IT'W0 WORLDS. I have a world I call my own, (So each sonl Hath its dole, ) And from the radiance of the sun Far above it, To the violet, tiniest one In the wood, I love it Not for methe jorous thrills Born of breath of daffodi's; In the Poet's world they g ow, They were Wordsworth's long ago; Tey tr oul Hepatiea for me Smiles, and pure Anemone In the sp ingtime whispers low While Goldenrod and Asters gn¥ Eright in autumn ned my way. I love my world, I love itl Not to me the Nightingn'es Tell t! oir masical love tales; Keats’ are they, Made his own By the poet's magic art tonnd them thrown, But the note of Robin clear Is, mayhap. to me ax dear, Ani the gong sparrow’s re’rain Bids me “hope ’ and “hope again.” This world of mine, I love it! “The lark to heaven's gate soaring” 1 follow not with eyes ndoriug, He is ~heiley's, Shrined forever In a music Censing never, But ‘or me the Bobolink Filla June's sky With a melody I drink With ecstasy. I love my world, I love it! Ah! this my world I love, Aud the poets’ world ns true, For with them all will [ rove In the places ones they knew; With the heart of a lover Ising over and over, Their world is my world, And I love it, -[ErrLex B. Curnizn, too! in Boston Transcript. THE OLD TOWER. ry h { ane westeriny sun goemed for one golden se } sea, put up he one of its from the along the “Isn't “And shall City to think that to go be ets and begin the works ) hi. I a shall ever endure it a two weeks by the senshi Mrs. Berrydale wa feather factory harming » answered Byron's idea of ‘fat, ICR 1; IRC. dow, who exactly fair and fort) hair, | arge r irregular § . | i “23 said ie, wi hazel eves and be. ture i a slizht accent interrog ation in her voice. “Oh. I forgot!” cried Mrs “But really, Melanie Morton, do 1 vour intend to give up all « Smiied. of vou ts and this country DOS Ped £ : v promised responded Me ‘But he's keener of a Berrydale, shut u) out to seal” “I shouldn't mind Charley was there, too,” demurely rod Melanie : “It will ane, it at all, so long as an- we be awfully lonesome! “With one's husband? “And f life in Mad “It bas been too gay,” said Melanie, “And every . old Madison would marry you in a minute if you'd give him the least encouragement. Melanie elevated her pretty little nose, “I'd ns soon marry the Peruvian in front of a tobacco said she. “That reminds me.” dale, laughing. "Look here, Mel!” In the plump. white hand she held out two or three cigars and fragrant. and a box of matches “Speaking of tobacco stores,” ve been used fosuchag av » gr . ann 8 store! one ROVS wooden store.” brown.scaled said tain Maryland this morning “What for?” “Because | much. think Beeause 've told him the widow, “Are you Captain Maryland's keeper?” laughingly demanded Melanie. “Well, no, not exactly, but." resolutely in the face, *you are blushing! You are absolutely bl shing!"” “No, I'm not!” cried Mrs. Berrydale, looking pinker than ever. “lt's the re- flection’ of that red sunset water. Why should I blush?” “Because you like Fred You know you do. Halen! Helen! if only neither of us go back to the city again! We could be so happy, Helen!” He never has asked me! slightest chance. And he has such a pretty Solonig} cottage, aud he owns a fifth of the voskel he commands.” “A soa captain is too much in the habit of commanding,” observed Mrs, Berrydale, solemnly. “He might want to command me | Oh, Mel, look there! We're not half a mile away from that ruinous old tower on Pebble Point. Lot's go and see what it's like. Come; it's our last night here.” “But Charley told me not to go near it!" urged Melanie, Mrs. Berrydale tossed her handsome blonde head. “That's the very reason I mean to go,” paid she. “And Charley needn't know,” “Indeed, Helen, 1'd rather not!” “Just as you please,” said Mrs. Ber. Iydale, rising from the rock upon which she had perched herself. “If ygh've t the conscience to desert me, dp so. ut I'm determined to sce what's ia the fuside of that old ruin.” : And, nnwillingly enough. Melanie followed her friend across the glistening sand, fringed with ridges of still drop. ping seaweed, and dotted here and there with odd little convoluted shells. “It's nothing worth visiting,” reasoned she. “1 dare say it used to be an old church, and there's nothing left of it but the tower.” *“Fiddlesticks!” said Mrs. Berryvdal ». “A church indeed! But you everything that Charloy Torrance tells you. Just see how thick the wulls are! And what doar little slit-like windows! Oh, I must get into the place! Perlhaps it's a smuggler's den.” “What nonsense, Helen! Don’t you soo the door is closed and locked?” “Closed, ves; but I don’t beliove it's locked. Any.ow, 1 mein to try. Come.” Melanie hung back. “Don’t, Hewen!” she argued. “It's growing dusk and the wind has turned cold.” She shivered slightly as she spoke, ing up.” But Mrs. Berrydale was in one of her merriest, most willful moods. caught Melanie's hand and dragged her into the shadow of the solid-looking old tower. * Perhaps to meet vour fate!’ said she, rolling her R's in true elocutionary fashion. “It may be the ghost of Cap- tain Kidd, or it may bo 4 smuggler, or it may be Captain Fred Maryland.” She pushed the creaking door open and entered, still dragging Melanie at her heels. “A liquor storage, I think,” said, straining her saves into the semi-dark- “A lot of little barrels, laid on their sides! Now J —do-—wonder what—they Ah!” with inspiration, “wasn’t it lucky I stole Fred's matches sway?’ She drew the box of mate pocket with a quick motion whiel babitaal to her. In the samo in the dark doorway was again darkened this time by “Captain Maryland! Mrs. 11088, are? a sudden hes from wus tant a tall, masculine figure. Berrvdale stood transfixed with zement, the box in i raised match, t, in the other. Captain Marvias ind thrust Oaue nh to strike nis Mrs. Berrvd roots of her e I won't!” iin Ma 0A fare he 1 hten out her rampled ir, never will forgis wr will I ever speak to you ag Berrydale But before he could get the wo GROe more iy ou I can’t help it ‘ He . kL ati IK P 20 ern i % sobbed Mrs. Bor. me so! He looked at ’ Mrs. Berrvdale ate um cried + first sprinkling a coming shower compelied her to a company Melanie into the house the mateh in my p e said, when she was bathing her eves before tea “lI don't cure now Maryland smokes or ‘I've got ocket still,” al not.’ Just as they sat flash to the table, a the humble kerosene lamp upon the table a crash of thander shook the walls, Mrs. Berrydale gave n little shriek down of bloe lightning outblazed “l won't dew the powder magazine be struck.” the farmers wife, coming in with a plate of hist waf. “Cap'n Matyiond, he's jest had it filled full his last v'yage, an’ the com. hope said week,’ “The what?’ said Mrs. Berryda'e. “The powder magazine,” expla’'ned be wife. “Don’t ye know? Beach. "lain’t possible ye ain't no- Mra. Berrydale and Me'anie Morton Both had grown “| guess it's safe 'nough,” said she, further of. ness!” In half an hour the rain was over, and the moon was shining brightly. Melanie, rance,” said she, “up the garden walk!” “And I'm nimost sare,” whispered Mrs. Berrydale, Captain Maryland is with him." Melanie ran out to meet her lover. Mrs Borrydale sat still in the parlor until Captain Maryland entered. Then sho rose, and looked up into his face with pleading eyes. He hold out the fragrant brown eigars and the little match-box which had so nearly precipitatod them all into eternity. “Here thoy are, Helen,” he said. I ive them back to you. You didn't now, did you, that you were standing in a powder magazine when I took them from you so abruptly?” “I didn't know then, Captain Mary- land,” said Mrs. Berrydale, in n low voice. “1 know it mow, And it was your promptness and decision that saved my lite ~all of our lives," “Yon will then?" | pleaded. | “Oh, Captain Maryland!” | “And you will speak to me again?” { Mrs. Berrydale's head droped, { “You are cruel!” she whispered, “Cruel | 17 And to you? Oh, Helen oh. my darling!” I When Mrs. Berrydale went back fc New York, it was to buy her wedding gown. The feather factory had to look out for a now cashier. She and Melanie were to be lifelong neighbo 8 ufter all i “Aud he has promised mo two things,’ said the bride alent. is to leave the other is never again tc uny « forgive mo Sine off smoking; transport gunpowder “Men never do keep the mad promises thoy make before marriage,’ suid Mela. nie, laughing. { “I intend to see to that myself,” { Mrs. Berrydale, composedly.—{Suturday Night. said i DANGERS ON THE OCEAN. { pi Numbers of Abandoned Vessels Drift ing Along the Highways. i | i The abandoning of the Abbysinia adds one more to the list knocking about the ocean at of winds, waves and carrents. was loft there scomed but little doubt that she would sink beneath the and cease to become a danger to naviga goue the timo the rescuing steamer parted from her, and so looked out for by all vessels passing near {ins of the mercy When she long vessols wave tion, but she had not down at she most be the looality. the In terna- # thut the various nations having commerce on the itrol the ocean wi i certain fixed limits and endeavor to the routes from ions of « kind. This would in ers into port that had lost recommendation of tional Maritime Conference wa high seas shoul p Hin reo ahstruce Very ide towing steam. their propel. lors, sailing shit thil were disinasted that i collision as to fact, to Vessels ware abled by nee reliove the so far that iat thes Mires ow | =i Ne w Yo A New Kind of Leather, James W. Deckert, a It is of animals, the Newarker, Iwerad a new Kins of fancy «at! obinined by fanning the stomachs same material from which ripe is prepared ripe fii 1 prepared should bs called na material for leather is still an open ques. tion it makes handsome leather for [ro kethooks, bags, and f ney articles, and can be dyed in any color Only the inner membrane is used. The heavy in tegument is split off, leaving a modera. teiv thin and coarse-fibred leather as soft as chamois, & Bod itipe un What it considered is 1 for food. when pattern in the same piece of the leather, and much of it is too plain to admit of using it in large articies with the effect, but excellent results can obtained by matehing the skin, it ean be called. known as the “honeycomb” particularly rich appearance when dyed and polished. It is much mors effective than alligator or lizard skin, and much softer nud more easily worked into irreg- ular forms, Another part has appearance of being covered with jot beads when dyed black and polished. The part people guessing what it is made from, and that is 0 part of the pleasures of own. ing any novelty, The inveator or dis. coverer of this new leather says that he can got from twelve to fifteen foot from an asimal, ~~ New Yor. Sun. 0 in What Bacteria Are. S————— Bacteria are simply microscopic plants, the smallest form of vegetable life. In some instances they are so small that it { would be necessary to place 15,000 of them end fo cud in order to make a row {un inch in length. They are of widely | different forms, some round, some oval, tsome flat or rod shaped, while still i another class are the exact counterparts { of small cork 8 rows. In all cases they {are so minute that one needs a powertal microscope in order to study them, and {in no case can they bo perceived simply with the naked eye. When countiess | millions are grouped together they may probably be seen, but in this case they may be said to resemble an approaching army, of which we are totally nuabie ‘0 distinguisi a single soldier, —[8t, Louis Republic. | Your friends mny sometimes net mad bee cause you do not coms to see them, but they ure not us mad us they seem. — Here It 1s. To the man who labors with his hands, phys. feal troubig is a very serious thin it 1s not merely the prin he endures, racking and tor- menting ss it In, but the vrospeciive loss of time, money sano piace haunts i wil aguras Vittles bile suffering. He is bent on having prompt relief snd sure cure, He wants the best and the proof snd here it In: Mr. W.H, Echroeder, Gliberiviile, lowe, stated April 10, 1884, that ho had used Mt. Jucobs On in hls siabilan for horse compl nis and upon himseif for rheumatisn, and Lad found it the best remedy ho had ever tried, Again February 11, 1887. he wr tes; *'] have used St. Jacobs Oil for rheumati>m and sore back, as stated, and it cured; and for burns and brujces (does Ite work as regommended 10 do, 1 niwnys keep it in the house and recommend it to my neighbors.’ fr. John Garou, 6866 Minna 81, Man Francisco, Cal, writes: “Some tims back I rprained my knee and suffered agony unt | tried St Jacobs Ol, The result was a speedy pnd permanent cure,” Miss ida M, Fiemine, T8 Carey St, Baltimore, Md.. rayr: "1 Lad boen aMicted for two Years with neuralgia, and tried every means to get rid of the tor. menting disease, | had been given so much quinine that my Bervous sysiean; was seriously injured. | wa sin, sick heads he, constipa®ion o3 8 -@ Lilious fever, ehills and faundl Tutt's Tiny Pills (© have na anecide offrel on the liver, ro storing it to healthy action. 200i omen " GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878. W. BAKER & CO.S Breakfast Cocoa from whieh the exes of oll has beet remove, In absolutely pure and it is soinbie. No Chemicals are used in Hs proparation, It hon essore than three Himen Lhe strength of Cocoa mised with Fiarch, Armowroot or Pagar, and 1s therefore far more eon. nomical, costing lees han one ventaoenp, tis delicious, nour. fehing, srengibening, Rasiny proesTen, and admirably adapted for invalide ae well as for persons In health, Kold by Grocers everywhere, amelie, and Janta which stalin Lhe Bandy, njore tha ron, and burn off, ™ un Stove Polish is Britian, Oder. tesa, Durable, eons pays 1oF ho Us or glass package with every porehase, —-—w oat tural td a Wb, ONTH for 8 Bright Young $65 iia OPIUM HE NOTES AND COMMENTS, Soww modern philosopher has given in these twelve lines the summary of life: yours in sport snd seven years in school trom day childhoods seven yoars to finlan place 35; seven vears to voears for some en years for I way business 12: soven Boy 1 goose chasse, 4: 06 en years tor hoarding for your heir, 63: seven vears in wenkunoss, pain and eare. 70; tien die anl go —you should know wher. uv man who built what is claimed to ‘ : : 3 nave been the first transatlantic steam ir, the Rowval William, lis North svanston, one of the suburbsof Chic # James Gondie, “8 in AL a lively veteran of rs the \ 14 3 i three years, sinall of stature, bat an ie trip {from Pictou, Nova Scotia, us and active, The Royal Wi ti in the autumn of 1833, and was probably the first vessel propelled resend by steam to do so, the i nee fourteen vears be Suvannash, which i mude the voy fore, relving mainly on her canvas for speed, and using only in fine weather the small 1 i 1 the de k, could not engine that, built on be relied on during storms. A necexr report of casualties to ship. some remarkable facts in some craft groat age of a service hirty-aine med in the report 1 i sixty vears old, 8 ment are eighteen between fifty between i in Or river thint ginal sonstant Ling has nimost rebul { mk of the o OUR groans n i SITIO : have thier Where i be ve hint ation posse the lana to conto made tribes fronts Eg ings of rin to the nature of the upving the site For instance cal plants will sarrouand the dwell sa ith American Indians: i to boats wil the Central and those families that are us hare their that of itsel Bin ing. cannes on the ’ : i wor } lagoon, an th Will be a spociacie Mn 8S. 8S Bovsrox, a California naturalist, comes to the defence of some of our domestic birds that are charged with high crimes aginst the The meadow lark, he says, is roundly abused by the farmer, and one of the atrocities laid at its door is pulling up A careful ex- amination of the stomachs of a large pumber of larks shows that their food is mostly insects, and hence the damage done by them is slight compared to the rood they perform. In the stomachs of thirty larks opened by Mr. Boynton, one ODS Ci ye eighty Fron this showing flows that the lark is a Robins Two of beetivs were found. conclusion have also been much maligned. hour were seen to take to their young The blueiay is Une writer has said with bitter sarcasm: “If you saece «dd in killing a biusjay, a hun. dred strangers como to attend his funeral and to supply his place.” But the fact j=. that no other bird insists on so muny insects as a part of his daily bill of fare. Audubon estimated that two jays and days 20.000 insects that are harmful 10 fruit and food plants. Another bird on the black list is the downy woodpecker or sap-sucker, but it also subsists mainly on insects and grabs that are harmful to fruit. Noris the raby-throated humming- bird only a honey thief, for while he has naweot bill he prefers insects. Then there is the sparrow.hawk, which every ane regards as a public enemy, but thw birds annihilates great quantities of nakes, mice, and insects, and his ap- wtite for them is never satisfied. artins and swallows are also unfaili insectdevourer. For the crow i sparrow, Mr. Boynton is obliged to enter a ploa of guilty. : - Wound up ~-the man or woman who's “rune down.” Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med- the wheels going. liver into health and enriches the 8, and strength health an appetizing, re- it sets at work all f digest and nu- of digestion builds up flesh and ful action, i ] os Pr 1 blood, cleanses, repai ’ » ens the system, and and vigor. As storative tonic, the processes trition, and strength. restor i For all serofulous humors and blood -tainte, and even Consump- tion (or Lungz-serofula), if taken in time, it’s a positive rem dy. 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