a —— i, THE GOAL WE NEVER REACH, It was noontime in the city, And the crowds went whirling past Where a little grimy bootblack Rested from his work at last ; Leaning up against the corner, As he ate his bite of broad, Whilo the people hurried past him To a morc pretentious spread. “Ah, it I wers hut a salesman | That's the very life for me ;* Thus the little boot black muses, “Nothing olse I'd ask to be." Twenty years, and now the salesman Has forgot his boothlack trade, In a life of ceaseless changes, And the vow that once he made; Now he sees the prosperow. nerchaat, * Anda longing finds its way To his heart, and then he murmurs As he did that other day “Ab, if I were but a merchant! That's the ideal life for me.” And the busy salesman muses, ‘Nothing else I'd ask to ba." But when two more deendes find him Busy in the whirl of trade, Resting bat for just one moment In the quiet noontime shade, Axd a rich, retired banker In his coach goes driving by, Then that same old fitful longing Comes again into his eye, “Ah, If I could but rotire From this busy, fretful strife,” 80 the weary merchant muses “That is all I'd ask of life.” Then another score of summors Bees him in a mansion grand, But his limbs are weak and trembling, And the staff falls from his h Now another boothlack lingers In that old familiar place And the old man looks On his young but smutty fac “Ah, {1 could taste the sw Of that | Onoo again to foel That his yor I would barter all the riches That this life Thus the weal and ; with envy otbiack's n thi TERRE nn I A VOL NTEER. Alvis Zelin ska, in a soft » Accompanied by the us of smiles officer sitting by her This young Calvinine, an Auve who, won already upon epani ttes as 8 Gen They happened to be alon salon 1 one ] i Warsaw, the 4 p WAS oa Fre nch was the brave se Highlan before his thirtieth the bait ler, ear, had lefleld his ral of Cavalry. bad be i 1 natn time of this st sccount of known that N apol of Jona and the ove conceived the gigantic ide tinental blockade enjoying in s trinmphs his gi ry, wished to npose by on all “effective execution Wf 31 ject against England. that, he resolved fo purene remnant of the Prussian ‘ro » their last intrench- ment, and army, which ander fh Beuningser “Yon are still tinned the ( yonr confidence ? TS | Yardon and oy fore peace to gv meet the Russian intact, and (General me, replied Calviniae “Yeu must excuse me for being droamv and preoccupied. You know the Em peror has withdrawn from the eommané of my brigade for a month, becanse I expressed too frankly ray opinion of his indifferonce to the sed condition of your unhappy country The Emperor bas punished me sovere- ly—snd here I am, far from my brave soldiers. 1 was quite happy in my disgrace, since it gave mo the pleasure of being received by you, in the midst me of the wont glorious represontatives of | Polish nobility, as an ally, 2s a friend. You, the energetic and enthusisstio patriot, have kept up my spivits, have peraitted rae the pleasure of seeing | you, of confiding in you my cares and dreams, ofl a imiring You, of floyd " . § ary ‘Ab! Canora! ‘Fes, I ara going to my of loving yoo. FPatam I worthy of expressing such a sestiment, when I ought to make an strange confession? You see me sad and precceupied, because thore | is in me a viclent combat. I am happy, intensely happy; yet at the! same time, in spite of (bo charm which chains me by your wide, I would like to be elsewhere, The inaction to which 1 am condemned crashes me. eurzp Lo severity of my sovercign, | would like this instant to mount s boree, cross Warsaw, and rojoin the | army which mesus 4 leave you. to floc from yonr Leautifal eyes, in order to see, face-to-face, the horrible mug teaches of the Cossacks of Benning. sen,” “Yon aro always frank, Genoral. However, I admit this unforsesn dee. farntion has surprised me wu little, After fiftoen days of repose, you be rome dull and disconvolate. You are homesick for eamps aud battles, My salon seems to you less attractive then Your tout in the midst of the enow,” goons whom he “Permit mo to explain. X heard yos- | torday that tho movement of coneen- tration goes on rapidly; that the Russians are going to be forced to no- copt battle, My blood boils at the | news, ‘They are going to fight,’ I re- fleet. My brothers-in-arms are going into danger and honor. I wish to share their lot. However, when I think of you, IL am cowardly. I restrain my feclings, Thus you see me hero near you, as usual. But I feel that my conduct merits reproach. If you es- teem me, you cannot blame me for this indecision which tortures mo. | You cannot advise me to remain inac- tive, in the midst of lnxury and com- fort, in a rich palace, when the dra- goons why a I commanded yesterday, camping now in the snow, now march- ing in tho mud or crossing the Vistula | by the bridge of boats, ave going once more to brave the dangers of war for the glory of France and perhaps for the liberty of Poland!” The Countess remained standing be- fore the Ge nernl, listening eage rly to | his words, and expressing by her pas- sionnte looks the admiration which this martial ardor inspired in her. | “I love you thus!” said she. *‘No matter bow much I may miss you, I feel, ales! that you onght to go. 1 thank you for having given me a day, | A day 1s much in these troubled times, | Yes, General, go—go where duty calls | you; resume the command of your troops, and return victorious,” “Thanks, You under- stand me, I wish to render myself worthy of your noble friendship ; but 0a to what an extreme an implacable will has reduced me. I have no right to resume my arms and rank. To go {to the Emperor, to implore his par i » reinstate myself in his 8 bold and useless uperor has no time for and then, ought Ito ut for Poland; to retract ‘ Countess, 1 v aeny ) iggle hand-¢ ny! It is to certain Oh! What rathor solution. rily run. vho have your re vy to lose you I I was misled by blind our pr rate scrupulously you only : sects 4 nano Mince dangers that they run.” breaking vour word?” t violate my oath sinoc ymetimes, hand, which he cemetery of pied with the guard which separated the i and NF, Teds ntly the hard was gray and gloomy. not pene atmosphe re back of Eylan, of Murat. In the dragoons of \ 3 simple caval mad, without a distine withiout a decoration, but mrtinl and determined It was Calvinise. After the scefie which we have de- scribed, the General lost no time Having dressed himself in the slothes of aconntryman, nnd erossod the plains of Lithuania, he presented himself for enlistment to the first Colonel of dra Thanks to disguise, he was not recognized, and be was soon able ¢o pat on the green tunic with ite yellow culls and to take lia place in the midst of his now com. my desolate of # MO covered could a un rat i} th L foryats Uy . WA i met. his | making herrible spots on the white fantit i a ball. | yielded, flesing from all sides terrified, | | sabre in his lef$ | hiscourse until thesound of the clarion vining, { me like an angel from hesven! It is you who have saved me! Let me re peat to you that word which you stopped upon my lips the day of my departure, Let me tell you that I love you," He extended his thin, pale hand, which Alvis took in hers, “General,” responded she, conduct is a confession that my words do not try to deny. My life belongs to you. I am ready to : whereve r chance le ads shall bo my name country my coun’ry template, in all its horror, this im- | monse plain covered with the dead, the dying and the wounded, the blood uniforms of the French soldiers, The meeting of the two bodies of | cavalry wes terrible. Calvinine, show- | ing un impetuosity and an assurance | which astonished his comrades, struck most formidable blows, overthrowing ull obstacles. The Cossacks were soon dispersed or rendered ! for bande, Then the Russians, in order to delay the vie- torious cavaliers, hurled again their bullets and shot into the melee. with. out earing for their own. Crouchy | fell, his horse having been pierced by Calviniae dashed in, relessed his General, who happily was not wounded, and gave him his own horse ; | then, bestriding a horse without a mas- | ter, he rushed again into the fight, At this moment, Murat and his eighty | squadrons, horsemen, dragoons, enir- assiers, charged at full gallop into the Russian infantry. After a long re sistance and several they my follow YOu. vou ; Your and you we Tranalatad fe name " Romance, ce sot i | WISE WORDS, Work makes companionship, What signifies lean upon it, sadness? A man gTOWS | The infinitely little Lave a pride in- finite iy great, Fear is 0 vassal ; when you frown he flies; a hundred tim dies Tho effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained by merely counting heads, # in life a coward nasaults, bloody, and seeking a refuge in the neighboring woods, Calviniae, in the midst of. this frightful fought with an audacity that nothing could stop. Each blow struck, over- threw and killed. His right arm was njured by a ball, but he hand and son fas Son/usion, People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after, seized his What we da upon some great ocea- sions will probal ly depend on what we already are, continued forbade his further action. The work of this cavalry, perhaps the most as- tonishing in tho history of the Em- pire, decided the victory. The next day the Emperor, in order | to honor in some special manner the many complaints heroie squadrons of Marat, wished to i the front of this admirable company of horsemen Grave and sombre, afters vietoryso hotly disput ed he passed at a slow gallop before the Dead soldiers, saluting the flag lowered be- fore him. Arriving thi + oy ry gery eighth re nt of i Go where he will the wise man is at home, his hearth the earth} the azure dome. 118 hall Leisure for yusiness for men (live every nr survey : \ v take sack reserve thy judgme YOL00 sirnotive SIMO KE ON¢ i who J+ victim i retires little rmittent and dis- led as ed Polander ‘Well, my “I have th peasy yOu upon your Drave 3 ADAG exi 1 by the f the lary neraiy ngratuisting . One of Int " nx Eenersis, iY the liberty I have dep repince hi 5 " Hosa « then al vy dragoons an officer « : | have fm of them, whom nade and a friend He resumed } his escort o eral, course, foll bly-uniformed ger The days which fi 1 this bait lead War i onsiedy near rte Calviniae, ever. He had After having 5.4 he ught all d hiccoughs in children wed by a bad night, riumps wound, sleeplessness or the nightmare caused him vio- i course, the mistake was in the i the mother or the nurse must ar the blame and find a way to sim. nists digestion It will hard to keep the infant awake and dangerous to bathe him within three hours, but maxi. may be tried on simalless toddler i ened, sur. “rt [9 Fi] The surgeons would be neces sary, but knowing that the ball had not remained in the flesh and that the bone was not injured, they decided to wait a few days Happily, 8 woman watched him, A voung and beautiful Polish girl, wearing 411 = tation be the old man's Lhe After dinner sit a while After supper walk a mile I —— The Xow Substitute for Powder, graceful costume of the peasants of raine, had presente 1 herself to the saving that she sought brother, a volunteer in the cavalry of Murat Ihe Countess Zelinska, for was she, had had a presentiment of the result of the battle, and, following kar feminine instincts, she sought among the wounded for her lover After a day of vain search, worn out and anx- ious, almost desperate, she conceived the ides of seeking shelter in the con- curdite eartridges of thirteen and » vent of the Benedictines. Seeing that half pounds easly performing the work it was occupied by the wounded French, | black powder ones of twenty-nine posta, her A week ago the new erniser Spartan went out into Plymonth Sound, Eng land, to try her quick-firing six-inch guns with cordite cartridges. As this was the first time that cordite had been used with guns of this description ihe greatest interest was manifested in the firing. Everything went very well, the 4 1 “It is yon who have eared for she still had strength enough to search tho large halls. Asking «xplanstions, giving details, she finally discovered the little roon. where, upon a camp- bed, was oxtendud, not he brother, as and three-quarter pounds. But only a few rounds were fired from each gun, The opponents—and there are many | of cordite say that nobody disputes panions, wearing, like them, the white | breechos, thi reguiation boots, and the helmet with an ornamental plume of black The battle was in progrers ail the morring. About elaven o'clock, the { snow fell io large fakes, blinding the | cyes of the Fronch, who began to waver, Tho Emperor belioved that his good laek had forssken him. He! saw that a superhuman effort mast be [made. Calling Marat, he said: | "Wall! are you going to allow these {mon fa devour’ us? Marsh forward | with ail your cavelry.” i Atthe order Murat started Jike s ash, | Laud drew np hiseighty squadronsin line | f of battle, placing aliead the desgoons of | { Grouchy, Calvining's henet boat fost; | | at loot he was going to fight as a sim- i | ple soldier ; to devote himself obscure. | ly, lost in numbers; to saerifico his | | life, without howe of recompense, for | | the love ant glory of his country, Hig | thoughia treassported him to the salon | {of the palace 8% Warsaw whore hoe had { aid ndien to the Countess Zelinsin, i { Te seemed to Him that ke conld still hear hor voiss, could see her smile, Thus cocournged, it was with joy thant | | be throw himsolf against the roziment | jut Cossaoks who, with their sabres, | { were culling down the army of An- |The: ; The snow ceased, and one could con: | vertain, | tention the young woman who served | pensed, are formed of earbon. Accord | lostinetive movement, turned toward she said, but he whom she loved more ite advantages for a short time; what dearly than a brother, since she had | they want to know is how the guns | witnessed his chivalry and patriotism. 1 The Countess was not recognized by Calvinine. Delirium had robbed him of his reason. This condition lasted for several days, during which his devoted nurse watelied over him | constantly. Finally the fever abated, | nad the surgeons declared that, if he avoided all imprudence, will stand a long series of continnons | rounds, We were promised wo should | seo this the other day at Okehampton, | but we did not. — New York Mail and | Express. : I — os A Glowing Clouds, Recent observations seem to hava | recovery was | substantiated Dr, G. J. Stoney 's funda. | mental doctrine that the glowing One morning Calvinise, while taking | elouds of the photo-sphere, from which some nourishment, regarded with at- the sun's radiation is mainly dis him with so much devotion. He! ing to this view, advanced many years thonght that he recognized her fea | ago, those patches of brilliant light tures, bot her dress puzzled him. He | exhibited in solar photographs ena. feared that it was a dream or a hallu- | nate from sooty incandescent clouds, eination. However, hearing her | hundreds of miles in length and spenk he trembled, and remembered | breadth. It is well known that the the sweet interviews at the fireside in | flame of an ordinary candle, or of an tho prince of Warsaw, He made an | ordinary gos jot, dorives its luminosity effort to eollect Lis confused ideas, | from the presente of minute particles fod raising Limsell upon his couch | of incandescent carbon. It fs also to enllod feehly : . the same olemont that wo ars indebted “Alvis 1” for tho electric light, whether in the The Countess, unable to repress au | form of the sro lemp or the inesns i dessent filamont. It would now seem tho sick man. She approached him; (as if the grest luminary itself owed their eyes met. They regarded each ita surpassing lustro to the presence of other a long time withent ing, : mighty glowing clouds of the identi but their mute language told the story, | eal sul stance to which onr Sedinay and joy radiated from their faces, methods of illumination ar so m indebted. Now York Telegram. “ came 3. hore?” asked Cals band of pure white, Nc ——— — ———————c— The latest style of evening toilet has quite a ruff appearance. Blue seeges are yielding their pop- ularity ( black, and rod Bhirring is coming into get brow L, green again, and puffs of thy A number of Cherokea supplied the singing are pr autumn trimmings, ndian girls nt a church ser vice in New York on Sunday even ing. Old-fashioned mull embroi such as our grandmothers made their f ed thi for asps of, are ns se avon for fichus, A dainty boating dress is of blu serge, with vest, wide lapels, and deen cuffs of blue and 1CTIe8, » striped duck nnen shoeblack France Bom ecateh wealthy customers in the are numer in to ats IRL have been known moninl ne A “Mercury rosetie trimmings ard How most and the de " wings used on ! for a fis & ind from all the last half century 1 the best thing »] El aking of » is sid, Dame ber w LY WAr yroath wresthio smetion have uniarity an y ion society, English papers are use “make-ug at the Ascot of very young girls The thing f the material called It eo mes chiefly in races, latest Japan “ wr underakis AWACIOLN white, almost cov. it has al wnahes ered with dark blue figures wt no perceptible nicely-~in fact, has everythi 1eept bes ity m weight, ommend it « The most fashional black moire ‘ They can be made © Caw trimmed with of threes Wr posed capes, or of o single pel 0 the waist, Ine ne reaching while iil a collar-like 1 n and i ) the shoulders there is r angement of chaff inos The wife of John R Drovil , the sons of the late Anthony J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, is said to be the most beautiful woman in the Quaker City. Bhe is tall, slender and exquisitely graceful, with brunette brillaney of coloring. Before her marriage she was a Miss Troth ¢ i me Some five thousand women are em. ployed in the Government departments in Washington. The work is compar. atively easy and the pay good. Con. gressman Timothy Campbell dis. covered his charming wife by a wisit | throngh she Government Departments where she was a clerk. The Seawanhaka Yacht Club, of New | York, has taken a new “rparture and opened its doors to women who are | ye -ht owners, giving them the privi- lege of joining the elub, subject te the bern {| same rules of election as male mem- | Miss Breeze is famous as the | fired Indy unanimously voted permis sion to fly the club's penant. A very famous and exeluzivo ladies’ | club of London is the Alexandra, called so, of course, after the ever. popular Princess of Wales. In spite of its aristocratic assumptions, how. ever, it managed to get into a disor. derly squabble, and from the split was formed the London Ladies’ Club, which claims to be equally famons and equally exclusive. Neither organize tion has any other object than the purely social, Mra Mary Frost Ormsby is one of the leading agitators of the *‘posce movement.” She advooaton the abolie tion of military schools, and says that, at the International Peace Arn held din Italy in 1889, the Germans, who have one of the largest standing armies He a, worl: wary the most eager for white-ro peace, poace flag is composed of she Stars and surrounded by a broad RL Yonre of Trix Ney — 1 suffered with er LL) y \o suit rhenm, In such 3 tertile agony at tires that I could nent the Fatony ne F teok Hood's Bare Ha. The LBoped for Wai noticeable At the outeet, and | have walk H ods Hood s Pills set consis hells vegetable, m snd re se Por. 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