THE GARRET CLATTER.
I don't hear the voung folks patter
Like they used to long
Up the stairs to raise a clatter
Underneath the rafters low,
MWhat's the reason things is stiller
Since the young folks went
John an’ Joe an’ sweet Permiller?
Looks as if they'd gone to stay.
"Eo
nwuy-
Wife, there hain't no sunshine gushin’
In the way it used to come;
"I only seems as if the pushin
Shaders was a-comin' hom.
Sorter quietlike an’ dreary,
Only us two here alone;
Jist the days seem draggin’ weary
Like a long an’ dismal moan,
In the garret things is quiet;
Mice an’ spiders has their way
Where the youngsters used to riot
In their childish pranks an’ play.
Sweet Permiller used to tag ‘em,
Joe an’ John in corners dark,
‘An’ the maiden used to fag 'em,
Tire ‘em out an’ raise a lark.
When the bumblebees was droon
An' the flowers was in
‘An' the y
With the scent of its perfume,
Then the young folks used to patter
Up the stairs a-long ago
Up the stairs to raise a clatter
Underneath the
lilae bush was
1
rafters low,
Seems to me I'm sometimes dreamin’
Of th 1}
Till th
Bac ; .
MOCK ag in to you
Then | hear the young folks patter
» things
{ife com
Up the stairs tl used to go
There
Underneat!
— Waverley
tt
IRENE.
Hi
were pout
PPS and offices
v th
ing i
elir
Crow ded
It
was U
a statue.
her cloak.
through th
tion.
did
passed
were th
and a stampede
fighti
:
crowd
She sho
not look at
on, and the next
o quick pistol
The officer
1g hi
hand,
the
wrist, and,
strange smi
on the pistol
pavemen
was hand
it, rubbed bi
then
dou’t u
10 sce
Wii
an appre
ln embarrass
on a chair
ber. She put back her hair, ma n
less motions in her confusion, and then,
looking straight at Campbell, said:
“I am awfully sorry 1 shot you
Campbell amiled. “And are you sure
you haven't come to shoot we again?’
be asked.
She frowned In reproof.
I haven't.
ment as she seated herself
which the nurse placed for
“You know
If you had thought that you
“No, 1 wouldn't, You have come so
far out bere that I couldn't have found
the heart to disappoint you”
“A plaster of sarcasm won't draw out
a soreness, Mr. Campbell
consolation. You don't know how |
have suffered. And I must go through
a hateful trial, too, with
looking at me.
shot you!”
“Yes,” he drawled, “1 rather wish so
myself. So, you see, we have some
thing in common.
worried over the trial
pear against you”
The nurse had withdrawn.
were alone,
again, and be followed the movement
of her graceful hand-—the hand that had
shot him. “No, 1 will not appear,” he
went on. “It Is something of a distine-
tion to be shot by the handsomest wom-
an in Liverpool.” He hesitated as he
saw the tears gathering in her eyes,
“I take it ail back,” he sald. She wiped
her eyes, and sat looking far away
through a window. The mystery that
lies in the cloudland was reflected In
her eyes, and he gazed at her. She turn-
ed her eyes upon him, and the mystery
flew from them.
“Yee, 1 am sorry I shot you,” she sald;
“but 1 hate you, and never can forgive
you.”
“Ah! and 1 am therefore consoled by
the thought that you never can forgive
me.”
1 shall not ap-
They
“Brute!” she sald, “I almost wish 1
had killed you.”
“When a woman almost wishes 2
thing, she wishes it doubly,” he replied.
“1 don't know but there Is some truth
in that,” she assented. “But what a
beast you were to treat Florence sc.
How could you?
“Because i was a beast, I suppose.”
“Yes, you were, She was taken i
with fever shortly afterward, but it was
a broken beart that killed her” Her
eyes shot shafts of hatred at him, “But
I didnt. come to reproach you," she
sald,
“Phen why did you come?’ he asked.
“To ask you why you could have been
| go heartless. 1 simply want to know.
| Was It Lecause you have no heart at
all?
“1
heart.”
She darted a flerce look at him. “Ah:
it was because you loved another wo
was because 1 had too much
"
an.
1 “Yes.
{ tell her if
Florence made me promise to
if | should love any one bet.
ter than I did her, It was not my faut
| 1f woman my soul afire,
| when I"lorence had only warmed my
| heart. God knows 1 fought ¢
with all my strength, all my philosophy.
But at last [ had to tell her, and I left
it with Ler whether pot 1 should
keep my promise of marriage. Then she
another set
igninst it
or
| drove from her presence,”
“Ah!
woman and
ie 1
And then
told her
i she spurned you *
“No, I did not tell her
should not Know
mined tnat she
She looked at bim searchingly.
| killed my are
man tl
i He smiled sadly
¢
but you more of a
sister,
hought.
ian is always
more or less of a man than a W
thir
¢
1ks.'
hold an opinion of
“If yon
1 don't
80 poor
women, see how you could love
one."
1 GO
3 3
R4 Ana sie
“if ye
shoot you again.”
“Then let
I am sorry
You
He Was a Clever Thiel
» a well-tode
ay a good joke on ms
unfastened the strap by
small
traveling bag was » shoul
der of the sleops Tr.
next compartment
and my uncle will
he has been robbed
» up and
It
chn
will be fun to
see his face, and |
the little glass In
| give it away.”
The grinned
and the young man presently slipped
out with the bag. Soon after the own-
er of the bag ile
| Wis pouch from the strap, and jumped
up in great excitement, exclaiming,
“I've been robbed!”
The response from his fellow
| sengers was a roar of laughter. This
{ added anger to the vietlin's excite
ment, and he stormed furiously. Fi-
nally one of the passengers assured
{ the angry man that his bag was all
right; hix nephew had it in the next
compartment,
“My nephew! shouted the bewilder-
ed man; 1 haven't any nephew. I never
{ had a nephew. I don’t know anything
about any nephew.”
Then it was the turn of the other
passengers to be dumfounded. But the
thief got away, and there were several
thousand francs In the bag--Tit-Bits,
watch through
Don't
the partiti
on
others appreciatively,
woke
up. inissedd
pas
1
Worked-Out Hunting Ground.
Game and fur-bearing animals are
rare along the Yukon, as it ls an old
bunting ground and has been drained
by constant traffic for more than half
a century.
When a girl tells you that she can’t
sing don’t try to coax her, but let it go
at that,
A man never cuts much of a figure
in history until after he shuffles off this
mortal coil.
When a man freely admits that his
wife is not stubborn, he can afford Ww
stop praying.
ITEMS OF INTEREST ON FEMININE
TOPICS,
sian Blouse Jacket--The Waterfall Com-
MASCULINE ATTIRE FOR WOMEN
In the different lines of masculine
attire women are affegting there ave
those worn as an ordinary house slip
per by men. The great charm oi the
slipper is that which makes much of
the charm of other articles of feminine
wearing apparel of a masculine cut,
In the small sizes in which the slippers
for women are made the mannish out
accentuates the femininity of the el
fect,
WIELDS A PLANE.
with being an artist in
that is, an artist who
with a poker and a board achieves
beautiful results-—Mrs. Minnette
back Carper has started upon a Careei
as carpenter. She lives in St. Louis
She is the first woman in the
enter upon a manual
SIE
Not content
burnt wood
Slay-
world
COUree of
jearning
to
training be a
Pro
Uni
She is now to
at Washington
ghe exhibits @
Swofford
Already
fessor
versity
gree of pr iciency in both
branches studied
knowledge of
her
ghe considers a practical
it a necessary adjunct to Larnt
wood WOrk
RUSSIAN
the
THE
Of course
with or
being
excellence,
the
worn
next seas
N NEEDLE
larning is a new wrinkle
and
harm
easily
BATTOW widths
rked in the best
advantage of being
anly =tit
tapestry
crewel it has the
ches re.
which
design
washed The
§
hem-stitch
the
quired are
must be
and a darni
upper
simple
in outlining
ng stitch, carried
thread of the materi:
in the pattern. The vight side of the
material i8 somewhat like huckaback
toweling, manner of working
is running the under each
darnin
tiged
under
3l. Bilis
le
and the
by wool
ning is only done
the st not through
tion. while the outl ing stem
taken through the material
designs for this work
alized poppies, lilacs, done in
several tints A besutiful bedspread
of this work has a square of the ma-
terial traced and worked in a bold de.
sign; the square is bordered with an
insertion of Torchon lace, and a border
of the matelasse is embroidersd to
match the centre design, the corners
bevelled and the whole edged with
Torchon lace
The on
thread
the founda-
stitch is
Effective
convention-
race
are
el
GEMS TO MATCH THEIR EYES
The very latest of all fads for the
fair sex, according to one of the ultra-
frashionatle jewelers, is to match the
eyes with some of the beautiful gems
Of course, the latitude allowed in
this is not great, bret when a lovely
woman makes up her mind to follow
out the color scheme many pretty
uncalled for will come into promi-
nence,
The fair woman with blue eyes will
wear the dainty turquoise, and to add
to the beauty and match the bright
ness thereof they will be set with
clear white diamonds,
The choice of the woman with bright
hazel eyes will be the beautiful yellow
topaz.
Sapphires belong now, as always, to
the violet-orbed beauty, while the rich.
looking rubles are to have their day
once more, as the brown-eyed mulitl-
tude of girls Jook fetching in the warm
glint of that rosy stene.
lookout for that odd little stone called
expensive, but often as
pretty as it is odd.
Diamonds belong most essentially to
the deep, dark, black eyed beauty, but
she cannot have the monopoly of this
radiant jewel, for so many of her gis
will have the other stones set
the diamond, and thus add, not only
to the beauty of the simpler stone, but
to the luster of thely own eyes,
and even black, seems growing strong
er, and fabulous prices are paid
and best of everything
thelr caskets. Chicago
the
fewels
rarest
in
Times
AN AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOR
GIRLS
The School of Agriculture at
Anthony Park opened recently
Although sixty-nine of the boys reg
and only four giris
the of
school old stor
this
the advantage
For
been a girls’
ACCOraGingiy
bashfully every
had
Btate
istered yesterday
the girls were interest
Boys at the
But until
centre
are an y
the “co
f k $
of a Tull
this fall
matory
not vear have
enjoyed
unt
Year's not
has there
Course il
dor
Heretofore
silpped in
the
thro
boys
school
Hut
to their
Igh a Year
gquration sterday
¥
boldly
voeks' ve
up
three-story
two
over the
ghaped glecves
of the
new coals
close-fitted
wiih
nother
lined
pre
to the ey
pearls
re
Dog collars of pearls and
di nonds are to be worn md
with
bands of black
orated with diamond
ever evening dress
or colored velvet,
sticks, will
be meen
ck dressing is
gel «
A novelty in ne
of narrow strips of fur
satin ruche. It is fini
a iazbot of cream-colored lace
1
i
por shod
gtely on
ed in front witl
are Ani
i?
ends of which
large velvet bows
ince
of
COVE
Heavy guipure
trimming on many
gOWnNS, it
neck, faghionable wit
Jonge vokes,
and with good
Belted blouses with I
are noted on toilets for
next season. These have
length mousquetalre siceves,
igs a fnish. If preferred,
triple frills mav form shor
{ that do not reach the eibow.
Chenille toques and capotes promise
where
BO
bio wnist, revere
efo
epaniels
collars,
Ww square necks
evening wear
thres-guarier
with friils
however,
glecves
{to be favorites,
shapes have a bow under the crown,
which gives a resemblance to the col.
| lege mortar-board. Rembrandts are
ale popular; some of hem show won-
| derful crowns of cornflower blue.
| High collars are quite the correct
[thing on: hovso gowns as well as coats,
and they sre sometimes made of fur,
| The Medic! collar appears again, and
| 80 also does the Valois, which is simply
a decoration, as it extends across the
back only.
Narrow velvet ribbon still occupies a
conspicuous position in the elaboration
of many winter gowns. On ImSorted
models for promenade wear alternate
bands of narrow fur and an equal
width in velvet ribbon form a rich
garniture from the hem to the knees
Velvet is very largely used to trim
woolen gowns, Collars, belts and yokes
are mace of it, and We color of the
in most cases matches that
gown Instead of being of a
in cerise, green, blue
of the
brilliant color
teristic Russian Sports
in Moscow The
and
red-
On one
It is racing day
course is swept ..2ar from snow,
follows the wooded shores with
painted railings on each side.
special
box with
arnor
tent the Gov-
the im-
of this
pri
cups,
in
for
by
front
hangings
surmounted
gold in
down, Hee
consisting of gold
and ornamental
n style
General,
perial
box,
Cagie in
lower you he 208,
and silver
VAROCH
Russi
The
pieces, all
and taste.
Figs,
mounted gendarmes,
bell the course is cleared
and
take
now the
due order
the
they al
hey a
compelitors in
in front of 4, §
stand
by side, as way!
ite sides of the cot
lakes
British Museum
Egyptian
§ ood 3
}
the
ats of
inlaid with
the eleventh
ready referred to the
f the “pre
extensively carried
antinople during
caskets, horns,
ivory and
of the
and Anglo-Saxon periods,
y found in tombs. Crucifixes and
of the Virgin and saints mad
Age often graceful ani
The Chinese and Japanes
ival artists now in their peculiar
Appleton’s Popu-
the m
On boxes,
often
old Ro
are fro-
carved bone,
of
precious stones,
images
that
utiful
are
"wm
nutine and detail
far Science Monthly
Ra'sing Ceese For Market
Goore-raising is another growing in-
dustry in this country, thought not so
extensive as duck-breeding The con-
ditions required are wholly different.
i be goose, being a larger animal, needs
m than a duck, and it must
have water and a free range. On the
and, the care and atteniion
for raising geese are very
emall compared with the returns, and
the of food is not nearly 80 great
for other birds reared for the mar-
st. A goose at full liberty will gather
most of the provender in the shape of
insects and other vegetable
nd animal material to be found in the
fields and brooks.
Geese are long-lived fowls indi-
viduals have been known to reach forty
twenty
They
retain thelr laying powers. through
life. The ganders, however, ars ip. to
become guarrelsome as age advances
The feathers of the geese are an im
portant source of revenue and find a
ready sale. A goose will average
about one pound of feathers per an
num.—Detroit ree Press,
ROre 'Ce
sther
NeCesary
cost
gresees,
a
Mustrated Post Cards.
German printers are now turning ou
fllustrated post ca os. on Which famoun
works of art are represented in minia
ture in such beautiful fashion that they
are largely sought .or album decora-
tion, a
i
i
i
1
Men and Their Hats,
Hats, according to an English writes
on matters sartorial, are the mow
eharacteristic part of the male cos
tume, The slouch or brigand hat gives
great distinction to a spiritual and ex.
pressive Tennyson's, for ex
ample, e%
pecially cu
pable of face
into that Mer
in cocked
face ike
but at
with
transforming a
of a downr
hats look
theatricais,
in it, it
feeble
privale
a feather is
ght Idiot's.
They confer
eral, except
distinguished
The top hat
of
Nhy should
church
indivicus
his
from
no
for cannot be
medico
worthy
is held
10 go
inexplicable, but it al
Whes
“ox
de
BUR
face is
church
he
has
the estimation
we De compelieq
in it is
ways had a religious association
Rogers, wh vas not
pressed a w to be painted
beautiful,
in “a
votional attitu Sydney Smith
gested iL BD
his hat, in
ROoers secm
there
ny
m
top hat
ute of nc
able 4
i glossiest
De
cadence
Perfume From Living Plants,
OVETE
moment Safe !
when his benefactor i 1 him
ned the horse
if known, might stand
some hd
t charity. by the way
the
is as
was when
incident
WAY
whe
Althe
iz a old one, it
i time as it
curred
r ¢
reliel of yest
beggar
is claimed that
story just
the affair oc
It the ar
makes the most terrible suffering pos
those who are too proud, too
or too timid to ask for what
The Ledger
is professional beg who
gible to
honest
Foundling Asylums,
“1 went through the largest foun-
said a returned traveler.
“{ think there is no single buili-
ing as large in the United Statea.
About seventy babies a day were re-
ceived. Most of them were nursed by
their own mothers, who bad gone
around after dropping the basket and
applied at the frent door to be taken
a8 nurses Forty per cent of the
foundlings die. The girls never live;
the boys grow up into the army. The
Government does not discourage foun-
dling asylums”
Nature's Wisdom,
The fish's belly iz white and his back
green, because in swimming about in
the water the white belly is the coier
of the light shining through the water.
hence protects him from his enemy be-
jow. His beck being green makes him,
on the other hand, appear from above
as part of the green water, and is
his safeguard from hawks and other
anaes
a
The Car's Tenement.
The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg
is 700 feet square, and when the Csar
is in residence it shelters 7.000 per-
tons,
in Moscow,”