Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 June 1896 — Page 3

rose aylmefts grave.

jia English grave 'neath Indian skie*. fx Marked by a sullen rtono, And tbls la where Rose Aylmer lies.

Fnr, flowerlew, and alone. £*k Rose Aylmer was a poet's low, vV'!,"! 8weet. bcanttfnl rnd young: „r Her clpjry. In melody,

Tbo poet lover sung. 4' /.

About her Krave no flower* grow. No pleasant boughs are stirred, Uo gentle «un, no quiet snow,

No English bee or bird. The suns of springtime scorch the stone, In summer, storm and rave The winds that herald the cyclone,

The rains that lash the grave.

Bose Aylmer'a sister flowers should spring In whitest bloom above The roses Landor could not bring,

Par distant from his fove. And now a snake lives near her bed. The crows perch on the rail, A bite sweeps post, and overhead

The unclean vultures sail.

"Ah, what avails the sceptered race, Ah. what the form divine 1 What every virtue, every grace!

Rose Aylmer, sll were thine. Bose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyM May weep, but never see, A night of memories and of sighs

I consecrate to thee."

Ah, why regret the gloomy hearse, The land of banishment? This is her grave, but Landor's verse

Bose Aylmer's monument. Bose Aylmer, on thy naxnestone lies Love's rose Immortally, The Rose of memories and of sighs,

Once consecrate to thee.

—Temple Bar

THE RAVEN.

The Count Stibor was as brave as he was highborn, and riches had poured in upon him nntil he had become one of the wealthiest nobles in the empire. It chanced that one day he hunted with a great retinue among the mountain fastnesses, and glorious was the sport of that gallant, hunt The light footed chamois, the antlered deer, the fierce wolf, and the grizzly bear were alike laid low. When the sun was about to set, he formed his temporary encampment on the pleasant bank of the Waag, just where, 011 the opposite side of the channel, a lone and precipitous rock turned aside the glancing waters.

The heart of Stibor was meriy, for the sport had gone well throughout the day, and when his rude tents were raised, the savory steam of the venison and the sparkle of the wine cup brightened his humor, and he listened, with a smile upon his lip, to the light sallies of the joyous company.

As they talked idly of the day's hunting, however, one wished that the deer had taken another direction a second that ho had not missed a certain shot a third that he had not lost his couteau de chase in the underwood. In short, there was not an individual among them who had not some regret blended with his triumph, like a drop of gall in a cup of honey. "Hear me," said the magnificent noble, during a transient pause in Ihe conversation. "I seem to he the only hunter of the day to whom the apart has been without a blemish. It is true that all your misfortunes are light enough, bnt I will huve 110 shadow cast upon my own joy, and therefore to compensate you for these alleged mishaps, each of you is free to form a wish, and if it be within my power to grant it, I pledge my word that it. shall be fulfilled."

A murmur of admiration ran through the astonished circle, and the work of 11111 bit inn soon b'vjan. Gold was the first tiling asked for, for avarice is ever the most greenly of all passions, and then revenge upon an enemy, for human nature will often saerifico personal gain to vengeance, and then power, authority, rule over their.fellow men, the darling occupation and privilege of poor, weak, self misjudging mortals. In short, there was no boon within the reach of reason which had not been asked and promised, when the eye of Stibor fell upon his jester, who was standing apart playing with the tassels of his vest and apparently quite uuinterested in a subject which had made all around him eager and excited. "And than, knave," said the noble, "hast thou nothing to ask? Thou must bestir thyself, or thy master will have little left to give, if the game go on thus." 'Fear t^t, fear not," replied the fool. "The claimants have been courteous, for they have not touched upon that portion of, thy possessions which I covet. They have demanded gold, blood, domain, the power to enjoy themselves, and to render others wretched—they are welcome to all they want I ouly ask for stones."

A loud laugh ran through the circle. "Stones, Betako!" echoed the astonished Stibor. "Thou shalt have them to thy heart's content, where and in what shape thou wilt." "I take thee at thy word, Count Stibor. I will have them yonder on the crest of the bold rock that stands oat like a braggart daring the foot of man, and in the shape of a good castle in which I may hold my own, should need be,'' was the unlocked for reply. "Thou hust lost thy chance, Bet*ko,M cried a voice amid the universal merriment that ei.med. "Not even Stibor can Accomplish thy desire."

Who dares to say that Stibor canuot grant it, if such be his will?" demanded the chieftain in a voice of thunder as he rose proudly from the earth where had been teated on a conch of skins. "The castle of Bet*ko shall be built!"

And it was built, and within a year a festival was held there, and the noble became enamored of his own creation, for it was beautiful in its stmigth, and the fair damvt admired its courtly halls as much as the warriors prised its solid walls and its commanding towers. And thus Cuuut Stibor txiught off the rock fortress from his jester with gold, and m&de it the chief plane of his abode, and he feasted, there with hb guests and made merry with music and dances until it seemed as though life was to be ft* him one long festival. Men often walk over the spot which afterward opens to bury them.

Little by little the habit of self indulgence grew upon the laxnrkm noble. Vet still he loved the chase btorond all

else on earth, and his dogs were of the fleetest and finest breed. He was one day at table* surrounded by the richest viands and the rarest wines, when, one of his favorite hounds entered the hall howling with pain and dragging after him his wounded foot, which dropped blood as he moved along. Terror seized upon the hearts of the vassals even before the rage of their lord burst forth, mid when it came terrible was the storm, as he vowed vengeance against the wretch who had dared thus to mutilate an animal that he valued.

An aged slave flung himself at his feet. "Mercy, my lord, mercy!" he exclaimed piteously. "I have served you faithfully for years. My beard is gray with time, and my life has been one of hardship. Have mercy on me, for he flew upon me and would have torn me had I nt)t defended myself against his fury. I might have destroyed him, but I sought only to preserve myself. Have mercy upon my weakness!"

The angry chieftain, however, heeded not the anguish of his gray hairs, and, pointing to a low balcony which extended across the.window of the apartment and hung over the precipice, he commanded that the wretched old man should be flung from thence into the river which flowed beneath as an example to those caitiffs who valued their own worthless lives above those of his noble hounds.

As the miserable tools of an Imperious will were dragging the unhappy victim to his fate he raised his voice and cursed the tyrant whom they served, and having done so he summoned him to appear At the tribunal, which none can escape, to answer for this his last crime, on its first anniversary. But the powerful chief heeded not his worda "Away with him!" he said sternly as he lifted his goblet to his lips and there was a struggle, a shriek of agony and then a splash upon the river wave, and all was silent

A year went by in festival and pride, and the day on which that monstrous crime had been committed returned unheeded. There was a feast in the castle, and Stibor, who month after month gave himself up yet more to self indulgence, gradually became heavy with wine, and his attendants carried him to a couch beside the same window whence the unfortunate slave had been hurled 12 months before.

The guests drank on for a time, and mado merry at the insensibility and helplessness of their powarful host, and then they departed, each to his business or pleasure, and left him there alone.

The casement had been flung back to admit the air freely into the heated apartment, and the last reveler had scarcely departed, when a raven—the somber messenger of Nemesis—flew thrice round the battlements of the castle, and then alighted on the balcony. Several of the guests amused their idleness by watching the evolutions of the ill omened bird, but once having lost sight of it they turned away and thought of it no more.

Meanwhile a work of agony and death had. been delegated to that dark winged messenger. It rested but an instant from its flight ere once more it hovered over The couch of the sleeping Stibor, and then, darting down, its sharp beak penetrated at ono thrust from his eye into his brain!

The agony awoke him, but he awoke enly to madness from its extent. He. reeled to and fro, venting imprecations to which none was by to listen, and writhed until his tortured body was one convulsion. At length, by a mighty effort, striving to accomplish he knew not what, he hurled himself over the balccny, at the selfsame spot whence the slave had been flung by his own command, and as he fell the oh at

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the Waag for a time resisted the impure burden and threw him back shrieking and howling from tin ir depths.

But- he sank at last, and when his parasites sought him on the morrow they found only the couch on which he had lain and a few drops of blood to hint that he had died a death of violence and vengeance.

They searched for him carefully on all sides, aud then, when they were quite assured that he had passed away never to return, whispers grew of the gray headed slave and the mysterious raven—uut.il by degrees the fate of the famous Stibor was fashioned into form, and grew into a legend throughout the country, scaring the village maiden in her twilight walk mid the lone shepherd in his watch upon the hills.—Exchange.

The Vigesimal System.

One of the facte presented by Professor Conant iu his interesting volume, "The Number Concept," is the way Celtic races have held on to the vigesimal system, or numeration having 20 as a basis. It is found in old Irish, Welsh, Gaelic, Manx and Breton. When, however, 1,000 is reached, then comes in the Latki, as if the effects of Roman conquest were visible, for in Irish, Gaelic and Breton

Mmile"

or "mil" is 1,000.

Another peculiarity is that in French the persistence of the vigesimal system is visible. The French 80 is .quatrevingt, four times 20, and their 90 is quatre-vingt-dix. or four times 20, with 10 added. In old French soixante for 60 does not appear. It was treis virus, or three times 20. One hundred and twenty was six vin*—that is, six times 20— and sept vinx, or seven times 20, was 140. In Africa the vigesimal system is rare, but in Asia it is not uncommon, and is in use in northern Siberia.

Black Velvet KibbtM.

Black velvet ribbons of an infinitesimal width trim the frills of many of the fichus which beautify otherwise plain silk waists and blouses, such fichus being made of either chiffon, moossellne de aoie or spotted net. It is also seen alternating with frills and insertions of lace forming epaulets over plain sleeves and also velvets in tight abort

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bodices, bnt let us hope

that the fashion may never be revived of wearing a band of black velvet around the throat, far this style, although becoming to most, causes many a lovely throat to be prematurely wrinkled, and black will darken the skin.

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FOE LITTLE FOLKS.

JUGGLERY MADE EA?Y.

A Trick That Magicians Perform Can Be Done by Any Bright Boy.

Many of you no doubt are familiar with the juggler's trick of baking a cake in a silk hat, but not with the way In which it is done. We are going to

describe the process so simply that it may be employed in the parlor as well as on the stage, t-^* •(,

To prepare for the trick get three eggs, and having blown the contents from two of them, close the little apertures with white wax. Place the three eggs upon a plate, ready for use when wanted, and in the left hand side of your waistcoat put a flat cake, 4 inches in diameter.

Having made these preparations, appear before the spectators, put the plate with the three eggs on it on a table and borrow a silk hat. After secretly transferring the cake from your waistcoat to the hat, put. the hat on the table and break one of the blown eggs on the edge of the plate and pretend that you empty its contents into the hat

To add to the illusion then drop the perfect egg upon the plate and let the spectators see its contents pour out. That will help to make them believe that the other two are real Then break

the remaining blown egg and pretend to empty its contents into the hat, after which you have only to pass the hat several times over the flame of a candle to complete the trick, taking care, of course, that you do not bring it near •er^ugh to the flame to injure it

Take out the cake and let the spectators eat it—Philadelphia Times.

Johnny's Postscript.

Bessie Chandler, the writer of stories and verses for children, is a daughter of Commodore Chandler of the navy. At ono time in their family they had a little negro boy who was not very bnsy, and spent his spare time idling about the rooms where the ladies sat They would puzzle their wits to keep the boy at work. One day Mrs. Chandler was busy and sent Johnny into the next room. "You may take ytrar slate and pencil," she said, "and write me a letter. The boy obeyed. By and by there came a shrill call: "Please, missus, I'se got it wroted. It says: 'Dear Missus— Ban I go down to the tennis court and Bee th&n play tennis? Respectfully yours, Johnny.'" Mrs. Chandler was not ready to admit him as yet, so she replied: "Oh, well, write me a postscript" Again a silence, so prolonged that she went into the room to investigate. There was no boy there. The slate lay on the chair face upward. She read the message he had first called out, and underneath it this addition: "P. S.—I have went"—San Francisco Argonaut

One Doll's Name.

The Capital of Washington tells a pretty story about Mrs. Cleveland, a little girl and a doll. Mrs. Cleveland gave a name to the doll which was not disclosed, and the girl who guessed correctly was to get the dolL Mrs. Cleveland named the doll Columbia, and after almost every little girl in the city had tried to guess its name, mid the ravelope containing the guesses was about to be sealed up because not one had guessed correctly, little Margaret Lathrop, who lives at Concord, Mass., in the home that used to belong to Hawthorne, went to the bazaar and guessed the correct name, and, of course, she has the dolL Mrs. Cleveland asked Margaret afterward how she happened to guess that the doll's name was Columbia, and she said, "Mrs. Gleveland, I thought Columbia was the name you ought to give the doll.t

Length of Stltehea.

The first lesson given to those" whd lore learning how to sew is what is known as the running stitch. While you may all know that the Matches should be fine and even, yon may perhaps not be aware that the spaces and the stitches should be of exactly the same length, and this should not exceed an eighth of an inch.

Glady* a»d Orsaay.

Little Gladys—Granny, go down mt: oar hands and knees tor a minute, please.

Food Grandmother—What am I to 4o that for, my pet? Gladys—'Cause I want to draw an •lephant—Philadelphia Times.

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MAIL, JTOE 20, 1896.

THE ELSCTRIC SUCKER.

A German's Account of a Wonderful Fish Found In the Nile. In an article in Ueber Land*und Meer on "Electrical Phenomena In the Animal World," Dr. Frolich tells about a sucker first found in the Nile and its tributaries by modern scientific men in 1881, but well known to the ancient Egyptians as the "sucker thunderer god," being worshiped as such in a sucker god temple in the city of the thunder sucker, or Oryrrhynchos. The reason they called it the thunder sucker, instead of the "thunder fish," was because they knew of another fish, known to the English speaking people as the electri6 cat (fish), to the Germans as the zatterwels, or the shad that makes one tremble. It grows to a length of about a foot, of which the head and nose take up a quarter, mid at the deepest part measures more than a quarter of its length.

Just why the modern scientific men did not know of this fish before is a question a layman finds it hard to answer except that the sucker is a bottomy fish. The old Egyptians probably learned of the animal after a Nile flood, when some philoeopher was meditating over a mud puddle left by the receding water. He saw a funny fish struggling in the water, and, out of a desire for knowledge, reached for the fish and touched it If there were any disciples of the philosopher hard by, they probably saw the philosopher act surprisingly—as the stoic Indian did when he got hold of a galvanic battery. Thereafter the fish was worshiped, having a name which assoc'atcd it with the "thundtr god of the skies, although the ancient" knew nothing of electricity according to the learned of today.

A peculiar thing about the various electrical fish is that should one swim, even at a considerable distance from human bather, the bather would knew of its proximity by an "electrical seusation," while many cf them have batteries actually fit to kill a horse on contact. These fish are far ahead of the human beings in the matter of weapons, "for they stun their prey at a great distance in the water.

'THE RETIRED BURGLAR. .'

Not Often Really Frightened, bnt Now and Then Perhaps a little Startled.

"I don't suppose a man in. my business is apt to getfrightened very much." said the retired burglar. "He's all the* time expecting things to happen, mul he's always on the lookout fer them. Still, I suppose that any man, unless he has an absolutely cast iron ncrvo, and such men are very few, is likely nt. times to be startled. I know that I am. For instance: "I went into a house one night, ana after groping around down stairs for a while in the blackest kind of darkness I went up stairs. There I found r.n open dt or. I had located from the outside of the house the windows of the room th. this doer opened into, and when I struck the door I k^ew where the* bed ought to bo. It was there, and I went along the side cf it until I came to the head. I found a chair there with a man's clothes piled up on it I picked up the trousers, and as I began to feel in the pocket— br-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r! went an alarm deck 011 the bureau, not afoot from my head, and out of bed jumped a man, bumping square against me, of course net knowing I was there, but knocking nic endways and tumbling over on the floor himself. "I certainly was startled by that alarm clock, make no mistake about that, and I have no doubt in my own mind that the man that jumped out of bed was startled when he fell over me, but I didn't stay to ask him about that."—New York Sun.

Billet—Fahrkarte.

It would be an advantage to have all over the world the same word for ticket, for railway, for postoflice and so forth. And something of this sort, however rudimentary, did actually exist on the continent before the German empire arose and, in its newly awakened self consciousness, did its best to blot it out In those days, for example, the word always used in Germany for tioket was "billet," and every educated man in Europe understood it Now the word is "Fahrkarte," a word understood only by Germans and German scholars. It is a sorry perversion of patriotism thus to complicate the intercourse between nations. Nor has the effort even the merit of suooesa "Billet" is rejected as being French, bnt what of the second syllable of the word that has been substituted for it? No doubt "charta" is Latin, but it is equally certain that it has reached Germany through the French "carte." This is but one instance out of many. Germany, however anxious to be free from obligations to other countries, must still borrow many words from her hereditary foe.—Contemporary Review.

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