A — 1. —— ———— >" -— IN PART: ‘ Bky, soft sky! To thee I turn mine eye, And read, the stars botwoen, One word of what thy glories mean And then, though much I need, No more can read, ‘Wind, sweet wind! Thy voice to-day is kind! Thou whisperest in mine ear Words that I just begin to hear; Thou goest from east to west— Ilose the rest. Earth, glad earth! To thes I owe my birth; In thy warm lap I sit, Thy tender arms around me knit} I question. Thou dost say Now yea, now nay. Boul, my soul! Thou canst not know the whole; The sky can know its star, The breeze its perfume from afar,” The earth reveal to thee One mystery. a —— But soul, my soul!’ Thou soon shalt know the wholes, When earth and wind and sky Have vanished, thy enraptured eyo Shall read the book of fate: Then wait, oh, wait! Julia H. May, in Boston Journal. HOW 'LIZBETH FOUND HER FATHER. BY MARGARET MANTON. "Liz'beth lived in a cellar down in Mott street, No one knew what her other name was, 'Liz'beth could not in- form them. She used to wonder about it herself, as she sat looking out of her | one window. 'Liz'beth called it a window, but in reality it was only an iron grating that overlooked the sidewalk. In order to see out of it the little girl had to sit over against the cellar wall, and then all she | could see was the feet of the people as they went by. "Liz'beth used to wish sometimes that she could see what the owners of the feet were like, but then it was rather nice to sit and imagine about it. Most of them belonged to working people, but | now aad then a pair of patent leathers went by, and once in a great while a lady's kid boot and dainty French heels would pass with light tread, ax if the owner wished as little contact us possible with that wretched street. "Liz'beth had been up in the City Hall Park on pleasant afternoons, and there she had seen the ladies and gentlemen | So she koew But that was a who wore pretty shoes, what they were like. long time ago. "Laz'beth felt very sad this morning, for her kitten had just died, It wasn't much of a kitten, either. | One of its eyes was gone, and some cruel boy bad cut off a piece of its tail. The cold weather had wilted an ear, so that it hung forward, giving poor kitty the look of a disreptuable character. But her little mistress thought she was beau- tiful and loved her better than anything | else. 'Liz’beth called her kitten *‘Bijoun.” She hadn't any idea what it meant, and | she couldn't have spelled it to save her life. But one day in the pretty park a lady went by leading a curly white dog, | which she called ‘‘Bijou,” and that night "Liz'beth christened the kitten. The little girl sold papers in those | days, and every day she bought a penny's | worth of milk, which she gave Bijou, and she used to beg scraps of meat from the market on the corner. Sometimes she found a fish in the ash-barrel, not over fresh usually, but Bijou wasn't particu. lar. I've forgotton to tell you that "Liz. "beth had not lived alone in the cellar | always. Some one whom she called “Mag” used to be there. 'Liz'beth was afraid of Mag. She was good enough when she was scber, but that was so sel- dem. Sometimes Mag would be away for a whole week, and 'Liz'beth would dread to have her come back, she was always so ugly. Once she came home more fierce than usual; she was in trouble and wanted money. 'Liz’beth had been lucky for . week and had saved almost $1. She got it out from behind a brick——that was ber bank-—and gave it to the wretched w@uan, who struck her in return and went away. 'Liz'beth was pretty well used to blows; she'd had a lot of them; but somebow it hurt worse than usual this | time. Her head ached, and her poor little desolate heart ached, too. There was a tight feeling in ber throat, and the first thing she knew she was crying 80 hard that Bijou, who lay in her lap, | was all wet, It seemed to her she could remember when some one with pretty hair and soli gray eyes had held her and rocked her and sung—what was it she used to sing? ‘Liz’beth closed her eyes, swayed to and fro, and tried to think, Softly through the mist of almost.for. gotten things came the shadowy mem. ory of that song--s0 softly that it seemed only the ghost of words that whispered: | A kiss fs the only fare; Eis thin of Sr Baby and I, in our rocking-chair, How it seemed! “There's surely something the matter with my head,” said 'Liz’beth, and then she to t if they were queer, The next thing that came to her was a remembrance of the same misty sort con. ceming some one elso—some one big and handsome, with kind, brown eyes aod a not so soft as the other, but yet strange that some one should love her! And what was that about the cyes and mouth and hair? 'Liz'beth got a bit of looking-glass, crept close up to the grating where the street lamps shone in and looked at her- self. ~yes, they were gray, but not like those other eyes. There was a pathetic, appealing look in them that made 'Liz’- beth almost sorry for herself. She put away the glass and tried to woo the fancies back, but they did not come, and soon she fell asleep. in her face and Bijou was mewing loudly. 'Liz'beth sat up, or tried to, but she felt very strange, light, and she laid it down again. Her throat was sore and her lips were parched, s‘Dear me," she thought, ‘‘it must be afternoon, and Bijou must be hungry. I must get her some milk.” was no money there. Where gone! Oh, she remembered now. had given it to Mag, struck her. B8he picked up the bit of looking-glass. Yes, there was the mark across her cheek. white and thin. and cried pitifully. “I'll go out and beg for you, Kitty; you shan't be hungry.” When she got up 'Liz’beth found that she was very weak. She could Bijou was thin, too, the sidewalk. A woman noticed white face and gave her a drink. ¢What day is it?" asked 'Liz'beth, “Saturday.” “Saturday? Why, then I've been asleep two days. Isn't that funny! No wonder Bijou 1s hungry. She must have something to eat right away.” “Will you please give me a penny, sir?” she asked of some one who had a | face which seemed kinder to her than | that of most men. “A penny?! Here you sre.” And into her hand fell a bright new nickel. A man stood by the counter 'Liz'beth had never seen there before. He was not like the othe other folks who i came there ordinarily. From long habit the child glanced at his shoes, Yes, they were patent leather, and the clothes were not like those the baker wore, The face was a handsome one, in spite of the | fact that it was red and swollen and had | ! neither been shaved nor washed that day. | 'Liz'beth forgot her hunger and stood looking at him. “Well, little one, what do you think of me! I wouldn't take a prize, would i ‘Liz'beth started ; there was something about that voice. What was it! “Your mouth, your hair, your eyes—I wonder if that is what makes me love her soi” “8ir!” said 'Liz'beth, looking agin. | I didn't speak. | to yourself. What ails youl” | “*Pleasesir, I don't know. [felt queer | when I went to sleep, and I slept for two days, and I hain't had nothin’ to eat.” *Nothing to eat for two days! Well, I haven't had anything toeat for a week." 'Liz'beth looked at him. to eat for a week! Why, he must awful hungry,” she thought. | up be She turned it over in her dirty fingers. | Then she looked at the man again, bad not taken his eyes off her. “Pour man, he does look hungry,” she said to herself. And then, with a sudden impulse, she held out her precious money. “A week's lots worse'n two days, 1 can stan’ it a little longer, I guess, but {I'd like a cent to get some milk for Bijou. 'N’ you can have the rest.” The stranger started. His dull eyes opened wide and something glistened in them. “Why, you poor little hegzar™ ho said, brokealy, and then he stopped. | Here was a lesson in giving wkich many self-rightohus ones might copy to ad- vantage. *‘Did you think I dida’t eat because 1 hadn't money, baby?” | The child looked at him jn wonder. { She knew of no other reason why people Adidn't eat, and her eyes widened still [ more when the strange man put his hand in his pocket and drew out a big hand- ful of silver. | “There,” said he, ‘‘take this and buy | 4 barrel of milk if you like. 1'll take a | drink of milk, myself. It will be better | than wha! I've been taking for the past ten days.” 'Liz'beth got her milk and a pie. She was rich now, She hurried back to the cellar. Bijou had ceased crying and lay on the bit of old blanket in the corner quite still, | “Come here, Kitty, and get your | milk,” called "Liz'beth. But the kitten | was dead. No amount of coaxing would | make it stir, and the little girl was heart. | broken. Bhe forgot her pie and sat | looking drearily out of the window through her tears, The feet went by as | usual, Buoddenly came a quick step, a | flash of patent leather; some one peered | down through the grating, and a moment | later the man who given her the money was beside her. The next mo. ment she was in his arms and was being carried swiftly u and then she was in a carriage nding away. 'Liz'beth did not strug she! The stranger meant her no harm else he would not hold her so close an kiss her so wildly, saying over and over: “Thank God! Thank God!” had stopped in front of a Baw she flsamn Ee lh the steps, and how It was a wistful sort of face; the | mouth had a quiver in it, and the eyes | When she awoke the sun was shining | Her head was | She took away the brick, but there | gha¢ if not continuously active—and in | had it | She | and Mag had | It was all black and | yellow, but the gest of her face was | hardly | stand, but she managed to get out on | her | | whom You were talking! “Nothia' | She looked at the bright new nickel. | He | awful | gle and scream. Why should | years ago, when 'Liz'beth was only 't wee toddler. Close against her mother's heart that night lay a happy child, It was not fancy this time, A real voice, trembling with happy tears, crooned an old luliaby. And in the next room a strong mav sobbed as he promised God from thence forward to conquer his weakness, — New York World. The Vagaries of Vesuvius, The truth seems to be, says the Lon. don Standard, that Vesuvius, like mos of the order of mountains to which if belongs, is in no way to be depended | upon, It is an example of the uselessnesy | of the current classification of volcanoes | into extinct, quiescent, and active. There ! was a time when it would have been con | fidently pronounced to be as extinet as { those of Auvergne, and when its long | silence might have at least justified the appelietion of quiescent. Yet we know | reality no voleano is so—-it bursts into a fury of ashes and lava and pumice-stone so frequently that it is hard to say when it will stop and when begin afresh, A varied catalogue of disasters. After the giant puroxysm of that year it remained for 1500 years in a coudition of such | feeble activity that, though many eyes were naturally directed to it, it was re- garded as having almost exhausted itself, Again the crater got overgrown with and vineyards on its rich volcanic soil, hunters tracked the wild boar to the { thickets which spread rank over the | spots once black with hard enked ashes, ! and herdsmen grazed their cattle on the | wide grassy plains which stretched close to *‘the pit of Tartarus.” Butat length, | after six months of earthquakes, always increasing in intensity, the closed crater | again burst vpen and discharged stoves and dust with such vehemence that some of the latter, shot into the upper currents of the atmosphere, fell on the housetops of Tripoli and Constantinople. Far and near the pasty streams, akin to those which overwhelmed Pompeii, ran across the plains, until the villagers at the base of the Apennines saw these scr peat-like messengers at their doors, and for the first time in 1s modern history lava flowed west and south, and reached the seas in many divided rivalets. So | swiftly did all this happen that, though the inhabitants had been fully warned, | the loss of life was estimated at from | 8000 to 18.000. Bosco, Torre del Greco, {esina and Portici were flooded by the | seven rivers of lava, though, as a rule, the ashes settling, owing to the falling rain, into the concrete known as ‘pun zolona' are the most characteristic of ! the products of eruptions. Since 163] there have been between sixty and sev. | enty outbursts, 1766, 1767, 1779, 1734 { and 1822 being the years of the most | sctivity, though none of them equals the | two most memorable history. The lower slopes are again | covered with the vmeyards of Lacrima { Christi, that ‘*wine of ashes” celebrated { by Chiabrara as *‘al vin,” to which ‘la | gente diede nome dolente™ and the light- | some Neapolitans drink, dance and are merry as their ancestors were before the | cities of Campania perished. for the moment no resson for believing that their mirth is unwarranted, but we repeat that Vesavies is one of thom mountains on which it is daagerous « calculate, Carrying Uncle Sam's Cash. | Closely akin to the short shipment of | gold from the strong boxes of Wall | street to the nearby steamers is the pas- { sage to and fro of valuables for the Gov. | There is no! official carriage provided, but instead | ernment over the country. | the Governmeat depeads upon the appli | ances of a private express company. For | twenty-five yours Adams Expres Com- | | pany had the monopoly of the landing of Uncle Sam's cash from one pocket to | There are the sev- sub treasuries another, so to speak. eral mints and the several always swapping gold and silver either in coin or bars. Twenty-five cents per thousand dollars handled was the price | which the Adams Express Company ro- ceived for years, but the United States | Express came in recently with a hid of | fifteen cents per thousand dollars and now has the contract. Mr. Jordan, dur. | ing his reign in the Treasury Deparment, | did some very lively hustling about of | coin, sending millions across the conti: | nent from San Francisco to Washington and New York, much to the surprise ol old Treasury officials. He did it, too, in queer ways, and depended upon secrecy for security, He came out with. out loss, but it made some of the old hands very uneasy. The present con. | tract with the United States Express | Company covers the transfer of all sorts | of securities, of mutilated money, of | coin, eto., between the Treasury Depart. ment and the National banks of the country; with a bond of $500,000 to | secure the Government. In the case of the express company it must make good {all losses. It does not merely receipt | for such and such packages, bat for thelr | contents as well, so that when, in a re. cent shipment from Grand Rapids, Mich., a batch of $1700 was neatly extracted express company was good the deficiency. ] : gE £ it | # i it record of the eruptions since 79 1s a | vegetation, villages rose on its slopes | in the volcanos | There © A ———————————— SELECT SIFTINGS. Russia has the longest frontier, ’ Dynamite was invented in 1840, Ce River Nile is 5000 miles long. ore lobsters, by two to one, are sold this year than there was last. A Colorado girl broke her arm while trying to ride a calf bareback, In a school in Michigan the youngest pupil is an aunt of the teacher, ih The fireplace 1n Robert Louis Steven- son's island home in Samos is the only one in the land, | A number of short railways have been built in Paraguay, the Government as- { sisting largely in their construction, The British House of Commons mem- | bership was increased to 670 under the | operations of the Reform bill of 1885. A wealthy St. Paul | be spent in caring for her favorite dog. The heaviest wool production in the United States in the last decade was in 1884, when the total clip amounted to 308,000,000 pounds. Inveterate carclessness in money mat ters was a salient characteristic of the leading fictional writers of France [from | forty to fifty years ago. i A woman in Illinois has created a mild ! sensation by suing ber husband for her | false teeth, which he took away when she insisted upon biting him. A Philadelphia statistician there are four long gold, worth 82,500,000, carried around by the people of that tcwa in the shape says that tons of pure of Gli ing in their teeth, It is a curious historical fact that the first man in the United States to russet shoes was Christopher Columbus A painting shows that he landed in them. For fourteen years a of Marshes” in Scotland has been trying to get a sight of a wild anima! in the act of guarding its young in time of danger. He has tramped day after day for that purpose . went prominently displayed oil the ison but without success. The word +'State” wi used M 5 15, 17586, Cary reported to the Virginia con then in session at Willlamsburyg mous resoiution ‘to declan colonies free and independent States The largest gun ever made bs is the pr ment. It is made of barrel forty feet | thirteen and on $1500 to fire gun. A Maine farmer recently sent a cent stamp to a man who advertise i to send for that amount the way to farm without beiag troubled with potato bugs. was as fol lows: po- wperty of the Russian s with ai hall in a single 0s, ten fun a ‘he answer received “Plant frait trees instead of toes,” Four boys of Beardseye, lud., found at old coat near the ralirosd and began tossing it about and batting each other ! with it. A baok note slipped from be- neath the patches. The boys ripped the coat to pieces and it panned out #1711. The boots which Daniel Webster wore on his farm st Franklin, N. H., are owned by the New Hampshire Historical Society, and are on exhibition in a shoe store at Concord. They are of Kip leather, pegged soics and Is, with square toes. one of be A Michigan man tumbled into a hole four feet deep one evening and supposing himself at the bottom of a mine shall forty feet deep he put in the night pray. ing and halloing. When the morning came be climbed out and gave a teamster #1 to boot him for forty rods down the | road. ssam— No Paupers in Servia. The opinion is generally held that there is nothing entirely perfect in ex- istence., The opinion holds good in Bervia's case. It has had more trouble with its reign. ing Princes during the century than al. most all the other European countries combined, and yet—though the fact is not generally known-—it is one of the best countries in the world, at least so far as the condition of its lower classes is concerned, the total population was given at 2,096,. 043, of which not a single one was » | pauper. There is no such thing as a workhouse in the country. The inhabitants are thrifty, their tastes run usually to agricultural pursuits, and even the poorest have some sort of [ree- bold property. —New York World, Mystery of Hall Solved. A direct observation of hail in the rocsss of formation Is recorded by srofessor Tosetti who, in the afternoon ern Italy, which, with two others, in- closed the court, saw the rain which streamed down from the roof to the right caught by a very cold wind from the north, and driven back sod up in thick drops. Suddenly a south wind blew, and the drops, tossed about in all directions, were transformed into ice balls, When the south wind cessed this transformation also ceased, but whenever Hit 1 it i | i 1s i £ : _(Mion.) lady pro- | ! vided in her will that #5 a week should | of & squally day, looking eastward | through the win low of a house in north. - ——— rn s———— NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN. Jackets are shorter, Now we have souvenir thimbles, White veils are conspicuous ounce more, Fencing is a favorite exercise among women now, The white blazer now blaz es with red or yellow facings. Girls who clerk in stores in America are paid but small wages. The summer handkerchief is cut on | the edge to represent leaves, There is a ramor that furbelowed white | petticoats are coming in again. " “College Bongs for Girls” are now to | be had-—a pleasant collection, All the women of the Vanderbilt fam- | ily are notable for their good looks. Women are rapidly making their way into the faculty of medicine in England. The women in statistical Prussia, reports, far outnumber according to the | men, Miss Frances E. Willard, the temper- ance advocate, says she always rises at 7 in the morning. The polka dot isn’t round any longer. Through much use it has become tened into an egp shaped ball, There is a good eal of talk with re. gard to the possibility of a feminine or- chestra in New York nest winter, It is said that the girl stands a better chance than any other working woman, Gardening, piano-tuning and sanitary engineering are some of the oot upations women are taking up in Great Britain, A Bond street (London) jeweler says that at a room the Queen wears at least $750,000 worth of jewels. drawing Turquoises are the most fashionable stones of the day. For hair ornaments thoy are intermixed with diamonds, and half a dozen little pins go with cach hair ornament, in- terested in the education of the children of the poor, Mrs, Vice- President of the New York Free Kinder. garden Association, Though it Find Mrs. Grover Cleveland is greatly Cleveland is is only first col in wWoisan ’ e the we th ege States was opened to 40,000 women studying of the « in Coliegoes wautry Blondes lock fairer and ; ol velvet, while brunettes require the sheen or g of milk wear black to advantage, dead black like that of wool KOOas of satin ye in order before been Many Never bas simplicity studied with such artful’ results, of the charming gowns one sees are ab. surdly plain and yet despairingly difficult of achievement by any bul the very smart. est mantua-makers, The Princess Stephanie Is aid to be fast losing the beauty that made ba famous at the Viennese Court when she married the Crown Prince Rudolph ten yeam ago. She has never recovered from the dread{ul shock of her husband's sui- cide. More than 5000 jadies in England are competing for the prizes offered for a desiga for the best cycling costume, the best shooting costume, the best golf cos tume, the best walking costume, the best tea gown and the best outdoor cloak. “Shirley Dare,” the author of count. less practical articles for housekeepers, looks more like a poetess than what she is—a journslist and a writer on domes. tic topics, She is fair, with soft eyes and golden hair, and is gentle and pen- sive in manner, The Saltan has issued a decree pro hibiting the from perambulating prescripts of the Koran. Concord, Mass., had a woman guide, | She is Mrs. L. E. Brooks; has a well: | equipped livery stable, personally at- tends all parties, knows every point of | jnterest about the town, knows the genealogy of everything and everybody, and makes a most charming guide. Duck's foot yellow is the odd name of | the newest and oddest shade in gloves, At the last census (estimated in 1800) | It is worn with gray gowns. Duck's egg green is another new shade, the | London taste at the moment running to ducks exceedingly. Pale hehiotrope, pale | pink and lemon are wora with evening gowns. The salaries of women clerks in the public service at Washizgton are, with | few exceptions, equal to those of men in | similar positions, Two women in the Treasury Department, Miss Van Vran- ken, of New York, and Miss Seavy, of Tennessee, receive $1800 a year, which they have earned by twenty-five years of service. Miss Tanner has the same sal. ary, and five others in the same depart. ment reosive $1600; three have $1400; a hundred have from $900 to $1200, — Flour Mills in China. The Chinese Government has granted concessions for the establishment of two steam flour mille at Peking, and © successful it is said A rn WHO —— in all trees that have fully | Picayune, flat- | { dents have done most to counterbalance type-writer to get married | | | side three clerks, | stenographer, Indies of Constantinople the streets in the | Paris costumes they have adopted of late, | which his Majesty condemns as depart | ing from Turkish tradition and from the | ———————————————————— “Japan Wax.” “Japan nx,” as it is called is ob- tained from a tree, the Rhus Succedanea, which grows in Japan, China and the East Indies. The Japanese call it Haje, or Haze. The tree commences to bear fruit when five or six years old, and in- creases its product every year, till, at the age of fifty yesrs, a single tree will pro- duce 350 to 400 pounds of berries, from which seventy to eighty pounds of wax can be obtained. The wax is formed in the middle of the berry, between the skin and the seed, like the pulp of a grape. Itis extracted by boiling the berries in water and allowing it to cool, when the wax separates from the skin and seed, sinking to the bottom of the vessel in a solid cake. The specific gravity of the wax is 0.970, and its melting point 131 degrees Fahrenheit. It is Inrgely used, either alone or mixed with tallow, by the Chinese in the manufac. ture of candles. This tree should not be confounded with the *“tallow tree” of China, which has a pith of solid tallow matured, —- re —————— Safety Bridges. Next to mining disasters railway ncei- of nsture in exempting he Temperaste Zone from the earthquake and torpadoes of the equatorial regions. In the United States alone the perils of the iron high- WHYS have proved more destructive of of hostile ele- the partiality large portions of t human life than the wrath ments in the tropics of the entire West. ern Hemisphere, and, since the invention of air-brakes, no other contrivance has promised 10 Go us much in diminishing perils by which a French eagineer in- This principie uction of betray it- a uni- will greatly lessen the that of 1 the Swiss ex those as the device now pr ses LO f sure the safety of rails is founded on 1 that a weak link in suspension apparatus the const bridges, ote., will self by yielding more readily to and f = form strain, possibility sch disasters as } ; the Ashtabula express a York cursion train, New Five Thousand Years Old Mr. Flende mportant discovers “% rs Petrie hns made ar ther tf. al Medum, where be has untombed the oldest dated Egyptian temple yet found, and the only pyramid temple Owe It buried forty feet of rubbish, and belongs the old Empire. Hieratic inscriptions in black paint within the fix the name of the builder , a King, connecting the third and fourth dynas- ties, and sometimes placed in one or the other (4000 B. C., or earlier). Mr. Pe. trie thinks the rubbish choked up the entrance about three hundred years after the erection of which is situated in froot the eastern face of a was under 0 chambers sas 13 as dueirag as temnle i jif 5a vempee, ' ti of pyramid. Picayune. — A — New York has four coroners receiving £5000 each, and four deputies, who are also physicians, getting £3000 each, be- a messenger and a ¥F.J. Cheney & Un. Toledo, 0, Props. of Hall's Cstarrt Care, offer $100 reward for any case of catarrh thst cannot be cured by tak. ing Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for testimsond als, free. Sold by Droggista, Tee. Roussia’s harvest, it is sald will be the wors of record FITS stopped free by Da, Kisses Grea Nunve KesTomom, No ais after rst day's usa Marvelous cures, reutise and $2 trial bottles tree. 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