“LOVE THYSELF LASZ* Love thyself last. duly Ao those who walk beside thee down life's road ; Make glad their days beauty, And help them bear the burden o load. by Love thyself last. ok far and stranger, )» staggers ‘neath his despair, Go lend a danger, To heights where is fair, Love thyself last The vastnesses above it Forces, strong and pure, And fervently, these faithful friends shall e thee, tay lov p thon endure Kee watch o'er others, and Love thyself last; and oh, thrill thee, y selfish sonls was gis As never Whate'r vet t« hy lot, a perfect A BROKEN ENGAGETIENT. with wages give in me, I'mn shall break up. 1 can manage « only stop fidgeting teach a little, music teacher the old shop is a mockery, a known it a good while So that was the end of k and fixt The stoce Throgmorton bought the stock the shop was altered I parl and I wrote to my uncle ir who had promised to business if I wished it graphed. then one day I asked Dolly to walk down into the meadows and see if the blackberries were ripe we picked drew her toa quiet piace under a great maple and put my arm about her waist and said by! Doll ¥ you Know just how I feal toward you, don’t you? She nestled up to me a little closer, and I both her plump brown hands in mine one ci Hamilton nd ures were sol fq 0 a $ tax ejme and he “Come next week Before 1 one, i LOOK wait for me a little Wil “Will you while, Dolly? il you think that I am doing my best all the time to bring the day nearer when I can ask your father to give you to me?’ She said nothing for a in the pause | ard whole song through. Th voice “Yes, Tom, I'll wait And we picked the and went home again meadows, We'll not speak of it yet, Tom," said Dolly. ‘'‘At home | mean; they think me such a child yet. [ don’t want to break the charm In time and bird sing a 1 came her while he blackberries, through the they like you, Tom." For a while I was bewildered in the city, then very busy, then flushed Dolly to be my wife sooner than I expected. ters. She wrote pleasant ones back tome. We did not make them open love letters, but both understood the love at the bottom of them. And so the months glided by. For six I had no holiday. Then a grudgingly given week was given me, Ary hue- ried down to Hamilton. 1 visited my old friends, and had a glorious time, { me when I left, leaning on my arm. { The train had not come in yet—the i one for New York: but the other had get down some passengers from the One, stout gentleman of i ne style, having given ad- a dressed in fH . ortmanteau to a porier i to Dolly do, Miss Brusle?'’ han u do Mr. Mr shyly. olly ? Holly i H Tom, Mr. But the fel- him that 1 » know him? Hae bow ad: 50 did X. had suel 1 him had never see “Who as the porter called is he’! ask I, in a whisper, Mr. Holly back for directions ‘He has somethin ¢ to do with the I think,” | opera Dolly, Then } whistle. **All « rood of the ly. hurried the win- away on iat had 10 confidence, ever. The work § $ foes not lay, as I looked up from g. I saw a with rage. with his side made me sick i id no one else to him. 1 In a ttir terms with him and putting up his eyeglasses, b i. 1 made return T he came across the room [ don't think a mistake,’ said he ‘T met you at the depot at Hamilton, with Miss Brusle.”’ I remember I said. very well, and in a little said he. ‘I sup- intimate stood still and stared at few moments he saw me no bow in it's ‘She's flutter pose you've had | ers?’ I'm und dashed away . my uncle of ¢ ‘Excuse me needed else. where "' [ said An hour after, across me, said “So you know Holly, Tom? He's not a bad fellow, though a bit of a puppy. He's made a good deal of line; man- ager and all that, you know. Married a sort of cousin of my wife's two years ago.’ “Is he a married man “Oh, yes; why not? "”’ “Uncle Harold,” said I, ‘you must let me run up to Hampton to- night. 1 must go.”’ “What is the matter, Tom? "’ my uncle. ‘1 can’t tell coming gr “but if it wasn't you, you'd never come back. Don't be longer than you can help, as itis.” I traveled on the night train, and reached the dear little brown cot- tage when its windows were golden in the sunrise. The old lady was Dolly was milk- in TY wire, her father at work the | It was a sweet pict and | 1 had come to turn its joy into sor- row: but better that than to let worse Sorrow come. ‘You, Tom?'’ eried Mrs. Brusle “Why, Tom!” cried the old lady; ‘so you thought you'd see our girl ofl after ? You know starts ing; all ghe Dolly did not look at me, but I saw her face flush crimson, I'm sorry to say that I have come down to bring bad news,’ said I. “Bad news! said Mr. Brusle, I'm sorry for that, my boy. What is it?" ‘‘1t affects you, sir,’ me. | coma only would happen if I were silent, and 1 vou to believe that I am actuated by no spirit of You may ¢ me, but I wish that any other man had this to do. Mr. Holly and has been for two years, a married man.” I turned my face away from Dolly uttered these words, and dropped yn the hand that rested on the »xpected to hear her scream news did not seem to produce as flect as 1 ex- ‘ted. i said I; ° because worse beg revenge not eredit is, as | it up vine trellis. 16 De » old man. aid the old lady '* said Dolly. of LIGHTNING'S WORK. Loss of Life and Destruction of Prop erty in the United States in 1894, NUSLyY n lost were | and 7 dv ves barn 314 J USe8 were sot less than #30 hurches. 2 school houses i more or id i (8 damaged ; 38 horses stables were de COWS not in ied, In June 06 persons were killed and 102 severely injured; 60 barns were damaged not than $40,000: 49 houses, 30 cows, and 15 sheep not stabled were killed : 80 dwellings, 22 churches, railroad depot, 1 oil tank, 1 grain elevator, 6 mills and factori@: were damaged , the loss in the eight Inst named being not lessthan $257, + (My iecas ives were lost. and 103 persons jured; 46 barns were damaged not less than 250.000: 45 12 churches, 2 academies } mills or factories, and 2 railroad depots were struck ; 24 horses and 13 cows muies, and 6 sheep, not stabled, were killed. In August 78 lives were lost and i persons iujured; S81 barns were burned with a loss of not less than $120,800; 41 dwellings were struck, 22 horses and 15 cows, not stabled, | were killed; O churches, 2 academies | (ono with loss of $35,000), 2 mills, and 1 oil tank (loss $20,000) were struck. In September 99 persons were killed and 14 severely injured; 53 loss of not In July 601 dwell ngs D churches were struck, 14 horses, not In November 1 dwelling was struck, valued at $3,000. In December 1 barn in Ohlo, 2 dwellings (one in San Francisco, Cal., most unknown), were struck. During the year 336 persona were killed and 351 severely injured, 208 barns struck with a damage of $407,- 500; Bb churchesswere struck, dam- age unknown; 261 dwellings and sev- eral oll tanks, factories and eleva. tors, the damage amounting to not less than $351,000, FOR THE KITCHEN MAID. Are Serviceable, The following rules, taucht in the cooking schools, hung in followed, may y young house- per ie ‘new girl simple as the |} Collect knives, forks and spoons themselves, Put fs n lef has h food that clean away any on small, ver leaving fragments on di which they were served. J. Serape all fragments sticking to dishes or pans into a refuse pail or in the back of the ashpan and under- neath the fi where dry out, and then be burned. $. Arrange ishes conveniently on the table 12 glasses nearest the dishpan, ilver next the fine | china, becinning cups, saucers | and pitchers lastly greasy | dishios shes in Ti rebox, they may dishes, Rin yy é $11 bottles itel sa vinge out milk DOLLIes, pitchers r cups with cold water Put any dishes i cold water. ll of cold water, a» LO SOUR hardens MARCH OF THE TROLLEY. Electric Railway Making Headway All Over the Country. Withing the troliey electric five the ywwered past Cars years have © they aro get passenger traffic f cities and between r towns a short dis- i 80 many iocaiities that ting a great deal of the ice apart. In Pennsylvania the courts have r¢ the trolley lines are to use public roadways tracks under the permission of the authorities until they ure the consent of every proprietor whose land fronts the roadway, This rul- ing checks the progress of the trol. ley in these two States, and yet they are making headway i and cently « 3 4 not fe there and in other States, especially in the thick ly settied North. In Pennsylvania the Legislature has passed an authorizing street railways to carry freight, and the Lehigh Valley road will equip all its charter branches as trolley roads for freight and passen- gers. In Vermillion County, Illinois, a trolley line has been granted for twenty years the free use of public highways for freight and passenger service for a distance of thirty miles, paralleling the Chicago and Eastern llinois road, on condition that pas- gengers shall not be charged more than a cent and a half amile. In Michigan an electric road forty miles long is Leing constructed from Port Huron. It is laid with heavy T rails and will be equipped with standard freight and passenger cars, It will | cost less than $7,000 a mile to build and equip, whereas the cost for a steam railway would be between $40,000 and $60,000, What it will cost to operate and renew the trolley lines the future will determine, but there is good reason to believe that this cheap, rapid snd | satistw tory system of transportation | will be greatly extended in the next | fow years. The electric lines will be | very useful in the farming districts, | connecting them with their country | towns and the markets and acting ns act o the r that th rimination against the by the Etate uld Gum raw electric |} feeders t not lik Ous dine Such measures wo ular, and the st the end find valuable an that not oppo af This Cat Craves Approval. Mug is a very good and wcasionally she will a great big t out in the barn, says the Cincinnati Tribune. Of this at she is always very proud and in- variably brings the it lead to the house where every mems- ber of must see it and praise and pet her for belng sucha good, brave cat The first t this oceurred one of the members of the the over the bi mouser cateh rat after is the family ine sit y § ra na shovel but Mugging ’ A WOK and threw it in a few moments had it back HIOWN aw ny bro 1rht fence Mrs. and agalr but every time At lt : again; again back. sd mat toren by the sid ere it stayed all day hen it was found i ’ ob ect n away nao i ing is necessary trees to hou ned rural as from maisons de embowered in trees um. They look ctures and sound en- but there mundane sphere, are one or two little penal- laburnum land. should be several away from the house, and if ssible, from every part of the We have observed lately, in more than one London suburb, where attempt is being made to build dwellings which are at once healthy and picturesque, that houses have been placed within half a yard of old trees, mainly elms. Some of these houses are most certainly built over the roots of trees, i iv will require of ISes, 3 . > Aouses, } the « 3 3 3 2 » and i in iaoburn chanting in drawbacks and ther ties to pay, even in nearest tree are The yards pr house, un ana a very liberal supply of good concrete to keep such dwellings dry? A house with trees so near to it must inevitably be dark and damp, for the roots, which are not them- selves really damp producers, are damp retainers, for they form an ob- stacle to the escape of the water which is always moving about in the soil. There is a double danger at- tuching to the very close proximity of elms to a house, Altcgsther, apart from the damp, the el is a treacher- ous tree, and, if it be near enough, is certain sooner or later to drop one of its boughs through the drawing. room window, or, perhaps, even to break off and knock a hole in the wall. It was only last winter that we saw an old elm periorm this very feat. It was a windy day, and the tree, which was a large one, broke off short at the hole, and was thrown 80 violently against the house that aeveral windows and the whole of the front portion of the rool was stove in. ————— A 0 Thumbnails as Pens. The ancient Chinese and Japanese frequently used to draw pictures with their thumbnails, The nails were allowed to grow to a length of some eighteen inches, and were pared to un point and dipped in vermillion or sky-blue ink. 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