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THE COQUETTE’S TEfllBS.
Rivulet* from violet eyeR
Tremble down a glowing cheek ;
Hnow’rs are they from Hummer skies
Wending through a heathered creek.
Weep, O maid ; I from the pain
Lightly laden pleasure gain.
How I’d soothe yonr grief, If great 1
But I know the pearls but pranoe
Like outriders to the state
Of your smiling roguish glance.
Weep, O maid ; for there appears
Sweetest sadness In your tears.
Were I not as coy as you
I would deem the weeping sad,
Cos a you as I sometimes do,
KIbs you till we both were glad;
But i'll lose a kiss to-day,
Watch yon weep and waste away.
Ah, your hands now hide a laugh,
Which your voice too well betrayal
Come, then,mingled wine we’ll quaff
From the cup-llke lips yon raise,
There, O maid!—ah, now you cry—
There, then! there ! and so do I!
True Heroism.
Once or twice in my life I have met
with heroines. I will tell you of one
now. I can paint no beautiful vieion,
nor dower her with charms of intel
lect. When I first knew her she was
past thirty, small, brown and void of
grace or beauty. She had married at
sixteen ; had no education—oouId
read and that was all.
She had child after child, until
seven cumbered her dwelling but
gladdened her heart. She had borne
and sufl red much, but her great heart
was brave still. Her husband gamed,
drank, and used her cruelly. Fre
quently he drove her out on the lone
ly hills, and with her children cow
ering about her she spent the night
under the cold, unpitying stars, call
ing for aid on the heaven that was far
beyond her misery and praying for
aid to her mother's God. I wondered
then how she trusted Him with such
blindness, for I knew no mother’s
piety—mine lay under the lilies. At
length her poor husband committed a
crime for which he was arraigned be
fore a court of justice, and his two
eldest children were the principal
witnesses of his guilt. She knew their
testimony would be against him but
her parting admonition was: “Tell
the truth and nothing hut the truth.
It is hard but it must be the truth, the
whole truth.” He was convicted, but
escaped from prison—some said by
her contrivance.
Now began her struggle. Alone and
unaided she looked want and desola
tion in the face, and bared arm and
heart for the strife. She asked no favor
but “any employment.” The boys
worked in any capacity. The eldest
girl sewed with her mother. The
light dawned and at last shone stead
ily and her children went regularly
to school. Now she learned to write
own name from her fourth child,
om she herself had taught to
t
owned three cows, milked and sold
the milk. She worked a market gar
den, assisted by a son of fifteen. She
had four other children, the yongest
five years old. “And he was only a
year old when I lost my man,” she
added, seeing I was an interested
listener. “1 have bought half a square
of ground, something is still due on it
and I want to pay a note this morn
ing. “How early do you rise every
morning?” I asked. “At four, sir.
It’s weary work. What with digging
and watering the garden, milking the
cows and odd jobs of a house my feet
are often so sore that I can’t sleep
when I lie down, but the clothes to
buy and the mouths to feed is a good
spur to drive me,” she concluded with
a laugh.
“Are none of them able to help ?” I
asked.
The March of Malaria.
“Oh 1 yes, my girl helps, but she
goes to school, you ses.” “And who
makes the clothes?” 1 asked. “I sew
at night som: times, and when I sit
down to rest, t t summer is here now
and we won’t want so many clothes.”
I have given the synopsis of tie
story she gave me in detail. There
was heroism, and here in this worn,
withered, homely woman wa3 a spirit
beautiful in itspowsrand sublime in
its patience. Not one word ef com
plaint, no wuining over destiny, no
feeling of disappointment because her
lot was less fair, yet her language told
that a fairer would have been more
prized as It wouid hsye been sweet.
Oh. fair and gentle women of quiet,
happy, love-girdled homes, unused to
toil, wearing luxurious garments and
jewels of great value, do you ever
think how far a sweet smile or a kind
act will go toward lowlier sisters?
You sit beside them, regarding them
as little as the weeds by the wayside,
or perhaps sneer thoughtlessly if their
homely garments should happen to
touch your own, never knowing that
the common clay beside you holds a
soul as pure and leads a life more
heroic in its struggle than yours can
ever be.
“Kind words fitly spoken are like
apples of gold in pictures of silver.”
American and English Scenery
were the pr >udest family I
knev^ They felt their own
rthinesiflUid looked for no slights
superiors in station. They had
taught to associate with the good
espectable or remain isolated,
sphere widened, society extend-
hand and at last a place was
anted them Near this time the fu
gitive husband returned and the two
long parted met again. Bhe led him
as a stranger to her bed room, and re
tiring to her lonely chamber spent the
night in prayer. Like Jacob of old
she struggled ; like him she triumph
ed. •
Her sons and daughters, when
grown to man and womanhood, held
places of trust and honor, and when
her last hour came the soul passed to
rest while a triumphant song was
issuing from her lips.
I met a heroiue this morning, a very
homely old creature, but one of life’s
bravest soldiers.
“Stop the car, madam, please stop
it!” It was a woman’s cry, as she ran
after a street car of which I chanced
to be the only occupant, and the cry
was so pleading that I rang the bell
at once though Bhe was a good dis
tance off. The driver stopped his
mule, looked back and seeing a
woman freighted with a huge basket
nrepared to drive on. “Let her wait
for the next car,” he said carelessly.
“Please wait. A minute or two may
be a great deal to her,” I pleaded.
"With a smile he nodded assent, ami
in a few BecondB she was at the door.
Khe sat down and wiped her face with
£er coarse apron, thanking me in
broken English for my kindness.
What a trifling kindness it was and
f how - grateful she soemed for it.
»•**.*To*, into •» »'
™ was so hurried.
It does not always rain in England ;
there are sometimes breaks between
the showers, and In those breaks we
are able to get a few glimpses of what
is, after all, for English eyes and
English brains, the most beautiful
scenery on the face of the earth.
There is grander scenery else
where unquestionably, for we in
Britain are not good at the sublime,
and when we attempt it—as at Glen
coe, or still more feebly at tbe Valley
of Rocks and Blackgang Chine—we
fail egregiously, like Icarus, and only
succeed in making ourselves dismally
absurd. But for the phases of nature
which Englishmen love best there is
no land like England. Not that the
symmetry of our tastes and our sur
rounding is due to any pre-established
harmony any more than in the fa
mous case of all the great rivers
which, by a merciful dispensation of
Providence, have been observed inva
riably to flow past all the great towns;
no doubt by this time, as Mr. Herbert
Spencer would put it, our »3thetic
sentiments have adapted themselves
to our environment. Quite lately Mr.
John Burroughes, a delightful Ameri
can essayist, vtjjio stands to American
woodland life in somewhat the same
relation as Mr. Jefferies stands to Eng
lish woodcraft, has been informing
his countrymen how the scenery of
England struck him on a recent visit.
The fr shness, the verdure, the park-
like expanses, the cultivated lawns—
all pleased and delighted his eye im
menaely. But to a mind formed by
the vast horizons of America there was
always a sense of confinement and
pettiness. He longed for the infinite
among so many trim inclosures ; he
pined for the open sweep of forest or
prairie among so many neat quad
rangular hedges. It is the lack of
these things, he thinks—and thinks
wrongly, we venture to say—that
drives so many Englishmen to seek the
wider horizons of Bwitzerlaud or the
Tyrol; he fancies we muBttlreas he
does of our own quiet country soenery,
and must long In our hearts for the
unkempt vastness of American wood
land wilderness. In fact, he falls into
the error of supposing that we Eng
lishmen, whose whole nervous system
is harmony with English scenery,
must share the feelings which are due
in him to hereditary association and
The recent reports of commissions
and scientific bodies, like the Board of
Health, giving the results of careful
and extended investigations, notably
the papers of Dr. Chamberlain, of
Hartford, and Dr. Adams of Pittsfield,
though marked by the habitual cau
tion in generalization and inference
which characterizes the scientific
mind, make it plain to common sense
that the fever, in its several special
types, whether dumb or shaking,
whatever may be its pathology, or
nature, or origin, is due as an existing
evil here to decomposition or exhala
tion and all the morbific and malefic
influences engendered about marshy
or wet regions and impure water beds.
The best authorities are not sure, or
agreed, on the question whether the
disease is indigenious or imported, or
on the question why it is brought info
activity at one time rather than an
other. They generally concur in the
opinion, on both sides of the Atlantic,
that it germinates or sprouts in the
human body from very minute spores,
measuring, perhaps, 8000 to an inch.
But how these seeds are transported
about, or what the conditions of re
ceptivity and susceptibility are under
by the bmbs of sunk streams, and
works its burning and shivering dam-
which they are developed, nobody
can yet tell. There is evidence that
sporadic cases occur in dry, upland
regions,but the disorder loves marches,
lings to artificial lakes or ponds, runs
age most malignantly where the nor
mal mutual relations between soil,
vegetable matter and stagnant or
moving water have been unsettled.
Mention is made of some compact
rural populations near foul mill ponds,
where half the inhabitants have been
down at once. Speculation as to
causes, as might be expected, has been
bu^y.
What causes of malaria exist now
which were non-existent, or in abey
ance, so long prior to this late day ?
Not only is science shy of hasty con
clusions, bat property, too, has its
self-preserving instincts, and the mini-
owners and manufacturers are not
unwilling to have a part, at least, ot
the curse rest on other shoulders than
their own. What then are the new
conditions ?
Railroads and tobacco culture are
two. The railways are apt to open the
surface on low ground, and if there
were enough of them it might happen
that unwholesome gas escaping would
afleot the workmen, as it is said the
upturning of acres of old sod on build
ing lot? affects the health of the people
in the upper part of the island of New
York. But there are altogether too
many railways where there are no
chills^nd too many chills where there
are no railways, to allow much plausi
bility to this theory. It fails twice
ovtr. Much of the same may be said
of the tobacco fields. The idea that
the sickuess comes of f< rLilizers used
lor tobacco raising has even less sup
port, for that nuisance is of but a very
brief annual continuance, and is far
from being conterminous with the
malady. Bo far as the great forces of
nature are concerned, not much can
Mb done in the way of remedy. If, as
tliere is some reason to think, there is
a constant shrinkage going on in
rivers, fountains, brooks and lakes,
with a diminished rainfall, through
out this part of the country, all we can
do about that is to employ every per
sonal effort to remove or deodorize the
stench-breeding and fever-breeding
matter along the banks, and to In -
crease our forests by planting or pro
tection, as many thoughtful land
owners are now doing, and as the late
forestry convention in Montreal leads
us to hope may be done more and
more.
I childish familiarity with far other
There are thousands of citizens who,
with only a moderate outlay, can
stanch, on their own premises at
least, the offensive sources of pain and
death—for, though not regarded as
ordiuurily fatal, fever and ague some
times takes a congestive form, or
otherwise overmasters the vital pow
er, in spite of the best treatment, and
the patient dies. Dwelling iu bad
climates study the laws of sanitary
safety ami heed them. Out-of-door
night air #nn, to a great extent, be
avoided. A'ires can he built evening
anil luorBng. The human system can
be kept wee, vigorous, and protected
iving, temperance and flan-
me physiologists think a flue
uze at open windows may
the spores. A line of thick
th underbrush has been sup-
by righ(
nets,
wire
keef oi,
trees
posed to arrest them. Tliera is plenty
of proof that good drainage counteracts
this as it does other kinds of sickness.
The Broad Field of Science.
A German jourjal notes a singular
behavior of copper and lead salts with
soda-lye. If a solution of copper ni
trate is mixed with lead acetate, and
if soda-lye ia then added till the pre
cipitate first formed is redissolved,and
if the mixture is boiled, the solution,
instead of depositing black-brown
copper oxide, becomes clearer and
clearer. This phenomenon Is stated to
occur even in very dilute solutions.
It is asset ted that the electric light
ing of the Vaudeville, on the Boule
vard Moutmartre, has far exceeded
the expectation of the most sanguine.
In a double sense it is a brilliant event.
Every night the hall is densely crowd
ed. It seems that the power employed
is an 11-horne power gas engine, which
with Faure accumulators, is sufficient
to keep 250 Swan lamps in a state of
incandescense every evening.
The Moniteur de la Flotte de cribes
a proposal for placing passing ships in
communication with existing subma
rine cables. The projector would fl »at
buoys with the necessary connecting
wires and apparatus at intervals of a
day’s journey along the line of the
cable, each numbered and properly
lighted at night, and he considers
that the plan presents but few difficul
ties, and would obviate much anxiety
anti man} 7 dangers.
Carefully conducted experiments
hi>vo demonstrated the fact mat sea
soned wood well saturated with oil
when put together, will not shrink in
the driest weather. Wheels have
been known to run many years, even
to wearing out the tires. Very many
dollars might be saved annually if this
practice were adopted. Boiled linseed
oil is the best for general use, although
it is now known that crude petroleum
on even old wheels is of great benefit.
Various cases of poisoning from the
use of perfumes have been reported in
recent English journals. In one in
stance a little girl had bought some
heliotrope perfume at a bazaar, and
had applied it on her face. This
caused a vesicular eruption, swelling,
itching, and, in fact, erysipelas, which
lasted for some time. The scent was
made with some of the product of coal
tar, and not with the odoriferous
principles of plants, thus acquiring
its Irritating properties.
A French writer estimates the mini
mum annual consumption of nickel in
England at 600 tons, and. places Ger
many second,with 300 t Jk the United
States third with 200, ..ud France
fourth with 100. The Engineering and
Mining Journal says that, in view of
the fact that in this count-y nickel
plating has reached an extensive use
nowhere else approached, not to men
tion the consupmtiou for coinage, this
estimate is probably far below the
actual figures.
Professor Tobin has shown the
Kentucky S ate Millers’ Association
some experiments which demonstrate
conclusively that flour and other fine
organic dust, under certain conditions,
may become almost as explosive as
gunpowder. He also showed tha
dampness destroyed the explosive ten
dency and recommended the use of the
wet bulb thermometer constantly In
mills, and on its indication ofjdryness
the injection of live steam into the
atmosphere.
Captain King, of Paris, makes a
positive on glass from a negative and
on the same glass in this way : The
back of the negative is covered with
soluble bitumen or asphalt, and then
illuminated through the negative.
After an exposure sufficient to render
the light part insoluble the remainder
of the asphalt is dissolved off *vith any
of the usual solvents, and the result is
a positive. The silver negative is then
dissolved off with thecholoride of cop
per and a fixing agent.
The Habit of Detraction.
It is so easy to get into the way of
thinking the worst of our friends aud
neighbors, that one should guard
against a habit of detraction with all
one’s might. It is painfully depress
ing to he with those who habitually
Hpeak evil of others. One feels in a
charmed circle of hopeless iniquity, if
it be not one of delusive appearances.
Everything is bad throughout, and
there is not a square inch of virtue
left for our weary soul to reflt on.
People whom we have loved since we
were children, are shown to us as
seamed aud soared with iniquities, and
unworthy oar most tepid regard;
names that wa have venerated are
stripped of their laurels, and crowned
with weeds ai. <1 straw, or made out to
fhe mere shadows of names, if indeed
they are not the shadows of foul sub
stances ; our pet illusions are sneered
at, and life is stripped of its poetry.
People given to detraction can never
find a possible excuse, a charitable
reason for anything they do not quite
agree with, like, or understand. Bay
they see some one they know under
conditions admitting of two explana
tions—one supposing doubtful taste or
discretion, the other compatible with
perfect Innocence and purity of
thought and motive; you neyer hear
them give the latter interpretation, or
accept it when offered to them. It
must be that doubtful appearances are
tbe warranty of evil deeds ; and they
will not be convinced to the contrary,
say what you may ; they love to hear
and believe evil rathtr than good.
Another Danger to Iron Ships.
A rather singular occurence has been
discovered by the officers of the steam
ship Carmona, now iu port ai Mon
treal. Lately, while the vessel was
pitching in a heavy sea, daylight be-
came visible in the iron rudder be
tween the screw and the outside rud
der frame. Closer inspection revealed
the fact that a very large hole had
bean eaten into the rudder nearly four
feet by three in dimensions. Not
withstanding this, she steered fairly,
and arrived without any drawback.
The only solution of the problem what
caused the hole in the rudder is that it
is due to the galvauic action of the
large brass nut at the end of the pro
peller shaft, and this having disinte
grated the iron of the rudder, the ac
tion of the water washed away the
iron piecemeal, until at length the
large aud dangerous hole was noticed
This is another of the difficulties iron
ships have to overcome.
Christian and Heathen Hos
pitality.
A comparison between the hospital
ity of our government and that of the
Japanese to distressed seamen is well
illustrated by the recent case of the
“Bremen,” which went ashore, a
cutter or government vessel sent out
o protect property. In the case of
Japan, the American ship “ Surprise ”
was wrecked in h\> U ary, 1876, on the
Plymouth Rocks, ai„I was abandoned
with all sail set. A Japanese man-of-
war was sent to her assistance. The*
crew furled all the sails and remained
alongside to prevent fishermen from
stealing, and property was safely pro
tected. The “ Bremen ” was left in a
hurry and not a man or vessel has
been sent by the governirent to guard
her, and, as a consequence, the effects
of the captain and officers and even of
the crew have been appropriated by
fishermen and others who scour the
seas for prey.
Keeping Butter Cool,
Before ice became a universal lux
ury people were in the habit of hang
ing butter in their wells to keep it cool
and sweet; and that is doubtless
the custom still where ice is scarce
and dear. It must have happened a
thousand times that the cord broke
and the butter disappeared, but there
can’t have been many cases where it
was recovered after thirty years. Such
an incident has just given local fame
to Mr. Goodman’s well in Bloomfield,
Conn. A workman who was clean
ing It found at the bottom a ball ot
butter and the dish In which it was
suspended thirty years ago. It is
pure white and has the consistency
and odor of spoiled cheese.
Royalty in Art.
In becoming a member of the insti
tute of Paint-rs in Water Colors, the
Princess Beatrice follows the example
set by her sister Louise, who I? a
member of the Royal Society of
PaiLiters in Water Colors, aud actu
ally exhibited a portrait at the Gro»
venor G .llery last season, aud by h
eldest sister Victoria who, wb
Crown Princess of Germany, has i
thought it beneath her dignity to j
tho Institute of Painters in Wa
Colors and exhibit publicly several
her works.
Two boarding-house keepers ar
comparing notes. “It ’pears to in
Mrs. Mlggles, that your chickeu sala
is pever found out—leastways I never
heard none of the boarder? complain.”
“You see,” explained Mrs. Higgles,
“I alluiRihop up a few feathers wltu
the veal.”