LITTLE BOY JIM. Out of the angel land be came, Little Hoy Jim. Without nny clothes, not even the name Of Little Boy Jim; Left ell the brightness of heavenly skies Just borrowed enough for his heart and hie eyes And, maybe, some nectar for tears when he cries, )l .Little Boy Jim. Plucked from the golden street a brick, Did Little. Boy Jim, (Got a big Rmiel thnt knew the trick, Cute Little Jim, To turn it into a heart of gold Ikt angel scoured heav'n to get the best mold, P. A. I Bid For Happiness f mm . "Helena Meranth Is quite th? pret tiest woman In the room. Don't you think so, Cecil?" Jennie Heron glanced with all a handsome, unsophisticated debu tante's admiration at the tall, stately young woman In black chiffon who was Jancing with their host. Mrs. Meranth's uncommon beauty, com bined with her graceful waltzing, was attracting so many of the wom en present thought an aggravating amount of attention that night. "I suppose she is," Penrose ad mitted, grudgingly. "But she doesn't appeal to your humble serv ant. She is so frightfully stand-offish makes a fellow feel a regular worm, don't you know, and without uttering a word!" Jennie laughed and pressed her fiance's arm In mock sympathy. "So you tried to flirt with her, did you? Never mind, I'm not jealous. I don't suppose for a moment that you never made love to any one until you met me. Indeed, I'm rather glad you practiced philandering with other people; otherwise you would not be euch an expert In the art as you are!" "I wonder what sort of a chap old Meranth was," Penrose pondered. "I never heard much about him, except that he was an American, made a co lossal pile and was burned to death In some hotel fire." "He was a perfect beast!" Jennie assured him, solemnly. "Helena never said so, she isn't that kind of woman, but she never mentions his same. She hasn't a single photo graph of Mm about her rooms, and 6he is evidently In no hurry to marry fjfciiAltogether most convincing testi mony, as to the Iniquity of the late lamented," Penrose laughed. "Still, I am ready to bet yoa. anything in reason that your friend does niarry again eventually. I will even ven ture to spot the happy man. Talk about telepathy! slfe ha3 stopped j dancing, and he is BpeaKing to her now. Watch her face, Jennie, and then take my bet If you dare!" The room was brilliantly lighted, and Jennie's keen young eyes could detect every change of expression on Mrs. Meranth's face as the. latter etood at the end of Lady Veroker's pink room smiling at "Chum" Wln stanley. Jennie duly, noted the flush on Mrs. Meranth's cheeks, the light hi her dark eyes, and her sudden as sumption of an air of absolute con tent. "I believe you are right, Cecil. But I thought Chum was the last man Helena cared for!" ' Helena tucked her program se curely away among the soft folds of her chiffon bertha when Winstanley bowed and left her. It had fallen once that evening from her fan, and ehe bad no mind that . prying eyes should discover the number of times ehe had allowed the yoang man to cribble his initials upon it. I "He will speak to me to-night!" ehe told herself, with a little thrill of excitement. No one should have been better acquainted with the premonitory symptoms of a proposal than Helena Meranth, for many men had wanted to marry her since she had dawned upon the now waning London season, and bad taken society by storm with her loveliness and reputation lor great riches. But double harness with Gerald Meranth bad proved so disastrous an experiment that it "as small wonder his widow should resolve that only a grand passion should tempt ber into matrimony a second time. She had been Just twenty-one when she had engaged herself to the middle-aged millionaire, whose handsome features and masterful way first attracted her. Her father was dead, her youth ful mother had married again, and Helena was free. So she bad ac cepted Meranth. She pretended no acute grief when the catastrophe occurred. Her hus band's end had been tragically sud den. In one of his occasional moods of amiability he had accompanied her to Johnsville for the wedding of a former schoolfellow, and had even allowed her to attend without his chaperonage " the ball the bride's mother was giving on the eve of the marriage. Meranth had remained at their ho tel on the plea of indisposition and bad talked of retiring early. And the last time his wife had seen his face bad been as he banded her into the carriage he was always punctil iously polite to her in public which waa to take her to Mrs. Grimes. Four hours later the hotel was a smoking ruin, and Helena, hurrying back, . Identified her husband by his In itialed gold watch. Once recovered from the shock and horror of her husband'a demise, Helena put her affairs in order Me And put in a piece of his own heart, I'm tol(it For Little Jim. And he had it tuned in a perfect key, Little Boy Jim, To keep it in constant harmony, Wife boy, Jim. And all the time that he is away The heavenly choir will sing and play, But he hears the echoing melody Lucky Boy Jim. That is the reason a part of each day Little Boy Jim Ceaoes his baby prattle and play The angel in him Is list'ning, while into his eyes will cieep A wistful look so tender and deep The angel voices are singing Ah sleep. Little Bov Jim. Connolly, in the National Magazine. ranth had left her an extremely wealthy woman and called for Eng land. When her first year of widow hood was over Helenahad met Chum Winstanley, a rising young diplomat, home on leave from his embassy at Bermanja, and the two had promptly fallen In love with each other. Since that moment, now a month ago, life had held fresh hopes. "Fate destined that we should meet," Winstanley was saying. "I can't believe mere chance brought us together, can you?" "At any rate, it doesn't matter, bo long as we are together," breathed Helena, softly. They had been engaged exactly ten minutes, and In another five their ec static tete-a-tete in the big conserva tory would inevitably be disturbed. "All I want is Just for you to keep on loving me," she told him. "What sentimental creatureswe women are! I sometimes wonder why Ve are made to care so much, often only to be disappointed, disillusioned and to have our hearts almost broken. I daresay. Chum, you hear pumors, but you can't imagine really what I went through through enough to value my present happiness!" "Poor little one! Don't ever speak of it again," Winstanley urged. "Why, you are quite pale and actual ly shivering." "You foolish boy, I am quite all right." The color had Indeed quick ly returned to Helena's smooth cheeks. "It was only Just for the moment I felt chilly. The reaction, I expect, after all the excitement. Let us talk about something else, dear. Do you think your father will like me, and do you think I shall like Barmanja?" she concluded, brightly. It was the end of July when the engagement wasannouncedi- and Hel ena, eager to make the acquaintance cf her fiance's people, promptly ac cepted Lord Wlngtree's invitation to spend Cowes week upon his yacht. "I shall have three weeks after that for chiffons, and clothes do not absorb me us they do some women," Helena pointed out laughingly to Winstanley when his father's invita tion arrived. "It only I can persuade your fath er to approve of me I shall feel that I have nothing left to wish for!" "Unless the pater is a much hard er hearted mortal than I take him for he will simply adore you," Win stanley responded, gayly. Lord Wingtree was, as a matter of tact, extremely cordial. He went himself to meet her in the launch which was to bring her on board the Crocus. Helena, looking her prettiest. seemed in high spirits, and blushed so delightfully when Wlnstanley'B name was mentioned that the old man was quite captivated. "I hope you will find your quar ters comfortable, my dear," he said, as the launch stopped. "My steward has done bis best to make them pic turesque. He has wonderful taste, poor fellow! I must tell you his his tory some day." "I am enchanted with my rooms, they are quite like fairyland!" Helena said to her host later on at the din ner table. "The enormous bowls of roses on the tables are the final touch. Your man must have emptied some one's garden to fill them! " "Mortimer is devoted to flowers. And he -manipulates them skillfully, too. In fact, be has proved most handy altogether. I have never re gretted the day I took him into my service, now nearly a year ago! " "Ah, you said he had a history." Lord Wingtree nodded and lowered his voice as a man servant came round with an entree. "Yes. When I picked him up at San Francisco he looked the most dilapidated, down-at-heel specimen of humanity you could imagine. Peo ple wouldn't employ him-they thought him queer; but the truth was he had completely lost his mem ory, and starvation was completing a bad business. Everything, be said, was a blank to him up to the mo ment he awoke in the hospital at Johnsville." Helena started involuntarily at the mention of the town. "His head had been injured in some accident, I suppose?" she sug gested, sympathetically. "Something of the kind. I wrote to the hospital authorities the man impressed me as one who had seen better days but they could only tell me that he had been carried in un conscious on the night of the big fire at the Palens hotel. He seemed a human derelict, for no one came forward to claim him. See, he has just come into the room." A mo ment later she was fumbling for ber glass with trembling fingers, and cheeks 1 white as the damask table cloth. She tried to speak, but the words froze on ber Hps. A mist be gan to fill the room; she shivered; her limbs grew cold. Lord Wingtree sprang to bis feet as Bha tell back In her seat with a moan. "Don't be alarmed, Mrs. Meranth has only fainted," said Lady Typtan, calmly "a thing I've done dozens of times! " "Yes. He is my husband! I knew him instantly," Helena said, quietly. "There is no mistake." It was 11 o'clock the next morn ing, and Mrs. Meranth, still pale and shaken, but absolutely self-possessed, was talking to her host, who at first had refused to credit ber staggering news. "Of course, the explanation is sim ple enough," she went on in level tones. "The face of the man I iden tified as my husband was unrecog nizable. He was no doubt some thief who had made off with Gerald's watch in the confusion of the mo ment. Meanwhile my husband es caped into the- street to have his bead injured by some falling ma sonry " "It la too dreadful! My poor boy! " broke In Lord Wingtree, inco herently. "I have written to Chum." Helena bowed her head. "Lord Wingtree, If you only knew what it cost me to do it " "And Mortimer your husband doesn't even know you?" "No; and possibly he never will! I saw he looked at me as he might at any stranger. But I couldn't have been happy; and there would always have been the risk for such cures are known of the truth coming out. I made my nid for happiness. But. one can't fight against fate. Kismet; it is written, you know." Modern Society. TREK TO THE UNITED STATES. Europe Migrating to This Fair Land of Promise. The imagination of Europe has been kindled by reports of opportun ity in the two American continents. The movement from Greece, Italy and Spain has assumed the propor tions of a great migration. In fact, few of the emigrations of races, from the descent of the Dorians to the Great Trek across the Vaal, however classic In their picturesqueness, com pare in volume with the current exo dus from the Old World. The American Consul-General in Barcelona reports that all the men, women and children -in a Spanish town of 2000 Inhabitants packed up their belongings and went to Para guay, leaving the town empty. The Republic of Paraguay paid for their transportation. In the country around Malaga negotiations are un der way for the transportation of 1000 farmers and their families to Hawaii. The promise of free passage, steady employment, medical attend ance, education tor their children and a deed to a house and an acre, exempt for three years from taxation, has created great excitement in Anda lusia. Louisiana wants labor, and, like other sugar-cane States, is looking for help from Southern Europe. Chile has just appropriated half a million pesos to pay the ppssage of immigrant labor. Brazil offers the European farmer a plantation and the free gift of agricultural machinery. The greatest migratory wave moves toward the United States. George Horton, writing from Athens, says that the young men are desert ing the farms of Greece and are thronging the cafes of Athens and Piraeus, where they discuss America and plan the voyage. There are 1000 vacant houses in the city of Athens. The Minister of War, by the most drastic conscription, cannot recruit the Greek army. Nearly 200,000 of the young men of the land have left for the New World. The American Consul at Patras says that so many able-bodied young men have joined in the migration to America that many villages in the interior of Peloponnesus are beinf left in charge of women and old men Great statesmen are conslderlni how best to check the draining o! their nation. Italy has olreadj passed a law giving the Government authority to limit emigration. In 1906 440,000 sturdy emigrants left Italy. Of these 310,376 were bound for the United States. From an Edi torial in the New York American. . Dominic's Little Joke. The Rev. Dr. William H. Fisburn, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Camden, is one of the jolliest and most sucihiny men in the world and likes nothing better than a good, wholesome Joke, even if it is turned against himself. He was visited in his home on last St. Patrick's Day by a prosperous-looking couple Who de sired his kindly office in making them one. The man was an iron master from Pittsburg and the bride elect was a Jersey woman. The busi ness was quickly dispatched and the happy bridegroom came to the ques tion so many in like fix ask the cler gyman. "Just suit yourself as to that," said Dr. Fisburn, as his eyes rested upon a thick roll of bills tho Ironmaster had dug out of his trou sers' pocket. "Well," said the newly made husband, "as this is the seven teenth of March, I'll make it seven teen dollars, and good luck to you." "My friend," said the dominie, "I wish you the greatest happiness in the world, but if you ever happen to want me again just call around on the thirty-first of the month." "No, sir," replied the bridegroom, as be walked away, "I'll come on the , first." PMJaduJphia Record. sar I I , UWUi- New York City. The waist that gives a chemisette effect is always a charming and dainty one, and this Beason there are being shown an ex- ccptlonal number of variations. Il lustrated Is one of the prettiest and latest that is made of pale green pongee pined with, black and trimmed with black buttons and com bined with a chemisette of string colored lace over white chiffon. The color and the material are both em inently smart and the tonch of black gives a distinctive character to tho whole, but a season as prolific as this one allows of a great variety of fab rics and colors. Again, the waist will be found equally suited to the separate one. and to the gown so that its usefulness is varied and its pos sibilities are many. Pongee in all its colors, plain and figured, is being greatly worn, and there are innumer able thin summer silks that would be charming so made as well as light weight wools and the like, while many of the so-called washable ma terials are in reality designed to be cleansed and also can be utilized for the design. .' The waist is made with a fitted lining on which the front and back are arranged. There Is also a centre front portion that is cut in a point at its upper edge and the chemisette, which is arranged over tho lining, the closing being made Invisibly at the left side. The trimming straps finish the waist and the shoulder edges, and there is a choice allowed of elbow or full length sleeves, while a full girdle completes flio waist. The sleeves, let it be added, make a special feature and are singularly at tractive. The quantity of material required As to the Coiffure. Tho Parisian coiffure Is less high than It was last season, the hair be ing drawn loosely buck and massed about where tho traditional Greek knot is placed. There is, however, no semblance of the hard Psyche knot In the soft colls, and puffs and curls of the coiffure a la modo. New York women in general are still wearing their hnlr very high, but the French Influence has been noticeable among the most modish women of the opera crowd. rr a tt . As? for the medium slzo is four and an eighth yards twenty-one, three and a quarter yards twenty-seven or two yards forty-four Inches wide with one-half yard eighteen Inches wide for the chemisette or one yard if long sleeves are used, three-quarter yard of silk for piping. Golden llrown Fashionable. Golden brown hair is as much the fashion this season as golden brown shoes and dresses and hats are. Eton Jacket. The Eton Is such a pronounced fa vorite that fresh designs are con stantly in demand. Here Is one of the latest, simplest and prettiest that is charming for linen, pongee, for veiling, for taffeta, indeed, for all seasonable materials and which is Just as desirable for the separate wraps as it is for the costume. As illustrated It is made of black taf feta trimmed with wide banding and with soutache braid and is designed for a general all-round wrap to be worn over any gown. It is trimmed to give the big armhole effect that makes euch a feature of the season end has pretty Bleeves that suggest the kimono Idea, but that are In re ality separate. Banding of any sort or trimming of either embroidery or soutache applied over some stamped design make the proper finish. The Eton Is made with fronts and back and is fitted by means of single darts and is trimmed to give a dis tinctive and novel effect. The sleeves are in one piece each. The quantity of material required for the medium size is two and a quarter yards twenty-one, one and seven-eighth yards twenty-seven or one yard forty-four inches wide wlt.i seven and a half yards of wide braid and soutachcaccording to the design Contrasting Hems. Contrasting hems can bo added easily to materials not supplied with borders, with excellent effect, anA with possibilities of obtaining great results at little cost. Frocks of pretty, dainty cottons may havo a dis tinguished air given to them if ad vantage is taken of the border fad. White Strappings on Blue, White broadcloth strappings orna ment a navy blue and white plaid voile. mm (SAWYERS AJ) EXCELSIOR BRAND rw' Oiled 1 Clothing and Slickers One of the best sellers Is our Excelsior Brand Crack-Proof Motorman's Coat, adapted for general use. Best quality. Ouaranteed waterproof. Your dealer should have it: if not. Excelsior trade mark. KYi?E&inh I. M. HWTMSIM, East Cmiuoci Miss. Profit In the Patent Office. The patent office Is one of the few departments of the government which pays its own way and turns over a balance each year to the Treasury, and yet for years its operations are hampered by the lnck of competent labor. This Is due to the repeated neglect of Congress to make some proper provision by which adequate salaries can be paid to the employes. Many of the more competent em-. ployes have been held from year to year by the promise of increased sal aries, but since the adjournment of Congress after' having failed to make any such provision for these persons, there has been a general exodus from the different divisions of the depart ment The work Is very exnctlng, as shown from the fact that out of 135 appli cants at the last civil service exam ination for examiners, only 17 quali fied. There is a constant demand fnom Industrial plants and patent agencies for men who have had ex perience in the patent office, and dur ing the last few months a very great number have resigned their govern ment positions to take up more lucra tive ones with private concerns. The situation has become so alarming that Secretary Garfield himself has been called upon to take a stand in the matter, and he Is preparing to make a campaign in favor of greater liberality In this direction. PhiladeK phia Record. 2 Highest Mines In Peru. It Is thought that the old Caylloma silver mines In Peru are probably situated nt a greater elevation than any other considerable mines in the world. Their altitude varies between 14.CG0 and 17,000 feet. They werd worked by the Spaniards in the slx ter.Hh century, and before that. It la believed, by the Incas. An English company Is now preparing a hyJ.ro e'.pctrlc plant for them. This plant will be situated nt nn altitude of be tween 15,000 and 10,000 feet. It will derive Its power from a waterfall on tho Santiago river, and In a dry sea son from Lake Hunillaeho, one of the sources of tho Amazon. The pow er will be transmitted by cable about three miles. At the highest mines the pressure of the atmosphere is only 8 pounds a square inch, and water bolls 24 degrees below the ordinary boiling point. Philadelphia Record. Governors' Salaries. Illinois Is going to have the high est paid officials In the country. The new salary bill Just passed by the Legislature raises the salary of the governor from $0,000 to $12,000 a year, which will make him the best paid of American governors. New York, New Jersey and Penn sylvania pay their ehief executives $10,000. Massachusetts and Indiana pay $8,000. Most of the other states pay $5,000. Vermont pays the smallest guberna torial salarV, the amount being $1,500, or a clerk's hire. New Hampshire and Delaware are on a $2,000 basis. South Carolina pays $3,000. Texas and Connecticut are $4,000 states, although Texas is more than 50 times as big as Connecticut Georgia is in the $5,000 class. A SMALL SECRET Couldn't Understand the Taste of hi Customers. Two men were dlscussslng the various food products now being sup plied in such variety and abundance. One, a grocer, said "I frequently try a package or so of any certain article before offering it to my trade, and in that way sometimes form a different idea than my customers have. For instance, I thought I would try Postum Food Coffee, to see what reason there was for such a call for it. At breakfast I didn't like it and supper proved the same, so I natur ally concluded that my taste was dif ferent from that of the customer who bought it right along. A day or two after, I waited on a lady who was buyins a 25c package and told her I couldn't understand how one could fancy the taste of Pos tum. 'I know Just what is the matter she said, 'you put the coffee boiler" on the stove for just fifteen minutes, and ten minutes of that tlmo it sim mered, and perhaps five minutes it boiled, now if you will have it left to boll full fiftean minutes after it commences to boil, you will find a delicious Java-like beveraso. rich iu food valuo of gluten and phosphates, bo choice that you will never aban don it, particularly when you see the great gain in health.' Well, I took another trial and sure enough I Joined the Postum army for good. and life seems worth living since I have gotten rid of my old time stom ach end kidney troubles." Postum Is no sort of medicine, but pure liquid food, and this, together with a relief Jrora coffee worked the change. "There's a Reason." Read "The Road to Wellville," la
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