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THE WISDOM OF AGO.
" WtmMct thou have bnclt thy life again?
I BKlte-1 en a;.;ol man;
" Could1 tbou not grnndnr ends attain,
Aud bolter life)' wholo planf
"'No, son," bo wildi " I rest content,
And calmly wait the end.
'One life alono to man Is lent,
To wivito or wiw.-ly spend.
"If with the knowledge years bestow
We started in the race,
All plans might meet with overthrow
And shame us with disgrace.
"fo combination man can make
Insults complote fuooe;
The lucky winner tokos the prlxa
Ho won by random guess.
" I would not say change rules below
And nature shows design;
Lf in not like the dioo'g throw,
Lswk follows laws divine.
"Some men are born to grace a throne,
Borne to a leper's doom;
Tat equal light for both hath shone
Their spirits to illume.
44 Mr lif ha? run through light and shade
The end Is drawing near;
- I long for rest all undismayed,
And ask not back one year."
Chicago Tribune.
AN OCEAN CHASE.
BY A DETECTIVE.
"Aha! Burleigh, hero's a job for you
one that's got gumo in it, and a long
chase, perhaps."
It was the chief of the Scotland Yard
detective force who spoke, as he stepped
into tho private otice, A knot of "hale
follows well met," and I, an American,
among the number," were engaged in a
pamo of whist. I throw down my cards.
The chief handed me a telegram, which
read as follows :
Headi vo, Charles Burton, the infant
heir of Iieeuhain lodxe, wax stolen from the
lodge last nWht, it is supported, by the nurse,
in whose charge it was ploood. She has dis
appeared. .She is tall; blonde hair, b'.ue
eyes; graceful and easy In her manners, aud
wears a p'ain, dark costume. Larsra reward
for her capture, and the recovery of the
child. Edward Pordaob.
. "Where is Beenham lodge t" I in
' quired, as soon I had glanced at the dis
patch.
"Near Reading."
"Tho nurso will come to London with
the child."
"That is not so certain. This is doubt
less a scheme to remove the hoir to the
Beenham estate by some person or persons
who are itching to obtain possession
alter Mr Edward Pordage a death."
"Then you think they will not run the
Hazard or bringing tho child here?"
"Certainly not."
With a flush my mind was made up.
I startod out of tho ollice. and in a few
minutes was in a train that was bearing
nie at a rupia rate toward Mending.
Upon my arrival I secured a private
conveyance, and, after a drivo of a few
miles, was landed at tho entranco to the
lod e. I was met by a gentleman, who
received me with much warmth and
withal agitation when 1 in for mud him
that I had been placed on the case.
"Tho object of my hasty visit is to
glean some of tho facts in the case, and
to follow up any intelligent clew, if there
oe any. Was this your child that was
etolcn, Sir Edward?"
"Bless you,' nol I am a bachelor
never was married. Charles Burton was
the child of my sister. I ora his uncle,
and by will have made him the lineal
male heir to the Beenham estates."
"Have you any other relatives, Sir
Edward?"
"Yes; another sister, a spinstor, Miss
Applcbce Loworc, lives wjth me, and
has been my housekeeper for many years,
She has also managed much of my busi
ness affairs of late, as I feel the wcicrkt
of vears increasing upon me."
"Who was the nurse, and what was
her name?"
"31y spinster sister's waiting maid.
Her name is l'ercy Miss Jane I'ercy. A
more docile, winning, and obedient ser
vant we have never had in our employ,
Charles Burton's mother died soon after
Charles was born, and wo took the help
less littio infant to our home and nursed
it with the tendercat cire. Miss Percy
took such an interest in the child that
she was givon the sole charge, and seemed
to love it with a mothers love. Un,
trust no harm has befallen it, wherever it
has been taken !"
"What is its age?"
"About a vear."
"What motive, think you, was there
for the abduction of the child?"
"Isone that I can see, unless the ex
pectation of securing a large reward for
its return. "
"Then you do not suspect that a plot
has been formed among some branch of
vour relatives
for the removal of the
child?"
Bir Edward stopped for a moment, as
if a flash of new light had' entered his
mind; but he stamped his ponderous
cane on the floor and indignantly re
ijlied :
"My relatives steal that poor, helpless
babel No, perish the very thought of it,
Not one could so diahouor the name of
Arttlebue or Pordage."
As I arose to depart, an elderly lady o
the ceuuine spinster typo walked gravely
into tho room and glanced, furtively at
mo as slie advanced.
" This is Mr. Mr."
"Burleigh," I interjected, to help the
old man's memory.
" lies a detective sent down from
London to discover our poor lost child,
and he wants to get all the information
he can. Bister, give hiui all you can.
You know what Miss Percy wore and
what clothing the child had on."
" I presume, S-ir Kdward, you can do
that," !ie Vcplicd. rather- tartly, U"d
seeming to shrink frora having anything
to communicate
Without wishing to force the matter,
and making an apology for haste, I took
my departure, and I was soon back ia
London. I went at once to my room,
and picking up a good-sized gripsack,
threw in somo of my clothing, with tho
expectation that I might bo retpurcd to
mako a lopgj journey. Ooing out into
tho street, I ordered a cab and was driven
to tho Inraan line of steamers, where I
ascertained tho City of Richmond was
xpected to leave Liverpool early tho
next morning. .
" lou have your passenger list, l pre
sume?" I inquired of tho clerk.
" Ccrtaiuly."
" Will you plcaso allow mo to look at
it?"
"With pleasure."
I glanced along the list of names, but
could not sco the one for which I was
carching. I handed the paper back and
was about turning away, when the
thought occurred to me that it would do
no harm to question the- ouicial a little
further.
"Do you sell the London passage tick
ets ?"
"Yes, sir" somewhat sharply.
"Do you recollect selling a ticket
to a tall lady with blue eyes, blonde
hair, and attired in a dark costume ?''
"Very distinctly. I was attracted by
her beauty. She's a lovely woman."
"Ana she purchased a ticket I '
"Two tickets."
"Two tickets!" I ejaculated with some
eurprise, which drew tho attention of the
clerk. For once I had been thrown oil
my guard.
"And she had a child with her inner
arms ?"
"1 saw no child. I took her to be a
younsr lady who might not object to a
good husband."
"Strange I"
"Xo, I don't think so. She never was
a mother."
"Perhaps not; but then"
"Then what ?"
" She might have somo oao else's
child, you know;" and I hastened out of
the ollice and went to tho railroad sta
tion, where I had tho good fortune to
catch the niirht express for Liverpool.
So sure was I that I had got upon the
trail of the child abductor, that I felt
annoyed at every littio delay along the
route, ily mind was in a glow of ex
citement. The game was big, but shy
and cunning. Nothing less than the
bird in the hand would make me feel any
certainty of success. I must reach Larer-
Eool before the City of Richmond took
cr departure. If not, the pursuit would
be longer, and might end in failure even
then. When half the journey had been
made, and the train was whirling through
the darkness at a tremendous speed.
there was a sudden stoppage that fore
boded no good. We came to a dead
stop. One of the drivers of the engine
had broken down. iho situation was
interesting and rather exasperating to
mo. Some of the passenirers slept on,
oblivious4o their surroundings. Not so
with me. I fretted and chafed with, dis
appointment.
Two hours wore on. When at length
the injury had been repaired, and. the
train started on its course, I had the sat
isfaction of knowing that I could not
reach Liverpool before the steamer sailed.
I resolved to take the chances, and so I
curled myself up within my own thoughts.
Just as I had feared, the steamer had
sailed upon my arrival in Liverpool.
My next thought was to cable to New
York, giving a description of the woman
and child, and have the former arrested.
This would bring others into the. case.
I wanted the honor and reward myself.
Beside, after careful reflection, I thought
might be on the wrong scent. Ihe
personal description seemed to tally.
.The two ticKets, no paDe in me
woman's charge, and other circumstan
ces led me to think that, alter all,
might ie mistaken.
The thought of defeat drove me to
devising every scheme for pursuit.
A new idea popped into my neaa.
rushed to the ollice of the Guion line.
When does your first steamer sail?"
I inquired of the clerk.
"To-morrow afternoon." ,
"AVhat's her name?"
"The Alaska.'"
"The 'Alaska,' eh?"
"Yes."
"She's a quick one?"
"Fastest vessel afloat." .
"Do you think she can reach New
York before the Inman's 'City of Rich
mond.' which sailed this morning?"
"I should think so will probably dis
tance her by a day."
"That would make a difference of over
two days.
"What of that, barring accidents?"
Thrusting my hand into my pocket,
said:
"I want a cabin passage to New York
- "Your name, sir?"
"James Burleigh, an American de
tective. anxious to cross the ditch and
get back home."
With a somewhat contented spirit
went to a hotel and waited for the hour
of the "Alaska's" departure. I felt tha
I was still in the race, but my competitor
having such a start, while 1 was left
practically at the post, I was not so con
iident of winning, after all.
Anyway, I was glad to sail for the land
of my birth. The novelty of having been
sent to England and the Continent in
quest of some noted criminals who wer
wanted in the btates had worn away
and I longed to see my inends once
more.
Nothing of special note occurred dur
ing tho passage across. The noble vessel
seemed as fleet 83 the wind. Day by day
I studied with eagerness the log of the
vessel to learu our rate of speed. Good
fortune favored iw with fair weather aud
sea.
Upon our arrival at quarantine we
learned that the "Citv of Richmond"
had not yet reached port In fact, was
not expected till the next day. 1 came
p to the city, engaged my rooms at the
hotel, and made what preparations were
needed for the execution of my plans.
Iest tho steamer might arrive at
ight, I stayed that night at Statcn
Island, to bo near nt hand. The precau
tion was unnecessary, as she did not ar
rive till tho next day.
Accompanied by the health officers and
others, I was soon on board, and walked
through tho saloon cabin with the non
chalcnt air of a person who had no
other business than to hum a tune or
twirl a cane. There was the usnal bustlo
for disembarking. My eye could not
catch the object of my search. Perhaps
she was in her state-room. I would wait
and sco.
The vessel was rounding into her pier,
but still no person who could by any
stretch of tho imagination be said to re
semble the one I wanted.
I rambled backward and forward, and
then ascended to the aft of the steamer.
There stood a tall, shapely woman, with
her back turned toward me. She was
wirling her sunshade and seemed ab
sorbed in gazing at the many srghta that
commanded her view. -
I ventured to approach the raQ. My
presence attracted her attention; she
turned her face toward me, there were
momentary mutual glances. What a
handsome face! What a charming
figure 1
Stepping nearer, l venturea, in the
most polite manner, to speak:
"Glad to get back from your foreign
tour, l presume, Miss "
" iienson is my name."
'Miss Benson, I took you to be an
American lady. I am an American, re
turning, after a long absence, to my na
tive land."
'I am so tired of this ship. How
glad I will be when I step on shore
again! It won't bo long now will it,
sir?"
" But a few minutes."
"Pshaw! I've made a mistake,"
thought I. MThis lady hasn't blonde
hair. Ilcr eyes are more a steel gray
than blue. Uer costume is a steel-gray
traveling suit. Then she is alone."
But I thought I detected a decidedly
English accent in her conversation.
If she were Miss Jane Percy, where
could the child be?. If she had a com
panion, male or female, where was that
mysterious personage f I must not be
foiled at this stage of the game. Once
on land and swallowed up in the mael
strom of the masses, the child -stealer and
the child might soon lose their identity,
l must act quiciuy.
Confronting the fair woman, I said, in
a stern voice :
" Your name is not Benson. You are
Miss Jane Percy, the abductor of the
nephew of Sir Edward Pordage, of Been
ham, England. I am a detective. You
are my prisoner."
The woman stood transnxed. ilcr
form trembled her checks blanched at
this sudden encounter. Although capa
ble of calm self-possession, she was
thrown off her guard. Woman-like, her
emotions overcome her, and she fell at
my feet.
" Where is the child "
She hesitated, and falteringly moaned :
"In the steerage."
She conducted me there, when my eyes
fell upon the heir of Beenham Lodge,
crowing in the arms of a fat Irish nurse.
I saw that my beautiful prisoner was
comfortably provided for till the sailing
of the next steamer, and had the pleasure
of placing the young heir in tho arms of
old Sir Edward. The srinister sister,
stung at the action of her brother in
making the line of the Burtons, instead
of the Arjnlebees. the successors of his
large estates, had concocted this plot to
aoaucttne child.
True to his promise, Bir Edward be
stowed upon me such a handsome reward
that, with ordinary caution, the wolf
need never howl at my door.
Iltimnn Beasts of Burden.
At Lust the problem of our school days
is solved, says a Mexican letter, and we
hav discovered how Cortez accom
plished the overland transportation of
that historic fleet of ships, built on the
coast and borne over the mountains to the
lake of Mexico. Nearly all the labor in
this queer country is performed by man
power, few carts or horses being employed.
We meet human beasts of burdeu carry
ing wardrobes on their heads, pianos on
their backs, or huge blocks of building
stone with apparent ease. Mexican In
dians who transport goods from the inter
ior are so trained that they will tire, the
strongest horse in equal time and dis
tance, carrying from 100 to 150 pounds
upon their backs. It is an actual fact
that, after making a long trip thus heav
ily loaded, they nil their baskets with
stones on the return, their strained and
distorted muscles requiring the accus
tomed burden.
A Railroad Around the World.
A railroad around the world, or some
thing nearly of that nature, is evidently
in the mind of one of our correspondents,
who suggests the employment of our
surplus revenueln building the line from
Oregon to Alaska, and that then the
Russian government would be likely to
extend the line through Siberia to Pekin.
This having been done, it requires not
much further stretch of imagination to
see, with the mind's eye, the long rails
stretching out under the shadows of the
Himalayas until they make connection
with the proposed line in the Jordan
valley, and thence with the European
system. 8cieiUfla American.
The salo of second-hand food is an in
dustry conducted profitably by a Gaxman
citizen of New York. lie gathers up
that which is left over from meals at tha
lare. hotels, aud sells it to the poorer
ellipses at a nice though modoat proiit.
FASHION KOTES.
English girls are wearing patent leather
shoes, with uppers made of pale yellow
kid.
Twenty buttons is tho correct length
in New York for gloves for full evening
dress.
Nearly all of the wraps for children
are modifications of the pelisse and pel
erine combined.
The bead embroidery on the colored
kid evening shoe is generally of the samo
shade as the kid.
Borders of fur are used to excess on
dresses of all kinds, whether for the
street or house wear.
Bead necklaces are again fashionable
provided the beads are handsome and
odd-looking or quaint.
Taffeta glace, plain and brocaded, is
the silk for early spring and next sum
mer's full dress wear.
For little boys there are soft berets
trimmed with ribbons, or large fur hats
of the mountaineer shape.
Ash, gray, ruby, and olive are the fa
vorite colors for dressy velvet reception
and opera cloaks and mantles.
Neck chains are altogether out of fash
ion, and women who have handsome
ones are converting them into bracelets.
Plush is coming steadily back into
favor. Worth has just made a dress
for the Prirxess of Wales and another
for tho Queen of Portugal, both trimmed
with plush.
Fur trimmings are fashionable this
season, not only for street garments, but
for house dresses, for matinees, for tea-
gowns, lor robes de chambre, and for
evening toilets of satin or velvet.
Pressed leather with colored fruits and
flowers and applied silver ornaments is
used for letter-cases, portfolios, memo
randum books and card -cases. Soft buck
skin is preferred for purses in which to
carry coins.
Persian shawls with an elaborate silk
design on a novel ground are cut up into
visitcs, and their line coloring produce
an effective wrap for the carriage and for
evening wear. Chemllo of all tho colors
In the pattern makes an appropriate
trimming of fringe.
An unusually large amount of yellow
Is worn for evenings. Deep yellow and
canary color are not fashionable, but pale
Primrose and delicate lemon are used,
'he material, tulle over satin, is generally
looped with bunches of roses, feathers,
or bows of satin ribbon.
A Swiss girdle of velvet pointed above
and below, behind and in front, is worn
with a pointed yoke, and pointed cuffs
to match, on light cashmere and Surah
dresses. Young girls wear a full gath
ered skirt with such a dress and put
bands of the velvet straight around the
skirt.
Palo pink is a favorite color for bon
nets for evening wear. Tho prettiest of
theso are mado of the most dolicate shade
of pale pink velvet, have a ruching or
plaiting of real lace bordering the front,
and a cluster of dainty pink ostrich tips
on one side. Strings of palo pink rib
bon velvet tie beneath the chin.
Ottoman silks of changeable hue and
brocaded like embroidery with threads
of silver are gold, are fashionable for the
bodice and train of evening dresses. Tho
front of the waist and skirt is covered
with Bretonno luce laid on satin of a
deeper color than the Ottoman silk,
which tho wearer finds becoming.
Monsters of tho Deep.
A thrasher shark caught oil tho Now
England coast recently measured over
fifteen feet in length. It stove in a
plank of the dory, nearly upsetting the
boat, and destroyed a net valued at $500.
A costly catch. ,
The shell of a fossil turtle of a tertiary
time unearthed in India and placed in
the British museum, was nearly nine feet
in length and twenty-seven in width. Its
feet were as large as those of a rhinoceros,
ind when alive the animal must have
been over twenty feet long and have
weighed several tons.
Tho largest living animal is the rorqual
whalo, one hundred and two feet in
length; the smallest, the ntnooboid forms.
Whales and elephants live to the greatest
age, 130; May flies the shortest, only a
few hours. The most intelligent of tho
lower animals, ahead even of the Austra
lian bushmen and others, are the ants.
The contents of a shark caught at Vir
ginia, Fla., show that these animals are
valuable scavengers. The items were as
follows: one complete horn of an ox,
with part of skull attached, three hoofs,
two tomato cans, a quantity of old rope,
twenty-seven crawfish, and the remains
of a part of a horse. A slaughter house
in the vicinity was the explanation.
Among the deep sea fishes one has
been found, the Bathyophis ferox, living
off the Australian coast, at a depth of
three and a half miles. It was totally
blind, but provided with oval luminous
spots along its lower surface, and on the
head. These are supposed by some natu
ralists to have as much the functions of
eyes as those of the mollusks.
Large fishes are nearly always accom
panied by the rernora, a fish that has a
sucking disk upon its head. When tired
they turn over on their backs and attach
themselves, and are thus carried along by
the fish. The remora of the sword-fish is
rcmoropsis bracbypterus, that of the
spear-fish is rhombochirus osteochir;
other kinds are found upon sharks, tur
tles, and even on the sheepshead.
There was a young man out in Ari
zona who once declined a pressing iuvi-
tauon to iavor a select company with a
song. "Oh, really, you must excuse
me, ' he said. "I tell you I can't feing.
I don't come of a singiug family. Why,
there was my old father: he used to try
uia iiuuurea,' out no naa so little ear
tor music that he uever got any more
than ninety out of the tuue." IiiJtUo
THE NATIVES OF ALASKA.
modes or Lira of the
' ALEUT).
AMXKICAIT
Detirrlption of Our Knbjm-t In tha
Aln.kn.rt Inr Iland A It ace that
Im liflng Out.
Hon. Louis II. Kimmcll, ,of Lafayette,
Ihd., government agent nt St. George's
Island, Alaska, says in tho Indianapolis
Journal: '
"Tho natives o' Alaska subsist on seal
meat, tho meat of tho sea lion and on
gulls' eggs. In June and July the island
is literally covered with gulls. They lay
great quantities of eggs, which aro gath
ered by thousands. The eggs are palata
ble when fresh, but the natives are not
particular in that sense. If they are over
ripe or have chicks in them they are pre
ferred, being then used in a sort of ome-
let, which they consider their choicest
dish. So with tho meat of the seal and
the sea lion tho stronger it smells tho
better they like it. Gathering gulls' eggs
looks hazardous, but the natives say mere
has never but one accident producing
death occurred to any one engaged in it.
Two men, or as often a man and woman,
go together, taking with them a long rope,
One, lying down with his feet braced
against tho solid earth or a stone, holds
one end of the rope, while the other de
scends sometimes near 1,000 feet over the
sheer face of a cliff, and then, swinging
from sido to side, gathers the eggs,
The accident occurred through a native
going out alone and fastening the rope to
a stake or stone. He was found dead at
the foot of a cliff, the rope broken. The
breaking of the rope was credited to the
blue foxes, who were charged with nav
mg gnawed it i two. Each winter tno
Aleuts trap from 1,500 to 3,000 of theso
foxes, for which the company pays fifty
cents each. The skins, cured, readily
bnng $8 and $9 apiece.
" Tho Aleuts have no great variety oi
amusements. They pitch half-dollars,
and are expert at it. They also play ban,
There are no rules in the game, which
appears to be nothing more than knock
about. As there is no timber on the
island not a tree there is no uniformity
in their clubs, anything goes, any kind of
a stick or a seal rib. They are intensely
fond of cards, and are always playing a
Russian card game, which 1 do not pre
tend to understand, never having tried
to learn it. A while ago they were
about at their wits' end to continue their
card playing. Their packs were about
played out, the sixrts worn off. They
had seen me drawing and colonng, and
came with their well-worn cards to put
new spots on them,
" It wouldn't do for the ladies here to
see the waste of sealskins that I have
seen to see the Aleut women in their
fur clothes made of pup seals, which are
finer, but, because of their size, not as
valuable as the sealskins of commerce.
"They do not estimate things as we
do, those misguided Aleuts, and they
actually prefer bright calicoes and brass
jewelry to sealskin and puro gold. Men
and women are fond of dancing, tho
women especially. Their dances are un
couth and barbarous, but their waltzing
is really exceedingly graceful, and they
like to danco every bunday afternoon
nftnr fnmmff from TliAir fimfdr rhn.net.
They are indebted to tho Russian sailors
and soldiers for their waltz, aa they are
for their religion. Civilization has al
most done for them as it has done for tho
Bandwich Islanders. There is no leprosy
among them, but they have scurvy, and
they have loathsome skin diseases. They
have a glandular swelling in the neck,
which seldom loaves them without a scar,
Speaking of dancing, Christmas, in tho
Greek church, according to the Russian
calendar, which is old style, comes
twelve days later than with us. Last
vear thev had permission to use the gov
ernment house, and beginning with their
Christmas, they danced every night for
two weeks. Thoy are inordinate tea
drinkers ; that, too, they learned of the
Russians, and they keep the tea kettle on
day and night. That is the strongest
beverage they have, as not a drop of
spirits is allowed by the government on
the island. Under tho Russians
thev had plenty of whisky, 'vod-
ki,' as tho Russians and Aleuts
call it, and they have no good will to
ward this paternal government for de
priving them of it. 1 ho men, generally,
are about fivo feet two inches m height
the women shorter. It is a mistake to
suppose them similar to our Indians,
They aro not copper-colored. Their fea
tures aro Mongolian; they have high
check bones, broad noses, and slant eyes.
Some of them are dark, while others
have skins much like the Chinese. The
effort of the company to educate their
children is not likely to come to much,
The education is compulsory and in Eng
lish, but even after tho children have
learned to read and have left school they
have refused to reod or speak a word of
English. In consequence of their dirty way
of living and their generally diseased
condition, they die young. The men
seldom live to be fifty years old ; the
women live somewhat longer. They are
married in tho Greek church, but the
marriage tie is hardly observed at all.
We keep them all together upon tne
island and in frame huts, their under
ground houses having been destroyed on
account of their filthiness and to get rid
of the domestic animals, with which
they fairly swarmed. All the guns on
the island are in chargo of the govern
ment agent, and never more than three
natives at a timo aro allowed to have
guns."
"When in society never talk of your
self," is tho injunction of an uuthority on
etiquette. That is, of course, you should
talk about other teopIe. Ioieell tituxn.
Miss Alcott says "the has fallen in love
with great many pretty girls in htr
life, be) uever once the lea.it bit wiih a
TiuV. just so wun us. iiuMm jvr,
LOVE'S REQUEST.
Dear heart, when I am dead,
And o'ver my grave the lowly grasses creep;
When birds unh(eded sing above my head.
And fail to wake me from my dreamless
sleep;
I would not have you sorrow o'or my roes.
And mourn with hopeless passion in your
breast.
When joyful Spring returns
With myriad buds and blossoms in her train;
When o'er the fields the lilies' watchflre
burns,
And violet blossom, wet with April rain;
I would not from your eyes have tears to
fall,
Because, dear one, I cannot see it all.
And when the birdr again
With music gladden all the summer day,
As if their little hearts ne'er felt a pain; '
When all the earth with life and song is gay;
I would not have your young heart sorrowing
Because I cannot hear the glad birds sing.
I would not have the earth
This beautiful, bright earth, where for UJ
two
Bo many joys have had their fcappy birth,
So much of beauty drifted to our view
Lose for thy heart one charm it held of old,
Because my heart is passionless and cold.
Dear friend, I would not ask
That thoughts of me forever fill your mind,
I would not on your life impose the task,
'Mid all earth's brightness and its joy, to
find
Only dark shadows, sorrowing and woe
Ah I no, dear one, I would not have so.
But when the day is done.
And all its heart-ahas and it cares laid by;
When from the west slow sinks the setting
sun,
And evening's early stars are in the sky;
Should you look upward to the world of air,
And breathe my name in some half-whisper.
ed prayer
Or, when your feet were free
To wander to the low mound where I sleep,
If yon should come and calmly think of mt
It seems that in my slumbers cold and deep.
I'd know that you were standing by my side.
And in my inmost soul bo satisfied.
J. S. Cutler, in Boston Transcript.
HUMOR OF THE DAY.
A young lady of this city, who has a
girl in Warren, and one in Corry, and
another in Meadville, may be said to be
already conducting a circuit court.
Derrick.
'Dig graves for old follies and errors, "
says Ella Wheeler. That's the way to
do, dear Ella; but where can you get
enough cemetery room for all the corpses?
Courier-Journal.
An exchange gravely propounds tha
following conundrum : "Why are mule
said to be stubborn?" The only reason
wo can think of is because they are.
Burlington Free Prest.
Mrs. Alexander Hamilton is credited
with being the first to introduce ice
cream into American history. We rather
surmised there was a woman at the bot
tom of it. Statesman.
Zadkiel's almanac for 1884 contains no
ominous events for the United btates.
Zadkiel evidently thinks that American
leap-year privileges will bring trouble
enough for one country. Fmlaaelpina
"Freddie, did you go to school to
day?" "Yes'm." "Did you learn any
thing new?" "Yes'm." "What was it,
hnv?" "I pot on to a
gettin' out for an hour by sauflin' red ink
ornr. nn in a sura why ui
up my nose." uaruorawuniub.
The pen may be mightier than the
sword, but tho hmberger cheese if
stronger than both of thorn put together.
We have been told of a piece of linibcrger
which was. thrown in the river, ana
which calmlv turned around and began
to swim up stream. Bliaard. .
A lean-vear societv. for the protection
of young men, is about to be organized.
Many a young man whose mother would
not board iumscii ana a wuj m iu
year be lassoed by somo ardent young
woman and draggud down to matrimony.
The society cannot get to work a mo
ment too soon. Uourter-juurnai.
We sat beside the glowing lire,
The hour was growing lute,
I turned and to my heart's deair
Boid: "How you fascinate."
And then she said, with smile benign:
"With flattery have done:
I cannot faseinate or nine
But I can fascinate one."
Evantville Argut.
Abe, aged four, wanted his mother to
let him make a lunch-bag for himself.
Bhe gave him the necessary material, ana
when it was finished found he had left
several small holes in the bottom of the
bag. When asked the reason of this Abe
replied: "It'a to let tho crumbs froo.
It's such a bover to turn the bag inside
out everv time, and now they will tum-
blo out themselves." lLtrper iAwar.
Why He Had Never Seen tho Klnjr.
In Bavaria, says the Philadelphia
Press, it is illegal to criticise, even in a
friendly spirit, the actions of the king.
boon alter tne termination vi iue r nmtw
German war, a story was told of a meet
ing in the streets of Munich between the
king of Bavaria and a wounded soldier,
during which the king, nnuing inui no
was not recognized, expressed his sur
prise. "How could I know your majes
ty?" said the .soldier, in explanation.
"You never go'.o the army, and I never
go to tho play." To tho publication of
this anecdote may probably be uttritmU d
the determination taken by the King if
to tolerate remarks of auy kiud on lot
private movements.
There are 60,000 iiiario piople
Fruuec uncording to a rn ewt ! iuiu,