A Patriotic Song. Columbia ! my native ln re's not a land in all tie world Like onr United States ! In nil the wide, wide world, my lnr- Like onr I'nitetl States ! In Euro]* , Asia, Afriea, You'll si k its like in vain; thir brothers from a distant shore Come back to us again; 1 or every montli ami every veai It more of love i it atcs; Tie re's not n html in all the world Like our United States ! In all the wide, with world, my Isty t.ike <> ir United Ntah-s! —Alhrri KlWr., /be,,. S| STKK UOSK. I I •The June sunshine was steeping all the meadow laruls in gold; the wild > roses were opening their pink nips along the course of the little brook, and ! a fragrant rain of daisies nnd buttercups I followed the ••swish" of Harry Hut. ton's scythe, as he worked on the hill- ' side. And little Harlxira, perched on tin fence with her lap full of wild straw - licrries, watchd hint with a sort of dreamy delight. Harry Hutton and his sister Harliunt were all alone tn the world. A little to the south, half hidden in a tangle of brooding apple tree lmughs, one could see the steep gable-roofs of the old Hutton farmhouse; and more than one ' blooming village maiden wondered that Harold could l>e content with only old Betsey to keep house for him, and lit*b* I Barbara to be company in the lug. ! echoing rooms. ••He can marry if he chooses,"said • Alice Lee, with a sidelong glance at the ! mirror. " He's rich!'' "Yes, if!" said Amy Yokes, saucily •' But you know he has never seen the I right one." So there he was, all unfettered by i love as yet straight, manly, Ixstutiful to look upon as Apollo's self, with the glittering scythe swinging through the high grass and little Barbara sitting on the fence, with her brown, gipsy like face half in shudow. '• It was so nice!" said Barbara. "Oh, Harry, if you eouhl only have seen it!" ••Nonsense!" said Harry, flinging down his scythe and leaning up for a moment against the fence. "A common traveling cirrus! I can't think, little Bab. how Uncle Potter ever let you go to BUch a place !" "But the lions!" cried Barbara. "Anil the elephants! And the lovely young ladv that rode on the white pony, and jnni|>ed through the garlands of roses! Oh. Harry, do take me again! Just once, dear Harry!" And she threw her arms around his neck ftnl premcd her iitriwberry-fitflifMnl lips to lii.H bronzed face. "They're going t° H^a.v ' n Millville all summer, Harry," coaxed the small elf. "Anil Uncle I'otter is Ruing to take the children once a week, he nays." Harry resolutely shook hin head. "Not I!" naid he. "A circus, in- j deed'" And nothing would induce him to go j and see " Mademoiselle Hositn Itaven, the Danaciue and Equestrian Queen," alio formed the most attractive star of the traveling circna. " Her very name is enough for me,' ■aid Harry Hntton, with a shrug of the hropular repiitation of being " hauntedand •Umt this time it obtained a tenant—a dark-brow el, aoberly dressed young woman, who was usually mending stockings or hearing lessons for two bine-eyed, golden-tressed little maids, who plaved around the door-stone; and as Harry Hntton, whoso business fre quently "took him into the village, rode past the humble domicile, lie looked with a sort of pleasure upon the moving pictures at the cottage door, and wou dered, vaguely, why the little blondes and their ohve-fa.-ed yonag protei-trcsa were so unlike. "They are like twin daisies." he said, Ito himself; "but she is a royal rose. I wonder who they can le? One day his hone dropped u shoe in the road. One of the little lassies run after him, with il held aloft in her hand. •• Thank you. my girl," said he, stoop ling from his horse to give her a six-' \ pence. "Will yon tell me what your ! | name is ?" But the ehiid shook her head till i dam ffif with sunny curls. "Sister Hose don't let Us talk to j strangers," said she. The iptiek blood rushed to Hurry Button's face; but he smiled, never- 1 i thclcsM. '•Sister Hose is quite right," said he. I " Nevertheless, I am much obliged ! to yon, my pretty uiaid?" And the next time he passed the cot tage the picture he saw through the half-closed lattice was pretty beyond expression Sister Hose at her sewing. 1 ; the queenly brow half bent, the black braids drooping on the neck, ami the children reciting their catechism in ' shrill chorus, to her, chirping out: " ' To get mine own living, and to do j my duty in that -fate of life to which it j shall please (lod to call me !'" "Ami that is a lesson," the young' loan thought, to himself, "which a 1 great many of us are slow enough to ; learn Sister Hose is bringing tip her i little ones in the right away. I wonder 1 | how she came to lie living in Pollard's j i cottage, though ?" So thut when a Week after little Rarb.tra was nearly drowned by the np ; setting of a boat in the pond below, i and they curried her to Pollard's cot tage, the whole thing Becmeil a curious ; coincidence. She was sitting up, all wrapped in i blankets, in Sistei Hose's big rocking chair, when her brother, who had been 1 | sent for, came hurriedly in. He raised the hat that shadowed his i pale face when he saw the beautiful | ' I young brunette who was is-tiding over his little sister. "lam not intruding, 1 ho|h. Harry. Harry !" cried breathless little Barium, "she has been so good to me ' I was dying and she brought me back to life !" " 1 thank her from the bottom of my lu-art!" saiil Harold Hutton, with a quiver in his voice. S the acquaintance began; and one month from that hour Harry Hntton. the owner of Hutton Farm's broad acres, the Adonis of the village, the luurk of | many a matrimonial schemer's (lower garlanded arrow, asked Mister Hose j whose real name lie had discovered to i Is- ROM islam hard to lie his wife She lifted the liquid, Oriental eves to I his face with sweet gravity. I "1 cannot marry, Mr. Hutton." die I said. "I have my brother's two orphan • children to maintain and tslnrnb I • vowed it on his death-lnxl " '•Nor would I have yon break that vow." said Harry, eagerly "Thcv shall liecotne my sacred charge, also They 1 shall be brought up, carefully anil ten- j ' derly. with my Barbara But still she shook her head, i "Mr Hutton," said she, "we think differently on many subjects. You were lorn to a|>eacefnl eom|>eteiice. while I have always had to fight my own way with the world. Our life-paths lie apart." "By the sun that shines above ns at ! this moment," cried Hutton, " they shall , lie together henceforth !" f But she smiled that sail, Madonna ' like smile nt his eager enthusiasm j "You do not know who I am." said , she. " I know that you are an angel '" "I am Mademoiselle llosita Haven, \ the circus girl," she said, shaking with ! a little effort. "The conqsvny leave' Millville next week, and I must go with I tliern. The children's mother was a 1 | circus girl, also. My brother saw her , and fell in love with her. He was the | scene-painter of a theater; and when ! tliey were dead, there were the children. I ' I had to do something for them, HO I 1 j turned ' Equestrienne Queen,' also. It ' was not a lofty walk of life, but it was ali I could do, ami I have done my best. ( f would not let Itarlwrn toll yon who I ( was, became—because F dreaded that ; you should know. Hut it would have j I torn better had her childish tongue ' betrayed it, for now—now I have lind to . I tell it myself." ! " Hose—my Hose!" He advance.l Itohlly, his arms out. ' She stood still a second and then ut . j tered a little, sobbing cry, and fled to j the safe shelter of his breast. ( l "Yours!" she cried—"yours forever, , if you love me still, now that yon know * . all 1 But I bad lecn told that von y ' spoke dis|wragingly of me—" ! " Not of you, dearest, in particular," j he explained, with a pang of remorse— " only of the stupid idea I had formed , of you. For I never hail seen you when j I spoke those silly words. And my self , asserting idiocy stands rebuked liefore - the imrity of your true presence." s So Button farm got a mistress, and s little Barbara plays in the sunshine with ) the two golden-haired orphan children. Ami Sister Hose grown sweeter and ' j more beautiful with every day; and 1 | Harold Hntton in firmly convinced that In- in the happiest man in all the world. , And HO, in good truth, LIE in' Six 11 ii nil im, and has prol>ahly ridden a larger distance on a bicycle than any lad of his age in the country. Mr. Bent ley laughingly remarked that he himself might set up for the cham pion heavy-weight amateur bicyclist, there Wing no record of a man forty- eight years of age and weighing 1!H) iMiiinils having ridd* n so long a dis tance. Eccentrlr Russians. Halainonsky's famous circus has re- 1 cently visited Moscow, and them given a series of performances, the chief at tractions of which were a lovely trajiezist named Emma Jntan and a learned pig. exhibited nightly by Tanti, the leading clown of tho establishment. Two of Moscow's wealthiest and most oxtrsvs gant "curled darlings" linve greatly dis tinguished themselves in connection . with these professional celebrities. , Having ascertained thnt Mile. Jntan bail taken a violent fancy to a particular horse belonging to Halamonsky's per forming stud, tlioy promptly purchased the animal for £6OO, and presented it to her. It then occurred to them tlist they would like to eat the learned pig; so they ojienod negotiations with Hignor Tanti, its guide, philosopher and friend, for the acquisition of that accomplished creature. Tanti, who loved his pig, and was sentimentally reluctant to part with it, set upon it, more in jest than earnest, a price so extravagant, £2OO, as to lie, in his opinion, absolutely prohibitive. The "eccentrics," however, closed with him at once, paid for tho pig, conveyed it to the Hermitage restaurant, caused it there to be slaughtered, roasted whole, and served np as "cochon roti a la Tanti," nnder which cnliiuuy designation •hey (lartook of it heartily. No strict vegetarainn will eat kidney beans or marrowfat peas. FACTS AND COMMENTS. Wendell I'hillipM says of the govern mental problem in HtiHHia: At this dis tance I don't mean to criticise methods, I look at HtiHHia, 4,000 miles away, and HCO what an incubus is resting on her ! people. 1 only hope that somebody wi.l lift it off her shoulders. If nothing will do it but the dagger then welcome the dagger! Is there an American here who thinks that bail ? I t _ —; The new census in Germany shows n total population of 45,101,172, un in crease of 2,-166,812. The Asiatic hives, I China and India, being excluded, the empire now ranks as the third state in I populat on, Hossiu and the United 1 States having the first and second ! places, and Franco and Austro-Hungury ! the fourth and fifth. The birth-rate in j Germany is the highest in Kurojie, and i consequently great gains in }>opnlation are possible uotwithstandirig the drain of emigration. The only really absolute monarchy left in the civilized world is feeling De force of the universal tendency toward ( basing government on the popular will. According to an English correspondent at St. Petersburg steps are being taken in Kussia to admit representatives of the people to partieij>ution in the con sideration of state questions. This means tliat laws in the vast empire of | the czar will before long lie made, not by imperial ukase, as heretofore, but by j the free action of a parliamentary liody. For the first time in four years an execution has taken place in Prussia. The culprit, n wife-murderer named Gehrke, was recently ladieodcd in the juilyaril oi Coslin by a man named f Krants, the executioner of the would-be king killer lb-del. The execution was conducted in the old style, with an ax and block instead of the guillotine. As soon as the bead tell into the backet a number of superstitious bystanders rushed forward ami dip[>ed their hand- ' kerchiefs in the culprit's blood in the Is-lief that their business uuiild thereby prosper. The largest peach orchard in the world is in (.'bombers county, Ala. It ; contains '25(1 acres and hasyn hied $70,- IMM I worth of peaches. It is owned and cultivated by Mr. John Parncli, a brother of the Irish agitator. He came to this country some ten or twelve yu> xgo and bought an old, worn out cotton farm, which he has converted into this immense ji-ach orchard, ami is always the first to have early pear ha* on the market, for which tie leceives almost fabulous priced. He id said to be get ting immensely wealthy at the husi newft. Type Mini to date from the tif teenth and sixteenth centimes has just Iss-n fished out of the Issl of the hkutfic, and exhibited in the (Vrcle ( all heights, and had no "nick." In place of the latter there was an oblique incision, which showed the cotn|M>aitnr where was the top of the letter. The letters, moreover, arc |>er- ! forated, probably for the pnr|sse of stringing a numlw r f thi-m together and then tying them. German physiologists have Is-cn ax j-erimenting to ascertain the last mode of restoring frozen animal life, and they announce that the hitherto acccpbsl theory that persona who have Ixwn ex posed too long to extreme cold should not lie brought into contact with i warmth except by slow degrees is wholly erroneous. Dog* were frozen by artificial apjdicatinn* of cold, until breathing and pulsation bad almost ceased, nd tben attempts were made to restore twenty of them in a cold room, twenty in a warm room and twenty in n latli of warm water. Of the first, fourteen died; of the aeeond, eight; of the last, none. The warm lath brought almnt respiration in a remarkably short time. The discovery that tbo sickness, so closely resembling cholera, which has prevailed in Chicago for several weeks past, is caused by the deleterious sub stances used for butter in that city, will undoubtedly attract more general at tention to tho increasing use of adulter ated food in the United States as well as to the evils arising therefrom. It is only reasonable to suppose, too, says tho Washington ttur, that light upon the subject will lead to legislation which will effectually prevent there I common and dangerous impositions ; upon the public. This is i matter that ' Congress ought to take hoid of, and at once. If that body may pass laws for ' ths prevention of, and punishment for, 1 counterfeiting paper or metal money, it , may and ought to pass law' to prevent 1 the counterfeiting and odu - 'eration of ' food. If the people are entitled to pro -1 teetion in what only affects business af ' fairs, they are certainly entitled to pro tection in a matter so vitally affecting health and life. \ Southern California is desirous of setting np in business on its own so count. It complains of the 500 miles ' journey to the capital, Hsersmento, and finds fault with the legislation erected there because it fails to take the cli mate, soil, pursuits and needs of tho southern part of the Htato sufli ciently into consideration. There is a wide difference in these respects between ! different parls of the Htate. In the | south there is little rain, often not more than a few inches throughout the year. Bee culture and sheen raising, the oiauge, lime, vine, almond and va ; rious other semi-tropical fruits flourish i there. In the north there is usuallv 1 rain enough in winter, arid sometimes too much. Mining and grain growing ' are largely conducted there. Those in j . tereats exercise more influence in the ' I legislati re than those of the south do. I , The southern part of the Htatc would , like to, but cannot, get State aid for j artificial irrigation. For these reasons a secession movement has been under ' j way, and mass-meetings are being held. | One obstacle to success in the move ment is the la k of population. A Ktatc til South California would have b-ss than 70,(HM1 inhabitants. Errors of Matrimony, Ihe man and woman who many to- J get her are Umml for life by a solemn j compact. If you strip loaning- of all j its sentimental language what is it but a simple binding arrangement ln-tween , tm> persons for tie- mutual advantage of cadi oth r? Apart from the natural in- I stmet that brings the s< xestogether, tlie I one is looking (or a helpmeet to add to his comforts, and the oilier (or someone to sustain and protect h-i through life. \\ ith these thev take all the attendant risk,, and trusting in the love they ls-ar to one another, take each other tor bet ! ter for worse. l.'nforttinatelv, the warmth of the hont.> - atmot alwuvs ( be tuaintairwsl; aiel abiding love must Is liased e more trying to love than the little lault, whii'h cjaqi out after uiurriaj.'-', but as, in a most literal sen,-- w-- must taki- one unot her (or I tetter for worse we ahonhl try to bstk as kuellv an-1 leniently on iIHM- traits that give us an noyance as we eon, ksowing that the l Iter we are abb- to l*-ur them, and the U-ss we an- abb- to think ujton tlw-m, tie is4ter will it I*- f--r our peace of milel aii-1 liappUK -s. Many ruarriages have turned out unhappy Iss-atise cf th' La k of this mutual forlsaraiice. Young I MS qi|e think they havi ma-lea mistake m marriage when the mistak< is only in ' th-'ir own Is-liavior inc<- they w-n- mar risl. Gy golden days gone bv, i "Mistakes et the Compositor.** Some one lues taken the jains to col- i l-.-t fur the Chicago Tmur* some of the more famous Iy|>ographicwl blunders of recent days olitical mon the Digestion of Humanity." Tlic compiler, says the Detroit F'ree /'r-w*. should have s-l-bsl i i to his colhs'tion the story of the Cod i necticut editor who wrote what he i { thought on unusually fine article, enti i tied, "Is There No Balm in Giles*! ?' i , and awoke next morning to see it read I j " Is There No Bam in Gnilferd ? " I Dr. Angus, one oi MM English revisers ; of the New Testament, gives some in r teresting details of that work, which , : occupied ten years. There were ton t j meetings each year, each meeting ex- II tending to fonr days, a day meaning I ; about seven hours' work, so that in all • i the company, in ita collective capacity, spent 2,800 hours in the revision. Be ■ sides this, however, every member of I both the Englirh and American com mittees exhausted his knowledge and . critical ability in his conscientious labors i " I had rather have new*|*peni with -1 out government," said Jefferaon, " than I government without newspapers." KlnmlMT Hour. >iiih n I<;i , ui, 7 : How tlm hours ruu! Now the night in romiiig, Kooo tin hy! Now tlx; day in (lone Hoc, tbo fha/lown gainer And tin; light in gone. The door ofdr< srolnnd iqien •Unda. Yon must Itantc away; ' x Tlx; little slum hate act their lamp* To guide yon in your way. 6 live, baby, bye I IHunh-a-bye, baby! Close your little oyew. Sleep id rtaiidnig o'er thee, Watching fo r her prize. She lian met i||< amn to give thee, Soft anon which will infold tliee. Hie- will k>-cji tine from all harm: Yield thee quickly to tier charm. Itjc, hahy, bye! PI MIKNT l'A ItAtiK A PIIN. I A put tip job— Hanging up clot Lew. riong of the pontage stamp "Gum, oh gum with me." All the I toiler makers m Chicago struck simultaneously on TmJgv. What ;t dreadful din tliey mnat h*\<- made. b'oot. It'* a mighty in ten* ting place to the neigh liOTH. \<-,r Horen lifjoJer. Since it wan announced tlut President Garlic Id i affhrtcil with an affection of the liver lie receives alxnit a down pad* daily from admiring friend*. Philip Sidney says they are never alone who are accompanied with noble thoughts. Editors always have a crowd aronml them.— lyer ell t'ttum. Ati exchange sju-aks of a Chicago man who " has one foot in the grave." Pre sume it'n all they could get in without enlarging the cemetery. Botrm Post. "It in harder to get ahead in thia world," said Clorinda'n voting man, aa her father assisted hitn out of the door with his lioot, "tlian it is to get a foot." Oli. icis* 1 lam aspnnid of tlm As any mountain of it* anuw a: I ga*• on ties', anil fee! tliat joy A Human knows * TVkykMr, A go-as-jotl please match is sadly needed for <*>mmon use. This morning we struck nine of the ordinary sort tie fore one of them ignited. AVir Fori .Vr. Lives there a man with soul so dead who never to himself hath sad: " Hera are five dollars which I think I will in ! vest in printer's ink."—StilhnUer IMm ■ barman. Tlte Burlington //urrl-ei,* says that a lumberman of that city lias hail his coat j of arrns (sainted on the paw-.U of his car riage, with the Latin "Yidi." Which by interpretation is "I saw." There arc twelve thousand new word* ' ready for the revised edition of Worres ' ter's dictionary. With such facilities j writers will liave little difficulty in 1 making themselves misunderstood.— Picayune. A Hartford man sent a pair of trousers to his tailor to lie repaired. The tailor found £IOO in a roll in his pocket and returned it. receiving the tlianks of the j otm-r therefor. When we aend a |air of trousers to our tailor to be reconstructed, and he tinds three hundred dollars in the (locket and returns it, we always tell him to keep the trousers for his honesty, which is the liest policy. Sorrutov a HerdUl. 4 Smithiiigton in recounting to a friend the advantages of a house which he wished to b*e to him saul: " Yea, and there is quite a good garden connected with the house." "Yes," said his j friend, "I can prolably hire a man to ' take care of the garden for SIM or #2O, and can gather #7 or #M worth of | vegetables from it. That garden would lie a regular lxmaura for me."— A'im j Sentinel. A |*|ier does not cost much. That i* the reason why so many walk into an : office, help themselves and walk out. ITo prevent this little steal, it is , veritably announced that a shrewd editor trained a jvarrot to watch visitors ' to the office. If one picked up a jwper and attempted to go off without (stying for it, the bird would sing out, with - startling clearness: "Stop thief! stop * thief 1 Hang it, bring that (wper liack, * or pay for it I" By thia means the edi tor receives nearly all the money for his , i(>ers, which gives him quite a lift Yontfn Statmnum. Hottest I tare or Karth. The hottest climate in the world prob ably occurs in the desert interior of Aiua I trslia Captain Stuart hung a Iher niometer on a tree, sheltered both from the sun and the wind. It was graduated f to 1*27 degrees Fahrenheit, yet so great was the heat of the air that the mercury mac till I burst the tube ; and the torn per*tnre must thus hare been at least 128 ' degrees, apparently the highest ever iw conled in any part of the world. Nav . ertbelesa, in the Houthern mountains and 1 table lands three feet of snow some times fall in a day. I