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" Strike Wlille ihe Iron's Hot."
Strike while the iron's hotl .
Sti ike and with a will
Ho 1 no tkillfbl smith
Wfco lots tha Iron chill.
Ere the Irjn hardens, strike,
Shape it to what shnpe yon like,
To the goythe or knife or sword,
To slay or heal or trow the sward.
itriko while the iron's hoi,
8 like with hand and henrtj
Qnkkly tarn tho 1 ar,
Aud t mite on every part.
Itring the slot'ge down with a Swing
Till it mates the anvil ring.
So grciit miisler wot V men wrought,
So struck the iron whilu 'twae hot.
Ko, when tho time 1 lipe
To eel, or think, or sy,
' The piecious moment Soizo
Kofore it po away. .
Shnpi-n the action to your ends,
As tho smith the iron bends i
I,:t tho word and ltt tho thought
i'lompt'y into I'ood bo wrought.
Strike while tho iron's hot,
Or do net strike at nil
Strikes the ool 1 bur will break,
Not ftishion, when they tall.
i you'ro slow in arm and brain,
All your litbor will bo vain;
The quirk ot head aud quick ot band
May rise Irom serving to command.
John Francit fi'allti .
THE TURN OF AN ACCIDENT.
It was six o'clock of a crisp October
morning, and John Boyd, farmer, rotis
lnsr Irom his pound night's sleep. sprang
outof rwd with the alrt readiness of a
man who Knows the value of the first
hour of the day U was a tavern bed
from which -he jumped; homo and its
fared w ru many miles away ; buta long
rldo lay be' ore him, and he washed and
dressed brtckly, ns one in haste, hum
mlnr a ihoirinl nir meanwhile, as be
caruo a man who telt himself in good
spirit ', and bad ample reason for doinp
o. For. be it known, this year had
I roved the best for farmers since John
i ad be?n hit own master. Harvest?
1 ad been large, prices high, and John,
on his vi ay back from the annual mar
fcct. carried a senneof freedom and lib
eration at his heart horn the final ex
tinguishment of a mortgage on his farm
a nfortgage' which" liaa pressed a
heavily on liis conceit nee us did the
burden of Christian on his shoulders
Tho burden was lifted now; and, fur
ther than th.-t, John carried in his fat
root va!let two hundred dollars, over
nnd above, toward the expenses of the
next year. He had never been so fore
handed ' before- and tho sensation wa-
a .joyful one. 'My neck is out of the
coilar now.' he muttered to himself as
he brushed his thick brown hair. I
th mid be a tool indeed it I put it in
sgiin. No rnoro mortgages for me!'
'1 uen. his toilet completed, he ran
downstairs, two steps at a time.
Farmer-like, his first visit was to hia
horses. Tlicv were munching their
corn satisfactorily: and after a look or
two. and a Dat. John returned to the
Inn. where a iauzlinz bell announced
breakfast. It was smoking on the table
a substantial meal of the kind untver
sal in taverns thirty years ago: and
John Boyd, whoso appetite was of the
kind proverbially said to accompany a
good conscience, was doing it ample
iustice. when a sudden instinct led him
to thrust his hand iuto the inner pocket
which held the two hundred dollars.
Tim wh.Hct was cone!
In the suddenness of the shock, John
felt himself pale, and then flusn pain
fullv. as he confusedly tried to remem
ber if he had taken out the wallet, and
when.- Under his Dillow that was it
He recollected distinct Jfor so itseemed,
putting it there, for Wcurity's sake,
whistled Boftly to himself for a minute,
with his eyes fixed on the tumbled bed
ding; then he went to the stair head
and called his wife. Presently they
came in together, the 1 .ndlady s face
very red and troubled.
' Such a thing never happened in myi
house before,' she protested. lut
there's only one person been in your
room since you came besides yourself,
and she's the person you must reckon
with,' pointing to the maid, who. with
white cheeks and downcast eyes, leaned
against the wall as if awaiting ser
tencc. "Oh, indeed, indeed I didn't take it!
I never (aw any wallet," she said ; but
her voice was drowned in Mrs. Nash's
louder tones.-
And pray who else took it, do you
suppose? Who else had the chance P
Answer me that. It serves me just
right for taking in a girl with no recom
menda girl I didn't know nothing
about, not so much as her name, or
where she come from, or who her folks
are. Five weeks to-morrow, that's all
the time she s been in the house, sir;
but this is the end of it. It's the last
time I'll ever have a help I don't know
all the long and short of, so you needn't
feel alraid to stop with us again no, nor
none of your friends, cither; and as for
bnr suit- aha vxnstlra f h ia H n v? '
' Id better go for the constable, hadn't
f if you to sure it was under the
pillow you put it,' suggested the land
lord.
Oh. don't, mease: mease don t.'
pleaded the girl, weeping violently.
'Give the gentleman his wallet back,
then, and perhaps he'll let you off.'
I can't, l haven't got it. l never
daw it. Oh, please believe me. Don t
send mo to jail,' she urged.
The nndlady only answered uy a
sound expression of disgust. And
throwing her apron over her head, the
poor girl wept in eilence, saying no
more.
John had held his peace during this
altercatiorhrharply eyeing the partus
concerned in it meanwhile. The Nashes
lie knew something about. They were
of good reputation as .far as he was
aware. The maid was a stranger to
them, as to him; but spite of the cir
cumstances, and iier manner, which was
hardly less suspicious, he could not
bring himself to believe her guilty. He
was not a hasty man, nnd he wa ajust
one, with a kind heait to hack his tern-
p'-rate judgments; and alter a few min
utes reflection he 'maw up lr.s mind
what to do.
I can't swear that I put the wallet
under the pillow or anywhere else,' he
said. I'm pretty sure-that I did. but
mv thoughts about "it "are "confused
somehow, and it may be (hat I left it at
Ilolton, where I slept on Tuesday. I
don't want no injustice done on my ac
count. So don'tcrv like that 'address
ing himself to the girl. 1 11 tell you
what I'll do. Get the bay shod during
the day, will you?' to Mr. Nash and
if you'll lend me a sadd'.e I'll ride back
to Bolton and make injCiry there. If I
find the money, well and good; h i
don't, it'll be timo enough to talk fur
ther about it to-morrow.'
I'm sure it is very good of you to take
when he went to bed the night before
With a muttered excuse, he left the
table and hurried upstairs. The door
of his room stood ooen. and a maid
servant was puling fresh sheets on the
bed, the soiled linen lying In a heap on
the floor.
Toward this heap John hurried and
bet'iin turning it over.
' Have you Tost something, sir?' asked
the maid
John straightened himself up to an
swer, lie had not noticed the maid be
fore, though she had waited upon table
at supper. Now he observed that she
was young and rather pretty fair, with
a trim, slender figure, beautiful glossy
hair, neatly dressed and braided, and a
pair of sweet, apprehensive blue eyes
He.- voice was soft too: and she had a
shv. modest manner which suggested
an idea of refinement. All these facts
Farmer Boyd absorbed in a flash, and
instinctively noting, weighing, estimat
ing, by that wonderfully rapid process
of which the human miud is capable,
while yet his thoughts were full of his
money and his loss.
Yes. I am looking for my wallet,
which I lelt under my pillow. Did you
had t?'
The girl's face blanched to a deadly
whitent-ss, and her eyes dilated as with
sudden terror.
' No. sir.' she said, her voice trem
blin? and sinking away as she spoke
I didn't see anv wallet.'
John looked at her distrustfully; but
there was something m the pale lace
which disarmed suspicion.
I'd like to search the bed,' he went
on. 'It mav have slipped under the
niattres '
Together they turned the mattress,
hut no wallet was visible.
That off horse of yourn has got his
shoe loose somehow,' announced Mr.
Nah, the landlord, at the door. I
thought i d better tell you, so s you
could stop to the blacksmith's as you
pass, ai d pet him to put in a couple of
n:'ils. . Why, what g the matter!"
John explained. "
The landlord looked very grave. He
so much trouble.' declared the landlady
But whether or no. the girl don t stay
here. I'll have no suspected thief in
my house.'
There'll be no thing to suspect her of
if I hnd the wallet,' rejoined John,
drvlv. 4 Don't Eive the poor thing a
bad name till you know that she de-
serres it.' Then he left the room, un
mindful of the look of srratitude which
shone upon him Irom the blue eyes of h t
the girl, who had dropped her apron. hBneT B
and gazed alter mm un lie was out oi
Bight.
His reflections were not agreeable as
he retraced his footsteps over the dusty
highway traveled but yesterday vrith so
light a heart. The loss ot his money
meant a great deal to John Boyd. The
pressure of anxiety seemed to settle
again upon his shoulders, as he thought
over the probabilities of its non-recovery.
'But I won t give in without
a hght for It,' he thought, gnmiy, as ne
urged on liis horse. Junes seemed
doubly long when measured by a heavy
heait, and what with dust, heat and th
continual effort to clear his mental con
fusion as' to where-and when he last
had seen his wallet, the young farmer
was fagged and dispirited enough before
noon was fairly come.
He stopped to dine at a little tavern
attached to a toll-gate, and with some
vague hope that the money might have
been picked up on the road by someone,
mentioned his loss. ,The toll-keeper
shook his head
' Bolton's your only chance,' he said.
I( 'twas on the road you dropped it,
there s no likelihood that vou 11 ever
hear of it again. The dust s eight
inches deep. 1 should say. and there s
been three biz droves of sheep and one
of bullocks alone since yesterday, so if
your wallet was a-lying there, they must
have trampled it under pretty thor
oughly. It is buried deep enough, you
may be sure, unless, wuicn is just as
likely to happen, some one has picked
it up and made off with it. Your chance
is a sum one, J reckon.'
Cold comfort this; but John was
forced to agree with the opinion. De-
soondinfflv he rode throuirh the after
noon, scanning the way as he went; for,
despite the toll-keeper, a faint hope still
lingered in ins heart, tnougn tne iraeu,
deep in dust, and churned and trampled
by the crowding droves, presented a
sorry field for either hope or discovery.
He had gained the top of a long hill,
from which Bolton was dimly visible,
John recollected the spot, and stooping,
dug and scooped till again it became
visible. His fingers recognized a solid
substance. Trembling with excitement.
he continued to dig : another second ttie
object was uncovered, lifted out, and
r.i. Mi i j. i . r :.
wail n wnu, incrcuuiuus
John Boyd held in his hnnd his wallet,
buried deep by the hurrying herds, and
uncovered lor one passing momeni inas
his eye might detect it, and no other.
Except for that lucky stumble, he too
would have ridden over the lost treas
ure, and never dreamed what lay be
nenth his horae's feet.
'And some folks say there ain't no
Cod I' was his mental comment, spoken
half aloud. Then-for John Boyd's re
ligion, though a homely, was a true one
ne bent his head and said a few words
of thanksgiving; after which, jumping
on his horse, lie took the backward
route, eazer to tell his eood fortune and
exonerate the poor girl, who, ns he now
remembered with self-reproach, must
have passed a painful day under the
stigma of undeserved suspicion.
The heat was yielding to evening
freshness, and he urged his horse, im
patient to set matters straight; but.
with his best endeavor, it was after
eleven before he at last drew rein in
front of Nash's hotel. -He was expected,
that was evident, for lights were burn,
ins. and both Nash and his wife hur
ried out to meet him, wearing faces of
lugubrious length, which only In part
changed to cheeriuiness wnen tney
heard of the recovery of the wallet.
There, what did I tell your- cried
the husband. Haven't I ben a-saying
and a-saying all day that likely as not
this scare would turn out air for noth-
iner And vou wouldn t listen to a
word, but just kept on to that poor
thinz inside there, and she's nothing to
blame all the time. I declare, it's too
bad the way women act to each other
and folks calling them " the softer sex!"
A man would be ashamed to be so hard.
Well, do tell! and so the money was
a-lying there in the dust all the time!
Well. I'm mighty sriao, lor your sane
and ours t o. Go right in, sir, and wife
'11 give you some supper. I ll see to the
horse."
Mrs. Nash waited on the meal in
grim silence. She seemed only half re
joiced at the denouement.
It s mtuhty queer,' sue remarKea, as
she set the last dish on the table. 'I
don't fee) as if we'd got to the bottom ot
it yet. Why didn't Lucy deny more
positive?'
rsut sue am, saia uonn, Deiween
two mouthfuls; 'she said she hadn't
got it.'
Whv. course she said as much as
that. You didn't expect her t o say that
she had got it, did you?' rejoined tho
landlady, with a hne scorn. 'But she
didn't speak uo violent and bold, as
you'd expect an innocent girl would.'
' But she was innocent an me iime
you know.' .
I ain't so over sure about that,' re
nlied Mrs. Na-h. with a shake of her
lioad. " It's a queer business.'
llurrvini out to the barn next morn
ing in the best of spirits, a low sighing
sob called John's attention to a bench
outside the kitchen door, where sat a
figure crumpled up into a forlorn little
heap, in which he recognized the pretty
maid of the, day before. She wore her
bonnet, and a bundle lay beside her.
Her laco-was hidden on her arms.
which were crossed on the back of the
bench.
'Why, what's the matter P' said John,
t urn in a hack.
The eirl looked up with a start. I
bez vour pardon,' she faltered. 'I'm
l cuan t mean to Biay so
up to be extra Christians, but there's a
little honesty and decency left among
us, which is more than can be said for
all places. Well, wh t do you say P Yes
or no. There s my hand on it it its
yes.'
lie held out uis broad paim. iucy
hesitated, but for a moment only.v
x es. 1 will.' she said. l ve nowhere
else to go, and you seem kind.'
Another moment and they were driv
ing off together down the maple-shaded
road, whose yellow and crimson boughs
danced overhead against 'October's
bright blue weather.' There were peace
ana calming in the fresh stillness of the
early day. Gradually a little color stole
into Lucy's pale cheeks, and John's hot
mood gave place to wonted good humor
and chec.
' You've had no breakfast, I'll bet,' he
said, with a smile. 'And no more have
I. I was so mad with that woman that
I couldn't swallow a mouthful, but now
I beiin to feel sharp enough. We'll
stop at the next tavern, oouthwick.
isn t it? Five miles and a halt. Can
you hold out till thenP'
'Oh vaa indopri with
Oh, yes, indeed,' with a grateful look
out of the blue eyes.
John's tone grew more and more
friendly.
We 11 have something hot and hearty
there.' he said. 'You look pale. 1
guess you didn't sleep any too much last
'Oh. I couldn't sleep at all. Mrs.
Nash told me that I must go the first
thinz in the morning, and H felt so
badlv-'
I shouldn't think you would want to
stay with a woman like that
But it's so dreadful to have nowhere
to go to. And besides ' She stopped
abruptly, with a look like terror in her
eyes.
. 'Have you no friends, then?' asked
John.
' No.' The tone was very reserved ;
but reserve could hardly fail to melt
under so sunshiny a presence ns John
Boyd's, and before the long day's ride
was done he nan won irom ner tue mam
facts of her storv
Lucy Dill was her name, tier mother
had married for the second time when
Lr.cv was twelve years old, and three
years airo, wheji the gin was oareiy
fifteen, had died, lcavinz her to the
protection of her stepfather.
She didn't know what sort oi a man
he was.' said Lucy. - 'And he wasn't
that kind of man when sh i was alive.
I was too young to notice much, and
mother always put herseit between mm
and me when things went wrong.
After she died it was dreadful. El kins
that's his son came home to live.
He never lived there before, and and
he' ---
Wanted to marry your'
'Yes: and his father said I must.
But I was afraid of him of them both.
And people began to come to the house
bad people, not good ana l Degan to
suspect things.'
' What kind of things!"
It was not easy to get an answer to
this question. In fact, the terrified and
inexperienced girl had hardly dared to
formulate ner own iears; due jonn
irathercd tho idea that coining or other
un awlul practices were going on, ana
Lucv. only half comprehending, bad un
derstood enough to startle and frighten
her into makinz her escape. She had
effected thii by night six weeks before,
and her creat dread was oi being ais-
covered and forced to go back. John
reassured her as well as he could.
TIKELY TOPICS.
Sawdust is not a very marketable
oommodity. If we except the manu-
fao ure ot dolls, there are few uses to
which that article can he put. Mr.
Grossman, of Petersburg, Va., has been
ranted a patent which may pur, saw-
lust to a useful purpose.. He intends to
make railroad ties, fence posts, paving
and buildine blocks, etc.. outofsawdust.
This artificial wood, it is claimed, an be
made fire and water proof, and no in
sects will attact it. it will take a mgn
polish and stand a hizher pressure than
ordinary wood. It also can be cut and
sawed and allow of nails being driven
into it. The process is said to be simple
and cheap.
Wabash. Indiana, has walked in ad
vance of many larger and older towns
by introducing the e.ectric light in its
streets. Four eiectnc lamps of 3.000
candle power each went into commission I
recently. The lamps, suspended mid
way of the iron fiazstaff on the courU
house, which towers two hundred leet
above the business part of the town,
were furnished with electricity by a
No. 5 generator driven by a seven-horse
power engine. According to contract
the machinery was to light one mile in
diameter from the court-house, and be
equal to a gas-burner 2,680 feet from
the light. Ihe council placed men at
different parts of the city to observe.
and they reported satisfactorily. At
Arbana, five miles north, the light was
said to be beautiful. The Detroit Fret
Presa says the test has given general
satisfaction
A.
In Breams.
She comes to me in dreams,
Just as ot old ;
With form ot lrogilo grace,
The sweet remembered lace;
Even her garment's told
Is just the Bame
In dreams she comes to me,
Only in dreams.
She comes to me in dreams,
No change is there,
No gathering shade ot gloom,
No hint ol coming doom,
Is on her taee so lair. .
In dreams she comes to me
Only in dreams.
She comes to me in dreams,
When glittering light
Shall drive earth's clouds away
And with its welcome ray,
Bring the long-looked-for day,
Heaven's morning bright
Then will she come to me ;
Or must it ever bo
That I her face shall see,
Only in dreams t
A. Hallowtll, in ihe Botlon Journal.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Some Italian physicians have been in
vestigating the peculiar condition of the
miners who worked in the St Gothard
tunnel. They have discovered that the
labor in remote galleries engendered in
the intestine of the svorkmea animal
cuke resembling trichinns " The gene
ral appearance of the St. Gothard
miners," says the London Times, " par
ticularly thoBe of them and they are
in the majority affected by the malady
in question, is described as deplora
ble in the extreme. Their face3 are yel
low, their features drawn, eyes half
closed, lips ai colored, the skin is
humid end the zait difficult. If they
eat with appetite they cannot digest, and
when wine is taken it is invariably re
jected. Let a man be .as strong as he
may, three ov lour montns- wont in me
tunnel ser ously in jures his health, and
at the end of a j ear, or a little more, he
is a confirmed invalid." The investi
gators have giy en the worm the name of
anemia ankylostonia, and tho malady
arising trom Us pre. enee is said to be
epidemics in Egypt and Brazil.
Vmi'llhn hist as safe at the farm as
if rs wava ,n nn iron aa.fo ' Via nrrt-
tes'ed
'GonzP Where?
' I don't know where, Bhe said, de
jectedly. 'I'd try for another place,
only there doesn't seem much chance
of zettinz one witnou: any recom
mend.'
Do vou mean to say that they are
sending you away from here?'
Yes.'
' But, in the name of goodness, why?'
don't know. Airs. JNasn says sue
But. soito of his assurances, the lurk
inz terror never left Lucy's eyes, though
weeks sped saieiy Dy ana notuing oc
curred to alarm ner. livery suaaen
noise made her 6 tart; the sight of a
strange figure on the road blanched her
roses to paleness, except ior mis lear-
fulness. she proved an excellent, neip
in all ways, quick, neat-fingered, sweet
tempered. Old Barbara wondered how
ever the farm had got on without her,
and John in his secret heart wondered
also. It never should be without her
According to the report of tho board
of trustees of the celebrated Greenwood
cemetery, Brooklyn, for lo9, there were
231 lots sold last year, making a grand
total of 23,076. There were 5,132 burials,
making an aggregate of 199,747. The
gross laccipts amounted to Jfcso'Azuv.yB.
The cross disbursements, including in
vestments which aggregated $271,000
amounted to $446 908.28. The general
fund forthe improvement and permanent
care of the cemetery is now $565,201.31,
an increa? e during the year of l j,4vu. is.
Dunnz the year 315 lots were enclosed,
and 196 monuments and 482 headstones
were erected. The report says: The
interment in Greenwood, in a private
lot. of a favorite dez. elicited much com
ment, and was the occasion of many re
monstrances, addressed to the trustees,
requesting them to prohibit such inter
ments in the future. The intensity of
feeling exhibited could not but bo re
spected, and the board accordingly
passed a resolution prohibiting hereafter
all interments of brute animals in the
cemetery.
Jail birds are confined in guilt cages.
Boston Transcript.
A cat recently died in Philadelphia in
her twenty-fourth year.
A household with a baby is founded
on a rock. New Uaven Register.
The home stretch Putting up a
clothes line. New York News. ,
The jewel for a frilled shirt-bosom is
a diamond in the ruff. Picayune.
Ships are frequently on speaking,
terms, and they lie to. Baton Tran
script. There's the sickle, the bicycle and the
tricycle, but the most worthy of these
is the sickle. Rhinebeck Gazelle.
The wool clip of 1879 in the United
States amounted to 233,560,000 pounds,
the largest ever shorn in the country.
When lovely woman hears strango news
What lorm ol speech so efficacious
To give expression to ner views,
As this plain English " Goodness gra
cious!" Governor Smith, of Wisconsin, has
issued an order establishing the uniform
of the United States army as that of the
national guard of Wisconsin.
During the last ten years 233 miles of
street car rails have been laid in England
and Wales, at a cost of nearly $15,000.
000, exclusive of the outlay on horses, -engines
and cars.
Tucker, a lunatic, assailed Wood with
a butcher knife at Sandusky, Ohio.
Wood was unarmed, but ho threw the
madman on the floor and clutched his
throat. Tucker struck again and again
with the long blade, and Wood choked
with all his might. The fight lasted
half an hour, and ended in the death of
both men one irom stabbing, ana tne
other from choking.
1 tnn't know. Mrs. Nash snvs she v. c 1
- - t . I iiJnin iiri lukl ua wns muiiv icauivcu,
like to have servants about who f na fi:j nnA av ti,rpn month
don't
are suspected of Stealing.' Ihe blue
eyes tilled again- as Bhe spoke, and site
hid her lace.
'Bv George! I never heard of such
iniustice in mv life,' shouted John
Now. Ldioy, it that's your name, you
iust sit still whero vou are. Don t stir
or move till I come back. I'll see Mrs
Nash. I'll put thin gs right.'
To out things right seems easy enough
to a strong, hearty man, with justice
and argument on his side, but that Is
because he docs not calculate-properly
on those queer hitches and crotchets of
human nature, especially woman nature,
have no relation to justioe ana
Lucy,' be said one day, three months
after she became his inmate, 'I'm tired
of Beeing you jump and quiver and scut
tle upstairs whenever the peddler or the
ragman comes along, it s Daa ior you,
and it worries me almost to death.
Now, there's just one way that'll make
all sate, and set vour mind at ease, and
that is, that you just marry me out oi
hand, and give me the right to
protect you. Once my wile, 1 Bhouian t
care if your steplather ana an tne
eanz came after you; let them lay a
finger on you at their peri), while I'm
alive and have the right to interfere.
Will you, Lucy? It's the best thing to
be done, trust my word for it. I don't
mean to pretend that I'm doing it for
Willi
which
fair dealing, and are ULatlected byar
gument Mrs. Nash proved impervious ur Bake entirely," added John,
to John's choicest appeals, iier mino broad smile. " tor I ain't. I want you
was made up; she 'didnt want td hear fo own gake tUe worst way, but
no more on tne supieci : unaiiy, uer
temper rising, what business was it of
his. she demundea. what neip sue Kept,
or if she kept any help at all? He'd got
his pocketbook back; accounts were
souared between them: there was no
further call, so far as she could see.whj
he should meddle with, her concerns
The upshot of the interview was that
John flew out of the kitchen with his
f ee as red as fire, tackled his horses,
threw valise and feed-bag into the
wazon. flung the amount of his reckon
inz on the table, and addressing Lucy,
who, pale and terrified, stood, bundle in
lund, prepared for flight, called out:
' Now, then, my good girl, you've lost
jne place by my fault, and I'm blamed
if I don't offer you another. Will you
Xapoleon.
"I was educated," he said, "at a
military school. Everyone said of me,
' That thild will never bo good for any
thing but geometry.' I had chosen a
liltle corner of the school grounds where
I would sit and dream at my ease, for I
have always liked reverie. When my
It's bad for you, companions tried to usurp possession of
Llmnst to death this corner, I defended it with all my
might. I already i new by instinct that
my will was to override that of others,
and that what pleased me was to Lelong
to me I was not liked at school. It
takc3 time to make one's self liked ; and
eveu when I had nothing to do, I always
felt vaguely that I had no time to lose.
I entered the service, and soon giew
tired of garrison work. I began to read
novels, and they interested me deeply.
I even tried to write some. I often let
myself dream, in order that I might
afterward measure my dreams by the
compass of my reason. I threw myself
into an ideal world, and endeavored to
both wavs it will be a gain: so, unless
you have something "against me, say
" Yes," Lucy, and we'll have the parson
over to-morrow, and make all safe
Will you, Lucy?'
Oh, how could I have anything
against you?' replied Lucy, with the
sweetest blush.
Well,' declared John, a moment
after, as he raised his head from his
hrst long lover's kiss, now i iorgive
Mrs. Nash!' Harper's Bazar.
when a movingobiect far ahead caught jump into my wagon and go home with
. . ii . ; i n t, i . i j v, v. . .. u. ; v . ; ,
his eye, ana no rose in ois surrups in
order to see more clearly. As he did so
his horse made a lalse step, stumbiea,
and threw him forward in the saddle.
so that his neaa grazea me norse s
neck. It was iu this position that a
tinv obiect. a patch of red not over an
inch square, iu the dust beneath, caught
his ouick eve. ins neari gave a nine
leap; then he called himself a fool; but
all the same he demounted to examine.
Already a random hoof-stroke had
buried the red patch from sight, but
me? My old woman s been taming inis
long piece back of getting a smart girl
to help along when she's laid up with
the rheumatics; so you're just the one
we want She'll treat you fairly
enough. -I'll be bound, and "you shall
have whatever you were getting here,
And if you behave yourself you'll be
well used, not turned out of acors for
nothing, I'll engage to that; it isn't the
way up in are parts,' with a vindii tive
look at the landlady, who stood riiridlv
planted in the doorway. ' We don t set
The Oermantown Telearavh savs that
since the law to prevent the spread of
contagious diseases among the cattle of
New Jersey was passed by the legisla
ture' of that State, little has been heard
of the pleuro-pneumonia which at one
time was quite prevalent mere. j.ue
report of the State treasurer states that
the gross sum paid last year in the
proper enforcement of the law was
9c3 43 1 .8 1 . or which veterinary surgeons
reived 14.624. and other sources of
ex Dense the balance. Eighty head of
affected cattle were killed, for which
f 954 were paid by the btate.
find out in what precise points it dif
fered from the actual wond in which I
lived. I have always liked analysis,
and if I were to bo seriously in love, I
should analyze my love bit by bit. I
conquered, rather than studied, history.
I did not care to retain, and did not re
tain, anything that could not give me
a new idea; I disdained all that was
useless, but took possession of certain
results which pleased me." Mme. Dt
Remusat.
Mr. Allbort, the retiring traffic mana
ger of the English Midland railway, has
occupied his place for twenty-six years,
at a salary of $20,000 a year. He now
takes a seat at the board worth about
$4,000 a year, and is presented with an
honorarium of $50,000. His family is
t j receive a service of plate, and his por
trait is to be painted.
Dm-inz 1879 forest trees were planted
on 28,000 acres of land in Minnesota.
The following ire the dates at which
Congress has adjourned in previous
presidential years: 1832, July 16; 1836,
July 4; 1840, July 21; 1844, June 17;
1848, August 14; 1852, August 31 ; 1856,
August 18 and Auxust 30; IHiiO, June
25; 1801, July 4; 1668, July 27; 1872,
June 10; 1876, August 15. .
Victoria's Crown.
As described by her majesty's mineral
ogist, the crown of England's queen is
quite a bauble. It was made by Messrs.
Uundell & Bridge in 1838, with jewels
taken from old crowns, and furnished
by command of her majesty. It consists
of diamonds, pearls, rubies, sapphires
and emeralds, set in silver and gold ; it
has a crimson velvet cap with ermine
border, and is lined with white silk.
Its gross weight is thirty-nine ounces,
five pennyweights, Troy. The lower
part of the band above the ermine bor
der consists of a row of 129 pearls, and
the upper part of the band of a row of
112 pearls, between which in front of the
frown is a lame saonhire partly drilled
purchased for the crown by his
majesty, King George IV. At the back
is a sapphire of smaller size, and six
other sapphires three on each Bide
between which are eight emeralds.
Above and below the seven sapphires
are fourteen diamonds, and around the
eight emeralds 128 diamonds. Between
the emeralds and the sapphires are six
teen trefoil ornaments, containing 10
diamonds. Above the band are eight
Bapphires surmounted by eighf. dia
monds, between which are eight festoons
containing 148 diamonds. In the front
of the crown, and in the center of a dia
niond Maltese cross, is the famous ruby
said to have been given to Edward III.,
called the black prince, by Don Pedro,
king of Castile, after the battle of Va
jera, near Vittorio, A. D., 1367. This
ruby was worn in the helmet of Henry
V. at the battle of Agineourt, A. D.,
1415. It is pierced quite through, after
the Eastern custom, the upper part of the
piercing being filled by a Bmall ruby.
Around the ruby, in order to form the
cross, are Beventy-five brilliant dia
monds. Three other Maltese crosses,
forming the two sides and back of the
crown, have emeraia centers. nu con
tain respectively 132, 124 and 130 bril
liant diamonds. Between the four Mal
tese crosses are four ornaments tn the
form of the French fleur-de-lis, with four
rubies in the centers, and surrounded by
rose diamonds, containing respectively
eighty-five, eightv-six and eighty-seven
rose diamonds. From the Maltese cross
issue four imperial arches composed of
oak leaves containing 728 rose, table
and brilliant diamonds; thirty-two
pearls form acorns, set in cups contain
er fifty-four rose diamonds and one
table diamond. The total number of
diamonds in the arches and acorns is
108 brilliants, 1 16 table and 659 rose dia
monds. From the upper part of the
arches are suspended four large pendant
pear-shaped pearls with rose diamond
caps, containing twenty-four very small
rose diamonds. Above the arch stands
the mound, containing in the lower
hemisphere 304 brilliants, and in the
upper 224 brilliants, the zone and arc
being composed of thirty-three rose dia
monds. The cross on the summit has a
rose cut sapphire in the center, sur
roundVd by four large brilliants and 108
smaller brilliants.
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