"THE EXILE.
By L. M. Montgomery
We told her that her far-off shore
was bleak and dour to view,
that her sky was dull and mirk
while ours was smiling blue.
only sighed in answer, “It
even as ye say,
But oh, the ragged
- the sun bursts
gray!”
And
She is
when
the
splendor
through
We brought her dew-wet roses from
our fairest summer bowers,
bade her drink thelr fragrance,
we heaped her lap with flow
ors,
only sald with eves that yearned,
“Oh, if ye might have brought
pale umscented blossoms by my
father's lowly cot!”
We
She
The
We bade ber listen
gang so madly sweet,
dimpled at her feet.
ok,” she cried, “I weary for the
music wild that stirs
When keens the mournful western
wind among my native firs!™
“But
We told her she had faithful friends
and loyal hearts anear,
We prayed her take the fresher loves,
we prayed her be of cheer.
ve are kind and true” she wept,
“but wo's me for the grace
tenderness that shines upon my
mother's wrinkled face!"
—Youth's Companion,
"Oh,
of
BRASS RDRB ISGP RORSNPND
BARBARA'S
ESCAPE
BY HELEN FORREST ORAVES,
“Engaged, really and actually ew
gaged! It is a strange sort of feeling,
and yet it isn't unpleasant!”
Barbara Esmond stood in the
dle of the room, one slender
poised by Mts forefinger om the table,
the other holding back the
tresses from her pure, low brow,
was very beautiful,
ing style of beauty,
gant room she
one of a pearl in its satin
Black-eyed and biack-haired,
creamy skin, fine-grained as velvet,
and straight, delicatelychiseled fea-
tures, bers was an
ty, yet strangely
years
She
and in that ele.
might have
casket.
fascinat
old, and
It was a new
fe : a
as as it was
ing
engaged to
leaf in the
Eighteen
be married!
of Ii
fon
book
sensat
ful.
*1 wish I had a mothe
a Jovi Ya
Barbara,
derstand my own
if 1 do love himas I »
man I intend to make
Husband!” she added,
shudder. “The word im
deal And Harry
my husband!”
Barbara was
estless,
: bars
ence: captured
yet half
novel
to, or
ED
ing, tender,
restiessly scarcely un-
ings 1 wonder
should love the
my ns band
with a little
lies a
Millbrook is
fee]
great
to be
lke a
flutte
of
newly-caged
ring against
prisoned exist.
with her own tolls,
disposed to break away
solitude and Independence once
Mr. Henry Milbrook,
troubled with no such vague ideas
He had won the heart of Miss Es
mond, the heiress, and
rather more consequence to him.
had won the right to ghare her wealth
“I'm a fellow of talent,” mused Mr.
Millbrook, “and fellows of talent nev-
er could endure work like
mon ca~ horses. Therefore It fol
lows that I must have money: but,
possessing none of my own, I must
marry the article. And. although 1
object to red hair and crooked spines,
I am quite willing to accept the in.
cumbrance of a beautiful girl along
with sald cash!”
That was the
her
more,
4
to
decidedly practical
Millbrook contemplated his approach:
ing felicity!
of romance and soft,
ings for Barbara's ear alone, and she,
like any enthusiastic girl of eighteen,
believed him.
She told no one of the precious se-
cret enshrined in her heart:
have seemed almost like desecration:
but her lover was by no means so
delicate,
“So you're to be married, Hal!” sald
Mr. Joseph Piercy, at the club,
“Yes, I'm going to be married: to a
cool hundred thousand, too,” answer-
ed Mr. Milbrook, rubbing his hands.
“Who Is It?
“Oh, the lady, you mean?”
“Yes, ‘1 mean the lady.”
“It's old Esmond’s daughter.”
“What, the star-eyed Barbara?
“Exactly so.”
“1 congratulate yom, old fellow,”
“Much obliged,” answered Mr. Mil
brook, indifferently pulling his mus
tache. “I flatter myself it's a pretty
good speculation for a fellow that
travels on his good looks alone.”
“1 wish she had a sister for me,”
observed Mr. Piercy,
“I don't. I can’t afford to go halves
in the cash.”
There was a general laugh among
the youths of fashion in the clubroom
at this scintillation of wit, and Mr.
Millbrook leisurely sauntered out.
“1 promised she should have my
picture,” thought Mr. Harry, “and 1
suppose the cheapest place I can have
it done is at the gallery of that poor
devil of an artist in Grove street, 1
guess I'll go around there.”
It was hard for so exquisitely got
ten up a youth as Mr. Milbrook to be
compelled to hide his light under the
bushel of go obscure a street as that
toward which he now bent his foot.
eteps, “but ‘ecanomy was Just at pres-
ent something of an object with this
modern Apollo of ours. i
~ Signor Fernelli, the artist, was at
home, a dark, courteous little Italian,
with a wife and seven small children,
and very glad he was to receive Mr.
Milbrcok’s order. “On ivory, 1 sup-
pose, sir?
“Yes, 1 suppose so. It's dreadfully
expensive,” thought Harry, with a
grimace; “but engaged girls must
have their way, of eourse.”
As he sat walting for Blgnor Fer
nelli to bring out some specimens of
his art, to select the most appropri:
ate size and style, he saw through the
open door a dark silk dress brush by,
and the pure, clear profile of a face
that he well knew. Barbara Esmond’s
face,
“Hello!
oars
" sjaculated our hero. “Fer-
nelli, who the deuce is that young
lady, and bow came she here?”
“That young lady, signor,
brown dress, and the beautiful
and the head like the goddess Diana?”
“Yo”
“It is the
ine Delatour, upstairs;
twice of the week, and
word, like a nightingale.”
“Who is Pauline Delatour?"
“A signor, whp sews on
dresses: but day she will come
out on the she will sing at
the opera.”
mistress of Paul-
she
ines
sings,
musle
my
poor girl,
one
stage
Hilbrook stared at Signor
demented.
Harry
Fernelll
“Which
“ll
{ tion t
{ke one
did you say, sir?”
think I'll make a selec
I will call! tomorrow.”
And Mr. Milbrook rushed headlong
{ downstairs, greatly the surj
{ Signor Fernelil.
“The
| self, as
| street.
self
who
glze
don’t
day.
to
deuce!” to him-
he
with
he ejaculated
strode along the
difficulty restraining him-
tumbling over the
swarmed on the
mistress? Giving
as that. Upon my
preciously near being
So it's all
wealth of hers,
to entrap a hus-
My stars!
hair stand
head
I saw thr
«trategem before 1
escape.”
He lifted
beads of
head.
“No.
i mond.” he muttered
{a bitter, sarcastic Bnwr
his lips “I am not quite
fool thank goodness.”
Esmond had fluttered
up the narrow staircase, 1
of the
from
lessons in
word,
taken
show
| music
| such a
I've come
in and
i and
and
band
it's
noe
for!
that
going
r ren gth of it.
, make
feilow's
done
pretense,
she
on th
ne st
was
enough t the
| straight
a iy
i the
Pp on a
thing it Was ugh
Was
past
and wiped
from
hat
wr hia Fharn
pers] fis ore-
you don’t, Miss
{io
y
gmiie
himself
ath
as that
Barbara
i Hghtly
unconscious
al
eyes that were
Fernelli's
entered a
above A
SWeel
noting her, through Signor
partially opened door, and
I room
amall in the story
young girl,
pale with a
her sowing by
OK 9)
brighte as
spar
ituelle
the window She
the delicate figure
“Miss Esmond, it
| to remember
«Not at all
{ worshiper, Pauline,
face, sat at
ned
in
is so kind of you
punctually.”
kind I am a gen
i 1 hav
and I Dave
up
came
me so
ius
dis
covered : in vou.”
‘How shall yer pay you, Miss
| Esmond?”
“By Heaven
Nay, nay,
wing out a
cultivating
the
upon
| has bestowed
Pauline, am
pet whim
“And the piano, that you sent
{ here. Oh, Miss Esmond, one of Heav-
{en's angels could hardly be more gen-
t erous!”
“Hush, hush, Pauline!
I mever thought, when first
you singing at your work,
{ and paused to listen to the flute-like
notes, that you would be halfway
| through the exercise book In less than
six months When you sing at the
opera | shall be the first to throw
bouquets at your feet”
Pauline looked with shy brightness
at her benefactor Would that time
| ever come?
The lesson was longer than usual
that day. Pauline and Miss Esmona
| were both deeply Interested and it
was nearly twilight before Barbara
{ emerged from the house, closely
| veiled and walked swiftly through the
darkening streets.
“There's a note. for you, Miss Bar.
bara,” said her hopsekeeper, as she
went down to rest a minute or two
in the reception-room of her own
mansion before she laid off her things,
“A note? Let me see it. When
did it come?”
“About fiftean minutes ago,
A little boy brought it”
“Light the gas, please, Mrs. Moore,
and take these wrappings upstairs.”
A soft rose-tint flushed over Bar-
bara’s cheek as she recognized Harry
Milbrook’'s handwriting. She broke
the seal and glanced eagerly at its
contents: but as she read the soft,
crimson flush died away Into pallor.
It was very, very brief, but cruel
a blow.
Migs Esmond,” It read, commenc-
ing curtly and sternly, instead of the
“Dearest Barbara” she had expected,
“allow me to claim back the troth
I have plighted to you, 1 had sup-
posed, whon 1 engaged mysell to
you that 1 was about to ally myselt
to a lady, not a music-mistress in
Grove Street, It will scarcely be
worth while for you to reply to this
letter, as 1 can never, under any cir
cumstances, forgive the deceit that
has been practiced on me, Therefore,
I shall take it for granted that all
relations are ended between your
self and
Yours very respectfully,
“H. MILLBROOK.”
Barbara dropped the insulting lev
ter with a sparkle In her black eyes,
you
but fol}
»
too,
begin your
{ lesson
{1 heard
miss,
as
»
a curve 6 her ip. which were Wonks
rously eloquent, and as it lay on the
carpet she ground It down into the
deep purple pile with her contemptu-
ous foot.
“The puppy!” she mutt
tween her get teeth: ‘the
poltroon! How could |
fancied for a single
loved him? Reply to this letter?
Of course, I shall not reply to it."
And Miss Esmond walked upstairs,
carrying her head high in the alr, far,
far beyond the reach of Harry Mil
brook's petty spite,
That young man was seated at his
breakfast next morning when
Rufus Kenward lounged in.
“Hello, Millbrook! [I've just heard
a little item about your ladylove, Miss
smond, that is, to my mind, better
than all her bonds and mortgages
What do you think? She's giving
singing-lessons to my wife's little
amatress, one Pauline Delatour,
because the child has a grand voice
and can't afford to have it cultivated.
1 wish you could hear Pauline rave
benefactress. 1 think her
would satisfy even
Really, it
fress like
perform
ered, be.
miserable
ever have
second that I
table
enthusiasm
true lover's
ten that
daughter stoops 10
some a task that.”
Harry Millbrook
chocolate cup and was
glassy eves at Mr, K
“Why, what's the
ed that
“N—nothing
“Dyspepsia,
“NO I
Harry had
that
your
isn't
Esmond’'s
80 Ogi
ear of-
an he old
as
had set down his
staring
nward
demand.
ortly
matter?”
gentleman,
oh?
tell you
made ¢
was lik
deuce suct
he
was in
demanded cf
satis {1
ried along
residence,
The
the nole—Ba
boy might not have
rbara might
jt-—there
“might nots.”
try his
“Is
luck, ev 1
Esmond at home?”
housekeeper, who
came !
’
wished me
Wag never at
Wrestling.
elve years
Forsent
od
scored
to the crown
vict
later bout
of Gotoh
Farmer”
the
8 1
and
aspir
Way
vanced
trie
¥
from and finally big
Tom out of form and
decision in Worcester
ly had no meritorious ciaim
quest, cach man had a fall and
Jenkins complained of ailment in his
leg and left the mat in a heipless
condition However, Jenkins
ed his crown at Buffalo a few
after, throwing the French Canadian
in two straight falls. Gotch then
feated Jenking after a seesaw
of bouts, Gotch's by DBeell
New Orleans was a shock
ling foHowers, but the hig
lad quickly retrieved himself by floor.
ing his lighter opponent in two
straight falls in Kansas City recently
Frank will do to keep his riva's
down in future. Of course, accidents
similiar to the one Gotch is said to
have received will lay the best of
them out, but wrestling students
know that CGotun at present has nn
peer in America, and when he is boat
¢n the affair 3 bound i» create sas
pleion. His dafeat by Beell was 1a
stantly followed by cries of “Fake!”
“It's Gotch's turn next!” and other
yelps which are sure to knock the
good old winter sport down and out
if allowed to circulate Washington
Post,
caught
was given the
MelLeod reals
in a oon.
as
rons
regain
months
1
gories
At
to wrest
Humboldt
defeat
well
A Doubtful Question.
Superintendent Mclaren, of San
Francisco's system of public parks
was inspecting the work of restor:
ing Union square to its former beau
ty, now that the little 8t. Francis
has been removed.
“I'm for heavin' this un out; it's
a bum little bush” remarked a gare
dener with a brogue,
“Which one?” inquired McLaren.
“You don't mean this beautiful little
Scotch heather? All it needs is more
water and it will grow as tall as you
are.”
“You're not very tall yourself, Mr,
Molaren.” ‘
“Not extraordinarily so.”
“1 say, Mr. McLaren,” reflectad the
gardener, thoughtfully, “did you ever
try water yourself?”--8an Francisco
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“But,” protested Mrs. Newliwed, “1
don't see why you ask 25 cents a
half peck for your beans, The other
wan only wanted 15 cents.”
“Yea'm,” repMed the huckster, “but
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An
the
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East Side, New
in less than two minutes after a
slight fire in a chimney. None of the
scholars is over seven years, while
many are less than four,
As a result of being shot while a
passenger on a Pullman traveling
from Columbus, 8. C., to Augusta,
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investigation of the
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The
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retary
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Philadelphia of using the malls
defraud, was sentenced to four years
imprisonment and to pay a fine of
$5,000
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Honey
Postmaster David J. Smith, of West
Nyack, N. J., single-handed, drove
off three burglars who had dynamit-
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The town of Braham, Minn.
the Great Northern Rallroad,
miles from Minneapolis, was wiped
out by fire
Former Pre
ly celebrated h seventy
day at Lakewood, N. J.
cellent health
Every cotton in
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The home 1ilis,
farmer near Louisville, was
by night riders
Mr Bryan celebrated his
¢ighth birth 1
speeches in (
The United Mine Workers’
tion took which will
general soft coal strike
Teachers’ salaries are re-
duced in Mobile to meet the loss of
school funds formerly derived (rom
saloon licenses
Daniel LeRoy
cape
Southern Railway has with-
funds from all its banks
to prevent attachments
served on the road's
its
on
60
nt Cleveland quiet.
first birth-
He is in ex-
island
WARE
Rhode
cent
on
a tobacco
burned
forty-
two
} Ling
makiag
da) ul
‘hieago
conven-
avert a
action
to be
Dresser, former
president of Trust Company of
the Republic, New York, was arrest-
ed, charged with misappropriating
$4,000 of the bank's funds. He was
paroled in custody of his counsel
Jere Knode Cooke, the unfrocked
rector who eloped with Floretta
Whaley, says he is earning a week's
pay for a week's work as a painter
and decorator
Governor Hughes has appointed
Chief Judge Charles Andrews to in-
vestigate the Jerome charges
Raymond Hitcheoock, the
was acquitted of one of the
of assaulting young girls
Tammany Hall has dropped
Bourke Cochran, alleging that he is
not a Democrat
Mrs. Beulah
Angeles, Cal.
40 days
Attorney General Jackson has re-
sumed hie attack on the Ice Trust.
rs
La €
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charges
Hawkins, of Los
has been in a trance
Foreign
The German Emperor has dismis-
ped his cousin, Prince Joachim Al-
brecht, from the army, temporarily
exiled him from Germany and warned
him never to show himself at court
again because he persists in his at-
tentions to Marie Sulzer, the actress,
despite the fact that he has not as
Colonial Secretary Deruburg, of
Germany, in a speech on the colon-
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ministration.
ruzzi, who Is reported engaged
United States Senator Elkins,
Rome in February rather mysterious
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it is reported that the
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urope this summer.
many to the
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The Douma rejected by an over
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General Smirnoff was probably fa-
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The Earl of Dudley will succeed
Sir Henry Northcote as Governor of
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the ordinary sand hopper or sand fies
will act as if dead when frightened
Professor Holmes sald:
“Among the verte
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nly rarely in the fishes. In the am
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ing way it occurs in insects and spl
ders, although frogs and toads may
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stretched legs, Se body and
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“In birds the instinct crops out
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terns which were hatched out
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short time after being hatched the
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