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 :