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.
The Apple as a Timber Tree,
apple tree Is looked on for its
as a plece of timber, as well
producing article, For
old German frult growers
ity
get a nl
tree and
before allow
in having a good
purposes
particular
chilefly
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