A Death and a Life,
Fair young Hannah,
Ben, the sunburnt fisher, gayly woos;
Hale and clever,
For a willing heart and hand he sues.
May-day skies are all aglow,
And the waves are laughing sol
For her wedding
Hannah leaves her window and her shoes.
May ix passing;
Mid the apple boughs a pigeon coos,
Hannah shudders,
For the mild southwester mischief brews,
Round the rocks of Marblehead,
Outward bound, a schooner sped.
Silent, lonesome,
Hannah's at the window, binding shoes,
» “ #* w w * .
Sailing away!
Losing the breath of the shores in May,
Dropping down from the beautiful bay,
Over the sca slope vast and gray!
And the skipper's eyes with a mist are
blind,
For a vision comes on the rising wind
Of a gentle face that he leaves behind,
And a heart that throbs through the fog
bank dim,
Thinking of him,
Far into night
He watches the gleam of the lessening light
Fixed on the dangerous island height
That bars the harbor he loves from sight.
And he wishes, at dawn, he could tell the
tale
Of how they weathered the southwest gale,
To brighten the cheek that had grown so
pale
With a wakeful night among speetres grim-—
Terrors for him.
Yo-heave-yo!
Here's the bank where the fishermen go.
Over the schooner's side they throw
Tackle and bait to the deeps below.
And Skipper Ben in the water sees,
When its ripples curl to the light land
breeze,
Something that stirs like his apple trees,
Lifted to him.
Hear the wind roar,
And the rain through the slit sails tear and
pour!
Then hark to the Beverly bells once more!
And esch man worked with the will of ten;
While up in the rigging, now and then,
The lightning glared in the face of Ben,
Turned to the black horizon’s rim,
scowling on him.
Into his brain
Burned with the iron of hopeless pain,
Into thoughts that grapple eves that
strain.
Pierces the memory, cruel and vain
Never again shall he walk st ease
Under the blossoming apple trees
and
That whisper and sway to the sunset breeze,
While soft eves float
where the sea gulls
saim.
Gazing with him.
How they went down
Never was known in the still oid town.
Nobody guessed how the fisherman brown,
With the Jook of despair that was half a
frown,
Faced his fate in the 1
Faced the mad Liliows with hunger white,
Just within hail of the beacon light
That shone on a woman sweet and trim,
Waiting for him.
rious night
Beverly bells
Ring to the tide as it ebbs ana swells!
His was the anguish a moment tells
The passionate sorrow death quickly knells.
But the wearing wash of a jifelong woe
Is left for the desolate heart to know,
Whose tides with the dull years come and
20,
Till hope drifts dead to its stagnant brim,
Thinking of him.
» » » .
Poor lone Hannah. :
Sitting at the window binding shoes,
Faded, wrinkled,
Sitting, stitching, in 3 mournful muse,
Bright-eyed beauty once was she,
When the bloom was on the tree;
Spring and Winter,
Hannal's at the window, binding shoes,
Not a neighbor
Passing nod or answer will refuse
To her whisper:
41s there from the fishers any news?’
Oh, her heart's adrift with one
On an endless voyage gone!
Night and morning,
Hannali's at the window, binding shoes,
"Tis November.
Now no tear ber wasted cheek bedews.
From Newfoundland
Not a sail returning will she lose,
Whispering hoarsely, “Fishermen,
Have you, have you heard of Ben?’
Old with watching,
Hanoah's at the window, binding shoes,
Twenty Winters
Bleach and tear the ragged shore she views.
Twenty seasons
dever one has brought her ary news.
Etill her dim eyes silently
Chase the white salls o'er the sea,
Hopeless, faithful,
Hannab's at the window, binding shoes,
~=[Ltiey Larcom,
Ws ab
SAVED BY A CALF,
“The whole course of my life was
changed, and my love's young dream
destroyed in less than a minute by a
calf, and a fortunate thing it was for
me,” srid the wife of a prominent
citizen of Lycoming county, Pena.,
now visiting friends in this city, “My
father was the leading business man
in a bustling lumber village, and there
were thee giris of us, a sister older
and one younger than I. Father was
kind aad indulgent, bat very level
headed, and had been a widower for
some years. When I was 18 a good-
looking young chap fr. m somewhere
down the Busquehanna came to clerk
in father's store. 1 was a romantic
snip, and fell in love with the good-
looking clerk, or thought 1 did, and
he fell in love with me. That young
man, it seemed to me then, was the
bravest, most ambitious youth that
ever lived. 1 see now that it was
only check and brag. But he was my
ideal of a lover, nud I believed it was
impossible for me to live without
him.
“Father wasn't long in discovering
the very tender relations that had
come to exist between me and his
self.assertive young clerk, and he
called me to him one day and told me
that he was sory to see that I was such
a silly girl, and that { must get over
it at ounce, and then informed my
brave and steadfast idol that at the
end of the month le could go back
home. Of course my heart was
broken. Life had lost all its charm.
I felt I was the victim of a stern and
unsympathetic parent's cruel will and
I wished that I wera dead.
«Now, although this lover of mine
was clerking in my father's store for
£20 a month and his board, his father
was a rich lnmberman, and he was the
only son. When 1 was at the height
ference that had ruffled the course of
my true love, as | think I was in the
habit of calling it, my idol and I met
one evening, quite by chance, of
ours, and what did my brave Knigit
prepose but an clopement, and what
did my romantic soul do but prompt
spot.
“There was a railroad station eight
miles distant. The last train for any-
where Jeft that station at 7 o'clock
All we had to do was
to drive to the station, get the train,
We fixed on a certain night
It
drive to the station
over the sort of road we liad to travel
was
The
There was no
been
It
early start, winter had
very mild. SHOW,
where
me with a
wagon.
discovering the whole plot
reach the
he
horse a good deal faster than
could
that would
sure
the one we had to depend on.
no fear
set in for good,
but there was a moon, and that helped
We had got
aiong amazingly.
and
to turn in the rod, A cat with
I looked up the road and dis.
An im-
its hsnuoches at
of the road growling and
us. When my brave
lover saw the savage beast hie rose up
in the wagon, gave a yell, and gasped :
“Oh! Jennie, let's go back.”
«I forgot all about the bear. |
gozed in amazement at my gallant
knight He was as pale as a sheet.
The lines hung loose in his hands, |
seized them, jerked them away from
him, took the whip, and, as I held the
horse from turning round, ordered
the cowardly youth out of the wagon:
Ie erawled out of the back end of the
wagon, aud tore down the road as fast
as lis legs could éarry him.
“Then I whipped the horse with all
my might, and he sprang forward and
whizzed the wagon past the growling
bear so close that [it almost knocked
the ugly beast over. 1 drove on to
the station, had the horse put out, and
went in the little hotel there to wut
for father. My love's young dream
was gone as if it had never been, Tot
minutes afier I reached the station the
train came and went. Ten minutes
later father came tearing on horseback
up to the door. 1 met him.
¢++Father,” said I, ‘I've been saved
by a calf.”’
“Then 1 told him all about the ad-
venture on the road.
¢ «Saved by a calf!’ he exclaimed,
‘You mean saved by a bear.’ ”
“ «Not at all,” I replied. «If Jerry
hadw’t been a calf and the biggest
kind of a calf, that bear wouldn't have
been any more than a stump in my
way. I was saved by a calf, I tell
you, and I want to go home!’
“My gallant lover was never seen
around our neighborhood agaly, and
somehow or other, father always
seemed (o think more of me after that
than he ever had before.’ [Nov
The Carnival in Rio De Janeire.
There are two totally distinct sea
sons at Rio, when the town presents
an altogether different appearance § the
summer, which Insts from October to
April, and the winter, from May to
September. In the summer, which is
the autumn and winter in Europe,
when the sun pours down into the
narrow streets, Rio is anything but an
agreeable place. The heat has driven
away the rich and leisured classes,
the great merchants, the diplomatic
corps; in fuct, all of any position or
fancied position hasten to the suburbs
on the breezy heights overlooking the
city, or to the little country towns in
the neighborhood, such as Petropolis
and Theresopolis, whilst others take
refuge on the islands of the bay.
The town becomes a perfect caldron;
but this does not prevent a great ex-
citement over the Carnival, which is
an institution to which the Fluminen«
ses, or river folk, are particularly de-
voted. This relic of the old bLeathen
Europe; and now that Italy is a united
kingdom, it is no longer properly kept
in its former
Rome and Venice.
up even headquarters,
livelier than ever, and there
for celebrating it in grand
style. Shrove-Tuesday
most characteristic manner, and is dis-
vebicles in the processions, but by the
ceding year.
In the time of the empire the
ministers of Dom Pedro defraved the
expenses of the Carnival, and though
the old customs am: kept up, and the
were their predecessors; inoreover,
at the ridicalons caricatures of them
exhibitions, in which fall scope is af”
forded to the
imaginations of the
poets of Rio.— [Harper's
mo AIO
A Bumble Bee Chased by a Humming
Bird.
An observer writes that he is satis.
birds and bees in
as there is be.
tween members of the hnman race in
their straggle for the good things of
describes a recent quarrel
(Me.)
a humming bird with
he saw in a Portland,
garden, where
dash expressed its disap-
proval of the presence of a big bumbi,
bee in the same (tree, The usually
fle d,
He
the
pugnacions bee
but he
dashed
incontinently
the
forth
while
humming bird in close pursuit
Where
did not leave
back
and
tree.
and amony
branches blossoms, the
will you flud another pair
dodge
and dart equal to
these? They like flashes of
the
were
light, yet pursuer followed the
turning when
Iu short, the bird and
the bee controlied the
his eves, The chase was all over in
half the time that it has taken to tell
it, but the excitement of a pack of
hounds afier a fox was no greater.
The bee escaped, the bird giving up
the chase and alighting on a twig. It
couldn't have been chasing the bee for
food, and there is no possible expla
nation of its unprovoked attack except
that it wished to Jave all the honey
the bee turned.
movements of
i —————
May Displace Ganpowder,
A commission of German artillery
experts bas been testing at the Juoeter-
borg a new explosive which is intend-
ed to replace, ultimately, gunpowder
in the German army. The explosive
is a brows, fatly substance of the con
sistency of frozen oil when exposed
to ordinary temperature. It retains
this consistency up to 112 degrees
Fabrebeit. A shock or a spark does
not set it off. When used in gons the
explosion ia obtained through contact
with another chemical compound.
The explosion is almost unaccompanied
by smoke and the detonation is iucon-
siderable. The recoil is very slight,
even when the heaviest charges have
been used. The explosive does not
heat the weapons sufficiently to cause
difficulty in the way of rapid finng,
and cartridges once used are easily re-
filled. For the present rifle, model of
1886, the new compound le not avails
able, but if futuro tests be as satisfaoe
tory as the recent ones it will be in
troduced generally in the artillery
branch of the service. Four models
of new army rifles havieg many ade
vantages over Lhe rifle mow in use,
have passed successfully the trials of
Horald. voto}
The Testimonials’
We publish are not purchased, nor are they
written up in our office, nor are they from
our employes. They are facts, proving that
West Kendall, N. ¥.
Three Great Enemies
Neuralgia, Rheumatism
and Dyspepsia
Another Victory for Hood's,
* For aver 2) fears | have suffered with neu.
] could not turn in bed. Several physicians
remedies, but all failed to give me permanent
relief. Five years ago | began to take Hood's
Ara.
Hood’ si. Cures
Sarsaparillas and it has done me 8 vast amount
of good, Since beginning to take it | have not
had 8 sick day
good health which 1 attribute to Hood's Sara.
parilla” Mas EE. M. Busr, W. Kendall, N.Y.
Hood's Pills cure all liver lis, Billousness,
Jaundice, indigestion, Sick Headache.
Iam 72 years old and enjoy
&ooenta
Bettied by Arbitration,
The outline of the postoffice had
become indistinct in tbe gathering
the streets in the
vicinity were fliled with people hur
rying homeward, when the reporter
observed a man with a stubby beard
who with some difficulty was holding
a position ou a corner, solemnly shak-
ing hands with a ling of newsboys
Some of the .passers-by. dizcouraged
in their pedestrian efforts for rapid
transit, stopped to watcl. the »Hro-
ceedings, for the sight was unusual
Had some local celebrity chosen this
UUme and place to bold a reception?
It might appear so but for she small
number of guests
The true significances of
scene, however, was
Ly those who were
spot.
There had been a flerce altnarcation
between the wan and one of the boys,
and the companions of the latter,
coming from all directions, tell upon
the man with so vigorous an onslaught
that an old Irishman said afterward
that he thought they'd “murder him
from head to toot.” Bul just as this
outcome of the affair seemed probable
a ragged little fellow appeared on the
ceene and ruled the proceedings out
of order.
“Youse fellers ain’
a square deal” he
wouldn't *a’ been no scrap If Joe
hadn't cheated,” and he followed
with an argument thal was evidently
convinciog, for when he finished
burst of eloquence with what ps .
biy was a “Yer
oughter ‘pologize,’ did
actually.
Each side conceded something and
the bandshaking foliowed, and
though a couple of idlers moved away
somewhat reluctantly, disappointed
0 not seeing a ghd, and while some
of the spectators laughed at the lit.
tic peacemaker, the last in the line,
extended a grimy little
clasped in the larger one, half a score
the little
whdersto only
eariier cn the
t givin’ de bloke
said “There
his
borrowed phrase,
ths boys
wl,
ii
sss III cos.
Vardi
married young, winning =
by
oo gives
TESTED are
The Manuish Girl, 4
Bhe begins innocently enough. She
fias a troop of brothers, perhaps, and
is drawn into thelr sports in spite of
herself. Bhe catches their contempt
of girls; cuts off her hair like Maggie
Tulliver; takes pleasure in a riding
habit and its odd accouterments,
Horses and dogs are her favorite com-
panions.
So she falls out of sympathy wirh
her sex. She loses its delicacy; she
is reckless of its conventions. That
is always the peril of the mannish
girl. Bat the fact that a woman ip
body, she tries to be a man in mind,
exposes her to the animadversions of
the ribald.
As she mingles with the world,
she feeds a kind of vanity by being
mannish. To talk slang, to smoke |
cigarettes, to ride to hounds, com- |
mend her, in a measure, to her male |
companions. They declare her to be |
jolly, fetching, stunning. They cul- |
ber society. They take her |
They love to chat
propose a
visit to the Arion ball.
But they rarely marry her.
That is where the maidenly girl]
revenge. When it comes |
a wife-—a wife who shall |
surreptitions |
taking
man seldom |
He knows |
his friends--a
will be just as at‘ractive te
He knows that the lack of |
refinement, which has a kind of zest |
the giri twenty. will turn I
vulgarity in a matron of
Of
Then what is the end of
girl? Eternal spipsterhood or
divorce court if no man wil
ber ehe gets more acidulated
by month. Her mind turns |
She has Nothing but
she par
the social
the man-
gossip for
the
her
sel
has
“lia on
8 woman does that she
tombstone ou her career
reputation.—Truth.
———— I ——
Rough on the Hoge.
A gentleman stopped at
waere an old negro we
and, while waiting for
children to get a bucket of
water, entered into conversation with
her concerning the crop prospects.
“1 did hab fo’ or five hogs.” suid the
old woman: “but dwindled
down till I ain't got but one now.”
“somebody them” “1 nebber
talks "bou neighbors. an’ 1 doan’
like to say what Lecome ob de shoats.
1 doean't.™
I nebler makes mischief,
a muster
"Te
Ind
ted] agwine to say
re. De hogs
heah
dint agwine
“yy . -
ar you
“AE ft on
Mister,
ter
a cabin,
man
ane f
ived, {
f the
fresh
dat's
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