THE CHEAT OF TEARS, rst Tears that fall so easily In our April yearsg Raining o'er a broken ‘a7: Falling o'er a var isaed Juv: Like soit usel ss de crops gieaming O'er a malden’s broXen ureaming; Brimming up without disguise In the boy's brown wistful eyesg Tears that, scarcely shed, are dry, As the sunlight sweeps tho sky. Oh, the ¢: eal of teas Tears that fall co bitterly In our bright June years: O'er or first love's fearless trast, Trampied in the world’s hot dust; O'er the hope whose sunny swe=tness our Ho In Its completeness, it shrank apd died away in the glare of common day : Tears half welgome as they fell, Since th y sanctified “Farewell,” Oh, the cheat of tears! Tears that fall so sparsely In our autumn years: Falling, burning, oue by one, O'er the hope whose reign is done; O'er the dai lings lad to rest; O’er our first ties, and our best; O'er the alm that strove and failed; O’er the faith by doubt assailed; Tears of hopeless, helpless grief; ‘ears that mock the word “relief.” Oh. the cheat of tears! — FOOD FOR THOUGHT. We're naver to old to unlsamn. Act first and promise afterward. Moderation in all things is success. Memory gilds the days of childhood. Lilies and weeds are alike to the p'gs. Homesickness is a Qemory. What is leisure to the he poor. The grief which grows less for one, Candor doesn’t nece ther people's corns. Pleware of the man who feigns to be ar: used when he is angry. There 1s nothing hike this dally grind for sharpening a man’s wits, Tewpiatiors are a flle that rubs off th: rust of self-confidence. t is better to put your money in your ¢hildren than in real estate, (Give the flowers their solitude and pature will guard them well. It's a mistake to suppose that the soc al lion is the king of beasts, The baby, the clock and the tea ket- tle furnish the true home music, The sea is masic, and Pan and Apol- lo are the streams and the win ls. Each blade of grass has a purpose ; why not each man and woman? Some meu and women become ac- Quainted through their children. The locust sings every seventen years; why not some poets locusts? (sreat execution is done by him is proficient in hangmg up others. The air of condescension never yeb ventilated a poor tensment house. When a man weighs his words yon soay be sure that he is well balanced. An average awkward squad good display of a wheel withi The world is full of me forget a promise that is ma It's alwa truth about ony’ disease of the rich, is laziness to all hearts share, igitate treading Or Qn who ie 1 ¥3 more sgroegbhle t $ neighbors than y has to hoe BOL his own to befoul the with [ 01 cannot repant too soon yon ao know how soon it too late. A girl never goss by her brot without saying something about a *‘dir- ty boy.” A girl of eighteen has more sense the matrimnonial way than a man thirty. The word of an earnest man with plenty of conscience and heart is as fire te powder. A faithful friend in adversity is bet- ter than a calm sea to a weather beaten mariner. When you accept your friend’s invi- tation he usually wishes he had not been quite so urgent. Some people seem to imagine that preordination offers an excellent excuse for a life fallurs, Our generation appears fo a thought. ful mind uugirt and frivolous compaced witli the last age, A man sat on a fence ana whittled a stick; another plowed the fleld at his side; which was the laborer? One reason why some paople are not #0 wickel as others i8 becauss they baven’t had so good a chance. It takes a man to break up the friend. ship betwen women, and 8 woman to bre«k up friendship between men. When a woman loves a man she wants to die for his sake; when aman loves a woman Die wants to live for her sake, Always something Jost in achieves went, Always soe water that drips from the drawn up bucket in the sand There are two things to which we never grow accustomed-—'he ravages of time and the injustice o! our fellow- wen. Tne most charitable thing that ean be doe for some people is to lie about thm when you are asked to tell the truth. The average man not only wants §2 for every doliar’s worth of work he does, but a good deal of **appreciation”’ besides, An unmarried p son knows no more about marriage than a man can know of what is inside a book by the appear. ance of the cover, Wien a man doss finally become so god that he i patient with a woman, all the : redit he gets is Lhat peuvpe say Le is afiuld of her, Whether 1 ba for hope, for joy, for consolation, or for inspiration, the fut ure must, ater all, be the grand object of the eye of faith, Out of suffer'ng comes the serions mind; out of salvation, the gra’-ful , bacauss ay Us el in of woof delivecan ce, fai.h, It is indeed a pleasant sight to see a family dwel ins together tn peacs and unity and gladness, Neither the poot nor the painter can describe a happler abt CSG A SONG FOR FATHER, TOO. — The world in batter for the songs Thai tell of mother's love; Wholr sweetest echoes o'er shall fost Around whe Throne above. ¥ $o1 do you ever pauses to think, Aleve when work is through, That sephyrs from the south shold bring A song Tor lator, too? May sowrmor®s cholonst petals fol On mosay banks we know, To take away the oil we feel Wana comes the drifting snow. Yat wails we weep baside the mosnd Where sleeps a mother true, Lot gratetul teardrops Lear to cavth A song tor father, too, The blades of memory's grass are groan, For the hand that smoothed ous brow; Ye teat Rain the goatie touch , Where sliver mingles now Yet when the night bird's saddest noted Bring thoughts our ebiidbhood koew, Beet not the board Corgat 10 slug A song Tur father, too, Bisory Deaver, iu Springtield Repubdlioan AN AGENT'S STRATAGEM flaat Wav in Which Two Robbars Were Outwitted. AUGUSTINE LAFONT wm the confidentia agent of aheavy banking house in Paris. Early in the spring of 1832 he set on from Paris with bills, notes drafts, ete, the amount © over a milliog francs, for 4 house in Chaumont, and i uch secrecy had been observed in the | preparations for his journey, as the i kingdom was, at that time, infested bys sécret organization of thieves. Lafond had the notes concealed in various part i of hisdress, and taking the heavy dilb | pence as his best mode of conveyance tie set out on his mission. Nothing worthy of note occorred © arrest Lafont's attention; until he had ! passed nearly through the department of the Seine and Marne, when, just al nightfall, two well-dressed pentlemen bailed the diligence, and claimed pas sage to Chaumont. It was already toc dark for the agent to clearly distin guish the features of the newcomers but yet from what little he could see Be at once made vp his mind that thels pountenance were not unfamiliar ££ him, and having come to this conclw sion, he determined to watch thei movements, for a vague suspicion that they had by some means be sessed of the se f his bus possessi The nt, Noge night. As tunity to exan f the stranger: became sat sions were correct ¢ elers, atleast, | the day befo | sould ne it not | hima with mar] per, walled ot MeMmInIns | | wards the ao ¥ + 3 two men crou stall. With a stealthy, i, the agent crept as near as possible to the stall, aud he was fortunate enough tomake out the gist of their conversa tion. When Lafont left the stable he knew that the two had left Paris for the pur! pose of robbing him, and that they in tended to put their plan in execution as soon as the diligetce should have en tered the department of Upper Marne, At first the sgent thought of calling upon the gear d'armer and have the two men arrested, but them the evidence might not be sufficientto warrant such eding, and besides he wonld there by give the secret of his mission to the eapidity of others who might be equals ly ready to rob him. He returned to the inn, and after considerable refloos tion he determined 1o procure s horsd and secretly pursue his journey. Haw Ing come to this conclusion, he went ta the driver of the diligence, and under the plea of having to remain in Nogent . Tit. catiike 4 be settled his fare thus far; them he He AEE oR Ry So gr OV “S0ODNORNING, ORRTLEMER" to be in readiness for him by three i o'cloeke in’ the morning, at the samg time enjoining upon the garcon the 4 eYtamion a number of vorless popess, bewently folded them fn an envelope which he strongly sealed onl Louns At three o'clock in the morning, while it was yet vory dark and before znyone cise was stirring, Lafont quiclly de ecended from his room and went Lo the stable. “The garcon was easily aroused on Foo two hours Le rode on his way; but instead of pur suing the high road to Treves, he agair y Lig Lay easter Avent ht he d the banks of the Aube, beginning tostreck Lafont th ’ i being pursued, and ian ten minutes he was ase sured that the two robbers were alter him. from the =a » and seizing a heavy stone he inflicted a severe bruise upon one of his horse's fore legs. The ani- mal reared and plunged, but Lafont managed to hold him, and azain mount. ing, he drove on, but the horse limped and beneath the effects of the blow he had received and in a short * »y r stavpered “Ah! good morning, gentlemen,” said the agent, as he reined in his lame steed, at the same thine raising his hat with affable politeness, “So you, t tired of tl diligre “Yes,” replied the formost of the two men, “the dilipg did notexa uit sur convenionce y we Lox “And are vou bound.to 2» it seems ave ” nea. Oo, 1¢ lumbering tiv ¢ portant 1 msiness.” fortunate,” said Lafont with the utmost earnestness, “for you nays if yon see fit, do me a great {i [, too, have important business at Ch mont, but. I fear that without assis ince I shall not be able tg accomplish it. I have, gentlemen; in my possession 8 vast amount of valuable papers, and intended to. have continued on my way " is c———— «1 tons — AS XEAR A® TORSIBLE. rbot we tha ” "a at sre ut nt at I am overhaaled, ind nothing. and, of not be suspected. 1 accommodate me you rewarded. What say two men exchanged significant glances during these remarks; and after a moment's consultation one of them sald “You seem to be ready Th trasting strangers, sir" . “Oh, not at all, sir,” replied Lafonl with a frank smile. “1 would much rather trust honest travelers than rune he risk of meeting with robbers. You sce just how | am situated, gentlemen; and if you will do me the favor I ask, Arcis, and change my horse, and then follow you ™ “Well,” said one of the men, “we will do your wish and meet you at M. Augient's offic?” i “Then I thank you most heartily ® said Lafont, and as he spoke he look a and handed it over. “lo this,” he said, “there are valuable papers, and I trusf i Now the robbers may overhaul me #8 soon as they like.” After some further directions gived in an honest, confiding manner, Lafont bade his new messengers Godspeed, pnd ere long they were out of sight he agent turned his horse's head back ard Nogent, where he arrived in safe. Ly, and on the next morning he procured & guard and once more took the dili- first convenient place to examine their prize, but their chagrin can be better foutsd that they held only a seeurely- bound parcel of waste paper. They knew that they were suspected, and, of saovements, | made Lafont retired to his roomy: bf course know that his secret had got wings, and even in his pro osed cours he was not entirely fren from dangoen, million franes was o large sum, and ‘a the te Parisian robbers had sel their hearts upon its he Jut soa work to performere he would entiraly free from them. After re v i | i i M. Augustine Lafont spent 4 month in Chaumont, and when he returned to Paris almost the first object that mel his eye was a chaib gang of criminals ust being sent to the galleys in his two friends of the highway, They had attempted a heavy robbery in the tity and had been detected ~Yankee Blade, With the idea of preserving the Gaelle language the Duke of Athol’s daughter is preparing for the Instruc. tion of the Gaels of Perthshire in read. ing, writing and speaking their native tongue. The Trans-Atlantic MNieamship, Fuerst Bismarck, carries the pennal for speed, with a record of 19.78 knots r hour, her second being the Oity of aris, with a record of 19.40 knots per hour, POETESS AND INDIAN. BOMANCE OF ELAINE GOODALR AND THE BON OF A SIOUX mate Love the Berkshire Lass at Pine Ridge—~He is Now a Doctor and 8he a Buperintendent of Schools. A pretty romance, says the Boston Herald, is that of Dr. Charles A. Fast. man, the young Indian medical student who has been so well kuown in Boston end vicinity during the past few years, and Miss Elaine Goodale, one of the two siser poetesses of the Berkshire hills, whose engagement was announced on Christmas day. Both are now at Pine Ridge agency, Dr. Eastman as the gov. ernment reservation physician, and not, as might be opel joining his tribe, the Sioux, in fight; and Miss Goodale, es purse, performing the most menial offices for the wounded with uufailing patience and tenderness. The story of Dr. Eastman’s life, which is hero for the first time told in full and of the romantic way in which he and Miss Goodale came to know each other, is interesting in the extreme, Ohyicsa, the young Indian's real name —for, of course, “Eastman” was only adopted-—was the son of a full-blood chief of the Sioux, who was taken pris- over at the famous Minnesota massacre, ty-eight years condemned to was afterward pardoned hy Lincoln, hav rst been $ 3 Wo Ch Wise ia pris ere Lo, nr tf fi ristianity while snounced O.we. sy lla. : has giving h world, he was taken by his uncle Rifle, Bioux chief, to Dritish Col where the latter still lives, Here ho remained till he was fourteen, trained to shoot, fish and trap and to bear all maoner of privations and hard. ships. Up two thal time he had never tecn a white man, and could not speak a word of English, He was never on a reservation until he went to the Pine Ridge agency last summer as the gov- ernment physician, He was of the purest and best type of the Indian race, snd was a worthy son of the distin- guished chiels whose dignity of bearing sud of ulterance have made them famous i This is a point to be makes his present more remarkable, was received at the r School ka, the instruc. ar gm i} at the } ot the very fi ne east to malriculate at Dart. bh 2 been chosen 3 i r, Dr. Riggs, principal of the Santec school, because of a clause now olusolele, in its constitu. tion, which allows gratuitous education to the red man. When asked what he wanted to do in life, his reply was: “To bea physician,™ adding that, since the Indisos held their havin havin reverence, he could acquire an influence over them that way best, his one desire in life being to bring his race to civilize tion and citizenship. On completing his Dartmouth course he came to Boston, where he took the Now comes the first note of the will probably ero ling result in their mariage. During the summer—that of 1800—Dr. Eastman, as he must now be called “Apple Blossoms,” written by Miss voodale when she was mit 15 years works came into his hands, He con. Miss Goodale was not taught in Geuoral Sioux country, though of late she has government physician not long after his hey were prepared for each other in temperament, education, and uoder condi. ions where sympathios are quick to ex. Miss Goodale is very beautiful, as well terested. She has studied the Indian question with the true philanthropio spirit. Bhe has studied it at Hampton and on the reservation. She belioves that education, which means civilization end Christianization as well, is the true and only solution. She also believes that the best educational centre—the place where the est results can be socurod—is the day school on the Ek shan hos nat te very ° rom very people to whom sho has given her young years for their amelioration, Do one Cad saw aha be mal in corns AT REST. fhe faithful helm commands the keel, From port to port fair breeses blow, | But the sulp must sall the convex saa, Hor may she straighter go. £0, man to man; io falr accord, On thought and will the winds may wall, Ent the world will bend the passing word, Though its shortest course be straight, From soul to soul the shortest line At best will bended ba, The. chip that holds the straightest colirse Bul holds the convex sea wJohn Boyle OF Reilly « “HE BARK BEETLE. Entothologint Forbes Tells How the Pest Muy be Destroyed. Entomologist 8. A. pared an extended report Iilinois Btate Forbes has pre of investi made concerning the fruit bark bectiec and its destructive work insouthernp Illinois orchards. The report will hy sucd in a short time, and in it Prof Forbes will say that the inscet made its appearance in western New York in 1 and in other eastern { in 1580, first op 1llinois being near Albion n it did destructive work on cherry, plum h trees. Prof. Forbes' assist stirations the on Nn is pearance in 1888, where and pea age inv uthern Illinois, {i larvee in the ant, John in many orch 5 in 50 snd Hund t} different k trees fn many The of the troes Ai ne San woo, hind change inl when they become? a return them w scives out Lo trees, where they the history. channeled through same . ut and the tree ine dying condition As to best that all up, root and br ing the winter of 1 id be 0 ai the remedies trecs infectle report says itis i should be and burned The twigs at- ilar mot 8 rhes foes SYerely When Before the Camera. rt and stout don't tak nake a picture of you 1 if you insist; but ng & grest wrong so gracefol sad re of a stout lady as 3 { gih, tthe figure BO irned as to hide the too (oe stoutness. n, if you are slim and angular, do not for an instant forget that 4 full length figure | make you appear wore slim and an;rolar. Then the pretty bust picture is your only hope and you ghould insist on having no other, Hf a gentleman has a very long netk-—no matter how nicely he looks in a high eollar, his picture if taken in sucha high affair would look grotesque. A ghort neck and high collar, 4 long heck and low turned-<lown collar by all means. No loud stripes, no thecks, no striking figures should be worn in 8 photograph. One thing beas in mind when you visit the stadio— bring along your home expression, Don't spend two days before yon come to the studio practising poses and dif ferent expressions before your mirror; and, lastly, give the photographer the benefit of exercising his artistic and professional ability. Ladies’ Home Journal w Tue vousual sight of a man with thres full-sized arms and hands may be daily seen upon the streets of Marbette, British Columbia. He is a Russian by birth, and first éame to Amcrica, in 1877, as an attache of the Greek church, at Sitka, Alaska, whore he resided alout 1884. He isa large, powerfully-built man, but seems to have no control of this extra bodily mémber, which hangs down his back from a point almost exactly between Lis | shoulders, and rolls from side to side 10 an unsightly manner, as though para. Iyzed. Besides being well ep in the way of arms, he has a set of teeth | that are double all the way around, i CM M55 A ilecture in Derlin that he had lately | made the trip from Bombay, India, to | Madras and Ben ares in forty-eight boars by rail, while in 1872 the same trip, with ox-teams, took two months, i Hill, in Randolph County; Mo , still has the pony he rode in the Confederate army. 1t is now thirty-six years old and as fal as a mole, not having been used any, or very little, fur some years, Smokeless pow ler was used at the Wimbledon { England) volunteer review before the German Emperor with great success, The guns emitted an brilliant red flame on the discharge, unlike the smokeless compound adopted in France, which produces a pale Gash resembling the electric light, A new system of house-wiring for electric lighting consists of fitting the building with continuous tubes of insu. med material, through which the wires are drawn. The tubes are made of paper soaked In a hot bath of bitumin ous material, and are said to be bard, strong and tough, | HORSE NOTES, ——————————— ~Sallie McClelland is be)elessly bro. ken down. ~Join Condon has sent his pacer Surpass to winter quarters, ~The Independence kite track meas ures 1 fool 2 inches ever a wile, ~ Sheridan has been engaged to do the glarting at Latonia next senswon 073 ratnst ntly. 629 additions mile in ge City re —Direct paced a time at Ca ubri There have been g trotting list 2] 14g ‘othe 2.30 Pr. James A. M : horszman, a> well as a veterinarian, Cheyenne reduced h's record to 2,17 in a race at Rushville Ind. recently ~The b per cent, entry fee plan will be tried at the Philadelphia fall meet- ings ~The trotting mare Hattie T. recent. ly dropped dead in a race at Winona, Mun, —Jt 18 currently reported that a ma. jority of the bookmakers at Latonia are losers, ~The filly by Allerton 2.00%, -onut of Anna Dickinson, 2 193, Las been named Bell Bird. — FF. Wemple bas sold old blak mare Gold Lace to Robert Steel, the 4-year- by Epaulet familiarly known as at his home in Cuicago —) AIOCS J Jim Gore, died recently, OTe, has leased the al AX IOwWay, 2.16 at dam on 2- wenn § JAAS ¥ Maud, seorg 2.1%: the of Monbars (2194), the ¢ year-old coit, aio] is 24 yeas ol — Frank Caven is driving his chestnut gelding Olarley Finch nd 18 always ready for a vrush. on Le 108d, & Jockey Britton rode one race at y, but 1t is very doubtful Ieiy recovere Latonia recs if be is yet enlt d. d times Fg Ww It is a reminder of ol to ses Edward List ith the ver gray pacer Comet and Dn Cameron, stung in front of stand at ol ’ nt track 1s iecency cote LOT 1 116 eo grand wil sellers’ LALCe nter, by tial 44 ¢ nly Maud Hart her. now Nan . ned LY of KE OLUCKY, who bred ~The pool seller, W. RB. Armstrong, is one of the few men who has had the pleasure of seeing his ol tuary in print, He did not drop dead, as reported —~Y.a Tosca cost Pr Louisette £13.000 at the Belmont sale, and afirr winuinr $20,000 with ber he has sold the filly to Pierre Lorillard for $15,- 0 0. - Fremont is considered a barga'n at $18 510, the price paid for him at the the Elmendorf sale by General W. H. Jackson, of Belle Maude Farm, -— Frank and Charles Fuller, sons of George Fuller the noted driver, have foi » 36% Ot and will start to breeding trotiers there, ~— Hopefuls wagon record of 2.164, which has stood since 18 8, was put ia the shade by Allerton’s m1 in 2.18 to wagon at Independence recently. ~The American troller Captain George won a one mile and seven fur- long saddle race at Berlin in 4 51, beat. ing Misiy Morning, Dan Jenkins and Kara. ~ With no meeting a' Linden or Ell gabetih this fall there is & great chance for the Washington Jockey Club to have the best meeting heid in the Capi tol in several years, ~The Jewett Farm paciog yearling Rollo, 2.37%. was dethroned at Came bridge City Ind., recently by Pinewood, a yearling son of Artemnus, out of a daughter of Blue Bull. Pinewood paced — Walcott & Campbell have secured Jockey Fred Taral for three years at a salary, it 1s said, of $1000 per month, and Mr. Plerre Lorillard has pald Ww, C. Daly §2 00 for first call on John ¢ Fred Akers, New York city, has bought a balf interest In the ohwestnut gallion Idol King { ore Uvras Travis, of teekskall N. Y. Hol King is 10 years oid, by Juol, dam Martha Wash ington, 220%, by Blucher, son of Black Eagle we The d-year-0ld class at Cambridge City recently will ravk we one of the sensational esutesls of this or any other year. Dr. Sparks won the first heat in 2.153, after whieh Bele Sreher went fn «ud won the race in 2,164. 2.17§ and 2.18}. = Probanly Yorkville Belle and la Tosca ave the best racehorse now capa- ble of showing their Up-top form, Kingston is undoubtedly not hime self, P His Highness, Loug- st Tenny and many others are shelf” or out of train.
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