m prices. ng. Bring in new. Don’ nall cost. 8. won't)? (every day. ~ dollars a week apiece, i Soars. thing in the morning. Jest’s I tell you. All day long they come and go— Pittypat and Tippytoe, Footprints up and down the hall, Playthings scattered on the floe=d . a dozen times a day, they troop, demanding bread—= _ Only buttered bread will do, Tnches thick with suzar, tool, ver yet have I said: “No, Bomteimes interrupt: their play With an’ internecing spat; - i: e thousand wating thitigs ~ Bvery day recurrent brings! _ Hands to scrub and hair to brush, Search for playthings gone amiss, Many a murmuring to hush, ; Many a little bump to kiss] Life's indeed a fleeting show, ~ Pittypat and Tippytoe! And, when day is at an end, There are little duds to mend} : yawnat Who but you could work such woe, ‘Pittypat and . Hppytoe! oe v But when comes this thonght to mes +%Some there are that childless dg 6 Stealing to their little beds, With a love I cannot speak, Wenderly I stroke their heads, Fondly kisseach velvet hk God help those who do not kfiow:™ : a Pittypat or Tippytos! Hh. .- | ‘On the Hoor, along the hall, - Rudely traced upon the wall, © : Thera are proofs: in every kind Hora . 1 Of the havoe they Have wrotight. And upon my heart youd find Just such iendpmarin it ou sought. ; : By HELEN FORREST ‘GRAVES. : —~WON'TI” de- dh// clared. Matty Mills, =» “Martha, hush!” : Zreproved Mrs. No Mills, holding up a T= yellow forefin © of chiding, ‘Is NSy' that the way to Ci Martha!” SWell, T' can’t. help itl? tty. sputted +tWe are cramped and cornered ahd hardworked enough already, aren't ithout taking boarders. for conven ek? And it is bad enough to pieced carpet and mended cur-{: and broken-edged crockery without other people finding i out. No, I “Martha, hugh” reiterated Mra. Mills, © #We don’t get a chance to earn money Four gentlemen, at three | m mukes twelve ‘And twelve dollars is twelve It's just as I tell jou, Martha, u must give up your room~—"" My Taom isn't fit for a squidgel to eep in.’ ‘And go to Aunt Betsy Billingses to leep while Mr. Belford is here.” tty tossed a pretty head, all a-glit- ith short-cut auburn curls. : ST won't!” she repeated. won't” expect,” composedly went on Mrs. t‘they’ll be here to-morrow mora- Doctor Pounce and Mr. Laselle dollars. <1 won't! will have the parlor, Mr. Cushing will “the big bedroom and Mr. Bel rd will have your room. ‘They'll ; fo _probably arrive before breakfast. I want you to catch half a dozen broilers and shut ’em up in the three-cornered 50. they'll be ‘handy to kill first I'll mix up some iit, and there's the blackberry : jam, - told the city folks like jam with: heir breakfast.” _ “But, mother,” cried Matty, Jim! there" 3 We're expecting Jim every day ~ —and what's is poor Jim to do?” +Jim can make out 'most any way," Mrs. Mills, indifferently; y only brother!” ‘pleaded Matty. | | the only son you've gotl he's been out West a year!” li, risk Jim,” ‘observed Mrs. Mills, aps he. Won't come. , And if he does, he Il manage somehow. I don’t feel as if 1'd oughter lose this ‘chance of naking a little “money.” o ¢Mother—’ ‘Now, Martha, you Bush; an’. do My mind's mado up, ‘don’t calculate to changeit!” Matty Mills went down to ‘a certain ite nook of hers behind the barn, here the little brook gurgled away un- der the branches of a Supesh old butter | to be poor, without ‘exposing our: to all the old ministers in the I wish there wasn’t any con- | : tho mother hadn't put all Her ‘monéy Th the Bank. the. ‘week : - before it And |: :{ most miser: you—" {her'n. ‘|'way, his name's Beresford, not Belford, | as I s'posed i} was—that he used to visit +4 simply won’t : J if and two bright tears on her cheeks. : Proud to ‘make your acq An {| I'm sure: but I didn’t noways Tleast! I'll ; “dreckly, if you'll just lead yo down to thexbarn at the foot of “it hay and oats handy. | Where is the child? 1 do b’levé ‘she's’ | gone to Aunt Betsy Billings y _ #] Just like Martha. “| ealculatori? if distant as her perturbed. ‘mother imag- '{ up stairs, and, lighting the old lantern, | sat down to read. | step on the threshold outside. : 8 '| oh, Jim! Don’t be frightened, it's me— ‘| Matty.’ I'm hiding from mother. We've “had a difference of opinion. i bight wrested bird, on fhe floor of the. for going to seep at Aunt Betsy’s,- A HY on ‘rose, ‘orange-gold and glittering through the branches of the butternut tree, Matty was still sitting there, her elbws resting on her knees, Poor girl] She: fadgied - herself the ble being in the’ world. ¢‘Mr. Belford, eh?” Mrs. Mills had come to the door i ina bewildered way. . you before to-morrow morning. © Rid over a-horseback, did you? Oh, no, it ain't no inconvenience to me-—not th get you a bite o { We don’t keep no’ boy, but yowil find She neve! Matty Mille, however, was Bo P Ted. She had slipped in at the back door J of the barn, patted the red cow who. stood ruminating in her stall, made her- self a cosy little nest in the fragrant hay Suddenly there came a hesitating foot- | The door opened. Matty started: from her book. She leaned over the. big] beam, all fringed with bay, which made the partition of her impromptu divan. Who's there?! she called. “Jim— Mother has taken four horrid, stupid ministers to board . for a week—it's some kind of convention, Jim—and—Oh, do wait a minute!” . She swung herself lightly over the beam and alighted, like a fluttering, On, Jim, if you only knew—"’ “yl bog your pardon,” spoke ‘a quiet, composed voice,in the decp, well-modu- lated tones that bespeak much practice, ‘but I think there must be some mis-: take. Mrs. Mills sént me here to put up my horse. I'm afraid I am one of the ‘four bond ministers.’ Matty caught up ‘the barn lantern and held it on a level with his face. *‘Why,” she exclauned, vs Mr. Beresford 1” “That is my name. And you are Matty Mills,” said a stranger, a sudden light of recognition illuminated his face. «But, if 1t is sn allowable question— ‘how on earth came you here?” 4¢In the most natural way in the world. 1 live here. And youl” «I am here to attend the convention.” | Mr. Beresford 1” + ¢sMiss Mattyi? + $tAre you oe miinfster?® sede ‘I have that honor, Miss Matty.” » Ha “6¢Tf can't be possible!”” : - $Why shouldn’t it be possible?’ + Al- though you, perhaps, were not aware of’ it, 1 wis a theological student wie 1 I ‘met you in Massachusetts. Yes, Miss Matty,” with a mischievous nod of the ‘head, ‘4t’s ‘an incontrovertible fact. I. am one of the four horrid ministers.” _ Matty lowered her lantern. ssMay I ask your errand at the barn$” said she, in an altered voice, ¢Though perbeps my mother sent you to find el? Pap “No. She told me to come here to put up my hotke; he is waiting out- side.” ‘$:Oh, peor fellow, he must be very tired!” said Matty, hurriedly, “hanging the lantern ona hook. : “Open the big door, Lead him into onoor the empty stalls. Not that side. = Bassie is there— the cow—and she isn’t used to horses.” With quick, deft hands, the girl tossed down an armful of hay into the manger and showed Mr. Beresford where to find the painted pail wherewith to bring water from the well, and then leaving the lantern as a uide, she vanished. Mr, Beresford smiled quietly as he made his horse comfortable, and then re- turned to the honse, where Mrs, Mills ‘had prepared an appetizing repast. But when he went to bed at ten o'clock there was no sign of Matty’s return, Mrs. Mills herself hurried over to Aunt Betsy's house in the morning. 1 “Where's Martha?’ said she. her.’ »” x “+<Marthy?” e echoed Aunt Betsy, put- ting one hand behind her ear after the fashion of deaf people. ' ¢¢What sbout | Masths} She ain’t been here.” ‘Then where is she?” cried Mrs. Mills. siHow should I know?” counter- -ques- tioned Aunt Betsy, irritably. s*She was always as full of kinks as a clothesline’on a wet day!” sighed Mrs, Mills. “4'I guess I'll jest have to ‘do the best I can without her. She was dréad- | ful opposed to my boardin’ the four rev: erends; but I guess my will's as strong as I'll get along somehow, and Martha shan't have a cent of the money I earn—no, nota cent! Butain’t it funny, Betsy? Mr. Beresford tells me—by the LY “I want up to Mansfield, where ‘Martha taught one term a spell ago.” “1 want to know?” said Aunt Betsy. . #*He seen ber down to the barn last .| night,” added Mrs. Mills. ¢‘She showed him where to put up his horse, an’ that: was the last of her. . I wish I knew where | she was!” The convention had been in session sgveral days, when, during Mr. ‘Beres- ford’s sermon in the crowded village church, his eyes fell on Matty Mills’s face, half hidden in the shadow of one of the | quaint wooden pillars. He paused a moment id mid-sentence; then he collected himself, : a3 3 Diffiastly as ever, oe ‘Martha l “Marthu!l’} Bat I assure |. it what. 5 ah ‘said she, — and deflact. -“But you made me- you J preached that sermon right at me “I wasn’t thinking of you; Migs Matty,” said he, quietly, .‘‘until my eye fell on your face, All the same, if the cap fits you, by all means put it on.” +I won’t be go willful for the future,” murmured Matty. *‘I’ll give up my own way. I'll come back this very night and help mother in her own fashion. After all she is ‘older than I am, and wiser.” .Bhe spoke partly as if she were think." ing aloud, as she ad “I'had meant to go up north again | and teach, but if mother wants me to stay here---” And nobody but Mattie herself—and ‘possibly Mr. Beresford, in a lesser degree —knew what it cost the girl to relinquish 1her ambitious dreams and take up the J humble, homely burden of every-day life. ‘| again. “Biit she did it bravely. ‘Martha ain’t the same gal she was,” complacently spoke Mrs. Mills.’ Tal ways knowed if I talked to her long ‘enough I could make her hear reason. Andold Doctor Pounce he gave her a Jot o’ real good advice convention week.” In the gray, soft days of November, Mr, Beresford came back ‘to fulfill a | promise he had made to preach once |. wore for the village pastor. : He walked across the meadows to the Mills cottage to shake hands with his hostess of the preceding summer. #Well: T declare?” said Mrs, Mills, in- | dustriously polishing her . spectacle glasses with the corner of her checkered aprons “I'm proper glad to ses you, r. Beresford! I'm orful sorry. Martha ain’t to home! I do hope you're wells My son James, he’s bere with ‘his wife. ‘They’ve concluded to settle Hast and |, live in this house with me, so Ishan’t need Martha anyway, and she'll hev her heart's desire of going back to Mussa- chusetts to leach. . She goes to. Mans: field next week.” “No, she doesn’t” said Mr. ‘Beresford, smiling. “She will remain here until she is married-—on Christmas Day!” + 4+ What!" ejaculated Mrs. Mills, #1 | guess you've heard some of the polghs bors’ gossip. Alonzo Whitcomb did ask "het to marry him, but she refused.” = “Nev sg she is going to be mar- ried. To me, Mrs. Mills. I met heras 1 came across the fields from the parson- age, and we settled the matter.” B—but,” stammared: Mrs. Mills, ¢:Martha always vowed and declared she never would be a minister’s wife?” Mr. Beresford smiled ‘his rare; sweet smile. - ©T think,” id he, #that she hag changed her mind.”—Saturday Nights Life-Saving Soap. “A ‘cake ‘of soap is'said to have saved he lives of five .men and a boy. off the | coast of New Guinea. The story, as told in the smoking room of a steamer going to Brisbane’by an.old . .10an, the owner of | several yessels.engagad in pearl. fishing, | ig: reported . in Mr. +Nisbett's *Colonial Tramps.” “It all happened in a moment, ” eald the old man. ‘The ship struck the 1eef | and went down like a Sanderbolt, and we had only time to Jump ‘overboard and swim ashore. “Wo were at the. mouth. of Cloudy Bay, which meant slow ‘roasting alive as soon as the natives gota peek at us, We were, Wet: - hungry. and miserable, with nothing to stay the pangs of hunger. @Ag’ daylight dawned 'T saw a case slowly drifting ashore. In a moment we were wading and swimming to secure the treasure. ‘We had it on. shore in no | time, ‘and prying it open with. aur fingers found it filled with soap. We bemoaned our hard luck in emghatic language. « «Close around the case, boys, they're | coming’ I shouted, as I saw fifty mop- headed savages, armed with spears, bows and arrows, rushing toward us. = At fifteen yards distance they paused, and their chief came out to talk with us. 1 grabbed up an armful of the soap tablets and advanced to meet him, { lighted as he saw the amber-like’ oat on which the sun ‘was shining. Ndvels ties, when they take, mean sucuess. “Going straight up to the man-eater I offered him a cake. He took it, smelt it and tasted it, Evidently he did not like its taste, for he scowled at me. By signs I showed him how to. use.it. The Papaun is fond of washing’ himself, and my pantomime took his fancy. Seeing a stream of fresh water I led. the chief to it. First washing my own hands I gave him the tablet. He did as I had done and was delighted. _..4sThen for the next ten minutes there was seruk bing among these copper skins, Their weapons were ‘thrown down and. they Iathered one another and then threw water over their bodies. : 11$¥Wa were saved, and made; onthe ‘spot medicine men of the tribe. The pictorial = advertisement of the soap makers were used to. decorate the idol house. Two. weeks afterward we were rescued by an English war sloop.” Remarkable Sale of OM Silver. One of the most remarkable sales of old silver ever held was at Edinburgh lately. It included pieces belonging toi the late Earl of Dunmore, and the ser-: vice of St. Martin’s Abbey in Pertshire.| Several - pieces: ‘were bought on com ‘mission from New York. The highest: | price ever obtained for old silver, $80, an ounce, was given for an early Italian double-handle cap and ‘cover, $420 be- ing the price. tofore ‘had been rbd ei Smoke to Keep Off ¥rost. ! ‘Experiments ‘were made during the $50 an ounce, winter at the Paris Jardin d’Acclimation i 3 ce, in producing “artificial ) 1 nst frost. A od fires were lighted, emitting columns of black smoke, which, ‘according tq the inv of the method, ‘his’ birth. “Phe highest price here. |* “WORDS OF WISDOX. Avarice i is a greedy egotism. Morning i is the rosebud of do “ Liove is an unforgetable émotion _. What's money without happiness? Marriage is materialized mobnshine . Youth brightens as it takes its. flight;. Stubborn audacity is the last Tofuge of guilt. aan ‘Women are weapons of offense and de- fense. Za *No man ever loved a a woman while he was busy. The hardest headed man was Bora with a soft spot. No man can be a hero wher his liver is out of order. Manners are the final and pertect flower of noble character. It is not always the man who Jooks lke a fool who is one. There is no time in life hea books do not influence a. man. - itis gent! le manners which prove so ir- resistible i in women; It is hard to find fault hits people who think justas wedo. «x Fo endeavor. to forget anyone is the certain way to think of nothing else. - Little'minds are too much wounded by Hele things; great minds see all, and are not even hurt. | _ Blessed be mirthfulness! the renavators of the world. It is one of Men will lét you abuse them if only you will make | | them laugh, The moment '& man finds a diction in himself between hif® amuse. ments and his humanity, it is a. signal that he should give them up. Every mans who can be a - firsborate something—as every man can be who is | & man at all—has no right to’be a fifth- rate something ; for a fifth-rate somethin Is no better than a first-rate Botiing: | s a ni, < How Rivers Are Made. = The soil of the Northwest, in which thie Mississippi has it8 sources, is largely a. tlayey loam. When it is unprotected by the shade of trees, the heat of ‘a summer sun bakes the surface into a hard crust. Unless the rains are protracted, and they ‘seldom ‘are in the warm months, they fail to soften the crust and penetrate deeply into the soil. If the surface is uneven; most of the water flows quickly into the streams and is borne away from that region. ‘If the surface is level, the intense heat causes. rapid evaporating. Moreover, the radiation of ‘a large body of heated land rarefies the air and creates thirsty winds which greedily ‘abscrb moisture. In consequence of the rapid off-flow and ‘evaporation, comparatively litle water is stored in the soil of ann un- wooded district. “ But lands shaded by forests’ are not sunscorched. The ground remains friabla. Most of the rain is absorbed.into. the porous -earth. Unless the showers are very. heavy, the immediate flow into the streams is relatively small. - The cool forests do not’ engender hot | | winds, but break those which come from the open plains; the trees: ward off the solar heat with’ their leafy shields, and the exhalation of moisture from the foli- age lowers the temperaturs of the wood- land. | All of these conditions tend to check evaporation from thesoil. A large pait of the humidity of forest-clad rounds passes into the air ‘by transpira- tion; but the woodlands, even after they have satisfied the intemperance of the trees, contain a greater quantity ‘of mois- ture than that which shadeless and sun- dried fields absorb; and this water, slowly percolating through the earth, feeds the springs ‘and maintains the rivers, : Doubtless tillage tends to ‘counteract | the bad effects of cutting forests. The plow, the cultivator and the shade serve to keep the soil mellow. and the rains would sink deep into the earth. In the comparison of crops with woods, evaporation would be greater and trau- spiration less; for even the most luxurian! maize would not break the force of ho winds. as effectively as trees would, while the extent of the cereal leafage would be far less than that of the sylvan foliage. 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