TIE TIDE OF THE PAST. Sometimes the troubled tide of all the past Upon my rolled; Years never mine With all the amassed spirit's trembling strand is ages an hundredfold, weight those anges have Of numan grief and vrong, are on me cast Within one sorcersus moment I grow old, And blanch as one who scarce his way can hold, Upo flood-tide t verge that takes some Then c¢ common thing The The mes relief through some their bright voices of the children at wind-wave through ows, moving The blue-bird’s skyward call, on wing : So bappsy the sweet present reassumes her sway; So lapse the surges of the monstrous Thomas in the Century MY BURGLAR. brother i I'm no bound: Years 25th birth 1 invited from St. muslin lay ceverni Mary's wrappers to the funeral lunch of ice aud hair wavs hate for old m parody on ti in which 1 yout to rest ferns and we drank i behind tbe managed t gold met : § experience that } ni hn life, fair metal Fr in his English SE v in middle our American wn his frst Coming among us, strong prejudice, there had beet tactic war between him and me i this down his arms for the first time “I'm not going to say | up prove of vour being here, Miss Lawrence,’ he said one “Though I'll knowledge no man could think quicker or be of more help th but all the chivalry in me protests against the drudgery you endure “One must work if one career,” 1 answered laughingly. the same ‘here was a pleasant feeling i my heart to think be save labor or trouble. One afternoor, the last of the week, brought me 25.000 that some western customer had paid. We'll have to put it in the safe, Miss Lawrence,” he said, “the bank closed two hours sco.” That night, when I closed the safe, 1 deliber. ated several moments with th wr inmy hands, whether to leave the money or take jt hom» with me. We have always felt the warehouses made our office a dnaver. ous place, and the air was so hot and dry that day that the very walls seemed full of heat as if they might light from spon. taneous combustion; neither have | ever felt perfect confidence in our safe as fire proof. 1 have tried many a time to have | Jack change it for a more modern one, 1 thought of my watchman and almost de. | termined to take the money home, but finally considered it would only give me a wokeful night to bave the care of it—and 1 shut the safe. I bad my wakeful night, though, just the same-—for I had hardly fallen asleep ith week be laid afternoon. Ac i MI YOU Are, is to have a But all cared to ine he Ordinarily I should not have risen unless but the weight of the business on ‘me, and 1 slipped on my nd slippers and watched the it in west. Finally 1 put alarm whistle le “Find out it's in the direction " Tr. seemed wrapper a brizht ligl y the the to my lips and eal Joe where it Joe,” of the Fen minutes later mr w my wind with WwW, everything elevator at two bhi WKS wr Lawrence, spinster ound mind in a moment, 1 rose from that couch su and | he brought no Hieniy, leave that voungz man alone, is telling vou the truth--he money.’ And I stood by the library table and did not so much as lay a finger on it for sup The man guarding would have been any more astonished if a orpse had spoken, | He jumped two feet at least, and the other two fellows, of rough fellows, both grinned broadly as they looked at him, Rasy to deal with, pard, eh?” of them, coarsely, “Can't vou hand the lady a chair, Jim?" sald the ? “Quit your fooling,” answered the dark man, curtly. “We'll bring the lady to terms without any trouble, | guess.’ “We know, madam,” he continued, turning to me, ‘that there was money your safe Inst night; we know either or Mr. Gaskell saved it; he hasn't got it, 50st ort me not believe, Course, looking said one other hand it over.” “He hasn't got it.” How did they know that? For just one second the room swam before my eyes, Had they robbed Mr. left him of their crime? All this in & moment of It takes long in the telling, but it was quick in the thinking. “Give the lady plenty of time, do,pard,” sneered one of Joe's watchers. We'll have to put the thumb screws on the boy to make him speak,” added the other. That recalled my thoughts to Joe; the other I must see Joe first. ‘tAre you I asked the Je ! “that vou harm an innocent man? “We'll not swered quick fiends,” wler, harm you, magam ‘but the money have The People of Labrador. Labrador pie Who iy One of the tages is that have to pay rent. Most immer house The summer The om June ing season aavar 3 5 luring these 1 principal industry hey catch, dry and sell the traders, and thus purchase winter supplies. The wi are on the shore of an island. lake or river, and built in the shelter of trees. In the winter the men hunt for rabbits, npartridges and other small game and trap the [ur bearing animals. Wood-cutting is also an industry, but does not bring money. The wood is for their own use. Part of the time the weather is severe that there is no possibility for work or fun out of doors. Winter is the time of visiting. The dogs are harnessed, and the whole family cross the lake or river for a visit. Dancing is the evening amuse- ment. The people of Labrador are a kindly, home-loving people. thie people, fish to their nter houses SO Searching Ancient Graves. { In the Punic cemeteries of Carthage { Father Delattre hasalready examined 125 tombs. He has found a painted | terra~cotta mask, with oval face, short side whiskers and a close- shaven chin and bronze rings in the ears; and also a disk of terra-cotts with a warrior on horseback in reliel upon it, under the horse a running dog, and above the figure a lotus flower and a crescent moon, Every animal kept by man, except | ing the cat, is faxe in Austria. INSEGT DUEL. —— yo Fight to Death Between a Wasp and a Spider. wonderful exhibition of insects while | said been bre AN “i bravery cation this summer BAW a of WHS On my va the professor, coffee had sught on and had been lehted eof after the the cigar fs pent my camping ontinued, ‘and nu ficht to WS] in spi tent was pitched | heard a buzzing aer roomy morning and HWOKL sotmd in the canvas house, Looking up | 1 on my provised bed Wisp pole. returned mud tent Lites snd oad soon formed another vers here amd there, umber and were sliway which their own unger any cumsignoes, 't } tives aie 1 3 brokers, f urne snimal dealers nd animal and An. «ix months waiting, for the pair. FEVEeral Years ago ne business prospered from the fired, and om the t industry became known she has beg hind her orders of | ock in trade are domestic which tted the run of however, are kept on the top floor of the house, where every arrangement has been made for their com. fort and ease, including oat baths, where they are washed, cat plates, from which they are fed; cat combs and eat brushes, with which their coats are treated every fay; a eat gymnasinm, where they can disport themselves: oat medicine they are ill, and cat beds where they rest at night. lier cattery, which word has been ap. proved and adopted by her friends and soquaintances ward vellow and white Angora, the future proposes to cultivate darker colored types. She raises them on scien. tific diet, and thus far hiss been exceeding. ly successful in her undertaking, She claims that she has the only Angora cattery in the world. ily managed 1 a pair of prize OTR after more or the low price =150 His Was her start me thnl her 1 In few favorites are HE rm y ‘ : the house [hie res but in nss— Peoriwinkles Good to Eat. ‘Most people know what peri- winkles are,”’ said an oysterman the other day. old conch shell that used to call them to dinner, and know that it was made hy a periwinkle: but few know them as an article of food. Some people eat them, and we always save all we can get, especially if they are young, You know, they are enemies of the * seize an foot and then eat the One of them will fint | oyster. oyster with his broad, { erush the shell and meat. Oystermen declare that one ‘winkle’ will devour a bushel of oysters in an hour. When we are going over the grounds we pick them up, sell some on the beach and bring the rest down here to Fulton market. We sell them off the boat ; £1 a hundred, or for a few a and a half apiece Italians French buy all they can get. Bome mans and English also them. “You never ate any? Well, now, vou take these home and boil or roast or stew them and you will think they aro a great deal better than clams. These young ones have a finer flavor, and are #0 tough as the old ones, Perhaps you don’t know that there are people shore who eat ‘winkle’ eggs—those long strings of what look flat white beads strung together which you find on the beach in the spring. I know a good many who like hem, ti vi get cent and (gre purchase not along~ mn like people Speed of the Bicycle. Ouservation at a moder a Trance Seven Days. men the knew an there somewhere, find him. Arrested the Whole Audience. A good theatrical story is t« Herr Woltersdor! the German mana. ger and actor ie Sunds winter. } the Stadt t drove to ] len Hausen play announced kabale und Liebe. consisted in the eater and vhouse, ‘‘Auf the the ie town bil n on 8 was of one solitary person. Nevertheless Woltersdorf insisted on beginning the play, his company, who expected that the empty playhouse meant a holiday for the actors They took the wild- est liberty with the text, and scarce- ly a word reached the audience. Hereupon the solitary audience stood up and demanded that the play should be duly rendered according to the playbill. ‘‘Arrest the public!” said the grim manager to a police- man who lurked behind one ofthe pillars The officer seized the audi. ence, saying, “'l arrest you for dis- turbing the course of a public enter- tainment.”” To the great relief of the actors, the whole “‘public’’ was then marched off to the watch-~house, and the play came to an end. A Miniature World. Four leading French scientists Villard, Cotard, Seyrig and Tissand. ler—have succeeded in making a wonderful model of the earth. It is a huge sphere, forty-two feet in | dinmeater, and has painted upon its i outside all details of the earth's geography. At Paris, where the | pigmy world is being exhibited, an | iron and glass dome has been erected over the globe. The building is eight | sided, and is well provided with ele. | vators and stairways, which make it ‘an easy task for the visitor to exam- tine “all parts of the world.” The globe weighs eighteen tons, but is so | nicely balanced that it ean be easily rotated by a small hand wheel. The entire surfacas area is 825 feet, which { is sufficient to exhibit all the moun. | tains, rivers, islands and cities, even to the principal thoroughfares of the latter. 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