A LITTLE LIGHT, "Twas Dut a little light she bore, ‘While standing at the open door; A little light, a feeble spark, And yet it shone out through the dark With cheerful ray, and gleamed afar As brightly as the polar star, : A little light, a gentle hint That falls upon the page of pring, May clear the vision, and reveal The precious treasures doubts conceal, And guide us to an open door Where we new regions may explore, A Tittle light dispels the gloom That gathers in the shadowed room Where want and sickness find their prey And night seems longer than the day, And bosrts with many troubles cope Uncheered by one slight ray of hope. 0! sore the nead that some must know ' While journeying through this vale of woe! Dismayed, disheartened, gone astray, Caught in the thickets by the way, For lack of just a little light To guide their wandering steps aright, It may be little we can do To help another it is true; But better is a little spark Of kindness, when the way is dark, Than one should miss the road to heaven For lack of light we might have given, —New York Ledger. NS ;S TROUBLE. At the breakfast Frank Hatfield's wife, one of and most winning of world, had said to hi CS Have i yet 3 “No, Mabel; not time 3 he or ly vent d letter to-morrow, maybe.’ “Po you know, Frank, I wild with curiosity an of ion of wedding trip for th morning the dearest women : too table that av before vesterday. Get sim Suc! am to see his wife! 1d nat F 2} theirs, to put off p monthe aft we ree montins alter th presen he started. fiercely rapid walking, with the officials in blue Hatfield w wdmitted to a dimly of mind to put hi A few and Frank dingy and Ceili. a wil ““H sh 4 as Har reports “Bu how “Jean't t found the | I was so d word.” “The poe kethbook ? “Yes, it the Pennsylvania tion. 1 just checked my ft when they began to make an and that's about all I know ab I was nabbed and searched.” “But Florence?!” said Frank “I wrote to her that 1 was detained New York for a few days by import business. Then I gave your name counsel and sent foryou.” “J didn’t get your note till this morn ing,” said Frank. “Some mistake or other, am, trapped, and what know.” “Oh, Icanget you off easy enough; it's an old game of the pickpockets. All I have got to Yo is to prove who you are, and the Judge won't fail to see it,” said Frank. “But I don't want to prove who I am; it would kill Mabel and just about mur der Florence. You don’t know how sen sitive she is. No: 1 must be got off and acquitied as Harry Taylor, or I'll never get over it. Now, Frank, old fellow, promise me not to let my name out to anybody, of all to Mabel. Flor. ence's letters will come in yOUr care as usual: and I can send a Jetter to Mabel dated from home, you know, as if it was inclosed to you." “You must take the responsibility of all this deception, then,” said Frank : and after a great deal of hesitation the the young Iawyer allowed himself to be overpowered into giving the required promise, but left the station house and returned to his office a troubled and anxious-hearted man, He did not like deception in any shape and he seriously doubted his capacity for concealing any. thing from his dear Jittle wife, And so it was when Frank Hatfield re. turned home that evening and silently handed Mable an unpostmarked missive, over which her blue eyes glistened and which made her kiss the baby twice, he did so with a flush on his cheek and a cloud on his brow which never left him the whole evening. In vain he tried to be WH keth fon umoi IK in na i " ste inks outery was at had rt it JUL AS ¥ in ant a5 my But here 1 to do I do not least s for clumsy had been in trouble before he was badly trated her hushand’s seeret, and she was not only a fruc daughter of Eve as to curiosity, but ns self willed and imperious a little body as she was loving, with a good deal of that peculiar element of char- acter out of which jealousy is manufac tured under favorable circumstances; and so, though at first she tried not to show it, Mabel was more than a little offended, and Frank, poor fellow, could not help seeing and feeling it. And thus the next day passed and the next, and matters down town looked worse and worse and matters at home grew clouder at a rate Frank Hatfield would hsrdly thought possible. a secret from his wife; and the poor tel low grew gloomier with every the fretful and discontented face that had { hitherto been so sunny. Even the baby { was compelled to suffer his of the household trouble, In her irritated mood | Mabel's thoughts naturally turned to her have glance at share brother. and so one she sat down and wrote him a letter great many things that tended for his own Perhaps no harm would have come from it if Mabel Bad not mailed the letter with her own hands, without saying a word to her hus band, and that, more by accident anything else, it was opened and read by day in which wore only in eyes, than | a young married lady in one of the large following day Pennsylvania towns on the ready » “I must stop ment,” said Frank «Oh. but 1 am in sucl Floren “But it is only with my partnes all dav and 1 } not seen him Frank's office was in a very busy part of the city. and both he and Florence had their heads full of exciting thoughts to notice any particula m bers of the hurrying throngs upon the s the carriage pulled 1 8 ry tn ave a He has beon at « law paper ourt LOO me sidewalks. Still, up at the curb Frank remarked I won't have to go up stairs; there's my partner now. Brown! Eh, Brown!" The go thus addressed had been standing on the edge of the walk as camo & ex “Good! tleman one and now if waiting for som forward with a remarkably beamiz sion of countenance “Frank, my boy, it'sall right." What's all right!'™ “Why, that Harry Taylor's case.” Frank Hatfield had to catch his breath for a moment, but stammered, ‘Hehe how?" “Why. there was a whole batch =ent up this morning and one of them eon. fessedd to putting the pocketbook in Harry's pocket.” | “Well, what did you do?" {| “Oh, Judge M we WOR a8 good ns | ple; let him right out, and I've got him | up stairs in the office.” i A gloved hand was on Frank's shoulder and a trembling voloe was trying to ask | him: “Frank, Frank, lan't that Walter?” “Yes, it's Walter,” sald Frank Hat. field; but he was sorry enough the next minute, as he sat in a comer of the ear. riage, trying to recall the color to the white and beautiful face of Florence, for she had fainted. As for Brown, he had yre especially as Florence and Walter looked so provokingly loving and happy upon the rear seat. Home was reached at last, however, and the somewhat imte driver reined in Frank sprang to the sidewalk snd never : the So much for keeping | { upon his heart, Frank pushed onwara to- 1 open twas suddenly confronted by she said A: | said | It was not very late when they entered house, and Frank's latchkey dis- pensed with bell-ringing and servants, “Wait 0 moment Frank, “while I call Mable.” And so saying, but with a big weight As he the threw the ward sitting-room. a lady in In rvelous array of full traveling costume, and a glance howed trunks and traveling “Mable, my dens A gloved hand held out toward small whit yond him a 1a & 44d envelope, whil trembling voice said HGood Dye Frank." Mable lent Walter, are Yes, M here | 4.” And Waiter forward, taking h that Walter's vious | d 1 Lie SOU himself id of his pretty i 1 about ready OW her. W ' hom oO mol Sn. AWAY —————" A Dog's Benevolence, With cheerful th and ely foll soovered in th I“ p a stranger to and apparently of Evidently it had been n ill on the road, and vould have died in the ecliar for shelter, had kind commiseration « ywedd, th nnyworth the take probably which it not if the into it had crawled been for the other dog. whe pr vhably quite dent had found it there, —————————— Snatched Fortune From Misfortune. In 1885 Farmer Stanley's house and farm were ruined by the Cherry Mount ain New Hampshire, He thought that he was a ruined man, but the exhibition of the devastation to sight. he charged for the sight, nough money with which to buy a farm in Jefferson. He sold his farm to a hotel company at a big profit, and invested the proceeds in a farm not far from his old home. by acci- landslide in swers, whom brought him ¢ small has just large A A Typical Tragedy. I said unto my love one day, | “Lot's trip a-down this winding way." The way, Ree The sylvan glade was sweet and cool; We found a lovely little pool The pool. = I snid: “Lot's fish from there outhring; Here are some ploces short, of string The string. « = wo we | Wo knotted knots into that twine | Until we haul a fishing line, ! The Hine, com coum nm wo But soon with fear my love did bawl; From nooks the little makes did crawl, The little sakes. cr 00 0 | i And then the ain it downward dashed, And speedy lightning zig-sag flashed. The Rghining, NENZE Dyon fo tke dh did Bows ¥ ry (TAs The Dost. wild, she A the boat did fool er igi, and! iy nu el RTL i tience with either horses or driver, his smoking horses in front of the house, | dreamed of aiding Walter; but Florence | by this time was well able to help herself. | in the parlor,” said | door before him, however, he | | | MEN WHOM THEY ENSLAVED NOW | | THE WARLIKE DERVISHES, MEET THEM IN BATTLE, Whata Dervish Really Is—Egyptian Soldiers Not Natives—-Moslem Va paticism of the Arvabs, At present the readers of American papers soe necounts of contests waged on the hot sands of Egypt between General Grenfell's forees and the dervishes, Just what a dervish may be perhaps very few can tell, A writer in the Saturday Review ive 8 some inter sting fact England’s African foes 1 i “It has been in regard to th \ nfed that the , or little mor 3 African Mo follower of Mohan more he say i once : here,’ NSC Or other in Cairo d popular in on he Rufayeh are slaves imp traders, and remember pers tradition of their elders, how i into the Egyptian house of bondage hort hands of these lordly jellabs, and hh 1! they canu wha srs of torture they underwent at t flaally, after undergoing and surviv while thousands perished beside ther these horrors, they were nivance of the Egyptian Government, and, under the name of liberated slaves, were put into training for the army. The supply of these soldiers is not, some inexhaustible seized by con (EY authorities seem to think, Mr. Stantey took away with him a goodly « ontingent ; another contingent has perished at Buakin and on the Nile; but of those that remain it may safely be said that for war in so hot a region, and especially against the slave dealers (whom we dignify as ‘dervishes’ above all other dervishes), they are most useful, and may eventually be of further use as show ing an example to the fellah soldier “The great drawback to their employ ment is their inherent savagery, They are reckless of the lives they bave with such difficulty preserved ; and when they | come hand to hand with their former | masters the unhappy jellab has bat a poor chance. When, at Suakin last autumn, they were ordered to charge a trench full of dervishes, they went for. ward wifh reckless fury, outstripping | thelr European officers, and occupying simultancously both ends of the trench, literally raked it from end to end with their fire, leaving not a single man alive. How far they are to be depended on be. fore other troops we have no means of gn Th de Key oe oy Khedive's son in the Turkish and Russian of these bisck | the soldiers different, | the Russion-—on the contrary, if they had been long enough in Fgypt, they cannot but have learned to hate the | Turk. Phelr Moslem fanaticism if it has ever existed, had not had time to grow; and, unlike the jellabs, the soldiers of the Czar had never injured them of Bir Francis Their what recollections heard been told them by the unhappy refigees on Nubian territory of own early life they have from their comrades the venigeance wreaked ‘dervishes' on the unreewm i of the 1 pper Nile 1} : toum—these How to Prevent Colds, : xing « —— So ————————— — A Squirrel That Throws Well, and ong allern he was more. The ion any one | that he had : ock was walk- trem were struck with Their shrieks sever people in that s delighted them as to the crowd of snimal ¢ sharps} ind ed to his perch i y number of girls wlo we under the Cones whet " attracted the of neighborhood, and the sg attention uirrel chatter quickiy informed hubbub \ the 1 th cause of the boys gathered to chase 141 and they had a nice t d it rrel useG stones and hisck eve as a ing it al wy vend ™~ One of the boys wears proof that the animal can throw accu miely, record that the squirrel was struck by any of the numer amall that went through the branches After hour's sport the frisky | ttle fellow cone clwied that be had had enough, and #k/pped from tree to tree to his home the cemetery Birmingham (Ala) Transcripts while there is no ous quarncs about an Animal Life in the Gulf Stream. The surface waters in the Gulf Stream teen with minute life of all kinds There the young of larger animals exist, microseropic in size; and adult animals which never grow large enough to be plainly visible to the naked eye occur in | immense quantities. By deagging a fine silk not behind the vossel, these minute forms are easily taken, and when placed in gla dishes millions uncounted are seen swimming backward snd forward. When looked at through a microscope [we see young jelly fishes, the young of barpiacies, crabs and shrimps, besides the adult microscopic species, which are very abundant. The toothless whale finds in these his only food. Rushing through the water, with mouth wide opon, by strainers With | Grenfell it is | of | to by the | sailing i in hop a IA JAPANESE RESTAURANT. WHERE A HUNGRY AMERICAN CAN DINE IN ORIENTAL STYLE, Well Cooked Food Polite Attend. ance—Pretty Table China-Very Moderate Prices No Water Used, A writer in Harper's Weeldy gives this staurant re opened in New York oat) scription of a Japanese re The dining narrow and A quiet which an omy is Jong, gh-ceiled. paper covers the oynamented hb Senn 1 peculiar Chinese hangers, FOS AY best American hirty years since thos ate ana : he It is oniv 1 were unknown almost in Japan tho chopstick and the china spoon being the only tableware employed. The china and porcelain altogether Oriental it app Sragce an are i character he teacups h brims that, are wide and shallow, wil instead of being flat, curl up at one point into graceful apex, and oa the opposite de sink down into a delicate V-shaped Both inside and out, beneath colored glaze, are the whorls made by the potter in *‘throwing™ the cup The service of the soup is very gurious The waiter brings a bowl to each guest which is ovid in shape, about six inches in diameter and five inches in height. The top 1s channeled, and is cover i with a closely fitting lid, almost saucer-like in ap pearance The guest removes the cover and lays it alongside the bowl, using it as a receptacle for fish bones, vegetable animal cartilage. When the course is over, the waiter seizes the cover, and with a swift tum of the wrist rn places it on the bowl, throwing into the latter with the same movement the debris it contains, All of the table china in the Japanese restaurant makes a pleasing contrast to that usually employed by our own moe. Its color, shape sod decoration vary in. finitely, but are always restful and agrees. ble to the eye, Last of all, but of equal interest to the reader, is the fact that the Japanese favor economy and low prices. A superb meal with them costs not more than a quarter of what it would wader American or European auspices. From first to last sioms Of
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