A Death and a Life, Fair young Hannah, Ben, the sunburnt fisher, gayly woos; Hale and clever, For a willing heart and hand he sues. May-day skies are all aglow, And the waves are laughing sol For her wedding Hannah leaves her window and her shoes, May is passing; Mid the apple boughs a pigeon coos, Hannah shudders, For the mild southwester mischief brews, Round the rocks of Marblehead, Outward bound, a schooner sped, Silent, lonesome, Hannah's at the window, binding shoes, . LJ $ » w * . Sailing away! Losing the breath of the shores in May, Dropping down from the beautiful bay, Over the sea slope vast and gray ! And the skipper's eyes with a mist are blind, Fer a vision comes on the rising wind Of a gentle face that he leaves behind, And a heart that throbs through the fog bank dim, Thinking of him, Far into night Fixed on the dangerous island height That bars the harbor he Joves from sight. And he wishes, at dawn, he could teil the | tale Ol! how they weathered the southwest gale, To brighten the cheek that had grown pale With a wakeful night among spectres Him Terrors for him, Yo-heave-vo! Here's the bank where the fishermen go. Over the schooner’s side they throw Tackle and bait to the deeps below. And Skipper Ben in the water sees, When its the light breeze, Something that stirs like his apple trees, And two soft eyes that beneath them swim, Lifted to him. ripples curl to Hear the wind roar, And the rain through the slit sa pour! “Steady! we'll s¢ud by the Cape Ann shore, & tear and Then hark to the Beverly bells once more! And each man worked with the will of ten; d then of Ben, zon's rim, While up in the rigging, now an Ihe lightning glared in the face Turned to the black bor scowling on bim Into his brain Burned with the iron of hopeless pain, Muto thoughts that strain. Pierces the meme Never again shall Under the blossoming apple trees that grapple and eyes ry, cruel and vain i we walk at ease That whisper and sway to the sunset breeze, Whi C soft eves sea gulls skim. t:azing with him. How they went down Never wa« known in the still old tow: Nobody guessed how With the Jook of frown, Faced his fate in the furious night Faced the mad Liliows with hunger white, Just within hail of the beacon light the hsberman brown, despair that was half a That shone on a woman sweet and trim, Waiting for him. Beverly bells Ring to the ti it ebls ana sw His was the anguish a moment The passionate sorrow death But the wearing wash of Is left for the desolate heart t Whose tides ‘0 Till bope drifts dead t t br with the du m, Thinking © > Poor lone Hann Sitting at the window bin Faded, wrinklad, Sitting, stitching, in s mournful muse Bright-eyed beauty once was she, When the bloom was on the tree Spring and Winter, Hannah's at the window, binding shoes Not a neighbor Passing nod or answer w refuse To her whisper #1s there from the Oh, her heart's adrift with one fishers any news?’ On an endless vovage gone! Night and morning, Hannal's st the window, binding shoes "Tis November Now no tear her wasted clieek bedews From Newfoundland Not a sail returning will she lose Whispering hoarsely, Fishermen Have you, have you heard of Ben? Old with watching, Hanuah's at the window, binding shoes Twenty Winters Bleach and tear the ragged shore she views. | bear so close that {it almost Twenty seasons Never one has brought her any news, Still ber dim eyes silently Chase the white sails o'er the sea, Hopeless, faithful, Hannah's st the window, binding shoes. [Iney Larcom SAVED BY A CALF, “The whole course of my lifo was changed, and my love's young dream destroyed in less than a minute by a calf, and a fortunate thing it was for me,” srid the wife of a prominent citizen of Lycoming county, Penn., pow visiting friends in this city, “My father was the leading business man in a bustling lumber village, and there were three giris of us, a sister older and one younger than I. Father was kind and indulgent, but very level beaded, and had been a widower for some years, When 1 was 185 a good- looking young chap fr. m somewhere down the Busquehanna came to clerk in father's store. I was a romantic Anip, and fell in love with the good- { only son. | ference i | my true love, as I think | 5 [| | habit of calling it, my idol and I met of | cicties | course, at the house of a neighbor of | style | propose land | miles distant, | go to the county seat, only { stole to | had I & | for father. | was gone as if it had never been, Te? { minutes after 1 reached the station the | train came and looking clerk, or thought 1 did, and he fell in Jove with me. That young man, it seemed to me then, was the bravest, most ambitions youth that ever lived. now that it was only cheek and brag. Bat he was my ideal of a lover, and I believed it wa impossible for me to live without him. “Father wasn’t long in discovering the had come his he 1 see tender relations that between young clerk, called me to him one day and told me very to exist me and self.assertive and that he was sory to see that I was such informed that it at and then brave once, my and stead fast idol at the home. Of course my heart was broken. I felt I was the victim of a stern and | unsympathetic parent's cruel will and | citemeont over the Carnival, which I wished that I were dead. +*Now, although this lover of mine | was clerking in my father's stere for | | #20 a month and his board, his father He watches the gleam of the lessening light | When 1 of cy misery over the paternal inter was at the height that had rufllad the course of was in one evening, quite by chance, what did my brave but ours, and knight an elopement, and what | me to agree to the prop mwition on the spot. “There was a railroad station eight o'clock siation at 7 left every evening. where that the oot g train, to drive to the station, an ride, get married, and be happy ever after. We fixed of ready this was along toward the middle December—and got everything It drive for the elopement, was a good bour-and-a-half to the station over the sort of read we had to travel on, and so we were obliged to take an The There was beon It early start, winter had very mild, No Snow. | was just beginning to get dark when I where my valiant lover for Was waiting nme ith a horse and Ww agon, all in favor of my level-headed father discovering the whole plot before we station, and | was auld cond reach the sure that w be on our track EL with a horse a good deal faster than the one we had to depend on no fear us, “Before we hind gone one-quarter of the way night had set in for good, but there was a moon, and that helped us along amszingly. We had got amd had safe stopped with within a mile of the » zood reason 10 peLieve were when snddenly the x snort of te . It ip, and tried to inrn with tix straightened | mt he Kept HE Hi on sho error. 1 looked un the road and dis covered the cause of all this. An im- bear stood its hannches at of the Inens on ’ ) one side road growling and sar When over saw Lhe savage beast advance npon us, my brave he rose up in the wagon, gave a yell, and gasped : “Oh! Jennie, let's go back.” the bear. I About at i] forgot ail gaged in amazement H 4 knight. lle was as pale as a sheet. The lines hung loose in his hands 1 seizedl them, jerked them away from Lim, took the whip, and, as I held the { horse from turning round, ordered | the cowardly youth oul of the wagon He crawled out of the back end of the wagon, and tore down the road as fast as his legs could earry him. “Then I whipped the horse with all my might, and he sprang forward and whizzed the wagon past the growling knocked the ugly beast over. 1 drove on to | the station, had the horse put out, and went in the little hotel there to wail My love's young dream went. Ten minutes | later father came tearing on horseback I met him. ‘I've been saved up to the door, «+ Father,” by a calf.”’ “Then 1 told uim all about venture on the road, ¢ «Saved by a calf!’ bo exclaimed, ‘You mean saved by a bear,”” “Not at all,’ I replied. «If Jerry hadw't been a calf and the biggest Kind of a calf, that bear wouldn't have been any more than a stump in my way. I was saved by a calf, I toll you, and | want to go home!’ “My gallant lover was never seen around our neighborhood again, and somehow or other, father always seemed to think more of me after that than he ever had before.'-(New York Sun. anid 1, the ad- The Carnival in | the neighborhood, such as end of the month he could go back | , 4 Theresopolis, whilst others take | an institution to which the { Saturnalia is was a rich lnmberman, and he was the | Europe; and now | {| I ; @ { up even the | | tinguished not only by the 1 did my romantic soul do but prompt | { absurdity of the The last train for any- | All we had to do was | ministers of hour's | | a republic on a certain might— | I knew that the chances were | But 1 | that le would overhaul | | an angry | proval of the presen ng and showing a disposition to | hounds i The bee escaped, the bird my gallant | | food, and there is A HAG Rio De Janeire. There are two totally distinet sone sons at Rio, when the town presents an altogether diflerent appearance § the summer, which lagts from October to April, and the winter, from May to September. In the summer, which is the autamn and when the sun pours narrow streets, winter in Europe, into the Rio is anything but an The heat has driven and down agreeable place. away the rich leisured classes, the great merchants, the diplomatic corps; in fuct, all of any | fancied position hasten to the suburbs a silly girl, and that [ must get over | on the breezy heights overlooking the city, or to the little country towns in refuge on the isiands of the bay. Life had lost all its charm. | The town becomes a perfect caldron; but this does not prevent a great ox- is Fluminens- ses, or river folk, are particalurly de- of the disupvearing This relic old heathen fast voted, fron that Italy is a united Kingdom, it is no longer properly kept in its former headquarters, Rome and Venice. At Rio, livelier however, Carnival-time is there it is kept in a and is dis than ever, and Are 40. for celebrating in grand Shrove-Tuesday most characteristic manner, jichness of the costumes and the originality of th® | vehicles in the processions, but by the caricatures in what may justly be termed an open air re- view of the chief of ceding vear. In the time events the pre- of Dom Pedro defraved the the ompire the expenses of the Carnival, and though has now been established ’ the old customs am kept up, and the revoiution are spared no more thau were their predecessors ; moreover, like them, they first to ires of in these willy fall imaginat; are the laugh al the ridiculous caricat thew selves and their actions exhibitions, forded popular Weekly, im which scope is af to A Bumble Bee Chased by a Humming Bird An observer writes that just as ma tween humming | their quest Tor ney tween members of the homan their struggle for the good things of life, and describes a that he saw garden wl recent quarrel in a Portland, (Me.) a homming dash expressed its He LIA e of a big bumb same (ree. 1s beo incont ting and showing evidences of | 3) rd and movemaen of the bee contro his eves. The half the t it, bat the Ins WEARS 4 OFYOTr In me that it has taken Lo tell excitement of a pack of after a fox was no greater giving up the chase and slighting on 8 lw) t couldn't bave been chasing the bee for no possible explas | nation of its unproveked attack except fuat it wished to have all the honey itself. — [Chicago Times. nn —-— cr May Displac: Ganpowder, A commission of German artillery experts has been testing at the Jueter. borg a new explosive which is intend ed to replace, ultimately, gunpowdei in the German army. is a brows, fatly substance of the coy sistency of frozen oil when exposdl to ordinary temperature, It reais this consistency up 112 Fabrebeit. A shock or a spat does not set it off. When used in guns the explosion is obtained through contact with another chemical egnpound. The explosion isaimost vuscdmpanied by smoke and the detonatiof is incon. siderable. The recoil is wiry slight, even when the heaviest clyrgos have been used. The explosivi does not heat the weapons sufficiently to cause difficulty in the way of ripid and cartridges once used mo ef filled. For the present rifle, m to able, but If futore tests be as tory as the recent ones it will troduced generally in the dtillery branch of the service. Four models of new army rifles having mhy ade vantages over the rifle now use, have passed successfully the Fials of the small arms inspectors. + ine ventor of all tour is Mr. Wek of the Gora dynamite factory.~Chic Horsid, y y ago The explosive | degrees position or | Pi tropolis i Lind A The Testimonials We publish are not purchased, nor are they written up in our offles, nor are they from our employes. They are facts, proving that Hood's Barsaparillsa possesses absolute Mert, and that Hood's Cures Mrs. E. M. Burt West Kendall, N. Y. Three Great Enemies Neuralgia, Rheumatism and Dyspepsia Another Victory for Hood's. “For over 2) years | have suffered with nes. ralgla, rheumatism an Ldyspepein, Many times J could not turn In bed, Several physicians tried different me permanent Five years ago | began to take Hood's Hood’s Cures Rares pa nd it bas done me a vast amount have treated me and 1 have rewnedies, but all falled to give relief Marsa pariiia Ha of goml on beginning Lad a sick day lan 32 good hie 1 1 nttrid lin Mus, EM. Bune, WN min yiake It | have not years old and enjoy alth, whic mite to Hood's Sars Kendall, N. Y Hoed's Jaundice, indigestion, Sic Pills cure all Liver [lis 0 k Headache, Bettlod by Arbitration, The outline of the postofice become indistinct In tbe gathering Garkness and the streets in the vicinity were filled with people hur- rying homeward, when the reporter observed a man with a stuhbyv beard who with some difficulty was holding had a position on a coraner, solemnly shak- ing hands with a newshovs f the in their pedestrian efforts transit, stopped tn watch ceedings, for the sighs was celebrity line of Some passers-by, discourage tor ra} the nro. unusual Had some local vme and place to hold i ht appear so but fi number of g chosen this FUesLA spot. There had | ought head to toot oul ne of the affair sey 4 ragged little fellow cecene and ruled the ee Tobinmme Rif L" he deal, been in “' cheated, and hs that ned protable appeared on the proceeqings out 0 har a square wouldn't hadn with CoOnvit if Je We Was evident FLA il al Argument andshakin WH A somewhat Lhe reiu seeing a tantly n ne Herb 0 No fghs, of the spectators laugh tie pacemaker, extended a grimy little clasped in the larger of the hand one, half a score hiarts beat lighter because of his pica for justice. —Doston Journal EE — Voadi married charming Imlian girl, who made home ideally perfect winning = Lis yovng, The Mannish Girl Bhe begins innocently enough. She fas a troop of brothers, perhaps, and is drawn into their sports in spite of herself. She catches their contempt of girls; cuts off her hair like Maggie Tulllver; takes pleasure in a riding habit and {ts odd accouterments. Horses and dos are her favorite com. panions. So she falls out of sympathy wirh her sex. Bhe loses {ts delicacy; is reckless of its conventions girl. But the fact that a woman in body, she tries to be a man in mind, exposes her to the animadversions of { the ribald. As she mingles with the world, she mannish, To talk slang, to smoke { mend her, in a | companions, | jolly, fetching, stunning | tivate | yachting wken they leave her com- | They even cigarettes, to ride to hounde, com- measure, to her male They cul- her society. They take her to chat horse show "™ 3 I'he YV love the vil panions at home with her In a box at propose a visit to the Arion ball But they rarely marry her. That where the has her full revenge, to taking a wife—a wife adorn his table: a wife tertain his friends—a thinks of the mannish girl that the arts by which she attracte | him will be just as at‘ractive others. He knows that the lack refinement, which has a kind of in the giri of twenty 1 + fiir NO IOSS its ¥ surreptitious maldenly girl When {t COMES who who shall en nan He kn 18 BeLGOI rest Will y vulgar fOrLy. Then what nish girl? the divorce have her she pnonth by mu to bitterness, il to say of mind tu ie has Sothing 1 shi bur She nar her ne (‘EERE B18. he PUl ’ + veys wretched gossip for the social } and whep the ney rire {f the does that coinmit | a woman | tombstone « er lear rept 18 ¢ Newspa she has set arecr an Rough on the Hogs ter say on him mine tell yer, while dat man was libin’ he was & powerful stumbling-biock u dal mans puthin' agin “There | wens Tron Bitters cures | Gefteral Ik ity. Dysperals I Ma's. of VE ing (EL Nurs Malaria « ten y H hes the blood, to the ner : Acts Lk Deallh, giving now she lrgy & a aigeet generad wd a strength A Ch Poe ra A tan d that w we wrong for the sa ves steal sheey Percham’s Pills wr ad ! of eating. Deecham's ove Soents a box Sleep is the honey in ! healthiul isbor, U. S. Government Baking Powder Tests. The report of the by the U. S. Government Dep't), shows the Royal superior to all othes powders, and gives its leavening strength and the strength of each of the other cream of tartar powders tested as ROYAL, Absolutely Pure. . 13.06. The TESTED are reported to tain both lime and sulphuric acid, and to be of the folicwing strengths respectively, . Royal Baking Powder is absolutely leavening power than any other greater analyses of Baking Powders, made OTHER POWDERS (Chemical Division, Ag’l follow S: LEAVENING GAF. S—— Cobie in. por on a 160.6 161.1 , 133.6 . 123.2 . 114. 111.8 26.5 8A 65.5 pure, and of powder, Por cont. 12.58 . 1113 . 10.26 0.53 . 0.29 . 808. . . 738. . . 4.98 . con IT amy one Aenbie they CLOOD POISON A SPECIALTY. ho Sodide potassium, aarmaperilin FOR WOMEN ONLY ®8 "ioe ioe ot That | Is always the peril of the mannish | feeds a kind of vanity by being | They declare her to be! sla! of rhogs” - ga a i, | ENOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal cnjoyoicnt when rightly nl The many, who live bet- ter than others and enjoy life more, with | less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world’s best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to Beaith of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Byrup of Figs : Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas- | ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax- ative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millioss and met with the approval of the medics § profession, beesuse it acts ¢p the Kid- neys, Liver and Bowels withe at weak- | ening them and it is perfectly free froms every objectionable substance. Byrup of Figs ix for sale by all drugz- gists in 50¢ and $1 bottles, but it is man~ ufactured by the California Fig Byrep Co. only, whase name is printed on every pa kage, also the name, Syrup of F ge, nd being well informed, you will not accept any substitute .f offered. Y oung Bothsrs : We Offer You a Remedy schich Insures Bafety to Life of Mother and Child. “MOTHER'S FR'aND Robs Confinement of (La Fain, Horror and Risk. After aetngonebottieof ““ Mother's Vriend™ suffered Lut Ditie pain, and did nol eX periesos that weakness aftervard usual io such cases —3rs, Axx Gaox, Lemar, Mo. Jan. 150k, Sent by expe charges prepaid, on receipi of prive, $1.90 por bottle, Book to Mothers malied Tres, BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA, GA, - BOLD DY ALL DRUGOISTS “August Flower” “What 1s August Flower for?” As easily answered as asked. It is for Dyspepsia tis a ial rem edy for tl : h and Liver Nothin We beheve August Dyspepsia We knowitwill. We have reasons for knowing it. To-day it has an honored place ig town and 0 every Spe ary $c CRbaaad Lada cures cruntiy store, possesses one of the largest manufacturing plants in the country, and sells everywhere. The thing, and doesitright. Itcuresdyspepsiag Unlike the Dutch Process 3 No Alkalies p< we (VL = Cc DIC, ¥ SOIT 18 C1 t doses . Ca ni in It dox S OK Other Chemicals are need In the preparation of W. BAKER & 00.8 BreakfastCocoa which (0 absolutely pure and soluble, § It has more than (hres times the stremgth of Corona mize with Starch, Arrowroot oo \ Sugar, and is far more eon sotaical, costing less than one cent a cup. It is delicious, nourishing, and EasiLy DIGESTED, — p _ Sold by Grocers everywhere, W. BAKER & C0., Dorchester, Mass. 'MEND , YOU? OWN HARWESS wire THOMSON'S SLOTTED CLINCH RIVETS. Ko tools required. Oniv a hammer needed + ABO cme them enslly and guick sheoiutely smooth, Beoulring » fhe lanihier nor hurr for the Rivets. Ther are tough and durable. Mims pow is Enethe. aniform « ssseted pat op | bones, Ask your dealer for them, of send 5 is Flame A DOR of MO, aseoried aes Man'® by JUDSON L. THOMSON MFG. CO. WALTHAW. MASS, drive aving the clauh ROR we made In » wee 4 BXU IY AN IDEAL FAME Y ie AMICY MEDICINE TRIEANS 3 ARULES "et y Np BL) Ket Som follows thelr see I Arugeivte or ment by mall y Whe, Pwed ‘ VE ferns ATO R. Sample’ VL over mrysstad . eRe TI Xo euiok. Daoscanh, : a say. Wile OPIUM iin i
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