INCOMPLETENESS. No joy is in itself complete, But from the past or future borrows: No day is altogether sweet "Tis made up both of joys and sor- rows. No flower blooms for self alone, No wave but has another near it, And echo but repeats the tone Like circles made by rippling waves, The limits of our lives are rounded By the heartbeats of those we love Our happiness on theirs is founded. Without God's has the soul Who made it knows its incomplete- Ness, Till Love rounds out the perfect Whole And fills it full Strength and Sweetness, Margarer’s Secret naught race of “She 18 80 cold!” Margaret. “A fine girl, Sometimes Margaret heard them, and smiled—a half-mocking smile. knew of warm affections, of fierce re- sentments, of passionate dreams that kept her lying awake through the night; of moments of anguish and hot tears. She knew that this outward coldness was but that of snow lying above a volcano. One feelings were not 80 strong might have dared to show them to the world; Margaret dared not. She knelt ing something of and tidily packed for a journey. On the morrow to leave her village home to teach music in a city boarding She finished it speedily, and then stood beside the little window, looking out upon road-—-grass-grown, and little troubled by wheels; and, beyond a little a field or two; a spire pointing heaven ward; and purple hue of mountains. From this very window had Mar- garet looked upon this very scene for years—almost had been for her. It was hard to leave it hard to her few friends. One must be richer than Margaret many lay at could have left all others softening of the heart, a lingering regret, which not have wished to conquer; but so cold!” whose beside her trunk, think- it she wis school, wood: a dis ever since years leave to have deepest the girl's heart. She with a ur little fn te or two, could but it a different thing to leave Christopher Hayes, who did not care all for be ing left did ure, as she knew, whether she stayed Margaret had had and richer tl who, to other eyes, was only a not very ill-looking young man attached to the telegraph of Fernley, did not even triumph in contests they were all worthless Christopher had flirtation by forgetting all about Margaret had but one comfort in the matter—that guessod loved him. “She she wis it who not « 1 or went, hand Christopher admirers, Some Hin office She these to her since proved his month's it was, Christopher ne never could guess, that she Margaret had had well in the churen- statue” is a heard him say. “One as make love to the marble yard yonder.” Now, glimpse of one touch of Feruley, it could not go without we would not! And she put on her hat and turned villageward, -and soon came to the little telegraph offize, on which the setting sun of the August day flung his beams aslant, lighting up windows finely, and lighting also a youngish head with a rather pleasant face, under what any one else would have called very red hair'—to Mar garet it golden! The face was turned the other way. “How beautiful herself. “What soul there in face! Oh, Christopher! Christopher Never in her life had she called him anything but “Mr. Haves," Christopher to her the statue was burning the man she loved so: for left She his hand before she might be, forever! i it sl was to his he is!” she sald is but he was Once or twice she repeated the name, “Christopher! Christopher!” And then, with her quiet smile, walked up to the lounging figure at the door, and dared to what not one woman in a thousand, desperately and hopelessly in love as she was, would have dared to do: of- fered him her hand! “I saw you as | passed the office, Mr. | Hayes,” she said, in her low. meas- | ured tones; “and since I am going away to-morrow, made up my mind that it would be the time to say good. bye.” “Going away!” he exclaimed. “Why. Miss Margaret, you were one of the institutions here, I thought. mis” you. It is cerainly very cruel of yer. Though, to be sure. for your pat I congratulate you. a dn'l place.” “Yes—it is dull” “But then [I like habit, you know." “Else how could one endure this.” he sald, looking into the office, and yawn- ing a little. “I beg your pardon.” he | sald, apologetically, for his stretched | mouth, “but it is so stupid here.” She laughed, “I'm like Robinson Crusoe,” he sald, | “It's very good of you to come out of | Your way to say good-bye, Miss Mar. garet, to an isolated wretch like me.” “Sorry to quench your vanity,” she | laughed; “but perhaps 1 should not | have thought of it had it not been Just | in my way. Good-bye, then.” “A pleasant journey,” said he: then forgot all about her, His eye grew bright, his face flushed, His glance passed Margaret. She turned her head, A little pony carriage, driven by a girl, was whirling softly over the do said it. Nothing like | wood's parasol. The carriage stopped. The little gloved hand beckoned. “Excuse me, Miss Margaret,” said | Christopher, and ran away to obey the | Summons. | For one moment Margaret was white | to the very lips; the next she smiled and buttoned her glove, | “It's only about a message, Mr. | Hayes,” twittered Victoria, “1 want | papa to bring me up some lace to-mor One can't go down such days as { these." And there was more of it, and some | scribbling on a bit of paper. | Meanwhile, Margaret saw something a pile of small vignettes, on a under the window, the “counterfeit presentments” of Christopher. | drew near; one arm rested on the sill; [ the other hand darted [ row, between its fingers. The vignette was in her pocket; and she away | from the window, and Chris | topher on the road. | “On!” eried he, apologetic, more; “are you going? So sorry, | business must be attended to, | know. Good-bye.” | Again their hands met. He lifted his hat. Victoria, who did not know Mar- garet except by sight, glided passed but you regarded reserved by some young women, who are all smiles and blushes before their masculine adorers, and her way quietly, as though she had not seen the look. “Don’t you think dreadfully funny 7" queried Victoria, a little anxi ous to disparage “I've heard her called said Christopher; Margaret's face was a statue's: she went she's fine-looking.” “but she is 80 cold no animation.” Victoria bestowed her arch loox upon { him, and said: “She is cold: a perfect hor rid I think;” and up her reins, and drove the pony off, looking so archly that Christopher's brain went tin a whirl for 1} Meanwhile, Margaret had made her adieux, and was whirling eityward, with Christopher's portrait next t iceberg: gathered TOUS, 0 her | heart, Beautiful, the 80 cold, sald those at Margaret, And of friends were tut could mot go for nothing, any more than her ex face had Nhe but Seminary, of Cause this coldness few, Margaret's voice quisite She her nd ths admirers, male a female made a conguest in rut HIST fortnight; had an offer in refused No the vears passed pict then a a mouth, and It, She Kissed the stolen ure every night, and now dropped on and it fear it photographs Ways will plnmp and ovoyish; the was growing will been « hite, a little yellow had pale-blue eves, cheeks had a The eyes i th sun 80 record The Ose re frousse toss in he al Wis a pleasant face, 110 tha of one wonld ever to do or he anything: bu* it t Margaret it which had Was pure perfection to was Angust the very month frol again in n Fernley flitted three years before. The did In took the city, always full of interest to her Ney ation, but she holidas she long wnlks in She went into the picture galleries and whiled away hours at nati pleasant nees, alone in the crowd “What some.” cold face, 1 a it very her: and the long yearning had made no mark upon it, any more than had the dull th heart Wis strangers said of rob of pain at her The face colder lier than took it through the open door of a church Fifth as Carriages door, gaily-dressed wedding was afoot: and woman will not delight in a wedding? Mar garet sat in a seat half way up a side aisle<her had tempted the usher to lead her farther front—and looked intently, T fators whispered, fans fluttered, were turned doorward. A rolled noizily up. There was a sensation. The bride was coming Margaret turned her stately head and saw her It Victoria or love never when she one day on ene were at the guests within-—a what modest tire not i Spee ey oN carriage Hazlewood Her heart gave wild bound. She looked at the bridegroom. It was not Christopher—a very different man, im posing, with large features and won drons mustache, Margaret scarcely Selieve it. Could Christopher love any one and not be loved in re turn ?— impossible Margaret watched the ceremony through, and went out of door with the rest; but the crowd was great, and in the vestibule she was quite pushed to the wall, and being was one conld 8a, sood still until the last bonnet had vanished, when she quietly shook out she reached the door, pale, grieved Before with lowed, a man a amd passed her. She had never seen it was Christopher's, Margaret wept for him that night as she had never wept for herself. She kissed his yellow picture and whis pered soothing things to it. “I woiild have thought so much of your love,” she sald, softly, as mothers coo to children—“what heart has she, and what is he beside you! 1 hate her--1 hate him-—-I bate them both! Ah. Christopher!” and then she kissed the paper and cuddled it up to her cheek and slept with it over her heart, Bhe slept late. Those holidays were resting times-—she only awoke when heavy knuckles struck the door and someone without cried: “A letter for you!” Then she opened the door and took it in. It was from her aunt. “Dear Margaret” so it ran—*"1 want you to come and see me. I am 1 and doubt if I shall live long. You were a Gusty rood. Khe knew Virglola Hazle- troublesome child, but you've been a very good giri since you grew up and I must say, have done your best to repay me for my Kindness, 1 want to see vou, and as I have made my will and left you all I possess, you owe me a sort of duty, I shall expect you on Monday for the of the vacation. Truly, rest “YOU'R AUNT ELINDA” It was not an affectionate letter, and wis the first invitation the old wo- had ever Margaret, but i she was not revengeful. She packed her trunk once more—it was better filled than of yore-bought a new novel, and took her way to the depot, Not many miles lay between her { home and the city; a few hours and should there, She settled in her place comfortably and opened her book. It was interesting, lost sight of everything in its pages. Sud denly the consciousness that some one it man sent to old she be and she | stood near her made her lift her eves { A man was passing through the Land had to answer the quiries of an old lady who took for a conductor “The next stopping heard him say. It pher's volee, He passed on then and behind him. with him!" the instant car in him stopped is (‘hiristo place { she Was the door shut “Oh, word on of amd shrieks. The ear ‘A man is killed!” said an old gentle man had thrust head window “€t3oxl heavens! he for a Margaret, the thought and she heard Beream fn whistle, shouts stopped Ott of who his the is cut to pleces, i helleve to the platform They had lifted kuew They hard rushed with from Passengers Margaret them fhe from the Christopher first she that it was he ground were carrying him into a by, Margaret followed “i old they let her in tavern am an friend.” she sald, and while others lay and a surgeon bent over him “He lu think.” said this hers: “best shut bed were out Chiristopher upon the noe chance, | looking at him Noth is man the ot not torture UE his life here And then the bed and said “I will stay know No that could be done was over Margaret until the me one of tell hefr that or alone for she asked bent his aver ry sounds The flowers low looked “Is he And I es fuiv Margaret said thank vou At i take his Of Ist, in tae isd cold han 1 . " iors i he TO Hix eyes looked vou badly Miss Margaret Fernley when mn the nyself tell the I Killed It w d. 1 as that, 1 a fool yself the wedding though. You “Yeu,” sald Margaret she Jooked, the face, the ish face that she had loved so ns Wins should hay of made i il tell them pleasant bos changed under her eves with the awful change ] het of death. Sbe bad no power over self then “Christopher!™ she soblsxd “C‘hiris topher, | well Call me Margaret in Heaven Christopher Did he sort of He gave her his cold lips. Maz garet Kissed him wildly. Then sat down beside him him an instant her face upon the pillow! “It is very still in there” landlady, an hour afterward. Then opened the door, peeped in, and gave a ery that brought others to her side in a moment Christopher lay dead upon hig pillow! and on dhe floor. at the bedside, Mar garet had fallen, face downwards! “Khe has fainted,” said the landlady. “She dead.” sald the surgeon “Heart disease. 1 saw it in her face when 1 first spoke to her.” “He must have been her lover.” sald the landlady, weeping, “and it's killed her.” “Not likely,” said the doctor, “Such a splendid woman! and he-no-any { agitation might have done it.” have loved vou so long od Give me one kiss before s promise to i (ih, my dard ug dari Did startled Lie look « hear? comprehend? ' } A He INT Ns eyes she had hid beside what bewen before and said the she is i A Cyclopean Pig. A oneeyed pig, which the Covington (Ala. ) Times pronounces “the grandest curiosity ever presented in that part of the country,” has been sent to the Atlantic Exposition by ita owner, Mr. J. D. Mallot, Heabright, Ala. The creature's single eve is directly in the middle of its forehead. It has no nose, but a snout about two and one-half inches in length, which resembles an elepbant's proboscis. Its head and ears are like those of a dog, and there are four tusks in the lower jaw. Its legs are like those of any other hog, but or its feet are claws. The nearest approach to perfection which bas ever been obtained in & book Is said to be in the cas of a Spanish firm of publishers, who havo produced a work in which only one letter has been misplaced. | NOTES AND COMMENTS In round numbers the United States has produced $2,000,000,000 of since the discovery of the metal in California, Official reports show that ness in the army was a good deal less prevalent last year than But as even mow 31 per admissions army hospitals alcoholism, evidently of room for more improvement ever of the are og plenty cont, to there is The ex-Empress Eugenie has made her will, and a pleasant excitement among numerous godsons in France result, She constituted herself of all, male chil born France on the birthday The number to thousand elght hundred thirty-four of whom has will her is the godmother in amounts and Pees her son. three ench she membered in her The Intest medical returns frome hos in Paris and Berlin that treatment of by one-half the number of deaths of children from London, the fins pitals show serum cut down this disease The complete guecess of still far off, but the upon eliminating the treatment experts the terror of this scourge of childhood What worthy Ix is best count the treatment more note evil effects follow Its main effects makes that ne the use of the serum seem to be the clearing of the phaaryux and the rede of tion Fever tnd is only for the in Nor 1 4 } holdings at Michael last thousand acres ¢ in Engl seven farmers folk gnve un mas, and fourteen vem entirely gone out 1 I aleulated by eX I's $4 § n the last twenty vears the fa f Norfolk® have 0 The bit as he fH fost S15. 00K) (0 corn crops alone land owners tl every position puns wi popu 3 1 nll nation Wry ane men that have or American journal North regarded from should be able to in itself ore however, railroad the French en are muct fact I interest railroads from certain Russian dered locomotives firm A leading says: “That America many points of an engineering A Dew country as mnst still be view its own news fact. This, supply in does of have markable fo sati the activity its Europe will to count in fatnre on the battleground of industry. The ihat to us from the Unitewl States of an order for forty locomotives for Russia, placed the Haldwin Works of Philadelphia, will be received with a certain degree of surprise on this side of the Atlantic, especially if, as we are told. this order is to be followed by more important ones. Already in the matter of furnishing railroad material American constructors had taken pos- session of the South American market and were carrying on a formidable competition against the English in their own colonies, especially in New Zealand and Australia, but it hardly expected that they seen obtaining a foothold in Europe.” not people, with which jee HTYWSs COMmes with The most gratifying and the most suggestive public paper presented for many years to the American people is cation, of which the most distinguished William T. Harris. The report con: firms the title of the United States as foremost among nations in popular education. The whole number of pu. pils enrolled in schools and colleges, public and private, exceeds 15,000,000, or more than 22 per cent, of the entire population. The highest figure at. tained by any other country in recent years Is a fraction within 20 per cent, and the country presenting it was Ireland. After Ireland in rank as designated by ratio of enrollment to entire population came Prussia, Eng. Iand,. Canada, Scotland, Belgium, France, Austrian, Holland, and follow: Ing these, but zt a distance, Switzer land; still further back Spain, Italy, Mexico, the South and Central Amer. lens, Russia and Turkey. The greatest stride forward wos shown during the last twenty years in England, which, only In this generation, has enjoyed really free schools. It is ‘to be ob served that nearly every country had a compulsory school inw now on its { books, but in none is the law enforced rigorously. | It is proposed to Introduce into { the public schools of Canada regular inspection of the teeth of all pupils by experts appointed for the purpose, | The plan is an good one and worthy to be followed elsewhere, Good teeth are as important to the scholar, not ‘only daring his pupilage, but in his after life, ax a good education, and only early attention not always their fa ®_O alwys given to preservation vet educate the n that they can personally inspect and operate on | their charges, but it bad idea sionary IR and ¢ parents nor them, Assure It teachers | are, by possible Cnn in not proposed dentistry, might be a do The modern instructed medicine he Of 1a to BO, His to the there especially are in where den in the ph in end that to al ills reason ay minister YR his convert, and why teachers, Of Io those whose fields work re mote and rustic tists are than rocs eggs should not instructed in that 1 i branch of WOrvatiy ¢ and hea ing uanrt €'s should try th periment, and Country where aquired } troduced system. The | underground aces added t ride many | ius ine CEA wobably regarded by the risk: and | nand of Bulgaria iy companies a too unsafe Prince Ferd w hos i were canceled embarked upon his Bul Th I: Emperor kK of Germany was Insured in £4.00 (0) sk compan when he en I"i8n Ye Frederic he nelghborhoos niure ie 1 of and | wa regarded until | the sudden su as a splendid ri and startling «i hefore was afflicted with or ivy two years his dea inherited | from grandmother, beautiful Queen of Yhe era The life of the queen regent of Spain for a in half of her two daughters, having followed the example of her husband, mulcted the various English and French com panies in which he was insured to the extent £2.000,000. King Leo pold of Belgium's life is heavily in sured, as also that of Queen Vie for the special benefit of her younger children. It was the queen's husband, the lay’ prince consort, who induced her to make provision for their youngest children in this form, and he himself was insured for close upon £35 000,000, the income of which | has been enjoyed by his widow since | his death, Cancey the N apoleon i hils Louise, large amount be little ix insured whic therein whose dentth of some is toria A Rich Newsboy. George I. Tyson was really the most wonderful newsboy in New York City. | he began selling papers uptown and worked up a thriving trade, but when the Fifth Avenue Hotel was built he made a higher move by leasing the exclusive news privilege, This he found so profitable that he secured a | similar privilege in other hotels. and { as his traffic included general light literature and also eclgars he made money rapidly. He became indeed, so prominent a dealer that the Ameri can News Company was glad of his assigance, and before he had long been an shareholder he was elected president, This office he held at the time of his death. He also had the news privi leges in eighteen hotels, and a his es. tate ix valued at $500,000 it certainly is wonderful success for one who started life with a few newspapers. Speaking of newsboys, It is surpris. ing that the leading journalists have done so little for the lodging house erected for that needy and deserving class. Horace ZGreeley bequeathed jt £2,000, but he did a great deal for the newsboys long before he died, and his example should be followed, JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Betrayed Himself--Cause to Enjoy It--. Received a Shock--A Cau- tious Financier--Ete., Eto. BETEAYED RIMSELY. “MM dear,” began Mr. Lushforth, when he found a chance to answer, *‘you are re-—hic—really beside yourself.’ “As didn’t know you saw without you telling me !” if i double CAUSE TO ENIOY 17. bealth %r ‘1 eS, bear your husband enjoys poor He's a doctor, you know.” RECEIVED A BHOCK. “There wes 4 man came up to me to. day with a bill, and in an instant he fell down in a fit” “You hadn't ought to have paid him.” A CAUTIOUS FINANCIER. ‘You believe in free silver, don't vou 7 but really 1 haven't a dollar me that I can spare just now.” do about AR HE WANTED 1 tor—But this portrait of Mr. Bulg Via i8 a good deal more than hfe I know it. That et BiZ8. is Lhe size he by that? orid-faced woman compulsion there 7 look her three iz as they oan be i ch the oun S1OCK In y . os mpany, does | be reminded 10 p. m. need that on to you is lisinteresied WHAT MADE iM 8&0. ife go -1%d your w 20 to ar? imphkins—Yes ; she spent friends at Blue Point. You must have been pretty lone. . the country this Te with John Ve the summer sme Tompkins—Yes 1 was urdavs and Sundays John— Why couldn't yon spend those days with her? Tompkins—] did OF especially Sat. arrange to OOURSE Bobby — Auntie, pass me the butter. Auntie—1f what? jobby—-1f you can reach it. SHEEWD DIAGNOSIS, Doctor— Well, Madam, how are you to- fay ? Madam -—Oh, Doctor, I have frightful pains all over my whole body, and it seems impossible to breathe ; of course | can't sheep, and | have no appetite at all. Doctor — Um — er — well, otherwise you're all right, arent you? CLEARLY EXPLAINED. Willie—Papa, why do they call money dough ? Papa--Because we need it so often, my son. XO RESEMBLANCE “ see that old Snaggs has had his por. trait painted.” “Yes, but it doesn't resemble him." Why not? “‘He tried to look pleasant.” AT ONCE. READY TO Eal Tramp “Please, mum, I've got a sick wife and seventeen small ebildren fHlousekeeper—‘‘I've heard that story for years.” Tramp--*Then, mum, you probably have it by heart, and there's no need of me spoilin’ my digestion by tryin’ to tell it between mouthfuls.” INVESTED IN THRE RORN. Wile-—What in the world do you want with a trombone? You know that the man next door has driven us nearly wild by his performance on that awful tro. ment. Hubby —Calm yourself, my dear That's the one I've bought. NOVEL APPLIANCRS, Nephew (who takes his uncle from the country into a restaurant)—Look, uncle; 1 press this button and order supper. Uncle — Well, what then * Nephew--~Then you press that button
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