The Brussels Post, 1892-5-27, Page 7MAY 2'7, 189,
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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,
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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
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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,