S——————— _—,
THE MARCHING OF THE GRASS.
BY MARY BE, BLAKE.
0 the marching of tho Grass!
OQ the joy that comes to pass
When the mighty silent army with greon ban-
ners overblown
Drags the Winter from his throne!
conquers all his shining valleys, climbs the
rampart of the hill,
Stoals by homely wayside hedges, fords tho
river broad and still,
Undeormines fortross forest, overtops the
castle wall, -
: wing the eitios, and the hamlot
Swift invadi
br
Till the
And the soul «
Thrills with passion of delight
wn and small,
whole wide world is captured,
{f man enraptured,
Sunny morn and dewy night;
And the joyous rythmic pulsing marketh time
in lad and lass
4
the marching
Marching
Marching
Of the Grass,
O the marching of the Grass!
Fairer thi
[a the golden of
with wine of June:
LES may come to pass
summer: roses
Flitting wild birds all atune
With the ode
tapestry of flowers:
Balm of in
+f
re
us breathed dawning
t of shadow; tangle
CnRe; ros
joweled showers:
f happy music backward
to sky
endent,
CRONIN'S DAUGHTER.
It was a st
the heart of
Cronin drew h
over her- head r
closed the d oftly and stepped ot
into the She
for the de vork had heen h
ther had nes
wus
mother’s
bed smoot}
one tun
her mothe
came $0 the
The
io yr-stone and
the works
and doors
were open
flery glean
runt
and
erivi
sili
iron
Now
sion, with a
around the =
Fhe vio)
stars
tention.
snd n
wos t
ooked aboy
high brick
house,”
son
menses st
the chim
od-night,
ii
ittered
never «i
drinking
i il
zi
Poer Jo
for liquo
caused nim
shop to anotl
and from :
with him his and only child
The factory quarters of Si. Louis,
Pittsburg, Newark, and other manu-
facturing centers are wofully alike,
and had .
stories, Mary—the little girl would
have believed the whole world paved
and cut into narrow, dirty streets,
with a streak of sooty sky above,
crossed with « lothes-lines,
Her mother came from the Catskill
Mountains region, and her nature re.
volted at the wretched places they
had “called home. The sunay old
brick farm-house, built in the Dateh
way, the fertile fields and crowded
barn-yard, grandmother's fi
den across the road, the mount
framing the little vale, the
cleanliness, the stability Hen knew
them all through her mother s words
and sighs and tears.
A great resolve had crept into the
child's heart to try
that peaceful life, “To be respect.
able and stay in one place” was what
she lived for. If only her father
would not drink!
There came u day to the child when
ghe began to see her way clear,
letter arrived from a man with whom
her father had worked before his
marriage, in a Penobscot logging-
Sap, He wrote of an opening for a
family at the Katahdin Iron Works, in
Maine fair wages and a comfortable
home were ready,
When John Cronin read the letter
all his old love for the woods came
back to him. He could feel the cold
steel of the gun-barrel and the su ple
rod bend in his hand, Before wy
the money was got together whic
earried the family from Boston to
Bungor, and from there to the works,
sixty miles north.
Six months had gone, every day
brought new beauties to Katahdin,
Now and then the child left the
works, with its black, unsightly build-
ings, long row of charconl houses,
heaps of purple-tinted slag, the refuse
of the fron and acres of dead trees
from the sulphur fumes, and explored
Pleasant river, leaping from one flat
#tone to another, and gathering in
the cardinal flowers along the bank.
8he wandered beside Silver Lake
which reflected old Chairback and
Carrvit
state,
ie
ains
Saddleback Mountain upon its pol-
ished surface, Her mother would not
let her venture far. Two flerce bear
cubs in their cages at the hotel told
what the woods contained,
Under Mrs. Cronin’s touch the
lain wooden cottage grew into a
PO There were a few pretty pict-
ures and ornaments Sh ad SronLE
with hor--the remainder of better
days, and Mary helped arrange them
in the bare living room. The cur-
tains of the windows were coarse but
white, and the new stove shone re-
splendent with its silver plated orna-
mentation and lettering.
“The Star of the East, Bangor,
Maine,” Mary read on the oven door
muny times a day,
** Mother,” she sald, holding her
stove-rug in her hand as she knelt be.
fore the range, “1 always give the
name an extra polish, for it seems to
mean 80 much to ns, Thisis our first
real home,
110
all round
pressed for all thut was done for her,
pleasure,
unselfish
She was thoughtful and
and the whole settlement
Was a child unruly? The
would call Mary in te
ening with open eyes and dirty mouth
expanding into a smile, to her account
exhibition of fire.
To Mary
sights,
country was one thing to be
Katahdin children,
monotony and loneliness of a
woods, could never
he erowds and noise
of July
works on Boston Common.
desired ;
lement, Often
the workmen stopped and
aod crowded around
wd to
* Seems
how,
came,’
‘The
ee
hassite
Dut
alne creaking ar
pr BOoUse with
4
oleva
» the rear
esis laed
pulled
15 }
up ti
gulariy ;
and
u river had no word
gement as crossed the old
bridge, and the stars were far
away and cold, She avoided the front
works for fear of being seen by
of the night foree in the casting room,
Around the charcoal-house and
through the thick smoke, up the hill
]
ia
she
4 vy és
KOI
(rev
=
with chilled hands and
Surely that is the elevator rattling |
beside her, Now she stops for
on the landing, waiting for
drive her fears away. How her father
will laugh and Kiss her, and, with a
night. The intensely cold air
have brought him to himself, she |
John Cronin Iny asleep on the floor.
Mary had no time for thought. She
drew the holt and secured the elev ator,
car and wheeled it toward the fiery
pk: The heat grew more and more
ntense, Could she guide the ear and
dump it? Before she knew it, it was
done. The car was replaced, the boit
pushed back and the bell rung. The
elevator had gone down und the
fluor had been replaced,
Then Mary crouched beside the
sleeping man and moaned and cried
* O father! father! Wake up! I
can't stay here all night! If call
for help you will be dismissed. I'm
afraid to stay here alone.”
The man slept on. It was impossi-
ble to rouse him. Mary had feared
one weakness, but suddeniy she be.
came conscious of her inner strength,
She knew that she would stay here
until morning and hoped that by that
time her father could be roused and
that they might go home without
suspicion,
The elevator was coming again, and
again she must nerve hersell to roll
the heavy car at that awful brink.
Well she had done it once and she
could do it again,
Again and again she had bent her.
self to the heavy task. The hours
went by, Mary counted them Ly the
went quickly, for she dreaded the re-
turn of the car; but as the night wore
on, the child became conscious of an
overpowering desire to sleep,
The dreadiul sense of responsibil.
ity, the loneliness and unuaturalness
left her, She even began to forget
her desire to save her futher. All
emotion was swallowed up by the sea
of sleep, which surged around her,
making her sick and giddy,
At lust she became conscious that
she must do something, She strug
gled to the next dumping, and then
opened the door of the warm-house,
which was inclosed on three sides,
| the fourth side opening on the chim.
| ney. She closed it behind ber, in
order that her futher might not feel
the cruel cold, and sat on the icy
platform and looked down, down on
the shapeless works beneath her.
The iutense coldness rovive! her
i and seemed to freeze the sleep ont,
| The December moon shone steadily,
and the wind, vow rising, blew the
| charcoal smoke away from her. From
this great height the settlement
seemed crowded at her feet. ach
house stood out from its pure white
surroundings, and Mary thought of
What would it be
to leave them all and go back to the
old wandering, disreputable life ?
Her eyes traversed over the road
{ till they rested on her own home
| Hirst home! Then something blurred
| them, and the old frayed shawl an-
i swered other purpose. Het
mother was there--her mother who
t would have died .in the city, the
i Brownsville doctor said, had this ill-
ertuken her there; her mother,
who would reed the fresh, bracing,
balsa: air of the mountain romans
| & long day, and ali the it
| ber father's good wages coul
{ the friend in each.
|
|
:
i
Nes OV
orts th
buy
For her :
father's si
God,
vent
Vent
ither's sake
must
"wy
In
ike she
me awake
ira vt Waist { : #
prayer inat went up
keep
fro
below,
Lie
mn
chimney like }
Mary went to wo
Betwq
ow i with
th new enthusiasm on tr
4 Poh
mothet
night
ook all
John,
to this load,
“Thank you, J
* Come, Mary, you must be tired,”
Not a word was
the pair as they went dowa the ladder
and hurried down the hill. The
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try
184)
of the furnace-room
** Blessed if here ain't Cronin and
gal. Hope the missus ain't po
wre,” said one
“She's probably been
with her.
little woman as that
life,” said another,
Back over the
his
Ww
up all night
gal in all my
red bridge Mary
her hand tightly clasped
in her father's. She gave his hand a
little squeeze once, when she felt a
hot tear drop on her own
a smile on her tired, pale face, and
a great content in her heart. Father,
mother, friends and reputation-—all
saved!
When they had passed the group of
houses thut clustered near the bridge,
and the woods were before them, her
father said: * Mary, dows mother
Kuow 2”
“No. Don't let's tell her. She will
think I went to meet you, if she is
awake."
“If vou'd not followed me last
night, Mary, do vou know what might
bave happened ?" :
Mary nodded her head vigorously.
She could not speak,
“ Mary, you have saved my life;
you have saved the works, As God
ears me, I will never drink another
drop.” And he never broke the vow
he made,
Mary cried with joy on her father's
neck, All the terror, loneliness and
Inbor of the night were over, lize a
bad dream. Best of all, the burden
of censeless anxiety, which had
welghed on her and Her mother, was
laid down forever, Never agein
would she listen to his step, in the
fear that it might be uncertain. or
walk with tired feet seeking him
through the slums of a city,
They softly opened the door and
found the mother still sleeping. Mary
opened the dampers of the ** Star of
the East,” and soon a good breakfast
was in preparation,
John Cronin told his wife of his
loads ~eight to an hour, At first they
resolution, as he sat by her bedside,
| ator Mary had gone to bed, but he
did not tell her then at what a fearful
cost of suffering to their child it had
been bought,
His {ntelligence and perseverance
won him tho position of foreman, and
to-day Mary and her mother, who
has recovered her health and gaiety
in Katahdin Woods, rejoice in their
new house, which exceeds Mary's
day-dreams.
“That's u fine man, that Cronin,”
gald some one in authority, the other
day. * He and his daughter are
studying chemistry together, and ho
has some first-rate notions about
roasting the sulphur out of the ore.
I shouldn't be surprised if we had a
rare find in him.”
“The girl is a pretty and lady like
one, too,” said another. * The whole
settlement seems to be fond of her.’
John Cronin, passing on the other
side of the red bridge, himself unseen.
heard the words aod smiled and
thought: * Where would Cronin be
{to-day if it were not for ‘Cronin’s
{ Daughter’ 2"'—Anuie 8. Packar l, in
| New England Magazine
There are said to be 163,000 familios
i in London living in single rooms
{ Elections in France are always held on
| Sundays, in order to suit the
of the workingmen au
caouvenicnecs
i peasants
| The great battles of the civil WAr were
pottsyivania, W ilderness,
Chancelloraville. Chie)
Harbor, Fredericksburg
oh, Stone River
Gettysburg wns the
war An
he larges:
the
{ Gettysburg, S
Antietam,
| mauga, |
HOCKS
‘old
| Manassas, Shi and
i Petersburg
| ost batt
great
the
as
le of the loin
bloodiest
sembled by
army
erates
Unioa
was
Conte
by the
ut
ut
the
saven davas hight;
gh he
Wilderness,
the rivers now known to geograpnh-
} have a total 1.0K)
There are $003)
he Miss 8.1 1 being i.
Four
ie
Zih each of
two
ien
over
les long, t i
miles, and the
others are n
i¥
Amazon 4,029
re than 3.0% miles
in Asia
Asi »
3 2 ; BM i the Hoang
Kisnz, xtending 3 Hx)
miles;
Y rnesei 4 580
tween
exceptionally well
| structed that the Indians do not de pe
| redate the suburbs of New Y wk, or
he buffalo roam over the thorough.
| fares but she will, never.
| theless, learn to louk upon her coun.
irymen and women through
| such spectacles as Dickens wore when
| he wrote his *
f Chicago:
KOON
‘American Notes, *' She
| will expect bombast instead of
gance, and braggadocio for merit.
Of course, an intelligent girl will re.
pair these deficiencies by subsequent
study of men and books: but, study
{ a8 she may, the glamour of her child-
{ ish imagination can never rest on
| the past of her own country’s history.
She will not be able to believe the
Washington story us she accepted
the myth of William Tell. The eritie.
al faculty once awake feeds on the
bones of dead ideals: the clear apirit.
uality cf a conflict of ideas will be as
tasteless to her, tull as she is of the
personal interest which animates the
war of olde: worlds, ns cold spring
water would be after wine,
AROUND THE HOUSE.
ele.
touch the vottom of the bowl.
uired to boil quickly.
y pe the heat away from the liquid.
cold water.
Salt, if applied immediatety, will sure.
ly prevent wine stains.
To give a good oak color to a pine
floor wash in a solution of one pound
of copperas dissolved in one gall
strong lye.
To test nutmegs prick them with a pin,
it they are good the oil will instantly
spread around the puncture thus made,
The most elevated railroad in the
United States is said to be the Denver &
South Park Railroad, a branch of the
Union Pacific, which at Alpine Tunnel
reaches an altitude of 11,500 feet above
the level of the sea.
|
THE LADIES.
i
AX OLD PASHION 1s VIVED,
The lace bertha and the watteau bow
have met with such success that their
popularity is endangered already. 1 he
has been reached in
Press.
ROSE HEART PINK,
A very lovely tint of *
nppenrs
rose-heart” pink
the list of new
It is un fascinating s
more exquisite then the English.
shade Inst Perhaps a
blonde woman, or a brown-hai red,
eyed ono,
looks
wenrs
among ening
colors even
praio
Tose of winter
brown.
with a fine complexion, never
beautiful than when
certain shades of rose color.
new evening toilet of this new par
tint of pink, bro aded with palest 3
roscbuds and foliage, is lightly d
Just in front with primrose -vellow crepe
de Chine. 5 he h uf-low bo lice
finished with a fichu of the « repe de
Chine, which is softly folded over the
chest with artistic race , and tied the
side, falling in long enls New York
Post, vou oh
- .. »
she
A
ticular
more
Yellow
raped
is simply
0
at
A WEDDING TH
pretty custom
or lassie to
tra n bearer has a !ded 14
int.
|
obieot for
the nuptial
oR
page
admirati
knee brosche
pecial
in
1 ht
a tiny coast o
er which falls a cape
} and a little thre
ip with
i088 swell
ithed wi
caugh His
MI
“es y §
cCasions ti
2 B83
is not so elaborate.
is nll ready t
He is attired in nn
with rar
ilk
garnished
tosek ino g
RIOCK]: Bs 1
bh andsome
AYune,
A vel
and tied up wi
ow ribbon, makes a suitable
yellow room or a and
These
white
sacl a0 simple
1
ve and 1 ntious that th
as
ory
oy
honestly in
than
roses
recommended
the huge
and other paper flowers
bang on the wall for
(Boston Cultivator.
fasts ids,
WIL
ppies,
are used to
this same purposq
A TOOR MOTHER
The pathos that necessarily attaches
to the life of an infant monarch has been
intensified, in the case of the baby King
of Spain. by the news of a plot directed
against his innocent life. Who, even
amoug the children «f the poor, need
envy this little erowoed baby, whose itfe,
dangers from which less highly placed
KE aL
w—— ———-
trimmed with Valenciennes lace and ribe
bons the exact shade of the pattern.
Dressing z wns are almost as pretty
[a8 tea gowns. One made of pink woul
stuff has white lace about the neck, a
hood frilled with luce and a girdis of
white silk cord,
Violets are worn as much for the shads
us for the blossom : wverything tends to
and lavender, Dresses
! and bonnets
purple, heliotrone
i
tare of th
are trimmed
8 shale, statiogary,
with it.
The newest shirts are made of French
butiste, colored « whit, have &
I.down collar reaching almost
to the shoulder this is tied &
sinall edition of the “windsor” tie.
‘
t
yr and
broad turnes
teneath
A novel summer cloak to wear over a
silk dress is mide entirely of black lace,
with larg es and a rule of
lance at the neck. It falls in loos folds,
has no linn z, and reaches to the feet.
' Dish ip se
It is a wonder women who wear the
sinall watches suspended from the bodice
do not have them stolen.
mp'ation to a thief
thiugs dungling so
of their powns
It must be quite a t
the daingy
carelessly from their
Jet
he
10 sew
goid cinsp
and beaded jewelled parnitures will
much as ever, Tue new
wonderfully Leautifal in
f the finest and
solid
used as
| patterns are
ind sh wings
ery attractive,
ng down coliars
Walking dresses must
oom
collars with
at
{ they button
an
Furiber.
¥.
oh
ouse brings into de.
of buckles and ¢ asps,
Russian girdles
Very much de-
of ‘the m lo k
He wary of
belt with a
lollar and a
good style
re
ar
3 i«
vy
x.
*
shires.
others
egRity
ISRI00 en
the sen-
noniq De
t even in the Col.
i believed
f my
take them up i
ly placed them in tl
} 1
h
restored 1h
1
i
# sun,
tm to
n this state I carried them
mmersed in some tepid
z the er in a dry place.
ination, I noticed that the
mouths of each was closed with a kind
of g membrane. This obstruc.
tion seemed to cause the little saurians
an imm amount of inconvenience.
During the night one of them broke
the membrane and is now fat and hearty,
bat the other died from being unable to
| effect the same purpose.
It is enough to make cold chills creep
up one’s back to ask and refleet on the
question: How long were these tiny, liv.
ing creatures imprisoned in their chalky
beds, and how many centuries before the
birth of Christ was it that they sported
on Britain's native heath?
ch soon
a nous
nee
English Boy Miners.
him, must be ono of constant anxiety,
ceremony. responsibility and isolation?
It is pitifal to think of the poor little
fellow playing with his childish toys in
blissful ignorance of his position aud all
that it entails, while strong men are coa-
spiring against the infant life, merely
breause it stands as the symbol of a form
of giywernment to which they are op-
posed. To Queen Christina the hearts
of all true women will turn with new
sympathy. Her intense devotion to the
little Alfonse has endeared her to very
many beyond the limits of her own coun-
try, snd it will be learned with general
regret that to her constant solicitude for
her son's health is added the keen anxiety
with which she must have been filled by
the news of the political danger by which
his life hus been threatened — Now York
Prose.
oo ——
FARIHION NOTES,
Mauve is reigning supreme.
Dressing with an eye to one ¢slor is
much more economionl, as can easily be
soon.
Wide baby sashes of moire or fane
ribbon will be very much worm wit
summer dresses,
Watch the bell skirts worn in the street.
Notjoe bow black they ate around the
bottom and remember our Parisian
sistars’ would laugh us to scorn.
Breakfask jackets are made
flowezed delaines and nainsook, and
“why are so many miners queer about
their lege?” asked one of their number
the other day. “It is because we have
| been racked and strained with overwork
{ when children,” he answered. “Take
my own case. | was set to work in the
pit hauling trolleys when I was a lad of
{ ten, anl fur these thirty-five years | have
spent my days underground. 1 have
worked under all kinds of conditions, bat,
| heavy or light, at best the miner's life
{is a hard one
| “There are nigh 50,000 lads under
fifteen years working in coal mines in
{ England. 1 have had to hew coal in
seams | foot 10 inches to 2 feet thick, ly.
ing for hours on my side, all but naked,
in some inches of water, and under a sort
of shower.-bath from the roof, ioking
and shoveling as best 1 could. That is
| not the sort of place to sit down and take
a lunch or dinner in, so we work on, ex.
cwpt for having a sup of cold tea or a bit
of bread and butter, till it is tine to leave
the pit. And I have been in other mines
so full of gas that the trail in the safety.
lamp left a blue flame behind as
{ moved the light, Dank pouting is not an
cagy job, sir.” 1 readily admitted that
it was not, and from my own limited ob.
servation of the miner's life in the pit 1
uoceptod the accuracy of this descrip.
tion
Ol Whale.
A whale recently captured In arctio
waters was found to have imbedded
in its side a that belonged to
» whaling v that had boen out of
service neatly half a cent