PACE. I.r m. ncrc, those looks of yours Ah iheio pp-tty airs an 1 lurs ; J'lmh of eheok, and (lull of pye , Your lipV sniiln itnil tlmlr dpp dytj . Olram ot th wlilfn tooth within Dimple of tlm olovon chin , All the minshino that you WMr ' la the summer of your hair ( All tho morning of your fne ( All your ileum's wilding kmc t Thn flowT-pn of your hosd, the light Flutter of your foottnps' flltht I own nil, nn.l (lint glad hpnrt . . 1 muit claim era you dop.irt., , Go vot ro not unconsolpdf Sometime, ntter you nro old, , . . You shall cdw, nnd I will ink From your hrow the. sullea si-he, From yo;ir eye th twilight gxt Pnrki'nhw upon winter days, T'rom your loot their pnly pmv, AnJ the wrinkles from your faee, T'rom y.uir lo -ks tho sn.iw , Ihi droop Of your hevl. your worn fr.imo'i sloop, An I fh.it withpro.l smile within The kissing of tho nose and ehln 1 own nil, nn 1 thnt sid henrt I will claim oro you depart. 1 nm Tlai-o, and Iwith nrs mino Mortnl Aire nnd Youth rilvlnn W Ins to grnnt, but not In foe i Both w,Mln revert to m Fro-n ci.'h that livos, tint I miy gW Vnto M,di thnt yt shall llvo. IV. D. Mowells. In. Harper's Magazine. Mis3 Belinda's Booliivcs, ry amy RAxnoi.rn. rHEX the pity visi tots who awarmed around Maple Cen ter and registered their names by the core in the hooka of the village, hotel atrolled out on the Maple road, thev al ways stopped at the Bnbble farmhouse nnd cried: "How exquisite! How lljrtnraniiA t4t for the life of her, Miss Belinda Bubble did not know why. "It ain't an if I conld afford a coat of paint to the old house," said she. "It'a jtiBt a elate brown with winter atorms and annimer-anna; and the grBpe-arboi's all a-tumblin down for lack of a brace or two of aolid timber; and the welUweep ain't half as con venient an Mrs. Claghorn's new chain Tump, no way yon can fix it; and the etun wall's all overgTowod with them peHky rnnnin' vinea and briers I To be sure, the four-o'elooks and mornin' glories are sort o' pretty by the fence, and there ain't no prettier hollyhock in tho country than them dark-red and herry-colorcd ones jest this side of tho pear-tree. As for the beehives, I always did like beehives, even if it wasn't for the honey. My mother set a heap o' store by them beehives, and there they've stood, nino of 'om, in a row, evtr since I can remember. And there ain't no honey in all the connty as has got the flavor of ourn. I don't know whether it's Squire Carbuncle's buckwheat-Held or that there clover medder of Mr. Darnell's as does it. But you can fairly taste the sunshine nnd the flowers in it !" And it was a genuine sight, at swarming-time, when Miss Belinda is sued forth into the black and booming clouds, all gloved and vailed and tied np in mosquito netting, with a tin pan and a skimmer in her hand. "I ginerally have first-rate good luck with the swarms," said Belinda. "I dou't know when I've lost one, if only folks wonld let me alone. But it's the meddlin' people that come to offer their help, that npsets me and the bees. Squire Carbuncle, now, he's real sensible. He don't never come round intorforin If he sees the bees makin' up their minds to swsrm4 he jest gets up oft his garden-chair and goes into the house. For bees, they'ro dreadful sensible They have their likes and their dislike, jest as human oreeturs have and they never could get along with Squire Carbuncle 1" Squire Carbunole was a quiet, grizzle-headed man of fifty, who farmed a model farm, with all the new machin ery patents liberally oiled with gold, read the agricultural papers, and was always "just going to" write an article for the Gentleman Farmer. Miss Bub ble herself was not much younger. She supported horself in a genteel way by vest-making for a factory in the neighborhood. "I s'pose," said Miss Bubble, "3quire Carhnnole '11 get niarriod some day, and I hope he'll choose a sociable wife that I can take oomfort with, exchanging patterns and chat ting of au evening over the garden feuoe." "Belinda Bnbble j a sensible woman," said Squire Carbuncle, in his deep, sonorous voice. "To my oert iin knowledge, she has refused one or two shiftless fellows who wanted to marry her merely to be supported. She's a good deal better off single than mar ried." Miss Belinda never said word when Squ!r Carbuncle's superb liver-ool-oreu setter killod her favorite Mus covy duck and tie aqi.be, on his part, condoned the offense, when Miss Bubble's ohickens scratohed up all his early lettuoe and made havoo with his seeding pausies and pinks. "Neighbors orter be neighborly," said Miss Belinda. "And dog's nature is dog's nature 1" "I must stop up the cracks under the feuoe," said the squire. "Of oourse, Belinda can't help her cbiok ens getting through! No woman could." Thus matters were, when Miss Boliuda's cousin, Fannie Halkett, eauie to visit her a plump, peaoh cheeked young woman who was cashier t a glove store in the city. 'Cousin Bubble," , sail Fannie, , av , mill "why don't yon marry Squire Car buncle?" "La, Fannie!'' ortod tho elderly damsel, starting back so suddenly thnt she Hepped on tin Tf the velvet white paws nf thn pet kitten. "Yea, truly, why don't yon?" naid Fannie. . j"Ho noeds a wife: And it would be very nice for you to have a husband. Now wouldn't it?" 'Oo "long," sntd Mis Belinda. "I never . thought of such a thing! Nor him neither Clo nnt,. Fannie, nnd pink a mesa... a', white Antwerp raspberries for tun and don't., let me hoar no more nuuh nonsense. , , "Nonjtoiiso I," echoed Fivuiiic, laugh in'g, as she Went riff with a blue-edged bowl in her hand. "But' I think it isn't nonnenso ht hll 1" ' ' '' And among the Antwerp raspberry vines she. talked the matter over with Julian . Hall, Squire Carbunole s nephew, who hnd come to the farm for A week's trout fishing, and who hnd developed a very strong propensity for rending novels under the old penr treo that overshadowed Mis Bubble's garden fence. "Wouldn't it be nice?" said Fannie. ".Splendid I" Julian answered, lean ing over to put a handful of raspber ries into the blue-edged bowel. Whether ha loaned too far and lost his footing or how it happened he did not know ; but certain it is that, just at that moment, one of tho beehives fell crash ! over among the rasp berry bushes. ' Fannie flod in wild fright, and Julian himself, recovering his balance as best he might, was driven to ignominons flight. " "Who did that?" said Squire Car buncle, issuing out of the door. "I'm afraid I did, air I" confessed Jnliau. "And wlint am I to say to Miss Be linda Bubble?" sternly demandod his unclo. "I'm sure, sir, I don't know I ' an swered Julian. ".Such a thing never happened be fore in all the years that we have lived as neighbor to each other," said Mr. Carbuncle. "Of course, the bees have got away and the glass honey-boxes are broken?" "I am very sorry, sir," said Julian. The squire, an eminently just man, harnessed up his gray pony and drove to town the next day. That evening he called at the Bubble Farmhouse with a square package, neatly done up in brown paper, in his arms. Fannie Halkett came to the door. "My dear," said Squire Carbuncle, "is your cousin at home?" "Yep, air I" said Fannie, fluttering all over and showing the way into the best parlor, where the bine-paper nhades were down and the stuffed owl on the mantel transfixed the chance visitors with its eyes of glittering green glass. "Tell her I've called on very particu lar business," said the squire, sonor ously. "Yes, sir?" said Fannie, and away she rau. "Cousin Belinda, take your hair out of those crimping-pins at once," said she ; "and let me fasten this blue-ribbon bow at your throat. He's in the parlor. He's come to propose." ".Nonsense, rannier "But he has I He as good as told me so 1" cried Fannie, standing on tip toe to kiss Miss Belinda's withered apple of cheek. "Do made haste I Don't keep him waiting. Men don't like to be kept waiting." And she fairly pushed Belinda Bubble into the best room. "Miss Bubble,' said the squire, solemnly, rising to his feet, "I have callen to ask if you will accept "xes, tteth, cried Miss Belinda, flinging herself into his arms. Luckily he had bethought himself to lay the square package down on the table, "xes, dear Setn, 1 will, r an- nie told me you was going to propose to me, but 1 didn't believe it. And I'll be as good wife to you as I know how. And oh, Setb, I've always loved you ever since we were young people and went to singing school together." The squire opened and shut his mouth as if it were some curious piece of machinery. 'Lb. ! said he, staring meohanically at the owl. "I hope," faltered Miss Bubble, "yon don't think I've been too hasty in aocepting your offer?" "o, Jiehuda, no, said Mr. Car bunole, swallowing down a lump in his throat. "I am much obliged to you for saying yes, and I am quite con vinced, my dear, that you will be a good wife to me." And so this autumnal couple became engaged ; and the squire never told Belinda that it was the colony of Ital ian bees he had brought her, not himself, to lay as an offering at her shrine. "But it's just as well," uaid the squire to himself. t "I ought really to be settled in life, ' and Belinda is a most worthy woman. It is best at times to abandon oneself entirely to circumstances. " "Didn't I tell you so, Cousin Be linda?" said Fannie, exultantly. One wedding makes many, and neither of the elders was surprised when Julian and Fannie beoams en gaged shortly after. "The humming oi bees will be the sweetest music in all the world to my ears after this," said Julian, fervently. "I always was partial to bees," re iterated Miss Belinda. The Ledger. Dangers ot Celluloid. A clergyman writing to the London Standard comments upon the dangers of the highly glazed, washable cellu loid collars, which have come into such general use of late. - In the par ticular cose mentioned by the clergy man, a boy's collar became ignited by a spark, and, burning with the almost explosive violeno charaoteristio of di-nitro-oelUlos in the open air, so. iui jured the lad that hs soon died. LIFE IN JAPAN. F.VKUYTIUNO IN THAT COUNTRY 19 VfcKY CMKAP. On Dollar 1 Worth Two Food Costs Almost Nothing Her vnnts Are Chrnptitul Uood -Jiipnnrn Houses JAPAN Is doing nil she can to keep silver in tho nir, says Frank (1. Carpenter In a letter from TokiVto tho New York Tress. Hhe has to pfiy for tho goods alio imports from America in gold, nnd tho silver question is a far more im pnrtant one hero than it has ever boen in tho United States. The country is now on a silver basis, and there is sure to bo a general rise iu the prices of everything. At tho present writing the exchange is fining up every day, nnd a good dollar iu Tnkio looks as big as tho cover of a Japanese umbrella. Such foreigners as are hero who get their incomes from America are rich through the fall of silver, and they now get two dollars for every ouo that is sent out to them from home. I made out a draft of 8100 on my New York letter of credit at the bank this morning, and got 8208 for it, and the money I have brought with me has doubled in value. This makos traveling com paratively cheap, and though I havo been' paying $1 a day nt the Ornnd Hotel in Yokohama, it really costs uie only two. The treaties with Japan prohibit her from charging more than llvo per cent, duty, and labor is worth so littlo thnt one could come across tho Pacific and ftvo tho expenses of the trip by laying in n stock oi clothing for himself and his family. Tho tailors aro Chinese, but they give yon good cuts, and yon OOlXri TO A FIRE IN TOKIO. do not need to pay if tho clothes do not fit you. You can get a good business suit of English goods, mado to order, for about ten American dollars. Fatcnt leather shoes, made to order, cost $2.00, and a fur-lined overcoat, with beaver collar and cuffs, can be bought for about 830 in gold. Yon could not buy the cloth, to say nothing of tho fur linings, for that amount in America. Ladies' dresses are equally cheap, and you get wonderfully embroidered gowns of silk crepe for loss than the ordinary street dress costs you in the United States. This reduction in silver makes a wonderful profit for our missionaries A PAIB Or JAPANESE DEACniW. and diplomats. A missionary who is getting a thousand dollars a year has now two thousand dollars to spend. The American Minister to Japan, who receives, if my memory serves me, $12,000 annually, gets at least $24,000 worth of value oat of it, and the sala ries of all our consuls are practically doubled by the change. An Ameri can family living on a fixed income at home could now oome to Japan and have twice tho comforts for half the money, and I am surprised at the wouderful cheapness of all sorts of eat ables from oabbage to champagne. I took an interpreter with mo to the market this moruiug and spent some hours in finding out the prices of the neoessaries of life. I found the arti cles sold lully as good and in most cases superior to those you find in America, aud the prices were from one twentieth to one-half those we pay, I have rtduced them from the sUver to the gold basis and give you a few of them. Meats are very high, as the Japanese do not use them; they are chiefly demanded by foreigners. I f ou j .1 that fine rib roast of beef cost eight cents per pound, and was shown veal and bacon at ten cents. Chickens are worth from sovon to twenty cents apiece. Yon bny teal ducks for eight cents each, and eggs are. worth from six to ten cents a dozen. Quail cost from six to seven conts. Rood birds, sixteen cents a dozen and snipe five cents each.1 Think of it I A good snipe for a nlckln. All fish are sold when they are alivo or still kicking. Lobstors run from a half cent to Bve cents apiece Fine fresh mnekeral briug from one to four cents, end solo from two to ton. ' Yon can get porch ns low ns two cents each,- And tai fish, tho best fish in Jnpnn, at from five THK i APANKAK BmsTITlTE FOR HORSES. cents to fifty cents, according to size. Oysters are worth twelve cents a gal lon, mid eels bring ten cents a pound. As to vegetables, they aro sold in most cases by the pound, ranging from half a cent upward. Cabbages briug from one to three cents each. Lettuce about a quarter of a cent a bunch and and radishes about tho same. lou get a flue cauliflower for from eight to ten cents, ami fresh mushrooms cost five cents a pound. Servants are very cheap and verv good. The foreign housewife has nothing to do and she lives like a queon. The Japanese cooks are far better than ours, and $20 a month will pay the board and salaries of the help of an eight room house. I have a friend who lives as well here as many a millionaire does in the United States and he does not expend more than this amount. He pays his cook $5 a month. His butler gets $2.00 and his gardener oud second girl get about the same. These servants all board themselves and the cook docs the marketing. His rent costs him less than $2i) a mouth, though ho lives in one of the best ports of Japan, and he could have a coachman at 85 more. He has no trouble about getting good servants, ami ho tells mo they watch after his interests and see that he is not cheated by any one elso but them selves. I predict that the time will come whon many American families with fixed but comparatively limitod incomes will come to Japan instead of going ta Europe as they are now do ing. As to the living of the Japanese, they pay still loss, ami these forty millions of people could exist well on what America wastes. Only a few of the middle classes have more than one servant, and among the poorer classes the wife does the cooking and the entire work ot the household. Some families have a woman to cook and do general housework, aud such women are paid from $1 to $2 a month and are lodged and fed. They gener ally receive a present ot a dress from their mistress at New Year's and in midsummer, each costing from $1.00 to $2, and they expect to get a cent two or three times a week for bath money. Every Japanese takes a hot bsth from two to twelve times a week, and where the family is too poor to own a bath room they go to the publio bathhouses. The richer people have more servants, and a well-to-do family will generally have a man in addition to the women. They pay their men twice as much as the women. Nurses are very cheap in Japan, and the common people keep the smaller children and the old men of . the family busy iu taking care ot the babies. A child ot six often has her baby brother tied to her back, and children from nine to sixteen, go bout i with babies so fastened npon them, taking care of them. Such girls, when employed outside of thoir own famil ies, get thoir board and clothing and a present now and then. A woman who works in a toA factory will often pay n cent A day to havo her baby thus cared for. Out in tho conntry tho wages are von lower, And there nre parts of Japan where the women do not got more than ten cents in silver A day, or about a nickel of our money. Women dig tip tho ground with long spndnlike mattocks, nml I visitod a ten-firing es tablishment ' yesterday, where I saw about 100 girls bunding over hot oven liko pans and rubbing tho green leaves of tho tea around iu them, whilo the perspiratiou roMed down their cheeks and now and then dropped into the dainty mixture, which was being prepared for Ameri can breakfast tables. I Asked as to their hours and their wages, and I was told that they worked from daybreak to sunset, and that they (rot the enor mous wages of from thirty to forty cents a day in silver. I see men everywhere I go carrying loads that the ordinary Amerioan could not lift, and they do the work of both horses and men. There are few horses used, And many of the carts are pushed and pulled by women and men. I saw a woman breaking atones A t APANEHB NURSE. for the roads this afternoon, and I was told that she got about ten of onr cents for twelve hours' work. Hhe sat bareheaded and barefooted on the atones and poundod away with a ham mer, breaking the rooks into pieces. As I watched, her, two Japanese mon in blue cotton gowns passed by, car rying A stone weighing about 100 pounds, which was tied by a rope to a polo wbioh rested on their shoulders, and a third man pushed pant them with a load ot long boards on his back. There are no such things as stone boats and lumber wagons in Japan, and human labor takes tho place of steam and horses. There are no lum ber mills in the country, and logs are sawed into boards by hand. A lum ber yard consists of a lot of boards tied up into bundles containing about five or six boards six inchos wide and half an inch thick, and usually about twelve feet in length, and it is of such lumber that the most of tho Japanese houses are made. The heaviest of the rafters ot the temples aro sawed out by hand, and it is by men th-tt they are carried up and put iuto placo. Tho roof of a Japanose house is put on before tho walls are fitted in, and there is a big scaffolding mado of the height ot the proposed structure and running all around it before the work of putting up tho house begins. The scaffolding is mado of bamboo poles tied together with ropes ot straw, and the men who put it up have noth ing to do with erecting the building itself. Almost all of tho Japanese houses are of wood. They are built close to gether in the towns and cities, and a fire sometimes sweeps them away by thousands. It is said that Tokio burns down every seven years, anl fires which destroy a thousand bouses are not auoommon. There are now steam fire engines in the large oities and all ot the smaller places have fire depart ments and hand engines. TheJapanesogo wild whenever there isafire in the neighborhood. They turn out en masse, eaoh oarrying a paper lantern, npou which is painted the name ot his house or his business plaoe, and rush toward it They have lanterns bung up in their houses, ready to run out with them to fires, and it is a matter of etiquette if you have a friend in the neighborhood of the conflagration to call and leave your eard and tell him that you came to help him, thinking the house, which was burning was his, and to leave your card, with congratulations that he esjaped. V The . flremoa themselves carry lanterns, and they veil as they rnn. Each fire company has a lender, who carries a lantern fastened to tho top of a long pole and ornamented with streamers of paper. Ho climbs with this to the roof of the building wbioh is on firo and directs the men, and ho is exported to stay at his pout nntil these streamers catch fire. The fire men of Yokohama havo blue hats, liko butter bowls, ud on their backs are the charaetcrs which mean Yokohama firo brigade. The country firemen-tie A handkerchief on their heads, and are more often barefooted than otherwise. Until lately there was no such thfng as a fire iusuratico company in Japan. Now there are sovernl, and they are doing well. There are no foreign companies, and tho insurance com panies of other countries confine their risks here to life. Mark Langshnns. Tho Lnngshnn is a Chinese breed of fowls which has been known and ap preciated in England for the Inst twenty-five years, though their introduc tion into this country is comparatively recent. The Langshnn is a strikingly hand some as well as a most useful fowl. In color they are jet block, with a beau tiful greenish tint on neck nnd back. The nmlo carries himself well up and baa a well spread tail, with long sickle feathers also of a groeu tint. The average, weight of tho cocks in from nine to ton pounds, while the hens weigh about eight pound. They are the most rapid growers among the the Asiatic breed, aud resemble the black Cochin in many respects. They are active, mature early, lay well and are good sitters and mother. They are much less inclined to sit than the other Asiatic breeds. BLAfK LAXOHIIANft. The flesh of the Langshans is white and they have a very thin, white skiu, which causes them to be regarded, most unjustly, as seoond rate poultry in those markets whore golden yellow carcasiies are in demand. They begin to lay at about five months old, the eggs being of a good size, generally of a rich brown color, and, it is claimed, the best flavored of all eggs. A wiuter layers they are equal to the Brnbnias, whom they rival in many other respects. The Laugshaus stand confinement better than most breeds, are quiet, gentle, and very hardy. As table fowls, the pure Langiban is equalled only by the Dorking and some varieties of game. New York World. 1'hjslcal Exercise Always Popular. All authorities that have treated on longevity placo exercise, moderate and regularly taken, as one of the main factors of a long life. That there are many exceptions doe not alter the fact that physical exercise is as use ful in keeping one healthy as it is to prolong life. Good walkers are sel dom sick, and the same may be said of persons who daily take a certain prescribed amount of exercise. Erei cise is both a preventive aud remedial measure. In my own practice I have seen a case of persistent transpiration that followed tho least bodily effort, aud which annoyed aud debilitated the person at night this being a condi tion left after a severe illness disap pear as if by magia after a day or two ot exorcise on a bicycle. I'liny re lates that a Greek physician who took up his residence in Home was wont publicly to declare that ho was williug to be considered a charlatan if at any time he should ever full ill, or if ho failed to die of any other disease but old ago. Celsus, in speaking of the same physician, observes that his faith in the benefit to be derived from ex ercise was so great that he had iu great measure abandoned tho adminis tration of internal remadios, depend ing mostly on hygienic measures and exercises. As au evidence of the cor rectness of his viows, Pliny tells us that this physician lived to be a cen tenarian, aud then only diuJ from an accident. Popular Ituview. Not So Funny, Alter All. J udge. .
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