SO WHITE, SO SOFT, SO SWEET.
See the chariot at hand here of love.
Wherein my lady ridethl
Each that draws Is n swan or a dove.
And well the car Lovo ;uldeth.
As she rocs all hearts do duty
Vnto her ln-.nity;
And enamored do wish, wj they might
But enjoy such a .-..Klit,
That they still were to run by her side.
Through swords, through seas whither ah
would glide
Po but Jiok on her eyes, they do light
All that Lute's world comprise! I
Do but look on her Imir, it U bright
As Love's star when it rieth!
Do but mark, her forehead's smoother
Than wrds that soothe her:
And from her arched Iwow such a grace
Sheds iUelf through thu face.
As alone there triumphs to the life
All the gain, all thu good of the element'i
strife
Have you seen but a bright Illy grow
Retain rude hands have touched Itf
Have you marked but the fall of the snow
Hefore the soil Imtli smutched itf
Ilavo you f'lt the wool of the beaver
Or swan's do n ever!
Or have smelt o the bud of the brier
Or the nard in the lire
Or have tasted the imir of the bee?
Oh, so white, oh, so soft, oh. sosweetis she!
New York CYinmerelal Advertiser
IIimv lie Cut Clients.
YoiniK Hitter hits recently embarked
upon it career as u lawyer, and liung
out his shingle to attract such cus
tomers as may be caught thereby from
amid the throng of passers who go up
and down Washington street, seeking
to devour and in the end not infre
quently getting devoured. That there
is in him some of the capacities neces
sary for the successful pursuitof the le
gal profession is indicated by an inci
dent, trivial in itself. which marked tho
beginning of his career.
"Why is it," he was one day asked
by n classmate who put out his sign in
tho same block at about tho same timo,
"that people whom you don't in tho least
know come into your olllco and give
you jobs, and nobody over conies to mo
unless it is somebody that has been
M?ntr
"Jly dear fellow," was tho reply, "it
is the simplest thing in the world. When
I had my sign painted I let it lie out on
tho grass for a week, I squirted water
over it from tho garden hose, and I
rubbed it with a sod, so that when it
was put up it looked as if it had been
in use for two or three years. Your
bright new sign advertised to all tho
world that you were just starting out,
but mine gave tho impression that I
was an old hand ; so 1 got tho patron
age. See?"
"Yes, I see," tho other returned
thoughtfully. Chicago Tribune.
A Kentucky Sermon .Spoiled.
It was in Breathitt county, Ky. For
several months an evangelist had been
laboring with tho mountaineers, trying
to turn them from their evil ways.
Every little while something would
turn up and undo tho labor of months.
Then the people would seem to take an
increased interest in matters of religion,
and hope would bud again in the
evangelist's breast. One Sunday tho
little chapel on the mountain sido was
crowded, and tho evangelist was ex
horting his hearers to leave their rilles
and hunting knives at homo when they
went to church.
In the coui-se of half an hour he
grow eloquent, and was just thinking
that he was going to carry his point
when a fat buck trotted past tho chapel
and disappeared in 1 1 1 - - laurel thicket.
An old hound that was sleeping in tho
chapel door gave a yelp and started
after the buck, and the male- portion
of tho congregation grabbed their rilles
and followed without waiting for a mo
tion to adjourn. When thoy were out
of sight the evangelist said in despair:
"Oh, it's no use. it's no use."
"Yas. 'tis." said a one legged man
that was left behind; "I'll bet you a
dollar they'll have that thai' deer inside
o' two hour." Chicago Herald.
Natural Locution.
"What, did Solomon do besides build
the temple." asked a little girl of her
brother, who at once replied, "He
wrote the dictionary." "Does tho Bi
ble say so?" queried tho sister, with
wide eyes of believing interest. "I
don't know as it does, in so many
words, but he was the wisest man, and
that's the wisest book. So of courso ho
wrote it."
This original method of reasoning
was evidently admired by a still younger
member of the family who had come
up to listen to the conversation.
"Well. Tomniykins. what do you
know about Solomon or his temple?"
asked the brother jocosely.
"Everything," was the stout reply.
"Oh, you do, do you? Well, where
was his temple?"
"You must think I'm smart," an
swered Tommy in scorn.
"Oh, you don't know, you don't
knowl"
"I do, too."
"Well, where was it then?"
"On the sido of his head, same's
'twould bo in anybody!" replied Tom
my in concluslvo triumph. Youth's
Companion.
Did Not Undemtiind IrWh.
A story is told of a certain mayor of
Cork who headed a deputation to tho
lato emperor of the French, and com
menced an oration to his majesty in
what ho conceived to bo tho French
tongue. "Pardon me," sold tho em
peror after ho had listened to tho
speech with much patience, "English I
know fairly well, but I regret to say I
liavo never had an opportunity of
studying tho Irish language." Cork
Examiner.
A now albuminous poison of 100
times tho power of btrychnino Is ex
tracted from thu weds of Abrus preen-torlo.
BLESSEDNESS OF GIVING.
riitlosopliy nf Milking Olfts and WXj
Doing So Ciltei One IMcnxure.
There must be something very good in
Imman nature or people would not ex
perience so much pleasure in giving:
there must be something very bad in
human nature or more people would try
the experiment of. giving. Those who
do try it become enamored of it anil get
their chief pleasure in life out of it; and
so evident is this that there is some basis
for the idea that it is ignorance rather
than badness which keeps so many peo
ple from being generous. Of courso it
may become a sort of dissipation, or
more than that, a devastation, as many
men who have what are called "good
wives" have reason to know, in tho grad
ual disappearance of their wardrobe if
they chance to lay aside any of it tem
porarily. The amount that a good woman can
givo away is only measured by her op
portunity. Iler mind becomcsso trained
in the mystery of this pleasure that she
experiences no thrill of delight in giving
away only the things her husband does
not want. Her offico in life is to teach
him the joy of self sacrifice. She and
all other habitual and irreclaimable
givers soon find out that there is next to
no pleasure in a gift unless it involves
some self denial.
Let one consider seriously whether he
ever gets as much satisfaction out of a
gift received as out of one given. It
pleases him for tho moment, and, it is
useful, for a long time: he turns it over
and admires it; ho may valuo it as a
token of affection, and it Hatters his self
esteem that he is tho object of it. But
it is a transient feeling compared with
that ho has when he has made a gift.
That substantially ministers to his self
esteem. He follows tho gift: ho dwells
upon tho delight of tho receiver; his
imagination plays about it; it will never
wear out or become stale; having parted
with it, it is for him a lusting possession.
It is an investment as lasting as that
in the debt of England. Like a good
deed, it grows, and is continually satis
factory. It is something to think of
when he first wakes in the morninga
time when most people are badly put to
it for want of something pleasant to
think of. This fact about giving is so
incontestably true that it is a wonder
that enlightened people do not more
freely indulge in giving for their own
comfort. It is, above all else, amazing
that so many imagine they are going to
get any satisfaction out of what they
leave by will. They may bo in a stato
where they will enjoy it if tho will is
not fought over: but it is shocking how
little gratitude there is accorded to a de
parted giver compared to a living giver.
He couldn't take tho property with him,
it is said: he was obliged to leavo it to
somebody.
By this thought his generosity is al
ways reduced to a minimum. Ho may
build a monument to himself in some in
stitution, but we do not know enough of
tho world to which he has gono to know
whether a tiny monument on this earth
is any satisfaction to a person who is
free of the universe. Whereas every
giving or deed of real humauity done
while he was living would have entered
into his character, and would bo of last
ing servico to him that is, in any future
which we can conceive. Charles Dudley
Warner in Harper's.
Dies, of Auierlciins.
Americans are the best dressed men of
all nations that wear what is known as
European attire coat, pants and vest.
Tho English are outlandish and the
French too foppish, but the American is
known throughout Europe by tho quiet
richness and practical fat of Ins clothing.
I often refiect upon this when lounging
about the brilliantly lighted assembly
room of the Southern hotel, ius I note tho
faultless attire of tho gentlemen, partic
ularly those from tho east and tho largo
cities of tho central states, as thoy spend
a half hour before going out to tho thea
tre or other engagement. The English
tourist, with his abominable "fit," is as
easily recognized as a western miner. A
New Yorker can bo told at sight; so can
a Chicago man; the latter more by his
manner perhaps than his clothes. Inter
view in St. Louis Globe-Democrat
American Shears tile Hot.
English scissors are still called for by
ladies, but tailors and others using scis
sors in their daily work havo long since
ceased to look for tho Sheffield mark.
This is very significant, and tho fact
that a tailor insists on American made
shears is a grout compliment, as tho very
best article is needed in cutting out gar
ments. Ten years ago English scissors
brought double an apparently similar
article of American make. Now tho
most costly bhears in these days are of
homo manufacture, and every year a
greater quantity of them is being ex
ported. It is tho boast of an eastern
house that they ship shears regularly to
Sheffield, and by so doing discount tho
oft repeated story and fable about "ship
ping coals to Newcastle." Interview in
Sr. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A Speech That Was Not Heard.
Once a speech thut was to bo delivered
by a well known political orator in Mu
sic hall never reached tho public, al
though it had been carefully prepared
and was in typo in tho offices of all tho
morning dailies. Tho speaker was pres
ent at tho meeting all ready to address
tho great audience, but tho timo con
sumed by tho speakers who were- given
precedenco was so great and tho audi
ence so wearied that tho hall was cleared
before tho presiding officer had a chanco
to do more than to shout after tho re
treating forms that tho meeting was ad
journed. Boston Trniibcript.
Thomas Silverthorn, a hotelkeeper at
Coral, Mich., has u spectaclo case five
inches long that dates back to tho misty
past, Tho lid and bottom uro of brass,
tho rides of copper. On tho lid anil ojk
pobitosido uro hovun nido engravings,
and under each is written in the Polish
lungungu tho scriptural account of tho
birth of Christ. It is claimed to bo from
COO to COO yean old.
1 TRAINING THE IMAGINATION.
How tlio Novel llrlnzs I.IITprent Classen
of Sitrlety Into S mpatliy.
There is something pathetic, not whol
ly sad. in the thought of tho poor boy or
girl who finds delight in fictitious annals
in high life. Bov and girl put them-
j selves respectively in the place of hero
I and heroine. They are richly dressed,
i and in marble h:'.l they taste tho sweets
' of elegant leisure, of iowor and praise,
i "Nothing is either good or bad but
! thinking makes it so," and imagination
has no cage. Poverty is beguiled of its
j sting, toil is lightened and ennui gives
! way to a round of noble pleasures and
t-aniatic scene?, until the curtain falls
i upon baflled villainy and triumphant
virtue.
Those humble readers are not troubled
. by the doubts and cavilings of tho ex
! acting realist. They are happy in that
j they can take so much for granted. If
: they have not had the real thing they
think so, and so far its they are con-
cerned is it not all tho panic? But high
life would know low life, too. Scholars
' and courtiers like Virgil and Horace
! were in love with pastoral scenes nnd
j rustic pleasures. Marie Antoinette
i would be a dairy maid, and her royal
husband would be a locksmith.
In her palatial home the proud beauty
! grows weary of tho rolling hours, over
burdened as they are with the require
ments of an artificial society and a per
functory courtesy. The millionaire,
outworn with tho euro of his wealth,
looks longingly back to tho simple labors
and untroubled sleep of his youth. Tho
statesman, weighed down with responsi
bility and beset by importunate suitors
for favor and influence, has pensive, re
gretful moments in which ho reflects
that even a gratified ambition may havo
cost too much.
Imagination brings surcease of repin
ing, temporarily tit least, to all of these
exalted personages. The democratic
novel, the romance of low and of com
mon life, puts tho great in touch with
tho masses of their kind, and makes sym
pathy possible between tho loftiest and
tho lowliest station.
Wo live in many and different worlds
in reality; wo meet and mingle with
each other in imagination. When we
speak of civilization, of enlightened so
ciety, of progress, wo havo in mind a
comparatively small part of tho human
race. "Scratch the bkin of a Russian,"
said Napoleon, "and you will find a
Tartar."
But how much of our civilization is
more than skin deep? In tho great cities
of Europe and America do wo not find a
barbarous population just beyond tho
purlieus of wealth and fashion, which
only tho fear of tho constable keeps in
check? Is ignorance more dense or vico
more shameless in any quarter of Peking
or Hankow than in tho slums of New
York and London? Do wo need to go
upon long journeys or to turn back the
pages of history to find tho lowest depths
of human degradation? But what do we
know of those people in their filthy
hovels and noisome tenements? What
sympathy, what tie of human brother
hood, what sense of fellowship exists be
tween the cultivated and comfortable
few and the benighted millions of the
hopeless poor?
Wo cannot painra picture with mere
statistics. What signifies a unit mora
or less in the grand total of human de
pravity and misery? Wo must knock at
tho doors of poverty and sin; wo must
look into the eyes of tho buffering and
lift tho burdens of tho heavy laden be
fore wo can really know tho worst of
what is called low life. Well, in our
day the literature of imagination has es
sayed that sad task.
The novelist goes now where nono but
tho doctor and the most zealous philan
thropist havo ever gone before upon a
mission of charity. So far as he dares
ho paints the picture of that underworld
to the life. He is not so humorous as
Dickens or so satirical its Thackeray, but
ho tries to be severely accurato in tho
delineation of every detail, and he brings
to his work tho artist's eyo and tho sur
geon's nerve. He does not need to write
the moral down in plain black and white.
As the sightless eyes of tho blind and
tho maimed limbs of tho cripple tell
their own story and mako a mute appeal
to ever- generous heart, tho squalid sur
roundings and sordid struggles ho de
picts speak loud words of warning and
command. New Orleaus Picayune.
1'refcrrcd to Ho with I'upn.
One of tho best children's bon mots is
told by n well known bookmaker in
town. His littlo daughter was happy
amid a parlorfnl of company, when
bed timo camo and sho rebelled against
having to leave. Sho throw herself on
tho floor, face down, and kicked and
screamed. "Come." said her mother,
"bo a good littlo girl, now, and go to
bed. Don't you know . what mamma
has always told you if you uren't a
good littlo girl you can't go to heaven?"
"I don't want to go to heaven," said tho
child: "I want t'o go where papa goes."
Now York Sun.
Nothing but u Worl.iuuu.
It was at tho exhibition of tho "Ango
las." Two refined looking women sat
in tho alcovo looking at tho picture.
Said ono to tho other in all sincerity, "1
think it is a pity that Millot did not
chooso mora refined subjects." Then,
after a pause, "But then, of courso, ho
was nothing but a workingman him
6elfl" Boston Transcript.
Do Tliey Crack?
Do your too joints crack as you movo
about in your (stocking feet? If so don't
think of going into the burglar business.
Tho successful burglar has crackles
joints, and ho can catch hold of a would
bo sneeze and hold it back until a more
fitting opportunity. Detroit Freo Press.
A DUagrceublo I'ruipect.
Borrowell I'm not rich, I know,
.TninA lint tr'a. litr-tii mill LrwifHnr? ilnri't
you know, that enahlo mo to shino in
fcocloty.
.Tfitnf.a V, fclr lint, vmir tint vil
W ., ....... VH .., . W W W. V '
toon shlno more than you do if you don't
. . . ti I. nr. .1.,..
gut u now uiiu..iiuiisgy-fl wovKiy,
MY PHOTOGRAPH ALQU.V.
Ye front each other, face to face.
Dear friend of long' ago;
Your nir serene, but commonplace.
Your costume cotntne II font
Since ev'ry vntlrb nnd ev'ry smlla
Oame llrst beneath my ken,
Th tmn tlmn Jut a little while:
Wu all were younger then
Tom, Dick ami Harry meet my gaxe
How much I liked the three
As thick were we In early days
As four could ever Iw
But why exKct the glow of youth
1'rom silwv lieaded men
TU true, although 'tis bitter truth.
We all were younger then
Ah, Mnry Ann nnd l.mni.i Jutrn.
My llames uf other day'
Alternately, although In vain.
for on I oe my lay
By fate my hojl1 ere oenet
lit lioots not how oi when).
Your marrVil nnme 1 tpute forget,
We all nere jouuaer llieii
Some err.int star are g.iiered here
Who ntvhtly t the ,ige;
But very lew to tnem'ry dear
Though lint to night and u;a
IK many look loel n.mr
Nay. hardly ntw in ten
Sty errant utars, you must allow
We all eiv younger then
But let me not luoriK.My lirwx.
Old "ChrotKw" o'er thy (light.
And waste, in Miurly cj ntc mood,
Jly hour by day or night.
Dear friends, 1 merely n.iio to s.ir
Before I drop my en
Aud put your photographs away
"Wo all wero younger then "
DouieMlc Monthly
Gloom In New York.
"Do you know what most forcibly im
presses a foreigner visiting New York
for tho first 1111101'" asked a titled mem
ber of tho British iron workers.
"Tho dirt':"
"No," said tho ironmaster. "Tho dirt
is bad enough in all truth; hut some
thing more important than this strikes
any foreigner of average power of reflec
tion. It is the extraordinary cloud of
glooui and preoccupation which hangs
over the citizens of New York. It has
an almost saddening effect upon a
stranger. 1 do not wish you to think
that I am speaking recklessly or flippant
ly. 1 am uot The thing has impressed
mo forcibly ever sinco I havo been here,
and 1 do not recall any other city in tho
world where it is so noticeable.
"In Chicago business men look wor
ried and excited: in Boston there is a
largo enough leisure element and suffi
cient jollity to amuse any crowd, and so
it is in all of tho other cities of the coun
try. But New York men have tho gloom
of Egyptian mummies. You may enter
and leavo a thousand elevated cars with
out seeing a smiling face, and men talk
with one another with tho serious and
preoccupied look of criminals discussing
their fate in the cells of a jail. Visitors
to New York always spe.uk of it as a
very jolly place, but tho citizens of tho
town apparently miss all tho fun." Now
York World
Tain oT 'I'm o Woild llij; (CIiii-h.
A sea captiiin from ono of our Maine
maritime towns was with his ship in
Antwerp, where lie was joined by his
iianeee, where the twain wero niado ono.
A ring being a desired feature in tho
wedding ceremonial, tho blissful com
mander sauntered forth to ptirehnse it,
which having selected ho left to bo
marked. In due courso ho again sallied
out in pursuit of tho "sacred symbol, "
but having gono whero ho supposed it
was it wasn't thero. In other words, ho
had forgotten where the purchase was
made, and ring No. 2 was selected to
adorn the bridal finger. "All is fair in
lovo and war,'" and with tho original in
scription erased the circlet has perhaps
adorned another fair digit. Otherwise
it may bo still awaiting its claimant.
Lcwistou Journal.
Tim Uiik Didn't Curo li Walk.
This story is told of ono of tho intelll
gent dogs of Auburn. Mo. Mr. W. II
U. Allen lives at tho north end of Golf
street in that city, while his store is on
Lisbon street, Lcwistou. Tho dog very
often accompanies him to and from tho
store. Ho was at the store Friday after
noon, when, becoming tired of staying
thero, tho order was given to go homo.
Tho dog started out. going up Lisbon
street to Main and down Main across
tho two bridges into Auburn. At tho
postofiico, however, ho was seen to
stand on the corner as though waiting
for something A few minutes later a
horso car came along, and tho dog ran
out and boarded it aud rodo homo,
jumping off when tho car camo opposite
his master's house. Augusta Journal
Neitl
Man is said to bo tho only creaturo
that shaves. Tho South American bird
called the "mot-mot," tho Motmotus
Drazillensis, actually begins shaving on
arriving at maturity. Naturally adorned
with long blue tail feathers, it is not
satisfied with them in their natural stato,
but with its beak nips off tho web on
each sido for a space of about two inches,
leaving a neat littlo oval tuft at tho end
of each. Indianapolis Journal.
Centuries beforo tho Christian era
fountains of gaseous flanio spouting
from the earth near the Caspian sea
wero objects ot pilgrimugo and adora
tion to tho liro worshijiers of Asia, while
near Grenohlo, in Franco, is a fiery
fountain still burning that is said to
havo been burning in tho day nf Julius
Cteenr.
A now uso is reported to have been
discovered for English hops namely,
for tho curing of bacon. It is found
that u sprinkling of hops in tho brine
when bacon aud bams aro put in picklo
add greatly to tho flavor of both, and
enables them to bo kept an indefinite
period.
Ono of tho wealthiest real estate men
in Tuxua la Milton Storrett, of Houston,
a negro. Ho owns several largo plan
tations, a handsome residence, and U
worth 100,000. In tho days before the
war ho was n waiter on a river boat
llarbern wero formerly also surgeons
that is, to fur as blood letting wjw con
cerned. The strip) on the jwles are
embluiiitttluul of tho binulagcn used lit
htiuliiig up tlio unit itfter blood Icttiiig,
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