“THE DA It's not meself I'm (He's a good man, i But there's sorrow heating on For the little wrinkled tace 1% 1S Mic not and 1've moe like a of her 1 lef It's just Herself I'm ging for, Do you mind he nS Wa ow Twas 1 that pinned I Kerchie : The wide seas, the ¢l seas and word, te ng t t the say the ve come longi across man’s part to (It’s a fair land we’ It's not the homesick But the one voice It's just Herself I'm Do you mind the Me head upon your The broad seas between It’s the he Iv Ia Fi S vorid tha for, told oh, and longing tales you shoulder, us mae me 1m there’ when her « irive There's decent neighbors all about, It's kind souls will be about me But it's her word that I'm wanting, And her blessing on the two of us to « It's just Herself I'm longing for, IHerse Do you mind the soft spring The little, careful stitches, oh, Meself beyond the broad seas me mot 1d —Theodosia Herself Ww yourselr mornings when her, you UGHTER. that I'm eomplaining never felt his fiown), long day's raining t in Kerrydown. no other— when all the mother, moth world betwe and . lass fields were green ?— mozi.er, follow all); n. and hey sSwali to rs ney me: Ke a t draws me If and no other, the turf was blazing mother, mothe: tonight! hen brisat? other, alone s coming and there's going; the little one is here; :omfort I'd be know ing, away the fear. iIf- and no other, vou stitched the wedding gown?— moth nother, in Kerrydown! Gan MecClurc's Magazine, "1S011, In sferfesferiesie are atest Rat Teale) Aertest The ely of of Life. rare cate ste Cafe sie ste ste ole vr AR That was the usual cry at > e Cov- erdale’s if the eldest dai disap- peared for more’ than ly The vicar needed her to write for hin; the sweet-faced d her | girl's affectionate and one or other of the five and girls were sure to want the help which caly Nan could give. It was sweet of the household, was necessary grave, tender the pet of the er of burdens as times felt the strain felt, also, that it would times to be a “leaner” “Where's Nan?’ again Fred. His kite ited mending was eager to the glorious for him. ‘‘She auntie’s, the couch was spent. Fred grumblingly arted. - It was a query if he would find another will- ing helper. Then the vicar looked up | from his book to say, ‘My dear; I am glad Nan is out of the way for once, for I'm afraid between us we demand | too much of her.” The mother sighed as she agreed with him her own helplessness troubled her greatly. He heard the sigh, acd Jove inter- preted its meaning for him, for theirs were love-linked - hearts, In the talk which followed the mother heart was comforted, for 10 ug Ave “Where's n? { mother nisse care; boys the prop she the | Flo, | brave lift- Nan some- iti all, be. good J{— demanded and he wind was to feel horoolf 10 kn« from wee to father fami 5 she to yet, wad, of and at if—ah! wail i be off, for and: the hoys 10 from Irom a run down Coverdale, much of her life for where al fe > lives all, she was made to how great a place she held in the of all the fa most of iow precicus she her band. Meanwhile, aie, how been. Swiftly walkitg road, ignoring its loneliness, less of the gathering gloom, fighting a lonely heart battle. Nan felt herself a we Her in the houscholod had developed anliness in her. but not had the chord of love been on the harp of her life; only had she realized how gradually unconsciously to herseit) sh €rovn to revel in the : presence Douglas Gray. « He was her father's curate, for the pdiish was a large cone. She liked to talk over her favcrite beoks with him; to discuss the intricacies of meaning: in her favcrite poems; most of all his | earnest, vivid preaching touched her and to be linked such a person- lity would, she felt, mean ‘living ca high levels indeed. But duringz the last few weeks she had unwillingly begun to think that while he gave to herself a warm friend- ship, he was yielding the love she cov- eted to her Amy. Bright-faced Amy had that intangi- | ble, unexplainable of: pleasing, | which takes a man 1 s, but holds | him firmly. : Watching the two that afternoon the | truth -had Nan’s | heart Sitting win- | dow—Nan had no leisure for fancy work of which Amy was so —she had cauzht snatches conversation, Amy and wandered in the old-fashioned to them so evidently a garden of Eden. By-and-by- Amy had bent over to v rose, and the hiul eyes at window had noted the ardent « jion love on stood watching. nan should, after are, happen upon ender one of the cld ¢ in a happy day dream. icnment was complete. ! And now face to fa her | trouble, and he she her- | self (yet why should she?) because it | as rauhle! She was trying with measured tranip to beat down the pain | in her heart. She had given Der love unsought, and self-contempt raged in her heart for the jealous feelings which would arise against her much-loved sister. Above all rose the dread of self-betrayal! An- could the they wo! have amazed | country i heed- the and along she was | piace WG lat Ly touched lately (and had of mall. until Z e 10 | sister grace cut into the the pretty fond | of their Dougzli its way sewing near as d> garden. | Xpres- | he | that of face &s neede: with despised Ce yur WwW If she remained at home that might come at any monient, “] must go away,” she said. it. half aloud in her earnestness. “lI can see ®e well what is coming, and I cannot may to see it through.” And then the thcught of her moth- er, and of how unfitted she was to meet the cares of the household, swept like an overwhelming wave over her troubled heart. : “Oh, I can’t go, and yet I must! 1 | ing an-|s up i she i feet, ! lieved, | any | are import i to-heart | love-lit ENE hus- | { which . told the romance of her own { therefore, which { {the | and i know talkin | heard in the } { path. °'T i admit, 2 »? eetedests Sertertestententorts ie sTonte test te Jefe ste sf ote te stertestesterteste sa steate ste staste without me,” she still the battle raged. ysical energy at last giv- aced her steps, and and. mind found her way to her aunt's, where all this time 1 been supposed to be. She tired and spent to make anything, but as she room a sense of heart. using sense, of her Aunt Doro- girl's white out, over- must © manage thought, and Finding ph Out, wearied in body she rer she hac seemed hey stepped rest stole 100 mind into into her weary This: was the “home,” sweet word in its truest father's maiden sister thea gave one look at the eary fac then her arms went znd in a moment later, like an spent child in the arms of its mother, Nan rested there until soothed and 0 i thie cosy that o Cy comforted by deep, unspoken sympathy, sank on to a footstool at her aunt’ feeling that the tension was re- and her burden already light- ned, she un- that in the firelight, heart, and told hour before she had inly never meet the ear of Such is the potency words of that con- be recorded, Words in those rare heart- which life gives sO natters most the tender tcae, and the of the recesses of hu- such times “spirit > and only then do realize how closely two human souls can touch, and how deep and far-reaching is the influence of one personality on another. :Dorothen Coverdale was a living ex- i i Lowell's Pedwtital words: And there, burdened her which but an rezolved should human soul. pathy... The ion necd not ant, but talks of which the saered unveilir man hearts. with spirit can of ves that is eye, few, 1g At meet,’ Be noble; the nchbleness which lies in others sleepin, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own, Quietly there, in that cosy room, somehow seemed the natural yiment of the pure soul who in- it, Aunt Dorothea, in her turn, girlhood’s days. It was a story before which Nan's little tale dwindled into insig- nificance, and yet the woman who had suffered such terrible heart-ache, some- 10 wmanaged to convey to the listen- ing girl the sense that all her feelings were and the bitterness 20t one jot underest iated. : “Yes, dear; IT am not afraid to let you know that I think the bestowal of a good man’s love brings to a true woinain the highest and purest of carthly happiness. I believe that with- out tha gift, a woman's life is, and must be, incomplete, for the grand range of feelings which come to a wife and mother cannot be hers, and, one side of her nature must but,” and the words Nan feeling that ined for her, and you as He And envire tabited go hungry; ollowed the Highest still ever left rema ge, am among th” took a new meaning. home life she saw in a new and the home ‘love. seemed of any sacrifice, As she walked home she thought of Longrellow’s “Legend Beautiful,” and entered the house with the words ring- ing ‘her ears: duty unto message, “ that The light, worthy serve dear on 's Do. thy Leave life was new mean It for well was fortified, wes evell eeli, ASS. e-h t the all that she ha: readed. ‘Nan, sik Mrs. Coversdale afternoon of Doug and tbout all what { this long Bétore Nan could answ wall, and AoW, down door voices were after, she saw the garden opened to moment open wi walk hastily hen the room Ee through the curate the 2? exclaimed the of “What is it, father mother, for the vicar's face unusual happenings. Then. Nan felt again the her as in ton first love story of the family was told. She saw what happiness the revelation had brought to their hearts. They were both glad, though a natural regret dimmed the mother's eye. They had no thought of excluding Nan from this discussion. Was she not the natural helper of them both? By-and-by Amy strayed into the room. and, instinctively, father and sister left her alone with the mother, who, in spite of her helplessness, was indeed “mother” with all that sacred spoke burden of Cross, dh Ss the i “Dear | Son ment I and take us was | decided tha name implies. mast! I never have left them; they When Douglas came J fol- ar- of for hiszanswer an ccstatic time lowed, during which poor Nan’ mour- was penetrated by all sorts Ss Ss arrow “My word, Nan,” cried Fred. com- ing in one day, with a hop, skip and a jump. “Such a lark! I ran into the Sum:mer-house just now, and I'll be ; red. if Gray wasn’t kissing our Amy: Co-co! You shouid have seen their faces when they saw me.” Fred, bey like, squirmed with lizht at the uncon.mon discovery, and the embarras nt he had: caused. “Nannie,” said little Flo, tor as of old ‘little pitchers have long ears,” “s’'ud’oo ’ike a bid man to kiss “oo, too?” “Not while I can have your kisses, darling,’ said Nan, the sore-hearted. “It is beautiful] to see those two to- gether,” said Mrs. Coverdale; next day. next day. “Nan dear; I'm glad no one has come yet to waken your heart's love, for I couldn't spare you. There was sweet and bitter strange- mingled for Nan in that little speech. But Amy’s bed-time confidences hardest of all to bear, for Nan filled the place of confident too long to lose it now. It was rather bitter to hear the winsome girlish voice say, old Nan, I expect, since you've been in ‘love, you can’t enter into it all, and that I'm silly to lize Douglas, but you'll understand 1e day.” Perhaps, de- cme lv were had never SO idee the bitterest mo- was when she submitted to re- “a brother's kiss’ from Douglas, I feel as if vou had always been sister: I-have never had one, you Nan. I may call you .‘Nan’ may 1 not?” felt the unresponsiveness of somewhat abrupt reply, “Don’t 1k you'd: better wait a bit, ‘on approval’ first, before family in this wholesale though, ceive “for my know, now, He Nan's you. ‘thir adopting. the | fashion?” and puz- but she of It Nan zled she rtless little joke, pained by the eves she loved, couldn't help it, really, for but human, and the Valley Humiliation is hard to tre 0: The time of wedding sped cally on, es tiers was little to wait for. The offer of a com- fortable living had given Douglas the right to 2a for his bride and it was the wedding should take place in the following Spring. Hw hard . time for Nan, and only the quiet hours she snatched from the busy days to spend with Aunt Dorothea kept her calm and hea went away lcck in the wads a for “the sk as-- a | steady. | | | | | another leng some subjects do not bear too free a discussion, but many a word cf comfort or counsel, indirectly given, did Nan carry away with her from that quiet home, Besides, the sense of relaxation which came with the presence “of the only one who knew what she was bearing, was very sweet to her And so, at last, the wedding came, and all the village was The mother’s quiet kiss was given from her couch of suffering, and Nan termined not to spoil their happiness, or betray her secret, watched the ceremeny, kissed the dear little bride, played hostess to the guests, and al- tozether was the life of the party. But that night her pillow was wet with bitter tears. No cone witnessed that “giving way,” and only Aunt Dorothea guessed that in the silence of the night, a girl's heart was nigh unto breaking. Truly “every heart kroweth its own bitterness.” There is a happy &¢qguel to my lit- tle tale, else would I not have told it, for the world is full of sadness. The wedding day closed the page of Nan's life, for was not Douglas Amy's husband now? Nan bravely tcok up the battle of life, active: service. What a comfort was in: ‘aftor vears to know that had been the and support of her mother’s last That she had been able to watch and see safely into manhood and the children left that care. That, when Fred through sowing t of wild extricatinz only herse one ; a long time ‘romancing.” to find that having such all, quite heart thrill came aware ht delight fy or icugh They did not have talk, for day gay. de- it + she stay days. over, womanhood mother to her rot into trouble plentiful a crop means of sacrifice then, for for was Time after by 00 was thé what And thought too old she about If knew. she had w surpri lecend when that how day she ( the power vas, witn hn 5 that Gordon i pany? Ice again herself wri fiow youne sne began to How. she bhithed to find day actually studying her the mirror! Francis Gerdon author, and the of father's. had come down to Inzleton for & ¢ rest. Why had he chosen Ingleton? Nan learned the secret one glorious moonlight ev- in the old garden. years vour father’s letters have heen permeated with the name ‘Nan,’ ” said he.: “Some time ago, when ‘Flo's engagement was announced, he wrote my father, ‘So now, dear Nan, after all her sacrifice and devotion alone with her old father; she will reve me, but I feel it is very lonely for her.” When I read that, dear (for the Ingleton letters were always passed on to me), I realized afresh how I wanted you. All these vears I have been so interested in those references to you. I had an idea that you'd tire of it all in time, and strike out for yourself some day, fcr in the old times I know you map- well-known an old friend was. a son of He riot pict 1 her ning “For net ped out a very different life for your- self. 1 remember the flash in your eve as you spoke of the future... But you kept true to your trust, and in- stinctively I admired you for it, and when that letter came, then a deeper cuirent was touched, and 1 came to Ingleton to find ‘you. I know I am not young, but because my love is the growth will you not believe it all the more {rue and steady, Nan?” That - was ‘a glorious evening, and Nan had a rapture all to rorself in the silent night. Now she had an- other to minister to, and—ah, beauti- ful, fresh experience—somecne to re- turn the ministry. What a comfort to have a strong, firm, human friend to lean on. One more glimpse. Two little ones are playing old garden. The dear old vicar, hairéd now, and growing very watches them tenderly. The little girl has Nan's faithful eye; the boy the pride of his grandfather's heart is ‘“daddy’s boy.” From the window where Nan watch- ed Douglas and Amy with such pain— how far distant it all seems now!— “Daddy” ra his Seen from his writing, to exchange loving glances with the wife he Hal so well. Every f vears, in the white- old, ises week the children ing visit to the grave of | thea in the old churchyard. time they went little Frank the words on the whi the spot. : pay a lov- Aunt Doro- The last spelt out stone ch marks “Why did you choose that, mother ” he in his old-fashioned way. But fer answer the mothed only clasp- ed closer. the hands of and tiny Dorothea, and in her was | the far-distant expression which told that for a few minutes her heart was with “dead days beyond recall.’'— London S. Times QUAINT AND CURIOUS. asked, eyes S. In seme China ons of the farming districts of pigs are har ssed to small wag- and made tc draw then From yrna (Asia Minor) Ernest 1. Har Ss writes: *l iz growing to be t by of the educated Sm Conzul ’hotography most popular hob- in Turkey.” ho 1¢ classes 4 Sikl to invade DBrit- {hs ‘are beginning ish Columbia. which is certainly not like India Three thousand of them are in the province and more are ccm- ing. In the ithe fiords on the Norway coast clearness of the water is wonder- ful. Objects the size of a shiiiing may be seen at a depth of twenty-five tc thirty fathoms. An interesting relic = of Napoleon Bonaparte has been placed in the Not- tinzham Castle Museum. [It consists of a lock of hair of the emperor which was off about an hour after his death. cu of Spain's ‘name the roll of a the number of A bed for him The baby Prince has been entered upon regiment and he wears it, in gold, pinned on his bib. in the barracks reserved as the latest is recruit. Japanese auctions are conducted in the following manner: Each bidder at an auction writes his name and bid on a slip of paper, which he puts in a bcx. When the bidding is over the | great and found plenty of | antagonist, to | is left | box is opened, and the goods declared the property of the highest bidder. During his last illness Curran,’ the Irish wit, was one day teld by the medical attendant that he seemed to cough with more difficulty than he had done the: previous ‘day. — “That’s odd enough,” replied the cick one, “be cause I've been practicing all night.” is ‘a timid bird, easily easily excited. : Wher excited or ‘angered he is a dangerous because he is strong enough to kill a man with one kick of his pow- erful leg. Most of the ostriches in farms dre hatched in incubators not new, for the Egyptians sone 3000 years ago. If the taken from the nest nanny as 30. Nearly ‘tile and hatch cat a ich is worth a hund: ¢ix months old baby The ostrich frightened and Americar This did if egos are wiil lay all of them axe n h chick ‘ed deliars when and thi is al ostric is past diseases. Nature Fa king at Hor: only frit, at ol 1 al the country thik ete., but pretriest eat even home. littie ublic sc which FIs, hoot, read vec sans some of butcher with the meat to make it of the sausages cases are made o pose, conic from father of this admits thot habit of wwhter, will helping her. to know by sericusly.— h mixes pig meat cheaper. that we dogs. 2nd heg But most buy in dogs, 1 heep £ The sup The woman American fact: "Da a when we ought take things | Press. ner” 2 all in Old in Coahuila, an says that the Down Nicx=cw. An irate dalgo of the oll school, { first time Le has time to get away | he is coming to the city of Mexico to thrust a Toledo blade down our throat. Calmese Vd., hombre! Don’t spoil a family heirloom.—Mexican Herald. veader hi: rT Omori “This Is So Sudden’’ By Winifred Black. is goin that it her own & CERTAIN well-known and g round tae country telling tor woman to seize most estimable all the women's upon her rights woman clubs time and do Lroj;osing. Tish, tush and pooh: also tus. If I wasn't woman enough to make man who cared enough for me to marry me propose to me without his ever dreaming that I had the faintest idea he'd ever even ncticed the color cf my eyes, I'd put on a diving suit and go down ue sea and take lessons -of the merry, merry ner: Time for woman to propose, indeed! ! As if every woman who really is a woman doesn’t do her own propo right straight along, and hasn't ever since the world began—all but talking or writing of it. The woman who says “This is so his wife may look as innocent a tarradiddle she’s teiling. Any real woman knows it any into the deep, bl 1alds sing Sing thie actual sudden” as a lamb wh when, asks her*to b wh a nan e n she says it, but, oh, ar atl my, the very instant any real man falls with her, and if she'd be frank with vou she could tell you the time ond when you first noticed that there was something rather the expression of her eve. : The modern woman knows ¢ self, but she in love to a sec- pleasing about enough to the same if T had and se lacking in femini: attribute that she didn’t know what a man's eves mean, no matter what his voice aown to Texas to live in the manless Eden that has just o] hate an attitudini man whe addresses a next person man is see keep some of her knowled ge to her- daughter who 1t st and a Was £0: sth every e know ag; would-be dying simpering, civil word to her her is the sexless propose and can't h links ev but coquette, who ti with -love for who doesn’t k little without 1s her, now Worse: to woman, goin what sl A man would strike mie as : and stammercd yes ow diffident to know what he was going to when he really met h Should women propose, my dear ch woman? Indeed, and she'll never ; er, —New York Ame g.10 1e's doi elp him -along let ol yor 11S. who was so little with me that I 1 the hnsi d line 1 the fatal question He mic haunted all the ti with curi real’ woman he really fell in love d to cdo the pre han ban Ve hen asked hin but I'd be to the propose. to me, ne cay she as long ac INC. cnough lDomen as Frauds By Marie Corelli. it wolnan to which no appears it to protest agains given } DOORS 1 special on and an as ihe Fool Rampant ronage show her at her ‘bald, holding her wiz (they and, ready ‘ast pictorials. There man . The advertisement worst. Sle is call it “transl to put on. She is azain unblushing + body which nature ‘ hollow places. She exhibited imagine that men never look S cate depicted ormation” nude state, very and scragey, but ciaily moulded plump portions of in readiness to fasten over pitilessly as a Swindle. Do women pers and never perceive the bold and prominent challenge of ing advertisements which instruct them as to what a painted, ded, en frizzled, shameless creature a woman may be, natural woman, with healtht's own glow upon her brightness in hair likely to be wronged by while the fashion books of today everywhere “female form divine,” huilt: up, with tumier and the perruquier—a think with “rights” of womanhood as the doll in a 1 of four modern piorgialy will convi portsr majority way fitted larper’s Bazar. hi the is POW and oft cheeks, and h doubts to 1 proclaim the own approval, as little E dow, her is as ness, us woman's surely sense « A optimi SEX 1airc lresser’'s wii nce the most fair majorit ladi the the of is of “women’s for the AAR Il Semel No pesmi fre American Boys Too Forward, Irreverent, Bold and Self: Assertive ? By Justice Leverone, Of the Juvenile Court of New York. Ladin ppm 3009000¢ oh F has all his the marked ar ar boy of of nore Americ typical {re much ve concede that the that he inerceased only corncede is the £! time, of eatly dom and he shares the period It freguent the law they is that juvenile offense: rain st ever more freaguent than were, they aré not more serious, mereased complexity haracter-of modern the d velopment The Man Dho Runs the Railroad By Thornton Oakley. rack ‘0ss cones round ti grows lar then 1e tower trembles and ignal-operator glances at his clock, th shakes two fingers at the engineer, who n throttle in a bit. He is two minutes ahead As the express vanishes in a blue haze dust, a heavy freight comes lumbering bound track, the big shaking Fone and cinders. The operator turns and tugs upon his levers. Out rack there is a clanging among the switches, and upon the signal ln i and yellow semaphores rise ar 1d fall. The panting lecomotive ha The signal is against him. Far.back at the caboose a brakeman drons and you can see him running up the track, waving a spot of red. The gineer, in greasy overalls, swings down from his cab and hurries to the tow- er. The operator shouts to him that there a freight wreck at Upland Crossing, and after the Southshore Limited has passed he is to procced on the passenger track.—Harper’s Rlagazine. * = down. the the cer rap g Iy You © 4006900000000 ©0009000009 ow black and engine ne oft, en- is