Eg ee
True Love,
oven mr
I think true love is nover blind,
Bus rather brings an added light;
An inner vision quick to find
The beanttes hid from common sight.
No soul can aver clearly see
Another's highest, noblest part,
Save through the sweet philosophy
And loving wisdom of the heart.
Your unanointed eyes shall fall
On Lis who fills my soul with light;
You do not see my triend at all,
fou see what hides him from your sight.
I s»e tne feet that fain would climb,
Yoo but the steps that turn astray ;
I see the soul unharmed, sublime,
You but the garment and the clay.
You soe a morta! weak, misled,
Dwagfed ever by the earthly clod ;
{ see how manhood, perfected,
May reach the stature of a god.
Rlinded I stood, as now you stand,
[1 on mine eyes, with touches sweet,
Tove, the deseiver, lad his hand,
And lo! I worshiped at his feet,
IR SRI REI.
mn y | IPN LD
'HE PARTNER.
was the only
firm
Mathers
the banking
ir, Thomas
edger clerk in
in's lane, Lombard street. It was
lucrative position, and
haps fifty thousand young men in a simi-
ry TAI
look after it, There was some idea, if
the prospéct seemed favorable, of start-
ing a branch house there, The question
then arose which of the clerks should
accompany the head of the firm as his
secretary; and Mr, Hodgson mindful of
the service which Mathers had rendered
bim, consulted the head cashier on the
propriety of the selection, Parkinson,
it happened, had a favorite of his own,
and Tommy would have lost his oppor-
tunity if he had not remembered that at
one time, when he was bent on acquir-
ing foreign tongues, he had spent his
evenings for a few mouths over an
Italian grammar. He contrived to let
this fact be known, and in due time Mr,
Parr informed his partner that
“it seemed young Mathers knew some-
thing of the language.”
This decided the point,
his orders, and in
Senior
Tommy re-
three davs
and Calais packet, in charge of a large
The
Journey was |
olumns of figures and copying entries
from one big book into another.
hance did not come, but Tommy did
not despair? and there was this duffer-
»f his fellow-prisoners of the desk
had the pluck to work away manfully
some day help him to better his position,
wen though he could not see exactly
how it was to be done. With this end
view he studied up French, German
and Italian;
ould to pick up information as to the
inancial circumstances of the custom-
re of the bank.
with every clerk employed by those
2100
wo
ee sand
ily could,
ire or less accurate, as tu
al status of most o
appened
{
Aft
v
v t got into a row with
‘rederick Appleton vas
ther-in-law, and he was al
weretayy of the Mudford 1 Ci
hemical company, mm whose cot
1s¢ young Darling had a sub
a
“ny
aii
ibject.
m his way back to the bani
neh Mathers asked himself why Dar-
lie had a capital prospect there-—his
wrother-in-law being the secretary; and
there was no disagreement between him
ind his influential relative,
w that Darli
Cquld it
ng had had a hint from hi
ther-in-law that the chemical com
any was getting shallow
ind that it behooved him
out for another situation?
than like and young Mathers
o act at once. He slipped
the bank parlor that OT,
ping to find the junior partner, Mr,
UT, 4 good-nat 3
vas not likely
teering information. To his disappoint
found only Mr. Hodg
ur-tegppered old man, who wa
g into his overcoat, j
ving the office for the d
Well,» growled the bank
you wanty’’
‘ommy was on the
hat he had come to speak
tina moment he he
no
BETH
ietermined
# ot %
nin Aller
SON
Wie ha
nent, ne
0% 4
somethiog
tat
I PET
Lou i¥, SIX,
made me think that
13 4 are n Ba
£3}
al OF in
L of that? What's that to
“Nothing, sir; only I thought
was no harm in letting yon know.’
“Anything of that kind you can say
to Mr, Parkinson,”' answered the old
gentieman as he seized his umbrella and
waddled down the passage,
l'ommy felt snubbed; but he did not
mind that much. He had done what
he wanted-—bronght himself under the
personal notice of one of the partners,
that he was expected to
travel seq
to his employer. When at last
Turin was reached, things were no bet-
ter. Mathers found that his Italian
went but a very little way; and, besides,
he had to do the work of three clerks
Sometimes he was tempted to
that he had left his comfortable
in Torrington’s square, Bl
t in his calmer moments he
that at least he was occupying
ent pos n from that of the
fellow-clerks.
The chief man in Turin, so far as
Hodgson, Dumford, and Parr we
was a certain Count M:
'
i
Li
IOOms
reflected
a differ-
wt of his
Ie Cofr-
SOni
event
§
his being the principal member of a
*hief reason of Mr. Hodgson’s journey
and, as the old banker knew
how to lay aside his crusty and
very well
pompous
manner when it suit
he
unfrequented guest
soni.
SO0n came to
the Vill
Was a very ial
bank at ‘1
rv ori
y Englishman,
Of course the invitation was accent
i
l'ommy had
wi ¥ i
SITY
sooner veered
m
at the
st his heart at
Mari
il and vivaciou
» head of a wis
} than Tommy
Fr was he t
to have tu
colder-4l
3 1 amu
0 speak a language
sw, that
1 the maiden’s eves than
ie won
Avera
comin
Mear
Lin 1 \ ing
man was able fo send home a good lis
of prospective customers that the part-
ners determined to establish a branch
had
finding
when he called
at the villa, lost his head completely,
and was making love as well as his fm-
perfect knowledge of Italian permitted
Nothing definite, however,
:
alone
i
i
the head cashier, Parkinson, not he,
would have had all the credit of it. He
retired to his place among the other
irrks a little sore at the rebuff, yet not
iitirely dissatisfied. s
Un his way home Mr. Hodgson re-
neinbered that the bank held some
i
daughter's hand,
Maria fled like a hare disturbed on
her form, and the count advanced with
a heavy frown on his aristocratic broy,
i
wad deemed rather shaky, Next morn-
nature of his information,
“Perhaps vou will excuse my enter-
ow
A
the utmost coolness,
ignorance of Italian etiquette,
The count heard him to the end. and
then surveyed him from head to foot with
ford eotopany exchanged for other secu.
ities,
Tommy, who managed to know most
»f what happened at the bank, noted the
art and rejoiced.
Within six weeks the shareholders of
de Mudford Chemical company met
and resolved to go into liquidation; and,
though Mr, Hodgson did not think it
worth while to thank the junior elerk
for the information he had given, Tom-
my was perfectly satisfied. He knew
that do not forget things which
ve pockets,
It happened that some months after
he i tof the Mudford Chemical
sompany, Messrs, Hodgson had import-
aut b to transact in Turin, and it
was thought advisable that the senior
partuer should proceed to that city to
*
“It's a piece of gross presumption in
you-—a mere clerk,’a nobody-—to ad-
air,
"OL course,’ said Tommy, bitterly
stung by the count’s look. “If I we
# partner in Hodgon's, though, you
would give me a different answer,
“If you were a partner in Messrs,
Hodgson, Dunford & Parr’s,” said the
count, with an altered expression, ‘‘that
would make a differnce of course; but
as I do not understand that you have
any prospect of entering that firm, 1
don’t see how that affects you,"
Pommy sighed, and made his escape
as soon as possible. He knew that he
might as well ask for the lord chancel.
jouship us ask for a partnership in the
For two days Le remained in the state
of cella and then he received advices
from London informing him of the de.
cision to which the firm had come with
respect to the new branch, A few
months before would have been
Mathers
Halaparted with detignt at the
which the firm made to him; now
he considered that he was getting barely
— PARR
his due, and besides he
with respect to the beautiful Maria that
mere commercial matters did not pos.
sess their usual interest for him,
Suddenly, as he sat with the open let-
ter bearing the well-known signature
before him, Tommy conceived an idea.
Without a moment's delay he called
for his bill at the hotel, sent a waiter
for a cab, and took the first train north-
ward, He arrived at Victoria early in
the morning, went to a hotel, washed
and dressed himself, and, purposely de-
laying until the partners should have
reached the office in St. Swithin’s lane,
he presented himself before his employ-
the morning letters,
“Hullo, sir!"
he caught sight of the young man,
“What are you doing here? Anything
| wrong?"
**Nothing is wrong that I know
7 said the young man, coolly,
“Then why are you here without
leave?’ asked the junior partner,
{Didn't you get our letter
you of our arrangements???
*1 did Mr. Parr, It is in conse
{ quence of that letter I am here.” This
was said with considerable gravity, and
‘
AE
of
81
spoke, “1 am afraid, sir,”’ he contin-
tinued, ‘that I cannot accept the siti.
tion you were good enough to offer me
{ at Turin.’
“Don’t
burst out
{| Hodgson, in i wrath at
he man was assuming
1 find fift {
hundred, for that matter.’
“You forget,
specitully but firmly, ‘“‘that I have been
t at Turin for time. I know
| business there: and what I came here to
old
5 ive
i%
Sir,
S01ne the
share in the firm
Mr. Parr, started
“What sir!”
Mr. Dunford |
swore,
Mr. Hodgson choked and
If a had burst in
I it could not have occasio 1
Sur than Tommy's modest
the sweeper at the next cross
to help
drawers under the «
and ejaculated,
aughed aloud and then
breath shell
more
4
ied to be allow
HAVE 5 SE) BA)
havin
withdrew
Bef
ris had
mn had
Ie
share wh
sented litt
CTR SQIAryY.,
——-—
2 Play-Actor
Squeled
Que summers
Ma-
Nis was st PRInE as i
we White mountains,
The news got abroad in the 1
ing towns that a ““trul
at the hotel,
dian saw coming up sty ro
{old lady with a green umbrella,
reaching the hotel she surveyed all
pants of the piazza, Dan included
and, not
up the steps and Into the hall, As soon
as the old lady, who had evidently come
{in her best “bib and tucker,” had
| shaken out her skirts and cleared her
| throat of dust, she demanded of the
clerk, in a very peremptory tone:
| “Whar’s that ere play-actor? [I've
| tramped three miles to see the critter,
! and I'm a-going to see him.”
“Were you inquiring for me?"
Jan,
“Be you the play-actor?'’
“That's what some people call me."
| pleasingly replied the actor,
“You hain’t one o® those folks as act
i on the stage, be you?"
“Oh, yes,” said Dan.
i “I want ter Know; but what do you
ido anyhow on the platform-—who do
{ yau take off?"
{ “Oh, fools and idiots, and so forth,”
responded the now irate comedian,
| After a long stare she removed her
| spectacles with a satisfied expression
| and remarked:
i “I want ter know; wall, you lovk as
| though you could do it fust-rate.”
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First American Library,
The first American library was that
of Harvard college, which was founded
in 1638, and it wasabout fourteen years
after this that Hezekiah Usher, the first
bookseller in the United States, opened
his bookstore is Boston, From 1775 to
1800 thirty libraries were established in
this country, In the next twenty-five
years 120 were established, and in the
next twenty-five, 661. From 1850 to
1875, 2,481 libraries were established,
and now there is scarcely a house in the
country which has not its collection of
nor a town which has not its
public library.
AI I.
Do not be fond of compliments; re-
member that “thank pussy
thank you, PUSSY.” hilad the oat’ nd
wo ery
The Indian's Ghost,
“Yes l
by what 1 thought to be a ghost, Don’t
look as though you did not believe me,
It is true. 1 was frightened for a mo-
ment or two out of my wits,’’ So sald
Joshna Martin, an engineer on the
Canadian Grand Trunk railway,
companions, sitting in a little station on
that line one December night,
bound,
80 it happened, perhaps ou account of
the gleowny surroundings and propects,
that the men of the blockaded freight
SHow
and talked of ghosts,
“I had a freight train which ran now
then, for the time bills
iY,
were not
Was pro-
did run had
y a schedule in the hands of the
company’s officers, The Intercolonial
“Well, down along the gulf of the St.
Lawrence there hang all kinds of
tions and legendary shadows,
pdian
would fill al
knew
French WOK,
which
Ott
Lines
tation-masters
these stories by the score, and nothing
than to
fio would listen to his yarns,
“As a rule, sople i
much
pleased him better get any one
Ww
4
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10
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ET
istéening to him; I
many of his rit
But one
ppened thata lo were ob
to him, as
position as
been a block
and three trains were
among bound wes
track was cleared,
“Well. 1
we
There had
them,
‘old Mike,’
talked for an entire evening
We heard all aboy
RO iin
accoraing
uppose
(ore
the Were-Wolf, which, to
We heard the b
8 of the Perce rocks, and
rite I ation J nif
India:
those CHL
parts,
i ]
legend
sg
i
Tier
Tg
sv £4 #
py the ter:
siwavs had
si HE
iL Supp»
sores in, a
ol
the reat
to travel hout a stoker that 4
we wen here was a little sleet am
a pretty sharp wind; but we had not gone
brakeman in
wit
Wik
4
01s
cold, and a touch of frost took hold of
things In general, 1 felt
ting «lippery, and on one or two grades
had to make free with the sand-boxes,
“l knew that if this continued I
should have hard work before me, and I
began to fire up a bit, While I was
doing this, I suppose I forgot al} about
the stories of ghosts av’ Lhantoms, for
when I did look abe. again I felt just
as though a lump of ice bad gone down
my back, and I remembered them once
more, for there-.right in front of the
engine—was what seemed to be
13 ¢ ¢
the rails gels
It
was twice is large as life, sharply vet
dimly shadowed out in the strong glare
from the héad-light, and seemed to be
that might have meant warning or
menace, It seemed, also, to contort
itself at tindes as though in pain,
or think, don't mind telling you, as
1 told you Before. that I was thoroughly
frightened, For, coupled with ‘Old
Mike's story, I think you will agree
with nde that it wasat least queer. The
ghost of the Indian appeared, so he had
told us, to people in enlarged propor.
tions, and by signs warned and remind-
ed them of the malediction he intended
for all who occupied his ancient patri-
mony. J
“Here/ was I, going through what
had onde been his possessions, and in
front of / the train was a spectral form,
waving ‘what was perhaps his curse, or
worse still, foreboding ill to the train I
was dri ing. ;
si was standing there, with
tho and fancies rush ee Thing
would viciously strike
dance and fling
wh eleaful fon.
ne, it seemed
it with a
BEI PRARTRTY
through the motions of a war-dance,
“I had ample time to note the hate.
had let the steam diminish and let the
speed fall off. But it was LRT
thing, There stood the phantom,
sharper and more definitely visible when
were passing through an open snow
clad locality, than in the here
it seemed at times to fade and almost
disappear, »
‘it could not Le
il aft
LL Se
the
woods, w
human, fox
pace with
It glided
h
il
train,
‘It
Lion,
Hinan cou
112 of ane ine,
COnLin
It was
vas 80 5 rie)
able to think of
But tha
and at last in
thought I would
ver Lhe
on steam
WWes
terror wa
spi
:
make an
hateful Presence. Bu
Was There moved the
ghost equally we train, The sud.
brought tl
he top of the cars to
8]
hoti
den increase of speed
y $
nanover t what
we
was Ww company was at
“That strucl , and when I coupled
up again I climbed up and saw tl
wrong. My ghost 1 keep in
and 1 sometimes
in”
me
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laugh
en
Artificial Ivory,
How, is artificial ivory made?
ity and dearness o
ine ivory have driven inventors
manufacture artilcial compounds capa-
ble of replacing it for many industrial
and domestic purposes, These com.
pounds, which may almost without ex-
ception be classed under the name “‘cel.
Inloid,”’ are formed of divided cotton
waste, or some similar substance, soaked
in either vegetable naptha, nitro-benzol,
camphor, or alchohol. Sufficient of these
solvents is used to make a soft, plastic
which is subject to hydraulic
pressure and mixed with oils, gums and
Any degree of flexi-
5
§
i
made white and transparent, or of any
brilliant color, It can be made hard as
ivory, or retained in 80 soft a condition
i
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THE CUP THAT CHEERS.
The Immense Amount of Poor Tes
Consumed by Ignorant Caucasians,
If the tea trade is ceasing to be as
profitable as it used to be, the tea drink-
» well aware that the quality of
odd 18 no louger what it
India and Ceylon send us very
hough the English palate jo
ully educated to a liking for
ands, China, which at one time
had a monepoly of the supply, is falling
t Il rare samples for those
who for them. But few
buyers being at hand, the importers
naturally msster to the
er Lasles 11 Je88
the stuff was,
sound teas
still to
1x
off.
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and wore
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and,
the buyer +
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inguish a first-cias
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not
verybody
little, aiile
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premies
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of Lhe er
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} the roar of the
i ‘here was an
open crater on hakarange, and
Waacdiately a huge volume of denss
black = issued from 3 and “lw
country ail around began to get dark.
In half an hour it was so black that no
one could see their hands in froat of
them. While this was going on
shower of pieces of lava the size of peas
tame down with terrible swiftness, and
with such force as to be alipost as dan
gerous as bullets,
They Spoke to the Khedive
The Khedive of Egypt has a country
place at Helwan, fifteen miles from
Cairo. There are celebrated sulphur
Springs at Helwan, and all thie tourists
ho flock to the land of the Pharaohs
during the winter months spend a short
¥hile at these springs. His Highness
{3 vg
BLars
beaviest gun
HOR
a
ers over textile fabrics in the same way
as paint is Jaid on. Tt can be pressed
and stamped, planed like wood, turned
in a lathe, cut with a saw, carved, wo-
ven, or applied as a varnish. When
dyed the dye runs through the whole
substance, and cannot therefore be rub-
bed or washed out. An artificial ivory
of creamy whiteness and great hardness
is now made from good washed
in diluted sulphuric then boiled in
ution until they become
solid and dense. They are then washed
free of the acid and slowly dried. This
i can be dyed and turned and made
| in many ways
BAoLEY "What in the world have
Jou got there?" ‘A dog col
re Isn't it a pretty one? Got it for
Itell youit'sa
dog,
I know
sow you aavent a
nu om 30 Aw LL
®e, and was closely followed by two
Very determined looking ladies. The
yal personage scemed annoyed at the
trusion, and sadden'y turned, seem.
gly to escape them, in an opposite di-
tion. The ladies, however, were
L to be thwarted, and striding up to
e Kbedive with #Fifth avenue swing,
e of them said :
“Aren’t you the Khedive 7’
| His Highness politely replied, “1 am."
The ladies said, “We 80.”
nd then, with a smile, “We are from
ew York.”
The very innocent sovereign said
1 thought so,” and, bowing, walked
PAWRY.
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30
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soventific expadition tor the explo
of Africa, is In couse uf ie
tion under the charge of Dr, I
Hebeck. Much is expected of it. Herr
ph Krause will lead the party and
that the are carried out. The
languages social
inhabitants of the re
Niger, Benne cod Lake
Higatinn
the
on about the
.