—
WHEN THE BIRDS GO NORTH
AGAIN,
By Ella Higginson.
Oh, every year hath its winter,
And every year hath its rain—
But a day is always coming
When the birds go north again;
When new leaves
And grass springs
plain,
And the alder’'s veins turn crimson—
And the birds go north again,
swell in the forest,
green on the
Oh, every heart hath its sorrow,
And every heart hath its pain
But a day is always coming
When the birds go north again.
*Tis the sweetest thins to remember
'{ courage be on the wane,
When the cold, dark days are over—
“hy the birds go north again,
o
g
Story of Two Letters.
Dr.
n
it
lan Fraser and Jim Grant, his
chum, met a busy street
of Ayr after a long separation. Dr.
Fraser was Ayr's most popular phy-
gician. and Grant was a Glasgow
journalist. After a few hearty
of greeting, Dr. Fraser dragged
friend home with him to dinner
Hal’ an hour later, as they sat
the doctor's cozy bachelor rooms
changing reminiscences across th
dinner table, Jim's chanced
light upon a photo on a side table, and |
he grew pale.
“You have a photo there that re
calls scme bitter memories to me,” he
sald.
“Whose?”
“Mrs. Forrest's. You
“Pretty She's
my patients for a while”
tor flushed slightly
His tend
coliege on
words
his
in
ex
o
eyes to
ae
her
Know
been of |
and the doc
well. one
observed it. and shook
“lan, my lad, [I can see you're be
coming one of the moths.”
“Why. what do you me
‘Il hope your
an
have not been
flame
explain.
wings
i at the as
me
last that
for the
she is like
twenty-five,
at Brodick
Mrs, I
know
more
years
summer
Torrest fir
what
than
a widow,
goddess, and
words A few
and 1
indly.
gt tim
young
though
beautiful as
g
increasing in
love
ks 1 was
call. Then th
and one night when
{ parted from her at the garden gate, |
the lips that had returned my kisses
bade me a final good-bye, with the
smiling hope that I had spent a pleas
ant holiday.”
He paused a moment gazing
ly at the photo, while the doctor's face
became hard and set
“l was one of
tinued, with a mirthliess laugl
[ have since learned taat we
a large and
The face
that of his frien:
husky as he said
“I'm 3
haps you have saved
“Ah'"
“Ay plays her ¢
I've been blind, or I
that. I met
about two months ago,
a cycling accident my
sulting rooms, and brought
She had sprained her ankle
and after attending to it 1 d
house in Racecourse road
quest I called
than was necessary for all the injury
that I could Then Tr
daughter Marjory, a dear little girl of
four, took whooping cough, and mj)
visits though nominally professional
gradually became more frequent and
more friendly. During the last week
1 have been attending her for a cold, |
and 1 had promised to call tonight;
put after what I have heard I shall |
write a note of apology, and break off
my relationship with her”
Three hours later this fascinat‘ng
young widow who regarded her life's
mission as the breaking of men’s
hearts sat in her room with an open
letter in her hand, her face chang
ing color as she read
‘Dear Mrs. Forrest—Circumstances
which 1 cannot here explain render it
impossible for me to keep my appoint
ment tonight, or indeed to claim a con
tinuance of our present relationship;
and I beg that from this time you will
weaze to rezard me either as your |
1edical advisor or acquaintance. In|
ye interests of both of us it is better |
yat we should not meet again,
hope, therefore, that you w.ll let me |
ass as quickly out of your mind as
entered it.
“Yours traly,
“IAN FRASER."
Her first feeling was of anger and
njured pride, then came the con
wlousness that this man had stirred
ser heart as no other had ever done.
“1 will not lose him yet,” she ex-
slaimed,
i
Gre
fascinatin
lays
was
bey nd
yf
timacy blind
ay, | For
at beck and
awakening came;
1
3
11 .
her
bitter
the moths,” he con- |
i, “and
18
are quit oi
collection
as pale
his voice
varied
doctor's was as
aud was
sorry f
or
"i
41
i
well
she and
qo
ti
ards
wonld
the
when
have
her for first
she
opposite
was in
said
rove to her |
she
At her re
oftener
0
asionally,
he
discover
and |
IL.
In the cool of the June eventide the
two friends passed arm and arm along
the sends, breathing the freshness of
the sea beach and reveling in its
treedom with the keen appreciation of
the overworked. .
Across the firth rose the peaks of
Aran purpled by the setting sun; in
front the rockbullt ruin of Greenan
astlo stood clear agairst the amber
ky.
As they drew near the castle a
sung woman who sat reading at the
ase of the rock suddenly raised her
ead and looked toward them.
“Ha!” whispered Jim. “That's
surely a fair specimen of Ayr's bon-
nie lassies, Who is she?”
“I don't know. [ haven't seen her
before. Certainly she's very bonnie.
But hilloa! what's up?”
The girl had sprang to her feet, and
was gazing anxiously up and down
the beach. Presently her eyes rested
on the summit of the rock, her face
grew white as death, and she stood
a moment as If spellbound. Then,
with a horrified cry of “Marjory!”
she had started toward the rock, and |
was struggling frantically up its steep
side.
An upward glance revealed to the
the causq of her action. At
yase of the castle wall, some sixty
doctor
not more than a foot in width, |
along which the foolhardy delight to
and mistake this madness for
gle fale step or a
noment's giddiness will send them to
way along this narrow path, |
' a girl, and the woman's ery |
d the doctor to recognize the |
Marjorie Forrest.
great strides and the two
reached the foot of the rock to-
side by side, with the nimble, |
sure-footed strength of the days when
they had climbed the cliffs |
their Highland home, they
un its precipitous flank, passed
woman half way and
A
men
fow
gether;
boys
lashed
struggling
Even as they turned the corner of |
the wall it seemed late, for the
little one had become frightened, and
was trying turn back. There was
ym, however: for a moment she |
ayed, then her childish hands slip- |
{ from the narrow ledgge, and with |
heartrending of “Aunty!” she |
{00
to
no ro
pre
a ory
death: for the sinewy
f the doctor shot forward across
his hand caught the
in a grip of iron.
“Aunty” lying insensi-
of the rocks, down
n in her excite
her
falls
Marjory Kk
pite yusiy Aunty,
aunty’ the
ng her back to
not to
and
asa
had
ile issed
and
1 ace, saving
aunty! [I'll be | pow,
two men worl
OUENnaSs
Presently she looke p. I
glad
her to her
recognized
and
but
and
with cry
breast,
dropped helplessly,
if in pain.
running his
broken
her
lips
sald the
ver her
ns
doctor
arm. "youve
ét me p
very
ut it right!”
of take BO
she said, with a slight
beneath his
good you to
trouble’
lowering her eyes
vot at all; it's quite in
I'm a doctor, you know!”
He had broken his own walking-
tick and Jim's into splints, and was
arm, handling it with
was tender as a Caress;
and, as his frignd afterward declared, |
taking so long and fumbling so fool
ishly over it as to endanger his pro-
fessional reputation in the eyes of his |
patient if she had been less interested
in himself and more in his work.
What a terrible think it would have
if you hadn't yme in time.”
she sald with a shudder
I'm glad we were at hand—for Mar
jory’ and | are old ac
quaintances. By the way, as a mutual
friend might bh us.
My name's lan Fraser Chis is my |
friend. Jim Grant.”
Mine is Mona Forrest I'm Mar!
jory's aunt! [I've just come over from |
a three months holiday. |
my line;
bandaging her
h that
tO
a
1
i
r
jean
sake, She
%
she ve
introduced
Canada for
and am going to spend a week or two
with my sister-in-law Marjory's |
father was my only brother. [ ar}
rived in Ayr yesterday morning.”
The doctor had finished his bandag- |
and giving her his hand he help |
«1 her to her feet, only to find that
the fall had twisted her ankle, and
shoe was now unable to use it.
Half an hour later Jim arrived with
a cab and the four drove to Fernton
Villa. in Racecourse Road Dr. Fra-
sor's meating with Mrs. Forrest, com- |
ing so soon after the reception of his |
was naturally strained; but
cach was more than willing now that
the visits should be renewed, though
different reasons
There is no need to tell of the weeks
that followed, the daily visits. In due
course the crisis came; and one might
Pr. Fraser turned away from the front
door of Fernton Villa, staggering down
the stairs tke a man who is iil. She
tad gone. ‘This fair Canadian girl
who Lad given him the right to speak
of love, and had become the center of
ing.
letter
for
101
quite
left him without one word of
IL
Ansther fortnight had dragged wear
ily past, ond Dr Fraser, pale and
hollow-eyed, was crossing the Low
Greep when he came upon little Mar-
jory I'orrest. She was sitting upon a
seat undressing a large doll which she
had already reduced to a state of semi
nudity, and she hailed his coming
with delight,
“Oh. doctor,” she cried, gleefully,
“come an vacksanate Dolly!”
“Vaceinate Dolly?”
“Yes: same as everybody.”
Smiling at this reference to the
gmall.pox scare, then at its height, he
took the dell in his hand, and, as he
turned it over, the stamped corner of
an envelope protruding from under
the golitary garment which it now
wore caught his eye.
He withdrew the envelope, but as
he glanced at the writing the Iaugh
dled from his lips and his face grew
white, It was addressed to “Miss
Mons Forrest,” the writing was his
own, and there was a letter within.
“Where did you get this?” he de
manded quickly.
“1 gat it under aunty’'s plilow after
she go away.”
“Does your mother know about it?
“No: I just put it on Dolly's chest,
Aunty rot want it, I think, ‘cause it
“Ah'"
He took the letter out and
was revealed,
he had
read it.
It was the
written to Mrs
of his friend's
I'he gecret
letter which
Forrest at the (ime
visit. but with two slight alterations
had n a world of difference
in its effect He Lad written the
letter in June, using the Roman num
ber (V0) to indicates the month. T
alterad to VIIL, an ]
to "Mrs and a dot over the
what indistinet “rr” had
title to "Mis and brought
up to the time of his letter
Litter aptitud 1
nis
added
some
changed
the 1
0 ny
the
3 ale
to Mona
here was
hold the
he sought
with but
ne who could key
her
woman
to the myster
without delay
y, ard
r he left the ho
but a glad in
had wrung from Mrs
her deceit
bedroom of a Lon.
woman with two
grams under pillow lay
through the weary hours, sighing
the dawn; n the early morning,
when the platform of
St. Pancras awaiting the ar
rival the express, a tall
leaped the still moving
train, ip his arms, and
headless crowd, his
lips to hers in a never to be forgotten
of re Ne York News,
inate
flushed fac
Ite
cont
fialf an hour
with
188
light
for
the
That night
hotel a
wasion of
tele
awake
for
on
station
Scotch
from
her
of
clasped
of the pressed
union w
HOW LAKES BECOME LAND
Process of Drying Requires Years,
But is Ever in Progress.
This continent abounds in rich a
cultural flelds and meadow lands that
t 0X
gri
broad
How 1
transformed was
but a few were
panses
iakes
cently
ory, of Yale
in
dents
lakes are
ed the
VEArsS AZo
of hese
re
Greg
limpid water,
have be
exol Professor
by
th a
to the stu
of the
gide and drain
and
the
Way
111
filled one
st hae
called
whi
on rivers
pidity with
by the
these
down
lakes are up brin
ing
Rivers runnis
dark, but those le
showing that mu
hird.
he
the gulf 13
it would take about
the burden to
many ordinary
ow lands
So
to
trer
yearly
ove Wi) tons of ma
a dav's portion of
Any of
of the
lakes into broad mead
convert
one
of th
s rapidity with
fie under this process is
fact that seventy-three
lakes the Swiss region
peared 1873 Lakes
die by either being filled up or drain
ed off The draining off results when
a river has worn a gorge back so deep
that the all runs out
The Niagara river is doing its best
draining by cutting as fine a
as ould made by an
{t is cutting back toward
os rate of over four feet
in t will kill the lake
the lake in
{rained through Chi
Tahoe, a beautiful lake
ada Mountains,
stined in time to be
sf the draining pro
idea
lakes
the
ne
shown, in
out of 149
have disap
ir
it
since
water
in this
trench
engineer
Lake Erie at
a year and
be
th
th
ro
44 1
IWever
be
destined to
CARO
in the Sierra Ne
Lake
is al
go one of those
i
killed as a
CORR
fillers
any
Peat is ne 3 the
and works
other form of deg
that
and over one-tenth
greatest
than
oats t is estimat
of Ireland peat
yf the State of In
rapidly
od atenth is
on
The speaker called attention to the
Dismal Swamp in Florida, which was
once a vast but is now a great
area of bogs and swamp, with only a
Httle lake in one part So rank is
the growth of this peat in that hot
land that the surface of the lake is
fourteen feet higher than the level of
the surrdunding bogs, showing that it
has been literally forced up into the
air.
Lakes, swamps
lake
bogs and then gar
den lands represent the stages in the
process of dying Filling. draining
and encroachment of vegetation repre
sent the process that kills the lakes
in warmer climes, while the forces of
the air are agencies in the cooler por
tions of the country
Prof GCregory closed his lecture
with an interesting account of the
way the lakes have disappeared in the
regions of the western part of the Uni
ted States where only desert land is
now found.~—Chicago Chronicle.
Ruling Vice Strong in Death.
lales of the prison-house generally
come from chaplains, and make fo
edification. Not altogether consoling
perhaps from that point of view, but
human nature is a little episode which
lately happencd at the grimest jail
n the London district. In the prisov
many successive terms for theft, and
who was now wasted away and at the
point of deaih from conswnption. How
lingered on was a puzie to the
doctor, who, with his stethoscope,
leant over him for a last time. As he
did so, he saw a tremendous shadow
ander the dying man's piliow,
the thief's last effcrt; a smile of
trinmph passed over his face and he
was dona,
The man who has the longes! hair
doesn’t always have his Lair the long
it. ’
THE SLIM PETTICOAT,
around the hips may help to achieve
making for herself a
These skirts
stripes of ribbon
and placed
with
her desire by
skeleton petticoat.
made of vertical
about inches
about two inches apart,
to fii the spaces These ribbons
roach below the knee, where this new
kirt flares out into a mass of
and frills voluminous enough
node of the
two wide,
fangled
tf
fluffiness
fill out the skirt in the 1
if the ribbon is
then hemmed stripes of cotton or silk
to
hour too expensive
will answer quite as well
THE DUTC
po
The drooping
H NECK
effect is
characteristic of the
4. together with the
and both these
st attractive disposals of
the A
fine run
forms
a
new
round
fea-
shoulder
noti
eat I
Dutch
tures
able
'
1
il)
neck, of
! SUK
trimming, Delineator.
}
beading
HAYS
nainsook
a
round
of lace or
sw Ar
i
y uno
square
with velvet ribbon pret
ish for the slightly low
Tad
terial,
band
§
Ol
for a
band
covered
linen and |
sf Oriental embroidery, or
g contrasting «
with French knots would be
Wristbands and a belt
while ongeea
silk In olor
pleasing.
of embroidered
distinct
would lend further mn
the
the
nds
5
pie f
heading of
ywwerad
ha
»
Ww the seams and
flounce on the skirt might be «
in a similar manner
8 COSTUMES
frocks
r than the
little frocks for her babies
For children of four or
age,
WeRr
who are not yet old
frocks
Russian and 3
red iin and ginghams are made
w { mornings, —
woollen some
tractive
ons
to be sri all winter for
Harper's Bazar,
A NOVEL
gas woman’
feminine invader
world
OCCUPATION
perhaps e
indus
a gas
the
“The is
§
newest of the
trial
company
18 of the gas for cooking purposes
Many
Ss
She is sent out bY
+
which desires to boom
women are afraid of gas stoves
not understand them and fall
ie best from them
sme, on the other hand,
simple ignorance how
t The helpful agent
has a long list
ffer. but she explains
th and to manage the
all the different
and all ti me
Sh
cooking he is
ne GQ
3
th resuits
of
OK not only
f suica ai wil .
of nice simple re
how
to 10 regu
late ¢ heat aven
turn
how to dampers
and ie ti
giving
«1 upon in many districts
ax
SOTEWS,
lessons
where
a
housekeepers sgide household
OY
WOMAN PUBLISHER
of being the
woman publisher in England belongs
Miss Florence White. She
sessed of unusual versatality and has
had a varied career. First
a teacher (starting at the age of 16
for the magnificent salary of $40 per
annum), she afterward took up jour
nalism and for some time was the only
woman journalist in Scotland doing
special commission work While
helping to sub.edit the Edinburgh
Evening News her health broke down,
and to obtain the necessary change of
air and scene she pluckily worked her
way out to India in the capacity of
children’s nurse
trained for some months in a hospital
as a probationer, then traveled to Bur.
mah. and eventually returned
to start publishing The first book
Miss White issued concerned the
treatment of smallpox. Since then
ahe has been very successful with a
sories of handbooks on practical do
mestic subjects,
ALL SORTS OF NECKWEAR.
Fancy neckwear, introduced a few
goasons ago as a novelty, has become
oa
ide
distinction
to is
1
pos
curiously
fisld. And in no other stock are 50
many new things to be seen every sea.
son. New styles come out not only
at the beginning of the season, but
all through it, for this is a depart.
ment in which novelty is the life of
the trade,
On the fall counters will be seen
| many novelties of satin, velvet and
| pleated liberty. One line of new stocks
| has Medici point in front with a turn
| over effect, either real or stimulated
| by embroidery, and the back finished
by a rosette,
Some, again, have tittle clerical
looking tabs, of self material, hanging
down two or three inches below the
collar. Unlined lace collars, of the
| stock style, will be offered, in the
| yarieties described, Others are made
| of chiffon covered with a coarse net
work of *ibbon, the chiffon white, and
the ribbou of some pale shade,
rapelike lace collars will be one of
neckwear, Plauen lace will be the
most popular with the renaissance,
Irish and Arablan for variety. Bome
of these broad collars are out in Vap
Dyke points —New York Tribune,
HER USUAL WORK.
Katherine M. Montague has won
success and distinction in an unusual
field of work, Through her remark
able drawings Miss Montague has
earned the reputation of belng one ol
the finest illustrators of microscopl
cal studies in this country, For the
past three years she has been working
in the laboratory at the Johns Hop
| king Medical School making the graw
| Ings for a book that Dr, J. Whitbridge
Williams is soon to publish. Quite
| recently she accepted the commission
Dr. Simon Flexner of the Univer
of Pennsylvania, who iz wel
known as a pathologist, to make the
illustrations for a book on patholog)
that Absolute
accuracy, with strong firm touch, and
vet the greatest delicacy are require
of the ii
pencil, pen or
{ under the mi
Miss Montague possesses to a re
from
Bity
he has in preparation,
lustrator who reproduces with
brush the object seer
TOBCODEe, These quall
| ties
| markable degree,
The
are among the subjects reproduced by
To the
nothing
minute structure of the tissues
her skillful
thes
than mere
uninitiated
mors
of the
microscop strong lens
that is used for kind work
as it magnifies hundreds of diameters
the characteris
tics come Ot
pencil
Appear as
the
the
this
blurs « slides
Under
in
of
outlines and general
it cleariy
CHAPERONING THE CHAPERON
did vour pl come off?’
woman of another
¢ enjoying five o'clock
Waldorf -As {
was Just too ¥ fi
“How nic
a sked
as the
tea in
ons y
JUNE
two wer
the
ir any
"came 1
and we
You Know
a widow, not
ling
VORrs
Baxter went
unde
throw
and eating
behind @
big stump where none ug could se«
them a great deal of
“But did manage 10
for really 1 felt that we
CUIous
fir
the
water
IR On rocks
stones in the
their little
own luncheon
of
trouble
them
should
We talked
fed that the proprie
perly « Then
the seven girls of us formed ourselves
into a body of chaperons to look after
It was
out of
without
we gee
be
rid
aAuse it was nial
it over and conciu
ties should be pre ared for
our chaperon and the doctor
hard work, too, f they
sight most of th it
elf
and hound game
“We glad
came and the responsibility
All of the
and the doctor
$
or
were
and the pi
sort of hare
Ty 6
0 ¢
resolved it into a
were night
Was over
really when
way home our chaperort
did nothing but talk
such low voices that
said.’
y each
other in
we couldn't hear a word they
New York Herald
HOW TO CLIMB STAIRS
Those stairs will be the death of
me vet! You have heard the expres
of such sentimeat, if, indeed, you
have not felt the probability of the
same unvoiced prophecy, says Medi
cal Talk
Girls complain to me of backache
and quickly say. “You know 1 have tc
go up and down stairs so much this
year.” The flights to which they re
fer are in a town hall; the steps are
high and the flights are long—ye!
ome can climb them several times a
| day and not have a grumbling back
{or any other uncomfortable result
The secret lies in the way they do it
sion
A girl is putting a severe strain or
| her back when she goes up stairs us
ing a heavy, flat-footed tramp She
is uncomfortable, the heavy step jars
her spine and head, and to make the
ordeal as short as possible she hurries
and possibly runs. One woman !
! frequently see ascending stairs leans
lao far over that when she turns the
| spiral she invariably puts her hander
{ on the upper stairs
Try another way if you want to fee
{all the exhilaration and buoyancy ol
lan excellent exercise. Keep the
weight weil over the advanced foot
with the chest the furthest point for
ward. To strike only on the ball of
| the foot on the stair gives buoyancy of
| step to most people, although some
age,
Be sure and take your time.
member, you are lifting the weight of
the body, many times, and it is no
light exercise.
The work the back has to do oug®
to be no greater going up stairs cor
rectly than when on a level The
legs are the members of your bodily
community which ought to perform
thut service for you.
1 have known medical authorities to
recommend walking up stairs correct
ly as good exercise for reducing prom
fnent abdomen and relieving indiges
ete
%
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Ask your doctor what he thinks of Ayer's
Sarsapariila. He knows all about this grand
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