LIFE, DEATH, HEREAFTER. A xinzie strain upon the harp of time Awakened “by the love; gentle touch of A lingering echo dying on the alr: And then—a sound of melody LILLIAN BARKER In Pet TOMMY BROWNS BEST GIRL. Tommy For the Brown was not to be envied young of looks, to be stuck away Nutton's Corners, of it, hard Inek 4 way station on the 201 it fellow wit i gifs in way conversat rood was, to s Suttons JK even on the main line were only two passeng and no painted a dirt or less more words, in House,” cated that the place hotel, but Sutton’s Corners die ters, “Compton for a the the build dollars a week A young man ence has world, and ti the job of hen just begh deadly truth, Sutton's Corners neers Ww He | wis add on Fomm; the yi fon's Corners enlled his Hobbsvilie, I 15. over ti Ww told HH. B. ali good stories, and B.. who had a packet of his « turned the favor, and, as 1 1 the two neds through the twenty miles of telegraph ire. I wn, re ave said, became the of fri wire that stretebed between them One day when Tommy aver the wire about the dullness of his situation sudenly asked H. B. a guestion. “Say, was cussing he H. BS out, “are there any girls over at Hobbsville 7 “Nary a girl,” responded H. B. di aud if the very instriaent matted in sympathy. “How are you off nera”’ “Why.” sald Tommy, “I's in the same ax yout are. There isn't a soul to speak to in the place, but old wWaotnern. “I must said H. B,, in one of the drawbacks of this place, I would give anything to have a girl | to speak to, but there isn't any. 1 sup pose, though, that you have a girl wait. ing for vou down East” “No.” sald Tommy, “to tell the truth, I haven't. If I had, a stack of letters, lonely here” “I don’t know about that,” sald H. B., | philosophically. “I haven't a girl my. self, but it seems to me if 1 had, 1 ghould pine right away here for lack * of seeing her. But if you are really dy- ing of loneliness and lack of ladies he clicked So0n solately, it seemed as for girls at Batton's Cor box confess” “that and she wrote me | it wouldn't be so | troduction to « very nice girl, if you want to make her acquaintance.” heaven whore?’ the { you sald there weren't any girls I. name, ! “nh { Toramy th there on machine, *1 mig hit she live I. doesn't “hii ITE nus weorad ahont nitles ten : ' ’ CHOON ni aut Hobbs' and 1 1 forth in the school farm On Lier bie Mt le " telegraphed haste, 1 say,” Fon ai) reckless ened make thie laughter, “I me, although 1 ha fal very nu brought Ly I wonder how from hers It can't be more ten or eleven $ right between the two plac 4 the dirt road how runs to her he saw he memories 1d at realized it ha Joermw and ened Once donb the somewhat tender, gir answered frankly, with a laugh always call him H. B., and that laughed and tely, as it were, on terms of friendship. too.” Tommy alsa, Were inne “He knows me as 8. NJ” said Tomms “That's the way we efire very he confidentially with little are so ns telegraphers; about real names, we calling by the signal that Hilse ach stands other the We talk to each other over acceustonnsl to up sta the in intervals of busi for tion wires, you know, ness," "That must very interesting” Miss Benford, “is it difficult to learn telegraphing ¥ “Ody not very difficult.” replied Tom my. “That is, it is not very diffledit to learn to telegraph, but it is difficult to learn to be an expert, be «ald It is ensy enough but after that each step be: m 8 harder and harder to It's something like shorthand; any fool can do a hun dred words a minute, hat it lan't every body who ean reach the two hundredth point.” “I suppose,” sald Miss Seaford, “that | take, thing: those who can do a thing pass. | ably well are many, but the experts are very few.” In a very short time all Tommy's | embarrassment left him, and he found himself deeply grateful to H. B. for se. curing him an introduction to so charm. i A I ¥Lpper they (ook a spin together on thelr wheels as far as chool with Hy eoetnd dediehtful to Tom escorting back oil nnd chatted the house, which she exhibited to him ria that ino of Klon ny. Aft farm aly POSREN her to the they together {ol “WHOL AH 1 ine to am thst OI paint the tute the word "Dove for it Miss Beaford laughed merrily, and be stated that the it need hin machi he ove the wire next wered Tommy, * ost stun pretty think wi'‘hiooln vat at all. By the il. } anything il wis you know authors and that sort reading n “Why do you a not a mye made , aansd doula to mind his own bu sat ied, my om telegraphed H., B., saying he was going away shortly after lunch, and asked his friend to any answer to Sut messages that were sent ton's Corners “You can't swered H. B “I am going to.” won't stand I amy going and two leave the office,” an “i longer, si'hool bouse en if there are children said SHspense to Tommy. this any right the to her, ev and fifty propose hundred pres ent.” “I wouldn't do anything so extremely fool answered H. B. “why, you'll make the girl so ashamed that she'll never speak to you again.” “I am not going to do anyihing fool ish,” replied Tommy. “1 am going to leave here and reach the school about 4 o'clock, when it is dismissed; then | shall eycle home with her, and I'll bet you before I reach the farm boase I'l know what my fate ia” “I'd walt till 4 o'clock.” answered HH. B. “I don't think you ought to leave your telegraph desk. There may come ish,” Ewer. a train at Satton's Corners, what cond wes message there? “There hasn't been one for a Tommy. month, and an extra is not likely to come in today of all days in the year, I'm going to chanee It. You look after the wire fer me, and I'll do as much for you some day when you're interested in & girl.” ; “I would not leave H. B., ms ull pont replied “for the gris and live where Bah!" throw YOu fn rejoined Tomy Conte pt into tiie work machin ‘You have never nud don't know mi The Retort Clever, Wi Blorg ft his babies! aiong without them ave to be, when we » high mightinesses! adelphian was laughing recen over the fall worst of the house t the Press, absurd ake His talking Oo the one is apt to into when about the first} newly made mamma “Well,” she sad, “Jerome K helped ns out wonderfully He said that when in doult as to the gender of the little manity one «hould carefully avoid ferring to the child ax merely eall it ‘the little angel.” ” ie of the question Jerome in one re “ect norsel of hn Iv ‘he’ or she’ and hint settles one si But are baby rescanbles papa or mamma? hat is just a= bad as the other. Well, 1 found myself face to face with this iat ter question a few days ago, and the way I took of repiving wis so success ful that I think women should fortify herself with it, And the men, too; fot they are just as often in this predica. ent, “Po you think baby looks like his father or Hke me?’ asked baby's de voted manna, 1 looked at baby jong and steadily and then roplied: “Baby fooks like a choral” The sehen was supremely snocessful and baby's anmma sent me baby's picture in a sii fo peal HNEgen suppose vou whethm Parig Ix the paradise of the drens. maker. There are in the eity 70.000 persons who make articles of wvomen's dress and 65.000 dressmakers, It has been estimated that the yearly amount earned in this business thers 8 over $250,976,000. | NOTES AND COMMENTS. [Tt fppent Interstot the der roan a recent report Commerce Comes of travel bee lerabl Hpon have red ie ried Ww hen hundreds of the the young © corated in Pome gol effects of readily imagined, brut at CORK, wl it will prove a splendid sud i% easy to figure out viking Inspector General's a person is very much safer : 23108 on A Han § if any otl 1s or pleas Of GOOO0.000 Journeys 1 ae sori made jas wal ended in a fatal Otherwise stated, the pereovntages fatalities , CHO0O034G, That fraction which conveys nn meaning the mind untill statement that a man with § Ine can make 2.715.308 vessels propellad | bof fnrn comes to be drowned or blow Nobody, however, gels much or out of compniations of thix sort, they form a branch of maths which everyone gives theoretical his affairs on din ples, of this t Yea only arclident 4] Wax ifaln thraed LA siiin nat ng then $... 8% iwslip On an ovdinsry dirt onl according to “The Philadelphia Recor “a ora CAN wraw three thuex as pinteh weiss ak he can carry on bis hack, ig a good macadamized road the animal on pull three times as much ax on 7 dist road, while on an asphalt pavomen? the power of tue horse ix multiplied ta : ch. Majies ther «day on a well , ¥ays the London Week 1831, Dek began letter mature age of 11, his if outlying villages ew years later he ard Castle, where from het pensi armed in Born Always a amplisived a walking at During the rail of the aN Jd il of longa aud another had serving not in connection Durham and Lan re Union Railway on nearly sil Kianoee lie the Pariiameniary vith South Weg the in the interval between y deliveries, walked to Appleby Cas Lord Apnleby's and back, aveasion, sent. AR NON i The Panama Canal Panna show that cana has nt been dis A new director-genemnl fro France, and 150 1a Have gone to work on the Cale 11, ig the most encouraging thw aloption on sic ihr division of the macliinery and methods peal ia making excavations i the Chivago dralnage canal. The Bort work on the isthmns In the days of the first company wax done by con. tractors from this rountry. who used, from id partis is a #
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