—— Kindled by the sunshine tender, To the ec.rth they now surrender And the wayward } reese. They are soming, softly coming Amber, amethyst and pearl ‘With the ties of nature riven, Tempest tossed and madly driven; Flashing lustre back to heavon In their giddy whirl, They are Qitting—gayly flitting— Fledglings of autumnal light— From their lofty perches straying, With each passing sephyr playing, Bough and bush the course delaying Of their fina! flight. They are hovering —gently hovering— Over vale and rugged steep; Covering o'er the bloom-lit spaces Which the early frost defaces, Mantling tenderly the places Where our loved ones sleap. Yes, they're falling —sadly falling— Russet, crimson, gold and gray Beauteous millions headlong flying, With the wind's discordant sighing, At our feet ignobly lying, Waiting dread decay. They are teaching —fitly teaching — That which gladdens—that which grieves; There is naught of earth abiding; But, behind all nature hiding, Is a hand our footsteps guiding And the falling leaves. -N. W. Rand, in Springfield Union, sn — — 3 . . HER HUSBAND'S NIECE. STAUFFER BY FRANK nt “George, when did you ge ter?” asked Mattie glanced into her husband's “Un Wedn:« say.” he hesit ation j Bx And is Friday,” rebukingly re- plied his “You carried it about in your pocket for at least two days. It 18 from your niece, Fanny J . She eft New York : will here on the eight o'clock train this morn this let Henderson, ss she fara fa said, with some this wile twood : bus yesterday and be ing, and it is half-past seven now. This 13 a nice state of affairs, isn't ig" “It was careless in me, Mattie,” the young farmer regreifully admitted He a handsome, good-natured fellow, sturdy in frame and pleasing in speech. was He had a whip in his hand. and 3 Ts 1 . with ¢ } his wagon loaded with mileh cans, was standing at the oats ‘She says she t off at Forest tion, where you are to meet her.” Mrs Henderson said, her eves once more the letter i ge sta on “Oh, pshaw,” cried the husband with Ad impatience unusual “] can't. I must have my milk at Beaver station on time. Why didn't she ver the road most convenient to me!’ walk here, with him me “I suppose she'll have to replied the young wife says that she 3 she And as intends to stay thr has brought her trunk wit I'l 4) i ’ ro doubt her—a trunk of no mean dimensis venture to predict TL I am wd deal ’ a put about it than There's the butt ww to churn, to iron, the ot g more out you are the clothes currant i goodn a4 only knows what else be too dainty to lay a hand to a and will spend her time readin iy to make, vil iviiing v al ae She might sleeping and lolling in the hammock. bave waited to be asked “I know it will prove the husband consoling "= An ly said guess there's nothing to do but to bear it. Things may not turn you fancy they will He got into the wagon and Mrs. Henderson walked into the spring house to churn the butter was sel dom peevish and rarely complained, but the visit really seemed inopportune 8 Was not very strong, and as carly and late and took no recreation, was beginning to tell on her nerves The farm was not entirely paid for and they were not able to keep a girl. She was a sensible little woman, and felt that it was her duty to second her thrifty husband's efforts. Leisure, if not com petency, would come by and by In descending the steps of the spring house, she fell and sprained her ankle, the pain so great that fainted “That means a week of enforced idle ness,” she despairiugly thought. “Time 80 precious, and that fashionably reared niece of George's more of a hindrance than a help. Oh, dear!” After much painful cfort she suc ceeded in reaching the sitting room, and threw herself upon the comfortable lounge. She fell into a doze, and when she opened her eyes there stood Fanay Atwood, looking down into her face. She had on a plain, sensible looking treveling dress. Her figure was compact, her complexion healthy, her air cheerful, her demennor self possessed, Her chooks were dimpled, her mouth indicated reso- out so bad as drove off She he she worked » : she almost lution, her soft brown eyes offered con- | fidence and iuvited it. She had walked two miles through the hot sun, over a dusty road, but one would hardly have thought so, she looked so neat, clean and | placid, “You are my Aunt Mattie, 1 suppose!” she said, in a low, sweet voles, a smile lurking among her dimples. “Yes,” Mrs. Henderson said with an effort, your letter until this morni He could not meet you because he to deliver the milk over at the other milroad st the hode yuu wand, I am sorry you had to walk. “f wasn't vexed about it,” re the visitor. *‘Nor am I ina hurry about my trunk.” ‘faprained my sokle,” Mrs. Hender son said, “'T am afraid 1 will not be about for three or four days.” a ar amu FALLING LEAVES “Your uncle forgot to give me! hi 3 # L3 : sm—— a ad and stock “uy . “lr pok off her aunt's shoe and hsiderably awalles, * she aig. nm nok sur prised, rep! Schick on, “You'll find a bottle of upboard, yonder." put liniment on it just vised Fanny. ‘‘Have you any of lead?” ery likely. Look in that medicine e cupboard. There's a little of ing there, almost.” found tho of lead, and then some linen suitable for a bandage, She put the sugar of lead in a basin, added cold water, soaked the bandage box swollen ankle. She went about it like a professional nurse, “That feels very tooling,” Mm. Hen- derson gratefully said, “There is nothing reduces a swelling like sugar of lead water,” replied Fanny. I'll wet the bandage every now and then with it. Just you remain quiet, dearie, and don't bother yourself about any- thing. You have no girl?” No, child,” Mrs. Henderson said. “We cannot afford to keep one.” “I'll get uncle his dinner,” announced Fanny. “You'll—get—Grorge repeated Mrs. Henderson, Fanny noticed the incredulity in her tone, laughed prettily, and said: “Why shouldn't I? me to skirmish around I'll manage to find | things. However, it isn't near dinner | time yet. When I went to the kitchen { for the busin 1 saw you had sprinkled { the clothes, Shall I iron them?” | Shesaw the odd smile that came to | her tired aunt's lips aad correctly inter his dioner!” | prot d it. | “Maybe you think I can't ironi” ] pleasantly said. ‘Just you wait " she and gee, ‘‘But the dress you have on, Miss At. i wood? It | “Was selecte completed Fanny. “Of course I'll put on one of your aprons.” When from } 1 for service.” 4 Henderson he heard son chen, (ex returned iis errand , ¢ one sing it the k He ste pped his niece in as oA ming away the best part 0 A pretiy looked at ’ ! had spen such | and She made + i » stood stud do, uncle!” a twinkle of in her brown eyes; then she went and kissed him, standing on tip-toe to do so “I'm said with bh vou've come, Fanny.” be “1 suppose Mattie ot meet you at the Jia art INONS, explaine i Way n stati Bu Where is Mattie! She : are you ironing? : « TIM le. She nto the sting his face. exclaimed ““Reared in the city, as she “Didn't necessarily make her gilly, novel.-reading imbecile a lazy, interrup- ted her husband “Perhaps we haven't I think she is a tic, capable sort heen just to Fanny solid, energ of a girl, and it is lo that she “Well, I hope it may prove so, iy came "doubt ingly rejoined the wife. ‘George, there's the butter!" “I'H churn that,” he said. “We'll get along. Just keep your mind You will get about much sooner do.” Fanny Atwood prepared dinner, now and then slipping into the sitting. room to wet the and to chat in her cheery way with her patient On the third day Mrs. Henderson was able to hobble to the kitchen, where she found everything in most excellent order “Look at my currant jelly,” Fanny proudly said, as she held up one of the glass jars to the light. It was translucent and bright as ruby tinted wine, “It is very nice,” Mrs. Henderson said “How much sugar did you take!” “Pound for pound,” replied “f wasn't extravagant, was [1” al ease if You | bandage, Fanny “You were wise,” her sunt said with a smile. cellar “Fanny, did you whitewssh the stair. way!” she asked in surprise, “Yes, nuntie. It needed it. I knew | you meant to do it, for I saw you had | Isn't it nicely done?” | | slacked the lime. “Very nicely,” Mr. Hendorson said. “But it wasn't right for you to do it, Surely your hands." “Look at them,” Fanny sud, lsugh- ling. “They are as white and soft as | any lady's. I put flonase on—and then | ['have a sort of dainty way of working. {1 ean do it well without pitching into it Ill over. If it was right for you to | whitewash the collar-way, it was right for me to whitewash it. [| came here to “No, dear, you didn't,” replied Mrs. Henderson in a broken voice. “1am because I am ashamed of myself because I have been so unkind to you in my thoughts, 1 sup that you would annoy me, and hinder me; that you would be helpless, selfish, fault-finding; that you" ‘But you think more kind} 3 of me now, do you not?” interrupted Fanny, her hands moving caressingly over her aunt's hair, 4 in it and then wrapped it around the | If you will allow She opened the door leading into the | ‘Most certainly 1 do,” replied Mrs, | Henderson, explosively, “That is why I'T confess my injustice—why I want to mak amends. why J" i +Don't mind it, aunty,” said the sweet, | forgiving, sympathetic voice, “I'don't | censure you, and it's all right now. { There may be—and, in fact, there are | listless, frivolous, helpless girls in New | York city—and in other cities—but [am | not one of them. If 1 | I would despise myself.” wns, | am afraid | “1 am glad you have come, Fanny and | {I will be sorry when you go,” Mr. { Henderson said, and she meant it. ‘My prejudices misled me, and I have been { taught a lesson. Hereafter I'll not be so hasty in estimating people especially be. | dear, that a loud talker is generally an ig- | {fore 1 have met them." Detroit Free | | Press. : The Proper Amount of Sleep. Insomnia is rightly regarded as one of the marks of an overwrought or worried nervous systom, we may (take it that sound sleep lusting fora reasonable period, say, from six to nine hours in the caso | of nervous cow dental causes may temporarily interfere | with sleep in the healthy; but still the rule holds good, and a normal brain re- veals its condition by obedisnce to this daily rhythmic variation. ¥ end conversely of adults, is a fair test clence Various acel- Custom can i i to contract one's natural term o of which we are ¢ days of high artaf anys do mu sleep, a in reminded in tl i the } freely emp ' natantly Oonsiantiy ke [iresd yy ! nis rocess 8 too al Laborious ble to maxim or unif « win varies with x, fat 0 the tom indvidual gue, RE pan influence rkers naturally EXErCIne, ond Young persons and hard we need those who neither men have by signed » longer period of rest than men, and this armogement, in the of their doing hard work. is in strict accord with their generally lighter physical con- struction and recurrent infirmities, lute rule there is none, and it is of littl moment to fix an exact average allow provided the recurrence of sleep be r lar and amount for the needs of a given person, so that fatigue and should have more sleep than grow nor labor. Wo. common consent been as event ' Ab A BO its sufficient in suct prostration { and irritability as render healthy rest im. Lovidow Lan does not result 1 Nerve possible mud Chinese Accountants in Japan, interests exceedingly the 3 24% particularly wi letter American, says | i Mul On stepping into a bani in Japan, to to have nywnemn od « J i " or make as deposit, insted cashier counting adn, omprad re you Chinaman edd) trans } . ’ ¥ that part 0 larger igners have the business tr t f ali m eve NINes com LO « Wh pass 4 nr ih 41] { ih ( 1 wo reas proven ns the mone and profi t in Rgures than Ch rapid h in nti 4 or pecial f t ot money, md the ddieman,” reasons, the bank firm, and the Japanese customer, as th no danger of nationally © sex ' her a reliable Arar : Or racial ffi ors is mi between is any conspiracy between and f Heavy bonds are given by the Celestial gentieman holding This and some other induced over two this Chinese official the natives « this country, th & Te sponsible position, lines of business have thousand Chinese to take up ther resi dence in Yokohama alone, — EE ——— Chewing Tea Leaves, The newest thing in the way of a ligh genteel stimulant that | have seen used is tea, said a doctor to a St. Louis reporter The leaves are taken dry, just as the stores sell them, snd chewed in the mouth, the pulp being thrown out after- ward like an old quid of tobacco, It is a woman's habit, and has taken ‘ hy | married life funny? est woman in the world without the place of chewing gum to a great ex. | tent, but I have wen one or two young men experimenting with the tea, and it may get to be a regular fad, [1 tried it, but | think that no man who uses tobac. co can get any stimulant out of tea. It's rather harmless, and the stimulating ef fect is obtained much more quickly by i chewing it than by drinking it. Those I have seen using it consume much more of it, too, than they would if they drank it { It is an indoor practice, but, of course, { it spreads, We'll soe it on the street.car and in the theatres, just as the gum chewing appears to us now, - ee — A Professions! Blush Producer, | Not very far from the corner of Locust —— BR THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE. STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. fhe Way to Make Money He Was a | Loud Talker—A Bad Case-8light. | ly Forgetful, Kte., Ete, A moment of leisure had come in his way, And rather than idleness choosing, The con! dealer's office boy sat one day A book with attention perusing Then asked his employer: book “What is the | That you take such an interest in, sonny *”’ The boy at the title gave a look 0 And answered: ‘The Way to Money.” “Of plans to make money there len't a one Beats mine, | am confident, sonny. Give eighteen hundred pounds to the ton And you'll find that's the weigh to make money." Make { HE WAS A LOUD TALKER. Husband-—*Did you ever notice, my | norant person?” | Wife ‘Well, you needn't talk so | loud ; I'm not deal.” — Yankes Blade. VERY FUXNY. Wife (looking up from paper)—*‘lIsn’t | Here me" i Husband (endeavoring to pacify the | twins)‘ Hanged if I see anything funny | shout it." Epoch, | A BAD CASE. Miss Luendi (bursting into the doctor's office)— ‘Doctor, doctor, you must come | down to the house at once.” i Doctor—**Why, what's the matter? Who's sick" Miss Luendi-—-*] sam. But as there was no one to send, I came myself,” Bazar, IGHTLY FORGETFUI Judy ‘Have tenoced to punishime Accused “Yes; 4 for striking a i ever D yi before! | man onee 1 “Was there any other case!” viNo ti \ fa : , yet siay, it « I was once Wasp. now that in yours.” A DISISTERESTED LOVER. t‘Are you going to break off gagement with Miss Prentice?’ Merritt. “‘l hear she will be for life through that railway sccident bd | tended to break fT returned his friend, *“‘but inquire n cripple y fn in it off at first, heard that the company has offered her £20 000 in settlement The Epoch, 1% have uo THE LATEST STEAI to steed “] sentimental feelings, bachelor “Wouldn't you mther | else int the raaiden He though away and gol married intend my heart against all "said the co Ave steal asked * : 4 t he would, and the i ark BUSINESS Is Bt oysters this SIGNED slong! Rong ws that ons Tenkit I sex taker Naan Gsammon of Bil . Youll Charge © Mr just got $50 out of him, and he's to give me another fifty the Mr. Rising Briefly where's Bill?” Mr all right Has Oh, first rate | morning.” “1% : in 1 Mt 8 good » n Bill? jail, Ve Puck, Oh, he's Gammon He's snap in DESERVED TOO Mr. Watts ‘1 about the richest woman in the Mrs, Watts | know who is the rich having IT, was reading just now world to read.” Mr. Walls Who is it?” Mrs. Watts ‘1 am, for I've got you, darling, and that makes me the richest woman in the world, even if 1 haven't got a bonnet fit to be seen on the stroet She will wear a new bonnet to church next Sunday. Terre Haule Eprom. A BRAYE HUSBAND. “John, wake up! T hear a noise in the kitchen. There's somebody in the house (Jumping out afraid, Maria: calm, darling.” “Don't go down that steep stairway with your revolver cocked, John. It might go off before you are ready.” (Crawling back into bed) “Mm “Don't be Be of Ii bed.) drive him out. | Billus, if you haven't any confidence in | | | and Broadway, says the St. Louis Times | Star, in a prettily furnished office, can be found a young man, eo dressed, and wa gy? | personal appearance. He is a producer {of manly blushes, and ean give uny mas. euline cheek a sweet pink tint inside of | ten minutes. Fora time past stu. deut” of humanity have wondered at the nl. .vaeks of oarrow chested dudes. nev! wonder no longer, For » , hiberal foe, this *‘blush | : i my management of burglars you can take the revolver and go down yourself. ™. Chicago Tribune QUITE A DUDE, Aged Perty I would like to look at | some goods for a suit of clothes for my. self.” i Tailor—'Yes, sir. How would some | of those worsteds suit you! They are considered the correct thing for gentle. | men of about your Hs Party.1 don't think they are’ ul enough.” Tailor. Not youthful ” wt Well, they might be for me; bat when grandson | me three how many will be left? | farmer's wife has twenty chickens and | risk | “If you {any n at, which involved the turning over of ' the entire pile, and at last asked: “Are you quite svre, sir, that this style is worn?” “It was, madam,” answered the clerk, “when you eame in, but after the period that hes since elapsed Ishould not like to ay for certain,” Judge, A LESSON IN ARITHMETIC. Miss Susie is being put by her mamma through a course in subtraction indicated by such questions as these: “If you have eight apples and give If the H SE — she sells nine, Y ote, , ete, Suddenly Busie is seized with a bril { linnt idea and proceeds to turn the math ematical tables on her parent as follows ‘Now, mamma dear, if | have five eyes {and you was to put out six how many should I have to see with!” — Judge. LOGIC, Miss Parkwood “Do you know, sir, I could sue you for breach of promise? Mr, Finley Placo—'*Oh, I guess “Why, sir, did you not ask marry you!” “Yes.” “And I consented.” 6 Yes” “Well, sir?” “Well, I didn’t promise not me | were the one that did that I have the right to ask you s tion, have I not, of being Toledo Blade : without 3 rere aragged “You have pl “and I'l cast ‘Speak not i Won s ——————— WISE WORDS. ¢ Lasse lovely tial and Those so-called errors of have so small a circ! task will be easy A caused by men who pundred times more Ket won't work, than by the men work but cannot get it work | who can ut want It is more honorable to ithe head, well as to the heart, to be misled by over eagerness in the pursuit of truth than to be safe from blundering by contempt of it The truest help we can render to an af. flicted man is, not to take his burden from him, but to call out his strength, that he may be able to bear the burden, B.S Modest Benevolenpe, Two very pretty girls in Boston re. cently attended service in a charch where they were strangers, When the | time came for taking up the collection | they found, to their dismay, that they had but one cent between them. And there, coming up their side of the aisle with the plate was a lovely young man | with whom they were slightly acquainted. They simply wouldn't put that solitary cent in the plate, and to put in nothing was not to be thought of, Ded it, small envelopes in her pocket. She it out, dro the coin in it, and when fovely 3 { man came slang ahs angpped en in with an alr that the collector think it contained a $5 note. — Pyffale Courier, | ne best | Then one of | {the girls bethought her that she had a | DEGENERATE DAYS, Ob, the man with a fist like the hoof of a horse, That can discount the kick of a mule in its foros, Has found, in the tussle Of life, it is muscle, And brains are a waste as a matter of course. Ho may get all the favors of fate he may nek, In a glamour of gold for a while can he bask If he pleases the ames Who gather in masses To see him go over the falls in 8 cask {f you only are born with a head set awry; If like a cyclop you have only sn eye If you happen a midget, Or You are bound to su half try have one extra dit cod and you needn't 80, away with your Latin, away with your Greek All the training you need | haem 'd They are ot Who And t mper mj harvest the d iy he wreath's on the he freak wCharies M. Snyder, in 1 i pping otd. HUMOR OF THE DAY, Oh. I'd love Har ROIne pears have eat ¥, You “Well, It's them in eras Siftings. them ain't t the basket 1 J «What did the minister mean said something about a place thieves do not break through and Mr He referred to your mother’s dress p i As + nany- t 3 when he where steal?” Dam psey i 4 R Ei LAWTreEnoe WET yoann, “My good man," said the lady to the which is your choice for the ‘I haven't given it much thought, mum” he veplied ; “hat I'd vote for the chrysanthy, mum Norristown Herald Snowberry gardener, * national flower! ~“Speaking of the old- fashioned custom of writing ‘finis’ at the end of a book makes me think of my wife.” Donney “How so! Snow. berry-—*‘Oh, she always gets in the last word,” «Kearney Bn terprise, “Here'sa dog I must get!” exclaimed the owner of a dime museum, as he read in the paper about an animal in Wiscon- sin who swallows coins whenever he has an opportunity “What do you want him for?” asked a friend. Yi Boosase there's money in it.” Munsey's Weekly, Applicant-—~*If you have a position in | your bank vacant, sir, I would like to | apply for it." Bank President" ‘There | is no vacancy, now, 1 believe, exoept | that of runner.” Applicant] am qualified to fill that, sir. 1 did the best long distance work in Yell College, sir, last year." Fenowine's News, i | i garden, poor, dear, simple boy; he's just loving and sentimental as ever be was, "ww London Punch,
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