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00 SONG. Some find Love late, some find him soon, Some with the rose in May. Some with the nightingale in June, ' And some when skies are gray; Love comes to some with smiling eyes, And comes with tears to some, For some Love sings, for some Love sighst For some Love's lips are dumb. How will you come to me, fair Love j Will you come soon cr late? With sad or smiling skies above, By light of sun or moon? Will you be sad, will you be sweet, Sing, sigh, Love, or be dumb, Will it be summer when we meet, Or autumn ere you come? Pakenham Beatty. OUR EXPERIMENT. "I'm sick of it." said Kate, dashing nandful of hair-pins upon the table, and i letting a big brown braid go tumbling uuwnuer uacK. 'So am I," said Beth. "SoabIl" 6aid Nannie, who was suf- : fering with a dreadful cold. ! a nice little scholar of Nannie's stopped j "What is it, girls?" said I, turning mj ' after school to say that her parents book face down in my lap. j were going to move out of the city. "It's the suppers," said Beth. iTfe knew where she lived a pleasant! "It's the everlasting gossip," said Kate. i house in a respectable locality; so after "It's so differed from hobe, " said Nan- , supper Kate and I hunted up the land- i nie, to whom boarding-house life was a ord, the next day we went in a body i new experience. j to inspect the place, and the bargain was "It's all three, and much more," was concluded. j what I wanted to say. but being the Between that time and our departure 1 oldest of the four, it seemed my duty to we hade fair to lose our reputation of make the best of things; so I said, quite being the quietest boarders in the house, j cheerfully, "I didn't see anything unus- i fr every night there was talking and ual about the supper to-night." laughing in one room or the other, while , "That's the trouble," groaned Beth. I we stitched and hemmed and figured j ''It was altogether too usual. I am so 'his hvst 'he hardest of all. tired of bread and butter and apple j Kate, with a confidence born of much sauce and dry cake that I feel like "nash- i handling of money, made out a list in a icg my teeth at the 6ight of them. I i twinkling, which list was perfectly sat should like a slice of toast or a bowl of i isfactory to all of us until we inquired bread and milk occasionally, without ' prices. One thing we were agreed upon, being made to feel that I had disarranged ftnt 'hat was, rigid economy, so we the whole internal economy of the house." i cheapened this and left out that, until it "The suppers are bad enough," said looked quite reasonable. ' Kate, but they are nothing to the '-ossin I Well, the first day of December found I'm tired of hearing it whispered round j that Mr. Johnson and his wife had a quarrel in their room last night.' or that : 'Miss Robinson has worn three new! dresses this month,' or that 'Mr. Jewett ' came in ever so late the other niht and ' it sounded as though he fell upstairs ' i Bah!" and Kate locked as scornful as n round face with a dimple in it would allow. "I could stad every thig else," said Nannie, "if it was odly hobe-likc. Oh! if I could odly sit dowd in a dead kitched, with by feet in the stove oved, ad see a braided mat in frod of the stovo with a dice cat od it, I should be per fegly happy." . We all laughed at this idea of bliss, but after the laugh there was a sudden silence, for each one of us recalled such a kitten, and the presence that had made it home like. We were not 6isters, or even kin to each other, but meeting as strangers in a city ooaruiug-hoiise, a strong friend ship had grown up between us, starting, I think, in the fact that wp wp mAT, orphaned and had our livin" to earn and ' ,scrviCe m PuttmS UP shelves ami I strengthened by many congenial tastes. ! hooks j W e were doing our daily duties in rathet ! . 0ne Friday night, with the last screw a brave, cheerful way, usually with few j n 'he kitchen clock shelf, the work was J complaints, but to-night we were under done, and I doubt if many brides, going a cloud. Outside, a November rain was ' 'nto houses luxuriantly appointed with- j lashing the windows, and inside, the ! out care 'heirs, feel half the satisfac-1 Stove smoked. ' tion that we did in looking round on the j It Wits pay-day at the manufactorv . rcsult of our ingenuity and hardwork. where Kate was book-keeper, and that j -nd ' was a right cosy little place. There . was always a hard day for her; Beth had ' wa3 a god-sized sitting-room with two ; worried two of her dullest pupils through I sleeping-roo-Tis opening from it, a kitchen j their music lesson; and I had had a time I adjoining, a store-room, closets, etc., and in school that afternoon with a wretch ! as 'he house was on a corner, we had the ' of a boy, and was at my wits' end 8UU most 'he day. j what to da with him on the! Kate and Nannie painted the floor of morrow ; and Nannie was more than 'heir room soft gray, and covered their j half sick so we sat there quite still foi ! dressing-table and wash-stand with blue . awhile. Finally Beth spoke: "I sum- ' aQd nd) chintz. The one window was , ose we might make these rooms looka 1 draped with full curtains of unbleached i Utle pleasanter. We each have a few ! cotton, trimmed and looped back, with j pictures and knicknacks." j bands of the chintz, and a low cushioned , "Do you suppose I would hano- ray ' chair and ottoman were covered with the few pictures against this awful paper ?'' ' same blue and drub covering. j said Kate. "Besides, what would be the I A low painted bedstead and chest of j use ? Just as we got everything niceh 1 drawers completed their furniture, and ' fixed, some man would want the room i stl"ips of blue and gray carpeting before ! and we should be invited to go up xti"-li- 'he larger pieces took away any suspicion ' er. I've boarded in this house twe ! of hareness. ' " j years, and in that time I've advanced j The room Beth and I shared was pre from the first floor back to the third llooi : cisely similar, except that our floor wai j front, and tWO moves more will takfi mo nalnted :i hrio-ht warm hrnwn nnrl nm i out on the roof." ! ncujyui go suDwnere else," said Nannie. "Oh! you poor little innocent!" laughed Beth. ."You'd 'change the place and keep the pain.' They're all about alike." At this Nannie lifted such a woe-be-gone face that I felt somethinir must b done. "Girls!" said I, in my most impressivt school-room manner. But here there was an interruption, foi Nannie left the rocking-chair and rushed toward the bed. Oh, Nannie !"cried Kate, "don't muss th( bed; it's hard enough anyway." Bui she spoke too late, for under the com bined influence of homesickness and in fluenza, Nannie had flung herself on tht bed in a forlorn little heap, and was lift ing up her voice in a hoarse cry. This was simply dreadful. Beth and I purred over and cuddled her, and Kate slipped downstairs and coaxed the cross kitchen girl into mak ing a bowl of sage tea, and by the tim Bhe was back with it the invalid wa somewhat comforted. When quiet was restored, I spokt again. "Girls! let's go to housekeep ing." Nannie stopped the bowl hall way to her lips, Beth sat upright on th trunk, and Kate dropped the stick o) wood in her hand back into the box. " Where's the furniture coming from?' -said she. "Who'll pay the bills?" said Nannie. " Who'll do the work?" said Beth who was born south of Mason's and Dix on's line. - "We'll all do it," said I. answering the last question first; "and as for the furnishing, that needn't cost so very much ; and about the bills Kate, how much do we all pay a week?" "Four times five is twenty, and two dollars for washing makes twenty-two," said Kate, with bookkeeper promptness. "Why," said Beth, beginning to be eager, "lots of families live on less than that, and pay for everything out of it clothes and doctor's bills and every- eu, we talked till midnight, and the more we talked, the more feasible the scheme seemed, and it was decided that we should commence tenement-hunting the very next morning; and after Beth and I had gone to our own room, Kate came hurrving across to say she had some spoons and forks which had been her mother's, and that Nannie said she I knew how to make lovely waffles We expected a tedious, time finding a ; rent within our means; but it is aston ! ishing how fortune helps those who try to help themselves. That very week U9 n "our own hired house," and as Beth turned the key iu the hall door, we felt 'hat we had burned our ships behind us. The outgoing tenants seemed to regard our experiment in the light of a huge 3c which they were willing to help a'ong so 'hev gave us a number of house-; keeping things, among others a braided mat anc a half-dozen plants til in bios-1 bum, anu sow us tneir range at a very low price. Beside this, we had a couple of bedsteads with the furnishings, a few dishes, our trunks, and a half-dozen j packing boxes of different sizes. ' The next fortnight was a busy one. We rose early and went to bed late, and lived i in picnic fashion, while we painted and ; pounded, and planned. V'c were in a ' state of mind where we wished for no ', advice, much less help, from anybody j outside; but after jamming considerable , plaster from the walls, and skin from our i knuckles, we decided there were times ! when a man could be made useful, and , at Nannie's suggestion a certain young 1 i architect from the boarding house was , akeQ lnt. .ur conh Jence, and did val-; cretonne covers and bits of carpet were scarlet and white. But it was on oui common sitting-room that we lavished our greatest skill. The tluee windows were curtained with full draperies ol cheese-cloth, over cream colored shades, a big crimson bow at the top of each window where the draperies parted. Nannie, who was not in the least aajs thetic, pleaded to have the whole flooi covered, but as this meant twenty-five yards of carpeting, she was voted down on the score of economy as well as of art. A wide margin was stained s most delightful dead-leaf brown, and nine yard3 of crimson and wood colored carpet made a square large enough to come well out around the cen ter table. And the table we saw it ont day in front of an auction-room. Th top looked as though opposing forces had fought across it, but the standard wai good and solid ; so home it went, and when it was covered with Beth's old gray shawl dyed crimson, and the student-lamp set over the darn in the middle, the effect was all that could be desired. Then we had Beth's piano and the plants,-and nobody knows until she tries it how far a piano and plants go toward furnishing a room. We had a comforta ble lounge, bought "in the cloth," and covered by our own hands, a big Shakei rocking-chair, and two or three smallei rockers and camp-chairs. The wall-paper was subdued, and our few pictures and brackets made quite a show, and I when we had scattered our books and trinkets about the room, it was a decided j success. "There, Nannie," said Kate, when we reached the cozy kitchen on our tour of inspection, "you can tuck your little feet right into the oven, and feast your eyes on the braided mat, and if the cat was only here, you would have reached the climax of earthly happiness." The young architect looked inquiring ly, and Nannie's ideal of bliss was ex plained to him. He made no comments, but looked at her with a peculiar ex presion in his handsome eyes, and I felt that the stability of the society was threatened. The next night as we were sit' ing down cozily to our tea and toast, and baked apples and milk, there was a ring at the door, and Kate, answering it, came back with a basket. "It's directed to you, Nannie," she said, holding it to the light. So Nannie oKnedn,Aea out Pepped. a plmnp, ! self-satisfied Maltese kitten, and attached to one fore-paw was a card which said : "The Climax." Beth turned the card over, and read, the young architect's name. "Oh. Nannie?" she said, turning on her reproachfully, "I hope you are not going to spoil everything." But Nan nie was busy filling a saucer for the new comer, and made no answer. I may as well say here that, soon after, the young man came to me in a very straightforward way, made known his intentions in regard to Nannie, and asked permission to visit her. That night, while she was gone on an errand, I laid the question before the other girls. "I move," said Kate, who was rather given to sounding phrases "I move that he be granted leave to withdraw." "Oh, let him come!" said Beth, with true Southeru obliviousness of conse auences. Well, he came, and came again, and the little romance unfolded in a kindlier atmosphere than that of a boarding house parlor, and after a while I think we all rather enjoyed him, as he was a high-minded, intelligent young fellow, wno conuucieu ms wouiiig nu vcrj , would come iu with his drawing-board , his nrm. and 'stablishin" him- ; under ,.7 ii, i. self at our kitchen table, put in his mar- velously line lines and figures, with Nannie sitting beside him with her sew- ing, making quite a Darby-and-Joan picture. Kate sometimes shook her fist at him from the covert of the sitting room, Put she usually ended with "Bless the children"' But to turfi from love to figures. How ; much did it cost? Now, I do not expect to be believed when I say that our entire furnishing, from the small mirrors in our bedrooms to the big iron spoon in the pantry, cost exactly $128.63; nevertheless, that was the exact total. It may seem more cred itable when it is understood that our dressing-tables, wash-stands, and otto- mans were packing-boxes, and that the inviting cushioned chairs were originally barrels. Of course our bedsteads were not furnished with hair mattresses and rose blankets, but we had warm cover ings, and clean straw-filled ticks, which were simply luxurious after boarding house mattresses Our table was not set forth with cut glass and silver (except Kate's spoons and forks), but it was clean, and the food wholesome and varied. And about the cost of living? We elected Kate treasurer, and every Satur day night each of us put five dollars and a half into a box kept for the purpose, and 6he paid for everything out of it. We questioned her often, during the first j month, how the money was Holding out, but she made no satisfactory answer. The first day of January we each found on our plate at supper the following no tice: "The first monthly meeting of the Home Co operative Society will be held this evening in tho kitchen, as soon as the dishes are done. A full atteud- ance is desired, to hoar the report of the treasurer." Every member was present, and the treasurer read her report. After setting lortn at some lengtn tne orgin and ot- ject of the society, she presented th following figures : Is Account with Home Co-cperatitb Society. Dr. To Cash J7 Cr. By ton coal $ T.bl prweriea 22.08 " meat imd vege tables 16.7J " millt 8 80 " labor l washing, ironing and cleaning)... 60 ' rent 18.00 S72.75 " balance on hand i'4.ca $97.43 t7.4r! "Which meaus," said Kate," dropping her official manner, "that we have had ill this good time, and den't owe a cent for anything, and have six dollars and seventeen cents apiece coming back to us;" and she counted out four little piles of money. ' "And coal in the bin, and food in the larder,'" added Beth. The next month we paid five dollars a week eaeh, and had a surplus, and after that, four dollars a week usually covered ill expenses When we started, though we asked no advice, we had floods of it, and no end of dismal predictions. "You'll quarrel," "You'll run in debt," "You 11 find the work too hard," "You'll get tired of it," and, most dreadful of all, "You'll be talked about." "Well," said Kate, when this was brought vp, "if a good name in the past, and orderly living in the future won't 3ave us, why, let them talk. They must talk about something, and while we are under discussion somebody else will es cape." So that was disposed of. And we did not run into debt, and we did knot quarrel. It would be too much to 6ay that we never differed, but our dif ferences were never bitter. We used to think sometimes that Beth shirked her share of the work, but sht was the sweetest-tempered- creature liv- lnor nnrl ulwoi-n uril 1 in cr tr malrA Qm Anrl a ! Then we had to holcf a tight rein on j Kate, who was apt to want luxuries out j of season, at exorbitant prices; and I I was sometimes a trial about cooking, be ing absent-minded, and apt to burn I things up. As to Nannie, she was never anything but a comfort. We didn't keep j her long, for one day, toward our first Thanksgiving, there was an unusual flutter in the house. We trimmed the rooms with flowers, and tied a white satin ribbon on The Climax ; the minis ici oju a icw melius uuiuc ill auu aiuiuau before we knew it,Nannie and the young ter and a few friends came in and almost architect had gone off together in a hack, with The Climax wailing in a basket on the front seat. But this did not break up the society, fi.1 the vacancy, and .tapped prompt,, for another good friend stood ready to I in. And did we not hnd the worn too hard? Well, sometimes it seemed a bother, but, divided among four, it was not oppressive; and if the larder got empty, or other workpressed, we took ! our dinners out for a day or two, And we did not ret tired of it. but after a three years' trial of the plan, are ' and .lfc 13 claimed that even the mere more and more satisfied, for it is i physical difference in gait and move home. We leave it in the morning with j ment between different people will affect regret, and return to it gladly at night, the time-keeping of a watch, which ia feeling that it is ours, that we are not ' probably also affected in some degree by there on suffcrence, but by right. And , the magnetism of the wearer, this sense of security and permanently en- An Australian has devised a scheme courage us to add comforts and even ; for bringing down rain to order. The luxuries to our surroundings, and I think ; concern is in the form of a balloon, with you might hunt up and down the city j a charge of dynamite underneath it. The and not find a more contented and com- j balloon is to be sent into the clouds, and fortable set of people than the members r the dynamite is to-be fired by a wire of the Home Co-operative society. Har- ; connecting it with the earth. It is the pr' Bizar. ' intention of the inventor, it is stated, The Cowboy's Favorite Gun. I dropped into a large store on El Paso street, which eniovs the remitation of selling more arms than any other house in the city, writes a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. While in- specting the glittering array of pistols of all kinds which filled half a dozen show- c ft f u6 f about twenty. Tin rt-aa AvacanA in an proved frontier st le sombrero it would u - . J ,. -, ., . iaK.e mice ciays to waiK arouna tne rim of white handkerchief tied loosely round tne neck, blue shirt, pants stuck in hia i,fo 'i , m ' : v- auu iaic .uciiMu gjiuia ujjuu ilia heels, iinedinsr as he walked. lie wished to buy a "gun." In the expressiveness ana laconic tongue 01 tne lrontier a gun" is a revolver; a rifle is called by 1 fVin noma rf fKa Wkab-Av. and tkn ..Tn of the snortsmiin. ' rni,fi(1 nf Un f-. proportions, is known as a shoterun. Selecting from the case a handsomely mounted Colt's forty-five calibre revol ver, the clerk said: "How would vou like this? It is the newest thin? out a double -action forty-five." "Ain't worth .coin, a fact probably due to their hered a row of beans. No man 'cept he is a itarv dislike of novelties, and now no tenderfoot wants that kind of thing. tra(3e dollars are shipped to China. The Give me old reliable all the time. You see a man that's used to the old style is apt to get fooled not pull her off in time and then he'll be laid out colder'a a wedge." He W5is handed si sino-lfi-nrtion Holt's of the same model, which, after carefully examining, he proceeded to cock and lire, twirling the pistol around his fore finger and pressing the trigger the mo ment the butt came into palm of his I band. After some little "kick" about j the price the weapon was paid for and ' the customer left the store. "There are few men," observed the clerk, as his cusiomer left, "that can do J that trick. I have been ten years on the ; Southwest frontier, among the worst classes, and don't know more nor half a dozen. 'Bill the Kid' could do it; so can Pat Garret, former sheriff of Lin coln county ; so can Dan Tucker, deputy sheriff of Deming. Curly Bill could do it best of the lot, and that's how he killed Sheriff White at Tombstone. "How was that?" "Well, you see Curly Bill was trying to paint the town red, and White heard j 0f it, and going up to him, covered him ; with his six-shooter, and told him he j aai g0t to give up his gun. Bill handed i the gun out butt first, but kept his finger inside the guard, and as the sheriff reached for it he gave it that twist you've seen, turned her loose, and the sheriff passed in his checks." Center of Earthquake Trouble. Though some terrible earthquakes ' occur in Europe and Asia, South America ' seems to be the center of trouble. In j 1812 the city of Caracas, in Venezuela, j was destroyed in three shocks, each of i nrlt''V A1A nnt nrfMinv t.wpntv spcnnrla. In 1859 the city of Callao was also com- pletely demolished, this being the second time. The first time a wave came in from the sea one hundred feet high, and with out warning burst upon the city. In 1822 an earthquake produced some strange changes in the Andes. Moun tains were leveled, others were raised, and a tract of land one thousand miles square was bodily elevated about seven feet. It has been learned from old records that the destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii was nearly accompu&neu oy an earthquake sixteen years before the ashes of Vesuvius covered them from sight Biblical records tells us that earthquakes vrere felt in Syria in the time of Ahab, 900 B.C.. and also in the reign of Uzziah, 800 B. C. In Josephus there i3 mention of an'earthquake that desolated Judea at the time of the battle of Actium, 31 B. C, destroying over 10,000 people. An- tioch has been visited by some terrible scenes. The worst visitation wa3 in 526, A. D., when over 200,000 persons were destroyed. Sixty years later another shock destroyed 60,000 more. There are seven native-born Ohioans in the Senate, and thirty -one members of .the house first saw light in that State. SELECT SITTINGS. The bread eaten at table in Turin It 'a yard long and an eighth of au inch in diameter, of a pipe stem form, very crisp, and exceedingly palatable. It is called "grissini," after the doctor who invented it on hygienic principles. I The business of monarchy promote longevity. Witness the ages of the foi j lowing rulers: The emperor of Germany j is eighty-seven; the king of the Nether- ; lands, fiixtv-seven? thp. lcinor nf TVnmnrlr 1 8ixtv-six, and Queen Victoria, sixty-five. Church bells from a Baltimore foundry l are in demand in England. Already j China, West Africa, Nova Scotia. New- . ji -j x , m ! tZi'Ji.S'. ! same establishment for its silver-toned j bells. A great plague, called the "black ; death," beginning on the plains of West- IZ& aZJlSl years 1348-1351, destroyins probably one I tuuu uj mo n uuic JJUpuiiillUU. A 1113, OJ Vlt.1 rt Vn r,'l,1 . 1i.Z ml 1 diminishing the number of people, doU' j Diea tne price of labor. j It is said that no watch will keep the ; same time with two peoDle. This is ow- ' to the temperature of the wearer, I to make a trial of the apparatus on the j dry districts of New South Wales. j Statistics show that the tendency to Buiciae is mucn greater among the rega ! hu" gamblers from losses than among ! business men. Tho 6harp strain of the gaming-table, short though it may be, spoils the nerves; and weakens fortitude ! more than the strain of business. Ca- vour, one of the most serene of men, was Within an flCrf 071 Onft OTPflt. era ml I T1 tf ' niffht of throwing half his fortune away tkn n a i m.j ,olucJ nu tan uuiu, auu omjitmievi -t, as he relates himself, because a drop of perspiration rose on his opponent'! tnrphtnr. - I The origin of the trade dollar is that , explained. The Chinese are paid for their tea mainly in silver. In 1873 the United ; States coined 35.000,000 of the trade dollars for use in India. Previously the I Mexican dollar had practically monopo , lized the field. The American dollar J was heavier and possessed more intrinsic ; value, but it was fouud that for some mysterious reason the Chinese merchants i preferred the Mexican to the American i Ane Chinese heard some years ago, that ' our government intended to redeem . luese ""ars ai par, anu Deing surewa , enougn 10 see an opportunity ior specu tliam 4 r V I n nnim (.it At all skrAt they are said to have disappeared in vum as weu as ia ims country WISE WORDS. ! Behavior is a mirror in which everyone ' shows his image. j The society of women is the element of good manners. The wise men of old have sent most of : their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epi 1 gram. , j No wo.nan can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech. Strong minds, like hardy evergreens, are most verdant in winter; when feeble ones, like tender summer plants, are Jeaness. j Right habit is like the channel which ' dictates the course in which the rivei ; shall flow, and which grows deeper and , deeper eacn year. It i3 impossible to make people under stand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it. Love seizes on us suddenly, without giving us time to reflect; our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance from the fair, fixes and determines us. A good memory is the best monument. Others are subject to casualty or time, and we know that the pyramids them ! selves, rotting vrith age, have forgotten the namc3 of their founders. The beautiful laws of time and space, once dislocated by our inaptitude, are; holes and dens. If the hive be dis turbed by rash and stupid hands, instead of honey it will yield us bees. Infinite toil would not enable you to- j sweep away a mist, but by ascending a little you may often look over it alto ' gether. So it is with our moral improve- j ment; we wrestle fiercely with a vicious j halrit which would have no hold upon u i Xf we ascended into a Higher moral at- j m0sphere. A Circus Elephant in a Rage. Cole's huge elephant Sampson severed his chains at Ilailey, Idaho, and started j to pulverize his keeper, who made, a hasty retreat A cage of lions stood in tne way oi me iniunaieu animai, wmcn lie fjic&.eu up auu uuucu iu uuc blue, killing two horses. The circus people called on the crowd to shoot the monster, and a lively firing began, but without appreciable effect. Finally a party of men succeeded in roping the beast and he wa quieted. Thirty bullet holes were found in his hide. The damage i done by him amounted to $10,000.