————— i —
THE CUMULATIVE EFFECT.
Just a little every day,
That's the way!
Seeds In darkness, swell and grow,
Tiny blades push through the snow.
Never any flower of May
Leaps to blossom in a burst;
Slowly —slowiy, at the first,
That's the way!
Just a little every day.
Just a little every day,
That's the way!
Children learn to read and wrile
Bit by bit and mite by mite;
Never any one, 1 say.
Leaps to knowledge and
Slowly-—slowly—hour by
That's the way!
Just a little every day.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
its power;
nour,
“MR. SPENS.”
“I've always brought
pect that [ would do
you, Rupert, and [I will—but I confess
I am disappointed. As my heir you
would have a right to aspire to almost
any marriage but the daugh-
ter of a country rector, one of seven
children, nobody in particular, no
connections
“She's the
you ever saw.”
“Of course,”
nac drily. “That
ing.”
“Wait till her,
“I'm beginning to be quite
curiosity. If she's
I wonder what
tall old man, with
and long mustache,
expressive
down at his
woman [I should
five foot six.”
“All women don’t we
sinews," sald Ruper
iy.
“Lucky for
Well, you really th
for You don't
fact your bel
thing to do with
Rupert smiled a fa
made his uncle
“You think yourself very
Uncle Spen, and all that,
know; but you're on the
this time, 1 told them
my prospects, and if
cepted me |
“Hm
parson,
a However,
myself. And so that she
on her good
all that
io Nysted and
you up to ex-
something for
beautiful creature
most
said Sir Spenthorne Car
without
SOPs sny-
Uncle Spen.”
firedd with
You see
hoy,
The
1
all you say,
youl"
iron gray
a well cut,
my
she saw In
the
shading
nar
mouth, smiled as he looked
nephew, “If 1 were a
prefer sone one over
pred i
wrship thews and
Aarnac impatient
you they don't,
ink the beauty «
that the
my boy.
res
yon?
of
imagine
my heir has any
tuous smile, which
ong to shake
nothing
Meriel
presume it's f
the daughter
seven hrot
don't
a trout stream, ar
attracted
peed find ont
can easily mak
parson.
“Yes, if
b probably catl”
ir =Nit
be
pe
was preg
sacrifice in
And as the two
steps Naval
stalwart old soldier
more wondering what
girl (if she was all Rupert
have seen in the little ¢f
his nephew,
separated on the
and Milit the
1
could not
of the
1
welp once
the deuce the
said could
“Certainly. sir,
rooms, and
good just now.”
“Well, that just
have some dinner?”
“Yes, sir; certainly,
name did you say?’
“*Spens.”
“Thank you, sir.”
As the landlady left the room Sir
Spenthorne Carnac walked up to the
diamond paned windows of the little
inn parlor, and looked across the road
to where small white
the abode, he knew from his nephew's
description, of the rector. Presently
down the dusty road came a girl
dressed in white, a tall and finely pro
portioned figure, clad in plain
with a sailor hat. The way the girl
carried her head impressed Sir Spen-
thorne,
“By Jove, 1 suppose that's
ord Lauder's daughters,’
Fdbimself. “1 know they live
‘where hereabout. Now, if Rupert had
ancied a girl like that
The girl was coming up the garden
hitth, and Kir Spenthorne caught sight
of great brown eyes, chestnut halr, and
a complexion like a wild rose,
Nox Miss Mericl, dear?”
an you let us have some eggs?”
“Only a few. Miss Meriel. We've got
‘a gentleman come here for the fishing,
and I'll be wanting them for him, He's
a real gentleman,”
Bir Spenthorne smiled
mustache at this description of
if. “Who was that?’ he asked
rs. Bartlett after the departure
the young lady.
“That's Miss Meriel Ray, the daugh-
ter of the rector.”
J'A great favorite in the village, I
ppose 7’
“Miss Merlel, sir--we call her the
Ray of sunshine, bless her?”
The good woman enlarged for some
time on Miss Meriel's perfections, and
was perhaps surprised at the extraor
dinary patience with which her guest
tened (0 her long story,
wonder this chinrming yonng lady
& not married,” sald Bir 8penthorne,
“Well, now, sir,” sald Mrs, Bartlett
tially, “there Is a young man
be a bit undersized, to be sure
, Ray would be glad to see one
have the
ily
Fou ean
the tishing is especia
suits
me,
sir. Er
stood a botise,
ROTge,
one of
he sald to
some.
children, you mst know, and gals are
not just so easy to settle nowadays.
« +. And it is sald in the village
that Miss Meriel she's doing It to
please her pa, and make room for her
But here's your din
ner, sir.”
Sir Spenthorne walked up and down
before the door of the inn smoking, re
fleeting on Rupert and his love affairs,
It certainly was astonishing to see the
sort of men women will marry-—aston-
ishing! On the other side of the road
appeared the tall fig
Sir Npenthorne
off
clergyman,
and, taking
of a
ROCTOSK,
to use on the
as he was a stranger in SBysted,
Thomas Ray, himself a de.
in with
The
Rev,
took
blue eyes and the well ent,
powerful face of his interlocutor.
“What a handsome fellow!”
thought, “even for the ¢
the stranger could not be less
fifty, “I should be deli
anything in my power,” he said aloud,
And the two men walked
down the road together between
sweet June hedges,
This walk the
quickly ripening friendship.
showed the way to the best poold, Sir
Spenthorne
ful
children.
of
than
now"
ge
was beginning of a
invented the most wonder.
picnics and al fresco teas for
When he by the riv
er he at the house, and
perpetually in the company Meriel
Sir Spenthorne had never married, be
and ye ago 1a
and yet his heart was as
for
wasn't
wis rector's
of
CAURe Yenrs girl ha
jilted him,
full of reve
Never had he
filled
until
ized which
MIPS
rence women as a boy's
across one who ful
in nhood
hardly real
drifting
Rupert,
Cole
whole
Merle
things
hils
He
were
aged
and was he, Sir 8
he met
wily
was
not io
penthorne, the
aed to
for
who bh
come
them?
: and sisters
for
ting
down
and
down to-n
“But.”
“don't
AMeriel
erin]
=i
) turned
looked out into the
3 Y evening
“Tell me.” sald “Mr.
sndden thrill in his volce
about it.’
“There's nothing to tell.
little man, and asked father,
and father said if he died there would
be nothing for ug.and it would comfort
him to know one of his daug!
provided for. And though
looks well and strong, it
something
might
said yes"
with a
“tell me all
Spens”
He
was 0
nice he
Hers was
father
seems he has
his heart, and
time—and so 1
with
any
wrong
at
he die
“Mr.
mors
said
“But why is it
before’
But Meriel
and kept her
awny. and
“1 spe” Spens”
tragic
quietly
now than
him,
turned
wouldn't
head
“Mr. Spens”
answer
obstinately
rose,
fide In me,” he said last,
Meriel turned on him.
“Oh, go, go!” she
Spenthorne, turning.
without another word.
“My God!” he said to himself as he
walked across the road to the inn,
believe she might have liked me,
fellow as 1 am.”
at
cried.
left the room
old
as AR
. . » . - . - -
“What an awful thing!”
“Yes, it's a desperate
business, 1
“Have you told him it's smallpox
“Yes”
“Look here, Ray, there's something
I am Rupert Car.
nac's uncle. 1 wanted to see the girl
he was going to marry to have the op
portunity of judging her, and I had
for them.”
“Heaven knows if there will be any
right,” ”’ sald the poor rector, too dis.
tracted to give much heed to Bir Spen-
thorne's words, “Ah! thank goodness,
there is Rupert”
A fly drove up to the door of the Inn,
and Rupert, looking somewhat flurried,
got out.
“Of course, 1 came at once,” he sald,
in an embarrassed tone; “but 1 hope
Meriel does not expect to wee me,
Smallpox is an awfully Infectious
thing.”
“My daughter does not even Know
that I have sent for you,” enid the rec
tor, stiffy, “I thought it right to do so
mabe is very iI” His volee broke, and
urged his daughter to accept Rupert
Carnac, and he did not quite like the
light in which Rupert was showing
himself, Bir Spenthorne said nothing,
but his lips tightened, and there was a
look on his face the reverse of compli
mentary to hig nephew,
During the weeks that followed
young Rupert was very much bored,
and only the fear of his uncle kept him
in Systed, Sir Spenthorne rather
avolded hig nephew, and was, besides,
too desperately anxious to eare for
anybody's society, The terrible {ness
dragged its weary length along, but at
last a day came when the doctors pro.
nounced Meriel be out of danger,
sald that she might see Rupert.
When the young man was admitted
the darkened room and caught
sight of the swollen face and blurred
dimly seen in the uncertain
tried in vain to conceal his
io
he
feelings,
“It's horr it
could
she asked,
love me
ible, isn't
“No one
Rupert was silent from embarrass
ment,
“You know
pert.” Meriel
you are quite free, Ru
raised herself on her el
and her lover's face,
The change which illness had wrought
in hers appalled him.
“You are free, Rupert, she repented,
“No, no,” Rupert, weakly
“Yes, sald Meriel, cheerfully.
“Take freedom, Jape rt. You
know you wmnkful in your heart”
Rupert stood | awkwardly
down at her.
“Uncle Spen will be rious.” he sald
nt Inst, “He thinks I all
looked Into
said
yes,"
your
are tl
Z
walk it
KIMBERLEY'S VAST WEALTH.
Richness of the Diamond Fields
yond Comprehension.
prehension
In two 3
the Ix Beers pan
Rhodes in 1888 it had paid SS.000,000 in
divi
on the original $40.00,
making a total of $12. 4X) (KK),
ANI ENN) per Year.
then the output has greatly in
#0 fhat the annual product is
The total produce
the eleven years since the
solidation is not far from F200,000.000
official omiput, by
total product
Bex =
than na
lends n
20 per event
rost AR
capital
or S62
Since
creased
SM 0 000,
tion in con
however, no
of
The
more
it, which regulates the
There is
Beers
De Company
hing vast
no
npany
dinmonds so plentiful 11 i
beeome cheap. On the
price of digmonds
edvanced by frist until it is
far in excess of what it was at the
hns
the How
time
Beers combination was formed,
meanwhile has Deen
great of dia
it has a fund of
probably amounting
The
stocking
company
away
til
nature
gfores
mends ur reserve
to
Of course it is impossible to esti
mate accurately the value of the De
Beers mines, practically ail of which
are at Kimberley, Attempts to do so
have been made and the figures have
ranged all the way from $1,000,000,000
to $1.500,000.000,
In 1800 there were
and 5,700 natives employed in the
mines, There are now: 1800 Euro
peans and 4.500 natives or Kaflir ne
groes, The miners get from $25 to $30
per week and the day laborers’ wages
range from 24.15 to £5 per week,
The Kimberley mines cover more
than twentvix acres, and are sunk
to a depth of from 450 to 500 feet, wits
shine running down from this level
to a desth of from HOO to 1,200 feet,
L300 Europeans
Wanted, Gentlemen Gardeners
There never was a time when really
clever and scientific gardeners were in
such request ag now, for it is a notable
fact greatly to thelr credit that the
modern self-made rich men, of whom
there are such numbers, as a class
show the greatest enthusiasm in the
matter of thelr gardens and greens
houses London Mat,
The municipal debt of the city of
Frankfort-on-Maln, Germany, the pop.
nlntion of which Is 240,000, Ia, it hus
been discovered, just double the debt
stantially the same population.
INDIOO INDUSTRY MENACED.
Caniot
Modern Chemistry.
The great indigo industry in Behar,
most populous districts In northern In
dia, Is threatened with destruction,
are invested in it, and the situation
a public calamity, The Behar
ters,
mainly at thelr own risk, about twenty
five years ago formed an asoci
cena rt with the government,
established almost ideal relations be
tween the landowners, the cultivators,
and the factories, and has
plant
and prosperity. Now it
with ruin because of the competition
of the cheap aniline dyes produced by
modern chemistry, For many
the Behar indigo held its own by vir
tue of its superiority in color and per
manence to the artificial product, but
it is now claimed that a true and pure
indigo has been chemically produced.
As far back ax 1881 Prof. V.
showed how to build up Indigo synthe.
tically from its component parts. But
after years of costly experi
not found possible to produce indigo
comercially by his method, In 1800,
Prof. Heumann of Zurich
carried the research a forward,
and finally, In 1807, artificial
was bought upon the
capable of competing with the
article, The manufacture
been taken up by the largest
works in the world, and the
Behar find themselves
contend
equal
and
however,
step
indigo
» market at a price
natural
has now
sa lor
planters in
swerless
against article at
an
to and cheaper than thelr
: $ ¥
inde penedent of transp
Lights His Nest with Fireflies,
Many
i 1} r
i MI TLE Dest
birds suspe:
the bo
i AR oo be
of
#41 v
bottle, SeCUTe
proach tree
Africans and the Locomotive,
The children of the
with awe when first
am engine
et] of the Cape 4
the simple Matabele, w
fronted by a
the strange mac
Inbor of an indefinite number
nen
locomotis ®, Wen
hine was
by the
oxen,
up
stopped,
erowds
and the
for mu
power
which they assumed were shut
Hence,
they
when the
thered in
inside
ga curoius
waiting to see the door open
nor could the 5
ed that the
loco could
from the strength
Arabs of the Souda
than the Matabele,
fire horswes of the railway one
osen come out
days be
the
ny
of
than
ox. The
imaginative
the
Diinns of Arabian Nights, harness
ed by the of the Infidel
long trains of cars. The steam engine
was to them a living, being
Of which belief there Is rious
dence in the
a Shelk made an impassioned remon
strance against the cruelty of making
so small an engine draw so huge a
train. Windsor Magazine,
persnad
motive come
of
more
other the
saw in
of the
f the
magic in the
sentient
ove
on
fact that on one occasion
Something Sibilantly Siny.
Sturdy Rammie Rimpson
sweet RBallie Stevens’ society so solicl
tously-—several social societies several:
ly sald sententionsly. "Sallie's surely
secured Bammie! Sallie's
swetheart! Sammie's Rallie's slave!
Rociety shall soon see something start
ling!”
Saturday Sallie sat sewing steadily,
singing softly. Suddenly seeing Sam-
mie's shadow, she seized scissors, snip.
ped savagely, still singing softly,
Sammie sald slyly, “Sweetheart,
sing Sammie something sadly sweet,
Sallie started-—seemingly surprised
saying: “Sammie Sampson, stop saying
such silly stuff. Spoony sentiments
sound soft. Bay something sensible,”
Sammie Straightaway said: “Sweet.
est Sallie, set some time soon.” Sally
serenely sald, “Say Sunday.” “Sarely,
surely,” shouted Sammie, supremely
satisfied,
Sequel: Bammie Rampron's safely se.
cured. Sallie Steven's settled. Sam.
mie's suited. Society's satisficd.—Bos
ton Journal
Tit for Tat
An American, intent upon a day's
outing in England, wanted to hire a
dealer's best horse and trap, but not
knowing his man the dealer demurred
Determined to have his anive
and the vehicle, promising
back at the same price when he re
turned. To that the liveryman saw ne
objection, so his customer's
were supplied, and off he went,
He was back in time at the stables
his money reimbursed according te
contract, and he turned to go.
“Hold " exclaimed the dealer
“You have forgotten to pay for the
hire.”
“My dear sir
| “there 1s no hiring
{ been driving my
all day.”
And he left the En
{ sorrowful reflections.
on.
* was the cool reply
in the case, | have
own horse and trap
glishiman to his
Horee Sense.
It ig peculiarly appropriate that some
cold facts about the horse be lald be
| fore the public at the present time
These will substantint@® the assertion
| that the horse is an animal of extraor
| dinary little using the word ns
| synonymous with judgment, It is quite
{ patural that the horse should have
| nature #0 unbalanced mentally
evolved, as he is, from an ancestor whe
of the most timid of wild ani
no weapons of offense
therefore finding 12%
He had ever tc
his keen se
: ready
Bese
Wis one
mals,
or defense,
poOsRessing
and
safety in flight.
the alert, with
of perception ever
lim Into a mad gallop at the slightest
only
hw on Tine
fense 10 urge
or rastling of a leaf, which
might betray the neighbor
lurking beast of prey
ing upon him his
min teeth
I
3 v
therefore
inovement
perh
hood
about
life
HEEL
of
to gpr
wit
sSGme
and tear
I lacs g claws or
out
no wonder that nt an
noise,
» of to-day,
8 Of
under
putes his most
organization. should
ungovernable
Keatucky's Turnpike Queen.
Calin, of
Tur
aiwrate
i
Kate Perry Covingion
AG
nden
State
nan’s clubs in the
putation of being brainiest
in hentuck
Toke Care of Your Ears,
ind women have much to do to
A hoendred nerves and
at work all through the
hours, giving warning or re
orders that the body, with its
and natural instability,
equilibriam
* or double up in a hopeless
heap. These nerves and are
a highly organized sigual the
offices of which are the semi
buried In the “stony”
the inner ear.
many Joints
shall its
not stages
ire wiry e
muscles
service,
chief in
cirenlar canals
bonework that protects
Were it for these canals a human
being would find it difficult, often im
to maintain a proper balance
either while walking or standing still,
So long as these canals are in healthy
working order their reports are trust
worthy: but when any undue force
od
possibile,
a4 sickness, hag interfered with thelr
workings, their messages are incoher.
(ent, and the brain, like the engineer of
{above are blinded and bewildered, has
| nothing to do but let things go.—Berlin
(Md) Herald.
Don’t Put a Bird in the Window.
“Never put a bird in the window."
other day.
in summer, or even on a mild day in
canaries hung in the windows,
Lif the sun i= not broiling the brains an.
[der the little yellow cap, a draft is
§
epen window. Berlin (Md) Herald
A AAS
Railroads in Alrica.
Africa has now pearly 10,000 miles |
field for extensions, The dream of a
great line extending the whole lcagth
of the country from Cairo to Cape
Town, some H.500 miles, seems likely to
be realized early in the new century,
On the north end abgut 1.100 miles
are In operation, and on the south
about 1.400 miles, leaving something
like 2.500 miles yet to be built through
the Dark Continent, which locomotive
headlights wil ere long fHuminate, -
——-
me ASTOR'S SOLITARY LIFE.
Sees Few American and Seldom Goes Onl
to Dinner.
William Waldorf Astor, owner of the
Pall Mall Gazette, according to a Lon
He goes down to his office at 11:80
each morning, There he attends to hily
couple of hours, and remains in his of.
fice, as a rale, until after 5 o'clock, not
even leaving for luncheon. Lunch is
cooked in the office, one part of which
is fitted up with perfect ar
rangements, The chef from
Carlton House Terrace for the purpose
Astor usually lunches alone except
when he is joined by his daughter, but
he sometimes invites Bir Douglas
Straight, the editor of the Pall Mall
Gazette, or Lord Frederick Hamilton,
the editor of the Pall Mall Magazine,
or the business manager of the papers,
After lunch, about 2:30, he gets the
first edition of the Pall Mall
which he goes over with his secretary,
making eriticisms and suggestion
Then he his literary work,
and it is believed by his entourage that
we has some big hook of reminiscences
or history on hand, at which he works
regularly, consulting a large number
of books of reference and occasionally
going to the British Museum, where he
books in the private readers’
room or consults scholars engaged in
cuisine
COTNes
Gazette,
gels 10
sees the
special researches,
When he is living at Cliveden, on the
Thame which he from
uke of Westminster, he comes
town just the
Saturday
bought the
10
same every day except
He geldom
entertainments
An
34]
on and Sunday
out to dinner or
ericans
of Am
ary
any kind, and sees no
regularly, with the exceptic
bassador © and 1
Henry White
hoate rst Secret
Broker's Novel French Lesson,
A well known New York stockbr
learning the French
His education
outh, at least in
and he
language
Gppor
» though
daily
Hq
i repeats 1
ip friend
ex
an ingen
NK LN
and hb
ith ber skirt
ntly dressed, } ax A
helping a lady w
if the which
is particularly pleasing to his patron-
of
especially weather be wet
CERRO,
But
respect is
action in this
not nearly so disinterested
ax it might appear, for he makes this
little courtesy a subterfuge for picking
pockets or removing any article
value within reach. His methods,
however, are not those of the common
thief, for he presently proceeds to the
station nearest at hand, and
there delivers ap his spoil, coolly stat
ing that he has “found it” outside a
certain theatre,
He of course furnishes also his name
and address, and in due time hiz “hon
est” action receives its reward He
has “found” many things recently
that the police are gefting anxious to
find him,
it seems that his
of
poli ©
“Oy
Dewey's Adaptability.
Admiral Dewey Is a remarkable fl
lustration of the adaptability of men
of our race to the conditions and cir
cumstances that unexpectedly sur
round and meet them. He shows the
ability of our leaders to cope SUCCESS.
fully with new and broad responsibili-
But with this natural tendency
ch he received from
birth and early childhood in Vermont.
qualities such as consummate leader
ship, executive sagacity, indomitable
courage, strength of conviction, which
tle of Manila, and the cares that pre-
ceded and followed that engagement,
Long before, to his large circle of
friends in naval political and business
circles, he had shown qualities of di-
plomacy, urbanity, discrimination and
self possession which, put te their full
test in the Manila campaign, proved
equal to the emergency.—~Harper's
Magazine. :
“Willing to imitate,
“Why don't you take example from
the little busy bee?” inquired the wn
of unoriginal ideas, ‘oe
“1 do,” answered Meandering Mike,
“An' I want to call your attention to
bigy bee lays off an’ doesn’ do no mote
work fur de nex’ six months.” :
He's a Contractor,
Plime Whats your Yuntiens