-— —— THER BROKEN MARP, ¥ this now silent harp could wake, How pure, how strong, how true The tender strain its chords would make Of love and grief for you! But lke my heart, though faithful long By you dast forth to pain, This hushed and frozen voice of song Must never live again, Yet haply when your fancy strays Q'ar unregarded things, And half in dream your gentle guse Falls on its shattered strings, Some loving impulse may endear Your memories of the past, And if for me you shed one tear I think 'twould wake at last: Wake with a note so glad, £> clear, So lovely, so complete, That birds on wing would pause to hear Its music wild and sweet; And you would know-—-alas, (00 lato How tender and how true Is this fond heart that hugs its fato— To die for love and you. — William Winter, in Harper's Monthly. | HIS OWN PROPERTY. | “For green leaf and bossoms, and fine sunny | weather, } And singing, and loving, all coms back to! er! For green leaf and blog Oh The “Oh!” was in quite a different key, and did not seem to harmonize with the rest of the song. Ellie Fairfax was | equally surprised and disgusted to find | that she had an unexpected auditor—a | young man, who stood in the middle of | the path, with an amused smile on his face that was quickly supplanted by a do corously grave expression as he saw that | he had attracted her attention. “I beg your pardon,” he said, lifting his hat, ‘‘but I have completely lost my- self in these woods. Can you tell me if | there is any possible way of getting out | of them? »I begin to think that J have been bewitched.” He was rather a good-looking young man, dark and slight, with a spruce neat air that exasperated Ellie, who was in stantly conscious of having come prim rosing, with the in her clothes. Nevertheless, she was a young person of dignity and decision, as beh only and elder sister of a large family of boys, so, despite her perilous px amid encumbering hazel boughs, she drew herself up and answered severely: “I suppose you are aware that these woods are private property, and that you are trespassing!” “Really, I am extremely sorry i trespassed on your property,” stranger. His air of extreme regret somewhat mollified Elle, who answered in a forbidding manner: “Oh, it is not ours, but we have leave to come here while the owner is abroad.” Therewith she emerged slow ly from the clinging bushes, and arrived on the path a little disheveled, being more in- tent on preserving her primroses than her | raiment. In spite of her old winter gown and her general untidiness, she was 8 very pretty girl as she stood in the broad green ride with the spring sun shine falling on her through the leafless trees, and bringing out the gold tints in ber abundant brown hair, “I am afraid I can’t direct you, for you would only lose your way,” she said, looking up the stranger with her frank gray eyes. “But we are just going bome, and can take you as far as the gate, if you like.” He accepted the offer with alac rity, | and Ellie, turning from him, made the woods ring with shouts of ‘‘Boys! Boys!” that brought her brothers scurrying out | of the underwood like rabbits in alll directions. “This gentleman has lost himself in | the woods, and I undertook to show him | the way out,” she said confidently to the eldest boy, Bob, as he came up exhibit ing evident surprise at finding her with a eompanion. i “The owner must be very good-natured | to let you plunder his wo like this," stranger remarked, with an amused smile, as the party set forth, laden with | flowers-and roots, “Mr. Hayes has nothing to do with it,” | returned Bob ptly. “When he comes back I expect we shall be turned | out, so we are making a new fernery and getting roots for the garden as fast as wo | can.” The young man's amused laugh at the ingenuous explanation made Ellie feel a little guilty. “I don't think we do any harm really,” she aid. ‘“And this is our first spring in the country, so that we can't help go ing mad over the flowers and accumulat ing them wholesale.” The stranger assured her that he was certain that they were doing no harm, and entered warmly into the plans for the new fernery. The boys clustered around him, telling him their plans and nd. ventures, wop by his frank interest and | amusement. Ellie walked on in front, enjoying the beauty of the woods Mn their spring dress and listening idly to eager voices behind her. She could not help liking any one who got on so well with | the boys, and by the time they reached | the gate she felt quite friendly towan the intruder, “We part here, T suppose,” she said, facing round as they entered the meadow ond the woods. “That path to the | leads to the village. But I should | recommend you not to trespass here again | ‘or you may get hopelessly lost.” “I will take care in the future; I am | much obliged to you,” said the young | man, gravely, ! Sah ho wlood. sentchiny « with a look ' ad ng, as Eilie Denoved onward, on tall, lithe young figure, amid her bod of 3 . tA ast DOYS, oldest Wes Lu wition ! f1 hav said the less | am sure i said apolog | to show that you | may I come | nard that § Ellie was completely overcome. One of Lady Laura Taylor's sons, and she was absolutely not fit to be seen! It was, perhaps, as areadjustment of the balance that she arrayed herself in her new covert-coat and most becoming hat to go down to the vicarage that afternoon. As she walked into the drawing-room, with head held very high, Mrs. Morrrson thought once more what a very distinguished-looking girl Miss Fair. fax was, They were very busy over Sunday- school reports when the maid opened the door and announced, ‘Mr. Hayes." Ellie looked up. She was curious to see the absentee owner of Woodleigh Court, particularly as his arrival was so unex- | pected. What was her horror to see the stranger of the morning calmly advanc- ing, with the self-same amused smile on his face! The memory of her stern re- buke of trespass flashed across her, and | *afety lay in avoiding her, while he yet | Eng she wished herself under the floor. “Bernard, my dear boy!” cried Mrs. Morrison, holding out both hsuds. “This | he abscuted himself from the Lawn--a | day. is a pleasant surprise.” “I came earlier than I was expected, after my usual habit, you see,” he said, { returning her greeting with warmth. “How, delightful of you! Let me in. troduce you to Miss Fairfax.” Ellie bowed stifily. Mr. Hayes was equal to the occasion. *I think we met this morning,” he said, holding out his hand affably; but the twinkle in his cye was an insult to Ellie's feelings. *‘I am afraid I behaved very badly this | morning, but I was so charmed by your | defense of my interests that I hadn't the heart to undeceive you,” he went on peni- | tently. ‘‘Beside, I really am s stranger here, and my own woods are a mystery to | till within | me. The Court has been let { the Inst year or two, and I have spent so my life abroad that Woodleigh never been my home till now,” n afraid I behaved very badly; 1 have been very rude,’ ‘And there is noth much of ha "ah in ip qd 1 to detect one 5 is Guite lit up Hit was 4 . i Dope you will con ler and steal in the woods, bear no malice a 1 he Ip Bob with his ang ere ’ “O0, vert inly, il i won't bore you to I am sure my mother will be very to see " said Ellie, smiling. is Miss Fairfax?! It is quite a 7 he asked of ie had taken her departure rfax is an officer's widow who has taken the Lawn. Ellie is a nice girl, but her brothers are rather werpowering I advise beware of them," said wily old Mrs, Of course, he did not take her advice: quite the contrary. He at the Lawn next day, and toiled the greater part of the afternoon over rocks and fern roots, to the great delight of the boys After that he became indispensable to death, happy * YO “Who Ff name § » Te the vicar , when Ell “Mm. Fai WB ie vou Morrison. called their amusement. He played cricket with | them, fished and boated with them, and! | joined all their expeditions. ful Ellie was deeply grateful to him, fo the boys were always safe with him, and they were at times rather a care to her Bob, in particular, had arrived at that age when boys think that nothing that a | woman says can possibly be right if it differs from their own opinion, and was a great comfort to her to find own ideas upheld by Bernard Hayes's su thority and influence. One fine morping it occurred to Ber t would be an excellent thing if he were to give a large garden party, as a return for the hospitality lavished on | { him by the neighborhood. Of course the plan must be discussed at the Vicarage, and 80 he took his hat see what would be said to it Half-way down the quaint village {street he met Ellie strolling along in a | slow, quiet way, very unlike her usual brisk pace. She was not alone. By her side loitered a young man with a fair bushy beard, whose sir and gait spoke | unmistakably the sailor. She had a de. jected look, and Bernard's practised glance noticed at once that she was | dressed in a careless, negligent way, as though her appearance was beneath con sideration. She looked across the rgad, and smiled and nodded at him, and If hesitated, os though expecting him to come over and join her blind to the unspoken invitation. Her smile struck him as forced, and there was | 6 sudden look of curiosity on her com. panion’s face that sanoyed him, merely bowed and hurritd on to Vicarage. Mrs. Morrison was tying up carnations the Lin the garden and he joined her there. “Have you seen Miss Fairfax this morning!” he asked, after a casual good morning and a remark or two about the flowers, “Yes, 1 saw her go by just now.” “Who is that with ber?” Mrs. Morrison was silent for a moment then she suid quietly: “The man she i» | engaged to." “How do you know she is engaged?” cried Bernard, fiercely. ‘Strangely enoogh. 1 heard it jn the train yesterday. It seems to be a secret, but I wish I had known it before.” Mrs. Morrison went on tying up her flowers, “I couldn't have believed it she said at last, dm afr not There wore two my Toardaty f I' and the 1 PH | and went off to But for once Bernard was | He | ‘My dear boy!" she ate tone full of sym “I wouldn't 50 much,” said Ber- nard, hoarsely—he could not dissemble with such a dear old friend—*¢if she did not look so miserable!” Yes, that was where the sting lay. If she had seemed happy he could have blamed himself for his own folly in ever hoping to win her, and, moreover, he would have congratulated her boldly to make sure of the truth. But she looked so wretched whenever he met her with | her new companion, though she made { evident efforts to conceal her feelings, | that he could not trust himself to Bp- | proach the subject. guid, her afleotion- y —— three days, and I could no¢ think what was the matter,” owned Ellie, softly. “x ht I had no to come near you;"” but he held her close now, ul Stak Jou have been very unlucky,” she said, smiling, ‘‘or very much ill-used. This is the second time you have been warned off your own property!” Cas sells, SELECT SIFTINGS, Ballets originated at the Italian courts. Carpets are of ancient use in the East. The Huns were a race of warlike | Asiatics, If Mrs. Morrison were right it must be | | a foolish youthful engagement now re- pented of, and if she were to own as much | : to him he did not know what he might be | tempted to say or suggest. His only | i cherished a falot hope that there might be | | sone mistake. Bo for three whole days | marked proceeding on his part, indeed. | Sunday was wet and stormy. In the! | evening the wind snd raln were so un- i usual for the time of the year that he had | | half a mind to stay at home. But Ellie | | never missed evening service, and a jeal- | | ous desire to know if she would give it | up for her lover drove him to church | | again, | From his lonely seat of state in the | | chancel he would watch the young couple | in their distant pew. There they sat side | by side, apparently content. He watched | them all through the service, and when | he saw the sailor deliberately shut his | hymn-book in order to share hers it was | confirnation of his worst fears. i He did not blame Ellie; he was too | loyal for that. Of course, knowing her- self engaged, she had accepted his at tention unthinkingly, and now awakened to the bitter truth too late, Service over, he joined the stream: of ple that issued slowly from the church Ellie lingered in the porch, being wrapped i ecurely from the storm by her lover. ! “That's all ight, Nell.” he said erily. “Now take my arm and hang we shall do well enough under | had | TIM OWn name MT. ant vestige pe, and ] weht his way slowly hon rt of relief | in his strife with the raging wind, wrrow he would leave Woodleigh uld not #tay to see Ellie look like any longer Her white Then he had his ¥ destroyed the Inst snard Haves s be e, feeling a we and forget it. The next day he took a walk through the woods where Ellie had so sts aly n buked him, and which he had since learned to know well, under her guidance His thoughts were full of her as he loitered under the arching boughs, ane i | as he turned the corner of a long green ride | he came face to face with Ellie herself She could not help the glad surprise that ne swiftly in her eves, nor the smile that lit up ber whole face. Both I. Bh were gone in an instant, but Bernard had | | seen them. . “I did not know that you were here, she said, in excuse “I am only here for a last walk.” he “I am starting for Norway in a day or two." i “Oh, indeed!" said Her disappointmer t found expression in her voice, despite her | { which was planted by John CC care rate Bernard was despe he must know the truth at all costs. Man-like, he went msily, even cruelly, to work. am glad to see you before I go od to congratulate you,” he bruptly. “To congratulate me! “On your engagement to Mr ley.” It was ot now, and he should know the worst. Ellie turned on him imperiously; a sudden flash of instinct told her all. “Who told you that | was engaged to | I Bad i On what” Lang | George Langley?” she demanded. “Mrs. Morrison ;” and he detailed the remarks she had overheard. | “If sho had listened to the end of that | conversation she would have heard the | { answer, ‘Never!'" eried Ellie, indig- | nantly. “I knew that there were two old | Kensington friends of ours in that train, for George saw them and told me. One is an inveterate gossip and matchmaker; | the other knows us well and would have | contradicted such a» foolish report at | ¥ once, : *“Then you are not engaged to himi" | cried Bernard, eagerly. “No, nor ever shall be. He is my! cousin, and we have been like brother and | sister al} our lives, but we could never eare for each other in any other way.” Ellie's tone betrayed her wounded feeling. “Ellie, my darling, what a fool I have been! Ithought you were engaged to him, {and 1 was going away because I could not | bear to see you and know that you could | never be mine. Itis I who have blundered | this time. Can you ever forgive mel” Her hands were held in his, his eyes were looking into hers. On the very | where first they met, Ellie looked slyly, blushing, and whispered, Wey.” “I never should have thought that you | would have believed such a thing,” she said, with a little reproschful sccent on the “you” that went to her lover's heart. | “I must have been mad, I think,” he answered, | what seemed the evidence of my own i eyes, " thoug! | shesaid. “He ) sad face | seemed to haunt him; he would go away ! { Africa is ; Atlantic from New York to Liverp | loss of life 1s not as grest { walked without She forgot them when she heard the cy- | of clone coming, and has been able to walk | a substitute for milk. Bull fighting was in early times an Eng- | | lish pastime. London, England, was not paved st | the Conquest, The last execution for forgery in| gland took place December 31, 1520, | About two hundred misdirected letters | are found in the Boston postoffice every | The waving of a shirt before the fire, suggested to Stephen Montgolfier the idea | of a balloon. | A bloody war between France and Eng- | land was occasioned by s quarrel between | two boy Princes. ‘‘Sasha” is a Russian abbreviation for | Alexander, and that is what ex-Queen | Natalie calls her son. There is a dog in Americus, Ga., that lives on English sparrows, which he! catches by slyly creeping up on them. Brunel learned how to tunnel the Thames by observing a tiny ship worm | perforate timber with its armed head Five hundred and forty pounds, or one hogshead and one and one quarter pints of blood pass through the heart in one i hour. The first hint which Newton received, leading to his most important optical dis. Hu : coveries, was derived from s child's bubbles, Twelve thousand pounds or four hogsheads four gallons, or pints, pass through the keart { urs s04p ¥ ur hi Miss Kate Sherman, a buxom Ten: irl, met her father at ther day and broke two « single hug. Iron furn Romans unprovided with bellows, but were ) girl, ’ RCs noug Lhe pla + with the grate in the direc. tion of prevailing winds. on eminenoes Galileo observed the oscillats lamp in the metropolitan temple of Pisa, | and it suggested to him the most correct method of measuring time Lady Mary We rthiey Montague intr lation for smallpox mto Eng land from Turkey Her own son |} been inoculated with Pe {oct succes | 1718 A puppy which was born age on duced inoct 8 hu Ea me a steamer coon Li ung from He looks and always walks board a Y strangely like a mv mkesy on his hind feet. Out of 100.000 quite curiosity, who cross the ] the people t Pe as among 100 000 who trase! between New York Pittsburg by rail Essex, Mass. proud of a venerable pear tree which still atid aug is certain and blossoms, and aslo who mailed from Bristol, England, 23, 1635, and settled in the northern pe of the town, Cyclones have their good side. There is an old Isdy in Brooklyn who hadn't crutches for ten years 4 well as anybody ever since. EE —— Trees Yielding Milk. There are several kinds of tropical trees that secrete a fluid resembling milk in appearance, but only a small number of | species yield a nutritions snd healthful fiuid. The most remarkable and, per- haps, valuable of these trees is the one known as the ‘“‘cow tree” of Venezuela, and first described by Humboldt. This tree grows to a height of from 50 to 100 | feet, and forms large forests. On incis- fons being made in the stem, a copious i flow of the milk-like sap is obtained, and this is extensively used by the natives as Travelers like Humboldt, visiting the regions of the cow trees have used this milk freely without feeling any ill effects. Careful analysis | of this tree made many years ago shows that it contains aboutthirty-five per cent. | of fatty saponaceous matter and about fif- | ty-eight per cent. of water, with a small | amount of sugar aod albumen. There is | another kind of cow tree found in British | Guiana, which is called the hya-hya by | natives. On wounding the stem a copious | flow of milky sap isswos, tasting like | sweet milk, but it is rather sticky and | far inferior to that obtained from the | cow tree of Venezuela. The cow tree of Para, South America, is a very lofty tree, attaining a height of a hundred feet or more. 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