4 8 a » i nn THE DEAD LOVER A ROUMANIAN FOLK SONG, He whom I loved so well Is in his long, long sleep; Yet I lament him not, For he told me not to weep. More dear to him the grav Than I could ever te; For though I go to him, He does not come to me. I envy vot the grave What yesto day was mine But bow my head and say, Keep him for he is thine. But keep not, grave, my youth, Which cannot p ofit thee; My smils and my light step— O give them back to me! But the grave answerad, No; For these things still are dear, Sinoe he, dep ived of them, Won d b» too lonely here, Then to the dead I pray: Restore my youth t> me, That wh -n we meet agsia I be not old to thee. But he hear: nor sees, For his eves hike wine sre dim; 80 to his grave I come, To get them hack from him, For only in the grave Are tears no longer shed, And the living happy made Besides the bappr d ad -{R. HI. Stoddard, in Harper's Magazine, JACK WATSON'S EXPERIENCE. Jack Watson drank heavily while he was in college, but wa called him a good fellow. After he left college he began $0 drink heavily and to be a good fellow, but we called him a drunkard. him ns a lost man. [ believed that he would be a mere sot at 30, and that he would die miserably before he was 35. We lost each other for some years and then, after a chance meeting in New York, I dined with him most happily in of a beautiful woman's eyes. When the light was withdrawn and we were left to dim the remaining illumination with a haze of tobacco smoke, I fell into the deep thought upon the agreeable failure of my prophecy. I might have said it was his marriage, but I knew that he had fallen into the depths agnin soon after. Hearing that report, 1 had pitied ber exceedingly, and had thought the worst of Jack. Yet I could not doubt that he was at [ast in the sure way. Knowing him so well I felt that some surprising incident must have changed the course of his life, and my curiosity craved the story. “] know what you're thinking about,” said he. “You're wondering why I am here instead of being in the gutter.” “Oh, no, Jack,” said I, "*nothing of the sort. 1 always knew you'd come out all right. You drank a little at one time, of eourse, but--" “*No, I didn't, rank = little, tion wasn't in me lived the life of a drunkard. death of drunkard. “Metaphoricaliy 1” “Lite raliy. That May sound absurd but itis only the truth. Nothing but derth could save me.” **Not even—"' “No: not even Alice.” His eves filled with tears of tender. ness at the mention of his wife's name. said Jack. 1 never I died the wontinued, as to suppose that a man can be saved by lovealone. Any person who has had experience in such matters is an added temptation to the drunkard. a while ‘again. has waned with the honeymoon. such thing, At first he does not drink bec.use the novelty of the situation keeps his mind off the subject. Marriage seems like a great vacation from the dullness of life. Then you see him take a drink #t is. The preciousness of his possession reveals itself to him. He who has more than his due is never [ree from fear dangers, sees his appetite, of him. And that is the end As soon as he knows that it That was my experience; and mv sin was the greater because | knew it all before. hand.” ** Yet you escaped the consequence.” “No: it killed me, as | bave already said. I will tell you the story. You ean make a farce comedy or a tragedy out of it, just as you like. It was a Mother nature is the grimmest practical joker, alter all, and this is the way she plased it on me. But first I must let you into the myster- ies of our early housekeeping. The de- tails seem trivial but they contributed to final catastrophe, #1 began with the usual drunkard’s balance -on the wrong side of the books, We tock a flat in that long row I pointed out to you as we oame up town on the L. Our furoiture we procured on the instaliment plan, It was not luxurious, of course, but you should have seen how pretty a home Alice made with it. There were weekly payments to be met; and for a month or more the rising sun and | were equal models of punctuality, Then I let it go for a week. Nothing . 1 was somewhat surprised at for my contract with the dealer had been more binding than the shackels of Israel in Fayp. Another week slipped by, and another. Various causes reduced our funds to a low ebb, Presently I owed $40. A polite collector came. | promised immediate settlement, nd he departed. I was to receive my y check from the Philadelphia in a few days, and 1 relied upo Something delayed it. I bos £60 from John Ennis, and, ns he me the cash be looked st me ina a to should’ ‘It seoms absurd to be sentimental about a few sticks of furniture, but when a man is newly married and has a home for the first time in ten years, he may be pardoned for an excessive anxiety to keep it undisturbed. That anxiety was, of course, my chief danger, The drunk- ard is always on the edge of a precipice, and if he looks down he will cast him- self into the depths. It is the same, a fascination. 1 looked down that day and was dragged over the brink, *“That was the beginning of such deg radation as I could not name to any mau but a true friend. The poverty which drunkenness entails is not nearly the worst of it, and yet that alone is heart rending to endure or to look back upon. What Alice suffered doubtless I do not even know. How she unfailingly for- gave the Angel of the Book must have recorded in words we have not learned on earth, Through it all I think her principal anxiety was to preserve our home. “1 will not weary vou with the story of her struggles. There is nothing so it the meaner it is will snesk into an intimacy with their self-respect. May Heaven forgive the that, if he can; and I could, but did not, for the sake of my appetite. “At last there came to me a day like that when [ borrowed the money from Ennis, only far more serious. It was Wednesday, and the polite collector had After I had pre. served my connection with Graves, and was still salary was overdrawn and squandered. | tomers, Andy Playson. You know him, He said ness.” Andy canno! talk business com- fortably except in a liquor saloon. The demon inside me welcomed him as a friend. Here was certainly an excuse. ‘““T'he next thing I remember distinctly I was blind, How lone it took me to discover where | was 21 I am unable to say. In reality I was door and turned on the eleotric light. window I could see the illuminated dial It was nearly “But what midnight? 1 had no idea whether 1 had been unconscious three days or a month My mind was so stupefied that I could not s<certain the date of any of the ways which would have suggested themselves to me in my condition. There was a news My eves rested upon least one word from the page the date line of the paper and that day was Friday; then it was already too late, “There was a pistol in the drawer of my desk, and, somehow, hands trembled so that I could hardly hold a key, I managed to open the lock and at last to secure the weapon Yet it it seemed an idle and cowardly thing to do, to die without a siruggle, to it without intent, but at secined to detach itself and hastened from the office. But one She would forgive me certainly. Even a brother can claim times seven, and [ with a far “It seemed 1 wns at home as if by door. 1 climed the dark stairs snd came haste. The smail key turned in the lock but the door did not open. “Alice!” 1 called, and shook the door. There was no response, [1 listened, Surely there was a confused sound with- she was there. We had no friends to whom she could go in an emergency, strangers. [ spoke her name again. It seemed as if the noise within ceased. I door, but she did not. heard me, “Did she deliberately exclude me? Had she learned of my debauch? Had 1 been guilty of something more dis- graceful than drunkenness?! In the darkness which concealed the last three days what madness and folly lay. for. gotten but irrevocably written in my past! But perhaps she was asleep. | made a loud noise at the door, aus loud as I dared, fearing to let the other in- mates in the house know of my disgrace, There was no answer. “Confused, alarmed, and utterly sick at heart, I sank down upon the flcor and sat there leaning against the wall, [ do not know how long. At times 1 felt ro- sentment against her, and then I excused my own fault with weak arguments; again, I fell into abject pleading, with my ips almost against the door, And then, in desperation, I thought of the wen in my pocket, and wad on the brink of death. Yet through it all one idea grew stronger as the others faded; I longed to sec her again. Pledges rose to my lips which no man could utter and then violate; which no womsn eould hear, unmoved, from one she loved, “It eame into my mind to burst the door, and I had got upon my feet to make the effort, when 1 was aware of the sound of some person ascending the stairs below me. I had no wish to be discov. ered In such plight, and so I put my back against the door and kept quite still, hall was dark as a 1 did not see the man who passed, nor did he have a susplolon of my presence. Ie Certainly she bad for come, Instead, I heard a light, peculiar sound which even in my miseries aroused a faint cariosity. 1 remembered sudden lv that the Lawrences who occupied the flat above were away from the eity, What was the man doing at that door? “1 nscended the stairs noiselessly, There was a ray of light above. [It came from a dark lancern in the hand of a man the lock. {surd thought came to me. my revolver and advanced upon this man. He heard me and turned, Enough of the light from his lantern struck upon | his face to show me a picture of fright, | This burglar evidently had not the cour- age suited to his profession, “+ Don't be alarmed,” said I. ‘If you do what I tell you and do it promptly, I will let you go.’ 1 drew my he witered a sort of growl which resolved its®f at Inst into the you want? | have light enough to shoot by, him, that little bag lock.” He did it, for he had no choice, opened with the small latch key. My | heart beat like a trip hammer 1 had no { voice to tell the burglar he might go. 1 i second. Then | entered, “The hall was bare; no curtains hung before the parlor door. The windows stared at me. Epough light shown in from the street to show a room absolutely empty, My wife's name came from my lips in atone such as a man may use when he pleads for mercy in the face of death and has no hope. “I raised the pistol, which was still in my hand, and then [ whispered to myself, ‘Not here.’ Even the bare walls, I | thought, retained some sacred memory of her which stayed my hand. That room, I said, had to me the one chance of my life; and | had thrown it away; but [ would not die there. [I would at least hide my disgrace from the eve of mecenary curiosity. [1 wished no such epitaph as the papers would be likely to give me, “* As for death itself it had already come. When | turned to leave that room there was upon me the peace which is the reward of the man and the pardon of the evil doer ~the common lot of us all. 1f there had been any hope in my soul that I could ever make amends to her I would have lived in torment if necessary to do it But 1 had utterly { despaired of mysell. “| tell you, Harry, 1 was dead when | left that room. The function of loco motion wss all that distinguished me from one who had passed through the great change. My mind had ceased to exist and my heart to suffer. Doubtless muscular energy of my frame would have carried me to the actual physical con summation of suicide; but mentally | had died of despair and degradation : uw] passed down the stairs, opend land closed the outside door and stood upon the step. In the sky was the glimmer fof dawn, The physical roanse which yet survived in me perceived it and was more weary of living at the sign of re viving life and tumult and struggling. The soul was gone and the body was im patient for dissolution. *“‘And yet the habits of this life per sist straagely in the body. What do you suppose, Harry, that this present shell of my spirit did when | ceased to direct it” I shook my head “Well, sir, it walked fifty-six feet to the left—the width of two city lots turned to the left again and sotered a house. [It mounted two Hightsof stairs, opened a door, and walked into a pretty little parlor. Then it passed into a room where a dim light burned and a woman | lay asleep with one white arm stretched out as if it to greet a man whom she loved. My bodily eyes saw that, and | thea my soul came back. | fell upon my knees beside that bed snd covered the { white hand with kisses, good * That's the story, Harry. The soul when it came back to me was better than before. It can resist temptation; it can {do its own will, being no more the slave {of that witch who poisoned my blood | centuries ago, perhaps; and above all, it without fear, being now suffi. ciently io barmony with what it loves to feel secure.” “Of gourse you don't need to be told { that it wasn't Saturday morning,” he | almost a week old. {scious from drink not more than six { hours. As for my getting into the wrong { house, 1 discovered the next day that the ! man who built that block of flats got his all alike. parsimony. Otherwise I might not have died, and if I had not died | could not have lived the new life." Charles W. Hooke, in Brook- lyn Times, Man as a Mageat, The old-time superstitious belief that human beings should slecp with their heads toward the north is now believed to be based upon a scientific principle. Some French savants have made experi. ments upon the body of a criminal who had suffered death, and these tests go to prove that each human body is in itself an electric battery, one electrode being represented by the head and the other by the feet. The body of the subject upon which the queer experinients men. tioned above were made was taken im- mediately after death and placed upon a Bivatat board, free to move in soy direc. t After some little vacillation the head portion turned toward the north and re. mained there stationary. One of the ex- RE took hold of the pivet acd urmed it so that the head pointed south, but upon being treed it almost imme. diately resumed the firat named jositidn turned until the head north. To prove that this was neither accident nor coincident muscular twitohing, eo: aa oo a hs BILLINGSGATE, A Description of the Most Famous Fish Market of London, Billingsgate fish market is the best abused ifvstitution in London, and vet its sturdy health is unimpaired. Hun- dreds of years have passed since this was first declared a free and open To-day 10,000,000 people are dependent on it for their fish supply, und the combined efforts of its enemies, from the Royal Commission downward, do not seem to be able to effect any radical change in its condition or coun- Men of experience in the fish trade confidently A, that it can never be removed from its traditional home, The average cost at Billingsgate of all exoept the rarest kind of fish is a frac. tion of over one penny a pound. It has sumer B00 per cent. The process of this remarkable giowth is inexplicable, but the consumer has an obvious remedy, ly the gruce of his deceased majesty King William 1IIL any person can visit us describe the process, The laggard sightseer who lets mid- famous fish market will find it dirty, malodorous, foresaken to the scavengers, in a vigorous way that trespassers. T'o see Billingsgate at its strects are dim and silent, At 5 o'clock the market opens, and from either side the steamships and the lingsgate, which at this moment presents a vivid pioture of industry, A thousand porters run to and fro, till the 200 rough stalls that fll the floor space begin to groan beneath the weight of turpot, brill, soles, John Dory, mullet, plaice, had dock, cod, skate, roker, whitiog, stur geon, hoke, dabs, thormback and gur nard, sccording to the season. work of the fish porters is extremely ar- duous, but well paid as such work goes, his few hours’ toil, Fish porters src as a rule rough fellows and free drinkers, through B pass abou Hlingsuate each year, ivi The chief source of the fish supply is the North Sea, which specialists declare to be inexhaustible. The trade is carried on by bonts or on the Dagger bank or off the German const, and also by boats fishing siogly nearer home, which return at short inter vals to p rt, say to or Yar mouth, whence their fish iso nveyed by train to Billi Fish that ar land ‘is eonnsigned direct to commission agents They in turn sell it by private contract i Ww ho Grimsby 0" usually to the “bommarecs” break up the nis into smaller lots to ranging from the West end fishmonger to the East-end coster, The second channel of the Billings gate trade, the river, is different in its methods, The fleet that fish the North Sea are away from houe for weeks and even months together, Fast steamships wat on from time to time and iW omiaaiemen JCLY und packages suit the needs of their customers them FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS, THE BABY'S RIDE. K-jiggity-jig goes old roan Prig When baby fades out with Ned: K-thumpity-thump, with a bounce and 8 bump, Till his dear little face gets red, K-lollopy-lolly, O hie away, Dolly, You sleekest and fattest of bays! Now baby is grinning at such a tine spin- ning With wamma alone in the chaise, —[ Babyland. THE MAN-FACED CRAB, One of the most singular-looking creas tures that ever walked the earth, or crab of the world-famous man-faced Japan, fe body is hardly an inch in length, | yet the head is fitted with & face which { 1s the perfect counterpart of a Chinese | coolie—a veritable missing link, with ! eyes, nose and mouth all clearly defined. { This curious and uncanny creature, be | sides the great likeness it bears toa human being in the face, is provided with two legs which seem to grow from the top of its head and hang down over the pon of its face, Besides these legs, two feelers, each { about an inch in length, grow from the chin of the animal, looking for all the | world like a forked beard, These man faced crabs fairly swarm in the juland seas of Japan, THE PROUD Cow, There was once a cow who was very highly prized by her mistress. She had a fine meadow to herself, and was so | petted that she became very proud. She thought no other animal good enough te look at her. There were some sheep in ' the next field who watched her over the { hedge, and this made the cow very : BOTY. | “Every night when we pass each other on the bridge going home that biggest in a most unpleasant manner,” said the proud cow to herself. *‘I wish I couid find SOMme Way to punish her " She thought about the rude sheep all day, and that night pondered bow she might resent her familiarity, The next morning as she crossed the | bridge she noticed that the broad central plank hung loose. It was only held in place by a beam under the middle of it, and the ends hung loose over the water, “Ha! ha!” thought the cow. “I have it! When that vulgar creature crosses here to-night I'll wait until she steps on oue end of that plank. Then I'll step on the other, snd, being so much heavier, I can easily toss her up into the air and down into the water.” So when nicht came and it was time to go home the cow waited at one end of the sheep bw gun to cross The rude sheep came first, When the sheep sts pped upon one end of the plank the proud cow, eager for revenge, jun.ped on the other. And then—what happened ! Suppose some unkind big boy put a helpless little fellow on one end of a see. saw intending to toss him into the air when he jumped on the other end him- self. What would happen first when he jumped on?—|{ New York World. the bridge until at the olaer, Two such steamships Thames most mornings, the fish they the appointed agents of the fishing com panies. Round the suctioneer and his clerk a Iesass, The rapid bidding is to a layman un intelligible, but apparently very clear to the bommarees, who acquire all the fish up at suction in an space of time, and then put it through the same process of retailmeni as the land borne fish. The rapidity by which may be gathered from the fact that s shipload of 3,000 trunks of fish is disposed of, gen. erally by single trunks, in jess than three hours, the priees recorded being the prices current of the whole market. So fish comes to its ultimate consumer thick man, the carrier, the salesman, the bom. maree and the final retailer.—| London Black and White, Tralned Machinists, There are plenty of men who will, by the impression carried through a pair of calipers and the fingers’ ends, determine, within a very small percentage, the amount of pressure which shall be re. quired to be exerted by a hydraulio press in order to force on to its shaft an engine measurement in which a thousandth part of an inch variation in diameter canses much more variation in pressure than is permissible. Indead, on some kinds of work done employed unit of measurement; a unit This, of tioned but supposedly superfluous hair. splitting operation, since an ordinary hu- sandths of an inch in diameter, The paper upon which this page is rinted is about three-thousandths of an inch thick, and one ten-thousandth part of an inch is thereliore one-thirtieth the thickness of this sheet. Considerably smaller variations of size can be detected by the trained sense of touch, or rather by the variation in resistance of a pair of calipers passed over the work, and it is even ible for the sense of magnitude and the sensitiveness of the finger ends in relation to it, to be so highly devel. oped as to detect unaided, and by merely rolling a small steal ball between the thumb and finger, a variation from true sphericity amounting to 1-12,600 of an inch, or about one thirty-seventh part of the thickness of the paper of this [eo Ambrose Webster, a machinist of of machi ha ROME XATURAL HISTORY. Tigers, leopards and jaguars all belong to the same family. It is generally sup- posed tigers cannot be tamed, but they can, just as easily as the lion. The : tigers’ skin is =o like in color the long jungle grass amongst which it lives that it is not always easy to distinguish the | animal The leopard is found in Africa, India, the Indian islands and Java, They live a great deal on trees, and on that ac. count are called natives, to another with the greatest agility. The panther, which is really the same | perfumes, especially lavender water, and by means of this has been taught to per. | form several tricks, The jaguar lives in America. It is larger and stronger than the leopard, i which it resembles in color. | of climbing trees and can climb any tree, | no matter how smooth the trunk is. It lis a great hunter after monkeys. It is fond of turtles, also, and scoops out | their flesh by turning them on their shells, | also, jaguar is anywhere around. | known to even go into water after fish, {and will capture them in the shallow | water by striking them out of the water {with a blow of its paw, {| When it captures a large animal it de- | stroys it by leaping upon its back and twisting the head around until the neck is dislocated. The puma, which lives in America, is also called the pasther, and is much dreaded by the natives, It is of a gray color, It lives much on trees and usually lies along the branches, The oscelot, of the tiger-cats, is a native of Mexico and Peru. It is about eighteen inches high and three feet long. It is a beautiful animal and easily tamed. It lives principally on monkeys, and resorts to the most clever tricks to catch them, The domestic cat was formerly sup- posed to be the same as the wild cat, but it is a different specics altogether, its tail being long and taper, while that of the wild cat is short and bushy. Cats are very fond of aromatic plants and powerful scents. If they find a musk or valerian plant in a garden they will roll over it and scratch it up until not » bit ix left, Their mouse hunter is well It is very fond of turtle eggs, WILDS FAL Nearly $150,000,000 Under One Roof. LIBERAL ARTS EXHIBITS Transportation Day-Locomotives Old and Quaint Brought Out For the Edification of the Crowds -The Fair Or- chestral Music. Nearly 150,000,000! That is the gene al value placed on the exhibits in the Liberal Arts Buliding in the office of the chief of the This figure will be a surprise, perhaps the more so as not & few of the ex. puiting the 75,000,000, As the costilest goods of every deseription seen hers ncres of bibitors themselves have been and us there are some sixty solid seem out of the way, No figures in detall bave been gathered, but total valuation wil something more than Transportation Day of tho transporta- and Awmeri- can exhibitors to unite in making it one of the notable days of the Fair, A special track was laid on the promenade outside, where- over September 9 was twenty reproductions im wood and metal of the oldest pioneer en- gines exhibited by the Baltimore and Oblo and Pennsylvania Raliroads was rolled jor f the mul- addition thers was a parade of m the Midway exercises in the edification snd enlightment « ti ude, In the antiques and horribles fr ‘inieance : and at the indoor and President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania, with other arch of the transportation building bad to incilitate the egress and When the big loco- motives are taken out st the closs of the Fair they will be towed home “dead,” that fs, without steam, In freight trains. WHAT INSTITUTIONS ARE DOING. Tht American institutions for the Teshle minded are Jdolng a grand work is shown by ease exhibits in the educational department, represented are the cele rated one at Elwyn, Pa ; Port Wayne, Ind. ; Glenwood, Ia : Fairbult, Mion. ; Lake ville, Conn. : Barre, Mass, ; Glen Eller, Cal ; Boston, Mass, t is sad to look over those scores of photographs aad notion the droup- ing under lips and contracted eyebrows thet which start into industrial tell the story of dwalted Intellect, trying to Mapusl trainiog and won. ders oan be accomplished is shown plainly enough in case after case of needle work in writing, painting, every branch, drawing, other material, The photographs evidence a marked intel. likeness aoccom- panied by written descriptions. THE FAIR ORCHESTRA. The World's Fair orchestral music threat. ens to get Into chaos azain and the cost of maintaining that great o chostra of 100 men is nearly 800 a day as not a few of the per. formers are artists of established reputa- tions, both in this and the old country, and The largost far bave been considering the magnitude of the Fair, noth. doubt over the out- But really, this orchestra is one of It #s one of the two great orchestras of the being the Boston Sym- its value cannot be The Musical Committee are gan. 1fsome wealthy citizens are willing to put up for the deficiency the orchestra is sure to continue, The plan of presenting such eminent soloists as Mile Nikita and Emil Liebling fs proving a good thing, France's organist, Dr. Alexander Gulimant, drew big audidnces at Festival Hall a A MINE EXPLOSION. Men Return to Work and Four Will Die From Their Injuries. At Sheldon, Ind., on the Evansville & Terre Haute Road, a fores of men went into & conl mine to resume work after weeks og jdlenons, There was a gas explosion and the mine RECOVERY TO BE RAPID, Comptroller Eckels Says the Finan< cial Trouble is Over. Treasury Department, says in an Interview, “I believe the recovery from the financial #
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