Poor Marionette, Poor Marionette! Bhe worked se hard, >» And did her part with such precisiont But one cold day, when off her guard, Bhe tumbled on the cruel floor And broke herself for evermore, Then worthless quite Poor wooden mite! She met with scorn and cold derision. “Throw her away!” the showman cried, | “Throw ber away. We'll buy anew ona™ | And so, despised, and cast aside Bhe lay all winter in the snow, Unmourned, forgotten loug ago By human folk; And never woke, 80 can a cruel fate undo ons Poor Marionette! In course of time Sweet May came bringing gentler weather Then followed summer in her prime; And softly, on fair moonlight nights, Came mourning elves and dainty sprites, Who, weeping much, With tender touch Soon hid her in the warm, sweet heathen THE GRACE OF LOVE. A great while ago, there once lived a | very beautiful and very rich little Prin- cess, So beautiful and so rich she was | that suitors from all parts of the world | came flocking in shoals to her palace, | wearing out pantaloons by the million | in protracted and agonizing kneeling at her tiny feet. Notwithstanding the glory of it, how over, the little Princess did not much anjoy this sort of thing; for whereas other young ladies could spend their | time in making delightful slippers and comfortables for their friends, this poar | little thing had to employ all hers in | knitting everlasting mittens (which are very awkward, disagreeable things to make, besides being never pleasantly ac | cepted), so that many atime did she wish she might only have been born | married, and thus have been spared | this continual worry and vexation of | soul, For she was a proud fastidious little Princess, and had declared that | she never would marry until she had | found one who was in every way her | superior, as was, of course, all extreme- | ly right and proper; only, though all | kinds of paragons came {0 woo, seme- | how or other none of them ever proved | superior enough to succeed in winning | the little Princess for his bride. It really was pitiable to see so many fine fellows turned off daily but the Prin-! cess and become so accustomed to it that she grew quite callous-hearted on the subject; and when she heard that of | the thousand rejected, seven or eight | shot themselves, and five or six felt bad, and three or four cut their wis | dom teeth, and one or two stayed sin gle, all for her sweet sake, she never shed a tear. wy one day, as a hundred or fo stood ifi the outer court of the palace, squeez- | ing on their gloves, and practicing ten- | der glances and sighs peparatory to en- | tering the fair one’s presence, a young man, of very different appearance from the rest, came quietly up and joined them, “Well, fellow,” said the “*what errand brings you here?” “The same as that on which come,’’ answered he, tranquilly. that I shall succeed where you will fail. I come to wed the Princess “Youl” they exclained in chorus, looking at bim with scorn, for he was plainly dressed and of unimposing as. | pect. “You! Youn pretend to be her superior? You indeed?” “1 am,’ he replied, unmoved, I love her, and love ennobles, Whereat the other laughed eontempt- uously. : “Just hear the fool!" cried one. | ““This graceless beggar dares to love!” i “Put him out!” screamed another, “The cut of his mantle is antique, and be has no buckles on his shoes, nor | powder to his hair, Bah! It is scan. dalous to have him about!” “Let him stay,” said a third with a | shrug. *‘It is as well to have a valet at one’s back.” | The man at whom these sneers were cast smiled composedly, ‘Fortunes change.” he said, “You who call me | valet shall yet see me carry of the Prin- | cess to-night before your very eyes.” | A murmur of derision ran through the crowd. But at that moment the palace doors were thrown open, and the | court herald announced in a loud voice that her royal highness would now deign to receive offers; and that going | in, suitors would please take the right hand door, and coming out the left hand door, that thus enollisions of a painful and disturbing nature might be avoided, and that, furthermore, no suicides were allowed in the royal pres ence. An immediate rush ensued to- word the entrance, which opened di- rectly into the great hall where the Princess sat upon her throne, with thousands of cushions lying before her over the floor, that suitors might not catch cold from kneeling too long upon the marble pavement, while huge hogs- heads, filled with highly-colored and various-sized mittens, were piled up artistically in the background, i “Beautiful” is no fit word wherewith to describe this Princess, Had Webster or Worcester or any other dictionarian seen her, he would certainly have in- | vented some words on the spot more capable of expressing the charm and grace and perfect proportion of feature, form and soul which went to make up this rare and wonderful maiden, Wud now, one after another, with® others, Tou “Save “For i i i ¥ sentiment and pride, the crowd of sultors made their efforts, extolling their several excellencies and advant- ages over each other and everybody else, and modestly bringing into view those points wherein they bid defiance to be divinities, But to-day, as yester- day, none was found superior to the Princess. Ope after another was duly admitted and dismissed with a consola- tory cigar, and the promise that his name should not be handed in to Mrs, Grundy, who, peri in hand, sat in the reporter's chair; and still the little Prin cass waited smiling and peerless, upon her throne, in royal but wearing single- blessedness, Yet all this while the #irange young man, who had come in with the rest, said never a word to press his suit, and while the others were praying and groaning and making no end of a to-do, he alone stood up- right and silent, and bkeld his head straight and high as if in proud dis. dain, The little Princess was only a woman after all, so, of course, she grew piqued at last, “Pray, why do you come here, you,” she said, pointing her tiny ivory finger at hiro, with an inimitable mixture of scorn, “if not to woo me with the rest!” “I come to wed, lady, not to woo,” he answered gravely, and moved for- ward with unbending head, “To wed?” echoed the Princess, with a laugh that rang forth so deliciously sweet, that to hear it was to think only of the ripple of silver waves against shores of the purest crystal. “And pray, friend, is that your wedding garb?” ‘*She whom I love will look to the aeart rather than to the raiment.’ an- swered he, as unabashed and gravely as before; and the Priucess felt rebuked, and bit her sweet lips. “Yet bring hands * she said, aught of me?” “He looked at her and smiled, and you no gift in your “How dare you ask “Lady, I claim but gift for gift bring you my heart. Give tore yours," “Yet you do not ing,’? she said, such a prayer?” “Lady,” he answered I me there the ask- may I listén to kreel in “How and he lookea amid the seu of bowed | eads around- **1 do not kneel, because I come neither to beg nor to pray, but to demand my right.” I" eried the Princess, at language so strangely un. meet her delicate “*How dare you?" “Love dares all, or is no love, swered he, smiled still, ny that 1 save ” and bave sworn hiz will at him curiously, Are You so vain?’ Andsh wd a low ecureli latich el A 10W, gurgil Mmugn “iN Hd ne ng he answered! “For love is vanity, you are inferior to me in so far 48 you claim superiority.” “Am I vain, then?’ asked the Prin- ess, in a grieved surprise, “Nol” thundered the crowd of suitors behind, **Nol No! No! No! No! A thousaad times no!” “Yes,” said the young man who so low she beard him above all the rest sud hung her lovely head. *At least,” she said, “Low can you vie with me in birth? I am a princess and sit upon a throne; and you" **Your throne is senseless marble and cold, dead stone,” said he, “and mine is a woman's heart.” “You are poor, said sich,” “Nay, it is you who are poor,’ he re. plied, “since earth's sorest poverty 1s the having only self to love; and I am rich, for loving is wealth, aad I have loved long and well.” “But I am wise and learned.” said she “I have studied much and pro- foundly. Can you know more than 1?” “Yes,” answered he; ‘for I have learned that I am ignorant, and earth's highest wisdom can teach no more,” “But I am beautiful,’ she said, with & blush that spread over ber face like the sovuset glow over a lily, “And you’ **A beauty that sees but self is blind," he answered, ‘‘and blindness is a de- formity, It is I therefore who am beautiful, for you so fill my heart that wherever I am, you are present.’ “They say 1 am good, stammered the little Princess as a final plea. And ‘ears stood in ber wonderful eyes, The young man came nearer and smiled again, and fo his smile were only pity, and tenderness, and love, “Yet by your own showing, you are selfish, wd vain, and weak,” he said softly, “And you?” asked the Princess, tremulously, yet smiling up at him as be spoke; ‘are you so much better Shan 19 “Yes,” he said," for I am Love him- self, and what is there upon earth that Is truer and stronger and purer and bet- ter than Love?” And the little Princess looking at him, suddenly saw a great glory flash olit in his face, and his quant garb fell she, “and I am Ny, off, and he stood before her clad In robes of scarlet and gold, and a kingly scepter was in his hand, and he had wings such as we dream angels have, and his name, “Love,” stood like a jeweled crown above his forehead, And the Princess hid her face in ber hands and sobbed for very shame, “lI have found Love at last,’ she | said, *‘It is he for whom I have waited so long, and searched so far and wide. Only Love dared claim me, Only Love knew how to win me, Only Love could teach me to love again,” And then Love bent over her, and ‘clded her in his close, strong arms, and flew away with her right into the far- off, wonderful Seventh Heaven, where none but those who Leve have ever been, with their mittens and their cigars, ever know their names, and were sulky, never could tell what it was so im- mensely superior that the Princess saw in that fellow!” Only luckily the world’s echoes cannot reach so far as up to the Seventh Heaven, and the lit. tle Princess never heard what they said w—— -_——— — Elephants in the Lumber Business Lazy and clumsy-looking as the elephant appears in our where It Is merely an object of curiosity in Asia it is as useful 18, menageries, an animal as the horse, and indeed, employed in a greater variety of ways, There are few, if any, tasks which a horse can be trusted to perform without careful and constant guidance: whereas the elephant is frequently given as much ndependence of action as a man would have for the same work. This notably the case in the lumber-yards of Rangoon and Maulm is Gir i, where the en- tire operation of moving and piling the by the keepers, “he logs to be moved are teakwood, which i8 very heavy. They are cut into lengths of twenty feet, or perhaps a square, of about a foot An elephant will go to a log, kneel down, thrust his tusks under the middle { of it, over it, test it | See that it is evenly balanced, and then stir] hig frirnle cur: us trunk to | rise with it and easily carry it to the pile { which is being made, Pl icing the log | carefully | the sagacious animal will step back on the pile in its proper place, few paces and measure with his eye to determine whether or not the log needs | pushing one way or another. It will { position. In this way, without a word Of it will go ou with its work, To do any special task, it must, of mahout; but readily | course, be directed by the ¢ t this wehends its instrue it is marvelous to see how {| greal creature o« it makes u tions, and hi Ingenio t ¢ too heavy to a bend ' sO moved P Af § ¢ scr db i OL IAS BWTengsil, i be carried is to be short d will low, place end of g and then with a sudden exertion of $egt v i | v4 i GANCe, We eiephant | his great head against the ti | ward and fairly push the log along: or to move the log any great distance, he will encircle it with a chaln and drag his load behind him, As a dragging rule, the work of by the female ele- mving no tusks, they can not carry logs as the male elephants do, however, is done phants, since | A man could hardly display more judg- ment in he adjustment of the rope or f chaln around a log, nor could a man th "ik more skillfully trunks, an do they with their Ventrilogmists Among Animals. Many birds from their sounds, without opening their bills. The pigeon is a well known instance of this, Itscooing can be distinctly heard, although it does not open its bill, The call is formed intern- ally in the throat and chest, and is only rendered audible by resonance, Sim- ilar ways may be observed in many birds and other animals, The clear, loud call of the cuckoo, according to Nicolardot, is the resonance of a note formed in the bird. The whirring of the snipe. which betrays the approach of the bird to the hunter, is an act of ventriloquism. The frog also is said not to open his mouth in croaking, but to ereate his far reaching sounds by the rolling of air in his intestines, Even the nightingale has certain notes which are produced internally, and which are the art of ventriloquism (if we may call (it an art), but which in former times | was highly esteemed, has been taught to man by the animals, To discern light in shadows in an art, In order to show your grandeur don’t reduce your fellow-being, Be content to do the things you can, and fret not because you cannot do everything. To marry for beaty Is the same as buying a piece of land for the rake of the ross growing on it, The latier is even more sensible, for the rose time returns every year, If you wish your wifes to throw the cloak of charity over your sins, be ‘nre to provide her with an expensive ons, | Thoroughbred St. Bernard fat rouge | $200 10 $1000 Sacks The first lccomotives to be uted in Palestine. are of American wanufact- Lincoln's Advice to a Naval Hero, Among the inmates of the National Soldiers’ Home at Togus, Me, is Rich- ard Rowley, who was captain of the guns on the Kearsage when she suuk the Alabama off the harbor of Cher- bourg, France, and performed an act of bravery which probably saved his ship and her crew. The battle had raged for over an hour and a half, . when a 100-pound rifle shell from the Alabama struck the gun which Rowley was sighting and fell on the deck, with the fuse still burning, in an instant Rowley picked it up and threw it into the sea, where it exploded just as it i touched the water. The sailor's beard and mustache were burned off by the i fuse, but he stepped back to his gun { and sent a shot into the sinking Ala- { baa, Capt. Winslow at once gave the rder to man the rigging, and gave | three eheers for Quarter-master Rows wy, { The latter was greatly lionized after [nis return to this country, [voted him a gold medal, he received { other valuable gifts, and President | Lincoln personally thanked him. For | several days before his interview with {the President, Rowley had accepted | frequent invitations to drink osham- { pagne, and probably showed the effects, As he arose to go Mr. Lincoln gave him R100, saying: | “Now, don’t drink too much liquor; { drink just a little, but not too much. | vou old all like a little but be careful and not drink too Harper = W eekly . —— Songs of Harriet Beecher Stowe, I was in Mark P'wain's home in Hartford waiting for he humorist to return from his daily walk, Suddenly sounds of devotional singing came in through the open win- low from the of the outer onservatory. The singing was low, vet the sad tremor in the voice seemed Oo give it Rue Congress Enow snilors roe, } nich.” recently iting direction : Arryving power, i“ You have quite a devotional domes- ic,” I said to a member of the family | who came in shortly afterwards, “‘ That is not a domestic who is sing- " was the answer. Step to this window, look in the conservatory and | see for yourself.” I did here, sitting alone on { ane of the rustic benches in the flower- Wis elderly lady. Keeping time with the first finger of wer right hand, as if with a baton, she ny ng, BO, | house, 8 small, was slightly swaying her frail body as il softly Charles ley's hymn, “Jesus, Lover of My and Flower Adams's « Nearer My (rod to Thee.” But the or ow not It was Harrie her Stowe | sat the once brilliant authore hild « ing a favorite | York Letter. et sang. vel | Wes soul,” sWeelly, Aran Bing is it Plows rr I The Beaconsfield Primrose, Lord Beaconsfield's fi primrose originated hen | ng in Highbury, London wax much attache i #14 sndness for ©® Was Here ng indy ing in the ws who was of good fn at that oung lady ir of between the daughter of a ntieman 3 » At a ball give | tleman’s house the 3 {tion wore a wreath i property. ren- primroses, Mr. Disraeli to whether A bet if a pair of gloves was made, and on { the young lady consulted, and | the primroses being examined, the bet | was won by Mr, Disraeli. The prim. : were real primroses, and i young lady gave two of them to the future prime minister, which he put {in his buttonhole and kept, and used Some have liscussion arose entleman as Or not. anid another g { the primroses were real being | POSER the | to show long afterwards, thought that because the Queen sent a wreath of primroses to Lord Beacons- field's funeral the flower i badge in that way. This is a mere | vention. his ine became . —— — A Bold Cavalry Leader, A prominent Confederate once told i the writer that when Sherman's army assumed the offensive there were three tor four regiments of cavalry which { wouid wheel on the Confederate flank {like chain lightning and strike like a {whole divisidn., It was Gen. J. T. | Wilder's brigade of mounted infantry, | They had come down from Rosecran’s {army and went back with Thomas, { and those repeating rifles made music. Gen. Wilder was a New Yorker by { birth, learned the iron business in { Ohio, and after the war, ®n 1867, built two blast furnaces at Rockwood, near i Chattanooga, the first furnaces ever | erected in that country which used min- eral fuel, and they are still running. Gen. Wilder is at the Ebbitt, a tall, | vigorous man, with short, white whis- !kers and a bluff, hearty manner. He has disposed of his interests in Chatta- | nooga, and is now building the Char- leston, Cincinnati and Chicago Rails road. He has done many things in his eventful life. Washington Post. cAI HA SAS Picturesque General Butler, Gen. Butler is described on his tour | shrough Maine as carrying the usual | bright red rose and «tipping his hat on one side of his head in the saucy ' Butlerish fashion.” [It is further re- ' marked that while the General is un- | able to bend over quite as easily as he used to, yet he steps along quite smartly. The country will lose one of | its most picturesque features when the “hero of Dutch Gap is gathered to his fathers, Unsatisfactory Exhibition? Proud Father (showing off precoci= ous child before visitors)-—Whose 'ittle boy is "oo? us Child—Mean, stingy ole Ching’s "ittle boy, Proud Father (in astonishment Why, no, Archie; ‘oo’s papa's mammy a ! i RD A Historie Match-Box, Yesterday I saw in the possession o a gentleman here an elegant gold match box that once belonged-to Prince Max imilian, who was shot in Mexico more toan twenty years ago. Just before he was put to death he gave this box and two watches to the soldiers who were | detailed to carry into execution the sentence of death which had been passed upon him. He told them that | be gave them these mementos to show | that he bore no ill will towards them. | as they were only acting in obedience | to “Aim at my heart!” | gaid. They did so, and in a moment he | wis a corpse. The soldiers who were | his executioners appear to have very little sentiment, and were glad to | sell the relics of the Prince for a good | price. They were bought by an Amer- | ican travelling in Mexico and we re | brought to Washington, where some time later they were exposed for sale | at Gait's jewelry store. One of | orders, ie had | the ly, ter then here. The match-box picked up by a gentleman who connoisseur in things with a history. It is of solid ly chased and ornamented with exquis- was 18 & a Cupid, heart, bow and arrow and altar, It gift to the Prince mirer, his wife, Carlotta, it have hardly diamond which | i opened, ~ is from the unfortunate is likely her A pring it ens upon have given AWAY, large thi by pecial, Ra Walking Down Hill Makes Bow Legs, ple are thought to have involuntarily deformed : aw ling when in infanc: said a physician and surgeon to a Dis- patch writer yesterday.