GAINS AND LOSSES. Come the hours when wo sit indbe shadow That falls like the droop of a wing er the nest that {3 naked and empty When the fledglings have | sing, ihon woo is the heart for the old time, Che time that was busy and gay, With the world aud its clamor about us, And we in the midat of the fray. in tho shadow, wa count up our losses; Wo creep whore wo marched with the boat. Oh! the ache when wo try to walk softly, The ary of our soul against rest. Aud we griave for the golden heads vanishod tar chuldren aro women and men, And wistful and doap 18 the yearning Yo have thom but children again. And we fra oor the fruitless endeavor, he labor that satistied nos, the shadow grows thicker ani longer, And the blur in our eves is a blot On the liagaring splendor of sanshing, Fiat taps with its lanees of light ys Aa aftar-glow radiant and bright. Ix: we sed nothing oles but our losses, We monraing there, fools and purblingd, With the orown and the Kingdom before us, {he conflict and turmoil behind? 1 the harvest lament for the sead time, Mra bud aaa blithe than the leaf? Lara joy when the plough breaks the fur- row, d nous when the haod binds the sheaf? * wings that are folded and drooping, spring wide in the evening's uplift; ‘sch out to tha slars that are showing {he skios in a silvery rifi. No day of our days is so hallowed is that when wo seo, just before, ba light in the house of our Father shine out through His ha Margarot B. Bangster 1¢ il su door, in Harper's Bazar. ™ hb] THE ESCAPE. BY WwW. The last palisade —over! and sng stiffened felt lissom once more with the life of twenty-five. Now for a sl wud cautious creep along the gully by «hich water came into the township; iter on he would bethink him of that rrow escape at the third doorway. hisht! a man's head in the road, and bent down once mu behind the rih-ridge and pushed his up ream with difficulty, showing as little { himself as possible. It was an offi ming into the town late, Very silently; the moon was me to one just escaping, but, prai ord, who r bold E men, the guard had not yet di wir loss, and the water was bea Never return thaoks The officer veined his hb on spe, and, turning in hissaddle, glan wk over the shadow-dappled land so that his eye, running up the shiny ribb stream, suddenly saw the black boring away against its current, Instincts of destructic ¢ rves of his hand; he drew a pistol tired, sending a splash of foho's head, while the el wriress-walls and lost th voodlands behind, A wat of Ban Jago; Jobn rose oul stream and ran to Spaniard spurre sword, eager for im when caughi DELAPLAINE SCULL. limba w Ww re wav er watches ov £4 pif {oo FIRE TROD along Wil Th Lh urawn ORS, owed spot il the noment John like rushed desperatoly at the eined up all at on i aig blade——vainly + &h doubled Pe shman ducked under th nen popped out, seized his f foot, antl with a sudden § the soldier sidew ays out aid on to his head, Ther © ked, while the victor widle, beat to carth and snatches sword, mounted the animal and stuck the weapon's point into its haunch: off he horse with a suort of pain, while the latter of pursuers arose behind, finally sinking away as the pine trees flew by Then, as the moon entered a thick eloud bank, they came fo an open prairie, and waward into darkuoess they went without jer shot Ban Jago. Ile went along the chasm and after an hour or two stood on the platform; bare rock and nothing else; he went on higher still, with hunger assert- ing itself, miles and more miles yet, The sun came out and sent yellow rays neross the pinnacles, casting purple shadows as queerly shaped as they, He climbed the highest of these rock-teeth and saw a vast upward plain, with an orange-tinted rim; here and there gray twists, where a slight valley came, and a few lonely stones—really great boulders of a prime val sea; he looked behind and only a faint green tinge on that horizon indi cated the grass country of San Jago, but he felt that even now they might be at the cleft in the rock-wall, those Span iards who treated captives so hardly, there was no course but forward Forward then he went, and the came thick and soft underfoot so that he had to use the long, Spanish blade to help him in walking. At became an emecumbrance snnd be last even and the knot had be 5 ne have cast it away, only tlc time to undo, so he Kept it out of in dolence and ebbing wi { came a harder surface which was i to the feet, and then he would | a space and try to hope i might { across this place; ‘nt wits restful sink for 2 then he W on | and a hot, gray sky overhead. The sun heated his wet rags: they { came burning moist; they blisterad i back, sore already from the pavment ! yesterday's forced labor in he had to turn round at | his back a relief by | front, At last the whole him, came | seemed treading | under a vermilion sky, and pains of thirst deadening the { hunger he lay down | first rock he reached. There { till no shadow was left, shrinking aw AY from the hot, encroaching ve till he { was at last covered by it his the fortress; and give being roasted fines swam place ther moments he whnste Ww hen aver # crimson wit ache of he stayed low it, then rose and piodded along through the | ing hours with bunt i old shoes, His wits senses felt that the whole land vast upward slope, a cont pressures back, it were, hi hetook. In the late after ht pulling tendency, a SCOrCly- tin his “ were all ablur, lay inual as to eact some step he that he then ¢ felt as ame a deli at ie ong nothing was not | He #33 #1 $2 oete bd 3 signtnead edness gether with the in every flog The s i cooled, the small Later 1 rid globe in aj pearcd, and wdow 1 reli sins went down, ple haze ; the stars ap illowed one on the Mar : he fi Looking behind, the sight of. the fear fully come through filled him with terror, only to fall again like a child, awhile his tortured frame could him no more; there he lay, deliriously mumbling about streams, and lnkes, and his bare head Hot with its rays, suffering, and hardly able to think at all. Indeed, he did not think, but merely followed up his instinct when he crawled up on to his feet and staggersd along, other, hanging his hands and head, moan ing in a dry, broken way, like a cut hel- | lows, yet still going on, And his i dim eye received a refreshing momentary then coolness—a pluat growing green at his feet! Down he sank upon it, seized it, chiewed the there drib of earth here Auother ugrht he raised vers little there, eve: dusty leaves; and his | lets bit of green of h hea away the platean on broke off sheer, le i desert, for down there, i his heavy A: which tood had ¢ he rosso were Hains, and bevond green palms, and a the blue Pacific! rnver with irids bony, cracked claws and gurgled trinmph. He had chented tl { and the Thirst Lands; hurrah! And there were more pl 10 Spans plants nearer the i ti ed | blade fall to them he hastened, with the still draggin ol &i prone on a little from his wrist, to group of them, aud ton 1 huge pull adder lying mimost | ble along ax esrth.grove, nstantly the i beast drew back its head ane then fled. A rage filled him; he i in both shaking hands, brought at the marked missed it, ward, and the steel bent and broke under him as the enemy away. But | after it strength or invisi on the bare leg: i ed the sword ! it down feil for back, it i i 1 he panted with twisted vor revenge; caught it 3 it { fs larore stone HR stone § | : tone, pu stone « i i till a stupor came over him ith his d t} border ae eatrover the sleep of the 3 aed i . . Palm Const, as the their tongu Nuch + Pwenty-two Billlons Insuragee, gaa EA) fuNy iY) Whether or the fertility Bre corr Was nor has been Ch wed This condition of Mis | term of year creasing through a 1 3 LF nerensing rates and de with » agency involving agents, brokers, and middicmen of high and low degree, have each contributed numer Causes, ¢n together Ey#tem COMMIRsIons, Several miles; the horee began to breathe bard and sob, then settled into a slow trot. More miles. The trot became a walk, and the walk more difficult; more miles vet, ve ip gruy-~there. were low hills and shallow ravines, then came rocks, and ledges, wad cliffs; the gray speedily thinned, the horse stopped at a cll wall, for un opceaing: there was none. raised his hands, licked a finger of the cleanest, thought he fell a faint fresh. ness on the left side of it, and so turned in that direction. After some hundred rards he came to a crack in the wall; he pushed into it. There was hardly room scent, and the wearied creature he rode stumbled aod threw him iato a pool. of water, The shock of the plunge brought Lim together again. He struggled beneath the water, came up at last, half choked, wad pulled himself with the sword still "hanging from his wrist. Looking for the horse, he saw uothing but a vieleut commotion on the water surface, which presently cessed; a few air bubbles fame to the top and iwoke, that was all; his rescuer had ended ita life in the depths from which be had escaped. Then ho sat for a space and thought; he could not stay there, they would track iim to the rock wall and cleft; was there another way to the other side! The «old, shut-in lake was quite still now, the cleft by which he had come in was dimly visible across the dark level; he stood up and looked behind him; the cleft continued there like a narrow road upward, Then he knew that he had come to the on source of the stream i th It he in the dark, iH moonrise; them soy 4 "os his body against was of no use going « lay ther kept him from feeling the hardness of it At last he could bear | rose and ran on, then presently against ope of the and | stunned, as he had fallen i the sand tracks. Still tho man was { beaten. When he had recovered wiped his heavy coves with of his hand and felt his talong through that rocky ttapping his sword on each i and following the passages, holding on | to his star with all the buildog instinct of his race. At last the moon came out | and lit the plain, showing it mounting | up and up in a long, slow slope till the aye lost it in darkness, Lut covered so far with stones, stones, stones, like the | graveyard of the whole haman race, So | he went on, rattling his tongue aboot in | iris arid mouth, wondering why he did i not lie down snd die at once, why he | did not at once’ full down on his blade { and end his portion of life, yet persever. ing all the time, no uaworthy man of his countryside and yoeman name. He had no visions now, in the night; they were reserved for the treacherons day, when the guiding stars should be hidden, So through the long hours he travelled, and at last shuffled out into places where the stones, that dreadful maltitude all exactly alike, stood in groups only. The moon aped on her course, and the ground underfoot sent a ring from his steel-staff «it was rock. Then the stones ceased altogether and a series of low ridges came; they taxed his shaky legs and arms to their full, low though they were, so that he lay downto rest on bone fu he got upon it. Then he came to the long ridge, highest of all this huge inclined land, and saw its edge winding away to right, to left, for miles | in the moonlight, nnd the rock floor t no longer, but stones fell, not way | maze, ‘hat passed mystoriously Wlleground, Where the to i an et po ps slopiog downward far below for a the underwriters complain, How They Strike In China. There is an impression in Amesica that in China, My ex perience is quite to the contrary, says a in the Engineering Magazine, developed fully is the art of striking. Whenever they want anvthing they i did not appreciate at first the importance one came round they not only struck, but two hundred of them came up and mobbed my house, No violence was at- tempted, but the interchange of vigws was like the chattering of ten thousand monkeys. 1 yielded. The miners would strike if they did not like their shift boss, strike if they had a bad dinner in the company kitchen, strike for any reasons Once when mine, mill and far: nace were in full blagt the miners all struck for some insigniticant caunse, Tired of expostulation, I sent for the head men and told them gravely that 1 had no objection to the strike if the men wished it, but that the mill and furnace could not stop. They had to go right on, and it was very costly to keep them at work ‘without ore, 1 said that I did not think it was right to make the com. pany pay the loss, and that I should fine ihe workmen three days’ pay for every day they were off duty. There was a reat hubbub., The miners came to know f what the head man told them was true, They went to work the next day, and striking was free in that mine ever after, bur each man paid for his own fun. In the end, however, they devised a more poten mode of warfare, They went in- the mine with delightful Inrity. They put in their time, but d fot pit out their ore, and our product fell seventy-five per cent, : pires at His Home in Boston. Heart Failure Put: an End to a Life of Honor and Usefulness. Hshop Phillips Frocks dled at { devce, 230 Clear nn on treet, Boston, i o'clock A. M., of hear! allure, nt brought on LL by un fit of cougting. The deuth was entiro- ly unexpected. He was taken | bat nothing s*r.ous showed itself, A. Beach | therstic i il iy with sore throat Dr. H, discovered diph- Thurs hi« yhveician, sidered no consulta. H. Fiz, systome, and con tion avis ble, ani called in Dr. BE Atl this time no hing » rious was | aud Dr, Fitz remains l cooly a Dr. Beach About 6:30 J'clo with a coughing shor 110. wus with hin the euatire night, seiz d pelt wh cb lasted (cr a few $. Dr. caused {rom heart ‘# ths patient was moments and his heart ceased 10 bea Beach said that death was » ithe rin, IN tis d failure and uct wip diphthers membrane was discover Uy & superficia examination, Bishop Brooks preiched his 'ast sermon as the Churca of the Good Bhepberd on ortes street, last Tuesd vy. Toe at thw Bishop's nouse was one of gri f ard deson- tion. With u the house a few of the B.swop's most intimate £ lod, who seemnied Lardly 0 realize the were gathered groups ws the diff reat rooms, The spiric rast pervaded the ssemblage was one of cimplets and overs helmiog sorrow, they did pot comprobend the fact that Bishop Brooks was dead, nod againand again as.ed: “Is the Bishop really dead?’ Soat their beloved pesior and friend had { left hem forever seeiiod 10 them too awful, and they were unib ¢ 10 grasp the ance of hii deat. PC BG 1g tide J0a8, in on— The Rizlit Rar, Phill LL.D, was born mn Bs ou 1885, He graduated at Harvard College the Ula of 10056, took the divinity cour.e the Eplwopel Theological S:munary Alexauvdria, Va. snd entered the ministry as assistant to Dr. HW, McVicker, in Plula- welph a, Wh on bot 20 vears old be succesded the Rev. Dr. Viut nes rector of Holy Tronity Churen, New York In ING Lis tecame Forte tor of Holy Trini.yv in Bs ton. He. an clecdon as assntant Beh p of Pennsyl- vania in 1556 Bish wp Brooks received thedsgreacf D D i from U. fon College in 1570; H.rva d Ozford 1555 member « ciety und emy. He was deputy to the Gener: from Massachusetts irom 150 of the 8 ana for many t the M December | i + 2 i a ne eclined 1877; and coumba 1857, and wis a i the Massachuse ts H stor eal = a fellow®of the American Ac wi i Conven 3 and meanbe yo ng committe { member of ion st «d I} Ho wa ect fron Council He wy Ji Bera in by Bistio;s Willams, of Cosnsct of Khoi Is'ani: Wh pple, IMtiejoho, of Long Isan.; | Niles, of New Hamps! vans tter, of Ne VOoiuines « oston, and as Yu Hoy 3 nary oi Fotler, nos de p Aoenrs Lhe We ik vi en yew ug offers ay wea Bish the key understand and nan ifs The work of P never tounded by Hw» chin oreacher Le exe ’ the Fy iwcopal t eRe Te differ in ret ( Zone « opi t the aniverss) Bishop Brooke le a proxit impressi g itself marve When he entered von ¥ Trinity Church be found his 6 sue of the most conservative and a parish & of Ame ea hrough tis {rinity Chu ch h « for years teen no ts marked couriesy ard i ty. [1] geberou FEOPLE AND EVENTS. Hammzsr Brecuen Srowr's mind con tindés to slowly fail, Bhé is 8... One of her divertions is the singing of old sougs Ly her sinier, iy Boston photographers are forbidden to | work on sundays any more. The city has #0 orde. oy, and the chisel of police has not ¢ Bed the photographers that ve will entorce the or. er. Tuis action is seem ingiy the out. come of a gen Tul moveront ou the part of citizens of Boston, who bave majo many outpinints concerning the matter, Miss Frongxce Bascos, who will take the tive of “Pu, D." cext Juns from Juhos Hopkins University, will be toe Hirst woman | to receive such au vonor from that lostitu- | tion. She has been studying in the geolog- | deal depariment in Baitanore 10r two years, and had been similarly eugaged for three more in the University of Wisconsin, { Tux Hopkins mansion on Nob Hill, San | Francisco, Usl., transferrsa to the State Udi Poyersity regents in (resi lof an art scoool and | Balery of paitticgs. Edward VF. Scar es, a who makes the gH als) guarnntees $5 00 i tov five years tusard the expose of Lue i school I sufficient in. erest be shown by { others he has prodiises Wo crease Lue gil, | the Houpsins Castipy, as it is call d, is ute oi he most conspi uous buildings in the ty, and it can Le easily 8.bared ww sult ibs pew | Lees, Wary Father Molin zor, the famous faith. cure physician, ded so few months ago at Troy Hill, never Pitts urg, it was rumored thas bs wad acquired wealth amouniiug 10 mili ne, Helatives froin a wstance bave recentiy Leen vi iting hs late howe 10 secure sheir supposed inheruance, Bat it bs now alleged toat there is very libio property in exulence ng 10 bis estate, and that nlmost notalog «il be leit when lus dects are paid, ‘Abe church ot whicn he was pas. tor wil surrender all bis possessions except corimin re.des testitying 10 wi aculous cares, but the courts will be sso to set sside £3,000 for a suitable monument to wim, Tux beaviet income tax ever levisd by a civiuzed government wa. tha. § sd upoa op. of the United States no 1564, wien, perhaps for the fir time in human hatory, that wen might have A. T. Stewart's inoue tax {a one wi 0, hing 6 per cent. of his Dues i ot Yorg wuo, renily ov yonr was i | | JUSTICE LAMAR, tlhim ¥1veniE Friend in Macon, Ga, JL GEC. Lavan tr Uuintug Clneinnatus Tamar died at at A clock a few CYEn ne The deat was =u der 1 in the extrem, for althouzh he had been siting for time, Just Lamar appearad to be health Cre gradual v ga ning He went from Washi to Maron about vf Deen VEILING ZL at tae Vie, a min belor am #1 Vine rh of tha , alteirnonn at abt 3 vg gar took h iatendin g i , buat by fi irient, | ewellyn whom he rae turned 1o the slit ¢ AL that time, and during ail the afternoon be was in god and at dinner G:3) Ww evaniaz good anpetite, Dr, ues about 8 o'clock, and Beige d WAS and died at 12 Lhe ool vareaat, & met al the doo wills wi Foon, gprity, inn § he seemed to bave a Lieweliyn leit the i ites later the Justics @ beart, our menti us Quintos Cine naatas orn in Pawmam County, Ge, Beplember |, 142% He was graduated from the KE nory ¢ in Georgia in 1945, and was adanitte | i Macon in In 1549 be held nce i ¢ Bel professor mathe the University of Missassippi, He ed to wigia Legislature in and 1854, hey he returned ppl, sould in was elects to Cons fe was re 2. and re- to take hig Secession tion his La 3 + the mienderaie l.imar was ' 4 Loti ” to the bag he, the 1 of mnt mn was elect FS Mies gros signed to 1855 wetted it seat in Lhe State, Later Army ry »} > » Lipsteenih He resigned in {he and app srt bepch in 1° sia Lime Hoit, wi He Jow i 2 the Hous ia Ka eve and a pildren. 8 Son Aan SW IArrie I SOCieLY i, and 1K WORK A ALL the haild ng trades in Chicsgo demand increased pay on th lat of aod will also ins st that only u sha | be omy loyed Oxe th ussn actor OPPTratlives ars « of wor« and the genet bw Muncie, It uferi the Lake Erie sw itchinen’s sari Ine Ohio Zanes June, i891, tue a Ammsigamated BRON en, I —, ND WORKERS. BO iness intrests « dina, g Locauss Are " iron and Steel Company's mori . which had been © sy agers refusi pOfe, s.arted a. a a! 0G 10 » = 1 will he aon THE coal miners in the King m ne at Como, Colorado. where the explosion occurred iad woek, struck » hen work was rosumed be Aus, as tuey cual med, 190 mat ¥ nell Wale pin od in 8 chamber, making it dangerous 10 work, A pesrarci from Kokomo, Indiana says that 700 men are out at the Uiamo d Piste {; ass works The men in the grinding and po.asaing ba 1s were or lered to com dete Deuches each in 10 sours nstaa i wos previously the rue, and their rofosal bas caused a groeral shut-down of the mils Gexeaal 3 perintendent Hill, of the Lake Erie spd We tora Rallroad, appezrs inte United 8: .te% Lou t at laganap. lis, and tiled a petition agaiost the Muncie s rikers snd asked 10r A restraining oruer 10 prevent thm from inte fering in any way, or in any way moisting the agents © the company. up toy Pw order Skves thousand shop men on thy Union bh urs on Sa uray, officinis sv, is male n cessary LY the goa- eral unsstidactory coudit.on of business on ths main dee and branches, the Hig Four and the othe als oi the sult on the Wabash road, amounts to $34,000 a year. increase Ww Calvined, WORLD'S FAIR. Mei ———— Tix Kentucky Lgisiature has passed the Tug Internationat Union of Brickiayers Tur lilnois Senate 1 a resolution Fair Sunday Closing Law by & vole of 3 to 19, Tun Senate of Indiana, by 7. instrucwed its Keprosentatives in Congress Fair, Tue United States stosmnshi tion srrived at Fauch dea Hbe is on her way to wis country with art works from France, Italy and Spain, 10 bs exhibited at the Woria's Far, Dmecron Gexkral Davis bas a sta went bowing that of §642, 512 jest of exhibit space in he World's only 214,470 (eot remain, 0 be eX iuitors. Forelg Constella Istand, “ The Aretie Highlanders, The Arctic Highianders are, from their enviroement, a nomadic race. They; rarely have their summer abiding place where their winter settiements are, snd! the dwellings for the two seasons sre ofj entirely different character. Their winter buts, or igloor, ar of two kinds of con- struction. Tame | temporary use while traveling are built of ssow or jee. Those for permanent use sre located where the fierce porthinest winds are tempered by great cliffs, and are buiit of stone: an entrance to each is bad through # lcng, low tuenel, and Loth are covered by turf. The iotefiors are about six {eet square and Qugh, and lined with sitins, with the fur out ward, One-half the interior is taken up by a platiorm on which the family sleep znd sit, and the other Lait is used asa receptacie for all kinds of fiith and refuse. In these con. stricted quarters five, six aud somehmes in a terrific heat and enjoy them- selves during arctic might, which lasts from week in No- vember to the middle of February. This enjoyment cop:ists in eating, sleeping and visiting. As soon as the spring thaws begin, the roofs of the stone igloos are taken off to allow the elements cleanse the inter iors, and the or cupants betake thenselves to tupics, or skin tents, set up perhaps miles from their winter habitations, Thess tupics are made of sealskin with the fur all scraped off, and ali are made exactly slike, asd of the same number of pieces. The interiors are fitted up the same as theigloos and are nearly a8 filthy. Indeed, filth snd vermin seem A nec EN accompaniment of the Eskimos, Water for washing purposes they detest with great bheartivess. I belive a cat could be persuaded to submit to a wash- ing wore readily than an Arctic High lander. Only a bribe of uscommon value will tempt one to undertake a bath, | tried the experiment on a woman at “Red CHifl House,” Mr. DPeary’s winter quarters on ome occasion, aod it was only when I offered a thimble that the protesting snd almost tearful creaturs consented. Crawlisg slowly to a near by stream she dipped one hand is the water and hurriedly rubbed it on her face {rom her eves to her chin, and thea sorambied back to 1 house as fast as her feet could carry her, where she wiped the objectionable liquid off on a towel belonging to one Mr. Peary's companions, and demanded her reward, Her face looked a little brighter, but the accumulated dirt of ill remained behind her s.— New York In- ent. memset snes At Minorca the fisherman simply dives to a depth of seventy feet with a weight in one hand to carry him down. With the other hand 1} up as many pearl oysters as he can carry and brings the boat, entific ar more Eskimos sweiter from a small oil lamp, the long the first in ne AA € od rad Me DICKS them up to the . WHEREVER the gospel is faithfully wreached, going to be $ somebody is 0% ———— 2 \I ETE Mrs. Ogden Snyder Albany, N. Y ‘‘ | Owe May Life to Hood's ey Sarsaparilla ‘ Warde are powerless 1o express the gratl. tnde | feel toward Hood's Sarsaparilia, for un. der God, 1 feed and know that to this medicine * owe my lire, Twelve years ago | began to los! followed hy nausea at ihe stomach, and ater with swellings of the frambn, acoom- panied by severe pain. This gra ually grew worse until three jesrs ago. Physicians told me the (ronble wes Caused by a Tumor For several months | had been unable to retain any food of a solid nature. | was greatly emaciated, bal freounent hemorrhages, and was satisfied the doctors wers right in say- ing my & fo was nearly seer. One dara friend saggested that | try Hood's Sar aparillag 1 did mo, and for Sor 4 days | was sicker than ever, but 1 kept on and gradually began to feel better. i Began to Feel Hungry Could. after a time, retain solid food, increased in weight, the saffron hue left my skin, the Moating subsided, and 1 felt better all over. For the pat two years my health has been Hood's Cures quite god, and 1 have been able al: the time i do The housework for my family.” Mas O6- pes SxypEe, No. 10 Judson S56. Athan, Xe Y. “Hood's Pills are the best afterdinwor Pills, a whet Alpestion. ones he Ter a ue at la remedy which, shoutto per oped npon Child-birth,
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