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Won .tl mm rtarn
If once the cte m hicUcluM Don XUm
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VCv vpv for on and if thm lzx
t-rl ia;liway slrvtched befora as
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VLrtM a April batlowa ligbtly
1i .t thoM wt !ay of cbliilinh fear
W uU ail M.tfir t ul.'.l l.tji and brought
ain'ir
TLe t.i slrMiui la which oar skies
were
pl.l ti -' U'ft ilrpamn which wake the
Bon!' al y-an.iti2
tat live oticc umre ud waited our return-
Wou'd we return?
Would we return
It lorn'-t rti- h.itit mut held the heart no
lllOE A
Aod li'i come to count the wild sweet
paii.
The toud dNlrvHn, the lavish tears but
vain;
Hud coolfd the heart's hot wounds
auiilt Mm roir
Of mountain guleES OT D souitt alen
fIiit.'
Worn 1'iit the aouTs hm anguUh and had
h'.aiti
At lat the dragon of tlrspair if then the
train
Of v .in. .shed jeara cax hack and, as of
The Maine voice called, and with soft eyes
K'Kuilin;,
Our lu.-it, love beckoned, through time
Wuuld we return?
Would we return
Once tte had crussrl to death's un'ovely
laud
And trol the h'oomlcs ways amon tho
drad
I,4ne and nnhapy; afti-r year had fled
iih twilight win"- alonj; th liiumer-
li'l Jttr.ind,
Ii U.-u itt nuel came with outstretch
rd hand
To lrail u lMi, an 1 we recalled in dread
How Mmu the Uars that once lor us are
slid
Slay thw for others how like worJs In
faml
Out ri.ni rty faesaw ay low oft our wak
Iih;
M Lht v.-x th living w ith the dead heart's
V. onld we return
ou;d Wis rt'turu?
TIIK cirsv,
It v a 1 i-c!y rem, that pathertne
of tlm .iiii:-ri:i tniif of g!;ie3, just
at tliM (i.t l the lull, where a few
giant trif '.mth theiu shaila, anil a
Uuchltii; htl.u ttream su(i'lieil them
with water.
Th Ciimp-tire lmrnrI redly In the
afttrniinn liht, hipiilnj the black Ht
siispeiiilcit hlnjve until Its coutcuts
l)ut'b.t"l, us bubbled the strange cotk
t"ut if iMluPiit.-t over which witch
faces bent ia the darkened an-s when
lei:d and suncMlItio:t3 ruled the
world.
Half a dozen horses were tethered
among the shadows, a couple of cotered
waous went drawn uuder the trees;
anot:t the fir a few swarthj children
were pliiv inland near them some dark,
Lri:iiil.!i-l'Mkini men were harin a
game at c:tr..
lint the iueen (T tha comrany tu.9
rejuler of t'.u st:ir. tha one who iro
esised to for -ti l!, stood, tall and d.trk
and Imuiiiy .uj t Kihio ian princeiM,
facing very lovely K'rl. who was talk
ing eagerly. And this girl was uo
lllsy, but a fair, stalely, azure-eyed
beauty, with junny hair an 1 crimson
lips, and much of a swan's grace iu her
movements. Iu short, the tribe had
camped on Mr. (ieiald Howell's laud,
and tills km his niece who was in such
earnest conversation with G ipsy M.ulje.
"Von swear that if I do this thing
for you, my peop'e wtll not be dis
tuibel here?'' ti e woman questioned.
Mne of our children is ill; wo cannot
proved r. r a time. If I do this for
you, we will remain here unmolested"
4,I promise that; ami I also promise
to seud wine ami troth for the sick
child. Hut will you remember?"
I never forget!" wo the haughty
answer.
Theu the plercipsr, dark eyes looked
closely at the girl's dainty face, and
perhaps there w as a touch of scorn iu
them.
It is not the way to win a lover,
latlv." she said, calnilv.
Miss Eleauor Howell flujhed angrily.
and her bli: eves flashed.
"I'rav fulfill your part of the com-
cact. and spare me your comments.
she said. "My cousin will be here
within an hour.
And she turned away.
The woman looked after her with
scornful eyes.
"lHisDtsed us we are. no gipsy mai
den would stoop as stoops yonder fair
beauty!" she muttered. "Aud 1 have
promised to deceive some girl, who
comes to nie within au hour. Why
should I not? They scorn us and huut
us from Dlace to place; why should 1
not secure a week of peace here by the
telllnc of a lie? My people are called
liars knd vacabouds. for little Kosa's
take. 1 must do as she bade me; aud
whv not?"
The shadows slanted, clustered, then
tnelted before fie moonbeams, aud
Madge, leaviinf tUewaon lu wnich the
child was babblini? iu delirium, pro
duced by fever, saw two inures cross-
liitf the open stnice before the ore.
the went forwaid to meet them, her
great eyes fastened on the face of the
girl, which was clearly revealed to her
by the combmed lisht of fire and
moon.
"tiool evenlnzl" she said, slowly.
"You come to hear what waits you In
the future? Then let your companion
stand asul. What 1 have to tell you.
no other ears shall hear."
"It was a pretty, piquant face which
flushed under Gipsy Madge's gloomy
eves a sweet, lu laive face, with
childhood vet uixvc -
"How did you know my purpose In
comini?" she asked. "But you are
ritht; I want vou to teal me my for
tune. Will you miud waiting for me
lomler. Kenneth?" to her escorc
The 'gentleman turned, laughingly.
to the woman.
"I5e sure yon tell her of one faithful
lover." he said, lmhtly.
The dark eyes shot him a piercing
I'.ance.
"Or a faithless one," she said, coldly.
Irawinz tha e'.rt away.
Half an hour later, pretty ISerU went
back to where he awaited her, and be
aw that she was very pale.
Ha drew her hand through his arm.
and they turned ftom the camp.
"Has she rrlghtened you?" ha whis
DereJ. tanderlv. "lo not look so
whlte.mv darltuiz: it paines me exceed
Ingly. Did she predict sorrow for you.
aear?"
Ills look was such as men turn en
their dearest those between whom
anil sorrow their own hearts are sure
U) beat; but the girl did not bjo It,
altkougn her eyas were on his face and
the night was clear as day.
'Kenneth,' were you where wera
yon at this hour last night?" she asked.
"On tha Teraada." ha answered.
Why, DerU?"
"He was with one to whom tils
heart has wandered, at this hour last
ni?ht," the gipsy bad told her.
ould you hold h;m to a regretted
promise? It chafed him terribly as he
wathed the moonbeams on that other's
golden hair. Ah, it is written! yon
will set him free, and soon."
"Were you alone?" she questioned,
softly.
".Xo; Eleanor was with me. We
were talkins or you."
"Eleauor!"
Why bad she not known that this
fair-faced cousin would win him from
her the lover who had seemed so truly
her own who, since he, an orphan of
fourteen, bad been accepted as ward by
her father, had seemed to love her?
And now bad come Eleanor, with
her stately grace and azure eyes, to
shatter her beautiful love-dream I
With steady lingers she drew off a
ring that had not left her hand in a
year.
' Give this to my cousin to Elea
nor I" she said, distinctly.
And Kenneth Duncan would not
have been more surprised had the earth
yawned at his feet.
"In heaven's name, what makes you
Cing my love back in my race like
that?" be cil -d. "What is your cousin
to me? What is any woman save your
self? Berta. my dearest, what does
this mean?"
Hut now they had left the gipsy
camp behind them, and were Bearing a
stile, which they must cross before they
found themselves In Mr. Howell's pri
vate grounds, and on that stile sat
Eleanor, awaiting them, a beautiful
vision of serene maidenhood, with
clouds of white lace enveloping her
shoulders and lying softly ou her yel
low hair.
As ISerta losked. the Oerman legends
came in with bitterness Into her minds;
and she remembered the beautiful,
soulless thine who won man to mad
ness, cold and uncaring; but she gave
Kenneth's question no answer,
Eleanor, as the trio walked on to the
house, understood what was written on
the twa pale faces, and was triumph'
ant.
A week went by. and those seven
days bail almost driven poor Kenneth
mad. - tierta would explain nothing,
answer nothing to his pleadings but a
siid. "You are free; why do you not
go to Eleanor?"
And at last, because she had stung
him into obeying her. be did go to
Eleanor.
It was just one week from the day
on whic'i Kleanor had visited the
camp, that he asked her to become bis
wife and she accepted him; and almost
In the same hour Mr. Howell having
beard that a malignant fever was
among the gipsies, sent his servants to
order them from his land.
iut the dark-browed wanderers re
fused to go, saying the fever was not
a contagious disease, aud the sick could
not be moved.
"I will show them who is owner to
morrow." the old gentleman saiu.
anirrlly. when told.
Aud then be went to dinner, saying
nothing of the matter to the young
ueople.
After dinner, iney gamerea on me
veranda to watch the moon rise; and
Eleanor, beimr lu a merry mood, play
fully sang a weird incantatlou to Luna,
Kenneth standing sullen ana silent
beside her.
How very lovely she looked, in her
triumphant b'.oude beauty, clad in
D.ilest of azure, with her white nanus
lifted, the melody on her lips!
HerU turned her eyes from the fair
vision, with a low sign.
ilow can 1 blame him lor loving
her?" she whispered, wearily.
Then a dark, majestic figure entered
at a distant eale. and weut nurrieaiy
toward the group on the veranda. The
rising moon showed full outlines.
heavy, unbound hair, black as dark
ness, great, flashing, dusky eyes, as the
woman weut up the steps, ana paused
before Eleanor,
With the song unfinished on ber
blanching lips, the girl recognized
G'dsv Madge.
And it is thus you Keep iann witn
me!" the woman cried, scornfully.
"You promised me freedom from uio
lttstatiou If I would tell a lie for you to
a credulous cirL I told the lie, and
now my people are ordered from your
nude's laud like dogsl"
Mr. Howell stepped rorward, bis
face verv stern.
If you are one or me gipsies wno
hav ha-1 the audacity to camp almoit
at my door, on my land, what do you
want here? I understand mere n a
child among you. ill of a malignant
fever. 1 cannot allow you to bring
disease and contagion in our midst, and
if you are not gone by noon to-mor
row, vou will learn something oi a
t rpss nass-1 a W. "
Send her away at once, uncier-
Eleanor cried, clinging to bis arm.
Tray send her away; she frightens
me!"
The woman laughed mockingly.
"You did not fear me when you
thought to make a tool or me!" sue
said, bitterly.
Then she went to wnere ieri was
f:inilinc. somewhat apart.
'I deceived you, lauy," sue saiu.
with a certain half-savage dignity in
f ami voice. "I tld you to tree a
lEuto youST h m w ST whm be had by th. bark Queen's IsUud on a recent
stood in tile moonlight at a certain voyage from San Francisco to N e w
h nVor the nizht before. ir you would castle. New South Wales. W bile the
man who, bound to you, loved anotner.
learn that other's name. And you
grew white with pa!n, but trusted me,
aud did as I bade you; and your heart
is very heavy to-night, because you
think vourseir unloved; is it not so?
iurta. with hot tears in her eyes,
turned from her. but Madge followed.
He la true to you; he loves you
welll" she said, eagerly. "Could you
not see? But she," with a gesture
tnwnrd Kleanor. who was quivering and
ashen under Kenneth's scathing
?lance "ate bribed me to make you
.ii,t him. sha bade me make you test
him as I dldl She wanted your loverl"
ir.r.n.tht"
It was a low. questioning cry, but
the young man sprang towara nr m
answer to it. and caught her extended
-Th!t it was not because- you had
ceased to love me?" he asked.
a n.l ah answered:
"It was because I thought you had
ceased to love met"
if f eouldl"
Tim woman shook back her rough
hair, and was about to depart, when
itrtK lAld a hand on bar arm.
oUt." she said, kindly. Papa,
to Mr. Howell, "yon will not mind
this woman's people remain where they
are for a time, will your"
"But tha lever may"
Madge Interrupted him, calmly.
"The child who had it is dead," she
aid. "1 have not come to beg your
favor, bat to tell the troth. My tongue
Is not a crooked one. and yonder girl
bad broken faith with me. We leave
your land within an hour."
And with the free, wild, barbaric
grace which had been given ber by
nature, she went from them down the
steps, along the path and eff to where
her people awaited her.
John Kenneth turned quietly to
Eleanor, who looked as though she had
died in this bour of her humiliation.
I am sure, after what has passed.
we cannot even te friends, henceforth,'
he said, coldly.
And she burst into sudden, nncon-
trolable sobbing.
"I loved youl Oh, forgive me," she
faltered.
The Kcbo waa too Good.
Talking about echoes. Col. Ogeechee
claimed that be had one on his place, a
few miles from bavannah, which beat
anything he had ever heard or read
about; one, in fact, whicn would
clearly repeat whole sentences. The
party ot gentlemen were interested,
but incredulous, and arranged to ac
company Colonel Ogeechee home the
next afternoon to test the wonueriui
echo.
The Colonel found, on getting home.
that in ttie beat or the discussion he
had claimed more than the facts justi
fled. Determined not to be beaten be
called his Irish laborer.
Pat." says he, "some gentlemen
are coming home with me to-morrow
afternoon to hear the echo. Now, I
want you to go across the river before
time for me to arrive, so you can an
swer back whatever we may call out."
You mane fur me to play ikker,
soit?" asked Fat, grinning.
"That's it, exactly." said the Colo
nel. "Sow. do you thoroughly under
stand that you are to answer back
exactly what we say?"
"Ou, yis, sorr; ye can deplnd on me
entoirely."
.Next afternoon the Colonel took hn
friends to the river bank, and all were
ready for the experiment.
Making a speaking trumpet of bis
hands, the Colonel roared:
"Are you there?"
Bock came the echo with startliug
distinctness:
Yis, sorr; Oi've been here sence 4
ay the clock."
President Van Baren.
Among the many stories tcld by
Thurlow Weed about Martin Van
Buren was one narrating an iucldent
which occurred on the deck or a Hud
son river steamboat, on the way from
Albany to New York. The merits ot
Mr. Van Buren were being discussed
when the boat touched at Kinderhook,
and "The Li ttie Magician," as be was
called, came on board. One of the
party bad been dwelling on bis non-
committalism, and complaining that
"a plain answer to a plain question
was never yet elicited from him."
"I'll wager the champagne for the
company," added he, "that one of us
shall go down to the cabin ana asit
Mr. Van Buren the simplest question
that can be thought of, and he will
evade a direct answer. Yes. and I'll
give him leave, too, to tell Mr. Van
Buren why he asks the question and
that there Is a bet depending on his
reply."
This seemed fair enough, une ot
the party was deputed to go down and
try the experiment. He found Mr.
Van Buren, whom be knew well. In
the salon, and said to him:
'Mr. Van Buren, some gentlemen
on the upper deck have been accusing
you of non-committalism, and nave
just laid a wager that you would not
give a plain answer to the simplest
question, and they deputed me to test
the fact, Now, sir, allow me to asit
you: Where does the sun rise?"
Mr. Van uuren's Drow coutracceu;
he hesitated a moment, and then
seid:
"The terms east and west are con
ventional; but I"
"That'll do." Interrupted the inter
rogator, "we've lost the betl"
Coonskln'a Tower.
TTnlon sharpshooters In the rear of
Vlcksburg played no small part in the
drama ot the siege. One of these, a
private- soldier, was noted throughout
the whole Seventeeutn army corps.
He was an unerring shot, and wore a
c.ip made or racsoou iur. x rom mis
ha was called "Coonskin" me corps
i. roujh. and wherever be was woe to
the Confederate head that appeared
above a narauet.
"Coon&kiu" went out once in tne
night time, crept up toward the Con
federate defenses and built bimseil a
burrow in the ground, with a peep hole
in it. There he would frequently take
provisions with him, bury himself in
thl burrow and stay several days at a
time all alone, watching for and shoot
ing Confederates.
At lenartb be bunt "ioonsain
Tower." The Jackson and Vicksburg
railwav bad been torn up for miles in
the rear of Vlcksburg, and railway Iron
aud cross ties lay all about.
King of a Tight Little bland.
An Interesting discovery was made
vessel waa passing the supposed unin
habited Island of l'almerston she came
up with a boat containing eight per
sons. The boat was in charge or a
man who gave bis name as v tuiatn
Mars ton. and who declared that
twentv-tlve years age he had deserted
the British bark Rid -man at Tahiti.
He bad drifted tintll he had reached
Palmers ton Island, where there were
few natives, also refugees. He settled
down to planting cocoanuts, and liked
the employment so wen uuu ne naa re
mained ever since. Mors ton married
a native woman, and has a family of
eleven sons and lour daughters.
The Captain of the Queen's Island
found that the total population or the
island was thirty-three persons. They
all spoke English and seemed to be liv
ing In peace and plenty. Although ves
sels bad passed tne lsiaaa oy. Deneving
It to be uninhabited, the little comma
nity had thriven by Itself. At length.
however. Mars ton bad made up bis
mind to establish trading relations
with the rest or the world. The
Oueen's Island supplied the Talmer-
stonlans with some of the eatables ot
civilization and took in exchange
II
quantity ot cocoanuts.
HOW MR. 8WACRHAMMER WOS
HKR.
The Difficulty of TVooinc a Vas&ar
College Graduate Demonstrated.
"You don't know what love Is, Mr.
Swackhammer," protested the beauti
ful girl, with a smile of incredulity on
her face; "the sentiment you entertain
for me is only a passing fancy. When
it has had its brief day and you look at
it in the cold light of reason you will
be surprised that you ever mistook so
palpable a delusion for the genuinj
thing."
"But hear me, Miss Garlinghouss,"
exclaimed the young mau calmly, yaS
earnestly; "am I not old enough to
know my own
"It is not a question of age, Mr.
Swackhammer," interposed Mr. Gar
Ungbouse. still smiling incredulously,
"but of scientific demonstration. A3
you are probably aware, I have devoted
myself for the last two or three years
to. a severe course of scientific study 4
and 1 have acquired the bablt, perhaps
unconsciously, of accepting nothing as
true that is not demonstrable by the In
exorable rules of mathematics or tha
soundest process ot logical induction.
Science has become with me the touch
stone of all things asserted, claimed or
proposed, and "
"But how do you apply the rules of
science to matters ot the heart?" in
quired the young man. "How can you
subject my love to a mathematical or
scientific demonstration?"
"In this way, Mr. Swackhammer.
The action of the passion or emotion ot
love upon the various sympathetic
ganglia of the human organism causes
certain well-established aud clearly de
Uned phenomena. When you speak to
me ot love-1 look for the appearance or
those phenomena, iron a scientific
point of view they are not satisfactory.
The tremor in your voice is not suf
ficiently pronounced. Your articula
tion is not thick and husky. The color
in your face is hardly a shade paler
than its normal hue, and you have no
nervous movements in the hands. Do
you think a mere assertion can dis
prove the evidence"
"Alvlra Garlinghouse," came im
petuously from the lips of the young
man as be rose to bis feet, "there are
facts in mental as well as physical sci.
ence that are not wholly beneath our
notice. Some men are gifted with a
marvelous faculty of self-control, so far
as external manifestations are con
cerned. Beneath the apparently un
moved exterior that you have subjec
ted to a scleutiflc tst there rages a
volcano of passion. Do yon doubt it?
I will demonstrate it to a mathema
tical certainty. I foresaw the skepti
cism with which you would receive my
avowal and came prspared. Lisiea to
the beating of my heart!"
And with a quick movement he drew
from beneath bis waistcoat the flexible
tube of a stethoscope and placed it
against her ear.
"Count the pulsations!" he con
turner 1. "Tboy wilt run nearly 100 Ic
the minute. Normal beait beat, sev
enty pulsations. Note the revelation
of deathless love conveyed by this res
pirometer!' And be produced another
flexible tube, "ltespiratlous per min
ute, twenty-eight! Twenty-eight, Al
vira count them twenty-eightl Nor
mal respirations per minute, from four
teen to twenty in adults. Observe the
mathematical certainty of tempestuous
passion demonstrated by my tempera
turel" And, opening his tightly closed
left hand, he showed her a small ther
mometer. "Temperature, Alvira, 112-1
Normal temperature, about lUtM Have
I proved my love?"
'Alpbeus," murmured the lovely
girl, as sne placed ner ueau ou ias
shoulder, with her lips at an accessible
angle, '-you have!"
William Tell Oulduna
A wonderful story has just made Its
way hither from Cannes: but, as your
readers will presently jerceive, it
would be rather rash to guarantee l.s
strict authenticity. It would, perhaps.
be more prudent to class it, pending r.s
verification, among the "Lhuigs th tt
might have been." Be this as it may,
the tale is worth relating, if only as a
novel specimen of Munchausen lltera-
ture. It happened In this wise: In the
fvrest of Enteral a man and woman
were at work, and not far off their
babe, an Infant six months old, was
lying In its cradle, which bad been
moved to the front of their cottage in
order that the little cherub might In
hale the fresh air under the watchful
gaze of its parents. Suddenly a noise
was heard, aud an enormous eagle
swooping down from the cerulean sky,
seized the babe with beak and claws
and began to soar once more toward
the sua, when the distracted fath.r,
rushing madly into his hut, took up a
gun. Without a moment's hesitation
the man pointed his weapon at the
cruel bird and fired. The eagle dropped
earthward as dead as a doornail, and
its slayer now achieved another feat
which would have won him any
amount of applause at Lord's. He held
out his bands and caught the child as
It fell, the little one escaping without
so much as a scratch, and returning
from its journey in mid-air as 4 'bright
as a button." so I ell or immortal re
nown has now a rival. The only draw
back is that a skeptic has hinted that
ir it were carefully examined the ma
jestic bird might prove after all to be
only a canard.
Showed How It Waa Done.
A jolly party was sitting around a
table at a restaurant at Ftankfort-on-
the-Main, Germany, talking about tha
numerous thefts of fall overcoats
which had lately been reported from
every part of the city. They all agreed
that such a thing could not possibly
happen to any one of them, as they bad
their eyes wide open. "Nevertheless, "
interposed a gentleman sitting at the
next table, "I would, if need be, un
dertake to prove that any one or your
coats could easily be abstracted from
under your very noses." They were
astonished, but he explained that it
was only necessary to engage a man In
an interesting conversation, and while
he continued under the influence to
arise, take his overcoat,- put it on,
light a cigar aud leave the room with a
gracious bow. The entire company
kept up a continuous roar of laughter
at the amusing tale and the still more
entertaining practical illustration with
which the re later accompanied bis
words and walked oat of the door. He
did not come back, neither did the
overcoat with, a pockelbook with SluO
in IU
A school-teacher on the PaclCc
coast bears the su?sestive name of
waiiop.
SI
Her Liove Letter
Althonch crippled now. and old.
leaning on ber cane, she spoke as viva
ciously as a school girL and it did ma
good to se her cheery race and pleasant
smile. This Is what she said while I
sat on the veranda steps In the June
twilight at her feet:
We bad been married only six
months when Alt, who was searching
iny trunk fcra penholder one Sunday
morning, found the letters we bad
written during courtship. He tumbled
them upon the floor without a word.
1 was glad to see him take them out.
It was a rainy day, and . I thought it
would be delightful to review those
cozy notes together.
Alt opened a few and glanced
through them while I was putting the
room to rights. He gave a kind of
snort, caught up the bundle and
started for the kitchen.
"Where are you going?" I cried.
"Going to burn 'em!" he replied.
You may believe that I stopped him
very quickly.
Do you suppose I want you to keep
this ridiculous sheet?" be inquired,
holding up a letter.
Then followed a colloquy. Just what
we said I cannot recall, but I know
that in effect I told him this: There
were two hundred and firtv-eitrht of
his letters hair a peck of exclamation
points, of combustible vows! A new
Cupid at the head of every letter.
waiting to throw his steep flight in
many an airy wheel down through its
tropic contents 'till on the signature he
lights! Myriad pleadings breathing
themselves out in agony ot ink. Burn
them? Neverl
And Alf retorted that love letters
were mere popcorn; that courtship was
In fact a kind of Fourth of July, and
whatever Are crackers were let off in
the way of letters might be remembered
as pleasant and exciting, but that the
empty shells were better swept up and
destroyed than left to litter the
premises.
I told him be should never burn
those letters.
Theu be read one or two of my own
aloud, aud asked how I would like to
have my grandchildren And them in
the attic some day and show them to
the ceighbois. And It really did seem
wiser to burn those two, but do more.
Now why are men always ready to
destroy such recorJs of the past, while
women cling to them?
Is It because men lack sentiment?
Or because their ideas change from day
to a ay and the older In the light or the
new appears stale and poor? Or is it
because lu the ardor of courtship their
sentiment takes a more ethereal flight
than after-thought approves? When I
asked Alf he said very plainly that the
reason is this a mau makes a fool of
himself In courtship, aud don't want to
be reminded of it afterward.
I think that women are more shy and
undemonstrative, and therefore per
haps less apt to write what they , must
review with scorn, although we are
plenty fra.uk enough. But woman,
conservative herself, prizes man's out
spoken ardor, and treasures all its
manifestations.
Time after time Alfred brought up
the subject, using argument, ridicule,
entreaty, until only fifteen of his are
left the fifteen dearest ones which I
would never part with. He keeps five
or six of mine, aud yet I think at heart
he does not highly prlzs them.
I am somewhat older now than 1
was then, and after all I judge it best
that we destroyed them. In the deeper
joys of advancing life the comfort of
their exposure to the world be accident
or malice might auuoy us. it is best.
I do believe, to buru all such letters
after marriage. Their mission is ac
complished. But from love of old associations, I
will not destroy those fifteen of Al
fred's. Rrivins Away a Hotel Gnrst.
, A practical joke was played by Ed-
: ward bothern and J. W. l'igott, not
, long ago, on a grumpy hotel guest who
occupied a room adjoining theirs. The
i old fellow had been complaining of the
j noise the two actors made when they
, came home from the theatre, so it was
determined that he should have
i treat. One night, a little past 12
o'clock, they fat down at the table in
their room. Ou it were a number of
plates and glasses. They made sure
that their crusty neighbor was in his
apartment, and then proceeded to pro
duce in realistic style the noise aud
jollification ot a big dinner party.
First Sothern would get up and make
a speech, at the same time stamping his
feet and clapping his hands to person
ate several other people, while Pitrott
would rattle the dishes. Jingle the
glasses aud shout "Hear, hear."
Occasionally, to heighten the illu
sion, Sothern would go the door and
apparently bid one of the rarty good
night, tramp noisily down the stairs
and re-enter the room softly, while
l'igott. his bands, feet and voice all
eLgaged, would shout adieus from the
interior of the room and inquire of a
score of imaginary persons what wines
they liked best. In this way two
hundred Imaginary guests departed
from the little room, while the old
man next door, thoroughly tired and
disgusted in his vain attempt to sleep,
paced the noor in despair. Finally.
when the actors began to weary aud the
sun was saying Good morning." a
bait came. The last guest was ceen
off and the men retired. In the morn
ing the old man gave up bis room and
left the hotel in high dndgeon.
a hereafter, otLern and l'igott cams
In as late and made as much noise as I
they liked.
Eruption of the Bandai-Saa Volcano.
The eruption occurred on July 15.
without any note ot warning. In fact,
the volcano has for hundreds or years
teen supposed to be extinct. The
iestruction caased is enormous.
Seventy-five square miles are buried
under lava, mud and ashes, and the
icene of greater or less devastation ex- j to death it bas little terror or sorrow
tends over 675 square miles. Some for them.
JOO men, women and children lost ' One nurse who has been practicing
;heir lives, and a multitude narrowly her profession for some time says she
escaped. One of the most singular doesn't believe even now that she could
things about the convulsion was the go back to the hospital and live through
lamming up of a river, thus converting those night watches again, though she
frnltful region or rice fields into a loves her work and feels all its respon
vast lake. ! sibllity and sac redness. Mauy of the
, , nurses, however, love their hospital
5fam occupies 1723 times as mnch ; work with a strange fascination, and
space as water; that Is, 1 cubic inch either accept situations in other hos
or water will make cubic inches pltals when they graduate or obtain
of steam at atmospheric pressure. It some salaried place in their own. The
may however, be compressed into a frderly. systematic routine, the precise
.naii f a e-nhic inches, and will then automatic regularity of the hospital
have the pressure
the square inch.
nt Ssid pounds to
Bimiinwii a -
THE HOSPITAL GIRL.
Ao
Interesting Inalght Into Her Re
sponsible Duties.
At the end of three months the novice
Is put on night duty in either the medi
cal or surgical ward, and then It is
that all the heroism and courage or ber
nature is called into action. One nurse
is pat In charge or two wards, each
containing, whenfull, twenty patients.
The lights are turned down nntll a
dusky silence hovers over the white
cots. In the surgical ward the doctor
leaves his orders, often supplemented
by the informatlou that a patient in
one ward bas just passed through a
severe operation, there is danger or
hemorrhage, and the nurse must not
leave ber alone. Perhaps in the other
ward a patient is very low. The doctor
says she must be watched constantly,
for she is liable to die at any moment.
Then he goes away, and the young
girl flits about in the gloom from cot
to cot. administering medicines and
treatment, harrying from the side of
one sufferer to the other, half fearful
to gaze into the quiet face lest it be
already still In death; afraid the dan
gerously ill patient in one ward will
die while she goes to sea the dying suf
ferer in the other.
Suddenly the dread clang that all
nurses fear with a nameless horror
strikes upon her ear through the dread
ful stillness. It draws nearer and
nearer, and stops at the doorway.
Every nurse knows the portent of the
ambulance bell. Every nurse fears the
arrival of some new patient if there is
an empty cot in her ward. Then comes
the sound ot slow, measured footsteps
drawing nearer and nearer, aud she
flies to make ready for the empty cot,
only hoping no oue will die while she
Is engaged with the new comer. The
men come in with the stretcher and
deposit its burden ou the bed. The
nurse washes the blood from the
wounds, if there be any; determines
the extent of the injury as much as
possible, and, if very serious, calls the
doctor. If ouly a cut needing a few
stitches and careful bandaging, the
nurse performs the operation herself;
bathes her patient and makes her com
fortable, and then hurries back, per
haps to witness for the first time the
last struggle of a dying person.
When the last shuddering sigh falls
from the stiffening lips, the brave girl
alone in the gloomy ward closes the
eyes, folds the lifeless hands, and taking
down the card bearing the name or the
dead from over the bed, hurries down
through the dim long corridors to tell
the orderly to prepare for the burial.
ir the patient be heavy, the nurse calls
the helper, a woman from prison, one
of which is kept to do the cleaning in
each ward, and together they "do up
the corpse." as it is called iu the hos
pital. If, on the other bund, the dead
woman is slender, the nurse bathes
and shrouds her alone, all of which
must be accomplished within an hour
after her death. Then the men enter
with the box and she is borne out, the
nurse throws the bedding out on the
See eseape and returns to ber duties.
Many a girl bas met ber first experience
ot this kind alone in the dim wards of
the hospital late at night, for deaths
are likely to occur between the hours
of 12 and A A. M., when vitality is at a
low ebb.
A iiei-son who has watched at night
by the bedside of one who is very ill
can have a faint notion of the responsi
bility of a person in charge of forty
patients lu various degiees of danger.
A young woman who had known noth
ing of sickness and little of work re
lates one night's experience when an
elderly woman was apparently dying
In great distress and required constant
attention. In the cot adjoining lay
another patient, who, though not In
immineat danger, was suffering terri
bly, aud who had, as the nurse ex
pressed it, "more things the matter
with ber than any ono ever had bo fore
cr since."' The nurse had pulled the
screens up around the dying woman's
bed aud was administering such alle
viating remedies as lay iu her power,
when she suddenly heard a great dis
turbance in the adjoining ward, and
hastening there foun 1 an immense fat
woman, crazy with fever, promenadiug
up ond down the ward, making havoc
with everything movable. Coaxing,
commanding aud assisting ber, she was
Dually settled in bed again, but as the
nurse bent over ber dying patient the
same commotion was heard iu the
other ward again, aud she went back,
and after coaxing the woman luto her
cot. she tied her feet to the iron bars
at the fool of the bed. Ouce more she
hurried to the other ward only to flud
one patient writhing Iu paiu, the other
with clenched bauds tossing in the
death struggle. As the quivering feat
ures calmed to peacefuluess aud the
groans were bushel to silence, she
heard the noise of groans aud screams
lu the other ward, aud found the fat
woman on the floor, with her feet still
tied to the bad. By the help of all the
force in the ward she was lifted to ber
place, strapped down to the bed, and
iu the gray liht ot the dawn the dead
woman was prepared for ber burial,
while the living moaned in pain.
In another cot a perfect specimen of
womanhood lay dying. The doctors,
with misdirected zeal, had prolonged
her agony by the operation of trache
otomy, aud she lay struggling with
death in all the freshness aud (strength
ot her early womanhood. There bad
been another tire horror, and to save
ber children she hid dashed back Into
the burning building, inhaling heat and
smoke that bad injured her internally
past all recovery. The round curving
limbs wtre like sculptured marble,
majestic In their white beauty; the
sweet, fair face was uuscorched by the
flames and unladed by disease, the
I white statuesque arms
were tossed
Just as she
above ber head in agony.
' gave her last spasmodic shiver the little
i uaue sne naa saveu bo ueroicaiiy
1 moaned out, "Ma ma ma ma," the
first time It bad spoken siuce it was
brought there, aud with a smile the
mother reached out her bands toward
! the voice, and was dead. The nurses
! wept softly as they bathed the beautiful
form, though they are so accustomed
service, the constant attendance of the
physicians, the convenience of arrange-.
M?v.iiKiflr - -fyattviiifinTUii rfniiiM win
mants, and tha society of tha Bursas.
together with an infatuation for the
excitement of naw cases, and the uni
versal love and gratitude or tha
patients, endears hospital Ufa to them.
What the college is to the physician
the training school is to tha nurse; and
as only through tha ghastly horrors ot
the dissecting room is aa accurate
surgical knowledge obtained, so is It
only through the experiences of the
hospital wards that nurses learn the
strength, courage, skill, self-reliance
and patience requisite for the exigen
cies and emergencies of their chosen
occupations.
Disappolntmentji of Life.
. Can anything be more barren than a
commonplace life? Can anything be
more sordid than the cry, the selfish
cry, "we can't afford it." Is it not
bard to sit at home and see seme one
else make the coveted trip, some one
else receive the excepted gift, some
one else receive the longed for letter?
Are not these disappointments hard to
endure? Try them and see. In our
commonplace lives we need common
place joy. Ob, I cannot express in the
poor words of my vocabulary the heart
aches, the temptations, the longings,
tha sadness or doing without, that go
to make up so much of life for you and
me. But overhead Is the blue sky.
The song Is there. The music is there.
The poem is there, aud with uplifted
gaze we rediscover that which we had
forgotten, and the cook, the seamstress,
the teacher, the worker that is our
human shape, turus again to the place
God meant us to till, and life for us
flows on aain.
Who can fathom the depths of life
of this little tender aud patieut sewer
of long seams? Ouly another woman
may guess at the aggravating little
toils and troubles that make up life for
her. Smoky stoves, bread that will not
rise, needles that break, thread that
knots, pots that will not boll, babies
that fret ceaselessly, dishes to wash,
beds to make, kuives to clean, floors to
sweep, stockings to darn, and no kind
words, no unexpected pleasant events,
no outings, no new books, no evenings
at the lake, no new gowns. How Is a
woman to grow beautiful under a life
of such petty, ugly, rasping, gnat-like
miseries? The Cuely tempered steel of
patience, the hopeful heart, the granite
temper all these uplift the spirit and
make its owner lovely and happy. The
heart of a woman is a crystal with
many faucets. You must hold it up to
the light and let the sunshine through
it to see bow pure and beautiful it is.
eveu with its little blemishes of fcarltu
The Itope iliat Killed Andre
Coiled up in the wiudow of a Broad
way. New York, cigar store, among a
lot of bad cigars aud chewing tobacco,
lies a curiosity that has played a promi
nent part in American history. It Is
a bit of rope about three feet long,
with nothing attractive about it, aud
yet hundreds have asked its history.
A reiorter ot the New York Tribune
who did the same, received this inter
esting answer:
"Well, sir, that piece or hemp you
see In my wiudow is all t .at is left o
the rone that buug Major Audre. th
spy. The original piece, some six or
eight feet loug I believe, has been cut
up into small pieces and given away as
mementoes, aud the piece there is all
tuat is left. It came into my possession
somewhat curiously. Several years ago
I kept a little cigar shop In Albany,
and oue of the men working for me was
a green band from up the State some
where, who bad landed in Albany
without a cent. He used to board at
my house, aud one night he left leaving
a board bill of Sl'J or S12 behind bim
unpaid.
He also left a small trunk and a let
ter, in which be asked me to keep the
trunk until he could redeem it by (lay
ing his board. 1 kept the trunk foi
nearly six years, aud then not bearing
from the mau I opened it- Among
other things I found this rope, winch
the man's grandfather lial taken from
Andre's Ubck the day he was hanged,
and kept it as a meineutoe of those
stirring timea. There was also a little
book with the rope a sort of ledger
in which the grandfather and his son
had kept a record of those to whom tin
pieces of rope bad been giveu ami
whither they had goue.
"Three of the pieces had been sent
to England, oue to Austia ia, and an
other to uu English ollicer iu Constant!
uople, and the rest were distributed
among different persons lu the United
States.
"Some time I am going to try and
collect them again and.then present the
eutlre rope to some historical museum.
It will be a curiosity anyhow, if not a
valuable relic. As it is, few know th.
strange rope's history. I think 1 shal.
have a little sign painted to put In the
window with the rope so that all wh
see it may know what they are looki )
at."
Mowers ly Mail.
Flowers to be sent by mall slioul-
be cut iu the morning before the sm.
has bad much effect on them. The
best packing material Is their own
foliage. The best packing is a tin box
or case. 1 lace a bit of moist brown
paper at the bottom, lay in the flower
so that they will snugly til! the box,
put another piece of damp paper ovei
all. aud enclose with the cover, ll
oiled paper is at hand, the box can be
lined with it, and no damp paper will
then be needed. A paper wrapping
about the box, securely tied, completes
the package. Damp cotton Is often
tied about the stems of tha flowers.
but usually this supply of moist ure is
too great for them when closed from
the air, and causes decay. It Is un
necessary when packed as before de
scribed. Dry cotton is often used to
protect the flowers, but it is useless for
this purpose, and it absorbs the moist
ure from the flowers and leaves, and
they reach their destination quite
wilted.
Glad-stone and Salisbury.
Gladstone and Salisbury are twins
in this matter of high churchlsm
For many years until the present po
litical pquabbles arose, these two great
Englishmen were intimate private
friends, though political foes. Both
are patrons of church livings, both are
deep read theologians, both hold the
ultra High Church doctrine and botli
have, at least they used to bave.a Ion ic
ing for reunion of the Catholic aud
Protestantcommunions under the win?
of the Old Catholic movement favoreil
by Dollluger. They used to visit each
other aud enjoy foraging among th--musty
tomes of the old library at Hat
field bouse, but, also, the poison ol
politics has killed the old tlins amity of
two good men, aud their friendship is
a thing of the past.
NEWS IX BRIEF.
Alexander Dumas requires from
eight to ilns hours repose.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt payi
htr physician $10,000 a year.
Insurance was in genera use is
Italy, 1101, and England, 1500.
At Monersville, Penna., Jove'l
thunderbolt deigned to kill a cat.
Mary Anderson's half brother hat
a ranche in Colorado, and ha is said to
be the handsomest cowboy in America.
A Baltimore lawyer bas Indulged
In a speech 35 hours long.
Borings around West Toint, Ky.,
have revealed the existence of large
deposits of salt aud an abundance of
gas.
It is said that the Cm fury Maga
zine receives an average of 1,000 man
uscripts a month from literary aspi
rants. An artesian well sunk under tha
salt waters of New York bay on the
Jersey side produces pure fresh water
In abundance.
Mrs. Frank Leslie told a reporter
recently that she had to decline "on an
average two offers of marriage every
day" of her life.
Although 200 of Talmage's con
gregation are basking in the sunlight of
Europe the Tabernacle is about M
crowded as ever.
The smallest baby yet is Miss
Miuzie, of Ohicatro, who brought Into
this vale of tears just thirteen vuuees
or flesh and blood.
Bridal parties and titled foreigners
appear to have adopted Niagara Fall
as their own, as they am said to form
the majority of the visilors.
Some forty-three descendants of
Rebecca Nourse, "the pious witch of
ld'JJ," plcknicked iu her honor at
Dauvers Centre, Mass.. the other day.
A whole vlllape In l!ra7il has ac
cepted the Gospel through the instru
mentality of a young business man,
who iuvited a missionary to that
place.
Over $3,000,000 have been ex
pended In Australia during the past
three years and a half to exterminate
rabbits, and they are more numerous
than ever.
The French crops have been dis
astrously affected by tho vVather.
According to t lie returns the y;eld of
wheat will probably a"i,000,000 hec
tolitres short.
Mark Twain Is an enthusiast re
garding baseball, and attends till the
games played at Hartford. He Is
studying that department or American
humor which deals with umpires, but
finds that it offers but little insj iratiou.
More than three hundred Italian
laborers sailed from New York for
home the other day, Iwing unable to
obtain employment. Two brigands,
who had lieen conlined ever since their
arrival, were Eeut Lack by the same
steamer.
During a recent fete of the Bo-loirna-rnrlverfity
the stud-nta of Parma
Pent to their Bologna brethren a Par
mesan cheese weighing l(jt xmnds and
covered with Latin inscriptions worked
iu macaroni. A lmo tun of Barbera
wiue went with it.
The Danish government lias
granted a kuiii of S2,.'00 for the pur
pose of having the s'.i r banks iu
Denmaik examined by a:i exjiert. nis
object will be to iisceitain the results
of their continued pri-soi v ition, with a
view to the resumption of fishing.
The anceslral home of the Wash
ington family, in Northamptonshire.
England, is to be sold. The estate
contains 2J' acres, and was granted to
Lawrence W aslimgtoii in l.'.l". His
son, Lawience, emigrated to Virginia,
and was Gen. (iwrj.j V ash lug ton's
ancestor.
Anew state U alicit to 1 added
to the sisterhood of nations. Letters
patent have been granted to "The
British Last African C Company." giving
them full power to erect and maintain
a government, with taxes and army.
It lies north of the German East
African Society near Zanzibar, and
includes some of tho finest laud iu
Central Africa.
A curious custom that attracts the
attention of a stranger in Panama is
the 8iectacle of native women walking
alouz the street tinoking long, slender
cigars. It is the custom of the women
there to gather in the public rnaiket as
early as sunil.se to gossip and talk over
affairs while enjoi ing their morning
smoke.
The annual report of the Canadian
Dsheries department says the eleli of
Dsh last year was valued at tH.2S0,
000. against flS,2r,l,(XJ0 In the previous
year. The lobster catch declined in
value jyjl.OOO, and that of co l $,
000. Exoits to the 1'nited States
reached $2,717,000, or 40 per cent of
the total expoit.
An industrious English woman
has discovered what the average Eng
lish person exeuds annually tor dress.
She found one la ly who, with au In
come ot JLVO'i, .spent only JL-J'J liming
the year on her dresses. Another, who
with her husband, receives an Income
of JLT.50O, spends only U.'iO, while her
husband gets along :n JJJ'j per unnuui.
A boy has died in the Natchez
(Miss.) hospital under peculiar circum
stances, and the theoiy Is that his
death wan due to a snake b.te which
he received woie than a year ago. It
is said he exhibited all the Rjmploms
of hydrophobia except an aveislon to
water, which be drank with uvldity
but which ins stomach relucted.
Tt is alleged that recently in ?Tag.
pore, India, a lioy of li was offered
a saci ::'..:(: to the gods, In accordance
with a snpersiltii'U that human sacri
fices caiwd a bountiful harvest. The
head was severed from the Ixnly and
o3ereJ t a go Mess, while the liody
was tendeied to a gxi.
W. Mo.sley.at Quincy, Mass., no
ticed that his finest dog was ailing, and
lu a short limn the annual was froth
ing at the uiouth, and gave other evi
dences of being affected with hydro
phobia and tried to biteeverythlng that
came in bis way, Mr. Mosley having
heard that water thrown on a mad dog
would have a ieculiar effect, he ob
tained a bucket ot water and dashed
It on the autmal, and iu less than five
minutes the dog was deid.
A novelty in the way of com
mencement exercises was seen at a
New York Grammar school. After
the singing aud lecitaflona the girls
-cade a strawbeuy shortcake and
poached eggs lu the presence of their
guests and distributed them auiunx
friends. One of the trustees said in a
speech that the time would come when.
If any one wanted a cook, he would
come straight to the school to get one.
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