THE SONG OF THE ICE, Bing ho! sing ho! for the skater, oh! For the flying feet and the winds that blow! For the blood that runs to the cheek, to glow Like the western sky! Sing ho! once more for the lying shore! And the great long crags in our icy floor! And the tree-tops that wail of the sad no | more Of the days gone by! Bing ho! sing ho! as we glide and go Where the pines on the edge of the shore bend low, Over the ice and the stream’s still flow As in times gone by | Bing bo! once more while the pine-tops roar With a song that they sing to us o'er and o'er, As the old sun walks through the great red H " door Of the westorn sky! ~—Charles Gordon Rogers, in Outing. ———— CAP AND RINGLETS, OW, Miss Frost, where's that ‘ere soap to be put and the eggs to be got now, and that mos screamed the bound gir from the wash house, gardless of ain't pud 1din’ 2 done? qu te re. CO bawled Tommy, the Frost. me a single shirt!” ond son of Reuben and Rachel ““Ma, tell Busie to let screamed six-year-old Mary inner room. “‘Rachel, wh ! locked 1 up then ' queried farmer himsel t loorway denly with Mrs. F her kit cap shi ere on his substantial form. was dashing ab wild northeaster bie voy DIOu able u the item Ih A Widow, Was aDomir ed mportati mt as if arrel of sugar, or a bag f butt | I motive sjud ic } t fam! What ¢ nn hav pm pare athenz i “Why, 1 old maids hersell, to her than a EL I) might be civ to anyhow i" growled the fo Yankee De besitati ble as a Januar; lah stood in t and lookin utterfly wou 18 ays i} AD 0G rupp ’ BUM little cu “Walk | mum, said Razhe! “Probably you are the Nh low Patty?” Tae curls assented with a timid nod, as if half doubtful ‘iw it were sin to be that individual “Take off your hat, the cap. “I a’'pose you know what you are to do? Jost make yourself Landy about the house. Dear knows there's nead somebody's being handy!” Alas! for the inexorable and bristlin virtue of a clear starched cap, with » bandsome son! Alas! for those mutin dus ripples and ringlets that, being on a head at once poor and widowed, should have been straizht and were not! Father and ehildren aghast as they head Riecael Fie ol kindliest women tat ever made pudding Bot a num, weat on stond noe the {1 or darzed stockings—toll that poor lit tle, scared, weary woman to take off her hat and make herscll handy about the hcuse! Patty herself, in whose mind was still fresh Sister Ann's verbal photograph of her new home, was half inclined to cry; only that three years of matrimony had | taught her that tears can't mend g spoiled dinner, torn clothes or a bruté of | a husbapd; and, as they brought noth- ing but red eyes, swelled nose and a headache, were luxuries to be sparingly indulged in. Besides, she was a plucky | little soul and not disposed to cry ‘“‘quarter” even to a clear-starched oap. | So, while untying her bonnet strings | she took an observation. Due north | | that is to say exactly in front of the fire sat father and George, both in a state | | of temporary idiocy, from excess of ns tonishment at the unaccountable gyra- | tions of *‘mother,” who,since her digni- fied reception of the “‘help,” was revolv ing around the kitchen very red in the face and in an aimless way that half | | distracted the bound girl, who was try | ing to set the table, Due east was the hopeful Tommy, whistling in an exas. perative man and staring at the widow, as though she was the *‘ What is It?” and he had just paid his twenty-fiv to Barnum while, op Jule and fig a book and practically giving Watts the lie direct about “little hands” ner cents in person | | posite, Susie were quarrelit { about dear old Dr. the object for which Patty werd smoothed out the last and walked made. crease in her shawl, up ymbatants, *‘Are you sisters!” she asked The children hung their heads dropped at once the book and each ot! er's hair. Then Patty took little golden head on her lap and nestled the \ and in five min- where safely in the ¢ quietly 1 . Lhe ul in her arm, t r Tommy stopped his te Mrs. Fi lieved, her senses and three of Ler short nd George out wt's ys system being re came back to her, nity utter iis widow and the {1 worthlessn of th Under su roumstances, en AS UU V As He Ale, ter had merged into omy h mists and storms still, fresh odors in the air and ocea nt twitters from the orchard, sounds of trickling glad sight of the fresh peering timidly up from and mud, Without all and the upper y expecie i ‘lo Ko ‘in ia, Widow Patty sual sunshioy fashion and Win spring, gray and wit + oorge men to start for the dam, the going Hittie more nortaeasterly er and fue of bi { © in ta th YUSLY ' vith he shet, widow, hersell and every The wid ning to look nn yw being more pro thao usual, hor wm the vials of her wrath interrupt” (with im | mense statelio “hut if you've done lvoking after the men’ (withering em. | phasis), **1'll thank you for ther eggs I'he puddin’s waiting. Widow P iy, who had stopped a mo. meat in the doorway to x 3 alter the retreating wagons, started to cross the kitchen, but hall way ali ont | knocked out of existence by the bound gir!, who rushed in, breathless aad com maless, ns usual, exclaiming vOh! Miss Frost! hurry! hurry! hurry! Be as quick as you can, Old the croek—bags—milleflour- why don’t you runi” | dancing about the kitchen and soateh. "ing down pots nnd pans all descrip. | tious, apparently with a vague luteution vant to ea), lan was Dan mens of | ent, | stead of staying | to save wl ! he shouted, all the time | Rachel forward, of making herselt useful in some inex- plicable way. Mrs. Frost turned up her went on with her pudding. “Bhe was always simple and the bustle has set her crazy, and no wonder,” said she. But Widow Patty thought differ- and in the eeurse of hall an hour put the girl's half-uttered sentences to- gether, thus: *‘The mill, then, was in danger, and if they wanted to save any- thing out of it no time was to be lost.” It was Mrs, Frost's turn to ex. claim: nose and now “The mill My goodness! all them things stored in the loft theres and them great, lazy men off to the upper dam, like a parcel of Tools in- ing! going! their business!” ‘Here, you, Sally but what of talking to her?! You Patty) come along with me. 'm it I can, if sham (turning to going only the men." “But the freshet claimed Patty. “T “Oh, stay " ioe, Ww n’ : ICL 0 Ret An S000 you're safe | 8'p _e it all the betfer if I Patty woman get wife would of the wa 1ben « A DEW George wis out flushed deeply, but shoe wa ty let Rache 1 an errand, a ned ous ’ Frost go nd the muslin first turn ne on sucl cap had scarcely rea ir when obnox the were grinding, crackling and crashing this hall hour she was interr mr. Thet vy thuds, as i bail and ling, heir | listened breathlessly. the two women ~above dash, and the gurgle, r and cracking and thun. that faint, sarill sound sud threw MOTE = and the grinding leriog came Patty sprang to it wide. “Raved ! he the window saved ! they They see hey are coming. Oa your knees on your knees! | sey, and thank God for His mer Aud there, in the outpouring of that sole thanks. old have boats . m nn , old preju lices melted away, riovances were forgotten, and, clinging together, the women watched as with one heart and soul, the frail boast strug. gling to their rescue through huge float times would had it of those ziving ing massos that a hundred wl it into at been for the skill and who guided her But when, after an agony of that seemed a lifetime, they within hearing distance of watchers a new difficulty ve crush ms not uerye suspense at last auxious How wore the Arose, was it possible to transfer the women to | the hoat? To arrest the progress of the building drifting with that mad current , of course, not to be thought of; to {aston the boat and let it drift, even for a moment, at the mercy of floating lee, equally impracticable. Precious 7 0+ ments were being wasted in discussion. when with one bold stroke George | brought the boat close under the window at wnich the women stood. “Jump !" “It is your only chance. echoed Patty, pushing “He quick—the boat is swinging round already.” wav “Jump!” Rachel glanced fearfully out on the and | pushed } to home and minding 's the use | never allow mysell to fret over things | | cannot help | take my washing, ironing or baking to dark heaving mass of water and shrank back. ‘No; do you go first. to be lost let it be mine. | few years What tert” Patty hesitated, Argument was use less with Rachel, whose terror was £0 extreme that if left to herself she would have perished the mill rather than make the required exertion; and even the seconds precious, they were with the chunces of “Jump!” shouted George once more, Patty was a little woman, seized Ruchel the waist and er the window as il she had been a child, following herself with the quickness of thought Rachel | into her arms Patty ghted ike a bird on one of the | en If a life is have but a more, does it mnt- in were fraught as hie but now she around through husband's euchnes, an shout went had w lint up from crowded ¢ her ho had yound spre ad r how the neighbors, and Mrs the widow Frost had Ww Pat 1d she WISE WORDS The « 1 takes refuge in mservative y his fellows have like one who casts sach while his harbor itsel lissoly icebery, ng in the warmer the age. Why We Laugh The theory of the reason why Herbert we laugh when pleased | r amused is the usually ad ped He argues shat all highly wrought feel. ing, being nervous excitement, has to itsell somewhere, and does, mUsCuUiar action Spencer as to one Ll 4] 1 tact, spend itself in Thus, an angry person, frequently clenches his fist, or stamps his as if to beat his adversary or tread him un but when, as in fl the ing produced by anything pleasing or ludicrous, no appropriate muscular action is pointed out, the pent up ex citement vents itself through the readiest nuscular channels, «= Yaukee foot, lerfoot; the case {ee and easiest Blade, ————————————————— An Old Lady's Way. A happy aod vigorous old lady in New Hampshire gives these rules for the secret of the success of eighty years’ living on this planet, which brings so much care and worry to many of her sisters: “I I take a nap, and some. times two, every day of my life. I never bed with me, and I try to oil all the vari. ous wheels of a busy life with an im. plicit belief that there are a brain and a heart to this great univer se, and that | | ean trust them bOth, "8 Louis Re publie, | ling upon silver and gold has furor, Ame become a veritable The Empress of Germany is sa id never to wear a gown more than “onc e. A woman has been appeinted rate col- Bedford in En lector for the parish of land, and of trailing But there oug swift sure means of 12 this street gowns Austria ha Bhe y Empress of problem re pest vaced thus ] plays, and mous New fond of ticles from 'r treasures ! 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