CONSECRATION, Though Fate my own nafhe had decreed Imperishable, high enrolled, The human heart is one indeed, My own heart's throbbing life hath told; And while shat heart beats free and bold, To theo, O sorrowing world, I'll live, Leaving the laurel-leaf and gold! All all is thine I have to give! Though Love with measurales: rich moeed Of light and warmth my life enfold, Could 1 forget thy bitter need, Bad world, whose unkissed lips are cold? Poor world, like unkinged Lear of old, Can Love thy shameful state retrieve, Thy daughter's heart shall nought with- hold! Al, all is thine I have to give! ~{irace E Channing, in Youth's Companion SLEIGAT. O doubt the place is yours by good rights,ain’t it, Jason" BY MARY | her. The woman iat asked this | question, though | past her girl-| hood, was still | voung, and there had been a time | when | Sands, in the in- | fatuation of youth, had] thought her pret- r mouth to-day had a shrewish Jason look, and there was a vindictive soap in her small bl Her twisted ightly that the | hair was | wind eves, Was | 4 ingham apron lie ved by collar | n to the garden 1d a stalk of rhu v s | in a silky red peel. | , sort ot a lien on it, | but that ain't ownin’ it.” sai y man. | without lool ki front va Oo] for he much hy after fathe 1 hurt in the bri there v x good wasn't able to do much, an’ all that time ehe kep' the int'res’ paid own pocke : Uncle Richard tol’ Miranda, who bh od nibbling the rhubarb stalk, to change her tact Jason, I'd al’ to her But very pleasant house ; thinks she owns it all, I word even if kkiln, many years that he up out of her me nervously | made haste i , of course, wi to Le RON d 80 ad 8s “Ob 158 dasn't Mv a everything goes to rack an’ ruin. Besides, she's gittin’ have the care.” Jason lstened witl patience. He an easy-tempered man, ready to yield almost any point for | the sake of peace, and his wife was well aware of his weakness. It was to please hier that he had sold bis farm; and | though at the time he fully intended to buy another, before he could decide on one she had persuaded him to take a place that had been offered him by a city friend as drummer in a wholesale grocery store, It was a business that seemed to her much more than farming, | Meanwhile he had accepted his mother's invitation to | t his family for | a visit, “Jus' I can get time to look | up a house,” he said, But Miranda had always coveted the pretty cottage, and had been in it a week de. termined to get possession of it, Jason had never told her of the mortyage, Knowing that the place would eventually beloag to him, he had | not been troubled by the fact that the interest was not promptly paid; neither did be want the old folks troubled, and it vexed him that Miranda | had chanced to find the papers. But her | reasoning in regard to the housekeeping seemed very plausable. His mother was past seventy, it was time she had a rest, and she could have it as well as not if she would only consent to let **Mirandy" take charge of things for a while. “I wish you'd speak to her "bout it," said Miranda, ‘She'd be a good deal more likely to do it if you perposed it "an if I did.” Jason did not covet the task, but he knew the penalty of refusing. “She's in the kitehen,” Miranda re marked, with another nibble at the rhubarb stalk. “No hurry about it,” grumbled Jason, But preseatly, with an air of forced sur. render, he laid down his rake and went into the house, He found his pwther | making bread, 1 A sort of helpless was “genteel” home before they she had always | gia | were two little graves in the | fretted , and in her starched 1 3 b there | | hurried out. | out | and by | the olin man “You see, mother, you're gottin’ kinder along in years,” he argued, *‘an’ you'd ought to let somebody else do the beft of the work. Why don't you let Mirandy, long as she's here? She's a firg’-rate housekeeper, au’ she'd ruther do it "an not.” The little old lady lifted her head with a troubled look. **Why, I shouldn't know what to do with myself, Jason, if I hadn't something to keep me busy, I've al'ays be'n use’ to it, you know, But,” she added, drawing in her lip, and slowly patting the loaf she was knead- ing, *‘if Mirandy wants to take a turn at it for a while, she can. I won't hinder ) The daughter-in-law accepted this concession with secret triumph, and she so soon managed to get entire control of the kitchen that the deposed housewife, missing the homely cares that for so many years bad occupied her hands and thoughts, would have been in a sad strait had it not been for the children. “1 loves gramma,” said little Delia one day, as she mounted her grandmoth er's knee “Me do, clambering up beside “Makes me think, husband, a : f tol t chimed her sis Heaba, mist too,” ne baby, ' said dimming times you us to holdin’ Jany an’ Ruth.” Hesba's eyes also grew misty, fo far of the garden; but the prattling cl left her no time for re her su ide n his sees, he sit on her lap cence. “Do put ‘emselves, em down, You « Miranda “Oh, I like to have ‘em sald H )idie em sha. Miranda frowned. Jason rT. DUS 18 bad as rself 41 y that | fron said Miranda, with me ‘You know wel nm the mortgage aint an’ Jason could over to ‘cause father could sles p on the | bedroom." “Go leave father! you mean, Mirandy! “It was pitital to he gre e grew, an’ see how y, you wouldn't want to take hi with you whet and water, window t her breath, gray c lowering, an piteiul gusts were y eateh Outside, uds were Mn ling little ¢ brown 2) rying But Hesba saw only ire in the pot ato pate eaves thro Agi the tall and thr 2 shaw! over her head The noe and went to meet her “If you go, Hesba, I go too, you can lepend on that,” he said botly, whea she had told her trouble, she id man dropped his rey 4 Bat after talking i that unless Miranda herself brought up the not again the ime subject would Perhaps would be h who had window, saw taey before Jason Miranda plac ' at the And by taken Hesba's them coming up from the potato patch hand in hand, across his shoulder, snd the wife clinging to him like a child. “I #'pose they think they've got it all settled,” muttered the woman; “but, } we'll see y Two duys later a letler came to Hesba : from her brother “She's ben a writin’ to him,'' blurted the old man, clinching his fist Hesba took no notice the remark. “He says,” following the lines slowly with her dim eyes, *‘that he'd like very much to have a visit from me, a3’ he hopes I'll come right away, ‘fore cold weather seta in. But he's ’ ol she began, fraid I'll have to put up with sleepin’ | with one 0 tue children, they're so short o' room.” ““Then o' course that puts an end to father's goin',” said Miranda, coming in noiselessly from the kitchen, the door having been left ajar. “An' to ber goin’, too, swered the old man, “Oh, you shouldnt say that, father," sald Miranda, “It "Il be a real nice lit. tle trip for her, and do her lots o' good.” The old man scowled, and thumped the floor with his cane, ‘She ain't go- in’ to stir a step, not with my consent,” he cried, angrily, I guess,” an. the house." | moment to her bos . i | | oa,” | "bout Jack the ver, the y deel led | | Miranda walking vary erect, his hoe | little old | *'Sh.sh, father,” whisper his wife. “Don’t let's have any words about it.” Miranda put her apron to her eyes. “I'm sure I don't want to have no words,” she whimpered. Hesba stood up with her hand on her husband's shoulder. “We won't say anything more, Mirandy, I'll go William's as soon as I can get my things ready, an’ stay till your company's gone.” Miranda walked out of the room with- out answering. Bhe bad gained the day, and there was nothing more to be said, but she still held her apron to her eyes. The old people had seldom been sepa- rated even for a day, and during the time that intervened they would sit, hand in hand, by the hour, trying for- loraly to find some way of escape fron Miranda's plan, “It's no use, father,” sighed Hesba. “‘She’s made up her mind to have me go, an’ to go "fore Jason comes home, au’ she won't ros’ till she gets me out o' “Well, she'll repent it,” & head. entreate man, shakiog his “Don't, father, “"Tain't us to make It was | good by he childr for n bean t prehend that she was going away, “Gramma i Delia, clinging ’ then the baby se refused to up a wall, and be comforted. creatures fora don’t Mirand Hesba strained the little want any harm to « y," she d, turnin at I can't | father an’ § 4] : a tried 8 mors her folks hol." Miranda winced, ) IAKe Lim any answer she said to De ) Giant kx “] doesn’t want to Giant-killer,” said the | ‘Gramma she telled ttle Her grandfather chillea love | “That was said f '" well as for little looking furtively means that every an’ kind t “Gramma was Delia. The old man his chet hers, but he drew face “Why, he exclaimed, ** fever Miranda threw down he snatched the child Celia was her idol “ want gramma, O each K Against with a startled Mirandy, this Shes child's sick !™ got a magia’ and him. t sewing, away from ri peated the little | one, drowsily, mention it | week was | Just then Jason came “Go tele graph | “Tell her in cried wait for m not anything." When the doctor came the next after. noon, he found his little patient nestled in Hesba's lap, while close beside them, and his face beam. wwer's, sat the old man his chin on his cane, ing like a | “Ab, she is better," sald the doctor. “8he is getting on floely.” “We're all bette A Pie 1 the old man, | blinking behind his glasses gramma back.” mid the child, contentedly. «Harper's Basar, “We've got our The Largest Krupp Gun. The largest gun manufactured at the Krupp Gun Works, Essen, Germany, weighs 270,000 pounds, and is of the finest quality of steel. ‘Ihe calibre of this monster engine of death is 19} inches and the barrel in forty-four feet long. The greatest diameter of this gun in Gf feet, and its range is about twelve miles. Guns of the above size can be fired twice per minute, each shot costing $1500. The projectile four feet long, weighs 2700 pounds, and wm fired by a charge of powder weighing 700 pounds, The gun will “oarry up” for nine miles and pevetrate twenty inches of solid steel armor, - 8t. Louls Republic, A man in Sydney, New South Wales, bas $250,000 investe! in city property, all of which was made out of pigs, to i Crape is becoming to most women. Light hair looks well in a fluffy state. Handkerchiefs continue to grow small. er. Now the hobby of the society girl is simplicity in street apparel. Women are meeting with great cess as florists in London, England, Pink and are the proper colors for weddings, for bride and bride- sus. blue now maids, Light pink and blue handkerchiefs of chiffon, embroidered in white silk, are a novelty. A Michigan ats admission to her wedding for h fund. milliner charged twenty the Ta] 100 The and has Hos ) pounds y the wards of that in a recent article leclares: | gun or life Lady Florence ‘Horrors will never in life ag 150 A rifle to destr yy he » of creation.” on the animal Women's success in literature is shown by the fact that Marietta Holley, Maria Parton, Mrs. Southworth aad Mary J. made table for tunes with their pens The Woman's Charity Club, of Boston, Mass., has a membership of 350. It was started in 1889, supports a stall of free nurses sod doctors and does much good Holmes have all respe among the sick poor of the city In these days of elaborate bodices and fancy sleeves many of the bodices show three and four different materials, Com. binations of woolen goods with velvet of a darker tint are always popular, : Martha Washington's Bible been sold bya New York firm to Guather, of Chicago, for 2 LL firm paid $1000 for it at the Washing. toniana sale in Philadelphia last year, A new Irish celebrity Miss Maud Gonne, who has recently been lecturing in France on the ‘Wrongs of Irsignd.” She is an ardent Home Ruler, twenty six years old, tall, beautiful and eloquent, To Lady Brooke, the noted Eaglish beauty, is due the founding of a school of needlework for poor girls pear Eas. ton, in the midst of a poor agricultural district, The school has been very suo cessful, In 1867 the Empress of Brazil gave Queen Victoria a dress woven entirely of spider webs, It is so fine and beautiful that it surpasses the most splendid silk. The Quosn has it among her priceless possessions, India has sent a missionary to Eng. land, Miss Sovaderbal Powar, a native high caste Hindoo, who comes to point out the evils of the opium traffle. She wears an Oriental costume, but spoaks English flueatly. Her oratory is simple snd direct, and she excites the sympathy oi her hearers, has just a Mr. is The | Big Figures About Brooklyn Bridge. No doubt many people have wondered | what becomes of the millions of tickets old and collected sunually by the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Company One who has given some thought to the | subject tells what might be done with | them, and incidentally gives other figures showing the magnitude of the traffic on the Bridge, gave them: “Over forty-one Here they are just as he million . of people crossed the bridge in 1891 on the bridge cars and promenade. Could all the hands which have purchased tickets be together at the end of the year. a could be formed 14.112 miles in di ameter, or 42,336 miles in circumference a distance equal half limes around the earth. If the grand chain were suggested, and the trains and ships endployed, it nearly three before one make the bow and return to his place side his partner, Joined circle to one and ond {fastest would be months “A solid square of 20,634 columns of 2000 men each, covering over thre square mile ner could be rmed of the “lt each Lo carry hundred A ithout te - I FN vo a \ Te \'7. we h at—_— Wa) SZ % 5% 8S da 72 ON 7s bh ON 7s NIN WAS N A picture of health woman who bas faithfully used Dr. Pierce's Favor ite Prescription. She feels well and she looks so. It's a medicine that makes her well whether she's over warked and “ man-down.” or afflicted with any of the distressing diseases and disorders peculiar to her sex. 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