— EASTER, Whon Faster comes the violets lift Their shyly hooded faces, Where late the frozen snows adrift Heaped high the woodland spaces. When Easter comes the sunbeams dances my face again.’ lieve him. still have let him go. At sny rate, I was far too angry to give way then. ‘Go, by all means, if yon wish it,’ I eaid, and in another moment he was I had been tearing to pieces in my passion a little spray of hawthorne he had given me earlier in the day. I had pulled off the leaves one by one, and when he left me the bare stem was left in my hand, with one leaf only remaining. See, here it is, the last relic of my first and last love. God grant that in your whole life, my Ruth, you may never weep such tears as I wept over that one faded leaf.” She opened the little red prayer book in her lap and showed me, hid- den in a tissue paper pocket, the yel- low hawthorne leaf. ‘“This little book,” she said, ‘‘was Edward's gift to me, and this old dry leaf is my only relic of the day when we parted in the woods, never to meet again in this world. more treasure.” She drew from her bosom a quaint old locket and put it in my hand. It wasa miniature painting, representing a young man in an old fashioned na- al costume. It was a handsome face, but stern and pround-looking, and I could very well pelieve that the orig- 1nal would have behaved Aunt | Hetty described. E'en tears like dewdrops glisten, - : I did not quite be- gone. On green leaves all aquiver, And grasses rally, spear and lance, By rippling brook and river. When Easter comes the lilles hasto What time the bells are ringing, To bring their perfumes, pure and chaste, From hallowed consers swinging. Shine dim church aisles on Easter day Beneath thelr serried whiteness, And happy children kneel and pray Amid the lilied brightness, have When Easter comes, a merry train, The robin, wren, and starling, With song and wing are here again, And many another darling. The bluebird and the oriole, The martin and the swallow, “Away "* they chant, “with grief and dole, Here's spring, and summer "ll follow!" Stay, I have one When Easter comes, when Easter comes, Then winter's spell is over! Brelong we'll hear the elfin drums Where bees are deep in elover, After we catch the swaying lilt O! winds among the daisies, And see the Among the rosecups’ sweetness si garden mazes, ns When Easter of And songs climb ur While ols t For love and life and j Are in the age-long sto nd to U hat analla itaall 4 nat spells sail And thrills wit — Mrs, San on harps MANCE. _ | i CHASEMORE. i EN Aunt Hetty FAS only twenty- six I came to live with her. There was only a differ- ence of two years between u Lut 18, OLDUR she al-| ways seemed mid- somehow dle-aged to Ine who she was quiet ang serious and so different from my rest- less, excitable self, She was co sad at times that I cor not help wondering her life ste had not exp set ious sorrow, for sl friends en 1{ some eriencec had me 840 Une ly with a little book in endeavored to calm he the reason for she told me this ste ‘It happened when I wi een. I My lover was myself ’ he we a fine, dashing Edward Blake. six months and were month later. The day was fixed Edward bad arranged to give up sea and take a situation on land. were as happy as two young could p but, just a mouth before the time fi Our we idin ] up by some « ward and I were of was a named Percy Sands, the son of a neigh- boring clergyman. college, and full of fun ar ie. chanced to be placed next to him af luncheon, and not knowing, as Lafter- | picnic party, but ward discovered, that I was engaged, | bound ship he was specially attentive to me. 1 briel note for my m ’ did not care for his attentions in the | we had fortanately found ont least, but I was in high spirits and | that we were unsuited to only bent on the enjoymeni of the | and mutual con moment, and I did not check hin as, | sent, put an end to our engagement perhaps, I ought to have doue. ‘‘But that crael, ently I caught sight of Edward's face, “I thought so ther. Perhaps it was nd saw that he was looking terribly | a little; but cross and angry. Foolishly, I thought | self it rather good tun to make him jeal- ous, and on purpose to tease him, 1 pretended to take all of Mr. Sands. When luncheon the party strolled about the woods in varions directions. 1 naturally expected Ed- ward to accompany me, bat he rather rudely, as I thought. held aloof, and to punish him, I paired off with Mr, Sands, When the party got together again Edward looked so strange that I thought it better not to provoke him any farther. ‘ was engaged to iour vears $0 De mar nl uni ui yssibly be; ', 8 picnic was go friends, the party. There handsome young fellow thers and He was {fresh from i frolic I . 15, the ne taer, sta ! in tine each othe had, therefore, 3 ov Pres- WAS very auntie.” afterwar I I blamed my- far more than him I had given the provoeation; and I knew in my heart that one re- gret on my part would have made all right But 1 too proud to say it. I let him go with my eyes opened, and 1 have been justly punished.” “‘But have you never he him since, dear auntie?”’ “Once or twice, but only indirectly. | He had no relatives in our part of the country. I know that he gave up the and obtained a commission in some Indian regiment. When last | **I shook off Mr. Sands, and, walk- heard of him be was a captain; but ing away with Edward, bagan to scold | that is many years ago, and I do not him for his unreasonable jealously. | know whether he is alive or dead. So Of course I did not think I myself was ends my poor little romance, There in fault; nobody ever does. A loving is» one thing I should like to ask, word would have made me peniten directly. Unfortunately he was white with anger, and began to reproach me in a way that roused my temper, too, for I was quick enough to take offence in those days, Ratb, though I have learned better mince, I can remem- | ber, as if it were yesterday, the nook | in the woods where we stood, the san- | shine glinting through the trees and | drum country life, auntie and 1 re- lighting up Edward's flushed face and | solved to visit foreign parts. Accord- augry eyes. He reproached me bit- | ingly, we went to Boulogne and took terly—more bitterly, I think, than I| up oar abode in =» quiet boarding deserved. He called m2» a heartless | houce in the Rue des Vieillards, There coquette, and I called him little-mind- | ed and told him he had made himself ridiculous by his unreasonable jeal- ousy. We got hotter and hotter, and finally he declared that if I did not admit that I had been wrong, and promise to behave differently for the future, all must be over between us. 1 did not care a straw for Mr. Sands, and would fifty times sconer have had Edward with me, but 1 would have died sooner than have told him so then. So I gave him a bitter answer, and we both grew angrier still. His last words, uttered with all the in- tensity of passion, ring still in my CATs. ean tell you them word for word: ‘Hetty, if you let me go now, understand clearly, you will never see of hearts word of the more notice we finished scattered and | between ns, was ard rom SeH told yon my story. You have seen my relics. They have been my great- ost treasure in life, and I should like them put in my coffin when I die. Will you remember this, dear?” I could not answer for tears, but 1 kissed her hand and she was content. the house, but they were mostly in families or parties, and we did not mingle with them. table was a tall gentleman of soldierly appearance, who was always spoken of as the major. When he ventured to address an order to the waiting maids in French, the difficulties he got into by getting angry with himself and them. 1 ventured to'help him out of a difficulty once or twice, and in this manner a slight acquaintance sprung up between us. It had, however, gone no farther than a friendly nod or a romark soross the dinner table, With other visitors he fraternized even less. So matters stood until the night of to the little English church in an ad- We were ushered into of the pews appropriated for strangers, and a minute or two later the major was shown into the pew and sat down beside ns. Daring the service the major, by anaccidental movement his arm, threw down auntie’s little red prayer book. He picked it up, and was about to re place it. but as he held it in full view nnder the gas, he started as though he had seen sn chost. He laid the bookdown, but be glanced from it to Aunt Hetty, as if trying to satisfy himse If on some point. The sermon eame to an end, and the benediction followed, but I fear the major haa no part init, He took advantage of the when all heads were bowed to do a very un- mannerly thing. He slyly put up his eyeglasses aod read the name inside suntie's book. and wight have escaped notice, but I watched him closely. I could i the name myself. It BRIDO of moment It was quickly done, even read Was In fA 28, 18 I was aghast at such an glanced at resent 1t noticed 1%, act of and see if she would but she had probably not impertinence, auntie to for she made no sign. The congregation began to disperse, and we went ont, but we were scarcely in the street when the major spoke to auntie TTY YY AREY EE Aad anand “Madam, 1 t Toin very singular question, g to ask vou a } ft iet me ra ae 3 Had tell it on me how yon came by that book you nse? , als n ' vod an | shall never forget aunt could ush on her usually given suswer, but I faint fi t le 88 MOVE 1. “Yon Biake, me voursel eight years ago y Surprise, incredulity truzgled for the mastery in the ma jor's face He took off his hat and stood bare-headed, and that one litt] told more the delight and gesture plainly than most passionate protestations o«¢ have done, that the old love had been kept a treasured and a sacred thing I think from the smile on her mouth as she at him, that the same thought came to auntie **And yon are He ity ! vou pow,” he said. “You had forgotten the eight years, Major Blake. 1 knew you from the first.” “And would yon really have let m: go without a word?” “Why not? How could I know you would wish to be reminded of times?’ “Reminded! I have never forgot. ten. Itried my hardest to forget and couldn't. Although you preferre 1 an: other—"' “Another! What other?” “Didn't you marry young Sands? “‘f have never seen him since,” At this stage of the conversation it struck me that | was de trop. Major Blake, side by side with auntie, was walking slowly homeward, snd on reaching a convenient street coruer, 1 went oft for a stroll in an opposite di- rection. When I reached home 1 lo IRE i Yes, I know old ¥ the courtyard under the treee. The Major lifted his hat at my approach “Miss Danvers, your suut and I were very old friends; indeed, many yoars ago we were engaged to be mar- ried, but an unfortunate misunder- standing separated us. We have lost still remain tous, 1 trust we shall have your good wishes?" “*You dear, darling auntie, then you all? Of course Major Blake, too, from tue very bot tom of my heart!” an iat————— A Now Yo'k restaurant gives a cigarette tree with every order, on NOTES AND COMMENTS, JAacon C.. has married Kiser, J. P. 172 his present term ol like putting another name after Tur women of the Wes! romoving the re saluting Drogen t rom their sex wenkness i funeran her 1 band's iittle while aco, and another ld, M. D.,of Kans postmortem uddenly deco MN, J. kh rufie assisted ir i { tion of her bund 8 gash Prine large The e1 nn obhst npress nate picture taken, portrait wish to ‘‘as the whose of her he reo beauty n¢ hair reacl knees, and seventesn ine ita.of Italy and her and ivory cled w has the 2 th pear! sokes enam. golden bicyele, wi handles and s for the y of Rome in the early th is on treat splendor i when it gt morning the win- Tie: destraction of bird life in Southern Ph ter’'s unprecedented cold enormous. Not only does this apply to game. but to all the upland feathered species. Quails have been exceptionally affected even south as the borders of the Gulf of Mexico. In Louisiana and birds of song were not only States through this hans been 0 found tion many which survived were easily captured, having been rendered in- capable of flight by the intense cold, The species that winter in northern fered in a larger degree to the square mile than in any other. worthless sh his enemy Frank How. gong writer made a fortune with and “When piates he had a publishing house i sensible of thom ail He Only a Pansy Blossom the Robins Nest Again,’’ and is now a biz farmer out in Iowa, having put atost of his money in fertile soil. ard i= the Lacquer Making in Japan. Lacquer making has been the characteristic Japanese art since the beginning of the Christian era. Lacquer 4 tha sap of the lacquer tree, tapped’as we tap maples. Oue of pine. Then thin cloth is stretched quer laid upon it and polished to ex- ceeding smoothness. The design is painted or traced on in gold, or motile the susfae. An article in which much gold ia used will be worth hundreds of dollars, HOW SUGAR (5 MADE, A Talk About the Lumps Which Sweeten Your Tea { in It is a at fFugar 51s 15 03 cannt and therefore 118 L 100KS number ar At the flower with f O14 it of ashead of AUS are re- different way One plan is claying The sugar is pu mol called h there is A ayer of d wetted with ters down and causes more of the molasses to drain ff than in the common sugar And now 1 wiil tell you how ‘‘clay- ng’ discovered. It happened one day that a fowl which had been walking in the mud passed over full of st that where any stuck to the sur- he sugar was of a better color. was found that clay caused more of the molasses to run through than anything else. Loaf, or white sugar, is made by re-boiling the brown sugar with white of egg or bullock’s blood, and by submitting it to the claying a greab many times. In some cases re- boiled sugar is filtered through pow- dered charcoal to cleanse and whiten it. Sugar earthen forms.’ the point {in a hols iS Diaceq inted MGS, wh being downward. ay ontop s water, which slowly | Was one of the cooling VOsseis and it was noticed clay from her feet face gar so it the The Chinese Soldiers’ Weapons A private letter from China recently received in Boston represents many of the Chinese troops as still armed with antiquated weapons. The writer | of this letter met a body of Chinese soldiers retreating from Corea, and noticed that while some of them care ried rifles the majority had only spears. Most of the soldiers lugged bird cages, each of which contained | a tame bind, to amuse them in their | hours of leisure in camp,” a Chinese officer explained. Not long before a | considerable part of the troops on [duty at Pekin were noticed to be [armed with Dawe ao | arcows, i | In British Columbia farms are gic. | en to those who will improve thew, wo
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