!3FTSi-.Ci--v f " r . i x ,ir jf njr',- ," N. m mm tii I' it "" & i. at i N SUMMER MOONLIGHT. I lore midsummer sunsets, rolled Down the rich west in wares of gold, With blazing crests of billowy fire; But when these crimson floods retire In noiseless ebb, low surging, grand. By pensire twilight's nickering strand. In gentle mood I love to mark The slow gradations of the dark; Till Io! from Orient's midst withdrawn, Hail! to the moon's resplendent dawn, On dusky vale nnd haunted plain Her effluence falls like lialmy rain; Gaunt gulfs of shadow own her might. She bathes the rescued world in light. So tliat, albeit my summer's day Erewhile did breathe Us life away, Methinks, wliate'er its hours had won Of beauty born from shade and sun. Hath not percliauce so wholly died. But o'er the moonlight's silrery tide Comes back, sublimed and purified. Paul Hamilton Ilayna. EVEN THERE. A troop of babes in summer land. At heat en's gate the children's gate: One lifts the latch with rosy baud. Then turns and dimpling, asks her mate "Wnat was the last thing that you saw" "I lay ana watched the dau n begin. And suddenly, thro' the thatch of straw, A creat, clear morning star laughed in. "And you J" 'A floating thistle down, Ayaiu-t June sky uud cloud wings white." "And vuur" "A falling blow, a frown It frights me yet; oh, clasp me tight!" "And yout" "A face thro' tears that smiled" '1 he trembling Iiis could sjicak no more; The blue 'i cs swam; the lonely child Was ho:ueick even at heaven's door. E. It. Sill iu Overland Monthly. WHCN SUMAC GLIMMERS RED. Acroc the sky cold clouds are driven. From tree and shrub bright leaves are rirea And at my feet are spread: Arouuo me gaudy flowers gleam yellow. Fair Nature s still more rcyal color. When mi mac glimmers red The gentian in the marsh is hiding. There tiil the flrstcold frost abiding. i: bidden waters fed; Through glistening leaves full shyly glanciug In hluc-t Uri-s- is Mid entrancing. V"bet suKiac phmrners red. The timid swallows southward turning. For brighter sans onu (lowers ore yearning. Mourning the glory (led For now liow soon is autumn waning. Aud now now tast is winter gaining. - Wl.en sumac glimmers red Sadly I turn trom autumn's splendor Of leases thai glow in sad surrender, And wMsier. "Youth Lad fled Vague shadows or tho past close round me. Sorrow juiIivou ngaiu hath bound me WKtn sumac liniiners red. Elissa M. Moore, A KITCHEN ROMANCE. Mrs. Ixiring wanted" a cook, and was talking with a young Swedish woman with a view to engaging her. The neces sary questions and answers hud been ex changed, and everything seemed satisfac tory; but the girl .still stood as if hesi tating, lingering the fringe of her shawl. She was round faced and rosy checked, with a somewhat dull look, which, how ever, changed to a brighter one in a pleas nut, uucx'tcclcd way when she smiled. As she stood with her head bent a little down, und her eyes turned a little up, she would not have been a bad model for a painter of rustic studies. Dus you gels hev dey frants come in de evenings" she said. 'I didunty vwant mush cunipny like so lots er gels, but I hev vwon fran whut come offen." And her red cheeks grew redder. Mrs. Ioring "grasped the situation." "Oh yes, Tilda," she said, "that will be all right; you are welcome to see any of your friends, if the kitchen is not noisy and you keep early hours. You must tell them that Mrs. Loring is very cross if the kitchen is not locked by 10 o'clock." This last with a smile thai at once gave the lie to her words, and in sured oltedicnce to them. So Tilda came, and three times a week her lover came to see her. Kegularly at 7:30 on his accustomed evenings his step would sound on the walk that led to the area, and its regularly it would be heard, a few minutes before 10, departing. Her only other guests were her sisters, who came but seldom, and then, by an amus ing chance, always upon the alternate evenings; but no loud noises or tioisterous laughing ever disturbed the house: indeed, beyond a subdued murmur of voices, which might be heard in the pantry ad joining the kitchen, there was no tioise at. all. One evening when Tilda had been domesticated altout a month, Mrs. Loring went into the kitchen to prepare some thing for one of the children, who was ail ing. Tilda's "fran." Nicholas by name, was there, nnd Mrs. Loring, who always felt a kindly interest in the affairs. of her servants, noticed him somewhat closel. To her quiet "good evening" he responded respectfully, but without any of the 'sheepish ness" which Mns. Ixjring had observed, on occasions like the present, in the men who had "kept company" with her other servants. He was a large, well built fellow, with a strong, honest face, and as Mrs. Loring went upstairs she felt a little of the pleasure thatall true women feel in the thought that another woman, however humble, is to le cared for by a man who will do it worthily a pleasure not entirely obliterated by the more selfish mental query which would obtrude .as to whether she would le getting married just as she lecame well wonted to the work. "I hope it will prove a 'long courtship,' " she said, half aloud, as she reached the nursery, where other things soon drove the subject from her thoughts. Two or three moutlis passed. Nicholas continued his visits, but Mrs. Loring, with the exception of two glimpses as hurried as the first, did not see him again. One morning in the early spring, when Tilda had been nearly four months with her, Mrs. Loring noticed that she looked sullen and dnil, and that her eyes were swollen as if from crying: but "she avoided re marking upon it, thinking that the kinder way, and hoping that the mood would soon give way to a happier one. But days passed and the change did not come, Tilda was civil and did her work fairly well, but she "glummed around" without n smile, and the traces of tears were often visible. So a week went by, when it sud denly occurred to Mrs. Loring that she had not heard Nicholas coming and going for some days and two and two instantly became four. "A lovers' quarrel," she thought; "I'll see if I can help matters." So that evening when the work was fin ished she went to the kitchen. Tilda was sewing, but her eyes were red and wet. Mrs. Loring always "respected" her ser vants, and her intuitions were as true, if different, iu approaching them on a sub ject sacred to themselves as they would have been iu a similar interview with a social equal, so that in a few moments Tilda's heart wjis won, and she was pour ing it out unreservedly. "He hev gone back er Swadcn," she said, wiping her eyes. Then in an instant: "He told I snld go longer wid cm; but I kenenty yus now. Mar seestcrs dey all hare, aud mar j-oonges seester see heventy been long avay fom Swadeu. I kenenty leev hare right avay." "But," said Mrs. Loring, "he isn't angry? He will come back?" "Oh, yaas, fen cm fader veil, he com. Yaas" iwith a pretty conscious pride in her eye, and a little straightening), he com back, hut mebbe it be longer time. 'Em fader prettj mush seek, and em modercesole. I kenenty tal." And she cried again. But it had done her good to tmbnrdeu her heart, and Mrs Loring was a kind comforter, and rem! tided her how quickly time flew, and how nice his let ters would be, and the interview ended. Nearly a year passed. Twice every month (which was often for a man to whom a letter was doubtless a serious undertaking) a letter came to Tilda from Sweden, addressed to Mr. Loring's care, and Tilda herself had long ago regained her cheerfulness. In the meantime she had grown quite intimate with the cook next door, and went with her to church Sun day evenings. One evening as they chatted a minute in the area, Mrs. Loring noticed a man's voice, and wondering if Nicholas bad returned, looked out as he wrdked away (it was bright moonlight); but it was ft much smaller man. She heard the same voice ouce or twice again, but gave the matter co thought, supposing, so far as it had dUco in her mind at all. that ths vl man Was. the: next door girl's friend. But one evening he came in, aud she could hear his voice as he went around to the back door. It was peculiarly rasping and harsh, and as the house happened to 1 j otucrwisc uuusuaiiy quiet, sue coma aui I tiuctlyhear it in the distance from the kitchen for an hour before he finally took his leave. She had by this time grown quite attached to Tilda, and she instinc tively feared trouble. "I'll wait and see," she said. She was accordingly somewhat on the alert, and at the end of two weeks was sure that he had spent three evenings with Tilda. So she determined on an in terview As before, she waited until Tilda was at leisure and alone, and then went to her, armed for war, but wary "You have had several visits from a new friend lately, Tilda," she said, with a pleasant smile; "is he a relation?" Tilda looked conscious, and crimped her apron hem uncomfortably. It was a mo ment before she spoke: "Das been, yoong man com sometime hare, but dey's good man. dey's all time to de shursh." As the Swedish church was notoriously the one common place of meeting of nil the young working people of that nation m the city, Mrs. Loring had her doubts as to the singleness of motive which in fluenced the young man's devotion to the sanctuarv: but she kept this question of casuistry to herself, and also withheld any comment upon Tilda's ignoring of her question as to relationship, and aimed directly at the point of what she came to say. "I have no fault to find with the young man, Tilda, but I was thinking of that nice lover of yours iu Sweden. You mustn't forget him." Tilda laughed. "Oh, das all right, Meesis Lo'ing," she said, "yoong gels must hev sometime Icttle foon. He'll trus' me" with a little head toss "Das all right." Mrs. Loring looked and felt doubtful, but she remembered the many girls in her own circle who also had "a lettle loon." and feeling, like the Vicar of Wakefield, "tired of being always wise," threw out some word of general caution aud retired from the field. Again the weeks ran on, bringing such sequel as we may have guessed. Mr. Neilsen, as Tilda's new friend was named, could not have been a very amusing per son, for it took more and more frequent visits, until finally he came nightly, to afford her the "lettle foon" which she claimed as her right. Mrs. Loring ex postulated until Tilda liecame sullen, and then, making upherinind that the matter was out of her province, dropped it, short ly after which Tilda "gave warning." "You are going to be married, Tilda?" Mrs. Loring said. Tilda's face hardened, and she stood silent. Mrs. Loringcontinued, "I have no right to your confidence, Tilda, if you do not choose to give it; but you have been with me a good while, and I am attached to you, and 1 am so anxious that you should do what is right" the last words with a manner so winning that it broke Tilda down. "I kenenty halp em, Meesis Lo'ing," she sobbed. "Neeklus hev been gone longer time, an deys fader donnotty get tin veil an' donnotty die, an' I kenenty alvays vwnit lor man wut kere more for deys fader an' moder'n dey kere for me." Mrs. Loring was silent, and seeing ab solutely no soil in which to sow her store of gMMl seed, remained so, reflecting, as she retreated, upon the difficulty ot graft ing one person's actions upon another's motives. So Tilda left at the expiration of her mouth, and soon after was married. Mrs. luring employed auother cook, and Tilda slid into the past. It was the new cook's "evening out," about a month after Tilda's marriage. Mrs. Loring w as reading iu the library, when a loud knocking roused her to a sense that a gentler one had preceded it. It seemed to be at the kitchen door, and she went herself to open it. At first she did not recognize the man whom she found standing there, but m an instant it came to her that it was Tilda's old lover, and in that same instant she re alized with gathering indignation that Tilda, with the cowardice characteristic ot a weak and ignorant nature, had shirked the hard duty of confessing her faithlessness and had left the result to distance and chance. What should she do? All this while she pleasantly wel comed him back to America, and asked him in. His honest face, which had aged more than was natural iu a year aud a half, betrayed the disappointment he felt when Mrs. luring, aud not Tilda, opened the door. "Kes Tilda gone out?" he asked. "Yes," she answered; "that is" (long ing to gain a little time) "she left me over a month ago." Here she paused, ami the pity that was in her heart crept into her face, and Nicholas perceived it, "Ees anyting com at hare" he asked, in an awe struck tone. "Ees she died?" "No, my poor fellow," answered Mrs. Loring, laying her delicate white hand kindly on his big red one. "Sit down a minute, and try to be brave and strong, for I have something very hard to tell you." Nicholas obeyed, his weather beaten cheeks blanching under the brown, and his honest blue eyes holding so much wondering distress in them that Mrs. Loring's task became indeed hard. "It is better to know the worst than to wait," she said. "Tilda has been very cruel nnd untruthful to you, und she is married to an" A heavy groan ar rested her words. She had spoken with averted eyes, shrinking from gazing upon the pain she was giving. Now she saw that he had sunk forward in a limp heap, head and shoulders buried in his arms upon the table. Perfect silence followed the groan, and Mrs. Loring respected it: but. us minutes passed, and he neither moved nor made a sound, she spoke to him. Receiving no answer, she touched his shoulder; he did not move. Then she knew the big man had fainted. There was ice water in the dining room, and quickly" getting a glass, she turned his head so as to bring the face outward, and dashed a little in it. The effect was immediate. He opened his eyes and lifted his head. For a moment he was quite dazed, then all came back to him, and he staggered to his feet, "I will go," he said, heavily, half feel ing, half looking about him for his hat. "No, indeed, my poor fellow!" ex claimed Mrs. Loring, "not yet. You must let me warm you some tea before you go out; I am afraid you are not well." And she motioned him to sit down. Then he saw the splash of water on the table and the front of her dress (for she had spilled it in running), nnd putting his hand to his shirt collar felt it there. He thought an instant nnd the meaning came to him. "I hev mek trooblc,"he said, humbly; "I hev trayvel so far, an' I hev sometime not eat mush, an' mar heart dey's gone," and his voice broke. Mrs. Loring was putting the tea on the stove as he spoke. After stirring the fire she sat down by him. "I am sorry for you," she said, earnestly. "I wish I could help you bear your trouble, but I am afraid nobody can; but Tilda has been wicked and tickle, nd you must try to forget her." Nicholas winced; he could not hear the rosy little woman that had so long been dear to him harshly spoken of even now. "Ef you please, Meesis Lo'ing, mebbe some mar letters been los'. Mebbe see tink I forgat hare, de vway so lots odder mans does." Mrs. Loring thought indignation would be a good tonic, and replied: "No; she received every one of yonr letters one every two weeks till she was married, and since, for what I know. But she said she couldn't wait for a man that loved his father and mother more than her.' The diversion was partly successful. "Ah, mar poor ole moder!" he exclaimed, the blood mounting to his face. 'I'm breeng hare fom all whut de tings see know, an' fom uvrytings see love, for Tilda. An ve leev mar fader in deys grave fen deys Likkista coffin flowers is not dead, for Tilda! Ah, see never love me!" "No," said Mrs. Loring, "I'm afraid she never knew what true love was. And your father is dead? Tell me about it" "Tank you," he said. "Dey's one mont' sence he die. He been seek nver sence fen dat time dey sen' for me. Dey's par'l'sis he hev. He kenenty valk, he kenenty do noting wid bees hands, he kenenty eat heself, an' all whut tings be knows ees fen 'he's hunerv; an' he's beeg as me, flu' mar modor kenenty leett etu, so I got to stay Den dat bank fare I hev all money whut I hev save dey break, an' I got no money; an' I kenenty work mush fen my fader seek, an' fen he die we hev debt an' trooble togedder Ve hev a small lands, an' I tale mar moder vc sell nvryting an' com to Ainer'ca. See cry an' cry; but I tell sec. I hev promise, an' I love Tilda, an' see hev vwated longer time, so mar moder com. Fen ve hev sell all an' pay de debts ve heventy mush, an' fen ve got tcckets on de steamer an' de cars ve got to lettle lef'-dat all de vay comiu' ve keneut eat mush so I am a schild yust now." "Yon arc a man -every inch and a good man," exclaimed Mrs. Loring, with her eyes full of tears; "and a girl like Tilda don't deserve yon. Tell me where your good old mother is, and I will go to see her to-morrow. You are sober and industrious, and you will soon have plenty of work, and till you get it you must let us help you. You can pay back every cent we lend you with interest, if you want to," she added. "And now drink some tea 'and eat something." As she spoke she set the ten nnd some bread aud butter and meat on the table; then, with an "I'll Ik? back directly," she disap peared, and busied herself in the storo room arranging a package of tea and sugar and other little things that would be ap preciated by an old woman. When she thought he had had time to finish his sup per she returned. "Take these to jour mother," she said. "An old person needs little tilings that younger people can get along without, and it's too late now to get anything; the stores will all be shut." As tine an instinct as Mrs. Loring's own helped Nicholas to accept the gift and the kindly ruse together, saying, simply, as lie rose to go: "Dey's vay kind, Meesis lo'ing; see tank you vay mush, an' I tank you for all whut de tings you do for me 1 got not so much trooble fen I got j-on kindness." The next day Mrs. Loring fulfilled her promise of calling upon old Mrs. Jansen. and indeed kept them both upon her mind until Nicholas found steady work and they were comfortably settled. Indeed she never quite lost sight of them until they left the city to live elsewhere five years later, for the old lady would come every month or two to pay her respects, and was employed by Mrs. Loring to knit mittens, etc., for the children, nnd some times on Sunday she met the pair on their way to church or walking in the after noon, Nicholas always with his old mother on his arm. Never once did she see a younger woman with him. But she did not see'Tilda for over three years from the day she left her and sup posed she had left the city, more especially as her husband had some thought of do ing so when they were married. But one morning at the end of that time she was told there was a woman in the kitchen who wanted to see her. The woman was wretchedly clad, thin, haggard and scared looking. Could she be yes, she was Tiida. Mrs. Joring was shocked. "Come into the dining room," she said. "I must see you alone. I fear you are in great trouble." Poor Tilda! Mrs. Loring's kind, famil iar voice quite broke her down, and she could do nothing but sit and sob. It was evident, as siie tottered from the kitchen, that her strength was nearly spent, so Mrs. Loring did not try to make her talk until she had brought her a little tea. Then her story came out the old one which so many of us have heard, a tins band given more and more to the vice of drinking, and her life oneof neglect, cruel treatment and want. She had already borne three children, the youngest of whom was not yet two weeks old, and w.'is huddled under her shawl, and all of t hem were starving. i Mrs. Loring. as usual, was equal to the emergency. Stic telephoned for a tiack, and while it was coming hastily prepared a bundle ot immediate necessities, and i was soon with Tilda iu the wretched place sho cll,.,l Immo vhn -a, . it,., she uilled home, where she saw the poor creature back into her bed, nnd paid a neighbor to see to her and the children till she should lie stronger; but the exjiosure had been too great, and she died the next week. On one of the last days in which she had intervals of consciousness she beckoned to Mrs. Loring, who had come to see how she was, to the Im.i1. "Nicho las come back in America," she suid. Mrs. Loring nodded assent. "Yes; I see him often, Tilda." "1 hev see em ou u street, free year ago," Tilda continued, speaking with dif ficulty; "em say noting, but em look, so 1 tink God lookin' at me!" She tiad not spoken so much before for many hours, and her voice died weakly away. Mrs luring thought she was alout to lapse again into unconsciousness, but watching a second she noticed a voiceless motion of the lips nnd an anxious took in the eyes, that showed that she was trying to hold her wandering mind tut strength should come to sjeak again. "Would you like me to sav something to him, Tilda?" she asked, gently. A look of relief came to the poor pinched face. "Tnl em," she liegau, faintly "tal cm ask em" Her mind was slippiug from her, nnd she seemed to clutch for it until she should have fin ished; but her thoughts would no longer shape themselves iu English, or remember n mediating third party. "O Kara van! forlat mig, for jag bar handlat ilia, Gud liar straffat mig och, forlat forlat mig," she whispered hoarsely. The last words uieu 111 an almost inarticulate murmur, nnd she passed again into an unconscious state, from which the did not again rally. Henrietta R. Eliot iu Harper's Bazar. "O irietnl. forgive me, for God has punished my sin. Forgive forgm-" is a free trauslii- tlon. though it fail to iuite convey the spirit of her words, which seem to lie spoken in a sort of a dream, as though her spirit was in direct earn ciuniou with hint to whom she spot-) Old Time. Oyster Stews. "There are some marked changes in the oyster business." remarked an old gentle man to a reporter. "Twenty-live years ago there was in vogue in the oyster saloons what wa3 called the 'individual chafe.' You were allowed to stew your own oysters. The proprietors brought to the table after you were seated a dialing dish, an alcohol lamp, milk, oysters, crackers, seasoning, etc., and you pre pared the stew to suit yourself. It may not have been exceedingly profitable, but it was popular. Night after night a party of us would have our regular"stew. tho nrivilecre to make them mirs-il; ! being quite an inducement. We would have our oysters promptly, four chafing dishes a-going at once. It would take well to introduce. Uiis method again." Philadelphia Call. J "Fortune" That "Came True." Some years ago Christine Nilsson, whose recent marriage you remember, had the lines of her hand examined by a palmist, who told her she would have trouble from two causes, fire and maniacs. This prediction was verified, for during the Chicago fire she lost $20,000, and when Boston was burned she lost 200, 000. When at New York a crazy man followed her for a week, believing that the words addressed by Marguerite to Faust were intended for himself. In Chicago a poor student decided to marry her, and wrote passionate letters, to which he received no answer. One day he came in a superb sleigh, drawn by four horses, to take his affianced bride to the church. The manager quieted him by saying: "You are late; Mmc. Nilsson has gone there to wait for you." The third insane person was her husband, M. Kouzeaud, who died in an asylum. Musical Record. Addition to Jerafcaletn. Outside the walls of Jerusalem a new town has sprung up, a building club hav ing been established a few years ago, un der the operation of which 130 houses were erected in four years by the Jews, while along the Jaffa road many country villas have been erected of late by Euro pean residents as summer abodes. The latest development of the building of new houses without Jerusalem is to be found in the enterprise which has led to much building being done on tne slopes of the Mount of Olives, the summit of which Ls crowned with the Church of the Ascen sion. Home Journal. The peanut harvest in Virginia for this year is estimated at 1, COO, 000 bushels Nine peanut factories clean and sort the nuts for the market. There are 1,400 lawyers in London. BEAUTY ON THE WHEEL Ladle Tricycling in the ParkG rowing Popularity of the Sport. "Look at that poor lady in the invalid's chair," said a young girl in Central park the other day. "How fast the man be hind is pushing her. 'He runs so rapidly that his feet seem scarcely to touch the ground. Tho careless brute must be frightening her to death. "Why! here's another pair, and another! They seem to oe trying to eaten one another. Is it a race for the llbspital, or what?" "Them," replied one of the sparrow po lice, as he followed the fast disappearing objects with a jealous eye, "is the new fangled tandem tricycles, for men as likes to take their wives out for an airin' on castors." o "ou don't seem to broke in a reporter. approve them," "Well, 1 can't say they give us uny trouble, except sometimes wanting to go on the footpaths and rideways; I haven't heard of any horses being scared by them, or nny accidents of any kind yet, and the rabble of boys acd counter hoppers that the commissioners promised us hasn't shown up to any extent. Yet we fought so hard to keen them out that we can't take kindly to them yet altogether. More ladies are taking to it daily, though; they like the parks better than the roads, and the more of their bright costumes and smiling faces the better, I say, for they all seem to enjoy the sport hugely. It's more fun, they say, than driving, and I suppose if some few of the upper crust was to take to it, it would be all the rage in no time." A little inquiry leaves no doubt that women nnd girld in Nov.- York are fast being converted to the advantages of tri cycling. Numbers of them may be seen in the early mornings or pleasant even ings spinning along the usphalt under the shadowy boughs, down the winding paths, with lover, brother or husband mouuUd behind at a convenient distance for whis pering "soft nothings," discussing "pa's" antiquated ideas, or relating "baby's latest' and the servant.' shortcomings. No danger of "headers" or falls is there to interrupt the flow of ideas or detract from the full appreciation of the scenery; no time is spent iu learning to operate the machines; mounting and dismounting them is as gracefully done as to a stool; no mud spatters the clothes; when the lady tires she may remove her feet from the pedals to a rest and let her athletic escort propel the machine alone; either or both can steer the machine. The exercise in moderation is peculiarly health giving, and the regulation speed in the park seven or eight miles an hour is cosily at tained and kept up for hours without undue fatigue. Everything seems to point, since the owning v.f the jsarks to wheelmen, to an immediate appropriation by women and jjrls of what has hitherto been regarded as almost exclusively a man's sport. In Boston, Washington, some western cities, and even in Brook lyn, women have shown their apprecia tion of the s.poit, and large numbers of them arc devotees of the wheel. New York Tribune. A lint on a Man's Eyeball. A Buddhist priest, of about 2", stone blind (and no wonder!), was led on by two showmen, and the trio crouched in a rou A vark-ty of objects were grouped about them of varying size and eight. One borrowed my hat, a eoft wideawake, at tached to it byu hook : noosed string, and held it in readiness. The blind priest sat for ;; time inpasiive, old men banging drum-, then at a signal he gave a howl, forced with two thumbs his right eye out of t!:e socket, while the attendant 'hun:: my tint upon the hall! To show that it was unsupported except by the stiim:, he held both hands aloft, then, allowing" his eye to sink into its place, relapsed int listless lethargy. The trick was repeated again and again with other objects, the pcriuu ui suspension oeing suoricuca ac- i "'" ic.-w o. wcigiii. inuii ai last i lhcre hniigfrom liiseyc, which looked like an uncanny onion, a bell of sculptured bronze. With a groan of tiorror we turned and lied, seeking oblivion of the night mare in the theatre devoted to farces. Murray's Magazine. A Sig No I.oiiiir Seen. an jou tell me why the sign 'Beware of Pickpockets' is no longer seen?" asked a reporter of a Chestnut street merchant the other day. "It used to be displayed in street cars, shops, railway stations and in hotels, and now I don't lelieve there is one in the city." "1 think I can explain it," replied the merchant. "It was found that the sign acted as a i,uide to pickpock ets. In this way: A man with a roll of money in his pocket or a wallet iu his coat would see the sign, and nine times out of teu he'd instinctively clap his hand to his pocket to see if his valuables were still there. All the pickpockets had to do was to watch the people ils they read the sign and then pick their pockets. We found tliit out after awhile and took down our signs, and 1 presume other people made the same discovery about the same time." Philadelphia Call. Tireil of Hotel Fare. a noted hotel keeper in Saratoga, the excellence of whoe table is a matter of national repute, admits that he grows very tired of hotel fare at times. "Once in a while,'" he says. "I go and hunt up my steward or some other employe who has his family with him iu the village, and I say, 'May I go to your house to din ner today:'' I go there, and as I eat the corned beef and cabbage or Irish stew, or whatever the wife puts before me, 1 think I uover tasted food so good. After that I cat all my meals at the hotel for a while, and then I limit up another old fashioned dish in some simple little home." New York Sun. Method In Composition. My method in composition, which I en joy and find practical, fc to sit down nnd plunge at once into my theme, seizing the thoughts as they come without resrard to their order or sequence, and it does not take long to fasten upon paper all I know or think upon a given subject. I then take ttie copy, rearrange the paragraph", correct, interpolate or dash out uncssen tials, and, numbering my clean sheets, proceed to copy the nrticlej sending it ier feet, or practically so, to the edinr. Florence Thayer McCray in The Writer. "Heaven" In Mexico. In the state of Vera Cruz, 120 miles from the city of that name, there is a section of country called "Heaven," be cause of its favorable climatic conditions. Its air, water and general environments are conducive to long life. Jesus Valdo nndo recently died there at the age of 15-1. He was carried to the grave by his three Eons, respectively 140, 114 and 110 years old. To have children married at 12 and 14 years of age is a common thing. The women die young. Chicago News. l'oor Slieep and Lambs. A tender hearted cleric while meander ing around a lxard school the other day, asked a boy who had just scrambled through his final examination what trade he was going to be put to. "Butchering, sir," replied the lad. "But surely yon won't like to kill the poor sheep and Iambs:'" warbled the pastor. "Xo," re plied the 'cute youth, "I shouldn't like to kill the poor uns. but I should like to kill the fat 'tins, sir." Fun. Hoiv Sunflower Absorb 3Iu!aria. A recent observer of sunflowers attri butes their anti-malarial action to their absorption of water from the soil, juj well as to their accredited properties of absorb ing malarial germs, aud emitting much oxygen. During June, 16S.1, a quarter of au acre of sunflowers exhaled in the form of vapor an average of sixty-five gallons of wa:er daily. Arkansaw Trav eler. A Goon One. Mr. James Marsh, of Atn. Neb., after an e.erience of four years in usingand selling Chamlierlain's Pain-Balm, says: uIt is the best anil most reliable liniment ever produced." A fifty cent bottlo will accomplish more, in the treatment of rheumatism, lame back or severe sprains, than live dollars invested in any other way. A great many cases have been cured by it, after being given up as hopelessly incurable. It promptly relieves the pain in all cases. Sold by Dowty & Becher. T.'teir BaMunw BooWitftf. Probably no one thing has caused such a general revival of trade at Dowty & Becher's drug store as their giving away to their customers of so many free trial bottles of Dr. King's New Discov ery for consumption. Their trade is simply enormous in this very valuable article from tho fact that it always cures and never disappoints. Coughs, Colds, Asthma. Bronchitis, Croup, and all throat and lung diseases quickly cured. You can tojt it tieforo buying by getting a trial bottlo free, large sizo 81. Every bottle warranted. Mrc. Langtry's ntteutiou to business details has often boon com men toil npon, but it is not generally known how in defatigable sho is at times. When the curtain is down Ijetwoen the acts, and tho Liiy has finished dressing, she has her maid tuck up her gorgeous skirt, cover her with white aprons and then she comes out of her dressing room on to tho stage, gives directions right and left, but iu the miidest of tones, and ofton, with hor own hands, places a piece of furniture or a bit of bric-a-brac whore it will show to the best udvantage. All Kle.mt Muh-titute For Oils, Salts, Pills, aud all kinds of bit ter, nauseous Livor Medicines and Ca tiiartit's is the very agreeable liquid fruit iciucdy, Syrup of Figs. Its advant ages ure evident it is more easily taken, more acceptable io tho stomach, more pleasantly effective, and more truly InMieficini to the systom than any other remedy. Itocomiiionded by leading physician!!. For sale only by Dowty k iiecher. Several American actresses aud ama teurs have announced that they had se cured the American rights to Snrdon's now play, but it -appears to lie the fact that Fanny Davenport has got it. "La Toca" is to be produced by Mine. Bern hardt in Paris toward the end of the mouth and Mr. Price is going abroad to see the performance. Mr. Mil. F. Bourne, the efficient nnd worthy cashier of the United States Ex press Co., Des Moines, Iowa, says: "From tho lack of exercise and from close confinement to oilico work, I have been troubled with habitual constipation I have received more benefit from St. Patrick's Pills than anything I ever tried. I gave them a thorough test and am now in perfect health. I hereby recommend them as a pleasant and re liable medicine." They do not grasp nor cause tiie sickness occasioned by the ojionition of almost, all other cathartic pills or medicines. Sold by Dowty & Becher. Lotta is not likoiy soon to retire from the stage. In a recent interview she said: "1 was born with high spirits, anil 1 suppose I shall have them till I die, ami tho stage is tho outlet 1 want. If I were to settlo quietly down at homo with mother I believe should go crazy. Tli Iou!:liot ot'ColMiitbai Is houi:,000, und we would nay ut leant one half are troubled with some affectioa of the Throat aud Lungs, as thote coin plaints are, according to otatialics, more numerous than others. We would ad vie all not to neglect the opportunity to eatl 011 us and get a bottle of Kemp Balsam for the Throat and Lungs. Price 50c aud 11.00. Trial ize free. Ke veetfulty, Dr. A. Heintz. Mabel Stirling, announced as a timid little thing of 17 who has just emerged from tier native Kentucky hills and taken the stage, is more intimately des cribed as a woman over 30 years of age, who may have come from Kentucky and who niav he a New Yorker. Worth Yonr Attention. Cut this out und mail it to Allen X Co., Au Katn, Maine, who will wnd you free, fcomethinK new, that jiiAt coin moey for all worker. As wonderful art the electric light, an genuine as pure gold, it Mill prove of lifelong value and imiMirtance to you. Both Hexes, all ages. Allen J: l"o. Ik'iu-expense of starting yon in business. It will bring you in inoro cash, right away, than an) thing clw in this world. Anyone anywhere can do the work, and live at home also. Better write at once; then, knowing all, should you conclude that jou don't care to engage, why no harui in done. 4-ly Urotison Howard's new play, "The Henriette," is praised by all the New York papers and seems to lie a success. It is a comedy of the stock exchange Crane plays tin elderly speculator and Rohsou a Wall street dude. Ilr-are I'p. You are feeling depressed, your appe tite is ioor, you are bothered with head ache, you are lidety, nervous, and gen erally out of sorts, and want to brace up. Brace up hut not with stimulants, spring medicines, or bitters, which have for their basis very cheap, bad whisky, and j U'liifdi Htiuilllnto vrii fir fm linur -mil 4lim I "-.- - "" .w. ........ UIVII leave you in worse condition than before. What you want is an alterative that will purify yonr blood, start healthy action of Liver and Kidneys, restore your vi tality, and give renewed health and strength. Such a medicino you will find in Electric Bitters, and only 50 cents a lxittie at Dowty & Becher's drugstore. The second scene of the "Marquis," at the New York Casino, was taken by Mr. Aronson from the famous painting by Fortuny, exhibited at the Paris salon of 1878, and which is now in possession or Mr. Vanderbilt. No ono is well equipped for a journey without a liottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. In an emergency its value cannot be estimat ed. Sold by Dowty & Becher. Mr. Edward Hurrigan has written a I new play which he says is the heaviest I piece of work he has yet attempted. He has endeavored to get a new view of the southern negro. A Ureal Narpriaw: Is iu store for all who use Kemp's- Bab mm for tlic Throat and Lungs, the great guaranteed remedy. Would you believe that it is sold on its meriti and that each druirgiot is authorized to relund your money by the Proprietor of this wonderful remedy if it fails to cure you. Dr. A. Ileintz has secured the Agency for it. Price 00c aud 1. Trial size Jree. (linn, who has been in England for sev-1 end jears, has just commenced a tonr of ! - k tr 4 li b m ut arra I .nv V iai mW 41m a m. A -.. I ( me i....Jijj.i uiica ui Liua Luiiuiry. ;Md Wages Ahead. tiwirue '"tin-on & Co., Portland. Maine, eau jrivejou v.orklliat jou can ilo Jtnd live at home, ninkiuK Kmit ity. ou ure -tirted free. Cni- t.tl not utinlMil. ISotli Helen. All axei. Cut ttiin i ..,ilniulwnl..l.imu- n, I. arm ur.ll l. .!.... If . ,,.... . . I aJI cIst-PM! with employment at home, the whole i,n concliid-not to(:o to work, after tw learn ' tlwlime, for their snare moment-. Kuw ait. All particulars five. HVwt ia)inK work in tsei3 new, light and profitable. Perxons of either this world. 4-Iy ex easily earn from SO cento to $5.(0 per wvenict; and a proportional Him by devoting all their Mine. Janauschek will not be able to ime to the bnsuieB. Bop and orl earn nearly , , .. . TT as much an men. That all who see thu may send play for a long time to come. Her ac- Jieir addrew., and test the basinet., we make - a. - xt ifr., :,, j If lis offer. To such aa are not well satisfied we Cioeut iu flouiimB ao piuteu. a m-pntpr drawback than was anticinat-i r- i- L ed. A Story of Intense Interest, and a Most Important Con- tribution to War History. Daring and suffering! The Story of the Most Heroic and Tragic Episode of the Civil War. SPLENDIDLY ILLUSTRATED! A History of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1863, embracing a full and accurate account of the Journey in Disgufc to the Centre of the Confederacy, The Capture of a Railway Train, The Terrible Chase by the Enemy, with the Subsequent History of the Leader and His Party. By WILLIAM PITTENGER, A Member of the Expedition. The author has consulted every available source of information, has gone repeatedly over tho ground, explored the Ooverameat ar chives at Washington and files of Confederate newspapers, and obtained the assistance of survivors on both sides of the struggle. He Is thus able to present a vivid, impartial and perfectly authenticated picture of the mot romantic event of the Civil War, thefull story ot which has never before been told. A Score of Soldiers have come in disguise from their commands, 200 miles away, to the very centre of the Confederacy, and have succeeded in the most daring enterprise of the Civil War the capture of a crozuded Railroad Train in the midst of a Confederate Camp. m THE FOLLOWING QUOTATIONS SHOW THE CHARACTER OF THE RAID: "The expedition in the daring of its conception, had tho wildness of a romance; while in the gigantic and overwhelming result it sought, and was likely to obtain, it was absolutely sublime." Judge-Advocate-General Holt's Official Report, from Official Waa .Records, Series L, VoL X., Part I., page 630. " It was all the deepest laid scheme, and on the grandest scale, that ever emanated from the brains of any number of Yankees com bined." The Southern Confeceracv (Atlanta, Ga.), April 13, 182. " Despite its tragic termination it shows what a handful of brave men could undertake in America." Compte de Paris' History or the Civil Was in America, Vol. II., page 187. 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