wqgMfyMjiy ^'j^-^y ^^v''^ffl^V?^^fli^giripg-^i.' ll Ha -p V- W!^ PS, V3 W* Ciadle Son? ot the Poor. and seemed to fill the room full of glory. into the water. He tried to move Jim at the nodding head of the beast, and lightly compressed by machinery within I could see 'twas a man. He walked to by low, pleading cries. It was curious then resolutely turned away, determined a waterproof case, and the whole covered DELUDE PROCTORt the kneeling figure, and touched her on to note what tender tones he seemed to that the ladies should not be made aware with cauvass. It forms, ordinarily, a the shoulder. She started, and turned try to give his voice. of what he thought was a slight touch of mattress, which is intended to be placed Huht cannot bear to 6ee thee her face wildly around. I heard him say: Seeing that Jim paid no attention to delirium tremens. In another panel was btietch thy tiny hands in vainf* in every ot or berth, and makes a bed Tis train time, marm. Come!" Dear.I have no biead to give thee, his calls, but sat and laughed as he a shoemaker's advertisement, and he began which is said to be very elastic and easy Nothing, child, to ease thy p?in! A look of joy came over her face. *~ta handled his own line, Old Soup went up to read it, hoping to divert his mind to lie upon. Its weight is about six '*r When God 6ent thee first to bless me, "I'm ready," she wiuspered. to him, and with his trunk tried to turn fiom the queer fancy about the horse. pounds, and it is constructed in such a Proud and thankful, too, was I Then give me your pass, ma'am." his bead in the direction ot the bait-box. He perused the first printed line, which Now, my darling, I, thy mother, manner that it can be quickly put about, She reached him a worn old book, At last, when he found that all he could Almost long to see the die. led his eyes along to a picture of a shoe the person, forming then a double belt which he took, and from it read aloud: do would not induce his willful friend to maker seated on a bench at work. Suddenly, and attached in such a way that it cannot Sleep, my darling-, thou art weary 'Come unto me, all ye that are weary help him, he turned aiound as if struck as the car ran over a chunk of ice, possibly be displaced by the gwinds or God is good, but lite is dreary. and heavy laden, and I will give you by a sudden thought, and, snatching up the man in the picture moved his arms, waves. iest.' in his trunk the box that held the bait, I have watched thy beauty fading. as though sewing the boot in his lap, and And thj strength sink day by day, came and laid it down at the major's feet That's the pass over our road, ma'am. nodded his head violently. The drunkard The Wee, Wee Uairnie. Soon, I know, will want and fever Ah-h!' and then picking up his rod, he held it out to Are you ready involuntarily ejaculated ll Take thy little life away, A his master. The light died away, and darkness fell stared in hoiror. The ladies regarded 'i""x'i Famine makes thy father reckless, W H. in Kelso Courier. in its place. My hand touched thp stroke "What do you want me to do with this, him wondeiingly. m~* Hope has left both him and me, "Step gently, step gently." We could suffer all, my baby, ot one. Simons awoke with a starj, and Old Soup?" said the maior. A stretch of smooth track made the I stepped hastily back. I feared I had Had we but a crust for thee. snatehod his lantern. Tne whistle sounded The creature lifted one great foot after figure quiet, and the perturbed passenger, been treading on some of the old man's down-brakes the train was due. He the other, and again began to utter his with a strong effort regained his Better thou should perish early, ran, to the corner, and shook the old woman. plaintive cry. Oat of mischief, I took composure. He took a firmer grip of the flowers, j^ji 0} r*^/,,^v* gp-Vv it btarve so soon, my darling one, Then in hopeless sin and sorrow Jimmy's part, and, picking up the baitbox, strap, pulled himself up to a yery upright He leant on his SDade, and made no Vainly live as I have done. Wake up, marm 'tis train time." pretended to lun with it. Tne elephant attitude, and coughed violently, so motion for some minutes. At length he Bettei that thy angel spirit But she never heeded. He gave one was not going to be teased by me. as to make the ladies think that his raised his head, and in a husky voice began: With my joy, my peace, were flown, look at the white set face, and, dropping He dipped hi? trunk into the Ganges,and ejaculation had been caused by something Than thy heart giow cold and careless, his lantern, fled. in|an instant squirted a stieam of water Reckless, hopeless, like my own. wrojg in his throat. The color of his "Aye, sir, I mind the time as well as The up-train halted, the cdnductor over me with all the force and precision face which hid deepened to purple, was 'twere yesterday, and its forty years I am wasted, dear, with hunger, shouted all aboard, but no one stirred of a fire-engine, to the immense amusement slowly paling to scarlet, when he saw a since, when our wee bairnie died. It was And my brain is all opprest that way. of the children. placard of a mustard manufacturer bearing his fourth birth day, and he stopped up I have scarcelj' strength to press thee The next morning, when the ticket The major at once made Soup a sign the trade maika cow. The car tae wait till I came home wi' a bit of Wan and feeble to mv breast. i agentcame, he found her "frozen to death." to stop, and, to make my peace with the Patience, baby, God will help ub, jolted and the cow's head and tail swayed present for him, I sat doon be' the fire Death will tome to thee and me They whispered among themselves, and fine old fellow, I baited his hook myself. gently and naturally. The sight doubtless tae wait for my supper (my wife was ben He will take us to His Heaven, the coroner made out the verdict "Apop- Quivering with joy, as a baby does when destioyed the drunkard's last lingering the house bakin), when I heard the patterin' Where no wan* or pain can be. lexy," and it was in some way hushed it gets hold at last of a plaything some doubt, for he cried, "I've got \*m," o' his little feet, an' I looked up up." one ha3 taken from it, Old Soupramany Such the plaint that, late and early, and started for the door. Casting his an' held oot my arms for him. He didna Did we listen we might hear They laid her out in the depot, and advertised hardly paused to thank me by a eyes at the pictures, he saw that the shoemaker come mnnin'tae them sae quick as usual, Close beside usbut the thunder for her friends, but no one cameSo, soft note of joy for baiting his line for was sewing faster than before, the an' when I had hi: on my knees, sajs I, Of a city dullb our ear, after the seconed day, they buried him, before he went back to his place, horse was nodding with renewed vigor, "An' fa'll ye be, ye wee bit nickum?"' E\ ery heart, as God's bright angel, her. and was again watching his cork as it Can bid one sonow cease, the cow ws sahaking her head and tail I'm foy ther's wee, wee bairnie." God hnsgloiy when His children trembled in the ripples of the river.St The last look on that sweet old face, with vicious energy, and even the mouth An'wi'that he nestled closer to me. Bring his poor ones joy and peace. Nicholasfor May. lit up with a smile so unearthly, I keep of a dog was rapidly opening and shutting. He didna seem cheery, see I ca'd the doggie with me yet- and when I think of the occurrence "Yes, I've got em, sure," he said, came lazy-like fi ae his coiaer stretrhin' of that night, I know she went as he blushed past the conductor and his legs. The bairnie put doon his The Fascinations ot Archery. On The Other Train. out on the other tram, that never stopped lumped from the car. little hand. But he didna get up an* play at the poor-house. wi't, an' seemed tired like." So long as the new moon returns in _^a. BY A DEPOT CLOCK. "Janet," ca'd I ben the hoose, "what heaven a bent, beautiful bow, so long A Fool's ''Joke." ails the bairnie?" will the fascinations of archery keep hold There, Simons, you bloclcfiead Why Old Soup. Hon. Clarence Newcomb, prominent "Ai's him," said she.*' "Awa' wi' ye of the hearts of men. I can demonstrate didn't you trot that old woman aboard member ot the Young Men's Christian naethin' ails him." this fascination, and can give the reasons her tram? She'll have to wait here now The following curious anecdote is from Association, and son of ex-U. S. Marshal But he's tired like." why it exists. But first a word a3 to the until the T, :05 A M." a book about elephants, written by a and ex-Congressman Newcomb, underwent Hoot," says she, nae wunner sittin"* fact of its existence. Since the publication Yes, I did tell you! You know well Fiench gentleman, named Jacolliot, an an experence a few days ago which up till this time o' night." in this magazine for July, 1877, of enough. Twas only your confounded we will let the author tell his own storv: he will not soon forget. The sportive Ah! but it's nae that, it's mair than an article on aichery, I have received stupid carelessness In the autumn of 1876, I was living in humor of a fiiend led to the perpetration tired he is, Janet he's nae wee." nearly five hundied letters of inquiry, and "She' You fool! What else could the interior ot Bengal, and I went to Probably hasn't any of a joke which came near having a Janet took: up the child in her arms. men have come hundreds of miles to see you expect of hei spend Christmas with my friend, Major senous termination. Mr. Newcomb had Aweel," said she, an' he's no weel, what mannei of bows and anows I use. wit beside, she isn't bound on a very jolly Daly. The major's bungalow was on the stepped into the- vault attached to the I'll put him tae bed when I hae done wi' You have but to mention an archer or journey- got a pass up the road to the banks of the Ganges near Cawnpore. He office of Lonergan & Thiel, of the Detective the bakm'," an' wi' that she set him archery to your friend and immediately poor-house.'' had lived there a good many years, being Agency, where he is interested. The down i' the floor. Forty years is it since his interest is aroused. He may scoff at I'll go and tell her, and if you forget chief of the qui termastei's depaitment at vault is used for the scoring away f but I can see the laddie standm' there the bow and Sneer at the airow but he her to-night, see if 1 don't make mincemeat that station, and had a great many natives, valuable books, papeis, etc. A gentleman yetwt his head hangm" owre his clean will inquire and show curiosity, of you'" e'ephants, bullock-carts, and soldiers who was in the office at the time closed fiock, an' his wee bit leggies bare tae the Hang along bow and a quiver of arrows And our worthy ticket agent shook his under his command. the door upon Newcomb by way of a knees. conspicuously in your hall or libiary, and fist menacingly at his subordinate. On the morning after my arrival, after piactical joke. The door closed "with a "Pit him tae bed the noo, Janet, Dinna' you will soon discover that no exquiste You've missed your tram, ma'am," he a cup of early tea (often taken before snap, and Mr. Newcomb felt some mis min' the cakes." painting or bit of statuary will receive remaiked, coming forwaid to a queerlooking daylight in India), I sat smoking with givings as he found himsel surrounded She took him up again in her arms more attention from guests than will be bundle the cornel. my fiiend in the veranda of his bungalow, with a darkness which was mo3t palpable. and as she did sae, his wee facie became accorded to these ancient weapon". No A tienabling hand raised the faded looking out upon the windings of as pale as death, an' his little body shook His fears were increased by the recollection doubt if one could procure a bhell strung black veil, and levealed the sweetest old the sacied nvei. And, directly, I asked a' ower. I never waited a nieenit, but of the fact that, except himself with gold and silver cords, after the face I e\ er aw. the major about his children (abov and awa' I ran out at the door for the doctor and Mr. Thiel, no one was in possession fashion of the old time instiument wherewith 'Nevet mind," said aquaveiing voice. a gul), whom I had not yet seen, and as hard as I could lin, twa miles across ot the numerical combination by which the gods made music, the same fasination "'Tis only thiee o'clock now you'll begged to know when I should see them. the field, wi' my heart beatin' hard at every the safe was unlocked, and that Mr. would attach. Indeed music and have to wait until the night train, which "Soupramany has taken them out fish- step. The doctor wasna in. Wi' a sair Thiel had stepped out a few minutes befoie. poetry sprang from the bow as did the doesn't go up until 1:0"5." ing," said their father. heart I turned back. I stopped runnin' In the meantime the practical joker old first lyre, the inonochoid, the fiist rule ''Veiy well, sir I can wait." "Why, isn't Soupramany your great when I got till our gate,and walked quietly went out exulting in the funny plight in of fine art, and is as insepaiably connected "Wouldn't you like to go to some hotel? war elephant?,'I cried. in 'The doctor nae in.' Waur luck,' which his victim must find himself with the history of culture as are the Simons will show you the way." "Exactly so. You cannot have forgotten said I, as I crossed the door. Nae a word. when he discovered that he could not get alphabets of tne learned languages. "No, I thank you, sn. One place is as Soupramany!" I turctd ronn' intae the kitchen, an' there out. Mr. Newcomb's reflections were What the fragments of Sapphic song and go )d as another to me. Beside, I haven't 'Of course not. I was here, you know was sich a sicht I could never forget. In becoming-more and more serious eveiy the Homenc epics are to tne liteiature of any money." when he had that figbt with the elephant, ae corner was my wife lying on the grun', moment. He could not hear any sounds to-day, the bow is to the weapons of today. "Very well," said the agent, turning who went mad while loading a tiansport an' beside her the wee bit bairnienae a from the outside, and wondered what aw ty indifferently "Simons will tell you with bags, of i ice down yondei. I saw soun' frae either o' them. had become of his friend. He tried t When a man shoots with a bow it is his when it's time." the mad elephant when he suddenly be I fouchit my wife, l'th* shouther, and cry out. but knew that his voice, even if own vigor of body that drhes the anow, All the atteinoon she sat there so quiet gan to fling the rice into the river. His she lcokit up, an' then rose upwi'outa rased to its highest pich, could not penetrate and his own mind that controls the missile's that I thought sometimes si_e must be 'mahout' tried to stop him, and he killed word, an'stood beside me, lookin' at the through the thick walls that sur flight. Not so with gun shooting. asleep, but when I looked raoie closely I the mahout. The native sailors lan away little laddie. Suddenly he gied a sfart, rounded him. He tried, but the rever The modern weapon is charged with a could see eveiv once in a while a gieat to hide themselves,and the mad elephant an' held out his arms tae me" Am I no berations of his voice in the narrow tomb, power acting independently of muscular tear loll downhei cheek, which she would tiumpeting, charged into this inclosure. yer am wee, wee bairnie, fayther?" 'Ay, were almost deafening. He pounded operations, and will sshoot just as power wipe away hastily with hei cotton handkei Old Soupiamany was here, and so were ay, said I, for I could hardly speak, an' 1 against the walls, bruising his hand in fully for the schoolboy or the weakling chief Jim and Bessy. When he saw the mad knelt down beside him an' took his little an attempt that he knew must be ineffectual as it will for the athlete. The Sapphic The depot was crowded, and all was animal, he threw himself between him hand. My wife knelt doon on th' other to attract attention. A strong and songs were the natural music of love the bustle and huuy until the 9.50 tiain going and the children. The little ones and side of him and took other band. 'Yer powerlul man, he felt himself to be a Homeric epics were the natural out-pourings East came due, then every passenger their nurse", had jus*- time to get into the wee, wee bairnie,' he muttered, as tae helpless prisoner, almost without the of a great, strong, self-sufficient soul left e\cept the old lad v. It is veiy rare house when the fight commenced." himsel'foi he gied himsel' the name slightest hope of rel'ef surcharged with inspiration of heroism indeed that any one takes the night express, "Yes," said the major. Old Soup was an' then he laid his head back, an' we The ticking of his watch, plainly audible and when Apollo is represented with and almost always after I ha\e a hundred yeais old. He had been framed could see he was gone. The doggie cam'' in the dense darkness, admonished drawn bow he is the symbol of the natural struck ten the depot becomes silent and to war, and to fight with the rhinoceros, an' lookit in his face, an' hckit his han' him of the rapid flight ot time. The intervals perfect physical man-hood in an attitude empty. but he was too old to hunt then." an' then wi' a low whine an' lay doon at between the seconds seemed longer displaying its highest powers and The ticket agent put on his great-coat, And yet," said I, becoming animated his feet. Niver a tear did we weep but than he had ever known befoi e. The graces. and, bidding Simons keep his wits about by the reccollections of that day, what we sat baith o' us lookin' intae the sweet quiet had become so intense that he could I- is curious to note how suiely the him for once 'in his life, departed for a gallant fight it was! Do you remembei wee facie til' th' moinin' broke on us. plainly hear the beating ot his heait. It bow and arrows have found their" way home. how we all stood on this porch and The neebois cam' i' the mornin,' an' I thumped against his side like the sound into the hands ot all wild peoples whose But he had no'sooner gone than that watched it, not daring to fire a shot lest rose up and spoke to them tae them but of a pile-driver, falling at regular intervals, mode of lite has made physicial culture functionary stietched himself out upon we shou'd hit OldSoupianianv? Do you my wife she never stirred, nor gied a and drivingso he thoughthis a necessity withjthem, and it is equally the tableas usualand began to snora remember, too, his look when he drew sound, ane o' them them spoke o' when burial place deeper and deeper into the interesting and significant to discover vocifeiously. off, after fighting an hour and a half, he wad be carried tae the auld kirkyaird. earth. He thought he could hear his that among these wild peoples a chieftain Then it was I witnessed such a sight as leaving ris adversary dying in the dust, 'Kirkyaird!' said she. kirkyaird 'Nae blood as it was pumped out of his heart is invaiiably chosen on account of I never had bffoie and never expect to and walked straight to the corral,' shaking kirkyaud forme My bairnie shall sleep and coursed thiough his veins. It reminded his ability to draw a mighty bow. We again. The in had gone downit was his great ears which had been badly whaur he playedoor garden. Nae step him of a muniur of a brook flowing are nothing better than refined and enlightened cold night, and the wind howled dismally torn, with his head bruised, aud a great layer.' 'But it'll niverbe allowecV 'Al- thiough the woods and tricklingtiver savages. The fiber of our natuieisnot outside. The lamps grew dim and flared piece brokea from one of his tusks?" lowed cried she, 'the baine shanna stir mossy stones. The action ot hi* lungs changed in substance it is casting weiid shadows upon the wall, Yes, indeed,' said the major. Well, past the end o' the garden. 'An' she had had become suddenly and strangely audible. polished and oiled. The wild side of the By-and-by I heard a smothered sob from shsce then, he is more devoted to my dear her way. Naebody interfe/ed an' there Respiration was becoming difficult. prism of humanity still offers its pleasures the coinei then anothei, I looked in little ones than ever. He takes them out he lies jist whaur ye were gaun to pit yer The fregular inhalation and exhalation to us, and it is healthful and essentially that direction. She had lisen from her whole days, and I am perfectly content fit, an' theie he'll lie ta the lesurrection of his breath sounded like a bel necessary to broad culture that we accept seat and 0 the look of agony on the to have them u^der his charge. I don't moinin'. An' ilka evenin' my wife comes lows that was being worked with difficulty them in moderation. Sport, by p'oi pinched lace. like trusting Christian childem to the an' sits here wi' her knittin,' an' we never The labored action of his lungs, +ire o' speakin' o' him that lies be- which I mean pleasant physicial and "I can't believe it," she sobbed, wringing care of natives but with Old Soup I constantly becoming harder and harder, mental exercise combined,play, in the Ler tain white hands. "0! I can't know fhev can come to no harm." neath." brought to his mind the terrible question best sense,is a requirement of his wide believe it' Mv babies! my babies! how Beside the children, on the banks of And the old man bent down and passed how much longer he could live in this element, this glossed over, physical, ofien have I held them in my arms and the Ganges, stood Old Soup with a bamboo his hand over the loose mould as if confined astomsphere. K* heathen side of our being, and the bow is kissed them. and how often they used to rod in his trunk, with line, hook, he were smoothing the pillow of his "wee, He calculated how much air was conained a naturiai implement From Merry say back to me, Ise loves you, mammy bait, and cork, like the children's. I had wee bairnie." pgfc&fy Quiver,'1'' Maurice in these ^narrow walls, and how it nowr, 0 God they've turned against fi Dayst with Bow and and not watched him long before he had a would support life. At the farthest it Thompson, Scnbnerfor May. me. Wheie ami going? To the poorhouse *4* A tsignillcant Reply. |4f?| bite for, as the religion of the Hindoos sS appeared to him that he could not live No i no! no! I cannot! I will, forbids them to take life, the risrer swaims more than twenty minutes, and then he A fine example of courteous rebuke not! O, the disgrace I" with fishes. would have to breathe this vitiated air over J^jjHe Thought He Had *Em. was the answer of a distinguished English And sinking down upon her knees, she The old fellow did not stir his little and over again. He cried out again, but navy officer to a hasty friend. sobbed out in piayer: eves watched his line eagerly he was no It was evident that he had been on a stopped at the reflectibu that this was a The late Commodore Hollins was once "O, God, spare me this" and take*me novice "the gentle craft." He was long aiduous spree. His face was red. useless expenditure of the very hydrogen sailing fwith an American commodore home' 0, God, spaie me this disgrace, waiting till it was time to draw in his his eyes were bleary,and his hands shook. on which he must depend for life for who used often to msult his inferior officers, spare me!' prize. He stepped unsteadily from the slippry some time to come. The silence began and apologize to them afterward. The wind, rose higher and swept At the end of his line, as he drew it up snow into a Sixth avenue car. The seats to be broken by a murmur which he could After such an insult had been offered to through the cievices icy cold. How 'it was dangling one of those golden tench were occupied by ladies who were out not at first understand. The murmur him, Hollins was called to the cabin of the moaned,jii^d, seemed sob like something so abundant in the Ganges. shopping, and he had to stand. He gradually increased to a loud buzz, and commodore, who said: hufnan $fet'is hnit. I began to When Soupramany perceived what a clung to a strap, and tried hard to assume then he realized that this must be caused I am a man fof very passionate' nature, shake, bat the kneeling figure never stirred. fine fish he had caught, he uttered one of a calm, dignified manner but his by a rush of blood to the head, the effect and have treated you as I should Th thin shawl had dropped from those long, low gurgling notes of satisfaction assumed stiffness became limberness of his continued confinment. The buzzing not have done, and now I wish to apolo- her shoulders unheeded. Simons tui&ed by which an elephant expresses whenever the car stopped, started, or increased to a roaring thunder. He gize." C*i i ^r ^fk over and'drew* his* heavy iblanfcet*ftore joy and he waited patiently, expecting turned a corner. Yet he seemed to be felt himself stagger and then lost consciousness. Hollins replied, I, too, am a passionate over him. Jim to take his prize off the hook and satisfied that ne impressed the ladies as a man, but I notice, commodore, that I O, how cold! Only one lamp remained put on some more bait fqr him. But Jiai, sober, self-possed man, whereas his pitiable At this moment Mr. Thiel came in^ never get into a passion witn my superi burning, dimly the olher two had gone the little rascal, sometimes liked to condition was apparent to all. hurridly, having been informed of the or officers, always with those beneath out fwr want of oil. I could hardly see, plague Old Soup. He nodded at us, as His eys fell on one of the.panels over situation, and unlocked the safe. Mr. me." it was so dark. "VVSu*^ much as to say, "Look out, and you'll the windows where the advertisement of Newcomb had fainted,* but was restored i At last she l|ecame quieter^and ceased see bme fun, now!" Then he took off an express company was framed, with by the free use of water, mixed with some Said a friend to a bookseller, "The te moan. Then I grew drowsy, and kindof the fish, which he threw into a water-jar a horse's head so hung in a'central opening stimulants.St. Louis Font. p. lost the run of things after" I had* placed there for the purpose, and went book trade is affected, I suppose, by the that it moved with every jog of the struck twelve, when some one entered back to his place without putting any car. He did not know that such figures general depression^What kind of books The new French life-saving mattress the depot with a bright light. I started bait on Old Soup's hook. The intelligent are a new device in horse-car advertising. is highly commended. It is formed of feel it most?" Pocket-books," was the up. It wasjhe brightestjight I ever saw, animal did not attempt to throw his line He stared, with widely-opened eyes, I two row. of blocks made of cork cuttings aconic reply. kiii^^ _.*i&A* mft (iii J*4*&*i.siiXi,.ii& Sti*tw.