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SERENADE.
Ixwe *ongs are coming acrow the *«m,
Laxly of mine;
Whispered in echoes of dying breeze,
Lady of mine.
I Ait the Donga kiss thee sleeping.
Over thine eyelids creeping,
Where thy ciov-d eyes are keeping
of thine.
Would that my lij vrer a whis^r^l song,
Only for the
One of the n from out the throng,
t
7
Woul ling
The k tl, >rlh w;u •lling
(July for
IF. ./. Ifmderson.
TARA,
BY I Y OHKIS.
Tara’s c«, vas in a little village
near t lie gi( Hyderabad, Her in the
Telugus N i/.am I oin people and were her
of th tivat caste,
earliest n < oiit w of the tinkling
bells on tlie n< of tiic flocks. She
ed to lie aw ami wondering night whether listening te [
eir music, they
too came Horn t nit stars like her
self; for lu r mother had told the little
girl that sh 1,1 ° . " 111 Horn the
brightest st ,' '‘' \j ’ ^‘ . j 1 ’: f; 1 ‘rough
the i nk ,!l ' , ' ,nW;1 j
. .
11 ' ' i 11 1 ,
things of llic cirth lo which they be
,,li '' “ j 1 and dear
e whence t, wh h!m mini.-, me or —i thy am, shining a star. place from
W hen she w .s< en yeais old she
questioned (he Bui, r mother, one (l ty,
about the r;tiir wlii p er. ed her little
Iiose. l(U ‘ \\ hy did . She wear a ring, while
Moondra, a neigh »or s child of her own
“ ts 1 because - became
froin t In- 1 ars:
1 11 1 Bai explained tha ll wm the
Kign <d marriage I he ceremony \vh ch
she dimly remembered \\ the wedding,
‘ In:in ! |, .' i t() h'J* 11 ’
now far away in his own home. ‘ Did
sin not remember standing on one side
of a led screen, while I alu stood on the
other side, and the family fr.ends threw
r;Ce over them? And when the screen
was removed, and they stood f ice to
face , the pn, t ol the tempi- tied their
i ul i n;r i,,.,,q and they fed each
otb-r with sugar, and were declared
“Ah!” said tl Bai, “the marriage
procession was the grandest ever known
in which our village. ! a!u rode a white horse,
and silver was entirely covered with gold
spangles and bells, while Lain
himself was almost hidden by garlands
of flowers.
“I lien the bug line of curbs and
behind luilanquins, filled with children; and
them the women laden with
flower and the men bearing torches;
while the musicians followed,
their tomtom , and singing the
chant.
, .
\ 1,1 n i "'iiirmbei mine of this
\... 11, llUtl '“ken when she
A, j 11 piaee
her 1 "Ter veals old, and they had then
the nose-ring - the sign ot a wile
aud Gain had gone I ne , to Ins own
luge I 111 »ar< .la, t iree hundred
aw j ’" 11 .' 1 1 be time when his
> ‘oc^B.umld be old enough
j'. to come
nnu^ y went by, I ara sang her little
song a- turned Hie null * one to grind
the giai.ynd rolled the spi< curry whidi
) «a>» gippg. ie. tm- tire at their c\on
ing in.. ■' ' m hs berded at
mg Id, and the., beds always made music
to I ara sears m the low roofed cottage
" ll " N " 1 b‘- bo seasons came and
’, in 1 , "f eli veil 3 ears old,
when Uaniji, her father, announced that
tlic Id tie wile must ho taken to her bus
i im s >"|ise.
t ' 1 *' 1 c ' s ^ brother, was to go
'V the 1 close , ,CM * of the 1<UC l ,:orain o> .i llst ’d
their long rains, . they started
(in journey across the country, car
i\mg liuas silken bndal robes and orna
ments, and the lutlo dowry of money
w well had >cen saved for her.
As they descended the winding path
Itm lag to the pu iFe road they watched
care ul \ lest perchance a lizard should
ciobs their track, aud they be obliged to
tuni au k. Bat no It-aid appearing,
they went cheerily on their way, which
lay through the heart of the great city.
Gilt-spangled elephants Uumpod
iliaje.Mlea .... lv along, , the , howdahs , tilled
with the high-born ladies of the realm,
whose laughing voices reached the ears
ot the two stranger-us they forced their
v a\ through the moving ihrong, and
amei t e sparkle ut the datinomls flashed
out, as the silken curtains <d the howdahs
were displaced bv the sw iviii.niniinn ^ nf
the elephants’ uvad
I’assiipc "quickened outside the city & <mtes the
travelers travelers quickened their their paee puce, at '' were
soon nothing in tlvopen countiy, where there
was ' to-obstruct their 11 *eO'progress.
At . Ulall the tenth day
mg on of their
journey irne\ they they entered enteicil a little village in
battiauar. where lived Jairam, a friend
of limbi i'-i l'h v b.uud at ihn the door i ....
‘
ot f,i this friend c v s house, i and asked it they
sS
Jiiinim Jaii.im uutl iu.il liis Hi" wife w ito greeted greeted them them with with
ssu s
Inter for v.flr fee, if ‘Crrv Jith £
' ve tir-n 1 r - lN J< vim ii. uniii 'Du .ut quite .bo rested
from your lo g ournev.”
So the brother :f, au 1 ,?‘erf, sister consented to
st,u ‘ U aw. 1 ' ueiv " ,l " the-e 1 good friends,
when they would start again on their
30 Tin?. !:;r U - oft lZd t1 ilf -
in
Plvn-m f 7" di> J‘ !‘!
„n., t„ 1 . „„ -
I'lien ar. se the nus'ior ' _ ‘
sh ndd be do e with ■ mmwl
mu"t I in au ton ,1 nt ‘ sMl'^p^d take her back a le
make ad f,U 1 le wouU
be oblige.! to the cows for a cer
tain number of davs. until he cou'd be
sure wl ttl . r hU f it >t er’s spird l, „i elcr i
f,a<tVf, ered a uav a Bclmd' > n kc Tl
. th viltt i - u ill
aim, an tbe
this would wc;,l le fully „ t,ii’re >o much time,* it
three weeks before he
*t;! »'ml kyi
T.m wtti, fch W l? t.K
a> the (. u- oms ol l..s oa>te would permit.
>q he-p. .1 away on the messenger's
lft hor-c. quite satisfied that he had
maue the -1 ai rangemant for the little
Wife.
The following wi k Ja ram. who was
. the einjJoy of
in ot one the Kattiawar
(hie,', xvastuderod to a distant part of
the province. I hen a very serious ques
tion presented ^ *tself, for Jairam
must
take as omi'.lj v'l.hhim “ i\ hat would
they do with lava: l nev coil’d not
take her along, and they dared not leave
'Ti \\ l hue l n tliev J U ° sat ne ‘ m • . .the i doorway dis
cussing the matter in very loud tones.
two hearing strange the loud women came they along, and
and inquired list voi c>, the stopped
x\ was matter. Jai -
ram sa d: “Here we have this girl on
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our hands, and we know not what to do ;
with her. Her brother was taking her j
dered away, and there is no one to look
aftr r the child.”
The women said: ‘Gfhy, we are on
our be*t w ay to Hyderabad now, and your
m will be to put her in our charge:
wc will take her back to her brother,
then after the funeral ceremonies are
over he can start again with Tara.”
1 he simple minded Jairam thought
this a very good solution to the proii
iern, and at once gave the giri into their
keeping, with her silken garments, jew
dry. and money.
The women led her along quietly until
they came to a wild, desolate part of the
country, when they tore off her gar
meats, seized her bridal robs, jewelry
and money, and tying her hands and
feet, prepared to kill her. Tara had no
suspicion of their purpose until
commenced tying her, when she screamed
lustily.
the Fortunately other a cartman was passing on
side of the hedge, who rushed
to her rescue, and reported the women
to the district police. They were ar
r« st<*d and brought before the Knglish
magistrate, who whs making his annual
tout in that neighborhood; Tara’s prop
erty was recovered, and the women were
sent Then to prison.
Tara was left on the magistrate’s
hands, ar.d he placed her under the care
of his butler’s wife, expecting that her
friends would claim her as soon as he
could communicate with them. But
j„ 8 t a t this time the magistrate was
transferred to the Ahmedpore district,
vvhich lies one hundres miles nearer
Hyderabad.
A district magistrate lives in his tenfc,
and moves trough the districts with much
tent furniture and a large retinue of
servants and camp followers; so with the
butler’s family went little Tara. As soon
as they reache 1 the city the magistrate
inquired for a place of refuge where the
ggj cou j ( i rema j n uu til her frinds should
claim her. He was told that a “.Madam
Sahib’’ had a school where girls of Tara’s
a „ e wc *re cared for, and to the “Sahibs”
bungalow the magistrate hastened at
once.
Tne “Madam Sahib” was very willing
to receive Tara into her school, but
thought it would not be well for her to
enter the boarding department, 'hild’s as that
wouk ] d ( , stroy t , ie caste, and
make much trouble for her after her re¬
turn to her friends.
Sv a Teluga woman of Tara’s own
easte was found, who promised to feed
and otherwise care for her, and she en
ten d the school as a day scholar.
And now began a new life for Tara,
Until she was brought before the magis
trate, a few days before, she had never
even seen a white person. New she was
wakened each morning by the bugle call,
and she saw troops of Highlanders and
other uniformed soldiers marching in
and around the grand old fort, with
. colors flying and bagpipes playing.
j she ff there was now in a large, bustling city,
an was nothing to remind her of
her old home except the tinkling of the
j |„.j| s us the herds were driven outside
the gates in the morning aud brought
hack .,t night.
She had never thought of learning to
rt , !U R None of her family or neighbors
could read or write, and there had never
been any neeersity for such accomplish
’ '
jpeuts,
;H^fer, vvheu ouo „f them wished to send a
he calk'd (r Ahe vi n 'g*rscrAle to
ykritc / -d for him, and also to read the
t nsWer when it came. Why should they
learn to read? Their fathers and grand
fathers b fore them had never learned.
and the ways of their fathers were good
Ahem.”
Now here was Tara learning to read
and write and sing and embroider. It
than was delightful for her—infinitely better
the Sassu’s house, where she would
be obliged to work so hard.
The magistrate and Lessib Sahib wrote
to Hyderabad and Baroda, but no answ’er
came. Little Tara could give no direc
tions for writing. She only knew that
her brother’s name was Limbaji, son of
i; atn ji t bu t there were many Limhajis
aiu i Bamjis in Hyderabad, and the let
ters never reached the Limba i for
f or whom they were intended. Her
husband's name was 1 alu, and he lived
io. Baroda, but more she could not tell,
and Lalu received uo letter. So Tara re ?
maiiied in the school, and as she was
diligent and studious, she made good
progress in her studies.
i Years Years passed, with no tidings from
Hyderabad or Baroda, and the time had
come come when when . Tara’s _ 1 ara s class class was was to to graduate graduate ,
f 1 I O om m uie the - school c noot. It it wis was i a ie.it ikv aa> fnr lor
those young girls. 1 lie hall was crowd-
1 tb f f atlve gentry of the city,
° VG[ *' ght t0 See S ‘ r][s
reading and writing. r
As it ha; pencil, a nati\e _ chief was just _
spending ‘ a little time in the city. He
h ad been on a pilgrimage to the holy city
0 f Benares, and was on his way back to
bis ms province pr°\ inc ® in in the 111C '■tenth somn maiatiu Marathi conn couu
try. hl Hearing that all the best people
wou be h‘wS at the school he too came to
™ wo.*
scarcely unu wJrf. worus WwJ.WM.hh «j J e.\pre?s ms appre appre- p p
^ irl8 „ oro , m ta tVir m ost
QLta !(m > ,,na trv “St ,7 ‘ S su h“
looked, , r so the young chief thought, and ,
is soon as the exercises ex ici ts were xx ere over oeer he lie
make ta, V e , forward the bright , and eyed asked girls if he acquaint- might
1 ance. He was d shyly s'n greeted ticed by the
- voung girl an U ) va 0 that they
. th
“ C °" VCrS,,t,0 “ " '
-C . Formal
*l>P l ->-» t » n to the Sahib fot I ara s Un.l
. and griat w as his di.-mav wlieu he learned
? C been married in infancy.
) f ge d,stnct and occu P ied a
. Eb'els*
S Revenue" Ion* fr"m beTn ' looking his
H e had cSuld hi? /tatelJ for a
% “ fe who ? ! £ mce f statc
*
home but Tl , • "r u a T
Wh ’, ° SUlt e< \ l T Tara wa8 *°. ve,
°“ C and y
1 ? 1 acc 0 ,n P. , l,shed i sbe could direct
’
Sv- i dbmiJv 0 f 1 uI" ha^been
mtrrl'd vet |kh'' 'she
,m{ i 'dozen vears before to a i ob
n t't SindSTSw- ts th^wsTt
Hke
; the Modes and Persians,and the marriage
of au infant is binding for life, unless
the lmst and chooses to turn her out and
divorce her.
The Sahib tried to comfort the chief
vith the hope that Tara might already
be a widow and free to marry him. Noth
Jpg bad been heard from I.alu for five
years, atwi they set themselves to devise
a plan ror discovering whether be still
lived. They decided to send a proela
mat on into every village in Kattiawar,
calling upon Jairam to come forward,
Through him they hoped to find Tara's
brother, and then news of her husband,
Accordingly a printed circular was sent
to the headman of every village, and in
a few days Jairam was found. Then
Limbaji, thf brother, was communicated
-with, and he soon came, declaring his
intention to take Tara to her husband'*
house at once.
w as inexorable. It was a disgrace to the
family that she had been kept from her
husband *o Ion- and every day she re
rut;:,el only added to the disgru e. So
she was torn from her friend* at Ahmed
pore, and agan they started on their
journev to Baroda.
When they reached Ealu’s house they
learned that he was in the Mahara ah s
armv, an 1 was then fighting a rebellious
hill tril.e. He had taken another wife
who was then living with the Sassu whom
Tara had so much dreaded in her child
hood.
And now commenced a hard life for
the poor girl. The Sa-~u and the other
wife were unsparing in their abuse of her.
She hail disgraced the family, and had
broken her ca-ts, and they cried out,
“Unclean! unclean!” whenever she ap
proached them.
They tossed her food to her like a bone
to and a dog, as she crouched in the darkest
dampest corner of the house. She
was compelled to do all the household
drudgery—grind and the grain and pound
out the ri< e carry the water. Ths
few books she had brought from Ahmed
pore were torn in pieces and scattered to
the four winds, while her knittiug
and embroidery materials were cremated
before her eyes. Her only comfort was
an occasional salaam from the Telugu
woman who cared for her in Ahmedpore.
The chief had sent this woman to
Baroda to give Tara aid and comfort as
often as opportunity olTered. But the
opportunities were few, for Tara was
sedulously watched by the Sassu, lest
she should make her escape.
Sometimes the woman disguised her
self as a bangle-seller, and succeeded in
secretly conveying food to the poor girl,
who was made to fast until she was al
most starved. She shed bitter tears
over the life she had left behind, and
thought regretfully of the grand homo
which the chief had offered her in the
far-away Marathi country,
Why had she been married in infancy?
Why should she not have a voice in the
matter of her life’s companion? She
asked herself these questions number¬
less times, but no answer came. tShe
had been born a Hindoo, and she must
submit to Hindoo customs.
Time passed drearily enough, until
one day word came that Fain had been
slain in battle. Then the house was
tilled with wailing. The mother beat
her breast aud clutched her hair, de
daring that vile, polluted Tara was the
guilty cause of all this. She was thrust
into the street, and told never to darken
their doors again.
Now was the Telugu woman’s oppor
tuuity, and she came to Tara’s rescue, as
the cartman had done years before,
At early dawn they were on their way
to Ahmedpore. There was no traveling
across the country on foot now, but with
the swiftest speed of the iron horse; and
in twenty-four hours Tara was in the
midst of her friends in Ahmedpore again,
and the news was flashed to the young
chief in his southern home.
In a few weeks there was a grand wed
ding in Ahmedpore—the grandest since
the time of the old Mohammedan kings.
The bride was lovely in her white
silken robes and diamonds, and the cliiei
was handsome in his full durbar cos
tume, with his jewel-hilted sword at his
side. His garments were embroidered
with -send -pnsf Is, and the diamonds com¬
posing bough<® the aigret 8 llji te hundred of his turban would
have
the one in w-mca Tara had in childhood
listened to the tinkling bellsof the flocks
as she lay under the cottage roof and
thought of the distant stars from whence
she came.
Dexter, King of Trotters.
Speaking of the great trotting horse,
Dexter, who died recently, Robert Bon¬
ner, his ow’ntr, said that of course the
achievements of Dexter did not seem so
remarkable compared with those of the
trotters of the present day, but it should
be remembered that great improvements
have been made in all the paraphernalia
of the trotting track. There were no
light sulkies in Dexter's day, and not so
much was known of the science of trot¬
ting, Mr. Bonner thought Maud S. a
better horse than Dexter because she had
better blood.
Dexter was foaled in 1858. He was
got by Hambletonian out of a little black
mare by American Star, a d she was out
of Shark’s dam. Dexter was a brown
gelding of rich color, with four white
legs and a blaze and”one in bis face. hielT He was
J fifteen fifteen ^ hands hands nanus and ana one one inch inch inch high, m„n, lonc' long long
f or bis inches, deep through the heart
an ff ver y powerful in his loiu 3 and quar
terg . flis head, nCck and eyes were
g ood ’ aud He had capital oblique
shoulders, and good legs and feet. He He
wa s bred by Jonathan Hawkins, of
Montgomery * Orange Conntv New
York
In ' June , 13 ne .Y of I 186° the late late Gcorse George Alley, Yllev
.v then a leading ' New 5 ork merchaut and
aiar a rare i ll( lo- e 0 oi f norse. horse'esh esn, went went unto up to
1 “ d DOt b,8B brok ‘" * t,h “
fj r mG His action however fascinated ^
Dexter was ‘“S five “'"'’“V, years old *»*•“, when th s hap
uened P tneu ; and his nis owner °" ner immeaiateiy immediately sent sent
bun to Hiram Woodruff, who, after a
training, “ trotted him a trial to a wagon
0 . 4 This was Lexter's first mile
beat
A week afterward he trotted a mile in
l.»rne S8 in Th'« was a prodtgious
miles as fast as the Srst he was set down
as a horse possessed of unlimited endur
ance .
When Dexter made his great record of
7 ^ ® uffal ° Park trac k Tl 3 '
!e ?, t 8 inch « 8 ov « r a mde ' He „ dld a
over the F ash . ’£ n course ln . }**
without . break, . . the of o000
a m presence driven
P e 0 P le ' Mr ' Bonner has him to
road wagon in Prospect Park in 2:21*,
when he carried 319 pounds. This was
^- arded as the mo *
done ner r b Y an Y . T , t 5e 2oa
'
An Ancient Sct.li>tnre Unearthed.
The excavations of Athens have re
suited in bringing to light the head of a
man of heroic si/ e, carved in porous
stone. It was found on the Acropolis,
at the southeast angle of the Parthenon.
The hair and beard are ^as usual) painted
blue and the face red. What is remark
ab'.e, however, is that the pupils of the
eyes are not only painted in. This but head, alse
delineated with the chisel.
forms one of the most ancient
sculptures ever found upon the Acropolis,
will attract considerable attention both
from the style of workmanship and the
material of which it is made. It appears
to be the head of a triton, the rest ol
the body, in the form of a serpent, end
; ing in the tail of a fish, having beer
i 1 found a few days before near the sauu
place .—Brooklyn Eagh,
BUDGET OF FUN.
---—
A Reward or Me*it-Correcr-A
Wise Resolutlon^Erect and
Soldierly—The Landlady’s
rmshin* “ i»„, ’
•
“Sam ” said one little urchin to an
other, the other day, “Jam, does y° ur
schoolmaster ever give jou any rewards
of merit.' - ’
“I s'pose he does,” vvai the rejoinder;
“he gives me a lickin’every day, and
says I merits two .’ - —Journal of Ccm
merce.
-
Correct
Teacher ^ —“So you can’t do a simple
sum in arithmetic? Now, let me explain
it to you. Suppose ei|ht of you have
together forty-eight apples, thirty-two
peaches, aud sixteen mdons, what would
each of you get?”
“Cholera morbus,” replied Johnny.—
Rare Bit'.
-
A Wise Resolution.
Teacher (infant natural history class)
—“You will remember that, will you.
Tommy, that wasps lie in a torpid state
all winter?”
Tommy (with an air of retrospection)
—“Yes’m, an’ I’ll try an'remember that
they make up for it in summer —Life
____
Erect and Soldierly.
Fashionable Mother—“How superbly
James, the footman, carried himself to¬
day, while we were driving. I was quite
proud of him.”
Fashionable daughter—“Y"es, Parker
says he has a stiff neck. ”
Mother—“I wish he had a stiff neck all
the time.”— Epoch.
The Landlady’s Crush Tig Pun.
Boarder (at breakfast table)—“Mrs.
Blank, you ought to break au egg into
your coffee pot, this coffee is uot settled
at all.”
“Neither is your last month’s board
bill, Mr. Gubbins,” was the settling re¬
ply. And Gubbins drank the coffee in
silence, dregs and all .—Dmville Breeze.
Why She was Dressed.
Husband—“What are you rigged out
for now?”
Wife—“I’m going shopping and want
to be treated with respect.”
“Humph! Go shopping in all that
finery and you will be charged three
prices for every purchase.”
“I don't intend to buy anything to¬
day. I wear my old clothes when I
buy .”—Omaha World.
Not Realistic Enough.
Smithson—“I saw you at the theater
last evening, I believe, Miss Bacon. Did
the performance come up to your expec¬
tations?”
Miss Bacon (who is a member of the
Cheyenne Culture Club)—“I can hardly
say that I was wholly satisfied, Mr.
Smithson. Why, that hero fatigued me
every time he pulled hi* gun. The
slowest cow punc her on ou-,ranch would
pump him full of lead bet»*-<^he could
get his hand away from hipim o. ”— Idea
A Familiar Count*
“Beg the pardon, sir,” said *
on first seat, turning r
to the man or Ake seat behh
.. A.uSt have met yoh ■ mni ’re. Your
face is strangely familiarT^P^
“Y"ou probably have se' ; o my portrait
in most of the papers,” replied the man
with calm dignity of conscious superio r
ity. “I am the inventor of the celebra¬
ted McSlatherson three dollar shoe.”
With another look at the face of the
great man the abashed questioner went
off and sat on the coal box.— Chicago
Tribune.
A Problem Hard to Solve.
Ilerr Bummerzimmer (who is a very
bad dancer)—“May I haf der plesure of
to dance mit you, Mees Borden?”
Miss Borden—“lam very sorry, Herr
Bummerzimmer, but my card is quite
full.”
Herr Bummerzimmer—“Dot is very
strange. I baf asked efery laty in deV
room to dance, and dey all say dere card
vos full. And I haf count der sheutle
mens and dere vos twelve, and I haf
count der laties and dere vos twenty
seex, and I cannot comprehend how
twelve shentlemens can dance mit twen
ty-seex laties efery time .—Boston Beacon.
What Charley Needed
“Pa did you hear Charley serenading
m ; ' last night?” said Mabel at imeakfast’
“Humph. I should say so,” was the
shortly spoken response
“Doesn’t he sing perfectly lovely?”
The old gentleman didn’t sa
thing but jabbed his fork ferociously
into a piece of steak
“I never heard anythin* like Charley’s
singing,” she went on, “it is as sweet as
a bird’s.”
“Yes,” said her father, “I’ve thought
when I heard Charley sing that the one
thing he needed was feathers. And
with a bucket of tar and a pillow 1 think
I could give him a pretty ° »ood outfit ”_
Merchant Traveler.
House Moving Incidents.
Mrs. Jones (who has just moved into
the house lately occupied by Mrs.
Smith)—“Dear, dear! 1 never saw such
a dirty house in my life. I should think
those Smiths never cleaned house while
thev lived here. And the yard is full of
their old rubbish, too. It will take a
m „„,h to clean „p after them."
“Dirt: Don’t'talk lo mo'o'f dirt’ five
counted ten different kinds of finder thfnk
marks on the parlor 1 walls. And to
W ve moved on purpose so we wouldn’T
t0 clean bouse ' It’spossitively dis
graceful do. I'd as to live lief the be a way those n —Detroit Joneses
sava S e.
Free Press.
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A Sign of Greatness
« Yo u can always tell -reat
a man
when VOU ^ h5m ’‘’ *** one gentleman
*
to another on Main street: “and I think
,o «*° f
I “tt'ltyr
r ar, v ‘ i rei na ,^ i r I“chelieu j? e Jj i} ave th^ir his eccentricities. hours
. spent of re
a -xaD°n in jumping over furniture. Dr.
• ohnson took particular pains to touch
ever ' P ®." 1 be passed : bhellev used to
an ‘ us p himseif by sailing boats on the
: a ^ e in Hyd e park: Rou-seau xvould roll
Large bouiders over a declivity; Coxvper s
e ^ ce P tI j :c ‘ t y was in cutting glass with a
? iazler s diamond: Lincoln was never
ba PP- un -ess he was whitllinga stick,
Lm. I could give you a thousand instances
^Jt^kind
“But where does Alderman K. come
in?”
“Alderman K! Oh, Alderman E\ he
wipes his nose on his coat-sleeve.”— Kan
,<M ^- iL J Aews.
The friendship of the artful is mere
self interest.
UORDS OF WISDOM.
ou caClK
-
It becomes wise to try negotia- .
a man ;
tion before arms.
Many a worthy man sacrifices his peace
to formalities of compliment and good
manners. ! |
Manv seem to pa^s ou from youth to 1
decrepitude without anv * reflection on the
end of life j ■
TT He that , has no friend and , no enemy i ..
one ° tbe % u ar ’ an “ without talen s.
-
po^cr or energy. j
Half the mis l ies of life might be ex- i
tinguished would man alleviate the gen- ;
eral curse by mutual compassion. |
Forbearance and self-control smooth j
the road of life, and open many ways
which would otherwise remain closed.
We raa y train ourselves in a habit of
patience and contentment on the one
hand, or of = •munblinw and discontent ou
~
the other '
c j j most effect,,..! 1 '1 when m .y ived
... •, , , . , r
orod iPkwmllTo . look un * ^virnip'to^o * ^ . J
. . , ..
in ^J nban - t WI * 1 ’
All the possible . charities . . of life ought
tobe cultivated, and where we can
neither be brethren nor friends, let us be
^md neighbors and pleasant acquaint
auce3 -
Laws were made to restrain and punish
the wicked: the wise and good do not
need them as a guide, but only as a shield
against rapine and oppression; they can
live civilly and orderly, though there
were no law in the world.
The Apple and the Quince.
From pre historic times the apple,
both wild and cultivated, lias existed in
Europe. It was indigenous in Europe
and south of the Caucasus and its culti¬
vation began very early. Wild apples
are now found throughout Europe, ex¬
cept in the extreme north, in the Persian
province of Ghilan aud south of the
Caucasus. In Germany there are two
wild varieties and in France two also,
but unlike the German. The apple tree
existed in Europe before the Aryan in¬
vasion, and the lake dwellers of Lom¬
bardy, bavoy and Switzerlnnd made great
use of them. The inhabitants cut them
lengthways and preserved them dried as
a winter provision, just as housewives in
the United States do to-day. A German
investigator has discovered that the lake
dwellers used two varieties of apples,
and though it is probable that they were
wild, yot there is some reason for think¬
ing that they were not. J.arge quanti¬
ties of apples, and more or less carbon¬
ized generally, but some of them dried,
have been found in the village remains
of the lake dwellers.
In the woods in the north cf Persia,
near the Caspian sea, in the region south
of the Caucasus and in Anatolia, the
quince is found wild. There is no San¬
scrit or Hebrew name for it, but its an¬
tiquity in Greece may be inferred from
the superstition mentioned by Pliny and
Plutarch, that the fruit of the quince was
a preservative from evil influences, and
from its entrance into the marriage cere¬
monies by Solon. Some authors go so
far asy^maintain that the apple cP^wffed
W MP 'W llnn mmmgviMm . d Ol 1 C that
l.jc -;—iiaiuitilized in the east of
Europe before the Epoch of- the Trojan
war. It is a fruit th it has been but lit
tie modified by cultivation, and it is as
harsh and acid when fresh as it was in
the time of the Greeks .—Good Mouse
beeping.
A Veritable Reek Fortress.
For the first time for a number ot
years"thc-wigflri scaled H,ocJcin_Ceylon Tim has beeu
by a European, 'feat on
occasion being performed by Gpnorol
Lennox, who commands the troops in
the island. It is said, indeed, that only
one European, Mr. Creasy, ever succeeded
in reaching the summit. The rock is
cylindrical in shape, and the bulging
sides render the ascent very difFcult and
dangerous. There are galleries all round,
a groove about four inches deep being
cut in the solid rock. This rises spirally,
and in it are fitted the foundation bricks,
which support a platform about six feet
broad, with a chunam coated wall about
nine feet high. The whole structure
follows the curves and contours of the
solid rock, aud is cunningly constructed
so as to make the most of any natural
support the formation can afford. In
some p^ces the gallery has fallen com
P] ° f e i bne el Y marble awa >> but H sti Hlg }}. exhibits A "P 011 flights the
rock are several figures of Buddha; , but
11 \ s a bo ' v th e artist got there,
ho w, being there, he was able to carry
°? bl3W ' )rk * Tire fortifications consist
ot platforms, one above the other, sup
P orted b Y massive reta ning walls each
commanding the ot her Owing to the
falling in away of the gallery, the ascent
parts had to be made up a perpen¬
dicular face of the cliff,and General Len¬
nox and four natives were left to do the
latter u ’t , of , the . alone. , The
P ai ascent tup
found to be a plateau about an acre
111 extent, in which were two square
tanks with s des 30 yards and 15 feet re
s P ec tively in length, cut out of the solid
F 0 ted /*’ A the P L alace summit is . beli eved to have ex
j® oough on time, weather, at aud one the time; jungle al
oohterated all traces of it. During
descent the first comer had to guide
e foot ° n( ? xt to a sade fi ssur <G but
,, rcacbed , , *ne , bottom safely in about
two . and a half hours.— St. James Gazette.
Largest Regimental Loss in the M ar.
The official casualty lists of the Con
^derate force are not so trustworthy as
those of the Union side, because they
W ba d the same careful revision
the war closed, but the tables now
accessible show that the Northern aim
wa s equally true, and that the Northern
nerve was equally steady. The Twenty
sixth North Carolina - Pettigrew’s
Brigade, Heth's Division-lost at Getty
b * r g killed and 502 wounded: total,
j there 88 , not including the missing, of whom
were about 120. (The official re
K)17i“
XSwk MC■ an7fhe
- made cut the list did it with a
bnllpt through each les Toss 1 This is bv far
, i ar r/est regimental on either side
duriiurthc ° war ' Cerduru - - Maaazlne a •
Altered Silver Certificates.
The officers in charge at the L'nited
States Sub-Treasury in this city have had
their attention called to $i silver certifi¬
cates which have been altered to repre¬
sent tens. They say that the alteration
is so skillfully made that even expert
cashiers might be deceived.
Not long ago ones altered to five were
P ut circulation The changes are ef
fecteu bv the use of acids to bleach the
ink from portions of the certificates and
then printing the new numerals and let
ters with a hand stamp.— New York Tel*
a ram.
THE GERMAN ARMY.
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rhe Pay an(1 Arnlllincnt of Ger .
lnan Soldiers-Their Daily
Duties—The Other Gieit ' j
, ■ t -it.
*
Berlin ’ and Germany itself for that
matter, New writes a reminds correspondent of the
York Sun, the stranger of
a } 1 U g e military barracks. There are
soldiers everywhere, and every man in
the country, from the son of a monarch
to the lowliest beggar, must serve in the i
army. million From this there is no appeal. A
marks will not purchase immu-;
nity from the service. It has made a
stalwart, methodical, fine-looking and j
well-bred lot of men of the Germans.
The army is the most common of all j
of discussion here. There are
several branches which fall under the
nominal command of the lesser German
Kings ia time of P cace - but the Bmperor
of Germany is absolute monarch when
war breaks out. He is a good deal of a
monarch at other times, too, one finds
out after a short residence in Germany,
] me t an officer of the Saxon branch of
the army last night whom I had known
when he was in New York some years
ago.
“I’m in the army for good and all,
now, ” he said, with a shrug of his broad
shoulders, “and recent events reconcile
me to it.”
“You think the general stirring up of
the Government here will turn out a
benefit to military men?”
“I think that the accession to power
of a born soldier and warrior like our
Crown Prince will send the finest army
in the world to the‘front. Prince Will¬
iam is ambitious and capable, With
such a sovereign the chances of distinc¬
tion in the army will be limitless.
“It. is well you look for distinction in¬
stead of money in the army.”
“Oh, there Is no money in the service
here. Our soldier receives—1 will give
the equivalent sum in United States
money—about $1.16 for every ten days’
Bervice, from which he has to pay the
mess fifty-seven cents for ten days’ eat¬
breathless ing. A man can’t acquire a fortune with
rapidity at this rate unless he
practices a good deal of economy. The
Government gives every man a pound
aud a quarter of bread a day, but the
soldier must buy all necessary articles for
cleaning his uniform. Everything in the
way of linen, boots and clothing is sup¬
plied by the nation.”
“Have the arms been changed?”
“The latest and most valuable inven¬
tions are secured at any cost. Our pri¬
vates now carry the ’84 repeating rifle.
The cannons are made by Krupp, of Es¬
sen. The men are worked hard, but
they seem to tnrive on it. The average
private has four hours’ work in the morn¬
ing and about three hours in the after¬
noon. In the evening lie is taught to
read and write, and is also instructed in
matters pertaining to the army. The
men clean the barracks and do all the
work about the building, Between
sixty and eighty of them sleep in every
dormit oul , but in the newest bar
-rar> v Y fifteen or twenty men will
si aroom
pn. ordered They can only
: [en 'jjjvery to by
f§ a soldier
kimsmm •h.
„
severe ” I
sai
“Very,” said the Major. “It must
be; for there are many insidious and re¬
bellious spirits at vv • rk in Germany
the iron hand is the only one
that commands respect, A soldier re
ceiyes two days'imprisonment if lie fails
£ c*uJ?^nSadld
ness. Soldiers must be at home in bar
racks at 10 o’clock r. m., unless written
_qonsent to stay out later, signed by an
j i Qn oth-er cannot
marry a girl who has a foil^tcTwI aTTTi
own of less than $10,000. There are
lots of restrictions in the life, but the
oflicers and men love it nevertheless.”
The number of soldiers who will be
at the back of the coming Emperor of
Germany is enough to keep Europe’s
eyes open. The future monarch is the
idol of the army. He comes from the
marriage of a Guolphand a Hohenzol
lern, just as Frederick the Great did,
and he hates the English and the French,
It will be a shrewd prophet who can
tell what he will do when he finds him
self at the nation’s head. The available
force in Germany in case of war may be
roughly estimated as follows. Every
German must serve; no substitution is
allowed:
Officers 35,000
Men in acti ve service..............1,500,000
The Bismarck addition............. 700,000
One-year volunteers and Landsturm
division........................ L 150,000
Trained and active soldiers......... 3,385,000
Estimated number to be drawn
from those not inactive service..2,900,000
Total available force of all
classes........................ C, 285,000
In addition the army has at its dis¬
posal 312,731 horses and 2500 guns.
Before I leave figures it may be of in¬
terest to show the force.? that this army
may have to meet—or may make its al¬
lies according to the temper of sover¬
eigns and the skill of diplomatists. The
recent addition of 700,000 men to th«
German army lifts it to the head of the
list, but there are mighty forces in Eu¬
rope, and the next war will be a scene of
awful slaughter, if the military experts
are to be believed. The following fig¬
ures give the trained and active war
strength of four nations:
Strength of Army.
Population. Infantry. Feace. War.
i .445,500 2,200,000
Germany....47.000,000 < (Guns..... Horse.... 81,000 312.T31
1,30* 2,600
Austria......33,000,000 k (Infantry.. Uor-e.... 290,000 52,0 0 I,070,i00 205,000
(Infantry..750,000 (Guns..... 1,000 1,900,000 1 ,300
Russia 102,000,000 J Horse....130.000 465,0- 0
(Guns..... 1,300 2,500
France......84,090,000 (In Horse.... fan try. .510,000 126,000 1,800,000
o 325,000
(Guns..... 1,6< 0 2,600
Cured by the New Snake-Bite Remedy.
‘
It T is said that A the investigation . . into .
the remedy for snake cites which ha 3
been in progress at the National Museum
has been successful. The antidote wa 3
first tried with great success on chickens,
dogs, and pigs which had been bitten by
garter and rattlesnakes. Last week
Mr. Edward S. Rheem, in handling a
large rattlesnake was bitten severely, the
fangs of the reptile drawing blood* from
liis spread arm. the After remedy the poiso'n had begun
to effect was applied. Its
was most satisfactory. .Mr. Rheem
soon recovered and is now as well aa
ever.— II ashington Post.
In many cases the veil is worn to the
chin, covering the entire face and tight¬
ly drawn. They are sometimes of very
light the gray silk tissue, are knotted be¬
hind, long ends brought around the
throat to the front and tied there in a
vo!umincus bow. But generally the
veils consist of a yard of dotted tulle,
dark red, black, or white with black
dots.
o
o
FACE TO FACE.
zpsszzziz t e moment s pain,
I would meet you and would greet jou m th«
old familiar tone.
And . naught should ever show you the wrong
that you have done,
If mv tremhling hand were steady, if mi
'
- In n - i ad t lltDl plainly
j f mv eyes spoke P 1 uoteo ** J of the tear*
- -
ie\ often shod,
, would meet and would greet you at th«
you
old sweet trysting place,
And perchance you’d deem me happy If yos
meet me face to face,
jf me iody of springtide awoke no wili
refrain
^ t j ie au t umn ’ s * _ 0 jj, C n ^ j 6 x awoke nc
livin’- ” b ‘ 1 j ' n ’
T "° u ^ 11 ©e, and would greet thee, a*
years ago we met,
Before our hearts were shipwrecked, on the
ocean of regret.
[f my woman's soul were stronger, if mj
heart were not so true,
I should long have ceased remembering tht
love I had for you;
But I dare not meet or greet thee, in the olJ
familiar way,
Until we meet in heaven, when tears have
passed away.
—Temple Bar.
PITH AND POINT.
Noted down—Eider.
To the point—A wasp’s sting.
Faithful to the end—A dog's tail.
Egotism is only a weakness of the I’s.
The boy playing marbles stoops to con¬
quer.
facturers. Bough on rats—The kid-glove manu¬
Interior decorations—Puddings, pies
and things.
“How is the earth divided?” “Bye
earthquakes, ma’am.”
To young men: It is better to be fast
asleep than fast awake.
On the road to recovery—overtaking
the thief who borrowed your watch.
If a young man feels that his life is a
blank, he should try to fill it out and
aave it sworn to.
‘ ‘I will and devise, ” says the millionaire
»nd when he is dead and liis heirs deviso
ways to circumvent his will.
The two sides of a knife handle are like
two belles gallanted by one beau because
they have a blade between them.
Walt “Nothing is ever really lost,” says
Whitman. But what becomes of a
night’s sleep which is lost?— Sifting*.
It is but reasonable to suppose that
the machinery in a paper mill is run by a
stationery engine.— Merchant- Traveler.
Curiously enough, after the purchaser
had paid for his gun, lie said ho would
like to have it charged .—Boston Commer¬
cial.
A Sam is always a him, but a hymn is
not always a Psalm. This ought to help
while away the Te Dcum of a Sunday
afternoon .—New York Sun.
Social Stranger lofferinff a Bridgeport
Victoria)—“Have a cigar, friend?”
Churlish Stranger—“Thanks, no; I
never disinfect.”— Tid-Bits.
Wife — “Did you know, my dear, that
tHere is sex in fruit?” Husband, who
feels surly—“Well, if that’s so, then
persimmon must be a female.-’
“Ah, it’s a woman’s mission to make
fool’s of men,” said he. “And how
vexed we are to find that nature has so
often forestalled us,” said she.
Now that a Chinamen has been ar¬
rested as a tramp, there is no possible
surprise for the public except that an
Apache Indian has Started a laundry.
Hushed is the conversation’s sound
Of sages and of gawks.
And there is silence deep, profound,
“ talks.
tr¬ —Boston Courier. _
daughters, An old lady, feeds w th several unmarried
tne.n on fish diet, be¬
cause it ; s rich in phosphorus, and phos¬
phorus is the essential thing for making
matches .—Commercial Advertiser.
Bridget (to lady receiving calls)—
“The landlord is at tjie door, mum.
Lady — “Very well, Bridget. (To callers)
—Excuse me one, moment, please, it is
my landlord with a receipt for the rent.”
— Epoch.
President—“Y r es, Mr. Snapper, the
Faculty have decided that you have
broken the rules, and there is no course
for us but to suspend you.” Student—
“H’m; how about suspending the rules?”
—New Haven News.
Said the watchman, when about dusk
he w r as invited to drink a cup of coffee,
“No, thank you; coffee keeps me awake
ali night.” Then he saw nis blunder,
looked very embarrassed, and tried to
explain, but it was no use.
“A good many new business houses
are going up on Broadway, 1 see,” re¬
marked a stranger to his neighbor in a
Broadway car the other day.” “Yes,”
said the other with a sigh, “ours went
ap the other day.”— Siftings.
The novel writers are fond of quoting
tht determination of their heroine to sell
her life as dearly as possible. They
probably would have us to understand
that she intends to marry an old man for
his money .—New York Ntw*.
Giggson—“Yes, Miss Edyth, I’ve
or ten heard young Jiggson proudly
boast of being a oread-winner.”
Priggson fjiggson’s rival)—“Yes in¬
deed; matches nickels with the office
boy for rolls for lunch .—Town Topics.
There was a si^n upon a fence—
The sign was “ Faint.”
And everybody that went by,
Sinner and saint.
Put out a linger, touched the fene«
And onward sped. their finger
And as they wiped tips
“It is,” they said.
—New York Sun.
Miss Greatbrain (of Boston)—“So
brother George has got married?*’
Omaha Man—“Y r es; it was an elopement;
that isirobHWywhy the family were
not notified.” “Is his wife a woman of
intellect?” “No, indeed; pretty as a
picture and sweet as a-peach .”—Omaha
World
Citizen .. I T , m surprised . , that , you , have
, ”5 come sucb careful driver, Jake,
a
You used to be the most reckless teamster
'j 11 streets. \ou ran into half a,
“ ozen different carriages, to my certain
knowiege.” Teamster—“I’m drivin’ a
rai g ht Y wagon, now, an’ it’s me
oyvn -’ Omaha World.
Sadly it hangs there,
Tellin^^wretched'ufe T b ^ mailkind;
f to a n
Of blasted expectations;
Of hopes now wrecked and gone.
Once soaring high as heaven
—Now prostrated cleave and prone,
’Twas made to the ether
Far up where all could see.
Now nothing in but a kite tail
Waves an apple tree.
—Dansville Breeze.
If law-breakers were choosers magis
trates would be men of few words and
short sentences.