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<advi-ed to use 8t, Jac bs Oud,
which 1 did, and it relieved me entirely.”
At Tornea, Finland, Christmas Day is less
than three hours in lensth
The Vamous Ilot Springs of Avkafisas,
*The Carlsbad America.” Solid tarough
trains from St. Louis. Elegant Hotels Suluime
Mountaln Scenery, Anat year sound Heath
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Agent, Jl Broadway, New York,
of
Lrsort
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. Braley
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Tired all the Time
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ril Wi
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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
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8, and strength
health
an appetizing, re-
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f digest and nu-
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builds up flesh and
ful action,
i
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blood, cleanses, repai
’ »
ens the system, and
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storative tonic,
the processes
trition, and
strength.
restor
i
For all serofulous humors and
blood -tainte, and even Consump-
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Unlike the sarsaparillas,
claim to be good for the 1}
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