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.
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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-
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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~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