The Wind Blows. Hark I Ths wind blows, slid sleet anil hail Fast follow on the otldying pile— Hie winter soothing in the snows; The sweeping storm, frotn l.igbt to highl Beats back the huge, devouring night; The watchdogs Isirk And the wind blows. Hark! Tho wind blows, the hills grow brown, Hie snow melts and tho rain comes down, The swollen current dips and flows; The water loams, the bridge gives way; By night the horseman drinks the spray; The watchdogs bark Ami the wind blows. Hark! The wind blows, the nights grow brief, The savage loresls burst in leal, The time ol planting cornea and goes; The wstors (all, tho sand drilts down; Suns pass and no man thinks thereon; The watchdogs bark And tho wind blows. Dora Htad ut front the cricket's llrst shriek to the rattle of the milkman's equipage. He told first how he loved her, and, being a slightly sensible man and thoroughly in earnest, that did not requiro nmrh space; but then he had the story of an old love to explain— how he had been bewitched by other smiles, and only escaped their thrall dom when the fair enchantress had proved herself unworthy by marrying some one else. Moreover—and this was a difficult point—those chains had been riveted not before he met the ob ject of his present devotion, but under her eye and with her encouragement as confidant. He felt keenly the delicacy of this position, and it is not unlikely that his brain and pen did also. Then there was another troublesome point. The "mighty dollar" had most pertinacious ly evaded his grasp, ami while that fait alone offered brilliant suggestions for eloquent pictures, viz., "love in a cottage" and strong, devoted arms, it shrunk disagreeably when coupled with the knowledge that Miss Trunte was an heiress. He spent a large portion of the night dreaming on this situation re versed. llow glorious to possess every thing. and sav, "All yours, my queen." But while there was a latent relief that she never know privation for him, the waking was bitter, and bad his affection Iwen one iota less, he bad flung his letter into the fire, and his love as far as possible into Lethe. As it was, he wrote on, ending in an im petuous, heartful fashion, thus; "U yon wnd me away, b-t it be by .ilcn-e; I cannot lar 'No' from your lips." Then he hastened to sign, seal and deliver to the corner jM-st. It was on a deserted corner, and a gray morning; so perhaps no one saw that he touched the letter to his hps —certainly no one knew that he breathed a prayer toward the tiny streak of silver that Aurora was push ing over the eastern chimneys. Being a sensitive, reserved young man, he considered this ignorance on the part of humanity laudable; but if Some kind busy 1sly could ha\e hint ed another glance at the direction on that envelope, how doubly grateful he would have been! n. "Stand from under!" She was pass ing under the scaffold of an unfinished building three days after the posting of Mr. Carlton's epistle, when this cry and an ominous crashing overhead brought her to a standstill of terror. She was still undecided which way to fly, when a figure stepped quirkly from the door-way near and lifted her within. When the crash was over and the dust clearing, she found her senses suf ficiently to recognize Jack Carlton. "This way. Miss Trente. I can in sure you a safer return," said lie, qui etly, leading the way to the rear en trance of the house. Miss Trente gave a shuddering glance at the still vibrating timbers. "They would have crushed me to atoms," she murmured, fearfully. "I was very fortunate to be in time," Carlton said, after a brief pause. "The * house is one of my uncle's, and I hap pened by with directions from him." There was a kind of stern repression about him that Miss Trente noticed with surprise. "I hope rny silence has not led you to lielieve me unappreciativc," she said, hesitatingly, as they reached the sidewalk. "I am very grateful, Mr. Carlton, and " "And sorry, no doubt." Mr. Carlton interrupted, bitterly. "But compassion and gratitude are what I never desire froyi any woman—least of all from you. Miss Trente." The little hand thnt had started to ward him returned hastily to ita fellow in the shelter of a dainty muff, and Miss Trente's pretty brows raised a trifle witli dismay. "Oh!" she gasped. Then, with gen tle dignity; "1 will not offend so far again"—and passed on with a slight bow. But Jack cried, "Forgive me!" in a tone of trouble and contrition, that stopped her as effectually as an iron grasp could have done. "1 did not mean that. Forget it, and say good-by!" His hand was extended entreating ly, and hers met it without hesitation. "Are you going away ?" she asked, gently, wondering at the white shadow on Ids face. "What else?" he said. Her eyes fell, and her color changed j slightly as she murmured: "I hoped you would learn to forget." "In death, perhaps." She lookisl up then with quivering Hps and a world of compos.-*!* in her ' eyes. "Hood-by. You know what that means V" "Cod be with you." And she passed on, an expression ! mingling with the pity in her face that puzzled him; for had she not sent him away ? It puzzled him so much that he ' would have followed ln-r but for the flash of her diamond ear-rings. hi. : It was a "nipping and an eager air," that almost froze the breath upon one's 1 lips a bitter, snowy day in January. Carlton had t:iken a horse-oar, din ner-ward bound, and. finding it full, , took his stand beside the driver. That farewell blessing of Miss Tren te's bad proved a very potent one. In the year since, "Carlton's luck" had become a trite phrase among his friends. His face was a fortune in it self, they said. Not that ho was pe culiarly handsome, but there was a light of steadfastness in his eyes, and firmness of purpose in the curve of bis mouth, that must win, soan or late. Nunc said he had changed with his changing fortune. There was a cer tain brightness wanting in his glance, and somehow bis real was less cheery, but he was no less generous <.r bravo, and only a fractious critic could have found fault in liiiu as he stood there, facing the shower of snowflakes with strength and good-nature written un mistakably in face and figure, and a gb am i f compassion in bis eyes when they restisl on the tired lmrses or a titinly-clad passer-by. "How are all, Mike?" he began, be stowing a genial smile upon the driver, whose family history had become fa miliar to him in his riib-s to anil from his office. "Sure, the wife's worse, and two of the ehilder have the maxlefl, and there was only one little creature, a wee mite, sure, scarcely able to climb into ( a chair herself; left to nurse them, and provisions were scarce, tho doctor's charges terrible," etc., etc. The ad denda were unusually serious and p.v thetie to-day. Evidently Mike was "not aisy in his mind." "Why, you ought to be with them," said Jack* "rich, how could I l>e? I'd lose me pla e entirely, sir," said Mike, ruefully. But Carlton's sympathy aron-cd; he never failed in possible service. "You know me as a friend of your employers. I will make it ~n right with thein. Just step off here and go home," be mmtnandi-d, peremptorily. "An' what'll become of the horses?" "I'll drive on to the depot and ex. plain." "Sure," cried Mike, enthusiastically, "you're the ft finest gentleman I iver see, and if you're not a gineral, ye oughter le." "All right," Carlton laughed, slip ping some coin into his admirer's hand, "(iive it to the little ones, with iny love." That w as how it happened that Miss Trente, taking a car in front of Browne & Co.'a, found herself face to face with Jack Carleton. She stared incredulously as he flushed, lifted his hat, and then quietly turned the brake and started his ho; sen. "Mr. Carlton, is it possible?" Ho gave a silent glance tow ard the crowd looking on. The old look of wondering compassion, mingled with; something else, gleamed on him for a i moment, then she silently passed in side. "A delightful position," thought Jack, rather regretting bis quixotism. Then came the reflection. What did it matter? What was he to Ilecuba, or Hecuba to hiin? And he ground his teeth together savagely, and forgot to take tip any more passengers. A gentle touch upon his sleeve re called him suddenly, and he stopped 1 the car without meeting her eyes. "I am visiting a friend here. Will you come this evening?" half-com- I mnnd, half-entrenty; and, before .Jack i recovered from his astonishment, she had placed a card in his hand uinl was gone. Ho never remembered how that drive was finished. Some recollection came of a narrow escape from arrest at the depot, and he hiul a vague impression of being abused by some passengers who seemed to have passed their destination, and threatened by others who resorted to jumping off while his horses were bo~ : ing urged to their utmost speed. Hut lie did riot notice anything par ticularly until darkness found him in Miss Tronic's presenee. There was a certain constraint in her greeting that troubled hiin. . Alter a while she showed him a fa miliar envelope, saying; "See, the number is wrong—-two in stead of three; and it did not reach me until you were gone, and you left no 1 address." His face grew bright as a new brass preserving-kettle. "Then you did not send mo away, and you will not now?" "If you still mean all this" with a shy glance at the letter whose eloquence bail been so nearly wasted "I would i riot send you away for the world." i Kvidently Jack was sure of his i meaning. "Even knowing my position?" he j said, presently, with a queer smile in ! his eyes. "I cannot bear to think of that," she cried, eagerly. "I)i>n't go bacK to ' those horrid cars ever again. Indwd, ! 1 cannot bear it, while 1 have so much, Jack." "My dear," cried Jack, with a light hearted, ringing laugh, "I have la-en growing rich, not poor, and now I am the richest man in the world!" A Great American. Henry Cal*>t Lodge says in the Allan tic Monthly; The universal preva lence of trie colonial spirit is shown most strongly by one great exception, just as the flash of lightning makes us realize the in torise darkness of a thunder storm at night. In the midst of the provincial and barren waste of our intellectual existence in the eighteenth century there stands out in sharp relief the luminous genius of Franklin. It is true that Franklin was rosmo!itan in thought, that his name and fame and achievements in science and litera ture belonged to mankind; but be was all this liecause he was genuinely and intensely American. His audacity, his fertility, his adaptability, are all characteristic of America, and not of ian English oolony. He moved with an easy and assured step, with a |oise and balance which nothing could shake, among the great nun of the world; lie st's*l lieforo kings and princes and courtiers, unmoved and ninawctL He was strongly averse to breaking with England; but when the war came he was the one man who could go forth and represent to Europe the new nationality without a touch of the colonist about him. He nut them all.great ministers and great sovereigns, <>n a common ground, as if the colonies of yesterday had la-en an independent nation for generations. His autobiog raphy is the corner-stone, the first great work of American literature The plain, direct style, almost worthy of Swift, the homely, forcible language, the humor, the ol>s*rvation, the know ledge of men, the worldly philosophy of that remarkable tsaik. are familiar to all; but its best and, considering its date, its most extraordinary quality is , its perfect originality. It is Ameri can in feeling, without any taint of English colonialism. Look at Frank lin in the midst of that excellent I'enn i sylvanian community; compare him j and his genius with his surrounding, and you get a better idea of what the colonial spirit was in America in those days, and how thoroughly men were saturated with it, than in any other way. —— Influence of Iron. Does the Increasing transfer of iron from the interior to the surface of the earth, asks Knowledge, exercise any meteorological influence? Is it in any mark;*! waj" influential on electric cur rents, and thence does it affect magnet ic storms? This Is a question whirh , needs a little thought to answer safely, j The development of railways, and the almost universal substitution of iron for wood wherever it is practicable to u.se that metal, must surely exercise a decided influence of its own. Every year more and more of the iron former - | ly buried in the earth is spread upon its surface, and it is surely reasonable to assume that, electrically at least, some effect is produrcd ; how far we may venture, as some seem now dis posed to do, to translate this into a mc- ■ teororical agency is a problem for set cnco to determine. PEAULM OK THOUUUT. A good character shines by Its own light Thoy that govern ujo.it make hast noise. Life is hut short, therefore crosses cannot lie long. In jealousy there is more love of self than of any one else. People do not need to know more nlxjiit virtue, hut rather practice what they already know. If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. lie who can Irritate you when he j likes is your master. You had better i turn rebel by learning the virtue of patience. l'oetry is the blossom and fragrance j of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, j language. Whosoever lends a greedy car to a j slanderous report Is either himself of a | radically bad disposition or a mere child in sense. Speak the truth; yield not to anger; give, when asked, of the little thou I hast; by these; three steps thou shalt go near the gods. It Is little troubles that wear the heart out. It Is easier to throw a bombshell a mile, than a feather even with artillery. He willing to do good in jour own Way. We need none of us bedisturbed if we cannot wield another's wenjjonx; hut our own must riot rust In misfortune one mar know a friend, in battle a hero, in debt an honest person, in decaying fortunes a wife, and kinsmen in affliction. Let us be careful only of the quality of our work that it !*• thorough, genuine, simple-hearted, the best that is in us, the best that can come out of U.S. It is neither safe, respectable, nor wise to bring any youth to manhood without a regular ' ailing. Industry, hko idleness, is a matter - f habit. No idle Imiv will make an active, in dustrious and useful man. liujin? a Horse, The Turf, Ti'l'l utt'l firm sars that in buying II" r ■ br-t 1 1. at his heal and eye, for signs of intelligence temper, courage and honesty. I nb-ss ahorse has brains you cannot teach him to do anything well. If ha I qual ities predominate in a horse, education only serves to enlarge and intensify them. The head is the indicator of disposition. A square muzzle, with large nostrils, evidences an ample breathing apparatus and iurig j-<-w-r Next, sis* that lie is well and cb-an cut under the jowl. with jawN ri' .. broad and wide apart under the throttle llreadth and hilin- -■> 1s tw en the ar um! eyes are always desirable. The eyes should i>e full and hazel in odor, ears small and thin and thrown well forward. The horse that turns his ears back every now and then Is not to be trusted. He is either a biter or a kicker, and is sure to be vicious in other n-sj>ects, and, being naturally vicious, ran never I** trained t<> any thing well, and so a horse with a rounding nose, tapering forehead and a broad, full faee ls-low the eyes is al ways treacherous and not to le de. {•ended on. Avoid the long legged, stilti-d animal always choosing one with a short, straight tack and rump withers high and shoulders sloping, well setback and with good depth of chest, fare legs short, bind b*g. straight, with low down hock, *b rt pastern joints, and a round, mulish shaped fist. Hy observing the abn\ e directions a horse may be sclcetisl that is graceful in bis movements, good nature,! and serviceable—one that wil| te a prize to the owner. The Klerk Wilted. A few days before Congress ad journed Senator Harris, of Tennessee, a rather plain-looking old gentleman, went into the room of the Senate com mittee on claims to look Up the case of a Tennessee friend. The clerk of n Senate committee is always a bigger man than the chairman, or the presi dent of the Senate for that matter The clerk of this particular committee had never seen Harris liefore, and he did not like the somewhat Imperative way In which Harris asked for inform ation about his friend's claim. "Are j you the claimant?" he tlnally asked, sharply. "No," said Harris, "I am not." "Are you his attorney?" still more sharply. "No," said Harris as quietly as before, "I am not." "Well, then, what interest have yon In the case?" asked the clerk in the high keyed-George-llliss tone. "Oh." not much," said the senator blandly; "but the people down there sent me to the Senate, and as the claimant in this rase Is my constituent I thought the best 1 i could do was to ask alKHlt It" For once the clerk wilted.— Troy Time*. BEAUTIFUL CORALS. Wtal Ttur An I1 How Tier An flahril Out. floral, as an ornamental stone, win appreciated centuries before its real nature was known. At lirst It was thought to belong to the mineral king dom, iuid then it was recognized as a marine plant, the coral beads which were first brought into Greece being thought to he berries, which hail red* dened and hardened by cxp'srure to the air. It was centuries after its first discovery that an Italian naturalist called these supjwjsed flowers or 1 jerries "Coralliurn rubrura,"and scientific men accept this definition as conclusive. ' lint it was a French doctor at Mar seilles who found out, not much more than a hundred years ago, that these | supposed flowers were in reality ani- I tnals, endowed with tin: power of vol untary motion. When, however, he j communicated his discovery to the I French academy of sciences, his name I was coneeab-d, in order to protect him j from the derision that was expected to follow his declaration—so persuaded wire even the men of science that corals were merely petrified flowers. The French doctor, however, was J right. Corals are sea anemones, that • ; have secreted a calcareous skeleton and j 1 have become compound by budding, j In a living state, the coral branch wo see in commerce is covered with a leathery coating of a bright rl color, studded with small holes, out of which ' j protrude white polyps, with eight ten- j tales, lmiking exactly like flowers, i which deceived the Italian naturalist. Well, it is these colonies of soft-l>odicd zoophytes which secrete the lime of which the valuable stone is composi-d. j Now, although coral is one of the most ' abundant substances in nature- -entire j islands and reefs le-ing formed of it in tropical seas the particular variety of n-d coral is comparatively rare, and is almost entirely run fined to the Medi terranean sea. It is there found in j reefs, a few miles from the shore, and at depths varying from one to a hun dred fathoms. The greatest coral fish* cries are those off Naples, Sicily, far dinia and Algiers. Alino.t every year a new !-] i< ' found somewhere along the Italian coast. A rush Is then made to tie -j t and the bed is s in poultices and for painful hemor rhoids. A tea of chamomile flowers is con sidered tonic and useful in indigestion, and when hot in colic, whether stom achic or uterine. Three ounces of flaxseed in two quarts of water, reduced by boiling to one quart, with an ounce of mannn and the juice of a sweet orange, pro vides a drink in cases of dysentery, I which Ir. V. holds fast to, having 1 proved it to lie gixsl — Dr. FooU'h Health Monthly. king Alcohol's Way. A young man by the name of Mur phy, living in London, went home thf other night, and instead of finding a warm welcome and hot supper, hr found his mother stone dead on the floor, with her head firmly w edged in a tin saucepan, hhe was in liquor when her son left her, and the medical evi dence went to show that she had pitched forward upon the floor and driven her head into the saucepan s securely that she could not extricate It, and had consequently died of stiff oca tion. Since the dawn of creation the king of terrors has wielded an inflnit* variety of weapons, bnt probably never before confronted his vtctim ! with a saucepan. The Teachability f Oysters. It In common to quote the oyster as the lowest example of stupidity, or ab sence of anything mental, and, an it i a headless creature, the accusation might not seem wholly unfounded. Vet the oyster is tvA such a fool but that it can learn by exfa-rienoe, for Dicqueinasc assorts that, if it I*; taken from a depth never uncovered by the sea, it opens its shell, loses the water within, and perishes. Jtut oysters taken from the same depth, if kept in reservoirs where they are occasionally I left uncoverel for a short time, learn to keep their shells closed, and then live for a much longer time when taken out of the water. This fact is also state 1 by Hingley, and is now turned to practical account in the so-call<*l "oyster-schools" of France. The distance from the coast to i'aris being t<>o gr.-at for the newly . dredged oysters to travel without op ening their shells, they are tirst taught in the schools to bear a longer and long er < xjesiure to the air without gaping, and when their education in this re spect is completed, they are sent on their journey to the metrojsjlis, where they arrive with closed shells and in a healthy condition. J'ojiulur fc'i'wx if'int lily. A Itemed)' for a Troubled Mlud. A bachelor who had l-cen paying his att'-nti-nv to a farmer's family, in whi'h were four daughters, all of whom had placed their husbands under wooden monuments in the cemetery, had struck up an acquaintance wit/T a w heat "corner" during a visit to C hi. j < ago, and returned home a very sad man. 'I he evening of his arrival hotrfe found the young man at the farmer's ).■ '.i , and together with the widows and opj man was seated on the steps of the family mansion. The young man was unusually cast down, and the farmer, noticing his dejected appear, am c, and attributing it to a desire to relieve his mind of the load, thought he would assist him in unloading. f>o ' taking liirn by the arm, he led him | down to the gate, thinking to give Lim an oppirtunity to free his mind, and al- 'himst If from an incumbrance of •>t b a • one daughter. 1 lit ung man, whow as constantly thinking < t the large amount of money he bad J"st while ,n Chicago, quietly • h>*rvcd: "Farmer Jenks, what might be a r< medy f'-r a tr--übl<-l mind?" ••Well," rejili'd the farmer, "I reckon aw : iow note." The young man took a tumble and took the mite pre- ribecL— Carl J'r'U :< I'M \\'l/kly. Ancestral Kc semblances. A r- •nt writ'T ;-n heredity points ! uit the fact that resemblances will • rop out in families after centuries haw elapsed. There is a picture of . verror Winthrop banging up in the Ma-sas-bu.sct Is State house. Ex-speaker Winthr< ;i not long ainee took his seat under the jK rtr.i t. and every one w A astonished at the resemblance between tin- old Puritan and his living descend ant in our day. The Ilapsburgs, tlie nigning family < f Austria, have a -