THE AMERIC A'N .
ON THE HiUri.
Oa, grandly flowing rlvwl
Ob, sllvwr gilding Mrl
Hit spHnsmg willow lilvir
In tli niiwt, at of nut,
They khlvKi' In th sllenc
Of ilia willow wlill miM ltands,
W fall lit nun lnr and tl earn! ban
Kill air and mm with gold.
Oh, gey, oldtvlou Hvrl
Oh, suneet ktndlmt rlvrrl
lo you rrinmlr t
Th eyes end nkle no lilu,
On summer tiny that shown her
When wo word it II alone here,
And the blue eye wor t'H wl
To xMk the lav they knew.
Oh, stern, Inijmmlv river I
Oh, ttllt unnimwi'i lng rlvorl
The shivering willows iilver
As th night wind union end rave
From tli prntt a voice Im mlllng
from lle'Vtm a lar U fulling,
And dew swell the bluebell
Above her hllUUe gtavo.
John Hay.
TROUBLES OF A TENANT.
As a rule thoro oxIhIm botweoa ton
ants and landlord an 111 fooling1 which
too olten degenerates into opon war.
faro, causing injury in mind, pocket
and body to both.
In other buslnossos the rotations be
tweon buyer and tellers aro pleasant
and often friendly to a high degree,
causing benefit which are mutual and
Ion? sustalnod.
Why tenants and landlords should
disagree and abune each other to their
mutual pecuniary and mutual louses,
while other folks doing business to
gether get along so well, seems to be
a conundrum worth finding out,
Is the tenant or the landlord to
blame In the matter or are bothP"
A landlord, in ordor to be one, must
bo capable of not only making money,
but holding on to it. Naturally ho
may become, after years of saving and
lolf-danlal and frugality, grasping,
sordid and avaricious. The more he
has the more he may want until it
breaks his heart to part with a penny
to ploaso anyone but himself.
With a tenant it is generally the re
verse. To solve this old pnx.lo and, per
hups at the same time to bring ponce
and happiness to both sides. 1 inter
viewed a tenant on the interesting
subject.
In the first piano, he said, I always
hire direct from the landlord, for
though he may have but little fellow
feeling in his soul, an agent has none.
When I runt a house I expect to
have it kept in proitor repair as re
gardi hcaltbfulnesi and comfort. Of
course, anything broken or injured
outside of the usual wour and tear I
make good myself, though ia many
cases it would well pay the owner to
be a little bit liberal and do things to
please a good and prompt paying ten
ant without being asked too often.
Tho first year I lived in my present
quarters the landlord was very oblig
ing and desirous that I should enjoy
my home.
Variqus improvements I suggested
ho w Jllngly made and his kindness en
courngod me to reciprocate by spend
trig some of my own money on his
property to make it handsomer inside
and out
praised the place highly and fre
quently expressed a desire to remain
for an Indefinite time.
Hut, alas, I found to my sorrow that
I had made a grand mistake for the
next year my rent was raised.
I asked my landlord the reason and
told him that instead of being more
the rent should be less on account of
tho Improvement I had so innocently
made at my expense of money and
work.
'That's tho very reason," he grinned,
why 1'vo put up tho rent the plant
Is more valuable now, Inside you've
given it such a good name that other
people are offering a higher rent to
get itand I know you want to stay
arid will gladly pay for the prlvIlegeP"
While the landlord was mean he way
tiomxt in his answer, and although 1
wn littol (dough In losr the house
down when I figured the cot ef mov
lug and the tmoertntnty of finding as
suhahta a homo mid thought how my
Money and labor would bo wastM. I
ivtnnlniMl where I am nt tho advnneod
prtoo - but I am hnpp.V hero no lunger.
I feel Hint I hsve Ihi h wrongly used
and halo my landlord thoroughly, and
I do not doubt but Hint his fueling
toward me are (he snmo. Henceforth
we nt e oitomlo and never speak as
we pnfs by.
No more repairs not even for law
ful wear and tar will he do, for,
mowing 1 like the plnco and want to
utiiy there, ho hns mo ht a total dlsod
vnntngu and won't hesitate to un it.
The next year, if I wsnt to remain,
I'll pay still moro rout I am sure and
be treatod worse.
Now you can see how a foolish and
grasping landlord will kill the goose
that lays the golden egg.
I, for my own self respect, and, may
do, a wicked satisfaction, will give the
plaoo up at the end ef my leaso.
Then, if tho house don't stand
empty and become damaged, some one
will move In who won't pay rent and
who will, for his own protection, lei
things run down and speak disparag
ingly of tho plnco, particularly in
point of honlthfulness. By so doing
he will keep other tenants from want
ing it and thus havo the landlord at
his mercy.
Afraid of losing his fraud of a ten
ant by knowing that his house has a
bad reputation that years won't make
gooc the landlord will humble him
self to tho doiux)Rt and beg him to
stay and take chances of getting rent
While I cannot sympathize with the
blind landlord, I doHplse the too sharp
tenant, even though many of my follow
sufforers may admire imd Imitate his
groat business qualities.
In everything but bouso-rontlng,
the buyer holds tho whlp-handlo.
Hut in tho case of a good-natured
and honost tenant the seller seems to
hold it and to use it unsparingly as
long as he is able to wield it
if there wero no tenants what would
become of land.ordsP And if landlords
turn good tenants Into bad ones, how
will money bo made in the house let
ting business?
Lot the landlords ponder and they'll
find that in almost every cose they not
only cause the ill-feeling we've men
tioned, but are in the end the greatest
sufferers, pecuniarily and otherwise,
from it
When I had sufficiently thanked the
angry and apparently oppressed ten
ant for his rather stale Information he
began to feel holler and volunteered a
little story on the subject.
'Hi previous occupant of this
oountryplace before me," he smiled,
"was one of the kind of tenants who
are smarter than their landlords.
"When he came te view the house
and grounds, which hod lain unoccu
pied for ft year or more, the landlord
was exceedingly gracious, and could
scarcely find adjectives enough to ml mo
it in the estimation of the new comer.
The bouse was a palace and the grounds
wore I'uradlso.
"It was springtime. Flowers
bloomed, wafting tlielr purfumea ev
erywhere, and tho numerous fruit trees
were gorgeous with blossoms.
"Arm In arm the pair of sharpers
wandered about, each trying to gratify
and humbug the other.
"Observe those fine fruit trees," said
the landlord, "note their leads ef
beautiful pink and white blossoms;
think of the barrels full of ripe and
luscious fruit you will gather and to
into the laps of your charming wife
and ungello little ones.
"Why, man alive, the place will be
a profit to you the year round, l'be
fruit will pay the rent."
In view of that extraordinary ehanoe
of living for nothing and, no doubt
sorry for the landlord who was relin
quishing a sure fortune to benefit a
stranger, the man took t&t D'lwe lm-
ModUUdy and Moved la wlihTs Urge
and sneirtu-Mv family,
Aftor a whtl m rent wa being
paid, Hie landlord became, an Ion.
Hut the suave tonaut twrnagt to
fnit off the pour landlord with seem
ngly good axeuna and prt.!ni until
the summer had gone.
Then the landlord grew nervous and
brgnu to insist on having his rightful
dues,
At the snme time he was fearful of
offending his tenant and making him
move out when winter w as coming on.
Ono dny In the early fall, however,
the landlord got bold enough to call
again, and demnmba settlement
The tenant received him with smiles
and bows and drawing hlui outdoors
pointed to tho trees then bearing a few
pecks of apple., tho entire crop, and
naked if ho remembered what he
hud said tit tho spring about the fruit
paying the rent The landlord, un
conscious of the trap, proudly acknowl
edged that he did.
Well, then, tho tenant coolly replied
if the fruit pays the rent take the
fruit It's sll there waiting for you.
The landlord had tie choice but to
tako the stuff and foave the tenant in
happy possession till the following
spring.
And as that landlord now Is mine I
may be pardoned f5r thinking it served
him right.
Without admitting the soundness of
my informant's position, or involving
myself in any way, I polltoly bad him
a good night Chicago Bun,
MEASURES OF LENQTH.
1ilng- the I en Bib itt Wave of light a
tt Ctantlartt
Hclcntlsts have long sought for a
fixed and invariable standard of
length. The measures in common use
are mere arbitrary lengths, and, if
the original standard should be de
stroyed, could not be accurately re
placed. The French meter is suppos
ed to bo a ten-mllllonth part of the
quadrant of the earth; but the aeour
soy of the original saeaaurementt
have been seriously called in question.
Therefore, the so-oalled "wave
lengths" of light Lave been suggested
as furnishing an invariable numerical
magnitude, but their excessive minute
ness and the difficulty of accurately
measuring them havo hitherto been an
objection to their use. But it in said
that a method of measuring these
wave-lengths which is accurate to the
ono-ton-inllllonth purt has been dis
covered. When it Is considered that
a wave-length of sodium (yellow)
light is only about one-forty-thousandth
of an inch, the extreme delica
cy of this method becomes apparent
Whatever theory may be held as te
the nature of light, tlte numerical val
ues, called "wave-lengths" fer conven
ience, are actual and invariable repre
sentatives of sometlstng; and if the
proposed new method of measurement
proves reliable, thoro will be no diffi
culty In obtaining a fixed standard of
length which can bo reproduced at any
time or plaeo. HU Louis Republic,
ENGLISHMEN IN NEW YORK.
Otillged te tl (lontlaent on At
ooiiiit of Aiiiarlnaue.
The English colony in New York is
largely made up of young men of cul
tured, leisurely habits, with epicurean
appetites and plebeian Incomes. They
aro, for the most part younger sons
of good education and no calling or
profession. In almost every case in
cjuiry elicits the fact that they are
pensioner! on homo bounty. They are
living on limited allowances Just
enough to oncourago respectability
such allowances being apparently doled
jut with the view to sustaining life
without leaving margin enough for
dissipation or a return ticket. In fact
in many instances, the allowance is
made conditional on.rymuliilng abroad.
If they should tlolaln this condition it
I w ot a er slrti e. t'nder Hie rlroiim
Hanivs, It would mn that a oonU
nmititl life would U rfraW in
vlrw of Ha r honpn, but then young
iimmi prefer America, "American
aro hinder lo KngllMhmfln, )' one
of tho young men, "than the people
of continental Kuropu. We have
worked that net lion of the earth a trifle
threadbare. They do not like us.
When it come to India, Auxlnilln.
Cnmoia or any of tho KngltNh colonial
poftftOMftlons, wo prefer tho Unltod
States. It ookU moro to Hvo huro,
but the life Is worth living. (Society
receives us whether we have money
or not In London I would bo an ofllco
drudge and limited to boardlng-houso
society. Hero a well-educated, agree
able KngllMh gentleman is well thought
of, and can dim; at the expense of
somebody ulso a good deal of the time.
Speaking of Englishmen iu New
York suggests the recent plaint of a
"ery well-to-do llrltlsher of the female
sex now in this city, says a Now York
exchange. "You know there are no
distinctive resorts for English people
abroad," she said. "We used to go to
Scotland, but the rich Americans over
ran the country and gobblod up every
available estate. Then we tried
Brighton, but bless you, the hotel
people there will not look at an Eng.
lihhman where ho conflicts with un
American. They next drove us out of
every fashionable resort on the conti
nent lastly the Hlviera, our special
stronghold.
We havo no longer the exclusive
social sway anywhere outside of Eng
land. It used to be that tho Swiss
nrid Gorman watering-place hotels
were run chlofiy in the interest of the
English traveller. Now the American
has it all his own way. There ore
now more Americans living in villas
about Florence, Como, Home, Dresden,
Eucerno and tho German spas than
Englishmen. Even Parle is getting to
bo dominated by the stars and stripes.
What aro we going to doP" "Come
to America," 1 suggested. "Here, at
least, tho American is "small potatoes
and few in a hllL' Here Anglo
mania rages worse than pleuro-pueu-monia.
.Como to America, unhappy,
outlawod, dethroned people of an ef
fete civilization, and como with con
lldenco and cash especially cash.
Hero you will find a newer growth in
New York to fall down and worship
. " l.
The Teaeher ul th Bear.
Miss Callie McGee, a sohool teacher
of America, a mountain town of Ken
tucky, while returning home the other
day with a little girl pupil, encounter
ed a bear. liruln was qui to a distance
behind Miss McGee, but he started
after her, l'Jcklng up her charge she
ran at full speed, taking off articles of
clothing and dropping them from time
to time in order to divert bruin's at
tention from her, thereby gaining that
much on him. Hho finally reached a
farmhouse in safety, and, procuring a
rifle, opened flro on tho bear, which
tuon hod reached tho pig pen, killing
him. lie weighed 287 pounds.
Tl Movliin of Ilia ;m1U1.
In tho year 1800 tho government
was removed from Philadelphia to
Washington city. In 171W congress
hal resolved to fix the permanent cap
ital on tho Potomac Hiver, and the
selection of the site was lett to Wash
ington himself. When the govern
ment moved there, in 1800, the place
was almost a wilderness. Tho few
people living in the now town wore
icattered over the whole region, and
on sometimes had to go one or two
miles through a foroHt to see his next,
door neighbor, though both were liv
ing within the federal city, as Wash.
Ington had named it
A Beautiful tliurcb.
There is a church building in New
York every inch of which Is concealed
by a luxurious growth of ivy.