THE POET'S SONG.
The soul of the poet is haunted
By a song so strange and sweet
That, if thy world could hear it,
Its restless heart would beat
Te grander and nobler measures,
And those bowed down with pain
Would half forget thelr sorrows
Im listening to the strain
Bat he cannot volee the music
That haunts hig poet-heart
If be vould, the souls who heard him
Would break their bonds apart,
And up to the heights would follow
This singer
And earth would win back the glory
It had when it was young
18 He sung
in the pine tree,
sorrowful plaint of the sea,
He hears in the wind
And the
The cry of a captive spi
That is strug
Bo ever the
By its captive song
he sweet and unearthly mu
No ear hut
rit
gi’ ne to Ine free
of the [ron
soul
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18 st
Iris has heard
Some times yon will hear him €inging,
And coun
'
Bat wh
My uucl
fixed dats
“The d
to wait
break!
frow 1!
“We
know
terday
f 4
for tw
walks
feelin
ho
nny bo
francs
“XY BOY
know no one
Armand
an id :
“dst
20 mye
who |
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BIRT Lanne
“%W Lat
“Well, 1 d
seen hin more
“alert x
Suppose We
on't Knos
than
try
a couple
and sell
Shing”
“That is idea. It is
kave plenty of autographs, but
mostly our own. He
snes.”
“Are you sure no celebrity ever
to ax?”
“1 don’t think so, but there is the cor
respondence coffer. :
Armand seated himself at the table,
emptied the box upon the table, and
bgan to go through the letters. For at
feast half an hour be carefully turned
sver the sheets of paper
Suddenly he erid out:
“Eureka! I have found it-a
from the Empress Marie Louise”
Feverishly he waved in the air a yel
lowing sheet of paper almost cut in two
by the folds,
Jules looked at it. “Why. 1 recog-
mize that!” said he. “It is a note from
Little Marie Louise, who used to be a
saleswoman at the lace-counter in the
Louvre. 1 got that letter from her when
1 war serving my volunteer term of a
year, with the grade of corporal”
a good
they are
wants historic
wrots
Look through it
letter
the Empress Marie Louise, and it is ad
dressed to the great Napoleon.”
“And dated 18737
“1813, my dear fellow.
fooks exactly like a one,
victorious battle of Lutzen, and this is
what the empress wrote:
i
Leave your army, amd come to me at
the Louvre, where I am yawning in the
midst of billows of lace
Marie Loulse
“And you think you can sll that
onr neighbor Bridoux? Why, you
joking. It would be a swindle
“You Have
oe
are
vou thn
mas
can ald me
‘he
think it is around gowe
“You I
“1Asten, then, and 1 will feach
role n
fow
yon
your
In a Armand Instructed
had to do, and thea
putting the precious autograph in his
“yo not forget,
f an hour.
words
said
Armand repaired at once to the apart
ment of Bridoux. The aph-col
alone, He man of
about sixty yars of age. Armand looked
at vim critically.
“I wish to speak to M Bridoux."”
“That's my name, sir”
u)
affair.”
gt ye
Come in
autogr
lector Hved wis n
wish to =ee you on a
said Bridonx
Armand! entered, and Bridoux off
him
“ir
of you:
a chair
sald
11
si]
wottld not =
i fra
ndeed FITS
vady mak-
Hin
told you 1
» you five hu
gir, that l amah
ith
gent
this
* You a thous
to Joa vi fig
the false
for yon onteide the
you, «ir,
Euglis
“Very well,” said
hman, “I will wait
door. but 1 must have that autograph.”
atl hie left,
“You sald Armand to Dridoux
“the price that Englishman attaches to
this precious document. Don't force me
woe
to let it pass into his hands when | ask
you only one hundred feancd”
The autogrmaplecollector was at last
couvineed., He took ont of
taire a bank-note for one hundred
francs, and gave it ‘oo Armand, who
thanked him and withdrew,
Not long after that the two young
men made a ratse, and the first thing
they did was to put a bank-note of one
his
HOTT
with
this document: “Restitution and
thanks." and addressed it to Bridonx.
But Bridoux never kvew what it
meant. He simply coverad the hun
dred francs into his 1ecasary, and for
him the pote of the lit‘le .aleswonan
an
Empress
From the French in Ar
gonaut.
In Massaloupa, a mountain resort of
Japan, there is a spring of blood-heat
teuperature. Some of the visitors ro
main in this water for a whole month
enough of laurels for the moment.
them from turning over in their sleep
A TRAIN-ROBBERS' PARADISE.
italian Railroads and the Experiences of
Travelers on Them,
the public should be called to the rob
from baggage on the
ines of rnilway, which are now of col
of dally,
committed
beries
probably occurence,
ho
guards of the trains
stant,
which must by the
with thelr know
or
ledge, as no one else can have aecess to
the baggage in transit from one place to
which the Italian railway
thorities and the police ar of
au
he
daily, but of which no notice 1s taken
I will give a few Au
Hare, the eminent author
The well-known
residence both in
Moving las
fnstances, writes
gustus J. C.
Times
Miss I. 8S. has a
Rome and Venice,
from the former to the latter, |
vere opened and various articles t
A small of
runks w at the hinges
which
wooden box in one
as foreed open
It mostly contained papers Were
gold plece « francs
if 14630)
d carried of
the
Returning
I found two m
joud tal
edd my entrance
rudely o
“You cannot come
in Yoii
not your place ete. an
inst my
hand-bag
was already and
place taken, and eventually got in
men pushing against me to the Inst, and
then disappearing. Immediately the
train in I found that in
those pushes my inner pocket was torn
ny pocket-book and money
here, thix is
!
they pushed violently ags chest
1 contend that ny
in the carriage
ms
the
was motion,
out, and
gone.
{ telegraphed back to the Florence
station from the first stopping place,
and wrote to all the authorities at Flor-
Two days afterwards I was sum-
mond to the Roman railway station
and had the usual silly examination
%ix times repeated on six
exact age occupation,
and place of birth, the Christian name
my father, ete. Then I was asked
if 1 should recognize my robbers if}
saw them. Of this I felt doubtful, as
on the Mareh evening on which 1 was
robbed it was already almost dark.
But the police official said: “A group
room wee If you recognize any of them.”
{ said: “Yes, the second from the wall
on the left.” Then he said, “Now an-
pointed out a man, and it proved that
those were the two men who had just
jes at Florence station. 1 saw
of purses and pocket-books, a large pile
ladies’ orna-
that
nnd
ties
of watches, chains,
ments The
Knglish notes had been found
A fortnight later
fie
nuthord sald no
| was summoned to
Roman prison of the Carcerd
"here
ench out of
again 1 pieked out my two
$1
a group of othe
fine proved right
lHngered on in
aimmoned to
oo at thelr trial; but | have
heard nothing: the cas probably
dropped
Put at
Comnibuses, ete
table d'hote rallway «of
last rails
toi Of
in
, the
nlways the
All experienced
Ol
Italian
feel
boxes are likely to be rob
an
travelers set out on their Journey
ing that the:
hand Italians t}
and hemselves bring the
ry utmost possible baggage
into the
and
ok a Hand |
§
lin
1 I
«. but in ancient. small
1 the little river Durolle,
which furnishes the power for the in
dustrial township
the
method of work of the people engaged
in grinding the Knives
The grinders. men and women,
stretched out on wooden planks,
throw
as evervthing else in Thiers is
lay
which they sometimes sheep
«kins to soften the boards. Head, shoul
ders and ars read h over the end of
the board, and with their hands they
hold nnceasingly the rough steel blades
upon the big grindstone which revolves
beneath them by means of a powerful
vot simple, transurission. It is a very
comical aspect to see these people at
work, particularly because every one of
the workmen has a small, long-haired
dog. who serves a8 a sort of live stove
During the long winter in the moun
tains r body stretched out at full length
stuffers much from cold in these lly
protected mills, and, since it is net pos-
sible for the workman to warm bmself
by a change of position or by moving
fix limbs, this peculiar expedient has
been adopted in Thiers, The dogs are
One whistle
of their master calls them up, and a
simple turn of the body indicates to
to
give new warmth to the body of their
master Philadelphia Press.
San Francisco has over 7,000 saloons
LESSON OF
WOMAN FOR ALLE
Abuses Prevailing In
Death Penalty Made a
is Admir
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Farce---Mow the
stored in England
no exploita.
rating oF
tisgusiing ot
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of
as remarkably accurate
the
ugh it was excel
this
[ROTTS thw
ind lucid, The was true of
sane
ngly brief, I can truly say that 1 never
fnir
the
in
womed to be satisfied
fence had been remarkably strong, for
it had clearly established the former
of the Ntill. there
comprehensive a
1 When jurs
verdict evervbody
heard so
the
brought its
woman
pealing the case to a higher count The
lawyers for the defence dil not even
hint at such a thing, nor did any one,
not even the pewspapers, seem to ex-
pect it of them
“1 could not help thinking while i sat
in the trial, surrounded by all the court
paraphernalia of a forwer age. how,
despite these appearances of antiquity,
advance of ours, though we started
from the same COMMON source,
system seems to have begot fairness
and despatch, and as a result absolute
tor the law, while our system, which is
got the exact reverse.”
al amd to address let
and their friends, urging
ont of the writers as law
Some has
f Know
earliest moment, wfore the
complaints
or of the
to
of prisoners.
then
go to the prisoners or to their friends
and make conditional agreements with
jease of the prison
ers or sw returned to
the payer if the prisoner be not re
joa sed] within the stipulated time
The lawverssay that thongh ther donot
wish in the slightest degree to impugn
the assistants of the District Attorney
are nevertheless
convinced that some persons in confi
properly acquired
ing at tle
Prisoners
thrown cut by the grand in
do =o
an
ry
willingness of certs prosecutors
recommend the dischargs
Concealing such knowledge thes
them to obtain the
ifleed sms, to Iw
degree javoelved in these practices and
By these practices great injustice is
done to vounse] assigned by the court
to the defence of prisoners. Anxious to
devote to such case the same labor and
pains they give to prisoners who pay
for thelr services, they are compwlled to
ing room of the Tombs, while lawyers
They have become the victims of a sys-
prejudice prisoners in advance.
The result of this agitation will be
awaited with great interest wherever
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