DE WINTER DREAMS. The ruddy sunset floods the hill Til one old apple-tree drowse Feels once again the spring-time's gladdening thrill, : And clustering blossoms hide his stiffened boughs. orchard in blissful Beyond the orchard’s pathless stretch of white, Beside the frozen road, a snow-halred man Cheers on the coasters in thelr merry flight, And for a space he 1s a boy again. Emma C. Dowd, In Judge. “Little Pete's” Courtship. A Romance of Life With the City Workers. Nearly a year Dan Murphy had been trying to prevent his sister Mary from marrying beneath her, and had succeeded, but Mrs. Ritchie said it be- gan to look as if he would have to give in and make the best of it, or else be at outs with the girl for the rest of his days. Ars. Ritchie came to this conclusion when she saw Mary walking down the 80 far in the foundry as “Little Pete” Mary was looking tenderly down at him and he was looking up at her as tenderly. Moreover, there was triumph in his walk and a carnation in his but. tonhole. There are circumstances un- der which a man may walk on Arbor street with a carnation In hole and yet not | dudes that perish. Murphy was foreman o “Little Peter” was but “dubbed ings and flasks, baking cores, : Tr his button- classed with the nos around,” carr for his superiors mere he only that, but he was weak-eye and somewhat bandy-legged. Murphy could not for the life of him see there was about the little rat to ake the fancy of a girl, but that is thing that has been puzzling brot fathers and rivals since the world gan. Perhaps Mary fancied because he was so distine from Brother Daniel. Brot was masterful and subject to Ls of ho anger that found in smashing at home and lurid talk in t foundry. Mary had been dominated by him all her life. and although she had never been anything but submissive there were thes when re bellion was in her ir Peter was bandy-legged and small he was at amiable, Mary was large girl wi washed-out plexion and i deliberate of wovement. a r 1s 1. meek what ROLE 1eTS, Tl 104 4 SOace crockery. © strong bosom, least ley eyes, o slow of speech and It was at a picnic oters park that L Pete first met All the boys from the foundry there and Dan introduced the “he to his with a good-natured « descension of mauner that Peter as perfectly natural and proper. Mary smiled kindly and a little when Peter took heart of grace to pro- pose walking oversto where the foot aces were to take place. Bi however, and as Brother Dan away with Myra Hanson it came at Sharpsh ttle Mary. Wer Toor sist or On- TOOK blushed 1 went, to the day. that demanded a man's entire tion, Dan did not notice the ur able way mistak tioned it the netx day as they sat in open before them, concen! his blushes when they did so she thought this was the most delight. ful picnic that ever was. that when she returned home she was for a very long time smiling at the wall-paper garlands when she ought to have been in bed. ribbon with the emblem of the Amal. gamated Gravel Roofers blazoned thereon in letters of gold. Before she did go to bed she opened a locked drawer and took from it a box which contained a little gold baby chain, a coral necklace, a tiny turquoise ring, a cheerful expression and a tintype por- trait of Mrs. Murphy, deceased. Among boyant badge and then locked the box up again. When Murphy came home from work wore more ribbons than usual and that looked as if he noticed It “Expectin’ company?’ he asked. There was no question about her col or now. “Mr. Rutter sald he might call this evenin',” she admitted. “Mister who? You don't mean ‘Lit tle Pete’ 7" “Is that what yon call him? that's who I mean” “Well,” said Murphy, with fine scorn, “I like his gall, How'd that come? Why didn’t you tell him you was goin’ to jump the town this mornin’ an’ wouldn't be back for eleven yeasr?” “Because 1 wanted him to come,” said Mary, truthfully. Brother Dan laughed. He thought it impossible that she could be In earnest, The next day Dan heard something Yos; {at the foundry that made him change his mind about Mary's not being in | earnest, Still he had the gooa judg- | few days later, when the ribbons ap- | peared again—cherry-colored forecasts tof Peter in a black diagonal cutaway j coat too long In the slesves and too | high in the collar, but sutliciently Im. | pressive and declaratory. | Then Dan lost temper and judgment {together and told Mary he ashamed of her. | “Why should you be, Danny, dear?” | asked Mary. | “Don't ‘Danny dear’ me,” sald her | brother, angrily, “Take up with a | skate like that and then ask me why was Bu! ain't that's all that now, He don’t come here { It's enough just to look at him. { that's neither here nor there, 1 | going to stand for It and about it. You understand Mary, don’t you? i no more.” “1 suppose that means you'll him?’ sald Mary, meeting his look. “That ain't my style an’ you ought ito know it,” sald Murphy, with some indignation, *I think I can keep any man from coming into my house with out making a club of his job. Ain't I father and mother both to you?” “I don't think father or mother would have objected,” sald Mary. But the end of it was that she went sadly upstairs to her room and Dan sat out on the steps and smoked while he wait. ed for “Little Pete” Rutter, Presently the little man came along, whistling, and opened the He fire gale stony face, but he gave him a cheerful “Good evenin'.” Murphy made no pretense of civil he sald, “1 mi as well tell around here, It'll save me trouble a you trouble If you keep away got anythin’ against you, but I don't want vou around.” Peter but he stood his i boldly, “1 didn't {r. Murphy,” be said. you didn't,” returned Mur- “That's the trouble, I in’ to beat about the bush. you come see Mary, but you <an save yousrelf the trouble from this on “She didn't say so,” sald “Little Pete,” stotuly. “I say so,” shouted Murphy. 17 an’ + who comes in it,” sald Pet. tty “Pete,” curtly; you you n i p al grew white, groul Yi 1 i, 1 come (0 see 5 know s phy. ain't to “i yo-—-doesn't r house you've got the 's as far as your righ “i's far enough.” sald Murphy. “All right" “Little Pete,’ | ing to the gate with his chin in the said { “Little house saw Mary at the gate his stiff hat awkwardly and was about ete” Rutter passing Murphy's { “1 thought you wasn't never goin’ to | speak to me again,” sald Mary, smiling fat him happily. {er hand was resting on tae gate {and Peter placed his over it and patted it as he beamed back at her. “Don’t | you never think that,” he sald. “I'm {just waiting; that's all. It's coming out all right. Eay, if I eame to see | you vou still wouldn't want me to quit coming, would you?’ She evidently understood what he meant. for she shook her head smiling {1y. | “That's dred and all. I'm then I'm all right, then, I have a hun fifty dollars saved up—that's going to get fifty wore and going to quit the foundry. talk He hand, | clasped ishe said, to know?” He made no answer, but looked fond ily Into her Mrs. Ritchie, who could see the attitude of the lovers and thelr looks, had to leave her post of yet.” motion to withdraw caught it quickly “Yes you to you made n but it she tightly. have," “yes hack room in order to laugh unrestrain edly. After iright: 1 Lzood enough for you yet, a little Peter sald; “That's aln't got no business, I ain't But I'll see vou oncet in a while an’ maybe before tong 1 ean talk to you." Then he went laway, | The weeks went by and became i months, but Peter only stopped once in as often as he passed Mur and nt | was always at the gate in expectation of coming That he {atayed long enough to hand her a little i paper, ertisement, and read: that time, phy's house smiled Mary, who once only his of which she found an ad SoM} gare, notions, stationery, candies; full stock; One and his Murphy came home tanid: Pete' asked for | time to-day, Mis “Is that rightly. She did not seem particular terested and Dan, after looking at go?" asked Mary, smiling keenly for a moment or two, drew up his chair to the table and began to i eait his supper with an easy mind. Lat. or. he he heard Mary singing as she washed the as read his evening paper, dishes And {that was th “1.4 v §oyergetd g together the next day Mrs. Ritehle and Mary walkin Peter had sald as she came out in her hat and frock ywned “I may never bring you back ’ And Mary answered Wer hand in his want go back, ¢ Sunday WW ttle Pete” | hest the prettiest she ipped ever as she =) arm “1 don't to Peter.” Chicago tecord, TEACHING A BOY TO PLAY. pride for called to hi She a small man, when Mary m to stop. was as direct as her brother Description of the Trials Music Teacher. more?" she ed Peter, any nak “Yes,” He did not look at her, of her answered mournfully but at the hem white apron h she was Nhe while her fingers looked at the ap “I was “If hadn't [1 wanted you to know that a it a'ready. 1 told him too.” She blushed at zot an’ U'm all en idl tn «0 real sorry.” with it DaRSe nothin Knew that. “Danny's all 1 he's st.” she said ge been since died, 1 wight to do what Danny says things." | half appealingly as she spoke, but he bad no comfort for her. “Maybe you had; maybe you had” he sald. “1 think I had better go in” Mary. with a little shake in her voice ‘Good by." “Good by,” said Peter, ing to see vou again” He kept his promise and walked | town Arbor street twice or three times | 1 week for that especial purpose, but has they | he never stopped to speak, thout ! for awhile on this account, but she rea i i : { found consolation in the thought. | In the meantime “Little Pete” having a bad thine at the foundry, It fall. Since the evening at the gate the {foreman bad hardly spoken to him, and while on casting days, when the {crane was swinging around with shop was overwhelmed with blasphem- wis adjurntions and sulphurous epi thets “Little Pete” went free from surses, The bad time proceeded from his fellow helpers, who, having discov. ered that Peter was sensitive on the | subject, jokéd him without mercy con. corning Mary. Nels, the big Scandi ravian, took particular pleasure In this form of amusement until one morning at the cleaning bench Peter paused In his task of chipping the rough shell edges from the castings and flung bis hammer and cold chisel 4t his tormentor's head. Fortunately Nels ducked In time, and the next mo- ment he was dodging a murderous shower of long files and chiszels on his way to the door. It was the general opinion of the foundry that If Nels had not reached that door when he did there would have been a general as- sessment In the mutual benefit socloty to which he belonged. From that time “Little Pete” was not annoyed, but he was avoided to some extent, and that WAS even worse, a A night or two after this event Peter walked down Arbor street and stopped at the gate where Mary was faithfully awaiting him, ha boy to well-known “1 do not mean but described nerve for edi a bottomless pit for pie, a button. young savage, a of gar. ments. a lover of goats and dogs and “Did you ever try to (edd i play the plano?’ says a teacher of Indianapolis en-haired ma ! kind 1 whistling 1 BO : mma's darling, of the Mie IVE seen 18 0 fragrant, ‘dear, | shattering boy-a receptacle les, ss render 1 dispenser of their fragrance, a scof- | fer of propriety, an incorrigible boy.’ | One such bit of restless humanity it has fallen to my lot to teach, and I an tell the endless surprises that came to me during one season's work with this boy, His talent as a musieal itself, in call ng Mme. Zeisler ‘a kind of a cyclone,’ | and again, In describing to me a sing: never critic showed he sald: ‘She saackled so 1 ouldu’t tell what she was trying to | sing.’ “Is there a cultured musical eritie {in this country that could express so { much in so few words? “But 1 spddless number of things that happen- wl to this boy's hands—which in each nstance gave him a good excuse for ot having practiced. He caught a “all on the tip of the finger, which nocked the nail off. He voloe, fie burned his hand with hot nolasses candy--and again with a fire. cracker, The cat scratched him, log bit him. His knuckles were well 4igh worn off in playing marbles on i ut out, ty. o me with a savage looking soe, fully his eara and mouth, now? “ ‘Flub-that's nothin’; I just got las sol.’ “Inquiring later of his mother, she told me that a little girl of the neigh. worhood, whose parents make frequent visite to Mexico had searched the at tie and found a horsehair lasso, which she succeeded In throwing about his head as he was passing on a bicycle, Needless to gay he had a fall, the horse. hair lasso removing a complete circle of cuticle from around his head Think of chaining such a boy down fo the torment of a plano forte tech nique. As well try to chain the winds!” Dangerous Competition. Warwick ~The doctrine of manifest destiny In international affairs often seems to lead to rather serious compli cations, Wickwere—Indeed! How so? Warwics -Wsil, in those cases where we find two nations with the same manifest destiny —Puck. humorist is that a wit says things and us humorist writes them. calls his “Dewey Jeffries may be nursing Paul hook." destroyer, an ‘‘Oom a—— Marconi's system of wireless tela- But the old-fashioned wires are still employed in announcing the results of his experiments, Some of the messages exchanged that the Boer Two New York youngsters, in- started some on had told them it was cheap the express cousent of the second wife and her parents, Out of an equal pumber of bachelors and widowers betwean ers remarry for every thirteen bach elors who enter the bonds of Hymen for the first time, For every spinster married between thirty and sixty-five two widows are remarried. Both facts are eloquent in favor of the com ——— The number of railway cars built la-t year. exclusive of cars con- structed by the railroad companies 123,803. Of these Cars; new themselves 117,982 were freight there was hardly a line of railroad the country which had cars enough for the frei s offered for trausporta tion, Was er bed ide — The United States could well afford to take pattern after Germany in the matter of forestry. In that country trees are never ruthlessly destroyed, und replanting keeps pace with nec wgsary destruction. San Francisco girls have a new fad. They think boxing makes them beau- tiful and all the fashionable maidens out there are learning how to ase *"the mitts.” Slender young men who are looking for life partners should keep away from San Francisco. it will close those that have passed before it. Lins paved the way developments to follow and no man without = peer AMOnE It can now divine what the near futn.e ity. In no other country have rich men given so much money to the cause of education, religion and charity during Years they have in the United States, The habit of giving to these noble causes seems to be growing upon wealthy citizens af the United States, and during the year 1894 they a record which has never been equalled in this or any other country. recent as made An approved sea maxim teaches that the landsman who is to become 8 neat, two-handed sailor must be caught duous trade. Realizing the import ance of this discipline, the Navy De. thorize the construction of two ad- ditional auxiliary steamers, and to emphasize its belief in the system has and the Dixie—for the specific train: has the approval of our best officers, and, as it makes for efficiency, shonld genoe, S— A fellow who has been slashing and vicious practice is the result of a dis. Yeu disense beyond his control; but it was cured Ly clipping off his tail right behind his ears, This dress slasher probably doesn’t need quite so heroic treatment, but there is little doubt that something could be devited that would eure him. In one of the historical volumes of John F. Magginness is recounted a mostremarkable coincidence. On the very day that the Declaration of In. dependence was promulgated and old Liberty Bell proclaimed the joyful news in Philadelphia, a little band of Scotch-Irish settiers, without any knowledge, of course, of wha was oc curring elsewhere, assembled at a certain place on the banks of Pine Creek, about fourteen miles above where now stands the city of Williams. port, and declared themselves free from the yoke of British rule, The object of sending a person who has been found guilty of grime to State prison is primarily to satisfy the demands of justice. He broken the law and by so doing has revesied himself as a more or less Bat it behooves »ociety to that in punishing male- does not demoralize them so factors it | Shen they entered it. If this con- sideration is lost s'ght of our penal institutions must become not reform. a’ ories, but nurseries of degradation, { promoters of vice, Accordingly, | the wisely managed prisons of to day, convicts receive the benefit of com. mutations for good conduct, religious services, wholesome reading, not to speak of the unspeakable blessing of daily work. San it is # notalls even: in onr indus. trial history that, last yesz:, took our place at the head of the coal} ro- ducivg conntries of the world, For thirty years four largest pro ducers, Jrita n, the United Stutes, Germany and France, we the Cirent have been increasing their output steadily; | but no conutry has equalled our per- of Between 1870 and 1895 we trebled our prodaction; and finally we have surpassed Great Britain, list, by an enormous increase in productivity never «qualled before in Ia single year. Onr output in 1899 was over 244,000,000 tous, which was | 40,000,000 tons more than mined In other words centage increase. w hich heretofore has headed the we in the preceding year, four in year has been greate: averag fin the during the five years, | 1871-5, exceptin © We produced fast year nearly half as much con! as the quantity in the outy it rd ol production in oue tire crease than the el output of any other country worid g Great Britain, RYeTAZG anhhun { mined in the whole w five Year per d: orid Laine ana our in ildered by the con templation of aclhileye century. AM OUus marves nents 1a the ninetecnth i aud ui aca hey did in 1800, could not exist It would not po £ inity of purpose or identity of De B81 | est between communities separated | by such ins: parable barriers as 1 re Hou | and Florida, fut time and arbitrary terms, one depenaing the transmission of thonght, i other on the transit our a distance are the and tur = fon of ourselves commodities, our ma ufa and our harvest, to a span, obliterated. London and | Pekin and New York are next neighbors, These ments of our race mocracy p ssibile, and The continent has sh Fhe oceans are Paris and CL OOT THOX vast accom} lish- have lered Steam, rel eieciricnty machinery have i millions and left them free { higher ranges | become emancipated in p Labor unerative. (irene Has "wm fie of effort, more res flood of wealth ! Hue: EE comfort and many to a The fire statistics of the Journal of fi a startling showing both of the extent of Cre de struction and of its alarming gr In the United States and Ca jude last Commerce for 1899 make sw Lia year fire destroyed property to the extent of §136,7/3,200, an more than $17,000, OO over the | of 1RUR and more Oo, 002 over 1897. increase of RON than 826, Why this enorm- why this phen- sx from Year io ly those of #1 Es OR 108 eCiniy in of In the cit all the fires ocour, we are supposed 10 ors A in and st the same time im omens! ‘Tense year ? where uea les, be bailding more fire proof ways, proving our means of preventing and extinguishing fires by the lavish ex- penditure of money, public and pri- vate, says the New York World is {it all to no purpose ? Why is it that, instead of decreasing, our fire losses iner ase so enormously every year ? | Are the insurance compani.s in any way responsible ? In their nad com- | peiition for “Lusiness” have they un- wirtingly or re klessly put a premium upon incendiarism ? A Thesry Abou: Women. The curtain had just gone down. “I'hose people in front of us must be married.” sald the young woman to the | ehaperon. “She does not talk to him but just sits and looks over the house, and only speaks once in a great while.” of us,” said the chaperon. man has discussed the play, the cast and gowns over and before the foot. lights. Ble has touched upon litera- ture, music and art. Bhe has discussed golf. She has pointed out persons in the audience and bored the man by trying to direct his attention to the right person, and If she thinks she is entertaining him she is mistaken. No doubt he likes her, and would en. joy the music and be content with merely her presence, but, like most foolish girls, she longs for a reputation for being entertaining. “She is floundering terribly now, and is reduced to a joke on the programme, if she only realized it the poor man Is tired out, and she Insists on draining to the dregs what little vitality his day's work has left him. “Only a business woman has enough sense of justice and of proportion to understand these things, 1 heard a very busy woman say the other day that for the first time she could under. stand what had puzzled her befcre abe went out Into ihe world, and that is why very noted and brilliant men marry women who are nothing more than mechanical dolls. One ean fore get to wind them, and they never ro member more than to be pretty, win. some and restful to the eye”—Phila. delphia Press, i i ss —T— A ATARI THE CITY OF SIEGES, ——— Coveting. fome English travelers through cen tral Asin have written home that Rus Persian and Af- looks serious. tier contiguous with This it means that the czar is looking with covetous- ness on India, famishing with starvas tion as it is, For Herat, “the key to Indian” lays but a few hundred miles to the south west of Ashkabah, where the mobili zation Is reported as taking place, Englishmen at home, in the security of their cheerful newspapers, do bot eonsider the danger immiment. They read of the physical character of cen tral they have heard of bound. less steppes, arid that the frugal Tarters have to move thelr camps weekly for fresh forage ground; of the deserts and marches into which large rivers disappear; of the towering, al most lmpassable mountains, and they feel secure, But through Ania; BO Englishmen who have gone that country do not smile so contentedly. They see bow Russia has ! obstacle surmonnted obstacle after They know of the modern railway that best harbor on the kK Seana. with through the of the Blac Const ku, on the Casplan, passing Transcs BCA Caspian, a powerful every way; built ong to the ‘4 it lis, the capital of They ki of the large dron of ) BR men-of- OW Russian the countered at War on Baku, where station | d in of the feet «ten INeTs, be used as trangpo qr 4 With these transportation they see d does land on the Kras aucasian for iv Russia can an ralry and ery 3 at other railway to Ashkabad 1 goes on over desert to Koushid ch is e ruins of so often a bone of of the immense r know, too, of the from there Herat,” and and pear tl an Kaleh, w nu n the ancient Mery, ount my has two good roads attack it may be assumed that it will divide and attack by both. This the Russians can easily do. They can leave Ashkabad, in Russian Turke south to Sherwan, in Per on the high that runs almost southeast! Meshed crosses the Afghan country and The shab ns is wel he 1s at the beck and call by which tan, march gla. where they would be way through istan border in open for Herat ause trouble, vs a ws for but makes gtraight would not « it known that of the czar Herat is 1 If counted, the he besieged accurately It was cn was fought for the Mohammed by 1 ans, by the Persians, by fifty times city the sieges are result is fifty-two +h ie capital of Timur; it the ameers of Kabul, and there was f Herat The years when always an Ameer o anxious to regain his patrimony Herat rare, and During has not seen fighting have been Herat the present fully is a very old town. it has UREN besieged in 1537 IRE8 by and taken n 1556: regained by Dost Mo i century 8s heen and the Persians, by them hammed. Ameer of Kabul, in 1863; lost by him to an Ameer of Herat, and re gained Kabul in 1881 under the present atmeer, Abburrahman Khan, And why is Herat “the key to India” situated In the extreme porthwest of Afghanistan, nearly 600 miles. as the crow niles, from the In- dian frontier? Because Herat is the controlling point of the approaches to the only two passes into India that are traversed by railroads. One highway, that by it is eastward goes and reaches Kabul, whence there Here {at Peshawar) com ahore for all points in the Wasted Questions. Scientific inquiry is sometimes curl A professor of one of first rounds this year met a untive townsman who told him, among other {tems of local interest, of the illness of his wife, “{ am sorry to hear it,” said the pro- fessor, all sympathy at once, “What is the cause of her iliness¥” This her husband was not prepared to gay, but at length admitted that some called It one thing and some another, By judicious questions, however, the professor learned enough to satisfy himself that the sick Woman Was suf fering from epilepsy, and began to in. quire for familiar symptoms. The answers he received were, in general, convincing. Finally, he asked: “Does your wife grind her teeth while asleep?’ “Well, no, I've never noticed that she d14." was the reply; “bat 1 don’t Know as 1 ever remember of her wearing her teeth to bed. "—Youth's Companion. In the sixteen years between 583 and 1808 inclusive 82320 wolves have been destroyed and bounties paid equaling $118815. In 1883 and 1884 the number of wolves killed was 1.316
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