LOVE'S MISSION. thve is the centre and circumference, | The cause and aim of all things; Us the key To sorrow and joy, and pense For all may the recom the ills that have been or be, Love is the crown that glorifies, the curse That brands and burdens; and death; It is the great law And nothing can exist breath. it {40 of the universe; without its Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things power; Man, in the whirled; The bee, that takes the pollen know it and obey its maelstrom of his passiona to ta flower. The earth, uplifting her bare puls breast To fervent Each but obe} hest s of the wooing creative's love's cle to mother but I am has as k if only Wi last janion that the wou the buginess pay ren mention the your uy wal your cl “but it yraish ft out yarself And Willi positior compelled for an opps with me than himse the emp he would couldn’t month tion, bu who inte permanently ness, and now of his unt He he YOArs. ing wi ure. mother come in nia game “What's your hand his mother “Why. a tennis “Sarah. can’t you dren to go into b dwaddling with a toy bat?” Even as Willis he felt his cheeks tingle wit mortification and anger “Mr. Hardacre is ready to see you,’ sald the dapper little man. Willis slipped quietly into the pri- vate office. He his uncle sitting at a handsome roll-top desk and glar- ing at him from under his shaggy gray brows. He had a square, lean face, with a determined chin and his hair wae coarse and gray. “Well, sir.” that thi his had prese racquet.’ teach etter around in of it h mingled thought now, saw fis, somewhat falteringly; “father can’t supply me with money for my Jast year in college and unless I can earn it 1 can’t go.” “That's just what I mother before she told your he can't educate ‘em. But she The hot blood surged face. He couldn't bear this reference to his hard-working, noble-minded father, who had sacrificed everything in order that his boys might have their schooling. “My father has done the best he could,” Willis said, hotly, “and I can’t fisten to anything against him. If you have nothing I can do"—and Wil- 3 lis turned and started toward the door | with his shoulders thrown back “I'here, there,” sald his uncle, the trace of a grim smile curling his lips; “we'll that You say vou want work what vou do?" “I'm just out of college,” Willis sald, “and I'll anything 1 can with | let drop Can have to do "most get to do." are well up in ten nis and football and leaping the pole, and all that sort of thing.’ “Yes, sir,” responded Willis ed again to turn and leave the “Well. 1 don't happen to have any in my You engaged “1 suppose you tempt room, of know, I things those m mn a of the chinery io his duty i broke Never was sweeter music than of the noon He dropped the glab and into the din the At firat he ma iow a little dinner, and by 1 felt better. But he knew he could last through the long afternoon at the same work, and it was with deep feeling of relief that he posed {to un down the sound whistle wearily fast ing-room of he naged staggered boarding house, but tired to eat never heard loading to the sawdust chutes, he was required to stand knee-deep in soft sawdust at the end of the chute, where the waste of the blowing out in a dusty cloud, shovel for dear life to keep himself from being buried. It was hot, wear- ing work, and by the time the after- noon was finished Willis was thor- oughly discouraged. But he was naturally vigorous of body, and, although his uncle had made fun of his tennis and football and they had added to his muscles, awakened the next morning lame raw with blisters. “But I'll stick to it,” he said, gritting his teeth: “I've got to get through col. lege next year.” That day he was paired with a big, red-bearded Scotchman, and they were assigned to the work of trimming up long cut bent was fear Croas hours Willis forth, It particularly the gals noon timbers with a ome For an few bravely back y hard w not getting the effort aw full becaus of the hig ork, and science Ie he did underst t from the watching rent est Toward had that ne in ast been the ver who found Willis thing Scotchman, him keenly, saw would felt life, in the afternoon he was enough res work. eed filing more and tod grateful for any his to continue the And 20 the vw somewhat on, f the after day. Bex ond hardened, was stil it went day B end ( fore although the worl he ££ father w ached after Just tha door his allad " calieq nim Judson "And, e tennis Hay go ahead and play all to. broken. th and football you want Uncle Judson's crust was A Hindoo Cricket Expert. The bat in Eng- and now Ranjit- sinhji. It like fall- ing downstairs with a scuttle of coal, and it is by no means an index of his bat In his cricket man an Indian named gounds something best is ability to wield a cricket opening match Ranjitsinhji made Ti | not out and 150. There but few more astonishing feats on the cricket i field. He simply distanced his fellow- { batemen. In his first class matches he | averaged 57. with an aggregate of 2,780 { runs, beating the invincible W. R. | Grace's 2,739 made in 1871 | Altogether the batting of Ranjit sinhji amounts to genius Ordinary players who attempted to turn good | lepgth balls off the middle stump in- variably came to grief, but he did it with such skill and certainty that the best bowlers were driven to despair. i Ranjitsinhji is tall and dark, and | has an eye like an eagle. II his fellow | Indians will but fight England with | half the desperation with which Ran- | jitsinhji bats, her sovereignty in the East is as good as lost.—New York { Journal. are MAIDENS WITH MUSTACHES, the Quaint hace. An Explorer Depicts Ainos The roused of the clety of cerning a WOmern Yeso, Japanese gr furni ibukowskl, has interest been world of to unusual geience just by a report Commercial Georgraphical So detalls tached inhabit the Is the northwest The are France, glving con race of mu of the land of facts which those learned an explorer who of oup one report by A. M. | delegate of the hes ana society who has recent ly returned from a visit to the strange hed e¢ of the Alnos, women | these been frogsh meat ead; three » foarte y i 1OTLY of merchandise one 161 of grain CaArio lard, a of 371 long in a total age freight ten placed to TOW, Wi cover And all one tramp a tance of about frei ship two miles ght went into steam A Few Facts About Carlie. About three-quarters’ of the garlic used in this country is imported from Italy. It comes in hampers containing about 110 pounds each, Garlic is raised in this in Connecticut, in Louisiana, in Texas and in New Mex. ico. All garlic, both imported and American, 8 put up in strings or country which onions were once sold in this country, but much longer, | broken off and broken in two, the pow. rful odor becomes perceptible Phe agEregate n this port consumption of country is South i1 which port 108 include America and in ed garlic reshi enough to be reckoned Nt York Sun Ww in ‘ia a Mighty Empire. In view of the question raised by re. events as to the ability of India ithetand trit tow the attacks of the frontie Tr the pop HARI LHM all-Bearing Oars. k Chicago an additional ex bearing in As described the brass, with ion of oario ' new srded by the ing gystem three points all-bearing case-hard- T parts; polishe i hey are fur- nighed in or nickel plated as may be desl These iil not bend or spread, and «0 the oars move in them always the Thus there can be no liability uneven of the locks being of different shapes and an- gles, as not unfrequently the case with compositions of a softer charac- Great ease in rowing is claimed ened King either brass red materials w EAMG. to rowing on account iB ter. The eighth wonder of the world is to west comes in long eyilindrical baskets single bulb, which is sold for a penny. for which it is famous. In a whole sale produce establishment, where gar. was no noticeable odor from it. feet high. at the Paris Exposition of 1000. The stories are intended to con- pliances which have been devoted to The tower {a to be built on a central pivot, on which axie it will revolve by means of a powerful hydraulic engine. In addi: tion to this the hours will be struck by a chime of sixty-four bells, which will which each root is composed, and which are called cloves of garlic, ve | clock tower and go in procession round the balcony. { 5' BUDCET, T YROOY, If s 44 B RUCY, became engagedat the them. GENTLE think of REPROOF, fond the old nd how “Just how few there have been “1 know it. It's gotten so now that whenever she meets a man over sevens ty she looks at him reproachfully.” ROT RICH ENOUGH examination) do you think ? Stranger (after an Well, what have I got the gout ? Great Physician is your income ? Stranger— Twelve hundred a year, (Great Physician No, you've got a sare foot, WHY NAPOLEOX DIDX'T CRY. “Don’t ory, Buster,” said Jimmie. boy, after the catastrophe. *‘Napoleon didn’t ery every time his brother hit him accidentally on the eye.” “I know that,” retorted Buster, “Napoleon did all the hittin’ on the eye hisself." doctor, Hem ! Er—what WHERE ENOWLEDGE MEANT POWER. “What a lovely bouquet I” “Yes: I'm taking it to Mrs. Wells, as this is her birthday.” “But I thought you were not on very good terms with her now." “Neither I am, but this is hex fortieth birthday, and she knows that 1 am the only one who knows it,” "
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