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I toy fcpon the water's edge, lapping wnvoa crept to and fro With murmuring soft 'gainst rooky lodge, With moaning whore the rushes growj And e'er beneath tlie tide und inoan Boundod au'undortoue. 'Neath tho tangled branches of a wood I stood, and heard : b't giant limbs, With thousand tongues of leaves, Hfiood The plaoe with solemn, dirge-like hymns, And there through sonnd familiar grown Boundod Rn undertone. I watched a bird upon the wing; His song of Eladnss, liko a thread, ' Wore in and out the air of spring A wob t,f sweut song 'bruidered; Ar,d blont with carol high and loot "Bounded the undertone. A wandering band of minstrels strolled, With thrilling harp aud wild, and song; I listened aa tho notes out-rolled And beat against a careless throng; And thore heard I was't I alone ? Tho sounding undertone, r And e'er, benoath the child' sharp ory, The maiden's laughter pure and sweot, Man's outh, mau's prayer, cour.es drifting by, Lif j's undertone the soul doth greet. Is't echo lost to common ears j That idling poet vaguely hears ? Maria Le Uaron, The Romance of a Hammer. YVI am, I believe, quite a disin terested person, and fairly well-known for both my murage and modesty. 1 "Vas boarding In a retired neighborhood in New York, and next door to me 1 1 VKil in a . . i 1-t-!.,,... nn ..11 i.i with her granddaughter. Need I say that that young person was unusually attractive ? I regret to state, however, that any advances on my part in that .......... ww iuvv an mob rvibu Uiuuil indifference. Of course, an acquaint ance with tho old lady had to be made, and a very queer old lady was she. "With a great many eccentricities, she had one In particular which over shadowed the rest. Once her house had been robbed, forty years before, and she bad never forgotten it. Though Bho was deaf as a post, she assured me that the least noise disturbed her of nights, as the dread of robbers was always on her mind. "Whether the young lady shared her grandmother's fears or not, V -11 1 A 1 - . . x oju not kiiow. 1 rauier uopea she did. If, as I thought to myself, I could only take advantage of this old woman's fancies, that might give me an intro duction to the house. The old lady was garrulous, and I very soon scraped up an acquaintance with her. 1 had not been talking with her more than five minutes, shouting mv words into her ears, before I broached the subject of robberies. From my pocket I drew a newspaper and read there from in loud tones a long account of a housebreaking adventure. I must confess that in order to add some point A- .1. . a r t a i i ;i . I 10 me Biory x mirouuceu soma quite new facts into the description. For instance tho street in which the rol bery took place was in an entirely dif ferent part of the town from ours, and for it I substituted our own immediate neighborhood. In the original version. however, it was an old woman who had actually been at the mercy of the bandits. 1 howled it all out, and had the satisfaction of seeing that it had an instantaneous effect on the old lady. " Deary me!" said the old Lady. "Ter rible! and we are so entirely unpro tected two lone women!" " Awful!" I replied; " and when rob bers get in a neighborhood they never let up until they clean out everything;,. : I don't like to tell you, but I have seen j some very strange and mysterious looking fellows tramps apparently j lounging around here lately." " Bless us! and I am so deaf, and so j nervous. I am sure I shan't bo able i to sleep for weeks. What can I do'r"' ' " I have an idea," said I. " In what story of your house do you sleep ?" " Second story." Then the old lady described the position of her bed-, chamber second story back. Her j granddaughter slept in the same room. I had known that before from a care ful reconnoissance I hail made. My own modest chamber in tho boarding house was on the same tloor, and our rooms were contiguous, only separated j by the thin party wall. "Now, my dear madame," said I, " I am going to propose a plan of action for you, quite simple of its kind, which ought to relieve you of all anxieties. 1 might recommend a burglar-proof ap paratus with telegraph attachments, but those are very expensive things to set up. I can manage it all with a hammer." " A hammer !" exclaimed tho old lady, opening wide her moutli and eyes. " Yes; a simple hammer." " But I should be so terrified that if a robber were to break in I never could use it. I couldn't knock him down with it." Tho old lady was ter ribly flustered. " I didn't mean a hammer to be used as a weapon. Oh, dear, no; quite dif ferent from that. Your room in your house ami mine in my house are ad ' jacent, :"nd tho head of your bed is just m ar aniue. Now, I will buy you a '! i"it"t r, n"i all vou Lave to do is to take it to bed with you. At the least noise take your hammer and give it threo raps on the wall. I will at once understand that by that is meant a precautionary signal. It's quite as good as any telegraphic, apparatus. I hear the three reps good. I wake up at once, (Mid, springing out of bed put on my clothes. I am prepared for action, as it were. Then, should your fears continue, you keep on rapping. I understand at once that the danger is iniminont. Then I seize my revolver, cock it, runs downstairs, bound over tho fence, and my presence at once disconcerts the robbers. They en deavor to escape; I shoot two or three of them, and you and your charming granddaughter are saved" "Its very dreadful, but quite kind and thoughtful of you, and so in genious. I do believe that if I knew that some one was watching for my safety half my fears would be dis sipated." The old woman really looked quite grateful. "So you think you could hear me V" she asked " Of course I could. I sleep on one ear," I replied. It is true the idea is perfectly my own, but as introduced by me it is quite practicable, for it has been put on trial; in fact, by means of the hammer system wo might dispense with the police entirely. Once, w hen I lived in quite a deserted neighborhood a long row of houses in a suburban portion of the city I organized a ham mer alarm. I had to do it for self protection. There had been robbery after robbery in the row, and the police were afraid to interfere. Every body in that row went regularly to bed with a hammer. It was very hard on the thieves, for, as bad luck would have it for those rascals, they tried to break into one house just at the end of the row. In six seconds every inmate in tho row hail been informed that a burglarious attempt was being made. You might have heard the three taps working along from house to house in the stillness of the night. Everybody turned out under my lead. AVe "made a cordon, swept the street, and captured six or seven of the robbers. I don't remember the numrter of them exactly, only that they were the most blood thirsty rascals known in the annals of crime." The old lady, whose hair fairly stood up by this time or would have stood up if she had had any was profuse in her thanks. Just what I-wanted took place. I was invited next evening to take tea, and the old lady in person showed me her garden, so that I might understand the lay of the land. Now, I had reconnoilered the premi ses before, not that I thought any thing ever would happen, but really out of consideration for the young woman. Tho fence was not a vuy high one, though adorned with spikes. To facilitate my climbing, I rolled a big barrel near it. I could step on that and then with a slight effort could scale the fence. 1 showed my plans of succor and the old lady approved of them, I bought a tack-hammer, pre sented it to her, and explained to her, in detail, the method of signaling. The tea was a very pleasant one, and the young lady agreeable. I went to bed that night quite happy and quite forgot all about the signals. In fact, a week or so elapsed and nothing oc curred to break the quiet of that really peaceful neighborhood. I am sound sleeper generally, but on a certain night not long afterward there was such a terrible storm of wind and rain, with rattling of win dows, that my usual rest would not come. At last I went olf into a halt dreamy dose, when suddenly close to my ear j. was awah'eneil Willi a start T lieard the three ominous taps on the wall ! I never listened to anything so dreadful in my life. "Was I awake! I waited a while. It was the precau tionary signal, but not the positive alarm, llat-tat-tat went tho devil's tatoo oh the wall, then I knew that danger was imminent. 1 looked out of :!ie window, and it was raining cats and logs I shuddered ! Still the ursed rapping of the hammer rever berated through the room. L huddled on my clothes. 1 never had a revolver in my life, and, had 1 owned one, would :iot have known how to shoot it off. I wished 1 had not lied so, but I always was romantic. The rapping continued like mad. Suppose these, were real, true for true robbers next door ! "What could a single, poor, inoffensive, un armed young man like me, do against a whole gang of bloodthirsty house breakers? I know that they would murder me for interfering with their legitimate business. 1 .thought once I would open the window and yell : "Murder ! theives !" but my window looked on the yard, and the wind was howling so that had there been a whole squad of police below not one of them would have lieard me. It was dreadful to be waked up that way, to walk to sudden death, aud so unpre pared as I knew I was. I cursed my otliciousness ! I was dressed somehow nt last and went slowly, shivering down tho btairs, making aQ the noise I could, but it was. just one of those selfish boarding-houses where the inmates never take notice of anything. I opened tho back door which led to the garden. I was wet to the skin before I found the barrel and what was mysU'rous about it was that the barrel hail been moved away from the fence. In a minute It flashed across my mind that did I once venture in the adjacent garden my retreat would be cut off, and that as the victim of some villainous trap, next morning I would bo found dead dead my skull beaten in with a jimmy. At last, however, at the expense of several severe excoriations, I was over the fence. I gazed at the back of the house. All was still still as death there was a lull in the storm. I waited to hear the agonized scream of the vic tims, but there was nothing save an appalling stillness. Then something rustled, and I covered my face with my hands. I was awaiting some crash ing blow on my head, when a stray cat bounded past me. No lights were visi ble. I w aited ten minutes, exposed to the drenching of the pitiless storm, for it rained now harder than ever; then, finding that if the worst had come it was all over now, and I could do noth ing, I retreated, quietly, deliberately reelimbed the fence, and at last re gained my bed. I was miserable, chilled to the marrow, and so nervous and excited that I never went to Bleep any more during the whole of that wretched night. Next morning, having recovered somewhat from the effects of that night of terror, I awaited with much anxiety the appearance of that old lady at her door, for she always took in tho milk herself. Should she not respond to the milkman's call then tho mystery would be solved. But she did turn up. I at once went to the door, a-nd I expected that she would have a story of some dreadful charac ter to impart to me, and I was ready to tell her how I hail saved her and her granddaughter from death.when, much to my disgust, after having exchangi d an ordinary good-morning with me, she was about re-entering with her milk. " You had a most narrow escape last night," I said. "Oh, yes," she replied, smilingly; "it's half water, and mighty blue and thin. Evidently she referred to the milk." " If it had not been for me," I said, " you would have all been murdered in your beds, I was up and out. In three seconds after the first 6troke of the hammer I was in your garden. I hope your charming granddaughter has suffered no inconvenience. I am quite positive that they the robbers were around last night, and my timely presence scattered them." "God bless my soul," said the old lady, as she dropped the milk, " and I did not know it." "But you hammered away like a first-class blacksmith." "Indeed, I did not," said she; " and my milk, that's all gone. I slept un common well; better than usual. I always sleep soundly when it rains." Would it be believed that the old woman denied the. hammer incident in toto? Had I been dreaming? "Was it force of imagination, the teaming of a delirious brain V A shocking bad cold in my head assured me that it had been a reality. I was quite out of heart all that next day, and went to bed at night in a most unhappy state of mind. "Was my rest to be broken in upon again? I hail hardly fallen off into a feverish slumber when I heard the accursed hammer again. I covered my head with the bedclothes. Bat-tat-tat it went. It could not be a hammering of my imagination, for 1 put my ear to the wall and felt the vibrations through the flimsy partition. Oh, the unutterable selfishness of that old woman! Ami what if she were robbed of a silver teapot or so or a dozen tea spoons! 1 was desperate now. 1 rushed downstairs. Fortunately it was not raining. I found my barrel at once, and that was reassuring. 1 excoriated myself again. I scaled the wall and landed with a crash on the other side on a pile of ilower-pots some one had carelessly placed there. I waited a moment for the noise to subside. 1 knew that if any robber. were, there the row 1 had made must startle them. 1 rubbed a very badly skinned ankle and waited and nothing came. Night after night went on that ac cursed hammering. "Was I .to be doomed to the terrible task of discov ering thieves in that old lady's garden, and, what was worse, my chivalous con duct, my dallying with death, receive rio recognition t Evidently there was some mystery. I was the victim whose sad end was being plotted. ' I never went to sleej) after that with out stulliug cotton in my ears and al ways in a most wretched frame of mind. I was a martyr of my disinterestedness. I was being robbed of my sweet nleep. Life became a burden to me. The old lady was either laboring under some hallucination or I was crazy. There was only one thing which made me suffer all these torments, and that was the belief that I was a hero in the eyes of the granddaughter. I cannot say that she ever directly expressed herself in that way, but looking at her at times when I met her in the street, as 1 ad dressed a few words to her, 1 thought I recognized an expression on her lace w hich told me of her sympathy. These nocturnal visits at last preyed on my spirits. I went to bed now with my clothes on. I had bought a second hand revolver. I had become reckless. I am quite sure that had I met a small boy of about the size of Oliver Twist at night in the old lady's garden I should have shot at him. The rapping would cease for a night or two and then commence again. I felt that this business must come to a stop. My employers, leading grocers, had noticed my sleepiness during busi ness hours, and had complained about it. One night this spring wearily I climbed the garden fence, pistol in hand for it had become a mechanical pro cess now and I dropped into a wash tub of water, placed with devilish in genuity on a three-legged stool. As I fell over my pistol went off. The neighborhood M as aroused at last, but I distinctly heard in the bath-room that overlooked the old lady's garden peals of laughter, and a young woman appeared at the window who M as apparently en joying the scene. If this brutal conduct on the part of that girl were not sufficient, think of the impertinence of a young man who called next day on me at our place of business. As I have said, I am a clerk in the wholesale grocery line, and drug gists' clerks are always stuck-up crea tures. That young sprig twirled a stick in one hand and in the other he had a card. I am to suppose his name was written on it. "See here," said he, making his stick whiz through the air within a few inches of my nose. " See here, oleomargarine, codfish, prunes, pickles and glucose, you have been fool ing around grandmother's place long enough, and you are a precious ass, and Mary Jane that's my cousin, a lady I am going to marry has had quite enough of your nonsense. "What a prime proprietary idiot, with a revenue stamp on it, you must be not know that the old lady has got robber on.the brain bad when she's awake, but when she's asleep of nights, bless her, she snores away like a hum ming top. A Chinee cracker under her ear wouldn't as much as faze her. Now, the old woman never had any use for your hammer, but I guess from what Mary Jane has told me she has been pounding around with it quite promis cuously. Now, see here, here is your hammer, and do you take it before I make you swallow it, handle, claw and all, just as if it were a glass of cream soda, and the very next time I hear you have ventured to cross that fence, or to put that big foot of yours in my grandmother's house, I will just thrash you dizzy, and listen to some good ad vice change your boarding-house, figs, even if you have to go back on your landlady." TVISE TYOHDS. Confidence generally inspires confi dence. Venture not upon the threhold of wrong. People do not lack s lei.gtb ; they lack will. I hold him to be dead in whom shame is dead. Injure not another's reputation or business He is the gie&test who choose? to do right at all times. lie who prays for his neighbor will be heard for himself. "Where the mind inclines the feet lead. Love climbs mountJtins. Nothing is more dangerous to men than asudden change iu fortune. A prison is never nanow -when the imagination can range in it at will. The days are made on a loom, where of the warp and woof are past and fu ture time. There are few thiugs reason can dis cover with so much certaiuty and ease as its own insufficiency, Commence m an unlaitliiiu man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth and a foot out of joint. A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers ami woods but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyal to that principle. Do not speak with contempt and ridkulc of a locality where you may be visiting. Find something to truthfully praise and commend; thus make jour self apreeahle. Sorrow is a kind t in.t of tho soul, which every new idea contrl ntes in it? passage to scour away. It is the putre faction of stagnant lite, and it is remedied by exercise and motion. The Cradle or tho Bootblack. New York lays claim to be the place where the street bootblack first ap peared, but JJoscon says the professional bootblack is essentially im institution of the " Hub.'- The TrucalUr of the lat ter city says at first the business was associated with window-washing, chimney-sweeping, clothes cleauing and waiting and tending. In time, how- ever, it became a distinct branch, and many of the bootblacks of that day ac quired a handsome independence and became real estate holders. The cus tom then was to call at the homes of (lie gentry, take the, boots and shoes, Hring them on long poles and carry them to their respective places of busi rvss, polish and return them at an early oiir the next day. These poles would eld a dozen or more pairs, and it Mas novel sight to see the bootblacks passing to and fro. FACTS A5I C0MMEXTS. The telephone Is gradually develop ing into rivalship Mith the telegraph at least for limited distances. It has been used to advantage between Brus sels and Dover a w hole distance of 240 miles, sixty of which were under water. If submarine difficulties have been suf ficiently overcome, the time may not be far distant Mhen New York and Lon don will be talking to one another. The value of babies has been fixed. A child less than 1 year is worth $14; be tween 1 and 2 years, f 19; 2 to 3 years, ?J3; 4 years, $:51; 5 years, H5; b years, ?10; 7 years, $.r0; 8 years, 60; 9 years, $70; 103-ears,(J0; 11 years, $123. These are the valuations made by a baby Insur ance company of Cincinnati. The parents pay five cents a M-eek for the in surance of their child. The rates for colored children are twice as much, owing to their two-fold ability for con tracting contagious diseases. A Cleveland man named Jones has a cow addicted to the uncomfortable habit of switching her tail in his face while milking her. The other day Jones took the tail and tied it firmly to his leg. The cow, irritated by the flies she could not drive away, started off and feeling the curious attachment to her tail be came frightened and ran. Jones is now M alking about on crutches and remark ing: "About the tenth time I had been hauled around that lot I began to see where I missed it. I oughter tied her tail to her leg and not to mine." Tho possibilities incident to the general use of electricity and its pres ence in all parts of a large city, are sug gested by an incident which happened in Xew York a short time since when at a certain point in Nassau street, horses, no matter how old and worn out, or lively and spirited, jumped and curvetted und pranced to the great de light of the crowds who witnessed the performance. Much to' their disap pointment M'ord was sent to the Edison Electric Light company and the current was turned off from that vicinity. A wire pressed upon the steam pipes that had been laid down in the street, these communicated Mith the surface, and every time the horses' iron shoes closed the circuit the animals received a shock which set them to curvetting and even to running. A New York reporter has been in vestigating the footsteps of the many millions who walk the streets of New YorK. "Investigate" is a good word f or it, too, because in the original Latin it means to look after the tracks or foot prints of anybody or anything. Nearly all thestt psof public buildings are worn hollow, and tho wear upon the elevated railroad stations is so great that a com bination of iron and india rubber, to prevent wear and slipperiness, has been devised. The curbstones where people wait for vehicles are hollowed out. A aeep furrow is M-orn upon the step3 of buddings, like those in front of A. T. Stewart's, running the whole length of tiie building, where people have left the siileM-alk and walked along on the step. The renewal of stone steps, curbs and stairways in a large city is not in frequent. Aremarkable Italian pea.-ant custom has just been brought to notice at Naples. A year ago the daughter of Carolina Gar guiilo was married to a sailor named Giuseppe Esposito. It is the usage among the lower classes for the bride groom to visit his mother-in-law on the morning folloMing the marriage. Es posito was reminded of this custom but neglect ell to make the visit. The mother-in-law then became angry and urged her son, Vincenzo Garguillo, to kill Es posito. The son at once went to his sister's house and waited for the hus band, who on, coming welcomed him and begged him to stay aud dine. Vin cenzo thereupon drawing a knife, threw himself on his brother-in-law, stabbed him and laid him dead at his feet. Vin ceuzo has been sentenced to imprison ment for life and his mother to "seclu. sion" for three years. Under the constitution of Switzer land any federal law, before it can take effect, must, if demanded by 30,0(0 cit izens, be submitted to a vote of the people and be approved by them. At the recent session of the federal cham bers two laws M ere passed, which upon demand were submitted to a vote of the people and M'ere both rejected. One of these M as a national law for the regu lation of epidemics. It made vaccina tion compulsory throughout the repub lic and it gave the federal authorities power to take persons affected with epidemic diseases away from their families and isolate tnem un der government care. This law was re jected by the overwhelming vote of 220,000 to 60,000. Its rejection, how ever, leaves to each canton its present power to enforce vaccination when it thinks it necessary. The other law was one authorizing the federal government to establish a system of patent and copy right laws, none of which laws, it seems, exist In Switzerland. A Swiss inventor can obtain no patent in hisown country. This law was also rejected by a vote of 126,500 for to i;j8,.r.0() against it. If you M'ant to find out how great a man i let him tell it himself. Sleep. Lift me from life's sharp rocks and float me, Bleep, CFar out upon thy waters all alone. There let me sink beneath the soft sea moan Of wind and wave into the stilly deep. Nor any jot of my wrecked fortunes keep To float me with, no face that I have known Of friend or foe, nor that worst face my owe; I would be dead and cease to laugh and weep. In soft forgetfidness my spirit still, Till busy morning sees me cast ashore, To face the grind of custom's daily drill, To find life's apple rotten at the core; So but God's arm were round me 'twere not iU If sleep were death, and life's dull fit were o'er. H. J. D. llyder. HUMOR OF THE DAT. What Adam said on beholding the first sunrise: "Go West, my sun, go West!" Steamships have rolling stock M-hen they ';arry live cattle. Saturday Night. Some hotel clerk must have origi nated the expression, "There is always room at the top." Timid persons afraid of steamboats M ill be pleased to know that George Decker, M ho made the first trip on Ful ton's craft, 13 still alive and hearty. Cheek. " Good-morning, Fred," said Brown ; "how is your M-ife, better I hope?" " Yes," replied Fred; "better but not out of danger. The doctor calls regu larly every day." At a recent Bale in London a medal struck offinlMJo brought $340. Our readers missed a bonanza by not having a feM- medals struck off that year. Norristoivrt, Herald. A handsome London butcher stands five times the show to get married that a handsome clerk does. It is a wise girl M ho, In looking out for her rib, sets her stake for steak. Free Press The corn husks are heavy, a sure in dication of a hard winter. If Vennor and the veracious goose bone should I concur, as no doubt they M-ilL it will be M ise to take your ulster out of pawn i at once. I Why does a duck go into tho water ? j For divers reasons. AVJiy does it come out ? For sun-dry reasons. Why does it go back ? To liquidate its bill. Why does it come out again t lo mane a run on the bank. The toothpick boot is going out of fashion, 'tis said. But the broad, easy nv.'inging boot M'orn by vigorous men of about fi f t y, wit h ma rria g 'able daugl i ters, will never go out of fashion, young man, never. Keep out of its reach. New Harm Register. Said the practical man: "You can talk all you want to about phrenology. I think' it is all stuff. The only im portant bump I ever found on my cra nium was here right in the midille of my forehead and it Mas made by a baseball bat. I concluded to call it the bump of ignorance because I didn't know enough to get out of the way." "Suffering sisters," exclaimed the speaker, energetically shaking the hair pins from her head in her excitement, wo men will never obtain their rights until they display more courage. Let me say to vou, in the words of a famous French orator, 'Courage ! courage ! courage P " At this stage of the proceeding some body threw a box of caterpillars upon the platform and the meeting broke up in great terror and confusion. He lay in a swoon by the roadside. His helmet was broken ; bis visor was cracked ; his gorget was tarnished with the nmoke of battle ; his breastplate was Indented like a milk can ; his hali berd M-as as dull as a five-cent barber's razor ; the lock of his cross-gun was shattered ; his arquebuse M-as shivered; his quiver shook like a canal horse M ith the heaves ; his tabard M as in shreds ; his ears were off ; one eye was gone : his nose M-as out of plumb, and his jav; bone M as paralyzed. He had been try ing to umpire a baseball game. " Do you think so, darling?" "Yes," said the girl, passing her plate for more pie and smiling archly as she spoke; kisses and embraces and fair words are very pleasant things sweet hps aru. warm arms and loving eyes but truth and sincerity and loyalty and purity are very much fairer and rarer.'.' " You are right," replied her husband, looking at her with lov ing tenderness, " you are right, sweet heart, and I will not deceive you any longer." " AVhat do you mean?" she asked, a look of horror passing over her face. " There is but one piece of pie." Bidd George W. Simpson, "and I shall tackle it myself." Chicago Tri- An elderly gentleman of Benton, Montana, the father of Katie McGrorty, learned that his daughter intended to elope M'ith John Cleary. Early that evening he took his blankets and spread a comfortable bed under the buggy which he expected the young jn-ople to take. II eslept soundly the whole nigl it through, and in the morning found the buL'cv over him safe. But tho young people had taken unother buggy, ami i were quietly married iu Bodie the nex . ' day.
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