vote of the hunter, Shas Fb go) gleam, : : sined _miience, : E. and fears of the prairie, : he sont of men: a volume held it, : that fell sround Bis hetd so Hany strings. His Htile dark pping from one thing to! On one occasion be greeted | ith effusive politensss; on passed them without recog sd with his thoughts. 1 4 crank They smiled Bathe was. mentioned, inti- | it something was pot quite . his upper story.” He was however, to be a man of intel. sthalar. His neighbors said his living with some horrid os Be calied chemicals, 8 hobby that overstnd. or peculiarities, which be fo those with whom he was gequainted. To these hei biz explained a strange philoso | possessed him. He would in- speaking of the mysterh of the sun and moon up- great oceans: how under their bere was the ebb and fow be tide twice 5 day. Then he would ude by saying that the greater be human body was a liquid 1; that thizx same overwhelm. 1 composition was suliject to ebb and Sow as in the oceans: and it was 8 fact that he recognized ix own body. wax a cause for this philosophy iT. His Mather was of i 8 hihiy a year To rhe ng She had pe early in the apring. In a cottage 8 she passed mavy weeks time with her face toward | great expanse of water. kx the flow of the tide came In with | & boom, there was an ex tion In it that was conveyed to that gave her hope and courage. as & stimulus 16 ber spirits. Life richer than at any otber time would follow the ebb, with ital break, with its subtle slippisg E s passing away, a tameness, . Rach day of the whole summer the d Bow of the tides brought an «bh and flow in the woman, in her In the fall a baby -Victor— was born. He came at midnight at the | roar and rush of bigh tide the ebb set in. As the mother gazed at ber child she falntly - "He came at the flow of tide; I go at the ebb” So it Thus the strange philosophy of the ebb and flow entered the lite of Victor Irvine. The story of his mother's last; moments | had never been told him. He as Bowe not grown to manhood BD st felt and recognized the | uence of the ebb and flow. me to be to him that only in the | few hours at midday and at jd t—eould he accomplish any. thing. Then he conducted his chemical | nents, made his analyses. rush of the flow thoughts, fdvas, ns, suggestions burst tumult. ously upon him, pounding on the surf | brain. It was a work of fever ish Intensity to grasp and save them e failed to catch them, with the eht went. Work was a drudgery the | inder of the day. At the midnight | to put in perioa- 3 the Work Be was him. jsatisfy bimself of its existence, also what its characteristics were, or whether It might not be a known ele { ment in a new form. 1 ian ever present slip away from ing he felt the coming of th i Thelr conversation grew exconiingly | | In the walting for the highest | fide he was overwhelmed with the I thought that he must tell Mary of the jove he had for her, that consumed - Wales, according to With tzed that ft might De 4 new element. | He might be the discoverer of that {which would startle the scientific Bo far the element bad elnded world I He had not only been unable to but The woman-Mary Ames-was a warps hearted, whole souled womnn; a ; woman who, with & broad, teader, bo. nmn sympathy read life and the varl ous species of natures that possissed imankind she knew: a woman whovould see good where oibord saw dross. understood Vietor Irvine. Blie gave him | eredit where others had given ridicule. Bhe respected the man, the student. | Bhe found a man who conhl he honest and true, a man who could love. The Jove of Mary Ames became 8 staff for him to Jean on. Through her 1 eves be took % new view of the earth, of mankind. He drawn to her. was irresistibly ftaeit through him. that thoughts, feel (ings, affections for Mary possessed bin. It was then, when the flow | | pounded on the surf of his heart, he i oried to himself "This is Ue Hife” Victor was so situated as only to be : able to sec Mary In the evening. There was shwavs an Inciingiion to remain ate with her, which be never yielded | He had alwass gone befors the to. “rosh of the midnight bigh tide. For { this reason he bad not spoken of the Jove that possessed him had pot had a | chance to pour it out in & rush of wards | in the flow. The ebb bronght Rim a There was fenr that she youll sing Inthe andertow. Ome day be came to her ip the morn. Ir wax a holiday, timidity that was painfol niidday dow. bright. him. He broke out: “Mary--darling, yon are so sweet #0 sweel-you ard so grand-so grand. I Bave something 1 have been going ty tell you-tell you, dear” then he stopped. Heo could got ne farther. mered, UF Beenie another tine, Revers] weoks prssed. told. It was the month of March, at the time of the vernal equinox. Great storms raged on the ooenn. The tides were running high. One night, In the worst fury of the stormy, Victor was in bis laborntory, He stam. Marys 4 bey at work, He war experimenting. | The element he had heen hunting for had torned ap. He bad piade several succession] analyses. It seemed to Bim that he almost naderstomd the seerst that bad been siuding him. It was not yet 10 o'clock. It was more than two hours until the obh. In that time the mystery would be known, the problem solved. and the world would credit him with a discovery. : The flow rushing on In great surges Lromght other Inspirations. There was Mary. How sweet jova was bow glorious! Ir was almost Bin Would it ever De Lis? LHe without It was a dead. empty thing Jt must be hia AWAY ott cate we gost waves fo ward the shore of the soul of Victor Irvine. They rolled, tossed and pitehed #3 they moved in. On ene perched the secret of chomistry that he had been diligently searching for. On the other love rode. The two waves were In fearful strug. gle the one with the oiler, They ralsed | their high beads and broke nuts angry feathery caps. They chased each other, one seeking to swallow the anther. The coites? waa a wild tem. pestuons one. At last, with 8 roar, they went together and, breaking. flew far up the beach, love riding tricmph- antly in. It was then that Vietor fled through the rain to the homes of the wanian he loved. Higher, greater swells were rising out on the waters. following exch other to the shore. Ax onward they came he poured ont to the woman the tale of his life. the tslsery of his faneliness, the wealth of happiness there was In It. Before the ebb eames Be had thy answer of the woman, [ft wie satis factory. There was no regret for the Inst secret of the laboratory. Ax the moons waxed ars! waned the | feoret oame back to the Inmate of a happy home. Jt returned as jetsam of thar night of the storm - News, Is Jewish Exclasiveress Ireaking Up? “is Jewish exclusiveness becoming a legend rather than a reality 7" asks the London Chronicle in connection with tue following date from Australia which would seem fo stiggest an af. firmative answer. In New South ished matrimonial statistics, during the last rveur no less than sixty ren Jewesses selectell husbands from the Church of England while seventeen mated with Catholics and eleven found their affinities in the Preshyterian fold. One hundred and fifty-one Jéws were united to Anglican wives, sixty two te Catholics, thirteen to Presbyterians, twelve to Methodists, four to nonale nominationalists and two to Congrega. tionalists, while a solitary son of Israel | is reported to bave wed a Baptist. Al 7 | together out ot 781 Jewish marriages, She | Then it wan, when the {rush of the incoming Sow was flooding | Ag be Hogered | The ebb was on. He felt {t, “1 wil tell you at | It wan not Bimaell to his books! its pathetic strangeness | the sweetness of the love he bore her Now York | the recently pub ’ Popuiar Fiction. A dab or two of history, i fragile thread of plot Great goby of talk and love zod gore The rest, it matters not, y lala, On Toast, Medigger—~ The robin is a very timid | Ard tsn't Bp Tuisgomboh-“T guess 30. At any rate, the average reéuiaurant cook can make 1 quail.” ~ Philadelphia Press, Feminine Amenities, Migs Thirtyodd “1 want to give my flance a surprise on hi birihilay Can't vou suggest something? : Misa De Filypp—"Well, you might tell him your age Chicago News, Cupid ss a Gardener. Edith<1 see that the charming young Widow Daghington does tot wedr her weeds any more” Mayme-"'No: she expects lo be weeded out of the widow claws [on the avar future.” Chicago News. BC Labeled, —~Landon Poanch, KReented Trouble, Mrs. Goss-“Why did they leave so enrly in the season’ Mrs Sipp—"Mrs. Jones went home hocause her hushand Sidn't send her S500 and Mrs Hrown went letause ber Busband did send her £5007 Wer Higher Life. “Dio you find ft diffienit to attend to your social duties and keep up on the t aa: literature of the timen?’ eon, no. 1 always try to devote at feast fifteen minutes a day to art and literature" ~Chicage Record Herald Hurd to Avoid, The Parent—"1f he would but apply ‘But he will pot take the trouble” The Pedagogue-"Nay, then, If he in #0 averse to tronhle 1 can ses large quantities of it coming his way!’ Puck. i Vrevity, "Po you think that brevity is the soul of wis” “Well” answered the man whe ix al ways thinking about money, indicate that they were very short” Washington Star, An Embarrassment, “Why don't you praise your wife's spoking auee in a wille and cheer her ap?! anything ia partienlarly good it turns sul to be something that wus pur shased at the grocery.” The Desperado’s Doom. And Low were you finally tored?” “1 war completely wore out” cap an. awered the Western desperado. “By fatigue and hunger®” “No. Givin’ pewspaper Intirviews in" havin’ my picture took.” At the Bourne Howse. opm Chorus of Boarders-—-"13 thiy all we have for supper?” Mrs. Sly—"¥es. We will have Hight suppers hereafier so that we ¢an get through early amd play pingpong. rood idea, Isn't itY New York World, We, opis <i Workiag Him. Borroughs—"8Say. old man, can you break a rwenry so I can get a five. dollar hill ont of 1? Markley — "Bure; here Where's your twenty?” ‘Borroughs—-"0Oh, you misunderstood me. 1 thought you had a twenty. } yuu are, .| Thanks! One five will do." Philadel: vai Prem {be mountain tops, “swamps to {ead only after nightfall; | some that they seek the cornfields | And there have been many other such | theories, mean of all these statements ft probate that the birds know the | lose of their feathers renders them to a | 1 eeriain extent helpless sind more ex: ‘posed ts the stinks of thelr nsturs) therefore leave the more open swamps and hide in ene les, ethical views oy wers at jest on a plane with those of advocates of to consider slavery Northern and Western States been sub. | ected 10 the same ellmotic mod wens there is litle dogbit | attachment to a threshing i It rans a “gang plow.” with he in as row; thrae or iw coupled when desired to a separator “the blo | graphers of some of the brightest poets consternation the Bywety of the Haoodeoek's life begins. This is the | imoulting season, when the bird changes its plumage befure beginning | its journey southward Af this time it leaves the swamps, Where does it #0? That is a question which has gever yet received a satisfactory ane many fine spun theories have been ads vanced. Some say that time birds move toward the orth: seule that they sevk coming inte the Probably the froth Hes jn a and taey the densest and most tangled thickets it 1s certuin that they seatter, for ati 1 this season single birds are found lo the most unusnial amd host goesprcted places, : Dutchess County, New York, 1 knew Lone or two swamps which we called nngiting awamne, where, Ce were sure fo find a Hmited number of Binds i grown were Toll of patohes of wild rose and sweet brier, {akideh wa found there, Lin a week or ‘Nears ago when shooting in in August, Thess awninpy Wore over. with rank marsh grass and If we killed We Were ten days, SYTe, to And hel i places filed by abot the same now i ber From Omitting. “A Woodland Hermit” in i Hh hm Morals and Eaviranmentes Slavery wax tot by the grvat tire shoraiiste, wine faty eather opios modern times. In the wntie Way the English colonists, who a1 home wonld have scotited the very des of slavery, #O0H hace gwen of the Baath hourstiy a win namie condition that, so far at least as they could keep themselves shut off from contact with the aiore sdvanesd industrial clviliea. tion of Europe, they would have come pletely shared the moral views of thelr Men dre what cons 1 ditions make them. and obical leat | Santhirn brethren dre Dot sXe rok the sanie lnexor able nw of environment, Paiitien] Silence, EO ERA Ths Traction Engine on Farinas, The farm hand aud the farm horse | are rapidly being supplavted on the i level travis of the West hy the trae | tion engine. The farms are large, cow prisiog several hundred acres some times 8 thousand, aml nsually without trees or stooges. Under these conditions: the engine can do any kind of work. It is a copipact fitle machine rus Ly gasblive, and not at all like the onllay ma ine, fatter harnmws ala for threshing grails, rons the mill for | grinding eattle feed, wagnns to marke: In fact there ia scarcely a thing about farm work that the Htde traction one gine will not da ASS 5 RM Be RA A Royal Tier. For 8 royal engagement to be off after ir bas ance been angoevoeed (Isoan event so rare as to be almost I opnigue. “I'm afraid to try. Every time I say | 9 Prince Rlexfried of the Arehdue hess Whose marriage, 2 will not take place, stand alnest alone among European rovallies. The olow ext parallel we can think of, curiously Bavaria, Appuneiata, in pow anaennosd, enough, concerned au Austrian Prince and Bavarian Prigeess. fir the Em peror ofA ustria was intended to marry the elder sister of the late Empress, nad his suddenly falling in love with the royal lady who subsequently be came hix wife sent quite a thrill of through the German courts. London Globe. epi a! HPC. » Wasps Kill » Snake. "We witnussed a fierce combat be | tween a stake and a wasp a few days ago,” writes the Belvidere correspond. | ent of the Kiowa County Sigoal. “The wasp would wateh ita chavee to sting the snake and then dy 10 a cactus The snake would crawl to the plant, mained there. The wasp made several false attempts to fy asd finally fw duced the snake 10 strike in striking becmioe attached to the cac rug and could not get away. Tle wasp then flew away, awd ino a few moments returned, bringing with him several of | friends, who seltled upon the sunke | aud stang him to deuth."--Kausas City | ©F and Mrs. Gladstone, fils Journal The Smyrna Fig in California, Smyrna fg ralsing bas at lust been successfully established ln California on a large scale on the Stanford ranch ar Yina, by the employment of the blastaphaga as an agent for the fer.) tiligation of the fruit. Whe fruit is re ported to be of an exesilsnt quality, | and the industry of fig raising and curing Is now 1 be prosecuted on an extensive scale, This means a valua- ble additon to the State's industrries | and the production of an article of com merce for which there exists a market the world over. Up to date this mar: ‘ket has been almost wholly supplied | » Asia Mibor.~San Francisco Chron Transvaal Dave shown thst conien can be grown | ‘much chesper in South Afri than ‘iin this country, swer, although each sportsman and | aaturalist bas his own opinion apd correspondent, which hats are piade ! chiefly of the hair of rabbits. Rares of goats, mised with wool. These sub | stances are thotouiily mixed together, I and gre then pressed and beater anti - they adhere and form 8 cotHDME ‘ Bexible, material 1 think | he waters of the pame of ‘Florida, The waste (ands the Dirds coftnidered wrong inthe Roagthern Rintew of | (America the most ardent and siveere the sysiom: sven the olen | refosed | Had the a timer aud hauls farm fasion with grain. mounting. but would pot strike while the wasp re . been added to the barisl poi} of the Ab. The ruptile | has acquires n “tract of and fn the | pai It i sald that experiments Cr A trade paper siys. io answer to oh i thst the felt cloth of | is composed i } The trade between Jernsaiern and Kerak has greatly incresesd and the number of tourisi also, have organized a company, ‘frat motorboat I seen fo move over Ba the monks aid ibe Load Ren hich have not heen usd for tran far penturies. The bont Gas the sugferive Agrnt, Prodrmuos, The Fore runner.” Cl An esperiment that may result in a permanent werligz of the mise of in poriborn that exes aroond the gulf to the Teche conunirs of Louisiana sre being ntillzed for cattle-raising, winter blizzards meat 8 now faking make (he wesivrn The prevent in the drought of a yeir ago, in which whole berds perished On the Gulf ands there would be po such Gozands | ous conditions, a Francisco sfier 3 six months’ vovice to the coast of Rant Ameries brine wall mine of Alassio. pot tell ite exaer situation lwosuse they have not yet sectred a conces sion to work 1t The ove in the mine, of whirh the echosuer brought nensly a ton [b specimims, in of faly gride, and 18 is sald that there 8 ap Intense quantity of it. The mine ia &5 easily roached from the const that ir will be simply a proposition of goariging td out. AT The appearances: of 4 new star in the constellation Perens, and ite rapid ox. pansion into 4 pobuia, wilh has been lave revived among ddivonutiers thi theory | that some nebiibie may be formed by explosion. About Bickerton, of Catiterdury College, New if twin stars | should grase one another the abraded | going ob for some iipe past, 1X70, Professor Zealand, showed that parts, If relatively small. world have so high a temperature that they would at once become tiebulons, and that the nebula so formed wonld, under certaln conditions, costinue to expand until dissipated in space. The present ex panding nebula has been growing at the extraordinary rate of several thou. sand miles a second. and is in many ways, one of the greatest celestial wonders of the time. The only place In the world where that form of onrbon kpown as the black diamond. or bort, is found inj marketable quantities {8 In Balla, in South America, The substance is used for points for stone drills and saws, and is powdered and used ty polish x diamonds sod otliae precious stones Lroken There is 3 wide apd growing demand for it. The blavk disgond Is found with the ordinary diamonds in the} Bahia felds and brings about ten dollars a carat. The largest carbon ever found weighed 3150; It was bought from the wiper for $16,000; i was afterwards parchazed for $25 000; and was sent to Paris where it was broken gp and sold to the trade. The average size ia about six carats. The annual output ix decreasing as the de mand grows larger, and the price is It i» probably only a ques. tion of time when a black diamond combination will be formed to work the small area with modern machinery. i The present methods are very primi tre The Abbey's Funeral Ruil. Some notable names have been added to the roll call of the Abbey under Dean Bradley. Charles Darwin, Arch: bishop French-himsel! once Dean of Westminster—Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson and William Ewart Glad stone are among the names that have Bey under Dean Bradley's supervision, and usobody will quarrel with them. It will surprise many people, perhaps, to Know that only ten persans have been buried in the Abbey in the last twenty years, aud that only two of these ware women~Lady Louisa Per. These, with two poets, two architects, an arch bishop, a scientist, a quesn's printer aod a statesman, complete thi roll of the great dead who Have been buried in Westminster Abbey since Dir. Brad. ley became Dean.St. James’ Gasetie. Some tina Advice. The country editor should not fail to realize the iofluence lie may exer cise in the shaping of public affairs, says the Spirit Lake (Iowa! Begcon. He should counsel wisely, read care fully, thick deliberately and express himself in no haphasard tashion. The aditor of a country paper who delivers half-baked opinions and slashes around simply to attract attention, is account bat Founy prin SEY Suannter diooebts apd he of bodies for the ‘medical - i knives ee In Chicago, and in many other cities, where the college authorities are Jess reticent than in Indlspapolls in discuss ing this most groesome phase of meds SE gl college work, it has been stated 2: that a body famine is on. Vaal In lodisnapolis Inst winter graves were roSbed until families of deceased felt compelled to guard many country FEnveeands : The wholesale body steal pal pg was th x result of prosperity, 8 He said: “Tu han! tows the Indianapolis med. ieal colleges have none too many subs ieots, and when the supply is dims. hand soni other means must Be pe sorted tn, The law compels the vol legen to dissect and makes some pro. vision for bodies. but it is not ample. The law should provide for mors then it does, : “There would then be much less fear on the part of respectable people. { When mulionl colleges are holding out ‘eountry an expeniive ated offen doubt. | i ful Beld for this ndusire, | high price of ment fa due, in gary big Indusenients for bodies what assur anes Bave you that the undertaker whe is pmployed to bury a relative has not sulmtitated a osrgo of bricks for the heily and let the college take the oiirpse? How do yon know that the grave will not be robbed by adventurs bin students the night after the inter A schooner hag fust returned to Ban | : ment tT Nuns “In soniye of the larger cities there 9 {paver a mearcity of bodies. : ing pews of the discovery of a gold | mine that will rival the famous Trend. | it is on an tsisnd off the coast but the discovers will In New York. for instance, where there ave so many thousands of very poor people the eoliejres are able to sell the bodies to the stadents at $1 a part, cotting It inte three parts. Here in Indianapolis the Body Is cut in five parts and each part furnishes two students with work, They pay 53 each, so the Indianapolis collegas wot $50 aplece for bodies, “I see Bo resson why bodies should net be fmaported from the cities where they are plentiful and cheap” Indian. apnolis Sun. : If courage is gone, then all is gone, Evervthing may be retrieved sxoept despair. a All frowns are more or less crowns of thorns. ‘Hurry not only spoils work, but spoils life alsa Men sre more belped by srupathy than by service There is no greater misfortune than prosperity in evil Reliever dinivews, bot do not under mine inilenendence. If wo share the burdens of oth we lighten our own. Anything which temiliariaey: us with «7H Is Hwell an evil ‘'o be a man Is to have “the will to do; the soll to dare.” A day's worry is more exbausting than a week of work. ; Know how sublime a thing t is to» suffer and be strong, Ts know what is just. and not to practice, is cowardios, 2 11 ix more Lnportant to do right than 1 be prosperous and happy. Life's smallest acts and humblest duties fash with divive meaning. Men hake money: some, It is said “roll in money” how few enjoy fit oa not think what youn would lke tH do. but what you ought to do. Talking should be sn exercise of the brain, nither than of the tongue. If you take tome one of Satan's $ velations, the whole family will follow. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek bow to redress their harm. She “ Uan't Talk Baek.” It seeins an odd reversal of things in the parrot world where only the male bird is wodowed with organs by which be i reproduce human speach, the af such acquisition. “And what a harsh, unpleasant jargon he makes of it, 100,” remarked a woman customer. 2 when given this Information by a fancier, adding, “Naturally” Where pon her escort retorted. “You may be sure the others make up for it in parrot milk, and probably poor Jack hes t6 hear more than many of his human brothers in aMiction” Then he re mained quite silent while the woman botight an’ expensive male bird, extra volubility warranted, and ordered the Bill sent in his name, Duties of a Workhouse Purter, The porter of the Mere (Wiltshire) wirkhouse recently wrote to the guar ia dians for an increase of salary, which then stood at £14 per annum: “1 am Bitte porter, storekeeper, caterer, hrasg padisher, assistant gardener, assistant nurse, mortuary attendant, tramp and labor master, famigator, barber, mes senger, ladies’ hairdresser, ote. 1 Bave just balanced my small account tor the twelve months, and find, after buying clothes and other necessaries for the purpose of making myself presentable enough to attend the gate, board room and church with the lumates, that I am. 2 | minus the Tueans to bave a : : able for a serious waste of oppor =|! ie." ‘Th vanity,
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