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THE FOELESS MAN.
He grew up in the public scnool
In an unobtrusive way;
He shared his lunch and lent his top—
Had littie enough to say,
He drifted dumbly with his class,
Was never at its head;
But “He never made an enemy,”
His playmates always said,
He lived his quiet years along
Outside ambition’s thrall.
‘The world ne'er knew, from aught he
did,
He ever lived at all,
And when at length to his last sleep
He meekly bent his head,
“Ie never made an enemy,”
The village pastor said. E. W. 0.
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§ Her First Impression.
KENNETH,
“
BY ESTHER BERLE
PERSE
“RerereR
WDE SE SANE EE ee
“It must be the first impression that
works the charm!” said Nellie, resting
fier beautiful cheek pensively on her
fair hand. “Or else 1 am a 1
spoiled favors. jut I
think For 1
really of my
many lovers, and marry happily.
sadly lonely
And this lovely reci
and f lean
chair and look
lace of the plat
ittle
by fortune's
it impression.
wish I could love one
at the Cedars.”
nt of beauty
ortune
shimmering sunsil
Hodges),
bear
grounds
Roseb
locked:
word 1
picnic here, as usual, this year
sent word that
be available. Isn't it awful?”
Uncle Teddy at his niece's
success at getting over the hard words
she zo ambitiously undertook.
“I suppose Miss Hodges
right to decline your company
chose, Trudie,” he observed.
“But isn't it a pity, when there's no
other place but the grove, where it
go damp, and the common,
there's no shade?”
Uncle Teddy said,
two walked on.
But Doctor Carlisle heard more
about the plenie and Miss Hodges’ eru-
¢lty at not allowing the Sunday-gchool
the use of the beautiful grounds of the
Cedars, since they “had always had
hat |
Hat De
the Cedars we
Lie
smiled
bad the
if
she
is
where
“Yo
and the
“of her handsome brother's escort, re-
quired his company at the church and
social meetings of the village, and ev-
erywhere he beard of the complaint
against the lady. She was selfish, she
was proud, she was disobliging.
community--that Mr.
bad died!
“1 am sure I don't know what can
be done,” sald Mr. Blake, the minister,
a little arbitrary man, who beat his
pulpit cushion to rags twice a year.
“I do not feel inclined to make a sec:
ond sppeal to Miss Liodges. Bo cold
Roseborough
and distant a
deal with.”
“Let me try? sald Doctor Carlisle,
The general disappointment of the |
children, and Trudie's special pleading
had prevailed upon him to make a see-
ond attempt to induce awful and ob
durate Miss Hodges to grant ogee more
the accustomed favor of allowing the
person +is very hard to!
"
“She cannot than refuse me,
he sald, “and then the matter will be
more
He had a secret impression that per- |
The committee snapped at his offer, |
it would be a great favor if;
would do so.
Followed by the heartfelt blessing of
he after
Ceda gardener,
hir
1 $1 +
} i
is
out tant
~N. 1 hie
h a
Lhe met pear the
small niece set
for the r
wit gloomy
inf
“hey nt.”
whom gate, orme
that tl mistress was
rection
him
point
house, and assuring the man
would find her, Carlisle set
so. But pausing for a
admire
tor
to do momen
and
understand at
» the .hb nsity vith which
for tl To find a lady in
il ubbery was
hem
nose, any
Ones
sought
of shr
and
broken
srspiring brow, as |
hat in his |
wring arap- |
r off |
Miss Hodges,” he |
inex |
thus
i1is siraw
Mert
futte
Ome
ige, relieved
his pathway
smooth
ds
about
by is
Wis
{ in by the
cene of a larg
stood
at a
woman.”
hero.
; away
I can see her arm wav-
Good shall
how brave and very
WArns me
creature! she
was ahout to gal
no weapon
headed
at his
t It d how
sutiful it wa
“Miss Hodges!” he exclaimed, anx
1s] ! extreme
atin
ould
the gen
th sudden
a to me?’
have a few moments’
th Miss Hodges"
could hardly
most overwhelming
his terrib mistake
or the error of pre supposing
Miss Hodges be old and ugly.
Pitying his eonfusion, Nellie 18d the
way to the house, do
i
wit}
Hiv
have
ie
which
VAs
he realization
f i
of le
otaer
bo
1 this erestfallen
at
her best to he
easy and sociable
gentleman, who
first, in almost silence,
But, by ti Nellie found
the gold eyeglasses and restored them.
“They are mine!” exclaimed Doctor
Carlisle, at once. “But for their loss
I should never have made such a ridie-
ulous mistake.”
Nellie blushed, for she had laughed,
and then blushed again, his gaze was
piercing through the recovered
lenses,
“If you are Miss Hodges” he aaid,
“allow me to Introduce myself as Doe-
tor Carlisle, a friend of the children
accompanied her,
total
vine
© rose
“oy
| to make his plea.
{ “I have no hesitancy in saying that
{1 do not think too much gratitude can
! be expressed for the favor of being al-
| lowed to spend the day in these niece
| grounds,” he sald. “And perhaps wuat
‘all have left for others to do, mone
| have done.” he added.
“You have guessed It,” sald Nellie.
| “My stepfather made common propert
[and expense often, to repair the dep-
| redations of lawless boys, who broke
his‘ rose trees, spoiled his paths, and
injured his boats; and Le was never
I know
rendered
that
gervice
any instance,
for the
0
declined to have my grounds |
common of for the future, |
if the request is made as a favor, |
use
fut
"
matier.
I am certain
favor, and
it will be n very |
now it will
that
that be |
his heart with anticipations
the gardener
“1 will have
wings, « roquet arches
put up
and rustic scats
§
i
And she cam
told her to her
the lady
und were so grate
pretiicest
champion nad
nterference
tantly
Cedars,
could
wire
misty
Nellie
longer that
not
Y.
complain
his visits
at
lonel
when
hand
engaged
and
heart,
became 80 eqquent;
red
be
thelr
ofly his
they Fe
marriage
gyer im
agined,’ husband
“But 1
of first
don't believe
impressions
account
Night.
SHROUDED IN MYSTERY.
Cashed,
“There isn't a gr
in my business’
nt Ot
al of romslce
promin-
-
ked a
igo banker riser {or the
sther day, “but nox and thea
He was
very
iy. 1
S10.000
rarely
never
is not
nd be
10 interest
"ew
%
therefore, tl when
letter
“It h
one
ippened, iat
rece
' tor 1
day 1 ved a personal
a bit
so when |
the ex
eff eet
A woman
i present a check drawn by
for $5,000, and that as she was un
oir depos was #ur
fram
from
till more
do
it
1. and
read it. 1
wording,
was
had not recall
»
but was to the
within a day or two
wold him
see that
tron
hoe
ae
he wished me to
th
Known
received money without
d bring wite
t in
atlion }
would answer
and that she wou
the
{ittle girl, who
» questions | her, as
ng
ues
must ask
in hi with
he gave them The
imple enough
ull name, her
sre born and
was dead.
4% wan a good deal
that kind of ev
I had
fornia,
8 letter, the
"so
being only
age 10
of nm ‘little
Five thou
of m
lence
the
ro
oy
nn
£0 on
was all and the depositor
i #0 that I eonid not
him personally
( he pext day the paying tel
his eyes bulz
ring that about as hard a loc
» of a begg he had
it his window with a
to of Mrs
, and that as he did
woman and the
was
to me with
N
»
i
woman as i
w
kK drawn arder
Blank by Mr
know the
not know how
18Y,
it 1
private office,
the little rl
leas a pieture of
m
was th
the
wom
gel
me about
into my
not
did
a
sie ov
he had come to ask
sent fe come
did,
with an
or
=
ther was she
it she had
by mail from a 1!
familiar
present |
the eo
cheek
was
received tl
in
ber
5 + #3
i
at ie bank
wh
th
iH fe name
instructions
the
noney would be i! her, if she would
fake her little girl with her I asked
the child the questions 1 had been re
quested to ask, and she answered cor
rectly each one, which relieved me of
further responsibility, and 1 erdered
check to eashed. The woman |
did not seem to be greatly overcome |
by her good fortune, and as | sould tell
her nothing of the man who had given
the money to her, she dida't seem to
have any further use for me, and
went back to the paying teller's win-
dow. She asked for the money in $50
bills, and, wrapping it up in an old |
newspaper, went out of the bank |
without a word to anybody.
“She was no longer at the address |
ghe gave whea | sent a messenger’
there to make Inquiries, and her |
not to Ww
to and
the be
i
i
i
met his death on his way east from
I fancy he would not
have told me the story of his life, but!
carried en our books was the one he
carried Im his youth Washington
Star.
Coat Wagons Are Barred.
The Birmingham board of aldermen
hag passed an ordinance forbidding
drawn by
driven or directed through
4
The Omaha Bee predicts that soon
B STATE LENDS MONEY.
HOW AUSTRALASIAN FARMERS BOR.
ROW FROM THE GOVERNMENT,
New Zealand Cets the Funds in England
at a Low Rate and Lends Them to Colo-
nists at a Moderate Profit-System
Works Well,
We are all of us familiar with the
appearance of governments in the ca- |
pacity of borrowers of money, but few
persons are aware that within the last
six yer five Australa
sinn colonies have underta
posite function; namely,
to farmers
The
New
New
the
(periments
1S, less than
no @
ken
‘4
Liki
who can
to
West
Wales;
ing money
rity. colonies
Zealand,
South
ge
refer
tralia
name
are
and
them
in order
interes made,
We may
New Zo
law
were
way of example
which was the
under which,
1900, nearly
on ¢ subject, and
March,
lent
mortgage
dairying or market gar
land
ring
up to S15. 00K) (HK)
had
on fir
farming.
No ban and
building
advanced
used
{og
used
been The money
4
on land
tt guburban
or manufactu
‘nas secur neither
is
proj
transaction is
i
ng done on personal
of the
aland
eRRONCe
New Ze Government
col
them
ewhat
interest, and « lend to
nn
at a
below
oe
figure higher
the ra
which
f
formeriy
morig
property were
The thie
i
fixed
The for
advances made by
{WoO
of the low
he low fee
nd valuing
urity. Only $2.50 |
for
because of %
ng
¥
fered
1 as se
to £5) or less
the applicant
but 85
where “ does
£1
asked for
in
- £7 50 betwee
The legal fees on mortgagin
as small
rt &
gots
& ¥ in
i pegused
sgistration
¢ 1
loan De
an
above
ad
sums
total
£5.0600
Lge
in
but
that fixed loans cot
New Zealand
half the
property to be mortgaged
of loans, the
be equal to th
of the
to
0%
release
cases ia £1.25
sale
the
cred estitnate
nat nl
instaiment
ween, fi Fi hs
security if it be a freehold,
lessoe's
and
half the value of the int
t where th
What safeguard
ation? The
authorize a
tiie reports of
2 BM leasehold
is re nst
i aver
Board alone
loan
vali
only
tx own valuers, but
on th
by the
ment,
¢ independent valuations made
Government Land Tax Depart
the valn 1 of which, made
ation
as they are for tax Poses,
been scrutinized. challenged, wrangled
over and reduced. To that the
system works well, we need only say
that March 31, 1900, \ "
ment Loan Office
that no urities had
back on its bands. Here,
of the demands put forward by Kansas
Populists actually and successfully
earried out—Collier's Weekly.
ng pur
i have
show
on the Govern
able to
been
then,
was
regu
thrown
irt
a
ane
Long Island Black Sand.
Who would dream of an iron-mine
on the long, sandy beach of the Great
South Bay? Yet, is a fine de-
posit of magnetic iron ore running all
the way from Westhampton nearly to
Fire Island Inlet. It is in the form
black sand, occasionally
streaked with red. It is of the same
chemical composition as the iron-ore
of Lake Champlain, and was un
there
ter district in the Glacial period. It]
is mixed with ordinary sand, and must |
be separated from the latter to make
it marketable. The cost of the opera- |
tion is the chief bar to its use on a
large scale. When prices in the ore]
market are low, it does not pay to
work the black sand; when they go
up the black sand is profitable. The
mining is simple. The mixed sand is
shovelled from the beach into ordin-
ary carts and carried to a mill. Here
it is thrown into a trough, which car-|
ries it to rollers on which are fastened |
numerous magnets, These draw the
fron ore to them and let the sea sand
and other impurities pasd by. The
magnets are cleaned by brushes, and
the iron particles are swept Into a
trough, from which they fall into bags
and barrels, The mining is done upon |
a small scale by a number of thrifty
paid fair returns at intervals for the
past 45 years. The ore 1s #old to steel
tL ores of
York
bes
New
placed on a with the
Michigan and Minnesota,
Post.
pit
OBJECT LESSONS IN HYPNOTISM,
Naw Orleans Physician Gives Some Con.
vincing Proof to a Skeptic.
A New Orleans physicl who en
reputati
11:
“an
neat little
friend the
joys something of a Mi As
a
al
walkl
gimateur hypnotist, gave
object lesson to a skepti
night.
of the
He
ue
They
theatrs
WOT
other
one and
sald:
“Doctors I ¢
lity of hypnot
an
atever
the
You oi
upon brain
such an
sibly produce
ho you believe
i 1
sian
“But a
Longevity of Various Races
ien Deen
It has of
while nothing
a given age
the actuarial phrase, differs
ht be expected, in
En mea
they
ably, as might
countries, and gl may
IONE
the
wii
that prob-
life
policy based on
The
tl ner wiod
niiy longer perio
lad
5
than
American's expectation
the
can
years
slig
other hand, a
upon little 3
and a half. It therefore,
that the restlessness attributed to the
‘ "
(serman of =U
5 ™
count more J
would seem
American temperament does not neces-
sarily conduce to the shortening of life,
nor the composure of the German to iis
prolongation. Possibly the better feed-
ing and clothing of Americans in the
lower classes the populatiom is the
principal cause of their greater long-
evity. Their position at any rate,
maintained in later as well as In
earlier years. The American who hus
g
¢
:
oO
is,
years more, while the jritisher’'s ex-
months, and the German's as nearly
as possible 12 months less. Both at
20 and at 60 the Frenchman's prospect
is a little better than the German's and
a little worse than the Englishman’
An Arb'trary Conductor,
It is an established proposition that
the ways of street-car conductors are
past finding out, but a certain member
of the guild showed himself in a new
light the other day.
The Incident took place in a Sixth
avenue electric ear, A woman passen-
ger asked the conductor if he could
He murmured something unin-
telligible and passed on without giv-
ing the desired ticket.
Another woman sitting near ty In-
formed the first that transfers were
given, whereupon the first replied that
she Knew it was so, only some conduct
ors would not hand them out. Three
minutes later another woman asked toe
same conductor for a transfer to 14th
street and promptly received it. And
the question naturally arose why he
made the distinction.~New York Mall
and Express,
»
A BONG OF ACTION,
He wrote a quatrain on her eyebrow
A sonnet on her throat,
And her father put a footprint
On the fag-end of his coat.
Chicago Times Herald,
NOT INTENTIONALLY, HOWEVER.
Do you sit while
your skates?
Yes,
on
Patience down
putting
Patrice
get them
on
ter I
ian,
and frequently a
Yonkers Statesu
HOW HE DID IT. '
ir, how 1s If
ughter?
us, sir.
(EFREE
THE RETORT COURTEOUS.
“Your hair Is very thin, sir,” sald
ie
snapped the vie=
i
so awfully vul-
ZI
FINISH.
I see our finish.
What do you
tomo!
{Chicago Record.
le—~Flying machines,
Ww
ITH KIM.
_¢
D BCHEMH
think this heme
V3
ife
has
for 20
sin--
love
you Qoubtl my
‘ s that 1
assure you eal 2
I was only won-
would last. —De-
HIS
pay my
Llmbing five
t look at
Fliegende Blaet=-
ERATION
shopper,
just dropped
jed
here's a man
at bargain
exclain the
or
inopportune!” eried the floor-
“We have not yet opened our
Philadel-
rtment.
FROM THE HYGIENIC POINT OF
VIEW
foot-
whe
Ray
! men
yusands of men
who jun up anda wn and howl im
wut ever getting hurt
olis Journal.
the fresh
at all’
IT WAS OUT OF ORDER.
jahan—That coo-00e clock 8¢
an’ didn’t thot clock
" jostead av
“OOOO 0
say
Brooklyn
or
wie
"000.
HOW HLSE COULD SHR TELLY
He—Darling, in love
before?
She
Were you ever
To be frank with yeu, Geor
been many times. How else
able to tell whether 1 am
not Boston Trans—
-y
I haw :
would 1 be
a
oni pt.
love or new?
CASILY FOUND.
“Do you think it is desirable for a
man to study the dead languages?’
“No, answared Mr. Cumrox,
with emphasis. “If queer words are
what a young man aspires to, the golf
sir,”
newspaper will supply all kis wants.”
—Washington Star.
THIS RUSHING AGH.
“You must always think before you
speak,” sald the cautious philosopher,
“Yes.” auswered the very active
young man, “and let the other feliow,
who follows the popular plan, get in
out of what I say. You forget the value
of time.” Washington Star.
THREE MOTTOS.
The Spanish Motto—Never do to-
day what you can put off till tomer-
tomorrow what you can do today.
Th» American Motto—Never put off
till this afternoon what yeu can
this morning. Puck.
THE MODERN MOTHER.
“1 do not bolieve in telling a child
ghost stories to frighten him when he
is naughty.
“When Clifford is naughty I explain
the germ theory to him and have him
jook through a microscope st bacteria.
“It frightens him terribly, and at the
same time inculeates scientific knows.
ledge.” Detroit Journal.
EE eM LS L,I,
patrons of the wheel
i