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Sy ———-—" A —— “NOT AS I WILL™ Blindfolded and alone I stand With unknown thresholds on each hand, The darkness deepens as I grope, Afraid to fear, afraid to hope; Yet this one thing I learn to know Each day more surely as I go, ‘That doors are opened, ways are made, Burdens are lifted or are laid By some great law unseen and still Unfathomed purpose to fulfill, “Not as I wall.” Blindfolded and alone I wait; Loss seoms too bitter, gain too late; Too heavy burdens in the load, And joy is weak and grief is strong, And years and days so long, so long; Yet this one thing 1 learn to know Each day more surely as I go, That I am glad the good and ill By changeless law are ordered still, “Not as I will.” “Not as I will;" the sound grows sweet Each time my lips the words repeat. “Notas I will"—the darkness feels More safe than light when this thought steals Like whispered voice to calm and bless All unrest and loneliness. “Not as | will"—because the One Who loved us first and best has gone Before us on the road, and still For us must all His love fulfill— “Not as we will.” ~Helen Hunt Jackson. et HERMIONE. BY MARY E. MOFFAT. The master of Briar Hedge Farm stood thoughtfully apart from the place where his young cousin was laving his face and hands at the hydrant, which had been placed in the summer kitchen for the convenience of the men in the busy sea- son. Some unpleasant thing had happened, or Guy Fellows's frank face would not have worn such a perplexed, uneasy look. At last he said, quietly: “1 wish to speak to you, Louis,” “Yes, Guy,” answered Louis, in a startled voice; for Guy's manner was so unlike his usual one that it foreboded trouble of some kind, though what it could be was a puzzle. Had he hurt himself? or had his pet colt gone lamel “Something unpleasant has happened. Hermione's bank-book is gone, and they tell me, at the bank, that the money was drawn yesterday by a man who had an order purporting to be signed by me." ‘Either the officials at the bank are very careless, or the handwriting must have been a good imitation. Banks can’t be much protection to the people depositing in them, if it is so easy to get another person's money out. It strikes me I won't patronize them much when my ship comes in.” “Forgery is difficult to be guarded against, Louis, and the name appended to | of him; for, with a wild ery, he banished | lations for her greatest soldier. the order is such a perfect facnumile of my | autograph that I myself could not detect | the difference. Is this your work" | As Louis looked at the page of foolseap | which was held toward him, and which was scribbled over with various names, | among which was that of Guy Fellows, he first turn red and then pale. For | Lois was very expert with his pen, and | was always coppying specimens of | ly in Iront of the madman, caught him | beart, and that of the many and ‘rich | As it was, it caused him to elevate his cousin into the hero of his life, and determine to him. It was quite a long time before he had the desired chance, but it came at last. Guy, although wealthy, did not disdain to put his own shoulder to the wheel day after day and set his men a good ex. ample. None could lay a more regular swath of grass with the sickle in mow- ing time. No one could cut or bind the ranks of grain with more rapidity than he. It was before the time when mowing and reaping machines took all the poetry out of harvesting, and Her- mione was fond of making a visit to the scene of lahor about luncheon time, carrying with her a pitcher brimming over with a cooling, non-stimulating beverage with which to quench the men's thirst. Then, book in hand, she would seat herself under the shade of some friendly tree, and alternately read or note the movements of the actors ip the busy scene before her. One day in the height of the harvesting one of the men fell ill, and it chanced that a stranger came to the place and asked to be employed about the farm, He was a dark, unprepossessing man, with restless, uneasy ways and lowering, stealthy looks from his deep-set eyes; but Guy engaged him, thinking only of the inconvenience of being short-handed at the time, After they had all set off for the fields a man drove up to the farm-house in hot haste, asking if a person of the stranger's description had been scen there; and upon receiving a reply in the affirmative he looked very much startled, and caused Hermione's blood to turn cold in her veins by explaining the cause of the ua. easiness, ‘‘He is an escaped lunatic, and nearly killed his keeper to make his way out of the mad-house. If his frenzy seizes upon him he will make a bloody record for himself before the day is over. Ir any one here who can go and warn Mr, Fel. lows? It won't answer for me to be scen by him. He knows me and would set him frantic to know Chat he has been followed. The only safety lies in not arousing his suspicions until a strait-jacket can be put upon him." “I will go," said Hermione, unhesitat- ! ingly. *Iwould do anything to prevent such a tragedy!" “Take this with you and give it to Mr. Fellows. It is a strait-jacket. Whisper the truth about the man to him, and tell him to watch his opportunity and take him by surprise.” She reached the place, and catching her guardian's eye, motioned him to come to her; and, in a few frightened whispers, toll him the danger that threatened him. Some instinct must have attracted the lunatic’s attention and conveyed to his mind the ides that they were speaking the scythe he held in his hand with threatening gestures and shouts of fren. zied fary. Then he started toward them. Louis had stopped work a moment previous, and was about half-way be. twéen his cousin and the madman. Look. ! {ing up, upon hearing the discordant yells, he saw at once that Guy's life wes in danger, and, throwing himself direct- it | won't hear Cousin Guy scolded, will you, " But Louis made no answer. He was for the moment oblivious of the presence or even of the existence of any one but Hermione, Her agitation had betrayed her secret to him, and he was so exult- antly, recklessly happy that he recked not of anything outside of the one bliss- ful fact that Hermione. “I sce. "Tis the old, old story,” said Guy, gravely but kindly; and he took Hermione's hand and placed it within Louis's, “and I will now leave you alone to sottle matters between you, merely saying to you, Louis, that the Upland farm is yours, and that I shall secure to you the funds with which to carry it on successfully. As you said, a little while ago, ‘One good turn deserves another.’ and I thus prove the truth of the adage. You proved it previously in what was almost your death.” he and Hermoine were married. It was not until soveral years lator that the truth about the lost bank book came out. It had been left carelessly upon the library table, and a thief who had gained unobserved entrance to the house had stolen it, and at the same time had picked up one of Louis's Jenctice- papers, thinking that it would serve to aid him in drawing the money, writing. — Fashion Basar, a — “The Silent Dane.” called **The Silent Dane,” and later he Taciturn;” yet he could speak seven languages fluently. Although one of the world's profoundest and sternest soldiers, tionate of men. Occasionally one might sce him in Berlin driving in a plain cab, or ‘sauntering along a principal street looking in at the shop windows, but few | recognized him. He was as regular as | the sun in his daily tasks; and even in | the lighter employments of his long life he was ever painstaking and methodical, Out of these traits grew, withal, his fine | literary ability, that, besides his pub- | lished letters, produced several valuable military histories. | The crownlog honor of his life was the way Germany celebrated the coun ple- {tion of his ninetieth year. From the | Baltic to the Alps, from the Vosges to | the Vistula, every household joined in | the great jubilee, hung out the nationsl | colors and likenesses of Moltke in fags | and torches. Berlin was decorated and {for any private citizen. Germans | throughout the world set apart October | 26, 1890, as a fete day for the Vater. | | land, and a day of praises and congratu. | grim old Field Marshal was taciturn, al- most by necessity, being nearly smoth. | { ered by honors and rich presents; but | | when the city fathers of Berlin sent him | their greetings, accompanied by the | fund for the relief of the aged and in. { firm, he replied: *‘Geotlemen, say to { your Council that this gift touches my peculiar handwriting which fell in his | Aout the waist and clung to him, mak- | presents I have received to-day, this is way. ing himself as much of a deadweight as {the most walued.” When, since the “Yes, it is mine,” he said, with a | possible. The swinging scythe described { death of Washington, has the world seen brave effort to tell the truth, no matter | * mad circle in the air, and then it | & more modest, complete, successful and what might be the consequences. For | like a lightning flash he realized what | danger was haogiog over him—a worse | one than was the fabled sword which had threatened Damocles in olden time, for that only menaced life, and this, at | what did it not strike a blow? For an | instant be stood as though dazed, look- | ing blankly into Guy Fellows's troubled | face; then he threw himself impulsively | upon his knees before him. “I see now. It looks badly, Cousin Guy, but don’t judge me by appearances | Hermione was dressed in a dainty gown | ~judge me by what you know of me | since we have been together. Do you think any one who knew her would | have a hand in robbing Hermoinet? No, | mot even if he were an accomplished thief, far less a man whose only wealth | lies in his good name!" “I believe you, Louis, even in the | face of evidence which would convict | You in a court of justice, along that you were innocent; and, see here.” I have felt all | descended upon Louis, giving him a fear. ful cut in the side. But by this time others bad reached them, and the lunatic was overpowered by numbers and secured. suis, however, lay like one dead prostrated by the shock, and with the blood pouring from his ghastly wound. Unless it could be stanched at once he must bleed to death; but where were the cloths to apply to it before a messenger could be tent to the farm house? This queston was soon answered. of embroidered white linen, with a man. tle of the same material over her shoul. ders. She tore this in pieces, and, kneeling by him, applied one after an- other to his wound as each in turn be- came wet with blood. Her white hands were colored crimson, and her dress was spotted with the same ensanguined hue; but she faltered not. She who had al. ways before felt faint, even at the sight of blood, now unflinchingly played the | part of surgeon until more skilled help As Guy Fellows spoke he held up the | could arrive.” paper which had been given as an order for the money, and let Louis compare the Yrief form signed with his name with ¢he practice-sheet which he had ac. knowledged as his work. Then he turned and lifting a lid from the cook-stove, put the dangerous document in and watched it catch fire and then burn to ashes, Guy Fellows, sithough scarcely thirty. five, bad already come into a fine inher. itance by the death of his father. He was s practical farmer, and also what some jes le consider a visionary one. That + Be was always trying any new experi- ment which might commend itself as an improvement upon old-fashioned ways, is Carmichael was a second cousin, who bad been taken under his protec. tion after the death of his parents, He bad been with him now about four years, and although somewhat dreamy and un. practical, grown very dear to his generous kinsman, - of the family was Another inmate Hermoind Alleyne, the orphan ward of She was two Guy Fellows. i EF ie ! | § of Fse i ft : : H ii i] In these terrible moments Hermione first learned her heart's secret. Without “Onis the whole world would henceforth be as nothing to her. For long days afterward the youth's life trembled in the balance, but at last his naturally strong constitution trium and he began to mend. Guy and Hermione were rarely absent from his bedside, and one day Louis surprised them by saying with a faltering voios, while his pale lips parted in a half smile: “Cousin Guy, we are even. One good turn deserves another. You saved my reputation, and I rather think you would have been a dead man now if it hada't been for me. It's worth one's while to carn a fellow's gratitude, isn't it1" “What does he mean! Is his mind wandering?” mked Hermione, looki from one to the other with worpriy eyes, ‘He is thinking of the bank book you lost, Hermione. He was afraid I would connect him with the forgery on account of his for “What a silly Boyt magine an sogel such a thi | noble lifel— Harper's Weelly. The Reward of Sagacity. One of the stories they tell of “Old | Hutch,” the grain speculator, to illustrate | his sagacity in discovering pecuniary opportunitigs is this: He noticed the | windows of a big carpet store decorated | with placards stating that prices were re- | duced as the whole stock of the con- cern was to be closed out. Struck with a sudden idea he went in, asked the price of several lices of goods, the quantities in stock and the original prices. | Having indeed gone practically through the place he sent for the heads of the firm and coolly made them a lump sum | offer for the whole stock, good-will and | fixtures of the concern. The bid was | accepted, and “Old Hutch” at once gave { his check. Then, without leaving the place, he sent for a relative, who, by the | way, was in another line of trade, and | informed him that he wanted him to take charge of his new soquisition and | run it, adding: ‘At the prices I psid | there is money in it." Events proved | the correctness of Hutchinson 'sjudgment, and the business so summarily purchased is still in successful operation. Sheep's Wool Sponge. 's wool sponge, which is ssid to be the largest one ever obtained. It mets ures ten feet jn circumference and is two feet thick, being quite solid throughout, It was fished up near the Babama Islands by the crew of a vessel engaged in that Nadas td, Judging by the stories of the fishermen, a tough time in ge ting their prize aboard. Being in a small dingy when the hooks fastened themselves in the ge, the men nearly upset their boat in the effort to haul the | i i 3H E rt 2 gs 3 is love was returned by | As soon as Louis was fully recovered, | as he had a confederate who was handy enough with his pen to take advantage | of the fac-simile to Guy Fellows's hand- | In his early manhood Moltke was | was popularly known as “The Grest | be was one of the most modest and affec- | The | sum of fifty thousand marks as a charity | There is on exhibition at a store in Pearl street, New York, an enormous | I Ce ———————— Sh ao | HE THRASHED THE BULLY. | HOW A BOLDIER WON AN owrL | | CER'S COMMISSION, | | A Good War Story Told by Ex-Gover-. nor Curtin, of Pennsylvania—The | Result of a Midnight Row, Amos J. Cummings relates in the New | York Bun a war story, which he heard | ex-Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania tell | during the last session of Congress, The | incident occurred in the second or third : Joni of the war, The Governor had left larrisburg, and come to Washington on business. A great battle had been fought, { The number of killed and wounded fad | mounted into the thousands, Governor { Curtin had been in consultation with the President and members of his Cabinet. | He had returned to the Capitol, where {an old lady dressed in dee mourning | accosted him, She was evidently very | poor and nearly distracted. She wore old-fashioned black mits, and her habili- ments of woe were worn and rusty. Her | face was wan and wrinkled, and her fin | gers were toughened with work and fuatled with rheumatism, She had not ; beard from her boy since the great bat | tle, and she had come to Washington in search of information. He had enlisted in a regiment raised in the mountains of | Pennsylvania, and had been at the front | for more than a year, * Oh, Governor,” she cried, as tears streamed down her faded cheeks, *‘my boy never failed to write before. He al ways sent me a letter after a battle. 1 { haven't heard from him now in more | than a fortnight. He's the only boy left | me, and | can never live without him Oh, 1 fear he's dead or sorely wounded, | if 1 could only get through the lines to nurse him or bring his body back home | Please, Governor, try to get me a pass, { and God will bless you. My heart will break without my boy.” The Governor said that he heard the number of the regiment with a shudder. It had been in the very heart of the { fight, and had been cut to pieces. His heart went out to the old mother, If her boy was alive he was determined | that she should see him, or if dead that she should have his body. Upon ques tioning her he found that she was ut terly destitute. She hadn't even money enough to pay for a night's lodging. He sasured her that he would do what he could for her. He would see either the President or the Secretary of War in the morning and get her a pass through the lines. Then he took her by the arm and escorted ber down stairs, Passing out | under the arch of the Senate wing of the Capitol he hailed a cab. Gallantly as sisting the old lady into it he paid the | ecabman his fee, and told him tv drive his charge to a hotel where the Governor | “ ‘ {| was well known, and where he had sent | enthusiastic as it had never before been | , many a destitute friend. As the cab rattled away the Governor turned to re enter the Capitol, when he met Johan Sherman, Ben Wade, and Gelusha A. Grow, then Speaker of the House. The Senate had Ft and they were on | their way home. It was a clear night, The great temple of national legislation shone in the moonlight like a palace of alabaster. The city lay below them, | dotted with gas lights. The music of a drum was heard away off on the right, | A railroad train had arrived with a new regiment, and the troops were seeking quarters at the Soldiers Rest The four statesmen descended Capitol Hill together. They drifted down Penn sylvania avenue, conversing on political | topics. They had halted on a corner near the National Hotel preparatory to | separating, when a cab was driven to the | curb near by. Its driver was in altercs tion with a woman inside the vehicle, | Governor Curtin was even then telling | the Senators and Speaker the story of bis meeting with the old lady in the Capitol. The altercation attracted his attention, The driver was using vil. | Ininous language, He insisted that his passenger should leave the hack then and | there, or he would her out, { ‘Something told me,” said the Gov. ernor, “‘that it was my old lady who was in trouble.” He stepped to the door of the hack | and looked in. The suspicion was con | firmed. She was the old woman whom | he had sent to the hotel, and she was in trouble. The driver had not taken her | to ber destination. He had stopped at | two or three saloons, and spent his fee for liquor, Pomibly he had forgotten i where the old lady was to go, but at all | events he had determined to drop her on | the street and let her shift for herself. He was filling the air with profanity and threatening the poor old woman with violence. The Governor was indignant He saked the hackman whether he had pot paid him to take the old lady to a specified place of shelter. The driver swore that he had never seen him before, and threatened to punch his head if he did not mind his own business, The Governor's indignation was getting the better of his judgment. Sherman and Grow tried to calm him, but old Ben Wade grew as hot as a bird pepper and swore like a pirate. He not only wanted the hackman thrashed, but he wanted to belp Curtin thrash him. The driver was a giant, He laid his whip across the foot rest of his hack and squared away. He evidently meant to down not Governor alone, but the Sunatom and the | Speaker. Things were looking decidedly squally when a boy ig blue came He carried a oars. and wore the tail of a buck in his cap. The Governor recog: nized the insignia. The soldier was member of Colonel Kane's famous Buck- brawag: ad well proportioned ‘Te brawn | o | loomed ike po TR i ge’ he swung | the avenue as if the world was too | : : alon Sal} for Bie: He was ntly hailed, | “Do you know me’ the Goveraor “Yeu,” was the . “You're Andy | Curtin, Whosobivg AR iy I've | Sus JOU wan} 8 time ab Boma aed in the “T want vou to do me & favor,” the fn blue sensed the situation his charge. gE SERRE E mopped the sidewalk with him, The hackman looked ms if he had been through a fanning mill, Governor Curtin sacertained the name of the soldier, and placed the old lady in Bhe arrived at her destina- tion without further trouble. On the next day he secured passes for her, and she went to the front for her boy, Two weeks afterward Private Fox of the Bucktail Brigade received an order directing him to report at the Adjutant General's office in Harrisburg, Trans. portation and supplies were furnished, It was a bright and sunny morning when he entered the city, Without delay he sought the office of the Adjutant-Gen. eral, There he was told that the Gov. ernor wanted to see him, The way to the Executive chamber was pointed out, The soldier entered with his haversack swinging at his sides. The Governor stood near a table, talking with a friend, He saw Private Fox apitonching him, The soldier was awkward and very much embarrassed, “Good morning, Lieutenant,” sald the Governor, “I'm glad to see you." “Why, Governor,” replied the boy in blue, “you make a mistake, I'm not a Lieutenant. I'm only a private.” “It is you who make the mistake,” the Governor replied, with a smiling face, you are a Lieutenant this morning. Here is your commission.” tenant. The parchment was gratefully accepted, The soldier expressed his thanks. He was modestly asserting a doubt as to his merits, when the Gover. nor replied : *‘I know your record. You can truthfully say that you won your rank by service on the battlefield.” The Governor dispensed the usual hos- pitalities and Lieut, Fox departed. His fate showed that he richly merited the distinetion, Within three months he became Captain and afterward Major. He was shot through the heart while leading his regiment as its Lieutenant Colonel in a charge at Spottsylvania, te WISE WORDS. Slang is the wart on language. Men A broken silence is never repaired, have sight: women insight. 3 Good humor is the blue sky of the oul. Silence is less injurious than s weak reply Energy is the sand in the craw of en- terprise Every kind of work that we can't do looks easy. We take less pains to be to appear 80. happy than Man is cold as ice to truth, but hot as fire 10 falsehood, A little woman can tell just as big a lie as a big woman can. Distrust of yourself really means con- scientiousness of wrong You can’t climb a telegraph pole by shinning up a fence post. Shallow men believe in luck; strong men believe in cause and effect. Your bank sccount, unlike yourself, never gets tight by getting full. Nothing but a mule occupies less space than hus hind foot and makes less noise. Every life is a center, and all things are made for it as if there were no other. Tie a coward’s hand behind him and you give him an additional reason to boast, Growth of Business in the South. Eight columns of the Baltimore Manu- facturers’ Record are occupied by Super- intendent Porter, of the Fait States Census, on the wonderful progress of the South and the intrinsic merits of South. ern investments, Ie shows by compara. tive statistics that the mineral develop- ment of that section and its increase of manufacture during the last decade have been of such magnitude and impor- tance as to “‘seriously stiract the atten tion of the world.” In no part of the country is there a more satisfactory show. ing of industrial advancement. Com. pared with the situation cven in 1880 this advancement is wonderful, with that of 1870 it is amazing, with the condition of things at the close of a devastating war it reads like a ta ¢ of magic and suggests amiracle, Look at the cities that have grown up ia this period — Anniston, with its population of nearly 10,000, where ten years ago the number of inhabitants was less than 1,000; Birmisgham, un- known in 1870, now a flourishing town of 26,000, and the centre of industrial activity of 75,000 peopie; Florence, Sheflield, Tenn. ; Roanoke, Va., =nd a hundred similar examples of prosperous growth due to the evolution of mineral industries that prior to 1880 were slumbering, un- developed, almost unheard of forces. coal, iron ore and pig iron as the entire United States uced in 1870; that Ppiy t section with coal A century; that Kentucky snd East Ten- nessoe avound in superior coking coal and that the out put of the coal -produc- State of the South in 1800 was more than twice that of the whole country in 1860. It is also the opinion of Mr. Por. ter that during the next tem years the manufacture of steel will increase in as the same years just past, But i es that the Sou front, the uct ah the 5 | i : H £f 4 : won't change a ; : i ! side out, who throws salt over her left it was the commission of a First Lieu. | Chattanooga, Johnson City, | Cows In a Palace, One of the most renowned buildings in Europe is the great “Winter Palace” in St. Petersburg, built in the reign of the Empress Elizabeth Petrovoa, Successive imperial families have taken up their residence in this palace, the last Ewperor being the Czar Alexander II After the mysterious dynamite explosion which was effected in this Emperor's pri- vate dining-room an investigation was commanded, and a list made of such per- sons ns were employed in the palace, when it was found that over and above the army of regular employes as meny as four hundred people in no way on the list were living there! And extmordinary as it may appear, on further investigation a well regulated farm in full operation was discoverd un- der the imperial roof! There was a poul- try yard, a piggery, and several cows, the owner of this extensive estate making a comfortable profit on the sale of his produce to the royal kitchen, —New York Journal, A Superstitions Girl. I am not superstitious; I never was. { But I know a girl who carries the left | bind foot of & rabbit in her pocket, trims “You were only a private last night, but | her hair by the light of the moon, who garment put on wrong shoulder, whe won't cut her nails on Bunday, who believes in odd numbers, who never misses a to touch = hunchback, who won't cross a funeral unless she 1s in a hurry, who is in despair her left one to chance if she sees the new moon over shoulder, who believes the first move from the marriage altar will first, who thinks a dropped knife or fork or a cracking fire brings company, who believes a broken mirror brings seven years of bad luck, who wears a ring on her left thumb; and that girl is— Nellie Bly. Nellie Bly, in Belford. m———— — — Nearly nineteen million acres aie of the public domain passed into the hands of settiers during the past year, Beware of Olutments for Catarrk That Contain Mercury, the sense of the good you ons Hall's Cstarrh Cure Cheney & Oo, T and is taken rosily, and scts direct the blood and mueon In buying Hall's ¢ the genuln in Toledo , OU contains no Inte FITS stopped free by Dn Kraxe's Gueat Nexve Kestosun, No Gfs after first day's use, Marvelous cures, Treatise and $2 trial bottle free. Dr. Aline, 881 Arch St, Phila 1 afflicted with sore eves use Dir. Inuae The son's Lye-water. Druggists sell at Zc. per bottle . IA mip but when it's ledge of the nancially re- Talk's cheap backed up 'y a hard cash of a sponsible firm, or company, of world-wide reputation for fair and honorable ul means business / Now, there are scores of sarsaparillas and other blood- purifiers, all cracked up to be the best, purest, most peculiar and wonderful, but bear in mind (for your own sake), there's only ome guaranteed blood-purifier und remedy for torpid liver and all diseases that come from bad blood. That ome—standing solitary and alone—sold on fal is Dr. Pierce's Golden Med- ical Discovery. If it don't do good in skin, scalp and scrofulous diseases —and pulmonary consumption is only lung-scrofula—just let its makers know and get your dealing, ‘money back. Talk's cheap, but to back a ‘poor medicine, or a common ‘one, by sellin it on trial, as “Golden Medical Discovery” is sold, would bankrupt the Mr. Porter cites the astonishing facts that | the South is to-day producing ss much | largest fortune, Talk's cheap, but only “ Dis- | covery” is guaranteed. XY N U0 oNSONS nT For internal and External Use, Ex L MEEEES FRAZER AXLE ttn vem. a Br
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