To live in shade, yet trust the sun, To bravely creep while others run, To suffer pain and still believe That just enough one will receive; Fo feel no envy when the best Of precious gifts are given the res Parsuaded that each lot must be The best for each eternally is 1 faith. nest To bear with wrong and wait for right Believing that the darkest night Means only growth for timorous seeds; To see some good in rankest weeds, To feel the love that watches o'er Those left behind, those gone before; To be bereft, vet know no loss. And thus the highest faith indorse Is true content MISS JEMMA'S VALENTINE. BY RUTH MCENERY STUART, appeared upon when spots pale Two crimson Miss Jemima's heard the gatelatch click. knew that her brother was bringing in mail and, as he entered the room, she bent lower over her work, be ero het- needle flew faster and she coughed But did not face she She ae slight cough. she look up. She kuew, brother brought in a pile of valentines in his hand, and that when presently he should have finished distributing them to his eager sons and hters her nephews and nieces, and bring to her—ot would do this last. It wa dread br mson to her cheeks. If there was ot presently come shoulder, he upon her one than mightly “We'll maybe, covertly without looking, that her daugl he would co one else not the cr 8POLS that ought leaning over ane would say, as he dropped self to fashion “Ef an' cou my aun why, would.’ There had ldn’t all sweetheart: ol’ Ww the brother's is sister brought and 10W, years when he had seen th confusi {easing ¢ pever more by a passing The regular ti playful he yment iad followed on had nad present naq relieve in than ® * 1 ntin mas vaientines . t hal household had been reeled again stayed at home Fourteen years th Li 1¢ flush of this St. Valentine's ard, one rhyme beneath 1¢1 lovins ths only the flap above it personal appli fastidious This gorgeous tod {front stand a fountain in brilliant a great crescent construe hat forward it aione wien tr} he background i peacock with argus-eved rose on a tiny and a moon. The children had been very small when this resplen dent had come into their home Some of them had not been born, but they had all grown up in the knowledge of it £ bush oldest confection tender “Aunt in the when been times all of them There had memories of 'Mimie” had locked her door, and be- cause they had been good, them take a little peep at her beautilnl valentine, which kept locked away in her bureau drawer. They had on occasions been allowg? to wash their hands and hold it i a minute, It had always been a thing to wonder over, and once—but this was the year it came-—when her sky seemed as rony as the ribbon about her waist Miss Jemima had stood it up on the whatnot fn the parlor when the church sociable met at her brother's house, and every- body iu town had seen it, while for her it made the whole corner of the room beautiful. But the quarrel had soon followed —a foolish lovers’ quarrel-—Eli had gone away in anger-—and that had been the end. Disputes over trifles are the hardest very jet she carefully cult to forgive the other for angry for so slight a cause, And so the years had passed, being entine had lain carefully put away. For five years Jemima had looked at it with fearless eyes and a hardened hearst, Lnd then came the memorable first an- niversary when the children of the household began to celebrate the day, and tiny comic pictured pages began flitting in from their school sweet- hearts. The realization of the new era was a shock to Miss Jemima. the youthful merriment of those bud- #lag romances she seemed to see a sort of reflection of her own long-ago joy in the faint glow of it impelled to go to her own room and t« and at the old val she lock the doo look entine With a gtrange tremor about an unsteady hand when in the light she saw more and ity new and and emotion heart she it of out, once caught iwakened time-stained face musty odor.she seemed to realize of her lost love, all the SOI''ow were the very body first ' { founiail up, the bsoken time in years 18 of her and she sobbed her tired heart out over the old valentine If Miss Jemima had not found she had at found her heart again SOrrow. Her life had been for treeless plain that in the valley of sor- only deeps poor mortals may height of bliss gince the tie joy, least and s0 long a weary, dark depth of got row s from know it, the possible For the first time tion, she clasped the valentine to hor called her name over ain, sobbing it, with- death agony. Bui of death. Is it feeling”? So it was and the heart still her safety during hers separa and jover's and hop . emotions the rebirth of Miss Jemima that had been these yeurs bosom over ag Nn not out as on such is not with a O88 never be all would There would never again be a when her would not have a sweet meaning to her again time precious possession would be the when a tangible embodi ming her life b ment of holiest ad time rwat budding romances Jemima meagel ie in its d denied none Valentine inv nf {oes day of lears em! she added Simpkinasy 4 great moment he valentine came in when, with genuine i fused to open How it an hour later when own chamber, she her He wh in the secrecy envelope Ow from its self-gent took new valentine, only knowledge of maideniy re. oid has tender serves and sorrows will ever Know There was something in her fac that forbade uel pursuit of the subject when she returned to the family circle, and a little playful banter- ing. the subject was dropped But the incident had lifted her {rom one condition into quite another in the family regavd, and Miss Jemima found herself uncousciously living up younger standards, But this was ten mysterious valentine yearly fact, There had never been any exp tions When pressed to the wall, a’ Jemima had, indeed, been constrained to confess that “certainly every valen- tine that she had ever gotten had been sent her Ly a man’ (how swest sad this truth!) “And are all the new ones as pretiy as your lovely old one, Aunt’ Mimie?” To this last query she had carefully replied “1 ain’ never get none thet ain't every bit an’ grain ez purty ez thet one not a one.’ ef 0, after {0 Ra the years ago, and had become 2a & - then?” Such obduracy was ‘comprehend, i As the years passed. If her brother | began to suspect, he made no signs of {it save in an added tenderness. And | of course, he could not know, On the anniversary upon which this indeed hard to g situation was somewhat exceptiovpal. * ! been mailed in Simplingville-—her own town Thiz postmark nad been noted {and commented upon, and yet it had geemed Impossible to have it other- But this year, in spite of many had tell | wise, { complications and difficulties, she that should ih new story The farthest point from which, with hel paturally hail was the railroad town of let call it Hope The extreme difficulty in the case in the fact that the postoflice hers kept by her old Ell Taylor Here, for ten years, he had lived his reticent bachelor days selling plows geed and cotton prints and resolved the envelope iin possible acquaintance, it would u lay Was lover, and garden patent medicine, and keeping postoffice small corner of his store in a Everybody knows how a gazed for red spot changes then to time, and at intently a long color from to white As Miss Jemima pondered thought of sending herself a through her old hands, of the scheme change from impossible green to rosy red. By the by could green upon the valentine jover's the color began to only possible plan which retly to have the a plan over she manage sed valentine mailed in Hop« which she had lost sleep, and in which had been finally aided by an illite: there she to Ie her This valentin Had Had it re postoffice Wonld hier ate colored servant next day before going day~it mu on Valenti and gone returned 1« urn ne day her and het COI the dropping drawe: finally the lv On in envelope sides two oii without injurs Then, « shook it it might come ail, perforated holding its sides apart And now Something happened of God's traits is that He tell He knows-—and sees Mige Jemima felt she screamed or know, when, pictured thing beautiful, fr edges ahe One best doesn all How whether one will the familia: into her lap valentine It long time she enough take the strange thing into her hands, and when she did so, it was with fingers that trembled so violently that bit f paper that came within the valea- tifie fluttered and fell beyond her reach There it lay for fully several minutes before she had strength to move from her seat to recover it There was writing on the fluttering fragment, but what it was and why Miss Jemima wept over it and read it again and again are other {trifling things that perhaps God does well not (to tell, The details of other people's roman- Tees are not always interesting to out. gliders, However, in this particular case, it may be interesting to know that the { woman who took charge of the old i lover's room in Hope and who had an or acted fainted instead there foil brand-new no of evyey a was certainly a before recovered herself to a § i i i jected at this period from his scrap | basket, on each one of which was writ. of rough sketches like the following: { years "You shall for a fresh {one again every year long as I live, un- | less you take "If you want the old one back again sand me along with it’ The models | cloaks een in Pari curving never want of newert cape and the the mak lower edge the h have fronts from the throat to back, instead of fall traight, and a right angle curve not where the {than the and will | with the accentuated to degree onger retry back would be mu sides Th a much pring Oi many il of tiny Strap costumes buckles fasten nec for tailor trimming t the larg» CKies, « fancy O01 with the button arnament gimps jewells CHBATY small, bu only rather these bil t Jet number Light qualities In as in 1 steel and ail Livsue other material medium will be i another Chiffons, gauzes, nets, Liberty variety tr season silk and moussejines f of coloring in sLore and for have don’t know but 1 am w=» sit ace fry the orthy to de Well ith was told : reckon the place where both b'long is the we ye 2a insane asy- ted, When been ez happy ago, an’ ve the ejiots I might ‘a’ eighteen the we comes that Easter yeary anyhow” reflect that oy i think Well comes am now years all time lost How a0 late this a bout it Out of the Jaws of Death. While feeding his stock one day last fall Jack Dodge. an old hunter lanesboro., Penn., had hiz attention attracted by the strange actions of a squirrel on the ground He approach- ed the animal and discovered a large rattlesnake in front of the squirrel The squirrel got nearer and nearer to the snake until the snake opened its mouth and seized the little animal After the snake had partially swal- lowed his prey Dodge tried to kill the snake with a pole. when the reptile threw the squirrel from his mouth and sprang at the man, but a second stroke of the pole killed the snake It was ‘six feet long. Ei iF of ER A Young Judge. Mr. Ernest Ei Wild has been ap- pointed. by the Norwich (England) | Towy council, judge of the Norwich { Guildhall court of records, in succes !slon to Mr. Carlos Cooper, deceased. | Mr. Wild, who was called to the bar in 18938, is twenty-nine years of age. Norwegian Wedding Presents. . Every guest at a Norwegian wedding | brings the bride a present. In many and if the marriage takes place in TT NOTES AND COMMENTS, A leading British statistician has re- cecntly compiled a number of interest- ing figures bearing upon the national debts owned by leading powers of the globe To make use the of some of these figures 1576 th ran} ndebtednos ofl NA AM) THM) ENN) in power it appears that the variou France RIMM) IMM) IHD I nited FAM OHI) (HN) tals 1 050 000) (HH, tria-Hungary, $1,010,000 000; Spain y ANH) (HM) 1ggia X71 TH) (HH) THK) ST 00) (0H) (HH pow and p Germany resent time these same respect to their national rank ¥y the 5.400) France x POEM) HM) following order; Britair 85.1 Rus 1.445.000 16K), Dur debt yf Fri (sroat Austria-Hungary MY O00 00h): Ital STON (HK) VHD OHH ANH (ier a2 sia £2 Spain many Ixy ing the past twenty vears the 311d Hungary and It engaged the new dir Department a plan for r extremely 5 to De labor of kin and tor-general Prison under « ideration such have has a way that his every prisoner ¢hall an pointed work One of the the London School of London most notable and noble of charities is near Whitechapel, in the most squalid districts In which has a staff of one hua- situated one it was founded forty-five years ago by a Rothschild, and has ai- ways been presided over by a member of that family. Free breakfasts are given each morning to all the children who wish them. 1 he school is the larg- est one of the kind in the world Mrs. Sallie Shiver, of Acree, Ga.. now ninety years old, has, according to a jocal paper, 235 children, grandchii- dren, great-grandchildren and great- great-granchildren, and in addition to this formidable number seventy-five have died. Therefore, the total reaches the remarkable sum of 310 There are seven children, the oldest of whom is seventy and the youngest forty-three and none of them have ever figured in a case at court The problem of making by macai- nery lace which cannot possibly be distinguished from that made by hand seems to be solved by a machine in- vented by a Spaniard, and now in use in a greet Nottingham lace factory, It claims to reproduce any pattern of jace that can be made on the cushion by hand, and one-third finer than the average quality of lace. They are eating kangaroo tails in London, and with a relish. At Lead. enhall Market the tails cost about one shilling each, and it is said they are really great delicacies, Perhaps the time may come when kangaroo tail soup will have as honorable a position on menu cards as the historic ex-tail. | THE KEYSTONE STATE. News Gleaned from Various Parts. Latest FIREBUGS AT WORK. Incendiary Blazes at Miner's Mills Smite the Inhabitants With Terror of Marton The Town to Assume New Dignities The Double Aliction of a Farmer and His Crippled Wife. Early Monday morning was mads to burn down the 8 atten pt High school at iner's Mills, At the the Dela ware & Hudson Depot wa irniog at or Were same lime # Jighted and both fires wers | Thursday night lef F in the ar i BOLUS an on Py * Julrol its hands fu i 0% Parsons and night men empl * BeAr Was i ved the tery. Carthy first at The alarm was soun family, father and Alter the ng and was walchmen fire gained na calamli e baggage ried y ») that tha ¢ the Become a Borough. 4 Me be pisos made at ied & degree siz yp 1 “au ¢ [= nidnight Sat 4 veered Indian Girls Convicted New Trolley Line, ®x Lha npany w i PP . tT eGnay caused a stir among of Lycoming eouns ieligh: the coming oposad line De an easy task an wt space of 1 fact that the oon with the seca pany wou ! 10 bother vo nae Child Baraed to Death. A two-year-old son of Heagy and Laila | Suyder, of Qarlisie, met death in a shocking manner. The chiid bad been left in the kit- shen while the mother went upon aa errand and daring her absence the little one walked to the stove and its clotning becoming ignited from the fire in the grate, it was bursed so badiy that death resulted. The child's body was burned to a crisp. Frozen to Death Mra. Augusta Gable, an aged woman re- siding alone on Spruce Nitrest, Ashiand, was found dead at her home, Her {rosea body was lylog on the floor of the kitoben when found by neighbors who had entered the house, not having seen the woman the past tew days. Appearances indicated that the woman bad besn stricken down with apop- lexy, and not being able to summon assist. ance froze to death. Appointed Asslatant Postmaster. Major Elwood Griest, the new postmaster of Lancaster, announced the appolatment of James H. Marshall to be assistant postmas- wr, Major Griest expects to take charge of the offise ina few days, Me Marshall has been connected with the postofice for many years, serviog two terms as postmaster, Found Death Under the Car. Charlies Beitz, aged 60 years, for the past fourteen years employed as a oar inspector by the Lenigh Coal & Navigation Company, at Lansford, was lostantiy kilied while at work at Tamaqua, He crawied under a car which was standing still when the trip was struck by another train, and he was tarown under the wheels. His arms and legs were cut off. sn Expectation, Dunley—-Wheti may I expect you te pay that little sum that wou owe me? Rake--Obh, you may expect It at any time. ~Philadelph!a North American. a—
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