Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 8 December 1894 — Page 4

A SONG OF'SUMMER TIMEI".

Oh, the swaying of the brtvnches and the flitting through the trees,' And the music of the voices that .copie apon the breeze! Oh, the singing and the winging of the birds that conio and go. And the frisking of the pqulrrels as they scamper to nptl fro! Oh, tlie terns w»d mossy carpets, and the waters dark nnd cool That {-,o sleuling through tho shadows from tume clear, unwullitKl pool! I Oh, tho trilling of the sonpsters .From the branches nnd th« Kruss,

And the glanoing of the sunlight On the waters us we paps I

Oh, ii'u b'hvucing of the sunlight as it strikes jfthe waters elc:ir, ria thf Arid the singing of the thrushes, and the other songs we he:ir! Oh, the boating and the floating on the waters of the lake, And the ripples and the shadows that go dancir.jr from our wake! Oh, the br v/:y duys of pleusurc, and the pleasant nights to dreu.ni, When he r. .'.rs look down and twinkle, and the winged lanterns gloam!

Oh, the summers in the country, Where tho songsters nest and sing, And the pleasure without measure

That the woods and waters bring! —Frank H. Sweet in Donahue's Magazine.

MARIE.

During tho "reign of terror" in Franco there were many deeds of daring performed, even by women, and many noble examples of affection exhibited.

The very streets of Paris were deluged with human blood, but near the guillotine it ran in gushing torrents.

One dark morning an unusual number of the aristocracy had been marched fortl), and countless heads rolled from the block.

A gaping multitude stood by, and with shouts rent tho air as the aristocracy were thus butchered.

Among the assembled multitude that dreary morning were two women. One of tiit-m was plainly clad, whilo a cloak was thrown around her, with which she kept her features nearly ooncealed.

But a close observation would betray the fact that the woman had been weeping.

Her eyes were inflamed and red. and she gazed eagerly upon tho platform, wHK

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as each shock of tho glittering knife severed the head from the body of some one who had been unfortunate enough to -r sii nnd the in of loaders. 'mo litoe of tho woman was very beautiful, and she was young, certainly not more than 16 or 18 years of age.

Tho other woman was quite different in character. Her face was fair, but there v»v.s a brazen expression about it. She was clad in rags, and as each head fell she would dance, and in various ways express her delight, and then exclaim:

"There falls another aristocrat who refused me charity when I humbly sued to him!"

Each expression of the kind would -•-create a laugh from those who hoard her, but any thoughtful person must wonder how one so young could have becomo so depraved.

The first woman watched this creature lor a few moments, and then pressing her way to her side she laid her

Land upon the shoulder of the wretch and whispered: "Would you like to become rich at once?"

Tho woman in rags turned about with fi look of surprise, burst iuto a loud laugh and then replied: course I would. "Follow mo, and you shall btl^''' "F..-Ungh. Lead on.

It was with considerable difficulty that tho females extricated themselves from tho crowd, but they did no at length, and then the first woman asked of tho other: "What shall I call you?" "Oh, I'm called the beggar girl Marie!" "You live by begging?" "Yes but what's your r.ame, and what do you want?" "i\Iy name is Marie, the same as your own." "Are you an aristocrat?" "It does not matter. If you know •where wo can find a room, lead me to it, and you shall have gold."

Tho pauper led the way into a narrow and filthy street and then down into a collar and into a dark and filthy Toom.

The other woman could not but feel a sickening sensation creep over her, but sho recovered herself. After contemplating for a time the apartment and what it contained she asked: "Are you well known in Paris?" "Yes, everybody knows Marie, the boggar girl." "Are you known to Robespierre? If so, I want to make a bargain with you. "I am. What do you wish?" "You see my clothing is better than your own, and I wish to exchange with you. I want you to consent to remain hero, and not to show yourself at all for a short time, or until I come to you again. As recompense for aiding me I will give you 1,000 francs, and when I como back I will give you 1,000 moro. As soourity for my return, take this ring."

Tho lady drew a diamond ring from lier finger and gave it to the beggar girl. Then she handed her a purso containing gold.

The girl appeared a litt-lo puzzled and asked: "Well, what are you going to do with my dress?" "I want to put it on and go whero I first met you." "Oh, I understand now. Youwanfifo see the chopping go on, and you aro afraid you will be taken for an aristocrat if you wear that dross. You want to represent me?" "Yes. I want to look as near like you as possible." "Well, thai won't be very difficult. Your hair and eyes and even your mouth are like mine. Tour face is too white, though, ftut you can alter that -with a little dirtM

They exchanged dresses, and soon the ^ronng, rich and noble Marie de Nantes

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gar giafl ofc'ParisJ $ .. The'history of Marie de Nantes was A sad one. Ber father and two brothers had fallen victims to tho remorseless fiends of the revolution, audi* third and last brother had been seized. But of his fate sho was iguorant, although she expected that it would be siiailar to that of her other relatives. He had been torn from her side but a few hours before.

After the exchange had been made the pauper looked on tho stockingless and shoeless feet and ankles of the lady and snid: "That will never do. Your feet are too white and delicate. Let me arrange matters."

In a few moments Marie was prepared, and in the filth and "rags 6he emerged into the street.

Sho now took her course back toward tho guillotine, and at length reached the square where the bloody work was still going on.

Gradually she forced her way through the crowd, nnd nearer and nearer she came to tho scaffold.

She even forced a laugh at several remarks she heard around her, but these laughs sounded strangely.

She now stood within a few feet of tho platform and swept it with her eyes, but her brother was not there.

The cry was now raised: "Here comes another batoh!" Her heart fluttered violently, and she felt a faintness come over her as she heard the tramp of the doomed men approaching.

Her brother walked proudly and fearlessly forwrrd and ascended the very stops which led to the block.

Up to this moment the strength of poor Marie had failed her, and she was unable to put her resolve into execution.

But now a Bister's love swelled up in her breast, and she recovered her strength.

She sprang forward, bursting through the line of guards, and ran up the steps. Grasping her brother by the hand, sho cried: "What does this mean? It is only the aristocrats that are to die!" "Away, woman!" exclaimed one of the executioners.

I wia not away until you tell

me why my brother is here and thus bound.'' "Your brother?" was the'echo. "Ye*1, lhi-, is bro'.hei1." "Well, who aro you?" "I am Marie don't you know me?" "The beggar girl?" "Aye." "But this is not your brother?" "It is. Ask him—ask him. .Young Antonio de Nantes had turned a scornful gaze upon the maiden, but a light passed across his face, and he murmured: "Oh, my sister!" "Is this your brother?" asked Robes-

pierre of the supposed beggar, advancing newr her. "It is." "But his name is down differently." "Then yon aro mistaken. He is my brother. Ask him." "Does Marie speak tho truth?" asked Robespierre. "She docs," was the brother's reply. "And you are not De Nantes?" "I telKyou I am her brother." "Why did yon not tell us this bofore':" "I attempted to speak, but was silenced. "But you might have declared yourself.", "You would ifot have believed me. iJt.L iur divs-sr'' "Ir belonged to an aristocrat, perhaps to him for whom I was taken."

Liohcspierre advanced close to young Nantes and gazed earnestly into his face. Then he approached Mario and looked steadily in her eyes for a short time.

It was a moment of trial for tho poor girl. She trembled in spite of all her efforts to be calm. Sho almost felt that I sho was lost, when the human fiend, whose word was law, turned and said: "Release the man.

The chains were instantly removed, and Antonio de Nantes walked down from tho scaffold, followed by his sister, while the shouts of those around rent the air, for they supposed it was a commoner who had thus been saved.

The young man worked his way through the crowd as rapidly as possible, leading Marie.

They had scarcely escaped it before the poor girl fainted from tho intensity of her feelings

Tho brother soarcely knew what to do, but a hand was laid upon his arm, and a voice said: "Bring her to my room again. She will bo safo there."

The brother conveyed her to the apartment of the pauper and asked of hor: "navo you seen tho woman before?" "Yes, I know all about it," returned tho pauper. "She borrowed my clothes to save her lovor. Sho has done it, and I am glad."

Before tho noble sistor returned to consciousness tho brother had learned all.

When sho did so, thoy both sought secure quarters after rewarding tho beggar girl, as had been promised. "Do you think Robespierre was really deceived?" asked Marie do Nantes. "I think not," returned the brother. "Thon why did he order your release?" "Ho saw your plan he admired your courago. Could a fiend have done less?" "Perhaps this was tho case. But if eo it was a deod of mercy and the only one that man ever did."

Antonio de Nantes was not again arrested and lived happily with that sister who had so nobly imperiled her own life to save him by representing the beggar girl of Paris.—Pleasant floum

DMnt Believe Ik.

He—De Freshe is laid up with nervous prostration. She—It most be something els& Nothing on earth oonld prostrate that fellow's nerve.—Detroit Free Pirass.

MTHJMfeTH POLE.

THERE WE WILL FIND THE FOUNTAIN OF PERFZTUAL YOUTH.

Those Who Want to XJo Mal« Vonne aa YV eii aa Tttoee \s txo tt oulii (fuickij broir Older Can He Accommodated—The Viciv3 of a Well Know* Geographer.

There has been much discussion of the advantages to accrue to the world from polar exploration, and while there is a general agreement among scientific men that the information to be gained by it is of sufficient value to warrant the expense and loss of life incident to it I am not aware that any direct economic results have ever been claimed for it. Certain ideas have, however, recently occurred to me, which point to very great economic advantages to be attained not only by polar exploration, but by literally reachiug the pole, advantages so groat that almost any expenditure of life and treasure will be warranted. 1 am sure that when these advantages have been pointed out men and money will be forthcoming without stint not only to reach the polo, but to make the path to it easy and plain to tread.

Before going any further I wish to say that I have no ax to grind. I have no desire to command an expedition or to accompany one. My sole object in publishing these matters is to aid my fellow men.

All of us have read accounts of the search made by the Spaniards centuriud ago for the fountain of perpetual youth, for those waters which would obliterate wrinkles and restore gray hair to its original hue, give back elasticity to the limbs and fire to the eye. Those hardy explorers pursued their search in the wrong quarter of the globe.

We all know that if we travel around tho earth in the direction in which tli« sun apparently moves on returning to the place of departure we find that we have saved a day that we are a day younger than our friends who have remained at home. To go around tho earth on the forty-fifth parallel of latitude requires about GO days. Therefore it is possible in that latitude to save one day in 60, but as we go northward the circumference of the earth diminishes, and it 5* possible, other things being equal, to make the journey in less time, but with each circuit of the globe, whatever the length of the journey, a day is saved. Near the pole, where tho circumference of the earth becomes a mero trifle, perhaps a quarter of a mile, perhaps 100 yards, a day may be saved in five minutes, in one minute. Sixty days may be saved in an hour, a year of life in a day. A forenoon jaunt around tho pole will do all that the fountain of eternal youth of the old Spanish explorers was expected to accomplish.

But this result, the restoration of youth to the aged, is but one of the useful purposes to which the pole can bo put. Not only the aged, but nnmarried ladies who havo passed the first I bloom of yo'ith and have thus ceased to attract may hero restore their comoliness, recover their blooming cheeks and rounded forms, and thus prepare for a second campaign against men's hearts.

But this is not all. It is sometimes an advantage to grow old, and by taking the opposite course around the pole

wo may add years to our lives in hours. Tho fashionable woman is encumbered by young children. She sends them to tho pole, and they grow up with oxcooding rapidity. For an hour they aro trundled against tho sun in baby carriages, the next hour they spend upon their feet, a. beiore tho day is passed they are- grown to men's and women's estate, and the. mother is i'reo of their charge.

Tho course of truo love does not always run smooth, and many a young man and woman pledged to one anoth er, aro prevented by cruel parents from being joined because of their extremo youth. A trip to tho pole will quickly remove this difficulty.

So I might go on and instance hundreds of different conditions which might bo remedied were tho pole easy of access. Many of them readily occur to our readers, and wo shall not burden them with any further information.

Now let us picture what the results will be of this discovery. It goes without saying that the north polo will immediately become a resort second to none upon the globe. There will bo a real estate boom in that region beside which those of southern California, Florida and of tho southern Appalachians will be flat, tame and insipid. The prices of town lots will not rise. They will shoot upward. In that wilderness of ice and snow there will be built within a fabulously short time a oity of transients the like of which tho world has never seen a city of hotels, apartment and boarding houses of enormous proportions. When we reflect that everybody who has reached the age of 00 and who can raise the necessary funds for the journey will go there to take a walk, not to mention the spinsters, the sighing lovers and the superfluous children, one can easily imagine what an enormous business the polo will do. Imagine tho lines of steamships which will be supported by this travel imagino tho value of the wheeled chair privileges imagine, if you can, the profits of the man who gets possession of a circle around the pole having a radius of half a mile and charges admission to this race course against time.

In conclusion, I do not think that 1 exaggerate when I say that the considerations here set forth make the search for the polo the most important by far of all the questions which are now agitating civilized man.—Henry Gannett in New York Sun.

There aro no known pretenders to Aiiatio or Afrioan thrones, titles or authority for the very simple reason that in thoee oontinents it has been for long years oustoxnary to decapitate a pretender in testimony of the better title of his suooessful rival.

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SYMMES' HOLE UP TO DATE, if|

A Call For Velmsfoprs to Go to tlio Hons Lofit I)jiI)yIoiiians Iu It.

That tho crust of the earth is formed in layers no one will dispute, and that all substance on tho surface of the earth is drawn by some force toward tho earth's center is also undeniable. This is called centripetal force. To admit the existence of I his force is equal to the adiuissiou of a counteracting force called centrifugal.

According to every experiment and all philosophical reasoning, there must bo a lino of equilibrium drawn somewhere between the center and tho circumference of the earth. The exact location of this line will always be determined by tho motion of the earth. It is on this line that tho external and tho internal forces meet in deadly conflict, striving for gravitatious power and the enforcement of their laws. The friction produced by these two forces must bo the source of all intornal heat and the eternal fire. It is these two opposing forces that form and sustain the immense balance wheel called the earth," which is 25,000 miles in circumference, but cannot exceed 200 miles in thickness, including the lava belt iu the center.

The irregular motion of the earth will change the central line of gravity arid cause an eruption of lava either external or internal. The earth when viewed as a whole is a unit, and so are tho law? which operate it, whether applied to the external or the internal surface.

The law which reverses gravitation on this equalizing line has given us two earths in oi.-e, or a world within a world. The niction and heat of the earth at the equator aro so much greater than they are at ho poles that tho law of electric equilibrium will produce an electric current to meet the demand for light and heat.

This internal earth is a counterpart of the external in all things, except its Atlantic and Facific are not quite so vast, and its Nilo and its Amazon are not quite so lung. Neither is its equator nor its zones nor its poles quito so high. Nature, with an impartial hand, has withheld no good thing from this new world that can be tasted of by any other. Humanity here is as far removed from Darwin as Darwin is removed from the chosen seed of Adam's race.

Who shall defy the ice bound north and enter that "open sea" so long sought for and groet their long 1 cousins who migrated from Babylon 8,000 years ago?—Floyd Hamblin in Utioa Obsetver.

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sonal friends of Iter majesty. A letter is always sent to the parents of the young lady requesting that as a personal favor to the queen she may bo permitted to attend at court. As the position is undeniable and the salary is £1300 a year, the request is invariably accepted, and the newly chosen maid receives from tho lord chamberlain the command for her first "wait."

The first thing brought to the maid, of honor is her badge, which is a miniature picture of the queen set lit brilliants and hii'.ig from a ribbon. Just before the dinner hour the maid of hon-

or in waiting has to stand in the corridor outside the queen's private apartrnems. She carries a bouquet, which on entering the dining room she lays at tho right hand of the queen's plate.

A Mean Rcvcng:«.

The man knocked at the door of a boarding house on Cass avenue, and the landlady opened it. "I presume you aro the landlady," he said after saying "Good morning 1" "Why do you presume that?" sho asked, with a snap, for the visitor looked as if ho might be some kind of an agent. "A friend of mine, Mr. Smith, who used to board here, told me I'd recognize you as a lady of about 50.

She fairly gasped at this. "Did he tell you that?" she inquired, with suppressed emotion."' "He did, madaui." 'And you recognized mo by that description?"

The visitor knew something about discretion being the better part of valor, having been an agent for along time.

I did not, madam," he responded. It's a good thing you didn't," sho said. "When I bounced that follow Smith for not paying his bill for three months, he told me he would get even with me, and this is how he is doing it." aJj

Then she bounoed the visitor.—Detroit Free Press.

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Maids of honor are chosen by the queen herself from among tho daughters of poors, who, if not themselves connected vritlv rcyal IsOtWrtlyWj WO pev-

Several years ago tragedian was smamoned t) piaj "Hamlet" at Windsor. When he e«$ai9 to the soliloquy, he made an unusual pause after "To be"— The queen, believing that he had forgotten his lines, instantly prompted—"or not to b&. That is

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The maid of honor sits at dinner nexi to the gentleman on the queen's right. I This rule is, however, relaxed when royal guests are present. After dinner, unless otherwise commanded,,, tho maid of honor rotires to her own room, whence however, sho is frequently called to yead, sing, play the piano or take a hand at cirds.

As regaids this last, the household have always to bo provided with freshly coined money, for the queon is not supposed to handle money which has ever been in circulation.—Now York Advertiser.

tho"question.'' "By your leave, your majesty," said the tragedian, put out of courtly humor by the interruption, "that is not the question. The question is my method of interpretation." "Nevermind your method," returned the queen smilingly. "What we want is Shakespeare."—San Francisco Argonaut.

ivs In Samarkand.

One of my first visits was to tho Jewish rabbi. I was pleased to hear from him that his coreligionists in Samarkand are not under the same objectionable sumptuary laws as in Bokhara. In Russian Turkestan the Jew enjoys almost equal privileges with the Sart.. For instance, a Sart may open a shop in tho Russian part of Samarkand, but a Jew may not. Over a pleasant meal of pistachio nuts, rasins, bread and salt fish the rabbi told me much about the Jews of central Asia.

They are Sephardim, it appears, not Ashkiuazim, as iu Russia and Poland. The rabbi and all his people in Samarkand aro of the tribe of Judah. When E ventured to speak to him of the hypothesis advanced by some misguided people, that the Jews of central Asia were remnants of the 10 lost tribes, he scouted the idea. "We all know," he said, "that we are of the tribe of Judah. Good Words.

Danger at Sea.

A skipper had taken on a green farmer lad just before sailing. The rural youth had seen no shipping, nor yet had his eyes beheld ships, save only the one upon which he found himself embarked. Ho was, however, familiar with tho village life near his own home, and of all the shops that which most delighted him was the one in the window of which were shown jars of colored liquid, and tho interior of which contained a mausoleumlike soda fountain. The first night out the lad, being off duty, was gazing over the bow out into tho darkness when lie saw near at hand two gleaming, luminous globes of color, one green, tho other red. Rushing back to tho skipper, ho called out oxcitodly: "Say, cap'n, yor bettor turn the ship around. We're gettin durned noar a drug store. "—New York Recorder.

Mechanical Projjrcss.

In tho year 1888, when the first contract was signed for the increase of the United States navy, there was not a single mill in the country that had ever made plates required in the specifications. There was no foundry suitable to torn out the work no forges for the same and no plant that ooula snake the armor plates. Since that time there have been brought forward shops and yards that can produoe in Any quantity and of the highest quality any work in steel, brass or iron that the new navy domands. —Hardware,.