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‘Thou art the white moon beaming,
And I the world of night:
‘Thou art a clear star gleaming,
All silvery and bright,
The heart's quick beat,
And dawn brings Love's dear face.
‘Thou art the very nearest
To catch my heart's one call:
O Sweet, when this thou hearest,
Be love and mercy thine!
Answer my heart
And say thou art
My own—my Valentine!
By Frank Dempster Sherman.
THE MAGIC STONE.
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necessity and want.
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“Ura not find it; think of all who've
tried!” gloomily.
“But you—haven't! Think of that!"
replied his mother, A
left for you, after all, to find
the rest have overlooked, or failed
may be
what
to excavate. Perhaps," after a moment's
“I—I'll try, mother! You give me
t t; and if it's there
fil find iti a Sardon went to the wa-
ter-bench to
“But,” turning to the towel to
face and hands, “if I should only find the
stone that the others have unearthed,
with that hateful word ‘failure’ written
on it, I'd wish I hadn't tried.”
It was true that nearly every man and
boy—those who had persistency
; | long enough—had come upon a narrow
stone, on which in rough, inartistic letters
was engraved the ominous word ‘failure.’
This discovery, more than the exhausting
Jaber, caused each one 0 hy away 3
tter disappoin t, thinking
been unjustly fooled!
“If that’s all the reward there is, here's
Where 19 the span! SY aoe bal
declared, in a tone—a mi of
and discouragement—and EE wea
the mountain side.
continues long like this all the fruit will | the valley. But
be beaten from the vines; we won't be | being bright and clear, he his
le to save any.” and started to find, if possible, the magic
“1 hope not so bad as that,” lied his | stone.
mother, encouragingly, throwing _ her | All day he dug but found nothing. For
apron over her head, stepping out on | five days Sa kept faithfully at his
the porch. “It rains, worse than | self-imposed task—and still it seemed to
I thought!” anxiously. “But it's nothing | him that he was no nearer the longed-for
we can help; so it won't do the least bit | stone, than when he had removed the
of good to worry and make ourselves un-
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“I know it,” admitted Sardon, with an
attempt at cheerfulness. But if we lose
them all, the cold winter coming on now
in 2 few weeks will be a hard one for
us
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“What?” pressed Sardon, as his mother
hesitated, and left unfinished what she
had started to say.
poi only
“But ‘twas something—surely,” de-
manded the boy. “What was ith
“I was thinking—it is kind of foolish in
me to mention it—of the magic stone.’
And then,
there'd be no need of the grape crop;
ed have everything we'd want without
“But how could I find it—a boy! Every-
body else has hundreds i
tried to discover it!” have
“Not so many as that,” chided th ’
e boy's
“Well, a food many have,” persisted
Sayéon, “It may be, more than we know
“But what they have overlooked you
might find; don't you see?”
ps,” doubtfully. “Anyhow if we
he grapes, I'll try! My! but doesn't |
it rain; it comes down harder and
harder!” and Sardon hurriedly closed the
door, to keep out the cold wind and the
moisture from the falling rain.
first shovelful of earth.
“If I don't find it tomorrow,” Sardon
his scanty meal, “I'll give it up. It's no
use soi one’s ns out for nothing!"
“Don’t
ve it up too soon, my son,”
is mother, anxiously. “Noth-
ing really great was ever achieved in a
moment's time. Then, too, should you
e it up now, think what a loss of en-
vor there'd be! You
can't afford to cease the digging yet; in
deed you can't!”
And so Sardon week—
ute's silence, “I might as well
He was on the
Years ago there had been left a prophecy | his tools when
the Ki seem- I aa sides of it!”
ed to know whence it had ted—to | began ing again.
the effect that there was buried at the| “There,” and paused to wipe
foot of the Tolo Mountain a wonderful
place, too, had been clearly indi-
cated. It was to be found beneath
overhanging bowider t, centuries,
had hung poised in mid air above a deep
ravine, surrounded by a dense thicket of
small spruce trees.
The prophecy which had been handed
down, generation after generation, in the
Kiva valley. was to the effect that there
was beneath the granite bowlder
marvelous, magic stone, on whose side
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from the field. His constant
y for She various arinies was the
n object is spending so man
the War Department a
and talks that he had there
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ford him genuine diversion.
Mr. Lincoln's anxiety
several occasions brought him
to the telegraph office alone, Ite at night,
to assure himself that a despatch -
ing the reprieve of a soldier condemned
to be shot was promptly and properly
transmitted. it was apparent that the
tendency of his mind was to believe
every one innocent of wrong intention
| unless evidence to the contrary was en-
i tirely clear; and even then his disposition
was toward clemency. While we of that
historic office survive we shali celebrate
more feelingly, I believe, than most men, '
in our own minds if not in a public way, :
the memory of a towering genius now so
universally Socognized 26 worthy of the
deepest grati of his countrymen, and
the anniversary of whose advent has be-
come a national holiday no less revered
than that of the immortal Washington.
Mr. Lincoln's fondness for story-telling,
and the extent to which he indulged it,
are well known, and have not, I think, |
been overstated. His sense of the ridicu- |
lous was exceedingly keen, his memory |
surprising, and his power of illustration |
even of mimicry was often demon- |
strated in the use of very simple, funny |
and sometimes undignified stories. i
I recall one day when he had just seat- |
ed himself at a desk with the latest mes. '
sages before him when he heard a news.
boy on the street crying: “Here's yer |
| Philadelphia Inquiry.” He mimicked the
| peculiar pronunciation and tone of the ,
i boy, and then said: “Did I ever tell you |
: of the joke the Chicago had on |
me?” Replying negatively, he related: |
“A Shost Sime before my Romvination. 11
was in Chicago attending a law suit.
photographer of that city asked me to sit |
or a picture, and I did so. This coarse, |
ng | rough hair of mine was in a particularly |
bad tousle at the time, and the picture |
presented me in all its fright. After my
Ropination, this being about the only
picture me there was, copies were
struck to show those who had never seen
me how I looked. The newsboys carried |
them around to sell, and had for their
‘Here's your old Abe, 'll look better |
ta
Siovernor Seymony, among
Sift that draft be suspended
until the United States Supreme court
had decided as to the constitutionality of |
the draft law; and he told me a funny
story about a Boston minister who had |
been drafted, and the criticism that he |
made upon that method of recruiting the |
army. He then mentioned t say- |
duri
the riots in New York. in whch the In
, as follows:
t is said that General trick is go-
ing to New York to the riots, but
that his name has to do with it.”
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‘time sittin,
1 are you
occasion on which I knew
tain time. Eagerly looking over the map
to see the position of the force under
Burnside’s command, it seemed to him
that the portion referred to was march-
- ing away from instead of to the rescue of
General Rosecrans, as ordered. Mr. Lin-
- coln reread the despatch, thinking there
must be some mistake, and repeated to
7 Jonesboro,
Jonesboro!" and he immediately address-
ed a telegram to Burnside, saying: “If
you are to do any good to Rosecrans it
will not do to waste time with Jonesboro.
It is already too late to do the most good
that might have been done, but I hope it
will still do some good. Please do not
ee wowlatge of ws, Me. 1
ring my Ww of him, Mr. Lin-
coln always dressed in plain black, his
clothes sometimes showing wear. I think
I never saw him wear an overcoat—in-
- stead of that he wore an ample, plain but
peculiarly figured gray shawl, and his
usual way of Sisposing of it as he enter-
ed the office was to hang it across the
top of the inner door, which was nearly
always standing open, so high as to be
out of the reach of a man of ordinary
ight. When sitting at his desk writi
briefly he sometimes assumed a half-
kneeling, half-sitting sture, with one
knee on the carpet. hen composing at
some length it was his habit to look out
of the window and apparently uncon-
sciously scratched his head, particularly
his temples, often moving his lips in
whispers until he had his sentence form-
ed, when he would put it on paper. He
wrote slowly but quite legibly, sail
care to punctuate accurately. His spell-
ing was faultless, which is not true of all
great men, even those of education, and
yet on two or three occasions he asked
me while writing as to the use of one or
two “I's” or “i's.” He rarely erased or
underlined, and his diction, so peculiar to
himself, always seemed to me the perfec-
tion of plain, simple English. He some-
times read aloud, and on one occasion I
remember his reading to me at some
length, rather slowly and thoughtfully,
purposely mispronouncing certain
words, placing the accent on the wrong
syllable and the like. He was at this
ite me beside the large
table on which I was writi his chair
leaned back against the 1, his legs
crossed, one foot esting upon the round
of his chair and the other in
space. During this reading he
people |
angrily asked the traveler. |
I passing |
are shouting hello?" re-
iate.
FROM LINCOLN'S GRAVE.
He was the Southern mother leaning forth,
At dead of night to hear the cannon roar,
Beseeching God to tum the cruel North
: And break it that her son might come once
i more;
He was New England's maiden, pale and pure,
Whose gallant lover fell on Shiloh’s plain;
He was the mangled body of the dead:
He writhing did endure
Wounds and disfigurement and racking pain.
Gangrene ‘and amputation, all things dread.
He was the North, the South, the East, the
West,
The thrall. the master, all of us in one:
There was no section that he held the best:
His love shone as impartial as the sun:
And so revenge appealed to him in vain,
He smiled at it, as at a thing forlorn,
And gently put it from him, rose and stood
A moment's space in pain,
Remembering the prairies and the corn
And the glad voices of the field and wood.
——— a —_——
If You Are Born in February.
You have reason to be interested
| in this, the shortest month of the year, if
it happens tobe your birth month.
February was one of the two months
which the Emperor Numa added to the
{ calendar 713 B. C. The name February
comes from the Latin word Februarius,
meaning to expiate, because at this sea-
son the Romans celebrated the festival of
| expiation.
old Anglo-Saxons called it "Sprout-
. kale monath,” as the cabbages sprouted
at this time. It was later ‘named “Sol
| monath”—sun month.
on te dng 0 on fish which
iacal or Fel , into wi
sign the sun moves on the nineteenth of
the month. The sun is in the sign Aqua-
rius from the first to the nineteenth. Both
signs are said to influence you, chiefly the
sigh prominent at the date of birth.
f you were born between the first and
the twentieth of the month you will be
blessed with strong common-sense, keen
| perceptions, versatility, conservatism and
. remarkable executive ability. If your
birthday occurs between the nineteenth
and the end of the month you are, so the
wise oracles say, promised, in addition, an
. extremely poetic temperament. You will
* be thoughtful and studious, conscientious
| and faithful to duty, kind, but very obsti-
| nate in holding to your own opinions and
| economical to a fault.
i February's birthstone is the Jnethyst,
{ which signifies power of deep love. t
, me repeat a comforting little verse about
' the amethyst:
“The February-born shall find
Serenity and peace of mind,
Freedom form anger and from care,
i If they an amethyst shall wear.”
The February flower is the primrose.
| It means sadness.
| February is the favorite marriage month
lin Italy; the first, third, nineteenth and
| twenty-first being especially favorable for
| tying the knot. You are warned, how-
| ever, that you will he tempting Fate if
{ you choose the eleventh of February for
yor eling day. 1 littl if
i ere is a c| ul little prophecy if you
{ Dave already chosen a 3 wedding
| day:
| “Married in February's sleety weather
Life you'll tread in tune together.”
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occasionally to remark u the subject February has some unlucky da i
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of ie, foals ay detailed descr I of | in all: the eighth, tenth, seventeenth,
| member was upon the meagreness of ad- | tWenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and
jectives in the la to express the
different degrees of feeling and action.— |
By Albert B. Chandler.
Nicknames of Our States and Towns.
Yankee humor and high-flown oratory
! are ible for the most of the nick- | February
names which the States and many of
the cities in the United States have come
to be known. As these nicknames are
frequently encountered by readers, it may
be just as well to recognize the fact that
a knowledge of them is more ‘or less of a
necessity. For this reason the accom-
panying list is given.
STATES.
Virginia, the Old Dominion.
Massachusetts, the Bay State.
Maine, the Border State.
New Orleans, the Crescent City.
Washington, the City of Magnificent
Distances.
She C4 A ts.
Cleveland, orest A
Pittsburg, the Smoky City.
ee Cats OF Bins.
Indianapetis, the Railroad City.
St. the Monud City.
Keokuk, the Gate City.
Nashellis” the Gis. of Be
Hannibal, the Bluff City.
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{ally u . quaint proverb says,
' regarding February weather:
: “All the months in the year
i Despise a fair Februeer,”
| IF YOU WERE BORN ON ONE OF THESE DAYS
If your birthday falls on the first of
so does that of Victor Herbert,
the composer, in 1859. The Federal Con-
abolished slavery in the United
tes on the first, in 1865.
| If your birthday falls on the third that
was the birthday of M hn, who
was born on the third, in 1809,and Horace
Greeley on this day, in 1811. The fifth
| was the date of the birth of Ole Bull, the
| famous violinist, in 1810. The
| Jocdy was also born on the fifth, in
Were you born on the sixth of Febru-
ary? So was Sir Henry Irving, in 1838.
President Filmore was born on the
seventh, in 1800, and Charles Dickens on
this day, 1812. Was the eighth your birth-
day? It was also the birthday of John
Ruskin, in 1819, and of General William
T: in 1820. President William
H was born on the ninth,
United States is said to date from this
it
twenty
, was born on the twenty nin.h,
ist | that shows
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
‘In planning to \Sateriain on S Valen-
tine's y or ington's Birthday,
| there are many clever ideas which may
| be carried out successfully and with lit-
' tle expense, if the hostess is willing to
exercise her brain and hands.
a popular mode of entertainment and the
table decorations, place cards, etc., may
all be fashioned at home by deft fingers,
and the dishes served bear some resem.
, blance to the significance of the day, mak-
ing it most interesting and pleasurable.
. A luncheon on St. Valentine’s Day can
be most daintly ar The center-
piece may consist of a -shaped wire
| frame, artistically banked with red carna-
i tions and green foliage forming
+ The most iate place cards
‘ be the a: dainty lace
desired
. tines, or if these are not heavy
red cardboard may be cutin heart-shapes
. and some clever verse and each guest's
{ name written in white on them. Little
; cupids can be put on these heart-shaped
| cards with
{ heart on which is written
| name. If candelabra or electroliers
| used, shades of red with a fringe of
i hearts attached to the shades with
iri are most effective and are very
i made. With the following menu
NS: Bar
: typical o y. For i
| cream of beet sou is ved and the crou-
; tons cut in heart-shapes, thus giving the
| desired shape and color. Currant, .
berry, or strawberry jelly can be
in the shape of a heart by a cooky cut-
ter. The breast of chicken may be
i 30 lock like a heart if it is cut in front of
| ngs down to a point, in place
| straight through the breast. The French
fried potatoes cut in heart-shapes, in
place of strips. Cran jelly molded
{in a heart-shrped mold wi
{laid flat around the
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| the scheme of the day and make a lunch-
| eon most successful.
i ST. VALENTINE'S MENU.
Oysters on the half shell, Cream of beet soup
| "Stuffed Olives. , Salted Almonds and
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Breast of Chicken
French Fried Potatoes, Peas, Cranberry Jelle
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Strawberry Cream, St. Valentine's Layer Cake
Demitasse
St. Valentine's Cake.—~Make a layer
cake and fill the first layer with chocolate,
the second with white and the top and
sides with deep pink. In the center put
a cupid with his bow extended and from
the bow carry lines of red ribbon to the
edge of the cake and attach it to the cake
by his darts piercing a tiny heart. Serve
on a piece of cardboard cut in the shape
of a heart and dot small candy hearts all
{ around the sides of the cake.
| While the shops are full of quaint and
novel valentines, the girl with clever
| fingers can make many a pretty token,
quite inexpensively, at home. Beginning
with the lowest card of the left side, the
ictures are: Painted card with automo-
ile lamps in a heat, "to my auto girl;"”
unique souvenir on which is pasted a bit
of court-plaster and above it the inscrip-
tion, "I will stick to you when others cut
you;"” a pretty little place-card with a call
to good cheer; a hand-painted valentine
with a tulip in colors, and the lover's
declaration that this is his varie flower;
a heart-shaped needle-case, with an emery
bag attached; an attractive dinner card
Cupid piercing someone's
heart; and a mocking little valentine that
Secuges miladi of being “the eternal ques-
An old-fashioned leap-year masquerade
would be good for Solebrating the birth-
day of Saint Valentine. out t
little invitations written in old on
folded parchment paper; The
curious extract, wi I once stum
across, could be stiffly inserted in the in-
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