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Upon, the wlIt4 Easan4
There sal ft pilgrim bind.
Telling the losses that their lives had known ;
TnuTeveniE waned awl . r
"Proni breezTlST and hay?
And the strong tides went ont with weary moan
One spake wilh quiTerVy'lip, -4
ur a rair rrc:jntea snip.
With all. his hooseht! I to the deep gone down,
V v: Bntone t!i urtlder wos. .
, ForaX fioe long agej.
mx?TTJi intb' ??pUia oi "$;.gat town,"
Tliere were who monrned their youth,
With a most loving truth,
For its brave hopes and memories e"ver green ;
And one upon the went
Turned an eye that would not rest
For far off hills whereon its joy had been.
Some talked of vanished gold,
Some of proud honors told.
Some spake of friends that were their trust no
more ;
And one of a green grave
i Beside a foreign wave
That made him sit so lonely on the shore.
But when their tales were done, j
There spake among them one.
A stranger, seeming from all sorrow free
f Sad losses have ye met.
But mine is heavier yet.
For a believing heart is gone from me."
"Alas !" these pilgrims said,
"For the living and the dead,
For fortune's cruelty, for love's strre cross.
For the wrecks of land and sea !
But however it came to thee.
Thine, stranger, is , life's last and heaviest
lOHS."
A Treasury Romance.
Kittie Itayne sat in the veranda and
whistled "AVitriin a .Mile' of Edinboro'
Town," while John Fenwick sat in the
parlor and scowled fiercely at the por
trait of that young lady hanging over
the mantel. But scowling didn't seem
to have any effect on the portrait, and
his anger seemed to have about a
much on the original.
The truth of the matter was, there
had been a lovers' quarrel.
They .had been engaged for six
months. That was a long timefor
hfTittTe to keep hrHirting propensities
in checkJ But she had done it, and
congratulated herself on the victory
she had gained. 'Why is it that just as
soon as we think we have ourselves
under! control, something comes along
to tempt us, and in agood many cases
we find that we are not masters of our
selves after all. I don't know why it
is, I am sure. Kittie didn't either. But
just about the time she began to plume
herself on her conquest, Carl Daven
port came along, and straightway up
popped the old penchant for flirting.
It seemed to her that she couldn't help
flirting with Davenport. He was
handsome and jolly,' and there was
something about him which seemed to
dare her. She knew John wouldn't
like it, that people would talk, and that
her mother would institute a course of
daily lectures but she kept on flirting.
John did care, and by and by he
spoke to her about it. .
"You aren't jealous, I hope?" she
said. I " I'd never have thought that of
you, John Fenwick, never ! "
"Xo, 1 am not jealous," he replied.
" But I don't like to see you so thought
less. ; Would you like to have me flirt
with Miss Powell or Miss Covert as
you flirt (with Davenport? Ts I
"Oh, I shouldn't care the least in
the world," she laughed back. "It's
real tun, John. Try it and see." . ,
That was all the satisfaction he got
then. By and by he touched on the
subject again, and they came near hav
ing a lovers' quarrel But John, who
had a holy horror of lovers' quarrels,
had the good sense to stop, before they
got to angry words. But now the
quarrel had come in dead earnest. For
half an hour there had been a tempest
raging in the parlor. Kittie took up
her position on the veranda and whistled
to show how little she cared, and lie
scowled. To listen to her, he con
eluded that at that particular moment
her sole object in life was tosee how-
many runs and trills and other embel
lishments she could sret Into " Within
a Mile of Edinboro' Town."
At length he went out to her.
" i! want to come to some understand
ing in the matter," he said. "I'll tell
you what you must do, Either stop
flirtiiig with Davenport or" J
"Or break off our engagement,is that
it? " she asked, with a half flush in her
cheeks. ' . .
Precisely. V he answe.red gravely.
"I have borne it as long as I can. If
you don't care for hhiiI have a right
to insist " ' .- ! ':
"You insist?" she cried, with flash
ing eye. " You insist? I'd have you
to understand, Jolin Fenwick, that
neither you nor any other man can
order me to act according to your sov
ereign will and pleasure. I shall do as
I please, sir."
" Very well," he answered, sternly.
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.need noi wait for theri "DTgu ean have
your freedom now. Herd's your ring;
keep it foraome irofsst who will ai-
$5 w TskJIXt&sdlilti to, and will
come and go at your royal will. Good
Jb A ""Til triJtwi 1iAif!BC. t-.ll nrl. aVinf thfit
tJ curtain ESW Mai go away with put
ence looking back
1
Ta.,&?j&4Zhttl&1hti must do
or must not do!" she cried. "Til show
him!" ' '
By and by better thoughts came to
her. " I suppose I was to blame," she
said, reluctant to acknowledge it, even
to herself. ." But he needn't have
made a fool of himself by being jealous
of me. He ought to have known that
I didn't care for the goose of a Daven
port, but men can't see an Inch ahead
of their ; nose. I'll let him think I'm
mad for a while, and when he's had
time to get ashamed of himself, I'll
come around a little and be good, and
everything will turn out nicely."
Kittie's plan was good enough, but it
failed to work. When she got ready to
take John back into her graces, he "had
gone away, and she didn't know where.
The days slipped by, and Kittie hoped
he would come back or write, but her
hope was a vain one. He had evidently
taken her at her; word, and henceforth
they were to be strangers to each other.
" And I was the only one to blame,"
sobbed Kittie. "It was all my doings,
and 1 loved him !"
It was a drowsy summer day The
wind was languid with warmth, .and
seemed to make the day more depressing
in its influence on the brain and body
than it would have been if no breath of
air had stirred the drooping leaves out
side the open window. I
Catharine Rayne stood at'her desk . in
the Treasury building at Washington,
and went through her .work in a me
chanical way. It was hard to keep her
thoughts on it this sluggish afternoon,
when everything seemed ready toj swoon
for want of arfresh breath of coolness
A great change had come into her life
since she gave back John Fenwick'a
ring. A sudden collapse of the bank in
which their money had been deposited
had left her and her mother dependent
upon their hands for the bread they
must eat and the clothes they must
wear: It needed some such blow to
bring out the strength of her character.
A friend in Washington had procured
her a clerkship in the Treasury Depart
ment, and she had come there bring
ing her mother, who was little better
than an invalid. What she earned was
enough to keep them comfortably, and
she was thankful for that.
She had grown to be a grave and
thoughtful woman. The years had
come and gone; she was thirty now,
with silver threads beginning to show
in her brown hair, and little lines of
care about her mouth.
In all these years she had heard but
little of John Fenwicfc. She knew that
he was getting to be a prominent man
at the West. But that was about all.
It had always seemed to her that they
would meet again somewhere. Loving
him as she had done, she felt -what it
is to lose and in the bitterest way loss
can ever come to us. Ever since they
had known her in the Treasury Depart
ment she had carried that look of
patient sorrow in her eyes.
" I am sure there5 must be some ro
mance in Miss Rayne's past life," de
clared Susie Vernon. " 1 wish I knew
what it was."
"She isn't looking at all well lately,"
said Susie to her neighbor, this drowsy
dayl " She is overworking herself.
She'll be down completely, if she isn't
careful."
There was a sound of voices at the
door, and one of the Treasury officers
came in with some gentlemen. Visitors
were so common that no one gave them
more than a passing glance as they en
tered, then work went on as usual.
Catharine did not look up. But she
became aware, by some su tie influence,
all at once, that some one was watch
ing her. She looked up then, and gave
a little cry that was almost a sob.
" Kittie !" It was John Fenwick's
voice that spoke. It was his hand that
was outstretched In welcome. ;
"Haven't you a word of welcome for
a fellow?" he said, looking down into
her face questioninglv.
"I am glad to see you, John," she
said, and then burst into a sudden fit of
weeping. -
"I have not forgotten you in all these
years,' ' he said, gravely. "Do you
care for me, Kittie ?" -;
"I never cared for any one else," she
said. ; "I was wicked. ' I saw It all after
ward." . -
"See here," he said gently, and she
looked up and saw the ring she had
given him long years ago. "Will you
wear it again, Kittie? I have had a
If you would
wear
itf" ! I :
He sliDDed
the yellow circlet on her finger, and
then anol there before many wondering
ires he) kissed her. The weariness
teemed to- have suddenlv sone out of
I !:er face and life.
It And Sjusle Vernon knew that there
Tiad been av romance in Misa Rami's
life, and that this was the best and h.nn-
?.:est part of it.
American Enterprise.
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VRciirrittijre power, the will and-the
energy to encounter and overcome dif
ficulties is the leading characteristic of
Atrierica.ns as a people. When sudden
disasters come upon them, Instead of
yielding to depression, they set rigor
ously to work and the time usually
given to lamentation is devoted to the
repair ofj damages and the rebuilding of
a better structure upon either physical
or fiiiancial.ruins. Thus have we seen
a new Chicago rear its head amid the
aslei of a wide-spread and desolating
coiiflgration. ..The fire swept away tha
wo$df n edifices and they were replaced
by taarbjle. We have seen, too, in this
eiertLon, me
greatest
civil war of
modern
times raging over ever section
of thiC0iintry. . No
sooner, however,
haft tine
clash of arms ceased than I the
work jo
meneed
reconstruction was recoin-
and wise measures adopted to
eonieni again that Union framed by our
fathers
that it might be bequeathed
"one and
inseparable"; to our pros-
perity.
' But it
is not necesearj' that we should
go so far
afield for evidences of the
elasticity of the American character.
On the 9th of Noy ember last a fire broke
out in: tnat pioneer arid most popular
of watering-places, Cape May City,
which, in a few short hours, swept
away all the large hotels, with a single
exception, together with the humbler
but handsome cottages inhabited dur
ing the summer months by private
families'. Everywhere the eye turned
was one scene of devastition and deso
lation. To all intents and purposes
Cape May City was utterly destroyed.
' Unde such circumstances what was
the action taken by those most deeply
int5Sst&d? .Did they idly fold! their"
arms arid relinquishing all hopes aban
don themselves to despair? This was
not the true American spirit. On the
contrary, while the embers were 'still
smouldering, they took a calm survey
of the entire field. The New Jersey
railroarjl company (operated by the
Pennsyili vania railroad company) which
ha? already done so much in the way
of speeily aud safe transportation for
that city by the sea, came nobly to the
front arid offered to deliver bujlding
materials either at reduced rates or free
of cost.) Temporary tracks were built
to facilitate the moving of heavy
freights. The City Councils agreed to
exempt the larger hotels, when rebuilt,
from taxation for'the term ol five years.
An impulse was thus given to the work
of reconstruction and the following
improvements having been commenced
will be completed in time for the present
season. r
The tiew Congress Hall, a brick struc-
ture ofj
200 rooms, about half the capa
the former building. It is four
city of
stories
high, the upper being mansard
It extends 100 feet east and west,
roof.
and 200 feet north and south, located
fifty feet farther on the lawn, and the
west Wing being much nearer the sea
than formerly, the end being opposite
the West End- House- on Congress
street, Ibut only extending half across
the lajn. Washington street Is to be
cut through from Perry -to Congress,
and the office, main entrance, etc., Is
on Washington street. The kitchens,
etc., are one story and placed on Perry
street, half-way between the former
hotel office and the sea.
-Mr. Geo. .Fryer's cottage, foot of
Perry street, is up and the third story
joist crossed. It is being weather
boarded. The Avenue House of Mrs.
Michael Biern, In front of Fryer's, is
having the basement dug, and will go
up at jmce, to be done by May 15. Mr.
Doughty is still to conduct it. King's
cottage, foot of Jackson street, is partly
j raised and joist laid. He Is excavating
cellars on Decatur street, where the cot
tages were burned there. Victor Denizot
is raisjng his house at the foot of Deca
tur street. It is much larger than the
cottage. Mr. A. McConnell's cottage,
half burned, Is nearly rebuilt, and Mr.
Rudolph's, which was but slightly dam
aged, lis entirely finished. Mr. Mc
Connell will rebuild the house adjoining
his,' which was wholly consumed.
Mr. Jere E. Mecray is raising his cot
tage on Jackson street, alongside of the
Centre House site. .; He will not rebuild
the Centre. The Stockton, bath: house
site is graded ready for the structures.
They
and Mr.
King's
are to be two
stories high a novelty here. On How
ard Street, Mr. Robb's cottage is up,
enclosed and under roof. , The Chal
foute addition oi 110 feet is drawing to
completion. The Whitney : cottage,
foot of Congress street, is to' be con-,
verted1 into a roomy hotel for! 200 people.
The Stockton House is to have an ad-
lonely lij
only
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diton, but ground Is not broku for
either it or Whitney's yet. . - ;
It is said the West Jersey railroad
will run Its rails to Sea Grove and the
steamboat landing this summer. The
cross-ties are lying at the creek bridge
on Broadway, and- stakes are driven
across the Mark Devlne property and
marsh for half a mile. The stake struck
the creek half a mile west of the Excur
sion House, and rumor says it follow
the beachf after leaving- Mark1 Devlne's
land. The U. S. authorities will not
allow the locomotive to cross near the"
light-house tower, a the jar willinjure
the structure. Mr. Nash, of Philadel
phia, formerly of the Arctic House here,
has the Excursion House this summer.
Mr. Brolasky's summer cottage here
has the columns supporting the veran
dahs of both stories, made from the
rough trunks of cedars as they grew In
the woods, barked, but wjith the knots
prominent! where the branches were
hewn off. The brackets are formed
from the natural branch left on the
trunk. . I
Dr.EmlenPhysick's8uperb residence,
near Schellengers Landing, awaits a
change in the weather to enable the
plasterers to proceed with their work.
Capt. W. H. Mills Is about to rebuild
his house, burned January 4th, on
Washington street.
The Columbia House will very pro
bably go up again on the lawn close "to
the sea, strong talk to that effect now
pervading theair. j
Thus almost before the r-oar of the
flames has ceased there will rise again
on the shores of the Atlantic a rene wed,
regenerated, though not a more salu
brious or popular Cape May. ,
How He Shot It. '
Somebody told a down 'town man at
Kingston, N. Y., who is noted for his
sportsmanlike proclivities, that there
was a wild turkey down on the ice near
"the old hjppers," and he grabbed his
double-barrelled breech-loader and
started to exterminate that fowl. He
saw his game near the Esopus shore of
the river, and just as he got ready to Are
a man stepped up near the turkey.
The sportsman grew wild with excite
ineut, pulled off hi hat -waved' It, and
yelled to the man to get out of his way,
and fairly grew feather white with
rage as the reckless individual didn't
obey. The sportsman was all of a trem
ble lest the game should escape him,
and finally let drive, taking his chances
of missing the turkey and hitting the
man, or hitting the turkey and missing
the man. He hit the turkey and then
swelled with rage and indignation
almost to the bursting point at the gall
of the stranger who picked up the bird
tucked it under his arm and started off.
The sportsman was rooted to the spot
with astonishment for awhile, but be
soon recovered and gave chase. He
overtook the man with colossal cheek
just over the brink of the hither shore,
and was struck flat aback when the
stranger opened on him with "Thank
you; 1 was just going to kill It myself
when you saved me the trouble. That
darned old gobbler has given me more
trouble than all the rest of my flock.
I'll do as much for you some well, I'm
blc wed if the chap ain't mizzled 'fdre 1
could thank him." Ai.d he had; he'd
more than mizzled ; mizzle was no name
for it; the sportsman was lighting oiit
for home, anxious to arrive before
the fellow who told him about the tur
key could leave, feo he (the sportsman)
could present him with the contents of
the other barrel of the breech-loader.
Games. .
Dice were known to the Lydians 1500
years B. C Perseus is credited with
the invention of quoits, and the Hindoo
Tessa with that of chess. Ardschio,
King of Persia, invented backgammon,
Palamedes -draughts, Pyirhus tennis,
and the Greeks the noble game of goose.
Loto is a comparatively recent discov
ery, due to an Italian, Celestlno Galini,
in 1753. Dominoes owe their name to
the piety of a monk who originated
them, and who was happy to pronouuee
a holy word while taking this amuse
ment; and it Is a nun who is believed to
have Invented both the game of battle
dore and shuttlecock and the catgut
racket used in playing tennis. Exca
vations. at Hissariik, the presumed sit
of Troy; have brought earthenware
"marbles" to light; amd those at Pom
peii have yielded a number of Jointed
dolls In ivory, which prove that the cus
tom of giving cotly toys to children Is
not one of modern development.
Shrewdness and Ability.
Hop Bitters, so freely advcrtlsod lh
all the papers, secular and religlous.are
having a large sale, and are supplant
ing all other, medicines. There is no
denying the virtue of the Hop plant,
and the proprietors of these Bitters
have shown great shrewdness and
abilty in compounding" a Bitters whose
virtues are so " palpable to every one's
obs er vation Exchange, '
Soxa of the oyster openers Shall we
meat at the river?
Pennsylvania Ranters.
One of the principal deer slayers in
Pennsylvania is Andrew Stiuer, of
Mycrstown, Lebanon county. For near
ly forty years he has camped out In the
Allegheny mountains during the sea
son! for killing deer, and many are the
stories he can relate of hu exciting
chase or patient watch in the stillness
of the wpods, miles away from human
habitation. In early times Stiner'a
uncle .settled .Jn thenelghborhoo.a of
Bepnlngtoh Furnace, now on the line
of i he Pennsylvania Railroad, between
Al oona and the big tunnel, and It was
while visiting this old uncle that An
drew got a fondues fordeer hunting,
which in his after years, has been hU
on y amusement. For the last twenty
yers Stiner's stalking ground has been
at jthe headwaters of the Big and Black
Moshannon, in Centre and Clearfield
counties. His companions have been,
for many seasons, three men cf that
neighborhood, who are . familiar with
all the spurs and creeks of that moun
tainous region. Jacob Test, John Funk
anl William Ileam have camped out
with Stiner every season since 1856.
Ream lives at Osceola, Clearfield coun
ty,! and Test and Funk near Tyrone.
These men mark the crossings of the
deer through the summer, their retreat
and feeding grounds. They put up a
cabin near these places andrepare the
bunks and cooking arrangements.
Tlien Stiner is sent for. . He comes with
the ammunition, blankets, gum boots,
and such other articles as are essential
to j a lumberman's life, for. his three
friends are logger's by occupation, and
their annual hunt is not the sole busi
ness of their lives. They take out
plenty of provisions, and with well-flll-ed
straw bunks in a dry shanty, plenty
of robes and blankets and a good stove,
they fix themselves nicely. For sever
al years their cabin has been sixteen
mi.'es from Phillipsburg, toward the
Snow-shoe mountain. Last year Stiner
brought back with him from that local
ity to Myerstown an express car load
of venison.' Ream has himself killed
over one thousand Ueer, and it is said
that Test and Funk are not far behlnJ
hinr; Lately ah im mense seven-pronged
buck baffled every attempt to bring him
down. Stiner and Ream went after
him. There was a light sift of snow
upon the ground just enough to trace
the blood drops ot a wounded buck or
doe, and they started early to the cross
ing.! After a protracted hunt the deer
was shot and weighed when dressed 26S
pounds. These men, from long exper
ience,; became acquainted with the
habits and haunts of the deer, and the
particular kind of weather In which
they seek the hill tops, or when they
go down into the gorges of the moun
tains. Fully three days before a heavy
snow storm the deer all quit the moun
tain tops and seek the big laurel swamps
for food and shelter till the storm is
over, j After it has passed, if the weath
er gets colder, they leave the swamps
and take to the high ridges of the
mountain. Their sense ot hearing and
smelling is very acute. They must be
approached against the wind; the
hunter must face the blast in his trav-
i i '
elsiafter deer or he will never as much
as get1 a sight of one. The deer cannot
see any distance, and on rainy day?
when the leaves are wet, you can often
approach within a few yards without
being observed. I Indeed, this Stiner
party have, when the leaves were to
wet that the sound of every footstep
was deadened, approached within twen
ty yards of the largest bucks before
they took the alarm, which in those
cases were of short duration, for the
aim ot the trusty rille was as true as ii3
fire was deadly."
Rearing Sponges by Artificial Means.
During the past few years, Dr. Oscar
Schmidt, professor of Zooology at the
University of Graatz, and a well-known
authority on sponges, has employed
several weeks of the, early.sumraer in
artificially producing and rearing the
bath sponge. His labors have met with
such success that his system has been
adopted by the Austrian Government,
and is now carried out on the coast of
Dalmatia. It has for some time been a
well-known fact that several families
of zooophytes have such great powers
of reproduction, that a portion of one
will grow and form on an entire new
body. Dr. Schmidt has taken advan
tage of this property, his process being
to cut the . sponge into pieces, fasten
each portion to a pile, and immerse it
In the sea. The pieces then .grow, and
eventually from each one a spherical
sponge is obtained. According to the
estimates of Dr. Schmidt, a small piece
of sponge at the end of three years will
represent a value of about ten cents.
The total cost of raising 4000 sponges,
Including the interest on the expended
capital for three years, Is estimated at
$45, and the Income at about $80, leav
ing, therefore, a net profit of $33.
There is no doubt that the practice oi
this r.ew branch of Industry will prove
a source of considerable benefit' to the
inhabitants of the Idrlan and Dalmatian
coasts.