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HARBOR OF REST. It was noon of a mi&uinmer day; The air was like gold in the high-vaulted skies As I rode through the sea-port town, Sniffing the cart-loads of sea-weed that crawled up the street, Driven by sea-lads lusty and brown The cart-loads of sea-weed wholesome and sweet, And the wagons of salt-marsh hay. Blue as the arch overhead Blue, blue were the inlets that tempted my eyes Over ridges of marl and loam, Till I caught the lisp of the tide as it broke on the beach, Lapping the pebbles spotted with foam. Whose millions of sea-shells crumble and bleach, And the waste of the sea is spread. Motionless glistened the bay Motionless, too, lay the sunny white sand; Not a trace of sorrow was there, Ifo wreck to sink in those sparkling treacher ous seas, Or cloud that burst on the hot blue air, But fishers hanging their nets to the breeze, And the children ruddy with play. Tho wind blew warm in the west, And far from their green stable birthplace, the land, Asleep on the tide lay the ships; Far in the offing they lay with their indolent sails, And the kiss of the brine at their lips, Like souls of the weary snatched from the gales To a purple harbor of rest. Hark ! 'tis a voice like a flute A voice like a flute in the morning of time From the cliff where the sea-weed lies: Hark 'tis the sailor's lass, with her young brown breast half bare, And tho lids dropping over her eyes While the wild fowl stoop to listen and stare, And the lizard creeps to her foot. O seafarer tost by the seas, Your bed has been laid amid coral and slime On the awfnl floor of the main, And your sweetheart loiters and laughs in laughing air As she waits for her coming in vain; For her are the waters of trouble and care, But yours is the haven of Peace. -Dora Head Goodale, in Harper's Weekly. A KING'S PETS BY DAVID KER. "People come out here and fire at a crocodile and miss it, and then go home and say it's bullet-proof," said my cou: in Koualeyn Gordon Cummlner. the fa- mous "lion -killer" of South Africa. The ""bullet-proof" theory, at which the great hunter laughed, would have little chauce against the lire-arms of the present day; but no one can pity the "Timsach" (as the Arabs call this river-pirate), for a more hideous combination of cowardice -and ferocity, vast destructive power and revolting physical ugliness, does not exist on the face of the earth. Moreover, the crocodile is so skilled at "playing "possum" that, like his terrible cousin, the ground-shark of the Ilea Sea, he is often felt before he is seen. In the Nile or the Ganges (as I can testify from personal experience) you may at any mo ment see a floating log as you think drifting slowly toward you with the cur rent ; and you will probably pay no par ticular attention to it until it comes within twenty feet or so, when it whirls round suddenly and darts straight at you j with a rush that lashes the muddy water into yellow foam, revealing all in one moment the scaly, mud-plastered body, huge notched tail, horny snout, and small, cunning, cruel eve of the croco dile! But of all the "crocodile experiences" which have fallen to the lot of Mrs. Kcr and myself, the most memorable was certainly that which befell us in the Hindoo city of Jeypoor, or Jypoor, on our way along the ede of the great northwestern desert of India. "Xovv I think of it," said Mrs. Ker. as we sat at breakfast in the veranda of the snug little "Kaiser-i-Hind (Empress of India) Hotel," upon the steps and balustrades of which the drifting sand of the desert had crusted itself like brown sugar, "this is the place where the reigning Maharajah is said to keep a tank full of pet crocodiles in his palace, just as an Englishman might keep a basin of gold fish." "I wonder if he throws them a man every now and then, to keep them in condition ." suggested I. "If so, I hope they make an exception in favor of news paper correspondents and reviewers, as being in the chawing-up' line like them- selves; out as a Kind critic was gracious ly pleased,to observe that no man alive could swallow my stories, perhaps a croco dile may not be able to swallow them either. Anyhow, we must go and see." We did so, and saw, during our in spection of the town and palace, quite enough to have satisfied us, even if we had not seen the Maharajah's charming pets at all. The whole city looked just like a nuge piece oi comectionery, tne houses being all bright pink, with snow white cornices, so as to give the exact ef fect of an endless perspective of mon strous wedding cakes, recalling so for cibly the German legend of the bread-and-butter house, with its cake roof and sugar windows, that I felt half inclined to break off a piece of the nearest build ing and bein to eat. In front of the splendid hospital built b? the Maharaiah in honor of his friend, Lord Mayo (murdered by a Moslem fan atic in 1874, while Viceroy of India), ex tended a spacious and well-kept garden, on a broad patch of smooth, green turf, in the centre of which two native ' 'elevens" arere playing a Hindoo cricket match. The extraordinary antics of the players who had evidently just begun to learn the game and trie wondering comments of the puzzled spectators ('who were divided in opinion between suppos ing all the performers to l)e stark mad and regarding the whole affair as some peculiar religious ceremony) set us both laughing till we could hardly stand ; but just then there came an interruption which made us grave enough. A thin, care-worn man. in the dress of an ordinary Hindoo peasant, followed by five or six others who seemed to be his friends, approached us with a low salaam, and holding up the wasted, sick- ; ly-looking child that he carried in his arms, entreated me to heal it with a touch a feat which he evidently thought quite within the power of one of the wonder-working '-Inggrez Sahib-log'' (English masters). The poor fellow's imploring look, and the silent, wistful appeal in the hollow eyes of the poor little sufferer itself, made me long for the power of working mira cles as I had never longed for in my childish reading of the healing exploits of mediaevel saints or magicians. With some difficulty I contrived to explain to the afflicted father that I was no "Hakim'' (doctor), and advised him to carry his sick child into the hospital, in front of which we were standing, giving him at the same time a silver rupee (fifty cents). Th Hindoo acknowledged my present with another profound salaam as he turned away; but I could see that his dis appointment at my refusal more than bal anced his pleasure in my gift. A few minutes later we came up to the main entrance of the palace itself one of the architectural wonders of Rajpootana. Nor was the famous building unworthy of its renown, although here, not less than in the city below, the pink battle ments, white cornices, and fantastically carved turrets disturbed us with a haunt ing vision of French candies. Even with out its wonderful accumulation of striking details, the mere height and size of the great structure would have sufficed to make it remarkable. Beneath the colder skies of Europe this truly Eastern lavish- ness of barb iric decoration would seem extravagant and absurd; but when seen uuuu tins lui imiii tropical miumiuic unu. this riotous luxuriance of tropical vegeta tion it was emphatically k 'the right thing in the right place." Even here, however, the sturdy spirit of Western civilization had forced its way, and the matter-of-fact traces of it which cropped up here and there amid all tins romantic splendor nan. a very grotesque effect. Through a deep, shadowy, fretted archway, worthy of the Alhambra in the days of its pride, we caught sight of a printing-press worked by Hindoo printers, running off sheet after sheet of primers and books of refer ence .or the native college and school of art established in the city by the Mahara jah himself. The vast, many-pillared "Durbar" (audience hall) had as its centre piece, a huge, clumsy wooden packing case marked with the label of a well known Anglo-Indian railway company. Above the door of a bed-chamber that seemed to have come bodily out of the "Arabian Nights" figured a lithograph portrait of the Empress of Austria! An English billiard-table stood conspicuous in the midst flashed back of a curtained hall that the sunlight from walls wholly formed of tiny countless miiTors; and from the centre of a paved court, j with carved Eastern gateways and walls frescoed with green peacocks (the Ma- j harajah's family crest), rose a monster gas-lamp, which our Hindoo guide pointed out to as proudly as if gas had just been invented and he himself was : the inventor. But as we went deeper and deeper into this wonderful place, all these modern in j congruities melted away, and the whole j scene became thoroughly Oriental once 1 more. The panorama of Che palace garden itself, with its shady walks em i bowered in rich tropical foilage, its mar ble fountains glistening in the sun, its dainty little pavilions, and its gorgeous i flowers drooping languidly on the warm, i dreamy air all framed in the bold, rocky ! outline of the distant Aravulli Hills, , which shut in the charming little Jev I poor Valley carried us back at once to I the far-off days of Haroun Al-Raschid ! and Mahruoud of Ghazni. And when we ! stood in the. middle if the inner court yard and looked upward, we saw above us a seemingly endless mass of carved bat tlcments, marble columns, clustering tur rets, curtained balconies, flower-crowned terraces, sculptured cornices, and bright- ly painted walls, piled up against the clear blue skv like the ridges of some mightv mountain, while high over all this blaze of many-colored glory floated from the topmost pinnacle the golden standard of Jeypoor. But all this time there was no sign of the famous "pet crocodiles" of which we had heard so much, and we were just be ginning to wonder whether they might j not be, after all. a mere traveler s tale, when our Hindoo guide suddenly hurried us with marked alacrity up a broad mar ble stair, on to a raised terrace nearly midway along the garden-face of the palace, and then, leading us forward to a low white parapet that ran along the fur ther side of the terrace itself, pointed over it and bade us look down. At sight of the horrible pit below, we j both drew back with an irrepressible j 1 start and shiver of disjrust. What we i beheld was just What we had expected and had come purposely to see; but s frightful was the sudden revelation of thii foul, slimy pool, crawling with monstroui and hideous reptiles, in tne very midst ol this splendid palace, with all its graceful architecture, and beautiful ornamentation, and glittering pomp of Eastern luxury, that had we seen a herd of swine rioting in a fashionable drawing-room, or an African gorilla sitting in all his squalid ugliness at a Ministerial dinner-table, we could hardly have been more utterlv startled and shocked. The beautiful white walls over which we were leaning inclosed a black, dismal pool of thick, muddy, lifeless water, from the slimy de; ths of which steamed up ward throusrh the hot. breezeless air a sickening stench of ratk foulness and decay. Above the thick, oily surface, low banks of glistening black mud rose even,- here and there; and on that con genial couch lay basking the horrible reptiles which the Maharajah's strange taste had preserved and nourished as "pets." Some lay outstretched on the mud banks in the full glare of the sun, torpid as gorged snakes, but giving a sudden snap with their cruel jaws ever and anon, as if they were dreaming of tearing some living victim to pieces. Others were wallowing in the sullen waters, above which nothing could be seen but their scally snouts and long, saw-like tails; while others still were completely hidden. betraying their where abouts only by the huge brown bubbles that crept lazily up to the stagnant sur face. Just below us, the hugest of the9 foul creatures lay asleep on an islet ol mud, half in the water and half out. Wishing to stir it up, I threw a large huge stone at it, which rebounded from the scaly back like a hailstone from a roof; but the monster never moved. Mrs. Ker flung another stone with no bettei success: and then two of the Hindoos, seeing what we were at, joined in the bombardment so lustily that the mud bank was studded like an almond-cake with stones of all sizes ; but to all appear ance we might have built an entire house upon the plegmatic crocodile withoul disturbing it in the least. At length one huge stone hit it fair in the nose, when it finally condescended to wake up, stretched itself, yawned, and waddled lazily down into the water, while its flat, seal' head and mud-besmeared body, its narrow, cunning eyes, short, clumsy limbs, and ungainly movements formed a picture more hideous and repulsive than the ugli est demon ever imagined by Dante. At that moment a tiny English child, having escaped from its ayah (native nurse) while the latter was engaged in watching the crocodiles, scrambled up on to the parapet that overhung the tank. It was horrible to see how, the moment the poor little victim appeared, the whole surface below was alive with flapping tails and gaping jaws, as the monsters caught sight of their prey. Scared by the tumult, the child grew dizzy, stag gered forward, and in another instant would have fallen headlong into the ter rible pool, when one of the Maharajah's native gardeners, an active young fellow, sprang forward and clutched her by the arm just in time. "Crocodile know how man-flesh taste!'1 said a tall, gaunt Punjabi beside us. "When old Maharajah reign, that time plenty man throw in here, croco dile plenty much fat. aha!" This speech, and the ghastly grin that accompanied it, were all that was needed to complete the horror of this frightful spectacle; and, turning away with a shudder, we hurried from the ill omened spot as fast as we could. Frank Leslie's. WISE WORDS. Any one can act natural by keeping still. Every throb of the heart is a new birth. 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I did not understand it then, But now ;tls all so clear, God knows my foolish fancy needs No cold interpreter; O, poet-mother ! never bard That ever breathed has spun A strain of sweeter pathos Than your poor heart has done "Lulu played two summers, Little Bee, one. Chicago News. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Red hot A boiled lobster. The lovers' favorite actor Mari-us. "The board of arbitration" A shingle. Riparion diseases The cataracts of the Nile. The pretty housemaid is the lily of the valet. The original "salt union" Neptune and Amphitrite. Smartness is knowing how to "catch on;7' wisdom, how to let go. A poor widow One who can't remain unmarried any length of time. An electric spark Making love by telegraph. Washington Capital. A drill is a bore especially to the of ficer in charge of the awkward squad. Life. A John Mary Ann is the latest name for a man that pushes his baby about in a perambulator. A good resolution is a fine starting point, but as a termiuus it has no value. 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