PRINCE AND PAUPER.
The Prince passed by. A careless boy,
As he watched him ride away,
Thought, “Oh, for a ‘aste of the bound-
less joy
Where the Prince must feast each day.’
And a great hope burned in his youthful
heart
To sometime play a Prinee's part.
The Prince passed by: his heart was sad
With a thousand cares oppressed:
“To be onee more like that happy lad
And freed from this deep unrest;
I'd give all the sorry hopes of men:
y
Alas! that youth comes not again.’
{Nixon Waterman in Chicago Journal
A HAPPY JOAN.
‘he doctor did not have an easy
time of it in the East End parish,
where he had bought a cheap prac-
his aspirations, his skill, to fight the
battle of life. His youth seemed to
slip. from him in his first year of
work, his aspirations changed their
nature; his skill developed. He ac-
quired vast experience in those poor
homes, where he fought valiantly
against disease, the result of intem-
perance and vice and poverty and
ignorance—diseases of which the
victim was often an innocent sufferer.
The sins of the fathers were visited
upon infants—the sins of by-gone
generations upon brave girls and
well-meaning young fellows—sins of
children on patient women and hard-
working men. Dr. Murray was a
thinker well ns a worker. He
micht have easily become morbid in
dreary place, where there was
ing beautiful to charm the mind,
little enough to charm the e)
ho ear. But he did
morbid. He had the re br:
{ a happy country home wherc
boyhood had been passed, he had }
thoughts of lear old mother who
lived there still, and the
had taught the boy had not left
in his manhood ;
in b
Y Ts el 3
taoughits
as
sai
Not
men
itl
ie
his «
lessons she
1 '
him
had
woman-—her
of
ia hsv all}
is anove ail ne
of another
letters, sometimes—the promise
W hen he Ww alked
gh the muddy street to his soli-
1
10Mme ie
: i p-. i *
elf before long.
heron
hrou
ary 1
a
well
did not let his m
the room he had just vis-
where three children lay sicl
but
them
10 one a drunken
as was
y a lazy father
scanty enol:
the
et himself
his case
that would
NO:
1 f
$48 Un
iis work.
} ie would be like
there,
+ brought
Yi 23%
® Now.
I-by—by-an
reached home. He let himsel
ited
e by-ane d-hy—wher
the unligl
id. He set
i thought, By
aside his umbrella
trode
rather
barely
uncomfortable dining-re
and rang for d r.
A middle-aged woman presented
h wrself,
“Oh!” she
fire's out, sir."’
Never mind,” said Murray, “I
shall have to go out again afterdinner,
1 expect.’
**Oh! that reminds me, sir.
old gentleman come to see you.
wanted you to eall upon his wife. But
he said you wasn't to trouble to-
night if so be jou was tired.”
“Who was it, Mrs. Hawker?”
““ He was unknown to me, sir: but
he was a respectable looking gentle-
man, quite clean, and a nice face to
him-—a bit of gray whiskers, too.”
‘* Did he leave his name?”
“Yes; I laid it on your consultin’-
room table. He penciled it on the
back of a envelope I had in my
pocket. I'll bring it in with your
chop.”
The doctor looked at it. In ill-
formed, but fairly legible letters, he
saw the words:
into the
inne
inne
’
said, “I'm the
8 Ty
An
He
Please call at your convenance,
Joux TemMrLe,
14 Plevna Street,
(top).
It was not a cheerful night. But
within—what was there within?
Besides that, ‘‘at your convenance’’
was so delightfully agreeable after
on his coat, took his umbrella, put
do, and banged the front door behind
him.
narrow street which seemed to be
less well lit, noisier,
passed. He had several patients in
ly where 14 was,
was 11. He crossed over, presuming
the numbers were odds and evens.
He found 14. .
His knock brought a fat, untidy
woman to the door, and several large-
eyed children into the hall. As the
children and herself were at the time
in the enjoy men of what they con
sidered health, Mrss Bickle did not
feel it incumbent to be extra polite.
Mrs. Bickle held the candle, and
she and the children watched the
gentleman's ascent of the narrow,
winding stair. The house being only
two-storied, he had 1.06 far to go.
started to meet him, stood walting
till he reached the top.
“Sir,” he said, ** I take this kind
of you.”
Dr. Murray conld not at first dis-
cern his face, but the tone
’
“In here, please, sir.’
The man led the way into the
Dr. Murray had seen many such
he had seen many
This was small;
it wns
barely furnished. But it was a bright
Exactly why it gave the im-
pression of brightness it was difficult
That was the conelusion
There was a small fire in the grate.
lamp was on the round table.
There was a chair-—-only one chair
~which was put by the bedside. In
the bed lay a woman, Mr. Temple
introduced her briefly, “My wife.”
The woman turned her eyes in the
direction of the doctor. That was
her recognition of his presence.
“I thought I'd like you to step
round and have a look at her.” said
Mr. Temple. ‘‘I’ve feared she isn't
quite so well to-day. There ain't
much the matter, there, Lucy?
But I fancied it'd be a comfort to me
if you'd see her.’’
When Mr. Temple said there wasn't
much the matter, it has to be borne
in mind that he had been wont to see
her for five-and-twenty years like
this.
“‘She
is
has
Mr.
had a stroke, and she
been paralyzed ever since,”
Temple simy
He di ni
vOolee, «
said
si
1 in a particularly
pitied her or
at Mrs.
sad he
himself. The doctor
Temple.
It woul
what her ¢
was such a wree
iooked
1 have been
Age
Was, 48 8
younger than
was going or
pe ris ctiy
red m
ax}
us i
11k log
seid
were ft
lving such a word
would have
doctor if it
toy
ure
“
he look in the
turned them in
old man.
They were always
direction when the room,
That was one the things the doe.
tor found out before very long.
“Who attends
quired, when he had
few questions and
scription,
“Why,
“I wouldn't let any
her.”’
“Do you mean you do everything?’
“Why, yes, sir. Who should if
not me? Khe is my wife. [I used to
be a bit clumsy at first, but I've had
time to learn. 1 manage pretty fair
now, don’t I, Luey?"”’
Again the grateful, devoted eyes
shone upon him. The doctor had
seen how a woman could look when
she loves, There were times when
the remembrance of shining, long.
lashed, upturned eyes thrilled him
almost to pain, but—would Norah
ever look at him hike that ?
He cleared his throat before he
spoke again. ‘‘But you go to work.
What then? Is she alone?’
“Why, she is, sir, s0 to speak. 1
turned in his
he was in
of
to her?’ he in.
asked Temple a
writte: a pre-
Temple.
touch
said
one
I do, =sir.’’
Cis
But I always commend her to the
and He ain't
never failed us yet.”
The doctor had a man’s hatred of
cant. But he had sufficient insight
by now into the character of those
with whom he dealt to know that
these words were as simple and sin-
cere as those which had preceded
‘I get up early of a morning, you
Then before I start for work—I'm in
I'm back at dinner hour, and we
Then, when I leave
work, my évenin’ soon passes. There's
usually a bit of cooking to be done,
and washing up, and the room to be
seen to. A invalid must have things
clean about her; it isn’t agreeable to
Jue lie and look at everything dirty.
like Lucy to keep bright—but
there! she always is; and if ocean
sionally she gets down 1 soon cheer
her up, don’t I, Lucy? Me and Sunny
together. Bunny--that's our bull
finch. He's asleep now, covered up,
ou see, and I won't distarb him.
ut by day he’s that lively! He
chirps and talks away to Lucey; he's
company for her, Sunny is, bless his
little heart!”
He told the story of his un-
selfish lito without any iden that it
was either the one or the other. 1In-
| deed, he would have been)
| if the doctor had followed his inclina-
| tion to wring his hand and tell him
| he was proud to make his acquaint-
ance. And the doctor did not know
the extent of his self-sacrifice. He
could nor, even if he had known,
realize at once what it
{ tired workingman to rise early in the
cold winter mornings that everything
might be ready for the day before he
started off; the room was tidied, the
fire was lit, the breakfast wax made,
and Lucy fed, before he touched a mor-
l Other men have their wives to
Br,
to some extent Kindly. Temple,
however, received no help. He even
did some of the washing that money
might be saved from the laund-ress.
He gave Lucey little luxuries. When
she had beef-tea he ate the tasteless
ment {rom which all nourishment
had been extracted, and he enjoyed
it the more the more tasteless it was,
for then he knew it was likely the
If she protested
it was useless; she had given up pro-
testing long ago. He did it,
she took it as amatter of course.
she was not ungrateful.
His reward? Ah, he had his re-
ward. He loved her better than he
had ever done in the days of her
youth and health and beauty. Ard
what does true love ask but the Gp
portunity to serve? And she? What
she felt for him it would take a bet-
ter pen than mi rather
I defy any pen to describe it. 1
lieve even the angels who looked into
that garret not understand it,
for angels do not suffer nor need
tender ministry of man,
not know what it is to be a burden
where one would be a burden-bearer,
find
but
Only He who gave the heart of
its needs an
and
ine to deseribe
3
De.
could
the
hey do
not gloom 1
i {
aevoll
$
and vet 0H OF ra.
proaches, chivalrous
on
women
its powers could
a
understood 1} this one
]
ner
10W re
husband — He and
possible,
% 3
ti i
fp
did n
awoke
i}
glass of water to het
furray
erst Into the
ROL In ih
Kept
the old couple
He wrote
them,
an i
about
Mrs,
simple act gave such happine
it was repeated. and darin
ter garret was never
chrysanthemum or two
"~The spring brought hope to
doctor. He knew that Mrs. Haw-
ker's reign was drawing to an end,
and that the ‘‘by-and-by
soon be here. It had been a hard
winter. Strikes had brought added
poverty to many a home, and the in-
fant sickness and mortality had been
terrible. And then there had been
the influenza! But he had battled
on, working all day and sometimes
half the night, and kept himself
brave with the thought Norah.
And now it was April. And on the
1st of June!
He ealled on the Temples before he
went away. They had known that
his marriage was approaching, but
not exactly the date of it.
“‘1 am going off for a month,’
said to John. Then
“When I come back 1 hope to bring
another friend to see you.”
“Sir!"”" The old man looked at
him. Then grasping his meaning
held out his rough yet gentle hand.
“God bless you, sir! You couldn't
tell me anything that would make
me more rejoiced. The dear young
lady! We seem to know her now,
already ; but we shall really see her
and love her, I am sure.”
“Oh, yes,” said Murray, ‘you'll
Everybody
ay
i
Temple some flowers
»
the
of
“Lucy, did you hear? The doctor
The woman unclosed her eyes. She
looked at the doctor, and the drawn
Her lips moved.
‘She says, ‘God bless you,’ sir.
Lucy says, ‘God bless you.’ And
when she says it she means it. Ah,
we know what a blessed thing mar-
ried life can be; don’t we Lucy? It's
a solemn fact, sir, to take a woman
to be your wife. It's a solemn fact,
But when the blessing of God rests
upon a union, marriage is a sacra.
ment that brings you added grace.
It is, sir. Your faith grows, and
your love ws, and your nature
deepens. You learn many things.
I'm old and I've lived, but the part
of my life that has helped me to the
best knowl jsesiust that. I took
Lucy. I'd ‘love her, comfort
her, honor and keep her in sickness
been happy. Sir, love does it all.
You'll want to comfort her, you'll
have to honor her, and if sickness
comes you'll love her all the more.”
[langh and a sob. And the
turning, looked away again. Her
| husband's words had moved the wife
{to tears, but her face
with joy in her upturned eyes.
Temple Inid his hand on hers—harg,
which could give no answering pres-
sure. “Sir.” he said, “I ean’t wish
vou better happiness than I've had,
I wish you as much. And I
I'm about the happiest man in Lon-
don.” —{ Cornhill Magazine.
fake i
HUNTING PYTHONS.
Nata! Natives Burn the Forest and
Drive the Reptiles in a Pit,
abounds in boa constrictors and py-
thons,. While they do not
men they especially destructive
of cattle,
this
hunters and natives to |
and forest in order to
the pests,
Some of the
ritzburg were recently inforn
party of neighboring Zulus of
whereabouts of a huge pyvth
had been destroying their oxen,
soldiers, with 200
attack
are
sheep and oxen, and
are formed
reason parties
arn
soldiers at
red
natives
off to capture the snake, nr
y 1
the
roundabout, an
been previou
centre of th
{
located it forest was
t
bout a mile
ous pit having
in towards the
What with
y and the shot
they
fin id
Lid Jil
brus! its of
Kaffirs
towards
upon iim
Fhe python
droy @
where
BOON
Curiosities About Wood.
™ : :
The strongest wood which
n the limits of the Units
Antmeg
+ the
on the
withi
known as
flourishes
river. The
the black or
standing not far below.
with the least elasticity and
specific gravity is the Fiscus aurea.
The wood of the highest specific
gravity is the blue wood of Texas and
| Mexico. The heaviest of the foreign
woods are the pomegranate and the
lignum vitae; the lightest, cork. The
tensile strength of the best-known
woods is set forth in the following,
the words ‘tensile strength’ means
| ing the weight of power required to
| tear asunder one square inch of each
Ash, 14,200 pounds; beech, 11.500;
cedar, 14.400: chestnut, 10.500:
cypress, 6,000; elm, 18.400; fir, 12.-
FOOD: lance, 28.000 lgnum vitae,
11,800; locust, 20,600; mahogany,
21,000; maple, 10000; American
white oak, 11,5600; pear, 9,500; pitch
pine, 12,000: larch, 9,60; poplar,
| 7,000; spruce, 10,200; teak, 14,000;
walnut, 7.800; willow, 13,000,
The weight in pounds per square
foot (without fractions) of the well-
known woods (dry) Is as follows:
Butternut, 25; cedar, 85; cherry, 44;
{ chestnut, 88; cork, 15; dogwood,
| 47; ebony, 83; box elder, 48; elm,
{ 41; blue gum, 52; water gum, 62;
white hickory, 49; shellbark hick-
ory, 43; holly, 47; juniper, 35; lance.
wood, 45; larch, 834; basswood or
linn, 37; mahogany, 66; hard maple,
46; white maple, 34; mulberry, 35;
white oak, 58; persimmon, 44; pear,
41; pitch pine, 41; red pine, 36;
white pine, 84; yellow pine, 33;
plum, 49; poplar, 33; sprace, 31;
sycamore, 38; tamarack, 28; black
walnut, 41; white walnut, 82; the
willows, from 30 to 86, and the yew,
49.
Four hundred and thirteen differ.
ent species of trees grow in the dif-
ferent States and Territories, and of
this number, 16, when perfectly sea-
soned, will sink in water. eso
woods of high specific gravity w
mostly in the arid regions of New
Mexico, Arizona and Nevada, --{St.
Louis Republic,
Tne great fortifications at Quebec,
which first and last have cost $30,
000,000 or $40,000,000, are crumbling
down, and no effort will be made to
is that
which
kansas
tamarack
most
lowest
restore them, for their military s
nifieance h a phased away uty vg:
INTERESTING NOTESAND MAT.
TERS OF MOMENT.
Queer Facts and Thrilling Adventures
Which Show that Truth is Stranger
Than Fiction.
A GEORGIA grower
in raising a seedless watermelon.
1
has succeeded
Two.-tHmmps of the flotsam and
jetsam carried by the Gulf Stream
sooner or later finds its way into the
Saratoga Sea,
he extent
waters of
sippl and its tributaries,
of
the Missis-
and th
Fue Congo has twice
1. ¢ { $9 |
he navigable
rig
its popuiat 100
x Mclivan
fungi, cl
NE, the American
aims to have eaten
iM
CHARLE
art on
of over
'
$f:
Me Cies
i
nout ever having bee
N. J..Is8
Une
WARK a great plac
firm in that
year 160 000,000,
were placed end to
encircle the globe.
. @
Ork-SCrews,
iast
ir
ha
sp. C. Hin, of Hart county,
has a pair of
been in
steelyards,
125
and were possibly
Vir-
they were
They have
oldest child
mY
have active use
ich
ears in Kentucky
ANY Years previous in
which place
ii ancestor
is RLCEeSLOTN,
iy
10 wel
generatio
dicated
scored {i
© :
had ur .
y one point from the center. An
examination of the dead bird showed
that bullet in its flight for the
target had passed through its breast,
the
Ture is danger of the extinction
of the elephant in South Africa.
The British Central African Gazette
says that nearly 3.000 hunters leave
north of
all the
the territory
Zambesi. These men kill
elephants they see, young and old.
The Gazette is of the opinion that
the African race of elephants can be
elephants in
o
ers with 8 in the
Continent forbiddifiz the exportation
of elephant tusks from beasts under
ten years of age. The natives, the
paper says, would soon learn of this
decision and cease killing young
elephants,
Ir is a remarkable fact that the
deepest parts of the sea are in all
cases very near the land. The deep-
est sounding known, 4,665 fathoms,
or 27.080 feet, was obtained 110
miles from the Kurile Islands;
next deepest, 4,561 fathoms, was
found 70 miles north of Porto Rico.
With a few exceptions like these the
depth of the ocean as far as now
known does not reach
fathoms, or four sea miles.
possessron %
2.500 fathoms, the South Pacific of
gated ocean, has a mean depth of
2,200 fathoins.
Harvey Carpenter, of Grassy,
Morgan county, Kentucky, raised a
gourd, which, cleaned and dried, held
twenty-one gallons and one quart of
water. A gentleman of Mt. Sterling
eame into possession of the gourd,
and not long afterwards he chanced
to meet his friend, Mr. Satullie, and
asked him what he would charge for
a gourd full of cider. Mr. Satullie,
being a clever man, wouldn't of
course charge a friend anything for
»0 small a favor, and told him to
send on his gourd, but was surprised
to find tha* his promise had obli-
ted him to give away more than a
alf barrel of his good cider. But he
is a man of his word and he sent the
beverage. ]
We
nal. Becky, the elephant, is deeply
of the camels, who
doesn’t seem to respond as ardently
a8 could be desired. Decky is eany
only when she is near the object of
her affections, and although gifted
vith a marvellous appetite of her
own, she is continualy throwing |
and provender to the camel Next
thing the African hartbeest will ge
into love with the polar
bear and they'll elope how
will they settle t
the pompadour
} and it must
spired by mental
his face or figure.
A
Hay
i ¥
i
a BOTH
to=—will
hat matter ?
camel
be
amuinion
0Oves
{ orresponds
Panis
f the oddest
be found in itt}
which deals
second-hand boc
» work in the
furnished by
: » ‘
come half up
fgiiowea
» des Ecoles
with the
whe
are
men EEWETs.,
the
the
boots
way
a
ix months When
encil man is
when sold second-
the S11
but as 6.00)
are Rue
it makes quite a boom-
The Jeather of
boots is, 80 to speak tanned by the
and greasy water in whieh
the sewer-cleaners paddle, and they
are eagerly sought for by the great
Parisian for t}
10%
iyo
Hand modest
of fi
veéuiize
they
i
fty cents, at least
gent to Lhe
des Ecoles
ing indastry. these
alkaline
bootmakers; {his leath-
© ¢ 5 or}
at once tough
to sustain the
XV heel,
ERFUL child
TWO Years
WON
nny weritine
iy writing
Latin
sairrectly
is desc
larly
these
ing south were
and on
crystals proved
sim
anaivsis
to be
currence has given rise to a good deal
{ to the source of
but the only rea-
sonable explanation is that it must
have originated in the Great Salt
Lake in Utah, nearly three hundred
miles away. A strong south wind
wad probably swept across the Great
IL.ake on 8 warm day and, catching
up the salt vapor from the water,
had carried it away northward, to
deposit it in Pocatello.
Duxsow, in Essex County, Eng-
land, has been bringing itself before
the public again by a revival of its
flitch-of-bacon ceremony. Dunmow
ought to be able to furnish some
answers to the great question of how
It is
the place where it was once the cus-
tom to reward and promote conjugal
felicity by giving a fliteh of bacon
to the couple who, after a year of
matrimonial experience, could swear
that they had not regretted entering
salt. The oc-
speculation as
this saline shower
It appears that even
instituted the custom hundreds of
years ago, had certain modern, scep-
tical notions about the success of
marriage. Apparently he was of the
opinion that there would seldom be
many claimants for the prize. The
conditions have not been many in
the presentations of the fliteh of
But this year Dunmow revived the
custom, and two couples received the
award due to those who marry and
do not regret it. One was a Dublin
magistrate and his wife and the
other a railroad servant and his wife,
from Hertfordshire. The jury was
composed of six young maidens and
six young bachelors, and after the
trial an operatic cantata, ‘Ye Dun-
mow Fliteh,”' was performed. The
oath which the winners of the fliteh
have to take is enough to deter many
from proclaiming their married hap
piness to the world. After the trial,
which takes the form of questions
and answers in the oe of the
assembled multi the oath is
administered to the h r while
they kneel upon two , pointed
rocks. a
Tux state with the greatest rail
road mileage is Illinois~10,428
miles. Next come Pennsylvania, with
Ca