The Ail Uolden. i. Through t nty happy line I nog, I fool the tonio of tho spring. The time it like an old-time tace That gloitns aoroei sotne graaiy place— The old-time face—an old-time ohum Who riaee from thn grave to come And lure ino hack along tho ways Ol Timo'a all golden yesterday*. Sweet Day! to thua remind mo of Tho truant !>oy I ual to lovo— To aet, onco more, hi* finger tipa Againat the bloaeomi of hia lij>a, And pipe for ine the aignal known By none but ho and 1 alone! 11. I aoo ncroM tho arhoolmom floor The ahadow of tho open door, And dancing dual and aunvhiue blont Slanting the way the morning wont, And beckoning my thought* afar Whore roeiU and running wutora are; Where amber-colored bayoua gluaa The half drowned weed* and wutpaol gra/M; Where sprawling frogs, in lovoluas key, Sing on and on incoasnntly. Against tho green wood's dim expnnao Tho cat-tail tilta ita tufted lunee, While on its tip—one might declare The white "snaketeeder" blossomed there' HI. I catch my breath, as children do In woodland swings, when lite is now, I And all the Moral U warm ns wine And tingles witli a tang divine. My soul soars up the atmosphere And sings aloud where Ural can hear. And all my being leans intent To mark his smiling wonderment. 0 gracious dream and gracious time, And gracious theme and gracious rhyme- When laid# of spring !>egin to blow In blossoms that wo usttl to know— And lure ua liock along the ways 01 Time's all golden yesterdays' —Jamtt Whitcomb Wi/ry. A SACRIFICE. "There Is something I want vou t*> lell me, aunt," said Eliza Herbert, a girl of fourteen, and she drew a stool ■close to her aunt's feet, and leaned her head in her lap, so that a whole cloud of nut-brown curls fell over her black j Bilk apron. "What is it?" said her aunt, passing her hand carelessly over the fair fore head upraised to hers. "I am almost afraid to ask." said Eliza "but I want you to tell ine why you, who are so goo. 1 and so handsome, 1 and so accomplished, were never ! married ?" A slight flush was, for a moment, perceptible on Aunt Hannah's cheeks, i which might have been occasioned bv Eliza's compliment to her beauty and good qualities, or a consciousness of j the ricllrule which a certain class attach to the appellation of old maid. It might,to i.have been caused by a blend- I Ing of all these, or by certain memories whi'h the question called up. She re mained silent a few minutes, and then said, "I will tell you, Eliza —I never had an oflcr that exactly suited me." "How strange'" said Eliza "when you are so easy to please, and are s-> keen-sighted to everybody's virtues, and so blind to their faults. Now there is Aunt Margaret, who is not half as pretty as you are, married to one of the liest, the handsomest, and the most noble-looking men in the world. Come, aunt, do tell me all about it, for I ani tired <f my piano, my worsted work, and my l>ook." "My life has been a very quiet, un eventful one," said Aunt Hannah, "and would. I am afraid, make a dull story; but I will tell you alxmt some dear friends of mine, if that will do." "Oh, yes," said Eliza, "that will lie the next best thing to hearing about yourself. There, I hear mother coming, but that need make no differ ence." "Eliza wants me to tell her a story, sister," said Aunt Hannah, as Mrs. Herbert took her accustomed seat at the fir&side, "and I have promised to tell her one about some old friends. It is an old story to you, so you can prompt me if I make any mistakes." "Certainly," said Mrs. Herbert. ; "One of my friends," said Aunt Hannah, "whom I shall call Isaltel, was the youngest of a large family of daughters. Her form was slight, her complexion and features delicate, and ehe might have l>een called interesting rather than handsome. Her sister, Kate, two years older, some jieople called lietter looking, though." "Better looking?" said Mrs, Herbert, tweaking in upon her, "she was the meet lieautiful girl in town, yet beauty was her least charm." *. "I believe you exaggerate a little, Btoter," said Aunt Hannah. "When Isabel was sixteen and Kate eighteen, one Leonard Frankland, a young titer dhant, came to reside in the place. soon became intimate with their toother, who used often to invite him 'home to take tea or spend the evening, was- that is, most persons thought him singularly handsome, and that his manners were peculiarly attractive. It was not long before It began to be whispered in tho family, and among t e more intlmnte acquaintances, that he was partial to Kate, Kate was not so blind as not to perceive it herself, and but for one thing It would have mado her the happiest girl that ever lived. She from tho first had seen that Isabel, though unconscious of it her self, had given her heart to the fasci nating Frankland; so she made up her mind to sacrifice her own happiness for tho sake of this dear sister. It was very hard for poor Kate, hut she had more confidence in her own strength, both moral and physical, than she had in Isabel's; she felt that she would be able to rise from the blow, and ulti mately to have the power of being tranquil and even happy. But Isabel, so frail and so delicate, she knew that it would kill her to see the chosen of her heart forever lost to her." "But if Leonard Frankland liked Kate best," said Eliza, "then there must have been a double sacrifice," "lie liked her best at lirst," said Aunt Hannah, "yet there was a gcntlra ness, a loss of self-reliance in the char acter of Isabel, that needed only to be discovered by such a person as Leon ard Frankland, to excite an interest which might soon ripen into love. I believe, inded, that it is not uncom mon for men who are remarkable for spirit and energy, to Is.- better pleased with those whose more prominent traits are softness and delicacy, rather than those similar to their own. "Kate affected more independence and vivacity than would have been natural to her, even bad lot heart j been at ease; and she soon found that ■ it began to have the effect she desired- Such unrestrained exuberance of spirits offended the taste of Frankland, I and he often turned from the brilliant j and sparkling Kate to contemplate the j serene loveliness of Isabel. If he could only have seen the anguish that la\ , lieneath the mask <>f smiles which she , constantly wore—if he had known how \ ditllcult it sometimes was for her to 1 prevent the gay n"tes of some livc-h snug, as the appeared carelessly t<> i warble them, from breaking into the ! moans of agony but he neither saw | nor knew he never knew, so well did she act her part, that he was ever I otherwise tlian perfectly indifferent t<> her." "And did Isabel know?" said Eliza. "Never it would have poisoned all : her happiness, for she was tenderly attached to her sister." "I am glad that she did not," said Eliza, "it would have l>een so selfish and ungenerous in her if she had, t<> have received Leonard Frankland's attentions." "Kate did not miscalculate her own strength, and when one < •. eiiing Isabel folded her arms around her and told her she was the afllanred bride of Leonard Eranklan 1, she felt calm and satisfied. How, indeed, roiild she fee! otherwise, when she knew that had she herself been Frankland's bride, sh< must have turned from the altar U< stand beside a sister's grave? 'How,' thought she, 'could I ever have bxiked on my wedding robe without imagin- ' ing it to be stained with the drops rung from a broken heart ?' " "And were Frankland and Isabel h.-.ppy," said Eliza, ".after they were married ?" "Yes, as happy as it is possible to Ih> in a life where we ran drink of no cup that is not dashed with gall, and wear no flower that does not conceal th<> worm or the thorn." "Are they still living, aunt?" "Yes, an'l surrounded by a group of lovely and happy children." "I hope that dear Kate was married to somebody that she liked a great deal better than she ever did Leonard Frankland." "That would have been Impossible, so she never married." "What! did such a lively, handsome girl as Kate, without a bit of starch about her. live an old maid?" "Hhc did." "And w hat could she find to do to make her time pass pleasantly?" "What does your Aunt Hannah find to do?" said her mother. "Oh, Aunt Hannah is different from other single ladies. If she had been married I don't know what 1 should have done, for if I have a new dress to mako she always assists me; if my music or drawing perplexes me, she knows how to put ine right, and if I am sick she nurses me. And then, you know, when you and father want to go on a Journey, she always keejm house for you, so that you never foci uneasy about the children while you are absent. It was the luckiest thing in the world for us—anil Aunt Mar guret Waldron, too—that Aunt Hannah remained single." "Then you arc glad tlfet your aunt never married?" said Mrs. Herbert. "1 urn sure I have reason to be," re piled Eliza, "anil so huvo you- haven't you, aunt?" "YOB; reason to be glad and thank, ful, too." "1 know so, for there Is no stution la the world that yon would ho so happy In yourself, or mako others so happy." "It Is not the station that hits made your aunt so happy," said Mrs. Her bert, "but beoanse she early found out the true secret of happiness." "And what is the secret, mother?" "In whatsoever situation you are In to be therewith content." "1 would give almost anything to see Kate ami her sister, and Leonard Erankland. I don't believe he was so handsome a man as I 'nele Woldron Is -was he, aunt?" "Yes, he was handsomer than your I'nclo Waldron is now; for Leonard Erankland was then in his youthful prime." "I wish you would tell me who Kate really was," said Eli/a. llor mother smiled and looked signi ficantly toward Aunt Hannah. Eliza sprang up from the stool at her aunt's feet, and threw her arms round her neck, "Why, how stupid I was not to guess it was you all the time," said she. "I might have known that there was not unother person in the world beside dear Aunt Hannah who would haveacttsl so nobly and generously as Kate. And now I know, too, that Leonard Frunflaml and Isabel were I nele and Aunt Waldron." A I'ersecuted Picture. llofore Vandyck made his Ilrst journey to Italy he paid a farewell visit to Ilubens, and presented him With three of his pictures. One of ! these, "The Romans Seizing Christ in j the Harden of Geth.semane," Rubens hung in the principal room of his j house, and was never weary of prais ing it The master returned hi# pupil's generosity by presenting him I with one of his finest horses. Vandyck ; m.vle his first stop at Savelthem, a vib l lage near Urussels. Here he fell in love with a girl named Anna van | Ophcm, and forgot Italy and his art j while gazing in her face and wander ing by lor side through the fair valley | .in which she dwelt. Hut Anns re | gretted his idleness, and was curious j to see the pictures that he could paint. Einally, he yielded to lu*r persuasions, j and painted two pictures for the parish ! church at Savelthem. One of these was a "Holy Family," f in which the Virgin was a jtortrait of , Anna, while St. Joachim and St. Anna represented her father and mother. ! This picture he gave to the church. It has long since disappeared, and it is sai l that it was us.sl to make grain- I i-ags by French foragers. The second picture, for which he was paid, repre- : sentc-1 >t. Martin of Tours, when he divided his cl*>ak with two lieggars. | The saint was a portrait of Yan-Iyck himself, an-l the hrse he rode was tainted from that which Hulicn* had given him. This picture was very j s|--ar to the people of Savelthem. an-l when. In 17.'>s, they discovered that the j parish priest hail agreed to sell it, they armed themselves with pitchf*>rks and other homely weapons, and, surround- i ing the church, insisted that the ! pi'-ture should not le removed. In 1 s*; however, thev were powerless ! • before the French soldiers, an-l though they loved th<*ir saint as dearly as ever he was 1-ornc away to Paris ami placed in the gallery of the Louvre, where he remained until I*l \ when he was taken again to Savelthem an-l restored to his original place. It is also said that, in I*so. a rich American offered #-'<l.ooo to any one who would bring this picture to him, no matter how it was obtained. Suno rogues tried to steal it. but the watch-dogs of Savel them barked so furiously that the men of the village w ere alarmed, and rushed to the church so quickly that the robbers scarcely escaped. Since then a guard sleeps in the church, and St. Martin is undisturbed, and may always lie seen there dividing his cloak and teaching the l*sson of that Christian charity for which his own life was re markable.—St. Sirholn J. A Safe PI ere. Laura was a conscientious child, but evinced a strong aversion to evening prayers. Auntie was very patient w ith her, anil the most successful argument was that auntie herself was not wil ling to fall asleep without returning thanks for the day's mercies and ask ing protection for the night One evening, the child continuing very ob* durate, auntie left her alone. When, at a later hour she was ready to retire, Laura, wakeful and uneasy, called from her crib, "Auntie, have you said your prayers to-night?" "Yes." "Do you think God will take care of you all right?" "Most certainly I do." "All right, then," said the child, with ani mation, "1 gueaa I will cvoie over and ■ sleep la your bei." I HPOOPEiIDYKK. lis Han a I'rlnflna I'raiaa a nil Trra In Hun It, Witt, IHaaitroua Haaalta. Kpoopendyko came home one night bringing a small bundle in his arms. "It's a printing press, on which I ex pect to do all my own printing here after," he said. "Oh, hut isn't that lovely!" Iluttered Spoopeiulykc, dropping the stork jtnd rushing to her husband's side, "and han't wo do the loveliest things with it! It Is tin; kind that the Ht-rultl and Sun and all those papers are printed with. "Oh, yes, Mrs. Kpoopcndyke," grow led her husband, "you've hit it ex actly. This is the very kind. I got Mr. Dennett to kindly try it on, so as to get it the same size as the llernbt is print ed on." "And will you print papers with yours like Mr. liennett and the other editors?" continued Mrs. Npoopendyke timidly. "Oh, lint won't I, though?" yelled her husband. "It needed a dod gasted female idiot to think <>f that, you've struck the proper plan. Think you can print .Vix'i't show bills with a -Ix4 press? Well, I tell ye that ye can't, (.'an ye get it into your measly head that this is a card press. and can only print a card three inches by four Inches?" "Well," said Mrs. Sj-oopendyke, "1 suppose you an print \ isiting cards on it ?" "Yes, Mrs. npoopendyke, I can," said ficr husband, in a - -fb-r tone, and h<- grew in a much ls*tter humor as lie proceeded t - show his wife the press and exhibit his dexterity in the use of th> _pe and the priws. At last he got his worthy helpmeet's name set up in type, and proceeded to put the chase on the press with a grand flourish. Hut in an evil hour he hail forgotten to key it up, and at a touch tin* whole business went to pi, and at tin* next f<dl in a confused mass all over the carpet. "Why, what m ike* it do that," said Mrs. npoojiendyke, laughing. "What makes it do what, Mrs. S. ?" sneered her husband as he hit his head on a corner of a table in a mad dive after the type. "What d'ye S'JMPHC makes it do it' What makes anything d * anything? If I had your t.il-*nt for asking idiotic questions Ed get a glass of ls-cr and a three-inch paper collar, and live out as a prosecuting attorney.' Hy thi* time the worthy gentleman had g-t tin* name set up an-l securely fasten* 1. and was printing with great gusto; but be bad. unfortunately, set th<* types in wrong order, an-l the first eight p'-rfumed visiting car-Is came out lik<* the following: .< kylnrjt'joj.S .nrV When Mrs >p.H-j>en<lykc saw it she .'>•■! up a little s ream. "Hh. isn't that funny, though ? What makes it wrong side up?" "Funny!" howled her husband, with horrid derisb-n as he grasped the situ ation. "It's a perfect thunderbolt of f.in. It's the in -st delicious humorous thing->f the r-utury. All you need is in advertisement of liver pills on the <-o\ cr, and a joke al-out a goat on the lirst page, to Is* a comic almanac. With your appn- iation of humor, all you ne<sl is a broad grin and # l-*> w .-rth of stolen diamonds, to be the b*a<ling comedienne of the American boards. Can't you see the measly type's turnisl wrong? They have only got to be turned round the other way.'' After half an hour of diligent lalior the types wi re again in j-osition, se curely keyed up, and put on the press. When the final arrangements were completisl, Mr. Spoopendyke turned round t" w ink at the baby and incau tiously left his thuinh over the islge of the press. As luck would have it, Mrs. Spoopendyke, in her anxiety to show her husband how well she under stood an-l appreciated the press,brought the lever down and the press close. 1 on that gentleman's thumb, making him Jump four feet high, and utter an ex clamation that Would have made the second lieutenant of a company of pirates blush. "Hod gast the measly print ing press." tie shrieked, as he smashed the base burner with it, and then he threw it in the alley. "Haven't ye got any sense scarcely ? Why didn't you go on with the entertainment? The measly thing only got as far as the IsMie. Why don't ye finish the chapter?" an-l Mr. Spoopendyke danced up stairs, five at a time, with a parting injunction to his wife to hire out for a slaughter-house. "Well," said Mrs. Bpooj>endyke, as she picked up the habv, and put a pitcher of water where her husband would l>e sure to fall over It when he went down-stairs In the morning,"if we have so much trouble in printing one word, I wonder how Mr. Dennett gets along with a whole newspajier to print" -StanUy HuntPy. There are fifty-three cigarette facto ries In Havana, which collectively pro duce 18,000,000 cigarettes a day. THE EASILY DOCTOR. To prevent hair from falling out. try ; first wetting the head at night with salt and water. Mild sage tea is also excellent. If these remedies do not effect a speedy cure, try this: Get a little bottle of brandy, arid put in all the salt that it will absorb; wet the head with this two or three times a day. If the arnica with which bruised i limbs are bathed is heated, its g'ssl ef | fects are perceptible much earlier than j if it is applied while cold. If arnica is to he taken as a remedy, as so many ! physicians recommend, in cases of sc- i vcrc sprains, it should he prepared with water m this proportion: a tea s p-win ful of urni-a in a goblet tw<>- i thirds full -if water, and of this a tea j spoonful is to betaken once an hour or i ; once in two hours, as the severity of the case determines. A new remedy for headache has been found by Hr. Haley, an Australian phy. sician, who says that for some years past In* has found minimum doses of iodide nf potassium <•( great service in fr-iiital headache; that is, n heavy, dull hi-a-lii'he, situated over the brow, and a- - --in j -allied In languor, chilliness and a feeling of general discomfort, with distaste fur f---I-i, which sometimes ap -1 proaches t- nausea, can be completely removed by a two-grain dose dissolved in half a wineglass of water, and this quietly sipped, the whole quantity being taken in alsuit ten minutes. In many cases, h-* adds, the effect of these small doses has l>ecn simply wonderful -as, fur instance, ,- person who a quarter of an hour before was feeling most miserable, and refused all food, wishing only f*.r quietness, would n w take a good meal and resume his wont ed cheerfulness. If this cure of ]>r. Haley's is in reality a practical one, he will merit for the d.*>' -<vcry the grati tude of suffering millions. The Jew's-Harp. The origin -f the Jew's-harp Is lost in the long lapse of time, and hat hardly ever attracted sufficient notice as a musical instrument to be worth the inquiries of musical antiquaries In Germany it is called "Maul Har. mom-a;" in Denmark, "Mund harp in Sweden "Mungigaf in France "Guinl-arde;" in Italy, "Tr- inl a," an-l in the Highlands, "Tr-itnp." Ths Greeks of >inyrna ' .ill it, in imitation of its sound, "Di.imlsi." In the Neth erlands and Tyrol it has for a long time been the delight <-f the p- asants, the lalnirers, and their families, an-i at present it seems to be in exception al gr--.it fav.-r in America, where an Englishman lri< in Trov establish- 1 a fa-tory --f these vibrating instruments an-l so l-r.-k has the business ls-- nth.it another fact >rv has 1 --n started re - -*rt!y where the comnc-n-pl.i e Jew 's harps are turnisl out in hun-lr- N <*t th-lusands. The iirst m-t'sl performance on this simple instrument is iia-nti- ii--1 in the memoirs of Mine, de Genii*, in which is ib *cril>ed the astonishing power on the Jew's-harp of a p-r German soldier named K->ek, In the service <-1 Frederick the Great. However, it was reserved f--r a Ger man herdsman and laborer of the name of Kulenstein t> acquire an aim *t European reputation as a player <<u the Jew s-harp. After ten years' close application and study, he surmounted a host of difficulties, and attained a perfect mastery over this intractable instrument. Mr. EulensU-in appeared with great est success at concerts, tird in Paris, in January, I*2>, an-l later on in London, in June. lsji'>, where he executed with "grace and expression the iint charm ing Italian, French, an-l German airs: t-> the great admiration of amateurs and'professionals'alike." He used at the concerts to play duets with Mr- Stockhausen on the pedal harp, ths latter accompanying him pianissimo, and touching the chords lightly, so that Mr. Eulenstcin's part in the duets I could be perfectly heard.—Jfun't tiwl Pramu. >ol So Green a< lie Looked. A green-looking granger, travelling , : with a wagon, took in a number of boy?! in an eastern town very neatly recent ly. He would allow a rope to l>e tiisl around each wrist, and holding an ap j pie In eaeb hand, liet that while twe bystanders pulled the rope in opposite directions he could bite first one applr and then the other. He won every ! l>et with apparent ease, much to the surprise of th<we who did not under stand a very simple principle in dyna mic*. He was naturally stout, but the trick lay in the fact that the man pull ing on his right of course Assisted him materially in pulling against the man on the left, and vice versa It wa> two against one every time; but the j mountaineer was always oao of U I twa i - t Jtilnif. Thity twyl npon the wide vermed*, sod llelore bo left bar nil# I aaw him torn And take for her, from out tba rine-hur>£ urn, A rritnaon roar, end with a 'lefarent hand Ifn plaowl it in lha aoft hair'a silky atrawi Then in mjr aotil did a fierca longing huro, And a new toedneaa, swift, sod keen, and item, i Aroae and held me in ita strong command. And then—Oh, blessed then'—l aaw bar take A white roae from the white t/roaat where it alapt, And, with a J rood hot timid courage, lift it to her lip*, for joy I could have wept— 'or joy hath tear*. The white roae wa* mr gill! —CarlAla J'trry. IM NIJKNT I'ARUIUFIIH. i Should oarsmen wear scull caps? To preserve cherries—Keep the smaJl IjOVH off. t Stare-way The entrance around a (hurch door after services, i The Moss Pointers (Miss.) jla' e ; eggs instead of dimes in the contribu tion box. They are entered in the church Ikkills an lav offering*. This hit of conversation, which we find in an exchange, is lioth timely and expressive: "I think this ice-cream tacts a little fiiwv," sai l ).<•. "Mine tastes bully," said she. "How is it," asked the landlady, "that you never complain of anything but tin- butter, Mr. Jones?" Mr. Junes: "Well, that is a tug enough ! contract for one man!" A l'i e utile maiden nuns! I'lurntncr, Fell in love w.th fc grort-ry drummer, And the lOy be gave She concrete. 1 to **ve, Bo fciie canned it. (It iMel ell ummer ) A religious exchange tell- a story of a cornet player employed by a Baptist church, who lost his jeisiUon by play ing the well-known melody, "Pull for the shore," at the baptism of unutulier of converts. It is said that wh'-n one i- drowning ail that he ever - ,. d, thoiight, fJt, or did. paws before him in a swift pano- I ratna; and that the bad memories crowd tlie good into the background. One nwxl not drown in order to have the expt rien'-e. Only be "me a candi date for office. Doing a heavy bu'inoss—The stone yard. D'Jrjg a light businw—Thcga3 works. Doing a safe business—The hank vaults. Doing a grave business —The cemetery company. Doing a 1 medium busines" '1 be spiritualists. J>oing a rattling 1< :vne-s The tin sh p. Doing a fine business The judges. I hung .1 funny business—The humorists. W hist ling, rapt. Burt >n tells us how the Arabs dislike to hear a p r->n whistle, called by them "el -ifr." Sime maintain that the whistler's mouth is not to be : purified f-T forty days, while, accord ing to the explanation of others, c.it.m touching a man's 1m1v causes him to produce what they consider an offensive s und. The natives of the T"nga islands. Polynesia. hold it t • le wrong to whistle. as thisa<t is thought to 1-e disres]KVtful to fiod. In Iceland the villagers have the same objection to whistling, and so far do tliey tarry their superstitious dread of it that "if one sw ings about him a stick, whip, wand, or aught that make- a whistling sound, ho scares from him the Holy <iho*t," while other Icelanders who consider themselves free fr"ra supersti tions, cautiously give the advice: "Do it n"t; for who kno wet h what is in the air?" In some districts oLNorth tier many the villagers say that if one whistles in the evening it makes the angels weep, speaking, however, of ladies in connection with whistling, it is a widespread superstition that it is at all times unlucky for them to whistle, which, a -cording to one legend, ! originated in the circumstance that, while the nails for our Lord's cross w ere being forged, a woman stood by and whistled. Curiously enough, however, one very seldom hears any of j the fair sc\ indulging in this nvrea . tion, although there is no reason, a* it has often Iteen pointed out. why they ' should n>t whistle with as much facili ty as the opposite sex. One cause, per haps. of the alsenee of this custom j among women may l>e. in a measure, i due to the distortion to the features which It occasions. Thus we know how Minerva cast away, with an im -1 precation. th" pipe, which afterward proved so fatal to Marsyas. when she beheld in the water the disfigurement of her face caused by her musical per formance. There are numerous in stances on record, nevertheless, of i ladies whistling at public entertain ments. and charming their audience With the graceful case with which they performed such airs as "The Blue Bells of Scotland" or "The Mocking Bird." Indeed, not many years ago, at a grand provincial concert, two alsters excited much admiration by the clever and ar j tistlc way in which they whistled a i duat G.-ntt+mnn't MagasiH*
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