~— Love Hiding.
Love was playing hide and seek,
And we deemed that he was gone,
Tears were on my withered cheek
For the setting of our sun;
Dark it was around, above,
But he came again, my lovel
Chill and drear in warm November
‘We recall the happy spring,
While, bewildered, we remember
When the woods began to sing,
All alive with leaf and wing,
Leafless lay the silent grove;
Bus he came again my lovel
Aud our melancholy frost
Woks to radiance in his rays,
Who wore the look of one we lost,
In the far-away dim days;
No prayer, we sighed, the dead may uve,
Yet he came again, my lovel
Love went to sleep, but not forever,
And we deemed that he was dead;
Nay, shall aught avail to sever
Hearts who once indeed were wed?
Garlands for his grave we wove,
But he came again, my love;
RRR,
FAITHS ADVENTURES
“1 wish I had pot come through the
park! I wish I had gone around, even if
the wind and dust wera so trying! The
sight of all these grand turnouts and
happy people only makes my own pov-
which swayed to and fro over the bench
where she had a moment
herself,
She iooked like a fair Puritan blossom
this weary, sad girl—with her straight
figure, her serious gray eyes,
innocent, pale face, with her plain and
almost severely neat black
bonnet,
She was a lonely little stranger in the
great city, and she lived in a big and
gown
broad drives opening from the park.
Only a year before her home had been
one of homely case and simple content
1 a green, far-off country town, But
ad set his footsteps cityward, hopeing
ral remuneration, and to realize
and to be finally beset by illness, want
and penury,
ile had only his motherless little
Faith to suffer with him, and she was
but a tender flower to be subjected to
the blasts of adversity. Dut, neverthe- |
she had shouldered her burdens
ight bravely—diligent housewife, un-
iring nurse, sweetest comforter—she
had been all. And beside, it was her |
ver-idle needle-—the occasional com-
pensation for her exquisite bits of deco-
rative embroidery—which had latterly
kept the low hearth fires from being ex-
tinguished altogether.
But there was no work for will-
needle just now, no purchaser for
t trifles in floss t
the
ing
he artistic and velvet
and the hearth fire was burning low in-
deed on that dusty afternoon in late
September as she sat resting on the
sheltered park bench after an unavail-
ing trudge through various fancy empo-
riums in the unseasonably hot city
How happy they are
ple!”® she thought as she pensively
approaching equipage-—a
ering carriage of cream and wine
gdrawn by high-stepping mahog-
bays with gilded trapping!
vere two occupants
arTayed young woman Carrying a mar-
ws lace parasol and fawn-and-black
pug, and a nattily dressed young man
who languidly held t reins. They
were driving leisurely, the young man
omewhat unostentatiously dallying
with his gold-handled whip and
ompanion chatting with consequ
f animation ben the
; parasol.
‘Oh, there is the spring, Charle; 1
Fidget-~the precious dear—Is juss dying
for a drink! Do see how splendidly he
is begging for what be wants! Dostop,”’
Faith heard her as the carriage
wheels revolved against the ribbon of
turf between the bench and the drive,
‘Just as you say, Annie,’’ the young
man replied, as he checked the bays,
stepped to the ground and assisted his |
companion to alight,
But Fidget who had begged so splen- |
didly for what he wanted-—like some of |
his superiors, perhaps—waxed independ-
ently uppish the instant he got it.
Ie put his black muzzle gingerly to
the jetting waser, sniffed fastidiously |
the cool, mossy rock, lapped a very few
trickling drops, and then, with a sedi.
tious bark, bounded from the arms
which encompassed him and scampered
away to a fastness of the shrubbery.
But his rebellion was promptly sub- |
dued, his silken coflar became some-
what entangled in a tuft of thorny cac-
tus, and he was held a whimpering
captive, punished and penitent, until
the young woman of the marvelous |
parasol released him and took him back
to her arms and confidence,
jut in her hurried pursuit of the pug,
she had dropped her porte monnaie
almost at the feet of the unheeded girl,
who sat crying softly on the shadowy
bench; and as she again neared the car- |
riage, Faith picked it up, arose, and ex- |
tended it timidly towards her.
“Pear me! what a nice honest girl |
you are,’’ she said effusively and with a
sort of haughtily pitying stare at the
girl’s exceedingly neat but woefully
worn gown and bonnet. **And you
have been crying too!—you are in trou-
ble about something, now, arn’t you?”
she added with what would have been
Ampertinence had not her pitying inter-
ot, been so obviously senuine,
Neither her showy attire, her effusive
speech or ber extremely haughty air,
seemed exactly harmonious with the
strictly elegant equipage; but there was
sincere kindliness in her air and accents
for all that, And the bit of human
sympathy quite unnerved poor heart
sick, hopeless little Faith,
‘‘My trouble is that of thousands, I
su I am only out of work,” she
— with quaint dignity and with
two pathetic tears starting afresh.
“Oh, isn’t that too bad,” exclaimed
the young woman of the amiably refined
manners and the very elegant turnout.
“You were honest enough not to keep
my purse, and 1 Kally must do some-
these grand
eR :
egarded an
More
i IIECTE
ashowily
he
™ ath
15 onat
SAY,
ghing for you. Don't you think we
could let her have some sewing to do at
the house Charley?”
“Surely! Why not? We have things
should say,’”’ the natty young man an-
swered readily and with a glance of
unqualified admiration at the Puritan
blossom face of the wistful, wondering
girl.
“You can come down to the house in
the morning,’’ said the young woman,
ensconcing herself and the dog Fidget
luxuriously among the carriage cush-
ions “and we'll see what we can do for
you, Everybolly knows the Silvernale
mansion, with the name in gilt upon
the door,” she concluded rather loftily
after several more minute directions,
Then she bowed in a patroniz-
ing but kindly fashion; Charley per-
formed a somewhat
flourish of his golden-handled whip, and
bays were trotting sedately down the
drive, and Faith was once more alone,
“Will there be any harm in going,
papa?’’ she doubtfully asked her father,
when she was once more in their apart-
ments of the big glaring tenemet,
“I do not think there can be,”
Merivale answered.
Mr. Willis were here he might tell
you all about them.”
Faith averted her fair face and a soft
wavered over her cheeks.
Although Mr. Willis was far away,
he and she might never meet
her as she sometimes fancied he did, he
held her heart forevermore in his keep-
ing. He was her ideal of all which is
.
Some months before—it seemed ages
father from beneath the very wheels of
a runaway truck. which had dashed
stunned, bruised and bleeding-—into
wogl
4]
came and went,
le of comfort for
man, and again a gift of
Day after day he
indly smiles and the
and
his beautiful, k
encouragement of 1
sanguine voung spirit,
wi £ rey Ter
8 own strong
Just as Le went away on one last
bright day, Faith could see him always
gure in a none too
cheery, dark face
beneath a carelessly adjusted derby hat,
his dark eves looking into hers with a
yk of unspoken yearning,
8 holding her own with a clasp
hich had power to stir her pulses yet.
“It is hard to leave you, little Faith,"
she could still hear him say i
thrilling voice, just as he had
he whispered the last good-bye.
“Mr. Willis ought to be back by t
time,” continued Mr. Merival,
» soft blushes of the pale, sweet
a man engaged in the
logging business can’t get
n he likes; and a young
ing
WY sie bivinier }
a8 LO earn Dis uving has
ar young oi
uit, a
fresh
iis
n his gentie
1% sl whine
ombifd Wilt i
“though
asl ta
bau KEWOOs
just whe
tas
4 iile the sun sh
1 when one must work
185% A
think
sewing papa,’ I
cept the best chances offered!
1 ui 0a i
try the Silvernale
"aith said, with a
18 of
werning the particular chance
which had been offered her just then!
¥ 3 | 1iesl ry irae
And she felt not a little trepidation
ring ag sha $11 wl hesit
morning as sue pauseq Nesiti-
n the flagging before the Silver
ion, and wondering v
SOUNEe Vague mis
8 COT
ring the front doo
11 stead,
ision was terminated by the
the front door and
appearance of the effusive young
of the port-monnaie episode.
“How nice of you to come early,”
that showy personage began volubly as
she ushered Faith into an imposing hall,
“And how glad I am we run across you
just as we did, And I have something
beside the plain sewing for you, too!
We are to have a little party to-night
satin; red isn’t my color at all, and be-
side, the pink happens to just fit me,
them: and the flounce and bodice trim-
ming cost $2,000 in Paree! Young Mr,
Silvernale brought it over himselt; and
he says he paid the duty on it, too, but
Faith was conscious of an odd sensa-
tion which she could scarcely define,
Something in the language, the airy flip-
voluble young woman astonished her
immeasurably,
“You are wanted down stairs, An-
nie,”” was the announcement made at
the moment, and Faith involuntarily
turned to behold the natty young man,
whose admiringly glances had so em.
barrassed her in the park.
He vouchsafed her a jauntily familiar
old, and then with another glance evi-
dently meant to be irresistably impress-
ive, he went his way.
“Charley is just wild about you; he
talked of nothing but A all the way
home; Annie said, with a playful little
tap of one profusedly ringed hand upon
the bowed head of the surprised girl,
and then they left the room.
“What strange people they are,”
Faith Sought, as she proceaded circum-
spectly with the rather delicate task of
transferring the costly lace. ‘Charley,
I suppose, is the young Silvernale him-
self, and Annie must be the sister, but
rich people often do -have little pecu-
liarities, and, if their manners are rather
startling. they intend to be kind to me,
I know.”
And they did intend to be kind-<there
fould not be an lota of doubt about
that,
“We want you to stay to our party
GE, Ace 3, hem of 4
, 48 Ara he gl
newly trimmed salmon- Te stop-
Faith, pausing for a sec nd in her hur-
ried walk through the imposing hall,
and looking almost painfully embarrass
ed.
*‘Oh, yes, you can, and you shall have
a basket of wine and jellies for your
poor dear papa, and Charley will take
you home in the carriage himself,” said
the astonished young woman, abruptly
thrusting open a door and pushing the
girl with gay persistence into a richly-
furnished back parlor, where the merri-
ment had already begun,
“But papa will be alarmed if I stay,’
Faith expostulated.
“You must kdow you are safe while
you are in the Silvernale house,” inter-
polated a pompous elderly personage,
who-—by priority of age, excess of daz-
zling ornaments, and authority of de-
meanor— Feith deemed the maternal
Silvernale,
“I am sorry, Mrs. Silvernale; I must
seem very thankless after all your Kind-
ness; but really I do beg you to excuse
me,’’ she began simply and earnestly, to
be checked, shecked, stupefied, by the
reasotious and resounding laugh of the
’
**She takes you for the boss, Charley,
and me for the missus! Sure, she takes
us for the rare thing—and me only the
cook, and Annie, me lady’s maid, only
=1%3
airing me lady’s fine dresses!
tleman like young master Silvernale!”
town,’”’ Charley said sulkily, “And 1
don’t know why a man can’t
tleman as well as the master,
“And I am sure a maid can be a lady
as well as the mistress.’ said Annie,
who resented some intangible expression
upon Faith's puritas-blossom
house
are having their grand doings in the
country, and we are perfectly right to
enjoy ourselves all we can. If we eat,
and drink, and wear the best the house
contains, they never know the
*¢! what the eves don’t
don't trouble, and we have Ul
straight enough when they come home,’
Faith said never a word.
meant only kindness to her
that—they
wrong, accord;
t
she knew
elieved they were doing no
ng to their own lights,
not for her to judge them,
them from
moved toward
hindered
the
: {tly with mor-
went down the stakes
1 her haste
tleman stand-
1 the flagging watching her
€Yes,
tification as she
and what wi
scarcely noticed a §
h her fears
ut as she chanced to li
head and so perceive
exclamation of
infiniie gladness,
Willis,” said he
hing both her hands
i841
wilt
y soft |] surprise
IMpuisively,
i yward him,
papa send you?-—were you waiting
a?"
» shook his head; he was s
il withont reserve, with little
sweetly }
nn grotesque mistakes
the whole rid
8 of
masqueria
while
Ww » ire
wrong ing
the
: al '
she concluded
FUNERALOF AFIRE-WORSHIFER
# wo nei m—
At the Bedside of the Dying--~The
Tower of the Dead---Last Services.
When the medical attendant decides
that a Parsee can not recover, a priest
is sent for, who approaches the bed and
repeats vanous texts from the Zend-
Avesta calculated to afford consolation
to the dying man, Prayers are also
sald for the forgiveness of his sins,
When he dies, a funeral procession is
preached, exhorting the friends of the
deceased to live pure and holy lives that
they may meet him in paradise, They
are reminded that they must one day
be called from this world to the pre
sence of God to give a full account of
their deeds here, and as they do not
know how soon that may be, they are
urged to be prepared tor death and to
meet it with resignation and willing-
ness. Riches, wealth, influence and
friends will have no avail in the next
world, Those who desire to reach the
eternal paradise must spend their days
here in holiness and prayer, amd in do-
ing good to their fellow-creatures,
concludes with the words, *“May God
have mercy on the dead!”
The body is brought down to the
ground floor
ed, perfumed, wrapped in ashite sheet,
Gog
is brought to gaze at the dead face of
to drive
Several priests attend
ul ot
ted, and that it nay safely reach it
ination, which it is
1 the fourth day
tives and friends all
ect, and the
hite
pa
after death. The i
bow v in tok
N Asas ‘ Jad
always
garments { wiuch
new for ever funerali, raise
lo the
cries and lamentations,
dress lead the
the male relatives an
deceased, They,
white. and walk two bv
couple joined by holding a :
kerchief between them,
When the bearers reach
leading to the door of the tower, they
place the bler upon the ground and un-
cover the dead. that
»nds may take last look, and
reverently bow, after which
mourners utter loud
Priests in
which are
friends of
dressed
each
process ii, iN
OnLy
hand-
th
face of the
all
the mourn-
ers tum back, and enter one of the Sagri
1 pray for
bearers
locking the door, carry
within, and qu i
of the st
an the departed spirit, he
I
tower and
their burden
wered in
one
:
bier and white she
|SO50noT
most motionless in ¢
of the parapet,
body, and in ¢
| 14 $l
he tower, Mm
s a huge bx
change
sluted
building shaped
bathe
lest they carry contamina-
bleached
rain, and when
the
vid
1
i
ined washed Ly sun and
or four
same bearers return, and with gl
hands and truments
bones ir
three weeks passed,
or
}
3
rable from de-
distinct class,
x, “It is for
hh, for if vou
y darling,
mistress here,’
She glanced at the imposi
the Silvernale mansion loomin
the starlight, and then lookex 3
incredulity into the impassioned face of
her Had the master,
as the servants, been indulging in
a little masquerade? she asked herself
He seemed to understand her unspo-
? > -
lover, then, as
“I told you no uniruth about myself,
sweetheart,’’ he said. ‘I am interested
in the backwoods logging business, be-
cause a portion of my money is invested
suminering of business and
combined in my little forrest.
name is really Willis Willis
nale,
A half later Faith was driving home-
ward in the starlight behind the ma-
hogany bays. Her fair face was radiant
with unutterable content as she sat be-
Her
hardships and desolation had ended with
the day’s adventures— which, after all,
And my
Silver-
which occured shortly afterward,
fhe Woedtick of Hon duras.
Any description of the business-like
ways of the garapatos would be, to those
who have a personal acquaintance with
them, wanting in that fresh and lively
mterest which follows a first introduc.
tion, and it might be cruelty to antlci-
pate the joys of a first experience by
describing the way in which the little
brown villains light upon the traveler
from every bush against which he
brushes, crawl into his clothing from
every upon which he incautiously
seats himself, and from every y
bank upon which he thoughtiessly re-
clines; how they excite his sensibilities,
by traveling Industriously over his un-
accustomed and ticklish skin, prospect-
ing for a tender and juiey spot wherein
to sink their heads deeply, and thus
establish claims from which not death
even, nor dismemberment, shall separate
them.
Once comfortably settled in a pleasing
spot, the woodtick gives up his roving
habits and devotes himself to the busi-
ness of sucking up the blood of the grin-
go, until in time he waxes fat with rich
feeding, becomes puffed up with much
consequence, and develops into a rich,
dark-red jauch, big as a currant and as
round, with legs of little moment and
an insignificant head, the most noble
function of which is to provide plantiful
supplies to the stomach. :
IN THE DIAMOND FIELDS.
How Wealth Hunters Are Periodl.
cally Beguiled.
The daily scenes in this South Afri-
can El Dorado were very similar to
those I experienced in the gold mines of
California. One day the news was, east
of us they are finding diamonds by the
handful; plenty of open ground, a sure
fortune; and away went the diggers,
4he speculative canteen-Keeper
followed. When one of the Americans
from New York and I, after a three-
miles tramp under a scalding sun, ap-
proached the reputed mine, we found a
dozen saloons in fall
casks,
was anxious to sell his stock of liquid
were.
and was mad with myself that I had
been so simple minded as to have been
one of its victims, Near by was a hole,
and packed close around were almost a
thousand diggers, while in a cavity a
black man was grubbing the lime. A
few were marking out claims, but the
majority having seen no diamonds, de-
clared indignantly. *“*This is a fool's
rush. Suddenly a bloated old fellow
appears upon the scene, nick-named
Mahogany Nose, from the vermilion
colored appearance of that organ, jumps
up and down over his table and shouts:
“Diamond | diamond 1’
A rush is made for him.
“Let's see it’ all exclaim,
“Oh, it's only half a carat, but indi-
cates,” and Mahogony Nose resumes
his scraping.
The bait takes, All seize their picks
and pick until the ground is occupied.
More people arrive. Claims are marked
out. ew-comers are astonished at the
industrious scene, and conclude that
this ja the spot—the place thay have
been so long looking for. No more
room for claims, but those in the secret
seize several claims; the pretended
original owners get wrathful and
threaten, and a riot is in prospect, when
it is suggested by one of the ‘‘friends®
that the matter of dispute be settled by
the rules of the ring. Agreed to; and
the winner 18 borne on his friends’
shoulders to 4 canteen, where ale and
to commemorate the victory, After a
while, when quiet is restored, it floally
daws upon the average mind of the
“kapi’ that Mahogany Nose has su.
¥
ceeded in playing his cards well, The
canteen where so much fermented re-
freshment was swallowed belonged to
Mahogany Nose, and he planted” the
diamonds he pretended to find, For
reasons unnecessary to state, old
his claim, enter his canteen, and give a
free treat to all that came, That
who had come many miles to the new
El Dorado.
‘ead of that old weasel.’’
Our Udmarried Daughters,
Thomas Hughes says there is a pecul-
| find out, but I doubt, says a writer, if
{ there is a woman who from babyhood
has not recognized that charm,
{ then think with mom consideration
i the pleasures and cares of wedded life,
bat whose lives have been given
others far more than have those of the
majority of their wedded sisters,
{ One such woman has charge
| household whose inmates are an invalid
mother, a feeble grandmother, and a
bachelor brother, She makes the hom
| happy for them, and with
| for this sacrifice of her girlh
MICRT She (
dinner exactly to suit
are her privil
herself
served according to her
to change the hour
end in without
onsultation would
! trea 1
It is possibl
tu
15 rey redo 4 abit ars
Hninarrsa Gangiier
iow with three unm
age.,’’ It wou
tothe n
he family if the piano could
to another part of the room,
The 1
“I see no reason, Emy, why it
I'he has no trials andd
of the
uncer
ded ¢
mother about it,
+ moved,
overcome, and
‘4
hat they shall
ties to .
we
i
Aili,
here is another family
married
5 much
ill home
the housekeeping and
ut her recreation
daughter st at
*
Case, iS
Eaters of Olives,
pre pared for
bread
fir }
Lo
n his
HIVES IR 5%
larly at
irters
It is the Spanish habit t
the end of a meal but not
Three four are usually
enough, or if they are very go
may An Italian
recommends the preserving of Spanish
that is. of those grown on Italian
soil--but prefer those called St. Francis,
which is common at Ascoli, where it
attains the size of agwalnut It is,
ever, generally agréed among gourmets
that the smaller olives are best for eat-
ing. The manner of treatment has
nevertheless, perhaps something to do
with the coarse quality of the Spanish
olive when found in the peninsula.
Olives are preserved in Italy, as else.
where, in weak lye or brine, They are
also bruised, stuffed in the Bordeaux
| manner or dried.
or
s1¢ Fire
eéal a dozen Aun
olives
{ came, the fruit forms still an important
[article of diet. A traveler relates that
| and grapes offered him by the monks of
| the ‘monastery of Mount Libanuns, It
| is traditional in the Catholic church
| that the monks living in the desert fed
i principally on olives, Throughout
olive has remained, as in the most
ancient times, a substantial article of
food and a necessary means of existence
to the toiling millions,
Sn II I SSS
What a Shark Eats.
The shark has the reputation of a ra-
sjous appetite and a good, strong
Stomach, © is not satistied with triles,
por can the keen of his appetite be
turned by a ‘‘diet worms.” He re-
quires a substantial Will of fare and like
the black country operative who asked
the carver for a ‘‘piece of beef that
would bend,” he is fond of solids. The
stomach of a shark, which was recently
captured in Watson's Bay, was opened
and an examination of its contents
made, According to the papers, among
other things discovered were a number
of human bones, the leg of a pair of
gray tweed trousers, a pocket contain.
ing a penny, the buckles of a pair of
braces, the blade of an oar. an empty
boerbottle, the seat of a ehild’s rocking
chair, two tin meat cans, a gum an
old gridiron, and last, bat not a
half digested silk hat. It is presumed
that the fish had been out to dinner
Perched on the
Very Tops of Higy
M esas. The ; »
Huts---Pleturesque
People.
Of all the Indian villages of the souths
west, those of the Moquis are by far the
most picturesque. There are seven of
them, all together, and all are perched
on the very tops of high mesas, which
are separated by a few miles of open
any of the towns, The settlement that
is best known, and that is more often
abruptly rising cliff. The second mesa
also contains three distinct villages:
while the third has enly one town, in
however, there is the largest
habits among the people, The tribe
can be estimated, and is comparatively
wealthy, The property of the people
flocks of goats, which feed upon the nu-
The villages are composed of small
square huts, built of stone, and covered
with beams, which support a
layer of earth; and the houses are piled
together, one on top of the other, with
irregularity with
iid pile of
residences are it
bull
directly on the edge of the cliff.
HNEAavy
exactly
which
blocks,
make a
while
ot court.
plaza OF
: tiers of houses,
it to a
roof 1
four
8 14
gies alos
ch from
BOmes
ie eX pe 'R
duli-hued exts
lighted, to
scrupu-
What
rough the door-
4
side or in Lhe
family live:
0 a
seems 1
ent Torms of
Ye gig
i
ir Ati
Land
ing tenaciously to
nturies Meal is
the between
bread is cooked ;
wh In hot aslies. The
rdest workers, They
ling handsome, having
large, lustrous
¥ ¢ wid »
that give eviaencs
a0
€eorn
‘hey dress in gowns
just
er the upper portion of
y are apparentl
ar no clothes until
of but pla)
ute nakedness,
» Moquis are a pic-
y are supposed to
hierogl
f
il-supporting,
below
reacii
o oad
¥ ILOoG-
ae
age,
~~
g lif
— AA ————
e Model Husband.
wer interteres
way, shape
’ pe,
he a3 at ail
irs and at all
and devoted
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He never bothers his wife with sew-
ing on his buttons; he “didn’t marry
her for that.” He quietly gets a needie
and thread. adiusts his thimblefand
sews his buttons on himself,
Whe: there is a Woman's Rights
meeting in town, the Model Husband
alwavs attends his wife thither, or stays
home and takes care of the children-—as
she may see fit. And, as he does not
dozen olive branches shall cluster around
He never groans at the extravagance
woman, nor preaches economy at
home, nor indulges in oysters and cham-
pagne suppers away from home, but
makes his pocketbook a family eoncern,
or deals out money to his wife witha
lavish hand.
He never chews, smokes or drinks in
the house under any circumstances;
never ventures out unaccompanied by
his better-half after nightfall; and above
all things, never, scver brings a friend
home unexpectedly to dinner or supper.
The Model Husband has no “old
flames,” nor new ones either; he shuns
secret societies as he would the plague
and he has never been known to look in
the direction of a bonnet on the head of
any woman but his wife, He endures
the Caudle Lectures delivered by his
better-half with a touching meekness
un-excelled by the original Caudle him-
self, and regards with supreme pily not
unmixed with contempt, that most mis.
erable specimen of the masculine gen-
der: a hen-pecked husband!
In fact, the Model Husband is very,
very nearly-—a real, genuine saint,
Mns, SLIMDIET (serving out the
tough beefsteak —'‘And so you have
been to Florida, Are there many
crocodiles down there?"
Thin Boarder-—'* of them.”
“And how do they live?"
“Well, they don’t board, but they
might 3 it very comfortably.”
“A crocodile can its jaws to
gether with a force of pounds.