"WHEN THE WIND BLOW 3 When the wind blows—wind of the north; Wind of the wild, dark, raging se3, Lashing its foam to a furious froth Where never a star in the heavens be, Shut from a world of ceaseless snows, Somewhere, safe, when the north winl blows, Gold Hair doth sleep 1 When the win 1 blows—wind of the east, Wind of a dawn that is chill ani gray; Of a driving rain when the day hath And boats steal up like ghosts from the bay; Close to the mist that looms and grows, Somewhere, safe, when the east wind blows, Blue Eyes doth sleep! When the wind blows—win iof the west. Wind from the way of the redden ng sun; Rocking the great, wide world to rest. Greeting the young stars one by one; Where the scant of tho pine tree conies and goes, Somewhere, far, when tho west wind blows. Gray Eyes doth sleep! When tho wind blows—wind of tho south, Wind of a bloom and a nightingale's thrill; Stealing the smile of her rod rose mouth, Breathing a kiss over forest an I tail!; Hu-hod, while tho silvery river flows, {Somewhere, O sweat, when tno south wind blows— Dark Eyes doth sleep! —Virginia Clou', iu Boston Transeripfc. STELLA'S OPPORTUNITY EY HELEN EVKIISTOX BMITII. fhgu HAT is tho matter, fir\/\f Stella? You look as yA V if some misfortune bad happened to you. The girl addressed was a tall, stately J oun S creature, still i Q * ier "teens," with WvA n striking face and a manner which, lv\\j though not awkward, was a I ttlo too ab rupt ond energetic to be graceful. She re plied : "I am discouraged I" "What I You? I didn't suppose you ever could be that; and I don't see why you should be. I'm sure if I was getting §ls a week, in a steady situation, with hours only from nine until five, I should think the world very charming." The last speaker was a slender, deli cate woman, in her early twenties, and the work on her lap and lying about be trayed her occupation to be that of dress maker. She sighed as she spoke, aud did not stop her busy stitching while she talked. 44 1 know, dear," said Stella, ruefully, 4 'it does seem ungrateful of me to tind fault with my position; but thou Ia n not so good and patient a3 you; an I then, too, I am constantly seeing men advanced while I stand still. My salary is the same as it was two years ago; yet during that time almost every cleric in Mr. Cruikshauk's office has been pro moted, and there isn't one of them wh ) is any more faithful or clever tha i I. They have had chances to show their capabilities; I have not. Mr. Cruikshank treats mc nicely—that is, he is courteous and all that—but he never expects any thing of me beyond my daily rouni of taking shorthand notes of his letters and instructions, and then typcwiiting the n. I lind, indeed, that he gives me the most important of this sort, of work to do, because I make so few mistakes; but that is as far as I can get, and it don't satisfy me. My father wa9 a man who advanced rapidly, and would huve be come wealthy had ho live 1 longer. 1 am like him in energy and will, and I think, too, in c;car business perceptions." While Stella was talking she was walk ing about the room putting away a few things and getting ready to go out. 44 Your chance will coine, Stella. It must. You ha7c grounded yourself so well, and are always so ready for every emergency. I think if you were asked to go to Alaska to-night you could be off before I could get my mind made up, and while I should have to take a trunk you could go with only a grip-sack." Stella laughed. 41 Yea, I suppose I could, for I am al ways well and strong, and don't need to carry both thick clothes and thin to be prepared for all changes of weather, or to burden myself with an alcohol lamp, a hot water bag, and all the rest of the traps that would be absolutely necessary for a frail little thing like you. Ileally, Kitty, I am ashamed at having been tor a moment discouraged, when I look at you and see how hard you work, and re member what you have to contend ogaiust, and all without a murmur." So saying the tall girl bent to kiss her companion's pale cheek, and turned with quick, firm steps to go to the ollice, where she was always 011 time—not a moment too soon or too late. Arrived at the office of the great Anglo-American Polyglot Insurance Company, S'.clla was surprised to see the American head of the lir.n, who usually by no inean3 manifested the promptness which he rc3t of the voyage, nnd Stella passe 1 much time on deck, enjoyingto the full tho bracing air nnd tho scuse of freedom from care of every sore. She knew that she had been intruste I with an important matter. She must secure, and that quickly, tho powers necessary to enable Mr. Cruik shank to act for the E lglish directors in a grave emergency. Soma of these di rectors, us s had gathered from their correspondence, were distrustful, aad in the words applied to Carlyle by his mother, sbghtly modified, "gey ill to deal wi;" out during the voyage Stella would not allow herself to dwell upon this, aud, on the whole, she telt herself e jual to the task she had undertaken. The morning of December 5 found Stella lauded in Liverpool just in time to allow her to call upon tne two di rectors who resided in that city, and, without waiting for dinner, to citch the j train which, rushing up the 2J'J miles to London, would get her there ou time to meet the directors before business hours were over. If curious looks were cast at the quiet", self-possessed young girl, traveling alone, and proving her ability t > do so, she was too earnest to heed them. Every instant was of conseq lence to one who nad yet to travel abm; 8J) miles, to points as distant as Exeter and Edinourgn, m33t the direc;ors of those two places and get back to Liverpool in time to t ike the "Servia" on tho after noon of December 8. In Loudon Stella waisubjectel to some delay, but, by dint of heavy "tips," was able to catcii an express tain to Exeter on tiio evening of De cember 6. There was no sleeping car. By telegraph she secured a room at the hotel, which she reached not long after midnight. A few hours of sound slum bei, a successful visit to the two Exeter directors and a hurried mcnl prece led the long journey to Eliiiourgb. Her heart leaped at the historic name, but shu had no time to linger upon its ui sociatlons. To sec the Edinburgh di rectors at their own houses before break fast, catch the train back to Liverpool and board the tug which carried passen gers to the "Servia" just in time to se cure her passage in her, was all that Stella could do; but she did it. The homeward voyage proved an ex ceptionally stormy one, even lor Decem ber, but the "Servia" reached New York on the 15. As Stella stepped ashore the was met by Mr. Cruikshank, into whose hands she gladly delivered tho so-much desired proxies. The hour was a little late for arriving at the office; but, feeling that the delay was excusable under the circumstances, Stella presented herself at her desk, as fresh and serene as if she had left it only the day before. Another young woman was occupying her chair. Stella turned and met the smiling gaze of Mr. Cruik shank's second in command. "It's all right," he said, reassuringly, "The best typewriter and stenograpbei we ever had has proved herself to b worthy of a big advance. See!" And he showed a cable dispatch from the chief of the London office, recommend, that "Miss Uardenburg be promoted tc the place of second assistant in the New York office, with a salary of SIBOO a year." For the first time Stella felt frightened. Her good fortune seemed too good to be true. "But," she stammered, "are you 9ure this i 9 right? Have I earned it? Shall you not be sorry?" "Yes, you have indeed earned it. No, we shall uot be sorry," answered the of ficial reassuringly. "A woman who does as well as a mau is worth as much as 3 man. You have always done, in tho most thorough manuer, everything you had to do; and so, when your oppor tunity came, you could profit by it. Go home, now, and take a week's rest. You are more tired than you know." "lam not tired," she answered, "but I will go home and tell Kitty." Ai Stella turned to go down tho stairs, she said to herself, "It shall go hard it I am not able, before long, to put an oppor tunity iu poor Kitty's way. She is just as ready fortheui in her line as I am iu mine."—Demorest's Magazine. Turtle rower. A paper published in Saigon, in French Cochin China, gives an account of a singular experiment recently made in that colony with a new means of mo tive power. A French resident at the town of Hatien, a port on the Gulf o( Biam, conceived tho idea that it would be perfectly practicable to make the im mensc turtles, which are not uncommon in those parts, and which ewim with no little rapidity, do service in drawing tho small fishing boat 3. Ho purchased two large turtles at a cost of $25, and fitted them out with harness and reins. Then he obtained a light, open boat, about fifteen feet long, and attached his turtles to it by means of traces. Holding hi 9 reins fast, he set out on a little trial voy age with tho turtle team. Tho creatures paddled along very prettily, at a rate somewhat exceeding the ordinary walk ing of a man. As they directed their coarse toward tho open sea, and as the weather was calm and beautiful, and the voyage exceedingly pleasaat, it did not occur to tho Freuchmin to make any | very thorough test of hi 3 ability to guido the animals. Much delighted, indeed, with the success of his experiment, ho kept on aud ou, until he presently noted that the sun was setting. Tho interested nav : gator then attempted to turn his team about, but tho turtles resisted any such movement. They had evidently made up their miuds to go to sea, aud they would not bo dissuaded from their purpose. Tho driver pulled his reins un til he upset his turtles in the water; bat as often as they regained the uso of their fiipper3, they set out again for tho middle of the sea. Night settled down rapidly. Luckily the invoitor of the new means of marine traction had brought with him a pair of oars, and a9 a last resort ho took a knife, cut his tugs and let his sei steeds, harness, reins nnCj all, go their way. Then lie rowed back laboriously to his village, lamenting his expenditure on the turtles, and resolving not to try any further experiments in navigation.—New York Dispatch. Trees i:t French Cities. One of the chief beauties of the larger French cities, and second only to their edifices and monuments, are the trees. ( Tho almost inter ninable vi9tus of chest- | nuts aud acacias stretching along the broad and well paved avenues as far as tho eye can reach, their bending branches almost touching one another in an endless arc'i of verdure, form not only a delightful perspective for the eye, but serve to add beauty to cities already beautiful, and grac3 and symmetry to whatever might be harsii and forbid ding. This, however, is not the result ot nature's handiwor.c alone, for scienci and art have lent their aid. Tno plant ing, as weil as the maintenance of the trees in French cities, is an item of no little importance in the annual budget prepared by tho municipal council, which does not look upon their preserva tion as of lc9s consequence than tho re pairing of tho roadways or the lighting of the streets.—London Times. Buildin; in Bermuda. Bermudians have very little trouble in building an ordinary house. A man scrapes enough lucre together to buy a little piece of laud aud then borrows or begs a cross cut saw, a hand saw and an ice chisel. He takes oil the thin surface of soil and gouges into the coral rock with his chisel. Then he commences to saw into the porous limestone and pres ently has a collection of white blocks about two feet ioug, eighteen inches wide and twelve inches thick. When he has takeu out enough of them he has a cellar ready, ana he uses the blocks for walls. Not much timber is required and the process in very simple. But only a Ber muiian or an Englishman can do all this, for no foreigner is permitted to own real estate on these islands.—-New York i'less# SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. The length of the alimentary canal is ibout thirty-two feet. discovery of a leucitc-bear ng rock has beea made at Harden, New South Wales. The least distance do'.ermincd for the sxed stars from the earth runs into bil lions of miles. The molten metal in a Bessemer con verter is 5000 times fainter than the light of the suu. Found, traveling in air, from suu to earth, would require about fourteen fears to accomplish the journey. Platinum can now be drawn into wire itrands so fine that twenty-seven twisted together ean be inserted into the hollow of a hair. A new arc lamp has a pair of carbons which meet at a point like the strokes of the letter V. It is at this point that tho light is produced. A mixture of two parts of pounded ice and one of common salt will reduce the temperature of a body surrounded by it from fifty degrees to 0 degrees. Professor L. 11. Bailey, in his report to the Cornell University, formally es tablishes the commercial value of electro culture for certain wiuter crops, and es pecially for lettuce. An interesting invention is that of an incandescant lamp in which the plug carrying the leading-iu wire is made up of a composition which unites with the glass to make an air-tight joint. Light, proceeding with 10,000 times the velocity of the earth in its orbit, gives us some idea of distance, when wo iearn that its flight from the sun to our globe occupies rather more than eight minutes. An excellent method for waterproofing the surface of a wall is to cover it with solutiou of soap. After twenty-four hours a coat of lime solution is applied. This process is repeated several times, and is claimed to make the wall perfectly water-tight. Sea serpents, flying dragons, birds with teeth, connecting links between birds, tishes and reptiles, animals so large and clumsy that a second brain, located near their tail, was necessary to properly direct their movements, all these have existed in past times, and have left the traces of their bodies in the rocks for our instruction in these latter days. The water spider, which spends most of its tiins under water, carries a bubble of air for breathing on the under side of its body, aud when this air is exhausted, it comes to tho surface for more. It is enabled to carry tho air bubble bccausn the under side of its body is covered with tiny hairs set so close together that the surface film of tho water does not pass them. It is not land vegetation merely that is large in the Northwest, but the plant life of the sen. Among the shoal of tho British Columbia coast tho algaj and kelp, which on the Atlantic side of tho contiucnt seldom grow to be more than six feet long, arc found thirty feet in length, and at the ebb and flow of the tide their long, leathery leaves are often seen in parallels along the surface, likf exaggerated lily pads. A Unique little try. One of the unique industries of ICey West, Fla., is the catching and curing of sponge?, and there is not anything about this queer animal that one of tho pray haired old colored sponge fishers cannot tell. The sponges grow in beds on tho coral reefs from a nucleus very much as coral doc 3, and tho complete growth occupies but seven or eight months. The sponge fishing fleet of a score or more of small sloops go outo7cr the beds and drag for tho sponges with an iron claw at the end of a line. Then from the brown mass ol oozy, sandy Bpongcs the dliferent kinds arc sorted out and laid on racks in tho sun to dry. Then the sand and coral and shell are worked out and the • 'trimmer" with a pair of shear 3 trims tho edges and irreg ularities off, after which the sponges aro ready for shipment, unless they are to be bleached for bath sponges, for which purpose only a compiratively small num. her are used, for it is to the various arts and trades that most of them go. Tho coarsest grade is the rough brown "grass sponge," then comes a close fibred, tough variety called a 4 'glove sponge,'* but the fine soft variety thilt make a man iu a bath tub smile i 3 tne "lamb's wool," and it is this kind that is bleached to a snowy whiteness and sent to the drug gist trade.—Washington Star. A Trick ot tho Eye. By cutting three strips of white paper of the same length exactly, with one ol them half as wide as tho others, one of neatest tricks of optical illusion can be produced. If those of the samo width are laid crosswise, the narrow strip placed iu the centre, it will invariably seem as if the broad strips were con siderably shorter than tho narrow one. The illusion is enhanced by laying the piecos of paper on a black surface. By placing tho three strips in the form of an inverted "N," and using the narrow strip for the diagonal line, the latter in turn will appear much shorter than the other two. To an unpracticed eye the illusion will seem very remarkable in deed when it is demonstrate 1 that a.I tho strips arc of the same length.—S:. Louis Post-Dispatch. American Coal is Cheap Abroad. Within the past few years Amorican coal has almost entirely replaced tho English fuel used on the Island of Mar tinique, West Indies. Tho average con sumption there amounts to about 5J03 tons a mouth, nearly all of which goes from Philadelphia. The price deliverc 1 is £5.00 per ton, against £'5.33 for Eng lish coal. Within the last year or two quite a large trade in soft coal for West Indian poiuts has been built up at this port, and it keeps on increasing at n very satisfactory rate, —Philadelphia lia* curd* THE MOUND BUILDERS. RELICS OF A RACE ABOUT WHICH LITTLE IS KNOWN. Mounds of the Mississippi Valley—CHlT Homes of the Colorado and the I'aluros of Central America—Giant Structures In tho Forests of Tropical America. A Queer l'eople. Americans have become so accus tomed to the oft-repeated assertion that this is a new country that the idea that America may have its own an tiquities comes as a novel suggestion. To most American people Europe and Asia contain the only remains of former races, and when Americans wish to study antiquity in its ruins they go to Italy, Greece, or Asia A MOUND BUILDER'S ARCH. Minor. But the researches of tho last few years have demonstrated be yond a doubt that on this continent there are ruins which rival in extent and grandeur those of the once proud cities of the East, and perhaps equal them in antiquity. The Indians found hero at the coming of the Europeans were not the ilrst inhabitants, says the Globe-Democrat, for from the great lakes of North America to the Patagonlan deserts, everywhere may lie found abundant and impressive evidences ofa former civilization. In the valleys of the Ohio and its tribu taries, along the banks of the Mis souri and the Mississippi, are mounds and earthworks, some constructed for purposes of fortifications, others as places of sepulture, and others again for religious purposes or as places of worship. In Colorado and Arizona, the great canyons cut by the rivers through tho mountains and deserts, were once the homes of prosperous tribes whose numbers may he julged from the ex tent of the ruins which once com posed their habitations. Further south are the Pueblos, great com munes in which, under a common roof and sheltered by a common wall, many families lived together under a primitive form of government The mound builders and cliff dwellers disappeared, leaving only the traces of their existence to arouse interest and awaken speculation In the minds of historian and antiquarian; hut the Pueblos, in decadence, wo still have with us. Further south, In Mexico, Central America, and Peru, the destructive hand of the Spaniard was not able to obliterate the striking evidences of a former civilization. Everywhere In these countries are to be found the remains of mounds built for purposes of religion, of temples, of palaces, of roads, constructed with the nicest re garjb-to the peculiarities of the cli mate; of irrigating canals whichcon- A WAYSII'K SHHI.NE. verted wide tracts of sterile sand Into blooming gardens; of cities which once contained their thousands of in habitants. The Spaniards took for granted that the temples which they saw, the idols which instantly ex cited their religious prejudices, the pyramids on which some of theircom rarlos taken prisoners in war were sac rificed, were all the work or the Az tecs. Later investigators have found excellent reason for believing that these structures were the creations of a previous race, who, perhaps, had been driven from their homes by the Aztec invaders. This view isstrength eno 1 by the fact that some of the cities were in ruins; some of the gor geous temple shrines were already de serted at the coming of the Spaniard, and so long had they been desolate that the Aztecs or Mexicans knew nothing about, them or their builders. The character of the pyramids, most of which were evidently con structed for religious purposes, is very diverse. Some, like the pyramids of the sun and moon in Mexico, are simply mounds of earth, closely re sembling the huge pile which formerly rose iu the north central part of this city. Others are mounds, similar in character, but having at the top a temple more or less ornate and ex tensive, the elevated plateau which formed the summit evidently fur nishing an assembling place where the worshipers might greet the ris ing sun. St ill others, while preserv ing the pyramidal form, were pyra mids only in shape, being terraced with successively retreating stories, each providing suites of chambers, which were, doubtless, appropriated to the priests and servants or the temple. One such structure in Cen tral America, considerably exceeding 100 feet, in height, consists of seven stories, the various terraced ru mis of which must have furnished nccu.'w mo in spection and the vexed questions, who were t lie mound builders, whence they came, and what were, their adventures during their long migrations, who were their leaders and what dynasties of kings ruled when the-m great pyra mids were erected, may all be an swered The prehistoric civilization of which these ruins arc the visible trace reached its highest point in Central America, where are found its most remarkable remains. In the last lifty years the ruins of over TOO cities have been identified ts such, and as each, judging from the indi cations, possessed a population of from 5,000 to 20,000, the dentity with A NICAKAGUAN PVKAMID lIESTOHED. which these regions' were peopled must have tasked even the incredible fertility of a tioplcal soil. Until lately these cities were unknown, most of them being located in forests almost impossible to penetrate, in fested with poisonous insects and reptiles, and rendered doubly perilous by the malarial diseases which al most invariably attack unaccllmated strangers. In such adistrict of Hon duras are found the ruins of Copan, once a great city, but a ruin even in the time of Cortez, who passed within a few miles, tint heard nothing of it. The palace of Copan is a gigantic ruin, too by 1,000 feet, in extent, with a wall 25 feet thick at the base, coror , posed of enormous stones brought by unknown means from a quirry two miles distant. Close by the palace is the temple, built upon a walled terrace 624 feet north and south by 800 from east to west, and rising ovei 100 feet above the river which flowi by one of its sides. Over 26,000,000 cubic feet of stone were employed in the construction of this great monu ment, while idols and altars, col' umns and sculptured stones innum' erable are to be found on every hand, The time is coming when our knowledge of the mysterious builder! will probably bo greatly increased, and one of the most puzzling ques tions in American archicology will then be solved. WALES. / A Rich and lleautlful Country and an In' duHtrious People. Wales is only 145 miles long and sev enty miles broad, but it compares favor ably in sizo with Palestine, the home ol the most religious races, and with Greece, the land of the most cultured of nations. According to its size, Wales is the richest region on the globe, ex cept the State of Pennsylvania. The Iron and coal kings of nearly every lund are Wolshmen. The scenery ol Wales is grand. There are no drives in the world superior to those thsough Bettws-y-eoed, Pontaberglaslyn, and Dolgelly, no valleys more beautiful than than those of Llanrwst, Clwyd, Llan gollen, and Abergavenny. The Welsh are one of the oldest ol the earth's nations. The tombs of their kings dato back to times before metals were used. The tradition Is that the Welsh are the descendents of Gomer, the grandson of Noah. Tho Welsh lan guage is full of force, lire, and pathos, of movement and action. It has a rich old brogue like the Irish. It has no more gutturals than the Gorman. Wales is- the lund of strange customs, the most remarkable of which is the Eisteddfod, dating back to the fourth century. It was a literary congress, wh re bards, historians, and harpers competed for royal prizes, and was au exposition for improvement in the im plements of peace and war, in domestic manufacture and means of personal and homo comforts. This was probably the origin of tho World's Fair. According to tradition tho Indians of NorLh America are of Welsh origin. Prince Madoc brought their ancestor.* over in the twelfth century. The Welsh in America are strongest in the coal an I j iron regions of Pennsylvania. In these r areas there aro more Welshmen to the square foot than in Wales Itself. The Welshman Is thrifty, owns his house, and puts something by for a rainy day. Those immense coal Holds in Pennsyl vania, which to-day are more valuable than gold mines, owe no small part of their value to the skill of the men who in other days came from Wales. The same may be said of tho great Iron and steel districts. Much of tho present wealth of Pittsburg comes from those* who took their first lessons in iron making in the great wot ks at Dowlais and Mcrthyr-Tydvil. THE LONE STAR STATE. It Hum u Larger Area than Mont Person* Are Able to Conceive. Of the vast area of the larger Western States peoi lo who have not visited them and traveled over them have no com-* prehensivc idea. Texas, the largest ol > tho United States, has an area of 282,- 290 square miles. To the casual reader theso figures may mean very littlo; they show, however, that tho Lono Star Stato is moro than ilfty-four times as large as tho State of Connecticut. If it wer • posslblo to mn a railroad train from l onnectlcut to Texas and back in a day, and if tho train could take the entire population of tho Nutmeg Stato as given in tho last census at every trip, and upon its return to Connecticut there should be as many persons in the State ns there was boforo the train loft w.th its cargo, and if each wore placed upon an acre of land upon his arrival in Texas, the train would bo obliged to mal*o 224 trips or to depopulate Con necticut *24 times, before accomplish ing its mission, and then there would re main in Texas 703,808 empty ac.es. If tho entire State of Texas woro plant d with corn, and tho hills were two feet apart, and tho rows were three feet apart, and if every man, woman and child in tho State of Connect! were set to work in the field to hoe tTo corn, and each person woro able to and did hoe two hills in five minutes, it would take this army of laborers 7 yeais 280 days and 7 hours to hoe every hill of corn in the State, laboring con tinuously day and night 335 days each year. Tho man who tears that ho could not elb w his way around in tho crowded West without chafing the nap of hie < oat-sleeves may gather some so'aco from the statement that the entire pop ulation of theglobo, 1,400,0 iO,OOO souls, divided into families of live persons each, could he located in Texas, each family with a house on a half-acre lot, and there would still remain 50,( 00,000 vacant family lots. Died for II 1m Whiskers. This statement may savor of exaggera tion, but there are men in San Francisco i to day who remember ail the facts, says the Si.n Francisco Examiner. Warsaw was his name—Captain Warsaw, of the ■ Pacific Mail Company. May bo you re call the man now. He was command-1 of the Japan when she was burned in the eastern seas about twenty year? ago. Well, Qaptain Warsaw had won derful and they were dfefei to him than tho apple of his eye—than \ life itself, one might as well say while cue is about it; for ho shuffled off hie mortal eoll tooner than have them shave I while yet he was in the flower ol \ his career. The Captain mot a girl one day—ae captains will—und the Captain fell in love with her. Later on he told hor about nis passion, and, like the girl ic ihe "Bab Ballads," "shereciprocated it.' "Will you marry me, then?" said the Captain. "Life is a blank without you.' "I'd like to," said tho girl, "but, whereas I love you, I cannot attach my. self permanently to a pair of whiskers. Shave them and I am yours." "But I could not think of such a thing." protested the Captain. "Well," said the maiden, with a shreg of hor pretty shoulders, "you pays your money and you takes your choice. Which is It to be? Me or the whiskers?' " Whiskers," murmured the mariner, with a sigh, and having withdrawn to a respectful d.stance, he blew his brains out. i 4h! Thoso were the when whiskers were whlskerii