WORDS. Words are great forces of life: careful of hate, Of poverty, of sickness, but These very elements to mar his fate. Be of their Who talks use, a When health, and plenty hear Their names repeated day, wing their way near, lave, happiness over day by They like fairies Then to stay. Who talks of evil conjures into shape That formless thing, and gives it life and scope. the escape That ine hope, Ella Wheeler Wilcox an's Home Companion. This is law; then let no word does not breathe of everlast in the Wom i i suggestion, J. KE. HAMILTON." In the evening he inaged to got in somewhat earlier than before, vanishing shadow he came Into the sitthug-room, wis scen six consecutive evenings this could no longer doubt structions: and he at length expressed her, Bridget to until 1 he believe she would a desire to see “Can't in to you ask stay g (ting-room come In morrow “l evening?” nsked, don’t stay. She men--1 paean not about care about as much as she does little ones if knew 3 like you. per? Then she she I'm sure she would il, can’t you come for sup to in have would see Nn 3 I do nit trouble, indi no! not wa to give her her my and Yoel Yeriat HEI 1t pol down stairs at Bridger’s Blueing Bottle. IN MERRILL JUHNST ne; 50, I. Do not [1 you rive ho - i Keep out of Br overwork taking care of Clas OTHE rH i» shu Jim is is “How ool upon was Onc g & ax anoth "Hay. 1 you she’ sent to WHY. I don't g “l an Was vers dare old won funny, and she niest caps" “Oh, our Bridget She's as pretty as mamn isn't like that im. And now Uncle Jim. won't you wri rite the of that ' You to but she hasn't words song for Bridget can play the words.” me promised Jim laughed. “It’s good that yon are ne critic; probably anything of nolse suits you for “No; it not. Bridget can "olay better than yon,” was the answer, “Well, get me pen and ink. and I'n write the words,” he said. “The Ink is gone, and | the last pencil all up this afternoon; there's only the little one Bridget has on the string to mark the account book. I can get that” “No. I don't want a greasy kiteh- | en pencil. I'll see if I can find any | kind of a marker in my pocket.” He found nothing, as he had lent | Lis pencil to a boy on the car who fail- | Md to return it i “Better go to bed, Mabel, If | find | one anywhere tonight, I'll come In early In the morning and write out your song. Good-night, dearte.” Jim found no pencil; but before go- ing out next morning he went Into the sitting-room to take another look. A bluing bottle was on the table and a part of its contents poured out Into a gmail glass. A te addressed to himself lay beside Iv. He read: “I have before now used liquid bln- ing as a substitute for Ink, and found it very good. BRIDGET.” “That writing does not remind me of my old Bridget. Yet this girl is probably fresh from the old country, and these Irish are uncommonly fine writers,” thought he, The bluing answered his purpose admirably, On the bottom of Bridget's in a tune” does tise] note he wrote; woul 1 be Hig! ay in be my Ia Tue explained id not disappear as he en He in evening for Mabel, engrosacd root next new book wy Loftus. SOON “Miss he said, “will my asking a question? at you Why yourself pardon 1 0 Bri you insi dget?”’ it my Aunt women | upon calling is name. | was named for Bridget, of the heat ever knew, and I would not for any name.” “You are right,” was the hearty an- There a about this cultivated woman, and he would try to have it solved, “Does your aunt live near you?” “She Is not living now. was in Rechester, when | was very young, and Aunt | Bridget took me, She was a member | of the Society of Friends (or Quakers), She did not object to her name; neith er do I mine.” “You have no need, ny one exchange other swer, was mystery Our home | Miss loftus. now let me ask one question more; Why do yon choose this kind of life ent position? Excuse my plainness.” “Certainly,” she answered. “My reason is this: While my aunt lived 1 had the hope of making music my means of living: #0 in school 1 did not take up all the branches necessary for those who make school teabhing thelr profession. Aunt died suddenly, be- fore my musical course was complet ed. With her died the income, and 1 was left with about two thousand dol lars on hand, I knew I must do some thing, and my knowledge of house. keeping was good. 1 took a louse Keeper's place, and have more time to prepare for teaching than I could have had If 1 had begun giving lessons to beginners. 1 want to be as nearly per. fect as | can before attempting to teach music, {taught me to work and I am thankful to be able, legally qualified for school teaching. Ife finally make it * * work.” * my ® o nt ai A year from th tus was duly enrolled upon the teach- ing staff of her native city. Mrs, i ® y Campbell rejoiced In her success, and bravest woman she had “and I sald so a year a she added, Jim He not given to speech when Bridget was the subject, This ! in thelr pany, “Here Mabel, Bridget! I've ever known, go" smiled, was Year the Campbells are again summer home, expecting com they Uncle And the are, Jim, mammal” and Aunt bottle made calls Aunt iridget! all you dear listen, blui because Kept just LU nele Jim oth ng this time, it know and frst cach Waverley about Magazine Forgot Her Wedding Day. narried man was hurrving down the elevated station: friend who had and why didn't you he remard rks that greeted I have come ™ ht was BIEL Was the ANN She Wa 8 Superstitions $ entirols the HE 3 § 8: havi next Ss went out on the platform she a dally paper and, Just dnted rushed back £1 from the pews it wher npon agent glancing at saw Friday, to the 1 tae OP that it was she and asked th ticket and refund her that upon the ro eeipt of a letter that morning she had decided to a friend at next station, but had forgotten that it was and, did not care to that day. said she would the next, and asked that her money be refunded, or the ticket extended, She was getting her money back just as | left to go on the train. She walted until Saturday, and no doubt has been thinking ever sinee of the great danger she escaped.” Gal News. al he oar money, saving visit the as she travel wait on until A Peculiar Girl “That Miss Bradish is one” of the most peculiar girls 1 ever saw. She until a couple of weeks ago. she barely speaks to me, count for it. evening about clever women, Now 1 can’t ac dom beautiful” “You probably made that she didu't like” “No, I was careful about that, and she showed no sign of her unaccounta- ble coldness until I asked her wheth- er, if she could have her cholee, she would prefer to be talented or beaunti- ful, Bhe never answered the question, and has been different toward me ever since. Most peculiar girl I ever saw.” «Chicago Times -Herald, some break Might Bight the Angels. A four-year-old girl, whose dog had died, sald to her Bunday school teach er: “I guess the angels were afraid when they saw him coming up the walk, He's cross to strangers.” Phil adelphia Ledger, GREAT STRASBURG CLOCK, Some Facts Concerning the Remarkable Timeplece of the Present Day. tabbl Mayer talked to the pupils of the Central High School at thelr weekly entertain- ment of "The Strasburg Clock.” The Rabbl is a fine speaker and held the closest dur- yesterday morning his audience The clock attention of Ing his talk. oldest in the world, dating enrly the middie of the century. It is In a way, however, like back as is time, another, but still clock It one at finally remained the same doll third Hew EE unr an entire new body, The thnt The first 2M) self is the one has ral about of nx it, it 44 in for thing got out kept place years, order, and wien somes as no one could Wis the le down: Reet one or upled the op posite si from Of ae trausept present ond This last an bhout 1041 one gevents remarkal that it Year's or k Is New used to be Nt called, and buzzing ag this | § TE eve when Mas gulnied, used the would gath 1 i old fue for another in awed Crojvee preee, 1 tal ¥ P BiMArs Wilh Kiig is ended vlow slowly is hands il * COW between altogether he's lis His head grandly, his n is thrown roll whole and strength if you becomes tem Can you ex The horse all, He determined In his noble | call a scared one, ron off, but he might alse, If he Lad the chance, | kick or bite a mam to death. Fear. cowardice, Is gever beautiful, and a scared horse, if you could find one, | would be as loathesome a sight as a scared man. But horses are brave as a rule. They may become frantic, they may lose their heads, but these noble and good animals do not be. come afraid.” —Philadelphia Record. is full of life The lest cart give him a good scarce, oldest, du horse, porarily fine and noble plain this? Well. 1 can really frightened at simply and look out hlmselr. the we he might, to be ‘en is aroused, to | fot pose, post Bure, Ths Courteny of * Bobs.” Here is a story illustrative of “Bobw's” courtesy which I have receiv. Pretoria. The experienced here In finding remounts for the cavalry and mounted Infantry, and the officers entrusted with thé duty of finding them has been reduc: ed to sending men out to scour the town and neighborhood for all sorts and conditions of horses, from those that drag drays to those that ladies make pets of. One of the Pretoria ladies, whose husband Is at present a prisoner at St. Helena, has two such magnificent carriage horses that the exigencies of the service made the men who discovered them turn a deaf ear to thelr owner's remonstrances, Whereupon she had them put into her carriage, and drove off to the British residency and sought an inter view with Lord Roberts. She spoke | of herself as a defenceless whose husband woman, Was a prisoner in the hands of the Invaders, and bow she had driven the Boer commandoes away from her house with a pistol Then she Invited his lordship to go out and see for himself whether they were the wveldt, went, and five minutes afterward she drove away not too good for triumphantly, her field with “protection” signed by Roberts, | marshal.—Mainly About People. The Dear, Sweet Bride, They had jus been married. That | was plainly evident to every passenger watched | who his tender, protecting talr as they stood on the corner walt i the car 15 Wis 2a | pretty creature, with no end of flut tering-blue white frock, the { ing for stop, She BE ar was ribbons decoratin her and though the « pa two seats far desirable crowded, ssengers made room. i and ana tut only were vacant, | these the Were npart He placed her and th if ii at iin most Ore en, with evident sadness, sented his { the far end of the opposite side of the ould look But she w « his protested 5p ti43t Cid HOt ¢ returns Of nud in a sweetness distinctly audible (REET) 2 OT “But | i ng dear.” the en wer to you ARIS on the la word ing especially mari ed alf a dozen men Record High Mountains in Alaska Henry Gannett the United Nlales Mount Va: Hayes, 14.500; Mc Mount Cook, 13 int xan TON Al 15. lillman, Mons i 12.0006 10.740; Last of England's Rustics. Here lesson Life left to the home counties, so far from appurtenances life that the rattle of railway trainee can only be heard faintly when the wind Is in certain quarter, or the night very still, you may find, even yet, genuine rusties. They are old folk, full of old and they among a younger folk full of new Information, and infinitely less civil, It i= strange and unreasonable that after a few years’ study of the primers of the board school, harm- less enough little books, 8a man should find it derogatory to give you a civil “Good evening” as you pass but he | does, i= a readable lament ith in In the only heart of the country iw a in from English Country of town A SA, A Right Honorable Diversion, “When Mr. Chamberlain has an even- | ing entirely free (which is very rarely the case) he may be seen, says a writ. | er in the London Gem, paying the greatest attention to the varied at. | tractions of a certain music hall known as the “Alhambra.” “It does me good,” he sald once to one of his supporters, “to sit for an hour or two and watch the clever antics of, say, Dan Leno. Of course I am quite aware that a ‘Right Honorable' should be above such a form of amusewe Be it so!” President Van Buren's Hat The hat worn by President Van Buren during his Inauguration cere monies has just been presented to the | museum of Illinois College, It Iv a great beaver of the style since asso: elated with President Harrison. i “TH JOKERS BOOGET, The Crumbler, grumblar plan; He's sorry that He does n't Nor yet to He'd An share the fish's lot In fact, 't if he The growls at Nature's he's to woman, human, want be ao be n } hate to be a beast or such would not anos were not. takes fhiole by And grumbleg you » button iM your ear, And tells you that bh Is shriveled He wishes But, To hint t If be were not is very soul up and sere and make him lie wer: a dead whow you he world would Hint to the 4 res +1 . is gentle w Meager. Oia Deserved | Prepared For Future Events. “You've o Makes Up a Misunderstanding. Had the Elements of Success. “Nou think we ought the publicat “Yhy?™ . \ be on and deals with ought to know A Far Look Ahead Papa—Yes dear learning to sw ing palling one Daughter—Oh, I'm not afraid. When I get married 1 shall expect ay hus band to rescue me. Papa But remember you are just as likely to get shipwrecked after you get to be a mother-in-law. New York mv 1 fuxist on your jos ap im The danger of one's life in the water is an Not Servile Sur. Canute protested against the flat “I will do he said “to please you." “Stop!” he cried to the ocean, command you!” “Huh! You command!” retorted the “Command don’t go with me. 1 ain't that kind of a ser,” wPrUadelphin Press, Averting Trouble, Maid (breathlessly)—Oh, miss! hoth the gents you Is engaged to has called, and they're In the parlor, and, some how or other, they've found it out; and, oh, miss! I'm afraid there'll be trouble! Miss Flirtie—~Horrors! Oh, dear! What shall 1 do? Mald (after reflection)-I'll fix jut I'll run an’ tell ‘em you're crying y'r eyes out ‘cause y'r father has lost afl { it, then" “p
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