CARE'S SLAVE. It was the budding May-time, The white boughs overhead; “Oh, give to me some play time, Good Master Care,” 1 said. I saw his head begin to shake: “Not now; just walt and see, I'H give you a holiday When planting’s done,” said be. It was the glowing summer; How cool the woodland's shade! Again an eager comer, “Oh, give to-day!" I prayed. Old Master Care his forehead knit; “The grass is ripe to mow; Work on till haying time is past, And then I'll let you go.” It was the glad September; The maple leaves were red; “Oh, Master Care! Remember, You promised me,” I said. “And you will find,” he answered me, “I'll keep my promise true, And you may sport when done, With nothing else to do.” harvest's Now winter's winds are blowing (How weak I feel and old!) And by the hearth bright glowing, I shiver with the cold And Care sits down beside me, And counts up one by one, The tasks that I have dona amiss, Or I have left undone: While I, low muttering to myself, Wished I had laughed and sung, And had my share of honest joy When I was strong and young CAPTAIN Captain Storms put the glass to his eye, and took a long look. Far on, black against the silvery horizon line, that shapeless speck showed. What Was Captain Storms’ prolonged survey ended, he slowly dropped his glass, and turned to Mr. the mate, “I knew I was right,” he said: & wreck, a dismantled hulk, drifting about at the mercy of wind and sea There may be no one left aboard. | we'll bear down and have a look.” And then Captain Storms lifted his voice—a stentorian and gave the proper orders to the man at the masthead, or at the helm. or somewhere] know exactly, I would tell you the precise words which it? t? Scott, “it is ut up voice it was don't Captain Storms used on this occasion. if I could: ward in nautical have to be content wi the gallant bark. the straight down outlined against Captain Storms leaned over and lit a cigar. He young man, stalwart and take it sailor mos looked ing seaman, He but I'm deplorably back- matters So ress ¥ 1} you'll learning that upon the sunny Was a bronzed gallant men the very costume, a musta : self; and, from hat to the Storms was a s 1is glazed Captain he Lovely sunlit tropic se ing wreck. Capt man iuman voice, be seen; but from ¢ that “There's son alive here still.” said Captain Storms fend! Who are you? Where Again that unspeakably mournful wail. Captain Storms strode across to where a heap of torn canvas and rotten wood lay, and looked down i the garish sunshine, with h upturned to the serene sky. a woman lay dead. Crouching over her. a skele- ton child, with long, making that feeble agony. “My child!” Captain Storms said pitifully “my child, what is this." The ghastly little creature lifted a bloodless face and a pair of haggard eyes, “Mother's dead!” “My poor little girl.” bending over her as dead mother could must come with me, or too. Come!” She rose up—a frail little shadow of ten and held up her arms. “Peace is hungry,” ly. “Peace is sick mother's dead.” And then as the strong arms lifted her as though she had been a wax doll the biue eyes closed wearily, and the to hear th NO ' faint, “Speak, fi are you?” we In air, 3 v 143 tvs : Gumi wild | moan o said the sailor, ly as that tenderly done, “vou die, have you will years skeleton she cried, piteous- and cold, and blind darkness. ~~while the Lovely Lass sailed along the southern seas, and the dead woman lay quietly under the great Pacific— Between death and life. these endless days and nights, the big sun-browned sallor watched over his little girl as a father—-nay, as a mother ~might have done, until the fluttering spirit ceased its struggles and grew calm in strength ard health once more. Little Peace—her name was Priscilla Weir, she said; Peace for short—came up on deck by-and-by, pals and weak still, and lisped her story to the soft- hearted sailor. “There had been a great storm-—oh a dreadful storm!” Peace gald, with a ,shudder; and they went away in boats -~ali the men did-—and mamma was sick down In the cabin, and left behind: and Peace stayed with mamma and was left behind, too. And then mamma came upstairs on deck, and died; and Peace sobbed, and was so ill and so cold; and then you came,” looking gratefully at the captain, “and Peace doesn’t remember any more.” “Does my little Peace know where mamma éame from, and where she was going?’ Captain Storms asked, : “Yes, Peace knows. Mamma came from New York and was going to China to papa. Papa lived in China and was rich.” But that was all she could tell; and Captain Storms knew that among all the unlikely things on this earth, the most unlikely now was that papa and his little girl would ever meet, The Lovely Lass spent nine long months on the Pacific coast, and then sailed back for America, “And I shall leave my little Peace be- hind next voyage,” Captain Storms said. “I have a sister who keeps a school in Philadelphia, a fashionable young ladles’ academy-—and Peace shall stay there and learn to play the plano, and talk Freuch and paint ple- tures, and grow up a pretty young lady.” “And I shall have silk lots of pictures and story Peace asked, with interest. “Heaps of ez, Peace! And nice lit- tle girls to play with, and music, and dancing, and everything beautiful all the day long.” Peace clapped would be lovely, dresses and $0 books! her hands-—thn! of the Lovely Lass consigned his little into the hands that too, and olung to girl—a willing captive of Mrs, Not few tears at parting, eck, and came to the last, given, here, ns lee. but she shed a sailor's n Was very so when it by kiss was “There Peace'"” the lk my little sald, “you unclasping mustn't cry i i { i i and make look ugly littie Peace; 1 will come your nose, Keep up heart, back you resents for my little girl Kiss me again, and jet me go.” 4 the little unwound clasping and straightway 1g cheerily along the deck 3, and quite forgetful, 3 little Peace and her ing smack wistful tear- wet arms and on and walked off, face, the nistii Lovely las I am afraid, of hi grief. “Dear, good Peace; ‘he’s tured; deck of the Lovely that, I had rather pretty dresses, and ars, and neve wrecks any more.” Captain Storms land; guardian,” thought nd and so good-na- nice pls 80 } and it was the wear Lee's board iid of ship- Now when Zea - soughs Peace on the terribl ple chil Two ye one fan) in $ v . § er way. h ent cheok an me Heads Peace lifted kissed hi Why, arm gee you." face and m mainmast, by George! and as thin as a shadow. Don't give Peace?” “Plenty, growing girls are always th now, what have you New Zealand?" “Bushels of here learning at the piano.” they eat HAYH a0 ight me fr Peace How It us hear things, be by-and-by does the progresa? you i | i | and waltzes, “And 1 can whirling gayly “and draw pencil awing, and do fancy work And, guardy, w guardy.” the st you know, ike everything! $ ished, I want you to fit up the cabin of and a plano, and heaps of new novels, and take me to sea with you all the time until I'm an old woman, won't you?” Of course, Captain Storms devoutly promised, and rose up to take his leave, “I'm going to China this voyage.” he said, puliing her long. brown braids. tie girl's love, I suppose?” “Ah! if you only would see him!" Peace cried, clasping her hands. “Dar- Guiardy, he used to be in Hong Kong, I know. ry if you can find him for me when you go there” Captain Storms promised this also and departed. Peace ciung to him sob- bing at the last, “You'll write to me often this time, won't you, dear guardy? You only sent me one little stingy letter last time, you know.” “All right, Peace,” the captain sald. “I'll try. I never was much of a scribe, but this time I'll vo my best.” 80 once again the captain of the Lovely Lass left this little girl. to sail merrily over the world: and once more Peace went back to her horn-book and fancy work. But the months strung themselves out, and the years rolled slowly back- ward, and Captain Storms, sailing to and fro in golden eastern and southern climes, never came to take this little girl from school. His letiers were few and far between, despite his promises, only six in six long years, and in ans- § i wors he had at least received sixty. But the sixth and last announced his coming, and told her the wonderful news that he had met her father ip Hong Kong, and that she must be ready to go with him next voyage to China, Captain Storms, hale and brown, and handsome despite his middle age, rang Mra. Lee's door-bell, and strode, like a sun-burnt glant, into the boarding- school parlor, “But of course she couldn't know 1 was coming,” he thought, as he sent up his name; “poor little girl. I hope she'll be glad to see guardy.” The door opened and a young lady walked in, A tad and stately and graceful young lady, with a dark, hand- some face and waves of sunny brown hair, Surely, surely, this was not “Lit- tie Peace.’ “My dear guardian, welcome back! Oh, how happy I am to see you once more!" Yes, Peace, beyond doubt; but, oh, 80 unutterably changed. Captain Storms reddened under his brown skin, and actually stammered, “You surely know me, | smiled brightly. “I dare say 1 have grown of all reason. Am | taller than the mainmast now? | was almost as tall, if you remember, six ago.” She recollected what he had said these years, and Captain Storms’ face d. expected to find my Peace, and | find a young lady so stately and that | am at a loss what I'm not ladies’ society, you see pee" she out YOars all Ties tt ints 10 her, used to on his arm, and salior face, laid her hand up in his honest with deep, sweetly shining eyes “Talk to me as vou used to, and call Ah, guardy, how | for your coming. And tell me of him.” Captain Storms told he was rich and lonely, her, but unable to come how she was to return the {f the She lookaed have longed her er met, how, I merest accident, had how longing America; him, and steward Lovely } wife that was to take out upon her. And Peace peaceful dream wait like being a ' one in a heroine—it was ff nr ter out of one romantic Peace, » So they sailed for that far y tial of tea and pig-talls Storms and his handsome ward had there fairy Hrussels carpet ’ , and a piano, and lots of Peace her dreams real Was a WAS Her mu BW eel? as in BONKSE swe siren strains of the mermalds beautiful face lit up the grim ne #§ pw § 4 on Fe 3 nalimes, in ¥ moog: I am more than doub rough and black and weath e her age id 1 am 3 the timbers of my old Harry Storms; the only my boy, is the Lovely hoped , sometimes | ildiy to him so happily, she smil- sweetly, she was ever regretful of 18 had of 42 b ; ; and, it not happen again, the most blessed he went ied when mar men oh, why should | Harry Storms be men? reached na among They reached they was China and Peace folded in ier father's arms “Bo like nother,” he said, his So falling, Tryad tears my like mother.” Captain Storm three the Celestial City visit never again He made visiting Peace home, and every weeks in to perhaps, most of his stay, day in her palatial growing moodier and moodier visit. Peace, too, drooped a little, and looked at him wistfully, and lost some of that bright happiness that made her the light of all places. And when the last day came, and he stood up to say good-by, she broke down aitogether and oried like a very child. “And 1 shall never gee you again” she sald; “you who saved my life! Oh, Captain Storms, must you go?” And then that bashful giant took heart of grace, as a landsman would have done weeks before. “1 must go,” he said, “but we need not part, my darling Peace, if you say so, for 1 love you dearly; and if you will be my wife, we will sall together, for ever and ever, as you once wished, until our heads grow gray. Mine is not so far from it now,” he added, rue- fully. But Peace had thrown her arms im- petuonsly around him, and kissed the dark, crisp locks, “And if every hair were white as the foam of the sea, 1 should love you, and go with you, just the same, Why, Captain Storms, you have been my hero all these long years: and I should have died of disappointment, I know, if you had left me behind.” S80 the China merchant lost his daughter, and the Lovely lass had a second commander; and in all the years to come Peace will reign peren- nial in the heart of Storms, ow T the every A grasshopper can spring more than two hundred times its own length. NOTES AND COMMENTS, ‘Give me $150,000,” observes Explor er Peary, “and 1 will find the North | Pole." We decline with thanks, We | wan't afford to fritter away that much noney on a cold deal like this, 190 atmospheres, to liquefy alr hours without resorting to cooling expedients. than in two auxiliary | | ited last month before the There are only three towns ia Rhode | sland now unprovided with public or semi-public libraries, and these three, | are being spurred to equal the public | spirit of the reat. The number in | France each year is now about 120,000, and of this number 24,000 are sent to | Paris. In 1896 cmly 2.600 horses made their final appearance in the guise of | Of the 120,000 now consumed it | impossible to say how in ignorance of the | probably once of horses consumed beef, is, of many fact been course, are eaten that they have between the shafts, The city of Paris Is making a sani- tary record of every bullding in the city Since March, 1894, 25,000 houses have been described, and it is expected that the register will be completed by It for each t description of drains, and of 1900, contains the sls, the pl f whatever death diseases have occurre isinfections and water, air or dust, long-talked of pr connecting North being revived Mexico rica tiations between mala, BRED reiations years i of been appoint similiar Gun the J Jutte, Mont apparatus microphonograph exceedingly sixth Ohio his age gns of his extreme drummers he was a and always re many but r from first, a4 man's duty. I'hé the “Darkest Salvation last eais were supplied and ] men factories, 411 prison home, 11.889 pro- employment, temporary or and 1.535 women and girls into homes. Although of making the the report Eng. Army shows s id” scheme | the England year 2 501 permanent received rescue there is no i 0 work f food and shelter for \ Gf $190 - ys elty enl- over 000 from ony with $476.000 and the farm cols many meeting The Outlook how the children of Rochester, N. Y their industry succeeding in the city of a pest of moths. moths had become so destructive that the Forestry Association offered a prize of five dollars to each of the children of any one school who would bring in 1,000 or more of the cocoons of this insect; three dollars to the three bring in the second largest num- ber; two to the three bringing in the third largest number. This was in i893. The next year the amount of the prizes was increased to ten dollars for the boy or girl who brought in a greater number of cocoons than were brought in by any one pupil in 1883: this was 44.900. Twenty children each won a ten-dollar prize. The school children of Rochester have gathered from the bark of tree fences, rough places in houses. ete. | almost 9.000000 of those moth co coons, and now the e¢ity is free from these insect pests, through the efforts of these children. returned an expense of $453 080 my ir spite of very 25.000 ¥ $ py» . of its expenditure of §250,000 tells school have by ridding These Many scientists are devoting their attention to the difficult task of rapid- ly and cheaply liquefying air. This, when accomplished, will be of great value for many purposes, of which re- | frigeration and the moving of engines, | stationary and locomotive, are the. most important. By the most suc cessful methods hitherto used, a Ger man experimenter was able, with aj copper tube apparatus weighing 132 pounds and a pressure averaging more twenty not in of commercial system was a marked on all its predecessors, pounds, quantity only was to be but the improvement It is rather surprising about home matters often is that a party of English is coming over here this shoot wild horses. weighed liquid alr large a8 news from to learn sportsmen summer to eager Nimrods, there are at least to the inhabitants of the country that decreasing thelr numbers will welcomed, Once, narrative in gratefully to the aid be AC cording veracious gleaned, as was from which these facts are the ranches of d they nuch att on 4 3 nga ti v4 13 OF met nm 1 paid j *Aring horses as Lo of were so valu- the ’ ‘ or i nin animal than crime worse . _ 14 the man who would murder in v i undred round up a few | animals and e elected a Senator wheths as bene- to a help a have Sena brown, gs and to reddish irds show great unife Co has Com pe i iA direct cherish . # iif sm 0 antagonism observance, At fow ed traditions of religious personal liberty, and family life the epidemic very vy # For a time Bombay to patients By the beginning the Arthur Road contained nearly a while numbers were the hospitals Hindu, Khols, communities ions hoapital treatme in twenty-five seemed impossible than to enter the wards, of March, Hospital alone hundred patients availing themselves of the Parsee, and Mohammedan duce more however. of vain, of gpecis 1 the Port and Parel institut Trust of things ant of the i accord existing It not merely n of sentiment in this worid; i ; va- tion in the next Almost ception, until now, the classes of Indians have preferred the certainty of dying among thelr own are ai to 0 perform without ex- respectable public hospital, iis management, if it involves separa- tion from their families. gation is the essential condition hospital treatment in a great epidemic. and for the first time in India it ed as inevitable by the people them- selves, most fanatical opposition. Japanese Maznanimity and Bravery, After the capture of Port Arthur a Oyama saw a number of Chinese pris- The marshal called ‘Those too are men.” “My horse, though he may one of his aids. those men’s lives. Lead them to my stables, turn the horses out, and see that the prisoners are sheltered.” When this act was explained to the Chinese they were quite overcome. The incident of the Gillies HII at Banuockburn has more than its paral. lel near Port Arthur. An attack was made upon a commissary train guarded by omly fifty soldiers, who seemed doomed. But a body of 700 Japanese coolies nearby, wholly unarmed but for a few that carried staves, begged to be permitted to engage, “Though we head man, “we can do them much damage, and ot all events we may keep them busy until reenforcements come up.” To this the officer rather unwil- lingly consented, In a moment the coolies were off at a full run, yelling and hurrahing. They fell on the as- enemy with thelr naked wrenched the swords or guns from many and fought 1 BO demons. The Chinese broke ranks and fled Thirty were kilied and many taken prisoners On the part of the coolies the casualties were five killed and his tonighed hands, AWAY many or he wounded 1 idents of remarkable inc “Herold of the the most war.-—From Japan.” Useful Tattooing. Why should we not all of us be iden- Home Journal. 24 2 #4 ro % iA 3 have often found diffi- in mark? ask The Boston Men who in getting oF 4 nia oH trave checks ¢ hed HeCKs Ashe women possible back and first bit of wind New Ribbon for Madal of Wonr Among the sets of levels Pre: last official d was to prescr knot to be worn " fa LEGA a general ) the president, and bowknot prescribed ribbons and the istributed. The order from jer secretary of war says: “A worn with the f a knot to worn are prescribed and es medal o in lieu to be and medal, blished by the President of the tabi ed States patte ribbon honor, be of the to be each of a The wide follows ribbon inch ‘ # ou cenier one and one the siripe of teenth of am inch seconds of two stripes of re inch wide, bor each The knot 4 one wide inch of the same ibina the ribbon above de over of whom colanion fist the country in- ad BO0L some only 11 600 men, others cludes are officers and goldiers. Largest Brick Building. “Very few know it, but it is a fact’ explained a prominent bulldér to 2 Washington Star reporter, “that the Pension Office building is the largest brick building in the world. It has been subjected to much criticism, but can stand it, for as time passe: along there are many things seer about it that escaped notice when {if Was newer, in all, says the Star General Meigs took liber. bricks that no other archi He not only building. ties with tect had ever attempted. ing. but he used them in constructing the stairs throughout the building. in the matter of stair building. bricks have often been used for the riser but the step has always been of fron wood, slate or stone. In the Pensior Office both riser and step are of brick As a brick building, therefore, pure and simple, it is unique in construc tion, outside of the fact that it is the inrgest exclusively brick building is the world.” Official statistics for 1886 of the sev. en Australian colonies give their pop ulation as being 4,323,171. Melbourne is said to have lost 42,488 inhabitants since 1881.
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