WHAT'S THE USE? cease
What's the use of groaning
Because the clouds are black"
All your silly moaning
Never pushed them back.
Troubles may be coming,
Coming in a heap;
Just you keep a humming,
Hum yourself to sleep,
What's the use of grumbling
When the ground is wet?
Thunder may be rumbling,
Don't you ever fret
Storms will
Flowers blooming fine;
Crops will be in
When the sun does shins.
soon be over,
clover
What's the use of
Getting sort
Things that
May make
Wouldn't it be
Tell me square
shouting,
ad?
poutine
glad
0’ m
set you
others
lonely,
and true,
If only
the wor
Made for me you?
Woman = Dreamed
T
h
®
she
apple
never
anothq
stood under the boughs of an
in the orchard—and there
perhaps never could
orchard just like it, with its
green hills and valleys and old apple
trees with the
To-day they
pink and white blo
and gray of
tree
Was, be,
yr
s-grown limbs.
a profusion of
ym against the blue
the si and she stood
there while the hummed
the clover at her She was barely
seventeen and beautiful. The sun
light discovered gold in the brown
of hair and golden
lights in the of her dark eyes,
and she was fair—too fair. sald
who wished to find fault with her be-
cause she was fair.
She lifted onz sla
the apple boughs.
upheld
bees over
feet
her there
were
depths
some
nder hand toward
and the sleeve fell
back from an arm white and finely
formed. Then she murmured softly,
“Nature, I love thee, I love thee.
I shall devote my
beauty, and nothing
tween this love and me.”
The vow was scarcely st
a youth of ote
paniei by a
over the hills
“Ruth,” he exclaimed on seein
and she said. “Henry!”
was silence for omen
said: “I did not know you
home. When did vou come?
“Yesterday. Grandfather
quite sick, bet
Aunt Martha
“1 did not
was sick.”
“No, it seems
Enow anything
Aunt Mart
she house now
when a fellow's
&im and his rel
Well,
iren, and mother ds
ur playing toge
with a little
“She
yw.”
“No, but are
for throwing
know Ruth, that vou
in the world 1 ,
‘It's si
you have
do you know of i
“I know 1% contains nothing
lovely as Ruth Dartmore.”
With commenting on
tion d: “Mother
8iations in life are different. You are
heir all things desirable, while 1
must work for all | hope to possess.”
He had cap back, and
his fair hair lay In a WAVY mass on
his forehead; a most disconsolate
had into his blue
hi handsome mouth
mingled expression
amusement
“Heir to Gehenna!” he exclaimed
“Heir to a tumble-down old house” —
waving his hand toward the old red
brick building beyond the orchard.
“Heir to an invalid grandfather and a
maiden aunt; heir to an orchard
whose every tree is mortzaged' Yes,
our stations in life are different Your
father owns his little home and earns
his living. I have no father. no moth
er, sister, or brother:
and
life to studying
come
shall he
oken when
about ni
large
to where
eteen, accom-
dog, came
she stood
getter
g her,
there
and
were
Hien
she
at
a
has
ter to-day
¥ ”
een
but he {is
ant
me.’
know your grandfather
8]¢ for
you
about
SAYE you
It
don’t care to
any more,
rarely come to
seems pretty hard
playmate gives
stand-off.”
are no Ie
8 not approve
2ther any longer” —
smile; then
never did,
us
A
atives i
Henry
wo i
we meer
ch
yp
ser
much,
fous
you
12 h
off,
th
you makin or an ox
yon
fuse
me and
are
shall
to talk
the
oni ane
ever care for.”
ily for you that
oa 14
world
Way:
What
never Seen
half so
out this asser.
she continu SAYS our
to
pushed his
ai
look
while
a
and
crept eyes,
quivered
of s¢
with
nn
and sustaining the honor
name.”
Ruth felt a yearning tenderness
toward him when he snoke of having
no mother or sister: but she always
enjoyed making him angry. 8he loved
to see the attitude he assumed, the
fine scorn that flashed from his eyes,
the varying sxpression of his flexible
mouth, S80 she stool still and
watched him, and when he lifted his
cap and walked away she still stood
there and sald nothing.
After he had she gathered
some apple blossoms and walked
bomo-a little whitewashed hoxhouse
at the other 1 of the orchard—and
the eld orcherd th all its bloom
and beauty in springtime, all its gold.
en harvest in summer and autumn,
represented a great gulf fixed
tween the whitewashed box and the
tumble-down red brick mansion, be.
cause a day laborer lived in one and
a judge in the other,
Ruth sald nothing to her mother
about meeting Henry in the orchard.
She arranged the apple blossoms,
took out her color box and was very
silent and busy all the morning, but
that day at dinner Ruth's father re.
marked to her mother: *1 saw Henry
Carridine {In town to-day; the Julge
fg sick” Next morning when Ruth
of
Fone
fv
Ww
put on her bonnet and started out.
Mrs. Dartmore said: “I think I would
find something besides apple blossoms
to paint to-day.”
There was an old man who lived In
and an old housek:
painter and he had
that painting
of love, and the
—~porfection in the
alone; for no one
He was a
theory
labor
a
work,
He lived
upon him.
When Ruth
she
Dartmore
applied to him
He would have
one else: but her
were an inspiration to him
him; so
her or sister
week 1¢ went
Shortly
for in.
turned
any woth
enthusiasm pleased
unger
taking a yo brot
th her three time a
for instruction
ident in the
with a sketch
a fine
apple
with
to him
the inc
to hi
widen
larg:
orchard
m
am and
a
¥
2ioom,
was har
youth was not
and
linge was
would
CAnve
again This unrest delig
painter
“You
said
fine,
One
are al finely
“You
coming
Ong
have caught the dis
autumn
to
morning in early
looked up from the the
canvas
paint
And
~the 3
un jer
“Wii do to
she asked timidly
old man’s
the
the
it
over the
‘And
You
that"
earnestly
-I need money.”
vour birthright?
what it is worth In
had
retained
id painter
and still
the plac
So he pac
ing and sent it, with all its
freshness of youth and beauty
country air, away to the city
young painter had said to h
do nothing now until 1
had looked disappointed,
grew thin and ns
Once
the world
nt
:
ledee os
h work
tho int
paint.
breezy
wi
waa sold ked up
and
he
er
mn,
“I can
and he
and she
gen
srvous while wait.
ing
She had see since
meetin
was the even
packed She
their
was
road,
and he
am
Ruth
what
going
home
and
where
vy
painter for
whita
ut a
it enough,
good art
sent
and
roll
enouz
school?
"Ar then,
smewhat
eaough;
hoo! you
aim
peased
make
ap
we'll
ountry and went
to a 0 study art
came a life of labor,
success was followed
a struggle
and her life be.
where
failure:
succeed aga'n
taught awhile, and studied
and her name was printed
graph of other names of
the same hard way
She rarely had time to visit her old
home; time passed, and she realized
it not But was a mixture of
vanity and selfishness with all this
by
to |he
awhile
in a para-
toilers along
there
name above that of Carridine.
this in view she triumphed over all
natural feelings, and loat the sweet-
ness that is in work for the work's
sake.
ters grew up. married
AWAY
Europe-—and still she was not fam.
ens; still she had never painted any-
outh and maiden under
tron
the apple
that
te: 5
Sometimes the
arly paintinz came
ime! n the heat and dust,
tnd travelstainaed, she would be
fd away in vision and be again
tie old orchard,
“If only mother had let us alone!”
che would exciaim fretfully.
She had admirers; but having dis
‘ouraged her youthful lover it was
casy to turn away the others.
Henry studied law and rose high in
the profession. He married a law. |
ver's daughter. Ruth had read the
details of the marriage in the papers.
"ven that was long ago now: and in
uth's halr there was a touch of sil.
ver where there had been a glint of
ro'd. and the light was fading from
memory of
back ot
mag
waft.
in
She received a telegram ons even
| Ing; it said, “Your mother dying;
| come to her.” She started for the old
{ hom the home she had not seen for
years. When she had changed care
for the last time, and was on the little
{ train that ran into the old country
town; her attention was attracted
toward a well-dressed lady and hand
some youth, who sat just in front of
her in the car. There was something
about the boy that was familiar to
her; something that brought again a
vis apple blossoms. She watched
him intently, and noted his fondness
for and devotion to the lady whom he
called mother, watched
a feeling of over
and des
and smile io
A
coach
two.
“Mrs.
ion of
she
came
him come to
and as
her
her
loneliness
ire to have
to hes es,
passenger co
and
ame the
the
through
stopped to speak to
ne
Carr he exclaimed
Master Henry
di
you husband,
part of
She is
wants 1 spend
immer with
very fee now
Ruth
window
every aunt
induced
the
ble and he
Rartmore
She
out
time to
beside
found that she
New Orleans
Of
arrived in
her mother buried and th
she
1
grave awoke
in
Times-Democr
was alone the world
at
A WOODEN WARSHIP,
Hartford, Sole Survivor of Her
Class, to be Kept Afloat.
The
* and blood
t of
or
inter
troversies
"hoge who delignt in war
ompanimen
Wes
who
. Bven, 11
would have g
ationa! and domesti
sason to
a few
sion Ip
re
ships
ther
fate many
been wrecked
the Caribbean
Hartford, in com
her officers and crew
in their and
ahi
ST ~
i . Sea
But
mission, with
on board and
fascinating
with -
with her
f
the
old
distinctive
uniforms, and the
and symmetr!
a her sails
every rope in place, has
int
a Jur
iofty
been
ing
yard
most
her
She
teresting visitors
navy
records as doing
Squadron and
to res
visit t
on the
Coast
navy yard
The old
vessel so
from
commanded
Mississippi
bile Bay in
there ig little
her keel
has not
any of those who fata
her in days of the Civil War
recognize her She was
originally steam or sloop-of
of 2,900 tons displacement. and
at Boaton She has
gras symmetrical
hot
ien
Morgan
Mobile Bay
ther of his
cent
now
+h
ue
the ig
in
the
duty
hag left
nnapolis
different looking
is con
Farrazut
the
Mo
“although
as the interior
cerned the which
at
River {
1864
left
one
the battles
»
in
An
A
of th
yond nd
/ an«
and frame name
¥ ’
ost her outward identity,
she
.
ana wera
the
now
a vossal
War
was in 1858
: eful and
sRented wu tho#
mn 0
the woo
or
won an
ined the phrase
fown into hi
[3
when
commander of
hauled hi
when he on
explos
story
ie
{who had
iine
go do
Damn
The famous i
one except the Hartford, and
stined to remain afloat =o
Can in a seaworthy
20 as to remind the
generations of the
manner of men their
in the days when men
were needed to preserve the
saw
wn ion
long as s he
kept
condition present
f and futur of
and
ancesto
o
Kind
ships the
ro were Ww
{ and ships
nation
Hospitality Pays.
Cities and communities frequently
expend large sums of money in ern
taining conventions, conferences and
other public gatherings, both becausa
of a spirit of hospitality prevailing or
through a sinister to “adver
tise the city.” After the affair is over
| and the visitors have gone their say
itor.
desire
other, “Does it pay to spend money
thus?’ There never was a case of
public hospitality that didn't pay, it
| not in dollars and cents, in the exten
sion and broadening of that finest of
i all gentiments, the brotherhood of ma
—Dayton (Ohio) Herald
Old Tower of Punishment,
Henry Norman, the traveler, says.
hara towers the Miner
great tower of
built of flat red
ful proportions have not suffered at
all from the effects of At the
top it widens into a kind of campan.
ile, set with oblong windows, and at
its foot there is a depression which
looks as if it had been scraped out
of the ground, From one of these
windows condemned criminals,
trussed like fowls were pushed out, |
and this depression is where genera
tions of them fell"
has now been prohibited by the Rus
| sians who rule the country,
Kalan,
punishment. [t
¥
ia
brie
time
LET,
Love and Lucre.
Nell--Yes, it was a love match,
Belle—It must be a pleasant thing
to be rich enough to marry for Wve
Philadalshia Record .
A ——————————— A ————
By Se
ONDON 1s the
everybody speaks English,
language. Then, there are
tremely hospitable. An American
more pleasantly here than anywhere else In Europe,
no doubt London is the capital of the Old World.
more persons of distinction in London in every
ndeavor taan in any other city. If you stay here long enough you
to meet them all, and from all countries,
York not a capital You cannot get in a city, no
i, people that a stranger wants to meet unless it is a capital
York says he finds there more
world, but that he never meets the people
nator Chauncey M., Depew.
best watering place in Europe.
which, | am sure,
theatres and
is the
the people are ex
There
human e
| Are sure
| New
| great it
stranger who comes to New
than anvwhere else in the
govern the country.
There are two
ety de not care
The reason why
ason that t number of
years ago ten year
America; ti people
sport
is
for this. in Wasngton, and New
them
more
reasons They are
for
One Bess
148
Americans in London each year
Americans of leisure is increasing.
was no such thing as a leisure
of ample income, who lived
Tw:
ClARS
Be is ne aLy
even
at is,
there
h or
8 Ago
of
wealt only
man fi companions because all friends
them at their office ®
the sor
that hunti
nd no
when he ti i y Bf
Europe
the
» R
and © he A nuisance
uf
aiier
in
in the
i Americ
Americs
on
v of that kind In
other An
his profes
society merely
ach
in or
an incigen
Ae
y Ants
noth
st
ng
ner
is
me
it,
in
and
bore,
“
Heroines of Yester Year.
By Winifred Oliver.
HERE
Ha
He
r iac
OP-[K
vesterd
Have they
VADOTS
Away
ay? Where
tralied thei
and thelr he
gent
are are i
rlowes
ires
lity?
literature
Just a
our
dames int on
mental
force in
as
accomplishn
ning her
upon ot
lirely ignorant Ia
onentity? As th
Mos tegant 1ents
and
aepena
wo "nt
world “a own liv
hers
or
n
the woman AWE
popular heroin
ndmother as sunkght
mt of exercise
straight in the face, applyi
ashamed to faint,
cannot stand an
d knows a from
of the modern girl, Her a«
than would the woes of Clarissa and
would fer the woes, for in their
Woman w ould have been considered
hap in some danger
strenuous side of life, but =
ill have a perfect creature
ning —New York Journal .
= Fr =
The Abolition of Middle Age.
By the Editor of the
ALF a century
and a woman
cut ]
Wo
am 0H
hem
She would be
cause she aimless
woman a
pen pis tu
#tock
iventures
Cvelin bu
days the
truly
of overtraining
he will swing
re £
moce
attention
mara t
ETAD
as
cloaely
haps our imothers pre word
meses dd - Yr
and
tO 8
heroine of today is
high
per
hy
ue
A Value on
sphere and then we »
Spectator.
ago a man of forty-five was regarded ajmost elde
of the same Age Was
irift all ties binding her
and deportment o
changed in a |
he prominent feature is a
yearold child of today is
ago, and ten-year-old
a man as was his grend
in due gra the
years But
ing on int
“have 614
expected to have long
her youth
A
from
appearance
1 fo
f a
ume the
matron
whic
three
as
plary
way, of
tn
f as
ticularly
eeming contral
knowing as
of today
at
mi«
partic interest
Re
as
ing
AR
hoy
father
modern
CARD
even
if
century the
iation idie-aged
not the
J far
rd ar 3
y. an elas
have shake
idieaged
shrouded the middle-aged
him to be regarded
fience to the same
of the schoolboy
middle-aged
an equality
such is
from stand.
marched along
about the
their heads as
his
irr 0 Be Bil } RO
barkwa
foity
City
untiness
+
our fathers n
from
parent
man general
with
influe
and the
man of
with and
Ag
at
nea
not
rest
’ the
Com the
the ade
#0 happy as when working
competition with youth
men 8
ental almost
is never
regin
today
actually in
with men #0 it is with
h women ne
rely advanced years, and
making mamma is that the
nd much among the
yind so much
many vears ago would have
act that the
111
playing upon
or
the
beon
that
has
of
ians tell us
marriage
the lament many
of her darling are
as Among women
been relegated to ranks hopeless
fen i The middle-aged lady of today is much
tastes is, of course, not the only reason this,
2 Fr =
The Writing Man is Well Paid
«By the Editor of Collier's Weekly.
HE whirligig of time brings in his revenges.
has good to many workers, but for none has it raised
wages more than for those who write. The scribbler Is no
longer a man who lives in a garret. [If he scribbles with mod-
erate ability, he has plenty to eat and wear, even if he is a poet.
Often he earns so much that he consorts, out of his earnings,
with the members of the great world who live at the pace al
lowed by pork and railway dividends. Shakespeare after a quarter of a
century of ovopular dramas, was able to retire on a competence,
most successful playwright of his era, and he finally made, out
statistic
for
that
rivals
age
the
ial
eligible
we know
dreaded
of her own
wo W
are ideread JOEL
late
age whi
very
a moat h
not
who n
old mai
younger
but it is
of
NOs
of
Ho
¢
ior
been
Minister’
lars a week
A sale of one or two hundred would furnish him with as much money as Mil
&a.one
in these days must have an exceptionally narrow range of interest. Journal
fam directly and indirectly, has done marvels for the poor author. Journal
tsm leads millions to read, and when they have formed the reading habit on
newspapers, they also read books.
books there are to read.
wav that was unknown before,
scriptive powers on a ball game or a fire, and is called a reporter, is assured
of comfort. He who forms plausible opinions about current events, and ls
enlied an editorial writer, earns as much as a dentist. He who says anything
of interest to mosi men is syndicated, or in some other way paid more than
writers ever earned in any other era.
+ came with the same, “Oh, 1am sorry,
but 1 put a sovereign into the plats
yesterday by mistake. Could I have
it, as [ really cannot afford it?”
“What!” said the vicar.
the fifth that has been to me this
morning with the same application,
but the church warden has just told
me that the supposed sovereign is
only a gilded shilling.”"--Tit-Bits,
All Wanted the Sovereign.
At a certain London church the eol-
fection used to be made in nicely em-
i broidered bags, but, so many old but.
i tons and stale pleces of chocolate
being put in it, it was decided to try
| plates” instead. The frst Sunday
ie usual number of coppers and
| threepenny pleces were put in, but
ismong them a bright yellow shining
| pleces was observable.
i On the Monday morn'ng "here were
more callers than usual at the vestry,
some of them with the sime applica.
‘Mea. After a shori ‘tarsal another
‘
The stairway leading to tne tower
of the Philadelphia City Hall contains
598 steps, and is said to be the tallest
continuous stalrway la the world,
Compensation,
[As a compens
has
nearly always talk
Women. |]
He her, and her
A lady very, very
“But what of that?
ation for
i
seen noticed that
well
i |
m an
ai
ay
ine can
Cracked Long Ago.
4
(BOW
ecord
Quite Numerous.
Style—S8he writing »
»
he met 2
summer
~Were there
Mies Well
already. —New
ges
De Style
Chapter XXV
Escaped in Time.
» matter how
afraid
who
brave men
of thelr wives
kn
Who
PW
i
i8 he
nomenon
Oh. no-
Eagle
ya
Feline Femininity.
understand
oked so much 1)
} = a
that aw
king Miss
ol
always knoc
a
phia
3 18 Tn koa 3rata
yur ghe jealous
¢ 18¢ i Jealou
Press
Single Addition,
Newliwad-—It didn’t cost so
provizions when there were
before £1
.
vewliwe
-Philadelrp
d
hia Press
Not Yet
Ascum-—Wasn't
walking with last
that Mr. Bond
evening
Miss
[ saw yon
Miss Cos Yes
M Ascum--—He
the county
ie a landed free
isn’t he?
lowprpwche
Pearson's
Weekly
The Greatest Number,
ford Ruzsell once asked Mr
Mr. Hume, what do consi
object of legislation?
“The greatest
number.”
“And what do
greatest number?”
“Number one,” was Mr,
ply. —Green Bag.
Privilege of Invalidism.
f.ittle Jane had heard her mother
Hume:
you fer the
good of the greatest
you consider the
Hume's ro»
\
deal of consideration A few days
later Jane said
“Mamma, I think it would ba lovely
to be sick.”
“Why?” asked her mother,
“Oh, because sick
much consternation.”
Chronicle,
command
we Little
eons
Their Use,
“What I don't see,” remarked the
Cheerful ldiet, “is the use of scien
tists discovering new metals like radi
um and polonium, that costs thous
ands of dollars an ounce.”
“It is done for the benefit of the fu.
ture trillionaires™ plied the Wise
Guy. “They can get rid of some of
their money by buying yachts, auto.
mobiles and airships out of those
metals,” -— Cincinnati Commercial
Teahune,
A fiagor In the ple is worth two out
o! joint.