AF 0471. Ere the race of the spring was ran, Or violets began to die, Neath the kiss of the golden sus And the smile of the azare sky, There was never the sound of n sigh As our boat pushed off the sand, In the heart of the day, When we sail. d away — Away to a fair, far land. ‘We sailed through the mid day heat And the long, still afternoon: Strange voices, siren sweet, Crooned over a low, weird tune, Till the rise of the crescent moon, By the breezes our bark was fanned; Aud the starlight's gleam eemed a fitful dream As we sailed to that fair, far land. And still we are sailing on, Though the skies are no longer fair, Though summer is past and gone, And chul is the autumn air, — We are sailing we know not where: But, led by an unseen hand, We shall rest one day In the twilight's av, On the shores of that fair, far land. —[May Lennox, in Boston 1rauscript. HERO OF SALTHAM PIT BY AMELIA E, BARR, f.xeryone that knows anything about coal mines knows that the great Saltham Vhitehaven, and extends thence under the sea. In the summer of 18— two ladies eame to Whitehaven for the purpose of es- tablishing their right to shares in this pit—a right which they had recently dis- covered. They were a mother and her daughter, both of them beautiful and cultured women, and as they had brought letters of introduction to the rector they were soon recognized as be- ‘ ‘sets” of that old, aristocratic city, favorite, and before the first er it was generaily she was the promised wif LL" Le of some (rerald Peel, a young man of very good family and of great promise. He was the head “Viewer the Saltham pit, and knew well the richness nnd + celience of its seams. Now, t ewer of n of coal he gentleman; of forethought e has a large salary, lives in good ‘le, and exercises a great power, not over the under-viewers, but also in pit. a man great she entire management of the oross and a couple of rings came toward her husband, “This is to be our last maeting, Rich. ard, and you must promise it upon that phain and those rings; you know them— they were your mother's.” Richard Allonby put then aside nor- vously. If there was any memory that mude his soal shiver and sob, it was that of the gentle little mother whose heart he had broken. “1 won't touch those things,” he said; “give me the papers.” “Not unless you do what I say.’ Richard saw his wife's courage rising, and he knew well that when timid women are angered to a point of resistance, such anger is not to be defied; so he said sullenly: | “I will do as you wish.” He took the papers, and immediately departed. He bat another interview on hand that night. He waited until he saw Gerald enter his owl handsome dwelling; | then he scaled the great brick walls, and watchod his further movements. He went, as Richard expected, to his office, looked over the reports of the under- viewers, and then lit a sogar and sat down to smoke. There was a low, open window, opening on a stone balcony, and when Gerald rose for something he! wanted, Richard boldly entered the room, and was standing before his chair when he turned to it. Gerald's first thought was: “There is something wrong at the pit,” and he said, impatiently: “‘Now, my man, what's wrong ? “I am not your man, Gerald Peel. 1 propose, indeed, to be your father-in- law." Then (Gerald knew that he had either to deal with a lunatic or a great sorrow, and 1 i: ' 0 he closed the window. and sai “Sit down, sir, and say what you have got to say.” Richard did not spare himself. He told all: How he had killed his mother with sorrow, and ruined his wife, forged his name, and forgiven, and then robbed a bank and been trans. ported for fourteen years for it. He he had to Eugland eighteen months ago, but had only just ound his Didn't want to make friend's been t come back f. wife. 0 marry #o well, and thought Gerald had er give him some money and let him g ; o America. , ; 1 1 Gerald heard all in zr out his purse, het £3 siiencoe : then tak- counted out twenty ill that pay to pou “Make it fifty.” Gerald made it fifty “Now go. If - , and said: you really &o to Allonby was so certain of her rights being settled by that date, tuat she had instructed her lawyer to maka over a cor- tain portion of them to her daughter as a wedding present. ening Gerald was taking tea with them, and from the pleasant room happy laughter and happy voices went floating outward into the shady depths of the shrubbery. Among this shrabbery a man lurking—a man with dirty, ragged clothing and a face passion-smitten and every way ovil; and whenever Mrs. Al lonby’s voice or Mary's laugh caught his ir, its expression was almost terrivle. ‘I am nothing to them now!” he tered. jut, we shall see, He lingered in the thick shrubbery un. til the moon rose, and he saw Gerald wrap Mary in her little white hood and cloak, and take her into the garden Then he crept nearer the house and watched Mrs. Allonby lift a candle and go up stairs into 8 room that fronted two ways, one of them toward a gable which was thickly matted with an old ivy vine The windows were open on that side, and he cautiously When he the upper floors Mrs. Allonby was seated before an old-fashioned soc retary, tying up some papers, his hand upon her shoulder, forced her to sit still, and uttered but one word: “Louisa!” Une e was mut goo! Ww © shi i ascended, reached She did not faint, nor scream, nor even Let me stand between them You. . The £ alm authority the air of | tural to nequired by the neces. the the the and partiv unselfishness which was na (rerald and partly sity of his position, quite cowed wretched He slunk out into and Gerald thought out wsition, I He must hurry forward his man, marris knew, trouble, Surely they this villain there would be no end of needed his protection, with dogging their footsteps. The next morning he received another Mrs. Allonby told him that her secretary had been robbed of her Saltham papers and some jewelry, and that the police had been notified He saw at once how the affair lay. He knew i Mrs. he avs blow. who was the thief, and he suspected Allonby knew also jut he had deter. mined not to blame her too much. He estimated the horror of her position, and wintment that had fallen on all the glory of his love. at any rate, Mary was the going to marry. made some excuse for 3 m OF jut, same, and it He marrying forward i the suggestions his friends that the missing papers ought to be found first, he married Mary Allonby early in June, Perhaps no wife As the years went by, and lovely boys and ¢ was Mary he was ters, and in spite of Wis ever happier. ina voice where tenderness and anger strove for the mastery: : “Richard Allonby!"” “Yes, madam. Lock your door and shut your windows, [have something to say to you.” **Not here, Mary's sake!” “Why not? Ah, sh! You can’t get over that, soe!” “God help me! No.” She rose mechanically, locked the door. shut out the sweet evening air, pulled down the blinds, and then, toward a sofa, sat down. “Oh, no, my lady. I won't put you to that degradation. You are a lady, you know," and then in a lower voice: “‘Andnow I want you to give me those Saitham papers. | know all about them.” “Richard, you have robbed me of my own fortune, and of the peace and love of my youth. You killed my father with the shame you brought on him. You have forced me to leave the place where my family have dwelt for centuries, and to come a stranger to this strange north country. Do have pity now on me and on your own child. Foe heaven's sake apure her the disgrace and misery of knowing you.” “You never told her, then?” **No, no, no! She thinks you dead— and oh, Richard! she is going to be mar- ried." “‘Iknow that, too. Gire me the papers, Ihave been long enough here,” “Richard! Kichard! kill me, if you like, but do Mary no further wrong.” “I don’t like 10 kill you, Louisa. I like you well enough to wish to look at you occasionally, Give me the papers, or [ shall ring the bell and order m sup- per. You know I'm master here, if [ say so. Seo, I'll give you five minutes to decide. I don't want Youto say 1 forced thom from you,” n great emergencies the mind acts rapidly. Mrs. Allonby reviewed her whole position, and made her decision. She walked back to the y and taking from a drawer a bundle of papers ad a little gold chain holding a pearl Richard! Not here, for grace, and in her hus- she acknowledged contin. ually the blessing of her lot. Only one wing troubled her-—hor mother's health. Though in the prime of life, she was band's love, Gerald, i i i : advances Thos more than five years passed awsy. One night, about New Year's, the rector was sitting among his house- hold, full of the joy and spirit of the time. Suddenly he was called away lady in the wildest terror and distress, lonby. “Oh, sir!” she cried; “there is no time for words-—come with me instantly to Saltham, pit! 1 will explatn all as we ro. . There is something so compelling in a great sorrow, that he cloaked himself silently and followed her into a waiting carringe. As it drove through the nar. row, black streets, she told him the out- lines of her sad story. “And this villain, who has been tor. turing you to death for five years, is you say ee"! “Is my husband, and he is lying, dy- A large mass of coal fell on him this afternoon, aud he can't be moved, What conid I da?” she eried, itiftully. "How could I tell Gerald and Fines of the horror of such a connection? Oh, my friend, some one must speak to him —some one must pray with him-—and I must see the end of him, but I dare not go alone.” Indewd, even the rector turned sick and giddy when he saw the road they must take. The shaft of Saltham is close to the sea, absolutely in the shingle, and nearly nine hundred feet deep. The banksman exp no surprise at such visitors, and, as they refused to their clothing, gave them each a large overall, and putting them into the huge basket, let them down.” The night re- lays were coming up, and a basketof five men, their candles gleaming in the dark #8, passed them on the way. na fow minutes they touched the , uneven de. — : oh eg} of the pit then to follow their guide in an upright pos- ition. After going one thousand yurds in a straight line under tho soa they came to a little opening, where the dying man lay. The space was narrow and hot, and dimly lit by a bit of candle stuck agsinst the conl wall in a piece of elay; and there wore some men yet at work about him He was almost but his dead, eyos close his eyes. And, in- credible as it may seem, At this hour from his whispered words of forgiveness and tenderness. Richard was gentle enough now. In agony he learned more than all his wild life had taught Humble and penitent he listened engorly to the last prayer ho was ever to hear, and then whispered: “Wife--wife, forgive me—don’t tell Mary -~the papers are in my breast.” What more he said was between God composed the once handsome face into lines as if they were to last forever. At length poor Louisa rose, and the rector w 8 about to lead hor away, when one of the men who had been busy try- ing to the last to relieve the poor miner, stepped forward and said gently: “Mother, 1 am here too.” Yes, it was Gerald Peel; he had been at once of the accident, and nope bad worked harder for the relief of the sufferer. But he went home with the rector und Mrs. Allonby now, and the talk he had with ber did her what no physician could have done. She learnt now that Gerald had not only married Mary with a full knowledge of all, but that he had been bribing the man and watching continually his movements, in order to prevent his annoying Mary or her mother, ‘It has been a dreadful watch.” he said, wearily and solemnly; “but alittle your part, mother, might have saved us both much suffering And for answer she put the Saltham papers in his hands, and said: “They are well I never want the You have been very good to me." Those men were heroes who stormed the Malakoff and Jit their cigars in the trenches before Vicksburg, but private and I think Pp itience confidence on Yours to soe m again, Gerald. life has heroes quite as great, that Gerald Peel's five pruodend © i if YUArS and ifish burden may make him the broth ; the peeriess Bayard 1 1 y | i we Ledger. Counterfeit Milk. A dairvman called at the office of Dr J. E. yesterday, certain indiy van, City ilk and informed ving about amon the dairvmen offering tosell a recip prescription by whi milk could use of idunl wns g cha good article be made artificially by various drugs.chemicals, ete Sullivan says that the idea of mnking milk in this way is not a new one, as : for the o chemists for nr i been known several woriptions hare but article that could ns bogus milk, even by drinkers, as known, the ng inventor has not been able make a sale to any St. Louis dairvman, and that some of know too well how to produce nn inferior article of milk without patronizing any inventor that Dir. an #tntes that the milk supply is rather short now on account of the protracted cold weather and the high price of feed tn occasions of a short sapoly the purpose VOurs, none have been able to produce an not be readily detected amateur Ney ey 33 ar pris: io it is evident them ine Sully oO dairymen resort to water and coloring to keep up the quantity for their trade, and the quality of the milk is running quite low, One of the worst features the Milk Inspector has to contend with is that of milk, “ says Dr. Sailivan, “are in measure ro sponsibie for this, as they demand milk This natarally produced only by grass, and as no cows feed upon grass at this season of the vear its absence is excusable, but the dairyman in order to please his cus- tomers colors the milk to suit their tastes. When vegetable coloring is used the effect is not injurious, but some of the dairvymen use diamond dyes and other subsisnces which are injurious.” | 8t. Louis Globe-Democrat. colored Phe people,’ sone is of n rich vellow color, color Nicknames of Great Men. ireat men's nicknames all remind us, we might be well known to fame and departing leave behind us proofs that we wore “in the game.” The following are some of the terms of affection given to a fow of the more prominent leaders: Black Dan-Duaniel Webster, Black Jack-~John A. Logan. Little Phil Philip Sheridan. The Silent Man 1. 8. Grant, Old Hickory Andrew Jackson, The Honest Man--James Monroe, Poor Richard—Benjamin Franklin. The Railsplitter—Abraham Lincoln. The Little Giant—Stephes A. Dong. las, Wizard Seott. Old Taylor. Father of Groenbacks—Salmon P. Chase, Old Man Adams, t Goldsmith of America ~ Washington rving. ! Silver Tongued Orator-—-Wendell Phil. i pond Old Man—William Ewart Glad. stone, The Poet of Nature—William Cullen ant. Schoolmaster of our Republic-—Noah Webster. [Mail and Express. of the North-—Sir Walter Rough and Ready Zachary Eloquent—John Quincy SLIGHTLY. “I nover withhold an from m wie. Tot her ov aight al that I havedoned yp day what “ you 0 w hry done uti 0 night" ¢ Yo Well, that's different.” (New York THE JOKER'S BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Nothing Mean About Her—Let By- gones he Bygones A Misconcep- tion-—He Singeth Not, Ete., Dte. NOTHING MEAN ABOUT HER, A Maine woman sent to the house of loan of un new pair of scissors. neighbor was using them, and sent back word accordingly. The would-be bor- rower was not to be rebuffed so ensily, and presently her little girl appeared the sucond time to say: “Mother wants to know if vou will lend her a quarter to buy a pair of seis- sors with?" LET BYGONER BE BYGONEER, Guest (at restaurant HE BIXGETH XOT. I sannot sing the old songs | sang a while ago, For if I do the other guests Quickly get up and go. I¥ LUCK. She married a poet, And proudly 1 say, As her pa's worth a million, She has three meals a duy. WITH JUXO AT THE GATE. Sho—Did a wicked man tear | clothes that way, George, dear? | He—No, dearest, it was the wicket | gute we were leaning on last night. you THE PROVERB, Teacher-- What does the proverb say about those who live in gluss houses 7 Small Boy — Pull down the blinds. REDUCING FEXPEXRESR, Bingle Well, old boy, how nra You getting along? Business improving any? Jingle (straggling merchant) —A little, Helle, Bingley Tho last time | met you, Bingley, vou had just begun ghe publica. Dignified Waiter (with a dreamy. far- pork shortribs beefenlvesliverand fried {Chicago Tribune. A MISCONCEPTION, who has purchased Must I put it on myself? Clerk Not will probably accomplish w put it on the Haughty Lady a stamp Stump necessarily ii Tom--You say you expect to win Miss Fortune, but haven't begun to make love fo her vet * Jack-~Yes; keep vour mind easy running as a daz THEY CovLns’ Mr. Tyrer—Borde nes Mrs. Tyrer-—No; it is rather Ms. Tyrer—It is. The was here | did my best to entertain him Sat with him two solid hours relat t f our bh iri ii and you hs pe d to entertain him, too Mrs. Tyvrer—Yes, 1 i | : Id ¢ about her cute t her to talk to hin i eau t ] €F Visiis us now singu Inst thine n the sme savings of showed indoersigng w New York Pross aings, said Mr. E ; What's the matter with them?” “We bad awd ours last week, and now vis oul every dav tramping around stores findings out what the presents cost New York Press SE TO BORBROY You kn on sent me for Christinas? Yes y—Well, 1 and fiow I hi Wi at, « No, friends, yw thoma ¢ Iie y ga i n vent any ra re” =a my friends Laps ey Lipsley Har sD OF GRACE proposal is so anes pect WO, snid the ‘that I hardly know You must give me time to MIO RIN you \ : ’ blushingivy, gay. “yr : “Certainly, D3 Miss Jaggers.” young man, accommodating! the habit of doing in cases like this.” cago Tribune. way 've—er—always HE STAYED AT HoxR, Aunty some timos tor? Little Bos “When?” “Wen some boy wants t' lick me.” {Good Now LL and play with your sis- Oh, 1 do often. A SILVER LINING, She (sobbing Poor little FF is dd dead. He (calmly Well, my dear, that dog never did like me. I can’t say that I am altogether sorry. She-—N--no, neither aml. I've pot you left, and besides, black is awfully coming to me. ~ Fido BIE FORGAVE HIN. Wife-—You've been drinking again. Husbund—Can't help it, m'dear— make me sho happy, m'dear. “Huh! Makes you happy, eh? I'd like to know why.” “Be bioicanse 1 she two of you, m’ dear,” [New York Weekly. HOW TO TELL. He—You can always tell when a woman has told all she knows about « piece of neighborhood gossip, She «How? He 8he concludes with: *“I shonld be glad to tell you all about it, but my lips wre sealed.” FATAL TO DOLLA. Aunty Where is that For doll you had when [ was here last Little Girl--It's gone—died of the ip. 8 ihe grip. eh!” “Yes'm—Baby's grip.” MIGHT BE WORSE, Mother (wearily )~It's perfectly abom. inable! With all my ry, oan't Jeep Tommy clean. He's the dirtiest ve. ther (proudly )—That's so. He's no dude. [Good News. READY FOR ANY EMERGENCY, “I can’t afford the money to buy you a sonlskin saoque.” “Then give mo some to buy a plash have my wife going around “I won't an snoq I've succeeded in reducing eapenses about fifteen dollars a week. | ‘That's encouraging. How 4id you { do it? “Married my typewriter.” OF THE WORLD WORLDLY. 3 “The re go the Spicer Wileaxes, | Mamma! I'm told they're dving to know us, Hadn't we better call?’ “Certainly not, dear. If they're dying | to kiiow us they're not worth know { The only people worth our knowing are the peopie who don't want to know us?” {Punch ing vou doing Memma-—~Willie what with that thermometer? W ilie I'm bringing it inte the house. It's too cold a plac © 1 it out here. are 12 | A TEXDER-HEARTED BOY. 3 3 for TASTALIZING She (gazing upward at the old familia { orbi—How provoking it is! He Ww ho I'hat 1 can never, what? athe 2 un Her yoston leraid, BEYVEr son the fs side of that moon The Grizzly Will Run. is to got a rabbit. many bea i seeking Ti £1 5 & thoioss, the ery themeels vocation, Pe raonally but once, and I ha proached one 1 away from cnmy knocking off the with the ex; iz his 3 abhi the provid one of LIne 3 on | ge TeRO) utels i nicks fd though started to run had | that the v ing, merely | has, 1 know jof the [nite Nintes Killed six grizz i charging him before thes fired at. The inci ce charges were curi army, ies, thred {or even 0H vusly alike; is, he stumbled ou the at to twenty yards the 1 Den tolerably close quarte away f time imstant the animal him like Todi dos oad h him it bo pv vard fA 1000. gailog motive, only w ell-placed rifle bali The grizzly is very tfenrcis jand so great his vitality pugnacily that a fighting bear will con. as of 1 unre and tinue charging when its body is fairly with bullets. A shot in the | brain or spine will of course bring one {down in its tracks, but ballet through the heart will not an engaged grizzly from making charge at close quarters. | riddled even a prove nt Cloves Are Flowers, small evergreen tree that resembls: ia appearance the laure! or the bay, It is a native of the Malacea or Spice Islands, parts of the world, and it is now ecalti- end of the branches. The cloves are open and while they are still green. by a wood fire and then dried in the sun. the o'her part of the clove is terminated er cup of the unripe seed vessel theso parts may be distinctly seen if a fow cloves are soaked for a short tise ers soften and anroll.-—| Boston Commer. cial. AAA NARA, Adulterating Tea. Teas are not adulterated by inter. mingling the leaves of other plants, as the leaves of the tea plant itself, if quality is not considered, oan be gathered in unlimited quantities. Nor are leaves that have bern already stooped over mixed with fresh tea to be sold fbn, it boing cheaper to pick the fresh leaves, Aduiterants are only used to give color, in order to please the eye of the con. sumer, and use is a practice that all connected with the business would wil. Fo Chimneys, Chimneys are scarce in the City of! Mexico. There are not ten dwelling houses that have them. Charcoal is! { the only fuel used for cooking and | heating. ——— Sr I——- Leosk Out, A lurking malady is sbroad which comes ’ | ikea thief in the might, stesithily, and it is tumbering its victims by thousands, Men ire careless or indifferent. li is so pleasant {lo beout inthe sir. But it must be remem. {| bered that the air is charged with excessivs moisture, which pensirates and chills. The | #M1p has bsoome no wpidemie thst whole com. munities are prosirated. A peculiar testurs | of the malady is that ali »0 affected have | rheumatic aches and pains, stiffness and sore. ness of the muscles and acute misery in the Joints. All theses sympioms indicate what ought to be done to prevent and care. Good rabbing with St. Jacobs Oil, in time, will se strengthen and soothe that no further trouble will be had. For all rheumatic complaints, whether (runsient or curonis for years, for every form of pain, wild or violent, it is the best remedy of the age. A Texan's pny found the wateh his master had lost and brought it to him in hix mouth i 7 g 3 \ br 1 Ir. George W. Hammond of Root Post, G. A. BR ¥., Terribly urg J of Syracuse, N, 3 Cettysb And an Never Cured by Hood’s Sarsaparilla I. Hood & Co, Ma Army of the § intense 8 wy Lowy “3 was in the ind 8t Geitys burg was struck tae emashed (he My log field bospital, and after & ankle Ly ¢ ball, which Th Iwas bote wus ated In wong time It healed AL: roke O went home Se pen the bone and it beslnd. Four years { re pened and for clght years HOW | SI VFERED ! 1 ao Bot belie bing to wufles Glascharged and My Wound B afresh r 5 ye Dr. Pease amputated of inter 3M Of it possible for a humnar sring this time unable to worse agony Dn erutches, Whenever possibile | 1 had te go on ra wooden leg ny sufferings ty tak was obliged to go without it ght I SHOT LD GO yr Toould pet with muy I would never be bein we rele ved ing opiate, but when i I suffered fearfully and the CRAZY. m any betier Blood Became Poisoned and it Iroke out FE WF 180 And ob some Dare of my body » covered with sCRrs new, Uns 1's Sersaparilis bought 8 bottle an A week or two ater, my wife in 1 tried every th Hmited “oe Physicians sald Finally muy that my face ss all f Hex began talting i Are: sing fay 1 read « my jog. said 11 seeined be Improving, and alter taking Hood's Sarsaona a fow monies thank Gof and | say it had now have never shown any signs of M ¥ Magnolis rilla reverently; the sores all er my bods bea'ed, and four years later reappearing.’ Os Haxmong Street, Syracuse, XN, % Col. C. A. Commander of Root Pos Weaver LG AR, Emwif 3a one srmed reteran, folly confirms Hurmmond's state ment, and J. L. Deliden the pharm it as perfectly true Hood's Pills cure Sick Headache. WAME ' Kidney, Liver and Bladder Cure. Rheumatism, Lam 0, pain in Joints or back, brick dustin urine, frequent calls, irritation, inflamstion, / gravel, ulceration or estarrh of bisdder, Disordered Liver Jupejrod d , gout, billlous headache, SWwWaAm OOT cures kidney dificultion, La Geippe, urinary trouble, bright's disease, Impure Blood, Berofula, malaria, gen’ weakness or debility, Oi of Ome Bottle, if not Tr wil ToD os Tn DoAtie, If wot WiLLOCURE Co CHILDREN OF CATARRM, 4 Apply Balm into each postr! ELY BROS. 8 Warren St. X.Y, Kennedy's MedicalDiscovery Takes hold in this order; Bowels, ‘Liver, Inside 8!
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