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A WOMAN'S STORY.
Ay. Iwas thirty years ago ' '' 'jr
All the gnrden was aglow; ' '
. . RudrlJ hollyhocks, red roses, . j:
. Marigold aud salvia posies,
Stately sunflow'ra, humble panstcw ' -.
"Heartsease true as little Nan's Is," - '
Quoth my lover, speaking low.
, Io the orchard thrilled a robin.
- Ah me! how mr heart was throbbin', V
Those long happy years ago.
:' Wen, the tale's been often toldi " !
Two things pure love and pure gold . '
, Do not wane with passing fashion. ; :
LuVs-cold without human passion.
Pick me that blue panHy yonder
Thoughts for pansius, say your fonder .
Grow our thoughts as wo wax old. -'
Haply, as thorough path steepens
And our feet Ug, true love deepen :
. Just Jtocause the lota's refold. - .:
. ": -Lady Lindsay.'
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Toots Umy,
Oct 4 If '' " BJIXW,"
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1-.1 WiUI lM,
T . k 4
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Thoy said it was a forced march.
First, some soldiers on horseback went
tearing br with a terriblo clatter, leav
ing a cloud of diist behind them, then
it was all quiet for an hour. I heard
a tramping, and looking up to the
crest or rising: crround to the north.
saw the road packed with soldiers on
root, Tney came quickly up, ana 1
scarcely had time to see what they
looked like before those in "front "had
Sassed. They didn't inarch like sol
iera 1 had seen in the city on a eala
day, when"! was a little girl ; they
hurried along, each man walking as
he liked. I wondered how they could
go so fast,' they Were loaded down so.
They carried great heavy' knapsacks
and blankets, and tin pans and can
teens, besides their muskets, ihey
looked more as if they were going to
set up housekeeping than to war.
While I was leaning on the winddw
sill; looking out and watching them,
I saw a young officer ride into tha
yard, just as if he belonged to the
place or, rather, as if the place be-
on creel to him ana Dack towara me
barn. Two soldiers rode behind him.
and they got down off their horses and
went into the barn." I thought at once
they were after our horses; My pony
was there, and I made up my mintl
they shouldn't take him without walk-;
ing over my dead body., I ran down
BlairsanJ out tothe baru. If I had been
making a forced march myself 1
couldu t have gone faster. Before I
got there they had two horses out, and
were harnessing mem to tne larm
wagon. ' ' I marched up to the officer
and asked Jbim what he was doing.
- He was a trifle startled at seeing a
girl standing before him, looking as if
she intended to hiako a resistance. '
We're. 'pressing all the horses and
wagons we find along the road," he
said.
"What do you mean by "pressing
them?" - ; :
"We'ro 'pressing them into the ser
vice.". ' , , r '- i, '!
"What for?"
"To carry the men's knapsacks.
They can march faster."
"Lo you think it makes u any more
respectable to call it 'pressing?" ,
The officers face was liuslied. I
thought it was because he was ashamed
of his work: but 1. soon noticed that
he was in'a burning fever. .
You sha'ti't take my pony, any
way, 1 cneu, going to a man wuo
urna I4nr1inrr him mil. m .Ilia narn A11U
seizing the latter. -; 14 '
"XMever minu mat norse, - saia tne
officer; it's only a pony. Take it back
into the stable."
The man obeyed at once. They har
nessed two horses to the wagon, -anu
led tho team into the road. As the
soldiers marched nast 'it . they threw
their knapsacks on tho wagon, anu it
was soon loaded, and one of the ne
groes drove.it away.
just men an ouicercameaiong wuu
number of other otticera ana a train
of horsemen following him. I noticed
that he had stars on his shoulders, and
wore a straight sword Instead of
crooked one like the rest.;
"Captain I" ho said, looking at tho
officer who had taken our horses . and
wagon "you'd better not try to go any
further."
"I can go on, general. ' It's only in
vAi-mittant. " ' .-
The ceneral cut him short ', with.
"Stop where you are." He spoke so
sharp that I thought ho was going to
bite the captain s ueau on. i wisnea
N. C. 1 eapta0 had me courage to answer
' i ,.,, .nit iia ho n't i lia mnAPOi anfi
thoso who were with him rode on.
leaving the sick man sitting on his
horse looking after them, to take care
of himself as uest he could. I noticed
he wore tho same ornament on his cap
as those about the general wreath
and I concluded he was one of them.
There was an interval in the pass
ing regiments, and no one was pear
but the captain ana mo. 5
"What are you going to dof 1 ask
ed him.
I was sitting on the fence with my
feet dangling. It wasn't a very grace
ful position. Dut I was only a country
girl then, and didn't know any better.
"I don t know," he said wearily; ,lI
suppose I must ride back to ti
.There's a hospital there." 1
It V.. l..l'. I V.nt. . ,1 .
Ai uu HUUll . well m Aaujfct. auu m
robber, or a 'pressor, which is the same
thing, I'd have asked -him to como in
to the house at once, he looked so sick.
Aren t you asliameu or yourscu l
I said, "to take horses that don't be
long to your" .
lie did look ashamed. "It isn't a
cleasaut business," he said. "You'd
Letter got that pony of yours out of
the way ; there'll be more troops along
here by aud by." ., ;
When be said this his voice sounded
so pleasant, and he looked so sick,
that 1 made un mind to ak htm in.
Eut 1 couldn't bring myself to speak
kindly to him. I couldn't forget that
he was a Yankee soldier. -"Come
into the house." I said, very
vr.., sharply.
tie luoiced at me out of ti ineian
i choly, feverish eyes.
"iio, 1 tliank you. I'll ride back to
4 N -;" and he turned hia horse'.
h--'i J to ride away.
I called to liirn to stop. He obeyed
me, aud 1 went out into the roaiaud
j Uxk hold of I. is Lnde.
j "What do you mean by lliatf" he
' aikl, aiirpri-a.
. 'Tii "I'm r- xvf to 'iiresj your horse."
.-i- 1- "',,Utfo.-r
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I "To keen for the safe return of those
you ve taken.
He looked at me sort o' dazed. He
put his hand, to his head, and didnt
seem to know what to do. J led hia
horse up to the veranda. He dis
mounted and walked feebly up the
steps and sat down on a bench, while
1 took hia horse rouna to me barn.
Well, the captain was put to bed,
He had typhoid fovcr, and a very bad
case it was. ; Occasionally when troops
would come into the neighborhood. I
would mount my pony and ride over
to tueir camp auu Men u uuvw a sur
geon como over and see him: Between
trie surgeons and my nursing we got
mm tnrougn me crisis, i nurseu una
for six weeks. Then he became con
valescent, and it was very nice to
have him sitting up in an armchair
on the veranda looking so pale and
handsome.--1 used to sit by him with
my work, and he seemed so gentle and
so natient not at all like he anneared
to me when I first saw him .riding
back to the bam to 'press the horses
that 1 began to feel sorry that he
wasn't one of our own men instead of
being nothing but a detestable Yan
' kee. -' : r , -
: ; One day while -I was sitting on the
veranda beside him sewing, he said:
-. -''Miss Molly, are you still .holding
my horse as a hostage f
' "Yes. Ours haverrt come back yet."
"Don't you think you could let me
take him when 1 get well, tr i should
promise to go and . find your horses,
aud have them returned? - -
; "I'll, see about that when you get
well ; ;,- ;; . " ..." ; '
' He'd been talkulcr already about go
ing on to join thamy, but I didn't
think him - well enough, and didn'i
mean to let him go. He couldn't very
well: go without.! hia horse, so J
wouldn't let him have it ; ,
"What hostage do you require in to
ken of my appreciation of your kind
ness since I've been sick?" he asked.
L 'You haven't anything to leave.
Besides, i ve done very mue i m
sure." : . 1 . . .
' He thought a moment, and-then he
said, somewhat sadly:
. "Yes; there's one thing I can leave
-only one. i ll leave that with you."
1 1 couldn't think of anything he had
except his revolver, and I was sure he
wouldn t leave that. ' It wasn t appro
priate. I waited for nun to ten mo,
but he said nothing about it thcu.
At last no was well enough to go.
At least he thought so: I didn't.
was still as weak as a kitten, but I saw
how anxious he was, and I didn't op
pose him any longer. So one pleasant
morning, when the air was soft and
the roads were dry, I told one of the
colored boys to ' bring tho captain-'s
horse round from the barn.
The ' captain stood on the veranda
ready to mount, and ride away. His
blanket and rubber poncho were
strapped behind tho saddle, just as he
had left them, and his horse was 80
anxious to be off that the boy could
hardly bold him. The captain took
my hand- in his to say good-by, aud
looked straight into ray eyes. I lower
ed them to his spurs.
"You're a good girl," he said. T11
not forget your kindness." .
"Oh." 1 would have done the same
for any one."
"r. "Any one?"
"-' "Anyone."
, Then I asked myself: What did I
want to say that for?
"I leave you tho hostage I spoke
of, he said, "but it is a very poor re
turn for -bo much kindness a mere
bagatelle. "
I could have bitten my tongue off.
He was going to make a return to
pay for what I had done for him.
"You'll And it," he added, "if you
have the shrewdness to guess where
His.". :.. '. , '
With that he rraro mv hand a nrea-
lure and looked long and steadily into
my eyes. Then he mounted his horse
and rode away without once looking
back. .
As soon as ho had gone I com
mouCed to think what ho could mean
about leaving a hostage. I was sure he
wouldn't olter anything very valu
able. Ho must know I wouldn't like
that; hut 1 thought he might leave
some little trinket for mo to remember
him by. I ransacked the room be had
occupied, looking into bureau draw
ers, into closets, any place the ingenu
ity of man could find to hide any
thing. I even looked behind the pic
tures hanging ou the wall Then I
went all over tho house from attio to
cellar. Not a thing could I find. .
Then I recalled hia words, "If you
are shrewd enough to guess where it
is," and went all over my search again.
At last I gave it up. "A pretty way
to treat me," I grumbled, "after tak
ing care of him so long!" I vowed
that if ever I should see him again he
should tell mo whether he had really
left anything, and what it was. .
. " .
News came of terrible fighting at
the front Stragglers, broken down
horses, mules, wagons, ambulances
from which now and then a ghastly
face would look out, kept going by
day after day for several days. - The
yard, tiie barn, tha kitchen, were full
of men. Tho first day they drank up
all the water in the welL Then regi
ments marched by almost as fast as
when tbey were making their forced
march to the south. They tassed on
bv the house, but stopped on the crest
of the hill up tho road. There they
began to dig with spades and shovels,
and the next morning when 1 looked
out there was a long line of forts, and
tho lankee nag Hying above tncra;
and. frrcat heavens! the black mouths
of cannon frowning directly down at j
us. .
Whilo I was looking I heard some
thing rattle far down the road. It
sounded liko emptying a barrel of
s:.-iie into another barrel. There an
other rattle, aunled with a constant
dull booming. All the mornir.g the
sound kcot coming uearer, nil at lost
I could distinctly heartheloud reports
liarp
which they must have been Indian or
Uhtnese to understand. Then more
soldiers passed the house from 'the
south, tired; dusty, ' grimed, some of
them running, some wounded ; and
tottering along Blowly. ' All passed in
a steady stream behind the forts. "
' Suddenly a horseman dashed up to
the house ho was all dust and dirt,
and his horse was covered with foam.
He threw himself from tho saddle and
came up on to the veranda.
.- Good gracious 1 the cantain.
"Come away from here at once," he
said: "our men are retreating: we are
going to make a stand behind the
. works. You are directly in range. Be
quick I the fire is liable to open at any
moment" ' .
Then thero was a scramble to snatch
a few things. One took a lamp, an
other a pitcher, another a photograph
album. It seemed. as if everybody
took the most useless thing to be
found. All except mo were hurrying
down the walk to the gate; I stayed
behind. The, caplayi was trying to
make me hurry.. lie was stamping up
and down on the veranda and through
the hall, almost crazy at my delay.
"Come, be quick!' he said, as sni
as if he were the general himself.
"Cantain" I said heiitnlintr.
, "What is it?" he asked, impatiently,
. "liie hostage..
"What hostage?" rii : . "
"Thatyou leftwhenyou wentawayj
I couldn't find it Must we leave it?''
He looked at me & moment as if he
thought 1 had lost my senses; then he
burst into a laugh. : :.y . -
I never could stand to be laughed
at and just then it was particularly
obnoxious. I mnde up my-mind that
ne should tell me what 1 had hunted
for. and tell me then and there. ,
; "Never mind that," he said, seeing
tliat I ' was irritated. "Save yourself
and it will be in no especial danger."
"I'll not leave it, whatever it is," I
said, resolutely.'; t ( :' ;,,. -X i
"Come, comet this will be a battle
field in a few minutes." 1
. "I won't stir a step till you tell me
wnat i want to know." -
"Nonsense I" he said, severely.
The moro severe his tone, tho more
resolute I became. I stood stock stilL
i "For Heaven's sake I" he urged, be
coming really frightened; "the gun
ners are standing with the lanyards in
their bands ready to lire."
"Let thorn fire 1" I folded my arma
. A. volley sounded a short distance
down the line of forts 4o the west
Tho captain triod to seize my wrist
"Do como." he pleaded.
;.; "Toll mo what was the hostage," I
said, stubbornly. .
"Here?"
"Here."
"No, no; this is not a fit place to
tell you that For the love of heaven
do come away I" ' : r
; I vowed I would conquer him or die
on mo held. ' ;
"You shall either tell me or I will
Bt.iv here till the battle is over.". .
He looked at tho frowning forts anx
iously, then back nt mo,
"You must know?"
,. .'Yea."
"Now?" "
"Now."
"Well, then, Molly dear, I left you
my noart,"
1 stood aa one- who sees an engine
coming straight down on him, and
whose limbs aro paralyzed from the
suddenness of the discovery. Merci
ful heaven t what had I done? What
stupidity! Tho blood rushed in a tor
rent to my cheeks; 1 covered my race
'witn my hands.
"And now, sweetheart taking one
of my hands from my burning cheek
and leading me away "if you're sat-
isued about tho hostage, we won t stay
nere any longer.,
As he snoko there was an explosion
in the forts, and it seemed as if a dozen
shrieking cats wero whirling over our
beads. 1 almost wished one of them
would strike me dead. The captain
led me like a child toward the forts
through smoke and noise and confu
sion, i uidn t think of tho battlo that
won opening; I only thought how im
modest ho must think mo, and that
be never would believe I could be so
stupid as jiot to know what he meant
by leaving a hostage.
I havo-liad to suffer all my lifo for
that one mistake. 1 never can have
my way about anything; for when
my husband finds all other expedients
for governing to bo failures, he inva
riably taunts me with having forced
his secret at the cannon's mouth. F.
A. Mitchel in Harper's Weekly.
: Dlaavosxl Cut Diamond. ,
After Sir W. Strickland's horse had
been a short lime at Newmarket,
Frampton's groom, with tho knowl
edge of his master, endeavored to in
duce the baronet's groom to have a
private trial at tho weight and dis
tance of the match, and thus to make
tho race safe. - Sir William's man had
the honesty to inform his master of
the proposal, when he ordered htm to
accept it, but to be sure to deceive the
other by putting seven pounds more
weiguun inesuiiungoi uuiown saddle.
Frampton's groom had already done
the same thing; and in the trial Mer
lin, Bir William's horse, beat his op
ponent about a length. "Now" said
Framnton to hia satellite, "mrtortuns
y made, and so is your; if our horse
can run so near Merlin witn seren
pounds extra, what will ho do in the
race?" Tho betting was immense. The
south country turiitea. who had been
let into the secret bv Kramotou. told
thoso from tho north that "they would f VtiZ
l. .1 i.i : . r ii.. . turn.
gold they had. aud then they might
sell their land. Iotu hone- c&ute
well to the ioat and of course tho race
camo off hko tha trial. Tha Horse
and His Rider. .
Tha
TECHNICAL,
iSCMOOLS.
BeneTji to He Derived by Their Es
. V Ubltuhmeot In America. . ;
y In EunotKv at Lyons, Crcfeld and
Como. Zurich, Muhlhcim, Paris," Ber
lin,; Manchester; Bradford and other
cities, there aro schools in which the
principles of the textile industry are
taught The Silk association of New
Yortt has long advocated the school
and expended much monoy to sccuro
it One of its mombers siiiih- ' "
','The benefit which textile inlercsta
would derive from a trade school of.
their own in tins country could Uurtli y
be estimated.! The effect of its success
could not of course, be immediately
folt but the final result could, hardly
be doubted and can be foretold in one
sentence: Absolute indcpfeuclcue of
an outside innuence$ioriuese indus
tries in their creative, industrial and
commercial dcnurlments. . . j ., ,
"While the United States is second
to no other country as far as the com
mon school and classical courses of
study are' concerned, in tho matter of
technical education, we are Badly de
ficient even beside the- smallest and
most insignificant of Luropean coun
tries. - A special school catering to the
needs or the district in which it
situated is indeed an establishment
which any town in Europe is proud to
possess. - In textile industries, particu
larly, the number of technical schools
I I ! 1 !
aas ucen largely increoaeu in curupu.
with the result that the improvement
iu the' process- of manufacture has
been steady, and there is now hardly
any xindof textile manufacturing in
Europe that does not possess an edu
cational establishment in. which the
Drincinles of the industries of the dis
trict are taught to the young men who
have not yet entered practical lifo, as
well as to their 'older brothers, who
have already had the experience or the
factory, but who wish to perfect them
selves and are anxious to learn the
scientific reasons why certain kinds of
work should be done in a certain way,
.; "In considering tho foundation of
technical schools in America tho ex
perience of other nations can be used
to advantage, aud much experiment
ing will thus be dispensed with... In
order to profit by such experience, and
to save the first steps in tho dark, it is
necessary that the various systems of
technical education adopted in the dif
ferent European countries be made the
subject of careful study and compara
tive observation, the best points being
taken from each and adapted to tho
condition required by the industries or
tho country.
"It would be useless at this stage to
attempt to foreshadow the details re
garding the actual establishment of
the lirst American technical scnooi.
If it were intended to establish n whole
national system of technical education
the general plan might do to nave
number of lower schools in all cities
of any importance, in which the nriu
cinles of all tho sciences could be
taught; the-so schools to act as feeders
or miseries for a central technical uni
versity. Private effort could hardly
accomplish this. . Tho establishment
of such a complete educational system
would tend to elevate mo moral anu
and material standing of tho country.
and especially of tho various indus
tries; but the scopo io so vast as to be
hardly attainable without tho old or
the national government -
"If wo consider textile Industries by.
themselves, wo find that in regard to
tuition that can be given which would
bo of value to the students in their
future calling, there are three chief
departments to be considered the mo-
chnnical. the chemical and the artistic
Although these departments- differ
widely from each other, they are.
nevertheless, so closely connected as
to be indispcnsablo to each other. A
student who makes a specialty of one
must, at the same lime, know some
thing of the other two, and it is tbcr&
foro necessary that all three directions
should be under tne same roor ir any
completeness is to bo the result.
"Thus a single school may bo made
todofortextilesall that circumstances
now so urgently demand. We of the
textile industries may not hope to build
to completeness tho grand fabric of
technical education, but by co-operation
we can rear and occupy one tower
of this great stronghold of industrial
freedom and progress." isew xork
Star. .-' ' '
Berrratne; tit Old OrdT.
They have a new way of pnckinap
plea in Kennebec county. Tho Maine
Farmer tells of a man who bouflil a
of cannon and of muskets all lired at J barrel, with which he was very much
once, 1 DOUceu a great mr in me
torts above. Horsemen were gal
lorong back and forth; new guns were
every moment lliruslingout their ugly
ttiouuia. flixi men wcro marcuingeiiiu
countermarching, I could hear titeir
officers ahouting gibberish at theto, I tevLa Jooruah
dissatislM-d, aa they aeerned of ixior
quality; but on getting down a little
way iii l!-a barrel he found big. tiico
ones. 1hi goea tdicad of George
Washington' famous barrel. tlit
were fc.ayi the same clear Uiro'jrU.
Aa Old Tim And loos tr.
John IL Draper is. by tho way. one
of the very few successors wo have to
tho witty auctioneers or the generation
gone berore us. ' When lie perches
r: l. ! l; I . . : rt.Vl I
uinixeu io nis armcnair, uonu ana
handsome, and with his fine flexible
voice commences to do business, you
may be sure that tho fun will soon be
gin. He has a word ' for every one.
and a repartee for every occasion. A
man who hod eaten too much dinner
groaned when a beautiful littlo Co rot
was knocked down lor aizs. "lucre,"
id the auctioneer solemnly, "you
bear Corel's ghoat, don't you?" A
drunken man. who had wandered in
and fallen asleep in a remote chair,'
reii over on Uiq uooriustas a strong
Michel went at 195. 'The price made
him faint." was the auctioneer's com
ment When a brilliant Vibert a car
dinal.all in red under a red umbrella.
walking in a Sunlit garden, was put
up, and one of the audience went up
to examine it on tho easel, the auction
eer auid: "You've often painted it
that way youraelf." A Moutieclli he
described as a good "all the week pic
ture, xou couiu call it wbul joq
wanted, and turn it a new way every
day out of the seven, and gire it a
new title. Any one who know Mon
ticelli's absinlhcAque fantasies) of color
will appreciate the description. When
a tentative Udder offered a raise of tl
on a ConH, and it good one, the auctioo
ew made it tZ.U. Tho bidder pro
tekted that he had only made the fig
ure It. "All right," said the auction
eer, "I'm lending you a dollar and a
hnlf to preax-rve your self reapect"
When the sale ended the auctioneer
fetor y of a Sacaeiaos Mule.
Everybody who visits the Grand
Pacific with any amount of frequency
has mode the - acquaintance of Pat
Aaron, i Pat has, lately, developed a
faculty for story telling, and has been
for some time past trying to make his
customers hclieve he.haaseeiit,Qysters
climb trees. Finding this yarf? too
large, he has ' oiie riow of a modified
character Patsaya when he was doWn
in New Orleans hosawnmule working
on a street car line that had in a great
degree whut Aught 1 considered genu
hie1' horse sense; - He says tho animal
was known alj through the Crescent
Uity by the 'name or htonewaii Jack
son. and when hitched un to his car in
tho morning-would not rnove.until the
barn gixng sounded the hour or lea v
; . . I ' .l-.i
ing, uo matter now anxious mu con
ductor or tho driver- might bo to get
minuto or two the start for some pur
p of his own. 1 Put says that one
morning the luulo was brought up to
be hitched to a strange car., ! t ; .
Tho instant Stonewall saw , tho car
he backed stubbornly away, and no
urging would Induce him to get in his
place. At lost he was led around to
the repair shops and Bhown his car, on
which the painters had begun work.
and he at once seemed to realize, the
difficulty, for he went Jaack and will
ingly took his place besido his mate
and drew the strange cat 'all ' day.
The next; morning though, the same
troublo ensued, and he had to bo shown
that hi.own car was not ready. Where
Stonewall showed the greatest intelli
gence, Pat says, was stopping appaiv
ently without reason while on a trip.
He did this one day when an extra
conductor was in charge, h Tho con
ductor came forward after a minuto or
two to see what tho troublo was. The
driver knew well, and told the extra
that lie had collected a fare and had
not rung his bell punch. At this tho
conductor did ring, and old Stonewall
Jackson shook his head as much as to
say. "You can't fool me," and started
olf on a trip without a word from the
driver. yuicago tlorald.-
A STRANGE COM
.ry.
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' v , . , , , Poetry .to Be 8oos
' A reader of the lyric poetry of tho
Elizabethan ago. is struck with its
adaptation to musio, its limpidity and
directness or utterance. . .
"Each composition." says Mr. J. A.
Symonds, in Tho Fortnightly Re
view, "is meant to bo sung, and can
be sung, because the poet's soul was
singing when ho made it"
Tho lyrics of the present ago possess
but little of this quality. Mr. 8y-
monus once askea Jennie una why
Shelley s lyrics were ill adapted to
to mumo. She made him read aloud
to her tho "Song of Pan" and "To the
Night" Then she pointed out that
verso is full of complicated thought.
and packed - consonants. . Not one
melodic phrase could be found to ox
press the poetic emotion.
"1 can sing Milton's
1.et the bright Seraphim ta burning row,
- Their loud, uplifted angel trumpet blow!"
said Jenny Lind," "and can sing Dry
den, but f could not sing yoUrShellev.
Wordsworth. Keats; no, and not much
Tennyson, either. . Tennyson has
sought out all tho solid shorn words.
and put them together;' music cannot
come between." . i u - .
The lyrics of pho present time, bo
Mr. Symonds sums up tho facts, are
not so singable as tho JUizabethan ly
rics because they aro far more complex
iu thoir, verbal structure, in their
thoughts, images and emotions. Their
words carry too many, too- Tanou.
and too contemplative suggestions.
xouinsittmpauiou.
Modifying (he Prescription.
A friend of mine laid down the
medical law tho other day. He said
the first thing a doctor finds out when
you send for btm is your pet taste,
nabit article of diet or beverage.
Then he ordors you to ston it If you
aren't a very big patient you have got
to do it But said my friend, I know
a man who was a little sick the other
day and consulted bis physician.
"Stop drinking whisky!" 'said the
"Is it as serious aa that?" asked the
man. In alarm. . t
"Yes. it is."
They had a bottle of wine, a fine
cigar, and a long chat and the doc
tor became very agreeable. When ha
got an to go the putient said:
"I wish there 'wa something else
man whuky 1 could stop. ; you see"
, "Well, I don't know, said the doe-
tor. VLemme tee. Do you eat but
ter!" ; V , : ,
"Yea." .. ..
"Then stop butter and go on with
the whisky. Good day!" Son Fran
cisco Cbrouicle. t . r
thm BemtinU Bed nirdo ' '
I havo never been able to find an
instance in which rod birds have been
bred in captivity, and although so
many thousands are kept as Del, all
or nearly all must have been trapped
This year I thought my birds were go
ing to make a record ror themselves,
but the usual failure ensued. The hen
laid five egg, but refused to sit Then
the malo bird becamo ferocious and
nearly killed his neglectful mate.
They are now separate, but whenever
be is let out of his cage be flies to that
of the hen and tries to resume hostili
ties. Yet a canary bird can knock
him out tha first round every time,
aud takes immense delight iu doing it
whenever the opportunity ariica.
Louis Globe-Democrat . -
tifssilti af frsrfswv '
Water expands with both beat and
cold. , It is the fact that water ex pand
o powerf uily as a disintegrating agent
Water enters tha cracks and orvs or
rocks, and on freezing cxiiaiid with
such fore a to breas otf fragmeiita
from their aurtaoe. Keaumur found
that three of the metala also tightly
expand, under the influence of cola.
ou becoming solid, namely, ca-st iron.
antimony and bismuth, and hence tne
Ceooomte and Social fentnree of a ;
Uliiiis Colony lit Iowa, -. '
M Probably the most pwwnnrous con.
; muuistic society in this country is i
Iowa, nearly ,iuo nines west iiom
Davenport, on the line of the Milwau
kee and St Paul road. . There are no
saloons in the colony .and. every man,
woman and child is a worker. There
are no idlers, na caucuses, no politics.
- Marriage is looked upon as one of
the .necessary evils, but it. ia not re
garded by any means as a meretorious
act ' Cliildren most be liatl and any
looseness of niorals , js stef nly f rowned
upon, yet' tiie" lot of "the newly mar
ried couple is not inany sense a happy
one. The religious standing of yonng
married people is very low until, by
patiently bearing the ' yoke of matrv
mony, they demonstrate their fitnes
to enter into the circle of tho elect
..Despite their costumes ' there- are
many remarkably pretty girls in Anw
na. In form tliey are straight and
lender. Many of " them have clear
cut features, and their complexion
are beautiful beyond description.
' - The costu mes of : the women are se
verely plain,' and at the same time are
picturesqua A print kerchief, manu
factured in the village, i. folded acrosa
the, bosom so that the waist of the
loosely fitting' dress is hidden. Tha
villagers manufacture all the fianneU
and calicoes worn, and each lias a
wide reputation. A black cap of soma
thin material Is worn rather' for bock
on the head, being gathered into a lit
tle bag at the back., narrow black rib
bons tying it under the chin. Knit
stockings and broad slippers or coarse,
shoes are worn, wooden shoes being;
reserved for field work, . Neither ago
nor condition in life ' brings any
cuangom incce garments.- - ;; -
No social intercourse LreJtowod be
tween tho y9ung men and the maidens,
and they see each other at intervals,
and even then at a distance. ! The as
sociation of the sexes is forbidden, On
guuday afternoon the boys and giria
are permitted to walk in the fields, in
opposite directions, (hbugh somelimea
tlioy come together. ; f , - s ,
.When a young man signifies his de
sire to marry a maiden he is put on
probation for a year or more. Once si
week he is allowed to see the object of
his affection, and no encouragement
Is given his suit by any one.. Ueia
never allowed to see her alone, how
ever. , w hen the marriage finally takes
place it is made the gloomiest of festal
oocasiona.'-.s ;: -'v'.-:--.'r t. '" ''
There are no wedding elotiies and
no wedding guests. " Two or three
elders meet at the homo of the bride's
parents and read hymns and lead in
prayers. ' The chapter iu Paul's epistle
to tne Ephesians, wherein the apostle,
with unflinching' severity, dearo-ibea
the duties of husband and wife, is
read, with somber comments. After
the lecture thero is a dead cold supper,
and every one is made to feci as mia-
erable as possible. When once mar
ried, however, there ia no bono far the
couple, as divorce is unknown. -
These communists are - rich, yet
they go without amusement of any
sort; all musical instruments save the
flute aro tabooed and there are na
brass ' band contests to disturb the se
renity of their even oxistence.
A small colony came to the United
States from Germany in 1842, headed
by Christian Mctz, an inspired "in
strument" and settled near Buffalo,
N. Y. tho name of Ebeneter being
given to the colony. ' As the colour
prospered . beyond all expectation it
was necessary to secure more land,
and the present' peaceful valley was
selected. The old name was left be
hind and Ainana was chosen as the
title by which tho colony should be
hereafter known. Seven - Tillages
prang up and are known as Atrwaav
EasL..WoL 8outh, Middle and High
Ajxiana aud Homestead. Anything
more peaceful than those hide viir
lages cannot be imagined, - '
' The inhabitants . are pietists. e,
rather, inspiratioiiiiits, but they do not
look nappy.' Tire y are pun Uiaical to
the last degree and tho children are
as sedate aud staid its their elders.
Christian Mctz, their leader, died
twenty-two years ago, and Burbani
Ueyneman, who was also an 'instria-
tnont led the people for fifteen yeera
after, when she, too, died Since then
there has been no one prominent or
holy enough tof ucoeed them sod there
is in consequence uo leader. Good.
pure and virtuous as Barbara was, .
however, she came under the ban Canoe,
though sho finally regained bar aad
tag as an "instrument
She fell in love with a eornalw TtwiLn
named George lindmann, and marry
mm sue wouiu anu wo, mougn ace
Suffered expulaiort for it ' As she was '
a power in the community, she suo
eeeded in getting back, but she wan
never really and heartily forgiven foe
having t)kcn to herself m husband
Hieroi a community of everything-.'
No cooking ia done by families, the
meals being prepared and served In .
kitchens maintained for thai nurpose.
There is an abundance of every thing
and po oue ever goea hungry, la
Amana. for instance, where there are
Krbap five hundred inhabitants, fif
:n kitchens are maintained.' lhe
proportiou ia the samo iu the other six;
villages. Philadelphia Timaa, 1
Taw MkHi Besullwe. !
It was said of some one, "Hi r-
tetn of reading smacks of the oil
school; little but good nan viullA,
sed nullum tot many things, tut
much)." Mrs. Browuing. who rr : i
verses before .lie was 8. end prod jctl
n epie at tl. indorses such a
tlHHigh it contrudiobi her own l'i kc uce.
iv hen still a cluld in t-s .he, ei .iicr
fterwarda fcaid. "galhertsi vi ions from
Ilatoand the draniali.U. and u' and
drank Orock, and niaa uy La.l evne
llri It"
Bhe read erery Look t' e ci u'" . ind.-
nd continue! ii,jt fi.cin of rea.ii"
through Lut Jter. when ij
gravely thanked hi audience, forgave precision with which cat iron tike
Ihem for their couuesa on the gT)und
i"h
i to j.iJ -e of the .vstcni tr iia
'rn ufon her Riiud, i!:e,wi.i to
fn
"Is!
that he did not Llame tlrm forbmng
shy of picture sale nowa-lay. andent
ll,(:m off with the valedictory, "God
help the old master T To-Uuy.
the mold. If a meUl'ic bo'.tle be filled j If I l.a I r
with nio'.ten bismuth iJ tightly : have l.s 1
plugged up, tl.e bo: tie wul be nrt- fir,'
nred when tiie metal aoi.U.i.4. .' c rv( ,
York Teic jrarr ...... ' j
' 1 ho w:r, I arri persimJ:
l read 1 aif n f jch; .inH.,
i ioi r e" I I -rex '"-v
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