LOVE'S SHELTERING WAY.
M'
BY MATTY C. NASH.
ARY WIXSLOW hurried a, little u
she climbed iuto the ten-thirty
.tctomniodution train from New Ro-
i belle to New Vork. The accommo
dation trains were always crowded;
and she wanted very much to get a seat
jii the side of the car from which she
ould catch a glimpse of her house,
vhcre ber babies were. She had al
nost missed the train lingering over
;ood-by kisses and bnby love-making.
She was doing a very bold thing. For
he first time in the four years of her
married life, she was undertaking sonie
Uiing without consulting her husband
i bout it. But it was for bis sake to
uve him from terrible anxiety; and to
'lo that she would dare anything.
The tears stood in her eyes at the
bought of his shoulders, already
-looped under their burden of care, and
lis face so crossed with lines that told
is plainly as did the scantily covered
town from which the curly, boyish
rop of brown hair hud slipped how
i.iid 1 1 ud been, and wus, bin light up the
i ream of fortune.
And his slinbby cont nndfrnyedlinenl
avid rarely got uny new clothes, and
lieu lie did ho went to a cheap tailor
lio (lid not lit him very well, lie wus
. little man. Mary used to think if he
.id been u few inches taller he would
;ivc eared more for dress. I!ut she
:is wrong about that. David was very
uiileht mid not wonderfully clever;
dt he knew it would save to bo a eout
s beautiful an Joseph's to make him
lore respected ut his ollice or more
i.e. I at homo. All beyond those two
iaees w as nothing lo him.
lint Mary loved him. She more than
veil him. S!ie put liim on a pedestal
id crow nod him with glory and hon
r. She broke the alabaster box of her
hole being's adoration at his feet;
ud she would Have died fur him gladly.
Mary was u l.ii'ge, fair woman, who,
(.lily and fashionably dressed, would
..ive looked like a duchess. As it was,
i her simple, home-made gowns and
lodest bonnet, she only looked like u
ery beautiful mother, which is more
bun some duchesses do.
A conventional looking young curate
md a handsome, liirge-feutured man of
0, with a deep mourning baud on his
nut, sat in the seat directly in front of
Mary. The elder wun had his little
laughter, dressed in mourning, on his
siiec, and he and the cur a to laughed
i nd chatted with the little girl to
amuse her.
'There is a newly made widower,"
bought Mary; "und be doesn't seem to
mind much. I wonder if David would
i she had almost said "will") care so
.ittle."
Suddenly the older man turned to the
c unite, and Mary saw his face drawn
in an ngony of grief. ,
"Did you ever bury anynimjvottjoved
desperately?" he asked.
The curate answered with appropri
ate courtesy: "No, I have been very
fortunate. 1 have always thought, how
over, that the only wise way to face
such n grief would be philosophically,
knowing it was Ciod's will that it
t-hould come to nil."
"You have never buried anyone you
loved t!'!perately. When you come to
do that you will not be thinking of phi
losophy." said the other.
And then they spoke of other things.
Mary pulled down her vail to hide her
vet checks.
"I'oor David! lb; will mind; he will
;.ot forget right away," she thought.
A hall-hour later, Mary stood iu a
clean, bare little room high up on the
top tloor of a cjuiot boarding-house on
a side street. A young doctor with
wide-awake, intelligent face was talk
ing to her.
"Yes, Mrs. Iiohinson," lie said, grave
ly, "the operation is imperative; it is
the only way to nave your life, if it
succeeds, you will become a perfectly
strong woman; if it fails, you'll be
i-pared the pain of a Huge ringdcutli, for
you'll not survive the operation more
than n half hour ut the most. 1 put the
ease plainly to you. Y'ou must know
all the circumstances, all the risks, that
you may decide wisely."
"I have decided." she answered.
steadily.
"Very well, 1 will have the nurses
here in a little while, and thu other doc
tors will meet me here ut u (juartcr be
fore two. I have spoken to them about,
it. I was only waiting for a final word
from you to complete ull the arrange
ments." lie bado Mary "(iood morning," and
left her alone.
Mary was naturally rather a coward,
especially about little things. Spiders,
worms and snakes, even very small
ones, made her almost faint; and she
was ufraid to travel alone, or to sleep in
a room by herself. Hut her pulse was
very steady now. It seemed to her to
fay: "David, David, David," as it beat.
She walked over to the window und
looked down nt the people coming and
?oing in the street. It seemed to her
thnt she had entirely lost her personal
ity. She had really become this Mrs.
Kobinson she hud told the doctor and
the boarding-house keeper she wns.
Me wus of vital importance lo nobody
about her. To the doctor and nurses f-he
a as a "case," and there were many
eases" like her in the city. The hos
pitals wero full of people who were
uing to die soon, were dying even now.
s she thought of it the black pall of
ath seemed to settle over her and ull
ie saw, und smother her.
"My husband my husband!" she
isped; "can 1 bear it without yon?"
Presently she sat down nt a little
'.-.ble. and wrote a letter to him. She
rut his full address with careful clear
ness on the envelope. Then she wrote
note to the doctor, inclosing her
' 'ssband'a letter in it
She bad never thought of dyituralone.
FOUND
In the fleeting thoughts she had had of
death, David had always been there to I Shirt-waist jewelry Mt
noia ner nana. Uut now she was liable, ' enunl and gold. '
even likely, to die alone. Poor Mary! White violeta with imnienae
IN THE STORES.
in silver.
"Alone" meant to her "without David."
"Mr. Robinson," said Dr. Ellis, when
green
leaves for white hats.
Nun's veiling in light color for semi-
1 I A A. 1 .
wie auiBtam surgeons ana nurset una i transparent irowns.
come. I feel it due to myself to ask j . Five-inch width, of taffeta ribbon for
that you repeat before these gentle- I nnrM .
wcu nuuv j uu kuiu m rcguru o your
Underatandint? of the risk vmi run In !
tmtlprfmtnfr ihim nnrotirn
"I know that I mnv die hut T wi-h , ! Mnny silver fastening designed to
undergo the operation.
Dlack batistes, organdie, lawn, dimity.
i etc., for mourning wear.
She spoke slowly, with quiet dignity.
"There is no oue whom you wish to
vee, no one who should be consulted?"
"Xo one."
She drew from under her pillow the
letter she bad written, and handed Hto
Dr. Kills. "When the issue of the op- i
ration is quite clear, 1 wish you to j
open and read this," she said.
She lay quietly whfle they put theether
mask over her white face, not strug
gling against it as some people do.
Only once she sat up suddenly and
i looked about her with wide open eyes,
stretcning out her arms and saying:
"Oh, if you will only let me lie in my
husband's arms I will bear anything!"
And then she lost consciousness.
It wns half-past three when a breath- I
less messenger, rushing into Mr. Wins
low's down-town oflice, handed him a
note from Dr. Ellis:
"Dear Sir: Your wife has Just under
Rone an operation. I have every reason
to hope it will bo a successful one. The
Inclosed note from .Mrs. Window will ex
plain to yon why 1 have but now mudeyou
t'.vure of what haa been done. Very sin
cerely yours, J. HOWE ELLIS."
The other note read thus:
"Dear Dr. Ellis: 1 have not told you my
real name, for I did not wUh my hus
band to have the pain and anxiety ofan
tiefpaUn this operation nor the sufTerlmf
of seeiiu? me stirrer It; and I thought that
If ytiu knew I had a husband you would bo
likely lo oSji-ct to taking ho muuh re.-'pon-sllillity
wiiliuui having him to shure It.
If all cots well you need only send him tho
lficl.jH.ii note. If I should die till lilm
tcntly. MAKV W1XSI.OW."
".My )arlln Husband: You have been'
so koo I. so tender, so truo to me, und you
have madu mo ho huppy always, that I
have wanted some vuy to show you how
k'rutc fill 1 um. Tin re has never been any
way before, hut now there Is a way. Thank
tliu dear Father you have taught nio to
love and have helped me to try to serve, I
have been strum; enough to save you a
(,'P'at deul of pain.
"When you yet this, my love, my heart's
oear, uear love, 1 shall bo quite througli
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FLORAL CULTURE.
neen hanKiiiK over me for months. I
anew i must undergo It or die, mid yet It
was so sweet at home I could not come In
here Ufure; but the doctor said 1 could
not wait any loiiRer, so 1 came In to-day.
"Jane Is a (food nurse; she will take care
of the children while I am away. Aren't
they beautiful?
"Uod bless you, my husband, my love.
re, u , "MART."
Ihe three doctors stood wiping their
gleaming instruments, talking in half
whispers of the operation. A white
eapped nurse wus unpinning the sheets
and padding from the operating table..
At the side of the bed where Mary
lay, another doctor and another white
capped nurse stood watching for the
first signs of her returning conscious
ness. She lay heavily and with mus
cles relaxed, with closed eyes, breath
ing labori6usly, and white as the linen
jn her bed.
David pushed open the door with un
steady hand, and came across the room
to the bed. Without a word he dropped
on his knees in a grief-stricken heup at
the bedside.
Dr. Ellis put his hand on his shoul
der, and he looked up, with nnguish
laden eyes, that pitifully pleaded for a
word of hope.
"She will do well," said the doctor, in
o cheery whisper. "The operation was
i success far beyond) our expectations.
Hut it is Important fur her to come
:ut of the ether quietly. Don't you
think, Mr. Winslnw, it would be n good
plan for you to stand here ut the foot
:f the lied, where she can see you when
she. lirst opens her eyes? Then she w ill
forget entirely all the pain of hcrsep-
aiation Irom you, und cvervtliiiiff will
lie quite nice and comfortublo."
David rose, dumbly obedient, nnd
stood where the doctor directed, de-
touring with his eyes the pale, beauti
ful face lying amid the thick brown
braids.
"Now, Mrs. Winslow, is the pillow
right' asked Dr. hllis, trying to
rouse iter. "Wont you let me try to
raise you up n little?"
It seemed hours to David before
Mary, with a deep sigh, lifted her heavy
white lids. A moment her linlf-coii-
scious eyes rested on the. doctor, who
,was speaking to her, and then she
looked at David. She tried to make
Ihe nerveless Hps move fulled once,
nnd then slowly, painfully, she said:
"Darling, I love you!"
"She's all right now," said Dr. Ellis,
i in a tone of relief.
( In a few moments ull the doctors had
cone. leavinir David nnd a. nurse to
watch Mary.
"kite's doing splendidly now, sir,"
said the nurse, moved by the trouble in
David's face to speak to him. "There
is not a bit more danger."
Hut David did not believe that. The
shadow of the terrible possibility of his
wife's dying had fallen ucrosshis heart,
and it would take more thun words to
lift it. I
As the doctors went down the steps
of tho boarding house one said:
"And yet we are taught that women
are not brave."
"Oh, yes, they are brave, or the world
would soon be depopulated," Bnid tho
Dewly-fledged doctor who had admin
istered the ether. "Dut or Dr. Kills,
now what do you think of that scheme
of minu for removing the vermiform
appendix in infants, nnd doing away
forever with chances of appendicitis?"
"A great scheme nnd a great schemer,
doctor," answered Ellis, laughing
good-naturedly. "When you find a
mother with a subject to try, consider
me at your service gratis for the opera
tion." And the doctors went their several
rvays. X. Y. Independent.
Azalens should be put out-of-doors
in a shady, airy place during summer.
Vv. very careful to see that the soil in
I the not is never allowed to become
i dry.
! Ferns should have n light, fibrous,
spongy soil of leaf-mould. Change
; them from the sandy soil in which they
are now. and I think you will find on
improvement ill them,
if neither bignonia, wistaria or honey
suckle Hourish with you the failure
may be due to unsuitable soil. Give
them, if possible, a mixture of loam
and clay.
The pearl is considered the best va
riety for general cultivation. I do not
think this plant is ever grown from
seed, except by way of experiment.
Young bulbs are planted. I am told
by one of our most extensive dealers
in this flower that the best bulbs come
from North and South Carolina.
Tea Roses. For summer use the tens
and ever-blooming roses nre preferable
to hybrid perpetuals, as they come into
bloom when small, and flower freely all
the season. For permanent beds I
would prefer hybrid perpetuals to any
other class. Give them a rich soil,
riant them any time after the 1st of
May.
Transplanting roRes, pepniea and
other shrubs and herbaceous plants
should be done in spring, Get a cata
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and study it well. From it you will
learn what plants do well In shnde,
and It will also enable you to select
plants which bloom at different sea
sons. It is an easy matter to make n
selection which will give flowers from
May until October. Ladies Home Journal.
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j Insanity is increasing in Ireland.
I Knglish statistics say that one serious
I cause of lunacy is the abuse of ten, nn
! other nh. overindulgence in alcohol, a
i third the disappointment of having
tried emigration nnd failed,
j Political prosclytism by theater plays
1 seems to be tho fashion now in l'nris.
!A piece glorifying tho late Cen. Iiou
I Linger, which fell absolutely flat, ha.s
! been followed foy a royalist play, "Ton
Droit, ton liol," at theNoveau theater.
It was equally unsuccessful, though it
created a row in the audience.
"A. D. Invisible Elevators," by which
i a man might tidd four inches to lii.s
. stature, was the means by which n
j London swindler (started iu to make
I his fortune. The elevators were pieces
of cork an inch thick put In the beelsof
shoes, which were bought at 63 cents
n dozen pairs and sold for $1.37 a pair.
He had made over $4,000 when arrested.
I Either there htiB been a great change
of manners in Norway during the last
j 30 years or else D jornstjeruo Djornson
, has decided to dhow that ho can out
i Ibsen his daughter's father-in-law. In
i "Magnhild" and "Dust," his latest
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! ried to tin extreme, und there is no
trace of the idyllic poet who wrote
"Arne" and "The Happy Boy."
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"Caran d'Ache," the pseudonym of
Mr. Emmanuel Poise, the French artist,
ta Suaaian for "lead pencil."
Mr. Paul Dunbar, now In England, i
writing a novel. An English edition of
hta "Lyrics of Lowly Lue" will be Is
sued shortly.
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, of Har
vard, has been made president of the
Arts and Crafts society, which waa re
cently organized in ltoston.
Mr. Sargent' portrait of "Mrs. Carl
Meyer and Her Children" is conceded to
be the picture of the year at the Royal
academy exhibition, London.
A statue of Queen Victoria, commem
orating the sixtieth anniversary of her
accession to the throne, is to be erected
by the citizens of Belfast at a cost of
$25,000.
Mr. S. 1L Crockett, who has not been
in very good health, has gone on a walk
ing tour in I'omerania, where the scene
of his next novel, "The lied Axe," is to
be laid.
It is proposed to create at Harvard a
Memoriul collection of English litera
ture, in memory of the late Prof. Fran
cis Child. A foundation fund of $12,000
is being raised for this purpose.
Mr. James line Allen's new novel,
"The Choir Invisible," is said to bo
the most rapid piece of writing the
author has done, being twice as long
us any of his other books, yet it was
written in about six months.
Dr. Nansen's account of his arctic
journey lias been required in such num
bers that It hns been, nt times, impos
sible to meet the demand. In England
many religious people, nre criticising
the book because there is no recognition
of God in it. '
Mrs. Isabel Whiteley, author of the
SMcccssful novel, "The Falcon of Lang
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is descended in direct line from Thomas
Parsons, whose great-grandson was
Kew Jonathan Parsons, the father of
Maj. Parsons, of the revolutionary
army.
FOR THE HEALTH'S SAKE.
The ronrof the lion enn be heard far
ther than the sound of any other living
creature.
The lord lieutenant of Ireland re
ceives $100,000 a year for his salary and
expenses. The princo of Wales gets
only $20:),(l0() n year.
When little Alfonso of Spain comes of
age he will be one of the richest mort
tircliH of Europe, as the state allows
him $1,100,000 annually, with an addi
tional $000,000 for family expenses.
The president of France receives
$240,000 eneh year for salary nnd ex
penses nn enormous sum when it is
considered that France lias the stupen
dous national debt of $0,000,000,000, the
largest ever incurred by any nation of
tho world.
In round numbers the government of
Great Uritain pays $3,000,000 annually
to the royal family. Of this sum the
queen receives nearly $2,000,000, besides
her revenues from the duchy of Lan
caster, which amount to a quarter of a
million.
Italy pays her king $2,000,000 each
year. The civil list of the German em
peror is about $4,000,000 a year, besides
largo private revenues from personal
estates. The czar of Russia owns in fee
simple 1,000,000 square miles of culti
vated land and has an income of $12,-000,000.
Cold drinks, ice cream and frozen ices
do not make people cool. If overheated,
cold drinks are. most disastrous to the
digestion. Hot drinks, rather than cold,
are conducive to comfort in hot weather.
If the eyes are much inflamed, bath
ing them in cold water is sometimes
more restful than bathing them in hot
water. Never, under any circumstances,
apply a worm poultice to the eyes. If
they Inflame easily, great care should bo
taken about going out where the winds
are boisterous and the dust is flying.
To euro flatulency take ten drops of
the tincture of nux vomica in cold water
before meals every day for eight weeks;
also take the phosphate of sedium, a
teaspoonful In a teacupful of water
(boiling water to be preferred) upon
rising in the morning and upon retiring
at night. After meals take a teaspoon
ful of pure glycerin.
A bed should never be made up underl
two hours from the time it has been
slept in. It should be aired thoroughly
and beaten until it is light. Open all
the bedroom windows nnd let the fresh
air and sunlight into the room. Hair
pillows nre much more conducive to
healthful sleep than feathers, end light
woolen blankets are better than heavy
coverings.
Eating between meals, snya a wiso
doctor, is a bad habit for one to acquire.
It will certainly injure the digestive
process, nnd soon upsets n natural,
healthy appetite for regular meals. It
is a very easy habit to get into, and is
rather difticuit to break up. If any eat
ing is indulged in between meals, per
fectly ripe, fresh fruit is the least harm
ful kind of.rcfreslinient.
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The Shropshire has h round, solid
body and a good fleece, of six or eight i
pounds, ami is an excellent sheep for a
umiill (lock upon the farm and for do- ;
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The roller is indispensable for pre- j
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sets. That with a shallow cultivation
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better seed bed than will deeper tillage.
If thu soil Is made friablo deep down
the onion may grow large, but it will
likely be thick-necked nnd grow a crop
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To be effective mineral manures for
spring nnd summer crops must be ap
plied early. They need some of tho
spring ruins to dissolve the fertilizer so
that the plant roots can make use of it.
Ilcsides; as weather and soil become
warm and dry there is less need of tho
fertilizer, asthesoil itself releases more
of its own fertility under such condi
tions. There is no better wny to fertilize
poor land than to how it with peas,
using phosphnte of lime to furnish tho
mineral fertility that this crop requires
to perfect the seed. It Is not nitrogen
which the peu crop most needs other j
than what the pea roots supply to dis- !
integrating nlr in the soil and liberating
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lime and phosphate are required. With
these supplied the soil will grow richer
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J. Nat Harbin, Senator Ilearst's old
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