u » AT SIXTY-FIVE. {Elis W. Poatty in The Current] 2 Sixty-five is not so veay old. No, in- If one is still straight, with a service- able oye and a tolerable hearing, in ad dition to a well-filled pocket book, why, what is 651 To count sixty-five distinct summers, and sixty-five mellow autumns, that drowse into peaceful winters and awaken in Teisonning springs, is a great privilege. Think of the accumulation of ideas and experiences, of friends and memories. A rare age, surely, to be en- hd in spite of rheumatic twinges. ‘Maj. Weatherbeam; buttoning his wolegant fall overcoat about him as he strode down the avenue under the maples, was sure he would not give his ripe perfection for the callow and taste- less a¥Derietios of the past. He smiled up at the bright foliage, and knocked the head off a straggling aster in his complacency, He found a dime for a little boy peeping, wide.syed, into a candy-shop, and stood still to watch the urchin as he bolted for the door, and nodded in good fellowship to a woman who watched with him amused. The major's little terrier followed, for once, quite unrebuked, and turned with him up a hioad maradamized street at the right, The firm stride traversed two blocks quickly” and paused before a brown stone mansion, with a pine-dotted lawn in front. Une naturally puffs a little at the end of a long walk, whether one 8 85 or not, and if by nature discreet, pauses awhile to regain the breath before venturing to call on ladies. Any tidy man will dust his clothes a little with his handkerchief, | moustache a trifle when be | presses | ! has risen very fast, and the pines strike | and twist his wishes to look well, The maior the bell beside the stately door, and stands erect A little pause follows, in which be hiteus to the wind running the gamut of elfin melody In those grouped pines: then the heavy doors unfold: imitate; an inquiry, and again, with the major inside. The man rt:.rs by two huge | ireplac adiation « wtues and Frese himself before the blaze, and counts the tiles and de ciphers the incriptions about the mantel. oak stairs. The of feet on the lutes the red-draped figure through the interstices of the balustrade. He handed the lady down the last steps, and led her across the hall, while a green parrot hopy ed at her heels “Miss Margery''—his voice was like a violoneello— “it is not usual for a busi- nes-man like myself to call on a lady of an afternoon.’ “Therefore, sir, 1s the honor all the greater; poising one toe on the fender to aid her balance in the high-seated deather chair, “Therefore is the need great, my dear youd lady!” “Oh! ha! ha! ha!” in musical staceato from the high-back chair. At 85 one is too dignified to like such a laugh in con- nection with one’s self. “Yes, Miss Wheateroft, 1 felt I could not, in justice to you or myself, remain longer without confessing to you my at titade toward you.” “Oh, how kind of you." very sincerely. “I looked —1 looked for you all day yes- terday, sir''—a little hurriedly, with the red deepening about the dimples. The major’s head gave an involuntary jouk. Girls were, once, more decorous. is deceased Julia Ann would never have shown such impulsiveness. Yet it must be confessed ‘twas extremely flat. tering; and then, good heavens, what eyes! The apoplectic symptoms re “Miss Margery, how gracious of tosay so. I'm sure I never ol lin “Yes, and I was making all sorts of ot a two. Poll, fume down! jor, 's to your hair! Look out, sir; ao) you! Here, give her to me! There, Miss Poll, you Sit on my chair. You can't pull m hair, because I don't reach up high enough-—ha! ha! ha!—eh, major?’ her teeth gleaming out in the glow from the cedar Sre. “Yes, | am thinking, you see, how proud I should be of you. You are so tall, and—now, don’t mind, for I'm going to flatter you all the rest of your days—and so handsome! And how proud | hoped you would be of me!” (A balf-rising attitude on the part of the major, who is forgetting decorum, and how girls were 40 years ago.) “Oh, mmjor, you are finding the blaze toc hot. How stupid of me to let you roast in that manner. Here, let me put up the sereen. Isn't it a pretty one? [ em- broidered it myself. See, it ts an Italian princess under an a» tree. I think she looks a trifle like your son, Ned, only, of course, he's not done in Kensington. Well, | was planning that once in a while, on very grand ocea- sions, you migit take me out with FOU oes “Once in a while, madam!” The major was a vast substantial protest. “Oh, 1 know, of course, what you think you have to say. But don't do it. Besides, we couldn't leave Ned | ohind very often.” A lurking laugh in the corners of two brown eyes. “Or, he might go With Aunt Maria, eh? Ob—-0-0-0! The major couldn't see anything funny in that common-place arrange. went, “My dear Miss Ma "ee Confound those’ chairs! A onlin move them an inch without getting red in the | you, and sce you | promise of hides all of { leaves only it a salute no younger man could | elownd doors | 13 A the wind i iv n | gives | fhe at | | the southward o | off the 3 | rock in the middle of the strait dividing There is a rustle of silk skirts, and a tap | major | rises, with a sudden rush of blood to the | head—not apoplectic, surcly—and sa- | | mantic fondly 1 shall cherish you; how earnestly I ghall strive to gratify each wish that on can make; how truly proud 1 shall s of my beautiful young.’ “Oh, stop! You praise me more than I can over deserve.” Two limpid tears showed through the gathering gloom, “I mever dared hope you would receive me so tenderly. [am a-coming right over there, sir—and right behind your chair-=s0-—on my tip-toes, and-put one-—littlo kiss-—like that!—on your dear old forehead.” The major grew more agile than he had been for twenty years. Mean- while Poll had got to screaming. ‘‘Lord! lord! lord! lord!” and would not leave off, “Oh, yes, I'm go thankful you like me! And we will be =o happy together, won't we! And we both are grateful, I as sure you, Here's the ring he gave me. See! Two beautiful pearls and that twinkling diamond. Doesn't it look charming in the firelight! Ned said- don’t think me silly for telling you— that if you are satistied with the little wife he had chosen he believed he would go half mad with joy. But really | didn’t think he'd tell you so soon, for he felt a little timid about it." A long pase, during which the major relaxes 18 fatherly embrace somowhat, Then a venture from the girl: “I'm afraid I've talked too freely with you! Or por- haps you feel sad when you remember Ned is going to belong to met’ The «ead bows so low that the light climbs to that now. “But we'll live somewhere near | every day, Why, must you be guing? Can't you stay to tea. Well, button up vour coat well Now, please give your new child one | more Kiss, to tell her that yon mean all | you have said. Good-bye! Good-bye! “Lord! lord! lord! lord! lord!” How that bird screams. The wind | There is a | rain, and the dusk + autumn’s beauty, and eal.ossness apparent, sixty-five! At that age it | climbing a bill in the teeth of | as each other rngrily a dismal the % | Sisty-nive, hard The 01d Geographical Bagabeo, (World of Wonders The most celebrated of whirlpools is | that called the M which ’ H Tet ii | strom, ies to | | Loffaden islands, | const of Norway, near a large i the islands of Var and Moskenes, It is} produced by the conflicting currents of of the great Norwegian fords Theres are most extraordinary and ro-! legends coneerning the Mel | strom, bot careful observations have shown that the peril has been magnified. At flood or ebb tide in summer it of fers no danger even to small boats, But in winter, and during stormy weather, even large ships and steamers do not dare to venture near it. At certain states of the wind and tide during this season the whole stream boils in mighty whirls, against which the largest vessols would contend in vain, These whirling whkters would not suck one i and isomeric projections | veying in the field during the scasons of | | camping | studies In drawing : 4 tion in the schools of | ural ! and i { the period i of | and military law, on i of the world, vessels down in their vortex, however, as CADET LIFE AT WEST POINT, The Course of Study=Hard Work and Strict Discipiine, [P ughkeopsis Press) . Tho activities of fest Point have no break throughout the entire year. Work beginning the 1st of Beptembor lasts to the énd of the year. After a few days consumed in examination, another term begins, which lasts till the 81st of May. ‘Then come examinations which last till about the middle of June, from whenee till the 20th of August the ea- dets live in eamp on the plain, During this period no regular studies are pur- sued, books being largely thrown aside for practical work, such as surveying, astronomical observations, ete. For these purposes the finest instruments are Provided. Cadets are admitted to the academy as late in the year as Septem- | ber, when the year's studies are begun, Ihe course lasts four years, dividing the cadets into as many classes, The fourth matics, the English language, French, history, geography, and ethies and tactics of artillery and infantry, and re exercise and military gymnastios, Ip the second year, mathemathics are n leading feature of the course of studies, which comprises, also, French, | surveys | ink and | topography and plotting of with lead pencils, pen and colors, construction of the various pro blems in descriptive geometry, shades awl shadows, and linear perspective Practical sur out the The study of mili aptly supplements | tary tactics comprises practical mstrue the soldier pany and battalion, and in artillery and cavalry, With the third year the cessful cadet is advanced to | nataral and experimental philosophy, ‘sy oom a130 the study of | chemistry, mineralogy and geology, free i band drawing in hiack and architect and colors, tities fee continued, practical military added to the hard and landscape white, constructive drawing in § and ILE which ChEineer ing work of studious addition of ing and the scien ngineer hs panish imnguage, inter, tional HON, i the history and tecimical instructions a ordnance and gunne ignaling The reveille call at 6 o'clock in the morning rouses him from his bunk. He and his mate forthwith prepare the room they share in common, and half an hour's time he is breakfast, Forty minutes him in which to make the first the day. Guard-mounting is nest in order, taken in turn. Each day's guard consists of thirty-five privates and four non-commissioned offi cers, and the offi- cer in command, all cadets. At =» o'clock one-half the students are seated in recitation classes, and the other engaged in preparation for them. At half-past 9a. m., this half take their places, leaving those who have left their ry and are formerly believed, but would infalibly | classes at liberty to pursue thelr Je. iis dash them on the rocks, or, in case ow small ships, swamp them with water, The imagination of Edgar A. Poe, which | painted a descent into the Malstrom, had no hold on facts whereupon to de lineate his marvelous picture. Stripped, however, of its fictitious dangers, the Mwlstrom is still a gruesome fact, and the Norwegian fishing boats are careful to give it a wide berth except in very smooth and pleasant weather, when the tide is just right. This is rather a dis agreeable necessity, as it is said that the Malstrom and its vicinity furnishes a favorite feeding-ground for the largest and finest specimens of the finny. a: CRC SN Mankind's Hygienic Mistakes, (Health Journal. } It is a mistake to labor when you are not in fit condition to do so. To sagelnde that the smal Tat Toot the is enough to sleep in. To think that the more a person eats the healthier and stronger he will be- come. To take off p clothing out of sea- :ause you bave become heated. imagine that if a little work or ex- ercise is good, violent and prolonged ex- ercise is better. To think that any nostrum or patent medicine is a specific for all diseases flesh is heir to. To go to bed at midnight and rise at day-break, and imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained. To believe that children can do as much as grown people, and that the more hours they study the more they can learn. To eat as if you only had a minute to finish the meal in, or to eat without appetite, or continue after it has been satisfied, merely to satisfy the taste. To imagine that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better as aleoholic stimulents —is good for the system without regard to after effects, Camphor-Making in Japan, ( J Camphor is ng Japan in way: After a tree is felled to the it is cut up into chips, which are laid § a tub or a large iron ily fill with water, and = 2s 22557 i 3 £i= = ¥ aration for second recitation swgins at 11 with half the cadets, as in the first recitation, and lasts an hour, when the remaining students take their turn for the remaining length of time. After dinner, at about 2, another period of recitation is begun, lasting an hou: each for all the students, who are divided into two sections, as before Classes are resumed at 10 minutes past 4 p.m, aod last until half-past 5 p. m. Parade is the event of sunset, and in fine weather is attended by numerous admirers of the natty Biwi fellows who take part in it is includes the whole of the cadets in attendance at the Of the calls at West Point, the summons for recitation; all calls for mili formation are made by means of the drum and fife. One by dram and fife, heard every morning after reveille, is understood by ailing men to mean that they report at the hospital for ex. amination, where they become subject to the rule of Esculapius, Every Saturday the cadet is allowed to | wander at his own will any whers within the government lines. Two hops a week during the warm months of the year assist in forming the gentlemanly deportment for which the cadet is justly celebrated, and increase his esteem for the Letter half of creation. Light res | ing amid pleasant surroundings is at his disfosal in the library, or, at his pleasure, in his room. The advent of friends at the past gives him a “spell” of liberty, never indulged, however, at the expense of his progress. Inter changing calls with other cadets is a pleasu tempered with prohibiticns which are wholesome, and suggestive. The cadet must not smoke, nor are al- cobolie drinks allowed in the rooms. He must not play but chess and oe heckers are not ori Rr Many ca- dets who are musical in their tastes, play on instruments and sing. Here, better than elsewhere, added that at- A ane on pu Bop fo on once a week ntendent of the academy is over his delinquents, His de- a Sri e {ol in | seated at his | given | meal of | {yy TO MORROW, [All the Year Hound ) “You'll coms to-morrow then” light words lightly said, Gayl po” waved her little hand, ly he H Yd bis hoad. yy “You'll come to-morrow then,” and the man With on his errand went, 3 a tender prayer on heart and Ui ot i on his oth be By . hy The woman a moment Jingured; “would he look" turn for a parting Then with half a smile and hall a sigh, ber household burthen took, You'll come to-morrow then,” and when the i morrow hroke, Pale lips in tho crowded city, of the “railway ent,” spoke; A strong man in a stranger's home, in death's ! dread quiet Iny, And a woman sobbed a full heart out ina cottage a wile away, Bo lightly our thoughts leap onward, so lightly we hope and plan, watch ber plaything man Discounting the dim strange future, while his blind eyes cannot ses, next step way be, | And love flonts Inughing onward, side glides w rrow, | While men and womon and say, “We'll meet to-morrow!” PORTABLE STRAWBERRY BEDS, An Aged Negro's Invention, and the | Suaceess of His Pian, {Atlanta Constitution.) Portable strawberry beds ar. the latest in the long list of inventions of the nine teenth century, and in a few years every citizen who has a little y gRraen or a sunny spot on th | his house can raise strawberries i Year round | four advant style, | mated roof of These beds have three or ges over the old-fashioned which cannot be Oy All } sadvantage wind, rain, and drought are | away with. Belwesn Branford Guilford is thint traveled and one of th rockiest and most generally the man whois d IARC. gard the futur { i rest and rod clearing {0 revolutionize ning an aged negro, alion « SAT with 1 oe for Riu i chanced to bit tion of Caesar a¢ surprised to i front of his house, Iv i air of pride three or four of strawberries “Where in the world did y imated quadruped, i "1 growed em.” Lealmly devoured a bring 25 ccuts in the ket, *You growed ‘em? said Cusar, as he berry that would New York war How? You jess come and see.” The reporter followed, and flourishing strawberry plant, Some the plants were covered with blossoms, eately greenish white of the ripe and un. ripe fruit, peeped from under the luxu- riant leaves, “You see dem pails is mighty handy to take round,” explained Cwsar, as he held one gatherer's inspection lot of them pails, and Gill ‘em up wid de blackest kind of wood dirt. Den once a week | cuts a ranner off an old plant, and puts in a fresh pail, and that way | keeps a fresh stock. These old plants can stand de cold, so [leave ‘em eut until late in the afternoon, but the young ‘uns they looks kinder peaked if 1 lets dem be out except in de middie ob de day.” The roof of the house was mostly com- posed of old sashes neatly glazed, and in the center of the r stood an old wood stove, which kept the temper. ature at summer beat. There were more pails, each containing plants of differvut ages, which Ceasar explained would bear all winter if he did not for get and let the fire go out. *1 done made a A Neapolitan Don, | Rom + Cor, London Times, } Imagine the doorway of a cave, | where, on -entering, you must descend | Not a ray of light penetrates into it ex- oe black battered walls and upon a layer of | filth mixed with putrid straw, two, three and four families yegetate together, | | The best side of the eave, namely: that | through which humidity filtrates the least, is occupied by a rack and a manger tied; a horse it may be, or an ass, a calf ora pig. On the opposite, a heap of i lh aod rags represent the beds. In one corner is the fireplace and the house. hold utensils lie about the floor. This atrocious scene is animated by a swarm of ball naked, dishevelled women; of children entirely naked rolling about in the dirt, and of men stretched on the ground in the of idiocy, Such is a Neapolitan Multiply it by thousands, Remember that 100,000 beings at least have no other shelter; that they only live on fruit and out even changing their rags once in a and five fion, searcely poor, together. Houses where the sun's rays never penetrate, where the sea breere never reaches, where all instinet of | the geugrene it is necessary to burn out, va Fistaritne June, . in a hit at ‘ } While Fate waits grimly by and smiles, to class, or first year's men, study mathe- i | | What a single flying hour brings; where the | ceive instruction in fencing and bayonet | nd at his | between them walk, | patch of | all the | of | done | is little |, fine specimens | ou get | those!” he asked, as be drew up his an- | “Yes, sar, | growed them in buckets, 2 sure enough, back of the hovel, on a bench, | stood twenty or thirty pails, each with a | of | and on others the deep red and deli- | in each hand for the news | to which animus of various kinds are | fondacho, vegetables, on suails and onions, with: | Re ] ' or IAL CLARK WILLIAMS, A.M, ; | year; without water, exce t such as incipal’ | tiows in a dense, impure rivolet wind. | ing through those lanes. 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