U-Vfit WTPiL. ii.': t? - r .rsai Er'iV- ST'F m -' j ' E. r t U 1- V ijiBg, IPHE GOLDEN ISLAND, BX Eesest H. Heixbichs. rwEinsjr toe th disfatch.i OBEBT had fin ished his education at the old school in the Tillage, rhere his father and mother lived, and he was now of an age when a healthy and strong hoy vrith a true spirit of devel oping manhood and independence wants to learn a trade. Tbe village in which the boy's parents lived was but a small one, and outside of the tailor and the shoe maker there were no tradesmen living there. All the rest of the men, Robert's father among them, were farmers. Now, Kobert did not like the life of a farmer. It was too quiet and too much like slavery to him. Xbt that he despised a farmer, how ever. He was a good son and he loved his father dearly. But Eobert was of an enter prising, active disposition, and the unevent ful existence of a farmer did not suit his restless character. "When his school time was over, therefore, he resolved to learn a trade. He did not know which one he would like best. He meant to find that out after while. So one beautiiul morning he packed his valise "with the most necessary things a man wants when he goes on a long journey; then he went to his father and mother and bid them goodby. "Where are you going, Eobert?" both exclaimed with" astonishment, as they saw the young man standing before them, equipped for a journey. "I am going away to learn a trade," he replied. "This place is too small for me. and there is nothing to do here for a boy as I am. I am going into the city for a couple of years, where I can learn a trade and make a name and fortune for myself." The old people saw that Ibeir son was de termined and they thought it better to let him have his own way. Sothey wished him God speed and good luck and told him not to forgetjhis ..parents and come back after some time."' Eobert promised that and then he departed. He had traveled for many a day and many a month, but still he had not found the business he liked. He had been working with several masters, but somehow or other Eobert grew tired of his job and left. One day he was sitting on the bank of a beauti ful lake and noticed a boat gliding over the smooth surface of the waters. There was a man sitting in the boat who was feathering the oars in a leisurely manner, while the boat continued to float noiselessly along. Eobert looked at the man and his boat lor a long time, when he murmured to him self: "Well, now, rowing must be the most pleasant thing in the world. The man seems to enjoy the fun amazingly. I won der whether he would allow me to have a row wi'h him. I will call him and hear ' what he has to say." He shouted out and beckoned the man in the boat toward him. "When the owner of the boat heard Eobert he came ashore and invited him to accompany him. "While the oars were dipping the water and the boat -"was quietly moving along over the beauti ful lake Eobert told the man all about him self. "So you did not like to be a farmer; what . would you like to do then ? Have vou not been able to find a trade suitable at all?" ".No, sir," replied tbe young man. "I have not been able to find a job that I would like. "What I have to complain of most, is that everything seems to be hard work and I don't like that. I would be glad to learn anything where I had the op portunity to make a lot of money without any trouble and exertion. But hard work I do not like, it makes me tired so quick." "Oh! oh!" said the boatman, "that is the way you feel about the matter. You are lazy, I should say. Look here, my boy, any trade is a good one, if you only work at it hard enough, and with an earnest inten tion to make a success. All work is equally ennobling to the man who labors honestly and diligently. Now I think it will be a very good thing for you if I give you a les Bon that will be of service to you for all your life." The boatman had no more than uttered these words when Eobert suddenly noticed that the boat 'began to roll and to pitch. The young man anxiously grasped at the side of his seat to prevent himself from falling into the water. But the motion of the boat increased more and more. The waves ran over each other and rolled up mountain high. It was too much for Eobert; he could not hold himself any longer, for an immense wave came with ter rific force against the side of the boat. It turned over, and the young man fell into tbe lake. Soon the waters swallowed him up, and they closed in over him like a lid on a-Ix)i. Unconsciousness overcame him imme diately after he fell into the water, but he 7nf :Jr ; awoce again and to his utter astonishment '-' found himself on dry land. It was a pecu- liar place, the young man thought. The " ground was hard and rocky, but still there . i were lots of trees growing everywhere. A ' beautifnLUght shone over all the land, but .- v where itcsme from Eobert could not imag ine. The sky above was as bine as the fazure heavens that expanded over the bean--4tiful fields around his native village. But lie could not see a sun or a moon, or even a - star, above him. The young man was be wildered. He stood and looked at his sur roundings as if he were enchanted or dream ing,, Suddenly he was awakened from his rev erie by' the approach ot three men all dresseainred clothes, with black turbans on their .heads. Neither of them spoke a word. They walked straight np to Eobert, and while one of them took hold of him by the neck the others caught him by the legs. Then they carried him away, and all the re sistance and expostulation on tbe young prisoner s part vas in vain. J.ue uiree men held him as tightly as if his limbs were screwed in a rise, and did not stop until they came to a large building. This struct ure was or wood, but in front stood a very com Viable chair, in which Eobert noticed the boatman with whom he had been rowing on the UVe not long ago. He lifted his hand to the three men andrthey stood still before him. 'ioir nut th tlntiKir down!" he aim. xnandtd ot the three in red, and when Eob (ert stood on the ground the man in the chair Ibeckoned him to come forward. K'Toung man," he said, "you have told IBP that VOU do nntl;lr"uvM-lr Iml run nre I&nd of lots of money. ToS'shall have just what you' want, and I hope you will enjoy it." After he had spoken he made another sign to the three in red, and again they took hold of him and carried him away. None of them ever spoke to him. They continued their walk quietlv, hut at it good pace. At last they arrived at a broad river, where they found a boat moored. The three men carried Eobert into the boat, then they pnshed offatid in a few moments were glid ing over the waters. "Where are you taking me to?" inquired the young men ol the three mysterious look ing boatmen, but they did not take the slightest notice of his question. They con tinued rowing as if they had not heard any thing. "If you do not tell me where we are going I will jump into the water and drown my self!" shouted Eobert, and he got up to get ready for a leap into the river, but before he could accomplish anything one of the oarsmen caught him by the neck, threw him into the bottom of the boat and tied him to one of the seats. He realized now & I I. that he had better keep quiet and resign himself to his fate. About half an hour elapsed, when suddenly the boat stopped. The three men pulled their oars into the boat One of them unloosened Eobert, then the three took hold of him and lifted him ont of the boat on to shore. The next min ute they pushed off again and Eobert was left alone. He looked around and found that he was standing on solid gold. At first he could hardly believe his eyes. He stooped down and examined the ground. "True enough!" he exclaimed, "all pure gold!" Then he went along to see whether it was everywhere the same. The result of his in vestigation proved this: Eobert was on an island about two miles square, composed of solid gold. The surface was as smooth as a table. Not a tree grew anywhere. In fact Eobert saw nothing but the sky above him. gold beneath him. He walked some what farther into the island when he came to a house, which was built of golden coins of all the countries of the world. He noticed the corner beams were all made out $50 gold pieces. The walls were made of English sovereigns, the window sills of German 20-mark pieces and the sashes of 10 and 20 francs. The roof consisted of golden shingles and the panes in tbe win dows were of transparent gold. Eobert was amazed. He opened tbe door of the house. In the first room he ound a table, chairs sofa, all made out of golden coins from Eus sia, Spain and Italy. Then he walked into another room. Here was a table of gold again, covered with the most delicious viands, venison,vegetables, in fact anything to please the most dainty palate. Wines and other liqnors of various kinds and brands were there, from ginger ale to the best champagne. All these things were real. There was no gold on them, although thev were on golden dishes. ""Well, now 1" cried Eobert, "this is not so bad. I guess I will try these things." Then he sat down and enjoyed himself in true epicurean style. When he was thor oughly satisfied he got up and examined the rest of the house. He found gold every where; in every room and cupboard, noth ing but gold. Even the bed was golden, and he found it pretty hard to lie on. Eobert, for a day or two, thought himself in Paradise. He had plenty to eat and good things to eat and be had loads of money. What else did he want ? After a week, however, he became already tired of his life. He had nobody to talk to. He had nothing to spend the time with, and eating be could not always be at. To occupy himself he began one day to walk around the island and see how many steps it would take. But that soon became monotonous, too. Then he remained in his house. He. now counted how many gold coins there were in each corner beam of the house. But that did not take him long, and again he had nothing to do. He racked his brains to think of something to occupy himself with. At night, while lavine on the hard bed, he could not sleep, because he had eaten too much. In the morning he got np wretched and miserable. After a month he was almost crazy, ana he resolved to jump into the water which surrounded tbe island. So he did. But as soon as he made a jump into the water the waves re ceded, and Eobert lit with his back on the hard bottom of the sea. He hurt himself awfully, and as he could not drown him self, he went limping back to his golden house. "Oh, that I were back home again," he cried one day. "I would work with my father on the farm as hard as any laboring man." No sooner had he said so than the boat man of the lake stood before him. "Well, how do you like a life of ease with lots of money? I suppose you are happy now?" "No; not at all," replied Eobert. "I wish I had something-to do to spend my time. I do not care a fig for all the gold in tbe world." "All right, my fine man, come along with me and I will give you a job." He took the young man back to the river, where a boat awaited them. They rowed back to the conotry where the boatman lived. Arrived there he said to Eobert: "Now, I will see whether vou are really fond of work. If you are I will reward you well. Come along. We have had a battle here, and there are 1,000 bodies lying near here on a battlefield. If yon will promise me to bury them all, I will make you not only a rich but also a happy man." Eobert promised, and he went at once to work on tne battlefield to dig graves for the fallen warriors. It took him a long time to do it, and it was hard work, but still he was more satisfied with himself now than he was when he lived on the golden island. When ills task was accomplished, the old boatman shook Eobert joyfully by the hand. "All right, my boy, now come with me and receive your reward." He led him to the boat in which they first rowed together on the lake, and in a few seconds thev were back again on the smooth waters. Eobert did not know how it had happened, and he did not care. When the boat got ashore, the boatman gave Eooert three trees. "When you get home plant them in your father's garden. They will all bloom and hear fruit. One will give you happiness, the other long life and the third competency. That is all a man wants in this life." Then the boatman disappeared, and Eobert went home, where he planted the three trees, and fonnd everything as he had been promised. Beauty In a Blush. Boston Courier. A natural blush showing itself through a clear complexion is like tbe tint on the pe tals of the moss rose, something that cannot be imitated by art, and at the same time one of the most beautiful things in nature. And yet there are young women who write to story papers asking lor a cure for blushing I THE HLLABNETS HILLS, Charming Lakes and Historic Isles Captivate a Word Painter. SOME FUN WITH A TOURIST. flow a Dispatch. Contributor Secured a Tip From a Countryman. CHASMS THAT ARE OVERLOOKED tCOREESPOXDKKCE 07 TBI DISPATCH.! Xxllaenet, Ieeland, April IB. There is a curious similitude between the outlook of great minds, and one peculiarity in the outlook from the peaks of high mountains. The great mind elevates all lesser minds, facts and objects to the noble heights of its own generous comprehensiveness and abne gation; while the higher one ascends a mountain, in proportion, more lofty do lesser surrounding peaks, and the more in significant does your own gained ascent, ap pear. The reverse of this, in descent, is as true of mountains as with mind and men. I had no just conception of the grim and mighty cliffs of Carrantuohill when with the sky I was above them; but in the long descent to the valley of Coom-a-dhuv, which brought me on the Killarney side of the Macgillicuddy Eeeks, for the first time a sense of awe possessed me. Their base skirts the western shore of the Upper Lake. Any where along this the towering mass rises al most perpendicularly 3,400 feet overshadow ing the island-dotted lake. The black crags here and there push through the white com mingled clouds and snow, giving at times an appalling sense of apprehension lest the next glance you give they may topple down upon you; and this grewsome feeling is in tensified as now and then glimpses are caught of Carrantuohill's accompanying peaks which appear and disappear through the changing mists above. A. GKAND PANORAMA. Opposite, to the east, the scene is almost duplicated across the lake. Mangarton Mountain, upward of 2,700 feet, and Tore Mountain, over 1,700 high, neither capped by snow, but the peaks of each similarly wreathed in fleecy clouds, loom and glower from their heights, or show dark and for bidding escarpments above billowy swells of forests, reaching from the valleys below. Exactly between these two noble groups lies Upper Lake Killarney, like a sapphire set round with emerald whose edges are peaked with reliefs of cameo in black and white. After a wide detour I crossed the little Owenreach river, a boisterous singing vagrant here, and climbed across hill and heather, finally reaching the great highway called the "Prince of Wales route," leading from Glengariff to Killarney, where this magnificent road first turns tne mountain side, giving the tourist by long-car, or legs, the first view of the surpassing panorama which at one sweep comprehends the great mountains on either side and tbe witching lakes between. This is certainly the most entrancing view at Killarney; it is by all odds the most entrancing prospect in Ire land; and I do not believe a more beautiful sight can be found in the whole world. While sitting upon a ledge of rocks he side the highway, resting in tbe sweet April day and dreamfully contemplating the scene before me, I was pleasantly disturbed to afterward first know by actual experience the substantial rewards of a vagrant's life in a tourist land. The long car, filled with tourists and a small mountain of hampers piled above the "well" between the hanging side seats, lumbered up the southern ascent from Kenmare, and came to its customary halt to enable tourists to enjoy the nnsual prospect. Among the passengers were a couple of Etonian under-graduates and an English milord and milady with their chil dren and servants, all of whom were in an aggressive-defensive attitude of silent scorn toward an innocent pair from our own loved land. The latter were a little bald, nut headed gentleman with a bent, poddy body, suggesting a polished pebble set in the end of a banana, and his good, honest American wife, twice his height and four times his girth. The man was the embodiment of nervous activity and enthusiasm; the woman of adipose and repose: and both. having dulv paid their "booking," were placidly oblivious of the ethical injuries they had inflicted all the way from Cork upon their fellow-travelers. WAKEMAN'S LITTLE JOKE. Everybody alighted hut the calm Amer ican woman. In serene composure she watched her side of the long-car settle nearly to the ground; but she kept her seat. "Come down, Maw, do," urged the little man, bringing into instant use a pair of field-glasses, each tube of which was as large as the "Lone Fisherman's" stage telescope. "Maw, this is wonderful, wonderful, won derfull" At the sound of these last three words milord winced, milady elevated her eye brows, the Etonians readjusted their eye glasses, and the servants looked dignified and grave. "No; guess I'll let well enough alone," murmured the little man's large wife. "Maw, this is wonderful, wonderful, won derful!" repeated the American, sweeping the scene with his glasses, filling the En glish delegation with another series of shud derings and backing into me as he spoke. "You'll step on that man there. Paw, if you don't use your eyes," cautioned the wife from the long-car. "Bless me, yes; wonderful, wonderful, wonderfnl! Peasantry right here in the mountings. See here, Pat," he continued, addressing me, "you good-for-nothing dyna mite Irishmen do'n't deserve this wonderful kentry, darned if you dol" "Thrue for yez, yer honor," I replied humbly. "See that, Maw?" with a wink to his wife. Thinks I'm one o' tbeni high rollers. Well, well, well! Pat, here's a a guess its a half crown, or something 'r other. There, now, brace up. Go to my country. Get a clean shirt. Be a a well, 'git there!' " "God bliss yer honor!" I responded, thanking him heartily. "May the top o" yer head never folly yer hair!" "Maw! sav, Maw? Did you hear that? Irish wit, by Golly! Well, well, well! Wonderful, wondenul, wonderful! Live long 'round here, Pat?" "Indade did L .For ages." "Wonderfnl!" IX CLOSE QUARTERS. The English contingent winced; the worthy man gave me another shilling; and his good wife from the tilting long-car wished the little man "wouldn't make such a fuss over every poor creature in Ireland," "Well, well, Pat, what's the name o that mounting?" "Carrantuohill's the same." "Some sort of er story er legion about it, I s'pose?" . "Divil doubt that, sor. But wan stud there at first. St. Patrick was carin' lor two hills. So one fine mornin' another stud beside it." "Wonderful, Wonderful, wonderful 1" ex claimed the American, writing the same down on a business-card as big as his hand, while his traveling companions writhed again. "And that further one?" "Tore, sor. Tore bekase that's a wild boar, and ye'll find 'em there this hlissed minute with tusks 'on 'em the length o' yer arm, sor." "Goodness gracious! But that is wonder ful. Maw, did you hear that? And that mounting over there, Pat?" "Mangarton, i-or." "Jess so. Kinder Dutch, hain't it S'pose some Dutchman settled there, long while ago, eh? Wonderful how these things stick to places!" He had me there, and I should have.' rocen aown entirely it milord, witn a loud gunaw in wnicn tne undergraduates join had not ascended tbe car, and with Jul suppressed snorts and indignation, ordred the drireT to proceed. This took mvifittle friend from me on the ran; but aiftr his able-bodied wife had dragged. hini liW the PITTSBURG-' DISPATCH, ground to his seat on the long car, and held him in it by one arm, he turned and, ges ticulating enthusiastically with the other and the field glasses, yelled from the rapidly disappearing vehicle: "Come ,to my hotel, Pat. Don't know the name. Best one, anyhow. Want to know more about this wonderful kentrv. Make it all right. Darned if I don't!" A POINTER FOE TOURISTS. I should recommend to all tourists who intend visiting Killarney, to come to this rezion as did the kind little man and his calm big wife by railway from Cork to Bantry and Glengariff, and thence bv long car through Kenmare, over one of the finest roads in Great Britain. For over ten m.les of this highway, from the point where I sat and exchanged Irish information for En glish silver, the entire three lakes are for a time wholly in view; all their grandest scen ery is thus enjoyed; and much of that which is entrancing in detail is possible of idle and pleasant inspection. This is true of no other accessible and leisurely traveled way in the vicinity of Killarney. It is not eveh possible from the peak of Carrantuohill, as this is too remote from much that is exquis itely beautiful requiring closer study. It is not a half hour's leisurely row from end to end ot Upper Lake Killarney. Yet half a month could be well expended enjov ing its beauties and grandeur. Completely distinct from Middle and Lower Lakes in the character of its scenery, the wildest grandeur surrounds it, and yet the most ex quisite and tender beauties are nestled in its bosom and along its winsome shores. The 12 islands within it are almost, without exception, nests of verdure. On every side mountains pierce the clouds. Between these and the shores there maybe seen every manner of conformation of land, rock, run ning stream and softening forest, creatable by imagination or securable by human sight. One cannot tire of it. Passing from Upper Lake into Long Eange, which carries its waters to the north into its two companion lakes, the world-famous Eagle's nest rises almost perpendicularly 1,700 feet. Its base is spread with the richest foliage; but its grand facades and jutting cliffs are bare. Here tbe eagle breeds and wheeling screams above these glens of untellable beauty; and here is undoubtedly the most wonderful echo in the world. Buglers accompany tourists to wake the silvery notes; Crocker records six perfect answers; and my own boatman's vocal call, a curiosity in itself, came back to us in surprising repetitions and wondrous sweetness. LOWES LAKE ATTRACTIONS. The chief characteristic of the Lower Lake is simple and tranquil beauty. While un doubtedly as fascinating in this respect as any bther sheet of water in Great Britain, nowhere does the element of grandeur enter into it. Its nearest approach is at its south ern entrance at Glena. The mountain range extending northwest along the western rim of the lake here reaches closest to the shore, shutting in lovingly the bav and glen with a mountain-glen of surpassing loveliness. Around the witching peninsula and sweep ing into the southeast is another bay of transcendent beauty, above whose shores upon a little knoll", though quite hidden within the dense forest foliage of the Her bert demesne, is Muckross Abbey. Sacred are its memories, enchanting its surround ings, and incalculable the prose and poetic descriptions which the beautiful old ruin has evoked. This is equally true of "sweet Innisfallen" island, nestling like a bird of emerald plumage within the "blue waters, midway between the eastern and western shores. There are no such oak and ash trees, hollies and evergreens in all Ireland as upon this enchanted islet. Here were written the celebrated "Annals of Innis fallen," now in the Bodliean Library, and the ruins of its once famous abbey are scat ted everywhere "beneath its gigantic ever greens and flowering shrubs. From the summit of the grim old castle ruin a delightful outlook can he had; but the chief interest in the place lies jn the fact that the once almost impregnable place was the last in Munster to surrender, and that needlessly, in 1652, when 5,'000 Mun ster men laid down their arms because of an old prophecy that the place could not be taken until ships of war an impossible thing should surround it General Lud low provided boats holding 120 men each to reconnoiter by water for a convenient land ing place, and npon seeing these and the suppositious fulfillment ot the prophecy, the besieged incontinently surrendered. , THE GAP OF DUNLOE, a long, tortuous vallev, threaded by the torrent-like river Loe. which expands into several weird lakes, above all of which tower fierce and forbidding crags; a score of water-falls and cascades, any one of which are superior in beauty to our famed Minne haha; countless mountain ascents, and in numerable witching glens and valleys, not to speak of the dirty little town of Killarney itself, are all to visit and enioy; and there can be no bound set to time thus needed. But there are two or three qualities in the charm of Killarney of which I have seen no mention, and which, to me, seem to com prise that indescribable, intangible some thing which holds the world-traveler to this spot as his first and last idolatry in nature. One of these is the ever present films of cloud ceaselessly stretching their witching reaches across mountains and mingling with the forest undulations themselves. Let the upper skies be never so clear and radiant, these soft and ghostly painters are e verat work weaving their tender spells. Another is a rare and infinite contrast, though ever blended seeming, in all the marvelous foliage of this sylvan spot And still anoth er cannot be told. It is alone felt. It is the heart throb that the soul gives back to nature in her sweetest form and mood; not derness between a loving nature and the nature-loved. These are the" true witch-wands of Killarney, which even in a dumb, yet sure, way make the tongue of the sodden peasant eloquent in the true Irish bull he utters musingly: "Killarney 'indade! Faith there's none like it but itself!" Edgar L. Wakeman. HE WASTED HIS GUM. Story of a Drummer's Courtship and Its Unbnppy Ending. Savannah News. J A wealthy gentleman of Jefferson county, who can truthfully boast of being the pos sessor of as pretty a daughter as can be found in a day's journey, was very much carried away with a clashing young com mercial tourist who had been attentive to the young lady for some time. He re marked that he was a real nice fellow, and gave all tho encouragement a young man wanted. Now, the drnmmer had been using all his wits to stand in with the old man, and had kept him well supplied with chew ing gum, presumably to make the tie of friendship more adhesive. Things moved along smoothly until a week or so ago, when the young'lady gave her admirer the mitten. The old gentleman, a few days later, received from his drummer friend a bill for chewing gum to the amount of 55. TEMPERANCE EDUCATION. Twelve Million Children Being Tansht tho Evil Results of Drink.' St. Louts Globe-Democrat. 3 Twelve millions of children are reported to be under instruction in public schools on the influence of alcohol and other stimu lants as well as narcotics. Total abstinence is favored in all cases hy this instruction, andthere is no doubt but the next genera tion will come forward with, a prejudice against drinking habits. All the New JBngland States, with New York, Pennsyl- vauf uu A.unuic, us nejl&S WU OOUIU ern and three or four Western States, have laws compelling temperance educa tion. The Territories, also, are controlled by a United States law to the same effect. This "work is slower-than prohibition,, but it is surer auiu saier. SjJNDAT, APRIL 28, SUNDAY THOUGHTS -OS- MORALSMAIERS BY A CLEBGYMAN. 1 WWTTEN TOR TBI DISPATCH. J Georges Ohnet, perhaps the most popular of French novelists, has just published a powerful story which invades the realm of religion and deals with -materialism from the standpoint of fiction. Dr. Eameau, the hero, is an atheist, who is at last brought to he a Christian by the recoil of his own ma terialistic ideas by their disastrous work ing out in his own family. The Doctor falls in love withji charming girl who is a Eonian Catholic. They are married. The years pass. He robs her of her faith; and she retorts by robbing him of his honor. Her frailty is known by an old physician intimate alike with husband and wife, who reproaches her for her departure from virtue. "It is he," cries she, "who is responsible for my shame. How can he call it a crime for me to yield to the forces of the senses he who believes only in matter? For him human beings are guided only by their in stincts. He put them on a, level with a brute. By what should I be held back? By the sentiment of duty? But this senti ment is conscience, and conscience is the soul. You know well he does not believe in it. My ears ring now with his sneers at my poor 'mind full of superstition, as he calls it, when I have attempted to defend my faith. He has broken down all the bar riers that would have restrained me. The commandments of my God prescribed fidel ity and respect; he has declared that no God exists and the heavens are. empty. My motherinstructed me from infancy that one must be pure and good in this life in order to be recompensed in eternity; he has proven to me that nothing remains after death." "Ah, madam," interjects the physician, "remember how your husband idolizes you." She meets this thrust with another out burst: "What does he love in me? He enjoys possession of me because I am young. He is a materialist, and his passion is only for matter; nothing could be more abject, more vulgar and outrageous, than this desire. He would none of my dreams; he repulsed all my ideals. He wanted a wife as he wanted a dinner no more nor less and he took me. He has disgusted me, and there fore I repeat, not hy hazard but deliber ately, not to defend myself but to accuse him, that he is the cause of all." Thus does fiction assail materialism. Are not its blows well directed? If there be no God, if the soul is a myth, if immortality is a fable, if conscience is a rhetorical flour ish, why, then, was not that weeping cul prit right? If we are as the beasts that per ish, why curb our animal instincts and de sires? The maxim of the epicurean school, Cum vivimus vivamus (let us live while we live) is the soundest, the only philoso phy. Virtue is an empty name. The only tie between man and man and between man and woman is the tie of inclination. Eelax this and everything falls to pieces. Just as soon as Dr. Eameau saw this, and felt it in his own experience, he drew out of his athe ism as one might draw out of a quicksand, and made haste to regain the solid ground of faith, hope and charity. 'Tis a suggestive lesson. Questions for Philosophers. Skeptics are fond of asking questions. Well, it is easier to ask them than to auswer them. But why should not Christians play Yankee, too? See here, you philosophers, tell us now, if the Bible is the work of impostors, how were a huddle of ignorant fishermen able to extemporize the character of Jesus Christ, and to formulate a religion which surpasses all others? If the New Testament can be found in .Eschylus and Epictetus and Con fucius and Buddha, how is it that they did not produce the New Testament, and so save us the necessity of reproducing it? Where does Christianity get its transforming power? How does the faith of Jeans make Paul the Apostle out of Saul the persecutor, and a saint out of a Magdalen, and a Christian out of John Newton, tbe slave trader, and a hero of benevolence out of Jerry McAuley, the converted river thief? Oh. playing Yankee is rare sport! When the philosophers have answered these ques tions, we wui U5& some more. The World Moving. Galileo was right; the world does move. A railroad is to be built from Jerusalem to Jaffa, on the Mediterranean, 31 miles dis tance, the ancient port of the Jewish Capi- I iol n .1 41.A In.inn til... mP .1. .. AnJn . tai, uuu hue louuiug pmtc ui tuc vcuara with which the temple was constructed. A Jerusalem Jew, Joseph Nabon by name, who is an Ottoman subject, has ob tained from the Sultan a charter for this purpose. The charter holds good for 71 years. The estimated cost of construction is ?250,000. So then hereafter civilization is to be domesticated in Palestine. The nineteenth century will arrive in those parts when the first locomotive puffs into Jeru salem. Idens Must be on Time. A distinguished writer, in an article on "Success in Life," maintains that success is largely an affair of right emphasis. At tend: Some people find fault because a few have so much influence in politics, in busi ness, in society, and even in church. They seem to forget that it is inevitable, and ap plies even in childhood and youth. In every school and on every playground a fen dictate the policy, and lead in fun and hard work, in thought and action, because of the emphasis they place upon what they say and do. It is skill in emphasis that usually determines success. If it is known how dnyone emphasizes life, it is easy to estimate the probabilities of success. Emphasis in life is much like emphasis in reading. The first principle iu each case is to emphasize ideas, not words. There is a radical difference between the two. Superintendent GeorgeHowlandrof Chi cago, read "Evangeline" to one of the gram mar schools of that city one Friday after noon a vear ago and I chanced to be nresent when the pupils read their compositions on the reading. A bright little foreign boy wrote: "I thought so great a man would read very loud, but he didn't. I thought he would emphasize it lots, but he never emphasized a word; but oh, my, didn't he picture the story, though 1 I shall see it as long as I live." This is a vivid illustration of emphasis, upon ideas rather than words. This principle holds iu life. Success de pends upon magnifying essentials. Some people tire us in their talk because they dwell upon minor details about which we care nothing, while others fascinate us by giving the pith of a story so that we do not wish a word omitted. This is a land and age of progress. A morning paper is of little valne in the evening.- No one reads tbe paper to see what the weather has been. An old story is termed a "chestnut," and tbe world has no use for it. The world pays a premium for ideas, but they must be "on time;" A man's life must show on the face -of it that every word and act tells, and that he has not done the best he will ever do. Bonntllnl Nature.' It is a noteworthy and blessed fact that all the elemental and essential forces in na ture are bountiful. Whoever had occasion to complain of a scant supply of sunshine ? Or of its poor quality unless he strained it through the atmosphere of a city where bituminous coal is burned ? Where are the lungs which are deprived of their just quota of pure air unless self-deprived by ignor ance and stupidity? Whose are the lips that have never known the taste of water, and an abundance of it? "God civeth to all liberally,, and upraideth not4" And tbe 1889. abundance of these elements is equaled by their quietude and unpretentious useful ness. The sunshine comes to nature and human nature and says: "Here I am, ready and eager, to vitalize you." The air comes and says: "Just open your month and throw back your shoulders so. Now swal lowl" The water comes and says: "Art thouathirst? art thou travel-stained? T bring thee refreshment and cleansing." Beautiful types of the intellectual and spiritual world Suggestive symbols of the abundance and usefulness of thousands of quiet and unpretentious lives! "Oldlzaak Walton," exclaims a charming master of English, "with his fishingrod and his quaint conceits. Is read to-day, while hundreds of blustering orators, who made a great stir in the world while Izaak was quietly fishing, are as unknown as the buried grandees of Nineveh. Charles Lamb and Cowper and Coleridge and Hawthorne and Washington Irving are exerting an influence to-day upon every school boy's mind, while their cotemporaries in Parliament and Congress and on the stump, who could stamp and rave and tear passion to tatters, must be sought for with a magnify ing glass. What a quiet, unpretentions meal that was in the upperroom, and yet no royal feast ever exerted such an influence or will be commemorated so long! The call which Peter and John heard and obeyed, "Follow Me," was very quietly uttered and quietly heeded, but the destinies of the world apparently hung" upon that call and that acceptance. Eobert Eaikes was a humble, common place man, but his Sun day school has done more to transform and strengthen the church than all the eloquent sermons ot the last centurv. Thank God for these quiet influences which are at the same time so potent! Original Snssestions. Preachers sometimes confuse those whom they should confirm. Be simple, be direct, be short to-day. Imitate that wise chaplain who, during the civil war, used to preach to the regi ment with his watch in his hand, lest he should forget time in the contemplation of eternity. Abe you doing anything to make the world better, wiser, happier? IX not, why not? The drones need no reinforcement. Idleness Is tbe most successful recruiting sergeant in the world. The workers art) always crying out for recruits too often without response. Among them there is room and a function. Stand up and be counted. The devil tempts most men, but idle men tempt the devil. What is eccentric in one country Is not ec centric in another. Eccentricity is a matter of latitude and longitude. To be quite correct one would need to take his bearings and carry with him a book of costumes and customs.gprad uated according to the distance from the first meridian. Selected Thonsbts. When I can just remember, each night before my mother put me to bed, I re peated on my knees before her the Lord's Prayer and tbe Apostle's Creed: rach morning kneeling in bed 1 put up my little hands in prayer. These lessons I am now conscious have been of more value than all I have ever learned from my preceptors and compeers. John Ran dolph. What Is self-denial? Is it sackcloth on the loinsT Is it a wooden block for a pillow? Is it lentil pottage for the daily meal? Is it a crypt or kennel for one's lodging? Ah. no; in all this flesh-pinching there is often a self-pleasing. But when the temper is up, to rule the spirit, and over a "manly revenge" to let Christian magnanimity triumph this is sell-denial. Jama Hamilton. The restless merchant, he that loves to steep His brain in wealth, and lays his soul to sleep On bags of bullion, see3 the immortal crown, And fain would mount, but ingots keep him down. Lobs Rochester, a short time before his death, gave it in charge to me to tell an ac quaintance for whose welfare he was much concerned, that "even if no state of existence were to succeed tbe present, yet ail the pleas ures that he had ever known in sin would have been dearly bought witn half the tortures that he felt in the recollection of them." Bishop Burnet. What would I not give to call back to earth my mother but for one day, on my knees to ask her pardon tor all those little asperities of temper, which from time to time have given her gentle spirit naln. Ob. my friend, cultivate filial leelings Cftariej Lamb. A nameless man amidst a crowd that thronged the daily mart. Let fall a word of hope and love unstudied from . the heart; A whisper on the tumult thrown a transitory breath, It raised a brother from the dust, it saved a soul from death. O germl O f ountl O word of lovel O thought at random castl Ye were but little at the first, but mighty at the last. Charlet Mackay, LUCKLESS An I.0FE. A Chinamnn Commits Harl-Kari and Girls Dlcke Fun of Els Sknll. Chicago Times. Ah Love was the first Chinaman to break the United States hari-kari law, and he committed the offense in Chicago in the summer of 1873. TJnrequitted love led to the rash act. Ah loved a white girl to whom he was engaged, but shortly before the nuptials were to take place she experienced a sudden change of heart and returned Ah Love's letters and presents. Among the latter was a bottle of perfumery, a set of chop-sticks, a Chinese fiddle and a box of dried lizards im ported at great expense from China, and numerous other trinkets. The body was spirited away to Ensh Med ical College, where the students catelully studied his system and drew lots for choice cuts from bis remains, the head falling to the share of a student who is now an M. D. with an office in the Chicago Opera House block. On a small black, wooden pedestal in this office stands a ghastly, grinning skull, all that's left of poor Ah Love. The skull is much given to grinning. Not long ago the doctor loaned his treas ure to a female college and the girls proved themselves capable of the most shocking vandalism imaginable. They scribbled poetry, cruel flings at Ah Love's unfor tunate love affair, on his skull, and did other mean things. For instance, across the chin bone is written: "These are the lips that Sullivan kissed." At the back of the head near the base is written: "Woman's love Is a bitter fruit And however he bite it or. sips. There's many a man wbo has lived to curse The taste of the fruit on his lips." Directly under this verse is the ironical exclamation "Poor man!" Just over the left ear is a stanza taken from Moore's "LastEose of Summer:" "When true hearts wither And fond ones are flown, Oh. who would inhabit This bleak would alone?" The girls were evidently well acquainted with Ah's experience ou the stage for the sknll was plentifully sprinkled with "Alas! Poor Yonck," and :,I knew him well, Hor atio." But the cruelest stab of all was the last, a jerky little verse of six lines: "Ah Love, you ought Not to have shot That sing into your shell; Your immortal soul Slid through tt)e hole And went well, none can tell." GIRLS WITH HEAVY BUKDEJTS. Astonishingly Heavy Weight of the Attire Worn by Ladles. New York Graphic! Some girls I know have been weighing their clothes and the result is startling. Nobody-would .suppose to look at the deli cate little flowers that they could trot around under such a burden. A fur trimmed cloak came to 6 pounds, a recep tion dress, trimmed in jet, mounted to 8 pounds, and a little snip of a dolman that did not keep its owner warm anvwhere weighed 3 pounds and cost $40. it was very pretty, and its jeweled passementerie" was the source of its beauty and Its weight. Of course the moral thing would be to lie, and say tbe weight of these garments made them ugly, but then every woman would know better, and as long as she ad mires jet effects shewill torture herself as a decent master would not oppress a slave carrying it. There are cloaks, charming ones, gotten up for wintryest weather, that weigh very little; some French honses have made a specialty of them, but they are pretty generally-left to th appreciation of old ladies and invalids. THE FIRESIDE SPHIM A CollectiOu of EnisnaM Huts for Home CracMm. Address communications for this department to E. R. Chadboubit. Lewiston, Maine. 667 AIT OLD ACQUAINTANCE. I'm a curious little curled-up imp, My back isllke a bow; And, tho' I've neither legs nor feet, I'm always on the go. In wagon and in carriage I'm always to be found; I never walk npon tbe earth. Bat burrow in tbe ground. I haven't an ounce of sense. Of wit I've not a pound. But with knowledge and intelligence I always do abound. In everything I have a place. At beginning and at ending; And, tho' Lam a little elf. There's much on me depending. Without my help none would be gay. Brave knights would be less knightly. And every little winsome sprite Be sure to be less sprightly. Without my help the grave would rave. And ghosts in hosts appear. Bald-beaded gents, sedate and grave, Wlgless, be filled with fear To lose their wigs and goggles, too; Bat, much: more to be dreaded. The gay, the grave, the girls and gents Would surely be beheaded. I've told you all I dare to tell Witbout to you confessing My name in full, which, you will find. Is only got by guessing. Pitt. 568 phonetic chaeade. As I went out among the men, 1 saw a hoy whose name was ; , And while I stood and watched them hay, I saw a bird, it was ; I also saw a pretty wren Come out and linger with tbe . I turned my steps to the forest, where Among the hazel Tsaw a ; And close to the border I did espy A large and beautiful field of . But night was coming, I had to run To reach my home ere tbe setting . Now put together all these things And a noted man before you springs. ARTTBUS LAURKNTTCS. E69 THE EOYAL PRISONERS. An old king, a beautiful princess and a page were imprisoned in a high tower to which there was but one opening, a window ISO feet from the ground. The only means of escape was af forded by a rope which passed over a pulley fixed to tbe outside of the tower and on each end of which hung a basket. Whenever one basket was at the window tbe other was on the ground below the tower. The rope itself was inclosed in such a way that a person in one of tbe baskets could neither help himsef by means of it nor receive help from tbe other prisoners. In short, the only jray the baskets could be used was by placing the heavier weight in the one than in the other. Now. the old king weighed 195 pounds, the princess 103 pounds, the page 90 pounds, and thev found in tbe tower an iron chain weigh ing 75 pounds. The weight in the descending basket could not exceed that In tbe ascending basket by more than 15 pounds without causing a descent so rapid as to be dangerous to a hu man being, although such a speed would of course not injure the chalj. Furthermore, only two persons, or one person and the chain, could be placed in tbe same basket at the same time. How did the party manage to escape, and take the chain with them? J. H. Fezandie. 570 DOUBLE ANAOBAM. I.' Still on, peal on, O trump of his renown, Whose sword carved out his pathway to a crown; Dark night, pale noon, were clouded by his frown. And future ages hand bis glory down. II. By her own telling England honors one. Chief among chieftains, unapproached alone; His triumphs dwarf and shadow all beside; Shall jay or linnet glow with eagle's priae. m. But one there was whose most ambitious mood " Saw nothing but his country's highest good; Ah, how shall one wbo has not unng to soar, Bing his great name, that lives forever more? M.C.S. 571 AN dDDITT. I have no tongue, ar.d yet I tail:. Though first my nurds are few; I have no feet, I cannot walk. Yet run I can and do. In figures I am posted well; I'll point them out; their names I'll tell. My face you often on it gaze: My hands I often upward raise. In truth I never lifted one But what I told you when 'twas done. F. a W. 572 SQUABE. 1. To draw by influence of a moral kind. 2. Among the Italians, an assemblage of build ings which represents an agreeable scene tq the eye. 3. Clasping. 4. To Shed light or bright ness on. 5. A Latin name. 6. Harsh exami ners or judges. 7. One of tbe osseons fishes. Deomio. 573 dissection. In History seek a famous Greek Divide in three his name. The head, tbe heart and nether part, Will read each way the same. The latter two combined hy you Will name a niistic stone. That forth the gravest measures gave When Sol's beams on ic shone. 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