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INTO THE DARK..
t gaze into the dark, O love! ,
I gaze into the dark.
The creeping shadows chill me, and the nighty
With wide outreaching arms, holds thee
afar.
O yearning eyes! your love midst wondrous
light,
More fair than falls from moon-ray or
from star,
Smiles out into the dark.
I reached into the dark, 0 love!
1 reach into the dark.
I can not find thee, and my groping hands
Touch only memories and phantom shapes.
O empty arms! be glad of those sweet lands
Wherein your love all loneliness escapes,
And smiles into the dark.
I call into the dark, O love!
I call into the dark.
There comes from out the bush below, aboye,
No answer but my own quick-fluttered
breath.
O doubting heart! dost thou not know thy
love,
Across the awful silentness of death,
Smiles at thee through the dark!
—J. F. O'Donnell in American Magazine.
AS OTHERS SEE US.
by m. M. cass, jr.
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“i do not care sh!dl to meet clear'fie'ld^'o-dav anv one ” said
bovs' Tom -‘‘you have esne’
aocietvtalkitsaTl Fact is I’m tired hnllo!v’ of talk Tfi
ciaUv
could exchange interesHnSnartv thoughts for a thilk while
with some P y ’ 1 1 k I 1
should ouite q on ov /well it ”
“You mi<>ht said* a ba a rlmf «„tl
dumbman” Idrl
noon’’5 “Sunnose Crr von travel as one thU heir after
noon, saia t arry, ‘‘vou you irill will hear can- an
propoXtLmedi ^la^hin reflectedoni Jac e M b' t 6
anee before thevhad had rejected on its ts ab
imrd-tv
From that moment Tom was deaf and
dumb, and, strolling forward on the
boat, he seated himself near the two
young ladies, and his friends, in a spirit
of merriment, began a make-believe con
versat.on w!th him on their lingers.
“Teh him we’ll he back after a while,”
•aidPh.!; also, that well see to the
tickets, and that he can just sit here and
enjoy himself as well as he can. I oor
fellow it is hard to be so afflicted, even
if one has a million!”
This information having been
mumcated, apparently by the signs, the
two sauntered away, ha/been leaving Tom with
the ladies, who interested spec
tators of all the little pantomime. Of
dumb compagnon du voyage worth
million, and hate began immediately, in
her impulsive way ■
“Isn’t it sad, Milly? and he so youn
and handsome, too; yes, he would be
called so-that is, m some places; we
would have thought so at Madame Ber
trand’s. His eyes are good, and his
moustache—no, It’s blonde, it’s it isn’t red, not real red.
that new color, not terra
cotta, but like it, you know—that love
ly new russet. And worth a million,
too; I suppose he’d give it all to be able
to hear. I wonder if he can talk, and
if he was born so: if not, it must seem
all the worse; and those friends of his,
how heartless they are to leave him
alone! Possibly no one else on the boat
knows how to talk with him.”
“But I presume he can write,” said
Milly. “He looks intelligent enough.”
“Indeed he does,” responded Kate;
“and more than that, he looks cultured
and scholarly; and notice in what good
taste he dresses; nothing to indicate his
wealth, no jewelry—yes, there’s a watch
chain, but it’s small and it's allowable,
it’s necessary, it subserves a purpose.
He wears no rings, and you notice how
taper See the and white his fingers are? and—
the ship go sailing over there against
hill. Vou know, Milly, we must
not talk of him when he’s looking
straight at us—these deaf people are so
quick; he could tell what you said by
the motion of your lips. Whenever he
looks around we must talk of ships, for
fear that—There goes another one; that
is, s steamer,' Milly; you can tell that,
Milly, through by the steam and it*s going
the water. There, see how I
met that crisis? I never moved a visible
muscle. You must excuse me if I tell
you all sorts of ioolisli things about
ships when he turns those deep eyes on
me. They brown are beautiful eyes, Milly,
soft and and good. I think he
is a good man—that is, he would be if
he could hear and talk; not goody good,
but a man of character—a gentleman
under all circumstances.”
Willy. “Oh, do take breath, Kate,” said
“How you rattle on, no matter
■what the subject! But tell me, would
you marry such a man:”
“Do you mean if I loved him!” was
the reply. “Why, of course, I would
marry any one I loved.”
“But 1 mean,” explained Milly, “could
you love him?”
“Oh, that’s one of your puzzling
questions,” replied Kate. “That de¬
pends—if he loved me, perhaps; if he
prized me above all other women, if I
was necessary to his happiness, if he
should prove to be the one man in the
world for me, why, his infirmity would
make no difference. But here comes
Agatha. Ho you know I wish she
wouldn’t come? She’s deceitful. I
someway have no confidence in her since
that Percy affair. She encouraged him
for months, until his father failed. But
let us shock her: don’t tell her the mvs
tery of our friend here, and we will hor
rify her.”
been They might have succeeded had it not
that Agatha had just been talking
with Harry on the lower deck, and, un
der pledge of se recy, he told her of the
j 0 i {e which he began to realize was more
0,1 Tom than on any one else, ho Agatha
we nt forward, at Harry’s suggestion to
see what was going on, and also deter
mined to make a good impression on
Tom, whom she knew by reputation.
“How do you do, Agatha?” said Kate,
a lably. “Won’t you sit here with us
T vhl!e? This 13 the c oolest P lace oa the
b° a t, and , the most pleasant, , too. We
ha ' e sucb a c!iarmin S companion; look
i b ' m ’ Agatha—isn’t , he handsome? He
18 a litt,e 3unl,rowned ’ but ! hat is be ’
ca ” se he travels; he hunts and fishes and
fllrts ’ and leads a very happy life. He
has money, too, invested beyond the
roach of fa!lur ®. and be is of stalwart,
build ’ alld eyes-Milly, there is
another ship, there somewhere; I can’t
See it vet, but I will look for it-and, as
I ^as saying, he looks self-reliant and
dignified, and kissalfie and adorable.’
Agatha^ ^ ^
w No i that T am awaro of M j gs
Agatha,” replied Kate, loftily.
"But, “how'dare Aiiilv,” continued the new
come she talk so in his
presence?” 1
.. 0h Kate means no harm,” said
Mm blandly. “He is a gentlemanly
fellow and doesn’t care what we say,
and he is sunburned and dignified; Kate
was right. f ” •
, 1T ^ , . , or relative ... of . yours?”
.JelaSeflfo 1{elatlve -' JN0 . »’-aid saia Kafe “? te - “Friend* * riena j
LsVame f T A n fs°Tom WhSerX . is m5 7
r e , n „ t remains to be seen ”
y«Uf conduct is, to say the least, mex
P llcabl e ’ / certainly should grieve to
hurt the , feelings of this gentleman,
or
of l'® rson - p | rba P 8 you may not be
gm ^“ ," t,oaab g °f en f 1 do T d not «‘Og w J aa sh ything ta m ’ uncon- s | udg ®
- ab Ut tbat
S ° me ,°
L Cannot t fath «“‘ But 1 muat g° below
11 raamma -
“Well, said Kate, after Agatha left,
“ tbat was a curious position for her to
anything take: aa though we were possibly doing
ch is wrong—the idea! Her whole
s P ee unlike her; there is, as she
sa y®> some mystery here.”
“Indeed there must be,” replied
Mi lly. “She have feeling! She has
none for anybody. Something in her
voice reminds me of the day when she
told tbe madame how she had been in
vei g'ed into that excursion, of which
she was the promoter.”
“ Ye9 > 1 remember just how she
looked,” said Kate. “I tell you there
is treachery here. Let us go to the cabin
f° r a w hile. Someway I feel un¬
easy.”
When they had gone, Tom rose,
walked to the side of the boat and
seriously contemplated jumping over
board. His cheeks burned at the posi
tion in which his folly had placed him,
and he was so angry at his friends as to
have given them little grace had they
appeared terribly just then. It had been awk
ward, awkward and distressing,
Why hadn’t he left when first they began
to talk? He had placed one of the
brightest, sweetest, most beautiful girls
he had ever seen in a false position which
would always mortify her, make her hate
him, and make him hate himself. He
had been a dishonorable spy, an eaves¬
dropper; he had listened to private
conversation. Thoroughly vexed and
his chagrined, friends, he went below, and meeting
said, very sternly:
“Boys, through your amazing idea of
a joke I have disgraced myself. Unless
you do just as I ask you, and help me
out, I never want to see or speak to
either of you again.”
The boys, who had heard something
of the facts through Agatha, laughed till
the tears streamed down their faces;
laughed, in fact, until Tom became so
enraged that they dared not irritate him
further. So they readily promised to
assist him in any way he might desire.
Tom remained below, sullen and re¬
ticent, until they reached Koekledge
the Landing. boat, and There he and his friends left
when once on the wharf
he saw to his dismay that a party, in
eluding landed, the three young ladies, had also
and that the steamer was already
under way. He must keep up the farce
for a little longer, at least until the next
boat back. beaching the hotel—and
there was but one—he took the landlord
into his confidence and evolved the fol
lowing ingenious plan of action- He
was Mr. John Baird, who had come in
over the mountains to meet his twin
brother, Mr. Tom Baird, who had come
up on the boat. To this notable scheme
his two friends heartily assented; but
once away from him, they fairly roared
when they reflected that Agatha was in
the secret, and would probably disclose
it at just the wrong time. In pursuance
of the plan, however, Mr. Bennett, the
he landlord, begged of Kate and Milly that
might introduce Mr. John Baird,
w-ho just come in from the Rockkill
Valley.
When Baird was introduced, although
he had changed his clothes and appear- Stately
Mice as far as possible, Kate’s
hauteur and Miliy’s withering ° scorn al
most froze his blood.
“I believe we bad the pleasure of
seeing Mr. Baird on the boat this after
noon,” said Kate, icilv.
“One Mr. Baird, I’ve no doubt,” said
Tom, recklessly. “Mr. Tom Baird, my
twin brother. Poor fellow, you doubt
less noticed his infirmity, only of recent
date too—verv co7e recent in to-ngt-K fact- he
wouldn’t down
avoids society, naturally; he’s a great
band to rise early and be gone ali dav in
f 1 ® ™ ounta ™ s > acd at “ig bt tak e dinner
U 1 ® r ^ m ’
n l P t< ,!,wHf f h,m; f ald Inw® Mllly ’
«Not5 , all’MaldRaYd ^“T
Aout aU '. sald ba ,d - 1 shall shall in in
• st lm to-morrow
f JiTif on joining us evening, ^
“ i p ji l h “ f ^ S
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i.\ 10U nllr F‘ wln ,J ™ f her 1 T . beb ® „ ve „ said ■,
„ > >.
Kate, . with a mocking . something in her
voice and manner.
„ are quite ^ different, though, ^ as ’ people V
ob f«- when we m-e tovelhc,”
J’ W t ‘i ?
think?”
“I can’t tell,’’replied that young lady,
“Wait until we see them together.”
“Yes, wait until we do,” said Kate,
her old doubts returning with added
force,
tion, Agatha,however, understood the situa- j
and thought to make the most of
it by cultivating Mr. John Baird, as she
affected to believe him. In this she made
but little headway. Meanwhile, it be
came Air. “Tom” notorious Baird through had rambled the hotel that
away to
avillage down the river, and had thence
gone to the city, telegraphing for his
valise. Some credible people had seen
the known dispatch, and it was quite as well
that a valise had been sent to Air.
Tom Baird at his city address. These
little incidents; though perhaps not en
tirely convincing, at least gave Kate and
Alilly an excuse for treating Tom
courteously—a toleration of which he
made the most, endeavoring, by every
attention, to reinstate himself in
their good graces. The fact is, Tom
was Kate; desperately, she hopelessly interested in love with
and was so far as
to remark, without seeming offended,
several little inconsistencies in his story,
“I observe, Mr. Baird, ’ said she,
“that your friends, when speaking in
haste, are as apt to call you Tom as
John. Doubtless they confound yon
with your unfortunate brother. You
must be very like.”
Thereupon observation Tom makes in some pained, incoherent
answer or a re
proachful way, and changes the subject.
At length there was a revelation which
Kate could not overlook if she desired
to; for Agatha, jealous that her arts
were vain, and that Tom should bft
monopolized “How by her rival, at last said:
that long, Kate, are you going to keep
up the time stupid how farce? Why, I knew all
it was, even on the boat;
Harry Bishop told me. Deaf and dumb,
indeed—Tom Baird deaf! What a joke!
I presume, however, you regret that he
is not.”
“And you knew and did not tc : l us!”
said Kate, slowly, and with deliberate
scorn. “ i' ou teach me the value of your
friendship, witness Miss Vine; you knowingly
our mistake in order to further
your own selfish ends.”
the turned away proudly, passed
down the long porch, and slowly away
through a winding forest path. Her self
control was superb. Yet at last, when
far from the beaten track, in the heart of
the woods, she seated herself on a rock,
buried her face in her hands, and shook
with sobs which she could no longer re¬
press—sobs born of bitter mortification
at her mistake and the notoriety which
it must soon obtain, fcuddenly her name
was She spoken, and Tom stood before her.
sprang to her feet, her eyes blaz¬
ing with fire, her face queenly in its
scorn.
“How dare you, sir, intrude again
upon spy?” me! Again dishonorably, like a
“Miss Norman,” said be, with a quiet
earnestness which commanded her atten
I ^ on perhaps r “f stand hundred on the feet brink down of a cliff; the it
s a to
rocks below. A few words I must say
1° 7 0U < an d then, unless I have won your
full forgiveness. I will swear an oath” —
and he spoke with dramatic intensity —
“to throw myself down this precipice as
some poor atonement, the only repara
tion left me, for my folly and for your
"woman could . , be
,, ble to ch fT ! What
s °, ‘ nu 5 D
woaiau that t , loved, What woman
could ask a man to jump a him
dred feet down on jagged rocks; A
handso me man, a man with amillion-a
ma n wbo . ’ as he told her, loved only her,
and 1 offered to prove it by jumping any
time she gave the signal
As along >, at the they walked home arm-m
slle a nn shadowed, sinuous path,
sa;d: fom, how dared you swear
you would jump if I didn’t forgive you?
W ™ ld J'°' 1 have really.lumped:”
0h » tbat s a fading question, my
, ^uld hive felUhSroShly
, jumped P
for I
wretched at the time, and hated mvself
for living caused you such pain. Then,
too, my dear, did you may also bear in
miud tbat ] not ™ally swe;ir rd
kweitr, jUm Ifaidin effect that I would
which is quite a different thing.
A " ain ’ m y dear Kate - thu is n ot
as high as said I stated in my excitement.”
“ \ ou one hundred fee!. Tom
one hundred feet to the rocks belo w. ”
.. 0h dekr did I? „ w ,, so it doubtless is
my one huudiedfeeltosomeof
the lower strata, perhaps-not to the up
however ^ One more “ kiss
his is really he
chance. Around the bend we will be in
Outside the Capitol Borne.
On the outside the dome of the Capitol
is a great big bird bouse. Pigeons,
swallows, and even sparrows build tbeir
nests in the ornamental work, and one
once built in the head-dress of the
goddess. When the painters go up to
put a coat on the iron they get buckets
full of squabs. Head birds are often
found on the balcony, having killed
themselves against the light during
night sessions. When the electric lights
were there the balconies and top of tbe
dome used to be covered with curious
bugs and deadbirds of various sorts,
The dirt thus caused was one reason for
not permitting the light to stay there.
The dome is a great way up in the air,
and is a little world of itself.— Washing
ton Star.
Temperature’s Historian,
The thermometer, in its crude form,
was invented by a Hollander named
Cornelius Drebbel, who, it appears made
the first instrument, which he called a
“heat measure.” in the year lu;!8. His
thermometer consisted of a glass ball at
the top end of a long tube, the lower and
open with being placed in a vessel filled
water, colored with a solution of
sulphate of copper. This instrument
gradually was improved upon and its defects
removed by others; but it was
who Halley, the famous English astronomer,
first proposed the use of mercury as
a fluid for the thermometer,
There are 4000 theatres in the United
States and a million dollars a day UL
spent for amusements.