EPRINO BONO., Bins me 0 song of tho early spring, Of the yellow llglit where tho clour air 1 oools. Of the lithe willows hourjroonln? I In the nrntxT pools. Ring me song of the spangled dolls, Whore hop.itloastrnmblo In slnrry groups. Of tho violets swinging tlinlr golden bolls As tho light wind swoops. Hlng mo n song of tho shallow lakes, Of the hollow full of tho nimble rill, Of the trolling npturo thn robin wakes On the windy hill. Ming mo it dona of thn gloaming swift, . Ol tho vivid Maryland -yellow-throat, Of tho vesper sparrow's silver drift From tho rlso rmnoto. Hlne me a on of the crystal cage. Where tho tender plants In thn frames are sot. Whore kneels my loro Armltage, Planting the pleasant mignonette. Pine me song of tho rIow afar, Of thi misty air and tho croons light. Of the now moon following a sllvor star Through the early night. Duncan C. Hcott, In Horlbncr. A QUAKER IN LOVE. HE little Quaker community nf Hills boro hntl been in vaded ly two world lings that summer, which had so dis turbed its wonted qnietness that Brother Cox had been forced t o lament more than once, "Alas, that this should be I The days of o peace have cone." Brother Cox felt the trouble more than the other members of the com ronnity, for he knew that be was partly responsible for it. To think that his nephew, his only brother's on, sbonld come out to Hillsboro, and in these few short months rawed such commotion among the people ! But there was redeeming virtue in the vouug man which Brother Cox dwelt npon with a feeling ol relief. Bofore the sancy face and blue eyes of Ella Strattan were seen in Hillitboro Jack Cox was as quiet and demure as the most conservative Quaker. i True, he only attended meetings once a week , and then it was gener ally out of respect for his uncle ; but ho never entered into the gay life which bad since shocked tho sensibili tics of the Quakers. Naturallr, Brother Cox took a per sonal dislike to the new tenants of the deserted cottage on the outskirts of the village, and be could scarcely con ceal bis disapproval of the young gill's actions. He felt convinced that sho was at the botton of all the trou blc. Her snowy dress, pink checks, blue eyes and rippling laughter suggested the world too strong for the Quaker's to enjoy. r "She bclongsto the world," Brother Cox said one day, as he passed her. "She has no right out here among our peaceful people. It will be well for us when she leaves." ' They were only summer tenants, and consisted simply of Mrs. Stratton, her daughter, and two servants. They did not exhibit mnob wealth or finery, but to the plain Quakers their dress and general appearance seemed alto gether out of propriety. Then the way Ella laughed, and tramped over the fields on foot or rode on horseback, shocked the good housewivos. Jack Cox had known the family in the city, and he soon joined Ella in these rides and walks. It was from such a simple beginning that tho trouble arose. The old en ticement of woman had lod the young man astray, and he was soon looked npon as being as great a sinner as the fair temptress. The two were practically ostracized in the community, and the upright Quakers passed tuem with only a nod and simple word of greeting. Ella only wondered, but Jack shrugged his ahoulilors. Brother Cox was inclined to be more lenient than the others. His fields struohad nearly out to the cottage of the Straltons, and he would often stop in his work to glance at the rod house. One day he paused iu his labors, and looked up to discover the bright face of Ella Stratton. She was luuniug ou the fence which separated the two grouuds. ".Don't you get tired of work, Mr. Cox?" she asked, in a sweet voice. "I do, dreadfully, aud you are older than I am." The good Quaker straightened him self up to his full six feet. He was till a fine-looking man of fifty, with gray locks, a calm, noble face and dark yes. "Work keeps us front mischief," ho answered seriously. "I know that, and I suppose you think I ought to be at work uow, and not standing here to bother you," she replied. "It wonld be better- for you," was the rather unexpected reply. The girl's cheeks colored a little at the ungullant words, but she asked, tbunurely : "Do yon think I'm so very wicked V" "l's are of the world and worldly minded. ' I cannot judge thee, but thy actions have not my approval." "Oh, what do I do that you don't like?" she asked, in penitent voice. "You know that I have been brought up so, aud how eould I know what to do?" "That isu't the question J ye can do better now." "Ob, I would like to do better so much I Will yon tell 'me how? I should like so much to have you, for 1 like you." This was said iu so artless and in- noecnt a tone that it went straight home to tho nmu's henrt. As he walked nway from tho place five minutes later he recalled the look which accompanied tho words. Such a face, such eyes, mouth and ex pression are not often seen iu this prosaic world, and Brother Cox should bo forgiven for thinking of them again, ami then again. He never knew before how pretty and winning the "Stratton girl" was. "If sho was only of our belief and number," he muttered to himself. Hut I might try to make her one. She is not yet lost to wickedness. She wants to learn. I'll teach her. " Alter that the old hedge proved a regular trysting-plnce for tho two. Ella found plenty of exenses for going outtotho fields, and Brother Cox culti vated tho field near that fence oftener than elsewhere. The weeds persisted in cropping up on the went side of the field, and be felt bound to keep tlium nudercontrol. One day Ella brought some lomon adn out to him, carrying it in a small silver pitcher. It was some of her own manufacture, aud the day was so warm that it was very refreshing. "Oh, Mr. Cox, I have some lemon ade for yon," she said, as she hurried over the field. "I hope you like lemonade. I made it myself, and you looked to hot and tired out here in tho sun that I had to bring you a drink." Brother Cox did drink, and smacked his lips. It was so kind of her to think of hiin, and while he talked he admired her bright face and mauners. Could any man look upon such a vision of beauty and not feel his pulse beat faster? Cold and dutiful as the Quaker was, there was still much vi tality of youth in his strong frame. After all, he was only a man, and the rights of nature soon broke throngh all barriers of steel. He loved the beautiful girl who helped him to lemonade. Was he too old for snch a bright girl to look upon with favor? He had been called the handsomest man of the community before he courted his dead wife, and be was sure he still pos sessed some of the requisites ol a lover. He could teach her the ways of his sect, and give her a fine home. He would gradually draw her away from the ways of evil, and centre her mind upon thoughts of love, charity and re' ligion. "She may be frail now, but the sturdy oak was once but a sapling, he said. "She can learn and grow. He trod tho floor of his old home with a lighter and firmer step. The bare ness of the old-fashioned rooms im pressed him with a sense of diasatis faction. They would have to be re furnished and brightenod. The flowers and vines around the house needed cultivation aud pruning, aud even the outside of the house would need a new coat of paint. "I've thought of doing this before," Brother Cox muttered, "and it may be done now. There were improvements about the yard, the gardens and the outbuild ings which were readily suggested to his critical eye. He made notes of these things and resolved to make a complete transformation. "She has been brought up in the wsvs of the city and she would- not like to come to a gloomy house. ' It will be just as well to improve things a little at first. She cau't grow into our ways at once. The golden harvest of the autumn was approaching. The crops nodded obeisance to the reapers on every side, Tho autumn colors suggested peace and quietness in the Quaker com munity after the toilsome days of the summer. Brother Cox stood by the hedge scp arating his fields from the garden sur rounding the tenant s cottage. The day's work had been finishod and tho faint shadows suggested the approach of twilight. Ella Stratton, with a meek, demure face, was stand ing before him. "I feel that I have become so much better this summer," sho said. "You know why ; you havo been so good to tue and taught me so much. "You should not say that, for it might make me vain. Such a sin should not game to me at my age." "Why, you are not old, Mr. Cox." There was a thrill ofpleasure in the sturdy frame, and it seemed to straight en more erectly thin ever. "Then my email here will be made easier for me. Ye know that I have come here for a purpose. Ye have guessed it?" "Yes, Mr. Cox, I have," was the quick reply, while the face flushed beautifully. This must be the way of the world, he thought, for the girl to make such advances. It waa so different in the community. "1 would have spoken to thee be fore, but I wished to know thee bet ter. That's why I've spent so many hours at this fence talking to thee. "Oh, how kind of you I I wanted to know you better, too. I thought probably you would dislike me. I was ao different from you and wicked. "But ye are learning our ways, and ye art very apt. x soao.be very good, and there is nothing like having a protector. "And suoh a good protector as I shall have," she said, with a look of admiration at him. "Ye are kind to say so. The Coxes have always been good to their wives and families." "I know that, for they are ao good to every one uow. I love them ; I be lieve that I love the whole family, never enjoyed a summer so much as this one in Hillsboro." It was graceful for her to say it. He felt that she made his wooing easy How remarkablo that sho had divined his feelings all along I "Then ye think that I will suit thee?" he asked, in a voice) that wa-i almost raillery. "Ye have studied mo enough nt tho fence?" "Yes; I know I shall like yon; I knew it from the first. Everybody thought that yon were so col I aud stern that yon couldn't love any one, but I knew differently. I liked you then, ami now I love you." Sho kissed his brswuy hand Im pulsively, her warm lips sending n de licious thrill through him. This was not an old mail's courting, but a young woman's, and, though strange to Brother Cox, it had a sweetness that drowned any thoughts of wrong. Flushed with his success, he felt that he could be plainer, and he con tinued, Vie know ltn strict In my living, not approving frailties and gay life. That should repel thee." Oh, no! Jack told me all about that at first. Ho said you were strict, but that you hail a loving heart be neath it all. He always got along well with you and he knew that 1 would." Jack, Jack t Had he known of it all? Had he been putting her tip to this strange wooing, laughing in hit sleeve at his uncle's sentiment? The girl continued rapidly, "He wanted to speak to yon first and tell yon all. He knew that yon would dis prove of our match, but I told him not to tell you. I wonld first win your friendship and then your love. I wonld meet you every day, and if 1 could make you like me by autumn, then he could tell yon. I didn't know as I could marry him if yon didn't give your oonsent, bnt wheu I found how nice and good you were 1 felt that it was all right." A shadow seemed to settle over th landscape. Everything appeared dr.rk. Night must be approaching, and man's eyes at fifty are not quite ai good as at twenty-five. Brother Cox heard the voice of the girl, but it all seemed so strange. He had not thought of Jack. "Are yon going now? Oh, yes, it is getting dark I I didn't realize that it was so late, I must go back to the house, too. The dew is on the grass. Good night. Jack and I will alwayf love you always. He felt the pressure of the warm lips on his hand again, bnt they diJ not send a thrill through him as before, It certainly was dark walking across the field, and, several times Brothet Cox stopped to find his way. It wai strange that he should get lost in th fields which he had tilled and culti vated for forty years. When he reached the house he felt tired; and he rested on the front piazza before en teriug the large diuing-room. The painters and carpenters had left theii tools around, reminding him of the improvements he was having made in his home. They seemed a mockery now. He entered the house and walked across the strong floors. Then h strolled toward the dining-room. "Jack, Jack, where are ye? I want to see thee. Come here I I know all everything. She has told me, and ye have my approval. I'm getting the house fixed up, and ye must come here and live. "Is it really true, nnole? You are as good as you are handsome, uncle. Ella always said yon were." "le must live here every summer, and come and see me aa often as y can in winter. "We will, undo. "New York World. Obeyed Order Strictly. "When I was a youngster of seven teen," said a successful business man to a Detroit Free Press reporter, got a job as collector with a man who was about as strict a martinet as I evei saw. He insisted on everything being done just as he said, and there were times when life was verily a burden, but 1 stuck to him for six mouths, theu we had a difference. It waa this way : One morning he called me up and handod me a bill ou a man I knew and said to me to take it around and col lect it. " 'It's one of our standbys, ' he said, 'and every collector I ever sent to him reported him absent or not fiudable ot something. Now you go and don't come back here till you see him.' " 'Do you mean that,' I asked.as two or three clerks looked up. " 'Yon know me,' was all be said in reply and I went out after my man. "He wasn't at home, the people said, and wouldn't be for six weeks. So I stuck the bill in my pocket and went off up the country ou a visit. The old man sent after me half a dozen times, but my folks could only tell I was out of town, and I never paid any attention to a letter I got from the boss, but went on enjoying myself. Then I came back and had a visit with some other friends and at the end of six weeks I called on my man again with the bill. I found him at home and told him what I had done, and he paralysed me by paying the bill with interest Two honrs later I stepped into the boss's office. " There," I said, before he had time to gather his wits, 'is the amount of your hill and i uteres! He was out of town for six weeks and I couldn't see him before. You told me not to come back till I did see him, and I was obey ing your instructions. I had rat tling good time and the house owes me six weeks' salary.' "The old mau gasped, got blue in the face and I thought he waa going to explode, but he didn't ; he gulped it all down and stuck out bis hand. " 'Young man,' he said, 'yon ought to have been soldier ; I'm going to put you in charge of the collection de partment and double your salary.' Aud," oonoluded the merchant, "when I was twenty-live I waa a partuer." tumors facts. Rome Australian gold veins are 130 feet wide. fonntineorin7 on stilts is the latest fad in Switzerland. Moist earth is said to bo nature's cure for wasp stings. India has 12,00U,O0) who can read and write out ot a population of Ulfi,- OO'J.Odll. There are eight pdiblo and twelve poisonous varieties of mushrooms iu the United States. , Bank clerks iu Germany receive from 8141 to UlllW salary. For the first three or four years they serve without pay. Tames Sample Walker, one of the most noted scouts of the plains in the early days, died at Stockton (Cal.) re cently. Tho oldest architectural ruins in the world are believed to be the rock cut temples at Ipaamhul, ou the left bank of the Nile, iu Nubia. Greek and Iloman doors always opeued outward, and wheu a man was passing out of a house, he knocked on the door, so as not t j opeu it in the face of a passer-by. Near Brenham, Texas, lives a man who has only one eye ; the strange feature of his case being the fact that the place where the other eye should be is a blauV, and hai been ao from birth. Luther's famous old chnrch at Wit tenberg, Germany, which the Emperor had restored and reoonsecrated in 1892, has beeu wrecked again by the hurricane which swept over Europe a few days since. A Shelby ville (Mo.) girl who had her ears pierced against her doctor's advice, has a severe attack of neural gia whenever she wears earrings. She persists in wearing them, however, and continues to suffer. A malstone cured a Gadsden (la.) woman and two children who were bit ten by a mad cat recently. Another madstone owned at WichiU Falls, Texas, has saved 100 lives, according to the statement of its veracious owner. One of Russia's n arriage customs is for the bride and bridegroom to race rapidly down the aisle as soon as the bridal procession enters the church, because of the belief that whichever places the foot first on the cloth in front of the altar' will be master in the household. An absent-minded man in Du'.utb, Minn., wound up his alarm clock, put it in a basin and covered it with water. The large bouquet which ho brought home he placed on a chair alongside of his bed and went to sleep, confi dently expecting it would awakeu him in the morning. Lake Titicaca is the most elevated and one of the largest of tho lakes of South America. It forms part of the boundary between Mouth Pern and Bolivia, in the centre ot an Alpino valley, between two great Cordilleras ot the Andes. Titicaca is 12,'JOO fuel above the level of the sea. The palmy days for cats were in the times of Egypt s power as a nation, some 500 years B. O. They were held then as sacred as dogs or crocodiles, and death was the penalty for killing them. From their nocturnal habits and glossy fur, tho Egyptians deemed them symbolical of the moon, ami a golden cat was worshiped at Syeue. Supreme Bravery ot Two Men. ' The heroism of the two men, Heath and Andrews the ono a lad of twenty, the other a man of forty-two who lost their lives in bravely endeavoring to rescue a comrade at the Pye Bridge (England) Chemical Works, deserves somothing more than a mere corapli ment from a coroner's jury. By some accidental removal of the packing or plug in a tube a quantity of carbonic acid bad found its way into one ol the "stills" in which aman named Greaves was at work. The "stills" are iron chamhers cased with brick aud cylin drical, having a diameter ot five feet aud a half, and the only way to tie scend into them is by a man-hole at the top. Looking down through this aperture the little gronp of work people who had been brought to the sceue bv the cry for help could see Greaves lying overcome at the bot torn. Quick as thought Andrews caught the rope and, instantly fol lowed by Heath, descended. Holding their breath bh long as they could, they succeeded iu seizing their com rade, and were drawn up naar enough to the aperture for a man named Clay to grasp them ; but the dead weight of the men in a stupor was too much for Clay s strength, and tho poiHonous fumes were actiug upon him also. "I pulled," said Clay, "till I lost my senses. I oan t remember more till saw a lot of meu round the top." Meanwhile Greaves and his two brave rescuers had fallen back into the still Yet another and another effort to descend was made by bystanders ; but it was found impossible to live in the fumes, and they were drawn back, Finally the bodies were recovered with the aid of a long iron rod with a nook, but unhappily the efforts of the med ioal attendant to restore animation proved unavailing. Chicago Times. An Explosivs Well. A well in Dublin, Ind., has been acting queerly recently. The well is about twenty feet deep, and contains eight feet of water. The other day it began to bubble aud boil. A lighted torch was applied, wheu a loud ex plosion took place. In a short time another torch waa applied with the same result, aud for half a dozen more times when a torch was held over the well a loud report followed, off everything that was over The boiling still oontinues less force, Chicago Herald. blowing the well, with no A Handsome Toilette The chio toilette illustrated is composed of gray goods made tip with a novelty vest, which may be reproduced in duck later in the season. The sailor never goes out of fashion, and is en evidence this season with narrow rim and a medium crown. New York Recorder. Women ol the Argentine Republic. The manifold charms of the Porte- nas, as the native ladies of Argentina are called, have been celebrated in song and story, and in truth, writes Fannie B. Ward, many of them are re markably fine looking of the same style of beauty that prevails in Cadis and Seville, with po-sibly a little more ot the Moorish feature aud less of brilliant coloring. A wonderful beau tifierof the Latin race is a slight ad mixture of Saxon blood, particularly that of the Irish, as noticed in Chile, Lima and Montevideo, where some of the loveliest women in the world are found. The very best word picture of an Argentine girl that I have ever seen, true to lifo though rather flow ery, is as follows : Imagine a brunette of fifteen or six teen, developed to a precocious ma turity ; an erect figure, of medium height but splendidly proportioned ; a proud and graceful carriage ; a face of perfect oval ; spotless complexion, with a slight tinge of Creole blood that imparts to the cheeks the huo of a damask rose. The eyes are large, dark, A DnP.NOS AYBEH BELLS. and lustrous, fringed by long silken lashes and overarched by brows whioh, with the "night of her hair," make the white forehead look like al abaster i small and delicately chiseled nostrils that dilate nervously at every inspiration ; teeth so white aud regu lar that to catch a glimpse of them through the arch ot a smile is to won der at nature's perfectionthe ouly fault of the beautiful face the sensu ous lines that surround the full red lips, symbols of a passionate nature. Imagine this face iu its frame of soft black hair, surmounted by a white hat of the most coquettish fashion, on which real flowers repose and living fireflies gleam ; and that lithesome fig ure attired iu a dress ot some soft tex ture and delicate tint, and ot a fash ion known only to the Worths of Paris and Madrid, with the sparkle of a diamond here and there or glimmer of dull gold, and imagine the whole being instinct with the grace and vi vacity of early youth, aud you have the complete portrait of an Argentine girL Bnt, with all these charms that daz zle the eye and captivate admiration, there teems to be something lacking on closer acquaintance perhaps be cause the style does not appeal to the aoul like the more spiritual beauty of the Saxon maiden that where the senses only are fed they become sati ated after a time, like one on a steady diet of sweets. Unfortunately, these oharming creatures are universally ad dioted to the rougopot and the pow derpuffto suoh an exteut that the real woman appears to be iu total eclipse under drifts of white and dabs of red. And. as with tho gentler aex in all Southern countries, their beauty wanea at an early age. While women ot colder olimatea and oalmextemper aments art at their primeat thirty fly or forty, the Portaaajf golden ago With Sailor Bat. is between the years of fifteen and seventeen. At twenty-five or sooner if married, she is quite pssae and met aphorically laid npon the shelf. A tendency to corpulency is encouraged by indolent habits and excessive in dulgence in tho fleshpots, and at mid dle age many of them have developed hirsute appendages that are the envy of beardless youths. The standard tests of a "line woman" in Argentina seems to be in her weight, aud, judged by the criterion of pounds avoirdu pois, the conntry abounds in extra ordinarily fine specimens. Music as Medicine. At the 8t Pancras Infirmary thera was a female patient suffering from melancholia, to whom they played a lullaby. After the performance she told a nurse that she liked it very much. On this the Superintendent of tho infirmary said: "This is tho first time she has spoken for a fort night." Shortly afterward a male patient suffering from delirium tremens was brought into the ward. On hear ing the first notes of the music he be came quite calm and attentive, though his attendant had been half afraid to bring him on account ot outbreaks of violence. Results like these have since been frequently obtained by the guild, and they are certainly encouraging. They are all, it will be seen, in the direction of distracting the mind from pain and soothing mental irritation. In order to test the hvpnotio effect of soft music the guild made tho experiment of playing lullabies to a ward of four teen patients, along with Dr. Collins,' one of the physioiana to the hospital,; In spite of distracting noises unhap pily inseparable from the ward of Loudon hospital they got the follow ing results: Dr. Collins "found it an effort to keep awake ;" fonr patients were actually sent to sleep; soma "liked it too well to sleep," and others felt "sad, but delighted. "Chambers's Journal. Ills Last Signature. When the old Emperor William was on his deathbed, says the Youth's Companion, ho maintained his inter est in the affairs of the Gorman na tion, and still performed his usual routine of duties as long as he was able. When be was asked one day by his daughter, the Grand Dnchess of Baden, if these cures of the Govern ment did not tire him, his character Utio reply was, "I have no tima to ba tired." During his very last days, when the angel of death had already touched bis hand and rendered it almost powerless, a document was brought for him to sign. Bismarck, knowing how little strength he had left, an J anxious to save him from any need less exertion, suggested that he merely sign the initial W to the paper ; but the Emperor, with that courageous) spirit that never left him while life lasted, summoned all his atrength, and wrote iu trembling hand his full signature : It waa for the last time, and many fao-similes of the document, which i preserved in the arohives of the Reichstag, were made and given to the people as souvenirs of their beloved sovereign. For comparison, we print below his signature aa it waa written in the days woen na waa well and strong :
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