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NATURE.
I know aba loves mo. Every lay she fills
Mr soul wkk Joy that only true lore thrills: :
80 tree, I cannot measure if 1 would
Tills love unspoken yet well understood.
Tia nerer once tbe same, this take of lore,
far now lis written in the blue above;
And if the baud be bid, yet still I trace
The clearest limnings of her lovely fwe. - .
Or yet she breathes it in my raftfured ear.
No sweeter romance can we mortal, hear,"
for when amoutc tbe trees the houiU wiud
plays
1 little trembling leaf ber love oetrays.
Or now she drops, all lover like, a Sower:
-. As if to company some quiet bom? ,
' Or yet the throat of some sweet singing bird
Repeat the tale, and all ray oul is stirred.
So. like a courtier, everywhere 1 stray . .
She smiling meets me. as tor noiiaay. -As
If to draw me In her close embrace.
And, like a lover, woo me face to face.
Mary Woodward Weather bee in Boston
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A BAD CASE.
My husband is at last convinced of the
error of his ways, and has implored me
V give his free and frank confession to.
tbe world My husband is or was a
very enthusiastic man. and imagines
that he baa a fine eye for the arts. Being
a lawyer, he enjoys considerable leisure
ia the afternoons, and it is this that has
proved his niin. 1 shall never forget his
first offense. It was very shortly after
oar marriage 1 was wondering why he
-was so late for dinner when suddenly a
cab drove np to the door
For one moment I fancied that it must
be his mother (wives have their mothers
in-law as we'l as husbands). Imagine
mv astonishment when out jumps my
hnaruinrl ' with a euiltv iauntiness of
demeanor, presents the cabby with five
shillings (1 noted this extravagance my
aelf from the window), and is followed
by that functionary, staggering under
an enormous burden, swathed in brown
bolland. up the steps. The usual loafer
Tushes forward .and a' fresh gratuity i
distributed, to the horror of my econom
ical mind At last the thiug-r-apparent-ly
a miniature of the great pyramid is
deposited in our small hall with a reso
mant bang, and its bearers depart.
What on earth makes you so very un
punctual, dear? Tbe soup will be quite
spoiled And what, in heaven's name
is this?'
1 thought you'd like it, darling (this
-with a nervous flush). It's the most
-wonderful bargain, and it would have
een really wicked to have let it slip
If a a genuine Elizabethan but. there
Me it for yourself."
The mummy like bandages were at
last removed, and what do you think I
But my presence of min.l did not desert
me. I have tt f.troug will, and I vowed
i that our child s inheritance should not
be thus squandered. My husband kept
a handsome volume in which he record
ed minutely a description, the pricesaad
the dates of his purchase of this miscel
laneous collection. My niiud was made
up. 1 numbered and tk-keted every one
of these horrible knickknacks with my
own hands. 1. compiled their catalogue,
and I headed it as follows:
MmriL Hummer A Tones have the honor to
announce that on Thursday next they will sell
by auction, in their sreat rooms In Blank
treeu the valuable collection of pictures, por
celain, furniture in tbe Sheraton, Adams aad
nhimusndnle stvles. arms. Limoges enamcU
quaint watches and clocks, formed with con
lutnmale taste and at lavish expense by a svn
tlemaa who has no further need for them.
I myself arranged with the auctioneers.
who. with some amplifications, naopttfl
my catalogue.' and a day was chosen
when my husband was at last occupied
(I believed remuneratively) in court.
Well, the time came, 1 was so excited
that, although sorely tempted to be
present, 1 did not dare to attend the
rooms of Messrs. Hammer cc longs.
The evening caine, and with it my hus
band, in a frantic state of exhilaration.
You've won the caser' I exclaimed.
fondly and admiringly.
Oh. never mmu the casei ne re
joined impetuously; "it was settled, and
I got away quite early. Having made
the money I turned in now aon r ue
angry, darling for a moment to Ham
mer & Tong most exciting sale of an
eminent virtuoso's curios, and you 11 aa-
mit that after all my judgment was not
BRITISH PHILANTHROPISTS
i SNIPES & KINERSLEY,
so bad; t of it was an exact replica of my
own thins for thing and picture for
picture, only that his Rembrandt and
Rubens were, poor copies, and his George
Morland evidently spurious. The whole
lot were sroiuir for a perfect song, so
V
"Good heavens!" I ejaculated; "you
don't mean to say that you bought your
own" But at this crisis a merciful
film came over my eyes, and I swooned
away
.
My husband is completely cured, and
we are gradually now trying to collect
modern coins, which we pick up else
where than in salesrooms. --St. James'
Gazette.
beheld? An enormous rusty, musty
dusty and hideous clockl
Yes," he continued, "a real, antique.
Elizabethan musical clock.' It plays six
tunes of the period; and, what s more
took at the initials graven on the face
"W. 8. I've very little doubt that it
once belonged to Shakespeare himself
-who was very fond of mechanical inven
tions .' shall have, of course, to have it
sepitvr Mid done up, and then it will
look splendid in the dining room."
He quite took my breath away; 1
oould only ejaculate, 'Where on earth
did you pick it up. and what did you
pay for it?"
"At the sale of an old house. Every
one said it was ridiculously cheap, and
that they'd have gi ven twice as much
if only they had known. Just think
only a hundred dollarsl Why, 1 could
get two hundred for it any day.
White elephants were nothing to this
disgusting "horologe," as 1 found it de
scribed in the catalogue. I cost twenty
dollars to put right, and then it smashed
twenty dollars' worth of things in being
fixed up.. Lt sometimes played its mis
erable bo called tunes so rapidly that
yon had to stuff your fingers in your
ears, at others, it emitted a spasmodic
aad raven like croak that was positively
alarming
At last, thank heaven! it stopped
"never to go again, and 1 -firmly re
solved that not one penny more should
be spent in "doing it (and us) up." Add
to this that 1 subsequently discovered a
Geneva maker's name inside. 1 could
wish that I had been more stern on this
first occasion, but ( was weak, like too
xaany young wives, and was satisfied
with a scolding. The result was that we
gradually became deluged with the most
smserahle miscellany or ruDOisny Dnc-a-
brac, damaged furniture, dubious pict
res. and. in a word, the refuse of the
auction room
To believe my husband, we were the
amad possessors of Cromwell's hat, By-
son's toothbrush, one of Sheridan's 1 O
U'a. a curl of Marie Antoinette's, a Ru
bens, a Rembrandt, a George Morland
(1 believe this latter is the evil genius of
the Picker up) and a whole roomful of
put and useless "Chippendale" aud
Sheraton," etc. And all had been ac--muired
at "sales which had a history,'
at an "absurd sacrifice," and to the ad
miration of the disappointed bystanders
1 saw that the fiendish habit was gradu
' ally growing upon him, like drink or
gaming. 1 hope I know my duty. - I re
solved to protect myself and him, and,
after an awful scene ensuing on his ac
quisition of an infected sedan chair, I ex
acted from him a solemn pledge to give
up this pernicious habit once aad for-
When .Oue Sleeps.
A shrewd man says, "A man can de
ceive me as to his real character when
he is awake, but if 1 can once see him
asleep I can tell you what he is." And
there ia a strange truth in it. In sleep a
man is off guard. The will no longer
dominates, and first nature -comes back
and asserts herself. One can make his
face say what he chooses when he is
awake, but when sleep touches his face
it tells the truth. . The forced smile slips
away ;ind the cruel lines about the
mouth stand out. The closed eyes shut
out the look of determination that some
times gets into a man's face without the
reality in his sonl. and the childish inde
cision" and irresolution that come back
show you that the man is weaker than he
makes vou believe.
It was a half knowledge of this fact
that a clever French woman used to
phrase when she declared that she never
would see any of her friends early in the
morning, because she hadn't got her mask
on yet. - Her face hadn't got the soul out
of it yet-r-or hadn't got the soul into it.
which was it? and she instinctively shut
herself away from detection. We all jug
gle with our real selves and appear to be
what we are not, more or less, but the
truth does manage to get itself said some
how and sometimes. New York Even
ing Sun.
Strong Language of Curly le on. Those
Who "Km barked lu Philanthropy." .
Bv way of individualizing for ourselves
the philanthrooist as Carlyle believed heJ
found him in his own country, we ask first,
I think. What is Mb place in society? what
is his relation to others not philanthro
pists? By way of answer to this question 1
we learn from Carlyle that society is di
vided into two great genera, as they may
be called the great dumb "inarticulate
class" and "the articulnte class." This
latter class we flud is further divisible into
two a large ignoble majority, "intelligent
and influential, busied mainly in persoiiHl
affairs," who "accept the social iniquities
and the miseries consequent upon them,"
and "a select small minority in whom
some sentiment' of public spirit and hu
man pity still survives, among whom, or
not anywhere, the good cause may expect
to And soldiers and . sovereigns." It is
these last,- "the silent small minority,"
that are Carlyle'. philanthropists. If we
say that in some measure they answer to
the remnant) of old Hebrew times as trent-
ed of by tbe late Mr. Matthew Arnold we
shall not go far wrong.
Passing to Carlyle s charges against the
class now under consideration, those who,
to quote his own words, "embark in the
philanthropic movement," his first and
heaviest charge, at bottom inclusive of all
others, is that they misconceive the situa
tion. It is not that they deoy the existence
of great public misery we .have seen that
they are even impressed and stirred to
action by it. They at least do not call good
evil and evil Kood, put "bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter-" No; but they seem
never to have asked themselves how it
came about that "any world or thing fell
into misery," or if they flid the true an
swer to the quest-ion seems never to have
occurred to them, viz., that it was because
it had "first fallen into folly, into sin
against the supreme ruler of it, by adopt
ing as a law of conduct what was not a
law, but the reverse of one."
. . The offenses aud omissions of the last
200 years, Carlyle believed, had been every
one of them registered against his country
men in heaven's chancery; bad all tbe
while lain there generating frightful inter
est and compound interest, until at last
they had produced the frightful situation
the philanthropist would cope with, hav
ing for some of its palpable external feat
ures abroad an "idle black peasantry,"
by the thousand, at home, 30,000 "discon
tented needlewomen who can't sew;"
scoundrels in jail treated by the method of
love, the deserving poor, struggling hard
outside to keep their heads above water,
further taxed at the risk of their entire
submergence, in order that among scoun
drels the method of love may reign; 8,000,
000 paupers in the country, "Connaught
potentially cannibal," and as 'the evangel
of freedom and real programme of a new
era," the "whitewashing" of the "scoun
drel population" and the "sweeping out of
the gutters." Lecture of Robert Nivens.
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But I was inexperienced; 1 should bavi
known the male mind better. Deterred
from the open pursuit of his nefarious
dcBurna. he determined to smuggle his
purchases in secretly. I bad observed him
Unererine somewhat saspiooualy over
the auction advertisements of the dailies.
and 1 noticed also that bis coat pockets
"bols-ed out curiously on his nightly re
turn. One day I had occasion to tidy
las a good wife should peribdieaUy do)
he eTritfrire of his dressizw? room. What
Jo yon think 1 found? The drawers.
the nieeon holes, the interstices even.
-were literally crammed with heaps of
cracked and tarnished trifles pouncet
' boxes, enameled knife handles, embossed
-watch cases. Docket revolvers and the
like.
I was horrified. It was too true; de
larred y the dread of discovery from
-niekine un" big things he had resorted.
mdnr a miserable subterfuge, to small.
fanny Mistakes of Authors.
Everything lies in the application or a
manuscript to tbe right channel. I have
seen some funny mistakes made by au
thora. One would imagine that any au
thor would avoid the error of sending a
short story or a serial novel to The North.
American Review or a poem to The Fo
rum, and yet scores of authors are doing
these very things every month. I know
a bright literary woman who persistent
ly sent six batches of poetry at different
times to The Popular Science Monthly
and felt aggrieved because in each in
stance her verses came back- "Misap
plication' would be an appropriate epi
taph for the tombstone ' of many a dead
author. .
The trouble is that there are a lot of
careless, unthinking authors writing to
day who ought to be in some other busi
ness. They hear some one speak a cer
tain title perhaps it may be in naming
a list of dead magazines and they im
mediately grasp at the name as a new
channel for their wares, and next day off
goes a manuscript addressed to the peri
odical they heard mentioned. I know of
magazines which stopped publication
years ago to whom manuscripts are still
being sent. Edwin W. HoH.
An Improved Castor.
A useful castor of novel form is being
used in England. It is intended to obvi
ate the difficulties arising from the ordi
nary construction of castors, where the
roller is carried on a cranked swivel arm
which is easily broken off. The -center
pin of the roller bearing is fixed in a
small plate, rotating freely round a cen
tre pin secured in the body of tbe castor.
The plate named, when pushed round
into any position, rests on the base of
the cup or disc of tbe castor and is thus.
while quite free to move in any direc
tion, thoroughly supported in every posi
tion. It is, in fact, a well supported
universal joint. The castor is a great
improvement on the older types. New
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There are about thirty castles and pal
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from $3 to $10 per week, cash in ad
vance, and any American who lands
tiuere with $1,000 in his pocket can fling
on more style for six months than he
could get here in fifty years on an in
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An Eye to His Riparian Right.
A youniz business man iu town recently
bought a strip of land along the lake shore
in Lake View, and a short time afterward
moved up into the vicinity of the land.
His friends say that he did it so that he
could watcfi tbe land, but this be denies.
However, he has a Rood eye lor the main
chance.
. "It isn't a big strip," he said, "but it
srives me riparian rights; that is why I
bought H."
"Goinii to till in?" he was asked.
"No. The waves are making half a foot
a month for me by washing up refuse.'"
This is to show that he has a good busi
ness head, it was rumored in real estate
circles that he got out on the shore in the
morning with a hoe and a rake and pulled
in everything that got within reach, but
this could not be verified. Tbe following,
however, can be:
"He was standing at tbe window one
morning, looking over his land, when he
suddenly startled bis wife by exclaiming
excitedly:
"Great Scott! There are a lot of boys on
mv land playing sailor!"
"What of it?" his wife asked innocently.
"What of it!" he cried. "What of i;!
Why, they're digging harbors on my ri a-
rian rights. Wait a minute and I'll nx in."
He grabbed his hat and rushed out.
"Did you settle it?" asked his wife when
he returned a moment later.
- "Oh, yes," he replied with the air of a
man who had done a good stroke of busi
ness. "It's all right now. I told 'em that
that was no way to play sailor in Chicago;
that they ought to build piers to land their
boats at, and now they are building piers
and making more land for me every min
ute."
That's the eye for business some men
have. Chicago Tribune.
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