he RCH pa —— - - - — IF SUN _ AND LOVE W No rosy morn, no radiant noon, No purple glory in the West, No dim twilight, no stars, no moon, Nothing but darkness, death and rest If only the sun were dead, If only the sun were dead, No tender word, no s No eyes would shine with love's swoet fire ; No light, quick touch of tenderness : Nothing worth desire, If only lov sweetheart, ERE DEAD. sweetheart, oft caress, n earth were e were dead, If only love were dead, The sunlight fills the world with bloom, Shows us the arch of sapphire skies, Tho light of love disperses gloom, And makes of earth a paradise, Nor sun nor love is dead, sweetheart, Nor sun nor love is dead, Mille in Womaunkind. THE FROSTLILY. BY ARNETTA J. HALLIDAY. IDSOMMER) Ww aka had This is the great- sr Purvis, come, est festival of the | Year among Norse peasantry, and in Vik, cluster of houses, which nestle in the bend of a great fjord, the vigil of St John's Eve kept with dane- ing, and drinking Th tl t! WAS ELE BEE 2 rea ol . gentians th e vell an inte © Seandi that of Hor the peasant j r of Sweden v loved nature with the unconscious ness of the Greek the passion of the German; but she was practical and well skilled in the arts which attract a Norse husband, She ld prepare the flesh of the reindeer most delice fons with cream, which is lavishiy in Norwegian cookery ; knew the concoction of the Many cheesos bel the Scandinavian: great ro in dismoter, snd it with AVErag ant and con ly she of ’ each Vi d 03 conld bake sk es ot and a half wo flavor and dry them for the winter that they were like confections; and the large attic chamber of her father's house was hung around with her wardrobe y Most vf which was her own handiwork white wi with brilliant red borders, linens, colored prints, em- broidered , deerskin conta, snow shoes nter boots: for Liof was a well-toddo pessani, and had brought up his daughter in the belief that plenty of cleanliness in the matter of raimant elevated the Nor. wogian woman above her Swedish pister, But tonight there was ro sonnd of Joy from the white house so close to the fjord, No light glenmed from the windows, and a hush seemed to have settled over tho place, in marked cou- trast to the revels of the Jie ntighbor- | hood. SBweot-smelli rant new-made hay f Boied the w sevege-lookiug cow, which wore » she ind rye a fi SNOW ol aprous bodices and w the | the | little | fn | fjord traveling 1184 d BO | bell, and a tinkling wandering home from the far fields, and was the only sign of about the Thure homestead. Old Liof had gone for a visit with two Norwegians just returned from a fifteen-years’ sojourn in the Western | States of American, They found old Norway very slow after the nervous bustle of the New World. The boys were making the most of their holiday, and had trudged away early in the morning, each bearing gifts to his sweetheart. collar off | life | festival of St. John, and had out this delicious night, boulder to boulder, until she had elam- Gerda had pe rsistontly | refused to join in the pleasures of the | strayed | going from | | changeable bered nearly to the top of the moun- | tain through the lichen, whortleberries and ferns. She had moped all day, great, rough brothers, Olaf and Byn and Nils and Brun and Rolf; while Jarl, the youngest and more nearly in sympathy with his sister, had watched her wistfully when she ! red-currant bushes of whispered softly to his brothers: will never forget him!" One year bafore, upon St. John's eve, the little steamer which came ftri-weekly from the Norse capitol, bringing with it breath of the gre world, the of tourists found a charming ity, the Little carest ire's dwelling, | in th the purest of purple Oy ul ] the garden and ‘She this very nt in shape who Ove had stopped at to Liot Th rnoon, when TUBS us afte shadows were lying Gerda stood waiting and the m ] strang DAry walke 1 homs ly per nd the of the castle of the pi three hunters turned to mystery of the parsley milk-white deer and the of the witches: and Ov tre in the en chanted garden frightened the Finnish HOT CCTETS Gerda and he long strolis together over 01 mntry North and the of the rate orm £De0 OHS ore the gray { on 1ts : { red reflections of an angry sky. said the | { had the | the heaving rollers was smong the | | nes | man's figure | | vealing | 3 Din had taken! mountains and the little green patches | of field where peasant-girls in scarlet and blue were raking the grass: or they had wandered to the village at evening and watched the boats heaped high with hay coming 1a, or the fish ing-smacks gliding lazily out to sen; and Gerda would tell the stranger how the rose-colored baresfoot was dyed | tume of the Norse peasant, with the blood of Charles XIL ; or of | the black stork that built its nest among the anemones and dog-violets | of the marshes; and how na stalk of clover worn by a man was a sure charm ngainst women with false complexions, hair and teeth; and the American, el! wis just poignant feeling to ench vibration of | to press Lier head soul, the spirit of true | derly before his own artistic | life, unfettered with the contractions {and ceremonies of conventionality, a life high and wide, like the blue Se an- | to his shoulder tens he continued: *‘I could not ask you to leave ever ything thet has made you what you are, snd go neross the péas with me, There 18 dinavian heaven above ; he saw all this, | nothing abont you that I wonld change he felt the inspiration of this continual contact with nature, because of the elder brother across the { sen, who would have deemed it an un- F blot upon many genera- tions of financial prosperity, that the sole sharer with himself of many Ameri ean dollars should marry a Norse pens ant girl Finally the picture was completed. | There was the wide fjord stretching out to the ocean with silence and solitnde waves, which caught the blood was not a vessel in sight, snd so well artist caught the spirit of the | sje stic seemed to die out and to give place to rainst the gathering dark ite tle roess of BR wWoO stood clear ent upon the kirt and scene that the slow, without breaking, . others, and ng # the exqnis glory She dice, more wore white th than half which CHLIVAS fn white EVER Too and, dainty fle of the dow r; fron ron dimpled Wore white brai arms, d in un the great CIASTH cap 4 of pale the Is low monnian LH Hers soit turned to descend the a little boat darted out from the shadows of the fjord, and rowed swift ly through the path of silver heht which the the waters, The road down the moun tain so wound about commanded a view of the fjord, Gerda saw the boat near the shore ne she herself Appronc hed the val ley To the rower she paid little heed, sis imply noting that 4. wore the holiday eos in scarlet As Gerd side, ong snd brown. As the boat shot under the bridge, toward the pier, the man looked up- ward with a glad ery, “Gerda!” maid he, yon know me?” As the keel rasped upon the shore, “Gerda, don't | he leaped from the boat and held his lo king at the checks of his companion, ! re dashed with a color richer freshest peach-bloom, had Inughed and thrown sway the trefoil in his buttonhole as he told her broken Norse that it was needless, And as the days wont by, the iden of a picture which should show the which we than th ¥ a | beauty of Gerda to the world filled his brain, and the hours when she posed to him ne 8 model passed too swiftly | for them both, of frag- | saw the sweet air, and | ial, th Fi though There was no word of love between them, but any by day the American wo hands out for hers. “Deosr-Eyer,” he exclaimed Norse love words, “Do me? And what did nestle with sn great throb in the you love Dear-Eyex do but of content | against his heart! ! of [Shin loud Shen 1 cline oh you jo SAH) ua | Baa $0 “I have come straight fom New Orleans to you,” he eried. “It ia one year ago to-night since I first | saw you, snd I could not stay |p away another day. I stopped yester- | | day to buy this costume which is to be mine ine the future, Gerda, ) sweets yi yon slears von will have a, He pauscd an instant, | archives and yet he did not | tell her that his whole hesrt was hers, k There | Weep of | | n and | moon rays threw upon | for the world, and so I am come to you, Gerda, When we are merried, we will live right here in this pure air and amid all this grand scenery; our ife hall be the same primitive that has made the woman I love, XT am a Norseman hereafter for | your sake | Gerda looked into his eves with Tap. | turous fondmess, The moon hung in the dark blue ether, like a round shield flood- simple, | } one you { over woods and hills and waters, ing the mountain pot with ghostly shadows and silvery light, and as the soft beams fell npon her and ethereal- the Ameriean held her y of tenderness Dear- {ized her beauty, to him in an ecstas “Hauve you nothing to ask me, { Eyes?’ he murmured, pre cheek agninst hers Hav nothing to me of the home { friends or family 1 have left?” | “No,” answered Gerda, and I love for any ns he aed his you ask or oy 1 Ave vou. you so that there is room | heart ! { Life’ paradise opened for unestioning and conten Romance ——— WISE WORDS, 1:0} tf the § how nn wh worth men in te h | there have be brought ab Ww iene. will fight | nbera on ry BK y own horses and ndidate for the JOR Jes Legis- n that ud O Kho of h ection 1? AAtLs the nin, he was an er hardly secure acy to be reac! the problem a benefactor t in Virgi an « : I'he man actorily will South For the Carolinas, (Georgina, Alabas Tennessee and Mississippi thousands of acres of | pasture lands that could, and wonld, | be devoted to sheep rwising, if the dogs were removed. Until they are put out of the way the wool industry will not amount to much in cither State New Orleans Picayune, i —— Welding by Electricity, Two Belgians have discoverad a method of welding by electricity which will of immense use in the arts Electricity forced into water separates it into its component parts, hydogen nad oxygen, A ginss jar with a leaden | lining is connected with a conductor of positive electricity, A prir tongues connected with a negative urs Olives who 57 there are ia, it at intervals it _O be i pole nin! having insulated handles is | used to take up a bar of iron, for instance, and put the end in water, The oxygen is forced to the fining while the hydrogen collects about the submerged metal, which quickly produces an intense head, hydrogen, being a poor conductor, | offers intense resistance to the rent, and this geaneratss $30 henl, is shown the most rsfractor 7 0168 ean | bo fused by this process, crystals of earoon, dismonde, rubbies, and sappoites nay Le mae by tae process in any quantity desired. — | Chicago Times, A vony of the first dictionacy, made copy © rat onary, by Chinese scholars in the year 1109 BC be ill Hill plesceved suitny Ye | eements in the world, | eold water, { which come | More of | leaden i The | Car. | It | ! LOUSEHG3 AFF id A CEMENT ¥ROM RICE. the It is mixed then gently boiled “ until it becomes clear, when for use. It is good not only paste, but made tice flour makes one of with over slow fire it is ready for " common when | very thick it may be moulded like wax, and is enpable of taking a high polish Many the emall objects from China sre made of it, w York Journal. Ol beautiful N¢ TO KES] FTOCKINGS WIIOLY. the ' Aves a Tuk new, “run Here is a case where “stitch in than when proverbial great many your stock and before "them with roughout the en- heel, toe sole them Lor thread tight the that this slen uflicient to kes wearing in holes, your hos 1 morable York World. time “nine they are ever putting them on, soft darning cotton tl tire length of the You need not n un draw the ings and I closely, must yo When find ment is § YOu Went stockings yon der rein p the a 0 & Strengthened will remain in- TOR id will YC ngs fron mm 1 [18 way, LL table New parm syain Serve Sur int imm mer stale cake, ¢ bottom of Cl half » cup stoned chopped citron, candied chopped figs and blanched salmon put another layer of sliced cake on top; pour a pint of milk over with six beaten eggs and a pint of sugar Steam one hour and serve with currant jelly sauce Vegetable Soup two onions, ish Cover w TRIS cherries, is Take two potatoes, two inrnips, one carrot and a little parsley chopped fine. Cut the potatoes in quarters, slice the onions, cut the turaips in quarters and slice the carrots. Put all in a stewpan with three pints of water and salt to the tast Joil it down to one quart, About fifteen minutes before it is done add the parsley. Strain it and serve with hight bread or toast. Boiled Beef Lard, cover with water, simmer two and one-half hours Strain, cool and skim one quart of pot liquor, adding each of carrots, turnips, small onions, parboiled beats, two eupinls of ent string beans, Boil three-quarters of an hour, add two par. boiled potatoes snd serve in piles abont the meat, seasoning to taste and adding » little butter, Make strained sauce of vegetable pot liquor, thiok- | 0 Two | ened with braided flonr, nad as it is | pomible to produce in thin way large | me —-— The Government statistion show that the total immigration to the United States during the ten months ending April 30th last was 834,825, & decline of 110,188 from the immigration of the nding ten months of | of beet | | | s- The materials of the almost every sul carved, cast marble, granite, seniptor com- winnee capeble or molded, nlabaety ¥, and from tin prise being For CArvIng, bone, Ivory, porphyry have all been used basalt 6 | immemorial. As a result of catarri in the head and was deaf for over a year. 1 began to take Hood's Sarsaps- rilla, snd found when 1 had taken three bottles that my hearing was returning. After taking six I stopped. It Is now more than & year and lean hear perfect. ly seelt,” HER MAD Hicks, © C “2 Street» Rochester, N, Hood’ gimCures Hood's Pills cure all | jock Heads Herman Micks, LEE, Jaundice, Indigestion w ’ NY NUN rs — “German Syrup Regis [eblan dian store keep Stant T : cured of ion of the I 18a Fren Not: ADWAY’S PILLS, LOSS OF APPETITE, SICK HEADACHE, INDIGESTION, BILIOUSNESS, CONSTIPATION, DYSPEPSIA. n Bex. sold by Druggists, : Ware -_ Bde. ‘rice, wok of A DR. KILMER'S ~ SWAMP-ROOT CURED ME. SUFFERED EICHT YEARS! Couldn't Eat or Sleep. Dr. Kilmer & © 1 had « with stomach & I lve as overy.il me N liver stale, Cx oreat. 1 ha by the best ( Ngo Goctors without ans wit what. lest resort 1 SWAMP. neat a 2.1 what, ris m yd to bed and get Ww AN P-ROOT troubled for t difficulties, yom milk, I ate burt ness and a terrible | neither sleep tromted wore been AS tried 3 ROOT, ar Kothing bu LI night's rea me, Any one doubts 1 will gladly answer.” { mn Doo, 30th, 1882, SWAMP-ROOT CURED ME. Had Torpid Liver For 14 Years. Bilious all the Time. Dean 81 I bave boon fr Torpid hort rid) oourses of bi fow many tines it has boon 2 possibile for me to kind of mbor, Dr, Kigner's SVMANP-ROGCT was first recommendnd to me by Holthouse, Rigckburn & Co, (Drugrsts) Deogtur Ind Alter taking bottle | was uncertain whether | was reqlly de riving any benefit or not after taking the bottle, however, that my health wis umpreey. fag and | continued until 1 had taken 6 hotties 1 can now cheerfully roooantaend SW ANP. ROOT to every one who 0 hit torpid liver, for it has completely cu , WW, ORs Aen, + SWAMP-ROOT. Docatur, Ind. . Great Blood Purifier. At Druggists, 50c, & $1.00 “Guide to Health" Free, Consul * tation Pree. Dr. Kilmer & Oo, isamaAMTON, N ¥ Dr. Kilmer's Parilla. Liver Pills Ang Tue Peer! 2 Mis 2 conta COMMON N_ SENSE oan write, Miller, Mich, rt. 1 with through 8 0 —
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