MIDDLEBURG POST.
HIS STEPMA.
I knowed a little codger once
As onery as could be;
Hod chuwr and swear, run off from
fchool.
And pester beat and tree;
Kept ull tho neltfhbor"s dona afeared
And half their winders broke;
There couldn't for that Tommy Tuff
i One prulsln' word be spoke.
Xtut by and by his ma was dead
Ills pa met Wldder Green
And courted her; she imrleyed some,
'Cause Tummy was so mean.
But last she said she'd pive consent
If neighbors, friends, ami kin
Would promise to lit tiKddlln' out
While she broke Tommy In.
These mentioned, knowln' things was
bad.
Saw fomethint? must be clone.
So nil agreed to keep hands ott
And let his stepma run
Tho youngster; well, she used the twig
A little, but not much;
But, Kraclous! How site used the ax
And 'later hoe and such!
She kept that boy a rhoppln' wood
And doln' turns and chores.
And hoein' com and Harden sass
And scrubbln' steps an' floors
Till ho was Klad to bo to school
To fret a llttlo rest;
Tot she was monstrous kind and good
Soon as he'd done his best.
Ills busy hands stirred up his wits.
And soon that boy at school
."W'ns lendin' all his classes; hlra
They used to call a fool!
He studied doctorln'. Rot to be
A most uncommon man,
(All 'causo his stepma worked tho vim
That one to meanness ran.
The nerve that phiyln" hookey takes
Might turn a whole school down.
And that which breaks a winder light
Might sometimes build a town.
There's lots of onery little tykes
A loalln' 'round the streets
?,eed only work to make 'em men
Instead of trlllln' bents.
Emm Ghent Curtis, In Denver News.
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The Reveries of a
Sand Crab.
BY S. RHETT ROMAS.
IJ'TIIE day is soft nml misty, bright,
1 nml a breeze blow the foam of
!ie tvaves over the wind.
"Tide in hip-It, nml the water
wdSilies up shells mul star-Ash, and
npurs of tlrift wood, along the elge
of the beach, anil children troop out
Irom the big hotel to pick up the
pretty play things, while grown peo
ple tit on tho half-buried, water
uoaked masts and logs, and watch the
routless ploy of the ocean, and the
flitting shadows of tho clouds as they
shift by in the su miner sky.
; "They sit idly on the beach and
cay foolish things to each other, and
laugh, and half the time do not rea
lize the poetic grandeur of the scene
before them, the wondrous combin
ing linq of tints and colors or the
sublinilTy of. the play of inooa beams
n the roJlingt restless water.
"The -children run about and shout
...... b..i-.'iol, gather -tiiclls, and dig
holes in the sand my sand with
their toy shovels, and then . quarrel
over who was first to see a piece of
scawnoil, or corral broken from tho
Florida reefs; or they hit down and
build houses, shouting with glee as
the wind sweeps them over, and they
melt away. Their elders, absorbed
in themselves, talk of their puny am
bitions, their plans anil prospects,
iheir shallow loves, anil short lives,
nil of which 1 hear ns I peep out
from the sand dunes and listen.
"There is a bench, close down by
the water's edge, near my favorite
haunt. Kvery evening at dark I
come out slyly, knowing the pale
liffht will confound me with the gray
mind, so that no one, not even the
clogs will snap and snarl, and dig in
to the shifting hillocks in pursuit of
iim can distinguish my slight, agile
form when night falls.
"1 come out slowly and stealthily,
anil laugh at the big New Found
lands, and querulous, over-fed pet
dogs, rambling along the edge of the
water, while their mistresses stroll
by, nml tho wind blowing against
them, shows pretty feet, tipping
from under ruflles and laces, und soft
strands of hair, little curls and
tendrils which.no comb or ribbon can
Jceep in place, on our long stretch of
wind-blown seashore.
"I watch the young men nod the
cirls as they saunter along, and al
wavs guess rightly which onps are
going to pause, and sit down on the
bench. Oh, I never make a mistake
"There is a certain couple I've
CTown to know quite well. She's
been here all summer. She's pretty,
very pretty, and holds her head high
He comes over from the city fre-
ouentlv. very frequently of late, fot
the summer is waning fast, and will
soon be over, and then they will all
go away from the seashore and back
lo their every-day lives, and, as far
ns I can judge, will forget each other
coinplrl.-ly.
"I I'.ke to watch men and women,
nr. 1 i vmember faces. Often the
same ones come buck and renew
their walks on the bench, sit on the
rocln f the breakwater and occupy
this decaying old bench near the
beach, but it is seldom that those of
the year before are again together.
"I know, because it is quite amus
ing lo watch them, and it makes me
laugh until I grow tired and positive
ly weak, to hear the same old foolish
talk repeated over and over again.
The only difference is that when the
seasons change they change compan
ions. v
"And, strange to say, they all love
to prate disdainfully of the 'changing
sea' and of what they are pleased to
call 'constancy.' That seems to be a
favorite topic with them. Especially
with the very young men and the
girls just from college. The older
and wiser a man grows, I notice, the
leas he has to say about constancy,
And the women ,,
"Well, H is hard to tell efctly " JVVTa
what a woman really thinks. She'll '
assert a thing which she doesn't be- Compton told ine he saw you the
here one bit; and ahe win talk nip- 0aer niirht? .
. 1 . 1 . I - . 1 I. .. i t. o
pauny ui " V" i"""K" -yes indeed. We chatted for
and absorption of her heart and soul, v,.,.,.- he ... llrh .
just to make her listeners believe it feiiow! lie has promised to spend
is a matter of very small conse- the winter ia f bectuIge rm to i
quence to her. there; and to take the same steamer
Oh, yes, I ve found that out long we wi tnke to abroad in the
go. Its hard to tell what a woman ,pi.jug. ne' awfuHy good-lookjng,
means, and still harder to guess BO :ve w
what she intends doing. Some of 'cm: ..VK -mntnn'. ricrr,r Honnt fM.
piny fast and loose, and I've no- Jow , knew vo.d uke him oi
ticed they often spite themselves out course as your 'Iun8 are all aiJ ollt
of a strange sort of perversity and for the winter nml s,,rin yo
give an entirely wrong impression of wollWn-t care to alter them?"
themselves, their character and their, ..why K,lolll(1 L aIter thera? Aren-t
sentiments. !... t.,.M,.
.Men arc more straightforward, ..yrv. onlv Bome fe,low miaht
and consequently more comprehen- pro,))sen little alteration in them
siblo.. There must be a reason why for his ,,enefit. you are ure you
women act so strangely, but I don't don.t tare to lnnke nny chnnfye?
know it. , I .-, mnfa ti.ru T ran't Immnna
"I've often laughed to split my nv K11,rKf:nn ...i,;p1l wi,i lnnl.-i.
sides to see how the girls who come me aUer m.m, Jmt now CouU
out here on these sands manage to you?
puzzle the men and get the situation ..None at n T rnnt maffine how
mixed up, when, iu reality, both tho thoy cm)(1 be lnipr.ove(1 on. shall
men and the girls are pining for an w BtroU (low on the beai.h?
Identical termination to their lime ( The snm, crab ca,ne close.f nnd
summer game. waltzed over the dunes down to tho
Hut they ore nil at cross pur- water's edge in ad ecstacy of de-
lioses, and come back to this island ljn-ht
for sea bathing mismntched and un- ..j knew now lt ,vouij be! Now the
happy, eynical and morose. breach between them is irrevocable.
"I've heard so many silly things They've duir their nit with their own
said by people sitting on this bench, 0ij IleMi 0 back to tbe cltv. ond
nd I've crept out on the sand and beqi work hnr(j nnti -rovr morose
observed and listened for so many nnd crabbed and rich, and Maude, she
years, that I could be very enter- ff0 to l'aris and become more
tnining if I choose to give the result worldy, nnd frivolous nnd capricious
of my discoveries to the public. !eacb yenr nd the handsome fellow
"Why, only last week, when those . the white flannels will be there.
two I am interested in were out here too. while the trirl who dresses so
chatting, it struck me how grateful wen win stay ln yew ynrki
Dick lhornton would be if I could j "They've mixed it up ns usual. It's
have made him see that Maude Cam- 00 filnnv! '
eron's light badinage was all put on j "Hello! They ore going back to
like her clever, careless society man- tbe bench. That's queer, and there's
ner, just to hide Her real ieenngs that confounded dog Eoyal. Why
ond because she was so deeply hurt, can't he keep away?
that lie Had let a week pass witnoui ..vyy ghould you and I, Maude, mis
running over to see her, nnd had understand each other?" Dick said,
not even written. slowly. "You know, sweetheart the
"So Dick grew formal, nnd also whole world is as nothing "
'society in his manner, and men- There was a scramble on the bench,
tloned a pleasant call he had made on and Boynl dashed by in pursuit of a
Dorothea Spencer. Dorothea is the sand orab.
tall, handsome girl who was over) Tm glad it's safe in its hole under
hero a month ago, and looked so the sand, poor little thing," Maude
stunning in her striped black nnd said, softly, a little later, "for nn
yellow bathing suit. I danced over exquisite night like this every human
the sand in the moonlight, nml shout- creature should be sublimely happy."
cd with delight at the absurdity of "How remarkable! They've come
their misunderstanding each other, to nn understanding!" the sand crab
nnd their mutual indignation over ' Baid, peeping out. N. O. Times-Dem-
The walking1 sick, what
a crowd cf them there are:
Persons who are thin and
i1: :;ot sick enough
weak bi:1:
to rro i ) b
Chronic cases" that's
rai t'.;e (lectors call them,
:k i:: common English
what never existed,
"Of course Dick Thornton never
expluined to her what I hoard him
discussing later on with a friend,
ocrat.
Intended for a Compltmeat.
There was a family reunion at the
while walking up nnd down on the home of little Alice's mother. Grand
hotel piazza and smoking; that their father, grandmother, uncles, aunts,
firm has been unusually busy with nnd cousins had gathered from far
some cotton shipments, and that the and near. The child was much bc-
senior partner is away. wildercd, says Harper s Magazine, nnu
"I travel around a good deal these had great difficulty in remembering
bright moonlight nights, specially e new names ana tusunguisiung
when the tide is law, and in that way . the strange faces. ,
T get to sen nnd know everything lney were an anxious xo iMnceeoy-
that is going on. nizea ny xne nine one, me oni,y.uwi
"I run across the sand hills to the 'present, and her mother was pres
old bench on the beach, then to the ca?er to impress all their names
sickness.
T'i f '. ) the continued
Ions c: f-.-sh they need
Scott's i;n;uision. For the
feeling of weakness they
need Scott's Emulsion.
It makes new flesh and
gives new life to the weak
system.
Scott's Emulsion gets
thin and weak persons out
of the rut. It makes new,
rich blood, strengthens the
nerves and gives appetite
for ordinary food.
Scott's Emulsion can be
taken as long as sickness
lasts and do good all the
time.
There's new strength
md flesh in every dose.
We will be glad
to send you a few
doses free.
Be tura that this picture in
the form of a label is on the
wrapper of every bollle el
tuuuion you buy.
SCOTT C: BOWNE,
Chemists,
409 Pearl St., N. Y.
50c tnd $1 1 all drugglit.
ill m
Hinssflai
breakwater rocks and on such a
night ns this there are a good many
couples sitting on the rocks then I
go around by the hotel, where the
band is playing, nnd big white and
pink oleander hushes grow along the
front of the piazza, in spite of the
drifting sand. I am spare nnd agile
of limb, and have no fear of my ene
mies, the dogs, when night comes,
and I love to roam around and learn
the ways of the world.
"Last evening when I came out she
was sitting there gazing out nt the
sea and absurdly unhappy. She is
much too handsome to sit alone, and
far too spirited to mope, so as soon
as a fellow in white flannels came
on her mind. So the poor little girl
was subjected to the tiresome ques
tions: "Who is this, Alice?" "What
is my nnme?"
i At first she gave very vague re
plies, but soon fell into a tearful si
lence. j In a little while Mary, her pret
ty next-door v neighbor, came in.
: Alice loved Mary, and her face
brightened when she saw the dear
I familiar face among so mnny strange
! ones. Mamma told Mary of Alice's
trouble in remembering her rela
tives' names.
I "But Alice knows who I am," said
Mary, confidently. "Tell me, dear,
i who am I?"
"You ain't nobody," said the child,
-ffi
1
i lr 1 1 1 .1 1
. A , , . . .. 11 , fondly, with a sigh of relief.
into her usual brilliant spirits, nl-i " " ... -j v
., . . ... ,. 1 , Mary was somewhat confused, but
though she was thinking of some1 , . . ,. . ...
h, . .. .. ' under the circumstances it was the
one else hnlf the time. i , . , . .. . ..i,i -
.. I. ii highest compliment she could have
"They all net that way. . . 1
.u i n i . received.
"Now, the man in white flannel is,
I know, engaged to a girl a shrewd, why necl Avoid.d UlshUnder.
clever girl-who lives mostly abroad, i . . tlnuHMH(.(1 nf v,lmor. Kn.
a South African correspondent, writ-
One of the
For that
.Millionaire
Feeling
L-lniw1 liwitilantnltv nn n ntmi n 4 t9
. cu. j inff to a contemporary,
rcrwircr' (.mm ; in kTi-uiBinaii, ttsv9
tr than all tho other womra,
.11 4K. .Mn, akAsx s Cka 4A
Oil Olid I II V t Ull HI I I kTUC tyVtP. , . - , , . . f
.... ... , . , . durinr the dinner, took occasion ln
6h. eritioiaes the island and laugh. 1 offe e 8e1 r"k to ..y h
at the sand and U rery apish. She i h"Te s f ,r mo,,Bt of w"8
i.uo.Ka ..,,,inn. t H- lit,- T among the eaptured convoys. De-
h wet wa very much amused at this.
. ul j .i. i hi aad on referriag to it subsequently
"Neither does the man in white 8 i. , , .
fliu k n v.. i - rore attacking a convoy
tlUIIUVI.ll v T V, Ml w Ull m Vll'
gaged to her. They are to be mar
ried in Now York this fall. Mean
while I heard him flirting outrage
ously with handsome Maude out
here in the moonlight while the tide,
was rolling slowly up, nnd Maudo
ahe was encouraging him, and all
the time wishing he was somebody
cite. It's too funny.
"Dick is to be over this evening,
and as 1 lie night promises to b;
glorious, he and Maude will be out
hire until after 11.
"I'll sit out, too, on the sand and
listen. It will be diverting. Tho
older I grow, the more I enjoy
watching these queer human be
ings, who are always making them
selves and other people so foolishly,
miserably unhappy over nothing.
"I wonder if that huge Newfound
land, Koyal, will be around? I
hope not. I'm afraid of him.
"There conies Dick Thornton und
Maude towards the bench. Now we
will see how they are going to patch
up their quarrel, if one can call
drifting apart by that nnme.
"The night Is gorgeous and the
moonlight on the sea looks so peace
ful it ought to teach them the beauty
of serenity nod happiness. Tho
he made . inquiries if they were
miarded by .Scotsmen. If this were
so, he further inquired if it contained
any whisky. If the second condition
accompanied the first he always gave
the convoy a wide berth, because he
knew the beggars would fight to the
last man! The Scotsman replied that
he would write home nnd inform his
countrymen of this important ele
ment in scouting nnd in defensive
warfare a remark which set him in
to ronrs of laughter. St. Jntnes Ca
zette. v
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the tonsure in the way his order did.
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