}
{geting along till sh
that opened the way into a warm
{rome But thers they wanted no one,
and she turned sboyt to face the storm
ge of luck they mark, | 88ain. House after house she visited,
ayer, or grin or smile, {and in &ll of them met the same an
a little w he, swer—surly. some of them were, and
ina the dark. sent ber back into the streer wonder
se all, dead broke and blank: | Ing where she could go next.
e, some plunge to make or] Next? That was a problemi. It
Id on every stake seemed she hod been everywhere and
¥ $x
Break the bank.
| still she was cold and hungry: her
ene ad Qilveting lin head ached and she was badraggled
| brows and quis FTIng Ups, [by the Snow. At that juncture [Helen
: . eke slowly grow or abriak, came to a {rack of four that led soross
ey played for money, not for chips.
SE : the docks of a steamship company.
In front stood a dray laden with bar
reis of the sinff, fresh fro the mills,
85d Inside the big shed the driver was
wrangling with the foreman, In a
_ {twinkling Helen grabled a paper from
| the back of the wagon and swept the
path of flour from the walk with her
bare hand, one track after the other,
until she had them bath in her paper
y and straightened from her toll
Into the eyes of Frederick Hudson
“You here! he exclaimed.
at her full beight. She was Helen
their modes of life changed | Gray again, even in the storm of BOOW,
them. Helen Gray belonged to thie | “1 am here” she repeated,
class. It happened before the| “Ang...”
| “A widow and starving? Tears
trickled down ber cheeks as she sald
this: ;
“A widow and starving?’ Frodeviek
echoed, “1 have been your friend in
ii the past and will be now, You shall
: not wanh”
0 front of a Southern home| Arm fn arm they walked away, and
st its shadow across the Brond | she told him all; how ber husband bad
a and Corinthias pillars. Afallen; how thelr ail had Dewin saerd-
years went by and Helen's skirts | ficed, and bow at last they had come to
and her hair, which In! Chicago: baw be had met his death,
summers bad been loft to curl | and why she was In the streets, When
was notted on her head. and she put] they were seated at a table In a res |
tauranut Frederick told her bow he had
: come to Chicago and bow be Lad pros
be house. Then she had callers. | pered as a lawyer.
3 Ald, gentlomen friends of WT] That very week the remains of Har
. youth, and gradually they fell lolg Stetson wore shipped to bin former
‘to two, who became gnitors and | ome In the Booth and wers Secon
tivale. One was long of face and bait | panied by the widow. At the funeral
~whith was steaight—and talked of | was Frederick Hudson. A year later
anthors and flowers. The other was |there was a quiet wedding in that
tall, had wmmiles for everrthing, his |town in which Helen Stetson was bride
ri ir dancing over a shining face. | and Frederick Hudson the groom.
Gray liked this dandy of the! Now this man and wife live on the |
outh. Helen was more favorably im- | South Side of this city, and the man is
ressed with the former. Their names [a lawyer of prominence —Harry A.
‘rederick Hudson and Harold | Armstrong, fn the Chicago Record.
Frederick was a young at: | Herald,
ne: the town, and Harold-well, i
had nothing tn do, and 41d nothing, Bell Finds Life Worth Livieg.
father was rich. Two years 8go a wealthy New
gown touched the floor and | Yorker was injured while swimming
Ar out nx she came down tol 8nd it was thought that he would pover
jor one Bunday afternoon, the day | 8¢t over the effects of the accident.
was to tell Harold hls pleadings | But by a modern miracle of surgery
een heard and his prayers grant | Be recovered after Iving for months
It had been a Jong struggle, nnd | Petween life and death,
ae Fe SAA II.
d lasted more than a year. Freder-| He Is still confined to bls tied and |
and in Helen's face and voles the | WHI Dever again be able to stand on |
Ning that kept Wim so long. That his tect. The greatest luxury that be
®avr came from the heart and has enloyed since hin aeehdent caps |
the other day when be was diowed ta
smoke a cigar.
a hells rang ant for Christ. When it beeatns certain that ho
fH len and Harold walked slowly would live the question of the Mace of |
« aisle of the church whily the or residence war the most Jmportint As
ied out itn wedding march. Lis wealth made it BANSCrREATY (0 coh.
s the lights and rich the sider any question Lut the suitability
Hen! were the flowers snd | of a place for a person compelled 10
stay in the bouss always, it sess not
£0 difficsit to find a home for Mim as
it might bave been. The choles finally
back of the church sat n youn Jol 15% 90 spartment house ou Brook:
swhat by himself. and | 130. Heights.
somewhat by himself, an The windows of this house commund
two one for all time. After | Fost River. Night and day there is
on had passed ont of the | M1WaYSE a moving panorama of beauty
nd went away It] Pefore the eyes of the injursd man
ederick Hudson, lawser. but who lies on Lis couch by the window.
ee khew Kim no tore, for that And he jg philosophical enough to ad
he went away into the North] BI that life even under such condi
night In the early spring follow.
edding Harold was drought
‘his companions. He was
bg hard, and when Helen
ver him the men langhed and
led liquor on her husband.
then on he drank hard and sat
fore the green cloth. After a
Mr. Stetson died and Harold
the mills and the estate
ut be ran through it
that got in hix cotton
ing. Nelther did Helen
thing to add, for she had given
e Bad and all her mother had
even to the house with the elm
the girl had spent her baby.
Sun,
a A PT AOI
A Monster Topas,
An imteresting story of a valuaole
topaz now in the possession of Signor
Nicola Carelli comes from Naples, gays
the Rome correspondent of the London
Leader. The topaz which Signor Car
elll brought back from Bazil Bote
Fears ago is so large that it $a sald to
weigh over two pounds. A Neapolitan
artist, seeing the stone, begged to be al.
lowed to engrave the figure of Christ
on it fo eameo, The work is now fic.
ished and Signor Carell! has been look.
ing for a purchaser The value of the
Jewel Is, however, so great that aren
the Pope bimself, to whom it was of.
fernd, could not afford io buy it. Pin-
ally, says the Italie, a committes has
been formed in Naples with the pure
pose of buying the Jewel from its Jires.
enl owner by public subscription and
affering it to Leo XIII as a Jubilee
: iy j present. TT is to be baped, therefore,
hat Which caused them to sell! nat this wonderful treasure will be
the household furniture and the de. | suey ny visitors to the Vatican Mn-
zet away from all who knew | coum. Signor Carelli declares that
that drove them to Chicago. | (here 1s no other such stone in the
where for a time they struggled | world. pi
galnst fate, and where Harold fell
hose who were like the asso
Ax for working, Harold knew little
} eared less The yonne man thought
‘could get away from his asso.
eonld get to work and even
® that of a day laborer it
be the “onterine wedge” It
Sr ————————
He Knew the Secret.
_clates he had left. He got to drinking | The secret of growing younger as the
gambling and one stormy day the | Years advance Is not the sole Poses.
] gion of womankind. There are cir
cumstances ander which man may
learn the art and ply the trade with a
the potter's field. success that may put woman to shame.
; : After he ‘uneral—simple in the ex- | A bachelor who five Years ago unblush
sat down in her single | Iogly acknowledged his fifty years as
sked herself what she | his companions drank his health
- Bnows neat upon the win- | around the festive board has recently
4 the fire burned low in the | taken to himself a bride why boasts
}; nothing was in the larder. | of eighteen summers When the news:
fore had the woman been hun- | Papers announced the engageuient last
le was starving, Yet she | spring the prospective bridegroom was
with the intention to again [referred to as a man of forty Ove
"Work 1h the wholesale | Just now there are invitations out for
See a banquet to celebrate his thirty-eizhth
breakfast | Helen slipped | birthday. Some of his friends are won
' Biairs and looked on| dering If the next year's celebration
‘orld. Snows were | Will be In honor of his attaining his
e wind was eom-|majority.--New York Sun.
the sidewalk and into the open door of
“1 am.” replied the woman, standing |
i iO stop?
a wonderful view of the harbor and tha |
tions 1s well worth living —~New York
Wha hath
But that & iit
1s what we by
it iw & lover's GH
Comnimater,
Bummer Boarder-“Is this what you
call Bye minvies from the station?”
Farmer {isehiw “Yeg wir”
Sumter Boarder "How many miles
an hour is that 7 Pack,
A Definition,
Latte Clarence Pa, what Is expers
ence?”
Mr. Callipers—~"Experivnoe, my son,
i8 the bhesdaches you acquire from
butting against the workl” Pack.
Their Polite Bestraing.
Gussie {plsofullyi- Bah Javed © AR
the girlz around hve siniie 51 a™
Tom Wall, that shows they hare
BCAGY THALTIETE CO ALF Wie fire (wy
=A Mara go News, |
Vehieh broke in her hand, WED strength
1h fnew somes th the 8 ring, |
"i phe pall nerow frofn the wonng |
Find the tein fell aozowm It. Thos sie
Pras fonnd Thoe dt
tier : i thal wine Soros the
i :
wand mgr ayer the ne
would bagh outright
Bignt fo Their Line,
“How 44 your baseband
opt?
caps Tribune,
The Impariant Dedsis
Denler- "Xow, ir von wil of
automobile always fend
distanee
Wililam Wise
gay, how will I dad
ae
pie
SATA x
The Proper Answer.
Mrs, Newlywed Whee
ference between /
dollar bill pet™
Mr Newlyywal-ojt
Mrs Newlywed! “TL
dear—l need 8 oo
A Verguin,
Hotel Proprietor 1f the whole can
pany puts no Bere TH Boosh off twen.
ty-five per cent”
Press Agent—"Make it fitry and PH
catch a twenty two pound trout and!
soo the soa serpent Now York 2a
Postie Justics,
YAre you a believer in poetic hus
tive? aaked the
“1 am.” answered the foreizn author: |
"at least to the extent of hoping that
the laws will see 16 it the we gw
the money coming to ne for royaitien’’ |
A Cosning Terror,
what's gotie wrong?
Why are you going dows bere?
Santos 1003--“Che a puncture, sir!
One o' them ‘ere wireless telegrams, 1
expect, gate slap through my halloon”
—New York Commercial Advertise:
The Plaginrist.
"Oh, Mr. Writernuch, is everything
you write original with you? asked
the giddy young thing of the literary
lion,
“I'm afraid not” replied the 1. 1;
“every word 1 use may be found in
the dletionary."~ Cincinnati Comer.
etal Tribune.
A ANA po
A Grave Hesponsibility,
Do you think the kitg will recov
er?
“Yes” answered one of the royal
physicians, “we fool na farther anpre
hepsions converning lids majesty. What
we desire ta do now ix to Keep sone
of the people who expected to ba #0:
¢islly proaninent at the coronation fans
dying of disappointment”
One Definition of It.
“What do you venslder domesticity in
man?’
“It Is the trait of wanting to stay
home when his wife wanis him te go
out with her”
“And what is domesticity In wom.
an™
“That is the trait of beng willing
to stay home when her husband wants
to. go out without her” —Chicage
Pos*,
A Reaponstble Position,
“So you bave dismissed your stents.
rapher?’
“Yes,” answered Sevatoer Sorghum,
“Wasn't he goournte®”
“Yes: that was the troabls 1
haven't had ao good stenographer lo
years. What 1 want is somebody wha
can throw in a few biz words en ls
own account for the sake of siyie with.
oul changing the weaning. Washing.
ton Star,
| How Indisa M 1
1 on Eastern Shove,
Lind ene by otis the iE Ihen anl
eR ofl Thier friiee 3a wr Tie art
legend and avd
dean Bend
A recent wale of land in “Indian.
town serose the Paromoks River
ww FRB sehr to Beta
YRBY Ing saperstition
in of the dwell
WV Bers ba road Tend i Rn Nye
HE to Ral Fy be fodned by another |
which leads nt
} Wools, gan
feptin of 3 plow
Mild seein to a
ARUN] observer only an ordingry toush
amd twigs, however is a small mound
ard benenth the mound le the wie.
ened bones of the Indian maiden. Wa.
bem, who died bre othe hand of her
borer, Waspassan, soni of Waspasson, |
the wrest hunter of the tribe of which
Westomotonies was quéen-the Waa.
lnonier, Who owned vast fracte af
} land from the Inding River southward {
and from the Pacomoke westward
: The spitors for the hand of Wabena,
it is sald were many, and Waspasean
the son of Waspaseon, the friend of |
Weatematonles was the abe to Whom
rhe heart of Wahermia hal gone forth:
fmt sr his heen the way of maidens
hath before and since the day of Wa
wu
in publie her face was averted,
beers,
wed In oRBger she named Bis name”
"8% rhe wbeesd In the twilight
ww from an unseen bow plercsd
Falling, sho prneved a towiir,
AX
Wis
i hire
RII Were
te wrtilere and
+ Rept by them and
R4 A
to thie day, and
i treretiy “Indian Heap” has been per.
Epstuated. That it je not Vkely 1 gh
i down is attested by the fact ihat in
tae record of Worcester County it Wa
named ax ote of the boundaries of a
Stet of Tad in fodiantown Tha Sea
PX Aen,
En
The Artful Dandelion,
On protective devices whether of
2 the anbinal, andl are tO be slserced
i the simplest of planta. Lond Ave
bary, in his exceedingly suggestive and
caarming address ot the annnal fmees
i Lg of the Belborne Boclety, drew atten
i
tion to seine of them, sud perhaps pone |
“& by Blin Was sede
Tig comity
wel out th
ino bend the
5 9s y Roi sn ag
ATHE Lew Gh The granand
a danded Dower is really a
§ hasch of flowers, some Bandred Borers
4 Tle: outer rows)
Fal Borate open Sst, then the inner sad
FIENOr TOWER, efsling With the cent
Wms. This lass some days and every |
evening about snnest the Bower head |
closes 4p 50 as to protect the deiionte |
tharels from night dews asd probably
frone pight insects When sll the Sarets |
Bite wiped the yellow corollas shizivel |
Cu the sielk lsxye itself dowh on the
gaund so as to be cut of danger and
the seeds gradeally matters. When |
they are ripe the Sower stalk by sone
mysterious fgstinet beonwes aware of
Pihe fact and raises Besdl so a8 to stand |
Gi boldly in the wind, which seires
Lthe seeds by thelr beautiful parast
chrries them off to fread Selds amd
pistes new, aml thus enables the
&
dant fo sow Heel! in aby rece
sroed Up growsd or jo any other s
He locality. ~landon News
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The Lister Family,
The number of those bearing
nnme of Lister who have been eminent
inommedioal scienes In remarkable, BEd
ward Lieter educated at Eton snd
Cambridge, was a physician fo Eliza
ith and James I. and his yousger
hrnther, Sir Matthew, filed the sume!
wtfiee to Apne of Dentuark. James L
and Charles | Martin Lister, son of
Nir Martin sud 3 nephew of Rie Mat
them, was a (amos zoologist and sed
oid physician to Queen Ane. Lord
Lister is now seventy-five. His wite
was a dagghier of the late Professor
Rume, of Badinbaregh, a surgeon of the
Gray eminence. She did 8 Tew yenr
aie But for Lord Ldsters great dis
covery ln INIT, Kmownoas the antiven
thr tregtment, the opvratias on Kisg
Edward could not posalldy have been
attempted, Lond Lister las the dis
tinction «of belog the first medical
~Mexivan Herald,
Spite Suite.
One of the most gonpeatitable and fp
the end most ansatisfaciory, procesd
wags in which a person can engage is}
to rommency a nwsult meray because
he is bofllog Internally and can think
of no other safety valve. It is very
mach cheaper to bay a punching bag
There may be a certain preliminary
satisfaction io reading notices the
plaintiff himself has cngsed to be In
sorted in the newspaper sthat he his
xed his enemy for a round number of
thousand doilars. After a time. how
ever. the tigation If # has pot sab
stintial merits, becomes irksome In it
000 and expensive asl the humiliation
af a spiteosuit that ends In uo judeent
for the defendant, with a bill of costs,
packs fwens the acute forms of bu
man misery —~New York Law Journal
Benled down {row d
the pile of branches |
fed her where abe |]
{ 3re plenty of men WBO can get the matey to
fli Job that In exey fo do ix pos very well
ng, Now, fet earls tan heve look Sack ia bis life
WET Is thal he be pioud of dn Hoowhat prio ithe ly
an £8 a neinory to bis sons and durch Ie it
Xo, Bot & bit It is the memory of his FUCOORR
he winmobk and the wuccoss sould only come through
gagh effort
Is pot that trae? Let each one think for Himself, Jook back in vour eee
reeves and If you have not gor § in Fira to feel most proud of ths time when
you worked I think dmb 100s of Fou. [Laughter and applaves] W La sre
the heroes of this nation’ Whe are the EW men that you think of ar once?
Washington aod Lines. fApplavies] Each ope of them all Bix days worked
for biosael? and worked for others: one fered death on a Beare of stricken
Belde, and one met ft at the hands of an assassin Tor the conntri's sake.
They are the ten ¥haorn Amerieuns delizht to botor-they and these Hike
them. There has fever yer een 8 Wan In our bistory who led a fife of “nee
whise name is worth remern ering
Xow onderstand me, Make bolidays. 1 believe in holidare. 1 believe ty
play and in playing bard whlls Fou piary, hut don’t make a hosipess of it
{langhter and applanse.] Do Four work dad do i wp fo the Raudie, aad
tuen piag when you have got time fo Ee
How Much Debt
fe GueRion fa gabedy vp much ough
for a farm ADA dome # men wlio hare 3 fancy
BLIATR Write fo ihe sdltor
wis advice on the subject
ning HiF answer such a question, any
the lnaguirer Bow n dinner he
To eat or how many hours he saould seep Byery
5 ¥
5 A 23 ad ke ©. i,
J Wisk HES 6 hoon
A Fey Yuan ons Nd
LAN be cong
nile i
hy &
A
inte Gout far
tas oF
es OL a»
Sle tn wramis £3 git gi ply « aan -
Rois Lo WOT oul al right, while spother wound surely
¥
hE
Lane masedied
{
Urs 1 3 total Talinre were be to onderiaks such a thing
ig. ay down say Bard aed Caras Hues for mien to 26 Br In
HEN a man hag satas Eonowiedge of
JB priactioal soonomy be sever shoukd
think of going info dab for a (sros sf sil 1% i paEy to near Jbl. There
;
B
ka Had poste oxy
iF a farm. The vext thing in
man love the fart; thal his
Vife Goes slo: that be bas good benlil; that be ia need to practicing LooBnamYy
iy his expenditures, and thet Se has a stekdo-itdvensss which will laugh st
the thousand and one drawbacks he will be sure to mest If he can mest
these requirnnents and Bas bad some knowledge of what farming means be
¥
to Wark oul ibe problem. Ir Wimp
pany with some deprne of eAfety go in delr for parr payment of a farm.
Criberwise, be might hetler stay wiiers is Is
2 2 2
Prosperity and Hap
By N. E. Badgley.
$ (2 HILE Mr. Jay Cooke
oo about all ond. shanld expect from a capitalisrle point
Of retsonings ; very far from being eguitabie to all
paras (opoerned. He states that “Rockefsller's money is
all here” and that “Morgen won't eat his millions” From
Whence came thes auadredia of millions wiled are so BO.
justly claimed by a few meen as thelr own? Does nat labor
produce all wealth and capital? Is the fodivitual eaph
Pov erty and Sorrow Vs.
eslor, form or aitliade, many chapters, | oan og -
of cotree, might be written, They ave |
BE comtnat in the vegetables worl ne
i tilization of 8 ball Lillies so exssntisl to the eorisonn goad oh
a gua ; : SEE whe Jaber ta prodiive It I be boot on starvaiisy wares from sons
we Hower is ready fo open the sali | Ay £4 an La Wines i # +3 oe
; FY Anika wy LH generation? The mandlin talk and brazen ofrostery of hose whe latimate
aes dled perpendicularly. What we |
hat a common brotherbood eonld be established on such a t Fraonical basis
ak this only show thelr extreme cupidity and lack of intellizence COBOPIL-
hig the laws of equity and the comunon needs of pamanity hn a civilised
jepuniry. Mr Cooke unwittingly stites that these many midlane of wealth
wil eventually return to the people! To this I Bly DOT] QO, BRYEr, sO
WEE a8 our present politicoecopomic wethads are enforced. The demise of
these rich men will simply allow {heir Gnwiense fortuses ta pass into the
possession of a few holes, who will continge fo rob the vast majority of na
sid add to thelr wealth, millions wen millions, to pratly their unworthy
golfishness. Their sympathy for common humanity 8 about as deen as
that of the slave Bolder, who sees Lis fortone aniy is the men that tall
There 8 however, 3 very reasonable asd an equitadle way of changing al}
fol this tarmell, poverty and sorrow nto cme of cheerful industry, gpeuners)
prosperity, chnteninet And Bappiness. Any obe with averass iy telligence
pend a ditties refdection should Know that a civilization producinse pe Letter
results for mankind than this we now have la far fiom being what it ought
tz Le and far from what it would be if we smply erreel our four
greatest evily, These are ignorance, intemperance, concentrated wealth and
ahury. These opposites are iptellignnes, temperance distributive weal'h asd
Wow anterest,
the Social Arbiter?
By J. Saxe Dua Bue.
tiIE question whether man shall resign to woman the infils-
tive in making propomix of marriage i just now agitatiog
the mind feminine and finding expression in the solumbe of
the dally press. The turden of their oplsions is that women
shall propose. Bur it so happens that they are not the arbt
ters of such matters, amd hat consequently the world wilt
Crontinge to wag along in the same old way and mas coutiope
ta propowe While womin disposes still
There {8 5 feature of this discussion that Ix worth a passing potion, even
{2 the discussion teed! is trivial and We. It is this:
While women may discuss such questions pro and con. man is tie social
arbiter, and pon kar alome will depend the solution of this and similar
problems, Writing from the standpoint of a man, I hardly beliece that
man's mind Is about th undergo such a revolution as to permit him to allow
woman to usurp this time-honored and reasonable prerogative.
Difenlt an it may be for some men to sorew thes couraze up to the
proposing pitch, once they conclode that the enly oliss for them is the cop.
fugal bliss, they feel that it Is a game worth .usny times the candle. and
they will continge to bold it a4 ote of thelr rights: and the woman who
preaches that woman should propose will find probably to her WITOW,
that she will pot make a brilliant success if she endeavors to practios what
she preaches, apd that on the other hand the preaching of such nonsense
puts ber farther from being proposed to by the sort of man a woman might
desire to win than she ever was before.
What is so attractive in woman as a sweet, retiring disposition; ons that
waits to be courted, oue that keeps her lily sweetness to herself until she is
won by the attentions of some worthy man? Do not men intinitely prefer
8 woman with sueb a disposition to ene why spots some man out for her
prey and then sets out to catch him?
Do we want a race io the future where the man looks after the babies
and the household affairs while the wife goes to the club and foafs about
the hotel and such? Ilo we want a raew that fs the Incarnation of the funny
man's idea of the new woman and her twentieth century “hubby? Then,
give us women who propose and it will come to that
On the other band if we want wives wy can love, admire and respect;
wires who can rule ax the presiding genius of the sacred precincts of the
home; wives who we can feel are to be protected from the cruelties of life:
wives who command ull the gallantry and knightly devotion that are in us,
let us still choose the dear mortal ‘whe dispesss rather than aer sister whe
insists ou proposing.