' After All. flrle f l MronR, but Joy Is stronger; JJl'lil Is lonir, but day Is longer; When life's rlddlo selves and clears, Anil the ntiiri'U in our cars Whimper tliu sweet answer low (Answer full of love nml Messing), Jliw our wonderment will ((row, .And the blindness of our itiiessiug All the hard tiling wo recall 31adv so easy, after all. Earth If sweet, hut heaven Is swector; Ive fiiuiplete, I. ut filth compilers lese . 1, 1 1 our wandering ways, TlmiiiKli ilnrk nights and weary days, St'iiul tho nngi ls with bright eyes, And the. shadow of the cross Vniln upon and sanctities All our pnins ami all our !os, Thnuuh we stumble, though we fall, Cud is helping, after all. ?l''h, then, ootil. but shg In sighing, To I he liapp'er things replying: Pry Iho tcurs that dim thy itIu, Give iilad tlmiitfhti! for life and being; Tune In but the little entry To eternity's lnr'e dwelling, 1ul the heavenly guards keep sentry, I'rjjini!, guiding, half com pi lllng; Til , the pnzsitiiu way 1 1 1 i t . past, Thoh tlialt i nter In, at lnt. (Su-an l'noliili;i', In the Weekly. CUPID'S MESSENGER. "I don't think," lio said, when lio really began to tell liis story, "ihnt anyone wiio has not seen men suffer tliu worst toi hires can understand what men nro onpablo of. 1 have seen men on n Ion;,' rido across t ho desert, Tvlii-ii they hover opened their mouths to iniika a complaint, though thcli eyes wcro sunken, tliuir lips drawn into n ghastly expression, and tlioir faces of tho color of tho alkali around on tint plain. Tlint is bcciiuso men can goi tted to anything. It's diflVr vtit tiMi horses, ealtlo and dogs. You Tiitpt lio brutal witli (ho i n to make theni understand tliat they mint go on. But when you are iu dosperato straits yon will follow tliu man who leads, without a groan or n tminnur, be ctitiH! you know thcro is nothing cNo to !o. "Hut what I started out to do was to give you ono ciibo In point. We wcro in Colorado In those days raising emtio. Winter camo down upon us that your with a rush. Our cattle bc gnn to illo, and wo could do nothing for them. Wo lost our bronchos, but it maun lit Lio difference, for they wcro of no uo to us. A man could not Mo ton foot from camp. Whon it did ot snow, n driving sleet (low on a (nlo mid cut n mini's faco iu ribbons. The dogs could not sleep at night, It was so cold, and often when tho freez ing u!r wukuuod mo I saw somo poor chap iu tho room, crouched down in liis blankets, holding his tooth together to keep from shouting out u tcniblo uth. "It got along toward spring, and tte wore ns helpless nt ever, for tho now begun to vofton in Iho day, burd ening wiih the chill of night, und any ono who von Lured into it was inviting a ftiro death, iu what win worse than quicksand. Provisions bud run low, and wu bud all been hungry for a long tiiuo. Tliu men's bones begun to stick out of their fucos and through their skins, und ut tliuas thcro win a strango light iu their eyes. But 1 never saw it bruvor set of men und they wcro a rough lot, loo. "Ono day, whon ut last wo began to sue light idioud, soinolliliig camo daggering into our cabin und foil Hero the Hour near the stovo. AVo picked it up und turned it over to look t iu It wus a iiiun, with a beardless face, thin lips mid doliuuto nostrils. The man couldn't huvo weighed a hundred pounds, bo was so wustod. Wo cliufod him, tried to got somolhlug warm into him, and thou rolled hlin np in warm bluukets. I was sluing by the stovo looking ut his whito fucu ut midnight. The room wusVurm that night, mid tho 6tovo door was open so that the light full on tho starved e'oopcr, but 1 would not shut oil tho light, for I wanted to look ut his fuoo. It was a faco that I hud never beforo toon on the plains. It must huvo boon oval und liundomo, before suUoriug nod old bud drawn it out to thinness. Hi dark lushes were long, mid they lay down on his clioek, dut'kor than the torriblo elio'o itudur his eyes. Ho win inoro liko a woman thun a man mid I was gazing ut him in pity when bis eyes opened slowly, with u dark light iu thorn, and looked at mo. '"What tlino is it?' ho uskod, with ' a faint smile. . 'It's nf.or midnight,' I answered, soothingly. 'Gj to sleep again.' 'Whon did I get hero?' ho usked, agorly, 'Today,' I Sttld. 'You are wot conic.' 4 ' " -Good I' ho said, iu answer to my first (611101100. '1 was afraid thut J ,lmd been sick on your bauds that I llwd lost time? : . , : " 'No, you liavo only been bore Hut twolve hours,' 'I replied. 'Bel iter (o to sloop. You louk as if you needed It. Ton have had a worse time than we have.'' 'No, I am not going to eleep again,' ho said, in a tone of decision. ' -You'd bettor,' 1 said. 'Wo will have n sink man on our hands. You need sloop before you can cat what wo can give you.' 'I've got to get away from here tomorrow,' bo said, smiling, confi dently. -Yon can't do It," I Mid. 'It is no ue to try. You'll bo a dead man if you do, before tomorrow night.' " Oh, 1 nm going,' ho auswered, quietly. " 'Try to get a liltlo moro sleep then,' I urged coaxlngly, protending to humor him. " I can't,' ho nnsworcd, fretfully. "I begged him to try, und ho turned over In Ills blankets. lie tossed for a awhile. Then he attempted to be Mill, feigning sleep. At lost ho drew himself up with a jerk. "'I can't do it,' he snid feverishly. Why don't you sleep yourself,' ho naked, trying to bo cheerful. -Have 1 got your blankets?' ' 'Yes's 1 said, 'but I don't want them. I can sleep in the nay time. It' about all wo have to do.' " 'Well,' ho said, propping himself up and looking at mo with his durk yes, 'I'm glad I tumbled into your ciimp. 1 was iiDJUl gono. A iauu siiiiln passed across his lips. " 'We will pull you around in good shapa,' I said encouragingly, but I did not bolievo what I said. Thcro was something strangely unreal about his brightness and clearness of mind. " "1 am nil right now, 'ho said cheer fully. 'This warmth is good utter what I have b id. I'll got a good start in tho morning.' " 'We'll talk about that later,' I said quietly. " 'Hut I am going,' ho rcpliod quickly, with n littlo ring in his voice. "I did not answer bim. '"I huvo beon at it six days,' be said, looking it mo. "'What!' I cried, Incredulously. " 'Six days,' ho repeated calmly. I started with mv pack grub. I think I've been walking ever siuce.'he added droamily. 'I can't remetnb cr much about it.' ' We talkod till morning. Ho told mo what ho was trying to do. Ho and his brother had been raising cat. tlo. They got caught In very bad condition. His brothor had fullon sick whon thoy began to sudor from tho torriblo weather. Ho had been stark staring mad most 'of the tlmo for tho Inst six weeks. In his fever ho hnd moaned and criod about get ting a letter sent East. In his lucid intervals ho had beggod bis brother pitooitsly to writo ono for bim and p-et it to tho railroad. It was tho samo old story a woman. " 'And I urn carrying the lotler to the railroad now,' ho said with a liltlo sinilo of satisfaction. 'Ho is tortured with tho thought that sho will bo woi rioil about him. So I huvo lied in tho letter and said that his right arm is broken so thut he cannot writo and ho has dictulod it to me.' Ha smiled happily. " It's selfish enough of him,' said savagoly, looking at tho boy's wustod form and white faco, 'to snc rillco you, no m ittur how much bo loves her.' " 'Oh, ho doesn't know,' bo an swered quickly, and his eyo flashod warnlngly at mo. 'Ho doesn't know how bad it is. He's beon in his bunk over sinco ho began. Ho doesn't know,' ho add'd, his chin sinking on his chest and his oyes closing to bldo the pnln, 'that wo havo lost every boot and that wo arc beggars.' He liftod his face again, his bright sniilo returning. "It will bo tiino enough to tell hhu when ho gois woll,' ho said. " 'Will you beliove me Unit I let that boy go away the next day with out f urthor protest I knew it would do no good. Ho had told ma iu tho night In a voiy calm voico, but with u light iu his eyes which convinced mo, i hut hi- would shoot any man who tried to stop him. So wo gave him Iho butt that we had of our provisions. and watched him go struggling through the snow with heavy hearts IIo had not madf more than a hundred vurds iu half ail boar, but ' thou ho turned to wave his baud at us. knew bo would never rouou the rail road alive. "There was no time for aentimon that spring. We were wrecked bodily and ilnuuclully whou we wore able to get relief to our campL Wo moved further away from the railroad, as a cattle-owner came along and gave us work, carrying us off to what was left of hb herds. "But two yours later I reached a tullou on the railroad, sick of tho plains and bouud for homo. A young umu iu overalls was rolling soma bar- rels along the platform, and I though) j just as a venture that I would ask hire if a dead man having a letter ad dressed to a woman hnd beon found noar tho railroad on the spring nftct that tcrrlblo winter. Whon I wont up to him ho was just taking olT his hat to dry with Ills handkerchief hi dripping brow. IIo wns a lino-look. tig, sturdy young man with curling dark hair and a fresh color In hi' niooth check. " 'Kxcuso me,' I said and then 1 gavo a loud shout; I couldn't help it, for though I never should have known tho man, thoro was uo mistaking that mile. " I got through, yon see,' he said, squeezing my linnd. 'I was sick for awhile, but not until I had seen that cttor iu a postal car. I got Will- hat's my brother, yon know,' ho nddod modestly, 'down hero whero we could nurso him, and I went to work for tho rond, for we biidu't a dollar left In tho world,' and ho laughed light-heartedly. 'Thou I sent him home, whord a woman got him well again, lid's Working for tho rond iu Denver now, and next spring we uro going into partnership again ii tho cattlo business, ns wo have about saved enough to mako another start. Ky tho wny,' ho said, pulling out a bit of a pencil and scribbling oil a note on a plcco of paper, 'call on him when you got to Denver. You'll ike him. Ho's tho finest fellow in the world, mid his wife sho's nil angel,' ho added with that wonderful imllo of his. fN'ow York Tribuuc. receptions nt (he White House. Tho evening rccoptlous nt the While llouso arc now card receptions. There uro font- of these each wlntor that may be described as regular. These nro to tho diplomatic corps, to tho ju diciary, to the officers of the army und navy, and to tho Congress. Of courso there are other receptions. Sometimes a ecieniillc, a commercial, or n medical congress is held in Wash ington, and tho President deems it to bo his duly to invite the delegates to view the President and a few of his frioudi. Hut the groat, regular, social events nt the Whito House, aside from the formal stato dinner parties, are tho four that havo been named. Everybody goes to them, the par. licular guests at one being tho general guests at tho others. At their own re ception the members of the diplo matic corps wear their uniforms, and llioro is much complaint on the part of somo ot tho gucils that they do not also woar them at tho other recep tions. Tho oUlccrs of tho army and navy aro necessarily in uniform at each of tho four. Tho crowd is Invariably enormous. The lino of carriages r.f arriving guests reaches front tho White llouso porch down tho long circular diivc way of tho grounds, out of tiio gate. down Pennsylvania avenue, past tho treasury, around the corner, and down Fifteenth street towards tho Washing ton Monument. A lato arrival will easily cousumo uu hour in crawling from ono end of tho lino to tho porch. Then when tho door is reached, aud tho weuricd but expectant burdens of the carriage nro discharged, they find themselves iu a pack of human beings thut is almost terrifying. It seems impossible that this good-natured crowd should bo ablo to make its wuv through tho singlo door into tho Whito llouso. Sometimes tho polico mako way for a bclatod distinguished guest; sometimes a window is opened, and ladles are handed Into receiving hands, Tho crowd lusido tho door is as great as that outside, and tho progress from tho porch across tho vestibule, up tho stairway, and down again is so slow that sometimes the receiving party is no longer receiving when tho last comers enter the Dluo Itoom, und is so painful that tho at tempt to get iu is often abandoned and is never repented except by thoso who must aud by thoso who havo no glimpse of any of the glories of social life except iu tlieso recoptions. As the crowd moves on it chats aud jokes. The ripping aud tearing of garmouts are heard. The carefully arranged hair of tho womoti is tumbled. The crowd has occasionally to make way for a fainting woman. Twice as many poople go to these receptions as uro asked. A man or woman who is bouud to go. to a White House recep. Hon has no modesty or 'conscience, so thut intruders are many. The heat is iiflocatlng, and usually the crowd is expectod to pour into and out of this huge bumming blvo of torment through one doorway. Any one who gets into the rooms, however, will find that comfort Increases as tho crowded ways of ingress and egress nro left behind, for the White House is an umple building, aud can bold small m toy ou its lo wer floor. Har por'a Weekly. -, ART OF SMUGGLING. IT IS EXTF.N8IVfCI)Y CARRIED ON IN KU1XOPE. Inirenlons Strati-jtoms ot Contra 'jamllmn Kvmllnif tho Soldiers Vonr-Footcrl Smimirlors Con traunnd Trnfllo on tho Sea. ARIB.VLD1, during his exilo on tho isl and ot Caprern, often used to say that there would have been no great dilHculty In pro tracting his guer rilla campaigns for years If ho had chosen to recruit his troops among tho smugglers of tho Calabrinn highland. It might, indeed, bo doubted if In practical warfare the strategic erudition of our best military academios would be a match against the tricks of border outla ws, wboso skill la outwitting tho vigilance of their adver saries has often been perfected by tho constant practlco of many years. Tho plan of employing the soldiers of the regular army in the service of the Uuvenuo department was repeatedly tried by tho French Qovcrnmcnt in tho smuggler districts of the Pyrenees, but had at last to bo abandoned as a sheer waste of time and trouble. In tho more dangerous localities a lino of picket posts his often been extendod for miles on both sides of the headquur ter cauip, the Interval between tho sen tries being so close that they could com municate without an extraordinary vocal effort, and In order to test their vigil ance it hid been mado a rule that tho hours and half hours of the night must be called out by tho corporal of each do taohment, and repeated from post to post all along tho line. About 2:45 a. M., in a specially dark night, the sentries near Bt. Biiuvenr, in tho Department of Haute Pyrenees, shouted out "lhren o clock" with a (lis tinetness thut awakcucd hundreds of re sponses anil brought out half a dozen non-commissioned officers nt a double quick to ascertain the cause of the un timely vociferations. Angry discussions followed, and a few minutes Inter a gang of shadowy forms pasted tho line within a few steps of a poor recruit who had been icpriinanded out of his wits aud would not have ventured to run tho risk of another false alarm if the whole force of Don Carlos had passed by with all their field guns and ammunition wagons. The smugglers themselves had set the sentries a-shoutiug, for the doublo purpose of piofiting by the eusuing con fusion aud of ascertaining tho exact position of each picket post. On another occas!on a troop ot mounted strangers challenged a sentry in good French and warned him to give the countersign moro promptly in futuro, and, after ordering him to repeat his In structions, trotted oil, leaving the be- iMCOoi.nn wildcred conscript under tho impression that his cross-examiner must havo been the commander of a cavalry patrol from some neighboring military post. Tho French Government dorlvcs a large sharo of ill Internal revsnuo from the duty on tobacco, and it has been estimated that an average of 2,500,000 pounds a year aro smuggled across the Spanish and Bolginu border in somo wuy or other. Tobacco, cut up in narrow strips and rolled up with bundles ol iw, wns for years carried across the 'l ournay canal bridges on hay wagons In broad daylight beforo tho douaniors suspected the trick, though in pursuance of regulations thoy bad always taken the precaution of prodding each load of bay with long-pronged forks. VODR-FOOTEO MDOM.RRg. A still more ingenious stratagem was tried in the Ardennes between Philippe ville and ltocroy. Finding thut many of their matadors were personally known to the French gendarmes, a band of Belgian smugglers conceived the idea'of training dogs for tbo purpose of crossing the line in moonlight, or even in day time, during the prevalence of a moun tain fog. With a little practice atout dog could inabageto trot and gallop with a lead of twenty pounds, distributed evenly to small, pack-saddlc-lik bags, lA ISA A iMCOOI.Kn riUNNINO TriB GAUNTLET. and fastened in tho way that In stresi of circumstance the four-footed messenger could dash through the tangled under brush without losing his cargo, Dogs selected for that sort of work had ac companied their masters on many prev ious expeditions and came to unucrsiana the danger of tho road so well that they would now and then rotraco their steps and hide in the thickets till the evening twilight enabled them to resume their journey with a better chance ot safety. Frontier guards who had acci dentally romo across these four-legged contrabandists reported that thoy would avoid the public roads as much as possi ble, and at sight of a stranger would stop to reconnoitcr, and nt the first suspicious symptom would turn aside and disappear like wolves in the gloom of tho rarest. ISrussels lices were smuggled In on a similar plan. A few leii'i sheep were wrapped round and round with rolls of valuiihlo dry goods and then covered with an artificial flccco so cunningly ad justed thut the trick could not bo eosily detected if tho woolly contrabands were driven along with a herd of stall-fed wethers. flrsprcions In the free port of Gibraltar Eugiish merchandise of various kinds can be bought about thrco times as cheap as in the neighboring cities of Malaga and Seville Tho result is an irrepressible contraband traffic, carried on by land and by sen, by night and by duy, but es pcelally in winter, when sea fogs and long nights favor the sum 'irlerj. Fish Ing smacks hover in sight of tho harbor and manage to nppioach northbound steamers at tho first peep of dawn, when nine out ten passengers nre fast asleep and no indiscreet eyes are apt to notice such little private transactions as the picking up of a "llont" a package, varying in weight froiu twenty to a bun dred pounds, wrapped up in a water. proof oilcloth and buoyed up by means of cork strips. Half a dozen such floats can be dropped in an unobtrusive way after an exchange of preconcerted sic nuls, aud a few hours ufter the crow of tho smack will transfer the consignment to accomplices awaiting tholr arrival in some unfrequented cove, ltevenuo cut. tors have found by cxperiouce that thcro is no use in overhauling suspected ves scls of that tort. No trace of a com pro mining articlo can ever bo discovered tho contraband has beon stowed away in daublo walls, or otherwise concealod in a manner tc defy a committee of ferrets, and as a last resort tbo smugglers would not hesitnto to consign their cur go to the sen afler weighting it sufficient' ly to insuro its instaut disappearance. By land, ton, the Illicit traffic Is carried on with an activity that has mado the custom-houso officials euspect every stranger of smuggling till an exhaustive search shall have proved either his inuo cence or bis scrutiny-proof cunning. Iiespectablv dressed and by no means I corpulent-looking travelers were caught with a hundred yards of costly ribbons uudor their waistcoats; logs of dyo-wood dragged by sluggish steors, with a sloopy looking driver, turnod out to bo hollow aud full of proof spirits; innocent geese were found to have been noodled with jewelry in quantities sufficient to causo their death before tho end of tho day. Tho Greok-Albanian bordor is another classic haunt of tho contrabandist. Tho Turkish Govornmont lovioi land taxes with rigor, but manufacturing interests are too insignificant to repay tbo trouble of asseisn.eut, and such home produce us shawls and brandy are cheap enough to bo sold in modern Greece with cousidorublo profit. Motukosphts, or thiof-taken. range the border in strong patrols aud tiro upon every suspect who fulls to stop at the word of command, but the smugglers aro equal to such emorgonclus. With their contraband hiddon just out of sight and tholr horto roady saddlod they will bivouac for days on the safe sido of tbo frontier, watching the movements of the guards, and ready to improve a favor able opportunity at a minute's notice. If their chance comes they will snatch up load of concealed sundries, strap thorn up iu capacious saddle bags and run the blockado at a tearing gallop, but withal making tkclr hours run algsag to coo- f'Jr A flnsprcions CAnoo. fa to the aim of a possiblo sharpshooter.' A ton minutes' start makes, pursuit hopeless. The country abounds with pathless pine jungles, and the Qrcek rus tics rival tho Sicilians in tholr readiness) to espouse the cause of a daring outlaw.' Indeed, in almost all Europcon countries the sympathies ot the common people aro with the lawbreakers. F. L. Uawalil. la San Francisco Chronicle. A Mnilstone. Ts there a cure for hydrophoblat Tt Is said that Pasteur has discovered one, and if this celebrated Paris physician has really succeeded in providlug a rem- edy for the poisonous blto of n rabid dog he will certnluly bo entitled to the thanks of nil humankind. It is said thut few persons bitten by dogs, and who die in spasms, are really victims of rabies, but of Imagination. De this as it may. the death of a person who imagines alt ho sees and who is evidently sullering nil tho torments ol tho dimmed, is a most torriblo one. Of all the Alleged cures for hydrophobia tho mndstoue, so called, is tho most noted. There is certainly a remnrkablo mad- stone In tho possession of Thomas Orton, a pioneer farmer living in the little town of Denver, Hancock County, III. Mr. Orton is a pioneer of "Ole Kaintuck, and came to Illinois along In tho thirties. IIo brought with him tho Orton mad- stone, which hns been in tho possession of bis family for many years. The stone has a history. It was found iu an Indian mound in a Southern State many years ago by a voudco Indian doctor, and by him given to a ncgrcss, who, as said. snnke and dog bites with her life, as she was tcgarded us a witch. The stone fell into tho possession of a minister nnmcd Hoagland, who was a neighbor of the Ortona in Kentucky. Homeland's boy was a sclioolinuto of one of the Or ton boys nnd traded tho stouo to Orton's father, then a lad, for a jacknife. While thisttonoremainod in Kentucky it was used in curing innumerable cases of snake and dog bite. Since it has bcoa in tho possession of Mr. Thomas Orton, at Denver, fully 100 men, women and children havo tested its virtues, and it is a matter ot record that in ono instance only did tho stone fail to prevent tho oc currence of the horriblo disease. The case in question was that of a farmer liv ing in Fulton County, 111., who had neg lected to have the wound properly At tended to, as stuted. IIo was iu tho in cipient throes of the horrible malady when tho stone was applied. Two others bitten by tho same dog, who applied the mndstone at once, sullured no inconveni ence from their wounds. It is known that in a majority of tho cases treated tho vic tims bad been bitten by dogs afflicted with rabies. Tho accompanying illus trations are from photographs of both sides of tho Orton mndstone. ileforo applying tho stouo a physician scarilics tho wooed. The stono is then boiled for some timo in milk and water, nod becomes soft and spongy. The smooth sido of tho stono is then applied. In every iustnuco it adheres instantly, and remains clinging to the wound for soveral hours. Often the green, slimy blood and water drawn from tho wound soaks through tho stone, running out upon tho floor through the little pores, or houcycombi, shown on one side of tbo stono. All patiouts speak of experienc ing a drawing sensation whon the stone is applied. How York Advertiser. A Neat Tumbler Trick. To lift n glass of wator by making ths giasi adhere to tho palm ot tho open hand is easy whon you know how Zo do it. This is tho way it is done: Place the glass on the tublo and lay tho palm of the hand over its mouth, bonding down the four finicrs at a richt ani'lc. as shown LirriKa a tumbler with tub ope n!ta in the lower figure of the illustration (1). This done, if, still resting the palm of the hand on the edge of the glass, you quickly raise the four fiugors so as to have the hand outspread, as in the upper figure, you will have produced beneath your band a partial vacuum sufficient to enable the atmospheric pressure to over come the force of gravity, and the tum bler of water will remain attached like a cupping glass to your band. To insur success repeated experiments will ba necessary at first until tho exporimenter. has ascertained the desired proportion of size, between tb.o.b,ud u4 glass, tto. . THE MADSTONE.