THE PILCRIMS, “Whither, pilgrims, whither bound Passing slowly with no sound?” One by one they journey by, Gliding, gliding silently; Slowly, slowly, dim and gray, Hold they on their ghostly way. “Hither, children, making May Of the solemn autumn day, Who were they but now went by While the dead weeds gave a sigh? Who the pilgrims, dim and gray, Stopped and looked upon your pay?” “We have wandered many hours Here where some one hides the flowers; We heard laughter in the grass, But we saw no pilgrim pass.” Whispers one,—pale-cheeked is she, “Shapes went by; they beckoned me.” John Vance Cheney in Century. MISS LATIMER'S ASSASSIN. There was a man hanged under mob law in Southern hio several It that had e years of in that aa ago, was the first incident the Kind curred part of the State, ; » people there- abouts were ed it. The m A heinous one. He ha waturally atly excit i over had been ns « down ho suffero: Mias Lime was 1 well-to-dq i en was IAYS irgad great house for } after the shock shooting and sub god ¢ said o xt Harvey and You can't I wouldn't girl to allow on are, to sleep on the woud b morning. There's He's house €¢ murdered Pat been around the than death moment | the stable and two of years, only really easy him have is et I see him lock night and toward his years old tH " 4 aoor strike Out across own and ould touch a hair mur giving him a you, broth ly here but Harvey." passed aome strong thank As the months further transpired tc ony of and nothing y break the monot- nee in that Miss Latimer's fears gradually sided, and she remarked that guessed it would be a cold day when another women killer set hia foot on that soil.” But that hopeful view of the Case was not shared by Harvey. Har- vey Hempotead was a boy who said | little, but who, when his weak mind Was once set on any particlar subjest, never ceased thinking of it. He had never expressed himself very freely on the question of the hanging, but for all that not a day passed that he did not expect to receive some caller on evil bent before the night came, and he made preparations accordingly. That was the firet thing he thought of when one Wednesday morning in May, Miss Latimer announced her intention of going to the ngighborhood village to spend the day, “S’posin’ he comes to-day to-day to-day, while I'm alone-—alone—alone,” lamented Harvey, in his drawing, dis- Jointed way. “Who?” sharply. “Somebody like him that was hanged ~hanged-—hanged,” faltered Harvey, “Nonsense,” “That's a thing of mustn't think of such stuff. existe neighborhood sub- “she demanded Miss Ellen, If you get ning’s boys to come over and stay with you.” Patty Henning had brought the horse and buggy around to the door and Miss Latimer climbed into the vehicle and drove away, léaving Harvey looking after her through a swirl of apple blos- soms, The brown horse jogged lel highway. The air was redolent with the perfume of billows of appe bloa- soms in the orchards that lined the | road and the scent of newly upturned { earth, Miss Latimer had passed up and down that same thoroughfare a | good many times in the last twenty | years, and often under similar | tions, but somehow the flowers never seemed so fragrant, the al; balmy, nor the sky so blue. She could | remember but one other morning when [all the elements of had con- | spired to produce so fair a scene and that was many years before when she | had ridden the same road--but not alone It all came her May day with startling vividness, as plainly as if he were met him the “society.” then, and he his admira- condi had 30 nature over bright She back to that cou.d see him at her n young side, She then first in She nretty prett 2008 she was and ) effort was to « Th made nf for nonths tion rough those happy r was her dey soon followed was toward aft er the black 1ad eaten his | } agieen on the sof: As soon as his deep, hat announced t stupor from which he Harvey ed the narrow couch be easily aroused + for & ino kly push he long dark closet that ran far back under the stairway: then loc King the cioset door, he took up his station be- side it and impatiently awaited the arrival of Miss Latimer. It was o'clock when that lady came home Harvey heard the wheels when she turned into the gate and went out to meet her, “Miss Ellen,” he said whisper, “he ca-ame.” “What are you queried Miss Elleen. He wanted you, 100-400-100. a shrill treble indicative of the excite. ment under which he was laboring. Miss Latimer let the reins s.ip from had quickly brought before her eyes, “Ny goodness, Harvey,” sald. not an officer in the neighborhood. Which way did he go? He'll come back to-night and kill us, sure” Harvey shook his hand. “He didn't 20,” he said with unusally rapidity, {| “He's in the clo-o-oset. I put him to i sleep with a dose of lJaudanum-—"' Miss Latimer did not walt to hear the termination of the series of “lauda- nums” but drove around to the barn and unhitched and stabled the horse, “Now, Harvey,” she said, “hurry right over to Pat Henning's house and tell him to fetch the Sheriff as quickly las possible. “I'll stay here and watch tthe closet door till you get back.” Harvey needed no second bidding. Pat Henming had just started over to the Latimer piace when he neared the litt e cottage, “There's = man tiiere come (0 shoot Misa Ellen" as he turned “Go for the Sheriff —Sheriff up he shouted, as soon command, He caught communication, of of the Harvey's the the amd il et mare and was stopping saddled his own sorrel off for the county seat, only strangers, whom he happened to meet that there was another deaperado in the community and that he had as saunited Miss Ellen Latimer. Pat Hen vey started across the flelds at a steady He reached the house for, the effects the seeping having worked off, the man who was imprisoned in the closet was his walde lope none too I BOON, of potion emphatically "demanding release, and Miss with fear Latimer was 1 herself She had tak back the by audible, the there thre even cuted it 41] Mghbors who soon her situation * Was on Lhe * r VCSEL h 3 BOON bist orren: o instant she seemed to be riding low road again with him by i the fragrance of the ri * Ana x earth ri round them like The ailing sel suaaen transition o ith it a correspond- incense thought brought w and the love mornie; puised through her veins suffusing her comely face with becoming bushes. She drew a step nearer and laid ber hands on his | shoulders. “Why did you come back, John?" she | asked, softly. He attempted to take her hand in his, change of heart, the Lae ills of | time incapacitated looked the eloquence his tongue could | not utter alone. “Why?” he love you.” “And was that the reason you left me?” “Billen, Elen, be just- “As you have been?” she remarked. repeated. “Because | want on, cal. half a chance, didnt know my | never does, It's own mind. A man Ellen, 1 haven't a word to love you. utter against the She was a dear, good wife. you and always have, {have to be good to me. Haven't you | tried to keep me by taking me prison- er?” he added facetiously. i “Do you know your own mind now?” | She meant her voioe to be very severe, | but it sounded like strains of swee music instead. | “Take these handcuffs off,” he thun- | dered, "and I'll show you, I'll kill that | rasmally boy of yours.” ’ “1 know " ear had caght the final threat, asaaasin “Hush, Harvey,” sald Miss Latimer, and kissed the face—and, oh, was! Then she and called the | She stopped down man’s dark, wrinkled | what a tender kiss (t want to the door Sheriff, “1 find there has indeed been mis- fake,” she sald. “This gentleman an od friend who called in my absence, Harvey drugged him and locked him up. I'm sorry to have troubled you | You may free his nands These bonds are needed no konger, “It was a mistake take,” echoed Harvey, her side, There was much disappointment at the Lattimer plate that night over be- ing cheated out of a possible lynching, and after the prisoner was freed the people still lingered, that would turn up, all and her lover after a is mis by mistake who stood even hoping after did ne something Mies Latimer heed them two sat by t Long midnight in } w he dow, through whi the apple blossoms were drifting on wind the take the 8 80 affably a kit Ome ever and anon and ta night over past and future Harvey not persistence of the however mista-a-ake chen door A Careful {1 ittle Financier. the hods of joss risk about People can hardly r the freeze exigence orange of money YOArs ars in i + extreme souther Orange other portions t Washi groves but in ngton Star Refused Without Proposinz. Few women man, and the ox per popped the y A pe ues rh ia aps only one has had having proposed to him one, and the Hon. lL. A. Tollemachs telis the story in his “Personal Memoir of Benjamin Jowett,” master of Bailiol, Oxford. The master’s personality was potent and penetrating, and good women felt ; ita fascination. An undergraduate was | {il at Balliol College, and his sister, There was | coming to Oxford to nurse him, was in- vited by Dr. Jowett to stay at his house | 8Bhe received from him the utmost | kindness and attention, and when leav- | ing said, with much hesitation, that she | would venture to ask a very great fa- | vor. She again hesitated; the master | grew uneasy and looked interrogative, I "Will you marry me?’ at last she | asked. He paced up and down, blushed doep- ly, and replied, “That would not be good either for you or for me.” ’ “Oh; oh,” exciaim.d the young lady, blushing even more deeply. “I meant to say I am goiug to be married, and would you perfoim the service?” She had been refused, poor girl, without having plopmsed.— Detroit Free Press, Bott'e Mezsage in a Codfigh. In a large codfish recently caught on the Beorish coast was found a corked lemonade bottle, made in Elgin, con- | taining a plece of paper, on which was written, “Scaoconer Lucio foundered 8( miles off Dunnet Head. God help us.” A Salem, Mass., man has invented & | collapsable umbrella, which one may ' carry in his pocket when folded, FOR THE YOUNC FOLKS, THE BAND MAN. The Ban’ Man drops in every night, The Band Man with his sand To sprinkle grains in little eyes With unseen, unfelt hand. He comes about the liour when all Ti baby work is done Wien toys lie scattered round the room, Abandoned one by one, A hobby horse once rocked with vim Btands quiet in his stall A consecrated space between The trundle bed and wall. A jumping. jack, an iron bank, A painted rubber ball, A rattle with a whistle on A bruised and battered doll, A dozen little glittering things So dear to babyland But now the *and Mun comes aro The Band Man with his sand. ind, Two chubby little fists are forced In IWO small rieepy eves To rub away the sand which sifts ACTOSS 80! some tired sighs be Sand Man yield To a fairy with a rod, Who beckons ard that ’ % f I'he babyland of | now 1 OW ms Nod. TOLE THR RGOa? fe as A OUNKeY is ng as a boy ~ainles an ape, A small detachm Was quariered and 1 81 messed Hy a ipply | he naced upon a shelf over a as io put it out of reach of rats and othe marauders, One day the cook, up i “1 al Was | nm going to sOme eggs, came near ialiing to the fl entire stock upon observing that placed at the top of the onsisted of nothing but emply Upon examining them be saw thief, after making a very small had sucked out the con. tents and had then carefully placed the ede in the same spot w. ence he had iaien il There was an African in the employ of the post, and as Africans are gourmands there was no one else to suspect. So he was accused aod threatened with a flog. ging. He protested his innocence and swore that, if be were spared, he would | do his best to discover the guilty person. In addition to the African there was a monkey at the post, aad the former, knowing better than the Europeans the malice of the monkey, sald to himsell at once. ‘It was that monkey that sucked | those eggs.” He therefore set himself to watch, and after two or three days that the thief had allowed to elapse, doubtless in order that his crime might be forgotten, he saw the monkey climb up the door frame, put his | band up to the shelf and seat himself | thereon. Thus master of the place, the | animal delicately picked up an egg, made a hole in it with tbe rail of his fore finger, amd then sucked out tise contents, Then. with all sorts of precautions, he repaced the egg. when the African, al. low. ng himself 10 be seen, closed the door and seized the thief as he was about to jump to the floor. The monkey was dragged before the captain, acting very much ashamed, and the African thus proved his innocence. ——— “mare oven” Noiwithstanding the many games taught in the kindergarten, none of them | oan rival or rarely even compete with any | that parents can remember io have played | in their younger dais. For instance, any | father who can teach hie boys and girls ‘Hail Over,” when outdoor games ware In season oace more, is advised not to | forego the renewal of youth that tbe chil. | Or SIX eggs, finde at Lhe point, a —————— AAI AA 5 A bring to him. Our cities now include so many suburban homes within their limits that such games of u great ure among the possibilities mnny families, For “Hail Over’ a bara or outhouse is { usunily 8 necessiy {trie with cope roofed houses as the center racing that is a great part of bardly consistent wel kept purty of make this game propery excitl 18 better stl to be sure it may be pleturesgne low. but the wild the fup is will the Hower beds or of a frout yard.” A i% the very least number to of the HAWN Bix ng. twelve them. on il Fhey must range of in { either si CApIinin | Beives parties le of r, each with a A ibber i | thrown over the center by the leader with { the ery *“*rinil It 1 tere if equal number, the buildin good sized r bal iver.” is caught on the other side and then « # momen: of icas excitement | Lirown the wich side of the builds the for immedia the purty who { have sot know from ny wil se ball Dd Le rush upon them telv t by rigat w cau git fDeIny be snd his lo rush aroun ‘ uid. Hever fol Hoel enous this same ve Lhe and i round to ti 10 it by inken from | when r crowded 3 see 311 grew to be an every ie atiracted or stil v OCCRE] slrancers lidren * There go the ba Tin and speak of it The animal lived vears old, and who knew Lim Drum Najors Are Passing. alli k boys Las are , +103 now PO r. from small with their twirl i 0 fellows who carry a musket 0 through all kinds fancy evolutions while the band plays The drum major plays but little part in a band except for show. Though the small boys thought he led the band in its music as well as otherwise. he had no more to do with the music than has the letter P as far as sound goes in the word pneumatic. The brass band is led by its leader, and the only thing that was expected of the "ie ig of on The fellow who led the Pittsburg band in the inaugural parade drew a larger salary for his ability and than did any of the players in the band financial, as well as the musical mana. ger of the band. "Washington Star. 8. th rg. Weak constitutions that cannot stand a great amount of vigorous bathing will find an excelent use for the flesh brash in taking what might be called a dry bath. There are seasons when, from having a cold or some other ailment, one becomes particularly sensitive: and at such times a brisk brushing will do say every other morning, of the regu- lar dally bath. But the dry bath is only for unusual occasions, the proper use of the flesh brush being 2s an sd- junct to the bath, not as a substitute for it—New York Ledger. The vineyards of Greece overtop la productiveness all other countries.
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