PRO: Ao WRI RA
Youma may worty over God's grinding laws,
on tay pro probe and probe for the great
d pry and look Bua ha fe with an babes hill]
Hf self forget ¥
wa on a oy ot ts moody i
* you Hiithe as
| Tie plan | is simple the then # n wee oi Throught
tru smallest in
1 tei at his heart a sharp palo 1 like the
plercing of a kuife
This restored him to his full reason,
Jama he repeated to himself a thousand
times that never would Olka's father |
‘give his daughter to a vagrant, and
8 | that be had better think no more of
| the young girl. This was easily sald, |
¢ | but the knife had penetrated so deeply |
s | that the strongest pincers could not
| have withdrawn it.
Olka, on her side, at first had loved
{ Klen's muste, then she had loved the
‘musician. That penniless fellow, queer
with wildlooking eyes, dark complex.
fon, with clothes always too narrow |
‘aod too short, with long and thin legs
like those of a stork. had at last be
| come dear to her. The father, though
“My danghter will have no trouble to
fie | ind better.” he declared. “Does not
jevery one admire her beauty? She will
never be reduced to accept a man on
id | whose arm she would be ashamed to
present herself”
It wan, then, with 1} grace that he
| pened his door to the musician—which
| did pot often happen. But the death of
Micinitzkl changed everything. . As
ad ¢ | woon ax Kien had signed his contract
with the curate he hastenad to an.
‘nonnce it to Otka. The father for the
$ | flest time invited him to sit down and
t offered bim one after another several
Hite Klnsses of rum. And when the
g girl came in he gravely told her
that I a lan Kien was wing toben
gentleman-~much better, the first In 3
Ponlkia, after the dean
Then, also for the first time, the mu.
stelan had been suthorized to remain
near Olka from noon untfl evening,
{and night was coming as he returned
| to Ponlkla with the snow crackling un-
| der hin foet, The frost was sharp, but
Kien had never bien so happy, and he
felt very warm at heart 1a recalling the
dents of that Gecizive day,
_Ajong the deserted road, to the flelda
buried onder the snow, hb carried his
od a Joy like a light across the intreasing
Lowa bad told him sweetly. “With you
1 1 would go heyond the scan, to the end
in | of the world! But for father it is bet
had | ter that your position bs settled.”
Then bo Ma kissed ber bands relig.
. ously, murmuring:
| "Olka, dear hiv may G God retarn to
ri ft over, he was
mote] at big own toolishies? He
vg | ought to hive said Bi LR, Aer
ently; omitted this, added at, and
{ particularly atswersd better fo fo (m-
portant a declaration; think of a young
girl telling a Young man that, If it was
not for her father shoe would follow
i him oll over the world! It seemed to
. | him that both were walking together
on the white rond. This did not pres
vent him from hurrying hls steps, ay
| the snow was cracking in a manner
“ mor and my re alas §
1 »ifo! my olka! i freasure, sou
are going to be a lady, my lady?
His heart swelled with gratitude,
Ha! bad she really been near him how
{ he would have pressed her in his arms
with all his might! This is, yes, this ts
what he ought to have done one hour
before at Zagrab! Bot it Is always so.
| At certain mowents one feels dizzy,
and the tongue goes astray precisely
.{ when It ought to say so many, many
things. Decidedly it ls much more
easy to play on the organ than to ex-
press In worda what one has In one's
14 { Beart.
In the cold rky the stars began to
. {twinkle with a sparkling light, Rlen
felt that his ears burned, To gave time
ihe took a small, familisr path across
fields. Hig shadow lengthened funnily
on the white earth.
“1f 1 played on my ute it might re-
vive my fingers.” A few sharp notes
flew away In the night, They seemed
dike birds frizhiened by the surround.
1 Ing silence, the intense frost, and the
shroud which covered the land. And
up | Kien modulated the gayest tunes of
her | his repertoire, those Olka had asked
him to play in accompaniment to ber
small volce.
An old song, called “The Green
Pitcher,” had particularly pleased the
father and the daughter. It was a dia-
rom | logue between a lord and a maiden.
rd. Which began thos:
“Ha! my green nitcher,
The rd has broken 1t!*
And the lord answered;
“Do not ery, chill;
1 shall pey for thy broken pitcher!”
Olka, of comrse, figured the maiden
{ with the green pitcher, and Klen the
Jord. This prodigiously amused the
| old workingroan,
{| And now, along the little path across
Sed, | Rien, With an ecstatic smile,
{hardly move kis lips. An impression |
he himself also had often empty pock.
feta, did mot wish to hear anything of
ie | Klien,
eal differences (nn the cast of thelr eyes,
| fore Irving down, and other interesting
way of carryibg thelr tails low, almost
which retain many of thelr racial char
and Newfoundinnds effect a curve over
not ahweys trace the path. He allowed
himsell to be directed by chance, Then
bo tumbled at every step, burying his
ong legs in some unseen diteh :
The stars sparkled still colder, end
then the wind rose again. Klen was fn |
vould not feel his fingers snd econld
of overwhelming solitnde dawned upon
Bim, He thought of the well-heated
house which was ready for Mm sat
Ponikla: then of the one where be
bad spent the afternoon.
“Ola must have retired at this home,
and, thank God, under ber roof ft is
warm.”
The cerialaty that Olka was warm
mute him happy. but caused Mm to
suffer from the cold still more,
He had pissed the fields and was
stepping through prairies bristling with
bushes. He was so tired that bs
thought only of sitting down, no mat-
ter where,
1 am golig to rest a moment againgt
the wind, nenr these bushes. My! Xo!
1 should free on the spot.”
He walked agalo-not much Ex.
hausfed, he lit himself fall down.
"IL 1 sleep, 1 am lost”
He stretched his erellds, shook his
arma, moved his fingers, nunfastenesd
Lis lips and played on his ote the first
notes of “The Green Pitcher” A few
thin sounds rose In the joy night, and
dled away, slow and melancholy,
Klien let fall hia flute, but enntinued
to struggle against the unconquerahle
stumber. He felt astonished to le
alone In that desert of snow,
“Olka! Where are you? bs mur
mired.
He moved once more his fingers, |
openad once more his eyes, and whis
pered:
“Olka™
Dawn lightened: near & bush of
broom, a human form with long and
thio legs, A flute lay by its side. The
bluish face wore still an expression of
wotiler and attentivn. Klea died In
listening to the old og:
“Ha! my
The } lord aa bad broken 4 gf
Une: wily Gov aa haa
Yha Tate of fthe ror
A writer In tracing the ancestry of
the dng to wolf and jackal notices typl.
thelr body eolors and markings, the
In | habit of turning around three times be
peculiarities, but be does not mention
the most striking and infallible way of
distingulshiing them, namely, by the
fashion In which they carry thelr talla
Wolves and coyotes have a snesakiog
banging on the ground. while dogs
earry thelr talls ap, and the further ree
moved they ate from the general type,
says Charles Hallock, the higher they
carry them. Shepherds and eoliles,
acteristies, carry their talls lowest of |
nil; setters and poitters, a few degrees
higher, stiffening out straight thelr
tails to the spinal Hne; Ht Bernards
the back, while prigs actually come to a
full twist. An old plalnsman could tell |
fn wolf or coyote as far as he could see
him, and In buffalo days this was n
most useful indiention of buffalo berds |
belog not far away. These predatory
creatures always followed a Sowing :
herd. Philadelphia Réeord.™ =
Reminder of Britiah Vandsiem,
A vivid reminder of the burning of |
the Capitol by the British in 1514 came |
to hand recently in the repairs which |
are being made in the document room |
uf the House of Representatives. This | ,
root 1s 4 thoeve-cornered space Io the
northwest corper of the old hall of the
House, or Statuary Hall, as it 1s called |
new. In making the repairs the old | i
window sashes were taken out. Un» |
derveath waa a charred window cass,
aml when that, too, had been removed |
there was & quantity of lead found; |
the oll window weight had been melt :
ed in the fire and rua down into the |
crevice of the stone wall, Thix was |
dog out by Joel Grayson, and is being
preserved by him as a memento. The |
window sashes were covered with a
coat of dirty white paint, but thelr |
welght attracted the attention of the
workmen, amd the paint was scraped |
off sufficiently to show that they Were
solid mahogany, showing that nothing |
wis thought tw good to use in the org. |
inal construction of the Capitol. ~Washs |
ington Star.
The British Beat Us.
It tan’t often that a British boat crew ;
heats an American; the balance of vies |
tory bangs heavily on our side, but re |
cently in Spdney the Yankee facklies
got an awl walleping. Some months |
ago the supply ship Glacier made ber i
regular call at Sydoey for a cargo of |
meat for the Philippines. la the hare
Gor lay the British flagship Royal Ar- |
thur, and the crew of the Glacier chal- |
lenged her crew to a boat race. While |
the conditions were being talked over |
it eame time for the American ship to
leave 80 the race was postpohind, Aes
‘ Giiaeler got back to Manila she got the
cording to Britlsh reports shen the
ticked onrsmen In dhe Ameriean fleet |
0 take back to 8yduey with her. The
day of the race was made almost a bel.
¥ In Bydpey. Practically all the
Pown was on the water or on land
where they could see the gport, snd |
when the Britishers beat the Yankees
by ten lengths In two mies bedlam
rifgned. — New York Commercial Ade
vertiser.
Bad Iorestmonis
et-rich-guish monrriapges usuaily hare
tie same wind-up as the other invests
monte of the same kind.—New York |
I ut ath that 5 ow
than on the roads and that he could | +,
perspiration, but he shivered. He tried |
once more to play on his Gute. But he 4
enurl the tips of his right hand aronod
against the wood, He was xo finely
poled that a Teather-welzht would
j amid the cheers of some and the
groans of others, he entered the burn
Meckling her skirts, A rope with which
then with a last tremendons effort he
BUH t Home Companion,
{and only forty-five. He has been a
solitier, a salior, a walter on the Bow
Levy. a ship's stewnrd, an actor and a
“! tursed out, but as I was leaving the |
| returned to the harbar, laden, gol
ithe enemy in Jers than a mile, and
Cwithont an Iostant's hesitation and
- Richmond.”
A PIREM N'8 HEROISM.
Os. HE act of Dennh Ryer
stands out In splendid iso
lation. Ryer rescued a
woman from the sixth
" Mary of a burning alld.
tng, He dashed into the adjoining
tenement, and ran wp the states to a
window on the rixth floor. Horrified, |
the crowd saw him rest one foot on the |
coping below his window, and reach |
with his right hand for the window In |
Which the woman stood. Bat he could |
not make it; be could barely tonch the
edge of the casing with the tips of his
fingers. Some ornamental iron piplog
separated the buildings, and this he
bad practically to straddle. It seemed
an impassalile barrier, but Ryer|
Stretched forth hie right foot, barely |
plating his toes upon the desired cop
ing He was suspended six stories up,
with only one band grasping the casing
~4 none toofirm bold — and this he
knew he must gradually release as he
extindad bis reach to the other win |
dover. By working the fingers of his
left hand fron groove to groove he was
enabled to move over and cantionsiy
the edge of the easing of the burning
window, antl] he was held from falling |
by the pressure of lils bent fingertips
bare unbalanced him. Little by little
Ryvr worked the fingers of his right
hand along ont he got a sigh. hold
on the inside of the window, and then,
ing room. There he found the woman
anconscious on the floor, the flames
sortie citizens hind stteropted the poor
erefiture’s rescues dangled from the
roo! In front of the window, Basizing
this, Ryer passed it twice around the
woinan's body under her arma, and
mais the other end fast about his own
waist... Then he lowered her from the
window, and himself straddling the
sill, brought the sash down upon his
leg, #0 88 to hold Wmself from falling
With wonderful muscular power he be:
£81 to swing the woman like a pendn
lumi Back and forth she went over
the beads of the horror stricken crowd.
projected the woman inte the out
stredehed arma of some firemen {8 the
window which be had quitted—Wormm-
A STRENUO US LIFE.
Tord Lyveden, who is to bring over
8 party of Parliamentarians this fail
And show then the United States and
Cariada, 1s big and tall and vigorous
rursery man. (
Lyveden was ua clergyman’s son. As
Percy Vernon he enlisted In the arti.
lery. but bought himself ont and Joined
Mr. Baneroft's Haymarket company in
Lotdon for a time. Twenty years ago
be came to this city with $18 easd
capital and became a Bowery walter,
Presently be turned up In Charlotte,
N. CO. without money. “Like a young
fool” he says, according to M. A. VP.
*f went to the best hotel and stayed
three days. 1 had po money and was
| Goor & clerk pressed fifty cents into toy
bard, saying, ‘1 guess you'll want 3
, bed tonight, old man’ 1 lodged over
a #labie and tn the morning got work
ving a carriage. Eventually the
{| hotsl Keeper became tiy partner and
‘ beat friend.”
In 15850 Mr. Vernon returned to Eng
t land, married and started In the nur
| gery business, origluating a tomate,
| but the enterprise failed and he sailed
as third steward on an Irish gea boat,
| as aesistant steward on the uulieRy
{ City of Paris, and ss bedroom stew
ard on the steamship Nide, salling to
| the Brazils.
I's Buenos Ayres ho contracted vel
low fever, and on Lis recovery he be
eating galoon steward in the Isle of
Man service. He served (wo seasons
twith this company, then lstsed the
¢ Polytechnle stegm yacht Ceylon as
| entot steward. Afterwanl, employing
hls own pame, he beesme caterer on
the Fotor as (we were In over twenty
facing the enemy for eighteen Lowes |
foneeit out of Linn He blgidersd like
fame to the conclusion that he was
guard saw General Grant with his stall
aporoaching he sald to Biv men: “Tarn
ing general of the Federal army” The
engagements), the adjutant, sergeant, |
major, captaing and Hentenants gener |
thelr hands and empty cartridge boxes
The boys were in the hadit of saying
know they did It from choles. As the
come ap from the ranks, they felt more |
af home in a fight with rifles than with |
swords.
battle often joked with each other to
‘keep up hele conrage Af that time ©
had a very full eye-an ox eye the
boys called ft-and 5s 1 was one of the
shortest men in the company. | came,
fs a rale, next to our it guile, old
Jerry B, whose face showed how he
felt when the bullets began to fiy. But
no matter how badly seared Jerry was,
he always called my attention to the
fact that my eyes were sticking ont so |
that he could bang biz hat on them.
This was said to me a hundred times,
and & hundred times I told Jerry that
if he was half as seared ae | was bo |
‘would ran” Chicago Inter-Ocean.
THE BULLY WEAKENED,
the. When the assault was ordered |
we were directed to He down, that the
advancing Hine might run over use
Then we were to rally on the reserve,
eighty rods to the rear. To roach the
Pestrve wo had to cross an open field |
over which bullets ween flying ke |
ball, Even fn that crisis 1 hesitated to
run the eighty rods, fearing that after
would get a bullet In my back. So X
sidestepped that eighty rods and was
angled at by the boys who made a
iyniek ron.
“We had in our regiment one of the
ldsiyle bulites, who made a good dea! |
nf noise In battle. Ho was always |
urging our boys and shouting threats
to the encioy. Most of the younger
en in the reginwnt thought the loud
tixlker was a great fighter, but at Fredo
irierstarg Re received a slight flesh
wound In the leg which took all the
$ whipped boy undér his trifting
seennd, while dozens of men with aerte
tas wounds stood grim and stlent,
fighting to the last. We never could
et our bully juto another fight. and
brave through Ignorance, and that
hen Le learned from experience that
tadleta would hurt be lost his nerve"
Correspondence Chleago inter Ocean.
IN CIVIL WAR DAYS,
‘Out in Chattancogs they teil this
story of Civil War days: Chatiancoza
Creek was the dividing lhe between
the outposts of the Federal and Cone
fiderate armies. and during « Mil in
hostilities the pickets of both cultivar
2d ons aoothet’s acquaintance, having
agreed not to five on one another, One
day when the captain of the Union
aut the guard for the commanding gen |
eral” The Confederates on the other
side of the ermek, not more than Afty
feet away, beard the order, and thelr
captain, conceiving the Kea of paying
A compliment to the enemy, shouted:
"Tom ot the roard for the command.
ragged Confederate DMekets stood at |
attention for several moments, and
then saluted Grant aa be rods away.
A DRAMATIC BEPRIEJE
On the stage It happens that the Lore
Ip reprievest at the eleventh hosr when
an the sesllabl, and there are raves pe.
cprded in history, Few, however, have |
heen so close to death an Joo Campbell,
a negro, Who had been condemned to
death for murder at Yazoo City, Mo.
The negro had the halter about his
Doek, and the trap door was ready to |
he sprang open, Campbell then tarned
fis the sheri® aml confessed the name
nf his accomplice. He was (natantly
neprieved.~ New York Commercial Ade
yertiser.
Philosophy of Ballway Ernkes.
Tae fundtmental principle governs
ig the application of the brake to a
SRE, SAFE an enginedr who has recently
vestigated the subject, is to stop
the Hamburg Harwich line,
© thon hp resigned before be suceeded to pl
the title. as :
In 1580 Led Lyvede on wag nn Char Fh by
Centon, UI was then oe parter in ot di
gmnll fehing boat” be rays “andl os we |
ovity the bar we al wy BIE enor
sit 2nd rhe Bont wen
The three bade ond mors
tanale énoueh fo be res
lost everyibing. To
a rus ke cane Bn
FRIGHT IN BATTLER
“A most npusual thing” said the ser |
gent, “happensd in ovr company in}
West Virginia, There bod been a shire
mish in the mountains acrees the river |
from camp and our company wis or
dered up the road. We found sigus of |
fisaily heard the nolse of a heavy ad
vansing column Tha company was |
pastad to command the mountain read,
ard the captain wilh two men went |
forward to reconnolter. They eam, 8t
a sharp turn of the road. pot ten yands |
avay, face to face with the enemy's
advance guard, sud the captain, who
wis carryieg a musket, blazed away
killed the officer in command of the |
eriemy. Thereupon the Confederates
threw themselves bodily on the captain
and his two men and all were sent to
“I suppose said the corporal by
: ay 1 be Stop vend a8 anickly as is sone
Le | Vas it suy
0.7 efficiency Ww
i Hy putting th
| comparime & Hand brakes am
Fir powerful enough {0 secure veclect
zlarg of the polat where the wheels
HOW sip or “ski” When this
Furs It fot eddy Uattens the wheel,
effective. Braking ceases. “Bid.
Ta Ent not to occur In
by th o van of sam] Jars
t bie [see goers’ safely,
even, the vars stop bw
iy for cafelony, 4nd “it looks” as
an electrien] journal,
sind inerpgse In Torake
Volmve to be fallowed
ss eenters into padded |
fisgmd to be gulls effective, and most
af the brakes on troller cars are hand
salely. —8peces,
Two Cents For 8 Masher.
American women whe complain of
the apnoyasee of professional mashers
Hy the steels of Purls nifght profit
fram an experience © beard a boight
hperican girl relate the other day
She ir walking along in the dayiime,
apcempanind by another girl, amd no
thwd 3 man following ther, An des i
struek her. Reaching in ber purse she |
food a small plecs of white paper,
then looked around shyly. The masher,
the paper she bad in her band. In.
stead, however, of receiving the little!
elf clutching two sous (two cents)
Needless to say, be did not follow |
brevet, “that the aptaia hobo eriticiend |
Furties-New York Herald.
that the shoulder straps pioke ed wi
rifles to keep np thelr courage, but we |
anost of the conimissioned oficers Bad |
“It is true, nevertheless, that men mi
_ "At the battle of Fredericksburg our |
‘regiment was on the skirmish Hos for | RB
‘eighteen hours, and hard st it all the | §
smrouraged, caught up and grasped at |
tote evidently expected he found him.
" Lally came out of a fight with rifles in|
THE HERG OF THE HOUR.
ou Wht to Honies bam arid
He gladly lots vou. Sau ae
He auiies and shakes vos by the band
And then forgets I i :
won = be singin Star.
pERP MoU RNINO,
Mrs. Jone $a to be Eearthroken
over her hmshand's death” ;
“Xow, oven hor Nalr baw arsed black
: aguin."~Brooklya Life
i SR RE
DEVOTED,
She--“You say you are devoted fo
art. What ls the particviar art that
you love hest?
He~"Thou art. "= Kinsas City Times.
cot LD MOVE
The Exasperated One—"1I'm afraid,
air, this town lsn't big enough to old
both of as!”
The Imperturbalibe—"H'm—why don't
yor start & suburb ~ Tit Rite,
HER DEVOTED KNIGHT.
*1 alt't got no coat to lay down for
you to walk on, like that feller in the
sory books, bot I'l! be hanged if I'm a
goin’ ter be beat in periiteness Ly a
farpiner anyway “—New York Times
MATTER OF SEX.
Bhe—"At the conclusion of an arg
tant Between a mag and 8 womss the
min is stlenced if not convinesd ”
Ife-"Yes, and the woman iv con
Yiticed, but never silenced.”—Chicago
News
AN ULTIMATUM,
Mrs, Enpeck—“Henry, are you going
to put np that shelf today or mot ™
Enpeck—"Wall, my dear, you soe"
Mra Enpeck-"That will ¢o. now.
Either put up or shut up." hicago
News,
SH
NOT A GOLD MINE
"But I don’t belleve™ he sald. “that
& man profits by bis mistakes.”
“Nou don't”
“No. I don’t. Why. I've made enough
mistakes to be rich if I conld prose by
thm. "Chicago Post.
SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT.
“Why, George, what an enormous
pile of letters” exclaimed the bride of
a ‘week. “Billets doux, I suppose.”
“No, my dear,” replied the other half
of the sketch. “They are billles overs
doe"~ Chicago News.
Wr—————
HARMONY DESIRED.
Knippe~""Why did Johusen hire all
south portly people for his servants?”
Tucique~"He says that Ms wife ine
| plated upon having them like that so
they would match ber new heavy din
In-room farnitare. "Sram Herald
BEOPORIFIC,
Mrs, Sharpe~"My bushan®'s heon
troubled with tnsomnta terribly of late,
but he got some sound sleep last
ahh 4
Mra Nexdore—-"Some new med
eine?
Mra. Sharpe-"Well. yes. I told him
§ was sure I heard burglary down
gtitirs."—Philadeiphia Press
BYohuny, what's become of the jam?
“Goes, mia t—-New York Journal
ALL MARKED DOWN,
"0b, yes, le's saved a good many
Rees. ™
“Then 1 suppose he bas saved a good
j Gal of money, of"
“No, he’s poor.”
“That's strange. How about the
rewards from the grateful people he
has pulled out of the water
MOb, the trouble with them la that
they put their own waluation on the
Booda saved."~Clevetand Plain P——