We'll (Jot There ttj and II;. la apllo of tempests blowing With cotton low ot high, Anil congress "till a-going, We'll got there lijr and by I We'll gii there, Ari'l "set" there We'll i'fw to fume anil fret there, We'll pay tip every bet there We II get there by ami by ! , what's the line In grlevtn'? A song can bent a sigh ; The stormy clouds are wearta' A riilnbnw In the sky ! And we'll bit hore We ll got there, Ami settle every debt there; Won't be a house to lot thero We'll got then by anil hyl MADAME'3 STORY. A FllENl'H CANADIAN BKBTC3. "Ami what became of Marie?" f asked. "Sho married, diil alio tint? or did she, now? I remouiber there was same excitement." Madame sighed. "It is a very lung elory." "Tell mo Madame," I bogged. I Rive tho story ia her own words. I would that I could give hor accent. Iter English was almost perfect, though rather atudied and occasionally con fused na to tenaes. lint her singularly pure, clear voice and faint foreign oflcuing of each syllable mda her cliarining to lint on to. "Well, aa I think Itold you long go, Mario went away from mo for mm long year. When idle was very little, 1 aent her to convent iu Toronto, tut I do not aee her very often. She grow ao pretty, ao apirititelle, the pule pink fneo and big eyes, black eyes, and long lashes, oh, ahe ia beautiful! H'no away liko a rose in tho morning, quite aleuder, and her Bmall feet do not hurt the flowers, Sho is a flower herself, charming. Sho coma home, ml tho lads iu tho village aro dis tracted and I am too. It is very hunt to watch Marin. Hue is ao quick and eo bountiful. She liiugh in my face ud any : 'Do not fenr my mother, I aiway at ay witu you. Aa ror the men, I hat ) 'em all.' Thau alia dance away with the pale-pink ribbons Hying from be pink rube, aud the lnils follow her Everywhere Sho read love-stories, novel, alio call them, and they put trnnge things iu her head. "She w ill not marry tho lads in tho Tillage, aho nay, but somo rich man will come from tho city aud take her away,' aud I, her mother, will have plenty of beautiful dresses and a maid to wait upon me. Then I acold her nd nay I do not waut thoso thing", and aho must marry a la I that I shall chooso for her. Then she dance away, throwing tho roses at me, and the ribbons fluttering everywhere, always ribbons anil flowers with my Marie, and whpn ahe pass, tho curling hair all tumbling around her, thbre ia Nays a swoct perfume in the air. You remember hor when ahe camo from the convent?" I I nod. Who wouldn't remember that wild-rose Of a girl, with the dain tiest foot poet ever raved over, with alender, lithe, ever-dancing, little figure with her pretty gowns following every movement, with hor glorious aerry black eyea and tho aen-shell pink on her checks. Remember Marie? I, who had followed hor floating ribbons, had picked up tho roses aho let fall, had been as crazy about her as over was village lad I Remember her I Yes, as one remem bers a.sprito, a fairy, a delicious dream. I sigh as one sighs tor do parting' youth. Those mad happy Jays have nothing to do with me now. A moment ago a day ago I was liorod, cynical, blase, and now I would give my life to be dancing onco more through tho woods after Marie after flowers and streamers and a floating gown catching on the wild-rose bushes after Marie. If once more the woods could ecem as green, the sky as blue, girl as fair as Marie I "So she will not marry, and by-and hj a girl from the convent write Maria to visit with her at her home, and I am tired and I let Marie go. She tay one whole year", and I weary for her and ahe come back. When I aco lier, the tears come in my eyes. She is pale and thin and ao quiet. I foel dreadful. I aak her what the matter .is, and she say 'Nothing at ulL" But I, hor mother, know better, and I watch and wait One day a letter come fur her, and it is a man's hand writing on the envelope. Marie take it and say nothing at all. Then I feel bad, very bad, that my little girl have lover and that I, her mother, know not of it After a long time she tell we his name. It ia Jean Lefroy, and ahe knew him at the house of her friend, aud ha tell her he love her, nd I ask her if she love him although I think it not right that I do not choose for her aud she say she do not know. But oue day Mons Mr. Lefroy come and any: "'Why you not write me, Mnrio? and alio any to him that I am her mother, and he bow very low to mo aud say : " 'Madame, t tovo your daughter, and I write and ask her when I may come and tell her mother that I w ish to marry her, and sho do not answer me, at all, at all,' and ho atrido very fierce about tho room, and Mnrio put her head on my shoulder and any thnt she love me, her mother, ouly. Aud he ask very quick : " 'Why you Bay you lovo me?' and Mario will not answer. She just put her hands to her ears nud w ill not listen to him. I think she tnuiit be crazy, and I spenk hard to her, but she just run out of tho room. Then he go away ami siy ho will c.nno back again that evening. Then I speak to Marie, and sho siy there is another man ton, and she do not know which alio like better that whenonoof them is there that she liko tho other one bettor and it is making her pale and thin. Then I am very severe with her mid tell her it is very w rong; that she cannot love either of them, or ahe would know. But aho say she think alio will marry ona of them, and I tell h T that Mr. Lefroy is coming tonight ami she must Bay either yes or no to him, and she say thnt I will break hor henrt. '"Well, in tho evening a strange gmtlemiu oorai, a very fair gentleman with pretty curly hair, nud he ask to see my Marie. Sho look over tho stair and she Buy to me : "'It is tho other one.' "Then I am nearly crazy, but Mnrio say sho will not go to see him till Mr. Lefroy come. 'Perhaps I cau tell,' sho any, 'when I sjo them both to gether.' "When Mr. Lefroy come, wo go down the stair and thero they are, both together, aud they look hard at each other. Wo talk a littlo while, and then I sny : 'Gentlemen, w hat is it that yoa want?' "And they both say quick, 'Muriel' And Marie she say : " nut you ennuot uotu liava me. Is it not so?' And tho oua that camo Inhny, very angry: "You must deeiita, now, which one you will have !' "Then Mnrio look at him and frown aud sny quick : "Very well then ; I djcida uow that I will not have you.' "Than Jean Lafroy ho sniilo a little, and the other one walk out of tho house quick, his fneo liko a storm-cloud, and then Mnrio sit down and cry. Sho will not speak to Jean Lefroy, al though ho coax her very hard. Sho ouly say that bIio will stay with me, her mother. Then Jean he bow and say to ma that he hope my health will keep good, aud Mnrio atop crying aud make him a grimuoe, aud ho go away, too. They both como back, often. Hut she ennnot tell which she liko best ever, and I am very weary. Almost I would bo glad that sho lenvo mo aud marry. So one day she tell mo that next week aha will marry, and there is no time to get her tho clothes, and aho will not tell mo which one. I like them both very well, aud I feel bad, but aho ouly say, 'you will see.' On Thursday she would marry, only quiet-like only thoso who marry her and I, her mothor, thero and we go to tho church together. When we get to tho church, I look to aee which gen tleman, but I aoe no one. Marie ia cool. She aay: 'Let us wait. Ho may be Into," and she smilo to borself. I think it ia very strange ; but at last I see Jean Lefroy come round the cor ner and Marie run to meet him. When he como near, I see that ho look oh, horrible I Ho have his arm tied up aud his eoat is torn aud one of his eves has a black mark and ho is lame. He wear no hat and the collar and tie are gone. Oh, it is dreadful. But I say nothing. I fear Mario change her mind again. But it ia not so. They are married, and I make Jean tell me why ho look bo dreadful. J " 'Well,' he aay, 'Marie tell each of us, separately, that she will marry us to-day, and when I aee him I smile, not knowing that hehus had her prom ise too, and w hen he see mo ho hold the head high, not kuowiug that I shall marry her. So ull tho week we nearly have our fight, but I never touch him till well, last uight Mario write us both and say that aho will marry the oue that will get to tho church first. We both get the note at the same time, and I aee that ho is getting ready early and I hurry, too. When be leave hia house, I leave mine also and all the way we try to keep each other back. It is very hard work, and two hours after we leave the homes we have got no further than tho first eorner. Boon we start to run, but we ennno jet put each other, aiul then ho calch hold of me, and then we light some more. But soon I tear his cont bad and he ennnot wear it and then his vest, but madamo will pardon me that I ennnot tell her nil that happen. At all event, we have to go home to get the clothes and I get here first.'" Madge Robertson in Romance. Two 8:orlr- or "Stonewall" Jsrkson. "As au "illustration of 'Stonewall' Jackson's belief in the matter of ab solute obedience to tho letter of an order," said n Confederate veteran to the Loufavllle Courier-Journal, "I have heard a story told of au incident that occurred during the Mexican War. Clenernl Jackson was then a lieutenant of artillery, commanding a section composed of two guns. In a certain notion he was ordered to occupy a cer taiu position and open fire upon the enemy. His two guns were started for the place, which was vary exposed, and before reachiug it ho Bttw that ho could not remain thero ten minutes without losing every horse and man ho hnd. At tho same time ho saw thnt by moving some 300 yards away his Are would be more effective. But hia orders to open fire must be obeyed, so, reaching tho designated position, tho two guns were Hied, Then they were limbered up nnd moved to tho new po sition, and lire was opened in earnest and with effect. "I could tell of aeveral incidents in which Jackson figured," ho continued, "which came under my notice while a student at the Virginia Military Insti tute, where Jackson was a professor. I remember onco how a student tried to kill him. Somo fellow I forget his naino had a fancied grievance against Jackson. He took a bug which was used to hold Boiled clothea and filled it with bricks. His room wai in the top story of the building, nnd one day as Jackson was passing under his windirtv he dropped tho bag of bricks. It passod so close to Jackson that it grazed his enp, tilting it to one side. Without pausing or looking around, he strnighteuod his enp nud passed on as if ou puraile, the ouly notion he seemed to take of tho occurrence being to step over aeveral of tho bricks thnt had rolled out of the bng. Severnl of us who were near rushed up to him, re marking upon his coolness. "Gentle men," said he, "tho bricks were on tho ground when I saw them. They could not hurt mo then." Sunlight by a Crooked Route. In order to furnish light for work men engaged iu repairing a break in one of tho lower compartments of tho tank steamer Kasbek a novel experi ment was tried with wonderful success Wednesday. The steamer is loading bulk oil at Marcus hook for a German port, and a slight leak was discovered in one of her tanks. It was unsafe to use lamps of any kind, because of the danger of fire, tho tanks being lull of gns generated from tho remnants of previous cargoes, nnd Captain Briggs decided to try and deflect Bolar light twenty-seven feet down into the .lark hold. Ho procured a number of high ly polished pluto-gluss mirrors, aud, after several attempts, succeeded in stntiouiug some members of tho crew iu such positions as to reflect the sun's rays from the mirror into the hold. In aeveral instances tho rays had to pass through small mauholes, a few inches iu diameter, from where they were focalized with lenses nud uiagni lied after reaching the compartment where tho repairs were to bo made. In this unique manner a flood ot bright light at lias, ten feet square was thrown over the leaking joint and held there while a group of machinists thoroughly repaired tho weak spot. Philadelphia Record. The Sulphur Cavern. Three miles from tho villnga of Krisuvik, in the great voleauie district of Iceland, there is a whole mountain composed of eruptive clays nud pure w hite sulphur. Although this sulphur mountain is a wouder iu itself, interest ecu t res to that spot on account of a beautiful grotto which penetrates the western slope to an uukuown depth. Tho main entrance is a fissure-like chasm, about CO feet in height and ouly eight or ten feet iu width. The Hour inclines for the first 50 or GO yards, nnd then suddculy pitches downward, seemingly into the very bowels of the earth. Here the fissure widens iuto a considerable cavern, with walls, roof, floor, stalactites and stalagmites, all composed of pure, crystallized sulphur. St Louis Re public And Trouble Followed. Neighbor's Boy "Your mamma must be mighty strong." The Other Boy "How'd you know whether she is or not." Neighbor's Boy "I heard my mamma aay she b'lioved she was a shoplifter. XChigago Tribune. . PliTROLKUM. Excitement Beigned When Penn sylvania Struck Oil. Boom Cities Whose Sites Havo Again Become Farms. Scarcely thirty yenrs hnve passed lineo Pennsylvania's first barrel of cfined oil was offered for anle, anys ;ho Philadelphia Ledger. Notwith ilanding this, tho exports rnnk fourth li the list for value, nnd are surpassed only by cotton, breadstuff and pro visions. For the year ending Juno DO, 1804, tho total exports wero 23,000,. )00 gallons. 1'ivo years Inter they 'ind increased to 100,000,000 gallons, in 1874 to 200,000,000 gallons, and In 1801 to 700,000,000 gallons. A lnrger percentage of the oil product of the country is sent abroad thau of any other product except cotton. The re luetion in tho price of petroleum is 1'iito as noteworthy as tho increase in iroduction, quantity nnd exportation. A gallon iu bulk cost in 18111 not less thau fifty-eight cents, in 18!2 not nore than three nnd a half cents, or hnrdly ouc-seveutceuth of tho old price. Pipe lines aggregating 2"i,000 miles n length have been Inid, and 900 ) tank mrs have been built, which, if forming l single train, would extend nixty-flve niles. Besides these cars and a utfm ber of bulk sailing and other vessels, Ifty-nino bulk steamships are now employed in transporting tho oil to foreign countries. Tho value of the Pennsylvania oil wells nnd land is estimated at more than 887,000,000. Sixty-five million dollars moro must bo added to cover tho value of tho plant employed in producing crudo potroloum. This valuation does not include tho pipe lines, tank ears, tho great fields of (nnkage, the costly refineries, docks for exportation, nor the fleet of bulk vessels carrying the product to foreign ihorcs. Tho estimate of total capital required for tho production, manufac ture, and transportation of petroleum nd its products is not far from &I0P, 100,000. Professor Hollos finds numerous in cidents connected with tho discovery and development of tho petroleum in dustry, from tho drilling of Drake's famous well in 18.)8 to the later gush ers. Drake's nuccess ushered in a period of almost unparnlled excite ment, surpassed only by the Califor nia gold fever. Tho president of the compnny was untitled by telegraph of tho discovery, aud not forgetting his pocket beforo spreading tho intelli gence he quietly bought up most of tho stock. Western Pennsylvania iu tho noxt few yenra was the scene of in describable activity and speculation. Numerous wells woro sunk aloug Oil creek, French creek, and tho Alle ghany river. Adventurers flocked from all parts of tho country, and what was once an uubroken forest was soon transformed into enmps ami towns. Many of the wells yielded nothing, others lasted but a short time, while lome produced enormous quantities of oil. As tho producing fields changod tho population shifted with the fields, ud tho towns that had sprung up from the wilderness as by the touch of the magician's wand vanished almost is quickly aa they had come, Pithole City, for example, in 1805 was tho largest post office, except Philadel phia, in the state. It has now entirely lisappoared, and tho site of tho city (ins become a farm. During the first two years after Drake's success the search for oil was restricted to the territory around Fitusvillo. The drills were then tried on tho Alleghany river, and it shoros yielded an abundant quantity. Until this time all the oil had been raised from tho wells by pumps. A new sur prise was now in store for tho pro ducers. The first flowing well was struck in February, 18G1, and yielded 300 bar rela a day. It flowed for fifteen months. This surprise had not spent itself whefetho Phillips well wasBtruek, shooting forth ten times as much oil per day as tho first well. This was soon followod by tho Funk well, which matched tho Phillips in productive ness, yielding 8,000 per day. Tho No ble well yioldod as much, while tho Sheridan yielded 2,000 barrels per day. It ia stated, on good authority that the Noble produced $3,000,000 worth of oil, and that tho averaga flow of the Sheridan for two years was 900 bar rels per day. Wong look, the Chinese Bicyclist. ( Wong Fook is nothing more than a common, every-day sort of a Chiueae, but he has within the last few weeks led some people to think that he will soon bo ue of the swiftest bioyclists In tho city. In a word, Fook is train ing to race, Bays tho Los Angeles, (Oil.) Herald. Home months ago Fook, with the audacity of an oriental henthen, wnlked into a prominent cycling es tablishment and said ho had nuo to buy a bicycle. After tho clerks had recovered from the shock a wheel was brought out. Fook sized up tho silent Bteed Immedi ately, and snid that was just the one ho wanted. Ho paid the bill and pushed tho wheel to his plnco of abode. When tho shades of evening began to full he grasped his trusty slood and ambled forth, to do or to die. He conquered tho thing end soon was seen winding through the throngs of vehicles upon tho streets. Then his cousin iu Chinese his brother beenme ao infatuated that ho too, purchased n wheel. A week or two ngo Ah Lee did likewise, ao that now Los Angeles has the peculiar dis tinction of raising Chinese bicyclo riders. But Wong Fook has taken a step in advance of his brother celestials. Ho hns donned "Melienn" bicyclo clothes and begun training with a view to ra cing. For the last two weeks Fook hns been riding regulnrly upon the track at Athletic Park. The local riders were somewhat amazed at tho nppenrnueo of tho Chinese among their ranks, and soma of them refused to train whilo John remained upon tho track. But tho prejudice agninst him soon woro away and his intelligent unobstrusivo con duet brought him friends. Fook can make a good race, al though he hns been training but a few weeks. His best milo was mado close to tho threc-miuuto mark, while he made a quarter tho other dny iu about forty-live seconds. Completion or (he Mont Blanc Ob servatory. The observatory on tho top of Mont BInne, Switzerland, is at last completed. Tho work was facilitated by the uso of windlasses, which drew tha materials up tho icy slopes. Some of the builders remained on tha sum mit for twenty days, the August weather being very favorable. The construction of tho observatory was begun over two yenrs Bgo. Tho builders hoped to cut through tho ice enp to solid rock, but this was found to bo impossible, after they had gotta down a distnueo of thirty or forty feet. So at last it was determinod to let the building stand upon tho ieo nnd snow. Tho observatory was mndo iu sec tions ot Paris, under tho immediate direction of Mr. Janssjn. Tho pieces wero transported to Rochers-Rouges on tho backs of men, and wero fin illy brought to tho summit by tho aid of windlasses. Tho building is thirty eight feet high, but only one-third is above tho snow. Tho upper story is used exclusively for observatory pur poses, while, the lower atories shelter attendants aud parties of tourists. The observatory reals on ten heavy screws, so that the building can bo easily leveled. Tho interior is lighted by Bmall dormer windows with double panes of thick glass. AH wood used in the construction is fireproofed, aud all necessary precautions agninst lire hnvo been taken. Anthracite coal will be burned. It is seldom that the cold exoeeds thirty-two degress below zero. The observatory will be occupied from May to November, and a great deal is expocted from the self-registering in struments during tho winter. If pos sible, it is intended to connect tho in struments with Chamounix by elec tricity, but no atepa toward this end have been taken yot. M. Jaussen wai carried to tho top of Mout Blano last year in a litter borno by thirteen por ters. The new obsorvatory will enahla scientists to carry out important ex periments and observations in physics, meteorology, spectrum analysia and vegetable aud animal physiology. Scientific American. Hand-Made Beauty. If you aeo a woman in the street cars occupied with rubbing the tips of her fingers up and down on her fuce, don't imagine that aho ia crazy or attempting to mesmerize any one. Sho is not. She has been reading in the woman's corner of some daily paper that to outwit time and remove wrinkles a woman should occupy some of her leisure massaging her face gently, to rub tho wriukl a out. New York Journal. A Mean Man. "My dear," said Mr. Bloobumper to his wife, "I wish you would havo some of these biscuits of yours when Mr. Briscoe is here for dinner." "I thought you didn't like Mr. Briscoe, love," replied Mrs, Bloo bumper, sweetly. "I dou't."-;f Judge. ICe. Life Is a rainbow In splendor uprlst, Hun oourl lug and proud, Ephemeral, fleeting, It springs from the mist Ami sinks In a cloud! riiantasmnl, uneertnln a ersllo sun-klst, A tenr-tnrnlshed stiroml ! Joy, sorrow, lovs, hatred, (nine, fortune aud all Momentous we deem ! Till shadows they sleep 'nenth OMIvlon'a poll, And dentil rules supreme! Vnla hopos thnt urn tsdisl Iwyond our recall, Poor Khrwts of a dream ! All plenitininn denting, hut sorrows Inst Ions; In undying pain. And mingled with sohs Is the sound of a song Whose lingering refrain U walla the dead past where sweet dream measures throng, Dreamed never again! Al), life Is so ImiPly when Inve's day Is done And gloa iilng gales grieve, And In the pale liht of the fust failing sun, Think how miii'h w give, Wlisa even tha goal of existence Is won, To hreiith and to live. M. M. Kolsoin, in Atlanta Jour-ial ni'Mouors. Worldly-win? A geographer. A receiving teller The gossip. A Hand-me-Dowu, The Heirloom. Tho airing of musty opinions doesn't improve them. To tho ardent wocr "no" nowa ia hardly good news. Of nil birds, th'i tailor's goose has the most prominent bill. The pessimist is a man w hose cup of joy is broken and half thu fragments lost. A pickpocket is a landlubber who ia never so happy us when ha is on the seize. The flat, stain nnd unprofitable, is likely to bo turned into a tenement house. It only takei sunrise to tell one-half the world that th oth.-r half lives in shadow, "If the money burns in your pocket, my bou, you will uever bo ublo to Iny up much cold cash." Doctor "Did the last prescription relieve yoii?" Patient "Yes, of a dollar and fifty cents," A man who ii boarding may not be able to build castles iu Spain, but ho often finds grounds iu Java. Man is a good deal liko his own shoes. When he i worn out by the hard roods of life ho is likely to bo hulf-Houlcd. Visitor "Do yon regret the pnst?" Convicted counterfeiter "Oh, uo. It's what didn't pass that I feel bad about." Kate. Dinks. "I had my diamond pin stolen last night." Inspector "How can it bo identified?" Ilinks "It has a patent thief-safety -chain attached." Mr. Henpeck "I can't see, my dear, what good thnt bonier of velvet does round tho hem of your skirt.' Sirs. Henpeck "Oh, can't you? Well, it just shows that I can afford it." "But why are you so bitter ngainst the police!" oskod tho caller. "It's just this," said Mrs. Owskeep. "Aa soon as I havo taught a girl how to lie a good cook one of them comes along and marics her." "Haw-haw!" laughed the Chicago man, ns he rend the bill ot fare, "l'on Easterners make some queer mistakes. You've got croquettes un der tho head of entr.ys. Out West croquette is a ga.ne." Caller: "You have your share of children, I nee, Mr. Topflat." Mr. Topflat: "Yes, we hove five." Caller: "Don't you find it quite a trial to bring them up?" Mr. Topflat : "Oh, uo. There's an elevator in the build ing." Jones. "Well, Smith, did you pro pose to Mis Airess last uight?" Smith "Yes, and her nnswer wax very ambiguous and contradictory." Joues "'Why, what did she aav?" Smith "She gnvo me a positive neg ative." Uptown Landlady. ' -There "a only one thing, sir, about theie apartmoutu I think I ought to cull your attention to; we haven't got a piano, eir." Wearied Husband nf Musical Wife "How very delightful! Do you make o ny e xt ra cha .go. ' ' "What horrible smelt is that?" ho asked aj ha unpacked hi: winter clothes. "That's the stuff I used to keep the moths "out of them." his wife answered proudly. "Well, it must have auwered tha purpose. I know it'll kee;i out of "em." A little th.ve-yoiiv-old boy, already set apart for a lawyer's calling, being takeu ia hand with a switch, after having been forbidden to pick auotbor pear from a favorite dwarf tree, indig nantly exclaimed: "Mamma, I did not pick off tho pear ; you come and sou if I did." Sure eno ih he didn't. He simply stubu there aud nto it, and the core tfua oiill dangling f;orn the. stem.
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