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" Perhaps."
Ia woodland ways now strangled with the
snow
The bluo, sweet violets will swnbo spring
lag, The goldcn-headod aconites wiU blow,
And in the meadows robins will be singing.
Then from the streets into the fields I'll go)
And my heart answered me, " Perhaps 1"
Or, if not then, when strawberries are red,
And flag flowers stand among the blowing
rushes,
When roses bloom, and in the trees o'erhead
There is a dreamy melody ol thrushes,
My lost again tbe mossy tart shall tread;
And my heart answered me, " Perhaps!''
Ur, (tetter still, I'll sail the wiudy sea,
Toll of largo musio, billow to billow sing
ing. And lie 'mid broken lights, and sea-drift free,
Hearing in dieams oi laud the ship bells
ringing
Yes, oceanward, when summer comes, I'll
floej
And my heart answered me, "Perhaps!"
Oh, lieart, I said, thine is the weaiiest way;
Why wilt tliou ever disenchant to-morrow T
Time is so niggardly with each to-day,
Surely 'tis well from luturo days to borrow.
Art thou ati-aid such droits will be to pay T
And my heart answered me, " Perhaps!"
Then 'mid man's fretful dwellings, dim aud
low,
I'll dream ol peace, eternal flowers un
lading, An! ol that tidcless sea whoso happy flow
Keeps not a note ol sorrow or upbraiding.
Some day I'll flpj that bappy laud. I know;
And my beau answered, " Thou shalt go!"
Harper' i Weekly.
ADRIENNE'S STORY.
I was never happy at Aunt Browne's,
but there seemed no prospect that I
should ever leave her. I had come out,
so to speak, as lar as anyone so repressed
could come out, but 1 might as well
have staid in. I only sat in coiners,
talked with the chaperons, or listened
to some garrulous octogenarian Aunt
Browne's interest in me, such as it was,
died a natural death after my lirst sea
sonit had always been weakly and
the result was a sad deficiency in my
wardrobe. She had married off two
daughters without diflicultv, but a
iiiice, it seemed, stuck closer than a
burr. However, it was not my fault
that I remained unmarried. I had done
my best to bo fascinating. Though I
haled the idea of uwrryiug for home or
position, jet I was sure I should not
linil it hard to love one who was kind
to n,i', if only on account of the novelty.
I was thirty now, and not unused to
hearing ihu chances rung upon the old
maid, and the beggars who shouldn't
le choosers, by my younger cousins,
Susette and Anne. But I had had one
opportunity to change for better or
worse ofwhiehtheyhadn ever d reamed .
The son of Aunt Browne's second hus
band, Cedric Browne, had asked me to
marry him, three years before, as we
rowed up tiie river in June for the rosy
laurel blooms to decorate the house and
piazzas for Susette's birthday fete. I
sometimes wondered what Aunt Browne
would have thought of the proceeding,
as she had set her heart upon marrying
Susette to Cedric. Perhaps 1 refused
him because I was taken unawares, be
cause I was not enough interested to
care about frustrating Aunt Browne's
plans; perhaps I did not expect to be
taken at my word, but imagined it the
proper way to decline, in "order to be
importuned. I believe all my favorite
heroines had conducted in this wise.
However, we rowed Lome through the
sunset, our boat heaped with the pink
flowers, in silence.
" You look as if you were laden with
sunset clouds," said Susette, who was
watching for us on the shore; but I am
certain that C.dric looked like a thun-der-clotiil.
The next day was the fete. Every,
body brought presents for Susette.
Cednc gave her an antique necklace of
turquoises; I was sure h' had meant it
lor me. We had supper out of doors,
under the treat pine-trees, and dancing
by moonlight. That day I began to re
gard Cedric Browne attentively. I had
known him under the same roof lor
weeks at a time; I had laughed and
talked with him, believing him fore
ordained to minister to Susette's hap-
Einess, "as inaccessible as a star in
eavtn," so far as I was concerned. He
had helped me with Adele's children,
who had come to live at Aunt Browne's
when their mother died. But that he
should reg ,rd me with any tender emo
tions I had never even dared to wish.
In fact. I had thought little about him
till to-day. I had never observed till
to-day that his eyes were as tender as
stars, that his face was like that radiant
countenance of Mozart in the music
room, that his smile was simply en
chantment. It was rather late to make
these discoveries.
Ho did not leave us at once; it seemed
as if he ttaid just long enough for me
to know all 1 had lose. Since then he
e n, Wlt,h U8nce again for a whole
month ; but little Walter was ill with a
spinal affection that kept him on his
back, and me by his side; and though
Cedrio used to relieve me often by dj
and by night, I could see from my win
dow, and from occasional gdmpses into
the drawing-room, that the balance of
his time was spent in Susette's com
pany. "Aunt Susette's beau is going to
make me a kite," Teddy confided to
Walter one day.
"Win's he?" asked Walter from his
bed.
" Why, Cedric. of course Cedrio
Browne. Bridget says so herse'f," as if
trial put the matter beyond dispute.
The next day, when Cedrio came up to
amuse Walter with tho affairs down.
stairs, that youth demanded : "I say, are
j y Aunt ousette'fl beau, Cedric?
Auncnne s ever so nicer. When I'm a
man marry Adrienne."
"Then vmi'll ho 1.., ,l T .. :J
cedric, winding up a top. and spinning
it on his palm.
It WaS a VPiir linnn tl.nn T 1
TwlT' '"My We. AGnt
Biowne had abandoned ail hopes of me.
1 was a good nurserymaid, a cheap
fTneS8, i,in "Pensive companion.
In the family. In the meantime I could
have m; rritd any day if I had chosen
to accept the Key. Abel Amherst, and
Irai sfer my labors to the parsonage.
n ue tB,V.' h'a ouldnot have proved
the brilliant marriage my aunt had ex
pected of me. nor the romnntin nno T
had dreamed of myself, and it was not
till I camo into possession of a certain
family secret that I began to revolve
the possibility in my mind. It seems
that when my aunt married her second
husband, Mr. Browhe-Susette and
Anne were both Lowells they had sub
sisted upon the patrimony left to Cedric
by his mother, and that alter his father's
death, Cedric had turned in the same
yearly income from tho estate for the
family use, and that I, Adrienne Lennox,
owed my daily bread to the mn whom
I had refused, and who had forgotten
me. Earning my own livelihood was
out of the question, drudgery was my
only vocation, and that was too badly
paid to be encouraging. I looked at the
Rev. Abel Amherst often at this period,
with a view to installing him in Cedric's
place, if Cedrio would only vacate.
Oddly enough, Mr. Amherst renewed
his suit at this time, and pressed it with
the eagerness of a lover, and for the first
time I began to hesitate. " The woman
who hesitates is lost," said Susette.
I had been out on the hills one day
trying to make up my mind to forget
Cedric, and marry Mr. Amherst; but
whenever I began to think with some
interest of going to parish meetings, be
coming the president of Dakotajlcagues
and sewing circles, visiting the poor,
and drinking tea opposite the Rev. Mr.
Amherst all the rest of my days, some
how or other Cedric's face would slip
into the picture uninvited, and blot out
his rivals, as strong sunlight fades a
negative photograph.
"There is a letter foryou, Adrienne,"
said Aunt Browne, when I entered the
house, " in the music room, on the top
of the dado, under Mozart's picture." I
went into the music room, but there
was no letter to be seen.
" Perhaps one of the girls has re
moved it," she suggested. But no one
had meddled with it.
" Grand.na cooked a letter over the
tea-kettJe," said little Teddy, reflec
tively. ' Yes," said grandma, ' I wrote a
letter to your pa, child. I hadn't any
blotting paper, but the fiie answers the
purpose quite as well."
At that time I had never heard of
opening letters by steam. Well, we ran
sacked the house for that truant letter,
but in vain.
"Who was it from, aunt?" I asked.
" How should I know, child?"
" But the handwriting the post
mark ?"
" The postmark was blurred."
"Had it a foreign stamp?" I asked,
with sudden eagerness. Cedric had
gone abroad some months before, and I
bad not heard of his return.
"A foreign stamp ! No. Were you
expecting a foreign letter?"
"XT-St. Kllf if- ia flit J
always happens, you know."
"It's awfully provoking." said Su
sette. " Perhaps it was on! v the reciDes
Mrs Clark was going to send you."
"Nothing more likely: but what has
become of it? It's a prolonged game of
hunt the thimble."
"And supposing it's a letter notifvino-
you of tho existence of a first Mrs. Am
herst." put in Anne, " or of a legacy left
by your forty-fifth cousin in Austra
lia" And then the door-bell rang.
Well, after that I suppose I must have
accepted Mr. Amherst. Everybody be
haved as it 1 liad. I received congratu
lations and a ring, and the parish begun
repairs upon the parsonage, before I
could muster courage to tell Mr. Am
herst all about Cedric and mv mistake.
and how I wasn't at all sure I couid eyer
get over it, and care for anybody else,
uui mai i wouiq ao my nest. And he
smiled in a sort of nbsent way when I
told him, but seemed content to take
me as I was, for better or worse; only
it did strike me sometimes that he was
the most undemonstrative lover in
Christendom; but I hadn't much ex
perience in lovers, and perhaps they
weren't as gushing in real life as novels
pictured. He used to kiss my hand when
we parted; that was all. lie was very
gentle, but a little sad, I lancied, wi.h a
look which might mean that he was
afraid of to much happiness, or that to
marry the weman he loved wasn't all
fancy had painted it; and often I thought
I had perhaps done wrong to tell him
everything about Cedrio so unreserv
edly ; yet 1 Had only meant to be honest.
But the day was appointed, and sud
denly Cedric appeared among us. when
I thought he was at the world's end,
and he and the girls decorated the little
church with white field daisies and
grasses for the occasion. You may be
lieve that I avoided the sight of Cedrio
in the interval before the wedding as
much as possible, but somehow I was
always stumbling upon him; he seemed
to be perpetually at my elbow ; he sur
prised me mote than once with traces
of tears upon my face; the sound of his
voice made my htart turn and quiver
within mo. If I had dared to withdraw
at this juncture, I'm afraid I should
have done so: but it was too late; and
though I felt like a hypocrite whenever
Mr. Amherst appeared, his looks of
sober satisfaction, which reminded me
of those lines of Matthew Royden on
ftir mi up Sidney,
" A lull assurance given by looks,
Continual coiulort in a face,
The lineamonts oi gospel books,"
might have taught me that all was well
with him.
"You are the oddest sweethearts I
ever saw," gossiped Susette. "I
wouldn't give a straw for such a lover;
and as for you, Adrienne, you resemble
a ghost more than a bride.
In short, a thousand years of purga
tory would ill represent my sufferings
during those last weeks before my wed
ding. Well, to crown the whole, Aunt
Browne said Cedric must give me away:
he was the only male relative, tbe head
oi' the family, so to speak, and he could
do it so admirably.
We Bhall see,'1 said he. I'm afraid
I should make a poor figure at giving
Adrienne awayj" and ha stroked his
Iriste mustache as he spoke, and looked
at me .just as he looked that day when
we gathered the laurel for Susette's fete
I could have sworn he did. I didn't
answer, lor lear my voice would be
husky, and the tears would start.
The wedding was to be quite private
only relatives. Aunt Browne ar
ranged everything to suit herself and
uie prui neues; u oicn t become a
clergyman's bride to make a great
paraae. as uie cuurcu, i remember,
my veil caught In the carriage door, and
an orange blossom tumbled from mv
wreath, which Cedrio picked up, and
wore in his button-hole. Then he drew
my balf-lifeless arm within his, and
directly the wedding march pealed
forth in great resounding waves of
melody. My grandmother India mus
jfttDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, APEIL 8,
lin blew out in abundant creamy folds
behind me, and Cedric and I were stand
ing before the altar, and Mr. Amherst
was reading the marriage service!
I believe that Aunt Browne fainted.
or she Would have forbidden the banns.
You see. it was impossible for me
to give you away, Adrienne," said Ce
dric, later, when we were steaming out
of town. "Amherst is a trump; and may
ne nna a wite as sweet as Mrs. wiownei
If it hadn't been for him, I should have
been of all men the most miserable to
day. What do you think he did?
Why. he wrote me all that sad little
story you thought right to tell him,
and added that he would not deny he
was making a sacrifice: that ia renoun
cing you he renounced all that made
life lovely to him, except his work; yet
he felt it was better one should fail of a
heaven on earth than two should suffer ;
and that if I loved you, as I bad once
said, would I take his place at the mar
riage, and allow him to solemnize it?
It was a whim of his to have it so, ' to
avoid explanations,' he said. I couldn't
believe in my luck, you Vuow, Adrienne.
w e bandied letters to and; fro. canvass
ing the subject. I feared he had made
a mistake, as I had renewed my offer
some little while before, but had re
ceived no reply: still a dozen things
happen to letters every day."
" Yes. and something happened to
yours," I said.
i ears alter, when Susette and Anne
were married, when Adele's husband
had taken the children home to a new
mamma, and Aunt Browne had gone to
" the land of the hereafter," when Cedrio
was repairing the old house for a sum
mer residence, in ripping awav the an
cient dado in the music-room, which
had always warped away from the wall
in warm weather, leaving a little crack,
the carpenters unearthed my lost letter.
Had it slipped down there, or had Aunt
Browne given it a puBh? We give her
the benefit of the doubt. Earner's
Bazar.
Dirt and Bodily Heat.
The part which the skin Dlavs in the
regulation of bodily heat is not ade
quately estimated. The envelope of
complicated structure and vital function
which covers the body, and which
nature has destined to perform a large
share of the labor of health preserving,
is m-acucauy turown out oi use oy our
habit of loading it with clothes. It is
needless to complicate matters by allow
ing it to ne choked and encumbered
with dirt. If the skin of an animal be
coated with an impervious varnish,
death must ensue. A covering of dirt
is i nly less inimical to life. We are not
now speaking of dirt such as offends the
sense of decency, but of those ac-
cummulations of- excluded matter
with which the skin must be
come loaded if it is hahituallv
covered and not thoroughly cleansed.
until is iiub u wicuuaing agent.
A man may bathe dailv and use hisbath
towel even roughly, but remain as dirty
to all practical intents as though he
eschewed cleanliness; ind ed the phvsi
cal evil of -dirt is more likely to ensue,
oecause li wnouy neglected, the skin
wou Id cast off its excrementitious matter
by periodic perspirations with desquama
tirn of the cuticle. Nothing but a fre
quent washing in water, of at least equal
temperature with the skin, and soap can
insure a iree and ueatthy suilace. J lie
feet require especial care, and it is too
much the practice to neglect them. The
omission of daily washings with soap
and the wearing of foot coverings so
tight as to compress the blood-vessels
anil retard the circulation of the blood
through the extremities, are the most
common causes of cold feet. Tho re
medy is obvious; dress loosely and
wash frequently. Lancet.
Time for Rending.
Many busy people declare thev have
no lime for reading: but thev are mis
taken. They have all the time there is,
and some of the world's busiest men
have found that enough to make them
selves accomplished in one or more de
partments of knowledge. The trouble
a nu kick oi time, our- wastteiui habits
in regard to it. Many persons enter
tain the notion that one must have
regular and definite hours of the day
or week set apart for reading in order to
accomplish anything valuable. There
ne ver was a greater mistake. The busiest
lite lias margins of time which may
serve, like the borders of the old missals,
to enrich aud exalt the commonplaces
written between. Fifteen minutes in the
morning, and as many more in the even
ing, devoted faithfully to reading, will
add appreciably in the course of a few
months to one's store of knowledge.
Always have a book at hand, and
whether the opportunity brings you two
hours or ten minutes, use it to the full.
An English scientist learned a language
in the time his wife kept him waiting
for the completion of her evening toilet:
and at tbe dinner given to Mr. Froude
in Jiew I oi k. some years ceo. Mr.
Beecher said that he had read through
that author's brilliant but somewhat
lengthy history in the intervals of din
ner. Every life has pauses between its
activities. The time spent in local
travel in 6treet cars and ferries is a
golden opportunity, if one will only
resolutely make the most of it. It is
not long spaces of time, but the single
purpose, that turns every moment to
account, that makes great and fruitful
acquisitions possible to men and women
who have other work in life. Christian
union.
Drinking Too Much.
Children are not apt to believe thev
arms too mucn water, ana yet tney ao
When you come in the house, pantini
and thirsty Irom play, you will take a
tumbler of water, and drink it down as
fast as you can, and then rush out to re'
suine play, and, perhaps, repeat the
drink. Now, the next time you feel
thirsty, try this experiment: Take a gob
let of water, and slowly sip it. Before it
is half gone, your thirst will be fullv
quenched, and you will feel better for
having drank only that which you need.
And again, we are all apt to acquire the
habit of drinkin g while eating our meals.
Animald don't do it, and it is hurtful to
us. Nature gives u all the saliva we
need ; and if any one will chew his food
slowly and thoroughly, and not take a
swauow oi onnK until lurougu eating,
the desire to do so will soon leave, and
he will requue only a few sips of water,
teaorcoflee. after the meal is finished.
This practice, too, will do wonders in
the way oi keeping on indigestion, ays-
pepsia ana netnen. uouten uays.
The only time that oleomargarine
successfully takes the place of butter is
when it catches a fly and holds it.
rnuacuipnya nerata.
FOB THE FAIR SEX.
... Fashion Notes.
Waistcoats are going but of fashion.
The day of the white chip bonnet is
over.
A new lace is painted In reaonrfc
feather eyes.
Silk muslin bonnet crowns will he
much worn.
Rubv beads and vellow npnrla ftro fit a
latest novelties in beads.
Friezes should be from twentv tn
twenty-four inches deep.
It is impossible to make a nnllarettn
too large for the fashion.
Blondes wear black lace orfa with.
out any white lace or flowers.
Yellow sunflowers and crimson nnn-
pies are favorite flowers this season.
Sleeveless habit corsages of velvet or
satin are worn over ball dresses of tulle
or gauze.
Beaded passementeries are l.wrplv
used for trimming silk and satin man
tles and dresses.
Spring and summer mantles ura
weighted with a profusion of lace, rih-
bon and jet fringe, network and orna
ments.
Corduroy underskirts will continue
to be worn under draperies of silk
foulard, Yeddo crape, and light woolen
uress goous.
The new woolen mixtures are nn
heavier than the French buntings, and
are covered with alternating daTshes of
two colors.
Dresses of India muslin made in
Paris are decorated with sultana scarfs
of Oriental silk, embroidered with
either gold or silver.
Scarfs of scarlet tulle, beaded with
tiny pearl beads, are worn to advantage
by those to whom Bcarlet is becoming,
in place of the white illusion neck
scarfs of last fall.
Sauare handkerchiefs nf VirioVit. ml.
ored striped foulard are twisted into
pretty dress caps for ladies and fastened
on the head with large Spanish pins or
bouquets of artificial flowers.
The latest novely in dress goods is
ecru cotton, thicker than the heaviest
unbleached muslins ot last summer, and
with bayadere stripes of bright shades
of blue, scarlet, yellow and black.
uver these Davaaere domestics are
sometimes draped the cheese cloths of
last summer.
A Paris letter savs that the airv lace.
satin and ribbin muffs have prov d so
pretty an addition to the toilette that
they have established a position in the
ballroom, where they are carried in the
hand or sewn to the dress. Thev look
very well made to match the dresses
m the plain Oriental silks, printed with
designs in gold or silver.
liio newest and simplest fichus are
very large, and are of Indian muslin
embroidered on the edges, so that lace is
not needed for trimming them, though
tho latter is sometimes added. They
are in four different sizes, of which
most are graceful additions to house
toilettes for the present season, and
will be worn out of doors during
the summer, when, with the wide-
brimmed garden hats, they complete
most picturesque costumes.
JNovuties in lingerie are constantly
appearing. Among the newest are silk
petticoats cut out on the border in
squares. In each of these open places
is a small inserted puffing. Some of
theso skirls nre made of blue surah.
with inserted puffings of light blue
satin. The square pieces which are
cut out of the lower part of these skirts
are not more than six luetics long and
there are a number around the skirt..
In London for dressy occasions hoods
and muffs made of brocade, with
strands of gold running through, are
very fashionable. The hoods are sepa
rate from the dresses or jackets and are
brushed off in front with long loops
and ends of colored (generally red) satin
ribbon about three inches wide. The
muffs have ribbon and lining to match,
and are trimmed with black or coffee
colored lace. Sometimes the toque is
also ot the same material.
An Ancient Iance In Tuscany,
A Chicago limes correspondent, writ
ing Irom Tuscany in Italy, says : Dur
ing this visit I witnessed many inter
esting rustic games and ceremonies.
notably a marriage, with its escort of
maidens with their lamps, and a dance
celebrating that charming custom among
the ancient Italians, the opening ot
summer, which Virgil describes in a
famous Dassase of his first eclogue.
First came an invitation to the goddess
ot corn, two nrettv and graceful girls
representing the priestesses of Ceres
the one fair and garlanded with white
flowers, the other dark, and crowned
with Dumle flowers. Thev cause to
strike their upliitea tarn bonnes, while
behind them their sisters rush breath
less but shouting with flowing garments
and outspread arms, t wo young men
with purple caps ana embroidered vests
advance, each with a silver amphora or
sacred vase of wine, which is first
sipped by the priestesses, followed by
the maidens who surround them, and
then by the young men who closely fol
low up the rear, the whole accompan
ied by characteristic songs and recita
tions. Then all join handB, a youth
and maiden alternately, and form two
immense rings, all being crowned with
chaplets oi grain and grasses, and the
priestesses decsed with additional gar
lands of the same nature hanging like a
scarf across their shoulders. The leader
directs the movements of one ring until
tney au sins, down exhausted, when
thev are relieved by the other ring al
ternately until the old Roman dial on
the church tower marks the morning
hours ana pate moonlight gives place
to the glowing day. Then they are
led. smiling and bowing their heads, in
review before us, and then before their
o der friends who are seated as specta
tors, and then again bounding off in i
lively circle they twist and turn it into
all imaginable shapes, seldom breaking
the magic ling, returning again ana
again to tbe groups of spectators for in
spection and approval, ana again bound
ingoff in the mazed of the intricate
dance.. The leader will perhaps con
duct them to the brow of the hill and
then starting back some of them are
sent down Vie bank and recovered b
the clasped kands in the chain: an
then laughing nud shouting she leads
them to the bowler of a mass of grain
spread out to dry, and drawing back as
before, some of itiem are thrown head
long into the lng white straw, the
H-ader constantly passing through the
ring and turning It, as it were, inside
out. Along the hfue Mediterranean or
on the borders of the inland laVea the
shores and waves ,fcave offered means of
Di-igm enjoymennto taese dancers lor
many happy generations,
IN A PANTHER'S CAGE.
A Fcriiale Anlmai Trainer Who In
Among; a Hair-Dozen FnlUOrtfwn
Mexican Panthers which are the ITcr
ror of a Whole Menagerie.
The value of coolness and presence of
mind was strikingly illustrated at
Cooper k Bailey's stables, Philadelphia,
where the great lxmaon circus was in
quarters. In the main building, where
most all the animals of the menagerie
are kept, was a cage containing five or
six full-grown Mexican panthers, whose
tierce aspect and savage capers are the
terror of all who pass through there.
Directly opposite these panthers there is
a c age containing lions, and on either
side of them are cages containing tigers
and leopards. Savage as the tigers and
leopards appear, there is not half the
terror In them for the keepers that there
is in the long, stealthy, cat-like animal.
the Mexican panther. In size they are
about as large as a full-grown setter
dog. though their wkole appearance is
of the cat order, having long claws.
sharp teeth, and eye-balls which, in
their anger, gleam and quiver like livid
fire. These animals at Cooper A
Baiicy's, on the day in question, seemed
worse than usual. They had been fight
ing among themselves until their heads
and ears were bleeding, and upon the
approach of any visitor near their cage
they would spring against the iron grat
ing, with gleaming eyes and exposed
fangs, with a force that would shake the
cage from top to bottom, at the same
time thrusting their claws through m
their efforts to clutch the Intruders
and bring them within range of their
teeth. To stand off and look at them
would provoke them almost to mad
ness. They would bound against the
grating with a loud and savage scream,
and strike and tear at the iron rods with
their claws in a way that would make
the stoutest-hearted visitor fall back
and almost shudder to think of the con
sequences should they by any mischance
once get at large. Even the keepers
themselves, after they had prodded up
the tigers and leopards and passed close
to their cages in safety, made a detour
when they came to the panthers, giving
them a wide berth. Presently a young
woman, dressed in bloomers and with
her hair tightly done up on the top of
her head, came along, with a stoutwhip
in her hand.
" See." said one of the keepers, " she's
going into the.cage."
"What?" exclaimed three or four
different voices, umazed.
" She s going in among the panthers ;
she's training them,'-' said the keeper.
" Surely she won't go in among them
as they are now?" said one, while others
tell back still lurtncr ana some hastened
away.
Meantime, the gin naa gone up close
to the cage, whip in hand, and, with
the assistance ot the keeper who was
also her husband the panthers were
driven back in one ena ot the cage,
tho man using a long stick, with the
end of which he gave them some vigor
ous raps on the nose. Alter a great deal
of snapping and scuffling among each
othjr each animal, every time he was
hit, seeming to visit his vengeance lor
the blow on his nearest fellow they
were all gotten back in the end furthest
from the cage door, i he man i hen pro
ceeded to unfasten it, his work being in
terrupted frequently by the nnimals,
some of which would now and then
bound out of their corner over the backs
of those of their fellows who stood in
th way and land half-way up the floor
of the cage, where they would draw
themselves up in a crouching posture,
nnd with eyes ot hre and a deep, low
whine or growl tuey wouiq remain
watching him as though only waiting
lor him to get inside to mako the fatal
spring. The keeper, without snowing
the least discomposure, went on wun
Ins work until the door was opened.
Tho voung woman, who had been stand
ing beside him with her whip in nana
and u pleasant smile on her f;.ce. with
out a moment's hesitation stepped up
and the next moment was inside the
cage. The moment she got in there was
the most tenitic screaming and fighting
of anytime yet. The panthers would
jump over each other in their eagerness
to spring upon her, ana wouia spring
half-way up the cage, but would
get no further, being held back
by lear. ihey wouiu men spring
upon one another ana tear each
other's ears and scratch and fight.
this being apparently the only means
.t i ij . i. ..; c ! . ,
mat would satisiy men lerucity. mean
time the woman stood pertectly still.
holding her whip out and speaking to
them in a soothing manner, as though
she was pacnying a lavorite doe or cat.
Graduallv tbe screams and growls he.
gan to get lower and lower and the fight
ing among one another began to cease.
Still they kept growling and looking at
ner ana showing tueir teem ana snap
ping now and then until she had ad
vanced a step. Then they began to
growl again, and one of them sprang
over the others and got nearest to her,
but had no sooner alighted than he was
pounced upon by another, and they again
began to fight. Then the young woman.
with a bold Btep, advanced a pace fur
ther and struck one of the animals wiih
the but end of her whip, at the same
time scolding him. He BDrang bark to
the end ot the cage among the others
wnue the woman, carelessly letting her
whip fall in a harmless position, pro
ceeded to soothe and caress the panther
nearest her, pattirg him upon the top of
tue neaa ana stroking mm on me back
until his growls h id almost subsided
and he sullenly allowed himself to be
petted, winking his eyes and mouthing
uge a cat, tue ouier panniers meantime
having grouped themselves together in
the end of the cage looked on with sul
len growls. If any advanced she gave
them a sharp rap on the head and or
dered them to go back, an J they obeyed
While she kept petting the one in aues
Hon she never lost sight of the others,
keeping her eves on their everv move.
ment ana being always prepared to use
tue whip on the slightest provocation
Sometimes three or four, as though
jealous of the other, would spring for
ward ana approach sullenly, as though
inviting her to caress them, too Then
she would take one to each hand and pat
and stroke them until they became paci
fied and quiet, and she seemed as much
at home with them as though they were
go many cats. But this pacific state of
things would not last long. Thev seemed
to be taking their caresses under protest
ana to oe ever on the Drink oi a revolt,
This would be signalized bv a deen
growl from some one of them, which
would instantly communicate itself to
the others, and the next instant there
would be a quick spring and one of the
animals would find himself Dounoed
upon by another, and they would olaw
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and gnash each other until the young
woman would raise her whip and give
them both some sharp blows, which
would send them into tho corner and
make them settle down for a little time.
" What would be the consequence if
she was to show any fear and retreat to
ward the door?" asked one of the by
standers, who had been almost spell
bound by the scene before him and had
not found himself able to speak before.
The conseauence. " said the keeper.
shaking his head, "would be that every
animal in that cage would Spring upon
hor an A torn tiot in nionoa in n mmiitfl "
In the Halter of Advertising.
If you have goods to sell, advertise.
Hire a man with a lampblack kettle
and a brush to paint your name nnd
number on all the railroad fences. The
cars go whizzing by so fast that no one
can read them, to be sure, but perhaps
the obliging conductor would stop the
train to accommodate an inquisitive
passenger.
Remember the fences by the roadside
as well . Nothing is so attractive to the
passer-by as a well-painted sign : " Mill-
Milnl. moilinAl m rlnr, fif mnmnB "
Have your card in the hotel register
by all means." Strangers stopping at
hotels for a night generally buy a cigar
or two before they leave town, and they
need some inspiring literature for food
besides.
If an advertising agent wants your
business advertised In a fancy frame at
the depot, pay him about 200 per cent,
more than it is worth, and let him put
it there. When a man has three-quar
ters of a second in which to catch a
train, he invariably stops to read depot
advertisements, and your card might
take his eye.
Of course the street thermometer
dodge is excellent. When a man's fin
gers and ears are freezing, or he is puff
ing and " phewing " at the heat is the
time above all others when he reaas an
advertisement.
Print in the blackest ink a great
sprawling card on all your wrapping
paper. Ladies returning from a shop
ping tour like to be walking bulletins,
and if the ink rubs off and spoils some
of their finery, no matter. They never
will stop at your store again.
Don't fail to advertise in everycircus
programme. It will help tne circus to
pay its bills, and visitors can relieve
the tedium of tbe clown's jokes by look
ing over your interesting remarks about
twenty per cent, below cost," etc.
A bov with a big placard on a pole is
an interesting object on the streets, and
lends a dignified air to your establish
ment. Hire about two.
Advertise on a calender. People
never look at a calander to see what day
of the month it is. Tho merely glance
hurriedly at it so as to be sure that your
name is spelled with or without a " p,"
that s all.
When the breezes blow, wafted by a
paper fan in the hands of a lovely
woman, 'tis well to have the air redolent
with the pei fume of the carmine ink in
which your business address is printed.
This will make the market for decent
fans very good.
an advertising tablet, card, directory,
dictionary or even an advertising Bible,
if one is offered at a reasonable price.
The man must make a living.'
Hut don t think of advertising in a
well-established legitimate newspaper.
Not for a moment. Your advertisement
would be nicely printed nnd would lind
its way into all the thrifty householdsof
the region, where the farmer, the me
chanic, the tradesmen in other lines, and
into the families of the wealthy nnd re
fined, all who have articles to buy and
monev with which to buy them, and
after the news of the day has been di-
g.;sted, it would bo read and pondered,
and next day people would come down
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to your store and patronize you, and
keep coming in increasing numbers, nnd
you might have to hire an extra clerk or
two, move into a larger block ana more
favorable, location and do a bigger busi
ness, but of course it would be more
expensive and bring greater profits
A t Haven Register,
John Bright
It is related that once a party of
Americans entered a studio, where a
fine portrait, just completed, was stand
ing on the artist's easel.
"Oh," said one ol the Americans,
" that must be John iiull."
"No," quietly responded the artist,
it's John Bright."
The anecdoto forcibly illustrates the
truly British physical type of the Qua
ker orator and statesman. In personal
appearance, certainly, he is an English
man oi englishmen, ttobust, though
not corpulent, of body; with a round.
lull face, and bold, straight nose; his
countenance rounded, open, healthfully
ruddy, having a remarkable purity ol
complexion and fine texture of skin ; the
eyes, large, gray, clear, bright, some
times stern and dehant, but in repose
often gentle and kindly; decision and
vigor most plainly expressed in the
resolute mouth and firm jaw and chin ;
a lace less mobile than calm ana set
1IH.S 11- O 3 U1VU11Q liUHU 1.11 1 1 1 UU IK, .
tlm hrnw hrnad nnd white. Mtirl nrrhd
high at the top ; tbe whole frame strong,
well-proportioned, almost massive, in
dicating great powers of endurance, and
giving, even at his present age. no hint
of that delicacy of health which has in
recent yeais impaired his public activ
ity. In his company, one has a keen
sense of his power, one feels himself in
the presence of a born leader of men.
He holds his head high, and looks vou.
and every one, full in the face; and that
with a keen, searching glance that
rather robs vou ot your ease. Self-re
liance, honesty, pride of intellect, reso
lution nay, even intolerance may be
read in his expression.
John Bright is now in his sixty-ninth
year. He is two years younger than
Gladstone and six younger than Lord
Beanonstield ; and as English statesmen
are a peculiarly vigorous race, and often
continue their public activities into the
eighties, it maybe hoped that he has
still some years of labor in the cause of
reform before him. His publio life be
gan in 1843, when he was thirty-two
years of age, in which year be was
elected to parliament by theold historio
city of Durham. Four years later be
took his seat for the first time as the
representative of tho great progressive
constil uency of Manchester. His career
In the house of commons, therefore, has
extended over a period of thirty-seven
years- uooa vompany.
The spread of contagious diseases
among horses in London is attributed
in a great measure to the publio cattle
troughs which have of late years been
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By-and-Bje.
"By-and-bye," the maiden said "by-and-byo
He will claim tne for his bride,
Hope is strong, and time is fleet;
Youth U fair, and love is sweet.
Clouds will pass that fleck my sky.
He will come back by-and-bye by-and-bye."
By-and-bye," the soldier said "by-and-bye
Oltcn have I fonght and bled
I shall go home from the wars,
Crowned with glory, seamed with scars.
Joy will flash Irom some one's eye
When she greets me by-and-bye by-and-bye."
"By-and-bye," the mother cried " by-ana.-bye
Strong and sturdy at my side,
Like a stall supporting me,
Will my bonnie baby be.
Break my rest, then wail and cry
Thoul't repay me by-and-bye by-and-bye.
Fleeting years of time have sped harried
byo.
Still the maiden is unwed;
All unknown the soldier lies,
Buried under alien skies ;
And the son, with blood-shot eye,
Saw his mother starve and die.
God in heaven ! dost Thou on high
Keep the promised by-and-bye- by-and-bye 7
Ella WhetUr.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are three men to one woman in
Arizona.
There is not a single insane asylum in
Arkansas.
Ice is being shipped from Montreal to
the Southern States.
Why is the letter D like a sailor? Be
cause it follows the C.
Three million acres ol fall wheat have
been sown in California.
Edwin Booth, since his bankruptcy
in 1876, has made some $300,000.
Tobacco and rhubarb are the pipe
plants of the country. Marathon Inde
pendent.
A compass must be of the feminine
gender, else it couldn't handle a needle
so well. Modern Aran.
The total number of voters in Great
Britain and Ireland is 2,666,966, or about
ono to every eleven inhabitants. Ac
coiding to the last national census there
was one voter to every lour nna a halt
inhabitants in the United States.
"The organs of taste are very sensi
tive," a writer tells us in a magazine
article this month, but his information
comes too late to be of any value to us.
We bit into a bad clam two weeks ago
and found that out. Fulton Times.
Tho notion of nutting a light inside
the body, so as to see what is going on
there, nndjtotake remedial or preventive
measures accordingly, is not entirely
new, dui it is very inu ri-buut. j.iiia w
the aim Substantially of the "poly
scope," an invention which, it is as
serted, will tender an examination of
every part of the human body feasible.
It gives S' m'e idea of the trade be
tween Minnesota and Manitoba that
the imports intoManitoha nt Pembina
amounted last year to $448,314, mostly
in fur skins, and tho experts to $750,
941, mostly in lumber, cotton goods,
cattle and meats, iron and sfel, plows,
carriages, sugars and steam vessels.
Wt stern papers are claiming that In
diana built the first railroad in this
country, and cite a road with wooden
rails put down near Shelbyville in 1833.
But the railroad irom the granite quar
ries in Quiucy, Mass ? to ti lowater, four
miles long, was projected in 1825, and
was in operation the following year.
PEKSV-WISE.
Can you tell me," said a punster,
Who hud in our sanctum poppod,
And upon tho floor was seeking
1' or a capper lie nnd roppeu.
' Cun you tell me why, at present,
I am like Noati's weary dove?"
And ho glat.ced with inward tremor
Toward a gun that hung above.
" Wouldst thou know," he queried Mmnliy,
As he dodtied tho cudgel stout,
Which was shied at him in anger
" 'Xis because I'm one cent out."
Jioslon Journal of Cemmntti
Secretiveness of Children.
The secretiveness of childhood Is lit
tle understood ; that would probably be
pronounced rather a trait ot maturity.
yet I ooubt if plotter or confidant ever
bad a more religious secrecy than a
thoughtful child. We are apt to think
of children as fresh from nature's un
spoiled inspiration, and frank as the air
or light not considering t hat they come
of the far-stretching heritage of their
kind, and must have derived conceal
ment and privacy along with other ten
dencies from their parents. No child
can have an unprejudiced temper and
spirit, and instead o' wondering at the
I I '
naughtiness of them, fathers and moth
e. knowing themselves, should thank
God hourly that their children are bet
ter than they. The child has secrets
from everybody, certainly from its
mutes; it has as much trouble to find a
sympathetic fellow as its elders have. It
was not every boy that snow-bailea ana
slid down hill with you to whom you
could tell your speculations about the
earth turning around nnd yet our stay
ing on when we nre heels up. It is
rarely that the girl is discovered who
can rral y enter into the other gins
feelings about her doll that died because
the sawdust blood ran out.
Nay. the germs of distrust and with
drawal into self may be observed in the
very cradlo, wher3 the mewlinRJinVuiJ;.
rejects sturdily the food from oue hand
that it accepts eagerly from another,
and smiles at the impossible lumguage
of a woman, when much more impossi
ble language from a man's mustache is
scornfully and noisily rfjectcjd. Even
in tbe elementary goo-goo there is, one
sees, room for sympathy to allow. We
that have grown up are constantly
showing the errors of children petu
lent, passionate, sulky,, carejless, de
structive, disproportionately! valuing
little things end large, hurting most
those we love most, paining ourselves
more irremediably than all, and going
counter to our own desires from mere
cantankerousnest. We are a mirror of
our past petty t elves, yet how little we
realize this as we see thf child grieve,
and dhohey and defy. (Whatl do we
treat children so and shall we rebel at
the thought that we have less than our
deserts of kindness? Sprin field t tpuli-ioan.
i
esi&Diieuea irom motives or humanity,
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