“IET ME NOT MUCH (COM
PLAIN.”
f.et me not much complain of life in age,
Life is not faulty, life is well enough,
For those who love their daily round
of doing. .
take things ronnded, never in
the rough,
And
Turaing from day to day the same old
page,
And their old knowledge ever more
renewing
I have known many such; through life
they went
With of moderate
moderate use
heritage,
Giving and spending, saving as they
spent,
These are wise men, though never
counted sage;
They looked for litle, easy
ple Se
moan to
But I, more deeply drunk of life's full
cup,
Fesl, as my lips come nearer to the
lees,
I dived for pearls, and brought
pebbles up
ins W,
A HOLIDY TRAGEDY.
All my life I had
exactly a woman hate
believer in the idea that
lord of creation, and that
not an absolute necessity. For
many years it was my proud boast
that I was able to dispense with fen
inine aid and yet live a very JO!
able life, as, with clockwork regu-
larity, I went from my bachelor
lodgings to business each mort
returning in the afternoon and spend-
ing the evening at the club or
place of amusement. The idea of
having a lady companion in my ram-
bles never entered my
True, my lundiad
prepared my meals
rooms, but that was
not time to do it my
servant was beyond my
in all else 1 dispensed
aid. Boot cleaning
on, lighting ti
done wi
pinch,
handke .
I desired to stand
ing example of the ori
and a proof of the
modern Eve. Du
companions refused
teachings or to
One by one they
fluence, one |
and then
Those free
py ones, as year after
my adopted course in
continual falling off of
Then
acqu
-Th Centt
Parsons, in the
been—well, not
but a firm
man is the
some
I
re
foilow
fall +
ell
an days were hap-
year I pursued
spite the
my comrades,
came when my circle of
aintances had decreased so con-
of
atime
iderably that I began to feel
jachelor chums were more
n ever. To loneline
ceeded ly d
erable.
One friend,
woes, said:
“You keep to yourself
What you ought tod to
with family wi
two or three grown
They would wake y
This, to me
to whom I laid
too
lodge
there are
ighters,
sone
i:
hitherto ideal ad-
vocate of an Eveless Eden! And yet,
after the advice had been tendered
several times, I began to think tl
such a change might be beneficial.
Such a course need not involve
rendering up of ny tenets; but, as
woman still formed a part of the
world, she might at least contribute
to my amusement, alter
rious consideration, I decided te seek
fresh apartments, with light society
thrown in
Now my troubles commenced. I
could not make direct inquiry.
“‘Have you any grown up daughters?”’
So 1 generally viewed the rooms, lis-
tening to the landlady’s verbiage,
the rent, and then casually asked,
“*Have you any children?’’ und the
reply would be, ‘‘Yes, ‘four,’ ‘five,’
or ‘six,’ ’’ (as the might be
‘the eldest is 16 years old and the
youngest 2 months. But they are us
good as gold and never make a bit of
noise.
The numberless journeys I made
and the many desultory conversations
I listened to were all to no purpose
No one appeared to possess grown up
daughters—the eldest was always 10
Just when I was about to abandon
my search of fortune—or was it
fate *—~led me to Myrtle Villa, Para-
dise Gardens, Upper Dulwich. The
door was opened by a vision of love-
liness, faultlessly dressed, and with
bright blue eyes and golden hair.
‘Newly married,” thought I, “well,
here at least the eldest won't be 101"
She invited me in, and
peared: a middle aged lady entering
directly after, we proceeded to dis-
cuss terms. Then came the inevit-
able inquiry as to children.
“1 have two grown up daughters,
the younger of whom opened the
door for you.”
At last! Need I say that, within
a week, I was installed in Myrtle
Villa? The landlady (a widow) was
a genial, homely woman, and the
youngest daughter, Annie, aged 25,
1 have already described, but the
other daughter, Julia. did not im.
press me favorably. She was neither
good looking nor pleasing, and, with-
out being exactly bad tempered, al
ways insisted on having her own
way.
I now seemed to be in a new world.
My boots bore a brilliant luster each
morning without my aid, and my
slippers were laid ready for me in the
evening, and as for lending me a
needle and cotton—the idea!=it I
would only leave them outside they
would only be too happy.
the
S50, VOryY s@-
the
case
I no longer
tion at the club after the labors of
(her only accomplishment), while
Annie sang divinely, and thus the
Mr. Malcolm, whose name I frequent-
ly heard mentioned, but as his calls
wero always made in the daytime, I
never saw him. I had rapidly passed
into that condition of mind which
raised a feeling of jealousy on his ac-
{| count, so one day I questioned my
landlady on the subject
“*Oh, he’s a very old friend of ours.
Once we thought he would have pro-
| posed to Julia, but nothing came of
js.’
What a relief! Only Julia!
So time went pleasantly on, and
then— how can I confess it 7——my life-
| long creed was thrown to the winds,
{ my proud ambition humbled in the
| dust, and I became a willing slave to
{the sex I had so long despised and
| ignored. My only thought now was,
how and be-
my darling Annie to become
| my wife, Time after time I was on
{the point of speaking, but Julia al-
| ways turned up at the critical mo-
i ment,
in what words I should
seech
Julia announced that
she had an
§
One
| 8 week
| ment
{ burst upon
I purchased
Lyceum for that
pretense
evening
engayge—
a concert ‘hen
kets for
SAME eve and,
that them
persu (ef Annie
making
to me, |
promise to ace
time Julia would
trude, and | =
In two months time [ should
my sumimne hich would
1] uicely for the honeymoon.
lay 1
figttering in
for
given to
unpany
not be ne 0
fate,
is
3 Flee
ik
be tuk-
ing r holiday, w
fit in just
nastened
Lower spray
door and
ter before
Annie had bean
and had '
with a very bad sic
i
fluttering heart
en
AVE one
3
A 184 i
r niroved t
roved |
srabie
I do not
was
» be |
play
he ti
time o
what alled
the c
f vy
Laurie,’
103 and
»«] Away."
wandered
rlhiole week
3 iither
thither. stand
longer
mencin
aimlessly and
it no
ietter com-
iring out
: e that
8 lifetime
her to take
me 3 hody
ge in the -billows that beat
ks of Beachy
y impassioned, pent up w
comes butonce ir
besought an
%
i ed
upon {
When I had finished, I happened
to eatch sight of a photograph which
I had purchased day,
representing one of the yachts pre-
paring t yn her morning trip,
4 y yw figure in a prominent
position in the bows. ‘'Ah.," thougit
I. **1’'ll send that to Julia
If it were possible I had mow
rest than before, night or day, while
waiting for the answer in
the morning with haggard looks and
burning brow, the other boarders
would remark that the sea air did not
seem to agree with me, while under
the mask of supreme indifference
there raged within me the
volcano that ever burned in the heart
of man,
At last the reply came, and, bound-
ing up to the privacy of my own
room, and trembling fingers I tore
open the envelope which hid from
| me—life or death?
| “Dearest, I am your's forever. 1
eannot say your proposal was un-
expected, for I have felt that you
could mean nothing less, ever since
| that evening when you so openly ex-
| pressed your preference for me by
| taking me to the theater”
! What! Whew! Where!!! |
| looked at the signature—‘'‘Julia.”
| Oh, Heavens! I saw it all. I had
| placed them in!the wrong envelopes,
:
the prev
ious
» start
with
3
leas
lising
fiercest
i
i
{
{ photograph to Annie!
reading the letter.
photo, and she desires me to tell
you that yesterday Mr.
We will have the two weddings on
the same day. Won't that be nice,
dear ?"’
Nice? This was the last straw,
Nice, indeed, for me to be married to
a woman I did not eare for, and at
the same time to see the one I loved
foolish-
marry
calm-
of
or two beyond cursing my
ness and swearing I wouldn't
Then, when 1 became
I saw an action for breach
promise looming. I thought of all
my hard earned savings Vers
being swept away by a sympathetic
jury to heal Julia's broken heart.
There was no escape for me. She
had my letter, which simply com-
menced “Darling,’”’ and as no name
was mentioned in it from beginning
to end, wns it possible that any body
of intelligent men could be brought
to believe that I intended it for An-
nie when I addressed the envelope to
Julian? No I must go through
with it—I would marry Julia. Yes,
and I would teach her that man is
the lord of creation, and that woman
is but a helpmate, and not an equul
and so. in my married life
antly assert those principles which I
had held so long.
Julian married me at the same time
and place as Annie b Mrs.
Maleolm 1 now spend my eve
endeavoring to solve a difficult
lem, that why do the)
woman the weaker sex!
of
no
trinmpi-
eame
is,
»
THE CUBAN INSURRECTION,
The Spanish Commander's Troops~~
A Waiting Game.
Spain did not affect to conside
Cuban ins
She recogniz
than an
prevent ti
tual she s¢
(yeneral the
filed the
Marshal
island
Arsenio
pos, and with him ani
has ser
montl
sry t
spent
ifare, le
Not ever
mea
no
3
i
1t of
*
in si
plantati
towns. A
purchased.
fever
4 (iy J
Yellow
troog
the SAME
# of the Spanish
the Eastern departments
Besides his 90,000 regular soldiers
of which has .
$i 1X) vo
I
he at present Go
Campos has inteers
on the island; and
the raising of
has Bie
g of troops of guer
rreguiar cavalry. troop
mmanded by regular offi
the be £130)
and will receive their «
and horses {rom
ten. Campos relies on these gueril-
las, very evidently. As they are
composed of local volunteers they
are expected to operate a i
terms
!
i These
to be C«
men will paid am
juipimen
+
the gover
met
even
the regulars their
ular military training may help them
to some extent.
insurgents on more
even nck
Africa as a Mahogany Producer,
Mahogany, cut from the forests
discovered by Stanley in his expedi-
tion for the rescue of Emin Pasha,
now reaches this country, says the
Woodworker. These forests are said
to be inexhaustible, and are prob-
ably of equal, perhaps of greater,
value than the richest gold dia=-
mond mines of the darkest continent.
Capitalists were interested in Stan-
ley’s account, and a flourishing trade
in the timber has resulted. Prices
of mahogany products were in a fair
way to rise to excessive figures until
the cutting began in Africa. This
has only been within the past year,
but prices have already fallen twenty
per cent. A carlond wds recently
delivered at Louisville, at a net cost
of $%0 a thousand feet, whereas it
has been a common thing for mahog-
any to sell at auction in Liverpool,
England, for $100 a thousand. Here-
tofore the principal sources of supply
have been the forests of Central
America, Cuba, San Domingo and
Brazil. Already 12,000,000 feet
have been cut and exported from
trade promises to
immense revenue to the
British and French colonists, who
have seized the mahogany territory.
or
tinge in contrast to the reddish yel-
low color of the American varieties.
The trees are very large, and logs re-
ceived in the shipment mentioned
were two feet to three and a half feet
in size. They are squared %efore
being exported.
Plantations of peoan trees are re sorted
from five States.
MAKING FLAGS,
INDUSTRY AT BROOK.
LYN NAVY YARD.
NOVEL
Though Our Flag Looks Easy to
Make, Yet Such is Not the Case
««Foreign Ensigns Difficult to
Fashion.
Almost every flag that floats from
the mastheads of our men of war is
made in the flugroom of the equip-
ment department in the Brooklyn
Navy Yard. There are a few flags
made at the Mare Island ward, but
the majority of them are made here.
of a war ves-
has to pro-
vided with the flags of every nation
in the world. Her flag locker will
contain over ZUU ensigns
i 4
sizes and
1
I'he Ameri-
flag is made in eight sizes, rang-
int the huge No. 1 to the little
No. 8 The No ] ize
if
boat flag
very rarely made, as few
iy
provided with spars suflicie
jefore the equipment
sel is complete she be
¢ f fr
rl difierent
gi
nationalities
can
in
o fr
Is
are
itly lofty
to enable them to be used is
nd 25.9 feet in
the navai expressit
and
i
woualar flag which
oh
a
a 28.9-{o«
0 SPW.
taken 10
headed.
the
and
attachments
lled The
lown to the storeroom.
until wanted.
ags for our navy 50,000
are
duck to
mast,
Nn maxking
yards of used.
i he of a fine quali-
ty, is subjected to very severe tests
before it There
must be thirty-four threads to the
inch, and an inch of the fabric must
be able to stand a strain the
warp of thirty pounds.
There is a curious machine in the
flagroom for making t test. A
piece of bunting two inches wide and
containing sixty-eight threads across
the warp is fixed by a clamp at either
end. One clamp istirmly attached to
a table, and the other is hooked onto
the short end of the arm of a lever.
By means of u little winding gear a
heavy weight is run aleng the lever
arm until a pressure of sixty
pounds is exerted If the strip
of bunting stands the strain it
is accepted so far as strength is con-
cerned. The color test is also severe.
After being vigorously scrubbed
with soap and water the bunting is
exposed to direct sunlight for a con-
siderable period. If no signs of fad-
ing show the bunting is accepted.
There is a minimum of waste in
cutting the stripes for the American
flag.
stripes for a No. 2 flag is used for a
hg annually
t 3
unin ici nu
in is
s finally accepted.
along
iis
the smaller flag does for one still
smaller, and so on.
Though our flag looks rather easy
to make, yet such is not the case,
The principal difficulty lies in the
union withits galaxy of stars.
Emigration from Ireland is said now to
Java sunk ww jts lowest ebb since the year
INDIAN WARRIORS.
An Ex-Soldier Considers Coman=
ches the Bravest.
The police officer who participated
in this struggle is one of the bravest
men in the department, in fact, dur-
irg his experience as an Indian fight.
er he was awarded a medal for brave-
ry.
“That campaign was the hardest |
ever went through,” he said
recently, relating the
cidents of the fight, ‘We beg
run short of provisions on
in
hardtack a day. We expected
meet Gen. Terry in that count
but we miscalculated, and starvation
stared us in the face. day of
the fight we got just a cracker and ¢
half apiece.
‘““We subsisted principally on
flesh, and as soon ag one of the
was shot we would
he meat while the animal
quivering. We had a ‘8
played out horses that seemed
ig but food. We ec
move on them to save ou
he
horse-
horses
down
10 cut away
was still
cavalcade
oO
g
uldn’t
jen they heard
tha f
Lilie 4
'Y move i
hevent
September,
an {
on to White Wo
+ ¥
v
J4 years
.
Ke
eat Nag
merlin sy
IRIAN
of potal
There are ten newspaper editors in
British House of Commons,
nters and three stationers
Six
no tree has yet
ich was taller than
tus in Gipsiand, |
h proved to be four |
nd fifty feet high,
Australia
hundred a
In Mexico, and Spain as well, judge,
' nd lawyers all smoke in court,
they wish to, while a case is being
heard. Even the prisoner is not de-
prived of his cigar or cigarette.
King of a Mr
Markham the first Arabian horse ever
owned in England. The price was
£5%), He was disgraced by being
beaten by every horse that ran
against him
ry
11
if
James I bought
A German has invented a chemical
torch which ignites when wet. It is
to be used on life buoys. When one
ig thrown to a man overboard at night
he can thus see the light and find the
buoy.
An original kind of wedling took
place in a little village in Surrey,
Engiand, the other day. Bieyles and
tricycles took the place of carriages,
the bride and bridegroom leading the
way on a “bicycle built for two.’’
The roots of ivy, dug by the moun-
taineers of North Carolina and Ten.
nessee, are sold for $10 and $12 per
ton at the railroad stations, whence
they are shipped North to be turned
A concrete bridge having a clear
span of 164 feet and 26 feet wide was
recently constiucted over the Dan-
quantities.
When pins were first invented they
wore considered so great a luxury as
not to be fit for common use, and the
maker was not allowed to sell them
in an open shop except on two days
of the year, at the beginning of Jan.
uary.
JOKERS’ BUDGET.
JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY
MEN OF THE PRESS.
Ready to Quit..In Smoky Chicago
« «Good Enough of Its Kind - Cold,
Etc., Ete.
ni
ADY TO QUIT.
de-
des-
““Musi you ever pursue me?”
m@ ded the
peration
The villain e
softened visage
I'd quit right no
1s
“if 1 could get my be
heroine, in sudden
her with
ontemplated
‘Uncle
from the
gs they call skyscrapers?’
are, Tommy,” answered
(Georoe.'
said the little boy
county, ure those Lue
uncie,
J
Tommy took a comprehensive look
“The sky
pretty
kish newspaper:
iE Deen
1 who stayed in
while his family went to the
*“*1 haven't y direct
them. But \y are en-
joying themselves immensely.’”’
How can you tell, if they don’t
write?’
“l
book."’-
read about it ir check
Washington Star
my
HAPPY AT LAST
“* Why, hello, Brown,
ing base ball?”
** Nope; still at it
““ You surprise me. Why, I haven't
seen you looking so stout and well in
years.’
“That's all right. Since the bicy-
cle women began wearing bloomers
the funny men have let me alone.
Yes, me boy; the job’sa snap, mow-
adays.”’
quit umpir-
'
His VIEW,
Mrs. Hardhead (glancing over let-
ters)—This young man who applies
for a situation has the stamp on
crooked, and it's upside down. Does
nos that indicate that he is lazy,
careless, and perhaps cranky?
Mr. Hardhead (an old business
man)—No, my dear; it indicates
thae he is a hustler who wastes no
time on trifles.—New York Weekly.
A CHECK.
Birmingham-Why do you say this
check 18 worthless ?
Manchester—You said it was for
£00, didn’t you ?
Birmingham—I see now that it is
only for $9, instead of $00, but thas
does'nt make the check worthless.
Manchester—~Well, if a check for $9
isn’t worth less than acheck for $00,
I'm no financier.
A LUCID INTERVAL.
Superintendent of Insane Asylum
~What's that woman howling about?
Attendant——S8he does't like her
strait-jncket
Superintendent—Does she want it
taken off?
Attendant—Yes. She wants one
with puffed sleeves. ~Detroit Tri-
bune.