——————— A SONG OF HER. Would life have one joy to bless Sweet! without this golden tress? Could there be a rose to shine Redder than these lips of thine? Golden tresses, gleam for me! Lips—a rose for my lips be! Beams a light in any skies Brighter—lovelier than thine eyes? Could there be a dove's dim breast Softer than this hand caressed? Dearest eves, still brightly shine! White hand, keep this kiss of mine! [Atlanta Constitution. f Promise Under Siss. ——— The Comtesse de Moncley—who will soon change her name, a8 you shall see—is one of the most delici- ous widows imaginable, and also one of the cleverest I have ever met. From the very first day she aggeration that could be considered bad taste in the expression of her in her widow's weeds must wear red satin under her crape. Early in April she had quietly left had set foot band’s death, and accident that, a week covered the address fully concealed from was ‘‘Sycamore Villa, visitor it was only later, 1 everyone, It Chantilly. a house, situated at a distance from Sycamore Villa, eral trunks, an English cart and a man on thirty. That man was myself. I hasten to add that, in this eir- cumstance, I acted solely at my own risk and peril, without authorization, any right whatever, and with no other two servants, love—to prompt me to hope that my change of domicile would not be a dead loss. Ah. well—nothing venture, noth- ing win. And what did I venture? The Salon, the May fetes, the Grand Prix, the mob in the Allee des teaux, a few balls—what were tl comparison with the charms of most attractive neighborhood? I have known men to eross the and spend fortunes to follow to the ends of the world adventuresses whose whole body tip of Mme. finger. Clarisse’s pretty anger when I pre- sented myself at } day of my arrival, lightful recomper In spite grand air, 1 that touched, and I doubt if ever lover perienced so much plessure in be seas wis not worth the Moncley’s little de her house, on was my frst Se she Saw 3 She took her time about it, to only pushed me into the street atter a regulation phillippie, to which 11] ened very hum! ] much as was nec the lecture, which concludes words: **And now do me the favor to re- turn to Paris. The train leaves in hour.”’ ““An hour!” 1 objected “That is hardly th horses and a carriage and lease : ““* What is this!" lease! You have presumed to—go, pir! What audacity! A lease! And, if you please, where is your house ?” ‘A long distance from here,’ 1 hastened to reply; ‘‘at other end of the forest. 1 am sureit must have taken me fully three-quarters of an hour to come here.” To be it had about five minutes. “To think,” she exclai i, “what a poor woman, deprived of her pro- tector, is exposed to! You would not have dared to do this if my hus. band were still alive. And to think gs ANG ne ied. she cor the Lilt precise, tak Poor Charles! ‘““He has never had any cause to complain,”” I murmured. ‘Let us talk together of him." “Never! “Then let us talk of ourselves, that will be better still.” This suggestion shocked her so that it took me a long time to calm her. without having sworn never to set foot in her house again. It is need- less to say that it took half an hour to persuade me to make this promise which 1 broke the next morning and as often as possible. I pass over the months that fol- lowed, merely declaring that in this vale of tears there is no more happy lot than that {over as | was. Clarisse had the most a look from her blue eyes—eyes that were intended for quite another pur- pose than annihilating—whenever she saw that I was going to fall on my knees before her, and I must con- fess she saw it at least ten times dur- ing every visit I made her, still in de- spite of her express prohibition. by the occasion—naturally enough, it seems to me—to propose myself in get terms as a candidate to succeed r Charles. That evening, it was 8 June evening, snd the acacias made the most of the power which certain vegetables possess of intoxicating one with their perfume—that evening her hand reached for the bell. Cla risse did not threaten this time, she ated. 1 saw that Iwas on the point of being put out by her servants—— who consisted of an old woman who had been her nurse, and whom I could have bowled over with a breath, However, it was no time for airy per. iflage. Without waiting for Nanvy seize me by the collar, I took my snd fled When day broke I had not closed my eyes; not that the situation seem- ed desperate, for I had learned to read Clarisse’s eyes. But, all night long I had repeated over and over again to myself: “Heaven grant that the little ho- tel in the Avenue Friedland is still for sale! We would be so comfort- able there.” In spite of this I was no {further advanced when September came, the last month of my lease. [I was no longer shown the door when I sug- gested my candidacy, but Clarisse assumed a bored air and calmly talked of something else. ourselves, 1 the bell, for 1 divined that she was thinking: “My dear friend, you do not dis- tude of Chantilly I have scarcely had opportunity to enjoy my widow- hood. Let me if i really worthy of its reputation. In a year or two we can talk of your affair.’ In a year two! Pretty and charming as she was, Clarisse would have a score of adorers around her, and adorers around woman marry are fli RCO is or the like One flies in the but they certainly do the milk. Early in September Mme. de Mon- not was going to Paris on the morrow to ‘I sincerely hope," she added, in a severe tone, hat you do not think of accompanying me.” “How can yi suggest such a thing?’ said I, with apparent sub- mission. ‘You leave at—-"' **At eight in the ning, as I do not wish to be seen. 1 shall Nancy in the afternoon to prepare my room. Ah, poor Paris!’ She no longer said ‘Poor Charles!” I admit that this “Poor Paris!” made me much more uneasy. ml eve send the doors of the express train, which stops hardly a minute, were alreac Clarisse had not She reached the station just bell rang. “Quick, hu railroad o “Hurry!' compartment closed. as the r up, madame!’ cried the ‘ial, repeated, opening at random and helpin fainting, she . 1s 5 back, almost Here LOO is what ler: it were hed had seen over her shoul » compartmer ied. and three men d, and three men, orr the heir shoulders three he barrels shone in Ke caning I { yr t i back o he INS. { ned the door, hae voice “Don’t come in, closed the door so quickly ot heard the end of the Then Clarisse and I bun- ourselves into the next compart. » had 1 ment without quite knowing what we The We seemed train was already were Mme, half dead with onfess 1 was vio- alone. she cried. ing in that going to figd y kill each other! What ter. le tragedy be enacted right yeside us?’ I don't understand it re plied. i possible i at all,” 1 “Only one explanation seers hunters crazy. they climb they simply they could do it without all that gymnustics.’’ "Xo," is some dreadful American kind of duel. In such a case, it seems, they climb up on anything they can find. But why didn’t they stop them at Chan- tilly?’ **The train there.” “Did you hear how they called out ‘Don’t come in!’? The wretches, they don’t want to be disturbed while they are killing themselves. Goodness! Just listen!’ The fusiliade had commenced right beside us. Several to Gr ure who have gona shot f ? if i ta Uihierwise, the why upon seats wanted to kill each other, suggested Clarisse, ‘it itself scarcely stopped Then a deathly silence ensued; they were all dead, however bad shots they might have been. Though we were making about fifty miles an hour at the time, I made ready to get out upon the step and find out what was going on in our ' neighbor's compartment. As 1 low- | ered the window two arms seized me and a voice broken with anguish | but which sounded very sweet, just the same--gasped behind me: i They will kill you!” tion, and I resolved to profit by it. 1 profited by it so well that, afer a dislogue too intimate to be repeated here, I was ina position to sing—if 1 | had a voice, which I havn’t—'"Thou. ou hua-ast said it.” For she had said it. Poor Charles was distanced now. She had said the sweet words: *'I love you.” A prey to emotions bordering on the hysterical, Clarisse sobbed and clung to me with all her strength, though I hed not the faintest desire to in- teude on the massacre next door, As for me, I wag very much occupied just then. That is why, early the next morn- ing, I hurried to my lawyer to speak to him about the little hotel in the Avenue Friedland, which was still for sale, but thank fortune, is now no longer in the market, Decorators and furnisherd are at work in it, and occupied by a certain young couple that I know of. But let us not anticipate. When the train pulled into the city, my companion and I had quite forgotten our neighbors, or what was left of them: but now the authorities ust be informed and the bodies removed. I had jumped out and was looking for a sergeant de vilie, when I beheld the door of the famous compurte ment open and the three hunters calmly descend from it, carrying, rolled up in a rug, an inert mass which looked as if it might be the body of & young child. Without an instant’'s hesitation, 1 seized the assassins by the collar, “Scoundrel!” 1 cried. have you got in that rug! “Don’t make such a row,” he | plied, ‘‘or we'll have a hundred ple at our backs. dog."’ “Dog! the man’s one of ““ What ty re- peo. It is only my poor I repeated, indignant coolness, nt come, Come, you cannot deceive me, I saw it all’! My captive, whom I still held by the collar, opened a corner of the rug and showed me a setter's muzzle with foam on it dappled with dropped my hold greatest flecks of blood. i man’s collar in the on.” “Really, I scarcely t apologize,’ 1 it is not astonishing have been dece crouching on the seats of the ca 0 the { confi know “But, that 1 ived--=three sald. i and shooting ‘Still, the explanation simple. My dog was bit WEeeKs 0, I hud the terized saved. had day near Creil, but, n¢ ie we the train than developed and the animal be nay ¥ i ~ bitten three wound cau- y Wis been hunting = I Wer on nydrophiobia y at us. I'o attempt to pu ph a ee pee op he seat. persuaded and t it's a trip I “Nor hen hall sR y 84 of the a \ ii BSSASSINS, Amateur Nursing, i is that h« yuschold NOt RICKNEesSE Aang requires ursing : but this isa blessing thai events cannot ow for the s t always des a be afforded. and . in be allordoed, and 80 we i to the ring knowledge » in the sick room, it wat anatomy, physiology ria medica should be stud. be conceded that of these subi The care of the , particularly when they are weak or petulant is in itself a most ] t. and which have uraily, but which all can acqui What can the sick eat, how should it be prepared, and how served? questions of the greatest importance v Wil jon ‘1a use, valus- HE ary. one some ro FY. # aie for cooking for the sick is an entirely different th from preparing fooa for the robust. It is not necessary to take a course in a training-school for nurses to acquire knowledge that will great in this work. There are many books published on the subject, and these with sympa- thetic devotion will furnish all the information necessary. ing be of use Youthful Criminals in Germany. A German paper states that is consequence of the considerable in. | crease in the number of youthful | eriminals in Germany between twelve | and eighteen years of age, the impe- rial ministry of the interior of Berlin | is contemplating the reorganization sof the compulsory education system. The government has in view the im- itation of English institutions. All | the German laws have the great fault that the interference of the author | ities is permitted only when a child has committed some crime, but they give no handle against morally de- based children who are still free from i erime. The number of youthful criminals has risen from 42,240 to | 46,468-—that is, ten per cent.—in one year.—[ London News. Big Guns for Business Only. People always expect a big ship to fire ber biggest guns on saluting. Big guns take bi charges, which means big money. Consequently vessels use their secondary batteries, six-pound- ers and small ordnance when firing for politeness, and reserve their big guns for business. Moreover the life of these big guns Is limited, & fow hundred discharges exhausting their vitality and making them dangerous to those who serve them.—[Boston Transcript. More people die in spring than in any of the other seasons, One we popula are full-bl SOMEWHAT STRANGE. ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF EVERYDAY LIFE. p— . Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures Which Show that Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. 81 ForMmaxw, snake charmer, collected a crowd in the streets of Jacksonville the other day with a diamond-back rat- tler, which he had caught near Springfield. It was five feet eight inches long. He extracted its fangs | without assistance in the presence of the erowd. tha Florida rattle- A STORY Neb. { comes from Harrisburg of a cyclone that picked up a log 14 feet long and 15 inches thick and carried it sixty rods. After this warming-up heat the wind gath- ered up Rufus Wo iy and his horse and carried them through the roof of a shed and landed them 200 feet away. Neither man was much hurt, although Woody's clothes wera blown ofl. Ir has been aaricultural land, feeding sawdust to their horses, first open nor horse discovered, through in New Eng- that certain farmers have been At } . this sounds absurd: but : na meetings biush every one knows how fond horses at { cattle are of small shrubs, and rded may not sawdust be grown up shrub? tried in g those wh havo hie ps the » farmer fed his horses with a mixture o crushed oats, bay and fresh elin sawdust. Tue Henderson (Ky. of 8a remarkable woman count wounds b of twent ut {rot im his ri Ix the town of Ratibor, p ia, Prussia Oder Rive a8 hed f two stories, leaves make a 80 The wall in which ir nests. PronasLy the son Ky Hill neighborhood. know his exact aze, but t of old residents i not far from yeals He is a white man, with one-quarter Cherokee Indian, of the Indian blood he is as proud f he were the owner of broad blue- His name Vaughn, father of William Vaughn, the Madison County skeleton, who with Barnum for years. Mr. Vaughn hasn't a tooth in his head, but never suffered one pang of tooth. ache. He saved all his teeth, and guards them with as jealous care as does the miser his gold, and wants them buried with him. County, in He from the rec Goes 01 GlieCclions neighborhood he is old as rags Acres, is Jehu Ix a treatise on the subject of al- cohol, Mr. Lawson Tait exonerates the human race from the imputa- tion of being the only creatures that naturally take to drink. Wasps, he says, have the same proclivity. Mr. Tait has watched the wasps eagerly attacking over-ripe fruits, when the sugar had had in some degree been coverted into aleohol. Around such fruits, especially rotten plums and grapes, the wasps may be seen fight. | ing and struggling for precedence; | and afterwards, when they are abso- lutely drunk with the spirit, they | crawl away in a torpid condition and | hide themselves in the grass till they | have slept off the orgie. The wasp is even more quarrelsome than usual in his cups, and will sting most venom- | ously on the slightest provoeation, “Dip you ever hearof adog having | a wooden leg?’ inquired 8. P. Ord- way, of Logansport, Ind. “I know a man near where I live who has a small dog one of whose front legs was ertushed some time ago by a wagon wheel, Being somewhat of a sur- geon, his master carefully ampu- tated the crushed leg and when the wound was healed provided the dog with a light and strong wooden leg. In the course of time the dog, which is a very intelligent little animal, be- cameo aware that he could rest his weight spon this wooden leg and use it for all ordinary purposes. n walking or trotting the dog always uses his artificial limb, but if he has occasion to do any fast running or wooden leg and depend solely upon the other three for the service re- quired.” ’ “Ir is a eurlous fact,” said oa New York physician, *‘ that while it is very difficult for the average citizen to get poisonous drugs in small quan- tities, it is easy to get them at whole- I know of a man who walked drug store up town and tried to buy five graing of morphine. The clerk refused to sell it to him without a physician's prescription. The rman into the wholesale department and for a package of the drug containing sixty grains. It was hand- The reason for the distinetion is doubtless the person intending to com- icide usually goes to the retail At the all morphine and opium fiends pur- ¥ their favorite drugs at asked wenuse mit drug 38] store. game time, the 4 bh v Ja rad Ciiise yvhole- pecnuse principally, 1 suppose t them much cheaper that Away from the shores of the broad Pacific, up in the northwestern part of our vast country, comes the story en who were River. of two m mon on the Oregon they notic spear ¥ Bli~ 3 they gray but struggle the the lown the r lodged in water, ; ht caugnt plac r three n Mrs. Mutchl her violent Mrs. Montague, WINRORKESE A gift r' Won- birds, ie soome obedient Dogs, animals herortootuers, derstand every word she hey do the most aston- her i unapproach 3 ns he will not only not iy Mrs. Ludwig, but worg of com- orde shy at the approac] will come to fn mand. Wild birds follow her when her farm, and [re- be away by One particular is about not she walks driven robin 4d with her that it hovers about he house continually, although Mrs. Ludwig has taken it far away several times and tried to frighten it into leaving her. Mra. Ludwig insists hat birds and beasts have a language, and that she understands it instinct- ively. quently will i hie yr. KO in~- “Uxere” Hexry Harnrisox, of Union county, Tenn., tells the fol- lowing snake story, which is vouched for by all his neighbors: “Several years ago an Italian, Joe De Novo by name, bought a small tract of moun- tain land about thirty miles from Without repairing the eabin he and his wife moved into it. do with their neighbors. The man went once a month to the country store that was near by to make necessary purchases. Things went on this way until some hunters over. forced to seek refuge in his cabin, The rain continuing unabated, they were forced to femain into the night. After supper the ltalian got a huge rattlesnake appeared upon until no less than seven wriggling serpents were in sight, The hunters were terribly alafmed, but De Novo bade them be quiet and wateh. The snakes seemed filled with the wildest octasy; if the music was low and soft they would move in graceful curves like the mages of the waltz; if it was loud and quick their move. ments were quick; at all times they kept the most perfect lime. If the music ceased they would rosh from sight, but would return immediately upon its resumption. Numbers have visited the Italian to witness this sight. Last year De Novo died. After the burial woman sold out and returned to her native country, the cabin was torn down, and the rattle t aaniiUMNL, THE WOXDURFUL EXPERINCE OF A WELL KNOWN CHELSEA MAN, AA Miviekens with nw Tuvarnble Viseasr and yet Curved, His Verssonl Siates mont in Detni!, Vontpelizy, Vi.) yin pe y + ye ‘ { From thie Argus anid Pairio!, This bs an ngs of progress an | oy hat halle the a lvancs o! fleas for the good of humanity is balled with delle, new It fs the provines of newspapers to wate ra events or phisno asp of any kind wd 40 immediately investigate a reported ‘nse out of the line of regular Ho Hutehinson, ecommandy Mr. Vi., und n bed whore ho lay stricken with n supposedly incurable dis whey the al how he had been raised from happenings, story of George Chelnes, cass was told, tue Argus and Patriot de. tallied a reporter to loo’: thin un Mr. reported facts of the case, 10 whom Hutchinson “1 am a native of Massachusetts, a wood worker by trade, and forty vears of age, and forthe past fifteen years have been working in various sawmills in Vermont Fight Bradforito Chelsea and bought the sawmill and Massa chusetis, ago I moved from years of which I am now proprietor. 1 was in per- fect health and known throughout Chelsea and vicinity as one of the strongest men or my welght in that section, December 10th, 1802, 1 was hurt by a piece of fiving board as I was at work in the mill, After that, 1 be- gan slowly to loss my strencth and became incapacitated for work or effort of anv kind, The seat of my trouble seemed 10 be my back, but it gradually extended downward, I econsuited all the local physicians and was treated by two of them, but the medicines they administered were not of the slightest avail and did not check the diseases in the least, In fact, I was a miserable vielim of locomotor ataxia and was conscious of a steady advances of the insidious diseases, My back ached continually and my Jegs began to grow numb and to be less and less usable, iy the 15th of April I could absolutely do nothing and was strasely able to stand, My pPiysistans advised me to go to the Mary isteher Hospital, at surlington, bow treated. and I took thelr advice When I jeft home my friends bade me good-bye, never expecting to ses me alive again, The physicians at the hospital told me that my ease was a serious one, and I was complete. iy discouraged, 1 remained at the hospital seven weeks and took the medicines which the doctors gave me, I felt better at the bos. pital and thought that 1 was recovering, snd went home to continue their treatment, which I did for two months, and also had an electric battery under their advice, The im- provement, however, did not continue, and i began to give up hope, August Ist, 1893 § could not get out of my chalr without as- sistance, and if I got down upon the floor, I could not get up alone, About this time 1 chanced to read an account of the wonderiul curative powers of Dr, Williams" Pink Pills for Pale People in cases similar to my own, I did not bave any lath in the Pills, but thought a trial could do no harm, so 1 bought some without telling anyons what | was going todo, After I had been taking them some time | surprised mysel! by get- ting out of my chair without assistance, and ‘ in months, I to found that, tor the first time was ables 10 walk down to the postoffice, and my neighbors began to discuss the marked improvement in my health, As I continued the medicine I continued fo improve, and soon recommenced work in the mill, at first very lightly, and increasing as I was able snd as | gained in health and spirits, and now for the past three months I have been working ten hours per day almost as stead. fly ax I ever did. 1 feel well, eat well and sleep as well as I ever did, and I have no pain anywhere,” The reporter {alked with several gentlemen in regard the case of Me, Hutchinson, who is a well ksown citizen of Chelson and a Justice of the Peace, and they corroborated his statements as far as they were familiar with the case and stated that be was known 10 be a reliable man, and any statement he might make would be entitied 10 entire credence, An of Dr. Williams" Pink Pills shows that they are an uafalling specific for such disesses as Jocomotor stax, partial paralysis, 81, Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neural- gin, rheumatism, nervous headache, the a's ter effects of Ia grippe, pals tha heart, pale and saliow complezions, all forms of weakness either in female, Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, (59 cents 6 box or 6 box-s for 82 50- against him, His record for hoaesiy and ine tegrity is frrepron habe Fortunately, Mr. Lovell has some sturdy and businesslike sofis whom he early associated with him Col. Benjamin 8 Lovell, who i= endowed with rare business ability. niles the position of treasurer of the Company in a moi thorouta manner. Hei attached to 1he Governor ol Massachusetts’ staff, as was he (rom 180 to 188%. was aide-de-camp to Gen, Joan UC. Robin von in IGOR, and served on stall of Gen. tuseell A. Alger in 198, and with Gen. Palmer in 192, Thos, I. Lovell anl H. 1. Lowell ara the Colonel's vaiuable assistants in keeping the Company te the front, The John P, Lovell Armes Company have every facility which money, a {hero ign Know « edge of the busines, and the greatest skill mechanism can produce 10 1aake the “idveld Diamond” the best Meyele in the world, Every year since its fival appearances tis i. eycle bas boon improved, antili now it is an surpassed in point of material, woronanship, finieh, safely, speed, beauty and vasy running qualities, Not only Is the vee of the Lovell Diamond becoming more widespremd in this connie), it foreign gealers are pot slow in recognizing the merit of this machine, The “Lovell Dinmond™ has the fo'd, and it hiss already demonstrated that if ie the sing of bicycles, As the moanisine of Neo Bong land stand for all that is sanvemniinl in ne tare, #0 does the John 1%. Lovell Avis « ome pany represent all that is solid snd permas nent in the business world. fioson Hera, A Boston woman speaks of a dirt as a “real ostate convevanoe,” Wagon risks. The Ladies, The plessant effect and perfeot safety with which indies may uso the Cadformia liquid laxative, Syrup of Figs, noder all conditions, makes it thelr favorite remedy. To got the true sind genuine article, look for the name of the California Fig Syrap Co. printed near the button package. of the Those who serve iriends never lack em. ployment, : a ———