Th End. The rich man at morning looked ortr hi* lands. Ail bright in tha gold ol their harrmt pride: Ho oountod the plenty that came to hi* handa, But he MW not the nngel who alood at hla aide! For doath waita not, though riches increnio: And the aordid may trust iu trcaauroa tliat ceaae, But their boast must end in mourning. Quoth he, "Tiie wealth of my fair holds tocm ing, I will hoard, and ent while the years roll on: And I'll build broader barns"—but a ▼oico broke his dreaming. And his fluah'd cheek with torror turned haggard and wan. For death waits not, though riches increase, And the hope that flatters a miser's peace la the hope that ends in mourning. That night, still and cold, in the silence dim Of his stately chamber the rich man lay; And his barns, and his hurvests, what are they to him? And whoso was his woaltli when his soul fled away? For death waits not, though riches increase, Nor the gold ol the miser can buy him release, \\ hen the day of his doom comes in mourning. Theron Brotcn. The Belle of the Bakery. It was not tint! of your common baker ies. It was ;t very genteel bakery, in deed, witli a solid jilate-glass window, and "Parties and Weddings Supplied" gilded in sprawling letters across the front. The floor was of chequered marble, and the walls were frescoed With peacock feathers and half-open fans. And Mrs. Biggs knew nothing at all about "the business," but came in and out of a private door, and Miss Edelgitha, her daughter, was taking lessons on the piano, and in arrasene Work, and read lTlsrncli's novels. As for Mr. Biggs himself, he w as in visible half the day in the subterranean region, w hence he would occasionally emerge with a very red face, and hair and whiskers powdered with flour. "They ain't nothin' lik" the master's eye," Mr. Biggs would observe, with a I noble disregard of grammar, which was peculiarly aggravating to Kdel githa, his daughter. Tlmn there was Mary—"Polly," as' Mr. Biggs railed her. Mary lliggs had come to visit Kdelgitha, and be educa ted with her, when the sudden death ! of her father left her unprovided for, ! ami all hut friendless. "She's most educated, ain't she?" ! said Mr. Biggs. "Del 'll put her through and make a teacher ot her, eh, wife?" "Pray, Mr. lliggs, don't go to putting such nonsense into the child's head!" said Mrs. Biggs. "It's a deal too ex pensive, and it will he three years at least before she w ill be qualified to teach. And we can't hoard and clothe her all that time. Let her go down into the bakery and help you. You were complaining only yesterday of being short of hands." "But it's most a pity, ain't it ?" said Mr. Biggs, who was a kind-hearted Soul. "Siu ha bright, smart little cree tur as l'oliy is." "Pshaw!" said Mrs. Biggs. "You want bright, smart creatures, don't you?" "But I somehow calculated to give Polly the same advantages as Kdel githa," urged the baker, wriggling like an uneasy eel. "Then you calculated entirely with out your host," observed Mrs. Biggs, tartly. "We are not Rothschilds, and Signor Caracoli charges eighty dollars a quarter; and I've spoken to a French mam'selle about daily lessons in conver sation at a dollar a-piecc. Besides"— with a sudden change of base "Mary was telling me, only yesterday, that she pined for something to do. i-ho has always been used to such an active life." So Mary, in her black calico dress, with the mist of tears stilt heavy on her eyelids, went down Into the work rooms, to help her uncle. She was a brisk, eflicient girl, who hail what Uncle Biggs called "a level business head." bin: was a good ac countant, ami kept tho hooks below stairs; and once in awhile she amused herself with making up a pile of dain ty, snow-white meringues, < r a hatch of old-fashioned doughnuts, for the store. It was lonely down there, to he sure, among the busy workmen, anil she sighed at times when she heard her Cousin Edelgitha practicing the scales. "It Ls very ungrateful of me," she said to herself. "1 ought to l>e glad and thankful to help gut ' the country. lie knew all alsait i calves and chickens, and cranberry | swamps and robins'-no he went away, and Marv, in he! perplexity, went in among the flour barrels, and tm.k counsel with Uncle II i g gs, "i'neb*," said she, "what am I ts : do?" "Mv dear." said the go ~1 man, strok ing lu-r head with llourv, yet not un- [ kindly, bands, -what do you think; Could you barn to like him?" "I think so," lonfcs-u-d Mary, wall ■ low m at eyes. "I|e spoke so pleasant ly to me, and he has honest brown eyes." "Then I recommend you to say ye.," said I "rule Biggs. "Lilhiirue is a gisxl, I warm-hearted fellow, if a little ccccn trn, and his wife will 1M; a lucky woman." And he thought of Edclgitha and ' sighed. A week subsequently. Mr. Lilhurno gave his landlady warning. "1 hope I haven't failed to suit you, sir." said she. plaintively. "It isn't that. Mrj,|Pugslcv." said lie. "But I'm going to 1m- married." "I'm sure. sir. 1 congratulate you," j said Mrs. Pugslcy, faintly. "You may well do so. ma'am." said 1 Mr. Lilburne. ">he's as lovely .is Yenus, as domestic as Imrcos, and she makes ginger-.naps such as inv poor mother onee did' Yes. Mrs. Pugs ley. I feel that I have gained a prire." So Polly Biggs' ginger-snaps won the treasure which Miss Kdelgitha's frills and French conversation had j been powerless to reach. ] "I really can't see what Mr. Lilburne > saw to fancy in my Cousin Polly!" said \ she. with spiteful tears. And Mrs. Biggs could not enlighten her daughter, //r/oi h'urrmt Ururrs. About Authors. Baxter was one of the most volumi nous writers in the English language He wrote no fewer than l'JB separati works. Dr. Owen published seven volumes in folio, twenty in quarto, and alout I thirty in octavo, lie wrote so care lessly that Robert Hall said of him: "He is a Dutchman floundering in a continent of mud." Samuel Clarke was an indefatigable worker. His edition of "Ca-sar's Com mentaries." his seventeen sermons, his twelve Itooks of the Iliad, eh\, prove the fact. Otway performed nn immense amount of literary labor before he had attained his thirty-fourth year. Ifoctor Lardner was a voluminous i writer. His "Credibility of the Gnspo' i History" alone comprised fifteen vol- ; utiles. William Cohbctt wrote more than ! one hundred volumes. Thomas Miller author of "Fair llosa- j tnond," "Lady Jane Urey," etc., wrote one hundred volumes in twenty years. Theodore Hook produced thirty eight Minks in sixteen years, and as lie w as during that time editor of a paper, and contributor to the magazines, he may well have la-en considered a great worker. Jacob Ahi Mitt, author of the "Rollo Books" wrote more than one hundred volumes for his juvenile series. Killed by a tirlixly. William Farley, who has Just arrived from the Medicine Bow country, says a Denver paper, tells the Htory of a thrilling bear hunt in which two old frontiersmen lost their lives. Farley and two companions, James Wilson and Jake Schultz, were on a prospect ; ing trip on the Little Pass Creek, | which debouches into the Medicine | Bow fork of the North Platte south of Elk Mountain. One night about three , weeks ago a grizzly was seen near the | tent, and Farley and Schultz went to ; take a shot. The two men had not gone more than half a dozen yards j from the tent when Farley broke the | limb off a fallen tree in stepping over it, and the loud report startled the ! (tear. The grizzly fell hack on his hind | quarters, uttered a furious growl, and I then made for the tent on the run. Be- I fore Schultz. or Farley could shoot or collect their frightened senses, the ! hear had broken through the tent. , I They knew that nothing less than a , miracle eould save Wilson's life, and i i immediately took shelter among the | low branches of a rottonwood tree 1 In the dim light of the camp lire they saw the tent heaving witli the conflict for life raging within, and while pray , ing that Wilson would come off victo rious, aw ild death-cry told them that the struggle was at an end. The com ! motion within censed with the fading away of the horrible echo, and the grizzly hear shambled out into the light. He staggered around the lire, surveyed the JMXI of syrup on the ground, but seemed to have no further appetite fur it, and then departed as abruptly as he came. It was some time ls-fore Farley and ! j Schultz coul 1 muster up suflicicnt courage to di-scend from the tre-,lM'liev- j ing tfiat the bear w as still in hiding cl"s< by. When they entered tin- tent the light of a pine knot diseased to tie it i horrified gaze the form of |*r Wilson. ' literally turn to pb-ces. One side of ' his heal had ls-en laid bare by a Mow i from the gri//l_\'s paw, and the left side of bis l*ly, including tie- heart, hail been almost torn away. The yet warm life blood covered everything around, and in the |m>l lay the knife with which Wilson had vainly tro-d to defend himself. Following the bear's trail Schultz and Farley discovered the bear in a lump of bushes. N liultz cautiously T-j-t through tln-f bappar.il. One,two and three minutes seemed to stretch ' into so many hours. Then there broke i : out on the morning air a yell that froze the very blood in his veins. : After that came the echo of the <]s spairlrig cry. "Farley! My God I'm ' killed !" A deathly silence that was j only broken by the splashing of a leaver's tail in one of the open dams ensued, and Farley knew that he had lost his second partner. It was with the feeling that he was walking into the jaws of certain death that he co tcred the f happaral tl again lied. In a ilark s|it in he undergrowth, to which the sun was unable to penetrate. Farley, while crawling on all fours, fell over the body of Shultz. When he had re covered from the hornir of the discov ery, lie dragged the remains out into the light. It was apparent from the wounds that Schultz had stumbled tin to the M-ar and received his death wound before he could make an effort to defend himself. His gun was in his right hand, as if trailing it. The Iw-ar, surprised, had struck him on the left shoulder, tearing awav cloth and flesh, and then bit him through the heart, as he had Wilson, the two wounds 1M ing almost identical. knowing Bog. Kverybody in Med way, Ky., knows j aid "Ned," the children's flog. He formerly belonged to the late Mrs. Margaret Huford, but as there were no children at her house he came to tow n and took up his abode at Mr. N. 8. Rfiger's. He gfM-s to school with the children every morning and remains there all day. When they go out to play he goes, too, and is quite expert at catching a ball; indeed, in a game, he takes the place of a child. When the hell rings ho is the first to run into the school-house, and when the classes are called up to recite lie takes his place in lino at the foot. After the child next above him has recited, he ' answers the next question by an Intel j llgent bark and bow of the head, i Should a question lie missed by the child at the foot of the class and pass ed to the" next by the teacher, "Ned" wilt answer it in his peculiar way. Selling seems to lie his favorite branch of study, hU answers In that being ex ceedingly quick and vigorous. Al though he turns the children down, after his fashion, he never giM* above them. Ho will tight for any of the pupils, as well as teachecr, and could not le induced to stay where there are no children. * Japanese base lag. No nation ever carried a love of dancing to such an extent as the Java nese. There l scarcely an occasion, whether serious or comic, in which they do not cut the m have been a kind of war-fiance. The dancer drew his kris and went through ay the evo lutions of a iimck fight. At present tin* practice is most common among the Javanese, with every chief of whom dancing, far from being considered scandalous, as among the people of j western India, is held to lie a necessa ry accomplishment. Respectable ; women, however, never join in it. and with that sev dancing is confined to those whose profession it is. In the midst of friends or in sight of strangers, ) a Javanese chief will i xhihit in the mazes of the fiance with an ordinary dancing girl. The dance, at su rs differ little | but in inferiority of skill from the common dancing girljof Ilindastan* The musie to which the dan< ing is performed is indeed generally incom parably better than that of western India, although the vocal part of it is equally harsh and dissonant. Now , and then a single voice of great ten derness anil melody may be found; but whenever an effort is made at raising it for the accommodation of an audi ence. it becomes harsh and unmusical. ' the songs sung on such occasions are often nothing more than unpremedi i tated effusions; but among the Java nese there are some national ball ails that might liear a comparison with the boasted odes of the Persian minstrels. I Friday nn f'nlarky Day. Perhaps the world will never get over the idea that Friday is an un lucky day. says an exchange. l!ut ad mitting all that is claimed, there have liecn many events occurring on this unlucky day that were decidedly the reverse of unlucky. Of course along list might he given, but a few omne t ed chiefly with American history will do. On Friday, August fl, 1492, Columbus sailed from I'alos on bis memorable voyage of discovery, and on Friday, <>i toler 12, he discovered the fir--t land, the island which he called San Salvador. On Friday, March S, 1496, Henry A'lll commis sioned John Caliot. ami this commission is the first Knglish state paper on record concerning America. On Fri day, Septemlier 7. l.V>5, St. Augustine, Fla., was founded the oldest town in the United States, tin Friday, No vember 10, 1020. the Mayflower made land at I'rincelow n. and on the same day the Pilgrims signed the compact which w as the forerunner of our con stitution. On Friday, December 22, 1620, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth rock. On Friday. Feb. 22, 1702. Wash ington was lsim. On Friday, June 16, 177' i, Bunker Hill was seized ami fortified. On Friday. October 9, 1777 occurred the surrender at Saratoga jOn Friday. September 22, 17SO, Ar nold's treason was discovered. On Friday, October 19, 1781, Cornwallis surrenderisl at Yorktown, and the war for independence ended in complete | victory. Other events might lie named. In the war with Mexico the battle of I'alo Alto liegan on Friday. The northwestern boundary question, which threatened war with England, was settled on Friday of the aame date. Recent investigations Into the den sity of population in Paris, as publisl. Ed in the Glolie of that city, develops the fact that there are 68,126 houses, with a population of 2,269.000 inhabit ants. giving an average of 33 jiersons to each house. Erbo H*R(. I call acrrnu the rolling plain, "(J inotintiuno from yimr uler-jj awaka O stupid r>rk 7our dumber brink, Hear and give biuk my word* again"* And hark! tlie Krho 'lotli rebound In nccetit* marie the v/til of ormnd, ttepl/ing to rny laughing voice, "Byjoii ■"' There loiteroth hy a flock ol sheep, Ariove ahw clamorous bleating awell The tinkling of their hundred le I la. In ayinpattiy with tne, the ateep 'J'nkc* up the wild pcJl-miH of aonnd. Make* jargoti human In rebound, '.ompeU uproar to flow along In aong. Where curve* Uie lake's green crewent coast, Hie ftahera lloli with net are! l"Ol , With wing and shout ashore afloat: Yet all the lioiililaof tiicir boat Melts into music in rebound, Confusion into tuneful sound, One lirt of overflowing cheer I hear. Tehind me U the mumitirotis aigh And niathiig of the for*t Ire--, While loud or low as flows the breeze Comes song of hirds afar and nigh. And, riaavel into the one rebound, One note on Keho's lij is found As if from one jsiuta; urain, The strain. And thus from all the rare aw ends Karth's myriad sigh arid song arid praye Ofhofw, of anguish, praiw, diasjsur; Ilut gathered into one descends liivuie —not ISrho, not rdmual— One answer from the Mue tints, Tis love' — From Iht Frineh. I'INbKNT rAHACKAI'HS. A bill that will jiaxs—Any batik bill. A trying cjue-tiun "Guilty, or not guilty ?" No l ank should I*- without a cheat protector. When a man lOM-SII.* balance, where cllM-S it g< I'? In these clays it should I** c hanged around - a- to r< tn a much simpler music. He carries! a crazy Herman concertina, which he did not play, and probably could not. What he did do was to puU it steadily in and out, and produce a horrid hee-haw, until he was paid to go awav. This blackmail, for it was little else, he re el \ csl with the stolid complacency of a deserving mam No bagpipes ever harrassed a street more effectually. An entirely different entertainment was and possibly is still supplies! by a stout man of dignified presence. He would walk solemnly into a restaurant or bar, and would stop suddenly lefore any knot of three or four peo ple he might happen to see. When they turned their eyes upon him. as they naturally would do, he proceeded, i with great gravity, to unbutton his ■ waistcoat. The result of this was the • i disclosure of an enormous ltcanl some two feet in length, the lower part of ' which was kept inside the waistcoat i \rtien not required for professional purposes. He would then, after re reiving any comments with perfect i silence, button up his waistcoat, hold out his hat. His seemed to say, "This truly beard speak* for itself; > mine ran add to its beauty. haven't sense enough to snd to drop a copper in the hat, words would be wasted on youH 1 I London Globe.