————— SU TETAS I mou no more my vanish'd yearsj Bonek th & tender raln, An April rain of amiles and tears, My beart is young again The west winds blow, and, singing low I hear the glad streams run; The windows of my soul 1 throw Wide open to the sun No longer forward nor behind I look In hope or fear: But, grateful, take the good | The best of now and here find, [ plow no more a desert land, To harvest weed and tare The manna dropping from God's hand Rebukes my painful care I break my pligrim stalf-—1 lay Aside the tolling oar; The angel sought so fay I welcome at my door away The airs of Spring may never Among the ripening corn Nor freshness of the flowers of May Blow througl Autum h the in morn Yet shall the blue-eyed gentian look Chrough fringed lids to Heaven Aud the pale aster in the brook Shall see its image given piay The woods shall wear th The south wind softly And sweet, calm davs In Melt down the amber » Not lesz shall manly dsed and word RebuRe an age of wrong. The graven flowers that wreathe the sword Make not the blade less strong But smiting hands shall learn to heal To bulid as to destroy Nor less my heart for others feel That 1 the more enjoy blessings undeserved my erring track my feet have sw erved, turn’'d me back Enough that Have mark'd That whereso'er His chastening and more a Providence understood springs of time roal good Tht more (Of love is Making the Sweet with ete and sens hat death seems but a rd way Which opens into light, Wherein no blinded child can Beyond the Father's sight siray seem at last inset Air overps fal That care and trial I'hrough no iry’s Like mountain ranges In purple nce dist notes of walm ta strif calm apart play heart he Brinda windo of my the —- John Greenleaf Whitt Phila led. and it was almost for the deliphia express to ‘he waiting room usual quota travelers had gathered. It was a com mon enough scene, but full of absorb ing interest to a serious mite ehild sitting like edlent statue on the tons had time be cal the an of wre her hands her gh seat wt placed her, folded in her lap and legs barely long enon aver the edge plun p to dangie Her wide eyes quest about there oned intentness evidenos “ witation man with after his own used tu hildren, her with wistful were mighty struggle of « little mind. kind enough, he was not child was was lonely. The Desbrosses just come in, an¢ passengers who 2 room were a upon whom the themselves In so eculative This was a stately The man was would some day be larger, carried his bigness of breadth with an enviabl He went to the one single ticket, came and and sat the child and woman was speal edly polite tone “There are but wail I beg that ft necessary to for your You forget SOMES ADpPeATrancs answered stiff sion create ans is n occasional in her her was lights and thi not. nied and she street had ferry into the wait rried ing and won eye “~ admira man and beautiful large her ooo aston to eCessar: “Isn't | pearances”? of scorn in h i super id not Fr metve She knew what + meant him in the light of a brute should be fleeing from his tended at a partic I hour She knew surd journey, tination at m not endure that silent er minute. The fever own people—the fev who would sym; cruel questions bly upon her a she had reckleasl tions and started had agreed that their married once, and that legally separated known to the wi had become a cell of to And he—when was always pund he had insisted on was determined to take journey. His face had indifferent as the door had closed upon wife, and the rids been made in rigid silence Her eyes caught the child's unwave ing gaze, and her face f its flinty composure children of her own, and tuis an unconsciously pathetic figure its primly folded hands an eyes. The little travelar smiled faint ly and looked shyly away eyes crept back again, and communication was established a few moments she sideration, welghing some mig vision &LiPeMm Dt bringing dnight he Hou seeing been their them a to th was # solemn For stately lady; then thers was a cau tious peep at the ecarotaker's face, antl with the anxious haste of one who gathers all his courage for a desperate leap, she slid swiftly down and was across the way before her com. panion could realize what had hap pened. “Won't you, pleases,” ghe began, eagerly, her eyes scarching the wom- an’'s face, “won't you please tell me what a diworce 18?” There! It was out—that awful, un- answered question which had been tormenting her small soul for days - upset days-—and her bolstered-up conr- age suddenly subsided into fetness as she realized the magnitude of her temerity in asking this strange and which rebuff to 1 question startled from others Her went he dropped obvious was electrical eyes and she cifect yefore h The hard, seamed woman looke« unseedix though struck; but * for a scene Was make yo a funny stion?” he queried 1 wanted que tO Know Mamma's every se appealingly one, but she's gone an’ bod ask a diworce cried tion away, Says Nobody in “yes wen | them me what Asked one ALAIN which no had gi a0 Answer The woman lea forward, ga x] the little bundle of ned loneliness arms and held her close Where has mamma - fear hi at 1¢ ikl gone dear? isband ind was staring at the and and wife each y had « Zain ignored of you, dear? an 1 a new ges i fer care ho nied 4] Bald, SIowiy gne went Oe an SOON; an’ nurse an cried of an ht yan is taking h mamma's auntie «1 me an that lot to our bong hings. the lawyern ies AWAS guess, care of me now Now ing up. “she'll take lifted a supplicating face to the bending over her, and unwearied insistence an answer to the quest She with a again ion that ul wot a child's sought $0 heavily Won't you diworce ia? le 8 me lav on her Hl please tell The man for his It was a delicate situation leaned forward and wife, who had mutely Away He was fond of children “Now see here; suppose [ tell will you promise not worry about answered {to A vigorous nod He remained silent a moment, the child's mind conld grasp it, then “Well, a divorcee isa divorce-~weall, two people et married, yon Know: and sometimes it doesn't work as well as they thought it would, so they go to the lawyeranan like yours over there and get unmarried.” He floundered hopelessly over his definition, ending it with an uncom fortably red face, for it was harder than he had anticipated, and two searching eves glued to your face are apt to be disconcerting, The little one nestled back against the Bosom which exhaled the same falnt, ancatehable sweet odor that had always clung to mamma's dresses, and, with her Inquiring eyes still searching the man's face, propounded the next link in the endless chain of a cnild’s {interrogations “Please, w'y Jdo they want to get un- married?” The face above her was white, arm about her trembled The hus band studied the intently a few moments before answer frown gathering lit- droop of down the floor ing, a his eves and a scorn —self s Of his he sald again was between tle scorn——pulling the corner mouth “God knows glow and stared at A stentorian the Philadelphia express, the woman on her lap approaching the floor intoni the voice ing » ol vous start the child er-man a ner ip fron the “1 LW on me little gir going nov hat and bowing to her want to vost, in Home npan QUAINT AND CURIOU the sheep, have th ig graze on all and on the was yards ed and rds lead agrompanied , and dogs nigh attack by ' ninet clo private property The shephe flocks provision mul 0 ZUAr again wolves their by by large i Large Families in Great Britain, In Botoiph's church, Aldgate there 2 a monument to the memory Agnes, widow of Willlam Bond, who “bore him 16 children, eight boys and eight girls.” That was in the spacious 16th cen but it noteworthy that John grandfather of the late speak Commons, had 24 children two ago a Northampton St is Gully, er of the A year or that he of 32 children, of whom ing: while 20 years boasted of a couple was the ag” - i ago who were police court were liv “the 33 children, in 1890. belongs to Seotland. It is that of a Scotch weaver in the 16th century 2 died in childhood, 46 sons and four daughters living to be 21 and upward and absolutely authenticated Sir John Boweg and three othet men each adopted ana reared ten of this prodiglous family. «lgpndon Daily Chonlela PEARLS OF THOUGHT. the the it is not by that one knows ~-Bulwer gray of the age of the heart. Joy's recdllection is while sorrow’s memory ~~ Byron. no is onger SOIT OW near akin to a the least A joker is and neither lated to We fer buffoon ; them is re- Chesterfield know a of wit never there is thing congenial to it greater charae- unless ROME (‘han The recipe for Znorane Be satisfied with your content with Baba We stone, but perpetusa opinion your hould that cruml like brighter Ly gold, that the On There affection Vale native that Landon PLANT BREEDING EXPERIMENTS Government Bureau Develops Lettuce Immune from Lettuce Disease Nearly all the winter United States h Washing ly of {allure ton Post forcing” n of greenh strengthe: Toss-i i hon isang «i LtwWo O1 3 {agen royed. F sand heads RDG Dest were dat and fine were rom these Heads anol ruin the winter | tor with ext The Bureat gaged on a wor le three vears inciion will re ommon DOURH two duced cheaper than has been grown Troublesome Tunes “Mark Twain rhyme of the fare’ and Hs story avo fernal blue trip a LH-ent 80 ON running the who ought to be thinki gh throug! thing else, was writte story but really had a heaj nate truth in it” in a Chestnut sires day There are which have punch in jaire’ aftr to have canght tainly and nerve-racking alleged ‘Bverybody Works But Father hear the messenger boys the newsboys whistling it and respe able people pass by humming it tie gits round all day’ jumps into your mind when you attempt to read the pa- per When 1 try to get to y night I can think of nothing but rhymes about mother taking in ing and father smoking his clay. It's no joke.”—Philadelphia ord other the people me that FE street we and I= of Rec pipe Wasn't Taking Chances. 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