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' A BHATTEBED! ILIUSIOJ.
ST BX8SSLL CLIXTOII.
' I kncrw not if twere chanoe or fate
That brought the maid and me togethtTJ
At talle d'hote one night at eight
Oar talk began about the leather.
We had no introduction?no:
But this displays no lack of breeding,
Onr seats were next each other, so
It was a natural proceeding.
Efce dressed in stunning English style;
Eer hair was neatly coiled and braided.
"Ah! blesse.l,'' I thought, "is Britain's isla
If home for eyes so softly shaded 1"
Onr rambling chat that waxed apace
Was interspersed with frequent 'fahncys,*
111 not deny the "fetching" grace
Of "reahlly* slipped betwixt her glances.
Btill something nameless inn da me doubt
Her being truly, bluely Briton,
Yet when one little phrase slipped oat,
With horror was my bosom smitten.
I guess " She could not call it back,
And laughed to hide her sweet confusion.
Oh. lovely Anglo-maniac.
To shatter thus my fond illusion I
*-Harpsr's Magazine,
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Lost Lina;
-0B-TBE
BITTER AND T0E SWEET.
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A Tale of Two Continents.
BY MRS. IflKA LAWSO*.
CHAPTER XXII.?Continued.
As they came from the ball-room,
Jeannette heardLenora singing; something
told her that Ray was with the
"little tramp," yet she must go and see.
As they reached the 6itting-room door,
Jeannette was compelled to clutch at
the casing for support, while her face
was ghastly white.
"Oh, heavens! I knew it; something
told me so. I cannot endure this sua- j
pcnse any longer, or it will kill me.
"What a fool I was for not putting,
an end to that hateful girl's life before
Bay came home. Yes, there he is,
standing and looking at her, with eyes
that tell only too plainly that he already
loves her.
"See?oh, heavens! ? see how he
looks at her, and never looks this
ay.
"I cannot endure it, and I will not 1
Kay, my Ray, 6hall not be a victim of
her treachery!"
She quietly glided across the room
to Ray's side.
"Rav. Rav. mv dear, have von for
gotten that it is time for our waltz ?"
He did not hear her, but was still |
lost to everything bat Lenora.
Jeannette laid her hand upon hii
arm, and gently shook it.
"Bay, dear, it is I, don't you see ?"
As she shook his arm he seemed to
aken with a start from a happy
dream.
"You here,' Jeannette ? Why, yes, I
had forgotten about the dance, she
iings 60 sweetly;" and still in a dazed,
dreamy manner.
"But now, let's go to the ball-room;
it is our waltz."
"Ah, you here, Charley ? Oh, come
for your partner, I see."
Lenora caught the sound of voices
behind her, and, turning around, 6he
saw Charley Hall standing near her,
' while Jeannette and the young man she J
had been singing for were just leaving :
the room.
But as the music ceased, Kay looked i
back and saw that Lenora wa3 looking i
at Mm.
He -went back to the piano, picked
up her card, and saw that the fifth
number, a waltz, Tvas not marked.
"May I have this?"
But Lenora said not a word. She ;
looked into his face and smiled back
lier answer.
The two oouples then went to the
ball-room, and the dancing soon began.
But neither Ray nor Lenora seemed
pleased with their partners, for every
time they passed each other their eyes i
would meet in a long, loving glance'.
"I want to tell you that little joke,
Bay, after the dance is over; let's go to
the conservatory, for perhaps there are
Borne parts of it that you do not care
about any one hearing."
"All right, little sister; but remember,
now, the joke must not be on me."
Jeaimette slightly shrugged her
shoulders in reply, and did not know
just wliat to say. bne cna not want to
displease him;" no, now of all*times,
she could not afford it, but she bad decided
to tell bim ber opinion of tbe
"little tramp," and, if possible, save
him, as she thought, from a terrible
fate.
Her chief object, though, wa3 to get
Bay to send Lenora away from the
mansion immediately.
The waltz was soon over, and the different
couples were leaving the hall,
Borne going to one part of the mansion,
while others went back to the drawingroom.
"Won't you go through the conservatory
with me, Miss Rice? I know that
you are fond of flowers, for?you?you
are so much like one yourself."
"Lenora cast a auick. keen clance at
her partner, and he soon saw^that he j
pas treading on forbidden ground.
> The conservatory wag empty when ,
they entered. When the music ceased
Jtay and -Teannette were at the farther '
end of the hall from the entrance,
while Lenora and Charley were just
opposite the door.
They soon reached the conservatory,
and were far down the walks, and almost
hidden among the flowers and I
foliage when Kay and Jeannette entered.
As Jeannette saw no one,she presumed
that they were alone, anii as they
walked along through the aisles she
leaned very heavy and lovingly on
Raj's
Hall, who is that young gentleman
with Miss Nathan?"
Charley looked at her in perfect
tonishment. ""Why, don't you know
him?know his name ? He is Raynard
Bristol, the master of the mansion."*
In an instant Lenora's faos was ghastly
pale. Even her lips were colorless.
Now. it all flashed through her mind;
what had happened, and who it was
that she had given her heart to that
very night I
She knew that her face was pale,
and that her hands fairly trembled with
motion, but she did not want Charley
to see how terribly she was shocked,
and with tottering footsteps she started
for a recess just off one of the main
0 walks. Charley followed her, wondering
at her strange actions.
"Let's sit here and rest a little, for I
feel a little tired, and the air seems so
close in this room."
As they sat there they were entirely
hidden from view bv the heavy vines
that had grown up and completely
covered the fine iron wire of the frame.
They were quietiy sitting there,
Lenora exerting every nerve in her
body to calm herself, and Charley was
feasting his ejei on the strange, ba- j
pitching byautv of the girl in front of
him. Lenora heard the "hum of voices
in the distance, but Charley did not
hear and did not wish to be disturbed.
The voices came nearer; Lenora
could not see, but knew who it was.
Hark! "What did she hear? Thej
were just opposite the recess now, hut
they could not seo her. She pressed
her" hand closoly to her Bide, a3 if to
etop the wild "beating of lier aching
heart. Jeannette's strong, harsh voice
sounded like thunder in her ears, as
she heard them come nearer.
"I tell you, Buy, that she is actually
'little tramp' or a cunning adventuress.
Just think of the way she managed
to enter thi3 house, in an old
rough box, and all wrapped up in
blankets; and, too, those blank papers
were abominable. She thought she
would create an excitement by throwing
an air of mystery about her."
"I do not see how it can be so, Jeannette,
for she looks so "
The sentence was not finished, for
just behind them they heard a call for
"Help?help?she has fainted!"
It was Charley Hall's voice, and Ray
recognized it; and, too, lie remembered
that the little stranger had been his
partner and that they leffrthe ball-room
together.
> He quickly unloosed Jeannette's
grasping hand from his arm and ran
back.
Charley met him at the entrance of
the recess, and his face was ghastly
pale.
"Oh, my God, Ray, she fainted and
fell over before I knew it! I noticed
that she turned very pale as you came
near, and before you had scarcely
passed she fell."
"Jeannette, run for the smelling|
salts, and you, Charley, bring some
water and wine, quick!"
As the two started for the restoratives
Eay went to Lenora and knelt
down by her side. She lay there on
the soft, green grass, and her ghastly,
cold face, with its dull, stony eyes,
seemed to stare him in the face and reproach
him for listening to what Jeannette
had been telling him.
As he saw her lying there, so pale,
so death-like, a great flood of passionate
love for her rushed through his
heart and shook his very 6oul.
He gently lifted the Limp little form
in his arms and pressed her to his
bosom, while the warm", loving kisses
were pressed to her cold, ashen lips.
TTA? n r*A mirto
\J JUy XUL > JVU uiy uiiuvr uvui V
and soul, and jou know it. You, my
little angel, my ruling queen. You
fought bravely with your own heart tonight,
hut when I gave you mine you
had to yield, and I was so happy, but
now, oh, God, what is this that they
come and tell me about you ?
"Speak, tell me, darling, that it is not
true, and that is all I want.
"Speak, my little queen; I am with
you."
And he kissed the still, cold lipa
again and again, but she did not answer
him.
"Oh, God, why are you punishing
me so to-night? Why have you sent
her here to punish me in this manner,
when I would die for her this very moment?
I know it is all false?she can't
be wicked. No, 6he is as pure as the
angels in heaven."
He pressed her close to his bosom
again and she slightly moved.
"Thank God! she lives."
He gently laid her down on the grass !
again and her eves lost that cold, stony
expression. She turned her head and
looked straight in his eyes.
"Please do not believe it, sir, do not
believe what she said, for it isn't true, i
I am not wicked, but, oh, bo lonely and j
homeless."
That was all Ray wanted; he was i
then the happiest man in all the world. |
"I did not, I could not, believe it
when she told me. You know all now,
and shall never leave me while I live."
Lenora had closed her eyes again,
but as he finished speaking she opened
them and looked at Ray, while that j
same submissive smile played about |
moiifh that, teas for nim onlv. It I
was sweeter and more eloquent than
words to Ray.
In the confusion, Jeannette and t
Cliarley had been somewhat detained, !
but they soon came. Lenora drank *
some wine that Charley brought, and i
Kay bathed her face and hands in the
cool water.
In a short time the four returned to 1
the drawing-room, to rest awhile. Ray j
was Lenora's partner for the next j
waltz, and as they entered the ball- j
room his face glowed *'th happiness,
and he was more radiant than lie had [
ever been se?n before.
Mrs. Bristol quickly saw the change, .
and divined the cause when she saw
that her pet was Ray's partner.
Had she not been so positive that Lenora
was innocent of Jeannette's
DilU ?UU1U 11 vJ > CI UD ttUlC l/u lUi"
give herself for what she had done that
night; but as it was, she only looked on
with a pleased, happy smile.
As for Jeannette, no one knew what
she thought or felt as she saw her "little
tramp'' whirling round and round
the room like a fairy, treading on the ;
air, and Eav?her Ray?was the hateful
creature's partner, and he had his arm
round her waist, and from the expression
on his face as he looked down in
Lenora'a lovely, dreamy eyes, Jeanr.ette
knew that he loved the "little
tramp" ten thousand times more, unworthy
as she was, than ho had ever
loved her.
"Ah, the misery of it all I Just to
look at them is burning the heart out of
my body," she would sigh and murmur
to herself over and over again. "Is it
too late yet ? I have never failed to do
anything I once undertook to do, and I
have said that I would be the mibtress i
of the Bristol mansion, and I will I It
seems to me that eternal punishment
would be easier borne than to give
all up to her. It will be a very easy
matter for me to call on her to-morrow
morning, when she takes her chocolate,
and season it with a certain liquid that
I have in my room. Ah! mv line lady,
we 6hall see then who shall bo mistress
of the Bristol mansion!"
* ? # ?
The Christmas ball at the Bristol
manBion had been a grand success, and
all enjoyed themselves except Jeanette
Nathan.
The night had been a beautiful,
crisp, starlight night, and the morning
dawned bright and clear.
Bay awoke with a sweet sensation.
He had been dreaming of the little
Btranger. Ho knew that Lenora loved
him, and how he longed to make her
his wife immediately, bnt there was a
, barrier between them, and it was not
j within his power to tear it away.
! Lenora must do that herself by tellj
ing him who her parents were.
He lay for some time with the vision
, of her lovely face before his eyes.
The girl also felt happy that morning,
yet there was in her heart a tinge
of sadness. She now looked upon herself
as one who had merely tasted the
sweetness of true love, and then all had
I ^ _ _ ? I
carry the burden of her lost love forever.
As she stood by the window, looking
oat over the broad Bheet of sparkling
whiteness, conscious of something
fouijd and something lost, there came
a gentle tap at the door.
"Come."
The door was open, and Jeannette,
with a light step and a bright smile on
her face, entered.
"Good-morning, Miss Lina; I hardly
expected to find you up so early.
When you fainted, you frightened me
terribly last night, and I was most sure
that you would be sick this morning;
but, upon my word, I believe you are
only looking the better."
"Thank you, Jeannette, for your
kind consideration for my health; but
I am not feeling much the worse because
of my dissipation of last night;
it is nothing uncommon forme to faint
and I soon get over it. But have a
chair. Here comes my chocolate. If
yon have not had yours yet, Btay and
lunch -with me."
"Thank you; that will be delightful.
No; I never lunch until ten, and it is
always so delightful when one has company."
This was just the opportunity that
Jeannette wanted, and she was indeed
delighted at having succeeded bo nicely,
thus far.
The only difficulty that now remained
was as to how she could get tho poison
in the cup without being seen.
The opportunity soon arrived.
Some of the guests were leaving and
Lenora went to the window to see who
it was.
As quick as a flash she drew tho bottle
from her pocket and dropped its
contents into Lenora's cup, just how
much she did not know, but she hoped
it was enough to send the breath of life
quickly from her hated rival.
Lenora soon returned to her chocolate.
"How many were going?"
"Only two gentlemen."
"Ah, yes, I remember now. They
bade me good-by last night; two friends
of Ray's from Boston."
"How strangely this chocolate tastes
this morning. Did you enjoy it, Jeannette?"
"Oh, yes; only I thought it a little
strong, and I do not feel very well
since I drank it."
"I generally enjoy my cup very much,
but perhaps I have not yet quite recovered
from the effects of the ball."
Still Lenora drank of that awful
steaming cup of poison, and Jeannette
looked at her with an inward feeling of
victory.
"Oh, dear! I feel very uncomfortable
I If you will excuse me I will return
to my room."
This wicked, deceitful woman rose
and went to the door, and just as Bhe
passed out she saw Lenora set the
empty cup on the table.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Good habits are better than wings.
Love gives what money can not buy.
There is a good deal of preaching in a
smile.
To be patient is better than to be
iamous.
The man who lives fast will be apt to
die quick.
The more people know the less they
brag about it.
Self-conceit is one of the first gods
that men worship.
If all flowers were alike the bouquet
market would be dull.
We can not choose our duties, but we
can resolve to do them.
No man can look at the stars without
wanting to live forever.
It would be a calamity to have flowers
and grass change places.
There is hope for the man who is conBcious
of his own faults.
Three-fourths of total depravity crops
out in out-and-out laziness.
Men care least for honor when most
in need of bread and butter.
If men had made the world, how the
man in the moon would grin.
If you can't do what you like to do,
try to like tha work you have to do.
It is a good deal easier to be contented
without riches than it is with them.
There is more power in a soft answer
than there is in a ton of gunpowder.
One of the test3 of a fine nature is the
effect joys and sorrows have upon it.
If the earth wa^ covered with flowers
all the year round the bees would get
lazy.
Love and hope always live together.
Kill hope and love will bring it to life
again.
One of the sweetest things in the
family is to see children helping one another.
Indulgence is like the self-devouring
rocket: by? cheerfulness is like the
starry lieavens."
If you want to have power to mould
other men, learn to control the man who
wears your hat.
Some people's lives are like warm
water on a hot day; nice to look at, but
one taste is enough.
A Brave General.
Among the stories they tell of blul!
old Oilman Marston, ot New Hampshire,
who died recently, are these: He was
badly wounded in the arm at Bull Run,
but' refused to have the member amputated,
though the surgeons told him his
life depended upon that operation. He
insisted upon being placed upon his
horse, and was led to the front amid
cheera from the "boys" of his regiment.
He once refused to allow his troops to
board an overloaded transport, because
he "had brought those men from New
Hampshire to fight, not to be drowned."
The orders of a tyrannical superior to
build a trn.irdhousc "without so much as
a crack in it," lie obeyed literally, solid
logs being so used that there was not
even a door to enter by. On one occasion
he coolly walked along a parapet
under a terrible fire of shot and 6hell
that he might inspire a wavering brigade.?Boston
Traveller.
A Snake With Logs.
Dan Hendricks, living near Viola,
Iowa, killed a two-legged rattlesnake the
other day. It was three feet long, and
had two legs two inches in length,placed
about six inches below the head. When
first seen it was walkiug on the legs,
wriggling the lower portion of its body.
It had five rattlea.?Cincinnati Enquirer.
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MEXICa
SCENES OF INTEREST AMONG
OUR NEIGHBORS.
Life in the Capital?Moving an Aztec
Idol?Famous Popocatepetl
IVith Its Almost Inaccessible
Peak of Snow.
Morning in Mexico is a season of delight.
The weather is usually so pleasant
and unchangeable that our North
American salutation "it's a fine day," is
unknown to the Mexican. If such a remark
is made he seems surprised and will
answer, "one day is like another here,
and all days are fine." Even in the rainy
season I was told the sho wers fall at night
and the days are clear and unclouded.
But the morning has the most enchanting
atmosphere; there is a buoyant freshness
in the air, the skies are blue, the sunshine
delicious, as tempering the chill
which is iuseparable from night and
shade, in the high altitudes of the capital.
Being within the tropics the sun rises
and sets at nearly the same hours every
day in the year. After sunset it soon becomes
dark. The people go to bed early.
The pulque shops are closed early by law,
and about the only loitering places are
the restaurants. There is a prejudice
against the nisrht air. and few persons are
in the streets after dark, though the city
is well lighted by electricity.
The work of street sweeping, which
our people are accustomed to do at night,
the Mexicans postpone until the fresh
and early hours of tho? morniag. It is
done with hand brooms byn large force
of peons?so thoroughly done that nothing
better in the way of clean pavements
is to be wished for. Blocks of grayish
volcanic rock, cut in large squares and
laid diagonally across the carriage way,
form the pavement. The same kind of
pavement is to be seen in Rome, Naples
and in ancient Pompeii. The 6ize of the
blocks suggest to the Northern eye danger
from breakage, but as the vehicular
traffic of the city, though great in volume,
is not heavy in weight, the stone3
remain unimoaired.
MEXICAN STREET jrEIlCIIANT.
For several days during my sojourn in
the city workmen were engaged in moving
from the Vera Cruz Railroad station
to the national museum a great basaltic
porphyry idol?the "Goddess of "Water."
An Aztec idol of uncouth appearance,
strangely and intricately carved, it camo
from the region south of Tlaxcala, where
f!r>rt/>c fnnnrJ Viic fircfc rpsistflnrft and nf
terward his most approved and courageous
allies. Its -weight, by the railway
ecales, was twenty tons. Boilers, monoliths
and ponderous machinery of great
weight are moved on trucks by the use of
horses without much ado in our Northern
cities. In Mexico it was slung &s it
rested on iron rails from under the axles
of a vehicle with wheels ten feet
in diameter, and moved slowly by
horses and capstans over a railroad
track laid down upon the
pavement. A guard of soldiers, almost
as numerous as the gang of workmen,
were observant of the work. The idol
advanced about a block a day, and was a
fortnight in getting into position. Undoubtedly
it is the heaviest object transported
through the streets of Mexico
since the days before the conquest, when
relays of Aztecs, thousands in number,
laboriously brought the great calendar or
sacrificial stone to the teocalli where
Montezuma, and the priests who preViim
-nprfnrmprl thfi flpatll-dcalillD
U.U,,
rites of their gloomy religion. There are
few, very few, manufactories?the bustling,
steam propelled, coal-consuming,
irou-requiriug factories of modern times
?in Mexico. There" arc few of the
great wholesale aud distributing houses
of ou* commercial cities to fill the street*
with numerous vans and loads of mer
MOUXT POrOCATAPETL.
chandise. Neither is the disintegrating
clement of frost known in tlic climate;
consequently the pavements of Mexic:
wear well, are smooth and clean.
Mexico is 7350 feet above the level of
the sea. The descend?"bajada"?from
the city, as the railroad time-tablc3 put
it, that is, to go down toward the coast,
either toward the Atlantic on the east, or
the Pacific on the west, the circle of volcanic
mountains which surround th? Valley
of Mexico must first be climbe-!. It
is the most remarkable range of 70Imiipi
in the world, forming a rampart
on a parallel sixteen miles south of the
city.
They are not all in sight from the
capital, because Popocatapetl, the highest
mountain in Mexico, and Iztaccihnatl,
its companion and neighbor, shut out the
view. The traveler need not journey far
to the eastward before Orizaba, tne most
symmetrical snow-shrouded conn in the
list of mountains, with its crater shining
like a star in the night, will be seen
towering up in the sky. If he goes
westward s^on the peak of the volcano
of Toluca will present itself, which is
united by a chain of smaller volcanoes
with Iztaccihuatl and completes the inclosure.
It is the strangest sight, this
circle of volcanoes, and one that has arrested
the attention of physicists and
geographers, both before and since the
time of Humboldt. Old Vesuvius dominates
the horizon of Naples; his smoke
V;. -' V;\
drifts over the "beautiful "bay and city?
a landmark visible from a great distance.
People go from all parts of the world to
see it. The volcanoes within sight of
Mexico are more numerous and more remarkable.
If they were to go into eruption
at one time they would encircle the
city with mountains of fire.
On the great plaza of Mexico, between
the great cathedral and the national
palace, is a monument to Enrico Martinez,
the illustrious Mexican cosmographer.
On this monument is inscribed
the latitude and longitude of the spot
and various other measurements, including
the very important one which shows
tue mgnt oi water in .LaKe iexcoco,
nearest the city. Standing beside this
monument I at once saw; that should the
lake submerge the city, of which there
is danger, the water would be two or
three inches above my head.
The lake is smooth and salty. Bulrushes
border its banks And the mountains
are reflected on its surfuce. The
train left Mexico early in the morning,
the intention being to run down to the
tropical region, pass the best portion of
the day there and return at night. The
ra;iroad people had provided lunch, din
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timm .'^=5$^
'W^a^/^L. |*W x^TTJ/ fnd
BTBEET SCENE IN MEXICO.
"ing cars being as yet not introduced into
Mexico. Everything was at hand except
coffee, and this was to be served at
Ayotla, a station fifteen mile3 out. A
band of music was on board, consisting
of six violins,, four guitars, four clarionets,
two bass viols and six brass herns.
The company disembarked for their coffee
and the band played outside the station.
The sun was just rising, lighting
up the snowy peak of Popocatapetl in
the immediate background, the shadows
being quite deep upon its western side.
The other volcano, Iztaccibuatl, is connected
with the greater one, the ridge
which unites them being two or three
miles long.
Iztaccibuatl is an Indian word, meaning
"the white lady." At sunrise in the
morning the long ridge of fhe mountain,
covered with snow, bears a resemblance
to the form of a woman, shrouded in
white. The feet are nearest to Popoeatapetl,
the head farthest away. The
resemblance is not so apparent as the sun
mounts higher and the shadows fall in
other directions, but the figure of a
woman is much more plainly to be made
out at all times than is Antony's Nose on
the Hudson, or the man's head on Jit.
Washington.
While drinking the coffee and looking
at the wonderful mountain scenery, the
band begins its concert. A peon acts as
music stand. He holds a sheet in his
hands for the clarionct, and has pinned
to his back, or to the red serape on his
back, two other sheets for the brass
horns. He guards hi3 face from the air
of the clarionet oy noiaing me music as
a shield, but he cannot protect himself
from the brass horns which assail him
from the rear. Nevertheless he stands
perfectly still in the centre of this wind
blast. The music has eidher charmed or
paralyzed him.
Popocatapetl?an Aztec word meaning
the mountr.jn that smokes?has an elevation
of 17,720 feet, or 1945 feet higher
than Mt. Blanc, which Byron "crowned
monarch of mountains." It has not been
in eruption since 1540, twenty years after
the conquest by Cortez. A variable
column of smoke ascends from it. The
entire mountain is owned by a gentleman
who resides in the City of Mexico.
He derives a revenue from the sulphur
mined from the crater, and alsg from the
charcoal which is burned from tne wooa
that grows upon the mountain side, below
the snow line.
The ascent is not often made. It la
not dangerous, but very cold and disagreeable.
To get to the top it is necesMMmfkll
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tiie cncncn op amecameca.
sary to start the day before and stop ovcj
night at the sulphur miner's cabin, just
below the snow line. The discomforts
of a nisrht here are something that few
care to endure, and the climo tnrougn
the snow up the icy crater next morning
is rery trying. The atmosphere is thin
on account of the enormous elevation,
and only strong men can stand it. Tho
sulphur odors have also to be endured,
and as a few incline to such hardships,
not more than a score of men have stood
on the top of Popocatepetl since the day
that Diego de Ordaz, under the command
of Cortez., made the first ascent in the
year 1519. The Emperor, Charles V.,
allowed Ordaz to use a flaming volcano
on his escutcheon. As Cortez says no
one could reach tiie top or me muuuuuu i
oa account of the vast accumulation of |
snow at that time, it k probable that
Ordez boasted of something he did not
parform. In that case the brothers Frederick
and William Glennie, who climbed
it in 1827.. are the first who should be
credited with ha5ing reached the summit.
All who undertake to go up the
mountain first get a permit from the
owner and an order to his sulphur
miners to render assistance. Then they
go by railroad to Amecameca,twenty-five
miles or so from Mexico, and there equip
themselves with extra clothing, ponies,
etc., and begin the wearisome accent.
At this beautiful village at the foot of
J the mountain there is a lofty rock or
hill, sacred by ancient tradition, on
whose top is a church. Many people
| make pilgrimages to this church at Amecaraeca.
We do not stop there except to taka
more coffee and look at the mountains
from a new and nearer point of view.
In the fields, rich with a dark, volcanio
soil, the bare legged peons arc plowing.
The plow ij a stick set into a heavy
beam. Horses and oxen pull it. It is
an antiquated sort of plow,such as Abraham
might have used in the days when
he was the most advanced farmer of the
world. Those who have teen Egypt say
the scene reminds them of that ancicnt
land. It has a strange look. The fields
are full of peons cultivating the ground,
and the vegetation might very well bo
Egyptian. The peons are good workmen.
They lose no time in soldiering;
their motions are quick, and their industry
keeps them in ceaseless activity.
The sunshine burns us, and yet a little
way above us is the land which touches
the shivering region. About one-third
of Popocatepetl, measuring from the top,
io r.mr*rf>d -with snow. That is to SaV.
there is a band of snow about the giant's
cone that is fully a mile wide. A Mexican
gentlemen tells me that it is 500 feet
deep in the barrancas and hardly less
tnan iuu ieet deep anywnere except on
the southern side.
White summer clouds come drifting up
toward the peak. "Where the sun strikes
upon the clouds they show whiter than
the snow. The lowest of these clouds is
more than two miles below its crest; occasionally
a light one ascends near to the
top. The snow is more permanently
white than the clouds with a tinge of indigo
to its whiteness. As noon comes on
the clouds disappear, and the glare of
the sun on the mountain top becomes
stronger.?Detroit Free Press.
It Will Eclipse the Eiffel Tower.
London is to have a tower higher than
the one at the Paris exposition that attracted
so much attention and to nval
which has been one of Lhe ambitions of
Americans who are especially interested
in the Columbian exposition. The London
tower, which is to be erected by the
Watkin Tower Company a mile or two
north of St. John's Wcod. is to be 1200
feet in height, and to be constructed of
steel. Four lifts and two staircases are
provided, situated in the legs of the
tower, which rise to the principal stage
at a height of 200 feet above the cxound
Here the designers have provided for the
benefit of visitors a large area consisting
of a great central hall, which under able
management would prove one of the
special attr? ' jns of the tower. The
hall would J\ of an octagonal form,
20,000 feet\ ea and Bixty feet high, the
spaces between the eight legs of the
tower at the angles of the octagon forming
eight recesses for restaurants,management
rooms, etc. Over the recesses, and
clustered round the central hall, the
authors suggest the construction of a
hotel, of ninety bed-rooms, with all
TiortjiconMTKnflio finrl other fimnmmodfltion.
As the special features which the hotel
could offer would be the advantages of
pure air, sun-light and open prospects,
the whole of the bed-rooms have been
placed on the external faces of the tower,
The restaurants on the main platform
would provide dining accommodation,
one being especially set apart for the use
of residents, and the kitchens would be
arranged on the mezzanines over the
serving-rooms attached to the restaurants.
?Chicaao News.
JKoa Committal.
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<*. > ... - Girl9
(excitedly)?"Oh, Mr. Tumbledown,
are you killed?"
Tumbledown?"I can tell you better
after I reach the bottom! 1 ain't dead
up to the present time, but the prospect
before me is pretty serious."?Muiwey's
WftUy.
A Millionaire's Electric Plant.
At Mr. Rockefeller's splendid estate
on the Hudson Kiver a system of electric
lighting, costing over $150,000, has
been installed. lie can now, by moving
a small button in his library, illuminate
acres of his beautiful grounds at midnight,
if he pleases. The wires are all
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carried uuaer tac sou uuu uui
and the lights are arranged in a wonderfully
artistic fashion in the trees and foliage.
Such a fortune as that expended
in electricity, and in lighting a country
?)lacc, is unprecedented in history. Even
jthe new roof in Blenheim palace, about
which everybody in England has been
talking, cost less than $10U,000.?Buf'talo
7.) Courier.
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TEMPEfiAKCir^?
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FOB EVERYONE.
Here Is a little verse, which, though not intended
as a puzzle, has a moral so good that
we have copied it for your benefit. It was
quoted by a great speaker when making an 1
address on the subject whether or not it
would be possible to close the public drinking-saloons.
He said, "This is a difficult
auestion, truly, my friends, but will we not
o well to remember that
"There is a little public-house
Which every one may close;
It is the little public-house
Just underneath your nose."
?Youth's Banner.
IN NORWAY AND SWEDES.
An habitual drunkard in Sweden and Norway
is treated as a criminal in this sense,
that his inordinate love for strong drink
renders him liable to imprisonment, and
while in confinement it appears he is cured
of his bad propensities on a plan which,
though simple enough, is said to produce
marvelous effects. From the day tne confirmed
drunkard is incarcerated no nourish*
ment is served to him or her but bread and
wine. The bread, however, it should be
said, cannot be eaten apart from the wine,
| but is steeped in a bowl of it and left thus tc
| 6oak an Hour or more before tne meai is
served to the delinquent. The first day the
habitual toper takes bis food in this shape
without the slightest repugnance; the second
day he finds it less agreeable to his palate
and very quickly he evinces a positive aversion
to it. Generally, the doctor states, eight
or ten days of this regimen is mora than sufficent
to make a man loathe the very sight of
wine.
DRINKING AND APOPLEXY.
The Irish World presents to its rearlera
the following wholesome lesson concerning
alcohol and apoplexy: .
"It is the essential nature of all wines and
spirits to send an increase ! amount of blood
to the brain. The first effect of taking a
glass of wine or stronger form of alcohol iff
to send the blood .there faster than common,
Hence the circulation that gives the red face, i J|
It increases the activity of the brain and itl
works faster, and so does the tongue, but
the blood goes faster than common to the^U
brain, it returns faster, and no immediate, ^
harm may be done. But suppose a man
keeps on drinking: the blood is sent to the
bram so fast in large quantities that in order
to make room for it the arteries .have to
charge themselves. They increase in siza,
J J-.* fliAniAM.
U.L1U, iu UUIU^ Sf*J1 UiOjr |Jt wa agaiuab wvutuivr
yielding, flaccid veins which carry the blood
out of the brain, and diminish the size of the
pores?the result being that the blood is not
only carried to the arteries of the brain faster
than is natural cr healthful, but is prevented
from leaving it as fast as usual Hence a.
double set of causes of death are in operation.
Hence a man may drink enough
brandy or other spirit* in a few hours, or '
even minutes, to bring on a fatal attack of h
apoplexy. This is being literally dead
drunk."
WHAT AN OLD BARTENDER SATS.
"Do you know," said an old Jpartend^v I
recently, "that every time I sell a man a
drink I feel like a criminal? I have been do- ing
it for twenty years, and I have never*
known the taste of liquor in my life. But I >
have seen men drink it to their ruin and*
never one to his good. It actually makes
me angry to see men stand up to the bar cod
drink liquor. I have often been thought
surly, but it was not surliness, it was anger
that made me seem so. You cannot get
brutes to touch the stuff, and they show *
they are a good deal smarter than men. X
am not a Prohibitionist and would not votethat
ticket under any circumstances, because
I know enouzh about the business to
know that an attempt to enforce such a law
simply means that you make liars and
sneaks out of all drinking men. But I know
that drinking does no man good, 2nd the
man is a fool who says that a drink when he
is feeling badly is just what he wants. I've'
seen those men turn drunkards. You maythink
that mine are peculiar views for a barkeeper
No doubt they are; but I have had __
long experience, and I tell you the opium
eater has stronger arguments in favor of his
drug than the whisky-drinker has for his- y
whisky. Why don't I get out of the busi- M
ness? I got into it, and I know it; I don't^
know any other, and I am too old now to- J
learu." '
HOW TO ESCAPE INTEMPERANCE.
In a recent number of an American'
, magazine, Mr. Jefferson tells a pathetic story;
of meeting in the wilds of Australia a shepherd
who nad once been a man of rank and)
position in London. He had become a;
drunkard, and after trying every means of
reform had at last fled to Australia and1
buried himself in the bush, alone but for ft!
dog that bore him company; he would not]
tempt him to drink. For years he had re-j
mained there solitary, not seeing the face of!
a human being for months at a time. Bat:
he had conquered the habit which was mak-'.
ing a beast of him.
Perhans amonc the readers of this story.]
there is some young man upon whom t&ej
love of liquor has taken nold He is-,
ishamed, terrified, anxious to shake it off,'
but be feels its grasp in the weakness of his!
will to resist. What shall he do?
In the first place, recognize the fact that,
this'is a practical, physical evil, and calmly
bring practical, physical remedies to bearonj
it. First seek help from a higher than,
human source, and then use the rational |
remedies which He has provided for this dis-;
ease of the body and soul. If alcoholism is]
hereditary in his family or if his immediate
ancestors were moderate drinkers his danger;
is greater, and the need of prompt actioni
more imminent. Ho should put himself in i
the care of an intelligeut physician who will I
be able somewhat to appease the intense
craving for stimulant.
But he must himself counteract the cansei
which drove him to drink. If it was a desire
for "fun" and excitement let him find some ?
r Al VA.
imussmentsai aerem iruui iume iu nuitu utr
lias been indulging which will drive it from
his mind.
If he began to tipple in secret, let him,
>hun solitude and find cheerful, entertaining
society. If on the other hand lie drinks only
when with certain associates, let him give
them up at once and wholly.
Occupation, healthy and absorbing for A
jiind and body, is the surest safeguard for
lim. For after all, "the way to stop drink- ?'V
Jig is to stop drinking," and whatever
strengthens the weakened will and helps him
to refuse to taste even a drop is the most
rational remedy.? Youth's Companion.
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
True goodness and bad whisiy won't mi*.
No man who really believes as C*ist
taught ever sells whisky.
The man who makes a practice of drinking
when he wants to will some day have to i
irink when he don't want to.
From a consular report just issued it ap-. I
pears that the population of Munich conmmes
the enormous quantity of 4S5 quarts
->f luw rwp head ner annum.
Dennis Conwav, of New York, never
tasted liquor until a few days ago. The heat
made him feel week, and he tried a stimulant
in the shape of whisky He died that
night.
One of the best moves the devii can make
is to persuade a big-headed man to trust in,
his own strength. There isn't a drunkard^
on earth to-day who didn't formerly believe1
he could drink or let it alone
The Piutes had a big pow-vow near Wadsworth,
Nev\, that lasted all of one week. The,
burden of the speeches made by the old men:
was in favor of total abstinence from liquors,
and the rising generation were urged to go to
school at Carson.
The police of St Petersburg has sent
notice to all the saloonkeepers in the neigh**
borhoodof factories thattney will be heavily |
Gucd if they continue selling spirituous
drinks to laborers on trust, or beguile the
m drink in anv other way
"Men declare that they couldn't got along
without tlieir beer or whisky,'1 says the wai^1
den of Joliet Prison, "but in two weeks after,
I get hold of a drinker be no longer craves
for it, and in a month there is such a change;
in hi n for the better that you would hardly
know him/'
A gentleman iu Cincinnati has in his pos- A
session a copy of the original edition of the
Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher's famous "SutSer- tP
mons on the Nature, Occasions, Signs, Evils / 1
and Remedy of Intemperance'" delivered in'
Litchfield Conn., 1826. These sermons awakened
the most lively interest in temperance
throughout the United States, and may almost
be said to have originated the temperance
movement in this country. Their publication
immediately caused the formation of
the "American Society for the Promotion of
Temperance," and many other kindred societies.
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