“HE SAME OLD WAY, A-dancing, a-glancing, The tide beneath green shadow trance ing With sweet delay. Wild voices through the forest falling, The wood-thrush to the wood-thrush calling The gale old Way. A-flowing, a-blowing, Its showers of dew each throwing storms of low bough round In fragrance FOL With toss and sway. Murmu. of bees 1n blossom And children's Sng Cries more The Saline A flushing, a The Before they clos ing roses on The dvi And all the 1 : ng day The st 1e old way! Harper's JAS. ABERLY'S NEIGHBOR. BY MARY Vaal! it ani o it house I've seen yet *{ confess I] Maber ier i twice, | “Warran; Beem: tion witl forget. I hope thi ¥ sometimes to depend They I have 1 some of 1 to me iy friends, are upon offices, certainly she taste. 1 from here f garden is beautiful, and the baby car riage in the yard is very pretty and costly. The nurse wears a cap, How trim she looks—and well dressed! That speaks volumes for the mistress of the house Of none but nice people would live in a cottage like that, or,” she added, laughingly, *‘this.” “That goes withont saying,” ssid ker husband, “but hadn't we better be going? sient.” “0, yes, and the boy will be fretting for me, poor little fellow! I'm nice | neighi can fee too, Course Bey t i411 iii tO youn 1 Often as M Maberly sat on the white-capped nurse came awing the exquisite baby carn by, d age, in which a fairy prince white and wrapped in and love the lit more One day fabrics, rich blankets, that dered more and ly ears tle woman won who het neigl met She ha he she nurse and child on the road to the her left CUR al i unpretendin where she oc , and sl s toward glance at that be she said, placing her bas “What a ound riry “+\ pened?” puzz seemed to wish for her acquaintance. I'm sure I have heard you wonder why she did not hy. band asked, now really ner nus led, Heretofore vou have wax 11 Cail “Very true, but then I did not know I do,” and she nar- with the nurse who she WAS rated her that morning. Ce I know her; to he of my dearest friends i think at one time I almost worshipped her.” “And you have spent days at her houae 2" “Indeed now interview , you see she nse. one I have : one of the loveli- don’t you ihink we could afford a cow? I could Mnake such delicious ice cream.’ raid, smiling. In settling things. Of course weeks to get everything in place, and satisfactorily disposed of, the furniture and the bric-a-brac set out 0 advan- tage, and the little woman felt very roud of her house, which really re- ected great credit upon her taste and ingenuity. As for the boy, he lived out of doors. His quarters in the city bad been rather limited, but here he # i In my vaecaticns, when mamma and papa were abroad, I always went home But now I dislike her quite her then. When told her nothing would induce me ever to speak to her again or to treat her with respect. 0, we said very bitter things, both of us; but it was she who was the first And now 1 am sorry you bought the house.” ““Pon’t you know ¥ 1 are nursing the spirit of revenge ¥' her husband aaked gravely. “I know that I never sonld respect myself, after what she said to me, if 1 as mnch as noticed her. and likely she feels the same towards me. What a pity that we are neighbors ?” as much az [ loved Warren remarka i! 1" { that ¥ Cid. i ever, 1s can't Here we like Mr. promised ol antl here { ' make the be To « Maber [ornest 100K ’ 1g “Yes, n real COW said hi ing here to-night Mrs. Maberly been real cream, VEIY anxious rit "Raid ( ‘ panionship « Sudden iy there was a l of the door bell, 80 sharp and sudden that it set all nerves tingling “I'm 80 glad John is ia!” inward comment, as heavy footsteps across the hall Presently the front door The accents of a woman's voice, 1 Her she was open as if ir despair, came faintly to her ears. was saying, ‘The madam is in here,” of the gray stone honse. The room seemed to whirl round her as looked-—what could it mean? “0, Anne—Q, Mrs. Maberly!"” cried the woman in a choking voice, her tightly-eclasped hands extended as if in supplication, *‘some- thing sent me here to yon. My baby my beautiful baby is dying!-—dying before my eves, and I am all alone. Come and help me, if ever you loved me—come and help me. Yon have studied medicine and will know what todo. I have sent for a doctor, but he is ten miles off with a patient—and that horrible croup!” Her voice failed her. There was a noise in her throat like the coming of hysteria. Mra, Maberly had sprung forward and ashe Into her voice erept the old-time tend- erness, into her hands the old caress. ing movements, “Don’t worry,” she said, “‘wait &ll ny father went bitte Mr If I hed others left as leaving start.’ have Warsaw, and SAW 18 what gave him his Ransas City Star The Origin of Foolscap. Everybody knows what foolseap commemorates in queer name of the laws made memory of Charles L When Charles was King of Englan { the right to make writing paper to cer All this paper Now, when Charles was beheaded, and Cromwell and his parliament came into power, they were so antagonistic to the memory of the late king that they ordered the water mark changed from the royal arms to a fool's cap and bells. The records of this parlia- ment were kept on paper the size we now call foolscap. When it was pro- rogued, this queer water mark was re- moved from all paper, but the kind that the “Rump Parliament” had used continued by a queer chance tc com- memorate the nickname intended to insult the memory of the king. Baltimore, Md., is to make two pub- lie playgrounds for children this spsamer, DIDN'T KNOW STRATTO! ButsAfter the Colorado Millionaire Identified Himself He Cot His Car. fad Probably iding these . r of thie An by to purify ngs put in at hy the ar He girange he troliey declares he has watched this lew bug closely, and has thas far been un- ahle to find out on what it subsists un- less unknown foreign sub stance brought into the atmosphere by the electric For that reason, he saya, they are very properly de- bugs, and he be 14 3 . $TYE it he some currents, nominated electric lieves they are destined to serve a good purpose as scavengers of the air in the years to come.” —8t. Louis Republic The "Plug-Ugly.” “The werd ‘plug-ugly’ we see some- times in print,” says an old-timer, “was unknown to our grandfathers, and lexicographers may look in vain for the root of the word in the lan- guages which form the foundation of the English. It ia a modern word, all thro y more nor i along the syn tie ners they are strung like beads, and, the aid of the thinking which they do, and are the sort of gray thinking « ATS innute “8 with atid wilthious nobody could get along at all largely made up of matter that composes the part of the brain. This theory as- sumes that the system of sympathetic nerves extends throughout the body, and there are ganglia in the fingers and toes, and an examination of the heart shows a great collection of them, there being in fact a lot of gray “mind staff” in the heart, that organ being a secondary brain, an emotional centre. The greatest collection, how- ever, of gray tissue outside of the brain proper is behind the stomach, there being located an elaborate inter lacement of sympathetic nerves which even lieve, in more general use in the mid- dle states than elsewhere. The term used it was applied only to one who plug. This was in the latter part of delivered blow upon which will pro- duce death as quickly ak upon the i Testing Stee! Balls, A new method of testing the hard- ness of steel has been devised in Ger- The balls are dropped from a supply systems, provided fire plugs. The volunteer fire companies bad be- fore relied on the Wreams, pumps and i { angle; if perfect they rebound into one receptacle, and if ther are too soft they drop into another.
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