LIGHT AT EVENTIDE. The Jay had been, ob! so dreary, With Its tempest—winds and rain; I had lunged tor one ray of sunshine, But all day long in vain; And the night was closing round me Lonely and cold and gray, A 9 I sat by the window -yatehlng Tho death of the dreary day. I opened my mother's Bible, And on its page I read Wliiit one of the erand old prophets In time of trouble said— The sweet and comforting promise, That bids us in faith abide, When the day is dark with tempest— "There'll be light at eventide." Lo! as I read the chapter, Dear to each trusting heart— The clouds above the hilltops Suddenly broke apart. Bright with unearthly beauty The valley stretched away. And God's sunshine was all about me, At the close of tho dreary day. —Eben E. Ilex ford, in The Ledger. Love or Lucre. J "Of course I have not married him because I was in love with him," said May Harriott, with a light laugh. She was sitting in a gold-and-dun colored boudoir, hung with silken 'fluted draperies, aud carpeted in pale Aubusson, bordered with scarlet. The windows were filled full of flower ing-plants,an exquisite statue of Hebe occupied a marble pedestal in the kniddle of the room, and the panels of the walls, filled in with mirrors, re flected the young bride's every motion B score of times. Mrs. Harriott was dressed in a Wat teau -wrapper of rose-colored silk, which fell around her in pink clouds, pale Neapolitan corals, carved so delicately that a maguifying-glass would not have put them to the blush, hung from her delicate ears, and clasped the folds of tulle at her throat, diamonds glittered on her fingers, and the tiny handkerchief peeping from her pocket was edged with lace that Would have made a princess' ransom! And May's face, all lilies and roses, with the glory of gold hair floating away from it, was a jewel well worth all this expensive setting. Flora Field, her old schoolmate, sat opposite to her, secretly envious of all this splendor, aud wondering that May Haven, who had taught in the Bame district school as herself, was Hot more elated by this sudden pro motion. "Well, then," said she, "why did you marry him?" "Because I was poor and he was rich. Because I was tired of teaching, aud he offered me all this!" And May glanced around upon the luxuries that surrounded her. "Nobody could be foolish enough to suppose it was a love-match," said ehe. "He's ever so much older than I am, and not at all my ideal! But I couldn't drudge on forever at my pro fession, and I think I've made a lucky exchange." "May you are a heartless coquette!" cried out Flora Field. "No, I am not," said May, with a shake of the lovely golden curls. "You would do just the same thing yourself, Flora Field, if you had the chance; you ftrow you would." And as May laughed out a sweet, defiant chime, she did not know that her silly words had had another auditor than Flora Field—that the door lead ing into the rich bauker's study was ajar, and that he had heard every ejllnble she spoke. It was quite true that Frederick Harriott was not a young man. He had passed the Rubicon of middle age fiefore he had allowed himself to fall n love and marry—aud the flame burned all the deeper and thore tender, tu that the ~ ood was mellowed by age! He had looked uj-.on May Haven as little less than an augel, aud now "I should have known this before," he said to himself, with ashen-pale face and trembling limbs. "I should have divined that S2)ring aud autumn were unsnited. So—she married me for my money?" "May," he said that evening, "I have tickets for the opera tonight. Would you like togo?" "No, I don't think I care about it," Baid May, listlessly. "Then we will remain at home and I will read you that new poem," sug gested the husband. "I am tired of poetry," pettishly retorted May. "I do wish you would leave me to enjoy myself in my own way once in a while!" "Do I bore you, May?" Frederick Harriott asked with an inexplicable quiver in his voice. "Awfully! I'm just in the midst of this delightful story, and I can't bear to bo interrupted." "Very well. The offense shall not be repeated," said Mr. Harriott, quietly. » I After that a subtle and sudden change came over his whole life. He (R-as as courteous and attentive to his young wife as ever, but May felt that all the heart and soul were gone out of the little courtesies, the scrupul ously-rendered attentions, j For a while she rather liked it. It /was a relief to feel that his eye was fiot always on her, his thoughts fol owing her. She could go where she f 'leased now, and he asked no qnes ions. She could employ her time to puit herself, and he had neither criti cism nor comment to offer. But grad ually she begnn to realize that she had lost something which was not easily to |>e replaced. May Harriott had regarded her hus band's love as one of the fixed polar facts of her existence, and a cool chill crept over her heart when she fully perceived that it was somehow slipping away from her. "Frederick," she said one evening, titting opposite to her husband, "have I offended you?" He glanced carelessly up from h's hook. "Offended me, May? Why, what a ridiculous idea! Of course you havea't offended me." "I —I thought your manner some what different of late," faltered the young wife, bending her head closer over her embroidery. "One can't keep on the honeymoon gloss forever," said the banker, indif ferently. Life is full of antitheses; and love is the strangest complexity in life. For, as May Harriott grew strength ened in the idea that her husband was ceasing to adore her after the old idolatrous fashion, she began to fall in love with the one she had married for money. Frederick Harriott was not young, but he was in the prime of middle age. He was not boyishly handsome like the wax heads May had seen in the barbers' shop windows, but he had the port and mien of a prince. All women are prone to hero worship, and our lit tle May was no exception to the ordinary rule. For the first time in her life she was falling in love—and with her own husband. A few weeks only elapsed when a crisis in the banking business rendered it imperatively necessary that Mr. Harriott should goto Vienna for two or three months. Poor May looked aghast as her husband mentioned his intentions to her in the same cool, matter-of-fact way in which he might have criticised the weather. "Going to Vienna!" she gasped. "Oh, Frederick!" "My dear child it is a mere baga telle of a journey! One doesn't mind travel nowadays. I shall not be later than November in returning." "But—l may go with you!" "You? My dear, don't think of it. My travel will necessarily be too rapid to think of encumbering myself with a companion. I must go and come with the greatest speed!" May said nothing more, but there was a blur before her eyes, a sicken ing sensation of despair at her heart. He cared no more for the society which had been dear to him once. Oh, what had she done to forfeit the love that had once been poured out so fondly on her life? It was a rainy June twilight when the banker, wrapped in a deadnaught coat, and with his traveling-cap pulled down over his eyes,paced up and down the deck of the steamer Galatea,heed less of all the tumult of weighing anchors. Through the misty dusk he tried vainly to catch the ghostly out lines of the city spires—the city that held his young wife. "She will be happy enough without me," he told himself, bitterly. "She has her mother and sister with her. She bade me adieu without a tear, and it may be that my continued absence will teach her to think less coldly of me. Dear little May—sweet spring blossom—my prayers may reach you, if my love cannot!" And, as the steamer plowed her way onward and the darkness deepened, Frederick Harriott went below. To his infinite surprise, the state room he had engaged for his own be half and use was not empty. A lady sat there, with veiled face and droop ing head. Frederick Harriott paused in surprise—the figure rose up, and, throwing aside its veil, revealed the blue, starry eyes aud pale cheeks of May herself! "Oh, Frederick, pardon me!" she sobbed, throwing herself into his arms; "but I could not let you go alone! I love you, Frederick. I can not live without you! When I thought of you being alone, perhaps ill, in a strange land, I thought I should lose my senses. Dear husband, tell me that you are not angry with me?" And she burst into a flood of tears. "My own May—my wife—my lovel Close,close to my heart for evermore!" Aud that was all he said. May Haven had married for money; May Harriott had learned the secret of love. Ideas of the Arabian*. Their general opinion of an English traveler is, that he is either a lunatic or a magician; a lunatic, if, on closely watching his movements, they discover he pays little attention to things around him; a confirmed lunatic, if he goes out sketching, and spends his time in spoiling good paper with scratches and hieroglyphics, and a magician, when inquisitive about ruins, and given to picking up stones and shells, gathering sticks and leaves of bushes, or buy ing up old bits of copper, iron, and silver. In theso cases, he is sup posed, by aid of his magical powers, to convert stones and shells into diamonds of immense price; and tl?nn be plucked every six weeks and a considerable income be derived in this way. A trio of ducks will give a good start although five or six ducks may be kept for every drake.—N. J. Shep herd, in Farm, Field and Fireside. Hint» for the Poultry-Yard. Introduce new blood every year or two. Don't buy culls for breeding or eggs. Make fowls exercise to keep them healthy. Brown leghorns lay when four to five months old. Cook wheat and vegetables together for the morning meal. One cock to twelve hens, none to be over two years old. A clean and well-ventilated house is a necessity if you want eggs. For broilers cross a brown Leghorn cock with some heavier breed. Wash roosts and nests once a week in summer and once a month in win ter, and whitewash thoroughly. Keep plenty of fresh water, fine grit and oyster shells always within reach. Ground bone is good, but green cut bone is far better. Clover pays as a poultry food, even if it must be bought. Remove the droppings every day, and each time sprinkle them with land plaster or kainit, preferably the latter, because it contains potash, in which poultry manures are deficient. Put on enough so that there will be no odor of ammonia wheu the pile is stirred. ISiKKPBt flrapevlne In the World. The mammoth grapevine growing near Carpinttiria, Cal., is the largest in the world. The massive trunk of the vine is seven feet eight inches in circumference, its size and appearance suggesting an oak rather than a grape vine. Its branches rest on a stalwart frame, covering a space one-third of an acre. It is of the Mission variety and produces annually about ten tons of grapes. It was planted in 1842. Beneath the thick leaves of the vine 800 persons could find protection at the same time from the summer heat. Thirty years ago the vine formed a roof over so large a space that it was used os an election booth. The first election in Santa Barbara county under American rule was held beneath its brauches of rireningstraDes. QUEER AMERICAN RIVERS. 3ne Florida Stream That Heemt Unde cided What to Do, F. H. Spearman tells of "Queer American Kivers"in St. Nicholas. The author says: Every variety of river in the world seems to have a cousin in our collec tion. What other country on tha face of the globe affords such an as sortment of streams for fishing and boating and swimming and skating— besides having any number of streams on which you can do none of these things? One can hardly imagine rivers like that; but we have them, plenty of them, as yon shall see. As for fishing, the American boy may cast his flies for salmon in the Arctic circle,or angle for sharks under a tropical sun in Florida, without leaving the domain of the American flag. But the fishing rivers are not the most curious, nor the most in structive as to diversity of climate, soil, and that sort of thing—physical geography, the teacher calls it. For instance, if you want to get a good idea of what tropical heat and moisture will do for a country, 'slip your canoe from a Florida steamer into the Ocklawaha river. It is as odd as its name, and appears to be hopelessly undecided as to whether it had better continue in the fish and al ligator and drainnge business, or de vote itself to raising live oak and cy press trees, with Spanish moss for matresses as a side product. In this fickle-minded state it does a little of all these things, so that when you are really on the river you think you are lost in the woods, and when you actually get lost in the woods,you are quite confident your canoe is at last on the river. This confusion is due to the low, flat country, and the luxuriance of a tropical vegetation. To say that such a river overflows its banks would hardly be correct; for that would imply that it was not behav ing itself; besides, it hasn't any bnnks —or, at least, very few! The fact is, those peaceful Florida rivers seem to wander pretty much where they like over the pretty peninsula without giving offense; but if Jack Frost takes such a liberty—presto! you should see how the people get after him with weather bulletins and danger signals and formidable smudges. So the Ock lawaha river and a score of its kiud roam through the woods—or maybe it is the woods that roam through them—and the moss sways from the liveoaks, and the cypress trees stick iheir knees up through the water in the oddest way imaginable. "Katlng Like a HOMP." At the campfire held recently under the auspices of General Hancock post, G. A. R., a couple of war stories were told by Captain T. P. Gere which probably have never been printed. During a part of the time that Gen eral A. J. Smith was up the Red river with his command the entire army was without rations other than shelled Mm, such as was intended for feeding the horses, and this condition lasted ibout eight days. Captain Gere was at the office of the adjutaut-general of the command one day wheu an Irish soldier came to headquarters and in quired: "Giueral, could I borry the loan of m auger?" He was asked what in the world he wanted with a tool of that kind,and he replied: "Well, we've been atin' this shelled aorn for so long that I supposed we'd be after gettiu' hay for rations pijrty Boon, and I wanted to build meself a nice little hay-rack, so I could ate it comfortable loike." In the course o* a few days, Captain Gere narrated, the command received regular rations and WHS once again happy. The same soldier again ap peared at headquarters and asked per mission to buy a peck of shelled corn. He was asked what he wauted with corn now that the regular rations were being issued. His explanation was this: "A few days ago, gineral, I borried a peck of corn from a mule when he wasn't lookin', and I want to return it to him." —Sioux City Journal. Wild Dogs In Arizona. John Bargeman, under sheriff of Navajo county, Arizona, has returned to Holbrook from an extended trip through the mountains along the border of Arizona and New Mexico, bringing a tale that wild dogs of a peculiar kiud are creating havoc in that region among cattle and sheep. The dogs have been known for only three years, first making their appear ance in a small band in American val ley, in western New Mexico. They have increased wonderfully, and are now found over a broad stretch of country, despite the efforts of the cattlemen to exterminate them. They are especially numerous around Nnrtrioso. In size the dogs average about 100 pounds in weight. They have the head and shoulders of a bull dog, but the build of a timber wolf, and wolfish characteristics. In color they are ashy gray, with long black hairs interspersed. Like coyotes, they are a little afraid of man, and wili follow horsemen for miles through the timber, not hesitating to attack footmen. Thomas Alger, a resident of Nutrioso, is responsible for the statemeet that animals bitten by the wild dogs, if not killed by them on the spot, die within a few days with all the symptoms of strychnine poisoning. St. Louis Globe-Demo crat. _ Clawing Backward*. Miss Thirtysmith (meaningly)— Ad Italian proverb says that "honest I'-ac marry soon," and— Jack Swift (solemnly)—l cannol sonceal it any longer. I live in deadly fear of being at any moment arrested for embezzlement! —Puck Cranberries are not injured by freez ing. They are often sent as far as Mani toba in open bo* cars. When they arrive they are frozen into solid blocks of ice. The sides of the cases are knocked off and the berries are ex posed in a solid mass, like cakes of ice. The steam craft of the United States last year carried 650,000,000 passeu gers with a loss of forty-sis passen gers, and 137 men belonging to the crews. How People Sleep. In England the old four-poster bed stead is still the pride of the nation but the iron and brass bedstead is beating out of the field. The English beds are the largest beds iu the world A peculiarity of the German bed is its shortness; besides that, it consists fre quently in part of a large down pillow or upper mattress which spreads over the person and usually answers the purpose of all the other ordinary bed clothing combined. In the tropics men sleep in hammocks or upon mats or grass. The East Indian unrolls his light, portable charpoy or mattress, which in the morning is again rolled together and carried away by him. The Japanese lie upon matting, with a stiff, uncomfortable,wooden neck-rest. The Chinese use low bedsteads, often elaborately carved, and supporting only mats or coverlids. The ancient Greeks and Romans had their beds supported on frames, but not flat like ours. The Egyptians had a couch of a peculiar shape, more like an old fashioned easy chair, with hollow back and seat. The mines of the world produea every year 540,000,000 tons of ore and coal. Oil, Wluit Splendid Colter. Mr. Goodman, Williams Co., 111., writes: "From one package Salzer's German Coffee Berry costing 15c I grew 300 lbs. of better coffee than I can buy in stores at 30 cents a lb." A. C 1 A package ot this coffee and big seed and plant catalogue is sent you by John A. Haider Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., upon re ceipt of IS cents stamps and tilts notice. To wash a glass which has hold milk plunge it first into cold water before put ting ft into warm. Western North Carolina'* Glorious Climate "THE LAND OP THE SKY." If you have not decided where to spend the month of March, a more delightful spot can not be found than in the mountains of west ern North Carolina at Ashevillc or Hot Springs. These delightful resorts are situated amidst beautiful mountain scenery and afford a delightful and beneficial retreat for persons seeking rest and recuperation. The bracing mountain air, blue-skied spring and dry at mosphere restore and bring new life, make western North Carolina the grandest natural health resort on the American continent. The train service from New York is most per fect. Leaving New York In tho afternoon at 4.20 p. m.. via Pennsylvania and Southern Railway, in a through Pullman drawing room sleeping cor, you are iu Ashevllle next after noon at 2.2.) and Hot Springs at 3.52. For full particulars call on or address Alex.S. Thweatt. Eastern Passenger Agent, 271 Broadway, There are 110 mountains in Colorado whose peaks are over 12,000 feet above the ocean level. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseefces put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it In curable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires v .institutional treatment. Hail's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney A- Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is internally In doses from 10 drops to a tcaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any cart it falls to cure. Send for circulars and testi monials. AildressF.J. CHENEV& Co., Toledo, U. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hairs Family Pills are the best. The speed of our fastest ocean steamers is now greater than that of express trains on Italian railways. Fits pormanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of I)r. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. S2 trial bottle and treatise free Dit. R. H. Ki.isk. LU1..H31 Arch St.,Phila.,Po. There are 10,800 teachers in the diminu tive Kingdom of Belgium. Chew Star Tobacco—The Best. Smoke Sladge Cigarettes. Mushrooms are native to all temperate countries in short grass. To Care A Cold In One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggists refund money If it falls to cure. 25e. Over 60,000 oil wells have been sunk in the United States. Mrs. NVinslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the eumi, reduces Inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 2oc.a bottle. Glass brushes are used by the artists who decorate china. Piso's Cure cured me of a Throat and Lung trouble of three years' standlng.-E. CADV. Huntington, Ind.. Nov. 13. ISttt. London has had an underground railway ever since 1860. Every trace is obliterated of salt rheum, itch, &c„ bv Glenn's Sulphur Soap. Of druggists. Hill's hair &Whlsker Dve. black or brown.soc. England's new the Implaca ble, will cost $5,000,000- Blood Humors Spring is the Cleansing Season- Don't Neglect Your Health You Need to Take Hood's Sar»a* parllla Now Spring Is the season for cleansing and renewing. Everywhere accumulations of waste are being removed and preparations for the new life of another season are being made. This Is the time for cleansing your blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Winter has left the blood impure. Spring Humors. Bolls, pimples, eruptions, and that tired feeling are the results. Hood's Sarsaparilla expels all Impurities from the blood and makes it rleh and nourishing. It builds up tho nervous system, creates an appetite, gives sweet, refreshing sleep and renewed energy and vigor. It cures all spring humors, boils, pimples, eruption.'. Hood's parilla Is America's Greatest Medicine. $1; six for s■">• Prepared by C. 1. Hood & Co.. Lowell, Mass. Unnrl'c Pillc »re the only Pills to take nOUU & rills Hood's Sarsaparilla.