- tes; Ba Pn ores and hates Once he sword i nm the Je jeweled sheath Dead to-day or Je y crumbled wreath Worn m that yesterday. Ro the amour and so the peide— Mar nd brass and gold Drst of sages to come will hide Tombs of the years will hod. We, unknowing and overvain, Strong in our sweep and away, ag the haables that Jnazk par reign rex our yester ; =W. Db Neshit, es, Chicago Tribune. a wedding pres. but 1 know what 1 going to give ber t is silver—table ® lamp or a set ig chair or—or-= 5 he ne silver!” : fled back in her chair again. | sprinkied some of it In the jelly. when it eame around to me I conic 1 that Aung Sarah bad given ne for that purpose 1 thought I detected a peculiar look on her face. In fact. she looked up two or three times as though she were going to speak, and then she set- I began to get nervous, for I didn’t know but that In opening the jar Mary Ann had broken the glass, and accidebtally Ba see nothing. wrong with it. I've ab wars understood that it was a trying {ordeal for a young wife to be puesed upon by her husband's relatives, but i never did I imagine it was anything {like what I was suffering that day. Ax each dish was passed with its respect. ive fork or spoon-—each a gift from some one of those presentreposing . { enrelessly on it, 1 watched fo see he smile of gratification which I coud tat belleve 'wonid show itsel! upon {the face of the donor, but to my sur prise and mortification, each belping | seerced te evoke the same pecaliar (smile that I had obmerved om Aunt | Amella’s face when the helped bersel! | 10 the lelly. : “1 began to feel ike a martes 3 tthe 2 | stake, and 1 resolved, then apd there, Fi never to invite anotier relative of my { husband's to break bread with nme | again. | noticed that they all sermed aioe ‘which 1 only 8. Then 1 have an sliver. such as 8, ten, after dinner spoons, the carving I malts, my creamer and and all the little pieces iy in use. And it is all other housekeeper, A fave my silver down pg room all night for chance to pay us id that has becowe a terrible when 1 leave the house ne (36 the oit a and sliver sinee | Eeery might fo: you pever know and | hat all the sliver 1 After we had Bob sald to me one day! if you conld contrive family luncheon and ny relatives. 1'd like pe. what a nice little married: besides it guAre us up. you know, dding presents they all to this Beartily. and, think- appreciation of their | d us when we were on my thinking eap and PO of only gin general, and eben would have heen a fail. to have a dreadful time, somebow, | managing their ted In the New cups | | which mother's sister sent vs from New York. However, 1 thought that possibly this was the first time in thelr lives that they bad ever heen to 8 gwell luncheon. and pity rather than | fesr filled my heart. From then on 1 | pretended not to notice their swkward- ness, and only prayed that the meal would soon come to an end. As the eacrensy made Ix appesrance, with ivlng alongside. on the cutglaes ice: cream saucers that my own uncle had given us. 1 agaln straightened up and grow talkative “1 think those sooous, Ann: Mary) 1 called to where she sat, gt the oly eid of the table, ‘are fost se swell Bx they ean be! What odd handles ther have. too—so lon? 1 thought 1 would ghow her that the Kind of leecream “Yes. my dear, she answered greetly, “that's vo they can reach the bottom of the glass to stir up the lem onade.’ “1 eoald feel the enlor rash to my chests 1 was so flustered that 1 Just sald, sillily, "Why, of course.” “vrhat's what 1 toid vou 1 thought they were for.” put In that husband of mine, ‘but yon said you knew better, and as It was only 8 Wifig matter, tanyway, 1 made up my mind that 1 shoaldn’t allow it to get nus into our first qoarrel’ And be smiled at me from acroxs the fable. ‘Now that you've met Aunt Ameila, why dont you find cut what that spoon with the bales in the bowl is for. I've bad doubts all along about it being jeliy’ : “Well. 1 was going to tell you Cexr, when the misid passsd it to uw with the Jelly; then I was afraid you'd think me a meddiosame old woman, so 1 concluded to jet it go spoke up Aunt ior rma in such a friendly way, “bmg it reslly is a spoon for cracked fee. 1 never saw ote before myself, and so I bought it because 1 wanted to give you something that wouldn't be apt to be duplicated’ The dear soul! She put it.so sweetly that I just got up and went over to where she sat and gave ber a ki *iand now,” with a3 glince at my husband, ‘that we're all so well ao quainted 1 don't suppose it would be out of place if I should ask some of the others to explain the uses of their gifts, would it¥ At this they all Jaughed good patared'y. “Vell” began Uncle Harry, ‘those forks yon used for oysters, the clerk 10id me were for irae bervies, but 1 reckon it's all the same. “ ePhat's what made the oysters so bard to manage. | guise, thougin LL # “That spoon that Bob nsed fer the fralt ix really a tomate server) Went an Cousin Fama, ‘for 1 was with man ma when she bought it)! *1And that bowl aver Oriental spoon, Is for mayonniiss dries. ting: at least | think that is what Care Hue wrote roe) she continued, while every one at the table stared at the bowl which 1 had thoughifally filed with powdered sugar, and placed right alongside the strawberries, where It . | wonld be handy. * *Sa long ns vou don't mind our tells {ng you what the different things ure for! sald Aunt Mildred, pleasantly. “why, I may as well tell you, my dear | that that long-handled fork and Spoon are not for salad, but are Intended for or | olives and Jckies when they are served ities was fon the spoons Aust Mary bad given ue} spoons that I had been accustomed to | were entirely different. welfishinews, I noticed | { thet they kept slipping up on the tines there, with the | boy. but it seems to me that ft Ju cream ladle or some sch thing’ “No” said 1, triumphantiy, ‘It Iso't] That is a cheese sooop” But 1 fear rather spoiled the impression 1 had hoped to conveyor, upon being ques. tioned as to how 1 knew, 1 was obliged to admit that I had seen one in 8 silver catnlogne that some frm had malied me. re formal luncheon turned ont fo be 4 very informal one, sfter all, and 1 have always felt thoroughly at hone | with Bob's relatives ever since, probe ally doe to the fact that the {oe having } heen broken, as it was at that Srst tyncheon.™ “etl what was wrong with the tea Jeups? inguired the girl who never forgot anything. “Oh, yes! That was the worst of # Fan concluded the one who bad Deen telling hor troubles to the others, yon know that the very next week after my eventfal juncheon, Prisciiia Clark gave a prenuptial Inncheon and the very frst courte was clam boutllon, served in cups just ike mine"-I BE AL, in the New York Times A Plucky Dame of 177% The spirit of "74, as is well known, was manifest not anly In the courage and heeoisms of the man of that stirring “My greatgrandmother.” sald Miss Anwe. “Jived near Trenton, No. J, pot 3 but her hushand had gone to war; and, cossins, whose husbands had also +1 foined the Pevolntionary Army. she remained in the old homestead, awaits distant felds of action. with a babe in hor arms. a of British soldiery rode up to the house, The women heard their pols approach | tut before they Lad time to wove the “Madame, where is your husband? = He haz gous to town,’ faltered the timid evestare. “sand your husband, madame? he peremptorily demanded of the next TOURg wotsan, “ “Fle is somewhere out on the farm)’ she stammersd, equally frightened. “Then the officer addressed this sume query to my great-grandmother: “Where is your hosband, madame? “My great grandmother rose to ber feet, and said bohily: “fle {a gone to Aght the Drlitleh’ gx If ale Were a man for mel “Then, with bis men, the officer with. tensoless occupants ummslested” The Trae Gentleman, ; The late Frederick Temple, the octo- geparian primate of the Church of England, who died last year, otice gave the following outline of what he con. sidered really gentlemanly coodact, says Collier's Weekly: ; in regard of whom it &a gible for you not to feel, That man is 4 pentleruan. Let his rank in sockety be what it may, Jet him be ignorant of | the ordinary conventionalities of socisl intercourse, still if the man be truly seifsaerificing. of in his ordinary rela. tions with Eis fellows there {s true and genuine Dumiity, true and genuine un. Mian who has moch to Jo with him net to feel. “that man is a gentleman” 1 don't care whether he ia learned or don't eare bow iznorant he may be, or Bow low he may stand; I don’t care if he be eter so poor: the man who con stantly shows that be up for the sake of other people, that pian i¢ at heart and In reality one of ratore's gentlemen, and this is the way in which be shows IL” Iakiing af Trail. N he must fod it out himself, go ut forgive, re et No ore var reach the sublime with Muley at close quarters. ing too uel One who ty his standard of con duet too high fa In dauger of becoming a hypocrite, A man’s peontation depetids not so rwaek on what be Joes gr oon what ba SAWian ML. Blatt, in the Cora hill Bock! let Haw Yoresis Afect the Alr, Professor Monilielert, af the National Asvienitural College of Grignou, Frauce, explains why ft is that a Qlisen als ways desdends when it is passing aver a forest making ft necessary for the vayagers to throw out ballasy to give it greater buoyancy. Above every forsst there fa 8 stratum of coel, moist alr, produced by the abundant (rar. aspiration of the trees. which extends from 3000 to XW feet above the tree tops. In speakigg of the absorption {of moisture from the soll by the tree roots, he says that the moisture Is taken from the under soil, the trees : . | keeping the upper soll melst to a 80 depth of tour or Bre inches. jewelry “Well, we all had a good laugh, and “Do | period but in the bravery of women a8 well far from where one of the great hate Ww She wos mamried, | with two other young married wonicd, ing saxiously such meager bits of war | pews as pilght come to them from the | “Ope day, at noon, when the three woos were sedted at dinaer, enck : a little troop | soldiers, an officer and two men, in full uniform, ard with Jingling spors were in the room. Dofline his hat, the yourg officer sharply accosted the wife | wented nearest bls “ Clood!” exclaimed the offer, and | i be slapped my greatgrandmother on the gboulder, ard a comrada-at-armas; ‘you're the gil drew leaving the old home and ia de | “The man who is thoroughly ussel | fia in all small things, Be is the man quite Impos- it is lmpossible fur any. | feeling.” rot, whither he is educated or not; 1 1s giving himeell You eqn't tell a man a great truth] | {t often happens that we forget yet He wlio can feel guilty is partly in| out first passing through the stage of 1 seeming ridiculous Satire 1% a weapon that can be used | A rian nay become ignorant by reads i father in the early winter morning tically so small ox take 8 check, and sone of yom keep 8 bank scevunt. It was mill more surprising to me find that soch & statement would be almost literally troe Paris tell nee ander the guidance of one of the officers. We went I asked what these were for, “These capes are for our city colledtors™ 1 wan told. “When a small mer chant borrows finn the Bask of France be Joes not, ax with yon in Amerie, setusl mondy and takes it away. fle writes no checks When the Joan !s due, he does not, as would be the Lane that we send a coliester to htm, and that collector is repaid the loan in actos! corrency. Two hondred men start out from the Bank of France every morn the to collect matured loans. Several days each month jt Is necessary to send cut 400 men, and on the frst and the Gfteenth of each mouth GX collectors go ont” they have the matured notes and which are later Siled with currency ass the iollections are made from the bank's borrowers 1 stood at the paying tellers desk as I went farther along in my tour of passed on. I asked if it were not unusnal for 3 man to draw out so much eure rency. and was told that it was pot. general pablic From “The American "Commercial lovasion’ of Europe,” Reriboer’s. OW the Bandicapped millionaire snvies bors In school or col Jege, and would giv half bis wealth for the chanes to lay foundation which they are thinking of spurning? How many an embarrassed man in publle life longs to relive boy. Pood, that be may correct the mistakes of his youth] nuell ore he sould make of his life, of Liz position, if hw Bad enitivated bis mind when young! He does everything at 4 dleadvantage, 18 weak because be does Dot know bow to study. He most employ a literary sicretary to save Bimsesl? from blunders in frammar, errors in history and BMography, or ln political economy. forced to petty espedients to hide his ignorance. oority A inan of magnificent parts, fesling that be is by nature intended to shine as a Jeader, is pitiable when cotapelied to do the work of an laferior and plod along In Bopeless ohecurity. th rush to section. makes havoe with countiess careers. In after days the old proverd will ring miockingly In menay: “He that will not when he may, When he wonkl be shall have nay” What are lovestments on bonds and ners, in houses and lands compared eith invsstment 8 an eduestion. fg a hroad, deep culture which will earieh the life amd be 8 perpetual blessing ty one's friends? To roly one’s self of the means of enjoyment which sducation and culture can give has po compensation in mere money wesith No material prosper. ity can couspare with a rich mind It is a perpetual wellspring of satisfaction, Lol enlovment wind an an empty beart AX O'RELL mid a Tensile tr ns not plained to the public that the ostentations mourper Is Got neces sarily the one who ferls The most deeply. This bas been sald. before: but it is worth saying several times It is salutary to remember that there'ls no real merit In 8 g face. There Is psthing more hesthenish than the way in which mourning Is conducted in certain cities of American $o- muss be worn, the house must be darkened, and grief, the more | emot.onsl the better, maust be displayed, regardless of the pres | ence of ehildren or working people who need all the pleasantness they can | thing is more a matter of parade than anything else. It seeras heartless to say it and one could not venture to comment on any | particular case in this way, but there are people wha go through all the ont met with a terrible Dereavement, ax because they lke the importatice of the | occasion, and feel that people will think that they are not showing proper sen sitiveness unless they bebave in the traditional manner. Ome finds these people saying. when others depart from the routine of monrning: ’ “Well! I don't see how she bears up under it. Rhe seems so cheerful shiv ean't have cared muuch for her Losband. But, then, some bave so litte 1t may be that the apparently cheerful person is forcing hersel! to endure without cutward sign a crushing weight of sorrow, Incander that the lives off others may not be darkened hy her continual tears and lamentations The woman who does this for the sake of ber children is rendering them | will think she Joes not care. Children bave their own ways of finding ug these things. —New York News President Ellot of Harvard. TIEN a child grows up In the country, it gets a natural train. if fog in accurate observation, It wants to find a fourleaf “lover: it rons to se where the green make went to; track the woodchuck to Ha hole and gets it out it learns the BODSH of the binds, and knows when the smelts rus up the broek In short, the country child gets naturally a broad training ghservation manual labor. From: ao early age it hin setually contribs to the care of anlmals, the suceessiul conduct of the household, am! the gen: eral welfare of the family. In the ¢ity all this nataral trsinfog is lacking. ail into ear schools navyre-study sad macual training to teach the child to use its eves anid is Bands and to develop Hs senses add its muscular powers] aad these pew Fae t agencies in education, alremdy well in piay, are Us the near frure to go far bevomd any stage at present reached see how to replace in urban eduoention the training which the farmer's boy or the seacoast buy gets from bis habitual contest with the sdverse forces of natures. The Gotta Island boy, on the coast of Maine, goes out with his | fa oa Bail-open saiibont visit their traps and bring home the entrapp edt Jobsters, Ther start with a gentle breeze apd a guiet sea, though the tesnperaiurs is low, The Lov koows ast bow ty snr the v Boat five or six wiles to sea where the raps are sunk on some rocky spot which the lobsters love, The father is busy pull hag the trans, The Loy wats hes the weather, and suddenly be says, "Father there is a porthwedter | comin Ree the clouds driving this way over the Bills.” The Loy knows just 2s well Ax the father what that means Ir means 3 fearfal beat to wind. ward to get home Inclng oo savage spray anda falling remperture, the spray Wa, 3 the bow with hoe being, Shall we get into herbor or pot before we sink? Now, that is a mag pificent training for a boy, and the sheltered city offers nothing ke it. The adverse forces of nature, if not so formidable that men cannot cope with them, Bows, or vat the aed ¥ CSWIRE S tat boter ood 1s Smpeiing WH eAEEM | I was stodyiog the mechanism of the Bank of | | into one great room in the old bulding in which thers were | 200 desks enclosed in Wire cages, all empty at ils moment | Yeerow a bank eredit, and hare his Joan merely added to kis balance on the | looks of the bank. With us a merehast, when he makes a Joan, gets the | He probably has fo bank account with os | in your banks, come in and pay his Indebiedness with a chock: just he i These collectors were uniformed men exrrying leather pouches In which | the Bank of France. . As I baited there the man who happened to be at the | window at the moment presented a check for O00 france The money was | counted out and handed over to him, stored sway in a big wallet, and be! It was bot another Uiostration of how | pndeveloped is the banking system of Continental Euvrope in ite uses by Be How | Fis grasp of documents, speeches and books He is Ob, what a pity It is to see splendlid ability made to do the work or medi QUEER. x7 IT? At bresking of] the re'es of speech Fair woman # majoste. Bhe hires ae omborted gird And calle ber a dommes wr Pholadely 5 EXPERIENCED (¥. “He is 8 remarsablr good stoner” “Sure. Why not? He's married” 3 Sia Press. | A BAD CARE “Tg she really so homely ™ “Hamels ® Say. even an Amategr photographer can’t help but Satter her when be takes her pleture” HER PREFERENCE, fHe--“Conid you learn to ove me If KX were a millionaire ®™ fig" periaisiy sould lke you bets ter were you weil off say a thousand milew or more wllinairated Bits THE REAL IDEAL Tawne—"He is ber Wlesl 1 suppose.” Brows le mast be. She told me she thought be was the real thing.” “= Philadelphia Press LAMBS EASY MOXEY. The eager unrest of youth, that ehafes st restraining school wails and longs | wandering down there again? —New ; It suahics one to boar up under misfortune, to be cheerhil | | gander discouragements, trials asd tribulations witich overwhelm a shallow ong 220, wie Ye x= | ciety. Whether genuine sorrow is felt or not, quantities of crape | get in their lives. And it is a lamentable fact that in some cases this sort of § ward ceremonies of grief, not so much becanwe they really feel that they have | i partment store a service for which they will ive to thank Mer. Tere Is no danger that they | and when the twilight Is just right for finding the partridges. | It alse Bas on the farm an admirable training ng substitntes for ft Buve to be artificially provided. This necessity has brought | We do not yet} obster | dashing over the vessel and freesizg to the sails and ropes and joading down | It mwars a lfeand death struggle tor hours the guestion | are strenuous teachers: but in modern cities we hardly know that the wind | Stoxenbonds—~"1 see by the Snancial column they expect casier money a Wall Street.” Boensborn-—""Why. ave i the Lambs York Tines A LITERARY RINT. “Judging by her portrait you'd eon clude she was a person of advanced terary artainments, wouldn't rou®™ “Yes: but 1 boappen fo Know that she fant sx well read as she i» painted.” — Cleveland Plan Dwaler, SEVERELY UNSYMPATHETIC. “Mister.” sald Meandering Mike, “2 1 was to tell you Jat I Lad seen better days would you bellere me?” “Certainly.” answered Mr. Leander Sersgge; “thik is coe of the most one satisfactory days that our versatils climate has yer produced.” Washing | ton Star. EXTRAORDINARY CUSTOM. “Lapland is 3 sirange and remark able country.” said the eminent ex- plover. “The customs of the people are so odd, especially during the sea son of courtship.” “How ix that?” we ask. "AL that time every girl sits upon ber own Lapp Modern Society, HIS EARLY TRAINING *A twocent stamp please.” said the Indy at the stamp window of the poste “Yes madam.” replied the new clerk, who lad just praduasted from a de “Will you take It with you or have it semt¥ Chicago News, NOT 20 VERY BAD "Wien 2 man gets marie the «ld bach ~ said lor. “be must either give i up his freedom or Lecowue a tyrant” “0%, [ don't knew,” repited the young whlow: “my husband asd I always Hved in a cosy fat pear a good boards ing house, sa that we dda’ need to keep a pirl"~Chieago Record Herald XET PROFIT. “Goad ny busines?” “Chl 1t'% all lowe, na profit nowadays Why. yusteriday wifey's mother got tangled up io a get” “Well that's pet prod, Ea't HP New York Tioes srning. Speckiebay, how is 5 Sgn GY SAVED BY CHANCE. fw life was saved hy a bation “How fortunate. Tell me about #1 “A girl asiiad for a bution as a sou- venir. He gave it to her. Then he fell in love with her and she fell in love with him, They were married ™ “But you said she saved his life? “Ql, yes. His wife woukl net let is piace was killed "New York Sus.
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