rr
The King's Daughter.
Her Father sent hor in his land to dwell.
Giving to her a work that must be done,
Anil, since the King loves all his people well,
Therefore she too cares for them, every one
And when she stoops to lift from want and sin,
The brighter shines her royalty therein.
She walks erect through dangers manifold,
While many sink ani fall on either hand:
She dreads not summer's heat nor winter's cold
For both are subject to the King's command ;
She need not be afraid of anything,
jecause she is the daughter of a King,
E'en when the angel comes that men eall
Death,
And name with terror, it appeals to her:
She turns to welcome him with quickened
breath,
Thinking it is the royal messenger
Her heart sgloices that the Father calls
Her back, tiMiwell within his palace walls,
For though the land she dwells in is most fair,
Set round with streams, a pteture in its frame,
Yet often in her heart deep longings are
For that imperial palace whence she came.
Not perfeet quite seems any earthly thing.
Because she is the daughter of a King.
rs ———— ——————————
BLOTTED OUT.
“Ile isn’t worth a cent in the world,
and he sha’nt have her.”
This is what my husband, Col. Lee,
said to me one morning, as 1 endeav-
the love affair of our only daughter.
§
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eedents It's enough for me to know
that he is a pauper and will always re-
main one. I have fixed the whole mat-
ter for you, and now you've nothing to
do but make love to your mother and
your ugly old father a while, It’ do
just as well, if you've otly a mind to
think 80.”
A few weeks passed, and one evening
I found on my toilet table the following
communication:
“Darling Mother—Don't blame me,
for yo other course was open Lo me,
Would to heaven there had been. I ac-
cidentally heard yesterday that Archi-
bald was very ill. I immediately made
it my business to find out how ill. To
my utter horror and amazement, [ dis-
covered that his physician had ordered
go either to California or
He has an acute bronchcal
which the declares
I found,
was delaying this trip
to
doctor
that he
though I felt that he was utterly in the
dark about the whole matter. No one
did that. I doubt if his opinion
had ever been disputed in
ever
mildly:
“But
wan?"
“His poverty, for the first item,”
answered; “Dut this would
ence me a particle 1f I
what have you against
he
saw any
period of
had gleaned all
hunted up
invalidism, When I
the facts I came home and
but I let the man
we were
must
This morning
did it all
rebelled against the
and by the time you re-
cannot, not,
whole
fairly
earn a respectable living for a family.
Archibald Harris is artist and a
dreamer; and if that
an
like to know what 187”
**Buat, husband’’——
**No buts to me, Effie,
up my mind, That landscape
shall pot have my daughter,
daunber
I realized two thousand
dollars from the sale of my gimecracks,
and this, with what Archie bas, will
do the work, 1 reckon.
If 1
in so
forgive me. had acted in any
other manner
Lee, which looks
pretuly now sandwiched
ne account to mention the
again to me,"
!
my ¢
expected for this
and “*dauber”’
hal been unusually polite,
one;
“dreamer”
ton he had become a constant visi.
r at our house, ard through
strumen tality the young folks had fal.
len in love
That Marion would obey her father 1
d not the slightest doubt. Never in
her life had she given
ha
concern. The giving up would be hard,
1 my heart shrank from
of course, and
the trial the dear child would
be
pelled to meet; but that she would yield
instant submission I
My face must have
story, for she gave me a
Wasi quite sure,
told
keen glance as
I entered her room and said:
“Don’t feel bad about it, wother, 1
was quite sure he would say no,
the whole
By the way, this was the flrst bit of
impudence | known
daughter guilty of toward her father,
hal ever
dear
“Love me and for
mother. I will
our whereabouts,
ing that everything come right
before long, I am yours and dear papa’s
“MARION.”
that followed this, or
pray
keep you
me,
Hoping and believ-
will
Oh, the storm
and nights, and we hardly spoke.
When his rage found words, then he
cursed and left me —cursed
quietly.
“‘He does not like Mr. Harris’ profes-
sion; or, at least, has no confidence in
it as a means of maintenance,”
How very quiet the girl
looked and wondered,
“Does he know anything against Mr,
Harris’ character?’ she resumed.
“Certainly not,” I answered,
think he believes him to be a thorough
was,
$
“You have done this, madam! Youl’
“Now reap
will have
or husband,
house is yours, and you will find your-
—not a cent will you
in dishonoring mel"
"hen the door slammed and I w
of married life,
quarre! followed
Twenty vears
the very first
and
by a
For
daughter,
weeks |
and for
ness to the dregs,
nothing from my
comfort and happiness, ”’
this to father:
loose society man, or a piece of these, 1
will promise never to think
conditions,
] shail share my lover's future with
him, whatever that future may bel”
fa her's consent?”
“Yes, ma'am.”
“And break my heart?”
Marios smiled sadly, and replied:
my husband.
The coloael’s lawyer took charge of
all financial aftairs, and
was strictly attended to,
my comfort
In this re-
with: bat, oh! the utter bleakness and
barrenness of my life! How plainly the
whole past stood out before mel
Daring all the years I had spent with
myself. By entire conformity to bis
wishes and implicit obedience Lo his
will, I had managed never to come in
contact with the angularities of his im-
My love for him had
kept me entirely pas-ive, allowing my
cumstances it is
If
wan 1 think him, I want nothing of
him,
against him I shall marry him, If I
were not to do tins, 1 should be (une
worthy to be your child, because we
love each other.”
“Bus your father will never forgive
you-—never in the whole world’
“Jet him not, then.” she .nter-
rupted, as quietly as before. “That
matter 18 between him and God.”
My daughter was right and my has
band was wrong, | must sympathize
with one honestly aud fully and oppose
the othier—a difficult position, and my
heart failed me at the prospect, The
colonel would, I kuew, continue obdu-
rate, and of course, after the above in-
terview, what else could 1 predict of
Marion?
A day or two after these memorable
interviews we found that Mr, Harris
bad Leen very formally but very politely
req ested to discontinue his visits at
our house,
Grisved at this insult, Marion sought
her father, but the attempt to draw
him lato conversation on the subject
was entirely ineffectusl. He dismissed
Ler «ith this “flew in ber ear,”’ as he
facetiously called it:
“I don't know anything against Har-
ris’ character, and sha’nt trouble my-
self to go round hunting up his ante-
not an honorable one.
were there all the same; and now they
into my soul, The first ray of
light that penetrated my gloomy home
“Io not grieve any more about this
unfortunate Liusiness.’ she wrote, **|
say, do not, because grief is
wicked. You have done no wrong. Let
tliat thought comfort you frst of all;
andithen do try and be hap,y in the
thought of my happiness. Archie is
gaining strength every day—in fact, be
is almost well; and he has received an
order to paint a picture for one of the
w.althiest men in the whole wes, He
is to be paid splendidly for it, and we
are so happy about it and everything
else, God only knows how glad I am
that I went to my husband in bis mise
fortune. He just needed me; and to.
gether, dear mother, we can do any-
thing—-paint pictures, write pooms and
get rich, perhaps; who knows? Father
will come back to you before long, and
we shall evermore be a happy ‘amily. 1
am sure of it.”
Much more my darling wrote, and
every line infused fresh strength and
courage into my veins, At the end of
the year I visited them at their tem.
porary home In California. Orders
for pictures had been crowded upon
Archibald so fast that they had
found it necessary to move tos a
more public part of the city of Fran.
cisco and were then Loarding at a
hotel. One day, rfler diner, Marion,
sach
who had returned from a short shop-
ping excursion, burst into the room
where Archie and 1 sat talking, with a
face as pale as that of a corpse.
“(Come with me, softly,’ said she, in
a whisper, *‘As true as I live, { have
this moment seen father in a room just
down the corridor, The door was open
a way, and, as I passed, I saw him sit-
ting in a chair with his back toward
me?”
“But, perhaps,” 1 answered trem-
blingly, **it may not be he’’——
“Come!” she interrupted, gaining
confidence as she saw my excitement.
“I guess I know father, Come! we'll
surprise him.”
“But, Marion’
“No buts, I tell you to follow me
If ever a man’s back expressed sorrow
and homesickness and remorse gener-
it a moment ago,”
She led me out of the
halted until she bad thrown the door
Marion and Archie followed,
more and I had passed around the
band,
“Effie!” said he with a shout or joy,
‘you here? God be praised!”
gay forgive, but he interrupted me.
“Don’t say that to
Lee!”
“But the children
Archie?’ | stammered.
“On, yes,” he smil d, "the children!
Where thev? 1 Lo
forgive even wonder if they
can
word me, Effie
Marion and
are have nothing
there, 1
obstinate old
ever forgive their
Then Archie and Marion came for-
ward and the past was blotled out,
—
A Death
If most people are ufrald of anythung
is of Not long
nee the writer stood by the bedside of
lady who
gradually
beng buried alive,
LH
was
an aged passing away.
was growing weaker,
of death were
by
Bigns
When gin
n of ber weakness, and a pen was
1
visible, could not talk,
placed between ber fingers, and with
great difficulty she wrote, in stragghng
“Don’t let them bury me
ve,”' That cases do happen where it
for the
to
is very difficult even most ex
perienced physician determ
he
is really or only ap.
without
$
which,
having recourse
to would at
once
means while they
' y
sellie ace
if
iy.may be }
the dispute, would j
it really still existed, in jeo-
udged from the fact that
French Academy of Science,
fifteen offered a
equal to $5,000, for the discovery
par
the
or
en
years ago, prize
#
o!
which inex-
at
some means by the
perienced
whether
even
once determine
ase death had en-
physician obtained the
had discovered
phenomenon:
might
in a given
not! A
He 1
well-known
sued or
the follow-
ing If the
tificial light, with the flogers extended
and one touching the other, and one
space Letween Lhe
hit
looks through the
red color whera the fingers
touch each other, due to the blood still
circulating: it shows itself through the
tissues which have not yet congested.
fiugers at once ceases, The most ex.
tensive and thorough trials established
the truth of this observation,
- aw -—
Cost of Living in Hong-Kong.
Last April a commission was appoin-
the salaries of the colonial officials,
has now presented a report, whieh con-
the cost of living in a foreign seltle-
ment in the far East, It finds that in
the last ten years the cost of living in
for Chinese. clothing being the only
necessary wiiieh is cheaper now. Rent
has increased from 10) to 150 per cent,
for Europeans and 100 per cent, for
increased 10 to 15 per cent,
fall In exchange, the cost of medical
attendance has doubled, while the de-
creating purchasing power of the dol-
lar is severely felt by those who have
families to maintain or educate at
home. The commission, therefore,
pioposes that official salaries generally
should be raised to an amount 1a cur-
rent dollars equivalent to their origi-
nal sterling valoe, taking the dollar at
4s, 9¢,. with no ~-European officials
should receive an advance of 20 per cent.
The report 1s signed by five leading
merchants, one being a Chinese, and
the Chief Justice, who was the on'y of.
fieial on the commission.
isis ss A Wo
Lady Paunocefote,
Lady Pauncefote, of the British jega-
tion, is winning popularity by her fad,
for it is the most open love of every.
thing American, She is not a bit offish
or English, and every one is taken by
her unmasked desire to know the peo-
ple am.ng whom she will live, *‘I lke
America and Americans,” she smd,
when asked her impressions of this
country, and the way she goes sightese.
ing and invites the world to call proves
that Lady Pauncefote speaks in good
faith,
BOOKS IN ANCIENT TIME.
Changes In Libraries Caused by
the Art of Printing.
The discovery of the art of printing
wrought many curious changes; but in
no respect was the transformation more
striking, perhaps, than in the appear-
| ance of library interiors. So long as
{ books were written by scribes upon
| leaves of parchment it followed of neces
| sity that matter which might now be
| compressed nto
| filled what is called a
i
duodecimo
i
a book of
huge ledger.
So heavy were these folios, that the
wits of the day asserted that ladies read
{ books which they could not lift. It
| was customary to orpament only the
| upper cover, and in order to show the
| carving, chasing and enapel work, the
{ book was invariably laid upon its side,
| To protect the work of the silversmith
or carver, the book was usually encased
in thin called its
“faral,” the edges of which met 1n front
tied
small
folio
the shape and size of n
"
a leather cover,
of the book, where th y wore
| dust and dirt might be excluded.
distinguish one book from another, the
title was written upon a parchment tag
| which was fastened to the throngs of
the farel or to the metal clasps often
made use of. It was not unnsual also,
to inscribe the title upon the clasp it-
sell, or even the front
the book. From what has
it will oceur to the reader that the first
entering
upon edges of
been said,
thing to meet the eye
old book-r
upon
one of these COTS
upon line of books, lying flat
their front edges turned
different sight
that presented by a modern library,
ghelves with
outward —a very from
with its shelves of books all standing
their backs
iat the
attempt
on end with brilliantly
makers of thes
the
Process
The
was placed in a press and the edges
which
ornamented:
old folios dad
f their
Of
to beautify
edges books, ‘his
was termed “‘gauffering.” book
gilded, after delicate
worked
with a
wi
re
Bn
tracery was upon the edge by
die
other
gr it steel struck by
mmer In
indent
Casts BY IN~
appoearance
Of Was DOS
#t be supposed.
——————
Mending With Pins
“Oh, that's nothing
Woman,
«li put a pin in
» mend it now.”
It was a hole 11 socket! that Helen
Russell r with a
ifta
mend,”
favorite muakesh
of to
and, after
hate
i
+
all, pins
have to do, anyway.”
Even holes in her ckings were
caught together In th fashion,
off her glove
Mi tiess
and
replace ad i
It ws
button Was
the same sh expedient.
not that she lacked time to use
and thread, but simply that she had
fallen into a lazy habit
Heles Russell was a school-teacher,
and a few days after pinning up the
hole in her pocket she went to the town
treasurer and drew
earnings for ten weeks’ teaching.
her
She
put the money into her purse, and the
purse into her pocket.
sixty dollars,
Then she made a few calls and went
into the postoffice. Asshe was decend-
{ing the of the
caught ber foot in the trimming of her
skirt, which had ripped and had been
| fastened with a pin; she tripped and fell
heavily on the stones.
Her wrist was broken by the fall.
steps postoffice, ahe
A
fault of a button, was plunged into her
| hand and inflicted a painful wound.
her injuries were dressed. A few
hours afterwards she thought of her
money, and felt in her pocket for her
purse. It was gone. The pins which
were likewise gone; so there was no
| doubt as to the way in which the purse
| had dissapeared,
Searching and advertising proved of
po avail, She had saved a few stitches
at the expense of ten weeks’ wagon, a
ibroken wrist and sundry painful
| bruises,
“ "Pwas all my own fault,” she said,
: penitently; “I'll never mend with pins
again.
Falling Eyesight From the Grip.
The ravages from the grip are yet
felt by its viet'ms and a new form of
disease resulting from it has appeared.
The oculists are busy with patients who
compiain of a burning sensation in the
eye, which has become infiamed, and in
some cases the range of vision is affec-
ted, It is observed that the majority
of persons so affected were victims of
in speaking of the disease, said that the
eye seems to be the last part of the
body affected. The number of cases of
eye trouble has increased to an alarm-
ing extent, and In most cases it was a
secondary complaint. The disease
seems to be a sympathetic one as the
eye is affected as are other parts of the
body, more particular the muscular
system, to which it causes great pain in
performing its functions, A noticeable
fact is that in the majority of cases
there had been former trouble with the
eyesight, and evidently the grip bad the
effect of renewing this latest disease.
THE ORIGIN OF PREJUDICES
Overcome.
You see things from the stand
pont of your previously sequired
groups of ideas; I from mine.
00 two persons can see the same thing
in the same way, for it can never hap
pen that two persons have precisely the
ject,
of our times,
or parties, on pet
our interests, and our desires,
is a simple illustration. Suppose an
artist snd an engineer, standing side
by side overlooking a tract of country.
What they preceive is the same; what
they apperceive is wholly different. To
the engineer the country presents itself
as a possible line for » railroad; with
here advantageous grades and there
economic bridges. Before the artist is
spread out a landscape, with light and
Lo and harmony of colors. In the
| primary laws of knowing, we discover
| the ground principles of the psychology
| of prejudice. The results may
summed up in the form of two laws:
obs
theories,
on oar
ony
VATIOus
i lng,
TTI OIE IIS JI,
FOOD Fr 1HOUGHT
Patient waiting 1s often the highest
way of doing God’s will.
Money makes the man; but the warn
has to wake the money rat,
Most persons can be led; few cas
{352
Sr AW
Hiss
depopuliat
could have
would = almost
If every man Way,
ed,
A man who aeqgu'res a habit of gi
ing way to depression ison the road U
ruin,
The means of proluving mental a
tion are determined by the nature of
he mind,
Levity is often Jest foolish, and grav-
ity less wise, than each of them ap-
pears,
*
I
if
€
did
Those who live on vanily mnst,
unreasonably, expect to die of mort
cation,
There 18 no man easier to deces
than he who hopes, for he aids in
own deceit,
If men wish to be held in estectn
| as we are-—that is, wesee the world not
peculiarities of our minds, The eye is
| of ethereal vibrations between the colors
{ red and violet, The ear converts
| sound only air vibrations of a limi
| rapidity, Just so the mind, in 118 rece
! tion « lge, is Limited by th
i quality and amount of its previous ac-
I
f knowls
quisitions,
i “No man,” Emerson
{ learn what hie has pot preparation
learning, however near to his e
j object, A che mist may tell his
| precious secrets to a carpenter, and he
| shall be never the wiser
would not utter to a chemist for an «
res
tells us
the secrets hie
* ar
holden
things that stare
in the face, until the hour arrives when
ripened;
jinte. God »
| premature eas,
{that we can not see
® a 1
us Evermore
ur eves are
behold
{ the mind is then we
them and the time whe
not, is like u dream.”
Insti therefore, wi
mental food that ourmindsare §
to digest--that, n amely, which is
clearly related to what we kno
{ In conversation, notice how
brighten up when you tell them
ing that they know already, especiall
1% something that they have long
or themselves discovered, Woe
» vice of parading
nd we like t
ir Interests
Wi aw them
netively, seek the
most
ileved
Onrs. WOmMmetimes even we 3
nantly refuse mental food that
a8 aocorrective of o
sidedness, instinctively
®
“ATVE ir possible ote
ding %l
ch we
ithoat a d
mental p
canno
—————————
About Planos.
“Very few know how to take care of
| a ano a musical man to a re
porter who visit d his warerooms,
“How do you do it here?’ asked the
scribe.
“It is a popular notion that pianos
| ought to be kept very Nothing
sad
are
{ cold, as they are by dryness, and, re-
| versely, by dampness. It is not general-
ly known that the sounding board, the
jap in the center, on the same prin-
jeiple as a violin. The wood sup-
posed to be as dry as possible, but, of
course, it contains some moisture, and
gathers more on
handling. Now,
is
when a pinno is put
moisture is dried
cracks, Even if it doesn’t
| tone Joses its resonance and grows thin
| whole machine rattles.’
“How do you prevent this?”
| and so long as your plant thrives your
| thing wrong with it, It should be noted
| how much more water will have to be
| poured into the flower pot in the room
where the piano is than in any other
| room. In Germany it is the practice
| to keep a large vase or urn with a sop-
| ping wet sponge in it, near or under the
| piano and keep it moistened. This is
| kept up all the time the firesare on.”
In a paper read before the British
Kejentific Association on the Hume
boldtia lanrifolia as an ant-harboring
plant, Professor Bower observed that
the peculiar relations between plants
and ants had been the subjactof consid-
erable observation of time imnemonal,
“The literature on the subject could be
traced as far back as 1750, and Captain
Cook. in describing his voyages, dis
tinetly alluded to the matter. In one
place he said that he had seen on a cor-
tain tree a number of black ants, which
perforated the twigs, and, »fler eating
out the pith, formed a lodging in the
eavity, and yet the tree continued in a
flourishing condition. In tropical eli-
mates there were many plants pre.
eminently associated with ants. The
Italian botanist earl contended that
the reationship was advantageous alike
to the plants and to the ants, The
former afforded shelter to the latter,
and in some cases supplied them with
food, ln the course of a short discus.
sion Dr, Tieman said there were five
species of Tumboldtia in tropical coun
tries. The ants took advantage ot the
hollowness of the plants, but he did
not think tie latter derived any benelit
from their prosence.”’
I roressor Polanssy snd Dr, Sehin
delka of the Vienna Veterinury Seliool
having construoted a laryngoscope for
horses by weans of which weclive treats
ment in cases of glanders can be care
ried out,
There is a
of
(rying
Lo surer way ha
belp than by
help everybody,
A good davghiter is the moming s
light and the siar of
parents’ house,
evening
The wisest man may be wiser to-da
BOTT
Time will tell, but the ordinary
important secret won't
time a chance,
A man who puts
too long will find it
ids
giv
off his enjoyment
misiaid by
The chief difference between success
in the single element
to read and know
perpet
He who loves
how to reflect has laid
feast {or
OY &
Lis old age,
before
wise
The feeble tremble
the foolish defy it, the
the ski
If all were
honest, Lhe or part
would be useless Lo us,
opinio
judge
nl A
ful direc
hearts
TT} 5
i here wi
to ba
remain somelbing
a Woinan, as ioug as thes
iL AIWAYVS
sald of
Humanity must resemble the sue
iuctive strawbern
generally go Wo Lhe
Sef] 1
green ones
One may be i
Lion or Uis Coaduct,
than his princi lees
There is such 2
ssively
ius
Rn YOu lnaxe benel
he greatest man |
od of the un
meanest does of him.
Y
Ving may stand
eanest, as much as
he poor man’s purse may be
' sh gold in the 8
1 as anybody
le is not necessa
those whi
or 13g
s» some of
FRGICIouSs
greatest of all wental
pleasures is to have our thoughts
fivined, even entered into with sym pa-
thy.
ii ler
ms when
god thing nor
ning
for
hed
Use nol evasi Called "pon
EXCUSES whieh
doing a bad
ao a
FOU Are repro
To be human 1s to be fickle. i
people who curse a good man loudest
are the first to bear flowers to his
grave
Wien a person inspires you with an-
tipathy you become unfaithful to your
convictions, solely in order to cootra-
dict him,
It is by his
any man of ordinary power
it
personal conduct thal
will do
that is in
Io order to measure the mind we
measure the skull, This is ke eating
the skin of the grape to find she bvo-
Life's real herces and heroines are
those who bear their own burdens
bravely and give a helping hand to
Popularity is like the brightness of a
falling star, the fleeting splendor of a
the bubble that is sure lo
Sometimes when 8 man seems *o De
ready to come out, like a iog from «
sawmill, worth double price.
Tears hinder sorrow froma becoming
despair and madness; and laughter Is
one of the very privilege, ol reason,
b. ing confined to the humal species,
Some men Aare so unselfish as to Le
willing to live in Juxury, and abstaix
from work for fear they will rob the
poor laborer of his means to obtain a
living.
Tre progressive man depends upon
what he learns, but the man who is
proud of what was taught to him will
exhibit his ability to follow the usual
custom.
It is easy enough 25 bring up a child
in the right way. All you Lave to do
is to watch the way in which most
people bring up their children and then
do something else.
Men and women, to lead worthy
lives, must have a just respect for
themselves and a just respect fo
others. Whatever teads to realize and
to strengihen these promises human
welfare,
Cold and reserved natures shoud
remember that (hough not unite
quently flowers may be found buried
beneath the snow, it is chilly work to
dig for them, and few care 10 take the
trouble
1» who never changes any of lus
opluions never correcisany o. his mis
takes; and he who 18 ever wise enough
to 0nd out and mistakes in himself will
not be char enough 0 excuw
what be reckons mistakes in others,
One cannot n too early in life to
discipline himself 0 habits of the most
exnoling Junctusl ity in keeplug every
be It