BE A G00D BOY ; G00D- BY, By John L. Shroy. day When I stood at our old wooden gate, ray, Well armed with a primer and slate, And as the latch fell I thought myself free, And gloried, I fear, on the sly, Till T heard a kind volee that whisper- ed to me: “Be a good boy; good-by.” It all “Be a good boy: good-by.” sperms They have followed me years, They have given a form to ful dreams Aud seattered my foolish fears. They have stayed my feet on many a brink, Unseen by a blinded eye; For just in time I would think: ‘Be a good boy; good-by.” these my yvouth- pause Oh, brother of mine, in the battle of life, Just starting or nearing its close, This motto aloft, in the midst strife, Will conquer where it goes, * * » - . » * of the Mistakes you will make, for each of us errs, But, brother, ju To accomplish your best. occurs, 1st honestly try In whatever Be a good boy: good-by. Saturday Evening Post. MRS. TROYER'S FIRST RECEPTION. BY EDGAR The woman who at 20 dreamer for love of his handsome seldom believes much in love at 40, if she that Frances Arn strong wis no exception to this rule. When warried Arm Strong she was of the opinion that a straight nose, and voice outweighed in desirabilit tion, aud a bauk account. when a partner for life was wing considered, At the end of twenty years of poverty, disappointment and humiliation had acquired the cooviction $5.000 a year and a little bac would glorify even the most malignant squint, And, strangely took it for granted that Margaret would share her views, Margaret was her dang biter and bad inherited her father's nose and Ler mother's decision of character When Armstrong finally closed dreamy eyes forever on this world widow mourned him outwardly ently as ber limited wardrobe permit, and inwardly facea on ficiousness that nothing in his life had become Lim half so well the lear ing it, oor TEMPLE FIELD. marries a face lives long. she Chester dreamy eyes a tenor y ambi energy she that kbone enough, she his his de wonld as the « us Armstrong! [le wonld have presumed to ask pretty Frances te share his poverty if she bad not wanted him to But. of she didu’t know ad been a beautiful girl f her long, misfortune was a still, which why Judge Trover in securing for her the small ance which Armstrong, act of enrelessess never KO obviously Course, that, She | and in Spite soul wearing struggle with beautiful woman the reason himself life insur by nn er was perhaps interested ml swWhi had jeopardized by a lapse in payment just at the close bis inefficient life The judge thought it was his old friendship with her he showed the widow and other kKindoesses during the ye which followed her death What the widow bit she accepted and gratefully. of Iwennuse of father that handsome this ar husband's the benefits simply Judge Troyer's income and his squint was not aggressive, offer of marriage 'rances Armstrong told herself she was marrying again solely with the chject of giving Margaret the comfores and advantages her own girlhood had conspicuously lacked. We are so mined besr scrupulous about leing honest with ourselves than we are people, some time tion with an indifferent acquiescence mired. home and position she was giving her? enjoyment of the mansion of which the simple little marriage ceremony at tress, atmosphere of Juxury with which she found herself surrounded! was her native element, Her fore. futhers had heen colonial planters, and she was well fitted to adorn her new station. Every fiber of her Iwing thrilled with the consciousness that she had come into her own at last, Margaret, watching Ler curiously, thought she received her guests with much the afr of a queen holding an drawing room. Shé was very tender with Margaret. The one real affection which had survived the shocks and disasters of her hard life in Frances Troyer's heart was lavished on this tall, pretty daughter. She would do so much for her In the rich, new life that was opening out so splendidly be. fore them both, Margaret should nev. er know of the mortifieations and hard. ships which had been her own portion, Her heart sang as she planned the girl's future, Mother and daughter were address- large reception pay her already extensive social oblig. when their first difference oe- “Of I shall send a card to Margaret had sald. “Nonsense,” replied “He would course mother no one her know here.” Hoy Armstrong was a distant cousin a young fellow with all musical talent and gen- which distinguished Somehow Margaret's mother with a sudden anxiety, They had played duets to- in the old days, and Roy had Leen very kind at the time of their be- but all that was well then. Now it was manifestly impossible, “It is absurd to the good looks, eral lack of force the Armstrongs. tone filled her think of It,” added ‘rover with decision. “He shall be asked.” erled Margaret hotly, “or 1 shall not come down. He is my cousin and I shall not have him sh.ghted.” “Don’t be silly,” sald her mother sternly. “Roy would not expect an in- vitation., He never goes into society.” Margaret said no more, but there was a little coolness between them after that, an estrangement which the mother felt keenly, but made no effort to break. Margaret would see her fol- ly in time, And she would talk to her wht +n Was not busy; the matter would wait, The girl would be for a chance to think it she sO ON er, But when the night of the reception arrived and Mrs. Troyer in her clinging brocades took her place in the flower hung doorway to receive her guests only joy and pride were in her heart she glanced about her elegant rooms. They were quite perfect, and even the judge at her side looked unusually well in his evening garb. What a differ ence well-fitting clothes make in a man, she reflected, giving his necktie a little wifely pull, the old gentleman smiling, well pleased at the attention, Margaret had not come down yet, and as the first arrivals began to rustle up stairway Mrs. Troyer servant to eall her What a gown the child had to thought, her eyes lighting with a smile are] how Mar all her haughty coldness, had not been able to cry of ad miration when it had been lifted in all its fragile elegance from the day More guests were arriving as sent a prety she the wear, as she rememin even garet, for repress a its box before, . and a pro. aping from the orchestra on the stairway was piercing the air with a discordant promise of harmony to when the servant returned, look ing perturbed “I couldn't sa id, mature ser come, find Miss this," uneasily little folded note Mrs, Troyer turned But took the note, and, opening It steady fingers, she read it slowly twice; then it Huttered from still pale, self possessed, greet Margaret holding only he ont a she with y ts Ppaie, once her but an and she turned, ididly entering guest “What it?" the judge sald wilderment, catching the paper fell and adjusting his glasses to the hastily scrawled words. At make them, then they gradually assumed a g to his puzzled eyes “Dear were n grasp sple {fo is in be as it read | first noth of he could ing mean and 1 have ready honse 1 shall be with him, "MARGARET." wife wamma,” it ran, “Roy afternoon i when iarried this gone to him, and (0 receive you are him glad at your glad—so to Some The alarm whe Ww turned his in spite fudge to but in of her ghastly face as smilingly performing her duties as hostess to the crowds begin. ning to fill the rooms. The indulgence of grief is the one luxury denied to those fortunate ple--ihe rich, peo- A Servant Not Worth Healing. Florence Nightingale is still and active, Through inheritance is rich, having an attractive home in London and a beautiful country seat known as Claydon House in Bucking- hamshire, Once Miss Nightingale allve she herself set Inborer who occasionally worked upon her estate. He was past middle age, who knew nothing of all It wax not the Interest but of wonder and bewil One afternoon she curtsied that was done. and sald: “Your Ladyship. Thomas only got 8 Don't him die and get another man for the Philadelphia Saturday Even. Trees Are Not Ready to Use. A few years ago a Western rauroad The trees have wade good growth, Lut are not quite ready for use as poles, and being cut out and made into fence posts in order to thin the forest, A Curious Discovery. At a depth of twenty-seven feet a eurtous discovery was made recently, a Berlin paper says, on the island of Gothland-<the skeletons of several knights in full armor seated on thelr horses, Archneologists think they dato back to the ninth century, ia NEWS FOR THE FAIR SEX. ous FEMININE TOPICS. Danger in Pertumes - A Favorite Wedding | Gown Dress Allowances of Royalty — Smart Winter Hats, elc., etic, Danger in Perfumes. Many women are a great fond of strong scents for the comfort of their friends and acquantances, and algo for their own safety, It is not half widely enough known that strong perfumes are injurious to the sense of smell, and that by thelr frequent use the secretory glands of the throat and nose are overtaxed and weakened, One day the lover of strong scents notices that the hearing is less acute than usual, and that the sense of smell Is defective, This state of thing deal too ance is attached to it. After a time the whole head Is affected, and throat aud lung complications follow, likely to end In chronic Hiness. Smelling salts are a fertile source of deafness, and they, as well as all other strong and pungent odors which act on the se- cretory shouv'' be avolded as much as possible, Processes, A Favorite Wedding Gown. Satin of an ivory-white holds year after year for a wedding ered with lace, trimmed with lace flounces, or it may has been the case with two or three wedding gowns turned out recently—be absolutely plain, with only a bit of lace around the neck. In each and every case It is an exquisite material for the pur The long lines of the train that part of every wedding show beauty tie fabric vantage, while the tulle of vell that falls over the olds the skirt only to hance the beauty of the satin. In this country as in France, it Is the fashion for wed ing gowns to be made high d and long There great many gowns made and sleeves of luce ORS material be cov. favorite It may as a gown, us pose i5 Ow gown the to lace or of the best SECIS necke sleeved, are now 8 with yoke effect. Ti gown left as gown (if in guimpe can be taken out and the a low-necked evening sired, but one the ohje “1 is that it Is difficult to make guimpe and sleeves fit correctly, It is nevertheless a mn that | ma followers Bazar, so de tions to this of the fash Harper's as ny Smart Winter Hats ia Colors. The degree of smartness of a hat de pends this the than on the and trimming setting aside certain special g strictly to the domain of the foremost season less on slinpe color and shapes belongin hatter “automobile” Crown, very ns most any shape a smart article ing Capoles sald to he ine The foundation shape ever chosen, has often little with the form once it has been so added to of the saucer or mold for been so modified out of shape, there were no stands wide, low nl ted Into included there may be among which with Its at the may be conver the rrow base), sailors Respect no ial of wire of Sire sham ® or what in Common it is finished: either fis in the case or it has its original hat zable ms, a% to be unrecogn trimming cated mm £ ompl orin sh ring capote Aes are as pipings, rouleaux ot gether lonnes vet spiral fas div ribbon in size, needlework dion, or small bouil ided by narrow ruched Many a ¢ compri vel apote, insignifi cant S08 A vast amo Herein many int the new Tes of ti irin hand “4 ¢ “ § Us resi a of the models, and I» that either prepared ready to cuted by the milliner li the medium-sized several lined stitched in reg they are whereas others have the with satin surrounded high folded band of velvet. Cravats and kerchiefs made of thin silk with complicated hemstitched borders, and scarfs finished with band knotted fringes, are provided for trimming morning hats, and with the addition of a couteau a simple sailor is fully equipped. Then there are flowers, such as roses, daisies and single and double dahlias, made out of piece satin, in the produc. tions of which some millinery hands are wonderfully expert, These are generally put on in groups of three in Hnings or exe reel hats 1 have with satin, ilar coverad Among noted machine in rows, Ome Canes with velvet only, crown covered by no with couteaux a pair of wings, plume of 1eathers, a very lecoration. Millinery Trade Review. Butertalaments for Children. Interesting entertainments for the ing from the childretfs literature for ideas, In their world Mother Goose, Hans Andersen, Grimm and some of the youngsters may prominent parts, There Is no form of amusement so thoroughly enjoyed by them as that in which they or their friends are participants, to pose or mimic as the case may be; and the lit tle ones are always delighted to recog. nize their fairy-tale friends. This sort of entertainment pleases them vastly more than any Introduction of novel ties which they cannot gnite under stand or which excites antl worries them, The second part of such an entertain. ment may consist of a fan, broom or Japanese drill in which the lttle ones are costumed prettily and with fans, brooms or umbrellas go through varl OUR nanocuvres to the sound of music. When drills dre attempted, not more In arranging children's tablesux, | aril or games one person only should be in charge, and should be able to or she will be quite unable to control a num- ber of excited little ones, Nothing is person In charge soon communicates to those whoin she is directing and assist. It is her duty to be behind the the finishing word of en- and a word of praise as they come off the stage, She must attend to every arrangement before the audience in irritating to onlookers to see an lot of unnecessary running about and fixing dresses and to put on touches, them na couragement as they go on, to give assembles, as it be. tween the parts of the programme, If on the day or evening of the enter- tainment assistants are neces®ury they must be selected as even tempered calm ns herself or her work will count for naught, Nursery songs may be sung fore the end of the entertainment by all the little participants as they are prettily posed, or as they march around the curtain will finally much pleased audience company of small actors American Queen, and prey lous just be- the stage, and descend on a and a happy The Czarina's Unpopulariny. The Czarina has never popular in Russia, And of late the feeling against her bh much in Whereas a few months ago she disliked, she of be “the E and “the been as become more tense ted, “the wis 8 Werely i OW is spoken onstantly as an” German” by for sympathy elgner’’;: as iglish wom party and it is granted that with Russi One another: always taken she is more in a's enemies than she is with friends illitary r. with Russia's The whole u party to a man Grand Duke ir head; and ' al the i 80 are the Pob stands the Lpowerful fit court she ladies-in-waiting with the n edonostzew, Even plone, for her own i against her, and her ex What is middle irst gradual eat nu rf of the people cherish against her a igues ng at the Czarina downager perhaps still more ser garde | i her ut a certain amount of favor. ous classes, who re with Are ily deserting her; le the gr 18% unpoptiarity the is the more remarkable as there 8 no in all Ex i life more cons who enti sirives ROVOry consort Iron ign does her work in than xl ously he does, harder to wo win the love of her people is a woman of marked ability, one ght play the world were sh kindly, too, a fund of sound On the is for an that She is sweet-natured, and has practical cot hand, mo of calling a # somewhat lacking in proved too well in he fa. sarette genes other cmpress a habit, spade a ahe £ An } 8 devoted wife inter and mother, ested not only in and views as 1Tairs one of i oii : rina’s anpo go dl classes bulk of populc is owing odd feeling they that der an unlucky spell-—that the not her. When the Russian frontier she was received with lamentations: for the Czar Alex. ander lay dying. and the whole nation wane in sore It was by his deathbed that was betrothed, and the baked meats of his funeral migl.s well have furnished forth her marriage tables, As a bride she had to listen to Pe Profundis instead of to wedding hymns, and to go about in mourning garments, The Russians are a super. sitions race, and they shook their heads even then, Evidently this West. ern bride found no favor in the eyes of the fates. What good could come of a marriage celebrated in such circum. The birth of three daughters while the empire is left is a proof, they now foreboding London i= un- ikons do she « AN aho have wile rossed 1 smile on distress, «he stances? in succession, without an heir, any. that thelr former were but too well founded. World, Novelties Seen ia the Shops. Cloth capes and pelisses richly braid. Many satin-faced cloths, with velvet Cashmere gloves in staple colorings Rough woollen materiale, woven with large transparent grenadine dots, Girls’ frocks made with plain wool skirt and box-plaited waists of vel veteen, or blue cloth, with ribbon-bound edges, Box coats of seal, persian covered with rich lace, Celtic silver throat clasps for coats, texutifully enamelled or set with semi. precious stones, Large detachable collars made of mousseline de sole appliqued with Venetian guipure or renaissance, tively trimmed with riehly-colored phensants’ breasts and orbaments, Elaborate shoulder capes of mink edged with two double frills of brown chiffon, which also form the long stole otids. Dry Goods Economist, NOTES AND COMMENTS. The British temperament may be | rather slow about seeing a joke, but it can spot gold mines instanter, “0 baussiergrabentapezierer” in what they call a tramp in Germany. If the name, iu full, conld be trans plauted to this country we might have | less tramps, ——————— Why are large gifts to coiieges to charities called “princely’’? Prin- ces do not give largely; better to receive than to give, and they live up to that inverted gospel. from The projected would Georgian Bay to mean the saving transportation of grain from Chicago to Liverpool; all but twenty-nine miles is open river and lake waters, ship ecanal Montres! The census of Germany shows that the population is increasing at the No wonder France is mak ing up her mind to re- a8 to Alsace-Lorraine. A professor of the Johns Hopkins faculty just starting in upon the work of collecting French fables. In view of the brevity of the human life he will probably "decide to confine himself exclusively to past periods and all researches the myths of the Dreyfus affair, is sxe hie nt eschew into Africa imported year sundry matters to the amon of 8400,000, - 000, of which the United States fur- nished 818 000,000, She exported during the same time $350,000, 000, of which this country took $10,000,000, With all conntries the trade seem to run in our favor. Ast it id t n balances an $89,000 pre- President Loubet owns chateau. His mother, fers to live in the old peasant cottage in which the President was born, It is also said Loubet passes most of his ime when at home with his mother at the cottage. No wonder the man loves the people, and stands up so ¢ t nobly for the republic, however Giive every child under the Amer- ican flag a fair chance to be educated, give men and women a fair chance to work at a fa r wage, clea put in of whatever natare and the needs of society open doors them, and will make the career fit the person, all let no obsta- way of men or CiaNs, then, fin- 1 be the women ally will or close San Diego C the It covers 1,000 acres, bave all been grown i# said to be now in full the dividends derived orchard are end rmous, verification of the old tunes are frequentiy made | ing. yanty, California, has lemon grove in the world. and the trees since i890, It and 3 iargest bearing, from the This is a saw that for- by squeez- The Kearsarge is not only atrinmph of American shipbuilding; she is also a proof that a demand for first battle ships can be met both on the Atlantic mud Pacific coasts whenever there shall be a essity for such construction thinks the Philadelphia Heeord, 1fships be needed shipyards will be forthcoming. We've got the got the steel: we've got we ve gol the money, too. rate ne iron. the skill; we ve The subversion of Finland's con- titutional government as a result of the ezar's ukase is complete, There is nothing for the Finns now in their native land but the despotic rule of the czar, unhampered by constitu. tional imitations. It is not surpris ing, therefore, that Finns are plan- ning to emigrate in large numbers to the United States and Canada, where liberty is not held snbject to the whim of a single man, exercising arbitrary powe One of the most disagreeable fea tures of life in modern cities is the constant presence of nose, or rather of a multitude of noises, some of the most excruciating kind, although people in time become used to them, To the sick and nervous, atleast, they remain always torturing, and the wonder is that so many of the un- necessary noises are tolerated, That many of them are unnecessary every person who has taken note of the matter recognizes, Enormous as the traffic is of a large community, it might be easily conducted with less of the clangor and disturbance that Bear, the old Indian chief who had been victorions in a hundred battles 123 children and grandchildren, the It is rather curious #0 many battles he should succumb having got off a car head foremost, much more independent than judici- - 8i'k has been employed more sener- has iver been the case before, but we dou # if the queen of fibres was ever nse + for such a pur day. A ohild having accidentally rw llowed a serew the doctor induced the enfferer to follow up this diet with a geantity of raw silk. The delicate fibwes, as a result of the rotary motion of the stomach, coiled themselves around the piece of metal, The raw silk, thus attached to the screw, was drawn up snd the child relieved of what, but for the iugenuity of the physician and the efficacy of the silk, would in avery short time have caused lits death, ———————— It is lack of money that keeps men from marrying? This is the reason often advanced; and it seems to be { justified by the recent episode ad | Chicago, where fifty couples rushed to take advantage of a free perform- { ance of the ceremony-—how they were lto live afterwards evidently being » less important matter. Porhaps it is jonly in the higher walks of life that the blessed estate of holy matrimony is avoided on financial grounds. i Bociety demands more and more of {those who belong to it, and young men in moderate circumstances dread the burden of a wife and family, pre ferring their own selfish pleasure, This may be deplorable, but it is hard- ly strange, observes the Provideues | Journal, Atheistic doctrines are said to have acted on the minds of Bohemiaus in this country so disastrously that an epidemic of snicide has broken ont among them, and the Johemian | Brotherhood of America, a secret order representing a variety of re. ligions is meditating a plan to revolutionize the social customs and religions practices of that people, or at least that portion of them wh. have taken up their residence in the United States. The scheme is easier talked abont than realized, but the new order professes to believe that it is the only way in which the American Bohemisn can be saved from exter- mination, beliefs, Minnesota papers claim for that state the distinction of an exception- ally efficient administration of the nstitutions forthe state's dependents, A constantly decreasing cost per capita for the last decade is offered as one proof of the measure of efficie ney. The figures for the last fiscal year show reductions in the case of most of the institutions, Of special inter- est in thess figures is the cost of food. In the asylums for the insane it was 10,8 cents a day per inmate, a slight increase the 9.8 cents cost in 1887, and a considerable decrease from the 11 cents in 1895. In the institutions for dependent children the food expense was as low as 7.1 centa. It was 8.7 cents in the school for feeble minded, and varied from 13.9 t015.3 in the sehool for the blind, . cannot eat the mame food as seeing people,” the report ejplains, The next highest cost is 12 cents in the prisons, where the inmates need to supply the exhaustion and wear’ due to hard labor. Prisoners are not daintily fed, of course. but there is no complaint as to the fare, and the fact established that a working adult may be wholesomely nourished under institution methods at a cost of 12 cents a day. over ‘who is Electricity as a means of execnting persons condemned to death seems not to be entirely satisfactory. No criminal who Las tested it has com- pisined, but observers in some cases have found some fanlt, says Harpers’ Weekly. One tronble with it is that its effects vary so much in diff rent cases that it is impossible to tell be- and how strong a currentany case may require, The newest pro- posal for scientific execution is to have an air-tight lethal chamber, Which may at any time be filled by hydrocyanie acid gas, which may be tur rned at any time withont the knowledge of the prisoner. At the first guip of it he would lose con sciousness, and would never know what killed him. At the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Colum bus, Ohio, Professor W. GG. Johnson, of the Maryland Agrienitural College, advocated the nse of this gas for kill. ing criminals. No doubt it would be satisfactory to criminals, but it seems donbtfal whether a civilization which accepts suave a method as this of enforcing the death penalty will not reject capital punishment altogether. Death is a rude remedy, Eliminate all its rudeness, and its remedial properties are likely to be more sharply questioned than ever. foreh on the BO Japanese Aristogracy. Undoubtedly the most powerful and at the same time exclusive aristocracy was that of the Daimos, or territorial lords of Japan prior to the great social revolution of 1868. There were fewer than 300 of these great lords. Their power within their own provinces was almost absolute, and they owed merely a nominal allegiance to the sovereign, Yet dn 1868, 241 out of less than a0 Daimos voluntarily surrendered their centralized government might conduct the affairs of the empire In a manner ern ideas which the nation was then making up its mind to adopt, and from this surrender the phenomenal prog. power un doubledly dates, AS I A SH AN, UpteDate Tomy Atkins, Tommy Atkins i= still regarded in the Boer homestead as the poor man in a helmet who stands up to be shot at; whereas if the the field he would be thunderstruck to find that there is not a red coat or a white helmet among them: that Tom. my is almost as clever as the Boer himself in taking cover; and that his uniform js such that he can scarcely be distinguished from the dry grass through which he Is wriggling his way. «Transvaal Critic. . Of 140 large Jewish firms In Franke furt, Germany. sixty have declared in favor of Sunday closing, While eighty Se uppused 10 it
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