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