WHITE LILAC.
he sent me a bottle of perfume to-day,
".l‘is there on the dresser;
.“A bauble of vanity," “worthless," you.
sa ? , ,
Ah, well, we'll not quarrel, for how could
you know
What dreams it has brought from the sweet
long ago!
She sent it, God bless her!
{The dead long ago," I had foolishly said,
’Twas but an illusion; -
A Waft of this fragrance has wakened the
dead,
And fanned into flames smoldered passions
. that slept
Till through my numbed pulses fierce cur-
V rents have swept
In wildest confusion.
’Tis strange that an odor, the breath of a
flower,
A ghost of lost gladness,
Should carry me back to the white-lilac
DOWer
l
coin, and advised me to b2 neither ex-
travagant nor stingy with it, did not
admit of a. doubt.‘ Isaid so.
. “Then,” said Fanny, after amoment’s
intense thought, “he did not know that
it was a bad one.” ,
Now, surely, there would have been
no suggestion more reasonable than
' this, but I had offered it so often and
so vainly to the boys that I felt no de-
sire to advance it again. Then my
kindly advisermade a second proposal:
“Why don’t you write to your father
and tell him of it?”
But I had determined to write neither
to my father in California, nor to my
mother in New York, relative to the
bad coin. I thought that'to do so would.
be an insult. .
“Then I am sure I don’t know what
; you can do," said the young woman,
And pelt me with blossoms, and fill me E
= your father, and he is not coming to
with bliss,
And make my lips burn with the touch of ‘
a kiss—
This surely is madness!
"He only a bottle of perfume, I know,
That stands on my dresser;
Then why all these dreams from the clear
long ago— -
This living in fancy and folly again?
’Tis only a. bottle of perfume, but then
'She sent it, God bless her.
8—Adell G. Welch, in Midland Monthly.
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g flouthe llistake Occurred
By Edmund Lyons
E T WAS-certainly a. charming locality-
in which Dr. Stagmire’s “Select
Academy for Young Gentlemen” was
situated, about a hundred miles from
"New York. The ground sloped gently
from the house to the river, and in the
near background were high hills and
lakes and valleys. The pupils’ parents
.who ‘came from a distance were gen-
"erally very much attracted by the
beauty of the scenery.
There was another academy within
a mile of us, but this, as the doorplate
informed those who cared to know, was‘
-a “Young Ladies’- Preparatory Semi-
inary.” I don‘t believe any of the boys
of Dr. Stagmire’s school, with the single
exception of myself, knew any of the
inmates of Miss Dunning’s establish-
ment. My acquaintance with the good-
;natured servant, Fanny Barnes, was
due to our meeting at the post office
.in the village, where we were taking
and receiving letters for the respective
schools.
One cloudy day in September my fa-
ther came to visit me at Dr. Stagmire’s.
He wascalled by business to California,
and was to be away for three months.
He asked for a half holiday, which was
gladly granted, for Dr. Stagmire was
seldom averse to allowing this little in-
dulgence to himself and his pupils.
When .he was going away my father
placed‘a coin in my hand. ,
“Didi, my boy,” he said, “there is a.
. ten-dollar gold piece. Don’t be ex-
travagant with it, for I am not rich, but
- don’t be stingy.”
t”
I was not stingy., The very next aft-
ernoon, Dr. Stagmire kindly consent—
ling, and. even accompanying the proces-
sioh, I Went, followed by all my school-
mates, two abreast, to the only refresh-
ment saloon in the village, where yve
were furnished, ad libitum, with sand-
wiches and ice cream, while the non-
invited village boys scuttled with each
other for the best places outside the
window to watch the feast.
I was [a proud boy, indeed, when Dr.
Stagmire condescended to eat two sand-
wiches and a plate of ice cream at my
expense,.a.nd yet a prouder one when,
with my respected principal beside me,
.I again headed the long line of boys and
marched to the counter, where, some-
what ostentatiously, I fear, I threw
down my coin. Then the fact was de—
veloped that the ten-dollar gold piece
was a bad one.
The procession on its way back to
the school was perhaps a little disor-
ganized. I, as heretofore, was in ad-
vance, with Dr. Stagmire beside me,
while my schoolmates followed, boil-
ing over with very indiffere-n-tly-sup-
press-ed contempt.
The good doctor had willingly paid
my bill, and aSIWe walked home he as-
sured me that he had no doubt there.
was a mistake somewhere, which,
sooner or later, would be explained.
The boys, I was sorry to find, t>ook a
different view of the situation, and Tom
Carroll, who was said to have the power
of standing longer on one foot than any
other of the pupils, remarked:
“If Blanchard’s father gave him a. bad
ten-dollar piece, then Mr. Blanchard
must be a- very queer kind of a man.
That is all I have to say.”
Tom did himself an injustice. That
was not quite all he had to say. The
next day he said. more. Itwas, in effect,
that if young Blanchard had not re-
ceived the coin from hisfather, but had,
simply, triedto pass offaspurious piece
obtained- elsewhere with this paltry
tale, he was a very queer kind of a boy.
I suppose there are many .boys who
' would have resented these remarks of
Tom Carroll. I did not do so. I was not
quarrelsomc, and I liked Tom- I was
sure that some mistake existed that
would be explained eventually. And,
besides, Tom was half a. foot taller than
I, and my chances of satisfying him by
physical force thathc was wrong would.
have been of a. very slender kind. So
the days passed by, and- I went moping-
1y about alone, and had no sympa-
thizers.
Yes, one. At first it was not thought-
quite safe to let me have charge of the
letters, but the “post office duty” was
not a favorite one, and I was soon al-
, lowed to do it, whenm turn. came, as
before; and again. I FannyBaJrnes
and. told- her about my trouble.
“I don’t believe it." she said en-
phatically. "I never saw your ,
butIamsurehecannotbeam .
He never gave you the coin.”
,My father was certainly not a "rob-
ust... - Eat. in: ..h.e seamen me the
comprehensively. “You can’t go to
you. Those horrid boys will go on
tormenting you, of course; but you can.
only wait.”
It was drawing very near to the
Christmas vacation when my father re-
turned from California. He came again
to the school and walked unexpectedly
into the playground, where the boys
were all gathered in a group engaged
in some game.
“How are you, Dick, ury boy 7"
v “How are you, father?” -
Then, without another word, but feel—
ing as if all the blood in my body had
suddenly flown to my face, I drew from
my vest pocket the wretched coin that
I had carried about with me since the
keeper of the refreshment saloon had
handedit back to me.
“Father, it is a bad one,” I said.
“A bad one!” be repeated, looking at
it. “Why, of course it is! Easy to see
that. Where in the world did you get
it from ‘2” ’
“You gave it to me."
“I gave it to youS-‘T’ he exclaimed, in.
astonishment. "0h, nonsense.
never— But- stey a. moment!” He gave
a long, low whistle. "Powers of grace!
is it possible?”
For a. moment his face bore a. fixed _
expression, and then, breaking into a
hearty laugh, he turned to the boys,
who had been eagerly listening, and, I
think, as he spoke to them as well as to
me, that he surmised something of the
situation.
“The day that I came down here to
see Dick,” he‘said, “a man to whom I
had lent $10 gave methis coin in pay-
ment. I put it into my pocket without
examining it, and while I was in the
WITH DR. STAYMIRE BESIDE ME.
train I remembered that I had with me
another coin of the same denomination
that I had reserved for Dick. I looked
'at them both, intending to select the
brightest for him, and then I saw that
this was a- bad one. I put it away, pro-
posing to return it to my not too scru-
pulous debtor the next day. How I
came to make the mistake of giving
Dick the bad one I declare I do not
know; but what I do know is that I
' handed the good one to that fellow in
’Tun Evssls
New York, with some remark about not ,
5 “humility.”
being a dealer incounterfeit money.
I got nothing in exchange, forhe said
the coin he had given me was all he
had.” .
Of course Dr. Stagmire was willing
to grant us a half holiday, and 'once
more, without fear and without re-
proach, I regaled the boys in the re-
freshment saloon. ~
Faithful Fanny Barnes, when she-
he-ard of it, said, with-a satisfied smile:
“I am not a bit surprised. I was sure-
of it when I first heard about the bad
piece.”—Golden Days.
Remarkable Clairvos’uncy.
When people are determined to find
evidence to convince them of a thing
they are bound to believe, thereis never
any lack of it. A certain man Whoac-
ceptcd as true the pretensions of a
charlatan who claimed to be abletosell
the past history, character and future
of any person from his handwriting,
said one day to a friend: “Why, look
at the things heis able to tell you from
a mere glimpse at your handwriting!
The first thing he said to me was: ‘I
see you never took a prize in orthogra-
phy while you were at school,’ and it
was true.” “Did he give you any idea .
how he knew that?” “He said he could ’
tell it merely from the way in which I
had made the curves of the letters g
and h in the word ‘handwrightin-g’l”——
Youth’s Companiou.
Sufficient . Reward.
John Howe, the famous Puritan di-
vine, became Cromwell’s chaplain in
1657. He was much respected by men
of all parties, and in the ticklish times
of the Commonwealth his helpand pro-
tection were often asked for, and never
in vain. Yet he was never known to
ask a favor for himself. In “The Life
and Work of John Howe” this incident
is given: One day Cromwell took no-
tice of this self-denial, saying to him:
“You have begged favors for everyone
but yourself, Mr. Howe. ‘ When will
your own turn come?” To Whifli'Ilo‘wo
returned thin“ answer: "My lord pro-
tector, my turn is alwa 5 come when I
can. serve another.”—- onth’s Oom-
panion. ' ' .
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SLOW POWDER HE USED.
the Mean Trick That Was Played on
.a Hunter “Tho Was a. Little
' Old-Fashioned.
When nitro, or, aslwe call them,
wood powders, were new, there was an
old man came here regular, who would
stick to the old black powder.
would also always wear a coat with a
cape in the blinds, and when there was
wind the cape flapped and-fluttered and
never a shot would he‘ get; but he was
so stubborn and set in his ways he
would not change it. Well, some of the
fellows put up a job on him about his
old “slow and sure” powder, and after
a lot of talk they made a match with
him that his gun with black powder be
tried against one with wood powder,
.and the match came of, says theNew
York Sun.
Some one got at. the old man’s shells,
and drew the shot out- of those which
they took good care should be the ones
to go in his gun. The old man was
rather deaf, but would never admi it,
' and'that was where they played the
trick on him. The nitro powder man
fired atpa sheet of white paper at 50
yards and made a fair pattern, and
then the old man fired and all walked
over to see what he had done.
There wasn’t a- mark on his paper, of
course, and after they had examined
it carefully, suddenly one of the party
yanked him one side while another
fired at the paper with an air gun
which he had hid under his coat, and
thus spattered a dozen or so pellets on
the sheet, enough to mark it, and then
they explained to the flabbergasted old
man that his powder was so derned
slow it had only just reached the target,
and but for them hearing it coming and
dragged him one side he would have
been filled up with it. He went away,
and never came to the beach again.
JEWISH NAMES IN RUSSIA.
“more Hebrews Have Not the Right
to Choose Names for’l‘helr
Children.
Despite the disgraceful persecutions
of the Hebrew race in Hassle, there are
said to dwell in the czar’s dominions at
least one-half of the 11,000,000 of ‘Jews
that inhabit the earth. A rather amus-
ing illustration of the extent. to which
they come under the ban of legislative
control in the Muscovite empire was
exhibited in a. case just decided by the
imperial senate of St. Petersburg.
From this it appears that, incredible
though it might seem, a Jew i Russia
has not the right to name his .. 11 child
as he pleases, but must give his off-
spring such an appellation as the police
regulations ordain. He is restricted to
Biblical names, and, moreover, must.
not give‘his, child a modernized form
of old testament nomenclature. Thus
‘ he may bestow on his Son such names
as Abraham, Jacob or Samuel, but. they
must be in the Hebraic or Yiddish form
of Avrohom, Yankev, Shemuel. The
use of a. modernized name subjects the
Jew using it to a penalty. A South
Russian Hebrew recently ventured to
defy the ordinance so far as tocall and
register his son Samuel instead of
Shemuel. The police refused to permit
this, although the father was a wealthy
and prominent citizen, whereupon the
latter appealed to the imperial senate.
This august body has now decided that'
Shemuel is only a. variant of Samuel,
and that, therefore, the regulations
applicable to Jewish children have not.
been violated.
LACKING IN OTHER TONGUES.
There Is No Hindoo Word for Friend
Nor Single French “70rd
for Kick.
The Hindoos have no word for
“friend.”
The Italians have no equivalent for
The Russian dictionary, say-s Pear-
son’s, gives a word the definition of
which is “not to have enough buttons
on your footman’s coa.t;” a second
means “to kill over again;” a third
“earn by dancing;” while the word
“knout,” which we have all learned to
consider as of exclusively Russian
meaning and application, proves upon.
investigation to be their word “knut,”
and to mean only a whip of any kind.
The Germans call a thimble a “finger
but,” which it certainly is, and. a grass—
hopper a “hay horse.” A glove with
them is a “hand shoe,” showing evi-
dently that they wore shoes before
gloves. Poultry is “feather cattle,”
while the names for the well-known
substances “oxygen” and “hydrogen”
are, in their language, “sour stuff” and
“water stuff.”
The French have no verb “to stand,”
nor can a Frenchman speak of “kick-
ing” anyone. The nearest approach,
in his politeness, he makes to it is, “to
threaten to give a blow with his foot.”
Neither has he any word .for “com-
fort.” The terms“upstairs” and “down-
stairs” are also unknown in French.
Insect Under-takers.
Persons who are fond of walks in the.
country may have wondered why no
trace is ever found of the various small
animals, such as field mice, which die
by the dozens. The reason is that the
sexton beetle has- taken care of the.
tiny dead bodies. When a small animal
dies the beetles hurry to it. They do
not do good deeds solely through phil-
an-throphy, for they get their reward
in food for themselves besides laying
up provender for their families. . These
beetles are an inch long and somehave
bright orange bands on the wing cov-
ers. ‘After satisfying their hunger the
beetles proceed in a. very laborious -
manner to bury the remains. After
dragging flue body to a spot of soft-
,earth the beetles, using ”their heads as
spades. digs tunnel arsenals... body.
Inside this, they dig another furrow and
keep
hole. . Then they throw in the earth
they have excavated. ‘
He"
: sore to property owners and a Meocato
on till the body sinks into the.
G " G A 21>; T THE 7
BAD LUCK. OF GOOD LUCK.
Man‘IvVho Was Born a Pessfmlst Rea
fuse: to Be Content . l
with Linn _
“When a pessimist is a born pessimist
be. naturally has to live and die a pessi-
mist, I suppose,” remarked a club wom- .
an in that pleasant half-hour of social
chat which sometimes follows a club
adjournment, according to the Detroit-
Free Pres. . ‘
“Uncle Elisha is a born pessimist, and
nothing else can be made out of him.
He was orange groves in Florida and
spends the greater part of his winters
down there. Every winter in Florida—
think of it! That ought to make him
happy, ‘but it doesn’t. His letters are
generally depressing chronicles of bad
crops; and good prices, of good crops
and bad prices; anything to keep him-
self in a good stock of ready-made mis-
ery. This fall, however, to our great
surprise, he wrote on his arrival an al-
most cheerful letlter, announcing, with-
out any palliating drawbacks, that he :
was going to have an elegant crop of
Oranges this year—the. very largest and
finest his groves had ever produced.
Though rejoicing in his good fortune, I
wrote jocosely, expressing my delight— ‘
cd amazement that at last something
had gone the way he wanted it; that he
was really in estateof genuine, pleased
satisfaction. His letter in reply, how:
ever, recorded his usual and normal
drop in temperature—the other letter
had been merely an attack of cheerful
mental alienation. ‘No,’ wrote Uncle
Elisha, ‘I am not p1 d, after all; of
course, the orange crop 13 fine, unusual-
ly fine; but I know what that means. It
meansthat the trees will hear them-
selves out this year and next year they
won’t have any fruit on at-‘all. Just my
luck.’
“Now, what can one do with a man
like that?” 7
HOW “JEHU” GETS HIS BEER.
Daily Afternoon Performance in a
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On a corner in one of the most aris-
tocratic residence districts of the North-
side is a small saloon that is an eye-
drinking men of all classes. Before
its doors are drawn- up hearses, delivery
wagons ' and handsome carriages.
Coachmen assemble in oneof the streets
upon which the little saloon opens, and,
while the fashionable women whom
they serve are enjoying afternoon tea,
theyindulg-e in afternoon beer, says the
Chicago Inter Ocean.
A brougham driven by a man in con—
spicuous livery drove by the saloon the
other day. Two landaus and a coupe
were assembled to take part in an im-
promptu “whisky,” but the coachman
paid no attention to the other stylish
jehus. He drew up in front of alarge
flat building, looked straight ahead,
and made a peculiar signal with the _
black fur glove. For five minutes he
sat. quite immovable.
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From the back door of the saloon a
colored man walked out, carrying a
new japanned coal bucket. He crossed
to the pavement near which the
brougham was stationed. Putting the
coal bucket on the sidewalk, he stooped
over and took something from it which-
he handed to the coachman. The coach-
man‘s big fur glove was folded over the
article for a moment. Then the glove
was raised to the coachman’s mouth,
the cockaded hat was thrown back an
instant, the black glove returned some-
thing to the colored man, and the
brougham moved} on.
LOVE IN LAPLAND.
If the Man Loses in 3. Foot Race with
the \Vomnn He Cannot Pro-
pose Again.
When a young Laplander is in love
with a girl he and she run a race. He
is heavily handicapped, so that she may
win if she chooses, and if she outrun
him he- cannot propose again, says the
New York Herald.
Of course, she suffers her-self to be
overcome. if she cares for him, but the
consent of her parents must be obtained
before she can be married. The law of
the land is very strict on thispoint, and
in olden times the man was subject’to
capital punishment if he married with—
out the cOusent of the girl’s parents.
After a. Laplander has chosen a bride
he sends her a present of a. girdle, a
'ring and a quantity of brandy. He
goes as far as the'door of her hut, but
remains outside until invited to enter,
when a. bumper of brandy is offered to
the girl’s father.
" If he drinks it, itis a sign he‘consents
to the marriage, and the young lover
then promises to give the girl some
clothes, and pays a sum of money, gen-
erally 100 copper dollars, down on the
spot. .
This, of course, is a remnant of mar-
riage by purchase. which in- primitive
times succeedcd marriage by capture.
Her parents and her dowry are gen-
erally reindeer. and she and her bride
groom remain with her parents for a-
year after marriage.
Light from Sam.
A phenomenon, the cause of which
has not, yet been satisfactorily ex—'
plained, was described at. the last-meet-
ing of the British association. Disks
of loaf sugar were mounted on a- lathe
and rapidly rotated, while a hammr
played lightly against them. An-almost .
continuous rotation of light was thus
produced from the sugar. It was
shown that the light did not arise from
heating of the sugar, it isbelieved
to be caused by some change tailing
place in the sugar crystab. The act
of crystallization is known to be some-
tinies accompanied by finishes of light.
The practical bearing of these experts
ments is on the‘ question of the pos-
sibili-ty of obtaining artificial light by
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