Reminiscence. A gap among the hills, And a white road through the trees; A gap among the hill And some few memories The river winding down And willows bending The river winding down, And things of long ago. —Frank leo Pinet, in Lippincott's. low; MoeSeSeSesesesesesesesesesesesesin TheLacemakKer's Sacrifice. 2525 e525e25e525e5ea25 2525253525 Rue de IlLdlle, little one-story In the was a cealed ereepet to night seen at pied in tures of most rhythmical of graceful arms, were quite a picture of loveliness. The danced in her fingers, flying direction to return redou nim- bly, that she appeared good fairies we read of Valenciennes, house, half con- by a thick growth of Virginian and clematis. From morning a young girl! might have been the open window busily occu- making lace. The pretty fea- the young worker, and movements the al- bobbins in one ith bled speed, so in old legends. its curtain than one heart of the beautiful sighs found no Verdier was modesty respect. to this little window with of verdure, and more sighed at the sight lacemaker; but such response. Miss Noemi good beautiful, and and simplicity won universal At thirt years of age she een left an orphan with an brother, a journeyman cabinet-maker, three vears , who thus ig left sloge at the head of fly worked for his sister and hi At flrs: times were hard the brave youth; hardly had he ished his apprenticeship when fortune ived As ‘Noemi od and the young rkman’s days not remunerative. But wi good-will, labor aconom:? as her een her senior for fin- mis- very vet noting, Worl were vers ind succeeded, in his lacemakin sister t« this er ana rontrit arn en The sign, made by won Valen real happines Years consc: compan) was bitter tached ui | arate time the happy to vou Left LOO jarge a heavy dalicate haps to less worth: herself ed he ito two pa to h 1 6r brothe » of his id For his regiment ciennes; ble years that he had of sergeant the as that way, been Noem News loved brothe But her Some days later cri denly resounded on all France rushed to the The Noemi shed po te her absent brother, not to duty-this assary-—but to her anxious and supply of money. learned by her brother's successive defeats of army-—Worth, Rezonville, at, Gravelotte, Sedan! Then ly there silence: no news nothing. Wou dead! Noemi, who had read newspapers, now hurried every morn- ing to the offices of the Valenciennes papers to look for some ray of hope, She listened the street mingled with crowds the news, and heard the accounts of that horrid war, that her brother's regiment had suf- fered severely The wounded wére transported by Hirgon Avesne to the northern frontier towns day new convoys ar rived at Valenciennes. Soon the civil and filled, but the wounded atill continued crease, that private ambulances organized everywhere and factories opened their doors to the poor, maimed soldiers, who seemed innumerable, paralyzed with terror; with an infinite pity, which with her brother was shared by all these wretched survivors of herole battles. She watched the sad processions, eag: erly scanning the countenances con- tracted with pain and wasted fever, in hopes of recognizing the beloved features she despaired of ever again seeing In this world. One morning the news reached her that a convoy of wounded belonging to her brother's regiment had arrived during the night. The poor girl was terrible year had ars, she commenced wrote him unnec more her to exhort she knew was him once send £ ne Lv tell love to te letters French Saint Priv- sudden letters, Perhaps tha if Was nded never to the discussing most the lines every military hospitals were 10 BO he Churches to had her heart filled beloved brother was there among his comrades, and she ran to the am- bulances, passing from one to the oth: er, questioning and bend ing over But been the bed evening approached, in vain. The hope supported her during the like the light In the stopped quite exhausted; effort of will she had made without weakness at the spectacle of these --pale, bleeding, Sweet en her strength endure plaints of sufferers, the sight eous wounds, abandoned her In the midst of her grief she was alone, more than orphan; and out a murmur, without revolt the cruelty of her fate, head and wept as she day before, as she on the morrow the horrible wounds, the Hvid n terror could She brother, field far hands to nurses each and all had which had day depart. evening ed to emaciated; the of hid- to all with she bowed her had wept the would weep again Then she recalled vigslon of unsightly convulsed features of the contracted with which alone countenances awalting end such pletured death, agony tO oned on from all aid, her in agony, his side. Suddenly that on the had been established St pecially for officers Was of an unknown sergeant been thither? Cer and summoned sufficient strength return. In a few minutes she reached the hospital, resolutely opened the door, and entered A military doctor met her “What looking for, “My “His name?” "Sergt. louis Verdier, “You mean Sul Verdier.’ the pointed to Hoe of mattresses in the sixth 1 seemed ‘seif her some stret calling her remembered day a hospital : Saulve es ner poor bhattle- ching his to aband she previous there any chance hav- ing not, CONveyed i vet she to are you miss? brother.” »” As the Lieut. he doctor spoke long + the on ti ¥ i ** 4 : A o fly und suppressing a& Cry she st orward Overcome nappiness Knee y Ww el fy soon be you as shall I can You ugh home, 8 strong en carried » tha be side night and day will at your “What shall dear go you.” a good idea make haste to that | may accompany “1 shall work hard, return home a mere dream, this happiness is close at hand Every day Noemi passed an at her brother's pillow; he Noemi her the better 80 because your is not and hour was now convalescent, and work was she had ten days chatted about lace: progressing rapidly, and, as gald, would be completed in One morning as entered hospital, her countenance beaming with joy, brother made a sign to her to speak in a as he did so, a newly tient on the neighboring mattress, This was Count Lanterac 4'Am- broyse, llentenant in the light fantry; he had been struck on shoulder by a fragment of shell “Poor youth,” exclaimed Noemi, moved with pity; “he has to care for him.” She was Interested In tunate, The pale sufferer gazed eyes at the voung girl, who, hallucinations of fever, like some heavenly vision. He fol lowed her with his gaze, which had hitherto been expressionless, seeming to be gladdened and smoothed, After her departure his eyes re mained fixed for a long time on the door which had concealed the vision, then gradually closed in sleep, Next day, long before Noemil's ar rival, the wounded man, as though gifted with second sight, which warn. ed him of her approach, directed his looks to the door, and when at length the apparition was visible, a gleam of joy passed over his shrunken fea. tures, “Oh! she her at de the no this the poor fellow! the poor fel | | | | hy low!” exclaimed the fixity to contemplate her grave. She er {0 of the Noemi, those eves, troubled by which seemed from beyond whispered In her broth inquire about the state stranger's wound, and freed from anxiety hearing there was hope, The days passed rapidly daily grew stronger. Had promised to make haste to get bet ? On the morning of the tenth Noemi made ner appearance, her radiant with joy. In her hand carried carefully a little packet in tissue-paper She word. Her marvelous plece was completed, and she wish brother before taking her In her happl- to remove her forgot th poor Lue who now of the ear seemed on that and louis he not ter day face she wrapped kept her of lace ed her it to ness at being she also LO See it employer able brother wounded watching “Is it laying which brother's quite stranger her not the she bed; her not due conquered Was with reanimated eyes lovely?’ she exclaimed, of on her however, ities fact that take her to which hap restored They ins rlasped delicate masterpiece Was Be proud was she had she now he able to thelr would brother to home piness would thus be happy as, with examined ention both ney the une INeAsy raised fae }y " : i bandages his wound, and of gushed forth and d. Hearing doctor blood hed the cry appeared and vound bare, ' oT Quick nick he shouted horrible Som« * ANXio i8 ands Sex in Handwriting. is a curious fact that one of the things which eo an expert gri aphologist does not guarantee to dis handwriting the sex of We accustomed to ven cover in is the writer taink that the feml temperament will the wr are masculine betray it- but in the not the case black and firm, most appearing in every way, frequently found to emanate from the pen of a woman, while deli cate tracery with the regularity sug of precision and method, or dash and spontaneity which indi lively fancy almost unmistak feminine, one says on examina- is discovered to belong to a writer of the opposite sex. An Interesting little experiment this theory can be made in this was Take twelve or twenty en. velopes written in calrographies you of, and number each scrap Pass them around and see of your friends will cor rectly the sex of the different writers, which may be written down nd numbered like the envelopes. It will seldom prove that more than one-third of the guesses, at most, are correct —~New York Press, He Understood. ine Or readily word, sell in itten majority of cases such is Writing bold, be the cates a clearly. how many ZUORS on “Willie,” sald an Interesting young mother to her first-born, “do you know what the difference is between body and soul? The soul, my child, is what vou love with; the body carries yw about. This is your body.” touching the little fellow’s shoulder, “but there is something deeper in, You cai feel it now, What is 1t?" “Oh, 1 know,” sald Willie, with a flash of intelligence in his eyes, “that's my flannel salrt!”-