The Hearts of Trees, f lie at enee mnitl the uhula Whore kite my random steps hare strsyed; Tho branches tenderly are swayed; Vicissitudes of shine or shade The plenteous grasses foel. Yet here in this idyllic place, Gloomed from the crystal blue of spaco, No longer does my vision traeo What outward symmetry and grace Tho foliage may reveal. For dearer still tho boon I prize To pierce with contemplative oyos Recesses of the trees that rise Above me, in luxuriant guiso Of twinkling green arrayed; To mark the gladsome birds explore Each growth to its cool central coro, And note their quick shapes dart and soar Through many a leafy corridor. Dim gallery,fcieep arcade. Oh, feathered favorites, blithe and fleet, Whom the calm woodlands love to gruot With hospitality more sweet Than man. howe'erhe may entreat, Can make their boughs dispense, To you the alb-giant tre •< have told, la fond confession, shy or bold, In cloisteral music richly rolled, Rare special secrets they withhold From man's intelligence! Ah! human life too often sees Great realms of thought or dream, like these Great shadowy hearts of yonder trees, Fleeting fantasias on the breeze More eloquent than words! But we, whose earth-bound spirits tire, Watch witli regret's long-smoldering lire Those interdicted bournes aspire, While fate forbids that our desire Shall wear wings, like the birds! —Edaar Fawcrif, in Youth's Companion. | JESSIE'S LUCK. " Girls, its quite too horrible fur tiny thing! There isn't a bit of white sugar in the house. I shook tho old paper sack until I shook it in two pieces, and nothing appeared but a crazy black ant. I can't make the cake 1 had set my heart on for to-rnurrow, nor anything, .and there's the ground under the Bedstone beach plum trees just flaming purple with them —plums I mean—and all gone to waste be cause there's no sugar to preserve them in. Ain't it harrowing?" Daisy Fi-nton, an industrious dot of a girl, with hor black eyes and a dimji led chin, twitched herself into the sit ting-rooin where her sisters were vari ously occupied, and plumping herself upon the arm of an easy-chair waved the rolling-pin and challenged sugges tions. " Poor victims of fallen fortunes and the freaks of fate," sighed sentimental Hortense, hacking at a cedar pencil with a dull dinner-knife, for Hortense was "literary," and wrote lovely stories and poems that short-sighted editors always declined—with thanks. " Wait till I get paid for my novel." " We'd be somewhere soon, if we de pended on that," wits the encouraging observation of .Miss Aurelia, a family Xantippe whose bark was worse than her bite. " Victims of fate, indeed?— victims of a lot of unfeeling relations that considered it fun to get all our property away from us, and leave us with hardly a house to live in." •"I was left a trampled orphan,' quoted Hortense, plaintively, 'and a selfish—'" " Pity you hadn't been left some common sense," Aurelia cut Iter snort. "It makes my blood Itoil to think of the way we've been treated—and half that good-for-nothing Ernest Grey's fault for not succeeding la tter with the suit. Hut, of course, he don't care. It's little enough he knows of what poverty is or cares for those that do." ID-re little Jessie Fen ton, who had Itecn patiently trying to rnend a large hob- in a small slipper, with a thick needle, made herself heard: " It's a pity we couldn't sell part of the plums and get sugar enough to use and to preserve the rest. I am sure Mrs. llopwood would buy them; she said she couldn't get anything to make Jelly of." "But who'd take them?" asked Daisy. " I've got a lot of bread to bake this afternoon, so I couldn't." "I wouldn't!" averred Hortense, "I am sure it would kill tne to go and ask people to buy plums." " I shouldn't," declared Aurelia, in whose eyes any plan not formed by herself seldom found favor. "All right,," announced Jessie, bit ing off her thread and flinging her slippers in a corner; " I'll go myself. Dick will harness Prince for ine, and the road is good, and I'll take the quart cup to measure the plums, and Uncle Tom's' big pocketlsHik to put the money in, and I'll—" "Don't be too brisk," interrupted Aurelia, cheertngly; " you ain't such a wonderful phenomenon, you know." " You won't have any luck," sighed Ilortcnse; "you rfever do." Hut it was nevertheless a very sunny face that sparkled under the little gray rose-crowned straw hat an hour afterward as Jessie stepped Into the old trap, with her wares arranged in open baskets sprinkled over with graftc leaves, through which the fruit glowed j like lurid coals of fire ;* and the two suian I rown-glovjdMiands holding the reins worn bravo, though thoy trom bled a little with tho responsibility of driving oven slow old Putienco down the broad country road. Hut she was careful that this should not lie sus pected by Aurclia and Ilortonse, each holding hack a corner of the window curtain to gaze after her ; nor Daisy, who stood at the gate waving tho roll ing pin, and shouting : "He sure you ask eightpence a quart, they're worth it." When Jessie reached the great gloomy residence wherein abode Mrs. llopwood, the wife of a county court judge, and herself cousin of a barris ter, she found it necessary to call up all her courage to explain her business to tho majestic lady who swept down the walk, surveyed the plums with much dignity and languidly inquired the price. " Eightpence," began Jessie, now as red as the plums herself, and then for got to finish the sentence as a dark j gentleman with a piratical black mustache stepped from a veranda and raised his hat, and she recognized i Mr. Ernest Grey, Mrs. I lop wood's ! cousin, and tin- lawyer who had under -1 taken anil lost the cause for herself and sisters in their late law cntungle > incut. Hut let it be understood that though Aurclia might unjustly blame him for the failure, Jessie did not, he cause it was quite against Jessie's code of reasoning and propriety to blame Mr. Erm st Grey for anything. " How much did you say, Miss Pen ton?" asked Mrs. llopwood, in her frigidly calm voice, which confused I the poor girl tho more. '• she repeated, with a side glance at Mr. Grey, in whose gypsy eyes she was sure she detected a sly gleam of amusement, which made her wish (with great reason and con- ( sistence) that she could thmw all the plums at Mrs. Hopwood's head, and between feeling awkwardly embar rassed, ami at the same time angry . with herself for being ashamed of what she was doing, she nearly lost her senses. " Eightpence f<-r how many?" asked Mrs. llopwood, her chilly tones grow ing rather impatient. And Jessie lx> gan again : " Eightpence—" <)h, what was it Daisy told her? Hi" could n d taink t<> save herself ; presence uf mind was gone ; she must say something. " Eightpence a gallon," she fluttered, turning away, that the tears she knew were euining could fall unse. a. "Oh," said Mrs. llopwood, "I'll take thern all." And she snapped them up so eagerly it almost looked as if she was afraid Jessie,would change her mind a)tout the price. Hut Jessie was only intent on getting away as fast as possible, and dropping the bits of silver Mrs. llopwood handed her into a peck basket, she set off, and would not let herself think until she reached home all in a flutter. " Did you make your fortune?" askul Aurelia. "Or meet your fate?" inquired Hor- j tense. " How much sugar did you get?" asked Daisy eagerly. " I've scoured up the preserving kettle and gathered tlu- plums so 1 can go to work pre serving them." And then Jessie for the first time thought of the sugar, and remembered too well what she was to get for the plums. She told the story lnavely and then ran away. "Just her luck," murmured Hor tensc ; "f told you so." " Luck, inde*d f retorted Aurelia ; "it's her folly, and. as usual, the fault of that villainous Ernest Grey." Jessie was sitting upon the front step in the shadow, weeping despair ingly, when no other fersonage than Ernest Grey himself appeared sudden ly before her, and captured her little tear-wet hands -without so much as asking her consent, " Jessie," he said. " my sweet, brave little Jessie, so long and desperately as I have loved you, I never loved you as Ido to-day. You quite shattered my heart down there, at Cousin Emily's to-day, with your brave though not successful attempt at business, and I could not resist the temptation to fol low and tell you so. M y love, I could not save your fortune. Will you ac cept mine?" " Ah. Ernest," sighed Jessie, "why don't you ask me to accept you? Do you suppose 1 think of your fortune?" " No, I don't," he said, sitting down lieside her, "but I suppose Aurelia does. Nhe hates me like a Turk, but mavis- she won't now. She nnd the rest shall roine and live with us, and we'll have lots of fun." The three sisters were overwhelmed with astonishment at the turn afTairs had taken, " And so," observed Daisy, "Jessie did make her fortune and incct her | fate." WOMEN AH HPECUTjATORH. Frmlninr llrnkrra la Nrw York Who lo n l.itrgr lluolni-no—An lnlorlrx t| Ith Our of Them. A New York paper says: One of the best known women in thin country is n heavy and successful operator in Wall street. And she is not the only woman who puts up margins and takes the risk of their being wiped out in the I fickle, fluctuating course of the market. Seized with the mania which has made and unmade many men, women are plunging into the vortex of specula tion. There are more places than one would imagine in New York where women can consult the "tape" and give their "ordTs"—places that were established for their exclusive accom modation, and where the sterner sex are not expected to intrude. There are "bucket shops," as they are called, for female dealers, too—places where ! no actual transactions are made, hut j where money changes hands on the quotations without making purchases. Half a dozen wires run from the net | work strung on the Western Fnion j Telegraph company's poles in Sixth ! avenue, over the roof and down into ! the hark parlor of a house iti West | Thirty-seventh street. The house is ! like the others in the row. It is a brown-stone front with modestly cur tained windows. There is an iron bal j cony in front. Green ivy climbs tip ! the heavy balustrade leading to the entrance and intwines itself in the Iron-work of the balcony. The pres ent occupants have been in the house only a short time, and it is within the I past few weeks that the wires have been put tip. Were it not for the wires, which are discrectlyjtrained like honeysuckles up the back of the house, I no one would take it for anything but a private residence, and as f--r that matter thecasiijil observer would even now take it for nothing else. Hut the wires have thrown the neighborhood into a ferment. They have wondered | what their purpose was, and time has not only increased their curiosity, but J excited their suspicions a* well. They 1 have not made bold to go to the house ■ and find out, and have consequently j lived in a state of perplexity The ■ people in the neighNirhond even went so far as to seek the owners of the property, but they, t<o, w re ignorant on the subject and could throw no light on the mystery. A rejsrt r called at the house one I day lately to solve the mystery. A j woman answered the and the j caller was shown nto the front parlor. The door of the back parlor was partly j open and through it came the sounds of a "ticker," such as are sis-n in the ! offices of brokers to register stock • quotations. There was a telephone | and a messenger call in sight la-side*, i There was a de*k mar the "ticker," I at which sat a woman, and there was | something pf an air of business about ' the room. The front parlor was ! handsomely furnished. Fine engrav- I ings hung on the wall, and a grand piano stood in one corner. Near the I front windows was a large desk with a roiling top, which was closed. The woman who admitted the caller was a middle-aged person with blonde hair. Sh wore glasses and a light, well-fitting dress, and was brisk in her airs. She explained that the "tickler " was put in for her own use. "1 have dealt in stock* for ten years," she said. "If ladies want mo to buy stocks for them, I will do so. I require an ndvanrc of ten per cent., and I will buy no less than 100 shares. I charge one-eighth to buy and one-eighth to sell. I defv you to find any lady who has lost any money in deals with me. If any one has 1 have yet to know it. You can see what kind of a busi ness 1 tin," ami she exhihited re ceipts for purchases through a well - known house downtown, which were made out to Mrs. C. B. Morse. "As I said, I will take no orders for less than 100 shares. I charge ten per cent., so that if the stock goes down a jtoinf or two or three the margin w ill not lie wiped out. Here is an advertisement of what is known a* a bucket-shop." she went on, point ing to a notice in a morning paper. "Do you suppose a legitimate business Is done on a margin of two to three per cent.? Noindeed—that is,simply gam bling. No stock is bought or sold. 1 <lo no advertising and I want no puff in the newspapers. If the ncigldturs wanted to find out altoiit the wires, why didn't they mine in and ask about them. I have leased the house for three years and have a right to put in as many wires as 1 like," The woman asked the person at the lieker how a certain stock stood, and the reply in a pronounced French ac cent came back. " 64|, madaine." " Hasn't it reached 65 yet?" - No, madfim." A <lecline in another stock brought forth the remark. "Well, I am glad I am out of that." A lady In black, evidently an in- j f vostor, was In the parlor when the re | porter called. Inquiry revealed the fact that the number of female investors wan rap idly increasing, ami that they risk their money, many of them, quite as boldly as the men. It seballSuperstition*. At tin! Worcester Chieago game Mr. A. G. Spanieling, manager of the Chi cago club, was seated in the reporters' stand at the ball park. lie occupied a chair near the cast entl of the stand while the first five innings of the game were being played. The Worcester* hod gained a run in the fourth inning, hut the home team had been successful ly retired for five straight innings. 1 The Chicago* were playing their best, but "luck was dead against them." At this stage Dalrymple, the veteran left I fielder of the Chicago nine, came over to where Manager Hpaulding sat ami said: "Mr. Spauhling, will you move fiver in some other chair? That was the seat Harry Wright occupied during the games we had with his club." Spaulding laughed, but hurried out of bis place to a chair further down the line. The home team made throe runs in that inning, and won—live to one. "Are ball-players very super stitious?" "Somewhat," replied Mr. Spauhling. and he proceeded to explain some of the incidents and conditions supposM to influence the plav. The players a* surely Isdieve that ducks or geese on the homo ground presage defeat for that team as they do that an umpire can materially add to the discomfortuf a nine. Daly had great belief that Spaulding in Harry Wright's seat would throw all the bad luck imaginable on the Chicago side. Captain Irwin alway*- -pits on the coin he tosses up for a choice of position in a game. Jack Howe pull* the little linger of hi" right hand for luck, and all sorts of chance omens are sei/<-d upon by a club for indications of the great tiiumph they • uld like to win- The time of the great Truy-Buffalo game, which lasted for fifteen innings, early in the season, the score thr*e to four for f<*urt'*-*n innings, when the Buffaloes, seeing a single gleam of sunshine which burst through a ma** of surly clouds to light nji*>n the ls-m h upon which they sat await ing their turn ;tf the bat, took heart at on< e, went vigorously and confidently to work, ami bv hard hitting and great luck brought in the run which gave them the game. So superstitious were they that it would be hard to convince them that the rift in the clouds was not their lucky "streak." An old legend that formerly prevailed among the pioneer players was to the effect that a white horse seen by a player on the day of the game, followed by I**ll ringing of any sort, was a sure omen that the club would suffer in glorious defeat. It ha* lu en tested too often, the early birds used to declare, not to come true. The entire team will never sit down at one time on a bench, neither will they allow a dog to cross the diamond before a ball ha* been batted if they ran help it. I.arkin, now of the •• Met*," had an idea that he would g'-t hurt some time for playing on Friday, and sure enough, in a game one year ago with a college team, he was struck with a ball in the stomach arid was so badly injured that his life was disc paired of for a time. The Chicago team thought that by donning their old tri-colored caps again in their games with the Providence team they would defeat them, and sure enough they won tbri-e straight games. Whether it was owing to the caps or not,, no one is rash enough to explain- Daly had an idea that lie must say nothing until lie bad l*s-n to the bat (if on the batting side) for the first time. His golden silence was a proverb among the boys.—Chicago Herald A (Jueer Name for a Town. Ilangtown is a railroad station in Washington Territory. " I dunno jest how we cum ter git such a name, cos it were named atore we cum ter live yere," said a gloomy resident to a tourist; "but we ain't goin' ter keep the doggoned thing no longcr'n we git a postofllce an' the legislator meets. We air older nor Hatlulumc or State Line, but we don't seem to grow a bit. People won't settle here, somehow, an' we think as how It's all on account o* the name. They say as how ix or •even tldevin' Payuse Injuns was strung up on that ar tree in front o' my houset They stole a lot o' horses down terSpokan, an' woacotched here. But thar's no good excuse for caliin' us hangmen an' our place Hangtown, is it? We are thinkin' of movin' away from here, cos the town is just as good a* killed, an' all on account ov its name." The Cincinnati Enquirer says "an editor's vacation consist* in leaving the sanctum ten minutes earlier than usual and taking a walk around the blcck." M j THE FAMILY DOCTOR. Cuke for Eakaciik.—Place a little black pepper upon cotton hatting, and roll up the cotton with the pepper in side. Then dip it into sweet oil, insert in the ear, and put a hot flannel cloth fver the ear, or hold the ear over a cup containing hot water poured upon to baeeo leaves Dr. Foot en II faith Monthly. What I)o You Fi.kep On ?—Do you j sleep upon a feather bed? We hope not. Years ago a feather bed wassuje posed to be an important part of a housekeeping outfit. If you have a I feather bed put it in the spare room, lock the door and lose the key. A curled hair mattress of the best quality makes one of the most desirable I couches, but rurlad hair is expensive and all eannot afford it. The next best thing, indeed, almost as good, is af forded by the plant so dear to every American farmer—lndian corn. Whoev er grows corn need not lack for the most comfortable of bed#. We are aware that ticksare sold filled with husks with the stem part left on. A l#*d of this kind is not the kind of liu-.k bed we have in mind. To make the very best possible husk bed save the husks from the greiNi corn as it is daily used. The husks are coarse and should lie slit. An old-fitshiori'sl b.i<- le I, where there is such an implement, answers well, but a substitute can be made by <lr vitig a f< w large nails through a board and liling them sharp. Drawing the husks a< r<s these will slit them into shreds an inch or le-* wide. An old carving fork may be used to slit the husks. Then put them to dry in a garret or some airy loft. If the gre< n corn season is past, then, at the regular huskingof the field crop, secure a stock for mattressc.. Iteject the weather worn outer husk*, taking <-nlv the thin papery one*. The Oldest Vewpju*r in the World. The olil >-t newspaper in tie* whole wide world is tie Ktng-Pau. or " Cap ital Sheet," published in I'ekin, and, since tie Ith >f la-t June, issued in a n< w form pre si tile d by special edict of the |. i.-ning Kmpcror lir-t ipp< tred A. I>. 911. but carte out onl> at irregular intervals. Since the y< ar l.'.'d, hnwevi r.it lias been ptilt lished weekly, and of uniform size, t'titd it 1 - reorganization by imp* rial decree it < ontained nothing but orders in council and court re >, was ptilt lished about midday and cost twokesh, <ir something le- than a half penny. Now. how< ver. it appears in three editions daily. Tie* fir-t. issued early in the morning and printed on yellow paper, is called H'ing-Pau (Business Sheet), and contains trade prices, <x. change quotations and all manner of cotnmen ial intelligence. It* citrula tion is a little fiver H.UHQ. The second edition, which come* out during the forenoon, also printed upon yellow paper, is devoted to official announce ment*, fashionable intelligence and general news. Beside* it# ancient title of King-Pan, it owns another de signation. that of Shutn-I'au. or "Offi cial Sheet." The third addition appear* late in the afternoon, is printed on red [taper and bears the name of Titani-Pau (Country Sheet). It cottsisuof extract* from the earlier edition*, and i* largely subscribed for in the provinces. Aij these issues of the Ktng-Pau are edited by six member* of the Han-Lin Acad emy of Sciences, appointed and salaried by the Chinese state. Tla* total num ber of copies printed daily varies be (ween 13,000 and 14.000. London Tele graph. Thk Aborigines of Dakota. The Indian chiefs were arrayed gen erally in buckskin legging* of their own manufacture. They were fringed at the sides and at the bottom met their liedel moccasins of the same material; they were generally supplied with a waistcoat or other garment which they had not disdained to ac- I eept fmm Uncle Samnel, over which was thrown a scarlet blanket. Their ] heads were arrayed in a shock of feathers and plumes of the wild turkey, from which extended a tail of the same material that fell down their liack, • reaching nearly to the ground; their necks and wrists were ornamented with beads, the claws, bills and lucky hones of birds and animals. Queer rings of pij>e stone or of metil were in their ears, noses and upon their ringers, arid their cheeks, arms and hands were decorated in l>olly Varden fashion. The point is of their own production, obtaiued by the steeping and mixing of certain roots and herbs with which they are familiar. Others of the male Indians were often simi larly dreaned, but the chiefs excelled in ' so-called splendor all the rent. The men were of stalwart, athletic form*, erect in Waring, reserved, not alto gether ill-looking. Some of the squaws were haggard in appearance and pre maturely old, caused by the burdens of work and exposure which their proud lords invariably impose upon them.—- CorrcMpondenot V<*Ubvrg Commercial PEABI.B OF THOUGHT. The granite hills are not so < lumgw* less and abiding aa the reGie sea. When honesty is sleeping let ther alarm clock of conscience wake ap. What renders the vanity of others unbearable to us is the wound it in flicts on ours. Knowledge will always predominate over ignorance, as man governs the i other animals. Man cannot dream himself into s I noble character; he must achieve by I diligent effort. One thing obtained with difficulty is far better than a hundred things pro : cured with ease. No life can be utterly miserable that is heightened by the laughter and love of one little child. Ideas are the great warriors of tha world, and a war that has no ideas b©- hind it is simply brutality. We think our civilization is near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock crowing and the morning star. Nothing makes the world look so tpacious as to have friends at a dis tance; they make the latitude* and | longitudes. There were never in the world two opinions alike, no m<re than two hairs or two grains. The most universal qua'- i ity is diversity. Tf yon have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should IK-; but putfoundar tions under them. Blessings mav apjiear under the shape of pain . lo**e and disappoint ments, but let liim have patience and lie will see them in th'-ir proper figure. He tliat waits f<>r an opportunity to do much at once may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his us< b—l intentions and barren zeal. The first. Anaesthesia was discovered in 1*44. The first steel plate was made in ' 1830. TJie first lucifer match was made ia 1820. The fir-t iron steamship was built ia i 1830. The first balloon ascent was made in 1 703. The entire Hebrew bible was printed hi 1488. Ships w<re first " copper-bottomed * in 1783. Coaches were first used in England ! in 1569. The first horse railroad was built in , 1826-27. Gold was first discovered in Califor nia in 1848. The first steamloat plied the Ilud wm in 1807. The first watches were made at N'i. rem burg in 1477. f\ woseno was first used for lighting | purposes in 1826. Omnibuses were first introduced in ! New York in 1830. The first use of a locomotive in this ! country was in 1829. The first copper rent was coined in New Haven in 1687. The first telescope was probably mud In England in 1608. The first saw-maker's anvQ was brought to America in 1819. The first almanac was printed by George Von Eur bach in 1460. The first printing press in the United •fates was introduced in 1620. •Fhe first chimneys were introduced into Rome from Padua in 1368. The first stearn engine on this con tinent was brought from England in 1753. ______ The Printing and Publishing Trade. We give below the census returns is this branch of trade for twenty cities. The capital employed in printing and publishing and the value of the prod ucts are a* follows: capital. Cmdsct. N*wVrk lu.uvoo l-hltsdeiphia ,s.ioo Chiesgo J.-SS.OOP tjm.nm CUMtBMtL <,MS,M* 4,<l.<* H-wmn v MM. OS su tool* MMyNS a,aas.<ms Rsliianr* t.sM.one v,Ta,i. Hn Kranrlaeo...,t_ I.T4S.WM nm rm-iitw*. i,m:.(xw Me;,™*! Loatsvitl*.-, i.m.ftw mm,ms Wssl.lnpton *., ■MsskirU WW."** usmm iwwt *♦;,* •*..<* liuflslo SIMM tis.ncs t co-unit wgoM aaa.uw WUssske*. 4SMM •a&.mtt Orlcao. SM.VOO# U.o'M *srk T,SM **.<*> rmvlitence Mt,W J#jctir m.m ms,U4 The total value of thia class of prod nets for the twenty citiea here enum erated is *64,000.000. A certain scientific paper defines a malady which it ia pleased to term " writer's cramp." We hare read the article, aod cannot say that we agree with our extremely K. C. The only writer's cramp we ever heard of warn located In the wallet.—/**.
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