WIND O' Wind o' the moor, breath of the vaat free reaches. What is the mutable voice wherewith you cry? I linten and liaten again and 1 dream your speech il Freighted with whieper of lipa from the duyi gone by. . Ever at dawn of the day, or when aitnuet darken. The murmur cornea of strange, inscrutable things; And methinka that 1 often catch, what time I heaken, The rustle of feet and the beating of unseen wings. Wind o' the moor, you are eldritch, aye, yon are eeriej For all of the pain of the past can you find no cure? Rest for a little space, for my heart is weary, And would fain forget forget, O wind o the moor! Clinton Scollanl, in the New York Sun. S A Lass of Life whs a wretched muddle, Mar garet Alice said to herself, with a sigh; disappointment and failure all along the line, and only a few short years ago she had thought it well nigh perfect. Of course there was the child, but Tom wasn't .lop, and at this point the poor girl brushed away the hot tears angrily. What was the good of fretting for one who had proved himself to he lazy and selfish and utterly unworthy of any woman's love and trust? It was .true Joe had never lifted his hand to her, but he had lashed her with his tongue, which was a hundred times worse to bear. It had been torture to her sensitive spirit to listen to the Bcftthing torrent of abuse which had issued from his lips upon the slight est provocation, and even now her cheek reddened at the recollection of the hateful words he had hurled at her in his anger. Sometimes she had a vague feeling that her heart must be dead within her, so indifferent had she become to 'the common things around her; it was only , when her baby cried she knew it was not so, for his feeblest whimper was sufficient to arouse her from the dull apathy of despair Into which she had fallen. Just two years since she and .Toe set up housekeeping together In the tiny house in Dove avenue, and now all her sweet day dreams lay in ruins at her feet. Crushed and undone she had come back to her mother, "noth ing but a bundle of skin and hones, and with scarcely enough spirit left to hold her head up," as that worthy woman confided to her special crony. "And her as gradely a lass as ever worked four looms to be saddled with a child that's worse than fatherless," the neighbor answered sympathetical ly, seeing only an additional burden and expense in the tiny morsel of hu manity. But to Margaret Alice the child was the one gleam of brightness In the darkness of her lot, albeit his coming had been the chief cause of all her wretchedness. In Loomshlre, unfortunately, It Is euBtomary for a woman when she be comes a wife to go on working at her looms, nnd In this Margaret Alice had only followed in the steps of thou sands of her sip'er weavers. Indeed, she had preferred to do so, for her wages were good, and every week she was able to add some useful piece of furniture to their comfortable little abode, but it was surprising how many "off days" her husband seemed to have after the knot was securely tied. "I doubt he's a bit lazy," one of her sisters ventured to remark when these holidays became more and more frequent, but Margaret Alice dis claimed the calumny indignantly; for love is ever blind, and a woman's faith in the man of her choice dies hard as a rule. . But circnihstances alter cases, and with little Tom's appearance upon the scene Margaret Alice resolved that other mothers might please them . selves, but as far as she was concerned the factory. should see her no more. Henceforth her home and the baby must constitute her kingdom. Al though she had never even heard Ras kin's words she resolved, as she lay in her delicious weakness, with the downy head upon her arm, to be a Bort of queen to her man nnd her boy. "Joe can earn good money when he's mind, and now that he's set up a family he'll see the need of sticking to his work In downright earnest," she mused serenely with a loving glance at her baby. "And he shall Save the cosiest home In all Loom shlre for his pains, "she added, proud ly, wholly unconscious of the hard wall of opposition which was already rising up between herself and her de lightful plannlngs. For there are always two stand points from which to view a situation, and, to his shame, Joe Gibson's dif fered very materially from that of his wife.. 'Th' boy'll be a month old to-morrow, and old Nance la a rare 'un at minding children,1 he began airly one bitterly cold day as Margaret sat by the fire with the child on ber knee, making a wonderfully pretty picture. "Nay, Joe, you'll have to be a sole breadwinner1 now; my work's at home," she replied in her slow, pentle fashion. But the next moment she gathered the living bundle to her bosom, and gazed at her lord and master with wide, startled eyes. It wag scarcely' to be wondered at, for the storm of invectives which fol lowed quickly upes her mild speech might well have made a stronger woman quail. To discover flaws in her husband is always a bitter etperience for any woman, and after that sudden awak ening Margaret Alice carried a heavy heart for many a month; black looks and infinitely blacker language be- than probable, had U been suuaier THE MOOR. the Loom w weather she would have lacked cour age to adhere to her resolution, But to take her delicate darling from his warm bed Into the frosty air of the early mornlngand leave him to the in different care of an old woman during the long working hours of the day was something she shrank from with all the force of her affectionate na ture. She had not' belonged to the Rock Street Recreation Club and at tended the debates on popular and practical subjects which were held there twice a week to no purpose; she knew something of the high death able to bring all your disappointment rate of her own town and the chief and seeming failure to a happy Is cause of It, and her little Tom was not ' sue. And I veil yon He Is Just walt golng to be added to the great num.- lng to do it," he continued confldent ber of weakly children In Loomshlre , ly, Tf you will only put yourselves if she could help It.. j Into His hands and wait patiently; "My place is at home, and at home for nothing, however difficult it may I'll bide," she reiterated doggedly to all her hu-sband'g vituperations, but a sullen expression, hitherto unknown, gradually crept over her pleasant, open countenance. After that only God knew what she endured for her Hps were dumb con- cerning her humiliation. There were did, bo it seemed to her. But it was days when her purse was empty, and I too much to hope that God could her cupboard bid fair to outvie that of ' really give her back her home of a Mother Hubbard, bo scantily were its year ago. Her mother was goodness shelves supplied by the man (?) of itself, and her sisters had welcomed the house. But Margaret Alice, thrif-1 her among them again with open ty by nature, had the knack of mak-; arms, and had shared with her their lng a really appetizing meal out of j best; but they weren't Joe, and only very little, nnd always there was t!.e the old love could fill her empty, hun child to bring comfort to her heart gering heart. when even her brave spirit faltered. "He will restore all that you have It Is marvelous bow cruel a man may: lost; yea, a hundredfold more than bo without striking a single blow, you ever possessed," came the words The tongue,, an unruly member at best, is apt to lacerate its victtimes unmercifully when let loose In un governable fury. The trying winter passed and a de lightfully balmy spring followed, but the girl's physical strength had sun:c to a very low ebb, and at last there came a day when she felt too crushed and weary to battle any longer with the forces of evil which had risen up against her. Little Tom wag ailing, too, for sheer want of the care which had been his from his birth until now; and when his grandmother who had obtained a slight inkling of the true state of thlncs through a kindly, in quisitive nieghhor Insisted upon their coming home to her, the hus band, more ashamed than he would have owned even to himself, but fiercely resenting his mother-in-law's Interference, declared that he would emigrate to Canada, and his wife could go or stay, as best pleased her. After a few weeks at home Mar garet Alice went back to uer looms, while little Tom ran a great danger of being completely spoiled by five mniden aunts, who bickered vigor ously among themselves for the priv ilege of nursing bis small highness. In Loomshlre the great cotton mills close for a week during the hot weather, and the bnsy workers mi grate to the sea or country, as their wills incline, to refresh themselves and gather strength for the coming winter. Margaret Alice's youthful sis ters were no exception to this wise rule, and great were their prepara tions as the time approached for the annual exodus. The worse than hns- bandless wife pleaded earnestly to be allowed to remain quietly at home with her hoy, but her not unnatural desire was met with loud voiced op position. The child needed sea breezes more than anybody, and Peg would just spoil the outing altogether If she re fused to go with them. Afford' it, Indeed, when they had been paying into the holiday fund the whole year long, and everybody knew quite well that what wou'd keep five could be made to do the same for Bjx. After that Margaret Alice could do nothing less than pack her scanty wardrobe; and baby Tom crowed de lightfully at sight of the big waves which came dashing over the prom enade at Silverport. Margaret Alice was not what would be termed a religious woman her I 2 DESCARTES' 3 N the discourse of Descartes One s Reason Rightly," intense desire to learn falsehood in order that he might be clear about his actions and that he might be able to walk sure-footedly in this life. Therefore he determined to set up what he termed "a provisional self-government," of which these were to be the rules. I give the rules as somewhat broadly paraphrased by Mr. Huxley: First That he would submit himself to the laws and re ligion in which he had been brought up. Second That he would act, on all occasions which called for action, promptly and according to the best of his judg ment. ' . Third That be would seek happiness in limiting his de sires rather than in attempting to satisfy them. Fourth That he would make the search after truth the business of his life. Descartes was JuBt coming of age when he laid down for himself these rules of life. -From "Personal Power," by vWm. Jewett Tucker. ' family had never even been regular church goers. Perhaps that was the reason the open air service held on the firm yellow sands the day after their arrival attracted her more than it otherwise might have done. With her child asleep on ber knee, and her five sisters scattered like a protect ing band around her, she listened half dreamily, half critically, to the deep, musical tones of the preacher, as he sought to convey his message of hope and comfort to the multitude of holi day makers. Her own dream of hap piness had been so brief, and the awakening so terribly disappointing, even though she should live to be quite old and in spite of the aching loneliness, Bhe would like to see her little Tom grov up to manhood her life could only be a half and halt sort of thing at best, she thought. Yet here was a man boldly declar ing God t'esired the happiness of ev ery man, woman and child. But there, what was the use of paying any heed? It couldn't possibly be true, or why was there such a tremendous amount of misery in the world? For she wasn't the only disappointed woman by a long way; there were scores like her even In Loomshlre. "Yes, you may have devised your ways according to your own Inclina tion, but the Lord shall still direct your steps," were the next words which fell upon her ear, "and He Is appear to you, la impossible with Hlm." "Nothing Impossible," did he say? Ah, well, talking was cheap, words did not cost anything; and Bhe didn't suppose he knew much about loss of any kind; fine gentlemen rarely of the preacher, as though In answer to her unvoiced yearning: but after that Margaret Alice heard no more, for Tom awoke with a frightened lit tle cry perhaps the sudden rain of hot tears which had fallen upon his face was largely accountable for this and his mother's attention had per force to be devoted to him. Yet there was a prayer in her heart, and the preacher's words stayed with her. "It was the very best holiday they had ever had," the girls declared up on the sixth day of their visit, "and to j get up In the morning and have noth i ing to do save enjoy themselves until : night came was Just Al," said Ellza i beth Ann, the youngest and bonni est. The waves enme dashing over the promenade right up to the houses be- I yond, as the girls made their way ; to the pier as soon as breakfast was I over. Once there It would be possi ble to find a sheltered nook where they might enjoy the fresh, health giving breezes in comfort; the cands would be perfect later on when the tide was out, and little Tom could roll about to his heart's content. . Elizabeth Ann, who adored her small nephew, had begged to be nurse that morning, and just as they were crossing the busy square in front of the pier, which was crowded even at that early hour, with a gay, laughing crowd on pleasure bent, a huge mo tor car came swiftly round the cor ner. Margaret Alice, who was still on the sidewalk, stood as though pet rifled, gazing with horror stricken eyes at the little dancing child in her sister's arms; the cruel monster was almost upon them. Suddenly a strangely familiar figure dashed from out the crowd and almost threw the baby and his nurse beyond the line of danger. Too late to escape himself, however. A shrill, agonized scream Issued from Margaret Alice's white Hps as she saw him hurled with tre mendous force to the grcund. "Two broken ribs, a dislocated an kle, and an ugly wound on his head, that's all; we'll soon have him patch. ed up; and things might have been infinitely worse from all accounts," was the doctor's verdict an hour later as he beamed upon the white faced girl In front of him. "''His wife, eh? Well, if you'll promise to behave like a sensible wo man, you Bhall Bee him for five min utes; nobody has a better right, I suppose. But there must be no cry- ing, remember. I certainly draw the I LIFE RULES. upon "The Method of Using he Bays that he always had an how to distinguish truth from i HKMHIMMIIII line at anything approaching tears,1 C d with trembling limbs Margaret Alice followed the doctor Into the cool ward of the Cottage Hospital. "As long as th' little chap were safe, it wouldn't ha' mattered a scrap if I'd "been killed; there were nobody to fret for me," the patient mur mured feebly. But Margaret Alice, her heart too full for words at sight of the poor bandaged head, pressed his hand tightly as Bhe laid her soft cheek against his. "You don't mean to say as you'd ha' cared If th' car ha' done for me, lass?" he whispered at length, a note of mingled surprise and incredulity in the husky voice. ''Only make haste and get well, Joe," she Bobbed, utterly regardless of the doctor's warning. "He's go ing to give me back all I'd lost, al though I was wicked enough to Bay It wasn't true." "I don't rightly understand what you're after, lass, you'd always plenty of learning for the two of us; but if so be as you're willing to try me again," he added jerkily, after a mo ment's pause, "you shall never have no more cause to complain. I'll work ml fingers to th' bone for thee and th' little 'un, and " there was a whole world of shame In the falter ing tones at this point "I'll keep this tongue of mine in hand if you'll only help me." And Margaret Alice sealed the com pact with a loving kiss. Esther Branthwaite, In London S. S. Times. 'NatureBcience A new process for making an in sulator, according to the Electrical Review, has appeared on the Conti nent. It resembles ebonite and con sists of a mixture of tan bark with one-third of sulphur. The whole Is heated until the sulphur melts. The mixture is well stirred and then cooled, when it takes the form of small black grains. Theso are put in a pressure mold and heated, the re sult being a block of InBulatlng ma terial of any form. At the recent meeting of the Amer ican Street and Iuterurban Engineer ing Association of Atlnntlc City, a new system of street railway con struction was proposed. The Idea was to form the car wheels without flanges, but instead to place the flanges on the rails. The new con struction was ably presented and many good arguments were brought forward to show the superiority of such a system over the present one. Scientific American. P. F. Bander points out that not only the direction and Intensity of light, but Its color, must be consid ered in estimating Its power to re veal fine details. Experiment shows that most persons are short-sighted for blue and violet light. When pat terns are Illuminated alternately with red, green and blue light It is found that for ease of seeing minute details blue and green light are pref erable to red for abort distances, hut that at greater , distances red light gives the best results. According to the Electrical Jour nal there are twenty-eight single phase roads in America, with 691.8 miles in operation, and 274. S miles under construction. Abroad there are thirty-six single-phase railroads covering 771.05 miles with 67.75 miles under construction. The total number of single-phase locomotives in this country is fifty-seven and the number of cars 240, as against forty three locomotives and 222 cars abroad. The total horsepower hero Is 137,400, while the total of foreign roads is 64,100. Six new elements, writes the Lon don correspondent of the New York Sun, have been discovered, bo Profes sor Mnthmann, of Munich, an nounced at the congress of German chemists, by the Viennese doctor Auer von Welsbach. The news came by letter from the Inventor himself while the professor was reading his paper on "Rare Earths." It was to the effect that Dr. von Welsbach had succeeded in separating terbium and thullumb, previously believed to be elements, into two constituents each, and dysprosium and gadolinum, two other rare elementary substances, In to three each. The number of ele mentary rare earths has thus been In creased from sixteen to twenty-two. It may be recalled that last year Dr. von Welsbach simultaneously with the French scientist Urbaln discov ered that ytterbium, for' thirty years believed to be an element, was divis ible. Since 1878 the Viennese savant has added ten elements to those known to science, a record for any single inventor and an achievement on which the congress sent him a tele gram of congratulation. 1 Caught Too Qnirk. I pleads guilty to stealin' dem melons, Jedge," said the prisoner, "but I wants de mjrey er de ccurt." "On what grounds?" asked the Judge. "On dese grounds," replied the prisoner. "I stole de melons, but de sheriff didn't give me a chance ter eat 'em!" Atlanta Constitution. The naval, mercantile, marine and general engineering and machinery exhibition to be held at Olympla. London, next September, will, If is stated, be the largest of its kind aver held In that city. TtflfOD MOTHER GOOSE TO DATE!. JACK 81'RAT. Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife oould eat no lean, And so they sold Their beef roast cold And cleared a million clean. THE FATE OF TAFFf. Taffy win a welch er, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my bouse. Stole a piece of beef! I went to Taffy' house, Seized him by the ears. Had him aent to prison for Ninety-seven veara! Harper's Weekly. FOUND WITH THE GOODS. Artist "I'm going to do a picture of Whlttler's Maud Muller." Friend "How do you imagine sht looked?" . Artist "Rakish." LIppIncott's. NOT A GOOD LIAR. Judge "Prisoner, are you guilty or not guilty?" Prisoner "Let my lawyer plead not guilty for me, Judge. I ain't got the nerve!" St. Paul Dispatch. THE WORM TURNS. Watts "So your father-in-law In sists on your going to work, eh! What did ho say to you?" Potts "He told me I muBt find something' to do besides him." Bos ton Transcript. VERIFYING TIMB. Father "What time did that young man leave?" Daughter "Just when you got home from ths club, mother returned from her card party, and Susan came back from her night out." Brooklyn Eagle. CHANGED HIS MIND. "You are charged with larceny. Are you guilty or not guilty?" "Not guilty, Judge. I thought I was, but I've been talktn' to my law yer, an' he's convinced me that I ain't." Catholic News. A MASTER OF LANGUAGE. "That new waiter of yours de scribes the bill of fare In a way to make anybody hungry." "He wasn't alwaya a waiter. He used to be press agent for a circus." Louisville Courier-Journal. MAGICAL WEALTH. "Don't you wish you bad Aladdin's wonderful lamp?" said the imagina tive hoy. "No," replied the practical youti. "I'd rather be sole proprietor of a city full of gas meters." Washing ton Star. FOR EXHIBITION. "Show me Borne tiaras, please. I want one for my wife." "Yes, Blr. About what price?" "Well, at such a price that I can say, 'Do you see that woman with the tiara? She is my wife. " Flle gende Blaetter, v SINGLETON SIZED UP. Kate "What id the world does Maud see in that Mr. Singleton? Why, the man is all wrapped up in himself. Ethel "Yes, and to my mind he makes a mighty small package." Boston Transcript. HER SPECIALTY. Mrs. Crlmsonheak "I'd like to be a lawyer." Mr. Crlmsonheak "I guess you'd rather be a Judge." "Why so?" "Oh, you'd have the last word, then! " Yonkers Statesman. GENERAL TENDENCY. "Even if you can't enjoy best tellers!" said the meditative person, "there are books in the running brooks, you know." "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne; "but even the brooks are getting dryer every year." Washington Star. A WORD OF WARNING. "So, my son," said the unemotional citizen, "you are going to be a re former?" , "Yes, sir." "Well I haven't any objections bo long as you are not qna of the kind who, having dyspepsia themselreg, want to forbid everybody else the us of pie." Washington Star, WHERE HE SAW RESEMBLANCE Apt Remark of 8mall Boy Embar rassed Toper and Filled Car With Merriment Jlmmie, who Is a very small boy living in the East end, accompanied his mother downtown several days ago. Nearly everything be saw waa quite new to him, bo he waa not spar Ing In his commeuts and opinions and questions. Seated opposite Jlmmie and hla mother on the car homebound was as Individual who, Judging by the "bios sora" on his nose, had partaken freely of Joy water. None of Jimmle's neigh bors possessed an appendage that could compare with the one across the aisle. In silence Jlmmie took in the alt atlon and the "blossom." Hla thought must have grown bo curious that they oould not be withheld any longer and he finally blurted out In a loud voice: "Mamma, is that Santa Clausr pointing to the man with the red nose. Embarrassed, Jimmle's mother tried to silence her son, but it was no use. In an audible whisper the connection between the man and, Santa, Claus waa disclosed much to the discomfiture of the man. "Why, mamma, didn't it say In that story about Santa Claus that Santa had a 'nose like a cherry,' " he asked, and the car was In an uproar. Pitta burg Times-Gazette. There Should. Frits the gardener was a stolid Ger man who was rarely moved to ex traordinary language. Even the most provocative occasions only caused him to remark mildly on his ill-luck. Not long ago he came back from the city in the late evening after. a hard day In the market place. He was sleepy, and the train being crowded, the bag gageman gave him a chair in hla roomy car. Finally the train reached Bloom field. Frits still slept aa it pulled la and his friend had to shake him and tell him where he was. "I tanks you," Bald Frits, as be rose slowly to hla feet. The open door of the car was directly In front of him. He walked Btralght out of it The baggageman sprang to look aft er him. Fritz slowly picked himself up from the Band by the aide of the track, looked up nt the door, and said with no wrath In his voice: "There should here be some steps." 3t Paul Dispatch. Merely a Prevaricator. A doctor relates the following story: "I bad a patient who wag very ill and who ought to have gone to a warmer climate, so I resolved to try what hyp notism would do for him. I had a large sun painted on the celling ot hla room and by suggestion induced him to think it waa the sun which would cure Mm. The ruse succeeded and he was getting better rapidly when one day on my arrival I found he waa dead." "Did It fall, after all, then?" asked one of the doctor's hearers. "No," replied the doctor, "he died of sunstroke " He Knew the Kind. Little Edward, aged four, was aa only child. He waa anxious for a baby sister, and wag talking of U ona day with n friend of the family In the friend's family was a baby girl of one year. The lady said, "Edward, you may have my baby; she is pretty and sweet" "Oh," said Edward, "I don't want an old baby. 1 want a bran new one wlf noflin on but talcum powder." Red Hen. Sometimes a girl pretends to whis tle for the purpose of calling a young man's attention to the lovely pucker she can get on her lips. A nagging wife makes ber husband forget hla other troubles. The supply of talk always exceed the demand. Know How To Keep Cool? When Summer's sun and daily toil heat the blood to an uncomfort able degree, there is noth ing so comforting and cooling as a glass of Iced Postum served with sugar and a little lemon. Surprising, too, how the food elements relieve fatigue and sustain one. The flavour is deli cious and Postum is really a food drink. "There's a Reason" POSTUM CliRBAL CO., LjiJ,. Battle Creek, Mlrh. L; 1
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