— A BED-TIME SONG. Bway to and fro in the twilight gray, This is the ferry for Shadowtown; Xt always sails at the end of the day Just as the darkness is closing down, Rest, little head, on my shoulder, se, A sleepy Kiss is the only fare; Drifting away from the world we go, Baby and 1 in the rocking chair, Bee where the fire logs glow and spark, Glitter the lights of the Shadow land; The pelting rains on the window, hark! Are ripples lapping upon its strand, There where the mirror is glancing dim, A lake with its shimmering cool and still Blossoms are waving above its brim, Those over there on the window sill, Rock slow, more slow in the dusky light, Silently lower the anchor down; Dear little passenger, say good night, We've reached the harbor of Shadowtown, fe A QUEER STORY. “Yes, said the old stronger man in town.” I said, as 1 at the robust figure 1 gir, seventy-two vears old,” man, ‘and there's not a «+1 believe von,” 3 glanced wfore me. “* And that is not all,” he continued, +¢] have never been sick a day in my life.” “How do you keep in such good health,” I asked. | The old fellow tapped his head sig- | nificantly. “That, sir, is what keeps me up,” «My he said. else. I smiled. mind, and nothing * “You don't believe it,” said the dis- gdple of the mind cure. “On I replied, #1 pave great faith in the curative powers | the contrary,” of the mind in certain cases.” “But you don’t that the mind can do,” said this strange talker. know all You don’t know how it can be made to reach out and control other people.” “No,” 1 answered, ‘‘you are leaving solid ground now, and flying too high for me,” “‘Let me give yon a leaf from my experience,” ¢]t is a true story, it worth thinking about. pleaded my companion. and you will find he say, “when my boy got into his trouble —J told you about it once—well, the boy was one of the best lads in the world, but his temper got the upper hand, and in the heat of passion he did what he did. “The lawyers could do nothing for him. The evidence was all against him, and he was convicted and sent to the convict camp. ¢ Sir, you don’t know what a blow it was to me. “It was vears ago,” went on to For days and days I sat in my room, seeing nobody, and speaking to nobody. wife away when I even sent my the door, and deeply as she was suffering she tapped at she became alarmed. Poor thing—she thought I was going mad! ¢ Well, I didn’t know a thing about mind-reading and hypnotism in those days, but in my grief, and thought came to me that' if the gover- pain the nor knew how I felt he would be mer- ciful. # And then it struck me that he must know. How could I sit there with my mind on that one thing without in some way impressing him! 1 begged my wife to let me have my own way and stay in my own room for a week. « After that I had perfect quiet, and all day long I sat there thinking of my boy and the governor. Im my own mind 1 argued the case from my own standpoint, and imagined that the gov- ernor was present listening to it all. “You have no the work- ings of a man’s mind will affect him in the course of a few days, when he is concaxaating his will powers upon one subject. grew weak and thin and white. £t was hard for me to sleep, and always at night between 10 and 12 o'clock it seemed to me that the gov ernor was with me, “At firs. the governor's face was in- different and rather stern, but toward the end of the week I thought it wore a sympathetic expression. One night I saw him as plainly as I see you and when 1 asked him to pardon my boy, he smiled and nodded his head. “I dropped off into a sweet sleep. In the morning I put on my best suit, and surprised my wife by walking out into the garden where she was attend- ing to her work. She looked at me very closely, but I soon convinced her that I was in my right mind, and when 1 started up town she offered no ob- jection. But her look had so much meaning in it that I told her she might wxpect good news. “Never in my life was I #0 calm and wonfident as when I walked into the executive office. The governor said that he bad expected me. He could not tell why, but for some days he had looked for me. He had thought about me at night, he said. I told him all idea how about it, just as I would have talked to i wi a had always been a good son. and that it would kill his mother and myself if he had to stay in that convict camp. “It may seem strange to you, but the governor asked no questions, and made He told me that 1 had done exactly right in coming to him, no objection. and said that he was not afraid to risk a pardon in such a case. He called his secretary, and almost before I knew it I held In my hand a pardon, and an ““You ought to have seen the super- tendent of the him my papers! camp when I showed I simply told him He influential that it was none of his business, muttered something about and then went off to get my “Of course I felt prince when I drove my boy back {io x as A proud turned him his And then for the since the trial I gave town ‘and over mother. first way completely, before 1 I was my room, and much longer could go to work a not ain. sick, the doctors said, but my mind had violent My been subjected to a Smart men, those doctors. the for many a long day and it had there was a had been working on night until No Sometimes 1 mastered him. reaction! think that I have never been the same man since.’ The old man paused for a moment, “What do you think of it?” “I think,” I responded, ‘that you are in earnest, and that your experi- jut had nobody the governor in be ence was remarkable, else approached half of your son?" “I don’t know,” was the reply, “but I think not.” “You are that from satisfied your mind and controlled it?” “1 know iti” What was the such a man? [let him go without at. tempting to shake his belief. After all the story he told me of magnetism, mesmerisn and hypno- tism. tizing a governor into granting a par- don, it is a preity tough story. How- ever, my venerable friend believes it and The him 1 must him Ser Mg next time 1 see the ured in the case. is happy. 1 ask name of the governor who a —— a, nin Southern Negro Superstitions the North enough over the servant girl question, Women in have but their ways are paths of pleasant. is less the Virginia disturbed over When woman wants to change girls she serious situation. a is compeiled to go at least three days The kitchen help is black, of course, and supea- without any girl at all. stitions. No colored girl willgo into a bouse until three days after the re tiring help has vanished, for fear of being “tricked,” —in hoodooded, placed under a spell—by Whatever the col- other words, the dismissed help. ored person doesn’t understand he fears. He full of superstitions, believes in good luck from the rabbit foot when in his own possession and in bad luck when it is “put on him.” Not long ago a large number of negroes were on a Virginia Railroad platform waiting for a train to take them to a picnic ground. A Boston drummer, with a face as serious as a parson’s, took a piece of chalk and a rabbit foot and in the most business-like way began to make crosses on the backs of the ne- groes and touch them with the rabbit foot. The crowd broke for the woods in a panic and there was no pienic that day. is A———————— The Hottest Weather Known. “ What isthe hottest weather ever known in the United States?” The question is answered in the May bulle- tin of the Kentucky Statistical Weather Service. The highest temperature re- corded by the United States Sig- nal Service was af Phoenix and Fort McDowell, Ari., in June, 1883. The thermometer marked 119 degrees. However, unofficial observers report temperatures as high as 128 and 129 degrees at Mammoth Tank and Hum- boldt, Cal. The coldest weather re- corded by the service was 69 degrees below zero, at Poplar River, Mon. But this Is a warm place compared these figures, let us not WAVE-POWER MOTOR. Utilizing the Immense Water Power ol the Ocean Itself, wave-power motor so long talked of, has at last been finished and proved a suc- cess, or apparatus, which was begun in July, 1886, was at the time considered a hair-brained scheme, but the projectors { stuck to their plan and seem now to be ina fair way of success, Great diffi- culty was experienced at first in getting | the materials to withstand the force waves and the pipes which conduct the water up the bluff were broken and away no less than fourteen When the Parallel | went ashore and her cargo of dynamite i exploded the motor was completely | wrecked, A of rock { 8ix hundred tons was thrown trom | elifr anda 1ell acre which the { carried times, schooner THE] weighing the { over “8 Lhe chasm wotor was suspended block- £ that nearly in blast. afterward | ing it up to such an exten ths the thiree mon were consumed debris, Soon { hundred and ft which desigued and built by E, T, be removed, motor, Steen, till { capable of exerting a grrat power, Across a vorth of Parallel Point a beavy timbers built, | from this is & huge fan or paddle of oak with the spreading portion downward, This fastened to bridge by immense hinges which allow it, when in operation, to swing back and forward a distance of thirty-six feet as the waves strike it. The handle or upper portion of the fan Is connected with a solid plunger pump twelve in- ches in diameter and having a stroke of nine to twelve feet, turn is connected with a suction running out into deep water. The fan | a very sitnple contrivance and 8 i% chasm in the rocks just bridge Of was Suspended | timbers, is This pump pipe out of reach of the waves when not in use, When a wave comes in the fan is thrown forward and forces the air { out of the pump barrel in which plunger works, On the wave receding the fan carried seaward and plunger drawn out, causing a vacuum and causes a quick rush of water into { the suction pipe. The force with which the water is drawn up is suffi cient Lo raise of 350 feet above the tide level, Should this motor prove as successful as the projectors seem confident it will, several others will be built in the same neighborhood and an immense reservoir built on the hill to contain the water, This one motor, with its twelve inch plunger, is capable of raising 12,000 cubic feet water 350 feet high in | every twenty-four hours. The uses to { which the water will be put are vari- ous, A thirty-six-inch pipe will be { conducted to the city and water will be supplied to all branches of industry { where machinery is used, Bathing houses will also be supplied with salt the is the it to an elevation of sewers flushed where and it | Necessary. The first work performed will be be- { gun in about ten days, and an eight- | water ir ! inch pipe is now being laid for the pur- | pose, The last-mentioned pipe is for Adolph Sutro and is to be utilized in sluicing | away a large amount of drifting sand { from the heights just back of the aqua- i rium. The work is rendered necessary to prevent the sand from washing back on the beach and retarding the work there. The immense fan ot the motor gen- erates a large amount of energy which is not used in working the pump, and when everything is in shape electric | dynamos will be erected to utilize this | energy for heating purposes and the like. = WOMEN OF THE WEST. Golden haired Beauties to Be Found in California, The Lord Lorne—a young man who | stands too near the throne, perhaps, to ! be seen in the best light—said to me | while at his table in Quebec, after his | visit to the Pacific: “You are growing ! a new race of people out there.” Ire {| member that the Princess Louise con- | curred heartily in this assertion, but in- | sisted that the departure was most no- | ticeable among the women, especially 80 in Banta Barbara and Los An- geles, places that—at the time of her tour-had not been Interrupted by any | great confusion of new blood, as in the North of the coast, Surely there is a large sincerety, r touch of solemnity, if you like, in the | face and the character of the California 3 speaking to women—women in body A second and a singularly beautiful new woman of the new world, is her Francisco a few weeks since, it was like looking over a yellow harvest field, And I count this very singular, for we have a dash of Moorish blood here—the Moor of the Alhambra, the Arab of the We have some of the pure Castilian, it is true, but nearly all tawny blood of either the Moor or the Then ain swehools, native American Indian, we have the Kanaka in There are also many swarthy folk ffom But over and ag Ot s tall California with above all these towers Lhe girl, her head and shoulders laden TY PEs Of The New Orleans t hud large-eyed and the taw Not at all numerous ae ities of the nor are they ambitious alled Crescent Cily, im or of being beauties, Iudeed, 1 know of could be counted i public but 1 and ey in saving t wr beauty, a distinct type of beauty, New anything to be New York, 1 concede there are beautiful Orleans surpass wion or women in London, beautiful New York, strangely, gloriously beautiful; types at all women in and ravaged to procure them, for the one wondrous beauty of Europe, me know how much I have admired her simpie beauty and helped to celebrate it. Yet 1 assert find in California twentr Langtrys any day. To descend to some dull details, I as WOInan can it, two; “fuss and woman ou earth, of the light fine climate California money and less than any order, and our for easy and simple our fruits and fish and all sorts of rari- ten up things ties the year through ligl pot all in either the climate or the soil BUSTLELESS DRESSES, A striking feature in the less heavy and bustie-cursed dress of the East is the ardent color, We retained much of the Spanish red and some of the yellow which we found here. Go to any theatre and you behold a sea of red; and this love of color is fast spread. other side have ing from these shores to the of the continent. It sombre Philadelphia and sedate Boston can not reach any too soon, coast are No, they that the women of the Pacilic the best dressed 1 ever saw, do not wear gold. They do not wear many diamonds as a rule, But that beastly abomination umto the Lord-- the bustle—has never vet had its full growth here, thank God, as In the States, Neither did the bang’ in its craziest days ever do much damage to the Californian, Even the skating-rink rage failed to lift the California woman good sense—the best thing to have in any land or family—has always kept our calm and queenly California woman out of all such excesses and out of many prevailing follies. And all this comes, think, of a disposition to decide and sct for herself, A Graceful Rebuke to Freshness Washington Irving Bishop told me the other night a story about Dr. John Brown, who wrote “Rab and His Friends,” one of the most delightful of books, brated painter, had just finished a pic- ture of Mrs. Brown, the doctor's wife. They were both old people then, The picture had been sent home and the dcctor and his friends went in to look at it. It was hanging on the wall and the oid man had been gazing at it for some time in silence. His nephew, a young man just back from college, stood by him. “A fine pleture; but don't you think, uncle, it rather flatters the old lady?” he said, rather flippantly. The doctor without taking his eyes from the picture, put out his hand and drew the boy to him, “My boy,” he sald, ‘‘it is the truth beautifully told.” New Horssshoes, Horr Schnelder, of Berlin is supply. ing horseshoes of a new pattern, which are sald to Insure a firm fooling i : i i i : : E i g ii gg i lt The Way to Keep Cool. 1 «Doctor, give me a suggestion as to the best way to stand this hot weath er.” “Well,” replied a prominent phy- sician, ‘there are a few simple things to remember. I'll tell you how 1 do it. In the first place I get plenty of sleep. I do this by eating a light supper, with- out coffee and with very little fluid of any sort and but a mouthful of beef- steak. My day's work ends with the day, and after sunset I just sit around without my cost and vest. About 9 o'clock 1 slip quietly into my bathroom snd soak myself ten or fifteen minutes in a bathtub full of cold water, With- out drying myself 1 draw on my sleep- ing garment and go to bed. My tem- hus reduced and my pulse has slowed up. This condition is preserved hi dur- perature heen evaporation w hie goes on i hour or more, Or Hall an n SOW ing which 1 go to sleep. dav tis Try it. {hae moderate The Magnificent Shah. I nisi his Ea fact En rland more tl i The starfed out Majesty, in been dazzled rather . wi himself and takes evervthing but with authorities sfern but 0 has (FIR AL shah i ge im up regardiess his own comfort marvellously His costumes have absolutely around biggest emerald in the Wears bres diamonds, beside hich tremendous his 1 fie fastened with world. belt EO & oold gorge 14] gold his waist hie brilliants in hat and precious stones A saw him at would be he stood for him pext dav understands ings that he very glad to buv him £1.000G 000 unshared mim his Majesty wears, among other orna- Order of centre of ®.ich hie has Be and return i8 clothes. ments, ish Of Lim rarter, to fastened the 101s diamond The valued at a million dollars did nok notice this at first, but "he did he itted that he was will 3 tO Increase his price considerably. —— Austrian Resources, Austria might, in a short time, nirad Eu Austria “le reel sd men, but her in Cx rope mi besides, Position wt sales agnins her, honeveombed with sed po of the dual cieties worst political shades, Her thing but soli ¢sls on any- government 1 1 found: popul wavs hampered her military o LIONS, neterogencous ations un paig Italy, ax a fighting 1% not tod belittled { girides mh wonders and progress during the To-day her fleet ' a good third in Europe. The 604 . men which Italy could put in the are well officered, and armed with the modern In bravery and fighting capacity dier has no superior and but few equals mm Europe. that an unfavorable tures of events would expose her 58 much as Austria; but, weighing the pro and con, Italy ; has more to gain than to lose in this , European imbroglio. . i i——— { twenty vears #1 best we Apons., Long Life with a Broken Neck, The unfortunate Mr. Hill inthis city is not the first man who has lived with a broken neck, In a certain North Carolina district before the war it was the practice to send to Congress the man who could lift the heaviest weight. When the champion got the seat he held it antil he was literally lifted out of it by a more muscular man. One gentleman won it by lifting two bar- rels of turpentine, but after holding it ; several terms he was challenged to con- test it with an opponent, who under- , took to lift three barrels of turpentine at once. He did it, lifting one barrel with each hand and a third on his head, but the effort broke his neck, or | rather crushed the cervical vertebrs. { The accident did not kill him, and he i war elected to Congress and served | many terms, using an artificial support i for his head. Of course the spinal { cord was not injured or he would have i been paralyzed. AI ni Spain's Baby King. The young King of Spain is grow- ing into a fairly strong and healthy ; boy. One of his latest toys, in which he is beginning to take great interest, was presented His Majestyby the officers | of the ment of Guards of which he became Colonel by right of birth. This specially designed toy consists of a reproduction on a liliputian scale of the 500 ® and men of the regi- ment, each diminutive soldier sm—— ment is quartered, and there are the smen, too, each with FOOD FOR THOUGHT. 4 It Is the Iittle trials that test, When we worry we do not trust, Habit molds even a cast-iron prine cipal. To err Is human, but to forgive is divine, Nothing pleases a woman loved in vain, When conscience oversieeps herself, we call her remorse, A woman repents, not of the sin, but of its consequences, like being A woman's constancy i# the most ire relevant thing in nature. The a erage man will blame his wife for all his misfortunes. More people die from eating too much than from eating too little. No one can be happy who is not doing otnelhing to help other people It is hard to remember the good qual- of those =ho forget us. There 1s no substitute for success, Charity frequently should begin at people's homes, wher The true heroes are those herole in ¢ trades of everyday 1ife. The good who die young have a great be thankful for. Grown people feel the truth, but it is . If tathers could besons to themselves vhal good sons they would be, It takes some people a long time to It 1s hard to flud a m+n who hasn't It will puzzle posterity to make out The only way to get people to live ight is to first get them to believe right. It a woman can deceive another om :n she cain succeed at anything. Virtue 1s its own reward, but vice will bring curses from a dozen sources, Love is the only thing this life in It is no crime to be poor, but in the When the fires of youth gooutina man be wonders that they bum in others, It takes very little to make a Woman happy; It takes much less to make her miserable, When summoned to the bar of final be allowed. Deaih stills the tongues of a man’s letractors, but it seldom changes their convictions, He who refuses tofight and hoids his One of the greatest victories possibl f+ life is to be able to say no © Water never rises above its level, and belief. One of the hardest things in the If you want to make yourself misera- Most could succeed todo than in men think they in what they like A death bed repentance is like paying Phllosophy has used the candle of speculation instead of the sun of Truth for so many years that its eyesight Is pr actically ruined. It is more blessed to give than to re- ceive simply because the giver can squeeze no end of contentment out of thecoutemy lation of his own generosity. Nothing but having a hard time our selves will enable us to sympathise very much with other people. If there wasn't any money in this world 1t would be hard to find out just how mean some men are, It is a grand thing for us when we find out that we are not responsible for all the work in the world. There isn’t one man in ten thousand who knows what kind of a man he would Le if he had plenty of money, A man’s honor seems to consist in the refusal to give away a frend; a wom- an’s in the refusal to give away her self. We unload nur superfluity upon oth- ers and call it generosity; we intrude into the sorrows of our fellows and call it sympathy. Who said women have the mure deli- cate sentiments? A lover will cherish a stray bair-p'n, while his adored one pins his flower into the button-hole of her neighbor at dinner. Nothing corrupts a man like being loved; nothing elevates a women like loving. The culprit who found that lovely woman leaved to mercy In her judg- ments, was-—a man! A woman cares little what a man re- Is; 4tis prafon to think hm what ly Jo; ame ve him, You get your name etched on the hour of time only to have it smashed on edge of eternity.
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