MAIDENHOOD, You stand in Life's fair April-tide, Upon a sun-kissed, haze-bound shore; You cannot see beyond the wide Expanse of ocean stretched Your eves; but in your soul's great deep There lurks a yearning, unconfessed, To probe the mysteries that sleep Beneath that ocean's heaving breast hefore God's sun smiles upon your bronze-gold hair; God's angels rest the Whose every Upon the sweet curves of you lips And, veiled beneath the calm surprise Whose startled glance oe Within T hie ie fire, ir finger-tips touch enframes a prayer clot Ww wou of your sombre, dwells a hint You do not know Nor shall stand Demanding payme You hand; your power as till yet, you Know love shall OWe im, soaring arn there Sweet sd NTI BARKER'S BICYCLE, ng! LL LOREN( ry careful Barker i day nd was 1 informed tha in a while puts to draw down large book means essential sion of the events w neve ercise a suffi pedestrians, of his way would like “A bell know.” 1 are gett they them I dog and ran over at getting to bis I said I t had no doubt the dog and the old la« ‘It's an outrage said an't go along the being tippex a man « ook ougl “1 don’t i added Barker, “that ty smart man to ins will fill the | be somethi The only now is fn much work about that “Well, Barker,” extraordinary smai at them makes th you.” “How? said Barke “Carry a phonograph.” said Barker stood for a few profound meditation me on the back of great enthusiasm, . “Perkins,” tive genius zling my brains for a montliabont this thing. and couldn't hit on a simple lit tle scheme like that. I'll go and get a phonograph right away.” “There's one thing about it, Barker’ said I. “and that is that phonographs cost a good deal of money.” “What do I care for that?’ sald he “I rather pay a hundred dollars than be constantly in danger from reckless people.” to 3 moments in Then he slapped with every appearian sald he, “you're an inven Now here I've been puz those One or two evening after this 1 was crossing Howard avenue when | heard ing at me: “Look out there!” Involuntarily 1 started. he actually rigged vp his with a phonograph! Darting into a nearby bhieyele agency 1 hired a wheel in feverish haste, and sped up the ave fleating figure in dim distance I could hear nue in pursuit of the gray In the the howl of the flendish thing as it sped on through the night, and as I spun over the asphalt with the speed of the wind, space between us lessened and 1 be tech were pouring forth from the vielnity of He had evident of eHiergen- tis gunn to « the melody of shouts that Barker's handle bars ly loaded it wi sions suitable for and the thing out with an intelligence that bordered a variety expres all sorts of cles, was spitting them oir the marvelous “Would you be so kind, miss.” terfield, as a it said accent of a Ches of the fat and forty persuasion to the “as to turn wnks!” at Barker was such a polite yo an smiled rods farther on CTORS street the two toward me ts, aml was they met the sey I me I wan it him about fated wntioned the and explained Miss ] phono He matter giaph im- him to do iedia self, however, Youngest titer was th i FEN and had insisted in t on her bicycle, and INE it Mm all Were anxiously waiting for to get in the way so they could Rotine a trial. 1 afterwards discovered Barker had to them that the whole thing was hiz own iden, had declared that he wonderfully ingenious, We had gone about blocks, Barker and “the little being in front, and the elder Miss Cutter and myself in the rear, when a man tried to cross the street in front of us “Hooray! gimme me another drink!” sald the phonograph in a ghastly coun. represented and they was three one’ The man gazed at us in astonishment chine wobbled violently, and I could “Tranny, ain't #7" sald he; “never ean tell what It will say “You're n lar!" “Come "long now, and pass the screwed the phono. graph, whisk." I could see the elder gers nt Herker “ra, In, la, wow, whoopee!” “the little one” turn pale, and Miss Cutter looked dag tra, In, sald In, the phonog Wow, wow, aph in a confidential struck on the-hic—pret “Shay,” it continued whisper, “1'm hie—girl Take It off!" growled Barker, mak instrument, but his he fell in heap on the pavement tient the lunge at wis ing a equilibrium gone, and an “Ho! machine, and left him “Mr. Perkins” Cutter, d IENOMINIous no! you're drunk!’ shrieked the derisively, as we darted on Miss 1113 the elder ismounting, and point said ing perfously in the direction of her sister's wheel, “take that thing off I” I obeyed her with the utmost alacri ty, and cast it at the dork spot wher HHA OWwWlHer wa “Now,” si 8 reposing the elder Miss Cutter Hid, and when old man Cut JOHN HOWARD PAYNE. Career of the Author of "Home, HMome." aul or a place { Payne ret v, and in 181 he was appointad American nt Tunis, He additional ANZ: to “Home Home.” alters] of the air In “Annan was introduced Cons wrote iwo There is Hwee an form ronizetti's Bolena.” into which it as a suggestion of Pasta Notwithstanding the obvious thetic of probable that the any more than its predecessors, wii settle the of John Howard Pasne. For and indifference in his ease conspicuously, there's place like home the facts, it not present Congress irony is nex oting neglect ie isin Ate Up a Picture. Mme. Hare wag a French widow and a client of FF. R. Coudert in a suit in volving £40,000, Pending the determination of this action, Mme. Hare opened a boarding house in New York and bad as her guesta, among others, Kenyon Cox, W A. Coffin and J. Carroll Beckwith, The room in which dinner was usually served was pot as cheerful as it might be and one day the artistic set agreed to send pictures with which to relieve unnatural emphasis, It pregnant with the ring of authority, I felt a shiver along my own spine as I took in the situation. “Her golden hair was hanging down her. od instrument in Barker's well-known treble. Evidently “the little there shot by me a vision of gray golf stockings, sweater and cycling cap with i § Drops of sweat stood on Barker's brow, and he tried to turn it off as a Beckwith's contribution was a Nor mandy peasant girl resting by the side A valnation was placed ! timate how much of the canvass Beck with hud consumed, thus: “He's eaten her hand this week, last week he eat her hair, next week her feet will go.” When Madame won her case she pro sented this picture to Mr. Coudert, in whose possession it now is, NOTES AND COMMENTS, cremation As in the argan 1876 There are sociations in United States Washington ne wast und The nun bes twenty-six active The oldest F'n. In nnd are found in New Elizabeth, N. J of incinerations re operation wis it two (FAR the Haven, LING) Conn, ported 4.870, The number inciner ated In Europe from 1870 to 1803 wa The membership of the Ameri is about 5,000 and the 19.700 CAN associntions hee method about 100 04000) Ape gil the followin: uitlea thu \ierien ndherents of t The Rallway the present VON of great He raflroad systems In Penusyl vianin, 8.882: Chleago ern, 7.031: Sant: nan: Burlington Pacific and Northwest and Quin Bint He io lostroyved, 1 rendered us Nome wise Frenel insomnia all rest mare, and sort of nervous ills whi It seems that the ok the head disturb our idea of sleeping with higher vgn ‘ s 3] wees » ¥ ¥ 3 feet is all wrong, and we must of things and put ous reverse the order of fect on the pillow, as this profound and intellectual sleep.” may position as It Tae few to ovelists, but a 1 to ge nnknowhn velop a gentle vibratory condition of In other words they become It wax Dr. Pettit Academy of Medi on this, and since then French and English bicyelists have been suprised, when they have come plained to their medical advisers that themselves perhaps, had unconsciously acquired the “vibra. tory habit.” The medical journals are taking the matter up, and soon Ameri can doctors also will doubtless begin to perscribe for the cure of the new all ment, just appeared, turer, “the an be legitimately extended by the ears ago was $00,400,880, The pres: estimate by the government £153.472.503 This In just In the howeve mates n the reasing as the Of late have ent Om. INKLoNn In double, the oe pany interval wt! ide by have been in culties were better known the usually made placed from S100. (06K) (MK) to S110 11 ex L at 000,000, The report of the government of this Wis predict connnission, instead doubling freely £1350 round ily to a commission was d in no friendly spirit and its in. tended “titnates tions were evidently in it certain that its « ded every possible Item of cost, the pres which it has now published may as final rond ronda and pavements thisk be paid , capecialls % 5 iO mn bus irts of the an country Yar ed and both n are dealt was remarked recently in the that the London apparent interest lication of the Consular reports, made regularly an abstract of the It is the only paper in as the department of- partment aited with atid formation 3 . lie world, so far ¥ alg know, which makes this use of 40 v4 £5 $a} « f + wi the commercial reports of Americ Consuls, Discovers a Petrified Man, Peter McoXNabb, a found in a forest fern gatherer, his wanderings through pear Columbus, Ohio, what seems to be the petrified remains of a man-probably a prehistoric man. He says it wax brought to light by a recent landslide. One arm and one leg are missing, the remaining leg being drawn up against the stomach and the head dropping upon the breast. In size it i= a little above the ordinary, and ap pears to have been buried in a sitting posture. Hundreds look at it, but no scientist has yet examined it.—Chicago - i ME AA The Value of London. At nn meeting of the City Commission of Sewers the other day it was stated particulars had been received of the quinguennial valnation of the metro. gross value of property in London, including the city, was S215.657.705, CABLE BPARKS, 3 Crete the Turkish aristinns ost ected pres Li per snee the first ascre. ngton. ne piruggie nd she was Isiands, Mr Louis in Bam nesta, a, mm at the there, } ai i ansisian st residence novelist beginning of the { him ation «8 to the d cus that was wited by Stevenson. Since Mr, urnishing with inforn islands, the traditions a mis hia gratefy iy ts 1 Churchily retus dSiates United luties of editor of the ugh he BO resmen’s are of has iaken Bro part in | flgurad to known as the author of one of ihe latest pop Darke, who is mate rcousul gone , is at present cone in 1808, being appointed from New York He replaces at Tangier Consul General John Judson Barclay, who was appointed Trom Alabama in September, 1598, and is recalled David N became consuid FOUGHT WITH BANDITS. Preach Troops in Madagascar Slanghter 200 of a Large Band A body of 1500 Fabavalos bandits has burnad Antrirabe, Madagnsoar, according to a special despatoh. For three days the ban dits blockaded a house in which a detach. ment of French troops was proteciisg the Norwegian mission, The French resident, with a deashment of Novas, eventually raised the tlockade after sharp fighting, during which 200 Faba- vaios were killed,
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