THREE ANGELS,
Three Angels share the lot of human
strife,
Three Angels glorify
Love, Hope and Patience che
ay;
the path of life,
Mr Us en
our w
,
Love, Hope and Patience
rit’ tay:
form
8h!
h us day
“Dear M
to hope
gotten t
summer
Is
\
thinking
“0, 1
say, after
is quite et
You
India!
ton,
shall I?
nnd
rl
ang
With a
her husband
could say
voice broke
the room
“It Is a sham
“Are you
Barton.
had to
pity.”
“A pity! (soor
ful
ave Lis
took
and now
thinking of
and somet Z Ve
through tie wom.
“Don't be silly, Mand!™ eld her
mother, in the tone which betrays how
familiar Is the sentence, and Mand had
heard It all her life In
most enthusiastic
her daily chatter,
small.
Her father and mother Began to fon.
sider the position. Major Merton ex
pecting a bride; thelr friends, Colonel
and Mrs, Gore, “rt Cone
stance to Dombay and be pirosent at
the wedding: and, most Impurtant to
the female nyind, the troussean which
x11 oF
tell you.
And bow
love treate
it
as though
FegnioNgs hor
ideas, as well as to
effeet
#0 ils Wiis
waiting {o os
What was to be done?
“Wire to Major Merton,” suggested
the rector, * ‘No. Constance; or ‘Con |
stance refuses.’
“No,” sald Mrs. Barton,
(Fores take our kL
decidedly
must ters, and
he sees them alone on the steam
er half the blow will be
broken;
the force of
hing Is
much bel
he will
wrong that
than a telegram.”
“Yes " Maud,
not lave to walt a fortnight
Nise
1 be
Mite
and wil
sald “hesause
lanation.”
Mrs
that had
Maud,
war Indian tr
ldered,
I Maud, quick
sald Hayton
not
«hive thi
i on
i ew
tones
wonfused object n
J sSUrgin
ols a
vfs
i
inds into a feeble would not
ough the
found her i
z %
so ditteuit
them int
long argument
that followed, they
» jell
y
nperious |
nos’ to
AUSWer,
he end say i
“Amd why
steaming
to &ach other
he Ganges was
harbor early
one eee
+ PASSENgers,
leave,
Maiabar |
rom
for to do but delive: gv jot
with which they had been intruste
and let Major Merton depart
iy as poss ble,
Mrs Gore and Maud had been school
fellows and were great friends. so that
the latter found life
hing in the gay itt
the
A very
fneasant
i cantonment
w here whic: Colonel
Corse
regiment
commanded was stationed
Naini Tal
Gore came up in
and Mand rode down
irewery fo
themselves to
Colonel
his wife ns far
the They
arrived] early at the meeting piace, and
walking on through the gn
y near a bowlder
with: waving ferns, over
water dripped, from
coud mee a bit of the real
Colonel Gore mist pass, Mrs. Gore was
as meet hin.
ze,
themaelves caver
which
whence they
up
He is not alone.
pick up some one, when he might Know
that 1 am dying to tell him everything
as we ride up.”
Mrs, knew
that
astonishment no
found
(sore'’s
when she
the
until he asked her
had re
thi
was silent point
blank
the road,
whether she ognized him
on and n she answered
very quietly:
“1 thought it looked
Gore chattered
home, but the pair beh
Major Merton's
were he
Maud but
Ww
ons of
had Imagined her i gE Wo
man of decided 0p and one
whose volee was heard move frequent
n Constance’s in tle Norfolk
ry, and he glanced her from
to time, wondering at » change,
that she gtill
thought suffer
had al
realized
thinking
wl by th
whicly, uti t “1, Le
1h
op
thout the
ted hid
bazaar
ii
whole worl
just to De with you:
for 1 OWI,
How
ba
want vou for my
yout do 11?
Can
whatever it
all your dear self
an | and
will know that I am »
.
ask it, may
you yurs and
yours only.’
Tuesday mo ning.
word will do. Yes-and
Yes—and that means 1 love
that means eversthing! Deo
you know that I am so glad you wrote?
Can you Well, 1 read
your letter to Constance, and | wanted
not
“One
Y eng nud
rou, and
guess why?
ferently, and I see that you can! |
think of to-morrow’s goodby,
“MAUD.
An Unfailing Sign of Longevity.
Starting from the base of the big tod
That is the lif
line, In one foot it will curve along
until it terminates nudes instep far
as
bodes
This means long life, If broken in the
hollow of the foot it denotes a sickness
at middle age, and if it terminates io
This line is the most interest
The experiments
that have been conducted lately have
proven this to be an almost unfailing
He.
HOW THE INDUSTRY HAS FALLEN
QFF IN LATE YEARS,
Right Whales, or Bowheads,
ford the Whaling Depot
Men hi
ten year
Ex
of a
dreads
ive gone jnsane within the last
Mall and
[He : ying to make a decent sort
for Huu
thousands of
whalebone
y
been squandered in the same
tien, There
but
stihstit called
off
is possibl
are nies,
from mel
money,
as any old sailor
Aner)
; to take the
atte r
As the
—_—
s
and
sea id
its ®ize In
capital
£100 G00 O00
5 $usal
mnaseda
of its which is esti
came from bone and biut
The whaling business of
find
1860
the town
at the
ber
was begun about
height fame In this
year bone sold for £5 a pound, oll
brought $2.75 a gallon, and the year's
cateh amounted to $7.000,000, There
were then 10,000 engaged in
the enterprise and 600 vessels, repre
senting an investment of $12,000,000
To-day the business is operated by
“plum puddin’ers.,” an old-timer says
Next to geiting valuahle strips
from the jawbone of the whale to in
sort into stays and waists the most
important thing is to get the blanket
strips of blubber, It is not a savory
job “trying out” a whale, but there is
money in it, or rather there was, An
old South street shell-back who was
identified with a dozen whaling cruises
between "54 and "80 says that the whale
--
i ist, was
of its
gailors
%¥s
the
before kerosene was
difference between sucker fishing and
fishing for =zalmon. There are more
whales than ever in the Northern Pa-
cific, he says, because there is nothing
to keep them down,
now getting all the baleen,
whaler recently arrived there with a
in the Arctic, "gamboling and skylark.
tug Hke a school of playful porpoises.”
It was very disappointing to sce all this
blubber floating about with
The Inst census showed
no hance
to use the iron
that there were twelve women engaged
with thelr husbands In the whaling
business of
largest
by
lump
an Oriental
India
1 1% A
ound in
Frit
Compan)
piece
t hes
captured
Yir 1 i
brought
PICTURE ON A HILL
The Long Man of W
Moasures 240 Feet.
Berwick
About midway between
Wi
rdingly
¢ (Joos not
to
in starch,
M. A. Allard,
netrument the
antage
Ore to sole
and a French invent
devised an calied
feculometer for to
It depends upon the principle that
has
enabing them do
this,
increase in ti
he proportion of starch {n-
it ix a kind of large
aerometer, consisting of a lower recep-
tacle for a weight, a central float into
which is put a Kilogramme of very clean
and very dry potatoes, and a rod grad.
uated for density and
richness in starch. When plunged into
a cylindrical vessel of
deep,
creases the density
corresponding
water about
twenty inches the Iinstrulnent
promptly indicates the quality of the
potato by the depth to which the rod
sinks, The same apparatus may be
weed for determining the density of
other farm products, such ad beets and
grain, a special scale being provided for
each kind,
Some Men Are Frivolous.
The Emperor Domitian occupied his
leisure in catching fies, Cardinal
Richollen amused himself with his en)
jection of cats, Cowper was at no time
#0 happy ax when feeding his tame
Mazarin employed his leisure
in playing with an ape. The Marquis
de Montespan amused himself with
mice when occupying the gilded aparts
The mice were
white and had been brought to him all
the way from Siberia. Latode. in the
Oil Fuel for War Ships.
A writer in a recvat number of the
Revista Nautica remarks that sll the great
naval powers have been experimenting
with fuel. In 1593 many of
the Italian war BIDS carried & supply of
nstakl to be used us adjunct to thelr
ordinary fuel » many of the
torpedo. exclu
peiroieum
un
ipply while
als were fitted to use it
Eng and is stated
the most progres
{a
ance,
sively.
have made
whom the
Owin
petroleum
ages of thie |
re
pnprise a
of
Irae
{11048051
UCUOn Oiume
combustible
power ia the nines Ao
sClion
more
below
Te 1 0 riven bo
increased
The
parol.
it of the way of
y fear of spontaneous
nally
from sul
radius of obtained
thus na
oll can, wer, be stored al least
water line,
There is n«
ustion of the oil, » I BS OCCHS
with coal, an
fue
1g freq
siur, the Ol
boller
f
on of firing
COmes CxXiremely easy
in thelr
whereit
d several descend
but were witi
most other people,
ties were In
vocal organs,
Ki variance
; peculian
*
is Of
which
due to
led him to form the
sion above stated
He has finally succeeded in being able
to talk. In conversation he bever resoris
to the pencil. He has been out of the
hospital five wes ks. and can speak 80 &s
to be fairly well understood. The docton
i= confident that within a short time his
speech will greatly improve
and
iefe
concin
wise
pss —
Queer Cycling.
A onhedegged bicyclist is making 1
tour around the world, His name i
R. W. Brown, and left Madison
South Dakota, on June 1, arriving a
San Francisco September
Brown says he ix pot trying to mak
any particular Kind of record. All In
wants ix he says, a change of scenery
and especially to get away from “the
hard times in South Dakota.”
He has been pushing westwand by
ensy stages. He arrived at San Fran
cisco with only one cent in his pocket
but he was confident of making souw
money before many hours were over
On the way across the continent thir
one-legged bievelist has been giving
exhibitions and winning races. He en
tered a race at Salt Lake, in which
there were twenty-three starters, Ha
was allowed a seven-minute bandieaj
over the scratch man, and he came ou
eighth in a ten-mile race. In all, Brow:
has travelled, according to his cyclom
sir, 2878 miles. ~~New York Journal,
he
cry
De