Forfeit*. Thoy sent him rouix] the circle thlr, To bow before the prettiest there. I'm bound to say the choice ho medo A creditable te.te displayed; Although -I can't ey what it meant The little maid looked ill-ooutent Ilia taak wan then anew begun To kneel before the witlieat ono. Once more that little maid nought hi% And want him dowu upon hie knee. Hhe bent her eyes upon Uio floor I think she thought the game a bom. He circled then -hie eweot behest To kiaa the one he loved the boat. For all she frowned, for all aho chid. Ue kimed that little maid, ho did. And then though why I can't decide The little maid looked aatieflod. lf. C. flunner, t'n the Century. Saidee's Expedient. "Saidee! Saidee! where aro yon? Why don't you answer mo whon I call ?" "Yes, Aunt Leah—l am comiugin a minute." " la a minute!" sarcastically repeated the old lady. " It's always 'in a min ute' with yon, Saidee. Hut I suppose because I'm old and helpless my oom fort is a matter of no conse<iuenoo what ever." " Dear Aunt L.-ah, you must nevei think of that!'' answered a bright, cheery voice; and Saideo Lynn came into the room with a little tray, where was arranged on a snowy napkin some tea-biscuits, half a do/.en pink radishes, a few thin-ont shavings of Btnokml boef and a little pot of tea, with a cup and dancer of old bine china which would have been invaluable to a collector, "You see I had yon in my mind all tho time, Aunt Leah," she said, merrily. " I gathered the radishes from our own garden. Don't they look nice." Aunt Leah, a withered littlo old lady in a dress of worn black silk, and sharp, gray eyes, peering through gold-bonnd spectacles, tasted of tho tea and shook her head. " It's too weak," said she. "It isn't fit to drink I" " I put in all tho tea there was in the canister, Aunt Leah," said Saideo, with a distressed countenance. Annt L n ah pushed away the cup with an expression of distaste. "It is as I might have expected," said fin. "My nieces have too littlo thought for PIT comfort to study my poor and few necessities. Never mind the tea; I can drink cold water, I dare say." Bailee wrung her hands in despsir. How could she tell this weak, feeble old lady, above whose declining years hung the threatening Damocles sword of heart disease, of their narrowing cir cumstances, of the empty exchequer, the clamoring creditors, tho pitiful strsits to which they were reduced ? "What shall I do?" sheared herself, as she went slowly back to tho littlo kitchen of the ruinons gothic cottage, which they had obtained for aridicn lously low rent because it was ruinous. "I ve borrowed of the rector's wife twioc, and I'm ashamed to go there again, and I've sold everything I can lay my hands on. But," glaneing up at a picture which hnng in a hall be yond, " there's the Velasquea still. A Velasquez is always worth money. Belle will scold about parting with it, and Aunt Leah will mourn ; but wo can't lire on air and dew, like the fai ries. I'll take it down to Mr. Itruner, the artist, this afternoon, and ask him to gel us s purchaser Poor people, each as we are, can't afford to rotain old family relics." And so, when Aunt Leah was indulg ing in her sfternoon nsp, snd Belle, the beauty of the fnmily, was ironing out tho flounces of her white muslin dress for the morrow's picnic, valiant Bailee climbed on a chair, took the unframe l picture down (it was the head of some old (Spanish grandee, with a •tiff pointed ruff and an evil leer in the •yea), wrapped it up in a newspaper, and crept across tho meadows with it to the village. Mr. Brnnnr *u in hi* studio— a grizzle-heeded, blant old gentlemen, in • belted lioan blonse and a (adad vcl ▼at cap. He nodded kindl jat Haider, who bad once taken a few lessons Irom him, bat when she displayed the can vas he shook his head. "How mnch do yon think it is worth ?" asked Haider, wistfully. "Nothing P said Mr. Brnner. "Bat,*' cried the girl, "U is a Ve lasquez P "That a VelaiqnezT' said Mr. Bnmer, contemptuously. "My dear, there isn't a picture dealer in the conntry who wonld give fifty cents for it" It's a mendacious imitation, and a wretched .one at that!" Bo Haidee tied np the poor piotnre and went homo again, shedding a few tears as aba walked nnder the whisper ing trees. "Mr last hope gone 1 * she thonght. • Bat 111 not tell Annt Leah or Balls ghat it is an imposture. They have al wrays taken inih innocent pride in the Velasquec." A* aho came paat the old briok homo at the foot of tho locust lane a load of fnrnitnre was being carried in, for it was tho second week in May. Wicker chairs, twined with blue ribbon, a cot lage piano, cases of books, engravings, bird cagos, plants—all sorts of protty things. Saidee paused and looked at them, not without interest. "I wonder who our now neighbors are to bo ?" she thought. Just then out trotted a stout, chorry cheeked old lady, with her cap all on one side and u worsted shawl tied over her shoulders. '"Oh 1" said she; "are yon the young woman who disappointed us yesterday about cleaning ? " "No," said Saidee, crimsoning to her temples. "Oh, doar I oh, dear !' said the old lady ; •' what is to become of us ! All tho furniture coming in and my daughter lame from fulling oil a step ladder, and the girl gone, and — Ilut," with an eager look, "perhaps you can recommend somo ono to help us settle?' "I am sorry to say that I cannot," an swered Saidee, and sho vanished be yond tho lilac-hodge, rather amused at tho mistake which tho old lady had made. Belle was fnll of news that evening. "Oh, Haidee," she cried, "such a nice family is moving into tho Locust house!" "Y0."." said Saideo; "I saw the fnrni ture carts at tho doer as I i-amo back from the village this afternoon." "Oh, the village!" cried Belle, toss ing her blonde head. "It's strange, Saidoe, how mnch time you get to run abont and enjoy yourself, while I am drudging at homo. Bat thero's a yonng gentleman there--tho handsomest man, Alico Aikin says, that *he cvor saw and Mr. Fyro knows him, and ho is to bo at tho picnic to-morrow to got ac quainted with the young people of the neighborhood. Won't it bo delight fair "Very," said Haidee, indifferently. Bat while Belle was talking she had mado np her mind what to do on the day of the May picnic. Early in the morning, while tho flash of snnrisc was still crimsoning the sky, and blonde Belle lay asleep with her yellow hair in crimping-pio*, Haidee arose, dressed herself quietly, and slipped out of the back door like a lit tlo gray sha low. At 8 o'clock Aunt I, >ah rapped with her cano on tho ceiling of her room, which was directly beneath the ono occupied by her nieces. 80110 made her appearance presently in a faded calico wrapper, rubbiug her eyes after a drowsy fAsbion. " Where's breakfast 7" said Aunt Leah. "Where's Haidee?" counter-qnea tionod Belle. "Oh, I know the selfish thing! She has got up early and gone down to tho woods to get some pink azalias for her hair before the other girls think of it. She .wants to aston ish us all at the picnic. But I think she might have told inc." "I'm afraid Haidee thinks more of herself than she does of us," said Aunt Leah, sourly. And Belle, in a very ill hnmor, began to prepare tho breakfast—a task gener ally assumed by her elder sister. Whilo Haid.o, hurrying down tho path by the swamp, took the short-cut across the clover meadow, and was presently knocking at tho door of the brick house where the load of furni turn had stood the day before. The old laly with the crcoked cap and the ohorry cheeks came to tho door. " Ilave you yet engaged any one to help yon get settled ?" said Haidee, blushing very prettily. "We can't hear of a soul," said tho old lady. " Every one is engagod just now, and—" "If you thought I could bo of use," faintly began Haidee. *• Bless me, child!" said the old lady, " you are too slight and small. Be sides," looking closrr at her, " you are a lady." "Bat I know how to oiean boose," said Haidee, valiantly. '* I've done it i every yoar at home. We are ladies, but : we are not people of means. And I think yon will be suited with my work. It is neoeasary that I should earn a litte money, and—" "Come in, ray dear," said the old lady—"come in and have a cup of ooffee with na. lam Mrs. Hart wick— and this is my daughter Kate." "Haidee Lynn I" exclaimed the soft votoe of a pretty yonng girl, lying with a sprained ankle on tho sofa. To her amazement onr heroine reeogniaed one of her schoolmates, Katharine Hartwiok, who had graduated in the tamo olaae with her at boarding school two years ago. "But yon snrely have never come here to worn f' said Kate, in amaze ment. "Yea, I have," said brave Baideo. M Why, le it any leas creditable to clean paint and wash windows than to play croquet or do Kensington stitches ? And my Annt Leah has lost all her > little property and wo are very, wry poor I So now yon know all about it. And when I havo eaten my breakfast if Mrs. Ilartwick will give meaoleaning cloth and plenty of soft soap I'll show her what I can do." Boihat Miss Lynn was mounted on a atep-la Idor, polishing off an antique mirror, when Katie's soft voice was heard saying: "Oh, Qarjry! is that you? Wo sup posed of conrse yon wore at the pic nic. Miss Lynn, this is my brother Harry, narry, lot mo present yon to Baideo Lynn, my dear old schoolmate, who has oomo here to help us clean houso." Miss Lynn made as graceful a bow us she oonld under the circumstances. Mr. Harry Ilartwick inclined his bead. "At tho picnic, indcod !" ho rotorted, merrily. "Not at all. I've boon hunt ing high and low for some one to help you, and for lack of acy success I have returned to do a little light white wash ing niysel'." "Oh, have you ?"' said Baideo. "I know auch a nice recipo for calcimining as white as alabaster, and it won't rub oil at all." "Let's make it," said Mr. Ilartwick, promptly. No picnic could over have boon more delightful than this day among dust, whitewash, scouring-sand and brooms. Kste, on her sofa, hemmed curtains; Mr. Hsrtwick bustled to and fro; Baideo, with her curly hair tied up in a hand kerchief, scoured paint, and Harry whitened ceilings; and at twilight they Lad three rooms in perfect order. "Wohave aohiovod wonders," said Kate, looking around at the neatlv tacked carpets, the soft, garnet plush hangings, the pictures on the walls, the crystal brightness of the windows, while Mrs. Hartwick took Baideo mys teriously on one sido. "My dear," said she, "I do not know how to thank yon sufficiently. But I am ashamed to offer yon a dollar and a half, althongh—" " Hut I shall not l>e ashamed to take it," said Baideo, smiling. " Why shcnld I ? That is, if yon really think I havo earned it." " My dear, yon have more than earned it," said tho old lady, "and if you could possibly come to-morrow—" " Of course I will come," said Haidee, Weary a* sho was Haidec went around by tho villago to buy some Young Hy son tea for tho old lidy before she re turned to the gothic cottsge. " Well," she cried, brightly, to her sister, " what sort of a day did yon have at the picnic?" "Awfully stupid!" yawned Belie. "And tho handsome young gentleman from Locust lane didn't come at all." " Didn't ho ?" said Haidee. " And where have you been ?" de manded Belle, in an injured tone. " Oh, spending the day with a neigh bor !" said Haidee, with a laugh. They finished the house-cleaning that week. Mr. Ilarry Hartwick found it necessary, wo may add, to walk home with Haidee the next evening, and he developed a remarkable talent in the amateur painting an 1 calcimining line before they got through. "Isn't sho pretty, Ilarry f said Kate, when at last they were settled com fortably and Haidee had gone home for good. "Hheia pretty," said Ilarry, enthu siastically; " and she is brave, and alio isn't afraid of honest work; and alto gether aho is my beau ideal of a girl." " Mamma," whispered Kate, Laughing, after her brother had gono out, "I be lievo our Harry ia in lore with Haidee Lynn." " I'm sure I don't blame him," said Mra. Hartwick. "Hhe is a little jewel." Aunt Leah noror knew whero the Yonng Hyson tea came from, nor the spongo-cake, nor the white grapes, nor all tho little Inxnrins wbioli had cheered her of late; nor (lid she expect anything until one dar Ilarry Hsrtwirk came to her and foimally asked her for her niece's band in marriage. "Well, I never !"aaid Aunt Leah. " Bat how did you ever beoome so well eoqnsinted with him, Haidee?" questioned Bolle, half-pleased, half jealoas. "Because I cleaned house for bis mother," said Haidee, laughing. And then under solemn seal of secrecy she told Belle all; and Belle declared that it was too romantic for anything, never pausing to think that real life ia aa full of romaooe aa e sum mer meadow with bnttercnpe, and that fortune comes to those only who go bravely out to seek fort nne. It is customary in some localities to tesoh children to think of a text ea they drop their pieces of money into the contribution box. A ocrtaio little girl at Sunday school recently saw the box approaching and began to search in her memory for a text. She hesita ted for a few momenta, dropped the dime into the box, and exclaimed tri umphantly : " A fool and hi* money are •< on parted. ' A man wrote to the paragraph writer on a Western paper thus introducing himself: "lam the man who laugh* at your witticisms " " Thank beared!" said the paragraphs?, with a weary sigh, " I hare found him at last." FALTN fK TIIE CURIOUS. Monkeys, like men, have a peculiar natural abhoronce of anako*. In many of the Oriental languages the name for five means a bund. Htampa for taxation were invented in Holland in the neventecnth century. Clovifl, gratified by a visit from tbe bishop of Tonlouso, gave him n hair from his beard. Okica, a liquid which in Peru in handed round like oofloe after meals, in prepared from maize moistened and fer mented by mastication. The year 1881 will bo long romern bered for ita earthquakes. Not since 1812 had there been such a wide circle of terrestrial disturbances. Mount Ararat consists of two |>eaks joined by a sort of neck, the greater [>eak rising 17,0(10 f< et above the sea level and th lesser 12.K00. Ants have been known to build gal leries of clay over the surface of a pine apple, to shelter those of their number who were destroying the fruit. A board sawed from a catalpa log, which had lain on the grour.d for 100 years, was found to bo sound, fair and susceptible of a good polish. Ono of the choicest fanK in the world is ono that belonged to Mrno. Pompa dour. It is made of lace, was nine years in making, and cost $.10,000. Tbo cultivation of the sweet scented riolet is nowhere pursued with such ardor and success as at Hamburg. Many persons have from 2,000 to 8,000 pots. In Oormany sawdust is combined with Kino or noma other binding mate rial, the rosult being a plastic em which if* proused into molds, into door knobs, piano keys and various other ar ticle*. Tho emerald was onco Indioved to posses* wonderful qualities. It was supposed to bo good for the eyes; to serve, taken internally, as an antidot to |>oisons and the bite of serpents, and to cure the plague and infectious fevers. Homo of tlie Asiatic racci have a pe culiar mam or of kissing. Instead of placing lip to lip, they place the mouth and nose upon tho cheek and inhale the breath strongly. Thoir form of speech is not Give me a kiss," but " Hmell me." A scientific professor records the fol lowing singular instance of self-canai balism: lie cnt in two a male cricket, and immediately tho forepart, prob ably experiencing a sensation of empti ness, turned upon tho hinder,' part and devoured it. By the will of Pctrr Hymonda, made in tho year 1568, sixty of tho youngest boys in Christ's hospital, London, after divine service na every (t joi Friday morning in Atlballovs church, Lom bard street, receive each a new penny and a bag of raisins. Oldest City In the Failed States. Nearly seven tbonaa nd feet above the level of tho sea stands Hints IV, the oldest city in the United Ntate*. Its history is tho history of Now Mexico. Three hundred years ngo tho Hpaniar ls found it an old Indian village, large and populous, for history tells us that in 158Q Espejo, traveling through Mex ico to resoac, if possible, some Francis can friars who ha 1 boon deserted by their oscort somewhere in the valley on tho liio Grande, attempted to visit Hants Fe, but was driven I rack by 40,- 003 Indians. In 159H, however, tho Hpaniards succeeded in making a permanent settlement there. They built churches, convents, tho governor's pal ace, homes and fortifications. Many of those same buildings are still standing, and are used for the purposes for which they were built For over one hundred years they held the place, under going changing fortunes, as the In dians were friendly or hostile, their crops e failure or a success. But during these hundred years the Hpaniards bad, throughout the Territory, taken poe session of the mines, forced the Indians to hard labor, taken them from their homes and rednoed them to slavery. In 1680 the Indians revolted, and drove the Spaniards out of Hants Fe and New Mexico, and remained master of theoountry for twelre years. They had become so embittered toward the Spaniards that they destroyed every thing that could be destroyed in Santa Fe, particularly whatever reminded them in any way of their hated masters. In 1092 the Spaniards re turned to New Mexioo, and a company under Da Vargas Ponoe Do Leoo, after a desperate battle, took up a position on the heights near Haute Fe, remained there some months, and then moved into the city, although strongly op posed by the Indians. Dnring the Mexican war the city was taken by the United States troopr, and in onr civil war it was occupied by the Confed erates. Notwithstanding these varying fortunes we ere told that Hants Fe has changed bat little. — Ronton TratdUr. He who lives only to benefit himself confers upon the world a benefit when be dies. PEABLS OF THOUGHT. Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice aU things. \\ ork does not wear either men or women HO much as worry. When a man is wrong and won't ad mit it bo always gets angry. Prosperity is not just soa'e; adversity is the only bslanoe lo try friends. The reproaches of enoniies should quicken us to duty, and not keep us frem it. One of tho best rules in conversation is never to say anything which any of the company can reasonably wish bad liecn left unsaid. Beautiful live* have grown np from tho darkest places, as paro white lilies full of fragrance have blossomed on slimy, stagnant waters. Think twice befors yon speak once, and tell not all you think; nor taste all you desire; nor say all that you know; nor give credence to all yoa hear. If all were as willing to bo pleasant ati<l anxious to please in their own homes us they are in the company of their neighbors they would havo happy homes. 11 is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. Tho adjectives habitually uw-d, like the iu acriptlons on a thermometer, indicate tbe temperament. Earnestness is the path to immor tality, thoughtlessness the path to death. Those who are in earnest do not die, those who arc thoughtless are as if dead already. Ifa man's word is not as good as bis bond tbe best thing is to get on wilh out either. If this can't be done look well to the bond and treat tbe word as though it had ni rcr be-on spoken. Work is honorable, and no one sbonld be ashamed to do any labor that is honest Boys who try to get through the world without working, because they think it degrading to work, will not tnako tho right kind of men. Ar cuic for the Complexion. "Arc you ever called upon by women to give them something to improve their complexion f asked a New York re porter of a city physician. "Quite often, a* a matter of oourse. Women are always looking for some thing to intensify their beauty. They are not to blame for it; tho first inquiry most men make about a woman is whether or not she is pretty." "Do you prescribe arsenic for that purpose r "Not as a beautifler. In the treat ment of certain true skin disease*, how ever, Fowler's sotutiou ia often used and .rightly managed is a valuable remedy. But arsenic is ofteucr pre scribed for malaria, neuralgia and dyspepsia. " Yes, arsenic does, though not al ways, produce the effect ascribed to it. Its beautifying powers, however, if such they be, are much exaggerated. It ia possible, but not probable, that a physician would give arsenic to a woman who wished for it, as something with which to heighten her charms at the ex. pense of her health. No respectable practitioner would do it. There are any number of old women and quacks to attend to that sort of thing, and the number of those who use arsenic in this way is conniderable. I have pre scribed sulphur in such cases half a dozen time*, hut never afterward heard of my fair patienta. Ktop! one of them did return. Hhe said that my med icine was not strong enough. 'Arsenic was good,' she had been told, and she not only asked me for it, but was indig aant when I declined to write a pre scription. " The reasons for not giving arsenio in anch cases should be obvious enough. The patient almost always adopts the principle of the more arsenic the more beauty. It ia not, by the way, a habit oonflned to women. I know of two casea in which arsenic was need by yonng men for the same purpose. I have bad several caaea of women who had seriously injured themselves with arsenic, all of them within aeven or eight years. Twenty years ago they were rue. The symptoms in moat of these oeaea are very severe. The trouble begins with nausea and abdominal pains. Then the eyes redden, and the upper lids become thickened, having taken oh a dropsical character which soon extends over the whole body. Fre quently the arsenic prodnoes severe skin eruptions. The nervous system in time becomes seriously involved, and wasting of the flesh, falling out of the hair, and sometimes paralysis fol low. Young women should bo careful how they meddle with Fowler's solu tion." A druggist said that calls for arsenio were not infrequent, and oame quite as often from middle aged aa from young women, " I never sell it to them," he added, "without a prescription. I know, however, that It Is sold for a beeutifler, and 1 have reeaon to believe that it Is bought of the wboleeale drug gists, put up in bottles, and disposed of by peddlers of aoatrcmt,who, no doubt, get high prices for it." SCIENTIFIC HCBkPft. Ozone has en odor similar to a spot that has been struck by lightning. Colored apot* on decaying food are caurod by animal or vegetable growth. Htammering may tie produced bysud den fright suffered daring childhood. The sugar cane, when perfoct'y ripe, contains sixteen to eighteen percent, of sugar. Htrawberriea contain 5%6 per cent, of their weight of glacose, and Lot house grapes 18.37. Where birds fly very little their feathers never acjnire, or else noon loose, their distinctive quill like charac ter. All solid bodies become self-luminous at about the sama temperature, begin ning to show a dull light at about 1,000 degrees. The longest span of wire in the world is used for a telegraph in India, over the river Kistnah, between Bezorah an 1 Bectanagrum. It is more than C.OOO feet long, and is stretched between two hills, each of which is 1,200 feet high. With thermometers placed at four icet and at fifty feet above the gronnd, Mr. fieorgc Dines has obtained readings which lead him to believe that the average maximum temperature for every month is always greater and the average minimum lower near the ground than at a considerable elevation. Experiments have shown that firing with a nine-inch twelve-ton gun at armor plating three and four inches thick, representing a deck of a vessel inclined bel ween ten degrees and fifteen degrees, in no instance caused penetra tion, although full charges were used. The general lelif that the joints of animals have always a synovial fluid serving as a lubricant is, according to Dr. Lambert, an error. The elephant, with his relatively moderate motions and great weight, has admirable cartila ges, but absolutely no lubrication there for. "lolwl th<*re are hat Terr few people outside the tra If who ran realise t!i" amount of business lone yearly la this city jn snch seemingly email articles a* nutmiß* an 1 doyen," said Mr. W. A. Morris, a New York spice broker, to a rejiorter. " There are af many fluctuation* and a tnnch specu lation in spices as there are m cPTee or stocks. Our trade changes with the season as much as any other, and at the present lima clave* are weak. There ia always a heavy demand for clove* during the winter theatrical reason, a* that spice goes far ; n making a play enjoyable. There were dnring the past yrar received at tins port 1.170,G07 pounds ol clov. Jail imagine how far back that will pnt the population of the eonntry when yon consider the number of matrimonial engagements a singl 3 clove has lwen the means of breaking. As to nutmegs there were received during the year 5811,511 pounds, or 2G3 tons, which, at tbo rate of 100 nuts to the pound, make 58,951,400. or a little over one apiece to every person in the United States. The while powder you see on nutmegs ia limn, which is used as a coating against worms. Of pepper there ar rived hero during the year 14,621,843 pounds, which represent 52,100,000, with the duty, which is five cauls a pound, paid. The importation of other spices, such as cinnamon, ginger and allspice, is carried on in as large a pro portion, and many fortunes arc made and lost in a year in what is seemingly considered s petty business." Ula* Nliinsle*. A ritlsbnrg firm bti bsea granted • |--**ont for the mann.'actare of ahmgles compose*! of glu>. It is claimed for this material that it ia ao much more durable, stronger and more impervious to rain than slate or any other sub stance now used. Tbo manufacture of the ahinglea will also be comparatively inexpensive, and can be plaoed in position] by any ordinary workman. These shingles have the advan tage of slate in several particu lars. In consequence of their ahape they lie solid on the roof, and can be need on comparatively flat roots, and they will admit of persons on them without danger of fraoture, a quality which slate does not possess. Tbey are interlocked so as to leave no in terstices between them, and one rivet holds each pair of shingles, ao that they cannot be forced from their placet by the wind or other atmospheric dis turbances. Tbcy are also made ao as to have very little waste material. It takes 300 slates, each 3x12 inches, to cover what h technically known aaa "square" of roof (a square measuring •cn feet eitfaoi way,) but ISO of these shingles a ill snQice for the same space. Glass is likewise a non-conduct of of electricity, and houses with these roofs will need no lightning conductors. Although the kind of glass intended to be used in these •hinglea ia noa-trans parent glass, a root with colored border and opalesosnt body ia said to bo very handsome
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