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. .