rr Short-Lived Love Ho that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuasl to maintain his fives; As old time makes thess deoay, Bo his flames must waste away. Dut a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle pever«dying fires, W here these are not | despise Lovely checks, or lips, or eyes. No tears, Celia, now shall win My resolved heart to return; I have searched toy soul within, And find naught but pride and scorn ; I have learned thy aris and now Can disdain as much as thou, Bome power in my revenge convey That love to Ler 1 cast away ' Theres was genuine welcome in the delicate voice. “Theodore, Pauline, dear girls. glad, how very glad I am to see “Consing, this is charming.” A tall young wan courteously their hands, The house was South, “Jetty, stop that whistling and run in to mammy.” The prettiest able, laughed e jolliest laugh; put his dusky hands he rich soil and be- gan turning somersaults out of sight, “Jetty, you Jetty,” called Taute; but, the little head, unmindful, spun by. “Now, girls, come,” and linking her arm in those of her two tall Taute led the way through hall, and up the wide staircase to their rooms, where, with a parting Kiss, she left them, “Theol” How you. »" kissed a mansion at woulley nieces, “Theol” Pauline dropped jacket on the sofa. “*Are we dreaming?” Thoughtfully, Theo her gloves, hat, deftly made a direct in the face oppo:ite. “I'm but perhaps you are.” Pauline started, The wonls scornfully spoken, Moving over to the window, quietly, she rested her hands on its ledge and leant far out, Her sister, in the room, began hastily set- ting things to rights, The day was one of exquisite beauty. The air, hea.ily laden with sweetness stirred but sli; wearily brushing not, ACC less, at the window. Day Wis passin into night ih i bushes, the trees, ted the large gar The , Stirred by the softly A great morously the soit cheek pressed to the hard wood of the window, swept it again and ag The old tree close to the house, au shading many of its rooms, could, stretching far out branch, keep the leaf tapping gently The girl's blue eyes wi but she seemex long jour was rosting chatter, chatter, ti TOOMm Ac heurd them plainly, one, two; two, The birds everywhere were singing, each a different song. What a rust- ling they did make among the leaves! ¥ighting—some five or six were busy at it, swirling in now great then small ones, and at each other, close they came to the head below them that the alr they make raffled all her hair. But still she moved not. The birds, on the ground beneath the wine dow, wildly chirped as they pecked fur worms, She bheand the slow heavy treaa of some one walking through the grass, Looking sharply, she saw plainly, a powerful negro coming to the house, “A slave ;” she breathed the word, He neared the house, stooped and entered a side porch, A straw hat drawn low over his forehead bad kept his face from view. But instinctively she knew it was a line ove, A figure, graceful, slight, came hurrying by. Paulive, leaning out still furtier, waited, “Nateliar” The figure stoml jelr shadows, thick foliage of slight breeze, 3 acorn leaf swept iv. the long, slends ie opened above, uns droppin motionless, The shapely head moved eagerly from side to side, then drooped. When, as a low note of a bird, came the words, *'pus maintenant.” “Natella, look up! Ilere 1 am.” Pauline laughed at the fright, the surprise in the great eyes raised to hers, A sinlle of wonderful sweetness was on the red lips in a moment, : “Ah, missy! Welcome! Welcome” “See, Natella, Taute had written so much about you that 1 knew you at once. You were not with the other servants when we came?’ “No, missy, one of the pickaninnies was sick and I staid with it,” *Natella, is you comin’?”’ “Go on,” Pauline said, With a low bow of ber head she turn. ed away. “Beautiful! She is far, far lovelier than I had ever thought. A creole! a slavel Can it be possible!” She feit suddenly chilled, Under the window It wus Harold she now saw walking, with his long, easy strides. le was out of sight in a mo- ment, Dut still she heard the sounds of his spurs clinking, the whirling of his riding whip, still saw the tiny hight gleaming lke a fre-tly on his Miger, and remembered the ring with the soli. tare Taute had given him recently, “Are you sick? What is it? Pane line, do you bear?” ‘L heo shook her roughly. Did you say It was ready?” sister had left the room, “Have I Leen dreaming, or what is §t? I fel strange, stiunge.” She dashed the eold water from the basin again, yet again, over her face, “Homeslek?’? The laugh which fol fowed had a tremor in it. Pauline was barely sixteen, Down stairs, in the Nigh-ceil Ns ly “Supper? But her ia righ 11a armor aid the fa Bea att borin Li TB y i ge windows were opened” wide, and from her seat Pauline looked out at the dark ing sharp in the heavens, She noticed as she sat more quiet than the others— was she not the youngest of them all? Theo and on they wil with a look of love on Harold, *'She is thinking marry,” Pauiine thought, first night in a Southern land for these girls from a distant clime, visiting the home of their father and his fathers, had passed, Pauline and her sister, when mounting the stairs to their room, were stopped by their aunt, call- ing: *‘Girls, she said, coming into the hall, “I have told Natelle she is to wait on you. So take ber as your owi You will find she is useful.”’ Taute smiled graciously, She had given them her favorite maid. As *Do you know who this girl 18s Tante ‘I'he oue she calls Pauline raised herself on her elbow, Under an acorn tree, not the one by the depihs of the garden, Taute, Theo and Pau- line, were seated. Along the winding Harold Grabam was passing. The under the tree noticed and ad- mired the handsome, proud rider, As and bowed for the niece, “Yon have falien in love with Na- Ii “Yes, both Theo and I are anxious Folding her white hands on her lap, with the delicate white lace falling about them, Taute, with a smile, be- gan slowly. *'I brought her up from a baby. She was pretty even then and Her mother was a seam- stress of mine, and died leaving only his child, She is exceedingly bright, '" Then raising her eyes looked full in she asked, *‘does she seem Id eall it?” ? do you think she istad? I'm uve been making mysell be- «ve I ouly Imagined For Harold to and Harold is +4 17 hg 1 1d ik did seem notice, The uneasiness in the hesitating voice 63 alt} # $y . \ Her health is perfect, and she is so o never for a moment would [ on Li she ink of a negro the place, al- hey all worthip her. here is he handsomest of negroes, who loves Ler devoutly, i Taute laughed gavly. During the weeks which now follow- parties without AIAN 8 DNisCes, late hour the always sealed by wat she Pierre—"" = » » given to . {2 not } HONG, what # thane : wer sewing or de a setting of lurid come now when the vial was the night before their departure, when the greatest event of the year took place, when the negroes’ Lall was at hand, Candles had been lighted and placed wide drawing-room in every con- ide corner. By the order of Taute female revellers were to come to “To ery} Bri amuse you girls,” she said to them, A dress of pure white had been made especially for the beauty of them all Na%lla was to be simply resplendent, Pauline and Theo were to seeto the finishing touches, At an early hour knocks fell on the drawing-room door, and the black laughing faces peeped in Lio see if missus and the young ladies were there. Such giggling, high mer- riment, wild laughing, and outbursts of singing, made the room shake its sides in sympathy, and the very mirrors to reflect from all corners the grimaces and proud turnings. But they were all sent out at last, and Natella summoned, She entered the room stately and so soberly as usual, her regular features looking like marile, The laughter died slowly from Tauta's lips. ler glasses were suddenly in need of a wiping. With trembling fingers Pauline and Theo pinned here and shook there the white dress on the motionless figure, “Look at yourself, child” It was the voice of Taute sounding strangely severe, Natella moved at once to the room and stood still. The large mirrors on all sides flushed her back a proud, dazzling picture, She seemed to be in every spot, to fill the great room and crush the silent watchers out. Jetty tumbling in broke the spell, The car. riage was at the door. Taute had given them the family barouche, The crunching of the horses’ feet on the gravel, the screaming and laughing of the gathering revellers were now plain- ly heard, Taute rose and, leaning on her nieces, went out to the veranda to seo them off. Seated on his high box Pierre, the coachman, the finest negro of them all, held thes prancing horses well in hand, “(iit in, you chilens of Ham, git in,” he called in a voien of iron. They obey- ed at ouce, Pierre gathered the reins together and raised his whip, turning then he scanned the dusky faces, Mammy, the black cook, watching him, called out impatiently: “sakes alive, honey, wher’s that gal Natella?" Harold had been leaning nonchalant ly eyeing the scene on a veranda pillar by the side of Pauline. Without looking round she spoke to him as mammy called, ‘Harold, will you find Natella?” “She has not been here for some time.”” If was her sister's voice hush. ed and close to her ear. But even as she rpoke a white form rushed by them, was pulled into the carriage, and the horses had dashed off. The night was of a pitchy blackness, Pauline, in her dark dress, was not visible on the veranda where she stood, A strong blast of wind coming sndden- ly buileted against her. Frightened when, in one breathless second, sho could not Le.ning up against the pillar where he had been before was Harold, with a face of fearful anguish, His head was bared and fallen, was a look of deep de His eyes sought beyond the ver auda, cutting the very blackness with lvok about them, His lips, tightly compressed, were blanched, as were likewise the cheeks, the brow, above them. The only hand she saw hung stiffly by his side; between the fingers of winch was crushed a half sinoked cigar. could not, when, with a mighty effort, she made her way to a door near by, sprang up the stairs and sank exhaust. ed on the floor of her room. She lay there how long she knew not, trembl- when she crept to bed, sleepiug. last night, when they bad been so jolly, and Harold had kept them laughing with his songs? Theo smiled as she thought, at last she slept, ner eyes and stared at the darkness, “Harold, what was the matter wit him? Whatdid it mean? ‘That dream, how plainly she remembered it; the first night there by the window.” She shivered, Ho¥ cold she was! Theol would she wake Theo? She lay and thought. An hour passed. She had night, She slept again he darkuess half gone. lay on a chair close by. Her Under it looked warm, it about her, went looked out. Yolces 1n to the distance, They came they had returned, She tried to the window to go to bed but somethin: held her. The half light was painful to her eyes and, shielding ber hand, she waited for the sun to burst. She would see it for the land, caught her sight, wound around the tree's trunk. Some remnant of the ball, she thought, Sho still was when the directed her powerful rays full upon it-—on a face with eves wide open unflinchingly — on parted With a cry whieh woke her sister, Pauline pointed to the dead face of Natella, staring at ber Li looking at it sun mesting it ' ‘ ' 1 1 x Hips amd still Drow, al je sun, The birds had 1 and their songs, dropping and the cheek of Pauline but the cold glass of the closed window, and seemed to mind not, The servant knew nothing, and could but sob and wring their hands “Lord, Almighty! Lord, was their refrain. Taute sternly the tears running down ber cheeks questioned separately and all as they gathered together in the drawing. room. Up-stairs was the doctor. He now came und, with his hand resting on the door, bowed to Tante, “The girl has been poisoned, was overtaken, my dear lady, without doubt, by the spasms in the spot where she was found. As the servants tell me, she left them apparently well at gun their fizhting The acorns still were leaf swept noi the + one Sha the house,” The doctor bowed solemnly and was shown out, ened group away. “No crying, no screeching, near this house.” She said t fiercely as they went by. “Taute, dear, but it excited Pauline is, and the change is necessary at once for her.” Theo stroked the white hand gently. “Yes,” the answer came sadly, “Pauline is not herself.” tion, and Pauline wondered why it was that no one saw, as she did, how old and harsh looking he had grown, “Harold,” they were standiog alone together at the station. “Harold,” | found this in the cushion of the car- riage coming here, He caught her hand which held the ring and pressed it tightly, His face was tarned from hers, The ring pierced her cruelly, and involantarily he exclaimed : “Cousin, sweet little cousin, a thous and pardons and as many thanks,” The ring was on his finger. was close drawn over his eyes, The train coming in, Pauline hastened for the last time to bid good-by to Taute, “Your ear, dear, give it tome, I must whisper.” She drew her down, some coachman, a bad temper at the ball becanse Na- tella proudly refused to dance with him. He must have mixed the poison at the supper. Natella, my beausiful Natella,” and weeping bitterly Pauline left her, with the curtains of her cai tiage closely drawn. be gone for several years, Taute, dear well as—Theo, AR AI AR SAND, Professor Minll says that there are to be found associated with seams of coal, and especially with the uadarlying shale, the flattened impressions of crea fares which once had life, though at first strenuously denied. Pant which has becomes dry and hard may be removed by rubbing the spot with oxalic acid diuduted with ater. Try a weak solution first, and ® it does nol remove the stain, lacrease the strengihb. sa A SOBERING MACHINE, Bucks County, Pa. Was au Sohrame for Re. forming the Jol y Good Fellows. The winter crop of tramps in Duck, and Montgomery Counties is so abungd- ant this year that ordinary measures for driving them out have proved futile, bow best they may dispose of the troublesome vagrants, On acceunt of the extremely mild winter the tramps who usually seek a warmer clime in the fortable barns and haystacks in Bucks and Montgomery Counties, and are lodg- ing aiso in the railroad stations and con- veniently open freight-cars. The sober worse to deal with, and they not only defy the orders 10 "move on,” but siso tureaten violence to country folks whose farms they 1avade, An old-time Bucks County farmer has machine that did eff ctive work Doylestown thirty or forly vesrs m ght have a wholesome influence the hordes of tramps and in | APO | on | make bem would fies | and Nat present genersiion io terror from of the Doylestown are familiar with ing machive, but men who 1 ved the the ‘50s and eariy "Gs i ber the unique apparatus, man besitate to tell | old soberin in BORD walter. the sober. } readii tnwn to-day who would bow well he recalis the machine, The famous mechanism was nothing more nor less than the shafts and front wheels of a light wagon gear, with a big | wooden box | firmly upon ue : sxie, making a rough kind of a cart The machine was kept in a8 convenient » & stened town's good citizens came home so filed | A BUCKS COUXTY SOBERING MACHINE. srdent spirits that be could not handle bimself the machine was run out from its hiding place, the tipsy man was seized and dumped upon bis back in the box, and with three or four burghers at the shafts he was given a ride over rough streets that was enough to shake every drop of liquor of him sud make him a soberer and wiser man This herole treatment was ofltenest ap plied to Intoxicated strangers, but tbe m the machine was ail powerful in preserving the so of | the townspeople Toe cireumsiances DOW are that many Bucks sod | Montgomery County men bell it | would be well to revive thi yied-time aworal institution — Ph th Lag out swral influence of riely BUCH A Region of Perpetual Frost. ie of the Stevens min The altitue ilie and ore, tog : ng wall rock, | JASE eastern spurs of has the form of bold nearly 2,000 feet hig escarpment h in some pias ©% is nearly perpe oh in descending into the mine nothing unusual occurs until a depth of eighty or ninety feet is reached, when the frozen territory begins and continues for over 200 feet. There are no indica tions of a thaw summer or winter, The whole of the 200 feet of frozen | The miners being unable to excavate | tha frozen material with pick and] drill in the nsual way, found that the | only way to mine in this peculiar lode] was to kindle a huge fire against the face” of the tunnel, and 1n the morn ing take out the ore that had been! thawed loose during the night. in fact. this was the only mode of | mining used while going through the] frozen belt some ten or fifteen years since. The tunuel is now many hun. dred feet deep, and still there is nol diminution of the frost. There is, so, far as can be no opening or | channel through which the frost conld | seen. possibly bave reac hed such a depth] from the surface. Besides tais there! are many other mives in the same vicinity in a like frozen state. The theory is that the rock was de. posited in glacial times. when there was cold enourh to freeze the very earth's heart. In at case the mine is an ice house, whose stores have remained une The phenomenon is not uncommon | or inexplicable when openings can be found roagh which a current of air can pass; but cases which, like the Stevens mine. show no opening for air currents must be referred to imbedded mare American, A Nad Wand. The widow had just said no. “Life is a game,” said Mr. Upso Downes, reflectively, “I thought it was drawn, and | drew for 8 queen, but it seems to be cucher for me.” “In that case,” sald the lady, consol ingly, “you will have to go it alone.” “Yes, and what's worse,” said Mr. Downes, “I can’t take my partner's best card.” “I always know you were a horrid mercenary thing,” remarked the widow, as she cut out of the room and left Mr, Downes to shoflis sadly on his lonesowe way. ~luck, A Heavy Drop. EE a a. weight dro m ock in the Unitarin rel crushing the costly church organ beyond the possibility of od THE BOY, Hels Being Crowded Almost Entirely Oat | of Employment, { What is to become of the boy if the of i employment goes on? asks the N. Y. Tribune. Mossengers with beards seem to be rowing more numerous all the time, and the elevator boy bas been Inrge y replaced by the elevator man, Cash boys, once common in the eity, extent. The uniformed, brass-buttoned enll-bors at the hotels are lit more than a memory, and in their places are men. It is true there are still news- boys about the entrance to the bridge, and other places where there are gen- erally crowds of people, but women and newsmen competing with them in ever-increasing nun bers, Uptown the newsdealer has virtually driven the of the business. With bootblacks the story is the same. A few of them still pursue their ealling, but grown ltali i ie unre bovs out wus have seized hold and wita their take away the 1 is Re Cu roers, Pe ful riva w 1 rp cornet nem THE NEW CENIUS OF LICHT. A Description of the Nw Statue SetUp In Edison's Laboratory. Among the many objects of interest to the visitor at the great Isboratory of Thomas A. Edison, J.. the first to stirsct silention is remarkable statue that has recently been placed in position in the library. The sintue Mr. Edison's stiention occu Italian pleased snd i1 was IW OCC ’ of rr in West Orange, N. the Rilrscied i where i f r in the Depariment He was so much with it that he insed it, shipped to this country, and n pies the pisce of hooor in the center the magnificent library } is ¢ “The New Genius of LL ght,” ar the work of an lislian art 3 of Rome ntitied i was ITGILS the B iste in The subject is an allegori- the trinmph of electricity over other means of iliumina Lion. and was finished KEW LENIUS OF LIGMT. It is the life-size figure of a graceful vouth in the full vigor of early man. hood, posed in a half recumbent tion and partially supported by balf ex is extended gas lamp. The right arm i Fs FOOD YOR THOUGHT. The fearful unbelief is unbelief In yourself, Tove rules his kingdom without # sword, A neglected opportunity never gets over it. A good consclence makes an easy couch. 1t 18 pleasant to hear the truth—abont other people, A stole isa man who never had the toothache, Possibly the meanes’ man in this world is the devil Joy 18 like ague-—one good day be tween two bad ones. reverity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate, The love of chang is as natural h man as it 1s In pature, Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of soul, An acre of performance is worth the whole world of promise. It is mighty hard to respect the man } i ALI you only knew what peace there is an geerpled sorrow, Jealousy is an awkward homage which Inferiors render to merit, Anv person can enler vanity fair on his mag'nation alone, A man’s repentancs is alway the size of the whip produced, The birthdays of his children are a man’s landroarks to old age. There is nothing so easy to find as fault—There is so much of it, i erosim consists in doing one’s duty hie cost of personal sacrifice. Courtesy is the oil which makes tin w heels of conduct run smoothly. Jeware of any faith that dees not in- Den’t mock God by asking h'm in prayer for what you do not want, In many transactions the middie man very soon geis into the first place. t is better to sleep than to wake to remark the fauits of thy brethren, The hardest thing G«d has to do Is tell a sinner that he loves him. The great stren in the woids, not gth of simp'icity lies 1 the ideas. A scandal-m talks loour nn myer 18 a person who eigbors sbout us, The wise man expects exerything from hits If; the {ool looks to others. Any person who will deliberately flat- ter you, will berately defame you. An extraordinary haste to discharge an obligation is a sort of ingratitude, untaught, dell Better to be unborn than Many men owe the grardeur of their es to their tremendous difliculties, at T have been tanght I have for what I know I have guessed: 1 iw $y well, ere are more people In the world icy than from principle. A man's heart is blamed for lots of In matters of conscience first thoughts a matters of prudence the The average man cannot understand An entertaining talker isa person who tells us mean stories about our neigh- sr o2eration is the silken string rune ing through the pear] chain of all vir Fear of sin has made a great many the connecting cirenits from which ex- tend downward, and, partially support ed by the left hand, continue to the basa of the statue, where they are joined to a voltaic pile. About the base of the ter, & telegraph key, and a gear wneel, The whole is mounted on a pedestal high. The modeling of the central figure is firm, and the finish is almost perfect N.Y. Herald The Symptoms Alarmed Him Party on outside—Ah, Hector, do you not come forth and share cheese with vour own Andromache? Party on inside—8peak not of cheese I we! I've got the grip, and 1 know t why the The Supply of Parents. Luey (aged 11, who is reading a paper) It is perfectly dveadinil” ‘ather-— "What's dreadful, Lucey?” Lucy<**Anothber faithless wife, the mother of six children, runs off with a mu man, who leave a large family behind. Pons me, 4 this Sout stop peity soon there will not any ar Iaft Toons Biftings. pap A Beaver Fails man says he caught a fai by Dlaniog an ap re with a string to it pear the rodent’s hole. Then he waited and watched until the swallowed onniiah Lias, All women are by nature flirts, but sense, The love of praise never made any A woman has been known to bend a man’s will during life and break it after Evil thoughts introde in an unem- "Tis the hardest thing in the world to sell-examiner, Every man should bear his own griev- ances rather than detract from the comforts of others Gods bold on a man is uncertain as long as the devil's claws run clear through his pocketbook. It is a glorjous thing to resist tempts tion, Lut it will be money io your pock- et if you avoid them. Those people who are sick and disgust ed with themselves are the ones who suffer frome ennul Wien we hear some people talk we regret that the Lord did not provide a man's ears with shutters. There are two Kinds of hypocrites the bold, and the humils; and the hum- ble ones ace the worst, Men like a clever woman betier than a handsome one, they are so much 8 aroer, Marrying rich widows, like drinking lignors, Is often dove solely for the elletin When a man finally succeeds in mak- Ing himself famous Lis wie gets the eredit of it. It is the easiest thing in the world for a woman to feel religious when she has
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