—
SOME OF THESE DAYS.
———
Some of these days all the skies will be
brighter—
Some of these days all the burdens be
lighter;
Hearts will be
whiter
Some of these days!
happier—souls will be
Some of these days, in the deserts up
springing, .
Fountains shall flash, while the joy-bells
are ringing,
And the world—with its sweetest of birds
% ghall go singing
Some of these days!
Some of these days! [Let us bear with our
SOTTOW:
Faith in the
borrow:
There will be joy in the golden to-morrow
Some of these days!
its light we
future
-{ Atlanta Constitution.
MARIA.
When Harris went up into
Pennsylvania anthracite mining re-
gions, he was a strong, handsome
young fellow of twenty-three, with
rose-colored views of this life and
sadly vague ones of the life to come.
He came from a grassy New England
village, where he had lived a frank,
free, open-air life about as exciting
as a pastoral. He had spent four
years at Columbia College which had
opened his eyes a bit, and then he
had gone up into big, black Luzerne
County, teeming with two hundred
thousand people, three-fourths of
whom would better have been
drowned at their birth like so many
blind kittens,
thought.
Words cannot drear
misery of a mining ‘‘patch’’ in North-
eastern Pennsylvania, was an early
conclusion of young Harris.
KROME pessimists
3 : 3
deseribe the
You
will come across group after group of
black and dingy cabins, strung along
like grimy huckleberries on a straw,
Back of these looms the ‘‘breaker,
a gloomy mass of shadow, blackened
by wind and storm that have g
the fine coal-dust
Culm-heaps, moun
coal and slate. |
zon, and present
monotonous and unin
the hollows, ove
black swamp-land,
brighter world beyond
long trains of
glistening coal.
It was at a cluster of
ley like this that Harris
He had a room in an ungai
frame structure where ham an
and raisin pie were the staple articles
of diet, and which was endurable to
him only because two-thirds of his
time was spent beyond The
name of this understudy for purga-
tory was the Mountain Glen Hotel,
and it was presided over by one Mrs.
Dwyer. Of course, he had no friends
there. There was no one to interest
him, and he had not yet learned to
interest himself in common, every-
day people, whom we often find to be
ancommon and unique when we have
once discovered the secret of really
knowing. The whole world
dismally ordinary to Harris.
quently, when he looked out of the
window of his soapy,
boarding-house one evening, a few
weeks after his arrival, and saw a
slender female figure with a face that
was moderately clean and immoder-
ately pretty, he felt that he had
made a discovery of some import-
ance. In deference to the sum-
mer's Columbian eraze, he called
that window for some time the
lookout from the Pinta. The girl
was Maria (Mah-ree-ah, if you please)
di Manicor, and the brimming pail of
water she was bringing from the well
did not monopolize her
She saw Harris.
At Columbia, Harris had learned
how to look through a transit—if that
IE) the proper expression—and, upon
provocation, could talk about “back-
sights’’ and ‘‘vernier’’ with the air of
a master. From this it will be gath-
ered that Harris was a surveyor. He
was more—he was a mining engineer
and had two letters tacked to his
name to signify his prowess. Every
into the plank
sr restos Crossin
Cars
was stationed.
red
its pale.
seemed
Conse-
attention.
with
and a big Hungarian laborer,
would perform prodigies of engineer.
ing skill which the layman will not
attempt to detail. In the evening he
would stroll among the culm-heaps
and along the banks of the black,
sulphurous stream of mine-water that
flowed through the swamp-land on
the outskirts of the village.
little stream! It was not
It could not have babbled
tried. It could only mutter or yowl
For three weeks Harris took these
walks alone. Then he took them with
Maria di Manicor.
begins.
then he came across her once
twice on his solitary evening strolls,
until finally it was no longer once or
twice; it was no longer a word or two.
It was every evening, and they would
wander through the swamp for hours.
These walks had to be accomplished
circumspectly. Harris and Maria
would start out separately and would
return separately, but somehow or
other they always managed to meet
when well out of the village and be-
yond the peering power of curious
eyos.
Harris was a good young fellow—
as goodness goes, now days, It did
not occur to him that Jere was any-
thing inconsistent in his going to
Hazelton to mail a letter to a girl in
Keene, “ew umpshire, and at the
samo time to hunt through the shops
for a pair of heavy gilt earrings with
garish blue enamel for Maria,
Nevertheless, he said nothing about
Maria in his letters, and, of course,
he said nothing to Maria about the
New England girl. They did not
talk much in their walks along the
edge of the stripping. He would ask
Maria what she called this or that in
her tongue and learned to jabber so
fluently in the mongrel Italian dialect
she spoke, that he thought seriously
of buying a copy of Dante in the
original if he ever got to a place
where he could get so civilized a pro-
duction. So it happened that Maria
never told him of her betrothal.
For Maria was betrothed, and Har-
ris did not know it; nor did he know
on which she
ive collective friends,
parents and
purple cashmere, with
wedding gown that
‘night shift,
a dollar and a quarter a
was a match, and,
Angelo worked on the
and earned
day. It
besides
pation
herself,
ig youd
her fiance's
Maria
gave her
# * * *
o'clock, one
in June, when
Maria stole along behind the engine-
house and through a tongue of swamp
land, where naked tree-trunks
lifted their knotty branches from the
oily, sulphurous ooze that had dried
after
It was
sweet
seven
still evening
the
to
sat dow:
them weird skeleton frames,
She wearily on a tree-stump
at the of the swamp.
against the sun-stained glory
west rose the of
edge
of the
black ridge im-
ap
silhouetted agninst
was the dark
mule and driver.
an
mense culm-he and on its crest
the glowing sky,
with
Maria looked at the
The driver-boy sLoop-
it and of
rolled, grinding down ti
ce of rock bounded
others, and fell
the treacher
figure of a
Car
fed 1
scene listlessly,
ed, pulled a be the carload
refuse sla
nt
1 swamp
wer
feet, and
was standin
the proj cting
They
stream i dS 8
swamp. She had
o
root of
Separate
wore
ter
: 3
sluggishly over
She began to speal
?
On must come with me
said: and then, before he had ti
question she plunged into her glory
speaking rapidly, but in clear, low
tones she told him of her betrothal
to Angelo
to-morrow was the appoin
she told how
ted day for
the purchase of the purple gown with
> :. .
Rossi ; him
its glitter Accessories; how their
3 i
DE Ke
v
=»
rl 3
could no longer
. how
pt: how
beginning
3 !
3
hated and
loved Harris more than all
suspect
how
the world
$
Ig »
3] Wis
how she | im she
more than the purple gown an
of finest silk and decked
Then she her plan
childlike and she was that
Harris could not interrupt her. She
showed him the contents of a bundle
she had under her It was a
parcel of belongings she had taken
from his room 3
the thought of how she had collected
them without the knowledge of Mrs.
Dwyer. The bundle was done up in
a towel and showed of
haste and inexperience on the part of
the compiler. There were a pair of
overshoes, a handkerchief-case of pale-
blue silk. two white lawn ties, a bot-
tle of bromo-caffeine, a tumbler of
blue glass, enveloped in a net of yel-
low crochet-work with bows of pink
daisy ribbon,” and intended by
Mrs. Dwyer for the reception of
burnt matches. There were also two
oranges, a clay pipe and a copy of
Edwin Drood.”’
Harris stood like a
hummock.
Maria went on
speaking low and
was not to go back to the boarding-
house. Had not here all his
most precious possessions? And in
the bosom of her gown she had sixty-
seven dollars concealed, the sum set
apart for her wedding equipment.
With this they were to cross the
mountain to Hazleton, where they
would take the train
ft were
with rubies
disclosed be 8}
confident
shawl
innocently
gleeful at
evidences
statue on
with her story,
eagerly. Harris
she
gelo might plead!
husband worth a thousand of him.
to make sure it was not all a horrible
wrong.
take? Go marry Angelo. He deserves
you more than 1."
She looked at him a moment, and
then, with a sob, turned away. She
saw in his face the truth he dared not
speak.
* Oh, say not, say not you cast me
off!” she moaned and stretched her
hands toward him, But she felt no
answering touch, He was looking at
her with a little smile and whistling
softly to himself. For a moment she
was transformed from a pleading
angel to a demon of rage. She stoop
quickly, picked up the bundle at her
feet, raised it high over her head and
flung it full in his face,
The clumsy missile missed its mark,
however, struck at his feet and rolled
down into the pool of coal-dirt, that
gave a hideous gulp and swallowed
the biadie of bric-a-brac, as it swal-
lowed else within
reach.
But, ahi What was that? Did
the branch on which she was stand-
ing turn, or did she lose her balance?
A faint little ery of terror, and Harris
saw Maria struggling knee-deep in
the treacherous ooze. He sprang 1m-
pulsively forward, but as his foot
touched the surface of the swamp,
and he felt the dead weight pulling
it down, he paused for an instant.
Maria saw the hesitation,
** Go back! (io back!” she eried.
‘“ It is not for me that you shall die!
There is another! Save yourself for
her! She is to have your love, not
Maria!”
The grew dim before the
young man’s eyes. He saw no longer
the grim mass of the culm-heap, the
writhing of the bare tree-trunks and
the slimy surface of the swamps, A
long, quiet New England street, the
great elms, heavy with foliage, meet.
ing overhead, and at a bend in
road, a tall, slender girl,
hand to him with a welcoming smile.
{ The vision vanished as quickly as it
had but it was enough. A
moment before the
i thought had flashed upon
“How easy to escape from it all
minute's delay, a mock
the that grew
i every moment, and then—freedom.
{ Now he cast the
with revulsion,
around. Was
him aid? Yes
boy on the ridge
everything ire
scene
COme
him:
against odds greater
from
He glanced quickly
there
4 to 4
thought
noe one to give
there was the breaker
of
who, though bevond hearing
fred
fift
wile
| down t
in the
a faint glimpse of the dim figures
vy feet below, and now,
} .
1068 Of 4 MOw
3
i
Ww ho
Was
And another.
ght gloom
3
i
ie slope,
twili
Harris saw approsc
» of a swarthy
in
loud ery for help, the
ard Maria
+» had sunk the qui
y
who by thi
ck=and near-
to her waist =) had
and
ly i stopped
ng silently
struggling waiti
for the
3
Was
end
Hardly
ad Harris's ery died
: .
1 CHOKING stil
away
other
iness when a
—=the sharp ring of a
{ bullet
Maria
111 hor
ip f
0 i
i8 saw
bought no: 1e
But
and more
i Rossi “ body a das
afterward on the
the
taken,
row was he
who found An
or two
with a bullet w
ple to show how the
sicle
manship improved »
haps the only good that came of
Harris left the
t back to New Eng-
where he wi much happier.
whole thing was that
region and wer
land
good ness
New York Ledger
Spare the Birds.
id last
All
woman s
year
were
ai
An Americ:
two million
for ornam
Women
that feed
$
Of
used
tire,
vanity
cry down this
pampers
feathered
sacrificed
richest
destruction the tribes,
The birds
of the
course,
those
plumage, and, of
that will be
In fact, if
are
those
replaced.
continues
also,
least easily
this thing American bird
life of the gentler order will pretty
soon become extinet, Is not the war-
fare the American Humane Society
has opened upon the bird-skin traffic
wholly justifiable? We think
The destruction referred to
utes not one whit to human or
human comfort. It adds nothing to
the intellectual, nothing to the men-
tal. It is simply wantonness prac-
ticed at the beck of fashion, and as
silly and meaningless a fashion, too,
as ever was spawned from the brain of
a man milliner. There are birds in
plenty that shed their plumage to
supply the vain demand for flaming
headgear. Why should the fashion
monarchs be inexorable, and also de-
mand the of our feathered
gongsters ?—{ Sacramento (Cal. YUnion,
RO,
fieedd
bodies
A Brace of Brave Soldiers.
| When the Birkenhead troopship
i went down, with her 438 brave sol
| diers and sailors, many heroic deeds
| were done on that sad morning, none
| but the shore beholding them.
Here are two examples of true
valor: Ensign Russell of the 7th High.
ders, wag picked up by one of the
boasts when he had all but gained the
shore. Seeing a sailor in the waves,
however, on the point of drowning,
he lifted the man into the boat, and
again took to the water, intending to
swim to land. But in a moment he
was seized by a shark and perished.
Cornet Bond, of the 12th Lancers,
ust before the vessel foundered, went
low to a cabin where two children
had been left, fetched them up on
deck and put them in one of the
boats. A few minutes later he thrust
his horse into the sca. Imagine his
delight when he found the noble
animal waiting for him on the beach
{New York Journal,
Cleveland, Ohio, is about to an.ex an
other strip of
Pe territory containing ¥.000
peapln,
THE RUSSIAN THISTLE COSTS
US FOUR MILLION A YEAR. |
Unknown a Few Years Ago it Now
Overruns Many Farms in the North-
west and is Still Spreading.
A box five feet square and over
three high was carried into the room
of the Benate Committee on Agricul-
ture and, Senator Hansbrough pre-|
siding, the cover was quickly knocked
up and off therefrom. A big brush
heap was the apparent contents of
the mysterions inwardness of the
Senator's box. Appearances, how-
ever, are deceitful everywhere in gen-
eral and around the Senate end of the |
Capitol in particular. The box did
not contain a brush heap, but the
ugliest wickedest weed this |
country has ever known or can know |
—the Russian thistle.
A few vears ago it was unknown in
meanest
this country, and only travelers in the
of southeastern
ever seen it, But it is now
in full possession of many & good farm
regions
in the bakotas, and is spreading its
towards every point of the
COmMpass with the {win staes as its
cont i
ir and starting int The
pliant
Mnmiit ied
rrown, for it is
fully three
twenty
feet in ir
hich
five neter
ford forty
and {rns ~1OUY
the ult of on ARON 8
’ : ‘ 2 i}
from a gingie seed ie
plant
wot is com-
half
being an annual ry
paratively small, belag about an
1 '
neh ong
1 3 3
WICH IS Bove
grroting
When it
harm.
tender and
4 scattered abund-
bnshy mass full of branche
is young and
|
green it looks vers
legs and its soft, fuzzy
juicy litt
antly all its myriads of stems
: not
tempting
iow
When the long
the subarctic
Mr
brought
hing 1
& near
er recognize
foe
¥ of #1}
glems o
terrible
half
harder ane
spine apout
Ch grows nh
) 3 :
SHArper as (ime DASSeS, The Dakota
farmers
The
raw in
take POSSe ss) 3
the horses are !
$ ond of
Lhe
foul
of raw fl«
day's work. and a
Ass
athier boots m
“ir plow tean
3 ~ fall
eid igi WOrk
r farmers Wrap rags
yf thie
and
r horses
:
mt Nave
he Russian thistle
and fruitiess
Plowing
usually
only put in
weenis 1
1
And ruin in
that may be
siem
greenisn is
on i
RET-
The
Fasst dl
OREOTT
timate YS 13 ¢
Senator Hansbrough's
SK) IRN,
Rp iinen
the ( apit yl to be
fall
breaks loose
the «
well-braced
roo!
sigh
from its
out on a journey of propagation.
When often happens the
prair es are swept by fires the Russian
as
thistle diversifies its evil career by
bush,
will spread
stacks, barns
A blazing, burning
the wind
grain
speeding
the
and
than
foxes in the grain
fields and vineyards of the Philistines.
f
before
to
Sampson's
But is as a weed that the thistle
It is tenacious of
multiplies more rap-
holds fast all it once gains, Wheat
After
that the farmer hardly dares sow his
fields leas his loss should be total
Barley and rye fare almost as badly
as wheat. Oats and millet have an
even chance against it if they are
well put in on good ground. Where!
the thistle has got into a grain field |
it makes life a burden for the thresh- |
ors.
They can hardly get gloves tough |
enough to withstand the sharp cuts
from the thistle spines. Flax is/
usually a total failure when the
thistle once appears in it. It was in
fiax seed imported from Russia by
gome Mennonites in Bon Homme
County, 8. D., twenty years ago, that
the weed was first brought to this
country. By some it is said that these
Mennonite Russians sewed the plant
for purposes of forage. But this is
wholly gratuitous conjecture. Nobody
regards the plant as suitable for
forage, although sheep will eat it in
the spring when it is juicy and ten-
der, and as it is an annual, hard
grazing might kill it out. But there
is little prospect that the Northwest
ern farmers will increase their flocks
for the purpose of combating the
Russian thistle, They are too uncer.
tain about the supply of subsistance
during the rest of the year when the
thistle is no longer succulent and
other fodder crops are not to be had.
compensating incentive and mutton
is only dead sheep when your flock is
fifteen hundred miles from market
That the thistle is spreading, is in-
dead
Can In
coming rapidly east ward, there
no doubt, it first appeared
Bon Homme oc Da-
and from there spread north
ward along the Jim river, for a long
time seeming to be unable
that stream and advance eastward.
At last, like the Yankee who crossed
the Connecticut river by walking up
to its source, where he could step
across, the thistle leaped over the
Jim several hundred miles to the
north of Bon Homme county. [It
also went on to the
Chicago and Northwestern railroad to
Pierre, on the Missouri. With the
building of various railroads the weed
traveled north and west as far
Northern Pacific and to Bismarck on
the Missouri. It is now at the inter-
where the fertile
River valley ceases to be
the
minty, South
in
kota,
to cross
along the
west
as the
Red
can and becomes
Ameri-
the
Indeed
this big weed of Senator Hansbrough's
came from Lamoure in North Dakota
not a hundred from the Mani-
The Agricultural Depart-
inquiries to
spondents in every county in North
and South #Makota, Minnesota, Wis.
consin northern Jowa, Montana,
Ws and Nebraska Over 300
repl g have come. showing its widely
domein of
miles
toba line.
ment sent
out COPrre-
oming
Lie
and rapidly extending
It is
and Minneapolis
the st
struction, already
peared in
spreading
streets to
hateful presence
the
ERS ards
all over the suburban
disfigure them into the
’ « BOCTORS
and the Bt {
roix
Mississip
rivers, it is t
{ * Been.
It is even found
} ¥
gouth as far as Eau
Arbor
home in
as far as
Morton's
ournay to Texas.
It has
»ecretary
Claire.
Lodge
Nebraska, on its
ot
Out in Wyoming, it is
and Denver chronicl
NOW Common,
Oo 118 unwelcome
t}
pr, » | TY
there i
3 3 3
unas the shadow
Peak N rt hwestern
knows what it i and the eg
the
Pike's
southern parts of Stats
to visit them
English sparrow
travel, and thi
as
New
hopped from
ears it
usre
miles
borders of
tly increasing at the ra
\
fifteen miles a8 year
£11 whoat ia
OVer 8 milion acres o whoa jand
enbraced in this western thistledom
and careful estimates at the Agricul
tural Department last
loss at 82 G00 000 fr
MI
t has cots
‘ #
(i% past year | fi 1088 In
exceed.
At this geometrical
at region, it is inated
ing #4 500 000
ratis it
going to happen in a very
The danger is so appalli
8
t
is easy to conjecture what 1s
VEears
the
been asked
protect
tates and Congress have
o provide relief and
senator Hansbrough Lins
heme of
107
od
warfare
introdu
a bill providing a s«
the thistle |
to Reed
We the only way 1o
August
81
to exterminate
it up bef
i
seems to
$
ore FOes
it anes 10 seed about
3
it 1s plowed before A
188
likely to die without
terity.—] Washington Sts
MORE VIOLENT THAN POLITE.
Some Marriage Customs of Savage
Races.
From remote times havi
the prize of the daring
and marriage by capture has more or
our
the
brides
been most
less prevailed in some part of
little globe from the time when
artful Romans, ignoring the laws oi
hospitality, seized upon their Sabine
guests. nor waited for the decree n
to be pronounced absolute before as.
serting their new prerogative, and
from this enforced sprang
the conquerors of the world.
The Esquimau of to-day, having
once established his manhood by kill
ing a polar bear unaided, is sent forth
i=
alliance
seizes, and, in spite of her screams
and struggles, endeavors to carry her
off. This proving no easy feat, ow-
ing to the substantial proportions of
the Esquimau belle, together with
the enormous weight of her clothing,
an exciting race occurs, the lady
darting among the aroused neighbors,
dodges her suitor in the crowd which
is only
her the third time that he is per-
mitted to lead his blushing and ex-
cited bride to the hymeneal altar,
says a writer in Lippincott’s.
The Australian aborigine adopts a
of a single life. He looks about for
a partner, and, finding his opportun-
ity, stuns her with a heavy blow, and
carries her off to her new home, where,
it is to be hoped, on her return to
consciousness his after-tenderness
makes some atonement for his some
what rough-and-ready mode of woo-
ing.
In parts of India the winning of
the bride depends upon fleetness of
foot, a circular course being marked
out, half of which is traversed by the
maiden (encumbered only by a waist-
band) before the lover is allowed to
start in pursuit, and if he does not
succeed in eapturing her before she
has thrice completed the circuit he
loses his prize.
Witp animals are very bold in some
parts of Southern California this win-
ter. Beveral instances have lately
been noted in San Bernardino county
of travelers on the highway being at-
tacked by wildeats.
The Name of licohol.
The reservation of the name of
alcohol for the product of the distil-
lation of wine is modern. Till the
end of the eighteenth century the
word, of Arable origin, signified any
principle attenuated by extreme pul-
verization or by sublimation. It was
applied, for example, to the powder
of sulphuret of antimony (koheul),
which was used to blacken the eyes,
and to various other substances as
well as to spirits of wine. No author
has beep found of the thirteenth
century, or even of the fourteenth
century and later, who applied the
word alcohol to the product of the
distillation of wine.
The term spirit of wine, or ardent
spirit, although more ancient, was
not in use in tha shirteenth century,
for the word “snirit” was at that
time reserved for volati.e agents, like
mercury, sulphur, the sulphurets of
arsenic and sal ammoniac, which
were capable of acting on metals and
modifying thelr color and properties.
The term eau-de-vie was given in
the thirteenth and fourteenth centu-
ries to the elixir of long life. tL was
Arnaud de Villeneuve who employed
it for the first time to designate
the product of the distiliation
of wine. jut he used it not as
a specific pame, but in order to mark
the assimilation which he made of it
with the product drawn from wine.
The elixir of long life of the an-
cient alchemists had nothing in com-
mon with our alcohol. Confusion of
the two has led the historians of
science into more than one error. —
Popular Science Monthly.
os mrs A — A—————— A"
Lime and lime Water.
The uses of 80 homely aa article as
One sees the hod man
keep their drink.
poor recéptacie
universal beverage. Yet it
would not be 80 good or so pure served
ice plicher. The lime
water of the druggist 1s indeed noth.
ing more than the soiutiou of the
hodmen. A piece of lime unsiacked
in a perfectly clean bottle, with cold
water poured over it, the bottle
It 1s
A
milk is
complaint. It
corrects acidity of the stomach. ib
prevents th: turning milk or
cream, and a capful added to bread
sponge will keep it from souring.
Allowed to evaporate from a vessel
on stove, it will alleviate the dis
tresses due to lung fever, croup, or
dipthther.a. It will sweeten and purify
otlies, [URS elo
Lime itself, as every one knows, is
invaluable as a purifier and disin.
fectant. Sprinkle it in oellars or
slosets, where there is a slight damp-
it will not only serve as a puri.
the invasion of
poxious animals. It is ope of the
is a full recipe for lime water.
ready for use in a few moments
spounful of this in a glass of
of
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in 80 many instances
Signs of Eitkhiesn Ninety-iour.
The old
makes 5 fat graveyard” is often ve rified, and
tring forth
aches,
saving “A green Christmas
it further says, that the year will
sickness, wherein pains and
rheumatic complaints, soreness of joints and
olden times there
limbs will abound In the
t so now, Even old
Santa Claus has Jearnol athiag or two, In
i; a Christmas docking was found a bole
the best known, surest
remedy for all such troubles. All years have
their prophesies, and no year is wilhout ite
wrought by this
Jacobs Ou,
record of surprising cures
Tae pummel-logical is
fruitful of professions.
HOOD’S
Sarsaparilla
the most
Lesite C. Smith
After Diphtheria
His life bung as by a thread, strength felled
him and his flesh bloated. Hood's Sarsaparilia
purified his blood, built up his system. gave
him strength and also benefited his catarrhal
trouble.” Mus OC. W. Swire, Tunbridge, Vi.
Hood's Pills are carefully prepared and are
made of the best lagredionis Try a box.
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