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- , t ' **!*#«& tfevs* •:# k ft H^enrg flaindeatn * a. VAN SLYKI. fejpwa* A Publletter. ftoHKNBY, - \ ILLINOIS. SLEEP OF EST. BY HOWARD C. TRIPP. ta slumber swoet a little maid Is dreaming fast the hour!) away, Where birds of song pour forth their lay, Bwieath an old oak's sylvan bhade. fb» merry waters in the rill fling songs unknown to any tfaut, And while they chant their blUtiul chime, The sunshine kimsed plain and hill. JLad still in sleep the peaceful mold Dreams on while sunbeams in the West 8inlc lower to their couch of rest. And cast on her their light and shade. She sleeps the sleep of rest, claimed her lovely forro. Alas! She steeps For death hat h i to slumber sweet she passed the "storm That gathered round her peaceful breast. Oh, loved one lost! Oh. peaceful sleep I Our bark we launch upon the waves. And drift to that wild land of graves. Whore friends may gather round and weep. And yet we think that life is best, ' We fill our brains with visions wild, And soon, just like the little child, W* sleep the blessed sleep of rest-. • m t" <fe*. MINONA AUBRY; Dastard's Plot. sir ANNA A. CAMKKON. ND, suppose I will not take a refusal? Suppose I say that you shall marry me!" hissed Philip Wen two r t h be­ tween his clinched teetb. The girl to whom he spoke turned from him with an expression of aver­ sion. • 'It is impossible," she stud coldly. "Why is it impossible?" he asked With repressed passion, gazing eagerly *t the exquisite face before him. Then Jilded in a gentler tone of entreaty: *Whv, cannot you learn to love me, ;|Minona?* "Because," Bhe said quietly, a crim­ son tide sweeping over cheek and brow, *because I love another." fcAnd who is that other, may I ask? iBeingyour guardian I have the right to sfcnow!" > - "A right that will be accorded you. •|>r. Stanhope will inform you of our Engagement wheu he returns from the qpedside of his sick father to whom he * was summoned juBt before your arri­ val!" Philip Went worth turned ghastly f*ale and for a moment gnawed his awny mustache, then a dark flush V-'fcwept over his face and lie bent down *«nd said in a voice vibrant with -jpassion. "And do you suppose that I shall be fool enough to permit that Paris exqui­ site to steal you from me? Such love •as mine is not so tame, and knows no such tiling as defeat. If any man ever calls you wife, that man will be myself, fair cousin! I have •worn it, and I shall keep my oath." unfrequently the turn total of some woman's share of this stranpe inheri­ tance which we call life. * Minona naturally found po pleasure in intercourse with such a' companion, although Miss Wentworth constrained herself to notice the girl and to enlei*ahi her to some extent. Fortunately she was not dependent solely upon this Gorgan for society. Adelaide Haroourt, a former schoolmate and dear friend, lived not many blocks distant, and at her hospitable home Minona spent many happy days. While there one day she met Dr. Stanhope, a cousin of Adelaide, who had just returned from the Paris hos­ pitals to establish himself in a London practice. He was bnlliautly handsome and very charming, she exquisitly beau­ tiful and lovely in disposition and manner. It was the old, old story, yet even fresh and sweett \y- THE BRIDE WEARS A CRQWN. return to hi* seat to watch her as ba-1 fore. ' j Hours later the station master at !«**** »««>•• at a Norwegian Wed tin* Linsdowne heard the whistle of "56" Th" Groom'. K«» Coat. as she neared the station, saw her lights | A Norwegian wedding is a very sig- dimly through the murky darkness and iif!cent incident. To the man it means then saw and beard no more. It was hat he has attained a certain position, never known what had caused the ter- . fhere must be no doubt of his ability rible disaster, but the train had been de- j o keep a wife. If he is a bonder or railed and was the scene of the most reehold farmer he must have succeeded appalling horror. Coaches were piled o the farm, or his parents must be wil- on top of each other in all conditions ol ing to retire from active work and MISS WENTWORTH ENTERED THE BOOM. 'SUPPOSE I BAT THAT YOU SHALL MARRY ME!" His amber colored eyes gleamed wickedly and his nostrils dilated with excitement. Did he keep his oath ? Minona Aubry had been left an or­ phan when very young, and by her father's will a distant relative had been appointed the guardian of herself and her large fortune. The care of herself consisted in putting her at a good board- ; ing-school, there to remain until her education was completed. Her guardian, Philip Wentworth, re­ sided in London, if one may call a place a man's residence when he Bpends three-fourths of his time nome- where else. Now in Paris, now in Italy, and again hunting in the Highlands, gone for months, yet bringing up in London when necessity strictly re­ quired, and always finding there his •only sister, one of the fixed convenien­ ces of his life. He had lived a fast life and his own handsome estate wasNiow but a shell and, as he was a man of lux­ urious, and consequently very expensive habits, he began to feel the imperative necessity of resorting to some method of building up again his fast waning for­ tune. He was far past forty, but still a handsome mau, though at times his face was sinister and repellant. At 18 Minona's education was com­ pleted, and, by her guardian's request, she came to make her home in his house, ^o the grace and freshness of youth was added the gift of rare, exquisite beauty. What wonder, then, that Philip Wentworth, who was an ardent admirer of female loveliness, should have found himself taking a deep interest in her apart from themercinary •desire wliich possessed him of winning tfot himself the superb fortune which <vhe would soon come into possession of. She had not been long an iumate of 'his house, wheu urgent business called ; him away to be absent for three months. Minona's life had from the first been very monotonous. Esther Wentworth was an austere woman, and past all posi- 5 bilitv of sympathizing with youth, if indeed, it had ever been possible with her. She looked as if her hair had alwavs •been irttn grey, her complexion always of an ashen hue, and as if she had ai­ rways worn a sombre looking gown and -stiff white handkerchief crossed on her bosom. There was not one soft line in face or figure. And she was what she looked, cold and rigid to all even her brother. Here was the only human affection of which she seemed capable, and it literally ab •orbed heart and life. •Following out her brother's wishes, •he never entertained company. He found his diversions and pleasures--and he required a great many of them--, away from home, and took it for granted, if he ever gave the subject a thought, that her's were found in her absolute 4«votioa>to him and his interests! Not Dr. Stanhope devoted himself to her and was soon her acknowledged lover. Miss Wentworth frowned forbiddingly on him when he visited her, but despite her discontent and scant courtesy, his attentions to Minona were incessaut until he was called away by his father's ill­ ness. It was just at that time that Philip Wentworth returned, recalled doubtless by bis sister's letters warning him that the bird was being snared. Rendered anxious thereby and thor­ oughly aroused to the danger of longer delay, within a few days after his ar­ rival he addressed Minona, with what result we have already seen. After his interview with her he sought his sister and laid before her his quickly conceived plans. He was absolutely certain of her co-operation, whatever they might be. His plan was briefly this: Minona should be kept a prisoner in her room seeing no one but his sister, and at stated times himself, when he sought her presence to urge a compli­ ance with his wishes. Her friends were to be told that she was ill and could see no one. If, after a reasonable time, she should con­ tinue obstinate in her refusal of him, she should be taken to a private mad­ house remote from London, where a lack of principle, encouraged by tempt­ ing fees, would insure iter safe keeping for life, or as long as her guardian de­ sired it. With Esther Wentworth- to hear was to acquiesce at once. The evening was Btormy and the earth was deluged with rain which would, of course, prevent Minona's going out, and to-morrow- well, to-morrow would take care of it­ self. Very late the next day Minona awoke after a long, heavy sleep to find herself in a strange little room, lit only by a skylight. Her surprise was very great, for she had retired as usual in her Own room and had not the faintest recol­ lection of leaving it. It was not long ere the mystery was explained. Miss Wentworth entered the room, and when the door had been locked behind her by her brother, who had accompanied her that far, she told her in cold, merci­ less tones so much of her brother's plans as related to her imprisonment until she should reconsider her decision and give him a different answer. She had to this extent been drugged and re­ moved to this small room in the top of the house, from which there was no possibility of escape or appealing to any one! Her passionate protests, and assertion that she would die rather than alter her decision were received with abso­ lute indifference, and she was left alone to reflect on the horrors of her position and pray for a way of escape. Three times a day came the embas­ sage to her door, Miss Wentworth en­ tering with the girls' meals, her brother waiting without as double guard. Once every lew days lie demanded an inter­ view to press his suit and urge her ac­ ceptance of it. Cruel and ruthlessly selfish as he was in his poor way, he cared for the girl, and was touched by her pale, pa­ thetic appearance, though stung to madness by her indomitable courage and endurance and by her fidelity to her lover. 'Twas at the close of one of these interviews when he had exhausted his power of appeal, and realized the hopelessness of it, that he said as he rose to depart: "This cannot go on alwayj. Of course I cannot compel you to m^rry me because, unfortunately, marriage is a contract and you would have to take part in making it This you refuse to do, and there is but one alternative left me. Listen to me and then decide your own fate. I can put you in a mad­ house ! Now make your choice between that and being my wife, one or the other is inevitable!" He stood before her the very embodi­ ment of evil passion. It was useless to appeal to his better nature; he had none, and he was absolutely merciless now with everything at stake. Besides this he h»d gone too far; he must go on. The days that followed were always a blank to Minona when she took up"the thread of life again, after a fearful night, when she had been saved as by fire. wreck and demolition; some of them al ready taking fire. The groaus and shrieks of the wounded and dying rung out pite- oualy on the night air. A passenger train was waiting for "56" to pass before it went out, and its tide of life swept down to the scene of the accident Men worked as they never worked before,and rescued the living and the dead, in mauy instances taking them literally out of the flames. From a compartment that was just taking fire two persons were dragged. The man was already dead or dying, in consequence of a frightful wound on the head that had entirely crushed the skull. The girl was living and apparently un­ hurt, though perfectly unconscious. "This way, Doctor," called one of the rescuers, as he laid the still form down, "the girl is living but perfectly uncon­ scious." Dr. Stanhope hastened forward aitd bending down close to the girl's face, exclaimed in tones of angaiah and hp?- ror. "My Ood! Minona!" He was a tall man, and inatnetisely powerful, while she was very small and delicate of statue; it was therefore but the work of a moment to take her up in his arms and strole away. Weeks afterwards Minona opened hex eyes to consciousness after a long and desperate illness. Kind faces bent ovei her, and gentle hands ministered tc her. Dr. Stanhope had taken her tc his mother's home in the village oi Lansdowne, and here she had been ten­ derly nursed , back to life. In her de­ lirium she had raved incessantly of her imprisonment, but they had supposed that these were fancies D> "MY OOD! MSOSA!" of a fevered brain and it was not until she had recovered sufficiently to tell her story that her lover learned the history of those horrible weeks of hei imprisonment while he was watching at the bedside of his dying father. As soon an he oould leave her he went immediately to London. Here he learned of Philip Wentworth's ter­ rible fate, and of his sister's mysterious disappearance, leaving no clue by which she could be traced! When Minona was herself again there was a quiet wedding in old St. Ann's church, and afterward Dr. Stan­ hope took his bride to Southern Italy, hoping the change of scene and air and prolonged sojourn in that sunny climate might make the roses bloom again in her paled cheek. Preparing the Mall, In cities and large towns the letters are gathered from the boxes by the car­ rier and taken to the central office or to designated branch stations. In smal­ ler ple-ces they are mailed directly at the office. If the office is large enough to require a number of clerks, one is detailed for the work of getting the mail ready for despatch, and is called the mailing clerk. The table at which he works is called the mailing table, and is raised so high from the floor that he can work comfortably at it while standing. The back edge is usually a few inches the higher, so that the top will incline toward the person at work; and into the table is set, so as to be even with the top, a large piece of rubber an inch or more in thickness, eave .him supreme. If he is a house- nan or laborer, he must also have suc­ ceeded to the allotment on the skirts of he bonder's farm, consisting of a cot- age and patches of land, or ho must lave attained his allotment in some Iher way. He pays rent, does work or the bonder at fixed wages, and has tis land settled upon him and his rife. To the woman marriage is the begin - ting of a third term of existence. The Irst is childhood, which ends with con- irmation. Dress shows each age. All he unmarried girls in Norway wear heir hair in two plaits, and have Bhort kirts until they are confirmed. The ceremony--a serious one, involv- ng much preparatory training--takes >lace at about the age of fifteen with :ommon folk, and until it is past girls lo not usually go from home to work or tarn their own living, though they as- ist in the home fields. After confirma- ion they wear long drosses, and are ixpected to take a serious view of life tnd its duties. Neither men nor women tan be married without having been ionfirmed, and a pastor will decline to narry a "happy pair" unless they can ihow evidence of ability to live. These details will confirm my remark hat a Norwegian wedding is full of neaning, writes a traveler. There is ret the betrothal to notice. It is really i preliminary wedding. The intending jair go to church, and before the clergy- nan and their friends indicate their de- iire to be betrothed. Questions are isked, rings of plain gold are exchanged tnd the ceremony is completed by presents of jewelry and apparel that must be worn on the wedding day. One bride was about twenty-three, I ihould say, with a ruddy complexion, food features and large blue eyes. She lad upon her head the bridal crown, without which few peasant women are narried in Norway. I tried one on my >wn head on another occasion, and lound it heavy. There is a brass rim to it the head, and the open silver work ibove it is often gilt in places with patches of solid and embellished with garnets. Such crowns are kept as heir­ looms, and it is no uncommon thing for <he women of the same household to be narried in a crown that has done simi- ar duty in the family for one or two hundred years. The skirt was of black material, the Dodice was snowy white, with a corset }f red and green, and an apron of white, with bands of embroidery hanging in !ront of it. Around the neck and the waist were squarely-made, dusky silver bands, looking like an eccentric collec­ tion of old buckles. The bridegroom wore a " too hat," which seemed to have been kept in his family much after the fashion of his intended's bridal crown. He had a red waistcoat, very short in the waist with brass but­ tons on it, and a singular kind of coat, very loose, with frontal ornament. There was just a suspicion of red piping down the side of the trousers. He was % muscular, sunburnt, hardy-looking man about thirty, though probably pounger than he seemed to be. The becond couple looked much older. The brides had their wedding-rings already on their fingers, and each car­ ried several handkerchiefs folded up of various colors. These handkerchiefs are usually presents given at the be­ trothal The ceremony was short. The service ind cbmnfunion were over before the processions reached the church, and as they entered the two couples advanced to the altar, knelt down and then placed themselves, with their friends, about the altar rail a. The pastor, in a black gown, with an Elizabethan ruff round his neck, ad­ dressed a few words to the groups, and then questioned bridegrooms and brides in turn. Each couple then knelt down, with their hands joined together, and the pastor pronounced them man and wife. A benediction concluded the ser­ vice. beside this lie the canceling stamp and ink pad. The Government requires that the stamp be of metal, and the ink black and indelible, but this rule is sometimes broken in small country of- Kaby's Legacy. When the remains of a woman had been driven away from a teneixtent on Division Btreet to a pauper's grave half On the table ' a dozen women gathered in the bare rooms to act as executors. Law did not enter with them. There was not enough there to attract the vulture. The bed was old and poor--only fit for a bonfire. The stove would hardly pay fices by the use of rubber stamps and for removal. Three or f6ur old chairs, colored inks. The Government furn­ ishes all necessary stamps and ink, and the only excuse for not following the rule is that where there ai'e few letters the rubber stamp and common ink may be more convienient. The penalty for a table, a few pieces of crockery--even the poorest who had gathered there had no use for them. And yet awomalk and her boy babe had lived tuere iir poverty and among the shado long months. No, it was not liv removing the cancelation from a stamp was dragging out the hours No. 56," the fast mail, was speeding alqfcg cut of London on the night of the 6t'n of October. In a compartment of one of the coaches a girl's form half re­ clined, her head pillowed on folded shawls. Her face was thin and ghostly pale, and there were dark circles under the eves. She looked as though bhe had been very ill and the profound sleep that she was now in seemed more like unconsciousness than natural, though heavy, slumber. A man was the only other passenger in the coach--Philip Wentworth, for it was no other, appeared restless and anxious. He tapped his foot impa­ tiently as he watched the pale face be- fore him. Now and then he would rise, and, going over to her side, would touch her brow and feel for the thread­ like pulse in the slender wrist He was evidently very uneasy, and would sometimes attempt to arouse the girl, butfinding that impossible would and nsing the stamp again, is imprison­ ment for from six months to three years, or a fine from $100 to $500. j The letters and postal cards taken from the box are arranged in piles, all right side up; and the mailing clerk, placing a pile of them on the table in front of him, cancels them with almost incredible rapidity, sliding each piece, before he strikes it, upon the rubber in the table, thus securing a good impres­ sion of the stamp, and a slight rebound to aid the next stroke.--St. Nicholas. ^ Edible Earth. Much has been . written about the earth-eating tribes of various countries, bnt it is not generally known that the inhabitants of Peuacova, a village in Portugal, have for generations, eaten a variety of earth found in the neighbor­ hood. It is said that any of them leaving home is afflicted with a singu­ lar malady with gastritic symptons un­ less he be provided with a supply of the earth. The reason of this is probably the presence of arsenic in the earth, which is known to produce these singu­ lar effects upon its habitual consumers. The fact that Dr. Yogel has found none in it by a cursory examination, but, on the contrary, has detected that it con­ tains about double the quantity of ni- trogan found in similar soils from the for another sunset--for another su --for the coming of the glad rel? When the body has been ill and the soul sick--when days end nights and weeks and months have brought noth­ ing but cold and hunger and groans of despair, the dread of death is nothing. The coming of the Bhadow is even hailed with glad satisfaction, And so they lived; and one night when the winds howled drearily, and the snowflakes whirled through the bro­ ken panes, the mother and her boy slept--she to awaken no more on earth. His little hands were toying with her cold, dead face when they found him. They took him , away, and he smiled when they said. "Poor babe! You are all alone now!" Wheu the mother had gone to her narrow home they crept up stairs to the dismal room, and one/dl them said: * ' "We have found a home for the child, but he must not forget his mother. Let us look for his legacy." "And so they searched old dresses, and peered into dark corners, and rever­ ently opened the old boxes at the foot of the bed. One found an old scrap- book; another a necklace of beads; an­ other a knot of ribbon, and when the search was ended there on the table was a heap of relics which they wept over. There was something there which told •aluethan geld or diamonds. There was a legacy for the babe. There was a faded old tintype of father and mother, some letters stained with tears, two locks of hair pinned to the same card- more to him than if the old boxes had been full of bright dollars. Only by them will he recall the dead--will he realize a mother's love and devotion-- will he know that one dark morning women crept up stairs and found him prattling to the dead. Money might have worked his ruin. Those relics, on which a mother's tears have fallen-- over which a mother's prayers have as­ cended to Heaven-- will be a holy light to guide him through the deepest gloom."--M. Quad. An Old California Hero. Twenty-five years ago, when the Josephine quicksilver mine in San Obispo was being worked, the owners hired Mexicans, mostly, and they were a set of cut-throats who would kill a person for sixpence. An old fellow named Humphrey moved into the dis­ trict and opened a saloon about a mile from the mine in a gulch near the main road. He kept money on hand more oi less, and the Mexicans determined to rob him. One night, when he wad sit­ ting alone in his saloon five of them en­ tered and called for drinks. They paid the money and stood at the bar. Hum­ phrey was seated near the stove. One of the men loeked the door and all five surrounded him. The leader drew a knife and told him to give up quietly and he would not be hurt. Humphrey, rising to the occasion, seized the leader and threw him out of the closed dooi into the gulch. The door was an ordi­ nary one of white pine, half-inch panels set in inch frames. Humphrey at once seized the next Mexican by the head aud threw him against two of the others, flooring them; he then began throwing the men out of the broken door, and in a few minutes the last of his assailants lay bruised and defeated in the gulch below. For weeks the front door ol the saloon remained a mere frame with a hole in its middle three feet across, and the Mexican miners as they passed would cross themselves and pray to be delivered from that "diablo Don Miguel Humphrey." I was interested in the story, and a few years later picked up what I could about the hero of this frontier episode. He was a Tennessean, born in 1798, and was therefore 67 years old when he whipped the Mexicans. But he took no pride in the affair, f°r it was in­ finitely less than some of his earliei feats. He had been a "fighter an! rustler" all his days and no one had ever mastered him either in strength oi skill. Rude, uneducated fellow though he was, the old man was always "square on the deal." One cannot but think that this fighting man of the backwoods was worthy of a larger field. In him one was instantly impressed by a total difference to all standards except hi: own. He was like a California grizzly --he would not go an inch out of hit way to start a fight. He used terselj to remark,, "Never dared a man in mj life; never failed ter whip what dared me." • French Wines. The Director General of indirect taxes in France has just published the result of the vintage in 1890. It amounted to 27,416,327 hectoliters, be­ ing an increase of 4,182,755 hectoliter! on last year, but 2,260,768 less than the average of the last ten years (1880-89), The area under vintage cultivation was 1,243 hectares less than in 1889, a proo! that the effort to restore this branch o) farming are not succeeding. This is far from the average produce of 50,- 000,000 of hectoliters, as about th< year 1870. The average price of th< hectoliter has fallen from 38 to 3f francs; but taking into account th< great increase in quantity of this year'i produce, the total (988,794,000 francs, or in round numbers, $197,759,000) i« greater by about 107,726,000 francs, oi about $21,545,000. The average pK> duction was fifteen hectoliters per hec­ tare, against thirteen last year. Th( manufacture of artificial wines is on th< increase, amounting for 1890 to 2,429, 285 hectoliters, being 605,156 lieeto liters, or over 30 per cent more thai last year. No allowance is, of course made in these figures for illicit manu facture. Sweetened wines amounted to 1,747,000 hectoliters, or 468,000 (ove. 30 per cent.) more than last year. Tb« Algerian reports show yearly a daily in crease in viticulture. In 1890 the pro duce was 2,844,000 hectoliters, beinf an increase of 321,000 over last year. How It V«!«la to lie a Millionaire. I have yet to find the man who doesn" wish to be rich, but I have always fel; curious to know how it feels to be i millionaire. The opportunity of getting an answer to this question presented it self to me one day, and the man t< whom I addressed the question wu: none other than George M. Pullman who is worth $50,000,000 at least, wlu has made fortunes for others, and wh( as no one to thank for his success bu imself. Mr. Pullman looked at m< ery curiously as I asked the question nd then replied in a slow way: "] have never thought of that. But nov that you mention it, I believe that 1 an no bettor off--certainly no happier-- than I was when I didn't have a dollai to my name and had to work from day light" until dark. "I w^re a good suit of clothing then and I can only wear one now. I relishec three meals a day then a good deal mor< than I do three meals a day now. ] had fewer cares; 1 slept better, and ] may add generally that I believe I wai far happier in those days thau I hav« been many times since I became a mill ionaire. And yet it is a comfortabli feeling to be rich." And with that hi buttoned up his frock coat around hii snug form, slowly walked down th« hotel steps, painfully crowded his waj into a coupe, and was driven off. In hii younger days he would have walked and would have been been better for it --Brooklyn Time*. A FEW REFLECTIONS# To Circumvent the Sampler. An effective method of reducing losses from sampling and at the sam< time allowing goods to be seen by cus tomers has been adopted by many lead ing retail grocers. Boxes about th» height of a barrel and of similar capacit are constructed of hard wood, witl a hinged glass cover. The contents cai , ...... ... . „ , , - .. . : be easily seen, owing to the fact tha adjacent fields, lends plausibility to the of a gifl's love; there was something tho covers Biope downward from th« fW. tho n/'tiv*» anWor,™ i^ ^hich4old of marriage--of happiness-- back about 30 degrees, and can be of a husband's death--of deep sorrow ' " atid view that the active substance may be an alkaloid. The whole question could be easily settled by a competent chem­ ist, and it iw to be hoped that Borne one will undertake its investigation. Too Practical. Glara--Why did you refuse Mr. Hard­ head? .. Maud--He is too intensely practical. He has no faith. "No faith?" "He doesn't believe m anything. Why,he doesn't even believe in dreams." --Street & Smith's Good News. bitter poverty. An auctioneer would have turned away in contempt-- a rag-buyer would tiotf have gathered them up, and yet tlioee women, each with the heart" of a mother, handled each relic with fresh tears. There was no story iu them for a man--there was a whole life's history* in tliom for a wo­ man. They had not found even a penny in money--not an article that would bring a dime-not enough property there to call for removal, aud yet they had found something there of more moved as expeditiously as from an or dinary barrel. Only the most impuden sampler would dream of lifting thi covers to get at the goods, hence thi saving in the course of a year mus amount to a considerable bum iu storei where the business is large. ° "ABE," murmured Florence, camb ensconcing her head on his breast, **d< you never yearn after the unattainable?1 "Verily," he replied, "I doth." "An< for what do you yearn, love?" "For i raise in my salary." How Different the Sombre Night f»»ni Garish Light of Day. It is night, A policeman awakes witfc a sudden start and moves around tho corner, having a secret fear at his heart that he had stept through all night, all next day, and far into to-morrow night. It is night in a great city. The poker and faro rooms are in full blast, 10,000 jGrS are holding down street corners, and here and there an intoxicated alder- man can be seen making his way to a policy shop or a gathering of the pave­ ment ring. Under cover of darkness, first manufactured over 6,000 years ago, the hotel beat lowers his duds from the fourtn story window; and all who have dead-head tickets start for the opera houses; hundreds of young men set out to spark; reporters look forward to fires, robberies and murders, and church choirs meet to rohearse and wrangle and lay up clubs for each other. 'Tis night in the country. The stock has been fed, the squeal of the pig is hushed, and the tired horse munches at his corn and wonders why his master throws in so many cobs without a kernel on them. The watch dog sits at the gate, perfectly willing to chew up any of the neighbors for a cent, and within the farm house all is serene, or would be if John Henry could find the grease for his boots, Mary Ann could find her novel, the old man discover the hiding place of the boot-jack, and the mother solve the mystery of how some of her neighbors managed to get a dress cost­ ing two shillings per yard whilq she had nothing but calico. 'Tis night on the ocean. The proud steamer sails gallantly on, the captain snoring in his berth, the mates playing euchre, the lookouts asleep, and every­ body in readiness to swear, in case of collision, that it was all the other ves- ael's fault. Nothing is heard but the steady beat of the propeller, the groans of the immigrants, and the voices of men and women declaring that anybody who plans an ocean voyage for pleasure ought to be shot to death with cod-fish balls. The sportive dolphin gambols away his hard earnings, the whale rolls over for another nap, and the business like shark follows in the wake to pick up any op­ portunities which may tumble over­ board. 'Tis night on the prairie. The red men gather about the camp fire to count the scalps they have taken within the last week, and to grumble at the govern­ ment for not furnishing them port wine and repeating rifles. The white hunter and trap2)er curls himself up to wonder where he can fihd old bones for break­ fast, and to realize what a fool he has made of himself, and the gaunt wolf shoulders his empty stomach and sets' out in t-earch of something to make life worth living for. Night grows apace. In the city the weary wife takes her place in the hail with a club in hand. In the country the old folks fall into bed aweary with the work of the day, and the young people spark and chew popcorn. On the ocean the sea Bickers continue to grow worse, and the songs of the mermaids fall flat On the prairie the Indians finally decide to make war in the spring, the hunter falls asleep to dream of eating his boots for dinner, and the wolf meets a wildcat and offers to toss up to see wbich shall eat the other.--Exchange. Origin of Popular Phrasrs. HURBAH.--This word, which is so fre­ quently shouted, in this country especi­ ally, originated among the Eastern na­ tions, where it was used as a war cry from the belief that every man who died in the battle for his country went lo Heaven. It is derived from the Slavonic word Hurrsj, which means "to Para­ dise." COMMENCEMENT DAY.--In the United States commencement denotes the oc^ casion on which degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon their graguates. This takes place generally in June or July, and closes the scholas­ tic year, so that the name in this re­ spect appears to be a misnomer. It re­ fers, however, to the beginning of the student's independent career after being released from tutelage. "The life of school ends, but the school of life Commences." REGULAR BRICK--This quaint and fa­ miliar expression had its origin in the following: On a certain occasion an embassador from Epirus,on a diplomatic mission, was shown by the king over his capital. The embassador knew ol the monarch's fame--knew him that, .only nominal King of Sparta, he was yet ruler of Greece--and he had looked to see massive walls rearing aloft their embattled towers for the defense of the town; but he found nothingof the kind. He marveled much at this, and spoke of it to the King. "Sire," he said "I have visited most of the principal towns, and I find no walls reared for defense. Why is thiS." "Indeed, sir embassador," replied Angesileus, "thou caust not have looked carefully. Come with me to-morrow morning, and I will show you the walls of Sparta." Accordingly, on the following morn­ ing the king led his guest out upon the plains where his army was drawn u» iu full battle array, and pointing proudly to the serried horses, he said: , "There, thou beholdest the walls ol Sparta--10,000 men and every man a brick." WHAT ARE Yoc GIVING ME.--This oft-repeated expression--indicative oi mischief--which has been added to the vocabulary of slant;, has no less a {score than the Bible. It may be found in the thirty-eight chapter of Genesis. . THERE'S MILLIONS IN IT.--From Mark Twain's novel, "The Gilded Age." NOT FOR JOE.--The refrain of a Lon­ don concert song, which was very pop­ ular ten or a dozen years ago. THERE'S MANY A SLIP, ETC.--The an­ cient Greeks had the following proverb: There's many a slip* 'Twoen the cup and lip: MY COUNTRY, 'TIS OF THEE--Written by the Rev. S. F. Smith, who still lives at Newton, Mass. It was composed one day while the author was a theologue al Andover Seminarv, and he never ex­ pected it to be famous. JACK KETCH.--A hangman or execu­ tioner, commonly so called from on« John Ketch, a wretch who lived in the time of James II., and made himself universally odious by the butchery ol manv brave and noble victims, particu­ larly those sentenced to death by the infamous Jeffreys during the "Bloody Assizes." HALCYON DAYS.--Halcyone was the wife of Celyx, and the latter having met his death by drowning, Halcyone cast herself into the sea with the dead body, and both were transformed into kingfisher bird. The animal lays its eggs on a rock near the sea in calm midwinter, and the halcyon days are therefore sevon days before and aftet the winter solstice. A Myctery. ' How tlwliraan ever rooovert firom ' • . the bad effet&a of the natueotu Medicines often ' >•' " literally pound Into It for the «mppoeitive lief of dy«pep«la, liver complaint, constipation, rheumatism and otherpailnient*, Is a mystery. , The mischief done by bad medicine* Is scarcely * less than than that caused by disease. Jf they - who are weak, biUous, dyspeptic, constipated' "f?' or rheumatic would oftener be guided by the V experience of Invalids who have thoroughly < r tested Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, they would' " in every instance obtain the speediest aid de- : < * 4.V: rlvable from rational medication. This medl- " cine ii a Henrcliinp ami at the same <i•» ... > thoroughly B»f« remedy, derived from vegetaMn fty-. sources, and ponseming, in consequence of lt« l' basis of pure spirits, properties ®lb n , stimulant not to be found in the flary local bit- • / r ' ters and stimulants often resort el to by the de­ bilitated, dyspeptic and languid. •I'M all used up!" exclaimed Amy, , after a shopping tour of several hours. "Yes," replied the high-school girl, "I < am utllk^datan elevation myself.* Do You Couch? Don't delay. Take Kemp's Balsam. , ^3 best cough cure. It will cure your coughs ' ; and colds. It will cure sore throat or a tickling in the throat. It will cure pains in the chest. It will cur® Influenza and bron- ' chltls and all diseases pertaining to the lungs because it is a pure balsam. Hold it "(!1 to the light and see how clear and thick It ' " V la- You will see the excellent effect after ; '-j taking the first dose. Large bottles M cents and >1. ^ "PA, what does non compos mentis mean?" "That, my son, is a mind with- ' "£ !>• out a compass. " ̂>*, There's a good deal of fuarantee business in the store eeping of to-day. It's too excessive. Or too reluctant. Half the time it means noth­ ing. Words--words. This offer to refund the money, or to pay a reward, is made under the hope that you won't want your money back, and that you won't claim the reward. Of course. So, whoever is honest in making it, and works--not on his own reputation alone, but through the local dealer whom you know, must have some­ thing he has faith in back of the guarantee. The business wouldn't stand a year with­ out it. What is lacking is confi­ dence. Back of that, what is lacking is that clear honesty which is above the "average practice,1' ' . Dr. Pierce's medicines are guaranteed to accomplish what they are intended to do, and their makers give the money back if the result isn't ap­ parent. Doesn't it strike you that a medicine which the makers have so much confidence in, is4he medicine for you? The Soap that Cleans is Lenox. SHILOH'S CONSUMPTION CURE. The success of this Great Cough Cure it without a parallel in the history of medicine. All druggists are authorized to sell it on a pos­ itive guarantee, a test that no other cure can suc­ cessfully stand. That it may become known, the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are placing a Sample Bottle Free into every home in the United States and Canada. If you have a Cough, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use it, for it will cure you. If your child has the Croup, or Whooping Cough, use it promptly, and relief is sure. If you dread that insidious disease Consumption, use it. 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