A RENUNCIATION.
Like noon’s fierce sunlight doth the
thought of thee
Flood the dim courts and chambers of
my hoart;
It penetrates the very innermost part
Of the poor house where I hold ten.
ancy.
the dwelling once was fair
see,
A goodly bower,
dear art,
But now the desolate
start
And rain sobs round the ruin piteous-
ly.
Alas!
adorn’d with
walls
It i8 no home for thee-—this
dark place
Holds no fit shelter
thine;
1 have a house-mate,
face
Would sadden
rid fear:
on, my friend, and
thought from mine-
For death and I keep house together
here,
— Ethel
spoil'd,
for a soul
too, whose
all thy days with
Pass take
thy
Alleyne in the Atlantic.
By
Anstruther
Cecil Hayter.
Miss
temper.
The previous evening
Vandeleur had had a i
the Dysarts dance. It
portant quarrel, ti
hazy and indistinct
truther had
consequence
wo the
therefore,
was in a very bad
she and Dick
rious qi
origin
Miss
night
ugh its
and
a sleepless
in
nent
spent
I'nd
GS
circumstances, it was
that fate
at
Was
nat-
ural, condemned
her to sit next to hum
table. It
and they were all
Grafton
Anstr
rted dressing
of thoroughly
deleur youth throughout
of being icily
lessly good spirits
him watching her
is nothing so
to
sO0me on €.5¢
“the
men a
Mrs, Barc lay 8
large party
i to a dance
dinner
Roing
at the later
Miss uther had
; with
tian soul
dignifiog
ticed
There
so conducive
bing
But
and
self-respect
best laid
ft gar
wuld spell Scot
suance
came to put
fiom the du
to form suc
the icily
of which
gramme, it
The skirt hung
the bodice, it
Words are
of Miss
occasion.
She
abominable
wrong, and
adequate
Anstruther's
grew 1}
id, with her r
her head a bewil
lictory order
}v the
made presentab’s
i daisy
of arriving ace
alluring pictu
and statues
riage a
asked by
with
nscious
', 80 poor
bundles
good “ten minutes
her h
ace
that
squ e
ostess if
and
something
at the
an ident
th hor hale
itd ner hal
Miss
back
4
fn
tx if}
nstruther succeede
ing the Vandel
the soup and the
through the first entrees, dee
scif entirely to the extremely
pompous young man on her right,
conversed of Browning and hi
principally himsel
But during a sudder lull
versation the pompous
having been temporarily annexed
his neighbor on the far side
murmured in her ear:
“lI say, Daisy, excuse me, but you've
got a couple of hairpins sticking out
at the back.”
Involuntarily
her head, and
things all right
She murmured a chilly
you" without even turning toward
him, and stared blankly across the
table. But inwardly she was seething
with rage.
“1 say, don't glare like
the voice again presentin
fully sorry, you know.”
This time she did look at him
“Sorry! What on earth for?”
asked, raising her e«yobrowa.
youth
fish, and
eur
half way
ating her
dull and
who
mse}
in the con
YOUDE man
a voice
her hand
a judicious
went
pat
up to
made
“Thank
that.”
“I'm
sald
aw-
she
you know, and-—"
“I really don't know what
world you are talking about.
seemed to me much the same last
night as any other night. Of course,
your description of yourself may
in the
“1 say, Daisy,
me!” sald the volce penitently.
really most awfully sorry! 1
know it was your dance I cut:
~~you were down at supper the whole
should be in such a teriper.”
“I'm not in & tem er, Mr. Vande
leur; and | really rust ask you not to
call me Dalsy.”
Vandeleur was about to make a ro
ply, but Miss Anstruther turned away
and took refuge in the conversation of
the pompous young man, se he devoced
himself savagely to the entree |n.
stead.
Presently, however, he seized an.
other opportunity. “What do you
mean by that, Dais-—I be; your par
don, Miss Anstruther? Do you mean
you want me to go away-—to give you
up?”
“I wish you wouldn't speak so loul,”
sald Miss Anstruther, “people might
hear, As for giving me up, I should
like to remind you that we were never
formally engaged. And as ‘o any ideas
there may have been on the subject,
I'v changed my mind, that's all.”
*{ suppose there's some one else,”
said poor Dick gloomily, helping him-
self to salt for the third time.
“I suppose there is!" snapped Miss
Anstruther. And for the remainder
of the dinner she devoted herself ex.
clusively to the pompous young man,
was afterward heard to
that she was a most intelligent girl
As a matter of fact, Daisy heard
rather
and was wishing all the
had eyes in the back of
watch Dick with.
At the Grafton Galleries she
voung«r sister, who
and had
faction of Vandeleur prowl
ing gloomily about at the far end of
the room, looking as disconsolate and
unhappy as she had hoped even in her
most sanguine moments
But, somehow or another,
tion was not as enjoyable as
would be,
round for
seen;
time
she her head
her
had
met
and
dining elsewhere,
seeing
the
she
gitua
had
She he
was nowhere
sank “Poor
home
Dick, but
o be and her heart
boy! she thought, "he
I suppose 1 am rather
looked
of stole
her
busy
a letter of
ind, and redo
ing
A gentle feeling
aon
remorse
way
mentally con
iation A
of cond:
that
any
of
over her, and
r she was
reconcil
ent
Convey impression
willing to receive
apology he had to
Sne was
over
castie
ars
airy
Om wis
of four
she passed,
with her,
not
man
ivable, he
of her
inconce took
of
the baliroom
pretense supper
and
mother that
istruther felt
then arosi
a hansom, and
he
relapsed
Gardens!”
through trap, and
more silence
“I'm to be such a
good of you to come. |
tired Barclay
Daisy
“Not
levant
“Do smoke! know
a cigaretie, and |
bother It's
too
paid
20 was
to
sweetly
at Dick
all,” said
you're dying for
like the smell of it,
Know.
“Thanks was the laconic answer
as he dived into his pocket for a cig
arette cage
He brought it out. but at same
time a small morocco case emerged
with it and fell on to Daisy's lap
Dicd sald a word-—quite a short
which it is unnecessary to write
down here—besides, he apologized the
moment after-—and tried to grab it
But Daisy was too quick for him
“What on earth's this? ule
holding it up.
“Nothing—nothing at
Vandeieur,
“May 1
“If sou
Daisy
the
one,
all,” groaned
ite
you'd
look at
Hke- better not.”
lamplight
“Oh! Dick, how
claimed. "Why,
would fit me”
“It ought to.
Miss
stiffly,
Daisy
laughed.
“Dick, you're a darling:
“Eh What?" said Dick
lovely!” she ox
I—1 almost believe it
It
Anstruther,” said
slipped it on her finger and
“But
about somebody else,
“You goose, Dick,
rage,
then you made me more angry about
those wretched hairping, so I was hor
rid.”
“I'm an ass,” said Dick,
after an interval,
“You're a dear!”
truther.
“1 say, Daisy, well-—oh, hang it all,
we're just at the house. Here, cabby!
drive slowly once round the gardens.”
~«New York News,
I was only in a
cheerfully,
said Miss Ans
Lightning's Queer Freak,
Lightniag played one of its strange
tricks near Palmyra a few nights ago.
It struck a maple tree on W, I. Sey.
mour’s farm, set its rotten inside on
fire and burned it completely out. but
left the trunk and branches standing,
apparently unharmed. Kansas City
Journal,
i
CASE OF LOCOMOTOR-ATAXIA,
An Arkansas Man Who Was Long #
Puzzle to Physicians.
“Bpeaking of the curious
Which drift into the office of the spec
{ lalist for diagnosis and treatment,’
{said a well-known physician,
ime of a case which
| a medical society in one of the larger
southern cities a few years ago by a
nerve specialist, and up
{it was the first case of
ported, in far as the
ailment was concerned.
had sj
the
CRlse
The
went several years in the
Arkansas. He was In the
and had been engaged
logs out into the St. Francis
some point below the swamp
He could scarcely walk when
shambled into the office
specialist, according to the
and showed
of spinal complaint
which interfered witn the movements
of his limbs. There was a jerkiness
about his gait, a disturbance of loco
which was thoroughly charac
locomotor-ataxia,
cialist exhausted such
would tend to develop the
under ordinary
discovered that
nothing in the
which would ex
ordinary grounds,
examination was
as found which yuld
in
general
kind re
of the
Bo
of timber
business
floating
river, at
lands
| he
report
made every
indication
of the case,
some
motion,
teristic
The
inquiri
CAUSE
Of
Spe s0O0n
8 as
trouble
and
of the
cireums
there
tances,
1 : a Fy 14 ET
Was absolutely
history of the case
origin on
physical
othing w
disturbance
and
Wi
noticeable
in the
The special
in the
nove ity
that
wall
his
much interested
of
limbs
became
because evident
sneluded
he would make losets
study of ii
of locome
certalr
There
He
Was J
tor-ataxis could
no question a announced
his d
Guiry
agnosis,
the
the
for
ause of
the case i
and he
had
warded
ded
the
for his pains
the
question
The histor
that he had
swamps of
fer sosition he
on
patie i
spent several 3
Arkansas, ant had
Wa
* On re
rofe
i
distinctive
Times-Democrad
Organ Grinders,
usement was
Logan squ
actions of a couple
ently exhil
§ fui
The men were enacting
yf Itallan musicians,
who were attired in
CORts and
nade a laughable
1 a large hurdygurdy clear
around the square, stopping in front
of a dozen houses en route
While man ground ont
the other passed his silk hat
collectior The donations
too: even the
seated
tosged
street
h men
Albert
rince
shining silk
sight as they
Wore
music
for a
were
one
ibe ral
workingman,
poorest-clothed
on a bench in
the in a copper for
the what got broke and
had to take to the streets for a liv
ing.”
An who evidently
two men, finally persuaded them to ge
home, and the instrument was return.
ied to the waiting Italian, from whom
{the had hired it.
i Just as the two men had turned to
go away they met a poor, lame old
woman,
| wait while one of the men emptied his
square,
“two swells
officer
his hat
apron.
the
men
into
Both
surprised
politely bowed to
thanks and blessings, and then they
went their way arm in arm.—Phila
delphia Record.
A Phengmenal Boy.
| become very fond of an office boy he
engaged last June,
very early in the morning when the
| merchant was regding the paper.
latter glanced up and went on read
[ing without speaking. After
“Excuse me--but I'm in a Jurry ?”
“What do you want?” he was asked.
“A job’
“You do?
Business,
hurry?”
“Got to hurry,” replied the boy.
“Left school yesterday to go to work
and haven't struck anything yet. 1}
can’t waste time. If you've got noth
ing for me, say 80, and I'll look else
where. The only place I can stop
long is where they pay me for it.”
“When can you come?” asked the
surprised merchant,
“Don't have to come,” he was told
“I'm here now, and would have been
to work before this if you'd sald so."
Philadelphia Ledger and Times,
Well,’
“why are you
Thirteen is never considered unlucky
by the man who gets that numbes
for the price of a dozen.
uh. -h. we.
p
fod aw) aw) aw] aw]
Lor
John Hay
Charles A.
Robert J,
Russell +
Chauncey M., Depew
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry W. Grady
Joseph Jefferson
Robert G. Ingersoll
Seth Low
George W. Curtis
Artemus Ward
Paul du Chaillu
John B. Gordon
Newell Dwight Hillis
John Morley
John Ruskhs
lips Henry M Stanley
ing Fang
! Charles Francis Adams
ot John L.. Spalding
ry Warner Joseph Chamberlain
Grover Cleveland
Fisher Ames
Lawrence Barrett
Henry Drummond
James A. Garfield
Sir John Lubbock
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Champ Clark
John M. Allen
AND MANY OTHERS
Evarts
Dana
tL onwell
Dolliver
Wau the best, only
brilliant, the worthy to endure, }
MWe
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had
to pieces
thought he could
too big to go
Bronson
Btiress
never taken a
but he
The un
up the
new house except on the
pian, and it had to go up ti
thing being so ordered by Mrs
son. Bronson examined the
and found that it was compbaed
four modified scantlings, framed to
gether by bolts and kept firm by the
wire He diagnosed the case as
one requiring a monkey wrench, and
after he had searcned half or three
quarters of an hour he found the
wrench. He noticed that the nuts on
the bolt turned hard, but said that
they were rusty, and a little patience
would conquer.
always
BS WAS
attire:
airway of
web
two end frames flew together
in the folds of the web like a salmon
in a gilinet. He got out after a while,
suecinctly carried the mattress up
staire, where he set about putting it
together again. "1'o his great surprise
he found that the web had shrunk
refused to resume their former posi
tions.
his grasp and joining forces, and he
always happened to be in the trajec- |
tory of one of them.
At last he Jailed two of the scant.
i. i — A a —, ssn
One would not be surprised to learn
that the attempt of the Northern
Methodists to raise $20,000,000 as a
twentieth century fund had been aban-
doned as impracticable, But the fact
is that $17000,000 has already
been subscribed, and the remaining
$3,000,000 may be fairly said to be in
This great sum is to be devoted to
freeing Methodist churches from debt,
and for educational work, Methodism
hundred years Is certain to receive a
mighty impulse from this great
achievement.
The Beptember number of the
Church Economist gives the result of
careful investigation to show how
other denominatians are getting on
with their twentieth century funds.
The Methodists of Canada set their
figures at $1,000,000, and they have
raised $250,000 more than that, and
the Presbyterians of Canada put their
mark at $1,000,000, and have already
obtained $1,430,000, with a probability
that they will receive $160,000 more,
The English Methodists have raised
$4,500,000; the English Congregation:
alists, who sought $2,000,000, have se-
aie, $3,312,000; the English Baptists,
who put their figure at $1,260,000, have
already received $1,000,000, and the
Congregationalists of Wales, who set
the other two |
he Te
sib
irthor
Bronson
still f
quired, and
family lined along «
pulled till Bronson strained his
Then the got in its
two child were thrown
to
caught
knocked
forceme
children
rein
the cam
ne
and let gx web
work. and
violently
Bronson
frame,
iren
ling, while
the escaping
breathless
sald a few things, gathered
children and renewed the at
But the esprit de corps was
gone from the community efforts, and
after a few further trials, in which
the cel Mrs
by
was
Bronson
the
moned a neighbor, The two men toiled
all the afternoon, and then the fieigh-
bor let go of the straining web at the
time. It was Bronson's jaw
Bronson thought hédid
and the two fought eam:
for half an
of which time the
it purposely,
at the end
to supper.
“My dear,” sald Bronson that even-
ing, when the doctor left the house, “I
think if the second-hand man will give
you 25 cents for that mattress you had
better take it. 1 always despised that
second-hand man, and this will be a
glorious opportunity to show my ll
will toward him.”"—Portland Oregon
out to secure $100,000 in five years,
have received $860,000 in three years.
The Economist reckons that the
churches have secureu $30,000,000 of
the $40,000,000 proposed, and that the
movement in all its branches is prov
ing an snexpected and overwhelming
success. Doubtless the entire sum
proposed will be secured.
One of the interesting features con
nected with this movement is that the
raising of these huge sums has not di
minished regular contributions for de
nominational causes. It was feared
that offerings for missions would be
lessened, but that has not been the
case,
Again the assertion has been demon:
strated - that there is no fixed sum
fot benevolence, lke the alleged
“wage fund” of the political econom
iets, which cannot be diverted to one
cause except at the cost of others, It
has been shown that gifts depend on
the inculeation of the giving spirit and
that the larger the gifts the larger
they will be.
These great sums have not been
cont ted by syndicates of rich men
For the most part they have come
from people in moderate circum:
goes straight to the
seat of the pain,
; no matter whether
it comes from
Rheumatism,
Neuralgia,
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