A LOVE SONG, Far away in a sunset town, Ave the flowers blooming lair; And the world looks up and the sky bends down: the fairest town Is a girl But rose in that sunset with golden hair, O rosebud sweet! O flower fan O blue-eyed maid With golden hats, There's one to think of thee! Far away in the crimson west, Do the song-birds' voices rise; And the world is glad and the people blest, But the sweetest bird in that dream land west, Is a girl with deep-blue eyes. O song-bird sweet O flower {air ! OO blue-¢ yed maid With golden hair, The world shall sing of thee! ~—JosgpH W Humpruries, in At lanta Constitution. —— A ———— THE OLD UNIFORM. BY FRANCOIS COPPEE, When I clerk Department I had for lal, a He had los campaign, the War associate a Was A in an former former man named Jean Vi 1 off commissioned olicer left arm in the his right arm remained, and with Italian could execute prodigious feats of pen manship, making a little bird flourish of his signature with a stroke of his pen. This Vidal was a soldier of pure. Thougl old and had bu in the » an excellent fell light beard, o fashion, Vidal,’ familiarity, hon led atree man little writing five person coats wh to the third brushed as if | pH shop clothing was hung out for many such in this locality It a dirty, nninvi having a window displa; tols, bowls full of butt epanlette a. and i fle h vy ieLik y was Fis, ¥ 1 {vey IRLOTrIins, i s un their cers’ the rain an the shape £ § almost lik Suddenly grasping my arm with his only hand, Vidal turned his half-dazed eyes toward me, and, with his stamp, pointed to an old coat, an African officer's, with a full and rows of gold lace trimming the sleaves in the shape of a *'8,” Hussar-fashion. “Look!” said he, ‘there is part of the uniform of my old regiment. A captain's coat!” Approaching to ex- amine it more carefully he read the number engraved on the buttons, then said, excitedly: “It is from my regiment! The First Zouaves!” All at once Vidal's hand, which grasped the skirt of the coat, remained motionless, his face darkened, his lips a guspende i skirt three murmured in a frightened tone: “My God! What if it were his!” Then, with a quick movement, he whirled the coat around, and {I saw in the middle of back a little round hole in the blood doubtless were looking at a real wound, Father Vidal who had dropped the coat, and briskly resumed his walk with down-cast head. Foreseeing a story, 1 added, by way of inciting him to relate it: “Usually commanders of Zouaves do not get shot in the back.” He seemed not to hear me, but mut tered to himself, biting his mustache. “How could it have got here? It is a long distance from the battle-field of Melegnano to Grenelle Street Yes, I know thieves follow the army sad rr School where his regiment is quarter od and the other ? Aud he must have passed by here and must have nized it. Oh ! like rhost!"” recog 15 seeing =n Vidal,” eaid I, time, ‘‘you on in this yi must tell me at here Fathor interested Ly th t going t 10 riddles; ye ‘Sian is way, talking In why the sight of that wffects you so." I really believe that without the two drinks I should have learned pothing, Vidal piciously almost, then, regaining cour 11 ldled ot looked at me sus age, he said, in a firm voice! Well, yes I will tell you. You are an honest, well-educated young man, I have confidence 1n you, and when 1 am through I want you to tell me with whether I in acting a8 I did. Let me [ ean not tell y atill living, but I will call nickname we gave him in the regunent La Soif t Yen, La Soif, he did not steal name: it belonged to him, for he to run away from the yu his name, for heis him by the we called him the was thirs and } i twelve of uld drink 1e¢ Col 3 teen, y glasses for » twelve strokes He second regin noon. i ¥ OVID practices of t good soldier, drunkard, tights and all the bs d He was as ie soldier in rica Drave as eves were as bine and as red were i was our i and that if way disturb the peace ourselves any soldier should in an) ful inhabitants around us he would be punished While he was tal who could not stand the aid of his gun, shrugged his shoulders; fortn nately the captain did not see the ges- ture, In the middle of the night I was awakened by a tumnlt I sprang from the bundle of straw on which I was sleeping in a farm-yard, and saw in the moonlight a crowd of soldiers and peasants rescuing a young girl from the grasp of La Soif, who fought like an enraged lion. Iran out to lend my aid, but Captain (Gentile was there before me. With one look he subdu | od the sergeant; then, reassuring the | girl by some wc rds spoken in Italian, be came and stood in front of the of- fender, pulled up his chin with fingers that trembled and said; “Such a scoundrel as you onght to have his brains blown out! As soon | as I see the colonel you will lose your | straps, and for good this time, There | will be a battle to-morrow. Try to get killed!” We lay down to rest again, but the captain had told the truth, and at day- break we were awakened by the can- nonade. We rushed to arms, formed Aas ig La Soif, straigh an example withont blue eyes had never looked so wicked, took his place beside me. The battal- were fortified with cannon in the vil lage of Melegnano, Forward, March! We. had but a few paces when a volley of grape about fifteen in ony Then our officers, who were the command to charge, ordered us to eronch down in the cover, like sharp shooters, while they remained stand ing, and 1 you that our cap tain was not the least erect. We kept on the fort that we were to Suddenly [ felt a hand on 1 y and turning I saw La Soif, who was looking at me with one corner of his mouth drawn up in a peculiar manner, as he loaded his gun, “Do you see the gaptain ! said he, nodding his head in his direction, “Yeu: what of 1t? I glancing at the officer, who was stand- ng not twenty steps from us men company awaiting ARSIYe up a fire CATYY. shoulder, BRIORW ered, i i i i i { i that he had acted for the best, crime, he handed me a paper so folded that “What did I tell you?” ] to me as he did last night,” Then, with a rapid movement, he put his gun to his shoulder, fired, and [ saw the captain bend backward, beat the air with his hands, drop his sword, and fall heavily to the ground >” I the gergeant’s arm “Assassin cried, seizing violent blow on the feet Striking chest, he from him ‘Fool! shot him I rose, 3 shooters me A knocked me several furl but all rose at ue; the same colonel, bareheaded, on lis steaming nting with ‘Forward, he bayonet." That Charge harge CLHAIge Ha AEAINNE ve was pain from [ fainted, saw and heard nothing more You know the rest. I have cften told yon how they cut off my arm, and how I passed two months in the hospital, delirions with fever most of the time. In my rational hours I asked myself what I ought to do about La BSoif. Expose him? That was clearly my duty, but how could I prove his crime? Then I said to my- self: ‘He is a villain, but he is brave: he killed Captain Gentile, but he took a flag from the enemy.” I did not know what to do Finally, when I was convalescent, { heard that in recompense for his brave deed he had been promoted to the ranks of the Guards, and had been decorated. me disgusted with the cross which our colonel had fastened on my hospi- tal cont. Still, La Soif deserved his, my vercame me, and have served as a target for the pla- toon ordered to shoot him. It is all past and gone now. I have turn to civil life. But at sight of that coat a moment ago-—~God knows how it came there-—hung out only a few rods from the garrison unpunishel crime, and it seemed as 1 quieted Father Vidal as well as I had I assured him ANOTHER VICTIM OF INTEMPERANCE, Yesterday afternoon a man named Maul let, called La Soif, a sergeant of the perinl Guards, after baving drank freely street, Wan suddenly attacked with a fit of delirium while looking at uniforms ex posed for sale at a second nnd store Becoming frautic, he flourished his suber, and rushed about causing #4 panic His two comrades with great difficulty succeeded in overpowering him, but he kept un shrieking [ am not a murdecer, | tell you! 1 captured an Austrian fing nt Melegnano! We learn heen decorated for his that his intemperance him from becoming an Mallet was taken pital at Gros-Calllon, m which he will transported to toe | asylum nt Charenton. in Corsica, as he will probably in never regan st nn wine shop on Grenelle some old i deed, and sted brave alone Moer the military hos prevye Le inatl i [1s reason As I returned the paper to Vidal he gave me a knowing look “Captain Gent He in Short Stories and said ile was a Corsican, avenged From the French, is TWENTY-FOUR O'CLOCK. Camning Cround. The Prisoner's Friend 100s public ' for charity and do without any show Clark family, his great-grandfather having been one of those engaged in the fam- “Boston Tea Party.” But Mr Clark is well known to the poor and unfortunates inmates of the penal in- stitutions of the State, whom he visits and consoles with presents and flowers and trinkets, cheering them up with kind words and pointing out the way to do better, —————————————— Gueer Names. A traveler who spent some time in the wilds of Texas says that he found families who named the children to in- dorse a sentiment after this peculiar fashion, “One Too Many Harry,” or “Not Wanted James.” It is to be hoped that he names did not embar- rass their owners with more than one sense of superfluity. The negroes of the south, when left to their own their progeny, he likes to Mr comes from a good old Boston whatever. onus or historic names they can find, and a A col- i 3 i : ! i The youths struggling under the pa- tronymics of ‘‘George Washington Henry Clay Benjamin Franklin An- drew Jackson’ are so numerous as to excite no comment. Ata steam shearing plant in Wyo- ming recently, fifty men sheared 3,400 sheen in one day. AND COMMENTS, gn Dr. David Starr Jordan computes that the child of to-day must have had at tke time of Alfred the Great 870,- and at that of William the Conqueror 8 HOR. 004,592. NOTES A doctor who has offee 8s he been experimenting I # anaemnl ii remedy for brought about some He requires his patients to drink weak coffee excinsi to has vely, also them take ordering serted that 8 Frenchman of ft is now as method making M will His name 18 manufacturers of Great Britain to any one who could accomplish this feat Th trout ie retiring president of of Education, in nual report, makes the | be parents as w ell as for children ubliec schools His 1dea is tne a Board now established iv Antage » of se HL grown people 3 foreign had beet in the shire. Cornwall. Wales an : tain: on the sands Reuss, the Rhone Aar: at Salzburg, in the 1 yrol, Zell: in the valle va of and Novard, in Piedmont; in Great Br at Per Southern and Eastern Siberia; in four- teen of the nineteen provinces of China: in the island of Yesso, in Japan: in odd spots in India; Thibet, region watered by the Zambesi and Limpopo, in South Africa; in Austra. lia, New Zealand and Canada. But, as a general rule, the precious it will not pay to work the mines or placers. It is only now and then that it ocenrs in isolated localities in abun- dance, of San Antonio,” says Leslie's Week- ly, “waa crowned Queen of Texas at the Wako Karnival, held at Wako in May last. One of the features of the carnival was a contest among the dif ferent ‘queens,’ sent from the various cities of Texas, as to who should be crowned queen of queens, and on be- half of the Lone Star State carry eetings to President Diaz of the Republic of Mexico on his birthday. The distiction included for the queen a Mexican holiday and her esdort throngh the Republic of Mexico and entertainment by the various Gover- nors and the President. The award was made by fifteen judges selected other than those that About forty cities were represented, and the beauty of Texas cities The prize was to go to most rovally congregated the beautiful and attired The unanimously selected J ond pl ine Dwye r mont fifteen Mins wWOInan judges (rertrude her queen of queens roval they 1 party starts + been rec in the mas Miss Dw Antoni ] Texas. Dwyer, wa uncle, Beriah of Lent (reneral neky Ja (Gertrude 1 { cansed Iymph in » muscu. Fourth sert its lance to malaria sense is more accurate than never in- on not suscepti its yal le his respect the m This also proves, not only its unernag instinet. but that it never wonnds un- Ite thrusts are those of a skilled and humane surgeon, and even more unselfish, for hope of a fee never quickens him, nor does the Pigeon Post to Alaska Milwaukee capitalists are greatly in- munication with the Klondike regions At present it takes from forty to fifty days under the most favorable conditions to get news from us to that region, and it is thought that investors will not care to wait that lc ng for news of great strikes, The company proposes to establish pigeon stations at Dawson City, Jun- ean and Victoria. The distance be- tween the two former points is about 650 miles in a bee line, and it would take a pigeon about twenty-four hours to make the trip. The birds, whose ho une isin Vie storia, could reach the place in about thirty hours after starting, so that the entire trip would take as many hours #8 it now takes days. §
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