WILL.
Now, when the race is just begun,
With all its warmth and zest,
And twice the needfnl gifts and
Are trembling in your breast
While Fortune beckons just before
While Hope is in the van
Resolved with all your strength and soul
powers
To do the best you can!
The best you can! The time will come
When ta!
Ambition scarcely worth the pains,
will seem too small
So grievous is its fall:
Te pick the scattered fragments up?
Accept the altered plan
BB almost needs s hero's heart
To do the best you cau!
Dangers and downfalls lie i
For every soul alive,
And life, in truth, is not a case
Of three and two are five
Bat trust me, he. and only he,
Is wiser than the rest,
Who puts his shoulder to the wheal
*
And simply does his best,
Some chance is always left at hand,
If not the chance we sought,
And none can tell what good may
From the least deed or thought
Then take the troubles as they con
guit you like a man,
your part with all your he
i do the best you can
— Dora Read Ge
AX EPISODE OF THE SEASON.
He stood just
looking after me.
to shake myself,
As I came
sands wer
iit I stole away ]
ginning to dance
I went to my room soon i
my Sister 8 step in the |
I slipped through the window to the
assage
her go out ar i
th her.
I was laughin
when an oddly
beside me said
(rood ev
I whirled
the
Key Ww
familiar
ening.”
with a start, to behold
my acquaintance of the morning,
standing in an attitude of
mock humility before me,
“He is laughing at my vanity,’ I
thought. ‘'He is certainly very pre-
suming to address me without being
introduced
I wished to return to my room, but
the window-sell being rather more
than one good step above the piazza
floor, such a proceeding would have
involved a sacrifice of dignity that |
was not prepared, under all the cir.
cumstances, to undergo. So I stood
still.
“Iam afraid I intrude,” said my
companion, and when I lifted my
would be cool eyes to his mine fell
ander the smiling audacity of the
other's.
It was necessary 1 should
somethiug . What should it be?
‘*I believe the piazza is not private
property,”’ I said superbly.
I knew he was laughing at me and
pst
ain
say
of Mabel's despairing comments con-
erning me that very morning.
“1 believe not,”’ was the response,
piazia.
I climbed back into my own room,
ready to cry with vexation. How I
wished 1 kad stayed in the parlor
and made the acquaintance of this
elegant look strangerin a legitimate
manner. Of course he would have
sought an introduction to me, |
dared not go down now,
Presently Mabel returned ; I hoped,
to make me go back to the parlors.
| Under her trinmphant, convey, |
| thought 1 could survive the ordeal
| and I was rather anxious to try
Mabel had a headache,
| and had come
| for the evening.
some, but said nothing about
{ going back Instead, she subsided
‘into a gossiping strain, afterward re-
proving me sharply for being so care-
She scolded me
i I had tossed them toilet
| table.
‘‘The hotel is full of thieves.’' she
said, emphatically
| tlemen we see here live by just such
| chances as your diamonds. You
| must let me take them, Bessy, and
| keep them for you
For reply I silently returned the
jewels to their casket, put that in my
trunk, and locked it
Mabel shrugged her shoulders,
sho sald no more.
I was a careless creature, as Mabel
In proof thereof I retired that
unlocked and
upon my
but
| said.
night and left my door
my key in my trunk. I waked some
tims in the middle of the night and
saw. by the dim a form kneel-
ing beside my trunk, and in the act
of unlocking it. I had ado to
keep myself from screaming I had
a vague idea, however, that such a
proceeding would call to life a
would be pi
uder t
ioht
some
pistol
I'here enty
001 int
look eq
but I fan
t silken m
He dared
I averted my eyes im-
me liately, and did not
toward him again
Later in the day my sister and I
went for our bath, and while we were
in the water, Mabel confidently in
formed me that just the match for
me kad come at ast
“He arrived night
} my
meet it
tha 18tuche
Lee
slightly to laugh
at me still!
once look
ight before last, dear,
but I would not say a word till I was
perfectly satisfied as to his ante-
codents and belongings.’ she said
eagerly. ‘He is rich, and from one
thic finest families and can’t bear
the sight of a fashionable woman;
$0 you are sure to suit him, if you
half try.”’
I said nothing and Mabel went on,
“You must have him at
| breakfast. The handsomest man at
our table. He sat hall way down,
and I saw him look at you several
imes--a gentleman with curly hair,
and such funny eyes. ’’
of
seen
with a start of recognition. “Oh,
| you did see him, then?”
| laughed.
Then I told her of the night.
To my amazement Mabel began to
convulsions before I was hall
| on, she laughed the harder. We had
to quit the water, or she would have
drowned herself, I believe,
bything rig, and I was hurrying away
to my ‘‘house,’”” when Mabel stopped
me.
** Bessy, Mr. Trevelyan; Mr. Tre-
my sister, Miss Winston ;"”
and there he was again,
*\Will ba back in a minute,” I
heard Mubel suy as she dragged me
away to dress, and still laughing so
as scarcely to be intellizible. She
made out to explain to me that Mr.
Trevelyan's room was next mine,
by mistake the night before. ‘'He
told me all about it before breakfast
this morning, but 1 never guessed it
was you. You see, Bessy, the rooms
on that floor are exactly alike, and
he said your trunk was as like his as
two pins, even to the spring lock, and
it stood on the same part of the room
of course. There's only one corner
of the room a trunk could stand in,
in those rooms. Don’t you dare to
let him know you thought he was a
thief, though ; promise me you won't
tell him you thought he was after
your diamonds?’
“Indeed I shall. It is the only way
I can be even with him,” 1 said, de-
cidedly, thinking of those eyes that
had laughed at me five times within
less than forty-eight hours
Mr. Trevelyan walked to the hotel
with us, and Mabel frowned and
shook her head at the way.
I did not my revenge then,
did in the evening; and though
hed, I could see that my shot
all
me ni
10t take
oo make a short,
|
and
ong story
ination
fi
When peo] ] 2
Killed By Carrying Gold.
in Canada,
daughters ware
ypportanities for
and thém
i 11 *
MNZUIsLs
some of
became expert
Remarkable Span of Life.
On a tombstone in Landaff Centre,
N. H., is the following inscription
“Widow Susanna Brownson was born
August 3, 1699, and died June 12,
1802, aged 108 years.”' This is the
record of a life which took in parts of
the 17th and 19th centuries and the
whole of the 18th century. As the
average of human life is increasing in
modern days, it is probable that
some infants now living will continue
to live until the year 2.000 A, D.
They would then be not so old as
are a number of persons who have
died considerably exceeding a cen-
tury within recent years. It is likely
also that the number of centenarians
in proportion to population will be
much greater during the 20th cen-
We frequently hear the span of hu.
man life spoken of as seventy years,
and if it goes to four score it means
weakness and sorrow. Buta
Bible makes
one hundred and twenty years the
natural period of human life. To
told of him that ‘his eyes were not
dimmed nor his natural force
abated.” Many who now die early
tural vitality which should insure an
advanced age, and will when medical
science learns how to control these
diseases and make them harmless
The Gypsy Moth Migration.
The voracious caterpillar of the
gypsy moth, imported from Europe
some twenty-five years ago, has al-
ready cost the State of Massachus-
etts several hundred thousands of
dollars in attempts to destroy ana
keep the pest within moderate
its, but it is now said that it
passed the boundary
supposed infested territory.
ported elm leaf beetle is certainly a
great pest, and from present indica.
tions will eventually destroy all the
American as well as the foreign spe-
cies of this tree. Even this would
not be a very serious matter, because
we have plenty of other and more
valuable kinds of trees, but the gyp-
sy moth does not discriminate and
attack any one or ao
cies, but sweeps the forests of foliug
and is therefore
flood or fire. The of
a pest should be guarded against
through constant watchfuiness, for
it may soon appear where it is least
expected and get beyond the
trol of human efforts elsewhere
sides in the old Bay State.
For several the
Massachusetts has been
thousands of dollars annually
to keep the gypsy moth within
perhaps, crowd i
old haunts, Ti
reasonable
half
as destructive as
advent such
years State
endl
mere.y
tain limits,
ut
and,
of the
to
of some
pen
1
it is Likely
0 De
nis Ww
roads as well
NArrow
As ON
' The 1
le West | y chew
femand as laborers, be
always in splen
no fatigue, and w
ig hours without any food.
hose countries
always rejected for the
Kola contains more cafleine than
coffee itself, a good deal of starch
and no tannin, It instantly increases
muscular strength and allies hunger
and thirst, besides lessening perspira-
tion in hot weather. The nut is now
cultivated in large quantities in var-
ions parts of the world, and
American firm expects shortly to put
it on the market in this country.
When it makes its appearance it is
predicted thas tea and coffee will
have to go. The recent army ex-
periments in this country were made
by Captain Charles E, Woodruff, at
Port Sheridan, 1k.
the cocoa chewer is
kola chewer.
Cocoanuts as Cosmetics.
ening up and cleansing? If so here
is a simple, home made cosmetic
which is harmless and almost imme-
diate in its good effect:
Buy a fresh cocoanut and grate it;
gqueezo the juice through a piece of
white muslin. The milk which comes
after the straining is the cosmetic.
Wash the fuce and hands with it
thoroughly, rubbing it well into the
skin, [It will speak for itself after
being used.
In using ary cosmetic or cream
upon the face always rub the skin
up, not down. This will have a ten-
dency to drive away wrinkles, and if
done faithfully will give to the face u
fresh and youthful look.
NEW ST%LE OF MARCHING,
Captain Raoul's System for Attain.
ing High Speed With Little Ex~
ertion.
Capt. Raoul, of the French
{ lery, began five years ago a special
study of the military march. He
concerned himself especially with the
whether the method of
{ marching adopted generally by the
armies of the civilized world answers
devise a system that should permit
| certain young troops to acquire a re-
sistance
Known
to fatigue and a speed un-
: to European armies. Very
robust young soldiers are oceasion-
ally found to acquire
| great speed, but they are always ex-
ceptions to the rule, and in reaching
they are often
After much study
i found a
ion in the method
the object aimed at
he has
) peasants
id walking,
am able’ says Capt
“to take the first between
anges of 20 and OU years and teact
to run his le
comer
gs us jong as his leg
abie
are
A Powerful Kingdom in Africa.
aders who h
erward he
ir Pasha
ir of Dar-
yf Gordon, Rabah
ifr taxes in the Sou
Mahd!sts
far and wid
t the Sultan of
is Kuka n
raders were.
: n lefeated,
. Ashem’s nephew, who
| 1 as Sultan thered fresh
wrees and attacked Rabah again and
but repulsed
=
He is a tall spare negro,
very energetic, and of simple tastes,
He has collected a large store of gold.
silver, coral, feathers, and ivory, and
has a good number of modern rifles.
His power is absolute, and he is
rapidly forming a powerful state be-
hind the French, English, and Ger-
man hinterlands.
The Train Came Down.
| Ata small railway station in the
{ hilly part of Alabama, an old man,
| carrying a carpet bag and a2compan-
| ied by his wife, boarded the train.
| They took the first seat, the old lady
| sitting next the window. It was ap-
| parent that this was their first rail-
{way journey. The train started, and
| they both looked eagerly from the
| window, and, as the speed increased,
{a look of the keenest anxiety gath-
ered on the old lady’s face. She
grasped her husband’s arm and said,
in a voice plainly audible above the
roar to those about her: '‘Joel, we
be goin’ awful quick. I know 'taint
safe.’ A few minutes later the
train ran on to a long trestie. With
n little shriek of terror the old lady
gprang to her feet and seized the
back of the seat in front of her.
There she stood, trembling from
head to foot, staring from the win-
dow. Meantime the train sped on-
ward and was soon once more on
solid earth, The old lady was quick
tonote the change. Her features re.
laxed and she sank into her seat
with the fervent exclammation :
“Thank goodness! She's lit again!”’
i
So sn
TEA FARM IN THE SOUTH,
Carolina.
The only plantation on this contl-
grown sticcessfully
very large.
ymervilie, 8B. C,
$s vid
ar Hun
wio #
mak.ng
Links
culture lus
twenty acres en 1 to lay outip
rentually
And
iis twen-
he expects to double this area
it is a queer look
ty The doctor has
made a clearing
as the visito
ing patch, 1
noeres
erviais
arefully
an orchard o
the
But
fen
and
e
Odd Use for a Lemon.
It seems that at busine nd other
] where the
brass band is annoying. it is custom-
ary to send a boy out ) suck a
lemon, facing the me: 10 play the
wind instruments. 1 can-
not play on the instruments at allif
they see the boy's uth puckered
up by the sour lemon juice, which
fact is utilized by those who are dis-
turbed by the music; aisoby others
who want to try the experiment or
think it funny to move the wander.
ing minstrels. Actuated by the for-
mer motive, an eminent scientist
paid a boy a quarter to go out and
suck a lemon in front of the flutist and
French horn players, and the man
with the oboe, who had located in
front of his office; and no sooner had
the bandmaster caught sight of the
boy thdn he removed his artists to
the next square. The boy followed,
and again the band moved. The
third time the Jemon-sucking boy
faced the wind instruments the band-
master, who had been gradually
growing infuriated, struck the lemon
from his mouth. The boy howled,
and a policeman who had arrived, in-
quired the cause of the disturbance.
The bandmaster said he was stand.
ing there sucking a lemon, which the
officer explained, the boy had 2 right
to do, so the leader proceeded to
other parts. Hence the scientist is
convinced that it is a fact that itis
impossible for performers to blow
into wind instruments if they sce
any one sucking a lemon.
— A scsi
Plenty of Room,
piaces, a sireet
The territory composing Western
Australia, according to the latest
computation, covers nearly 1,000 000
square miles, and constitutes about
one-third of the Australian conti.
nent. The area of this single colony
is larger than that of eight leading
couniries in Murope combined.