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0 sunshine, have you made the world all
golden
With wondrous, magic art,
Or can it be this light, so new yet olden,
That floods my happy heart!
1 cannot tell: I only know today
life dances in the eunriiine all the way.
O apple blossoms, ell the branches pluming
With feathery sprays of White,
A precious flower for me alone is blooming:
It opens to the light
And is it you, with petals falling fleet,
Or is it this, that makes the world so sweetl
O joyous birds, I think I bear you singing
A glad, exultant lay;
And yet the song that in my heart k ringing
Outdngs your voice today.
You cannot learn that song, dear little birds:
"He loves me, loves me, loves me,” are the
words.
—Bessie Chandler, in UppincotL
My Resurrection Prank.
"Englishmen, Germans, Americans,
Frenchmen and Italians do not take
kindly to bull-fights,” says the Boston
Tranicript. "Spaniards and their de-
scendnats delight in them. Englishmen,
Germans, Americans, Frenchmen and
Italians make good soldiers, and Spaniards
and Mexicans do not. PeThapethis is not
a coincidence, but it certainly is sug
gestive of a rare decadence, when people
enjoy a ghastly and cruel spectacle in s
bull ring and shrink from a battlefield.”
One of the auditors of the Treasury De
partment, who had rented a house in a
fashionable quarter of Washington, was
surprised to discover, when the end o!
the month rolled around, that his land
lord was none other than one of the mes
sengers of his Bureau. Further inquiry
developed the fact that the latter had
been loaning money through the depart
ment to impecunious clerks and others,
extorting in return an interest of 10 per
cent, a month. The ex-messenger claims
to have kept $10,000 in constant circula
tion, which, deducting losses, netted
him a profit of about $8,000 a year.
The Chinese are a mild-mannered race,
but they draw the line at banking irregu
larities. When the recent failure of the
Tung Lung bank at Hong Kong was made
public, a crowd of excited depositor*
stormed the building, ransacked it from
top to bottom, and carried off and de
stroyed everything contained in it TM«
is a shorter and perhaps a more profitu^i.
way of declaring a dividend than the one
usually pursued in occidental communi
ties. On this occasion it is not stated
whether the officers of the bank were
among the assets. The probability is that
they fled to the Montreal of China, wher
ever that may be.
The Emperor William will make Queen
Victoria a jubilee present of a set of
Dresden yellow ware. The service con
sists of 888 large, 120 small plates, and
seventy-two dishes of all sizes, besides
tureens,sauce-boats and fruit dishes. The
centre piece for flowers and fruit will be
surmounted by a statuette of the Queen,
and will be embellished with medallion
portraits in relief—white on gold=-of the
members of the royal family of England.
The plates, also, will each be decorated
with five medallions, containing either
allegorical pictures recalling memorable
incidents in the Victorian era,or portraits
of celebrities of the Queen's reign.
BT OXO. H. TAYLOR.
I Was sitting in my office at the close
of a warm summer day in a depressed
state of mind, occasioned partly by the
oppressive weather and partly by my pro
fessional prospects, or rather, want of
prospects. Having sown my wild oats
and obtained a medical diploma, I had
settled down in the little country town of
W to work up a practice. It was
very hard to leave the activities of the
city and the prankish life of a student for
the quiet of a rural community and the
aedateness requisite for impressing the
rural mind with the belief that all medi
cal skill was locked up in the particular
knowledge box carried on my shoulders.
But the little Town of W , or that
particular section of it in which I had
opened an office, seemed to my friends,
and, therefore, to me, the only spot on
earth not already pre-empted by a mem
ber of the medical profession. So there 1
was, awaiting a verification of the adage
that " all things- come to those who
wait.”
I had come very near having a case
that morning. A strange young woman
had come to tho leading hotel of the
town the day before, had been taken sick
during the night, and, as there seemed to
be nobody to guarantee the payment of
her bill in case she died, my professional
competitors appeared willing that I should
have the job.
But the fates were against me, for as I
ascended the stairs I was told that the
young woman was dead and her body
had been turned over to the tender
mercies of the town coroner and under-
dertaker. Even then* 1 the coterie of
"good and true” citizens picked up
around the bar-room door had "viewed
the body” and retired to meet at some
indefinite period and declare that "the
said person, to the jury unknown, come
to her death by some means to the jury
unknown,” the pauper coffin was in the
room and the pauper hearse stood at
the door. I had been a little dilatory
in responding to the unexpected and
very early morning call, and I had
lost the case. So I turned on the stair
way and leisurely made my way back to
my office.
The business of "working up a prac
tice” in medicine will at tunes depress
the most sanguine temperament, and I
was, as I have said, having one of those
depressed moods when Bonaparte Laguee,
the town undertaker’s man-of-all-work,
dropped in wearing a very gruesome face
ana helped himself to a chair confiden
tially near me.
ter *n keep her, Doctor, aeein’ we’ve had
the trouble o’ gettm’ her ud. I won’t
charge you nuthin’ fur my share o’ the
work,” he continued, betraying an eager
desire to get out of farther interest in the
business. "You can use the coffin for
kindlin’. It’s only stained pine.”
And Bony turned up the collar of his
coat and made toward the door* as if this
trifling mistake in the matter of coffins
had uestxoyed every bit of his vengeful
•pint.
"Stop, Bony,” I said, "you must help
me lift the body out if we are going to
destroy the evidences of our night’i
work,” and I lifted the lid I had been
busy unfastening when Bony made his
bolt for the door,
"I can’t do it. Doctor,” Bony said, in
so timorous a voice aa to surprise me. "I
can’t look on that gal’s face again, no
how. I saw it this morning, an’ I felt
queer all day, till the boss riled me about
that Myers coffin, t can’t touch her
again, nohow; I can’t, F tell you, no
how!” And Bonv’s piteous wail of
"can’t—nohow,” died away in the dis
tance as he closed the door behind him
and was gone.
There was a sense of sorrowful im
petuosity left as the echo of his receding
voice, as if drawing himself unwillingly
away from some attractive spell that
might prove fatal if he stayed. I had
lifted the lid and stood looking at the
dead face until that faint sense of Bony’s
piteous "nohow!” was succeeded by a
silence so deep as segued to break my
reverie.
I turned away, but an irresistible
impulse drew me to the face again. There
was not a vestige of disease or emaciation,
there was not the sunken eye, nor the
grim pallor of death, but a. marvelously
beautiful countenance, that wore only a
pleading expression, as if to.say: "Why
nave you disturbed my sleep!”
It might be only Bony’s timorous voice
still ringing in my ears that made the
dead face look so beseeching, but I could
not break its spell. Turn from it with
what determination I would, some
ineffable fascination drew me back again,
even from my window where I had gone
to catch the first faint glimmerings of
the dawn; as if their coming would
release me from my strange situation.
Involuntarily I had moved the coffin
lid and looked upon the delicately chiseled
hands and the small and shapely feet. Her
clothing was of the commonest sort, and
had been worn surely for disguise and
not of necessity. Bony’s "queer” feeling
I understand now, and every time my eyea,
perforce, sought her face. It was the
power of beauty to touch human
sympathies.
As I looked again there was a shade of
color in the face. The discovery startled
; the gaze again fascinated me. My
hand instinctively sought that of the
dead. It was not dead. There was
mobility and warmth in it. Or was it a
fancy with me, growing out of the warm
atmosphere of my consultation room?
Was it my own fevered imagination?
But the color was still rising in the
cheeks. I was down upon my knees
chafing the hands. In half dazed con
sciousness I rudely tore away the cover
ing from the throat, removed the tightly
laced shoes and rubbed the soft, deucate
feet. When I looked again there was a
perceptible tremor of the eyelids, and the
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open the conversation.
"Naw!” ho answered in a tone of
strong disgust; "only sick o’ this buryin’
business, and o’ tliat measly small boss o’
mine. Do yon know what he's gone an 1
large, lustrous eyes lost something oi
their fixed stare, they turned a little; my
subject was alive!
With the knowledge that she lived
carao a more intelligent control of my
own senses. I set to work and prepared
a stimulating draught, and then, raising
her in her coffin, I applied it to her lips.
There was a gleam of returning con
sciousness, a glance at her surroundings,
at the coffin in which she sat, and then
she swooned again.
I laid her back upon the pillow af
wood shavings that was part of the fur
nishing of a pauper coffin and deliberated
as to what I should do next. The morn
ing light was now streaming in through
the window and soon all the world might
know what the night had hidden. The
newsboy on his early round at that mo-
The Washington Sunday Gautle says
that Colonel James H. Mstt, Chief Clerk
in the First Assistant Postmaster-General’s ’
office, and Judge James Lawrenson have
been continuously in the service of the
Postoffice Department for more than fifty-
seven years. "The phenomenal length
of service of these two men has been for
yean appropriately recognized. In Mr.
Mart’s case the salary has been fixed by
special act of Congress at $500 per year
more than any other man would get in
the same position, his name being very
specifically mentioned in the appropria
tion.” Judge Lawrenson "has served
under thirty-one different Postmasters-
GeneraL He has seen the Department
grow from a handful of clerks to its pres
ent huge proportions. He was appointed
as a Democrat, and is a Democrat still.
By virtue of his office as a notary public
he has administered the oath of office to
all the Poatmasters-General for the past
fifty yearn. When Mr. Yilas became the
head of that Department he was sworn
in by another notary. The old gentle
man felt so badly about it that Mr. Vilas,
upon being apprised of the fact, eent for
Judge Lawrenson, and a second time took
the oath, in order that the record might
not be broken.”
done?”
"No.”
‘‘Well, you know the old woman My
ers that's been a dyin’ so long of a disease
that none o’ you medicine fellows could
make out?”
"Yes, died last night, I believe?”
"Yes, an’ I let that worthless son o’
here have a coffin on tick an’ the boss
says he’ll take the price of it out of my
wages. Now, it wasn’t nothing better
than a cheap pauper coffin, but I ain’t go
ing to fttarid the lews if my rich boss can't,
» . h ■ s «’•* ~ to have that coffin back if
.v dig for it. I’m going over to
the cemetery to-night for it, an’I didn’t , _ ^ OJ
know but you wanted a good ‘dissect’ perate love tliat thinks it can only go out
ment dropped the morning paper from
the not distant city on the doorstep, and
instinctively I went to get that wonder
ful epitome of the last day’s doings and
learn if it had got any clue to the history
of the strange woman who had died at
the hotel.
Yes, there it was. The case that the
perfunctory Coroner and his ’questors
had passed over so indifferently, the news
paper corps had traced in all the warp and
woof of this complicated human existence.
It was a case of strong, passionate love
without reciprocation; a despairing, des
and would give me a hand. She’d make through death.
a stunnin* dissect, ’cause nobody knows
what she died of. I’m a little nervous
about goin’ over there alone, an’ I thought
if you’d help me get the coffin I’d help
you get the body.’*
Here was a chance to chase away mel
ancholy, and I hadn't had a lark since I
left college. If I was found out it would
destroy all hopes of a' practice in W ,
to be sure, but that didn’t mean much,
considering how slight a fabric those
hopes were built on anyway, and it would
furnish me with a reasonable excuse to
my friends for quitting the apparently
barren field they had selected for me.
Besides, was there not hope of unearthing
a great medical secret that might hand
one’s name down to posterity?
Added to this there would be great sat
isfaction in helping Bony to thrust that
cheap coffin under the nose of the craven-
spirited Worms, the undertaker, and dur
ing him to risk his own reputation by ex
posing Bony to the law. Bony’s revenge
might be at the expense of his situation,
bnt it would be rich; and it might have
the contrary effect of compelling Worms
to keep the man and treat him decently
in order to keep his own meanness out of
the public ear.
Such arguments as these only needed
the natural reaction they created in a de
pressed volatile temperament to make
them convincing, and midnight saw Bony
and me digging away like human ghouls
at the newest grave in the potters’field of
the town cemetery. That is, midnight
might have seen ns if she had carried her
lantern with her, but Mrs. Myers had
died in "the dark o* the moon,” and we,
for greater privacy, lud gone without a
light.
We raised the coffin and its contents
and by devious paths and byways bore it
to the back room of my office and there
tamed on a little light.
"The wrong coffin, by jingo,” was the
ejaculation of Bony; and he dropped
with a half paralyzed limpness into the
nearest chair.
Then, recovering from his mortifica
tion, he went on: "That’s the coffin what
we used for the gal at the hotel.”
Here was a pretty go. The coffin was
of no use to Bony; and the unknown
friends of the girl would in all proba
bility be on hand in a few days to claim
the body and take itelsewhere for inter
ment.
"But she’ll make a bootiful dissect, 1
added Bony by way of comfort, when he
saw the misgiving expressed on my coun
tenance. "I noticed,as how she was a
bootiful gal when we was a nailing ’o her
up*” he went on. "You couldn't ao bet-
Filled now with both interest and pity;
pity for the fond and grief-stricken par
ents, and interest In the unhappy daugh
ter, I returned to the work of restoring
the unconscious girl, and soon accom
plished it.
How judiciously I managed to make
known to child and parents the particu
lars which had led up to the peculiar
situation in which we all found ourselves.
In what a kindly light they viewed my
midnight prank with Bony; how they
forgave their darling child and guarded
my reputation may all be imagined when
I say that I am now one of the family,
and that although I have never worked
up much of a practice in W or any
where else, the fact has never given m<
another moment’s depression of spirits.—
Detroit Free Freest.
Beer Among the Ancients.
A. German'professor has succeeded ii_
tracing the ongin of beer to the land of
the pyramids. An ancient papyrus has
revealed the wrath of an Egyptian father
who had convicted his son of the deplor
able habit of lounging about the Nile
taverns and guzzling beer. From Egypt
the art of manufacturing "liquid bread,”
as the professor affectionately describes
his favorite bee rage, was introduced into
Ethiopia and the heart of Africa, where
perpetual summer made it seasonable all
the year round. The Roman Empire de
clined because amoug other things, it
despised beer and was beguiled by
stronger but less wholesome fluids. The
Northern races overran Italy, accordi
to the same authority, because they h
learned to live on bread and beer. F
thusiasm certainly carried the learned
professor a long way; and perhaps he has
not reached tne end of his archaic re
searches. Is he certain that the Israelites
did not have beer with their manna; or
that there was not a fresh brew served
betimes in Eden?—Neus York Tribune.
Misapplied Ingenuity.
Late in the evening one day last week
a colored woman by the came of Nancy
Armstead came to'the store of C. J. Hig
gins, in New Kent County, and bought
goods from him to the amount of $3.25
and handed him a five dollar note. He,
not noticing the note particularly, put it
into his purse and g?re her the change.
Some time after she had left, however,
he took out his purse again, and on look
ing at the note discovered that it was
Confederate. The woman had dyed it a
deep green color. Nancy was arrested
and jailed.—Petersburg (VS.) Index-Ap-
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