MOONRISE. I BCO a stretch of shining sky Like some fuir ocean sunset lit. Peaceful and wide its spaces lie. And purple shores enoompass it. A little slender silver boat Upon its bosom is afloat. This craft, unstaid by winds or tides. Slips out across tho twilight bar; Through rosy ripples, soft she glides. Led by a single pilot star; With shadowy sails and fairy crew. She drifts along the summer blue. She's filled frqm stem to stern with flowers And Lovo and llopo and Happiness. WIM auglit of what she brings be ours? Ah met if we could only guess! Sho rides elusivo and remote, This little slender silver boat. —Francis Winne in London Spectator. JUST IN TIME. She followed him all day long like a little dog. If he ran, she ran, fell and scrubbed hor knees, cried and was lifted up again. Thus it went on from the week's beginning to its end. 110 grew tired of her, and would have liked to run away from her. But he did not dare, for she was his master's daugh ter, and he was—well, there was the rub—he did not know who ho was. He woke up one day and found him self born. The sky was above him, and tlicro would have been earth beneath his feet, if ho had not pointed them in the wrong direction. He was christened in a random way Ola, and was put on the parish, as they say. Jeus Oestruo took him as his share of tho parish burdens. When he was six years old he could be made useful enough to earn his food and shelter. Jeus Oestruo then wanted to send him away, but his little daughter Birgit was so fond of him that he decided to keep him. When Ola was twelve years old he could kick a cap from a nail high above his head. Birgit was so fond of Ola that everything ho did seemed admirable. Once sho said a bad word and Ola was whipped for it. So Ola was sent to the mountains; he roamed with his alpine horn over tho wide mountain plains, ato berries, caught fish, set traps and was happy. He hardly thought once of the little girl down in the valley. One day lato in the summer she came up to the dairy with her mother. She was carried up on horseback in a basket. When she saw him she flung herself down upon tho grass and screamed with delight. But when her mother had reached the hut she ran up to him and hugged him. While the cattle were being milked he went to look after his tilings. She fol lowed him, proud in the thought that he tolerated her. "Look here," ho cried, lifting up a brown hare, "isn't that a big fellow?" "What is it?" she usked. "It is a hare." "No, it isn't a hare. A hare is white." "It is brown in summer. It changes its skin." "Has ho two skins, one inside tho other?" Instead of answering ho took his knife and cut the hare's skin. "No," he said, "he hasn't got more'n one." * * • • • • Tho time came when he had to go to the parson to prepare for confirmation. It so happened that she went the same year. But, though he had a coat now, it was a cast off one of Jeus Oestruo's, which was much too big for him. His boots, too, and his trousers had seen better days before they made his acquaintance. He walked aside from tho rest, his ears burned when any one looked at him. But if any one dared to mock him, he used a pair of fists which inspired re spect. Ho was a handsome enough lad and finely made, but his clothes and his frowsy hair made him look ugly. Heavy thoughts came to him, and a fierce, de fiant spirit was kindled within him. It was at such a time that Birgit sought him and Bpoke kindly to him. "You mustn't mind the girls," Bhe said; "they laugh at everything. They don't moan anything by it. It's just a way they have." "Somebody will come to harm if you ever do it," he answered fiercely. "That is foolish talk," she gently re monstrated. "I know you too well, Ola. You wouldn't harm me." "Ah, you don't understand me," he said. "It is no use talking." "Oh, yes, I do understand you, Ola," sho replied, with a smilo, "and I wish you would let me say one thing to you before I go." "Say it." "I wish—l wish," she stammered, while a quick blush sprang to her cheeks. "No, 1 think I won't say it, after all," she finished, and turned to go. "Yes, say it," he entreated, seizing her hand. "Well, I—l wish you could do as the hare, change your skin." Bhe drew her hand away from his and ran down the hillside, so that the stones and dry leaves flew about her. That night he picked a quarrel with Tliorger Sletten, who was said to be at tentive to Birgit, and he thrashed him. All the following winter he kopt watch of her from afar, and picked quarrels with ovorybody whom she seemed to favor. "Change my skin," he pondered. "Change my skin, like the hare. How, oh, how can I do it?" This thought followed him day and night. One day, in the spring, an emi grant ship bound for America appeared at the mouth of the river. Ola packed together his few traps and wont up to Oestruo's to say goodby. He met Birgit in the birch grove behind the barn. It was the time when the buds were bursting and the swallows had just returned. "Well, Ola, where aro you going?' she asked, as she saw him coming with bundle and staff in hand. "To America." "America!" she cried. "America!" Xbo answer seemed to frighten her. Bhe turned pale and caught hold of a birch tree for support. He watched her narrowly. "What are you going to do in Ameri ca, Ola?" sho asked softly. "Change my skin," ho replied, with a vigor that startled her. "And if 1 come back within five years with a changed skin will you promise to wait for me?" "I promise," sho whispered, weeping quietly upon his shoulder. . # * • Five years from that day a young man was seen hastening up the hillside to Oestruo. He had a big slouch hat on his head and he was well dressed. His face was strong, und de termined, his eyes danceu with joy, for In his pocket he had a royal ma.'riage license, with which he meant to surprise somebody up at Oestruo's farm. It was five years today since he left her, and it was five years she had promised to wait for him. For this hour he hud toiled, saved and suffered for five long weary years. He had been a silver miner in Leadville when the place wns yet new, and he had sold his claim for $50,000. As he was hurrying along, an old woman, who was sitting by the road- Bide, hailed him. "Gentlefolks out walking today?" she said, holding out her hand for n jienny. "Gentlefolks?" he cried, with a happy laugh: "Why, Gurid, lam Ola who usod to herd cattle at Oostruo's dairy." "You, Ola! who was on tho parish? Then you must have changed your skin." "That was what 1 went to America for," he answered, laughing. The church lay half way up the hill side. There Ola sat down to rest, for he had walked far and was tired. Pres ently he heard music up under tho lodgo of tho forest; tliero was one clar inet and several fiddles. A bridal party! Yes, there was the bride, with a silver crown upon her head and shining brooches upon her bosom. The procession came nearer. Now the master of the ceremonies opened the church doors wide and went to meet the bride and groom. Ola sat still like a rock; but a strange numbness came over him. As tho party drew near to the gate of tho churchyard he arose and stood, tall and grave, in the middle of the road. Then came Birgit Oestruo and Tliorger Sletten. She looked pale and sad, he defiant. "You didn't expect mo to your wed ding, Birgit Oestruo?" he said, and stared hard at her. She gave a scream the crown fell from her head; she rushed forward and flung her arms about hi 1 ' neck. "Now come," he cried, "whoevei dares, and I'll make a merry bridal." Jeus Oestruo stepped forward and spoke. His voice shook with wrath and the veins swelled upon his brow. "Here I am," he said. "If you want tho girl you shall fight for hor." "Not with you, old man," retorted Ola; "but with Tliorger I'll fight. Let him come forward." The bridal guests made a ring on the groen and the bridegroom came slowly forward. "Hard luck," he said, "to have to fight for your bride on your wedding day." Fight? Birgit, who In her happiness had been blind and deaf, woke up with a start. She unwound her arms from Ola's neck and Btepped up between the two men. "Oh, do not fight, do not fight!" she entreated, holding out her hands first to one claimant and then to tho other. "You know father, for whom I have waited for these five years. You know whom I have loved since I was a child. But you used force against me and threats. Now he has come back. I ara no longer afraid of you." "Whoever will be my wedding guest let him follow," shouted Ola, "for 1 have in my hand a royal license to be married to Birgit, Jeus Oestruo's daugh ter." "All that money can buy you shall have," he added. "I'll mako a wed ding tho fame of which shall be heard in seven parishes around." He took the bride's arm and marched boldly into the church. The wedding gucßts looked at Jeus Oestruo, who was venting his wratli upon the groom. "You coward!" he yelled, "you let the girl be snatched away boforo your very nose. lam glad enough to bo rid of such a son-in-law. Come, folks; we'll have our wedding yet. A girl belongs to him who can catch her." With a wrathful Bnort he stalked in through the o]>en church door, and the wedding guests slowly followed.—Bos ton Globe. The Division of Time. The division of time into hours was practiced among the Babylonians from remote antiquity, but it was Hipparchus, the philosopher, who introduced tho Babylonian hour iuto Europe. Tho sex agesimal system of notation was chosen by that ancient people becauso there is no number having so many divisions as sixty. The Babylonians divided the daily journey of the sun, the ruler of the day, into twenty-four parasangs. Each parasang or hour was subdivided into sixty minutes, and that again into sixt} seconds. They compared the progress made by the sun during one hour at the time of tho equinox to the progress made by a good walker in the same period of time, both covering one para sang, and the course of tho sun during the full equinoctial day was fixed at twenty-four parasangs. —London Tit- Bits. The Value of the Ruby. The ruby is valued highest when it contains the least azure. The largest ruby that history speaks of belonged to Elizabeth of Austria, the wife of Charles IX. It was almost as big us a hen's egg. The virtues attributed to rubies are to banish sadness, to repress luxury and to drivo away annoying thoughts. At the same time it symbolizes cruelty, anger and carnage, as well as boldness and bravery. A change in its color an nounces a calamity, but when the troublo is over it regains its primitive ' luster.—Paris Figaro. A Husband's Signature Yolored 24-conti meter ring guns.—Berlin Cor. London News. CxhuiiHt Pipes for Oil Tanks. Judging from the reports from the oil regions, few of the tanks have pipes at the bottom of the great receptacles so arranged that the oil can be drained out of a burning tank from below, thus reducing the loss from fire to a mini mum. The great fires at the Point Breeze roflneries brought about that ro form in our local oil works, and it has provod of great service ever since it was put in operation.—Philadelphia Press. A Mighty Feast. At Pischhausen, in Germany, a wed ding feast of Homeric proportions re cently took place. The 108 guests got through one ox, three pigs, four calves, eighteen chickens, ten geese, and ducks and pigeons in proportion. Four hogs heads of beer, forty quarts of rum and fifty of other liquids served to wash down the solids. The shade of Gargan tus should rejoice at this noble feat.— London Globe. An improved traction engine has late ly appeared in Missouri. It is run with a relatively small amount of fuel, car ries a heavy load and is provided with means for changing its speed without altering the stroke of the engine. | Immense damage has been done in the County of Essex, England, by the pea weevil. In many cdses whole fields of peas have been destroyed and have had to be plowed in and oats sown in their |lace. MISS MORGAN AND JOURNALISM. A New York Writer Fays to Woman a Worthy and lleHpcctful Tribute. And now a word for Miss Midy Mor gan. There were women writers on the press when she came here, but not many. I met her in 1869 or 1870. We discussed tlio question of women in journalism at some length. My own experience in that direction had been peculiarly happy Upon the staff of the New York Star the best writer on labor matters was Mrs. Hanah McL. Shephard, vho subse quently became the wife of an erratic genius named Wolf. She wrote for us a series of articles on labor and capital which attracted the attention of James Gordon Bennett, who took tlio unusual j step of ascertaining who the individual was who could so aptly and ably handle that tremendous question. Mrs. Ual- I houn, I think, at that time was writing on The Tribune. We had not, however, tlio multiplicity of women, many of whom are the merests chits of girls, in the employ of newspapers. Some of these young women today do excellent work. I think of the names of at least a dozen who are quite the peers of many of their masculine companions, and whose work in some respects is as good as any that has ever appeared in any of the New York journals. When Miss Morgan came it was different, and as she found pleasure in writing upon a subject which no other woman had ever touched here, there was added to her unique personality an element of sen sationalism which made her a very much talked of individual. ) Breeders of horses throughout the country, as indeed throughout the civil ized world, knew her well by sight; many of them had the honor of her per i sonal acquaintance, and all read her writings with respect. The ordinary I reader, however, probably never saw her. She was quite six feet tall, notice ably spare in figure, with very long arms and very long logs. She dressed queerly. I never saw her without an ' umbrella in her hand and a package of j papers under her arm. She was indns '■ trious, reliable, intelligent and porfect j ly conversant with the details of her I specialty. Her death came to me as a great surprise. It is but a few weeks since I had quite a talk with her, and she seemed then as bright and as cheery as ever. 1 am glad to know that the good woman saved some of her hard earned money, and I should be better pleased if I could also know that she j had spent it freely upon her own per- I sonal comfort and convenience. But the thought suggested by the report of Miss Morgan's death is that during her twenty-two years of experience here she l saw a wonderful revolution in respect of | women at work. ' The difficulty encountered by woman writers is, first, the selfishness of man. I will givo you a brief illustration, j Some years ago a piece of work was done which attracted the attention of every newspaper in the city, subse j queutly in the country, and later on in ! the world. If that work hod been done I by me, the paper would have cheerfully | paid all my expenses and $3,500 with j thanks. As it was, having been done by a woman, it was with great difficulty she obtained SBOO and the barest recog nition possible. In some newspaper of fices women are employed as solicitors of advertising, coupled with the duties of "writing up" the advertising estab lishment. My own judgment is that that is not good policy, and my advice to women writers is that they look at the world precisely as their brothers of the quill look at it. The tendency of our fashion writers and our society gossips is to gush, to flatter, to beslather with fulsome praise, which is often a source of great annoy ance to the party written about, and provocative of a sniff of contempt from the reader. There is no earthly reason why the women who have to pay taxes and bear their share of the civic burden shouldn't have the right to determine who shall be the ruler, Who shall bo the J servant, precisely as the men have it. Common sense comes into all matters and regulates in the ultimate everything and everybody. Women as doctors for other women, as nurses, as matrons, women as tele graphers, stenographers, clerks, women, in other words, for whatever they can physically do, ought to bo welcomed, and are welcomed by men of sense and under standing. If we can put the ballot into tho hand of a man who can neither read nor speak tho English lunguago, if we can , intrust that high duty to a foreign born individual after he has been in this conn- I try seven years, I think we would make I no mistake in intrusting it to a bright, quick witted American girl after slie has had an experience of twenty-one years. It was Miss Morgan's privilege to see her sex advance many steps upon the ladder of improvement upon the social scale, and to find hundreds of them lit erally in the paths which, when she be gan, she trod almost alone.—Joseph Howard in New York Recorder. Two WUJH of Preventing Moths. Moths are a pest of New York and Brooklyn houses; eternal vigilance is the price of safety from them, and sometimes that is not enough. Two women recent ly discussing moth preventives or pro j tectors found safety in different moth ; ods. One parked her winter clothing, after thoroughly airing and looking over, in clean barrels, whose crevices, if nny, [ she carefully pasted over with newspa [ pers; when the barrel was filled a news [ paper was securely pasted over the top, j and the parcel was moth proof. | The second used old trunks, with any broken places carefully protected with newspapers, and sprinkled naphtha over each gurment as it was laid in, finishing j with a layer of newspaper at the top well doused with the naphtha. Each had "never had a thing eaten by moths." The naphtha advocate urged caution in its use. No match or light must be brought near while the sprinkling proc ess is going on nor until the place lias j been well aired.—Her Point of View in New York Times. 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