¥ Only I didn't think soud serve tow such a trick. Ls in his volce and they went, of course. T mnde him notice ber Se first Place wos She pronouncing his name. Sigh met ber in the Art in. together. He i wrr . & owiedging | the introduc. ce was end her bow and hen he uncersmoplously k attesition to the pie it is doubtful if be would ever thought of ber sgaln had she pot upon herself to address him. \ artist, awakening Interest, his useful, ns any rete! In sight. ou do heads, Mr. ——Hrowa? asked, reverting to the subject p had been diverted by i Inspection of the studio, here it was agalu—that same foex able hesitancy which reflected ay Strongly than before upon that tion of consonatis and dipk- to which he had hitherto cheer- | ] smothered a on He » said Be. “ prefer landscapes.” ih, do you?” she uttered out In a if surprise that could not have Wis _exécvted on the gibbet within * for the murder of his mother. pwr strange. Now I dote on heads. 81 see 1 completed was New: 1 conceive bis facial expression ve been when he saw the apple 1 am now at work on a head of § a8 he looked when experi: My study Is If you cars to cone excelled had be told Ler he with the tubs. with Mrs Kerr to see me i be glad to show you what I have 3 * at the pext exhibition and shall kK you for any suggestions you | .. I am thinking of entering affer. Oh Mrs Kerr Ia callin Good-by, Mr.—~—Brown. : Brown Lad no intention of aceopting her Invitation to call at the studio fu | EY terrace at the tice jt was given, | mt at the end of two weeks, dura whieh period Lie had bern dally ted by disturbing mewmorios of a 12 tit 8 Woman in it styiish Bilas one. i yop giv will fume and the vexations anuer which ghee seemed to cateh her braat : re venturing to speak “able name of Brown, he went over i see Mrs. Kerr and asked her to him to call on the pretty artist, #1 don't know thy d runs to heads. Terrace, I believe.” Mrs. Kerr looked at him severely. presume.” she sald sharply, “that yefer to that pretty young widow, Pray speak mors re. kf Carelessnass fault you aught to have outgrown this. Bhe may have her odd ot wy isa goo. little Sou) and rs. Corley. gly of my friends. : Mro—Brown?" d from her place at his elbow, thrust out at right angles body, as he stood there Jost 1 the painting before bi then and Jooked at ber ¢ It s way she brought out his sur made kim do It. He won: she had sald It so, sod » assuring himself with the accurate glances of the artist e wan pretty lu spite of her 8, that her bair was soft and ber eyes fing and her clothes fitted, he was swittly calcu y possibility of ber having cor him with the regiments of the s Joneses and the Greens. the thought he was consclous, first time in his life, of a feel repugnance rising in bis breast #1 irreproachatile e, and he muttered an lmprecaticn sinst the fates that had Cecreed that 1t bis identity should forever be es ) I took him an sHconacion. Mrs the other end of the room fared it] the detesi- |x stor srl bh sid tke = name of the lady fT want to gee.” he enld, throwing him. geil on Mrs. Kerr's widespread mercy. : “But you introduced me to hor over at = titute about a fortnight ago. you remember? She ix a blonde She hangs out In Mra. Corley was hard at work on ano her head by that time. she chirped out, gayly. “1 haven't | quite finished my Dioguges. doubt about one or two strong lines. Can you advise me? Oh, I forget. Yon know pothing about heads. Just see what a collection 1 bare of them." Brown's eyes followed ber compre hensive gesture that took in the whole rulers. dismay. wep “AH that, spd more, too’ she © sponded proudly. “But l am pot satis. fied with atrthing. None of them Is good enough to enter at the exhibition, I intend to cnt loose my devotion to historical subjects and take my model from real lite, With nature to draw ‘ffram. 1 am sure [ ean accomplish far more than 1 have yet done, You must come In now and thea, Mr Brown, am! see how 1 am geitiog slong.” Hae took her invitation at ts pir { vaine and went often. Had he been pressed to Answer why, he conld hardly have told, Certain it was, 1 was with a view of assisting in paint. jog the Lead for the exhibition, for she told him that she was doing that where she was freer from Interruption than she could be st bor own home or ut the studio. But iu splice of the lack ef a defluite purpose In view he kept on calling. Whenever he siopped to try to avalyze his motive for so doing fus Lriet periods of Introspection seemed to convince him the most po. tent reason that urged Lim on was an losane desire to exputience fhe pleasure derived from her hesitation over that not-euphonious name of his, Land then gratify his sosolng contradic tory thrill of exasperation and strangle ber because she held back as though she disliked to utter it. A few addl tonal moments’ deliberation alwaye served fo lead him to the belief that he was sctuated solely by a wish to break her of a bad habit and teach ier to come ont promptly on proper pames as other people did. It was three month after be first climbed the steps leading to the studio in Unity terrace; in the wake of Mrs Rerr, before the head that was to be her masterpiece was finished, Bot ote afrernocn when he walked into the ting there with her blonde bead Ind back peacefully against the crimson pillows, he saw at once that her del cite face wore a pew expression of satisfaction and Joyfulness In the Srowisdgr of something atiempted and something achieved, and he knew it must be done, She saw that be had {read arleht the explavation of her un wonted fdieness, and soiled in soewer to his unspoken question. “Nan whe sald, after a short siienes, “i ia all over. curtsin, UH show if to you in a minute, Only promise that sou will not be too soathing In your eritielam. 1 did the best 1 could, In spite of my fove for heads It seems that every day I work on them they become harder to master.” Ehe fd Bim to the side of the oom that afforded the best vantage ground, then drew aside the curtain, He studied it perbapstenmingtes perhaps twenty, perhaps longer. When bie had finished, Lis rowcention of the peculiar twist and crooks In bis own countepance was tenfold clearer than it had ever been before, for the mirror betwesn {the windows told him tbat he had been her model He did not speak for a time, bot sat ae where she was writing, “What are you doing? he asked, lengayh, “Malkine ont the ecard that accom. panies my head to the committee,” sle sald, I don't just know how to fix it. Listen: is this all right? ‘Nuomber Pour and Fifty-3ix, Head, Painted by Mes ot ™ It was there again, that madden hesitation! She Jooked up and their ever mol There was something In his face that made her pale cheeks flush geariet, He faid Bis hands on NE § ba ¢ Eh "be sadd, fining the son » mg 1 neee, “Rr is wn fotos for i Sheen gH : repeated softly. Cl I eago News. Sp —————————— = A. Johnson, Tatlor™” ident Anmdeew Jobuson lived at ; Greens Sioa town of 1880 population, wiand one of the in nite vopiliwest of oles { 5 hi sili {a read. his rade id slop fs alilowad 0 petenin ir iis Hos over HAL Ieliemen, Ta Bi thet. woe old eitizen turns up ous taf his receipt hills for making or re piping garments, He joft po sen, and the Patierson family, the ite his Jdanghter, still ocoupy his fore mer vesiocuce Chicago Evening Post, Se, the door, * ¥ 1 5% Re §xoh x ine, weld, é $34 Co-Operative Frull Exchange. The frult growers of the West have long “ad a co-operative fruit exchange, the object of which Is to gee that fruits of all kinds reach as expeditiously as possible the markets where they are in particular demand, and may be sold to thie best advantage, A few costly er rors of judgment have shown the East, orn shippers that they need # similar | organization, and now there Is & na- tional exchange. Agents In different he parts of the country direct by tele : gra b how. the fruit shall be distribu. vt be rant to Bo its nil hore was pleading tn his eyes and “I'm glad to see you, Mr-— Brown,” I ani In roc and he surveyed with indiscrim- te admiration the scores of heads of ancient martyrs philosophers awl warriors and inodern scholars andi “Did you do all that? he gaspad In 1 am going to do another for that, and ers were surprised to see the mother cheery apartment apd found her sit It is there bebind that quietly Jown beside her ar the table! popartdy He iia Yenuesses, | rw § NLGOX- 1 4 nie be oceupied for 2 Evers now | Interests of | The other day. on a. dairy ranch ml the Witte mother keeps them very car fully. for in Japan the doll holds a ver) important place. Indeed, there is 8 special day. March 3, set aside and called the "Feast of Dolls” That is a joxful time. | can tell you, for every Uitte Japanese girl And the boys? Wall, the boyy have good times, too The Kite ts what they like best, and sich kites as they have! American Colorade, a gasciine engine expioded, | buys would opea thelr eyes i they setting fire to the barn, which filled with horses, hay and grain. In the loft of the barn Ived an oid cat arid three kittens, a roaring furnace, ranchmen had great i}! Meulty in res eulnz the stock. after which they could do no more than stand quietly by and watch the destruction, When the lower part of the barn was entirely enveloped In fiimes the witch cat appear ot a Joft window, erylisg pitecusly. As it would bave been a simple thing Yor her to leap to the ground in safety, the onlookers could not at first understand why tabby 441 not do sa. Finding thst she could ex. pect no ald, and that she would have | Waa 3 ecoakl wes then As the weather wak i af very dry the structure (uickly bedvem o fromm which the | ; gibibest one Of Ragth, Not ouly are they of Fall shapes and sizes, fet some netoslly xing that x they make mushe Ike that sn seclian harp as they float in the air, tithes foci like animals, but the of sil are the fighting Eitex Lave their strings soaked with sie, Eto which powdered glass las esr dusted], far & distances of thirty fout from the Kite. When the glue har. fons the wiring betoinds as sharp fie, The buoys crows while the sir. Then such pulls Lie Kite this way and that, wut] 1 rae x PRA # two. In sueh a case the owner of the vice lorious kite is entitled to the ome that bag been cut cy HARE. THE MEADOW LARK, Meat meadow larks migrate to the A fow remain (nthe Xew Eng jand and Middle Rates during the win. ter. “This bisd and sur Bobolink are the best Two singers of the Jowlands “The botwlink mod is one of carefree liap- pitess; the meadow lark's suggests the fervent joy that is akin to pain’ says | Florence Mecriam Bailey. The meadow lark song bas been well translated as a clear, piercing whistle, “spring o' the yr, pring o the year From Na- ture and Science In St. Nicholas OF BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. RNA PNA A HEE : to get quickly, the old cat disapieane: 8 in the loft, but sosn again appeared! at the window, bearing in ber mans two Kittess with which she no time in jumping. The Eittens won carried to the feet of the rpanshinen, and the nother looked up appedingly. pri while meawing ax wuih as Ww say, “Please care for these” With that heroic tabby scampered off to the Tomt barn and entered the stairway to the! loft, dexpite the fact that it was filled with swoke and fames. Bhe wus sun cessful, and soon again Sppeared Agking at the window with the Again porit the lust rescued with tb hird Kitten. fr ol here ie lmiped and ed to des The pour old cat's foo rave, hor whisy were seovehed baolly UE AE Rua, hor side afd drer tas The asiwmal’s su de, Ho doa, wat er a pew home tiraml of. fering was | rade po fuss ab folk gave b sid, wien redieved or. ery uy Isobe ans Row, volun amd apd end hut she and the re 3 : in the wikst batlages si RAL = ad wg, 5 oe 4 ) Phiis ose Of ol i ia bay Ler fudey Yoo wg, oF LAI Rag or Yeo y Gtiad hd rnp So TLOBEEN IN JAPAN, Gist Bea shoe to Live in. lola ol evs ik Jaran s. GiEY = ris apd gard They have and great! fun i playvieg with them. What would yeu think if yon saw a Lite New York girl sitting on the sidewalk baking bitde cakes oa tiny stove with a real oven? You'd laugh. That is what little Miss! Japan does, and it seems quite proper She dees not event have to buy her stove, bit ean rent in from a boy ped dier. and pay Keep it for a whole hour for little money, The toy peddler also furnishes her with a jump of sweet dough, and as there is always a real fire in the stove, she has only to make her dough Into little cakes and bake them, ant afters wards eat theta, which Is not the roost | unpleasant part of it all. Often she haa her dolls all about her, for usually she has a very large fanily, They are all sizes und kinds, and t were burned 5 Was ! WHIRLIGLG, is wh! rig it ig postal card will doi Cnr and sardlward Tas tes ei a sgusre bit of thin Let Lit dry. and then cut the cardboard out Cround the wiirlipig, smd with 5 Uny | nin i. "0 4: bit of gieR foe oa 1 ba ee the tli the contre to a tlie. This shold Ruess of a melch and Pires Times 8a Hug. take hold of #1 by the handle aud slowly torn from left to right apd you will see that it appears Wo be whigzing roand sind round at & tres mendens rate. If you paint the white circles very carefully a bright red or a bright Bue, Now the effect will be still better; only you aust not paint jt until after you have pasted it on the card and it is guile dryo—New York World. Diary of a Million ain I spent three-fourths of my life maks ing a million dodlars. ‘The other fourth will be devolad to trying to ge an appetite to enjoy it~ Atlanta Constl- tution, as Ak try to get thelr strings ; tive #itings cules the other io {slack cwoliog of tis curd, a want of Pion much, skimmed, or suffering from fa place in which to lndaige in day. { dreams. Boglish conservatisn and inertness | haw its good aide, says a Canadian cory | respondent of Esginsering sotpe case it approaches very nearly to stapidity, The son of an English bat tor cdame to America. He Jesrned the Musiness thoroughly and finally had a} factory of bis own. He wont home to visit and while thers, naturaily, went through bis father's works. He foansd sid machinery aad lpefcient processes, | Zo much wis he impressed and so 20% ous way he that his tather should gain iy his experience thas he offered to put | on sew machinery at bis own expense, anid pointed out to his father the ad- i vantage it would be. Instead of betog | grateful to his son (he old man replied that be had been in the business all} als lite, and his father before him, asd | hat he considerad [i presumption of the part of his son to Attempt to teach al. And the pew machinery was not | | ut In. Another youug man pointed out | 4h hig father how the Amerioans gainad | irede by making new and atirmetive styles of Bits, how an effort was made frequently to vary the curves or lines ar bape of hate so as to draw atien ton and 4o lneresse a gale, amd he shred thal similar tactics be adopted by hia finn. His employer replied: Hryien cape into existence” Yes wax the atewer, “and you make them #tiil in the ayn that Chrigtopler € ol: § ambus woe when Le Sisorer Auer. | FLARE Er Se HOW TO CHOOSE CHEESE" ID OO, Exper: Tella Flow to Distinguish Good From Pad. Most hotisr Kiipers quail before tint part of the family marketing which re: lates fo the purchase of cheese, amd wial the man of the house who W asually the chief consumer 28 well a the crite, woubl always buy it. Such may fod the words of ao audority of vitlue: “A cheese with gn Indication of good. mottled rigal. The moment you press | your fingertips ca the rind you ean bw gin to judge of the interior makeop of a cheese, If it yields readily to the pressure of the fogers and the rind breaks or does not spring back readily when the pressure (x withdrawn, you have got x soft : rticle ceuwnd by the acid, or ith, At best, it will have a8 Insipld fuver, and will ‘go off" ax HW ages Clirese which feels so hard that you cannut press ft on the rind Db wither sour, salted ton heavily, cooked s tonoh of all these comsalzinty, “A good cheese will be mellow to the touch yet fem. Its vind will be of xa {even tint, elastic and free from pulls, god the sample will reveal firm, elon: grained, huottery cheese of & netly Bavur"=-hicage Tribune Chteriages s Day Dread. The following amusing little stoty of 8 T Coleridge, when & youth, i taken froma a recent biography of thw | ipoot: From much reading the poet semiad la in a world apart: world of books. The Strand is mi, | BOP ever Was In ta pecomprended ay 5p ye It wax devertheless, along this thoroughfare that Coleridyy 2 : the Hel | pt ished Ny Byron sud se frequently { ture Lim, {gentle ¥ { wonld gig oul very carefully | EIR : Wiha thes tay in | right hapd free to use pes or pencil for faneving himself swimming spout--a fext which & few { years later was ir be aetnally Root. passed, mentioned in his letters. The nuind of Coleridge was tins far from the husy Strand, until, throsting bis bands bins as Ia the mnonner of swhn | mors, ong hand suddesiy came In cols tact with 8 gxtleman’s pocket, The thiniing tn caplure 2 He thie, promptly seized the band. snd looking angrily at the owner exciaimed, "What so young anil so wicked? He forthwith ae cused the boy of an attemn: at poolien pleking With some fright and pris ably a fow tears, the boy explained that he bad po such dishoporable kn pentions, We can imagine thay wands 412 wot fail hin, amd before long lhe pentieman was fully satistied with the explanation that bis captive Waa merely Impersonating the Tesnder | swimming the Hellespont. The gents i man was so delighted with the Bay's Intelligence that he Jdetermined to enable him to indulge still more in his ove of reading Aveoedingly (he | goenpd 0 subscription for bon sf a cireuiatinyg Hbrary fn King singel ! other eanlarring a been of fr was unlikely the yor Ae plant ba glow fo avail 1 NEA rd 5 1 oy Ww £7 Bid 5 in ob 35s ie How “Royalty Teavels, When King Elward © bevond the "oop to Bla mal the Use of 8 special pom ar SifvaRsRtaiEpe a waTemSian. Rx 9 surneys of th gory paliway marti fre Big dy tn go a own on Investig ho 2 Bess will have an even colorad, pot} § Dene. 5 in fhe i £4 roo art tha 1 Erica p35 mow #lipagets Boe BIVWHYS ir maRas oF Ta a5 tise rail wiih fess wit travel is before the Joulney who have orders ehulivnge Buy strapger in the vicinity, amd I be rannot satisfacmpily secount Tor ER presence to shoot him on the #pit.- London Tater, Bion Has frag over 13 Eversbody Left-Eared ¢ The great mass of humanity is right hagiled Manufacturers of telephines must take their cue from this fact, in asmuch as all the instruments in use have the transmitter adjusted for the feft ear and the loft hand. leaving the jotting down points of & message Once in a while you will see a rights handed, righteared man who has trouble in banding the lefr-eared foe! ! strument.—New York Frese Evalue or gneve: near it Here is a story that m from Fecretary Hay. {told Bim by the traveler lands. ; *1 was traveling Abroad” wit te. roturmid tourist, “and 1 sofieed that In the raliway carriages. at the station L in the hotels. ami everywhere, 8 certain lang of travelers were pakl every con. | sideration, although they spent | 20 more money than I did. The railway | : sprang to open the door for theta; the hotel people gave tiem the Det they “ had. and every one seensed ansious to ‘do thim honor. At ove of the Me Potels I noticed a number of these wen ® hi hud got the best of me at all tikes for a number of days back, snd I con- sulted the waiter, “Why is it," I asked, "that this man, | and that man, sad the olher MAD are shown $0 much courtesy and Lften- tion ¥ “AN s2id the waller ‘they have been decorated. Ome bas the Legion of Honor, the other the Golden Eagle, and that ne the Order of the Etar. AR gentieihen having decorations are Tiven the utimost consideration.’ “f saw the point and bethought me of an old inauguration badge 1 bad : “1 with me which 1 had worn ax chal | “Oar Brn made hate before the United | man of some committe, T dug it out of my trunk and pinoed it on ny coat. © 1 wad about ton inches lng and three trond and as zandy and tigselied as 8 dozen orders all In one. No ote knew what it meant, bat it was ss decomtion, and an such carried me all over Enrope i ax fine sigle sa if it were an emblem of 1h pohimmt order st the Old World.” f WF sabingion Post , - . The people who win thelr way inte the Intest recesses of oibers hearts | shaerves a writer of kien perception, © are Bit asually the most brilliant and gifted, but those who have sympathy, patience, self forgetfulness, amd that indietinable faculry of eliciting the bet- ler natures of others. Most of us know of persons who have appealed to us in ibis way. We have many frivods whe ire hore beautiful and gifted: bur there ia not one of them whose com panionabip wa enjoy butter than that »f the plain-faced man ¢v woman whe aever makes a witty or profound re mark, hut whose simple qgaality of boman goodness makes up for every her defictency. But not by rolling seas, rot from the beiglita of hills, net from oat of the fapths of sizory and wilfathomable re clon, not from or through say of Nae tare's bounties or immensities does dod show Himesif se clearly to us as He does through the charseter of 8 xan eousecrated to Him and to His children on earth. The catastravhe of every play Ie caused always by the feily or fault of Ca miss: the redemptive, if there be any, is by the wisdom ard virtus of 8 womun, and falling that there Is Boge Providence Las nothing good or high In stirs for one who Joes Rot resolote ly alin at sowathiog bigh and good. A purprse 1s the sternal condition of sue Nothing will alie its piave. Error is a great deal worse than Ip gorance: it ta better to kSow nothing than to know what isn't tue. Of aimsgiving. as of giviag advices, ft may be sald its valoe depends on the way io which it is dene, How easy it is for one tH sOgEest § sare way Tor some ofe cise to manage - § trombio some affair. ¥ The best sermon pratepts the hearer thinking for himself, When the day is opsoed In penalise ard closed in prayer its progress will Le ware Cleverpess [a a sort strgeentality. It a t fa that which te do the most ¢ genius for In te hrsin of the ; sand The charactie that pods law 9 pend It fe hasilly worth tinkering. There is no killing the suspicion that deonit bids once begotten. A Saker Mulberry. The bund of union between Strat a fondon- Avon and Southwark, says the Westminster Groette. was cordially seknowiedged the other day by the reception avvonisd by the Mayor of Shakespeare's native town to the Maver of Scutheari. In the course af tha vislr to Newpizee the Mayor nf eatfond offered to prisent a send Uist of the famous miuallerry tree 3 the zroucds there for phinting in one zardens of Southwarke ieh Coupetior Bryan, hime Pat Shajiespeatean stmlent, gocupted. The intecesting be transplanted in the othe pubile gn wile vw ox pac vada Re “od mnt yeas Ray, S————— Cregtest of Gold Hrivkes Eye nial best porisst gold gt the Usied ha Minmegs Calepesitel at 0 Sid mining =e reeled ' ved and ro Brine worth dhorexls It is seldoin ther gold is bioeght to the from the plants i ail while the office has re cedy be Bars wel ghiog about as wucle they Lave nut possessed the same The gold fa wsnally associnted with silver of copper. t : Unexpected Sympathy. A iady from Belgrave square, sie drsesing 8 working gids’ club down at Bow the other eveniog in regard to reperal deportinent, meationed that In ber grade of soviuty girls would never think of conversing with any young min to whom they had not been tormaily introduced. “Don't we know tit miss.” replied one of the audience sympathetically, “snd ain't we arp gy Jou." —Loudon | 4 ait oe * A
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