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Picnic Song.
there was a strange brightness, but he did
TITLED AMERICANS.
The sklee are blue, the morning dew
nut feel afraid.
Bhlnea brightly on the grass.
At last the priest closed bis book, and tbe
There Are Many Subject» of Uncle S hiu
The bob-o link end meadow lark
congregation sighed with relief as he de I
Who Hold Orders of Nobility.
Salute uh as we pass.
scended from tbe sanctuary and stood at the
The air is cool ; all thoughts of sehoei
It is well known tiiat the constitu
Are vanished fur away.
I head of the coffin. Then priest, coffin and
tiou of tlie United States frowns upon
Our minds from care are free as air
silent congregation left the church, and went
titles and orders of nobility, yet there
On this our picnic day.
through the narrow gate into the graveyard.
are many native born Americans whose
There a grave had been dug, next to that in
▲long the lane, a merry train,
which the shipwrecked Portuguese had been
dignities range from tlie humbler or
With, song (,|id shout of glee.
buried, and around the grave gathered they
Whileaephyra make tbe green leaves shahs ders of knighthood to tlie exalted rank
all.
On
every
bush
and
tree.
I
of princes. And 1 am not now alluding
From out bis house amid the boughs
In the center stood the priest and the
I to heiresses who have been raised to
The frisky squirrel peeps
grave diggers; next to them were old Xavier I
His head, to view onr noisy crew.
tlie peerage by marriage. These in
Ilamel and his wife, Philomene, and between
Then back to cover lea|S.
them stood Felicie Pelletier.
stances are already familiar to tlie
Now o'er our heads the forest spreads
“Poor Felicie!”*thought Edmond. “She is
public. What is less known is the fact
Its branches green and cool,
very young, and little.”
that many American men have won a
Through leafy screen tho sunlight's sheen
Slowly the old priest read the words of
similar elevation by direct grant from
Falls on the dimpling pool.
Committal, and then the poor red coffin was
This is the nook, where, from the brook
a foreign crown.
lowered into its place.
Bright flowers beckon gay.
Tlie famous scientist. Count Rum
As the coffin disappeared from sight thun
Put up the swing; tho baskets bring!
der began to roll The distant hills, the
ford, was a plain New England Yankee
Hurrah for picnic day I
great cape were lit up by flashes of light
—Yankee Blade.
named Thompson, who went abroad,
ning, and far away the rain could be seen
attracted general attention by hLs
A
Confusion
of
Soles.
falling heavily. As yet, however, no breath i
! chemical discoveries, and was ennobled
of itsfreshness reached the kneeling habitans.
A superfluity of Soles has caused the
A movement ran through the crowd as wind postmaster general and Representative by the king of Bavaria. In our own
sweeps through standing grain. Women and Ray, of Pennsylvania, a great deal of days Edison lias been made a count,
men looked up timidly; children looked
and Pullman, of parlor car fame, a
No one remembered such a drought.
around boldly. Even the priest hastened his trouble. There has been a heated con-1
test
over
the
postoffice
at
McKeesport,
!
1,ial''luis- by King Humbert, but neither
“If old Gaspard had not died,” said Ed utterance, to finish before the storm should
Pa., and a dozen or more candidates, of them cares to sport tlie title and it
mond confidently to himself, “he could have break.
matched it; but then he’s dead, so no one re
Still the thunder rolled. It had not begun Tbe congressman to whom the matter *s on*.v alluded to in a jocular fashion
members so bad a drought as this one.”
' suddenly, but slowly, majestically; at first was referred declined to make any rec- by their friends, The pope has con
But no one heard Edmond; if any one had afar off, but ever coming nearer; not a sul ommendation, but telegraphed to some ferred the order of chevalier on several
heard him, he would have paid no attention, len roar, not the ill humored crashing that of the leading citizens in whom he had Americans, the most notable being the
for Edmond did not have all his wits.
i some thunder is, but awful and grand.
confidence asking which of the several millionaire, Joseph Brannigan, of
The grass and the crops, which once had I The crowd rose; the priest’s voice was no candidates they preferred. The answer
Providence.
been green, were now brown; the earth was longer heard in the noise of the thunder.
was short and decisive, and it read: "We
Tlie fattier of Edgar Saltus was
baked hard, and everywhere little cracks ran Perhaps he had stopped his prayers.
in al) directions. The rough places of the | Then suddenly from the black cloud that wunt Soles."
knighted by Queen Victoria, and lias
The congressman had that morning re the right to call himself Sir Francis
roads were all hidden under a thick mantle hung directly above the congregation burst a
of dust, as kindly in its appearance as the flash of lightning—not the forked lightning ceived an application for tlie office from Saltus, but lias the good taste never to
winter’s mantle, but less so in reality Unless that strikes down dwellings and crops and Edwin Soles, backed by letters testifying
the rain came—well----
I men, but a great broad flash, so bright and to his good character and capacity, and exercise that right. Marmaduke Rich
“God knows what we shall do,” said one glorious that all fell again upon their knees supposing him to be the Soles wanted, ardson. a well known New Yorker, was
village elder to another.
• and hid their faces in their hands; so won- informed tlie postmaster general, and the made a count by King Humbert, but
“And he never tells us until he is ready,” droits and awful that they dared utter no nomination was sent in.
never sports tlie title. There are many
said Edmond. ; •
. ,’ v
' sound, but remained silent and motionless.
I Then there was a row. The whole of Americans now living abroad who are
So the great drought lasted.
Only two stood upright—Felicie and Ed
not so modest A certain American
Then Armand Hamel die<L It was not the mond. Felicie had kneeled, weeping on the McKeesport almost, including the men
drought that killed him, No one knew exact 1 shoulder of Mme. Hamel, while the priest who wanted Soles, commenced to bom criminal, well known to tlie police here
ly what had killed him. “1 cannot tell; it is gave back to earth all that had made her life bard the department with protests. It as Max Sliinbaum, and by numerous
God’s doing,” the doctor had said. But he happy. Armand and she had been betrothed was not Edwin Soles, but Elmer Soles, oilier aliases, is now living in Belgium
was dead; and after death comes the funeral. so long, their wedding day had been so near, his luicle. that they wanted. His papers, as Baron Sliinbaum.
For the first time in months the sky was and now Armand was taken from her so which were very strong and voluminous,
And a former Bostonian. Charles
overcast; tho red sun ceased to glare upon the ' strangely and so suddenly. So while the had lieen on tile in tlie department for
earth, and under the gentle clouds the grass < priest read the sacred sentences, and the several months when his nephew Edwin, Hamilton Fiske by name, made his ap
and the crops seemed actually to revive a I people who had loved Armand stood about a bright and ambitions young man, pearance in Wuriemberg a year or two
ago as file Count de Vernois, and for a
little, and even to raise their heads again. I his grave, she whom Armaud had loved
But no rain fell.
kneeled and sobbed, hearing not at all the thinking there was no chance of the period enjoyed tlie highest favor of tlie
uncle
getting
the
appointment,
thought
murmured
words
of
Mme.
Hamel,
hearing
as
“Does this mean rain?” oue villager would
king, until lie was deposed by con
ask of another as they met in the parish house, ' if they were spoken afar off the words of tbe he would go in for it, and sent down liis certed action on the part of the native
|
while their wives went at once into the priest. But now that even the priest was application.
i terror stricken and cowering, Felicie stood
church to pray.
When the facts were discovered the uobihty.
Perhaps the man addressed would answer, I up, no longer clinging to Armand’s mother, nomination of Edwin was withdrawn I In botli these cases it is not certain
with a shrug, “The clouds hang low over the and looking up into heaven she spoke to tbe and Elmer named in his place.—Cor. that tlie titles wore genuine, although
cape;”or perhaps he would go out upon the thunder.
It ¡»quite possible that they may liave
San Franrisco Chronicle.
“My father,” she said, or so it seemed to
gallery, whence he had just come, and look
been acquired by purchase, an easy
the
lad
who
stood
almost
by
her
side.
ing around at earth and sky and sea would
Hail in California Three Inches Deep. step on the continent of Europe. Genu
And, as if in answer, the thunder, which
say, cautiously: “Who knows? Perhaps.”
F. J. Baldwin, a fanner, who lives ine Spanish titles, for example, may be
In either case the answer was satisfactory. had not ceased to nW, crashed yet again, and
Every one hoped for rain; almost no one the echoes rolled back from the cape and died three miles east of Belotta, reports tiiat bought pretty cheap, tlie price ranging
expected it; and the question was asked slowly away in the distance, and all was a heavy hail storm visited that section from 30,000 francs for a countship to
rather to pass the time until the funeral ser- silent. And Felicie spoke again, but the lad Saturday aftenioon, coming from the 800 fora knightship. In Italy, the de
\ ice should begin than because Eugene Da- could not hear what she said,and she bowed sonth and moving northeasterly into cayed nobility are entitled to adopt
sylva thought that Joseph Bilet could read her head.
Calaveras county. The stonii com-
Again the thunder answered, a majestic menced at about 8 o’clock and lasted one strangers as their sons for a monetary
the weather signs better than he himself.
peal,
yet
not
to
make
those
who
heard
it
No one asked Edmond, but he of all those
and a half hours, when three inches of consideration, and tlie adoption carries
present said nothing doubtful. To Eugene afraid. But Felicie said nothing more; she hail was lying on the ground. The storm, witli it such titular dignity as would lie
he said at once, “It will rain; the grass is stood with her face turned to the dark sky,
which wils apparently three or four miles the birthright of a real son.
getting ready for a shower.” But no one as if in expectation.
Tlie consideration, as n rule, is not
Then came a blinding flash of lightning. wide, was attended by heavy thunder
heard him; at all events, no one paid any at
For an instant only dared the boy look; then and lightning. There seemed to be a large. A New York journalist, now
tention; he was only half witted.
From the gallery in front of the parish he clapped his hands over his eyes and fell continual peculiar heavy rumbling in the living abroad, is said to liave purchased
house one could see many things. Directly upon his knees. But in that instant he saw clouds that could easily be heard in the the title of "Prince Chialdini" for a
in front was the road white with dust, filled Felicie standing in the midst of the glory of intervals between roars of thunder. Old mere trifle of seventy live dollars. To
with the caleches and planches and quat’- the great brightness, smiling, and above her settlers say they never saw anything like conclude, an instance of titled Ameri
roues which had brought the farmers and was a great rift in tbe clouds. Further than the storm in this state. Cattle ran be can citizens born on American soil is
villagers to the church. Across the road ever before could the lad see on high; then fore the storm seeking shelter, but be
were fields, and beyond the fields hills, cut he presed his hands to hi3 eyes, and sank came bewildered and ran wildly about afforded by tlie children of the Mar
chioness Lanza, tlie novelist, all of
into terraces by great glaciers melted ten upon his knees, and cried aloud in terror.
When the lightning had become dim, and until they were tired ont, when they laid whom are members of tlie Italian no
thousand years ago. On the right was the
the
thunder
had
died
away,
came
the
rain.
down
and
submitted
to
tho
.pelting.
Tho
church, with its tin roof and its spires; and
bility.—New York Epoch.
the priest’s house, with two willow trees in 1 In torrents it fell, and all sprang up, forget- storm extended into Amador county, and
front of it, and the convent and the grave | ting Armand almost and Felicie, thinking all along the course the hail was as large
Brother» Being Shaved.
yard. On the left, Liehind tbe poor brown ' only that the drought was broken, and re- as small marbles.—Stockton Indepen
A Maine family consists of six broth
trees, was tbe seigneury; and behind the I joicing. But when they saw Felicie they re- dent.
ers so exactly alike that no one but
house, across the river—-a mile wide when the ! membered everything, and stood still, as if
Lilac» and Handcuff*».
their closest friends can tell which is
tide was in, barely two yards when the tide i abashed.
Felicie stood at the head of the grave. Her
The other day, as a royal train of Penn which. One day they happened to be
was out—rose the cape which gave the town
its name, and seemed to protect the town it hands were clasped before her; her face was sylvania parlor cars pulled out of the in a strange town and ail wanted a
lifted up, and she was smiling. What she
named.
Jersey City depot, a gentlemanly man shave. One of them went into a bar
Over the cape hung black, threatening looked at, wl at she w, no one could tell.
The priest approached her almost timidly carrying a huge bunch of lilacs made his ber shop, wils shaved and paid tlie cus
clouds, but so little did they indicate rain
way from the rear of the train to the
that the farmers’ eyes more readily sought “Felicie,” he said, but she made no answer. foremost car—the smoker. Pressing al- : tomary ten cents. Five minutes later
apparently tlie same man came bock
the church and the priest’s house than they I “Felicie,” he said, more loudly And again,
! more loudly still, “Felicie.”
I most upon liis heels was a rather rough into the shop very wratliy, liis beard
did the rock and its low hanging crown.
I
As
if
he
feared
that
she
had
been
struck
looking
fellow
making
the
same
journey.
In course of time a constant succession of
bristling with a three days' growth.
remarks and replies on the subject of the dead, the priest laid his hand on her arm. It happened that as 1 raised my eyes I He swore that he had not been half
She
moved,
and
he
gave
a
sigh
of
relief.
saw
behind
that
bunch
of
lilacs
a
pair
of
weather had emptied the parish house of all
I “Felicie, come with me,” he said; but the shining steel handcuffs connecting the shaved, and demanded that the work
its male inmates, the women and children
had already gone into the church. The men • girl moved not, nor made as if she heard him. gentlemanly man's wrists. It would be be done over.
The people moved nearer and looked at her,
Tlie astonished barber apologized
stood on the gallery in front of the house, al
interesting to know whether it was tlie
most in silence; no one cared to talk about aimost with terror.
convict's idea or that of his keeper to and complied, but judge of bis horror
At
last
the
maiden
lowered
her
eyes
and
the errand which had brought them together;
looked toward the priest; he looked her full put flowers to that strange use. But to when not ten minutes later his custom
so they stood waiting for something in anx
my mind there was something very er came back madder than ever, his
in the face, and his cheeks paled.
ious impatience.
“Felicie,” he said imploringly, “do you see
beard still showing on Ids face, and de
Suddenly from the steeple of the church me? Do you hear me»” But still she made poetic about it.—Julian Ralph.
manded another shave, Again the
rang out sharply the little bell, and at the
Singing Mice on Shipboard.
barber, after some protest, complied,
sound the men started, and crossed them no “ answer.
W’hat is this?” murmured the priest,
About three months ago J. F. Chelton, but when liis man returned the fourth
selves. Then, as if the expected had hap hoarsely; and Edmond, the half witted boy,
of Woods Cross Roads, Va., captain of time it was too much.
pened, they moved toward the church, the answered him:
oldest man leading the way, the younger men
"See here!" he cried, “if you’re try
“Father,” he said, touching the priest’s the schooner Anna Lloyd, captured a
struggling to avoid bringing up the rear arm, “Felicie has seen God, and heard him singing mouse in the cabin of his vessel ing to sell me some patent hair raiser
Again the bell rang out. It was tolling.
while
off
Gloucester
Point,
Va.
The
speak, and spoken to him. I do not think,
Out of the cloud of dust, along the narrow, father, that she can see you or hear you; little fellow was caged, and he sang I'll take your whole stock, but if you
worn road, came the yellow hearse, open to your face is not bright enough for her eyes merrily at all hours, his notes being are an escaped museum freak either
the sky, bearing the red coffin, dust white to see; your voice is not loud enough for her
somewhat like the subdued trill of a you've got to get out or I’ll liave to
now, wherein slept Armand Hamel. Behind
I canary bird. Thsrsday another musical close this shop."
hear.”
the hearse, in the town’s only two horse to The
The fifth and sixth brothers had to
priest turned to the lad suddenly, and
vehicle, brought out on great occasions like tbe boy stepped back abashed; but the priest mouse was caught in tlie cabin by Capt.
pay for their shaves.—Lewiston Jour
weddings and funerals, rode the mourners— held out bis hand, and tbe boy took it and Chelton, and was caged with the one
previously captured. They keep up a nal.
Xavier Hamel, Philomene bis wife, and little
it»
Felicie Pelletier, the maiden who was to have held
Where Carlyle and Hunk In Differed.
“My children,” said tbe priest, and at his lively concert at all hours of the day and
been Armand’s wife. Had Armand lived but words the crowd knelt in wonder on the night.—Baltimore Sun.
Thomas
Carlyle was a devotee to the
a month longer, Feliciehad been their daugli earth, no longer dry; and tbe priest spoke:
pipe, and he vainly sought to break otf
ter; now she was neither their daughter nor "The Lord hath spoken in the thunder to
Bl,hop Potter De»erll>e«l.
their son’s widow.
Bishop Potter is one of the handsomest the fascination. He is said to have
Fphcie; he bath appeared to her in the ligbt-
The men halted awkwardly at the church n ng. What ears have beard the Lord, them men in the city when he is arrayed in smashed no less than thirteen "cutties ’
door, and removed their hats as the heirse hath he sealed, what eyes have »een the
on tlie hearthstone of his Ecclefeehan
drew up. The priest stood on the steps, mis lx»rd, them hath he closed; what tongue has evening dross. He dws not look much cottage, witli the vow that lie would
sal in band, and placing himself before the s!«.ken with the Lord, that hath he silenced. older than he did twenty years ago or
smoke no more But as sure as the
coffin began the office of tbe dead. Most of Not on earth can those ears hear, those eyes more, when he was rector of St. John's
church. Troy. N. Y. The Potters are a next day came lie would be found puff
the men without the church and the women hp . that tongue speak.
within repeated audibly their prayers:
■ Listen, my children, Felicie bath beard pale faced, clean ent race, of bilious tem ing at a new one
“Deliver me, Lord, from them that hate God, and she is deaf; she hath seen him in perament, and. as a rule, long lived.
“Tobacco smoke," be writes, "is the
me. that I be not swallowed in the abyss, hi* glory, and she is blind; she bath spoken They naturally take pnde in their fam one element in which by our European
that the pit wherein they have cast me with him, and she is dumb. But it is no ily, for they have had brains a-plenty and manners men can sit silent together
«lose not above me.” And again: “Lord gn< f to Felicie that this is so, for the words means to cultivate them. Perhaps no
without embarrassment, and when no
God, king of the ages, thou alone art full of vf the ix»rd have comforted her inner sorrow
kindness; hear me, O Lord, whose pity is al and unde all earthly words unfit for her to name in the country is lietter known than man is bound to speak one word more
that
of
Potter.
—
Exchange.
ways ready to pardon; guard my soul, and hear, bis glory makes dark all mortal things
than lie has virtually ami actually got
deliver it.”
to say."
to her; tbe tongue that has spoken with God
The sale of the interesting original
Meantime tbe mourners had entered tbe must speak with no mortal man. Blind, then,
Ruskin, however, who aped Carlyle in
church, and were making their way to their is Felicie, deaf and dumb; yet pity her not, manuscripts of Charlo. Dickens and so many things, lie« never imitated him
seats. They walked slowly, delayed rather my children, for tbe hand of the Lord is Wilkie Collins, with some autograph
A _ great pity, for Carlyle found
by the emotions of the girl than by any weak upon her geutly; he hath honored her above programmes of private theatricals in in this.
ness of the older mourners. At last they all women, save only one. and today, more which both took part, will begin in Lan- tiiat it tranquilized irritability. Why
reached their places, and the burial service than ever before, is »he happy, today is she don in June. The entire original manu should not Ruskin have found the
began
In verv truth Felicie.”
scripts of "No Name." "The Moonstone" samel Indeed Ruskin's gravamen
All this time the clouds that bad encom
In silence the people heard tbe pne»t, and and "The Woman in White" of Collin« ■gainst tlie cigar is that it enables so
passed tbe cape came nearer, and more and when be bad spoken tbe »«enadiction in silence
more assumed the character of rain clouds. they went to their homes, thinking mneh. «nd the manuscripts of some of Dickens' many people to paw their time happily
in idieness. Truly, a blessing instead
poem» are in this collection.
The cape loomed up, and the miles of water Then old Xavier Hamel and hi. w.fe
of a curse I—New York Sun.
between it and the church seemed but yards, mens took Felicie to thpir home, and »be wm
•o near it seemed to be. Edmond put oat bis as their daughter; and tbe people thought of
The West End electric railway sta
Aquamarine, n »ort of beryl. I» plen
hand, as if to touch the great rock; then b» her as one unhappy, but as one honored great tion in Boston is to have 18 engines of
looked at tbe sky and went into tbe church.
ly by God and chosen out to have her sorrows 1,000 horse power each. They sre to be tiful in New England. The richest
Everything was strangely still Tbe voice turned to joy. But Felicie neither
triple compound, with cylinders 81, M colored gern» of this kind come from
of the priest sounded as if it came from a heard nor >poke again on earth, andI in God s .nd 52 tnche. diameter. The >ower is
Royalston, M m « Though «mall they
great distance The children, usually reat- time she fell adeep, to meet.
Ar’
*at quietly. Tbe darkneos of an ap mand.—R. N. Trevor in Harperj^J»<jy_^ , raarnttrssi by two belts for each an-
proaching storm pervaded tbe church; the
I walked * city street, and suddenly
I saw a tiny lad. The winter wind
Howled fitfully, and all the air u!>ove
The clear cut outline of the buildings tall
Seemed full of knives t!i r cut against the face
An awful night among the unhoused poor!
The boy was tattered; both his hands were thrust
For show of warmth within his pocket holea.
Where pockets had not been for many a day
Oue trouser leg was long enough to hide
The naked flesh, but one, in mockery
A world too short, tbo' he was monstrous small.
Left bare and red his knee -a cruel thing!
Then swelled my selfish heart with tenderness
Anti pity for the waif: to think of one
So young, so seeming helpless, homeless, too,
Breasting the night, a shiver with the cold!
Gaining a little, soon I passed him by
My Angers reaching for a silver coin
To make him happier, if only for
An hour, when—I marveled as I beards
Ilis mouth was puckered up in cheery wise,
And in the very teeth of fortune's frown
He whistled loud a scrap of some gay tunei
And I must know that l . i my ready tears
Fell on a mood more merry than mine own.
—Richard E. Burton in Harper's Magazine
•
I
Are Dog» Airaid t»l
"Perhaps you are not aware." said a
young lawyer to tlie serilie. "that dogs
I and horses are as much afraid of ghosts
and other uncanny or mysterious things
as are tlie most timid of tlie human
race. I proved it one time on two dogs,
at any rate. Not long after tlie war tlie
negroes wive so bad about our place in
Kentucky that it was witli difficulty
that we could keep our belongings on
our place. Every other method having
failed I finally hit upon tlie plan of
frightening them by appearing before
them dressed as a ghost is said to till
bilitate itself.
"Of course, tile negroes were sue
i cessfully frightened away from us. but
upon one ocoasion I also frightened our
two watch dogs as badly as any negro
ever was frightened by ghostly appari
tion. Tlie dogs were tierce fellows, and
would allow no stranger or strange
tiling on tlie place, but one moouliglit
night they came upon me in spectral
attire. Tlie dog that first caught a
glimpse of me just humped up bis baek
until all four of his feet covered not
more than six square inches of Ken-
! tucky soil. Ilis eyes stood out and his
hair stood up. and lie began moving
backward, never for an instant taking
liis eyes off my figure.
"His companion came up. went
through tlie same movement, and botli
began backing cautiously from me.
And as long as I could see them they
i put distance between us in that way. A
few moments later 1 heard them bark
ing at home, half a mile distant. They
had taken refuge under tlie house, and
it was four days before we could coax
them out again."—Charleston Demo
crat.
A Laconic Correspondence.
It is said that tlie celebrated German
theologian Schleiermaclier was rather
inclined to save than to spend money.
He was at one time quite ill, and sent
for a renowned physician, Dr. Grafe,
who was court physician at tlie time,
and whose son became tlie great oculist.
Schleiermaclier recovered, and when
fully restored to health lie sent a polite
note to Dr. Grafe. expressing his grati
tude and inclosing four louis d'or, beg
ging tlie physician to accept this small
sum as a token of Ills appreciation of
tlie services which had been rendered
him.
The following day tie received Ills
gold piecesagain, accompanied by the
following laconic note from tlie great
physician, "Tlie poor I cure for noth
ing; the well to do pay me according
to tlie regular •medicine tax'; tlie rich
reward me lavishly, according as it suits
their pleasure I"
Thereupon tlie clergyman sat down
and sent Dr. Grafe this still more la
conic answer
"Tlie four louis d’or are received
back with gratitude. Tlie poor Schleier
macherl"— Exchange.
A RomnainbulHt tlie Thief.
NE Ml.
White throngh the azure,
The purple blueneM
Of Neml's waters
The »Wimmer goeth.
Ivory white, or wun white as roses,
I Yellowed and tanned by the nuns of the
Orient,
Ilis strong limbs sever tHe violet hollow».
A »hiunner of u kite fantastic motions
Wavering deep through the lake a« he swim
meth;
Like gorse in ’ho sunlight tlie gold in his yel
low hair.
Yellow with Bunlighl and bright as with dew-
i
drops.
Fpray of the waters flung bark as he tonseth
liis head in tlie sunlight in tlie midst of bis
laughter.
Red o'er ids body, blossom white mid the blue
ness.
And trailing behind him in glory of scarlet,
A branch of the red berried asb of tbe moua-
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tains.
White as a moonbeam
Drifting athwart
The purple twilight
The swimmer gooth.
Joyously laughing.
With o’er bls shoulders,
Agleatn In tho sunshine.
The trailing branch
With the scarlet berries.
Green are tbo leaves ami scarlet the berries.
White are the limbs of the swimmer beyond
them,
Blue the deep heart of the still, brooding lake-
let.
Pale blue the hills In the haze of September,
Th» high Alban hills in their silence and
beauty.
Purple the depths of the windless heaven.
Curved like a flower o’er the waters of NemL
— William Sharp in Academy.
A Horse's Joke.
H»r<l to Swallow.
The teller of “tall stories” generally
finds his rebuke awaiting him in an in
telligent company On one occasion,
when several physicians had met, the
conversation ran to the subject of the
extraordinary things which a human
being might swallow and still live.
The familiar stories about swallow
ing silver dollars, sets of false teeth,
and so forth, had been related, when
Dr. Longbow began to speak.
"Two years ago,” he said, “I was
called in great haste to attend a car
penter in my town, though the message
said that the man was Iwyond doubt
already dead, for he had, while holding
a large gimlet in ilis mouth at liis work,
suddenly been taken with a lit of hic
coughs and swallowed the gimlet.
"But when I arrived at the man’s
! house I found him very comfortable.
The gimlet, gentlemen, gave him no
trouble at all to digest.”
There was silence for a moment.
Presently one of the other doctors re
ma rked:
“With you for his physician, Long-
bowk the man was lucky that it was
only a gimlet that he undertook to
swallow.**
“What do you mean?*’
“Why, if he had tried to swallow one
of your stories it would have choked
him to death.” —Youth s Companion.
THE SWIMME.;
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A Mansfield (O.) doctor is the owner
of a horse which has a fondness for
playing practical jokes. Recently the
physician drove out into tlie country to
answer a sick call. Arriving at his des
tination lie tied Ills horse to a post, near
which hung a rope attached to a large
bell used as u dinner signal for em
ployee on tlie place, and went inside.
Suddenly tlie bell rang The doctor
and Hie man of the house both looked
out, but could see nothing except tlie
horse. They had hardly turned away,
however, before tlie boll rang again,
and again they looked but could see
nothing.
This wins repeated, and the dootor
determined to solve the mystery; bo at
the third ring, instead of going into the
house lie stepped out and hid in tlie
yard. He kept liis eye on tile bell rope,
and in about a minute was surprised to
gee Ins horse lift up his head, smile sly
ly, and give the ro,ie a good, hard tug.
When tlie physician sprang out and
confronted tliehorse tlie animal instant
ly tried to put on a look of innocence,
but was unsuccessful.—Boston Herald.
Jewels Found I ii New York.
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Near Lake George in New York state
great quantities of small and very pure
nick crystals are gathered, specimens,
botli natural ami cut, being mounted
in jewelry and sold to tourists. Many
of them are whiter than any diamond
ami frequently as brilliant and trans
parent. A specimen witli a drop of
water inclosed will sometimes sell for
as much as $30. Certain mines of
them at Little Falls. N. Y., are worked
by tripping tho rock until a hollow
sound is heard, indicating a cavity, and
within such cavities the crystals are
discovered, sometimes as many as a
bushel. In one cavern years ago were
found several tons of these quartz crys
tals, tlie sides of tlie cavity, thirty feet
long and six feet high, being complete
ly covered witli them. Tlie sale of
such ston.■» in Hint region amounts to
fully $10,000 per annum.—Washington
Star.
Aii Old Custom Done Away Willi.
One of tlie thing»a good many of us
were taught at the npraery table waw to
use a bit of bread, a “pusher/’ most
children call it. when something on our
plate that ought to go on a fork would
Dot. This Wits almost aa wtcred a tenet
of table manners as that bread should
not be bitten from the slice. It is some
thing of a blow to road from presuma
bly good authority that this is a bar
barium almost as bad as eating In one’s
gloves. People who [jerftfat in breaking
down good established laws should at
least offer some good substitute; if the
woman who says we must not scurry
round after some slippery peas or elu
sive spinach with a morsel of bread, as
a valuable assistant tells us what we
must do, all will l>e forgiven.—Her
Point of View in New York Times.
How Two Mwn-liantw Chose.
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TALKED TO DEATH.
Her Husband Rees That the Fact Is Plain
ly Set Forth on Her Gravestone.
Undertakers and tombstone men often
meet with strange experiences. This is
well illustrated by an incident that oc
curred at tlie marble works of Frazier
& Leffel. of this city A tall, lank man,
witli a t ill, narrow head and a positive
expression on a well cut countenance,
entered tlie aforementioned establish
ment and intimated to the business
manager tiiat he wanted a tombstone
for liis wife Manager leffel, with one
eye to business and Hie other adjusted
to a [iro|H>r expriswion of synqiathy in
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liis patron's bereavement, proceeded to
show him tlie large array of designs in
his establishment.
A suitable stone was soon found, and
here tlie work liegan. Ilis patron of
positive eouiiti'iiauee had more to do
with Hie inscription than witli tliestyle
of stone. It must be just so. lie must
have cut on it just what he wanted
and as lie wanted it Ho was willing
to pay liis money for what he wanted,
but didn’t want any assistance to say
what that was. The undertaker tried
in vain to suit him, but to no avail.
He couldn't catcli the spirit of his
dream. There was something in this
case tiiat outreached the rigid expe
rience of many years. Finally the tall,
lank patron said:
“Give me your pencil and I’ll tell
you what 1 want." And here it is:
“Kiss me and I will go to sleep. Alice,
first and last wife of Thomas Phillips,
Talked to death by friends."
No date of birth, no date of death is
given. The age is omitted. Thomas
had but two [>ur[Mises in his mind—one
wils to let tlie world know that he
would never marry again and tlie other
was to let it know tiiat liis wife had
been talked to dentil liy tlie neighbors.
"There, now, I want it just as I
write it; nothing more and nothing
less. I propose to pay for just what I
want."
Being assured Hint Ilis wants would
lie strictly complied witli, lie [laid for
tlie monument and, giving directions
where to place it, departed with the
satisfied air of a man who felt tiiat he
had got even witli somebody.
This stone is an actual fact, and
stands today in a cemetery near Boul
der, in Clinton county. Ills.—Centralia
Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Gold In tlie Center of the Earth.
Gpologists nre agreed that the interior
of tlie earth is lurgely composed of
metals. Whereas tlie surface matter of
tlie planet weigh« only about two and
one half times as much as water, it is
known as a fact that toward tlie center
tlie average weight of tilings is eleven
times that of water. Tills is due to tlie
circumstance that while tills sublunary
orb was cooling and condensing tlie
heavier particles sought tlie middle.
Therefore it is probable that the great
mass of the sphere is iron.
Hut there are other metals more
heavy than iron, and these would nat
urally form an accumulation immedi
ately about Hie center of tlie globe.
Among them may be mentioned, as
most important, gold. Geologist Gilbert,
of the geological survey, said tlie other
day that he would rather expect to find
a vast accumulation of gold at that
point than anywhere else, his notion
being that such of the yellow metal os
is found on the surface of the earth is
only an accidental detritus.
However, there are two or three sub
stances known even more weighty than
gold, and one of them is plutinum,
which has doubled in market value
within the hurt year or two, owing to
tlie increased cost of prixluction.—
Washington Star.
Chung»» In tho Tea Trade.
It Is not Ceylon and Assam only that
are undermining tlie once undisputed
sovereignty of China as a tea exporting
country Japan also finds iier tea ex
ports rapidly increasing, while those of
tier great continental neighbor are con
stantly declining
Tlie increase ap
pears to be progressing at a rate of
more than three mid a half millions of
pounds weight per annum.
It seems to be a common quality of
tea—at least such is tlie exported arti
cle—nn<l tlie demand ap[H>ars to be
practically contined to tlie United
States. Russia, according to Consul
Troup, will have nothing to do with
tlie ‘‘Japan Congous." ami all Europe
takes in a year only some 300,000
pounds. On tlie other bund, Canada
buys annually upward of 8,000,000 and
tlie United States nearly lit,000,000
pounds.—Ixmdou News.
A merchant refused to hire an a clerk
a young man whose pantaloon», he no
ticed, were worn at the knees and neat,
because he judged that a good clerk
would not thus wear hi» clothing. In
another case a merchant chose from
twenty applicants a boy who stopped
to wipe his muddy feet before entering
his office, and whoso (Inger nails were
clean.
An Unlucky Combination.
‘‘It is attention to little things that
A man, a cow and a gun in a Con
makes a good clerk," tlie merchant necticut posture. Tlie man intent on
■aid. — Youth's Com [Minion.
woodchuck». The cow quietly chew-
ing her cud The gun ‘‘lying low,"
An Odd Hair Wreath.
Mins Hattie J Chippa, who Ilves both hammers cocked, in the grass.
near Budd's Lake. N J., has fash That was an ap|Hirently innocent and
ioned portions of hair from the hetuis harmless combination; but it came
of over 2,000 individuals into a large near proving the death of the man.
wreath of over 1.000 Hower» and leave«. Tlie cow, prompted no doubt, by bo
This unique oddity is composed of hair vine curiosity, approached tlie gun.
of every shade and color known to the The man took a stick to the cow. Tlie
Call, for Oomr.tle Animal.
anthropologist. The young artist spent gun, stepped oil by tlie cow, discharged
In controlling the movements of do over a year in collecting the locks of its load into tlie man's right leg, which
■nestle animals by Hie voice, besides hair before commencing work on tlie the surgeons afterward amputated.—
words of ordinary import, man uses a wreath.—St. Ixmia KepubUo.
Forest and Stream.
variety of peculiar terms, calls and in
A Wsltr.«.' n.tor».
articulate sounds—not to include
Th«
Ol<l Tim«».
Curran once no fur forgot himself as
whittling— which varies in different
Old Man-Talkin bout circuses, nuth-
localities In driving yoked cattle and In can come up to th’ ole fashioned oue to tell a witness, whose evidence he
wished to discredit, tiiat tilers was
harnessed horses teamster» cry "get ring circus, with one clown.
lip" (usually ‘‘git ep"). “click, click"
Young Man Only one clown I It scoiindrelism reflected in his face. "I
(tongue against the teeth), “gee." must liave been to enjoyable.—Good was never before aware that my face
made such u good mirror." retorted tlie
"haw," “whoa" or "wo," "wliash," News.
"back," etc.
All ot the above are
other.
Two R»»rta
need in English »peaking countries. In
A somnambulist story comes from
Georgia. The ■omnambtili»t my»ten
ously lo»t four suits of clothing, one
after the other, and his son. unknown
to the father, thought lie would sot a
trap for the thief.
Invariably the
thefts were committed at night. So the
son hid himself in the room. The thief
came, but it proved to lx* the father
himself. He got out of bed, dremed
himself, walked down to the river, ami
after placing his garments in tho hoi
low of a tree, took a swiiu; finishing,
he couldn't remember whore he had
put his clothing, find so returned home
without it. all this while being asleep,
and even not awakening on tumbling
into bed strain It was in this manner
that he had lost all four suits. -Phila-
dolphin I »edger
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