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I do not like to bear him pray, Who loans at twenty-five per cent., For then I think the borrower may Be pressed to pay for food and rent; And in that book we all should heed, Which says the lender shall be blest, As sure as I have eyes to read, It does not say, "Take interest." I do not like to hear him pray, On bended knees, about an hour, For grace to spend aright the day, Who knows his neighbor has no flour. I'd rather see him go to mill, And buy the luckless brother bread, And see his children eat their fill, And laugh beneath their humble shed. I do not like to hear him pray, "Let blessings on the widow be," Who never seeks her home to say, "If want o'ertakes you, come to me." I hate the prayer so long and loud That's offered for the orphan's weal, By him who sees him crushed by wrong, And only with his lips doth feel. I do not like to hear her pray, With jeweled ear and silken dress, Whose washerwoman toils all day, And then is asked to "work for less." Such pious shavers I despise! With folded hands and face demure, They lift to Heaven their "angel eyes," Then steal the earnings of the poor. I do not like such soulless prayers; If wrong, I hope to be forgiven; No angel's wing then upward bears, They're lost a million miles from Heaven! ROSINE'S HAIR. -0 In an upper room, in the city of Paiis, a poor woman lay upon a %retched bed, and a young girl sat near her. Both had been si lent for some time. The elder woman spoke first. 'Oh, Rosibe, what shall we do now ?' she said. 'It has been bad enough before, but now all is lost -all is over. People cannot iive without eating, and no one can eat who has not money to buy food. What shall we do, child ?' 'I do not know,' said the girl. 'I have been to all the people I know. They refuse to help us. They have helped us so much that we cannot wonder at it, I fear. I have asked for work. There seems to be none for mue. Ab, ow different it was when we were all together, and papa petted us and gave us presents, and we wore such lovely clothes, and rode often in a carriage ! I re member papa taking us to the great gardens, and seeingth swans upon the lake and hearing beautiful music-' ''Stop. child ! I cannot bear it,' sobbed the mother. 'I cannot bear to remember our happiness now, when we are so sorrowful so miserable. Oh, if I were but able to do something ! But I cannot lift my head 'from the pillow.' The sick woman sank back and the, poor daughter dropped her ead upon her hands, as she sat be side the window wide open on that sultry winter evening. All was Si lent in the little room, but the sound of voices came up from the street below as those who passed addressed each other. Fragments of talk, snatches of anecdotes, jokes, even tendei- words, reached the girl. But, at last, two girls, saleswomen probably, going home from their places of employment, lingered for an instant on the pavement. 'You ought to dress your hair in braids,' said one. 'So I would, but I haven't enough,' replied the other. 'Buy a switch,' said the first. 'Easy for you to talk,' said number two ; 'but for hair like mine-real pale gold-thbey charge two hundred fr-ancs. You see, it is so hard to match.' Thbe girls went on, but they left an id'ea bebind them. Rosine started to ber feet. 'Au revoir, mamma,' sh~e cried. 'I am going out for a little while. Perhaps I may have good luck this time,' and she hurried into the street. Thbe girl's words had taught her that there was one way in whbich she could earn a little money. She could sell her hair. It was her greatest beauty. It fell below the knee. It was pale gold in tint, .... exnniskitl waved by nature's hand. A hair-dresser must appre ciate it. She felt that. Through the gathering twilight she hurried along the street until she reached an establishment of the proper sort. it was a quiet place, with a waxen bead sur mounted by a wig in the window, and with false curls and mustaches set upon little stands amongst fancy soaps, combs, brushes and boxes of pearl-powder and rouge. The proprietor and his assistants were there, and one customer only-a gentleman, who had been having his hair cut. Rosine entered timidly, and walked toward the hair.dresser -whom she knew by sight-with hesitating steps. 'Monsieur,' she said, 'I wish to sell my hair, if you will buy it. It is very handsome, ant, as yoa see of an unusual color.' The hair-dresser listened care-' lessly. 'That might make it impossible for as to sell it again,' he said. 'But it would command a large price,' persisted Rosine. 'Let me show it to you.' 'As you please, Mademoiselle,' said the hair-dresser. Rosine having received this per mission, took down her bonnet and drew her comb from her hair. It fell about her like a gol den veil glittering, and waving wonderfully. One of the assis tants gave a little cry of pleasure. The customer repressed an excla ination. The proprietor alone seemed unmoved, unappreciative. 'I will buy your hair, Mademoi selle, since you are so anxious to sell it, but it is, as you say, of so unusual a color, that I cannot give much for it. Ten francs is the utmost.' 'Ten francs,' sighed the girl. 'Oh-sir, is that all you will give me for my lovely hair ?' 'You need not sell it. I am not anxious to buy,' said the pro prietor, turning his back upon er. 'Take it,' said Rosine, dropping into a chair. The proprietor took down his scissors. At this moment the gentleman who bad arisen from beneath the ands of the hair-dresser and don ned his hat preparatory to de parture, approached and addressed Rosine. '1 beg pardon, Mademoiselle, but few young girls would be will ing to sell that hair of yours for any sum whatever,' he said, kind ly. 'May I ask your motive ?' 'My mother is very ill-we need food and medicine,' said Rosine. 'I only grieve that I cannot have more money for it. I think it is worth more.' 'I would give a hundred francs for it,' said the gentleman. 'Will you sell it to me ?' 'Is Monsieur in the hair-dressing line ?' asked the proprietor. 'No,' said the gentleman ; 'I shall buy it for my wife. I hope. Well, Mademoiselle, will you sell it to me ?' 'Oh, yes Monsieur, we can live a long while on a hundred francs,' cried Rosine. 'See, then,' said the gentleman, opening his pocket-book. 'Here is the money. You may sign a receipt for it, and give me your address. I do not wish to cut it off' until my wife arrives in the city. You can wear it until then.' 'Oh, Monsieur,' cried IRosine, 'may I not have it cut off at once. We are stranges. It seems-s"me. how more-more. I mean that if I take the money before I give you my hair, I will feel as though I had been begging ; and poor as we are, mamma and I, and un. ladylike as selling one's hair must seem, my faither was a gentleman of good position, and we were once as far from expecting sac b reverses as any who now live in luxury. I know my hair is fine. 1 know it is worth what you offer, but 1 want to give it to you now, 'Give me your address instead,' said the gentleman. '1 will keep this receipt you have written, and when I introduce my wife to you, you shall give it to me. She is not in Paris now, but if you ,.ang your residence you will be honorable enouge to let me know, Mademoiselle.' 'Oh, yes, Monsieur,' cried Ro sine. 'You have saved mamma from starvation, and I would not cheat you for the whole world,* and Rosine tied on her bonnet and ran out of the hair dresser's shop and home as fast as she could go. 'Your wife will not wait for her bair, Monsieur,' said the hair dresser with a smile. 'Excuse me, but are you always so con fiding ?' 'I am not afraid,' said the gen tleman. 'That is a young lady.' 'A girl who runs about Paris alone like that to sell her hair? Monsieur is evidently from the country,' said the hair-dresser as contemptuously as he dared, for the customer had spoiled a good bargain for him. Meanwhile Rosine had told her story to her mother. 'One hundred francs, mamma!' cried Rosine. 'One hundred francs! You can have wine, and coffee, and medicine. You will get well.' 'Yes, child, if Grod wills it,' said the mother. 'And I will work hard ; I will earn money. We will pay the gentleman his hun dred francs, and your lovely hair shall never be cut off.' 'My hair will grow again, mam ma,' said Rosine. 'Now taste what I bought for you in the little shop at the corner.' As time passed on Rosine did give a sigh sometimes when she thought of the moment when her shining tresses should be shorn. She was only fifteen, but she was old enough to value her own great beauty. However her mother recovered. They gained employment, and were rather more comfortable. They changed their apartments for neater and more airy rooms, and Rosine sent her address promptly to the purchaser of her golden locks. One day he made his appear ance. He was as courteous as thungh Rosine and her mother had been ladies of rank, and be fore he went he left a number of fle handkerchiefs to be elaborate ly marked, but the hair was not yet neded. His wife had not arrived in Paris. His name, as they al ready knew, was Monsieur Brun. After this he brought them many valuable orders for embroidery, for bhich his servant always called. So the year passed. Rosine was sixteen-it was her birthday. Her moter had bought her a little bouquet of viplets, but later in the day another gift arrived. Mon ieur Brun brought it himself. It was an exquisite basket of tea roses and heliotrope. Madame --was at the moment absent from home. Rosine received him, blushing. She thanked him for his gift. 'You have been so ugood to us, Monsieur,' she said. 'How eaa I thank you?' 'My dear Mademoiselle, you can repay me for much more than I have done,' replied Monsieur. 'I am almost afraid to ask it, but -will you give me your hair ?' 'You have already bought it, Monsieur,' said IRosine. '1 will have it cut off at once. Madame,. then, has arrived ?' But somehow she felt that all the brightness of the day had fled. Her heart grew heavy, and tears came to her eyes. It was not only the thought of parting with her hair that grieved her. She became suddenly aware that Monsieur B. was more to her than a mere benefactor. 'Madame has not yet arrived,' replied Monsieur B. 'Indeed, I have never been married ; but I hope for a wife, and she must wear your hair. IRosine, 1 came to ask for your bair, but not that it ebould be shorn from your lovely head. I will only take it if you give me yourself with it. Rosine, will you be my wife ? I have already asked your mamma, and she accepts me for you, if you can care for me.' 'Care for you,' sobbed Rosine ; and the world grew bright again, and with her lover's first kiss be came Paradise. [istteIaneous. 1t THE BRAKEMAN WHO WENT t TO CHURCH. To me comes the brakeman, and seating himself on the arm of the seat, says: 'I went to church yesterday.' 'Yes?' I said, with that interest ed inflection that asks for more. r And what church did you at- e tend ?' 'Which do you guess ?' he a asked. 'Some union mission church ?' I g hazarded. h 'Naw,' he said, 'I don't like to ! run on these brancb roads very a much. 1 don't often go to church, and when I do, I want to run on the main line, where your run is I regular and you go on a schedule t time and don't have to wait on onnections. I don't like to run >n a branch. Good enough, but t [ don't like it.' 'Episcopal?' I guessed. e 'Limited express,' he said, 'all palace cars and two dollars extra b for a seat; fast time, and only t stops at the big' stations. Nice a ine, but too exhaustive for a I brakeman. All train men in uni- a orm, conductor's punch and lan- C tern silver plated, and no train !, boys allowed. Then the passen- o ers are allowed to talk back at d the conductor; and it makes them t toojfree and easy. No, I couldn't d stand the palace cars. Rich road, a ,hough. Don't often hear of a r receiver being appointed for that line. Some mighty niee people Y travel on it, too.' a 'Universalist?' I guessed. t 'Broad gauge,' said the brake man. 'does too much compliment- t ary business. Everybody travels y on a pass. Conductor doesn't get s a fare once in fifty miles. Stops at all flag stations, and won't run a into anything- but a union depot. No smoking car on the train. Train orders are vague. though, r and the trainmen don't get along well with the passengers. NO, I e don't go to the Universalist~ tough I know some awfully good a men who run on that road.' r 'Perhaps you went to the Uni tarians ?' 'No, I didn't, but I might have done worse. That is a mighty a good road, well ballasted witht reason, though it runs through t a region a little bit cold, and there is apt to be some ice and snow on the track, but in case of accident thereo is no danger ofv upsetting the stoves and being -d burnt up ; and there's one good t thing about it, the neighbors are generally ready to come and help ~ when you do get into trouble. g, They like to have things nice and a comfortable in this world, doing t what they tbink is about right and taking their chances for thbe other. They don't seem to take much stock in being as miserable * as you can here in the bope that you will be the happier for it ' there. They seem to think that a V man's going to reap th'e same kind r of crop that he plants, and that d if he puts in a selfish, worthlessd kind of a life on this earth it ain't P -going to come out a very fine I specimen in heaven. Seems to P mue some sense as well as poetryd r that but I was raised an ortho- t4 ox, and 'twouldn't do for me to, 0. b seen on that train or I might lose my place on the other line, it as there's a good deal of corn- ti petition between the two roads, and P >ur folks are getting afraid of osing travel.' 'Presbyterian ?' I asked. 'Narrow gaage, ehb?' said the 's rakeman, 'pretty track, straight r s a rule; tunnel right through a al nountain rather than go around ti t; spirit-level grade; passengers r ave to show their tickets before w bey get on the train. Mighty ti strict road, but the cars are a lit- T le narrow ; have to sit one in a t eat and no room in the aisle to St ance. Then there's no stop-over it ,ick ets allowed ; got to go straighbt OJ brough to the station you're g: ,icketed for, or you can't get on 10 at all. Whben the car's full, no ex- al ra coaches; cars built at. the h hops to hold just so many and cl obody elbie allowed on. But you ti nn't. ofen hear of an accident on tv bis road. It's run right up to be rules.' t 'Maybe you joined the free c iiukers ?' I said. r 'Scrub road,'said the brakeman, lirt road bed and no ballast ; no t me card and no train di6pateber. t .11 trains run wild and every en- I ineer makes bis own time, just r 3 he pleases. Smoke if you want t ; kind of a go-as-you-please r >ad. Too many side tracks and ; very switch wide open all the I me, with the switchman sound i sleep and the target lamp dead ut. Get on as you please and f et off when you want to. Don't t ave to show your tickets, and t 3e conductor isn't expected to do nything but amuse the passen- r ers. No, sir, I was offered a ass, but I don't like the line. don't like to travel on a line bat has no terminus. Do you now, sir, I asked a division su erintendent where that road run >, and he said he hoped to die if e knew. I asked him if the gen ral superintendent could tell me, nd be said he didn't believe they ad ageneralsuperintendent,and if ey had he didn't know any more bout the road than the passengers. asked him who he reported to, nd he said 'nobody.' I asked a >nductor who he got his orders -om, and he said he didn't take rders from any living man or ead ghost. And when I asked e engineer who be got his or ers from, he said he'd like to see nybody give him orders, he'd un that train to suit himself or e'd run it into the ditch. Now ou see, sir, I'm a railroad man, nd I don't care to run on a road bat makes no connections, runs owhere and has no superin 3ndent. It may be all right, but 've railroaded too long to under and it.' 1 'Did you try the Methodist ?' I sked. 'Now you're shouting,' be said rith some enthusiasm. 'Nice oad, ebh? Fast time and plenty of assengers. Engines carry a pow-i r of steam, and don't you forget I steam gauge shows a hundred nd enough all the time. Lively oad ; when the conductor shoutsj i aboard,' you can hear him to be next station. Every traint tmp shines like a hedih. Stop ver checks given on all through ekets; passengers drop off the rain as often as they like, do the tation two or three days and hop n the next revival train that omes thundering along. Good, rolesouled, companionable con uctors ; ain't a road in the coun ry where the passengers feel( iore at home. No passes ; every assenger pays full traffic rates > his ticket. Wesleyan house ir brakes on all trains, too. Pret-( 7 safe road, butlI didn't ride over yesterday.'t 'May be you went to the Congre ational church ?' I said. 'Popular road,' said the brizke an, 'an old road, too; one of the< ery oldest in this country. Goodr >ad-bed and comfortable cars. rell-managed road, too ; directors on't interfere with division su- t erintendents and train orders. oad's mighty popular, but it's retty independent,, too. See, ] idn't one of the division superin mdents down East discontinue se of the oldest stations on this ne two or three years ago? But 's a mighty pleasant road to avel on. Always has such ay easant class of passengers.' s 'Perhaps you tried the Baptist ?'I guessed once more. 'Ab, ha!' said the ~brakeman, e's a daisy, isn't she ? River >ad ; beautiful curves ; sweep 'ound anything to keep close to ie river, hut it's all steel rail and >ck ballast, single track all the ay, and not a side track from C e road-house to the terminus' akes a heap of~ water to run her rough ; double tanks aL every ation, and there isn't an engine t the shops that can pull a pound o -run a mile in less than two uges. But it runs through -a vely country ; tbese river roads a ways do ; river on one side and b ls on the other, and it's a steady imb up the grade all the way I the run ends where the foun- rr nhadi of the river benn. Yes, E ir, I'll take the river road every ime for a lovely trip ; sure onnections and good time, and to prairie dust blowing in at the vindows. And yesterday when he conductor came round for the ickets with a little basket punch, didn't ask him to pass me, but I >aid my fare like a little man wenty-five cents for an hour's -un, and a little concert by the >assengers thro wed in. I tell you ?ilgrim, you take the river road when you want-' But just here the long whistle rom the engine announced a sta ion, and the brakeman hurried o the door, shouting : 'Zionsville ! This train makes ro stops between here and Indian polis !'-Burlington Jawkeye. -4 s. A BIG CHANCE.-The dav was iot at Frisco, Utah, and the three [rank beer and talked. It ap )eared from their conversation hat they had all had more or less ;xperience in prospecting. One aid : 'The biggest thing I ever struck vas once when me and Newt Bow len was prospectin'. One day we elt the earth kinder tremblin' an' saw a smoke on the top of a nountain. We climbed up to the ,op-it was a long pull. 'Twas ill bilin' in the crater. One place n the crater was lower than ,'other parts, an' a cliff struck -ight down from this low place t went 'bout 700 feet. The earth cept tremblin' an' a stream 'bout ,wenty feet wide by five deep run )uten the crater or gap an' mad e L clear jump of 700 feet down.' 'Water ?' interrupted one of the isteners; 'pooty hot, wasn't it ?' 'Water ? 'Twas quicksilver !' 'Quicksilver ?' 'You bet. We went down to ,he foot of the fall. The stream )f quicksilver from the fall run~a ew hundred yards an' sunk. It cep' tremblin'.' 'What made the tremblin'?' 'The quicksilver strikin' below ; eavy you know. Me an' Newt >Oth got sick ; he sicker than me. ie kep' gittin' worse, an' died be ore I. could get him to a camp. got to a camp an' was sick for nonths ; was salervated. My eeth all came out. I hain't no eeth now, nor toe-nails, nutber,' 'Why didn't you go back to the Luicksilver ?' 'Fraid er gittin' alervated agin. filled Newt, you know.' (Salt Lake Tribune. A SOLDIER'S PRoPosAL.-A young >fficer was dancing a set of Lan ~ers in a crowded drawing room vith an extremely pretty girl, to vhom he made himself most ~greeable. After the dance was ~ver, he took her to a chair, -and eating himself beside Ber, began o his mourn his celibacy. 'It is exceedi.ngly easy,to rem dy that,' said she. '1 don't think so at all ; in fact I lo not know a girl that would narry me.' She laughed, and replied: 'Just go and ask some one here o-night, and I venturi to say 'ou will be accepted by the first.' 'Ah ! I am not sure about that. 'With pleasure.' And a few months later they w'ere married. Young man learn to wait. if 'ou undertake to set a hen before he is ready, you will have your ibor for your pains. In talking everything is un easonable whbich is private to two r three or any other portion of be company. The same earth produces health earing and deadly plants-and ftimes the rose grows nearest to be nettle. lie needs no other rosary whose bread of life is strung with beads f love and thought. All that tread the globe are but. handful to the tribes that slum er in its bosom. Seeing much, and suffering tuch, and studying much, are iree pillars of learningr