TRE DEAD ¢XILD, nd Bleep on, dear, now, The last sleep and the best And on thy “wow And on thy guiet breast Violets 1 throw! Thy little life Was mine a little while; No fears were rife, To trouble thy brief smil Wish stress or strife. Lie still and be For evermore a child! Not grudgingly, Whom lita has pot defiled, I render thee! Slumber so deep I would not rashly wako, I hardly weep; Fain only for thy sake To share thy sleep, Yea! to be dead Dead here with thee to-day: When all is said, "TI'ware good by thee to lay My weary head. That i+ the best: Ah, child, sotired of play, I stand confest; I, too, would come thy way And fain would rest. ~[Ernest Dowson, in Atalanta, fl RACE WITH DEATH. BY RICHARD ASHR-KING, “That is not true—not true at all, I ve you no encouragement,” cried Shitty, hotly. “I couldn't have given you any, because I'm engaged.” ‘Engaged! What! To that engineer fellow?” ** That is no concern of yours. i i i caged wild beast. He stop opposite the express engine, his nostrils distended, his lips parted, his teeth clinched, the nails of his hands buried in their palms, while his eyes glared with the lurid light of madness. He was brought a little to himself by being forced to step aside to allow the stoker to get off his engine in order to follow the driver into the re. freshment bar for a drink. This called Bastable's attention to the circumstance that the engine was momentarily de- serted, “By George!—that'll do it!” he al. most shouted, and without looking round he jumped on the engine, opened the regulator to the full, and as she bounded forward leaped off at the other side. Arthur Munro had quitted the car- riage to look after the luggage, and the only soul in the runaway train was poor Milly. Munro had not left the train a minute when loud shouts of alarm ar- rested him. “What is it? What's the matter?” he asked, facing round, with a horrible sus. picion that Bastable had attacked Milly. *T* London express has run away!" cried a porter. “Good Heavens! Bingham train at another. And Milly was alone in the train! Yet did not Murno lose his presence of mind. Flying to the end of the platform, he jumped upon the engine of the local, and without & word to driver or stoker seized the regulator. Before he could open it, the driver stopped him. ‘‘Hold on, sir—hold on! the train!” In a minute Bill had leaped down, un. hooked the engine from the train, and was back again on the engive-plate just as she began to glide out of the station. “Express!” shouted the driver, point. ing to the runaway. ‘‘Couldn’t catch ber up wi’ a load like that on,” chucking his thumb behind toward the train they had been detached from. But they lost nearly as much time by the stoppage as they gained by the light She'll be into the Liftord!" cried Bill, unhook question me about it, or to—to insult me, 1 “How far to Lifford 1” shouted Munro saved by her pride from breaking down into tears—for the young cub, who was intoxicated, had just kissed her. Her father, for his father's sake, had ! i ! i i “Six miles.” “My wife—my wife!” blank despair. Wrenching the shovel from the stoker, he moaned, in one. lonely lane where she expected her flance, to snatch a kiss. “You're an arrant little flirt, and have sudden savageness. Then seizing her in | times before she found breath to scream. Hardly had she uttered the scream be- fore her assailant was gripped by the i blows fell like rain on all parts of the head, face, and body. The young en- gineer laid his blows on with such fierce force that Bastable's face streamed with blood, while his body was a mass of bruises before Milly could hold her lov- er's arm. He then flung the fellow to the ground, a little ashamed of the vio- dence of his assault upon a man physi- cally so much his iaferior. He had walked many steps away with Milly be- posture at the moment that Milly was ovking round anxiously in the fear that he was seriously injured. “You villains I" he yelled as he wiped the blood from his mouth. *‘You'll pay for this—both of you—both of you!” he reiterated, with such concentrated ma. lignity in his face and voice as made Milly shudder. For days after she was haunted by the <emembrance of the Satanic hate in his face, and with the horror of the revenge upon her lover it portended. And this she did well to «read. Bastable, a vin- «dictive brute, naturslly, had received such punishment under such circum- stances as might have fired the meekest of men to revenge. He really loved Milly Harman with all the love of which his gross soul was capable; and to be thrashed by his successful rival under her eyes while in the act of a dastardly as sault upon her was an ignominy to be wiped out in blood. He brooded upon his love, his hate, his jealousy, and his revenge till you might rather say that these possessions possessed him than that he possessed them. Another passion, aiso, which fed all these with the fire of hell—the passion for drink—mnow mastered him so entirely that he was hardly ever sober. Well, therefore, might Milly dread a demoniasc so Rw and this dread made her consent to an immediate mar- riage with Arthur Munro. Accordingly the wedding day was not only hastened, but the wedding itself was kept strictly private in deference to Milly's dread of Bastable’s vengeance upon her over. And her utions would bably have precluded all she feared t for the merest accident. The car. with the bride sad brid in it drove up to the station at the moment nt Bastable was in the act of quitting Seeing the Jug labelled “Munro, London,” he asked the coachman, when Shey a entered the station, “A wed- “Summat o’ t' sowrt,” the man an- swered grufly, Meanwhile Milly cried, clinging to ur's arm convulsively, ‘Oh, Arthur! Hehe lias heard of it! He's here! 1 “What! Why? he shouted. “Lifford distance,” replied the driver, to the signal. “All up by this! e should only pile up the smash now while the driver had nearly got her under gcoutrol as he came in sight of the station. All clear! got the Bingham train into siding only just in time, As they glided past the platform the stationmaster shouted: “They have wired to Bentham Box to ing.” train against the blocks moment, in the carriage next the engine!” ‘“There’s Beatham Bank!” back the driver, encouragingly. Bentham Bank is a steep gradient the expiess would need a driver's skilful coaxing and sanding to keep them from slipping at every other revolution. Ly avons’ we'll do it if she keeps the rails!” shouted the <-'ver, as they shot through Thornley Tu like a bul- let through its rifled barrel All three men were now ou the look- out, In less than a minute they would sight Bentham Bank, and if the runaway had topped it she would be matched in a second. The incline at the other side was nearly as steep as the assent at this, and to go down it under a fall head of steam meant a pace of ninety miles an hour into the siding af against the stop-blocks at the bottom. ‘I told you !" shouted the driver ex- citedly, as they sighted the runaway half up the bank before them. But Munro did not hear him. He was al- ready at the smoke-box of the rocking, reeling engine, having rum along its boiler holding by the rail. ‘ Steady, sir, steady | Hold on hard! We're into her!" And, indeed, they struck the runaway with the smart shock of a mild collision. The driver hurried after Munro, and gave him a steadying hand across the touching buffers of the engive and train; end then, as Munro put the brake hard on in the guard's van the driver stooped and ma with wonderful coolness and handiness to hook on the engine to the runaway. “‘Reverse her, Bill,” he shouted to the stoker. Meunwhile Munro, walking slong 10 foot-boards, and holding by the -rails, reached the carriage in which his bride was, “Oh, Arthur,” she cried when she saw him, *‘I got such a fright. I thought you were loft behind!” He broke into a scream hysterical laughter as be 1a 2ha runaway ne. culty or on to it and shutting off go 3 now, since the train began to feel the back- ward pull of the reversed engine behind ; and Milly was saved. “I thought you had gove mad. What made you like that, Arthur!” she “At our being driver, stoker, guard al Pr the London express without knowing it; and also, I suppose, in the reaction Ron the most horrible half-hour of my life—on m Wedding. day. It wae ihat brute's. doing,” added, more to himself than to her, *‘and get ten for it.” of almost SMUGGLING DIAMONDS. BOME CLEVER TRICKS AND STRANGE HIDING PLACES, A Portable Footbath That Fooled All the Inspectors, and a Treacherous Woolly Dog. Successful smuggling is immensely rofitable, especially in the diamond business. There are many hundreds of men and women engaged in this line, and they are the most dangerous and slickest of all smugglers, while the loss to the Government Is something enormous, These industrious people are mostly of the hook-nosed class, You would not be able to distinguish one from any other of your fellow passengers on the steamer coming over the ocean; in fact, you would be more likely to be impressed with his modest and retiring demeanor, to say nothing of his mild suavity, than by any other passenger, for they are great students of human opature and never use a superfluous word No clam shuts tighter than a smuggler on sus. picion of danger. He is not to be iuter- viewed, for there are dogs at his heels, faithful dogs of the Government, lI was once so fortunate as to meet a Government customs inspector on friendly terms who had paid particular attention to the diamond smugglers for many years. This is what he told me: ‘Diamonds and rubies, being so small, are easily smuggled. [ the Government gets the duty on one quarter of them that are sold in this country, after all the expense it goes to in trying to suppress the business. We have agents all pay employees in the brokers’ offices, who give information of all people they do not know smugglers whom they do kaow, watch, and all that. But what's the use if you can’t find the goods on them when they are searched? *‘Many's the time I've been dead sure of my man azd could swear he had the searched him, but [I've through gone but it was no use. Then other officers take him up and keep their eyes on him as long as he stays in port, and they really have a better chance of finding something, but they seldom do. but there are not many women in the business now. [don’t know why, but waists, wraps and muffs, secreted in their hair, which is a favorite place. We have found them in parasols and even woven into their think of in their trunks, some of which You may be sure We men search the men and there are wo men to search the females “Why, we've found diamonds is um- pacts buttons, in hollow riags and in pewter ir with false bottoms. The round handle of a paim-leaf fan was the before we dropped ou the hollow cane One old soldier of the Crimean war had and he couldnt get it, 80 he filled the remaining empty » with fine laces to keep the stones from One at with other always eat success, and an- a revolver of home manufacture loaded with cartridges full of diamonds. Another fellow bad the biggest hollow tooth you ever saw, aud there was always a dia- mond in it, nicely tucked away and cov- ered with wax, when he got on shore. Toe and flager nails grown very aristo- cratically long have hiddea precious stones fastened in with fine silk threads, and sieeve buttons have been brought into Secquaition success/ully in the smug- ling of diamonds. You wouldn't thin t, but little terriers have been loaded down with diamonds. You've heard of the four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie, of course, but you mever, probably, beard of diamonds baked in cake or made into chewing gum or black cough drops. You never heard of cigars ‘in. Inid" with diamonds and other precious stones, or of match boxes and snuff and tobacco boxes with false bottoms full of them. I have. I've found precious stones secreted in shawls and steamer rugs, and once in the hollowed. out legs of a steamer chair. Once I found the silk cord that round the waist of a dressing gown filled with them, and only discovered it by a mere accident, as nearly all our discoveries are made. Ons fellow had removed the works of his watch and thrown them overboard . after be had filled the case with valuable rubies, and once a lady's bracelet contained $40,000 worth of sparklers on one voyage, sud we didn’t get onto it umtil too iste. One woman smuggler, who was so disguised we did not know her, had a little girl with her when she landed, aad the little girl of 5 years had a doll in her arms. The in. Sesto wanted to look at the doll, but Se child heid 30; it ike up such » wail laughed said he had a little girl at home with a doll than that, and he lot the doll smart smuggler made a wholesale busi. ness of it, and pearly drove all others out. His name was Leask, He was a Yankee, and as smart as a whip, He pretended to have the gout s0 bad that he had to soak his feet in mustard water twice a day, and 50 always carried his fooi-bath with him on board ship. He was a new man at the wheel and we never suspected him, but were puzzled to death to know where all thg diamonds and other stones came from which flooded the markets all over. At last we found out that the bulk of the stones came over in that footbath, and we laid for the Yankee as low as a piece of tissue paper. ““ But, nlas! we captured an ordinary tub, and there was no false bottom at all to it. You see, it wasn’t the tub we were after; somehow the fellow had dropped on to us before he left the other side and changed his tub, but he walked nshore with the diamonds in the crown of his bat. And he didn’t have the gout at all. It was only a steer, although the next time he came over he had his plun- der in the bandages on his leg, and that was the last we ever heard of him.”-— {New York Recorder. DELICIOUS BROILED COD. pare this Noble Dish. Story and song have swelled upon the {ear from time out of mind, burdened with the pleasure gastronomic derived { bass and salmon. No one | been altogether too one-sided. teur fisherman who has tramped over catch the finest eating in the There is the secret—largely. great deal of talking. Therefore, catorial small potatoes, On the other hand they who go down to the sea in fishing smacks | schooners go for business, of their settled occupation | nothing about it. And it is no sport either. Let some nickel-plated { sportsman who has been sccustomed to drop a spider's web line of silk into a | yard wide brook under the sleepy trees, take a turn on the Banks or off the bluff shores of Block Island. The hilarious old Atlantic would have fun with him, tossing him hither fand yon, not to say inside out Let him stand on a slippery deck, with its angle to the plane of the horizon { constantly changing, and throw a line to the loog-headed aristocracy of the {sea the cod. When the line tautens, {and jerks, and pulls, be will doubtless {find the sport sufficiently exciting and | there will ” more fish to the square foot than he ever experienced before in all i his wonderful fishing exhibitions. The cod is a noble animal. Roaming the salty deep, he has room to grow, and his numbers are so great that he has i become an element of national import. | ance, even of international disquietude | snd diplomacy. | The cod is a frequenter of the homes of affluence, but he also condescends to | men of low estate. He is often seen in goes he carries refreshing and strength for brain and brawn. He 1s one of the established institutions of the country, and never fails in his service. igood he can do jupon the attention paid to jand the way he is treated, iis with a view to heightening the | warmth of his welcome and aiding him jin doing good that we subjoin a recipe depends means generally known, though some of been aocustomed to enrich their tables by its assistance these many years, To broil it this and put it in a steak broiler and proceed cavses the salt to exude, liquefied, and drop into the fire. Brown slightly on both sides, The fire should not allowed to burn the fish, and the cookin should last long enough to extract a good deal of the salt. Then put the broiled fish into a bowl and cover with boiling water, opening the fish a little for the water to it thoroughly, but not chowdering it. Let it six or eight minutes, thon pour off the water, and repeat the operation. The water must be very hot and it will wash away malt enough to leave the fish palatable. As some lots of fish are mor» strongly pickled than others it may be found aivbie 10 use only one or even three saturations, After pouring off the last water, butter and pepper and serve.—~{J. Albert Btowe, in Commercial Enquirer, Sleeping Feet to the Kngine, The majority of traveling men head foremost on a well. ballasted and feet foremost on a road where the cars sometimes run on the tracks and sometimes on the ties. It is much anter to slecp head first, as it hey § cause it prevents that swelled. which results from too m biood being forced in the direetion where a charitable humanity assumes the brain to be. But in ease of an accident THE JOKERS’ BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS, An All Powerful Protector—-Thought He Was Scared —A Last Resource — Had to Overcome the Noise, etc. ete. AN ALL POWERFUL PROTECTOR. She—I have heard a good many times about the terrible earthquakes that take place on the Riviera, and I only hope that none will occur while we are there, He—Don’t be uneasy, my love. Noth- ing shall happen to you as long as I am with you.—{ Schalk. THOUGHT HE WAR SCARED. Papa—What is your mamma doing? Little Daughter—Kaitting, Paps (surprised) — Eh ? What 1 Little Daughter—I don't know; but you needn't be scared. It isn’t her brows,—{Good News. Knitting ? A LAST RESOURCE. He—~Miss Moneybags has married her She-—~What did she marry that old man for? . He—Oh, to keep the money in the HAD TO OVERCOME THE NGISE. “Your friend appears to bea fine sort of fellow ; but what makes him dress ia such “Well, you see, it's a matter of early environment. When he was a young man he was employed in a boiler fac- tory." -{ Detroit Tribune. CHANCE FOR DOUBT. She (gushingly)—Will you love me He—Love you 1 1 shall idolize—um— er— You are not going to look like your mother are you ?—{ New York Weekly. MODERN ATHLETICR Hicks—Blitson, they tell me, is quite an athlete, Wicks—Yes: his last feat, I hear, was to run up aboard bill. {Boston Tras- script, A TIF TO THE WAITER. “If I might venture, "said the guest in a low tone, as the dignified waiter as. sisted in the matter of putting on his overcoat, ‘‘to give you a tip—" “Yes, sir.” said the waiter, relaxing considerably. “I should advise you to try earnestly to break yourself of the habit of finger ing your mustache in a severe, sostracted manner while you are taking a dinver order. My hat, please. Thanks *'—{Chi- cago Tribune. THE RULING PAMION, Host (proudly)-—And this is a master. piece of Rembrandt! Visitor —Great Scott, man! What is that hole in the corner! It spoils the whole picture, antograph collector, and she wouldn't rest until she cut the signature out and pasted it in her album. —| Puck. IMPORTED. Elsie— Where does Mis Smith get that lovely complexion? Ethel—From Paris, I believe, A HEARTLESS WisH. Wife—See, my dear, this style of dress is the very Iatest fashion, Husband (with a deep sigh)—How EXCUSABALR IN A RUSH, Proprietor-~-How came this new Clerk—That's my mistake, sir. I took it in for a two-dollar bill MUST BE SOMETHING TERRIGLE. Dora] sha’n’t stand it another min- ute! I'm going to send him back his Clara —~What! ring! “Yes.” “Horrors! What has he done? Robbed That beautitul diamond [New York Weekly. A QUERY, Dorothy-—Miss Perte keeps up with the fashions. Madge—I wonder if her father keeps up with the bills, AX ANGEL'S TREASURES, Accepted Suitor—Why, my angel, what's the matter? The Angel—Oh, the awfulest thing bas happened. 1 have lost my engage- ment ring. Little Brother— Why, Sis, what a fuss you are making! ou've got plenty more of them. {Good News. REPLAINING IT, Mother—Horrors! How did you get 0 muddy? Plan Satin! ote vo ue 4 Was an You wanted me to do, ~{Good News, ng A SHREWD LAWYER. Judge—You admit the ise of aaarisge, 1 understand, but’ claim that the defendant was insane when the prom- ise was made? Defendant's Lawyer—Yes, Your Hon- of insanity, evidence do you de- our claim of aberration D, L~Wae intend, Your Honor, to read the love letters that he wrote i» her. {New York Sun. BUT HOW MUCH 18 “mxovon.” May Blume (scornfully)—I hepr that Van Ische— Yes; will you marry mel Miss Rlumeo—1f wagered enough, I will. Puck. you TO THE MANKXER BORN, “Well,” said the lawyer to the wit. ness, ‘how far was it from your house te the road?” “Well, sir,” said the witness, “I reckin hit wur ‘bout a acre an’ a half,” “Idiot,” cried the lawyer, “how many yards was it?” “Well, sir,” replied the witness, ‘‘thar wuz only one yard, an’ that wur my yard, an’ hit ain't fenced in, nuther!” = {Atlanta Constitution, THE UNREASORABLENESS OF MAN, Mrs. Van Astfilt—Why don’t you have Professor von Planothump play at your solrees any more? Mrs. Swell—He's so abominably rude, The last time he played heasked some of the guests to stop talking. He said he didn’t mind whether they heard him or not, but that unless he could hesr him- self he couldn't do himself justice, — {Chicago News Record. VERY LIKELY. ‘“Bince Miss Snappim married old Goldbug she spends fortunes in flowers. In fact, she wears flowers on sll oces- sions.” ‘““ Yes, she does, but I guessshe would rather wear weeds,” QUITE A DIFFERENCE, Husband] think I will run over to Chicago for a week during the fair, Wife—Then I think I will go with you. What is fair for one is fair for two, Husband -—No, my dear; what is fare for ome is far from being fare for two, — {New York Herald, ODDS AND ENDS. Too many bright young men try to make their conversation spicy with i eloves, — [Galveston News, When the hired man comes home loaded the proper thing to do is to dis- { charge him.—{ Union County Standard No changes made in the post-offices | will ever make some males more regular {than they are now.--{Philsdelphia | Times. | Did the term “woolly West" orig- | inate in the unpleasant fact that many {an iovestor has been fleeced there?— [Lowell Courier, 1 | People who pay doctors’ bills seldom i doubt the Rarsicata ability to heel bai : { himself. — {Troy Press | Whenever 8 boy empties his pockets { his sister sees something that belongs to her. —{ Atchison Globe. It is a sign that the trees have come to stay snother season as soon as they | begin to leave. — [ Rochester Democrat. “Time's up,” soliloquized Bagley as he came out of the pawnshop where he had just left his watch. —/ Lampoon. A Tennessee child talks incessantly. It is thought that he will have a great career as a champion pugilist.—{Baiti- more American. Somebody says that most of the hand organs are owned by one company and hired out. Another grinding monopoly. | —I Philadelphia Times. As severe as rheumatism is, s great many are bent on having it.— [Chicago Inter-Ooean. A firm of plastering contractors in Rhode Island has gone to the wall — Chicago Tribune, A tack machine ought to put up a strong argument. It makes its points so easily. — Troy Press, AS —— — ——————— i — How the Moslems Pray. The true Mohammedan is enjoined to prayer five times a day-—namely, first in the morning before sunrise, at noon, in the afternoon before sunset, in the even- ing between sunset and dark, and be- tween twilight and the first watch, being the vesper prayer. A sixth prayer is volunteered by many between the first watch of the night and the dawn of day. These prayers are simply repetitions of the laudatory ejaculation, “God is great!” “ God is powerfull” “God is all powerful!” and are counted by the scru- Pious on a string of beads. They may performed at the mosque or any clean place, During prayer the eyes are turned to the Kebia or point of the heavens in the direction of Mecca, which is indicated in every mosque by a niche called Meh- rab, and externally by the ition of minarets and doors. Event during prayer is ribed solemn adoration accompany the men to the mosque. addressing God worshipers ae to be humble, putting aside jewels and costly apparel, —| lyn Eagle. HE i i i: ih ? 5 ¥ i i £ 58 £ ! f f : 1 £ | : v5 g g i x E
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