WHEN AT THE LAST,
When at the last I lay me down to
sleep, i
And of the morrow’s dawning reck- |
on not,
When night
vigil keep,
And love's brief noon is but a dream
forgot,
Back to the
WAYS, |
Be Thou the warder of my yesterdays. |
A
Amid the paths long lost, or sought
too late,
Where waywardness hath wandered,
blind,
that
no more, Ne more may
*ast, its sad and variant
love been
there be
straight
Unseen, perchance
mayest find
in that
maze
white thread
yesterdays.
one lieth clear and
It
forgot—Thou
Even perverse, perplexing
The shining 'mid my
bread in the mouths of —' he choked
Then, ‘1 came
wife aud three children, and was
have not a penny!”
“Come with me! 1 said. And he
followed me out of the works, His
story might be true, or it might not,
but 1 had thought of a way to test the
metal of which he was made,
days before, and 1 had a gang at work
clearing away the rubbish. A dirty job
it was; the men were up to their
waists half the time in mud and wa
of rusty iron and burnt timbers
what not-—looked like
world, and the wrong end at that.
“The gang I had on mostly
Italians—it was too dirty work for a
Yankee to touch, and even the Irish
were shy of it.
monkeyv-looking
were
fellow =,
love's torch wavered, |
failed,
reckoning
weep;
by memory as
So*oft have
love's feet
Were the vain
twere but to
Bllud Thou the sight
salled,
When at the
to sleep,
And through
rinthian
Crown Thou some moment in my ves
terdays!— Harper's Bazar,
mine |
last I lay me down
‘ime’s deep and laby
Ways
PL UCKE.S
®; Laura E. Richards.
“Yes.
honesty, and then
the things
pluck He
summons of the tele
and “No,” by
and then res)
“Speaking of
doing just now
the
one word.”
We settled onr
We Sitti
fron-works,
said tae
vaster,
hose
needful Speaking
stopp
beginning an
were o> of the
and the air was fall of the
sound of great hammers, crashing and
pounding;
metal, and the
of the sharp hiss of molten
smitten
steel,
“I was sitting here
chair,” the ter “one
ironmas
day about seven vears mavbe
ALO, or
Time goes so fast, 1 hardly try
At
reading
eight,
to keep count of it in these days
any rate, here |
the newspaper
knock at the door
“Come inl” 1
wis sitting,
when there
caine a
said; and in walked a
stranger. He was
twenty-five years
gentleman, though his
a good deal of service
head held up, and gray
mine fair and
“Always look
my boy! If he
worth
about here
not know where te
a young man, abont
like a
lothes had seen
Call,
eves that
old, dressed
with his
met
sfjunre
first at
you in the
A man's eves,
fooks eye,
if shift
did
afraid
he Is trying his eyes
and there, as if thes
r look, or were
BR tiey
have nothing to do
my experience!
“Well, this
my desk, and
for me;
Aiers, for his manners were good
of seeing someth didn't like
th him! That's
Foung man came
spoke wit
yet it w
ft wait
want of
y
Hou ng
dx 1
man
‘Good morning, =ir” he sald; and |
clear ring to it that |
hig volee had a
liked, ‘I
me any?”
want you give
We
and I
at any
have no work
never took
don't
ime
“1 shook my
strangers in
recommend the pra
* No, sir?’ 1 said
‘We
here, Sorry i int
you." I took up paper again, and
looked to see him go out without more
words: but still i |
have work!” he =aid. ‘1 would try to
give you satisfaction, sir, and [ tell
you I must have it?”
“He spoke as if [ had
my coat pocket, and as if he was de
termined to get it from me at any
cost; yet perfectly respectful, you un
derstand, nothing | conld take
hold of and get angry about.
“My god sir,” 1 sald, putting the
paper down, ‘there is no vacancy in
the place. If yon will give me your
name and your references, [1 will
make a note of them, and some day
when we do have a job to dispose of,
I will remember you. That ls the best
I enu do for you to-day.’
“The young man shook his head. |
“That won't do!” he sald. “Think
again, sir. Surely in this great place,
there must be something a strong,
willing man can do. It Is useless to
talk of waiting till a YACAncy oceurs,
I must have work now, to-day! It is
absolutely necessary!”
“It was on the tip of my tongue to
tall him that it was absolutely neces. |
sary for him to leave that office and
shut the door after him; but 1 looked
at him again, and didn’t say it, }
“I saw that he was telling the truth,
and that he must have work, It wasn't
that he looked shabby, or that there
was uuy suspicion of whiningor snivel-
ling about him, If there hind been, out |
he would have gone In pretty quick |
time, Bot there was a look in his eyes
well, 1 hardly know how to deseribe
it, but the man was desperate, and
had some reason for being so.
* ‘What kind of work do you want? |
I sald, putting down the paper again,
“Any kind’
“ ‘Yon mean that?
#0 do. Anything
accommodate
my
he stood must
the
work in
with
|
that will put
ly gibberish.
my gentleman, with his
skin, and hands which
whatever trade he bad
wreckage
white
showed that,
worked at,
hadn't been
clear
part of it
exercise in athletic sports,
“The only
like 7
“ ‘Here is a job! 1 said,
of. How you
“Well enough,” he sald, as cool as
one I know do
possible,
“You'll get a
day,’ 1 told
death, too, probably
dollar and a half a
‘You'll get your
When will you
him
20 to work?
‘sn
long “pig-tails”
and 1 hardly
again But bet the hour
back in a flannel
and a pair of old trousers
Well, off he
are
he sald
of
an hour’
Celestials
expected to
the
went, ae
him was
out he was
undershirt
He took
into that hole
he
an
his pickaxe, and down
went as if wns
sir.
back to the office, 1
watching
evening party,
“Well
ouldn’t
I went
be hanging round
. or the boss would have heen
hand
and I
k two
but
nd,
the
trouble: my new
somehow,
Wore or
making
that
afternoon,
understand, in
working, sir, like a—-
The Italls
better,
HOt e iN Aare
worker as a rule
good
but his p in and out three
times for their ce, and thers was
no chattering
He had little
wanted io, for though he
corner of the hole
if he had
nus
haif
such
hh to talk,
was a
fellow, vou could see with
be had never
life before
cular
eve that done
an
work in his
“The
like rain, but he
looked up
was
sweat poured down his fs
never stopped, never
orf knew that 1 or
near—just plodded
that pick if there
nothing else in the world
“ “That's pluck!” said I to myself
he'll do?
that, I thought
after first
his strength
for his
any one
elue away,
swinging as were
‘Ir
doesn’t die
all
out
he
wonld
didn’t
When
night, he
tired-looking;
just took
and thanked me,
he
day
last
“For
give the
think would
he came in pay at
and
never a
was shaky
but
pretty
said word:
with the rest
he
his pay
and went off
“The next morning 1 was very busy,
and although 1 thought of my gefitle
man once or twice, I didn’t manage to
get
after the whistle had blown for knock -
ing off work
“When |
Irving
down to the wreck till noon, soon
the Ilial-
ground or
their
and chatter
there, | saw
the
got
ans round on
squatting
k bread and sausage
on the fences, eating
bla
ing away as usual; but no sight of my
gentleman in the Hanne] shirt
Oho” ‘One day
enough And
I thought it would have been enough
for me, When you are not
to the of a pick, the way it
takes you In the back is something be-
yond belief, 1 turned to come away,
and lo! there he was, sitting off in a
corner by himself, all up.
with a great bunch of bread one
hand and a book in the other,
“1 strolled up behind him and look
ed over his shoulder at the book, It
was an Italian grammar, sir!
“My shadow falling on the
startled him, and he looked
suppose I must have looked as aston
ished as I felt, for he smiled, and said,
‘I couldn't afford to lose such an op
portunity! The boss Is very friendly,
and I have learned several phrases,
Buon giorno, signore!”
said I to myself
WH for him was it"
fon sed
sawing
crouched
in
book
‘and working down in that hole?
“INo,” he gald, quietly,
bookkeeper,
for a bookkeeper to be able to read
and answer foreign letters, and al
though 1 have some Knowledge of
to hear Italian spoken. Ro now is
my chance,
with
a smile, the book was pretty
I am getting on pretty well’
“Why in the name of everything
foolish didn’t you apply for a position
as bookkeeper,” 1 asked, ‘instead of
this kind of thing?
“Nobody will take a bookkeeper
without references. 1 shouldn't think
much of a firm that did, I suppose,’
he said, flushing a little, ‘My refer
ences were in my wallet that was
stolen, and It will be a week and more
before | get new ones, as my native
take a good while to get there. I've
always been ford of open air and
exercise,’ he added, with a quizslieal
look at the hole where he had been
‘and now | am getting lots
of It’
“‘Back stiff?” I suggested,
“80, so! I'l manage, though--often
and
this is just as good bread as any
other,” and he took a bite out of his
hunch, and looked at his book, as
much as to say he had talked enough,
and wanted to be back at his grammar,
“1 walked off, and didn't see him
again till he came for his pay in the
if he had had an excursion down the
harbor. Bo it went on till the fourth
Every day 1 looked to see him
give out; but his pluck kept him up,
and it's my bellef he would have
worked In that hole and got stronger
and stronger—if hadn't
turned up,
“The fourth day I was sitting in the
office, when the door opened, and in
came from the boller-works
over the way, ‘Morning,’ he sald. ‘Do
something
Gireen,
fellow, who's
died yesterday.
getting another.”
“1 shook my head, but an idea came
to me,
“Will you take a man on
“What kind of a man?
been sick for so long,
I have to think about
trial?
“Well, I hardly know,” said I, ‘1
think he's a pretty good kind, but I've
only known him four days. 1 can an
swer for his power work,” and I
told the man's story
of
out with the
young fellow, liked his looks, and en
gaged him the He finished
hig day's work, came out of his hole
in the mud, shook hands with me, and
the next day
rest of his life
“Green went ne, saw
on spot,
found a hee for the
“That
he
is seven or eight years ago,
works
made
ft the baller
ti
3
Wal INN
been
If he's
il
I've
is what put
and has
over since. not he
a partner formed
and that
my head when you were talking a
pluck just That m
the real article; and
the real arti
SOO0, ir
him into
to-day
bout
had
has
How an Bir,
when a man
le, and is honest to boot
me about his not suceeed
Well
luck to you in
tur and let
Ire,
k!"--Youth's
talk to
life
Good
don’t
Going good morn
your new
your watchword be
Companion
BIG RENTS IN LONDON,
Prices Paid for Domiclies in Arise
tocratic Quarters.
Fabulous
nearly under.
Pretty
stands, of course, that
everybody
rents arn
house
iter London
very considerably great
they
in
than inl towns and
are in provin
that in the metropolis they vary great
iy stiff
where so fety hovers But a
Tit-Bits think even
f
few Londoners have much idea of
and are very in the regions
writer in
ventures to that
the
enormous figures pald for the rentals
of fashionable houses in Belgravia and
Mayfair realize
yards of the west end it takes to pro
or bow few square
duce a million sterling in this way
Now, take, Park lane,
that
It is rather
$50.00 a
very
to start with,
staggering to learn
really nt
rent fo pay
year is not
extravagant
good house in this quarter. The
simple fact of the matter ia
that you get a
here for $15,000,
such a
plain,
however,
Cannot decent hotse
than
would only
and even
Joss
three or
four bedrooms and, generally speaking,
would greater
tion than a house at $250 or
year in the or
price in a provincial town
Grosvenor atid Berkeley
square are renowned headquarters of
society, which pays astonishingly for
its residence there
Consider the former first, The whole
square comprises fewer than sixty
houses, but it is a fact that their com-
bined annual rental is about $750,000,
Big as the renta are, getting a house
here is a matter of great difficulty, and
seldom there let for long.
Nothing can be got for less than $5,000
a year, and from this figure an in
Ole have
accommoda-
£0 a
half
not have
suburbs at that
square
is one to
a year,
Berkeley square ia likewise difficult
to get into. It is rather old fashioned
and severe, and the average
woman from the country might not be
able to see anything about the houses
which would justify a heavy drain be.
ing made upon a tenant's pocket,
Bt. James square is another ultra
rent
Carlton House terrace, where states.
men and embassadors live, also costs
its tenants dearly. At least $20,000 a
year must be paid for anything good
in this particular neighborhood, and
Mr. Astor gave more than $300,000
when le purchased one of the houses
in the terrace, formerly occupled by
Lord Granville, Yet the ordinary man
would remark that the houses are not
even semidetached and that outward
ly, at all events, they are far from ime
posing.
—————
No receptacle made has sufficient
strength to resist bursting power of
frozen water,
Caught in Deschenes Lake and Had on a
Lost Harness Which the Owner Identified.
From Aylmer, a pretty little resort
on the Ottawa River, a few miles
above the Canadian capital, where the
stream broadens into the beautiful
Denchenes Lake, comes a story about
a lake sturgeon, carrying a portion of
a lost harness and bells, the owner of
which has identified them,
On July 19 two Aylmer fishermen,
Joxaph Laviolette and Timothy Due
harme, crossed the lake in a small
steam yacht and begun fishing with
rod and line hetween Coghlan's Creek
and Corgett’'s Island, After angling
for two hours they had taken
three or four small sunfish about
long as a man's hand, and they began
to think It was time they hooked on
to some of the larger finny denizens
of Lake Deschenes,
To prevent the loss of any large fish
they might hook to, the men
tached two gaff hooks to the end of
a stout night line and balted
with chunks of bologna sausage and
cast them overboard from the stern of
the craft. Steam and
the yacht was slowly among
the shoals of Shirley's Bay. Suddenly
a smart tug at the line told Ducharme,
who was holding it, that a “big fellow"
had swallowed the bait, At
time the fishermen were startled
peculiar sound,
tinkling of bells
usual
fish, improvised a
the fishline to the propeller shaft and
by putting on a little extra steam soon
only
as
on at
was turned on
steered
the same
by a
which resembled the
Laviolette, as is his
when
custom, pulling in a
by
hilew
HE
winch attaching
dragged the fish alongside
The catch proved to be a fairly
grown
ly caught in the lake on night
but what surprised the fishermen
that it had a
a string of sleigh bells
the latter
well
sturgeon, such as are common
Wis
{0 pee narness on, witl
fastens
saddle
peculiar tinkling
I'he
were fixed
ferred to collar and
the harness abou
of the fish, while
firmly ihedded In
saddle
holding the h {
Arpess in its proj
ition whi 4 race dains
dangling wat ye ii I'l
were amazed, of
in their ex:
fish
got ferent
the to the steam Ya«
trip about the lake under
sirangs
i'r faut
rocto
a citizen of
When Mr
siory at
ntegrity
heard the
3ai
at the harness, he immedis
nized It as a set worn bs
had
inst
that hwveny drowned
March
while
horses
Years ago hy
through the joe draw
from
to Avlimer
the
Nun
ne
1
Island the
Corbett's
How
harness is a
RT oss
the fish ever ig
side New
York
mystery
Three Patriotic Societies.
There are three distinct societies
Revolution
olntion, and
i812 he
Washington
A member must have
Amer
Rey
aughters
Daughters of the an
Daughters of the
ted States
was organized at
reached eighteen
descended from
and be
who w
an ancestor
tsvs Pas 1349s ov * —_
unfailing loyalty rendered
fo the
ognized
mate anse of indepen
dence wr}
dies
of the several
the 1 nited
WOOO] jt y
a8 a re as
patriot,
or sailor, or ax civil officer one
of
ne
colonies or States. or
Nintes 1
1881
and
ih
wnho was a
colonies or
was organized in
is restricted to those of
Eligibility
above eighteen who are lineal
scendants of an ancestor
military or naval or marine officer. sol
actual
vice under the anthority of any of the
thirteen the
and remained
always loyal to such authority, or de
scendants of one who signed the Dee
laration of or of
who was a member of the Continental
Congress or of the Congress of any of
the colonies or States, or as an officer
appointed by or under the authority of
dier., sailor, or marine in ser
y
colonies or States. or of
Continental Congress
Independence one
Iy assisted In the establishment of
American independence by service ren
dered during the war of the Revoln
tion, becoming thereby liable to convie
tion of treason against the government
of Great Britain, but remaining
ways loyal to the colonies or States,’
In the third soctety membership is re
stricted to lineal descendants
eighteen of ancestors who rendered
civil, military, or naval service during
Just before the plants bloom and plant
thie ground to some hoed crop. The
following spring set the strawberry
plants and give the ground a liberal
application of barnyard manure, Fifty
two-horse loads per acre would be
about right,
Break the ground early in the spring,
having it ready two or three days be
fore planting time, Harrow and drag
two or three times, as the ground can-
not be in too good condition. We
a float made out of inch plant nalled
on two poles, lapping them like shin
gles, We corn marker which
makes rows three and one-half feet
Now nas I would
ine
Hse A
apart, 10 setting.
the plants as quickly as possible
the ground has
one person to drop
and two to set them out.
plants quicker than
and fix them ready to set,
wert
been prepared
the plants
We can set
can dig
We always
dip the roots in water before settling,
not letting the
the plants are no harder to make
after
Have
the we
by roots become
of the soil.
This Is very important, for If it
low the surface the crown will die, and
if it is above the plant will die,
We begin to cultivate the plants four
ix be
or five days after setting and continue
week until fall I
from
once a nlesk the
groutid is very free weeds the
will
or three times daring the season
off the first
August, i
ept that advice, ax
bservatiome the
first
pateh need to be hand hoed two
Nome
rowers say to cut runners
until the first of do not
exactly ad from
best plants
made from the runners, and the
i berries are on the straaigest
all
and
SAVE the runners, turn them into
he row raise a large crop. Thor
Way
cultivation is
CORR KE. E eats
ough the only sure
LIrangs«
MT
Judd Farmer
Muking Boots Under War Conditions.
A short
it made
ne ago
departiner
i
eiperimer
1inder
1.20%)
wii
Dootimake
Berlin 1
a 13d
pe, BNA
CRE work
$ !
imber o
Were
and the «
work from 2 p. in
two intervals of half an
I period of twelve hours
ate and slept the barra
Field A:
Guards In the four
orkid
n
First tillery Hegiment
Prussian
weeks the men made no fewer
GO nairs of boots, ¢ an
completing fifty
pairs
month
This Dog Died Heartbroken
the
w hose
“Toots, beautiful black
Young master
Serle Johan, ended his life
weeks ago, at Evansville, Ine
canse he thought his sweetheart had
ited him, is dead of a broken heart
After the young man's body had been
the kept
and allowed to
buried dog was closely at
when leave
texdls
of his
the
out
home
wonld de jes make the
he haunts master
dead
his
to
fistlows
Charles Johan boy's father,
tried to
quest! to
son « jast re
Carry
“he good Toots,” but the
became more each dax
until one day last week be went out
back yard, where he used to
in the
amd, tuming his
muzzle skyward, he gave vent
dismal half-bark and half
sharp
to a weird
ery, and dropped over dead in the
grass Indianapolis Senutinel
Looks Like a Fresh-Water Swordfish.
The queerest looking fish ever cap
Lynch, of Bos
appearances it is 8 freshwater
swordfish, and there have been many
among the summer resi
cies to which the fish actually belongs,
It had a ser
inches long
about six pounds
“hill” over seven
causes which led to the war, sabse
quent to the war of the Ravolution,
The initiation fee ix one dollar. Har
per's Bazar,
“ a
Practical Strawberry Culture.
The strawberry varies from year to
year, causes largely due to the season.
The surest way to success is to plant og
fn soll that suits them and risk the re
sults. The best soils for the straw-
berry are clay loam and sandy or
gravelly soil. Some growers prefer
the former, others the latter, both have
advantages. The sandy soll is the best
for early truckers, as the frit matures
earlier. For general use the clay soll
is the best, as it gives a heavier yield.
the best results unless the patch Is ir-
rigated. The soll should be very rich
and well underdrained, If not, the
plants will be drowned out In a wet
season. Two or three years previous
to setting the patch, the ground should
be sowed to clover, The next or the
a sawfish.
It has been sent
exhibition,
40 SARA 8
The Death of a Remarkable Man.
John Lockard,
markable men in West Virginia, died
recently at Wadesville, aged 108 years
and 10 months, Until Friday he never
knew a day's sickness. He uever took
medicine, never used glasses afd nev
er rode when he conld walk. He could
and only a few months ago walked
vighteen miles to Parkersburg in pre.
ference to riding. He wie born in
Ireland, but after knocking out a local
champion in a fight he fled to Ameri
ca and has lived lived here for seven
ty-five years, He was the strongest
man in the county. Baltimore Run.
Washday Balloons.
Balloons are used for drying linen
in Paris laundries. Bamboo frames
are attached to a captive balloon, and
the clothes are attached to them. The
balloon makes six ascents dally to gu ]
height of about 100 feet,
All fees of the Patent Office must
be paid in advance,
—————— ——— a AA
Algy's Porget-Me-Nots.
Through patient waiting and the use
chivalrous diplomacy Algernon
Brown, nine floor, made the acquaint
of a good-looking typewriter
the hope
plants from him that grew in his gar
The flower was the forget-me
So, in the heat of one morning, Al
them presented through the eminently
dignified service of the elevator boy
thanked, 8he sald she was,
Algernon could see her setting out
the forget-me-
He saw them a lasting remind
er of his admiration, his sincerity, and
terest to hear something from her
own lips about it led him one day
shortly after to inquire ax to the con
dition of the plants in new
home,
“Oh,” she exclaimed,
their
“oh, yes! They
are along right, Grand
mother is 80 interested in flowers, and
looking
Bangor Commercial
getting all
she is after them, Isn't it
bot!”
How Horses Are Shod in Japan,
They are always dolng things in
odd way in Japan, so we are not su
prised to learn that the Japanese put
hats and shoes of straw
the few
horses they have
Lor Sess
along in
footwear
old ATHY
shoes of straw
i
around the ankles with straw
is tied
and the shoes ordi
rope,
HHnsy
ength
tween
tank
feet tal deneath tl tank,
and
wr}
which
fact is an i t floating the buoy
and furnishing it th power for the
whistle ut twenty feet
long and eighteen inch in diameter
When the
tion of the
water
the n«
uses a volume of wa
is taken
and the
ter to rise and fall in it Alr
ry . ¥ ¥ ni
from the top of the tank
pres
sure of water in expelling it blows the
whistles are of the
whistle hese
twelve are identical
The pitch
RO é a
and
land.
adjusted
known by
inch sort
with those in use on
of a
locality m
of the
whistle is
ay be
sounds that marks
Held Up Far Dows.
Willi
pump
While
in the
M1
ground a
Heffner was at work
of Girard colliery,
300 feet under the
three masked
am
house
Penn
$ oh
nigh
Carmel
fow f= ry
ag
highwaymen, armed with revolvers
robbed him £50 monthly
He drew the money last Saturday and
hid the the rock
The robbers the door of
pump
machinery
of his pay
money in a hole in
the
the
crept
into the small enclosure, and, closing
the door, the pump man
and Informed him if he moved or sald
a word he would Heffoer,
realizing that he had desperate men
to deal with, handed the money over.
Philadelphia Public Ledger,
waited
at
house until he bent
oil if,
over
they
io when
surrounded
be shot.
What the Sultan Spends.
The yearly expenses of the Sultan
have been estimated at no lexs a sum
than £8.000,000, Of this a million and
a half alone is spent on the clothing
of the women, and £80,000 on the Sul
tan’s own wardrobe, Nearly another
million and a half is swallowed up by
presents, a million goes for pocket
money, and still znother million for
the table. It seems incredible that so
much money can possibly be spent in
a year by one man, but when it ix re
membered that some 1.500 people live
within the palace walls, live luxuri
ously and dress expensively at the cost
of the civil list, it appears a little more
comprehensible, — London Answers,
Yalke's Yom-Yem.
Among the graduates from Yale this
year was Miss Selichi Yamaguchi, of
Toklo, Japan, who won the degree of
bachelor of arts. The dark little wo
man received her diploma bareheaded
and in her native costume, her black
hair lying smooth and shiny, fastened
by a colossal stickpin, while her shawl
and broad sash, flung gracefully
about her plump little figure, made hot
look like some small “Yum-Yum"” just
out of school,
Ose for Every Class.
In Paris a journal is published for
theatre physicians, Nearly every spe
cial branch of medical service now has
its own particular organ.
There are 833.240 Scandinavians ia
the United States,