A Woman Still

The Cleveland Leader tells the j ing pathetic story of mother's love : A yoiuig womau, with draggled dress and a flushed fat'e, with her hnir loóse j over her shoulder, and a hard look in : her eyes, followed a burly offioer into the Central station juut as the elock was ! on the stroke of midnight. " What's the matter here i" queriod the Lieutenant, looking up as the illniated couple eamo trooping in. "Same oíd chnrge," said the ofticer; „ she's been rnisiug Cain aronnd the hay market. " "Yon bet your boots I have," aaid , the girl, witL i hoarse laugh that ' showed there was whisky behind it. " I give 'em ns good as they sent." They were lending lier into the j recordïng room, when she stopped at the door opening into the Captain' office. " Whose kid is that " she asked. " That. { Oh, one that was pieked np on the street - lost by somebody." " Lost, is he ? Well, I've found him. Let me alone, will yon ?" She pulled away from the offieer, anl in a moment was on the lounge with the ehild in her arms, her painted cheeks pressed close, to the tear-stains left on the little fellow's face when he had eried I himself to sleep. Her hair hung in a veil before them, and hitl the guilty and innocent alike from RÏght. " I had one like yon once," nli ïunrmured, after the hnsh of a moment, " but he died. That was so long go that I thought 1 hal forgotteu it - there ' has been so much happening sinee - eo mnoh I wish to God hiul never happened !" A moment longer and she looked np - as sober as n mother by the henrthstone. " May I take him in the cell with me V' she asked, in a low nnd j tle voiee. They said slie niight, and the poor, ' fiHHiiken wonian sat down on Uu' stone bench witli the sleepiug child held close to her bosom. The tears that feil from her eyes were as balm to lier bruised heart,'aud the little one liftetl her soul to purer heights than it had known for many, mnny weary days in the pnst. Puof. Fritz, of Zurich, bas ïvcently shown, from a ;omparison of animal meteorológica] statisties, that the years distinguislied by a maximum of Bolar spots coincide very closely with those I : yesn ïunrked by exceptionally sovere i iiaü-storms, and an uunsual average I heightof liirge riverH. Tlie special 1 riods OCCur at intervals of eleven yeaw, and the law is in accordance with ob8 i vations made during the past ceutury in all latitudes.