EVENING. Clear down the hill of day has flown The sun with all his legions bright And lert the moon and stars alone To guard the ways of heaven night, Just when they reached the edge of day, by rest Before they farther marched away Into the distant, dreamy west, high To signal all rear-marching feet Whose task it is to follow nigh As guards that cover a retreat Far out upon earth's utter marge And needs must have a longer space Their larger duties to discharge Than those whose feet are duly sent Along that shining pathway wide That runs across the firmament Straight onward, turning not aside. fa done day, And so it comes when day That twilight time, half night, 1s but the hour wherein the sun Doth all his scattered bands Soon as he finds his forces met The leader issues his commands To strike all tents and forward set Upon the road to « lands, Then from the highest peak and plain Day's last lone outpost is withdrawn NO more to reappear TiN mora looks dawn SG. unite. hae siher again the o'er hills of in Chicago Record. HER MUSICAL LOVER. “f do believe that Aunt Hannah will get married before me, after all” said Janet Belton, laughing roguishly, She stood leaning over the stone wall, 8 bower of silvergreen clematis mak ing a wreath above her golden head, the tall red clovers and showy daisies nodding at her feet, and she tit emblem blooming freshness, “Nonsense,” sald Guy Martin, had checked his span of horses in the middle of a furrow, and stood leaning on the plow handle, a young Adonis in bis shirt sleeves “But It's true” sald Janet; actually got a bean.” “Then it must be the old man was put in the poorhouse last week, or at least Duncan Deverel, who believes that the world Is coming to an end week from next Thursday.” “Neither one nor the Janet. “What do you fessor Keith?” “What, the man lessons and boards at the “Himself and no “Musie hath charms soothe savage breast!” quoted Guy Martin “And you and I are to dance at her weddimg, I suppose, Janet?” “If we get an invitation,” said Janet, demurely. “But [ happen to be in dis grace with ber just gow.” “What for?” “For laughing banjo.” “Oh, pever mind,” said Guy, “it's *Hsy to make the peace again. Just compare him to Beethoven or Mozart, or any other of those immortal gen. iuses—offer to embroider hin a peck tie, and tell her you know of a new pattern for a wedding dress and, my word for it, all will be right again. Aunt Hannah under the inuflence of the tender passion! Aunt Hannah with a beau! What is this world coming to? “And in the meantime,” =ald Janet, with a sigh, {| must go back to the iron- ing, or 1 shall get a lecture a yard long." herself a of spring and who who a other,” said of Pro think ginging avern?"’ who ives tf bens th other to the at the professor's clusively to the plow line,” sald Guy Martin, “If 1 could only turn up a pot of gold, little Jenny farm, And you should be my wife” “What nonsense!” sald Janet. “What good sense!” laughingly re. torted her lover. And so they parted. Aunt Hannah dinner when her niece returned to the perilously near to forty, with a row of curls like miniature beer barrels on both sides of her face, a bulbous nose, which, however, sadly belied the ehar. nak was strictly things, exeept temperate scolding and in all and yet not disagreealde to look up. on. But when Miss Belton came in the highest degree, “That's just like you, Net Belton." cried she, In a voice shrilly rajsed. “Gone half the morning and nothing done! And my two silver spoons gone that belonged to my mother before she was married-spoons as 1 wouldn't ha' took five dollars apiece for ‘em.” “Why, Aunt Hannah, I haven't tak- en your silver spoons.” “I never sald yon had,” snarled the malden lady. “It Is that plaguey or gan grinder, as came here, twisting out his tunes afore the back door, and looking for all the world as if butter wouldn't melt In his mouth. Aud I just went into the milk-rooom to get a tumbler of buttermilk for him, as he sald he preferred it to all the strong drinks as ever was brewed--and such an honest face as you couldn't suspect, if you tried—and I never to miss | till I went to the tray just now found only the britsnnia ones left! Ah, me! what a world this ta!” “But, Aunt Hanngh I don’t under stand,” interposed her bewildered { niece, “Idd the organ grimiler steal {away your mother's gpoons?’ { “What else have 1 been telling you fall this time?’ retorted Miss Bemis, { “Really, one would think you wasn't gifted with ordinary something accomplished, And if yon | see another organ grinder comin’ this { way set the dog on him.” “But Aunt Hannab all organ grind {ers are not necessarily thieves” “Don’t argue with me, stern- ly commanded Aunt Hannah, “but do you bid, that ennobling, sclence music have such unworthy votaries!” “She's thinking of the [thought Janet, with mischievously twinkling eyes, as she the wrinkles out a dimity with ruffled borders, Aunt Hannah dressed herself in her { best black silk that afternoon, lavender ribbon at throat { curls touched up with a trifle extra of to give {the gloss of youth, Cosmetics, various shapes, Miss Bemis but there was no harm, as she argued with herself, in a little innocent starch sprinkled over the wrinkles of her brow, and she viewed herself, her tollet completed, with commendable pride, “Nobody would take me to be a day over eight and thirty,” said Aunt Han nah to hersell And then she sat just {where the “Are you expecting ticular, Aunt Hanuah?”’ ith great gravity, “Dear me, no. Who should 1 expect 77 “Oh, I don't I thought It like that the professor Aunt Hannah giggled “As if ith important without running here every other day!” But eblwd away, and the laggard lover came not at 10 o'clock Aunt Hanpah re to her in lowest pos miss’ i » jas are Alas, such as professor,” pressed of apron with a her aml the pomatum them somethin of - in ther her knit window, down to inside the root honessuckles in ny one asked ting. grew in par Janet, Ww know, ly convulsively, 34 hadn't plenty Professor mativis to ocenpy his time the long June evening aed tired sible room the spirits, “It's a lovely sald to herself, window curtain, sentimentally we radiant landscape. “Just the very night for a promenade by the hurch romantic on the plazzn Ah, mel” And Aunt Hannah disappointed than she would have been willing to confess to herself, She was half way through mazes her first delicious dream, a sound, faint and unusual, interrupted her--the sound of music, Aunt Hannah feet, wide awake second “It’s that mean, ml thieving organ grinder again.” muttered she, between her set th. “Thinks 1 hain't found out it Lhe but he's this I'll teach And swash went a cold water down the under the lilac bushes, not aimed, as was testified by a smothered shit moonlight night,” she ns =he stood behind the viewing tl ‘ chins or a interview went to bed more t! ie of when scrambled, to i Bemis in serabile, her tee fil SIMON; missed his time him.” ars whole pitcher of Gaver musician incorrectly exclamation below, “1 hit ye, did 17" chuckled nah. “I'm glad of it. Be clear out Aunt Han ryvedd ve right; of here, you miserable cree tur. I'll unioose old Growler and send for the Yos, that's show us a clean pair of heals ud, forked Fagan, yon't constable leave your old music-box bel ha! hal” And with a chuckle treated, the slam “I've seithd said to herself. Early the next morning Janet went out into the garden gather some fresh lettuce for a breakfast salad, while Aunt Hannah boiled the coffee; but presently she returned, breathless, “Oh! aunty, you sever told you had a serenade last night.” . “A sere—which, child? I don’t know i what you're talking about.” “Look” and Janot held up a battered and broken banjo. “It's Professor der the lilacs.” “Professor Keith'«!™ {lower jaw dropped abe sat staring like fone in a disagreeable dream “I am so sorry 1 slept so soundly. Aunt Hannah,” sald Janet, © 1 should have enjoyed the mnsie.” Aunt Hannah sank into a chalr with clasped hands “I've done it now,” terieally. “Done what, auaty? “1 threw a pitcher of water on him (and called him all the names you ever heard of. 1 supposed, of course, it ‘was the chap that stole my spoons, Oh, dear! oh, dear!” | And Aunt Haunah began to {while Janet burst into a peal of ir resistible laughter, “Don’t fret about it, aunty, dear,” she {consoled her relative at last, “If he Hoves you truly he won't mind a little ieold water. He'll know there was | some misunderstanding.” i But the inference was that Professor | Kelth did not love Miss Bemis truly, for he left town the same day and never again made his appearance, For love Is a tender plant and easily chilled, sud the pitcher of cold water had settled the question, And Japet was married frst, Aunt Hannah re closing window with a him, 1 caleulate,” she to ne Keith's; found It un she groaned hys SH I HAA A A Preoccupied Fox. Amos Bragdon, a resident of Sor rento, while walking out in his, field one day recently noticed a fox, and be. ing somewhat interested, although he had no shotgun with him, walked up to within fifteen feet of the fox. The fox did not seem to notice Mr, Brag. don, but appeared to be watching for wice (0 the gmes Bangor (Me) Nowe For Thirty-Three Years Each Thought The Other ‘Dead. James ¥. Balley, a prosperous farm eft Rock Stream for thirty-three years ago. le or, was and one Stream from Elmira, Mrs, danghter remained in alley Rock and the member, Baile y which he was n At that point wny of the San was going to California by trail which passed through at New Mexico, and enter at the Needles, Dead Man's Pass, near the Devil's Riy or, east of Fort Lancaster, Texas, the Dong Ana, danger that In moved alley was thought After the party Bailey Apaches, wounded, could It recover Wak hie not the diane were driven ofl to Fort left Letters were Stream, which detalled fight and sald that be dend before the letter renched Mem Mrs, Bailey gave birth her child, a about month the arrival the of her husband's alleged death, Three months later Mrs. Hatley and her children moved to Corning, where in was married tnymond Crocker, hy had children, ISKT and Mrs Rock Stream. Balley ar Rock Stream a recent He called on one of his old friends and where Mrs alley was buried apd where his chil fle was told that she was at the Balley homestend, west of town, alive and well the story were also told him at once to the homestead Mrs Crock recognized Balley Lancaster, where wie back to Rock the story of Bailey would sent the to phin, second “On, i of Hews to she also two whom returnsd to rive] in On morning. asked were The other er opened the door, and fainted, When she recovers, Balley Fort Lan caster for nearly nine months, suffer ing from in the lungs and abdomen, Lie was able travel he but that at San met Joseph Wilson, alsa from told him that Mire and one child had died six before, and that the other child had been adopted by its grandparents, Mr. Bailey said that he again turned westward, and settled in Tucson. Laser he began ranching pear the Santa Catarina Mountains. He married again in 1874 nt arrow wounds that wiarted Aantonio when to homeward, hae Rock Stream, who Bailey months The second Mrs, Bailey died about five The six children are all and have children of thelr YOeArs ago. married, own, After Mr Mrs, Crocker ald their Mr. Bailey in that they be married again, He tailey and Lined stories sted Mrs. Crocker readily Bailey wired his Arizona children East with thelr fami The Was per to Mr fO COIN at once Hes, wedding ceremony presence of the children and their fam ies. Mr. and Mrs. Bailey then left for Clenaga, Arizona, where they will reside Old Letters From President's, There has lately been found In town near Bridgeport. Conn, a valu able collection of old letters of nearly a century ago, among them several by washington, Andrew Jackson James The a George Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Monroe and John Quincy Adams, jettors foumd among soe papers and books belonging to one ol the old families in the State, and are in the best nithongh they ive been stored away for nearly one hundred years. The Washington letter was writen to a Connecticut membet were condition, with the zrmy on the Hypdson River, move The letwets of John Quincey Adams ard Andrew Jackson are peculiarly in teresting, as they are both written tc 1824. and each asks the com mon friend to say what he thinks the chances of each are for President. This was in the days when the Vice Presi the Uresident, the one receiving the Each asks his correspond should friend and rival, The Jackson letter Is also very valuable, and ix one of the written by the General. Boston Tran- script. A Modera Prophe There has died near Benares the most famous Indian yogi of this cen tury, the Swami Bhaskarananda, Many are the reports of his station in life before be assumed the yellow robe, the nx his age was known to be consider ably more than one hundred years, the tales of his origin can be scarcely more than tradition. He has been famons as nn wonder-worker for many years, and among his predictions are those concerning the future of various mem. bers of the English royal family. Ace cording to his declaration, the Queen will live only from six to ten montha after the beginning of the twentieth century, while the Prince of Wales will survive her only a short time. These forecasts may be the foundation of the popular belief in England that “Tam. my,” as he is called by the masses, will never be King of England. Har ver's Basar, rr rem SOLDIERS OF PORTUNE. | ALi ADVENTURERS MAKING A LAST STAND IN THE TRANSVAAL Men Who Have Served Under More Than One Flag in the Nineteenth Century - They Form a Pictur. esque Callery- Prejudice Existing Against Mer- cenary Swords. of fortune is making his last stand No other country in theyworld is like | Iy to offer the allen adventurer of the future the same positions and profit that have hitherto been the portion of Schiel, Von Albrecht, and the other Furopean mercenaries of Krugerdom, And in this very fact we may see the ton Bey, Governor of the Babrel. Gazel, who died ln the Mahdi's dun geons, an Englishman. Slatin and | Emin were both Austrians, i more recent yours we i lKohnes, an ex-major in German Army who landed a cargo of In “ieneral { | | | pressionalists, drilled their troops, and { defeated Babmacedn: General | Melver, a Beotsman who bas {under fourteen flags, from the Confed | Carlist, is roam ing Briton, like Kaold Maclean, an ex {erate to the another { Heutenant in our sery who commander of the army of the Rultan of Morocco, General Dighy Willough by, whe commanded blue and sil ver) the Hove since fought for the Chartered in Rho dessin, but to the arts of peace, He, i NOW (in army, has Company has now turned compare his gains THE UNEMFLOYED, Perron, the wonderful Frenchman who commanded the Mahratta army, ar officer from a MAan-6'-war, vears had amassed between $5,000,000 | and $10,000,000. Even more rapid was the progress of Col, Hannav, who hind to leave “Jolin Company's” to | avoid the bailiffs, He entered the sery jee of the Nawab Wazir of Oude in 1773. and left it after three years with a fortune of £15,000,000, Many other French and Eoglish adventurers were nearly as lucky. At that time there was not the pre. judice against these mercenary » words | which the of modern Europe have fosterisd Pow foreigners have risen to eminence in the English service. but large numbers of aliens were recruited for us in the Napoleonic wars, Besides the famous there were the French tannique, three Swiss Corsican Rangers, Infantry. In the man legion was land, but they never themselves on the fleld, and the prece dent is not likely to he followed In spite of the chilling effect of ern ideas, the of fortune the nineteenth century pletun esque gallery and raseals, Fe nians and Royalists, Poies, English men and adventures of Country Same of them like Lord Cochrane nod Hobart Pasha, have established them selves on a higher Conary The former's brilliant record with te english. Chilian, Brazilian and (Greek | pavies in turn is probably though Paul Jones may Ix as a bad second. The ex-apprentice of a Whitehaven wilier, who the most successful American naval officer in the War of Independence, and held command thereafter in the French, and { then heroie figure whi the United States he was a fichter. In | soldier of fortune, for the that he fought ' of his place in The revolutionary tinent have naturally of these adventurers, Count Hinski was ! 4 Pole who fought the Russians in his native land, and when all was Jost took service under Schamyl, Prince of Circassia, The Hungarian War of in , dependence in 1548 next employed his desperate valor, and at Temeswar he had three horses killed under him. Fin ally. he became Colonel of a Turkish culrassier regiment, and was known as Iskander Bey. [a the Hungarian Revolt. Gen. Guyon, an Englishman, was a famwons figure, and at Tyroan he held hig grou! until he had lost three fourths battalion and the vil | lage streets were streaming with block. A less attractive personality is | Gen. Cluseret, who served as a Captain { in the French Army in Algeria, then | under Fremont, in the American Civil War: was nest a Fenian “General” and then War Minister under the Com nunc. Dombrowski, another “Gen. | oral” in the Commune, and a far abler and braver man than the ex-Fenian, had fought in Poland and under Gari haldi, He was killed at the barricades in 1871. Among Continental forces of aliens one ought to mention the French the runaway aristocrats and broken | men of nif Burope, and the Irish Biigade which =o gallantly fought for the Pope in 1860 under the com- mand of Major Myles O'Reilly, M, Pp. An old soldier of the Papal Zouaves, another Irishman, is now General Cop- | pinger, of the United States Army. Garibaldi himself is of course entitled to a niche in this galery of fame, and | his son Rieciotti has since his Italian | campaigns fought for France in 1870 i and for Greece in 1807, in both brave. Iy fighting for a lost cause. geryice ethics military Hessians, Bri } » Lim CC hasseuars regiments, Greek Light War a Ger in Heligo- distinguished and the Crimean recruited mod soldier of form an heroes io plane than the mer. can usually hope to occupy. unique, t down wa was y in the Russian Navy, Ix not the glogists in buat gallant bh modern « like ine SefamMon an i fact. he was the yp accident him Cure al at sea does not rob gallery) wars of that the Con attracted many of his of a new type, like Walker the filibus- ter, who became Dictator of Nicaragua and might have ruled Honduras but for a British mano’ war. General Caroll Teviss, who served in the Franco Prussian war and a good many South American struggles, was a Fe. nian hero, So was Captain John Mee ‘Afferty, who served in the Mexican War of 1855, and was twice tried in London for treason-folony. He was acquitted at one trial, and amnestied after the second, a leniency which he repaid by renewed activity in the ranks of the Clan-na-Gael, He was said to be the real “No. 1” behind the Pheonix Park murders, Egypt has employed many aliens, Musinger Bey was a Swiss who had been British Consul at Massowah; Ges. #1 Pasha, an Italinn who, after serving the COrimen, became Gordon's Lien tenant in the Soudan, and smashed the slave-bunters’ revolt in Darfur. Loring a New Zealauwd Leads the World in the Problem. of the nnd “New ahead other fact, of any world with which I am acquainted, In its It actual Zealand is far Of other colonies Australian, country in of the unemployed, plan unemployed treatment has a wellconsidered in operation, by which the up in ment lnhor bureaus, and ed to one point or another, where they are gathered cities, at govern are forward wanted on government railroads or public At they are not kept in eamps to be geal are other works fine points tered] again when the work is through, hut they gned work iy for Own Are ass alternate the and on their government land, The government advances them funds to clear their land and to bmild in all parts of the colony the penniless-out-of work themselves homes j& by this system being converted nto Innd not a thrifty “It is that the cuterod breaking ware formed in owner the ut doved alone 10 jand, It has gaovernin HOD chases these esis condemns woved with imen the es Cheviot, of N08 04 which, h under the old regime, supported a sin ¥ The voted to the grazing of sheep Zealand 1 i betier than a divided Dros TONUS irely de New rie family estate was ent but thinks that a statesmansinp tha man sheep This es into a hun little farms, only has now Leen tate dred aor nore and where there Was once one family here in OW wopulation of inxs “New not aj Zealand's Intest rant experiment is it is inen ite Jens now rents Hix % Worn work and women HOt 4% DAUpers, but ns pensioners who hax been in the colony Every one twenty-five vears, and is a citizen, and income of im entitled has an jess Than 1: 8 Year ry {io & pension shilling a das This forer f of charity r orn Countries; a quarter IR a Tem which obtains in other a distinet recognition of the honest share H.D toller’'s right wenith Alps ton i the be 1} Lloyd gol g* be LAAs oreated in Jee's Magnzin The Asgler Fish. Moxt remarkable of the strange fish whose very name The dAshing fish eq is the anglerfish, SINS a paradox to all that approach those awful jaws of his rock on the bottom of the sea, waiting, motionless, for the approach pres. He Is provided with an odd kind held out In front of him to give warn- swallowed, if this projecting fin was touched with a stick, evensthough the stick did not ! as soon as it is touched, '# foot when the whale fish is only three feet long, it was only twenty-five inches long, a | fixly fifteen inches long was found | sticking in its throat. | provided with peculiar teeth set | double or {reble rows along the jaws, {and at the entrance of the throat. | Rome of these teeth are a foot long. | fle ix not a pretty fish to look at, but | he attends strietly to business and will | swallow anything that touches his {warning fin; whether it is meant for | food or pot. All kinds of things have | been found in the stomachs of anglers, from bits of lead and stone to fish al | most as large as the angler itself. This | {& without doubt one of the most pe | euliar and Interesting fish in the whole ocean, She Knew Jumbers, “1 understand you are an athlete,” remarked the landlady to the new boarder, “Yea, ma'am,” proudly answered the uw. In: “1 am the champion high-jumper from Jompersville.” “That being the case,” sald the land. lady, “1 will have to ask you to pay your board In advance. ve had all the experience with the jumpers I care for.” ¥ bo The National Library in Paris has just acquired the 40,000 volumes that formed the famons collection ¢ of M. Ristelbuber, the Alsatian The testator was a rich nan, and Sw pn A Miss 5 Good as a Mile.” If you are not entirely awell, you are dl. Blness does not mean death's door. HI & a sense of weariness, 4°’ tired feeling” a life filled with nameless pains and suffer ing. In 907% of cases the blood is to lame. Hoods Sarsaparilla is Nature's corrective for disorders of the blood. Remember ’ Goethe's Last Love, Fraulein von levetzow Goethe's last love has died at Triplitz iBohemio) aged 94. It to her in epiration that the German nation owes the “Triology of Passion.” The ever youthful Goethe was already 73 at Marieabad and Carlsbad Baroness von Levetzow, w was when he first met ho was then only a girl of 18, though endowed with every charm mind and body, She never married, her life being devoted to the memory of her affection for the et Her castle at Triplitz was who w of a on Goethe herself has been the subject dozens of A . Mocen for all rote and she volumes of German liter- Cures a Cough or Cold st once, Conquers Croup without fail. Is the best for Broochitis Grippe ra Hoarseness, Whooping Cough, and for the cure of Consumption. MM thers praise it. Destors prescribe it, m Bauall doses | quick, sure results : FOR ALL LUNG TROUBLE Reenlilog an Old Story, Messrs. Elis & FElvey will shortly is third volume of of D G. Rossetti's works-—-ths celebrated translation of the “Vita of Dante. Mr. William Michael will write the customary prefatory note. The title “Siddall Edi tion” is, of course, taken from the name of Rossetti's wife, who was a Miss Biddal. On her death Rossetti! had his first volume of manuscript poems buried in her coffin. When, many years after, at the request his friends, the coffin was opened and the poems taken was found that some of Mrs. Rossett!i’s hair had grown into the manuscript Surely the whole history of the literary world, there irs nothing to equal the pathos of disturbing poor humanity in its last rest for the sake of giving a few poems to the general public! But it was done. and the act is a lasting stain on the memory of the injudicious friends who advised such sacrilege — London Mail gue 0 the Biddal edi ¢ G0 Nuova" Rossetti of out, it n i a is Mrs. Pinkham. Her great correspondence Is under her own super- i. ydia E. Pinkham’s oured a million sick wo- hood, almost every ’ contains women