PROGRESS AND DECAY.
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* 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
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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’
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by lightning struck
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The mightiest rock
Will shake, and quivring ft
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fall so
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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
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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
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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<s
gowns is an extremely diminutive
model, but a very popular one.
A gmart little French jacket, made
of Neapolitan blue ladies’ cloth, is
trimmed about the waist with arching
rows of black velvet ribbons, put on
The fac-
ings of the very high collar and reves
are of Persian patterned brocatelle,
closely resembling shaded silk embroi-
ories wrought upon a dark-red back-
ground. These are bound will the
port the dress
sleeve
‘The culis
are finished to match.
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Among movel fanecles in evening
dress are blouse bodiees cut out low
and rounding in the neck; thess made
of silk net crossed in dismoud pat-
terng. with bands of pearl, strass aid
Other low-necked
of ned
brocades delicate
with
the
desired, «
jewel gmeguins,
small-patter
in
trimmed
are made
Antoinette
blendings, and
bead
the
blouses
Marie
color
gimps atl repost
brocade $4
on
of
Persian
colors in
of
guimpe is first put made
ing lattice
ribbon, which
the
WOrK satin
1 bove blouse
in Her Mountain Home Alone
Onal
arren 1
idge of
northern pa
Fishing for Frogs.
8 made,
along the
vard
He
BAYER
and
he swings
throat. He
rasped between
drawn siowiy
rog
at it, and Aha!”
ithin six in , vd
a-ha’
rises within a
of i looks
approaches w
‘Oho! Then he
The
through the
hooked
to the boat
the left thumb and forefinger, and the
point blade of a knife
pressed between his
amuall is
down
Sometimes he
Hed in
legs are quickly severed from his
and tossed into a bucke: filled with
ice water The remainder of him is
thrown overboard where it floats
ghastly white, bobbing gently up and
down, revolving slowly in small circles
and accusing the fisherman of murder.
Chicago Times-Herald
of the
just
sheds tears. |
gles are st instant
An Irish Exhibition,
A andable effort is being made in
Dublin for the holding of an exhibition
of manufactures and raw materials in
that city next year It is proposed to
establish a limited liability company
which shall undertake all expenses, and
in the event of the capital being sub-
scribed immediate steps will be taken
to arganize an exhibition which shall
be placed on a permanent basis for the
display of Irish manufactures and pro-
ducts in the’city of Dublin, and shall
in every way promote the pative im-
dustries of the wvalry, :