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EDITH VEBHB.
BY JCTFIE P0RBD8H HAN1F0RJ*.
Beautiful. dark-eyed Edith Verne,
Well I remember the time we met;
It took but a dance for me to learn
What it took me many years to forget.
I feel even now the touch of your hand.
The turn of your head, tne glance of youi
eye.
As I placed on yonr finger the golden band
That bound you to me by love's sweet tie.
Hair that wns golden is silvered with gray,
Since that time in worship I knelt at you>
feet
In the year6 that forever have passed away,
Earth has held no happiness half so sweet.
You never loved me, I know, and yet
You let mo think so; I bad no fears.
Did you tbink it easy for man to forget?
Drown, as a woman, bis sorrow in tears?
I trust you are happy, fair Edith Verne,
1 wish for you always a glad to-morrow;
But, oh, my darling, bad you been true.
My life would not have been one of sorrow,
T. not T.iiiQ '
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BITTER AND THE SWEET.
A Tale of Two Continents.
B7 MRS. NINA LAWSO*.
CHAFTER X.?IContinued]
"Oh! It is you, Oertana? I am so
glad."
"You naughty little girl! Why aren't
you dressed, ready to go down stairs
with me? "We have company for dinner?two
gentlemen friends of Sylvester's."
As sho spoke, there was a merry
twinkle in her sparkling eyes.
"Well, Gertana, under" the circumstances
I am really glad that I did not
go down. In fact, I did not feel like
dressing, or I should have done so.
"His sudden return has considerably
unstrung my nerves. A prisoner, you
Vn^NTTr /Mirrlif nnt to Tin nrpsfint. at a
""to"" ' ? x ? ?
dinner party, but if that hateful man
expects me, please make my excuses."
"All light, Lenora, I understand you;
but promise me that you will not leave
the house to-night or at any other time
without my knowledge."
"I promise you, Gertana."
"Good. Good-night, Lenora."
She then left the room and returned
to the parlors below Just as the bell
rang for dinner.
And such a dinner. Fit for a king !
It lasted long, and the courses were
many, followed by wines and creams.
The chief topic was the prospective
dinner-party.
Finally the dinner was over, and the
little party returned to the parlors.
After some music, and expressed regrets
that the cousin was too ill to yet
join the family, the two friends took an
early departure.
"Gertana, I must necessarily leave
the city early in the morning, and fear
that I shall be detained, perhaps, three
or more weeks at the least. There are
& few favors I wish to ask of you, and
as I am quite sure you will grant them
I will not ask you whether you will
or not. I shall take it for granted that
you will."
"If it lies within my power, Sylvester,
I will."
*It does; it is this: I want you to
watch Lenora and not let her escape.
I think you have more influence over
her than I, and now, promise me that
she will be here and well, as she now
is, when I return."
"You are asking considerable of me,
Sylvester, considering that I have
neither the power nor desire to capture
or release, but I will do my best to
&eep her here. I think it would be
|o?ly for her at*present to try to escape,
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as cioseay as sue is waicuea. one wm i
be here -when you return."
"Thanks, Gertana; you are both j
brave and beautiful, and have relieved I
me very much."
"Very well. I simply intend to do j
my duty."
Fortunately /or the two unhappy |
ladies Sylvester did not know what she j
meant by "her duty."
"I have a few letters to write, also some
packing to do, and probably will notI
Bee you agaiu unti? I return, for I take i
a very early train; so, good-by and
good-night."
Soli went tc the library and Gertana
retired to her room.
CHAPTER XI.
As Noll entered tlie library he flung j
himself in a large easy chair, where he j
remained for hours, resting his head on
his hands and his elbows on his knees. I
This was his favorite position when in '
deep thought, or laying some desperate
plans. He sat there motionless, seeing
nothing, hearing nothing, but finally
he leaned back against tha back of the
chair, with the air of one who had decided
what to do.
"And it is this that I shall carry out,
bo help me my Maker. I will start for
Milwaukee in the morning, and if
nothine happens I shall have a few
thousand dollars more in my purse. I
shall be back by the time the Springfield
affair comes off, and I expect to j
add a fc-w thousands more to ray pile
from that. Then, thank heavens, I j
will bid farewell to this life I have led
for years past, and I will take my
money and that beautiful girl, with the
papers that will secure me an immense
fortune, besides what I have.
"Ah, I will take her in some way,
by force, if none other, and gr> far, far
away in unknown lands, where I can j
rest in peace and enjoy myself the rest
of my life.
"ifes, yes, Lenora Churchill, in less
than six months you shall be iny wife,
and the wife of tho richest man of all
England.
"As for you, Gertana, you may go
l\n rt\r f a y a f / I
ivucic juu v.uuuac uauix iv j vui viv*
home, and stay there, since you wore
bo foolish to leave it once, and for me!
"Yes, poor foolish girl, I cared not a
farthing for yon, and since your miserly
old parents -would not play fair, they
may have yon hack. You may go. I
shall go. Oh! happy thought! my
sweet dreams shall then be real."
Noll seemed to have been carried
away irom nis present surroundings t>y
these thoughts, for when the dream of
years died away that he so soon expected
to realizo, he gazed round the
room in a strange, wandering manner.
"Ah! one o'clock! I shall just have
time to pack and catch a few hours'
sleep. I feel as if I needed it, for I
scarcely slept an hour last night.
* * * ?
The night of November 5 found Noll
in Milwaukee. He had met T. A. B.
and found that there was full three
weeks' work to be done there before he
would be able to return to Chicago.
The most of this time was spent in
planning and spying about the city and
investigating the affairs of moneyed
men.
The unfortunate victim of these desperate
men happenod to be u? old
miser. Everything -was carefully
planned, and at the end of the three
weeks Noll returned to Chicago with
twenty thousand dollars in his pocket,
while that miserable old miser was left
alone in the world penniless, to wandei
from place to place, leading a more
miserable life tluui when hugging his
; rold.
"Who could have robbed the old
miser?" That was a mystery to everyone.
"While Noll was in Milwaukee, planning
and investigating, Gertana Girindaui
and other foes were constantly
| weaving the web closer and closer that
would, sooner or later, expose tile villain
and thwart him in his plans,
j The Italian was very busy all the
while, preparing for the grand party
that was to be given about the time
Noll would return. She was not planning
for the party alone, but other
things of moro importance to herself
and the beautiful Lenora, whom she had
vowed to shield.
Strange, indeed, yet true, that at that
very date three different parties were
planning to steal away the beautiful
Lenora, all prompted by different moflVOQ
Gertana's keen voman's wit had been ,
equal to that of the leader of different
bands of desperate thieves. She had
been looked upon as mistress of the
cottage until Lcnora's arrival, and then
the servants called tho new lady mis- j
tress only because Noll had ordered
them to do so. However, if Gertana
was not mistress longer, she did as she
pleased, and the servants obeyed her as
of old. This was exceedingly fortunate
for her, as it assisted her in carrying
out her plans more successfully.
Before Noll left Gertana watched
him closely, and was positive that he
had not taken the mysterious papers
with him, but had left them in the
drawer in which she saw him place
them after he had read them. She
therefore was determined to possess
them.
"Henry, I want the key to your master's
room. There is a little work in
there on mystery that I want to get."
The servant was good and obedient,
but his education had been sadly neglonforl
nn/1 nnfnrf.nnnt.f'lv for liim. he
could not read a word. Noll bad engaged
liirn, with this defect in view.
Under the circumstances, there could
be no risk of this servant reading and
revealing any of Noll's secrets to the
world.
"All right, madam, here is the bey."
She took it and hastened to Noll's
room, where she found the kej in bis
vest pocket.
"O, precious heavens, you are on my
side, and right will conquer wrong!
That poor, innocent girl shall not be
further wronged by him who has so
cruelly persecuted me."
She tore open the seals as quietly and
carefully as Noll had done and then
read the papers through from beginning
to en<L As she finished, she
shoved back the chair from the desk
and sat there with folded hands, while
such a strange, foreign look lighted up
her dark, beautiful eyes.
"0, how freely would I now give my
life to undc the past; but no, that is
beyond my power. If I could only be
back to the lands of my happy childhood?be
back at my happy home,
where aii was love, purity, anu no unfathomable
mysteries.
"O, God, I pray you to open my eyes,
to let me know all; yes, all, that ]
may be able to fathom this groat, horrible
mystery that surrounds that beautiful,
injured child.
"Ah, she is only a child, but sixteen.
Yet sometimes she displays more tact
and womanly wisdom than many much
older than she.
"As she sits there in her room, hei
great beautiful eyes gazing as if they
were searching for something hidden
in the far past, for something that thej
alone cannot find.
"Oh, you great lone beauty, I believe
you fancy that there is something
buried too far back for you to remember!
"Motherless, and perhaps fatherless,
she is like a little beautiful white lily
just budded, that had been dropped b\
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the deep, blue ocean. She drifted, she
rose, she fell, as the gentle or tierce
winds carried her on. Some kind,
gentle-hearted person, an admirer oJ.
beauty and nature, caught up the little
drifting lily and cared for it; she ha<?
now thrown almost to womanhood, and
tnows not wno sne is or wnat awaits
her in the future.
"Mine has been a mysterious, unpleasant
life, and yet, when I think
how much greater, how perfectly
wonderful all is that surrounds her,
I am lost."
As Gertana's thoughts ran on th&
tears freely flowed from her now sa.l
and beautiful eyes. She still remained
in deep thought.
"It is strange to me that Sylvestei
could be so cruel and wind the threads
of mystery still closer about Lenora.
Why docs he not unravel this hated
snarl and place her where she belongs,
for I am positive that he knows all
about her.
"I see now part of the duty that lies
before me. Three years more Lenora
will be compelled to live without the
knowledge of her real name and birth.
My duty, then, is to protect her until
that time, and I will do all within my
power to shield her.
"Sylvester Noll shall nerer sec these
papers again."
fcjho tlicn placed within the wrapper
blank papers, and kept in her own
room the stolen ones. The little key
was placed in the pocket where Gertana
found it, and the largo ono returned
to Henry.
Everything was all right at the Noll
cottage, and in a few days was the day
set for the party.
Noll had been detained a little longer
than ho expected at Milwaukee, but
would be at homo in time for the grand
affair.
Gortana had forgotten nothing.
Cards had been sent nut, and the
flowers had boen ordered to decorate
the beautiful cottage.
Siuce she had road these papers it
Beemed that she could not do enough
for Lcnora. 13y careful pcrseveranc*
and promising Lenora that she should
not be annoyed, and that she would al wriTQ
lm lir>r friom!. slin in
getting the fair prisoner to promise to
go down stairs the night of the party
and play the part of "cousin."
Before Gertana could get that promise
she was compelled to give one. Of
course, we can all imagine what tho
promise was, for nothing but freedom
would have persuaded Lenora to have
played so wrong a part. Her tortured,
troubled mind was bent upon escape,
and in her eagerness to be free .-he
woul.l almost have sold her pure, untarnished
name. Yes; why should sha
not, for nothing under tho blue heavens
could be more injurious to a woman's
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world (her pure name) man to remain
in the presence of that evil man, as
Lenora was then compelled to do.
Fortunately for her, fate had ordained
that she should remain in that unwholesome
atmosphere but a little
longer.
Gertana knew nothing of the plans
that were being laid tf> separate her forever,
perhaps, from tho fair prisoner
that she had bcconio so fondly attached
to.
Securely and closely were the threads
being drawn and woven about the
pretty cottage and its master that
would change the course of life entirely
(or the two fair inmates.
Gertana had ordered dresses from
lJaris for herself and Lenora, tTie cottage
was being decorated with the richest
flowers and tapestry that conld be
found.
Nothing was forgotten and nothing
could be more beautiful than the rooms
and halls of the cottage on the evening
? * ai i.
| di me puiby.
As Lenora and Gertana -were being
dressed a closed carriage was hastily
driven up at the gate and Sylvester
Noll lightly sprang from it and entered
the house.
He called his servant nnd found that
he had but just time to dress before the
company would arrive.
Captain Fetes and lady, Hon. "Willis
Dowe and daughter were the first to
arrive, and Gertana and Sylvester were
ready to receive them.
It was but a short time until the
rooms were filled with rich perfumes
and fine splendor.
As yet no one had seen Lenora, and |
a few of the young gentlemen began to 1
cast anxious glances at the different |
doors in hopes that it might be the fair J
cousin that they had heard so much
about. Even the ladies appeared a
little uneasy and anxious at times,
Lenora was ooming, but oh, how she
dreaded to go down stairs no one ever
knew. Had it not been for her promise
to Gertana she would have flung
herself out of the window and taken the
consequences.
"Oh, Father, why am I thus persecuted
? Why could I not have died in
infancy, and'then I would not have i
been compelled to face this, that is
more than death ?"
With clenched hands and firmly set
teeth she left her room and wont down
V.oll -woa rinon find shA
O tail 3 J LUC XjL Uil UVWi " i*u T ^? ??? |
could see the twinkling stars in the
dark heavene.
"Ah! Dare I free myself and flee
from this hated place ? The do'or is
open again and no one ie near. Oh,
why am I so tempted and my weary
soul so tossed about? Were it not for
my promise, my word of honor, I should
go and be at rest soon."
She had stepped to the door.; one
tiny foot was placed on the second step
and her hands were tightly pressed to
her heart, as if to check its heavy beat- I
ing- j
The cool breeze tossed about the |
gold, silken eurls And played about the
white, soft, bare arme and shoulders.
As she stood there so sorely tempted,
the library door was opened and Gertana
came into the halL
She saw Lenora standing in the door,
looking so strangely out in the dusk,
and fearing the temptation was mos4
too great, sue gently laiu tier nand' on
the little white arm.
"Lenora, I hope you will keep yonr
T VknYT/% nil hn nnnfiflflTlPD in tllft
Y> U1U. JL liU>C uii wiiu uvuiiuvuvv - ?
world in you."
The "tempted but true" one turned
round with a quick start, but when she
saw that it was Gertana, looking so
radiant in her cream brocade velvet
and diamonds, she smiled a sweetpleasing
smile of welcome.
"Ah, Gertana, 'tis you! But you
cannot imagine what a great temptation
it was for me to break my word.
Had I not considered it my honor, I
should have improved the golden opportunity
and would have soon been at
rest forever."
"I trust you, Lenora. Come with
ne now into the parlor, for they are
all anxious to see you. Try to appear
pleasant and pleased."
"It will bs so hard, Gertana."
"I know it, but, try for my sake."
"I will, my dear, faithful friend."
Tta TIT rnv-TT VI ? ITT? 1
A Gkokgia editor 1ms an old Confederate
frlioe, manufactured for the
government in 1864, just before tlie wai
ended. The fole is fully three-quarters
of an inch thick, and is made of poplai
wood, evidently shaped with a hatchet
or drawing knife. The upper is attached
to the sole with a strip of rawhide,
running entirely around the shoo
the leather being held to the sole witl)
large carpet tacks. The upper is oJ
rongh cowhide, dressed only on tht
inside. ^ v
hugh MCUollocgh, tlie former
Secretary of the Treasury and great
financier, has bidden defiance to the
assaults of time with a star.chness
that is remarkable. He waa eighty
years old on his last birthday, and is
still hale and vigorous. He is fond oJ
equestrian Exercise, riding daily -when
the weather is fine between his place
at Bladensburg, of traditionary dueling
fame, and Washington. He takes
active interest in matters financial and
economic, and writes frequent essays
on these subjects, the scope of which
goe3 to prove that his mental vigor is
.unimpaired. He alternates his time
happily between literary and intellectual
pursuits, owning a nico small
farm, which he keeps in a high state oJ
cultivation, by the most approved scientific
methods. While Mr.McCullougb
is by no means handsome, he has good
o 1/Iwf-f r\i\r.n Inn/llv n/Mitifnn.
W)C3 Uiin a uiuu, vi/iu,
arice.
Andrew Larson, the captain of the
schooner Mary Anderson, has arrived
in San Francisco with ono finger less
thau ho sailed with. While fishing one
day on one of the southern islands he rat
across a lot of abalones on some drj
rocks. In attempting to pick one ofJ
he put his little finger under tho shell,
when the animal closed on it, making
him a prisoner. The tide began to rise,
and the gallant captain still found himself
held fast, notwithstanding that he
had broken all the blades of his knife
save one in trying to pry open the shell.
When the tide went above his waist ho
concludcd that it was better to lo3e a
finger than bo drowned, and so with
the remaining blade of his knife he cut
his little finger off.
SEA SIGNALS. ""
DIFFERENT METHODS OF WARNING
MARINERS
The Uncanny Bell Buoys and the
Whistling Buoys ? Land "Spindles"
? Shrill Fos Horns
Lighthouses.
In the marvelous aa/8 to come, when
| men learn the sccrct of soaring through
j the air, toward which they are as vet so
vainly thriving, it will be a fine thing to
I go abroad some starry summer night, and,
floating over the wide and dark Atlantic,
look down npon the watery thoroughfares
picked out with the long, dazzling
chains of varied lights, and dotted with
bobbing red and black' buoys by the
thousand, all as familiarly known to old
mariners as to us are the signs upon our
streets. Moreover, if human ears could
hear so far. there would come, from hun
dreds of mfles, above the laugh of loons
and the boom of breakers, the long weird
whistles and the melancholy tolling that
are old Father Ocean's unceasing orchestra
?thebell buoys and whistling buoys that
rock on the waves day and night with
their mournful music.
A BELT, BUOY.
Those buoys arc sea-signals of a comparatively
modern type, and though a
thousand dollars is often expended for a
single buoy, they are, of course, less
(05tly than the maintenance of lighthouses
and their keepers would be. The
buoys are their own sextons, and ring as
lustily as if it were the Fourth of July the
year round.
The bell-buoys floated iu American
waters are composed of a simple iron
framework tapering upward to a point
from the round raft 011 the water's surface.
Up in the apex hangs the bell,
and it is a great surprise to one who,
sailing by, hears its constant ringing, to
be told that it has no tongue. Directly
beneath the bell is a grooved iron plate,
and iu this is a cannon-ball which, running
from the centre down any groove
to which the swirl of the waves inclines
it, brings up with a bang against the
edge of the bell.
The advantage of this arrangement
over a bell-tcngue is plain. The least
inclination of the buoy sends
the heavy ball resoundingly agaiust
the metal, while in calm waters
the bell-tongue might not be moved
with sufficient force to strike. Then,
too, the cnunon-ball., sent constantly in
all directions outward, jjets a uniform
wear, while a clapper would wear only
on two opposite sides. The link would
also soon wear away by the friction*
. 1
TIIE WHISTLING BUOY.
The part of the buoy seen above water
is much the smallest portion of it.
What, seems to be the surface of a round
raft on the water's level is the upper part
>* a great water-tight hull, which floats
the framework above. Hanging below
this is a big iron ball for ballast; and two
creat iron chains, han^in^ from either
side of the hull to keep it balanced
properly, converge to one down deep in
the water, making a delightful submarine
swing for the water-babies, if they
were to cushion it with a seaweed pilI
low. Then, last of all. ou the ocean
j bottom is the great stone .sinker, which
1 holds the whole thing firmly anchored.
There seems something uncanny in the
sight of a bell-buoy, swaying and bowing
in solitude in the great plain of heaving
waters, and never ceasing its high,
sweet, melancholy ringing. One might
imagine the mermen had a hand in it.
Then there are the buoys which simply
indicate the coast highways ana
thoroughfares?the glistening black one?,
and the long, red spars that look like
the claws of some huge lobster ofT which
the sea gods have been dining. lied
buoys t port, and black to starboard, or
vice versa according to the vessel's direction,
and there is the channel marked out
to the steersman as plain as if plowed
white, like the foamy wake his own
vessel leave* behind.
The launching of a buoy is uo light
matter, when it is considered that the
mere sinkers weigh two or three tons,
while those for bell and canbuoys are
often of five tons'weight, lint the stanch
little derrick, which is part of the tender's
outfit, grasps the irou ring that is bolted
through the sinker, and easily swings the
great granite block up into the air, and
deposits it gently at the vessel's edge, to
be levered oil by the crew's handspikes,
when the buoy is put in place.
There is a huge splashing when this
great monster takes his downward pluuge,
aud no doubt there is much astonishment
"m""" finnv (rr if nnt disturbance
to their housekeeping nriangcmcnts.
Then the buoy bobs and jerks frantically
for a moment, and, subsiding, becomes
one of the many ocean milestones.
Then there are the "spindles"?beacons
placed on dry land, and requiring,
therefore, less oversight. They are tall
iron poles, with a circular framework
atop, the whole riveted to the solid rock.
Many a weary sea bird finds them welcoiu'j
perches after blowing alrift for
dreary leagues over a storm tossed ocean,
unblessed by a sight of rock pinnacle, or
even mast of vessel.
There are warnings done in paint?
circles anrt stripes of gleaming white
aloft on rocky harbor entrances?which
sailors easily recognize as marking the
left or right of the entrance, as designated
on their charts.
jui; signals wnicn scna out tbe snrlllest
warnings across the dark ocean spaces
are the fog horns ^r whistles placed along
the coasts where sea fogs gather thickly
and stifle not only the light of the
friendly lantern, bui the tone cf the
warning bell. These are operated by
raachiucry, and must be seen to be understood.
Some are worked by steaai,
and others, where water is not readily
procurable, by the hot air apparatus
called the Ericsson caloric engine.
The trumpet, which is the mouth-piece
of these signals, is outside the enginehouse,
and the loud and shrill tone of its
whistle is the result of the vibration of a
metal reed within it caused by the rush
of compressed air forced outward by the
action of the machinery. The intervals
A BEACON LIGIIT IK A TREE.
of whistling are also regulated by the
action of a machine-moved lever pressing
against the air-valve and forcing it open
every few seconds.
Light-houses are the most numerous
of all the signaling arrangements that
aot our coasts, and probably lew readers
who live within sight of the Atlantic or
Pacific waters, or the Great Lakes, are
familiar with the aspect of the lighthouse
tower. The great barrel-shaped
crystal lens, with its rainbow multitude
of gleaming prisms, carefully covered
through the day and jealously guarded
by the keeper from the sullying touch of
prying fingers, the queer little lanternroom
at the top of the winding light
House stairs, ana me woauenui viuw uut
seaward from its windows, are sights
acccssible to 'long-shored residents. But
perhaps many such residents are not
familiar with the various kind of light,
for not only does the fact of a light being
fixed or "flash" determine its location,
but so do also the intervals of flashing,
the color of the light and its magnitude.
There are fixed red and white, flashing
red and white, fixed white with red
flashes, double, lights, and so on.
The flash-lights are not caused by a revolving
lens, as one might suppose, but
by a revolving framework around the
lens proper, set here and there with red
or white panes as the case may be. The
light, of course, is only seen when one
of these revolving panes passes before it.
The flashes can be produced at longer
or shcrter intervals by adjusting the machinery
which regulates the revolving
prisms. This is an important matter,
since the revolving lights are in part distinguished
by the number of seconds in
the interval between their flashes.
Lights are known as of the first and
second order,and so on, according to the
size of the lens,the first being the largest.
It 16 vonaeriui to ste u> wunt [JcuctuLm
these lights have been brought by skill
and careful study. The lamp itself, even
in a first-order light, is not such a brillALIOIITnOCSE
"LANTERN."
mnt affair, but the careful arrangement ol
prisms causes all the rays to be concentrated
and reflcctcd to the best possible
advantage.
Another curious arrangement of light
is that known as the "sector." One who
enters the "lantern1' as the little tower
room is called, of a light-house having
this feature, will see that, in addition to
the usual lens which the lantern contains,
long and narrow red panes are inserted
between the other windows of the room
or ''lantern." These have a special significance.
The lamplight shines steadily
red through these, of course, and white
through the other paues, making, on the
sides upon which they are placed, a long,
broad, red pathway across the water.
Now this pathway sailors know to be a
safe and certaiu channel, for the particular
tower which bears the two red panes
has two safe approaches, and with the
utmost cure the two panes have been set
bo that the red light may shine directly
down them.
These are some of the many oceau
guides that beckon to safety or warn of
danger. But despite the friendly gleam
of numberless lighthouses and the wild
and melaucholy warning of bell-buoys
and fog-signals, many a brave vessel has
oeen groumi in irHguit:uu> ou itc Knarjj
rocks or suuk silently into ocean abysses;
and there must be disaster and shipwreck
as long as sailors sail the teas.? J'outh't
Coinvanioit.
Poor Little Bird.
Lottie?"Why, Victor, are you not
ashamed to kill a poor little bird like
that?"
Victor?"Well, you see, cousin, 1
thought it would do to put ou yout
hat."
Lottie?"Ah! so it would; it is th<
same shade of grey. How kind of you!'
?Petit Ilotitiinuis.
Agreed With tho Magistrate.
Magistrate?"What, sir? you arrivec
here this moruiug by the early train, and
half an hour later you were arrested foi
stealing. This is frightful!"
Prisoner (coolly) ? "Frightful! 1
should think it is frightful. Why, 1
hadn't even time to look round the town.'
?Le Qaulols.
Hailstones as Big as Pampfcins.
Dr. Aug. Mueller, a learned son ol
Saionv, now residing at Mount Healthy,
Ohio, tells of a famous hail storm in his
native country, which (but for the doc:
tor's unquestioned veracity) possesses all
the car marks of a Munchausen;
"It was on the 12th of May, 1848,
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, that a
sharp, black cloud suddenly arose in the
heavens over ray native village, neai
Weimar, in Saxony, and the terrible
thunder warned of a big storm. Pretty
soon it began to hail. The lumps were
small at first, but they rapidly increased
to the size of hen's eggs. The people
had all fled to places of safety, and were
watching the awful bombardment. All
vegetatbn was beaten flat into the earth
and the crops destroyed. But horroi
seized the people when they saw that tho '
hailstones were increasing, and tho roai
of the storm was deafening. The hailstones
became the size of a teacup, then
of a large-sized glass, and great masses
of ice fell that -were fully as large as the
globe of that lamp (which was about five
inches in diameter).
"Yes, sir, you may well look amazed,
but great lumps of ice fell that weighed
six pounds, and these had knuckles upon
them two and three inches long, great
horned masses of ice they were. Horses
and cattle were stricken and mangled in
the fields, the roofs of houses were beaten
in, scarcely a building escaping. And
that is not all. These hailstones, millions
of them, fell into the river, anc
were swept down by the current until
the stream became choked at the town
of Ortung. and the flood rose into the
town and a portion of it was submerged.
The condition became so serious that an
appeal for public succor was made to the
country. People who lived under the
shadow of the Hartz Mountains on that
May day, in 1848, will never forget that
hail storm, and it is one of the current
stories of that people to their children
and totraveler3. Thct was a hail storm!
It was a plague!"?Cincinnati TimetStar.
No Assistance.
'
Cholly (mc-ditatively)?"By Jove! ]
wish I knew what Kitty Keeae would
say, if I should ask her to mairy me."
Holly (with a tone of bitter reminiscence)?"I
could tell you what sht
said to me when I did, if it would help
vnn nnv. old feilar!"?Puck.
A Queer Monthfnl.
A correspondent writes to a newspapei
in San Francisco: The funniest thing
out happened to me on the last passage
to Honolulu. We have a patent self-registering
log. The register is attached to
the taffrail and the propeller is towed
astern. We had about three hundred
feet of line out. Presently the log line
becamc as taut as a wire stay and there
was a terrible flurry near the propeller. I
happened to be on deck, and seeing the
trouble, ran to the taffrail. What do
you think I sawV Why, I'm blamed if a
great big blue shark hadn't swallowed
the propeller. I called some hands aft
and we started to haul in the line. There
were seven hands pulting on the line beside
myself, and yet we had a hard time
pulling the fish in. But we hauled 290
feet of that line in, until the shark was
right under our counter. He was quite
thirty feet long, aud in a terrible rage,
lashing the water into foam, We were
just beginning to think that we could
get him ou board, when the line snapped,
being bitten through by the shark. Just
~r :l v
tliiutv U1 11, IIWYVCYCI, pumu^ bUC ?IHI I
in 280 feet on a log line, and he did no
bite it until within twenty feet of the
tallrail! Of course, by losing the shark
we also lost our propeller, but it must
have been pretty hard to digest and his
inside must have been pretty sore from
the strain.
The funniest part of the thing was the
action of the register. When the weight
of the shark got on to the line the blamed
register showed a speed of sixty m'les an
hour, with only a six-knot breeze. Well,
sir, when the mate looked at the register
first and then at the sails he nearly
fainted. It was not for several seconds
that he realized there was so much dead
weight on the rope.
It is a question whether there are a
hundred persons to day who know that
the au'/;or of '"The Sweet By-and by"
is living in an obscure Illinois town,
ar.d r.ot amid the greatest luxury,
either. Tens of thousands, perhaps
millions of people, know the hymn;
how many ever think of Doctor S. Filmore
Ronnett, its aged author? The
hymn has brought him almost no revenue,
and even less fame. Mrs. Annie
I Sherwood Hawks is another instance,
....
I living in a small interior New York
town, compelled to resort to her pen
for a living; yet who has not sung her
world-famous hymn, "I Need Thee
Every Hour?" Prof. Gilmore, of the
University of Rochester, rarely receives
credit as the author 01 his well-known
lines, "He L(a>.leth Me." Fanny
Crosby, she of hundreds of hymns that
are sung every Sunday bv thousands of
lips, lives it: a side street in New York
ritT. almost foreroit en. Although blind
f w und
helpless, she I3 happy in the ro
liirion which fills lior mind and soul.
,Tames Hikes took up a "squat claim'
in Arkansas. He was warned off, but
decided not to go, and he held out for
three years. During that time he was
shot at thirty-three times, wounded
four times, had his cabin set on fire
twice. Lis wife was driven to suicide
ar.d his boy ran away, and at last the
man grew wearv and hanged himself.
On exhibition at the Third National
Bank in Scrantcn is a check bearing
the signature of George Washington.
It was drawn just three Months and
one day before his death.
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TEMPERANCE. |
TEMPERANCE HTLL.
Sign the pledge, my little man, |
Keep it nobly, for you can; /^~
This declare, with help divine: .
"Not a drop of beer or wine
E'er shall pass these lips of mine, > V
Not a drop of rum or gin, 3
Aye! nor brandy, enter in!"
If you'd reach man's grand estate
You must neither, soon nor late,
Drink what can intoxicate.
Keep your lips, and keap your tongue,
That have Jesus's praises sung,
Free from stain, and free from guile,
Shunning all that can defile,
Singing praises all the while.
Sign the pledge, and in your joy
You will tell another boy,
He will then, with right good-will,
Bring another comrade still;
All three climbing Temperance Hill.
?Mrs.M.A. Kidder,in Temperance fanner,
A CALIFORNIA JUSTICE.
The Oakland Police Justice who sometime
ago solemnly went through the ceremony of
firwlirnr Viimtolf IV) fr\r hpinc drunk hug been
relieved of bis judicial duties, but he is stall
devoted to the bottle. This passion for liquor
made him noisy and abusive Sunday night,
and he was arrested and thrown into one of
the very ceils to which he had confined scores
of prisoners. This Oakland Dogberry furnishes
an awful example of the effects of
liquor, but there is nothing impressive in his
case because it is so ludicrous.? San Fran- ,
cisco Chronicle.
alcohol in the arhy
"Is there not a good deal of drinking done
by army officers?"
"Undoubtedly; and it is very natural that
such should be the case. What are the men
to do on lonely frontier posts but drink and
play cards? They feel trie need of some excitement,
and there are scarce any other resources
at hand. But the consumption of
alcohol in the army is as nothing compared to
old times. The officers who drink hard
nowadays are mostly of the older set who
were in service before the war. In those j?
times it was the fashion in the army to .
drink hard, play high and be generally rath- Jj
er reckless ana wicked. The pace was set
by the rich young officers, who took ud the
profession of arms not for a livelihood but
because it was the proper occupation for
gentlemen. Many of them would give their
? ' * ? Tt?AW Irnnf fotf \
?UOTlC2) W bllCll OCI touw. a uuj kui/w 4?mw
horses and led fast lives generally. Poorer
men had to follow suit, and ruin, from cards
or drink, or both, was not infrequent.'
Things have altered since those days. I
venture to say that there are more total abstainers
in my regiment than are to be found
among an equal number of civilians picked
at random."? Washington Star.
WHISKY AND VICTUALS.
' I have been among the masses," said
noted divine, "and have seen the seed of vice
sown?have heard them as they fell, and have
watched whether they fell on stony or fruitful
soil. They pre being sown daily, too, and
broadcast, right under the noses of Christians,
scarce one of whom sees what is going
on. The most prolific field is the lower class
boarding house, with its saloon attachment.
It is said nearly all members of the lower class
in St. Louis drink. The wonder is that there
is an exception. Perhaps it never dawned
on temperance workers as yet, but it is a fact,
that a working man or mechanic can hardly
find a hotel bearding house in this city without
a saloon under the same roof, or in close
connection. Go, for instance, down near the
Chouteau Avenue Depot. There are boarding
houses where forty and fifty men eat and
sleep. While they are neither doing theses
inr wnrlrincr t.hev have onlv a saloon to
while away their time in. A beer drummer
comes along and invites everybody up. The
proprietor resents it if one of his idle board*
ers don't 'take something.' Surround a most
virtuous young man with such constant pressure,
and if he don't go to the dogs in short '
time, he ought to be given a premium at ths
Exposition."?St. Louis Star-Sayings.
MORTALITY FROM ALCOHDL.
An aeent like alcohol, extensively and
recklessly used by mankind in all parts of , the
world, and capable of inducing so many,
and serious diseases must, of necessity, M
the cause of a tremendous mortality, witlf'^^B
the usual precedence of many days of utter ?
disablement and disease. The fact is so. It'
is difficult to calculate the precise mortality |
from alcohol, because we have never yet,
fully diagnosed all the evils leading to disease
and death which spring from it. For
example, up to this time webave not addedj
the mortality due to alcoholic paralysis in
the large computations from which our re-'
suite nave been drawn. Some years ago,:
from the best data I could obtain, I estimated
that in England and Wales the annual
mortality from alcohol was fifty thousand
per annum, an estimate fairly confirmed by
ether observers, of an important and independent
character. Admitting its correctness,
this estimate makes the mortality from
alcohol to be about one-tenth of the wL\>le
mortality?a view which had previously
been expressed by the late Dr. Edwin Lankaster,
the Coroner for Central Middlesex?
and which places alcohol, as one of the
causes of mortality, at the head of those "
causes. This estimate, however, must have
bean under the mark, since it excluded altogether
that fatality which we now know U>
arise from alcohol paralysis, and excluded
also, too rigidly, instances of direct poisoning
from alcohol, and all accidents of a fatal
kind indirectly due to alcohol. I would not,!
however, run any risk of being charged with
over-statement, and would be content still
to place the mortality from alcoiol at one-'
tenth of the whole mortality, in places
where the article is consumed in the same
proportion as it is in England and Wales at
the present time; a proportion fairly representative
of alcoholic populations generally.
Connected with the two subjecss of the
diseases from alcohol and the mortality from
it, the question has often besn discussed as
to the relative amount of sickness presented
oMoininff o? mmnared with n^n-obfifc&in
yj ?
mg communities, aua as to the relative value
of life in the two communities. It has bees
difficult to get at precise conclusions 09.
these subjects from tne two circumstancesc
that in making comparisons the sociaTl
relationships of the different classes are-J
largely different, and the returns from thew.
registers of death from alcohol have been
hitherto imperfect in themselves, and imperfect
in the interpretations that have been
put upon them. But, judging from the reports
of those life assurance companies in
which there are two classes of insured?one
an abstaining, the other a non-abstaining
class?and judging, likewise, from the returns
of sickness and mortality of two clubs,
one abstaining, the other non-abstaining,
existing in the same locality, holding the'
same social status and made up of the same
numbers, it is absolute certain that the rate
of mortality and the number of days of sickness
present data largely in favor of abstaining
communities.
In summary as to the effects of alcohol on
the health and life of the human species, on
which unfortunately those effects have alone
1.00.1 triefi on a larze scale, it must be stated
on physical grounds, apart altogether from
moral considerations, that the effects of alcohol
are injurious both to mind and body;
that until it has produced an artificial constitution
alcohol does nothing that anyone
can construe into useful action, and that the
establishment of the alcoholic constitution is
a false and unnatural policy of human life?
a source of weariness, of disease, of premature
old age and of excessive and unnecessary
mortality.?flit Voice.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. j
Alcohol is the poor man's worst enemy tha
world over. ,
It requires ?fK),000 everv we9k to support
th? liquor traffic in the ^District of Columbia.
An active old lady of eighty-seven is the,
Trjaciirnr of the W. C. T. U. of
North Anson, Me. I
The Woman's Lecturj Bureau of tlio W. C. E
T.U. uow has fo"ty-seveu speakers on its list. I
This is the only lecture bureau coatroled en- 1
tirely by women. I
Peter Iler, the notorious Omaha distiller, is, |
Secretary of a Western laud company that- I
absolutely prohibits the sale of liquor on lots
controled or sold by the company. J
The white-ribbon women of Quincy, III., JH
were recently enrich >d by t!ie present of
valuable lot, situated opposite tiie Court
House, whereon they are to build a home for
the W. C. T. U.
The increase in the consumption of beer in
Chicago since 1881 has even exceeded the
rapid increase in population. In 1S81 the
sales of beer amounted to 766,8(56 barrels,
while in 1889 they had riseu to 1,848,343 bar