—
THE HILLS OF PEST.
—————
By Albert Bigelow Paine
Beyond the last horizon's rim, :
Beyond adventure's farthest quest,
Somewhere they rise, serene and dim,
The happy, happy Hills of Rest.
Opon their sunlit slopes uplift
The castles we have built in Spain—
While fair amid the Summer drift
Our faded gardens flower again.
Sweet hours we did not live go by
To soothing note, on scented wing;
golden-lettered volumes lie
The songs we tried in vain to sing.
in
They all are there: the days of dream
That build the inner lives of men;
fhe silent, sacred years we deem
The might be, and the might have
deen.
Some evening when the sky is gold
I'll follow day into the west;
Nor pause, nor heed, till 1 behold
The happy, happy Hills of Rest.
—From Harper's Magazine.
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Simpson’s
Stand.
BY JAMES WILLIAM JACKSON.
PAIRS RLERLEDE DLE DEDEDE LE DLS
“Stand right up to him, son! Don't
let him scare you!” The mate of the
tiver steamer Wave spoke with laugh-
ing encouragement. A score of me-
chanics repairing the river bulkhead
kept him company in watching the
noontime fun,
One of the crew of the Wave,
young, robust and full of mischief,
stood with a grin on his face and a
firm grip on a folded horse-blanket,
Facing him, with an equally deter
mined hold on the blanket, was an-
other young fellow with fiery red hair.
The red-haired Simpson had been
engaged only two days before as
teamster on Thorn's stone-wagon. He
was mild-mannered, blue-eyed and in-
offensive. As a stranger to the river
front he had been quietiyy enjoving
the noon hour while Peterson, the
fun-loving young deck-hand, wander-
ed restlessly about in search of an
inspiration.
Simpson's big horses, with bridles
off and heads ber: were munching
their oats. On the seat of the wagon
behind lay the new blanket [It
caught the boatman’s eye.
“T'n that down and see if It
will it my bunk, Reddy,” he nonchal-
antly announced.
As Peterson pulled down the blan-
ket and started toward the Wave,
Simpson interposed his tall figure.
The “wrastling” match which sudden-
ly developed was hailed with cheers.
The young deck-hand was no match
for the lithe Simpson, who for the
sake of amusement allowed his an.
tagonist some advantage, but turned
the tide of battle as he pleased.
The loud laughter and the prospect
of defeat seemed to have a bad
fect on Peterson. Simpson saw that
he was growing angry, and quickly
broke the boatman’'s hold
Peterson advanced Delligerently,
and Simpson retreated. The next mo-
take
a a a a a a
[
he
the
Pursued by the sailor, sprinted
away from the river,
streaming out behind
Dodging in and out of the plied
freight, Simpson turned up the steep
the Wave.
he circled a huge boiler waiting to
be installed In an adjacent factory,
and came back on the run
“The chase continued along the bulk-
head, In view of the amused watch
ers. Simpson heard the boatman,
who grew more irritable every min.
ute, muttering threats as he ran close
behind. Simpson took his choles be-
tween temporary defeat and making
an enemy. Dropping the blanket
suddenly, he sped on. Peterson tum-
bled headlong over the unexpected
obstacle: and as he picked himself
up, a peremptory whistle blew for
the resumption of work.
“Yours not much of a fighter,
boy, are you?” the mate teasingly
quizzed, as Simpson passed on the
way to his horses, “The fellow that
runs away,” he added, sententiously
and significantly, “lives to fight an-
other day. You've got a dangerous
gift in those long legs of yours; but
one good, square, up-and-down stand
will be necessary to give you a status
along the front here.”
{He spoke in a friendly tone. Bimp-
gon looked at him without, however,
venturing a defense. He was out of
breath, anyway
Tied up next to the Wave, which
lay across the foot of the street, was
a bargeload of cobblestones. Simp
gon set to work loading as soon as
he could back up his team. A cou
ple of the crew of the Wave loitered
at the stern of thb steamer, within
speaking distonce,
“He hasn't much spunk, Tom,” one
of them audibly commented, with a
jerk of his thumb toward Simpson.
“1 guess all the fire escapes out of
the top of his head.”
“Don’t be hard on him, mate,” the
other gently chided, with mock sym-
pathy. “He's ashamed of running
away. Don't you see he is blushing
to the roots of his hair?”
Simpeon smiled, and continued to
toss in the cobblestones with an ease
that Indicated ability to stand up for
pimsel! when necessary,
With a heaped load, Simpson
mounted the wagon. When he was
clear of the littering freight, he turn.
ed up the street leading from the
Wave. The weight of his load and the
steepness taxed his splendid horses.
Their flanks flattened out and thelr
legs stiffened with the strain as the
load inched its way upward,
Some of the hillside streets were
so sharply graded that lifelines were
necessary in winter for the use of
pedestrians. Simpson was obliged to
rest his horses frequently in the
climb. At such times, after block-
ing the wheels, he stroked the soft
noses of his helpers and encouraged
them,
The worst place in the short pull
was at the factory gates, where the
new holler eight feet high ars thirty
in length, blocked half the street. In
the narrow, furrowed lane, past that
snd a pile of building materials,
Simpson was obliged to haul his load
straight. But he observed now, with
much satisfaction, that a crew of
laborers was getting ready to shift the
boller through the mill yard into a
new engine-house,
The load of cobbles was delivered
“Now, boys,” Simpson sald to the
“we'll go back for another
He always kept Prince and
informed in regard
movements,
On the return journey he
layed a few minutes, where the
tering laborers were making
with planks to turn the boiler
wise through the gates.
Simpson could straight down
the few hundred intervening yard
to the Wave nestling in the freight
piles at the foot of the street. A
clear passage showed between
was de
ready
end-
see
the
heaped boxes and bales to the gang
plank of the little craft; and as Simp-
a humorous into
head.
notion
popped
line,” the
push while Peterson is in
teamster mused. “He'd
that
his
after him
under
ety thing came loping
he'd run right
hat.”
The
a way
joyment
the
out from
cleared
had
in
laborers
Chu g
faney, Simpson
his horses,
tugging
now.
of his
reins, spoke to
big
‘he
Passengers for the
of the Wave were going aboard
Simpson began throwing in
load of cobblestones. The
was due to leav in an hour,
rattling trucks of freight
of moving boiler
afternoon trip
steamer
and
up the plank,
“Watch out
Reddy!” a voice suddenly
The warning
that, somewhat
turned quickly about. A la:
preciation for the
greeted him. One the crew
passing by on an errand
*Fraid of our man,
the deckhand queried, with t«
“To-morrow noon
for Peterson
shout
sounded so
startled, Simg
laugh of
suceeas of the
of
aren't ”
ing
‘ve
311
ou
or
ir else
blanket back, going
to chip In and hire you to get a job
somewhere else. We're
tive about the kind of people we have
wo
are
preity sensi
A stentorian hall summoned the
loquacious sailor to the Wave, Simp-
to heave in cobble.
stones thoughtfully. He fully intend.
ed 20 get his hlanket back: but {if
possible he wanted to do it without
the redoubtable Peterson,
wreatling
Another load was on before start
ingtime for the Wave In a
gling line passerigers were still wend
ing their way toward the steamer, and
the freight trucks rattled more quick-
ly and merrily on and off the plank
aed the seat to thread his way diagon:
ally across the river sireot
corner where he mounted
to the
the grade
between a line of cotton bales on one
other,
ber.
“Wouldn't you like a blanket
ait on?" the carpenter chuckled, as
he squinied an eye to set his jack
plane, “I understand Peterson is go
shaping a new bulkhead tim:
of his hand and a smile. He was
more concerned just at present lest
he ghould gulde Prince carelessly and
scratch his sleek side on the metal
straps of a cotton bale,
“I'I have to convince Peterson
somehow that I have a little sand.”
he mused, smacking his lips to urge
on the horses a bit
A quick tug on the rein at that mo
ment was all that saved Sager, the
off horse, from being grazed by a
giek of timber which some careless
hand had left protruding from be
tween two bales. Simpson's eyes had
been turned momentarily from his
duty toward a gay young party bound
for the steamer. A charming couple
of laughing girls were in the lead;
and behind them, weighted down
with baggage, a young man gallantly
escorted a stout old lady. The party
joined a waiting erowd at the gang:
way, where the breaking of an over:
loaded truck had caused a blockade.
Simpson was just starting his
horses off again when a booming
clang! struck his ear. He heard it
again, a flerce, exultant cling-clung!
With a startled glance toward the
hillside street he understood. in the
had broken loose! Now it was hur
ing the cobbles furiously, while
volees of the workmen were raised in
frantic warnings.
Instinctively Simpson
eyes toward the Wave, The
tion of the
with boxes and bales-—a sreet down
which, in a moment more, would
come bounding that terrible mass of
charging steel, And the two hundred
feet were thronged with
and passengers.
In imagination
freight-lined alley
of the
boiler
Simpson
swept
saw the
clear, the
Wave torn away,
and the plunging overboard.
He gasped as he pictured the trapped
crushed rolling
cylinder, or tossed against the side of
the steamer.
One
panic
people beneath the
in wild
to
part
ambled
abandoned
for the most
paralyzed by the
and the
hemmed
or two men
over the truck
deck; but
seemed
of the
that they
in directly In its course
Springing erect on top of the cob
blestone load, Simpson snatched up
blacksnake whip. He had never
throng
danger
were
thing. But now, with the reins firm-
ly grasped in one strong hand, he
swung it savagely.
It whistled through the
hard on the flanks of
There was a snort of
astonished creatures
once with
and
the
pain
The
the
alr
the
clanged
from
more
Irses
gave a mighty leap
forward
Instantly dropping the whip, Si:
son caught the reins in
With eyes
through, he
behind
He wos headed diagonally
} the
Cross
the boller must
between the plies
hundred
hed
past
wat
horses:
aen 3 threw
» tossing heads
of Prince and Sager jerked up cruel
Their wide, thelr
NE back, showed white
hoof-beats
as
fnws One
jaws opened
frantis fut
franti . ie
rom the
the
ly in
ylinder
le
pavement
Ww a
{ the
wagon
the path o
crash of house
plunging boller sti
pson It
iiverse were smashing beneath him.
The ir ¢t hurled him the air,
wagon th of
side
To if the
Sin
into
j¢ bulk
boiler sprung
dealt heap of
a final, twanging
settled into stiliness. Simp
into a pile of paving sand.
While the trembling horses were
tas
COAL od,
forward again, the
cobbles
pushed through the crowd to shake
Peterson, following
for the same purpose, found a chance
‘w
the stable first chance 1 gel’ —
panion
Joys of Houseboat Life.
Of all the ways to take in ozone
of a is the
houseboat is a
means houseboat
The camp on
I know of one built to order
could not be
it was doom
ed forever to float in the open water
with a supplying auxiliary force of
Some of the houseboats
made foolish with screwed-down
like those in the smoking room
liner I know of another one
h a plano takes up all of the
another 1 visited had art
squares, crossed fans, fret-work fur
niture, and other offenses against
taste. A Pittsburg
fitted out his floating house as the
Turkish room of the Waldorf is fitted
out-—with heavy-piled rugs, draped
upholstered walls of red, cozy-corners
canopies,
brass lamps, incense and with an
ebony card table and carved teakwood
furniture. And he exhibited this
salon with great pride! The table
that
easiest
water
was 80 big that it
by
chairs
in whi
verware
med;
was heavy and monogram:
linen embroidered with
-=Delineator,
—— a d—————
Big Head.
ures nine feet
hat band.
“Oh, weil.” replied the other, wean
ing a crimson hat Hand, “that's not
the only thing in Yale with a big
head.” ’
The Avordupoly Complication.
A Michigan judge has ruled that a
man may spank bis wife when it Is
necessary. Did his honor take into
considerationd 115.pound men who
have 216-pound wives —Los Angeles
Times,
COMMERCIAL
Market Reports.
of trade says:
From every large business center
throughout the country come reports
of progressive Improvement in trade.
In most instances the reports are
more than satisfactory; they speak
of a present and prospective increase
in activity that is Indicative of a
return to even more than normal
conditions. In some cases the vol-
ume of trade is described as equal
to or in excess of previous records,
he wholesale dry good markets
have broadened, with some large op-
erations in staples, ecspeciallly eot-
tone, Several advances are
announced many important lines
are withdrawn or placed “at value,’
Bradstreet's says
Favorable
sharp
and
the
nearly all and
try, with conservatism, bred by
prices raw and
products, and full
manufacturers the only
bars to an even wider Jist
most wholerale lines Wholesale
trade in staple lines is good beyond
question, even the South, which faces
a short yield of showing a
better tone he.
cause offered for
ita leading staple at a period of near-
ly record crop movement On
other hand, cotton manufacturers
here, at the South and abroad are
discussing curtailment output in
an effort to readjust prices of goods
which gitrong and tending
ward of
raw material,
higher than a
Wholesale Markets.
New
118¢
reporis
Hines
rule in
indus-
high
manufactured
of
apparent
ribution in
are
of trade
of
order bnoks
seylt
cotion,
and
of the
more cheerful
Mie » v
high price
the
of
are
to
up-
cost the
whi 50 per cent
year ago
York. —Wheat
asked,
ae on
ND, & red,
No 2 red
No. 1 North-
¢ hard win-
evator,
©
Oo. b float
1
i
$2.25@2.0
Philadciephia, — Wheat
contra
iand,
rp A
nie
October,
for io-
Wes
nearby prints,
torn
yivania
and
gm
«iC
CRANE
receipts,
rk
27 m
free cases
in re-
Western
ark do
os £6
wu id eh
Now
15% ¢.:
York
do., fair
full
{io
15@
spring
13@
re steady;
11% @
ducks,
149 15
pouitry firm;
ice 17 %¢c .
17: old
chickens,
15@19;
fowls,
12;
old,
killed
1«
12
166 20;
Jersey,
fresh
do fair
roosters,
nearby
do.,
Baltimore ~=Wheat
October, 1.093%;
Demand was
fes, but n
hands
ber, 10%5¢
Spot
December,
fair for nearby deliver
much wheat changed
10,000 bush. Decem-
Sales,
Corn
&
161%,
Oats
Western opened quiet;
WL @62%c.; January, 61%
and February, 61% @62%
The quotations for
spot were: White, No
$44 44%¢c.; do, No. 3, 42 @
No. 4,400 40%; do., mix.
2@ 42%; do., No. 3, 40%
y
Creamery separator,
; imitation, per Ib,
%-bh., 32@33;
326 33: blocks, 2-ib.,
32; dairy prints, Mary-
per
23
1-ib.,
1 per
ib...
per ib, 31@
and
ib.
ginia, store-packed, per 1b,
store-packed, per Ib,
rolls, per 1b, 2;
“4
BY
de
6&5.
“a;
West Virginia,
“5
“he
Eggs Maryland, Pennsylvania
and nearby firsts, per dozen,
1 venture to send you some particu- |
The bird
i
ginia, per doz, 27;
per dozen, 27;
dozen, 27;
en, 26
Cheese-—The market: 48 steady,
We quote, jobbing lots, per 1b, 17%
G17 %e.
Live Poultry—We quote, per 1b.:
Chickens--0ld hens, heavy,
do., small to medium, 14%; do,
young, 16; old roosters, 10. Ducks
wedld, 12¢.: white Pekings, old, 13;
do., spring, 3 1be. and over, 13@ 14;
do., small, 12. Geese—Weatern and
Southern, 11@12¢c.; Maryland and
Pennevivania, 12@ 13; Kent Island,
136 14.
Live Stock.
Chicago.~-Cattle—~Market strong.
Steers, 35.60@ 8.80; cows, $3.50
5.25: heifers, $3.60@6; bulls, $3@
4.85; calves, $3@ 9; stockers and
feeders, $3.75 @ 5.50,
Hogs Market 10c, lower. Choice
heavy, $7.90@ 8.05; butchers, $7.85
@8: light mixed, $7.40@ 7.60;
choles light, $7.65@ 7.80; packl
$7650 7.75; ples, $5@7; bulk o
eales, $7 6070 7.85.
Sheap--Market 10@ 16c. lower,
Sheep, $4@ 5.50; lambs, $66 7.15;
yearlings, $56.20@ 5.50,
i
i
and gaze at his reflection in the pan-
sngaged in self contemplation.
in the hope that it may stop and al-
low him to continue his favorite oo-~
cupation, but he seems to conclude at
a certain place that the case is hope~
less, though, if the carriage halts fur-
ther down the drive he will rejoin it
and resume his observations.
It occurred to ug to wonder what
he would do if a looking glass were
placed on the lawn. This was accord-
ingly done, and he at once found it
out. Nothing will induce him to quit
it. He will stand by it for hours to-
gether. At first, he occasionally
looked inquisitively behind the glass
at intervals to see if a bird was actu-
ally present, but he has given this up
now. He stands in front of it entire-
ly absorbed, often motionless for a
long time, occasionally moving his
head gently up and down, and some-
times softly touching the glass with
his bill, appearing slightly bewildered
by the contact. If food is thrown to
him he takes no notice, unless it is
close to the glass, when he will hur-
riedly gobble it up and return to his
more congenial employment in haste,
as though vexed at being interrupted,
If the glass is taken into the drawing
room, which is on the ground ficor
looking into the garden, he will en-
ter the room by door or window, find
the glass, and continue his favorite
pursuit; and he spends the greater
part of the day at the door that leads
from the drawing room into the gar-
in the hope that some one may
bring out his glass for him,
Meanwhile the peahen is sitting on
a nest of eggs in a hedge close at
hand. He never goes near her, his
only idea being to find opportunities
for contemplating hisown perfections,
I suppose that the proverb, “As vain
as a peacock,” to the bird's
habit of spreading his tall and strut.
ting about: but it is curious to find
that this instinctive vanity lies deeper
still, and is not confined to the desire
to arouse the admiration of his mate,
as is generally taken for granted, but
is based upon & genuine complacency
and an almost morbid consciousness
bf his personal attractions. Arthur
. Benson, in the Spectator,
den,
refers
A Hair Famine
Hair has considerably in
price. In the city of the
principal market for hair, a kilo of
hair worth £2 a few ARO NOW
Patzhes £4 108. This has been
caused by the increased size of hats,
which necessitates an extra supply
of hair so as to offer a proper basis
to the new structures. Moreover, the
young French peasant girls are less
anxious to part with their tresses;
and the dealers in hair are unable
to cope with the demand made upon
them. The crisis is attaining huge
proportions, and wearers of false hair
would do well to lay in a stock or
they will be compelled to pay famine
prices. —Gentiewoman.
Predicted.
risen
Limoges,
Years
rise
PAT'S APPRECIATION.
An artist had finished a landscape;
on looking up, he beheld an Irish
navvy gazing at his canvas.
Well,” sald the artist familiarly,
“do you suppose you could make a
pleture like that?”
The Irishman mopped his forehead
a moment, Ruse, a man ¢'n do any-
thing if he's druv to ut,” he replied.
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