| A— At the Smelting Furnace. The furnace lifts its walls of black, A stubborn bulk from end to end; And through the grimy chimney stack Oontinual flame and smoke ascend; The night comes down with wind and ball, A shelving cloud, an icy rain; The timbers creak in every gale, The tempest howls at every panel Delicious core of rosy heat, Alluring shelter, huge and warm, To beggars drenched in snow and sleet, The drifting outcasts of the storm! At that wide door rude shapes appear In ono thick swirl of humming snow; With mirth and jest and savage cheer The hours of darkness come and gol No cover this for chosen friends, No happy roof of man and maid; A chimney hot for larger ends, A heart for ruder purpose latdl All night their sweltering fires are fad, Their mighty bellows roar again, Who keep thy dusky forges red, With brawny labor serving men. ack-browed idlers, straggling in, hardy miners, tough and tall, I'he knotty foreman, seared of skin, This generous roof receives them all. The voices rise, the men retreat, i us clamor strikes the town, Jite with overpowering heag, The b Alle ETS —— CONISTON’S COURTSHIP. there came Bradford! ellow for an American. ord knew her. it Bradford, and allowed and gave him her apitall Bradt she smiled him to sit beside her, wrap to hold, An Bradford held her wrap, and they Jl went off the boat together in th friendliest sort of fashion, with the maid after them with and £ vrrbti rotting satchels dogs. No. he had always had a special aver- sion for that Bradford! And as for small women. with short hair, dressed in| brown—well, his disgust for them : not to be measured by any language, Neve rithels as wilily ar- gued with himself, ‘a man must fill up his time: so, in an off-hand way he just intimated to Bradford that he didn’t care—if the opportunity offered—if he | lid introduce him to Mrs, Waddle and | wer niece, Miss Grey. Bradford was apparently magnani- | nous: besides. he had never presented ut carl to Miss Grey before—and he did he deed with satisfaction to himself at cast, Miss Cirev bowed slowly to Coniston, | ind then she. turned her attention toa | troup of lady friends sitting near, leav- | ing Coniston to the agreeable knowledge | that he was at liberty to salute her the | next tine he met her on the piazza or | the corridor. It didn’t satisfy him. Heo went off and smoked, a cigar, and sonjured up Cicely in the fragrance of the Havana. Even Cicely did not seem to be as | somplete a boon as he had fancied she ought to be, For five days he wandered up and down, and round and round the hotel, | ‘lounging.’ he called it; but the correct | term to describe these peregrinations | would be--politely chasing Polly Grey. Finally he beheld her alone, Neither aunt no» Bradford nor friends—Heaven be praised !—were anywhere about. He drow near the big rocker where she sat with a book in her lap; and sud- denly Coniston remembered that he should have to say someth beyond “good morning,” and for the first time in forty-one years he actually wondered what it should be. She spared him the attempt, and glancing, up, said: “Ah! good morning; you have been in town, I suppose ever since the day . Bradford presented you?” “Up in town!” This was too much, when he had followed her like a detect- ive the entire the was Coniston wl then he laughed, and his fair face flushed as he ventured to sit down on the piazza-step at her feet. Polly glan- ced down inquiringly, with steady, demure eyes. “No,” he cried. ‘Miss Grey, I've been most of the time about a yard and a quarter away from you; but you never seemed to see mel” “How strange!” Polly says, wonder- ingly. ‘Most people would have seen you, now, wouldn't they?’ “Women always have before,” sents with a sigh, “Then you must he as- have rejoiced mn a ant to an appetite jaded by sameness! “No,” he answer all. I'll tell you,” at her wide, clear eyes; ‘‘to be frank, I hate American women, and only one who ever inspired me with the slightest Coniston thing in his an unerring speech, “Well? she asks, sweetly and clearly, ‘ithe slightest,” The English language native tongue, but it fails him now; i the warm blood suffusing his face mind runs after he says, looking up S0OmMe- marks reckless short: there is listener's face that period in his tOD8 SLops Coniston’s he is there are implied than matter-of-fact th ur mute S60 better leaves her. Coniston nto the . silent. * he whispers, brokenly * she replies, softly, child!” ha, listen to me: I am a good-for-no sort of a fellow; I have had no religior no anything, until 1 have known you, and now you are my shrine, to me at your feet I should lay rare i flowers, ls—and all I dare lay there to-1 human 1 1 ores you jewels gh t—a human life, Polly,” he says, hea X lowly, stooping his blonde he ad to hers, i He sees her face a8 she upturns it the flare of the last lantern; it never seen it—pale stricken, “Well!” she says at last, a trifle matter of-fact. “Oh. I love you, my soul! my queen! [love you and need you,’ cried he, overcome by the sight of her pallor, “I know,” she apswers, quietly, “I appreciate, value your love; I would not have it otherwise; I should not have been disappointed always if you Lad not loved me, Ah!” burying her white ar And he had once thought this woman cold, superficial, unlikable. “My darling!” Coniston says, reach- “But,’”’ whispers the girl, drawing away into her silken wrap, ‘‘I—Il-—am engaged to be married to Eugene Brad- ford. I have been for two years!” Sir Campbell Frazer arrived from the west, The Arizona sailed on Tuesday, and both he and the earl of Coniston were booked on the passenger list, It was Monday night—*‘midsummer came again,’ people said, lounging on the piazzas of the big hotel—warm, sul- try, with great banks of blue-black clouds hovering above the golden rim of the west, Bradford was up in town, detained by business, as Coniston had discovered, Miss Grey was sitting at the corner of the piazza. He went to her for the first time since the night of the ball, “May I sit down?’ She looks up assentingly, “1 am going to-morrow in the Ari. zona. ’’ “1 know,’ she answers, whitening. He wonders v' i Rene pel him! he gets vu { away, when 4 he would rather far have taken the frail, little woman to his heart. Presently he saunters back. ‘Would you take a ride with me to- night? You know we shall never see each other again. Would you?” Her eyes flash, her lips quiver; she turns the ring on her finger back and forth. “Yes,” she says quietly, “I will on my hat and be down presently.” They ride off—into the green and silent country lanes where the dew damps the air, and where the scent of the homestead flower-garden mingles with the breath of the sea as it comes to them. They do not talk very much, nor yet ride fast. The twilight is gathering and the horses have their way. Suddenly it grows dark--the blue, black clouds have crept over all the get the harvest moon from sight. A flash—an instantaneous report, and Polly sees her lover stagger in his seat: his left arm falls powerless, struck for- She has her horse beside him in an in- lose to his while stant; she comes ¢ side She the pre takes up ands, and is upon them. n her se h WS "Do RA — — Things in the World. having an area of 32,000 g 0 feet, and Its surface is about level of the sea. The biggest cave IS son the Green River, about and twer ling Green. The cave ¢ cession of irregular cha which are levels, $v 5 ILy-€1 large, situated on ¥ some of these are traversed by Echo River. Blind fish are found waters, nits mr om The Meanest Man at Last. The New York Woman's Club Sorosis receive regular pay for her as housekeeper, Women who have to implore their hus- bands regularly for money for current house expenses will be interested in the outcome of the debate, A country lady tells the following story, which seems to prove that the meanest man has been found at last : “One day I was shopping in our vil- lage store. A nervous, hesitant little woman who was buying a few things, with her husband at her elbow ready to pay for them, so that she might not even touch ‘his’ money turned shyly to her lege lord and said : * “There's one thing I must have that I didn’t put down on the list. 1 forgot it.’ “Forgot it. Umph! man; ‘what is it ?’ A paper of pins.’ “Another paper of pina! Well, 1 swan! Where's the paper I bought you last summer ?*’ This story is absolutely true, Services growled “the -- By putting pure olive oll into a clear glass bottle and inserting some strips of sheet lead, rd exposing the bot. tle to the sun’s action for two or three weeks, a lubricant which will neither guin nor corrode is formed, which is es- pasaally licable to watches and all machi The cldar oil, poured Suretully from the bottle, is ready for use, course the clondy sediment is rejected. i i i i i { i i TRAINING WILD ANIMALS. No Great Danger—Well-fed Animals Aro Not Savage. “Well, in the first case, most wild | animals are bred in captivity, and as much accustomed to the sight of man as a dog or a cat. But take the case of a wild tiger trapped in a jungle. Well, | the tiger is ferocious, chiefly when the | tiger is hungry. Ifa man has gota full- | grown tiger and sends it home from | India, he is not such a fool as to allow it | togo fasting all the way, The tigerisa | marketable commodity, which will fetch | £150 in the market, If you have got £150 in an animal you take care it does | not want its dinner. On the contrary | you give it as much as it will eat, in order to improve its condition that it will fetch a better price. The consequence is by the time the tiger has arrived in London from Calcutta he has got fat and lazy, He gets his meals regularly and has no disposition | to make a meal off you; hence you can approach him, and if you are patient and humor him and be firm with him | jet you can do what | Animals il imal fer by ki BO | turned, like with h alike: but can be over patience,”’ “How is it that 80 wious and here no ome spf er oro griormer gx vy, enters — Kindness to a Strange §% 1 Toad dun %§ i ILIOT] AS IW ir “what rend n him, sort of a place | looking for, anvhow?"’ “Hanged if I know. "”’ “What made you come?’’ “Well. 1 have a four week's vacation, vou know, and it seemed go off somewhere, ”’ “Well if I were you I'd take the next } shin § the thing WwW in my own doorvard.” guess I will, Yes, that seems the best plan. Please keep an eye on my traps until I can buy a ticket, and I can assure you I'm a thousand times obliged to you for your Kindness to a stranger. £ i scan The Eagle and its Prey. In hunting for their prey the eagle and his mate mutually assist each other, It | may be here mentioned that the eagles are all monogamous, keeping themselves to a single mate and living together in the most perfect harmony through their lives, Should however, one of them | die or be killed, the survivor is not long | left in a state of widowhood, but van- | ishes from the spot for a few days and | then returns with a new mate, It is a rather remarkable fact that, whereas the vultures feed their young by disgor- ging the food which they have taken in- to their crops, the eagles carry the prey to their nests and there tear it to pieces, and feed the eagles with the morsels, When in pursuit of its prey, it is a most audacious bird, having been seen to carry off a hare from before the noses of the hounds, It isa keen fisherman, catching and securing salmon and va- rious sea fish with singular skill. Some- times it has met with more than its match, and has seized upon a fish that was too heavy for its powers; thus fall ing a victim to its sporting propensities, Mr. Lloyd mentions several instances where eagles have been drowned by pouncing upon large pike, which car. ried their assailants under water and fairly drowned them, In more than one instance the feet of an eagle have been seen firmly elinched in the pike's back, the body of the bird having de- : anv ond fallon nwav A PIOUS CAPTAIN, A Joke play ed Upon the Comman- der of a Sloop of War, Captain T- r, of the slgop of war Concord, in the West India squadron, was a curious compound of humanity. Fanatically pious, nervous to a degree approaching actual hysteria, he kept his officers and crew half the time in mis One time the ship was nearing the port of Pensacola, and just at dawn the white sands of Santa Rosa Island were sighted close aboard to windward, The ¥ into the eabin to announce the fact, A minute more old T. rushed out of | the cabin half-dressed, gave one glance at the surf breaking shoreward a mile | way and shouted: “Oh merciful Lord t last here it 18 at las hore and no chance to cl all hands to prayers— call to prayers,’ It took the officer of the deck half an hour to persuade the old gander that there was no danger, that the wind was off in f shore, and that stead of ing for the Pensacola bar i 1 a i i Ws § | ail 3 i on he A Treaty on a H A Wiss correspond Repub » Francai the gs of the 2 tv . . Geos te . run H I PA we draft of sty between Napoleon. mutual assistance and the late Emperor dated Ham, June 25, 1884, and is not only signed “J.ouis Napoleon Bona- parte,” but written by him on a white gilk handkerchief in marking ink. treaty is in five articles, and the tracting parties are bound by an and their honor to observe it, In ret for the money which the German prin was to furnish the French one with escape from Ham and to restore the em pire, the latter was to aid the other to into the POSSESSION f vars it a constitution suited to its traditions age. A Napoleonic conspiracy was car- 8 ders On July es sworn to and written on a silk hand- kerchief. He answered the reminder in a short note thus worded, which was found pinned to that curious docu- ment: “I have received your letter, your demands. I beg you to believe in my sentiments of sincere amity. ~NAroLeox,” Bix weeks later the CMPeror was a Je soner of the Germans, and the duke of Brunswick on his way to Geneva. There are now on exhibition at the National Museum at Washi Nn more than five hundred varieties of the foods used by the Indian races. Varwus tests of the new French horseshoe, which is made entirely of sheep's horn, shows its value for horses used in towns and known to have an u foot on pavements. Horses thus shod have been driven at a rapid on pavements without ining. this advantage, it is to more durable and but a trifle more ex- menaiva than the ardinary horsashos All the Professions Hlindered for want of Men to Do the Work, Literature, like the ministry, medi- cine, the Jaw and all other occupations, is cramped and hindered for want of men to do the work, not want of work to do. When people tell you the re- verse they speak that which Is not true. If you desire to test this you need only hunt up a first-class editor, reporter, business manazer, foreman of shop, mechanic or artist in any branch of Industry and try to hire him. already hired. He is sober, industrious, capable and demand, He cannot get a day’s holiday except by courtesy of his eraployer, or of his 3 public, you need idlers, shirkers, half-instr ed, unambitious, and co iori-seexil mechanics apply anvwhere, There are Grop- I'he young literary aspirant is a very, He knows that wished to become a tinner U smith would require hum to ie possession of a good charac- iim to promise 16 shop three years—possi- would make him ng water and bulid if he 1 vould require ‘ BW fires ali EAD slow would ne vs. Isr rs $ Th 72% % In-shop Ww thout Hand to overthrov and decr AVES mage 4a OR 7 mao: gine that le alm was simply to count the money as rapidly ssible. Notso, A will take a pile of bills, tightly faster her by rubber bands, and as looseni as i ligh rquickly Ove - yf l h she has only such a part of the note for her guide, discover a counterfeit readily. relate a little incident which happened while the Seventh Regiment was in the city (Washington). Some of the boys, among them a paying teller from a New York bank, paid usa call, looking very elegant in thelr tasteful umforms, | They were engaged for several moments in watching the clerks count money in the manner described. Suddenly of the young women snapped a from the package which she wa ning over. After she had thrown aside 1n an apparently careless manner, I picked it up and handed it to the visi- tors for inspection. It was passed from one to another without eliciting any | special comment, Finally it reached the man whom 1 kuew to be a paying | teller. He examined it for a moment | and returned it to my possession with- | out a word, 1 asked him if he bad no- | taiced anything peculiar in regard to it. He replied in the negative. And yet 1t was an ingenious counterfeit, as the | experienced eye of the clerk had de- | tected the instant she had turned up a corner of it.” “Is it possible,” 1 asked, ‘fora nole to be so split in two as to show both sides of it intact?” - “Oh, yes, and it is very easily done | You procure a certain kind of gui and paste the note face downward to a piece of paper. Then you paste another piece of paper over the back of the note, By carefully pulling the twc | pieces apart the fibre of the note will split, and what looks like a difficult transaction is easily accomplished. | Nothing, however, can be gained by the operation. If ome half of such a bill were forwarded to us for redemp- tion we would return to the sender one half of its face value, Sharpers indulge occasionally in a little game which con- sists of piecing motes, That ls, they will make nine notes out of eight, each jeced once, hen you them you will find are precisely one-eighth shorter than they should be. Mer- chants are readily duped by them, but bank cashier,”
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