mr. Jones,”
“Yes, sir; and I can prove it,”
“How can you prove it?"’
“I can prove that I didn’t steal Mr.
Jones® rooster, Judge, because I stole
two hens from Mr. Graston 1 same
night, and Jones lives five miles from
Graston’s, .
“The proof is conclusive,” said
Judge, “discharge the prisoner,”
It is said that the other day a client
received the following bill from his law-
ver: “Attending and asking you how
vou did, 6 shillings 8 pence; attending
you on the pier when you desired me to
Jook through a piece of smoked glass, 6
shillings 8 pence; Yooking through the
same, 6 shillings 8 pence; rubbing my
eye, which watered, 13 shillings 4 pence;
tnocent--as mn
he
the
thereof, 6 shillings 8 pence; consulting 1
and asking my opinion thereon, when 1 |
said they were very good, 6 shillings 8
pence.’ Most probably the client treated
this as a joke, or perhaps it drove him |
to extremities, i
“(yentlemen of the jury,” said a coun- |
sel in a suit about a herd of hogs, “‘there |
thirty-six |
jogs; just exactly three times as many
not win his case,
pig-headed,
“Gentlemen of the jury,” sald an
Irish barrister, “It will be for you to
say whether this defendant shall be
allowed to come into court with un-
blushing footsteps, with the cloak of
hypoerisy in his mouth, and draw three
bullocks out of my client's pocket with
impunity.”
Ve have heard of several cases of
female ingenuity in aiding the escape of
prisoners; Here is one: fine criminals
were handeuffed, and with their escort
were awaiting the train which would
convey them to the county jail. Sud-
denly a woman through the
crowd of spectators with a shower of
The jury were not so
tears, and erfed out: “Kiss me good-by,
ps TI GH5.
undid the “bracelets,” and
while the train was in motion,
There is a girl who seems
father for breach of promise!
plains that the old gentleman first
his consent to her marriage with her
lover and then withdrew it, and that in
consequence her beau got tired of wait-
ing and has gone off with another girl
“Prisoner at the bax
to a man on his trial for murder, "is
there anything you wish to say before
sentence is passed upon you” “Judge
‘“‘there has
much said already.
all along somebody would
if these people didn’t keep thei
It might as well be me,
perhaps, as anybody Drive
altogether
knew
hurt
too
§
Oli,
as you can get I can stand
along O65,
———
THE ART OF FINDING.
Keeping His Eyes Upon the
Pavement,
111 ¥ 1 (11 ¥
fueer-100King
x
Wri
you can
¢ to talk, he
sald a
pointing out a
often
newspaper
4 that
4 that
Mav g¢
policeman fo
ve YOu a
ive you a
“a
the reporter
reporter,
. :
man wioimn
seen oitering
offices as 1
had
he |
editor 8 and
teps h
Wl 4
porters, Om positors
their ard
probably about 45, altho
o
y ocpd
r-beaten look ol |
Hew
+1
than he
older
figure
Teas
was bent form
8, and his
the pavement as
Were
eves
aiong.
“tho' ‘taint
verance or the gift
>
THE STRAUSS BROTHERS.
of Masi.
the Trio
cians,
Something About
A writer says: 1 bear that Johann
Strauss is about to embody the musical
reminiseencesof his youth inanopera, the
leading motivi of which are to be revi-
vals of dance-tunes composed by him
when he was a lad, studying engineering
against his will, His boyhood, as well
as that of his brothers, Joseph and Ed-
was spent under the roof that
sheltered his rnowned father, whom,
however, he seldom saw; for his parents
had separated, and for many years lived
in different the same house,
the Strauss boys having been judicially
assigned to their mother’s care. All
developed remarkable musical
ability at an early age, and, when st ill
in round jackets, were familiar figures
in several musical saloons of Vienna,
they constantly played their
father's compositions, and
their own. Their musical
stories of
feats,
it struck him
day as absurd and unnatural that he
should be about the only musician in
any of his own sons’ compositions.
who occupled apartments above
that he would esteem it a favor if she
would permit his sons to pay him a
visit.
Tiis request was granted at once, and
the three boys were ushered into their
father's presence, But strange to say,
the “Waltz King"’ (as the Viennese had
christened Strauss the elder) had no
siano-forte in his rooms. What was to
w done? After some hesitation he de-
cided upon sending another message up-
stairs to Mamma Strauss to lend him
her piano for an hour or two, Present
ly down came the piano, and the boys
began to play—first their father’s music
and their own, The old man’s delight
was unbounded; he embraced them over
and over again, gave them his blessing
and then sent them back to their
mother, together with the piano and his
“compliments and thanks,
Knowledge may be power, but the
dancing man can give the Greek pro-
fessor points, and then double-discount
hd ——
pg om per
FROM GARRET TO PALACE.
&
A Poor Detroiter Falls Herr to an
Immense Fortune,
In a few poorly furnished rooms in
the upper story of an old, dilapidated
brick build the northwest corner
of Abbott and Sixth ts, Detroit,
lives an old man named Peter Kavan-
agh, his wife and daughte: Up toa
few days ago they considered themselves
the wheel
themsel
ing on
sLied
fortune they now find
grown suddenly rich,
Mr. Kavanagh
Ireland, in 1824
had besides hin
ter, Mary Ann. J
Kavanagh marrie
for America, ies and fain-
ily in Ireland meantime
sister's beauty had at cledythe
e
Dublin,
parents, who
utiful daugh-
20 young
1
rn in
1855 sail
his
atten
tion of a wealthy lady, who @ngaged hex
as waiting maid and t
tended tour throngh
The brother
{ her on an ex-
id countries,
ind sister thus became sep-
empioy-
r a4 travel-
Mister
Ty y
The voung man 1 found
Liere i
ihe
worked for
to
al
il
'
in
maones
ir Arny
and Iu
Sines
send for |
they s
Aec-
isinent,
10 do
harder
< meet,
when
fol a
up
the
rked
April
4
Ig
i 1.08 don,
arv hKav-
n Kavan-
~YUney.
wl
left
Carn
ing to Cam-
iy yre
ales, Aus
ars
111
ived
SUPPIess
douint
i recs
that
ip
esc
Sister ee
much benefit
and espe
pled dau
vantage
settling of 1
law
pects to |
months,
— a
Why the Organ was Locked.
made
» introduction of
net orgal The mother conld
here was a ‘“‘popu-
** included in the
purchase, no time in getting
every note and stop into practice. The
organ groaned and wheezed and com-
lained with the most astonishing of mu-
night and day, day and night for a
week. Then one morning there was a
knock at the door, and a little girl from
The other day a hous hold was
proud and happy by
a cab
play a little,
$
ar collection of
Li
and as 1
musi
she lost
SIC,
“Please marm, mother wants to know
lend her your music book 7°?
request, nase
next door was
After gasping
organist ask-
This was a surprising
much as the woman
“What does she want of it?
The child hadn't been loaded for this
question, so she strayghiforwardly re-
plied:
“1 don’t know, I'm sure, only I heard
mother tell father that if she had hold
of the book for a day or two mébbe
somebody could get a rest.”
The woman softly shut the door in the
little girl's face, and went and carefully
Jocked the cabinet organ with a brass
key,
on da 5
Statemen's Ages
Somebody who las figured on the
subject gives the ages of our own most
distinguished public men as follows:
Simon Cameron leads in point of years,
He is eighty-seven. Morrill is seventy.
six: Edmunds, fifty-eight; “Pig Iron™
Kelley, seventy-two: Randall, fifty.
eight; McKinley, forty-two; John Sher
man, sixty-three; Lamar, sixty-one;
Tom Reed, forty-seven; Blaine, fift
six; Cleveland forty-nine; Carlisle, Any
one; Beck, sixty-four; Ingalls, fifty
three: Holman, sixty-four; Schurz, fif
Seven} V onrhdes; fifty-nine; Mornson
xty-one; Logan, sixty; Bayard, hftys
six; Hawley, sixty; Garland, fifty-four,
and Sunset Cox, sixtydawo,