WHERE THE ROUGH ROAD TURNS, Where the rough read turns and the valley sweet Smiles soft with its balm and bloom, We'll forget the thorns that have piercad the feet And the nights with their grief and gloom, And the skies will smile and the stars will beam And we'll lay us down in the light to dream. We shall lay us down in the bloom and light With a prayer and a tear for rest, As tired children who creep at night To the love of a mother’s breast; And for all the grief of the stormy past Rast shall be sweeter at last—at last! Sweeter because of the weary way And the lonesome nigh* and long, While the darkness drifts to the perfect day With its splendor of light and song; The light that shall bless us and kiss us and | love us And sprinkle the roses of heaven above us! -F L. Stanton. =» Atlanta Consticution, A SWISS LOVE STORY. RY ANNA PIER] ONT BIVITER. N an precy chalet that nestled high against the shaggy breast of Mount Ob- gadin lived the widow Neur ané ‘her daughter Marie. A lonely home you would Lave thought it, but the fir trees that wailed so in {your ears whispered ot good cheer to Marie. When fierce winds came rushing untain side, she knew bend their tall heads to thir strong arms until, robbed of baffled storm rushed by. When morning broke, friends stood erect and stately, drawing aside thuir leaves and branches, that the sunbeams might not linger in embraces, but hasten down to their favorite, Marie. Very lovely was the li Swiss maid, with violet eyes that now danced and sparkled and then grew soft and tender as a little child's. Two rose red lips shut in her pearly teeth, and when she smiled a tiny dumple danced for a mo- ment on her peachy cheek. Her hair clung in caressing curls around her low white forehewd, and fell in ripples of golden sunshice far below her slender waist, And her voice! Ah! that wes Marie's greatest charm. oft and clear, not a discordant note marred its sweet, pure harmony. Sometimes as she sang at her evening devotions the herdsmen far below in the valley, catching faint aotes of her song, looked up and crossed themselves, half believing they the echo of an ange' cooir. Lut very fcw knew of Marie's beauty, For when she went with Ler mother on ne of ae Oo all A ng Ye Pe -— “ee down the mo the would twine home, trees gether and nd her wu hi vietin 848 Vici Arot their soft awaken heard Jer rare visit the hamlet be. straight OTe head, and its which fell iky yes until one : ia vain for a { their beauty. Hoar red it firmly over her peacly teeth, while he dimple hid itself resolutely away from sight. And ber sweet voice, frightened at its own sound so far from home, grew faint and husky, until, ia this shriok- ing, sober damsel, walking so timidly beside the Widow Neur, you would have found it bard to recognize the beautiful Marie of the mountain, So it happened that only her mother and one other person knew hew good and sweet and how fair Marie was, This other was a stranger who came from a far away country and spent his summers in a little house on the moun tain’s very top. The simple “iliagers called him ‘‘the wizard,” and told strange tales of how te spent whole nights gaziog at the heavens through a long tube; that he could foretell to an hour when the svn would cover itsclf with darkness; but, strangest of all, he bad a little wire stretched fer miles over hills and valleys to the great city! This wire talked to him in a queer language which no one | els: could understand. “Vick, tick, tickety tick,” it sid, | and it told bim things that happened miles and miles away. Marie did not know how wise the wizard was when he camo to her home one morning and asked for a drink of water, He followed her to the spring when she went for it aud stopped by the way to break open a curious stone, He showed Marie hor queerly marked it was inside, and then ey her a etory about it. 1he usually timid maiden was so inter. | ested she forgot to be frightened, and thus a stro.g friendship between the two was begun, After this the wizard often came to the widow's chalet for r~st and refresh. ment on his long rambles, and Matis un- consciously revealed her charms to him, one Ly one, unt.., long before the first summer was ended, the stranger knew that no girl in all the canton could be compared with Marie, On the other side of the mountain from the Widow Neur's home lived another widow, Bho, too, had but one child, a son, who was the pride and delight of her life. This was the brave young hunter and guide Gustavus Friel, Every one knew and liked Gustavus, Obgmlin maidens, He would far rather chase the chamois up the mountainside or guide travelers through its dangerous passes than spend his time with the finest of the maids of the hamlet, His mother often said, **My son, when wilt thou bring me home a daughter and thyself a wife?” And Gustavus, smiling and and press. ing a kiss on her forehead, would an. swer: “When I find a maid as good ns thee, mother; but I want no idle, shrill-voiced wife to disturb our quiet home." But one day his mother said more sadly and serious'y than ever before: “Gustavus, I am growing old and feeble. 1 can no longer make and mend thy clothes and keep our home. Thou must have a wife. Promise me at the fete next week thou wilt {from among the maidens there.” Gustavus reluctantly gave her the de- | sired promise, but it weighed heavily upon him, He could think of nothing else, and the more pondered the heavier his heart grew. At last he seized his he and went gun out on the mountain, but the perplexing | questions followed him, until at last be | threw himself on the ground groaning, | «Oh, that some wise man would make | this choice for me!” | A moment after he looked up and | saw, as if in answer to his wish, the wizard approaching him. “Why,” he exclaimed to ¢tdid I not think of him beforel Surely he, if ony one, can help me.” Then, with a throbbing heart, Gustavas sprang up to meet him. The wizard greeted Gustavus warmly, | for he felt a strong fricadship for the young guide who had taken him safely through many a dangerous excursion, And now his sympathetic question, “Why, what's troubling you, my boyi” opened the way for Gustavus to pour out «ll his perplexity, euding recital with the question; himself, nis sympathetically, in silence a littie swered. hesit is united to a both must be while before he a “If a pure, true true, pure heart, bappy.” “Alas!” answered Gustavus, “but I know not which maiden among them ail has the purest, truest heart!” “‘There will be one such heart at the fete,” answered the wizard, ‘but you may fail to recognise it. However, if you will come to me to-morrow 1 will g you a charm that will show you this heart." lives ve Here was comfort, indeed, and with a light heart Gustavus thanked his friend and bounded forward. Let! alone, the wizard contioued down the mountain-side until he came in sight of the Widow Neur's chalet, found Marie sitting by the spring. stead of her usual sunshiny smile, where he In. tiny in her eyes, aad there li} 8 tear-drops stood was a grieved look about her rosy that made him wish to comfort her. “What jo the matter little onel” asked gently. he said, ‘I week, want to soe [ have no but care ' asked I cannot talk and ith them as other maidens do. heart beats fast if they do but glance toward me, and | know not what to say, and 80," here a tear slipped from under the long eyelashes—‘‘my mother says I had better not go.” “Jourage, little one,” the wizard an. swered, ‘‘Tell your mother,” he added suddenly, **that [ am going to lend you a silver belt to wear, and that my knowl. edge tells me that the bravest, hand. somest youth in all the laod will dance with you quite joyfully.” The happy Marie thanked the wizard as Gustavus had done, and ran off to tell the wonderful news to her mother, Early next morning Gustavus went for his charm. He tound the wizard waiting for him, and taking him iato his strange room, the wise man said, smiling, as he had the deny before, half quizzically, | half sympathetically: “Here's the charm, my good fellow. | You see it is a magic ring. Put it on before you go to the fete, and be sure you dance with every maiden there. When you place your arm about the waist of the one whose heart is true and good a strange foeling will run through you and your haad will cling to her. Bat cho se one mountain | side, and as the hours fled and no youth asked her to dance, her head dropped lower, and she wondered if she wise man had made a misiake, Inthe mean time Gustavas d weed with one after another of the maids, but though be watched with intense eagers ness, not once did he feel the strange thrill for which he waited, o[ Lave danced with them all,” he gnid at last to himsel!, *‘expspt that shy one over there: surely she is not the Zirll" He asked her name of of the girls, and then going to her, said sim- | ply: | © “Marie, wilt thou dance with me?” | Astonishment and delight made Mario for » moment forget her shyness. The wizard's words had come true! Rising quickly, she said, smiling upon { him, and beautiful eyes | already dancing with delight, and the 1 her cheek: “*Art ono showing her dear little dimple in { thou come?” not 80 alter all,” thouwht Gustavus, as he answered: + Wast thou looking for me, Marie?" Marie hung her head without answer. | ing, and Gustavus, wondering a little at | “She 18 pla ny her words, led her to the dance. As he placed his arm around her his hand touched her shining belt. Instantly a strange thrill ran through hem both.and Gustavus's arm seemed to cling to Marie's waist. ¢ Marie, didst thou feel that?" he asked | earnestly. And Marie smilingly answered, “Yes.” So they began dancing, danced it seemed to those that a wonderful transfor over Marie, Her hair, shaken loose f stiff braids, hung like a | den veil all around her, her beautiful eyes shone like stars, and the dimpled 1d pearly teeth formed a fit hic and wil As ning them they uation came y long, glittering gol cheeks ar '" the laughiog voice th ing-place for the and then rang sweet and clear N one {f the rosy lips. ens was “Surely, ‘there was " JUDICs “But is not Marie ‘ighe under a cried others, has suddealy BO OVE 5 i “Love's pure, will transform all { us and jut all that is loveliest and " witchery, if it is true an bring best within us. As for Gustavus, he thought rightly that he never seen so good and beautiful and he blessed the wizard for had led his heart to | a creature, the charm hers, Long before the summer enled, Gus. tavxs took home Maria to his own and his mother's gréatest joy and haps pinesas, When M. le Wizard returned to Paris that winter, he fic paper which be read 5 scienti! before the savants of the Academy, In it he detailed many of his wonder. ful discoveries and his work daring the Bat he did not speak of the ~how, by the summer. most interesting of all aid of a little magnet, teel belt, and » brought together two concealed in a ring, he had loving human hearts, and by so doing had caught the happiness of Paradise and imprisoned it in a chalet on old Obgadin Mougtain, — Pittsburg Bulletin, raae -_ f some ol An Extinet Monster M § steamer City Of } irom T peka, wh el Alaskan yorts momrming, Lrough ! » > " skeleton that was the cer toa large number of «i Pacific wharf, states the Port Town Washington) Leader. The skeleton is is that of a rnamphoreates, or whale liz- ard, only the second one known to bein The other, a much smaller specimen than this, was found some years ago near Oxford, England, and is one of the most valued specimens now on exhibition in the British Museum. J. L. Buck, of Everett, claims the honor of having brought this valusbhle relic to light, although it was discovered four years ago by » prospector named Frank Willoughby. The sput where the skeleton was found by Buck, who went north for that pur. pose, was nearly a mile from where the original was reported, gat [ » existence. location his Indian assistant on top of the cele. brated Mair glacier, six miles inland and 500 feet above the sea level, securely im bedded in a large cake of ice, requiring | the service of the entire party for two days to dislodge it. At some time dure ing its existence the skeleton was badly shattered, presumably by a fall or by | being crushed, and was somewhat dame aged when taken ont. The rhamphoreates, or whale lizard, has been extinet for over five centuries, | and is described iu natural history as the you must be sure that you dance with alli” “king of the land and the sea,” this cog. | Gustavus, greatly wonderiog, thanked | the wizard and slipped on the ring. | It was a curious ecirclet of iron, with a { flat extension, which the wizard bade | him wear pointing toward his palm. When the fete day came Gustavus was | there among the other young men, eager to try his charm, | All the maidens of Obgadia were there also, and on the outskirts of one of the gay crowds littlo Marie hovered timidiy beside her mother. “Why didst thou come, Marie!” asked one of the girls. “‘Didst thou think any youth would want to dance with a mouse to-dayi” asked another, Then seeing t on Marie's gon lyi “Ah, well, thou canst at loast see our times," “What a lovely belt thon hast, Marie!” oriod soother maiden. “Where didst Sa jot 0 “The wizard gave it to her," the Widow Neur answorel shortly, for she did not relish the girl's tone, snd she quick tears trembling , sho added more kind. nomon being undoubtedly based on the | fact that it was equally at ‘home in the | water, on land or in the air, In the first instance the rate of speed was something | terrific, the momentum being produced | with the legs, while the enormous wings served to keep the body out of the water, the operation bordering upon the impos sible feat of walking on the water, Tho | great size of the whale-lizerd can be judged from the fact that a single bone weighod 794 pounds, while the entire skeleton tipped the scales at 2400 pounds, The bones will be put together by Buck at his home in Everett, aod after being exhibited will be sent to the Smithsonian Institution, The specimen is valued at £20,000, The lace bark tree grows in the West Indies. It ia a lofty tree, with ovate, outire smooth leaves and white flowers, It is remarkable for the tenacity of its inner bark and the readiness with which the loner bark may be separated after maceration in water lato layors re. The | skeleton was finally located by Buck and | THE GREAT DISCOVERER. HOW CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS LOOKED IN LIFE. Pen Portraits ot the Distinguished Navigator by Some of His Contem- poraries and Later Historians, N the opinion of Mr. Henry Harrisse, who has made Columbus the study of his life, and who is universally rogarded as the foremost of all Co- lumbian scholars, there is not a single authentic likeness among the countless engraved, sculptured and painted por- traits that pretend to reproduce the features of America’s discoverer. they are, without exception, more or less fanciful, there is bardly any better way of bringing Columbus before the mind's Since eye just us the man really stood and walked upon this earth than read what has been written those who knew him personally and by historians of In an authorized translation Italian of Peter Martyr's first “Decade,” made in 1501, and published at Venice in 1504, is interpolated the most ancient pen portrait of the great navigator, This to about him by later date into book is so excessively rare that only one copy of 1t is known to exist, and that is in a Venetian library. It is supposed to be the work of Angelo Trivigiano, who | bad become personally intimate with Co. I ) He robust lumbus at Granada, in Spain, SAYS that the tall, red haired, and with a long Another contemporary portrait of Co- discoverer was a men, lumbus is embodied in the biography Ferdinand, 1 a few later critics are disposed usually ascribed to his son, althoug to be There it is eve it the work of some other pen. firmed that: “Ti WAS A Ian fies, was court whe Ferdinand from his § had other mous Gen . Rithough hie to have been on i In portrayed AS A his great the . appearance, ratl than 1 | age, and robust bast with eyes, and his portioned, his his face freckied The Apostie did n mous alter heen personally acquainted with him and the Indies, Las Cams, it probably begin to write his fa history until at least twenty years the death of Columbus, but he had knew sf his friends and fellow. vosagers, so that the portra many t he draws may be considered especially trust He says that in 1 over midd worthy. Ke bus was 1a In his person and venerabi nan of great stats thority, and worthy of Las Cacas further remarks that the piain in his he seemed a all reverence great dress, navigator was very sometimes wearing gray ol hes, and alter return attired Bernaldez, historian that he had seen him from his like a the village of the reign of Ferdinand Isabella, bad the hosor of entertaining Uolumbus in his own house, and he, too, noticed that the discoverer was fond of dressing in the color wora by the monks of St. Francis a Franciscan cord about his waist. Diego Calon, also, in his last will and testament, says that his father was always devoted to the or ler of Bt. Francis, and died in its habit, These details concerning his dress prove how little relian2e is to be placed on the portraits showing U slumbus with a curl. ing mustache, an immense rufl around his neck and a rich doublet. Nearly half a century after the earthly trials of Columbus were over, a fellow. second voyage almost Franciscan priest monk. and ana with | countryman of his, Girolamo Benzoni by name, spent fourteen years in adven. turous wanderings over America, meet. ing, no doubt, many survivors of Colum. bisa days; and on returning home he published in [talisn a ‘History of the New World.” st Venice, in 1565, It | thus describes the Genoese Admiral: “Ho was a man of a good reasonable stature, with stroag, sound limbs; of good judgwent, high talent, and gentle manlike aspect. His eyes were bright, his hair red, his nose aquiline, his mouth somewhat large; but, sbove all, he was a friend to justice, though rather pas. sionate when angry.” Gomars, the Coaplain and Secretary | of Cortes, certainly met many ol the contemporaries of Columbus, and his history briefly recounts that the hero was » man of good stature and robust, long visaged, of a reddish complexion and freckled, The historians of later date have to base their descriptions of Columbus's pocsonal appearance upon the Spanish and Italian writers alpeady enumerated, and occasionally they add somethiag from their own imagination. Washing. ton Irving says that the contemporaries of Columbus speak of **his commanding n i Slava ling oo eyes, t wo intonations of his voice." | pelebrating his first an elevated and dignified demennor.” Among other late writers, Mr, Justin Winsor thinks that to picture Columb as he stood on Ban Salvador, ‘we might | figure n man of impressive stature, with lofty, not to say sustere bearing, his face longer by something more than its | breadth, his cheek bones high, his nose aquiline, his eyes a light gray, his com- plexion fair, Mr. John Fiske man, whom all honoring, then turned to gray.” describes the great America is now and commanding tall powerfully built, with fair, ruddy ccm- plexion, keen blue-gray eyes, and wav- ing white hair that must have been very picturesque, and says, also, that *‘out of presence, | those kindling eyes looked a grand and poetic soul, touched with that divine of trae spark religious enthusiasm makes bune. genius, "New York Td - BE Af SELECT SIFTINGS. The Crusaders s the ald of woode: Over seventeen thousand styles of goods are Known Lo dealers, the fleld of cultivation, Every available foot Waterloo is devoted 0 now unde mostly rye Cripples are rarely seer child born def: ] death General | tenarian last m 102 A Birminghan years old Four brothers wh priests in C nati, Oblo, y Are intely A Young brother who had just beer naained, ng fir mass William Felbage, of Hartford med to the t they gaze | are not dis- r hissing ipward of 1 Qity aq Lea water rigi at the England, used there, haviog been used that time, a re vr : IT o ’ el in the history of si Aquariums S : 1554, over and wd without niiar instita- faennam, wer since PATA tions, — ——— — A Flying Serpent, The Calcutta Indian Gentleman relates the most remarkable A few days ago Atkama Yatzry, a Ben galese gentleman residing on a flat seven north Shutlezat, saw, as affirms, an serpent floating along in a white *‘tezarer” ol “wind cloud.” The cloud sad its scaly passenger floated directly over Mr. Yatzry's farm and bore off in the Hiree- tion of the Great Blue Jungle snd dis. appeared from view. Over a score or men, women and boys who were work- jing along the flat at the time of the phe. pomenal occurrence, attest that they plainly saw the same hideous monster in his ethereal flight, One witness following story: m'les of he enormous fleecy ssirongs” (200 feet) in length and as big around as a man’s body, All concur in saying that the head and fore. parts of the creature resembled an alliga- | It was | yellow and black striped, according to | tor more than anything else. all witnesses, and kept its body ia con tinued motion as long as it remaioed in sight. The natives are said to be much excite] over the matter, The First Meamboat. It is not generally known that the | first steamboat ever built in the United | States was constructed by James Rum. | say, at Shepherdstown, W. Va., ia the yoar 1785. Robert Fulton, with his Clermont, was anticipated by Rumsey twenty-two vears. According to the Frederick (W. Va.) News, the steam. boat was fitted up with machinery partly manuisctured at the Catoctin farnace of the Johnson Bros., near Frederick, The boiler, two cylinders, pumps, ote., were manuiset in Batimore, Some por. tions of the works wete made at the An tietam Iron Works, On March 14, 1785, a public experiment, the first ever undeitaken in America, was made on the Potomac River. Rumsey succeeded in attaining a speed of four miles an hour agaiust the cusrent, —=Rulway Re. view, with freckles spotting a | ruddy glow, his hair once light, but | as of noble | aud | which de- | | seribes the serpent as being at least four witnesses | Empire styles are creeping in. Some of the cloth capes are lavish, umes and curling feathers are again geen, The *“Capucine” robe isa new cos- tume, Colored lamb's wool is one of the fancies. are of the marked large one features. revers Ribbons of all kinds are much used in trimming. Cut steel is coming once more greatly into favor, Sloping shoulders are slowly but surely returning. The white doeskio, Intest shoes Miss Mary Anderson is said to be an enthusiastic fisherwoman. Mr. Pott, an sristocratic Yorker, has a Chinese wig. Rev, New Three hospitals in Philadelphia are managed entirely by women, American women boarding houses in Paris, France. Seventeen keep The best table for surgical operations pow in use was invented by sa woman. The long, slender, pointed foot longer considered a mark of Broad Alsatian bows of "a kind of soft-haired senn on broad-brimmed hats, The Queen of feet yet seen Wears o Siam has the sma tied in boots, ons LU woman, a half les of Orie white > ita | polished La Inventive ceniiy awarded for her invention Georgia, a gold meds of a bread raiser, There is a club in Boston eomposed of women who are all fifty years old or more. To be “between fifty and a hua. ired” is a condition of membership. The ex-Empross Frederick of Prussia, the Queen Regento! the Netherlands and the Empress Augusta all hold the posi. tions of regimental chiefs in Prussia Mrs. Laoagtry has returned to the style of coiffure with which Americans were made familiar on her first wisit— the low, loose coil on the nape of the peck. Is New York City there are 250 women, exclusive of the domestic vice, who are bread. wing are obliged to rely upon solely for support ers Earrings are no and the best dress Appear now niuhlie in pub Tr ton withoul even 10 yiltaire peari 1 was the grad J UO Victoria's maids of honor, who are paid 81500 a year for their services, earn their saaries, They are obli to appear before theQueen in & new gown ged every day, and to be in readiness to at. tend her Majesty at any and every hour of the day. Police matrons quired, by a recent rule, forms while on duty. The uniform is to be of blue serge, with tight-fitting basque, double-breasted, blue serge but- tons and skirt underlined and clearing the ground, Chicago are re 0 wear uni Damask rose crimson and a bright, deep cherry color are the favorite tints {or torsades, or bows of velvet, to bright en up dark hats er bonnets. Pretty combinations of these © are the cherry with purple, and the Jacqueminot with helivtrope. HOS Rope picture frames are the newest fancy. Take an old frame and twist around it fine hemp rope untilit is en- tirely and completely covered, At each corner coll the rope in small circles. With a coarse thread and heavy needle fasten the rope on the wrong side of the frame. It may be left in a natural state, or bronzed or gilded to suit the fancy, A delightful material, and a useful one as well, for winter petticoats, peignoirs and little warm breakfast jackets, is of narrowly stripped creponsumh in old. time shading. They come with a flue det». wotwx on every other stripe, wad shot with several colors, and in tones of dove gray, pale green and lemon. They look very quaint and Marie Antoioet. tish. A new feature is the breast piece. The front holding the doable row of buttons or, more strictly, one row of buttons and the buttonholes is separate from the coat, and bound round with braid, or bas three lap stitchings. Pookets are set in this plece crosswise and lengthwise. There are inner breast pockets, sod outs side pockets with buttoned flap and double pockets, a pocket in a pouket. A rustling silk skist 1» no tha ig for
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