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AlzyartiG A voLoAN 0 IN HAwAIL on 0111 1006 flow varyieg in width from a
quarter of 14 11016 1.0 1,,W1) 111i19.4, 01111111
1401‘ 1181 11ONV 1114d 0111 its way through the
Incest, burning (loom lanes or whetever Mee
came in its Amy, 11 you can trevel-
ling over reelo, the horses tiever tame Hot.
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Teo:peat Tegetni too on a Melia min glop
Merit 1 he Wee tug oruligthe or gotten
Lava—mow Ise tiVer 1: et tomiese
helot.
Wo left Ifouolitlu 0110 morning on the in- 1111$1 1'0°- "11 "011 ("1" ""1" 1011."11, )4111 '1.1441
sedshold steamer lessee 1,0, 2.0„/, e„ sseweg 1 feint sonto idea of the Linn, This lava llow
to visit the 00111ano of Aeneas Tees seen, is formed of 14 hind of remitted and flattened
reek caned b the nativee praho, he,, having
14 eurface ineptly rcolgh to milord a fit m
footing for a home.
No words will tell how glad wo were when
NVO 141 111111 0141110 0111 011 lb killd of plain and
saw a (holt distance olt the Velmno House
long low nue story building, ft hundred
Nine leading, to the eugarplantatione. ft. or more in iongth, with veranda running
by a wide mete a flower gerden, some lit t le
61(11(10cm playing about, and the peoprieter,
standing reedy to help us filaments We
were too tired and wet just then to even
know or owe Itow close we were to the goat
black pit or to HOO the eulphur fumes pear.
ing out from vents mid blow holes all emend
ns. In a short time, errayed in dry gar --
emote, lee Were reedy for dinner, to which
we all did ample justice. We had beef,
potatoem (I01811 and meet), baked breadfruit,
taro, froth peas, good Inmost and butter and
coffee, and for dessert ohelo shwteake. Our
host, hieliewalian wife and the older children
dined meth us. Of mune our Lupin of (louver -
salon seas " the volcano." *
We enjoyed the open wood fire, the first
we had had occasion tO sit by for a, yew and a,
half. Our wet shoes and Imes and other gar-
ments also loud tile benefit of the warmth
and bluze. This house is long and low and
built of rough phAnks and inthewn beams.
there erected. to hie memory on a mem of The old fashioued chimney le bulk out into
land donated to the British government for the parlor. There are all soma of queer
shelves and (tablets full of sulphur aect lava
specimens, many of them very beautiful,
r WO paintings of Dena Lake Mug over the
chlinneypiece, and other picture:I anti poto-
gritplui adorn the rough, white•washed walls,
as Nvell as all sorts of relies. There are several
sofas and high tables, old fashioned high-
backed rocket's and en organ in the room.
The fioor is uncovered.
We looked ovey the " rogiaters " flitting
back for twenty or more yews and read
many interesting accounts of the metivity or
dormant condition of Thom, Halematiman
and other lakes in the crater at, different
times. Those wore pages of poetry dedi-
cated to Mmo. Pole. Almost every other
page tette 111118MM:8d Many of the drawings
were excellent, some highly amnsiug.
klark Ttvain, the Pewee of NorAvay and
Sweden, the Duke of ltdinbuegh, Mos. Brig-
ham Young No. 4 and mealy other celebrities
have Imre left their record. When NO lary
OWn to sleep itt was some satisfaction to
know that the boiling, seething caldron,
Dane Lake, WaS at the fuether side of the
crater from us. when we heard the
wind roar about the house lye (meld not help
but fancy that it was the roar of the fiory
waves bottling lige surf against their black
lava banks, tuld somehow our dreams were
(seriously mixed with emethquakes anci
yawning (tracks that caught us midway and
held us like a vice.
mg NVO emitted and parsed to the lomat(
elolokai, fetnai,,Kaltoola we nod the reeky
islet of iliolokini anchoring about tint p. 111,
ill 111044114014 Bey, off the low lianas( lethnins
uouneeting Eaat and Weal; Maui. On Wed-
nesday we reached our first, landing, Mahe.
kens, the theminns of a railroad tweivemiles
ihe town owlet:nit of several large ware.
houees, a Chinese reetaurant, two Chinon
stores and n few other building& Several
young natives stood about, the landing, ltruv-
ing beought horses for expooted friends.
The girls incianted (Astride, as is their (Alston,.
here, and their friends brought; gat -lands of
flowers and 11011g them Omit their neeke.
Many of the girls -were very pretty, with
their abundent LveSSes and dark liquid eyes
shaded by long lashes. We teemed that
several of these young people wore students
at the Kainehamella Manuel Training (Sol
lege, or the Kewaihart Semiettry in Hono-
lulu, When mill -cued in Engliell they
spoke it fluently, bu t among theinitelves they
chatted away in their OWn soft, musical lan-
guage.
It Ives so hot and the Mr so perching that
we were glad to steem out of the harbor
after our three hours' sojourn them. About
sixty miles south of this point is X aawalons
where Captain Cook fell. A monioneut is
along one side, a large 011010011re seri-entitled
that purpose by the late Princees Uralic e.
The monument is a plain obelisk of concrete,
the enclosure beingsurrounded by oho in and
old cannon.
We, however, proceeded only so flue as
Kawailitte. From this point the itemise of
the passengers aboard were telephoned to
Hilo, some seventy miles distant on tho
windward side. The country here, on ing
to more extensive irrigation, is greener than
at Mall ukona. Lefty Mauna -Kea (white
mounlitinhend Mostne-Lon, (long mountain>,
also enother extinct volcano, loot
tip in the background and draw the elouds
about their summits.
A DEMME": 11.113111.11.
Just before reaching. 'Causally.° we passed
Plinepti, and on 14 hillside saw the ruins of a
" haute," one pf tho limpet of the hoed=
temples buile Kamehamehm I. it; 0110
latter part of the last century. It ie 550
feet long, 1 50 wide. Its Avails, 14 feet in
height, are 80 feet thick at the base and ,S
feet at the top,
Tradition says the stones for the conetruc.
Lion of them monstrons walls wore passed
from the valley of Pololu, twelve miles dis-
tant, by e file of workmen standing ill lino.
the whole distance. Three altars stand with•
in the sacred enclosure, and niches may still
be discovered in the 164411 where idols stood.
That in the northeast corner Was for the
great god of the temple. Hume() saerifices
WOVO favorite oblations both to the deities
loved and hated.
,A seENE TRUMCAT, mestere.
After leaving Kawaihae we turned north.
ward and steamed past Punepu, pest
Mahukona and rounded Upole. Point. Wel-
come were tritflo winde, but not so NV01001110
the rough watera, the harbinger of sca•sick-
nees, Here the greenest of slopes and roll-
ing hills and fitraway stretches of forest and
moulitain mot our eyes. The cliffs on this
side of the island riso abruptly from the
water's edge, rearing their heads e. thousand
feet, auct we mitered Nvith verdure. Thom
sands of strensulets pour over their face, and
fifty groat cataracts between Opole and
Hilo tall with tremendous force into the sea
or we lost in spray long before they reach
the sea. These agencies, at work for cen-
turies have caused deep valleys in the
might'y cliffs that extend back into the mys.
termus somewhere far from the mom Noted
among these is Waipio Valley, celebrated
for its scenery. The cliff's Hee almost per-
pendicularly to 11, height nf three thousend
feels Until recently utilized and carried
off by flumes to the sugar plantations, clown
thotte cliffs for sixteen hundred feet dashed
the waterfall of Hilawe.
The valley itself extends twenty miles
into the mountains, the lower part, of it be.
ing but three quarters of tu mile in width.
The bottom is flet and covered with rico
fields and taro patellae. The descent into
the valley is by a road nearly a mile in
length that finds its difficult way down the
face of a pall (precipice).
We counted nineteen waterfalls within
sight et ono thne before it svaa too dark for
tut to itee longer.
191 11111B MYRON LANDED.
By and by our vessel come to anchor in
Ifilo, or Byron's 13ay. Here, more than a
half cienthry ago,Lorn Bryon loolced ont over
the same fair seenmand was no doubt) rowed
to shore in the native canoe that still is
used in these seaters. The harbor is largo
enough to float 1nany of the world's navies,
and so deep that only the lack of proper
wharfage prevents the largeet vessels from
coming in to the shore. It is iu form of a
crescent and, like ,nearly all these far away
Pacific shores, its comet is fringed with
cocoanut trees. To the left of us wits C000a.
nut Island. Three small orators or old blow
holes, olothed with eel:clime, formed a kind
of near bustkgrouncl to the little town of
Hilo, ahnost buried in tropicel trees.
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111081 falley 11111 1V0 8111V 1101418 10111 canoes
foul other cruet, manned by the Whet:hunts
of Bailers Gag jets, greeti and lalue and
an le heliotrope, (Mot up. 1411d
fiery feuntains played, '1 Pole's 1101V," 11,
produce of the molten lava, resembling 8101»
gleee of the 141001 ielloate texture seil light
brown in culotte, floated in tho ascending
currents of heated Air 111141 finally lodged ott
the edge of I he 140(e or clung to 00.100 013:01110
Or 433/1001illg ruck.
Again, the temperature of the surface of
the lake would be lowered e, few degreee by
801110 slight chenge 14 the atmosphere foul
the floor would cool til it would seem &tweet
poesible for one to wrulk 11,01.0811 lt. Indeed,
a guide once ventured to the middle of the
hulce, pole in band, to Bemire some molten
lava from one of the v01110, Ho 100 just re-
turned and climbed. the batik when the !eke
surface broke up, presenting a Inegnificent
spectacle. Far (pucker then see can write
it the whole mass wait boiling, and what a
moment before made a footieg for a limey
man woe bemg thrown as fiery spray high in
the 141V or olse dripping from a fiery fountain
back hissing Mtn a fiery lalce.
Fitness UP TITANTO 00110E.
Often after the heat would seem to recede
and the'lava cool into a rough, black floor,
very suddenly evidence (Atha fiery mess just
beneath would show Itself lit the forked,
lightning, zig-zag effect that would shoot
acmes the lithe, generally in the 801110 direc-
tion as the minor axis, the eontrast making
tho black floor more intense in its blackness ;
then with the midden noise that any liquid
makes when it has reached the boiling point
only intensified thousands of times, the whole
mess would break up and boil and bubble
and be lifted several feet above the usual
level, -nail we would be forced to run fur-
ther up the bank, fearing 010 thelake would
burst Its helmets and 01.010011 its banks, over-
whelming ne in the fiery flood. Then, ns if
seeming to change its mind, it would shoot
its jets high in the air and throw its spray
like shooting stars fnr beyond the edge of
the lake, and again it would engalf great
cakes of leva Out would tern o'n edge and
so be drawn under. Again the he sted muss
would cool off, the floor would sink several
feet, harden and darken ; the guide, seez•
ing the 10011101g of quiet, with pole in hand
would desoend the steep lank, dip his pole
into the molten lava along the edges, rush
up the path with hie .prese, knock It oil,
throw the pole to ono side, press the hot lava
into a small mass with the inner sides of his
thick leather shoes, punch a hole in the hot
substance, drop the coipshanded to hint into
the hole •give another punch with the polo,
and pusiiing the coin specimen aside to cool,
pick op his long polo 1411(1, if all the conditions
were again suiteble, rush down for another
quantity of lava. The most of the mins used
were Hawaiian twenty.five cent pieces
stamped with Kalaltaties profile.
SUNIIIS11 ON 11110 VOLCANo.
We were up at six clock to watch the
suneise refleutel on Mauna Loa, The thole
mometee registered eixty deerees. The air
Ava.s cool and refreshing. 'Throe of the
smaller children followect us clown the path
with a. little wagon with theie (logs, heppy
and unconscious of their clangerous proxim-
ity to the boiling pit so near them, Tho
petit led to the sulphur banks e quarter
of a mile distant. While on the way a tern
gave us &glimpse of Mauna Kea's snow cap-
ped summit. 1111,11110, Lotu's grades,' slope
stretched away from es for thirty miles or
more. What for a moment seemed to be
dark ohnid shadows resting upou her we
learned Nvere ;groat lava flows. 'l'o our loft,
just a short distance from 11s, yawned the
great black pit that WO had come so far to
see, and just, beyond us were the sulphur
banks sparkling and yellow in the early
looming light. When Ivo reached them we
founcl them so hot to our feet and hands
that We 0111111)0(1 aboue em very cautiously.
We gathered some very pretty specimens
and looked down a great eturthqualce crack
just in the rear of " the bunks" that is
said to extend twenty-five miles in length.
On our return WO gethered the ohelo, berry
related to the wbortle or huckleberry of the
East, somewhat larger in size, aucl in color
resembling a cranberry. We beought them
home and enjoyed a large dishful of them
served with sugar for our breakfasts
IN Tag oresenta WALL.
About throe p. sVe armyed ourselves
for our trip to Du,nit Lake. We shorteued
our Jenneas•Miller skirts end wore strong
shoes and. large hats. A. half hour later we
started, with thine guides and ten lantern&
We each carried a strong staff. Concluding
to go on foot to tho lava floor, we won found
ourseivee descending the walls of the orator.
We followed a very stoop but rether easy
trail through 0 dense uudergrowth. The
evalls of the crater are Lb thousand foot or
more in altitude. ;rust before we renehed
tho lava flow the guide pointed out to us
the snob where touriet had died, mucked
by a plain wooden headstone in the form of
a won. The unfortunate man had been to
the ' lake "and Was Nvell on his way baok-411
fact had reached the trait—when ho mai-
denly fell and clied, as is supposed, of heart
diocese.
When wo loft tho trail and took the first
step on the Week, rough lave, floor for a
moment the broad, desolato stretch Caused
an indescribable shrinking. Ono by one we
followed the guide and wondered how he
know just where to step, for the lave had
very little of tho wines appearance that
would indicate a trail. Thom too, perhaps
our shrinking 0141110 from the knowledge that
twenty, thirty or forty feet below us NV118 a
molten mass of lava liquid, and that any
1noment the floor over which tee seer° Nvalk.
ilig Might he melted by the greet hodt of
tho tory elements, and not oven the ovil
spirits that Dante tells about would be
standing by to watch fot 001. ashes thrown
ep on tho shore.
DANA tag%
After passing through the sulphur fumes,
Which proved the meet trying part of our
trip, NVO hotted our guide call out, " Here
slut 18,"
High on ow. sido of us lose roegh, pre-
oipitous bank of loose lava stones, extending
upward, perhape, a thousand foot or more,
while pat in front of 118 N1318 1)111114 L/1•110.
0311110001y we approached the edge end
looked over, as well art across the lake, Jest
at this time the lava had temporarily cooled.
and with the mccentioe of a, vent here and
there formed a bleak flow memos the length
and breadth of the lako. We elimbed up the
leunk and mated ourselves on the rooks and
juse then the floor broke ep. The grancleor
of the econo is indescribable. For the first
half hour Nee did not feel like talking or
collecting specimens Or throWing stones
aer0014 the litho, but sat quietly watching
the boiling, soothing ealdron (mooting its
jets of fiery lava and throwing up spray
twenty foot or more in 1110 Mr, 811011111g 111
fund engulfing immense =kelt of n1016011 %Va.
011 tho further side waft a, cave festooned
With " Polo's hair." Iforo the fiory Mass
never ono cooled, but like the tireleee WOO
of the ocean ever teemed tie, se '100 hOrlao
A TEDIOUS RIDE.
We started for the crater at eight a.
m. in a wagonette dra1911 by four
homes, and wore driven civet a, monad.
atoned merino road for fourteen miles.
There was much to interest us on the way.
For two or three miles wo passed through a
sugar plantation. The elope of Melina lexu
is so eventual that after a ride or seven Milua
we had (uccomplished Mit 500 of the 4,040
fed of elevation before us. Wo passed
through it fOVOS 1 '10 V t 11111CS, abotind-
Mg in prundanne, (het 10111111, with its melee
bloseome, and a dense and luxuriant under,
growth. Then NVC came out npon a mho
plantation, Outland looking from its half
cleared appeername ae if it needed grubbing.
The coffee (shrub, four or five feet in height,
With its preety bright green lemves, seemed
to be prospering amongth o stumps nod 0011811
rocky soil. .A.Iter a while wo passed hum
drods anti hundreds of acres of ferns. There
were hedge% of ferns 011 either side of tho
road ; the roots and trunice of the pole font
aro laid horizontally to keep the road from
washing during the heavy Mine. New forns
opring out of the Unlike, so that for 1111108
we aro hedged in on either side by a growth
four and five foot in height and bidding fair
to grow more luxeriantly with time. Ton
miles from Hilo we looked back and saW the
*blue waters of the Pacific.
A. kW milee Outlier on, fth the half -way
Stamm We found our homes waiting tus, hey-
ing tome up 80veral houses eerlier ovor the
maim mato Yen folloWod. Ail lite ktdies
mounted, astride ; ell wore the Jenuess.
Miller divided skirt, oidulaw coats and large
het& Our oriel sth packagee were strapped
011 at the back cd the saddles or else secIdle
bags hold the 1100090* • change of clothing.
It poured end e, teed lef Over
GLOWING IN TRH DARKNESS.
After dark the lake Nvas much more (W-
ave ; the longer we remained the more fas-
cleating it grew. The glow, trade more
vivid by the blankness beyond, lighted up
the great wells and overhanging rocks, The
heat grew more intense and burned our
faces ; yet the strong current of wind that
blow toward us made rts glad to put on our
wraps. Just when one interest was me its
height we beard a. tremendous crash some-
Nyhere in the distance. For a moment we
ell stood apellbound, but hemring nothing
more we Concluded that rock had fallen.
It, must have weighed tons to have caused
such reverberations throughout the length
and breadth of that great orator. We had
intended to remain until ten o'clock, but
the more eautioes minded of our party seg.
gested theft NV0 011137 wait long enough to see
that lake break op once more. Then wo
conoltuted to retinae our steps. Before we
left, standing in the glow of the lake and
fanned by her hot breezes, the moon glanc-
ing out at us for a moment, we gitthered our
forces and sang " White Wings " and
" Guide Us, 0 1 hon area .TehoVals "—they
being, perhaps, as appropriate as auything
ciTVell, single file we once more foil into the
trail, lighted only by the glimmer of our
lanterns. We could not see three feet bo.
yond us on that black floor. One sten) at a
time, wo cautiously followed each other.
Fortunately for us the sulphur fumes were
not so dense as early in the afternoon, the
wind blowing thetn from CB, so that we
were enabled to melte the difficult ascent
and descent of " Sulphur Banks" with
much lese trepidation. When our guide
would come to an eartilmnake crack he
would call out " Crack 1" and the warning
word would pass down 01.10 Bum so that
each one would be prepared to avoid it.
This happened a good many times. Upon
coming to the lergest ono lye were told that
ie was the result of an earthquake one
night when a party Ms tourists were in the
meter. Guides were immediately eent
from the Volcano Ilouse to assist in ease of
trouble, but the sulphur 101000 from the
newly opened week W000 SO lanes that the
eguidee became bewildered and thought they
had lost their way, and it 19118 several hours
before they reached the alarmed tourists,
tkeir guide, not knowing what was ahead,
having waited for assistance.
Once 110r080 the crack we breathed easier
and our trail grew less difficult. Wo found
home waiting for us at the foot of the walls
and were glad enough to monnt them and
trust to being carried up the steep, winding
path, Once or twice at mime baud 11,0 lost
sight of the lanterns both ahead and behind
us, and could but just Mako out oar steeds
bugging the sides of the preciplee ; so we
wore gled enough to reach the top aud no
longer fear a, nusstop pitehiug es down the
sides of the orator.
Al the Vfficaeo Hem, We wore welcomed
with a bright fire and a hot climate, which
included a little roast pig, the 110(101 etteri.
flee to ".Pelo " on the rate return of tourists.
After dirmee, while Wu wore sitting about
tho fire talking over our trip, the proprietor
brought the greet, register, with pen and
iuk, nuil we :penned 0111' Daisies and ;jotted
(lawn our impressieee of the lake. That
night we elept outwits' on 000 beds of plait
fern With the relieved feeling that that part
of our trip sVaS acleolnIdished.
Shute welling the above tho water le much
mom motive, The bauks of Dane take
where We stood that night, are now molten
lava, having fellen into the lake and so en.
ittrgocl her arca, Italeniaullitill is again
smoking, mfter lying dormeet for several
yew& &moral other small lakes mud blow
holm have been fotmed, and it is sitid that
the glow cost now be soon et Ililo, thirty
miles distant.
The New Year,
A lusty babe with winter'. dare,
The wind. the ;
Wit 11 outs( retehos Immix eager to share
sk height or frowning sky,
AS'e weleomo thee. glad baby year.
A throne le thine to gram, ;
IN'a give thee love 8.11(1 littppy Moor,
on (twee erown we pine&
What heading home( thy betide do hold,
Whet bloom is 1 111110 10 81031 1
11010 011re and white thy Mlle. fold,
1101y deep thy roses red,
Again shall pm he story tell,
Beneath by bending elfin;
story that they know so welt
Of love's !Meet siterlflee.
Again shall heath; withangulsb throb,
.8Ispel eriteersiteeend to Mid ;
Again the 11011 MC 1100r 0111111 PO,
With Mood he red the sod.
0 bring UR more of love than bete,
Anil more of sun 1 11011 81300 1
L01411 118 Cod's fair garden gate,
The beauty 110 111-011 made.
D. 11. 1<birra
Bohoes,
Dark 1—from each slender, snowenantled
Wlinee veil gleams miasma white,
'rho old year's death -knoll is solemnly pealing, drink, He does not permit the sale of native
Borne on tha breath of tho night.
Toll for the old year, toll sadly and slow,
Solemnly mournful, malestleally low ;
Tell for its promises hastily broken ;
Toll for its foul deeds when fair words were
spoken ;
Toll for itS falsehood. Its faith and its strife;
Toil for the thousands It brought into life
'I'ull for it sadly. In rhythmical sway,
The life of the old yl311.111 ebbing mew ;
In it lumen t, ,.econd, Its sands shall have
ru 0—
The old year Is dead, aml the new year begun.
AN AP/110AX IK.IffG REFORMS.
Itientiles Nreetottiler, <Setts Itliiing
People, 101111 iiteee the Slave Trade,
A few yearS ago King, IA:weenie, the ruler
the getatt, 130, Remo people int the Upper
Zatulieei, 11110 1101d Up 0 1110 wurld by a
number of Idetvellors an a partioularly bide.
one and deopicable ruler, Aimed
every (lay lie indulged in the pastime of
human sauriliees, Ile wait eonetantly fitting
out expeilltione to capture eleven and he
seemed to embody all the viove 111111 110110 Of
the virtue's of the natii"0 princes of Afriert.
The inionionary, 'who became
famous for the Rumor whieli lie gave to
Serpa Pinto, which undoubtedly awed the
life (if that explorer, now writes that King
isovenika lias turned over a new loaf. Coil -
lard and some other miesionaries have been
in the 11ing'it country for a number of years,
nett the good influence of this admirable
maii and his aseietants doubtless explains
the change that has come over the dusky
monarch. Coillard Hays that within the
pad three yeare the King has not ofil-red
e single victim es a sacrifice. Ho has
also become a teetotaler, and he Moo (Hoe
to prevent his elifets from Indulging in
beer in Ins capital. 1 here is a, good deal of
grumbling over this mandate of the King,
but those who live in his chief town and the
neighborhood we compelled to obey him.
Ho bas also ceased to send out slave raid
hm . expeditions, and. does not permit hie
people to sell shvves to caravans. This year
tu large earaven of blaek merchants mune
front 13111e, and the King learned that hie
people had sold quite a, number of slaves to
the caravan. Before the merchants left his
Bing loudly, ring cheerily swoloominff nolo ; country King Lownuika liberated all the
let the Hounds echo clearly from Me I brazen slaves, foul iinpoeed 14 line 0pon the mole
Now Seth all together in tho jubilant shout, chants by confiscating a part of their ivory.
th root,
" T110 1105V V0111.39 in. and the old year Is out!" The British South Africa, Company expects
Bing in Lilo 1101V year, ring it In with a will, to have this large region, firet made known
W itli to dim, unknown future of good and of to us by Livingston, undei: its control.
ill ;
Ring it in httstity, prat after peal;
Its Joy, death, cle,ottir, its woo and its weal.
Welcome its untold, mysterionsfreight
Of 110111, and of fear, of love and of ludo
Ring it in cheerily, merrily ring,
No 1001401 Call tell what; the 110NY year May
bring ;
Welcome it gayly, with hope and with mirth,
And toll for its death as youjoyeil at its
Iltotsx
The Swallows.
0 Mother, will tee mellows never C01110 1
Fool my cheek, %Is hot and burning,
And lay heart is sick with yearning,
But I'm always 3-011 110 soon SW11110 W8 C01110,
nest brought me in a primrose yesterday;
And when primroses aro blowing,
Then I know that wieter's going ;
And the swallows cannot then bo far away.
Dark, mold Owed) in the gitrdensIngingelear I
Now I love les note to follow!
But the swallow, 0 the (wallow,
Deluging sununer with him, summer is more
dear.
And the lamb's bloat! Could I see them once
again,
With their innocent 3W00/ beim,
And thee friskings, and their races!
Once I used—but now i cannot stir for pain.
Mother, 11ft mo, all this sido Is growing numb ;
Oh, how dark the room is I Fold ma
To your bosom, tighter hold 010
Or I shall be gone before the mallows come.
And tho swallows canto again across the wave;
And the sky wa. soft and tender.
With a gleam of rainbow splendor,
As they laid their little darling In the grave.
And they often watch the 011111101N% by her
tomb ;
And they strain to think, but straining
Cannot still the heart's complaining,
'Silo Is bettor there W11010 swallows never
come."
And they ertivoil the bird oho loved noon her
stone;
Joyous guest of summer fleeting
Dither, thither, then departing
In a, night, to Joys of other worlds 'unknown.
Tit For Tat.
"Good morn'in', 11110sRatio," said young Mickie
Fee,
" 0 ood mornin' again ; yourself shore I sea.
Lookin' bloomin' Ivor," 13ut Kate turned
newly
As she mkt, "Mister Stickle, I Nvish you good
day.
You're a heartless deenver—now don't spoke a
word!
Pretty tales about you and thatNera I've hoard,
You know you danced with her the day of tho
fair,
And praised her gray cyos and her very rod
hair.
You hor an angel; quite in loVo with her
roll
And at night, when you parted, you kissed her
as well!"
Then young 111101cio gave a sly wink as ho said:
"I deeaved her, my darlite—thisNVOy tarn your
bead—
Yes, faith, I dose -red her ; my (MAW, it's true
For I shnt both my oyes, krtte, atol fancied
%was 'tout
tem, that's what I did,
trim:
I shut, both my eye&
And fitneied 'twee you t"
I knoty notwhat, my Longo° can say
it hatli not Rata of yore
1 Mew not white my pen 'can write
It bath net Writ Were,
Wish thee ' many Merry days"
Ili this the coining year
May faith and hone end happiness
Thy entl1Way over clew ;
Aecrmay the (awed toren of Love
Its golden glory ((hod
True rnys oil sunshine in thine homes
A lege o'er thine „
For. eh, 110.10y within my f10111
111100 notbeeethed for Num;
But, darling, words ere all too poor
-- So dear thee art to me.
NORA Isenonnn,
The Yeais Work.
The year's work of the gardener, the
frnitegrowee and the femme is now nearly
completed, and we can look beak and review
the twelve-month for our future advantage,
if sve are determined to profit by our ex•
nerience. At this time last year, nays
Mayazine it was thought Out a year
with more unfavorable smeller conditione
for most crops could not be experieneed
than the one we had just paesed through,
and it was probable the worst one of the
lea quarter century ; now, however NVO
know that the weather has been fee more
unfavorable for nearly all crops this pest
year than the year before in uearly all
regions of the country. As a result, most
crops have been (1001 11.11d 4111. The one
region that may be excepted in this state-
ment is that of the Pacific coast, where
good mops of nearly all kinds have been the
rule. With poor crops and small receipts
fur the same there is more or loss discourage-
ment among soil tillers. This is natural,
but our reverses should Mune us to do all
in our power to antigate similar evils in the
future. As far as WO can learn it is having
this effect, and apparently these adverse
seasons Neill eventually improve our methods,
both in the treatment of lands, and the
cultivation of crops, and in other respects.
Last year, ill consequence of the rains,
attention was given very generally to land
drainage, anclprobmbly more tile was man-
ufactured and laid than ever before in any
ono year. The greater amount of rain the
present year is forcing a still larger num-
ber to improve their grounels by uncier-
draining. This improvement is substantial
and permanents and will have its effects on
all future crepe. All over the country these
improvements have been vinza, 3111.1. the
good work will not encl with what has been
done. Every piece of ground that is under -
drained becomes an object lesson when the
benefits of the operation are perceived as
they will be, even the next season. Them
is no one thing that earl be clone that will so
mealy and economically increase the size of
our crops as underclraining. Even heavy
manuting will havo but little effect in wot
seasons on lands overcharged with water.
"Well, Pectic ttme to stny, so good-byaMickie
Fee.
You may dosavo her, but von don't desavo mo ;
1m not to be blarneyed, kick, a word In yom;
ear
Ibit had bettor bo oft for my iind's ernnin' hero.'
" Oh, your dad's mule% is ho I That's not him I
1.100
Now bobbin' behind that old blackthorn tree
For it's Paddy Mahon!" " Oh I" said Nato,
with newer.
" Vou've got your oyes open at last, ellokie
door,
And shore you aro right ; 'Ns my own Muffin'
Pat,
So take my advice, Mtolc, and getout of that;
For ho's oemin' to coed me, now Men my lad:
When that boy kisses mo, oh, won't youbo glad?
For when Ms lips mod mine, why what will I
do
But shut both my oyes, Mick, and fanoy it's
you I
That's what ;
Miokie, it's true ;
Shut both my cyog,
And fancy its you!"
A. Demme
The Foor Boy.
meo 0/104 a Mauro of bonnier and health,
And bis (hooks wore 113 roil as the rose,
Ms oyes wore as bright
11111 HtalTei Of 1110 night
But he didn't wow V017 good alotheg.
Twolittle brown owls found a hole in his hnt,
WhIlo Minim bid under its brIm.
White the people passed hi,
Never earning an eye
On is poor f Mime like him,
His tle ted hands Muria down by his side
As lie looked in tho window to see
All the banal teful toys
That would Meese Mlle boys
Moro blest, and more happy than he.
NW falter was dead and Ins mother 19118 poor,
And the crowd. kept 011 hurrying by,
'then he piekodnp seek,
Threw ie ovet
And he loft with m tear In his eye.
Ith thought of hie mother in bed at, home
alek,
And his feelings ho Moil to control
As he stopped here and Moro
the street everywhere
To P1010 1113 ru stray Wino of ocial,
A, gentleman mwo 1111n a, muurter to go
Awl purchase, Homo oleo little thy ,
And the heart that Sylls sacl
10 the binast of that Ina
Never beat ts happier bey.
rro liet.oet 1110 helm of Ids 111,110 hrown hat
„And thesecocl thenrondese 01 hoes,
But ho never wont beak '
To that Moro with Ids seek
To Invest, it in purchasing toy&
No I no on he wont to the river ilthaeto,
With stooling of Soy Itt his soul.
No toys had he bolights
For that little boy thought
Of Menial= and (spent it for coals
3
P13113.14.11MaaartaptamtilaMIXIMIAMPOINS.
Sleeping BOOMS,
The first thing if be thought of in MMus;
proper 011111 of a sleeping room in the ventil-
mime 'That the air of such 1411 apartment
10 cold is never a 11308011 111141 1 18 pure, the
!noel, noisome atuumphere having tuo often
been fnund in the cold, uneartel for bedrooms
ittifietilno:iie who, became of their daily labor,
have perhaps too little time to devote to
A room in which one misses the night
ebould never le' entirely clotted. A very
little openleg at the top of the window
furthest front the bed will ilo wondere in the
way of ventilation. But too many. peep'
evince a foar of breathing " night oar, ans
close their windows religlouely againat, it.
I think the Creittor intetehel Ills creatures
to breathe the night air es well as Hutt of
the flay ---at any rate it is the only air' with.
11111011 we are provided at that time of our
exintencee, and we aro not capuble of hold-
ing =breaths until the son renee again, mut
chasm the imagined impuritiets out of the
dew•lailened atunniphere.
To be healthful a bedroom in uvhich one
paean sleeps sheuld. emittAin at least 800
cubit; foot of elear spaec,end double this apace
for two persons. Vet how few homes Mil
convenioully allow so much melee for health's
sake- -and In how few homes do we find the
entire family etrorg Avo0.
It is 0, pernicious habit, yet ono s eonvens
ience countenances tc) too .,,.01.011.1 LLD extent—
that of Mooning two in a, bed. If 11 Child
sleep with an older person it is sure to lose
its vitality in mune degme, while, vampire -
lilies it is the older person who profits by
this arrangement. Weather this latter be
a fast or not, 1 have no 1neane of knowing,
but I do know that the youimer earson loses
luAviituMitilIMYT reason why people elteuld eschew
this plan of saving tronblit, spewe and ex.
ponee is that very few persous who chance
to be placed in one ((Ironing umertment are
of the same disposition, or 1 squire the same
coverings. Ono may need heavy bed cloth-
ing—the other requite the lightest weight,
sod even a compromise would result in any -
dame, butt satisfaction. Then, (ne may be
restless and given to mnell ossing and turn-
ing, and for this the quiet one must suffer.
To be sure, it is 1nore expensive to keep up
two single beds than one doulde one, hot
it pays In the long rtm--which t so long
a run, after all, that one need suffer discom-
fort during its flight.
To keep young and old apart, and give to
each the undisturbed nigliteli reit both re-
quire, a trundelbed may be used advan-
tageously. After its mining airing it may
be shoved out, of sight. under the larger bed.
Never Make the Spare beneath a bed a
place of hiding or of storage. Never stow
uway old shoes, or boxes of trash, or wearing
apparel, or old papers and the like under
the bed.e. All those things absorb and Shen
throw off poisons, wh toll. must, of a certainty,
be *breathed into the lungs over and over
:main by the victim inhabiting such an
apartment. Do not oven have er valances,'
or hanging draperies, about the bed's side.
Allow the finer to show beneath, (dean
and bereft of dust and the fumy am:Linda-
Hens so apt to gather there.
Above all th1ngs do not think you are
"smart " because you succeed in making
your bect before breakfast. You are the
very opposite of " smart " and every sense of
a natural and rationel cleanliness is out-
raged by sneh a proceeding. It is better to
allow the bed to lie unmade until night than
to spread over the tuck in all then exhala-
tions thrown off by the body during the
time of slumber. Do not even let this
escape into the room during the time you
take to dress, for if you spread the bed
open then you must neeessarily breathe the
vitiated air. After you have made your
toilet, " the bed to pieces " and hang all
the clotlung over the foot -board and upon
(hairs tho room. Place the pillows on
the NV11111011, SillB (if there 1)0 no sun to shine
upon them) and let the fresh air blow over
them. Feather pillows witil mattresses
should never be.placed in the hot, sunshine,
as the svarrall is not good for the animal
substance of the feather, ttnp often breeds
insects in the quill. T1ie odor arising from
the sun -warmed feethers shotildhe sufficient
warning to all who carelesely commit this
error.
After breakfast, or overt after luncheon,
make the beds, shake and pouncl the feather
mattresses and smooth them nicely. put
the sheets, blankets and comforts in place,
and turn clown the topneatly und smoothly.
Place the enamels positiou, then go to the
foot of tho bed and, rettching the under
sheet, pull it firmly down until it is perfect-
ly smooth. Tuck In Oohed clothing at the
foot and sides, and your bed is ready and
inviting.
In guest remiss pretty shams are the cor.
reet thieg to plan- over the big, square pil-
lows ; but the hostess, or maid, should re-
move them ancl turn down the bed elothing
for her guest before night,
Keep everything out of the sleeping room
that will collect dust. Never taste a drop,
of water that has stood in tu bed room over
night, sh1ce it has by thau time ebsorbed the
Poison exhaled by the body. Do not keep.
fruit that is to be oaten in elly room con -
tabling u, bed.
Matting makes the clownliest floor cower-
ing for sleeping rooms, and =tains thab
may be should be dettp,ed -at the
Avindowm Dotted Swiss drew curtains give
a cosy feeling to a, sleepieg room, with',
dotted Swiss coverings for dresser, wash-
stand, mantel lambrequins rind chair tidies
give 1411 1LiV Of Cltallti11088 and. eleanlinees
that no richer material eould furnish.
white fur rug by tho bod'side, and a matting
hamper are all that is needed 10 furnish. a
sleeping apartment prettily.
A willow chair or two a, willow basket, 14
rnoN
New Year Words to (HOS.
You are sitting quite guietly watching the
old year as it fades away awl the new one
as it comes in. You think of all the joys
and the sorrows that have come to you
during 1890, ancl of your hopes and inn
bitions for 1891 ; you believe just as you did a
year ego—that you will melte a great resolve
that the year shall be better anti your lifo
notelet' and Immo unselfish than it was lest
year. Now don't, do this. Don't make the
big resolve. Think, hope and pray what
you want to, but in its place, make a lot of
little resolves that each one of which will
ill time tend to make you reach the goal
you desire to,
Resolve to think a little less about yonr-
self and a little mere of tho comforts of
others.
Resolve to be loss quick of speech and
Inore certain in action than you have been.
Resolve not to la the wicked little demon
of envy enter your heart and make you
bitter end fault-finding.
Resolve to consider those of your own
household ; the inclination on the part ot too
many of us 10 to reserve our virtmes and our
graces for those outside, and this is all
v'llef"yg.dear girls, you had better blush 1111.
80011, AO good deughters 1011d good sisters,
than gain all the fettle intagineble as bright
talkers and great beauties without any home.
le talent I Eke that word homely
--1. use it perhaps in a differentsenee from
the one yon give it. It means belonging to
the honle, 011d AB the home is the place whero
love and charity shonld abide, so the talents
Hutt belong to it, are best worth possessieg.
Cod I leee Ls cry ,n11, ofyou ;Anil give you some
day a home ei your own, lt limy come in
1110 11ONV year. It may be in the years that
ere far off, bet if it never mimes just remoin-
bee that the talent of inching a home may
be yours, and oven though yon can only ex-
ercise it 111 a single room you motet not bury
it and count it ot 110 valms—tittrest Asn -
stone, in The Ladies' Home Anraccl.
Never Bay Fail,
APre11011 chemist has used up $18,000 and
seven years' time teying to invent a way for
a person to beeitthe under water, hut has not
struck it yet. Perhaps if he would 11017
WW1 Ms attention to inventing a way for fifth
to breathe on lad he would strike iL rich.
Natural Mistake,
It was Uncle Zob's first visit to the
theatre.
" They're dressed about as I 1:Tided to
see 'ern, John," he whispered, to lus nephew,
" but I've seen bettor aetin' at 6 school ex-
hibition. Look at 'con. They're 61 1 ectaklin'
at waist an' you can't understand moven
about half whet. they're a-sayinge"
" The play begune yet, rmele," To.
plied John. You are -looking at 6 theatre
patty in one of '
England's Bente to the Bermudas,
An important stop toward completing the
0116111 of British communientione has been
taken by theopeniug ()fa nowthie of steamers
rtuming 11,0111 Newfoundland, via Halifax,
to the Berinuclits end the Weet Indian
Islands. This line has beim solwitbeed by
tho oolonial Governments conuernott with a
view of opening up direct theta between
British Amortise, in the north and British
Americo, in the south. As a eounter.blast to
tho McKinley bill this move may possibly
have We most saisfactory results. And in.
any oae it is eminently (100100)10 that the
different portionts of the empire shoulct be
able to exclutu.ge their products without
trading on foreign soil. Moreover, a glitnoe
01 the null) will show thn t, one of the &eat
0011001mila will probably be able to use the
11019 V01110 113 11 better incens of Demeaning,-
tioe with the mother country, Bermuda at
present oommunicates with Ithisland by wry
of New York. 1Mt Halifax is much nearer to
lerigliund than Now York is, and only elightly
mom instant from. Bermuda, It is, therefore,
ptnbable that 00011 aS the coining Cana-
dian line between Halifax and Liverpool is
opened the tertnudans will get their 'math
more expeditiously by a ronto that does not
leave British territory,
Blessed he—blessed tliongh maybe undo.
serving—who has tam love of 6 good wom-
an,