O DEAR TO-DAY. You are mine, all mine, O, dear, to-day, From the eawliest gleam of your golden dawn, "Till the twilight takes you forever away, And the hours that you promised me now are gone, Oh, what shall I do with you, dear, to-day Shall 1 hold you close, and never share The bliss that comes with your sunny light To my seeing eyes with the blind man there? Oh, what shall I ask of you, dear, to day— More blessings still for my goodly store-— The gift of a hundred happy thoughts, Or the love and the trust of one heart more! Ob, what shall I say to you, dear, to<lay, As you glide so swiftly and silently by That Pm glad, so glad, that you came to me, And sorry, so sorry, to see you die? Ob, what shall I be to you, dear, to-day, When the cold, dark night shall bid you flee, And the hours of another morning stand Relentless and stern "twixt you and me? Oh, what shall I make of you, dear, to-day In the chain of my life another link, That shall guide with other radiant ones My path to the Beautiful River's brink? ~Eva Best, in Detroit Free Press, UNCLE EBEN'S MINERALS BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. “Alix! Alix! where are you?" Alexia Ames stood like some avenging | Fatein the middle of the square room at Amescroft Farm. She had pulled up every tack in the well-worn ingrain car- | pet—the one ‘‘store carpet” that the | humble establishment afforded — and had flung it bodily out of the window, where it bad descended with crushing weight cn the fiery-red blossoms of a monster “burning bush.” She had opened every casement wide, 80 that the yellow light of the glorious May morning streamed in, a flood of crystal glory. 3" She had tied her auburn hair up in an old towel, and stood on a wooden chair- seat, brushing cobwebs from the ceiling with an ancient ym, verbial ‘‘old of rhyme. At the sound of her sister's voice she stopped abruptly, “I'm here,” said she “What are you doing, Alix?" “I'm trying to civilize things a little.” “All alone by yourselt, Alix!” “There's no one to help mel” “Can't you wait until Bridget Reir- | don comes to-morrow!” Alix shook her toweled head. i “This is one of the cases.” said she, “where paticace has ceased to be a vir- tue. No, I can’t wait a day longer.” Ellen looked anxiously room. “Why, what have everything I” said she. “Cleared them all out. If we are go- | ing to have summer boarders, we must get ready for them. Uncle Eben occu- pies our best bedroom, and is likely to for some time; consequently this must be fitted up for boarders.” Ellen sighed deeply “I wish we weren't so poor,” said she. “I wish we could filling our house every bre » woman" like the the pr ) nursery sround the you done with live without summer with a crowd of noisy strangers.” “Why don’t you wish for Aladdin's lamp, or the Kohinoor diamond while you are about it!" said Alix, scornfully. “Alix, why have you grown so bitter of late!” pleaded the gentler of the Sisters. ‘I don't hardly know you!" “Am I bitter! Alix stood still and hesitated for an instant or so “Well, perhaps I am. Bat is it not en ugh to make any one bitier, this constant cur reat of disappointment?” “I don’t know that we have a0y more t¢ bear than others, Alix." *“You do, too!” eried Alix. springing down from her wooden chair, with burning cheeks and eves alight. “You know you do, Ellen Ames! Here you are engaged to Henry Lucas and ean't marry until he can give you a8 home: | here are we weighed 10 the very earth with poverty and care, and this old uncle of ours, coming back from a life time of shiftiessness in New Mexico, to piace an additional burdens om our shoulders.” “He is old and poor, Alix.” “Very well, I'm young and poor Where's the difference! Of the two, maintain that he is the better off.” Ellen looked at her stormy tempered sister with troubled eyes Evidently she thought it best not to continue the subject, “What have you done with the little ease of butterflies snd birds’ nests?” said she; “and the cabinet of minerals and the paper box of stones!" “Tumbled them back of the goose. berry bushes,” said Alix. “I can’t have the room cluttered with all the trash he hvu back in that wooden chest of “Couldn't TE tdrea them away in the old chest § ““Nousense! Such stuff as that! And, besides, it would have been quite im pos. sible, for I've had Billy chop the old ark Up into kindling wood. He'll never kuow !"” “Oh, Alix!" “I don't care!” flushed out Ajix, with i 8 aaeklan 4 toss of ber head. “It's too | verythi wrong with us, aod mother fs nS Over vd and I'm clear d 1, and—qod-." Ali of a sudden ber factitions cournge | broke down, She sank in « little heap | on the floor, her head on the wooden chair-seat, and hor masses of auburn hair : i i escaping wildly from the towel, while | her whole frame shook with sobs snd t tears trickled down her cheeks, b the same moment Mrs Ames's soft, tremulous volo was hoard, calling: “Ellen! Alexia! Where are you, 4 Your uncle is took deendful bad! one of you, for the doctor! And other ae; Sowa sud hile we 1s bia Filen to her mother's assistance i | 1 { Ures | world. "Saturday Night, trom her curls, exchanged it for u bon. net and hastened to summon Doctor Dodd, who lived at the other end of the village. “Is it my fault?” she asked herself, “Was it because [ repined? Oh, dear, oh dear, what a wicked girl I must be! But everything seemed so hard and cruel, and —and —I couldn't endure it.” Late in the alterncon she peeped into the sickroom, shy and shrinking, like a frightened child, ‘Is he worse?” sho whispered. Mrs. Ames came to the door, a slight, soft-eyed woman, like a human dove. “You needn't speak so low, daugh- ter,” said she. ‘‘He can't hear you. He's quite unconscious.” “Why does he keep muttering sot” “I think he's wandering in his mind poor old Uncle Eben! Oh, dear—oh, dear! And I can remember him such a portly, handsome man,” added the widow, wiping her eyes. ‘‘He was the youngest of all the brothers. Come in, Alix, and see him. He's spoken your name two or three times. Don’t look so startled, dear. He seems quite happy and composed. He's talking all the while about those curiosities of his-—the minerals, you know, and things.” Involuntarily Alix's eyes met the gently reproachful glance of her sister's. The sudden scarlet mounted to her | cheek. Oh, Ellen, don't look at me so!" she exclaimed. “I brought them every one back—yes, I did-—and I put them ex. | actly where they were before. Do you | think I could have come into this room if it hadn't been for that?" And she went up and stood by the | bedside, her eyes full of tender tears, her | voice pitiful and low. “Uncle Eben,” said she, know met” “It's Alix, ain't it?" crooned the old man, after a moment's silence. *“*Alex- ander’s oldest girl. The prettiest one. | Yes, it's Alix—and she's to have my cu- riositios —all of them, mind! Nell has got a lover, and that ought to be enough for any girl. But Alix is alone, and Alix shall have my curiosities.” a, Und Eben!” said Alix, invalid paused, expectant of an vida you “Thank ¥ le as the swer And then he began to prate of South Amorican forests and the ruined mission houses of New Mexico, and shortly after he died. | And when Alix fluished cleaning the spare room, she left the poor little treas. in the drawer of aan old-fashioned book-case there, “I couldn't have the heart to throw | them away a second time," said she, **af- ter what he said tome. It was like a child giving one shining pebbles or wilted buttercups, with the idea that they were precious treasures. But I'm glad he said it. It seemed to soften my | heart; and, oh, it was very hard and bit. ter jus: then! And I didn't know-how | could If—that | should miss him so much I" It was late in the summer when one of the neighboring girls came in. “Miss Alix,” said she, “you told our Becky she could have a basket of goose. | berries, didn’t you-~them purple, prickly berries, that grows down by the garden wall’ “Of course [ did,” Alix answszred, crisply. “I knew your grandma liked gooseberry jam “Well, look here,” opening her closed hand. she picked up there.” “A little sparkling stone, wan't it!" “it's an opal,” said Fanay, io a mys terious whisper, “A “An opal “Nonsense, child! What are you talk. ing about!” cried Alix, scorufully. “But it is an opal. Joba Lytton, whe works at Tiffany's, in New York, is down visiting his mother, and he says it's a real Oriental opal in the rough. Now the question is, John says, how did an opal ever get among your gooseberry bushes? Is there a jewel mine hidden down there!” she added, half jestingly. Alix turned first red, then white. She knew well how it had come there, ““Ask John Lytton to come here and see me, Fanny,” said she, “I have at least a dozen stones like that.” It was like the ending to a fairy story. Not jewels turning to ashes, apparently, but rough pebbles ranking, all of a sud. { i said Fanny Rice, ‘See what | what 1" { den, as precious jewels, Uncle Eben's minerals, disgumsed in the dimoess of their conglomerate sur. | roundings, were opals of rare fire and | value Whether he had picked them up in | New Mexico, among the ignorant traders | there, or brought them direct from South | America, no one ever knew. But opals | they were “And to think," said Alex, with a! a little catching to her breath, ‘how | neat | came to throwing all my inherit. ance away! Oh, what a wicked, evil tempered young vimgo I was! And no. thing but Ellen's sweet, gentle words saved me from the consequences of my own folly. And so Ellen shall have half of my inheritance.” And for some weeks the gooseberry bushes at the foot of the Ames garden formed a sort of Mecca for sightseers and curiosity -mongers, “Wo ain't used to berry bushes a bear precious stones,” chuckled old Gaffer Gerdis. “Not in this part of the —— Welght on Yarfous Planets. Oa Jupiter, which is a much larger the earth, a man | hope; causes a man t {man flesh for | other food, { and, pinching her throat, choke WISE WORDS, The more important an animal is to be the lower is its start, Man, the noblest, is born the lowest, Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all; and seeking it can be dis- covered by the simplest. Grief is not to be measured by the tears shed, nor does the loudest mourner de- serve the largest bequest, Every incomplete work is a monument to human folly. Whatever is worth be- ginning 1s worth ending, She was regal, she was haughty, she was highborn and distinguished ; and hike the rest of us, she was clay. . In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood red wine; it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies. Each man can learn something from his neighbor; at least he can learn this to have patience with his neighbor, to live and let live. Think you that judgement waits till the doors of the grave are opened! It wails at the doors of your houses, it waits | { at the corners of your streets, "Tis nature has fashioned some foram- | { bition and dominion, snd it has formed others for obedience and submission. The leopard follows his nature as the lamb. Good thoughts are blessed guests, and | | should be heartily welcomed, well fed { and mueh sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar ot memory. Life is not made upof great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which | stiles and kindness and small obligations given habitaally are what preserve the | heart and secure comfort, To be full of goodness, full of cheer- fulness, full of sympathy, fall of helpfull y carry blessings of which be is himself as UNCONSCIOous as a lamp is of Nothi: leasen the dignity and value of humanity so long as the relig f its own shining. IZ Coan of love, of unselfishness and devotion endures; and noue can destroy the alt faith for as Aa of this us 80 long we feel yurseives still ¢ apable of love Fine Points In Cannibalism. that the tribes It was formerly supposed relish with which certaln savage | ste their enemies arose from the gratifi- cation of the passion of revenge. With. in the last few years, however, it has been clearly shown that some of the bar. barian man-eaters are really fond of ha. its own sake—that they enjoy it as a civilised epicure turtie soup or roasted ortolans, enjoys Your Fiji Islander thinks the greatest prase he can bestow upon any edible is to say that it is “as tender as a desd man.” | Fijians bave plenty of provisions, | but they consider “long pig" their pleasant name for human flesh -—much | timer than pork, bee! or mutton. Te New Zealanders, on the other ha do not consider man's flesh as a delicacy, but eat dead heroes and ‘wise | men" (whether they have been friends or enemies makes no difference), with the idea that they imbibe the valor and in- tellectual qualities of the deceased dur. ing the process, The savage” Fuego never eats any except when “noble of Terra del of his own people, remarkably scarce, sithough always ready to *“take in" the shipwrecked stranger. 1a severe other meat is | winters, if we are to believe the story of {a British admiral (Fitzr 5), the Terra del-Fuegons, ‘when they can obtain no take the oldest woman of their party, hold her head over a thick smoke, made by buming green wood, her,” after which she is served up to her friends. The barbarians, on being asked why they did not eat their dogs instead of their old ladies, naively answered that their dogs caught otters, but that their venerable grandmothers and aunts did not, Probably the majority of even yams to human flesh, but it is neverthe- | leks true that there are several tribes in | | Australasia, [islands that actually hasker after it. Alfriea and the South Sea There is some luxuries. This fact is certainly encour. aging to the missionary intercit. — New York Ledger, EE ——— Anclent Inks. The ink first used probably was some oatural animal pigment, such as the black fluid obtained from various species of cuttlefish ; but the limited supply of this material sonn led to the use of a chemical mixture of water, gum and lamblack, and the characters were painted rather than written, by means of a broad. pointed reed. As ink of this simple nature was eamly removed from the surface of the parch- ment by the mere application of mowture, It was early found necessary to contrive some means of forming & more durable int 7 i also draped in black. | An EXECUTIONS IN GERMANY. THRILLING ACCOUNT OF THE DE. CAPITATION OF A CRIMINAL, The Judge, Jury and State's Attorney Witness the Death—The Stalwart Executioner and His Sons. The public executioner of Berlin is » curious functionary, writes u correspon- dent of the New York Press. 1 made his acquaintance a short time ago when he visited me, in order to get some facts about the first American electrical execu- tion. He then promised to invite me to be present when next he was called upon to take a criminal’s life. In accordance with the promise he sent me a dispatch o'clock one morning early last month, requesting me to call at once at the Plotzenses Prison, as a criminal named Karl Schmiedicke war to be be- headed at 8 o'clock precisely the same day. In the courtyard of the prison, which served as the place of execution, I found about fifty people waiting, who were ev. idently on the same errand as myself, | Among these were only three newspaper men. There were aiso present, in addi. tion to have a dozen armed warders, the | | State's Attorney and his secretaries, the judges and jury who conducted the trial { of Bchmiedicke, 8 representative of the { municipality of Berlin, and also a repre- | sentative burgess of the village of Mot. ! | zen, the scene of the crime, There had been no doubt of the guilt of the murderer, for SBchmiedicke was | clearly convicted of having slaughtered : awhole family in order to rob his vic- | tims of a paltry sum of twenty marks, felon’s own wife, with whom up to that time he had lived on good terms, was the first to tara against him, and, by her evidence, shatter to pieces his clumsy alibi. Everybody present at the execution was handed a paper « learly setting forth the facts of the crime and the penalty, At 7:55 the State's Attbroey directed everybody ir sit at th tion regarded by official is in accordance with the to occur. He himself by seating himself, as the sentative of the crown, table placed at the end close to fit to stand We CXact posi- red tapeism as ceremony about 3 ? Py entrance but a narrov the criminal cloth, and everything on it ed with the same sign of mourning and death The writing materials, Bible and law books were draped with black cloth, and even the Acts and documents were bound with black thread, and the tapes attached had heavy black seals. To the right of the State's Attorney sat the judges in their somber robes of office, and to the left the secretaries and | the newspaper representatives, At the end of the narrow yard were two tables, On one lay three broadswords unshesthed., The brigit rays of the morning sun glinted eid upon the shining strips of steel, and the black handles of the weap ous were long enough to allow of their being grasped by two sturdy hands, On the other table lay s basin of water and three suowy white with the all pervading black About two feet further AWAY, near the wall, stood the low block. Ian striking contrast to all its surroundings, the dread log of wood, which was resting place of the neck of the criminal while still in life, was drapi 1 with bright scarlet cloth. This was quite pew and spotiess, as if it had been specially pur chased for the occasion. To the right haa leaning against the wall was a bench also painted black, upon which the coat sod shirt of the murderer were subse quently throws towels, each edged be the last ’ 10 At the stroke of 8 o'clock the bell of the prison began to tell the solemn death knell of the coaviet., Hall a his scarlet hood with bare arms, and shouldering a gleaming ax as the insignia | of his ghastly office. the | lowest order of savages prefer fish and | Reindel, the headsman, is a stalwart, well proportioned man, who stood fully six foet in his shoes, had a strong face and wore a heavy beard, He seemed by | his carriage to combine the dignity of a | tambour major with the heavy tread of . | one of the Kaiser's colossal cuirassiers. consolation, however, | in the assurance given us by travelers | that most of these anthropophagi prefer | colored persons to Caucasians as table | Reindel has served twenty years in the army, and was always considered an ex emplary soldier. Being an expert with the sword and a giant in strength, Rein. del was appointed to the post of heads | man, just as the other faithful servants of the Emperor are given positions as mekeepers, servants or gendarmes. Fhe office is supposed to be an honorary and dignified one, but the headsman seems to appreciate its honor and dignity | most, Behind Reindel came his three lusty sons, each wearing & pair of leather trousers, high boots snd red woolen the elbows. The condemned convict followed, leaning on the arm of ove of the prison officials, with his eyes turned in his uplified hand. Suddenly the headman shouted in stentorian tones, military fashion, ‘Halt! Front!” and the next instant the little n stood like a wall facing the s Ab comparatively | since | PETSOL minute | | later the executioner appeared wearing and no sound broke the desthlike still. ness save the heavy breathing of the mur. derer, whose massive frame seemed like a statue in the hands of the stalwart sons of the headsman, The judges and Btatc'zAttorney carefully watch every detail of the grim tions, nothing evidently escaping their observation, but their beard] ess, impas. sive faces betrayed no symptoms of emo. tion, Finally came the most extraordinary part of the whole proceedings—aston. aspect given to an otherwise dignified and impressive scene. iteindel, who had in the interval lifted one of the littering blades from the table and ides it up in the air before him, scddenly exclaimed: “I wish you observe that we work without any apparatus, and do not bind the prisoner.” Hardly were the words out of his to mouth than his gleaming sword whizzed | through the air like a lightning flash, | . : ‘ |and the prisoner's head rolled to the other side of the block, severed com- pletely by the first stroke of the sweep. ing blade. From the time the execu. tioner's sons seized Schmedicke to the moment the headsman lifted his Aripping blade and cried, “Its is done,” exactly one minute had elapsed by my watch, which lay before me on the table. The whole of the legal tragedy wis conducted in a most methodical, business-like | fashion, but the remark of Reindel as to the | too absence of apparatus sounded to me like the sharp assurance of s conjurer at a music hall to audience for some special much who desires prepare Lis | feat of lege rdemain, The crime horrified everybody and the| This was the sixteenth execution car. ed out by the firm of Reindel & Sons the beginning of the vear Their tion extends { the of rin, which country « ynsiders itself to all parts o the exeet re ire, w 0 ith L rena my 5488 emp d i | ion enough to have a headsman of its A Great Southern Exposition. wow " hetd st Raleigh greater Urces States; and to these ion of illustrations of the and variety of Southern field pro- will be elton lucts will and va- #0il not hitherto familiar to the the Northern farmer. There be demonstrated climatic range riety of a revelation comprehension of | He is familiar with the fact that the great staples of the South are immense fact "ns in American commerce, but, savs & writer who f i well informed upon the subject, be has familiarized himself to the belief | that the cotton, the rice, and the sugar, of these | are the nurslings of » tropical climate under whose torrid sun the energy of the | Northern worker would sipk and wilt, | Brought in contact with the actual re. sults of the exhibition, the Northern far. mer will be amazed to learn the de pth of the error which has excluded him from the Crops with which i familiar are produced in an .ex- cellence, abundance and variety not ex- the mare te mperate, not to say of the North. He over a wide range of wheat, rye, buck- and the fruits of the J 1D similar a section where he seeded by igid climate that territory grapes, temperate pone more r will fiad Southern wheal, oats, are large factors in piving the deficiencies of the rihern resources This movement has its development ough the agency of practical demon- on; it comes through the concerted aa of the Southern and is in its character. It had its inoep- two great Southern Industrial Convent has received sanction of all the Legislatures of the South, and is placed upon a basis so firm and broad as States, Wicas tion ina ne | broad as to have acquired the nature of a permanent jostitution In the furtherance of the objects of the Expomtion and the preliminary ex- hibit, there is nothing more gratifying snd encouraging than the prompt co-op- eration of the Northern railroad systems. By them a most generous tender of ac- | ive co-operation has been made, and by | the intelligent application of their facul- ties the people of the North will not only | have opportunity to place their wares, products and manufactures on exhibit in | comparison with those of all sections, but | the people themselves, the exhibitors, the citizens, their wives and their chil. dren, can see the South at small cost. A conspicuous and instractive part of colored people, prepara. | | ago he noticed in the papers 8 recom. | mendation of some kind of ear trumpet | the Exposition will be the exhibit of the | They will make their | own exhibit and be on an exqual footing | with the whites in relation to all they | have to show the products of their own brains, the work of their own haad, the | | fruits of their own industry. This object shirts, with their sleeves rolled up above | lesson will be convincing proof that the | colored man is steadily improving hand: | 4 wEW POINTS OF vantages, that be is bettering his fortune, | | that he is elevating his position in the towards the priest, who held a crucifix | scale of human progress. : I ————— Saperstitions Concerning Infants. Before an infant's first exit from the house in which it was born, it is cen. { { also a deal mute, | sued, the tender chords of sympathy and | emotion were aroused and an engagement ishing for the dramatic, almost ludicrous | | riage, Ear Trumpets as Cupid's With the marriage st Bteelville, Mo., of William J. D. Kelly to Miss Anns Mo- { Donald, of Oakville, Canada, is con- At the table where | he sat the same awful stillness prevailed, | nected quite a romance. The groom isa well known young man, living on a farm with his widowed mother, well-to.do, though deaf and dumb. A year or two by the above named young lady who is A corresponcence en- followed. The heroic young bride left her far off Canadiun home to meet her distant affianced. For six days and salons she traveled, but came safely through, This was three weeks before the mar- and the intervenirg time was spent in forming each other's acquain. tance at the groom's home, with the re. sult that the nuptials were celebrated amidst ths congratulations of a host of friends, —5¢, Louis Republic. pmr———————— A Flower That Changes Color Daily, During the summer of 1890 the botan- ists made 8 wonderful discovery in Te. husntepee, having established the fact beyond a doubt that the native “‘hinta” his a flower that ¢ hanges its color three or more times each day when the wea*her is favorable. In the morning it is white; at noon it has changed to a deep red; at night itis blue. It is even claimed that some individual trees of this species have werthat change luring Ye nigt hours « tol p 2 perfume, Deafuess Can't be Cured Hy Jone re dimonned § ot reach the ari FITS stop; Kiane's Gurar Neuve His TR , ts after frst day's use, Marvel re "reat ald rial bottle ree $ An imitation of Nature —that's the result you want to reach. With Dr. Pierce's leasant Pellets, you have it. They cleanse and renovate the whole system naturally. That means that the y do it thor oughly, but mildly. They're the smallest in size, but the most effective —sugar-coated, easiest to take. Sick Head- ache, Bilious Headache, Con- stipation, Indigestion, Bilious Attacks, and all derangements of the Liver, Stomach and Boweis are prevented, relieved, and cured. Purely vegetable, perfectly harmless, and gently laxative, or an active cathar tic, acco.ding to size of dose. 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