ONE DAY.
By Margaret E. Sangster,
This is to you like any other day?
Rose dawn, white noon, and even-
ing lt with stars,
And in high heaven
golden bars,
Set down for those who shall go home
that way.
a glimpse of
To me this Is a day so set apart
By memory and sorrow that 1 sit
With eyes that brim at the mere
thought of it,
And all the loneliness it brought my
heart.
—Harper's Bazar.
The Wiser's son.
BY A. B,
A little, shabby garrvet room, lighted
by a couple of dull panes in the roof |
a jug and a basin on it, another box
and a rough shelf in the corner, hold-
ing a few books. That was all
Not quite all, either; the room held
something else, for a dark haired boy
of 16 was crouching on the bed,
bows on knees,
utterly regardless that the tallow
candle, which feebly lighted the room,
was sputtering its last in the
candlestick. The boy was good-look
ing, with a strong,
excellent abilities.
Why, then, did his face
downecast, almost dogged,
Every one has his troubles,
Gilbert Shene's was a real
fs the only, unloved son of a
miserly father. That attic is over the
well-stocked shop of iron
monger,” in the $ country
town of Downwater. Shene Is one of
the richest tradesmen in place,
every one knows, and none better than
his son Gilbert.
Gilbert has had a
8 commercial
thanks to the
by the clergyman, the doct and one
or two others who have ki
all his life; but at the
father declared he was
idleness any
in his own shop to be
and general drudge,
permitting him any
in the small he
where Gilbert had
which Shene still
the little gar i
cleared of the
gathered there
tions ha been
desired to consider
His meals were prep
the old
stories 1
boy than
satisfied
giving him
could have
Gilbert terly d
had hoped to have been
main at s«
and then, if
taste he had lately
profession, Dr.
feal man of Downwater, had
to help him on in the world
For Gilbert wanted to be
~giot from any foolish desire t
the world, but
work, and found a far
est in studying the
adjustment of the human frame
in the joints of iron bedsteads
construction of tin teaketiles.
However, that was at an
both Gilbert's f{riends—Mr
the clergyman, and Mr. Strutt
recommended compliance
father's wishes for the present. He
could still study for the medical pro
fession in his leisure hours, and
el-
wear that
expression?
and
OL,
“Khene,
prosperou
¢
the
fair education in
in the town,
taken in him
school
interest
or
wwn hb
age of 14
not to live
he placed hin
an errand boy
and, instead
ionger (0
lounger, 80
ise out
ving
hous
selow
GH
with
more
had witl
was bit
allowed ty
hool a few years |
he continued to have a
: ey £ - 3 4 ¥
SHOWnR [or 0is Own
Strutt, the busy med
prou
he really
moveme
end, for
Statham,
had
with
on him. And such
such a cheerful,
that when
but feel contented.
an eye as it was!
twinkling,
working hard, and still,
nothing but a shop bay.
his father had married
young woman.
saw her,
as he said,
gain-a
Gilbert arly
in a brilliant scarlet cloak, whom the
maid once held out to him as uils lit
tle sister. Gilbert looked carefully at
the tiny thing, and would have passed
on, but the baby smiled at him and
made a plunge at the wayside flower
he had gathered; so Gilbert—-not a bad
fellow at heart—-smiled, too, and gave
the child the flower. And that was
all his acquaintance with his tiny
sister, Grace,
The next thing he heard was that
his stepmother had sickened and died
of a low fever, then prevalent In
Downwater, The boy hardly had
known her by sight, so he only felt
sorry for the motherless child left so
early by its best guardian. What af-
fected him much more was the fever
which raged everywherg-—-not that he
feared it, but he longed to be able to
study it and find out whether it was
not possible to stay these visitations
by science and skill,
Day by day the dull routine of the
shop became more distasteful to him,
and his father showed no signs of any
intention to meet his son's wishes. So
this night that Gilbert was sitting,
head on hands, In the wretched little
attic which he had occupied without
complaining for two years he was
maturing a plan.
He could bear his life no longer; he
would give it up; write a letter to his
father, explaining why he bad left,
and start this very night for London,
where he had a cousin, a joung chem-
ist, rn, Duthaps, howd ‘put him In
of furthering his
to be a doctor.
unadviged; for to go to Mr. Statham
would be to hear the old arguments
over again: “Duty to parents,”
“Honor your father,” and Gilbert's
heart hardened at the thought. He
would have liked a Kindly pressure
from Dr. Strutt's hand; but that little
man would either be at the bedside of
some sick sufferer or snatching a few
hours of well-earned sleep
put that idea aside, too,
Then he got up, tiled his little pos-
sessions in a bundle, wrote his letter,
erept quietly in the darkness, passed
chests, baths and
the side door into
at last! But
crossed Gilbert's heart.
out of
Free
still
street,
pang
he had shown him little
was his father. Should
meet him face
ask for
his
True,
but he
face, and then once more
own bent?
few steps. His guardian angel may
have trembled at that moment, but
he turned at last, He would not
as If he was ashamed
of himself—he would wall till
morrow and leave openly, fairly.
He was too unsettied, however, to
go back to bed, and, the moon stealing
out,
his birthplace,
at it now, when
about—it might be years
should see it again. Bo,
as everything would be
it might calm his troubled heart.
Thus thinking, be sauntered on, till
a turn in the road brought him within
sight of his old home. And what was
it that he saw that startled him out
of his thoughts about himself? He
saw a glare, a gleam, a burst of dark
ing from its walls
fire,
gave a
dwellers in
houses dotted about,
rushed to the door
ally on that and on
Ors, Some dazed
stupid, him;
smoke, the
house,
would take a look
before he
1 1 .
SINOoEe I's place
was
Gilbert
on
which
dozen
great cory.
some
and
and beat
the closed shut
and half
then more
was
then
frantic
Cone,
opened to
more glare staircase
mpassable.
dashed
into the
He knew there
irs
roused
Bow
wall
his
back
* jadders
upst
at
leaned,
near,
lon of prop
back to him
of terror
to Gilbert
arm,
life
n expression
came
face: he flew
him by
window,
hie pointed
i * blaz
“My
Gilbert had forgotten
He
ed.
©¢ one.
bal
rast
he g
the littl
* tsked,
hed man pointed
dense clouds of
darling
That
was the
ie treasure
also that she
that the ri the
old shop in market-place
to go to her.
she was nothing
the pretty baby w had smiled
d who was in peril of her life
ved himself for the
made hizx way
Gilbert
knew, and
a4: of
heir hes
grim the
were
Now but
at
howe er,
ho
Bil an
he
of danger,
noke and flame and car
cessful.
“Take
ed” he
father's arms,
stern Jacob handed his
to another and fell, fainting,
They carried him and
neighbor's house,
50 ner
ue back suc
care
aad,
as he put her in ber
but Shene
treasure
to the ground.
baby to a
strack
with the fever,
Gilbert thought no more of his new
plans, At Dr. Strutt's suggestion he
up nightly with
delirious
attention,
Baby Grace went
be
and required
Mrs.
her
easy to make room for an
to
found it
other.
=
the dark hours of those long
tolerant of each other
When the delirium passed Shene
was restless and wretched, and Gilbert
did his best to comfort him, reading to
Him, and, by Dr. Strutt’s advice, tell-
ing him bits of news to divert his
mind.
One day the old man seemed more
wretched than usual, and at last he
broke into the half request, bhalf-com-
mand:
“Gilbert, you won't ever leave me?”
Gilbert waited a moment, then
looked at the wan face, pinched and
shrunk, and answered:
“Not If you want me, father.”
It was a great sacrifice, but Gilbert
made it.
The next moment the lad’s face
flushed with joy, for his father sald
quietly:
“Then you shall be a doctor; you
saved my baby; naught Is too good
for you, 1 shan't forget that night"
And Gilbert never forgot that night
either, Such a chance as it seemed,
his walking toward his old home and
#0 much resting upon it. A moment's
further delay and the little one would
have been suffocated. It was not
chance; it was God's guiding.
After this all went well. Gilbert was
altogether released from the shop and
allowed to take such steps as should
{ Dest. Ae
profession, and to glory In the brass
plate which announced that Gilbert
was a duly qualified assistant of good
Dr. Strutt. And when Jacob Shene
died, better than all the wealth ace
cruing from that old shop—though Gil-
bert had that, too—was the charge of
the pretty little sister who had been
committed to his guardianship by the
old man on his deathbed,
“1 leave her to you,” he sald;
saved her life; after that I
to you''—New
“you
can trust
York
News,
BIC DAMAGES.
The Old Man Was Bound to Have Satis
faction.
wiry, middle-aged
road
A small,
high state of excitement,
in front of the Possum Ridge
the
his
road,
full
in
to
threw them down
straightened himself
height and shouted:
“Whoop-e-ee! 1'm little but
plzen, an’ I'm achin to chaw some
body up. Deo you hear me in thar,
little spindle-shanked gander?’
The young teacher of the
came to the door and looked out.
“Why, Mr. Riley,” said,
school
he
“It alr. It's all me, I'm all here.
Whoop-e-cel”
“What's the
“I'm hungry
here an I'll
an’
matter with
for blood.
chinw you up so
that you won't know what's
wrong with you. Dodgast you, I'll
eat you at one bite.”
“Why do you want to chew
What harm have | you?"
“You've gone an’ ked
darter's life, dadblame
tampered with ber affect
her heart an’ then won't
“Mr. Riley, 1 have
to your daughter and |
tampered with affect!
“You have. went
with her three times.”
“Well, that signify?”
“It signifies you got to take a lickin’,
marry the gal or pay damages."
“But 1 sggreed to marry
Mr. Riley. 1 never
subject to her my
hinted at such a
“That don’t matter.
her times,
naturally
her.”
‘Well, I can’t
sorry If she
“If you
You,
things.
you?”
Come out
me up
done
wre my
you,
an’
Harry
iOS won
her.’
made love
pever
never
have
on S. "
io
her
You meetin’
what does
ber,
mentioned thie
jife. I neve:
talng.”
You
after
meant
never
in
went with
that
marry
and she
lowed you
three
to
marry her, and 1 am
don’t arry her, dodgast
you'll do one other two
You'll pay
up.”
“1 don't want
Riley.”
“Pon’t
ges or be
to fight you, Mr.
make no difference what you
goin’ to climb on you,
do I'll make the fur fy
but I'm pizen, an’ when 1 git
yi you'll think a half
got hold of you.
either a lickin’ or damages.”
“1 won't pay any damages.”
“Then look out fer me, fer I'm goin’
when I git through
won t know you from
f mess of sausage ment
Here | come.”
“Hold on a minute.
any trouble
fo an
an’
I'm
my
domen
it's
cyclones have
or
on you, an
with you nobody
Who ir « oe!
I don’t want to
with you. Can't we
understanding some
way?
“It's either a lickin’ or damages
“How much damages do you want?’
“1 want lots of it, 1 Kin tell you that
That gal own flesh
when | at her an’
broke heart an’
my dander rises an’
blood biles Dadblame Four
skin, I ought to lick you
if you'll put up money enough I'll Jet
you off.”
“How much do you demand?’
“Its goin’ to take a ple of it,
I ain't
“"
now. is my
look
her
blood, an’
how
an’
Boe you've
her life
my
onery
ye
“Well, how much?
“I won't take a cent less than two
dollars.” Detroit Free Press,
A Case for Scissors.
In a certain village in Kent
lives an old lady kuown as
Sal”
linen at his wrist for her liking, so
one day, meeting him in a lane, she
“Excuse me, parson, but would
you mind my entting about an inch
off your walstbands, as 1 think It
very unbecoming to a clerical man”
“Certainly,” said the parson, and
she took from her pocket a pair of
scissors and cut them to her satisfac-
tion,
Having finished, the parson sald:
“Now, madame, there is something
about you that I should like to see
about an inch shorter.”
“Then,” said the good dame, hand
ing him the scissors, “cut it to your
king.”
“Come, then, good woman,” said
the parson, “put out your tongue.
Spare Moments,
Fireproof Dwellings for Russia
Mr. Porokhovstchikow, who some
time ago published an important
work dealing exhaustively with the
system to be adopted for the sanita-
tion of St. Petersburg and Moscow,
has recently been among the rural
population, advising the adoption of
incombuatible wood for village dwell
fags. He has bullt in the environs of
Moscow a fireproof “village,” which
a government official has been sent to
report upon, If the result of the ex.
periment proves satisfactory there
will be a great future for the
wood in the he villages of Rus of Russia,
Te Tiida sort. satiwany
NOTES OF INTEREST ON NUMEROUS
FEMININE TOPICS,
A Favorite Postmistress—When Charles
I, was King—Plastrons, Guimpes and Cra.
vats— Economical Dressing A Crusade
Against Corsets Etc. Etc.
A Favorite Postmistress.
afrs. T. RB. R. Cobb, of Atlanta, has
been appointed postinistress of the
Georgia House of Representatives, She
is the widow of Thomas R. R. Cobb,
who was a favorite writer and speak-
er, and the announcement of her selec
tion was received with loud applause
by the members,
When Charles |. was King.
The new gilt spike ornament that
finishes the ends of velvet and ribbon
ties is the revival of a fashion popular
in the time of Charles I, of England.
Their introduction this season Is
traceable to the costume exhibition of
all ages at the Paris Exposition. The
pretty filigree points instantly attract
ed notice. and were promptly adopted
by fashion.
Plastrons, Cuimpes and Cravats,
Plastrons, guimpes and cravals are
playing an important part on the dress
of the present. Plastrons are
coats and should be made by
They are made in cloth,
velvet, either plain or figured, but the
most elegant made of white rib
bed silk. pretty
front,
gible 10 have
cealed by a
The
lace insertions
silk
Necksearfls
lace, or li
lace, should be
longer better
corsclets
waist
silk, satin or
are
They have
together
them, or
{abot
buttons in
ag close ag it Is pox
simply con
lace
tte made of
guimpe Is a chemiset
and fine musi
made
Or Cravals are
crape berty silk
They
the
which
very
blacl
are now
vogue are whaleboned to enal
to keep thelr They
ing to slim figures only
shape
Economical
An economical pls
are limited is Ue )
season to keep
For in
navy bhiuge
Dressing.
and
one only
chooses
will have
dresses and (w
her hats
1c
tones of the
and silk
ete, Introdu
ing
smart silk under
and millinery
cheme for a br
chestnut brown for
hats, rich
jomegeanate for a
linings, underskirts,
Olive
of turquois
certain
and a pu
foctly
same col
skirts, necktis
of v3 2a 3
ing. perhaj
shade, sucl
trimm
nettle
dresses, coats and
with a orange or
a vied oat
apni .
contrast in dress
vests and blouses
goes well with pale shades
blue
peach
green
@ Or also with
SRY
and yellow
will
of
ah slog of
tone
per
f
wit des pink. so
of variety in a small wardrobe
changing the
set of stockings will do for all the dif
ferent toilets, A smart blouse and
morning
dress to smarten it up on a day when
though fine overhead, it is too muddy
to put on a very nice skirt, and in this
way varions economies can be effect
appearance can be ob
expense. Washington
by
accessories about ine
leas
A Crusade Against Corsets.
Our Paris correspondent writes:
ing women is again becoming rife.
a lady doctor.
fore with a book, In which
she ably attacks tight lacing and the
modern stays. She calls her counter
blast “Le Corset: Etude Physiologi-
que et Pratique” and points out the
miseries and the dangers arising from
undue compression of the female form
by the : fashionable breastplate or
culrass, which she iz not the first to
condemn, Not that Mme, Gaches-
Sarrante would have the corset done
away with altogether. She approves
of it in principle, but maintains that
the modern stays should be modified so
as not to produce compression and its
attendant ills,
Another lady comes forward with
more sweeping suggestions as to femi-
nine apparel. She not only insists on
the abolition of the corset, but also of
tight collars nnd of clothes that fit
Hke a glove. Women, she contends,
must return to the ample and flowing
place of the stays she advocates a
health belt or “ceinture hyglenique.”
which she deems necessary as a prop
or support of the flexible female form.
In order to Insure the making of a
proper girdle of this sort the lady in
question urges that the dummies or
“mannequins” now used by dress.
makers should be done away with and
others with normal walsts substituted
for them, Furthermore, war must be
made on modern skirts or petticoats,
which are far too long, and not only
impede movement, but cause fatigue
iia they have 10 bell up on 8 Wat
~London Telegraph.
with reference to the modern woman
“How young the well-dressed wom-
en of 45 or 50 look, how free fron
care and responsibility! There Is me
single detached word In our language
large enough to express the comples
{mpression made by these
matrons of high fashion.
diate sense of wealth, of habitual self-
indulgence, of custom to command
the unmistakable expectation of being
obsequiously walted upon,
familiar whistie calls a dog
an devold of foolman
mald makes an interesting
vironment has certainly made
dames of these ladies, without
or controversy,
“And the maidens, typleal bhigh-
class young women of the last of the
century, what a strange development
they are from
traditions and the opinions of
grandmothers ! Straight, athletic,
undisturbed by crowds, or
half-discourteons men, how
they laugh, how distinctly
they talk, of the season, of dress, of
the coming wedding, or the last brok-
en engagement! How
especially their hands, brilliant with
dazzling rings, and how rough and un-
What curious, fan
ciful clothes they wear, and what
wonderful combs and buckles And
if she chances to lunch next a trio of
and lady's
study. En
grand
thelr
and
loudly
independent young girls no
will fail to be sur-
what they eat, while they
» school-
boys and restlessly put up their hands
uncertain combs into thei:
rolls of fluffy hair. They
fine specimens of physical health,
and shing,
but are not fas-
alert, com-~
New York
to press
are
with
quite
arms, they
por does the
manner charm."
shoulders astoni
lar
new
manding
sun,
Fashion in Furs.
Persian lamb Is the
hour for those who can-
the sou] shat is confessedly
Persis
is durable,
For
wice of the
afford
most
jackets
beautiful of furs in
jamb ix like seal in that it
becoming and lends itself to close fit-
ting and graceful lines,
Marten returned to
the place
public
nas
ipied years ago in
savor It is pt ted
revers that
rious comfort
Sable
admirably ada to the
wide rolling
wide rolling
high collar and
+» such an air of luzxu
therwise simple
ch is merely fox dyed in imi-
mink
scarfs
able,
also
and
and
i for
The
mourning
are
small
proper fars for “half”
ng are chinehilla and ermine.
A fascinating chinchilla blouse is
ted with a8 band of gold
which appears also
the small
neckwenr
edged and bel
and green gajlon,
as walstbands on
The colls
revYers are
bishop
sleeves igh,
nd the full « o be al-
ruffis The enriches the
iteide the «
al galon
, likewise ot ollar, and
A close fitting broadtall coat has an
odd arrangement of biack cloth
liqued green velvet and
Ap
em-
It
fied Spanish girdle effect,
The
which
Large
fast-
over
green and gold,
forms a mod
with upper
cont is
battiemented,
satin,
revers
edge
lined with green
in the
buttons of on
whic
shows double
vx are used for the
ening, Ii is at one side,
of
defined stripes covers
A luxurious Newmarket
mink in sharply
the gown completely,
simple In Its lines
the deep shawl pattern, and sleeves
“small bishop,” with ruffle effect
below the waistband, Buch a garment
would be grotesque on 8 small woman,
but on a tall,
A turban of Persian panne In wood
brown tones has a brim of mink, and
a side pouf of the panne is fastened
by a gold buckle.
and is absolutely
The collar is of
coat of mink, witn brown velvet scal-
loped yoke, deepening at the sides in-
to a bolero effect,
brown and gold colored silks,
sleeves are bell and the muff is bag
shaped,
chinchilla, and is guite indescribable
in shape.
else, and the fronts are turned back
in huge revers from a vestiike ar
rangement of ermine. The muff is of
a fancy design, In scalloped ruffies,
and the black velvet picture hat his a
band of chinchilla bordering the crown
and the Inner edge of the brim, with
an ermine head catching the two great
ostrich plumes,
The prices of these confections
range from $350 to $3.500. Furriers
say that the high cost of furs is due
largely to the wish of the extremely
rich, who would rather pay higher
prices than allow their favorite furs to
it has been the best season for trap-
ping in ten years, and immense num-
bers of fine skins have Len brought
into the market.-New York Tribune
Shameful Treatment of Children.
An advertisement Las appeared in a
A AAR
The man who wrote Modern Women
Are Declining possibly had his own
Phe only cloud on the horizon is the
of a resumption of the
twentieth-century debate.
The Gould family has the reputation
of being shrewd, But Boni de Castel-
and re-
Kansas,
A church choir quarreled
fused to go to church in
gang “Praise God, Fromm Whom Al
Blessings Flow.”
The school hoard of Deadwood, 8.
D., has adopted a new in re-
gard to the books used by pupils, who
will now be required to pay a small
rental fee for the use of volumes
as they require.
system
such
The
cence
Figaro states
of Royalism
that a recrudes~
in Paris is immi
be dangerous if there
tender worth while,
for the
might
were any Pre
fertun
isn’t,
jut
ately there
Republic
In
fectious
no the orld
country in i are
diseases so frequently mortal
ar in Russia,
fer, and diphtheria
and
lages
Children especially suf
measles, se
ariatina
smallpox lite vil-
and
rally decimate
country towns.
Efforts
wha vie
of territory sixty miles wide
Mexican border, into
mitted at
usual duty.
to abolish
¢ zone,”
made
being
Satan fog
are
is called a strip
pu the
which foreign
goods are a« much less than
the
The
trated by
progress of the ury is lus
New Zeajand
cent
the
on Janus
vers
airy 1 w
In
the control
to Americs
affilis
supervision o
of teas
drazi
te
ite] Dons « romen, who have
and “morals
ers and p
While brutal crimes occur more fre-
quently country
than in srw, there is no State in the
the
them.
+}
te
from
or
South,
ber of them.
ne has al-
friendly
baking
long existed
eighboring am in
the
that the
entirely dissipated the
off ee,
It is said
most
habit
™ wder, te.. that
between ilies,
stead of cal
grocer is
jing on the neighbor,
called up.
Most royal marriages are unhappy.
But that is expected. So it is unnsusl
for the fact to become anything more
than a matter of common report.
Hence the “separation” agreed on be
tween a granddaughter of Queen Vie-
toria and her husband is peculiar.
Five years ago an Ohio nurseryman
sold a bill of fruit trees to a farmer in
West Virginia who would never pay
for them. This year the trees bore
fruit bountifully. The nurseryman at-
tached the fruit on the trees and got
his pay.
Since the Alvord
embezzlement a
the
innovation of locking the tellers and
other employes who handle money in
their cages until after banking hours.
If it will now put a ball and chain on
some of its officers its funds may be
New Jersey Is not only one of the
greatest mosquito producing States of
devoted to the cultivation of orchids.
puses New Jersey Is hard to get away,
with,
The American florist has done much
the English florist that the world is
ly sweet flower, It is native to Sicily,
but the English and American article
is so much superior to the original that
the Ricilian would hardly be able to