The Beauty of the IMTU A lovely form may charm the eye With feireet loveliness end grseS; And oft wem%y bo captured by The entrancing beauty of a face; But there's a beauty far more true. Whose radiant charms shall ne'er dspmA Bnt every inorn and ove be new; It is the beenty of the heart. Beneath the weight of passing years The proudeet form must stoop and band. And all the charms that beauty wears Must fade away and have au end. Tfco sparkling light must leave the oya, And from the oheek the bloom depart; But thero'e a charm that ne'er shall die; It Is the beauty of the heart. Tie this that scatters o'er life's path The gems of happiness and truth; And many charms in age it hath. As in the rosy tnorn of youth. A charm that uroath"* the earth with flows™. And doth the swsotoat joys impart, Which brightly gilds the saddened basis; It is the besuty of the heart. MAY'S MISSION, Pretty May Browning sat in her own little room in her mother's cottage,with pen, paper and ink spread before her, and though her eyes were intently gaa ing through the open window ahe saw neither the bright flowers in the care fully trimmed little garden nor the fleecy clonds sailing in the bine aky on the distant horizon, nor heard the low bnzz of the bee flitting from roee to ram, nor the load song of the robin to hia mate. The sun glinted her hair with flecks of gold, the summer breese ea reused her temples, bnt for onoe the girl was deaf and blind to all save one great purpose, one absorbing thought. A week before she had met Vernon Wilbnr. Picnics were a favorite ram mer dissipation in the qoiet little country town where waa May Brown ing's homo, and it waa at one of theae fate bad thrown her and Vernon Wilbnr together. He was a stranger, spending a few weeks at the small hotel in tho village, whioh occasionally attracted summer guests. At flrst something in his light bine eyes had repelled rather than attracted her; but as they sauntered together through one of the leafy paths, and he had told her how as soon as he hail aoen her he had wished and aaked to be pre sented to her, and oonfided to her how fow people in the world possessed for -him tho subtle chord of sympathy, abe began to beliove she had done him gram iojastioe, and waa quite oonvineed ahe never before had met so charming a man. Of coarse this sweeping assertion did cot inolade Dick Tnren, tor she sad Dick were engtged to be muriti la deed, Dick talked of the tall as the proper time for tbs wedding to take place, though a* yet she hsd not girsa her consent to inch speed. She knew now that it was impossible, for in this one short woek she and Mr. Wilbur had held many long, eon&dee tial talks. lie hsd told her that he wrote, and was s poet—that erery ooe in life shoald hsre s mission, end that be was quite rare she ooald make bar name famous by her peo that he saw the inspiration of poetry ia her eyes If his words were true she had woa derfal difficulty in getting the aeid ns rpirstion any farther than her eyea, for it was at thia task she was oooupaed on this lorely July day. " May 1" called her mother's rotes. "Will you come down, dear, and help mo shell the peas? It is wash day, yea know, and Mary has not time." Hiell the peas I Oh, what a fall frees the clcti Is! And May, am ally so bright sad ready, slowly pat swsy her writing ma " terisls and, with s decided post aa the .. we' t, rid lips, slowly desaeaded tbs stairs. Hir tMk finished, a sudden ibdov (ell athwart the windiw, thrtu{h which was thrust a handsome, class cropped head, and teolanghing, brown eyes ew veyed the interior, while a cheery mice broke the ailenee. "I're come to take yon for a drrve. May, It's too lovely a day for in-doora. Come, get yonr ha;, dear, and let as he off." "Not today, thanks, DiekT" aba • answered, indifferently. "It was eery kind in yon to come, bat I've something I particularly wiah to do thia afternoon.' " Not drive. Slay I Why, what is to be done? I will wait (or yon a little while iI it is important." •' Don't wait. I can't go." " I re hardly seen anything of yon far a week, May. Last night that Wilbwr follow deliberately ontateyed me. He'd here had harder work, but that he made me mad and jealous. How ou yon tolerate him May ? There isn't aa inch of real manhood abont him, yet yon smiled on him, and enoonmged him to stay until I oonld stand it no longer, and left him a bee field." "We saw yonr temper, Dick. Toe need not recnrto it. Mr. Wiiber said it was greatly to be regretted yon were so rash and hot-headed." "Mr. Wiibnrl Confound him I What right has he to express any opinion of me to yon ? If yon lored me, May, yon would not have listened to 11" E For all roply the girl •xasperaiingly m. sbswfged her shoulders, and rose to pat away the peas. When she turned back the face at the window had gone. Fearful of giving km another illustration of his muoh to bo ragrotted disposition he had sought refuge in flight; and she was onoo more free to seek the room which henceforth Vernon Wilbnr had told hor would ap pear In hia eyes, though they uover had beheld it, as the onshrinod bower of a poetess. An hour passed aud only four lines were imprintod on the sheet; but of theae meter and rhythm were qnite perfect, and her heart beat high in ex altation. When again hor mother's voice ro oalled her to this mnndauo sphere— this time, however, to announce a visi tor-Mr. Wilbur was below. Very, very pretty May looked, as with flashed cheeks and bright eyes ahe ran down to meet him. His light bine orbs dilated at the picture. "I have come to ask you to take a stroll with me," he ssid, in his weak, low voioe. •' Bach dvys as this are in spirational, and I am snre in every bnsh and tree yon will And larking some new and beantifnl thought." Ah, if Dick had bnt asked her to go out to seek inspiration she might have responded with as much alacrity as now! So it happened that, roturning from his lonely drive, a little repentant for hia hastineas, and ready to blame his own jealous and impetuous temper for unjust suspicion, ho saw directly in front of him two figures slowly stroll ing along. Ho was not long in recognizing them both, and a great, hot wave of indig nant anger snrged up to his face. Ho was wonderfnlly tempted to leap out iu front of them, and by a vigorous appli- j cation of his whip teach this miserable pretendor a lessoD he would not soon forget. Bnt he resisted tho temptation and drove on, deigning them, as he pasaed, neither word nor glance; but May, catchin? a glimpse of his face, felt a sodden fear. She had never seen Dick—dear old I)iek—weor that look before, snd Mr. Wilbnr, for the rest of their walk, fonnd her very ailent, and it is to be feared that neither from tree nor shrub nor the radiant sunset did she gather in ■wration. And though Mrs. Browning's delicious teae were far more inviting than the rej-ast spread at "the hotel, he waa not biddan to enter in and feast. Yet Msy had condemned herself thoerby to a long, lonely evening. If Diok bad oome in all might have been explained; bnt Dick, white and miaarable, was bending over hia desk writing a letter, which, thongh savoring nothing of pootry, cost him as infinite labor as all her inspirationa. Many a sheet he began and never finished, be fore, at laat, a few cart linos, which at aacat hid the pain their birth had given him, were loft to stay and reach their destination. Next morning May found them be side bar breakfast piste. These were all the words they contained: "I hare been blind. May, bnt I see now. I know now why yon oonld not drive with mo josterdsy, an 1 why yon Ist me go awsy the night before. You'll forgire me that I didn't recognize the trnth yon have tried to tell me in every thing bnt speech, and so the sooner given yon back yonr freedom. If you'll keep the few gifts I have sent yon, I shook! be very glad, for they are hate ful enough in my sight, and the weather is somewhat too warm to build a fire for their funeral pyre." Tins was all Bnt for the last phrase, born of the great bitterness of a yonng heart. May might have relented and seat Lack a few baas which wonld have ksonght ber lover to her feet; bnt tbeee hardened her. Within an hour she had gathered to gether every token of his love; then slipping from her finger the pearl ring wbieh | bad betokened their engage meat, aha pat that with the rent, and dispatched them to him without a word. •* Mr. Wilbnr aays that every woman has a mission," she told herself, lest she should fancy her heart ached. "Nothing now need interfere with my work. I shall write a great poem; I sea make my own experienoe its foun dation, and so send it into the world to teeeh other women man's perfidy." "I have broken my engagement," ahe said that evening to Mr. Wilbnr, when he sailed; bnt the shadows hid the sadden flash of triumph in his light, steely eyes. It was strange, ahe thought, as the days wore on, bnt Vernon Wilbur's attraction for her bad fled. Somehow bo wearied her. Hbe wished he wonld not come so often; bnt she did not oare to offend him, for he was to glvo her the name of tho editor to whom her precious poem, now rapidly approach ing completion, was to bo intrusted. A', last ahe had pat t} it the final correo lion, the last H op, signing her initials with infinite precision and care. Hbe had tasted some of the first frnits lof fate re triumphs, when she htd reed it to him in its completed form, and he had listened with upturned eyes snd bated breath. "Your mission soon will bo ful filled," he said to her; "but oh, May, what might wo not aooomplish to gether two auoh poetio minds! I would not soparate you from your mother, dear, if you would become my wife; but here, in this pretty oottage, wo would be happy together. May I hope, my love? Will you cast your lot with mine?" But May had flod shuddering from his extended arms; and a few hours later thore followed him to his hotel tho hsstily scrawled note, which he rosd, cursing his fste, since the pretty nest ho had so carefully striven for, hf learned, all luxuriously feathered as it was, never might be his. Ponniless and love-lorn he must again return to daily toi* for daily bread, too mnoh time having been squandered in a vain pur suit for food and shelter, with the ne cessary accompaniment of a wife. There was now nothing left for May bnt to find consolation in her mission. With trembling hands but hopeful heart she dispatched her poem to its destination. Days merged into weeks and sho hoard nothing from it, nntil at last she sent a tiny note asking for sumo news of it. The reply was brief: Her sacred work had long sinoe been consigned to the waste psper basket, condemned a* rubbish, and unreturued to ber for want of return postage. Tho blow wat terrible. She had not even kept a copy, and never could she gather up courage to make a second effort. With the heartless letter in her bauds she flew to tho woods, where, secure from j interruption she might fling herself face 1 downward apon the sward and sob out some of her heart's grief. So wrapped was sho in her own misery ; that she heard no step approaching | nntil some one called her name. , It was Dick, her loror, who stood bo ! side her. Ah, her lover now no longer ! " Msy 1" he said. " What is it child ? Will you not tell me? Poor little girl 1 What is troubling yon?" The tender ton i was more than sho I could bear. llow It happonod she did not know, but in a moment she found herself sobbing, not toars of wretched ness, but tears of joy; for Dick's arms were about her and her head was on Dick's heart. Hho tried then to make him under stand some of her hnmiliiting oonfee sion; bnt ho would not listen to it— only a few printed: A crocodile stole • t*by, "in the days when animals conld talk," and waa about to make a dinner of it. The poor mother begged piteonsly for her child. "Tell me the troth," aaid the crocodile, "end 70a •bell hero your baby again.'' The mother thought it over, and at last aaid: "Too will not give him back." "la thia the troth yon mean to tell?" aaked the crocodile. " Tea," replied the mother. M Then by oor agreement, I keep him," added the crocodile, "and if it ia a falaebood, then I have alao won." Bhe aaid: "No, yon are wrong. If I told the troth yon are bound by your procaine; and if a falaebood, it ia not a falaebood nntil yon hare giron me my child.*' Now, the qneation ia who won 7 We are not certain aa to who won, bnt if the crooodile waa hungry we are willing to back the opinion that the baby loat. Accounting for a Deficiency. At the end of the year, when an Ohio bank oaahier could not make hia booka balance, the preeident aat down with him and aaid: "Mr. Hymonde, it ia evident that yon have made a clerical error oome where." "Bnt I have verified my figurea over and over again," pro tea ted the oaahier. ".Taat ao, bnt yet yon bat* over looked the error. According to your booka thia bank ia 1700.22 abort?" " Yea, air." "And according to my private mem oranda yon are e 9400 trotting home end e 9000 diamond pin ahead; while the rate probably ate up the tireniy-two ce.ta. Please correct the error and for • niah a clean balanoe sheet." Mr. Bymonda icn't a bank oaahier any mora. Hia health waa ao bad that ha had to hare outdoor employment. MOKAL AMI Kt.LIUIOUM. Varkrarssn. It ia In our daily assooiationa with other people, whether in aociety, in business or at home, that we are in the deepest need of forbearance. We are irritated at many things, and seem goaded on to utter bitter words, or spiteful allusion, or stinging repartees. We see error so plainly that we long to ornsh it out by violent means, or wo see faults in others which seem to merit our severest rebuke. Or, we are suffering under some real or fancied unkindnoss or injustice which wo burn to resent, and which appears to u8 to warrant the sternest indignation. The forbearance which, while enduring these heart-burnings, can yet enforce silenoe on tho lips until the hot emo tions have had time to cool, and have been brought to the oar of reason and judgment, command our respect and admiration. UII*UB Xpiti aid 5.1 M. There are 108,000 Dunkards in the United States. The Methodist Protestant church in the United Btatee has a membership of 118,405. The American Bible Bsciety distrib ated over 100,000 Bible* among emi grant* daring the patt rear. The Chnrch of England temperance society! report* .'130,687 members in twenty-fire diooe*e*, 4 against 302,610 members last year in twenty diocese*. A rigorous movement t or the evange lization of the people is being made in Geneva, Hwitzerland, halls being used for the purpose in different parts of the city. Tho Iter. J. H. Blaster has left the Congregationalisti in Miami because be has changed his views as to sanctifica tion, believing in it now as an instanta neous experience. The Methodist Episcopal church, on an average, organizes ten new Sunday schools, dedicate* fourteen new churches and adds two new parsonage* each week during the year. Dr. E. T. Baird and Dr. It. L Dab ney are publishing articles in tho South ern Presbyterian paper* to prove that the oonstitntion.of the Southern church was meant only for "a church of white ministers." Tne king ot Siam, tbougb lea* than thirty years old, is said to be oae of the moat enlightened and progressive mon arch* now living, and though a pro nounced Buddhist, is extremely liberal toward all other faith*. There is in the Congressional Library a Bible which is thought to be from four to five hundred years old. It is written in Latin upon vellum, and is embellished with 146 mtnatore paint, ing* and more than 1.200 illuminations, which are aa brilliant now as when ex ecnted. It cost 82 200. A census of church attendance in St. Louis shows that the total on a recent Sunday of churchgoers was 119,493. Of these, 85,171 were Ituman Catholics, 6,926 Presbyterians, 7,420 Methodists, 3,651 Lutherans and 4,515 Baptists. In the Sunday-school* there was an attendance of 23,102. A bold Baptist missionary in St. Petersburg recently baptized the cashier of a great railway in a swimming bath of the Imperial bank, and in the presence of the officials. He seems to have great influence with the Russian official*. He ha* mads an appeal to Genera! Iguatieff in behalf of sailed Baptists. Queer Habits of Ants. Writing upon ante e naturalist re marks that among the habits and cus toms of some species ia one whieh he dares not set down as a mark of civili sation lest ha ahonld incur the eonsnre of the Anti-Slavery society. Jt ia, however, true that certain species of ante maka systematic raids upon their neighbors, in order to rob them of their larva- and pnpm, which they oonvey to their own nest, and bring np with care aa their own ohildren, in order that they may become their slaves, and the •laves moat frequently selected are bleok ante, although the slave makers are not vary particular. One species of ants is simply a war. rior; its mandibles era not adapted for working, bnt are excellent aa weapons; and it has become so dependent npon He slaves that it oan neither attend to its own larvro nor feed or clean itself. To deprive this species of its slaves wonld be equivalent to oondemning it to extinction. Strenge to eey, on the return of the warrior ants from an ex pedition if tbey bring no pnpm the •laves reoeivs them with threatening gestures and seem inclined to resist their entrance; bnt if the warriors re turn loaded with captives the slaves hasten to careas them end relieve them of their loads, to whioh they attend with great oare. Several years ago the bleaching pow der made in the world was 6ft,000 tons per annum, wheroaa it is now over 150,- 000 tons. By thia increase every sheet of white peper and every yard of ealioo mado in the world have been cheapened. TOPIC* OF THE DAT. A statistical abstract Just issued by the United BUtes treasury department contain* statistics of the annual produc tion of gold and silver in the United States from 1857 to 1881 inclusive. These flgurea show that the production of gold baa declined from $55,000,000 in 1857 to $80,500,000 in 1881, and that the production of silver baa increased from nothing in 1857 to $42,000,000 in 1881. The total production of gold and silver for 1881 was $78,000,000, au in crease of $8,000,000 over the year pre vious. The largest production recorded in any one year was in 1878, when over 800,000,000 was produced of gold. It is estimated that there are in Lon don at the presont time no fewer than 25,(XX) unemployed mechanics, artisans, clerks and unskilled laborers, and that throughout tho country there is a float ing imputation of 50,000 vagrants. Tho depth of misery reached by torno of these unfortunate people is brought to light by an inquest lately held on the body of the wife of a London watch maker. A daughter, aged nineteen, testified that there were seven in the family, and that their food consisted chiefly of bread and lard and tea. They all slept in one bed, the father, mother and five children, their only covering being the clothes they wore during the day. Sometimes they went a day or two without food. Mrs, Boecber told an interviewing correspondent of the Indianapolis Srn tirvl so many interesting things tho othor day that ho wrote two columns about it. Some of the incidents related may psss into biography. Her bus band's first congregation st Lawrence burg, Ind., consisted of twenty-four women and one man. "Henry'' ex pelled the man for unworthiness. Henry received six dollars s week, and Mrs. Boecber hired two rooms over a stable, where tbey began housekeeping. Their only article of furniture was the bed upon which Henry had slept while at collego. " When I got here to Brooklyn," concluded Mrs. Beecber, " the public began to get my husband away from me ; be couldn't help it, of oonrsc ; he is one of the most modest of men, and flnsbos now when he meets strangers." An exploring expedition has left Ban Francisco for Alaska, under the direc tion of Edward Bchieffelin, who ha* been a practirwl miner for twenty five years, snd has amassed an ample fortnne among the mountains. He intends to ascend the great Yukon river aa far as possible, and for that purpose be has constructed a small stern-wheel steam er, which will be carried upon the dock of a schooner to the month of the river. He has taken three companions with him, and made all the necessary ar rangements for a three years' cruise. He will establish a base of supplies at the point where the Tananan empties into the Yukon, and thence make pros pecting tours by land and water in every direction. The chief purpose of this expedition is to discover mineral treasure*, but it can scarcely fail to be otherwise important if the generous plans npon which it is projected are carried out. Mr. Bchieffelin believes that Alaska is upon the " mineral belt which encircles the world, and the proof is strong enough to take the chances." There waa an extraordinary scene at the Grand Opera honae in Cincinnati one afternoon not long ago. A gentle man, apparently thirty-five yeara of age, waa not red walking aronnd the lobby intently looking et the an lience, aa if aeercbing for aome one. Hia manner waa aomewhat excited, end it wea aeay to be aeen that he did not go there to witness the performance. All et once, juat after the oloee of tke Brat act, he quickly peeaed down into the dreaa circle, and taking a handsome, well dreaaed lady by the ear, compelled her to go oat with him. Bhe waa literally led oat by the ear. The hnaband states that he has been married to the lady ten rears; that she has an inordinate inclination to go to matinee perform ances, thereby neglecting her home and ohildren ; that he endnred thia as long at he could, and then told her if ahe went to ths matinee agiin be woold leed her out by the ear, and ha simply kept hia word. He furthermore ex pressed great affection for hia wife, bnt eaid he was determined to prevent her farther demoralisation. The parties are connected with eioallent families and stand well in social circles. The lady ia young, aooompliahsd and intel ligent. Commenting upon an important mat ter. • New York peper obaervee: " Borne statemeate a hich have just been made by Dr. Williem IL Bmitb, health ofH oer of the port of New York, ere ex tremely interesting. A lsrge number of our cltiaena, belonging msinly to the lowest classes, however, are prejudiced •gainst vaccination, whilcat the same time they believe the smallpox is bred in this country by the immense number of emigrants eontinnalty arriving. It is wall to learn, therefore, on good authority, that out of noarly three hun dred end fifty thousand emigrant* who entered thin port daring the ten months ending April 30,1882, only eleven cases of smallpox developed among them daring the passage. Thi is an exceed ingly small proportion. It prove* that the measure* taken by the various tranaatlentio passenger nteamabip lines to prevent the spread of thi* dreadful disease among person* intending to emigrate were prudently suggested and effectively applied. It will therefore bo seen both that vaccination is an ex cellent preventive, and that the extreme feeling against emigrant*, because they are supposed to propagate smallpox, is nothing bat an ignorant prejudice that should be immediately dismissed." In applying for an increase of her pension from twenty-five dollars to fifty dollar* s month, Mr*. Priscills D. Twiggs, of Baltimore, now in her eighty-first year, *bow* an honorable title to the bounty of the government. Bho write*: " i imagine few have stronger claim* upon the liberality of tho government than I have, every malo relative having been in the United States servioe; my grandfather, Com modore Decatur, Sr., having been in the French war ; bis two son* also held commissions in our navy. Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr., distinguished himself by recapturing and burning the frigate Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli, in which engagement hi* brother, James S. Decatur, was killed. Again, during the war with Great Britain in 1812, he fur ther distinguished himself by capturing tbe British frigate Macedonia. My father. Captain McKaight, was in tbe marine corps at the time of hi* death. Both my brothers were lieutenants in the navy. The elder, Lieutenant Stephen U. McKnight, was with Com modore Porter on board the Essex, and wa* afterward lost at sea on board the Unite'! States sloop of-war Wasp. As before stated, my husband fell at the storming of Chapultepeo, and my only son, George T. Tariggs, was killed in an engagement one month previous, hs being on bis way to his uncle, Oeneral D. E. *1 wigga, as his aid." The Senate pension committee reported the appli cation favorably. An Arctic Tratr<-dy. With Horn sound begins the interact in Spitsbergen, m the place wu the aceno of u cruel • tragedy a* was ever enacted. The atory baa in it all the dramatic element* of a thrilling novel of the old school, and finds a fitting denouement in the mines of Siberia. On one of the innermost island* of Horn eonnd, a few year* ago, were fonnd a heap of nine skulls, said to be those of a Russian crew mur dered by a party of whaler*. These murderer* were never discovered, but another and atill more remarkable dieoovery waa made in the year 1835 by a Norwegian see captain, near thia place, and it ia of this I intend to tell. It ia the commonest occurrence tor ahipe that venture up here to loae one or more men a trip, and ao when the other member* of the small crew* —my fire or *iz men—return borne and re port that tbey have loet comrades, no particular atteotion i* paid to the new* beyond the little circle widowed by the lost men. It happened acme where about 1849 that tbe crew of • Russian whaler mad* their way bwck to Archangel and report ed that they had loat their oaplain and two men on Hpitzbergen through an ao cident, detail* of which were given. The captain and his men were moaned and in a little while the affair waa for gotten . In 1853. however, tbe Norwe gian captain in question, while oat banting for reindeer, found three ha man skeletons, and betide them a gun from which the etock was rotting. On tbe barrel of the gnn were ecratchad a number of inaeriptiona in Raasiaa, which the Norwegian waa nnable to make oat. Ho brought the gaa home with him, aod aent it to Archangel, where it waa found to contain the hietory at the captain and the two men. previously reported aa having been killed by accident. Tbe inscription told how the owner of the gnn and his two men had been basely deaertad by the other* of the crew, for whom they were oat procuring food, and left to die of exposure. Thoee of the crew then alive ware arrested and sentenced for life to work in the mines of Siberia. The poor captain and his man moat have Buffered terribly, for, from tbe dates on the gnn—the last of which was March A—it waa learned that they bad survived a greater part of the winter. Estimated oost of building railroads in different countries, per mile: Eng land. *130,000 ; Prance, 1100.000; Roa ns, $135,000 ; Austria, $109,000 ; Oar many, $105,000. Italy, $100,000; United States, $58,000; There have been 8,802 persona in dicted in Inland during the present year, and the total number of arrests under the coercion sot has been con siderably over 900.