THE SORROWING MOTHER.
Last night I dreamed he came to ma;
I held bim close and wept and said,
‘My little child, where have you been?
I was afraid that you were dead.”
Then I awoke; it almost seemed
As though my arms cou.d feel
yet,
{ had heen sobbing in my sleep;
My tears had made the pillows wet,
him
[ can not think of him at all
As the bright ange! he must be,
But only as my littie child
Who may be needing me,
Do not make him grow too wise,
Angels—ye who
I am dull and slow to learn,
Toiling here below,
Do not fill hiz heart too full
With your heavenly joy
Lest the mother’s place bo
With her little boy
Know;
0st
.
mild;
though
not
[.ast night the alr was
The moon rose clear
And somehow then It did
So very hard fv wait
There seemed so much to learn,
So much for me
Before my
And | was
late
Seem
to do.
lessons here were doae
ready to0
Those may dare to doubt
Their lov O
For me, I not
I don hop I knew
--Katharine Pyle in Harper's
nes pere Del
now belie
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By H. Carpenter
Lt often that [ find
precincts a poli
time ae
A
a
only
He
and
unde ide
inl i
was
down
feeling
though he
vined his
quietly
“After
ymfortal
ring
Was anx
As 3
two months
way to ti
r a meal an
ing when and an
"Well, ons mornin’ | went
usnal—that wound be just
ago-—and ind self with
siXpeace in my pocket in the
borhood of Lei
No job was
in’
end a littl irsty and % ? I
turned where |
knew 1 coul *t a cheap meal
“1 hadn't bee:
fora a
*
eng o
y pick up a sh
out as
nine davs
only
neigh
morn
80, feeMng rat! lowa at heart
long be
short, with no
watch chain in front of him,
saumteriag in and seats
self plnmp alongsida of me.
“1 ought to have felt
comes
when he said presently,
$ieasant way. ‘Nice mornin’
“Yes, I said: ‘It is for those in
work, but the mornin’ doesn't seem
partikler nice to me’
“You're out o' work, eh?” he ask-
ed. ‘Well, I might have guessed as
mich by your crestfallen expression,
What would you say if I put a little
job in your way?
“‘l should say Heaven bless ye, and
mean it’ I answerad, picking up my
ears and looking full In the latle
g:nt's face,
Can | trust you? he asked.
“Perfectly.” 1 sald.
“Now, look hers’ he says, speak.
fog confilontial lke, and In a
very low voice. ‘I'm a detective. To
nigkt I'm going to have a good fry to
wab a fellow who has been fooling the
police of Loadon for the last three
months, [I've got reliable informa
tion, and with your: assistance [ be-
Heve 1 shall have him.’
“He told me that the man he in-
tended to catch was going to commit
a burglary at a house at Highgate
who informed him he didn't say, but
he sald he knew {t—and that he
seant to nah him io the very act
*
quits
The house atood in a plece of ground
by a low rail fence, aad my
for the burglar. and should he hy any
means give the detective the slip, to
and eallar hlm if { could.
“ ‘But s'pose,’ I sald, as soon as I
Catches
mid
nan Glilc 8 and
Rong
those grounds at
night?
“Well, the little gent replied
and
@n
whistles,
Dawker has
lice signal, three loud
ti ae Detective
gaged you'
‘We left the
1st
together and
)y meet
me
the
place
outside, prom
had descr
LWeive ( CH
at the to
at Highgate, at
nignt
Twalve yelock
10188 Le
reached
found
came, |
time, and
: Ling
"He was dressed
like my own,
‘eman no Je
med rather
led
the detective wa for
me
in clothes
and
nger
some
looked the
“He se
pul
impatient, ans
garden and
shrubs
me {ato the
: thick
quickly, ‘if
chase him;
ona
sald
rglar run,
give three
be off, or | sha
be back in an
COmMmes
shall be back
an
nL tl i
¢£ & policeman
4 £
‘He was
Slowly fe
gate
fastening
was remand
ade, and thes
THE BUILDING OF BIG SHIPS.
Indication That We Mave About
Reached Limit for Present Time.
It
wharo
ef
lies
ino
at a
beer
ird ves
much of
h reason
the
is govern
hanns! en
these latest
Huge draw much water
a « 4 :
Lia they can only enter a few ports
and at only a very few can CArgo of
passengers sufficient fili them be
gectred .
Besides this, it will readily bs con
that the reason why bigger
the depth the
by
seaports,
and
vagaels s0
to
purely a commercial one. The ques
to be anawered in determining wheth
will ba readily granted that a ship of
10,000 tons can be operated
ton of freight carried
provided the
volume of traffic is sufficient to keep
her employed, and provided. also, that
cargo-bandiing appliances are gach as
to keap down delays in port But,
that there is not a like saving to be
made in again doubling the size and
10,000 to 20 000
Perhaps under certain circumatances
while, but even if this is the case it
does not follow that
vessel would be still more profitabe.
It must he remembered that these
very large vessels ceat considerably
more to bulld per ton of freight ca
pacity than vessels of modern sizes
§
NOTES ‘AND COMMENTS.
If the Czarevitch had been twins
Russian might have got a sosstitution
remarks the New York Werld,
The city of Cape Town, South Africa
is about to extend its water works at
an expenditure of $10,000,000,
Any one who wishes to buy a town
will be Interested to know that there
is one in county Cork, Ireland, that if
be put up at auction. It be
soon (o
need of ready money.
The 8t. Louls house which proposes
to bulld a large
could increase Its business by making
new arms and heads
reach out of the
the St. Louis Republi
wooden-ware factor)
for people Wi
car windows,
ded
street
are
reported te
A “new millionaire” is
be paying $6,000,000 for a divorce A
» ¥ 3 «A
New York man’ with $6 00
a year “impossible”. te
society
gays that it is
lve that sum “Piaia living’
and
these days,
World
upon
“high thinking" t many jolts
thinks the New Yori
A post-mort examination was
over the hady of William Kr
Hoanoke
held
Ww hose h at
gusplel among the
32-callber
and a needle
ach, Kross
cartr
Wel
Wis
hardware-cating
Path Finder, bu
Process
When Admira
Rear Admira
During
American
Ldverp
and
is
Current
Rev. Dr
Princeton Unis
wf Ni . 1 - $
of his address. whi
in The British Weekly
7) and is declared to have
oratorical high-water mark
the convention Dyke
irs to
ature
Dr. Van
defige the i 0 De
and religic
says, is “the art in wl
fe of man seeks expression and
Ye
inst
influence through wri rords
i humar
divine
i heed
erature
¢
Meaning
perpetuate
coraitry
knocked
postoffices
ountry
revived, says
We hog « 1
of Stokes
as "Oak View,” “(i
"Maple Glen.” “River
Brook Farm” and
others suitable to the taste or fanes
of the owners, are used
ig old and coloniallike. savoring
the good old ante-bellum days, We
kave always thought that the efface-
ment of the individuality of the neigh
borhoods aad postofMices was the only
Objectionable feature about the raral
free delivery, It is easily neutralized
by the naming of the farms and coun
try places,
many of
the custom of na
mes and farms
Danburg Report
oiain in our
names
nut Shade™
Foam ”
the
$x
County
ont
“Meadow
The custom
———
An Indiana man who paid $600 for
an automobile and then apent $2000
for repairs has filed a petition in
bankruptey and aska the courts to
relieve him of one of the white man’s
burdens. Once upon a time, the wevs
of the automobile were loss knowa
than they are now and the human
‘ace was less sophisticated. says the
New York World. Then it waa that
he makers of the devil-wagons used
o bait their victims with this decep
ive sign: “The automobile does not
fat oats.” Ah, but doesn’t it? Where
# the devil-wagon that doos not ent?
ts appetite In voracious. The aniral
8 as indiscriminate in [ts tastes sa
+ shark devouring everything that
‘omes its way, preferring only that
ta food shall be pradigested by con.
A WOMAN
The first woman painter to receive
an order from the German
ment is sald be Fraulein
Walden, who decorat=d the hall of the
building at Paris Expos
ition, and who was also commissioned
to furnish paintings for the St. Louls
Exposition. These last are four in
number in the Hall of Mines and
Metallurgy two representing the
mines of Konlgshuttee
two views of the
other painting
building
thoroughfare
PAINTER
to Greta
the
and
An
shows the
“Unter
SEEDN'T SPOIL
Women who
otherwise amusq
ind
Ww EYDaying
iabble ar
Are RIWaye
ATHLETIC
GIRL
The
into a
reproduce
ered handle
ments the tip
The rowing
made, and very
the thin, ¢
ing
The
into a circle
ornament
A riding crop with a horse's head
is a pretty device also ;
None of these rings are very ex.
pensive, although the luxurious may
embellish and elaborate them, havirg
the heads of diamonds, etc. [a the
simpler form they seem far more ap
propriate and in better taste
tn
licately
oar is
ring is lig d«
The
gpoon oar of the
pretty
urved rac.
shell
hunting ring
with a
ated
is a horn tw
fox’s head for an
ready for anything.
There are Scotch
coatdom.
A clever buyer says the coat of the
Scotch peasant has been the inspira
tion,
tendencies in
all for the fine, handsome, durable
covert cloth.
Knockabout coats of tweeds and
Bannockburns are the top of the atyle
for those who like coarse effects,
Zobelines are coming In strong for
half dress coats, and are very smooth
and silky.
Except in a few of the coat suits,
coats are of the threequarter length.
Many of the heavy, more or [sas
comrse coats may be matched in cloth,
making smart walking or sporting
suits,
Broad shoulder effects are to be
continued and an extra seam is car
ried up to each shoulder in the back.
The belted back is the proper thing,
ough the
the fullnasas
In the
Neus
finer face cloth
effects are seen.
Inver
Iu
COALS
the sleeved
verness being
as plcturesque
One
riage
Yery practical as
beautiful brown broadeloth
onal shows a fEXtuple caps
fect over each sleeve, and
row ool and cuff
erie
iar
ion
OlR
shade
£9
he afternd
morning
‘here are
totlet than
over
paneer
pre
tightly
hat
High
way to
canvar boots
the knees a IN
ported bathing =uit
Work a wee
somewhere if
hall
im
lace
JaAny an
of black
be
touch
in
you would truly
The lastest in
is an applied square
decorations
of ecru lace
design Angels
sleeve
Put in your apare time making lit
They are
®ire to come in useful
Here's an idea on making the lace
Hoopskirts in miniature!
Canvas tiles are less costly
buckskin, and-what
of that
than
i* amazing in
fact—they are really
Stockings to match the colored rib
bons on the gown are worn with
white shoes,
Have you noticed how many throats
are dressed simply with a straight
hand of white embroidery?
Coal Found Under Lava.
The most remarkable deposit of
coal In Colorado has Just been un.
covered in the Durango district. Jum
beneath a thin crust of lava lie beig
an area of over 625 square miles, In
quality it is unapproached by say
other similar product in the State,
by means of a
spoonful of am
of warm
carpet with 3
from thiz
the dust
Put a
half a
wipe the
Remove
lamp cloth,
nonpia in
vater, and
wrung
bucket
om t Aew
doth out very dary
valer Go eve
mt do not make it
od the
«ib acl
reshened
nly over
wel,
1
gust is removed
nel and every moth
‘udden death
-
THE USE OF GLYCERINE
A leading $1; jalist, and authority
mtenis 10 C00
add one and a half ounces «
mix this well in, strain into a
mould and leave to set When
on a dish garnish«¥ with
strips of apricot.
Oranges Filled With Jelly Take
half a dozen oranges that are perfect;
make a hole at the stem end about
half an inch in diameter; take a tea
spoon and remove the pulp. and thes
soak the oranges in cold water for an
hour: then scrape with the spoon
until they are smooth inside; rinse
with cold water, and drain on a cloth
and put them in Ice box Prepare
pink and clear orange jelly, with the
juice of the two lemons added Fill
half of them with the pink the other
half with clear jelly, and when they
are set wipe clean and cut each
orange in four quarters. Heap them
in a pretty glass dish for the table
Cheese Custard Butter a baking
dish. put in a laver of bread cut in
pieces gae inch square, with erust re
moved. sprinkle thinsliced cheese
over the bread, dust with salt and
paprika, or a few grains of cayenne.
Add other layers of bread and cheess
seasoning as before, using in all half
a small loaf of bread, one cup of
cheese and half a teaspoonful of salt
Beat two eggs slightly, add one pimt
of milk. and pour the mixture over
the bread and cheese, Bake about
half an hour In a moderate oven.
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