me of that rural Eden!
work I have gver spent.
Upon me a8 a Christian.
How well I remember the fateful day
| and hour! Mr. Blobbsworth had culled
p drinking his second cup of ten,
Just then Jessie, our parlor maid, came finrger the roasting ground the better
The outdany |
and w
and summoned mamma from thi draw.
Ine room on some domestic matter. 1
know not to this day what it was
| whether the kitchen beller had burst,
| whether the coals had suddenly ron
short; whether the cook had bad a mils.
fortune and upset the afternoon's sup: |
ply of milk, or what It can have been
| nothing Tory inomentous. vise 1 should
{have heard all about it afterwards,
which 1 pever did.
mamma had left the room, Mr, Blobbs.
worth put down his second cup of tes, |
| baif-finfebed, and, coming across, sat
Be sald
tipon the sof at my side.
something which surprised, siartled,
a | Smased me,
“Indeed™ 1 cried, astonished and con.
fused. “1 have never thought of you
in that—that-way, Mr. Blobbsworth”
| “Because you have not done so In the
{ past, there i» no reason why you
1 should not In the future” he Msisted,
taking my hand and holding it so fast
{ thitt it was Impossible, without gross |
rudeness, to withdraw it. “Will you?’
he added, gazing into wy eyes with
ible | on rnost entreaty.
| eyes Were a man's eyes, |
i was the call of Providence, who, sew
am, In i” re oo
atieman; and that, Dr ft
‘shonld be a dear little
ered with (Jamniue and
ve n my ‘Telghbor-
ed Blobbsworth,
Btock Exchange, and
' & great deal of money.
gains Bim at onee,
nor to any sub
then motor cars |
d out. trivial in
important as indlea-
qd him fo be less ma:
wiginally supposed.
believe it but
was at aud yor 1
for him, when 1 realized
W cage Indeed it was in
: found himself confined. This
brought home to me when
amma and me up one after
to the house which he had re
y sed in our neighborhood,
Ima ¥ the perfect appointments,
ervating luxury of it all, the
the gardens, the greenhouses,
~nvhen I noted the ohsequl-
and grooms who were overy-
heck and eall, when I ex.
OTA new billiard room
baseball stories.
a big lead,
‘the first baseman only a few feet
players would have dared take thelr
As | saw that appealing look, light
ft an instant broke upon me. The
But the call
g ing this poor fellow in distress—seeing,
moreover, that it was imposible for him
1 aspire to those altitudes nlone-—was
commanding me to belp Lim.
1 sighed as 1 thought of that sweet
Hittle cottage, for which my heart
ploed, with Jack—beloved, congenls!
, | Jack—for my belpmeet: which now,
alas! I was never to sce,
I shoddered as I thought ef that
luxurious mansion, with all {ts perfect
appointments, its lawns, gardens,
shrubberies, greenhonses. staliles,
{with its obwequious menials butler,
footimen, gardeners, conchmen and
grooms; with that gorgeous biithand.
those material obstacles to the higher
{iie, against which It was to be my
Hite-long task to contend and to bLelp
my husband contend,
But Providence had spoken with such
clenrness—had indicated so plainly the
non-carbanilerons district 10 which 1
{was to carry my coals-that to shat
"i my ears to her volee would have been
“| sheer tmiplety.
"Will you?”
HY¥ex” was my humble answer, and
i I bowed my head—upon his shoulder
in meek acquiescence. ~ Puilaaeipg
Telegraph.
When Lange Stole Home.
. Connle Mack hes an endless fund of
One of these be tolls
jabout Bill Lange, the oll Chicago
“| player, asserting that Bill's play in »
1 certain Pittsburg eame was he most
«| daring hit of work he ever saw pulled
off.
Bill had reached first. The pitebo
threw to that sack. as Bill had taker
The ball rolled away from
feet oft the sack, bot Bill eut for see
ond, The ball went a bit wild them,
rolling toward short.
Never stopping at second, BO tore
for third and then turned for the plate,
The ball was fielded ‘to Denny Lyons
at third, but he was so surprised upon
| receiving it and finding no man to
touch at the sack, he failed to throw to
| the plate to get Lange. The game was
«| won by that one run—~Detrolt News
i Tribune.
Twa Child Stories.
“Mother, 1 am tired; can’t the bishop
sermons, The authority for this bean
himself.
anecdotal license, the mere lgymim can
+0 be devoured hy a lon When asked
why, he retorted, “Because,
gather, the
had me In his inslde, while reglly 1
should be in heaven”
tion of deceiving the king of beasts
terhalance the triging inconvenience
of martyrdom by mastication—London
News.
i
Russian Cominercial Schools.
Commercial schools In Russia are
founded by the state whetever they
ftintive 18 always taken by commercial
commerce and
members of which have previously ex-
amined the question. Russlan cem-
mercial schools are state institutions
ister of Finance, There are farty three
ns ganized, with state supervision,
fered whom 1 so tenty Toveds An!
A how hard was it to resist the attra
hen followed for me the most trying |
It resolved iiself Info & long, a hard,
a bitter struggle between my own!
selfish longings as a woman, and the
{ highee, larger, wider claims iinposed ;
It was 4.45 on a Buniday attprnoon,
Put the moment |
i Nobraska and tha
roc, and that electric dynamo--all |
80 when Mr, Blobbsworth, repeating
the question. said again:
Few
{ Umepleces,
go to heaven now? sald a tte girl!
during one of Dr. Winoiggton Ingram’s
tiful legend is the bishop of London |
17 bishops are allowed such
hardly resist the temptation to eport— |
or even to invent—stories of the kind. !
For instance, there is the story of
the little boy who desired In bis soul
dear
Hon would think he!
The exalted no
| was quite sufficiently alluring to coun.
are thought to be necessary. The in-!
organizations—~that is, chambers of
simflar bodios—the
and are ander the control of the Min.
commercial schools in the Russinn om-
to | pire under the control of the state, and
1 twenty private schools, similarly or
The impression hay prevafied
i any wears that the beaatifyl on i
auts of the ol World would vot thrive
iin a cmall place, and that it wag diffi-
© eult In this country io breed them even
yoare |
“thin theory has been disproved, Pheas-
ants of the mort heautifol type have |
been rabsed of viilage lots with saree. |
ly any of the natural environments |
on oa large estate bat in recent ¥
which formerly were considernd essen»
tinl to their welfare
In starting a phessatitre on a coun
try {ave only the 1 In which hare
proved that they can be easily roared
shouhl be purehisssd st fire. A phens
and indoor goarters for the birds | A
yard forty Ly fifty fou for a 1
the binds and a wary: hone fiftaeg
mpiare should be anit althongh the
the birds will enjoy it
fnclosnre yan Bove a fours fen
twenty feed In befell to prevent the
birds fron hopping over 11 and 8 tan
covering of wire shonll be provided
#8 1 precantion.
Many of the oniinary yariet
pheasants are 1 mers Oi Ra $
than fancy brevis of rhickels i831
quarters are about the Katie and their
food not much differnt, A heme
pheasantry nnd pigeon loft eombiund
furnish © greater amounr of profit
and pleasure than where either one ja
mil separately. The upper partof the
ti
be built with pigeon lofts where oniy
the fancy pigeons sre kept,
by but separate inclosures yields no
end of gratification. The pigeon often
will iy through the wires of the pheas.
antry and Invade the quarters of the
beautiful wild fowls, but peliher will
An any way interfere wilh or injure
the othur. Thelr nesting and Indoor
Whiter quarriers, however, mast be
partitioned off, so that they can never
disturb each other's pessefal home
Efe Chica Bo Reecrd- H vrald,
Pushing Back thas Desert.
In the nineties a wave of population
Bowed westward over the great pisins
of the Missouri Valley, 1: wae ovnm-
posed of farmers who fried to ralse
crops by natural rainfall in the olde
fashioned way The Attenig was a
failure west of the middie of Kansas,
Imknias, ard the
wave receded, leaving rain in Be frack,
Now, ax Mr Charles Muarean Hergor
shows In the Review of Reviews thre
in a hopeful atiempt to posh back the
arkl line by scientific methods, Of
course irrigation will perinanently cane
Baten it has been shown that new
methods of fultivation will turn 8 reral-
arkl into a productive region.
A Bouth Dakota farmer Mr. HW,
Capipbell, has introduced the plan of
very deep plowing. packing the botlam
of the furrow with spscislly eonstrurt.
ed lmploments and thoroughly sult
wating the sorface. In this way the
moisture that falls Is preserved Jost
wiere the roots of the plant can got
at iL Mr Campbell bas raised 142
bushels of potatoes an acre where the
crops of his neighbors were fallures,
Thre are certain crops,
such pa alfalfa, sorghum and Kafe
corn, which do net require much male
fall
methods of coltivatinn this arid
being steadily pushed back, amd
mile if recedes means the additisn of
G40. 008 acres to the ferille land of the
West.
1% i
sUEry
5
I
Tmapariance of Accurate Watches,
“That tithe ia money 1s an old adap,
put it bas been sught sirictiy op
to date by the ratlrosd men, who way
that thos 8 life and woney”” sald a
jeweler of Roston 51 the New Willisod,
“I do a large railroad teade In watehos,
and from statistios Rept 1 ls shown
that since 1868 the rallroad wrecks
have been reduced ops third becagse
the men were equipped with accurmte
In other words, one-third
af the wrecks Dafore 188 were caved
by variation in the time of watches
carried by the different men in the wer:
vies of the companies. Under the sys.
tem now in force on practically every
the train crew, Including the brake.
man, baggapeman awd fagman, as
masters, mnst be provided one and all
{ with watches that will not vary thirty
seconds from standard time. Every
week every man in the service carrying
a wateh must bave it lonspected dn or
der that it may be known that it is ao
curate and In good eondition, under
penalty of discharge” -— Washington
“tar;
“HI That Is Really Tin.
Of course British eritles say that the
practice of alulterating silk with tin
originated In Germany.< At any rate it
fs common enough now.
AD =k fs mixed with more or less
forelgn matter to give ft weight and
stability, Vegetable sulistances were
formerly used for the purpose. In dye
rig silk the necessary boiling reduces
- {tg welght about one-fourth. taking out
Cthe natural gummy substances. The
welght ia sometimes restored with tan
nie scid; tn is more common-—-most of
all in cheap binck silks
Very soft “wash” silks are apt to be
pare. Burp a serap sod nothing re.
paling but ash, A tinoweighted scrap,
when carefully burned. leaves a rest
duum like excessively fine wire guuse,
A ar re
EPS A UI SAAB Hs SON
Sealing Wax as Stampa.
The Amir of Afghanistan having de
termined that the postage stampa man-
ufactured during the reign of his fa.
ther should be usd up, 50 new ones
have as vet been lssued,
stock has now been exhausted, snd,
pending the acceptance of a new de
#ign, sealing-wax, impressed with the
pilicial stamp, Is Delng used.
{go nanny useing
Bantry must be sutoied with antdoor
Pwolees
rool
Toney
: ase
‘house for the winter guariers shopld
The combiuation of the two In nears
quer the desert, but sven without red |
marenver, |
By the nse of these and hd pew |
i are achieved when 1
: home
raliroad in the country the engineer,
well as the train dispatehers and train
The entire |
LWAYS LUCKY.
A olty f fisherman was he,
8 jolly as youll ever Bnd:
While Ome oa nght big tres 15 the ses,
He caught stil bigger in hos wand.
~Waahington Star,
CONUNDRUM ANSWERED.
A teacher once asked a class of little
folks whore wool cane {rom to make
i Se Friderick; “from
Baw,” piped
BAD THM
Wailing "Bogart and Appleton are
not on speaking ferme, are they?
Nelson" Well, mex. bot they don’t
very good terms, I's afeald—
Now York Herald
ser oi——
GRATITUDE.
Mr. Fhab-"Thanks, old man "—Neow
York Son
NOT IN HIS LIST.
"Our sou seetia 0 be pola’ right In
for culture.” sald Mrs. Corntossel
“You” answered ber husband In a
tone of slight disappolutment: “every
Kind except agricuiture.”-Washingion
Star.
»
FAINFUL, EXPOSURE
Rickard —"Uneducated people often
have a lot of insight”
Bobert—"That ix so; our new meld
knows that she Is 8 better oral han
we'rs been used fo" —DMtroil lee
Press.
CONEIDERBATIONR
*Yoa must not forget that there are
millions of people whose interests are
at plaks”
“Yea” answered Senator Sorghom,
“and millones of dollars, ton "Wash
fugton Star,
AILMENT.
1 gettled that fellow's hash for
him.”
“Was be mad, doctor®™
No; that's
tion --New York Herald
A SUBJECT FOR DEBATE
“You
Hons,”
"And they do not get along ™
“No. They ean't agree about what
portion of the wife's incotie the hts
band ought to have "Puck.
A DRAW.
*Diplomeey is 3 cutions game” sald
One slatestann,
“It In" answered the other; “it Is ane |W
¢ © whink
{ders ie
tn which the most satisfactory res
both sides eny
and cial a vier "Washing
ton tar.
A
CAN'T HELP THAT,
Breet Car Magnate-“You
Patrtn—“Hlow can we help 117 Wa
sere broad enomgh oo unt
pressed nto our present width by bedng
jammed into those human sardiveriea™
altiiore American
BURIXERS,
Merchant—"1141 you find out what
that gentlaman wanted?
New Clétk-—"No, but
what he didn't want"
Merchant—-What? How dare yoo——>"
I found out
what he wanted me 10
do. He was suffering from indiges
koow he married Miss Mi
§
1
bo whilitien,
Bochient pasar shoe fom
{pir year in fares.
§ re,
| Shey.
happiness,
world he tele or ten times life if
7 eiwing
i 4
Be
patrons |
{BP A Rhy narrow Jot, 1 mnst say”
we were |
¥
§
5
| cdored eves 2
§
2
New Clerk—"And I sold ft to him" | !
Catholic Standard and Times,
THOSE TALL GIRLS
Er 2
Cholly—~"Yea, indesd, my lowe for
you bas broadened me greatly”
Bweet Rathlosn—It hasn't length
ened you out any, bas it Chully
New York Times
HIS RIGHT TO A MEAL
"Don’t you think it's nowise™ sald
the first partisan, “to be so sanguine
about your candidate
“All right,” retorted the other, “just
walt till after election and then ru
have a right to crow.”
"That's what you will, but I don’
think you'll care to eat all you'll have
a right to"—Philadeiphia Presa
:
§
i
i
is
Lot
Pin thelr
alten ini
Pad sore
y string Sus: lke eure
i rected agatost the Anti-Duel League
Mave. it
It bus occurred to the Be
Yaguuine ta ecalonlate, amemg other
tiles shout our American railways,
that “on an svorage a Pasien ger trav.
ol# three and a hal? i
before bie be Injured and sixty-one and
# lodf millions of miles before he ju}
kliied. The average traveler coud |
junrney sIXtY miles sn hone Peenty.
four hones a day, three bandred and |
gixtn-Doe days in the year fav 12) yours
before, according to ihe law of prety
he won be Rilled In
socident vn an J Ameriean Tue. »
in view of the laments’
Mirng of 1 :
Cin thess euler dintions 1% fester thon eds
snl whips iis por enufued to the
Hire.
Others of the mogayinegs Meme are
Tore fan presnive.
The 20.000 miles of raliwase in the
United Staton would girdle the earth |
ohaht tines gt the edpuntor
Flere are two ies of reiirond in|
this Repubile for every theses In the
viet of Amarlen, Eorope Asin. Afsirs }
pral Apstrainssia von oh
The Paired He
HE ay dey
tris. £29 She twenty times fs great
as ltaly, twenty three iimes As great |
wk Spain
The present capital of Amerienn {
railroads, including stocks. bonds and
floating indebtedness amounts to shout
$I2.000.000 150-3 bent R100 per capita
of population or $700 per family.
The syverage citizen made eight rail.
way trips in 1901 and pars abopt $22
The railways of the country em.
ployed in 1001 an aversos of 1.071 060
representing abont 5000000 persone,
or ahe-fftesnth of the popalation
Wages of these emploves for 1901
amonnted to #I0000000--mers than
Balt the operatipg expenses of the
roadis—-and averaged, roughly, $570 per
WISE WORDS.
THshoresty In a forsaking of perma.
aunt fur temporary advantages Bo
No men wag ever Slecantented wy
the world Hf he S31 kis duty In 105
It $» never other peoples opinion
thas displease ur, hut only the does
they sorgetimes show to Impose (hes
Get ue, saint our will Joubert,
Every manner of Heing, each of opr
sottags. hag a plirtlenise end In view,
and sll these ends have 5 genera! ain
It i= mot In the end ta
in the choter of menns that we deovive
olipRelves —-Aristitie
It $s enny in the world fo Yve aft
the world's opinlon: it bs ear in aot.
tude to Hye after cur wes, hot the
prwat pan x he whe inothe piidst of
the crowd keops with perfect sweet
mies the Independence of solitode
Emerson,
It is certain that there Ix a great deal
gown In ne that docs of Erow aelf,
nd that 8 habit of uolon and conpeti-
tan tings peande un nod Beeps them
up to thelr Bighest tvint: ther life
with wise or froltful companions
me EERO.
How to lvel-thar 8 the essential
festion for us Not bow fe Bes in the
mers minterlal sense andy, but in the
DRE EERE, Toe mineral probiam
compreliaonds every special probe
ne of cond
¥ nee ai Sheps
Ss a
ail dir
dors of wiles |
: SErACter. pg $
; Ante nnd ab andan ;
ganas brig ty Boe ih of syiritial
pride, to 8 man’s own undoing and to
fhe pndolng probably, of the work lit
fait. 8 Maver.
Mast people go through Hfe with
and minds, ey do Dot
Hee what zoes on adout them: they
have no curlosity about trees, binds
Fars, the mechanism of locumotives,
the art of patie pg the wonders of eles
| tricity, the eaidess variety and move
i ment of things in the world In which
they live, Ther do not learn as they go
in Hee jwcavse they have pot
formed a balilt of learning —Suvesss.
ar eh A 5 A lc
=
eA aE
saa
rs
Compuasition of Old Beieks,
Rome of the white bricks of Nippar |
black ebony cases enraged the
ofler day the attention of a group of | i
students nt the Talversity Moseuwm
*Thewe bricks thonssenils of years old
onmght to be studicd through the miore
soups.” che of them sald “The micro i
SOOT
them. 1 once examined microsenple |
ally a brik from hw preamid of
Dashour. It contained Nile med
chopped siraw and sand There weve :
bita of shell some Ssh ote |
raginenty af deal useots
A shred of string was inleresting itl
showed that these poopie had pe
There was sha
a shred of cloth, as Suedy woven as our
best Band looms can produce Sods t
Altogether, the microscope brought fo |
bear upon relics of the past bheingx to
Hght much that B&B of Interest ard
might, If more widely employed, ocen
sion some Important discoveries
Philadelphia Record.
Daclling Epeonvraged tn Austria,
The Socialist paper, Arbeit Deftong, |
of Vienna publishes a seerer decrie
of the Austrian minister af war 3%
i SH NO
The decree is to the effect that officers |
and cadets In the army on sarvies or |
otherwise must Bot Join the league
Those who are already members mugs
The artoy fn Austria is de |
eidedly in favor of presirving the duel
tomvantain possibly
| Peak, on the east coast of Greenland,
i which, formerly supposed to be up
coward of 11.900 feet in height in mow
j known Dot 10 expesd $005 feet and is
i probably wot even that
| tain ranges bordering
i
anal ME Foes
might reveal simigee seorels In mo
It stretches long aod far and UR;
it wanders op snd Sows;
It poses many an open gate
ALS Samy & Walls wea.
Ke es ht read sod wing td veep
And shade the pathway wide
Pa Bowers ae a goodly sgh,
And it gost ca ed oa
NX.
wp
COUND TO DISCOVER POLE.
in Chicago Tribuoe
Sa ER
American Expedition Hopes to Plant - :
Cur Flag There
Ancther American expedition I»
about to start {n search of the nas
cemgible North Vole Anthony Pals
2 young DBrookyn explorer, bb bp
charge of the party, Capt Edwin Cot.
fin will go as skipper, while Zisgler is
backing the sttempt The party will
shortly salt from Norway on the good
ship Amvrica Bryery effort will be
made to plant the Stars asd Stripes
is the frogen North
The discovery by Cant Scott the
leader of the British Antarctic espe
dition. of mountain range
points rising to a height of from 13,
Ha to 15,000 feet above the ses level
farther south than ever hwfore knows,
together with the voleances, still fan
her differentiates the typography of
ithe ksown parts of the two Polsr
segioes. In the Arctic regions there
are pi volcanoes, and the highest
fs Pelermaen
in the mous
Cietorta Land
Sea ars many
eat amd 15H Riph
Victor'a, Mr. Melbourne
spd Capt. Seost's
thal these high
silond ssversl Rane
miles still farther south with
xr peaks quite as high R
the side of Ross
yx
Row
Jenks between
Epa siuding Me
Ipscoverien show
Arocte of
Rain
(i a guestion whether ML Terror ia a
& FOUR,
§ dig
Ak
bat
2 Mt Erebus was smoking
Feliruary, 19:1
Both Capt. Scott's and Borchgre
Tinks expeditions oonfirm Rosw' re
port of open water during the sum.
mer months In Rose Sea when once
{the ice on the parallel of Cape Adare
ix passed.
The Age of Pompeii
Prof. Dall Osso, inspector of the
I Museum of Naples, has fast pahltshed
in article tn which he afirms that re
| rearches and excavations prove that
there existed a Pompell nine centuries
medire our ers.
Club Frowns on Marriage
In Beriln a club of the “disengaged”
nas been formed By young men who,
baving broken with their swoethearts,
Fegarg marriage as fated to be a ne