BESTOWAIL.
Knock at my heart, and I will ope
To Unforgetfulness;
Breathe on my brows, and from your
own
Will fall my hands’ caress,
AsK of my eyes, and mine shall veil,
Too faint to seek or chide;
Kiss-—and within your will 1 lie
Like seaweed in the tide.
Margaret Fuller, in the Century.
Bob's JMarriage.
(By Helen Forrest Graves.,
The depot clock was pointing to the |
hour of five, the huge, fire-throated |
locomotive in the covered space
yond, was giving several premonitory
shrieks as a signal that it was ready
to start; there was the inevitable rush
be- |
of people in peril of being too late,
the commotion of checking baggage, |
and lifting toddling little children on |
board, and still the “young person” |
so anxiously expected by Robert Mor- |
rison did not arrive. {
He walked hurriedly up and down |
the floor, ever and anon comparing his
watch with the clock on the wall, and |
eagerly scanning the faces of all the |
newcomers, but in vain.
“Please buy a bouquet, sir?
five cents?”
The voice was very sweet; the face |
that belonged to it sweeter yet. But
Mr. Morrison was too much perturbed
to heed them.
“No, no—don't bother me,” he said, |
petulantly. “Conductor, is this the |
last train that stops at Olive Hill?” |
“The last train, sir. Anything |
wrong, sir?” i
“Confound jt—yes-—everything's
wrong! 1 was to bring up a waitress
for my sister, and the creature hasn't |
come."
“She
sir?”
“Yes—at a quarter to five.”
Only |
was to have met you here,
conductor. “Can't put any dependence
at all on that class of women.”
And away he bristled. Mr.
Morrison was about to follow, mut:
ing discontentedly to himself, when a
light hand fell on his arm. He turned
round, and, to his surprise, encounter
ed the timid blue eyes of the bouquet
seller,
“Pardon me, sir,” she said, in
cent unmistakably foreign,
domestic you expected bas disappoint.
ed you?”
"Yo
“If you would take me-—-I can
well at table; I would make
generally useful to madam
ter. Oh, sir, | am so tired
to sell flowers.”
“But you have
tion?”
“How should I, gir?
er in your
Desiree Fontaine.”
Mr. Morrison was
how to act his little Desiree’'s face
was not only pretty, was In
nocent looking To be sure it
rather an unprecedented manner of
engaging a girl, but what was he to
do? Mrs. Ferrars expected him to
bring her a waitress; there was to be
a state dinner party on the morrow,
and he scarcely knew what was bes!
to do.
As he meditated, tugging at his
mustache, the train gave its parting
shriek. There was no further time
for deliberation.
“Come on, then"
a rush for the hindermost
risk it, by Jupiter!”
Desiree followed him. light
swift as a young fawn, and the next
minute they were in motion. There
was no receding now,
an ac
but +:
wait
myself
your sis
of trying
no recommenda
I am a strang
country. My name is
sorely puzzled
but it
Was
car. "I'll
it,” said Mr. Morrison to himself as
he glanced furtively at the girl who
sat beside him, “What will Lizzie say?
But what was a fellow to under
all the cireumstances?
is half as smart as she is pretty, she'll
do well enough As for making off
do,
she hasn't got that kind of a face
can but give the poor
all events.”
thing a trial, at
creature though he
right about Desiree Fontaine's face
was pure and innocent as a
shadowed with crispy little rings of
golden-brown hair, and dimpled round
the mouth; while the blue eyes, large,
and soft, and shy, were modestly |
averted.
It
shaped though sun-browned, she held
the two or three little bouquets she
had been unable to dispose of in the
depot.
“What wages do you want, Desiree?”
sald Mr. Morrison, abruptly breaking
the silence that was beginning to be a
little awkward.
Desiree grew scarlet as the carna-
tion in the center of her biggest bou-
quet.
“I never took wages before,” she
slad, a little impulsively.
“But you will have to now, I sup
“What you choose to give me?”
“Twelve dollars a month?”
“Yes—anything!”
Bob felt a little awkward. Desiree
Fontalne was not in the least like
the Hibernian damsels he had that
morning haggled with at the crowded
intelligence office.
“1 don’t want to be Inquisitive,” he
sald, “bute.
“You want to know who I am,” in.
terrupted Desiree. “I am French—I1
came to this country because my rela
tives were all dead. I have an uncle
here to whom I wrote that I would
come to the country. I hoped that he
would meet me at the landing of the
steamer, but he was not thera. [ have
sought for him in vain. [1 can only
fear that he must be dead.”
“But you speak English well”
“Do 1?
“1 was at an English school near
Paris for four years.”
“I should think that you might get
a place as a teacher.”
Desiree shook her head.
“I have tried. 1 answered adver
tisements for a governess-
mendations.
bouquets for a week,
ittle—oh, 80 little!
went to bed without
but
my supper
ha
Bob was silent.
ached for this poor young
with the dove-like blue eyes,
resh pink and white complexion.
“l hope Lizzie will have the
like her,” he thought; "but
accounting freaks
creature
sense to
there's no for the
It was nearly dark when they reach-
ed Olive Hill; quite so when the car-
that had been sent the sta
tion to meet the train, deposited them
at Mrs. Foulke Ferrars’ door
“Did you bring me a girl
his first question,
darkness
to
was
at
Joh?"
sister's hurled
“Yes, [ did.”
Bob triumphantly produced Desiree
Mrs. Ferrars eyed her keenly, seemed
youth and
blushes, asked one or two kind ques
care of the
old Scotch widow.
“Where did get
French intelligence
“Oh, I picked her up”
evasively
housekeeper, a grim
her, Bob?
fice 7"
said
you
ir ner
tion
“First-rate,” reckless an-
swer
was the
“Written?
“No, verbal.’
“Where did she live last™
er
off
of
But Bob at this point went into
ecstasies over the first tooth
i his
# humanity
old Mrs
into the
niece, a small morsel
nine months
fell at
and Desiree’s “references
ght
i Ferrars
or
once
trap Wors
orgotten
The French
handy waitress,
girl
ready 1o
a qui
fornid or
body
singuarly graceful
her, and Bob t
“Upon
Every
my wor * said Mr. Fer
day hen the dessert
Desiree
rars
ane
Was
placed
§
nad
SITArs
upon the
withdrawn
at the little Parisienne! 1
believe you are
and
othing but
dn
fallin
her!”
“Nonsense”
glan
sensible for
ing qui
as that
“I do not know
Quixotism said
certainly pretty.”
Bot
is not a lady!”
maintain that she
absurdity, Bob!”
you
what
is a lady!”
then, will he
to tell me
good
enough onstitutes a
lady.”
‘Birth
“Desiree is educated and refined
“She is only a servant”
“1 maintain that she is a lady for
all that!”
Bob
of the subject that Mrs
the first opportunity
band
she should send Desires away
“What for?" ejaculated Foulke Fer
rars, open-mouthed
“Oh, dear!” said his
ly; “men are so stupid
that Bob is falling in
be cup FN
ager’
—~aducation-—-reflnament.”
Ferrars took
to tell her hus
wife petulant.
Don't you
Levy
Mrs
rigid
soy
{ shall discharge her.”
Foulke Ferrars’ face
than others
Bob talking to
attractive
and | saw
amd more
caste,
So when Mr
freckle-faced
the
tall, young
Scotch housekeeper,
ed in vain for the light-footed blue
eyed French girl
“Where is Desiree?”
question,
“1 have discharged her"
Bob's brow grew dark, but Mrs, Fer.
rars met his eye with bold defiance
“What was this for?” he asked,
sternly.
“Bob, you know you were getting
too fond of her. I have some regard
for the poor girl's character, If you
have none.”
“Desiree Fontaine is a girl amply
able to take care of her own charac
ter. You have done a cruel and un-
feeling thing, lizzie”
“l suppose | can turn away a ser
vant when | please.”
“Where has she gone?”
“I do not know nor care.”
“And consequently you Imagined
that I should not be able to discover
her whereabouts. You will find that
your precautions have been in vain.”
That was all that was said on the
subject, and Mrs. Ferrars began after
a day or two to hope that her brother
had forgotten his penchant for the
pretty waltress.
Just a fortnight after that there
was another dinner party, and the
freckle faced young man waited. Bob
did not come up until the ast train,
was his first
and arrived In time for desserf, with
its red and golden wines, peaches and
temples of tinted ice. With him came
another guest, unexpectedly detained,
M. Fabillon, tha French banker, in
whose honor Mrs. Ferrars’' dinner had
been specially given,
He was a dignified, white-haired old
man, whose wealth had made him
neither arrogant nor assuming,
“You must pardon my want of
punctuality,” said the old gentleman,
with his graceful foreign bow to the
lady of the house, as she welcomed
him to a sea! at her own right hand,
“hut I have this day had a great and
unexpected pleasure.”
“Indeed?” cried Mrs.
rars, all smiles
“A niece, my
ative, has been
have strange.y
fate which
circumstance
ten
her in that
trip
Foulke Fer-
rel-
We
by
call
the
surviving
me
been Kept apart
you Americans
She came here in
months ago; |
steamer, but not
She could find
Knew not
only
restored to
expected
this
my
my
changed
until
ast not me,
DOO niece, He even
name, had
maet conditions of
bequest. Ah, the poor girl! it
upon my
“And why did you
Fablllon
which been
the an eccentri
tis a
word.”
Mad
We
began
not bring
with you?
should have been happy.”
Mrs. Ferrars
“Pardon, madam.”
BO
interrupted the
mademoisellie’ no
this morning mar
to one has disinterestedly
wooed and won her in her humblest
1 is
She was
who
estate”
Mrs. Ferrars was a little disappoint
ed had already be to for
plans for Bob's benefit
“1 am married,
ware, incidentally.
“You, Bob! And to whom?”
his sister.
“To Desiree Fontaine!”
Mrs. Ferrara, pale was
just about to open her lips with a tor
of reproaches, when old
banker sfavely (fterposed
“Tals is a riddle—an
hance to
She gun
too,” observed Bob
shriek
wd
as death,
the
of
enigma
possess the
one
clew Prepare yourself, madam-——al
low me to greet
Desiree Fontalr
Robert Morrison,
¢
his morning before
as a relative!
you
1 {8 my ni
who marrie
a happy
acquainted with
consequently
Fabil
Mm wel
guests how the
rues =F ex ows
ETIOTINS
{ the ceren
nd of his owe
8 Dame as
4, «A
criena
whom his
ng and so
you may imagin
said M. Fabillon,
wis foreign again,
husband of
Mr
ed so |
“And
tion.”
vainly
{eo bow
1 that the
learns
Desiree’s cholee was Ferrars'
brother-in-law.’
Mrs
white:
and
Foulke Ferrars
she hardly
grew red
knew what to
and the few
that she finally
indistinct and
Bob sat by, maliciously
embarrassment
Mr. Morrison took the next train
K to town; he had only
hurried mgratuiations
were
while
enjoying her
stammered forth
confused enough
ba
wis
come up to
the this lit
denouement of
and was impatient,
Ness
ii romance,
Desiree
But as he made his adieu, he whis
pered roguishly in his sister's ear
‘Now what do you think about what
constitutes a lady?”
“Now what do you think about what
constitutes a lady?”
And Mrs Ferrars answered,
ing
“Do have a little mercy
to know that my
blush
Boh?
waitress
How
Wa?
os
“I knew that she was a precious
jewel.” answered the young husband,
enthusiastically
Nor did Mrs. Foulke Ferrars contra
him this time —New York Week
The Man of the Moment.
When they saw him coming along
case in hand--they rushed to the door
and called and beckoned and
frantic gestures
As soon as he was within the house
made
ing, and so very, very pale
“What do you think?” three of them
cried at once,
He was painfully shocked and dis-
tressed.
“I think she is a very sick woman,”
he sald.
They waited a second, and then one
sald:
“What shall we do first?”
He looked surprised.
“I should call a doctor”
emphatically.
At that they all screamed at once:
“But aren't you a doctor?”
He started violently and stared at
them in amazement. “No, I'm a piano
tuner,” he replied.—Town Topics.
sn —_
he said,
Johannesburg, South Africa. fs re.
system by numbers.
Instead of Iron.
In Iceland horses are shod with
sheep's horn; in the Soudan a kind of
sock made of camel's skin is used for
the purpose. A German not long ago
invented a horseshoe of paper, pre
pared by saturating with oil, turpen.
tine, and other ingredients. Thin lay.
ers of such paper are glued to the
hoof till the requisite thickness is at.
tained; and the shoes thus made are
durable and impenetrable by mols
ture.
Rallroad travel in Brazil Is discon
tinued on Sundays
|
By the Rev. Thomas B, Gregory.
ISTORY is full of optimism. As Macaulay once remarked: “No man
who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take »
o
morose or despondent view of the present.
To know history is to be prepared to agree with the proposition
that to-day is the fairest that the world has ever seen, :
there is a Golden
ZAR IR TY
RE ;
ARCA R ] There was never a “Golden Age” of the past;
Age—and that Golden Age Is right now : i
Clear as the day is the fact that the world is growing not only wiser, bu
better
mail: but who does not know that it would be impossible for the average man of
to-day to get himself into one of those old steel suits?
Since the time of the mailed barons and their tournaments the
mal has been greatly improved, both in size and strength
There is more health in the world to-day than ever before,
{ishmen., Americans are, man for man, physically more perfect than
ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians
Intellectually the human advance is wonderful!
thinking machines, the brains of certain Greeks of the age of Pericles have never
been surpassed; but the brain
and Aristotle never dreamed
The laws of nature, of which the ancients knew nothing, are now
human ani
Germans, Eng
the com
mon carriers of our wonderful civilization
pushed back, and where once the fanes of fear and terror reared :
stand the temples of knowledge from which light goes forth to the ends of the
earth
The slave stands up a man
old lies about kings and the nobility are either dead or dying,
gerves the better to show how wise was the great Frenchman who said
leges perish, but the people are eternal.” :
“Are we any nearer the millennium than men were a thousand years
inquired a correspondent only yesterday Sa
if by the millennium is meant a finer sense of justice between man anda man,
a livelier realization of the brotherhood truths, a profounder appreciation of the
beauty and worth of civic virtue, and the life. public and private, that 1s the
embodiment of such virtue, then there is no disputing the fact that we are Siow
ly, but surely, going onward and upward
’ The average man of this year of grace 1
the average man of any previous time
His thought is finer, and his dally
cleanar,
Bevond a doubt the world is on the up-grade
steady - and there is no room for any sort of pessimistic
SE ee
Left Handed People.
They Are Most Numerous in the Criminal Class.
By Prof. Cesare Lombroso.
themselves
Democracy is everywhere a rising flood
“Privi
ago?”
life is, upon the whole, kindlier and
8 is universally known, we use the right hand
. 11a with
the number of persons who are more agiie with
monly than the left,
i "hey are ordiparily
the left hand being
found among women
numerous in ages past than they are
of these persons, but
their frequency by means of statistic jecided
ald of my friend Professor Marro
029 operatives and soldiers 1 found a
in women Among
studying a certain number
camparatively sm
he
and they
La
and y Were more
uch been
Much has beer
ore tried to determine
t
to undertake that
children
now written
as no one has heretof
task with the
Among 1
men and 5 to § per cent
different On the other hand
left-handedness was found
proportion of 4 per cent |
the proportion 18 NOt mul
the quota
and nearly
however,
per
all
junatics
of criminals,
3 4 13 ar oan?
more than tripied 13 per cen
9 . 20 11 tienls { criminals
1 women, 22 r cent Some particul is of crimina
pet
swindlers
rt
Ques
again a much greater proportion, 33
ve less—from per cent. At
connects criminals with savages, and
lunatics
proverb)
Hored me
« y 10H
ravishers g 2 to 1
which
murderers and
events, this is a characteristic
differentiates th
hem from
As appetite
I could not
new
as well
SATE DWODIe
Ane people
comes in eating (according to the
in my researches. Until now, |
fied. Would it not be worth the
only has been stud rou
not. also, what one may left sidedness as applied to
if there be not men who have a greater sensibility on the left than on
With this idea | a kind physiological surveillance
pumber of my friends and colleagues and over workingmen a
As a result, I found that left-sidedness is in mu« h larger proportion than left
handedness, showing itself in no less than 26 of normal people. The
curious fact appeared also that left-handed have more of this
sensitive leftsidedness than right handed people, and not even as much at least
as criminals, who average 27 per cent, although they show
a difference in the intensity of the sense of touch. The proportion of sensitive
left-sided people among criminals, however, becomes very much more if one
taked into account the senalbility to pain, which they have more highly develop.
ad in the left side, and visual sharpness, which, according to. the calculations of
Dr. Bono, is not only greater in them than in honest men, but hs more BLOCH
tuated in the left eye than in the right. In lunatics, &s is revealed by the re
searches of Tonnini and Amaded, this sensitive leftsidedness is almost more the
rule than the exception, rising as high as 44 per cent It appears, then, tha left
handed people are more numerous Among eriminals, and sensitive left-sided peo
ple among lunatics. — North American Review,
&F &F
Our Interest in Korea.
Su Would
though
10 search
go further h
trouble
hat is
the right
over 8
the senses
call
side? instituted of
sone
per cent
Te | 1 103t
peopie G0 not
in the sense of touch
Either Russia
Affect America.
By Homer B. Hulbert.
How covans of or Japan
affect our interests in the peninsula and in the whole far East
Japan stands for the “open door” everywhere, for perfect freedom
industrial resources of the Eastern world Not one plank in her
platform suggests a policy that would be inimical to American
anterprise in any of its many forms Americans have not done
very much in Korea as yet, but this war means more than Korea; it means
Manchuria and all northern China
The Russian minister in Seoul recently
did not see why Americans should be playing Japan's game, since she is a com
mercial rival. He affirmed that Americans would
Manchuria by the Russians to-day,
opened it would allow the influx of a thousand Japanese, and trouble
inevitable
Dalny, Viadivostok and other Russian centers find it absolutely necessary (0
carry on their business through Russian agents?
must be under Russian control, or he can do no business
American firm in Viadivostok recently found that it must close its doors
would be
An independent
It
goods from America arrived
four to six months before the authorities would release them.
In one respect the Americans would become more obnoxious to the Russians
than the Japanese, The American merchant is always pushing for a leading
place; he develops a large policy and seeks to become a commercial and financial
power in whatever community he may be placed. On the other hand, the Japs
nese almost always push for the small retail trade. A hundred of them handie
the same amount of goods that a single American or English firm bandles.—
& &r &
Keep the Tears Back.
By Beatrice Fairfax.
{RLS, if you would be popular among your men friends be cheerful
Men have no use for the girl who whines and tells them het
troubles. They admire the girl who bears her troubles bravely,
making the best of things and turning a smiling face to the world
Tears they abhor; they do not understand them, and as a rule
fail to see the necessity for them.
As long as a girl is bright and entertaining she will be popular
but just as soon as she grows moody and inclined to complain about her woes
she will lose her popularity.
The tactful girl never talks about herself. She listens and encourages he:
men friends to talk about themselves, sympathizing and commending, criticising
sometimes, perhaps, but always in a kindly way. Men like to bring their joys
and sorrows to her, because they are always sure of a bright and ready sympathy
rad understanding,
She Is often more popular than her pretty sister, who relies entirely on het
peauty as an attraction,
Beauty is very well as a luxury, but as a steady diet cheerfulness will come
aut ahead every time,
The highest vocation for woman Is that of making others happy, and ia
«dor to do that she must be bright and happy herself.
There are times in a woman's life when the tears cannot be held back, but
3, he avery-dus worries the brave woman learns to restrain them.—New York
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