An Invitation.
When in this house the day Is warm,
And dogs Jie stratahed before the door,
“Come out'to my farm,
And si* upon the grassy floon
Under the apple trees’ green roof,
Laced with the yellow light of morn,
Share nature's joy wWithoat reproof,
Thou man wo art to troubis born!
Alas! "tis said for price of gold
The age shill hew these lealy towers]
The spade shall trample ia the mould
This fragrabt grass, these dewy fowers,
And when this pleasure house is waste,
A mansion built for earthly oare,
Por waiting days, and tiresome haste,
Shall lift a stately front in arr.
{hen come, before the day decliaes,
And hear the bee among the boughs;
Ses where the early moon entwines
Her crescent in my bloomy house.
Perhaps before the shade shall wound
This turf, to plant the cares of earth,
A smaller plot of earth be found
More green to tell our nobler birth.
hen hasten ere the day shall die,
And lay thy heart to summer's bliss,
And learn, whatever joys may fly,
To know the permanence of this.
SIT,
A MOONLIGHT SAIL.
“Another moonlight sail
had
bestowed,
with what,
which her light drapeiies
gracefully and comfortably
and looked up at her sister
ander the circumstances
a surprising expression.
There was unmistakable 1
something like dread in her 1
eyes,
Julia mg
€ 7 test
Sang no
regret and
own
ory
=i
jer
iS
ng her sister
one of the ribbon-bedecked
willow-rockers, which gave the porch
its spitable appearance, burst
soft laughter, her
brichter with a mischievous light.
"our
We
_
i
3 int
iad HO
said, in a tragic whis]
ns is going to ask you.”
murmured Hetty,
iS
Julia,
cheerfully
‘h
oe o
he gail
fanning he with y-colored
lacaue she brought from ‘‘down
town.” ‘BEd . Little Blivens
told him
and he
vy the Muare,
won's for some
kT
CHgALS o “Fd.”
Hetty leaned back in
with a small groan,
It Imad been like this all
Linee « very week, on an
gay l
Summer,
average,
ttle clique of which she and
sisters were valuable members had |
a moonlight picnic, though the
had occasionally failed them.
And a week, Mr.
ately-arrived china-storekeeper,
taken down his hat from behind
office-door and his gloves from his pock-
and walked briskly up the street to
Miss Hetty Keese's pretty ho where
in the formal words which he considered
fitting to the easion, and which he
never varied, he requested honor
and pleasure of
proposed excursion, and whence after a
brief interval be walked away triumph-
ant.
W Ly she always con
thing of a puzzle to Het
moon
once
et,
16
it,
ix
the
a ' ‘ # ¥s
Hel HINDANS Li
LHDOT
4a i
SE Ww SOIne-
as
spself,
let
»
Blivens
SWAY.
his little
wit n-
the
J
ho ST
tea 11 . vv v
AUeT--e0gel peiul
of his round face,
onsc
thi
iousness of ti
reddisl
simile
One or
r out of
pp
£ LE
her sister sympathetic:
t nobody elss with
film,” said Hetty simply
“Tet him stay at home, then!” said
Julia in a matter of fact way. ‘‘He's
too old to be going to picnics, anyhow;
it’s absurd. A good sharp refusal on
vour part is what he needs.”
“T'eouldn’t!”’ said Hetty,
compassion in her eyes,
“You funny girl!” cried Julia, witha
laugh. “Oh, by-the-way,” went on,
“Joe Marsh is home again! I saw him
down street.”
“Joe Marsh!"
frank delight.
They had met him last winter—a
andsome sharp-witted, hard-working
with a soft
she
Hetty repeated, with
’
social pleasures he allowed himself; the
seen. and talked to, and laughed with—
was to be walked home with under the
cold. bright stars, and parted from re-
tuctantly.
# And then—just as it
ys Lim that for a young man the
amount of whose salary could not be
mentioned in the same breath with
matrimony, he was growing much too
fond of this charming giri—ne hax been
Hy the firm which employed him.
That had seemed to lookers-on to be
an end to the little episode,
«listant hotels, was haunted continually
by Hetty’s lovely face.
And Hetty spent a great many fool
«clever things he had sent to her, pictur-
ing his shrewd, handsome face, and tell-
dng herself that she was a simpleton,
“If here isn’t Little Blivens now!”
whispered Julia, as a footstep sounded
won the walk, “Now do be sensible,
Hetty: don’t go with him!"
Five minutes later, Mr. Blivens, with
“his cheerful little face shining with per.
fect contentment—even his hair seemed
lo have taken ona warmer glow--was
trotting away down the street; and Julia
amt gazing at Hetty in scornful amaze-
ent,
“How could I help it?" said the lat
ter, pleadingly. ‘It would have hurt
“his feelings dreadfully. I couldn’t.”
“You're the queerest girl!” said
Julia, staring helplessly at the impossi-
Ble red-and-blue cherubs on ber placque,
But Hetty’s trials. as her frequen
experiences on similar occasions had
taught her, had only begun.
‘So Little Blivens 18 still faithful,
Hetty?" said her father, jovially, at the
tea-table,
“Yes, he has again hoped for the
‘honor and pleasure of her company,”
murmured fifteen-year old Tom, who
had heard several of Mr. Bliven’s invi-
tations through the parlor keyhole.
“We're needing a new china-set,”
gaid her father musingly. ‘‘Just men-
tion it to Blivens won't you, Hetty? 1
haven’t a doubt that he’d throw off con-
siderable on your account—maybe give
us one!’
It was not pleasant, either, when the
noisy load of picknickers drove up, and
ghe followed Julia and Ed down to the
gate on Mr. Bliven's arm, to know that
Tom was walking down the path behind
them, smiling up adoringly at an imagi-
nary person several yards above him, in
wicked imitation of Mr. Blivens; and to
feel that several giggles from the load
were tributes to this performance,
Jut when she had climbed into
long, five-seated wagon, into the midst
of its laughing, chattering occupants,
she suddenly forgot her disturbance,
one of the back seats, a hand
itself to her ac the
| heads, and Joe Marsh's
| cried:
“Ah, Miss Kh eese,
was not
I'OS88
crisp voice
here we are again!”
much in the
his hand which made Het-
aks grow a little pinker in the
asp Of
w Marsh sank
1 a frown.
had bee
the boy
some of
had been cutting hin
B
. he had LESS
and had felt no
for
with IMetty’s big,
hat and Mr. Rliven's
lose together just before his eves
y sound of Mr. Bliven’
motives shrewdly,
but a loving admiration
Sin
i 1 sexi t = ' of
EASA ASPoCt,
robably there was
Mr. Bliven'’s smilix
waist
n, heated and wearied by a long
per
Pre
04
g
of waltzes and quadrilles, surrendered
his partner to somebody else, an'l walk-
ed away toward the lake,
He had not dénced with He
had told himself
#4
) ’
he that his wisest
Of
but
course she had plenty of partners;
! Little Blivens, it had seemed to
had had every ther dance.
Of course they were engaged:
was not a doubt of it, He stared un-
seeingly at the placid little lake, repeat-
ing to himself all the cynical thi
could think of concerning woman and
her falsity.
A rowboat lay at the edge of the
water, a few yards away, with a white- |
ther
WHIele
ror
HA
$ he
!
slender litheness the young man recog-
She was alone, It would be a piece |
self. He strolled down to the boat,
“Oh, Mr. Marsh!” cried Hetty, tim-
idly. She wad convinced in the depths
angry with her, Why had he not spoken
“I suppose I may congratulate you?"
the edge of the bank.
Hetty raised her eyes wonderingly.
“I have been given to understand,’
his bitterness, ‘that you are engaged to
Mr. Blivens.”
He brought the name out with such
contemptuous emphasis that a small
| being only five Yeet and four inches from
{ over his arm, came to a startled stand-
i till behind
bushes,
“Engaged to him?" said Hetty, with
a gasp. “Why, Mr, Marsh!"
There was no mistaking the astonish
ed reproach of her tone,
Her listener felt his heart bound.
You are not now?” he question
eagerly, bending toward her. “A
don’t care for lum?"
“How could you think so?”
mured Hetty.
The moon at that moment went be.
hind the clond. But when it came out,
Joe was squeezed into the very narrow
mur
scat with Hetty; and Hetty's big hat
was very much on one side, as though
pushed thither by a sudden violent cen-
tact with something.
The person behind the bushes had re-
moved is hat, and wiping his forehead,
a humorous smile beginning to struggle
through the dazednessof his expression,
There was silence in the boat for a
happy interval.
Then the young man said slowly.
“I am ufraid we can’t be marriad
right away, Hetty.”
“No,” smd Hetty, gently.
“I have only my salary, vou know;
and that isn’t enough for two to live
on,” said Joe, “Oh, haven’t I a little
capital? There'd be such a chance for
me if I had, 'Thesenior of the firm was
telling me the other day, that they'd
like to take a third partner—one with a
small capital, If I only had it—I, who
It's no use talking about it,”’
he broke off,
said Het-
“1 shall wait for you, Joe,”
“We shall have a long wail,
he added, forgetting his
with youthful haste,
made you eneourage poor Little
vens?”’
“Encourage him? Oh, 1 didn’t mean
cried Hetty, looking tenderly
“But 1 never had the heart
Bli-
ust couldn't!”
The person |
garding the speaker
softening his bright ¢ :
“1 knew it!" cried Joe
If Little
going |
yehiin
usual warmth, and
a ——— A ————
A Charming Little Story.
1 100K upon
and the faces of tl
him.
A physician was fh
agreed to attempt
cataract, Theoperation w
and he from whom the |
been ut for
114
Baki ¥
the
WA
80 aw
almost
a $2
SUL oO IAnY years,
again beside himself
with joy.
A friend
came, leading a lady by t
: yy vou kn
J UH Ki
Was
who was at once recogn
he hand.
.
ow who this is?" lw
“No, I do not.”
“This is your wife,”
And then the pair, one of whom had
never seen the other, fell into each
pathetic beauty ensued.
The two children were also brought
He clasped them to his
beating heart, and all the miseries of
of that moment.
This is a true story. The actors in
this life panorama, covering a period of
ten years, are all alive. The husband
seems as well as ever he did, and ig now
The fluid exuded by the ice plant bas
sea-salt,
Southall quotes from Herodotus to
show that the Scythians used to scalp
their enemies The wild tribes of
Sef tfp—
The complete destruction of the car.
casses of animals that have died of con
tagious diseases is recommended by M.
Girard, He would dissolve the bodies
in cold concentrated sulphuric acid.
Mss
It is found by the survey of the Great
Lakes that there is a slight tide in
them but not of sufficient extent to be
noticeable without special care, the
amount of rise and fall not exceeding
two inches,
A prominent physician writing to the
New York Medical Record condemns
roller skating as an exercise for girls,
and states that it h Soom | 0) bring out any
fatent predisposition isease, espac-
intly of the kidneys or heart.
A Question of Time.
‘ft 18 useless, this persistence, The
tie of cousinly relationship is all that
can ever exist between us,’’
“But I have other reasons to urge.”
‘““None that can avail.”
“At least hear then.”
“Yes, if Iam forced, but my answer,
is already given.”’
“You may recopsider it.”’
It was no longer in the persuasive
tone of the lover that Adrian Hermon
spoke,
His last utterance had a touch of
sternness in it, far better comporting
than his previous manner with the sin-
ister glance of his kindless, passionless
eye more than once, during the dia-
logue, bent in keen perusal of his cous-
in’'s face.
| ed unnoticed
| ring, which Alice Harmon turned upon
| the speaker
“Your father, Adrian continued,
“left his affairs in a condition so per-
plexed and intricate, that when, at your
request, I undertook their settlement, it
| Was time before their exact pos-
| ture could be ascertained,
| examination,
his estate large
absent uncle, you are aw
youl
nine
two brothers, vour
BOC
Our ong
14 Ye 11 1
ignorant it
byee-
y insolvent.
re,
{ px istence
Sees, Of and 153
| quealhed 1
i A
TH!
1 Lhe even
iH AE
5 fF
mi
i
rator of
adminis
that of
{ question.
i 1t was q
zeal outrt
before
to in his judgment, but it
| Cane,
However, the i
inbout his business 3
| way, keeping his own counsel and seek.
ing no one 8s,
Considerable time elapsed before the
case could be brought to a hearing
Andrew Hermon, the rich uncle, after
little lawyer went
4]
oi
{ and died at sea.
| His death was reported to have occur-
| red on the 26th of December, 18, that
| of Alice's father having happened on
the same month, Captain
| Harris, the « ommander of the vessel,
| was now absent on another voyage, and
{ both parties, it was necessary to await
{ his return.
i brought on.
! By several witnesses Mr.
proved the death of Alice's father to
have taken place bn the 24th of Decems
ber, at 8 o'clock ih the evening.
Captain Harrisiwas then called.
After a few prelminary questions, he
was asked to staté, the precise time of
Andrew Hermon's Yeath,
“Exactly four ininutes before 6
o'clock on the morfing of the 25th of
December,’’ was the hinswer,
“Are you quite certain of that?” Mr,
Barker continued. |
“Quite; it is entered in the log-book. *
Mr. Barker paused a moment.
“Is there any necessi®y for proceed-
ing Brother Barker? interposed
opposite counsel, with a winning smile.
“You have quite made but our case.
The plaintiff's father having died on the
24th and the teslator on 25th, it is
plain, by the terms of the will, that the
whole estate went to the defendant's
late father as survivor.”
“If you please, Brother Tompkins,"
Mr. Barker replied, with killing polite-
ness, and the self-possessed air of a man
who, if beaten, didn’t know it yet, “I
have not quite finished with the wit-
ness.’
tell us where your vessel was at
time of Andrew Hermon’s death.”
“In latitude-—degrees and
south, and longitude—degrees
minutes east,”
and
ing of the 24th of December here, what
was the time there?’
“Four minutes of eight on the morn-
{ tude, being 179 degrees,”
“So that if the plaintiff's father dis
on the 24ti
{ here, at B o'clock pr, M, 1 and
| utes before six on the morning of
| 25th, the former survived the latter
i two hours,” With sunning
| Mr. Barker sat down, as calm as if
hadn't just been gaining the most im-
| portant cause of his life,
The cool, clear
brought order out of the ¢
Adrian Hermon had
the affairs of Alice's father, a
panifest that
i
it
this
ip
it
head
mfusion |
sane
1
sought to
$
id
latter
the
Lilt
te
The Zealous Hotel
oid On
Whoo
Fitter
Porter
the
rom th
“1 was
3 .y
shnson,
‘Firing
Who put su
head?’
“Here sh
yorielon
“ the [Ten Born
0
By a1
ped Mr. Weakly, and swooped away
This was what he read:
“Fire No. 40 at 130°
A
Sg §
i AI AIA
OF LOWLY STATION.
Why the Old Gent Opposed the Sait
of the Man His Daughter
Loved.
The stately elms bowed lazily as the
returned the gentle salutations of 1
evening breeze, Beneath their spread
| ing branches a voung and lovely couple
walked. oblivious to the world, its cares
and strifes, its feverish pleasures and its
| chilling disappointments: forgetful of all
except each other. Beneath her broad-
| brimmed hat her auburn hair fell over
her shoulders in luxuriant waves, Ar-
| thur doted on each little golden thread.
{ Already he had licked three men for
| saying he had a red-headed girl.
| © They walked off in silence for
| minutes. At last he murmured
“Say you will be mine.”’
I “1 can not say it,’’ she snurmured
i back.
| A deadly pallor suddenly
| his face. She was alarmed.
| he recovered himself and asked:
i “Why not?"
© Arthur, you know my father’s proud
nature,
lionaire banker, Alas
ised me to Clarence Jones, the son of
your father’s cashier.”’
“Yes, yes, 1 see it all,” he sad, with
his voice fall of emotion. “I must bend
to the cruel fate which made me the
offspring of a miserable banker Instead
of the heir of a cashier.”’
His strong spirit gave way before a
flood of bitter tears, and then all was
over,
EE cg —————
Man believes that to be a lie which
contradicts the testimony of his own
ignorance,
ie
3
:
A AR CVT Al SSAA
A Story of & Deserter,
In Queen Anne's reign, a soldier be.
longing to a marching regiment, that
was quartered in the city of We,
ras taken up for desertion, and being
tried by a court-martial, was sentenced
to be shot, The colonel and licutenant-
colonel being both of London, the coms
mand of the regiment had devolved in
course to the major, who was accoun.
a very cruel and obdurate man,
The day of the execution belng come,
regiment, as usial upon those occa
to witness it; but
when present who knew the
custom at these executions expected t«
everyone
office, they were surprised to
fixed by the major upon the
’s own brother, who was also 2
soldier in the regiment and was at the
moment taking his last leave of the un-
find 1}
or}
=~ 1
’
fortunate culprit
On th order
inhuman being an.
fell
the one suppii-
caled in the most affecting terms that
he might be spared the horror of shed.
and the brother
» might receive 1 from
her hand aut all
£Aars and were in
: Lhe
He
rothes
Figs
that hu 18 doom
than this,
1pplications
i
Ol
'e
4
their t
Vail Innion
s not to be moved,
swore 1 roti and Lue
I
x 11
1
mbiv s
decenasd
clemency
a
in wi
iteresting
tracting due at-
ivertently
it her nostrils
burying ber face
handkerchiefs,
and gives
tegl » » i
skick-skick
3 x
RE
ol
ith a basket apo:
h ns, halts suddenly upon U
reverently, re-
in wild
¥ 1
head
mains for a few
expectation, and then, straightening uj
a little inhales the air until she swells
like a balloon, then ‘‘ab-h-h-
ah-h-h-schooooo! ah-ah-ah
skitch-tsschoo! oh my!” and wobbles
along, wiping her inflamed nose on her
apron.
street,
80 mo.ents
‘he tall cadaverous man, whose
every look indicates the presence
consumption, stops short on the side-
walk, nervously runs hands
half a dozen pockets before he can find
his handkerchief, throws his head back
ward until his nose points at the City
clock. and electrifies all withip
hearing with a spasmodic “witchoo-
witchoo- witchos 0-0-0- Wi- wi- witeho -o-
0-0!" then gives his peaked nasal organ
a wipe or two, and moves painfully
along
The nervous man stops, while a look
of pain crosses his face, draws two ot
three long breaths to hurry the thing
along, then doubles himself up as if en-
of
his into
wkron-whak -kroo-whak-
boosh-ah-kroo-whak-oh!"" and leaves the
solate pain, .
It does one good to see the jolly fat
man sneeze, He draws back his mas.
sive shoulders, opens his cavernous
mouth to its fullest capacity, shuts both
eyes and fairly raises the dead with his
“‘ah-schoooo! ah-schooool ah ah-schoooo!
wi 1 woosh - ah « sehoooooo « wah-
hooo-physchoooo!™?
A WesrearX young lady, “beautiful
and accomplished,’’ who recently made
her debut on the stage, was pronounced
a fallure, It is su her wardrobe
lacked variety and ability.