HICH-WAY AND BY-WAY, fald Bouncing Bet to Black-eyed Sum “Oh, leave your stupid meadow, do, And just for ones try my way: Pull up your roots, dear, every one, And nt yourself as | have done, Along the busy higaway. “You see life here! and more than that, en yourseif, It must be flat. yd all computation, y grow unnoticed hour by hour— 16 mighe as weil & a flower AS win no admiration! no 1 her tastes is and butted And other such sinnlicitios, she'd stay where she was rooted. atl i t tier bafell, nusty : $ still were bright pomn had fadded white, S were brown and rusty. Now listen, children, while I The fale that Bouncing By highways dry and While meadow-Dlosson Her pinky b Her leave Ard people passat her where she gre. And went to look for Rlaek-eyed Sus AS nileht have Leen expected; Her yellow blossoms in a vase Won everybody's smiling praise and poor Bet drooped neglected! [St Nicholas, It is really a lovely garden. Never | were there whiter lilies, nor bluer | violets, nor more interesting pansies, But it needs something, ¥ think it | is bees, For hees are so picturesque! then the hives!—the hives are as pic- | taresque as the bees themselves. Apple trocs without bechives under them are | as forlorn as lilies without bees over | them, i 80 we bought some beautiful hives, | and placed them in the orchard, just | on the edge of the garden. Soon they | began to fill with delicious honey in dear little white cells; but the bees | were nowhere to be seen. Every! morning they disappeared, flying far out of sizht, and the lilies and roses were as forlorn as ever. We had the oredit of baving bees, for every one eould see the hives and taste the honey; but we did not have the bees, So one morning I went out and talked to them about it, “Dear Bees,” I said, “what is it that you miss in the garden? Every morn- ing you fly away; but where can yon 8nd whiter lilies, or bluer violets or more interesting pansies?” “We are not looking tor whiteness, or blueness, or ioterestingness,” the bees explained. “We are looking for honey; and the honey is better in the cloverfield that is only & mile away.” “Oh! if that is all,” I exclaimed glad- | ly, ‘Pray don’t have the honey on | your minis" : “We don't,” they said. it in littl: bags.” “| mean don't honey—" “Certainly not; how could we, when we haven't any minds?” “But please don't feel obliged to hunt for honey. I don't care at all | for honey; that is,” I added hastily, as a slight buzzing made me fear that per- haps I had hurt their feelings, “I like | you, youknow, for yourselves alone, not | for what you can give me. The honey | is delicious, but we can buy it very | ice at the grocer’s. If you like honey | for yourselves, J will buy some, and | ili the hives for you, so that you | needn't work at ali, if you will only stay in the garden, and hover over the | ilies, and-—and—be picturesque.” i They promised to try. And they did try. Whenever I looked from my library windo+s, I could see them practicing their hovering, and they really hovered exiremely well. Satis- | fied that my garden was at last com- plate, I gave up watching if, and de- voted myself to library work. Every morning I seated myself at the desk and wrote rapidly till noon. But one | day 1 was interrupted by a bee. He had flown in at the window. Perching himself on the lid of the ink- | stand he waited a while; then at last | asked quietly: ! “Why are you not out of doors this | beau'iful morning? The garden is lovely; I cannot see—" and he glanced critically at the vases about the room— | ““I cannot see that these lilies here are | any whiter, or the violets anr bluer, or | the pansies any more interesting than Shose out there. And we miss you. A garden really ought to have people walking about in it. That is what gar- | dens are for. I don’t see why we must | bo out there to be seen, when there is | nobody to see us.” i *‘But, dear bee, I am not looking for | flowers this morning; I am writing.” | “And what are yon writing?” ! “A sonnet.” *‘Are there no sonnets to be had at the stores?” “Oh, yes! Bhakspere's and Milton's and Wordsworth's, of course.” ‘And are your sonnets better than <hak ’ “Why, of course not.” “Then let your sonnet go, Come out in the garden with us, and on the way home I'll buy you a sonnet at the store; a Bhakspere sonnet, —the best in the market.” *‘But, you see, I want to try making a sonnet of my own.” And | “We carry mind about the I look up the p n agun, and was | soon absor in 2 rhymes and | rhethm. Indeed, I quite forgotten that the beo was there, till he stirred uneasily and finally sighed. : ‘Are you not happy in the garden? I ssked, “Not very." “But why not? iberty you want?” “No; we have every the liberty we want.” “And this is" “The liberty to work. We find that it isn't lilies; it isn’t clover; 1% isn's honey; it isn't making the honey that we like. It isn’t even making the TR Te re fio tough 3 you see, you don't honey; it's just making it.” ¢ I can't see “I don't how anybody can really like to work.” Tomi ore to over “But we do, 3 Jow, stguments to present to you Haven't you all the | liberty except your sonnet, while I Bo again I took up the and bru son apply absorbed, and sitely poor bee, till fo 3 write & sonnet.” “No, I exclaimed enthusinstieally, 1t isn’t at all easy, of it. Anybody can write some k nds of verse, but very iow people ean write sonnets, for meking » sonnet; you ean only have Just many lags, and just so few rhivines, and the sentiment must change in just such a place, and very few peo- ple have the patience for it. Even 8/0 style of sonnet.” rules?” “Yep," “Why?” *“Why, for the fun of it, It is so in- | working harder over it than you need to.” *“Only because it is a great deal more interesting to do a thing well than just to do it. sonnet. He says: In truth the prison unto which we doom Ourselves no prison is; meaning that; if we are willing to take if it is a small thirg, contented with their narrow convents, their libraries, and weavers at the to yoa, dear bee; he tells how— fees that soar for bloom, High as the highest peak of Furness fells, of who ‘have felt the weight of too mueh liberty? “Yes, that is what | meant; but I think I said it better than he says it. If in just fourteen lines, why isn't it a fourteen words? to we that I put the whole of his sonnet into saying that it is not for the honey you care; but the fan of the work.” ““The fun of the work! idea, —but [ believe you s “*Of course I am right. Sweetness is all very well, but I should think it would be very tiresome just to be be re right.” and have to hunt for the sweetness.” “And I'd rather be a human being and have to make things sweet, For, after all, if a bee doesn't find ple can make it for themselves Do given me a splendid subject for a poem?" “Perhaps I have. field; and my advice to you is, if lines, instead of fourteen. So tried, and this is the poem: Sweetness in being sweet, that's for the lowers? Sweetness in finding sweets, that's for the bee: Sweetness in making sweet sorrowful hours, That Is the sweetness for you and for me. — Alice Nicholas, AIA 0 How the Engagement Closed. Wellington Rolling in “Hallo, old boy!"" said Robinson to his friend Jones, How are you?" “First rate, Yon well?” “Thanks, quite. By the way, I heard per.’ “No, Robinson. her, but that is past.” now you're a lucky boy. She's rieh, of course, but that recommend her,” “Yon.” y-uetive, you know, Jones. fer father “That is true.” “Weil that's the way I look at it, I could bave married her my- self.” “You could?” “It's a fact; but I counted the cost, and drew out just in time. Fortunate, gary. “Dut tell me bow you managed to break the engagement,” “I didn't break it.” “Oh, she did herself, did she? But perhaps Ionght not to say anything broke it Joursalh as she Wad 80 anxious marry, and eve ly knows that Bt a, 7 od “Oh, you needn't apologize, I'm not wor Ying abont it.” “That's right. Might I inquire what made her break it?” ey iho didn't break 1 Sither: » - y t's stra hen it must Bave been her rey “No.” “Then how did yon manage to out of the ETI" gt “In a very simple way.” ‘“Bat how, Jones?" “I married her last week.” “Abh-h-h! Well, I really most be go HOW. Good-by." Wn ————" a — Tho Ghost Was the Better Man, Dick Cannon had a remarkable ex- pesionce while passing a graveyard in ayna county. Ho was in compan with a buxom country lass on a dar night, when suddenly a spook appear. ed upon the scene, omerging from the city of the dead. The girl fought bravely for a while, and at fainted, while Cannon's coat tail stood ous like A - ————. A New Use for Wealth, 1 clean ny oyc-glasscs these dads with a ten-dollar note,” nid Captain Orcu:t at the St. Charles Hotel, with a smile, oe he commonced to rub his spectacles with a bill. “It cleans the giase aud dosen't hurt the money. A one-dollar bill would answer the pur. | peso as well as a note for a hundred, | but In this case I hinppenad te havo thé “I have been cieaming my ginesos as cloar. If you use a handkerchiet the glass is blurred. The money re. moves all the dirt and grease and ledves no trace of itself. Am I afraid know that some physicians claim thas purpose. The texture is soft and is certainly removes dirt. Indoed, thero is nothing like paper money for pol. ishing find glassware. "—[Pittsburg a— ms —— Flshos That Catch Birds, In England the pickerel is famous lings especially being considered tid. bits, while in many flocks dacks with too'hed fishes having nipped off & leg Iu default of belter game The birds that habitraliy ave under water, as tho loons; divers, petrels and othery, are all more or less the victims of rapacious fishes. Sharks eaptare | some, while dolphins sud toothed co. feathers and all. A naval officer re- southern walers between wo large fish, probably a shark and a schosl of pow quies. The latter are nearly wingloss and rely entirely upon their powers of swimming to enable them {tp escape. The birds shot by the vessels, diving out of waler from wave Uo wave, slmost exactly resem. bling porpoises in thelr move ment, and immediately behind them came a large fish that made savage rashes from side to side and desperate efforis to reach them. The birds » tained sachi prodigious speed that they undoubtedly escaped Ly making the neighboring rocks. — (New York San LL — Usetel Urnzmeats The latest craze 1s to order Ono's Ores large chins shops confess to haviag had several orders lately, while silversmiths sstic “‘cremationist” of my acquaintance has a couple of delightful little old silver urns which oroameat his sideboard, and should say guest happea to. admire he is which are to be divided and seot to two old valued friends, in these fascinating while the more ordinary urns, which, ia stead of adorning the disiog room, are for the preseat used as pot.pourri jars, are of Derby stoneware, the same mate- rial as old-fashioned ‘‘toby™ jugs, Jew. eler's Review. Aetarn of Painted Gises, Ia Italy paiatiog on glass is beginning to flourish again, and to prove this we have only to remember the grand win. dows recently painted for the beautiful church of San Francesco, of Bieaa. The peintings, which are being done at the Royal lostitute of Munchen, in Bavaria, are stupendous, Still, whether in Italy or ia the rest of Europe, we are still far from reaching the perfection of the ancient Italian churches; for. example, the windows of Ban Francesco di Assisi, which are reputed the most beautiful ia the world. The painting on glass leaves me no time to mention the affairs of Abyssinia sud of his majesty Menelek IL, which form the delight of the Italisa parliament. — Chicago Post, Male and Female Asparagus. It has been ascertained by recent ex. periments with male and female ssparagus plants that the male plants gave an average of filty per cent. more yield than the fewale and the shoots were also larger and the crop earlier. It was found that the differences in yield tore greater in the early part of the season than in the latter part. Male plants can be secured for a certainty by the division of old plants, or better, by the selection from two-year-oid seedling of such as do not bear “seed. It has boen contended for a long time by growers that there was a difference in profit between the two, and these experiments which havg proved it to be » (act are timely. w= Florida Times Unian. ® EHUMOROUS, T—— It 1acks poiut—4A clrcie, An empty peppot-box is.out ox sens son. of its neck. his way through life, An ¢cho is like a woman, siways der termined to havo tho lust word. Californias pedestrians aro all right when they strike the Golden Gait. “I've gone through a great deal,” the lo The man who (ried heroic measures found they were several sizes too large 10r Mm “Thank fortune,” as (he man esid when his money opened to hint the doors of society, Speclalist—A man who charges yoo twenty-five dollars for what anothes charges five tollare In a Sad Plight.~— Belated passcoges ~When does tho next train go? Ticket agent—Il's just gone. If you want to keep your friend do not tell him disagreeable f{ruths abous himself or flatterlpg ones about youre self. ttieshort—=Ah, Mr. Calaway, bow a do? What's the condition of trade this scason? Cutaway (briefly) Cash. When there Is ro hawk flying around the biggest thing in the barn. yard is the strut of the smallest rooster. Youug Iady (lo yonng man who kissed her) That's very singular, sir. =aako it plural? opera? It is full of vigor; it braceg me right up.” «That's my objection to it; it is Teutonic.” “Anything new on one politician of another, “Yes,” was tho reply. “What is #7° «Our baby. He's just learned to walk.” fool?” asked lack of morals in politics. There is | i i | i i i { i ! i | FOOD FOR THOUGHT, Trust few, Do wrong to none, People were never Intendcd to be idle, The whole her: lding and chivalry ls in courtesy, The red nose of the silent man speaks for itself. What you do, do at once—you never will rue it, Good breeding is the result of much good sense, News is wha'ever the public will read Inactivity frustrates the very object of our creation, If your burden your back to it. Don’t chase a lle, but pursue the liar with all your energy. It pays to be good, but 1t doesn’t pay to figure on the profits, ‘'s heavy, then bend than there is ignorance, A great many people are good simply for the reputation of it, A man who does a good deed for cash deserves no credit for it. There is no sweeter repose than that which is purchased by labor, should try to forget it. When a man does you a favor, you should always try to remenber it. It is when one lacks the bear pecessi- ties of life that the wolf is at the door. No pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage ground of truth, The best Obristian is the man who never mentions the fact that he is one, The richest man of all 1s he who has got but little, but has got all he wants, An gctive life is the best guardian of virtue and the Dest preservative of health, : i There are any { i i i | i { politics, where there Is an oversupply, Somehow a handsome diamond pever Jooks qu'te so désirable woman st any other tithe as It does when shesees it lo another womAL's 108. vutiont waiters—Callors * in the phy. #icisa’s ante room. — Lowell Courier, A down in Indisos is 80 lazy that he op labor under an imoression, —Peiroit Pree Prem, The butcher is no gambler, but he Is flwayy ready to steak the lucky boards ing-house Keeper. Teras Siflings The hen-pecked husband who misses 8 train he has promised his wife to re. turn om ‘‘eslches” it when be gels home. ~~Bogton Courier. Diokie—''I had a rattling good ume last wight.” Tiokle—'"'Shouldu’t woa- der; you were pretty well rettied wheo vou came botye.” “What queer thiogs 340 come to pam in this world!” sighed the ocousterfeit expert, aa he rejected acother bit of queer money. — Chisago Light. Minister (on Benday, to Tommy, who is about to go a-fshing)—'‘Why are you diggiag worms to-day, my soa!” Tommy w=" ‘Cause yor can't got many "thout yer do dig?" — Boston Herald. The suthor had just gotten his MSS. back from the publishers whea be re. marked: ‘This business isn’t remarkable for lurgy profits, but it certainly shows quick returns” Boston Pest, “I tll you” mid Marrey Hib, *‘there’s aa indeseribable sense of luxury in lylag in bed and riaging one's bell for his valet.” “You got a valet?” “No; but I've got a bell." New York News. When a man bas devoted brain power and energy to putting a handsome polish on his shoes it wounds hin to have thy first bootblack be meets look up indis oriminately 10to his face and say: ‘Shine, oir." Somerville Journal. Mille—'I don't mind marrying you, Clarence, but I hate the idea of giving up my fftesn-dollara-week job at the store.” Clarence—' ‘Then don't give it up, dearest. I'll give up mine. - I'm getting only $10." Chicago Trdune. “Look, Adolph, your tailors sitting over there.” “Don't attract his atten. ton.” “Ain't you getting on woll to. “Yes, but I don't wast to em. folks, If a man is hovest he may not always i i i f i i i i i i i i i i § i i the wrong. There are a thousand backing at the at the root. There 1s nothing more discouraging to a man than thoughts of how great he intended to be, Natnre makes all the poblemen— wea'th, education, nor pedigree never made one yet, The man who would shine in soc'ety must first learn to dance—begin at the fool, as It were, There is nothing that gives to life such sweetness and continued value as habitual courtesy. When the devil wants s good adver- tisement he sends a man into the earth with a long and doleful face, Matters are evened up preity well in this world, The father tans the son and the son tans the father So much can be accomplished in a day, it 1s foolish to become discouraged while one day of life 1s Jeft us The people who actually de erve to live their lives over again are the very ones who don’t want to do it, Ours isnot asplendid, but itis a saving religion, 1t is bumbling now that it may be elevating hereafter, Whenever you bear a man say that all menare alike it is an apology for some very contemptible scoundrel, It is a peculiar fact that the black sheep of the family almost Invariably leaves howe and gets flesced, If a man expects to be very virtuous, be must not mix too much with the world, nor too much with himself either, With all busy people we should be- ware of breaking in upon an hour un. invited; it may be the time dedicated to an important task, If most tried as bard to please others as try to get others to please them, what a delightful place this world would be, Let man live for himself all his 1ife, and the only pleasure he will bave left when he Is fifty 1s that which he finds in hating his enemies. Marrying a woman for her money is very much like a rat-trap anda bating it with your own finger. A practical joke is like a fall on the fce-there may be fun in it, but the one that falls can’t alway see 1t. Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid being ignorant of everything. What a shock it is to find out that the man whose conversation you have been admiring is not worth a dollar, To let them tell it, men’s failures are due to circumstances past human con trol; their successes to native ability, If you want to keep your friend do not tell him pain truths about himself or fattering ones about herself. The superiority of some men is mere- ly local. They are great because thelr i i i i 3 i : i HOEBE NOTES, ~Thete will be racing at Saratoga as usual this year, ~8 full mile track is to be constructs ed at Atlanta, Ga, Weight does not seem to bother Eon much this year. ~—Old Parole was exhibited at Morris Park. ~dockey Barnes is not riding up to his last searon’s form, ~The Grand Circuit will open as Pittsburg, ~The pacer Sam Jones is sald to be on a “ringing” tour in Canads, ~—Losntaka has demonstrated that Lis suburban victory was not a fluke, ~~ There have been some excellent races al Belmont Course, - Beven horses the get of Eleclioneer have entered the 2.20 ist this year, ~ Potomac promises to soon yay for himself. He was not dear at $25,000, -W. L. Scott will sell his stable of runners and retire at the end of the sea ~The Little Rock (Ark. ) Jockey Club has been organized with a capital of $25,000, — Beroggan Brothers have secured sec. ond call on Jockey Overton during Briton’s {liness, ~The Belmont Driving Club meeting Was brought 10 a close with three good races. ~The fastest heat trotted this season 80 far is Miss Alice's 2.17; in the fifth beat at Hartford recently. ~According to the Assessor’s returns Cincinnat! has 8275 horses within her corporate limits, valued at $478,132, — Sunol Is in training in Californta, and she recently trotted a quarter in 20 seconds--at the rate of a mile in 1.58, -— Betting men will remember the Sheepshead Bay meeting for the great number of favorites that were beaten, ~The 6-year-old mare Fanny Wilcox, by Jerome Eddy, has already reduced Ler record from 2.20% to 2.00% this sea- son, ~The running meeting n progress at Chicago is one of the most successful financially ever given by that associa- tion. ~—For the first time since 1884 the fleet pacer Johnston is not barred from the free-io-al class in the Grand Circuit races, ~The order prohibiting jockeys from a dead letter, for the reason that it can- not be enforced, ~The famous stallion Aleryon, 2.15%, recently trotted a mile at Muskegon, Mich., in 2.204, which is the fastest mile of the season over a half-mile track, ~The special meeting of the Board of Directors of the American Trotting Register Association, called for July 9, has been postponed to July 21, at Cha- cago. — Prince Hal, by Brown Hal, ref uced his record to 2.16f at Rockford, IIL This is the fastest mile of the season 80 far. Brown Hal is in training. ~J. D. Creighton, of Omaha, has sold to W, F, Redmond, New York, the bay yearling filly Anglina, by Anteo, 2.16%, dam Anglia, by George Wilkes; price, $4000, — Hal Pointer’s lameness was evident- ly of a trivial character, as at a recent meeting at Mansfield, O., be paced an exhibition mile In 2.24. Mansfield has a half-mile track. ~The chestnut stallion J. J. Audu- bon, winner of the 2 50 class at Belmont Course, in which be got a record of 2.27, is entered for the 4-year-cld stake at Point Breeza, ~ Allerton, 2.13}, isin active training for his 56-year-old and other engage- ments, in the former of which he will have to meet such good ones as Nancy Hanks, 2.144; Margaret 8. 2,19, ete, ~Detroit's venture In hanging up £50.000 for the Blue Ribbon meeting of July 20 to 25 on the basis of 5 per cent. to enter Is a bold mnovation which horsemen should endeavor to encour. age In the third heat of a race at Rush- ville, Ind., a dog ran a rabbit down the track and made New York Central break and fall, but the horse recoversd himself, and half in 1.10. ~Merrill, Starter Sheridan's assistant, has been to start at the Hank- ins’ track, and efforts have been made looking to securing Colonel + Lewis Clark for presiding judge. — William H., a bay gelding, b Messenger Chaef Jr., won the 2. class at SpringCeld, Mo., on June 13 in straight heats from a feld of eight, distancing five the first heat. Time, 2.344, 2 354, 2.85. ~C. J. Hamlin has sold his entry in the team race at Cleveland to Frank
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