a IN HOPE OF SPRING, ~~ ~ Above his rest deft autumn softly weaves ~ A coverlet to wrap the new grave in, a frost A symbol that each passing fo say: That is not dead which seemetix lost. Cold, silent lips, which our warm lips have kissed, Dear hands, whose touch ean never be for- got, Friendships that vanish like a summer mist, We have you, and, behold, we have you Hot. A lonesome shadow falls across the floor From each low grave they heap beneath the sod Where sleep the ones we miss; but evermore We have them safe in Paradise, with God. To me, it often seems that death must be Like going on a journey, very far, Across the mountain and the solemn sea, To dwell in a new land where strangers are, | But if a friend is there we loved of old, Our eager thoughts fly faster than our | feet, And when in ours their loving hands we hold, | The stranger land seems full of welcome | sweet, How fair his grave will be when spring comes back, And from the nmiould that hides his face away, The violets grow, and every robin's track Is covered by the creeping things of May. How fair his face will be when dreams come true, And we stand face to face with him, and son The rapture of a joy wenever knew Break in the eyes we miss so constantly, Sleep well, warm heart, so brief 2 earth, Beneath the dead leaves and the autumn rain; That which men count as death, in heaven is birth: Flowers die, we say, but bloom in spring again. The violet, above you, in the mould, Awaits the resurrection of the year, And when its leaves, in April days, unfold, Fo'll say: “Helives with God, who once was with us here.” ~ Viek's Magazine. i —— Ww A light struck, like s knife, through the gloom. Then there was darkness again. A muffled ery. Then silence. In 8 moment the man removed his hand from the woman's mouth. ‘“‘Don't scream. I have no intention of hurting you. I am not here to steal; I am hiding. If you make a sound, if you alarm the house, I am a lost man.” Suddenly the moon, issuing from un- der a cloud, threw a pale beam over the place where they stood. The woman she was only a pale, slight girl- could now see the intruder’s face distinctly—a face haggard, determined, desperate What intuition had made him speak as he had? At the supreme crisis of lif there sometimes come these illuminations, He was an unknown man, fleeing for safety or for life and making his way by main force in the dead of night into the outskirts of a strange house. Yet all the girl said, after looking at him a moment, WAS: “How did you get here!” “I vaulted over the cuter wall. TI re- peat that if you make a sound I am a lost man." He made no other appeal to her: yet she continued motionless, not calling, only trembling a little from excitement. time on “You can't hide here,” she then said. ' ““You will be found. You ean go out of the house door if that will help you.” He did not answer and she turned me- chanicslly to lead the way. The bar of moonlight accompanied them, piercing the interior of the dark, wide rooms. She moved noisclessly, a white, shadowy figure, and the man followed. She might be-—she probably was—helping a felon to escape. The thought went through her brain. But she soundlessiy drew aside the fastening of the heavy door. The silver-tinted sea lay without, hoeav- ing, with long breaks, in sleep. ‘“There is the road to the open coun. try,” she said. It stretched away like a white ribbon, indefinitely, into the night. Again he answered nothing. Only, as he passed through the door, he turned and looked at her. » » » * * » For days this tropic sea had been of a dense, deep, unchanging cobalt blue. Winds were light; the sky arched above lixe a dome of unclouded sapphire. To Rosalys the past and the future appeared alike to have become merged in a dis- tant, soft, silver haze. But then this was natural. For Rosalys was to be married shortly after the vessel reached port. After spending two years in the Australian wilds she was returning home. And the man to whom she was to give herself was returning with her, “It will seem strange to you-—the life of civilization—after the other sort of life you led so long, and the freedom of it," she would say to him ns they slowly paced the deck together under the lumi- nous Southern stars that seemed to hang above them like golden lamps, But Storrman never iy any direct reply. He talked little, at any time, of his past, He acknowledged that he had been rather wild when he first took to the The night wind rushed in softly. | | his life. that he had become engaged to her. She was rather poor, to be sure. But then he himself had enough for both, Let him only get full in the stream of civil: ized life agnin—a man's identity was never 80 lost as ina crowd-—and with money and a pretty and winsome wile, what could he more desire? All those results appeared imminent now. He was conscious, as every day took them farther from one shore and nearer to another, that the sense of approaching a final goal brought a restless impatience with it, By heaven! It was a lucky day for a man, the day in which he felt that he had burned his ships behind him! Burned them so crisply to the last cinder that not the most spectral ghost could rise up from their ashes. Storrman did not expect to be troubled with spectres. And yet he saw one, It Was late one afternoon on deck. the sea. ominous splendor and depth of blueness. The sunset had flamed itself away, leav- ing one crimson banner of cloud stretch. ing upward like a pointing finger. Storr- man was alone. ile had wandered for- ward negligently among the second cabin passengers. And there looking down, he came upon a partly recumbent figure turned motionless toward the sea. The { man had drawn the cap low down over his eyes. What a resemblance! The next instant he had glanced up. | This was no simple resemblance. | looked at each other and neither moved { for the space of a moment, Btorrman was the first to unlock his dry lips. i “You are here! How -"" his voice ap- | peared to strangle in his throat. The other had not changed color by a shade, ‘You are surprised to see me,” he said (slowly. “Well, I suppose it is natural | that you should be. It is exactly five years since we parted. The five { have made a difference, too.” His dark | eyes traveled leasurely over Storrman's appearance -an appearance faultless and immaculate, the appearance of the suc- cessful man of the world. Then with a cynical that was like a smile they dropped to himself—shabby, seedy, a sacond-class passenger, nothing or watched him with a something more, Storrman blanching face. “‘Do you intend to talk? To tell what | yca know? How have you been on board i all this time without my seeing youl” ‘I was pretty well knocked up when we left port. Low feveror something of that sort. 1 had to take to my bunk and | stay there. As to talking-—as to telling the truth—what do you think? It strikes | me that this might be a good moment.” He spoke ively, not removing his eyes from those of the man standing before him. | i i i | { impr ERIVe “Good heaven, Horst, have some pity! [ am engaged to be married. The girl is here—on board —at this instant" “Ah! It would be even a better mo ment than I thought then, would it not! Your gains have made you rich, your identity has been successfully sunk out of sight: you are about to win a presum- ably gosd girl for your fe. Yes, 1 think the moment would be well chosen for bringing you to book. As to pity, did you show me any?! What am [ to be for! Because yon in a prison five years? I ought yu too much to get vengeance you. But ldon't. Ihave waited for this hour for five years. 1 have dreamed of it, planned for it. When I got out to the light of day again I tracked you, found vou, followed you on board this ship. [It wasn't easy work finding The highly respectable Rouge Storrman of to-day has obliterated every trace of his identity with the John Roges i son of five years azo, who was a forger, a thief and a felon" “Hoshi--fo wi moved to compassion let me rot to despise 1 f out of ve you either |] God's make. hush!” At last.” Horst npr turbed, ‘‘fate has put you my hand. Do you think [shall let you slip?” The last word died abruptly on his lips. A woman's slight figure was mov. ing lightly along the deck, the last glow of the sunset was behind her. Her eyes were fised on Storrman and a half smile parted her lips. The man leaning back against the roll of cordage at his feet she did not notice at all. He was, to her casual glance, a shabby second-cabin pas- senger with whom Storrman had been kindly enough to enter into cursory talk. “I have been waiting for you,” she said, with a deepening of the adorable smile on her lips. She slipped ber arm through Storrman’s and they moved away together. And the man left behind watched the two retreating forms motion lessly, breathlessly. This was the girl whom Storrman was i about to marry! The last flame of red had faded out of the sky and the stars were coming faintly out. The still heat had grown more still and a dense bank df cloud was forming | slowly against the horizon. The Captain passed, his cap low over his eyes, a | brooding frown in the latter. A sailor {| watched the horizon. And still Horst | did not move. {| He had gone back five, ton years, in There had been wild moments | of early youth that had brought regret, {and then a bitter reaping of such wild oats in further and perjlous recklessness. How had Storrman add he first fallen in together? It had been shortly after his own coming to Australia. Storr- {man, sprung from nothing, vicious to ths core, with naug but his animal good looks and his unbounded audacity to serve him, had amused the perhaps had in- The one was went on, under the law at his heels, made a desperate flight by night. Toa pale, frail young girl, white in the light of a summer moonbeam, he had owed a temporary escape. But before many days he hal been tracked, captured and imprisoned-., evidence not being complete against him for five years only. Now the five years were over. And in one day he had seen the man and the woman with whom his every thought in chose five years had been associated the man whom he hated and on whom he had sworn to avenge himself, and the woman whom he loved, human passion, Horst, reckless, careless, but once, radiant as an angel of mercy and of whose name even he was ignorant, And she it was whom his enemy was to marry! Al hot and heavy stillness had fallen over | The evening sky had an almost | They | yours | A sudden gust of wind tore his eap from his eyes. There a rushing souns. in his ears. He staggered to his feet. The sea had turned over all { expanse a dense, oily green, deepening in | the trough of the waves to a gray black- What awful change had | over that smiling nature——that infinite { blue that had subsisted for so mauy days? The force of the hurricane, of the | fierce tropic storm, burst over the ship a | few seconds later. It had grown swiftly, { densely dark. The orders of the Captain rang faintly through the roar and hiss of wind and wave. Then, after a time was it minutes or hours?——there came an. i other change. The fury of storm Lad spent itself, But the vessel had sprung | & leak and was sinking. {| A wild rash for the boats, cries of | women, shrieks of children, oaths of men, And then—who shall say by what supreme instinct—Horst found himself gling through the frantic press of dying souls near to the side of Rosalys and his arm about her. A flash of lightning il. lumined her still, white face, strangely | composed and quiet, and Storrman’s, dis. torted with terror, elbowing women out of his way like a beast, looking only forget! il o Wis its Hess, come rio. ag the boats for his own safety, i all else, Already Horst had lift t his arms viStand back,” he 3 Ang the last boat was launched, and Rosaly had a place in it There was another forward lurch, and then it was seen that the women had al been transferred to the boats. And now { there was room only for one more—a man. They stood side by side—iioms and Storrman. Which should it be? It was the work of a second. Should he take his revenge now! It lay in his With one bound he could leave Storrmann behind him to face Who shall tell the temptstions of that infinitesimal fraction of time! Then that had through the wreck of much that in t man asserted LOFTINAN WES SRY e Crie fiercely grasp. death, something survived had been noblest He stepped ba * » » At quiet in black, waited toward the close day. It Rosalys, and sh changed. of the Is gone young 4 the gate of a small in 8 pountry town a girl, dressed simply the war cottage was Something had in them was a graver depth was a little older, a littl het Rhe _ softness out Con: more serious. One dread experience may add years to the life. Rosalys for a siep to approach through the dusk, and Bnally it came. It that of a man, and Rosalys flushed and grew pale. Then a stillness fell over her, He was standing before her now, He had come for his answer. But be did not for it: he did not plead. His eyes wore downeast, He was like a culprit bafore a judge Saddenly she extended her hand He raised hia eyes and saw hers, through the gloaming, diffused with tender tears of love. “If you have only pity for me" he began | “Pity! No! Or pity and something else yes, When you abdicated your own chance of life for a man who had done you such harm ; when you conquered your desire for revenge and yourself, you did that which more than atoned for the follies and sins of a reckless youth. And now you have told me that you love me | You know that I mourned that man Roger Storrman. But I knew nothing of his past, Now I do know." She paused and Host looked at her, For it was Horst. How Storrman had | been lost that night of the wreck a year before and Horst saved was one of the mysteries of that awful hour. Horst only remembered that when he had stepped back to give Storrman his chanco of iife, there had suddenly been a rush of | waters in his ears, followed by a surging blackness around him. Madly he had thrown a clutch out at something, and then he found himself clinging to the side | of the boat. | Everything between that moment and waited was WK | the hour when the boats were takes up | | by a sailing vessel the next day was | blank, out of which there started dis. { tinotly one remembrance only——the sight | of Rosalys's white face, still quiet, still | He had come back to eivili- | zation to find himself the heir fo a small | | composed. whom his wild carcer in Australia had boon unknown. And he had coma back to more-to a desire for a repectable life, emphasized a thousandfold by the love which had now grown into a holy pas At this instant a great and wondrous hope of love returned arose in his heart, Trembling he put it from him. “But th what my life has been! think only that 1 love " was ¥mphs answer, smiled Ld “No more wild oats!” ork for by one of the strange mysteries of | cynical, had come to love this girl, seen | fortune left him by a distant relative, to | ' LEVIATHA INTERESTING AND CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT WHALES, Whales Furnish Whalebones- Their Small Throats, Of all the modern scientists engaged | in the work of investigation, perhaps none have adopted a field more peculiar | and entertaining than Professor Freder ick W. True, of the National Professor True is a young maz, but he has already spent five yoars of his earcer as a scientist in looking up one subject whales, ““The reason that my attention was di rected to this subject particularly,” said Professor True to a Washington Post ve Museum, porter, ‘‘was the fact that so little was | known to scientific men concerning whales, The works on zoology either treated the whale with a few generaliza tions, or ignored it altogether. My pur pose has been to cover this field as well as it possibly can be done with such sources of information as are available, I spent four months in England and the continent of Europe in the specimens, “Only about eighteen species of the fifty-six that frequent the coast of North America are well known, and the major ity of these of forms which have been under observation, long still smaller. The life of the whale is passed with but little of it being visible, and it is not an What is known of its tained at long range, bave therchy crept in. approachable animal life has been ob and many errors All the romance about thrilling adventures in the capture of the whale have had their day. It is still regarded as a dangerous occupation, but nothing like what it was in the past You will hear no mo stories of hand harpooning the smoking line running 4 re and out over the bow, the boat towed by a and all the old whale leviathan at lightning details that iminated f+) 0 § OF Le i sped, il hen project ! It carries an explosive subs t detonates wi the lance enters the body of the The wi eis araer 10 modern iY harpoonea it WAY. afterward in unless is dead it danger make fast, and this is sts mj ted bed the whale is “What are some of ti cies in regard to whales?” “In the first place the greatest of them all is that the isa fish It mammal with n of the teristics of a fish, except that it exists in the ter. An animal that nurses its young, snd has rodimentary hind legs, could hardly correspond to a fish in any re In almost every cut of a whale you will see the animal spouting a tre of water from his blow. This is purely an imaginary habit whales, The blow- holes of the whales correspond to the nos. When it comes to it whale is a me chara wh " n spect mendous vol hole on Gane 2. 4 » the if the part ‘ trils of other animals the surface to breathe, expels the air A ort. Its tly under wa the result is a column of spray This has been mistaken in the distance bs sailors for a column of water. When a whale had hat pooned so that its lungs had beer pene trated, it is likely that the whale spouted blood and through its and this has confirmed the original er ror when the sailors observed it at close range. “Another popular error,” continued Professor True, ‘is that all whales fur- nish whalebone. Two great cla tions among whales are the toothed and the whalebone varieties. The sperm whale is a toothed whale, and the right whale is a whalebone whale. The whalebone in a good-sized whale is worth several hundreds of dollars The toothed whales really have not much use for their teeth, as they cannot chew any- thing with them. They are merely a row of points that serve to grasp a fish or other kind of prey, and hold it until it can work it down its throat. The teeth are only on the lower jaw. There are no molars among the teeth, and they can not grind the food. Then the jaw is not hung so that it can do anything more than snap. The whalebone whale uses the fringe of the whalebone around the upper jaw in lieu of teeth. It strikes a school of shellfish, which abound in great pumbers in the sea, and when its pets them in its mouth it closes its jaws, The water is squeezed out and the whale swal- Jows everything that is left.” “How large an object can a whale | swallow!” “The throat of the largest specimen is | not more than three inches and a half in | diameter, Jonah was a very small man if he made the round trip through a whale's throat.” from its lungs with a vio nostrils are apt to be sligh ter, and rises in the air been water nostrils sifica- ted” “Prom what we know, it is not prob. | able. For a few years the right whale disappeared totally from the North American coast, None were stranded, and thore was no evidence that any more were in existence. A year or two ago one or two specimens were seen and now they are reasonably plentiful again, Whether peared because they were comes unprofitable to opportunity for a renewal of le ” i | with young is very wars asi The Whale is Not a Fish--Not Al | time before we know all study of i The number of i species whose habits, variations and dis- tribution are thoroughly understood is | “Have any species been extermina- blowholes out of water, Whether this | istrue or not Ido not know, A female difficult to approach, so that very ‘little can be gathered on this point from actual obser- | vation,” “Do whales ever sleep?” “That is one of the many things that we do not know. Bperm whales have been known to lie on the water motion. less for nu considerable peried, but it ean only be guessed whether they are asleep or not, A whale could not sleep under water for any length of time, capacity for storing a great deal of air in | the blood vessels that fiili the neck and are found well down through the body; but at the furthest this could not last it more than a half hous, shen it would have {0 come to the surface to blow. It is assumed that many of the lower forms of life never sleep but in the case of the whale I do not know that that point has ever been investigated, It will be a long that it is neces. sary to know about the rovers of the sea. It is, indeed, strange that, while the ex. terns] and internal peculiszities and the life-history of numberless insects and {minute and lowly animsls have been thoroughly investigated, many of these great beasts have entirely neg lected.” FLESH ———— A — SELECT SIFTINGS, One Colorado wheat field employs & hands. ix al a Geld melted tem; about 1300 degre of Mahogany and ebony are u ra road ties in Mexico A petrified alligator was recent Me. An Ohio youth of sixteen has developed ly found on the beach st Cutler, a long and luxuriant mustache, Freemasons in the United Sta B50 Hi } the world ab ber nal gifts £5 REL O00 O00 es PET ann inhabitants, is said t gious sects lady who fell asloey wm an Allentow arried around ti swaking i #ireel CA WBS « hree times before Germant fifty-vear-old grapevine un 8 trunk which measures two feet and s half round grows if ywn, Penn, ¢ wrist pin in the shape of » ] + has recently been caet in Pe sylvania which weighe At the mayoralty of Berthecon France, babies are now baptized in the name of the republic, and so duly regis tered ! SR fats i 2500 pounds wt The flag with forty-two stars will not be legal until July 4, 1800 States will not be admitted winter. an who is in the Birmingham (Al: A with murder weighed wounds when arrested. His we is now 160, The force which a California exerts while growing is equal strength of a large horse stiached stick of timber The grade of the cogged track railway which i= being built at Pike's Peak, Col will be twenty-five feet to the one hun. dred, or 1320 feet to the mile. Disease has ravaged some of the grous preserves in Scotland to an alarming ex tent. On one moor recently out of 260 birds killed all had to be buried. A lion in the Philadelphia Zoo, suffer ing from the toothache, his keeper ad ministered laughing =a put the beast to sleep and safely extracted the offend ing molar, An Ohio father sent a note county judge forbidding him to issue a marriage license to his daughter. It had no effect, for the “girl” went there her self and swore she was thirty-five years of age. There is a large body of English Mus. sulmans at Cape Town, South Africa. the descendants of Malay seamen Thott language is English, but they are pro vided with mollahs and Arabic teachers from Constantinople. The Ceylon papers announce the death | of an elephant named Sella, which has {served the public works department for to the [ BE a a Ta AT IRERIMELE we NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Tartans and stripes are in higher favor than ever. Skirts grow longer in the back, but shorter in the front, The newest Paris gowns have the skirt sewn on to the bodice, Table covers no longer hang sll over | and all around the table, Mrs, “Stonewell” Jackson is writing her husband's biography. In London the women are beginning | to wear the single eyeglass, It has a | Hi into fashion Bteel knives have come | again for use in certain courses. sLovting instead of pigeons, | tas pe | over sixty-five years, and had worked in | | various parts of the igland under differ. | ent circumstances for an unknown period. | In the neighborhood of Stafford, Eng. | land, three old men, whose united ages {amount to 213 years, common tamips, ete. | have worked on the same farm and for the same farmer unitedly for 120 years. One of the notable | County, Va, is William Craig. The craze for antique oak sod white and gold furniture is on the increase, Brown, tan, gray, and black gloves are the correct wear with all out-of-door toilets All waists have surplices, bretelles, plastrons, waistcoats or revers of one kind or another, Duchess of Marlborough is tion in England by rais- The new making a reputs ing fine dogs. not used the Lace trimmed goods Embroideries are choicest underwear, on are first choice. A discussion has been started lately as to the advisability of having st least peven pockets in a dress, Hangings of willow bamboo are used for country bedroom windows. They can be looped back or left hanging. Entire dresses of crocheted: wool sre by English children, especially delicate ones, in cold, damp weather, At the sale of the Duke of Brunswizk's efiects in London, Mrs, Mackey purchased a pair of diamond earrings for £400,000, The Carrick cape, with a fiat bos or stole ending in square tabs at the knees or higher, is a fashionable London wrap, A the E worn handkerchief possession of maid have A piano once President John thu milliner whe Princess her daugh does not hang out a 8 ters has no other custo an Card of Thanks, If the proprietor of Kemp's Balsam should publish a card of thanks, containing expres. sons of gratitude which come to him daily, from those who have been cured of severe throat and lung troubles by the use of Kemp's Baisais, it would fil 8 falrsized pook. How much better to invite all 12 ca any drug- Kit and get 5 Pree sampie bottle that you may test for yourself its power. 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