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“The Word.
Today, whatever may annoy,
The word for me is Joy, just sim-
ple Joy;
The joy of life;
The joy of children and of wife;
The joy of bright blue skies;
The joy of rain; the glad surprise
Of twinkling stars that shine at
night:
fhe joy of winged things upon their
flight;
The joy of noon-day, and the tried
True joyousness of eventide;
The joy of labor, and of m'rth;
The joy of air, and sea, and earth—
The countless joys that ever flow
from Him
Whose vast beneficence doth dfm
The lustrous light of day,
And lavish gifts divine
way.
Whate'er there be of Sorrow
I'll put J till Tomorrow,
And when Tomorrow comes,
then
"Twill be Today and Joy again!
John Kendrick Bangs, in the Atlantic
Monthly
upon our
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“Don’t you thing he is handsome,
Marguerita?”
“Handsome? yes,” Marguerita Lee
answered, with a curve of her scar
let upper lip, “after an effeminate
fashion. 1 like a man who has some
manliness about him!”
“And do you mean to say
ney Delatour has not?”
Marguerita laughed, and
her handsome head a little
than usual,
“At all events”
that Syd-
persisted her cousin
Nina, “he loves you, Marguerita,
you ought not to treat him with such
jcy coldness. 1 am very much mis
taken if he does not regard
truer devotion than that felt by Ger-
ald Markham.”
“What an enthusiz
cate you are, Nin:
But your argu
convince me. Were my
knights of old, you would
which would enter the field of combat
most valiantly and do battle most
bravely for the fair name of his lady-
love!”
“Gerald Markham?”
Marguerita nodded,
cheek.
“And all this,” said Nina,
fully, “because Mr. Delatour is
er and quiet, and rather
gifted with a braggart
Gerald Markham, nor given to
tion of his own exploits. Rita
mo patience with you”
“Then let us change
said Marguerita, wi
ness, “See
is sinking
vapor.
you with
little advo-
said Marguerita,
nents will scarcely
two swains
s00N
with a kindling
pale, not
lauda-
the
h provoking
gloriously the su
of golden
Yes, that
mbing the path
expect he
later
how
in a perfect sea
And-—can it be?
is Uncle Rudolph
from the depot. 1 did not
would be home until a
than this!”
She sprang up from the rustic seat
in which she had been reclining on
the piazza, and went in to give the
requisite orders to the maids
ing prompt refreshments,
Lee was a strange, ecce
who would permit not a single domes-
tic in the house, wealthy as he was
known to be, and scarcely tolerited
the presence of his niece's visitors,
Mr. Delatour and Gerald Markham
“You are earlier than we expected,
ancle,” sald Nina, running down
walk to meet him. “Let
you of your parcels.”
“No, child, no,” said
wearily, ag he resisted
take from him the little
he carried in his hand:
80 out of my possession
Nina,”
“Money, uncle!”
“The five thousand
out of the bank to invest tomorrow,
child. Ponce & Redtape wanted to
take charge of it, but I thought it
would be safer in my own hands”
“Uncle, were you wise?”
“Of course 1 was,” said the old man,
pettishly. “What do
about business? lL.et me have
supper directly, and then I'l]
a snug place for the money until to.
morrow morning.
And Uncle Raiph did not make his
appearance that night again, prefer
ring the quiet of his own apartment
to the
Markham and Sydney Delatour were
sitting talking with his two nieces.
“I'm glad théy're in the house,
though,” thought Uncle
the
the old
leather bag
“this mustn't
It's money,
dollars 1 drew
the bank-—although it is the most im.
be just as well to have somebody
here besides helpless women and a
feeble old man, who jsn’t much bet.
tor. Of course, there
feel safer.”
Meanwhile cruel Marguerita was al
ternately torturing and encouragiug
the hearts of her two devoted cava
Hers, and Nina, sitting quietly by, with
her pure, transparent complexion,
looking paler than ever in the moon.
light, marveled to herself over the
wonderful spell which beauty has
power to exercise; while Landsome
Gerald Markham, conscious of his
Apollolike perfection of face and
form, rattled carelessly on, and Mr
Delatour's low, calm volce sounded
now and then,
“I don’t half like that Markham,”
“thought Nina, with the observant
shrewdness which is often discover
ed in people who are unuzually quiet
“1 wish Marguerita would make up
her mind to prefer Sydney Delatour.”
“Yes,” Marguerita's volce was say-
ing at the same instant, “of all faults,
1 detest cowardice the most heartiis
especially in a man.”
“S80 do 1,” chimed in Markbam. "A
coward—faugh! The creature has no
right to exist.”
“Is not timidity sometimes constitu.
tional?" asked Delatour, “and in that
case, should we judge it too severe
ly?”
“Nonsense! nonsense!” cried Mark-
ham, arrogantly,
“A coward scarcely deserves the
name of man,” added Marguerita, with
sparkling eyes,
“The question is, what is coward-
fce?” went on Delatour, musingly.
“A question, I think, which no brave
man needs to ask,” sald Marguerita.
“That is scarcely a fair argument,”
interposed Nina, smiling. ‘You are il
logical, Marguerita.”
“There can be no logic about such
things,” sald the young beauty, im-
patiently. “Suppose we talk about
something else?”
And she changed the subject with
the pretty, imperious
no one cared to resist.
And all the time,
of the
lurking
evergreen
unseen auditors of
conversation—auditors who
would have made Marguerita’s blood
chill and checked the gay cur
of her girlish chatter, could
have caught the gleam of
shadows
there
Wore
their
* brutish faces, For
Rata confidence was
from the bank
unnoticed, the leather
hands had been carefully
and his footsteps
all the way from Bury-
iale, and the stealthy ruffians only
waited a fitting season to
themselves of the coveted treasure.
“He's only an old man, and there's
no one but women about the house”
one had assured the other
“There iz, tco.” Black Hill had sulk-
fly answered “There's two city chaps
a-staying there”
“The deuce thera
mpanion. “Then we must take Jim
long with us, that's all. We
han't have no such chance again ina
hurry. The old rat's goin’ to put it in
mortgage tomorrow-—l heard him
the cashier so.”
“It’s now or never,” assented Black
who was less verbosely inclined
than his friend, Striped Charley, so
called from two ghastly scars across
his cheek,
The young
veranda—so
swore oaths
tha nations
ne patience
mis
had
been
scrutinized,
dogged
is!” growled his
late on the
Black Bill
breath, and
of even Striped Charley
wax slender. And finally,
they went in, and the lights one
died out of the windows, ft
cessary to wait until the senses
every member of the ho
should be lulled in slumber,
it's cloudin’ over” Jim Al
len, “and we're goin’ to have rain. All
the better for us. 1 do despise these
people sat
late that
under his
1gehold
;
sald
It seemed to Marguerita Lee and
for hours. when a maid came to thelr
bedside, pale, and trembling so viol
“Miss Marguerita! Miss Nina!
there’s some one workin’ at the back
linin"-room windy! 1 heered it with
own ears, me and Jemima, and
Marguerita sat up in bed, pushing
“Nina they are after Uncle Ralph's
We might have known It
But Nina did sot stop for argument.
“Alcy.” sald to the girl, “go
and knock very softly at the young
gentlemen's doors, and tell them what
have told us: I will rouse Uncle
ahe
you
“jot me go. too” faltered Idlar
“1 dare not stay here alone.”
“Be quick, then!” whispered Nina,
And then the two cousins, hurrying
on their wrappers, crept side by side
to their uncle's room.
Oh, nonsense, Delatour!
rats. Go back to bed,
my good girl. It's only rats, I dare
or the wind in the chimney.”
“Burglars?
that made Mr, Markham’s teeth chat
ter so violently might have been a
«At ail events,” said Delatour's low
“we are the only men in
gave Mr. Lee, who is old
It is at least our duty
the house,
has any grounds for her terror. Come
such a time as this?
say!”
“If it's burglars,
base.
“(ive 'em what they want and let ‘em
making ‘em savage.”
“Markham, are you a man?’ Dela.
tour scornfully asked.
“You are a Quixotic idiot!" retort.
ed the other. “We haven't any fire
ALM; Wome
But Delatour, firmly clasping his
arm, dragged him silently but forel
bly along, and noleelessly unfastened
the dining room door, just beyond the
low French window which formed the
scene of the villaing' operation, they
stood almost face to face with the
three burglars,
A tremendous execration broke
from Black Bill's lips at this unex
pected rencontre,
Jim Alted rushed forward, pushing
i
~~
the slide over his dark lantern as he ]
did go.
“Back, or you are both dead men!”
he exclaimed; and the click or a trig-
ger sounded sharply and distinctly,
“Back yourselves, gcoundrels!”
echoed the volce of Delatour, clear
and undaunted, as he wrestled with
the foremost of the three,
“1 say, Delatour, this is very fool
ish,’ faltered Markham. “We can’t
attempt to resist these men. Give 'em
the money—what is the money to our,
lives? They will come in.”
“They must have the satisfaction !
of walking over my dead body first!”
muttered Delatour between his clench-
od teeth, as he still struggled fiercely
with his opponent; and a strange
thrill ram through Marguerita Lee's
veins, as she heard the brave words,
so bravely spoken.
A sudden flash through the pitchy
darkness—the report of a revolver
and Jim Allen fell back,
of a baffled wild beast.
“You said there were no firearms,
“I'm
Bill,” he muttered, with an oath,
winged."
The second shot, fol
instantane eously, filed
with vague terror and
others in the house
they had not calculated
no go, Bill,” whispered
“Let's cut Jim's hurt,
ain't no use tryin’
Mr. Sydney
thus easily allowing a retreat
and although Bill and
Jim Allen
hostage.
pistol
had
lowing almost
the as
Were |
pres.
upon?
Char-
and
panie.
whase
longer.”
idea of
{ Charley escaped,
most
Uncle
second BLOTY
timely diversion, de-
found the huge burglar
lining room safe-
out
unwil
Ralph,
was left a
And when
the
caused
ling
whose
window
such a
on tae floor,
improvised
and cords.
nson,
look 80
burglar, with a
homage to his
you gripped he
iim.”
“My boy.” sald Uncle Ralph,
squeezing Sydney Delat
is to you that we owe
perhaps our
Markham
beat I could,”
eara-
ur's
our
safety, to-
estly
night As for
“I—1 did the
that doughty knl
“You're a coward sneak!” enuncl
ated the old man, “and Marguerita's
glance of silent scorn confirmed the
import of uncie’s
faltered
her
words,
“What did 1 you, Rita?" tri-
umphantly whispered Nina in her
cousin's ear. “Who is the craven
knight now, and recreant
slave?”
“l shall thank Sydney for
was the low-auttered reply.
She did-—and she did it so earnest-
ly that Mr, Delatour took courage on
the spot to ask her to be his wife,
And Marguerita sald “Yes”
Jim Allen, being duly tried and
convicted was sent to prison, but for
that other burglary--Mr. Delatour's
cool theft of Miss Marguerita’s heart
was no penalty, the law not
as a punishable
New York Week-
tell
who the
myself,”
~ethere
regarding it,
offense ~—From the
iy.
possibly,
Invited up to Converse,
When the first fire company in re
sponse to an alarm reached the long
row of tenements the fire captain at
once jumped from his engine and en-
deavored to locate the fire. When he
had ineffectuall bunted through
three or four ture. for it he des.
cried an old woman sticking her head
out of a window of the topmost floor
of an eightstory tenement, a little
further up the street. “Any fire up
there?” he yelled, when he had reach
ed the pavement beneath this build.
ig. In answer the old woman mo-
tioned for him to come up. Accord
ingly, the captain, with his men lug
ging their heavy hose behind them,
iaboriously ascended the eight flights
and burst into the room where the
old woman was. “Where's the fire?”
demanded the captain, when no fire
or smoke became visible. “Oh,
there ain't none here” replied the
old woman, flashing an eartrumpet
“1 asked you up ‘cause I couldn't hear
a word you sald 'way down there.”
-=Johemian,
Chicago Firemen's Coffee Car,
Fire Marshal Horan today. made
an announcement that was received
by the members of his force in the
same apirit as a Christmas gift. He
that the “coffee
car,” which Is to aid the men work
ing at bad fires when the weather is
»
of tha week,
An old ambulance has been con
verted to this new use, and three urns
installed. Two are for the coffee,
holding five gallons each, and the
waler.
When a big alarm comes in the car,
steam being used to make the coffee.
«Chicago Evening Post.
For 71 years Rev. Henry Martyn
Sherwood, vicar of White Ladies in
Worcestershire, England, has been in
holy orders, and for all but one year
of that time hag been at his present
post.
Leap year is an Old World insti
tution. American girls are too pretty
to need it, announces the New York
American.
A husband is a convenience about
the house, admits the Chicago News,
ir 8 woman can afford one,
Jim,
1 know a certain clerk
Named Jim,
He ain't In love
Not him,
No matter what may be the task,
“Is this my work?’ he'll always ask
with world
When told to make a
Or such,
Jim for
Not much
At such a time he's always sald:
“You oughter call on Bob
cane
boes lumber race?
Jim to his job
on him
irfer-Journal
TRUSTING TO ANOTHER
(who has just
you, sir
deem
[ first
PE
eland Plain
AT JAMESTOWN
WAS
tion
n-of-war,
and, inting to
# in the harbor.
tug was seen puf-
fing around the big ship.
“And is the one a tug-of-war,
Tom?” asked the wife —8Success Mag
azine
tak-
vi
little
AN OBSE RVATION.
“Do you think there are any great
Senator Sorghum
great ora
Wash:
that
rs left”
IEFORE THE FIGHT.
tern 1g the Alhambra) to
“Hey, you: can we bor
orse and wagon outside?”
“No dum ye, ye can't .
Grad—"You're a liar We
Cornell Widow,
have.”
DAD NEW Ss,
“How are you, Mr
clement weather?”
“Just managing to keep out
undertaker's hands ™
‘Oh, I am sorry to
Southwestern Pr
hear that!
esbhyterian
WHEN IT BECAME PERSONAL.
Mrs. Vick Senn—"1 ever 8o
many chances that
amounied threw
myself away on you
Her husband (unexj
ing up) in my case it
different,
the last resort.
—hicago Tribune,
PERSONAL. REASONS
“Ss you have put a
to marry somebody
thing, and 1
aor
LO son
vectedly
was
spunk-
refused me”
the farm?”
“Yes,” answered
gel
“1 didn't know you needed money?”
“1 didn’t
go's to have the satisfaction of know
in’ the farm wal still good fur a
loan, jes the
insured fur the comfort of having
the doctor tell me 1 was
enough to pass the examination.’
Washington Star
NO MONEY ADVANCED
“For 2 cents I'd knock your block
off.” said the angry man.
“Well, you don’t expect me to fur
nish your working capital, do you?”
responded the other and calmer one.
~Phitadeiphia Ledger.
WORKING UP AN ATMOSPHERE.
“Mercy on us, man! Three stoves
and all red hot? Xoull burn to
death!”
“Can't help it. Just got a Decem-
ber order for a summer magazine
poem! "">Atianta Constitution,
NO KIDS WANTED,
Sunday School Teachar-Now, chil
dren, who was Herod?
Chorus-—He wuz a man wol wanted
ter get rid of all de children
8. 8. Teather—Yes, but what was
he?”
Youthful voice-~1 guess he wuz de
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CORNER IN WILD PEPPER.
Evidently Americans were hustlers
and strategists of commerce from the
beginning. For witness a good story
of fact as told by Ralph D. Paine, in
The Outing Magazine, under the title
of “Pioneers in Distant Seas: ”
“In 1798, Captain Jonathan Carnes,
of Balem, was looking for trade along
the Touchigg at the
port of "Be: neo olen, he happened to
learn that wild peper might be found
along the northwe nt coast of Bumatra,
The Duteh East India Company was
not as alert as this solitaly Yankee
shipmaster, yvaming slong strange
and hostile
“Captain Carnes kept his knowl-
edge to himself, completed his voyage
to Salem, and there whispered it to
Jonathan Peele, that as
soon as possible a secret expedition
should be fitted out Mr. Peele or-
dered a fast schooner built. She wag
called the Rajah, and carried four
guns and ten men. There was much
gossiping speculation about her des-
tination, but Captain Carnes had
nothing at all to say. In November,
1785, he cicared for Sumatra and
oul in § m except his owner
hither he was
ynsisted of
dried
end himsall knew
bound. Fie "3
brandy,
fish to ba bart : §
“For eighteen mn
turned fro:
terious quest.
have bezn wr
he had no charts,
been slain by hod
Jonathan Peele,
Ein TO, ODACCO AN
tives
baving risked
busied himself with other af-
and pipned his faith to the |
acily and pluck of Jona- |
than Carnes.
“At last, a string of
fluttered from a station
mouth. Jonathan Pes
at the harbor
ie reached for
schooner’s
lifting from seaward. The
her anchor in Salem harbor,
Carnes brought
ashore thet he had secured a
cargo of wild pepper in bulk which
would return a profit of at least 700
the total cost of the
veasel and voyage.
“In other words, this ‘adven-
ture’ of the Rajah rzalized what
amounted to a comforiable fortune in
that generation.
“There was
one
great excitement
merchants
They forsook thelk desks to discuss
Captain Jona.
nothing to say and
Mr. Jonathan Peele was as 4 amb as ¢
Salem harbor clam. Tho Rajah was
voyage, and in thelr cagerness te
her dazzling szcret, several
nade vessels
ready for sea wilh ordars to go tc
carry them and endeavor to find out
whore Caplain Cernes found his wild
pepper. They hurried to Bencoolen,
but were unsuccessful, and had tc
proceed to India to fill thelr holds
with whatever cargoes came to hand,
Meanwhile the Rajah slipped away
for a second pipper voyage, and re
turned with a hundred and fifty thou:
sand pounds of the precious. condi
ment.”
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