In the Field, The skies are clear The boys all cheer, For base ball season now is hore, With bat in handy The bawling band Preambulate throughout the land The sides installed, Then “time Is called, And battle orders loudly tuwled With ringing shout The players rout And try to put each other out The pitcher, he With savage glue, wa wildly, with celerity The At he expands, Behind the bat, wih yawning Thr cntehier stands, Tho umpire by, With watchful exe, Looks out for balls that foul He dot An fronperye, m hi iy I desery And Hr The game is o'er; They cotint thes one side's very sick) The dootor comes And blithely hums ir broke While fixing up the n Unkno TRUE THROUGH ALL. “You fully understand me, Edith 14 "i 1 for {inquired jor a room. | | mama.” Without! bidding farewe!l to a person under that hostile roof, Edith lefe the house. Me. Curliv, glancing over his paper by the window, saw her go, noted the little valise, and whistled softly to himself, Presently came nn expressman with an order for Bdith's trunk, [away without the baggage. | my pardon, und ubtedly,” he chuckled, | returning to the perusal of his paper, | deepened into nightfall and no Edith { came, | pe nniless, | plunge ii H New Mr. Carlis aiw the man hims:1l, feed him liberally, made a brief gxplenation, and sent him “That will bring my lady bock to ask But the hours went on until twilight Friendless, alone and well nigh she had made her desperate into the great world, It was nearly dusk when Edith reach y n lon, unending lines al The lamps glimmered | ors. ng the streets lovely, | the Young, [ d. on foot and with no lug that unpro Ll gage, it was littla wonder { grasp, ho placed one hand over | that stood in the shadow at the end “All right. The cab is waiting at the corner, and there is the girl, You know what to do,” said the man in the door- way. HALL right,” said the others, Edith, frightened, yet scarcely beleiy- ing that they could be speaking of her | had turned to fly when the foremost man seized her by the arm, “Not that way, mise, The gentleman is waiting for you yonder,”’ he said, try. ing to speak in a reassuring tone, “You are mistaken, 1 am not wait. ing [or any one, Please to let me pase,” said Edith pale with terror, Jon!” said the man the door with an oath, “You'll cops bere next if you don't “That's 82," the “Took alive in have hurry," second raid man | standing in the street, Snatching Edith from his companions her mouth, and hurried with her to a cab of | when she timidly entered a hotel and | the street. “I've got her safe and sound,” he said through the window as soon as they were safely in the carriage, “Run | gentl: manly clerk found thatthe house jan 1 tell him; and stir yorueelf, my man Unless you do as I wish in this matler | . hd you connot remain an inmate 0 this house. I will not have such an ex ample of disobedience set to my own daughters, age when they miy be budly influenced by it.” Mr. Stephen Catli¢, broker an 1 specu They are at an lator in general, threw himself back in i i ) : 1 an his chair at the t table and \ .f LUTeaR ius | hot blood surging to Edith's cheeks, and | trouble, | speed which soon out stripped several girl struggled in his arms, | { went by, | 1 {“Whatam] . ied ugly face at the delicately beautiful girl | now pouring out his coffee. A wealthy widower, with daughters, he had moment of weakness the widow of an two plain married in a acquaintance who had died deeply in debt. His wife and was, after a fashion, dear to him. But Edith, with the face of her dead father, who had been his rival at school and in buisness alike—Elith had been retained her beauty, obnoxious to him from now that shedailyjand nightly attracted the attention in society which he felt that his own daughters ought rightly to receive, his mind was made up to be rid of her at the earliest possible date. Edith Vere was proud as well as beauti. ful. She tried to hide from notice the wound that his words inflicted. Bat her lips trembled, her dark eyes moist ened and it was some moments before she could say,— “I thank Mr. Willis for the honor he had done me but I told hima of my en- gagement to Fred Hart. I think it un gentlemanly of him to renew his pro. posal, and I cannot accept it.” “Then you must find another home," frowned her stepfather. “I am in ear nest, Edith, Willis ie rich; he is a re. spectable merchant, and he is quite fool: ish in his fondness foryou. I am act ing for your own good in urging you to marry him. You will say so yourself ten years hence if you take my advice, but if you persist in refusing him be cause you were engaged to that unfortu nate young sailor who went down with his ship, as | suppose, you must take the consequences.” “Say no more!” exclaimed Edith, in a broken voice. ‘I do refuse, I must refuse. Only let me remain bere till ing to ask the question of a meek faced my mother returns from Florida, and | woman in mourning who had just pass then I will find another home “Your mother i= quite too ill to be disturbed by this nonsence, Edith, I wrote her last week; there is her answer, You must decide this very day, and she will not be here for three weeks." With her mother's letter in her hand Hot, blinding tears fell over the words which the weak rad ten by her husband's order: Edith hurtied to ber own room, delicate wife had writ “Since poor Fred is lost to you for ever in this life, do, my dear child, be guided by Mr. Curlis,” The last ran, “Marry Mr. Willis, in home of wealth which he will give, you and and I may yet see happy days.’ the first; and | | ! | | ] ith waght the poor girl, looked with a frown of dislike on “his | | was full, but his wondering stere and | the audible comments of several well: | ' (ress | od lounzers nesr his desk sent the | from the placeata hurried hier away idlers on the pavement wao were tanta. | lized by the glimpse of her fair face as it | 1 to 47 Wheream[togo 7" | when she had | reached a poorer and safer part of the yuldd pass unmolested | City, where she ¢ among the crowds who were too much | abzorbed in their own troubles to have | leisure to think of her. What a wastes what a desert of houses the great city seemed to her, who there could claim no home ! It was the hour of reunion among the humbler classes, who depend upon the day's earnings for their daily bread. Fathers were hurrying home from work and at the house door the good wife met them with the little ones drummed eagerly on the window a smile and panes or ran a race down the passage to claim the first kiss, Some pale widow passed along with a little parcel in her hand—the toy or cake which should make amends to her darlings for the long spent in work for them. Over and over again did Edith, foot. sore, weary and heartsick, theso little domestic revelations of happiness in which she had no share, she witnessed them her lower, “In this great city there is a place, s home, a welcome for every one, save me,” she thought, blinded by the tears she tried to force back. “And yet if my darling’s life had deen spared, how happy 1 could have been even in the humblest of these homes with bim.” One by one the cheery welcomes died away, and the doors and windows were closed on the fireside groups within. day's absence, 00 Fach time heart sank “Perhaps some of these people would be willing to shelter me till morning,” thought Edith, who was growing tired and faint from insnition, for she had eaten nothing all day. She searched for her purse, intend. ed her. The purse was gone! Throw. | ing open her cloak in an agony of hor | ror to search its inner pocket, she found | | useless to waste time over that question, that i ber watch and chain had been toa? Where when she had | robbed she knew not. taken been or It was | She had onl ly to face the terrible fact | that she was entirely without resources | jin a strange | the cours eity, 1c was Lo pursue, and to decide upon sl Hunger and fatigue were aliko for | gotten in the overwhelming shock of lines | the | | and narrower than the others, “A home of wealth, and that man its | master, and | the wife of another than | | ling situation, till she beard the rippling | Fred!” moaned the poor girl in herde spair. “OL, Fred, my dearest! lightly they all speak and think and write of your loss, when it has wrapped the whole earth in mourning for me.” How “She rose and began to make pre parations for her departure. Sho knew that her mother had no power to pro. teot her in a strife botween Mr, and herself, and she would mot rubject ber to the pain of witnessing the misery which she could not lighten or avert, Within an hour her trunk was pack ed ready for removal. In a small hand valise she placed such articles as she would soonest require. She wore hor plainest street dress and a thick veil. Counting the contents of her purse she found that she had but fifteen dollars, But I have my watch and chain and a handsome wardrobe,’ she mentally pondered, reviewing the situation. “I will go at once to New York, and I ean firid some kind of work, no doubt, in a few days. Anything will be better than to ask Mr. Curlis for money. If I should really need any [ can write to Curlis | { the river with its forest of masts and its | this discovery, Some words of prayer fall vaguely from her lips as she turned into a side street that looked darker but she | scarcely knew what she was saying ; she | only walked on, stunned by her appal. | of water near by, and knew by the cold | breeze that came to her that she stood | upon the river brink. : By day this narrow street was a busy | you here?” cried Fred Hart | Was blankly closed, and the angry sailor by any on« | | condu | another which picked him up at sean | the pier, for if we are not out of this in minutes gome of them blessed sailors | will come loafing, and then we may see Now do keep quiet,’ he added, in a surly tone, a; the missy, just “No harm's going to happen to vou, if yi u'll only ] bo still, word for that! The. noise of Ben's running feet could plainly be heard by Edith, mingled with the creaking of the 4 The sound of reat ships at anchor along the pier. sailors singing a chorous floated though the Then lightest sound would have had the power to waken her, she often thought, from Wir, came voice whose the sleep of death. “No thanks. Youare very kind, but | I must find my dear ones at home be- | fore 1 join in any merriment on shore,” said the deep, grave tones. reported lost, you know, I've been for some months past, and one heart, | am very I'm off to When I come back sure, bas mourned for me. Baltimore at once, I will gladly accept your invitation —if | all js well.” “I hope it may be. Good night.” “Good night, captain,” The voice was near, the dear, famlia, step was nearer yet, With one wild ef: fort Edith shook off the rough hand that was laid over her managed to scream, — “Fred! Fred! Save me! | mouth and am tongue?’ feried her captor, savagely. But she still held herself aloof from his grasp and cried to ber lover. The door of the carriage was wrenched open. Who is calling me? What is the matter? | Edith! Good heavens, Edith how came in amaze ment, as Edith, with a sob of joy and thankfulness fell into his outetreached arms and fainted. The man, alarmed for his own safet opened the oppsite door of the carriag: | and vanished, The messenger. Ben held himself discreetly aloof in the dis tance, The horse, the only honest ele ment in the mysterious business, or ob vious reasons was unable to explain it, The door of the warehouse that Edith | pointed to after recovering her senses nd Anawer was made to the repeated summons of nside, Nothing could be don t EAith to a plea ant shelterin the hous ’ { 2 : xeept resnectalsl : widowed aunt, and leave her the | arrangements could be made for a wes ar ding, which came off the next we Fred Hart, after theill luck that had | lost him one ship, had found fortune in | and conveyed him to China, where, of a short time, the foundation nr spectable fortune had beea laid by him, “and being a rich man's wife, my your mother farewell before we sail for the flowery land, but never again shall you face the world alone,” said Fred. LE BB LEB darling, you may go and bid It was nearly a month after Edith's marriage that her husband solved the mystery of her night adventure near He was summoned to a pri Ben | five | you may take Jim Chapman's | rude | here!" | “Coafound you! Will you hold your | ni giveness was to be asked, By chance your wife happened to be on that very spot just as my daughter with her maid | who was in her confidence neared it, What the two girls heard and saw thoroughly frightened them, My child to me, and she is now safe at my covutry seat with her good aunt, who will better things, Through her confession I got at the whole plot, and punished every one concerned in it, It is now my happy task to reward you for the share you unconsciously had in saving my pier child from a fate that would have been worse than death, then And now, Capt Hart, let us go and see you, ship." Edith’s tell Mrs, Hart the story, of course ; let it be forgotten, Thus ended troubles, In a | foreign land, as in her own, she is hap- | | py, as a loving heart must be that is { true through all, Would that thus safely and might close the story of every Eweelly sad al d | lonely wanderer upon the city streets. — Venus and the Earth Journal “Venus will be The | issue says in a recent the star in the heavens through the month Providence lovelies! | of May, as after elongation she her steps westward, moving rapidly to i { ward us, and hastening on to her period | | of greatest brilliancy, delightful planetary study for the naked [eye and also for telescopic observation. Seen through the telescope at elonga.- | tion or & few days after, she takes on the aspect of the moon at her last quar Then, like the moon, she becomes a waning ter, half her disc being illumed. | crescent, less and less of her enlighten | ed surface being turned toward, but in | creasing in size as she approaches us { more than enough to counterbalance ; At the end of the month she has nearly reached ber cul minating point, while ner high northern | declination sdds to the length of her stay above the horizon and the favora The | beautiful planet is specially interesting | the lessened light. ble conditions for observation. { on account of the striking resemblance In size, in den sity, in position in the system, in the length of the revolution, in the time she bears to the earth, of her rotation, in the possession of an atmosphere, in the form of her orbit and in the amount of light and heat she re ceives from the sun, she is more like the | earth than soy member of the solar system. She is our nearest planetary neighbor, and, if a moon were following in her track to complete the analogy | Venus and the earth would be the twin | sisters of the solar family, planets seem to be in pairs, | and Saturn are the giants of the family, | Neptune and Uraaus follow next to the | Indeed, the Jupiter giants and Mars and Mercury complete { the list — — A, —— A Beautiful Legend, Do you know how the site of the an chosen two brothers who had ad The one brother had a cent City of Jerusalem was There jvining farms, were | large family, the other had no family’ Tne br ‘There ther with a large family said. is my brother with no family must be lonely, and [I will try to cheer, him up, and | will take some of | the sheaves from my child in the night time and set them over on his farm, and } iL. he other said Say ho hing phot ‘My brothe: is very difficult for him to support them: has a large family, sod it and | will help them along, and 1 will take some of the sheaves from my farm {in the night time and set them over on his farm, and say nothing about it,” So the work of transferring went on, night | after night, aod night after night; bat every morning things seemed 19 be just as they were; for though sheaves bad been substracted from cach farm, sheaves { had also been added, and the brothers were much perplexed and could not Bat one night the broth ers happened to meet while making understand. this generous transferrence, and the spot | where they met was thought so sacred that it was chosen as the site of thecity If that tradition should | prove unfonaded, it will nevertheless i { of Jerusalem, [stand as a beautiful allegory, setting forth the idea that wherever a kindly scene, At nightfall, being lined with | vate conference one day by the head of | and generous and loving act is perform warehouses and leading to no pier, it | was deserted and quiet. Edith leaned against a railing and looked out upon glimmering lights, For a moment a | terrible temptation seized her, “One plunges and it will end the trouble,” she sighed, leaning over the wharf, “And Fred will never come back I have nothing to look forward to if] live.” She was young, strong, healthful and the dark mood could not long endure, With a shudder she drew back, and looked up at the wall around her with questioning eyes. The door of the nearest building opened softly, Two men came outa third remainded at the door—and the flash of a lantern was thrown across the face of the girl. the firm by whom he was employed, and offered the command of one of their finest vessels, then about to make | an immediate voyage, “1 owe you this, er, rather, | owe it to your wile in common. gratitude,” said the merchant, in a low tone. “I know that neither of you has spoken of the nronts of a certain might ; you must continue to keep silence for my rake. | have a danghler, Hart—my only child and very dear to me but she is weak, fond of admiratian, and with no mother to watch over her. Recently, while at school, but how I do not know, some rascally foreigner contrived to get ac quainted with her, He persuaded her that he was a nobleman in disguise, and the frolish child agreed to mest him near my warehouse on that very night, and to marry him, afer which my for di | (i i j | ed, that is the spot fit for some temple | | of commemoration, ——— A Don't Like the Audience There is in Southern Afries a small animal of the lizard species, about six | inches long, which is peculiarly suscep. | tible to musioal sounds, It inhabits | the mimosa thorn tree, and those who wish to see the creature go near the tree and sing or play on some musigle in strumont, The lizard, charmed by the notes, comes out from its retirement to- ward the performers and will even climb upon the dress. As, however, the reptile is poisonous, the orohiestra gen. erlly retires at the approach of the audi once. 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