fAI.V.mV A wisa.
Vlirno'iT vuiltltful lovur
IUi-ourri:ihtbiSKUM,
lfowiizrjrion iilm to Un
Tlinl 'lU iut nlwiivn fun.
I'm in-laia-, r hciilio'- I'lanueil lii hIobo,
Ami thin 'it the luUsilf I.
T1:-j Ki l " t'iHtruWful .ul':it
Mtowu him a triiw'-T two.
Ami in with much niomculiim
Ho down the ntqs tlolli filMc,
Aufion tho iick.-t fonco dotll lund,
JIo feoU much moi Ur-nod.
Tin maiden in tho meantime
j;..cti"-H in'o tho yard,
Aul hhrick, with much emotion,
My pit has Htruck fotard."
Tho youiiK man think it over,
Ami, though ho'll not dodure it,
Conclude!!, einee ho can't bullet,
That ho will have to Lear it.
AT THK .MOUNTAINS.
UY CUiltn: I.. KliWEY.
"J)id all the fates combine, Nell, to
bring you to tho inoiintiiius this bless
ed day? It they could have asked
me, of all the world, whom I would
most wish to sec this minute, I
would have answered Nell Battsford.
And your brother?" he continued.
"I just ftawhim disappear down the
carriage road. Could lie not remain?
Child, why don't you speak? Have
you no .words of welcome, after all
theso years'"
I hud turned to the speaker when
ho first addressed me. Ho was stand
ing by a small rowboat, drawn up on
tho bench of n little blue lake at K ,
in front of the Mountain House,
handsome JJob Trueruan, the artist.
i answered slowly:
"Oh, it all seems so strange to see
you again, Bob, I was trying to rcal
izef And, indeed, it did seem strange;
jui if the great wheels of Time had
rolled backward, and I was picking
up the threads of a romance broken
lour years before.
In 'the parting that he must have
witnessed between myself and another
on tho beach, a few minutes before,
ho had mistaken my husband, Lieu
tenant Norton, for an older brother
of mine, whom he had once met
years before.
Lieutenant JNorton was nanasome,
brilliant and accomplished, and I
was very proud of hira. But physi
cally he much resembled my brother
Harry; and this was not the first time
one had been mistaken for the other.
1 saw at once tha Bob had made the
popular error, and the same instant
:tn imp eeemed to whisper in my ear,
"Fool liim a little while; it will be
Mich iuu."
'And your cousin Maud," I said,
addressing Bob again. "I saw her
with you at dinner."
Lis'.'.tcuant Norton and I arrived
just before dinner, and the
table at which we dined was close
to tho hp .11 door. I had recognized
Bob and Maud clear down to the
other f-nd of the immense dining
hall.
Immediately sifter dinner Fred (my
husbaud) and I retired to our rooms
lor a f jw miuutes' hurried conversa
tion, i.ud then I aocompanied him
down to the carriage, which was
waiting to convey him to the station,
(or ho c;u$-t return to town by the
next b.:uu to transact some business,
but was coming back to the hotel on
the evening train.
But to return to Bob and my men
tion of Maud.
"Yes, " he replied, "she is with me.
Pooi girl! Hhe has a terrible head
ache, tud has lain down for a nap.
She tohl me not to call her at tea
time. I say Nell, you and I must
take ;i i ow on the lake. It is a glori
ous altoruoon, and we can talk over
old times.'
I lo'il-cd at the blue lake dancing
in the f.-mlight. It was so tempting.
There were water-lilies on the other
-hlr h it shone like stars in the dis
tv.ice What could he the possible
i:.;i:u rowing a little while m I
iioi it rr the hotel, in broad daylight,
t wit i? r. am married? j
1 L o'.c J down the carriage road;
:(tnl i!. '.ls.'ht of Fred. But Fred was ;
uevi v l it jealous: and, besides, he j
enjoy, d a joke immensely. He
tMi!v.i'i Ldp but understand. He !
cuii!.1i'i i-cold. And if when I told :
him -'out it, he added that perhaps
it illicit not have U-cu quite right, j
wo':! I : 1 was "so lonesome; and :
1 liCVLi . !:v:l 1 have gone if you had
lain V !..." which last clause would ;
oiitj-.u u v.crd ot tiuth. anyway.
Bo.k. I owed .,! an o'd score
a ji the j a.-t which had Lcv-tr!-:
.Vul there was just
i'Uo;:;.:t' I in my composition to
wi L :- y it, :a.d this wor.1.1 be
an.li ;. ' joitr.r.ity.
S, i- !n? I Lani'v L'.av whatof
v 1 1.. J Uvd the :rincs I
my ri lil, was KaUii in the stern i
of tL V:'c Ui, uv-1 Bob had rrsb
cd out ": the lake, a:.d was ukirg '
thoso long, rapid strokes of his,
feathering the oars till the array thai
llcw oil looked like little drops of
melted silver in tho sunshine.
Bo you remember, Nell, what des
perate efforts you used to make try
ing to feather oars at Bmnfoid?
Then that was my most brilliant ac
complishment. Ah, well! sinoo then
T Imvo feathered oars in many lauds
or waters, rather," with a laugh.
"But, alas? I haven't always had you
for an enthusiastic spectator."
And. after a slight pause, ho went
on.
"And tho regatta ball you surely
haven't forcrottou that: how the
moonlight shone on the billows-, how
we waltzed around to the glad u-ensures
of Strauss and Waldteufel, and
afterward strolled on the wide veranda,
and how sudnenly I left? I stem
now to feel tho vexation of that old
steamboat bell's clanging, that tore
me from the beach and you. When
ever I picture a glimpse of Paradise
on earth I go back to that night by
tho cea. But that was Paradise lost,
and this is Paradise regained."
His rapid rush of words brought
back a tide of memories. I remem
bered that when that steamboat bell
rang he was talking around a danger
ous subject. And it had often since
occurcd to me that had ho lingeied
longer, perhaps I should not have
been Mrs. Norton, but the wife of
Bob Trueman, the artist.
The hot blood surged into my
checks at tho thought that I, a mar
ried woman was passively allowing
such ghosts of the past to be resur
rected ; so, quickly changing the top
ic, I said :
Tell me of yourself, Bob. Have
you brorght back little bits of all tho
world, as you said you would when
you bade me good-bye, sketch-book
in hand, for that grand European
tour bits that were to make you so
famous, and us so "
"I was going to say happy, but
I remembered once more that I was
married, and stopped short. He,
however, divined my meaning, and
finished the sentence for me.
"So, happy," he said. "Yes, I
have brought back about half of the
world, in. black and white and colors.
And, oh, Nell, in all my wanderings,
4f v.mrv i-ivtmcirnrlT in mtr AQTR I
"lint oye tliiug waut ficse banks of Rhine
Ihy geutio baud to clavp in mine."
"Don't you know, I have tried so
often to sketch you from memory!
For instance, as a naiad of a wood
land study, a nymph by a Swiss lake
or a spirit, in some ot my mountain
glens. But I could never get quite
the tint of gold in your hair, .so I
rubbed them out. You know you
never would let me sketch you in the
old days. But, Nell, there k one
thing that I never could do I never
could rub you out of my life."
"Though you have often tried, the
remark imnlies," I answered, quicks-He
did not seem to notice my re
ply. We had rowed across the lake,
and we were close to the water-lilies.
He fished out a few with an oar,
shook the water from them, and,
leaning over, twined one in the coil
of my hair. Then he handed me a
couple which I had fastened in the
bosom of my dress. Leaning back
on his oars, he said :
"These flowers are like the friends
I would choose through life whose
lives are as spotless as the petals of
these lilies, and whose hearts are pure
as gold."
He regarded me a moment with a
flush on his cheeks and an artist's
light in his eyes, and then added :
"How I wish I had my colors with
me ! If I could get you upon canvas
now, it would be a revelation. You
must come to my studio some time,
Nell. I've a gorgeous one in New
York, and I am not as poor as I used
to bo in the old days. I have much
to show you there. I have been
abroad twice," he went on, with an
odd look, I thought.
Then there was a queer silence,
rather oppicssive.
To bieak it I said:
JSliall you and your cousin re-j
main long at the mountains?" ;
"A ceuple of weeks," he replied.
fche was looking so pale at din
ner,'" I said, for want of something
better to s iy, and mentally added, "so !
homely too."
"Then I thought of Maud's long
bank account, and decided that it
would be of inoie service to her, in
this practical w orld than all the beau- 1
ty of a ilebe. So 1 need not waste '.
my pity there.
iJobVecuied steeped in reverie a ;
little vhih : then roused himself and
?aid: '
"Nc'.l, if this water were a shade
cictiior :;: J, a little rougher, I cocld
almost f'ney w c were cn the sound
at BrantiorJ."
Ti:ea tLe Mood came into ray
ehtks sriiu, for somehow I did not
re so Lave him I rice np the old
d.-,T ct more I therght of the '
half bushel or so of letters from him
that I had destroyed on the evo of ray
wedding day.
Then I wondered why ho did not
answtr tny last letter. That was the
cldscoro 1 wanted to pay up, though
somehow I did not enjoy the paying
up as much as I h id anticipated, and
it occurred to me, odJly enough.
"Why, child, you couldn't have
answered it if ho had written, unless
you had sigued Nellie Norton to your
letter, which would not have done at
But, all tho 6amo, it vexed me to
think tbat ho did not write, evn if I
couldn't havo answered; and I con
soled myself by thinking how surpris
ed Bob would look when I introduced
Fred at tea time.
From my reflections I was aroused
by Bob, exclaiming:
"Why, there's your brother on tho
beach!"
Wo were approaching the hotel
now.
"Oh, Bob!" I cried, "it isn't my
brother, but my husband, Lieutenant
Fred Norton, U. S. A."
Bob raised his eyebrows, whistled
a low whistle, then exclaimed, as a
lady appeared on the jeaeh :
:By Jove, there's Maud, too! Her
headache must be better. I say, Nell,
forgive me; Maud is not only my
cousin now, but my wife also. That
is why I am not so poor as in the old
days. My last trip to Europe was
inv bridal tour."
'Did he sigh, or did I fancy it? I
shail never know I was so confused.
The how of our Jboat crated on the
pebbles of the beach just then, and
we were ashore.
"We" Editors.
fcjomo people aro unreasonably in
quisitive and curious, especially about
matters that do not concern them in
the least. For example, here- 13 a
correspondent who makes the start
ling revelation that he is a "constant
reader of our valuable and influential
paptr," and would like to be im-
formed why it is an editor or newspa
per writer, when speaking of himself
in his writings, invariably uses the
plural pronoun "we" instead of the
singular "1.
There are several reasons. Self-
preservation is the first law of nature.
it begins at Home, nice oia iuotner
Chaiity There is some human na
ture about an editor, public opinion to
the contrary notwithstanding. An
editor thinks too much of his "Fs"
to wear them in mourning, and there
fore, when speaking of some slabsided
six-footer as a miserable red-nosed,
pusillanimous, wife-beating snoozer,
he considers it the better part of valor
to drop in an occasional "we." This
creates in the mind of the six-footer
the impression that the editorial force
consists of & standing army, armed
with deadly "we"-apons.
Furthermore, in cases where the
victim comes around to the oflice to
kill the writer of any particular item,
it is so pleasant to have the guilty
man's identity buried in the obscurity
of the plural "wre." The editor-in-chief,
the commercial editor, the city
editor, the local editor, the reporters,
the book-keepers, compositors, book
binders, jobbers, pressmen, devil and
all the delivery boys are thus
placed on a common footing by the
little pronoun "we," and when the
enraged person looks about him and
finds how many wives he would make
widows and how many children or
phans, by killing off all included in
the little "we" at one feil swoop, he
sickens of the sanguinary undertak
ing, turns sadly away, goes to some
bar-room, takes a drink, condemns,
the paper, prophesies that it is being
run into the ground, and declares
that he will henceforth use his political
influence to squelch the sheet.
There are other reasons. When
noticing a marriage or birth "we"
implies that at least a box of cigars
will be required to go around.
An editor says "wc" when advising
the President how to conduct his ad
ministration, because the President
might not aet on his suggestion if it
wa-: written plain "I."
When teliiag the minister how to
preach the editor uses "we" to intro
auce the lelief that he has just had
a ?:iterence with all the ex-ministers
ahout the establishment.
The editor w ho tells the tencher j
how to teach says "we," because he J
Lai consulted w'ith his wife about the j
m.'.f.or, and she, having been a teach- J
er a lew years before, of course knows i
all about it.
'We' i sometimes used because of :
... writer's modesty. Most writers '
at- trouble i in this respect.
Ii -hot. we use "we" because nj
-tii o-:l l survive the trials, trib-;
t'Uy found a Lost a prist
. . i . f it 4 MrrVi.
. - i. precise raidea t.it:e
Southern Industry nnrt rnwiwrllJ
Ike South, ColiiuiUm. Mlm
Never before was there such rapid
progress in nearly every branch of
industry throughout the South as at
this time. There is unprecedented
activity in tho railroad building, and
marked improvement in the man
aecment of most of the roads in oper
ation; cotton factories aro being
erected in many cities and towns in
each of tho cotton States; coal, iron
and copper mines are being opened,
and furnaces and rolling mills and
factories of every kind established
and put in operation. To put these
new industries m motion, hundreds
of millions of dollars have been
brought from Europe and tho North,
and this inflow of capital seems to be
steadily increasing in volume.
The result of all this is that tho
..i.,t; ftf Mm Smith is raoidlv in-
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marked improvement in the system
of farm work that is reaching every
department; towns and cities are ra
pidly growing, some of them have
doubled their population in tho short
space of a few months, and new towns
are springing up and putting on the
garb of cities almost in a day.
There is no quarter of the globe
that presents such attractions of the
industrious and enterprising faimcr
and artisan and capitalist as the
South. Here they will find every
facility for the profitable enployment
of the'ir skill and thrift and capital.
Our climate is better adapted to white
labor, even thoso of the summer
months, than that of the North, and
the soil for ail agricultural purposes
is unequalled.
It would indeed seem that the
South is entering upon an era of un
paralleled growth and prosperity.
The products of her mines and for
ests and fields, that are so rapidly in
creasing in volume and giving life to
every branch of trade and industry,
are exciting the wonder and admira
tion of the people of other sections
and countries, and giving her a
marked prominence before the world.
Rich Indians. ,
The Navajoes are a great nation,
numbering some 27,000 souls. O f tins
number there are some 10,01)0 warriors.
They are well armed, but fortunately
for the whites, they have immense
flocks of sheep and many cattle and
ponies which tend to keep them at
peace. Man-ue-li-to is reported to be
worth not less than $300,000 most of
it being in sheep. He has been an In
dian of great character and power, but
of late has become a great drunkard.
The Navajo Indian Agency is forty-five
miles north from Fort Wingate, N. M.
They manufacture curious and unique
ornaments from silver coin, and their
blankets and rugs have already become
famous for curious mingling of colors
and remarkable textures. They are
eagerly sought for by the whites, and
have a high value, ranging from $5 to
$100 each, which is really not extrava
gant when one considers that they of
ten occupy months in weaving them.
There is neither cotton nor shoddy in
the blankets, but pure, unadulterated
wool colored with unfading dyes. We
saw a few of the tribe, great strong,
repulsive looking creatures. Cor. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
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