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The Brussels Post, 1892-5-27, Page 7MAY 2'7, 189, mamasmomexamonsokosatr* YOUNG FOLKS. PURSUED Hi A MAD MAN. 'What WOOL 1 Da it 1 1110141 0 romo on the garden wall, I'd look Hil fait Anil grew so lilI; l'd seettier perfume Mr and vide Of 11 Die flowers I'd he Gm prate, That'. what i'd do 1 wove yore, 0, littlo rose Fair 1111 le meld, ill I were you elienut 0.1Wi13* IPS TO he geed and Lime: I'd bo t hp merrie,t, sweetest child, Qii wIe»n the sunshine over smiled That's what, I'd de. 111 wore you, Dear little maid. 'Baby's" Gift, Some stories told of a dog's sagacity me almost too ex tmerdinar te be believed; yet what little madames of a mart little dog believes any pot eapesior to hot own? " Baby did the dcateest thing the other day," said Baby's mistress to me, enthusias- tically, " I came lame Into for dinner. I'd been out for such a hilig walk ,getting flagroot, you know. Baby didn't like it. because I left him home, and when 1 got back he 010L8 'Mot mazy, he was so glad to see me. He jumped and danced am bout like ad. lot him -kiss one all he wanted; anol then mamma said, 'Now jump down, Baby ; Meta wants her dinner.' " When Bony heard her say Goa, he jumped down, and dashed off into the kitch- en, Then he ran book into the room with a big bone in his nmull, and he brought it ' to me, and laid it at my feet ; and then the darling stood wagging his tail, aft flinch as to Amy, ' I've brought you the best dinner I could ' '1 think his feelings were hurt," con- cluded Meta, mournfully " when we put the bate back on his plate. He took it away Lund buried it. It was just as if he thought 10 1)1110111)1!, "Well, if Meth won't eat it, 1 won't.' But I am afraid Motto's imagination went almost too far that tone. A Magleittlin Miatake. Almoet every moeleitin can toll yon an in. teresting story of how, at Kuno tame or other, the nolde art of deception involved Min unexpectedly in cleep trouble. The temptation "Lo fool people is always very strong. 1118, no doubt, o flattering thing to bo able to show off one's accoinplish- melds at another person's expense. But every once in a while the self-satisfied con. jnrer runs across a " subject" tliat does not sulnnit tamely to his innocent wiles and sportive pranks. In one notable instance 0 wizard's performance led to serione com- plications, as the followiug will show : Tho story comes to us from the isliond of .Maclagagear. The eventful scene fe the court 01 1011' most gracious Majesty Queen Ranavabona II„ with pretty molds and faithful courtiers in otteudence. A clever creole conjurer had been invited to eater.; Min her Majesty with his subtle craft. Ile' had, perhaps, that high-sonnoline• reco(l). mendation which ensues from having per- ormed before " all the crowned heads of Fill - rope," and that goes for a great deal even in Madagascar. And so the conjurer set ont to astouish Ole natives. We have no idea of what he clicl at first, but we Inas imagine that he re- peated the old-time tricks that come from an innocent retreat, "Please 1010 0111801 Goat." Atoll events, the programme went smooth - 1 • until tloe wizard took a glass and, by a f ourish of Ins wand, turned the liquid Into wine -fine old Malaga, as he claimed. With a self-satisfied smile and a courtly how, be offered the glass to hor Majesty. To the magician's surprise, the Queen de- clined to taste the fine old Malaga. The fellow repeated his seemingly innocent re- quest, and again the Queen refused. When he insisted an attendant whispered into his ear that the Queen did not chink in pub- lic. But magicians olaiin to be above all rules of etiquette and royal red tape. If this coffee -colored expert had been wise, he would have stopped then and there. What do you think he had the impertinenee to clo ? He pretented to be seized with a fit of anger (which appeared to the oudience to be real, and not assumed), and in his rnge he threw the fine old .Millaga into the Queen's lap. Von can easily imagine the confusion that ensued. Of course, the Queen WaS so great- ly shocked that she fainted, the pretty maids screamed, the foithful courtiers drew their swords, and the guards were called in. If ever a Proepero badly needed lois magic wand, it was at this time, when a little first- rate magic would have boon ot wonderful Service. How the oreoleprofessor managed to get out of the court alive is more than either he or we cold(' tall. Suffice it to say that he dicl escape, mod that he at once sought refege in this house of the English Resuleut-Genertul, Few of us eon realize tho unpardonable offence committed by the magician. The " taboo" which surrounds the royal persons among seini-eii ilized people may be coin - pared to that divinity which, as Shake- speare said, "(loth hedge a king." The luckless expert had behaved not only in rucleet possible nutimer, but he had broken one of the titne.honored laws of the "toboo" the put ishinent for which was 1.1001:ht Itt truth the saffron -faced professor wee in desperate trouble. He load no 01101100 to explain. The water had been spilled into the Queen's lap, tier sacred person 1011 been insulted. Nor could he tallow that spilling the water was really an innooent tacit, as any amateur magician well knows. It was too late. The only thing for the professor to do Wee for himself to take the port of Ole "vanishing lady," and get out, But how? By this time a great crowd load gathered aromod the house of the Resident -General. As loyal subjects, the people demanded tho head of the illmannered foreigner. If the Resident.Goneral di(1 not want to do the "exeoution oat," they would do it for him willingly. Then tho English representative came out and ponrod oil on tho troubled waters. argued for delay, If her Majesty's good people would only wait nro 011 toonorrow, their anger would bo ap- peased, and all would go well. After some parleying and coaxing, the mob dispoesed. .Luto that night or catty the next morn- ing the terrified magician woo huerieclaway iscl secreted in a sailing vessel. The action of the Resident•Gonoral threatened, for a shod; time, to produoe diplomatic compli- eations The people had boon cheated out of their revenge. But Etogliund's power and war ships wore feared, and tho matter wits dropped. As for 1110 dusky magician, we hope that, liko Prospeto, thereafter ho eschewed magic, and resolved "to brook his staff," and to "Intry 10 oortain fathoms in tho earth."-Plarper's Young People, We or nil as God made vs, and often. 1 Mies a meat deal worse, -V.:escalates, The flay MIS 110L and duty. The fain beat (10 .00 unceasingly over the Morning pove- mune Bowie of perspivatton stood out -upon the fame of tulderinania looking men 0$ they jostled each other 10 the etreets, mid the women looked weak and wilted. The vory horses hung thur heads ae they stum- bled Moog with their heavy loads It was in the great oily of the " woad% fair," and I was then a modest, little woman in a literary way on one of the Mg news- papers. The excitement attendant upon the week fasainated me, and as 1 had always led rolliuking, jolly, bohemian life, I Wail in my element, I had wandered about aimlessly for a gt eater part of the forenoon, finding nothing of intereat, when I was summoned bank to Lim office by a fellow reporter whom I met on the street. I was ha inning to loso my temper, Everything iood gone wroeg that clay, I had awakened with 0 severe headache and the intense beat had aggravated it to such an extent, that My bruin seemed to be on Ore. I had missed seeing Jack in the morning. Jack wee my sweetheart and Ito was going away that day to be gone ever so long. I know he ovas obliged by business iotere 18 to leave at any cost, ond so I carried with me the consciousness that he had left with- out saying good -by and that it was the first time in the live years that I had known him. Muffing in this unpleasant Way, I swung open the portals of tlio gnat gray door with much more energy than a small woman ;should exhibit, to find tloe editor, not- withstanding all the heat, looking as fresh and happy as the cool violets that used to blossom under the spreading branches in the old home of whichi sometimes dreamed. 11 wati refreshing, truly, and when lie de- tailed me to do a bit of work that took ;no out into a country town my restilessnese vanished, and I Nome once more my hoppy self, I walked down to the station while light- er stop, and armocl with a tablet and other articles of journalistio warfare I ensconced myself on the shady side of the car and re• lapsed into 0 state of delightful sendinicon- fieiousness. How long I remained thus I do not know, but I gradually 1)000010 000010, with thatin• definable instinct with which one sometimes becomes possessed, theta 0008 (110 object of a steady gaze. I raised my oyes, and as I did so an irresiatible impulse impelled 1110 to look across the aisle. Have you ever seen a den of snalces that writhe and Cling with their bodies together, their hooded leads raised to strike, and those awful serpentine torigues dastiug in and out ? Did you ever stand transfixed by the brilliancy of those glittering oyos? 10 wits such a faseiniotion that possessed me. Yet in the man's outward appearance there was nothing 11100 e110111(1 have repelled me. On the isontrary, I found inyself uncon- sciously admiring his powerful physique, Ole einewy supplenese of 1110 10(13', thefinely shaped hand, with its glistening almond nails, and the general appearance and bear- ing that indicated the gentleman. He was looking at nut intently and his eyes possessed a peculiar glitter that I had never seen in human eyes before. As my glance met his he stunned about to rise and come to me. I tried to break the spell. 1 could not mail, after what seemed to 1110 ages, the train ebot under a bridge and the darkness immediately snrromiding closed out those balls of fire with theie red flashes. 101(01 down almost lifelo:is in my seat and placed my hands to my throbbing 1100(1. I tried to fancy it 0, hallucination, but my better sense predominated. A thousand thoughts flashed over me and when the darkness cleared away and I was once more in the daylight, by a mighty effort and without venturing tonother glance, I took a seat in a different part of the ear fund re. versed the cushion. In vain I tried to shade off the impression. It was stronger than I, so I gave up trying and endeavored to reason away nay fears. What had 1 to de with fear? Was it like me to be afraid ? Where was the courage necessary for future undertakings if I could be so distressed by o single pair of eyes in broad daylight? Reasoning thus I reached my station and ordered a rapid drive to my destination. Out of the oar and away I felt beams I tried to think it was all a piece of folly, but I could not forgot those teteible eyes and I remember with what actual clrend I looked nto the face of the first person with whom talked. As time passed I began to feel more nos, self, and. as I dined just proporatory to my return I had shaken the feeling from me and mild laugh at what I was pleased to term the fanciea of a brain overtasked and heated. It waS late when I arrived in and after a stay of four or five hours it was just gatherieg dusk. The sinking 91111- A. mass of gold anti purple in the west - The Hooey clouds Were banking down to rest. As I reached the depot cond beard in the distance the roar and rumble of the ap- proaching, homeward -bound train I won- dered as it came in, snorting and shrieking like a thing of life, if Wo 0001.0 not nom thou human, 0 race whose brain could foshion such ponderous inaoliiiiery thud; a single stroke from one of the wheels would crush out of its own creators all semblance of humanity. As I oficended tile steps a. tremor seized me for which I could not; toccount. It brought book the scenes of the dear, but de- tormining not to let this silly' weakness get the hatter of Inc I turned resolutely to my .froshly ant magazine ond soon became 110- 1011018001111 Inclia warm and Count; Tolstoi% work through Siberia, and Russia. I read until I grow tired and until the flickering lights in the ear threw claiming shadows on my boolc, lichen 1 turned my 1000 wearily and looked out of the window. The heated day had merged into a cool night with signs of o storin in the heavens. Tho moon, like A broken silver ring against Ole sky, had mine up grandly, and 111 the mellow light the flying clouds and scuttling shadows made a weird picture. A strong breeze was rising, which brought to mo the fresh scent of the hay fields, aud oould almost hear the drowsy twitterings of the birds. Tho sweeping foliage of the trees as sve shot by bowed and 000031011 111 the eight broom, lfice dark phantoms, paushig jest long enough to salute each other 111 0 gond couetesy before the revelry of a wild night dance. It brought to me the linos ; 1310 day 18 11101191110 into Olio night, FroM the purple into the gray. And along 018 01,0010 trail 00011 0110 hills, The 11001(000o wending their way, Tito heather nods itself to sloop, Rooked by the breeze 01 1110 night. The swaying boughs have aSSUmed strong In th112,11wmeird. fantastic 11910, We whirled by farm houses standing in tho shadow, and field's heavy with fruit waiting Mr the sickle. The soughing of the wind had played upon my 0817 until it seem- ed my window had 1Mcolne transformed into 8.1 sEolian harp that was playing the story 01 1103' lifo, and with tho mom, and the trees like teasing plumee, and the slut- doWs-I. listened, TEU BRUSSELS POST. "ase'sssailmles"!!!!silaisl...liesesa•arreeSmell"."'"S" The soft melody of the tender, wit:Ming trains W148 the tiny fintivrs of my ohildhood as they twined about my mother's heart, and then they inereased and grew 00 they possed from childhood into girlhood, 1001119 the subtle sweetnees and pure note, but increasing 111 the volume 01 910(111 001111(1 101111 harmonizing chortle -ever increneing, ever changing, shifting, rustles,and longing. Then 0 strange weird strain swept across Ole ettings, So intensely sweet, with wild Imaginings that the very air ftecoriecl bo grow thiak fond warm and the etrings quiv; erect and 00000r011, and Robbed and moaned in 00 0901131 of pain, and cried out In 0»- 9,11811 and seemed to break into a ghofftly diecord 00 we reached wild prairie W0910. The moon was 01(10 01100(3' white, banked by daric clouds, while a low, rambling farm loonse stood silhouetted anoint the plains The traM shot on. Station after station was passed until we were almost bomo again. I heal grown drowsy, and throwing my traveling wrap °helot me I restedagainst the cushion. Suddenly I raised my head and looked around the oar, cannot de scribe the forte that compelled me,but I am quite sure that hod my 1110 been woighed in the balance against My inclinations I cold not have done otherwise. .08010 the same terrible eyes fastened upon me with that awful glitter, and they 0091880001 1000110 than mortal tongue could have done -hatred revenge, cruelty, fiendishness. I grew sick at heart, I could enderstand now the fear that meet possess the poor lit- tle animal the prey of the lorger. My limbs trembled, My head reeled. My teeth ohattesed like casienets, and it seemed to me that the beating of my heart meld be hoard all over the oar, above the ronr and dM of the riuttling train. A desperate thought (hushed through my mind. I would speak to the conductor and ask hie protec- tion, or that fatherly looking gentleman in Ole corner who resembled a physician. But what should I say ? Tell him I was easaid of 01110)0 on the train who was looking at me? Go to the fotheely looking old gentle. man with a blanched face and trembling limbs, and beg Mir. to p1101800 018 from some ono who had clone nothing to molest me? What would they say, or saying nothing, what might they think ? My mind was't chaos et conflicting emotions. I looked around the ear. Evidently the utopias did not notice my agitation - those who were awake ; a great many were 111 varioue stages ot repose, ancl I can re. member the half frantic thought that came te me, imagining how they woald wake from their slumber in wild affright should I do what I was noost sorely tempted to do -lose my control and give voice to my nervous. nees in a truly feminine shriek, How absurd it would be ! I would do nothing. If the very heavens fell I would not place myself in such a ridi- culous.position, I tried to think of all the bad things I load ever done. They were too many and 1 gave it up. It i$ claimed by that class of people termed euthanasiasts that actual dissolution is not unpiefosant, but is preaeded by a state of coma, so delightful, in fact, that people who have walked hand in loand almost to the shores of the other world hove rebelled upon being awakened. I think 1 must have relapsed into a state something very much akin to this, for when the train steamed into the depot I was forced to arouse my self, and 1 mode My way rapidly through the oar to the out- ward entrance. It was very dark. The wind blew a gale and the air had grown chill. I hastened rapidly through the depot without encoun- tering a familiar face, and picked my way over the pavements uuder the gaslight. There was neither a cab nor a oar in sight, and aftes some deliberation I decided not to wait. thithering my skirts about me I disappeared down a dark street. There was always a polioe on (bait corner I knew, and I weld 41)9001 to Min. I hod 130011 out many times before at night without experi- encing any alarm, but now I was timid and I looked in vain for the policeman's familiar torm. The very lamp posts seemed to stretch ont spectral arms that wero mocking my fear and the massive buildings on either side of the street looked grim and forebod• mg. it might have been a city of the dead, everthinE was so silent -not a soul in sight. The gas lights hall grown dim. looked about me nervously and recognized with horror it form that had grown to me ter- ribly familiar. I throw self control to the winds mod started to run. There WAS ololy two blocks more and I fah sure 1 could reach the end of the way. Un, on, I sped, my heart beating with such rapidity that it almost suffocated me. One block more and I would be safe. With courage born ot desperation I made the final effort. I looked around. The form W05 gaining upou 1110 rapidly. Would I ever roach ? At last my foot was on the step and I elutchted at the balustrade. Just at that moment 1 1111 1) clutch npon my shoulder. My head was bent backward by the tented. I felt a. hot breath upon my Nee. A hand clutched me with a grasp of iron and my Nee was uplifted to anothee, held there by some terrible magnetism. I closed my eyes resolutely. At that moment I was stronger than I had ever been. I thought of my mother rind the dear Mende who had all been so good to ine. My time had come mod 1 was goings I felt the keen edge of 0, knifo as it out into the flesh. I eon remember how it felt -that it did sot cause one great pain -and then I know no more. * * * * * 0 * I was in my own room and iny sister Lilla was betiding over me. .1 had had a terrilslo struggle with death and I had o serious wound. They told no° all about it when I grew strong rugain. He was Peof. Joseph, a hypnotist of greot renown, and whose with, a little lady resembling me greatly, became Mona and was confined in an asy- loun. The shook was so great that it hod eventually unsettled lois reason and he was constantly pursued by the fear that she was trying to murder hiin. 1I0 had met me, of course,aocidentally, and the resemblance that 'bozo to his wife was so strong that with all the cunning a 11104111011 will some - Ulnae exhibit he had watched his opportun- ity until the best time to retaliate. Friends eointiog benne to neighboring houses had witnessed. the struggle and ran to my rescue. He escaped, but was afterward captured mod eionfined at the Jefferson in - Sato asylum, where ho uow is. I never board a train bot it ttll ootnes book to me. Tho i1d rido among tho drifting shadows and my encounter with 0010(12000. The Mother's Prayer, Stalling forth 1111 WO'S rongh woe, loather, guide them: 01 WO know 1101 1011111 Of 11111111 111 0y 1/011110 1110111 1 'NE.141.11 1110 8110110W of Illy wing, Fallow, Mile them; 1Vaking, Hlooping, Lord. we pray, (le beside them. When in iirayer they ery t 0 Theo, Do Thou 111E10 1110111 1 Prom De Thou (dear them; Mid the iniiiiksinule and 1 1111 reeks, in temptation, trial, grlef, De Thou near them. Unto Theo wo give them up, Lord receive 11,1,111 ; In the world 1110 (11(0 11 111 ust be Much to grieve 1 heat, -- Many striving oft 0411 strong TO deceive them ,• 'Truatfu I in Thy hand of love We must leave thenL -4WIlllain Cullen Bryant, Golden Thoughts for Every Day. Mondorbook the say tor blest, Oalin after solemn 1•1101,. S10.11(113 In the garden Ineath Ole olive boughs, The 0[11,1104f mite 01 ,13.3' en his vesture play And light lbe 11101843' of His bro•vs ; hile angels bang with wIngit out•tpread, Bottling tho new•worn crownabove Ills saintly head. Ingolow. Tnesday-To a Chrietian who has lived all his life long in bondage unto fear'not daring to believe himself 0 child of Clod, how sweet will be the waking in heaven ! With great (limed and trembling he will op - Preach the death hour, and go down through qhllling miets and vapoes to the unknown sea. And when ilpoil the othershore sweet strains come to 113 ear, ho will not under - mend them ; but foie form niter fair form will appear to greet him, and at length, from the impearled atinesphere, Gode whole band of gathering and reaping angels, incite in intini.er than the autumn leaves outstreaming fiono the forest when there are bursts of wind will come forth, filling all the air with music and ministee mite him an abundant entrance into the heaven' ly kingdom 1 It were almost enough to make one's heaven, to stand and see the first wild stirring of joy in the face and hear ths filet rapturous cry, as they cross the threshold. -[Henry Ward iieether. Wednesday -We give grudgingly, sve labor in heaviness, we minister painfully, we worship coldly, wo live meanly, until the higher life is begotten within iis-until the soul gets a glow, and an earnestness, and a breadth of sympathy,and an impulse of high and pure aspiration, that make it a joy to do good. Love is always winged. -[Iforatio Nelson Powers. Thnrsiloy-A slow mind and a sluggish heort can be aronsed by an external storm. Blessed 11101 0110(1 ond heart which in times of peat* and of prosperity can still perceive Ole need of mankind and oan realize the greatness of the sea of human life, even though no storm be on its surface. A com- mon mind can realize the greatness of the ocean when it is storm -tossed, 10 18 a finer soul 010 18 filled with awe ale° by its still- ness and solitude.-(Gavicl Swing. aFtsrasidhaiy11-0 with Thy tears! draw nigh me, That their salt may omit y me Thou remit my sins who knowest All the sinning, te the lowest- Knewest all my. wounds, and seest .A.11 the stripes Thyself decroost 'Yea, but knowest all my faith - Soot all my force to death, Nearest 811 ,113' wettings low That mine evil should be set Nulling hidden but appears In Thy Knowledge 0 Divine, 0 Creator, savior mine - :Not a drop of falling tears, Net a breath ef inward moan, Nota heart -beat -which Is gone 1 -[SO. 100111108 Darnasconus. Saturday -It is far more diffieult to be simple than to be complicated ; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and °ease exertion in the proper place than to expend bo 11 in. discrimluately. 1010 shall find in the course of our investigation that beauty and diffi- culty go together ; paid that they are only mean and paltry dillicultio which it is wrong or contemptible to wrestle with. Be it remembered, then -power is never wast- ed. Whatever power has been employed produces excellence in proportion to his own dignity and exertion; and the faculty of perceiving this exertion and apreciating this dignity is the faculty of perceiving ex- cellence. -(John Ruskin. Catitelie Beads, A most interesting set of Benton Catholie beads ()waists of silver cherubs' hauls, two faces to oath head like the old images of Janus. Tho beads aro fastened together by tiny clutins, There IWO fifty.eight beads and (Ivo single foxes on the cross 'rho faces aro all alike, but the beads 1100'I! throe different sizes. The gold handle on id) umbrella ie not admired when it is raining hard, Prevention of Smut in Oats. Repeatedexperiments prove beyond doubt that the loose smut of outs may be almost completely prevented by dipping the seed in hot water. To do this, hove two vessels, in one of 00111011 water is kept heated to about 120 degree,s and in the other to about 135 degrees. Have a loosely made basket, with O wire or cloth cover, fund considerably smaller than the vessel containing the hot water. Fill the basket with oats, fasten down the cover aud set it in the vessel in which tloe water is heated to 120 degrees. Let stend ten minutes more, shaking •0000- 91.011011y, so as to got the oats warmed up to this point, then take out and dip quickly into the water located to 135 degrees, shake or stir vigorously for five minutes, then re- move and spread out to dry. Tests made at various experiment sta- tions show that this trotitment not only pre- vents smut, hub increases the yield of grain Lo on amount conehlorably greater than tloat represented by the smutted heads, and this amount, as shown by actuod 0001n1 is often much gyeator than is suspected, Australian Hospitality, Australian station hospitolity keeps the latch string always out and says " Come when you wish, do what you like, and stay as long as you can." A writer says that Ole Anatolian loost places himself, his hum- ily, and all that is lus at the service of the guest -fishing -tackle, breechileaders, horses and sovvanto Snob hospitality is rarely abused, though the writer mentions one ex- ceptional ease, where the guest prolonged Ins visit until 10 wore out hie welcome. To one station one a visitor, whose original intention of staying0 11108011 was romueid. end, 011(1he remained two, Six months passed and he was still there. Ho enjoyed himself lamely with horses, clogs, antigens/ develop:81'am encouraging appetite, and his host did not complain. After about nine months, the host's manner became less wartn, mid 00 the end of the year he spoke 100 (11010 to lois gnest. The latter was not sensitive, but lingered on for the space of a seeenci year, whet he deported and wont to visit somebody else. During those two years ho W00 never told that he had stayed long enough and would clo well to go away, 1110-.05e1111 '7 sassssasasfsessefeerelf"-.ms"-s- ss-ss.s..".!assi—s"sssasaee,.....aess, Dreareand. in the dim re. int wandored through, The a.low land of mio,p, nuno 111000' .111,4 01' !NUN A try,: unknown to Leon. There t'01110 1 110 110E1 111' Dreams to role 1(1 phantom 00(113(0 ifer. , Anti 1,04** 1Y1111''11,111 IV 01111.011111. A1111 g110$11:1' 111111, bore. And an 1 IOnolleKt ,pirit, 1'0'0 11111011FE, 131110 1111 b1/0-11 001/1”10 101'0 00W, 1/11E1.1; 'ho fairest flowers he flung. Then 1 enuisht. hie ;cannot 'A floating hem, oring bitterly 1 ' King all the daylight IN Per 1110111- A11.1 110,11 111011 let 0911 101'111 411 instant as I stayed him there reeked upon nly 1'114'0, By10r0 Di, 91111111,0104 fold of air Melted from my embrace. Then, swif tor than a shadow 1 -le passed, and nu flower fell - But his oyes were as my lost love's eyes, Looking a lust farewell. - [May Kendall. Everybody's Garden. All along the wayside 11.1 everybody's garden! There the wild rose blossoms through the Summer dove, Rounded by field fences, and ever st retelling onward, It 1P1 Clod% own garden. For 11, give 111m praise. "ris gay with goldenrod, There blooming gra^"ca nodi And sunflower:small and yellow mire CV** un- to the 131(00 Quaint (turkey -heads are there, pit daisies 1111,1 1(1(4 fal r. In everybody's 90(11101. 011111 dower's the love - Hest one. .1111 01(1119 the wayside I* everybody's gorapn Como out and gather posies; the very Ili* 10 1111•0e1. Come ems wi th hearts of glailnmtii, yo blg and ehitdren, Into our Pamir n garden, made for our stroll. lag feet. The flitting butterfly, The fragrant W11111* 1111,1 Hig'1, The tiny elembi that hover above as in the blue, Tho 1/11'fl'Asmig high 10,1010,11', Make heaven drew inere near. In everybody's garden the world once more is newt -[Willittni Zachary Obeobwin, Mosses Prom an old Manse. BY (11110. irnos. DOWLING. D. D. The m Mister's vvife 'iailinat finished her chores, 13v calling on all toe church people; 4.nfIOO(,1013118C1 tenn,1 09111 (10 lieth the church doors, And HOIDO she'd found 1301113 0', the eteepio. For while all dm deacons hail slept on the wall committee had come (Ikea lion; A11E1 by giving her ho.liand it generous can, Had shaken the bulwarks of Zion. For years they had paid him who taught them Ole Word, Abont six hundred dollars or seven ; For they felt 1(1(10 8. preacher Hhould "01,1181 in the Lord," And grow fat on the " manna from Heaven." And so the rash question bad come to annoy; Which with so many ministers rankles For the Lord had sent chlldren ; three girls and it boy, And the boy -hollow clown to his ankles. Sister Blodgett, the wife of "a pillar," had cried. (They supported a carriage and horses). "I3owaro 1 lest you .in against Clod," she bad sighed ; "4 rolling steno gathers no mosses." The preacher looked up from the book whieb ho road, And Ids merry oyes twinkled with laughter. ' Why didn't you 18(1 0(1800' Blodgett," he said, "That moss isn't what wear° after?" -1New York Independent. The Fiokleness of Fortune. Learn how quiekly hauls O1,e wheel of for- tune; from how high up to how far down went Nebuchailneszor. Those now in planes of position and poiver, even though they should live, will in a few years be disregard- ed while seine who are this day obscure and poverty-stricken will ride up on the should- ers of tho people to take their turn at ad. miration and the spoils of office. Oh, how quickly the wheel turns 1 Ballot boxes are Ole steps on which men come down as often as they go up. Of those who were a few yeass ago attecessf 01 in the accumulation of property, how few have not met with re- verses of fortune, while nany of those who then were straitened in circumstances now hold the bonds and the bank keys of the nation and win the most bows on the ex- change. Of 011 fickle people ho tam world Fortune is the most fickle. Every day changes her mind, and woe to that roan who puts any confidenee in what the promises or proposes. She cheers when you go up and she laughs when you come down. 01, trust, not it moment your hetuet's affecti no to this changeoble world. Anchor your soul in God. From Christ's love wither your joy. Then, come sorrow or glaaness, success or defeat, riches or poverty, honer er disgrace, health or sickness, life or death, time or eternity, all are yours and ye are Ohrist's mod Christ is God's• Gailloient Unto the Day. Tie not anxious &boat tomorrow. Do to. day's duty only ; fight treday% temptations, ma do not weaken tuul dietraat yourself by looking forward to thinge you cannot see, and coult1 not understand if you. few them. &lough lov yon that (404 113 just and merci- ful and will reward ;ivory man according to his work. -plash% Kingsley. Sawdust, cearoproseed inta blotto, is used 1 or buildingpurposes in Germany, Myths Concerning Amputation, The Chinese, perhaps, show the gecatest epugnamie of all 01011100d races of men to he surgical operation of amputation. 11 1* a remarkable fact, however, that all savage and semi-barbario tames exhibit the 001110 dislike of having any member of the body severed. Many of the ,Seit Island races willingly die before they will undergo an operation which involves the loss of a limb. From the noost trnetworthy clam, ot hand, it demi not appear as if the Chinese show their dislike for having members trimmed off on account of foar or piton, it being well known that as loligione felicities they will U11(101190 any amount of physicid suffering ; it seems se if it is an almost insane desire te keep the body intent. If a Chinaman does, as he has been known to in rare in- stances, submit to the operation, ho will not he satisfied unless the limb be preserved fund kept where he oan see ib and have it buried with him at his deoth. They soy that the Supremo Being cannot make a per- fect heavenly creature of it maimed man, LATE FOREIGN NEWS. So far the Ruffian famine hatt 0001 the Imperial Treasury :300,000,000 roubles. Emperor William has donated the sum of 13,101) merits toward 0110 001)01180 01 10801159 O publication undertaken in celebration of tbe anniversary of the discovery of America by Columbus A snow storm sot in Friday morning 110 Hungary and lho Tyrol and continued through the day end night. The mountain plisses aro blocked. Enormous damage has been done to the orchards. A duel without serfoue result has been fought at Budapeeth with swords between .11000 115100011, a member of the lower house of the Hungarian Diet, and an army lieus tenant named Ovary. The affair grow out of polities. A despatch from Kazan says :-" The overflow of the unemployed from all park; of this province is collected here to the num, her of 1 7,000, These people are begging the means of sustenance, and many of them are dyitig of etarvation." Mrs. Laura C. Fowler of Durham, Conn.„ hopes to win a prize at the county fair next fall. ahe is 80 years of age, and in one month she has cut and sewed together 2,000 pieces for a bed quilt, making the fourth of its kind in the past year. She used 40a verde of tloread and threaded lier needle 1,000 times. Another advance in French artillery prac- tice ifo reported from testing grounds of Renerdieres. Experiments with melinite shells have been made at a r.tuge of 1,800 netres with the ordinary field mortars, at 10 group of farm buildings. After the tenth shot there wits nothing left of tho buildings. At a meeting of Berlin paperhangers it was shown that only (3,000 ant of the 200, 000 German journeyinen joinees belonged to the Joiners"firaole Union, The Bricklayer's Trade Union numbered barely 8,000, the total of the shoemakers' was hardly worth mentioning, and only the printers and, putters have strong unions. The works of a distinguished Japanese painter are on exhibition in Lcaulon, and, are greatly admired. filename is Watanabe Seitei„and he is a native of Tokio. Some of his paintings have already been exhibited io Parte and proised by the French critics, was he who, five years age, painted the cell, ng panels for the imperial palace in Tokio. A Frenchman undeetook some time ago to mote a book upon his travels through the and of Goethe. This is the way he began t " Germany is a country inhabited by a pee, ple called Muller." Isinw, ft turns out, ao.: emiding to official figures, that the empire of William 11. has 020.987 Metiers within its /orders, that is say, one Muller for every seventy.three urinal, s. stight criticism of a French cavalry eau cer who rode in the Paris horse show brought a letter to the newspaper offiee maying that 'ockeys might be criticised, but not "gentles non or officers." The .journalist defended, iimself and was forced into a dael, in whiela le was wounded. The army is very much stirred with regret and anxiety over the iertain animosity such an outrage muirS brition of thm e city of Roe, igontez Tnepoph. which by the census of 1181 was 273,000 is, low over half a million, having nearly donbled within the past ten years. Since. Ole city became the capital of united Italy thousands of new edifices have been builit, and it haft boen greatly changed (otherwise., The seven hills themselves are undergoing a process of levelling and the valleys are being filled in. Greeoe and Roumania 111031 (311011101 0001 50 legacy left to Greene by a Greek merchant, who had lived and had made his million, francs in Roumania. This he left for thel advancement of agriculture and industry ins Greece on the decease of his cousin who was, given a life interest in the estate. Thia gentleman died recently, and the Rouman- ian courts, by virtue of a law withholding from foreigners tile right to dispose of reaN property, laid hands on the fortune in guess lion, The Greek Government had protest-, e(1 against this action, and has even threat, ened to break off relations. The Story of %Lost Locket. Mrs. Andrew Ceosse, in Trnipla Bar, tells pretty little story of 0 lost locket. The famoso ocuientrie Lady Hester Stanhope told Ole physician who travelled with ler to tho East, that she had never known but three really great man. They were heruncle, iVil- limn Pitt ; her brother, James Stanhope ; and Sir 301111 Mooro. The two last were both killed in the bottle of Corwin% She got O look of the hair of each, ancl set them in O gold locket, With Cie coat -of -aeons fund name of °nob. respeetively. In 1814 Lady Hester determined to livo pernumently in Syriac, and sent for her possessions -this locket being among them. The ship con. tabling her 00101011e8 sailod and WM hoard of at Gypress ; soon after one of thoso Medi. torranoan squalls 001110 0(1 and nothing more woe ever beard of ship, 01000, or cargo. Thirty yoars elapsed. Lady Hester had long boon :load when a letter ectine to the Adiniralty from the Consul at dailk saying that an Arab load picked top en the bench a. gold °comment with Frank &traders. , This WU 1110 long lost locket, itml Lord Stanhope ltholly giving up 11,14 01111111 to it, RAVI 111 01'0,1'40, it became Mir Gra- ham Moore's and is 11000 11 1110 possession. Make More of Your Home. What time do you take for your home and, ' your family? You must take time for it you would have it; a blessing to yourself,an(1 if you would train up your children to be happy and useful. \ Vheri Rev, Dr. Guthrie, the great Scotch preacher, wus called to Edinburgh, he ree solved to spend -his eveniugs with his fams ily, and not in his study, as was customary with Ole other pastors of the city -a bit of common sense for which he is more to 134 respected than for his superb eloquence, And Sir Thome More, the great English statesman, said that it was hard work, with his public duties, to fincl titne for private, study, because "I must have time to talk with my wife, and chat with ley children, and 00 1.01)00 801110001100 00 say to my servants; for all these things I reckon as it part of my business unless a man will be a stranger at home." If the truth were known, it would be found that homes from whieli float out the social wrecks of society 0(0 only eating awl sleeping plaoes. No time is devoted in them to the nnrture of family life. The father and mother do not sit down with the child, rim for a social ehat, and a hearty laugh, or perchance, a joyons romp. Children do not go to rain from houses where these things are habitual. It is such things that make them love home aud keep them from the aSsooiations that lead tO ruin, Cherish the hotne then, with infinite tens dimness. You cannot love it too much, or give it too much time and thought. Life has nothing better to offer you -no better sphere for good influence -no .plaoe where you 0011 more surely find:mid give happiness and train children for right character and noose in life. It is the climax and crown of God's gifts. Moke every day of life in it rith and sweet, See to it that in its soil yoa p110111 110 scale of bitter memory -no , negleot, no harshness, no want of sympathy and love to intent you in after years. Your littlo ones will die and go Ileum with your words, your example, your spirit planted in their eternal nattire. Sons and de0210er0 will go from you into the great 0001111,00 live as you have taught them -to be strong or weak tocording to the spirit you have On, grafted upon therm how sweet or how bittet will he the memory of the days when they were with you -of what your home hae shapecl there to be I A Mall 111080 be excessively stupid, ea well as uncharitable, who believes those •is no virtue but on lus own side. Ambition is often overtaken by calamity; beeause it is not aware of its pursuer and 111.1.01. 1.00104 13011i1111..-LP11111 Every tree end 0110111 1* a distalrfor hold 1119, and every twig a spindle for spinningt the material with which God 'invests [J. G, holland,