———————————— —— T'was more than a hundred yoars ago And Boston town was young, vou know, In that far day, and what we call The “Csmmon"” now, was then the “Mall” A fine old-fashioned name that meant A public groan where people went To roam at will or play a game With “mall,” or mallet, much the same is now they play with bat and ball. wwas hore, then, on the Bos:on Mall, Mors than a hundred yoars ago, There was the prot lost sight and show has aay cvos had evers en, Upon the lovely level green F. r in tho cool and loaly shade That elm and oak tree branches made, A 1it8l: flock of smiling girls, Wi bh dimpling cheeks And modest ca Sat spinning, = An hour or more The busy workers held their place, And eager crowds ¢ With some to wonder, soma to praise, snd teoth of poarls, y and gown and frill, ing with a will, with girlish grace, up to gaze, Whilo newer comers bent to say As you p-rhaps may say to-day Who read this page “Ob, tell us why Aud wherefore now these spinners ply Their basy wheels in sight of all Upon the open publ A curi & prety scene, But tell us what the It means, it means, that long ago, i ¥ ¥ J fall? i show i show doth mean? When Boston town was young, Its conn From d y to day, you Know, i illors and rule s sought | with praverfal thought, To serve the interests of the town Thoy held beneath the British « And so one day, amidst tl And well-l A scheme aros: The Irish weavers Into the t And ero the scheme A message wont a To E iu's shore, In Boston harbor ¢ A little group, a lit Wh » jovially siettle Within the pie To teach the f To spin # Bat fane Thee When, 14 Came “ *Twas And carrie For poorer fol Then smiling With nev But, Aud thus And rich ane Across the The Irish w And su That by and id schemes of ent to bring th knew by wn of Doston bav. ross the = and pre TAR WwW 8lill pe Or rick Wa:hom And thon and &¢ The spinnin Became thn f And rag That thet And all the That on Theso = A LAY FIGURE. It was a ‘pris emy Like all was thronged room, catalogues, whitecaps. In the cast r the 1 the b h rested on a pai of di slovenly det duced seemed as i one's fingers In front of of men and Strong. Probably no w Girty wat with Lol a gr Katherine coup woman oman of thirty ever had received more offers of marriage than Katherine Strong. She lived, with her father, in the family mansion gn Wash ington Square. She was Known to vich—very rich. There w something so curiously her that the most daring fortune hunter made his proposal Ly letter. It seemed impossible to speak of love to Katherine Strong. No man had ever dreamed of it much less attempted it, “* How does this sample strike vou, Mis young fellow, » tache. Katherine moved nearer the painting and gazed at it in silence. She was plain, masculine in her ugliness; each gesture be as repellant about of realism Strong!" asked one ii ffs hewn from a block of granite he is he?" Two or three were ready to answer the question, “Manton Howard, him? town; Haven't vou apon his truthfulness, lis pictures are in this style; realism, yon know, He'd rather paint a mud-puddle than a lily, and he calls it being true to Na ture. I'll look him up, if you'd like to meet him, Shall 117. “Yes,” said Miss Strong, laconically, She was a woman of few words, The purty moved down the room. Not many of the other pictures were interest. ing. Katherine glanced at a few, and then signified her intention of going home, Several cavaliers darted off 10 find her carringe. The one unfortunate left to entertain the beiress felt his cour. ooze from every pore. To his delight oton Howard appeared a few steps from them, “Ah! there is the great artist, Miss Btrong,” he whispered, hurriedly. “I'll nt him now, if you wish. Jioward, boy, I'm glad to see you! Miss Btrong-—my friend, Mr. Howard. We've been raving about your picture, old man, Great thing, isn't {ti “Do you think so?” asked Howard, bowing to Miss Strong. The little man who had introduced them disappeared. “Not at all,” answered Katharine, coolly, “It interested me because it Las an idea and is well painted. No one would think it great.” “In that you are mistaken artist, and 1 think it great.” There was a dead pause, After a dozen years’ experience as sn heiress Katharine had formed the habit ot speaking, but occasionally, and of never talking, Young men geuzrally talked to her. Howard was puzzled. He prided himself upon reading character, upon having no illusions, ho enthusiasts, act, am the upor: innumerable qualities. He woman-hater, and cared nothing money, If the choice had rested him he would have met Strong. differently as with never would have s00n as possible, Now it if Katherine had closed it. looking at him, no signs of It was the coldest {ace Even the eves, deep he seemed as she stood life in her face, he had ever seen. set and small, had not the They amounted to and hair, This scrutiny light noth how Kathe of color. were the the were dark. with lash 8 evebrows ETAY ing. aver, rine bore complete i | ! i | or us least until her carri ca And Howard did gaze at her. Something lay behind that extraording rily inexpressive face. **Miss Strong," he said, abruptly, ‘‘y given me an idea We artists can afford to throw such a gift, you sit for me?” chose 11.01 £1 away ’ ' moved slowly Katherine loor. “Po you carry your realism to that Howard 1” she asked. had thought her cold: now she was icy. “I am cousidered blunt, of time is wasted in conventional I don't i wait until ave known vou » | asl a to sit for me? 1 eX poe L morn ca would be 1 stuaio to-morrow ered Katherine; ‘this week Next Monday will appoint tNsW occupied you upon me the 5 g13it ernoon.’ Her carr valier outrunning wstened to off ier holds 8 muscle, string of nonse: Now th ¢ she ever Inughed amusedly, did seem » ridicul OUR expr ‘You're an extraordinary fellow,” said his friend: “for downright ugliness Miss Strong has no equal; but do you think she will like one of your realistic studies? You don’t know human nature, A plain : § § : : uppermost in my mind. I stake my repu it. 1didn't know | eouid get up so much enthusiasm over anything.” Howard was in a predicament when he Katherine. For some reason could not settle down to to }y abolishing her individuality from his mind, he bad made great strides Now that he had be again, he could do Katherine should make it impossible her gun to notice “Pshiaw!” he exclaimed, throwing “Miss Strong, use, my mind is occupied with some thing else, and perhaps you'll be glad of a rest to-day.” Katherine rose composedly, “Just as you please, Mr. Howanl; good morning.” “Oh! I don't mean to hurry younway,"” cried Howard, “Your carriage is gone, atid you may as well wait for it as usual, I want to talk with you. 1 suppose 1 have your permission to send this picture to the Academy in the spring “OI course; if you wish it." Kather- ine went over to easel, ‘It is better than your other work; is it not? How many more sittings will you need?” “It is not like my other work,” said Howarl, “You know my smbition is to pull down ideals. Truth is my hobby, and truth, io art, is realism. But I don't pant to bore you Mi a iatture on art, ou cave for painting, Miss Strong?” “Yes; some painting. 1 think your portrait of me good.” Jt ia good, and it interests me more than anything I have done, You are an intellectual stimulant to me. Love is one of the ideals I consider absurd, I make no pretense of offering it to you, but 1 do offer you wy respect and ask you to be my wife. There is no reason why our lives shod i not be much more useful together than apart. Don’t you agree with met” Katherine's face was impenctrable. SYes, Mr. Howard, it would be n most sensible nerangement. 1 value truth, and beliove you to be above marrying for money. Those two qualities I have not yet seen combined in one man, 1should like to lead a useful life. As you say wa may accomplishthat together, 1 will undertake it with you.” Her manner surpassed. his in business i There was no fem of Ix like coldness, Howard was satisfied, “Katherine,” said he, with some he tation-—he was not a shy man, but it address Miss Strong by - Katherine, you are { for the hurry our wed- save an order I must fill before the month: after that 1 shall to pose incessantly, and our much time woinnn, her Christinng name Runnose : . sake of the picture, we want vO being murried will and trouble *‘For the sake of the picture,” repeat slowly: *'ves, for the sal ) ) best, mth. davs passed Hore quick w A i save int it would be marry you by the end of the me H The next Mr. fFRIDUW 13 { i Howard had expected, ame the wedding wded church, n, and all we man and s conventional recep 18 Over, He and Kathe wife were $ 4 t was th Howard had been painting ste wd} i d now, ti h n he surveved his work, weary but whotl itisfied, “I want to know wi Katherine ho Spoke, x 3 1 this 1s tog ee, broken come Katherine's lips? “Katherine! What do you mean?” she had risen and h ind passionate, could . : irom ive Wi come The suppressed passion of I A on nighty flood, had bro} barriers between into i into a len and humanit woman on Katherin. rt Litt § id me plainly th IK It an wens have ire, to love me: and then | have i them all Ove me: you thought 3 mired the face hideous, Do not think J dec I know you it you prefer hideousness to beauty ; weak enough to Ix saw something look again more in me testifies to it Manton, what of vou “You have lived on the surface Your nature as an ignorant man ad ive because but | gratified that yon Now There the picture for myself; admire $e in my ugliness, at vour is than picture ue liness: So much of lives on the Lil forces, the wonderful secrets You your life, you pleased. You have dug enough for your trivial daily waots, Had von dug for 1 love vou!’ The blood rushed Howard's face: He did in Katherine faltered, and then faced him “Manton, 1 ean be of vou can love me, Hee Lo you, I too have been weak me, To-day I think differently, You must understand me when I say 1 can not live like this; I must leave you, I will go back to my father's house, 1 have shown you my heart, and [ see | have touched yours. Do not pity me. - I have enough strength left to spurn your pity; but if ever you can love me and need me, if ever your soul strains, yearns, craves for me as mine does for you, then recognize that feeling as love. You have been selfish in your life; you may have been loved, but you never have felt love, I have been selfish also, in my way, but no one has cver loved me; no one has ever told me how to love. God put it into my soul; Nature taught me what he meant.” Her soul was in her eyes, in her face, in her voice, as she spoke. Her words, like molten lava, had fallen dro hy dro, burning, destroying, the ror ity her ons nature. In had ad his, and out of the of his wasted years Aw arise the promise of a nobler future. But Katherine? He must have Katherine, He could pot lose her, He had just found her. Now he understood the in- terest she had excited in him fr beginning, Now he knew why glance could thrill him, why he not bear to have her go. A mist before his Katherine move He sprang to his feet, held her. “Katherine,” he [Anni swam CVes, the toward door ile Re Flint, in Independ 3 "we 0Ve You. ent HUNTING WITH BLOW GUNS, Savages Who Use These Queer Weapons With Polsoned Arrows. The blow pipe & Guiana for shooting poisoned arrow wonderful indeed. climate of this equatorial region both very hot and y moist, produ in veretation of stomishine luxur The forests are commonly waler for ntly the animal thit the used by the saray Weapons be ankle mile, found Mao i deen in x Tila and ther are ¢ killing thes tree 1kevs Cer } rument, Jti y peculiar kind of reed or twelve {i veight is only a pound a rifle, wid oo DRck sight, the latte arro organized sombat superstition of all stilions « with thirteen sitting at onnected per- sons, thirteen persons table, it started with thir together at din ner every mon: h for three months before of them died. The living oruginal thirteen is over oldest numbers 1.300 members times each year, the annual dinner being Through their instrumentality, day of the week, and thus the onus has been taken from the once considered un- lucky day. -<{ New York Times. To Start a Saall-Farm. The raising of snails for food purposes is ao industry that may be nro into Wisconsin in the near future, and the snail-farm that may be established is undoubtedly the first one to be located on American soil. Captain Pinas Dreher, of Milwaukee, has just imported an invoice of 5,000 of this variety directly from Hamburg, Germany, and it is he who is largely in- terested in the plan to establish a snail. farm at Muskego Lake, near Waukesha, A part of the invoice of snails will be kept to be planted on the farm as an ex. periment. Captain Dreher bas inter. ested several others in the deal and they jutend to give the farm a fair trial, i sn ity for ford h gulike the nary variety, being mus Ie is imported in the shell in which it has hermetically sealed itself, The shell is over an inch in diameter. The present im tion is the first into Milwaukee yen sithouith Captain Dreher has im them in jy years and served them at special feasts, —| Milwau. kee Journal, HOTES AND COMMENTS. As is to bv expected at this season of the year, many reports of losses by fire are coming to hand, Some of these losses are from the nature of the case, inevita ble, but by far the greater proportion of of common prudence. A later paper grives an account of the burning of a tery about the origin of the fire. It was person at present unknown, This party was to heedless to pick it up. A horse stepped on this match, ignited it, and in jess time than it takes to write about it the stable in flames, With slight variations nearly every prominent paper has a similar story to tell, Heavy financial i is involved and in many of the cases vy Ok animals are fearfully tortured, sacrificed, Was dome times buman lives are These seem like severe naltics } t} but of laws = hile I man cannot he only way to prevent their to avoid all es themselves violation areful s where the fir sired. of the steamers plying between and this tos be c¢ country briz Bate ve vy # onsignment & of and linnets y riven by a « i Have ococurreaq inward bound, a Inrge num Noven iber, iv the officers of f vy resin iTot rermany vith Lhe Qistress, $ W help is urgently i further il iby tht people. ians, now that they have a government, have decided that they want a new capital. And, says the Argosy, they have gone about getting one in quite business-like fashion. Noone of the other cities of the republic suit them, so they propose to found and build one to order, A special commission has been appointed, consisting of five civil engineers, two astronomers, a naturalist, and an expert in hygiene. They hope to find a site that will possess such a com- bination of advantages that there will be nothing to hinder the new city’s becom. fag the metropolis of South America. The result of this novel way of securing a capital for a country will be watched i with int¢rest. The summary manner in | which the Brazilians have set about the matter reminds one of town building in the mining regions of the far West, Tue financial value of technical train. | ing in the United States is illustrated by the fact that engineer officers of the navy frequently resign their commissions to accept profitable employment with large manufacturing concerns. A man armed with the training snd technical education of a naval engineer can command in civil life u salary from two to five times as | grect as his pay in the navy. Engineers | must serve for the greater part of their { lives for leas than $5,000 a year, snd the number to pass $6,000 must be exceed. ingly small, The plums that await such men in civil life are of a sort to prove a serious temptation to all who feel the necessity of a large income, and it is only the ease and dignity of a naval life that keep skilled engineers in the service, Tue Rev. Father Callaghan of the Mission of Our Lady of the ry, New York, has received a novel request from Hotel Reoper Dineen of Huron, South Dakota, through Father Browa of St, Vincent's Cutch,, at Springad, South Dakota., Mr, Dineen said he and nei bors wanted a car load of marris, Irish girls shipped to Huron, Mr. Dineen said husbands were as abundant as blackberries in July, and land could be bad for the asking in South Dakota. who were not anxious to marey at once could get steady employment and wd 03 - good wages for an indefinite period. . & a a 1 SAN Engulfed In a Glacler. By the friction of the lowermost por- | together with the rise in temperature in’ the milder belt below the snow lice, These caverns bave been explored at the immense risk J of the lives of the explorers, because the weight of the superincumbeut may cause the collapse of the walls at any moment. In the year 1561 a couple on their bridal tour visited the Mer de Glace, and feel- ing, no doubt, that nothing iu nature could interrupt such happiness as theirs, ventured into ome of these caverns. They had barely entered the first arch, the husband supporting the young wife over the slippery surface of the floor, when there was a dull roar, a flash of broken ice-particles in the motning sus, sud the poor lovers were entombed. Their bodies, clasped in each others arms, were found some two years later, at the foot of the glacier, in a perlect state of preservation. The young wife's face was lifted toward the bended face of ber husband, with a touching expres- sion of trust in his courage and strength to save her from the impending doom. Even the rough guides shed tears as they beheld this solemnly beautiful picture in death, —Demorest’s Magazine, crcl A——————— An Important Difference. whe they are not affect. 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