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' • '4v /• >;>{ ,.tio, * But the phantom yet remains, ' i&Y^k&BoMr vending golden lanes r j ~ * That reveal their glistening / -- -Where the lamp of faith abidsa, ;»s" ^ ' Aad tbe beacons 'long the moor - y, 5 fifcow the footprints on the shifittt ^ Jfc ' & «» * 'Where the weary pilgrim trod- • % ' ' Up the avenues to Ood. Hlft V'f ?lfc; i •« > • * •i4'S k--ii v ^V ̂ OM°- -A : Stflfi £U«J , ' ' •• & i^M'TWO TEAMS WEDDEtk . *-(<"^777^ BT H. C. IIFLDI 1 (* A !*' I.fw •'C Vernon bad twin oow^w^ty t#6 years wedded when he? annt, with whom «he had formorly lived m,d from whose house she had married, tame to spend the winter with her. Mrs. Beverly had not been long with liar, niece before she saw, or thought she saw, that things were not going right with the young eoople. Kate oftes! looked as if she had been crying. He happy expression and fresh color ha& •disappeared. On his part Mr. Vernon ^ras sfarangely silent and moody. After <ttie Jhfctr eveningf, too^ he .began ,to be absent himself. ^ It w^ on one of these occasions that ^ . the wife broached the subject that had r W>' on her lips since her aunt's ar- i'A\ tML" \ b Jxa&saAj&s '? icv moo.-- ^ ^ /Apologize, my child! What for?" "For Edward's going out and leaving ns alone eo much. I know yon think it r v strange. It isn't a bit like what it used / -'-|W ^ ̂ n . "P erhaps h« haa business which calls hfett from hmae oftener than usual,1" re- • / turned her aunt, not wishing to acknowl- *, ' edge ttat she certainly saw that Kate's ^ huslmnd w«8 not sp attentive ic his wife • as die could wish. ' 'f ' -I think not, annt; I know of no ' busmess that should make Mw absent himself from home so much* as he has %m 4one of late; besides, he is not so lov- „ ing and kindly now. I wish, indeed, ^ I .business was the caaa*.w ; Here the young wife burst into tears. ;; , ;^, s , ^ waa % relief to her to have made confession. She had been misera- , Uy unhappy for a long while, and now she flung herself on her aunt's bosom, -and wept as if her heart would break. »;*$ Mrs. Beverly drew the poor child to • IX ^dagain. t *f ~ ...4 "X »e«M you lutfve been unhappy \ ever since I came here," she said, alter t , a j^llse. "But I have seen, also, that "y ihe cause is one easily oorrected " t '*©h, no, no!" interrupted the young , wife, "Edward doesn't care for me any ^more. He goes but almost every even- ' i°g' as he has done to-night--he who | ?C- never could stay one evening away be­ fore we were married," 7 , *Kate, my child," said her annt, seri- "yon say jum husband does not ^ , love you. You quote his going out of ^ enrenings as a proof of it. I admit the pg mefacL" Kate winced. "But is there 1; no cause for it? You used to be, my I 4ea^ scrupulously neat in your attire. : C I do not say you are now untidy. But a very great difference, as I between the way in which down te breakfast now and p Xou U8®d to at my house. yo®r fsee was always fresh, your Mr iimlly amaged, your collar un- imaiMii, jmi gown spotless. Now, I grieve to say, my darling, things are ^eiyai«erent; and, what is worse than «Mrfe!®^&e«a in SIM,even, your coun- -tenfeiise ia, sometime^ the least bit .grotr." Kate, dnriag ihia plain apeedh, had gradually ceased sobbiog; and now, «ifh her hands holding back her hair, via staring up into her aunt's faoe, half |n anger, in astonvshment and dis- i didnl know tt!" she ex- •>: C- Mm r&iif - *' l/k' ^ Vp<]bt *t-: ni<<;Y * i* i you sure? when B&ward has been ^u, doesnt look like a man wfco Mid aoold." "Well, he's jealous of baby; he looks at it often; and he as good as says it sometimes. He has even hinted, once or twice, that since baby was born I don't care as much about my--my good looks--as I used to do. That's the way of them all, I suppose--they marry us for our beauty, and, when our health ffrila, then they blame--blame us for it.* "My child," answered Mrs. Beverly, kindly, too much in earnest to smile, as she would have done if it had been any­ body else; "J think you are unfair to Edward. Certainly there is nothing in your state of health to spoil yoar good looks. You are, or might be, far prettier than when you married. A very little more attention to your dress would ren­ der you more attractive than ever." "But I'm sure I love Edward just as much as over," said Kate, looking up, her large eyes dilated with surprise and a little indignation; "and it's very un­ just of him to think I dont because of baby." And then she burst into lean again. "Perhaps he is a little to blame, my dear," said her aunt, kissing her. "What I say is that it is not very strange he should feel hurt. Consider! Love is to be judged, like everything else, by its works. If Edward finds you no longer paying any attention to your personal appearanoe, if he sees you take offense when he hints that he would like you to dress as you used to, is it abso­ lutely cruel, or even unnatural, on his pact that he should think yon hardly can love him as yon used to love him? He reasons, remember, that if yon did yon would have some regard for hit comfort. And, further, if baby is made the excuse for all this, he becomes not exactly jealous of baby, bat occasion­ ally the least, bit cross." ^ Much of this had its effect on Kate, who, after all, was a sensible and kind- hearted woman. "But what must I do?" she whis­ pered, her face hidden in her aunt's Un. "Come down to breakfast to-morrow m your neatest dress, and with your hair nicely arranged. Do not be late, as you have been. Get up in time to have the baby off your hands. Be as cheerful and pleasant to Edward as if nothing had ever happened. Let the last few weeks be ignored entirely. Meet him in the evening in your fresh­ est attire, aod have everything about the room cheerful; if you can, let there be something for dinner to show you re­ member his likings, and are thoughtful for his comfort and happiness. Why, my dear, it is the easiest thing for a wife to retain a husband's love. If she will only show the same interest in him that she exhibited for the lover, all will be well." "But what of baby the meantime?" asked the young mother. "You have the whole day, darling, to devote to baby, and surely that is enough. The little fellow is a dear, sweet child, but you must not let him monopolize all your time. Only be your old self for one week, and your truant will be won back again." Kate took her aunt's advice. The next morning she was down before her husband, had seen that the breakfast table was perfect in all its arrangements, and had even ordered the cook to pre­ pare Edward's favorite dish, as a little surprise to him. Edward saw, with half-concealed astonishment, the bright­ er looks of things, gave one quick glance at his wife, flushed with gratifi­ cation and fell at once into something of his old lover-like manner. Ceitaimly Kate had never seemed lovelier. "You are fresh-lookiog as a June rose, my dear," said her aunt, kissing her, when Edward had left for his office. "The battle is half Won already, I see." That evening was quite like old times. Kate welcomed her husband in the hall with a kiss. The hearth was swept up; there was a little vase of flowers on the sideboard, and Edward's favorite maga­ zine, which had come that day, was ready cut for him. The dinner, too, was excellent. There was no going out. Part of the time was spent in cheerful talk, and part in reading aloud. The husband could not keep his eyes off his pretty wife. In the loveliest of blue dresses, and with her color heightened by many emotions, Kate looked more beautiful, he thought, than ever in the days of their oourtship. 1: What commenced so favorably went happily ever after. " I can never thank you enough, aunt, for your advice," said Kate, kissing Mrs. Beverly enthusiastically, when the lat­ ter was leaving, at the end of her visit. " Your com ing was a real blessing. How long Edward and I should have gone on at cross-purposes, loving each other in spite of all, perhaps, but still getting more and more unhappy, I cannot tell; probably all our lives. And if so " And here she burst into tears, the prospect her fancy had oonjured up be­ ing too much for her. Mm. Beverly kissed the tears away, aad said; * 60 on .as JOB ace going now, my dour. It is often a wife's fanlt if a husband ceases to' b< *'M lover." t) JS? Boys to faculty--Look here! we want shorter 3 o*clock prayers in the morning. ' Faculty--Very well, boys; we'll nip the prayers off at both ends. Only don't go to the Harvard shop across the> way to buy your educations. Boys--And we want whiaky in our tea. Faculty--Now, boys, that isn't hard­ ly right, yon know. Wine is a mock-- Boys--Whisky in our tea, and a pint apiece every morning after prayers, or we patronizes McCosh's shop. Faculty--""Wary well, boys. Please take your boots off the oenter-table, won't you? Boys--And the Professor of The­ ology must black our boots and eat the meat up for our bull-pups. Faculty--Now, boys,, that's too bad. Ho college does such a thing--at least for the money. Gentlemen, please put your dogs out of the parlor, won't you? Boys--Prof. Dogstar must black onr boots and out the pups' meat up, or we go over to the New Haven shop. Faculty--Well try and suit you, boys. , Boys--And Mrs. Prof. Hexameter must tuok ns in after we go to bed, and bring us our soda-and brandies in the morning. - Prof. Hexameter--Mrs. Hex. shall do no such thing. Boys--All right; we, move over to the Free-and-Easy Theological Insti­ tute to-morrow.--New York Graphic. TELEPHONE! POM BOYS. Take two empty oyster cans and a stout, smooth string. Let a small hole be made in the bottom of each can, through which the striBg, say fifty or a hundred feet in length, is passed and secured. Then let the experimenters set up their talking telegraph by choos­ ing their stations as far apart, as the tightly-stretched string will permit, and while one of the operators holds his ear to one of the 02215, snd ssss,p»id^s his month to the other end of the line, they will find that a conversation can be carried on so that low tones and even a whisper will be distinctly per­ ceptible. What usually most astonishes those who make this experiment for the first time is, that the sound of the voice does not seem to oome from the person at the other end of the string, but to issue from the can itself, whioh is held to the ear of the listener. This at first appears to be a deception, but it is really not so. The ear tells the exact truth. The voice that is heard really comes from the can that is held to the ear of the hearer. The voice of the speaker communicates sound-producing vibrations to the walls of the can with which his voice is in immediate con­ tact. These vibrations are oommuni- cated to the string, but so changed that they do not affect the ear. A person may stand by the string while the sound is passing, and yet hear nothing. At the other end of the string, however, these hidden vibrations reproduce themselves as sounds. THE EXTENT Of JTMEEMABONET. The following statistics of the num­ ber of Freemasons' lodges whbh exist­ ed at the end of last year, says the Lon­ don Family Herald, will be read with interest: In Germany there are 842 lodges; Switzerland has 33; Hungary, 44; Roumania, 11; Servia, 1; England and Wales, 1,187; Scotland, 334; Ire­ land, 299; Gibraltar, 5; Malta, 4; Hol­ land and Luxemburg, 46; Belgium, 16; Denmark, 7; Sweden and Norway, 18; France, 287; Spain, about 800; Portu­ gal, 22; Italy, 110; Greece, 11; Turkey, 16; Egypt, 28; Tunis, 2; Algeria, 11; Morocco, 2; the west coast of Africa, 11; African islands, 25; the Cape, 61; Arabia (Aden), 1; India, 118; Indian islands, 16; China, 73; Japan, 5; Aus­ tralian islands, 4; Australia, 229; New Zealand, 84; United States, 9,894; Can­ ada, 535; Cuba, 30; Hayti, 32; West Indian islands, 65; Mexico, 18; Brazils, 256; other states in South America, 179; a total of 15,000 lodges. The num­ ber of brethren is calculated at above 5,000,000. A, CONUNDRUM. ) An Eloquent Irish lawyer, 'named Henn, had this conundrum proposed to him: " Why should the Captain of a ahi never be at a loss for an egg?" The riddle was a new one to all present, and Henn WM the only person who solved it. " Because he can always lay to " (lay two). He was asked, "How came you to guess that?" To whom he promptly replied, "Who had a better right to guess it than a Henjy Henn was counsel for a Mr. Leader, and portrayed the injury his client suffered in such pathetic words as caused the plantiff to shed tears. On being asked what had occurred to make him cry, "O," he said, "though I knew I was wronged, I did not know to what extent I was injur*^ ipl# Jfe»,Ji!Sia stated my oaas." - . fr" % A* warm k *. eato& *"•'** #: "Do *»nt feel a© badly, Edward; perhaps something will torn up in our favor be­ fore long. I do not believe we are going to be left to starve. I trust you will get work soon." "There are mora applicants, than places," replied the downcast husband. "You know how hard I have tried for the last two weeks." "I know, dear, but your very next effort may meet with better results." Edward Spellman raised his head from the table where it had lain some time, and said with a little more spirit. "Per­ haps so; I will, at least, try again," and donning his hat and coat went into the street. He had not gone a great way when met » farmer with a load of ap­ ples, who stopped his team and asked him if he did not want to buy some of the fruit. " No," replied Spellman; *1 amont of work and can buy nothing until I ean get a job." "What kind of work do you do?" " I was raised a farmer, but have for the last five years been at Work in a shop in this city. But owing to the hard times the boss cannot get as many jobs as he used to, and has been obliged to dispense with some of his help." "Would you like to get a place to work on a farm now?" " Yes, better than anything else. I have been caged up in a shop so long, it would be a great relief to get out into the country onoe more." " Well, if you can come well recom­ mended, I do not doubt but you can get a situation to work for a gentleman far­ mer who only spends his summers in the oountry. He is in want of a good trusty hand to do the gardening and much of the light work on his place." " Where does he live? " "Oh, about five miles out of this city. I am going Out home in about two hours, and you can ride' out with me to see him, if you wish. Be right in this spot at the end of that time and I will come along and take you in." "All right. I will be here; but first, what wages will he give?" "Have you a family? " " Yes, wife and two children." "Weil, I think he would give yon twenty or twenty* five dollars a month, house rent and a small garden." The farmer then drove along, and Spellman returned home to tell his wife that he had, at least, a plaoe in view. She was delighted with the idea of go­ ing into the oountry to live, and told him to be sure to make a bargain with the man if he could. Before night the bargain was made; Spellman liked it all very well except the house he was to live in. It was a little story-and-a-half building, with very small rooms; and, what was worse than all the rest, anoth­ er family ocoupied a part of it. Ever since he was married and lived in the city, he had rented a fiae tenement with large, high rooms,and now to move into a hut with his family was not a pleasant thing to contemplate. At the time he was married, six years before, he had $1,000 in money and his wife $500. This money they invested in furniture, a $500 piano, and housekeeping articles, ao they had been living in a style that poorly accorded with their means. The money he earned was spent as fast as it was due, so that as soon as he stopped work he was short of funds, But now, even when he could get work, which he had so much desired, a bugbear was still in the way. The house which was to be furnished them was not large enough to hold their furniture, and, as for getting the piano into one of those small rooms, it was wholly oat of the question. "We will have to rent it," said Spellman to his wife, "if we go there." "Oh, Edward," she replied, "I could not think of such a thing. It would be spoilt." "Then sell it, Priscill*.* "We could not get half we gave for it, Edward; and how oould I live with­ out it? I have never done without music." "Then what is to be done? We can it neither that nor half the other things we have into that hut. For my part, I wish we never had bought so muoh. If we had put the money opt at interest, we would now have enough'to bay a little place. Cilia, it was all nonsense, and not altogether ay do­ ings" "Nor altogether mine," die poatingly Said. "You were as muoh to blame as I.' "Well, we won't go into that miser­ able hut to live, any way, Priacilla." "I don't see how we can," sthu mailed, "if we cannot have room for any of onr things." Nothing further was said on the sub­ ject, and Spellman sent word the fol­ lowing day he oould not fulfill his en­ gagement to oome to the country, and, finding his efforts to procure any other situation unavailing, he worried himself into a fever, and was sick a long time. When he was able to get around again, Ms furniture and piano had been pledged to pay the debts .that accumu­ lated. At last he procured work for small pay, and Pnseilla obtained «• a •«"» sMoswry. iMllotue |ih which they now lived was no larger ithan the one in the country, and, as most ng their furniture had been sold, they had hardly enough left for their necessities. "If we hftd began in this way when we were first married, Priscilla, and, in­ stead of spending all we had, kept add­ ing to our little stope, we might now be pretty well off." In this way Spellman was oonstantly talking until he became a monomaniac upon the subject, and fretted his wife nearly to death. "There is no use of complaining about it now," she would reply. "We are both doing the best we can, and will manage to keep out of the almshouse JW king as we can work." But, if she did not complain, die went about with a constant heartache, think­ ing of her children, who were so much deprived of her care, and being brought up under such adverse circvmstances, still trying to mormnr not over what m i g h t h a v e b e e n . . ; . _ ^ . . . . . s , PrmraxD, Maas, f * 4" r fm'iWi'.,,, Y WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES. " Fashion has established the custom, of late years, of celebrating certain an­ niversaries of the marriage, these being named as follows: The celebration at the expiration of the first year is called the cotton wedding; at two years comes the paper; the third year, the leather; at the close of five years comes the wooden; at the seventh anniversary, the friends assemble at the woolen; and at ten comes the tin. At twelve years the silk and fine linen; at fifteen the crys­ tal wedding. At twenty, the friends gather with their china, and at twenty- five the oouple that have been fame to their vows for a quarter of a century are rewarded with si*er gifts. From this time forward the tokens of esteem become rapidly more valuable. When the thirtieth anniversary is reached they are presented with pearls; at the fortieth comes the rubies; at the fiftieth occurs the glorious golden wedding. Beyond that time the aged couple are allowed to enjoy their many gifts in peace. If. however, by any possibility, they reach the seventy-fifth anniversary, they are presented with the rarest gifts t& be obtained, at the oelebration of tfyeir diamond wedding. In issuing the invitations for celebrating these anni­ versaries, it is customary to print them on material emblematic of the occasion. Thus, thin wood, leather, cloth, tin foil, silk, silver and gold paper, and other materials are brought into use. Of course, those who accept such invita­ tions, and partake of the hospitality of the host and hostess, are expected to contribute to the collection of gifts that " JI _ II JILfll - will grace the oooasion. * * PLEASJLSttmS. ----1 Y •*$>•-• How 19 it that a hot furnace is alway ooaled? we liable to kick--even COLTS Colt's revolver. EASTERN troat do not thrive ia CtoH- fornian streams. > NEVER send in apoesn to-day flu# be sent in to-morrow. WHY should the yatohtsmen be happy? Because they yacht. A SLKXPT individual asserts that it is * long laying that has no turning. ' IT was because George Washington oould not tell a lie that his father never sent him to town with fresh eggs, CA* a man who rightly divinerth# location of a rich mineral lode be prop­ erly styled one of the miner profits? - "BULLS are but inflated frogs," sings Little Buttercup; but don't you believe it, unless there is a high fence between f you and the belldwing brutes. THE Texas Legislature has enacted that all trains shall oome to a halt be* fore crossing the State line. Many peo­ ple come to a halter after crossing it. A DOCTOR to his son--"Johnny, wouldn't yon like to be a doctor?" "No, father." "Why not, my son? "Why, father, I couldn't even kill a.fly.* THE exercise of whipping carpets is recommended for the development of muscle. Don't let your wife do it, or she may get the start of yon in develop­ ment. Aw amateur Lady M«db«th, who also interests herself in pedestrian exhibi­ tions, ejaculated: " Stand not upon the order of your going, bui go as you please." A VERY rich man said, "I worked like a slave till I was 40 to make my fortune, ^ and Fve been watching it like' a detect- ^ ive ever sinoe that time for my lodging, | food and clothes.* ~ - ̂ "Now, WILLI*," said his anxious mother, "how did you get that big daub of molasses on your best jacket? " " Oh, sirup-titiously, ma," and his pe­ culiar wink saved him a boxed ear. ' m I . , . r iiiri^iiiii. AN INGENIOUS DEVICE. WE have no great sympathy wit people who find amusement in what are called "sells," but the following in­ genious device seems to be free from many objectionable features. A gentle­ man took an unopened lwttle of cham­ pagne from the table and offered bets to any amount--small ones for prefer­ ence, as the trick was admittedly a "sell"--that he would drink a glass of champagne from that particular bottle without drawing or piercing the cork, without causing it to be drawn or pierced, and without breaking or any way injuring the bottle. The ut impossibility of accomplishing sue! thing might have induced the inc tious to bet against its being done, 1 we preferred humby to ask how it be accomplished; and, thereupon, holder of the bottle simply turned upside down, poured a glass af chai^ ,1 i m WHY is a river like Wall street, New York? Because there are banks on either side.--Danbury Newa. Yes, and in all the bull-rushes upon them you will find plenty of Moseses.--Bal­ timore Every Saturday. Iv there is any time in a man's exist enoe when life insurance seems appro­ priate, it is just before he attempts to break a colt If there is true grit in him, he will either break the oolfc or his neck--the man's neck, we mean. PARAGRAPHERB may yet have cause to combine against the Chinese. Ah Sin, a Sixth street laundryman, winked his almond eye the other day and remarked that he wasn't the biggest Ah Sin the/ world after tNL--Cincinriati Satarda^ Night '%K A CERTAIN actor has sued an editor for calling him intemperate. A brother editor says that the aotor can bring for­ ward several witnesses who never saw him drunk; but, alas, there are millions 17 i who can testify that they never saw him sober. HK entered the grocery store, said ;tj not a word, but allowed his cane to swing to and fro exaotly as the pendu­ lum of a clock. The grocer only said, irVHSrrmTrfr YtflTfJW atrouttge solicited te L- pagne into the hollow at the bottom, and undoubtedly drank it from and out of the bottle.--Exchange. THE TAME LARK. I have a friend who brought np a young lark by hand in his offioe, in city this summer. Now it is full- grown, and*Bo tame that it will come at call from any part of the house, in which it has entire freedom. It goes around striking its closed bill into the earth and then opening it, thus prying apart a hole into which it looks, first with one eye and then with the other, cocking its head in a very amusing way. If a paper is put near it, in goes the bill, and then it is opened, tearing a hole large enough for observation. The rents in the carpet and table* cloth fdso test this destructively inquisitive trnt-rScience News. iu ECCENTRIC. , ' " Blind people have their eooe'a^fili." The other day a friend of ours, who is very proper,, and discourages the ballet, had a eaJ! from a woman whose husband was blind. Our friend was about to give her something,.when an idea oc­ curred to her. She asked: "How did your husband meet with this misfortune, my poor woman?" "Oh, don't speak of it, I beg of you; but we were at the play, and suddenly the b&!M- dancers came on. My hus­ band, who is a very modest at onoe threw his* eyes np to the oeiling Mid named them." Our Maud to the woman's Hand, keeping JLTrl ' declared^ dog!" A osmxlEMAN, recently aboat to' pay his doctor's bill, said: " Well, doctor, as my little boy gave the measles to all my neighbor's children, and as they were attended by you, I think yon can afford, at the very least, to deduot 10 per cent, from the amount of my bill, for the increase of business we gave A PARTY of artists and art critics came to the following conclusions re­ garding their dinner: That the hash wae low in tone and defective in com­ position ; the beef well drawn, but flat; the anatomy of the turkey strong; the bread too freely handled; the veal raw and cold, and hurried in execution; the butter strong; the coffee weak, except in the foreground; and altogether too much impaste in the bill.--Harper's Basar, MJREACHES Of TRUST. After all, there are certain daggers attendant upon possessing a good name. If you observe it, the men who commit breaches of trust usually are persons of excellent reputation; and for an obvious „ reason. If they were not so the oppor- tunity to embezzle would never be given r them. They would not be trusted with t property, and they oould not steal it. This shows why good men should be watched and wish to be watohed. They remind us that reputation and ftharaotw are by no means identical, and that the former may be preserved after the lat­ ter is wholly gone. mi