LHE DEAD SEA BIRD,
‘What hand relentless checked
wing,
Aad brought swift anguish to the glazing
eye?
Whose heart could bear to maim so bright s
thing,
Then leave it here to linger and to die?
At best it was a cruel pleasure sought,
Xf aught be pleasure cruelty has wrought.
that rapid
Young voices echoing along the beach
Proclaim this rarer prize than weed
shell;
Pinions that may not save It from thelr
reach,
And snowy plumes just ruffled as they fell,
Bee, yonder sail its fellows! Death is strange
To childish hearts; these marvel at the
change.
O
No more to waken with the light of morn;
No more to listen to the ocean's hymn;
No more "twixt azure sea and sky upborne, |
To skirt the far horizon’s hazy rim. |
And, when the clouds betoken storm, to soar |
Inland no ab! saddest words,
more.
more; ne
Dear child, to whom unconsciously has come |
Some intuition of that minor chord,
That undertone which never shail be dumb
Till waning earth vield Paradise restored:
Blest be the sweet compassion that can give
A tender thought to meanest things that live!
A SUMMER EXPERIENCE
We were not very well off. Father's |
situation in the bank, although a re-|
vielded but a small]
salary when compared with the ex-
pensive family it had to support; so
when the question came up where we |
should spend the summer one of the |
first things to be taken into consider |
allon was expense,
sponsible one,
It did not make much difference to!
me—I was sure of a certain amount of
admiration and attention wherever 1!
went. I had always received it since |
my first day at school, where my |
pretty curls and shining eyes had |
captured the hearts of the ‘‘big boys,” |
ap to the last ride taken in the park.
With not only the beauty but much
3 the of the family, |
amaturally great things were expected
of me.
cleverness
I had but one sister—a poor, pale,
tela Wir
little ti ing.
vounger than I
and had alwas been d ite, but f
some time had
weaker,
nouech the
enough th
boarder
was the only
were no
neighbors being
lands.
I dutily took m3 3
one swallows a bitter tonic. I played
on the ‘ttle old-fashioned piano in the
parlor, and to kill time »
lept away the
greater part of the long summer after-
noons. It was all very dull and com-
wmonplace.
Millie was cheerful and contented.
She read and worked on the pretty]
things she was constantly knitting out
of bright wools, or sketched as much |
of the scénery as she could see from |
ber chair by the window. |
One evening I was out or sorts and |
a little cross, and had just declared I
wouldn't make a toilet to go down- |
stairs, where there was no one but the
landlord's son, who usually exprossed |
his admiration with open-meuthed |
wonder.
Presently our landlady bustled in
full of importance.
“] just ran up a minute to tell you
that the stage has come, and Mr.
Brent was in it. He is here every
summer and comes gunning in the
winter. He gave us the sailboat on
the bay, and we had his name painted
on it, ‘Hartly Brent.’ He ain't so
very young, but he is rich, and I
thought perhaps you'd like to know
he was here, 50 as to change your
dress before you come down.”
She hurried away, feeling she had
done a good deed.
After closing the door to shut out
the cool sea air I wrapped a shawl
around poor, shivering Millie, saying:
“Now, dear, I am ‘forewarned,’
and when I am arrayed in my new
grenadine I shall be ‘forearmed.” ”
Time dragged no longer after Hartly
Brent came, and soon several other
pleasure-seekers arrived, until we were
& merry party. Escorts were plenty,
and, as was the privilege of my belle-
hood, I chose such as pleased me best.
When my choice fell on Mr. Brent, as
it often did, I could see how pleased
he was to be of service. He was nev.
er officious, yet always ready to quietly
render any little attention needed. His
manner was different from the gay gal-
lantry of other cavaliers, with their
jests and flattery, though he was al-
ways deferential, and praised my taste,
any music, snd my voice with a dis
eriminating earnestness I knew to be
fincere,
“It is because he is older than the
others,” 1 said to Millie, who
loved to hear me talk of him.
She was always interested in any-
her, bringing her fruit, and flowers,
and books, and taking her in his strong
arms down to the parlor of an evening
and back again to her room when ghe
was tired. “Besides,” 1 said to my-
self, the warm blood circling round my
heart at the thought, “their attentions
mean nothing, and he is in earnest.”
How qui
happy.
'
‘kly time flies when
Lach perfect summer day has
a remeint
ing the day.
long
Millie in
and in the evening sat on
piazza, after 1 had
and
bed kissed her good-
Mr. Brent
conversation, our voices subdued, that
and I engaged in quiet
told me of
home; of his struggles with the
world, and the had
he
his
success which
and aspirations for the future.
Listening to his voice and looking
out over the moonlit expanse, love
from the sand, and I watched it sailing
drifted, I was so happy.
glass that hung
room,
on
called him Hartly
said I reminded him of a crimson car-
nation, with my bright color and the
spicy scent of my fan.
¢“ And, Millie,” he added, turning to
her with a kindly smile, as though she
might feel slighted, “with her golden
"
It was our last day
The season
mamma was already
over and
with the
to
nearly
wns
t home
bovs and had written to
me come
and bring Millie. Mamma informed
d her case toa
he thou
me that she had des
elebrated phys n, and ght
é
is
poin
ALICE VeRseis,
Ww
shed
lf sunk In the eloquently told
he story of ste i af shipwreck.
Seating mys« projecting beam,
{ gave myself pleasant recol-
itful weeks just
{ my fairy boat sail-
seas and under cloud-
life being
anchored in heaven I
ections of the
1 pictu
ng over friendl:
skies,
it was safely
aad no fear for the future if one dear
aand was to guide
voice I had come to kuow #0 well war
nassed.
ess until done,
me,
How good and noble he is! 1
thought with a swelling heart; how al-
together superior to all other men I
asd known; how worthy the love and
respect of any woman! I had never
seen in love before. I had seen a great
received several
were eligible, and
when mamma said “No,” I had with-
ut a pang seen father turn them
AWay.
There was a step behind me, and my
seart told me who it was,
‘How did you find me?” I asked, as
Mr. Brent pushed aside my dress and
wut down on the same beam,
“Don’t you suppose I have followed
those little footprints until I know the
lender tracks 7” he smilingly answered,
sointing to the impression in the damp
mnd of my high-heeled walking-boots.
‘1sn’t this scene grand? One never
Ares of looking at the ocean, for it is
sever twice alike.”
He was slleut a moment, and seemea
nore thoughtful than usual, gathering
handful of the white sand and
watching it sift slowly through his
ingers. At length recovering himself
ye said:
«Bing something, please; you know
. always like to hear you sing, ‘In sea
on and out of season.” The sea will
se bass and accompaniment.”
I began the old, old ballard, “Three
fishers went sailing away (0 the
west.”
As my voice rose loud and fall swell-
ng over the water with the melody
nd dying away w the sounding mono-
one of the waves, I looked at my com-
mnion. His face was turned ses
ward, and over it was a softened ex.
yression, and in his eyes a tender Nght
4
: { had never seen there before, Though
my heart ceased beating, ny voice was
too well trained to falter, and the mw
sic wailed on:
| “For men must work and women must weep
| Though the harbor bar be moaning.”
| The sad chord did not touch him
| joy and faith and hope held possessior
| How his thoughts irradi.
If
thie
il
| of his soul,
| ated his somewhat stern
was the face of the
world for me, but I did
i could look so handsome.
When the last echo of the song wai
105t in a retreating billow he turned
hand, in the
courtly manner that never forsook him:
I did not know there
in that song. 1
| have heard it often before, but never
like that, Your rendering of it adds a
hundred fold te its meaning, And
{now 1 want to speak to you on a sub-
ject I had not intended to
when I followed you here.”
features,
one man in
not know
and, taking my said,
“Thank you.
| wag 80 much music
mentige
hue, and the firm fingers closed over
clasp,
unnoticed by him, I lowered my sun
my hand in a nervous
shade between my face and his.
“] know I ought to have waited
{ til you were at home, and I had meant
, and find
| my fate before you leave.
myself on vour mercy
sister Millie with all my heart,
| have never loved any one before, and
I ask your permission to tell her so.
with indifference. | take
cherish her as a precious flower.
will
As
my wife, time and wealth shall not be
| firmity.
half, if she hesitates to commit herself
Plead for
assurance that it is
to my care? me with the
love, not pit
feel. Knowing your great
wwer her, I want to beg
for
vieasant friendship, to use
you, the
sake of our I
it in my favor.”
A cloud
3
UE WAYDCS
was
gathering on the dee P,
ked dar
iM AiRTK
HOVE
SAW my
He said:
t's because ok have
of the
terrific speed of these trains, and even
not
the nerve to stand the strain
the nerviest young man gets afraid of
them after a while. Then they get to
letting up a little in speed, the trains
time, the engineers are
given other runs and new men are pw
{on in their places.
“Likely enough you never noticed
how fast those trains go. It is ninety-
{ one miles from Jersey City to Phils-
| delphia. All the trains stop at Tren-
[ton. Some of them stop at other
It is slow work getting out of
run behind
| places.
| the Jersey City yard, over the numer-
ous switches and crossings, across the
{again getting into Philadelphia. Now,
{take a time table and see. The train
| that leaves Jersey City at 7:13 a. m.
| gets into Philadelphia at 10:10, making
ithe ninety-one miles in 117 min-
| utes, That's 47 miles an hour, includ-
| cluding a stop at Trenton. The train
that leaves at 9:14 a. m. makes it in
119 minutes. The train that leaves at
5:13 p. m. does the same and stops at
rermantown Junction as well as
Trenton. The 4:13 p. m. train makes
the two stops and the whole distance
in 112 minutes. That's 49 miles an
boar, including the stops and delays.
Betweeu stations it is necessary to run
faster than 60 miles an hour.
“Very few men can stand the ner
vous tension of running a mile a min-
ute with the tremendous responsibility
of a big load of passengers.”—New
York Herald.
A New Scheme.
The government of New South
Wales has adopted an entire new
scheme of technical education. The
present Board of Technical Education
is to be abolished, and technical schools
will be placed under the direct control
of the Education Department. A sum
of $250,000 is to be expended in the
srection and equipment of a new Tech
nical College and Museum in Sidney,
while branch technical schools will be
established throughout the country dis
tricts. It is estimated that $250,000
will be required annually to ecasry oa
the new arrangements.
STARS AND PLANETS.
VERY FEW INTERESTING PHE.
NOMENA DURING 1890,
The Eclipses Unimportant and Invisi
ble in New England,
Thousands of
looked the same to the astronomers ox
years ago the stars
the plains of Asia as they do to us to
day, and as they probably will as long
this To the
astronomer with a telescope, however,
He
positions
as life exists on earth.
the stars are by no means fixed.
#ces them changdng their
from year to year, and consequently
through
than any cannon ball—that Arcturus
is moving at the rate of 54 miles a sec-
ond, Vega 13 miles and Capella 3
miles,
find some systematic motion in the
| stars, as there is among the planets.
| no evidence for any such
| grand as itis. To all appearances the
slars
The
re is one very remarkable fact con
in
moving in the same «
is that the stars some
ii
This is the
| the Great Dipper, where all the stars,
groups
and
CARO
rection
| the same rate. with
with two exceptions, are moving to-
ward the east, or parallel to the first
{ three the also the
| Hyades and Pleiades are examples of
stars in Handle;
this movement. Such phenomena can-
Yet
we hardly can conceive of stars so far
apart as those of the
having any power one over ancther to
not be accounted for by chance.
Great Dipper
keep them together.
Besides this star-drift,
name given to the comin
the stars of a group.
other
movement 1m
In
We easy acfounts
tion of Hercules,
RR
the Boston Journal.
cot em —
‘fhe Newspaper of To-day,
The functions of the press,
of public sentiment, to direct the pub-
the
logical conclusion of political doctrines
lic poliey, to discern and foresee
Te
NO
government.
newspaper, following out consistent
lasting power. It is not for a day, but
for and
the more likely to be effective because
all time, its
| their text is in passing events,
sublic consideration, The
of
and as the development of the
| the number newspapers carefully
ruadied ;
for it steadily increases,
The old CERRY and the old pa
mphlet
ave gone out of vogue and have been
ded by the
ich m weative of interest,
Ore provi
hief reason why
of
: :. 22 :
nplaints of the decline the
i ventic
ial
| minds are now employing their
ergies in newspapers and periodicals,
shey can thus secure more regular and
and
cause they can wield a wider and
They
a vastly larger audience, 1}
better material recompense, be-
greater influence. not only get
gain the enormous advantage of itera-
hammer
of the
and welcome
dion. Day by day they can
their thoughts into the minds
pid prejudices
{ lar calculations, and although each dif
| fers as to the exact point, all agres
the sun is moving at the rate of fous
miles a second.
There are now about two dozen stars
that have been found to have a sensi-
ble parallax. Of these Alpha Centauri
is by far the nearest. But even from
this star light, which travels 186,000
miles a second, or farther than the dis-
tance from here to the moon in two
seconds, is four years and four months
in reaching us, while it is supposed
that the light which left the farthest
| stars in the Milky Way at the begin-
| ning of our era may still be journeying
toward us.
This fact that light takes an appre-
| ciable time to move from one place to
| another gives an opportunity of indulg-
ing in a very amu YW fancy. For if
we imagine a spirit endowed with a
power of vision that can discern the
smallest object at a great distance, and
with a power of locomotion exceeding
that of light, then the whole panorama
of events that has taken place since the
earth first appeared from the primeval
ucbula could be seen over again,
During 1890 there will be unusually
few interesting phenomena. The
eclipses will be not only unimportant,
but invisible in this part of the world.
Also the principal occultations are in-
visible in New England; other coun.
tries, however, will see Mars, Venus,
Neptune and Mercury occulted by the
moon. Our only hope, then, is that
some large comet may visit our skies.
Venus rises about a quarter of seven
in the morning. On January 19, at 4
a. m., Jupiter and Venus will be less
than the diameter of the moon apart.
Of course, they will not be visible
until two hours lator, but they will still
be very closes to each other. At the
samo time the thin crescent of the moon
will be within a degree or two of both,
Jupiter rises about the time het
Venus does.
Seturn cannot readily be seen this
month, for it rises only abous
minutes before sunrise.
Metour) can be seen in Ue was
the Ail This?
: gy : 3
! Fhe gal am, it should
Gull Siream Doing
: : 1. t ¥
I Men iwereda, much like a fing
ng and made fast at
i is of
| one end; like a line of smoke drift-
from Its
course is largely governed by the wind.
the
£81
ing
a stationary chimney.
wind
A little change in
W) or 1,000 miles from the start-
There
tion 5
ing point. is
less, or the other, in the
prevailing wind-direction on the North
Atlantic, which is usually from
southwest; and those changes are due
in turn to departure from the normal
distribution of barometric pressure.
one way
the Bermudas or Gulf of Mexico, or a
trifling deficiency over the heart of the
continent, say in Manitoba and in On-
tario, would the natural
gradient for south-easterly, southerly,
south-westerly winds and warm up
simost the whole country. Sucha
situation actually existed at the close
of 1881, in which year occurred an
sxceptionally warm December. Almost
the entire country was affected. In
New York City the average excess of
temperature for the whole month was
over 7 degrees (the greatest here re-
corded in that month since the Signal
Service was organized), in Minnesota
1 11, and in the Missouri Valley 18. Even
on Pike's Peak, almost three miles
above sea level, where the wind comes
mainly from the west or south-west,
the deviation was 8.6. Did breezes
from Cape Cod do all this? And is
the Gulf Stream supplying Dakota and
Minnesota with their extra warmth at
increase
m———
STORY OF LEADVILLE,
| A Pursfiscime Young Horse Thief Whe
{ Porwod t= Bo un Girl and Died in Her
Boots,
In the first days of Leadville wagons
formea the only means of transportas
tion of the immense quantity of mere
chandise needed there, and for the
shipment of the large output of ore
and bullion, As a consequence, horses
| and mulee were used in large numbers.
| Trains of freight wagons lined the
roads leading to the great carbonate
camp, and it frequently became neces
SAry to turn the stock out after a hard
day's journey to graze on the adjoine
Leadville offered a good
market for work stock of all kinds, as
| animals brought from the East fre-
{| quently succumbed to the climatie
effect of a high altitude and heavy
work. Many a freighter reached the
top of a hard pull only to see best
work mule lie down and die in the hare
ness. Such inducements and easy sale
brought professional horse thieves in
abundance. The immunity from pune
ishment that they seemed to enjoy
{| and the high prices paid for their
| plunder stimulated them to constant
| activity and made them bold in their
‘ Baguache county, Col,
Helena Journal,
section for the opera~
fraternity, these gentle
their trips with almoss
ty of stage coaches,
| ing hillsides.
his
profession.
BAYS a writer in the
was a favorite
tions of this
men making
the reguis v
After usually bold raid a party
was organized determined to follow
the trail and overtake the thieves, and
if the depredators were caught to save
all eounty expenses in the way of
Sheriff fees and trials. The party
started early in the morning, and as
the trail was fresh they were able to fol-
low it almost at a galiop. Following
along the west side of the San Louis
valley and then through a defile of the
Sangre De Christo Mountains, the
course of the pursuers and pursued
emerged into the Arkansas valley,
close to where the Southern Arkansas
flows into the main stream. Here it
was evident that the two parties could
only be a short distance apart. The
robbers had taken more stock than
they easily handle, and did not
seem to be aware that they were being
ollowed. Two of the stockmen from
» ranches on route joined the
ilantes and furnished fresh horses.
on the following day the
h the stolen stock were dis-
on the north of Cotton-
There were but itwo.
» 8 young boy not
was a fine looking
a or 22 years
Sure
iooter
-
an un
coulda
the
or
i
Fan
I pea
i
Laer
haps |
} we they caine,
WF had heir people were
, and that he desired
his boots, as he did
hat t respecta-
them 0 re-
not wish to
die with his boots on. He was evidently
& man of good education, but positive-
ly refused to give any information. In
a few hours he, also, was dead, and the
two were buried beneath the cotton.
woods near the river bank. Their
| Weuntity was never discovered.
Ive
The Deadly Cold Bed.
If trustworthy statistics could be has
of the number of persons who die every
| year or become permanently diseased
| from sleeping in damp or cold beds
| they would probably be astonishing and
appalling, says Good Homsckeeping. It
is a peril that constantly besets travel
ling men, and if they are wise they
will invariably insist on having their
beds aired and dried, even at risk
of causing much trouble to their land-
lords. But the peril resides in the
house and the cold ‘spare room” has
slain its thousands of hapless guests,
and will go on with its slaughter till
people learn wisdom. Not only the
guest but the family suffer the penalty
of sleeping in cold rooms and chilling
their bodies at a time when they nee
all of their bodily heat by getting be-
tween oold sheets. Even in warm sume
mer weather a cold, damp bed will get
in its deadly work. It k a needless
peril, and the neglect to provide dry
rooms and beds has in it the element of
murder and suicide.
A Modern King Lear.
An old mas named Daniel Murray
has been committed to the slmshouse of
Northampton county, I
his own