EASTER FLOWERS,
Bring ye white lilies
With never a stain,
Nurtured by sunshine
And soft-dripping rain;
Hyacinths, heart’s-ease,
And hellotrope.
Bring ve white blossoms
As pure as the flakes
That float in the
When the winter-storm breaks;
The lilac-tree blooms
And the jonquils unfold,
So bring ye their treasures
Of purple and gold.
air {
Clear fell the sunshine
At morning and noon,
And dripped the warm rain
With a musical croon,
Till out of earth's darkness
And out of the gloom
Came forth the bright buds
In the rapture of bloom.
The almond-tree blossoms,
The world is awake,
So sing ye glad anthems
Fer sympathy's sake.
And every sweet flower
In thankfulness bring
To bloom on the shrine
Of the new-risen King.
HATTIE WHITNEY.
Eastzr Wooding's Dream.
An
Easter Story.
Who has not heard of Devon County?
Devon, bonnie Devon, ith its almost
Italian ita hazy of
rolling crystal st
coast-combes,
foam rushes white
those deep, winding lanes, almost over-
arched with and
brier, the delici
seemed designed by Cu
votees alone.
Charles Kingsley
cousin of William the
around him to th
his trusty
rovers and Si
whose mingled blood s
Devonians brave men
toous women,
Certa:nly John Maddock
Wooding fully sustained their native
country’s
they had ever been since t
they hand
stone school-house
Bideford. And now
mate on an Indian
Esther had
galled away on his
age,
It
Bpring's
southern cl
uestied in one |
Esther felt as @
~-a strange
$anced one Eo
“lI know
John; but do you kno
pressive dread of
evil?”
“Cheer up, my dearie, for
I surely shall, and
of this world's goods
in Bideford
He kissed
drew the whole
lips and hurried to the
to catch the stage to Plymouth.
Across the heathery hills he
whence had flamed beacon
that told of proud Spain's
Armada’s defeat But John
dreamed that Ea Eve of
peace, not war; of life yet
when he and should
flowery pligrimage together.
His ship, conveyed a
British regiment to When he
reached Plymouth the quaint old streets
were filled with a crowd, gathered wo
see the redcoats pass to the beach.
“A life on the ocean wave,
A home on the bounding deep
80 ran the refrain of the band, and
the men strode lustily along, their steps
and voices keeping time and tune.
The vessel sailed away amid wom-
en’s sobs and men’s hurrahs, and that
Sunday morning they watched her
drift until the highest peak faded
against an opalescent sky and she dis-
appeared below the dip of the sea.
The Serapis raced before the wind
like a bird past the Gambian Coast and
lay in the doldrums in the Gulf of
Guinea, while soldiers sweltered and
swore and sailors whistled for a
breeze. They moved again, and when
off Port Nolloth, South Africa. a great
Atlantic gale struck her, and for two
days they rode at the mercy of the
elements. Crash went the foretopmast
then the bowsaprit, and afterward a
Jury mast rigged by John Maddock and
the gallam crew, who toiled in vain
to save the ship.
The captain stood with John on the
poop that night, and heard the distant
breakers on the shore.
“No hope for her, Maddock.” said he,
sadly, with a shake of his grizzly head, !
“We have done ajl-—"
The remainder John never heard.
Just then she struck. He was thrown |
clear off the poop, overboard. He look- |
ed around. There reaced the stern al-
most perpendicularly. She had run
into the jaws of a rock-riven chasm, |
which gripped her like a vice. {
The mainmast snapped with a crack: |
the breakers lashed her sides: and,
with a dash, one great wave
her waist,
Oh, that cry of despair, how it haunt.
ed John's ears! He caught a falling
spar and floated clear of timbers and
cordage,
Ww
skies, streiches
te " ira st TY 2 ita
tors, its reams, Its
the sea
which
as carded wool and
through
+3 1
ale
winai
honeysu
Us ngs
pid
a
Conqueror, drew
ow Grenvil,
tells
ese sequested spots
free Norse
and
lurian
wa
BETES
Saxon
S Britons
gives 10
’ :
veau-
dark
their and
Esther
reputation
went, in han
and he and
met to bi irewell ere Le
the Easter
sweat hres
back again
I have an ap
you will come
w
some foreboding
come back
maybe, with enough
i to settle
our home
her with
a
sOoui th
rods,
light
dread
Maddock
love
the
ster and
come,
walk ils
to
Esther
the Serapis,
India
In the rocks, dotted here and there
with black figures. They had noth-
ing to hold to, and one after another
fell into the seething caldron beneath
inte full twenty fathoms of foaming
until it sprinkled the feathery palms
“None can HMHve in such a sea as
this,” muttered John to himself, clutch-
ing his spar the tighter.
On came another braker as the lion
leaps upon its prey. The Serapis part-
She dived
the next wave rolled over
hissing surge of triumph.
and
a
it from the deadly embrasure
which was the grave of the vessel,
How long John Maddock floated that
he could not remember,
toward the shore
neared a small Inlet,
ran like a millrace,
strewn along the
zy cormorants float-
in the morning twilight above his
head, looking like specter vampires
He had the
when a voice
“Is Ht
“Yes
was
tide
and
the
bodies
had set
he
current
were
almost reached shore
hailed him
Mr. Maddock?"
replied John, feebly, for he
“Who are you?"
you,
worn out
of
to
all, sir. We
on some rigging
They're having
Three sallors
us,
] scramble
t for sharks.
this
Look ou
fine time
with a groan
dragged him
with exposure
from the chest,
and fatigue
rather knelt, the four
SUrvive yf the wreck of the
stood, or
Tis “
8OIITArY
Serapis
“Men,' when he had re
“let us thank God
wor
with thanks for
verance, ith a fervor such
men experience can
appreciate
The day ha
aways
lawned
bury
the
thelr sodden
spent ving dead
ind building a fire t«¢ ry
ut for a vessel,
a signal” sald
sand stretch where they
] in shaly rock
there, barring
And here
must leave the four companions
to go once more,
The weeping on
10
ave
glept
imbers
we
t i + ray
DACK 10 evor
vomen Jef!
Ply
mouth shores were destined weep
he Serapis
never reported at
utta and hope deferred made
¥
loving he
Easter
appre
came
Lae
ward-bound
ne derelict wreck.
He brought the
lls summon
ul adora
Bidefor i
lost
Many
moi and many a heart
though }
i
had
sweetheart
was
hot as the 1a Kindness
were recalled with gratitude
Meanwhile, pe
and tears
, sad with un
d down to
smiling sea
though
may yield up her
il, AR
at any
lead
Oh,
had 1
would
John! Why
I knew evi}
le the man of the
ACT
Pool
beent
A104
BT
wal
awoered 388% the rustling
red # Lae rusting
lidefo
rd
yu grivin'
and way-
Maddock
gone, sure enow at don’t maze your.
with tr'ub
tu
Tuious
“John ie
man had al-
cessor, did be
dare but name him.
“I want tu
man's home before |
peering up into her
“Don't talk dying, father, nor of
my having to I hope both
are equally events,” replied
Esther, with her sad eyes looking sur
prisediy upon him
The man shuffled before that
clear, melancholy gaze, and turned to
some other subject of discussion.
Her womanly instincts had told her
that Ralph Colwell loved her, Ralph
was rich, and though of middle age,
a man of goodly presence and fortune,
He had watched Esther's winsome fac
and trim figure glide past his office
and over the bridge with a sigh of
reconciled disappointment. To him the
see y'u in some good
die,” he added,
face,
of
wo
g leave you
distant
old
was, indeed, a tempting one, for he
loved her with the quiet, deep, strength
of a mature man, who had not hitherto
known the love of woman.
Now John was lost at sea, as all
supposed, and Raiph Colwell's aspira-
tions revived. He had been her fath-
sumed upon it; and when the Serapis
had lain beneath that terrible rock of
urged his suit upon Esther, only to be
met with refusal.
But men of Ralph's temperament are
not easily turned aside from their pus-
poses, and he couid afford to wait, Her
father died in June of 1833, and the
house was left unto her desolate, Ralph
proved, lover, friend, phisolopher and
intruded his rejected suit. His con.
stant love by thoughtful
won the day without this,
sible
mine.”
= *%
[until you can love me in
| Esther. Grant me your hand,
|shall be the happiest of men.”
| She did so, and the wedding
and
| Easter Sunday followed on the
never occurred to her. That
jan impossibility, as she thought,
unmistakably had the record of
| vessel's loss been given, And y
| ed
| greater
| near.
The 24th of March came,
sleeping
own home,
She
For none would have
rest a flerce storm tossed
of the trees before her
tired to
branches win
dow,
sent
was
No
saw
form
doomed
shore.
the
distinctly audible
her lover’
poop,
of rock,
the
the shutter
hurled from and
John's white face was distinct
floating over bounding
she awoke in terror
night her depression
And,
of John again
torm had
great calm,
visible
ows, and
The next
deeper
| still,
ly
han before
Bu
Artic
dreamt
the
ie
she
time ceased,
Was i
the 1
there
Goe each whi
landed
his
though signalls
When
through
re
safety, and
wave ned
"parting
as sing
mornings dewy light
.sther
arose
unreasonably anc
ow left her
ligh*
she
dic
and
She proaches r this
some mind, but { In vain
N)
“Tomorrow ia th
murmured, with ashe
The
never
gh
distur} her as
thought
efore, And that
ia
done | st nig
she lay
time ghe stood on Plymout?
g Drake
Hawkins played game
he looked, with a crowd, at
incoming ship, which fired her gun
miuted the
This third
Quay
and
anid, from the spot where
their
bowls, =
colors
vessel Is that!” asked
of the harbor-master
ure, Indiaman
responded, gallantly doffix
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»
i
i
i
i
i
or (wo years
is my wedding
g though
r music ceased Oh
f
v1
irnin
, fa
he
to the
to herself
stars she stole quietly away
borrowed team. to Plymouth
Plymouth? Esther did
he did not
a
Wh y to not
know, or said
able motive power had led hes
plighted word And,
taat
hor
a Eure
enough, she was on the quay
ternoon, not in her dream
Now where was John
uy
t
knows nore than Esther did
as
y vm
yet
1
ie L§
8. watching for some passing ves-
hunting, fishing and cheering each
words of hope
rvivors had need
more than one vessel
they did not see their fran-
ing,
with
four
for
own, but
of pa-
tietice
tic signall or, If they did, heeded it
not
At
had
the neckerchief which Esther
John Maddock's
inst
thrown around
neck was
top of
bound
shortly afterward and took
mariners of the Serapis from their sol-
itary state,
a Jofty palm tree A vessel
for
Calcutta and John's immediate re.
turn on board the first packet leaving
for England
With this brief Interlude, we can re-
the quay at Plymouth. She dreaded
being followed, but none had put in an
appearance from Bideford as yet. The
western
glory of the setting sun when a ship
sailed in the cove
familiar to her,
sel she had seen in her dream!
ing again?
master, glazed hat and all
in a low, strained voles,
“The Vulture, Indiaman, young
lady,” he replied, and touched his hat
“Why =hould he not?
night.” thought Esther,
on that ship.” she said.
“John? Who's John?"
master.
Esther heeded not. She ran alongside
the nearing vessel. A bronzed figure
stood on the stern. It was John.
| “I kmew you would come, she re-
|marked, very quietly, five minutes later,
land then fainted in his arms.
| The next afternoon they were mar-
iried. All 3iderford gave them an Bas-
{ter welcome; for was not this a resur-
(rection of the dead? And Ralph Cold-
{well winced, but bore his trouble braves
{ly, as he gave the bride away, saying:
“She is yours, Johs, but now her
{father is dead, I claim the right to
place to you both.”
Today the aged John and Esther
Maddock live In the home left them
by Ralph, and this Eastertide their
ta.
“Then John
queried the
s
f gzandchildren gather to listen to this,
| my story, told annually by their ador-
I ed grandfather,
STRATEGY OF A GRIZZLY.
Rakes Corn Near the Barm and Then
Pulls Chickens la.
Nat Wetzell, a 8t. Louis commission
merchant, has a huge grizzly bear,
caged behind strong fron bars in the
rear part of hig place of business. The
bear was sent to him by some friends
in the Blerras. Within & few days
after the bear was imprisoned on the
premises, Wetzell missed one and then
another of the chickens he had turned
out to fatten on the scraps and refuse
and for a time he was at a loss to
know what was taking them off. When
the number had increased to a point
where patience ceases to be a virtue
he set a watch for the miscreant, and
in time that the big
grizzly was devouring them as fast as
them. The
brut's process of capturing the luckless
chicks
class
due discovered
he could lay paws on
certain
not go
credit
i of mammals that
earth on all fours,
discovered how the thing
tO
do
would do
about the
done,
of
was
he
Wetzell had a hearty laugh in rite
©
Bl
his loss
Cage AH
pe
supposed
in
Brea
ared with
quantities
due regularity,
was eng
shaggy
that bruin
immensely
fellow
i constitu}
: upon this
craped t
thrown into the
clos
could
y po
wa arouna
paws down
hint coud
ry chick and
be devour
med § y x
O much as & sg:
y a
and for this
nti
the
ot discover u
1141
ntered
id bruin sitting on his
ich apparent
» altracted
Going back to the cage
found that the bear hs
good
A good bear
tender chicks te
to sleep
piace i
the old fellow's
off
rmination re hi
for the
- 1
ided
been cut and tzel
m to Forest
' » *
3a rt Ir en
Lepa i i
wological
have hi
the city will m St
s Republi
Glass Skates.
The newest feature of interest in
New York ice rinks is the
Iw
It found
ae
use of glass
better, both for
aKates is that skates th
g:
peed and ease in gliding for ples
=a
skates with
Ass runners are far
sur
than are the metal run
ners, and several pairs are now
in one of the metropoiitan ri
inventor has succeeded
the glass to a hardness that in-
an edge which practic aily never
becomes blunt. ‘the tempering pr
remains a
that severe contact with hard ie
not {fracture the glass. To look
these skates one would not Eup POse
were made of anything else
metal, for the runners are always
ored, inorder to disguise the substs
of which they are made + he
process Is arbitrary, and 4
case of ladies’ skates are always mad
correspond with the colors of the
wearers costume. The runners of
these skates are attached directly to
an edpecially made shoe which laces
from the heel up the back. The com-
being
nks
reda
ined
The
in
ing
sures
=
Ces
secret, but it is a fact
e does
at
RL
they than
to
bination not only gives a skate which
is perfectly easy in motion, but the
high shoe stiffens the ankle to an ex-
tent which greatly aids in the enjoy-
ment and adds to the safety of the ex-
Lioness Owned the Car.
Among the freight placed in the bag-
gage car of train No. 6 on the Balti-
more and Ohio Rallroad leaving Chi-
en cage, shipped by Francis Ferrier
and intended for a local show .
After the train had left Cayuga, G.
L.apham, baggage master, who was
crouching on the top of some bag-
gage. Looking the animal straight in
the other end of the car, and as he
threw open the door and rushed out
the lioness jumped, but he escaped.
When the train arrived at Pittsburg
an iron cage was wheeled against the
side of the car, the door opened and
the lioness driven into the cage. In
the eighteen hours she was in posses-
sion of the car, the tore open nearly
every piece of baggage.
a
Olive Oil for the Msir.
When the hair shows a tendency to
fall out the very best thing to stop its
corning out and promote growth is the
abundant use of genuine olive oil. Sat-
urate the hair thoroughly, and keep
it saturated for a week, until the dry
scalp has absorbed all it will, then
wash with pure soap and water. If
this operation Is repeated every two or
three months, the effect is said to be
marvelous.
WIT AND HUMOR
Comic Papers.
THE TIRE
Weary Watkins of the
papers is agitatin’ the wide- tire ques
tion again, for better roads,
Hungry Higgins —1 don't
much about wide tires, but
got a life-long one,
QUEATION,
I see some
know
AX IMPOSSIBLE
Miss Wabash
fully blue this morning.
Miss Emerson (of
FEELING,
Oh, dear ! I feelaw
jorton
to become cognizant of colors through
the sense of touch,
A NEW GAME TO HIM.
“Jacob, what are you doing
ning around the streets
should be in school 2”
“Well, ma, you told
BOWE games which I could piay
3
ia)
I'u
run
when you
3
he vi)
out tearing my clothes, so
ing a new one called *truant
CRICKEN HAD AN ALIBI
“Won't you try the
asked Mrs,
ar 4
oF
beyond the soup stag
“I have tried it, ms:
fig} i
the cid
THR TEACHER
Father—Do yon
senses any abil
Instructor
braneh of drawi:
Father {prondly
[nstructor Drawi
SEEING 18 BELIZ
“No, I don't belies
world
who
pe of IArriage
“We've got one on our st
merry.
“Do you believe her
“I believed her as soon as I
MUCH BLABORATION
Vietim (angrily Don’t call me
I don't like it.
Book Agent Well,
nan
Vietin 3
I will do some eiatl
will giaborate a cad
ABBOLUTH
Mistress. Y
1say. But
Maid Mem
Mistress... Wi
Mary, Bridget —
Maid — It
after. That is
ginnis before
mind ?
THE NRCRS
ARY Qt
Mr, Penn, asked
Sailor, ]
editorial
‘Ah
‘Do you think, fo
write an able article
question »
COUVLDR 1
Mrs
and
Maundsley
ner
’
{han
Mrs
{Hq
timo I go to
to be someth
LOWER THE
yw
think,
.y said
“that if you would give me a chance
I could elevate the stage.’
“Oh,” replied the manager, “‘there’s
no need for that expense. The stage
if we could
BRIGHT,
“But are
BUT DISTANT
support a
after
apnlica
tion for the position of ron-in-law
*‘My finances are not a burden to
me at present,” was the reply, ““but |
prospects beiore me,
$1.1
you abie 10
“Oh, I don't doubt that.”
rupted the old man, “‘but
think you will ever be able
up with them ?”
inter
do you
to cateh
IN TREXNESSEE.
“I've nothing to give you, my poof
man, except a piece of pie ”
“That'll do, ma'am I kin eata
pie. Thanky.”
‘““Have you any occupation #°'
“Yes'm. I'm a snow-shoveller.”
“You didn’t expect to get any op-
portunity to shovel snow in this part
of the country, did you 2”
‘Nome, That's w'y I coms dmon
here. They was too blamed much of
it up in Michigan. "’
SENSIBLE FELLOW,
She threw the fellow overboard,
And never saw him more, —
£he thought he would swim back to
her,
But instead he swam ashore,
THR POET EPIGRAM.
“Let who will do the country's
righting ! I ask only to stay at home
und write the country’s war songs!
DIFFERENT,
Soulful—~80 you and your sweet:
Beart are one at last.
Doieful— Well, er, we may be called
s married couple.
FIDELITY TO THE PATTERN,
His Mother ‘profoundly shocked)
~Johnny ! Johnny | You will break
my heart! That is the most dreadful
language I ever heard a little boy use !
Johnny We're playin’ street cars,
”
mamma, I'm the motorman, an’
ben's drivin’ a coal wagon an’ won't
get out 0’ my way.
A GENTLE INSBINUATION,
The Maid—Miss Ethel is
sir, but 1'1l tell her you ealled
Algy-~Aw- thanks. Tell her right
away, please, so you won't forget it,
not in,
PROOF,
Bhe-—A woman is braver than a»
man,
He What
of a monse,
Bhe—Yes
that same
Why, a woman is afraid
and a man
woman
HOw
SHE TOOK 17
e¢ looked npon wy face for
'* he resolutely declarad
on his hat.
you going to
wil
do she
iskers 7’
UNFORTUNATE
FORTL
About L
Poor
Tales ucky
Man New
engineer was
thorough
id He had
k
inves
and was
he
and the
An bun-
in the most
be shares, the
M3, worth
was siruck
explored
found
Was
unlikely Today t
veins
face value © rhi jis §1 are
£500,000 each
aA dd.
Wickedest Villain oa Earth.
The death of Tai Won Kun, father of
the King of Korea, which was made
known to the minister of that country
vesterday, will simplify politics
He was probably the wickedest villain
in earth, and for fifty years had been
at the bottom or the top of all the
mischief that has occurred in the Her-
mit Kingdom. He was Regent during
the minority of the King, who inherit-
ed the throne from a childless uncle,
and ruled with the most brutal despot.
{sm for a quarter of a century. It was
while ke was at the head of affairs
that we had our little war with Korea,
which resnited in opening the country
to foreigners. He was the foe of all
forms of progress, and particularly
hostile to missionaries and modern im-
provements. He murdered thousands
of people wlio stood in his way or re-
fused to bend to his will, and it took
three years for the Government to get
rid of him after the King became of
age. Twice he was the prime mover
in nisis to assassinate Bis own son,
and three times attempted the assas-
sination of the Queen. The last at-
tempt was successful in 1885,
The old scoundrel lived in a palace
a few miles ouigide the city, surround.
ed by a double guard, one of his own,
in whom he had confidence, to protect
htm against the vengeance of those he
had injured, and another provided by
the Government to prevent him from
leaving the place. He seems to have
died a natural death, and it is almost
a miracle. "or no other man or earth
was 30 viciously hated.
its