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ON LEAVING IRELAND, by 9. Kooaa, The mfsta obscured tho mountain paaki, And hid their hospy heals. While through the cloud-chinks glory itreafci, Illumed the verdsnt meads Which eLoue like patch wors In the glen, Mid dolds of upturned soil. Where many a group of baVdy men Pursued their cheerful toil. Coekrobln everv now and then Would sing hi9 little trill. While thrush and blackbird down the glen Bung love-Bongs louder still. The noisy streamlet*, in their flight Adown the hazel dell, Xaptup a hum of sweet delight Lib* to the organ's swell. ^was spring the time of lore and flower* When earth is all Agiow, AbA geni.il heat and gentle showers Cause soed oni plants to grow, the hawthorn blossom sweetly shed Its odors on the gale, And Flora in profusion spread Her Gems o er hill and dale. Twas love aDd b?auty all around, But grief within my heart. The morn had como and I was bound With fri-fnds t.nd home to part. Twas hard to teur my heart away And break the magic spoil Which bound me to mv home that day I bade my friends farewell. tfnk why dwe'l on the parting scene, The tear bspprlnklea face, Tho prayer?the look of faith serene, THe kiss and fond embrace. All past, yet' In my memory still Tfc* scene app?ar* as when X took the last look from the hill Of ay dear native glen. Thonitb many a year since then has fled, Axd many a change has o^me: Most of the loved ones now are dead Who VJessed my childhood's homo. Yet slii 1. no matter where I rove, The fa/.rest spot on earth Shall be that hallowed home of love Where I received my birth. Quebec, Canada. Lost Lina; -OB,THE BITTER AND THE SWEET. A Tale of Two Continents. B7 MRS. NINA LAWS OS. CHAPTER XXIII?Continued. The great old clock in the hall had fast struck eleven, -when the door ol Jeannette's room was opened, and a (all, slender figure glided out and crossed the corridor to Lenora's room. Any one would nave tnougnc inai Mrs. Bristol hail been paying Jeannette a late visit, but it was not| she. but the wicked girl herself , on her way to the sick chamber to carry out hei murderous plan. Fortunately for Jeannette, the door was not locked; he noiselessly opened it and glided into the room like a shadow. Lenora'e eyes were closed. "Thank heavens, she is asleep! Now I hope the nurse is also, fOT then the coast will be perfectly clear, and then it won't be but a moment or two until that sleeping beauty will sleep for ever." "With murderous coolness and Quietness of nerve, elie glided along by the ride of the bed until she came in front Of her beautiful victim. Quick as a flash she drew a large handkerchief from the boiozn of her dress and covT anm-a'a A +,VlATl nlflfftrl her large, strong hand over Lenora's month and nose la such a manner that cot a particle of air could reach the hmgs. Jeaimetta's poor little victim struggled violently in her weakness to extricate herself from that death grip, but all seemed in vain. "Ah, you miserable, cursed little wretch, I have you this time, and you hall " But before her scorched, maddened tips could finish the sentence she felt ?me one grasp her arm and give it such a jerk as to almost wrench it out of place. "You contemptible, wicked thing! .Kow l Know tnat 11 was yon wno gave that poor, innocent child that poison! I shall report you to the mistress of this house, and you shall be punished according to your crime." "Let go my arm, or I will kill you Instantly with this knife!" As she spoke, she Cashed a long, two-edged knife in the face of the nurse. As Jeannette entered the room and advanced toward the bed, her shadow reflected on the wall in such a manner that it attracted the nurse's attention, and as she was curious to know what it meant, also careful and watchful of her little patient, she slipped from her bed and went noiselessly to Lenora's. She instantly 6aw what was the mat ter, and sprang to the murderess' side, to save her patient's life, if possible. Jeannette bad forgotten nothing. The handkerohief that -was spread over Lenora's face smelt strongly of chloroform, and in a few moments the poor, weak girl was partially under its influence, so muoh so that she made no attempt to remove it, and lay perfectly till. When Jeannette removed it, Lenora looked as if she were dead. Almost before the nurse could turn found to call for help, a handkerchief saturated with chloroform was pressed over her mouth, and in a few moments she fell back into Jeannette's arms. \T.a i.1 J.M iL- * : jaw uui/ii wen uiu ui? cuuuuig, uic&ed woman remove the handkerchief from Lenora's face. "Thank heavens! I have succeaded ?t last, for she is dead?yea, dead, at lafltl" CHAPTER XXIV. A coarse, low, triumphant laugh echoed along the walls of the siok chamber, aa Jeannette drew the handkerchief off the beautiful, death-like face. She felt the pulse of her victim, and, In her half mad, excitcd state, she did not feel the slow, feeble motion. Her faoe -was then a perfeot glow, in the glory of h?r success. An un6?3n power seemed to protect the innocent, homeless girl, for, if for ?n instant. Jeannette had presumed that her "little tramp" lived, she would have pierced the now slowly beating heart with the long sharp knife that sne then held in her hand. "1 Tvill let you lie as you are, you fair deoeiver; your wo-rk is done, and you will come between no one else as yon kftve between Ray and me. He is nov mine, and I shall be mistress of this mansion." She seemed fully satisfied that her Tictim was qnite dead, and turning to the unconscious nurse, she quickly lifted her small form in her strong, long arms, and leit the room and hurried oat of the mansion, still carrying in her arms the unconscious uurse whom she intended to kill. She quickly glided along in the long dimly lighted hallways, unseen and unheard; she pass2d along the serrants' hall, and out of a back door toward the boat-house. There was a poor half-witted boy waiting there for her._ She had shown him a ten doll at! gold piece the day before, and told him that if he would go to the boat-hous? md wait there until midnight, and if he did a3 she told him, he should have the gold piece.J^Of course the boy gladly consented. "Tim, Tim! are you there? Come juictlv, for the moon will soon be and I want you to help me carry fEis down to the lake. I will then give you the gold piece, and at the end of two month!*, if you have told no one what j-ou did to-night, I will give you another. Come on, boy; we must hurry." "Oh, mis3is?me?me?'fraid! She am a woman?a dead woman, and mo 'fraid o' her ghost. Me don't want to; me go home." "You cursed little coward, come on, or I will shoot you instantly." She drew a small pearl-handled pistol from her pocket and pointed it at the poor frightened boy. At the sight of the weapon his whole body shook as if it would fall to pieces, while his bonv, crooked knees made quite a noise as Aev knocked acrainst each other. He glanced at the pale, silent nurse, and then at the face of the half-mad woman. TU! me awfully fraid!" But at the sight of the pistol ho stooped to help lift the limp, lifeless body and carry it to the lake. It was quite a distance to the lake from the back of the mansion. Had it not been Jeannette would not have bribed the imbecile to help her. They Sb^Jly reachcd the lake under cover of th* bushes in the park. "Stop, Tim! Here is the place; now wait a minute, until I can get your money. *' But before she gave him the promised money she quickly drew a long, sharp knife from a sheath that hung at her side, a id stabbed that poor, innocent, unconscious nurse through the heart. She then quickly pushed the body through a small hole in the ice thafc she had male early that evening with the intention of using it if necessary The knife was still fast in the nurse's heart. "Oh! me don't want money! Me tell, me tell all! Yon wicked?me tell?me tell! Her ghost will kill you, it will? oh, it's comin' now!" The boy had started to ran away and tell. "Dead men tell no tales!" Jeannette hissed, between her teeth, and before the boy had taken but ft few steps?a slight craoking noise, a bright flash, and the simple Tim fell back dead. As the pistol cracked, but too late to save the boy, something darted by Jeannette and whispered "Don't 1" in her ear. As the specter or whatever it was passed her, a oold, chilly feeling pierced the very center of her blaok, wicked heart?a deathly expression spread over her handsome, wild features, and she sank baok into the snow aa if iViq Via-1 nfrn^lr hftr * * * * * For some unaccountable reason Mrs. Bristol waa very restles3 the night of this terrible tragedy, and about midnight Bhe went to Lenora's room to see if her little favorite was resting well. As she entered the room and 6oftly glided up to the bodside, she instantly drew back and uttered a stifled cry of alarm. "Oh, heavens, she is davd! Have mercy, Heavenly Father, upon us!" The poor, nervous, frightened woman ran to the nurse's room, but she was not there. "Nurse, nurse! where are you? What has happened?" Bat th?re was no response to her call, and the nurse oould not be found. She then went back to Lenora's bed and took the cold, limp little form in her arm3. "My poor little darling, speak to me once more. Look at me for the love that you have for my boy; it would kill him when he returns if he should find you cold in death. "Oh, God, oan't you give her back to us? Why I love her so dearly I do not know, but she is one of your little lambs and I love her. "Live, live, my child, for my boy*B Bake, if not for mine!" She laid Lenora back upon the pillows, and then pressed her hand over the little fluttering h?ajfrTnank Dod, She uvea; but oh, pitv?what can it all mean? ? r .11 . nil JL C 111 .11 V UlUiUlUlUi , GkU, V uuu room is fall of it and she is now under the influence of that drug! What can it m?an and -where is the nurse ? "Oh, everything seems against us, and I fear we shall lose her yet." She then went to tli9 medicine chest and got a bottle of brandy, and began to bathe Lenora's face and hands and rub them roughly with her own. By and by the pulse became stronger and the eyes were slowly opened. "What has happened? Tell me, it vou om, my child." Lenora shook her head in reply, for it seemed that she could not speak, Mrs. Bristol then gave her a little wine. "You feel better now and can tell me, can't you ?" "les. Some one c.\me and tried to smother me to death. and then some one else came in and tried to stop her, and?then I iloat remember any more, for I went to sleep. Oh, it was all so terrible, for I could hardly breathe for so long." As yet she cmld not speak very distinctly, but Mrs. Bristol could under- i Btand what she said, and as she real- i ized the awfulness of the affair sho began to grow dizzy and everything in the room began to go round and round. Suddenly a heavy thud was heard, and Mrs. Bristol lay motionless on the floor by the side of tho bed. Lenora Baw all that happened, and in her weak, feeble oondition, strengthened now for a few minutes by the effects of tl^e wine and fright, she slowly crept from her bed, and walked to a table whew sat a pitcher of water. "Oh, God, give me strength to do something for her, or she will die." Lenora gently bathed the pale, cold ~w ortfl Mm Tlnafnl lOUO 1U VUQ liCOU TT WW* IMJU *U*0| Jfc-r* soon recovered. "Why, Lina, dear, -what do you mean? I fainted, did I? And you triad to help me? Yon should not have left your bed, you good little soul, for I am afraid you will be worse." "No, no! It will not hurt me in the least, for I feel muoh stronger sinca I drank the wine. Perhaps you bad best Irink some also." As Lenora started to go to the table where the wiue Bat, the door of the room was opened, and Jeannette stood where she could plainly see Lenora crossing the lO^m. "Oh. lieavons! Curse it all?for there is bor ghost staring at mo?or? ao?n >?she is jot dead!" A wild, mad shiiek rang through the vliole mansion, uud Jeannette fell to he n->or. Lenora saw her fall, and Mrs. Er's.^1 heard the cry and noise of the ;ali <\ i! frVQTVv <S*7S?-; 7v?rr - ~ '* .'V -V ' V"1 ^ ' V '. V" - - *?- ? *'v v' ,! .'?N - "HC but at that moment she was not snfffciently recovered to go to Jeannette. "What shall I do. Mrs. Bristol? I cannot get to her, and you are not able to move; where is mv nurse?" "Oh, dear child, don't say anything about it, for I am almost crazy now! "Something terrible- has happened, and I cannot find the nurse; but you must go 'to bed now, and I will ring for the servants to come aud attend to Jeannette. "I feel much better now, and you must not worry any more. I am so thankful, child, that you still live." In a few moments the servants' alarm-Dcii sounded through the man? sion, and in a very short time Mrs. Bristol had all the help she wanted to get Jeannette to her room, where restoratives were applied, and she soon recovered. Mrs. Bristol went back- to Lenora's room, and would not leave it that night under any consideration. Jeannette did not pleep that night, and when morning dawned her faoe was nale. and there were great dark cirolea under her eyes. ! Never after that night was she the same girl that sho had been. The vision of Silly Tim's wild, frightened face was always before her, and tlia words continually ringimgin her ears: "Her ghost will kill you?me 'fraid ?you wicked?me tell." Go where she would, do what she might, she could not shake off the memory of that horrible night. In the afternoon of the next day she went to Lenora'i room, whera she found her aunt. "How pale and worn you look, Jeannette! Your frighi lias told on you very much." "Yes, dear auntie; I thought you were dead when I saw you lying there. I heard you when you fell, but did not know what was the matter, so I came to see, and when I opened the door vou were lving ther? beside the bed as if dead. I presume it was too much for my nerves, and I must have fainted, and I do not remember all that passed, and am not feeling very well to-day. What was the matter last night ? There seemed to be noise about the house all night, and Tom said the nurse had gone. What could have caused her to go and not tell you anything about it? Could it be "possible that it was she who tried to kill Lina?" "I do know, Jeannette; there is a great mystery about it all, and from all appearances, someone wants to take her life." "It does all seem very strange, and I had thought that the nurse was good and trusty. I am going to the city shopping this afternoon, and perhaps I had best emolov a detective to look up the matter." "A good idea, indeed; there must be something doDe soon. I do so wish that Ray was here, and if I knew his address I -would wire him to come immediately." "Oh, I hardly think it necessary to trouble him about it just now, for no doubt he has 9ome important business matters to attend to." "Well, I feel very uneasy about it, but you may do as you please about the matter. Jeanne tie." After talking with Lenora a few moments, and expressing her great pleas ure over her narrow escape, sne wens to ber apartments to prepare for the day's shopping. The preparation was quite different from what her aunt presumed it would be. Jeonnette's visit to the sick chamber, and the sight of the sweet, pale fgoe of her rival, made her all th? mora desperate. She had now twice failed to remove the "little tramp," and in the attempt had become a double murderess, but she would not have cared, had she but killed the right one. She had been sitting by the grate in her room thinking, for some time, when she arose from her chair and began walking up and down th3 room, mut tering, in liait-auditue tones, to nerself. "No, no! My hands are now stained with the life-blood of two innocent persons, while she, the guilty one, still lives. I have gained nothing, but have lost my own soul: and now, if I should kill that contemptible creature, I believe the moment she died I should be struck dead. No, I mu3t get her out of this house in some other way. I think I can manage it in such a way that Aunt Marguerite will send her away immediately, and be glad to get rid of her; perhaps then I shall have a little rest." She paused in the center of the room and pressed her hand to her heart as if to ch^ck its wild, painful throbbing, while her ?r*at black eyes, sunken deep in that pale, haggard face, gazed wildly round the room. "Ah! as luck would have it, Ray is not at home, and I can carry out my plans much better when he is away. When he returns home my cursed eoemy will not be here." [to be co.NTntunx] National Dance of Heligoland. The Hcligolanders arc civil, honest, svell-behaved folk. The women do not ilways wear their complete full-dress ittire, with the pretty embroidered cap ind hcad-scarf, but the red petticoat, T7TE ITr.LIGOL.OsD NATIONAL DANCE, with a green 6tripc at the bottom, is common. Men and women are fond of dancinc. for which they assemble in the popular ball room every Sunday evening ind other evenings of the week. The national dance, a picture of which is given aerewith, is called "Slim Jlein ModerKcn." It is performed by a couple with intertwined arms, clasping hands behind ;ach other's backs, swinging from side :o side, while executing with the feet a rapid polka-step, and has a very graceful ;llect. To HAVE"a 6ourse~marl:ed out before band, is to be prepared for difficulties. ' '"'j'*' ' SEA MONSTERS." GIGANTIC HORRORS THAT ROAM THE DARK DEPTHS. The Great Sea Serpent and What It Really Is ? Giant Squids and Mighty Poulps That Olten Attack Man. aT THIS season of the year the sea serpent is accustomed to turn up at odd spots along the Atlantic seaboard and supply interesting summer reading for the newspapers. There is n?thing that people are ^ jlNr more eager to hear about than this mystery -e^r of the ocean?for one " reason, because science rowdJlv ndmits the nossibilitv of such a feature's existence. Although the igaorant arc accustomed to pooh-pooh such a notion, as they do everything which Joes not come within the grasp of theii anderstanding, the mass of reliable testimony in the sea serpent's favor is recogaized by those who have studied the subject as well-nigh incontrovertible. That some prodigious monster of actual fact has by its occasional appearance afforded a basis of truth for what is generally supposed to be a myth has been entirely demonstrated, and will be sufSciently shown in this article. It remains to be determined whether othet monsters besides this, as big or bigger, have a share in responsibility for the (torics. It is rather extraordinary that tho a* pa/in 4a nltrnra t-o/nrrArl fy> '.LlUUStti WJJL&U Ottii A? umi ?jo i VIWK Vt? vu i is the sea serpent, as if there could not be more than one such animal in exlst;nce. But surely if one exists there must be others, eke how would its kind he perpetuated? It is hardly to be supposed that the sea serpent has a life of indeflaitc duration and that a single specimen ias been astonishing the world at internals for thousands of years, for it must De remembered that observations con:erning thr> beast have been made a mat:er of written history for at least three thousand years. One finds in Virgil's ui?nid" a description of the manner in which two sea serpents came out of the jcean at the behest of an angry goddess, ind cobbled up Laocoon and his two jons, twining about them with slimy and hideous coils. Two-thirds of the earth's surface is lovered with water, the far depths of which, m:les and miles below the waves, have never been approached by the human explorer. Who can say what frightful creatures, vast and formless nightmares of the deep, may lurk there in the darkness of an aqueous night never illuminated by a sun's ray? No one has any reason for asserting that the snorinous plesiosaurus of the oolithic %ge, skeletons of which are found at this day does not still survive in the unfathomed caves of ocean. This extraordinary aquatic reptile, which resembled a gigantic snake threaded through the body of a turtle, having the head of a lizard, the teeth of a crocodile, a neck thirty feet long like the body of a serpent, the ribs of a chameleon and the paddles of a whale, would answer very wen to tne usual description given of the great sea serpent. It is very likely, however, that the monster which has given cause for a majority of such stories is one of unquestioned existence at the present time, although up to a very recent period, sciencc was not well acquainted with it,nor was it known what mighty proportions this ogre of the ocean attains. "With the giant squid, however, the fishermen of the Indian Ocean haye been unpleasantly acquainted for many ccn toe oiAirr sqrra. turie3. In fact, the professional angler in those south seas is compelled constantly to indulge a rather exciting anticipation of meeting one, and a certain percentage of loss of life consequent upon these encounters is a matter of regular estimate in the busiuess, for the humble toiler of the sea, -while engaged in his peaceful employment, must be prepared at any time to see a monstroug creature with enormous goggling eyes rise out of the depths and fling across his boat a gigantic tentacle armed with scores of suckers so powerful that nothonnpf nt lirtrcp nnwpr can Dull them iiljj OUWlv "> ? 1 , from the objcct to which they have been once attached. For such an adventure the fisherman has always ready at hand a keen knife with which to slash oft tho tentacle before it has dragged him overboard in fatij-1 embrace. He must work quickly, for the monster ?as another teutacle to help him in the attack, and it. is hardly an even fight between one or two men and a creature with an arm reach of-100 feet. Such and even greater are the proportions reached by the giant squid, which is considered by some excellent authorities to be in actual truth not only the supposed sea serpent but the semi-fabulous kraken as well. It inhabits all seas, though it is most numerously found in mnjrni wnfnrs. A full-crown specimen weiirbs more than 10,000 pounds, has a ; body 50 feet in length and, besides its | eight smaller tentacles, is armed with two i greater tentacles for purposes of attack each 100 feet long, the greatest dimension of the animal being therefore not less than 150 feet. No wonder that stories are told of its attacking ships and even dragging them under the sea! As for the poor fisherman, once captured and held fast by the horrible sucking tentacles he is drawn into the closer embrace of the beast's eight other arms, which are likewise equipped with suckers, and the frightful creature sinks with its captive to the bottom, where it tears him to pieces at its leisure with its powerful parrot-like beak. Should it be frightened while engaged at its hideous meal it discharges from an organ called its ink bag a fluid which renders the water round about as black as night for hundreds of yards, thus effectually concealing itself. This is the creature which not a few men of science declare to be what those f .* t-A XT 1 .1 + V\cor. wno inougut mcy iiau sei;u ?? pent of the sea have attempted to describe. The accomnanvinor illustrations snow it )n tne act ot swimnnug in its accustomed fashion during calm weather, with a large part of its body elevated above the water. Extended observations of small specimens made in the aquarium at Brighton, England, have demon strated the fact that this is its favorite method of feeding. Inasmuch as it always swims backward, making progress by expelling water rearward from a big siphon in its body, observers casually viewing a giant squid at sea may have most naturally imagined that the part going first was the head, the appearance of a tentacle upraised in the water, as in the picture, being mistaken for a tail. Such, at all events, i3 a theory maintained with great array of evidence apparently most valuable. For the present, however, it must remain a disputed question whether this animal of fact is to take the place of the sea serpent of ancient and respected tradition. It is worth saying, by the way, that the two great snakes which attacked the Laocoon family may very well have been the two great tentacles of a giant squid, making allowances for errors of tradition. The "kraken," which advocates of tha *iant squid theory likewise indentify with the same monster, was believed for centuries to inhabit.the seas and fiords of 3candinavia, where it is now known that squids of the largest size dwell. There seems, in truth, no good reason for Joubting that the two creatures, the one real and the other half mythical, are one. The famous bishop and naturalist, Pontoppidan, member of tbo Koyal Academy of Sciences at Copenhagen, wroto that tho kraken grow to bo naif a mile long and was frequently mistaken while floating asleep upon the surface of tho. sea for an island; so that people landod upon it and were engulfed In a maelstrom by its sinking. It will bo remembered that Sinbad the Sailor is said in the "Arabian Nights" to have had a like adventure. Tho kraken was big enough to lay hold of the largest man-of-war and pull It down to the bottom with its arms, which | it frequently raised up as high as tho masts of a ship out of tho water. Pontoppidan speaks of tho manner in which tho kraken was accustomcd on occasions to discolor the water about it, and his description otherwise proves that it and thQ giant squid were tha e^me animal. A SQUID XAYIGATIKG One of the bc9t attested sea serpents on record was seen on the 6th day of August, 1848, by the officers of the H.M.3. Daedalus in the North Pacific. About sixty feet of its length was visible, and it had all the appearance of a gigantic snake, its head and shoulders held four :>r five feet above the surface of the water, through which it swam at the rate Df perhaps fifteen miles an hour. It was riowed at quite cbse quarters through 5eld glasses from the ship's dcck, and wa3 observed to be of a dark brown color, yellowish white about the throat, ind with what appeared to be a mane. On the 24th day of February, 1849, ibout forty miles from the spot where the serpent above mentioned was seen, Capt. Eferriman of the ship Brazilian saw a strange creature astern stretching along the water for thirty feet or more, with its head lifted several feet above the surface and a mane running down the neck. A. boat was lowered and the monstei was approached with harpoons. It was found to be an immense piece of sea weed, to which the swell caused bj the subsidence of a previous gale gave a sinuous snake-like motion. I This latter story illustrates the possibilities of optical deception ! in the cas3 of most conscientious obI servers. A creature closely resembling i the monstrous Ichthyosaurus of antedi ! luvian times was seen m the uuli 01 California by Captain George Hope, of H. M. S. fly. The sea being perfectly calm and of a glass-like transparency he beheld lying on the bottom, a few fathoms dovfD, an enormous animal with the head and general figure of an alligator, except that the neck was vastly longer and, instead of legs, it had four large flappers like a turtle's. It appeared to be pursuing some prey, and moved in serpentine fashion, its body having ringlike divisions. An eminent zoologist has referred to this as the most interesting natural history fact of the present century. THE GTAXT POfr.P. Th.it other enormous horror of the 9en, the giant octopus, with which Victor Hugo mixed up the great squid, b of the same family with the latter beast?a soft aad pulpy monster with eight tentacles of equal length radiating from its central mass and armed with suckers. Its habit is to lurk in some dark cranny In :he depths waiting for an unwary victim to venture within reach. With three or four of its mighty arms it olings fast to a rock, while with the remaining tentacles waving, gliding and feeling about in the water it keeps on the alert for prey. A man coming within its reach?and human beings are often its victims?is instantly embraced. Instantaneously as the pull of a trigger the pistons of the hundreds of suckers on the tentacle arc simultaneously drawn inward, the air is re moved from the pneumatic holders, a vacuum beinc: created in each, and the victim is so completely pinioned tnat hardly a straggle is possible. Men have been known to cut themselves loose from this death-grip, but the chance is small indeed. Immediately the other tentacles not occupied with clinging to the rock are wrapped about the man, and he Is drawn into the close embrace of the poulp, to be torn to pieces by its beak and absorbed.? Washington Star. | it is only wnen a man is complimented that he thinks he is seeing himself as others see him'. ^ - . ' I A Beantiful Japanese Legend. At the time of Uaa Tenno, 'who was the fifty-ninth Mikado or Emperor of Japan, between the years 888 and S97 of our era, about one thousand round years ago, there lived a man of great learning and patriotism. Sugawara Michizane, rose from simply being a tutor of the young Mikado to be his counselor, friend, and finally his minister, and who exercised a most wholesome influence upon his master. At this time the power of the Mikado had become much restricted by the growing rival influence of the princely family of Fujiwara, which had by various means usurped the real power in government, and left the Mikado to be only a doll or show-puppet ruler. Now Michizane sought to restore to his sovereign his real right and power, which the people longed to have done, but the power of the Fujiwara family and its influence was too great, and finally Michizane was banished for life to Tsukushi, a desolate place on an island, now called Kiushiu, where after some years he died, and it is believed that he died of starvation. It is said that Michizane was lamenting one day as he remembered the flowery season of the Sakura in his old home, that he should never again see the cherries bloom, when there dropped at his feet from the sky a full bloom cherry blossom. This Michizane took and planted, and from it sprang the most beautiful of varieties now known. Michizane loved children and taught them to read and write and to play the flute. So after Michizane was dead the people made him a god, and the name of the god is Tenjin, and many temples were built and dedicated to him in various parts of Japan. Some of them, as that at Kyota, are very rich. The ox (or buffalo) is sacred to Michizane, and in every temple to his name are reclining statues of the ox in bronze or in marble. In the carvings of ivnrv and in pottery it is very common to find the figures of an ox, with a slight rope harness and upon which is a child playing the flute. These are memorials of Michizane.?Detroit Free Press. Making Soap Ont of Horses. On a receut -morning the Board of Health, Chief Inspector Yeal and Dr. M. C. Martin, city physician, went out to the works of the Atlanta Fertilizer and Glue Company iu company with Messrs. Louis Steinau and Isaac Schoen, the proprietors, to inspect the new way of disposing of carcasses of animals which 1 3!--l _ /V - navecueu in me my. The Atlanta Fertilizer and Glue Company, which has a contract with the city to haul out the carcasses, has erected large and commodious buildings, and does away with the carcasses in a manner unsurpassed by any method. Their method of handling dead animals is something never before seen here. Tho company has a large wagon,with nothing exposed?all under cover. Under the contract the company is obliged to haul all carcasses free of charge, and it is important that they get them as soon as possible. The carcass is dissected and put in a tank large enough to bold four horses. There the flesh is boiled, the vapor passing through a pipe into a water reservoir, so that noxious gases do not escape into the air. A hoise when reduced makes about 200 pounds of fertilizer and forty pounds of soap grease. The hides are tanned and the gelatine made into glue. ?Atlanta Constitution. The Sultan at Dinner. o?uam ^ tt~ iiiu ouimu iiMvci a xiv takes all his food direct from the littV ketties, and never uses a table, and rarel a knife or fork?a spoon, his bread, pancake, or fingers are found far han ier. It requires ju6t twice as ma> slaves as there are courses to serve dinner to him. The -whole household is at liberty to take meals where it suits him or her best, and thus every, one is served with a small tray, with a spoon, a great chunk of bread, and the higher ones only get the pancakes. Nearly one ton of rice per day is required for the inevitable pillntfe, 600 ! pounds of sugar, as much coffee, to say nothing of the other groceries, fruit, vegetables and meat. Rice and mutton and bread form the gre.iter part of the food for the majority of the Turks, toj gether with fish, sweetmeats, confection* I ery, nuts and dried and fresh fruits. That there is enormous waste and ex' travagance in the kitchens is obvious, j and it is said that enough is thrown away daily to maintain 100 families. All the water for the Sultan's use and the drinking water for the household is brought in barrels, from two pretty streams at different places in the Bosphorus toward the Black Sea. Bi&niarck at Seventy-five. The Prince is of giant stature, and his proud aud aristocratic bearing increases his height. Although seventy-five years j old, the "Man of Iron" carries himself as i straight as the centenarian birch trees of | his forests, and his corpulence is in exact j nrmiortion to his stature. His forehead | f?I -is frowning and wrinkled, his nose well ! lormed, with large nostrils,, and bends j tlightly to the right. What struck me 1 the most in his imposing physiognomy j were his deep eyes of a mountain-like l blue, and sheltered by a forest of boldly j erect hair. The lower part of his face ! harmonizes with the upper. His mouth ! has a smile which is at once ironical and j kind. It opens wide enough to let pass j a hollow voice, slow and interrupted. One would think it to be the echo of a solemn and distant oracle. Prince Bismarck speaks French as ; easily as German, but his words manifest j careful thought.?Chicago Tribune. Moving the Oceau to Paris. There has long been an idea of making Paris a port by a wide canal to the sea. One hundred millions have been expended j in deepening the Seine between Parisand i Rouen, so as to allow vessels of 600 or i 700 tons to reach Paris. The depth between Havre ana Rouen is eighteeu feet, | but the depth of ten feet between Rouen ' and Paris is sufficient for the coasting trade. A French engineer has devised : an apparatus, enabling 1000-ton vessels 1 to come up to Paris with the present depth j of water. A Paris navigation company j has been formed which intends to build, chiefly in England, thirty or forty vessels of 600, 700 and 1000 tons, plying between Bordeaux and London, South- I ampton, Liverpool, Cardiff, Newcastle, j Hamburg, St. Petersburg, Naples, Cadiz, Lisbon, Tunis and Algeria, West Africa and Paris. Docks and warehouses will be provided, and all arrangements for ! I rapid unloading. j ~ > -I TEMPERANCE. I SOffTO AND REAPING. '^Hj 0. fiend that dwells in the wine cup! 9H He never intended that you Should spring from the work He nourisl^^H^fl With the sunshine, the rain and the tfewP'HH Man plants and God gives the increase ' flS Of fruit and of shimmering grain; BN But, alas! we reap a harvest |flfl Of poverty, sorrow and pain.' |^H REMINISCENCES OF THE WOMAN'S CRUSADE. IbbJ I was filling lyceum engagements in Pennsylvania and Ohio in the early winter of 1873, at the time that the remarkable move- HE mentknown as "The Woman's Crusade"startled the community. The daily papers Bflj teemed with the most extravagant and sen- HH sational accounts of the methods and aims |^B of the women who had inaugurated this new HI departure in temperance work. - Every morning the dailies of the great cities confronted their readers with staring headlines HH that misled and prejudiced in advance?as HH was intended. And the reports, written on the spot by tho attaches of the press, sent to BR study and describe the new movement, ridi- 9H culed and belied it. "A mob of moos wo men!'' "Prayer-meetings in saloonsP* ' 'Cold-water women drunk with fanaticism P* fl "Saloon-keepers bulldozed by frenzied wo- Hfl men F' " 'Rock of Ages' the song they slngP These, and similar misleading announce- aH meets on the bulletin-boards, left one in HM doubt whether "The Crusade" was the work of sane women or lunatics. , As I proceeded from place to place, proaching Ohio, the new movement more JH completely engrossed public attention, and KB was the one theme of conversation?on trains, in hotels and everywhere. It was- , H now spreading like prairie fire, and was acheiving most astonishing results. Theprayers, and songs, and touching appeals of |H women who visited the saloons daily, and whose husbands and sons had been ruined H by them, and their homes desolated, went with arrowy directness to the hearts of the proprietors. In town after town the saloonswere closed by this unheard of procedure, M| the liquors poured into the streets, and their converted owners joined the ranks of the H| "Crusaders." and helped them in their; work. I was to lecture at Washington C. H., one fl|^9 evening, not far from Hillsboro, Ohio, where' this blessed impulse of prayer and entreaty fl had its birth. As we slowly came to the V station, I observed that thi platform wat packed with women, and supposed there had' rvnan enmn moofincr nr />Ar?ronfmn eoeo^Ai^ during the day, and that the ladies were novr to take the train for their homes. As I stepped from the coach, Miss Maggie Ustick* of Washington, whom I had met before* * welcomed me, and then presented me to the- . President of the Woman's Crusade in that town, i think the lady was Mrs. Carpenter, wife of the pastor of the PresDyteria Church. Taking me by the hand, with most cordial greeting, she said: "Mrs. Livermore, we are" a committee of sixty women who have come to invite you to accompany us to the . Methodist Church, where the daily temperance prayer-meeting is in session." If I must be honest, I wished for the moment that the women were all in Joppa. Par I wanted to study the Crusade deliberately from the outside, to be a looker-on, and not to be plunged into the very seething heart o< it, at the start. But if any of my readert crar flnH thomwlvo<3 in n lilro manf. with a committee of sixty women waiting fo( I them as on escort, I advise them to do what I did?go with them. The church was packed: with a serious and intense audience. In therear of the house hundreds were standing,. and among these there was continual coming and going, as work or business compelled the departure of some, when new comers took H their places. A reformed man was speaking when we entered, one who tad recently signed the I pledge. Tbe attitude of the man, the tones K of his voice, tbe very features of his face ai) told of weakness. Ho deplored his past life. and with tremulous tones that haa unshea fl tears in them, told how bad a husband he - had been to "one of the best wives God ever gave a man." He was interrupted by the 9 clear, sweet voice of a woman. H "Never mind that now, John; we'll forget the things that are behind." "Only, wife, don't let me fall again I Keep JH the saloons shut, or else I'm lost r Then a woman prayed. How her petition beat up against the throne of God, as Inlow V tones of suppressed anguish she pleaded for help, strength, light, and comfort. 1 had nftvsr heard n nraver like that before, and knew that the supplicant had a history. My companion whispered, "That woman has suffered every thing from strong drink?in her early home, and now in her own family." A young girl rose to offer a thought that had occurred to her. A man behind me. In evident abrm, said almost aloud, "Gracious! that's my Fanny; I hope she won't slop over." Clear, direct, concise, she fervently, but briefly, gave her testimony to the efficacy of prayer, and sat down. Then more prayers irom women whoso faces bore the record of long years of heart sickness and despair, and who appealed to the "Friend of the friendless," in tones that went to my soul. Then, pathetic and grapic bits of speeches from men struggling up out of the depths, all of whom uttterd the same agonized entreaty, "Don't let the saloons be opened again!" I was called on for a "testimony," but I was beyond the power of speech?I "was weeping. The audience palpitated with intense feeling, and all nearfe throbbed in unison; and yet there was no outward excitement, all were calm and selfcontroled, even when they all joined in song, till the house rocked with a very tempest of melody. All the saloons in town but one had been closed voluntarily by their owners, their stocks of liquors had been destroyed, the proprietors naa signea ino pieage, aucl were working with the reformers. I was obliged to leave the town too early the next morning to accompany the detail of women appointed to visit the one still defiant saloon, which yielded before the week was ended? and then Washington C. H. had a jubilee of thanksgiving. For the next three weeks ray route carried me almost daily into towns where Crusade work was being done. The features of the movement were the same everywhere. Baffled in their attempts to obtain help from the Legislature in restricting the saloons, which overran the southern half of Ohio like ^ Hin nlnmin nf frn-rc in R-Mrnf- nnrl thfi "Civil P'"S? ? " -o- nj r? Damage Bill," for which they had petitioned, proving a very mockery, the women in their ^ helplessness and unutterable wo? gathered into prayer-meetings, and out of breaking and broken hearts called on God for help. The plan of visiting the saloons with entreaty ind persuasion, prayer and song, had come to them, as they believeJ, in answer to prayer. Who shall deny it? I lack space for reminiscences of those three weeks in Crusade towns. Like the rush of the unseen Spirit at Pentecost, like the voice ot Christ on the troubled waters of Galilee, this wonderful movement harmonized the discordant elements, and brought in order and peace. Not only were the saloous closed and wretched mea lifted out of the depths of moral debasement, but old family feuds were settled, long-separated husbau ls and wives were united, reparation was made for longstanding and unforgiven wrongs, and whole communities were Tiftod to a higher plane. The reign of the Crusade was brief, but blessed while it lasted, for the very spirit of Christ vitalized it. But the movement was phenomenal and emotional, and soon spent itself. I often asked the woman: "What will you do when this Crusade is endoJ, for you see it is so very emotional, it cannot have a long lease of life?" With sublime confidence in divin9 direo tion. they replied: "Wo do not know, but God will show us." Out of that brief Crusade has come the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which has only just entered on its career, and is being slowly fitted for the great work that lies before it, through God's divinest agent of help, which is usually hindrance. The future cannot be foreseen, but it is my strong belief that the W. C. T. U. has before it a long career of usefulness. Its steadfast adherence to its convictions, its spleudid behavior under adverse criticisms and unmerited obloquy, its growing unification of hearts and interests, are all prophecies of good omen. Courage! "Whom the Lord toveth Hechastenetb."?Mary A. Livcrmore, in I'll ion Siynal. Paris gossips declare that one of the ^ regular physicians who was most conspicuous in ridiculing Dr. Brown-Se-; quard's "elixir" has just been cured o 1 paralysis by its administration, and is now as zealous an advocate of Sequard &s he was previously a scoffer. ' - " -