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THE LAND OF SILENCE.
*Twixt the shining steeps of joyance
And the death-clear luke of ruth
A low land lies=a wonderful Innd-—
That knows not age nor youth,
Roses! roses! roses! anear, afar, they blow,
All rarely pale, all richly red,
All white as the driven snow,
Red blooms for the lips of loving,
And pale for the lips that sigh,
And shining white for the honest lips
Unsetained with a coward lie.
For they blow in the land of silence
That lies by the lake of ruth,
And the soul that placks shall walk unvexed
In the fair g.een meads of truth,
—[Harper's Weekly,
GRACE DESMONDS PERIL.
BX HARRY 0'COXNOR.
“Did you hear that, boys?” said Pierce
Ryan to a group of which he formed a
part, sitting around the cheery turf fire
of an inn, in a small fishing hamlet
the western coast of Ireland.
Every voice in the company ceased
speaking at once. The roar of the
neighboring surf and the wild tumult of
the tempest, as it whistled and shrieked
on
but for more than a minute, during which
all listened intently, nothing else was
heard.
“It was merely fancy, Pierce,”
one of the group. You ought to
The speaker stopped short, for, at that
instant, the deep boom of a cannon, ont
at sea, sounded distinctly and fearfully
across the night. :
““There is aship on the coast,” said
Pierce. ‘Mark! a third gun, and it
sounds nearer than the last.” *‘And the
wind is right on the shore and blowing a
hurricane,” said another. “Lord be
merciful to them,” ejuculated Pierce,
“but let us hurry to the coast and see if
we can help them in any way.”
With one consent the party moved
toward the door, first, however, calling
to the landlord to bring lanterns and
ropes in case the lattdr might be neoded.
As the door was opened a gust of wind
eddied into the room, flaring the candles
in their sconces, an whistling keenly
around the corners of the apartments.
When the adventurers stepped outside
they were almost borne down for a mo-
ment by the intensity of the gale, which,
sweeping unchecked across the plain
that lay betwixt the inn and the beach,
burst on the house with almost inered-
ible fury. It was snowing violently, and
the flakes, hissing and spinning in the
wrricane, almost blinded the ayes of the
adventurers; buat drawing their frieze
topcoats around them, the warm-hearted
travelers bent their heads against the
wind and hurried to the coast,
The shore to which they turned their
steps was a high, bold, rocky coast,
against which the surf was now beating
with a violence that shook the cliffs to
their base and flung the spray in showers
over their edge 100 feet above the raging
deep below. The party had stood some
time, however, on the summit of the
rocks before they could distinguish any-
thing through the storm. :
At length a light, shadowy object
gradually assumed the outlines of a ship
flying before the tempest and started out
of the misty distance. For one moment
she was seen driving up toward the spec.
tators. That moment, seeming to po”
an age, was spent in breathless horror.
Each one involuntarily clenched his
hands tighter together and gazed with
straining eyes on the powerless craft that
was sweeping onward with such mad
velocity to the cliffs at his feet. On. on
she came, driving amid the white foam.
A moment more and there was a crash,
followed by a shriek that rose even above
the storm, and froze the very hearts of
the listeners. It ceased and the hurri.
cane alone was heard,
“It is all over,” said one
listeners.
“‘May the good heaven give rest to the
souls of those who have gone to their lust
account this blessed night.”
“Amen, said another,
breathing silence
Pierce Ryan spoke.
*‘Did you hear that cry 7"
“1 did. It sounds like the wail of a
child.”
“It is just beneath the eliff.,” said
Pierce. “Listen! there it is again—-it is
a woman's voice.” =
There was no doubt any longer that a
living being was erying for succor from
the foot of the cliffs, and a dozen lanterns
were immediately lowered over the edge.
For an instant, and an instant only. by
the light of a lantern lowered further
down the precipics, but almost immedi.
ately shattered to pieces, the face of a
female had been soen, cast upward in
earnest supplication. But what could be
done for her? The frenzy of the gale for.
bade any attempt to rescue her by do.
sce ling the cliff, and it was certain that
she could not live until morning, exposed
to the driving snow, the intense cold, the
washing of the surf and the fierce eddies
said
of the
and again a
followed, At length
that she stuck there ns if impaled, her
stern falling off seaward, while her bows
overhung the boiling vortex on the land
side of the sharp rock on which she lay.
The racking of the sea had by this time
broken her hull in twe, and the forward
part, erowded with living beings, fell
away into the gulf below, just as the
ruddy blaze of the flames enabled the
gpectators to ontch their first glimpe of
the wreck. One wild shriek rose over all
the uproar of the gale and then a silence,
if silence there could be amid that hurri-
sane, fell on the scene.
“There is not a soul left alive. I fear
said Pierce.
asked some of the spectators.
shook their heads, and several turned
away as if longer delay spot was useless
But, when silence reigned for some time,
Pierce Ryan stepped out and said;
“The only hope is in descending to her
i aid, and with Heaven's Help 1 will make
{the trian). Give meas rope.’
“It's madness,’ said one. “‘Don’t at.
tempt it, Pierce, if you value your life,”
| said another.
| you're half way down.”
| *No matter,” replied Pierce, “I'll risk
| my life to save a fellow creature, and if
I am killed, I'll die in a holy cause.”
{ *“*Nobly spoken, Pierce Ryan,” said
| Father O'Brien, the village pastor, ‘‘and
may your Heavenly Father be with you
in your attempt. He who guided the
children of lsrael through the desert
will not desert you in this extremity.’
The words of the venerable priegl isd
The tackle was speedily rigged, the fire
was replenished, and then the sdventurer
stood on the edge of the elilf awaiting a
lull in the gale.
mode was one of the meet perilous na-
ture, and death would be sure to overtake
the adventurer if his nerve should fail
bim. The side of the precipice was
nearly perpendicular, it shelved in per.
haps a few yards in its descent, while its
surface was broken everywhere with fis.
sures and jutting crags. The only pos.
sible means by which the foot of the
precipice could be reached would be by
i the aid of a pole, used witha quick eye
and steady nerve, to fend off the adven-
turer from the side of the cliff. Added
to all this peril, however, was that of the
darkness, How could a person de.
scending the face of the cliff on such
a night, guard himself with any
certainly against the numerous
jutting fragments of the rock ? Ur, how
could he, even if he could effect his own
descent, ascend again to the edge of the
cliff above with another person? At
length it was arranged that Pierce should
descend at once by means of a rope, girt
around his body, and made fast above,
while another rope should accompany
him down. Then if he reached the foot
of the precipice in safety, cloaks and
blankets should be lowered to him in
order that the sufferer might be protected
against the chilling blasts, Evervthing
having been arranged, the daring advent.
urer seized a favorable opportunity dur.
ing the lull of the gale and commenced
his descent. The light of the fire, as it
shivered on the dark face of the preci.
pice, and the wild whirlpool of foam be-
an ominous character to all
around him; but his heart was a stranger
to fear; and skillfully avoiding the jut.
ting angles of the rock, he reached at
length the foot of the cliff, and with a
light bound springing over an intermedi.
ate chasm, stood by the side of the fugi-
tive from the wreck.
We shall not attempt to describe her
emotions during the dizzy descent of
young Pierce Kyan, nor the glad cry of
joy with which she saw him land on the
rock to which she clung She would
have thrown herself at his feet
would not permit it. Raising her up, he
aid:
jow, gave
peril which yet surrounds us, for |
scarcely know how we can reach the top
of the cliff. But do not droop, for i
have come to save you or die with you.”
The fugitive raised her grateful eyes,
and thenlierce saw for the first time that
she was a young girl apparently seven.
teen, and of unusual loveliness.
felt that he could dare the
a thousand times to win
grateful glance from the
{ lovely stranger. But the
{ ation of the rock on which they stood
forevery wave dashed the cold spray over
{ them—soon recalled him to the necessity
{of providing a place of shelter for his
same danger
another such
eyes of the
| to raise her to the summit of the cliff.
| With great difficulty, and aided by the
{rope from above, he succesded in ele.
| vating her to a narrow shelf of the rock,
some ten fect higher up the face of the
cliff. “I can never sufficiently thank
you,” said the grateful girl, “but God
| will bless you.”
| ‘I see that they are lowering down
{clonks in which to wrap yourself and
{keep out this pitiless storm,” said
| Pierce.
The bundle was by this time swinging
{ overhead, and, watching a chance, young
| Pierce soon succeeded in catching and
| disentangling it from tha rope.
{ Happily he had provided himself ero
“The God who presserved meonce will
reserve me sgonin, if Ho soes fit,” said
Dr, * Before ten minutes I shall be
safe at vour side.” With n beating
| heart the vonug man gazed at the dizzy
course of the chair. Once or twice he
trembled violently as ho saw it despite
all he could do, swinging in dangerous
| proximity to a jatting rock, At length
I saw it grasped by two or three strong
[arms. It was drawn inward and then he
{ knew that his late companion was safe.
In a few minntes the rope again de.
scended and Pierce Ryan, by incredible
| exertions, roached the summit of the
| oliff without injury. Tho moment his
| feet touched the cliff the first thing his
| eyes sought was the rescued girl, who,
deaf to every entreaty, had watched from
the top of the cliff until she saw her
| preserver sufe,
tor of u wealthy merchaut in a neighbor.
{ing town. Sho was returning from her
{ education in Rome with her governess.
| Pierce Ryan, her preserveor, was the son
of a well-to-do farmer.
The grateful father deemed it the
{ happiest day in his life when he placed
his daughter's hand in that of her pre-
server, and gave her away at the altar
{to one who by risking hie lifo for her
when she was a stranger to him, had
proved that he would be a protector to
her in after life when she was kuown and
{ loved, —~{ Now York News.
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Oratory Against Horse Racing.
- wr Mo
Jerry Simpson is1ot the man that he
is represented to be dy some of the daily
prints. He dresses adotly and has the
appearance of a keon oped business man,
He is called “*Socklewt Jerry,” but he de.
olares that since reaching man's estate he
has never worn shoes without socks. He
is a fluent talker, ard the trouble with
him is that he does uct kpow when to stop,
At the Alnbama Sisto Fair he was ad.
vertised to stand ee & platform with Sen.
stor Peffor and deter a spoech. As
this platform was in the grandstand and
directly opposite the judges’ grandstand,
Mr. Simpson was advised to cut it short,
#0 that the racing programme could be
finished before dark.
Senator Peffer spoke briefly, keeping
his eyes on his watch and then Mr. Simp-
son began to unwind himself. He tick.
lod the Alabama farmers and took no
note of time At 2.30 o'clock the horses
were on the track and ready fo score,
David Bonner, presiding judge, did not
like to be discourteous, but as Mr. Simp-
son would not stop there was no help for
it. The bell was sharply rung, and is
drowned for a space of miwute the
voice of Mr. Simpson. The orator yv.oeai
with a smile on his face and then cally
proceeded with his speech. The horses
scored and finally got the word. The
orator kept at it until the quarter pole
was passed, and then, as his bearers rose
to their feet and grew excited over the
shifting of positions of the contestants
Mr. Simpson rounded a period
stopped. He watched the finish of
heat with some interest, then
lost in the throng.
That evening, at the dinner table, Mr.
Bonner apologized for his seeming rode.
ness, but Mr. Simpson good-paturediy
stopped him. “No explanation is nec-
essary. My time was up and I know it
i simply wanted to see how long 1 could
hold un Alabame audience sgainst the
rece bell. 1 have frequently made the
experiment in other States, now |
{ am satisfied there is nothing more mov.
ing than a horse trot.”" As Mr, Simpson
spent his younger days in Cleveland and
Chicago, he learned a good deal about
the light-harpess horse before settling
in Kansas.— Turf, Ficld and
one
nnd
the
nd was
nnd
down
Farm.
Bismarek Made Him Rich.
There was buried in the little town o.
Biesenthal, Germany, a few days ago. a
man who played a part in the life of Dis.
marck. f: was Gustav Bannewitz, On
May 7, 1866, Dannewitz, who was then
serving his three vears in the army, was
stationed at the Russian embassy in Bur.
lin, when Blindt fired a revolver at the
exchuncellor. The bullet hit the prince,
but failed to do him injury on account of
| the mail coat which he wore under his
uniform. Ope of the comic papers in
Berlin asked, sententiously, at the time:
{ “Herr Yon Bismarck, who is the black.
| smith who sows your shirts?’ Hannewitz
{ succeeded in capturing the criminal and
Bismarck never forgot the service. The
rince became a good customer of the
{little book-bindery which Bannewitz
owned and his patronage made it popular.
During the Franco-Prussian war he had
him attached to the royal headquarters,
{ where he was almost always at his side
| After the war Bismarck did not lose sight
of the man, who therefore died a rich
| man, owniug several palatial mansions in
| Berlin and nu large country estate. He
| also received through the interoessions of
{the prince fourteen decorations.— {New
| Orleans Pleayune.
a
Olive Trees 2,000 Years 014d.
It is nlmost inexplicable that the vene-
rable olive trees should have survived
and when, in a lull of the hurricane. the
ery of agony came again to their ea §, a
shiver ran through their frames. Mean.
While the cliffs were becoming crowded
with people, who, apprised of the wreck
| sinking girl. He besought her to walk
to and fro, on the narrow ledge of rock
on which they stood. By these efforts
{he succeeded in partially reviving her,
| and at tbe end of half an hour, he saw
| years old, and their gnarled hiack
| trunks are nearly hollow, while the fresh
| branches grow and the crops succeed
| each other above. To those who think
forth from their cabins to render what
assistance was possible to the sufferers,
A fire was soon kindled on the verge of
the precipice. As the fire flung its light
across the countenances of the group,
there might be traced in every face an
expression of the most anxious concern,
while each spectator gazed out toward
the ocean, striving to catch through the
fleecy storm a sight of the wreck, or
peered down over the cliff to discover
the exact position of the sufferer below,
During all this time persons had been
arriving at the scene of the disaster,
bringing ropes, tackle, and other appl-
ances by which aid might be rendered
to the crew and passengers of the dis
mantled ship. At length, the fire,
Ainging its ruddy blaze far and wide
around, enabled the spectators to ostch
momentary gleams of the wreck. She
a to be a ship of heavy tonnage,
an 0 up fh
had begun to lull. Pierce now gave the
signal to those above, and soon a chair
was descending. How he trembled with
eagerness during the minutes that
elapsed ere it reached the rock. At
length the chair swung on the ledge
where they stood,
Not & moment was to be lost. Ex.
horting his companion to rally her ennr.
gies for this last effort, he lashed her
firmly in her sent, and sulsing the rope
by which the ascent of the chair was
be guided, gave the signal. The attempt
was perilous to the last degree, but the
knew that it was the only chance for life
left. With tearful eyes his companion
took leave of him, but Pierce, assuming
n cheerfulness he scarcely felt, bid her
retain her presence of mind and all would
well. “Oh,” said the girl, “it is onl
or you I fear now. How oan you
the summit, when there will no one
below to guide your ascent?”
| a feeling of despondency and melancholy
{is inevitable, but, considering that da-
ring the last few yoars the Greeks have
done much to develop their manufactures
and to introduce modern methods into
their employments, that feeling may well
ive way to hope fora prosperous future
or the indgstries of modern Greece, —
[New York Peery
A neroms which removes one of the
most shooking practices of the
Ages has just brought about
through a circular ‘sent to all the
Governors in Finland, declaring the
auction of pauper aud lunatios to
legal. Up till now shes have not
had asylums and work for the sick
and aged; but everyone who has
one reacon or other had to live on
CATS AND DOGS.
CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT MAN.
KIND’S FAVORITE PETS.
Dogs Descend:zl
Coyotes,
Cats Domesticated by the Ancient |
Egyptians. |
“Cats and dogs hnve a varied ances.
try,” suid a naturalist to ao Star writer,
People commonly imagine that in speak-
ing of dogs they are referring to a single
species which has many varieties. But
in reality the name is merely a conven. |
tional one, under which are grouped in
popular parlance all of the domesticated
canidw, The North American coyote is
in fnct much nearer to the greyhound,
zoologically speaking. than the pug is.
It is simply a wild dog. Bo is the wolf
likewise. From just such wild types
man's faithful four-footed friends arede- |
scended. |
“When Columbus discovered America
he found that the Indinus possessed
dogs. They were direct descendants of
the wild coyotes of the plains. You can
find a beautifally mounted group
coyotes in a glass caso nt the National
Museum a male, fomale and young one.
Their resemblance to certain domesti-
cated dogs is very striking. On the
other hand, the Eskimo dog is derived
from tho wolf. Doubtless the first dors
which were trained to serve mankind
were the jackals of Asis, which are to
this day very intelligent and docile when
tamed. There was a kind of dog kept
by the ancient Egyptians which was
evidently obtained by breeding from a
slenderly built species that is wild in
Africa at the present time.
“Wherever the canidee have boen
found by man the most docile of them
have been transformed into domesticated
dogs, Young ones were reared and bred
from, the best tempered and most in-
teiligent specimens being preserved from
generation to generation, until
the beasts became gentle and
of
finally
affection
ate servants, Spreading over Europe from
Asia the human race brought with it the
tamed progeny of the jackal, and from
this original source are presumably de.
rived most of the European breeds that
are best known today. By artificial
selection mankind Liss actually been able
to create races of useful brutes.
“With ents the case
Ape L§.]
is in
The first
domesticated
Ome re.
the people
known to have
the Eas
ments repress
same,
them were
ancient plians, on whose monu.
tions of these animals
as 1600 B, © it
on a tomb erected aboat 1300 B. C
puss first ap
mesticated «
beneath a chair In
ont i
and was even an inmate of the tem
There was actually a cat id
Bubastis, who was
havieg a eat’s baad,
dedicated to ber at Beni
pits have been found o
tudes of cat mammies,
regarded as an
are found as early
pears unmistakably as a do.
reature, being shoen »
! ancient Egypt the
eet of religious wor
Was Bn oO
goddess nia
Giways dep
Hussen gre at
nanny muti-
The cat was also
the
es being » apposed to vary in color with
the progress of that luminary through
the heavens, Likewise its eves were be.
emblem of sun, its
es
lieved to undergo a ohange each
month, for which teason the b
also sacred to the mo 0
“* Herodotus said that when
a natural death in an v pis
the occupants of the dwelling went
mourning ane shaved off their evebross
When a fire occurred they were more
anxious to save the cat than to extinguish
the conflagration. Nevertheless, in some
parts of the same country cate were re
garded as unclean animals, for a ereaturs
which was cousidered sacred
unary
ast was
a ont died
house
Tey t
RO
in one town
was often viewed with horror as impure
in a peighboring eity. That was the
case with the crocodile in Egypt. which
in some parts was ruthlessly hunted
destroved, while in others it was made a
pet of, laden with gold ornaments and
waited upon by priests
“The ancient Egyptian cat was the
progeny of a species that i= wild in that
country to-day, being known as the se is
maniculata. This latter may he regarded
as the ancestor of pearly all existing
pussies of domesticated varieties, [Its
descendants were brought from Egypt to
Greece and Rome, whence they spread
over Europe. When the Romans invaded
Britain they found plenty of wild cats in
the woods, but the people owned no tame
ones. The felis maniculata is of a yel-
lowish color, darker on the back and
whitish anderneath, with obscure stripes
on the body and a tail ringed toward the
end. i
“Cats are so common nowadays that
people do not realize their value, al
though they would soon do so if they had
to get along without them fora while and |
suffer from the plague of vermin which |
would arrive through unrestricted mul. |
tiplying of the pests which the pussies
destroy and drive away. So late as the
nnd
ang
scarce in Europe and were so highly
prized that any person who killed one
was obliged to pay a fine. This penalty |
sometimes required to be paid in the!
shape of a pile of wheat big enough to
nin animal when it was held
vertically by the tip of its tail, the nose |
touching the Erg i
“Conditions other than those of more |
breeding seem to have much influence on
the development of physical character in
cats. In one authenticated case a tabby |
which bad lost her tail by having that |
appendage run over gave birth in her
out of seven. The Manx cat is not the |
only tailless variety. In the Crimean is |
ound another kind of cat which bas no |
tail. The domesticated Malay oat bas a
tail that is only about one haif the usual
length and very often it is tied by nature
in a sort of knot which cannot be
straightened out. It is said that in
China there is a cat that has drooping
ears, though I am not able to vouch for
the truth as to that point. The Mombas
cat of the west coast of Africa is covered
with stiff, bristly hair. A Paraguay cat
is gals one-quarter as big as the ordinary
cut of this part of the world. It has a
long body and short shiny hair. In
South America there isa race of cats
which do not know how to miauow.”
Nea Wy a valuable vein of
at been ound gi Debi dy ane
HEROISM REWARDED.
Female Conviets Bravely Resened
Drowning Citizens,
On November 2 last there passed over
the Andaman Islands, the East Indian
penal settlement, a <; clone which caused
| sroperty and great
loss of life. One of the places which
suffered extensively from the gale was
Port Blair, the principal port of the
islands. Lying off this port on that day
was the steamer Enterprise, belonging to
tbe Eust Indian marine and used priuei-
pally for conveying prisoners and pro-
visions and supplies to the islands.
The Enterprise was caught by the
eycloné with her snciors down and no
steam up. In a short time she was a
total wreck. She had a crew of cighty-
three officers and men, and one by one
they were swept by the rushing scas
from the places they had sought for
safety and found their death in the wild
waters about them.
There were no life-saving appliances
ot Port Blair, and though the wreck was
seen by the officials and a number of the
convicts, it was seemingly impossible for
uny effort to be made to save the unfor.
tunates from the wreck. Among those
who were watching were a number of fe-
male convicts, wno had huddied under
the lce of their prison walls to escape
the fury of the gale, which was blow.
ing with such violence that it was impos.
ible for ua human being to stand against
While the men stood
watching the struggles of
silently by
the drowning
men one of the women proposed to some
of her fellow convicts that they try to
rescue the drowning
Her proposition was that
convicts should get to the shore and
there form a human life from the
beach out into the sea. The inpouring
sens were thundering upon the rocky
shore with a that scemed to
shake the very earth. Nothing daunted,
f convicts, once they reached
the shore, linked hands, and their lead-
1 by her equally brave sisters,
er, followed
plunged into the sea to save a man who
sofae of sORMen.
some of the
line
Yioience
y
the female
could be seen struggling helplessly in
the water. The were dashed
from their feet at their first attempt and
hurled violently upon the shore. Again
they clusped each other's hands and again
women
they sprang undauntedly into the raging
waters. ‘This time they were more suc-
and the leader grasped the drown-
Then they turned and the al-
sailor was carried safely to the
in the
be remainder of
consfa
ing man.
must dead
shore, this way rescued six
men the
crew |
a Te
govern
fficia's at Fort Blair made
» affair to the
las a result it was
Indian
announced
ender of the gallant band would
+ released from imprisonment, and that
for which the others had been
would be very materially
‘New York Herald.
Lapps at Home,
We visited a Lapp encampment at
Tromso, The schoolboy whose compo-
red man said ** The
Indian washes only once a year; I wish {
was an Indian, ald alter his wish and
petition 10 be a Lapp, for there is no ex-
{ern that the
more than once a lifetime
his birth when ho is
In the summer a
wandering Lapps drive several bune
of their reindeer to a
miles from Tromso, and it was there
we them
dome-shaped huts
birch bark, f
i the center of
sition on the noble
;
®i0
il evidence Intter washes
thant
at
f
fence.
and
entirely d
leas camp of the
fred
few
that
1 bey are huddled in
of stone, f and
valley only a
saw
fur?
ull of smoke from a fire in
the hut, which finds an exit
only through a hole in the top of the
structure and through the door when it
They
compl-xion, high cheek bones and low
forehead of the Mongolian race. They
are short in stature, dirty, vermin-breed.
ing and wretched. The reindeer is their
support and treasure. The animal sup-
plies them with milk, meat, clothes ana
transportation. Nearly everything that
they need is made from some part of this
useful animal. These particular Lapps
carn something by the sale to summer
tourists of the skin and articles made
from the horus of the reindeer. The no.
5 of wl
i openeq,
number, miserable, semi-barbarous.
the Finns in Russian Finland, whom we
saw afterward on our way from Stock.
holm to St. Petersburg, are a very differ.
ernble size, like Helsingfors.—{ Wash.
ington Star.
She Knew Mr. Simpson.
Two refined.-looking ladies sat in the
members’ gallery of the House of Re.
presentatives picking ant the various
statesmen on the floor with the aid of the
chart in the Congressional Directory.
A mther loudly attired young lady
sauntervd in and took a seat beside them.
“Do tell me where Jerry Simpsen is,”
exclaimed the newoomer; *'l have heard
so much about him."
One of the ladies pointed out the Alli-
ance Kansan in the arena beneath,
“Oh no, that isn’t Jerry Simpson,”
protested the load young lady contidenti-
ally. “I would know him because | have
secon his pictures.”
“And { have known Mr. Simpson for
some time myself,” replied the lady.
“Well, he does not seem to be such a
badiooking man after all,” the vociferous
young lady commented after a careful
scrutiny, “I wonder if he brought his
wife with him.”
“1 believe she is in the city,” the
quiet lady asserted.
“1 would like to soe her, too. They
do say she isn’t so very awful. How do
you supposed she likes all the things the
papers say about him.” And the fashion
able maiden rattled away several com
Jjoctures in regards to Mm, Simpson.
“She doesn’t mind it,” responded the
older lady.
“ ou know Mrs. Simpson, tool”.
inquired the Jong sightseer,
“Very well,” remarked the other
serenely. “I am Mrs. Simpson.”
who did not stand on
purture.—( Washington
BUMBLE BEES.
The Porpose They Ferve in the Order of
Nature.
Considerable numbers of bumble
bees have recently been imported
trom Europe Into Australia and New
Zealand, Hitherto growers of red
clover ir these countries have been
obliged to obtain seed for planting
each year from England, because this
crop produced no seed, for lack of
bumble bees to fertilize the blossoms,
Bumble bees find in red clover their
favorite diet, and without their aid
in distributing pollen this plant would
Finding it very expensive to fmport
seed annually, the
farmers of these countries decided to
import bumble bees for themselves.
Accordingly a lot were taken while
ocean in the
compartment of a ship.
refrigerator
They were
have multiplied so numerously in that
that it feared
nuisance by con-
suming all the flower juices which the
is
poses. It seems to be the same way
introduced
Invariably the beast,
proceeds at to
flourish to such an extent as to upset
the normal balance of creation.
Bumble bees are generally supposed
to be of no particular use in the world.
It is not their fault. They are ac.
tive and industrious honey gatherers,
but they are never enough of them in
one colony to make a store worth take
ing. When winter the queen
pumble bee seeks a in the
ground for hiding safely during the
cold months. She finds such a spot
beneath moss, or perhaps in a heapof
leaves. There she hibernates coms
fortably, remaining fast asleep until
épring arrives. The warm sun of ap-
proaching summer and
she crawls out.
Immediately
for a nest su
vacat
her purpose adn
tied upon
You
into Australia.
bird or insect
onee
COMmMes
place
awakens her
looks about her
to breed In. An
fleid mice serves
i Having set
begins ool.
en from the flowers, stor.
ing it away in two pockets which she
hind legs. Ianto the
nest chosen she puts the pollen and
goes fo after
Ie i ball of
haps as much as an inch
'r the ball of pollen
she lays her eggs, and after a few days
they are hatched, bringing forth little
worm.like larve,
Up to nearly the end
mer the queen
that Is to say eggs which produce
males whi
old nest
1ira
quarters, she
i
“tinier
ing poi
wai TICS ON hier
more, tching load
sd
: * 1 "ey # ”
she has formed a
pollen per
.
in diamets
of the sum-
lays only worker eggs
fo.
ch are undeveloped sexually.
1
and
autumn
she produces
At same
g2s which give
females, all of
the
mate
rendered
their next
From six to twelve the
future queens are turned out by each
hive When cold weather arrives
they crawl into snug places, where
they hibernate during the winter,
gathering pollen in the spring, and
laying their eggs in it. Thus is com-
pleted the cycle of their species. Only
the queens survive, all the workers
and drones dying.
semanas
One on the Noble Lord.
Lord Hartington, who succeeds to
the Dukedom of Devonshire, visited
this country during the war and made
himself rather conspicuous here by
his strong Southern sympathies. He
even went so faras to appear at a
ball in New York wearing the colors
of the Confederacy in his buttonhole,
This fact did not prevent his receiv.
ing a cordial reception at the White
House, however. He was presented
to President Lincoln with considera
ble ceremony, and the President
grasping his Lordship bythe hand
‘Glad to see you, Marquis of
shall never forges
ne honey-gathering
comb.building class. When
is coming on, however,
males—called drones the
period, also, she lays «
birth to full
which are
following year
with drones
able to re
developed
ined to be
These
thus
dest queens
fCINAI0Ss
are
series
and
produce
isd
Season, of
———
Hartington. 1
of our own distinguished characters,
Mrs. Partington.” The Marquisdidn’s
An important Difference,
To make it apparent to thousands, whe
think themse ves {11 that they are not a feote
od with any disease, but that the system
simply needs cleansing, is to bring comfort
bome to thelr Lhewrts, as a costive condition is
Manu.
factured Ly the California Fig Syrup Oa
Berlin, Germany, has 210 miles of streets.
Baby Boy
HOOD’S
Sarsaparilla
Mr, Prank LL Rickson, who holds a responsible po
sition on the Boston & Albany Rallroad st Chatham,
N.Y. writes as follows:
“When my baby boy wos two years old be was
eosored from head to feet with salt rbeum. 1% bas
Enno come out on him when be was two
“nd Increased I spite of all that could be doe,
We were Discouraged
on hin bend, and it was covered with » crust, Hie
sufforibge were awful. In two weeks after giving
him Hood's Sarsapariila the soabs began to fall off,
and in six weeks he was entirely cured