Tr — THE FRIENDLY VISITOR, To homes of poverty she went, Just as a friend, Upon Love's errand humbly bent That she might lend Some of the faith, the hope, and cheer Which blest her life, To those who need to come more pear | The peace through strife, 4 | She took ne purse, no worldly goods: | She was a friend. She gave but words, moods Which heartward tend. She spoke of simple things, and real, Those which change not If plenty crowns or great needs seal Our human lot, from loving Great meed of trust, and lasting zeal For what is good, She took the poor, and gave rich meal ! Of strengthening food. She clasped a hand, to fill a heart With precious store: She gave but hunger for that part, Not less, but more Than all the things for which men long Or toll to get The love of being, pure and strong. And though she met With scorn from those not, Wishing bet bread, Her simple word brightened their lot, Whom thus she fed, —Lestle W. Sprague in Christian Regis. ter. who listenad THE BROKEN ENGAGEMENT. | By Helen Forrest Graves, When Mary Clarimont’s engagement was proclaimed to the world, there en. sued a general expression of surprise. People generally are surprised matrimonial engagements, There is al ways some cogent reason why things should have been adjusted otherwise why John should have married Joan and Peter should prefer Betsey. No body married to suit everybody. But in Mary Clarimont’s case it did really seem as if the course of true love had interfered seriously with rent of common sense and prudence, Miss Clarimont was only one-aund- twenty, a tall, imperial beauty, with dewy black eves, a skin as fresh as damask roses, and dark-brown hair, coiled in shining bands at the back of her head. Moreover, Miss Clarimonot had a “ear before her. had just graduated from Medfield Medieal University. and taken ma as an M. D. “And only te think of it.” Aunt Jo, bursting into tears of vexation and disappointment. “that she must needs go and ruin ail her prospects by getting engaged Harry Marlow, down in New York!” “It does seem strange, Aunt Jo I sit down and think over it.” tor Mary. laughing and blushing months ago, my profession was all the world to me i nor eared for anything outside its limits The future was all mapped ont before me, without let or hindrance; nd now ” “Humph!” growled brainless idiot ean keep a man's house shirts for b something Mary.” Mary smiled “Pear Aunt Jo." said “1 shall not let my sword and shield rust, be lieve me, Harry has only his own tal guts to advance him in the world, and will be at least a year before we shall be ready to marry. In the mean time, I shall accept the post of v ing physician to the Aldenbury Alms house, and practice my profession Aldenbury, just the same were no engagement!” “I wish to goiness there sail Aunt Jo. “I tell you what, Mary, I don't faney that smiling. smooth tongued young man of yours, and 1 never shall.” i 8Btill Doctor Mary Clarimont kept her temper, “I am sorry, Aunt Jo.” she sald. pleasantly. “But I hope that you will eventually change your mind.” “I used to keep a thread.and-needle store when I was a young woman.” re. | marked Aunt Jo, drily, “and I always could tell the ring of a counterfeit half. dollar when a cnstomer laid it on the counter. I could then, and I ean now and I tell yon what, Mary, there's base | metal about Harry Marlow!” Doctor Mary bit her lip. “Perhaps. We will not discuss the | subject further, Aunt Jo." she said, with quiet dignity, and the old lady said no more, “Aunt Jo is wrong!" persisted the | pretty young M. I). to herself. “Mary Is making a fool of herself!” | thought Aunt Jo. i Aldenbury was a pretty manafactur. | ing village, with a main street shaded | by nmbrageous maple trees, a “west | end.” where people who had made their fortunes lived comfortably In roomy old houses, surrounded by vel vet lawns and terraced gardens, and an “east end” where people fought desperately, and not always successful. iy, to keep soul and body together on the merest pittance, And a little way out of the village, the almshouse, built and endowed Ly a certain smuggling sea-captain, whose conscience had stricken him during his latter days, ralsed its gray-stone gables to the sky, and made a picturesque buck-ground to the landscape, Doctor Mary Clarimont made some- thing of a sensation at Aldenbury. Up to this time, all the residént M. D's had been snuffy old gentlemen, with wigs, or pert young ones, with eye. glasses, A beautiful young lady, who wrote prescriptions and compounded pills and lotions, was a novelty in the town, and by no means a disagreeable one, HE ever yet was the cur or’ She out her diplo- said to when sald Dae “Rix neither wished Aunt Jo “Any get married, and and mend his but you were made for and more dignified, she, is it isit- iil there as id wasn't.” People rather liked the idea, once they had convinced themselves that the lady doctor thoroughly understood her- self and her patients, And the poor old people at the alms. her carriage wheels over the tico. It was a brilliant December reiterated to the some direction respecting Aun Mudgett's rheumastism, when the matron hurried in. “Oh, 1 beg your pardon, Doctor Clari- said she, "but I clean forgot she “The new old woman!" repeated Doc- explained Mrs. Cunning- last night-—-a “That is,” “she only came with the asthma, ter just her Perhaps you'd bet S00 before you go. She And she seems a decent body enough.” 80 Doctor Mary went cheerfully into the little brick-paved room, with its white pallet-bed, cushioned rocking chair and neatly draped casement, where sat a little shriveled up woman, wrapped in a faded shawl, She looked timidly up Doctor in, from under the borders poor fs of her cap. “I'm a poor body, miss,’ sald she, “and I'm I'm making a deal of trouble in the world, But the Lord don’t always take us, miss, when we'd like to go.” “This ningham. The little woman would have up to make a feeble courtesy, but Doe- tor Mary her to her seat, and asked “What is vour name?” “Louise Marlow, “Marlow? That is an unusual name, isn't it? said Mary Clarimont, coloring in spite of her self, “We're English, woman, struggling asthma. “There ain't this country. sensible is the doctor,” said Mrs, Cun- risen motioned Keon miss” old her in thie sald the bravely with many of us miss, [Nniss, I've a son, in Inw business, as any mother might be proud of.” “A son!” echoed Mrs, Cunningham; “amd vou in the almshouse?” “Not that it's his fault, ma'am.” the old creature explain. “My to be married to a { proud young lady. fit for prince in all the land, and of he can’t be expected to burden him self elpless old woman like me, He savs 'm to write and let him know how 1 get along, and if I'm sick or anything. try to me i sewed util the asthma hold of me. and supported myself fortably, it of course 1 couldn't lay up anything a rainy day. And Henry couldn't for he's getting ready to poor lad! So | ton and asked him made haste to ROI is ine, fis i8 any COlHNrse with a h he'd Bee CArpets 1 COL for who could? help me married, went to Met did he know of any an old woman like And and raveling ex and here | Foes Doctor decent place where ¢ could end her m days in peace, he gave mm rl t ne here ie Rave ier 0 ¢ ard 0 COI HT er, some In pay ms Pe nses bless him! m Mary Clarimont had listened quietly to the garrulous lady. but the color had her cheeks than ax she stor] there, “Is your son's pame Harry Marlow?” she said, slowly and thoughtfully. “Yes, said the old woman, with a duck of her white capped head, “I= he like this?" asked Doctor Mary, taking a photograph from her pocket. The old woman, with trembling hands, fitted on her ron-bowed specta- i varied in more once miss, at your service,” of recognition, it's his own self.” she “Yon are acquainted with him, a little ery “Nare, cried, then?" miss, “Somewhat.” posedly, returned the graph to Its place. “And now leave yon something to relieve as she photo I will this But the old erone eyed her wistfully. “Perhaps you know the young lady my son is to marry 7° she observed, “Yeu” said Doctor Mary, writing something in her prescription-book. “1 have seen her” “Perhaps, Mise,” faltered the old wo- is like, There's no fear of my trou just once, And If it wouldn't be azk- ing too much, miss, would you please “1 never see a lady doctor afore.” seems good to have her aronnd. | hope she'll come again soon.” “You may be very sure of that,” said the matron, brosquely. “Doctor Clari- mont ain't one to neglect poor people because they are poor.” That evening Aunt Jo, frying crul fers over the kitchenfire, was sur. prised by a visit from her nlece, who came In, all wrapped in furs, with cheeks crimsoned with the frosty air, “Bless me! This ain't never yon?" sald Aunt Jo, peeplug over the rims of her spectacles, 1 “1 drove over to see you, Aunt Jo,” sald Mary, “to tell you that you were right, The metal was counterfeit,” “Eh? sald Aunt Jo, mechanically ladling out the brown, curly crullers, although she did not look at what she was doing. “I have written to Harry Marlow canceling our engagement.” said Doe. tered a litle, “The man who will heartlessly let his old mother go Into an almshouse sooner than take the trouble to maintain her, ean be no fit husband for any woman!” And then she sat dowy by the fire, and told Aunt Jo everything; for erabbed, crusty old Aunt Jo had been full to overflowing. When Mary had ceased speaking, “You have done well and wisely,” sald she, Old Mrs, Marlow died that winter, in Aldenbury Almshouse, with her head on Doctor Mary Clarimont's arm, and sons had deprived her son of his prom- ised wife, And Mary says. quietly and resolute ly, that her profession must be hus " to be, ever yet “Just what it ought Aunt Jo. “No woman ceeded in doing two things at once.” Saturday Night. EAYys se VALUE OF A BLUFF. How It Brought Ahout the Recovery of a Fine Diamond. “Any man who tries to persuade me that a bluff isn't a good thing now and then will find that 1 am not with him,” sald a man prominent in the War De- partment. “It was a bluff that saved we a $600 diamond the other day, and if a thing like that isn't calculated to give a man a high estimate of bluffs I don’t know what is, “Some time ago [I war ordered to go to Cuba on government business, As I was to be gone six weeks, | packed everything in my rooms which happen ed Irving around in the burean drawers, When I came back and went through the drawers again 1 found to my dismay that my diamond stud was where [ had left it. 1 distinctly having put it there, hiding beneath some old I went to my niece and in a volee fearfully calm 1 told her of the theft, “She to be not in the case remembered the Case Sorks, was, of course atly sho heal, gre but she began to question me about it She suggested that perhaps 1 had pot put it in at all, was probably lying somewhere the case and that it in the drawers, [ made some crushing reply. intimating that | of strewing 2600 diamonds pet, | the was not in the habit all over the the matter to the The on. but nothing was and 1 ed of agamm on reported next were under suspic to servants as brought Hight, despair ever recovering it A couple of the Was le 1 1 ry paying my 1 days ago, whi in Chinese aun ll, a bright idea came wilohn, 1 said stud In the I =ent CONUrse it plained. putting the front of my shirt, “The $a 11 stand ef fo Ine, ‘I left a bosom of one of the sh You found it, like this” | aginary stud diamond ris of “x % Over ere, wel in an an in to under change ox seed did went fing fit celeste as his face aml he connting. word ‘It was just stud pression on without a ordinary screw. wo” 1 BENInD going moti He shuffled around behind the con for a ti the lanmndry packages Finally and from bundle of an that went In wa bd, th back ongh the in fn ter movis lis fo 5 3 t. the shelves, bie turned to the cash drawer, it tossed out a little {issue paper ‘Yat him? he asked “And a new fiver answersd ‘Yes, London's “Rig Hen." The striking mechanism of Big is a Brobdingnagian affair in every way, It is some thirty or forty feet up above the clock, which occupies a room in the centre of the tower. The striking machinery driven by weights of a ton and a half, hanging in of chimney; shaft 174 feet deep, and wind them up from bottom to top—-though, of course they are never allowed to run quite down-—is a fair day's work. When fully wound up, Big Ben's termentor the massive iron hammer head--will go pounding away for four days with out further attention, It needs =o pretty ponderous hammer to bring the full tone out of a bell weighing fifte a or sixteen tons, and the marvellons thing is that this massive mechanism toepw such beautiful time as it dor The cock, with which it is connected ny wi ju about fA sort fo get through their preliminary per on the mighty Ben within one second of Greenwich mean time--at least, the astronomer royal, who keeps a timepiece, says that it does not vary a second a week all the year round, A Niece Little Elopement. “There's a rathwr foony circum: the elopement ment, says Tit-Bits,. “A young man who hadn't known her so very long squire’s eldest old gentleman seat this message by letter to his new son-in-law: “All is forgiven. Come home.’ “To this the young fellow telegraph. ed the reply: “All won't be forgiven till | have kicked you well for letting me elope with your daughter. You'd better not be at home when I come, that's all’ A Good Sign. First Footpad « “Times are getting much better.” Second Footpad-—"They are that. Out of four men I sandbagged last week three of them had money. Olio Htate Journal, A Young Woman Mas (Charge of Oma. ha's Firemen and Policemen, Over every telephone in Omaha, probably, Is posted this notice: “In case of fire call up 37,7 but few peo ple, even those who are in the hinbit of calling up “37” in every case to learn where it really what the young woman who represents that number is doing all the thuoe, She is really a sort of supervisor of fire and police, before whom even the fire and police commissioners pale into in- gignificance, She has a long table off by herself in the east end of the ex change room and there presides over the destinies of the city and keeps tab On this table are in glass cases, for all is, on the policemen, several “tlekers"” the world like those found in boards of trade, and these the patrolmen make their mark every hour when they turn In their number at the patrol There Is a whirring noise in the and if the report Of box. gluxs cnse whenever they io proper thue and the not made * note of it tix at sui orders to the police, it this who is also responsible for ling of the which out death knell sfation down in When a over and touches a black t similitude of a key, an a ERC fn HI Rss is S37 makes ¢ I times that she issues her woinan start rings fire is Mysterous voung the sound ike 1 in the gong, in every city when n fire. reaches the bottoms catches fire Is “rung in" she button, some. what after tele gong and every of. The grapher's sounds in every re gong button station s located drops the front in the and they lump under fice where a fi touch of the chain from the fire department same of horses hen, while the the swinging harness, hitching, fan goes to on sition Hie an the ‘phone. By all the te and @ has « nectsd ian at each in a bunch, stands with © the receiver she ually odie ix located. Then nforms them and tively where those who ai away unhbit horses and turn them back while ths Wile has § ’ winlls, the fuss puis and begins and over thie iis : Lilanz SrA En - Fidam ( heese, hue Re table Knows when canpon bail Oring has ern part of pi chive quent clivg ug fully strane wil FR drawn kK nendend % Titdmivess Is 13 all been i. 0 viessed soraped i= next Iaid on turned. from two halls TOWING iw color pecnl The cheeses 0d i Sported till wit to this countr Ore brilliant b vegetable ¥ dye h a % dye Horse, The Endurance of the Arab What a when put gpon his floes belief An officer, od from the Soudan, relates that, after ilo mf return Arab horse onan almost cently picked mettle a ride of MO miles, his horse showed no signs of work, though he nd cast all his gliors before accomplishing a quarter of though many of the camels bad died, and the others had suffered severely, Again, an Arab of 14.2%, carried ten stone and ten-mile race al Forozepore in tweniy-five min. tes, a feat of enduraty ¢ probably un. equaled in equine annals, And Lord Robertg ean bear testimony to the powers of the Arab which carried the journey ix was which KIX POUIGS won a twenty-five years and, alone among the horses of history, received official suthority to wear the Afghan medal with four clasps. Sach qualities are worth insisting upon at the War Of fice as a short cut to the solution of many problems of economy and patel in the tragsport service, don Saturday Review, Lon. Malsin Making in South. (atifornin, Tha gang moves in a bunch, clipping off the translucent clusters of musea- tele, arranging thet upon the trays to shrink and shrivel under the rays feacy we know, Behind them lines of trays lie, a basking array of shimmering fruit, and some one inter ested 1s shoving the clusters together, that the tray shall be honestly filled, for the workers are paid by the tray. After two weeks exposure to the dry heat the filled trays are ready to be turned so that the grape may be cured evenly, This is accomplished by two men, one on either side. place ing an empty tray over a full one, dexterously reversing it, then, carry. ing the upper one with them, repeat. ing the process on down the row. It is at this stage in the curing that the grape ls most delectable. The amber is changing through ruddy stages to amethyst, and the san double distilled, so sweet they make | you long with a great thirst for the | red water tank shimmering in the sun | Hght forty acres away; but you must ent and eat, and go on eating even while your palate is cloying with the | SWE ness, I In another the dried grapes are ready for the swent boxes, These wide, open boxes contain from 150 to 160 pounds, and as the raising become sufficiently cured they are sorted from the others and placed therein, the large, perfect clusters, and the infer for, broken pleces in separate boxes, These are usnally carried to a sweat ing house, a closed structure, in which they and the drying having made the stems exceed ingly brittle; corner of the packing house to awall the grading and packing." The Land of Sunshine” week soften moisten evenly, or simply stacked In one -~ The Town Was Overlooked, Loud's Island, on the coast of Maine, near historic Pemaquid, in the Lindoln county town of Bristol, is of the very few places on earth where there are no taxes, This island known as Muscongus, was when Maine put into county, It said that war the people cast their | time In the town of Bristol, until some officer the one otherwise became no town during votes for overlooked a Or the a state, and was ix election discovered the illegal ity of The Loud of-war, are voluntary Vaie, settled by John British first from a great-grandehildren By school is £4 1 ie school erm dver. and attendance of bing bait for (loncester island was deserter his prominent i man and now inhabitants. contributions maintained, the weh child, eight is parents paving for # ages months in each year, there an average eighteen scholars Cate the and fishermen of Boston, Portland Ix business of thie ost profitable the people, but when bait turn their at mackerel fishing for iz slack In ranning they tention to lobstering the big oil the ix Press, and al RELY catching porgies fertilizing factory Portdand opposite aud In bristol Artificial Fre Makers, id in juain World odd | away we find some 1st Hippe Sun x COT Any fan Work, fr Your Hoy not for whitewnshing he is to lawn mowed winter's supply of wind Auvihing is better than loafing about 1 5 i {ie Tear { cigarette, learning nll the evil and heep the and thu even of A hahits Con afloar will but the evil habits be the streets may Kill poison his moral natare a detriment to the he lives and bow gray-haired parents with if the fathers and mothers today would only learn the import- ance of training the sons so as to be apd keep them off the coming generation would for Mascon that all the vices No # unix tracing to catch idlers honest labo hurt your bos may contract in his soul aud wa ax to make him community in which down his sOTrTow, tN indusirions streets the inestimalbils Herald Tw better it tah An Insulting Promean. The ritnal of society, ns make it, is very exacting the world over, even in almshouses, The Lon. don Outlook reports a serious trouble among a set of workhouse officials, The infirmary nurses, three in pum ber, demanded a separate sitting room and the delight of a Sunday dinner therein, and the matron had sought | to humble them by sending the cook {to enjoy her RBuanday dinner in thei {eompany. The brawny cook described what occurred as follows: | “Well, Nurse Blank she came down and got inside the door. ‘Four cov Lora? she says, ‘Four? whose the | fourth? ‘Me, says I. ‘You! she says Land with that she tosses her head and | walks away.” | Here cook drew a long breath, then f continued: “If it hadn't 'a’ been Sun: day, gentlemen, I should have let het have it for calling me ‘youl’ ” women $ Beinn: sisi ions Cultivated Mushrooms — The fluext mushrooms in the world come from Parie, where they are grown in trenches under ground, The best mushrooms In the United States are grown in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, in both of which states their ealtivation is an important industry, The cultivated mushroom sells for from $1.25 to 82 a pound, according to the season, Field mushrooms are not in favor, as even experts often con. fuse the polsonous and edible varie ties, In 1808 Russia had a merchant ma rine of 2.808 vessels, of which GM [ I ———————————— THE ’'GATOR'S MEAL. The Tragie Vate of an Promising Philadelphia Pug, “You can’t take that in here,” said the gatekeeper at the Philadelphia Zoo to womnn with a wiggling little ani mal in her arms, “it's against the rules’ “Why, little Teddy wouldn't hurt a thing, and I'll promise you he won't leave my arms a winute, I can’t take him away back home now, and 1 do so want to get in and see the animals.” Now it Is a hard thing for a man to withstand the fascination of a pretty face, and when a dimpled, beseeching mile accompanies it—well, the young woman got into the Zoo, and little Ted. dy went in too, leaving the gatekeeper sincerely that nobody in an- thority would see the animal, It was a very diminutive creature, so small, in fact, that If she had chosen his fair owner might have thrown ber hand kerchief over him and taken bim in without difficulty The the animals all in a good humor and Teddy seemed fo enjoy it immensely. The big ele phant was in his pool taking a daily bath, and when, sucking up a trunk full of water, he treated the spectators to an elephantine shower bath. Ted d's Joy kpew no bounds, and hig mis- tress thought surely would break away In afternoon they came to the shady rustic bridge which slimy gully where the huge blinks his life The woman had never such a fine specimen, and she was completely absorbed in the forgetting even Teddy in her interest. Teddy was somewhat pearsighted. and Ww to of the scnly gentle *"” hoping skies were bright, ne the course of the spans the alligator away. Young seen spectacle, intense ixhiedd get a closer view great, object, so with a tng he disengaged himself from his nistress’s arms and wadlong the ditch imped 1 into The alligator opened his sleepy eves at this nnwonted dis- a visitor lifted his turbance, and ses head Teddy's eves ing to make a survey. meanwhile, were pop- could knock The alligator dum ping so far that 11¢ i 11t off £0 head hl you them ng eye on the fon nuded animal, and struck with the of his fat little legs ig gled leisurely toward him. So quickly that Teddy had » a fare well yelp, the SWAID Opened and swal Then, w tenderness oly Rive the po 13 10 of mouth te denizen his grinning lowed w hole, the dog his jaws and blind rolled contented w» and went th ti aver 3 bees videnti The pit walked and with a sheepish $1 =e ally woman's distress Was 10 Siw “ithon a word she hastily entrance, ¢ at the keep- er walked out “Ain't that pug in?" said the is CON ~ the 3 took the ke ww to } panion. “Wha sure it i,” be made reply 2 . wonder what she has done A Philosopher's Timidity. sient daughter of the famous David tender frankness of ce of her Among a timidity great dread of pain which he used to with moch freedom, In this counection she quotes letter of a family friend “in illustration of the great philos- opher’s singular timidity my father used to tell the following story: At the time Lord Rosse's telescope wan drawing so many scientific men across the channel, Sir David was asked if be were going, too. “Oh, nol” he said, “I afraid of the sea.’ “My father tried to represent to him what a simple matter it was; he thought nothing of it himself; he just went straight to bed on going on board, and awoke on arriving at his destination, “Vir David exclaimed, In unaffected horror: “ ‘AYhat? the middie of the ocean? This Is a Scotch expression for go ing really into bed, and was indicative of Nir David's opinion of the enormity of such an idea. “Another favorite story somewhat betrayed the philosopher's lack of self control. He was talking of a severn fit of toothache he had had, and my father asked him, ‘What did you deo? {meaning what remedy was applied). “a? sald Sir David, ‘1 just sat and roared!” ” He always declined to have recourse to a dentist, never having had a tooth drawn, and his answer to any suck proposal always was: “What! Would you have me part with one of the bones of my body ¥” Whatever may have been his phys teal timidity in some directions, it was truly sald of him that he “never fear od the face of man,” and his great moral courage more than compensated for such weaknesses as he possessed iw ist, Nir Brewster, with speaks rtain character i these she and a slices father incindes curious CXPIesSs from f1 the am too much Go to your naked bed in The Most Ininteresting Country. Vhat «x the most uninteresting country in the world? The writer of a Foreign Office report puts in a bad word in this connection for Korea The scenery ix indeed, he admits strikingly beautiful, but aside from this there is an absence of almost ev. erything whicn makes a country in terceting to the traveller. There b woth g whatever which he cares to take with him as a memento of his vigit, There can be few countries anywhere which do not offer more at. tractions in this than Korea, It is tho habit to al we his uniform dreariness and desolation to the Jap anese invasion of three centuries agos but there must be something lacking in the character of a people who have
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