A. e-—-.., ll DREAM VISIONS. 3 The garden lies in silence—shadow deep! On filmy wings of purple, soft, unfurled, Comes that ethereal presence we eall sleep, To drug the throbbing senses of the world, Btill is the night--ah, Heaven, how still and clear! Acacia wrapped In showering sheets of bloom Droops ghost-like o'er the pathway; I car : hear A scented petal falling in the gloom. © love! whom nevermore 1 may call mine, I hear thy footsteps on the pathway now; 1 hear the music of that voice of thine, As distant harp notes, tremulous and low i fold thee in my arms-—ahe rest, my love! In this death-silence rest thou on my heart} The wind goes shuddering to pale stars above, We two are here alone—the world apart. Nay, steal not yet away; my lips are laid Upon thy lips of shadow —rest awhile Ab, me! that spirit form may not be stayed, And thy dream-presence passes in a smile HARBORING A TRAMP. It was near the night of a raw, gloomy day, in the autumn of 1886, that a seedy looking tramp turned up to a lonely farmhouse, on the Ken- tucky side of the Ohio river, and asked for something to eat end a place to sleep. A widow with two children, a son and a daughter, lived there. The son, a young man of twenty-two, had gone to Maysville with a small drove of cattle, which he expected to dispose of in that place in time to reach home at an early hour in the evening, and he intended to bring the proceeds of | The &aughter, al rather pretty girl of nineteen, was del- | the sale with him. fcate and timid. “I'll give you what you want eat,” said the widow, whose name was had looked taken a for agree | | 10 | the | little lodg- : Chalmers, after she man carefully over and time for reflection; ‘but as ing you I wouldn't like to to that before consulting my son, who | or o'clock.” “How far is it to the next house?” he asked. “Which way?” may not be home till 8 9 “South,” “Nearly two miles.” ““And night just coming on,” return- ed the other. «I don’t like tramping a lonely road after dark. Won't you let me stay till your son comes home, and take my chances with him?” “I don’t know that I ought to object to that,” was the somewhat reluctant consent of Mrs. Chalmers. She gave the tramp a good supper and peosunaded him to sit by the gen- eral flie—she or her daughter, one or the room. 10 both, being constantly in Eight o'clock, 9 o'clock, o'clock came, and the son and brother had no! returned “Oh, mamma, what can be keeping exclaimed the tone of George?” at length daughter, in the anxious alarm. «“¥ de ed the mother, in great anxiety, as she n't know, Marv dear,” answer- planced at the clock for the twentieth E time. “| suppose he didn’t get through Pi 8 he surely he will be here soon with his business as quick as ex- pected to. now i” She got up and went to the door, and ner daughter timidly followed, looking over her shoulder. “*What a dark, dreary night,” shud- dered Mary, as a gust of wind came in bringi it. “Oh, mamma, do you think any thing serious has happened to him?” wr a little rain with “J hope not,” replied her mother, herself than she “The night is very dark, and it may be he has to walk his horse.” reeling more alarmed chose to have appear. “Where did your son go?” inquired the tramp from his comfortable corner beside the blazing fire. “To Maysville.” “That's a good distance off and the night is dark and the road none of the best. | don’t think you have any oc- casion for alarm yet awhile.” “Thank you!” “Ah, hark!” exclaimed Mary, just as her mother was turning back to shut the door. «I think I heard the tread of a horse.” Her keen ears had made no mistake. The tread of a horse was soon audible to the others, and shortly after the son and brother rode up to the door. After some warm greetings on both sides, snd the brief explanation that he had been delayed in starting, while the darkness and condition of the road compelled him to move slowly, he pro- ceeded to the stable and fed his horse and then came in. On seeing the tramp and learning why he was there, he felt more uneasi- ness than he cared to show, for he had brought home with him a considerable sum of money. His decision, how- ever, was prompt, and A of the kindness of charity, After two or three pointed questions to the unwel- UN aml torily answered, he said: night. I could not find it in my heart to turn adrift any well-behaved human being on a night like this.” responded the man. “You will not re- gret your hospitality.” poor fellow indicated a certain degree of refined cuiture not in Keeping with anda held a conversation with him which convinced him of this fact. His first intention was to throw down some horse blankets and robes, and let him camp down before the fire, but this design was altered with his opinion of the man’s antecedents, and s0%he finally lighted him to a decent bed up stairs under the roof, and ther he and the family retired for the night, occupying two rooms on the ground floor. While these things were taking place inside of that lonely farmhouse, | some things were occurring outside that vitally concerned the parties we! have introduced. met in the| road a few rods from the dwelling. «Hi, Sam!” said one. ‘‘Ho, Ben!” replied the other. Then they came together, and spoke in low, guarded tones. “Well?” queried Ben. ‘All right!” answered Sam. Two “He's him, | that I | know he brought away with him for with There are £1,700 I know about, home and got the money sure, and that ought to pav us for “All right, then. When shall we begin?” wiween 12 and 1 ofedock He's bi to get “JI reckon | be about will the best time. nn home long enough his | we chance to get sound The plotters got under a shed and waited till the time fixed upon for their burglarious work. There were no shut- windows fastenings With a the burglars cut the glass the frame in which it was held, but in sp ters to the only on the inside. diamond ciose to ite of their endeavors to get hold of it, the glass fell with a crash on There was a faint inside. “What ‘s that,” in a tone that showed he was asleep again by the time wera fairly uttered. Then burglars, their faces concealed by black masks, worked their the room, each assisting the murmur of the words the two way into the flashed a light all around other, and them from! of the lantern they car To their surprise they found ti door of the in young man's sleeping room partly open instead of being shut and locked, and they were disposed to take | alarm at it till they heard his steady, heavy after 1ud bed one prepared with the breathing. Then both, another sharp sweep of the light aro the them, noiselessiv advanced to chloroform to seal up his but both ready to murd than fail in their that critical point other human SenNeCs, i er him rather! purpose. Just at| of figure, time an- ] unseen by i them, came the darkness and them. gliding through behind In his h and he held a rope with a noose at one end, not He near the two midnight prowlers that silently stealing up It waa the tramp. unlike a lasso. stopped so could have touched them, and pois. ed the hand that held the rope, every nerve secretly quivered with in- It big with fate for all concerned while tense excitement, was a moment A sin- gle mistake, the slightest error, might cost his own and other human lives. | The robbers, both intent upon their | evil design, did not look behind them. They stopped close to the bed of the sleeping man, one looking over the shoulder of the other. The forward one held a handkerchief in one hand saturated with chloroform, and in the: other hand the lantern whose light he streamed full upon the face of the sleeper. Just as he reached forward to press the handkerchief to the nostrils of | their intended victim, the second rob- | ber, armed with a knife and revolver, prepared for deadly assault, brought | his head up close to his companion’s, the better to note the slightest move- | ment—at that moment the tramp skill- | fully threw his noose over the heads of both. Then, with a vigorous back- ward spring, he tightened the noose around the necks of both and jerked them down-—stumbling, floundering, crashing-—surprised, terrified, almost strangled. . “Surrender and throw down yom weapons or I'll beat out your brains!” cried the tramp, as he jerked and pulled upon the rope, in order to strangle the robbers into submission. The answer was three pistol shots from the man entered the brain of his companion and ended his wicked work for this world. The noise aroused the sleeper, whe started up in alarm, with loud cries This, in turn get the women to shrieking, and the late silent and peaceful dwelling be- came for the time a bedlam of horrors. “Keep quiet, Mr. Chalmers, you shall not be harmed,” said the tramp, ns, still pulling the rope, he pounded the head of the living robber with the butt of his revolver, till he sank under the blows. ‘Now get a light,” continued, ‘‘or turn the light of the villains’ lantern upon their faces and se0 what your tramp has done for you.” It took some minutes more to make George Chalmers, his mother and sis trae state of the case~—that the man to whom they had given shelter had saved them from be- ing robbed, if not murdered. But what was their further amazement and horror to discover that the dead burg- lar and the living burglar were two of their neighbors, with whom they had long been intimate. and whose reputa- he ! Lae honorable men, When they came to pour out profuse thanks to the tramp for his courageous and timely interference in thei their behalf, he quietly responded: thank for, it is true, because vou would certainly robbed, “if “You have much to me not murdered, if 1 but had not been under your roof: § +1 vou have to thanl kK me in a I'm cle sir. I'm i ve had ins for some time, in for il Vou suppose. not he by accident, but re tramp but a detective. i we on these vills § 3 § needed proot Eu On them. By chance 1 overl to rob Lrearge Chalmers wuld get paid for his cs wl out the rest as reg fila in, Samuel Jeg ' nodding the now tiehitly robber 1 NOW figrhtly i r, living Inst ete FP prisOn Or i the gallows.” “Neither, miserable scamp.’ of You cried the man with a long string He never did- coroner's he The whole affair made a great sensation in On hair and beard, the was found hanged head. its locality. his false detective removing tramp was found to be a young and hand. some fellow. A warm friendship sprang up between him and George Chalmers, and shortly afterward a still warmer one between him and Mary Chalmers It seems enough to merely ~~ . add that she is now his happy, grate- . iene . HOME LIFE OF NOTED DIVINES, Preachers in a big city fare about as well as any letter to the Washington Rev. T. De Witt charming home in Brooklyn, corner or De Oxford street. some one, four stories and a basement, Post. Talmage The has na at the South Kalb avenue and The house is a hand- and in the saloon parlor there is enough costly bric-a-brac to stock a bazaar, all of which has been gis the worthy divine by his parishioners. In every-day life he is 10 meet, Mra, La 2 + F% picasing. a decidedly pleasant man and one respect is like MIG. He tries He ready or fluent talker out of the pulpit, heartily to bx is not a but he is always an entertaining and His optimism, indeed, ig his great forte. Another preacher whom I met recently is Dr. Robert Collyer, and 1 never met a man who #0 impressed me with his There is a sturdy wonder. wholesoulness, and rugged, in fully winning. He is an old man, his hair is white as snow, and brushed back like a mane after the fashion Beecher wore his hair; his face is marked by the good noble endeavors of a long life, and his form seems a tower of strength. He is just the sort of man a woman feels implicit trust in, whether as hus- band, father or religious adviser. Mrs. Collyer is quite old, and enjoyy less robust health than her eminent husband, so on her account they make their home in a charming little flat in the top of the Strathmore, on upper Broadway, where she can have the pleasure of overseeing her household. Jt is too small to give room for a study for Dr. Collyer, so he has a charming, quiet room in the Holland Building, which is largely given over to artists and literary people, and there he is surrounded by his beloved books, photographs of friends and some good pictures, oe a en BILL NYE AT HOME. | THE DOMBSTSC LIFE or Tite GREAT HUMORIST. { He Owns a Bouse, Fou Ohildren, and a Big Barn. When Bill Nve isn’t, as he himself says, “jostling and junketing around with foreign ” he lives on staten Island. He owns a large house | perhaps half a mile from the landing at St. George; has four children, equally balanced as to sex, a solemn- faced cow and a big barn. The house cost forty thousand dollars, but it fell linto Mr. Nye's hands at shout one- of that imposing sum. The dynasties, third owner has dipped deep enough into the thirties to be perilously close to forty. He has own picture too ' often to need the focusing of a foreign | (lens. Now that he is recognized as a | | peer of the realm of American humor- | ists he has no trouble in defraving his texpenses. Many exaggerated state- ments concerning his earnings have | found their way into print. They are drawn his large enough, however, to obviate the | | necessity for inflation. Last year his { tongue wagged at the rate of about | | twenty thousand dollars for the lec | {ture season, and with i the receipt of | about ten thousand dollars more his | pen is to be credited. He is in plat. Whiteom! for mistake him i form with i Riley, the “Hoosier Poet.” partnership w hose tv iy i brother strangers usual He is often supposed to be the poet of Pl } the tance whiecl CoOmbinpiion, a reums straining his 4 time whe One hundre iar HE the pen portraits represent him as perfect. HeArer nis figure now humorist’ ly innocent of hair. This does a gross | injustice to the vegetation with whicl | his scalp is fringed, though it is not | luxuriant and though truth compels! ! the admission that the 3% crown Is of the Hs feet high snd The kind. | to find an | It dances | billiard ball variety. in loosely | i ) yi | built, large boned, six | straight as a plummet line. liness that is in him seems in his | of sentence that | outlet at every por j eves, softens the expression his face and rings in every { be utters. He was born in the woods were school friends of the Browns { the family from which Artemus War sprang. “We when | moved from Moosehead was fake | very voung.,” he says for about : rattlesnakes and the Indians until I grew | ! a { up. I practiced law but,” year, | he adds, without changing = I was a Justice | Yes 1 used | I kept it very quiet. of the Peace for six vears. { to marry people and try them for other | { offenses.” ! This comparatively innocent descrip- i { tion of his administration of Laramie | { law scarcely goes far enough. stance; For in- In an evil hour a tramp at- tempted to steal a Cayuse pony belong- ing to his Honor. The pony was chiefly formidable about the heels, which moved with great rapidity, and flew to a fearful height. The tramp was canght in the act and was prompt- ly arraigned before Judge Nye. He was found guilty of stealing a horse, guilty of vandalism in trying to make away with the bucking pride of all Laramie, and, for obvious reasons guilty of contempt of court. The sentence was that the culprit should ride the peppery pony for thirty min. utes in the public square of Laramie. The court adjourned, and all hands, including his Honor, went over to see the sentence executed. This is a pub. lished account of what followed: “The horse was bridled and saddled | without event, led out into the square and the prisoner lifted on its back. The animal stood still a moment or two, turned its head clear around and coolly viewed the rider, then took a shoot forward, instantly plunged back. ward, arched his back, jumped in the air and landed with four feet stiff.’ The rider was shot over his head and’ landed on his back, four feet in front of the steed. He was picked up again | and placed in the saddle. The horse did not look at the rider this time, but, with that exception, the performance | was the same as before, The ealprit | was mounted and tossed five times to! i the delight of the crowd and the Judge i and then allowed to depart,” Bome of the stories told of Nye's expesicnces on the bench have a fairy. tale flavor about them, <but,” says Myr. Nye, “the worst about the tale of the turbulent trotter is that it will stand any amount of eross-examination and wor't impeach itself. It fortunately true.” The same serious charge of absolute veracity can is un- be maintained sgainst ei. When his honor examined the statute book he failed, or said he failed, to find anything about wife-beating. It might be a legal pastime for any- thing he knew in the statutes to the contrary, but he would take the chances and assess a penalty to fit the crime. There were several cowboys iu the court, and they were requested to use their rawhides on the prisoner. The wife-beater’s shoulders were soon ar. tistically adorned with black and blne stripes, and, as he yelled like a Coman. che, he was fined #10 for being verbal 'v indecorous. Whatever misgivings may be enter- tained regarding Nve's qualifications as an exponent of law, there is no de- batable ground about his the mission which capacity for bringing him He been singularly retiring and anobstru- | is fame and fortune. must have Even the fric. all that it invoives—constant traveling, contact with every type of human being and iw crucible of eritical assembl oes in every big city on the continent-—has worn away the fine ommend him to im well and thos FOOD FOIL tHOUGHT. Desplse not to-day, Regret not yesterdsy. Depend not on to-morrow. ii 13 betterto lose a joo! than a friend, A fact pever apoloziz+s wo anybody If you would be pure in mind be pure in habit, Every little act is the child of 4 gress principle, We never overcome only undergo. Our words and actions to be fair must be timely, Purity of soul and conduet is the first glory ot women. If thou would’st walk in light, make other spirits bright. The man who wears blue glasses never finds the sunshine. If you want to come out right, be sure io get started right. If you are in the wrong place your right piace is empty. The man who does his best, does a8 well us an angel can do. One of the biggest cowards is the man who is afraid to do right. Never think that you make yourself great by making otliers less. To persist in living beyon! our in- comes is to live a | fe of dishonesty, It is marvelous how long a rotten post will stand, if it be not shaken, The man who continues to back rece horses seldom gets to the front. Many of our cares are but a morbia way of looking at our priveleges The shadow of a trouble is always blacker than the trouble itself. To have to look at s+ the hot. where we vimself will ii are, iestly to ¥. The man sou meet golng YW ne ing fe There is notl ni Lt isnot ers, Poveriy is the only hitened by bel: 8 Without steadines cial life there can be n night 1 OTD The glass filled to the brim at will fill the hat to the brim in t ino of and duplis ate and eng deficien Or om the height of none he has a nan to rhapsodise about florid fall de first (o smile it when To things are | said about him wn and follies Perhaps no better evidence of his simplicity of character than one # hiich he himself affords can be given. | ‘No one could be more surprised | than I was at my success.” — A National Gretna Green, There have been so many runaway marriages in Washington during the past vear that the city is becom veritable Gretna Green. Chil failing to secure a marriayg minister (0 perforn eremony have only uw Altenti loose condition « : the elon A. He i 0 is of Claiborns ( lasscots Hi United Stat teen * i% SYED resident Arthur's in the Distri i un belle in channels of upper society sides of the match there is a protest, but it is of no use: it is too late In the multiplicity of complications forth marriages rod POLS Dis- which have brought hund of sensational in the trict of Columbia during the past three he setacles in way of marriage, no one has been It is the eves of society and the law to aid | of this From Maryland, Virginia and over made to suffer. not a erime in | char. | and abet amusements acter. ! all directions they come every day, | till the liet of marriage licences issued ! by the Clerk of the District Court! runs a8 high as that of a whole large | State. Congress will not, however, be invoked to stop the traffic, for the | people here seem to enjoy it. On the! contrary, it will be encouraged. No troublesome questions aie asked when a man applies for a license in Washing. | ton to wed the girl of his choice. All | that is necessary to secure a wife is to get the girl to say “Yes,” and raise $1 | in cash for the lcense and se- | cure a minister to tie the knot. It does not matter whether you are white, black or copper<colored; or whether another. It makes no difference | whether you are twenty-one or, seventeen; whether your girl is fifteen | or forty, or whether your parents are willing or unwilling. One doliar wiil secure the order of the court upon a minister of the gospel to solomnize the rites of marriage, and no questions will be asked. So much encourage. ment is just now afforded young peo- ple to elope to Washington that fathers and mothers in the surrounding iis failare in honest to Do not ju life, for many men ars too succesd. A foo! can be forgiven but a cunning is cont naslly ige a man by 1 When a man bas once willfully broken azain. It is better 10 miss an opportunity of enemy. Men may boast of great actos, but {hey are oftener the effect of chance than The beginning of things evades us; We «ee only the middle. Education begins the gentlem «i, but reading, good company and reilection finish him. No man can be provident of uis time who i8 not prudent in the cho ce» of his company. Most young women study 1 ter of men but Lit, becaus: but little opportunity, There is always plenty of ro man whose life is governed by « principle. A cheerfu. disposition will do for you than a pedigree running to the Mayflower. i Tel. ave for fixed m more back a good Kee Pp The Lad man throws mud at in because he uas to at hanself, in frown looking i would turn th good 6 oly Oo bapp.ness were the onis # hard work to find e grindstone, The world needs people who bh courage to do nig, a great dea than it does 80 ais ve the more All our actions lake their lines from the complexion of the heart, as lapd- scapes th. ir variety from light, Purity of heart is that quick and sen Ve. “life.” say the Arabs, *“‘is of two parts; that which is past,-a dream; that which is to come - a wish.” Before marriages woman is interested in everything he says; after marriage she is interested in things he does. Peope who are always talking about charity beginning at home, never do anything to help her start. He who tries to solve the problem of his own existence will find that i takes just a little longer than lifetime, When a man mends the error of his wavs, it will usualiv be found that i was a woman who:ewed on the pateh- - It you want to know why Eve ate the apple, just avalize your own iterlings when you see a “Keep Off The Grass™ sign. The more wicked a man the more apt it is to be said of him that he would be a very bright man if be would Lun bie talents in the right direction. It is beautiful 10 vather about the do- mestio fireside, but the fire ought to be on the bearthsone, and not iu the tems pers of those who Live there, Probably no man who bonestly tries to be of service to his felivw-men guite fails, because, even if Le tries In ways, his errors are .nstroctive, When a man reaches forty he begins to look around for the names of men who distinguished themselves after thas age. When the butler begins to lrag of his honestly it is time to fall on bie pocket, Be not angry that you cannot others : 8 yon wish them to you cabnot make yourself wish to be.
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