WHO QAVt THE MOST? A haughty Kln^ of former days. Longed to oonu.lemorate his praise Through al the coming ages. What would adorn his royal name? How best perpetuate his fame On time enduring pages! Would monument or stoned urn Teach all the world his worth to learn! Ambition vaulted higher. A vast cathedral should proclaim Who gave to God the most -’hat name Be carved on base and si r j This story he would not divide With any mortal. In h:s pric e It must be his alone. ’Twas finished, and on chance w ill His name on tablet gleamed, that all The gracious deed might own. Before the chancel rail that night In dream he stood; and saw the light Was dinn but dimmer grew The inscription on the tablet s face. When lo. blazed forth to take his place, A name he never knew? In waking hours, he lightly thought On nightly visions. When he sought Next time his pillow's rest, The self-same dream he dreamed again, “Who mars my work,’’ he cried, in pain, “Or mocks my known behest?” Once more the royal dreamer slept. Again the taunting vision crept As twice it came before. “Whose name is this? Bring to my throne The one whose work supplants my own! I’ll suffer this no more.” An humble widow, clad in weeds. Whose dally toil for dally needs Scarce kept the wolf at bay, Answered the summons. “Who art thou!” He sternly said. “Upon thy vow Now speak. What canst thou say!” *My lord, O King.” she faltering said, *1 knew your will, and longed to aid This glorious work for God. The mule which drew the stone—each day I brought, at noon, a wisp of hay To help him bear his load.” “Alas! I see," the monarch cried, “’Tis work for God, not selfish pride, Which earns the true ‘ws'll done.’ Thy name shall on the tablet stay. For I have learned this blessed day How Love the contest won." —Ruth Alleyn, in Youth's Companion. A GHASTLY WRITER. A. Most Weird Experience With s» Twistleton, Q. O. — Several strange things have hap­ pened to me in my life that my friends could never account for. They could never understand how I got an intro­ duction to Twistleton, Q. C., nor why that learned gentleman, after allow­ ing me to devil his work for him for ten years without putting any thing in my way, suddenly used every effort and influence he was capable of to put an important and valuable junior prac­ tice in my hands. Twistleton, Q. C.. was a hard, selfish man. In person he was like a badly dried moth, whose long, old-fashioned whiskers resembled the remains of wings; and there was consequently great surprise when Twistleton mar­ ried Lucy Travers, who, as you will remember, was the belle of her season. But the Travers were not so well off as they pretended to be, and Twistleton. as we all know, made his fifteen thou­ sand a year, and had, if any thing, an ever-increasing practice in the chan­ cery division. Twistleton was undoubtedly a great lawyer and a man of great common sense, but he had two fads. He was a believer in ghosts and ho wrote every thing in his chamber upon a Reming­ ton typewriter. Twistleton and his wife were staying one June in Norfolk, at Lady Barn­ dore's. Twistleton was due in town to argue the great patent oase concerning sewing machines of Buncombe and an­ other against Badger, in the Court of Appeals, on Wednesday morning. I expected him back in chambers on the Monday evening, understanding that he intended rejoining his wife at the end of tho week; for this case would last at least three days, and Twistleton was in several other eases on the list. About eight o'clock on Monday even­ ing, I had dined early at my club; and was engaged noting up Twistleton's papers, when he entered with his Glad­ stone bag and rug, looking, as I thought, tired and out of spirits. When Twis­ tleton was in town by himself he always slept at his own chambers, as in the old days before he wat married, and his breakfast (a chop and two eggs) was sent from the “Cock.” Twistleton, having heard that Foss, his clerk, had to say on the subject of retainers, dismissed him. Then he slammed down the windows, which I had opened to let in what fresh air there was in Olom where he could give him a bit of his mind. Then the case proceeded quite regularly, until Twistleton hand<*d fx»rd Usher a lot of papers to explain his cane; and Lord Usher coming to one, said, with a knowing side glance at Smugg. L J, that, from the handwriting, it must be a note of Mr. Twistleton’s in another rase; as he did not know that any one of the name of Charles Colston was a party to this case. And what would have happened then I don't know; only the court rose for lunch. I heard two or three people say that day that ‘*Twistletc n, poor fellow, waa doing more work than he ought to;’'that • Twistlqun was • clever fellow, bat he •onia not afford Co-hum the candle at not railed on Mrs. Penrose, and, al­ THE TOMB OF JULIET. SHE MARRIES LATE. l»oth enjs.” Indeed, Twistleton's though my wife assures me that she is strange conduct in Buncombe versus rather glad of it, she is always telling One of the Characteristics of the Boston A Cold, Matter-of-Fact Description of a Famous Sepulcher. Badger was the general topic of con- me now that she does not think so good Girl and the Reasons for It. It is not possible to come to or from /ereation in the robing-ruom. The Boston society girl, as a rule, a story should bo lost to the world as When Twistleton came out of court 1 that of “Twistleton’s Typewriter.”— does not marry young. In this hyper» Venice without paying a visit to Ve­ bore an climate the female of our species rona. Any quantity of spinsters from had the greatest difficulty to prevent Cornhill Magazine. him from rushing down to Norfolk by blossoms late. At twenty she is simply America, of both the antique and the ;he night train. He was sure it was a bud, and she docs not fairly bloom modern type, are traveling over Eu­ THE HAY CROP. rue; he believed in the message. 1 until she is three or four years older. rope this season on their own hook. •alined him down, and we had dinner How Poor Uiul ( wn beWade a Source of In cold countries women, like vege­ Parties of three an<| four are encoun­ Great Profit. table growths, develop slowly. Here tered everywhere, Acting in a perfectly together at my club. He had to con­ Hay is one of the most valuable crops it is winter eight months in tho year, independent manner, and ignorance of tinue his speech in the morning. I ried to coach him in Buncombe versus of the country, worth millions of dol­ and there is small chance for any thing tho language of tho country where they Badger, but it was of no avail. I do lars, and upon it depend the life ami to sprout At sweet sixteen tho may be does not interfere in the least Not one of them iot think he even knew for which side well-being of millions of animals. Hay sprightly maiden of our modern Athens with their comfort must be had, cost what it will. It is a is in pinafores. At nineteen she is still who gets to this part of the world will be was appearing. staple crop. It is true, the price fluct ­ in short dresses going to school; for miss Verona and tho tomb of Juliot, We agreed that we would sit up in watches and so keep our eyes on the uates somewhat, according to the this is tho English style, you know, and nor will they permit any one else they abundance or scarcity of the crop, but typewriter all night. There was a sofa it seldom or never falls below the cost whatever is British “goes” in this meet to pass by it. Now, I never took town. If she is a younger sister her much stock in Romeo and Juliet. It in the recess of the window, and Twis- leton sent me to bed and placed him­ of producing the same. There is al­ servitude in the nursery is well nigh always struck me that they were two self on this. I bade hlq; good-night, and ways a sale for hay, and the farmer hopeless. But even after she has very ridiculous persons, and the very has little difficulty in realizing on his emerged from the chrysalis of imma­ best thing they ever did was to get took his bed for th(^ first half of the crop. Some lands are better adapted turity into the condition of the fash­ themselves out of the way. But as I night. About two o’clock in the morn­ produce hay than others. A clay ionable butterfly her education is in­ was told so many times it would not do ing I woke and went to Twistleton. to or any strong, moist soil, is well definitely continued. In the intervals to be so near Verona and not go He was wide awake, reading some soil, suited to producing grass, while a light, of social dissipation she is obliged to there, I went and made the pilgrimage papers, on the sofa. soil is of little value for the pur­ attend all sorts of lectures on the most to the tomb of Juliet The tomb is a “Have you seen any thing?” I asked. sandy pose. abstruse subjects. She pursues eccen­ fraud. It is nothing but a dilapidated “Nothing whatever,” he replied. Every farmer should raise tho crops tric courses of reading, and acquires an old marble sarcophagus kept in a little “Nor heard any thing?” that his land is best adapted to pro­ intimate knowledge of strange re­ hut in the far end of the big garden of “Not a sound.” We took the lamp to the typewriter duce. If one has good grass land, let ligions and out-of-the-way philosophies. a Franciscan monastery. The walk and opened it. There was the sheet of him raise hay and a good crop of it, In classes with others of her sex she oc­ from the outside gate is under paper as he always left it, untouched. too. There are writers who contend cupies her time in cultivating the arts an over-hanging arbor of vines, Twistleton locked it up again and took that it will not pay to top-dress grass and sciences. I’ll us she is able to at­ from which great bunches of lands, but that the better way is to cul­ tain a degree of mental superiority grapes hang in the utmost profusion. the key. tivate the land with hoed crops for two which renders it possible for her to These grapes were really quite de­ “Put it under your pillow.” “I will,” he replied; “it’s very good or three years, until the same is in good look down with immeasurable con­ licious and afforded the only compen­ condition, and then sow to grass, and tempt upon her fellow creatures in sation for the visit The sarcophagus i of you to sit up Wke tlffikJ4 “It’s nothing at all, 1 assure you,” I keep on so as long as a paying crop can pantaloons. In case she does not marry, is empty, and what has become of Ju­ be secured;then plow the land, and treat this scorn of tho inferior masculine liet’s body can not be told. The senti. answered. as before. This may do very well when gender is likely to be steadily and pro­ mental individuals who come to look “Keep strict watch, won’t you?” dressing can not readily be obtained, gressively aggravated with advancing have left their cards for the spirit of “I promise you,” I said. Juliet These cards are cleared out of Twistleton shook me by the hand, I or it costs too much to secure it, but years. 1 have observed with pain that Bos­ the sarcophagus, I suppose, several with emotion, and went out; he looked experience has shown that, as a very ill and wretched, I thought, and rule, it will pay well to top- ton women generally seem to consider times a year. When I looked into it was sorry for him. Was it a ghost’s dress good grass lands and it it quite the thing to look down upon there were two thousand or three thou­ message or what that was making his docsnot take much arithmetic to prove the men. It is very hard. I really sand cards lying at the bottom bear­ life a burden to him? Should I solve it. We have in mind a farm where can not imagine why it is. But they ing the names of high and low titled the land is naturally good, but where do. It appears to be the fashion here persons, from Counts and Countesses the mystery to-night? I waited about an hour and a half. the crop of hay was not over a ton to to regard the male animal of the genus down to plain Smith with no prefix. The dawn came peeping through the the acre on all the land devoted to homo as rather a necessary evil than The Capulet mansion is also one of the painted shutters and made the lamp grass. This land was plowed and otherwise. As a producer of money he attractions of Verona. Tho balcony look dim. I was almost dozing—in planted one year with potatoes, and is useful, but in all else not particularly where Juliet used to stand and listen fact, I had shut my eyes and lost con­ sowed down again to grass. The crop desirable. If available as a partner in to the serenades is perched very high sciousness for perhaps a minute, per­ that followed for the next three or marriage he receives the attention due up, and Romeo and the other gallants haps more. A sharp clicking sound four years—two crops a year generally to such a rarity; but once disposed of of Verona must have strained their awoke me. It was the typewriter. —would average more than three tons, matrimonially he lapses into the for­ necks to get a sight of her. The There, seated on a chair in front of it, and, in some cases, five tons to the lorn condition of other benedicts, who churches of Verona are very quaint and playing nimbly on the queer instru­ acre. This hay sold for twenty-five pass their time, when not engaged in very antique, portions of one of them, ment, was a white, misty figure. It dollars per ton. This land was top business, lounging at the clnbs, while according to the story of the guide, go­ had finished. It closed the cover down dressed as often as every second year, their wives are busy forwarding tho ing as far back as the so ven th century. work of societies for the advancement The most interesting sight In all Vero­ and turned the key. It wheeled round and some of it every year. If it pays to raise hay, it pays the of human knowledge in various na to mo was the old Roman amphithe­ to the door, and I saw the face and whiskers I knew so well; it was Twistle­ better to raise large crops, and it is branches. I was talking the other day ater, comparatively as perfect as when easy to do this if one will use the means. with a fair acquaintance of mine about built, and which, constructed entirely ton himself. My first impulse was to wake him, We think there is money in the hay the recently announced engagement of of stone, with that Roman cement but I had heard that it was dangerous crop for many farmers who are now a girl wo both knew. “What sort of a which dynamite often fails to affect, to wake persons walking in their sleep. quite indifferent in respect to its value. fellow is the prospective husband?” I looks almost indestructible. I do not see why modern builders can not take asked. He wantkin«r what pick out the swiftest of these assailants City a class of young ladies who work worn, and the article is taken off to be had become of Twistleton. The rumor while yet nt a distance sufficiently great for a living as telegrapher«, type­ mended; the spring or other fastening went round the law courts tlrat he was to insure its destruction. The self­ writers, secretaries and other intel­ of a bracelet is easily broken, and the insane. I maintained a discreet moving torpedo, however, which can lectual occupations. Of course several bracelet vanishes. With regard to silence. Mr. Clarne was almost crying be sent long journeys beneath the wa­ scandals have become notorious among ornaments fastened to parts of as Slokoach, murmuring something ter, under tho direction of an operator them, careless tongues wag recklessly, the savage body, mutilation is about “bad news anti his learned at a distance, is still a dangerous weap­ but as a rule they are just about tho necessary, the ear must be bored, the leader,” rose to continue Twistleton’s on, capable of indefinite improvement nicest, loveliest girls in town. A phi­ nose be pierced, the cheeks or lips be opening. Lord Usher, unrestrained by In its efficacy. But it is in other de­ lanthropic matron of millions said to slit, and, even after these surgical the presence of Twistleton, made the partments that the progress of destruct­ me: “Half the stories these girls tell operations arc completed, the articles are of tho tests their characters are used for adornment aro generally in­ Court of Appeal a place of fiery tor­ ive ingenuity is most marked. We have com mon ted upon the work put to, ami tho approaches thejfeforevor convenient, and sometimes, by their ment to that eminent elderly junior, Mr. Slokoach. Bustle, Q. C., for done by tho new dynamite gun, which must guard against One young iady weight or construction, are extremly Badgo Im­ kissed her. Another had to carry around the neck and arms, or pendent at every station, forty in number. I proved to greater distructivenoss can manuscript to an office every now and from the ears, lips and nose, is the could imagine poor Twistleton’s state hardly be doubted. At tho same time then, and one day the white-haired finger-ring, the model of convenience. of mind as he pottered along in a slow it is announced that a method of pack­ heiul of the place vowed be loved her. It is seldom lost, for It need not be train to Barndore. He arrived at the ing dynamite shells has boon discover­ He said he was unhappily married, but taken off; requires no preparatory house about breakfast time—I have the ed, by means of which they may be dis­ he hojjed that would provoked her sym­ mutilation of the body, Is not painful, story from Grimbleton, who was there charged from ordinary cannon, with as pathy and not her dislike. An employe is always in view, a perpetual reminder —he came into the break fast-room, and much ease and safety as if they wore of the customs service, not so far either of the giver or of the purpose for his appearance elicited a shout of sur­ the common iron sphere. Even th s from here as to be out of this State, which it is worn. does not mark the farthest advance of was sent to search a suspected woman The popularity of the ring must, prise. “What has become of Buncombe ver­ invention. Tho Russian government smuggler, and when she undertook therefore, be in a large measure due to sus Badger?” cried Lord Barndore. is now guard1 ng carefully the secret of her task the smuggler proved to l»e a its convenience, and that this good a reported now explosive, which has man—a very keen-witted practical hu­ quality was early learned may lx» In­ “Settled, eh?” “Not that I know of,” muttered been named “sleetover.” The peculiar­ morist One concern in town, which ferred from the Hebrew tradition, Twistleton, sulkily; and then, looking ity of this alleged new form of gun­ employs hundreds of girls, put detec­ which attril utes the invention of this around fiercely, asked: “Where’s my powder is said to be that it explodes tives on the side-walk to prevent them ornament to Tubal-Cain the “instructor by expanding in one direction, and from being insulted out of doors by of every artificer in brass and iron.”— wife?” j “Not down yet,” replied Lord Barn­ that in the course to be taken by tho persons waiting for them to come cut Popular Science Monthly. projectile. Ordinary powder exert« its The detectives wonid be more useful dore. —Though discovered in 1879, saccha­ Twistleton looked hastily round, as expansive force in all directions, inside the building. But the subject though in search of some one else, and so that immensely thick and heavy makes me wax warm as I ponder over rine is just beginning to be manufact­ It, and the things which I know about ured on a large scale, near Magde­ then tore up-stairs to his wife’s room. guns are necessary to withstand The whole company looked at each rending influence of a discharge. With woman’s work beside man pour In on burg, Prussia. Having 900 times th« the new explos’ve, expanding forward my intellect like a young Niagara. You sweetening power of cano sugar, this other in silence. There was some explanation about only, tho construction of artillery would also lie indignant could you remarkable product is adapted to’’»any “bad news,” but the Twistleton« never would become of little importance. It know the sum of torture girls put up uses. It is expected to be especially | went into mourning, ami Mrs. Twistle­ is Mid that a heavy nd«sile was actual­ with to keep floorwalkers and su|>erin- valuablo in medecine on account of ton seemed very merry all that day. ly discharged by this moans from a tendents from falsely reporting them Its absolute harnilessness. — Arkansaw getting them discharged, Trace ler. It is true Twistleton shut himself up a cardboard tube, without material in­ and —The production of locomotives In good deal. Grimbleton told me that jury to t-he weapon. If artillery can be the armor they have to wear he never understood the whole bnsi- made light enough for easy transporta­ to keep employers in th<-ir places, the Europe during the year 18<36 amounted ; neas in the least; in fact, in Twistle- tion, and If a charge of dynamite or things they have to hear and see in si­ in England to 2,200; Germany, 2,090; ! ton’s circle it waa a nine days’ won- I he still more powerful explosives of lence, knowing that there is no redress France, 1.000; Ihdgiiim, fiOO; Austria. I der. By the bye. I almost forgot to recent note ran be substituted for shot but to throw up their livings.”—AT. K 400; Switzerland, 120; Italy, 70; Sweden, 60; Russia, 40, and Holland, 20; in all, mention that Charley Colston left and «hell, no army, no fortifications Cor. Albany Journal. 6,400 engines. The largest works in Barndore to lie married In Scotland and no ships-of-war con d withstnndan — A correspondent says: “ The scen ­ the day after Twistleton caine to town. attack by such machinery. Already ery of the Straits of Magellan and the world are the Baldwin Ix»coinotive Wh«n Twistleton returned to Old the enormous cost of maintaining war Smith's Sound is magnificent. Vegeta­ Works, in Philadelphia, which are ca­ Square he was a sadder amt wiser man. rquipm« nts has proved the most power- tion grows from the water's edge, tor- pable of turning out 600 per year. He gave up believing in ghosts, and fnl advocate of p<»ace known to man­ race almve terrace, their straight lines Borsig, in Berlin, can produce 300 in did not buy another typewriter. I kind. Destructive genius will yet make ever and anon broken by some beauti­ that time. —The wheat-growing Interests of the told Twistleton that I would not let the war altogether impossible.— St. Paul ful inlet into which an enormous gla­ Northwest, the mining interests of the matter go any further, and I men­ Pioneer Press. cier stretches, and the background far West, and the cotton-growing in­ tioned at the time that he might get me composed of purple, then snowclad — The university of King’s College, the junior brief in Buncombe versus mountains which throw Swiss Alpsand terests of the South are counting on a Badger, which went to the House of Windsor, Nova Scotia. is the oldest of Spanish Pyrenees Into insignificance. great increstee In demand from home Utrda, where, through Twistleton's all the British North American col­ On a summer day such views keep th« sources on account of the spread of clear argument«, I »rd Usher and leges. The royal charter under which traveler on deck from dawn till even­ population in those regiona The low Lords Justices Smugg and Summcr- it waa founded in 1788 explicitly pro­ ing. every turn and twist of the strait« price of wheat for years past has kept vides that ita academical habits shall unfolding new panoramic effects to the farming interests close to the wall, Ixmh were overruled. That year, mostly through Twistle- ' be the same as those of the university the artistic ey« as the steamer threads but with the spread of industrial ca­ [ ton’s influence, my fee b»M>k credit#*! ' of Oxford. And its encenia is con its way through intricate channels ba- pacity toward the Rocky mountains ducted every year with all the pomp yond soundings In some places, miles brighter prospects are looming ap and me with £2.000. I Lave kept my secret well, but since 1 and circumstance of an Oxford en- in breadth one moment, so narrow better prices are in sight The same I Twistleton succeeded Lord Usher as | ceni a. Rev. Dr. Isaac Brock, Qxon., another that the trees almost touch the infiiiencee are at work in th« South.— PnMc Opinan. A . s i Martyr of the Roll Lady Twistleton has ' is the presideqL vards of th« vuascj on siiher shU.”