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.