——————————— “ Our Daily Cheer. What any day may bring to us We do not know- The famine, or the overplus, Or weal, or woe; The triumph or the happiness That gives life zest; The failure which with all its stress Makes us seek rest, When morn breaks o'er us In our couch We cannot say If it will be “Hurrah” or That marks the day; If we'll exult in triumph or Regret we've sinned, Or joy to count the profit more Than we've been skinned. “Ouch” But be our portion what it may, Or large or small, Of nectar we shall taste that day, Or only gall, Though good may come or even bad, We press the bluff— We never know when we have had Enough. Ww. in Puck. L. w.. S5252SesRse Sas sasases 1sdsase sas! DIVORCED. ” SaSP5a525R5RERSY SUSASAGAGAG Among the dust of the road still glittering in the rays of the setting sun, the evening mail coach passed, the old vehicle jolting about and the | bells jingling on the little white horses. © Then Claudine appeared at the door of the little white house. With her hand over her eyes and | her elbow high in the alr, she stood ! motionless in sharp reilef against the | dark background of the interior. The young woman's robust chest was in- flated with impatient, jovous, axpec- | tation; and the blood #ising under her brown skin brightened her black eyes and imparted a still deeper redness to her laughing lips that contrasted with the shining whiteness of her | teeth. In the distance the ever lower, fastened its upon the fleecy tops of the wooded | hillsides, imprinting upon the dark | green of the old oaks points of light that quivered against the blue hori- zon; but nearer, a large ray, piercing the verdure, enveloped, with a last and tardy caress, rounded summit of a naked hillock, whose slopes, dying at the turn in the road, presented in the shadow a long, dull gray stretch of plowed land. Claudine knew that beneath slopes, over which reseunded in the stillness of the evening the sonorous voices of the laborers urging on their oxen, lay immense quarries corroding | the earth and extending on and on | infinitely, seeming with their but. tressed galleries like the sudden! yi cleared-up ruins of some buried city: | and thither her thoughts went, in | search of her husband, She saw him, young like herself | and very handsome, perched on some | high scaffolding, toiling at the top | of the quarry, in the trembling light | of lamps, that looked like stars, amid | the continual and monotonous sun, sinking dying rays as the these drip- | ping of pe waters; but now his labor | ended, he descended and arranged his | tools; then very quickly, thinking of | her and impatient for her kisses, he | came through the dark passages | where the trucks had dug ruts in the mud. Quarrymen wearing gaudy sashes, with jackets thrown over their should- ers, were beginning to appear In a series of groups along the white | road. Their voices rose, sometimes! in song—voice vibrating like waves of sunlight and as rough as the sur | rounding country. Incessantly the procession ened. One by one Claudine the sunburnt faces as they grew more and more distinct. But ber man did not yet appear and suddenly, as] she was examining with her sharpest | look the farthest groups on the hill 1 side, whose contour seemed to sink, i a cloud of dust shot up, high and en- | ormous, casting a vast shadow, i The quarrymen stopped short in the road: then they ran back and at | the same time, with a settling of | all the neighboring territory, a tre. | mendous explosion burst out like al peal of thunder and rolled through the valley. The quarry had fallen in. Claudine tittered a cry and fell upon the road with arms outstretched. Under the ground, full of crevices and covered with fallen houses that spread their broken red-tiled roofa over the ruins. like a mantle, quarry- mép were buried, at inaccessible and hopeless depths: and near the foot of the hill, at a point where the en gineers were trying to plerce a gal lery, Claudine in a crouching posture, with a wild look on her face and re. fusing to budge, awalted her man. For days she remained there, un abia to believe in disaswer and un willing to be consoled, her eyes fixed o¥stinately upon the gallery which thay were opening. But the work caused fresh settlings of the soil, and then water flowed into the gallery, and they were obliged to stop thelr labors, Then gloomily she climbed the hill At the top the workmen were now boring a shaft, Bhe crotiched down near them, watching the piston go up and down with a continuous, mechan- fecal movement, the dull shocks of which, occurring at regular intervals, quieted her and filled her with sooth- ing hopes. But the steel screws be- i length- | recognized gan to break off in the flinty strata, | ni AT AAA 5A [and then they penetrated into the | sands which began to roll down con- | tinually, filling up the shaft, Haggard and grim, the workmen | persisted for a time, lat soon they | threw down thelr tools in despair and | the band dispersed, Claudine wag left | alone upon the ravaged ground amid | the results of the abortive labors, | broken. (pert, feeling only one de! sire within her—the wish that she | were dead, “Claudine, her. She men: "” whispered a volce near | recognized one of the quarry- | she knew that his name was | Plerre, and remembered having seen him at work with the others. He | showed his callous hands, his soiled | clothing: and suddenly, before he had spoken, as she saw the look of gentle sadness which he gave her, she burst into a fit of tears. He, finding nothing to say, knelt be- side her, allowing her to weep, only pressing the young woman's hand the tighter at each sob, with an expres. sion of anguish on his face. Gradually she became calm. She heard him saying things the mean- ing of which escaped her, leaving her only the sensation of a vague and very gentle murmur that lulled her into childlike docility. And she suf, fered herself to be led away, almost { unconscious, he, full of precautions and attentions, addressing her In caressing tones, as though she were an invalid, while, from time to time | also, she stopped to heave long sighs’ which her head would drop upon the Days passed. The quarrymen were | lost, and undiscoverable, dead, it was : declared, crushed by the rocks, This | thought was a satisfaction to Claud- | ine. In the long idle hours in which | things were talked over, she | silently, in mournful atti finding gradually a sootiiiug | Little by lt. | tle she seemed to awake as from a | long sleep, and to return from a great | distance; and at the same time, in- sensibly, the exigencies of life pre-| themselves to her mind; she sive growth of a slow fear, poverty and solitude, Then that of i she became interested in the! news in the subscriptions opened for | the relief of the victims. And sud denly she had a feeling of rest, most of joy, when Pierre, returning from the city, told her that the sums subscribed were sufficient to warrant an annuity for the widows, and that she had been allowed one of 600 al | Then, idle and patiently awaiting events, she dally returned to the quar ries. Often Plerre accompanied her, | with his accustomed gentleness. There | they spoke in low voices and walked with muffled tread, respectful of the! In these habitual visits as to {a cemetery, where both went, over | the hillside, through the melancholy | of the thick woods, under the per. Claudine’'s tears gradually ceased to flow. Insensibly they arrived at con versations and slow and gentle rever- | fes In which new possibilities began to shape themselves Gradually a weight was lifted from the young woman's breast: the hori- | zon, long confined, enlarged about | her, and in the trembling dawn of a new future there was a new and in dofinable impression that grow rap- lence. Little by little, in the heat | of summer, under the breath of the { trees, her sorrow wore away, and la mentable death vanished in the dis ! i tance, while slowly, like sap, a new i love grew up that irradiated and en- of which they | | dared not speak, out of respect for | the grave which enabled them to med- itate “Claudine,” said the man at last. “Pierre.” : “Suppose we marry?” “It has been only two months,” | said she, suddenly becoming sad. “Oh, I do not hurry you. 1 meant . later * * * would you?” “Yes,” she sighed, “later.” Thenceforth it was an understood thing between them, upon which their cording the dead only a friendly mem ory, a feeling of tender aratitode | They began to make plans. They wandered about in their accustomed | walks with the manners of open lov- ers; and soon, upon the hillside tomb, | amid the entwinings of the flowers, | laughter wad heard, and then kisses. | One evening they went among the rocks loosened by the disaster. Theres, in the gentle warmth of the twilight, in their slow reverie of peasants, they looked through the trees below a the glittering of a stream, and, farther on, at the windings of the white road | and the surrounding hills that inclosed them in a vast amphitheatre, Suddenly a strange noise startled | them. It was in the ground beneath them, like the ‘stirring of a beast at the bottom of a hole. They bent over the edge of a crevice; and there the nolse, more distinct, seemed to them like the desperate clambering of a man in a narrow ditch. At first they were transfix by fear of the un- known: then at the same time the the mame though struck them--the thought of the quarrymen buried alive, » Frym the bottom an appeal rose, far away, velled, almost a breath, “It is he!” hissed Claudine, her knees trembling. Plerre was fairly livid .as he straightened up. Hel then dead al ready so far away, already disappeared in the abyss of irremediable things! the future ruined, the beautiful future ovér which Claudine's 600 francs threw the glitter of fortune? By what right did he come back? | His image now appearad, not in friend. tly perspective, surrounded with grate. but as a menacing spec- ter suddenly arisen on the ruins of a shattered dream. Meanwhile the appeal rose again; the wretched man after crawling un der ground for nearly three months, living on roots and water, in the dark. ness, and doubtless aroused to a last ed woods entering through the creyv Pierre uttered a cry and threw himself violently back: ward, the victim of a bitter struggle, But again the appeal rose, sinister, lamentable: and pity gained the vie tory. Then he shouted suddenly: “Wait for me! back with a rope, big enough.” And he ran madly side, Left alone, at a rock overhanging She shuddered; en it, and it would crush feverishly and I run, I will come The hole is just down the hill the crevice, the man It loosened and rolled into gulf, There was a dull shock, a cry, then all was still; livid, the abyss Claudine listened | sllence.—From the French of Relb | rach in Short Stories Magazine, SUICIDE STATISTICS, | Childless High Among Germanic Nations, 1,000,000 suicides of all it has been found that 206 men with children destroyed 470 married men with. 526 widowers with, and Among classes, married their livos; out children: With respect , 45 mar- without, while 104 off- to the women and 158 children commnritted suicide, widows with, and 238 without completed the list. On the face of things, says the II London News, it would ap pgar that in childless marriages the number of men suicides is doubled and in women trebled. Leaving the case of actual insane persons out of count, appear that suicide Is more frequent than males, in fe the subject which deals with cases shows one-seventh caused misery, one twenty-fifth limg, one ninetecrth by love affairs, troubles, sixty-sixth by fanaticism, The geoerarby of suicide is also of Westcott says the high: largest suicide rate of any country. In Norway the rate was very large for a time, its decrease being attributed to the greater restrictions now laid on the liquor traffic, The Celtic races have a low rate, and this is evinced by the figures for Wales. Mountainous re glons are sald to show a lower rate than lowlands. In the highlands of Scotland and Wales, and in the high | areas of Switzerland suicide is rare. Times and seasons also operate ap parently, to influence the act of self. Hon. Roughly speaking, the curve line of suicide, calculated through the year, rises from January to July, and decreases for the second The maximum per. fods have been found to fall in May, | June and July. 1 believe indead June is found to show a marked predomi One reason for such pre-eminence in the warm season of the year is set {down as represented by the onset of | hot weather affecting the system and | tending to disturb the mental equilib | rium of the subjects. In 1,933 cases of self-destruction were from 6 a. m Perhaps one of the most curious fact already alluded to--namely, that differant countries appear to show different means of committing suicide from other lands Drowning comes next in order, and in Europe. | Shooting is frequent in Italy and in England and Ireland; it does not seem to constitute anywhere else a frequent mode of ending life, Polsoning is a specially Anglo-SBax on method of suicide, we are told; while suffocation by the fumes of car bonic acid gas, inhaled In a closed room, is very typical of suicide in France. record of the Baltle sea is greater than that of any other body of water in the world. The aver. age is one a day throughout the year, The wreck This world contains altogether 1,750 submarine cables, totaling 300.400 miles in length and dropped Into watery bed at a cost of 275,000,000, A has on air? professor discovered the planet demands making observations signe of atmosphere Mercury. Is this hot the Mobile Herald. seems hardly worth the Philadelphia Press to complain that the new $20 gold coins won't stack: they will fit the contribution box all right, It while for Although Mr. Carnegie Insists that a man's efficiency incresses at seven ty, the Louisville Courier-Journal thinks his ability to get into shape to dle poor seems no greater than It used to be, Observes the Atlanta Constitution: They talk of “managers” for these national candidates just as If they were race horses or prize fighters, The plea of self-defense, the Louisville Courier-Journal, is a back number. The 13,000 word hy- pothetical question and a first-class allenist will suffice Says the Watertown Times: “A great many one cent newspapers are doubling their price. The Increased cost of paper and all other expenses fs forcing them to do so. At two, or even three cents, a newspaper 1s # cheapest manufactured article, ere is nothing which gives mach for so little” The railroads of world, it Is estimated, annually kill less than one fourth as many people as the mo squitoes, notes the Washington Post As there is no way of suing the mo squitoes, there is a great deal of profitable business lost the law yers the to assigned for the small er game harvest in Maine is that many of the deer have gone north Anyone familiar with woodsy sec tions of middle and New England, avers the Boston Transcript, knows that quite coming south One reason the southern 18 many are —— has a special and and yet impt fon ude of the diseasa would uit In affirms fever for “Milk fever” arate it would usual transmits much 7 the New York Mall might the sep tit 1 the meaning of its own were applied to the cons go multit which appri gource ros product, Typhold “fiy fever,” contamination of the house most common pro pagator. Such a name would increass the consumption of screen doors and fiy paper. well be called inute fly m is its For years past the vital statistics of France herve given cause for anx jety to the authorities in that coun try, and many efforts have been made to better a situation which Is very properly regarded as a menace to the country. There have been justified complaints of the fewness of mar riages. the low birth rate and the resuliant lack of growth of the pop ulation. insists the New Orleans Plea yune. While sclence and better sen ftary precautions have undoubtedly reduced the death rate, still the total births but rarely exceed the total deaths, hence the growth of the pop ulation is so slow as to amount prac tically to no growth at all “Nothing checks wrongdoing public or private life as surely vorrect data or statistics” says the report of the American Boclety of Municipal Improvements, and there fe ample experience to substantiate the 4ruth of the statement. Newspa. per cartoonists, comments the New York Evening Post, are still given to portraying the champion of civie righteousness as an armed and plum- od warrior with Roman sword and buckler: yet our real defender iz not the helmeted and visored gladiator, but the expert accountant. Great popular movements may be efficaclh ous in dealing with a situation that in as things: but the progress of corrup tion is best warred against by the on ganization that constitutes itself a permanent auditor and critic of of ficial conduct. A Question from the Jury, In a certain county of Arkansas a man named Walters wag put on trial for stealing a watch. The evidence had been very conflicting, and as the jury retired the Judge remarked, suavely, that if he could afford any assistance in the way of smoothing out possible difficulties he would be most happy to do so. 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When the breath of Professor Gates’ subject was passed through dense liguid resulted. He kept the man breathing through the tube, but made him angry. Five minutes afterward a sediment been produced by the changed physical w<tion caused by a tba mental condition. The results showed, as in the that each kind of thinking produced its own peculiar substance, which the SEA SiLK. We are all getting quite used to spiders which spin a beautiful gos- themselves, into caps and other useful things. But what say you and your young folks to an enter- ranean, spins a silk just as fine in texture and beautiful to the eye as It would silkmaker an an oyster, for it is not etactly that, though It certainly is fire! cougin to the pearl bearers; neither may wo call it a mussel, de- spite its sirong likentss to one, we shall have to call it then by its own name, the one the scientists gave it, “Pina nobilis common folks do not seem to have christened it at all. 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