A Hummock Hong. Swing! iny nottod hummock, awing, Evor lightly to ami fro! On tho bough thu robins aing, Violets (lot tho grtcs Imlow. Ah! how sweat tho spring-lime woollier, Youth and love nr young together. Bwlng! my nottod hammock, awing, Ail tho fields oro drilling snow, Daisy locos nod and sway To tho south wind, iionding low. Passing sweet tho summer woothor, Youth and lovo oro young together. Swing! my netted hammock, swing, Maples, gold and crimson, glomn. Cardinal (lowers niako gay thu wasto, Asters nod hesido tho stream. Like a dream tho autumn woollier; Youth and lovo ore young togothor. Swing' my netted hammock, swing, From tho limb so cold and Intro, Thro' ths boughs tho north wind sings, Snow.(lakes fill tho frosty air. Dear and blest tho winter weothor, Youth and lovo are young together. THE HOUSE OPPOSITE, At the death of her brother Wilfred, Vivia do Forest felt broken-hearted. He had been her only near living rel ative. The news of his death had come to her with fearful suddenness. Called to a Western city fur the pur pose of superintending smite business Connected with the estate of his late father, Wilfred (who sometimes, though rarely, had periods of dis sipation) was shot in a barroom quar rel. Poor Vivia had suffered terribly. The funeral was over now, and the dull quietude of her present life had a 1 monotony which almost made her long for the more exciting painfullness j of the previous week. A distant cousin of hers, an elderly ' lady, hail come to live with her in the ' large family mansion, which was now Vivia's exclusive property. Hut old Winifred Carr was rattier doleful com pany. To-day it had rained dismally from 1 dawn until late in the afternoon. Vi- 1 via could not lix her thoughts very long upon the books she was reading. In spite of herself they would some- ! how wander bark to recollections of | I her dear lost brother, of their childish life together, and of the untimely death which had parted them now. 1 Several times during the day Vivia i went to the window ami looked out upon the rainy street. In the house directly opposite was one special window, where, ever since i morning, she hail seen a girl of her own age. , The girl was very pale, and wore an expression of undoubted worriment. Sometimes Vivia thought that site | gazed toward her own window, with a < wistful, appealing look. She hail known, in years past, the previous occupants of this house, but ] it had recently passed into other hands, and she had never heard the name of I the people who had taken it. Now I and then the pale girl whose sail looks I had today attracted her notice, had been before seen by Vivia, while as- < cending or descending the stoop. Hut j •he had never seemed as troubled as at t present. "I wonder what her trouble Is," ' thought Vivia. "Ah, lam sure it is j not as bitter as mine!" She started while this thought was crossing her brain, for the girl oppo- i site had made with one band a quick, i beckoning gesture, that there seemed ■ no mistaking. And after having made l such gesture she had hastily left the window. In about ten minutes she returned j again, however. Vivia was waiting ■, for her. If ever girl ha/I a kindly | heart in her breast, that girl was Vi via de Forest. She now made signs i which plainly indicated; "Do you wish me to rome over?" An eager nodding of the head gave i emphatic affirmative to this silent I question. "She is in trouble," thought Vivia i "I may do some good; I will go!" The rain had stopped. It was now i almost nightfall. Vivia threw a dark , shawl about her shoulders to defend i her against the raw December wind, and ran across the street She hail not to ring the bell. The door was opened as she reached the top step of the stoop. The pale girl opened It herself. "It was so good of you to come," she said, while her dark, sad eyes swept Vivia's face as tliey stood In tho hall together. "I hope I can lie of some service to yon," Vivia answered. "You seem to be in trouble. I know myself what trouble is. l'ray tell me how I can I help you." They were presently seated togeth er. and the girl had taken one of Vi via's hands between both her own. "I have a brother, here in this j honse," she said, "who is pursued by I the police. Ho wishes to escape. Once in a foreign land, he can elude the law's vigilance. lam quite alone, being an orphan, and only having Hugh to lovo and earo for out of ull tho world. I wanted to tly with him, but that, ho says, is impossible. Ho will not hear of it, though ho promises to writo for mo to join him after lie is safely beyond pursuit." "And what crime has ho commit ted?" asked Vivia "Oh, it was no crime," answered the girl. "Ho has been falsely accused of murder." "Falsely accused," murmured Vivia; "how terrible! Have they convicted him "No; he has not been tried yet He was In St. Louis only a short time ago, when a friend of his, from whom he had but recently partial, was found killed in his hotel. Hugh was arrest ed on the charge of having murdered him, but escaped." "And why should ho not have faced his accusers?" questioned Vivia. "Was he afraid to do so?" "No," said a voice in the doorway. Vivia looked in the direction whence he voice had coma A very handsome young man, though worn and haggard-looking, had just entered. It was Hugh. "1 see, Klla," he said, " that you are trying to enlist the sympathies of this lady in my behalf. Hut have you thought of what, a reckless thing you are doing?" "You tiei-d not feel any fear of mo sir," said Vivia, quietly. "1 should have no motive in betraying you, even though 1 thought you guilty." "Hugh is as innocent as I am!" ex claimed his sister, in a plaintive, tear- i ful voice. The young man was now close at ! Vivia's side. The dimness of the room j hail riot previously let iter see how handsome he was. He fixed his dark ly-brilliant eyes intently on Vivia's face, and said: "If I had passed through a trial I might have I won sure that circumstan tial evidence would have convicted me. Can you understand this?" "Yes," said Vivia, "but surely. If you are innocent, it would have l/een i better to suffer conviction than go j through the ri-st of your life a fugitive 1 from justice." "I do not think so!" cried Klla at this j>int "I would have him live at any cost!" More than a hour elapsed l/ef<>rc Vivia went home again. And she visited that house many times more during the next few weeks. Hoth she and Klla lwlieved that iter exits and entrances were watched, and that Hugh's presence there was su|.erti*i by certain spies posted in the neighbor hood, but they were not by any means sure. Hv this time Vivia had silently admitted to her own heart that she loved Hugh Kolwrtson. It had !>een "love at first sight" with her. His beauty and his melancholy fate bad both produced disastrous results with her young, romantic soul. She had determined to help him to escaj/e. She was a girl of strong will and indexible determination. Oncday she said to him: "I have la-en working out a plan The house directly in the rear of yours is mine. I purchased it yesterday To-morrow night it will quite vacant. You can cross by the back fences, and get into the next street j through that house. There will Int a carriage waiting for you a few doors l>elow. It will drive you wherever you wish to lc driven." Hugh's face lighted with a softly grateful smile. Klla threw both arms ' about Vivia's neck and rapturously i kissed her. On the following night they all three met for a few last words of farewell, just before Hugh's venture was tried. In tho hack garden a ladder was ready, by which Hugh would climb into the garden of the other house. Hugh, Vivia and Klla all sti/od In a room which communicated with tho rear piazza Hugh first said farewell to Klla who clung for a few minutes I sobbing at/out his neck. Then ho , turned to Vivia Ho was frightfully , pale. "What I have to say," he began, j "Klla ought not. perhaps, to hear. It may kill her. It will probably give you, Vivia do Forest, an intense* an guish. I have deceived my sister up to this moment. lam not innocent. I shot the man of whose murder I am accused—shot him oj/enly enough, in a barroom in St. Louis. He insulted t me! I was very much enraged! We had both been drinking. There is no doubt that I was terribly to blame!" "Hugh"' now broke from Klla's lips, "this cannot be! You are deceiving us!" "Would I were!" ho murmured; "and would, too, that this were all I had to tell. Hut it is not all. Vivia du Forest, from the first moment that I looked on you 1 lovod you. Hut it was days before I knew who you were. Wilfrid Caldwell was your half-broth erl You bear a different uauio from hia." "What do you mean ?" faltered Vl vla, with paling cheeks. "Ah, why did you not remember when you ilrat met me," Hugh Itob ertaon now cried, "that I bore tlio aame name (common a name aa it may have been) aa the man who ahot your brother? Itut you did not think of thin! You pitied me! Then you cared for mo—oven loved me, Vivia, since at this hour I need not deny that I guessed your love! Yet all the while 1 was -oh, Heaven! how hard it is to speak the words! -1 w;ia your j brother Wilfred's murderer!" A faint shivering moan broke from | Vivia'* lips. The next instant she and Klla were clinging together, aa if for mutual support. It was a common, impulse with the two unhappy crea tures. Each had been cruelly do. cclvcd. Each now woke with horror to a realization of the truth. "Farewell!" they now heard Hugh call to them, while they stood with i heads I towed on each other's shoulder. I "tiod guard both of you if wo should never meet again." They heard him open the window and go out into the garden. Then came quite a long silence. And then a gruff voice, w hose tones seemed to curdle their lihssl, called out amid the still night: "Stop, or I will lire." 'I here was no answer. I'erhajia three seconds of silence followed, and then a keen pistol-shot rang out on the tranquil night air. After that tliero was a long, heavy groan. "He has been shot!" cried Vivia, looking with dilated eyes into her companion's ghastly fare. It was true. Vivla's plans, shrewd ly as she had conducted them, had la-en watched. A neigh Is iring house had been taken by the detectives as a post of observation. Perhaps, after all, Hugh lioliertson's appearance, climb ing the fence there in the bright Win ter" moonlight, had lieen somewhat of surprise, else the shot would not have been tin-.!. Hut it was a shot that proved fatal. A few years later Ella lioliertson married,but \ ivia do Forest has never changed her name, and never will. There are some wounds that, although they do not kill, never heaL And Vi vla's is one of them. Village Government in Russia. Every commune, every tuir is gov erned just the way it wants to IKS. The liussian ndr is the perfect realiza tion of the perfect commune dreamed of by certain Occidental socialists. Ihe property of the commune is indi- ■ visible, and as each has always more land than it is p-ssil ie to cultivate, a regular conference is held every year and a decision made as to what part of the soil shall bo planted and what pro ducts shall Itc cultivated. Every soul in the village is employed in the work and after harvest the profits are equal ly divided. The "mlr" has the privi lege of banishing lazy or worthless characters. If a crime bo committed all the inhabitants arc held raspmsible until the guilty party is found. In the same way every member of the community is held responsible for the payment of taxes. Hut in practice things do not run so smoothly by any means as the theory of the system might load one to suppose. There art plenty of lazy folk, turbulent anil dan gerous characters, ambitious men, and over all these tower the employes of the central government, who rule ty rannical! y and make the peasantry pa} them heavily for overlooking certain things or pretending to ignore deficien cies.— l'uri.% Fignro. Rich Indians. The Navajos are a great nation, numliering some 27,000 souls, of this number some 10,000 are warriors. They are well armed, but, fortunately for the whites, have immense flocks of , sheep and many cettle and ponies, which tend to keep them at peace. I Man-ue-li is reported to lie worth not i less than $-100,000, most of it lieing In i sheep. He has lieon an Indian of great i power and character, but of late has j liecome a great drunkard. The Nava- i jo Indian agency is forty-five miles i north from Fort Wingate, New Moxl- | co. They manufacture curious and i unique ornaments from silver coin, and their blankets and rugs have al ready liecome famous for curious min gling of colors ami remarkable textures. They are eagerly sought for by the whites, and have a high value, ranging from #.'> to $lOO each, which is really ' not extravagant when one consider* that they often occupy weeks and months in weaving them. There i neither cotton nor shoddy in the blan kets, but pure, unadult rated wool, col ored with unfading dyes Wo saw 4 few of the tribe, great, strong, repul sive-looking creatures— Chicago InUr OtMS PEARLS OF THOUGHT. The first and worst of all faults is to cheat one's self. Nature Is the master of talent; gen ius Is the master of nature. Wo never deceive for a good pur pose. Knavery adds malice to false hood. Whatever Is becoming Is honest, and whatever Is honest must always be becoming. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. No soul is desolate as long as there Is a human being for whom it can feel trust :ind reverence. The mere wants of natnre, even when nature is refined by education, are few and simple; but the wants of pride and self-love are insatiable. Young man, In building thy temple of life let the foundation t>e honesty, the timber wisdom and the root there of temperance, virtue and manhood. Man is not horn to solve the prob lem of the universe, but to find out what lie has to do, and to restrain him self within the limits of bis compre hension. When fate has allowed to any man more than one great gift, aecident or necessity seems usually to contrivethat one shall encumber and impede tin other. It is as alisurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good violinist needs several violins to execute a piece of music. Trait* of Michigan Lumbermen. In a letter from Michigan describing the lumber Interests of that Mate the New York A"renin;/ l'e.nds to his yoke of toil with cheerful composure. The yoke is cer tainly a rasping and heavy one. All day long during the short cycles of w inter he must lalsir from sunrise to night fall, often in |>eril from the falling tree or ill-balanced log. He must put up with a pabulum of which boiled pita toes, salt ham, and astringent pork ara the foremost luxuries. He has to sep urate himself from all civilized life and fall back for his diversions on the rude amusements and coarse yarns of the camp; and all tills he must endure for 1-10 a month and 1 mard. under a fore man whose piwers within the pale of the camp are atisolntely despotic. Ills New Clothes, First tramp—"Hullo!" Second tramp—"Hullo!" First tramp—"Where'd you git your new clothes?" Second tramp—"Shi Don't give it awayl Farmers have liegtin to dress up the scarecrows in the cornflolils." There are between 700 and 800 pro fcssional models in Paris, thirty-three of whom are Americans. They are of every age, from children of 6 to men and wotnen of 60. A Ureedy Wood-Chopper. "Tough business? Well, 1 should ' nay so." The ex-steamboat clerk r<- ferred to the old days on the Upper | Missiaslppi, Minnesota and Bt. Croix rivers. "The people living along the river uwd to think it wax righteous to beat a steamboat whenever they could. I Wo had to keep our cyot open for all ■ sorts of swindlers. Kteamliouteni were common prey for those peojile. I re , member once our boat worked all day , to get through the Hawk Creek chute, a narrow, shallow and tremendously Hwlft place in the Minnesota Hiver. ! An old codger on the bank saw us working away with all our might and burning our wood at a fearful rate. 1 He calculated we'd need wood by the time we got through the chute, HO he harnessed hi oxen and haulid several cords of green Cottonwood down to the bank. Sure enough, when we got through we had used up all our wood, and were burning almost dear rosin out o' the barrels. When we landed I • asked the old curmudgeon what he wanted for his wood. " 'Four dollars a cord.' " 'Hut.' says I, 'we buy the best ma ple for $2.50.' , " 'Four dollars for this. Take it or . leave it' The old hkinllint knew we had to take it, although green cotton wo>d is the jMxinvt of all fuel. "Well, 1 measured off two cords— ' just enough to take us to the next ' woodpile. While the roosters were ( takirig it alsiard I whisjjered somc , ' thing in the mate's ear, and them when o you?' says L 'Well, you'll just pay us to land for you. j " 'Then I'll go to the next landing with you,* says lie. ' " 'All right, you ran go, but It'll cost you just f- for the ride,' says I. "He finally paid me the f-. and we ran up nigh the bank and bt'im jump off in the mud. Yes, those people along the river used to abuse us steam boat men shamefully." Chicago II < ral>L A Hood Place for a Sent. John Burroughs describes in the i f'rnturp "The Tragedim of the Nests," and commends the shrewdness of the luilsilink: "If I were a bird," he says, "in building my nst 1 should follow the example of the bobolink, placing it in the midst ad meadow, when there is no gran*. or flower, or grow th unlike another to mark its site -1 judge that the l*d*olink escapes the dangers to which I have adverted as i few or no other birds do. Unless the mowers come al ng at an earlier date than she has anticipated, that is, !*v fore July Ist, or a skunk goes nout the edge of the spot, and how the me tallic rain is formed from the warmer portions of the sun. In June, 184-% a solar spot remained a Week visible to the naked eye, having a diameter of about 77,000 miles; and in 18.17 a elus tet of sj>ots covered an area of nearly 4,000,000,000 square miles. When we call to mind that the smallest spot that can be seen with the most powerful telescope must have an area of about 50,000 miles, we can readily sen how large a spot must be in order to l>e vis ible to the unaided eye. PasterofT. in 1858, measured a spot whose umbra had an extent four times greater than the earth's surface. In August, 1858. a sj>ot was measured by Newalt, and It hail a diameter of 58,000 miles more, as you will see. than seven times the diameter of the earth. The largest sjtot that has ever been known to as tronomy was no less in diameter than 153,500 miles, Popular Srnenot Monthly. CUPPINGS FOB TIIK CUBIOCB. Florida has raised a water-melon weighing seventy-five pounds, and fif teen people couldn't eat it. The total number of species of (low ering plants In the world is roughly estimated by Jlentbaiu and Hooker to l.e 95,620. There is a vinegar vat in London which will bold 53,000 gallons. One hundred men were entertained at # dinner in it by the owners. Oysters are sensitive, both to cold and heat. In sh.'illow waters enor mous quantities perish by frost, and enormous quantities perish in great heat. in France, nntil the introduction of postage-stainjis, and the rule of double postage for unpaid letters, it was considered ill-bred to j>repay a letter addressed to a friend. An old lady in Greenwood, Ohio, has a wonderful in n which recently laid an egg that weighed jjve ounces, and was as large as a goose egg. On breaking it, it was found that it contained in side another egg, fully developed, which was of the ordinary size. Drs. >it her wood and Hanlan have expressed the Is-lief that excessive mental work produces a rapid decay of the teeth. As an exj.lanation of the alleged fact, another writer suggests that the overworked brain steals all the phosjihates and leave- none for the teeth, or else that too much study < auHi-s the general health to de teriorate. The cans wary catches fish by wad ing into thg water, spreading and submerging its ruffled wings and lay ing quite still The fish mistake its feathers for a weed in which they are accustomed to shelter themselves, and swim in among them. Then the bird closes his wings, straightening its feathers. fc tcjis ashore, shakes out tlie fishes and dines. The largest amount of gold hell one owner in the world is that of the t United States. Tlie a-tual metal oa hand, the j>roj>erty of Uncle r-am, is $198,000,000, The next largo* goii ow ner Is the Hank of France, wh'e late-t rj.rt shows in the vaults $198,- 275,000. So the United Mates has in exe< s of the Lank of France gold to the amount of $4,625,090. i The Chinese have some very inge nious methods of cajltiring fishes. In Swat vv, for instance, they employ a boat draw ing a few inches of water, with a rail nearly level with the sur face. A narrow j lank on one side is painted white, ami in the moonlight the fish mistake this fir water and g jumj over it into the boat. At I Kingpot cormoraats ate -v" 1, matkaily ® trained to fish, while at 1< hang, a w ild k animal, such as the otter. Is trained, i not to fish, but to frighten the fish Into nets. An (lid-Time Humorist- Poor Lieutenant Derby, who whiles! I away the weary hours at Yumt I Arizona, as well as at the other posts at which he was stationed on the Pa cific coast, in concocting the rare drolleries he gave the world under the nom de plume of "John I'ho nix," | completely ruinid Yuma's rejmtation i as a summer resort by his famous joke 1 about the soldier stationed there who 1 died and brought up In the infernal 1 regions, which he found so chilly by I contrast that he found it necessary to 1 send back for his blanket. Mncethat period, it is said, "sin-hardened invalids rejiair to Yuma to die, with a view to ' becoming inured to the great trials of the hereafter." It was also Lieutenant ( Derby who, l-eing left in chargeof one of the Pan Diego pajH-rs at one time for a few days during the temporary atisence of the editor, changes! the politics of the sheet, to the horror and chagrin of that trusting victim of mi placed confidence. It was also he who i on being presented to General Augur and family for tlie first time, express*] ed his pleasure at the meeting. so* then, looking down blandly at the children, said, "And these. I suppose, are the little gimlets," for which un | timely ebullition of humor. It Is said, the general never forgave him.— lnter- I Orean. The German lgnper<>r's famotu I horse Ganges, on which he made hit I solemn entry Into Berlin after the wart I of 1866 and 1870. has recently leol destroyed; but having undergone thtfl taxidermic process, he now staods In I the atelier of Prof. Memcring, and Is ufl be reproduced in bronre in the equestrian statue of the Kaiser for soldiers' monument at Lslpslc. 11l horse will afterward be placed to public gallery at Berlin Steam yachts grow In favor In Britain. In 1863 there were only 90 fl steam yachts of 8,752 tons; there arefl now 466, and the aggregate tonnage Isfl 61,809. ■