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g YOU HIP EOT PIKX a BI JAT jacquzb, 8 I ondar bo oft In my twilight dream b, o When the dajllght'b gone and the night draws near. f, Am I sit in the flrelight'B mddy gleams, And think of the old days, swept and dear? I wonder, my darling, how you would look 8' If yon had not died?were yon living now; if tmn otLt. in at. vonr "work or book. 'fhe flickering light on your hair and brow. Would you be matronly, staid and grand, Or tender and sweet as yon nsed to be, Swaying nay life with yoor soft white hand, t] Growing closer each year to me. f Bweet. there'd be wrinkles noon your brow, _ And tiny touches of Tlme'B decay, And your bonny hair would be necked with ? snow? c< I know by my own that is white to-day. jj Perhaps, daar heart, had you lived for me, ^ Had yon not gone home In the early dawn, Borne bright-eyed child might have climbed w my knee, <j And cheered onr home with his shout and . song; 11 i Home had been home in its fullest sense, &] A beautiful haven of love and cheer, p Age had been reaping a recompense Of honest labor and well-spent years. & I gaze on this gray-bearded face of mine, h That is never oaressed by a wife or ohlld; v I gaze on this empty chair of thine, ' . I On those cheerless walls till my heart grows SJ wild. Love, I have lived such a lonely life t] Sinoe your grave's been wet with the snow and rain, n And God only knows how I miss my wife, Ci How ray heart aches on with lt6 ceaseless pain. fc lon^werewJjfoting when you went away, . VUijr 4* Ui 1UO U1 t? o?coi/ nuo'Vium, ? But I prove by the tears I have Bhed each day it You were the center of all my life. No one conld ever have filled your place, < a No other heart could have been my mate, a And I dreame acb night of yonr beautiful face, And wonder how long I shall have to wait, ni Rdbhvili^, Neb. . berhhcir.: n Bl A Story of Love, Intrigue, " and Crime. S it BX DWIGHT BALDWIN. la fli id CHAPTER VI?Continued. jE Cole Winters had heard nothing of the ti< above conversation, which had been car- tt ried on in low tones, bnt the vacant square in the rongh floor was sufficient to m apprise him of the diabolical scheme of in his heartless enemies. No one Bpoke, bnt stepping closer to b< the lantern, Sears produced a bottle, y< with the coDtents of which he began saturating a large handkerchief. 02 "Chloroform!" gasped Cole, as the pe? m oulior odor reached his nostrils. "Yob," retorted the youthful villain; Rt "it comes high, but I don't spare expenBO in making your exit pleasant." dc The inhuman wretch laughed, and, ad-! s? vanetog, applied the handkerchief to the 1 face of his victim. ! ai Cole Winters straggled manfully, bnt ge realizing that his efforts at escape were impotent, ceaBed them and tried to fix n? his mind upon the awful change which eemed inevitably at hand. *e He was fast losing' consciousness when an awful thought set his sluggish brain again into action. ^ When, in accordance with the plans of Ms murderers, his dead body was dis- , . oovered, there would be found upon it, not alone the one bond placed in his' ig pocket by Sears, but the fifty-nine oth- e, eri, aggregating in value the enormous or Bum of $300,000. For these Mr. St Cyr had been killed, nd their presenae would establish Cola's to guilt beyond all possible question. Not onlv w&s ha about to lose his life. bnt the honorable name bequeathed him . by his dead father was to become a by. Wl word of reproach. . In agony he essayed to Bpeak. The jjnrglinj? sound he uttered served 71 only to renew the pressure of the deadly J handkerchief. Then men, light, hope of life, thoughts of honor, and, lastly, a vision of fair 7 Berenice St. Cyr, disappeared from hii 16 eight and his mind. Five minutes latter the trio of villiam entered the deserted den. "I told you," whispered Sears as he extinguished the lantern, and made ready , to open the Btreet door, "that we wer& in for a run of good lack. We've got a for- v tone and won't t>e ob much as suspected!" ^ Qtl CHAPTER VII. TWO 6UBPBI6E6. J0 Mat Hyland, you're a fool!" Harsh words these, yet the detective to an whom they were addressed made no in- we dignant rejoinder; on the contrary hei th nodded his head approvingly, though the' sti sad expression upon his face seemed deepen somewhat. 3e * Von v-isvf nnlv Viim Knf h ? A VU UVM VMiJ O ***?**?. UU? UltU- ^ Sra dead to rights. You ran upon him in or rather he ran upon yon, and you; be couldn't land the fish when he'd hookedi 80 bimself on your tackle. I'm aBhamed tK of you, Mat Hylandl" . a 1 The person who was so freely upbraid. Pa ing the unfortunate detective paused in 'Ql his walk, and spat upon the ground to emphaoize his dissust. Bt Mat Eyland did exaotly the same thing. Lest the reader think this a m trange coincidence, we must explain that the upbraiding personage and the officer were one and the Bame man. Mat was, jn soliloquy, administering to himself a dl1 well-deserved rebuke. "Not in all the ten years and more that jrou've been on the force," he oontinued, as he resumed his walk down Clark treet, "did you ever make such a break before. You'd better hand in your resignation in the morning. "They say he cut across to State street, n" bnt I don't believe it. He most have a de confederate, but I'll bet my chance of I?1 promotion, which isn't much just now, that he's right in the block where he gave ce me the slip. I'd rather he get off scot- 86 (tee than have anyone else catoh him now. I reckon they re all gone, so I'll go j on back and make a systematic search lor *h him." With this the officer turned and talked briskly in the direction opposite the ome in whioh he had been moving. The time was bnt a few minutes after; the precipitation of onr hero into the 4ark, dank oollar by the trio of guilty plotters. "Ye can't come in! This is no public house, mind that!" These words, spoken by a toothless old crone of a woman, assailed the ears of the detective as he endeavored to enter a 5? tumble-down building not far from the io spot where Cole Winters had so cleverly eluded him. "Can't I, Granny Green? We'll see , about that!" "But there's nothin' crooked a goin' on ~ here," faltered the old hag, tie flyland 5threw open his coat and displayed upon 4 J hi* breast a silver star, the insignia of his m official character. "I know that, Granny. I'm looking for ram, though. Out of my way, and* mind von, not a word of my presence here; that is. if yon value " 7C *1 won't blab." of A moment later the detective was exploring the o d buildiug, whioh was ten-' u. anted by half a score of families, and' presented <t scene of squalor and wretch-. ^ oduesi that the officer had never seen T( surpassed. His examination, though thorough, was j, rapid, jtie siumoiea over drunken men !and women who >ay beside empty bottles or *md beer cans upon the floor. He invaded; {Bleeping apartments and tosse 1 about the; m iheap* of rags wnich served as beds. "Find any ??ody?" crooned the old woman' loi ^who rented oot the mi^eiable apartment%} s tl* officer enoouniered her on tl roan3 floor. "Several things, Granny, bat not t! ne I seek just now.n 'I'm dreadful sorry. I'll open the do ?r you; it's got a funny kind of a catel "l won't trouble you; I'm going dow tair>.r "Bless you, this is the last floor." "B.nt you have a cellar?" "Sot a sign of one." "I know better! It was in the cellar bis house that I captured one of tl 'ronin suspects last spring. Out of n ay!" With a muttered curse the old womi omplied, and Hyland was soon descen ig a rickety flight of stairs, toward ark and exceedingly bad-smelling cells When its damn, almost slimy botto as reached, he 'produced and lighted iminutive but rather powerful dar mtem, by the lifrht of whioh he begi a investigation of the subterranei lace. It was divided into a number of room d bad onoe, evidently, been used as nman habitation, though this must ha een before the grading of the street hi but off the supply of lifiht and air. Hurriedly the anxious officer r? irough the place. He encounter* o end of debris, but no sign of life e: apt huge rats which scampered about. Satisfied that his quest was a vain on e prepared to return to the upper worl< Just then a peculiar sound smote h earing. He listened intently, and upc s repetition startled visibly. "A groan!" he muttered. "There's i oubt of it. But where?" Once more he fruitlessly examined tl iddering rooms. He was strangely puzzled and almo aspairing when, for the third time, ] card the ominous sound. Studying the direction from whence roceeded^he was not long in solving tl lystery. In one of the rooms, behind a pile < ibbish, he discovered an opening in tl lone wall wnicn peparatea ine 0011 om the one next adjacent. "The work of a crook who was oloi ressed." commented the detective. " as lucky that my Cronin man didn't fie last spring. Well, herb's for it." Cautiously and with., considerable difl llty the officer crept through the irregi irly shaped opening. Once again in a standing postnre 1 ished his lantern abont to gain son ea of the surroundincs. He had barely discerned that he ws l a long basement undivided by part one, when he saw lying on the groun ie semblance of a human form. "Cole Winters!" cried he, excitedly, oment later, as he stood over the inai aate form of onr hero. Setting down the lantern the detects >gan a systematic examination of th >nng man. "He's alive, and I can see no wounc bruises to account for his condition, used be, perplexedly. Just then the open trap-door above hii traoted bis eye. "Ha! I see! In trying to escape he fel >wn here and is suffering from tb lock. I'll soon revive him. Hyland took out a email vial iabele nmonia, and poured a little of the pox nt fluid upon bis handkerohief. This be applied to tbe nostrils of ox iro. "While I'm waiting for it U take ej ct I may as well 6earch him," decide e highly elated officer. In a moment he had discovered an awn from one of his coat pockets call bundle of saws and flies, of ti nd used by burglars. "I've got him dead to rights," chuckle yland, immeasurably pleased at tb idence of crookedness. "I'll bet he >t a jimmy in his boots." A hurried examination proved th: eory to be incorrect, but it served alt reveal an object in one of Cole's boot In a trice Hyland had drawn it froi j hiding place. "Great neavem!* he ejaculated, hi inds trembling like an aspen-leaf in t]j nd. "The missing bonds! Ten, twei ?I believe they're all here, Good ipitall My promotion " A groan interrupted him. Mat Hvlan is a humane man, and the soand of sui ring recalled him to his prisoner. He replaoed tbe saws ana files in Cole' icket, thrust the bonds into his owr id having removed the handkerchief feed the inanimate form in his arms. "He breathes freer," soliloquized th itective, "and is in no danger of dying want to keep this matter to myself fc e present. I'll go to the nearest dm ore for restoratives. When I take hit ray from here it will be with a fnll con ssion and the names of bis accomplice; r I'm sure he had one at leaBt." He laid Cole back npon the grounc d glided away to tbo opening in th ill. Two minntes later ho had gaine 9 sidewalk and was harrying up th :eet. He met with a number of provokin lays. The druggist was an unreason le time in giving, him the articles h tpatiently demanded. At the doorwa i encountered a brother officer, who fc me minutee engaged him in conversa >n about an important matter. Lastly small boy ran against him, dashing th ckage from his hand and breaking th closed bottles upon the sidewalk. By the time be had duplicated the rc jratives fully half an boar bad elapoec He lost no time in returning to the die il cellar. As he crawled through tho opening i e wall, and darted forward the rajs c a lantern, a cry of mingled chagrin an jmay swept his white lips. The trap-door in the floor was closec d Cole Winters had disappeared froi e place. CHAPTKK VIII. on the tbail. When the trio of guilty and desperat ?n, the triangle of crimo, we may saj parted from the Clark street housi iving behind them, as they suppowt e dead body of Cole Winters, they prt eded northward towards the businet ction pf the city. In a few minutes they entered a rooi ; the second floor of a buildutg, npo e door of which was tho legend: ; Max Morris, j ; Private Bankeb, : Money to Loan. I "Now for the bonds," said the propri* r of the place, as he proceeded to ligl ? o?a m | vocona ana smaller room, 1 bioh stood two large safes. "Yos," added Bloom. "Lot's oast on as orsr the plq&der." "How soon osn you tarn lb?m int shT" asked Boors, so he-drew the en?? pe from his pookot. "To-morrow." " Will thero be any danger?" "Not the wv -t'H work it. Large quai Lies of tbose bonds are daily sold ben y position and well-known respoctabil r will prevent the slightest suspicion 11 have the money ready by noon Vc oriow." "GoOdI There they are." "Shall I examine them?" "It isn't necessary." "I want it done," put in Bloom. "But we're in a hurry. Look 'em up h tur strongest Bafe, Max, and we'll t I" "I want to see 'em counted," said th irglar, doggedly. w unout more aao tne banker remove e rabber band and opened the en lope. "Here we are,r said he, gayly, as b :ew forth the content*, Ab tho reader knows, this consiste ily of worthless printed papers. "Confusion!" cried Morns, while Sear ade use of a much stronger word. As for Bloom, he said nothing. H oked from the bauker to the yoan I man, ana men sprang rorvara ana oangtsx the latter by the throat he "Help!" wheezed the victim, aa he was borne backward upon a sofa. or Max Morris at once flew to his aaaistu? ance, bnt the strength of the two availed q. nothing as against the powerfol burglar. "What do you mean?" demanded the banker. "Lethimgo!" "I mean," answered the enraged man, os he released Sears and rose to his feet, "that I don't propose to be cheated out of of the honest fruit of my labor in no auoh he way as that! I want my share, and m QJ1 have it, or have his life, and youra, too Max Morris, if you're in the scheme." "It's no scheme," said Sean, who was d-, on hiB feet now. "I've been robbed." a "Stuff!" sneered the burglar. ?i ?>? k*v jjuua lietc, mttUi wo va iracu **? h* deals together. Didn't I "afways * tot? * fair?" jq "So far sb I know, yes." ^ "Would I be fool enough to try such a game on yju?" "Hardly," admitted Bloom, though the 8'. scowl did not lift from his face. ? "I have it!" cried Morrie. r? "What?" chorused the others. "We're acted like children. That Cole Winters is just four times as smart as we '2 thought him." ~Lz "Wiiat is it? Do speak!" urged the r" t young man, eagerly. | "You put one $5,000 bond in his ?? ! pocket?" r "Yes, yes." lR "He wasn't satisfied with that." ,n "I don't understand " *So he appropriated the other fifty. 10 nine." "Whew!" 16 "And eubstitutod a lot of advertisements he picked up at the Exposition Bt last night. 20 "That's it!" assented Sears. "And the bonds?" asked Bloom. 11 "Are down in that cellar in one of the 10 deud man's pockets." No one made a suggestion, but all of acted on the one common impulse. In a le moment the three had qaitted the office, a* the proprietor locking the door after him. At the fastest gait possible they hnr9& ried down Clark street. They found the Iti coast clear, and were soon peering down 'd into the cellar, whose inky darkness hid ? (2 rum lilt) vy O B U1 tuo WVllU ? UUi? cuiu hideous crime. After a little they could discern the form of their victim. ie "Have yon a ladder?" asked Morris, ie eagerly. "There's one in front," replied Sears. * 'Wait a moment." i- "Oar good lack hasn't deserted us," d. 8 lid the latter, who was the first to descend. a Have yon fonnd them?" demanded 1- Bloom from the ladder. "No, I haven't looked yet. Bnt I've re fonnd something else." ie: "What's that?" "He's no more doad than you are." Isj "And his discovery hore" would havt convicted and hung the last one of us," commented the banker, with a shudder, m 'But we're in time to complete the work." "The bonds first," urgei the burly burII glnr. e This was an unnecessary suggestion, for Almon Sears was already in the act d of ransacking the pockets of the un1 conscious young man. "Here's a rum go," declared Morris, lb when Cole had been searched and not a vestigo of the missing fortune disoovk ered. "What do you soy, Al?" j "That he found them before our arrival, and hid them elsewhere." "I never thought of that Let's search ? for them at once." ,* "Not now; it's too risky." "What then?" "We'll take the young fellpw away, lQ bring him to, and make him locate the g plunder. I'll find a way to force it out of him." it " Good P cried the others, assent ingly. id Martin Bloom raised tho form of our t- hero in his powerful arms and bore him up the rude ladder as easily, to all apn pearances, as if he had been a child. This accomplished, the ladder was iq drawn up and the trap-door closed down. Lq Sears bogan a search for the bonds, H which he believed to bo secreted some[[ where in the long room, but abandoned it when tho "cracksman" returned and d announced that ho had seoured a hack, f. and that it was -waiting outside. Bloom removed his overcoat, which he B wrapped about Cole; then he raised him in his arms and followed his confederal ates into the street. ' It was beginning to rain now, and fow e people were, in view. Anyhow, the. takr. iDg away of a sick man, us our hero ?pH pefired to be. wa3 neither a strange nor g unusual proceeding, and attracted little q attention" "Drive fast," said Soars, who was the . Inot nf tlia nnrtv In Antfir tliA nurriuOA. "Safe!" whispered the banker, as with I, a sigh of relief he sank baok upon the e cushioned seat. d But ho oould not hnTe been further <3 troui the truth. At that moment himself and guilty companions woro anything but ? safe. * From the doorv;ay of tbo next building, e which Detective Hyland wai in the act of y leaving, the entiro transaction had been ,j observable. "Three accomplice#!" muttered he,"and . one of them Almon Sears! I haven't lost q tlie trail yetl Hero gons!" g As tho" driver cracked his whip and drove rapidly awoy the plucky detectivo sprang forward and secured a place upon I tho rear axle of the large vohicle. .* [TO DE COKTIKUED.j 3 WORDS OF WISDOM. 4 The lazy dog is pestered most by the A calf ib not valued by the loudness of its bawl. He who leads time by the forelock can q sleep well at night. r. The prettiest blossom"? do not always '? hold the sweetest honey. Growling at the times will not lift the is mortgage on your farm. Success in on the hill top, you cannot u cet there without climbing. Be the kind of man that you would like'to have your boys become. It is no money in your pocket to fail to make your stables comfortable. The sunshine of a glad heart make3 i- the darkest, dreariest day radiant and it pleasant,. 1 There is more solid comfort in a smile il than in a whole gross of frowns. It is good economy to smile. ** If you get mad go to the looking glass and watch yourself growl, and see how quick you will quit it. > ?. Salesman (great store)?Thi? coat fits your little girl nicely. Lady J; (thinking of next season)?Yes. ft does now, but I think we'd better take a size larger. Little Girl?Oh, yes, 1 forgot. We have to wait !o: our chancre.?Good news. D e Little JonNNY?May I hitch the dog to my sled and have him pull me? Mother?I'm afraid he will bite vou. Little Johnny?It's tho d other end I'm going to hitch.?Good News. 0 The crusade against kissing is <5y3 ing a natural death. When young people feel like Indulging in such lux? 8 uries, it is not the fear of diseasee contamination that will restrain ft thp.m. F1HUM "THE LAND OP THE THOU84N LAKES." The Upright and Hospitable PVni ?Singular Features of the PinUi?h Language? Habit* ot toe People, Ysb^AR away in tli la North, where tl waters of the coa and mighty se A.fl] jU roar in their ii caverns, w h e i the foam of tl cataracts n e e *- *" freezes, where tl green of the pine never withera," whc: the gray and unyielding rocks comprei the foaming rivers into narrow gorges here, for thousands of years, the powei of nature have waged their ceaselea strife without rest, without reconcilia tion. The river never tires of beatin against the rocks, the rocks never til of beating back the stream. The mouc tain crags never grow old. The immens morasses defy cultivation. The frost] clear winter sky quivers forever in tl northern light and looks down wit serene and majestic calm upon the seal tered huts aloDg the river bank. Thii savi the San Francisco Chronicle, is Fin .land. The coast of Finland stretches di north until a few miles south of Wast At the sixty-third degree of latitude makes a decided cutve to the northeast The great blue Bothnian Gulf follow the same direction, narrowing for a mc ment in the Quark, then widening agait and leaning its high brow against Fin land's breast. With greater freedoi than eisewnere toe Arctic win as swee against the coasts, driving between tb ' islands and beating with terrible vi( lence against the roqks. This is a ver paradise for smuggling, and no numbe of cruisers would be able to prevent i The only successful means to chec smuggling to some extent was by a ligl TOWN tariff with few prohibitions, which ha been in operation for some jean. Helsingfors, the capital of Finland, i the most important naval station on th Baltic, beautifully situated on a penin sula, surrounded by islands and rockj cliffs, in the Gulf of Finland. Sreaborg the northern Gibraltar, guards the en trance to its harbor. It is the handsom est and largest city in Finland. It ha broad streets, which intersect at righ angles, and several fine public squares The most striking among its publi buildings are the Governor's residence the Senate House and the Univenit buildings. The University, remove from Abo in 1829, was founded in 1640 It comprises five faculties, has fifty pro fessors and about 800 students. II libraries contain 140,000 volumes. Ilel singfors has about 35,000 inhabitants. Among its other towns Abo, 'situatec en the river Aurajokki, near its em bouc&ure in the Gulf of Bothnia, with t popalation of 20,000, is famous for th< peace concluded here in August, 1743 between Sweden and Russia, whicl ended the war in whicb Russia gaine( possession of the whole of Finland Wihorg, which derives its name froo Vich (cattle), is a pretty, prosperou town, the third in importance in Fin land. It has a curious old clrculai market-place and a castle founded b, Torkel Knutson in 1293. Finland truly deserves its appellation "the land of the thousand lakes," see ing that they occupy more than twelvi A FINN PEASANT. and the marshes twenty per cent, of it area, 30 that Finland is mori abundantly supplied with water thai any other country in the world. Immense foreBts cover one-half its surface, extending northward as far as Lake Enare. Of the whole population eighty 5?ro nop font nrv 'PinnQ nrnnpp. fniirtflpn - ? I [---I per cent, are Swedish-speaking traders, peasants and farmers, these latter living mostly on the coasts and islands. Th< people are strong and hardy, witt bright, intelligent face3 and high cheel bones. Yellow hair is common, but b< no means the rule, black or brown beim frequently met with in the interior With regard to their social habits, morals and manners, all travelers an unanimous in speaking well of them. Their temper is universally mild, they are slow to anger, and when angry thej keep silence. They are happy-hearted, affectionate to one another and honor able in their dealings with strangers, They are ft cleanly people, being much given to the use of vapor batha. This trait is a conspicuous note of then character /rom their earliest history t( the jpreaw'* da/. Often in the runes of \ (be "B^levMa" reference is made to the cleansing and beating virtues of the vapors of the heated bathroom. They U are morally upright and have an honesty I. PEASANT NATIONAL COSTUME, it | and simplicity of character totally s fornion to that rtf the Russian. Thev >- are hospitable, faithful and submissive, x with a keen sense of personal freedom - and independence, but they are also n somewhat stolid and revengeful. Superp stition flourishes among the Finns to a le fir greater extent than is generally ) known, and often takes the form of y quaint legends. t The Finnish language, supposed to t. have once embraced the greater part of k Northwestern Europe, is a difficult one. it Its musical element;, the vowels are well I __l . ^ IN FINLAND. s sustained, and their due sequence is subject to strict rules of euphony. The b dotted o?in pronunciation somewhat e similar to the French en?of the first I syllable must be followed by an e or an 1 r i. Rhyme is admitted with reluctance, \ , alliteration being preferred. The Fin- ; nish alphabet contains but nineteen let ter3, and of these b, c, d, f and g are j ,9 found only in a few foreign words. t A singular feature of this Iaaguage and . one that is also characteristic of the c Magyar, Turkish and other kindred tf tongues, consists of the frequent U9e of y endearing diminutives. By a series of d suffixes to the names of human beings, . birds, fishes, trees, plants, stones, met' als, and even actions, events and' feels ings, diminutives are obtained which by [ their forms present the names so made in different colors; they become more 1 naive, more childlike, eventually more roguish or humorous. The English i language is poor in this respect, so this i trait is almost lost in translating Finnish , into English. It is a language of a h people who live close to nature and are < 1 at home among the animals of the wil- i . derness. Beasts and birds, winds, a woods and waters, falling snows and i 8 flying sands, as well as rolling rocks, are - carefully distinguished by correspondr ing verbs of everchanging acoustic im7 port. The Fions are extremely careless about I , family names, arguing, "If the family does not exist, what is the use of giving s the child a name?" In 1836 a ukase wa9 - framed compelling the clergy to add a family name to that of a saint given in baptism. In the earliest age of Suomi it appears that the people worshiped the conspicuous objects in nature under their respective and sensible form?. As the existence of invisible agencic3 was recognized, these were attributed to su?rnkrt 1 irrar\ ln^onon^onf. rif [JCliWI pciav/uo TT**V Ufv- w. ' these visible entities, but at the same time were connected with them. The : idea of Finnish mythology seems to lie in this: That all objects in nature are governed by invisible deities or genii independent of one another. Ukko (signifying old, all-father) is re- I yarded as the highest of Finnish deities. , Frost, snow, hail, ice, wind and rain, sunshine and shadow, are thought to < come from the hands of Ukko. In the < Kalevala he is called ''Leader of the > Clouds," "God of the Breezes," "Golden King," "Silver Ruler of the Air," . "Fatner of the. Heavens," etc. He is I S benign and gracious, when the Virgin Marietta, after a long, vain speech, im- < plores him to tell where her "golden infant lies bidden," he, full of solicitude - for her grief, tells her? g Yonder is thy golden infant; i . There thy holy babe lies sleeping, l Hidden to his belt in water, Hidden in the raeds and rushes. , Among the deities of the air are the I mystic maidens, some of whom were . created bj the rubbing of Ukko's hand | t upon bis left knee. They walk the , crimson borders of the clouds?one r sprinkles white milk, one sprinkles red > milk and the third sprinkles black milk 1 over the hills and mountains. c Any one looking at the mift of Pinf land will see that it is full of nannes like j Pyhajirvi (sacred lake) and Pyhojski , (sacred river). Some of the old Fin, landers still offer.goats and calves to 5 these sacred waters. In Esthonia is a rivulet, Vohcnda, held in such reverence that until very recently none dared to fell a tree or cut a shruD in its iminedi, ate vicinity lest death overtake the of* 1 ?'? Miniokmonf fnr ienaer witmu a jeai ah pumgum^uv ?vi , hia sacrilege. y i Nowhere are the inconsistencies of . i human theory and practice more curir ously and forcibly shown than in the cus> torn in rogue among the old Finns, who i are not believers in a future life, but 1 nevertheless perform each funeral ceremonies as burying in the grave of the dead knifes, hatchets, spears bows and arrows, kettles, food, clothing and saow shoes, thus bearing witness to their prac- 1 tical recognition of some form of life be* yond the grave. The Finns regard tbe crows as spiritB of dead sisters and broth* ers. Th e dei ties of the air, waters, trees, and mountains are almost innumerable. The language abounds ia proverbs, charades, legends, etc. Upward of 9000 of these have been collected t>y the industrious aDd enthusiastic Swedish savant Lonnrot. The first book printed in Finnish was about 1543. The Bible was * * >-*-3 m !.u *S1I 1 ftAO not iransiaiea into nuuiBu uu ivi*. Societies of literature, sciences and all branches of art are numerous in Finland. Commercial Value of Mammies. Even dead men have a commercial value nowadays. From the mummies of ancient Egypt is manufactured a kind of paint called 4'mummy brown." It can J< be purchased at any shop where artists' materials are sold. For some' time it was alleged that the mummies employed ^ for this purpose were those of birds and Ii beasts^ such as cats and ibisses, but an ?j osteologist who interested himself in the )a subject found in some of the raw stuff u imported from Egypt certain bones which U were unquestionably human. mm W The Forestry Exhibit at the Fair. ? The foreign countries wbich obtained space inside the forestry building at the * World's Fair are Japan, Honduras, Peru, ? Hayti, Spain, Germany, Ecuador, Co- 0 lombia, Brazil, Mexico, New South t Wales, Canada, Rassia, Italy, France, Siam and India. Each of these coun* tries has a separate space and makes a t showing of its most characteristic woods. I Miniature structures have been built, 0 with arches and railings of natural wood " and in rustic design. Canada has the o largest space of any foreign Government, and the various provinces of the Dominion make an interesting showing of their timber resources. The States and Territories which have interior exhibits are: Pennsylvania, r Louisiana, Virginia, Arizona, Kentucky, t Minnesota; Nebraska, Montana, Wyo- d ming, New Mexico, Wisconsin, North r Dakota, Ohio, Washington, Michigan, * West Virginia, Missouri, North Car- r olina, Indiana, Maine, New York, Cali- v fornia, Utah and Idaho. Of these West 13 Virginia and Michigan have the largest n space, and the exhibits from these States t are on an elaborate scale. Other States n show peculiarly unique specimens, and the grouping of woods in the various a spaces forms a most artistic whole'. Sections of tree trunks have been built one on top of the other, and each portion of t the exhibit will be accompanied by de- * tailed information as to the locality pro- 0 ducing the exhibit, the area still under t fit I 1 PENNSYLVANIA'S WAT OF SHOWING TTMBBB V I tl growth and where located, and all other o pertiaeat information. . ? P Fifty Yearj of Fa9h(on. ? What a funny looking person a woman c would be with a,combination dress of all ^ of fashion's absurdities during the last tl fifty years. al Tremble when you look at it, the hoop n skirt, the big sleeves, the sweeping 2 COM BIN ATIOK OF FASHION'S ABSURDITIES. h< q? train, the piled up hair and the eccentrio head dress of to-day or half a ceatury te iince, as you please. ra Just think what a strenuous objection j* we would have from the ladies were all dc these different fashions merged into one. al The Ion# suffering and obedient ^ American would never stand it.?New York Herald. ? ol Brulu is Dismasted. . //sT-?-*. he , h 'Jee whiz! Only one hunter in tvm vii veeks! I believe I'll join a mcnagcta* a}] -Life. " da uii A handsome park, iu memory of Ed- ?1 vard P. Roe, the late novelist, it to bp aid out in Cornwall, Nr Y-, tic =_ 1 TEtPERANCE, TBI TOPXB'S BOJta. There's a song the toper lores to hoar, 'Tis sweetest music to his ear, A At mora or noon, by day or night; It ever gives him fresh delight; , 'lis the glug, glng, glug Of the whisky jug! . /. He hears not though the wife may pleadr To love and duty gives no heed; 1 In vain the children cry for bread; The only sonnd that's in his head Is the glng, glug, glug Of the whisky jug 1 .Jfe Onoe he was honest, good and kin- j To noble, manly ways inclined; But sow to shame and honor dead, 4 From home and happiness he's led By the glng, glug, glug Or the whisky jug! fa. Deceived by this beguiling song, On downward track he speeds along; And soon among the lost appears, ~ 1 Where mingled with the demon cheers ? ( Is the glug, glug, glug ' Of the whisky jug! \ wephine Pollard, in Temperance Advocafoy FOB WAGE XAB.VERS TO PONDEB. It is estimated that the wage-earners paV xty per cent, of the drink .bill of Engiandy ! the same proportion holds here, the wag^ irners pay out about $730,000,000 a year In le United States?enough to endow ever* ibor organization with a permanent fmxv ) make every labor paper a daily, to estafr*, ah one hundred ereat universities. to buv; at fifty of the great trust* and to buy sffTral trunk line railroads every year 1 If ther age-sarners want the earth, hare's one ?n t getting it.?The Voice. -j ,y arr kind or liquor rsoH th* tuxt taxJ Congressman Burrows, of Michigan, whoi otxoduced a resolution tor an investigation) f the Whisky Trusts make serious charge* gainst that organization, alleging, among1 ther things, extensive and injurious aduiJ orations. He says: * M . "From the same vat of spirits can be pro* s,;> need whisky of any age, rum from JamaiOK r any other place on the globe, brandy* rom the most celebrated districts an "ranee, and the most approved after dinnetj ordials, and gin that would deceive th* lost educated tastes, can all be prodaoedj rom a few jars of coloring matter and viataj . f drugs, upon the labels of some of which] ppear tne skull and cross-bones as a warn*' ' v igtothe user." - , . THE DAirGIB LI5*. Hundreds of thousands of young mea art ' I apidly rushing into drunkenness, because J if the deceitfulness of their expectation that 1 hey con escape the liability of passing the V .\ anger line. In the name of truth and , ighteousness we appeal to all of them to ,' tudy the record of experience, and they ' rill thereby learn that they will havi ? fm eached that danger line when they enter ~ ipon the .drink habit. Some of them may, iftf. ? ? ? J ,J " m * " " uiav JWC? uuti a majority or 10601 - 7 nil do so. We do not mean chat all of this VsT aajority will reel through the streets, but Vu he moral, physical and mental manhood of: *. joflt of the u wjli be impaired, which it ^ j radical drunkenness; and very many of hem will go down to visible degradation: nd to death.?Sacred Heart Review. RUIIIJtU BT B&ZR. ; '"A A man who has given a good deal of at* ' ention to the subject says that the beverges of the American people have ruined ; rnat were originally the finest complexions ,j n earth. That beer is absolutely ruinons to ?autv is a declaration that oan be cttfained by any amount of evidence. Beer makes people stuffy, and the skis. v ;rowi leathery ana yellow. The more imJ >ure it is and the more it is doctored, the nore injurious It is, and at the present rate >f things, the time is not far distant when his beverage wf'i be entirely shnt out of tbe 1st of indulgences among women who oare or their good looks. It is more injurious to women than to KMB ' ^ inly because tbty are less active and throw ' - : u? iff leas of its Hi effects. At its best it is trf ie avoided, and at its worst, or even undff! irdinai? conditions, it is to most women but ' ittle less than a rank poison. i Vr? "WHAT TOOLS TBXSK MORTALS BXT' Dr. Carlos F. McDonald, State Lanaey Commissioner, gives as the principal causes f insanity "wine, women, worry and rork." Next to the very general and odefinite cause of "hereditary tendency? : rbich may be iaduoed by any or al| of the irst-raepooned causes; Commissioner Mo* mt9 that the tieeof alcoholic honors i most laigely responsible for filling our inrj ane asylums. This ii directly in line witk n account given a few days ago in the'imesof the pauper insane of this city,. . 'heroin it was reported that alcoholism is' he direct cause of over one-half the case* f insanity among paupers. What a com' lentary upon our Boasted intelligence and ivilizatioo! First we license the sale of a. * i. oison which, it is admitted, is the. chief) ause of lunacy, then tax ourselves hundreds f thousands of dollar* to build asylums and' are for its victims; and this aside from theaorful burdens of crime and pauperism rhich we admittedly, bear as the result of, lis same licensed sale of poison. Whea ball we learn wisdon and economy?not tolention humanity?and dam up the source t this stream of waste and wretchedness*' tie licensed liquor traffic??Now York. roice? LIQUOR DRIRKING IN XNQLAND. A lady writing to the London newspapers / om fashionable West End urged society ames to abstain from drinking champagne aring Lent and give the money thus saved > the poor. The appeal is a curious one, and le assumption upon which it is eonfiden- . ally based is scarcely flattering to the rich omen of England. How much wine does British woman of fashion drink in the )urse of six weeks? Obviously the estimate ould be difficult to make. The writer of lis appeal declares that "if only a few ,diea would put themselves bravely into this ttle champagne movement during Lent nndreds of starving souls woald be reeved." Concurrently with this peculiar appeil >mes the announcement that the British overnment proposes this seuion to deal ith the very serious and growing evil of 3me drinking by women of tha middle and wer middle classes. The ezistencd of this ice is due in large measure to the granting i retail grocers of licenses for the sale of ine, beer and spirits. Since this system was tablished about twenty yeir.s ago the drink smon has entered thousands of decent )useholds and has stayed there with couselences that are told almost daily in the >lice and divorce courts. Its victims would se caste if seen drinking iu taverns or ho* Is, but it is deplorably easy for the.n to aringe with the family grocer to supply an icasional bottle of wine or spirits and eatar in the bill as tea or coffee. The thing is< me every day in thousands of homes, aud most the oniy way to kill it is to abolish e grocers' licenses, which the Government expected to do.?-Chicago Herald. rafPEOANCK NCW8 AND NOTSS. Putting screens in the saloon doors is on* the devil's ways of trying to bide his face. There is sail to be investo I in American ewariea about 191,000,(XX) of English capU I. Any old maid can gather personal conso- , tion by looking at some other woman's 'unlcun husbana. It is asserted that in E tinburgh, Scotland,. ere Is daily spent about $10,000 in alcoholic ) inks?more than the inhabitants pay for e rent of their houses. The temperance cause is advancing among ritish soldiers in India. Lord Roberts says i has under his command 14,500 British ldieri pledge J to total abstinence. The next World's W. C. T. U. Convention 111 beheld in Chicago immediately follow Z the National VV. C. T. If. Cjnvontion in :tol>er. Prominent speakers from all counies will address the meetings. Carefully drawn statistic.? of 4500 crirails who have passo.i through Eunira Rennatory, New York, slio v drunkenness jarly existing in tin parents of 33 7 per nt., and probably in 11 I per cant. more. The physicians who bad c'large of the olera patients at Hamburg male special * oris to learn the previous habits of' tho utimsof the epidemic in the matter of food d drink. They found the mortality espec!y heavy anions inebriatos. One of the dy reports &aid: 'The deaths of eig ityae heavy drinkers?twelve of them wo.nen lave boen reported, and among the fresh ses a corresponding increase in tha numr of intemperate persons has been noed."