\ — ——— ——— THE MIRROR OF A LIFE, “The sun is up,” he gayly cried; “I think it meet that I Should get my spade and rake, and haste My garden luck to try.” And so he toiled until ho saw Where he was digging squirm A corpulently beautiful, Enticing fishing worm. “I will a-fishing go,” said he, And toward the stream he went; But presently a toothsome duck Its course near by him bent. ‘My gun,” he thought, “I should have broughs; I'll go and get it straight.” And so he homeward took his way, Although the hour was late, “The traveling I have done,” he vowed, “Has used me most severe; I'll take the opportunity To rest while Iam hore.” And so he laid him down and slept, And ere his sleep was done The lake beside the western hill Gleamed with the setting sun, Alas! to see so poor a day With good intent so rife! Alas! how oft it may be found The mirror of a life. ~ Washington Post. SALLY'S SPHERE. BY ANNIE F. JOHNSON. The band was playing out on the hotel piazza. The little steamer Idlewild came pufing in across the blue and gay colors flashed along the carriage- | drive or darted to and fro in the tennis court. Sally stood at front window of her room, peering through the curtain at the scene below, and anxiously awaiting Mrz. Sutherland's Two days bef hot kitchen of fully ironing the Through open caught glimpses of the men at work the hay field, and once when she pause door had ink lake, the ummons to go down. had old dress re she stood in farmhouse now window an Arc } she wore, the she in the a moment, Jonas his broad-brimmed hat to her. She rem had wat fork-fulls of were that n gO yd bye. the wel how admiringly ing up - mbered aed bun pitch } ad nay, and How membered wit he had seats his shirt sl pushed back o Salty Merrill double been b had had horizon ne 3 HATTOW country grown whose gi her everybody's the books ol every week, she a different society, tic gatherings with Jonas and them, but between times dreamed romances she had read, and fell with the white handed heroes Half the time when the house, sw eoping and putting it in order, her she was trailing majestically ballrooms, or u witty replies t groups of admirers always around her Bhe vaguely felt that she was destined to realize day The washst the face Bally was so ac small, pale hair, the « ommonplace little feat that it never occurred to her that was not even what people call pretty. Now heard Mm. Sutherland's knock at the door, and shaking out the daintily ironed fos of her white muslin, burried to open it. The quietly attired stood there with white hair, had been a life Bally's mother. She had to the lakes by her physician for a change of climate. Not wishing to be alone. and remembering Sally's bright face and pleasant ways, she had invited her to be Re for a month. They had ar rived but a few hours before This was the first time Sally had ever been out of sight of the hills that sus rounded her old home. Now the sunset was reddening the lake. and the music of band floated en truncingly along the ball. With Mrs Butherland's hand pn her arm, she passed down the broad = 28s to dinner, feel. ing that the life she coveted was within her grasp. The opening chapter of her romance lay spread out before her. Mrs. Sutherland wondered at the WARY the little country girl adapted herself to surroundings. None of the bashful ig. norance she had expected, showed itself in look or tone. She did not know that «Or years Sally had dreamt she ‘dwelt in marble halls.” She did not know how much of the world, of sentiment, and ambition, she had learned from those rows of fictitious social lights, on Miss Jewsberry's bookease shelves, Mrs. Sutherland found & number of old friends among the guests at the hotel. They thought it odd she should choo to « haperone such a plain, insig. nificant little body as Sally at a fashion. i able summer resort; but then, whatever | Mrs. Sutherland chose to do, always | passed unquestioned, in the set where | she beld acknowledged supremacy. A week went by. Seven days so full of vow delightful experiences, that Bally Iny awake 8be would have enjoyed it all, has she been merely a spectator of the gayety around her, but she was always included | in the party, when Mrs, Sutherland's friends pleniced across the lake, or made | excursions on the littie steamer, One morning she came in from a walk favorite, ss Jewsbherry sd found She went to the loaned her ber way intp ras she in making F ot some of these experiences some i 1it41 1 bove b Hitie gas above Der wed ngthing smiling so hope ! | wooxing t } fos and sh Deantiiui to if : M fully into it the the w ed seeing stom eeing honest eyes refi there, res, sae she old lady, who face and soft, : f ong friend o serene | { been ordered guest the went at once to the shady corner of the inzza, where she had left Mes. Suther- i nd busy with her crochet-work, She saw a gentleman talking to her, whom she had never seen Leflore, the lake. | she said to herself, | He is the handsomest man I ever saw.” Naturally kind-hearted, and one of the | | easy thing tor at night to dream them again, ! the other, with some children slong the pier, and | | laughingly, and was about | te pass on, when the lady smiled and beckoned to her. ‘“This is the little fricad I was telling you about,” she said in a hurried under- tone as the girl approached. “I want you to be particularly nice to her.” “Ah, Bally," she continued, as she came up. “‘I have had a delightful sur- prise this morning, My nephew Sydney has just come. Allow me to introduce Mr. Lambert, Miss Merrill.” He arose to return her bow, and place a chair for her, but she would not sit down. “I promised to take Miss Moore the book we were reading this morn- ing," she said. ‘Oh, here it is!” She picked it up,and with an embarrassed lit- tle bow went on. *‘Why aunt,” he said, as she passed into the hall, ‘‘she is as plain as a little nun, From your enthusiastic praises, | had expected to see a perfect wild rose.” “She is a dear little thing,” was Mrs. Sutherland's reply. “You must know her well to appreciate her thoroughly.” Upstairs in her room, with her chin in | window | her hands and elbows on the sill, Sally was gazing abstractedly out on “What glorious eyes he had,” “and what a voice. most courteous of men, it was a very Sydney Lambert to be “particularly nice” to his aunt's guest, He was a confirmed old bachelor, Mrs. Sutherland told her, over thirty-five; and | to Sally's eighteen years, that did indeed | He thought of her | seem a great age, himself to He wt he only as a child, and exerted help his aunt give her a good time. delighted her with his constant little tentions and efforts to entertain her. It was a part of the new life she could it grow accustomed to. Be told | t it mean i maiily 1 & door fo that Jonas, in i, had never been wer watched for a ROTYICOS N COTTiciors, } pier ia Lhe Lwill ma Lhe a short row , 84 she was 1 amer with a lit the day across ti nas forgotten » him. She had She half wished her promise to write i almost forgotten him. she had not promised to write. Then Mr. Lambert came up and took her Wraps anc she slipped the letter into her pocket, inread, | stamped that day indelibly | emory. Somehow, coming the steamer stopped at the 1 her balance in the rush of id slipped. In a moment lake, going down, down ! in the cold water. It seemed to her ages, but it was only an instant until Sydoey arm held her fast snd he was swimming with her toward tae shore Lambert's strong She did not go down to dinner that evening. She back in a great armchair, lazily sipping the tea Mrs, Sutherland sent up, and dreaming the day over again. Dreamed till the came out, and the lights were lit, and the dancing commenced below. Laughter and of conversation came up througn the pen window, Bhe x arcely heeded them leaned stars Le raps her happy thoughts, “‘Sydney-Sydney,"” she whispered un- | der her breath, Just to hear the music of his name. Then she recalled how her head had rested on his shoulder, when he carried her up from the water. Again she felt his heart beating close to hers. The music stopped. A fragrant puft of cigar smoke circled in at the win low, and some one stepped out on the little | balcony which opened off the room ad. Joining hers, “Well, Lambert,” she Lesrd a strange voice say, ‘‘I understand you made a lion of yourselt to-day. How did it happen! Who was the fair dame!” “Psbaw! nothing worth making such A sensation over. A little girl—some Maad Muller that aunt picked up amocg | the hills-—walked off into the water, aud | Luckily it | I fished her out, was near shore.” That voice was the one she had learned to listen for among all others, “Oh, just a child, was it1" rejoined “1 thought ibly that it might develop into an tr that would be Interesting to Mademoselle Amy, when she hears of it.” “Well, hardly!” replied the other “If you've found that pa- pet, Jenuings, let's go down," voices died away, but the faint That's all. She was listening to the | music that seemed to give utterance to | odor of a cigar lingered o- the air long their sting for many a day. Bally sat motionless, mistake, then. There was some one else, and he did not care for her. He would never come. And yet he had saved her life. Oh, why had he done it, when it could never be the same again! Then the music commenced again. She threw pillows over her cars to shut out the sound; now and then a sob shook her from head to foot; then she lay still, Hours after, when the lights were all out, the gay voices gone, and the wide halls deserted, sho got up and groped her way across the room. Then she lit the gas, and took the letter still un- opened from her pocket, read a beetle boomed into the room and circled around the gas, “You poor, silly thing,” said Bally, looking up. “You shan't be burned: go back where you belong.” As she | spoke she fanned it through the window with her handkerchief and closed the blind. Coming back she caucht sight { of ber reflection in the mirror. “Some- body had better say that to me,” she thought, Her little dream was and she was thoroughly awake. over, It was well for Jonas she had waited until now | to read has letter, ‘‘La, you haven't changed a mite,’ | said Miss Jewsberry to her some two | weoks later, as Sally walked in, sunbon net in hand. goin’ away so ’ HSomehow I mistrusted might spoil you; I reckon it's pretty hard to come down to plain livin’ after such a taste of high life, ain't it! Dida't hap pe Ry sure there would.” “Yes, Miss | BWer 1, solem “ pen. low ed nothin’ Jewsberry,” omething Something fate » The up eagerly. manded, Sally bh | merry laugh —————————— Panama a Graveyard. | exaggeration | raliroad and canal the Pacific is a continuous Matoch } : thoi 1 * EIT eatin In one KTave ne over 3500 Chinaman met lay. hat was twen- tv five or thirty years ago while the Pan. ama Railroad was being b sit, and lot a before work mal was b { Ten th man had brougt rom Chis to work on half of them wi camped at what is now Matochin. Small wx broke nd the mor ALSY Decame » great that the China on the ¢ canal. re ut amor ] ' men, always easily came pa stricken, | themselves y the Chagres River I have said, them drowned It was because of this that the name of the camp change 1 to Muerte Rino, muerte meaning ‘‘dead” in Spanish and Chino signifying Chinaman. The nane has since become perverted to Matochin. tis a common saying, believed by many | on the isthmus, that every tie on the Pan- ama Railroad represeats a dead man, | Chicago Post, a ————— a ——— Very Tame Bears. Waters, for some years manager Was E. C of the Government hotels in the Yellow- stone National Park, is in New York. Mr. Waters believes that the park is destined to become the feeder of zroologi- cal gardens of the country and that one of its immediate needs is an immense paddock or series of paddocks where the species now in the park may be cared for and bred on scientific princi. | ples. “How many animals are in the park” he was asked, “Many hundreds or perhaps thousands of elk,” he mid, *wbout a hundred buffalo and some mountain sheep and bears. The buffalo are in no danger of | becoming an extinot species. Since they have been placed under protection of Government troops they have been in- creasing. Elk also thrive there. The bears are perfectly harmless, Having never been hunted they have no fear of man, My little daughter six years old, | has sometimes gone within fifteen foot of & bear and tossed bits of meat to him. “The streams afford the best fishing ground in the country. No prohibiticn is laid on this sport and many parties come and take large strings. Senator | Jones of Arkansas landed more than a hundred pounds of trout one day last | summer," Chicago News, RE ————— The Grip Sought Shining Marks, One remarkable peculiarity of the grip in Japan was ita prevalence among the upper classes, whereas the cholera sought its victims among the poorer people. Some idea of the extent of the epidemic may be gathered from the fact that, at Yokohama, the sufferers officially re- ported numbered over 50,000, and jt is estimated that the unreported cases throughout the perfecture were near! twice as t. Of the 130,000 inhab- itants of Kobe, 25,000 were attacked by the disease. In Tokio the epidemic with greater violenco, and similiur re. pors come from some of the Chinese b cliles, «Boston Transcript, after, and the lightly spoken words left { | Bo it was all & herself across the bed, and pulled the ! While she | blued. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS HOE CAKE. This is the real Southern hoe eake. | The recipe was given by a Tennessee lady who makes it to perfection, The meal of the North is said not to be as sweet as that of the South, but if you will send weet corn and field corn half and half to the mill and have it ground I think you will not complain of the meal. Mix & quantity of the meal with water until it Is too thin to be called a dough, and too thick to be called a batter, Grease the griddle and spread the hoe cake upon It rather thicker than a batter cake. Brown on one side and then turn over. Eat hot with butter, and break off the | pieces; don’t cut it.— American Agricul turst, HOW TO PREPARE A POT-AU-FPEU. Remove the bone from the meat, crack it with a cleaver and put it in the bottom of the soup pot. Roll the nice shape, and tie securely with strong twine, lay it on top of the bones and add the water and J ust about meat into a ait to & boil, add gill of hasten the rising { as IL comes hall a skim, which the scum, water, must be carefully r wed, Hepeat operation two or tl stock found Now put in the veg when it be ins Lo boyd corner of the range, it wood to simmer + [¥ iree th will In qu Le ey and remove to a mid be nours Mio ur five if $ ave, il ust is desired 1d better meat, strain, never un lirectly to obtain the aved and entirely a basinfal « ling water, and thrown into he wash tub Black Lawn Wash | : v for this maternal umstand material, ne SAry sud ii must be sh desired, dry th ing dip the bly +a Ue SSare ! them tea Kettle, wer and ing water nrger ones over h-pan of b Lay the moist pieces of crape between two lavers of sheet wadding and press beneath a heavy of a t or the pastry board wei books or flat.ir It is well width of th | below the crape, in order from adhering to it Velvet—Brush carefully, and Two per- tons, their hands protected from the steam, are required to do the work. While one holds the heated iron with its smooth surface upturced, the other, throwing a very wet towel over it, presses the wrong side of the velvet down upon the iron, so that the rising steam forces the pile into place, and continue this as long ms possible. Lastly, the weight the slab marble-t pped table gl soft cheese. cl cotton Naf cotton fluf] Black steam to raise the sunken pile -~ wrong side of the velvet is drawn quickly across the surface of the iron itself. Black Silk-~Purchase a few ounces of soap bark at the drug store, according to the amount of silk to be cleaned, Steep two ounces of the bark in a quart of warm water for a few hours. Rip and brush the silk, and remove all the threads left by the former stitches. Spread the pieces upon the Iap-board or a clean table, and after straining the infasion, sponge on both sides with a scrap of the silk. A lather will form, and this is then to be wiped away with another piece of the silk. Do not wring the moisture | from the silk; spread the different pieces | upon a sheet laid over the carpet, and pin them at the corners, silk will look like new. Black Cashmere—Wash in hot suds, and rinse twice in lukewarm water well If a clear day, bang in the open air, and iron upon the wrong side whea nearly dry. Long, steady strokes of the iron and even pressure throughout will restore the original silky sheen of the material, Black Alpaca— Proceed as with cash. mere, and add a little gumarabic to the last rinsing water, Black Lace—8pread out the lace upon a towel stretohed over the lap-board and, using an old black kid glove or a soft loco of wilk for the purpose, mole Th with a solution Rouge Sonspoctitel to a pint of warm water. To retain the shape, direct the strokes from the selvage outward. Cover with a piece When dry, the C—O B33 A Trapper's Life, The winter, though not without its ex- citements, is a long and lonely owe, and the work very a, For six months you see no living soul sud have only your dog for company. Very likely, too,you may be poorly paid for your time, I trapped one whole winter and only caught four marten by my land trapping. After I had been at it for a time I saw that there were no marten in the country, and as I happened to have two No. 4 traps with me, I started trapping otter und caught during the winter, When the trapping is at an end, you begin to think of getting your fur to market. The skins must first be got out to your canoe, if you are trapping on the thirty seven " | const or a large river, or else out to some | [44 1 he a Rize and carried out, & cache being made of your first load if you have to make two Then wour ind you set sail for your market into furs are made for settlement, bales of up convenient more trips canon on this northern « 15 geverally where the skins » Does the Cause Earthquakes! Moon A BEWAR Cheap | S.S.S. WILL CURE. imitations should be Eczema, which They never: cure and are often dangerous, ; -) { incrustations had { banana skin is Queer Superstitions. The Zulus of Africa believe that pers sons who die sudden or violent deaths have been killed by the rainbow. All individuals among them who lose their lives by lalls, drowning or wild beasts perish because the rainbow has devoured their ka-la, or spirit. In the New He- brides there is, or was, a colony of pro. fessional disease makers, who live by col- lecting such rubbish as the skin of a banana which 8 man has eaten. The rolled up and slowly burned, the result being that as it burns the consumer of the fruit becomes more | ents | burning their rubbish and so are packing | | from the notion My daughter had a case of chronic for over five had baffled the skill of the beet phy~ f j sicians. As she was daily gre wing avoided. { worse, I quit all other treatment and ; commenced using 8. 8. 8. { finishing the second bottle the scaly sick until he makes up his mind to propitiate the wizards by pres But even the wizards are not se. and at times cy themselves discover that sombody is driven of Look rine sound would #1» wd and more cure against such influences, to appeal for The ‘passing bell’ that vay the evil spirits that mercy. custom ringing the 1s its Ig at the bed of a sick man for his Abyssinian sorcerers attach to the of a person whom they wish to tor- flicting injuries upon his like victim, and 1 6 pie conceal thelr Dia Lis Washington Star, —— g 1890 ( 1,534. An the sale of an Catarrh Can't be Cured appiients A 8s the : The Convenience of Solid 7 ralos, ro ' b T3uRis 2 Scans are cured by Jacobs: used DIRECTIONS with cach Bom, according fo #S0RETHROATS WoliNDs, CUTS, SWELLINGS THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltimore, M4. KY N U1? STAMMERINC. 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