St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 19, Number 13, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 14 October 1893 — Page 2

—~— -_w MY KING. You are all that T Ly i Al‘lutl) lhu.'ul I want to ;«‘;?n}o yene. 1t the whol orkd i Os faith in tl‘m ‘}:;’.fif’;fg&g? e Yoy ¢olme -ani it seemed too might For my humble heart to hold ; Ty Itlsiti(exumlin its sacred glory, LilKe dglimpse throng) i Like life in peronu]i:l)ll'&l’t;le:xhe S oF DOB Th(iw?ted' formed anew—--8 dream of perfect Y That I realize in yt)u.lm s God created mo n woman, With a nature just as true As the blue, eternul ocean— A# tho sky that is over yom. And you ure mine until your Maker calls you--Your soul aund your body, Sweet | Your breath, and the whole of your being, From your kingly head to your feet — YO}lr Byeos snd vhe light that is in them— Your 1 ps, with Iheir maddening wine— Ycur arms, with their passionate clasp, my King— Your body and soul are mine, No poweor. whatsoever, No will but God's alone, Can tuke you from my keeping; You are His and mine ulovwl | I know not whers, if ever—--1 know not when, or how Death's hands may try the fetters That bind us here and now ; But some day when God beckons Where rise His fionded palms, My soul shall cross the River And lay you in His erms; Forever aud forever, beyond the Silent Sea, You will rest in the Arms Kteinal, Ana still belong to me. —Boston ‘limes. 3 e ; 'S REVENGE . A WIFE'S REVENGE. e mellie Palme reammentving on vhe " lounge in her pretty bed room, crying | and looking very unhappy. And yet | she had been married only six months, [ , and to such a ‘‘nice, handsomce man,” | as all the young ladies declared, that | surely she ought to have been happy : with him. And so she had Leen, | until—until, to tell the truth, Mr. Bob | Palmer, forgetting or seeming to for-| get that he was a married man, had ! recently taken to flirting with these | very voung ladies at all the partiesin | Middleton, leaving his wife to take | care of herself., Surelyit wasenouagh | to make any six months’ wife cry— | especially one so sensitive as Nellie. | *‘Hallo! been crying again,ldeclare!” | exclaimed Mr. Bob Palmer, suddenly ceasing his little whistle, as he entered the room, on returning from | his oftice. ‘*What's the matter now, Nellie? Canary refused to sing, or Madam \iglini not put sowers enough in your bonnet?” | *‘Oh, Bob, how can you?” sobbed Wellie, beginning atresh. | “Look here, Ellen,” said her hus- | band, sitting down on the lounge, and speaking more seriously: sl | o o . | don’t like this at ail.” 1 never come home that your eyes are not red and swollen with crying. What have you | to cry about, [ should like to know? | It's an insult to me to go sniveling | about the nouse after this fashion, | and moping away in corners, looking sullen and miserable, as you did last night, at Mrs. Macklin’s. Why people will think me a perfect domestic | tyrant!” 2o ‘ “Ah, Bob, don't speak so. I can b ~ helpit, indeed. Ido feel so miser- | : able. You make me so, Bob.” : g Il Watl that e rich! Perhana

e R ey Wahk D b VL RO bm.- you'll be good enough to let me know . s sviv WiV 0-a modern \iobe?”’ ssNothing really wrong, dear: but, oh! if you knew how much a wife "~ . thinks of her husband’s love; and—." Here poor Nellie broke down again. Mr. Palmers eyes opened very wide. «“Whew!” whistled he; ¢lf this isu’t really absurd. So she’s jealous™ vslndeed, no, dear Bob! Dbßut—but — she could hardly speak for the choking in her throat—*you can’t understand the pride a woman takes in having her husband treat her with affection and respect before every ane, or how it humbles and mortifies her to be neglected by him, and have other women consider themselves rivals—llike Isabel Baden.” Mr. Lob Palmer laughed outright, and thea he grew angry. sYou're an absurd little fool, Nellie,” he said. ‘‘Asif Isabel Baden were anything to me bevond a pleas. ant and agreeable young woman ta amuse one's self witih at a party. Nonsensel” «She don’t think so,” said Nellie: ssand—and the others don’t think so. They all think you are getting tired of your wife, and Isabel flatters herself that she has cut me out, and is trying to let peovle see it.” 4 sfiddlesticks,” said Bob, rising impatiently from the lounge. *l'm astonished at you, Nellie, and had really given you credit for more sensc . as well as temper,” he added severely. ¢ «I wish you'd amuse yourself in soe ciety, as I do, instead of going mop- © dng about in this fashion. You can’t o expect to have me tied to your apron ..u strings; ‘tand I'd much rather see TTT TN CH bTe T voursel o rhan

T B s . .By g Ty skulking away in holes and corners, S Yike a spider, watching your butter- ry fly of a husband, to see if you can’'t detect him in doing wrong. You make me guite ashamed of you, 1 declare.” Mr. Palmer took his hat and walked out of the room with an air of mingled dignity and injured innocence. His wife sas up, wiped away her tears, and mused awhile with eves tlashing and cheeks fiushed with wounded and indignant fecling. ‘Y es,” she said to herself, ‘‘since he has requested it 1 will amuse myself as he does and see how he likes it. Ashamed of me, is he? And he did not use ito be so when I was gay gnd happy. ©Oh, Bob, if you only knew how I loved you.” And;once more, despite her resolutely closing her e es and pressing her fingers upon them, the tears would come. There was to be that very evening. a party at Col. Johnson’s; ana Nellie tecok particular pains in dressing herselt for it. She had been of late rather careless on this point. and was now rewarded for her extra care by her husband’s glance of approval, and his remark that that pink silk was becoming to ner. In consequence her ejes and cheeks were brighter, and

T P TR I %TS U 0 ORI, SBTU sT X her spirits more buoyant, as shc entered Mrs. Johnson’s crowded drawing rooms. Scarcely had they paid their re:pects to the hostess, when Mr. Palmer accosted, or rather, was accosted by Miss Baden, a brilliant, conlident girl, who tried to ensnare him before his marrizage; and at the moment a gentleman addressed Mrs. Palmer. She answered mechanically, unable to withdraw her attention entirely from her husband and his/ companion, until, seeing something -|lin Miss Baden's glance at herselt which she did not like., her pride again awoke and she turned, as with { a sudden determination, to the gen- ’ ;| tleman at her side. He was a recent comer to the town—very p!easuntf and handsome—and Nellie Palmer forthwith began to try and make herself agreeable to him. He looked so pleased, and was himself so agreeable that it soon cost her no effort to, converse; and then her old lively spirits returned and to her surprise, she found that she was enjoying her- 1 sell. Her husband didn’t much no- |- tice this, but Miss Baden did.and her || flirtation with Mr. Palmer lost much : of its charm, now thav his wife did [ 3 not appear mortitied and jealous, and : that people couldn’t see that she was i ] sO. Wherefore Miss Baden grew in- | )difierenb and Mr. Palmer bethought | himself to look after his wife. Notifinding her looking over the rphoto- | tgraph alvums nor talking to de::T {old Mr. Brown, neither ic any of the | l “holes and corners” which she was | I woat of late to frequent, he became ! | ' rather puzzled. i i At that instant a little laugh at | his elbow started him and turning he i saw Nellie, bright and flushed, talk- | Ing to a very handsome man, who ap- i | peared quite absorbed in her. Mr. ! i Palmer stared a moment at the un- ; | conscious couple. l | “Why, the deuce,” was his thought; { *‘what on earth can they have been ' talking about all this while?” Then ‘ suddenly meeting his wife's eye, he g smiled and whispered, “Enjoyinz | | yourself, Nell>” | | “Oh, yes, dear, delightfully! Don’t | | trouble yourself about me, pray.” ! ' Nellie Palmer had never sung more | sweetly or danced more gracefully | ' than upon this evening. ; | “thon't you think, Nell, you've | danced enough for one night?” said ‘ i her husband, toward the ciose of the | | evening; *‘for a married woman?” he | i added. i | “*Perhaps so,” she answered. cheer- | | fully; “but I’ve cnjoyed myself 89| ‘much! Really, I almost forgot that || i I was a married woman, and feltlike || | a girl again.” 1 | ‘*And behaved like one,”he sa’d, | | rather coolly. “Who is that feliow | that has been in attendan:ie upon |° you all the evening?”’ he inquired, as | | they walke | down stairs, | ~ “‘That remarkably handsome man, || with the expressive dark eyes, do you | 1 ‘mean?” {1 "~ «] never noticed his eyes or that | 'he was at all handsome,” he an-i: swered., stiffiy. !

DV VA Uy DVI d - . ©Oh, I thought you meant Captain | :Lovell,-of the artiliery. ~ Ah! here he "ijs—just one moment, dear—l quite : forgot—." | And Nellie spoke a few words to the Captain in passing, of which her husband could distinguish only something about *‘that vook.” | When Robert Palmer came home . next day, he {cund his wife, not cry- ' ing as before, in her bed-room, but in . the parlor, practicing a new song. , s« aptain Lovell called this moru- . ing,” she said, *and I have promised ;s to sing this for him at Mrs Campr bell’s.’”? > “Ah,” he answered, with an ex--1 pression of indifference, and as his , wife struck up with tbe first few - notes, he muttered to himself, *Con- . found Captain Lovell.” . At Mrs. Campbeil’s, Captain Lovell was again in attendance upon pretty - Mrs. Palmer, and then other gentle--1 men discovered her attractions and - piquancy, and coquettishness, and 0 flirtableness; and so in a very few . | weeks, Mrs. Palmer was a belle. She : did not seem in the leaet to care who 1 | her husband was attending upon, and . | indeed, he could rarely get a word 1| with her at all when at the gay as- - semblies which they constantly fres quented. He sometimes gave her a ' hint that she was *‘no longer a girl,” y and that be was her husband, butshe 1 valy laughed and said there was no 1 harm done, and that she was enjoy- > ing herself so delightfully, and felt . herself more a belle than even when -a girl—which was true, Lecause she - had not tlirted then, being absorbed. b heart and soul, in Lob Palmer. But | pow it was Captain Lovell who ap- » peared chiefiy to occury her thoughts, s well’ds a good part of her time.

o i e sdh-est ii RS iot i iR ssl she saneg and danced with him; she reiad the books he sent, and so freauent were his visits, so constant his attentions, that at last Mr. lobert f'almer’s wrath broke forth. «Hilen.? he said, as he one day closed the door on the departing Captain, ‘I veally cannot permit this to go on any longer. Your conduct to me is most unexpected—most astounding. You are by tar too intimate with this fellow Lovell. He is constantly in my house, and last evenine he scarcely left your side while you stood for two hours, the center of a group of chattering, grinning popinjays like himself.” *Why, Bob, you vourselt blamed -~ ane for playing wall-flower, and spider, and said you were ashamed of me.’ - “1 am much more ashamed of you r now,” he retorted, severely. 5+ “*Now, dear, this is quite unreason able of you. - Didn’t you tell me tha -+ 1 would please you by enjoying my 1 self, and fiirting a little? You know -1 you did,” added Nellie,, reprvach e fully: ‘and now that I am obeyin 3 you, you get jealous.” y| ‘“Jealous! not L But ¥am of 1 fended and insulted—yes, and dis s | gusted as well. If only you coul ¢ ; hear the remarks about yourself an 1’ that Loavell —

-{ ““Similar to those that I heard in - | regard to you and Miss Baden, I pre- | | sume,” said the wife. S | “*What is Miss Baden to me?» he | demanded angrily. ] () - n;e?f’&nd what is Captain Level] tq _“‘You encourage him, madam, You flirt with him.” ‘As yvou do with Isabel Badep, » **A man may do what is not permissible in a woman.” | “Ah, that is it!” said Nellie, with her old sigh. “You men may negleet ‘ a wife—may wear out her heart anq life wnph zmgms.h_—-may expose her to the pity or ridicule of all her ge. quaintances by showing devotion to figg;hr?s';sgdm?ue' boor slave, must trampled worm bm' s « but must bear all in sk Sience ovcr oton mploin Y, lest she oftend her lord. But I have had enough of this, Bob; and nOW as you do to me will I do to you, If you go on flirting, so will L I know you don’t care a bit more for Isabel Baden than I do for Captain Lovell, but 1 will not be neglected and humbled in the sight of ghe whole world. lam not a slave. but a wife, and demand the honor due to me' i Her mood was a new. wue wo = 2 husbmng. _b’l‘! sub_ CI f_,\__,!:__!%;‘,‘ "‘:"‘“ ,‘ COKT sreaqrliyl ACe, b1 bright, clear eyes, in whose depths h&® could still read great cenderness, and he at once comprehended the whole matter. Ile looked at her a moment, as steadily as she at him, and then he rose and took a seat by her side. “‘And you really care npothing for this Lovell, Nellie>” “No more than I ought to do for my cousin Laura’'s aflianced hus. band,” she replied. $¢A ftianced?” “These six months; before I met him; and I would have told you of it, but— —." She stopped, and looked half archly in his face. Ile under:tood her, and taking her in his arms, Kkissed her tenderly. “sDh, Bob, how could you ever have doubted me?” *ql will do so no more, love.” “‘Never flirt any more?” «‘Never.” — New York Evening World. 2 Why He Hated Children. ¢ hate children,”’ he said W hyo! 1 think they ought to be locked ap in asylums till they're old enough to take care of themselves. 1f it hadn’t been for a child—well, it might have been—" ‘*What?” “]1 loved the child’s motier. She was a rich and beautiful widow, and I was madly in love with her. 1 was actually contemnlating—in fact, 1 had iust got to the point of putting the delicate question. We were in the drawing-room. The c¢hild was playing in the corner. Forgetting all about that, I put my arm serve round the widow's Sysime St St

! planted a passionate KlB .““,xj ‘lips, when the child started up ands 'rushed at me, saving, *‘Don't you kill |, ‘my mammal!” and ran screaming into | the kitchen, calling for the servants.” 1 “But what difference did that make | to you?” . “What marry a widow witha chiid like that! But the worstcame a few nights after. 1 calied at the house. "There were several ladies there, and the child was being petted all around. Os course the widow was all right, but that confounded child deliber. ately turned her biack upon me. 1 'didn't mind that, but the mother, to : be nice, said: '« My darling child, don’t you know P Mr, X7 s Oh, yes' said the imp very pertly, ‘Oh, yes. I know you! You are the man that bitel my mamma! " ! oI need not—could not—describe the effect.”—Yankee DBlade. All That Glitiers Is Not Gold. | What imagination will do where gold is concerned is illustrated by the ;sloz'y of a certain volecanic island in the Indian Ocean, the sand along the shote of which is filied with g()}'{l"i colored crystals of chrysolite or *“'gold i stone.” These crystalsglitter brightly | . in the sun, and about a century ago a crazy Krenchman, struck with the | brilligacy of the pebbles, supposed . that he had hit upon riches compared to which the wealth of Urmus andof | .+ Ind was as nothing. He collected lquantities of the crystals, heated - them in a ¢ ucible, and fancied that he produced ingots from them. His . delusion was quite harmless, butonly ' a Tew years ago a lot of ehrysotites I bearing sand from the island was ! shipped to France and made a great

Naansatinn lhrealhamnerae? seusation. (ireat numbers of people | went wild about it, and companies were organized to begin mining operations along the strand of the gn‘ulenl isle. It was declared that the sup~‘ '~ plies of precious metal to be obtained - fromw that source were inexhaustible. ) | Much money wac spent io the wild. ) | cat enterprise, which, even to this - day, has not been wholly abandoned. 5 ! Baitimore's Railrcad Princess. I t' One of {he richest women in this' , | country is Mary Garrett of Balti.| > more, daughter of the ¢reat railroad - king and sister of the present head of | the Baltimore and ( hio system. She d| is about 38 years of age and is worth | , | bernaps $20,600,000, much of which ! ” she herself has made by judicious inu | vestments. Sheisof medium height, has a pale face, and blue eyes much 1- dependent on spectacles. She 1s said t, to be a walking Poor’s Manual on | railroad aifairs. She inherited her w | tather’s love for the business, and is| 1- | acquainted with every detail of the g | railroad he founded. She gives a i large share of her time f-|to charitable work, but very s- | little to society. She is a great d | traveler and is a most entertaining d | conversationalist, speaking in a Ipeculiarly soft, low voice.

| "HAVING A TOOTH PULLED. .s‘ ‘ Gas Lwsed the Patient a Hewp | of Trouble, The dentist assured the tall man that if he took laughing gas the extrac. Lign of his tooth would not hurt, and 8Q he gettled back in the chair and the genti-v administered the anwsthegjie. The tail man was soon in dpegmland. He first imagined that was on his way to the World’s fajr, and when the train was on the dpwn grade and going sixty miles an hpyr the wheels left the track. The afpprakes broke, and the cars rushed along at a terrible speed. It was with the greatest difticulty that the dreamer kept in his berth. Tremendogs jo!ting was caused by the wheels rinyging over the ties The suspense Was somethiug awful; the wreck of the train was inevitable. The car Was silted with the shrieks of the terrified passengers, mingled with the crash of glass and the rattle of the train. Suddenly there was a deafening report and a tremendous Concussion, and the cars appeared to Crumble away. The tall man found \Bimself in total darkness, but suddgnly, to his horror, he discovered a freak of lurid flame through the breckage, which told him” that he I OCToAsTed alive if immediate HLeor did not rench him. He c¢ould gear voices directly over him, but do as he would not a sound could he gtter. The tlames were making rapid proaress toward the place where he was confined, and their hot breath was beginning to singe his whiskers. Then came the crash of an ax directly over his head. The first blow struck him squarely in the back of the neck, and he felt that his time had surely come. The next one cut off his left ear, and the third ope: ed upa space in his cranium the size of a saucer. The tire had now crept up to his feet, and the left one was slowly roasting, when another blow from the ax, greaterthan all the rest. Knocked his head clean from his body. He experienced a singular buzzing in his ear; there was a gleam Ot lignt in the distance, and with 4 bound he returned to consciousness. The doctor was standing over him, holding a double tooth in his fe.oceps. *That was an old stager, aind no mistake. Howhedid hanzs! 1t took all my strength to dislodee him.” and the doctor wiped his dripping forehead with his handkerch es. ‘“‘Where a-a-am 17" were the first words o! the tall man. *Why, right here in my office,’’ responded the doctor. “*You would Dave bad 2 teugh time if you hadn’t taken the ga= " **Well, if it had been rougher than it actually was I would now be a Srps__ and the tall man paid the ?x..,.‘g\l went out into the street, feeling as if he had been walxing ina geadmill for a week. DPemopralirine Practice. spqppiv i lArge ana e

L ge o ek Gt % W practice and detrimental v © TSt interests of baoking in |, jeeral. Those banks which require gotes and securities for every dollar | paped need have little fear in times §f stringency, Unsecured overdrafts ate one of the ugly phases of the Pa¢ific Bank’s report of assets, and a glance at the list covering large amounts, is enough to convince euservative business men of the ottenness of the concera's way of doing business. For merchants to extend a line of fndiscrimminate credit on book accounts is also a practice which shouid receive the same corrective attention which the San Irauncisco Clearing House has already given to the draft puisance. The difficulty with an open account is that no fixed time is evideat on its face at which it shall be clo ed, and room is thus left for frequent disputes, disagreements and litigations. We observe a guite general movement in some parts of the country to adjust the credit system to some approach to equity and busi-pess-like reczulation. If buyers of goods cannot pay cash they ought not “to oblect to giving notes or paper _which the jobber or other .merchant may use at bank in case of need. Ex- | perience in the business wor.d has/ i long since shown that the man who is re juired to meet his obligations ’ promptly, can do sooften with less discomfort than when he is aliowed l muach wmore ititude A habit -'*j' ompt pay Dbegetls contlilence, anc g.{‘t:‘nisiu(;fi may often !.{."' btained by such a man where "1‘ e W B e like Ware ot L favors Wiut & AODEe O 10 ivio: then. PRy as _\'n.u 20 U["; m’n so” is a very good maxim to ob- |

%“"5 RN R e T @ve But credit appears as yet to a necessary part of our commercial system, hence to curtail, regulate, and reform it is a pressing need of the day. A very Jong stride in the right dire-tion therefore would be the substitution of securities for overdrafts at bank, and for book accounts with the merchant —(Cal. Fruit Grower. BEG ol - The City Editor's Rustic Song. [ would flee from the city’'s rule and law, from its fashions and forms cut loose—and g 0 where the strawberry grows on its straw and the gooseberry grows on its goonse: where the catsup tree is climbed by the cat as she clutches for her prey, the guilel less and unsuspenting rat on the rat- | tan bush at plav. 1 will watch at ease the saffron cow and the cowlet in their glee, as | they leap in joy from tough to bough lon top of a cow-slip tree: and list ' while the partridge drums in the !WOO(]. apd the dog devours the dogrose fruit in primitive solitude. Q, let me drink from the moOssgrown pump that was hewn from a pumpkin tree! Eat curds and drink mjlk from a rural stump, from form and fashion free--new garnered mush from the roushroom vine, and milk

from the milkweed sweet—with Iyscious pineapples from the pine! Such | food as the gods might eat! And then 1o the whitewasheqd dairy 1 1L burn, where the dairymaid hasten | Ing hies—her ruddy and gold-red but- | ter to churn from milk of her butterflies; and I'll rise at morn with | the earliest bird, to the-* fragrant farmyard pass, and watch whi'e the | farmer tuins his herd of grasshoppers jout to grass. e e Sl e Too Large a Story. Among the Open ILetters of the | Century Magazine is one containing the following anecdote of Mr. Francis 1P Blair, who, though not an oflicer I'Of the Government, was more eminlent, than either of his sons, Mont- | gomery Blair, a member of President | Lincolw’s Cabinet, and Frank T l Blair, a Major General in the 'nion | Army. His son-in-law was an admiral in the Navy, During the last, years ot his life Mr. Blair lived in Montgomery County, Maryland, not ' very far from Washington. 5 { Une day during the Civil War, Mr. [ and Mrs. Blair were riding about the ,cnunt-ry on horseback, according to | the.r daily custom. They were about ' eighty years of age; Mr. Blair wore a |green’ veil about his hat to shade his eyes from the daazzling sunlight, and Ihis wife, for the same reason, had i pulled her large bonnet far over her } face. { They were well known by the | country people for miles about ~ilver { Spring, where they lived, but the | roads into Washington wer. guarded |by pickets, some of whom were | deficient in local knowledg.. It ' chanced that one of these men was | struck with the odd appearance of | the couple, comporting soill with the fine blooded horses they rode, and { when they came in sizht of him he i called. ‘‘Halt!” e asked the usual 't questions, which were all answered satisfactorily, and then added one of i his own: | *‘Well, who are yon, any way?” | The o'd gentleman looked at his} ' wife with a smile of quiet humor, and asked: | i “Betty, who are we?" Smiling in her turn, the old lady turned to the picket. and said: “‘Well, guard, what would you think it Ilsaid we had ason who was a l Cabinet Minister, and another son | who was a Major Gene:al, apd an- | other son who —" | “*And I suppose,” interrupted the | guard, *‘you will say, another son ‘ who is an Admiral!” | **Yes,” responded the old lady, “an Admral also!” “Well, now, old woman,” said the soldier, *‘that's coming it a little too strong. If you had left out the Admiral I might have believed you: but as it is 1 think you are loth sub'ects for headqguarters. So come along ” | | There was no course open but that 3 ‘ot submission, and the three rode along together. At length a group | of ofticers approached, and halted to | speak to the cantured sorobhnic ? |

MR NRER WA MAANW VERIIUR AL T EOOURSEN. 1 Blair, ‘‘whatdovas «f them to Mr. and on your way to headquarters.” sWWell.? said Mr Blair, ‘SO we are.” The officer turned upoi. the crestfallen picket, and demaanded what he had been doing. **Why, sir,” he explained, in an abashed undertone, *when I questioned the old man, I believed he was all right, but when the oid woman told her story about her having one son in the Cabinet, and one son a Major General, and then on top ot that added another son an Admiral, I couldn’t believe bhut they were reil spies! So 1 arrested ’'em on the spot!” Spanish Yellow as a Garniture. Spanish yellow velvet ribbon isa fashionable {triraming for creamtinted nun’s veilings, ciariettes and simiiar sheer wool fabries, for young ladies’ wear. Some pretty bridesmaids’ dresses worn recently were of creawn-white crepon so trimmed and supplemented by empire sashes of libertysilk, soft and flexible in guan- ' tity and uncommonly wide, that . were laid in light folds around the ' waist and knotted at the left side 'with falling ends like the Or.entals. ' When the waist is slender and the { style appropriate this fashion is a gracetu! cne. Jln adopting yellow garniture, the temptation to multiply them must be guarded azainst. Touches of the color are sutficient for good effect, more tends to vulgarity, stight variatioas of shade also making all the great difference between the becoming and the unbecoming. Only n .“"l‘ltl;l“l>’lv)i: A semicolon incorrectly used is re- ( L S Sl R R L SE e I

| Sponsibie 10T & frcal deal 0L LIOUic 'to the surface railroads. The act, | which relates to railroad crossings, is as follows: - ‘No electric, cable or | horse railroad shall hereafter be con- | structed across the tracks of a steam : ! railroad at grade; nor shall any steam | railroad cross any such eiectric, cable, jor horse railroad at grade, except { upon application and approval by the | railroad commissioners.” ‘The pre- | ceding was approved, semicolsn and L all, June 11, 1839, and became a law. | The result is that while steam rocads , | can cross surface lines at will with | the permission of the railrcad com- .| missioners street and electric roads | ! are barred from crossing steam roads | ‘ with or without permission. i How the Japane:e Mark Time. i The Japanise divide the day into ! six day hours, from the rising to the | setting of the sun, and six night hours, from sunset to sunrise. Ac--2 cordingly, although the dials of their éclocks are ficured with twelve num- | eral., the movements of the hands ! do not correspond with our own, these ;f movements being regulated by in- | genious luechanism to correspond | with variations in the length of days ; laud nights.

NATURE s Love MAKING. \— Birds and ¥nsects Must Do Their Prettiest The wooi:hen e fined and grag'e?;l. bllrf::- 5t e respective pipes, ang \;aht,unes their captivate their mates hy tfizi:e:k = est notes and most, varied vv;arl):ivggt:The Wood pigeon charms his luf?:'_ love by a series of aerial evo!uti:" and a curious flapping of his mo)[[x]s wing feathers, puting his breast anfi | softly cooing. , At l'nut,lpg time the plumage ot ‘| male birds is more handsome than at any other period—indeed, some birds Aassume different colors in the spring. Yellow-hammers charm their mates | OV displaying their tail feathers in the form ot asap; starlings chatter in the sunsnine to show the metallic beauty of their breast feathers, and | swallows circle and double in graceful tlight betore their lady-loves. | Bright shells, flowers, feathers and grasses are laid by the bower bird at *| the entrance of his partoer’s retreat; {and tiny hureming birds woo mosg | assiduously, showing off their lovely hues and engazing in flerce combat with a possible rival; even bringing nectar frown choice flowers for the delectation of their fairy brides. ITEN DITAS CANTUIL Bt vise Vagarics .| of their sex, and pretend to be indifferent to vhe exertions of their ads | mirers, : Frogs have an original way of love making, and as soon as evening shades fall commence t 9 eroak loudly to thelr mates, sometime great nume. bers of them combining in one unmusical chorus Courting among insects is often a very elaborate affair. A male spider will approach a female and amuse her for some time with his antics. Tt is said that he twirls around and executes a sort of mazy dance to excite her admiration. She is a very vicious lady and not always pleased with his lovemaking; sometimes he finds himself obliged ta ‘w:ml her oil, for she hasa painful i mode of showing herdispleasure, and and if she e.tirely disapproves of his attentions will fall upon him and rend him to pieces. One species of spiders is said to have a novel way of making love, tLe sexes commuricating by means of strands of web stretchinZ from one | retreat to the other—a sort of tele. ‘ phone, so to speak. | Glow worms, according to some | naturalists, use their luminaries as |love signals. The females of one | species seat themselves anong the ! grass, while the males, attracted | by the light, dance attendance round | them. | Concerning fishes—tnesticklebacks 'occasionally resort to harsh treat. : {ment, attacking the females with !upen mouths and erected spines. As | husbands their behavior is certainly i eccentrie, for after the femzle has de. [ posited her eggs within the nest ftimt he has prepared forher, her lord

, Prasamey ol oA R A ROt v SRS Rl st i B ooUl g sthanl SR O W ‘and master drives her away and proChurch mice and church rats are : common enough, but church cats are a little out of the ordinary run. The trio of felines which B. E Woodbrey, a carpenter of DBrighton, found in the spire of the First Parish church of Brighton recentiy are of a ‘spccies entirely unknown. Alouta vear ago the property of the First }l’urish was sold to Fred Williams, ‘manager of the Sunbeam Opera Company. Recently Mr. Wcodbrey be- . l gan to tear down the old spire of the | church. He first tore off a heavy wire screen that inclosed the beltry. This screening has been in place for a number of years. When it was removed three most peculiar cats were seen to jump from rafter to rafter aud ascend to the peak of the spire. They are exceedinglv wild and their appearance i 3 extremely peculiar. They are covered with a coat of long shaggy fur, their tecth are long and are almost like tusks On the nose of each is a large tuft of hair resembling a tusk. They are very agile; and spring from rafter to rafter with the ease of a squirrel. 1t is not known how they got into the spire or | how long they bave been there, but ‘| they must have been confined in i their aerial abode for many years i Absut a yvear ago a strange singing | noise was heard coming from the | spire at frequent irtervals, and i | was thought that it was caused by | the swinging of the vane. Itlis now | believed that it was made by these { amimals. How they haye managed | to live is unaccountable, unless they cateh the sparrows and swallows that (ahouud in the spire. It is not known haoaw their sunly of water was ob-

ERCINY UALORL ORI IIRE . RIR . NAR URAR - Aol tained. Mr. Woodbrey will endeavor to capturs tem.—Boston Transcript. ‘ A Unigue Marriage Rite. In the Isiando? Banquey there is a tribe of Dusuns differing widely in language, religion and customs from other tribes bearing that nams. Mar. riagas are performed in the forest in the presence of two families. There |is no public gathering or feast. The rite consists in transferring a drop of } blovod from a small incision made with a weoden knife in the calf of a man’s leg to a similar cut in the wo- ! mans lez. After marriage the man i takes the bride to her home, where i he resi _es in the future as a member ‘x of the family. | A Suceessful Dramatist. Miss Lm:ise; Imogen Guiney is quite clated with Yer dramatic success, it is said. She breught out a play in Boston last year that was pronounced 3 success and now one is about to be presented at {he Grand Opera Heuse which she has translated and the announcement is just made that a third has been engaged for the Globe Theater next year, a translation of Emil Augier's *Marriage d’Olympe.”