Shadows. Shadows nml substance—who is ho csti y Whore this (loth imroly end and that begin, And which is greater? Who hath scales to weigh Alike tho shadow and the substance in ? Who rightly knows them which is which ? and who Conccivetli which is elder of the two? Thou pluck'at the dnisy from the happy grass, Touched with its lowly looks, but art too weak To pluck the wandering shadows where they passu Great is the shade: and I have heard men speak Of one old Shadow aide to appall Eyes not afraid of substances at all. Yea, thou art he. Oh, Doath, whom mortals name Life's shadow, tremblers at a shadow's tread : Albeit there are who know how noontide's flame Scorches, and of the shadow have no dread, Boeing it ineaus a cool, dusky place with trees All round, aud grass, and much oblivious ease. William It'at son, in S-rihmr. THE DOCTOR S STORY. In the year 1*75 I graduated, and began to practice medicine in a conntry town in Canada. It was a coal mining lace, full of poor miners, and there wan several doctors there before mo; but I bought out another man's practice liefore ascertaining that he had none, so I had to try and work along as best leonld. In two years my patients had increased to a respectable number, but I was still a poor man, fori could not exact a heavy fee from people who earned their bread by the sweat of their brows in darkness, and sometimes in danger. They were poor, and the doctor who attended them in case of illness was necessarily poor also. Tlio valley in which the town was situated was a beau tiful one; lovely farms lay in every direction, and aged elms rose beside the placid river that flowed through the , midst of it —peace and plenty smiled on the beautiful scene, and happy men and women lived and died there without | having ever seen the bnsy, turbulent world outside. The superintendent of one of the mining companies lived near the cot tage which I had made my home, and he had an only child, a daughter, and as they say a poor man is never prop erly miserable till he falls in love I had to follow up my destiny by loving Lillie Hardwick. ♦she was lovely, that is the only exenso I can offer for my rash devotion to her. I loved her the first time I over saw her —it was one Hnnday, at church. She sat beside her father, and I tlionght of angels all the morning instead of listening to the sermon. Bhe wore a blue and white dress and something ganzy upon her head ; her hair was nut-brown and rippled natu rally, and her complexion puro as an infant's and fresh as a rose. She had large, soft brown eyes, with long, dark lashes, and the sweetest voice 1 ever heard. After that Hnnday I met her nt one or two parties, bnt I did not dare to pav her any marked attention, for she was the only daughter of a rich man, and I was the poor, unknown doctor, strug gling hard to make a living. The summer wore away, and Lillie was still a bright star at which I fondly gazed bnt which was also far beyond my reach. I fancied she cared for me, and that kept love and hope alive, and at my present rate of progress I might, in abont sixty years, amass sufficient of this world's goods to take a wife. Certainly the prospect was not cheering. I attended a picnic one day, and I had the happiness to bo chosen Lillio's es cort which filled me with delight, for we spent the afternoon together ; she had a volnme of poems with her, and I lay among the ferns at her feet in the hard wood grove where more energetic ' people were making a fire and prepar ing sapper, and read some of these poems aloud to her ; they were short se lections, and one of them I shall never forget. It was new to me and ran thus: "He little knows A woman's heart, who, when the cold wind blows Deems it will change. Though storms may rise, And grief may dim, and sorrow cloud her skies. And hopeless hours, and snnlens days romo on, And dark despair the gloomy future till But, loving once, she lores through good or ill." I raised my eyes to Lillio's face as she listened to the words, and her look de lighted me. " How true that is," she said, earnest ly, then colored, at, I suppose, the ex pression I con bl not keep out of my face. If I only dared there and then to tell her how I loved her—hut I h ul not the conrago. That picnic lived in my memory like one sunbeam on a dark day—a streak of goldan light shining through gloom. I oarcoly saw Lillie all winter except occasionally at church, for I was too busy to be a regular attendant. In the month of March a terrible day dawned over our peaceful valley. Al>out 10 o'clock in the morning an explosion took place in the mine of which Mr. Hardwick was superintendent. AU the men were in the mine when it occurred, and as tlio fearful sound was hoard, and the mine belched forth vol umes of black smoke, crowds of waiting women and children flocked to the mouth of the hideous monster that had swallowed np their husbands and fath ers. I was soon on the spot, for I knew there would bejwork for mo when the burnt and matigiod victims of tlio explo sion were brought to light. Volnntoers were not wanting to go below and do what they could for the unfortunate beings imprisoned amid darkness and death. I offered myself, but Mr. Hardwick pushed me back, say ing: "No, doctor, stay whore yon are. You will be more needed when wo come up. Stay here, I beg of you." Ho speaking he stepped into tlio bucket with as many more as it woul d nold, and rapidly descended down the dark eliasm through which the black smoke still rolled. I stood in sad uncertainty as to what would come next, when I felt a light touch on my arm, ard turning I found Lillie beside me. Hlie wore a light morning dress and slippers, aud was without a hat; her bosom rose and fell rapidly, for she had evidently lost no time in coming here. "Oh, dpctor!" she cried, clinging to my arm, " I liavo ran ail the way and lam out of breath. Tell me where 1 >apa is ?" I looked at her flushed face and eager eyes; I noted the trembling if her hands, and the pink hot-house rose that nestled in her breast, as if mocking her agony of fear. " Miss Lillie, come back a little, your father was not in the mine at the time of the explosion ; I have seen him since ; ho is safe." "Oh, thank God—thank God!" she cried, tours starting to her sweet brown eyes. " Yes, come back, Miss Lillie, it isnot good for yon to inhale that smoke; come back !" Something told me to got her away from the month of the pit, but it was hard to do. At length I left her trying to console an old woman whose three sons had gone down a few hinrs ago, hale, hearty vonng men, and who might lie blackened corpses for all she knew— burned and bruised past hope of recog nition even by their mother. As I returned to the shaft a dull, booming sonnd came suddenly from underground—the enrtli shook—a roar like the blast of a thousand cannons was heard, and huge masses of inky stnoki; rose aliove the fatal pit. A second ex plosion had tak. n place. Screams from tho women rent the air, and above them all, ringing out, I heard the voice of Lillie llardwiek clear as a licit: " (>h, papa, |>apa ! " My heart stood still; a crowd of men had gathered round me, another partv going down to help the dying men below. No one tried to stop me now ; but I could not go without one word to Lillie. If I went to my death let her at least know how I loved her. Hhe was by my Ride and I caught her hands in mine. "Lillie, I will try to save your father if I cannot I will die with him." "Oh, thank you," she said, looking straight into my face. "Come up alive for my sake J" With these words ringing in my ears I jumped on the lift and was soon spin ning downward into the vault of dark ness and despair. The air was thick with noisome vapors, and we could dis tinguish nothing at first; but after awhile our lanterns revealed huge masses of coal thrown out of place, im prisoning men in living tombs, for with, out fresh air life could not lie sustained On every side the mine had been rent and torn, and instead of the wide passages where the men worked all was blocked np with debris, and large shafts of wood used to stay np tho mine lav torn and twisted, proving the fnry of the jxjwor that destroyed them. We gazed at each other in mnte despair then seizing any implement that came to hand liegan to work with a will. I never knew I eonhl handle a pick before, bill I certainly made good progress, and succeeded in bnrstingopen a lead, one of tho most important in the mine. " Here!" I shouted, tut I found a enta iler of men piled together. " Come and help me ont with them. Homo of them at least are alive." By tho yellow light of tho lantorn I recognized tho party that had gone down to the resono. Lillio's father first. He wes insensible bnt still breathed; his arm was donbled undo* him and broken; what other injuries he had sustained I cotibl not tell. Ho was placed in tho lift and I took my place beside him; as many of tho other men as the lift wonld accommo date were laid there and we were soon on onr way to light and life. Tho first face I saw on gaining day light was Lillio's, in fact I saw it as I gazed npward anxiously; it shone white ami pnre above the dark abyss of woe from which we ascended like a star of hope. When we came into the light and she saw her father lying in my anns as I knelt to support him, she proved her conrago by neither screaming nor fainting. Hhe assisted me to lift him out and place him on a litter that had been provided. I examined him now and found that in addition to the broken arm Mr. Ibird wick hod sustained other injuries, none of them necessarily fatal, Htill placing his life in great danger. I attended to hi* wounds and had him removed to IUH house, which was fortunately near. Then I returned to the miuo. Ah ! that woful day! as tho sun set that night there wore sorrow and weeping in almost every hutnhlo home in tho town. I lost no time and tho other doctors were also kept busy. I visited Lillie's father about every two hours and ad ministered such remedies as I thought were needful. I asked Mrs. Hardwick if she wished another doctor, but she answered: "Oh! no. Y'ou saved my husband's life and I have every confidence in your skill. Let the other doctors attend to tho rest of tho poor men." Wo had all of us enough to do that day and many days after. No more explosions followed, hut all tho wounded men were not rescued at once. Home of them were buried among tho loose masses of coal, and had to be dug out. Many who were given up for lost were brought up alive after all hope bud been abandoned. But the valley was full of sorrow and grief, too painful to dwell ti|on. I attended Mr. Hardwick throngh the long illness that followed, and with the help of CI od brought him hack to health and strength as the hnwthoru was in bloom, and the robins began their spring song - among the old elms. I saw Lillie daily, and her sweet face became dearer to me every time I met her. Hhe found time to visit among those on whom the hand of God had been laid, speaking word* of com fort and healing. A true womanly woman —snob as are given to bring men nearer to God than aught else can do. It was a beautiful balmy evening when I paid my last professional visit to her home—tho perfume of spring violets in the air and the dewy mist of early nightfall lay over the valley. I found Lillie sitting alone 011 the sidesteps of the porch, her lao-work lying in her lap. " It is too dark to work, doctor," she said, pleasantly. "I am taking advan tage of the lazy hour. I like to sit here ami enjoy tho perfume of my violets— you know I luivo a perfect mania for (lowers. Do you remember I wore a hot-house rose that morning—that ter rible morning! 1 do not think I shall ever love roses again their scent brings it all liack to me. One can hardly im. agile- associating anything terrible with the perfume of a rose, but I do." I sat beside her and sjxtko on all sorts of subjects except the one nearest my heart—that I had not courage to men tion. I paid my visit to Mr. Hardwick and told him it was unnecessary for me to sec him again in my professional capac ity. "Come all the same, my dear fellow come a* a friend," ho said, pressing my hand cordially. His wife, a sweet, motherly woman, seconded the invitation, and I hade them all good-night. Lillie sat on the steps, though. I had seen her flitting about the house while I talked with her father: a* I pasmsl out she held out her hand to me, saying: " Here is something for TOU, doctor. No, do not look at it till yon are at home." Without another word she vanished, leaving in my hand a small, white pack age. A* soon a I was in my surgery I opened the pap r; there IST the rose my love wore in her Imsnm on the day of the explosion, ami on the japor, in her own pretty handwriting, the words of the poem I read to her Among the maple trees. It was late, hut I did not sleep nntil 1 saw Lillie again, and heard from hoi 1 own dear lips that she loved me. Her | parents consented to our marriage, and we are happy. The perfnme of roses has for me no horrible associations. Tho 962 dailies published in the United .States are divided into 436 morning pajor* and .*>46 evening pApers. One hundred ami thirty-eight |>apers issne Sunday editions; 682 issno week lies, fortv-foursemi-weekliesand thirty nine tri weeklies. Eighty-one dailies are published in the German language. Tho average price jor annum of a daily paper in tho United Htates is $7.33. The average cost per copy, connting all tho Htates, is, to annual subscribers, 2 1-3 cents, and to thoso who buy at the news stands nearly 4 1-2 cents. (!om paring Htates with each other, the high est average price per copy is in Nevada, twelve cents, and tho lowest in Dela ware, 1 1-4 cents. With an aggregate daily circulation of 8,581,187, tho people of tho United Htates pay annu ally at Kin t #20,250,000 for their daily news, an amount just ahont equal to the present annual expenditures of the Fed eral government. The neighbor and esteemed contem porary of tho Tomlmtone (Arizona) A/if tajth is Uie Tombstone dm tip, printed in the village of Unlncky Class. LA HI KM DEPARTMENT. >1 orttion Warn in, A Mormon woman, Mrs. Hampton, has been telling 11 Chicago reporter that wlion Mormon women are getting mar ried a white headdress with a flowing cape is worn. During the ceremony this cape is over the bride's fuco until tlio groom lifts it. When tho wife dies HIIO is buried with this cajwi 011 her head, and when she is laid in iter coffin the cape is thrown over her face. The teachings of tho Mormon leaders is that she cannot ho resurrected until the husband raises this cape from her faco; that if lie is satisfied that she lias been u faithful and obedient wifo lie will raise this capo and she may lie resur rected, but if rot satisfied ho will refuse to do so, and she cannot bo resurrected. One of the most common threats, she said, by which her husband used to compel her to obedience was that if she didn't obey him she would never he resurrected. Mr. Ilm hrr on •* Crimp*.*' llcnrv Ward Beeehcr road a letter at a Plymouth church prayer-meeting from a lady who wanted to know whether it was wrong to "crimp" her hair. She joined the church, she wrote, when she was sixteen years old, and when she was eighteen something said to her one night as she was crimping her hair, "You must not do it." It was the same tho next night, and the next, until alio yielded. Hut she could not get over a desire to crimp her hair, and it had made her morbid and unhappy for ten years. Mr. Becchcr said be thought his correalondent ought to givo up crimping, if that was tho command of the Lord. Hut in reality it was tho command of an unreasoning, sujier stitious conscience. The trouble with most peopb- was too little conscience— not too much. As for a remedy Mr. Hceeher would first ask a physician about the woman's liver and brain, and would then administer to tho mind. Several |s-rsons in the audiencj related experiences similar to those of the let ter-writer, and then the pastor pro nouncisl benediction. Ui- nl V'trsl -Ikln. An almost incre liblo romance has happened in Wisconsin, and if it had not licen vouched for by so re liable authority as the Kacinc Journal, it would bo rejected altogether. The story, as the Journal tells it, is that a resident of lUcine named Johnson, who has roamed throngh this world for about thirty-five years, having never met the choice of his heart, was walk ing up Main street, when he was met by a buxom-looking country girl and some friends. He was not acquainted with the girl, but introduction* soon followed ; she blushed and he was con fused, and there was no getting aronnd it, it was a ease of love at first sight. They talked earnestly for abont half an hour, the friends having departed. They soon parted with a kiss, she going north and he going south. In tho course of two hours both made their appearance again on Main street, dressed op in fine style. They kissed again and she took his arm and they walked off, and at 2 o'clock were united in marriage. He made her acquaintance, popped the question and married her inside of three hours. Ultnl's \\ Oman (an tin. As a wife and mother woman can make the fortune and happiness of her hnslrand ami children ; and, if she did nothing else, surely this would Ire suffi cient destiny. By her thrift, prudence and tact she can secure to her partner and to hcr*clf a competence in old age, no matter how amall their beginning or IM>W adverse a fate may Ire theirs. By her cheerfulness she can restore her hustrand's spirit, shaken by the anxiety of business. By her tender care she can often restore him to health, if dis ease lias overtasked his powers. By her counsel and love she can win him from bad company if temptation in an evil hour has led him astray. By her ex ample, her precepts and lier sex's in sight into character, she can mold her children, however adverse their dispo sitions, into noble men and women. And, by leading in all things a true and Ircantiful life, she can refine, elevate and spiritualise all who come within reach ; so that, with others of her sex emulating and assisting her, she can do more to regenerate the world than all the statesman or reformers that ever legislated. She can do ranch, alas! perhaps more to degrade man if ahe chooses to do it. Who can estimate the evils that a woman has the power to do? As a wife she can ruin herself by extrrvagance, folly or want of affection. She can make a demon or an outcast out of a man who might otherwise become a good memlier of society. She can bring bickering, strife and discord into what has l>een a happy homo. Hhe can change the in nocent belies into vile men and even into vile women. Hhe can lower the moral tone of society itself and thua pollute legislation at the spring head. She can, in fine, liecome an instrument of evil instead of an angel af good. Instead of making flowers of truth, *| • , # purity, beauty ami spirituality spring up in liar footsie,* tj|] t)„> aurtli smiles with a loveliness that is almost celestial, she can transform it to a black and arid desert, covered with the scorn of all evil passion, and swept by the bitter Must of everlasting death. This is what woman can do for the wrong as well as the right. Is her mission a little one? Man may have a harder task to perform, a rougher road to travel, but he has i one loftier or more influential than woman's. Pcmhion Noiis, Hustles increase in size. Overdresses are shirred from belt to knee. The pointed shoe is again returning to favor. Tliornflleson summer silks are pinked hy many dressmakers. Small I toman pearls are braided in the hair with fine effect. White sunhonnets arc worn more this summer than they were last year. Large hows arid sashes of dark red satin ribbon are used with white cos turtles of various fabrics, such as nun's veiling, dotted muslin and cream white batiste. Hindoo veiling is simply the reverse of nun's veiling. While making it np it is well to put the name of it con spicuously in the neighborhood of one's work basket. Seersucker dresses trimmed with white Hamburg have long-waisted jackets autl u very short, highly-draped overskirt, also trimmed with the em broidery. I'luck grenadine dresses ar trimmed with rich silk embroidery on net in close combined with showy Spanish lac* olloooo whatever. "The brute in the water," says this writer, "continues to go on all fours, and the man who wishes to save his live and cannot otherwise swim must do so too, striking alternately one two, one-two, but without hurry or precipitation." The great peril of persons unable to swim and suddenly entering deep wster is paralysis of mnscular power from fright, and Mr. MeCormac is not far from the truth when he says: "Noth ing is less difficult, whether for man or brute, than to tread water, oven for the first time. The mere knowledge of this fact might in some cases inspire those wholly lacking in natatorial experience with that confldenoe which is one of the best safeguards against drowning." The rule to "tread water when yon find yourself beyond your depth," and to " float when you are tired," is certainly simple enough, and practicable enough to bo tried in an emergency. —Xmr } ark UfrrtUt. A Woman'* (julck Wit. Tim part of Tenriesaec through which I have been knocked about i* fnjl of reminiscence* of th< war, bnt there ia none of it* bitterness left. In war time the people were great ly divided in their sentiments, and no man could tell t'other from which. This remark re minds me of a story I heard ywterday about an estimable woman of seventy odd, who died two or three yeara igo here on the mountains. One day during the war when the country wan fairly alive with guerilla*, aho had ocoa*i luani.uti t'nu -1/1 *r<. ut the State ia the center of evil. Young bora h ani tb re to smoke opium and contract the habit which ruin* them body and aonl. T1 < Chinese receive boys with great favor, and are always ready to initiate them into any vice. In the citie* the evil is worse, as the opportunities for it* gratification are met on every side. There are many squalid opium " dens " in the Chinese .quarters, and these have the regular white customers. The pe/lice make fre quent raids upon them, but the payment of .-'2O fin" release* the proprietor. Now it is customary for the smoker to dej/osit this amount IK fore beginning his indul gence, in order to assure the release of the patron in case of arrest. The vice ia most prevalent among the hoodlums of this city and the women of the town, but police officers and detectives, whose word may lie relied upon, declare that the practice is spreading with great rapidity, and that the law will aoon hare to be invoke*! to check it by heavy fines and other penalties. The new treaty will have no sensible effect upon the importation of opium into this coun try, as the duties are lew in British Columbia and Mexico, and the work of smuggling it over the border will not lie difficult. As a Chinese merchant said a ; few days ago in speaking of the drugj: "The Chinese will get it if it's on top of the earth. Ton might as well try to stop your nation from smoking cigars or drinking liqnor." \ Ferocious Coon. Little Henry Ooopcr, while Ashing in the Alapalra river a few ilavs ago, had hi attention attracted, and on looking lxhind him discovered a large coon ap proaching Mealt hily with his ears turned laiek. Before he had time to consider the situation the coon sprang at him and seized him b the leg, and began biting and squalling at a terrible rate. The IKJV was L>eing taullv hnrt a well an frightened, and set up a tremendous stjuall himself, at the same time niakiu;- all the resistance jtossible against his unwelcome visitor. He firs', seised the intruder with his hand, whereupon the coon bit him severely in the arm. The tight wa kept up some little time, dnring which the coon got in his work of laceration on the arms, hands and legs, alternately, until thelioy'a mother, who happened to be almnt one hundred raids from tbe interesting acene, ar rived. The anxious mother, in order o relieve the bey, seized tbe coon with her hands, whereupon ho fastened his teeth in her wrist, and for a little while the contest was lively between the three. The desiderate coon, in the meantime, seized upon the boy'a arm again, whereupon the mother took from tbe boy'a pocket hia knife, and after disemboweling the coon lie still held on firmly to hi* victim, and not until hia throat was cnt did he relax his hold, —Harriett C.mntv (da.) JFsws, lle was sitting in the pari or with her i when a rooster crowed in the yard, and, 1 leaning over, he said: "Chantioleo-r." M X wifljj-ou would ; I am sleepy as I can be." He cleared •* . v WV a ■ >... i.^