piiospice.
Fear deaf h f to feci the fog In tny throat,
The mint In my face,
When the snows begin, and the blast denote
I nm nearlng the place. '
The power of the night, the prensof the storm.
The pout of the foe,
Where he stands the Arch Fear In a visluie
form ?
Tel the strong man must go
For the Journey Is done and the summit nt
talned
And the harriers fall.
Though a battle to fight ere the guerdon be
gained.
The reward of It all 1
I was ever a fighter, so one fight more,
The best and the last t
I would hate that death bandagod my eyes and
forebore.
And bade me creep past.
Ho t let me taste the whole of It, fare like my
peers.
The heroes of old,
Bear the brant, In a minute pay glad life's ar
rears Of pain, darkness, and cold,
For sudden the worst turns the best to the
brave,
1 The black minute's at end.
And the element rage, the fiend Voices that
rave,
Shall dwindle and blend.
Shall change, shall become first a peace ont of
pain,
' Then a light, then thy breast,
0 thou soul of my soul 1 1 shall clasp thee
again,
1 And with God be the rest I
i Robert Browning. J
i 1
BITTER BUT WHOLESOME.
Mrs. Hale had left the outside door
slightly ajar. From behind the folds of
the library portiere came the Bounds of a
conversation Katherine could hardly
have avoided hearing,
"I don't see how, with hia fastidious
ness, he can endure boarding there," said
Mildred.
"What I fail to understand is how,
with her intellect, she can forego neat
ness to the degree she does," added May.
"Katherine is a good cook," Mildred
continued. "At least the results of her
efforts in the culinary line taste well.
One who knows Katherine, however,
feels a trifle uncertain concerning the
possible stage an article may have passed
through before reaching the table an
entity. "
Another voice with a pained sensa
tion Katherine recognized it as that of
Helen Armour, the Hale girl's guest
interposed :
"Now do you know, girls, I don't be
lieve I've given a thought to her looks
since our first meeting. Don't you think
her very entertaining? It seems to me
she remembers everything she has ever
read. How at home she was among
those forei.irn photographs I brought yout
There doesn't appear to be a topic of the
day that she isn't familiar with. Don't
you remember how delightfully willing
she was to wit down and play us that
Schubert air we were discussing? I
thought her just charming. "
"So she is, tiit way," exclaimed Mil
dred. "Most of the time even I forget
the rest. Perhaps that accounts for Dr.
Neale's long stay. Her merits dim her
faults."
"But didn't she look extremely untidy
coming up the walk just now? I couldn't
help speaking plainly. I hope you won't
think us too critical of our friend, Helen.
Her heart is all right. " ,
"That's so," said May Hale, "Kath
erine is true blue. We are very fond of
her, indeed, Helen. "
Katherine Orr Btood waiting quietly on
the side steps, when Mrs. Hale brought
her the recipe she had run over to bor
row. She took the paper absently, and
hurried through the gate in the fence
dividing the two homesteads.
"So that's what they think of me,"
she pondered, mechanically taking off
the shabby hat she wore, and idly whirl
ing it in her hand, as she swayed back
and forth in the old kitchen rocker. ,
Katherine Orr was a clear headed
young woman, and always weighed
things. As her friends declared, it was
strange that, being so well balanced, she
seemed unable to discern her greatest de
fect. But now she had begun to think.
"Is this true ?" she deprecatingly ques
tioned. As she glanced with critical eye
about the sunny kitchen she beheld af
firmative evidence of her friends' words.
The hard pine floor needed a thorough
oiling, "the windows showing decided
lack of care, the rusty iron sink and tho
copper pump mottled with green, as
sumed new aspects in Katherine's
quickened sight.
She sighed as she turned from tho
room to herself. The indigo blue wrap
per spotted with dust and water, the
dingy hands, the long, irregular line of
black showing on her arm as the looso
sleeve was pushed up, were all silent but
eloqueut messengers to Katherine's
thought
There was no doubt that she had a
fault that needed eradicating. But a
general overturn meant endless talk and
wonder among those very friends who
most eagerly desired such a change. The
untidy habits had grown upon her slowly.
In the same almost imperceptible man
ner they must be put away.
She could understand now why it waa
that the one boarder she wished to keep
to eke out her own and her invalid
mother's small income was always in a
state of going.
The Orr homestead, with its green
lawn, its wide veranda, its large, sunny
rooms, seemed a delightful abode,
scanned superficially j but there was an
atmosphere about it that proved un
healthful to every new comer. Kath
erine felt the oppressiveness of it to-day.
As boy and girl, Katherine Orr and
Donald Neale had fought against each
other for first rank at school. Which
ever won, the other took the defeat good
naturedly. '
It was a great disappointment to them
both when Donald joined the freshman
class at Harvard, that the death of Kath
enne's father left her without sufficient
means to enter the Annex. j
Katherine bore the deprivation bravely,
determined that if not by one way then
by another she would match Donald's
attainment. Well, she had succeeded
in part, but had it not been at a cost?
She had neglected her housework and
disregarded her appearance, to study,
think, and write. She was what the
world calls a cultured woman. Was she,
in truth, a refined one? Katherine had
courage to answer that question aright
She saw "the little rift within the lutn."
It is not necessary to enter into a mi-'
nute account of KatherinA Oit's reform.
In the dark, unseen corners of her home
she begun. Day after day, week after
week, she worked. For ono pair of
hands it was a long, laborious process to
renovate the old house. Soap, sand,
water, and a willing disposition can work
wonders, however. Attention to details
at the start saved many a tired feeling
later.
Plenty of baths ami fresh air could not
fail to produce their beautifying bodily
effects. A ready needlo and a washtub
are valuable factors in keeping one's
working apparel in presentable condition.
It was a long time years before she
could say confidently there had been a
complete change, or feel assured there,
were no reasonable grounds of criticism
in her regime.
Three years later Helen Armour was
again at her friends', the Hales.
-Oh Mildred! who is that splendid
looking woman coming un the walk?"
she eagerly asked, the morning after her
arrival.
"That? That's Katherine Orr Kath
erine Neale, I mean. You remember
her, don't you?"
"Katherine Orr i Whv. ves. I remem
ber her well; but hasn't she changed
greatly ?" Helen doubtfully replied :
"Chanced? Perhans: I haven't thoiiirht
about it. We see her daily, you know.
I'ossioiy you notice more. "
"She certainly has chamrod. and for
the better," Helen emphatically respond
ed. -Ana so she really married that nice
Dr. Neale?"
"Of course." exclaimed Mav half in
dignantly. "We always knew she
would."
"Did you? Whv. I thoucht " hut on
consideration Helen kept her thought to
Herself.
"Who wants an invitation to 'a feast
of reason and a flow of soul?1 In other
words, who wishes to take tea with the-
Neales to-morrow night?" Katherine
gaily queried, as she came into the
library.
Helen came forward to shake hands
cordially. "From my remembrance of
other feasts of reason. I. for onn. shall
strain every nerve to be there," she
merrily saia.
"Tea? Tea at Katherine's? That
means Nectar! Ambrosia! Olympus!"
May melodramatically interrupted.
"We'll wash the dishes, Katherine," she
added in a stage whisper.
"Id like to see vour vandal hands laid
on Katherine Neale's dishes, May Hale.
You know you'd never do them to suit
her. She's very particular, that Kather
ine rseale, Mildred explained to Helen.
fvatnenne s eyes shone.
"You made me so, girls," she said.
"We? Now what do you mean Kath
erine?" i
Katherine told them of the conversa
tion she heard so long ago.
' "It was hard discipline, girls, but it
did me good. The medicine was bitter
but wholeaome. "
Helen leaned forward and touched
Katherine's hand caressingly. "'We
rise by the things that are under our
ieet, she gently quoted. ' ' '
"Hut, oh, Katheilne" cried Mildred.
"it was cruel of us. SVe would not say
such a thing now. " :
" lou could not, truly," was the quiet
response. And Katherine was, as she
felt, mistress of the situation. Martha
Fairbanks Blanchard.
Amateur Photography. ''
A photographer who has been in busi
ness for many years was asked recently
if the numerous amateurs engaged in his
line of work had diminished the number
of his patrons. He replied: "No; I do
not believe it has. While the outfits
which are furnished at such low prices
are capable of producing very fair work,
yet the services of a person skilled in the
art are necessary to insure the best re
sults, and photographers earn consider
able money by completing the work
which the amateurs have begun. The
majority of these amateurs are attracted
at the outset by the novelty of the work.
and look upon it for awhile as a pastime,
but most of them soon tire of it, espe
cially after some of their unsuccessful at
tempts to produce good work have been
ridiculed by their friends. The numer
ous labor saving inventions which havo
been brought out by the large demand for
inexpensive apparatus has had the effect
of materially reducing the cost to the
professional photographer, and lias thus
been of substantial benefit to those who
depend upon their skill in the art for a
livelihood. "
Flowers Food.
Not only rose leaves and violets, but
nasturtiums and other flowers, are now
candied and eaten.
These flower eaters call themselves au-
thophagists a word 'which certainly
must not be conrounded with anthropo
phagists, since that means cannibals.
" Anthophagist" is derived from the
Greek words anthos, a flower, and pha-
gein, to eat.
Although violets as a confectionery and
a table delicacy are something compara
tively new, it is really not a new thing to
eat flowers in some shape. The cabbage
13 really only a splendid flower, and the
cauliflower is not misnamed. It is an in
florescence or blossoming which has
thickened into a sort of fleshy head.
The blossom of the artichoke has often
been used as a food. In France the yel
low water lilly and the blossoms of the
locust have long been used as food.
f lowers, it is said, are, when eaten.
generally wholesome as well as agree
able, Youth's Companion.
There is a new pen in the market that
with one dip will pick up enough ink to
write 300 words, It is not a fountain
pen. Philadelphia Record,
Small Prollft. DlW Clerk f to atrnntrArl
What do you wish, sir ? Stranger I
wish you 'good morning,' sir. Where is
your directory?
Professor Harriet Cooke, of the Chair
of History in Cornell, has taught in that
college 83 years, and has equal salary
with the men professors.
TUB CZAlt'S MTIOT VROtfT CAR.
How the F.mjteror of Rnssla Travels
Among Ills Loving annjeetn.
When the cwir travels in Russia the
precautious taken for his safety could
not be greater if he were in the enemy's
country, writes a foreign correspondent.
A battalion of infantry is detailed for
every two miles of distance, and allowing
BOO men as the effective force of each bat
talion, every spot of ground on both
sides of the track is covered by sentinels
within easy distance of each other. The
czar is suddenly whirled off to the station
Accompanied by a chosen twelve of his
bodyguard, without pomp or circum
stance, swiftly and silently. The cr.ar
always travels in a train of five carriages.
Hi carriage is built in a peculiarstyle.
The windows, while ample for light,
are high, so that a person sitting down
is invisible from the outside, and the
sides of the car are fortified with plates
of steel concealed in the ornamental
woodwork, but amply strong to resist a
bullet. There are two sentry boxes in
the carriage, on at each end and each
looking out at an opoosite side from the
other. The guardsmen on duty in these
apartments are shut in from any obser
vation of the interior of the carriage, but
at intervals of about two feet, the whole
length of the saloon, are electric buttons
oommunlcatingwith the guard chambers,
as well as with the two carriages, one
containing the suite, and the other, in the
rear, occupied by the guardsmen not on
duty.' So far, therefore, as the train itself
is concerned, the czar could be no more
secure in St. Petersburg.
The train speeds along to its destination
without a halt, except on account of
accident. At a distance of not less than
five miles ahead is a pioneer train, in
which the imperial director of railways
and the chief engineer of the particular
railway on which the czar is traveling,
always ride. As the pilot train whizzes
by the reserves along the line rush to
arms and guard the sides of the railway,
waiting until the imperial train has
passed, so that the spectacle is present of
continuous lines of soldiery for hundreds
of miles. Arrived at the end of his jour
ney, the czar is escorted to the quarters
intended for the imperial family.
The streets are guarded by special con
stables, in the attire of citizens. Evory
property holder has been called upon to
supply one or more of these men at his
own expense to do duty when the sov- I
ereign makes a public appearance. The
constables average one in ten of the
crowd that throngs the streets, and being
in ordinary dress, they can mingle with
the people, note what is said, and per
haps do something that will obtain them
regular employment among the secret
police. With one-tenth the population
engaged as spies upon the remainder,
with troops enough concentrated to stand
a formidable siege, and his faithful
guardsmen dogging every step, the czar
goes through the forms of a visit to the
ancient capital of Russia, or whatever
city he may choose to honor.
Educated for Matrimony.
Among the graduates of the year one
brave young woman has completed a
course frankly taken in preparation for
matrimony. Like many girls who make
society amusements their chief existence,
this young woman did nut realize the de
ficiencies in her education until she had
won the friendship and love of one who
was her superior in intellectual acquire
ments. With the realization of her igno
rance came tho determination to study
for self improvement. Entering as a
pupil at a well known school for girls she
took courses in literature, philosophy, and
other studies, which would enable her to
write and speak with accuracy and would
teach her the best methods of thought.
She eutered classes of political economy
and studied the newspapers under com
petent direction. Urgirg her teachers to
correct all imperfections in her speech
and manner, she made constant effort to
attain the standard which might bring
her nearer to an equality with her future
husband. The struggle was not easy.
There were trials of prido in studying
with girls of a more youthful age ; there
were many moments of mortification
from the exposure of her ignorance.
Determination to succeed won its
usual rewards. The young society
girl, whose bright mind liad been
eclipsed by the routine of pleasure,
became renowned in the school as ono of
the most earnest and satisfactory pupils.
When she graduated this year into the
refined home that has been in preparation
for her she will meet her husband upon
an equality, and entertain his friends
with a feeliug of cheerful confidence.
She says that the whole world seems
more stable since she has been sure that
ner sentences are grammatical and her
pronunciation according to the best
authorities. Boston Journal.
How Certain Flabes Eat.
The carp carries his teeth back in his
throat, so that when he has a sore throat
he does not know whether to send for the
doctor or the dentist.
The horseshoo crab chews its food with
its legs, which is a very curious tiling
wen for a crab to do, while the oyster
feeds with its beard.
The jelly fish hasn't any teeth, but
uses himself just as if he were a piece of
paper when he is hungry, getting his
food and then wrapping himself about it.
The starfish, on the contrary, turns
himself inside out and wraps his food
around him, and stays that way until he
has had enough. Harper's Young Peo
ple. An Aluminium Boat.
An aluminium boat, propelled by elec
tricity from an aluminium battery, is
being constructed by the inventor, D. J,
Cable, of Pittsburg, Pa. The battery,
Mr. Cable says, will weigh but a couple
of pounds, and will be sufficient to pro
duce the power necessary for running a
pleasure boat of good size. A boat of
this metal capable of carrying from four
to six persons can be made of a weight
not exceeding 00 or 70 pounds, and
would be very easily handled.. Mr.
Cable states that he has found means of
overcoming the great difficulty alumin
ium presents to soldering.
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successfully.
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