Hnnshlae. Broad and bright the sanahina On tho terrace lay, Touching with an equal ray. In equal gladness to illume Violet boil and yew tree's gloom. Yet, within tho silont room Dimly rose tho day. Merrily thn sunshine Caught the upper pane, But as yot it strove in vain. With its glitter to surprise Tito yearning in tho lady'a eyes, Who, lonely 'neath tho sweet spring skies, Fought life's long frot and strain. Lower crept the sunskino Down the lattioe tali. Till it saw its radiance fall All along the silent floor, Past tho heavy, close-abut door, Through the room that knew no mors Light step or cheery call. Th> triumphant sunshine, Flooding all it saw. Laughed at list her gaze to draw. From where the phantoms of the past Au eternal shadow east; And her chances fell ut last, As in breathless awe. Where the glorious sunshine Danced and shone and glowed. Whore the treasured picture showed Tho tall cross that stood above All her best of lifo and love, And 'mid hor bitter sorrow strove To point the higher road. "And," said tho happy sunshine, "Oh, heavy eyes that mourn, Oh, heart from its chief moorings torn, Look at the joy with which He dowers Tho wakening earth and budding flowers; Trust to tho Qod of sunny hours. Nor daro in griefs keen scorn. "To turn away from sunshine;| Nor in the sense of loss. With reckless hand aside to ton The comfortiug through Nature given, Tho trials of our way to leaven. See how the brightest glom from heaven Clingi longest round the cross." —All the Year Hound. A RECEIPT IN FELL The tins had keen all scoured nntil she could see her face, or grotesque caricatures of her face, in each and every one of them ; the window panes polished until they sparkled, or had sparled—for it was now twilight—in the bright Jane sunshine ; the silver burnished until neither spot nor speck marrod its mild luster; the loaves of bread baked until each crispy crust took on the right shade of tempting brown ; and Molly was scrubbing the only unscrubbed corner of the kitchen, when Miss Cameron's deep, harsh, precise voice came to her from the din ing-room : " Mary, are you not through yet?" "Almost, ma'am," answered Molly. "I think it is high time you were quite," declared the voice, " You must make haste. We are going to the lecture this evening, Miss Georgette and I; and as Mr. Malcolm also wishes to go out, wo will be obliged to lock up the house. Therefore it is necessary that you should leave as soon as pos sible." "Yes, ma'am," said Molly, meekly, and finished her scrubbing with her tears falling fast and thiok. Poor little girl! she had tried so hard to please her mistresses, or rathor her mistress for Miss Georgette was but a reflection of her elder sister—and her efforts had been met with a grim silence that be tokened a begrudged satisfaction, until the last few weeks; that is, in fact, until Mr. George Maloolm came there. Mr. Malcolm was a sort of step-brother to the Misses Cameron (his father, a wid ower with two boys, had married their mother, a widow with two girls), and they inheriting nothing in the way of property from their own father, he gen erously made them an allowanoe from the moderate fortune left him by his. Generonsly and forgivingly—for they had not rendered a tithe of the respect, to say nothing of affection, which was his due, to their indulgent and kind hearted step-father, choosing to look upon their mother's second marriage as an insult to the memory of the pa rent whose not at all amiable character istics had been his only legacy to them. The cottage in which they lived, sit uated in the prettiest part of Meadow ville (the furniture therein !>eing their own, the bequest'of a maternal grand mother), belonged to Mr, George; and here he had come in search of solitude and quiet, for the first time in twelve years or more, to spend a month or two in thinking of and arranging plans for starting a large business in a neighbor ing city. And, as I hsve already inti mated, things had changed ranch for the worse with Molly, the servant-maid, sinoe his arrival. The grim silenoe had given place to most open fanlt-finding, when Mr. Maloolm was not within hear ing. The coffee was too strong, the tea too weak, the chickens underdone, the ■teaks bnrned, the eggs boiled too hard, the rooms badly swept, the shirts poorly ironed; and all these complaints, with many more, the elder spinster, con firmed by the younger, gave her to un derstand originated with the gueet " What a hard man to pleaso, he mnst be r Molly said to herself many times. " And yet he has one of the handsomest and kindest faces I ever caw; and he spake right pleasantly to me the first day he oame, and even offered me hie hand (how Miss Cameron did frown I}; but I pretended not to see it. for I know it was not my place to shake bands with him. It is strango he should have become so fractious. Qo was no good and merry and kind when I was a little girl. I've heard fathor say ofton he'd rather shoe a horse for him than for any ono else in the village." And then she would fall to thinking how grand he used to look to her childish eyes when ho oame riding up on his bay mare to tho smithy, where she spent half her time watching her father at tho forge. And ho always bronght her a gay piotnre book, or a protty ribbon, or a box of candies, or a bright now silver pieoo—one Christmas it was a gold one—and claimed a kirn (good gracious! how hor cheeks flu: hod ut tho remombrnnoe ?) for payment when he rode away again. How happy, how very happy, she had been then, with that dear father and dear old Aunt Nanny I—so happy that she had scarcely ever felt tho loss of the mother who had died in giving her birth. But when Molly was flftoen, the blacksmith, so strong and ruddy that it Boomed impossible pain or siok ness could ever come near him, fell sick, and after lingering, sorely crip pled, for nearly two years, died, leaving nothing to his darling bat hard work. Yes, there was one alternative : to be come Mrs. Jske Willow, and mistress of the forge again; bnt Jake was a rongh, vulgar fellow, and Molly, inher iting the delicate tastes and gentle ways of her mother (who had been a shy, pretty young governess before she mar ried tho handsomo blacksmith), shrank from the loud voice aLd rude laughter of her wonld be husband. And so, in preference to accepting Jake's offer, she became—and Ilcaven knows this was a bard enough thing to do—maid-of all work in the cottage of tho Misses Cam eron. Poor little Molly! prettier than many a princess, with lovely, black fringed gray eyes, and hair of tho very darkest brown—hair that would curl in spite of her, to Miss Cameron's great displeasure. "If I had such untidy hair," that lady would often dt clare, glancing approvingly into the mirror at the flat dyed bands that made a trian gle of her high narrow forehta , "I'd shaTe my head and "We'd certainly shave our heads," would echo Miss Georgette. The kitchen floor finished, the ruga shaken and returned to their places, the bread put away in the big atone jar in the cupboard, Molly sought her own room (which, to tell the truth, was to room at all, but a corner of the gar ret rudely partitioned oft, with only a small skylight to admit light and air —there were rooms, empty, unused rooms, in the attic, but "they were much too good for a servant," Miss Cameron said ; (and "very much too good for a servant, '* agreed her sister) —to make ready for her flitting. Molly looked around it as she tied her straw hat over her rebellious tresses, and again the tears filled her eyea. It had not been a happy of rest to her, but it had been a place of rest and a shelter, and sho had been glad to have it, fearing to leave it less worse luck lay beyond. And she would not have been com pelled to leave it had it not been for that unfortunate mirror, and the un ceasing complaints of the old bachelor. Oldbasholorl Why, he couldn't be so very old alter all, for he was only one and twenty (she was then between Ave and six) whon he gave her the ribbons and books and silver pieoes, and she gave him the kisses. Bat the sound of closing chatters broke in on her reverie, and reminded her that her departure was waited for, and taking her handle in her band, she ran quickly and lightly downstairs to the parlor, where the maiden ladies sat erect and stern, their bonnets al ready on in readiness for the lectors. "I'm going now," said Molly, stand ing in the doorway, her sweet, pathetio face, with its pleading gray eyes and quivering lips, in no way touching what her mistresses were ploased to call their hearts. " Good by, ma'am. Good by Miss Georgette." But the only reply she got was: " Beer in mind that you are atill in debted to us eight and twenty dollar*, ir, however, yon should prefer to por chaae a mirror yonraelf in place of the one broken by yon, we will oonaent to receive it, provided it ia in every way ae good aa that left na by onr grand mother. And in that caae we will agree to refund the eight doliara, yonr laat month's wages, which we have retained as the first installment of yonr debt, which is really mnoh more than could have been expected of as," " Oh, yea, indeed, very mnoh more than conld have been expeoted of as," murmured Hiss Georgette. " Por snob grots carelessness Mi** Cameron went on. " Indeed, ma'am," interrupted Molly, her cheeks flaming and her eyes spark ling, "as I have told yon, I never touched it; I waan't even near It. I was sweeping the other side of the parlor when it fell, and the oord it hung by was all motb-eaten. and had parted just in the middle, u I ahowed yon ot the time." " —Shonld be punished," continued Miss Cameron, not paying the slightest attention to the girl. " And one word more. Please to remember that we hare your signature to an acknowledg ment that you consider yourself re sponsible for the breakage." "You frightened me so that I scarce ly knew what I was signing," said Molly. " But as I hare promised, I will pay you, for it shall never be said that my father's daughter broke her word. I'd give you the few dollars I have saved if I had net to keep them for my own support until I get another place. Poor Aunt Nanny can only give mo shelter, for, as yon know, sho has depended almost entirely on me for food and clothes ever since my father died." " Yes, and a very ridiculous thing for both of you," snapped Miss Cameron, with a cold snap. "Bhe might much better soli the hut she lives in for kind ling wood, and go to the poorhouse, and you might much better save your wages to pay for the things yon break. For break yon will to tho end of your days. I never saw a person with snob fly-away hair as yours that was not vain, careless and frivolous. You may go." "Yen, indeed, yon may go," added Misa Georgette. And the poor child went ont into the road, homeless and almoat friendle with a ahadow on her fair yonng face and a pain in her heart. Bnt ahe had only tnrned into (he long lane that led to old Nanny'a collage when aome one came qnickiy to her aide, and aaid in a kindly voice, "Molly! poor little Molly!" and there waa Mr. Malcolm. And Molly, in her grief, thinking only of him aa the friend of her childhood, who had known her aa the darling of the kindeat of fathers, flung her bundle down, and bnrst into a passionate flood of tears. " They were hard on me, yonr aiatera, Mr. Malcolm," ahe sobbed—"very hard on me. I did my best for them. I worked—and I am not very strong, thongh I am a blacksmith's daughter— from morning till night, and yet I could not please them. And it was not my fault about the mirror. It waa not—it waa not—it waa not. Thongh Misa Cameron inaists that I stopped sweep ing to look at my curly hair—l can't help its curling; I did everything to make it straight; 1 tied it back so tight, over and over again, that my head ached aw/nl— and knocked it with the broom. She waa a little better before you came; bnt after yon came and c >m plained so much about the tea, and tho coffee, and your shirts, and—and every thing— '* " I complain!" exclaimed her list ener, breaking in on her rather con fused narration of her wrongs. " Why, I never complained of anything; How could I ?—there waa nothing to be com plained of." " She said yon did. But I beg par don, sir"—suddenly remembering the difference between the candy-and-kiaaes time and the present. " Hho is your sister, and my tronbles are nothing to to yon." " She is my sister an extremely long atep off," ho replied, gravely; •• sad yonr tronbles are a great deal to me ; and furthermore, I think I see s way— a pleasant way—ont of them. Let mo walk with you to yonr Annt Nanny's, and there, with her to advise us, we'll talk matters over." "Oh, it's such a poor place, Mr. Mal colm I Miss Osmeron called it a hut, and said it was only fit for kindling wood." "I've been in mnch poorer places, Molly," said he, and picking up her bundle he walked by her aide to the old woman's cottage. Two weeks passed by. A poor drudge from the workhonse, whose ehief (in feet whose sole) recommendation was " no wages," had taken Holly's piece in the Misses Cameron's kitchen. Mr. Malcolm had gone away on bnsiness directly after coming, and on the even ing appointed for his retnra the two sisters, attired in dresses of dnll gray, unrelieved by a single touch of color, sat (everything in the honse being in heart-chilling, dreadful atony order), one at each parlor window, awaiting his arrival. " He most be ooming; I think I hear wheels," said the elder, in her naoal precise tones. " Wheels," repeated her Bister. And "wheels" they were, bnt not the wheels of a carriage, bnt those of a track, and this track, on which lay a long wooden box, stopped before the cottage door. "A mirror for Miss Cameron," the driver called out as he jumped down. "A mirror 1" repeated the spinster, nnsble to restrain a gesture of sorprise. And "A mirror !' said Miss Georgette, with another gesture of surprise. " Yes, ms'am; from New York. Where is ft to be taken ?" "First unpack it ont here," com manded tho lady, recovering her self possession. " I can't have the honse littered up with splinters and shavings." " No, indeed," chimed in Miss Geor gette, also recovering her self posses sion. "Bplinters and shavings 1" Bo tho box was unpacked at the road aide, and the mirror taken from it proved to be t>etter and handsomer in every respect than that it had been sent to replace. "I've brought wire to hang it with," said the man, as he carried it into the house; "so there'll be no danger from moths this time." "M oths 1" said Miss Cameron, glaring at him. And " Moths 1" eohoed her sister, also glaring. And they both continued to glare, as though called upon to superintend a piece of work highly repugnant to their feelings, un til the mirror was hung and tho driver again in his place on the track. "Of course George sent it," said Miss Cameron, when the man had driven away. " But Mary Brown must pay for the other all the same. Our having this makes no difference in re gard to the agroement with her." "No difference in regard to tho agreement with her," assented Miss Georgette—when who shonld walk in, in a gray silk walking dress, a bnnch of crimson flowers at her throat, and another in her belt, and the most co quettish gray hat, adorned with more crimson flowers, but Molly herself I "Good-evening," Bhe said, smilingly. "I have called for a receipt in full." receipt in full I And for what, pray? Dive you brought tho money T asked her whilom mistress. And, " Have yon brought the money ?" echoed her other whilom mistress. "No, I havo not brought the money," answered Molly, "but I have sent you a mirror that more than answers all your requirements." "You?" from both sisters at once. And again, for the second time in one short hour, they were guilty of being surprised, and letting their surprise be seen. " Yes I. I have the bill with me. A receipt in full, if you please." Miss Cameron arose, walked in a stately manner—Molly following her— to her desk in the dining-room, seated herself, took ]>en, ink and paper, and began; "Received from Mary B—" when " Stop a moment," said Molly; "my name is no longer Mary Brown." " And what may it be?' inquired Miss Cameron, regarding her with lofty eon tempt. " I'll answer that question," answered Mr. Malcolm, suddenly appearing, and passing hia arm round the slender gray silk waist, thereby crushing tho bunch of roses in the natty belt-"Mrs. George Malcolm." The pen fell from Miss Cameron's band, and for the flrat time in bcr life that estimable woman went into hys terics, whither her equally estimable sister immedistely followed bor. And Molly, taking her leave at that moment, never reooived any receipt, in full or otherwise, after all.— Harprr'n Woelly. Bird* and Elc ctrlr MJitx. Denver ia largely lighted by elec tricity. Oat toward the suburbs are several lotty towera, upon the tope of which are powerful electric light*. They are risible twenty or thirty miles distant, and for a circuit of half a mile or more in every direction they give a light almost like day. These towers are an open framework of squared timbers and iron rods, built like an oil well derrick, but rising to a height of two hundrod feet. About ten days ago one of the evening papers staled that a great nntnber of birds were being killed about one of these towers, speaking of the destruction as "hnndreda," and demanding that the electrio lights be abolished if they had to be maintained at the expense of bird lifo. The electrio light com pany claimed that it was unjustly at tacked. I bare since investigated the facts to some extent, and am of the opinion that the very bright light was the cause of destruction. The slaugh ter occurred mainly on one night, to some eitent the succeeding night, and none is reported since. It is stated by persons living in the vicinity tbst on the night in qneition the light was excessively bright Birds were flitting abont, twittering and singing all night. They flew against windows that were lighted. In the morning dead ones were found in the neighborhood of the tower ti the estimated number of three hundred. Others were crippled, with broken wings or otherwiee disabled. The dead were braised and lacerated, with many bones broken. A wild duck was found to have its breast mashed to a pulp. In some the breast was lain open as though splil by a knife.— fetter to Forttl and Strum. A Shoemaker's Advice. • A sensible shoemaker, who made a large fortune by the sale of an exten sively advertised shoestring of his own invention, wrote the folloelog stance as advioa to those who wish to snooeed in business: "It you srs wit© and wish to rlaa, Then pitch right fan and adrertUa; If you are not, then ait down aot, And l*t your Basin era iro to pot," CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS. The horseshoe crab grinds its food between its thighs. One-half the bnman family die under seventeen years of age- There is now a new wine in France wkioh is manufactured out of the com mon beet root. The moa, or dinorsis, was a huge bird of New Zealand, the largest specimen! being throe times the size of an ostrich. In 1584 "cages and stocks," for the punishment of offenders, were ordered to be set up in every ward in the city of London. Hippocrates, born at Cos, 400 B. C-, was the first person to apply himself to the study of physio as the sole business of bis life. The island of Ceylon and the king doms of Pegu and Burmah contain al most the only rnbyand sapphire mines of the world. James Watt congratulated himself that one of his steam cylinders only lacked three eighths of an inch of being truly cylindrical. It was the Enporor Charles V. who invented tho title of Majesty," sovereigns bavin* previously been ad dressed as "your Grace." Tho Human* held peculiar view# about ducks; tbey ate only the head and breast, the remainder being, according to Martial, the cook's perquisite. In llussia, where card playing is carried on to a great extent, the manu facture of the cards is a government monopoly, and there is only one factory, from which 24 000 packs are turned onl daily or over 7,000,000 a year. It is suggested that tho derivation of London is from the Celtic Luan, the moon, ard dun, a city on a hill. That it was " the city of the moon'' is all the more probable from the tradition that the site of St. Paul's wm formerly that of a temple of Diana. The value of all farms in the United States is estimated at |10,195 800,045; value of farm implements at $406,516,- 002, live stock, i 1.500,487,187; fertiliz er# purchased and used in 1879, $27,- 593,850; fences, cost of bu\diog and repairing in 1870, $77,765,723 A great oomet, believed to be that of Halley, appos ed in England in 1066, the year of the Norman Invasion. It was looked on as the forerunner of the conquest, and produced universal alarm. "Tho new stsr means a new king," was a common expression of the day. Governments previous to and daring tho middle ages have been in most cases hoarders of metallic wealth, a result of the theory that the masses bad no right to property. As far down as tho reign of Frederick, of Prussia, Henry VL, of England, and Henry IV., of France, ac cumulation of public wealth marks the progress of most of the kingdoms of Ear ope. Poaching in Enrland. The penalty for poaching varies with the natare of the off >ose; the season of the year, the hours of the day or night, even religion, ffecting it As for in stance, taking game on a Hnnday or Christmas day subjects the taker to a fine of £5, and for killing game birds daring the "close" season the fine is £1 per head of those killed. These pen alties, however, are not special to poachers, the owners of the game itself being liable to them. The laws that more affect the poacher come under the heading of " Trespass," and he is termed a " trespasser in pur sait of game." When caught so tres passing in the day (whieh is defined as " from the beginning of the last honr before snnrise and oonclnding with the expiration of the first honr after sun set") the penalty is £5 and costs. If the trespsas be by night it is punished not by fine bat imprisonment, and the term is accumulative; for a first offense, three months, with sureties required at its expiration; for a second, six months, with double the amount in money securities not to of fend again; and in case of a third or farther trespass it ia treated as a " mis demeanor." And if the trespasser re fuse giving his name to those who have the right to demand it of him, off* re sistance to them or use violence, the punishment aesnmes a still more seri ous phase, especially if he be a known poaober; and above all, where there are several acting together and armed. As may be supposed, gamekeepers and policemen are empowered to make summary arrest of those they may sus pect of being poacher#, and were this power confined to its legitimate pur pose there would be no greet harm in it. Unfortunately, however, it ia not thus restricted, but too often stretched and abused, especially by the police man. Exalting in the poeseosion of this almost irresponsible authority, 1M also glories in soaking a display of it; the eonseqnenee bring that many a poor laborer returning wearied from his day's work, with no more thought of game steeling than the man in the moon, is brought up by hail as of highwayman to "stand end deliver."-- Oapiain Mayne, Raid. SCIENTIFIC HCRAPB. It ia reported that the potato-bug has made its appearance in England, bnt not in a very alarming nnmber, Colored spots on decaying food are canned by animal or vegetable growth. Phosphor bronze ban an electric con ductivity two and a half time* that of iron or steel and one-third that of con per. Dr. Elliott Cone's new list of the birds of North America mentions 888 species. Only about 500 were known in Audubon's time. The mbr, sapphire and topaz are simply modifications of one substance, alumina, which, as clay, forms a great part of the earth's surface. Scientist* now conoede that part* of Kansas and the adjoining States of Mis souri, lows and Nebraska were once oovered by a fresh water lake. The longest span of wire in the world is used for a telegraph in India, over the river Kistnan, between Bezorah and Sectanagrum. It ia more than 6,000 feet long, and is stretched between two hills, each of which is 1,200 feet high. Ants have boon known to build mud stables, where aphides are kept as milch cows. Being fond of a milky flnid wLich exudes from two tubes on the bodies of the aphides, tbey rob the tubes with their antonnm to produce a (low of milk. The gathering in of cloth stretched in large bleach-fields is a new European application of the electric railway. 'I he railway constructed has twenty-one tranches, each about a third of a mile in length. The pieces ol cloth are connected at the ends sows to form long lengths, and the railway truck l - roll aj as much in half hour as could U done by the old method ia an entire day. IJTe A men;' the Japanese. The following extract is from the let ter of a lieutenant in the United Bute navy—now on duty in Japanese wsten —to hi* brother in New York: "The surrounding country is doited with places of interest an I lots of email Til lages. Kioto is notoi for its pretty women and historical temples. Areas is noted for its wicker work and Osaka for its battlegrounds and flowers. la Kobe and Ilioyo tber is little to sec with the exception of a bake oven, ot cremation gronnds. A aort of cement I asin receives the body of the person to be cremated, which is placed in i Bitting poaition and wood piled all around. The ashes are usually sprinkled over the rice fl Ids, except in the esse of th? wealthy, when the ashes are in t rred in an urn or under a marble slat of small dimensions, about 2x4 feet: with a diminutive monument—a little one for one cent—bnilt over It. Here incense is bnraed on certain feasts and anniversaries. The people are very peaceably inclined and are just like a big crowd of children. They laugh at anjtbiDg and acm to have a good time over nothing. They drink a good deal of Nippon Hake, their rum, a colorless Said that makes drank come. .As toon as they tonch a drop of liquor their faces show it at once, and their noses ai well as their faces blossom with the first drink. Men and women all smoke, but their pipes hold only a pinch o| tobacco, and it ia just a ptifT and oat it goes, and has to be replenished. "The bills are pretty and green, and there are lota of tea-bonne* and singing girls about, so that yon can drop in when yon get tired and take a drink cd tee or any other kind of beverage, and for a few oente each you can have these Giahi girls as they are called sing and play on their stringed instrument* liks guitars or banjos." A Lady's Toast (o the Mm. At a literary meeting 51ra Disomy "toasted" the men as follows: God bless 'em. We halve tbeir joys, donble their sorrows, treble their expenses, quadruple their cares, excite their affections, control their property snd ont-maneover them in everything This would be a dreary world without men. In fact, I may say, without 'cm it wonld not be much of a world any how. We love 'em, snd the precious fellows don't know it As husbands they are always convenient, though not always on hand. As beanx they are by no means matehlees. They are agreeable visitors; they are handy *• state fairs and indispensable at oyat* saloons. They are splendid eecorta to* some other fellow's wife or sister, s as friends they are better than VOBA As our fathers they art inexpressibly grand. A man may be a failure ® business, a wreck in constitution, not enough to boast of as a beauty, as a legislator for woman's right#, aw even not very brilliant as • memb* d the press, but if he it a father we or*- look his shortcomings, end cover hie peccadillos with the divine mantle of charity. Then, as oar husband#, bet we long to parade them as paragon* In the snblime language of tbe.inipira* poet: We'll Its for them, W. ll cry tor ihwu. And If we ooeld we'd fly We'd do anything bet Ls •* „
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