cm —————————————————————— A Sleepy Little School. A funny old professor kept a school for little MOVE, And he'd romp with them in playtime, and he wouldn't mind their noise; While in his little schoolroom, with its head against the wall, Was a bed of such proportions it was big enough for all, “It's for tired little pupils,” he explained, “for you will find How very wrong indeed it is to force » budding mind; henever one grows sleepy and he can't hold up his head, e him lay his primer down and send him off to bed! And sometimes it will happen ona warm and pleasant day, When the little birds upon the trees looral-lay, When wide-awake and studious it's difficult to Keen, One by om they'll get a nodding till the w hole class is asleep! Then before they're all in dreamland and thelr funny snores begin, 1 close the shutters softly so come in: After which I put the school books in their order on the shelf, And with nothing else to do, I take a little nap myself!” -— Malcolm Douglass, in 8t. Nicholas. go tooral- the sunlight can't THE LADY WITH THE IRON BRACELET. Hinton took the tickets as the train was running into the station; In hastily snatching up the change a half sover- eign slipped from his fingers. It took us a couple of minutes to find it, and then the train was lost, “Three-quarters of an hour to vait in this hole,” Hinton groaned. ‘‘Better walk over the hills to Chorley. The train is due there at 9.15; we can do it easily.” We did it a little too easily; the train was in sight before we reached Chor- lev. We leapt over the railings and ran along the line; the train passed us at the signal box and we overtook it as it came to a stop, The last carnage was a third class; a young lady leaning through the oper window of the end compartment, looked towards us anxiously. ‘“‘Will you be good enough to open the door,” she asked, as we drew near. We both stopped. Hinton brushed past me to tender the service; he was youn- an I, his gallantry was boundless © present appeal to it was made me of singularly prepossessing appearance, 1 that smiled down on us, showing a lon ling teeth, a white, sensitiv fi rehead, gray eyes, ymmon fig y qn the door tiess taste, ing alone at this early hour. She stood at the open door in emba i charm extend to I= ent to her rassment Ww ae + T} face, did not dd ge, ill 1 ¢ depth to the ground + was considerable, Lhe She put out one neatly-booted foot and the time she drew kept her hands close it back hastily; ail in her With a faint tinge of color in her pale cheek. and her fine eyes twinkling with vexation, she said: hurt my hands; they are useless,’ In a moment we were on the foot- board, one on each side, helping her to descend, As I glanced along her arm I cgught the glimpse of a blueish-blac] metal inside her sealskin muff, wore an iron bracelet! Was it an eccen- tricity of fashion, ance, I wondered. It was to Hinton she smiled her sweetest acknowledgment, and when in She rested last and longest upon him, with an elastic, graceful step, “Now then, sir, are you going on?" called the guard, with raised, At that moment the young lady hair. It was an invitation that cept. “I shall come on by the next train, Jack,” said be, and started at once to rejoin the fascinating lady. The guard blew his whistle, and I stepped up mechanically into the car. riage, closing the door, and never losing the iron bracelet. He had his hat off, and was speaking to her as the train whisked me by. They were both so pleasantly occupied with each other shat they took no notice of me. I con. tinued to watch them until the train was out of the station, and then I sat down and glanced around to see if there were any other occupants of the com- partment, Good God! what was this at the other end, half on the ground, half on the seat. I started to my feet and drew near the dark mass, with growing terror as 1 perceived that it was a police officer who lay huddled together with one shoulder on the seat, and his head dropped down upon his breast. His helmet had dropped off; when I raised his face I found it perfectly colorless; only the white of his eyes was visible through the half-closed lids, There was no sign of any wound, no blood upon his hands or face, A white hand. * "oe ooo kerchief lay upon the seat. It seemed to me that the man had suddenly fain. ted, I tried to raise him from his su- pine position, but the dead weight, he was a large man, was more than I could manage, The carriage was open from end to end —the compartments divided simply by backs. There was only one other traveler in the carriage—a navy in the next but one compartment, with his back to me, and his head was out of the window that the short black pipe he was smoking might not be objected to. “Come over and help me,” I called, “There's a policeman lying here— dead.” “Nought me,” he said, his face set- tling with an expression of dogged ob- jection, *‘1 ain't goin’ to have no truck wi’ no dead p’licemans, no fear. I'm a po’r man, I am, and they'd have me off to the station 'us soon’s look at me if I get messin’ myself up in that job, no fear,” and with that he turned his back on me and sat down in an at- titude of determined neutrality. I made what effort 1 could to reswre life to the dead man, to call the atten- purpose. The train was express to London, and alone with my ghastly fellow-passenger I had to await the end of the journey. salled loudly to a porter on the plat- form, minutes to overccme his astonishment, minutes for assistance. Three of policemen. man in such ils that attend the poor While they man on to the platform th came over, After he had brief explanation he took book and pencil, saying he mus my name and added were getting the dead @¢ inspector heard note- t have them, 1 “1 found dur- s+ hig out his and a fdress, that I was to gave be partment. The 1 “He was right, to detain him, the loss of nspector smiled have been perh couldn't let iin O with | Lame However, there's and most lik AT ee ana sign of Say ‘hat will t you will address, no it you violence, ely wh about heart disease is right, thank do, sir, you, I exix be summoned to attend the The platform was empty; the ticket inquest, IP) had come up again to satisfy his curiosity. As I was going away he said: “Your ticket, sir.” collector corner by the barrier I saw him show. ing 1t to the inspector. IL My friend Hinton, on coming up to “I have ventured to follow you with the hope that I may continue “It is precisely for that reason that 1 found courage to—to look back,” she “I felt sure that you would not misunderstand my motive.” “Only tell me how I may serve you.” “I am ashamed to tell you that 1 have ticket and I cannot get at my purse,’ she explained, blushing and smiling at the same time, ‘‘and if you would kindly get we some sort of con- veyance-"’ Hinton paid her fare; she said she came from Overbury—gave up his own unused ticket and opened the door of a flv that stood outside the station. When she was seated she drew herself (o the side, holding her winsome head a little on one side and smiling an iuvitation, Hinton took the vacant place by her side in a twinkling. “Where do you want to go?"’he asked, “Where are you going?’ she asked in reply. “I have to go to the city.” “Then I want to go to the city, too.” “City,” said Hinton to the driver. “I must show you something,” she said, when the fly was rattling along, She raised her muff from her Knees and added: *‘Slip my muff up wy ana.’ “1 shall pot hurt your hands?” he asked, with tender anxiety. She laughed and shook her head, Then, very gently, he moved her muff and, uncovering her hands, started back in horrified astonishment, The small white wrists were manacled to. gether with a pair of iron handcuffs, “Good God! what does this mean?” he exclaimed, “Press the spring you see there and I will tell you,” He pressed the spring and the band- cuffs dropped off in Lier lap. “Late last evening, as I was leaving a friend’s house, 1 was arrested, The last train tp London was gone. 1 was taken to sn mn and confined there, This morning the policeman put those things on my wrists and led me to the railway station. In the carriage where you found the me the policeman fell asleep; when we stopped at that station I saw my chance to escape and, thanks to your help, I am here,” “But why were you arrested?’ asked Hinton, 11 wonder, “Oh, I cannot teil you that,”’ she plied, covering her face with her hands; “not yet later on, if I may hope to gain your friendship and confidence, I may unburden my beart of Its secret. But look In my face'’—she uncovered It and, laying her hand on Hinton's arm, offered her charming face to his exam inotion., *‘Look aud tell me if you can find there the sign of a crime that should be punished with this shame." Hinton looked in that face and vowed he saw there nothing but suffer- ing, love and innocence, I11. My gushing voung friend had got as far as this in kis narrative when the hall porter ushered into our sanctum my old friend Kennet, a clear-headed, far-sighted lawyer, “Now, young fellows,’' he began, brasquely, **1've come to get you out of a mess if I can, I must Know all about the affair in which you fig- ured this morning. I'll hear your ac- re- you I told him my story asl have writ- His first me: : any one forward to got nto train Chorley, and not at Stevepham?"’ After taxing our full Hinton and 1 sion that we could not find a witness to prove The had elozed the ticket-box the moment after giving Hinton 1 leading on to Lhe question “Can you bring prove that you the recollection the eonclu- came to this, station-master change; the : 1 i platform was locked when we reached it; : at Chorley we had os ' wl? y the guard's van We + 4 gasped “38 4 nal QING | the dead man is { urated with “rool think we carry chlor **You are medical students, Hinton and I blank bewildes “(Of course ’ looked at each ment. you don't believe hie young lady committed the murder,’ addressing Hinton, How on earth is suc! ble? She had hes and a muff on her hands, “80 much the i a thing possi. Wrists i worse for you. The innocence, but that counts for nothing. Your fate will be decided by a jury and not by me. Now what the evidence that will be laid them? One of you is found in a third. venham, the station at which prisoner, The other young man gels Chorley, pays her fare and whisks her out of the way in a fly. medical students, What sumption? That you, seeing this at- class carriage by a policeman at Steven- haw, got Into the same carriage with her, The young woman fascinates you and excites your sympathy. On ing Chorley the policeman dozes and one of you, intending possibly, only to prolong his sleep, applies chloroform, The effect is more serious than yoa ex- pected, and while one saves the young lady the other remains with the police. man to use such means of restoring him to life as your practical experience sug- gests, Well, upon my honor, such evi dence as that is bound to convict you, However, you had better let me see this youug woman at once, If we can prove hier guilt your acquittal is assured.” “Then you shall not see that young lady,” cried Hinton, in a fierce fury. “Good God, sir, if you think I'm going to get out of the difficulty by shifting my responsibility on to the shoulders of a woman you are most damnably in error,” “Then you may prepare for twenty years of penal servitude,” said Kennet, brutally, IV, In all probability he should have got the punishment Kennet prophesied but for an event that never entered into our ealeulations, The young lady with the iron brace- let had assured Hinton that In three days or four at the outside she could clear her character if only she was ge- cured from reapprehension in the in terval, The infatuated young man sent her to his mother at St. Albans with a touching letter that appealed to the old lady’s sympathy—of courze she regarded her son as faultless things, The young lady was treated as an honored guest. The first thing she did was to send telegrams to two foends in all in London. When the servant came down in the merning they found the street door, which had been carefully bolted over night, open and the plate gone, Later on they found that the lady with the iron bracelet was missing also, In the evening a man was arrested on suspicion of having committed the burglary. At the examination 1 iden- tified him as the navy 1 had seen In the tion with a young able exterior and prepossessiog ‘ 11 { “young A: fe VEn- burglaries for which the male’ had ham, The lady the bracelet still at large, and trus 1y Hinton her nothing has cured him of his folly In regarding her as the hapless victim of bet t been apprehended at ! with is friend 866 again, for may never i a diabolical conspiracy. —————— A Bit of History. History makes many mistakes in the 1 4 1 3 l & 2 . appointment of its titles of distinction, 4 | Nothing could be more erroneous than 3 that the monarchy in | the assumption establishment | of absolute France was {f Cardipal Riel | the creation of | plemented by Louis XIV. Aune daughter of Philip 111, king and queen of Louis XVIL a read ¢ aruiuce of really belongs Lo i Ly Lhe s consort of compli fread ANAL 5% OF ag greal revolution rity vear The recent rground rivers of the contine i a greater alty of Australia has al- land will wopulation. These that fear, 1 he volumes of rain ar that the re i dispel discove It now appears that which fall about once in five years over the greater part of the Australian con- | tinent, covering with floods the island 3 3 § runs | which for four not known ars previously have moisture han might be given in fall of | dew, find their way through the porous La England by a good soils into channels and chambers be- neath the surface, one or two thousand feet, the of the vy provide le st mos kn Austra it impossible to say at | an inexhaustib sre | cious commodity swt to the | lian squatter. It i | present how the use of these under- ground supplies of water may change | the face of the Australian | called Kerribree, has already | channel of soveral feet | the sand, and now forms a permanent | river of several miles in length in what try. It is only to be expected that as by evaporation and the rainfall will in- crease, Then, with regular rainfalland inexhaustible tanks and creeks, even the Australian squstter might begin to be contented. ———— A Coal at Hand. A man naiteed Shafer, living near Wilkesbarye, probably has the deepest cellar in Philadelphia. The bottom fell out of his old cellar a few days ago, and his house now stands over an old mine, While there may be some dif- ficulty in getting the coal into his Kiseioh he cannot complain of scarcity of fue Lass AIS SI 555 Prayer strengthens the spirit for its conflict with the tem of the world, helps in keeping the eyes of the soul open to the Spins) ventures that we are in danger orgetti in the midst of the toll and turmoil of this life, and sharpens the spiritual and mor- al instincts, that often get rusty for want of use, THE SPIDER'S WEE. An Interesting account of How it is Woven. Prof. Clayes has recently been telling the readers of the Swiss Cross how that wonderful little animal, the is all so full of inter. spider, gpins her web, It First, our spider begins to draw from ut her spi a til wt vat @ of SLA LIUE BS rd of as spinneret a many of seem to her good, and 3 leaf af MEAL, it tuo some or twig. then g 11 runs on another pinning ail tix while; {: other and is formed wens again to that, and to an- another. continuing until a inclosing as large a for the Then she work, circle space as she designs outer Lier web, back and forth over and boundary of passes het adding strengthen 8 fresh threads; ig this which to every outer line, she secures POSEIDIK One CL. "inally she stops, fastens hel hh special care and begins to ru she = Oh but now carrying fully raised i ye $ ¥ 0 marvel The spider It grows a longer and jonger thread; until it is carried by obiect, of ter some current against an at a surprising distance, to which it taches itself, the quite strong enough to serve pass at its pleasure. Indeed, in the tropics spiders’ webs are found of gigantic size, rOmeLimes even si r streams; and of a strength so great that humming birds are caught and held by own land. Look Before You Drink. The shocking mistake made by a Reading woman who swallowed crystal- that it was a dose of epsom salts, has Hardly a week passes that the newspapers do not chronicle To take medicine without looking at the label on the bottle, or to drink from a bottle or a glass in a dark room, is like trifling with death, and while some are fortun- ale enough to avoid a fatal error many become victims of their own heedless- ness. Unfortunately the sufferers fail to serve as a warning to their careless fellow creatures, Like the woman who continues to kindle her fire with kero sene because nothing has yet happened to her, the people who swallow supposed medicine blindly will not be frightened by accidents to others because they have never had anything happen to them, and have an idea that escape from the perils of the past furnishes immunity from the dangers of the present, ~{xobelin blue is again very popular, adapted to spirituelle FOOD FOR THOUGHT. There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words We shall escape the uphill by never turning back. People’s intentions can only ed from their conduct, He who is proud of his be ashamed of himself, Wisdom adorneth riches i shadow over poverty, His be decide Your salvation is service your business, As you learn, teach; AS you receive, as y distribute, inthe iti Alle, One is never more on trial than moment of excessive good fort eld for de ind Wit should be used as a fence, rather than uh ii re as a sword to wor others Y 3 14 vadir Wid ave never found ir. enduring vorality ig, enauring moraiisy y feared God, Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with word, When a bad cause is back impudence, it is ofte: i DOIG Hess of Innocens frit us into the other al by great ved to be the t NECPSSATY 10 Ccominun please; and iv applica- from any metrica vhich we derive pleas DOTIOUS exercise ol 11 Many fave wh ravel out for want « unthankfal purchaset] fy Ket p tlic q 3 wal vat WTR QuUr own ITAyer hen, [ere is nothing + t ours than the firs better in this life of consc.ousness of love, fluttering of ils ising sound and breath silken wings, of that sweep through if we must have a col 4 one and one only- he most tact and quickness of appre- Then let us trust him or her It is undoubtedly the sacred pride and obstruct grace and the sweet The more that we let we receive of Himself, Oh, foolish wel that refuse so blessed an exchange, Quaint old Matthew Henry points out that Abrabam’s slaves which ke had gotten in Haran are calied ‘‘souls.’™ In these times servants are called “hands.” A world of difference, Hands—four fingers and a thumb to get as much out of as one can, and to put as little into, from the master’s standpoint, And from the servants'—to pick up as much as they can and to give as little back again, When master and man can find in each other's relationship a soul--then only are the work and wages alike right, Hope is often but a trifler, robbing us of energies and withdrawing us from our work that we may dream. But Christian hope is an armed warrior, grave and calm, ready for conflict, be- cause assured of victory. Our hope, if it be perfect, will “teach our hands to war and our fingers to fight;” will put vigor into us for service; will teach us scorn of all things foul and worldly. It will be as wings to lift us above cares and sorrows, and as weights to keep us down to common tasks, It will make us strong to do and Jeticht 30 sulfet wise to understand will to accept all the will Of our Father God a & % . . wo.
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