A A Wl Ms A WS SEEKING. Eso far off a glowing, beck'ning thought, Unspeakable, sublime itsslf, {t seems Content to be wakedup from idle dreams And into some bright human need in- wrought Forth from the silence of dim brought-= Caught by the tip of wing that brightly gleams Where many a radiant bird through ether beams And is by rainbow throadings softly caught. Oh! soul-ecstatic vision of pure mind That does transfigure all the weary past, And all the future gild with glowing light! For we who earnest seek shall sometime find, And all unto a nobler semblance cast, As unexpected stars gleam forth at night, wElizabeth Oakes Smith, in Home Journal, AN AWFUL CHARGE. The little combination freight and passenger train that runs from the en- trance of the great Hoosac tunnel away spacos up through the mountains along the bank of the Deerfield River waits pa. tiently on its narrow-guage side-track | until its larger contemporary from Bos- ton comes up and empties out whatever of its freight and whoever of its passen. gers are destined for the little village | farther up in the mountains. Assoonas | the Fitchburg train has pulled out of the station and into the tunnel the small. | er combination is left master of the field, and, after backing coquettishly from its side-track with many a pufl and flutter and much ringing of & not untuneful bell, it starts sturdily around the curve | and begins its journey of twelve miles over an up-grade track. One quiet evening in the earlier part of July a young woman accompanied by 8 girl who seemed to act in the capacity ofsmaid rather than companion, alighted from the five o'clock train from Boston, made some inquiries of au official at the Fitchburg station, and then made her way across the track to the other train which was waiting respectfully at a dis. tance. Just as the train from Boston was about to start a young man came hurriedly to the platform of the car, looked earnestly across the tracks, and then disappeared inside the car to return a moment later with a tan-leather satchel, an umbrella and a cane. He looked ner- vous and annoyed, but crossed the tracks and climbed into the single passenger car on the narrow-guage road. The car was a combination passenger and bag. gage car, and he climbed in at the bag. gage car end. Presently the car backed from the side-track and started along its | up-grade journey. The young man took up a position be- fore the open side door of the baggage end of the car and seemed to give him- self up to admiration of the country through which they were passing, though he cast furtive glances into the other end of the car, where the young woman had taken her place. Bhe was seated near the middle of the car, on thesunay side, and her maid was two or three seats be- hind her, with wraps and umbrellas and the various other paraphernalia that a fastidious young womac carries with her even cn sa short journey. Having made these observations the young man gave more perfect attention to the lsadscape and looked less frequently into the car proper. The girl was evidently uncon- scious of his presence, or at least un. mindful of it. Bhe looked steadily out of the window and seemed to be enjoy- ing also the beautiful scenery. But presently the young msn began to grow more nervous and restive. [He moved uneasily from his position to the open doorway and sat dowa on a box in the middle of the car. Then he went back to the door and leaned away out, looking up the track. Then he went back to the box again and arranged his four-in-hand nervously, Suddenly he got up and walked resolutely down the car to where the young woman was seated. He walked much in the manner of one who has determined to take a bath in very cold water and goes at it with his nerves at the sticking point and his eyes shut. The young woman was much in- | terested in the landscape as he came up | and she did not notice him. He was obliged to call her attention. “Grace,” he said, Bhe turned from the window with wondering eyes and looked at hima moment. Then the light of recognition drove the wonder slowly from her eyes and she held out her hand languidly, “Why, how do you do, Mr. Marden?" she said, He took her hand slowly; he almost groped for it. the way from Boston to get up courage | to speak to her, and now her cool, sur. | prised “How do you do” was almost too | mueb for him. There was not even a traceable note of resentment in it. There certainly was nothing of pleasure. How- | ever, he pulled himself together and took | the seat which she made for him beside her, “It used to be ‘Frank,”” he said in answer to her “Mr. Marden.” She! laughed easily. “Oh, yes, but that was ever so long | ago.” “It was long ago,” said the young man; ‘it seems an age.” .__ Miss Grenville made no reply, She sat there brown-eyed and self-contained, and presently looked out of the window agin, The young man made another “What on earth brings you to this for. Phe Soom ot Hit Tevaing > GT at him | . “In it forsaken!” - pen. f “I think it is very pretty.” “Well, tyes, pretty, but not—well— “Doom like excitement!” asked Mis’ wl Dot; but door used to.” big you Miss Grenville turned slowly from the window, I think you had better eall me Miss Grenville,” she said. “Very well. Miss Grenville will you please tell me where you are going?" “Certainly, Iam going to visit my aunt at Wilmington. And yout” “Iam going to Wilmington, too-—on business." “Aro you! Then you must know about the coach from Readsboro.” “Weller the fact 1s—I don’t, I decided to go very suddenly—that is—I couldn't find out about the stage.” *Oh,"” said Miss Grenville, “I have no doubt it will be all right,” observed Marden, for want of anything better to say. “Oh, no doubt,” said Miss Grenville, perhaps for the same reason, But when they arrived at the terminus of the road they found that it was not all right, available seat but one bad been taken. It was growing late and Miss Grenville was in despair, “You might go and let your maid | | come in the morning, | den heroically. " suggested Mar- The maid was interviewed on this sub. | ject, but was tearful and obstinate, Then | the young man made another suggestion, { The maid might take the available place and he would drive Miss Grenville over. He was sure he could get a horse, would have to do it on account of his business, anyway. Miss Grenville de- | fended her position, but finally surren.- dered. The maid took the place in the | stage, and Marden went in search of a | horse. Half an hour later, as the sun was go- | ing down behind the hills, a cadeverous looking horse, with almost a suspicious dislike to anything like haste, drew a | | ) | single buggy out of Readsboro and along the pretty road toward Madawga and | Willinington. They passed the out. skirts of the village, and the road began | to grow prettier and more hemmed in with trees, closely tain jog that was a cross between a run, a trot, and a walk. The result was a sort of hop, Miss Grenville made some attempts at conversation, but her com. panion rewarded her with silence. She made several uncomplimentary remarks about the horse which were witty enough for an ordinary occasion, but Marden did not smile—he did not seem to be paying attention; so finally she subsided into | her side of the carnage and said no more. Presentiy Marden spoke. “Grace,” he said, ‘‘do you know why | : * ud | I am up herel” Miss Grenville looked up innocently. “Of course,” she said. “Which was not true, as you know, I came because I followed you from Bos ton." “Frank, how dare you!” said Miss Grenville indignantly. Marden went on quietly: *‘And while I was standing out there | in the baggage car" “] thought you were going to fall out of the door,” continued Miss Grenville suddenly. Marden looked at her and then went on again quietly: “You did not see me, spoke to you." “Oh!” said Miss Greaville. “When I was standing ia the baggage. car [ made up my mind that you would have to talk to me. Iam more sure of it now, I have been trying to see you for two mouths and you have been able to keep me from it. I know | am a brute and that if you wanted to throw me over and not tell me why I ought to stand it; but I can’t and I'm through trying.” Miss Grenville laughed uneasfly, A bough from one of the trees that skirted | the road hung over within reach and ska snatched a couple of its leaves as they passed. “I wonder what kind of a tree that is?” she said. Marden took the green bough from her hand and threw it into the road. “‘Grace,” he said, "why did you throw me over!” Miss Grenville looked around as if for some avenue of escape, but none pre- | sented itself and she leaned back agin | in the carriage. “Perhaps,” she said at length, “per. hapa it is better to talk it over. Though [hurriedly] you know it can never make any difference now.” “Of course,” admitted Marden, **f | | never dared to hope that,” “It is very hard to tell,” continued Miss Grenville. He bad been trying all | “Did you ever care for mel" asked Marden. Miss Gronville looked at him with wondering eyes. *‘Do you think that I wanted to do it?” she maid, Marden's face brightened wonderful. ly. “Do you mean that somebody forced you to give me up!” he asked. “Nobody, only I had to. One can't marry anybody when that isa't what they thought he was,” said little Miss Grenville, getting confused in her generalization, but with a very convine- Ling air, Marden made no answer, and his companion continued: “You know I always said that I could never marry anybody who was not perfectly gentle. manly and" “Why, no, of course not, That was why Lewhy I liked you." / ‘ Ld The stage was there, but every | He | The cadeverous | looking horse moved on with an uncer. | “You told me | { you hal to come on business.” You were sur. | prised that [ was on the train when I | “Well?” “So you must ses that I could not have wanted to do it.” “Oh, but that does not explain why you did doit.” “I know it. Only it is so hard, and, Frank, you are not helping me a bit,” “I don’t see why I need to. You were independent enough to throw me over and make me miserable for life.” “‘Have you been mserable, Frank?” “I think I have almost died,” said Marden, solemnly, ‘Have you?! 1 have been miserable too, Frank. And I have missed your steps, and your voice, and your laugh-— I have missed your laugh very much, Frank,” | “We used to have such pleasant times i together, Grace.” { ‘Yes, and mother says that the house | sounds so lonely without you in the even. ing." “I thought a great deal of your | mother,” “I know you did, { happy times, Yes, we did have I shall never forget them. And to think that now they are all over. I came up here because I hoped 1 would | forget about it, and now (tearfully) you { have brought it all back—again—and I know I shall go on feeling worse and | worse—and Poor little Miss Grenville fell to sob- { bing as if her heart would break, It was more than Marden could stand, “Grace,” ho said, “don't. Let's patch it up in some way, Tell me what I did | and let's fix it up.” “We can’t,” sobbed the young woman from her corner, “Well, tell me anyway.” “It won't do any good, Frank, but I'll i try if you say I must.” “You really must.” “I know you'll laugh at me and say { I'm a goose, “1 will be sober as—as ing," vowed the young man. “Well, then, it was about that Miss | SBanger-—yousknow what you said about her." “I know I must be very stupid, but I | don’t quite remember all about it. You | bad better tell me. Where ! hert” { ‘At the pond, and it is really to your | credit that you don't remember. I shall | think of that and be grateful Frank, in { after years, | yousaid she was clever and had beautiful eyes,” “] think I do remember now, | was the girl who had such a funny squint, | wasn't shel” “I don’t think I ever noticed that, Frank." “Well, she did. who Ibsen was, She And she didn't know That was why I said meant it the other way, you know." “Did you really, Frank? Then I have | misjudged you all this time." Half an hour later Miss Grenville lifted | & happy but tear stained face from Mar- | den's shoulder and looked doubtfully up at him, : “Frank,” she said, “Well, swesthoart,” | was, either, | nihiliste?" “No, dear,” said Marden, gravely, ‘he wasn't quite that, but I guess It {doesn’t make any difference now.”"— Springfidd (Mas.) Republican. Importance of Sleep. The London Lancet has been laying | great stress on the importance of sleep to those who would live a long and useful life. Seven to nine hours, socord- ling to the temperament and constitu. | tion, is the modicum that ought to be taken, and the greatest regularity of the are, prolong the day, for man, in common | with most of the animal creation, has accepted the plain saggestion of nature that the approach of night should imply | It he ignores this | principle his work fs done agmust in. a cessation of effort, herited habit, and so far with additional fatigue. The practice of working by arti- | ficial light is strongly deprecated, and | the Lancet shows that the old custom of early reast and early waking is certain to prove in future, as returns of longevity and common experience have shown, that it has proved in the past most con- | ducive to healthy and sctive life, Drying Potatoes. It might be profitable to dry the sur. plus potato crop of Southern Californls. Of late years a process of artificial drying of potatoes has been perfected, and po- tatoes so treated are largely used in the British army and navy. Not long the Ezpress mentioned the letting of a contract by British army authorities to a factory in Nova Scotia for many tons of dred potatoes. It is probable that a sale could Le had for many carloads of Bouth- ern California tubers worked up in this | manner, consumption at sea and in tropical cli- mates where the common potato cannot be grown to advantage, In this way, and by establishment of starch factories, | with increase of facilities for the prompt m You always did do that.” prayer-meet- | did 1 sce I said she was horrid, and | | she was clever and had beautiful eyes; 1! “I don't believe I know who Ibsen | Was be one of those horrid | ago | thing's They would be in demand for | THE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE, STORIES THAT ARE TOLD BY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS, A Misplaced Oredit—The Moonlight Stroll—Dangerously Engaging Bitter Experience, Ete, Ete, oy than Jou for the flowers you sent,” she said, ! And then she pouted, blushed, and dropped her head: “Forgive me for the words 1 spoke last night; were right.” And then I took her hand within my own Aud 1 forgave her—called her all my own, But as we wandered through the lamp-lit bowers I wondered who had really sent the flowers! «Toronto (lobe, DISTANCES LEND, RTC. “Don’t you like to hear some one sing- ing on the water far away!” she asked, : “Yes,” he murmured, ‘far away,” — Life. DANGEROUSLY ENGAGING, “Bmithers is a very engaging fellow,” “Yes; he had to leave Boston once be- | eause he was engaged to three girls at | once.” — Truth, THE MOOXLIGHT STROLL. She—*‘Oh, Harry, the man in the moon | is looking!" { » : § TH He—** Never mind he will never tell. we Munsey's Weekly. GREEN EYED JEALOUSY, Fannie—*‘1 wonder what makes Harry i stare at me so much?” Minnie—*‘I've heard him say that he isn lover of works of art.” — Fankes Blade. BITTER EXPERIENCE. “Harkins has written a book of eti. quette, What does he know about , usages of polite society!” ““He knows what has kept him out of i 8." Puck, 3 ao TAKING FOOD OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS, *“There aint agoin’ to be livin' in trampin’ this season,” “I'm afraid not," said Tatters., “These bere cookin’ schools is teachin’ gals how 10 use up the cold wittles, Epoch. good | sald Hagples, THE DEATH LEAST EXPECTED. Dodson-—**They say poor Briggs, the tectotaler, died of hard drink.” Bings—**You astonish me! he acquire the habit?" Dodson—*‘It was very cake of ice fell on him.” Herald, How did A sudden, IT'S A POOR RULE, BTC. Mind-cure Doctor—+‘Mske up your mind there is no pain, and there is none, | Five dollars, please.’ Patient (moving toward the door) | “Mske up your mind there is vo payin’, | and there is none. | Yankee Blade. EQUAL TO THE OCCASION, Lady of the Houso—*‘It seems to me your bill is very large. The other ice- man we had didn't charge us half as much.” Iceman‘ He dida’t! Well, er, you soe, lady, my ice is a good deal colder | thao his." New York Prem. ALL A LOTTERY. She—*‘You know, Dick, that Papa is not nearly ss rich as he is reported to be.” He—**Oh, well, he is likely to make a fortune betore he dies. I shall have to take my chances like all the rest of the fellows, I suppose.” Puck, hours of slumber the better its effects | The public is urged not to unduly | UNUSUAL LUCK. Gus DeSmith--*'I see by the papers that the Czar has been enjoying the easure of the chase in the Japonski orest, near Warsaw.” Gillhooly——'* What luck did he have!” Gus DeSmith—* ‘Splendid. He came back alive.” Taras Siftings. DRIVEN DESPERATE. “Jack, what did you do whea I re. fused you last year!” | “I became desperste. Why, Nellie, darling, I actually smoked a whole ci- | garette. “Ob, Jack! And to think I drove you to it. "Ditroit Free Prem. OFFICIALLY DONE. Angry Proprietor ‘Are you the care. i less scoundrel that left the door at the | foot of this elevator open!” Elevator Boy—'‘No, sir. It was the elevator ins r. He's just been pay- ui ble sag r visit to see that every- e, HAD GOT BACK. sir," we Chicago Tribune. Colloctor—*‘Is Mr. Slowpay inf" Janiiady io, sir.” “I called five weeks ago, and you said gone to Long Branch for a month, back yet!” “Yes, sir, he's back.” “Then where is he!” | ho had specialty!” . Leoturer—+‘She never in all her life asked & man if her hat was on straight.” NOT A RECENT FHOTOGRAPH, He—*‘Thece is my photograph. Do you think It looks Tike me?” ~ Bhe-~“When did you have it taken? 100KN-—m" It Ho--*'] got it from the Argosy. Your flowers have sweetly proved that you | the country, and little three-years-old, standing confidingly at his knee, exhibe ited her newest accomplishment—inguir- ing after the health of visitors —evidently at the same time reviving pleasant mem- ories of a fortnight on the farm: *Is you pitty well, Arfur?” she asked, “Very well. thank you,” Le an swered., ‘Is Aunt Etta pitty welli” “Yes.” “Is Badie pitty well?” HT guess so." “Is the piggy pitty well?" — Boston Times. ———. New York! Good morning.” | Al BHOWN, “Music,” said the eminent pianist, as the reporter to whom he had kindly ac. | | corded an interview ran his pencil rap- | idly over the paper, *‘is the most eleva. | | ting of sciences. It moves the depths of one's nature, refines the seaxibilities and | | enlarges the heart. about to as “I should like to know, sir, how you It—what were you { regard the distinguished virtuoso, Prof, | | von Bergstein, 25 8 musician" “He is nothing, sir, but a cheap, vile imitation, a base counterfeit, a tenth- rate keybourd anger, sir!” exclaimed the eminent musician scowling fiercely, w= Chicago Tribune. SHE WAS A GREAT HELP TO HIN. George Bash{ul-—** What do you think is the prettiest, the most appropriate ! name that can be given a girl?” | Miss Bessie (patly)—'*The name ol the bias y NAD she loves, Bashful—*‘Buat that can only be done when she names the day.” make it (31 orge next hful—*‘Miss Bessie, 1 p to me, and 1 wil vO! GEK YOU 10 Miss bo kkio “Be your I promise.” And both fast one IFA York Herald. belpmeet George, i heaved sighs of relief, at too large for them, Aen WW BAD AXE. standing is one day inst he aen was 1 the proprietor, w a fairly respectable looking man passed { the street, olhier side of there!” slong on the LON on She “do you see that man over asked the merchant, “Yes, what of him” “Well, be to be the Grand Mogu of this whole everybody and everything and had it all his own way.” “And doesn't { the drummer, | “Not much, he doesn’t. “What the matter? money” “No. ™ “Downed politically i” “No.” “Moral catastrophei” “Noe. | “Well, what in thunder's the mat | ter?” | “Got married about two years ago. LR NS bossed he any morel” inquired * Lost his is See that tall ganglin’ woman crossin’ the | street to meet him? That's her,” and the merchant drew a long breath with » whistle to it.——Detroit Free Pres. Unele Sam's Treasury Well Protected. | Bome pervous citizen of the Republic | having read of the contemplated raid os the United States Treasury may lie awake nights through fear that the plan may be put into operation, self. There is no likelihood of such » raid being made, and if it should In made the probabilities of its success ane almost infinitesimal. This last plan pro. posed that in various parts of the city | fires should be started. This was to be | | followed by & riot, and during the ex. citement the raiders calculated on being abie to break into the Treasury. But the scheme would have failed. There is no citydn the worid better protected than Washington. The plan by which the streets converge into a circle at intervals | enables the authorities to plant batteries { in the circles and sweep the thorough. | fares of rioters. This plan, credited to [the combined thought of Washington and Lafayette, was adopted in the recon struction of Paris br Napoleon IIL. Then the fire department of this city | is of a first-class order, and as for troops, they abound. Besides the large guard of men armed with Winchesters and re. | volvers within the Capitol and the fact | that many of the Treasury male employes | have organized a militia company to re- pel raiders, several thousand troops can be brought ivto service here in less than (an hour. The Washington militia num- | bers 2000 men, and within half an hour's {| march is the arsenal whence 500 veteran | artillerymen can be summoned by tele- { phone. Two experienced troops of cavalrymen stationed at Arlington are available for immediate service, while from the marine barracks 500 of the best drilled men living could be obtained, | Gatling and Hotchkiss, to say nothing of | heavier guns, are plentiful, Moreover, the mounted police are ex-cavalrymen and all the patroimen have served in the United States army. If this force isn’t enough to put a damper on the spirits of rioters, a couple of batteries of the regular army can be obtaived from Baltimore in forty min. utes and » large force of marines and sailors from Annapolis in less than one hour. So that, take it all into considers. of a mid on Let him calm him | i "" fatiens NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN, Hummelstown, Penn., has a lady lete { ler-carrier. The kodak girl is said to be a terror ! st Chautauqua, | Danish gloves in four-button lengths | are in demand. Twenty-two newspapers in Kansas are , pdited by women. | Lawn tennis continues to lose with Epglish women. Naples, Italy, has a woman editor in | the person of Matilde Serno. favor { A dress reform crusade has been be. ‘gun by the women st Chautauqua, Bome of the models for dress bonnets | for next season are absurdly small, Poland has produced some of the brightest women which the world holds, Women professors and women lectur. ers are to be added to the University of Michigan, A New York paper says the perfect woman should be five feet three inches high a d weigh 130 pounds, i A woman, Miss Ormerod, is the con. sulting entomologist of the Royal Agri. cultural Society of Great Britain, | There are to be two new plays brought put in New York next season and both of them are by New York women, A hospital for women has been opened st Sitka, Alaska, by Dr. Th- wing. It is the first in that country. Clarence Women in Bweden have now obtained official permission from the Government to be received as pupils of apothecaries. English women have returned to square-toed shoes, but the Piccadilly pointed toe is still preferred in America, The young women who adorn the fash” ionable seaside resorts have bee derfully proficient in the art tling. The finest diamonds in the world are owned by Mme. Andre, of Paris, and her lack pearls are also considered beyoud ail comparison, MRE WON. of whis. The day census in the city of Lond: shows that there are now 50, 416 won engaged in the city daring the day ss against 44,170 in 1851. The Polish Countess Branicka is called the *‘Queen of Sapphires” of these gems she ‘possesses the most beauti. ful collection in the world. 34] seh because The Indian women in Arizona have ceased to be picturesque since they began to wear fashionable dresses, shoes, stock. ings and all the paraphernalia. Miss Susan M. Dunckles, of Newton, Mass., the only woman treasurer of a bank in that State, has resigned after seventeen years of brilliant success, One of the largest dairy farms in In. dinns is carried on by Mrs. Laura D, Wooley, of Elletsville. Last year she sent 10,000 pounds of butter to market. Mrs. Alice Shaw, the famous whistler, has demonstrated the fact that whistling even is hereditary. She has four daugh- ters, each one of whom inherits her pe culiar talent, All women who have earned the dis tinction of becoming notable personages are to have their portraits in the Photo. | graphic Gallery of the British Museum of Portraits, Miss Nanette McDowell, grand-daugh. ter of Heury Clay, lives with her father in the old Clay homestead of Ashland, one of the most beautiful aad romantic places in all Kentucky. Helena, Montana, boasts of a young woman who is made of the right sort of material. She is a very successful mem- ber of the bar, and is aleo the secretary | of a large lumber company. Annie B. Saunders keeps a paint shop | in Eighth avence, New York, sod makes | 8 good living st the business. She mixes the colors and oils, looks after the cash, and takes orders, employing mea to fill | them, | Miss Curzon, of the Toronto (Canada) University, has been acting as assistant | public analyist since her graduation in 1889, and st the same time pursuing her | studies at the Toronto Woman's Medical College. | Miss Mary Proctor, the daughter of | Richard A. Prootor, has inherited her father's tastes and aptitude for astronom- ical science, and frequently contributes | articles upon those subjects to the peri. | odicals. | Mrs. Richardson, wife of Dr. T. G. , Richardson, was given $100,000 for the | purpose of building » new medical col. ) k in New Orleans, on a site which was Miss Charlotte Nichols, of Empire City, Oregon, can use a rifle in a way that would do credit to any masculine i: ii L ; i { :
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