Love' Millionaire, I iiy I "The work! Is lonoly ; The hearth nt home is cold, Anil H'I is lite to child anil wife When lirn hnth llttln rIL" Put soft hr arms steal round my neck My comforter so doar't Anil "Itow much do you lovo me?" And her sweet voice answers olcari "I love yon, I lovo you A hundred million them!" And then I'm poor no more no mora, For I'm Love's millionaire. Then tweeter seems the breaking ' Of Poverty'! and bread. And roses bloom from out the gl ootn And orown the curly hen, I, And If sometime a thankful tear My dreaming eyes shall nil, Her soft arms steal around me, And the whispers sweetly still "I love you, I love you A hundred million there I" I weep no more : (iod help the poorl I'm Love's own millionaire? IF. H. Htnnton In Ladles' Home Journal. A MODERN LOCHINVAR. BY MRU. M. Tj. BAVStt, A peculiar feature of the season of tomnntio youth is that known as the elopiucut period, when Young Lochin var has reached tho conclusion that he has more right to the girl of his heart than her father, mother, brothers, istors, and nil other relatives com bined. He does not stop to analyze footings or motives, so docs not make the discovery that his conduct is the result of a lapse into savagery, his oarlior aucostors having doubtless been barbarians, who snatched their liavage bridos from the family, but in oboyanoe of the ancient mtrringe cus toms. No, our modern Lochin var imagines himsolf a valiant knight who hurries to save bis beloved lady from the crnel restrictions of doting pa rents, who know that her esquire has not a flat to his namo, or enough coin of the realm to sustain life in two per sons with average appetites. They ask him to wait, but, he ignoring the poet ical truth that all things come to him who waits, does not have patience to tndure the long result of time. Gilbert Harding and Oussie Marston were lovers and they had planned an elopement. Be was a squire of high degree, She was a lady fair to see. This is a trifle overdrawn, but it Applies to their case better than any other two lines in poetical literature. Be was really a clerk in a haberdash ery store, and she had just graduated In a swoet gown trimmed with real laoe. She knew absolutely nothing of anything but school lore, and was as helpless and ignorant as a girl usually is who influences a young man to Ira gin his career by running away with her. He was quito sure, however,that he knew enough for two, and what wusa man good for anyway, if he Wouldn't face tho world and tight its battles for the girl ho loved ? So the time was set, the parents rofnsing to consider his snit, because he wus poor. But Gussie loved him all tho better lor his poverty. She had heard it aid that her father was poor when ho . married hor mother, and they had been happy and prospered. She did not reflect that young people of to day want to begin life where their parents left oft i It was the night of the elopement. There was no moon, and tho cloctrio lights were dim and flickering. Gil bert had engaged the services of a best man his ohuin, Bob Kennedy, who was also a friend of Gussiu's, and who was to pilot Gilbert through the wing of the house where Gussie was to meot them, when the two would escape by a side door. The girl had takeu her favorite brother Tom into her ooufidunoe, but Gilbert did not know this. Tom whs to entertain the old folks and keep them in the family sittiug room until after tiiue, the hour which Was set for the elopement. "The great mistake that peoplo make when they elope," said Gilbert, 'is in setting the hour too late, when the least sound attracts attention to ' tbem." It might havo been supposed from those aage remarks, that be was an old hand at the business. But he had yet muob to learn. I have not atatod the fact that Gut- sie's father was wealthy, bat Gilbert would have soorned the imputation that this had any part in his plan of marrying her off hand. He knew that instead of the paternal beuediotiou of the novel, "bless you, my children 2 blesa you I" he might reoeiv the pa ternal taboo, and be left to love, shea and a orust in a cottage. But ha was willing, brave boy, to risk it An open window in au unused and unoccupied wing of the building i el rM etrc'.or teoeet, A polloe- convenient truo on tho opposite aide of the street, but love is blind, so Gilbert did not see him. no went through tho window with the agility of a fireman. 'H-i-s-t" came from within. "W-h-i-e-t." Theso were the pass words. "Is it you?" "Yes it's me," was the hasty and ungrammatical reply. "Whore's Gussie I" "Gussie who ?" This time the voice was a growl, Gilbert haw tho form of a man, but it did not resemble his friend Bob. "What will we carry the swag in?" asked the voice with a growl. Good heavens I a burglar! Gilbert telt that his ouly safety lay in keep ing up tho delusion of the other that he was a pal he must get out and Mud Gussie. "Give it to me," he said in a dis guised tone, as rough as he dared muke it, "Stow that, pard, I ain't goin' to run no risk of that sort I've got the silvor, but the jewelry " Flush went a pistol, and the report had scArcoly ceased when Gilbert's hands were pinioned, and the police man was calling for help. The real burglar had made a dash for liberty, and escaped through tho window. "W-w-h-a-t does this mean?" de manded old man Marston, as, purplo with rage and excitement, he came hurrying in with a light. "Ono of 'em's gone off," said tho policeman, "but here's t'other rascal safe enough," and he showed up the sickly features of Gilbert Harding, who was ready to faint, but made a bin ft" to meet Gussie's father. "Ha, ha,- Mr. Marston; quito a joke, taking me for a bnrglar; ha I ha!" "It docsu't look very much like a joke to me, young man," said the father sternly; "what were you doing entering my house feloniously in the night ?" Sure enough it didn't look much like a joke now that he saw it on both sides. Where was Bob Kennedy, that ho did not step forward to help his friend out ? Where was Gussie ? Where was his own vaunted courage ? Ho ifnred not look Giissie's father in the fnco, and say : "I came to steal your daughter. "Will you kindly explain to the policeman that you know mo, sir, and that I am not a burglar?" Le managed to say at lust. "I know yon, certainly," croakod tho old man, "but if yon are not a burglar what are you doing with my family silver piled up here? You can explain tho matter in court. Ofllccr, do yonr duty. Take this man to the station t" Did Gilbert hear aright?' He had not time to discuss the matter, or in deed to say another word. Some philosopher has remarked' quaintly that wheu a man begins to go down hill. t seems as if all crention was greased for tho occasion. So the way for tho departure of the policomau with hi prisoner was mado very ex peditious. Tho other members of tho family made themselves invisible, ho there wus no ono to whom he oould appeal, and doors opened and shut like miigio for thorn to puss through. And it seemed no time at ail before the unhappy lover was locked in a coll at tho police station. But he did not languish there all night. Bob Kennedy, who had been lute in keeping the appointment ap peared to bail him out, and after rousing several officials each of whom was tho wrong one from their beds, ha rosoned his friend, uud then con soled him in the surly morning hours. He took Bob's advioe to leave town on a business tour, and to remain un til such time us Father Marston' s wrath bad cooled. Tbore was no no tice of the burglars or his arrest in the newspapers, and he left it to Bob to explain away any lingering sus picion against him. He was to say that Gilbert saw the open window, and followed tho burg lsr to iuteroopt him, or any other harmless untruth that seemed to fit in. Bob did his part so well that before Gilbert returned be read in the society column an announcement of that faithless friend' engagement to the versatile Gussie. And then it dawned upon him that there bad been no burglar as well a no elopement. And be immediately wrote himself down a name of three letter. Detroit Free Press. ' A Lucky Hunter. "I hear your husband ha been out hooting. Did he hare any luok?" asked Mr. Fitsroy, of Mrs, Shiftless. "Ob, yes, he bad look, if yon please to aU 4t so. Ee saved two finger o l fir1 ttfcsad." The Saw-Whet Owl. One feels a far greater attachment for those of our birds which brave the rigors of our Northern winters than for the gay-coated songsters that flee Southward at the first coming of frost. Our owls,grim and unlovable though they may seem, are still very sturdy neighbors, and the little saw-whets particularly stay with us all the win ter through. Though strictly noctur nal in habit, these little birds will not hesitate to venture on day time hunt if hunger moves them. Gunners late in the full or winter frequently flush one from a bunch of cedars of thick bushos where they have been diuiug on a fat shrew or venturesome squirrel. - This is ii.e small reddish owl whose strange note, "tee-hoe! tee-hoe! tee heel" so raspiugly metallic, has earned for it the etrange name of "saw-whet." When the dull low clad landscape is so drear the flash of an occasional saw-whet' ruddy wings across the drifts is not an rinweioome sight. We cannot dislike them ao strongly as the others of the tribe on the score of murdering the sing ing birds, became they eat but little. Ono mouse or a chickadee will suffice tho saw-whet for a whole week. Often they do not taste bird flesh for weeks at a time. In warm weather crickets, locusts, grasshoppers eud toads furnish the chief bill of fare. The cold weather seems to render the owls more tame aud sociable, so that farmers seo them often nowadays suuuing on the warm sido of the barns or roostiug in the orchard nuder the southern Bide of the hill. Usually the rusty old muzzle-loader is brought out, and tho dozing saw-whet is slaughtered. In killing the holpleps owl the graiu and fruit grower has damagid himself far more than ho knew. By proper coops be oould guard against the nightly raids on his poultry, while the saw-whets would kill off the mioe, rats, snakes, grass hoppers, crickets and other obnoxious vermin. New York World. Remarkable Coincidence. In September, 1892, the daughter of the blacksmith in Cnnna, and is land of the Hebrides, was wandering on the shore gathering driftwood for fuel, wheu iu u small bay about a hun dred yards distuut from bur father' house she picked up a piece of wood bearing the inscription, cut with a kuife, "Lnehlan Campbell, Bilbao, Muroh 23, 1892." On taking it to her mother she becumo concerned, as this was tho namo of her own son, who was boilor-maketr in Spain, and, aw would be tho cone with moat people, certainly with Highlanders, she could not get over the superstitious dread that this message from the seo was the barbing- r of evil tidings regarding her son. Tho family of the proprietor did its best to calm her terror, exhorting her to wait for an explanation.. When writing to her son. she told him what ad bappeuod, and was greatly o- ioved on recoiviug a reply assuring her of his well being, but wae- aston ished thut he perfectly remembered. how, hen ou a holiday he hud writ ten, as described, ou a piece of wood ud hud idly throwui it into, tho ae fronva rock. We all know the- powor ( ocean currents and nood not be surprised at this pieoe of wood having been, carried aboist six mouths, but the marvelons, and except for undoubted evidence, the incredible circumstance- in this case is that this pieoe of wood, after its long drifting, should have been washed on the shore within a. hundred yards of where the writer' mother lived, and that it should be-picked up by one of his own family aud taken home. Hud any novelist dared to picture a message delivered as this was by means of an ooeau current, every reader aud certainly ever critic would have de nounced tho outrageott demand on faith. And yet the apparently im impossible actually occurred in Oanna Good Words. Fancies lit Food. Most people heufe some especial fancy in the matter of food, be it fish, flesh or fowl Charles Lamb swore by pork, says the Boston Traveler. Boasted pig served with apple sauce was to the author of the essay of Elia the summum boenm of things edible, a charm to conjure with. Cold sheep's head tickled the appetite and aroused the admiration of Sir Walter Scot. Liston, the aotor, would go into eo taoie over tripe aud onion. The tragedian, Charles Dillon, was exceed ingly fond of a Yarmouth bloater, Nearly $400,000 is the amount ob tained from the bioyole tax during 1895 by the Frenoh Government, the number of machine declared being Jut under 800,000. RUESTIFIC SCBAI'S. The largest mammoth tusk yet dis Bovered was sixteen feet in longth. A Chicago contractor has engaged to move a large church entire without ven cracking the plastering. Iu the Anna Hospital, Vienna, tho lerum treatment has lowered the diph theria mortality from CO. 05 per rent to 25. 10. A healthy man respires sixteen or twenty times a minute, or over 20,000 i day; a child twenty-five or thirty Ave times a minute. A flowing petroleum spring was dis iiscovered in the Olympic mountains m Washington a few days ngo. The jil is identical in character with what tomes from the eastern wells. An extraordinarily large number of Iwarfs live in the district of Riwas, iu she Eastern Pyrenncs. Tradition bus it that they are the descendants of I race which inhabited those moun tain regions iu prehistoric times, Trofcssor Goldbnrg reports that in its conception the whale is a legged unminal. He found that nntil tho jmbryo reaches a length of several lUches legs nro plainly discernible ihcreon, but these disappear long be fore birth. Au exhibition of original litho graphs by Whistler and other artists, trench and English, is now open iu Paris. The younger men, aud somo it the older as well, are testing tho oossibilities of lithography, just as tome years ago they turned to etch ing. The average size of families iu Europe as follows: France, 3.03 mora bers; Denmark, 8.G1; Hungary, 3.70; Switzerland, 3.94; Austria aud Bel gium, 4.05; England, 4.08; Germany, 1 10; Sweden, 4.12; Holland, 4.22; Sootlnnd, 4.4(1; Italy, 4.50; Bpniu, t.C5; Russia, 4.83; Ireland, 5.20. Some recent investigations in France show thatcoutrnry to the gen eral supposition, the muscular heat ;aused by tho act of raising a burden !s greater thau that due to tho act of lowering it. Hitherto it has beon be lieved that tho work of lifting and tho work of lowering produce equal heat. All indications agrco that less than ten miles below us a red heat at tained aud within twenty a white beat. Ten miles below us it is red hot. Ten miles above lis we have the pitiless jold, far bulw zero, of interplanetary tpace. To what a narrow zone of doli-satcly-balunced; temperature is lilo son 11 nod. Mlrn That Lore .Music. A nice little niiiiual story is given in this month's "Nature Notes," which raises tho interesting question whother mico havo a fotitlneM tor music. It is contributed by musician, who says :: "One evening I wus somewhat startled at hearing my ptuuo suddenly giving forth sweet tones,, nptwreutly of it vu accord. A. mouse, so it proved,, bad got inside tlio instrument, and wax making raiwio ou tho wires,. Whether this waiiitentin on mousie's part or not I cannot say ; perhaps he wits trying to make a nt for himself. Iba-rc. Somo years ngo, however,, while a piano was being; played in the diuiug room of my old, home, several mice on mo out ou. tho hearthrug audi began to jump about, apparently withy delight at tho sound of the music, and, one was so absorbed or overoomo by it that ho ollowad.hiuuHdf to be carried sway iu a tongs by tho housemaid,."' After this, ladies ought to lose their antipathy for mioo ; indeed, we may soon expect some humanitarian duma to oommonce muttieiU parties for their delectation. It would be amusing, to see them , douce and would form a really human method of catching them. London News. Tree-fi'Untbing Fish. "As unhappy a a flsh out of water" should be used with a reservation. On the coasts, of Eastern Asia, one may often see the climbing bass or "Anaba scandens" deliberately leave the watery element for a. pleasure or a business juunt along; the sea- horew lue JJUIays call tUis queer fish "the tree climber," and! qnite Oor reotly so because specimens, have often been takes) from the aide of trees whioh they actually climbed to a height of six feet or more. While tba silvery herring and the lovely salmon die almost a soon aa they leave the water, the climbing buss got along very well with very little of the nasty brine the little wbiou tho peouliar construction of it gills euable it to take along on it trips on shore. Wheu not promenading the Anaba aoanden get a good grip on the (and with it thin fin and then, pushes it self forward with ibe tail. Climbing I trees ia effected in a similar ma.uo.vt I New loik World, COCA CULTURE. Market Demand Has Made Grow ing Profitable. Increasing Use of Cocaine In This Country. "The coca plant is being cultivated on a largo scale in Pern and elsewhere in tropical America nowadays," said a chemist to a representative of the Washington Star the other dny. "Within the last few years the demand for the leaves has increased enormous ly, and largo farms are devoted to the business of growing them. The nlka lold 'cocaine' obtained from them has becomo steadily cheaper, until now the commercial product is quoted at about oue-tweutieth of the price asked for it a dozen year ago. At that time apothecaries kept the stuff in their safes, because it was so precious. "Coca plants are propagated from seeds in nurseries, to be set out later iu the fields. They begin to yield regular crops at the ago of eigliteon months, and continue to be produc tive for half a century. The ripe leaves are carefully picked by hand, so as not to tujure the young buds. They are dried thoroughly iu tho sun, find filially nro kept in bags of from 25 to 150 pounds. The leaves are about the same size aud shape as tea leaves, two iuchos or more in length, oblong and pointed. They have an agreeable odor, rather like that of tea leaves, and a peculiar taste. A decoc tion mado from thorn is bitter aud as tringent "Most of tho coca leaves are sent to Germany, where alkaloid 'cocaine' is made from tbem. It is put up for sale usually in tho form of chrystals, which ure white and look somewhat like granulated sugar. Tho alkaloid is the aotive principle of the coca for the sake of which certain South Amoriciin natives have for many cen turies chewed the leaves of the plaut. It has n geutly exoitaut effect, render ing a person indisposed to sleep. Ad ministered to frogs by bypodermie injection, it produces symptoms re sembling those of tetanus or lock jaw. A big dose kills rabbits aud dogs by fHilToeution, paralyzing the respiratory rj litres. , "The coca fiend hna already bocome known to somo extent iu the United Slates. No habit is inoro dangerous than tho cocaine habit. It may be acquired even, by putting drops of the solution in the-eye. Iuysiciuus uow employ cocaine iu the- treutinent of many complaints, and. it often hap pens that tho patient atrqtures the vice Tho drug indnues a feeling of iuteuso joyoiisnesB, noooinpanied by visions uud pliHUtiis-iinigoria briliant in form and color. Tho hubit steadily grows and the inveterate ooinmuer may be recoguized by an uncertainty of step, apathy of manner, sunken eyes, green and crusted teeth, fetid. breath uud n bluckucfrH about tho ootners of tho mouth. "Tho article known commercially as 'coca wine' is HomotiinieK made by macerating the leaves. of the plant iu ordiuurjr wine from grape. Lfiially however, a fluid rxtraot of coca is em ployed, mixei with wiuu in tho pro portion of a pint of tho former to a gallon of the latter..'" A Ilfrd With & Thorn. The rarest species of bird uow cxt- taut aud ono which i almost extinct has its home iu the jungles of South America. This ornithological curio sity is known to soienoo as the PiIo- medru conuudo, and, to the common people as tho "horned screamer." As a rura avis nothing could exoel the oornudo, unless it would be the' ac cidental disoovery of a living moa or an epiuomis. But few of tho birds books even let you know that such a hor nodi paradox ever existed, let alone telling you that Living speoimivus of the qjieer creator are still occasion ally met with. The only one now in oaptivity in Noirth America, if the writer has not beon misinforonad, is that bolougiug to the aviary of the Philadelphia Zoologioal Gardens, and which arrived in this country about three year ag.. The oreaturo Is about to size ol a full grown turkey hen aa d of a black ish brown color. One of its die tin guishiug peculiarities is a rufli of black and white which surround tho head. The horny appoadage which oaused the early South American explorers to write so many chapters,' on tho "wonderful rhinooeros bird ot the Jungle" is about four inoUvi in length aud grow straight up out of the heaviest aud broadest portion ot the bead. But the above, ia not the ouly natural offensive endUefeusivo weapon with whioh . the horned soreamer hue beta provided. On eaoU wing at U "elbow" joint ho has a throe-inch spur, and just buck of that nnothor an inch in length. He is said to be a match for any ton gamo cocks. St Louis Republic Wonderful Eye of Insects. . The "facets" of tlio eye masses of some species of insects nre exceed, ingly numerous iu some cases, in fact, the number is entirely beyond belief. Each of these separate "fa cets" is a perfect eye, and they are so arranged as to give their insect owner a commanding viow of all the cardinal points and every conceivable intermediate direction at one and the snme time. In the ant, the little creature of which we have had so many "curious notes" concerning, there are not to exceed fifty facets in the groat compound eyo. It has been argued that this is nature's provision, because the ant spends so much of lie time underground. This may be true, but what is the naturalist going to do about Blip mncronata, the most sluggish of the European booties? This last named creature spends ninoty-iiiue-hnndreths of its time in the dark, yet has 250 eye facets ! Me loe, another insect of similar habits, has over 500 faoets in eaoh eye mass. In certain varieties of the dragon flies the aggregate of facets in the compound eye ofteu exceed 12,000. It appears to bo a general rule, not withstanding the exceptiou cited above, that the awiftest insects have the greatest number of eye facets. The swift winged butterflies have from 10,000 to 17,000 iu each eye mass, and tho mordulla, the swiftest and most active known beetle (a resident of Britain), has no fewer thon 25,000 facets iu ouch of his enormous com pound eyes. St. Louis Repuplic. (tfjOOO for a Thimble. The ordinary jeweled thimble that are kept in stock range iu price from $30 to- 880. Special order are, however, frequently received from susceptible young men whose affec tions have been captured for a C40O or a $500 thimbln. If a thimble oosta more than the latter sum it is bound to be too heavy to be worn by any but n most athletio belle. Nevertheless, as high as $2,000 and) $3,000 has been paid for these tiny finger caps, nndi one jeweler proudly announced the other day that ho had received an order for a thimble des tined for a popular New York girl that would cost not less than $4,000. This is without doubt the highest price 'ever paid for any article that was in tended simply to. adorn a work bas ket. The entire top of this thimble is of one gem an tlve-cirat diamond. Below tlio Kcroll-work in gold is a row of ten diamonds, and in the scroll work on one side is a tiny monogram, in glittering stones. New York, World. Tlio Witch, of Strasburg. In Strasburg, Alsace, a "witch" wsa sentenced thootlior day to t bred years hurd labor and $150 tin for having i plied her wiles ou large number of icredulous people Her specialty wa : "lovo charms,"' uud iu hoodwiukin the poor forlorn. girls (for there w i but few inon.Miiioug her victims), she ! hud managed. to extract oonsidarablo I sums, up to 81) and over $150 iu Beveral cases, so us to tiuaueially. ruin some of these women. She cluiinod to be in spiritual coutruot with, three "masters of fevemanoury" iu. Basle., who assisted, her, ou curtain, condi tions with their powerful "charms." The old mediiiivul trick of burning or molting caudieu, tlrat greased, with the fat of exucutiid delinquents,, stuck full, of needles,, wjih also worked, by her to, great advoiutuge. Altogether sba must have-bagged 60,01)0, tally during, the lust tuu.years aloue.hnving amaiuel great wealthy Chicago Record. Tba Lougcst Tclegruph Line. The longest telegraph line iath world, above grouud,. uud without breuk,.luut just been completed iu Aus tralia,, that laud ol king distancuit. The line runs with a. eircumbendibua, from. Rookbuuiptoii in Queensland,, te Broome, iu Western Australia,, aud. oroasea about tworthirds of tba entire continent The total length i same, thing over 6, 004 mile. Broome and RuokhampVou must have a good deal to wire to one unother to uako thia line pay. London Globe. The t'hiimeleou Flower. A "chanaeloou flower" hue been in" troduoed iu Frauoe from the Isthmus of Tebuautepeo. The blossoms of thia newly disoovered plaut are white iu the moruiug.ohaugiug to red at noon, and again to blue iu the evening. Only at midday it exhuloa a faiut pet fume. New York World Louis aud Amelia, Darwiu ot Blaok Fall, Wis,, are said to he the oldest married, couple in the, oauutrr.
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