PATIENCE, a] Be patient! Easy words to speak While plenty fills the cup of life, ‘While health brings roses to the cheek, And far removed are care and strife, Falling so glibly from the tongue Of those —I often think of this Whom suffering has never wrung, Who scarcely know what patience ls a, Be patient ! when the suff'rer les Prostrate beneath some fell disonse, dnd longs, through torturing agonles, Only for one short hour of ease, Be patient ! when the weary brain Is racked with thought and anxious care, And troubles in an endless train Seem almost more than it can bear, To feel the torture of delay The agony of hope deferred ; To labor still from day to day, The prize unwon, the prayer unheard. And still to hope, and strive, and wait The due reward of fortunes kiss This is to almost conquer fate, This is to learn what patience Despair not ! though the ol And storm and danger veil Let fate and courage gm The storm will pass Be patient ! Shadows will fade These are the hopes To light us till ou and the tide will turn, before the that li Year Round, 'S QUILT. know what would please em,’ little Mrs Dake a a gazed with admiration at spread out on the It was fully pieced quil tricate pattern “Jimmv's | tickled w she smooth knows she'll A stepped back a: the of calico | when his 1 «dresses, with a low n¢ they made and his little almost as pin “And here own he had dresses bers 18 like a Littl all lined with fine be« r'e 2 pn I 1604 little pink sp dress Jims #0 cunnir back, his head “T'H she pieces, and if she aby k as ti al 1 ' w his wife-to-be all tled with the quilt, she'll be a queer one Then Mrs. Dake went over to an old-fashioned mahogany bureau with brass knobs, and took fre drawer a large, envelove, out of drew the ding. ‘Mr. und Mre. William P. Holbrook invite you to be present at riage of their danghter James Barclay Larkin, evening, September 14." Then followed the address of the bride's parents, in a city 400 miles from Mrs, Dake's home. “But I'm goin’ !” a8 she slipped the invitation back in ita envelope. *T'd go if it was twice as far. I ain't seen Jimmy for near on to five years, and he always seemed like my own boy to me ‘cause I never had none o' my own, and I helped to bring him up after his own ma died. when he wa'n't but just in his first little frousies, “I aint been so far from home in many a long year, and I reckoned my travelin’ days was done, but I've got to go and sce Jimmy married. I must see Elviry Hodge right away about turning snd making over my black silk, and I must see SBamanths Rose about a new cap. I guess I'll have to have something kind o' smart for « city weddin’, where they'll all be fini fled up so ashamed of his old aunty; but lawsy me! Jimmy wouldn't be ashamed of me if I went in my plain ealico hon dress. He wa'n't raised to set clothes above his relations, and he ain't got nothing to be ‘shamed of in auy of his folks,” Then Jimmy's aunt, her face aglow with loving thoughts of seeing Jimmy again, folded up the quilt rarefu ily in sn old shoot, sind laid it away in a lower drawer of the burean, saying: “I #'poss they'll have lots of nice presents, but T'll warrant you they won't have one that represents as much lovin’ labor as that quilt. 1 had to ory little when I quilted them blocks With the pieces of his baby dresses in em. His wife ought 40 think the world and all of the quilt. 1 hope to the land she won't go to using it eom- won” thon aint tic in the 1 square cream-tin which ‘Quvite” to fnily Jimmy's wed #he CAT the mar Helen and Wednesdays she said gleefully, | I'm comin’ | hig? marchin’ in on reckon his wife'l | won't be Mrs, Dake, who was » widow childless, lived in a small, remote country town in which her nephew, James Larkin, had been from which he had gone to become a successful young lawyer in the city. and | ter of a rich | born, and | man, pnd that the wed ding wus to be an elegant affair. Aunt Busan feared she would out of place-—that she might in her inno- Lie | cence do or say something to give | James He had not been back to the home of | his childhood for five years, Aunt Susan sad, he “wa'n't ns to write letters,” but he As his | hand | often sent | brief notes and little gifts to his sunt i to nssure her of his affection gratitude. and | Heo had not annovneed his engage- | ment to her, and the invitation to his! wedding was one of the greatest sur- prises of Mrs. Dmke's uneventful life. “He jest wanted to give aunty a big s'prise,”’ she said to Elvira Hodge, the village seamstrees, she came to ‘‘fix over” Aunt Susan's black silk. “I couldn't believe my own eyes at first. It don't seem no longer than yesterday that Jimmy was runnin’ ‘round here in pinafores ; and to think of him bein’ wmarried—I de- clare I can't git over 1t! “But I'll give him a #'prise, too, 1 don't intend to give him a hint that to his weddin’, i took ba when he my on Don't d with Eliza be tickls quilt, Elviry “They'd oug said Elvira “I think it's a kind of dence that I put in the did I didn l f until next 1 | feelin’ that Ic ! and now it's turne I don’t want Jimmy to be i a good reas the s'prise in on him That pleasur: oO was ding from th SHY whiot been knock he door of his rox tre with ex n her nephew opened the m. SAN Was mbling citemet door. “Why, Aunt Susan!” he or he took her into his (ETN | her on both cheeks There of ten her nej yet the ch in him was p her. He beardless, boyish-looking young when she had seen him last Now he a tall, fall bearded man with a way that made it 8 little hard for her to call him “Jiramy He did not say but she felt that he would rather have her eall him i" and that sounded 80 cold and formal to her. He now had the graces of a eity- bred She found it hard to accommodate herself to them, and to the usages of the fashionable board- ing-house in which her prosperons Young nephew lived He might, perhaps, have wished that Elvira Hodge had made his annt's garments more stylish when he took her down to dinner, but he was in no sense ashamed of her. When they were going down stairs with her hand timidly resting on his arm, he meade her very havpy by looking down into her face anid » saying tenderly and heart ily, “I am so glad you came Auni Susan,” “I thought you wonld be,” she said, patting his arm affectionately, “You know you're the only boy I ever had.” “And you were always the best of mothers to me,” ied, and then arms and k lernes was no lack 11 vhew's greeting, ang sinful to was 8 man was broad-should« red, ty RO, "wj Lies young man nis old | | ing herself useful in Mrs, when | But whan she waa alone in ber room abe wondered if it had been wise for her to come after nil doubg now that James was genuinely happy to see her, but she had disooy- ered that his betrothed was the daugh- She did not | snd his cause to be ashamed of her, The wedding was to take place the next evening, and there would be no opportunity for her to meet the bride or her family until then, All new und strange to her! She had expected to “take right hold” and help Mrs. Holbrook with the wedding dinner, even if she did "keep n girl.” There wasn big, new kitehen apron in her trunk, brought with Aunt Susan to be worn while she was “mak. Holbrook s kitchen.” It disappointed her to be told by her ne ph w that her services would not be required, and that caterer would provide the supper, She did not know was, and felt conf to bride Was BO [1] what a caterer used nn i uneasy, and sleep half herself went | wishing nome, When, the hersel 1 tl re I am so glad id me all abon sud It was 5 iO ks like « ne make, It is quilt, is Aunt Susan tried to conceal the quilt, but James took it from her and folded 1 Suddenly he said: un. “Why, Aunt Susan, didn’t you bring | this for a wedding present 7 “Well, 1-1 Your Aunt well James," Susan, well, y said “I thought that wile soberly, YOu see, and--and--there's lots of pieces in it from the first clothes you ever had, and eanse I did it ev'ry stitch myself, and- “Like it?" cried Helen. value it above any gift I have had! is beautiful ite needlework ! it must have cost you. of it!” “She said them vory words,” said Annt Susan to half a dozen of her de lighted friends who came to ses her the day she reached home. ‘She was so tickled over the quilt. She fairly etied when I showed her the blocks made out of pieces of Jimmy's things, “she said she'd think the world and all of it. She and Jimmy had to go off their weddin’ tower in about an hour, nnd I expected to come on home that night; bat Mr, and Mrs. Hol- brook wouldn't hear to it. “They made me stay thore a whole woek, and they treated me na if I was one of the greatest Indies in the land, They took me to ride ev'ry day, and they never seemed to mind a bit about my old-fashioned ways and clothes, “I had p beautiful time; snd she best part of it is that Jimmy and his wife nro coming to make me a visit on I am so proud | thoir way home from their tower next | week. You never see such a splendid youog woman as she isl" did think I'd give it to | [ made it ev'ry stitch myself | I thought maybe she'd ike it be- | “1 shall | It | [ never saw sueh sxquis- | What weeks of labor | TRAPPING A LIVE TIGER HOW JUNO, THE LARGEST ONE IN THIS COUNTRY, WAS CAUGHT. The Man-Eating Brute was Induced to Jump Into a Big Pit—Secured After an Hard Fight, ANY men have been around | / the world four or five times, 1 : but a man who has made . the cirele twenty-one times is an exception. Thisrecord-bre aking globe-trotter, the New York World, is Mr. J. B. Gavi rd, of Inde- pendence, lown, Mr Gaylor to all the circus people of BAVA 1 18 known this conn. fry ns having owned shows of his ow n Years ago, and agent for P. T having been fore ign Barnum for a number of years, He has amassed a fortune in bringing wild animals from their native jungles tp the United States, He has eaptured and handled more tigers, lions and « lephants than other man alive A vear or nection with the Barpun now collecting tour of il in this conntry severed his 80 ago hi about to VARISEE8 vg al parde 41 in 8 Western city, Mr ] r of Ciavlord tigers nn ner Ordinary I trappu Was more than four heurs befo exhausted was wi had to do to had tired herself ont by attempting to le ap out the pit. Then we bronght up the a ten-fool square open AK Ril WAS wait until she completely bamboo The bars ches apart, inches thick These bars were securely fastened by smaller b , Onur on bamboo and ropes of Wiry grass k of natives grasped the cage all sides and lot it down quickly on the As the cage was let down over the tiger a score of the natives quickly slid down on top of it. Jano was too exhausted to make another struggle, and she day quietly in the cage ‘We took a number of bamboo poles about an inch thick and pointed at one end. They bend but do not break, and are very strong, The top of the cage in the ti1- ger pit poked these pieces of bamboo under eage and tiger--an easy matter, as the sot] was very soft They fast ened them lengthwise and crosswise a great many times until the tiger was in a cage so strong that if she had the strength of a dozen animals she conld not get out “Ropes of bamboo were put down and eage and tiger were lifted to the surface and placed on a litter of poles, A score of natives picked up eage and tiger and trotted off to the seaport town exhanssd beast below prepared men on “There are men who make a splen- did living out of trapping tigers and lone The king of them all is a man who lives at Padang, one of the Malay Ieland towns, For three generations the relatives of this man, who known as Sineen, have been tiger and lion-killers,. They have killed and eaptured more lions and tigers than any other known family, and Sineen has broken the record, tov. He is al most an object of worship at Padang, He has been in the business all his life and kills or eaptures about 100 tigers every year, The Government pays him fifty dollars for the head of a ti- ger, and he gots a good sum besides for all ho eaptires. He is really a splendid specimen physically for his | height, five feet four inches, Ho ia like a block of iron, his muscular wer is so great. Bineen has made a inl ont of tiger-huuting and dresses in silken garments. in | Three thousand workers inthe Girls Friendly Society attended the recent convention in St. Paul's, London. An English peeress is training a corps of women gardeners to take the place of a present staff of men on her large Yorkshire estate. "Way out in ths historical Greece the King and Woman astronomer Grethelm an enormous salary, One of Mrs, Frederick Vanderbi new gowns is pink satin, embroid ered with lilies of the : coming to her blonde beauty. Mrs. Royal Pheips Carroll, York beauty, has TOTS nnol land of Queen pay a Mme, named ¢ OF y valley, very be- hunted t les of India and grea Is of the No de Vals AYTE, A Woo oman's rights, the admis French Acad gden Mills, of N IRM OI records the revival o Bedan chairs, ten uvenation now we are told thai t usurp the place of It is to be made by scents, endiies and re) 8 DAYEe Deen Ws men are, as usual, taking the lead in athletic At a recent arche ry tenham, fair seventy hits out of a possible seven five This was at a distance of yards In angling, too, English men are very successful. Goodly num bers of them are now trout fishing in the Highlands, and the other tay two of them captured over 100 fish. ~ SALT RHEUM FIVE TF games and contest at one IMATESwWOman mes wo fn the form of aranning sore ankle, four physicians failed to cure I then commenced tak ing Hood's Sarsaparilia, and using Hood's Olive { Ointment and at the end | on my of two years 1 was com. | pietely cured, and have bal no trouble with it b since.” Sivmox Srarnes, | Kast Taunton Mase Remember, HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA CURES. Hoods Pills cure liver Si jaundice, billous headache and constipation, 25 conte NYNU-3% R0ITRE CURED SEND for FHEE Cronin | —— re i | ews, siek — 4. N_ Kisin, Detlevilie XN J “August Flower” I had beets troubled five months with Dyspepsia. I bad a fulluess | after eating, and a heavy load in the pit of my stomach. Sometimes a deathly sickness would overtake Te was OE Tubthas cHenry, Druggist, Allegheny A Pa. in whose oy I had hol It's | seven years, [used August Flower for two weeks, I was relieved of all trouble. I can now eat things I dared mot touch before. I have gained twenty pounds since my re covery. J. D. Cox, Allegheny, Pa. & How's Thin t We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for pny oases of Catarrh that oannot be cured by Hall's Catarrts Cure, F. J.Cueniy & Co,, Props., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known ¥. J. ( Litye ney for the last 15 years, aud believe kim vere foctly honorable in all business transactions snd fiunncially able to carry out say obliga. tion made by their firm. Wer 4 TRUAX, Wholesales Drugelsts, Toledo, Ohio, Warvisa, Biwsaw & Manvis, Diruggists, Toledo, Olu, Hal's Catarrh Cure bs taken internally . Bot. 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