WHEN THE FISHING BOATS COME IN. The sea dusk shrouds In violet gloom the ocean's silver blue, And purples headlands whence, at dawn,the milk-whlto sea-gulls llew; The dances of the wild night-winds o'er glimmering sweeps begin, And the sun sinks down on a oouch of fire when the lishing boats come in. The glorious arch of Bky above is faintly filmed o'er With silk-white scarfs of vapor, and along the sunset shore Vast cloud-lleets ride at anchor in seas of gold and rose. While with a trembling splendor the wide horizon glows. The murmurous roar of far-ofT deep blends with the plaintive sigh Of wavelets that upon tho sands of gleam ing silver die: The darkling clifTs loom out behind, liko giants vast and grim, Stern guardians of enchanted coasts en wrapped in shadows dim. Liko some groat jewel burns the sea and on its gleaming breast , I'he laden, home-bound boats glide o'er each shimmering, foam-belled crest. 31ad watchers scan each glowing sail, fond eyes are straining still, 4nd with the stir of fearless life the dusk is all athrill. k hearty shout goes up to greet the latest furling sail, e The long shore rings with mirth and joy.tli ocean glimmers pale; K sea-bird Hies athwart the sky and from the fading west Ono lingering rose-rea ray outflames to crimson wing and breast. The wiuds are revelling o'er the reefs, the rocky sea-deeps moan, ' The silken slopes are dim and far, the fish ing grounds are lone: The sparkles of the mirrored stars among tho ripples spin. \nd tho shore is gemmed with a hundred lights when the fishing boats come in. | MR. SPATTER-DOCK'S | I MISTAKE. I BY HELEN WHITNEY CLARK. 112 "It'll never do—never!" Mr. Spatterdock shook his head at some imaginary auditor, as he stood warming himself, with his back to the fire. The blazing hickory logs suapped and crackled, sending a cheerful warmth through the snug room, with its heavy mahogauy furniture, fresh inginiu carpet, and gaily flowered cur tains. "Hob's a likely young fellow, and if ; he must get married, there's no reason j why he should throw himself away on a poor girl, with nothing to bless her- j self with but a pair of cherry cheeks ; and coal-black eyes, or whatever color j they are—l ain't never sot eyes on the 1 girl. But Rob Greenrxway's my owti nephew,and it's my dooty to look after him. Marrying, indeed! What the dickens does lie take sech a silly no tion iu his head for, anyway? I ain't never man ied, and look at me!" And, truly, Mr. Spatterdock seemed an enviable man, if he was an old bachelor, nearly forty. His housekeeper was a model of thrift and neatness. Not a nook or a cranny of the big old farmhouse but 1 what was swept, and scoured and gar nished. Not a pane of glass, but was sheer and speckless as a French mir ror. And you might dance a jig on 1 any of the carpets and not raise a mote of dust to show iu the brightest sun- ; beam. Wash-day comes every Monday, and ironing every Tuesday, raiu or shine, ! week iu and week out, from one year's j end to year's eud. Look at me ["continued Mr. Spatter- : dock, still addressing his imaginary auditor. "I've never married, and, j what's more, I've never wanted to. And Rob will get over this notion, too, if only Let me see. It's no use argu fying with a young fellow that's sot as a inula when he takes a notion; and the (ireonaways alius was obstinate. "I'll seud him away awhile—three months or so, anyhow. There's sister Roseanna, living over to Sweetgum Holler. I'll send him there for two or three monin3,he'll forget all about her 1 in that time. Or luebbe I kin see the gii l herself, and sort of buy her off, like. Yes, that's what I'll do. Hillo, Rob! that you?" Mr. Spatterdock's greeting was sus piciously warm, but Rob seemed not to notice it. "Good-morning,uncle!" he returned, rather soberly. "You wanted to see me, I believe?" "Yes, Rob." A rather stormy interview ensued, in which the uncle, however, came 6Tit successful. "Well, welt, and so that's settled, anyhow." Mr. Spatterdock had come home a few hours later, having accompanied his hephew to the railroad station and watche 1 the train speed off. "Bob's off safe and sound, "he mut tered, punching the fire till it blazed l-.ke a young Vesuvius. "He didn't aka the notion of going,at first. Reck on he thought I was a-goin' to send him clear to lujy! But, soon as ho found 'twas only forty miles away, to Sweetgum Holler, he got as chirk as a bull-tarrier. He's promised not to let a soul know where he's gone, an' I've promised, if they're both in the same notion three mouths from now, I won't say nothin' more again' it. "But it's my business to see they ain't both in the same notion. I must go and caH on Miss Penny—Petti*— ■whatever the name is—and try to fix it up somehow or another." It was more the meddling of the Vomen-folks than anything else which tad sot Mr. Spatterdock against his jephew's choice. "Real common sort of folks ,<iey are," declared Mrs. Ruhama Chick pea, "aud nobody knows where they c-ouie from, nor wnat they've b'en. I shouldn't 'low it, Mr. Spatterdock." But as Mrs. Chickpea's eldest daughter, Rebecca, was known to be "setting her cap" for RobGreenawar, perhaps the pother's testimony should be taken with some allowance. "Poor as church mice, too,"'put in the Widow Smilax, who was supposed to have an eye on Mr. Spatterdock himself. "Of course it's Rob's money they're after." And Mr. Spatterdock had gone home thoroughly convinced that it was his duty to save his nephew from the 6 Dare that had been spread. "And this is Miss Pettigill? Mis' Penny Pettigill?" "Yes." Mr. Spatterdock glanced sharply around at the home-like appearance oi the tiny room in which he was stand ing, and looked curiously into the elfish-brown eyes fixed 011 his own. If this was Penny Pettigill he was in a deuce of a pickle! Why, the little witch was a beauty, out-and-out—and a lady, too! Buy her off? Mr. Spatterdock would as soon have thought of—of anything else in the world! And somehow or other, he could never tell exactly how it happened,but there he was, sitting in a little,chintz covered rocking-chair, chattering of Rob, and everything else under the sun, while Penny Pettigill's wonder ful, elt-brown eyes flashed and sparkled, or dropped their dusky lashes over cheeks that glowed like crimson coral. "H'm! Rob's a lucky fellow, after all," muttered the uncle, as he walked home with his head in the clouds, metaphorically, his heart beating, meanwhile, in a way he had never known it to beat before. "Throwing himself away, indeed! It's her that's a-throwing herself away, if anything. Poor girl! She'll be lonesome while Rob's gone. I must drop in often." The villagers held quite aloof from the Pettigills, but Mr. Spatterdock made ample amends for their neglect. Mrs. Pettigill, Peuuy's mother, was a sweet-faced old lady, and Penny herself was as piquant and chaugeabl' as an April day. "And so you sent Rob off to git him away from that girl, Mr. Spatter dock?" The Widow Smilax, after lingering 011 the way home from church until Mr. Spatterdock overtook her, was making the most of the opportunity thus afforded. "That kind of girls is so artful, to be-sure! But it seems most a pity that you took so much trouble, now that the girl has gone away herself." "(lone away—herself?" Mr. Spat terdock staved. "Why, yes, to-be-sure! Didn't yon know it? She went the week before Rob did. Went to visit her married sister, 1 hear, a-liviu' out at Sweetgum Holier!" Mr. Spatterdock wondered whether he really had gone crazy or not. But, of course, there was some mistake! He declined the widow's invitation to dinner,much to her disappointment and went at once to learn the truth of the matter. "I thought you knew it was my cousin that Mr. Greeuawav came to see," e claimed Penny, dropping her eyes, bashfully. "Her name is Penny, too, though we generally call her Pen, to distinguish us. Her sister was taken sick, and she went to stay with her, and so "And so, Penny—my Penny—you are really free,and you do care enough for me to be my little wife?" Whatever tho answer was, there was a double wedding at the tiny cot tage when Rob came home, and the village criterions, who had refused to receive the plebeian Prttigills, now had occasion to wonder whether Mrs. Simeon Spatterdock and Mrs. Rob Greenaway would receive them.—Sat urday Night. An American Xhvhl Offlrei's Spanish Wif* One of the passengers aboard the United States transport Morgan City was a lovely matron of the per fect, highest Castilian typo. She had the deftly chiselled features, the be wildering wealth of hair, the deep black soul windows beneath arched brows, delicate as thistle down, the lips of an aristocrat, the teeth of an Oriental queen and all the elegance and grace of bearing that could well be imagined. She was all that one could picture the darling of a select household of Old Madrid. Hers was such a personality as fete visions con jure. Senora was of Spaiu. She is the wife of an officer iu the American navy and journeys to join her husband in the service of his country iu the Philippines. What her thoughts are, what experiences are iu store for her, might be mateiialized into a romance with much shading of sadness. Prom the expression of her features, uncon sciously betraying a pride of family and race, nothing could be guessed. Senora was unruffled on the ship. • It is fancied that it would be difficult to disturb her equilibrium. She traveled before her marriage to the American continent and has lived in the United States about five years, being promi nent in the society circles of one of the large cities. —Pacific Commercial Ad vertiser. Liglit From the Wind. An electric light installation which has recently been laid down at Boyle hall, West Ardsley, is interesting from the fact that wind is the only motive power employed for generat ing the current. There are fifty sails set radially in a circular frame about thirty feet diameter. A large pulley fixed on a horizontal shaft in an ad jacent building drives the dynamo. The duty of this machine is to charge the storage cells, which are sufficiently large to run 109 lights for abouteight days in winter, should there be no wind for that length of time, and for more than a fortnight in summer,— Yorkshire (England) Post. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. A caterpillar can eat six hundred times its weight of food in a month. A well-known professor asserts that the smallest intervals of sound can be better distinguished with one ear than with both. A fossil dinosaur that must have been 130 feet in length has beeu found near Laramie, Col. The remains were found by Professor W. H. Reed in the Jurassic strata near Laramie. A scientist of note has discovered that the smell of llowers is injurious to the voice. He declares that several operatic singers of his acquaintance owe the loss of their voices to their passion for certain (eweet smelling flowers. Liquefied gases, at atmospheric pres sure, are found to have these boiling points, in Centigrade degrees belon zero. Sulphur dioxide, 10; chlorine, 33; ammonia, 38; dioxide, 78; nitrous oxide, 88; nitric oxide, 153; oxygen, 183; carbon monoxide, 190; air, 192; hydrogen, 238. The influence of colored light iu the treatment of nervous diseases has been studied by Dr. Rafl'egan. From ex periments on twenty patients, he liaa found that a few hours' stay in violet light has a marked quieting effect, red light, on the other hand, producing decided excitation. An Italian melical journal states, according to the New York Medical Journal, that while water will not quench the flame of burning petro leum in a limited space, milk accom plishes the object by forming an emul sion with the oil, disturbing its cohe sion, aud thus attenuating the com bustible element. LYNN'S FLOATINC BRIDGE. In ITsofor Nearly a Century and Growing Belter All tlie Time. The city of Lynn will have to ex pend about SBOO next summer in re planking the floating bridge on Glen niere pond, announces the Boston Transcript. A new set of three-inch planks is required every third year oil the structure. Few people of the hundreds who cross the bridge daily have any idea of its great thickness, which has been proved by recent soundings to bo as much as seventeen feet in some places. Although so much thicker aud heavier than when first built, it seems to have lost none of its flexibility, and always adapts itself instantly to any changes in the level of the water. Floating Bridge is one of tlie curi osities of Lynn, and it is claimed to be the only structure of its kind in the world. In 1808 a bridge of some what similar desigii was built across Lake Quinsigamond, near Worcester, but it was constructed simply of two tiers of logs, covered with planks,and was never satisfactory. The Lynn bridge, on the other hand, lias been iu constant use for nearly a century, and is stronger now than ever, as the wood does not lot under water, and the pine logs which form the founda tion are as firm as cm the day when they were hewed and put together. Captain Moses Brown was the originator of the idea of thus bridging Collins pond, as it was then called. In March, 1802, a charter was granted to the Salem Turnpike and Chelsea Bridge corporation, and the bridge was completed in 1804, at a cost of $50,409. A diver has investigated the foundations of the structure, and has found that the original bridge was made of five layers of pine, laid at right angles to each other, the first two layers of pine logs were o:i one side, and the tipper three of hewn timber one foot square, the whole se cured together by three-inch dowels, and covered with planking 5 1-2 feet thick. The bridge is 511 feet long, 28 feet wide, aud the pond which it crosses is about seventeen acres in area and about sixty-four feet above the sea level. The bed of the pond appears to be a bed of quicksand, and it would be very difficult to build a road around the pond without making a very long detour, owing to the boggy nature of the soil. The bridge is kept from tipping over by being moored at the ends, imbedded in long trenches dug in the shores of the pond at the ap proaches. The Value of African Ivory. Africa remains the happy hunting ground for the ivorv collector. African ivory fetches a higher price than any other, being denser in texture, sus ceptible of a higher polish and not so liable to turn yellow when exposed to the light as the Indian kind. In Africa itself the quality is found to vary greatly, the rule being that the warmer the region the finer is the ivory found there. The finest tusks, however, are geuerally uaet with at some distance from the equator. The fine-it pair of tusks ever brought to Europe cams from Uganda, and are valued at &940. Tusks of anything like these dimen sions are, however, very rare, and are difficult to procure from tho natives, who value them highly, aud use them for door posts, especially in their temples. The tusks of a full-grown "tusker" seldom measure over six feet, and weigh from one to two hun dred pounds. The tusk is usually solid for about half its length, the base being quite thin and therefore of little use for commercial purposes. Only from the upper portion of the tusk can oil 1 iard balls and the bulkier articles be made. What She Wan Not. Cripple Creek is great on etiquette. A man out there met t a little girl with whose family he is very intimate, and said: "Hello, Edith! How are yoti?" The little miss drew herself up and raplied: "I'se very well, but I ain't no tele i phone."—Boston Qlobe. *lf Iffl fib IS GREATLY ENHANCED by knowledge of the world's (U^VtU | best products, which contribute most effectually to per sonal comfort, and health. The contest of high quality y and original efforts, which Rive universal satisfaction, it against the cheap and meretricious imitations will ever [ continue, and the greatest protection against mercenary ' dealers is in being well Informed. In the medicinal sphere jJ«pWWF|Bh the well-known laxati've remedy, Syrup of Pigs, manufae- Ijyxh _ tured by the California I-'ig Syrup Co., is used by many who | are enjoying good health and by many others who are seek | ins health, and tiiis is true to so great an extent that it is "8, I often called the remedy of the healthy. The excellence of \ Syrup of Figs is due not only to the originality and sini \ plicity of the combination, hut also the care and skill with I. which it is manufactured by scientific processes known only \WW to the California Fig Syrup Co. Therefore we wish to. im- vwi press on all the importance of accepting the true and f&a MVffl original remedy only. When Inlying note the full name— California Fig Syrup Co.—printed on the front of every \f&jv, ) n package, as there are many imitations sold under similar [s4l ( 1/fraJuj | names and the imitations are really injurious to the sys- jj'lllii tem. The true and otiginal remedy. Syrup of Figs, is manu factured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, and when you see the name of any other Fig Syrup Co. printed on any pack age you may know that it is a fictitious company and has a-gap* no real existence, and that the dealer who offers it to you is E/ ffnjHßjCj seeking by cunning and misrepresentation to take advantage The better class of druggists are men of high integrity. M J, | I attending strictly to business day and niglit and willing to lm jl' HVjjßaß make great sacrifices, if necessary, to supply their custom- JtHlfj il era with the best of everything in their line, knowing the importance to health of doing so, and valuing the patronage w. LI L of their friends and patrons and desiring their confidence. "W-M- s Druggists of that class do not try to sell something else when yon ask for Syrup of Figs. They give you the genuine remedy mnnufacture<l by the California Fig Syrup Co. only. When desiring physicians' prescriptions tilled, or pure drugs J and chemicals, proprietary medicines and fine toilet articles, 'lfflr' you may rely upon them; but as in other callings some black sheep may be found, so among druggists there tire some who 4SkJ will try to impose upon and deceive their customers when fi3\ they can. and in order ihat all who are well informed may ✓ nM know them and avoid them we are publishing the facts. J j. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO., T ■I!I - \ 11. K.l S I I 'iMh- ." < '.(I N■ • t V. ■I I ,\ Tlie Germ Hunter*. It is a recognized fact that the re searches of Mousienr Pasteur have saved many millions of francs to the French people by showing them how to guard against the pests of their herds, fields and vineyards, besides reducing to a remarkable extent the mortality in their hospitals; aud both the medical practice and the hygienic habits of all civilized nations are sharing these benefits. The courses of biology in our col leges now include some knowledge of bacteriology, and there are special provisions for students who wish to follow up this fruitful branch in the laboratories. Happily for all the people, the results of such inquiries become a part of common knowledge, even while tho processes aro still among the mysteries of scieuce. Thousands of homos and factories aro safer from disease-producing germs because of the spread of a kind of knowledge which is quite super ficial. The farmer sprinkles paris green over his potato vines; the house keeper buys of the druggist a bottle of carbolic acid, or some better disin fectant; tho nurse, under the over sight of the physician, treats the diphtheritic patient with antitoxin; and in each case they ouly need to understand that these substances de »J.roy parasitic life. Perhaps the few wise ones, who know at what cost these fruits of science and art are brought within common reach, may have their own quiet chuckle at the complacent claim of "popular in telligence."—Youth's Companion. No Stale Kread Waited. All bakers, wholesale and retail, seek to produce at their several bak ings through the day only so much as may be required to supply the wants of their trade, but in making sure to provide enough there is likely to be some left over to get stale. There is some demand for stale bread for house hold uses—for making toast and for cooking purposes —but the demand is limited. Such stale bread as may re main unsold in this manner is never wasted; it is sold to farmers aud market gardeners who drive into the city with produoe to sell, and who buy more or less supplies here to oarry back to feed stock. When finally disposed of thus it is sold by the barrel, at so muck a barrel; tho price being very low, but depending somewhat ou the surplus . stock on hand on the day of sale. — New York Sun. * i Shakeftp<Mii-e*a Gloves. A pair of interesting gloves are in possession of Miss Frances Benson. Breathe low and speak in whispers; they are Shakespeare's gloves. That they aro a good specimen of tho hand covering of the sixteenth centuiy is of paltry interest compared with the well authenticated statement that the great man had soiled the leather and worn through the finger-tips. Did he squeeze the hand of Ann with them as intermedials ? Have they, under his guidance, grasped tho handle of a flagon or of an inkhorn? Accompany ing them is the following memoran dum, which no ono will care to dis pute: "A pair of gloves worn by Shakespeare. Presented to Garrick by the Mayor and Corporation of Strat ford-on-Avon, at tho time of the jubi lee there, 17(5!), in a finely-carved box of the mulberry tree planted by Shakespeare, together with the lease of his house, in Stratford and the free dom of the town." These real work a-day gloves, deemed worthy to be placed with legal documents, have plainly seen wear. They aro of sub stantial leather, and doubtless made up in ornament what they lacked in fit. The scroll stitching 011 tho knuckles has been in red and gold, these two colors being maintained throughout the accessories. The cuff is of double leather, with a pattern pinked on the upper skin. The rib bon, outlining the cuff, is of yellow silk, and that on the lowtr edge is of c/imson silk with yellow fringe.— Philadelphia Record. Big Prices For Animals. The biggest price ever given for a horse was $150,000, when Ormonde, once the property of tho Duke of Westminster, was bought for that sum by a California millionaire. The fam ous winner of tho Derby, St. Leger and tho Two Thousand Guineas, in one year was recently sold for $105,- 000—Galteo More. The most volu able collio dog known is owned by Mr. Megson.of Manchester, who gave $6500 for him. He is the finest dog of his kind that has ever been reared, and has taken forty-eight prizes at various shows. Perhaps the most ex pensive fowl ever heard of is a game cock named Peter Jackson, belonging , to a, gentleman in Plymouth. This bird'has been known to fight under a bet of $200,000 to a pinch of Bnuff. Needless to say he wou it. His owner has refused $2500 for luui. —Tit-Bits. Thft Trekking Wn^oii, Tlio South African wagon is a long, heavy cart mounted on four high wheels, aa a rule, with a sort of can vas tent over the back half, leaving the front clear to carry the miscellane ous furniture of its owner, drawn by sixteen, eighteen or twenty oxen, curiously lierce-looking with their im mense spread of horn, sometimes as much as eight feet from tip to tip and rarely less than six, but in reality as patient and hard-working beasts as one could wish to fiud. Their mode of progression is certainly slow, but there is a strangeness and a fascina tion about it which may draw men to it almost as the Alps draws their de votees. In front there marches the "voor-looper," generally a small boy, leading the two foremost oxen by a rein or rope passed through their nos trils. The driver walks alongside with the long and terrible whip he uses so unsparingly, or else sits 011 the front of the wagon and gets off occasionally to lash up the whole team with unfailing impartiality. The traveling is all done at night, starting a little before sunset anil marching till perhaps 11 or 12 o'clock; then there is a halt, till a little before the first signs of dawn, when they goon again till the sun begius to get hot overhead, and then they lie by for the day.—Gentleman's Magazine. A Wonderful Battlwliip. A story is going the rounds in Cen tral and South American papers of a battleship to be called the American Boy, which is to be built by popular subscription amoug the boys iu vari ous cities of the United States. The description given of the projected American wonder is staggering. The ship, according to the gullible press, will bo 1000 feet long, with 207 feet beam and a displacement of 48,410 tons. Forty knots an hour is the speed she is expected to develop. Her guns are too numerous to men tion, but among them are four 15-iueh monsters, while those of the 12-inch and 10-incli class mount up in the scores. The armor-belt will be thir ty-six inches thick, backed by eight inches of asbestos felt! Then she will carry 25,000 tons of smokeless coal; there will be a gymnasium in the cabin as large as a small auditorium; she will have 170 officers and 2500 men, and the cost of the completed ship will be s2o,ooo,ooo!—Chicago JournaL ...
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