—————————. 5 ———————— FACE TO FACE. Bomething ie dead . . fhe grace of sunset solitudes, the march Of the solitary moon, the pomp and power Of round on round of shining soldier-stars Patroling space, the bounties of the sun Sovran, tremendous, inaccessible The intemperate magnificence of the sea, Possess no more—no mere, Semothing is dead , , The autumn rain-rot deeper and wider soaks And spreads, the burden of winter heavier weighs, His melancholy closer and closer yet Cleaves, and those incantations of the spring That made the heart a center of miracles Grow formal, and the wonder-working hours Arise no more-—no more, Something is dead . . . "Tis time to creep in close about the fire And tell gray of what dream tales we were, and Old dreams and faded, and as we may rejoice In the young life that rounds us leaps and laughs A fountain in the sunshine, in the pride Of God's best gift that to us twain returns, Dear Heart no more-—-no more, {National Observer. A VISION OF CHARLES XI TRANSLATED FROM PER MERIMER THE FRENCH BY FRANCIS J. OF AMY. PROS- “There are more things in hea v'n and earth Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” {(Saskesrrane-—Hamlet, People are apt to laugh at supernat- | ural visions and apparitions. Some of these, however, are so well attested that one cannot consistently refuse to believe them, without at the same time rejecting all the mass of historical evidences. A report, drawn in duo form, and bearing the signatures of four trust. | worthy witnesses, guarantees the an- | thenticity of the incident I am about to relate. 1 will add that the prediction contained therein known and cited long before its confirmation by events occurring during our days. Charles XI., father of the Charles XI11., was one the potic, but at the same time one of the wisest, among the monarchs that Sweden ever had. He curtailed the monstrous privileges of the nobility, t ¢ was famous of most des. abolished the senate and made laws to in one word, he altered the constitution of the country, h up to that time had been oligarchical, and compelled the States General to invest him with absolute authority. Aside from this, he was an enlightened man, brave, strongly attached to the Lutheran faith, of an inflexible, cold, positive nature, wholly destitute of imagination. He had but recently lost his wife, Ul rica Eleonora. Though irshness towards that princess, it was said, bad hastened her end. He had held ber in great esteem and appeared more of- fected by her death than was to be ex- rected of so stern a heart. After this Perry ement he became more gloomy and morose than ever, and devoted himself to work with an assiduity which bespoke the imperious need of dispelling painful thoughts, At the close of an autumn evening he was sitting in gown and slippers before a fire lighted in his study at the palace of Stockholm. With him his chamberlain, Count Brahe, whom he honored with his good graces, and the ohysician Baumgarton, who, be it said oy the way, poscd as an asprit fort, and pretended to doubt everything outside of medicine. He had been summoned that evening to be consulted on some sort of indisposition. It was getting rather late, king, contrary to his custom, to signify, by bidding them that it was time for retiring. With his head bent low, and his eyes fixed the embers, he maintained an silence. He was tired of his company, and yet feared, he knew not why, to be lett alone. Count Brahe could not help noticing that his presence had ceased to be agreeable, and more than once ventured the suggestion that His Majesty might need some rest. Each time a gesture of the king had detained him in bis chair. In his tarn. the doctor talked about the unhealthy effects of protracted watch- ings. But the king replied between his teeth: ‘Stay, I am not yot sleepy.” And they took up different themes of conversation, which were wholly ex- hausted at the second or third remark. It | was evident that His Majesty was in one | of his gloomy moods, and under such | circumstances the position of a courtier | was extromely delicate. Count Brahe, | suspecting that the king's sadness arose from his sorrow for the 108s of his wife, looked attentively at the portrait of the | queen, which hung in the study, and ex- claimed with a deep sigh: “What an admirabie likeness! Ob. serve that expression, at once sugust and gentle.” “Bah!” brusquely responded the king, who thought he heard a reproach when- ever the queen's name was mentioned in his presence. “This portrait flatters her. The queen was homely.” Then, inwardly reproving himself | for his harshness, be arose and strode about the room to hide an emotion of which he was ashamed. He stopped be. fore the window which vpened upon the court. The night was dark and the moon at its first quarter. The palace where the kings of Sweden reside to-day was not yet completed, and Charles XI., who had commenced it, lived at the time in the old palace, sita- ated at the point of the Ritterholm, look- ing upon Lake Mwler. It was a large ! structare, shaped like a horseshoe. The king's study occupied one of the ex. tremities, and, nearly opposite, stood the large hall whers the States General met whenaver they had some communi. cation to receive from the throne. The windows of this ball appeared at that moment all aglow with a brilliant light. This struck the King as being very strange. Heo at first thought it was caused by a torch in the hands of some valet. But what business could any one have at that hour in a hall whieh had not bwen opened fcr so long o time? Mores power of he suit himsel whi his he were and the had failed good-night, upon sbsolute over, the light was too great to proceed froma single torch. It ed more like aconflagration, but ne smoke was to be scen; the panes were not shattered; no sound was heard; all had rather the ap- pearance of an illumination. Charles looked at these windows for a while, without speaking. However, Count Braho stretched out his hand toward the string of a bell, and was about to ring for a page to send to inquire into the cause of this singular phenomenon, but ho was arres ed by the King, who said: “I will go myself.” Asx he uttered these words ho was seen to turn pale, and his countennnce ex- pressed something like a religous terror. But he left the room with a firm step; each with a lighted taper in his hand. The porter, who kept the keys, was already in bed. Baumgarten went to awake him and convey the king's order to straightway open the doors of the legislative hall. Great was the surprise of the poor man at such an unexpected command, He hastily dressed himself and joined the king with his bunch of keys. He first opened the door of a gal- lery which served as aute-chamber, or passage to the main hall. The king en- tered. he saw that the walls were draped in mourning. “Who ordered the hall to be thus dec. orated?” he asked in anangry tone. sponded the bewildered porter. “The last time | had the galliry swept, the oak of the ceiling was bare, as it has alwavs Surely, these hangings do not from “your Majesty a Meantime, the king, walking with a had already penetrated + pace, ry. The count and porter follow ed at his heels, while Doctor Baumgarten lagged behind, struggling between the fear of remaining alone, and that of fue. “Proceed no further, sire!” eried the porter. “On my soul, there's sorcery here. At this hour — and since the death of the queen, your gracious consort— tis said that she haunts this gallery. God defend us!” “Hold, sire!” exclaimed the count in his turn. ‘Do you not hear the noise coming from the lezislative hall> Whe what dangers await Your Ma. ' put in Baumgarten. whose light had been blown out by a carrent of air, “allow me at least to go and fetch twen ty of vour majesty's trabans.” : ! " said the king firmly, the the large ball. “Porter, open q He struck it with his foot, sound, repe its d by the echoes vault, reverberated in the gallery like the discharge of a canon ‘ . Suu Bi? “Let us get in! of Gonr ok!" stopping Delore I'he porter was in such a trepidation, that his key rattled againt the lock, he could not manage to insert it, “Au old soldier trembling! * cried the king, shrugging his shoulders. “Come, count, open thou the door for us.” “Bire,” replied the slepping back, ‘‘let Your Majesty command me to march to the mouth of a Danish or (rerman cannon, I will go without flinching: his would be defying ti powers of and Count, and the Fhe kis os kovs from the band of the porter, ane id in a tone hat this affair concerns me ore his soit could the thic y ] prevent it, he had opened k oaken door and entered the t hall, mutiering words, *' With the help of God.’ His three acolytes, impelled osity, grea the by curi. more powerful thun fear, and per haps ashamed to forsake their k ng, en tered with him The large hall was illamined with in- numerable torches A black drapery had replaced the antique figured tapes. try. All along the walls were seen, ranged in order as usual, the German, iranish and Moscorvite stendards phies of the soldiers Adolphus. In the centre inently displayed Swedish shrouded in tuneral crapo An immense filled the benches. The four orders of the State nobility, clergy, burghers and peasants occupied seats according to their re. spective ranks. All were dressed in black, and this multitude of human faces, gleaming against the so:nbre background, so dazzled the eye, that none of the four this extraordinary scene ar- tro. of (Grustarus wore prom: banners assembly actor, facing n dense a confused mass, where his wandering gaze fails to distinguish a single indi- vidual. Upon a raised throne, from which the king was wont to address the assembly, they saw a bleeding corpse, clad in the insignias of royaity. sceptre in his band; on the left, an old man, or, rather, another phantom, leaned against the throne, the mantle of state worn by the old ad- transformed it into a kingdom, personages, dressed in flowing robes, who seemed to be judges, were seated before a table filled with large Between the throne and the benches of the assem. bly stood a block covered with crape, and an axe lying beside it. Nobody, in this superhuman concourse appeared to notice the presence of Charles and his thres companions. As they entered they heard a confused hum, from out of which no articulate word could be distinguished. Presently the older of the judges in black robes, who seomed the president, nrose and knocked thrice with his fist upon a volume open bofore him. A deop silence followed. Several young men of gentle appearance, richly attired, and with their hands pin- joned behind their backs, entered the hall through a door opposite the one Charles X1 had just crossed. They ad. vanced with head erect and firm look. Behind them a stalwart Joung man, wearing o brown leather coat, held the end of the cord wherewith their hands were tied. The ono who walked in front and seemed the most important of the risoncrs, stopped in the middle of the Il, close to the block, which he sur. A same time the corpse seemed to shudder convulsively, and a fresh crimson stream flowod from its wound. The young man knelt, and laid his bead upon the block. The ax gleam d in the air and instantly fell with a thud. A gory rivulet bub- bled upon the plitform, and mingled with that « f the corpse. The head, re. bounding several times upon the reddened pavement, rolled to the very feet of Charles, which it stained with blood. Up to that moment surprise had par- alyzed his speoch; but ut sight of this horrible spectacle, his tongue was loos enod. He advanced a few steps toward the platform, nud addressing the figure draped in the mantle of admivistrator, he uttered boldly the well known formula, “If thou art from God, speak; if from the other, leave us in peaoe.’ The phantom roplied slowly, and with solomn tone: “Charles. King! This blood will not flow under thy reign (here the voice be- came less distinet), but five reigns after, Woe, woe, woe to tho blood of Wasa!” Thereupon the forms of the countless persons composing this weird assembly began to grow dim, appearing only as shadows, and then dissolved altogether. The fantastic torches were extinguished, and those of Charles and his companions illumined only the old tapestries, softly by the wind. They still heard for an while somethimz like a melodious noise, which one of the witnesses com- chords of a harp while being tuned. All to the duration of the sDpatition, which they judged Lad lasted a as wut ten minutes, The black draperies, the detruncated head, the spurts of blood staining the vanished with the phan- The slipper of Charles Xi. alone scenes of that dreadful night, had they not been already too well engraved in his memory. When he returned to his study, the king caused a winute report to be written of what he had witnessed; made his coms. panions sig and himself affixed his signature to it, Despite the precautions tuken to keep the contents of this docu | managed in to leak out, Ch ries xl. and fo ventured to raise a sign it, some mysterious manner even during the lifetime of The extant, this day nobody has doubt as to its genuineness is remarkable. document is still up Its closing paragraph the King: “And, if what | he exact truth, 1 renounceall | life, the through YS have related be ne whic h i Some ve all, through my zeal for the f defence of the fa Now then, if (Crustavus 111. Karstroem, AssnENIn, We more than our point of contact ent and the « wellare of my h of my neople, am k i Iolo TS so death of An tin | belween we recall th and the judgment . i his shall this ex stances attend lar proph man, the An- beheaded In win 8 to Ihe young presence of the assembly Karsiroem I'ne crowned corpse, to Gusta The Gustavus Adolphus IV Lastly, the old man, to ] ® IL and successor, us boy to his sO the Duke of istavus IV, and al- Sodermaniand, uncle of who was regent of terwards king, um his £1) Fhe Ww. The Newest Weapons of Warfare, German investigators have beer ing upon the probable effect the proportion of rerman side total number in the field were o killed then an immense improvement has been preci and it is uture engagements the be greater the wounds owing of the new. ar. In 1870 soldi rs wy i Cat weapons in the the he nest w unded on was 14.05 per cent. of 3 Only 2.5 per cent. tunily ~ince effected in arms of ion, believed that in § proportion of than wounded will heretofore, but that will be less severe, as bullets their small size and will often pass through be nes without aplin- tering them. It is estimated that about 2 per cent of the tro ps will be wound- ed in the next campaign. and that a little more than 3 per cent, will be kil'ed. That is to say. that in an army corps of 35.- 000 men, 1.200 will be killed, and 5.800 wounded. About one-third of the wounds, it is thought, are likely to be serious. to great velocity, The Texan Peccary. cent publication of tue National Museum by Mr. Frederick A. Lucas, on animals recently extinct or threatoned with ex- termination. instance the cause is *‘reckless As an instance of the way in which animals may be de- | stroyed, he refers in the introduction to | peccaries, In 1885 these little animals | wore 80 abundant in several counties of | Every | Texas that their well-worn tails were | istic of the creature. Shortly after that date, hogskin goods being in favor, a peccary hides, with the result that by 1890 the peccaries were practically ex- terminated. Double-Headed Snakes. Double-headed snakes have been known to occur; and in a German jour. nal Dr. Collin, of Berlin, describes and figures oa double-tailed earthworm, and mentions four other cases of such mal. formations. Double headed and double. tailed fishes. Dr. Collins infers that all such cases as double tails are due to ab. normal processes of regeneration, after the original tail has been lost, BA NH Police Figures. —_—— In New York there are 72.65 polices men to each square mile of territory, in Chicago but 9.08, in Philadelphia 11.01, in Brooklyn 34.01, in St. Louis 8.72, in Boston 19.26, in New Orleans 4.66, and in Washington 35.64. A FAMOUS BANDIT. EXPLOITS OF A DARING MEXICAN IN CALIFORNIA, Desperate Ones of Joaquin Mu. rietta—His Fate, on the Mekican border, which huve given the Mexican and United Stutes troops u grout deal of annoyance, recall to old the most ever known. The Marietta in the gold fever days was known all s.ong the Pacific Coast. outlaw wns un Mexican. in the school of where the line pillager and patriot had been to a great extent obliterated. of one of revolution in from the law.abidins community where hoe had lived. He regarded himself as a champion of his country ruther than an outlaw, Of medium height, and some- thin silky mustache. frank and cordial, his voice silvery and of generous utterance, and though he that about him which made him both loved and feared, and which Impressed friend and stranger alike with profound respect, Thus was Joaquin Murietta in 1852, when he lived at Los Angelos, at | the beginning of his desperate career, Joaquin was always splendid] { i y mount. ed. Mach of his success depen led on his horses nnd the special business of certain members of the robber band to provide a supply of the best horses in the country. Tne daring of the young chieftain was nmazing., During at San Jose Joaquin became involved in a fight, was arrested and fined 812. Be. ing in charge of Deputy Shenff Clark, who did not know the invited the officer to house for the money ious to M irivtia thie vas a anne i risoner, Joaquin Dang vjuented place the robb s OICer aiid ws : A meri a shot that cut the plume « brigand ; The tuken, but Joaq: 2 American in the ar rman in the abdomen, galloped away without a scratch. After threo years of this bloody work by Joaquin's band tho Uai‘ornia Legis. lature authorized Harry Las rangers to equip thems! tor the cape tare of the Their trail followed closely and the Mexicans wera found in camp near Tejon Pass. Six of them were seated round a small fire, where breakfast was cooking, while the soventh, he the slender figure and graceful limbs, and large black eyes. and long black hair, a perfect Apollo, richly 8 hat ras nover unding the an ‘ang twenty Us robbs rs wns of superb bay horse at a little distance from the fire. Joaquin was well known to the rangers, who dashed into the camp be. fore they were discovered, and zucoeeded in cutting the robbers off from their horses, whither they were going. geles,” the chief repli d. on afoot, Three balls pierced his body and made an end of the bloody-handed robber.—{New York Tribune. THE COMING BILLIONAIRE, Voi llam W. Astor May Reach That Pluteeratic Estate, There is a probability that William Waldorf Astor will be a billionaire long before he reaches his allotted time. It will not, however, be by the accumula. | tion at the six per cent interest rate, but by the improvement in the value of his property. He inherited from his father acres of buildings and other § ground not built on island, When old John Jacob Astor, his great. grandfather, came to this country from Holland, he brought a lot of musical In- | struments which he traded with the Indians for furs. It was in this way be got his start in life. He extended the fur business as rapidly as his profits would allow, Finally surplus money began to accumulate, he invested | it in real estate. At lust he gave up the fur trade and put all his money in lands. He bought along the King's highway, now Broadway. He and his descendants ¢ snequired miles of farms on and adjacent neres o upon Manhattan when to the famous thoroughfare. The section of New York in whi lands lie is rapidly building up Astors n i round ch the It has beon the custom of the it to sell but to execute twenty-one years, a provision that the lands should revert to the have lands casos for in which erected on the Astors on the In this way improved without wis buildings ¥ ih expiration of {onses, the lands heen Iho building operations on Manhattan which grenter rate than ey $ 1 multiply William Waldorf Astor's for. tune several times in the island ure now oll at o . 3 $4 er ix nse 10 codes, been The Astor handed neratio fo the eldest son, a down g urescent possessor w 11 1oliowm When William Waldort a billionaire 38 Incoune OL imterest 1 dishwashing w ne away the greasy part It is sasier to the work done if the J ranged regularly, the plates of the together and the Knives, rks and spoons with their handles he way It saves time in hand- ie them. Disheloths and towels i ire sweeter if dried in the open air, get SHes are ar- ERIMe size same A curious trouble which develops is the pres. ence of a worn gnawing into the wood, The same trouble may occur in a clos. et built in a house, or in any raw woud, The best remedy for this trouble is to paint the furniture and shelves with a solution of coloeynth, This can probably be obtained from It is the pulp of the bitter cucumber, and is exceedingly somcetimes i ent answer was retarned. Joaquin bit his lip and spoke up angrily. “I com. mand here; address yourself to me.” He then moved a few steps toward the fire, around which lay the sadd es, blankets and arms of the party. He was ordered to stop, and whon he did not heed Lave told him to stand or he would shoot, The chief tossed his hair back scornfally, while his eyes blazed with the lightnings of his wrath, and, stepping backward, he stood again by the sido of his hand. some steed, his jewelled hand resting lightly on its mane. At this critical moment Lieutenant Byrnes, with whom Joaquin was well noquainted, moved up, and Joaquin, realizing that the game was up, oalled out to his followers to save themenlves as best they could, and threw himself upon his charger without saddle or bridie, and sped down '%e mountain like a tempest. He leaped his horse over a precipice, when he fell, but was on his foet again in a moment, and, remounting, the daring rider dashed on. Close at Lis heols came the s fire. ing as they rode, and seon the gallant stoed fell to the earth, and Joaquin ran in excessive quantitinos, If this cannot be ob- tained, got a preparation of quassia, which a housekeeper tells us will be squally useful. This trouble does not arise from surfaces which are finished with a coating of varnish or polish. The worm gets into the wood from of the furniture these surfaces that the remedy should be applied. It may be puton with an ordinary paint brush, being careful to touch every portion of the un. dressed wood, Dutchman’s Pipe. The climbing shrub known as Dutch. man's Pipe grows to the height of fifteer or twenty feet. It is a native of the southern parts of the Alleghany Moun. tains and is frequently planted in the United States, in Britain and on the Continent of Europe, to form shady bowers. It has very large heart-sha leaves (a foot in breadth) of a beautiful green. The pipe-shaped flowers hang singly or In pairs on stalks. At a distance the vine might be mistaken for a bown vine, but the flowers oan be taken for nothing else bat a dutchman's pipe. They are or four inches long, a yellowish-green Grown and veined with reddish-browas voins.—{Detroit Free osimonn Tils Mistake. They had been married for several years, and had gradually risen from One evening with a self-satisfied alr and said: “Things have changed some since we ’ deal, Joe,” she replied “The first year was pretty “1 didn’t make than enough to pull us But 1 wld you then I'd “Yes,” she ad- have. You've made it easier for me, financially.” “And I've worked hard to do it,” he any more night and day; and I will do better still: you shall be even more comfort. able than you are now.” “You are very kind, Joe.” sald Mary, with a faint smile: “nevertheless, I've some- if you quite under- “Why, what have I done?” he asked straightening up in his chajr. “Nothing wrong, 1 suppose, Joe,” she replied in the same quiet “but it has seemed sometimes just a fancy of mine, perhaps—it has seemed as though you thought you had married the office. It sees more if you than—than She stopped. It wasn't necessary say any more, It was necessary to iiss him to show that it was not in a purely faultfinding spirit that she spoke, and she did that. And the lesson that money the lesson was not lost ou him. semanas ' to Yur onay The Books Boys Head. The truth is that it is not the boys who read “bad who swell the roll of youthful crimipality: it is the woys who do not read anything. Let ny one the police court of a busy morning and he will see that the style of youth gathered there have not fallen into evil ways through their depraved literary tendencies. They were not brought there by books, but probably by ignor- ance of books, combined with a genus hatred kinds. 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