EASTER, Bagster, smile o’ the year! Bringer of music and flowers! Easter, whose skies are clear With spring days’ lengthened hours! What shall we say that is new? What shall we sing that is old? Bermon or sonnet or chant Gilding refinded gold. Yet, Oh Brightness returned, Well may Iglorify theel Never the world again Sunless and chill shall I see, Quickened from clay, the reed Springs from the glow above; Up from my heart has leaped The shining lily of love. Peal, Oh carillon, peal Every change to be heard! Bing in the chapel, choir! Trill in your meadow, bird! Thou who kneelest in church (Thy thought from earth aparty My Easter offering, iove,— To the altar of thy heart! ~E. Irenmus Stevenson, THE OLD WELL SWEEP. BY HELEN FORREST GRAVES. OU ain't goin’ to take that wellsweep, away, Jotham-—the : sweep that was when I was a don't!" BquireSedgick beckoned to his son to uplifted lay down the axe. Mrs, Sedgick stood in the doorway, with a fat, old-fashioned tumbler and a glass-towel in her hand. Ellen, the day:hter, pa: of tying up an obstreperous y suckle shoot; and old Grandsir Sedgick, ised in the act no han ung noney leaning on his staff, w his gray hairs 100K - sh spring wind nt Druids blowing in the quavered wouldn't ma with hinele ob SOOLAIngi squire, ‘‘if you've any fe about it, i shan’t be touched! Only, sence the pi have laid from the Savin Hill, Eunice, she t “I don't ¢aid Graondsi ir Bavin Spring been spring up on bought -" keer what Eunice thinks!" Sedgick. *‘The pipes from ain't nothin’ to me. I'd the ruther hev a glass o' clear water from old tion “So you st said Mrs, knotted cane which the dropped, and tenderly g steps back rch, winch he had just le £22 ' : well than all the 1 father—.s Sedgick, to the cushioned But Ellen tossed her much be-crimped looked quickly around. ‘“‘Dora,” he repeated—‘‘little Dora! My son Adam's daughter, with the black eyes «nd the There ain't but for left in this world, of ‘em. What have you Adam’s orphen gal——eh, Eun gal that hadn't no one but me to after her?” Ad Sedgick’s visibly. BT “Dora was she some tented in this quiet place.” Ihe old mau shook his leofine bead, features! hings that [ care and Dora was reali. oOe¢ lg cK alow 341 done with cel iT | : WOK Kindly vk face. She crept i over Mrs. hesitated wasn't our fault, father,” said she. iiways a restless child, an ow couldn't seem to be con white thin' about that" said now is I miss little Dora, Jotham, stalwart turning ab- ruptiy son, Dora” *“I don’t know any more than you do, father,” said the squire, leaning up against the porch pillar, aad saying to wife in a lower tone “What has set Dora just now" | Ain't IT always thinkin “where's him off thinkin' of “Thickin'! ; of her?” piped up the old maa. ‘Adam's gal, that was left to us to take care of; and Adam was always the best of the | family! You nagged her, and you wor- ritea of her, and she was too high- sperited to stand it, and now she's gone, an’ you say you don't know nothin’ about it. Eb"—and his voice grew thriller—*‘that was what Cain said, mind you, when the Lord asked him where his brother was! That's why I set here on the porch, where I can see half a mile down the road, to get a wight of Adam's gal, Dora, comin’ back where she be- longs!” he three lookers-on glanced un. easily at each other, Martin Sedgick, the son, flung his axe emphatically on the ground, *‘Grandsir speaks the truth,” said he, ““The house ain't itself muce Dora went sway.” And he stalked gloomily down the hill, to where his handsome four. year. old colt was tied to the fence rail, await Jog its daily exercise around the squars. “Eunice,” said Squire Sedgick to his wife that afternoon, *‘Martin is getting restless again. He wants to go’ West," Mrs. Sedgick clasped her hands nervy. ow ly. **Martin—our only son!" she cried, *‘He was just beginning to be recon- celled to life on the farm, when Dora well there baby Don’t do it, Jotham— went away,” said the squire, dejecrediy. vtAnd it was she that reconciled him. Eunice—if we could get Dora back again? It's as my old father says—she was the luck of the house.” Mrs. Bedgick burst into tears, “It wasn't my fault, Jotham!"” she said, **I always liked the child, though she wasn't no more like our folks than a corn flower is like a squash blossom. But she and Ellen couldn't somehow agree, Ellen always wanted Martin to marry Miss Brownlee, and she up one day and accused Dora of settin’ her cap for Martin, and Dora couldn't stand that; and when they appealed to me, I'm afraid I didn't take Dora's part quite go strong as I might hev done.” “I knowed a woman's tongue was at | the bottom of it ail,” said the squire, with some bitterness. ‘Poor Doral” That night the whole Bedgick fam- ily were aroused by a light blaze in the dooryard-——the old-fashioned well sweep burning up. Grandsir, in his dressing gown and knotted stick, his leonine head well outlined in the scarlet glow, looking more Druid-like than | ever. | “You done it o' purpose,” said he, | feebly shaking the stick at the assembled family, who were trembling in the door- | way. “You know you did. First Dora, { and then the old welleweep. The only things I keered for in this world —and now they're both gone, an’ I may as well lie down and die!” “ didn't mean any cally sobbed poor Ellen. *‘I was light- ing a taper to seal a letter—Marian Jrownlee always uses the new-fashioned colored wax to seal her letters—and it burned up too quick, and I flung it out of the window, but I never dreamed it would fall among the dead leaves around tt 1 well curb set fire! | didn't mean any harm!” “Don't fret, father,” “We'll build it u tin—just exactly harm!” hysteri- e ol and it on said the squire, p agin- oo i i 3 hour on the looking as if he had lost his last vlet-scented April afternoon, home from the beea to purchase froat porch, friend. Martin came + had bsolute necessity for bis travels his arm. ) inder said, ‘It's some I don't know but I coulda't ite I set eyes on it, I tho an lyin’ up stairs in ' he added, as Elle: i paiatin 2 Ex w tly like our barned down, ide —*'*an oil Lt was distance, and » woods, just as ines without end yw queer [ felt when » window, and [ went follars fo 3 " that oicture that picture. » it up on the wall opposi 3is bead, and when the ol rom a nap, the sun eans shone over the mute canvas, he looked at it with a smile. “It's our old well,” said he, not evine ing the least surprise. ‘‘Just like I was ut of the window at it, [I've ¢ ag'in now, and Who knows! a week, he and deigned mditiooal approval to t} dis wae Just as RLO kin’ wt the well sweep ba p'raps Dora’ll come next. And for the first time in t up and dressed himself, on in burned trict “It justing his *“far-away’ spectacles, in a year or two it'll more weather-beaten an’ nat'mal-like. I can allays look at the picter, though, when I want to see the old well sweep.” he, ad. “Bat looks too new now," said p raps be Elles pulled her brother's sleeve as he stood intently regarding the bright little oil painting on grandsir’s wall. “Martin,” sald she, ‘nobo iy ever could have painted that picture by guess. It is our old well sweep, and there's the | very butternut and the broken shingles on the barn roof. And don't you remember, Martin, how fond she used to be of painting!” He turned suddenly around with an ir- radiated face. “Why didn't I think of it before!” he ed. tree » - - » . » Mr. Solomon Feldman, sitting behind | his desk rail in the darkest corner of the | dark little art store, was startled from an abstruse financial calculation by the ques. | tioning gleam of a pair of dark eyes close beside him. | “sit sold?" a solt voice timidly asked | eettmy *Oid Well Sweep?” I see it is | gone from the window. Oh, is it possi. ! ble that I can be so lucky as to have sold | that picture?” Dora Sedgick was very plainly dressed, Her shoes and gloves were unmistably shabby; there was a certain pallor in her | skin and sharpness in her features which told of a battle with the world, in which | she had not as yet gained the advantage. But at that moment her face seemed transfigured with exultant joy, | Mr. Feldman referred to his books, “Tweaty dollars,” said he, with lead | pencil between his teeth, “Not a bad price for a beginner, and Shent] va pat cont, commission. Price of frame, five dollars, and—and here is your ten dol lass. You might as well send something else, A shadow from without made the lit. tle gas lighted cubby hole look a d dingler than before at this moment, “Could you give me the name aod ad- flannel | | cities should | possible. | the aristocratic instinct | circle of the island's Four Hundred, dress of the person who painted the pio. ture I purchased yesterday—the ‘Old Well Sweep?’ ” asked the voice of Martin Sedgick. The veiled and shawl wrapped figure turned suddenly around, so that the flickering gaslight shone full on the dark eyes and mobile lips. “Martin?” she cried out, with an ic- voluntary step forward. “Dora——my Dora! No, you shall not draw away your hand!" he cried. “I've | got you now, and I mean to keep you-— Dorat" - | yes, always, » ¥ \d » GEL” cried Grandsir Sedgick, rous- | ing himself from one of the frequen | slumbers of extreme old age. “‘Dora, is it? Adam's little black-eyed gal? Well, I knowed she would come back before the Lord sent out a call for me. Bome- | thin’ told me she would. They've fixed up the old well sweep, Dora, and you're | back againl I hain't nothin’ left to wish for now.” | «And she's promised to be my wife,” | denlared Martin, with his arm passed | carelessly around the girl's slim waist, “And Martin's given up the Western { plan,” ecstatically crie i Mrs. Sedgick, ‘‘and he's going to be content to settle | dewn here for good and all.’ 1" gasped Ellen, i i | } ' s‘And oh, I'm so glad! while the squire slapped his son's back in an en fashion. Old Grandsir Sedgick looked to the other with a serene smile “I hain't nothin’ left to wish for,” he repeated. —Saturday Night. yurazing from one Facts About the Skeleton Paris is the head. centre ton trade. The y very delicate operation. Industry Lhe of skele mode The sition to ol alpel remove first called into tissues, req ular Its work bein ¢ bones are hasers among the sf ion of their studies 1, if happily the market ad may thus be ha quite as reas ably as low as #13 hand skeleton ashe figure won {J AR The imported artic re sold A ver for - ov faw NR 3 : very few $400 skeletons a are always a special order, y 4 had $150, th as the genera French skeleton may be and that is as hi { purchasers care to go, Skulls, hands, and feet chased separately, b arm, or a collar must be bought. A may it Lo oDiAaIn Arb, an affair oroas.- bone, the whole skull and bones, suitable for decorative wt but $10. The skull has cut; it may be pretty, it is not arti For $22 a skull that will reveal ita hidden contents I'he bones of the ear are comprised in 8 Herald. yilon : purposes, bat on sti unhinge and is p yasihle, } this U ASUS, ~~ - ——— -— The Mound City's Name The city having been named | 8t. Louis many suppose that the nanciation should be “St. cause that is the corre of the name of the saint. Louis is not an English name, and Hume, in angli- cizing it in his history, always writes All the French kings of the name ‘‘Louis” sre “Lewis” in Hume’ writings. Those who “ist, honor of i pro- Looie,” be- pronunciation “lewis.” say Looie" in speaking of the city may think it is more honor to the sainted King of France, for whom 1t was named, to use the Frénch pronunciation. hand, our language is Eoglish, aad it is perfectly natural that there should be those who hold that the name of our be as nearly Eaoglish as The “St. Loow" proauncia- tion will never cause any one to forget why the city was named St. Louis, and if it is the most popular it should be generally accepted, Doubtless the ear- liest settlers never said **St. Loois,” but itis a long time since they were here, — 8¢, Louis Post-Dispateh, os Aristocratic Indians, There are no people in Maine in whom is stronger or who have more pride of birth than some of those who live in Oldtown Island. At present the tribe is greatly agitated over the question whether an adopted child shall be admitted to the inner A year or two ago Mr. aad Mr, Sabatis Shea adopted a child from another tribe, | the child being half white, as are many of the Maine Indians. “Owing to the fact that the child is a half-breed and belonged to another tribe," says an island correspondent, *‘there is a certain class on the island that 1s trying to prevent her from having her rights, while Mr. Shea claims she is entitied to all the rights of the tribe, as she was legally opted. There are other oases of simi. lar nature, but no trouble was ever made before, and Mr. Shea proposes to fight it out fn a legal way." Lewiston (Me) Journal, of preparati mis | On the other | > When in doubt wear a blouse dress. Empire dresses are worn by girls of all ages. Tea and chocolate are served at the fashionable afternoon tea. One fashionable New York woman and her daughter spend $18,000 annually for clothes, Bilk sheets are an elegant eaprice of women who find their income. M. Worth, of Paris, confesses to hay- ing perpetrated a skirt containing sixty yards of silk, Miss Susan B. Anthony recently cele brated her seve nty-third birth<ay at her home in Rochester. Mrs, Langtry and the Duchess Montrose have joined John Winter's non-crinoline league, of RE ran ore . range A Philadelphia girl returned from the milliner's and told ber mother that most of the bonnets were ‘‘intense ly covet. and SETVES AS A is nu caterer Miss and Jcy Cabiniss at Jackson, Woman's exe hang Lo Mississippi house- keepers. The beauty of Mrs New Y mlebrated by Henry Clews, wife er, painters ire nas and finan been para- re women Postmasters in " } Lata in any other Si . Eaglish Ww Om nas v f righ M Women, Mary Assell, Its Ladiea ” Ohio Las a of three men and three w f board of visito in every county of county asylums and prisons, erally wal hh over public bens reformatory work Mrs. Cain novelist, ing and the othe: appearance Mi the easiest reso Ie Many women vet tal w 84 ate enthusiastic bicycle great distances Miss Mabel Besant, sister of { riders and can go with. yut undue fatigue. ¢ for instance, the the famous . 1 JOvelist, is De ptuaily on the road an i thinks nothing forty miles. lia TB y atiract A new Parisian novelty—bats in monds—are bizarre yagh t attention of ti ng after new snd strange effect ry can be reset and rearranged in these bats, which y striking en the 108¢ sex! Be Olid jew are described ss setting off t advantage a ball costume. are considered hey are not worn by any fash. ionable abrcad, In Paris the newost velvet bodies, but sleeves of the same material as the skirt, usually cloth. The very old-fashioned pelarine is once more in high style. Velvet sleeves now passe, people gowns have They gave a banquet to Senator Bate, of Tennessee, in Washington the other night in honor of his aad toward the close the speechmakiog his wife appeared in the dining room re-election ’ LH with a party of lady friends, and was | made the recipient of much homage. Only rich women can afford to buy undressed kid. Half the kid gloves in trade are not kid at all. $2.25 are made of lamb. Most of the streot gloves are dogskin and some are rat, is one of the Mrs. B. A. Thurston noteworthy women of Kansas, Her skill is utilized by firms | As an accountant winding up or straightening out their accounts, She recently disentangled the accounts of a firm dissolved by the death of one member-accounts which had been running for a dozen years. The subject of women druggists is being discussed in France. The Society of the Amelioration of the Position of Women has decided to grant a scholar. ship annually to a young woman student of slender means, to enable her to take the examinations which must be passed in order to qualify persons to dispense medicines, The youngest bank President in the United States is Mra, Annie Moore, of Mount Pleasant, Texas, She is also the only woman who is President of a Na. tional bank. This bank was Real kid cannot | be brought under $3 a pair in this coun. | try. Ladies’ evening gloves that sell for | { | | | | | it difficult to spend Sufferers from Dyspepsia Here's Something for You to Read Distress in the Stomach CURED by HOODS, Miss Jennte Cunningham grow Ix HO Her w oD’S Sarsaparilla time, it fain to have anything I ha vd listress for ris for in ike tite excellent much better ! Niet NI HAM HOOD'S PFILLs with dyspep- il of August he vexatious Daught hy. 1 One bottle It was dred dollars P.M 3 gag and Gen I have mstipation and ime, 1Itis C. 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Book “To Mothers” mailed free, con- taining waluable information and voluntary testimonials, ex 8 of pL er ae Pe, on toi BRADFIELD REGULATOR Bold by all "0.4 Alats, 62. Places Remedy for Catareh is the Bost, Fastest 10 Uses, ant i | ove Resintanes 10 Cold. The death of a centenarian Italian in a Norfolk town the other day, whose checkered life history included service in Napoleon's “Grande Armee” during the disastrous Russian campaign of 1812, recalls attention to the fact that of all that host the Neapolitan contingent, 10,000 strong, withstood the cold and privation much better than the other di. 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