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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.
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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, |
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[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.
Eleven of the jurors had filed out
of the box, but the twelfth remain.
ed: and there was on his countenance
an expression indicating great per
plexity,
“1g there any question you would
like to ask me before you retire?”
asked his Honor, observing the jur
or's hesitancy,
The man's face brightened. “Yes,
your Honor,” he raplied, eagerly, “T'd
like to know, your Honor, whether
the prisoner really stole the watch
Harper's Weekly,
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from Canton was 45,197 hondred
wolght last year, ag compared with |
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063 hundredwelght, the average for
the previous Aive yoars,
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gans, thus demonstrating,
tended, the
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shown what is
moreover, has
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angry man showed one color, that
of a man in grief another, and so on
Zach mental state persistently ex-
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changes in glandular or visceral ac-
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substances, which were being thrown
out of the system in the perspiration.
When the breath of Professor
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dense liguid resulted. He kept the
man breathing through the tube, but
made him angry.
Five minutes afterward a sediment
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tba mental condition.
The results showed, as in the
that each kind of thinking produced
its own peculiar substance, which the
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