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; She looks at Min, and eeee his wosted
; fere flushing with fatigue and wcwry and
nienial Stifforing. 011, what a biller
4 wave of desolakiness rolls over her I
but mho
1 "1 StAll do not. understand whet, I am
' tit forgive you for. I suppose that you
mild no more help having 011oe 1110111.1111
pal loved nee then yeu can help"- she
slops abruptiy i» compassion for ilia
It!ok 01 nelde regret.. Shaine and remorse
that misses his sharp fon IUMS, and, in
her mercy hi 111111, gives a tlifforont close
! 10 her phouse from lent wheel lie bogie-
, ring Mut seemed to iiespeak-ellian jelli
1 van help having been so ill.'
1 ler lone, quite uneoliellously to her-
;
1401self, iineepressibly touching; 11411
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OR, A SAD LIFE, STORY
C1IAPTE11 X141. flue film] the pillow, and breaks iute
violent weeping, Ills maw,. told 0140(1
leo. It si,e4118 to be in 1110 bunny,
She ham ORM- Whe 1 Turtlior is there
for hey to slily for ?--and rimers quietly
el, his side tilt the pueoxysin Is pest.
Het standing posture tells ben that, she
10, going, and he eonsequenny struggles
to reeover 'dowel( in SOtna degree; -but
'laving tierce cultivated self-e.ontrol
when be woe in health, it declines to
come nt his enfeebled bidding now.
"Forgive me I forgive Mel" Is all he can
stammer.
She looks down upon him with a
strange and tender smile, in which for
the moment the selfless, pitying sweet-
ness has swallowed up the nesery,
'Which am 1 10 forgive you for -for
Jawing laved Me? or for baying ceasml
In love 100? • For having been mad? or
fo: being sena? Yrs, cif femme r forgive
from the very bottom of ray heart I
God bless you 1, Make haste and get
welf
She wallcs cheer/idly to the door, and,
leeiehing it, lUril,S, Still wearing thet
smile, that he may see how perfectly
friendly is her last look ; bol e he does
001 sec 11,. Ile has rolled °vet, on Ms
ewe, and the whole sofa is shaking with
his sobs.
(To be continued).
_
Ellzrthelles 44040 tee at, 11311(48 door
is instantly aneweriel by 11111 0U0541,
who, opening 11 smilingly lo admit. her,
the ecixt moment, evidently in 0(000-
1101)1(0 (1111) Clianlions Neolvetl, fiti4ses
(1141herself end shuts it heir%
diseern the first rent? After all, she
may have need for her arener--that, air -
1101r Which, SO far, has oriented tin Pal*
fully needless,
"I know that 11 would be no use ask-
ing leave to send for you any sweet.'
they wattle ltuVe Mat me 1 WeS 1101 1111
NI/Antal, ecipetec,e of the ,C [1, p,011 11 -would have put me off with some
0. her eap and apron, end left stranded ('0 1(54' 0115; so 1 keen, a "141111 sough.' 1)0 Pat
Id II 11I0 threshold, has no resource but know that I never mimitoned your name
awn lo -day 7 But has been Intrd work,
1 elm tell you; for the lied two days I
hum scarcely been able to bear it, 1
hue so hungered to see you."
ller eyelids tremble, and She Instinc-
tively puts up her hand 1.0 Cover hor
tide leil-
nioui(i. Surely 11114' Is the old lan-
memo. Suety there Is, at all events, a
snalch of 11111 his last words; and again
that pre* ofillogical joy quickens the
beats of her Minting heurt, though she
tries to -chide it away, nsicing herself
why she should be In any measum glad
that the love which sha has emee here
for 310 011101' purpose thau le renounce
sup Imes end sues,
"You may think I am exaggerating,
len in point of fuel, I cannot by any ex-
pression lass strong Man the gnaw of
dewnright hunger eanvey the knigIng I
have had to see 3•011."
pausee with a momentary failure of
Ms 81111 feeble powers.
5110 CalCIWS lic4 breath. Now is the
lime frm ber to strike*in, to arrest Pim
before be has. lime to, say anything
move definite . Now is the limo for her
Lc. fulfil her promise, ber inhuman pro-
mise, whieli yet never for (me instent
strikes her us anything but iorevocably
lending, Does he see her bile! 1 i 10 n that
he plunges, in order to anticipate it,
80 hurried a resumption of his in -
tet reeled 5411114)41004
'To sac you in order to beg -to sup -
pupate you to forgive me fer my conduct
to you.'
She gives an almost imperceptible
start. This ending is not what she hnd
cepeeted, not tho one to 'defend herself
(wait -let which Alla lies been fastening
oil her buckler and grasping her shield.
The words that it demands in answer
an: 1101 those with which sho bits been
furnishing herself, and it is a moment
IWO before she Can supply herself with
others. Ile must be referring, of
couese, to his last meeting with her-
tlint one so violently brolcen off by (he
sealastrophe of his collapse.
"I do not know What 1 am to forgive,"
she seys, half bewildered. "You were
nu1 necountable for youv actions. You
were too 111 to kpow wilat you were do-
ing."
"Oh, you think I am alluding to that
last Lime," cries he, preeipilately cor-
recting her. "No, no ; you are right.
1 was red accountable then. You migtit
ri; well have rensoned with a W1111 beaS1
clia or 11 incoeigeete, 1 was a putout
thellainite then. No" -going on very
rapidly, as if in desperate anxiety to
make liev comprehend with the least
prisisible delay -'W11411 1 am asking you
-iielcing you en iny knees -to forgive
me em, 114 my whole ,conduct to you
fman the beginning."
'Pile two white faces are looking
te'ealblessly into each other, end though
(if line he has been tussling with death
on a bed, and she has been walking
ntinut, and plying flee embroidery, and.
dining at a public inbIc, hers is fur the
Whiter of the two. IL must be the un -
\vented exertion of talking so much
that makes him bring out his next
epeech in jerks end gasps.
"I leveed my acquaintance mien ye a
af 1110 verY hoginning; 1 watelled •Ycat
lik.1 it detective; I beset you wherever
you went ; I pestered you with my vis-
its. arm atways tow pio that 11 was not
UM conduct of 11 gentleman, but I would
nol believe him -not even .when" -how
cliflicult it is 1 ho finds it almost as hard
work os his 010111e1' had done- upon the
Mole --"not even when, by my impoe.
Muffles, 1 bad driven 4'011 away. --
obligee you to rush ammy almost by
night Irani a place you liked --n. place
yott were 1' appy eseape me. And
1 have 110 excuse to °tree you-norto;
unless, indeed, as I sometimes think, my
mind was MI its bitlance even then, I
express myself terelcheilly 1" -in a kme
of reel distress -"but you will overlook
thee will nol, you 7 eicee
understand whnl. 1 menn ?"
elm makes an assenting motion with
he., head. At this moment she cannot
speak : she will be able le dp so again
directly, but she n lust have Kist a Minute
er tux). Yet she 1l1051 110( leave him for
in instant in doubt that sho enderetands
him. Oh, yes, she understands Min -
understands that he is apologizing for
hieing Val' loved 'her ; (bat ho is awk-
wardly trying to draw the mantle of
insanity 0Ve0 08411 the VallallbrOS(111
wood, 11 IS UPC that he does it with
every ragn of discomfort_ and pain ; and
lie looks nway riont hor, as Mrs. T3yng,
too, had found 11 pleasmilev to do,
'Do you remember whet Schiller said
when be was (lying? 'Many thingsare
g1 0Wing Clearer In Me.' I thought n
good deill of IlinSo Word:ems I thy. over
there -glancing towards the now nerds
Iv -arranged and empty bed, ''01(4. 1(1(4111
they 1(1,1(4 111 (4 0,114, all up with nte-1
heard them sny 00. They did met think
I wits conscious, hut / was; and it did
strike me that 1 Mel (mule a poor thing
01 11, and tlint if ever 1 was given the
chnrice I would tnake a new start."
Again that little assenting moventent
of bee tale head. How perfectly coin-
prehensible he 61,111 is 1 How well silo
undarettinds that he is eencemeing her
ee unspeakably -to see you, to speak to among the other follies of' bls "salad
you?' cleys"-eollege bear -fights, Music-lialla,
She sits immOVable, listening, whit° a gambling etubs. Well, why 'should not
tey of somethinge-ean 11 1)11 hope? WhY he? 11118 not she come here on purpose
should IL he hope e-derie across bee 14, reneunco him 1 Can alio quarrel with
heart. Alter all, 111114 may be Ilyng-her hint ler haVing steed her the trouble?
lly»g Iles strange new manner May be "And I thought that I could not begin
Mily 1110 (4111150(11 1)1 W111011 141611058 haS halal Mall by falling On My knees to
dressed Ills passion -a Wormed garreent yell 1"-4-W1111 l nomentery expressioe of
Aeon to drop away trent him III rags and extreme, impatience at Ms own bodily
lettere, and in Willeb 011001, alle already weaknesSe-Pand eSIC you Inost humbly
to cross the Veen as steadily 1114 a most
trembling pure af logs will let her.
Tim room is a squai•e one'Iwo of ils
thick walls peeved by M0011511 whitlows.
Drown up to one of those windows-
ill,: one through which 31111 lind caught
hi; first glimpse of Mize iieth on the night
of Ids arrival-ts the eielc nian'e sofa.
At the side of that sofa lee visitor has,
col too soon, arrived. She had prepared
a ffitle set speech to deliver lit onee--a
speech which will give the keynote to
the after -Interview : blii, tilati 1 evevy
word of it hes gone out of her lirticl.
Unable to syllable', she
stands beside hial, 51101 11 an40110 IS tO
give the loynote, IL must' he be.
"This is vevy, 'very good of you. 11
gems a slinme to ask you to come here,
h all Iles horrid pemphernalia of
pliesic about; but 1 ',catty mull not
tvalt until they lel, me the moved into
another room."
"She luts not yet (limed to lift her eyes
lo his face, in terror Met the 4.ighl of the
change in IL shall oversel, her most un-
sure composuroe Already, indeed, she
has grecidny asked and obtained every
&Mil of the alteration wrought M him.
She knowe tha1 his hend is shaved,' (bet
hi, features ave 8111011, and that Ms voice
1; faint; and, when as he CegSCS speak-
ing, she at last wins resolution enough
hi look at 111(11, sho sers that she has
been tolci the truth. His head Is shaven,
his nose is as slump ne a pee, and les
voice is faint. She has been told all
this; but what Is there that she hos
nc1 heen told ? What is his WACO be-
sides cairn?
',Will not you sit down? tt writs
monstrous that I should bo lying here
letting you wait upon yourself. Will
you try that oiler pointing to the chair
which Is figuring al. the mune Marrient
in ;lime; lornienliel fancy. "1 am afraid
you will not find it very comfortable.
I have not tried it yet, but It leaks as
bent as a letard."
She sits down meekly as he bids her,
glad lo 10 no longer :obliged to (Pieced
upon kr eliaky Mulls 101,1 answers ;
"e•linnIc you ; it is quite comfortable."
"Would not ii be better if you had a
Clishion r-luelring all around the 100111
for ene.
Ills voice is courteous, tender almost,
in its, solicited', kr her vise. But is she
asleep 411; /1W111ie ? 01111 this be the Sallie
Vince that poured the honey of its
heart-rending adjurations into her enr
scarce a mouth ngo? Cart this long,
eerie white saint -be looks somewhat
eke a young saint in his emaciation nee
his scull-eap-be the stanuneving reunite:
who, when last she eaw him, crashed
clown nigh dead a1 ber feet, stale by
three words from her mouth?
At the stupefaction engendered by
these questions, her own brain seems
turning, but she feebly tries to recover
herself.
"1-1 am so glad yeti ime better."
Monk you so much. Yes IL is nice e
niee to be
"'Not burnt with thirsting,
Nor with hot flogere, nor with temples
bursting:
Do you remember Keels?"
Alter all, there is semething of the
original Ryng left, and the ghost cif his
old spouting voice in which he recites
the above couplet gives her hack 11
gyeatee measure of eomposure than
weld almost anything else.
"It is nice, only one would like to be
able le jump, not. 'lite Hie to come-lia!
be I -but the convalescence Lo come. ely
mother is even umee impatient than I
PM. Sha has made tip her Mincldhali wo
are to be 011 141 three days, oven if I am
earvied on boarcl on a shulior."
0110 Can 511111008 11101 be is very moch
embanessed-11011, Ills fluency is but the
uneney cover of SCanC einollen- and the
discovery enables her yet further to re-
gain possesSion 01 11415011.
"I'sliould 111101r," 8117 says in her gentle
voice, "that you would be very glad' to
gel out of this room whem-where you
have suffered so numb,"
"Well, yes; one does grow. a Mee
tired of seeing
"'The citsement slowly grow a glim-
mering 5111I0 00
bub"-wilh a lather forced latigh-"at
least, 1 have 111111 cause lo be thanlaul
ilea there le no well -pupil, to voila the
P1111c111 or. 1 linve blessod Ihe white wall
for Ils teatitreles,s lace." „.
She times a n
little i, her Wale, as if
18 nssure herself that 8110 is rrally
awnkr. That stupefaction Is beginning
111111(1) ber rignin-thnt hazy feeling
11101 this Is nol Byng 4 all, this polite in -
vend, lealcMg 811011 civil corlvevsa 11011 foe
her ;" this is 801111,li14ay else.
"lint. I must nel five myself out before
T have said what I want to say lo you,"
1)0 ColitiMICS, his embariassment pereep-
1
118 13' d vim enin g, while his transparent
Mind fidgets nrionsily \v1111 the border of
the eriverlet thrown owe, him, "oe-
toughing 0g41i11-"1 • ellen have that
tyrant of •ft intrse down upon 1110, end --
mid 1 do wish -»l have wished so much --
LITTLE BITS OF INFORAIATION.
--
Iriteresting Items of Knowledge Which
11 Might Be Well to Know.
There are over 12,000 shops for the
sale of milk in London,
at the 51,001) breweries estimated to
be in the world, 20,000 are in Germany.
A bridge between England and France
would, 11 10 estimated, cost 1)070,000,000•
Women, bemuse they eat so much
less, only pay half rates in the more
elibeishioned of Sweden's hotels.
The 1111ge50 1311J1C-ClaSS in Great. 13rilain
Is at All-Sainls' Church, Sheffield. The
average uttendance is LOOM
The cheapest municipal tenements are
those owned by Dublin, where tem
moms min 144 114(1(0(1 for 51) cents it week.
Miss Merrough, sixty-one years old,
outward 111 the different directions on
and Mr. Crissitiger, sixty-six, of Pills -
e the lines of least reststnnee, but 11
burg, have just 11(811 married after " gimes striving lo reach, the greatest
0000181111) of twenty-six years. pepulation and the heaviest [rattle.
The French Comedic Franealso is the
only theatre which pensions its actors The work sheltie be placed in charge
end adreSSEIS. After twenty years' ser- °I a man ovho widerstmids 1''°11d build'
vice they are 'entitled to 51,000 a year. ting and road repair, The statement 10
IL is a custom in the Belgian parties 'equally true whether there be much or
flint, when a inundate is milking a long little money available for the work. The
speech, to be supplied with brandy as u systeni which permits the appointment
beverage, at the expense of the Govern- of men as road supervisors regardless
ment, of their for the position is ae-
There is only one clay in the year on ceuntable in a great, measttre ler poor
which the inhabitants of Monte Carlo !roads and for the feeble interest in road
are allowed to gamble at the Casino improvernenti. Probably there IS no
tables. 'fled day is the Prince of Mona- 'more mad work in many countries nem
ene teeth:lay. 'mulct he superintended by one men,
'rho famous log cabin which belonged and lhat man could be selected with an
te President Lincoln has been bought eye to his qualifications for the work
by Mrs. Russell Sage for $25,000. 11 15 to be clene, which would result 1101 only
bo placed in a glass mese, and thus in better loads but also in greater effi-
eresevved forever,
ciency and economy.
A bird -dealer in Paris raises canaries
of an orange -red tint by !meting the par-
erit birds on eayenep pepper. In time he LIVE STOCK NOTES,
expects that the eggs will produce birds
of a bright, red 11(40. Do not forget. the old hens and old
Italians of the poorer class noted corks. If they are worth keeping tor
fay their general gond healthare. This is breeders, they may need special care
le 801114' extent attributed to the fact that dtkrnee.,lb0a I le, fall mowto
ult.
the working people of fluty cal, lessn nicat "`"e'' ,„ eus mlte' yiars as
6. f ethan
the took till they were of niatuie those of any- other Europeana- 6 '
age before fattening them. NOW the
Lion.
Army and Novy offirers 111 Germany bfficher anci ehipper deinund young ant -
ire obliged to make a deposit of $7,500 *teals and light weight. The fanner
M111 1',01'4('01110111 before they 111,0 must meet this demand, end it ts far
permitted le marry. 'friis draws an 10- neore Profitable to ,(10 111,1111._10110"'
come .of 8 per cent., and at death is re- the old way. Early meturity es now
fended to the family 01 1(10 heirs, the keynote with breeders of cattle,
A curious linrometer used in Gamely hogs and molten sheep.
find Switzerland consists of a jar of The practice of giving additional lead
water with ci bog and a little step -lad- to COWS when pastures 41111 511015 is 1141 -
dor le 11,. When the frog comes out of
the -water and e•itS on the elope 111s said
infallibly to foretell rain.
Mean has an avenue of trees fifty
miles in length.The trees are the cryp-
teeters, and 14801. '('3 one is a peered speci-
men, mete straight, from 18a feet to 150
feet in height, mut 12 feet lo 15 feet in
eimumference. 17110 0Ve11110 extends
from the town ol Nanianda to Nikko.
'rho most expensive piece of railway
11110 111 the world Is that of the North
British Tleilway which runs over the
Forth Bridge.' This portion of the line,
including approaches, is about four
metes tong, and cost £8110,000 per 111110
1.0 WM11'1101,
The women of the iffinnd of Yen°
letve a very peculier custom of reeking
up their faces to look as though they
have inotieteches. These women am
called Ainus, and upon the uppeerellp of
entil belle is lettonecl 84'mething that re-
sembles long, flowing moustache.
One of the principel cigar nuelefaeler-
les 01 Monne 11e8 lately been milking
some enormous cigars .which 11105111113
114 11101101 1051g 11114 1401105 in decent-
1erence, They 1410 11O1 very heavy, as
they 08410 only nliout 4 ounces, but
they cost 55 a piece in Ilayana and 5600
n benched in 'London.
Peee'AieieeAAfeAeRieeeee"Novv:
ON THE FAR
Weeceileeseeet~PitiWeeleeseeeeeretee0
WHY INCUBATOR CHICKS 13113 IN
T1113 SHELL.,
There seems to be' wide and varied
iopinions 115 to why cleeks die In Ill:'
Meth. Many eleini, Which LS 11110 111 11
(sense, that the germ Is week, eauseil
by loo dose inbrei•ding. It is Irue rdso
Wel there may It- weak gems 111 Ulna's
;84114111 the paemit stool; Is nut celnled.
Tee close confinement, with little or
no exercise, or inipeoper wilt
else muse chicks ki We in the shell,
lee germ not, effing strong enough lo
withstand lIro V111i011$ changes during
'incubation. •
The writer le fully eenvineed eller
many careful demonstrations that while
tho above causes are partially true
that the Main cause is linpropor veme
'lateen, that, chicks suffocate from insuf-
ficient air, The ventilation of almost
all makes of inetibutors remilin practi-
cally the seine nom the beginning to
the end of the Mitch, und that while the
ventilutton luay bo hist right at some
elage of the hatch, it certainly Is not
right all the wny through, 11 1110 pro-
per amount of ale plisses through et
the beginning of the hateh, the venilla-
krs being of a given mid stationary
eine then asthe clikec grows it must
heve a greater -amount or air, and es
11 is not forthcoming, suffocation fol -
'ewe.
'the system of ventilation in !nob°,
tees of to-dny Ls such as to cause a
cheught, drying the eggs too fast, eauS-
Mg the membrane 01' lining leeneutli the
shell of the egg to become tough, 00
muall so thal at hatching thee the chick
is unable to break through, many even
tieing in the shell after being pipped,
Whereas if this membrane should he
kept soft and brittle, ris when flesh 'laid,.
Vie chick would easily have pleicee its
way out
BETTER ROADS.
Good reads are inciteffilve of a high
state of civilization. The improvement
In the condition of the common high-
eveys proclaims, in mute yet Inures-
takable language, the advancement in
the civilization of the country. Ifighly
apecialized Industries, which usually al'
1011(1 upon the high slate of cultivation
among the people, seldom flourish where
means is unprovided for a quick ex-
change of commodities. As the stand -
Mel of living in a community rises, it
soon finds expression in a demand for
better roads. ,
The most natural. eystem to follow
tit road building is to begin the iinpreve-
Men', in the eity or village, working
DOCTOR'S QI•1311313 011D1311S.
Breakfast el Cheese and Binger Beer
are Prescription (liven.
A somewhat eacanivie physician Who
recently died would order pallenls to
Mc walks, Say. daily, on the left side
ol 1110 etreet, returning by the other side,
(Medico Ito ‚0700)1(10 1(101' to arise eech
1114c111111g.i1a 'certain tmer owl ant
eheese well ginger beer, another to tithe
SU(415)1' precisely et Inklffight, end 001,
only apples, cie he would instruct the
pnLient eo put .just so many groins of
see, en the egg he \Yes to eat, and part
his hair in edifferent way each (ley, ells
ohjent Was lo (4111 11(0 minci 01 110 (44111(01
On Sentrothing else trent symptems, and
this plait worked well in manes ollees,
especially when the DeWitt Was suffer-
frole
Coining more general of tele years, yet
them are still a great many tele] clo 'not comment hls age, that they were
monstrous excrescences, the deformity
of whieb made the sterile plains seem
mined without noting the effect upon
leie elem.
A TitICK OF MEMORY,
Experience of a Certain leontan nd
Ifee 'Box of Valuables.
Memory Is ono Of tho mos1 useM1 aces
leust trustworthy of 0110 lanultiee, "I
mind it Wool, Mit 1 'lam ma (loofa o' ma
mind 1" fisid eanny Seoletiniati In the
witness -181x, A WholeSeine charity for
na! mhitakes rif others WaS 1011.11101 1,y
11 4405111 W01111111 from her own 451i1.1. -
101S:1'... 51141 W11S 111/0111 cross the toie
(Mont for 11 three months' visit. on the
11113 of her departure she W0111 te the
safety (lemma vinet where she kept her
valuables. Mal Seal to the nomegor tIrat
elm wanted to hike lee- leix, with its
contents, to her lawyer's ',Mee for lilt
hour, ho eremite- that for her?
The manager•assented, rind wraPPed the
box in newspaper That it might. make
an inconspicuous liundle,
The day passed and the woman (Itil
nel return. 'The next morning, inquiry
revealed the Met 11110, she had gene on
her journey. 'fhe manatee' was curious
enough to ask her lawyer if he knew
anything (thole the lox,
"She left here intending In take 11
directly to you," said the hiwyee.
That wits enough to justify a telegrem.
a; semi tiS (1.0 WOUlan reaelsN1 11711
destination, six days 1111.1`1', Telegram .
"Whore did you put your safety deposit
box ?" Answee: "In the emelt where it
belonged." Telegram: "11 Is not there.
Return at once]."
Another weelc passed in wretched sus,
penso.for -every one concerned. When
1110 WOMen arrived, she was in a stale
of nervous rage, and ready to accuse the
officials of every ciente in the calendar.
She declared she bad driven straight
from her lawyer 10 the vault. The man-
ager had himself lel her in, and Witold
with her. Her story Wail complete in all
detaile. 13M. the recerde of lhe de,
pc.sit company did not substantiate it.
That cast doubt enough on it so that it
seemed worth wbile to look up the cab-
mari who bad driven the woman on
fat fatefulwaxf,dlualyn.1.
Ho remembeted the
eirceinstence well.
Had he any recollection ef skipping
anyehere else? Seratching hie grizzled
head, ho slowly retraced the course, end
then said, "Why, yes 1 We slopped at
the bakeehop on the corner of Third
Slirieeorte, ‘avtlads yueipu cw1,1eine.t 10 asty visit 10
leo bakery revealed the newspaper bun-
dle tucked away on a high shell. web
Its preckius contents undisturbed. There
it had stood for a fortnight, V,-hile a
woman and a half-dozen men were
staying awake by night and !rolling by
day, accusing each other of lying and
seeding, all bemuse one womates In-
tentien got ahead of her performance
end imprinted a lie on the tablets of her
MeruclirrnY•um Love F011 NATTellE.
4-
•
Rs Enjoyment is Due to Long Training
and Education.
"1 often wonder," raid the Iligh
school PrInellull, "how many of the
people W110 are trevelling across our
continent mid the sea to view nature
at her wildest appreciate the fact that
their enjoyment of her handiwork in (5
most awesome aspects Is a result due
meter to long truining and educatien
than ki any innate sense of the beetle -
fel and the nesthetic. There was ta
time, and net so many centuries ago,
when 1110 attitude of cultivated 711011 and
wOinell toward natere was quite dif-
ferent to what, it is to -day. The eigh-
teenth century looked askence iit what
the nineteenth and twentieth go to no
end of trouble, inconventenee anct ex-
pense to poy the warmest sort of tri-
bute and the highest, admiration.
"Willieut being able to lay my hands
en the passage, I remember that Ad-
dison speaks somewhere, I believe in
hi; letters, about the barbaenis and
abhorrent scenery et the Alps. elneau-
lay writing about the Celtic wilds of
Scotland, tells us that it exceed teething
but contempt and loathing. \Vouch
water nuil crag, he observes, 48000 in
00 W1SC different then from what they
are 1101,V, alien they are eeing Ntsilrd
by no end of Those who come to sketch
or merely 10 praise and see,
"In 1730 Capt. Burt, an English trav-
eller of intelligence ante cellivoilon,
wrote of the mountnies of Inverness,
with the feeling and the sentiment
clo it. Men who make a bueiness of
dairying know thee their profits depend
upon the COWS having enough to eat,
but, those farmers who keep but a few
cows -just •enough mitke butter with
which to buy groccrles-vy very 1t
1'' attention to It. If the cows shrink
milk, they will complain and tell you
they don't get enough le pay for minc-
ing, but eay not n word about feeding
111001 anything extre.
The Ohio experiment station made
some cereful experimenle with ordin-
my leached barnyard manure, and
enrelully saved unlenched maritime and
Carlin 10 Ibo 001141IIISM11 that the leached
mantue beneethel the crop so little that
it barely 'peel 1110 cost of tile applica-
tion,
Never leave your tools and imple-
ments exposed le the sun in sunintyr
ime longer than is absolutely necessary
bectinse they are injured morc 111011 they
would be by the inclement weather iit
oilier seasons, The worelen portions,
la canting very dry. shrink, crack and
warp, and .441011 the !entire implement
becomes loose anil shnicy. The fact Is,
the hurry of lumvest should not be an
excuse for leaving nny implement in
the field. When they aro left unpro-
tected in this way it will cost 11101'0 le
meaty the eegleel, than one will eern
I,y having a little Move time al, his dis-
posal.
EINvelliP• 11111110 varies vory widely in
fertilizing 1011511111r11 8, S01110111108 1115
itelo better leim oriline03• soil, and then
ngain it is mete valuable. 'The Ina-
terini shmild be thrown nut during the
fffil ruel wittier where it 'will wealner
and freeze, 11' ‚011(4' then be eprend up.
cri glass lends or need by sprending :et
Pm surface of plowed lands, I3y dig-
ging it and ellowing 14 10 dry out only
half ne much weight will have •le be
moved ne if drawn (levelly upen the
lancl, Then, too, most, meek ts sour,
and reptsr be exposed to (he nle before
Lite plant, toed is Available, 1115 tiStt-
ally best applied on 1110 enrinee 10 geese
lands, 110111 twenty be 50 loads per
saw. Ils real, yak* cannot. be deko
lonely by con1Par18041• In line weenier
le bound them still more disagreeable,
for the clearee_the day the more dis-
agreeably did these misshapen messes
of gloomy' brown and dirty purple affect
the eye. 'rho tame nrid etibdued beau-
ties of Richmond Hill he found admit'.
eble by contrast,
"Even Oliver Goldsmith, poet, though
lie was and alive to the beauties olXin-
ii'e. when Lame tincl subdued, was re-
pelled by the scenery 01 11(41 highlands
and declared that llo found infinitely
more pleasing the conventional and so-
ber beauties of the cultivated country
around Leyden.
Ttle, town council of a small German
community met to inspect a new site
for o hell. They assembled at a, 0.1101)-
01, nnd as it was a untrin_flay a mem-
ber euggested that they should leave.
their coals there. "Someone can stay
behind and watch them," suggested an-
other. "What for?" demanded II ihirit
"if we nve 011 going out together, wleit
need is there for minim to watch the
clothes?"
A girl generally p103e with 01 man's
lime (net nbout ns carefully ns a baby
leys with a Watch,
HE WANTS HIS WIFE 13ACK
AN IMPASSIONED AND LONESOME
RUSSIAN.
Daily Inserting Long Appeals in 111
Personal Column 01 a Peels
Newspaper.
In vivid limping» in. the Paris pulffic
press 11 mysk.ricam man, believed lie he
a rich Hussain, is ealling (0 his rinuiway
wife le wen, to 141111. Gay 1,nris. for the
itiv111,1ge,111•;:ii11,f-13. fovs, 04147711 (44 .in the
tem 1111103' daye the pereonul and ether
Cohlinlis of Le Journal have contained
unsigmel ineselige;; 11ltlre14441 to "Made
leen!, my adored, one." As the days
paesed they have grown more Meted,
era Una11i118,111 in hoping
itrIligattieplremdaellse,ine will anewer the \tenni,:
lsy piecing together the varkeis pera-
graphs 10 tbe "egeny" column one gets
almost the complete story of this ro-
euineiri.n
FA tly the French wife of a Rus-
sian Mee left hint and journeyed • to
Paris. Frein here she htie eummunicated
with him. Ile has followed, but she aP-
pears le have vanished.
The man, pre.sinTiutily, is rich, for per-
&mai iiiivertisciments cosi one frane 75
cenlenee a 11110 in Le Journal and al -
reedy hundrede of lines hum been used.
During the last rew (lie's, too, the num
lute not been sulisIled with the personal
column, but has spread Ids Cry of agony
ALL OVER TrIE PAPER,
from the eeilorial to the sporting page.
Madeleine, if she is a reality end alive
and in Paris must surely have received
the message ere this.
Here is a translation of some of the
advertisements, wbich tells the story ;
"Madeleine, my adored (mei YOur
only fault in the past was clue to my
miserable cliaraeler. Seven yenrs I have
tormentel you, injured you -but never
deceived you. Forgive, forgetehe past-
lleVer think of It again.
"I have suffered only to() mull\ by my
wrelehed chltracter. Imaeing back 1
understand now that 1 never knew how
to Much your good heart, so full of sen -
lenient. I hurried to Vieliy, my only
wish being to adore, to caress and shel-
ter you. I cannot live without you. The
moor is that I have lost all my strength.
I 1109(1 11000' been in bed nine days, all
alone in Paris. where one sees all the
world. You win find here a legal will
fee Yell, as I shall clie here if you do
not come bacic to me.
"eludeleine, loved one! I cannot live
,°,11•1le.1 'whe1llciYmlse t,h°
apart from you. In 3em I havewife-e,\1MgSlowbylid-eid
funiiiy-joy-(werythingPapa earne th:"11,:(1m(:11y "ill, 1' lo 4,)it
,011hc3—i,u1(itoa4aigi11g!1110
s11ciL114
147
i
! ho r laughed dainty 11111e ThirSa
Thrifty, in her thin, petite little NOiCe.
71i40511 was the lady of the family. and
wi.re two gold rings and neiveit with.
laeguid grime that was very beemning.
SM. wag nut ns entiable 1414 the other
IIIT'Pfs mentioned, but she WaS 00 unich
4],icelittly"stylish" I They all petted her
14
"I'm 1101 going to laugh a. eiegle once!"
oiled the Thrifty baby, indignantly. "I
pity 'inn, 1 dal 1 can't (lo niecel of any-
thing, either, SO 1 litkOW IsAV 11 fi lo. if
the rest of you didn't help nus 1 slimild
bc just as helpless as 1110y are. unit W110
1010W8 but I would be tie( e siewbey
child myself, so there 1" she endiel.
And then or course they all laughed.
They most always laughed at lite
"Lally's" speeches.
"Let's go across the street an' help
'one" he \vent on . "Celine 451, do lyre 1
be such fun-ste I guess you'd like
to be helped If yell wns bitekward, hat 1
Can't do much, but 1'11 try linters I
ca"
"Corne then eried Tom
Thumb, end off they scempered acrese
Me Way. Alai 11004" they helped 11i,' little
SIOlVb0y$ 1 And hew 1110 lilIlo Slowlg,ys
enjoyed 11, 111111 41011! vcry five littie
bests le be Thrillys, the I
After that the two families usually'
werled oisl pl,yed together. and wore
the best or g4.,0 comrades; and the
Thrtfle children were alwuys gled lhey
took the Thrifty lieby's advice. You NM
guess whether the Slowhoys were glad,
too 1 And white you am about 11, you
can guess -if ymi like -who are ULM
Thrifiys and their little neighbor Slow -
toys are, 1 am sure you will end them
all near 01 111141111,
047 elee
YOUNG
FOLKS
cee00-acete01(50-oetece0eete0ciee
BEDTIME,
As A was sitting feet Asleep, 4,
eft's time for Bed," saki 11 ;
4(80(41 10114) es Wile Cut,
To Dreamland tiff 04.,111 0.
13 cloeed its Eyl`ti, lerelfel grew,
"Good -night," 11 softly said ;
If buret, 0 up the eeeeien. I1i11,
1 pia Itself to bed.
I :lumped few Joy when bedtime came
le Kiesed gooth»ight all round
O esked fer Light, 31 101411(1 the Matehi
'rile Lund of Nua N found.
0 Owned that it vats Overtired,
To Pillowlund P ?reseed;
Q Queried why it was so Quiet
When 11 Retired to Rest.
s went in Seurell of Stumberland,
m. Tired was T slily :
II went, Upslaite, V Vaniehed, tuo,
And W led 1.1.W WaY•
14V114/1 X 'xetalawd, "Bow Y does yawn,"
With Zeet 1e:94041711 7_
"Dear me! it 1'111 last of all,"
And tumbled into beil.
AC,TIOSS THE STRIeET,
They lived opposite each other, and,
cmeerly enough, the five ebildren in
Thrifty College WPI'o nemeeffices of the
live at Slowboy House, linit that WaS
the end-exciept ter leoks-of their ree
sembling each other.
The Thief tys were so lively and capa-
ble 1 They cmild do so many things be.
iween them end betwixt them! They
could sew and write, with Mlle neat
stitches end straight little pO and V that
01114' ran i108441.11111 ur elimbeid 11(4.14(31
occasionally, when they were very tired.
They (yield draw little ;aware boxes and
three -cornered figures that the teacher at
school put on the blackboard, U, my,
the Iittle Thriflys meld do SO) many
things that the little Slowboys could
not
They were bilking about, It one after.
nem], nemss the street at. the .
Slowkiy childriel trying to write their
mimes on the sidewalk with blue chalk.
"Huh I" snit] Torn Thumb, scorlifunti
"Took at. 'ern, will you 1 . Tom Thumb
Slewboy 4311111 1)1141(1' a capital. T to save
his boots 1"
"Merey, no I" eselnimed the middle one
ollier day and left me crying, his (mly
wish is to seo us logether beetle bis
death. Poor old man I Have pity ort•
him. 1141 Inves you SO netele If yon do
leave ine you will get your desire, liber-
ty without divorce. 'Vim needn't come
baek•to our old abode if you don't 84111,1
to. We ean alweys gn and live in St.
Petersburg or T1'0110110. There I will
live for you only and arrange for you a
11111e nest, full of happiness and care
mid you will he
HAPPIER TIIEBE WITII BABY,
as with my fortune and position I am
sere lo .suecced, having you near me.
Tuere you will be my adored wife, my
adviser, and my banker(.
"in Iluseia your departure is un-
known. I have travelled thirteen dnys
und passed twenty days in Paris with-
out sleep. Knowing nobody hero I have
not once lieen at the theatre or concert.
My only reSt has been to read over and
over day and night ye= letter of Muy Ist
from Paris when you wrffie you would
only be too happy if I would come and
get you. Come back lo me. We will go
and stay a month ai Trotiville or Ostend
10 ilivert you. You will show me Paris.
and your 1,e1011if01 oeuntry.
"Suffering. terribly knowing you have
no money. Beg uf you to come and get
what you want; it is all yintra. Conle
back even if you dn not love me any
more. You have the right, as you have
suffered through 01,14 Tho love will come
back by and by. The last, 111114 yali tele-
graphed me you said that yon loved me
sincerely. '
"Madeleine, adored one in heaven's
name, in the eame of all that has been
cleat' to you In the last seven years, have
pity on your husband who loved you all
the time, but by his way of ['cling never
proved it to yom Seven years 1111111 311110
you loved MO and that 18118 My strength,
happiness and incentive to work. 1 have
spent 21,00e francs to try to see my be-
loved Madeleine. Without hope my
nutrtyrdom is insupportable. Have pity
and communicate with me."
'54 -
OUR 017-1)
Many ot Our Customs Dale Back to
Dark Ages.
etnny of 0110 customs date back 10
the dark ages, and are based on imp-
erettlion. We sit up with our dead be-
cause long ago our ancestors kept
watch by night lest evil spirits come
und bear Itiethody awny.
We shake hands with the right hand alive to the sharks surreuraling the
lbecauee that is (he right Mond ena Skinner. and (twee wits an nwful scene •
means 111111 WO disarm ourselves in tpe
presopee 411 11 friend.
10(1)1(5,!41111'ancestors were wont to
Wo bow our hotel in passing others
bow before the real yoke of lite oppres-
eer.
Mon earn their bends bee:Anse they
hall to unmask in the days of chiv.alry
liefore the queen .41 beauty.
41,
THRONI'N TO TUE SHARKS,
Women Flung Screaming Into the Sea
by Turks.
Discharged Turkish eoldiers who ar-
rived at Hodieetnli front the hilend part
or Ycown, but WorC prevented from go'
115(4 home immediately by the lack e
stearners, have been cffinmitting 98100-
1.05 of the groesest Icied. When oee
steamer did errive 2,000 soldiers em-
barked !hereon, ,severtil with their
sweethearts. Terrible quarrels broke
cut on board. and 110 people were 10111-
411(41)' (80(111(1011.
INl.‘4)d
"1,011t/11100111) Wore thrown tverboard
4)4400 0414440400440,1444
That hacking cough continues
CO
Because your system is eldla.usted atm 0,
your powers of resistance weakened.
Take ,Soot ErrItitca012.
85) It builds up a e s you nd str ngthen r ent're system
It contains Cocl Liver Oil and Hypophosphites so
420, prepared that it is easy to take and easy to digest.
10 Alt blktIGG1STS: Soc. AND WO
4106549494"54441440 006:410.04:00444140
as 1110 lig, vs of the Seel 501Zed' their
serentning, etruggling prey.
Then mine 1.841 more discharged men
eiho, 1101. lindieg any traneports, cut
ihe wrilorpipos. attacked the shops amt
eleeirey, (1 everything within reach. They
((13.7the general' in command of
ill !limes 001(1 111,11(4(1(1. lent aboe1 ineldst
cameo insult:,
gee, illsehar•eel solilt•ers 000 (151)5411801,
vim therefore the lewn is greatly exeth
eie 'rho have aslced the Gov -
erten of 141e three, to 8511411(1 4111111, 1111ci
13111101 841541141 .expeeted, at Hodeldah.
Diner -"You have Wailed upon nett
very imeeptiffily, and I have \enjoyed(
rey meal thoreughly. • You linve be,
halted like a gentleman, lout it gentle.
Iran. you certainly ore, nolwfiledendine
,voer humble (1l'438415110(),"hepo, ,2511', that 1 a/11 a minimum. 1
always try lo he one." Diner --"It is as
I Slispeeleth And being 0. gentlemen,
Shell not Ileneit you by eftering you
money. Pethees at 801110 future time
may he tilde to reelpreente your court*
013'. Till than, rs.i+vell."