———— THE ANGEL OF THE RAIN, Over the thirsty land The angel of the rain with outstretched hand Is passing; and each flower springs up to meet The kisses of his feet, | The water brooks had lain Dwindled and but again, Swelling to press their grassy sides, and A low-toned wele falnt; now they pulse ning, from lawn and sheltered beds A mew-born breath spreads; furtive fragrand And swallows twitter g Around the cottage eaves. O panting soul thy t Of Open thy lips I While water Oper Gives life NA DODD, ar . | past NASH. ACING a great open court pave i with dirty fl |} | | ging, standsu l | i | Oag, dark-broweaua building, vears since i the moka " Liverp 100 A pretty tit 1s solid Ooty and useful, like m and it il last a long great deal of good. Hall,” and a giant im his foot with stands halfway up the broad hund stair steps that lead { portico of the bu din court are four stone and scantn unsteadiness al air of a general ' best known as ‘Ol ky.’ have been a sad tl change of name. hard for him to ge E] onded non | was told to YG was like learning “Granny after one It must! ing for him---this It certainly wns Calida AIrAnce i anal 800 SOunl apj managedaq So he most ever man from wl and to take ings to his wife, He lived iu a tiny tenement house, table part of Live bright little home and poverty; wife who he by the “Cabby” night away ft y day day. § & very happy dark, cold in November, Gu took her ri comfort I little angels con Thus it hapy ‘ early in January thing he wasn't at His master had not driven him directly from the stable to the eabstand, but, instead, be was pulled up after an amble through some unae ustomed streets, 1a frontof a ¢ all, dingy tene ment house with a dirty ; dirty children at jumped from his through the door of out, as he did so ther; yer Shaky.” n a came back again, holding fully a little bundle of old flannels, which he laid ins the cab on the seat, and then jumped on the box and lrove very carefully to the stand. Old Shaky thought this unusual, to say the least. He wondered about it while he was mumbling in his bag for his breakfast ; and as he gave a toss of his head so as to throw the few oats and cuaffl at the bottom of the bag on to his tongue, he hoped it would turn ont to be something to eat the bundle. Just then a fare came along the side- walk, Old Shaky stood at the head of the procession that shook himself and jnunt, But his master, instead of coming at once to his head to untie his bag, wont to the eab and took out the bundle, and, climbing up on the pedestal of one of the lions, laid it between the great crossed forepaws | and the shaggy stoue breast, There | was just a comfortable nest for iti there, Old Bhaky pricked up his ears | when he heard a wee little ery coming | from the bundle. Ho cocked one eye | behind his blinker so he could see exactly what his master was np to, and | caught him in the net of putting a bottle to one end of the bundle, | gutterinl of Dick ran his minute he VOTY Care le in he prepared for a morning, so | father was off Shaky's master helped his fare in, olapped the doors to and drove a { shilling's worth at a pace that made | Old Shaky's bonesrattle, When Shaky | got back to the stand and slowly re- covered from his shaking up Lhe saw | his master holding the bundle and talking cockney baby talk to it. the lazy old woman, whom he had { hired to look after Una, wickedly giv- ing her some dreadful medicine to make her sleep, so that she would have no trouble with her, This frightened him so that he had driven the cruel old ereature out of the room and had decided to look after hisbaby himself, The woman had yelled at him that morning, as he carried Una through the hall, that the child would die with cold; but he thought that better than to have poisoned her, sud besides, his heart was hungry, w wnted his bal y close to him. But little Una did nothing at all like dy ing; she ) Tho and cat far laden air was clear and he got fatter and rosier every fresh made her slee better than the foul of the nement. Ww she nse t bs fter hour, while her fare, gazing rir hen 0 lo up the y head into the smoky blue-gray sky. rained Dick propped h umbrella over the | it sheltered her, 1101 8 pread his lap-robe, : , l AOON is head and or if hel he would tuck her away in Everybody got to kn The sailors r to the docks, the footed children who sol the dirty heavy rolls of ple fac the llir baby. Way won empt nair and j artificial floy unny little don- ir man, Dick was muc! ) tl story the name, and went quite meekly and let the American lady stand god-mother while the pas- tor 1n the little mission church chris tend Ijhis “little "un" Una Dodd. He could have gone right d he and into hi Win Arms “Well, Dick. rod-mother, merica if ) She thrus hand with money in it stop to ope “Th an) away to | safer t remot Here an i He did only 1 rked hurried lion was lady who wanted t his Una Dodd. | All Una Dodd lay juietly between the lion's paws, play- ing with her and talking to herself. There is a wonderful organ St. Ge Hall, and there is a great musician who goes there every day to worship his art by playing on it. The large soft billows sound pleased little Una as they swept past ars, and she smiled all to ir 16641 her little self, n it ut " an this terrible y rob him of that afternoon OTs Ae ni wee's of hor i An anarchist, with a red necktie and elimbed up and bal Una's lion's back and began to abuse « verybody but himself, He talked about *“‘sending | perlice erway with ther ‘eads hunder der harms.” He pointed to little Una | and asked the world in general to! “look at that hinnercent baby" and said he would like to know *“‘ow the world would like it, not to ‘ave 'ad hits face washed hit 'ad hit,” and “ow hit would get hon with nawthin' for dinner and the samo warmed hover for supp Pd The world did not answer. Those of it near enough were watching little Una play with her fingers. Presently the anarchist fell off the lion. He was rather drank, and besides that a lion's back is a Lard nlace to balance | one's self. It began to get very cold toward evening. Dick had been away all the afternoon with a ‘shopping fare.” He wont with many sn fearful glance townrd the Northwestern Hotel across tho street where the American lady was, and many a caution to tho eab- men loft behind: “Don’t yer lot no- body tech Ler,” ho reiterated, ‘‘no- body, specially no lady.” When he eame back to Una he took her in his | arms, ind to find her warm and “all | there.” He put a tin can full of hot | 1 redder nose, anced himself on since | destination, Luttle Una's papa had come upon | { told him to wait, { down before the house a long time in { and left him, America to be the American lady's | A weighed line was passed through the water at her feet, covered her with overcoat, placed the umbrella over her end the lion, and went away with an- other fare very unwillingly. It was get- ting dark and the wind was rising eold and raw. Theblack clouds threatened snow, It wos a long drive to his fare’s Dick began to grow anxious before he got there. His fare Ho drove up and the biting wind, To his horror some feathery flakes of snow began to fall. He drove over by the lamp-post near the house, got down and put the blanket Old Shaky; then he climbed up on his box and waited for his fare to reappear. It was bitterly cold. most numb with it; and he was thinking of over Heo grew al- all the time Una and wondex- ing whether she was warm and pray- ing that she might be. ran to fall The snow be- He ina blinding swirl. to the and asked if his fare ren ly to go back, He voice from within respond to the maid's question, “Oh, the Cabby; by ee, 1 forgot. 1 told him to wait. him this shilling and six- and tell him 1 e, it's sud a blizzard,’ lit surely was, 1k elimbed baek on his box spirit. ‘It warn't " he kept muttering ; family, and Una and went house and would soon heard a jolly | h vO COIme ht. It warn't 1d then the snow could hard- realize that t at o get back Old Shaky every step 111s hoofs mer, Dick went nearly out and have He looked sk, but not = living being the storm. ywn on the edge of the side- walk stunned, He could not think for a while. Suddedly came to him a flash a thought of the American | d Una; she would help ¢ stil Ln 4 raug the bell | be will stop | SES OR €7.3) \/ | Hat ly! —-— Uncle Sam has 2030 women phy- sicians, ’ Baturday is the fashionable day for weddings in England, Queen Victoria has sixty piano her various residences, Mrs. Fawcett declares that maid 1s ‘the elite of her sex.” water they Acro the boots for dogs to wear weather, fernerics are favor with Chinn popular basket ones. The brate their birthdays women know their ages, In ei vilizea , regard thei importance { The golden age of woman was t sixteenth aud se French history Fra: bo CORRS venteenth centuries Daring raled by Ril thas WAS Dracsicany | Holland, Be 3 IAL Gown vs he thinks mys have you he thinks the stairway?” asked she, hat way, Miss, but the The American she could not wait for “Dick, come with ' she cried, taking his poor numb wand in here, and then she led him, linking like an at the dazzling ight, up to her ing room, and, opening the door of her dressing n, she led him to a little bed; she od back the corner of the cover so he iny, rosy sleeping baby face, and her little head with ita downy vellow hair, and then, as he fell on bis knees, she went out She heard him sobbing and' praying, but he soon grew quiet, got up from his kvees and came and stood in the doorway, turning his hat in his hands, his face very white and determined. *‘Miss,” he said, ‘‘yer can have her; for I ain't fitten. I thought I could run her an’ the busi- ness too, but—I can't; I ain't fitten.” When the good ship Teutonie set sail from Liverpool the next week the most distinguished of the first-class passengers was Miss Una Dodd (the American lady), and the most distin. guished second-class was Miss Una Dodd's futher, who was going out to the boy nd ha conld see Una's conchman for as much each month as he had been making in six; and Una Dodd's sttendant took her along the narrow gangway between the first and second-class passengers several times n day, #0 that Dick might feel his “little nn" with his hands, and make quite sure that she was “‘all there,’ — New York Independent. - sn Neat Way to Stop a Leak at Sea, Tho Atlas Line steamship Alvena, from West Indian ports, which put into Norfolk leaking badly through a two-inch hole eaused by the corrosion of a plate near tho keel, arrived yoster- day. After about 825,000 worth of the ship's eargo had been jettisoned, the leak was stopped in a novel way, hole, The bitter end was mado fast to a ring bolt in a steel plate, which wns drawn taunt against the ship's bottom by the weight, —~New York Sun, { markable in | cover talent, | ing and mor | young ladies of | have { and ! Ven : ¢ of w | male popul quire compan known as ot | meager salari { for her Modern m nile hiant mi ¥34 ROLLY OOJeC% service vids of fo waiting on 3 1 y wiih y of a far We Obi hey are more discern severely critical in such matters than are Miss Helen Gould 4 3 New York City who the men. received upon appli to may be pronounced a full-fledged counselor and attorney at law A Chicago woman has invented nsefnl fish knife that scales, cleans and bones a fish without mangling it Another useful during the week is a new liquid makes lace curtains abeolutely proof against fire from gas or lamp flames, The wmiion the courts Board of from Mrs. Minturn to establish a pest house where patients will receive bet. ter attention than is commonly ae corded them. She was moved to this deed by the inearceration of a friend in the miserable quarters now used, The Empress Frederick of Germany has not only done excellent work in painting, but has now devoted herself with great energy to sculpture, Both at her eastle of Krouberg in the Taunus Mountains, as well as at her palace in Berlin, she has furnished Inrge studios and is engaged every day in drawing, painting or modei- ling. Worth had a peculiar way of show. ing his gratitude to the ex-Empress Eugenie. Every year it was his cus. tom to send her a large bouguet of Parma violets, tied with a mauve rib. bon, on which his name was embroid- ered in gold. This not was in grateful memory of her patronage at a time when her merest whim conld make or ruin a Parisian tradesman, | inevitable, aecording to the seas | nothing the in the ability to dis- degree of LL.B, | invention discovered | that | Health of New York | City bas received a gift of 825.000 | Curions Weddings in Michigan, Many curious customs are in vogne the foreign population of Northern Michigan, especially in so- cinl matters, the Detroit Fro Press. When a French couple get married a earringe ride is Among Hays or a sleigh on of . The together in one wagon or sleigh, but girl have an indi- and the vear, Couples ure not PRCKS i each fellow and his vidusl rig, the bride ing the lead and the ' a funeral proce 111 funeral groom tak others following ion; but there 1s about especially pac er that flor ding custor fh Inoney-g« of wedding the meri $800 mile spectively. The Vestalinden, aband vember, 1801, was last April, 1802, after drifting in 151 davs. One of the | doned ships on recor oner Ws I. Whit 1888 ned in No reported in mile call) whi Highest of all in Leavening Power Royal VED - | THE SECOND LIFE ! 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