PROGRESS AND DECAY. —— * The topmost glacier climbs, fountains dashing leap on higu The dark briar forest's leafy shaue, The lofty pines in lowly glade Rear upward to the sky All Nature higher longs to rise, And must The 50 The winds are sweeping loud and free Afar, the changing icebergs The mighty oceans throbbing breast Beats loud, above her dead at rest And stormy rivers swell the But should not man be striv Than such as these’ ? » ireese t Saas ing mol by lightning struck aginen The mightiest rock Will shake, and quivring ft ¢ - . i fall so loves } 1 will day human hopes, and fallen world mu The And All in a And lay And so grandest trees must L that tion This and the house street plere had had of 1 one snail the | thers i d rows letter boxes building came, ho ed wns filled the homes of the Harlem crowded out the old man flat ; Fy ia bought the house a time affairs solid 1 deed it was mentioned years of financial stress} wrong either side in that houses were to be ere gone the in fider began money he the is nearly always the land on oniy pri vate ed there; but sidicus and the Lilt in as soon as Pater was work of the flat Penningte house was shut both cid It was useless to lament over the loss of light from their side windows, The house, wedged in between huge structures of brick and mortar, was the only private dwelling which remained in all that street, Mra Pennington taught sciences, janguages, and the art of thinking; Melicent inculecated the principles of mathematics and music; and a red faced, freckled girl who went to the ari school, was in- gtruciress in free hand drawing. “Aratha 18 so different from Meli- cent,” everybody said. “She bu ns O35 The younger woman came home one doy with her face beaming “Mr. de Vere will call tomorrow eve ning,” she said. “When I was your age,” began rant--and then she stopped. “1 she concluded lamay were about Weil, he wchios all artists." of Agatha 1 have ‘I'm what yon say,” aware to torted may vour German count after Forgive cent I Having magnanimous She «¢ to lend her the following rad id Me into her room © Muss but not ong al money Agatha,” sald Mell before 1 thought Agatha asked her silk dross events, he's not Pater's me spoke forgive nothing to Was vel Melicent to waar on evening ‘I am 80 licent, when ne and told one morn bearing in of creamy down is ing came her hands yards and yar« Spanish I shall need it, i ahie handed to her mother aunt gave fit exclaimed Mrs. Penning ton, “she sald that it was to be worn on your wedding day!” Melicent over to the win- | dow-~darkened by the dreary wall of | the adjoining flat “f shall give it to Agatha,” she said Then she turned and went hast. ily from the room. Agatha, who met | her on the stairs, noticed that she was Mater she as over the flimsy fabric “When you, Mellie” your great to walked The wedding invitations followed as | closely as possible upon the heels of | Four months is! They seemed | Observation for Young Girls missed the tuition fee of the youngsters from the West, and they folt the loss of the Mapay a the rea halred The interest them time they wished that girl would come on the back mortgage stured in ‘he face Agatha Pater had remarked “that financier wish,’ family ‘1 often after a council been more of a “His Malicent re that 1 were Heralded columns [ ihe lovely char: joined | wi like him Wis a h ever more by paragraph in tne ’y Qundav newspa by bit steboard ved ifany an 3 gO CLHETA hortly Commencement the School gervati Young ul mencement that year 14 or & i wis Wl graquate building een a8 ¥€ the loveliest fiat cent said only eighteenn dolla have x t hag been an awful ex; ed Mra jooked about Pennington, as How did beautiful wedding? and the wasn't it a of Melicent, ker hand tenderly woman's ag she arose upon older shoulder The First Typewriter. The first typewriter was a with raised letters, invented by Henry of mechanical writing machines it was of no value, and for nearly 140 years not step forward was made. Nearly all the improvements, and certainiy the credit for the general introduction of the typewriter, belong to America. To- day there is ome firm in this country which manufactures more than fifty styles of machines, in all languages and even in business ciphers. In these iast the keyboard is lotiered as usual, but the characters printed are in eiph- GOSSIP FOR THE PAIR SEX. FEMININE TOPICS, Selfishness---Boutonnieres for Ladies. Women at the French Bar---Etc., Etc. The new empire tidy little sum that only very extrava gant with ally own one véils cost such a women, those exception IGNEg purses and if cae alone is best be black, though all winter, and white vel most becoming st alry and graceful Of will mors to be selected it hud white | HOw worn are always The: LW veils are are nd from two and one quarter half long, monthly, vet not « behind and be caugh shoulder with a to yards and are hang ose fac © Cros BO eiement fn descri opedia of japrudence New York Commercial SKIRTS AND K BOCKERS school hutl SHORT NICKER of Orange, N urbed over th the women The 1. are considers worn by hese young other American They find the bicy to them in women teachers thousands of assists ice fluences of nature that serve to restore indeed it maj be accepted that the bicycle enables them to do better work, and the school the wheel, There authorities as reported is entirely too radical for the times, It is stated that ers from wearing abbreviated skirts to school and trouble may result. This matter of wheeling costumes is caus- ing some conservative sentiments to be gravely shocked, It remains to =e seen whether g general dress reform, such as in somne directions is needed, may not result from the won- derful popularity of the bicycle The who wear knickerbockers no longer feel appearing in them really men timorous about without the sustaining pres and the av has osit bet Longs AOoubDLIee of the male citizen materially comfort, Judges erage attire been amended to his during the { ew greater years however the by pe invasion of the hall knickerbocker and commer against stockings some liahments do not permit their em to wean onve ing bleye business hours and thelr « becoin wie a wonderful assortment rimming scintillating ith these gems, and mi ake varied assortments of ping, brooches and fanciful ornaments set with these stones to in foliage ay mock liners insert the and nets jaden are Returning importers are glad to re that even in Paris gtill shows some pretiy graceful arrangement of cap, frill or puff at the top. On the tailor gowns for utility uses very many sieceves are merely close coat shapes, with but lit- tle extra fulness on the upper portion; and the mutton-leg style on demi-dre