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The Coming of the Know. .
3 hi olouds were oopper-dyed all day,
An struggled in eaoh other' way,
Until the darkness drifted down
To the summer-forsaken town.
Said people, passing in the lane,
"It will be snow," or " 'Twill be rain 5"
And school-balrne, laughing in a row,
Looked throngh the panes and wished for
now.
The swollen olouds let nothing fall
lint gath'rieg gloom, that covered all ;
Then came the wind and shook big wings,
And curled the dead leaves into rings.
lie made the shutters move and orack,
And hurtlud ronnd the chinney-stack j
Then he swept on to ihake the treec,
Until tley moaned like winter seas.
Boon he went whistling o'er the hill,
And all the trees again stood still ;
Then, through tho dark, the snow c&rae
down,
A ad muQlad all the sleeping town.
The keen stars looked out through tbe
night,
And flecked the boughs with flakes of
light; '
And moving clouds revealed the moon,
To make on earth a fairy noon.
Then winter went unto bis throno,
That with a million diamonds shone ;
A orown of ttars was on bis head, -And
round him his rich robes were spread
At morn the bairns langhed with delight
To see the fields and hedges white ;
And folks said, as they bnrried past,
"Good morning winter's come at last.'
i A Rescue From Cannibals.
A STOBY FOR CHRISTMAS.
Hulda came down it to the bowels of
the earth to find me, as she usually was
compelled to do. There was no necessity
for her remaining amid the rust anil
roaches, the gloom and interminable
steam, of that cavernous kitchen floor
of ours on Brooklyn Heights. We had
( kept boarders now for years and years,
or perhaps the boarders had kept as, or
it might have been a mntual eking ont
of existence. But I took care of the
cooking, because in that the main
strength of success lay, and I didn't
want to keep boarders all my life.
When we began it was to please Bro
ther Bob. He was a well-to-do sales
man then in the city, and used to oome
down to the dear old homestead with so
many airs and graces about him that
we grew to look upon him with a sort of
awe, and wondered if this prinky
gentleman . in the high hat and linen
duster could be our Bib that used to
kick all the bottoms out of the chairs,
and never had a whole knee in his
breeches ; that robbed the birds' nests,
worried the schoolmaster, was nearly
drowned in the millraoe and had his leg
broken by a fall from the hay-rick. No
body would dream ho hal ever a kink
in his leg, now that he had got to be a
commercial man. He was ' as straight
and tall as the finest of onr scarlet-runner
poles, and butter wouldn't melt in
his mouth, he was that smooth and
sleek and soft- spoken. How surprised
we were when he proposed himself to
go aud hear David Devine's first sermon,
holding the hymn book all the way, and
carrying Hulda's best shawl 6n his arml
I used to be his favorite in the good old
days when he didn't know a snub nose
from a Qreoian one, and Bob found my
carroty hair and freckles much finer
than the silken locks and delicate com
plexion of Ilulda. He used to call Ilulda
' a milk-and-water baby, and 1 was the
one he came to in all his scrapes and
shoit-comings. But, somehow, after be
got to the city I never could find much
favor in his fight, and bad no relish for
a dead delight. The boy was gone from
me as utterly as if he lay in the old
church-yard by Sister Betty's side. The
memory of him was far sweeter than any
' present delight in his prosperity.
I was always opposed to giving np the
homestead when lather and mother died,
and going to tho city to keep house for
Hob. But Bob persisted, and won over
Hulda, as he always did. I think he had
a sneaking design from the first that
Hulda should win the admiration of one
of his employers the bachelor member
of the firm of Marley fe Brothers. He
came out with Bob in one of the vaca
tions, and certainly seamed to admire
nulda, as one might say, ravenously.
He ate more in a quiet way than any per
son 1 ever saw; aud it seemed a very
high compliment, in Bob's eyes, that
while lie was eating, his grave, owl-like
e ves were fixed upon Hulda, though why
I can't say, as I always did the cooking.
I used to tell our young preacher, Davy
Devine, that he couldn't expect the hot
place would have the terror for me it
had for others, seeing that I was used to
the hottest corner, and rather liked it.
David made some kind little reply in his
pleaant way; and I must say my choice
for Hulda had always been this hand
some, fair-worded, pure-hearted. G.hI-
loying young neighbor of ours. He had
always care.C for h' r sinoa they were
children together; and I knew father aud
mother would have been well content to
hive Hulda the parson's wifo in the old
Dt h church where they had gone to
gether yeur ia aud year out, and now lay
res bug doe by.
Hulda was little moro thau a child,
but waa taking kindly to the wnuderfully
pleasant ways of Providence just then;
au 1 after mother died she clung moro
and more to me aud David. He and 1
na d o talk the matter over, even to tho
furnishing ii. .f tho old parsonage,
never dnmrniiig but that all Would t
t'kh J;. envt M ualij'sl 1 l"( K
seed-time and harvest that Hulda should
marry David, and walk np the aisle in
her plain silk gown and close bonnet,
and everybody should say what a sweet
wife was the young pastor's.
But in the meantime Bob married a
fashionable city girl, and in the het sea
sons he brought his wife and children
home. I couldn't find much fault with
the girl, though I tried to hard enough;
she spent too much time distorting her
pretty hair out of its natural comeliness,
and put as many queer artificial humps
about her as a camel ; but she had a win
some, cheery way with her, and I always
had a weakness for beauty, be it in man,
womau or beast; amVbesides, she al
ways had a good word for the young
parson, often luring Marley away with
her coquetry and wiles, so that David
could have a word with ilulda.
ne's worth a dozen of that bald.,
blinking Marley," she would say, " and
I'll do what I can Magda, to foil Bob's
plans."
She was such a good-natured ereature
1 wish it had been God's will to spare
her to her yonng brood, of which she
was over-fond ; but whilo they were
three manikins the gay young mother
got cold aud died, and nothing would do
but we must ero to the city to keep house
for Bob. Hulda's tender heart was
wrung for Bob's widowed and lonely
oondition, but I could see under his still,
hard melancholy a bitter quantity of
worldly forethought and speculation.
I knew what waB coming, and, indeed,
was prepared for anything. .What did
it matter now that the blessed old
homestead was out of onr hold ? I had
kept some of the mahogany furniture,
much to Bob's disgust, who seemed to
cheapen the richest acres we had, and
spoke slightingly of the knots and gnarls
in our dear old apple trees that every
body knew made the fruit all the sweet
er. Bob sniffed with disdain at my hold
ing the mortgage for my share "of the
estate.
Ready money would be much better,
Magda," he said ; but I had my way,
thank God ! And I told Bob up and
down I wanted it understood that there
was to be no obligation on either side
Hulda and I would take the city house,
and he and the throe children should
board with us. To help along with the
expenses 1 took a few more boarders, and
still a few more, for one brought an
other. I had a sort of faculty for cook
ing, and if there's one weakness in the
human race more prevailing and beset
ting than another, it's gluttony. I used
to do my best to tempt the jaded yet
voracious palate of that yellow dyspeptic
Marley, an I gave him many a grim hob
goblin for company after he'd left my
sweet Hulda, for I couldn't forgive his
winning her consent to marry him, when
he knew the core of her heart was
another's. Tho coming to tho city and
finding out how pretty she was had
turned Hulda's head.
Bob's will and cunning were strong
and untiring, and anyway Hulda gave
up poor David Devine, and agreed to
marry that grim nnd greedy Marley. I
lay awake at night worrying about it
my heart was so sore perplexed for poor
David, and wrathful against Bob, and
distrustful of Providence. I grew des-
Eerate and wicked, but David stuck to
is faith, dear fellow, though he hadn't
strength to stick to the old spot where
he had been so happy and so miserable.
He went out as a missionary to some of
those cannibal islands, where I wonder
the women didn't eat him he was so
handsome and so good.
The very name of Marley became an
abomination to me, and I forced a
promise from Hulda that she wouldn't
marry for a couple of years, during
which time I hoped for heaven knows
what that was strange or remarkable. I
had small doubt but that poor David was
food for the fishes or the cannibals, for
I had heard no word from him ; but I
kept on praying and hoping for a hurri
cane that might sweep every Marley off
the f aoe of the earth. Whenever Marley
took Hulda out he brought a carriage,
and as it wasn't Bob's way to waste any
luxury, he used very often to occupy the
spare seat he and a sister of Marley's,
a high-nosed, high-colored, big- toothed
young woman called Judith. I saw
what was coming, and I told Bob he'd
regret it to his dying day, but he mar
ried Judith Marley within that year.
She disliked the trouble of housekeep
ing, so he brought her to board
with me. They took a suite of rooms
on the second floor, and before she had
been iu the house a month she began to
raise Cain, as I knew she would. Of
which I was very glad. I should have
been sorely disappointed if she bod
forced me to love her, as did the fond.
flighty first wife of Bob ; for to hate the
Marlevs had become my soul strength
and tonic during the days of endless
labor aud weariness of body and soul
The spite I bad against the whole
Marley race, that had spoiled my
Bob for me, and wheedled my 6ister
into a perfidy that broke the manly
heart of David Devine the spite I held
lor them one ana aji Kept life in me
when I should otherwise have fainted
by the way. Bob saw that we couldn't
live together, and took a furnished
bousa aown tne street; lor liob was
a big man now, and one of the partners
of Marley Urothers ; but before Judith
went away she gave me what she called
a piece of her mind. By the grace of
heaven it so happened that Hulda said
one little word or two in my defense,
when the termagant turned upon her.
and, among other insults, accused her of
entrapping her brother into a marriage,
uuida aid not reply, but there was
someth'ug in her face that frightened
Judith. She tried to eat the mischiev
ous words, but 1 knew tliut the Marley
link was broken. Poor Bob tvok up hii
wif juwrsl, iov r ftvii
this second honeymoon of his had rather
a bitter flavor. I felt sorry for him and
the three poor little step-children as
they went soberly down to their fine new
house.
I had nulda to myself now, and will
confess that I left no stone unturned to
accomplish my purpose. I spared
neither her suitor s age nor his inflrmi
ties, and repeated, with many a shy ex
aggeration, the taunt of Judith. So all
poor Marley's entreaties, and the threats
and wrath of Bob, were unable to mend
the mischief of one woman's tongue.
Hulda gave up Marley, and settled down
with me to old-maidenhood and the
dreary monotony of keeping boarders.
Even Hulda was past middle-age when
she came down to me that morning on
the kitchen floor. As 1 said, there was
no necessity for Hulda's remaining
among the rust and roaches, the clatter
of the dishes, and the bustle of the black
serving-maids. I had kept Hulda the
lady manager of the house. Her laces
were real, while mine were any two
penny cheatery that came to hand ; she
rustled in her silks, while I got about in
a gingham gown; but we worked togeth
cr, Hulda and I, and the time had come
now when we could shake the dust add
ashes of this drudgery from our feet
It was growing hot for that season of the
vear. J had been thinkintf all the morn
ing oCTtJle budding larches out on the j
old hiaieatead, and the tedder green oft
thej&llew slips down by tfce meadqw?
it tsgemqa to me 1 oouia njnr me youag
lambs bl(JaL and catch thkiUcy breath
of the ctaVas they chewd their early
cud. It mht have been the steam of the
boarding-house breakfast that dimmed
my eyes as I whispered to Hulda :
" It's all settled. Tue boarders must
be told to-day. We're rid of all this din
and drudgery. I've paid the last cent
on the homestead, and it's ours, dearie,
to have and hold forever." '
" And shall we live there alone, Mag
da f" she said "only you and I?"
" I shall take Chloe to help about the
house," I said ; " but as to living alone,
that's what I thought we'd been work
ing and praying . for. Yon certainly
don't want to. take any boarders along ?
Mrs. Post wants to bring her sick baby
out for the summer, and that young
etudent on the second floor back is pes
tering me to spend his vaoation with ns;
but surely, Hulda, you would not begin
our new life with boarders ?"
" No, Magda, no," she said, with that
little melancholv, deprecatory, exasper
ating smile of hers ; and as she went
away she left the germ alter her of rather
a bitter misgiving, which ripened into
full maturity when we got settled in the
old homestead, with all our household
gods about us. These deities wore a
rueful and rusty air. There was some
thing out of joint. It was Time himself,
no doubt. The tall clock in the corner
didn't tick in the old choery way,
but put Hulda in mind of some weary
jingle she had read, with the one refrain
of "Never, forever forever, never."
never could see, myself, the use of
reading rhymes either they are too
silly or too grave but Hulda had always
been what they called romantic. I be
gan to hate the approach of a moonlight
night, far she would sit .out-of-doors
and run the risk of the ague ; and when
the air crew chill enough to have
comfortable fire on the hearth,
Hulda spoiled it all by begging me
not to light the lamps, and Hhere
she would sit in a blindman's holiday. -
hponn in et, the rickets mvaelf ; and
o o '
though I wouldn't have owned to it for
the world, was sorry I hadn't brought
out with me Mrs. Post and her baby,
and the young student on the second
floor back. For one thing, I hadn't
enough to do. Chloe did all the kitchen
work, Hulda attended to the bedrooms,
and the cooking that was left to me
wasn't worth mentioning. It was
enough to break one's heart to see the
dishes come and go untouched and un-
tasted. I would almost have been glad
to see that greedy Marley come in for
one hearty meal. There was nobody to
brew or bake for ; nobody to mend or
make for ; and, ah me ! what a bitter
cry I had one day when I stupidly stum
bled into liob s snuggery up under the
eaves of the garret, and saw there the
broken fishing rods, the old rabbit
hutches, the bird traps, kites, marbles,
and heaven knows what and all I I
couldn't get the boy out of my mind,
and began, now that I had pi uty of
time, to think that I might have been a
little hard myself, and grew to wonder
ing about the children of Bob's first
wife that I d given over to the clutch of
Judith Marley without one word to cheer
or comfort.
The hard northern winter came on
apace. All the little brooks froze tight,
the ten ier green of the larches and wil
lows had given way to red'ond gold,
and at last there was no color or sub
stance left them bnt their skeleton
branches against a leaden sky. The
snow came down in whirling drifts, and
day in, day oua, the clock ticked the dole
ful refrain, i got out some patchwork,
but put it away again for who would
inherit my handiwork ? and made up
my mind we'd have no Christmas dainties
that year to stare ns dolefully out of
countenanoe. Poor Chloe was getting
dyspeptic already with overfeeding, and
even her wool didn't tighten up iu the
old vigorous way.
It was the third day before Christmas,
when a storm set in of hail and snow and
sleet, so that it was all we could do to
get the dumb creatures about the place
housed and fed. When all was done, I
set the pgs to blazing upon the hearth,
and happily kept a warm drink in the
at-hes for Chloe, who was fctill fuesiug
about the kitchen. The wind roared
around the house, swinging tho branches
of the trees SK'ut the weather-bourd-jpR
( I'M I, "HnM, Ood (sv tr.y
poor creatures at the mercy of this storm
to-night 1"
"Amen I" said Hulda.
At that moment we both heard some
thing like a human voice strained to the
utmost, and Hulda started to her feet.
" Be quiet, Hulda," I said, myself far
from easy ; it's only the shrieking of
the wind."
But again we heard the voice, and
again we heard my name. I reached for
my cloak and hat, and buckled on my
rubbers, while Hulda stood trembling
by, when suddenly the door flew open,
and a great gust of storm and sleet came
pelting in, driving before it a man and
some young children he was huddling
before him like sheep in a tempest.
They were blinded with the storm and
half frozen, but the boy dragged his sis
ter by the hand, and poor Bob held the
youngest child in his arms.
Don't you ns, Aunt Mag ?
little fellow. "I'm Bob, you know.
The wagon all broke down, and we're
jolly glad to get ho-ome." Here the
ittie man began to crv. for bin limvn
brt was over-burdened, and the child
iL7fb'B arms took up the refrain. Bob
hiia&elf was white as thesnow outside.
Ltftd seemed dazed and bewildered. '
w "See here, Mag," he stammered out,
Tve brought the children to vou to
lward for awhile. Everything's at sixes
and sevens in the
city; Marley A
Urothers have gone
to smash; but 1 11
get something in the way of a-41erktifi
Oryatn nrt1 av rKa AhiltAn'a wntit vmrr
know; the shan't be a burden tojfGni'T
Mac"
A burden ! It didn't seem much like
a burden. Such a glad commotion as
those little ones created, Hulda and
Chloe putting dry clothes on them, and
tricking them out as if for a baby mas
querade. The hot posset was poured
down they- little throats, and a bounti
ful supperVss friven them of hot milk
nd buns.
"There'll be something grand for
breakfast," I said, looking upon them as
greedily as ever poor Marley did upon
Hulda. How the old kitchen echoed
with their romps and capers I They
wero all handsome, every one of them,
with Bob's fine make and build, and
beautiful eyes like their pretty dead
mother's.
"Bob," I said, choking yearningly
over the thought, "if you'll give them
to me, the whole three, I'll spend my
whole life in making them happy ; and
after I'm gone, they shall have the
homestead and every penny I've got in
the world."
"Yes, yea," said Bob, who had never
ceased shivering, and was now as hot
and red as he had been white and cold,
"I'll pay their board, Magda ; this is
only a temporary trouble. I hope to get
a clerkship, quite "a lucrative clerkship ;
but little Botf will never get through
the storm never I Keep hold of your
sister, Bob," cried my poor brother, in
a loud voice, " and keep the tail of my
coat firm in your other hand ; don't let
go, my son, for God's sake, Bobby
don't let go 1"
He got upon his feet, and seemed to
be plodding through the storm, and as
he made his way to the kitchen door I
coaxed him on up to bed in his own old
room, that I had kept aired and com
fortable to lighten my own achingiieart.
When the morning dawned and the doc
tor could get to ns, poor Bob was wild
in delirium; the only words he muttered
or called aloud were about bonds and
bills, dollars and ; fractions of dollars.
His long white fingers seemed to hold a
pen, and scratch, scratch the weary flg-
ures-upon-the counterpane till my eyes
and brain ached for very piCy.
For two wretched days and nights he
struggled with this sordid misery, the
fiend of commercial fret and disaster
never letting go his grip; but Christmas
morning dawned clear aud bright, and
before the eastern sky had quite lost its
glory Bob fell into a deep, untroubled
sleep, liow white and wan be looked I
How thin and bloodless were the once
busy fingers that now lay limp and still !
At noon-time the sky was all one blaze
of cloudless sunny blue, and to keep the
room dark I strove to fasten an extra
shawl -over the window. Suddenly
heard Bob whispering my name in such
a strange voice that I got down quickly
and went over to the bedside, and was
puzzled to hear a low laugh from his
trembling hps.
"Say Mag," he whispered, "don't
let mother know. I crept in through
the window, aud left some ot my pants
on the gooseberry bushes below ; you'll
patch 'em up, won't you, Mag? And
keep mum about it. Such a lark as we
hud lost night ! Dave Devine and
painted the deacon s horse white and
red ; but keep mum, Mag not a word
for your life 1"
I kept mum. God knows I couldn't
speak. I had got my boy Bob bock
again, but there was a sore tugging at
my heart-strings. The doctor came and
lingered long, then he turned to me
"My work is done," he said. "I was
afraid from the first it would be useless ;
a higher and better work has begun.
There is some one down stairs a stran
ger in these parts, but no stranger to
you or me, or this dear lad lying here,
1 wouldn't like to bring a new face
among you just now, but this one will
do. Bob," he said, leaning over my
poor brother "Bob, here is an old
friend to pray with us on this dear day
that Christ was bom.
Then there came into the room a man
with brown skin and lusty growth his
hair was almost white, but his eyes had
a familiar loving glow dear to the olden
time. I did not care to question who
he was or whence he came, but knelt
silently at tho bedside while ho prayed
Bob's lips inovod, but only with some
boih memory, and hour sftvr Hour
i ;y. Tin tiy l lel warirg
I was alone with my brother. I heard
the light breathing of his children, and
mine now, in the room close by ; the low
voices of David and Hulda reached me
once in a while from the lower floor. I
might have been a hard and bitter
woman, but as at last the day went out
and took Bob with it, I felt a grim de
light in my sore and aching heart that
he was beyond the reach of the Marleys.
Harper's Magazine,
Origin of the Stars and Stripes. .
A New York Herald correspondent
sends to that paper an interesting ac
count of a visit to Brington, seven miles
from Northampton, England, the home
of George Washington's ancestors.
Referring to the church at Brington
where the Washingtona were buried,
the .correspondent says : There are
said thetbere.two tombs. The one in the chan
cel covers the grave of Lawrence Wash
ington, who died in 1622. The inscrip
tion on the grave of the former reads
as follows :
HKRE LIETH THE BOOI OF LATBENCE
WAHHINOTON BONNE AND HEIR OF
IIOBEBT WASHINGTON OF SOVLOnAVE
IN THE COCNTIE OF NOBTHAMTON
ESQUIRE WHO MAKBIED MAKOAKKT
THE ELDEST DAFOHTEB OF WILLIAM
BCTLEB OF TEES IN THE COUNTIE
OF tCSHEXE ESQU1KE, WHO HAD IB81J
ML HER 8 HONNH AND B DATiaHTERR
Vin(SI LAVBENCE DECEASED THE 13
, DECEMBER A. DNI 1616.
Those that by chance or choyoe
ii mw na Bient
tt Know life to death lesignes
as daye to night ;
Bat as the sunns retoroe
Revives the day
So Curist shall us
Though turnde to duBt & clay.
Above the inscription is chiseled in
tone the arms of he Washington and
Butler families. The other tombstone
is in the nave ; the inscription is on a
brass plate let in the stone. It reads as
follows :
; Here lies ye bodies of Klizab. Washing-:
: ton, widdowe, vho changed this life for I
Mmmortahte ye l!)th of March, 1G22. As:
: also ye bod; of Itohert Washington, gent, :
; hor late husband, second sonne of Robert:
; Washington, of Solgrave, in ye county of:
; North, Esq., who depted this life ye 10th:
:of March, 1G22, after they lived lovingly:
: together many yeares in this parieb. :
I have taken the tronble to have made
for the Herald a "rubbing" of this in
scription. It is roughly done by means
of a lead-pencil rubbed over the brass,
giving an exact copy. Below the in
scription there is a brass shield, let into
the stone, which has still greater inter
est for ns, and of which I send yon a
copy. It represents the Washington
family escutcheon argent two bars
gules ; in chief three mullets of the
second as it is described in heraldic
phraseology, the signification of which
wiltybev better understood in simpler
language namely, on a shield of silver
(or white) two red bars, and in chief
(the upper pmt of the shield) three
stars, also red.
In this shield, therefore, we have the
origin of the national flag of America.
Of course the emigrant would take
the family escutcheon with him
and hand it down to the family,
and we have information to the efi'ect
that the stars and stripes were in
deed copied from Washington's signet
ring. The strip-): theWashington
shield are alternate guleyred) on a
white (silver) ground, as are those of
bihe flag, and the "mullets" in chief
have the parallel peculiarity of being
five-pointed, while six points are some
times known. The "mullet" in her
aldry is a star of (generally) five points,
and is always formed of straight lines,
while the " e6tolle " is a star of six or
more points, with wavy rays. The
crescent in the center of the ' shield is
the heraldic sign used by the second son
of the family the shield is that of
Robert.
Opium.
Opium is the dried juice of the poppy.
It is prepared in Asia Minor, Turkey,
Egypt and India, in which country the
poppy is cultivated for the exclusive
purpose of making opium. It, forms a
Btaple commodity of many provinces in
India, in which the following is the
mode of tieatment commonly used. It
is an object of carefnl attention to keep
the plants at a due distance from each
other. If the seed happens to be thick
ly sown, some of the yonng plants are
pulled up and used as pot-herbs, the
leaves of which when boiled have a fla
vor of peas ; but when they bave attain
ed eighteen inches in height, they are
unfit for that use from their intoxicating
nature. The plant flowers in February
and the opium is extracted in March
or April, according to the period of sow
ing. When the flowers have fallen and
the capsules assume a whitish color,
four or five incisions are made in them
with a three-toothed instrument which
is drawn from the top to the bottom.
The incisions are always made in the
evening, as the night-dews, by their
moistnie, favor the exhalation of the
juice, and the opium is gathered next
morning. The wounds in each capsule
are repeated for three successive days,
and in general, fifteen days suffice to
gather all tho opium in a field. From
the incisions a milky juice exudes, which
thickens upon exposure to the air, and
is carefully scraped off with a shell, or
a small iron instrument previously dip
ped in oil. It is afterward worked in
uu iron pot in the heat of the sun, until
it is of a consistency to be formed into
thick cakes of about four pounds weight.
They are then covered with the leaves
of the poppy or some other vegetable to
prevent tlieiu sticking together, and in
thin condition they arc dried and meVd
Mr !'! rvritK'!!,
Baby Faces.
I p&sned a pretty cottage on my homeward
path one night,
And its windows glowed like crystal in the
mellow evening light ;
And between the crimson curtains stood an
infant bright and fair,
With my own dead darling's huzel eyes and
waving, sun-tipped hair.
I paused to gaze upon him, and my heart was
filled with woe
At thought of my dear one lying 'neath the
winter's frost and snow ;
And I longed ;toki8S tho sweet lips that were
pressed against the pane,
For sake of the buried baby-lips that I never
shall kiss again.
Oh, babies with happy faces, and eyes so
tender and true,
May God in His mercy guide you life's devious
windings through I
Mav never a shadow of sorrow, and never a
thought of gnilo,
Chase the angel-ligbt from your sunny eyes,
nor darken your baby-smile 1
.
Items of Interest.
A muddy country road is something .
to add mire.
Sleight of hand Refusing a charm
ing young lady.
A bouquet is a good scent-piece for
the dinner-table.
Sunflowers originally came from Pern,
and were a sacred emblem with the
devout. H
The highest navigable water on this
continent is Chatauqua lake, New
York State.
When the Arabs kill a hyena, they
bury the head lest it should be used in
a charm against them.
"Do fishes go crazy?" ifi a conun
drum proposed by Seth Green. Some
times they get in seine.
"A lie which is all a lie
Can be met and fonht with outright)
But a lie whioh is half a lie
la a harder matter to fight."
Chan Put Nam is the name of the
Chinese consul general who is to watch
over the interests of hi8 countrymen in
California. He is no relative to old
Israel Put Nam.
Aunt Prudence, inthe'Palaski Demo
oral, says: There is not a particle of
satisfaction in telling a man he is a
liar ; for if he is he knows it; and if he
isn't who does the lying ? - ,
Birds build their nests in the seaweed,
which grows and floats with the gulf
Htream, and in many instances are found
a thousand miles from any land. This
weed is sustained by pods grown upon
it, which act as air floats.
A German paper asserts that prur sic
acid only causes suspension of life at
first, and that one who takes it can be
restored to animation by the pouring of
acetate of potash and salt, diasolvod in
water, on the head and spine. Rabbits
have been so recovered .
Three hundred and forty distinct,
species of humming birds have been
classified. These little feathered crea
tures are found only in America and its
islands. There are humming birds
which, when stripped of their leathers,
are no larger than a humble bee.
A Complicated Case.
Herr Bohren lived in Switzerland aiul
married him a wife. He afterward lef
both her and hie native land and cam
to this country. The wife heard nothin ;
from him until word came that he wu.
dead. She then married nerrZambrunn.
But a few weeks ago Herr Bohren re
turned and claimed her for his wife
By the law of that country it was n
perfectly clear whether she was his wi
or Herr Zumbrunn's. Herr Zumbrur
refused to give her up, and she ref up
to go. A lav.i;uit was begun, Li
while it was iu progress, Herr Bohr,
armed himself with a pistol and shot t
Becond husband in the arm and che
wounding him seriously. r-b9 c,u
ous situation may arise. A"civil chil
is engaged in ascertaining to wl'.-.U
these two men this woman isleni
wedded, and a criminal court will 1
occupied with the trial of her first h
band for the attempted murder of 1
second. In the event of her being
clared the wife of Bohren, and if, a
likely enough, he should bo condemn:
to imprisonment for life, she will be
the unfortunate ponitiou of having !
her seooud husband, and found her fi i
only to lose him, and without possibili
of marrying another sa long as the 1
ter may live.
The Humming of Telegraph WIr
As to the cause of the sounda
quently heard to proceed from tele
wires in the open air, it has been i
toinary to accept the wind prodnci
the sound by direct vibrations, similar i
those of the Lilian harp. A writer i
an Australian jonrnal, however, rails ia
tentiou to the fact that one who giv s
close observation to both the wire and
Bounds will find that the latter make
themse.'ves obvious likewise when there
is a total absence of wind; and in a quiet
morning in winter, when the win s ap
pear covered with frost to the thickness
of the finger, they nevertheless carry on
lively vibrations and swinging, while the
air is totally quiet. Acoordiug to this
writer, therefore, the vibration' -re duo,
not to the wind, but to the cnauges of
atmospheric temperature, and especi
ally through the action of cold, as a
lowering of the temperature induces a
shortening of the wires, extending over
the whole length of the conductor. A
considerable amount of friction is pro
duced on the supporting belln, thns iu
duoing Hound Imi1i in wiea'i I Hit)