vrurw uk the woods.
one, rest a while and let tie idly stray
i glimmering valleys, cool and far away,
ome from the noisy mart, the busy street,
nd listen to the music faint and sweet
hat echoes ever to a listening ear,
nheard by those who will not pause to
hear ,
The wavward chimes of memory s pensive
bells . ,
Wind blown o'er misty bills and curtained
dells. ,
Jong and romance still linger in the green
fcnblossomed ways by you so seldom seen,
And near at hand, would you but see them,
lie
411 lovely things beloved in days gone by.
ou have forgotten what it is to smile
If. yonr too busy life come, rest a while.
L. M. Montgomery, in the People's.
t Ths Prophecy, i
By LILLIAN G. COPP.
The notes of the piano now filled
the room with a full, rich melody,
then softened into the sweet, plaintive
tones of the minor key, into which
the skilful fingers of the young musi
cian glided.
"Pauline, don't. Your music is
laying: 'This is the last meeting of
the dear old club,' " Annie Ellis in
terrupted, i
"Never mind, Pauline. She has a
melancholy drop in her blood that
he delights In sharing with us," Mar
lon Hall said, half jestingly.
It was at Marion Hall's home, in
one of Boston's suburbs, that the four
girls were gathered. The room, sweet
with the fragrance of roses which
filled Jars and vases, looked inex
pressibly dear to the girls who had
been such friends the two years that
they had been students at the New
England Conservatory. It would have
been difficult to have found girls more
unlike in looks, in dispositions or in
octal abilities, yet their love for each
other had won for them the name of
"Tfie Inseparable Quartet." Once
each week they had met at Marion's
borne, where two years ago they had
organized the Good Time Club. On
the morrow the girls were to separate,
not to meet again for five years, when
they would hold their first reunion.
As the last notes of Pauline's music
died away with a half-sobbing sound,
to dispel the feeling of sadness which
was fast gaining ascendancy, Marlon
exclaimed gleefully:
"Oh, say, girls, let's each turn seer
nd revealer and prophesy which
hall ultimately be ours, success or
failure. Who agrees?"
"We all do! " was the simultaneous
response.
"Marion, you tell," Bald Crystal
Mason, the really talented one of the
aet, "for to you Dame Fortune shows
kothing but her treasures."
"Tee, Marios, do," the others
Wged.
"Who will be first? . You, Pauline?
Well, I must take your hand, su you
can transmit your personality to me."
Marlon looked demure and began
with a solemn voice:
"I Me four years of hard labor not
afrmlxed with discouragement, and
, then assured success. When we meet
again, five years from to-day, Pauline
will play a beautiful original melody
that she will dedicate to me In re
membrance of this prophecy.
"Now, Annie, hearken to what fate
lias in store for you! Yours is more
complicated. I must concentrate."
Marlon closed her eyes, while the
girls listened Intently to what she
was about to say.
"Yon are not going to accept the
position offered you "
"Have you had a position offered
you, Annie?" the girls quickly Inter
posed. "No, I haven't," Annie positively
denied.
"But you have had, my dear. An
nnsalaried position with 'love, honor
and obey' as preliminaries to accept
ance," Marlon audaciously affirmed.
Then, unmindful of the laugh which
arose at Annie's hot face, caused by
ber clever guessing, she went on:
"The conscientious teacher who edu
cates her younger sister and assists
ber brother to make a success of life
will reap neither a great amount of
money nor of fame, but in the con
sciousness of no neglected duty, to
ber the next five years will be peace
ful, contented ones."
"I actually believe that Marion is
Invested with supernatural powers; it
sounds uncanny," Crystal said as
Marlon reached for her hand.
"Have patience and I will reveal
the source of my prophetic powers,"
Marion-returned laughingly, as she
gain gave imagination full sway.
' "I heat "a voice like a thundering
applause; I see a tall, slender woman
tanding before crowds of people
whose hearts she has. won' by her
glorious voice. Ths-'ls not her first
appearance...,. Oir,' too! for ihty cheer
and cheer again as she stands before
them. Is this the reward of five
years' labor? 'Five years,' a voice
whispers scornfully. It took ten, nay,
fifteen years of close application com
bined with .months of drudgery, to
make this success possible. Get back
. to your five years! Ah, here I see
ber, in a stuffy attic room by the
'aide of a ragged bed on which lies
the form of a little girl. Crystal's
voice 1b low and sweet as she sings
a soothing lullaby to the crippled
child who fondly murmurs,1'! thinks
you's an angel, you'i so lovely." -
"There, girls, live up to the good
things. I have prophesied and failure
will be an unknown word in your
vocabularies," Marlon said, ai she
dropped Crystal's hand.
Bat bow did you do It, Marlon?"
Is It really true?" were the anxious
faeries of the girl.
"Close observation of character and
perfcapa too vivid Imasjiaatloa iw
all the material needed," was the
Kr response.
"But tell us, what are you going
to accomplish in the next five years?"
Pauline asked.
' "Oh, you will know at our reunion,
for then it will be reality, not proph
ecy, to which we shall listen."
The five years are ended. It is
June again. Once more the four girls
are together in the room which the
joyous time of the past has endeared
to them. The air is heavy with the
perfume of flowers which surrounds
the casket wherein rests the form of
Marion. It is the hour before the
funeral that the girls stand by the
casket and recall their last meeting.
"In my life the years have fulfilled
much of Marlon's prophecy," Pauline
Loring breaks the silence. "Five days
ago I was elected to have chnrge of
the music in one of Maine's leading
schools. One day when everything
was dark with discouragement I re
membered Marion's prophecy and
composed not the beautiful little
melody predicted but a funeral
dirge, which Mrs. Hall requests that
I play at the funeral this afternoon.
Annie lays her land lovingly
against the cold cheek of the silent
sleeper, as she says In a low tone:
"Now she knows what her trust
has enabled me to accomplish, other
wise her prophecy would have never
been verified."
As they look at Crystal, she say
quietly: "I too owe much to Marlon s
unselfish prophecy.. In using my
voice to bring pleasure to others, it
has brought an exceptionally fine po
sition to me."
Without the need of words from
Marlon they were told what she had
accomplished. Boston Post.
5 The Tendency to X
; Be Queer. yfeajj
While the majority of people are
inclined to think and act like one an
other, thus keeping the social order
from violent convulsions, there la on
the part of a great many a native
tendency toward the queer; they are
contented only outside of the traces.
In every community small enough to
be aware of its own Individualities
people In general know who are the
"natural-born" come-outers which
man and which woman is likely to
take up with the newest fad In dress,
doctoring, means of grace, political
economy, "social science," and the
true authorship of Shakespeare's
plays.
There are certain persons destined
to progress from one so-called reform
to another more extreme as quickly
as the reform shows 'itself. They are
pretty sure to box the compass of re
ligions, passing by gradual or vio
lent stages from absolute Irrellgion to
the narrowest dogmatism, or with
great rapidity the other way around.
Or they gravitate once and for all
Into the most irrational and absurd
"religion" which happens to be
forced upon their attentions, and.
stick contentedly to Its extremest
tenets and practices. The more "oc
cult" and, to the ordinary mind, pre
posterous the new religion, the
greater the attraction It has for cer
tain minds. The new religion is apt
to be founded on Borne one phase of
the old a phase of It which by very
reiteration and use has become trite.
In Its new and fantastic dress the old
principle strikes the new adept as
something In the pature of a fresh
revelation.
As for the realm of healing, here
all that is inconsequential and super
stitious In the human mind Is flag
rantly revealed. Here every human
being defends his right to experi
ment for hlmBelf and to give advice to
others. We do not, or at least most
of us do not, feel quite free to in
struct and direct our neighbors con
tinually in things spiritual; but in
the matter of ntalth and disease wd
all assert freedom of practice and of
prescription. To such an extent-is
this tendency toward universal spec
ialization that the strong hand of the
law has to be called in, and only
under penalties may Tom, Dick,
Harry and Harriet hang out his or
her shingle aa. a competent prac
titioner for the cure of all human
ailmeats. The tendency is nearly
universal, but even here some more
than others take instinctively to the
preposterous. From an Editorial in
the Century.
Would Steal Gabriel's Horn.
H. K. Adair, the Western detective,
was discussing r. Cleveland crime
whereupon he had failed.
"I take no shame to myself," said
Mr. Adair apologetically," for haying
tailed on this Cleveland matter. The
Cleveland crooks, you know, are the
best In the business."
He relighted the stub of his cigar.
'"You know what John B. Gough
said about Cleveland," he continued
with a faint smile. "In taking leave
of the town, Gough said, solemnly;
" 'If the Angel Gabriel happens to
light In Cleveland, there will be no
resurrection, for some ' Cleveland
crook will steal bis trumpet before
he can blow a single blast.' " Wash
ington' Star. '
- Judging From Appearance.
"I am glad, my dear," mildly ob
served the much enduring man as he
glanced on the underdone steak and
the half boiled potatoes, "that I now
know our cook's views on the tariff."
"Why, dear, she doesn't know or
care anything about the tariff," said
the ustonUhed wife.
'. "Doesn't the?" returned the bus
band. "She chows a decided tendency
for putting raw materials on the
schedules, thsa." Baltimore Amtr-
Rights of
Bv Hon. William H. Taft In Leslie's Weekly.
saTlB Interests of the employer
I wben It comes to a division of the Joint profit of labor and cap
I I ital into dividends and wages. This roust be a constant source of
invpr and the employee, as,
penouicai ai:uoiuu ucmccu
indeed, are the other terms of the employment. To give to en
ployees their proper position in such a controversy, to enable
r. . . ... .,io ooinat ..mnlnvprs havine great cap-
mem lO nNUIUttlU iucinoei.cn - - ..
Hal they may well unite, because in union there Is strength, and without It
each TndlvrUal laborer and employee would be helpless, e promotion of
industrial peace through the- instrumentality of the trade agreement 'a, often
one of the results of such union when Intelligently ndurtd' ' "
body of laborers, however, skilled and unskilled, who are not organized ln
unions. Their rights before the law are exactly the aame tho o' the union
men. and are to be protected with the same care and watchfulness. In order
to mduce their employer into a compliance with their request for. changed
terms of employment, workmen have the right to strike In a body. They have
a right to use such persuasion as they may, prov Wed It does not reach the
point of duress, to lead their reluctant co-laborers to join them n Wr
gainst their employer, and they have a right, if they choose, to accumulate
S to support "hose engaged in a strike, to delegate to offlrer the power to
direct the action of the union, snd to withdr aw l Z the rra
elates from dealings with, or giving custom to. those with whom they are in
controversy. '
Ihe Ultimate
By O. K. Chesterton.
M,BY have tried to set up the
X
ill
are rich 1n a state are rich in tneir own mem, RDu .
who are poor in a state are poor by their own fault. Mr. Kip
ling, in his swan song of suicide In the Morning Post, speaks of
the unemployed laborer as the man "whose unthrift has de
stroyed him' He speaks of the modern landlord ... the man
who has tolled, wno nas striven auu b"""-" i' , .
there are somccas.ons
portant even a blasphemy against religion. It Is so in these cases in wnic
SWqi-effttat new Tory theory Is opposed
to the ChrisUanq;hetry at every'po.nt, at every ""JfZ m
Kniia nf inh to the leorosv of Father Damlen. It does not matter lor tne mo
Sit thnhh?g1rrc hist,an. The thing Is a lie; every one knows u t0
be a lie- the men who speak and write It know it te be a lie. I ney Know
ai we" I dtbat the m'en who climb to gm
nnt the bps', men nor the cleverest, nor even the most industrious.
whohLrUmeSto poor men on seats in Battersea Park car , conce W
believe that they are the worst men of the community Nob od, who has ever
talked to rich men at city dinners can conceivably believe that they are ino
lest men of the Community. On this one thesis I will no .rgume nt
about unconsciousness, self-deception or mere ritual P''" .
that and more most heartily to the man who says that the a8
whole is good for England or that poverty as t"'!??,
But if a man says tbnt In his ene;nro be thrifty thrive and only i
unthrifty perish, then (as St. John the Evangelist says) he is a liar,
the ultimate lie and all who utter it are liars.
0 &
'The Torture of Clothes.
A Courageous Reformer Who Has Discarded
Underwear In Summer. y
By Ernest Plagir.
'. . ....... tnrtnra hnvn ever iiroduced so
STJr'rAJSU' "0 iwo iiinu uuicuin i w. -
Qmuch suffering in hot climates as the undershirt and drawers.
Some years ago manufacturers of underwear began to make sum
mer undershirts without sleeves. After wearing thl kind for
several years It occurred
made so much difference
whole thine off. From mat time on i cou w u.o
so far as the uppe? part of my body was concerned, but,we are such creature.
ot tab" thatZ "nor. years' passed before I plucked up enoug
emancipate myself from the nether garment. Now am clad i In a jingle flayer
Hot weather no longer has any terrors for me; Indeed, I enjoy hot days quite
" TtaT-"dfcS2reTlt is the double layer that causes the suffering It make,
bo difference how thin the layers are, the effect is the eame MlothtaB
as thin as a cobweb will cause almost If not qurte as much discomfort as tbe
ttl"ightedwith my discover, and revelling In the comfort II ; affordei I m . 1
aturall,g sought to impart 1U benefit to others; but I .
wearing of underclothing Is regarded by most people as If t re J
renJious obligation, and my advice was generally received with a species of
EZTC ot In to w-hom I spoke said they could not poss bly do with
Sut underclothing, for it was necessary to abeort, the !PtlB.
kind they wore was so thin that It made no difference anyway. Almost all
iraed a dea? ear to my assurance that It they would only try U for . day tie,
would find there would be no need to absorb perspiration, for what little there
was would evaporate fast enough to keep them cool. ,-..., .j
High and low, rich and poor, Ml alike are slaves to this superst Uon and
appear to prefer suffering rather than dlacard one of the envelopes In which
tte!?"teVhrvBeeSer,ce. I h.'ve of course no notion that an, rreat number
of people will adopt m, suggestion, but I am sure that the few who do so win
rise up and call me blessed.
' w
Under the Surface We
Find the Best in Life
By John K. Le Baron.
N Is too much Inclined to
A closer Intimacy with our fellows often reveals undreamed-of
virtues and unsuspected strength.
It was a part of the philosophy of Oomenius, the famous Mo
ravian educational reformer of the seventeenth century, not to
if nninions gathered out Of
Deal mm mo jimius " -- ------- " -
books but "to open their understanding through things themselves.
This was the beginning of the object-lesson idea so successfully elaborated
and given impetus by Froebel two hundred years later.
It is quite possible that we owe to this movement more than we realize
for its Influence in having made the nineteenth century the wonder epoch of
hiBtItyset In motion that tremendous Idea of learning by observation rather
than absorption; of judging .by things themselves, rather than by some other
persons' opinions of those things.
, It made men self-reliant ,
Had it not been for this faculty of observation, highly developed, we
ehould still believe that the earth was fiat and that thunder was the nrmbll.g
of Jove's chariot wheels. '
It was intimate personal acquaintance with nature that made the worM or
Audubon ornithological law. ' . . , v vi.
He did not base his writings upon what others had written, but upon his
own close relationship with the birds. .
Maeterlinck found, upon close association with the bees, that there was
much to be gained from them besides honey. . , '
The sting is the impression we get from chance acquaintance with the oee.
Upon closer contact we discover the honey. .
It is largely the same in our intercourse with men.
Basing our opinions upon casual acquaintance, we often do ourselves an
Injustice by misjudging those who, upon closer observation, we find to be peo
ple well worth knowing. -
We flatter ourselves that the injustice Is done to those we misjudge; it is
ourselves to whom we do the Injustice.
Few men worth knowing are apt to favorably Impress one upon first ac
quaintance e cl(jalt KBeTrBi tne gheii 0f tnodestyi-we find the best ma-
'Addison, one of the most Intellectually profitable of companions, was
utterly deficient in the art of parlor conversation. First Impressions of him
were never favorable.
. Once beneath the cloak of reserve, hi. social hospitality iwaa the delight oi
his friends.
Te meet Addison casually was to misjudge him
"Mediocrity can talk," say. Disraeli
Genius Is generally retksent
Drydea, second only to BhafcMpeire (a the tateHectaal wealth f ai
gram, mm d.ll aad asavost , Msftd s Mraatwra, ;-
Labor
and the employee never omer, ei
Lie.
preposterous pretense mm. o uU
i . thnaa
to me tnat h tne u w
In my comfort I had J' J
base his opinions upon miae .h-u.-
MOW PERFECTLY SILLY.
lil!f.
f ' "1 I l i 11 1 T 1 Ul
First Anti-Suffragist "The Idea of their wantin' to be like us!"
Second A. 8. "Yes, makin' themselves utterly ridiculous " Punch.
Music Easy to Find.
Have you ever tried to And a favor
ite song among 150 or 200 sheets
of other music? If you have you
know that the mythical pastime of
locating a needle in a haystack is a
comparative task.. Now come, a New
York man with a sheet music cabinet
that solves the difficulty. This cab
inet Is a three-sided affair, revolving
on a stationary stand. The compart
ments for the music are arranged In
tbe form of steps and hold the sheets
In a vertical position with titles of
each showing above the title of those
below. n
In such a stand several hundred
pieces of music may be kept without
confusion and anyone can be found
almost at a glanee. To facilitate mat
ters the sheet, may be kept In alpha
betical order or the vocal and instru
mental music can be separated or
both method, may be used in con
junction. Sucb a cabinet Is conven
ient for use both at home, and In
music stores or conservatories. Bos
ton Post.
The Proper Question.
Tbe man with the glassy eye and
preternaturally solemn demeanor put
down a sovereign at the hooking office
at Charing Cross, and 'demanded "a
ticket" "What station?" snapped
the booking clerk. The would-be
traveler steadied himself. "What sta
tions have you?" he asked with quiet
dignity. London Globe.
, Successful.
"I started out on the theory that
the world bad an opening for me,
and I went to find It." "Did you find
UT" "Oh, yes, I'm in a hole."
MAKING
sT
"My dear sir, yo are an Idiot."
"Sir!':
"Tea, aa Idiot, astd if yow had
yMnelf." Tram Vlvaat.
if?
ii i i II I III S JiflT Vif
ml '1 1
A Variety of t ats,
Cat-aclasm, a violent dirsuptlon;
its brother word, cat-aclism, a big
flood or stratigraphlc cat-astrophe;
cat-abastic, scoffer at the rights and
ceremony of baptism; cat-acomb," a
kind of subway or subterranean cem
etery. Then comes cat-aplasm, cat
aract, cat-apult and back to where
we started, cat-amount or wild cat.
Corkscrew Has Rival.
How many times have you given a
corkscrew a last desperate yank to
have it come ripping out and tne cork
remain in the bottle, torn up to such
an extent that It is impossible to get
another hold on it? If you have had
this experience you will welcome the
news that there Is a new cork extrac
tor in the market which not only has
not the bad habits of the old cork
screw, but will extract a cork after
the centre has been pulled out by the
latter. This ntw extractor, which
was devised by a Connecticut man,
consists of two pieces of wire having
their upper ends hinged and forming
a handle part and crossing each other
at the middle, after the fashloa of
ice tongs. The lower ends are
pointed and curve toward each other.
Grips Tighter as You Pull.
These polats are thrust Into a
tractor the wires grip the tighter.
does not require much sork to give
..nilail In nnlv mnttlnHnff A ivirfr
Washington Star. n
Of the 11,000,000 families In
France nearly 2,000,000 are child
less. IT STRONG.
aay tatelligence yo would
'if
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