Bloomington Telephone, Volume 11, Number 26, Bloomington, Monroe County, 4 November 1887 — Page 2

AU TOVL JUT LOYK.

Lmeh me a golden srgoay, Hoist me the silver sail ; Lead me thy wavas, tbou dancing

wart me, ye Tavonng gales. Oo toll the night by stars to light, The moon to stoop and shine. Because my lore hath sent tor me, Because my lore is mine I

Fell me the mighty cedar ire, Build ra aipaaee fair, Deek it with rold and iwy, Haag it with arras rare. Hing wide thw gates that part the sea And let the clarions play, Beeaase the day hath dawned for me. My love is mine for aye I bid the nightingales to slog. The pearly fountains play, A molody of love by night, A dream of night by day. Ten ye th world it draw not near, TeH ye the hills and sea, The glory of my life is here. My love hath oome to me 1 -Tmpie Bar. NORMA, THE HEIRESS. BY EMMA PRATT. Oswald Maynard, tall, broad-shouldered, and handsome, walked quickly wp the broad pathway that led to the handsome home of Mrs. Ellen Barton. He was in the act of mounting the steps to ring the bell when he heard a voice pronounce his name. The voice he knew belonged to Miss Bertha Barton, lira. Barton's eldest daughter, who was very beautiful and who, he had been led to believe, was as good as she was beautiful. Without intending to listen he was obliged to hear words certainly never intended for his ears. "Now understand me, mamma, once for aU," he heard her say, "I will not have my chance of becoming Oswald Sfaynard's wife spoiled just by a foolish child like hen 1 tell you she can go to Aunt Sarah's till I am married, then you can have her home as much as you please." "But, my dear, she has been away so long now, almost a year since she left echool, and she wants to stay at home bow so badly I dislike to refuse her; then Tom insists "

"Never mind Tom; he always insists ;

in annoying me, and there is no use in talking, I will not have her here to try and win him from me as she did Arthur Fores ton." "Beally, my love, you do her an injustice; I'm sure she never encouraged Arthur in the least Still I will send her away if yen wish it, although I dislike to do it very much." The listener did not wait to hear more, but rang the bell and was soon ushered into the presence of the two ladies, who received him very graciously, little thinking that he had over heard their conversation No mention was made of Bertha's sister during his ty, which was brief, e?nng to his having some letters to post, he said. The truth wat he was thoroughly disenchanted, and did not care to remain. On hie way to the village he met his friend, Tom Barton, Bertha's brother; ekted by his side was a small, slight

figure witn aars Drown eyes, mat looked at him rather quizzically, for he knew Tom must have told her who he was, and he knew in a moment that she most be the one whom he had heard Bertha and her mother talking about. Tom stopped on pretext of asking his Mend to go hunting with him the next day. After a few words he introduced him to his sister Norma, and they talked very pleasantly for some time. At last she told Tom they would be late for dinner, and they drove on homeward, leaving Oswald thinking he had never met any one like Norma Barton. The next morning he went over again, hoping to see the fair face of the girl he had met the night before, when, to his disappointment, he was told by Tom that she had gone to visit her aunt. Ifc was true. In vain Norma had toegged and pleaded; in vain Tom stormed and raved. Bertha ruled her mother, and as Bertha said she must yo, her mother had sent her. So she had gone that morning. As Tom seemed angry and out of sorts, and Bertha and her mother were away from home, Oswald's stay was a short one. When he was about to drive away he said to Tom: "Where did you say Miss Norma went?--"To Aunt Sarah's, a maiden sister of oar father's; she lives at C . A look of surprise swept over his face, bat he said nothing more. Teas, wondered if he was really in love with Bertha, and wished it was Norma mftfrd He said to himself, Oswald is a. splendid fellow, and too good for Bertha. Tom felt very bitter toward Sister Bertha that morning. Meanwhile Norma had reached her destination, surprising her aunt not a little. She had never been there before and had not seen her aunt since the was a child, but she received a warm welcome; for Miss Barton was kindhearted and. she felt very sorry for her niece, and saw, when Norma had told her story, that Bertha was afraid of her sister's winsome ways. She was Satly surprised when Norma told her she believed Bertha was soon to vsrry Mr. Oswald Maynard, a young Bum who was stopping at the Rivers. "Did yon see the young man, Norma?

"Yes, aunt, for a little while, last evening. Tom and I met him on our

war home.

"What was he like, Norma; can you

describe him? "Yea, aunty; he was quite tall, liroad-shoulderecL had dark blue eyes.

m dark mustache and hair. Why? Do you know him, aunty?" Yes, my dear; his mother and I

were bosom friends till she died, and

now, he is a sort of protege of mine. I love him very dearly."

Norma had been there two days and

was wondering how she could ever en

due it two months, for it was a lonely

place.

There was a river and & boat, and

she tried to make the best of it; she had crone for a long walk the third

morning, when who should walk in but

Oswald Maynard. Miss Uarton was

delighted to see him. -flow, my boy, I hear vou have chosen my niece,

Bertha, for a wife," she said to him when they were alone "Tell me hew

won came to love her?"

'pto, my aear xnena, you are uuo-

ior one"

He then told her how he had heard Bertha talking to her mother about Norma, and finished by declaring he had come down there to win her for his wife if he could. Miss Barton told him she hoped he would succeed; for Norma was worth winning, and she believed she would make a good wife for the man she loved.

Three weeks went by weeks that

had been very happily spent by. both Norma and Oswald. Together they had boated, fished, ridden, and driven the few horses in Aunt Sarah's stable, and all the time Oswald was trying to teach the girl to love him. He almost gave it up, sometimes, thinking it was of no use. One day she had been so kind to him all morning that he took heart again and thought, "I will speak to her this day surely. So just at noon as he met her coming down stairs he caught her hand, and, drawing her to him, kissed her on her fair white brow. She wrenched herself from his aims, her face and eyes ablaze with anger. "How dare you insult me that way. I hate you, I hate you, and I will never speak to you again," she said. And before he could arouse himself from his surprise she had fled up the stairs along the hall and he heard a door slammed shut by no easy hand. Then he softly whistled to himself as he walked away. "My little firefly, I do not believe you hate me; if you had not been so quick I would have told you how much I love you; however, HI have to wait now till some other time." He wandered down to the river and stepped into the boat which was dro wn into the shade of some trees that grew on the bank. "I wished I had her here now," he thought "I wonder why she will never let me talk of love to her. Can it be that she thinks that I am engaged to Bertha?" Then he sat there thinking for some time longer. At last he grew drowsy, and lying down pillowed his head on a large stand of Norma's, which she had left there in the morning, and was soon asleep. An hour later Norma strolled down there thinking she would take a boatride to while away time, and worndered where Oswald was. When she saw him asleep in the boat she was about to run away again ; but she happened to think that now she had a good chance to punish him for his conduct of an hour

before.

ril untie the cord she thought and

let the boat loose ; then when he wakens

he will be far down the river and will have the fun of rowing back again. A

moment she looked at the sleeper in the boat, thinking how handsome he was, and how she loved him. If he only did not belong to Bertha. Then she

gave the boat a little push and it went gliding off. She drew back among the trees and watched the boat rocking awav on the waves bearing its burden

down, down the river.

"How sound he sleeps, she said

aloud, with a laugh, as she thought of

his surprise when he should awaken.

Then she remembered that the night

before he had taken care of Joe, the stable boy, who was sick with a fever,

and wished she had not untied the boat.

Perhaps he might get drowned, and

like a flash came the thought of a place

about two miles below, where the river made an abrupt turn, and at that place, which was full of sharp, ragged rocks,

the current was very strong. Suppose he should sleep till he was among the

rocks there. The boat was sure to go

to pieces, and if taken unawares he might be drowned. At that thought her heart stood still and her cheeks blanched. What should she do ? She must save him some way. There was

no other boat near. Perhaps if she ran down along the bank and called him she could make him hear. So she

hurried away, but she had to go out of her way on account of trees and brush that grew so thickly near the river bank, that she was unable to make her way through them. At last she reached the bank again about a mile further

down and lust m time, for the boat was

passing by. She called his name again

and again, but all in vain. bhe could

not make him hear. She ran along the

bank calling him loudly, but she saw

that it was of no use, he was going

faster now and her voice could not

reach him; if she saved him at all it

must be in some other way. She knew she could swim, although she never tried in such a strong current, but what

else could she do now? There was no time to do anything else, so running down again so she was ahead of the boat she plunged bravely in and struck out boldly for the middle of the stream. She was frightened, dizzy, and faint; but by a mighty effort she controlled her failing senses, and as the boat was about to pass her she caught hold of it and shouted to Oswald with all her might. He heard

her this time, and in springing up almost upset the boat in his surprise. A moment sufficed to lift her into the beat. "Good heavens! Norma: what does this mean? Where are we? Turn the boat round quick; we are near the bend," she gasped. Snatching up the oars, which were, fortunately, in the bottom of the boat, he turned'and rowed out of the current near the side, then threw them down and caught Norma in his ai ms as she fainted away. Her swoon lasted but a few moments, and when she opened her lovely eyes, she found herseif clasped close in his strong arms. When she tried to free herself he only clasped her closer, saying: "No, my darling, I will not let you go till you tell me you did not mean what you said ; tell me you love me a little for I love you more than my life. Oh, little one, you do not hate me or you would not have saved my life now. Oh, Norma, speak to me; don't you love me?" "Yes, I love you, Oswald," she said quietly. "But" you are engaged to Bertha." "No, my dear, I an not I thought I could learn to love her once. But I overheard something she said and- I never could love her after $hat. Besides, I have loved you ever since that Jirst evening we met, and came down here on purpose to win you. Why have you treated mo so badly at times?"

"Because I thought you loved Bertha

and was just flirting with me; but, Oswald, I have loved vou all the time.

i Let me U you what I did Shis after

noon, then see il you love me enough! to forgive me. " j Bhe told him all about it, and when) she had finished he drew her doner to1 him and kissed her again and itgain, saying: "I'm sorry you had to get ;ich a wetting, but I know you most love mo or you would have let me drift to my fate. I must take you home now as soon as I can, or you will take co.A.n He drew off his coat and, in spite of her remonstrances, wrapped her in it. Then he took the oars once more and rowed for home. On reaching the house they frightened. Miss Barton not a little; she insisted cn putting her niece to bed immediately. She was delighted when Oswald told her he had succeeded in his mission, and gave the couple her blessing and best wishes. The first intimation Bertha had of the turn affairs had taken was after Mr, Maynard had been to ask the consent of Mrs. Barton to his engagement with her daughter Norma. After hearing the details of his story she readily consented, acknowledging she had never been the mother to Norma that she should have been. After he went away she called Bertha and Tom, and told them of his visit. To say that Torn was delighted is putting it mildly, while Bertha's feelings can bolter be imagined than described. Oswald and Norma were quietly married, three months later, and, although she spent a good share of the time beforehand at home, the wedding took 2lace at Aunt Sarah's; for Norma was to be Miss Barton's heiress, and it was thought best to accede to her wishes in the matter, inasmuch as she promised not to tell any one of how Norma had once set Oswald adrift

French Sense and American SemiinenU There are a dozen points of reciprocity between Frenchmen and ourselves which do not exist between us and the rest of the Latin race. Indeed, from our excessively industrial point of view, it seems as if it were only since 1870 that the Italians had belonged to the modern world at all that world of which, from the sania point of view, wo are the present light and the future hope. Yet I do not doubt that nine out of every ten traveling Americans find the Italians most sympathetic, and that those who cross the Pyrenees get a more cordial feeling for the Spaniards. The reason is that the moral atmosphere south of the Pyrenees and the Alps is saturated with sentimoat. As, journeying northward, one pauses into the vine-clad prairie of Languedoc, or into the rose-decked arbor of Prevence, one exchanges the deep Iber ian tone and intense color, and the soft sweetness and suave grace which but gather substance without changing character in their crescendo from Naples to Turin, for a flood of bright light and clear freshness that fall somewhat chill on American relaxation. One exchanges the air of sentimental expansion for that of mental exhilaration, and only when some definite work is to be done do we, in general, enjoy external bracing of this sort. And in Fran ?e, where industry, sobriety, measure, good-sense, hold remorselessly unremitteitt sway, where the chronic stute of mind seems to him keyed up to the emergency standard, where no one is idle in Lamb's sense, where day-dreams are unknown and pleasure is an actum rather than a state, where "rierely to bask and ripen," is rarely "tha -student's business" where, in a word, everything in the moral sphere appears terribly dynamic, the American inevitably feels himself somewhat at sea. We have, of course, our unsentimental man, but he differs essentially from the Frenchman. He is practical, pragmatical his enemies are inclined to add, pharisaical. To any one of a radically different intellectual outfit he is intensely unsympathetic W. C Brownell, in Scribner'n Magazine. Marriage in Aunam. Marriage settlements and dowries are not recognized on account of the difficulties that might arise in case the marriage is dissolved. According to Annamite custom the woman should not bear the charges of: marriage, because she takes the name of her husband and associates herself with him in order to perpetuate his family, not for the sake of her own. It is just for the husband, in his own personal interest, to furnish all that she and her children may need; yet, according to another custom frequently followed, the suitor whose character is not well known, should make several visits to the family of his affianced so as to submit himsetf to a kind of testing, often very severe.

which shall permit his value and the

amount of his knowledge to be rated.

This stage of the negotiations some

times lasts for several years.

Marriage is usually contracted by in

clination, without m Dnoy considerations entering into the matter. The family is regarded as a moral union,

and not as a business association.

Hence it is common to see a we althy fam

ily allied with a poor one. .It is con

sidered that when a man marries a girl without fortune but wisely brought up, she will be easily touched by the care he will take of her and be obedient to his authority. Then it is not right to exact a dowry from a girl whose education has already imposed on her parents largo sacrifices of time and money, and who has, moreover, abandoned her family name to take that of a stranger; so there is no dowry- The parents give their daughter what they please, without the young man being allowed to claim or stipulate for anything. Sometimes they require hint to make considerable presents, which will be the property of the wife. It must not be supposed that the condition of wives is the same in An nam as in China. The six ceremonies of marriage are, it is true, nearly the same in both countries ; but, while the Chinese wife has to keep to her apartments, the Annamite wife in treated as the equal of her husband. Popular Science Monthly.

Making a L(-tu On a table in Alvan Clark's manufactory, at Cambridge, was the finished Pulkova lens, which weighed 450 pounds, and consisted of two lenses each thirty inches in diameter. Generally these lenses are made to accurately fit, and are joined together with Canada balsam, but in such large

glasses as the Pulkova and the Lick, thev are fitted in a metal frame with an adjustment, so that, they can be made to approach each other, or otherwise. If a single lense were used, the object inspected would be fringed with various artificial colors and other defects due to spherical aberration ; but by the simple artifice of using two kin ils of glass these defects are cured to ft great extent and a nearly perfect linage is secured. When the evening was sufficiently advanced the great Pulkova glass was placed in its temporary fitting in the garden. There was no moon, and the darkness was intense. The glass was brought out on a four-wheel hand truck, and lifted into the tube by five men, and fixed by revolving it in the screw fitting. The tube was forty-five feet long, and weighed, with ihe attending fittings, about seven tons. Two piles of brickwork Bujported the whole. There was no clock-work movement, and the roughest apparatus was employed; the telescope was raised, and moved by a guide rope, the motion of an equatorial movement being imitate ! by using a common windlass. As the motion of the earth caused the object to pass across the field of the telescope the observer gave the order "follow," when a alight turn of the wmdl&ss kept the object in view. Such wore the rough appliances used to test this $00,000 lens. The planets had all set, and I had to be satisfied with a view of a fixed star, which is an excellent object for testing the optical properties of lens, but very uninteresting otherwise, as the largest telescope can make little impression on a fixed star ; no disk can be seen, merely a speck of light. The star selected was a small one, and barely visible as a pale, minute object. On looking at it with this magnificent instrument its wonderful light-gathering powers were at once evident, for the star shone with the luster and brilliancy of an electric light It was an object which brought out all the imperfections of the glass, and to the eyes of Mr. Clark and his sons many were evident, and, it was said, two months work was necessary to correct them. During the trial the leus was lowered and five men revolved the glass in its fitting. On its being placed in position again one of the sons was about to make another test, when the old man shouted: "Wait, boys, let her cool." I was curious to know wh&t this could mean, and Alvan Clark explained that the correction wan so delicate that the heat from the hands of t":ie live men holding the metal case of the object would change the correction, so it had to "cool." Exchange, Orfgin of Various Phrases. A painstaking effort to trace the descent of many words and phrases in common use unfolds an interesting field of researches, and this notwithstanding the fact that several works, dealing in a more or less exhaustive manner with the subject, have been published. It would almost seem, however, that the authors of these books have frequently missed their mark by aiming too high ; or, in other words, that they have often selected words or sayings which are not by any means common. Those who have devoted attention to the pedigree of familiar terms will scarcely dispute the above assertion; for the philosophical antiquary will often in vain consult the dictionaries in question concerning the origin of such expressions, for instance, as "to cut and run," "to take him devrn a peg," "to set the Thames on fire," or the Kke. And he will have but a slightly greater success in the case of numerous words, such as "queer" (which is sufficiently familiar); the term "jerked, "as applied to beef, or the name "John Dory," attached to a well-known denizen of the deep. As the whole subject of origin is curious, we may as well begin by an examination of the history of "queer." De Quincy was a high authority on etymology. He was also, beyond doubt, "queer," and we have to thank him for placing on record the strange circumstances connected with the birth of hat expressive word. These were brieJly as follows: Quin, the celebrated actor, while engaged as manager of a theater in Lincoln's Inn Fields, one night wagered a nobleman 100 that next morning a new word would be in everybody's mouth. The wager was accepted, it jeiug clearly bargained that the word-would be a brand new one. So when Mr. Rich's theater closed that evening, Mr. Quin called together all the "supers" and other inferior stage hands. Giving each a large piece of chalk he desired them to go through all the principal stree ts of London and write in very legible characters on the "sidewalks" the word "Queer." On the following morning, of course, people were amazed, and the expression was literally in every one's mouth. Knots of persons gathered here and there to discuss the matter, and Quin won the wager, leaving us a legacy in the shape of "queer." All the Year Round. The Mistake of a Detective.

stable. The constable had been on the lookout for the fugitives, and, a the detective and his partner turned up first, he immediately surmised that they were his game, so he quietly sent word around, and in a few moments a crowd surrounded the cutter and the town constable approached to arrest the pursuing party. The detective asked what the crowd wanted, and when told he got mad at their stupidity and undertook to lick the gang. In a few minutes he was knocked down, and, after being mauled about in the wet snow, he found himself and com-

the little 7 by 9 lockup for The night was exceedingly the prisoners were almost death when mornincr came.

They were taken before a magistrate, explanations followed, and they were released, but the detective ever since, in telegraphing a description, is careful that it does not tally with himself. Toronto Mail.

panion m the night, cold, and frozen to

Not many years ago a Grand Trunk detective, noted for his story-telling propensities, was hunting for two station-robbers up in the midland district It was winter, and he had a county constable and n horse and cuttor with him. The scent became hot, and the detective discovered that the fugitives were only a few miles ahead of him, also driving in a cutter. He telegraphed to a constable in the next town to arrest two men in a cutter, giving their description. Now it happened that the description given applied equally well to himself ami his companion, provided the detective's bushy black beard was clipped short. It was getting dusk and very cold as

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has been established in the Imperial

University of Japan.

Listen to both before you decide.

sidea of a question

bitten. When they arrived at the town darkness had set in, an4 they both jumped out ot the cutter to wator the horse before hunting up the con-

Rice-Throwing at Wedding. Says the Chinese Times : In the days of the Shang dynasty, some 1,500 years before Christ, there lbM in the Province of Shansi a nam famous sorcerer called Chao. It happened one day that a Mr. P'ang came to consult the oracle, and Clrao, having divined by moans of ihe tortoise diagram, informed the trembling P'ang that he had but six days to live. Now,

: however much we may trust the sal gacitjr and skill of our family physician, ; we may be excused if, in a matter of

life itnd death, we call in a second doctor for consultation, and in such a strait it is not to be wondered at that P'ang should resort to another source to make sure that there was no mistake. To the fair Peachblossom he went, a young lady who had acquired some reputation as a sorceress, and to the tender feminine heart unfolded the story of his woe. Her divination yielded the same result asChao's;in six days P'ang should die, unless, by the exercise of her magical powers, she could avert the catastrophe. Her effort were successful,-and on the seventh day great was Chao's Astonishment, and still greater his mortification and rage, when he met P'ang taking his evening stroll, and learned that there lived a greater magican than he. The story would soon get about, and, unless he could put an end to his fair rival's existence, bis reputation would be ruined. And this is how Chao plotted against the life of Peachblossom. He sent a go-between to Peachblossom's parents to inquire if their daughter was still unmarried, and, :receiving a reply in ihe affirmative, he befooled the simple parents into believing that he had a son who- was seek ing a wife, and ultimately he induced them to engage Peachblossom to him in marriage. The marriage-cards were duly exchanged; but the erafty Chao had ;bosen the most unlucky day h could select for the weddring, the day when the "Golden Pheasatnt" was in the Ascendant. Surely as the brid entered ther red chair the spirit bird

would destroy her with hi powerful beak. But the wise Peachblossom knew all these things and feared not "I will goy" she said; "I will fight and defeat him, "When the wedding morning came she gave directions tx have rice thrown out at the door, which the spirit bird seeing madeliaste to devour,, and while his attention was thus occupied,. Peachblossom stepped into the briial chair and passed! on her way unharmed And now th& ingenuous reader knows why he throws rice after the bride "1 Fellow of Most Excellent Fancy" A correspondent writing from tke shore of the loud-sounding sea, says he "passed an hour on the sea sanda watching the cool beryl-green waves frothing into foam flowers as they broke on the snowy beaeh of white sandL" Wel n&aybe he did; maybe he BiidL You see he only passed an hour when he saw ail that; after about two days he csNild see more. He could begin to discern as through a glass darkly, massies of slimy kelp that get around the bathers' necks and make them think the sea serpent has hold of tlrem. He could see the bine-gray sole of the castaway overshoe, and the red-rusty wreck of the indestructible bustle ; the ham-bone bleaching whiter than foam flowers; he could hear the far-reaching voice of the sweet south wind stealing across a bank of stranded weak-fish steeling and giving odor; he might see the man .who lost his store teeth in the cool, beryl-green waves, and is looking for a good place to die. Why, aif ter he has been there two davs, he ean see things in his bed that for stimulating properties are as much wakinger than the beryl-green waves as a corker of old rye is than a tablespoon fut of laudafnuni. If the correspondent really wants to see really startling things at the sea-shore, he doesn't want to loaf around en the alabaster sands: watching the beryl-green waves; he wants to sneak around and take a peep in at the kitchen windows. Then he can tell what he sees, and it will be profoundly interesting even with the beryl-green business left out, Burdetle. How Successful Exploring Pays. It pays to be a successful explorer. An ofTer of $50,000 has been made to Stanley 4o write a book when he comes home describing his latest travela Probably no English platform speaker can make more money than Stanley in the American lecture field. H. H. Johnston, the explorer of Kilmanjaro and the upper Congo,, has just been appointed, at 28 years of age, British Consul at Zanzibar, where he gets a big salary, Joseph Thomson has made a competency out of his books, and has been handsomely paid besides to hunt for coal fields in the Sultan of Ziuzibar s dominions and to stndy the prospects of trade for the lioyal Niger Company. Burton, the discoverer of Lake Tanganyika, has made a comfortable fortune by the sale of his books. Among Prejevalsky's brilliant honors is his promotion to a generalship in the liussian army, and Greely has been advanced from lieutenant to brigadier general and manage a the signal-service bureau. New York Sun. I never knew one who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself. AMwon.

Lire and LetUvet When we come to the laws which deal with classes we are apt to think them somehow different ia nature from those which deal with individual and to attribute to them mme mystic power of demanding obedience. We call them inexorable, and so they are. It is also an inexorable law that if wc place fire and gunpowder together they will explode. That is why when we do not want an explosion we do not put them together. Now, what is the inexorable economic law about cheap buying? What, in other words, irill be the inevitable consequences if we buy - the cheapest market? The law is hi; Where buyers give tha lowest priee they can employers will try to produce at the lowest price they can, and the wages of the worker will 4end to the lowest point at which it. is possible for him to live. And the desire to take much and to give little, up&n which this law rests, is a deeply-rooted principle of human nature. That is the very reason why we are bound to gnarg against it, in ourselves and in others, for ourselves and for others. But this desire is net the only element of our nature, and it is coat relied in score of instances already by other motives. We do not, for instance, eive the least

we can and take the most we can from our domestic servants. A gradual change in public opinion has made us feel it so shocking that it would be virtually impossible to starve or to maltreat a servant under odr own root We could not endure tc eee our housemaid shivering in rags or pinched with manifest hunger. Moreover, public feeling would make it a disgrace to do so. Yet many a lady who would be horrified at the notion of keeping her servant short of food keeps her charwoman short of it by paying her no more than eighteen pence a day. The charwoman who gets five days1 work in every week is an exceptionally fortunate woman; but the lady who employs her does not see with her own eyes what it means never to earn more than seven and sixpence per week, and payet at that rate without self-reproaeh, Human feeling has so far softened thai we cannot bear to witness sufferings we are even advancing to the pom oi? feeling pain when the existence of uaseen suifering is brought home to vm bat we have not yet come so fa? as U be unable to forget the existence oJf suffering. But suvely it is not very Utopian to hope- tht sympathy may g on developing side by Bide with thst growing desire for justice to all men until it forms an effective check upon the savage instinct to take as much we can. There are- already some individuals in whom, this point has beeu reached. Longman & Magazine. Boors in the Rockies. There is among western men mucli controversy as to the-various kinds of bear inhabiting our western Alps, but the number of those wbo, from pet sonal observation, are-capable of form ing an opinion is very smalL In the first place, for all the sanguinary talc around the stove, thene are not a great many men who have-made a practice of hunting bear at all One such incident as that which ox;urredt two years ago in the Big Horn scare ft good many A poor fellow there came on a bear, a. small cinnamon, feeding on an elk he had killed. He fired. and wounded it; the bear retreated and he followed. Coming up with it( again he fired, when the bear charged him Trying to reload (he used, I heard, a single-shot Sharp rifle), the extractor came off tho empty shell, audi of coar se, he was do fenceless. He evidently drew his knife and used it desperately 2 for when thoir found him the bear lay near him, deaa. with many knife wounds in it, but it had killed him firstt. Ia short, both on account of the drioger rmd by reason ot the great difficulty- in .teeing them, it scarcely pays to hunt ttears. alone. There are comparatively few men, say, whose opinion, is worth much, and. some of these- seem to have aaideifc that, for the credit, of tho mountain lat;d they love, they are bund to jkid pie it with as many different species of bear as they can. Now, as a matter of fact, I believe- thai aJmoet all the betdrai ranging in the Rc-clty Mountains ooc sionally breed togithiftr ;oertainly,bww and black sometimes da Our naity once shot a black bear with a lac go brown cross, extending from the tail to back of head and down each should ar. Just as certainly tfee brown aud grizzly on occasions intermarry. My hunter assures me he haa shot gray cubs witU a brown sow, I may bo w:xng, but- I cannot myself see any difference sufficiently markAi to warrant the ite& that the cinnaitrcaa bear of the Bockig is not the coarser, larger buown bear, the result, of some crossing between th grizzly andtheferown. Then, some-men insist that among the gray bear there are no les tluu three distinct varieties sibertip, rcclfc back, and grizzly. As I have said be fore, I cannot say anything about tk California grisaly, thoucn i do mot think, from skins I have examined he differs materially from his neighbor of the mountain ; but as to ifoem differe of color iudicating a distinct variety, I cannot believe it Scribner'ft Plenty ef Time, A dude bound fom Chicago to Omaha, took passage ou the Bock I&le.nd road, and some miautea after the train stopped at Joliet, approaching the cenductor remarked: 41 Ah, say, conductor ; u there tim for a fellow to stop off and take dinner, you know V9 "Plenty of time," said the conductor; all the time you, want, you know. The dude started for n restaurui and a few seconds later the conductor gave the signal for the train to p till out of the station The dude was entirely taken ab ick when he returned to tha depot am found that the train had gone. He made his grievance known to th ticket agent, saying: "That blawsted conductor, you know, assured me there was plenty of tbxe to get dinner, you know. "I should Ray there was, returned the agent "It'll be nine hours boforo the next train, on the Omaha route, and a man who can't eat onough to sat isfy him in nine houm, must b an everlastingly big hogVmuwlay Jr tionak