mn ip DAFFODILS. S——— oF these bright flowers, Fonnowd I was young, long years ago And how you praised the sot leh softly strolied my balr adows whispered of whe poct’s crow! = That shou.d ve mine or lofig to please you, as (he flowers — € pulled to grace youl birthdapoursy That came with coming spth # 50 happy, for yoar love — il earth below and heaven aho~ * 1 could not choose but sing: . as 90 happy; and to-day, ough God hath parted far awg) Yaqur unknown life from ots sense of peace my bosom fills* ad lo! 1 bring fair daffodils, Beloved, for a sign. #ign of love that tires not yet, hat would not, if it could, forget; Of love by love mude brave; of I can bear you flowers to brip il bear to hear the thrushes sing Here, by your quiet grave. —All the Yeatound — pli ati—— ©he Bnave of Herts. to! fnoralize upon the stupid restrictions ' of polite society. Here he must sit loveliest women he had ever seen, unless some lucky accident should give | him the right to address her. Mr. Munroe’s star was certainly im | {ho cscendant that day, for shortly) something occurred which gave him the opportunity he so longed for. A child in a huge collar and sash, clearly a runaway from some distracted nurse- maid, bore down upon the pair. He dragged after him, in the manner | little boys love, a goodly branch of a} tree which a care-taker had lopped off, | swith many another, that morning. It | scraped along the gravel with a noise that was music in the infant's ears, and came to a sudden halt in the em- | broidered skirt of the fair student on the beach. Mr. Munroe sprang to the rescue of | the dainty fabric, and was rewarded with an angelic smile, and some gra- cious words of thanks in the purest English. The young man naturally made the most of this chance for ting the conversational ball rolling, and was succeeding brilliantly, when | an interruption occurred. A lady driv- ing a phaeton stopped at the entrance get- «She has heaps of money, | in her | bwn name, besides being soo utrage- | pusly pretty and fascinating lucky | will be the fellow she smileg pon for fe second time, for smile gain she ust, before long.” “May I ask who is the radint being mder discussion?” said LarrgMunroe, pnffing his quota of cigar swke into jhe cloud about the heads f three young gossips of the sterner ¢$X upon ; © balcony. «Old Tom Lester's wido, to be pre—the rage among the forign ele- ment here. If you troubled ourself ut the society-doings of th place, ou would know all about herin half ap hour, and be ready to sell yur sou’ or an invitation to her house. “As I'm thinking of going to Vi- sina to-morrow, I fear I sall not have the chance of falling vitim to Mrs. Lester's charms,” said M. Mun- pe, nonchalantly. “‘She is going to give a mostunique parden-party and ball, a fctnight hence, at her villa near Stanberg. e people are to be in fancy columes, chosen with great skill—nothin hack- peyed nor commonplace will “ppear ere. Mrs. Lester's special facy is having twelve people represet the pourt cards in the pack. Eleve peo- ple have been selected, but she § still hort of the Knave of Hearts She seems very difficile im the chece of this card, and twenty men ormore are ready to give their eys for the role. She gives all the foen their costumes; elegant hings they are, too, so she has § per- fect right to be whimsical.” ! “Which card does she represen?” ' #The Queen of Diamonds. [hey say she will be splendid—a prfect blaze of jewels. Ah, me! why 3 she blind to the fact that I am thevery to the garden and beckoned to Mr. Munroe’s companion. “Will you have the kindness to guard my property for a few mo- ments?” she asked, rising, with anoth- er ravishing smile. +I have something very important fo say to that lady, and shall return withoat delay.” Had she asked him to throw himself ander the prancing ponies’ heels, Mr. Munroe would have consented gladly; 80, leaving her parasol, book, em- broidered bag and enormous fan upon the bench, she hurried away. In a] she was hidden slump of shrubbery, into the shade of had withdrawn. Could Mr. Munroe have witnessed what then occurred, he would have sscaped the particularly bad quarter of an hour which followed, and he would have also missed what proved to be the luckiest event of his life. No bull-dog in custody of his master’s old boot ever assumed a fiercer expression than did Mr. Mun- roe guarding the feminine vanities in- susted to his care. The duty of pro- iecting them was not very onerous, as few people passed that way; still, he shose to believe that the task was fraught with difficulty. For one mo- ment he was called away from his post, by a fellow whom he had beaten st billiards the previous evening entic- mg him into a few remarks over the aedge. When he returned, he saw to iis rage a common-looking woman standing by the deserted bench, coolly \ppropriating the property confided to ais care. ‘Look here, old girl!” he wried, dashing to the rescue, ‘‘leave hose things alone!” The woman looked at him with a slank amazement, which he easily in- erpreted as fright at being caught in a heft. fellow she needs for the Knaw of Hearts?” “Why don’t you stop a bit loiger, Munroe, and fish for sn introducion? [Perhaps she woald hit upon you.” , “No chance of that,” said om ot young gentleman's companbns, bluntly. “We young English fellws, mone of us anybody in particular, lave #80 chance there.” | “Is Mrs. Lester of an age that alls Mr. Munroe, with dignity. «She is twenty-two; was married at seventeen, and left one of the richest Ridows in the country at nineteen.” ¥4¢The best people in Manich, and out it, for that matter, are to be at that 1}, continued the regretful young n, who felt that the youth of Lis tion were at a discount. ‘She was liged to select her kings and queens among the swells who have feted ber, but the knaves might be anybody.” Though Mr. Munroe professed the most profound indifference for the beautiful Mrs. Lester, he, in spite of himself, felt privately considerable iu- rest in the chatter of his friends upon is their favorite subject. It woukl » rather a triumph to be chosen Kunave ‘of Hearts, to the discomfiture of scores tof his countrymen. But as he did nat know the lady even by sight, he de eided that he was a conceited ass to dream of such possibilities. The next morning found Mr. Manros aitting in the Pinakothek Garden, cone. templating his immaculate boots and wondering if it was worth his while ta ‘spend another week in the City of the Muuchner Kindl. Presently a mors sgrecable object than his boots offered $tzelf for his fartive contemplation. . A lady charmingly dressed in a mar. . vel of Bt. Gall embroidery of the soft- _ @ot creamy tint approached down the "shady path. The pink silk lining of + her parasol cast a delicate glow upon her pure, pale face, illumined by large eyes , of the deepest brown, with singularly ~ bong lashes. "As there was no other bench near, she sat down upon the other end of the ga L edging his presence by a slight inclinas An eme hung from her “arm by a bewildering system of rib- ' bons, from which she produced a book, | and apparently forgot herself in its pages. gave Mr. Munroe an Sporty to study the fair stranger's uling pre , the perfect hand that held the , and the graceful flow of her embroidered fkivty: down to whers «Come, my friend, be off, or I will {>ut you in charge of the first police Dfficer I can spot,” he followed up, saying hold of the parasol, already ucked under her arm. The old ied her appearance, Ilsunching at Munroe a volley of invectives of which we did not understand one word. His English was as Greek to her, but his restures and defiant expression were slogquent enough. i Instead of leaving go of the parasol, he coolly proceeded to annex the bag md fan, ast which the man's wrath burst forth. “You hardened old reprobate, how : lare you persist in vour vicious ways wmnder the broad light of heaven? Give ne those things!” { And he, with no gentle hand, do ipoiled her of her Sooty. Why should {ot the old creature take herself off, jastead of standing there lashing him frith her tongue like a very Jezebel? {The situation was growing very awk- rard. People were stopping in their urried walk to wonder what all the ‘iss was about. Mr. Munroe, not peaking or understanding a word German, was powerless to wplain. Why did not the fair | wher of the things return, to end a cane that wae becoming really dis rraceful? The erowd that always ap- (years to rise from the earth on such ve- | naions gathered quickly aroumd the wiligerunts, The errand-boy intrusted vith a package to be delivered with he utmost haste—the lank little girl mrrying a sore-eyed baby-—sqaads of young : dlers of all descriptions—~watched the | ray with keen interést. At lust find- | ng her eloquence of no avail—only wer Munroe’s prostrate body could’ ibe gain possession of the other things i —the old woman flung the parasol’ jown upon the bench and fled, with ne bony Sst menacingly uplifted. { “Thank Fortune she is gone!” Mr, Munroe murmured to himself. “Dut will she come back?’ he thought un- anily. She did return, alas! and mn com- yany with a stolid-visaged guardian of he peace. This functionary gravely ook possession of the fan, bag and sher articles which had caused so nach disturbance, and motioning Xr, Hunroe and his foe, the old woluan, o follow him, left the garden. At the nearest police-station a man vas found who spoke a little English, nto whose ears Mr. Munroe poured he tale of his grievance. He learned he old woman's side of the story in he following words: “ This old wife say she is servant to ' he dame who leave upon the bank her sbjects, This dame send her, the wife, o bring these objects, and you, 8 vio- ent Englishman, forbid her, with Senge and fierce eyes.” “ hat might easily be a li trampod tp for the oconsion,” said the exagger- ded Munroe, doggedly. The official sravely looked in hie dictionary for the expression ‘trumped up,” and failing to find it, requested the gentleman to clothe his idea in simpler language. “Let her bring a note from her mistress stating the name of the book left in my charge. <The Madonna of the Future’ is rather a mouthful for this old fraud to learn by heart and have introduced in some swindling epistle, If this is correct in the mete, I will resign all the things.” This suggestion being pronounced old woman, furious at her word being doubted, was dispatched for the state ment from her alleged mistress, Mr. Munroe gat grimly down upon the hardest stool in the office to await her return. What was his mingled discomfiture and delight, half an hpur later, to see the fair owner of the dis- puted embroidered muslin—drive up to the Police Bureau in an elegant victoria. She alighted, sought out Mr. Mun- roe, and all the annoyance her thoughtlessness had caused him. “My old laundress has just told me the whole story, or, rather, her side of she said, struggling with a desire seen that the honest old might have brought about such contre- temps. My friend Mrs. Trevor insist ed upon my going with her to look at a picture. As my old servant happened to be passing just as 1 entered the phaeton, I sent her for my things left in your care. I never dreamed of your so grievously misunderstanding each other, Can you forgive me, Mr, Mun- roe?” That young gentleman found clem- sentiment, He was also flattered that 80 quick to cateh his name from the official's lips. He wondered if would ever be lucky enough to know her name. “This unpleasant occurrence cannot be false to a trust, even of the ready to fight for my interests. But come, this is surely not the place for a prolonged tet-a-tete. Pray let me drive you to your hotel, as a slight compensation for your loss of time. The eestatically happy Munroe took his place on the satin cushions of the victoria, devoutly hoping that costhman would lose his way to the Hotel Bellevue, and prolong the drive indefinitely. But the man did nothing of the kind, and Mr. Munroe was obliged to alight all too soon. “Who was that lady?” he asked of a servant, when he had effaced himself among the admiring crowd of menials who watched the victoria depart. «“Mra. Lester, the millionaires wid. ow.” “Will the scquaintance stop here?” Mr. ingly. The next day a note requesting his presence at dinner, and signed “Con- stance Lester,” gladdened the heart of Larry Munroe. Other invitations fol- lowed close upon the heels of this one, sud people began to gossip about Mrs, Lester's predilection for her good-lovk« ing companion at the Bellevue. » - - She was walking in the garden with him one eveuing, he fanning her with the very toy of tortoise-shell and feath- ers which had been instrumental in bringing him into his present para- dise. «Mr. Munroe, I have a favor to ask of you; will you grant it?” “Anything, even to the half of my kingdom,” said the young man, with his heart iu his eves, “Oh, 1 don’t exact such a sacrifice a= that. | only wish youn to be my Knave of Hearts; will you?” Need it be added that Larry Mun. roe accepted with an eagerness that surprised his fair companion? » * » » “And so the Queen of Diamonds is going to marry her Kuave of Heart?” Society said, when the season was over. “That lucky Musroe. 1 can’t see what she finde in him, compared to the dozens of really clever wen in her train; but there is no accounting for a pretty woman's freaks.” —————— - How the Air Brake Works, Said a railroad man to me to«lay: “1'll bet not one in the hundeed of the people who travel on railroad trains understand how the pressure of air is used to apply the brakes to a train, When the air brake was first invented the air was turned inte the cylinder under each car when the cur wus to be stopped, and the pressure was exerted brakes ap against the the wheels. But at the present day the brakes are held against the wheels by springs, and the air is turned int from the wheels as Jong as the train is in motion, When it is desired to stop the train the air is let out, and then the springs apply the brakes and stop the train. This last method of using air pressure has great advan over the old way on the score of safety, “Whenever an accident happens to a train one of the first effects it is apt to have is to rupture the air pipes leading from the engine to the cylinders under the cars; that of itself stops the train instantly. It is very important for everybody to understand this nat ter, because a child five years old can stop a train in thirty seconds feom any THE SHAH EN ROUTE. aE TRAVELS VERY MUCH KEKE A CIRCUS, ——— Accompamisd by an Army of Men, Women and Horses | It was pitch dark as we approached {the royal camp, and the appearance presented thereby was very extraordi- nary. ‘There appeared to us to be miles of white tents, each with a camp fire burning before it. There were | camels, mules and horses in every di- rection that our eyes could penetrate. It was as if we had suddenly been plunged into the midst of a vast army, and well it might be, for the following are roughly the statistics of the retinue which accompanied the Shah from his capital to the frontier: Four thousand quadrupeds, including mules, horses | and camels, for carrying the luggage and drawing the carriages; 3000 tents to accommodate 7000 to 8000 individ- | uals: 206 carriages for the royal suite | alone, 3 royal wives, and their 40 fe- | male attendants. The Shah's tent arrangements covel { over an acre of ground. . . The | huge red tent inhabited by the still | slumbering monarch was visible from | afar. It was pitched in a grove of | poplars by the side of a tiny lake, and | surrounded by a wall about eight feet | high, made of Resht embroidery-—that | is to say an embroidery of chain stitch, | uniting little bits of colored cloth, | which we know well enough in Eng- | land in the shape of table covers and | antimacassars, and for which I have | never really felt any great affection; but still, when it decorates a high wall | inclosing an acre of ground the eflect | is startling and magnificent. Finer table covers of the same ma | terial were spread as saddle cloths over | the many gayly-caparisoned horses around us, and just as we approached quantities of mules were on the point of starting with royal and other bag- | gage, with bright red palls cast over their burdens. All the carriages were | waiting ready before the gate into the | royal inclosure, which was formed of | poles painted red, looking not unlike gallows. Anisi Dowlet, the Shah's favorite wife, was just going to start | in her gilded carriage, drawn by six | gayly-caparisoned horses. She is are- { markable woman, who has held her po- | sition of favorite for thirty years. She | has no children, she is not yoang, and | I am told not beautiful; but her intel | lectual qualities are such and her man- | ners so bright that they have placed | her far ahead of the other ladies in the | royal harem. There, too, was the | Shah's own horse, called Beest Sitoun, or Twenty Pillars, with its beautiful | and neat gold bridle and its saddle | cloth of very fine Resht embroidery | partially covering its glossy flanks. From the bearing-rein two straps ol | gold lay across his chest; he is a splen- did animal snd always held in readi- ness for his Majesty to ride when tired of driving In his carriage. Close to Twenty Pillars stood another horse in readiness to carry his Majesty's pipe bearer; the pipe is a lnxury indulged in by all Persian grandees when travel ling. His Majesty's own Kalyan or water pipe is carried in a drum-shaped case, covered with purple velvet and gold, and strung from the saddle. Af the other side are suspended the fire box and the water gourd, similarly decorated and all ready, so that at » a moment's notice the pipe can be pre pared when the Shab expresses a wish fur a whitl. sont not Curious Things in a Cotton Bale. At the Wampanoag Mill the othm day, says 8 Fall River letter in the providence Journal, the workmen in the picker-room stwpped a package of matches just us the bundle was disap vearing into the picker. Tt had come | nut of a cotton bale the men had just |opened. Had they gone into the machine there would have been a lively blaze. Speaking of this incident, s man who bas tended a picker for scv- eral years said that the things come out of a cotton bale and evidently grow in bushes would astonish one One day he heard something grind in | side the picker, and, stopping the | machine, found a silver spoon. Liz | ards and small snakes are common, 4 | set of false teeth, small coins, knives ! tolmeco, and occasionally articles of more value, have been found. These things undoubtedly got inside the bales necidentally, but there arcother things which evidently get inside in accord: ance with a fixed purpose, and, by strange coincidences, they are found to weigh more than cotton, and not te be worth as much per pound on the market. Band, scrap iron and din are often found wrepped inside , gotton bale for ballast, Japanese Dancing Girls, The Japanese girls! Ah! they are the clou of the Paris exhibition after the Eiffel tower. They are more talked about than the colored foun tains, President Carnot, or Boulanger, ' Rider Haggard ought to study these | extraordinary creatures; they have » look of being related to Cleopatra. They are still in their téens, and prom. ise wever to quit them; they are yek low, Egyptian, und have an extinet active volcano air. They have the eyes of vipers and the eyeballs of the . tiger r dance movements are supple; they are as cold as and as impassive aA they are ealgmat oo. . | THE STUB-TAILED COW. . | 4n Incident That Reminded } resident Lincoln of a Little Story. humor are seemingly inexhaustible, | One, which I think has never appeared in print, comes from a man who held | a prominent office under Lincoln, and | who knew the great statesman well, ' At an official ball some thieves made off with many of the hats and over- coats of the guests, so that when the presidential party was ready to take leave Vice-President Hamlin’s head covering was not to be found. “I'll tell you what, Hamlin,” said a friend ; “early in the evening 1 saw a man, possessed of keen foresight, hide his hat upstairs. I am sure he would be willing to donate it to the adminis- tration, and I will go and get it for you.” When the hat was produced it was found to be much after the style affect- ed by Hamlin, but it wore a badge of mourning, which emblem the Vice- President ripped off with his penknife. The party stood chatting merrily as they waited for the carriages to driven up, when a man stepped directly in front of Mr. Hamlin and stood star- ine at the “tile” with which his head was covered. ’ “What are you looking asked Hamlin sharply. “Your hat,” answered the man mildly. «If it had a weed on it I shonld say it was mine.” «Well, it hasn't got a weed on it, has it?” asked the Vice-President. «No, sir,” said the hatless man, “it hasn't.” “Then it isn’t your hat, is it?” said the proud possessor of it. «No, I guess not,” said the man as he turned to walk away. When this little scene was explained to President Lincoln he laughed heartily and said: “That reminds me, Halmin, of a long time ago when | was pioneering and soldiering in Illinois, and we put up a joke on some officers of the United States Armny. My party and 1 were a long way off fram the comforts of civ- jlized life, and our only neighbors were the garrison of a United States fort. We did pretty well for rations, had plenty of salt meat and flour, but milk was not #0 be had for love or money, and as we all longed for the delicacy we thought it pretty mean that the officers of the fort, who had two cows—a stubbed tailed one be at, sir?” no milk, though we threw out many and strong hints that it would be sc- ceptable. At last, after much consul- tation, we decided to teach them a les- son and borrow or steal one of those cow being at once identified and re- covered was the question. At last we hit on a plan. One of our party was dispatched a day’s ride to the nearest slaughter house, where he procured a long red cow's tail to match the color of the stub-tailed cow, after possessing ourselves of which animal we neatly tied our purchase to the poor stub, and with appetites whetted by long sbsti- nence we drank and relished the sweet milk which ‘our cow’ gave. A few days afterwards we were honored by a call from the commander of the fort. «Say, boys,” said he, ‘we have lost one of our cows.” Of course we felt very sorry aud expressed our regret accord- ingly. ‘But’ continued the command- er, ‘I came over to say that if that cow of vours had a stub tail, I should say it was ours.’ “But she hasn't a stub tail, has she?’ aslied we, sure of our point. « «No, said the officer, ‘she certainly has not a stub tail.’ ««Well, she isn’t your cow then,’ and our argument was unanswerable as was Hamlin's.”—New York Tri bune. a —— The Face at the Window. «This letter is to my husband,” she raid as she licked on a stamp at the window in the corridor of the crowded postoffice. “Yes'm.” «Will it go out to-day ?™ “Yes'm."” “Iv first mail?” “Yes'm.” “He ought to get it day after to-mor- ow 7" “Yes'm."” “And [ought to have his letter by sext Saturday 7” “Yes'm.” “lt isn't over weight? “No'm.” “And if he gets it, and if I get his anewer by Saturday I can write—"' “Pléase don’t obstruct the window, ma'am; there are forty people wait ing.” «Oh, there are! That's always the way of it! 1 can’t get a word of in- formation out of this postoflice, try as {1 will. Good day, sir!” C—O AAA Cross and Redirect. lawyer--Now, Mr. Costello, wil you have the goodness to answer me, directly and categorically, a few plain questions? | Witness—Certainly, sir. | «Now, Mr. Costello, is there a fe- male at present living with you who is known in the neig od as Mrs Costello 7 “There is.” 1s she under your protection? “She is.” “Now, on your oath, do you main. tain her?” “Jlave you over been married to § ber!” “1 have not.” (Here several severe jurors scowled . all Mr. Coetalio “That is all, Mr. } you may go down.” Aon The I FUN. A cracked-up diet—Scolch ‘oats 4 Chicago Globe. The original national flower was the | Mayflower.~-Chicago Herald, ' An Electric Bpark—Making love by telegraph.— Washington Capital. The original «big fonr”—The fore. fathers at Plymouth.—Chicago Herald. Berrypickers get what they can and ean what they Boston Trane script. i When a doesn’t follow that he is iret BCL. like a fish in the swim, man drin! — Boston Yost. This mercury | times, ~ The lear - Atchison (ziobe, her. Even the inss higher these in man who ought to listen and i 1 11% rae n usually does most of the talking. difficuly traces A harness thief is the most detect him.—Light. : ‘ tol as afi De ne Lakes au to Ww 1th Li k for motes in the eve irl: vou look for the s American, price to in * } ' # UsUAl, Te raid. Gossip reminds of 1 ing. rests Rept ii us Only one story out of a a a foundation. Can. wn in -PBiunghamion The expression ‘the long and the short of it” is never better understood than when a man for money § when he is short of it.—Harper's Bazar. Why, of out wongs ree, Can I swim? Dut I never go far; 3y interest, not pleasure, I'm led. The men on the beach won't they are If they see nothing more than my hesd, wh'd 8 we In The act of swimming furnishes am exception to the rule that Kicking operates against a man gelling aiong in the world.—Binghamton Repub lican. Rev. Primrose—#Do you know where you will go if you do these pasughty things?’ Little Johnnie— | «Yes, sir—go to bed.” — Harper's | Bazar. Since cloudbursts have become pop ular we hear little or nothing of cy- clones. They're unfashionable, and #0 refrain from appearing in good so- ciety .—Troy Press. “No, Mr. Jones, I cannot be wour wife.” “But you'll be a sister to me. Promise me that.” ¢Itis unnecessary. Your brother proposed to me last week and I promised to be his sister. 1 have been your sister for a week.” “The bridesmaids wore handsome breeches, the gift of the bridegroom.” Do mot be shocked; the composiior could hardly have recovered from the annual picnic when he made this sad blunder about the bridal brooches, Dr. Grimshaw-—¢Don’t you know, young man, that itis ver: injurious te blow cigarette smoke down your nose in that way?” Mr. De Addie—< ls it? I know it's vewy agweecable, and 1 hate to do it, but all the other fellows do it, doncher know?" Jones (the gardener, whose son is office boy in the city office)— Well, sir, I hope you like my son John. } hope he gives you satisfaction.” Mas ter—Oh, 1 expect he'll get on pres ently. There's one thing in his favor; he doesn’t snore as loudly as my las one.” A French soldier on active servis was informed by the mayor of his | village that his father had recently | died. In scknowledgment he wrote as follows: “AM. le Maire, I heartily thank you for my father's death. It is oa little accident that often happens im | families. As for myself, I am in the hospital minus one leg, with which | { have the honor to salute you!” Jenkins (walking up the front gar | den)—+What on earti” (reads ‘Ne | admittance except on business” )— «What on earth, Mr. Parker, have you got that stuck on your front door | for?’ Parker—¢Why, 20 many or namental fellows call on my daughters | they are in one another's way, and as | the girls don’t go off I must do some- | thing to reduce the surplus! Coming iin? No? Well, ta tal” Scenp—The gaming table at Monte Carlo. Young English lady with her little sister and = gentleman whose ao- quaintance they had recently made while traveling. Young Lady—Now, 1 shall just try one five-frane piece on the number of my age,” putting one on number eighteen. Number twenty. seven wine. Little Bister—<«QOh, Maud, what fund Now, if you had put it on your right age you would have won, woulda’t you? One day a clergvman’s wife, pre paring to give a collation to her hus nd’s association on the following Monday, and not being in the habit of doing extra work on Sunday, told her cook that she had Letter boil the ham it would be toe warm to slice. “Wy,” drawled the cook, “Miss W'ite, ver don’t think # ef wo biled it slow? «I'd like to see Mr, ——
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