“M something would only turn up,” sighed Joe, “1 could make a success ol life, 1 know. And [ wouldn't live just for myselt— Everybody should have a share of my wealth.” He might have won esteem But be wasted his time in an idle dream, “PR turn something up,” said Bob, with a smile, Se he tramped o'er mile ; Asking for work at office and i U'ntil at last, he reached the right door, | ‘The work hard pay was | slim, hard work that suited both wealth and i he city for many a | store, was and the But meant and i iC time that Joe was dreaming 3 Bob kept on working and made it pay Foe feels that Dame Fortune has cheated him, For Bob's cup with illed the bh things poor ys cup, will d ip Caroline Forester. bad. Or | human They were neither the contrary, they beings, were Jack Olive, but they had ce per whic t } i 1 brought characteristics of each surface. The principle of bear,” tial of not been observed } by little hier} +1 ' WICh 1s the frst Ww edded Com fi it tt " lowed {Hive the table, while Ensor §:1, ¢ » 1 OGIY. resently has men aw i : happy myself and you d of deeds of separation?” have read of them in the papers.” Let us be separated. You shall five where you like and have an ample " allow ¢ It would be hanpie g Hat ce. L wotnd be aapper fo oh 0 us.” pro- and Have vou “As you please, “It is hardly a question of pleasure,” he made answer A sorrow-stricken fone, mm If yours. wiredly be preferable to our present ex- stence—to the daily antagonism which prevails between us. | am sure-—quite ure of that” Olive boved her dark head with resig- nation. “You are rigit observed softly, ‘Though sometimes 1 You and tnt} night have been so different I were good friends, Jack, our darling——"" Ensor faced her steadily as he replied “1 envy the boy—envy him with all my heart, for I wish that I also dead~—"" » w > * ¥ & - Three days later Mr. Oldborough. so- liestor, of Clement's Inn, was sitting in lus private office, when a clerk entered ind stated that Mr. Ensor desired to see him, “Show Mr. Ensor in at once” re plied the lawyer; “and place a chair.” The clerk obeyed, and an instant later the visitor was ushered into the apart nent. “Good morning,” said the genial old wlicitor, “Sit down, and tell me what I can do for you, It may sound un- business-like on my part to say so, but I sincerely trust that you are in no legal trouble?” "No." “Il am glad to hear it. Pray go on.” “My trouble is worse than any legal trouble could be,” said Ensor, huskily, “for it concerns my home. Mr, Old- I can speak to you quite frank. ly, 1 know, and 1 have come to you tims my wife and I have found further existence under the same roof impos- we sible. My object in coming here is to | « instruct you to draw up a deed of separ. | ation,” i I'he worthy lawydr started aghast had known Jack Ensor since childhood; | had in bygone days “tipped him a boy at Harrow, and teok an interest in him far greater than the ordinary n- | upon his | measure, i ¢ terest bestowed by solicitor client. Surprised ejaculated “A deed of vou cannot be speaking seri “1 wish to Heaven | Look at ind tell me as one who jokes.’ His face was drawn gard, It did » ef + 1 of the man of law, grown learned in of humamty, the horder beyond all he slowly: separation! My dear sir sly.” speaking in if 1 s¢em wis me hag white and he experienced the devi to ner ceive that line of despair, and he therefor tone us way his ! as on said a kind and encouraging “Perhaps the fact not as they appear to you On ie to seek such separation comtortanie vade then per "wie } ti tter, forget.” Ensor nained TION man,’ stood and Worse Peath that minutes, and all would be done A pause ensued. There was a form lity to be gone through befor separation was at han A the sign ing of the deed. The solicitor explained it would be necessary that the marnage certificate should be produced, and that | the date and number of registration should be transferred from that certi ficate to the present document. “Fetch the deed, Olive, if you please,” said Ensor to his wife I think it | locked away in your drawer.” She obeyed. During her absence no word was spoken for a few minutes Then Mr. Oldborough said, more for the sake of breaking the swkward silence than for any other reason: “Mrs. Ensor is a long {ime she not?” “Perhaps she has had some difficulty | in opening the drawer.” responded En- sor mechanically, “I know that it has not been touched for years” They waited in quiet patience, and presently the door opened and Olive ene tered. She carried in one hand the mar riage certificate and in the other a small woollen object. What was it? It seemed to Mr. Old borough that it was a baby's shoe, Olive's face had changed. All the dull | resentment had gone out of her eves: a! light shone in them that had not shone | there for many, many weary months. There were tears upon her cheeks as she approached her husband, and said brok- enly : “Jack. Do you remember this shoe?” Jack Ensor turned away to conceal his emotion. “It was our child's shoe” huskily. “Yes. It lay in my drawer beside the certificate.” For the man and woman who stood is gone, 18 he replied ment, the room faded, and memory took each of them back to a certain gray dawn, five years ago, when they had child's face and renewed the old tenderne I hat those fe 1d id vow i lds of love and before them now pleading in pas and wife and clasp hand: face was stonate put lips were bidding husband bittern: fervor, side ancient More with Mr. Oldborough, wonderful tact, in the sitaation With a movement he grasped the deed of he room, ook once juick eparation, and vanished from t A smile of deep gratification lit his be violent face. And when, some ten minutes later, he apartment, and in forgive led gently into the her the thei in hushand’s arms, mingled of of mafiable oy the blessed bight H oman's Life. ONE DAY AT WEST POINT. Routine of Twenty-Four Hours at the Mil itary Academy. tle fo hing that the walk young dream 4580 once [esl Redwoods. Nature's erpiece, ag § I kn ~The i he Pig Giant { § JOrest me “AY John wilongs to femiatne In Muir ancient rocks how an ¢ . As a stranger ar of jays shout it. a inherited fror 1g auld lang syne of / he Coast 4 and other look, ago, Pacifiu in general is lise of com Here ar and dis and magni unkn larwher: he fers them grants mate 3s nuld freeyes and m y Car. accoum abound ess, 1 1s not and sunshine Neverthe! the colossal size LequUOIas The largest hundred feet high and Who of all the deel plains and and fertile forests of round-hieaded oak and maple hickory and dreamed th, carth could bear s that the familiar pines etre the for of the iO are anol thirty in din is prasvies hopes 5 <n ever wh growths? regs ene, with a physiognomy almost godlike, and so old, thousands of them still living when Columbus set sail from Spam, and were in the vigor of youth or middle sge when the star led the Chaldean sages ov the infant Saviour's cradle. As far as man is concerned, they are the same yesterday, to-day, and forever, emblems of permanence. Chinese Clerks Dismissed, A long imperial order from the court of Hsian has been tent to Pekin to the effect that all the clerks and copyists in the varicus boards and civil and mili tary yamens should be dismissed from the service within three months and All the local affairs are to be dose by the officials themselves and not by others any longer, and the vacancies are also to be filled up by the students, —Shange stood at a certain bedside, and over a hai Mercury, FOR THE f ADIES sain fial tat i 1 oh ¢ parent » fon netween the Jit ited I hie 2CCVY t bell shay ol in SUP CI accem their fa Wilks veep a style too | imo tor trade; OCS 1 4 round. wie make the wheels a Change is necessary or ommerce.~«Connress Lx Montaignu, in Woman's Home Companion, CALLING ETIQUETTE Al HOUSE, fhere are four ladies, and four only, tn the world that Mrs. Roosevelt 1s under any official obligation to call upon «Mrs, Grant, Mrs. Garfield, Mrs, Cleve land and Mrs, McKinley. These four ladies, as former mistresses of the White House, are expected if they should visit Washington, to call immediately at the White House before making any her visit whatever, and in the case of Mrs, Grant, who lives in Washington, she ix espected to call, with the same prompiness, upon the incoming lady of the White House, and that incoming lady must lose no time in returning this ceremonions visit. Other women-the sisters and daughters of Presidents have presided over the White House, but the status of the wife of the Presi. WIHITE once she did had and con- Se steadily So I give pecially the women, a wd, Fes ago FASHION NOTES Carved ne arl buttons are used to quite an extent Strans of 1 gold and silver form the belts that are so t Dells that are so popular, effects in stockings are not «0 they've been with designs plenty of short jackets of fancy i Plain lace i enough printed 1 here and very pretty they are, too wre useful for some Vielvete es, which are to be 0 much this widths combined “ie s anda Purposes winter, show of rib and come mn all tleautifnl Empire warn Vamos colors, belts are made of black cluny lace traced in gold and fas toned with odd, jeweled buttons, Large, flat, openwork buttons { rhinestones set in black metal. It goes ito show how much black and white is | to be worn. | Soutache braid is (0 be used largely this year, and is to be seen on many handsome frocks. It is always a satis- factory trimming; there is a certain res finement as well as style to it which 1s pleasing, Rather an odd boa, and a pretty one, too, is of two kinds of net fastened with long loops and ends of velvet ribbon. The one net is of black with small, white dots not strongly marked, and the other is of white, with much larger chenille dots. The effect is very good. Bead buttons, that is, some small but tons covered with a congregation of min. ute beads, arc among the latest intro- ductions. So are the embroidered but: tons, square in form, and velvet oncs with fleur«de-lys, and other motifs in embroidery. Any paste butions, and, in- deed, almost any jeweled buttons, especis 3 ave ally in the mouyean art style, find favor, WHY HE CLOSED. A youth went forth to serenade he lady he loved best And by her evening, When the sun had gone to rest, He warbled sntil daylight, And w warbled house at more, the sign, door World have But morning light disclosed “For Rem" ould pon the Saltimiore * PHILOSOPHICAL. for was Here the man married aweary of working than no loaf unphiloscphi- A better half better all!” he observed, not Detroit Free Prees AS REGARDS AGF fiance? He look id enough te Detter “Her LW He he Appearances re de eplive i tact, omly ud to rr Detroit enough er Free Press ILL-TIMED { herrfulnes i ng <h ot} no: if von po } ‘ ce i ain ney 2 res HE LROX BILI Head of Family—Are you sure, Mary that we got all th hings from the grocery last mont} + The Lady Help “wlIndionapolis Neu HIS MODEST REQU Gladys—Cholly asl two years for him Ednth-— Why, hasn't mheritance (ladys yet Oh, spend ye wanis 2 chane« himself — 5 $ wer OVER "3 MATT rom abroad 7 wed,” answered an not sure which Wash 4 Ge ¥ dgvie te Hg Oo #4 said Cumso I'ee ings that she forgot and that she Detroit Fre suce your w YEO AWAY “Haven't 1 replied Cawker. kept busy shipping t to pack mm her iru writes (Or by ruer Press THAT 1 Dumieigh-—1 Synnex NE meant ~-What » happened 1 knew he unpossible for i revscripl what x Littleton Dumlieigh it he said? say 1 dhdn't aid he should t 1 any tell all 1 and think it art of it-—Beoston 0 18 INFERENCE. Jangie's daughter must be 2 very plain girl” said Miss Cayenne Have you seen her? “No. But I gather as much from the fact that all women are willing = concede that she iz highly intelligent and exceptionally amable.” —Washmg Siar HER ’ ov MIS, fon HIS ADMISSION alema LEE pd a are engaged, Gold “Is it tume “1 hear thorp,” said Sterlingworth. for congratulations” “Well, I won't acknowledge that" replied the happy young man, “but I'm about to confer upon a certain young lady the right to select my neckties fo me.’ FAR LOOK FOR SMALL THINGS He—Often when 1 look up at the stars in the firmament | cannot help thinking bow small, how insignificant I am after all. SheGracious! Doesn'c that though! ever strike you except when you look at the the firmament ’>— To. Ris stars in A VICTIM. “What brought you here, my man?" inquired the prison visitor. “It wuz jist a case of mistaken ident. ity,” replied the convict. “Gracious! And has it never beer cleared up? “0, sure! [I discovered it, but ii wa: too late. De feller I took fer me pal was a fly cop.” —Phidoadelphwa Press, NOT SPENCERIAN. “Ah!” sighed Dremer, the clerk “don’t you wish you could write like Shakespeare 7" Not much 1 don't,” replied Upp, the r. “You don't? Why!” “I'd be fired. Didn't you ever ser Shakespeams’s signature I" —Philadelp hie Press, ing the last ¢ Norway) oS ore Adame
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