Ca
IN THE LANE.
By Victor Grey.
Falls in misty, golden showers,
Tinting with Its shimmering lances
All the little, nodding flowers,
Shining "mid the emerald foliage,
Where the birdies, blithely singing,
Fill the woodlands all about us
With a sweet and joyous ringing.
Don't you love this lane, my darling?
When I think of those sweet hours
We have spent within its cloisters,
"Neath its trees and ‘mid its flowers,
Every blade of grass grows dearer
Every tiny fragrant flower
Seems to bring, In swift succession,
Memories of some happy hour,
Here it was we met, my darling,
On that blissful, sunlit morning,
When the woodland's robe of emerald,
Fringed with summer's fair adorn-
ing,
Gleamed with
dewdrops,
And the birds were blithely trilling
Happy lays—sweet morning carols
All the woods with rapture thrilling.
shimmering diamond
Here, within its dusky shadows,
Sauntering down the lane together,
Love around us cast his fetters
Fetters that would bind forever.
Here it was I told my story,
And. my happy answer guessing,
Held you in my arms a moment,
Sweet, red lips the while
There we had our lovers’ quarrel,
"Mid those clumps of fragrant clover;
Here it pentant
Begged forgiveness o'er and o'er:
Then 1 kissed your soft
And your eyes w
ing,
Not content until your ri
On my heart were safe reclining.
youy
wis we
Zrew re
cheek roses,
ith teardrops shin-
lint
ngiets
Yes, I love this lane, my darling.
With its fringe of wildwood flowers
Love it for the joy that crowned me
In these happy, happy hours;
For,
though since then have
vanished
Youth's fair
longer
8till our hear
And
strouger,
years
bloom Is ours
0
ts as one are beatin
our love each day
f Terie Moment
never
Yes, terrible
was. [I shall
should 1 live
drous ages at
papers. Moreover, it
for a man
may slip from
that moment whe
brink of the grave, brougl
the probability of an awful
It happened in this way. 1
In Australia for about five
fog which time I had amassed
erable fortune, when I began to
to see the old country again—a desire
considerably strengthened by
that the girl I loved, and who had
sented to be my wife,
England, and 1 could
thought of such an extent of
tween determined to go te
and let our marriage take place there.
May drodstone was the only daugh
ter of a well-to-do squatter. and the
prettiest, girl for miles round
the station, though, until I had b
acquainted with her, rather
bit of girlish flirtation. This
worse for turned
Among her many admirers was
Jacob Kiel. Dark-haired, dark-eved,
dark-complexioned, was that
class of men who feel strongly, and
who never forget an injury wild
cats, they are nasty customers to of-
fend. Well, May, I fear. had flirted
somewhat with Jacob Kiel, who, I
really believe, loved the very ground
she walked
and I knew
never given
to one of tho
recorded
Was not a
Many
times
to
forget.
a
had
YOArs,
at
long
the fact
COn-
Was going to
bear
. +
not the
ocean be
ys: so | #3,
nicest
Come
fon of a
was foe
me, as it out,
one
he of
like
on, though she declared
it was true had
him the slightest hope.
It was about this time that I
peared upon scene; and
coversd that she had found the right
man. as I had found the right gir
May Brodstone instantly gave up all
her admirers, was as steady and quiet
as a gun-tree when no wind
and finally said the “Yes” upon which
my happiness depended.
Old Mr. Brodstone knew that
match would be a good one, and read
fly gave his consent, so that our en-
gagement was soon made public. I
was present when the news reached
Jacob Kiel. 1 shall never forget his
face. His lips were compressed,
dark eyes contracted; he looked from
May to me, and I felt if he could he
would do much mischief, Without a
syllable he quitted place. A
that she
ap-
the she dis
blows,
the
the
he departed; and May told me that a
cold shudder had run through
veins,
We did not see much of Kiel after
this, though we knew he was often
were not at all sorry when we got on
board the steamer and steamed off
towards Old England. We had not,
however, got cleverly out of sight of
land when May, giving a little ery, put
her had on my arm, and, slightly nod.
ding her head towards the lower deck,
said,
“Oh, Edward, look—he 1s here too!”
And so he was. Leaning quietly
over the side, watching fhe land ap-
parently, was Jacob Kiel-a passenger
for England, like ourselves, I wih
own that I was considerably annoyed,
though when May, drawing neaner,
exclaimed, in a low, startled voice,
“Edward dear, I don’t know how it is,
but I dread that man—I cannot divest
my miod of the thought that he means
Ish so absurd an idea. And certainly
it appeared I had every right to do
80. Save by a casual interchange of a
few words, Klel never troubled
and we were making a capital jour
ney, when, just as we were within
twenty degrees of the line, we were
us,
tain declared was almost a cyclone in
violence,
The vessel could not weather it. The
taking sev
and, be
masts crashed overboard,
eral of the crew with them,
portion of the broken spars, dashing
had caused a leak
the water-line, and the cry
“We are sinking! Lower the boats
pumps are useless!”
wins
~t he
The captain
all fhe same.
“The villain! Last night our boats
separated in the darkness: this morn
ing the one bearing Jacob Kiel and the
worst of the crew was missing, He
has elther steered the boat into a dif.
ferent track, or pald the fellows to de
sert us, fearful of the punishment
that might have awaited him when
we touched land.
Whether this was so I do not
for we never heard of Jacob
rain,
That day we were picked up by one
of ships, homeward bound,
Know,
Kiel
Green's
and in due time were landéd in Eng
and where we now reside; for my wife
will hear of
again, as she cannot
the ocean
that most
not
Crossing
forget
SAN JUAN'S FORTIFICATIONS,
Morro Castle Dates From the Time of Poace
to abate, The
first, of course, and all who procead
ing well, when, just the last boat
remembered that in
my hurry I had left my mother's min
ature in my chest, There was plenty
of time to fetch it, and in a
was down in the cabin, Flinging the
Hd open, my hand was already upon
the likneses, when I heard a foot upon
the stairs, 1 the dim
light swinging from the roof per
ved Jacob Kiel,
Good Heavens!
face
seemed women
as
second I
turned, and by
yet
Ce
The diabolical ex.
! flendish mal
snake-1ik re.
moment. He
deadly harm
his he
dark,
intention
pression on
fee in his
vealed his in a
had come to do me some
Leaping up, 1 seized revolver, to
he on guard: but ap attack
not his purpose, Before 1
had aulekly
locked It
Wis
my
could pre
closed the
the out.
him, he
eabin door, and
side,
Like a flash of lightning all the hor
of my instantly flashed
me, I was a prisoner in
sinking ship! Uttering a loud shout of
the cry
laugh from Jacob
say, “Who will
and
stairs
the uproar of
drowned my volce
vent
on
rors situation
before the
was
Kiel,
marry
his
fury, I sprang forward;
echoed by a
I heard
May now?’
feet went rapidly up the
I called aloud for help:
him
Brodstone then
the storm
Just wind ul
to push off;
Kiel. 1 again
but voles
pansed then the 1
and I heard an order
was Jacob
shouted in my ony my
ng
I was not
like a
though I knew that all
that | like a
rat. in the
and the wind rose together
heard. 1
madman
was
continued to shout
pe
gone alone,
wns
trap 5
Furiously 1 beat
wd
ile painfull
boats, my
until
geparant
Id not lw discovers
had foundered,
when in
he hurricape 1
leadly
th ship larch
PET
waters
more heavily moment as she
pinnged in the trough of the sea? Sud
denly ge gave a terrific heel over, and
a wave
came rattling down the com
panion adder lle innder, rushed
} 5 i
under the door nundated the
cabin
I shrieked in : ng that
all that I was die
not even with the chance of bat
for life
"Y
Was over fo thus,
ling
I felt that I could meet death calmly
if I wore on deck. w heavens
above me;
ith the
but my very hair stirred at
in the
there
the buried
Was
thought of being
yen as it were in a box
no of I looked
round and gave a cry of joy,
leaped forward, careless now that the
water mounted higher and higher
“Fool! Idiot! I “You
are your own murderer!”
My eo had rested upon
volver. In a second I had
of its barrels into the lock of the door,
atoms, and the next
minute 1 was upon the deck only just
in time, for the
fast. 1« would have
fore, but that the storm
With a wild
Near
hid
really way escape?
great
exclaimed.
my
fired
re.
two
Yo)
shivering it to
settling
long
had abated
for
was alike
But, hav
vessel was
sett lend be
looked the
all
waters,
sticcesded so far, 1 resolved
One by one 1 discharged
the remaining barrels of my revolver,
and then plunged into the sea, to swim
18 far as I could from the ship before
it sank, hoping that I should find
1 did so before
mast, with
helped me;
hope I
or
the
boats, far
darkness
ing
to despair,
not
far-a
This
I had proceeded
cordage attached.
Suddenly. however,
rush of water seized me.
rapidly back, and then down as in a
everywhere—after which |
membered no more. When I came to,
Brodstone leaning over me.
It appeared
dawned the boats were called together,
when mine was found missing; upon
thereto by many of hig companions,
~what could have prevented my get
ting into one of the boats,
The sea was nearly calm, the sun
cult, They soon perceived a dark ob-
Jeet. Approaching it. they found it to
be myself, clinging like grim death to
the wreck, but laughing and yelling
ike a maniac. In fact, I was mad, and
for some time after they managed to
get me Into the boat I remained so;
then I became calmer, though I was
delirious for a whole day and night,
Directly sensibility returned I told
my story, filling every ome with hot.
ror, especially May Brodstone.
De Leon.
In the Century
lustrated art
Porto
A. Ober.
of San Juan,
Morro
Leon's
there i8 a richly il-
on “The Island of
Rico.” written by Mr. Frederick
Writing ms
Mr
Castle
icie
of the fortiticati
Ober says:
de
as it
1084.
dates from Ponce
but Morro
was completed In
time, the
stands to-dny
with a first-class
Morro's
The faro stands here,
liin the walls
and wit
ngs town
f a small military
(quarters. for troops, a caapel, bake
l-room, w
unde
the initial point
house, an nar ith dungeons
down by the sea and neath, 11
1
citadel,
cumvaliat
ions
the
“Fortalez:
sO
Supports
and was uil
in 1540
to the north i
# plerced |
by the ¢
=
of San Juan, which affords entran
the glacis of San Felipe del Morro
tween the palace and -bastior
sem
San Augustine, Turning southwar
Fortaleza, we
tion of La Palna. and t}
Justo, in th
IW is the ar
from the
of San
hed entrance fr
Marina. or outside
tramural city, and
de Espana.
are the |
which
the
ward, to tl
known 18
Puerta Beyond
Casi, astions of San
and latter in
middle part of
1
landward gnt
Santiago, the
wall
a ravelin of the same name
ress Nan ( tohal
Hd
cation
or
the bay on the
#
¥i
:
egut lar
ocean
fortifications
sje ted
between
These
ery Pre
finished
Nan Cristobal and
until
1771
5
Works «
imple ted
modern date of
onsist
'%, protecte
sail fort
the bridge
of that
astern end of
the extreme «
i fort
Nan
smaller
chell, of Chi
is story The reaso
0 deeply concerned,
ig a true one
and
embarrassment
is a batchelor,
his
Gatchell
reason
greater would
of
from
than it otherwise
When he and
medical profession started
to attend the
pathic convention in Omaha
cupied na Dr. Gatehell
assigned to lower =ix, and being tired
retired at an early hour. When the
train arrived at Galesburg the car was
to
some of the physicians desiring to go
later from Galesburg
That evening wedding
in higl life and of
course the usual amount of ribbon dee
and
bridal party
contracting parties
other members
Chi
Cngo national bomose
thes 8
sleeper was
set out wait for a train followinzs
there w a8 a
at Galesburg
rice throwing. Rome of
ascertained that the
had engaged sev
and they deter
decorate it up. By mistake
into the wrong car. Dr
Gatchell was peacefully sleeping and
alone in the car. The decorators set
to work, and in a short space of time
had the section nicely decorated with
ribbons and flowers. Then they hid to
await the coming of the groom and
bride, first sending out a spy to report
their arrival
Presently the spy sneaked out and
reported that Mr. and Mrs. Blanke
were in their car. which was down
the track a short distance But the
decorators knew nothing of this. They
rushed into the car they had first vis
| ited, pulled the curtaing of section six
aside, and before the astonished doc-
tor could protest he found himself bur.
ied beneath an avalanche of rice, old
i shoes and flowers,
When Dr. Gatchell recovered from
the awful shock to his bachelor nerves
{ he began to talk. He talked earnestly
and well, but the merry crowd fled
before he could finish his rather tor-
rid speech.—The Omaha World -Her-
ald.
orating
the
tion six
to
in a sleeper
mined
they got
Twenty-nine sheep introduced into
the Australian colonies in 1788 are
| now represented by 120,000,000 of the
finest wool sheep in fhe world,
The trees in the streets of Parls,
| France, are looked after by a public
official appointed solely for that pus
{ powe,
i
i
| fmalipox is the most infectious dis
| ease, Then comes measles
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
at any price,
$75,000,000 for new battleships
Times bound It
ve this
letter to Porto Rico
cost only
are
conts
to [mprove
year to
Next year it
CORR
two cents,
Full dress in the Philippines
to consist chiefly of a gold collar
decorated,
As
now
the
a matter of economy Spain ean
the othce of m
abolish nister of
navy,
According to the latest official figures
Italy has 50185 public
which 21,254 are for boys, 1
and 10,173 mixed
{
Of
for
schools,
-rey
8,05
orl?
girls
towards
with
attitude
CONN
Japan's friendly
this
Zovernment tion
the Philippines
the
rey
ihiere 1s gold
but ifr
may be
ness, privation
vidence of
little island's sagacity.
in the Klondike 1
the word of returned
taken comes high.
1 fv
1a Ire
are un + 1o pay, even |
Nince
hildy
POISONOUS
many «
from « bers
plants
in
ming
colored charts
HOne Gre'innn
trating those th
OpnIon
3
ble that
FEN)
francs
{oi
oe tN one a
tizens of St,
The «
Ore
ftaan tg Zi
tasmition to expend £20 (0K) (tv ¥)
ments, About 43
1 I"
ast, and only 9.5700
rOposition,
Foreign countries owed us a net bal
of S615.000.000 uit
ance as t
last
eidedly
year's commerce, That
practical
“What have
ANEW
uesiion, we
.
abroad?
If
Dae
England
notable
Just
this were
soveral very
¥ of peers
Franc
with the “Earl of
#1
Hose
m the San
Along
plain {soorgo Dewey
1s.
‘Tord Shafter of Banting:
hley.” with a
count NS
as 3aron of Porto Rico.”
The
has propounced unconstit
act of June 15, 187, impos
the employers of foreign
uralized male persons over twet
of age a tax of three cet
day for every day such
employed, the amount
be deducted from por
sons affected by the provisions of the
act,
The area of Great Britain Is
#quare miles and that of her
encies 16.662073 square miles
population of the mother couatry
0.825.000: that of the colonies and
gubiject countries, 322.000.0066), it
seems like a small dog to have =uch a
big tail, and the figures suggest the
idea that old Ben Jonson was right
when he intimated that some day the
tail might become too large for the
dog to wag.
Supreme Court of
bays
5 ars
persons are
of the $ to
the wages of
120.079
depend.
The
i=
Ruicides in Italy.
ber fifty per cent. The number of “vol.
untary” deaths enumerated by the sta-
of frantic women and men who rushed
despairingly on the bayonets of the
soldiers in the great bread
last spring—the awful bint ineffectual
protest of a starved people against a
government respongible for the cause
of their starvation
Two of the most reliable evidences
of the increased purchasing power of
the farmer are the reduction of mort-
gage indebtedness and the increased
sale of manufactured goode that are
made expressly for farmers. Millions
of dollars have been paid out in wip-
—
ing ont farm and chattel mortgages
while the trade with farmers has ine
creased from ten to 300 per cent over
| the corresponding months of
year, Manufacturers of agricul
| tural implements report a particuiarly
heavy Inerease in sales,
seven
|
| Mist
The 080 savings banks in this coun.
{try In 1807 had deposits of $1,039,376.
| 030 —an 1040 per
bearing
5,201,
to
than
interest
amount more
ent greater than the
national debt, and depositors of
Se, i
number for
excess of the
tal population of country
time revolution. Our country
first nations in
savings banks
But
Prussia
in
the at the
of the
| Is among the the
in
Prussia, while
of have
depositors than
{ amount of deposits
nnd
y
next comes
banks
third
irs the total of
one-half
hie ings
Ole more
their deposits is only
about as large.
It has been decided by the Depart-
of Agriculture,
locate a number of
Alaska, and
have been
for
Georgeson,
of
Washington, to
experimental sta-
increased
ment
tions in appro-
from
Professor
formerly
agriculture
priations received
Congress this purpose,
CC who OCC.
at the
ricultural College, has been
pled the «
Ag
inir
Kansas
0 take charge of the work,
headquarters at
vicinity a
experiments with various
Sitka will also
investiga-
condi
his
in the
Points north of
and
a thorough
tural
itl to vol
aces
hief
hief
been
sur-
ittempt by
uiture to im-
inter.
ultural
TALE OF A TREASURE CAVERN.
The Marvelous Romance of Captain Charles
A. Henderson
A
knew
Lark
mers and Henderson se
ed in a cavern $175,000 in
us The and
attempted in
Henderson and one com-
el a South American
Aarne 1 swward that Bam.
the
fell Was s¢
money
Crew
to escape
i the other m had Deen cap-
yardarm
{enderson’s
the
oom
that time has made
efforts to reach
The Flora K.
om Philadelphia
was wrecked off
Carolina. Then
New pur-
B. and sailed from
February 22 last for the Tristan
Island, thirty-five miles south
of which is treasure land. He
reached this on April 14, and found the
Lark in the bottom of the bay where
had left it thirty-three years ago,
The goid and jewels were also in the
treasure cave as he had left them, ex-
copt that the bags holding them had
been destroyed by dry rot.
The exact value of the treasure se
cured is said by Henderson to be $173.
320. On the return trip Henderson's
vessel was chased by what is supposed
to bave been a Spanish gunboat. He
escaped under cover of darkness and
reached New Orleans in safety. Claude
Thompson, of Jackson, accompanied
Captain Henderson on the remarkable
| trip.~~New York Journal.
Third-Class Matter.
| “Bay” said the bookkeeper, address.
| ing the cashier, and winking knowing.
| ly at the office boy, “do you know any-
thing about this new stamp tax?’
“Sure,” replied the cashier, “what do
you want to know ¥"
“Suppose.” continued the b. k., “that
I wanted to express by opinion: would
I have to stamp the express receipt?’
“Undoubtedly,” answered the cash.
“But if you will allow me, I
would suggest that you forward your
opinions by mail”
“And why by mail?’ asked the auto
crat of the ledger.
“Because,” replied the cashier, “as
they have no weight, it would be
fince
cessful
attempt.
of North
arson went 1o
“a
Orleans
the Lou
nia
the
he
cheaper." Chicago News.
FOUGHT LIKE CLOCKWORK.
Bo Worked the Gunners on the Oregon la the
Fight.
The ERomerville (Mass) Journal
prints a letter from Ensign Charles L.
Hussey of Oregon Fred Ela
Warren, his old New Hampshire
schoolmate, In which BAYS
“1 volunteered for
prize crew board Cristobal
Colon, It was xix hours of experi
ences we had there, transporting her
crew, (prisoners of war, tending her
wounded, and burying her dead, and
all the time trying fo save the ship.
But she continued to make water, and
finally rolled over on her side. 1 had
the of running up the
Stars pes her quarter
deck down. The
Colon w and may be
saved
“I have been fortunate getting
special duty that has given me an in-
sight of the operations, Of
course our epgagement of 4d of
July way of anything
since My own station in battle
is on the upper deck—Iin fact,
rail, I have a battery
rapid-fire guns, six-pounders.
“During the engagement the Oregon
fired 1,776 rounds—note the good his-
torical number—several of my guns
firing upward of 250 rounds, and the
lasted only a little over
so hot from
used in
the to
he
duty
the
with the
on
satisfaction
and Str over
went
ship,
khe
EL
before
aA% a Hine
yet
in
into most
the
stands ahead
1863,
the
ten
on
of
where
Date
an The
the rapid fire that the
them out bojled in the
actual
hour guns were
water
sponging bore,
“Only three of the enemy's shots
Firat
us, but they played a merry
for the first
. » weakened,
turret
urret
about our ears half
ck an eigl
h was
those
vas standing
But it
that
heads that
Was
Over
our
duck useless operation,
“After the fir 'n minutes our met
the clockwork; such
guns
steadiness 1
In fact
loading
id
cog
1 +
i {
gus gtiol
tame out
rail «
everythi
wt Or
£1
impossible
the ship unl
“We simply
nearest
And then the
have had for a year gets ir
clockwork. F
had a
May
% Like
CIOCEWOrs
wheal knocked
I' 80
Told by the Haversack
“A good general never overio
] said an ex-ar
because
the game,’
jeves time
f the service. “Noth
be
curbstone
4
and that should
membered these and
grocer who gather
this I recall what
that happened
Fort Donelson,
measuring the of-
to
little thing
attacked
no
before wa
there is
upon our history.
a council of war
whether they should at-
or give the troops a few
days’ rest. The other officers favored
while Grant smoked and gave
had
alled
(seneral mnt «
congider
0 opinion
pinion,
“*“There
this morning.’
‘1.0t us see him and
was a deserter brought in
the general finally said.
hear what be has
say’
“The first thing Grant did when the
fellow came in his knap
sack. “Where are you from? the gen-
was to open
asked
“Fort Donelson.’
“ “You have six days’ rations, I see,
When were they served?
“ Yesterday morning.’
“Were the same rations served to
“Yes, sir.’
“ “Gentlemen,” sald Grant, “troops do
not have six days’ rations served out
to them in a fort if they mean to stay
there. These men mean to retreat, not
to fight We will attack at once,”
Detroit Free Press,
Hew Peking Is Lighted.
Peking is advancing. So at least
one gathers from the Peking and
Tientsin Times, which announces that
a couple of gas lamps and three petro-
ileum lamps now illuminate the capital
of the celestial kingdom. This un.
wonted departure, however, is not due
9% native enterprise. The gas lights
are set up in front of the Russian em-
bassy, while the three lesser, lumina.
ries shine for the benefit to the cus
tomers of the Russo-Chinese bank.
Throughout the rest of the city way
farers stint have to follow thelr nosey
as soon as darkness sets in
on
Burglary no longer pays in London.
The police reports for last year show
that she whole fraternity of burglars
earned only $86,000 last year.
in the German empire there are pub
lished no fewer than 6.533 periodicals,
being one for every 12.002 of the pope
alation.