Half-Wayl Sava yoo forgotten where we itood I Between the lighta, thnt night of Spring, Tho river rolling to the flood, | So mil the bird*, they ilnreil not singT Ho love wne over (tream'd liko tliii, Beneath tho shadow* of tho park, Between a whisper and a kiss, t Between the daylight ami tlie dark! Tboro hail been trouble—this wo* rest; Thoro had been passion—this was peace: The sunset dying in tho west Made Nature sigh and whispers cocao, I only felt what I had found, You only knew what I would say; But nothing broke the poero profound Between tho darkens* and tho day! How will it end? I cannot tell; I asked it many months ago, Before the loaves ol Autumn full, And chang'd to Winter's wast" of snow. Yet we stand watching at tho gate Of summer-time lor promise—hark! Ho love, 'tis nothing' wo must wait Between tlie • lay light and tho ilark! —Clement Seott. A BITTER CUP, Mr. Martin had just come in to tea. It was one of those sultry summer j evenings when the leaves hang stirlesa- i ly on the trees, and the dull electric j fires bla/.e along the cast, forcbodcrs of . n storm. It li;nl been very hot all day, the farm-hands had lagged at their work on the lowland meadow, and all the world's wheels seeme 1 to revolve as if they were weighted. Mr. Martin was very tirtsl, and, withal, a little cross. Perhaps Mrs. Martin was tired, too. She, poor soul, had been up since four o'clock in the morning. She had wash, cd. taken care of four cows' milk, pre pared three meals for tho hungry farm hands, been up in the quarry woods to search for a family of ad venturous young turkey-chicks, sooth- i ed the sorrows of a teething baby, and mended up the suit of clothes which , Betsey Blim, the tailoress, had declar ed "not worth a needleful o' thread!" because Thomas, her husband, had sai l that "willful waste was wof il want," and that there was a deal of wear in the suit yet, if only there was a stitch taken here and there. But her cheek was pink and her eves sparkling when Thomas came in, fur all the heaviness in her heart and the dull pain in her ha k, for little Esther had come home from boarding-school. Esther, the youngest sister of all, tin darling of the family circh- from which Mrs. Martin came—the pet fur whom they all had seraped and pinched so that she, at least, might have a "Boston education." * And Esther sat in the window-seat, grown into a blooming young woman, with bronze-brown hair lying in fluffy masses over her fair forehead, porcelain, blue eyes, and a dress all trimmed with ribbon bows, "Look, Thomas!" rrb*l Mrs. Martin excitedly: "it's Essie! Essie come home two days before we expected her!' i • "Yes, I see," said Mr. Martin, in the cold, measured tones which always dampened his wife's enthusiasm like so many drops of freezing water. "How do you do, Esther? Ruth, what are you putting cold chicken on the table for? Corned-licef is plenty, lam sure. You bad a great deal better save the chicken for the men's break fast Working folks have hearty appetites." "Esther is fond of cold chicken," , whispered Mrs. Martin. "And—" "No one need want anything lietter than good corned-beef," judiciously pronounced Mr. Martin, "Put the chicken hack into the pantry, and the apple jelly with it. flood stewed goose berries are relish enough for anybody. We must economize in little things as well as large ones, if we don't want to end our flays in the poorhouse." And Mrs. Martin sorrowfully obey ed, while Esther watched her brother in-law with large, grave eyes, betoken ing inward surprise. At the end of a week, Mr. Martin addressed his sister-in-law with serious purpose. "Well, Esther," said he, "you've been here a week now." "Yes," said Essie, "I've leon here a week." "A week is a good long visit," re marked Mr. Martin. "It's long enough for some things," said Essie. "Mrs. Martin thinks she would like to have you stay," went on Mr. Martin, after a puzzled glance at the blue, shin ing eyes. "And although, of course, every one adds to the expense in a family like this, I've no objections to giving you a home, provided you are willing to earn it by hard work. And—" "Stop!" cried Essie, jumping up, "I haven't asked you for a home yet. And I don't mean to. And you are only making me the offer because Doctor Dorian says Ruth will break down unless she has a strong maid servant to help her with the house work. But there Is no money that i would hire mo to make myself such a ' drudge as poor Ruth is." "Hoity-toity!" said Mr. Martin. '•Young woman, you don't consider who you are talking to." "Yes,l do," said Essie, with emphasis. "To a Bluebeard, to a stock, a stone, a man who is grinding his wife's life out on the pitiless wheel of money making. No, I wouldn't live as Ruth does, not if you would put me in a palace!" Mr. Martin grew green and saffron by turns. "Humph!" said he. "Fine ideas you have got at this fashionable hoarding - school of yours. Well, if you don't like my offer, you're not obliged to accept it. Re a line lady, If you please, and see where it will land you." Byway of answer, Essie inarched out of the room with all the dignity of a roval princess. She only stopped in the kitchen long enough to kiss Ruth, who was in the midst of a baking. "I'oor darling," said she, "How I wish I could carry you off with me. For stay, 1 won't!" "Life is hard work, Essie," said Mrs. j Martin, beginning to cry, iu spite of I herself; "and it's a woman's duty to j help her husband." •And I mean to help mine when I I have one," said Essie, blushing bright ly. "But not by wearing myself out." j Mr. Martin shook his head. "If Stephen Smith is foolish enough to marry that saucy gipsy, she'll j lead him a pretty life," said he. "I j j wonder if she expo ts to sit on a satin sofa all her days, with a rose i in her hand, and lor hair frizzled, in ; that preposterous fashion, all over j her eyes? But I warn 'em, they noil never come to me for help! Esther j has treated me with too much insolen e for me ever to receive her again," i "I am sure sh<- did not mean any thing." said Mrs. Martin, apologetically. ; "Well, then, her words Is-linl her meaning." remarked Thomas Martin, grimly compressing his lips. But Stephen Smith w.as apparent ly undaunted by the possibilities of ruin predicted by Farmer Martin, for he married Esther and went to the city to live, within three months. "I give 'em just a year to come bark here and eat humble pier* said Martin, vindictively. "Oh. Thomas; ib-n't talk so'" said j his wife, "nail would think you would be glad to have some c\ il befall them!"' "And so I should." said Martin, viciously grin-ling his teeth together •'That girl m-eds a lot of humbling, and I hope she'll get it." Three years afterward there c.aine ; one of those terrible droughts that undo a fanner's life work in a sea , son, an 1 sweep awav his protects a an autumn wind sweeps away a sere forest. The cattle died, a pestilence broke out am -rig the (lock of sheep, i which Thomas M irtin had just bought: , ; a high wind blew his best barn over, and disaster stared him in the fa e on every side. "It's n i us" talking." said he. "I cannot meet this year's Interest on the mortgage. The pla e will have to go." "Oh. Thomas'" groaned Mrs. Martin. 1 who. jMsir soul, now lay all day on a hard wooden lounge, and groaned t - .see how wofully she \sas ne*led at the helm. i "I can't help it," sai 1 Martin. ) "Everjthing is against me" "It's only live hundnsl dollars," said Mrs. Martin. "You might Iwrrow it.'' "Who'd len I to me, I'd like to know?' said Martin, rememliering with a sigh how he hal hardened his own face again-t every humble suppliant in the golden days of his prosperity. "There's Esther's husband," suggest led Ruth. "I've heard that he's doing I well in Boston. And. after ail, Esther's my own sister." Mr. Martin's features contracted into a hideous grimace, of all the bitter cups which circumstances had held to his lips of late this was the bitterest. But it had to 1m swallowed. There was no help for it. "I didn't suppose Smith's folks lived as genteel as this," said he to himself, as a neat maid led hiin across an octagonal vestibule, floored with black and red marble, ami fragrant with flowers, under the golden fringe of an antique portiere, into a large, taste fully-furnished room, where the sing ing birds, the open piano, the low satin sofa all betokened no lack of money. Yes -Mr. Smith was at home. He had not yet gone to the -.tore, ami pres ently he caine In, waving welcomes to the man who had married Essie's sister "Lend yon a thousand dollars?" said he. "Of course we can lend you a thousand dollars. What is money for if not to help each other with. Oh, yes. We've a snug ltttle sum laid up in the bank, and we live very comfort ably. My business? Yes, It's tolera ble, but it never got us all these things." glancing at the soft arabesques of the carpet, the graceful folds of the crini. •ii n silk curtains, and the easel filled i with proof engravings. "That ia 1117 wife's doing." * w - "Eh?" said Mr. Martin, Btaring around him. "Yes," said Smith, with a certain, quiet satisfaction. "Essie is an artist, you know—a designer. She invents patterns for the paper-hangers and up holsterers. They are glad to pay her ilfty dollars a week." "Fifty dollars a week!" exclaimed Thomas Martin. "Why that's more— ilfty dollars is, I mean—than poor Kuth made by all her poultry for a year. Well, I never!" In all his life he had never respected Essie as he respected her now. "She has money laid up," said Stephen Smith. "And if she's the girl 1 think she is, she won't grudge it to help Iter sister's husband in a pinch." (all and bitterness- gall and bitter ness! Hut, thought poor Martin, with a sigh, how was Stephen to know all that was come and gone? Essie's light step, on the passage way, sounded at this instant; and she came in, dressed in a picturesque brown linen blouse; her hair still shad ing her forehead, like a fringe of doss silk, alter the old, graceful fashion. "Yes," she said brightly, when her brother-in-law's errand was statsl to her; "Of course you shall have it. I owe you as much as that, I think, Thomas, were it only to erase from your memory that last scene of our parting. I Tow deliant and insolent it was, to-basure!" and she laughed tlie sweet.-st of mellow laughter. "Hut I insist upon it still, that my theory was correct; a woman can work, without I bc< oniing a drudge." "I'erbaps she can," slowly and un willingly admitt<-d Thorn LS Martin ' "perhaps she can' Hut it didn't use to tie so. in my mother's days." And he sighe 1 to think of poor Kuth, broken down in the meridian of her days, bv the. ruel ne that drive the wife of an American farmer to her doom. Was it his own fault? 1 '••r haps it was. Essie's thousand loan was the straw whi h saved him from figurative drowning. He paid the interest. I>tight a new il.s k ..f merino sheep, and weathered the storm. And the next year w hen Essie came to the farm t<> assist lmr sister, for the tirst time she found Kuth sitting on the piazza, and watching the little jamb play in the sunshine with listless, heavy eyes. "Y'-s." said Kuth, "I can't work any : more. Hut Thomas is very kind He don't grudge the hired girl's wag.-s. and he is always saying he wish.-d he had taken more care of me in the . Id 1 times. Hut it's too late now-. You were right. Essie, when you said you wouldn't stay ■ ri here, and help with the housework." "Yes." said Essie, fondling the thin hand, which lay on the arm .f the rocking-chair, "I think 1 was right " - //.fin For-*'. Itract*. The Viceroy and the Itabj, A characteristic anecdote is related of the late Eord Lawrence, when its the new Yiceroy of India he was re turning to the country in which his bc-t years bad lw-cn pass.si. He was ' in b id spirits, partly from scn-sh knev* ; partly from the lack of friends and con genial natures around him, partly from the feeling of the hea\ v responsibilities ! which he had assumed in comparatively 1 weak health. A lady was returning to ; India with her infant child, which she utterly neglected, and the baby took its revenge ujszn the passengers generally |by squalling day and night alike. They complained in no measured language to th" authorities. "Steward, throw that baby overlioard!" was the cry 1 which came from many a tempest ' tot sis I and sleepless birth. Hut the nuisance continued unabated. At last the new viceroy, perhaps he saw in the child, balf-unconsciously, a slight re semblance to his lost Hcrtie, gave it a large share of his attention, and would take it for hours together on his knee f showing it his watch and anything that would amuse it. The child took to him. as he to It,' and to the great relief of the passengers was always quiet in his presence "Why do you take such notice of that child ?" Asked one of them. "Why, to tell you the truth," sidd the viceroy, "that child la the only licing In the ship who 1 can feel quite sure does not want to get anything out of me, and so 1 take pleasure in its society." How much of the kindliness and simplicity of a great nature is revealed by this simple 1 story. Arelal Trips. Two successful aerial trips have l>een male by M. I'ompeieu with an elongated balloon, and on the second ascent a cfiange in the course of the ■ nir-ship wa< obtained by simply mov. ing n rudder with which It had beeo i prov idef women of the district. But the women would not be enumerated, and when soldiers were sent t>> assist the census men some live hundred Kurdish worn- I en asseiiibbsl, attacked the soldiers, probably with hair-pins, and put them to (light. The census operations had | to be suspended pending the arrival of military reinforcements. It would be a most c 1 rious calcula tion w'hich would establish, even ap proximately. the difTer.-nce between tlm population of New York city dur ing the .lay and the night. It must !• Somew here in the hundred* of thous ands, and it is quite jwssibk* that it will reach half, or even three-quarter* of a million. It is doubtful if in any other city in the world so many work ers by day leave the hive to sleep in other cities. Brooklyn al-.ne, if ferrv statist!, s can Ix- taken as the bias of an estimate, must accommodate at least 100,0*10 |>crson* at night who swell the metropolitan total during the .lav- According to our best knowledge, the laborers who built the great J'yra rnid received <1 suui per day equal to the purchasing power of two cents of our money. The laborers employed m building the E;ut Hiver bridge re. ceivcd an average of $2.10 ]r day. This contra-t is the b.-*t illustration of modern pr .gr-**; it has m.i le work men 12.1 times better .fl than they were when the great Pyramid* w. re built. This d.'* not mean that they are now too well off.. .r n >t well enough off; it simply shows where progress most iinproves the material condition of mankind, and that 1* in the field, the forge, the shop, the aiill. 1 The Prince of Montenegro is a prac tical reformer of the hT .< style. >.ltlf> time ago he closed all the cafes and drinking sh.qw ia his dominion, re garding them ls effeminacy, extravagance and corn •ptHft. ril hen he atx.hsliod all title*, so that Mule formerly ev-ry other man in M.intene gro was an " Excellency," now even the ministers have to l>e contented with plain " Mr." And now the prince has issued an interdict againgt all •• lux urious wearing apparel," includiog cravats, gloves, walking sticks, para sols and umbrellas. And no one dare* complain, tiecausc the prince him*el( lives up to the strictest letter of his laws. The supremacy of the silk-worm is seriously threatened if the rejw.rt of the discovery of a new textile fibre yielding plant in Mexico is authentic. Mexican newspapers declare that this plant, which is of the v ine specie-*, yields a brilliant, line, strong fibre, that takes dyes readily and U extremely pliant and durable. There are said to be no difficulties in the way of its pre paration and manufacture, and the fabric made from it closely resembles silk. If correctly described, this new vegetable in addition to the list of tex tiles will add largely to the already abundant natural resources of Mexico. , There is hardly a doubt, however, but that the plant will flourish in other lands of like latitude and temperature if transplanted. A movement in l>ehalf of rational dre*s for women ha* been instituted in England, which may or may not re sult In practical reform. The Hational Dress association have invited artists in dress to send whatever they regard a* more rational attire than at present adopted, and especially to compete for a prize of $2lO, for a dress which shall fulfill the follow ing conditions: Free" dom of movement; absence of pressure j upon any part of the body; no more weight than what is necessary for warmth; weight and warmth evenly distributed; lieauty and grace com bined with comfort and convenience; not too conspicuous a departure from woman's ordinary dries. Of course, getting the rational dress ia one thing, securing its adoption is quite another. Mrs. Carrie Burnham Kilgore has Ieen admitted to practice In the or phan's court in Philalclphln. She is the first woman admitted to practice In any court fn that city, she is n grad uate of the University of l'cnusyl | Vaula Mi.- was rejected when, in 117-1. ' she presented herself to the board of legal examiners, for examination, tho board taking the ground that there was no precedent in tills country for the ad mission of a woman to the bar. Ap plication was made to court for a rule upon the examiners to show cause why *ln- should not be heard, but the courts declined to grant the rule, a suit for damages was brought against the board, but was not passed. A bill to admit women to practice in the court was introduced in the Legislature in 1861, and Mrs. Kilgore (then Miss Hurnliain) appeared lx-forethe House of ID'presentatives in favor of the measure. The bill, however, was do ' featcl. Earthquakes and volcanic outbursts in < - ntral and South America continue to occur with unusual frequency. With in the last six months the disturb, ances of this nature along the chain I of the Andes have been remarkable. I Last winter there were many earth quake sleek* In Central America, and during one of tliern a small island sank out of sight. About the same time 1 news came that Lake Titicaca w as dry ing up in a surprising and alarming manner. 1 tb-r earthquake shock* fol lowed, destroying villages arid doing other damage. Next the volcano of Orueteje, in Lake Nicaragua, sudden ly burst into eruption for th<- first time since the discovery of America. Ke cently there has l.<*en 11 violent earth quake in E'-uador, and th<- gr-at vol cano of Cotopaxi has begun to hurl forth srn.ke, a*hes and melted risk. Th<- r .urt 01 common pleas at ntts burg lias d.-cided that the Pullman and other sleeping car companies are re sjsinsible f.r money and valuables stolen from travelers at night Th<- 1 mipany's defense in ] art was that va! 1 able* should l- phi .1 in th< safe provided f->r that purpo-.-. The a**:*t ant superintendent acknowledged on the stand that, owing to tb<- manner 111 which the cars are now arranged, a j-r-.fes-i .nal thief c-.uld r<-a- h through an-l rob a passenger in an adj-ining ls-rth without deletion. The judge said he did not < .nsider the c• -mpany r<-*; noble a* a hotel-ke.-jH r. or a com. ii n < .irr," r. but when th mpany - ild a t. the regular rate* f-.r passage, and offered the facilities for sleeping a* an in ducement to pay the extra money, it lmund itself t > protect It* patron* while they were asleep and for th<- time is-i-.g helpless. The jury brought in aver h> t f-.r the full claim, with in tcri *t. An appeal will Is- taken to the supreme r->urt and tlie matter finally decided. Lifetime of Yarlno* Animals. Camels lis- from forty to fifty years, horses average from twenty-five to thirty; oxen, about twenty, sheep, eight or nine; and dogs twelve to fif teen. Concerning the ag.-s attained by n-mo reptiles are very long-lived, an instance being furnished by a tortoise which was con fined in 1633 and existisl until 1713, when he perishal by accident. Birds sometimes reach a great age, the eagle and the swan having lieen known to live one hundred years. The longevi ty of fishes is often remarkable. The carp has been known to live 200 years. 1 common river trout fifty years; and the ! pike, ninety years; while (Jesner a > Swiss naturalist—relates that a pike caught in 1407 l*re a ring recording the capture of the sauu tish 267 years lief ore. .Insects are very short lived, usually completing the term of their j existence in a few week* or months- Some even perish within a few hours after emerging from a grub state, and die upon the very day of entering upon their new life. As a general rule not to le applied too closely, larger types of animals live longer than smaller. After the Fralt. Baby is very exacting at table. Her mother has, in consequence, lieen ol>- liged toforbid her to ask for anything. One day there was adlah of magnifi cent strawlierrles upon the table. Ba by coveted them with longing eyes. She threw a supplicating glance at her mother and another at her father, but this characteristic mimicry was unsuc. j cewfuL Baby was disconsolate. She uttered a deep sigh, and, leaning over to her father'a side In away t> be well heard, j she said; ' l'a, tell mb that 1 have Hot asked for any strawberries F I ' ) t: ' ' " • SCIENTIFIC HCRAPS. Jupiter's spot, ndoctors in practice, although they rnaj all he either classed as g-MI or had conductors. The liest con. doctor known as yet is silver. The worst conductor is parafline. A Boj's Sermon that Staid By. It was the fir-t effort he had ever made to speak in public. It was in a union praise meeting,following agre.it revival, in a college town. The boy blushing arid agitated, yet, wishing to aid his word of advice and thanksgiv ing. N-gan abruptly: ".My dear brothers and "inters. I hope von will all take nold; and when you get hold, keep hold." The youth was *.> confused, that he rcp-ated the same words over and over, apparently unable to stop, or to catch a new sentence. Sorne of the young jieople, who had religion, but were not old enough to have pity or consideration, liegan to laugh, when a lug hearted man (none other than llr ther Ben. llristow. of Covington j, struck out with the alw ays appropriate ejaculation. "Thank and thpn. with that great melo.li 'is voice of his. began the hymn -"Am I a soldier of the ros- -" Fending this inquiry the youthful 1 disciple sank, red and p-rspiring. int > his seat. I am uncertain whether any honest effort is fruitless. That |oor lad thought, no doubt, that that was a failure. I have often wondered whether he ever tried it again —whether he did "keep hold." The talk of the college professors and the ministers of the evangelical churches assembled in that union meeting have faded from my remembrance entirely, but the poor boy's wretched exhortation remains least in one heart. The flowers of rhetoric maydecorato the (iospel fabric, but add nothing to its strength, nor can golden glint of man's asthctic upholstery make more grateful the shadows of the great rook in a weary land.-On cinuati Comtnernal h'a&ttr. Selecting a Horse. The Turf, Fi+hi awl Farm, than which there is no 1 .etter authority on the subject says: In buying a horse, first look at his head and eyes for signs of intelligence, temjier. courage and honesty, if bail qualities predominate in a horse, education only serves to en large nnd intensify thein. The head ts the indicator of disposition. A square muzzle, with large nostrils, evidences an ample breathing apparatus and lung piwor. Next, see that he is well un der the jowl, with jaw-lmnes broad and wgle apart under the throttle. Breadth and fullness lietween ears and eyes are always desirable. The eyes should be i full and hazel in color, ears small and thin and thrown well forward. The horse that turns his ears hack every now and then is not to be trusted. He is either a biter or a kicker, and Is sur e to lie vicious in other respects, and. I*- Ing naturally vicious, can never lie trained to do anything well, and so s home with a rounding nose, tapering forehead, and a broad, full face below the eyes is always treacherous ami not to lie depended on. Avoid the long i legg"', stilted animal —always choos ing one with a short, straight back and rump, withers high and shosrtders slop, ing. well set liack. and with a good I depth of chest, fore legs short, liind 1 legs straight, with low down hock < short pastern joints, and a round mal. foot.