¥s "Twixt n - From the clock al on either hand p From Fo curtained pant #nd the soknown again oer the darkened track i with me throug the ri hush when a ows over the dim ronm ereep mourn or to pause and weep : a wreath on some crumb . the dust of the ancient gloom? shapes that in silence rome ears sre dulled and the lips are 377 only the dream tides ebb and flow ening bash when the lights are g the haunted room ong dead Tos bloom; ag are 1 ve dreamed sboat but have never ween; And 1 hark to both as 1 at hetwnen, - While the whit oosne and go te ones mingling In he evening bush when the lights are There wre ghosts of Nreams that I deemed when young: When hope ber shimmering bright searf AR jeri streaming adswn the sky, love's bright chariots thundered hy. Put? dreams they were; but the brightest a, the jralent and carv-lined brow ghosts of the old dave come and In the evening bush when the lights sre ranght fies 25d the ht is here; The pd shadows ¢ i pass WIE roan again in the faro And beckon me with s spectral hand. Ah, welll not long ti 1, wad hall se silent ome of the company, And hunt the gloom and the firelight's In the : Srening hash when the lights are ony : Beene, in the Sas Francisco a | Death! [eration vhare—ant. oh. m7 dens re. what shall my punishment be? : “This, O my beloved ™ and be iriemed love, “ksow, O my princess, that I helped thes do that brief croslly, My race has many secrets, and I have solved them for my own knowledge. It was I Light of my Eves win ex agmeratod the feells brilliancy of the glow-worm inte that rare glory of dia. monde. 1 who made the curlons ses held them spellbound, that you might leave presen” “But my Lard of Rajpot, how gained you this strange power? “Ask me not, O Splender of Earth. I practice it po more gine In renouncing my péopls and my faith I lose the power “But I= it not aconunted a win in your country, my lord. to destroy life wen tha [He of an insect?” “Ioy of my Soul, I am na longer In India, and I bellove no more in itu tra. ditions, beloved one, since 1 have known thee "ahilen zo Rerord A ro SH ANH TV 54 IN BR a A TEXAS DESPERADO. MS mst Sarin | Career of Ben Thompeon, Who Billed Parameshwar! Forgive the sin of a Christian.” Anrora’s red lips paled as the facernl | words reached her. but sho Was not sure she had beard aright. It must be | ber canscience that affrighted ber “Did you speak, Prince Banyaka? A + | she asked in a low voice. e 8 atovuss era of wars as an of returning luxury snd | ; f Americans in igh off iitlons had rented palaces in 8 from their impoverished own: did pot besitate to con- it one occasion the price ewels and laces oun which they dvanced money to pecessitous : Costly raiment, such an princes 3 possess, attracted and enslaved eye. The barbaric opulence of as the feature of the evening; ® Were pot worn, A mask being only safeguard of the face, the character costumes prevent - Every one present was in , excepting abe, and be was the superbly and elaborately robed of | j that ber prince might gain an inkling was 8 Hindu prince, | the cloth of gold which only of the royal caste may wear & of great pink Oriental pearls at . Jeweled sash about hiv torban, the crest a closter of Jewela, forering his head. The Aurors, a woman sumptu. Jn transparent laces and A pale tissue of white the costume like a mist, fabulous size and beauty, forming into a stone for waist and a tiara for ber AS she turned in the undulations dreamy waliz Aurora at xd admiring and ecstatic attention al the male dancers, but the Doe was her constant escort. wels she wore flashed In constel. ‘light snd sent out prismatic , seemed alive of their ows is she? Who is she?’ was gh pom in the nn avenue, New York. Her money, but basu't the girl would save uptcy she must marry soon.” ’ ry. when he esn give his dower of Siamonds fit for it Sheba! 1 I thought it was wy 7 faith. n no. Mine uncle would _ several fortunes on them. They are coming this way. 1 a Haas are representatives of every pation on earth here to-night. It is a it weird. I believe that Hindn Is ling his prayers. Did you hear a oracular chant 88 they i Bend the maid for it, Hight” “No, Light of the World, I spake not. What bas disturbed my Pearl of the | Occident 1 Anita Lynde was playing a desperate game to save her old father from the disgrace of a failure in the great finan. cial scheme of which he was the pro taoter. It was not the prospect of pov- erty that appalled ber for herself, but for her loved ones. If wag not true that she had rejected the Hinds prince ~he had not asked her band in masr riage, and she feared that her lack of fortune would remain a barrier be tween them, And she was perpetrating a crime for his benefit that skould have sent him back to Indian had he known It to grovel at the feet of bis gods. Not that she believed it a ovine. She Was but following the example of a lady of high degree who had done the samp thing. Now her one fesr was of the truth, when her pretty concedr | would In bis eyes become a desdiy sin. At the height of the revel the besn- titul Aurora vanished as suddeniy as if slie bad been transisted Her Hindu printe did not scompany her, but at the moment of ber sudden Genmrttire be #lood in the centre of the ballroos | waving his jeweled hands In send circles In the air. and after a revoly- tion or two like a whirling dervish he laughed, declaring that he was for saken by his goddess and joined with the yest in the further festivities of the night. Avrora’s diamonds and the pecnlisr actions of the Hipdu furnished food for much speculative gossip safier the bail. The romor went forth that the Yoong American girl had been followed oh that occasion by armed detectives, who were present to guard her dia monds, that they cealiy were a le trothal present from the Hindu and Were worth a king's ransom. But they were all wrong, The diamonds wire hier own, and ber seéheme bad worked $0 well that confidence in her father Was restored and she had piloted his plans to success. And Anita was be trothed to the Hindu the week succesd. | dng the ball, The annual American ball which has | just been held fn Havana was graced by the presence of the Priticess Sin Yaka, mere lovely that when as Aurora she appeared thers the preceding year, Gems of great value and diamonds jike | drops of light decorated row and bosom, but they bad not the subtle radiance of those of a year ago. The prince was dressed in the evening clothes of an American gentlenian and | looked especially bright and happy. { Before coming to the ball they had eneh made some admisdions “Light of my Lite” Sanyska hag a | asked, why pot wear the diamonds that made thee a queen at the last ball ®” The heart of the princess throhbed i violntly, “I empnot, my prince. They Tiered no longer possess them.” “I would see thy costume, my Anita, my heart's de. The beantifl head of the Princess | Sauyaka drooped. “My sin bas found dress. When the maid wafolded ft from the tissue paper in which it was wrapped In careful layers there was visible only a mildew of tiny binck spots, which covered the whole rose and white fabric “These were my diamonds,” she said, in a low, broken voice. and then she took her prince's hand in hers and lad him out on the balcony. The perfect Cuban night was aglow with millions of tiny lights corrugating the atmos -{ phere like hosts of electric sparks. “We caught them in nets--my maid in a night, and we tied them in little bags of rose gauze, and, struggling to i be free, they emitted that ‘wanderful | nd every flash of my diamonds | 1 Know the Hindu doe. ght oe in remem: i: Bor dream me out,” she sald, but she sent for the! Twenty-six Men, Jo Ban Antonio, fn IRS3, the last of the erperadoes of Texas ‘crossed thy big divide” sald Mr. W. B. Brosh, former postrnaster and a leading citizen of § Austin, at the New Willard. “1 knew Ben Thompson intimately. of liquor, ss modest apd courieons 8 gentleman as ene would wish to pest. Drink did not exactly make a Jrmon of him, but IL made Mm very ageres Bimg at such 8 time. Hé was ax rive a man as ever lived, and pever took an unfair advanisge. “His skill with a piste! was some thing warvedons. He could opirate a pair of revolvers simultaneously, and bls nim was enerring. He fsade one of the best Chisels of Police that Austin ever had snd during his admin. fsrration the town was a model far or derly behavior If be went out fo make ap arrest the toughest cowboy bad no thought of resistance. “Ben was born in England, but came to Texas when a cil, and grew up I during miler & stormy and laviless period. He was always attired [0 the Belght of fasion, and some of the best men of the town were hin warm per sonal friends. One day & gentleman in » bantering way asked him how many men be had killed "Hen pegsed as if stopping to osunt up is victim and then replied: “Wail, fx pear as 1 oan remember, I've killed twenty-six peaple” For a momenl po hewly suid a word, snd then Ben broke the rilenvs Ly exclaiming, ‘but that doesnt’ fnclode Mexicans "Washing ton Post, Belling Cemetery Lote, “It 1x no wonder that 1 dress in black, for ny Msiness 3 ihe selling of dime tery Jota. Is theve anything in the | ward sore strana?’ The speaker, a fat man, fogering his black tie, resused: “1 don't believe I'd ever makes a sale i 1 ware gay, joyous colors. suddenly ost a pear relative-<ouples that have jos! thelr iret child mainly — and thelr grief 8 profound as they ing graveyard ground, sand BR Is my place 10 jar on them ss little as possi. | Ble. Hence I wear black and look REAve “My werk ls sad, but It is saddest of all when oid couples-ald, couples—Coms to me to buy lots A catipde are petting on in years One will soon be gone. It Is pecessary 10 select with eure, consulting one aroths er wistinlly, They Ser the view, It 1s best. they think, to be on an exb penicw. They shade. The fertility of the soll, also, i® an important question, for they think that they will Like Sowers to grow on thelr graves "1 adm” sald the agent, make a good deal of money People, You know, are in no mood for driving bargalos when they come to buy thelr graves, and 0 take advantage of that | fact. But my work in so sad that it has to be very luerative to keep we at itY~Philadelphias Record, CHE Things That Went Wrong, Mrs. Mahala Jenks. an mimrried woman, residing in Noosha county, Kas, awoke from an after dinner pap one day with a lond shriek She had dreamed that something tor. rible bad Just happened. or was gbaut te happen to ber father a farmer In Hinois, extimable her that she looked at the clock and noted the hour, firmly convinoed that Was a reality Two days afterward Mre Jenga re ceived a letter from her father writ teh on the day when she had ber dreary, conveying the nows thar ei ry body in the family was well, and be boped these few lines wonld find her enjoying the same great blessing, Robesplerre's Clock. Robespierrw’s clock, which stood in the room occupied by him ta the house of the carpetiter Duplay, is now Io the possession of Mile, Genlat an artiste of the Francaise. The clock, aside from {ts historical value, is most Miter. eRLINZ on acount of is curios sears. | The fave is of and I-thousands and thousands of | them-—the pretty glow worms that dte | clock was an object of much Intepest, voprer and hus only cae hand, Ar the Chitago exhibition this It is to be placed in the Carsavaley C Musenin, by tie side of the great ¢lock “of the Tuileries, which strtick so any : historical bours from the time of the { Directory until the burning of the 'Tuik eries on the evening of May i un. her with the tenderness of renewed what 4d not exist, and it was 1 who the | Herald, “When Ben Thompson was killed | He was, when free from the infivence | sive, and woe to the man who crossed i plotted? in the For nest | of my patrons are people who lave vondiet this ghastly bhusiness of buy. } ehiheas consider the subject of “that 11 So strong was the Im pression upon | Philadelphia EYE the Phi 8 profeaionnt dead #3 him for years with him.” wavs when 1 was business in Pov age. He mitre the on of 2 Clasgow. Reo! bad rome 10 0 ig promises that i) filled, and spun surh an tone I gave Bite scans aseisvttines ourne around regndarly after hat Ris pot expression was a4 completely from toy friends as Alex ander Relkirk wax sn Toland of Jian Ferpandey & nuisance tnar } Hire money. and be ground. of words fo thu: “Well one evening after Fh Sindeiph im I owas ig | masalarstucing faded Beeord tolls of at Me prcied with The drag arly Hifi a ¥ ay wy Bantarn He Bnd Tam ent off fae toad Bim 1 bad ro pended efert, SRI in § Sha ENE § 16h a hep | King masion. 1 didn’t recognize him ontil be chanced fo renssrk Thar he wa hie Se aR ax Alexnvder Selkirk was on of Juan Fernandez | culled Pr Con well aside snd the pesait wag that tne fellow went away empty withony recopniving me, Om another oocsslon when I was dng newpaper work, I was writin. Bt omy desk ane miei strolled into the nfs gn anponnoed that be was a Heaton pewspsper oan fr. Bard Jock. I paid pe attention ta Bim antl] the words fosied aver 1a mE ovirper. ‘7 oam oon from fy friends ae Alrrsider wax of the IMand or Juss Peo 1 keoked ap and recacs wot five Agin bik plans weds frngtraind ober dry be braced vee an the Air ‘Are you se jones Rl Inland of Juan Fersandes: He gave pie one way” the feinnd aa gud A MAA de AS NN Sem 0 5 RUSSIAN ENAMEL A Coming Novelty i» the Way of Jaweley For the Falr Sey, Quite a smarl pavelty Intradoeed by a live jeweler js win iv called Bass an enamel Naturaliv Rr A many--pearly everything in I 1's taster +7 fa } ail ee “lely Ts ‘Phis auatity je BASHIR sorte of kB Mercury WE stole oR desien that tops a knighve sia HOT 83. and show aff the dont on hee bere of any of the pieces CH out Where the Halt Ay For mere previimsas + : Ix the chelew: bow ane ot the moved things to hang on 2 ehate. The shell olde together with fierm Setups 8 Rerisake The say , ogee § with ily in cathedrgl Ling pong XR Mock more slaborars le 4 neskince with a perdant. [4 is of gold tn an ancient desizn and tvs Bite af the an shape of ? ary 5 5 oF FES ix each way from the pendant Ang pon head with green Ber ivery face | or A rahe forshead and the mare you Eirgntian or pila Becord. Aton ospBere of Cevion, When vigitova eniler Rudd in Phi ixdeing heavy air ap sl Oph esses Their trigonal a wy the Without this Rind of aw Cand of i the Gather day: moseh HRe the air has just erssiing Band bios @ in trie posteresgne fash. Moon the nears you leek ftp tf tie leglastical —P at len nllkdel 24 SO iiinral they pal. Hh apd warm amd ngs. Hat ine wash die Bnd FL . A Xk Flarties “tay TRAE EY Lait uf Ceyion. g4ch a heal and prostrarin 300 Du you koow {hat Boase gut there has aniong iia servants A dlothes sirer-a man whose sale duty It is to air and beat the clothes whic otherwise wanld Decome covervd with Coy Hi fast sued a iy ax this Rrra? i to Cerlon. The dealer had warranted the wood to be pertevily RATE Bul Bat I had not been island a week iw {fore my camern gad ly and fallen i apart, The Os i their horrible climate, are Bh Bo meat hs andy water” delpliia Hevord, in the #x3 to YER * DECREE and dr A Historie Tree, Phe aak tres woder Alpanam anid Prone! I de Bate § mines, nitgton iL. in it appears INGE the tree Kfowis as pad Binabaw ihe He gerauged 0 have the debate there, being an ad grrer of Doughas. Tae two erididatey for United Biatex Senator Gad engaged in a series of debates, ang (he gne held ji Bloomington attracted voters from far apd near. A platform for the didates was const eetiy wiley tHe bogehs oak. fis shade protects] the ay as well a4 the speakers. may Are pow vine nn Bloomingion who heed the farnous Thee are fanny Puowson, Ada raters asd Wo pew TR 1 Hoo Nirpledh A ts Bt stand the ta be ceniurd witrked aun Hinshaw 's Hide ling Hace Was a emoorat, yard of FasiuYey, Jd Leer Lad ee GW hey, ads retold dir aid nlivnee af iis fives el SEG TOR, i RS i na SH Se BAR entucky has within burders geariy one-fourth as many sheep as tll the ¢iher Southern States vom- ! toned, sn her Fadward HH. Sages well known iy tipciey who bis baat “My Brel sneonnier Was eR inle “hetrer Bonses Baile He goa to be meh ld to Bey when 44 i} sane tele 3 Cohamied gpd wher & fellow eddie my Lanny Bee they shandi amel breaks ite lanolin a few inihes a pendant ix In the shape af a horman tie arsand | LS in i late 3 ha « BOAR “it is very every Haropegn a thivk, w Bite caar of mildew in a fow; I took a $1040 cameras with me | they vat vet akg branches | Ere * pinnily HAVE teen siose time In the world snd the result of mp experience 8 (hat there is one way by which soccess may be obtained with absslate certainty, and that is to develop in &il my de I have never knows an instances raverad merit. There are too many seckers to ab ". Bat IH om possess ghility and were ; cape ity. | peed moa diving ll and lowernd fo the bottom of the Mt, expeditions waonld be Sted aut to discover you aad nx vou heck Na matter what ealling yon smlvase i you have ability you wil be in demand, If a lawyer think Bow many persons thers sm in trouble whe would be peeking your advice i a pliyeician. how many theres are whs are Hi who would watt your services: if san prhitest, how many whe desire I have Beard ie ahd that ¥ young men meade a pall to et slong. Fay no attentions te thar If you have ability you wil win Bg Chancellor of the Er of Nebraska. LTHOUGH the fleal of man j= agreed on snd confirmed from time to time, In the sabe of woman there are Various Meals and with numercos intelligent sdherente These ideals are so different that gist all of them can be corrert JU © will mention three principal ones, from which there are, of | courie, many variations iele1eie3eL¥] ; First, thers fn the muse ine ideal of woman-—the potion thar she i= io be a8 strong and as much LER men se possible Then thers the reverse Lica, Rhee iw to be tet a pet. x plaything simply an ad jective, 88 it were, And thirdly, ey i® what T will eall the substantive wleal--she {3 to be lke s nun. The di%erent Ideals of woman vary inde aitely in peculiarity, ail the wiy iy the firet fo the third A wornan's life i& not asy more than 5 fean's meomniete or a failure By virtue of the fact of eeilbacy. Bat the ileal woman must be a woman sot masculine, She i= a substantive member or nuit in society. not a mere ad jective, like Dickens Dora: amd the question is. how ean these requiregeaty be combined? For the Lieal woman must be sweet snd Frong at once. 2 A | Climatic Mecossity. ol BN HE profession of forestry, nnkoown not ver many years Spe. Tt 8 rapidly assuming fmeporisncs in the eves of the world it cannnt too quickly become important in the minds of Americans, for si the mite at which the Jombermen are @ dpadiing our wosdhunds it will not be long before wo shall Dave not only no forests bot oe climate worth mentioning It pay make ome differetcs with the practical ones to 5 explain tial there ls profit as well as principle in taking cure af ones Trask The Hite kingdom of Sazomy. which i= about se Ire #8 the Riate of Connecticut, is sail to bave thir Dest regalatead system of forestry in the worid, The timbered land ix supervised br graduates of a regular course of ttmiving In ibis scence, who Bifve hen shemieiry. physics mines slogy, soolyy, mechanics paslosy, heindtios. botany, surveying fon ERbry nro amd the peevisioni oo” same and Ssh laws The forests are ssid to Be Wsrih SSE. and by preserving thems an tavighs ngs ML spinal revedine of pearly three and 2 goarter millions is derived, After the sdlaties of the foresters are paid and ail other expetses met, the State zeir two and 8 Quarter milliens out of this revenne. It is wealth oir such a scale a4 this that reckless and unscropulous lomber companies hitve been demiraying for ns And we Americans call ourselves the most preetical people on earth, ated consider the German mind dreamy aud unpractical it looks very much ax If the people of this Jind had been Yvine under the impression that the Corveriiment had literally money to bows New ork News, & © e Power By ato] Swett Marden. NE of ovr great hron manufacturers 8 man who is success fully contrelling the labor of thoussnds of men, recently said that the best thing far a young mas to do is to go to work, to get into Dakiness as early ss possible. He decried the hlea of | gottiag 8 college education spd amuiving culiure. This man will prabably became one of the richest men in the country, apd, twenty years hence, whes he shall have grown tired of accunaiating moter, be will pot know bow te get aay high Enjoyment aut of i. Fs fndeileciual tastes must remain There Rie fon any such men in Ameries, ranging from millionaires men with small fortunes. They are thus nmustous becnuse so many of Letr young men rosh iste busineds, in thelr eagerness to make money, with wie Raving peelved an adequate educatio bi for mesial teaining and growth ine Bfe. Iie wellnaiph hopassible far most of such men to acquire haldts of study after thivty, The Inwleet at that age. hag been formed to hold and associate certain Kinda of lnmpges [dess asd theaghta, and only By efforts ant sisdy-nine men in a howled cannot make can sich mented dis be formed One of the lardest fasiy is for a mators bat Riterste mised to learn fo lave reading illeraay, Sxed by habit holds the mtd as A vise chimps iron Bui the pueducated men must to be pitied are those wha have reached middle He without soecess. Kimcation 3 the one thing they need and their chances al aoguiring it ave become even more socertain than those of the men who have schievéd partial or complete success in acquiring property aod iaflaenve, They lek power and self-confidence, gifts that stich minds van angie efiy ! hy early training and discipline. “Failed for lack of an ipducation” would be +B 81 epitaph for many an unfortunate, By Edgar Saltus. es HOFESROR THORNIMIRE of Columbia University, discusses Co the arrest ete of a popular periodical two propest tious ef general interest. First, that men of cminence saarry young: second, that matrimony is good for thems The prior proposition Is sscoatrovertible. Shining eX amples are superabusdast Last week, or the week be ] fare, the Soitan ef aosbir was marred. The Saltan i precisely seventeen. dun Zanzibar be is certainly eminent eek Mr, Regingid Visderhilt, © Mr. Vanderliiz is twenty thres He is pol mulled yer but be 8 going to If wa may believe everything wo Beary, spd that bs alwasys sch a pleasure, he 380 8 4g efiinent young man, Then, wid be al sg age {resting the There 8, wWorsover, Jus when Do married wa eitrved in prehistoric thes. In view ¢f thes cxamples Professor cepted with ease, But its corallpry 18 tet so clear ae. Concerning his eminence, if donbt. This geatleraan married porn Ge was up before breakfast ther is Gorman Kaiser Majestars-verbrechen (vo express 3 a0 tender taal the next guards oa dri Mr Sage. iis erigenve 8 equally niquestionalle are Bot quite certain, Dut wo are sure that it ec te fo ihe HR Tiaendike’s proposition may be ae Matrimony, particularly when the party of the second pict happens to be of a tempestuous dispost sition, is Righly chustening, and that too, whether you are eminent or uot Ax such It is benatictal to us all. Yet concerning its further advantages, political economists manilest an weeasional reserve. To this peserve Dr. Schwatz bas latterly sappiled an accent. Dr Sehwate Ie a Barilopese sewtitist In oa peent mdpograph be coulvnded that materi in pet merely bepeticial, but conducive tw longevity. With io in which we an ouly quuidy as lovadle, hte produced In supgoct of the contentipn a wamber of Gintenarians, He showed that each ol them bird marriet, and that all were widowers, Which latter fact, bowever, Wah y praves of seems to prove net $0 mach perliaps that matrimony is coaducive to longevity, but rather that he whi survives Dairinony can survive anys | Shang. “NEW York American and Journal
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